The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
FARLEY WILL
SPREAD FIGHT
TO FREE BOYS
Appeal of Scottsboro-
HerndOn Committee
Urges Action

The tremendous partial victory
Of the mass fight for the Scots
boro boys, organized and lead by he
International Labor Defense, in
forcing the U. S. Supreme Court to
agree to review the death sentences
of Clarence Norris and Haywood
Patterson, was followed yesterday
with a call issued by the National
Scottsboro- Herndon Action Com
mittee for a second city-wide
Scottsboro conference to be held
Feb at the Finnish Hall, Is West
126th Street.
The mass fight, backed by the
brilliant and resourceful work Of
the attorneys selected by the LID,
has again proved it's effectiveness,
the National Scottsboro- Herndon
Action Committee points out. The
committee has called on all indi-
viduals and organizations to rally
in the second Scottsboro conference
to further consolidate the united
front fight and to push forward that
fight to final victory, with the re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys and
reversal of the chain gang sentence
against Angelo Herndon. The call
follows:
TO NEGRO MEN, WOMEN AND
CHILDREN AND ALL ORGANIZA-
TIONS OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE:
Tn ATy nDCANrVz ArUnATS Am
INDIVIDUALS WHO SEE THE
NEED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION
TO SAVE THE LIVES OF THE
SCOTTSBORO BOYS AND TO
DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF THE
NEGRO PEOPLE:
On November 18th a stay of ex-
ecution from December It'll. 1884
to February 9Th, 1885, was ex-
tended to Haywood Patterson and
Clarence Norris, two Of the Scots
boro boys, by powerful mass pres
sure initiated by the International
Labor Defense and the National
ScOttsboro- Herndon Action Com
mittee, and supported by new sec
tiOns of workers and Negro people.
Overcoming many obstacles, the
LID. succeeded in filing appiica-
ton for writ of certiorari for
the review of the cases by the
U. S. Supreme Court. The cases
will be argued by Messrs Osmond
X. Fraenkel and Walter PoIlak,
LID. attorneys, on fundamental
constitutional points involving the
age-old policy of exclusion of Ne
grOes from jury service and the
attempt to deprive Patterson of
the right of appeal.
The state of Alabama, through
Attorney General Thomas E.
Knight, Jr., denies the charge,
charge which has been proved at
all trials of the Scottsboro boys
and which the prosecution, as
sisted by Judge Callahan, tried to
remove at the last Decatur trial
by forging the names of Negroes
to the jury rolls. The prosecution
also claims that the U. S. Supreme
Court has no jurisdiction in the
case.
Innocence Established
The innocence of these boys has
been established beyond the
shadow of doubt but the ruling
class is determined to carry
through the electrocution ito
teach Negroes a lesson" This
means that not only the lives of
the seven ether boys are en-
dangered, but the political, eco
nomic and civil rights of the en-
tire Negro nation are in jeopardy.
1t means that discrimination and
abuses against Negroes will con-
time. The outrageous lynching of
Claude Neal shows mounting bar
barity against Negroes.
Conditions in the economic de-
preston have embossed tendencies
that threaten the destruction of
ALL civil rights, of workers or
CARNATIONS. and of all organiZa-
tions that fight for the rights Of
the Negro people. Only those who
are blind can fail to see the
growth of these attacks by the
Dickstein Committee and the yell
low, jingoistic Hearst press.
The reports on the number of
lynchings that took place during
1884 vary. The report of the In
ternational Labor Defense shows
rs. each of which has been care
fully itemized; the N.A.A.C.P. and
Tuskegee Institute report Is and
Is, respectively. Unquestionably