The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1931, Page 3

— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 19g Page Three Chatta. Negro Workers Denounce Attacks On Scottsboro Defense Angered By Activitie s of NAACP Leaders Tending to Help Railroading of 9 Youths to the Electric Chair CHATTANOOGA, May 4. Ae workers for the campaign to save the lives of the nine! — A mass meeting to mobilize Scottsboro Negro boys was held last night in one of the larg- est churches in this city. The sister of Andy and Roy Wright, | two of the innocent youths condemned by the bosses’ court to die on July 10, is a member of¢— this church. y The walls of the church shook with thunderous denunci- ation of the national leadership of the N. A. A. C. P. and certain local Negro ministers who, with Stephen R. Roddy, the faithless at- térney who at the Scottsboro “trial” helped railroad the boys to the élec- trie chair, are continuing their un- derhand attempts to hamstring the defense. Tells of Trickery. , Cries of “Shame! Shame!” resound- ed throughout the church as the dis- trict organizer of the International Labor Defense told how the boys had been tricked by Roddy together with two ministers and James, a police agent, into signing a statement which they repudiated the next day when their alarmed parents rushed to Bir- mingham jail to stop the bétrayal. The entire membership of the church pledged a fight to the finish behind the united 4ront defense pol- icy of the I. L. D. to save the lives of the youths. Another mass meeting in a Negro Baptist church tonight will further mobilize the workers for a fight for the boys and against the open alli- ance of the N. A. A. C. P. leadership with the Ku Klux Klan and othér boss forces shouting for the blood of these innocent children. This meeting will also give a mass farewell to Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Andy and Roy Wright, who is leaving tomorrow for New York City to co-operate with the I. L. D. in the fight to save her boy and the other seven. It will also welcome Mrs. Janie Paterson, mofher of Haywood Patterson, who has just returned from New York, after having addressed ings in that city. North greatly enthused and comfort- ed over the tremendous fight being made to save the boys by hundreds workers. She was present at the demonstration of 100,000 workers at Union Square, New York City, May | Day, and spoke in the evening at the great mass meeting at the Bronx Coliseum in that city. Mrs. Mamie Williams, mother of Eugene Williams, another of the con- demned youths, left today for Georg- ja where she will visit the parents and relatives of five-of the boys from that state to tell them of the fight the I. L. D., backed by the mass pro- test of hundreds of thousands of White and Negro workers, is making to stop the legal massacre and free the nine boys. Scottsboro Correction In the statement of General Chamilee, published in the Daily Worker of May 1, where the state- legitimately in the case as an ap- pointee of the court,” it should have read “Mr.’ Moody was very legitimately in the case as an ap- Pointee of the court”. . Republic Steel Cuts Pay 4 Times In Year . (By a Worker Correspondent) CANTON, Ohio.;In Republic Steel there are still wage cuts, just as in every other factory. The Red Billet, published by the Communist Party Nucleus in that shop writes the fol- lowing in their last issue: Four Cuts in Year. “For the fourth time since 1930 (June) our wages are cut. On June 16, 1930, there was a 4 per cent cut. On October 16, 1930, a 41% per cent wage cut, on January, 16, 1931, a 2 per cent wage cut. This month an- other. The company reduced the crews from nine to six and those six are receiving less than the former nine. Workers are not allowed to stop to cool off or wipe the perspira~ tion off their face. One worker collapsed and was tak- en to the hospital where he died from overwork and exhaustion! “Every day wages are being. cut either on a departmental or individ- ual scale. The big shots go in groups to the different departments to speak to us and cry about losing money and then cut us. They cut us at dif- ferent times in order to weaken our resistance and divide us. For in- Stance, in the Canton plant, the mill imspector got a 2% per cent cut. Some workers who recently made $7 @ day now make $4.00. Chippers got @ 50e cut. Organize! Fellow workers of the Republic Steel—Organize against these wage cuts. Thé bosses weaken our resist~ ance by cutting each department separately. But we must show them that we know what to do to. Organ- ize grievance committees in each de- partment. All departmenis have your committee and connect up with the Metal Workers Industrial Union R.C. Student Muzzled; Wants to Join Y C L N.Y C, Daily Worker: I bought thé Daily Worker yester- way. for the first time. I enjoyed it. ‘This purchase of mine was the cul- mination of a long séries of events dating back to @ certain incident at Morris High School. Your cartoon by Ryan Walker, “Pioneers at School” prompted mé to write you about it. Miss Hall is our elocution teacher “at Morris. Her classes were to pre- pare four minute original orations— each graduating student to write a speech syitable—as she sées it—for the o¢casion. I was fool enough, to think that T could get away with the expression of any original idea what- soever. Miss Hall is @ 100 per cent citizenness, so of course she refused ‘o hear my spéech, which apparently did not seem to please her patriotic | spirit and duty to her country. Please, can you inform mé as to how to go about joining the Young Communist League? Editorial Note—Young workers 4who wish to join the Young Com- munist should write or get. in touch with the headquarters of the Y.C.L, 35 E. 12th St, New York, N. Y. There are tnits of the ¥. C. L. organized in practically every industrial city or town in the U. 8. A. ‘The New York headquar- ters of the Y. C. L. will tell any young class-conscious worker how to go about joining the youth revo- movement in his or her city or town. Write at once. Don’t delay. Join the Young Communist League. Hungry Workers Riot Over Garbage OAKLAND, .Cal—The corner of Tenth and Clay Sts. was a scene of near riot on Monday when a garbage wagon stopped to pick up garbage from Tenth Street Market. The scavanger men brought out boxes of half rotten oranges, lettuce leaves, rotten squash and other vegetables and dumpéd them into the wagon. Several mén jumped up and te salvage bétter bits by stuffing their pockets and packing them into folded néwepapers. Garbage collectors did not relish the idea of distributing their dumpings and ordered them off. Cal. Lumber Mill to ; Onsper, Cal. Daily Worker: ~ S ‘The Jocal fumber mill, known as thé Casper Lumber Co., has been the best for steady work and’ wages for many miles around. oxgers of Whatcom Falls Co.; Starving RRLLINGHAM, Wath, May 4— Whatcom Falls Mill Co. a logging outfit, has a new system of slow About three Sat ar he hare The men refused. Then they tried to poke them off with sticks, but the hungry men started throwing the serbage at them and ‘kicking them off the truck. About five more hun+ gry came and joined in the search of bits of food at the same time keeping garbage men at bay. This went on for about 20 minutes until the garbage men went in to phone the policé. ‘The hungry workers then tan off carrying their loot of food. Employed and unemployed, organ- ize and fight for your lives! ~—Unemployed Worker. Close Down May 15 been working four days per week. On about the 15th of May it is due to shut down tight. Some have worked here for many years and are very conservative, 100 per centers. It was very hard to approach them at first With any “Red” stuff as they called it. Now they are seeing red, when the slack skin of their guts strikes 8 bells against the backbone to remind them that they are sup- posed to eat. after which the plant would reopen for four days every other week, and With a 10 per cent per day wage- cut. ‘The workers will get about $8 pay every two weeks, Or 4 a week, ‘Phis seale of wages was really set by the Whatcom County commission- ¢rs on their relief work. starvation for it6 men. Employes Bloedéll Donovan is cutting in all its mills now. 3 several large Scottsboro defense meet- | Mrs. Patterson is back from the} of thousands of white and Negro| Ment reads “Mr. Roddy was very | PUSH ANTI-USSR DRIVE IN GERMAN CAPITALIST PRESS Berliner Tageblatt Is Doubtful, However BERLIN—The press campaign |against the Communist Party and jagainst the Soviet Union in connec: tion with alleged “economic espion- jage” is being continued. The man- agement of the Ludwigshafen works of the I. G. Farben chemical concern issued a declaration according to which the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade union opposition maintain a network of espionage all over Germany in the interests of the Soviet Union. The arested Commun- ist leader Erich Steffen is accused of having maintained relations with the Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin in or- der to forward the results of the ¢s- pionage. The “proof” offered is that Steffen’s wife is an employee of the Trade Mission. The Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin | has issued a categoric denial of the allegation of ‘compli¢ity” and declares that the person narhed in connection with the affair have no relation with the Mission where ‘they are absolutely unknown, No connections either dir- ect or indirect were maintained with any suchéeconomic espionage” organ- ization, ‘The central committee of the re~ volutionary trade union opposition has issued a declaration to the press | according to which the whole cam- paign is the invention of police spies and agents-provocateurs. The whole affair was intended as a stumbling block for the Soviet-German trade negotiations, whilst at the same time attacking the revolutionary trade union movement in Germany. The bourgeois “Berliner Tageblatt” is the first newspaper to express its doubts. It writes: “The charges made do not appear very convincing in all | Particulars, and particularly not the charges concerning the Soviet Trade Mission.” HUNGER MARCHES GROW AS THEY GO Thousands Greet the Marchers (CONTINUED FROM PAGH ONE) Columbus arrived at the square as through two different sections of the town. ° After the open-air meeting the Marthets were fed by local workers, the feeding committees being organ- ized by a railroad worker, Shrock. ‘ Then, at 8 p. m., a mass meeting was held in the city hall. The hall Was packed to capacity by 1,000, ; among them many Negroes. The speakers were well received and there was etithusiastic endorsement of the demands for social insurance, in- cluding demands for relief to the | Poor farmers. | The meeting unanimously en- dorsed the sending of a telegram to | the governor of Alabama, demand- | ing the release of the 9 Negro boys | framed up in Scottsboro. | ‘The marchers slept last night in thé city hall, then, joined by four delegates from Massillon and two from New Philadelphia, they started this morning to Wooster. They will arrive in Ashland tomorrow. Toledo Group Starts. The Toledo section of the state hunger match started today and will meet the miarhers who came through Massillon on May 8, proba- bly at Marion, é The Cincinnati group starts tomor- row, and proceeds directly to Colum- bus. ‘The group from the mining fields started yesterday and will go directly to Columbus. War Mongers Fear Them. ‘The marchers from Cleveland ar- | rived in Akron on May 2, at 5 p. Mm, and 500 attended a meeting held in the Workers’ Center to greet them. Fifteen delegates from Akron joined the march. The marchers then went on to Barberton, where the city authorities called out the whole police force and fire department and | swore in the American Legion as | deputies to prevent any meeting he- ing held. The authorities are des- perately afraid the wage-cut and part-time workérs on the fobs Nera and the swarms of unemployed will get together and organize. Never> theléss, the marchers passed town with hundreds lined along way and cheering them ane tit demands. Barberton is a war industry center. ‘There is a good spirit amongst the marchers, and discipline and organ- ization are improving steadily. There is not enough fraternization with the workers and poor farmers along the route. These are all eager for in- formation and for literature. Prevent Jim Crowing. ‘There is 4 large Negro delégation from Youngstown and compléte fra- ternity between white and ¢oloted delegates in the line of march. At Massillon, where the marchers were fed, there was a sign up: “Tables for Colored.” ‘Phe man in refused to take it down, but marchers did, and colored and white marchers ate at the sameé tables. Meetings were Held in Canton and Clinton, There are in the march tow: 41 delegates from Cleveland, 18 from Akron, 1 Bar! ‘om ~ scheduled, at 5 p. m. They came} NEW YORK.~A statement that | William Pickens, field secretary of the | National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, has been asked by the national leadership of that organization to resign as a re- sult of his support to the United Front Scottsboro Defense to save the lives of the nine innocent Negro boys condemned by an Alabama boss’ court to burn in the electric chair on duly 10 appears in the current issue of the New York News and Harlem Home Journal, a Negro newspaper published in New York City. White Bourgesis Women Leads Attack on Pickens. The statement declares that Miss Mary Ovington White, a white bour- geois woman who for many years has dictated the reformist policies of the N. A. A. ©. P. was the prime mover of the demand for Mr. Picken's re- signation. Miss White, who is chait- man of the N. A. A. C. P. board, was supported in her move against Pick- ens, whé is absent in the field, by nine other members of the board. She was opposed by only one member. This member warned the board that its action against Pickens would cause nation-wide resentment among the rank and file membership of the N. A. A, ©. P,, and the Negro masses generally. That the support given by Pickens to the International Labor Defense in it sfight to save the lives of the boys was the direct cause of the at- tack by Miss White on Pickens, is categorically stated by the New York News and Harlem Home Journal: Action Based On Pickens Support of Defense. “The cause of the furore was the praise and check which Pickens sent to the Red Workers’ Organiza- tion for their efforts to save the nine colored boys doomed to“death in Alabama for an alleged attack upon two admittedly dissolute white women. The praise was called a direct reflection upon the work of his own organization.” The paper vouches for its informa- tion, and infers that the action will jeause gréat reseritment among the membership of the N. A. A. C. P. Such action would be in line with Report Pickens Asked to Resign Because of Aid to Nine Negro Boys NAACP National Office Openly ‘Attempting to Hamstring Fight to Save Lives of Alabama Boss Court Victims jthe consistent policy of hamstringing | |the Scottsboro defense which has| {marked the attitude of the N. A, A. C. P. leadership towards the fight to Save the lives of these boys. The policy of the top leadership of definitely sabotaging before the fight to save the lives of these boys; (2) for fear of offending the white im- perialists in the organization; (3) of supporting Stephen R. Roddy who shamelessly co-operated with the prosecution in the Scottsboro trial and was denounced by all nine boys as @ traitor to their cause. NAACP Membership in Protest. ‘The membership of the N.A.A.C.P. are in revolt against this treacherous policy which is helping to send the boys to the electric chair, but the na- tional office policy controled by Miss White and Major Spingarn, the white president and Jim Crow advo- cate of the organization, has resisted the pressure of the membership, and is still persisting in its attempts to break up the united front policy which is rallying hundreds of thou- sands of white and Negro workers to the fight to save the lives of the boys. This leadership is saying that they will have nothing to do with the hundreds of working-class or- ganizations fighting against the legal lynching or with the International Labor Defense which rushed to the defese of the boys which the N. A. A. C, P, leadership was congratulat- ing itself that at least the boys had had a “trial.” Pickens Supporting Defense. Mr. Pickens joined the united front struggle to save these boys and as a result the leaders are reported to have demanded his resignation, rather than have the N. A. A. ©. P. Pledged to a united front and the mass movement which alone can Stop the massacre of these innocent colored children. Thye have falsely claimed that Stephen R. Roddy, the faithless lawyer who helped in rail- roading the boys, is the attorney for the boys, and have maintained this pretence in the face of the repeated repudiation of this claim by both the boys and their parents. Some clarification needed regard- ing function of Labor Unity, weekly organ of the Trade Union Unity League, and the Daily Worker, daily organ of the Communist Party. Peter &., Niagara Falls, N. ¥., some weeks ago ordered bundle of Daily Worker cut from 25 to 15 due to lack of necessary assistance in selling. Also, because “T am trying to boost Labor ‘Unity because the workers rather buy @ union paper, when they are not ready, or don’t want to read about revolutions. When trying to organize shop Committees and union I think it is better to use the Labor Unity.” Separating economic problems from Political issues facing the workers is @ mistake. The chief function of Labor Unity is building mass revo- lutionary trade unions embracing all workers regardless Of political views. The Daily Worker, political organ of the Communist Uarty, carries on ALL struggles of the workers, economic and political; not only for better con- ditions in shops and more powerful trade unions, but leads the fight for Political demands as’ Unemployment Insurance, against deportation of for- @ign-born, against imperialist wars and colonial oppression; against lynchings and for right of self-de- termination of Negro masses in ter- ritorieés where they predominate. The Daily Worker gives leadership to concrete immediate demands for im- proved working itions, and points the way to winning these through or- ganized struggle which will eventual- ly abolish the whole capitalist system, replacing it with a workers’ and farm~- ers’ government. Labor Unity should not be held up against the Daily Worker. Leber ‘Unity readers drawn into organizing shop committees, ¢te., should not ex- clude the Daily Worker which draws DAILY WORKER MUST BE UTILIZED WHEN ORGANIZING SHOPS workers into a mass political Commu- nist Party without which they cannot win their immediate demands. Labor Unity is a weekly. The Daily Worker is @ daily, and must therefore be utilized in organizing workers in their day-to-day struggles against hunger and every other form of boss ex- i . ploitation. “Daily” Started in Anthracite ‘Tom M. orders two bundles, 25 each to Kulpmont and Mt. Carmel, Pa., “to start carrier routes as a means of establishing some circulation for the D. W. in the Anthracite, Will A180 help in building National Miners Union.” National Textile Workers Union, Pawtucket, R. 1., orders five a day as a starter. R. &., Bridgeport, Ohio wants 15 more. “Please rush this so we can start up our route here.” “Sorry to say I had the bundle cut to 10 a day recently as it was & mistake,” writes Paul W. #., Tren- ton, N. J. “Bundle should be in- creased to 80 a day, as comrade sell- ing the bundle had a run-in about something I could not get clear.” Davie M. of East Chicago, Ind., wants to sell Dailies. “Don’t know of any- one who sells the paper in our town,” says he, ordering 10 to start with. In Danville, Ill, 20 workers will re- ceive the Daily for 10 days, due to efforts of Oscar S., who promises another order in about two weeks. Idea of “endless chain” is apparent when Fred W. S., Akron, ©., “wrote ten letters to ten of my friends, en- closing copy of Daily Worker, ask- ing them to read the paper, and if they liked it to subseribe, and write five of their friends, asking them to subscribe, and write to five of their friends... .” and so om. Good meth- od of letting workers know the Daily Worker exists. bell, 5 from Warren and 23 from Youngstown, en *. ° Defy Police. CANTON, Ohio, May ~4=1He ‘Youngstown hunger marchers were greeted by workers at Alliance, Ohio, at fn open-ait meeting, despite po- lice prohibition, The Chamber of Commerce pre- vented workers’ organizations from lodging marchers. Workers at the meeting contributed funds and of- . the first time the meetings were not broken up. it Stop Wage | Cut and Speed Up Scheme PASSAIC, N.J., May 4—The strike of the 18 weavers in the Dundee Tex- tile Co., @ silk mill, has been won. ‘The strike started in the last week mun to cub wages and introducing the same speed-up on the day shift. ‘The strike cut short the wage-cut- ting and speed-up and foreed the boss to take the workers back on thé the N. A. A. C. P. has been (1) of} of not making any noise in the case} ~S WAGE CORB AND, PERAPSION | DEATH TOLL IN W. PENNA. MINES _ MOUNTS HIGHER Two Killed In Roof! Fall at Portage, | Pa., Mine | | (Special to the Daily Worker.) PITTSBURKH, Pa.—Alex Valeslak, | 44, and John Halucka, 34, were in- stantly killed and Walter Ritchey, 35, barely escaped the same fate when caught under a heavy fall of rock in| | the Senman Shaft Coal Oo, near Portage on May 1. So states the latest news. In the last six months of 1930 there were 508 fatal and 28,334 non-fatal accidents jin the Pennsylvania mines alone. There were 6 major disasters in this period. However, there were major disasters in other states. Kighty min- ers were killed and scores injured} in the Sunday Creek Mine No. 6 ex- plosion. Thirteen miners were killed | and several hurt in the Haily-Oakla mine No. 5. At the same time eight miners were murdered and a dozen injured in Glen Rogers mine in West | Virginia. Over 500 were killed last | year in the anthracite, 32° killed and | many injured in the explosion of the | Little Betty Mine, Indiana. An aver- | age of 48 miners are being killed ev- | ery week in the mines of the United | States. | Recently 235 miners were killed | and 291 injured in the Aachen Mine, | Germany. {Three thousand were killed in Rushan Province, China. | Twenty-eight were killed in the Haig | Mine, England; 25 in the Esweiller | Mine, Germany. In all of these ex- | Plosions thousands were injured. | These are only partial figures gath- ered in the last few months, Due to Bosses Greed. At the bottom of these slaughters | of miners lies wage cuts, part-time employment, murderous speed-up, lack of safety measures, greed of the coal operators for ever higher profits. ‘The bosses, their government and their agents of the U.M.W.A., both the Lewis and Howat cliques, are continually talking of “safety de- vices.” But while the miners are fighting wage-cuts, speed-up and for real safety measuges, this “holy trin- ity” is doing everything in its power to smash the struggles of the min- ers. This was so clearly demon- strated in the Glen Alden and the Shamokin strikes in the Anthracite. N. M. U. Leads Fight, ‘The National Miners Union, the only leader of the miners in all of their struggles, is carrying on an un- compromising struggle against wage- cuts, speed-up, for genuine safety measures to be controlled and ap- plied by the miners themselves, thru their Mine Committees, having the right to strike the mine at any time. Only in this way can the safety of the miners’ lives be insured. ‘The District Conventions of the N.M.U., Ohio, May 17, and Pennsyl- vania, May 23-24, will strengthen the Union in its struggle against the mass slaughtering of miners, LSNR WINS PRAISE OF BOSTON MASSES Negro Clubs, Papers, Hail Militants BOSTON, Mass. May 4—The Ne- gto masses of Boston have been | Toused by the militant and suceess- ful struggle carried on here by the colored and white members of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights against the attempt of the officials of the Girls’ High School of Boston to bar colored students from their recent Prom. ts ‘The Challengers’ Club, with offices at 17 Braddock Park, has sent the following letter to the L. 8. N. R.: April 27, 1931. League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 344 Shawmutt Ave., Boston, Mass. Dear Sirs: ‘The Challengers Club officially thanks the League of Struggle for | Negro Rights for the courageous | stand taken by its organization in the | | matter of the segregation policy in+ stituted by the Longwood Towers at the Prom kiven by the Girls High School of Boston, and extols the sac- rifice made by Miss Anna Block. | This was so voted at our regular | meeting held Tuesday, April 22, 1931, ‘Very truly yours, | The Challengers Club. ‘The L. 8. N, R. had picketed the hotel and denounced the Jim Crow tactics of the hotel owners and offi- cials of the school. When the po- lice attacked’ the pickets, the work- ers militantly resisted. Anna Block, a white worker, was arrested. In the bosses’ court next day she was sen- tenced to three days in jail. The Boston Chronicle, a Negro paper, printed in full the story of the picketing and the frustration ‘of the attempted barring of the colored students. The Boston Guardian, an- other colored paper of this city, car- ‘wed a commendatory editorial on the struggle of the members of the ie of Struggle and the Young tors, wit hparticular praise for age Block. The Guardian also led upon the Negro masses to sup- port the campaign of the Interna. | tional Labor Defense to save the lives of the niné innocent Negro youths in Alabama, Crernareae Uy GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- ee For a United Front to Save Scottsboro Boys Despite Disrupters’ Interests Framed Negro Children Betrayed By Lawyer Roddy, “Hired” By NAACP (CONTING GE ONE) tional Legal Committee in New York is awaiting the transcript of the record in trial so that appeal plans may be carefully made.” In all earlier press releases and all publicity of the N. A. A. C. P., as far ‘as we have been able to ascertain, during all of the weeks that these 9 boys stood in peril of their there was not one word of mention of the Scottsboro case. Even now, after great numbers of rank and file members of the N. A. A. C. P., together with tens of thousands of Negro and white workers, have clamored for a united front of all organizations for struggle against this hidebus courthouse lynching, the N. A. A. C. P. as a national organization has not tried to rally the masses to defeat this murderous frame-up, but merely to calm the anger of the meniber- ship by claiming that Roddy was really employed by their office and admitting that: “Inquiries are pouring in on the national office of the N. A. A, €. P. inquiring about the status of the boys’ case and It promises to become one of the most sensational legal battles ever fought in be- half of the Negro in the Sonth.” It is clear that, until-a flood of inquiries began “pouring in on the National Office of the N. A. A. ©. P.,” the policy of the N. A.A. ©. P. was: 1, Complete silence and the withholding of the name of the organization fromthe defense of an alleged “rape” case against 14 year old children; but in the meantime secretly employing a third rate police court lawyer, who, as the facts now show, cooperated . with the framing up of the boys. In other words, a policy of com- plete faith in the “justice” of the southern white ruling class courts in handling the lives of Negro boys falsely aecused of “rape”; to- gether with a policy of withholding the name of their organization from being “soiled” by the defense of the aceused 14-Year-old “rapists.” The N, A, A. C. P. makes it a propaganda against lynch- ing, but this lynching occurred in the courthouse with the seal and sanction of southern white ruling class legality; and the N. A. A. C. P. does not wish to put itself in opposition to the courts of a capitalist system which its republican, democratic and “socialist” leaders are even more interested in defending than they are in- terested in defending the condemned Negro boys. 2. Unqualified fear and opposition against any “stirring up of the masses” and “popular agitation” against this hideous murder of 9 children, out of apprehension that such a movement might, first, make the courthouse lynchers angry against these boys whom they have condemned to the electric chair, and, second, that such a popular mass movement to save the 9 boys from death would lead to disrespect of the ruling class courts of Alabama, and would lead to disorder, unrest and Bolshevism, 3. Logically following from their opposition to any mass move- ment to save the boys, the N, A. A. C. P. leaders (or rather most of them) stand in opposition to any united front of alt forces, organ- ization and individuals to fight for these boys; ont of fear that such a united front mass movement would inevitably take a course which would jeopardize other interests of the N. A. C. P., and would bring it into contact with revolutionary working class elements, ives, We bélieve that only a mass movement can save the lives ahd liberty of these boys. Already only a mass movement-after the boys weré al- ready condemned to death—has brought any sort of an effort to save these victims. Only a mass movement was able even to maké the na- tional office of the N. A. A. C. P. acknowledge publicly the fact that thee nine boys are dying on the electric chair on July 10th. ‘Will it be possible for a mass movement to bring the ar strength of the N. A. A. C. P. into a united front mass movement in spite of the opposition of the national office of this organization? We believe that every possible strength that can be added to the united front is necessary. We appeal most urgently to the members of the N, A. A. ©. P. to bring the strength of that organization into the united front where it is needed for she most important case that has ever appeared in behalf of the suffering Negro people sinte the Dred Scot case came as @ fore- runner to the Civil War. We appeal to the membership of all organisza- tions claiming to stand for the rights.of the Negro people, who are willing to fight for so simple a thing as to prevent the cold-blooded maurdér of nine innocent Negro children. This applies to all Negro, white, and all mixed organizations, no matter What their views on other subjects so Jong as only they are willing to fight for this one cause—the saving of these nine innocent victims of Southern ruling class “lynch justice.” ‘The Daily Worker,-as the .central organ of the Communist Party, protests most vigorously against the disruptive tactics of these treacherous men and women who now control the national office of the Natiovig! Association for Advancement of Colored People, We denounce as cold blooded treachery of the Negro people and the working class, the seeret and cowardly maneuvers being made to disrupt the defense of thesé boys by certain members of the Ministers Alliance of Chattanooga, Rev. Whit- ten and Rev, Terrell of Birmingham who take the attitude thet it is more important to bow and smirk before the wealthy white ruling class of the South than to dare to denounce this hideous crime as a deliberate frame-up and murder of our children, Son We demand that every man and woman who claims t be willing to fight to save the lives of these innocent boys shall come forward héw and join in one common united front on the one platform of unegh- promising struggle to save these boys at any cost. We demand that dif- ferences of opinion on other subjects shall not be allowed to inet with this one struggle of life and death. Those men and women who claim leadership of the Negro liberation movement, or of any trade or other working class organization, who value something else more highly than the struggle for the lives of these. boys—let. them expose their treachery, cowardice and self-interest by refusing, as the national ofti¢e of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has refused, to associate themselves with such a mass movement. But we believe that the membership of the Negro organizations and trade unions, black and white, will join in this fight whether such léadgrs will do so or not. In full confidence. we call upon the members of the National A- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People to come out boldly, fearlessly in one determined united front movement for the liberation of these innocent boys. Wm. Pickens corfectly says in his letter to the International Labor Defense that: “The promptness with which the white workers have moved toward defending those helpless and innocent Negro boys, sons of Dlack ‘work- ors, is significant and prophetic. ‘The only ultimate salvation for blaek and white workers is in their united defense, one of the other. causes and moyemenis may do a good work, hut all other causes are xo0d only as preliminaries to that consummation. ‘The one objective for final security is the absolute unqualified unity and co-operation ef ALL WORKERS, of all the exploited masses, actos all race and celer Hines and all other lines.” ‘This is sufficient basis for a united front of people whe on other subjects but who will not hold Mack their strength from Kf cause. Tet those who réfuse brat Again we call for a united front! f selves 86 Open or secret ‘allies of the Iynchers, as such ardént 3 of the system of capitaliss and landlord slavery under which we Hee they will sacrifice the lives of our children rather than endanger masters’ interests! ny As the national office of the National Association for the A ment of Colored People claims not only that they hited the traitor in the first place, but that. this heartless lyneher is even now, With their | approval, making “plans” for the defense of the boys. it is necessary to! state categorically that the boys have repudiated Roddy and that will be allowed to -have nothing to do with the future conduct of case, At the request of the boys and their parents after eae been railroaded to death sentences with the cooperation of a, International Labor Defense has taken complete charge of all Jeet WN ceedings for appeal and other legal actions in the effort to o 2 conviction and to obtain the liberation of the boys. ‘The League of Struggle for Negro Rights is engaged in a wide paign, together with the International Labor Defense, and witht kg} support, cooperation and advice of the Conimunist Party, to § basis to the defense. Many other organizations, including Ni . and lodges, and including also many trade unions of mixed Negro white membership under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity have joined this united front. & Noné of those who aré engaged in this struggle will be content” every possible organization and indivsiual has been drawn fi strugelé, This is not the case for any organization {0 regard the as being its tn affair alone, this is the affair to the entire Negro people and the entire mass of the working class, blak and we demand that all shall enter this united front and with who aré in it, the responsibility the labor and