The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
The McCIoud Lynching

IN THE horrible lynching of Andrew
McCloud, young Negro farmer, Monday
night in Louisiana, the leading role of the
white ruling class and its law enforcement
officials in melting and carrying through
the lynch terror against the Negro masses
is again clearly revealed.
The United Press dispatch on the crime admits
that Attorney F. w. Hawthorne expressed open
sympathy for the aims of the lynch gang stating
to the mob battering down the prison doors:
Il sympathize with your attitude but I'm
afraid you'll get into trouble"
Hawthorne has refused to take any action to-
ward indicting the lynch leaders he egged on to
their bestial crime Sheriff Carpenter and two of
his deputies have suddenly lost their memory for
familiar faces, stating they recognized no member
of the mob"
A coroner's jury will no doubt render the fami-
liar verdict death at the hands of persons I'M
known to cover up the brutal crimes OF the ruling
class against the Negro people
In the face of this consistent lynch Indictment
by the authorities the N.A.ACP. leaders and other
Negro and white reformists dare preach to the
masses faith in the lynch courts and dependence
on the ruling class to wipe out its lynch terror!
The sinister purpose of this reformist propaganda
is clearly to behesd the rising mass fight against
lynching. 1t is aimed at stemming the growing
Indignation Of Negro and white workers against
ynchlng and to block the revolutionary struggle
against the blody rule of capitalism
1t is for this purpose that the NAACP. leader
ship comes forward in this period with its milk
and-water Wagner Costigan anti-lynching bill. No
mass struggle against the lynchers but paper
guarantees" by the lynchers say the would-be
saviors Of the rottng decaying nl-crow capitalist
system. Out Of this traitorous attitude arose the
base betrayal of George Crawford by the NAACP.
leaders and defense attorneys in the lynch courts
Of Virginia, and the persistent sabotage by the
NA.A.CP. leadership of the mass fight to rescue
the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon.
In sharp contrast to this treacherous attitude of
mo struggle against the lynchers" is the militant
mass fight led by the League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights against the lynch-murderers and for the
passage of its Bill for Civil Rights for Negroes
and Against Lynching." Unlike the bill sponsored
by the N.AACP., the LlSNR. bill provides for
the death sentence against the lynchers and is
backed by program calling for pressure on
the authorities and the lynch courts + ----c his
and other provisions of the bill
This latest hideous lynch murder must arouse
every sincere opponent of lynching and Negro cp-
preston to intensified struggle against lynching and
for the passage and enforcement of the LSNR
bill. Flood Governor Allen, at Baton Rouge La
with protests demanding the arrest and punishment
OF the lynch leaders, and of District ATTORNEY
Hawthorne and other law enforcement officers who
aided and abetted the crime. Intensity the fight
for the freedom of the nine Scottsboro boys and
Angelo Herndon, tortured in prison and in daily
danger Of death at the hands of the Southern
lynch rulers