The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
For a New ScOttSbOrO
Drive

THE Alabama Supreme Court for the
third time has denied the appeal of the
International Labor Defense against the
lynch verdicts of death against Haywood
Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the
Scottsboro boys This court has set the date for
their execution-their murder-for Dec. 7.
Coinciding with this action, new vicious attacks
launched against the ScottSboro campaign
and defense led by the International Labor Defense
and the Communist Party. Samuel Leibowitz,
former trial counsel in the case for the L L. D.
slandered the mass campaign to free the boys, and
in Alabama two attorneys were framed on the
charge of attempting to bride Victoria Price.
The LID. is once again taking the scottsboro
case to the United States Supreme Court.
Now, more than ever before, it is the mass
pressure of the Negro and white workers. the farm
erS and their friends throughout the United States
and throughout the world which can force the U. S.
Supreme Court to review the case and free these
innocent boys Internationally
These facts place upon Party the immediate
responsibility Of exerting every effort to develop
the most intensive and the broadcast mass campaign
to defeat the plans of the landlord and industrial
lynchers and to free the Scottsboro boys
The Central Committee calls upon all district
committees to take immediate steps to mobilize the
entire Party organization to carry out the present
necessary tasks in the Scottsboro campaign.
The district committees are called upon to take
the following steps in support of the actions I'M
dertaken in this campaign by the International La
Dor Defense and League Of Struggle for Negro rights
l. Mobilize all fractions for participation in all
mass organizations and trade unions for the prep
aration of broad united front Scottsboro Commit
tees of Action. Those that already exist must be
reactivized. These united front committees must
hold Emergency Conferences on the broadest scale
under their auspices. Every effort must be made
to involve the Socialist Party, A. F. of L. locals,
local Negro reformist organizations NAACP
Urban League, Garveyite, church. social pro-
japanese organizations etc. These conferences must
not be delayed They must be the means for de-
veloping an extensive campaign which will reach
new and larger masses of workers and farmers.
O. The Scottsboro campaign must be tied up
with the entire ant-fascst struggle On this basis
we must draw into the campaign the widest num-
Der of workers, inteectuas professionals and other
groups.
8. Every support must be given by Communist
Party committees and fractions to the financial
campaign for funds for the Scottsboro case Large
sums of money will be necessary for the legal steps
alone. The campaign must not be endangered by
any shortage of funds
4. Mass meetings parades and demonstrations
on the Scottsboro issue must be arranged in all
possible centers and sections mobilizing the Negro
and white masses for protest actions
s. At every mass meeting, large or small, and
in every organization, resolutions must be presented
addressed to the United States Supreme Court and
to President Roosevelt both at Washington, pro-