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for your immediate attention the following resolution:

That the members assembled at this Summoned Meeting of above branch held on April 25th, 1934 at the Labour Rooms, 375 Cambridge Road, E.2 unanimously sends a strong protest against te highly unsatisfactory manner in which the judicial proceedings are being conducted against the nine Negroes since their arrest near Scottsboro, Alabama over three years ago.

In our opinion these people are entirely innocent of the very grave charges brought against them, and yet their trials have been conducted in surroundings unparalleled by the terrors of lynching and racial prejudices.

We earnestly urge you to take steps at once to bring to the notice of your country the intense feelings aroused throughout te world against the trials and death sentences and we call for the unconditional release of all the nine boys together with adequate safeguards and protection against mob violence.

On behalf of the above Branch,
yours faithfully
(signed)
Secretary

This important resolution on the Scottsboro frame-up was adopted by the East London Branch of the National Amalgamated and Furnishing Trades' Association. This union with over 30,000 members is one of the most militant in Great Britain and this action is an expression of their solidarity with the Negro toilers against the barbarous lynch justice of American Capitalism. - Ed.

SCOTTSBORO CASE ON APPEAL MAY 24.

Judge W.W. Callahan has finally signed the bill of exceptions in the appeals taken by the International Labor Defense against lynch sentences of death against Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys, it was announced by the I.L.D. here last week.

All workers and friends of the Scottsboro defence must respond to the fight to save the lives of the innocent boys. Increase and strengthen the protest movement through mass meetings. protest resolutions, etc. Contribute your share to the tremendous funds needed in this fight, Send all funds to: International Labor Defense, 80 East 11Street, New York City.

The Native Revolt in Togoland
BY NANDI NOLIWE.

In order that we may understand better the causes of the rising, which broke out on the 25th of January 1933 in Lome (the capital of French Togoland), it will be useful to give a brief outline of the history of how France received its mandate for Togoland, and bring to light the developing imperialist contradictions, describe the economic position and uncover the consequences of the crisis which led to a more or less stormy and spontaneous explosion of the people's discontent.

THE PARTITION OF TOGOLAND.

The first partition of the German colonies in Togoland and the Cameroons, that had been conquered and occupied by the allied troops, was effected on the basis of the agreements of the 30th of August 1914 and the 4th of March 1916. According to the agreement of August 30th 1914, the government of the Gold Coast. The ports of Lome, Misahohea, Kete-Kratchi (Middle Volta) and, finally, a part of the territory on the Upper Volta - Yendi, were placed under its jurisdiction.

Insofar as Lome and a large part of the railways thus proved to be in the hands of the British, France started fresh negotiations, trying to secure a new division of Togoland. Lord Milner (the State Secretary for the colonies) and Henry Simon (the Colonial Minister) signed two documents on the 10th of July 1919 in Londen, which established the frontiers separating the territories of Togoland and the Cameroons. Thanks to these new frontiers, France received, besides te ports of Lome and the Misahohe region in the south, also the undoubted right to a whole number of important villages and acquired, besides this, the entire road from Lome to Atakpame. Despite the fact that Togoland and Cameroons were already actually divided among Great-Britain and France, their mandates were only officially recognised by the council of the League of Nations on the 20th of July 1922.

Article 9 of the final draft reads that France «receives the unlimited authority in the government, legislation and jurisdiction in the countries for which it has mandates». Ad so, it may divide the territories, under its mandate, in districts and administrative units; it may set up on its territory fiscal customs and administrative unifications; finally has the right to organise municipal services, establish a TAXATION SYSTEM

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