The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
Writer Apes
Boss Glass
In Attacks
HurIs Insulting Terms
At Negro Masses, Hits
At ScOttsbOrO Defense
Rr CYRIL BRIGGS

TOR, the Negro people are con-
temptuously referred to as "blacks-
moors," the Southern lynch courts
ardently defended, q Scottsboro de
Tense attorney denounced for
challenging the fairness of the
Alabama courts and attacking the
exclusion of Negroes from iuries,
and an amazing forbearance"
claimed for the Alabama lynchers
in the face of such "provocstion."
The author Of the article sneers
at the worldwide mass fight OF mil
lions Of white and Negro workers
and intellectusls for the freedom of
the Scottsboro Boys, for the
trampled rights of the Negro people.
He paints, with undisguised delight
and ssdistic relish, a picture Of nine
young "blackamoors' being fired"
in the electric chair, baked in their
cells or broiled at stake" and glee-
fully predicts defeat for the heroic
efforts of the world working class
and its allies to rescue them. The
authors attitude leaves no doubt
that ne is keenly disappointed at
what he alleges to be a display of
amazing forbesranee" on the part
of the lynchers.
Striking Similarity to Callahan's
Charge to the Jury
This vicious attack on the Scots
boro defense, the Negro masses and
their allies among the white toilers,
might well have been written by the
notorious Ku Kux jurist, Judge
Callahan, who clamored for the
blood of the ScottSboro Boys in the
Decatur, Ala, lynch court last No
vember. Indeed, it contains a
striking similarity to Galatians
charge to the jury. Bullet those
prepare for a shock who do not yet
realize the shameful role of assistant
lynchers and social props Of the jim
crow lynch system being played by
the Negro reformist leaders. The
article is by George Schuyler, Ne
gro writer, who in his weekly col
umn in the Pittsburgh Courier, I'M
official mouthpiece of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, attacks the Scots
boro defense with a regularity and
viciousness only equalled by the
lynchers themselves.
Sinks Deeper Into Mire and
Treaehery
Eugene Gordon recently painted
a word picture Of Schuyler, in which
he depicted him as modern Hand
kerchief Head, "gentlemans Ne
gro" an Uncle Tom today. and IAN
ideal tool in the hands Of those who
desire his services enough to pay
for them. Gordon did not exag-
gerate. In his article in the Amer
lean Spectator, Schuyler sinks still
deeper into the mire of treachery.
Schuylers article is revealing
Not in the sense that it unmasks an
already exposed renegade and tool
of the lynchers. but that it brings
out more clearly than ever the
lengths to which the upper class
Negro misleaders Will go in service
to the lynchers, and further exposes
Schuylers intellectual and moral
bankruptcy. His ISLANDERS against
the International Labor Defense and
the Communists have long been
recognizable as the arguments of the
lynchers, peddled by their lackeys.
The epiJhets of "blackamoors, etc,
which he hurls at the Negro masses
in his article in the American
Spectator are likewise from the ar
senal of the lynchers.
Formerly COurted LeiBowitz
1t is significant that Schuyler
now includes Samuel LeiboWitz who,
a few short months ago was being
courted and praised by the miSlead-
ers, among the objects of his at
tacks. Under the caption, Samuel
LeiboWitz: Jonah in Modern Dress,
Schuyler writes:
THE ScottsbOro Boys have been
Jcnahed. Properly defended they
might ere this have been Pull
man porters, jazz band players or
lsborers for the C.W.A."
Why this sudden change of front
on the part of the misleaders toward
Leibowitz?
Leibowitz carried out in the Deca-
tur court room the militant defense
policies of the LID. With Joseph
Brodsky, chief of the LID. legal
staff, he attacked the hideous
frame-up of nine innocent Negro
children. The LID attorneys ripped
the lid from the monstrous system
of jim-crow oppression and plumber
ing of the Negro masses, out of
which the frame-up arose. The
LID. attorneys fought relentlessly
at every point for every right that
the State of Alabama had denied
the Negro people.
For this Schuyler attacks Leibo-
WITT. The LID. attorneys, he says,
should have kowtowed to the South
ern lynch courts, played upon"
their pretenses of virtue, chivalry
and fair-play." They should have
sought to win the goodwill, re-
spect and admiration of the lynch
ers AS Charles Houston, the Negro
lawyer, did at the George Crsw-
ford trial in Leesburg, Va" CAnd
as Ben Davis. Jr., LID. Negro law
yer did NOT do in the Angelo
Herndon case in Atlanta, Ga)
The attempt of Schuyler and
other misleaders to smash the
Scottsboro defense and to disrupt
the growing unity of Negro and
white toilers in joint struggle
against their common oppressors
will not succeed. They will be an
swered with the growing indignation
of all workers and honest people
and the sharpening of the fight