The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
LID. Needs $4,000
In ScOttSbOrO Case
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been imposed upon the I. L. D. to
meet and defeat the treacherous
attempts to scuttle the defense.
"a fund of $4,000 is needed i'm
mediately, for the printing of the
briefs and records for the U. S.
Supreme Court appeals, for the
expenses and modest legal fees of
attorneys in this and other phases
of the case, and to carry on the
mass campaign which has saved
the lives of these boys for three
and half years.
1--WE have no other recourse but
to appeal to every individual and
organization sympathetic to the
Scottsboro defense and the fight
for Negro rights, to the rank and
file of the American Federation of
Labor, of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, to the people of the
churches, to the members of the
International Workers Order, the
Women's Councils, the Friends OF
the Soviet Union, the Workers
clubs, the language club and fra
ternal organizations, the social
clubs, every sincere lover Of jus
tice and human rights to send
Immediately every possible dollar,
quarter, dime or nickel, to insure
the carrying forward Of this crucial
defense struggle.
Rush your contributions by tele-
gram, airmail, special delivery to
the International Labor Defense,
Room SO, 80 East 18th Street, New
York City. Send your contribution
today. Every penny counts. Rally
to the defense-Now! The Scots
bOro Boys Must Go Free!
National Executive Committee,
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
DEFENSE"
Aroused by the vicious activities
Of the enemies Of the Scottsboro
boys, Negro and white workers in
Brooklyn are preparing a powerful
demonstration for this Saturday
evening in Crown Heights to protest
the decree of the Alabama Supreme
Court ordering the legal murder Of
two of the boys on Dec. 7, and to
demand the unconditional, safe re-
lease of the nine innocent Negro
lads.
The demonstration will start at 7
o'clock at Nostrand Avenue and
Herkimer Street, with mass march
to the Ralph Avenue A. M. E. Zion
Church, $50 Ralph Avenue, where
three of the Scottsboro mothers,
Ben Davis, Jr., editor of the Negro
Liberator, Angelo Herndon, and F.
D, Griffin, Section Organizer of the
International Labor Defense, will
speak. The three mothers are Mrs.
Ida Norris, Mrs. Ada Wright and
Mrs. Viola Montgomery who, to-
gether with Mrs. Powell have come
up from the South to rally mass
support for the boys and to expose
the attempts of Samuel S. Leibo-
WITT. renegade defense attorney
William H. Davis, publisher of the
Amsterdam News, and other Har-
lem Negro misleaders, to wreck the
defense.
Sections II and of the Commu-
mist Party have endorsed the dem
onstration, which is called by the
I. L. D., and are urging all mem
bers and synpathizers to support
the action. Other Brooklyn organ
izations are being visited to enlist
their support.
A mass protest meeting will also
be held this Monday evening, Nov.
IL at the All Saints Church, 103
Cumberland Street, near Myrtle
Avenue, Brooklyn.
Emergency Scottsboro conferences
are also being held on Nov. 9 in
South Brooklyn at the Carlton
Avenue Y. M. G. A., at Carlton and
Fulton; in Brownsville. on Nov. 16,
at Ralph Avenue Church, Ralph and
Chauncey Street, and in Queens,
On Nov. Is, at $500 Roosevelt Ave-
nue., Woodside.
Philadelphia Mass Meeting
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. s. = The
vigorous campaign in this district
for the freedom of the Scottsboro
boys will reach new high point,
the international Labor Defense de-
clered today, with mass meeting
Tuesday evening, Nov, 20, at Slovak