JUDICIARY: Seven for Seven

Tear gas was used, four officers were injured, twelve marchers were locked up, several banners demanding "Freedom for the Scottsboro Boys" were torn down and confiscated when Washington police drove 100 demonstrators of the International Labor Defense off the Capitol Plaza one forenoon last week. Undisturbed by the tumult outside, inside the Capitol in the shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians...

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