The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
NAACP DENIES
SCOT TSBORO
AID
ScOttsbOrO Hernd o n
Committee Rebuffed
by DIR. Haynes
BULLETIN


A call for city wide support of
the ScottsbOro demonstration in
Harlem this Saturday noon was
issued yesterday by the District
Office of the International Labor
Defense. All branches and affiIi-
ated organizations are urged to
turn out en- maSse with their
banners and slogans. The call
also stressed the need Of pushing
the collection of funds for the de-
Tense.
A policy of "watchful waiting" in
the face of the frenzied attempts
of the ruling class to carry through
the legal lynching of the Scottsboro
boys was announced yesterday by
Walter White. national secretary of
the National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People, in
answer to a request by delegation
from the National Scottsboro-
Herndon Action Committee for
financial aid to help defray the
tremendous expenses of the appeals
to the U. S. Supreme Court for
Haywood Patterson and Clarence
Norris.
The same delegation calling later
at the offices of the Leibowitz
American Scottsboro Committee
was bluntly refused an interview by
Dr., George Haynes, executive vice
chairman of the American Scots
boro Committee, one of the leaders
supporting the attempts of the
renegade defense attorney, Samuel
Leibowitz, to disrupt the Scottsboro
defense.
Hides Behind Leibowitz Claim
The delegation, composed of An
gelo Herndon, Negro hero of the
Atlantic instruction" trial, Sam
uel Patterson, secretary of the Ne
tional Scottsboro- Herndon Commit
tee, and Anna Damon, acting ma
tional secretary of the International
Labor Defense, was received by Mr..
White when it visited the N. A. A.
G. P. offices. Plainly nervous and
biting off his words during the in
terview, White attempted to hide
behind the false claims of the
1eibowitz group that it was repre-
senting" the boys when the delega-
ton requested that the N. A. A. G.
P. make a contribution from its
treasury to help defend the boys.
He was asked by Angelo Herndon
if he did not have sufficient evil
dence as to who were really fight
ing for the boys in the fact that the
stay of execution from Dec. was
obtained by the I. L. D., whose at
torneys likewise filed the writ OF
certiorari which the mass pressure
has forced the court to grant,
agreeing to review for second
time the death verdicts against Pat
terson and Norris. Anna Damon
then reminded White that JOSEPH
Brodsky. chief of I. L. D. counsel
had sent him all the documents If
the case, clearly proving that Pat.
terson and Norris had repudiatec
Leibowitz and signed new retainers
with the 1. l.. D.
"WatchfuI Waiting"
1t was at this time that. White
enunciated his "watchful waiting
policy, repeating the hands off" at
titude which marked the N. A. A
c. P. policy in the early days of the
case, when N A. A. c. P. officials
refused to soil their skirts with the
nine Negro youths charged with
"raping" two white girls, although
the frame-up character of the
charges was evident even at that
time
The delegation told White in eff
feet that such policy was not ir
reality "hands Off policy. but 8
direct aid to the lynch rulers, point
ing out that Whites stand endan-
gered the defense at this time
when FUNDS are so urgently needed
to carry the fight to the U. S. Su-
preme Court. White then asked the
delegation to have the National Ac-
ton Committee write him an Off
cial letter, promising to take it VI
with the N. A. A. G. P. Executive
Board. He stated that if the
Scottsboro case was like the Hern-
don case, the N. A. A. G. P. would
know where to give its funds.
DR.. George Haynes, refusing tc
see the delegation or to see Hern-
don personally, sent out word to the
delegation that appointments with
him must be secured by request
mail. Samuel Patterson pointed out
to DR.. Haynes secretary that the
National Action Committee hao
three times written him asking an
appointment for delegation, ano
had been refused each time. DR.
Haynes had likewise refused to see
the Scottsboro mothers