The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
The Judicial Lynch Decision

THE ALABAMA RULNG-CLaAss and their lvneb
courts have once more shown the world that no
trick is so vile cunning fraud so mean no dupicitv
80 damnably crude, but that they are willing and
ready to resort to it in their determination to carry
through by hook by crook, the legal murder Of the
nine innocent Scottsboro boys
Last Saturday Judge Callahan took the hypocri-
EcaI position that the International Labor Defense
motions for reversal Of the lynch death vercts against
Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris had not been
hleo in time Callahan had himself extended the time
in which the motions could be fled to February a.
Now he says he had authority to make such an
extension He pretends he made mistake" in grant
ing such extension. And the price he wishes to
exact for his mistake is the lives of the nine in
nocent boys, bounded and prosecuted by the State
Of Alabama for nearly three years now. BY his action
Callahan has forced the LID. attorneys into posi-
ton where work Of preparation for the appeal to the
State Supreme Court for which so days is the normal
allotment Of time must be performed in six.
The ruthless determination Of the southern white
rulers landowners industralists to legally lynch the
Scotsboro boys is expressed in this bare-faced at
tempt to rob them Of their legal right Of appeal
through trckery 1t is in keeping with the whole his
tory Of the arrest and frame-up Of the boys Of their
continued Imprisonment despite the overwhelming proof
OF their innocence including reputation by Ruby Bates
Of her former testimony against the boys, and her
revelation that she was coerced by Alabama officials
into supporting their concocted charges Of rape"
against the nine boys.
The innocence Of the boys Is proved! The con-
taued attempts to legally murder them clearly expose
inc role OF the courts instruments Of the white cap
alists and landlords to terrorze the Negro masses
into submission to hunger and increasingly brutal ma
5ona oppression The despicabe action Of Judge Call
ahan must serve to further the workers against
Illusions in the fairness and Justice" Of the capitalist
eolres
only the mass protest night Of the toIers Of the
g.ele world led by the International Labor Defense
ana the Communist Parties in all countries, has kept
tee boys alive these three years Only this power Will
Win their unconditional and safe release The Reich
stag fire trial. where verdcts Of acquttal forced
r3n the Nazi by the worldwide protest Of the
eoers Of the world organized and led by the Inter
national Red Aid and the Communist Parties Is the
most shining example Of this power,
THERE has been serious let-down in the mass work
the organization Of the workers Of the United States
force the freedom Of the scottsboro boys. Legalsc
illusions reliance the legal proceedings, have APP
peaed here and there. There be end to these
illusions Caahans latest ruling must be exposed be-
fore the broadest masses The Of tolers, Me-
gro and white, must be modified into immediate
ton to defeat the Alabama lynchers.
The shadow Of the electric chair must be lifted
from the scottsboro boys by the organized action Of
the millions Of toiers in the United States and through
out the world.
In every meeting in every leaflet, in the struggle
against fascist terror in Germany and Austria for the
freedom Of Thaelmann the fight for the release Of the
5cotsboro boys and against fascist lynch terror in the
United States must be brought forward
Every effort must be made to organize protest
stoppages in every shop In every school, around these
demands Leaflets must be issued for the school
children specifically.
Every action Of the working class and its sym
pathzers must raise this protest cry and this demand
President Roosevelt, Governor Miller Of Alabama,
and the State Supreme Court Of Alabama must be
flooded with protests against this legal lynching, in
kilograms resolutions and letters.
House to house canvassing must bring thousands
upon thousands Of kilograms and letters to Roosevelt
Miller the State Supreme Court, from individuals.
Unions, churches lodges, clubs, organizations
must be modified into immediate action.
Freedom OF the scottsboro boys must be central