The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1934, Page 5

DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1934 Page 5 THREE-YEAR FIGHT OF LL.D. STAYED SCOTTSBORO EXECUTIONS BRILLIANT LEGAL DEFENSE OF LL. D.. MARKS LONG FIGHT 2 hig ng ry a THE FIRST CALL T «Worker (Section of the Commun O SAVE THE BOYS! tst International) Vol. VIII, No. 87 ee NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents ry | MILLIONS IN WORL TO SAVE 9 BOYS AROUSED D FIGHT NEW YORK, FRIDAY. APRIL 10. 1931 Supplemented Mass Protest With Finest Legal roy wt a er 13 NEGRO WORKERS SENTENCED 10 DIE BY LYNCH COURT Specialists to Carry on Courtroom Fight ree year long fight of the ImL. D. to save the) ia Tay The three year long fight 0: e Te 0 save the Workers, Negro, White! HERB L.L.D. Carried Fight for Freedom of the Boys to Every Country of the World, Rousing Millions | in Mighty Demonstrations and Protests JOKES Case Stirs ‘Mass Resentment; | A huge army of mass protest 1 14,000, ‘ives of the Scottsboro boys has been not only the enormous ABOUT CHILD LL.D. Rushing Attorney To me aes Reuse. Rubens | ian 7 heen achievement of ‘arcusing world opinion, but has been, in ad- Shop dhe “Lg” Lnthtagof Ni | Start Appeal Proceedings tae Cale Had ween 2 7 isa ce eee liti sually brilliant legal offensive. e Oe cae eee Bx ——_— | through the streets of the Unitec ands ae dition, an unusually nt le ,. | Negro Boys in Alabama! | Wires Alnbama Governor and Trial Judee| |States and many Europeen coun- ser en a Scotts In every phase of the fight, the legal work of the I.L.D., | jpn men | a | Warkirs Wil Hold Then Retmensiste for | tries since the original Scottsboro boro protest demonstration cvgan« = pein PSR Lia | bare from 16 to f pints throughout the long intricacies of————— the court fight, has been master- | May Day will Be A lyneh verdict in April, 1 | the German I. L. D. was Communist Party Deno em. asmuxorox. Asst +—seee| Lynching, Calls on Wo fully adjusted to securing the most. skillful legal talent available for} the special task in hand. LL.D. Secured Chamice When the services of a skillful and respected Southern attorney were most needed, the I.L.D. secur- ed General George W. Chamlee, former Attorney General of Ten- nessee, and famous through the South for his eloquence and skill. Later when the courtroom skill of a criminal lawyer was needed, the IL.D. secured Samuel J. Leib- owitz. The LL.D. was willing to use Leibowitz fully realizing the dan- gers inherent in using a man of Leibowitz's Tammany connections. The ILD. has fought in the Scottsboro case With only one pur- pose—to win the liberation of the boys. Get Pollak for Appeal « Later, when Leibowitz’s. special courtroom skill could not be used in the Supreme Court appeal, the TLL.D. secured one of the most prominent constitutional lawyers in the country, Walter H. Pollak. The LL.D. is not willing to sac-| rifice the lives of the Scottsboro | boys to the ambition of any man. | But the I.L.D., even in the face of the present attacks on it by Leib- owitz, stands ready to offer him the full cooperation of their leading constitutional lawyer, Pollak, The fact is that Leibowitz has never in his life practiced before the Su- preme Court, while Pollak has spent his life in this practice. Expert Defense It was the brilliant legal work of Chamlee, the ILL-D. attorney, who first filed the amended motion for an appeal of the original death verdicts which actually stopped the executions and began the world- | famous Scottsboro case. The N.A.A. C.P, attorney, Roddy, made no motions for an appeal! The briefs presented by the I.L.D. attorneys to the Alabama Supreme Court were hailed as the most ex- pert and brilliant seer in the his- tory,.af the State. Particularly brilliant as work were the achievements of the LL.D. in exposinz the perjury of Victoria Price. in winning Supreme Court stays of execution, in fight- ing the jim-crow routine in pick- ing the jury, in uncovering tamper- ing with jury rolls. and in the speéd in filing appeals. The Scottsboro case revealed the skill of the LL.D. in creating the most effective defense through a skillful combination of legal and mass struggle. Scottsboro Boys legal | Step By Step Story of LL.D. ‘Fight for Boys | Fought for ‘Liberation | of Boys Against All Obstacles | From the moment when the I. L. | D. entered the Scottsboro case and | blocked the lynch verdicts against jeight of the boys, a relentless and | brilliant legal battle was fought by | the defense. The outstanding ac- tions in the ong fight follow: | April 8, 1931.—I. L. D. enters the | Scottsboro case and exposes the lynch frame-up. | April 18, 1931.—Gen. Geo. W. Chamilee, of Chattanooga, outstand- ing Southern white lawyer, engaged to represent the boys by a commit- tee of lawyers from the I. L. D., Claude Patterson, Haywood's father, Mrs. Ada Wright and Mrs. Mamie | Williams. May 6, 1931.—I. L. D. halts ex- |ecution verdicts, by filing amended |motions for a new trial at Scotts- boro, together with many affidav: jon the character of Victoria Price. | | Also secures written order from | Judge Hawkins securing permission |for parents to see the boys for the | first time since their arrest. These actions haved the lives of the boy and began the long fight for thei | freedom. June 22, 1931.—I. L. D. appeal with Alabama State Supreme Court. Jan. 21, 1932.—I. L. D. attorneys |argue appeal before Alabama State | Supreme Court in the presence of | the largest crowd ever assembled | there. April 1, 1932.—Walter H. Pollak, joutstanding constitutional lawyer, secured by I. L. D. to carry appeal ‘to U. S. Supreme Court. April 19, 1932.—I. L, D. secures stay of execution of boys from State Supreme Court until June 24. June 19, 1932—Walter H. Pollak, |of the I. L. D. defense, secures writ |of certiorari and order suspending |death sentence from U. S. Supreme | Court. November 7, 132—U. S. Supreme Court reverses decision of Scottsboro lynch court. Orders now trial for boys. March 7, 1932.—I. L. D. wins change of venue of Scottsboro trial to Decatur, Alabama. March 28, 1932.—Trial opens in Decatur. I. L. D. challenges sys- tematic exclusion of Negroes from ipported ma N ‘Guard are “suncrintending” the Wynehing of these defenseless bors munity and SN |] toe | | states tveady this year "| Protest; League of S ave heen ten “illegal” Iynchinge in the Unied | This historic page of the Daily Worker shows the first cail to action to save the Scottsboro boys, issued by the Communist Party and the I. L. D., as the boys were bi At this time the case had rece! capitalist press. ing tooth and nail to eliminate th the Alabama Courts. This proced show how the “Daily” gave promi quick execution of the boys and an end of the case. eing raiireaded to the electric chair. ived practically no publicity in the The N.A.A.C.P. and the Ministers’ Aiv-ance, now fight- e I. L. D. from the case, were for a policy of the least publicity and for reliance on the “fairness” of ure would have surely led to the The photostats ence to the case and also the first story as it appeared in the New York Times. ‘Sought To Place Boys At Mercy of “Fair” Lynch Courts | | The Scottsboro boys would have |surely gone to a quick and une | |moticed execution if those who are| now seeking to wrest the case from |the LL.D. had been permitted to| {handle the case “in their own way.” | The N.A.A.C.P., the ministers and | Officiais of the Ministers Alliance |and the Inter-raciel Commission, |all of whom are now working fev- jerishly through Leibowitz to cripple jthe world fight of the LL.D. right | at this most crucial moment of the} case, these people fought for a| course of “defense” which would | \have sent the Scottsboro boys to the electric chair long ago. | | As a matter of fact. it was the | original “defence” put np by the} N.AA.C.P, attorney Roddy, K.K-K. lawyer sent into the Decatur Court by the Ministers Alliance at the ion of the N.A.A.C.P., which in the original death sen- tence on April 9, 1931. It was the N.A.A.C.P. attorney Roddy who threw the boys on the} mercy of the Alabama Court in a| “defence” which urged the boys to| plead guilty in. order to win an) escape from the death yerdict to a life imprisonment sentence. HOW REFORMISTS rr. JAIL HEAD ASKS TROOPS AS MOB SEEKS NEGROES k Times. HUNTSVILLE, March 25.— Fearing a mob at Scotts boro, coun! it of Jackson County, following of nine Negroes charged wi two white girls, 0 was ordered te the Jac fail ask for i nf Defense at Every Step in Long St DEALT WITH CASE Ruby Baites, 23, and Victoria Price, 18, were ja a box car with seven white men when the Negro tramps got m at a: point between Stevenson and Scottsboro. They threw etx of the white men off the traih. to have fought desperately uatil the white man was knocked uncom scious. of the cer tomy Soap ahead to Pain! a Bherift's posse surrounded @ad captured the Negrots after a short fight. ported that the mob was dispersing, na the night was oold, and danger seemed averted. The girls, who gave thelr names 2s ‘The seventh and the girls are sald Cav befaabaalegs whe ey Send rock. When the train arri ‘there cor N.A.A.C.P. Reformists Tried To Knife £7. - From the first I. L. D. entered the Scottsboro c upon the request of the parents an ys themselves, a call fo of the nine innocent was issued. Millions responded. On April 10, the first big Scottsboro pr meeting was held in Harlem ai je e's Hall. On April 25, 1931, the first Scotts- boro protest demons on organ ized by the I. L. D. was held in Harlem and was smashed by the police. On May 1, 1931, workers in May Day demonstrations in 300 cities throughout the country raised the cry, “The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die. Free the innocent Scot boys.” International Mass Protest By the time the I. L. D. carri the appeal against the Scottsboro lynch verdict Alabama State Supreme Court, hun- dreds of mass meetings and dem- onstrations of protest in support of |the I. L. D. fight for the lives of 20ro the boys, had taken place in many |parts of the world. On April 24, 1931, the I. L. D. received a copy of the first protest telegrams from —-9 | Workers ruggle Joined Southern Rulers in Attacks on Boys’ Best Defenders The continuation of this rabid assault against the solely author- ized defenders of the boys found further expression in the treacher- ous attempt of another group of Negro reformists to hinder the fa- is Scottsboro March to Wash- ington where 4,000 Negro and white presented the Roosevelt government with the demand for the freedom of the boys. In this attempt to “steal” the |march and deliberately restrict its | effectiveness, the Amsterdam News, | which is at. present leading in the | attempt to aid Leibowitz, took a leading and treacherous part, pre- | tending “friendship” as a prelude | to attacks in the I.L.D. The N.A.A. CP. here again fought the I.L.D. committee” to seize the leadership of the march. Continued Attacks ILD. secured the official authoriza- tion from the boys and their par- ents to represent them in the courts, the N.A.A.C.P. and the min- ister groups launched a persistent ed that only the | Negro boys getting a “fair trial” in Alabama was definitely the basis of the entire N.A.A.C.P. campaign against the I.L.D., which proclaim- power of mass Having failed in this attempt. the N.A.A.C.P. then adopted an officiel “hands off” policy in the case, But this only concealed preparations for new attacks, since the semi-of- ficial organ of the N.A.A.C.P., the Pittsburgh Courier, hardly let a trying to set up an “independent | Europe—a resolution passeci by the Beziin Transport Workers Union demanding the immediate uncondi- tional release of the Scottsboro boys. Huge protest demonstrations before the American embassies in Chem- nitz, Berlin and Leipzig were held, jat which 5 German workers were | arrested. Two large and representative all- Southern Scottsboro Conferences iniuiated by the I. L. D. were held in Chattanooga, Tenn. At Camp Hill, Ala. Ralph Gray, leader of the Negro sharecroppers, was killed and five others wounded as a re- sult of a Scottsboro protest meeting held there. European Scotisboro Tour After the State Supreme Court denied the appeals brought there by the I. L, D., the mass defense cam- paign was intensified. Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy, and J. Louis Engdahl, the late national secretary of the I. L. D. Europe on April 27, 1932, to conduct the international Scottsboro defense campaign. They were invited by the International Red Aid (of which the I. L. D. is the American High Point — In Decision By Horton , Sailed for y the police in Chemnitz. in Switzere vcslovakia, Denmark, Y, Belgium, Holland, nternational solidarity led by the American the freedom of’ the Scottsboro boys. ass Campaign Intensified g this e period powers were being mo- D. in the United hundred and. fifty One id post cards demanding the € unconditional release of the boys were mailed to the U. 8. Supreme Court. National Scottsboro Week wes declared and observed with mass actions from Oct. 3 to Oct. 10, 1932. On 10, Mother Mooney went with an I. L. D, dele- ion to the U. 8. Supreme Court re the appeal was being argued ce dey the Fifth Na- i nvention of the I. Ly D, opered at Cleveland, Ohio; with Scotisboro defense a the keynote. November 7, 1932, was set as TH- ternational Scottsboro Day by «all the sections of the I. L. D.-Dem- onsirations before American’ em- bassies and in the streets were held all over the world. A militant-mass picket line marched before the U. S. Supreme Court in spite of repeated atmpts b ythe police to smash it. Sixteen were arrested and many were beaten and clubbed. And''the U. S. Supreme Court was forced to grant the boys a new trial. Ruby Bates Testifies second lynch verdict in’ De- catur, Alabama, became the* signal for renewed activity. Ruby ' Bates, who had bravel: mnounced from The the witness stand, “Those boys never touched me, they are inno- cent,” addressed thousands in New York City, and accompanied Mother Patterson in a mass march to Wash- on, where together with leaders of the I. L. D., trade union organ- izations and 5,000 Negro and white workers, they presented petitions circulated by the I. L. D. and signed by 200,000 at the White Ho After Horton was forced, by the voice of mass protest, to reverse the second lynch verdict, the I, L, D. organized tours covering several hundred cities all over the country. Ruby Bates and Scotisboro mothers alone addressed 221 meetings. Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Wright, Ruby Bates and Lester Carter, Richard B. Moore, national field organizer of . L. D. toured the country from | the | coast to coast winning new scores of thousands of workers to the sup- port of the mass defense campaign of the I. L. D. | Scottsboro Protest Strikes After Haywood Patterson was sen- tenced to death for the third time and Clarence Norris for the second | | % day p without some scurrilious time a new wave of national and jury. a : |and unscrupulous campaign to protest backing up the legal fight, # = : a é hes A z | call to witness stand Negro residenis erdic |way, with the purpose, above all,|of their traditional oppressors. rth rie A bE % rick vege paneryic New ant Ne i. bL, Ve ligible for jury service but never| It was the N.A.A.CP. policy from|of stopping the mighty wave of | ea ar Oe ee bas edie ae Testimony Forced peek awe ee Grok pe called. Prepare to challenge éntire|the first, exemplified in the utterly| world protest which made the) Incited Violence Against LL.D. the: Courier. absolved ihe: ‘iyuehers New Trial Germany, England and France, is- (Continued from Page 1) Morgan County venire. criminal “defence” of the KKK. Scottsboro case a world symbol for | pASING itself on this idea that ae mavens, RR ‘against | sued a joint appeal for renewed is a ee April 7, 1932.—Ruby Bates appears | lawyer Roddy, to avoid raising the |the fight against the national op- J any acts — : NA the lynchers could be “fair,” the . ee ‘* e f ve Struggle in the Scottsboro case. An pleased me greatly to know that jin court room from Birmingham, | fundamental issues in the case, to | pression of the Negro people by the 6 the Scottsboro boys by writing edi The following decision of Judge = such able lawyers as you and Mr. Pollak are going to handle my case on the appeal to the U. S Supreme Court. “IT was indeed shocked at the statement that Mr. Leibowitz made. I am sure by Mr. Brodsky appointing you and Mr. Pollak to handle my case on the appeal to the U. S, Supreme Court was did for the best. “I do hope that every effort will be put in force to have the appeal filed as soon as possible. Regard- less what occurs I have confidence that every step that you all take is a wise one benefitting toward my freedom. “I am innocent and have great faith and confidence that through this powerful organization the I. L. D. it will be prove to the few that have doubt. The I. L. D. have stuck by me in the past and I have faith that it will continue in this mighty struggle until jus. tice have been won, And justice means freedom for me. “I do ardently hope you and Mr. Pollak will have great success on the appeal. “Please don’t delay so long in writing me. I enjoy your letters and am glad to know how things are going. escorted by Mrs, May Jones, social worker. Declares her previous tes- timony a lie and part of the frame- up. April 9, 1932.—I. L. D. announces appeal to U. S. Supreme Court when jury brings in verdict and second death sentence for Heywood Pat- terson. June 23, 1932.—I. L. D. wins new trial for Heywood Patterson on basis of Judge Horton's decision which states that the “evidence prepon- derates greatly in favor of the de- fendant..” November 11, 1933.—I. L. D. makes public affidavits quoting more than 500 residents of Morgan County re- vealing preparations for lynching Scottsboro boys, witnesses and law- yers, November 23, 1933,—I. L. D. un- covers tampering with Jackson County jury rolls, in attempt to deny systematic exclusion of Ne- groes from jury service. March 5, 1934.—I. L. D. files ap- peal to Alabama Supreme Court in spite of Callahan’s attempt to cripple defense by declaring his Postponements illegal and leaving only 10 days to prepare and file appeal mstead of 90 days after hear- ing of motion. hopes that Mr. Leibowitz will avoid “offending” the lynch courts | and the whole Southern white rul- | ing class whose historic policy of Negro people was glaringly ex- emplified in the wholesale lynch} verdicts in the Scottsboro case. Thos, in the very first steps of the case, the N.A.A.C.P. policy Jed | directly to the death verdicts and | the electric chair. | It was only the swift intervention of the LL.D., through its Southern jattorney, General George W. Chamlee, former Attorney General of Tennessee, which, through its filing of a motion for an appeal, eth the boys from execution in 31. From the very first day that the Southern landlords. Accepted “Rape” Lie The line of the N.A.A.C.P. from brutal national oppression of the | the very beginning was to cover | constantly, up the lynch ferocity of the South- ern courts from the gaze of world opinion and to foster the illusion that a “proper” approach would arouse the “sympathy” of these courts. This was best expressed in the editorial columns of the N.A. A.C.P. organ, the Crisis, as follows: “When we hear that cight col- ored men have raped two white girls in Alabama, we are not the first in the fiel« to defend them. If they are guilty and had a fair trial the case is none of our busi- ness.” Thus the possibility for eight N.A.A.C.P. fought with unscrupul- {ous cunning to crush the ILD. fight. ne N.A.A.C.P, visited the boys | urging them, coaxing them, threatening them, and finally | liying to them, in repeated attempts | to break them away from the I.L.D. | The N.A.A.C.P. joined the lynch | press in its incitements against the | ;Communists, with open incitement | against all those helping the boy finding its expression in the foi- lowing provocation uttered by |liam Pickens, N.A.A.C.P. leader: “Let the white people (that is to say, the white capitclists and landlerds—Editor), of Alabama | sit up and take notice; this Com- munist menace is . . . menacing to good race relations.” | than two | torially: if mobs break ont in Ala- will probably be due to | activities of the Communists, who are driving the citizens of Ala- | bama to desperation.” These editorials of the N.A.A.C.P organ ‘were re-printed with ap- proval in the Jackson County Sen- tine!, the leading lynch paper of Alabama. The latest attempts te use Leib- owitz as a focus for a new attack on the I.L.D., just at this moment, when the boys face execution in less months, mark the final effort of the N.A.A.C.P. to cripple |the firm, unyielding defence of the |IL.L.D. which alone stands between (the boys and legal murder. issued, expressed willingness to do now as heretofore whatever was in the best interests of the boys. i; 2 “However, this morning I chal- lenge your right to appear in these cases at all. “I say this because I have just received letters from Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, dated October 8th and mailed October 10th, copies of which are enclosed. These letters were thrilled world with inspiring Scottsboro defense. So positive that I unqualifiedly say that Lei- bowitz will be disgraced before all people if he gets in the way of appeal. “JACK MITCHELL.” Japanese Uncovered As Bandits’ Sponsors Webb Praises _ Soviet Ability And Progress (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 12. (By Wireless) Webb. English economist creative enthusiasm belief in their cause. The broad masses of the workers are filled with tion. \now writing, Webb was particularly interested in the situation of the | Soviet's collective farms’ cooperative movement, in questions of trade, etc. In conversation with Zelensky, a While gathering material for the | |book on the U.S.S.R., which he is| this was the blow that the woman | Horton, reversing the second death | verdict against Haywood Patterson, granted after the I. L. D. had made a devastating exposure of the testimony of Victoria Price, main witness for the prosecution, indi- cates the rottenness of the entire ease upon which the Alabama lynchers are attempting to railroad the Sco tsboro boys to the electric chair. Horton indicates that Victoria | Price’s testimony is full of contra- | dictions, and “preponderates greatly in favor of the defendant.” The decision follows: “Was Victoria Price hit head with a pistol? Dr. Bridges’ téstimony we observe he was a witness placed on the | stand by the state. His intelligence, his fair testimony, his honesty, and in the In considering and by their| his high professional attainmen’s impressed the court and certainly . . The doctor jenthusiasm and energy for consiruc- | testifies: ‘I did not sew up any | | wound on the girl’s head; I did not And j all who heard him. . see any blood on her scalp.’ | claimed helped force her into sub- mission. | “Dr. Bridges says that when ‘hese | two women were brought to his of- | fice neither were hysterical or intensive campaign was organized by the I. L. D. of Holland linked with the fight against Hitler fas- cism and the defense of the “Seven Provinces” mutineers. Two thous sand Negroes and white members of the A. F. of L. Cleaners and Dyer: Union and 800 school children in Philadelphia conducted half hour Scottsboro protest strikes in support of the I. L. D. campaign. The International Labor Defense spurred on by the tremendous vice tory of securing the reléase of An- gelo Herndon on bail, launched ’& renewed Scottsboro-Herndon dé- fense campaign in July, 1934. “An- gelo Herndon, Mother Norris, and Richard B. Moore, are at present touring some 50 cities, addressing huge meetings organized by the L. L. D. to further the fight to--free the Scotisboro boys. On many occasions the Stotts- boro mothers, prominent world fige ures, jurists, scholars, writers; and millions of workers have dedlared, “If it had not been for the fight organized by the Iniernational La- for Defense, those boys would have been dead three years ago.’ The International Labor Defens will continue the fight untib.the pledge it has made to the-Negro and white masses in the United States and throughout the world, on Chinese Eastern |—Sidney representative of the central organi-| nervous about it at-all.... Such a change his attitude and be of reads the articles in newspapers a) ~we “Expecting an early reply from you, “Sincerely yours, “CLARENCE NORRIS.” Letter of Haywood Patterson Patterson’s letter follows: .“Mr, Osmon K. Fraenkel “76 Beaver Street “New York, N. Y. “My Dear Lawyer I was sure grateful to hear from you. now I shall make this letter as brief as I possibly can so as not to take up any of your time. yes I agreeable now I want you all to know that I have the same faith and courage that I have always had I am not discouraged nor anyways surprised over the out- come. I shall come to a conclu- sion in order not to take up much of your time I shall expect> to hear from you again soon. “Sincerely yours, “HAYWOOD PATTERSON.” Fraenkel’s letter to Leibowitz follows: “October 12, 1934 “Mr, Samuel S. Leibowitz, “225 Broadway “New York City, “Re: Patterson v. Alabama. Norris v, Alabama. “Dear Sir: “I have your letter of October 9th. “Upon receipt of same I laid the matter before the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which had where they overruled the appli- cations for a rehearing in my case and that of norris now we are looking forward with great confidence that you all will put foth every efforts possible on- ward in getin the cases before the supreme court, of the united states where I can rest assure that I will receive justice out- right now I am greetly sorry there was a little disagreements | sentiment for millions of Necrots written by the boys without their having been seen or spoken to by any one, and therefore con- stitute their voluntary and mea- sured thought on the question. “Accordingly, I am continuing (Special to the Daiiy Worker) SHANGHAI, Oct. 12 (By Wire- less) —A Japanese organization which supplied bandits with arms and ammunition for the purpose of organizing train wrecks on the Chi- with the steps I have already initated to perfect the appeals to here ae RaBway was exposed the United States Supreme Court. on When 11 Japanese and several os suey) ,, |Manchurians were arrested, exam- OSMOND K. FRANKEL."” ination confirmed the sale of arms ee ae to bandits by Japanese and the participation of the Japsno-Man- churian guard of the C. E. R. in this sale. Yet, notwithstanding tigat by this fact the odiously provocative cam- paign of Japano-Manchurian circles The announcement by Leibowitz had aroused a great deal of indig- nation which found expression in many telegrams of support to the ILD. and the Daily Worker, of which the following is typical: .“Editor-in-Chief, Daily Worker, “New York, N. Y. “Refuse to believe Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris re- pudiate LL.D. As a Negro born the arres anese * in the South am confident I voice | Te Wee eae lization it is completely proved who [precisely stood behind the bandits ketween Mr. Leibowitz and you retained me for the appeal, as it had retained you for the trails eil and of his dissent to agrée to you all opinions I am with the in these cases. Théir attitude. when I solemnly declare-that Pat- terson and Norfis will never vo}- untarily on théir own will turn set forth in the statement they down es leave I.L.D, which has |that organized train wrecks on the further stated: C. E. R., the arrests of Soviet citi-| zens and employees of the C. E. R. still continue, <) and former official of the Labor | government, following a visit to the |U.S.S.R., stated, in giving his im- |pressions of the workers’ fatherland: “Above all, I was astonished by the feeling of confidence in the fu- ture here, a feeling which the West lacks.” Comparing the present situation | with what he saw on a visit to the |US.S.R. in 1932, Webb said that | this feeling of confidence was now jeven greater and stronger than it j had been then and that the material | welfare of the population of the | Soviet Union was noticeably im- | Proved. Webb further stated that the ie rroperly considered no people jbo backward to be raised and in- |cluded in its cultural advancés. He tremendous abilty to work, by their | |zation of the cooperative societies, lines which he had seen two years ago in front of the stores on some collective farms, had now disap- | peared. 'Pittsburgh Workers Mark C.P. Birthday PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 12—A | total of 200 workers gathered in the International Socialist Lyceum on Northside to celebrate the 15th an- |niversary of the birth of the Com- munist Party of America. | Communist Party Candidate f which maintained that Soviet em-|!@8¢ Scale of all social measures|U. §. Senator, Harry M. Wicks, ployees of the C. E.R. were them-|Affecting living conditions was | traced the growth of the Party dur- | selves organizing train wrecks is |2Ston'shing; that backward peoples |ing the historic struggles of the completely exposed, and notwith-| Were being particularly affected by class since the end of the war. standing the fact that now after these measures, and that the US. | jin the names of working class or- ganizations in Pennsylyania—Men- jcken for the I. W. O., Dolsen for employment Councils. Local speakers greeted the Party | | Deal shows the growing need of the Daily | normal physical condition sult of so horrible ence... : | “Further, there’ was evidence of | trouble be ween Victoria Price and | the white boys in the jail at Scotts- and testify as she did concerning the rape; that Victoria Price indi- cated by so doing they would all get off lighter. “The testimony of the prosecu- | trix in this case is not only un- corroborated, but it also bears on its face indications of improbability and is contradicted by other evi- dence, and in addition thereto the | evidence preponderates greatly favor of the defendan Every day of the Roosevelt New Daily Worker. But the | Worker needs $69,000 to be able ; jthe T. L. D., Thornton for L. S. N.| to deal more fully with the strug- “Leading circles of the Sovies|R., Strauss for the Jewish organ- | gles of the working class. Support | Union are distinguished by their | izations, and Frankfeld for the Un-| the Daily Worker! Send your con- | tribution today to the $60,000 drive. is not Webb emphasized the fact that the| the natural accompaniment, or re- an experi- boro, because one or more of them refused to go on the witness stand in “The Scotsboro Boys shall not.die. The Scottsboro Boys shall be freed,” is made good. * | Protest Actions Must Increase. December 7 has been set, asthe date of execution for Haywoad Pat- terson and Clarence Norris....The International Labor Defense. will continue unabated to call for & wave of protést and defense actions in behelf of the Scottsboro. boys ihat will outshedow all thosé ‘that came before. The I. L. D.,. during the nine years of its existencé,“in the course of its defense of thou- sands of victims of ruling ciass ter= ror has proved clearly that. mass pressure alone, mobilization the widest masses and not illusions. in the possibility of winning justice from ruling clsas courts, can achi€éve victory.. The hundreds of victories won by the I. L. D. in every part of the country during these nine years, won by the program 6f mass defense, packing courtrooms, organ- izing protest demonstrations, télee grams, resolutions and wir<>, have jconvinced hundreds of thouahds of the correctness of this policy. « Mass pressure can and mugt si the Scottsboro boys. x