The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1933, Page 2

vage Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933 MARCH TO CAPIT F ight Gains Momentum As N.Y. Masses Rally tor the Scottsboro Boys BULLETIN A Scottsboro meet in Harlem has been arranged for Tharsday night at St the Communist Party. NEW * Lukes Hall, 125 West 130th Street at 8 p.m., called by Section 4 of YORK —With 2,500 workers demonstrating in Brooklyn against the Scottsboro lynch-verdict, with additional mass meetings planned by sec- tions of the N. Y. District International Labor Défense for this week, the indignation among workers here against Alabama lynch-lew grows hourly into a powetful mass challenge of all boss oppression. Negroes, e open ait| Williams- | and de- against joined thi the meetings. y e workers Judge Ho: hand. and nugzed her, gro church, to them (N id be dead hite ction, N. ied a call in the to ds. and In- eadquar- ters Secttsboro Unity Defer Committe? have tat 119 West All, workers. eyinrathizers who want further information about plans for Seottsboro — De: fens>, or who wish te volun- teer tigir servisss, should apply at this office. William ry ILD Nooron Cropper Tries $7 tt Is Now Hunted With Hounds at Reeltown erest in the gro farm , John break his the old serf Nichols de- the fight the ith a revol- being hunted he whole coun- ezro population is being te EWB Worker’s Group To Protest Firings the xc connection with thousand rgency Work of all of its 1 Thursday ing Plaza plovees “EWS. Worke er this meeting at rd St. 2:29 pan. | Wednesday | AN OP! unit will Wtae &t Aprnouncement REMIPMBER THE ANNIVERSARY of the wn. Plenty eats \s Baturday night! PICTURES (AIZ) that has been me but illegal. ke to have them get firem from the ¥ ‘8s Book Store, 50 E. 13th St., ot from the American Represen- tative, A. Kertes7, 601 West 163rd St, LABOR UNION MEETINGS The Custom Tailors Department of the Needls Trades Workers Ind. Uniom will elect an organizer, mem- | hors ‘o the executive council of the| Un'on, the trade board and general | oMfcers Wednesday night right after! working hours in the Union head- quarters, 131 West 28th St. There thet wo A Joint meciing of the Indeyendent Bar- bers Union. the Barbers and Hairdressers | League and the Beauticians and Operators Glub will be held Thursday at 9 p.m, in Marlem a! 22 West 114th St to prepare tar Mo f 6 o- Tammany Judge Sends Worker To Jail For Scottsboro Leaflet EW YORK—Cynically disre- decisions by to the éffect that x distributing leafiets vere illegal, Tammany Judge Hirshfield sentenced Isidor Major Saturday in the Pennsylvania and Liberty Ave. court to 10 days for having passed out leafiets calling workers to Union Square for the Scottsboro demonstration. Told by the attorney for the N. Y. District International Labor Defense who defended the work- er that action would be taken to nullify the vicious sentence, Judge Hirshfield replied, “go ahead and appeal the ca Judge Hirshfield knew of course that by the time an appeal could be cattied through the worker would have served his séntence CHILD LE/DERS MEET ON SCOTTSBORO TONIGHT NEW YORK.—An all Harlem Chil- Lea conference will be at the 135th St. ¥.M.C.A. to- at 7:30 p.m. Scotit leaders, children leaders and others ovements have agreéd to The conference is for participate the purpose of determining what aid | Harlem Masonic Tempie at the call) give up the fight. ve in the fight for | of the Scottsboro Unity Defense Com-| out my arms and ask all the white the children the nine Sco ‘0 boys, Youth Driven to Crime. WASHINGTON, April 17—The De- nt of Justice made public to- statistics on crime, showing that r cent of all crime committed United States were by youths 25 years of age. Persons 19 years of age are the largest single group within any one year's age limit. . This is dué to the fact that millions of young men have no 6ccu- pation, are denied any trade and are driven to try to obtain something for themselves by petty crimes. Prac- tically all those in jail are there for ‘crimes against property.” McAdoo Partner Currency Chief. CORNERED! AL FOR SCOTTSBORO —by Burck United Front Scottsboro Conference | | Prepares Action to Save Nine Boys NEW YORK. — Meeting together| They've convicted my boy twice, but Unity Sunday afternoon, April 16, mittee, representatives of the most) j widely divergent political, economic, | | and social organizations laid the basis | {for concrete national action to sup-| |port the LL.D. in its fight to save | the Scottsboro boys. | Participants. Many Negro organizations were among the 65 represented by the 233} delegates present. Among them were | churches, clubs, and social and bene-| | fit and political organizations. Among | | thoses participating in the confer- | @tce were the Rev. P. E. Batson of| | the Community Rescue Church; Mrs. | | Mary James of the Order of Moses; | | Alex Richardton, of the King David| | Council of the same Order, Heywood | ! Broun, columnist and socialist; Bishop | A. Collins of the Samaritan Rescue | Episcopal Church Synod; A. J. Muste, |of the Conference for Progressive | Labor Action; William L. Patterson, | | national secretary of the Interna- | ant one too,” WASHINGTON, April 17.—J, F. T.| tional Labor Defense, which is con-| O'Connor, law partner of Wm. G.| ducting the defense of the Scottsboro | McAdoo, senator from California, is; boys; Harry Heywood of the Commu- | to be appointed conttoller of the cur-| nist Party, and J. B. Matthews of the} rency, it was announced today. He) Fellowship of Reconciliation. has the support of the Tammany| Mfrs. Janie Patterson, mother of | postmaster general, James A. Farley, Haywood Patterson, first of the! who is in charge of “patronage” in| Seottsboro boys to be tried at Deca- the Roosevelt cabinet. tur, was greeted with shouts and a/ - rising ovation. She declared that! “Negroes have no rights in the South.! Delay Macon Test. AKRON, Ohio, April 17—For the fifth consecutive time the trial flight I'd like to hold and black workers to come into the) LL.D. and help fight for our rights.” | Throughout the conference, speak-| ers emphasized the need for unified| action of black and white workers. | “We want a peaceful march on| Washington, but it must be a milit-| declared William 1. | Patterson, of the International La-| bor Defense, who traced the social) development of the Negro from the} status of “chattel slaves, to the status of slaves under an industrial system which gives them only a false sem- blance of democracy.” DePriest Attayked An attack on Oscar DePriest, Ne- gro Congressman from Chicago, was made by one of the délegates. De Priest had made no comment on the Decatur decision, Welch stated, be- cause he was afraid of antagonizing moneyed interests both black and! white. He asked that during the| march on Washington the marchers! compel De Priest to voice in Con-| gress his protest on discrimination | and terror against Negroes in the| South, | Other speakers included Benjamin | J. Davis, Jr., attorney from Atlanta, Ga., and counsel for the LL.D. in| the Angelo Herndon case; James| Ford, Communist candidate for the vice presidency in the last election; John Stachel, of the Trade Union ' League; John Ballam and in| I know he's innocent and I won't :rank Spector, of the International | Labor Defense. The following officers were elected: | Benjamin Davis, of Atlanta, Chair-| man; William L. Patterson and Hey-| wood Broun, first and second vice) chairmen; Louise Thompson, secret-| ary, and Belle Chasanov, assistant | secretary. | Twenty-nine delegates from as! many organizations were appointed) to & committee to draw up plans and resolutions for the march and| for the Scottsboro campaign. | $10,000 was needed immediately for briefs and transcripts to continue the trials, it was announced by Pat-| terson. A finance committee was) elected to help raise this sum. for) the LL.D. within the next 30° days. | The conference wiii’ meét ‘again next Sunday with additional repre-| sentatives from othet bédies: 5 Schenectady Protest Meet SOHENECTADY, N. Y., April 17.—) Resolutions protesting the Scottsboro | lynch verdict and demanding the | jammed with Negro and white work- | here by Mary White Ovington, a‘na- BOYS SE Scottsboro Protest Meetings Sweep Thr Birmingham Negroes Defy NAACP Edict, Hold Scottsboro Meet BIRMINGHAM, Ale. April 17,— The First Baptist. Church was ers here today in a mass protest meeting against the Decatur lynch- verdict against Heywood Patterson.) The meeting, called by the Citizens| Scottsboro Aid Committee, was ad- dressed by Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy Wright, Bishop B.| G. Shaw, Dr. Howard Kester of the Fellowship of Recondiliation, and Jane Speed, representing the Inter-| national Labor Defense. Dr. Benja-| min Goldstein, Jewish Rabbi who} has been ousted by the ditectors of) his congregation here because of his participation in the struggle to save | the Scottsboro boys, and in the de-| fense of the Tallapoosa share-crop- | pers, was chairman. A press statement attributed to the local board of directors of the N. A.) A. ©. P. was published in the white Birmingham capitalist press de- nouncing the mass meeting, and cal- ling on workefs to stay away. The statement demanded a retreat by the I. L. D. from mass pressure, and the abandonment of the boys to the ten- der mercies of the lynch-courts. This statement followed an address tional director of the N.AA.C.P., fol- lowing the same line and brazenly denying that the N.A.A.C.P. collected funds for the Scottsboro defense at any time. 5,000 in Philadelphia Scottsboro Protest | | ker is held for PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Five thou-/ others ave held incommtinicado by | SCOTTSBOR u Country - 0 BOYS TORTURED IN ‘PRISON, BRODSKY AND MOTHER FIND | Patterson Beaten Up With Brass Knuckles While Being Taken to Death Cell NEW YORK, April 17.—That the Scottsboro boys are being beaten and abused by their jailers, is the charge made by the International Labor De- fensé in a protest to Governor B. M. Miller of Alabama, The I. L. D. bases its protest upon complaints made by the boys to Joseph Brodsky, I. L. ‘English Sailors on | | Ship Score Verdict of Decatur Court NEW YORK, April 11.—English | seamen aboard the 5S.S, Hartbridge| | cent a radiogram today to the In- | | ternational Labor Defense in pro- | test against the Decatur jyneh | | verdiet in the Patterson s2se. | The radiogram reads: | “We English seatien from the | S.S. Hartbridge protest against the | brutal sentence on the nine inno-) | cenit Scottsboro boys. We semaad | their immediate release. The same | protest is going to the Supreme | | Court,” | Omaha Cops Attack Scottsboro Protest OMAHA, Neb.-Police attacked and | broke up an open-air Scottsboro- Mooney Protest meeting here, and rested thie workers. George Stal- deportation. Two sand workers demonstrated in Rey-| police. burn Plaga here Saturday in mass) verdict. The workers present unanimously endorsed the call of the International Labor Defense for a arch of Negro and white workers to Washington, April 28, to present a petition de- manding a new trial for Haywood Patterson and the immediate, uncon- ditional and safe releace of all the Scottsboro boys, to President Roose- velt. Speakers were Mrs. Janie Patter- son, mother of Haywood Patterson, and representatives of the I.L.D. and of the Ministers Alliance. A second mass Scottsboro protest parade, arranged by the Ministers’ Alliance and supported by the I.L.D. will start from Reyburn Plaza at 6 p. m. Tuesday. Mayor Moore, Mag- istrate Henry, and other local politici- ans Will address a mass meeting fol- lowing this parade. Magistrate Hen- ty, a Negro, is notorious among Negro and white workers’ for his vicious Protest meetings are scheduled for | Protest against the Scottsboro lynch) Bethel Baptist Church on Monday, }and Ahamo Hall Thursday evening. At the meéting which was broken up, Williams Pickens, assistant na- tional director of the NAACP, was denouticed in roaring protest by the | workets for his continued betrayal of the Scottsboro boys’ defense. At a meeting here last week, Pick- ens, on tour for the NAACP in an attempt to divert the mass protest against the Scottsboro lynch verdict, opened up with an attack upon the Communist Party, and the Interna- tional Labor Defense, and the Scotts- boro Defense. Sue Stalker, ILD organizer rose to ask him to make a statement of his stand on the Scottsboro case itself. “Please call an officer and have the lady arrested,” was Pickens’ answer. “There weré only ten lynchings in the United States last year,” Pickens said. “You should have faith in the U. S. Supreme Court to save the Scottsboro boys.” immediate, unconditional and safe| Telease of the Scotisboro boys, ad-| dressed to President Roosevelt and) e Governor Miller of Alabama, were adopted here at a mass meeting, at-| PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 17.— tended by 150 workers, on Markct| More than a thousand Negro and Square yesterday afternoon, | white workers, with Negroes: in over- whelming majority, packed Bethle- |hem Baptist Church here Sunday j night in a Scottsboro protest demon- April 30 to! stration called by the International | Labor Defense. sentences against them for ba fi class activities, and for his support of police brutality. * fe Hitch-hike, drive, walk to the Chi- cago Mooney Congress, May 2. of the Macon, sister dirigible of the Akron, the airship that crashed in the Atlantic with heavy loss of life, was delayed. Secrecy is being main- tained regarding steps that are be- ing taken to overcome the defects hat brought disaster to the Akron. Kentucky Butcher Slain. | HARLAN, Kentucky, April 17.— Isaac Pennington, chief deputy of} By STANLEY GIBSON. the Black Mountain Coal Company,’ Almost more than the Scottsboro | who heads the army of private thugs, boys, the white bourbons of the South | and gunmen maintained by that/ now hate Ruby Bates, | scab-herding corporation, is dead) They hate her because, a white | from gunshot wounds inflicted in the| girl born and b<ed in the South, she | fight with another person. Penning-| took the witness stand in Decatur, ton had formerly been on the police THE STORY O force of Harlan and Cumbetland, Kentucky, for twelve years, He was one of those engaged in shooting, Kidnapping and beating organizers of the National Miners’ Union during he Kentucky coal strike of last year. Boosts N. Y. Milk Prices. NEW YORK, April 17.—With the first official orders of the Milk Con- trol Board in effect, the price of milk to consumers soared from three to five cents a quart. This does not benefit the dairy farmer, but Is solely | a Tammany steal to help the milk} How much they share with) trust. Tammany politicians is not known. Discusses Fare Boost. NEW YORK, April 17.—Mayor O'Brien today opened discussions with security holders of the subway and other transit systems on the pro- posed unification plan which includes an abandonment of the five-cent fare and the establishment of a seven end one-half or ten-cent fare, so that the bondholders can continue to clip coupons and get dividends. Doesn't Ask Unemployed. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 17.— ,| State Treasurer Edward Martin and .| republican state chairman has sent a communication to editors of news- papers asking what their opinion is on state and federal unemployment relief funds. He didn’t ask what the 2,000,000 unemployed of Pennsylva- nia think about it, ATTENTION MAY 1 DE- LEGATES A meeting of all delegates to the United May Day Con- | ference will be held tomor- | row night at 8 p.m. in Man-| hattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th | Street, to hear reports, get, materials and to prepare! |final plans. | | Ala., and with her testimony exploded | | the ancient legend that “ ‘niggers’ | rape white women.” Exploding that | legend has a deep social and political significance. It means puiting cut | | of gear the machinery with which the | | ruling class of the South terrorizes | Negroes and keeps them in slavery. When Ruby Bates took the stand | | and declared that the Scottsboro boys | | had never touched her, the court | room went into an uproar. That; night the Ku Klux Klan and the young upper class blades about De- catur talked of lynching Buby Bates. It was a new thing for the South- ern rulers to see a poor white girl “side” with Negroes. Yet this new spirit is slowly seeping into the con- sciousness of white share croppers and workers throughout the South. Slowly they are beginning to realize that the same powers that lynch Ne- groes and frame them for “rape,” are likewise grinding out the poor white cotton tenant. That's why they hate Ruby Bates. That is why they said of her that “such people aren't fit to be members of the white race,” and threatened to lynch her. And that is why the dramatic ap- Fearance of this slim white girl in an Alabama court to tell the truth about. the Scottsboro case is of such mo- mentous and political significance. (cesar Wale" For sixteen years Ruby lived in squalor in a “white trash” shack in Huntsville, Ala. As a child, bare- footed, with skimpy calico dresses. she played about the unpaved streets where the “mill hands” lived. Upper class whites looked down upon these mill hands as scarcely better than Negroes. Nearby was the Negro quarter, but Ruby kept away from that. The poor whites were taught that they were “better than niggers.” This was the one thing that Bates family clung to, their sense of “superiority” over the black people down the street, In this manner, the Bourbons who con- trol the South keep the masses, black ! F RUBY BATES and white, apart. “Divide and rule” is their motto. t Ruby stayed in school barely long | enough to read and write. By six- teen she was already an experienced mill hand, with a drab life of tending the looms ahead of her. She worked | 11 hours a night and earned $5 a week. Living seemed sordid and ¢émp- ty to the girl. In An Alabama Mill Sometimes the family was in ex- | treme want, There was no money for clothes, for food, for the little Pleasures that a girl wants. In the bleak daybreak she came home ex- hausied from the whirr of the looms and the throb of the machines; she ate her scant meals, slept, and went back into the linty atmosphere of the mill again, The only fun for a young adoles- | cent girl in these barren mill-owned towns is the thrill of sex. Ruby was never taught the dangers of prom- iscuous sex relations. When she was still a child, she was already the victim of venereal diseases. Then the mills shut down and even what little security Ruby had was The crisis ground snatched away. RUBY BATES Product of the Oppression of Poor White Workers of the South down the poor white workers almost | gets treated even worse than us poor to the same economic level as the | winites. And it bothered me, mister. Negro people. | Yes, sir. It just made my head hurt Next followed that internationally thinking about them niggers me and famous hobo ride on the freight train | Victoria was sending to the electric which tock Ruby Bates and another | chair—just because’ we wanted to es- mill hand, Victoria Price, to Chat- | cape being put in the bull pen and nooga and back to Hunisville again, | via Scottsboro. | “Say We Were Raped” | To cross the Tennessee-Alabama | line with the white boys who had | eccompanied them and with whom) they spent some days in a hobo jun- | gle, meant arrest for vagrancy or per- | haps even more serious charges. Victoria. Price had already spent time in jail. The mill had beaten Victoria Price down till she had sur- | rendered. In sex and in squalid un- derworld life she found some escape from the blight of the mill drudgery. “Say we were raped by the ‘nig- gers,” Victoria whispered when they | were arrested at Paint Rock. “That will let us out and ‘we'll make some money as witnesses.” So the girls said they were “raped” and Scottsboro had a Roman holiday while the nine Negro boys were “tried” and sentenced to death. Ruby Bates was only a child, and not so hardened as her companion. As time went by, and the Scotisboro case resounded around the world, Ruby began to do some thinking. Con- ditions in the poor little shack bo- came worse and worse: Sometimes there was no food to eat. It was then Ruby began to see that poor whites were treated as badly as Negroes. She began to see that poor whites cannot rise by stamping the Negro deeper into the mire. Some faint glimmering of unity with the downtrodden black workers up the street began to flicker in her mind. “Somehow I began to think it was not right,” she told the writer in Decatur the evening after her fateful testimony that she had lied in the original Scottsboro trials. “Sure, them boys is ‘niggers.’ But ‘niggers’ got feelings just like white folks,” “It Bothered Me” “After the trials when I went hobo- ing again I just couldn't get the idea out of my head. Them ‘niggers’ was human. They was on the way look- ing for work, just like we was. They | know, get a few dollars for being witnesses. | “Then I went to New York, you I saw Dr. Fosdick, this min- ister I was telling you about on the stand, and I told him the whole| story. I just couldn't see it—my lies | sending them boys to their deaths. “That's how I come back. “Sure I know I took a chance go- ing to prison for perjury for lying the first time. But, mister, I feel better right here.” She pointed to her heart. “‘Niggers' is human, They gets treated worse than us poor whites. Yes, sir, I finaily saw what I done, so I told the whole truth,” Defy the Bourbons Ruby Bates does not yet understand who it is that treats poor Negroes worse than poor whites—and treats both badly. But she does under- stand that they belong in the same class and are fighting against the same brutal forces that strips both of freedom, health, and joy in life. And so this child of nineteen, her life almost wrecked by disease, by gruelling labor in a mill, by the hope- lessness of her future, walked cour- ageously into the Morgan County court reom and defied the hatred and contempi of the Southern ruling class tg save the lives of the Scottsboro OYs, When a white woman has the strength and courage to face a South- ern lynch court in an effort to save a Negro framed for “rape,” there occurs an historic moment in the rise of the black and white masses of America. Ruby Bates’ appearance on that witness stand is a symbol of a deep change in the South. It means that the poor whites, at the bottom, are beginning to awaken. It means that slowly the veil of race prejudice drilled into them by the owners of the mills and plantations is beginning to drop from their eyes. Tt means that some day they will join hands with the still poorer blacks and together will face their common enemy, There were at least 37 lynchings of which public record was made, in 1932, the ILD pointed out, and all news was suppressed of many others. Protest Resolution By City Commission in Jersey City Forced JERSEY CITY, N. J.—A resolution addressed to President Roosevelt, de- manding an investigation of the con- duct of the retrial of Haywood Pat- terson in Decatur, and asking for a new trial for him was passed by the Jersey City city commission, according to the “Jersey Observer” a paper of the Hague political machine. ‘The Hague machine, which also controls the city commission, is well known as one of the most violent enemies of the workers and of the Negro people, and only the near ap- proach of local elections and the tre- mendous protest against the Decatur lynch verdict can be put forward as explanation of this move. “The Chicago Mooney Congress, April 30 to May 2, will be a big step toward my freedom.”—Tom Mooney. D, attorney for the Scottsboro boys, and to Mrs. Janie " ———<-<@ Patterson, mother of Haywood Pat- | terson, just framed to a second death |sentehce in the Decatur, Ala., court. | Haywood told his mother that just before the Decatur trial he was | beaten about the head with brass knuckles. When hée was being taken | from the death cell, he said, the war- |den of Kilby Prison, Montgomery, | Ala., hit Hit in the face with the | heavy iron prison keys. Attorney Brodsky reported to the \I. L. D. that the boys told him they | wete almost daily subjected to tor- | ture, beatings and abuse. Immedi- jately after the Original~ ttials in Scottsboro they were taken out by | twos by the militia ahd thrashed by | the mob that had collected around | the jail at Glasden, to which they | had been removed. | One of the militiamen stuck his | | bayonet through the bars and tore |a@ hole in the cheek of Rey Wright, | youngest of the boys, Brodsky de- ¢lares. Others of the boys were punched and struck in the face with gun butts. Throughout their stay in Kilby rison, they were never allowed to leave their cells for exercise. This right was denied them under the obviously false pretext that the other Negro prisoners in Kilby would at- tack them if they were allowed in the prison yard. After the U. 8. Supreme Court had granted the appeal of the International Labor Defense for a | new trial, the boys were still held jillegally in the tiny death cells, | Within sight of the electrocution | chamber. They were removed from the death house only a few days before the Decatur trials. It was at this time that the Kilby warden, who always referred to the boys as the “rape niggers,” struck Patterson in the face with the keys. Patterson was the inmost militant of the nine framed youths, In Decatur the boys were kept in a jail condemned for use by white prisoners. It was openly stated that the jail was “only good enough for niggers.” Despite the constant dan- get of lynch mobs seizing the boys, they were kept in this dungeon which “could be broken into with a | spoon,” according to the New York | Times. Several meetings were called by “vigilante” committees of wealthy whites and Ku Klux Klan member's in towns about Decatur to organize |@ march on the jail and lynch the boys. One of these mobs actually surrounded the courthouse during an interview between Samuel Leibowitz, defense attorney for the I. L. D., and Haywood Patterson. The lives of both were in danger. The crowd was finally persuaded to disperse by the sheriff, | The sense of being constantly threatened with lynching wore the boys down, Brodsky states. Upon seeing his mother for a few minutes during the trial, Haywood broke down and declared he was “afraid of what's going to happen to me” if the lynch crowds continued to grow. oe Mass Protest in Boston. BOSTON, Mass. April 16—A Scottsboro protest demonstration, in which thousands of Negro and white workers will participate, will be held Monday, at 630 p. m., in Madison Park, to be followed by a Scottsboro parade through the South End. Ac- cording to the International Labor Defense, under whose auspices the demonstration was called, many or- ganizations, including reformist un- ion locals and Negro and white clubs, churches, and fraternal orders, have announced they will take part in the | demonstration. “DAILY” CORRESPONDENTS REPORT ON DECATUR TRIAL, 1,000 ATTEND Spivak and Allen Draw Word Picture Show- ing Actions of NEW YORK.—Over 1,00 work- ers, most of them Negro workers of Harlem, gathered at Rockland Palace, Sunday night to hear eye-witness re- ports on the infamous trial at Deca- tur, and to protest the Scottsboro ver- dict under the auspices of the Daily Worker. John lL. Spivak, reporter for the Associated Negro press and author of the chain gang expose, “Georgia Nigger,” Prof. Charles Kunitz, Sam Don, editor of the Daily Worker, James Allen, Daily Worker reporter ot the trial of Haywood Patterson and other spoke. Harry Haywood was chairman, Spivak gave the crowd a word pic- ture of the trial and the action around Decatur at the trial. He ex- posed the attempts of Attorney-Gen- eral Knight to suppress the evidence of atiempted mob action against the defendants, their lawyers and wit- nesses. James Allen, spoke of the growing unity of Negro and white toilers in the South, He told the story cf a young white share-cropper who track- ed down every evidence of lynch mobs to forewarn the ILD during the course of the trial. The audience cheered this example of working class solidarity. He stated that “the course of the Scottsboro trials will bring out more than just the question of inno- cence of these boys. It will bring out the whole question of the national Judge and Jury oppression of the Negro people, their rights to the land they till, etc.” H. M. Wicks, received an cvation when he stated that “the fight for Scottsboro is not only a fight for these boys but is part of the fight towards the day when those who cause Scottsboro trials will them- selves be put on trial, the lynchers will be brought before the courts of the workers. Sam Don received an ovation when he was introduced as editor of the Daily Worker and spoke as a repre= sentative of the Communist Party. “When Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, he overlooked one little detail, he forgot to give the land to those millions of Negro farmers who had tilled it for 300 years. We say ies land shall go to those who The audience stamped and cheered this statement. A collection of over $50 was raised for the Daily Worker, Another Buffalo Protest Meet Today A second protest meeting will be held Tuesday, April 18, at McKinley Monument. From this a del- egation will be elected to present the demands of the LL.D. on the Scotts- boro case to the mayor of Buffalo and the board of supervisors, demanding that they endorse these demands bei forward them to President and Governor Miller of Alabama. —s AEE nee cheer S——————— Yee) bi