The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04


Haywood Patterson, young Negro worker,
innocent of any crime but that of having been
born into the ranks Of an oppressed people,
has again been doomed to die in the electric
chair.
The ruling class landlords of the South
srn plantations, the government, and the
courts of Alabama are eager to fling the
charred body of this young Negro worker into
the upturned faces of the Negro people. Not
only the Southern plantation masters, but
the entire ruling class of America is eager
to answer the rising rebellion of the Negro
people and the growing unity of Negro and
white workers, with the bodies of the Scots
boro boys as warning.
Down at Decatur, the capitalist courts
openly forgot their hypocritical aloofness and
stepped down into the ranks of the running
lynch-pack.
The verdict is only the logical fruit of the
whole lynch hatred that reeked in the atmos-
phere of the court. It is only the logical re-
suit of the whole lynch spirit that beat in the
capitalist press of the South, and in every in
strument of ruling class propaganda.
AS for the Judge, capitalist tool in the
hands of his capitalist masters, his every
word smoked with lynch lust, that he hardly
made any pretenss of concealing behind his
judicial phrases.
Judge Callahan charges the jury. And
for one and half hours upon the ears Of
that Jim-crow jury beat cunning, insistent,
unmistakeble lynch cry.
For one and half hours Of his charge
the capitalist judge spat hatred and sent his
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and his defenders.
And then, at once, exhausted with his
brutal TRADE, and eager for the execution, he
prepared to step down, forgetting in his blood
lust, even the formal requirements of his
own ruling class justice-he forgot to speak
Of how the jury might bring in an acquittal!
IT is in the hands of an avowed lynch
butcher that the nine Scottsboro boys find
themselves. 1t is in the hands of govern
mental machine that behind its mask of
"impartiality" does the lynch bidding of the
plantation masters, that all the Scottsboro
boys await their doomi
1t is impossible, it passes comprehension
that anyone can be calm and Indifferent to
this cold-blooded lynch butcheryi
It is impossible that the toiIing masses Of
America of the whole world, that any honest
human being can witness this ruling class
murder without flinging every ounce of his
energy to wrest these innocent Negro boys
from the hands of the executioners!
The Southern plantation masters have
again spoken their determination that the
Scottsboro boys must die
But the final verdict is not with them!
II is with US, with the workers of America,
with the working class of the world, that the
final decision rests.
For three years we have, by our mass
might, by our mass protest, stayed the hands
of the lynch butchers!
It lies within our power TO wrest them
from the executioneri
Everywhere, at once, the toiling masses
of America and the world must rush to the
defense of their Negro fellow comrades,
awaiting the final massacre
ABOVE all, it is with the Communist Party.
Revolutionary leader and vanguard Of the
oppressed masses, that the responsibility lies
for the organization Of the campaign to save
the Scottsboro boys. a-4
The Communist Party, in every district,
section, and unit, must begin without single
moments delay in laying the concrete steps
for the mobilization of the masses, for the
freedom of Haywood Patterson and the
Scottsboro boys.
Upon every Party functionary and mem
Der rests the responsibility for the organic
ing of protest meetings, the sending of tele-
grams and resolutions to Alabama and Presi-
dent Roosevelt for the release of the boys
In every trade union local, it rests with
the Party and the revolutionary trade union
opposition to introduce resolutions of pro-
test
In the factories, streets, and neighbor-
hoods, the Party units and mass organiza-
tons, from top to bottom, must be instantly
galvanized for actionl
The life of Haywood Patterson is at staks
Gan we fail? Action, action and more action,
is the necessity For the freedom of the
Scottsboro boysi