The Omaha guide., 1933-08-26

eS are concerned. You nave blind
share-cropping and the enslavement
Of the millions Of Negroes in' the
Black Belt. You have hidden from
them the economic and political roots
Of systematic persecution calling each
ease an isolated social incident In
the face Of the retardation Of the cul-
tural development Of the Negro mass
es and of your deliberate confusion
and obscurantism, you have persist
emily said that education would cor
rect these abuses. Our task is to open
the eyes Of the masses to the false
ness of your position.
Your letter the more clearly calls
US to our historic tasks in the Scots
boro case:
ID To call on ~ceaseless propaganda
for the basic demands of the masses
in defense activities. To explain upon
what basis the S~cottsboro boys can
be freed.
p To clarity your historic role
tasks and ruling class connections
To discuss concretely the nature Of
your policy Of betrayal in the Scots
boro case.
81 To show the necessity Of work.
ing within the branches Of YOU or
ganization, exposing to its rank and
file membership the corruptness Of
the leadership.
~ To prove to the masses the
necessity and correctness Of our mass
protest policy.
You ask whether we desire ysu to
make public the early letters concern
ing your return to the case. This we
demand of you and you may rest as
sured that we will make them public
Let the masses know the real facts.
The successes Of the Negro masses
and their white ympathizers under
the leadership Of the l. L. D. in the
Scottsboro case are the more remark
able because Of the combined attacks
of tn ruling class, the Ku Klux Khan
and American Legion, the leadership
of the Socialist Party, and your fouI
and t~reacherous betrayal. But for this
last, hese successes might we'll have
been carried forward to complete
victory, and the freedom of the SCOTS
boro boys achieved.
1t is interesting to note that your
Chicago Convention refused to adopt
a resolution on Scottsboro.
The conduct Of your leadership Is
by no means accidental.
You know well what you do! Your
leadership has consciously deserted
the liberation struggles of the Negro
masses. Our demands for struggle are
the demands of the Negro masses
Your demands that they refrain from
struggle are those of the ruling class
Your at empts for more than two
years to sabotage and block our
policy of mass protest as a means of
defense for the innocent Scottsboro
boys is consistent with your entire
program. You have not only been
consistent, your program is for you
logical. | logically flows from the
capitalist class character Of your
leadership and its connections with
the industrial-landlord system Of
lynch terror and persecution, and
your cringing pleas for concessions as
a reward for your betrayal.
But the ruling class is no longer
able to grant you concessions as
formerly. 1t is therefore becoming
increasingly difficult to hide your be-
trayal and conceal your true role.
You may well call for more {
sions to keep the Negro masses in
leash. The tremendous crisis and the
struggles of the Negro masses and
white workers have changed the
situation and affected your old re-
lations with the ruling class. The pre-
crisis concessions such as were grant
ed you in the ARKANSAS Riot Cases.
upon your promise to hold the Negro
masses in check, will v again be
easily obtained. The militant mood OF
the Negro masses, the growing unity
of Negro and white workers in
struggle, make the granting Of con-
cessions eve more dangerous. Terror
now more and more take the place Of
concessions. Concessions can now only
be wrung through desperate struggle
BY the Negro masses and their white
allies.
Again we call upon the rank and
file within the branches of your or
ganization to renounce this program
Of betrayal that you have formulated.
Only the r L. D. only d working
class defense organization basing il
self upon the principles OF class
struggle, can save the S~cottsboro
boys. In the I. L. D. program Of
struggle the S~cottsboro case Is the
starting point for a relentless fight
Tor the enforcement Of the constitu-