The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
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FOR DEFENSE
Scottsboro Boys Letter
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AS workers organizations through
out New York pushed their plan
yesterday for the giant mass march
and demonstration in Harlem this
Saturday noon for the Scottsboro
boys, Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel
of the International Labor Defense,
received a letter from Haywood Pat
terson expressing his mistaken faith
in the I. L. D. and its selection Of
attorneys to prosecute the appeals
to the U. S. Supreme Court, and
declaring his complete reputation
of Samuel S. Leibowitz, renegade
defense attorney. Patterson, who,
with Clarence Norris, is slated for
the electric chair on Dec. Z by the
recent decision of the Alabama
Supreme Court, sharply condemns
the disruptive tactics of Leibowitz
and Chamlee at this critical period
in the fight for the lives and free
dom of the nine boys. His letter,
certified by a notary public, is
printed in full in today's Daily
Worker.
Among the organizations which
have already endorsed the march
and called on their members to par
ticipate in body with their ban
ners, slogans and bands are the
Trade Union Unity Council, Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
the New York Districts of the Com
munist Party and the Young Com
munist League, the League of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights, the National
Scottsboro- Herndon Action Commit
tee, the Associated Workers Clubs,
Inc, Womens Councils, and scores
of other groups.
Four Mothers to Speak
The plans for the demonstration
call for mobilization of all friends
of the Scottsboro boys and the OPP
pressed Negro people at 1870 o'clock
promptly this Saturday noon at
126th ST. and Lenox Ave. A meet
ing which will precede the march
will be addressed by James w. Ford,
Communist candidate in the 2lst
Congressional District; the four
Scottsboro mothers who are here to
mobilize mass support for the boys
and to expose the conspiracy OF
Samuel L. LeiboWitz, renegade de-
tense attorney, and group of Ne
gro misleaders acting in close ALI
ance with Alabama lynch officials,
to wreck the Scottsboro defense. The
mothers, who were barred by the
Negro misleaders from two confer
enceS of Harlem Negro ministers
last Monday, are Mrs. Ada Wright,
mother of Andy and Roy Wright;
Mrs Ida Norris, mother of Clarence
Norris; Mrs. Viola Montgomery,
mother of DIN Montgomery; and
Mrs. Josephine Powell, mother of
Ozie Powell.
Many Other Protests Actions
Planned
At its last meeting, the National
Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com
mitee accepted an invitation to
send speaker to the Communist
election rally at Madison Square
Garden, Nov. 4, and endorsed the
following protest actions planned
by various groups:
Protest parade in Williamsburgh,
Oct. 81; Scottsboro Provisional
Conference in midtown Manhattan,
Oct. 81; Scottsboro Conference
Nov. in Crown Heights, Brook
lyn; Scottsboro Mass Trial, Nov. 8
in the West End, Boro Park Sec
ton, Coney Island; and confer
ences, Nov. 9 and 18 in South
Brooklyn and Queens, respectively.
Y. C. L. Calls on Youth to Rally
To Fight
In endorsing the Mass March
this Saturday, the Y. c. L. called
upon its membership and the en-
tire working and student youth to
give every ounce of energy to the
work of modifying the youth Or
CARNATIONS in their neighborhoods
for Saturdays demonstration and
to make every school and college
ring with the battle-cry, THE
Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Diel"
The City Committee of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
yesterday called upon all sincere
rank and file veterans to partic-
ipate in the demonstration, point
ing out that 'only the united pro-
tests of the working class and the
veterans can save the boys from