The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-21

NE W lObh..--l WeHJy live nun
dred Save the Scottsboro Boys
penny stamps is the record sold by
one person, since the Inauguration
of this campaign by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense early in
March, just before the trial of
Haywood Patterson.
This record was made by Leah
S, sixty four year old white
mother of five children.
When | first heard of this case
I Immediately felt that l could not
rest until those boys were free.
AS a mother, 1 know how it feels
to have children and to watch them
grow, tenderly. / constantly place
myself in the place of the Scots
boro mothers. Their children are
just as dear to them, their hearts
beat exactly the same as NINE
she said today in an interview in
the national office of the Inter-
national Labor Defense, Room 430,
80 East 18th Street.
Arrived 40 Years Ago
cover 40 years ago | came to
this country, a young immigrant
girl. In my little hamlet in Czarist
Wilma, l had heard of America, the
wonderful land Of happiness and
JOY. l came here, and found misery,
bitter disappointment. l began to
work in factory, an exploited
operator on mems shirts. While
sewing seams on the machine, my
mind ran back to the dreams | had
in Czarist Russia of a new free
world, America. Suddenly this
vision was interrupted by the fore
mans voice, sharply piercing my
ears. Hurry! Hurry! Huryp Rich
Rich! Rich! we are making the
boss, l said to myself. A few rich
parasites, multitude of oppressed
men, women, children.
"The years passed. I saw very
clearly Czarist Russia and demo-
cratic America had police, clubs,
militia, starved workers and rich
bosses. It's the same all over, l
said to myself. No real freedom,
no joy, for the exploited poor.
"Then came the Russian Revolu-
ton, A new freedom, a freedom
for workers, fierce struggle
against greatest odds. l joined the
Friends of the Soviet Union, de-
voting all my time to winning into
its ranks all those who want to
see new day dawning in the world
to see an end to starvation amidst
riches, fortunes of loyal fighters
for the workers, wars which destroy
the young and leave the old to
mourn. An end of the system OF
destruction, beginning of the sys-
TEN of construction. l came to al
my friends, urged, pleaded. Then
| heard about the Scottsboro Boys
and could not rest.
| Read Everything
/ 81 read everything l could find
Then tried to tell everyone about
this horrible crime, the inhuman
fortunes of these young innocent
boys, the anguish of their mothers
when my children came home,
in the evening, thought of those
Negro mothers, waiting for theirs
When | saw child talking to its
mother, L thought of those mothers,
waiting with aching hearts to talk
to their children.
What can do for them, was
my constant thought.
81 wrote letters to my friends
asking for defense funds. To the
capitalist newspapers, appealing to
their readers for help. On April II,
the World Telegram published part
of my appeal, under the heading,
Plea to Help Save Accused SCOTS.
boro Boys A few days later. the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle also followed
with an excerpt, and then the Ans.
terdam News, New York Negro
weekly, gave space to my letter.
"But long before that, l had be.
gun to work.
Appealed to Negroes
1.-TWO years ago l went to q
prominent Negro church in Harlem
wrote an appeal, called AN Ap.