Labor Defender. Vol. 11 No. 4. April, 1935.

Contents: Scottsboro April 1931-April 1935, What the Papers Didn’t Write About Scottsboro by John L. Spivak, Halt Deportations to Fascist Countries by Dwight C. Morgan, Herndon’s Freedom is Not Yet Won! By Robert W. Dunn, A Hero on Trial by Nicholas Wirth, The Burlington Dynamite Plot by Walt Pickard, The Story of Scottsboro in Pictures by Limbach, Law and Order in Oregon by Dawn Lovelace, What to do When Under Arrest, Mass Defense in Court and on the Picket Line, 5000 New Members by Anna Damon, Murder in Cuba by Maria Gonzalez, Voice from Prison, Young Defenders.

Labor Defender was published monthly from 1926 until 1937 by the International Labor Defense (ILD), a Workers Party of America, and later Communist Party-led, non-partisan defense organization founded by James Cannon and William Haywood while in Moscow, 1925 to support prisoners of the class war, victims of racism and imperialism, and the struggle against fascism. It included, poetry, letters from prisoners, and was heavily illustrated with photos, images, and cartoons. Labor Defender was the central organ of the Scottsboro and Sacco and Vanzetti defense campaigns. Editors included T. J. O’ Flaherty, Max Shactman, Karl Reeve, J. Louis Engdahl, William L. Patterson, Sasha Small, and Sender Garlin.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n04-apr-1935-orig-LD.pdf