The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
MILLIONS AROUSED
IN WORLD FIGHT
TO SAVE 9 BOYS
LID. Carried Fight for Freedom of the Boys to
Every Country of the World, Rousing Millions
in Mighty Demonstrations and Protests

tom, an organization with 1900.
/ 600 members in more than 70 coun~
tries throughout the world.
! On May 7, 1882. one German
worker lost his life and IL were
+ seriously wounded, when a Scots
+ boro protest demonstration c-gan-
/ lied by the German I. L. D. was
smashed by the police in Chemnitz.
/ Thousands Of workers in Switzer~
land. CzechCslovakia. Denmark,
Sweden. Norway, Belgium, Holland,
joined in international solidarity
with the fight led by the American
l.. L. D. for the freedom Of the
/ Scottsboro boys.
Mass Campaign Intensified
During this same period power
full protest actions were being. mo-
bilized by the 7. L. D. in the United
States. One hundred and fifty
thousand post cards demanding the
immediate unconditional release OF
the boys we're mailed TO the u. S.
I Supreme Court. National Scottsboro
Week was declared and observed
with mass actions from Oct. to
Oct. 1O 1882 On Oct. 10, Mother
Mooney went with an I. L. D. dele
cation to the U. S. Supreme Court
where the appeal was being argued
On that same day the Fifth Ma
tional Convention of the I. Il. D.
opened at Cleveland. Ohio With
Scottsboro defense a the keynote.
November 7, 1882, was set as M
ternational Scottsboro Day by sll
the sections of the L L. D. Dem
onscrations before American en-
bassies and in the streets were held
all over the world. A militant mass
picket line marched before the u S.
+ Supreme Court in spite Of repeated
atmpts ythe police to smash it.
Sixteen were arrested and many
were beaten and dubbed. And the
/ u. S. Supreme Court was forced TO
grant the boys new trial.
Ruby Bates Testifies
The second lynch verdict in De-
catur Alabama, became the signal
for renewed activity. Ruby Bates,
who had bravely announced from
the witness stand, Those bays
never touched me, they are inno-
cent addressed thousands in New
York City, and accompanied Mother
( Patterson in a mass march to Wash
ington, where together with leaders
Of the I. L. D., trade union organ
izations and 5000 Negro and white
workers, they presented petitions
circulated by the l. L. D. and signed
by 100000 at the White House.
After Horton was forced by the
voice of mass protest, to reverse the
second lynch verdict, the 1, L. D.
organized tours covering several
hundred cities all over the country.
Ruby Bates and Scottsboro mothers
alone addressed 221 meetings. Mrs.
/ Patterson, Mrs. Wright, Ruby Bates
and Lester Carter, Richard 3.
Moore, national field organizer Of
the /. L. D. toured the country from
coast to coast winning new scores
of thousands of workers to the sup
port Of the mass defense campaign
of the I. L. D.
ScOttsborO Protest Strikes
After Haywood Patterson was sem
fenced to death for the third time
and Clarence Norris for the second
time a new wave of national and
International protest converged upon
Alabama Demonstrations were held
in Havana, London, Africa and New
Zealand. The I. L. D. of America,
Germany, England and France, is
sued a Joint appeal for renewed
struggle in the Scottsboro case. An
intensive campaign was organized
by the I. L. D. of Holland linked
with the fight against Hitler fas-
cism and the defense Of the Seven
Provinces" mutineers. Two thou
sand Negroes and white members of
the A. F. Of L. Cleaners and Dyers
Union and 800 school children in
Philadelphia conducted half hour
Scottsboro protest strikes in support
of the I, L, D. campaign.
The International Labor Defense
spurred on by the tremendous VIC
tory of securing the release Of An-
gelo Herndon on bail. launched a
renewed Scottsboro- Herndon de-
Tense campaign in July, 1894. An
cello Herndon, Mother Norris. and
J Richard B. Moore, are at present
: touring some 50 cities, addressing
. huge meetings organized by the I.
. L. D. to further the fight to free
/ the Scoatsporo boys.
: On many occasions the Scotts-
: boro mothers, prominent world fig
+ ureS, juristS, scholars, writer's, and
Y millions of workers have declared.
t "If it had not been for the fight
/ organized by the International La
\ fer Defense, those boys would have
been dead three years ago.Hra
The international Labor Defense
q will continue the fight until the
pledge it has made to the Negro
:. and white masses in the United
States and throughout the world,
q The Scot5boro Boys shall not. die.
u The Scottsboro Boys shall be freed
is made good.
Protest Actions Must Increase
December Z has been set as the
Il date of execution for Haywood Pat
d terson and Clarence Norris. The
= International Labor Defense will
n continue undated to call for a
d wave of protest and defense actions
2 in behalf of the Scottsboro boys
= that will outshsdow all those that
/ came before. The I. L. D.. during
the nine years of its existence, in
: the course of its defense Of thou
sands of victims of ruling class ter
9 ror has proved clearly that mass
!, pressure alone, mobilization of the
widest masses and not illusions in
: the possibility of winning justice
!, from ruling clsas courts, can achieve
victory. The hundreds of victories