The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Communists and Scottsboro

HAYWOOD PATTERSON and Clarence
II Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys,
from the death house at Kilby Prison,
Montgomery, Alabama, have issued sworn
statements that they want the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and its lawyers exclusively
to handle their defense They decisively repudiate
the shyster tactics of those who would wrest the
legal side Of their defense from the hands of the
working class The statements of Patterson and
Norris, condemned to death by the Alabama jim
Grow courts of the capitalist class, make it more
dificult for Samuel Leibowitz and the Negro
preacher miseaders to disrupt the Scottsboro Boys
legal defense.
The Daily Worker and the Communist Party
were the first to call the attention of the masses to
this.no famous case. The Communists Party saw
at once that the nine scottsboro boys were the in
nocent victims of frane-up by the Southern lynch
courts which are controlled by the employing class
and its lynch gangs. The Communist Party since
that time and to the present moment, has exerted
every effort to rally millions of toilers to the de-
fense of these young Negro boys. The mass cam
paigll launched by the Communist Party and car
ried on by the International Labor Defense has
stayed the hands of the lynch courts for three
and half long years, while every agency of the
Southern bourhons has cried out that the Scots
boro boys must burn
For three and one half years, the mass power
of the working class of the whole world has kept
these innocent Negro boys alive. At every step in
thu case the Negro reformis misleaders, the Uncle
Toms who fawn for crumbs from the bosses table,
unsuccessfuly have tried to weaken and split the
mass defense which has so far saved the Scots
boro roiSla
Juases to their race have tried to soft-peddle the
mass defense and render the scottsboro boys de-
fe1seless before the mercy" of the lynch courts.
They have attacked the Communist Party's leader
ship in the case. and tried to behead the defense
through their red scare
TODAY, in the midst of its election campaign, the
the Communist Party emphasizes more strongly
than ever, the need for rallying millions through
out the world to SAVE THE sCOTTsBoRO BOYS.
The Scottsboro case is a symbol of the oppres-
sion by the employing class of the whole Negro
people. The capitalist class rules and exploits the
workers, and maintains its state by splitting and
dividing the workers; the capitalist government
marks the Negroes for the most brutal ruthless
suppression, discrimination and exploitation.
The fight for freedom for the Scottsboro boys
is the fight for the freedom of the whole Negro
race from oppression by the capitalist class and its
q fight against the whole lynch terror against
Negro toilers, the fight against Jim-Crow and dis
elimination the fight for equal rights for Negroes.
The Communist Party in the present election
campaign as one of the seven majo. demands of
its program demands freedom for the Scottsboro
boys; calls for a fight AGAINST JIM CROWISM
AND LYNCHING; FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR THE
NEGROES AND SELF DIFFERENTIATION FOR
THE BLACK BELT; FOR THE NEGRO BILL OF
RIGHTS"
The Communist Partys congressional election
program is the program for the complete over
throw of the entire rotten capitalist state and sys
tenn for the setting up by the workers and farmers
Of their own government.
The Communist Party knows that as the con-
gressional election platform states when the
workers have set up their own government, that
this revolutionary government WOULD PROCEED
AT ONCE TO THE COMPLETE LIBERATION OF
THE NEGRO PEOPLE FROM ALL OPPRESSION
SECURE THE RIGHT OF SELF DETERMINE
TON OF THE BLACK BELT, AND WOULD
SECURE UNCONDITIONAL ECONOMIC POLIT-
ICAL AND SOCIAL EQUALITY"
In the Soviet Union as soon as the workers mad
carried through their revolution their own workers
government ended. all discrimination against any
race.
The same revolutionary path will liberate the
Negro people IN the United States
As an important part of its election campaign
the communist Party calls upon all workers and
farmers to FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE
sCOTTSBORO BOYS. FIGHT JIM-CROWIsM.
FIGHT LYNCHING, BOTH LEGAL AND H.
LEGAL FIGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR
NEGROES AND FOR SELF-DETERMINATION
FOR THE BLACK BELT -e
A vote. for the Communist Party is a demand
for the release of the Scottsboro boys, vote for
freedom and equal rights for the Negroes
VOTE COMMUNIST.
JOIN THE C0RfRFTTNTST pAPTx1 ANN
STRENGTHEN THE FIGHT FOR NEGRO
RIGHTS. BUILD THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN
ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THE FIGHT FOR
FREEDOM FOR THE sCoTTSBoRo BOYS.