The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-02
The Negroes Enemies

THIS week sees a utilization OF all efforts and every
1 force to lire UP the Negro masses for the Old
psrtes-the parties that always have been associated
with the persecution and oppression Of the Negro
People
The New York Amsterdam News which has al
ways pretended to express left" viewpoint the
struggles of the Negro People against their oppresSors
has come out for Fiorelo H. La Guardia Fusion
didate and is trying to make appear that La Guarda
is the savior of the Negro People despite the we'll
known fact that La Guardia is a Republican, MEM
Der of the party of Hoover who instructed the lily
white cleansing Of the Republican Party, and who
unn-crowed on cattle ships the Negro Gold Cross
Mothers their pigrirnages to the graves of their
sons, murdered by American imperialism.
The most dastardly Of all the efforts to confuse
and mislead the Negro masses is the method resorted
TO by Joseph Mckee, who has always been member
of Tammany and has openly boasted of the fact that
he was organization man in politics. never once
raising his voice against the increasing attacks on the
Negro People, against discrimination, segregation
ynching, ETC.
Now, this same Mckee who even last week refused
join in the protests against the legal ynching of
Fuel Lee in Maryland attempts to use the actions Of
Samuel Leibowitz attorney in the Scottsboro
case to win support for himself. In this hs is aided
by LebowitE himself who shamelessIy attempts 10
plot his record in the Scottsboro case to trap the Ne
gro masses into the camps of their enemies
WHO was " ssaasol>ed the soottsboro boys from the
~ hands OF their exscutionersP What is Ieibowitzp
Decidedly noSl d the International Labor De-
fense with the backing OF the Communist Party
The International Labor Defense initiated the mass
and legal hight 10 the nine innocent boys when
the Scottsboro boys entirely unknown when there
was not yet ScottsboTo in the sense IN which
it is known today to millions OF Negro and white
toiers throughout the whole world The LID fought
the for two years before Leibowtz appeared on
the 1t only early this year that Leibowitz
was brought IN as attorney Of the LID and then
only on the condition that he carry out the policies
OF the LID. Ii Was the LID. which mitantly raised
the challenge to the whole vicious legal system of
the South, by which innocent Negroes are deprived
OF their constitutional rights and raroaded to death
through the lynch courts It was the LID which
challenged the systematic exclusion of Negroes from
petit and grand uries it had done before in the
Fuel Lee case in Maryland.
Prior to Leibowtz's entry into the Scottsboro case
LeiboWitz associated with the struggle for
the rights Of the Negro People He entered the case
solely because Of the national prominence attached
to the case result of the worldwide protest &C
lions organized by the I. L. D. and the Communist
parties of the world *
The Daily Worker has Intention of quarreling
with Leibowitz that ground, but every sincere
fighter for the rights of the Negro People must pro-
test against the attempt Of Mckee and Leibowtz to
exploit Leibowis connection with the case to deceive
the Negro masses into voting for representatives of
the same white ruling class who legally murdered
Fuel Lee framed up the Scosboro boys and who even
now are preparing lynch trial for the boys I'M
der the direction of the Ku Klux Klan Judge Gala
han, in the lynch-tnfested town of Decatur Ala
EVERY honest worker must denounce Leibowitz's let
- ter, appearing in this weeks Amsterdam News
asking the Negro masses to support Mckee on the
grounds of LeibowiEs activities in the past of MY
direct interest in the downtrodden and the unfortunate
masses Of our people,"
The Scottsboro is symbolic OF the struggles
OF the Negro People whole. The country is liter
ally dotted with Scotboro cases. Everywhere the Ne
gro People are Disseminated against, persecuted and
ynched by the parties Of the white ruling class Re-
publican and Democratic of which all these gentlemen
La Guardia, Mckee and Leibowitz are a part Did
Leibowitz protest against the legal Iynchng OF Fuel
Lee, against the endsh mob ynching of George Arm
wood on the eastern shore of Maryland two weeks ago
Has he interested himself in any of these minor"
Scottsboro cases?
The Communist Party has record--a long-stand-
ing record Of consistent struggles these issues The
Negro People must not permit themselves to be mis-
led They must realize that only through an alliance
with the tong masses Of the country with the Com
munist Party at their head, they smash the op-
pressve rule to which they now subjected Robert
NTif1oY ,Ne that AoY7t