Title
Letter from Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, to Governor, State of Alabama, United States of America.
Subject
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931; African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama; African Americans--Imprisonment--Alabama; Miller, Benjamin Meek, 1864-1944; Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch (Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)
Description
The Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch, protests the March 1933 Decatur verdicts, demands the defendants' immediate release, and blames their convictions on a "frameup" by Ruby Bates and Victoria Price.
Creator
Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, Newcastle Branch (Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)
Source
Alabama Governor, Scottsboro Case appeals to the Governor, SG004239, Folder 18, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Date
1933-09-12
Format
Letter
Language
English
Coverage
Australia--New South Wales--Newcastle
Transcription
Federated Ironworkers' Associaton of Australia
Newcastle Branch
Telephone: Newcastle 931
Trades Hall, Newcastle, NEW SOUTH WALES,
AUSTRALIA.
12TH. September, 1933.
His Excellency,
Governor, State of Alabama,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Dear Sir,
I have been instructed by the members
of the Newcastle branch of the Federated Ironworkers'
Association of Australia to most emphatically protest
against the verdict of the death sentence imposed on the
Scottsboro boys, and demand their immediate release, owing
to the hideous and frame-up evidence of the two women,
Bates and Carter.
Faithfully Yours,
E. Charlesworth
Secretary.
Newcastle Branch
Telephone: Newcastle 931
Trades Hall, Newcastle, NEW SOUTH WALES,
AUSTRALIA.
12TH. September, 1933.
His Excellency,
Governor, State of Alabama,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Dear Sir,
I have been instructed by the members
of the Newcastle branch of the Federated Ironworkers'
Association of Australia to most emphatically protest
against the verdict of the death sentence imposed on the
Scottsboro boys, and demand their immediate release, owing
to the hideous and frame-up evidence of the two women,
Bates and Carter.
Faithfully Yours,
E. Charlesworth
Secretary.