The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1933, Page 1

Daily, Worker (Section of the Communist International) YWOOD PATTERSON, NEGRO BOY, MUST NOT DIE! | | | SCOTTSBORO | SPECIAL i SCOTTSBORO SPECIAL EDITION EDITION "NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1933 CITY EDITION URY ORDERS DEATH! Price 3 Cents Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878. Vol. X, No. 86 =~ PROTEST MURDER VERDICT--UNION SQUARE WEDNESDAY AT 6 P.M. *"° HAYWOOD PATTERSON SENTENCED TO ELECTRIC CHAIR; ; JURYMEN GRIN AS THEY FILE BACK INTO COURTROOM; “MONSTROUS LYNCH VERDICT,” SAYS LABOR DEFENSE “We Do Not Surrender Any of Scottsboro Boys to Southern Murderers,” Says I.L.D. Calling { for Mass Protest Throughout the United States sick See ee | WINGS OVER ALABAMA Union Sq. Meet Wednesday to Score Lynch Verdict | New York workers will reply to the lynch verdict ren- | dered in Decatur, Ala., by mobilizing in a protest demon- | stration at Union Square, New York, Wednesday, April 12, at 6 p.m. Bring your shopmates and friends! Announce this meeting everywhere! Make this one of the most impres- sive demonstrations ever held in New York. UNION SQUARE—WEDNESDAY—6 P. M. ee | Report That Delay in Reaching Verdict Due to One Juror Holding Out for Sentence of Life Imprisonment for Patterson, Others Demand ing Electric Chair The New York district of the I, L. D. is calling mobilization meet- ings throughout the city on Monday evening and Tuesday in prepara- tion for the Union Square demonstrat‘on. On Monday night open air meetings will be held at 26th St. and Lex- ington Ave., at 7:30 p.m.; at 4ist St. and 8th Ave., at 8 p.m.; at 26th St. and 8th Ave, at 7:30 p.m.; under the auspices of the Midtown Section, LL.D. The Needle Trades. Workers’ Industrial Union will hold a.demonstra- | tion in conjunction with the Midtown Section, N. ¥. District, I. L. D., Tuesday. Place and time to be announced. NEW YORK.—The N a] al Labor Defense, in a statement issued today, denounced the Dew catur verdict as “a monstrous attempt to lynch a boy in the faceof the most indisputable evidence of his innocence.” The I. L. D. de | clared that it would appeal the verdict to the highest courts of the country, at the same t’'me “increasing a thousand-fold the mass protests bere afar of the international working class which has thus far succeeded in keeping the nine innocent Scottsboro boys from the exeow- 1 + * * 2 ‘ (By Our Special Correspondent) DECATUR, Ala., April 9.—Death in the electric chair! | This was the verdict of the all-white jury in the case of Haywood Patterson, 19-year-old Negro boy originally framed | up in Seottsboro in 1931. a wate verdict was rendered at 10:50 this morning, after the jury had been “deliberating” the case for eighteen and omer alf hours. Betty : At 9:58 a.m., while only a half a dozen reporters, the bailiff and one old Negro were in the courtroom, three loud knocks were heard on the door of the jury-room. ABOUT 20 MINUTES EARLIER LOUD LAUGHTERHAD LOCKED JURY-ROOM DOORS. The first ballot of the jury was eleven for death and one for life imprisonment, thus ac counting for the many hours the jury stayed out. : Judge Horton hurried here; from his home in Athens, 12 miles} away, to rece..o the report of the jury. ie A hush fell ove: the court room as the 100 spectators, who had arrived 500,000 Scottsboro Signatures, Plan Of ‘Amsterdam News’ NEW YORE.—Immediately upon the announcement of the verdict in Decatur, the “Amsterdam News,” New York Negro weekly, began a campaign for 500,000 sig- natures, demanding a change of venue to Birmingham in the re- maining trials, and the immediate telease of the innocent Scottsboro boys. was promised on the pressure of a student strike of 20,000 this week. Un- According to the plan of the! | paid for nearly a year, with their savings used up or lost in the bank “amsterdam News,” 50,000 men| | crashes, many teachers are faced with destitution, | jand women—white and Negro— The Acting Mayor told the delegation of teachers that he was trying | will be mobilized to present these| | to solve the problem. Dissatisfied with this answer the teachcs" paraded FEDERAL SALES TAX DRIVE ON Roosevelt Again Hits Hungry Masses WASHINGTON, April 9—The next stage of the offensive of the Rocse- velt administration against the stan- flards of life of the ma is to take | she form of a tax program that will! nelude a federal sales tax. Although not yct made public, it| Unpaid Chicago Teachers Parade to Bank, Demand Pay CHICAGO, UL, April 9—More than 500 of Chicago’s unpaid school | | teachers held another demonstration at the office of acting Mayor Frank Corr demanding that steps be taken to provide their back pay, part of which BEEN HEARD ISSUING FROM BEHIND THE verdict as the “working of bigots.” He;denied the motion. He set the trial il added that he would “fight this case|of Charlie Weems, another of the » my dying days.” Scottsboro boys, for Monday, April 17. Gen, George W. Chamlee, chief} The trial of Weems will thus take _|defense counsel, served notice of an!place in the same lynch atmosphere nmediate appeal jin which the murder-verdict against Patterson was art at today. ticipation of the verdict To Be Sentenced \jiril 17 d tneir suppor K) | shouting j tenced to de Fo! | } | | it straight back to ‘ this * ern rulers before the rising mass movement. sistance of the masses. But their hope is vain. They | 9. Organize mass meetings and street dem- " ‘It pied that saefie: innocent, but The militant struggles of the Negro share-croppers at | will soon discover that the Scottsboro lynch verdict will | onstrations. \ # is sometimes necessary burn a house Camp Hill, the heroic armed resistance at Tallapoosa, the | spur the people to more determined and heroic actions. In- 19. Protest to Governor of Alabama. Pro- 5 known that such plans are being! | natures to President Roosevelt| | from City Hall to the First National Bank demanding to see Melvin Taylor,| in the meantime, heard the verdict | yl’ ney Be Hort on ill be back in Ala- Fight Begins Ai prepared ard that the democrats are/ |in Washington. | its president. The pclice forced the teachers to leave and prevented them | read: | April al of Charlie| other year or two.” | i) ae tll primed for rushing it through as All day Sunday thousands of| | from seeing Taylor. “We, the jury, find the defendant | Wee: nnocent de lant, Prosecutor! Brodsky declared that he had been toon as the signal is given. Negro and white workers were guilty as charged and fix his pun-| “-ndanis, begin: 0 engineered the present/threatened three times since Wada placing their signatures’ on the Adds to Tax Burdens Scottsboro petitions. ‘The 1 cent a gallon federal tax on gas, piled on top of the high state axes, is to be continued and in ad- there is to be a general federal il sales tax on everything which FIRST BREWERY STRIKE and farmers to further reduce their NEWARK, April 9.—Machinists at i the Krueger Brewery here have gone force the impoverished workers] on strike over a wage dispute, and members of the engineers’ and fire- THIRTY WISCONSIN CAMPS MILWAUKEE, April BRITISH MARINES IN CHINA LONDON, April 9.—British warships to the sea; to “protect mining pro-| perty” according to an admiralty re- port today. It is said the mines are ester stated today. army posts will begin at once, 9, — Thirty a re forced labor camps of 200 men each have landed marines at Chinwangtao, | are to be established in the forests of below the juncture of the Great Wall) Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, | Crosby Hoar, assistant regional for- Recruiting in ishment as death.” | Newspapermen made a ru Several of the jurymen had grins | telegraph and telephone wi on their faces as they filed into the | ¢Tdict was read. jury box. | Lyn: As soon as the verdict was read,| Last night Judge Horton thanked the jury, and|ing for action ir soldiers with fixed bayonets rushed | acquittal, all the N Patterson back to the jail. | terson w The boy's head drooped and tears | Birmingham county but Pa en to the was to | deliberating, counsel for the International Labor Defense, Horton togther with Attorney Leibo-) witz, nu ial, said have no comment to make.” Venue Change Denied | Yesterday, while the jury was still Joseph R. Brodsky, Wright, Morgan cour-ty solicitor, had mad his speech to the jury, and that fiery crosses had been burned by klansmen in Huntsville and Jackson counties. When the trial of Charlie Weems Judge|begins, the defense will again move for the dismissal of the indictment; that Negroes were appeared before and demanded a change ofjon the ground itandards of life so the federal gov-| men’s unions will go out unless the| threatened by Chinese soldiers flee- f yes as verdict was| this jail that the bo been| venue to Birmingham in the trials of|barred not only from the grand jury ernment, can continue to help the| company meets demands of the work-| ing from the Japanese attacks, ‘Thus| _AUTO PRODUCTION FALLS _ {formed In his eyes as the verdict wa: een f s had|the remaining Scottsboro boys which returned the indictments, but tich and cafry out its program of/ers. This, the first strike of its kind| while Britain endorses the League| NEW YORK, April 9—Automobile | patterson had been brought in at| forced the the death udge Horton, who earlier in the|that they were also excluded from the strengthening the army, the navy, the|since prohibition, occurred less than| resolution against Japan's action in| Production during the first quarter/19:39 py six soldiers with automatic| ~“"s in Kilby prison sought to conceal his aid to the|petit jury which convicted the inno» vir forces in its drive toward a new) 24 hours after legalized beer began/China, the British armed forced aid| of the year was 10 per cent below|rifles on their shoulders. He smiled) Samuel S. cution by a pretense of an “im-|cent boys at the original frame-up world war, to be sold. Japan against the Chinese. last year, bravely, but his lips trembled in an-| lawyer of the defense. d the partial” charge to the jury, promptiytriel A LYNCH VERDICT-.---ep:rortat “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty, and fix his punishment at death.” Through the lily-white jury of Decatur, Alabama, the Southern bourbons and despots have spoken. This lynch verdict decrees that Haywood Patterson, first of the nine Negro lads, must die. This barbarous and malignant verdict of the Alabama lynchers cannot but rouse a storm of indignation and anger among all people who hate oppression in every quarter of the globe. ‘ Expressing all the venom and savagery of the ruling class butchers, this sentence is a terror sentence, meant to Falli th i-feudal i . greatest prominence throughout the country with the direct . intimidate the millions of Negro people, to quench the ris- A a upon the semi-feudal social and economic struc- | gim of diverting the vigilance of the masses from the actual |} 3, Protection of Scottsboro Boys. ing flames of revolutionary struggle of the white and Negro | ture, based upon the brutal national oppression and super- danger of death facing the boys. 4. Disbanding of boss lynch gangs masses of the United States. Never has a frame-up been so thoroughly exposed. Never has such a mountain of lies and perjuries, built up by the prosecution, been so utterly torn to shreds. The testimony of Ruby Bates and Carter laid bare the hideous methods used by the prosecution to cook up the entire frame-up. The whole system of perjured testimony was carefully organized and prepared by the state. The whole mechanism of capitalist justice is revealed im all its rotteness. What is the meaning of this barbarous sentence? In the case of Barney Lee Ross, innocent young Negro farm hand, executed by the legal lynch machinery of Texas, Gov- ernor Sterling voiced the policy which is at the basis of the Scottsboro lynch verdict. \ ci »” To save the “village”, the whole hideous system of Jim- Crow national oppression of the Negro people, the landlords and capitalist masters are ready to shatter the bodies of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys with the chained lightning of the electric chair. This lynch verdict cannot be explained alone by local provincialism and prejudice. It can only be understood in the light of the growing awakening of the Negro masses who no longer bow down in submission to the whips of the slave masters. : . The crisis strikes the South * * with extraordinary force. exploitation of the Negro people, the crisis has brought in its wake the most devastating suffering and poverty. But the Negro masses are rising against their slavery and misery. In these struggles they are welding an unbreakable unity with the revolutionary working class. It is not enough for American imperialism to keep in bondage a whole people through a system of the most fiend- ish national oppression. The American ruling class stops at nothing to perpetuate this. It has turned the South into an American Congo, inflicting upon the Negro people torture equalled to the most unbridled savagery of the colonies. The Scottsboro verdict expresses the barbarity of Amer- ican imperialism. Here we can see the savage determination to crush under its heel the whole Negro people. The Scottsboro verdict expresses the fear of the South- fighting solidarity of Negro and white against hunger in Birmingham, the powerful thunder of protest against the Scottsboro and Herndon frame-ups, are indications of the growing struggles against the hunger program and na- tional oppression of the Southern bourbons. It is American imperialism, through its Southern wing, which has handed down the lynch verdict. It is signif that the whole capitalist press throughout the country eral as well as reactionary, Northern as well as Southern, all were mobilized to carry through the lynching, by main taining to the very end the illusion that this verdict would be an impartial one. The charge of Judge Horton to the jury was given the This lynch verdict of the Alabama court shatters the democratic illusions that the courts of the capitalist class are impartial tribunals of justice. Here we can see the dis- gusting hypocrisy of the talk about “fairness, equality and justice’. Here the courts of the capitalist cl. tand out as nothing else but the “legal” organs of oppression. The avalanche of protests that poured into the court- room during the trial are proof that the masses of American toilers will not accept the lynch verdict. For two years the powerful protest actions of the masses in every corner of the world have stayed the hand of the executioner. Only the determined and resolute actions of the masses can tear these boys out of the clutches of the lynchers. The American ruling class hopes through this verdict to browbeat the re- stead of dividing white and Negro workers, the Scottshoro lynch verdict will cement their unity, » The Southern lynchers say the Scottsboro boys must die. The American toilers, white and Negro, must hurl back into the teeth of the lynchers the cry that has echoed time and again throughout the whole world and thus far saved these innocent victims! “The Scottsboro boys shall not die!” 1. Organize and fight for the release of the Scottsboro Boys. 2. Immediate uncenditional release of inno- cent Scottsboro Boys. Formation of defense corps of Negro and white workers against boss lynch terror. Against disarming of Negroes. For the right of self defense. For Negroes on the jury. For white workers on the jury. No reliance on lynch courts. For mass action. United struggle of Negro and white workers against capitalist landlord ter- rer and starvation. test to President Roosevelt.