The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10

and particularly in the South, under
the New Deal"
Davis Reports on Developments
On reports by various members
of the Committee that rank and
file followers of Father Divine had
expressed interest and sympathy
with the work of the National
Scottsboro- Herndon Action Com
mittee, the meeting decided to push
efforts to form a united front with
these elements on the question Of
the fight for the lives and freedom
of the Scottsboro boys and for the
rights Of the oppressed Negro
people.
Zen Davis, Jr., editor of the Ne
gro Liberator, reported on the latest
steps in the legal and mass defense
fight for the boys. He pointed out
that the LID. was in complete
charge f the appeal of Patterson
and Norris to the U. 8. Supreme
Court, and declared the LID.
would fight vigorously against all
attempts by Samuel S. Leibowitz,
renegade defense attorney, and his
reformist Negro henohmen to de-
tract attention from the fight to
/ prevent the legal murder Of the
two boys on Dec. Z. He cited the
statements Of Patterson and Nor
ris, in letters to himself and Joseph
r. Brodsky, chief o LID. counsel.
; that papers which they had signed
for Leibowitz had been secured
through deception and coercion,
which was encouraged by Alabama
lynch officials, in the effort to have
the boys renounce the LID. Both
boys declared their final Reputation
Of Leibowitz.
He reported that the Scottsboro
mass campaign was spreading rap
idly throughout the country, citing
the fact that the Baptist Min
is5erial Alliance Of Detroit had
voted to support the I. l.. D. against
the Leibowitz forces trying to dis
rupt the defense.
Ahny AChCt 1AUtu , StUEC
The meeting set UP a sub-con-
mittee to cooperate with the I. l..
D. in a campaign to defeat the
plans of the management of the
Koch Department Store, West 125th
Street, to turn over monies raised
in the names of the Scottsboro boys
to the Leibowitz gang. 1t was de-
cided that this sub committee, in
cooperation with the I. L. D., will
visit the management of the store
to present conclusive proof that the
7. L. D. and only the I. L. D. hes
! charge of the Scottsnoro cases
This proof will include the retain
ers from Patterson and Norris, CIV
ing the I. L. D. full charge of the
conduct Of their appeals to the U
S. Supreme Court, and the state
ments by the Scottsboro mothers
that only the I. L. D. and the Ma
tional Scottsboro-He Action
Committee are authorized to collect
funds for the defense Of their boys
1t was decided that should the
store management persist in its re-
fusal to turn over its so-called
generous percentage" of Scots
boro sale it is conducting to the Ac-
ton Committee or the I. L. D. the
workers, Negro and white, will be
asked to throw a picket line around
the store, with placards and leaflets
asking the patrons of the store to
demand that the funds collected in
the name of the boys be turned
over to the defenders of the boys
To Circularise Organizations
The committee went on record tc
circularize resolutions among all
Negro and white organizations
clubs, churches, workers groups
ETC., for support of the I. L. D. in
the fight to save the boys. The
committee has opened offices at
/ 1876 Seventh Avenue, from where
these activities will be directed
Louise Thompson, field organizer OF
the International Workers Order
and one Of the assistant secretaries
of the Action Committee, has beer
placed in charge Of the office.
There was enthusiastic discussion
from the floor on the various pro-
posals made to intensity the cam
paign against the lynch verdicts
and for the freedom of the boys
One prominent member of St
Marks Church, of which Rev. L. H
King, a lieutenant of Samuel Leibo-
witz, is pastor, reported that oppo-
sition was growing within the con-
gregation against Rev Kings dis
ruptive activities against the SCOTS
boro defense. He read a resolution
adopted by his church club, de-
handing that the three Scottsboro
mothers who are here to rally mass
support for their boys and expose
the cooperation of Leibowitz and
the Negro misleaders with the Ala
bama lynch officials be permitted
to address the congregation. The
mothers are Mrs. Ida Norris
mother of Clarence Norris; Mrs.
Ada Wright, mother Of Andy and
Roy Wright. and Mrs. Viola Mont
gonery, mother of DIN Montgom-
cry.