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...decision of the United States Supreme Court ordering a new trial for the eight Negroes convicted in the Scottsboro case can hardly be less acceptable to the nation at large than to the editors of the New Masses and the Daily Worker. The New York Herald-Tribune probably reflected preoccupied public opinion on the subject when it headlined its story on the pronouncement as "Red Riot at High Court"; Communist bally-hoo of the case excuses editors and public alike for confusing justice with Communist propaganda. In this respect the case threatens to equal the "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...long been the policy of the Communist party to make a strong play for the sympathy of the Southern Negro, not with any hope of ballot victories, but with the purpose of gaining allies for the over-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...
...review the case of seven Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala. of raping two white girls and sentenced to death (TIME, JUNE 22). Defense attorneys claimed their clients were denied their constitutional rights and were tried amid scenes of mob passion under military guard by an all-white jury before a biased judge. Because this case has been befogged by Communist agitation, the Supreme Court was under special guard last week. The grant of a review will automatically save the young blackamoors from execution June 24, postponing their fatal day at least until after Oct. 10 when the court will hear...
Tallapoosa's racial clash produced reverberations outside Alabama. In New York the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which has been conducting a legal defense of the Scottsboro convicts denied that it was connected in any way with the Camp Hill affair. It charged that Communist agitators were deliberately "muddling the matter" and warned that their tactics to win Negroes to Communism were "the best means in the world" for getting the Scottsboro boys hanged or mobbed. The International Labor Defense, a Red organization which has been exploiting the Scottsboro case for political purposes, said the Camp...
Meanwhile, bewildered by all the outcry their case was creating, the eight blackamoors of Scottsboro sat in death cells at Kilby prison waiting for the Supreme Court of Alabama to review their convictions next winter...