The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Harlem Meet
Hits Ruling
On ScOttsbOrO
Endorses Protest on the
Thaelmann Trial This
Saturday Noon

NEW YORK. Judge Callahan's
attempt to rob Haywood Patterson
and Clarence Norris, two Of the
Scottsboro boys, Of the right to appeal
against the Decatur lynch death YER
diets was vigorously assailed at q
meeting of Negro and white workers
Monday night at the TWO. Hall, AIS
Lenox Avenue, Harlem.
The meeting, which was one Of the
first called TO mobilize the masses
against the latest judicial lynch de-
cision of the Alabama courts, also
denounced conditions in the Harlem
Hospital where a Negro baby was
recently strangled as result Of
criminal negligence by the hospital
staff. Resolutions were unanimously
adopted demanding the release of
the Scottsboro boys, an open in
vestigation of conditions in the Har-
lem Hospital, and protesting against
the recent moves in Nazi Germany
and in this country for the sterihza-
ton OF Negroes.
The meeting endorsed the Thael-
mann protest demonstration this Sat
urday noon before the German Con-
sulate, II Battery Place.
Similar protest meetings have been
called throughout the country. In
addition, the demand for the release
of the Scottsboro boys viii be raised
at all anti-fascist meetings. through
out the world during international
Thaelmann Week, March 3 to 10.
Work on visiting unions, churches,
clubs, etc, to intensity the fight for
the Scottsboro boys was already
begun in Harlem on Monday, when
q delegation from the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights visited the
Baptist Ministers Conference at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church. The
conference was asked to Immediately
send protests to Judge Callahan
Gov. Miller of Alabama and Presi-
dent Roosevelt protesting Galatians
latest decision, and to send out a call
to make Of next Sunday a Scots
boro anti-lynching protest day in the
churches.
The conference refused to take i'm
mediate action on these proposals,
despite the s5ressing by the L. S. H.
r. delegation Of the urgency Of the
situation and the necessity for in
Stsrt action. 1t promised instead 10
give a decision by six O'Clock Tues
day night. Up to wednesday after
noon it had given no decision On
the other hand, rank and file mem
bers Of the congregations Of The
churches represented in the confer
ence are swinging into action behind
the demand for reversal Of the death
verdicts against Patterson and Norris
and for immediate, unconditional and
safe release Of the nine scottsbotc
boys
1. L. D. Calls for Protest Saturday
NEW YORK.-The New York Dis
trict of the I. L. d urges all It's
members and followers to rally to the
defense Of our militant German com
rades by participating in a mass
demonstration in front OF the Ger
man Consulate, II Battery Place on
Saturday, March 3rd. at 130 p. m
All branches Of the I. L. D. SHOULD
bring their banners and slogans de-
nouncing the Hitler regime and de-
manding the immediate and uncon-
ditional release Of our German
working class leaders.
Due to the refusal Of Judge Cal
lahan TO hear the motion for q new
trial for Haywood Patterson and
Clarence Norris this demonstration
will simultaneously protest against
the attempts Of the Southern
lynchers to railroad the Scottsboro
boys to the electric chair.