| Summary: | A resolution from the Haywood Patterson Branch of the International Labor Defense demanding the Scottsboro Boys' immediate release, the enforcement of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and "the immediate assurance of equality for the Negro masses. A number of ILD branches took the names of Scottsboro defendants. The resolution also protests an August 15th lynching of "Dan Pippin, A.T. Harding, and Elmore Clark" in Woodstock, Alabama and demands the arrest of Sherriff R. Z. Chamblin and his deputies. Dan Pippen and A.T. Harden were actually lynched in Tuscaloosa on August 13, 1933, while Elmore Clark survived the lynching attempt. The International Labor Defense attempted to defend them at trial before the lynching.
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