The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-30
Smash the Lynch Verdict
Save the ScOttSbOr0 Boys!

CCIUE FIND no error to reverse" With
" this cynical statement, the Ala
bama Supreme Court on Wednesday once
more sustained the monstrous lynch YER
diets against Haywood Patterson and
Clarence Norris, two of the nine innocent
ScottsbOro boys.
This infamous decision occurs on the
background of an upsurge Of strike and unem-
ployed struggles throughout the country, Of in
creasing unity and militancy Of Negro and white
workers in the fight against starvation lynch terror
and the fascist attacks under cover Of the New
Deal"
It follows on the heel of the decision of the
Georgia Supreme Court upholding the virtual SEN
tence of death of 10 to 20 years the chain gang
against Angelo Herndon, heroic Negro organizer
of Atlanta unemployed workers. The sinister intent
of both decisions is to throw terror into the ranks
Of the whole toiling population, North and South,
and particularly of the Negro masses moving for
ward into struggle against imperial oppression.
In its decision, the high tribunal of the Alabama
capitalists and landlords defends the fame-up of
Negro youth by the lower lynch courts, the viola
ton of the constitutional rights Of the Negro
people, the open appeal by prosecutor and trial
Judge to the prejudice and passions Of allwhite
boss jury the murderous lynch Indictment carried
on by prosecuting officials and Judge within the
Decatur court at the trial last Fall Of Patterson
and Norris
THE Alabama Supreme Court upholdS the Ku Klux
jurist, Judge Callahan, in his overruling of the
defense motion of the international Labor Defense
to squash the indictments because of the violation
Of the constitutional rights of the defendants and
the Negro people generally through the exclusion
of Negroes from the grand jury which indicted,
and the petit juries which tried the boys
It admits the fact that Negroes have been ex-
cuded from juries in Jackson County, Ala, but
pretends that this is proof Of systematic exclu-
sion of Negroes from juries. 1t raises the chauvin
ist argument that of the 666 Negroes Of legal age
in Jackson County, not one was qualified to fulfill
the sacred trust" Of an Alabama juror
The Alabama ruling class lynchers have once
more decreed the legal massacre of the nine
ScOttSbOrO boys. They have set date
August 81, for the burning in the electric chair
of the nine innocent Negro boys. Wednesdays
decision in the case of Patterson and Norris af-
fects the lives of all nine of the boys
This monstrous attempt to carry through the
legal murder of the Scottsboro boys, in the face
Of the overwhelming proof of their innocence,
admitted even by Judge Horton lynch jurist who
presided at the first Decatur trial. must arouse the
Indignation of every worker and OF every sincere
fighter against lynching.
Answer the 1ynchers with thunder of protest
and with immediate contributions to the Interna-
tonaI Labor Defense to enable it to carry forward
the fight for the lives of these innocent victims of
capitalist justice.
Rush protests to the Alabama Supreme Court
and Gov. B. M Miller, both of Montgomery, Ala.
and to President Roosevelt Demand the immedi-
ate, unconditional and safe release of the Scots
boro Boys! Send funds at once to the L L. d. to
enable 1t to prepare and carry through the appeal
to the u. s. Supreme Court