The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-19

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promptly at o'clock in order to
fill other engagements for that
afternoon.
Other principal speakers will in
clude James w. Ford, Communist
candidate for Congress in the 21st
District; Harry Haywood, National
Secretary Of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, and Communist
candidate in the 10Th A. D.; Merle
G. Work, business manager of the
Negro Liberator and Communist
candidate in the 21st A. D.; Anna
Damon, Acting National Secretary
Of the international Labor Defense;
Ruby Bates and Lester Carter, star
defense Scottsboro witnesses; Will
liam Fitzgerald, of the Harlem I.
L. D.; Louis Sass, Organizational
Secretary of the Harlem Section OF
the Communist Party; Louis Camp
bell, Unemployment Council leader
and Mike Walsh.
Provisional Committee Formed
Forty-four prominent persons.
many representing mass organiza-
tons, assembled on short notice
Wednesday night at the Lafayette
Hall, Seventh Avenue and l31st
Street, to plan a vigorous campaign
to prevent the legal murder of the
Scottsboro boys on Dec. 7, and to
unite all real friends of the BOYS
behind the fight for their safe re-
lease and against the latest at
temptS, led by Samuel S. Leil1oWitz.
renegade Scottsboro attorney. and
William H. kid Davis, publisher
OF the New York Amsterdam News.
to disrupt the defense at this crucial
period in the long struggle for the
boys.
The meeting formed itself into a
Provisional Committee, electing
William N. Jones of the staff of the
Baltimore American, as chair
man, and unanimously voted sup
port for the Emergency Scottsboro
Defense Conference called for Sum
day, pm, at st. Lukes Hall, 100
w. both ST., by the International
Labor Defense and the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights. The
committee likewise voted support
for the Scottsboro Protest March
through the streets of Harlem Sat-
urdsy, starting at 2 pm. at 126th
st. and Lenox Ave, and issued a
call to all organizations and indi-
viduals to support both actions.
Calls for Support of I. L. d.
1t was unanimously decided that
a statement to be issued to the
press on the present status of the
Scottsboro case would be signed by
all present. The feeling of emer-
gency and grim determination per-
vading the meeting was expressed
in the demand of all present for
the immediate carrying out of the
decisions of the meeting. A press
committee was elected and in
structed to go to work at once on
the statement, which was drawn
up and approved by the full meet
ing before it adjourned.
The statement points to the re-
pudiation of Leibowitz by Haywood
Patterson and Clarence Norris, Mrs,
Ida Norris, Mrs. jamie Patterson
and the mothers of the other boys,
and declares it is now definitely
established that the LID. is in
charge of the defense. 1t calls on
all groups and individuals to give
the fullest financial and moral sup
port to the Scottsboro defense. It
voted to send protest kilograms to
President Roosevelt and Gov. B. M
: Miller of Alabama demanding the
safe release Of the boys.
While the meeting was in pro-
gresS kilograms of greetings and
: solidarity with the aims of the
committee were received from An
gelo Herndon, hero of the Atlanta
instruction" trial, and Eugene
Gordon, noted writer Both ex-
pressed profound regret at their in
ability to be in New York City that
evening. Herndon's telegram came
from Norfolk, Va, where he was
speaking at meeting that night.
The meeting was opened by Anna
Damon, Acting National Secretary
of the I. L. D., who briefly reviewed
the purpose for which it was called
Joseph r. Brodsky, chief Of counse
of the I. L. D., gave q short his
tory of the Scottsboro case up tt
the present time, emphasizing the
I. L. D. policy of always trying tc
secure the attorney best fitted fol-
each stage Of the long fight.
Harry Haywood, National Secre-
tary of the L. s. N r., and Com
munist candidate in the 18th As