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Final Pennsylvania Governor, Terrorist, Coal Owner | (Gontinued from Page One) } that, if adopted by the conference of labor leaders meeting here, will gov- ern the future policy of organized la-| bor in the bituminous coal strike. | Meets Behind Closed Doors. With Philip Murray, international viee president of the United Mine} Workers of America, acting as ad-| visor, the committee went into session behind closed doors. Its resolutions will be submitted to the conference this afternoon, and they are expected} to be ratified with opposition. Second Emergency Conference. | It has been necessary only twice} in twenty years for the Americal Federation of Labor to call an emer-| gency conference, like this, to throw] support behind a union engaged in an} industrial controversy. This confer- ence was called by William Green,| president of the A. F. of L. “Coal and Iron” Police Issue. Murray and other national union leaders make no secret of the fact that they intend to make their pro. test against strike conditions in west- ern Pennsylvania felt in political cir-| eles. They are especially opposed to} the practice of the state’s deputizing “eoal and iron” or company police, whom they accuse outrages against striking miners. This protest was expected to be em-| bedied in resolutions presented to the! general conferenée this afternoon. * * * | (Special to The Daily Worker.) No Local Union Delegates Are Seated. | PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15.— Wide publicity has been given by the local] press to the resolution adopted by} United Mine Workers local unions in| this district and addressed to the con-| ference of union heads in séssion here but no delegates elected by local un-| ions were seated. | Bar Rank and File. Delegations from iocal unions in| ia, Ohio and West| i from the Roose- velt hotel hall by absolute refusal to recognize thei redentials. The resolution of the striking local) unions, (published in the Tuesday edi-| tion of The DAILY WORKER) called! for organization campaigns in the non-| union coal fields, the launching of a} nationwide relief drive, the levying} of an assessment on the membership} Virginia were | of the A. F, of L., the formation of} | a labor party for the 1928 elections| and mass violations of injunctions} backed by the whole labor movement. No Policy—Just Speeches. In order to avoid the situation de- veloping as a result of the anger of the miners’ delegates at refusal to seat them, the secret business session planned for yesterday was changed to a public meeting in Moose Hall where the rank and file delegates were ad- mitted to hear speeches but at which no policy was discussed. The business sessions of the confer- ence are being held in executive ses- sion which excludes the local union delegations. Speakers at the opening session in Moose Hall were ex-Governor Pin- chot, Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, president, and President Will- jam Green of the A. F. of L., who presided. The atrocities perpetrated by the coal and iron police upon the miners and their families were pictured and the charge made that there is in existence a conspiracy among a num- ber of large corporations to smash the United Mine Workers. Relative to the role of the state government, President Green made a Vague threat that the labor move- ment “would enter into political af- fairs in Pennsylvania in accordance with its non-partisan policy.” Steps were to be taken, other speakers de- clared, to arouse public opinion against the war being waged by the coal barons upon the miners’ union, * Foster, ‘Stee! Strike Leader, Urees Labor Mass Behind Miners (Special Dispatch to Daily Worker). PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15.—William Z. Foster, leader of the 1919 steel strike and head of the Trade Union Educational League, now in Pitts- burgh, made the following statement regarding the miners’ lock-out and the American Federation of Labor conference now in session here. “The present coal lock-out in Penn- sylvania and Ohio is pregnant with far-reaching consequences for the whole labor movement. The coal op- erators have smashed the miners’ union in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Colorado and other districts. This lock-out is a drive at the very heart of the union, ‘m the strategie Pennsylvania and Ohio districts. The aim of employers is to establish the open shop in the entire coal industry. If they can beat the union here the next points to be attacked will be the Illinois and an- thracite districts. The union is in a life and death fight. Its defeat would enormously stimulate the open shop movement generally and weaken the trade unions in every industry. This fs one of the most important strug- gles in the history of the labor move- ment. Lewis’ Policies Responsible. “John L. Lewis’ wrong policies are of perpetrating | @— } |the November 7th Revolution pro- Miners’ Congress Closes Demanding Unity to Stop Onslaught By Operators | (Special Cable to Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. 15.— The International Miners’ Confer- ence here ended today. It had rep- resentatives of nine countries: France, Belgium, England and others. A resolution for unity was adopted also stating that the mine owners onslaught in all countries ealls for struggle by the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions. * * * Under the chairmanship of A. Lunacharsky, the International Conference of Proletarian Writers opened. Lunacharsky reported on the situation of literature in the Soviet Union. He pointed out that moted_the free creative work and encouraged literature in many tongues representing the several Wreckage of Tank in Pittsburgh Explosion | scores of nationalities in the So- | viet Union. 1 Seg eer rong 5 aeopienenie ea |responsible for the crisis of th union. For several years the employ: ers have waged an especially aggres- sive and general campaign to destroy |the union, using the most drastic | means. Instead of replying to this by }a vicious campaign: to organize the | unorganized districts, Lewis has prac- |tically surrendered these districts, | even persecuting and expelling whole- |sale those union members who have insisted upon a militant policy. Thus the union has lost position after po- sition in the industry. Within two |vears it lost 200,000 members. At | the beginning of the present lock-out |the union miners were digging only |30 per cent of all soft coal produced, | whereas three years ago they were | digging 70 per cent. Manifestly a | life necessity of the union was to or- |ganize the unorganized miners. The |men were responsive. But Lewis did {nothing to unite them, consequentty |the union went into the struggle with |the odds greatly against it. Its pres- {ent critical situation is the inevitable |result of the disastrously wrong pol- \icies of the Lewis administration. | Conference Will Do Nothing Effective The A. F. of L. conference will do |nothing ¢o meet the crisis. The A. F. | of L. officials, like the miners’ lead- jers, are saturated with the same |spirit of non-militancy. With the | capitalists everywhere on the offen- sive against the unions, they, instead of building the unions and leading | them in aggressive action, are weakly calling out to the employers to coop- erate with them. Thus the unions are |constantly driven backwerd. | Part of General Crisis. “The crisis in the miners’ union is a phase of the general crisis of the {whole labor movement. The A. F. of L. conference will only voice futile complaints against the suppression of the workers’ rights, plead with the’ employers to be “fair,” advise the workers to support “friends” on the old party tickets, make a few empty |gestures about strike relief—all of which means nothing for the winning of the struggle. What is necessary is }a right about face in policy. Mili- |taney not sychancy, must be the key- note. “The whole labor movement should be rallied to furnish money for strike |relief and to provide organizers to {unite the unorganized miners in the jnon-union districts. The present in- | junctions should be broken down with mass violations, the workers-being en- couraged to picket freely. Concrete Steps Must Be Taken. “Steps should be taken to prevent the production or hauling of any coal by union workers until the locked-out miners get a settlement. A call should be issued, not for the workers to further support capitalist politicians, but to form a Labor Party. Indispensable Measures. “These measures are indispensable to save the miners’ union. But this gathering of reactionary union lead- ers is incapable of formulating and applying them. That is the task of the progressive and left wing rank Think Gas Tank Blast Killed Pottery Workers (Continued from Page One) Frank Kuepferele, 80, foreman di- recting the hoisting of twisted steel girders from the wrecked Joseph Horne Company warehouse, was fa- tally injured when a mass of rein- forcing steel fell on him from the hoist. His skull was fractured and he died a few minutes later in a hos- pital. Anthony Coyne, 18, working with Kuepferele, suffered lacerations of the head, arms and hands, He was treated at a hospital and taken home. Workers Killed. Following is the list of known dead: A. M. Beaver, 25, Wm. Bellam, 387, George Bentfeld, 24, Fred Bishop, 45, tank repairer; Mary Congelier, 28; Joseph Harris, 238, Negro worker; John A. McCall, gas company em- ploye; Charles S. Mitchaels, 45; John W. Miller, 68; C. R. Hardy, tank re- pairer; H. T. Sobeck, 32, tank repair- er; P. W. Price, tank repairer; ¥ason Warner, 45, tank repairer; Frank Ubrey, 35; John Moore, Negro work- er, Seven unidentified bodies, two of om are so badly mutilated identi- ation seems impossible, are recov- ered. Company at Fault. The Equitable Gas Co., tank blew up at a quarter to nine yesterday morning, sending showers of metal, brick and glass all over this section of the densely populated industrial and working class section of the city, demolishing building all around it. The top of the tank, a huge mass of steel sored highed in the air, turned ever and fell with a terrific crash on part of the pottery works nearby. How many workers are buried under it, no one can even guess. The tank was under repair at the time, and should not have been filled with gas. The company disavows blame, and without explaining how they came to send men to rivet and cut steel with acetelyne torches, claims that a torch light burned thru the tank and set off the explosive mixture of gases. When the tank blew up, bodies of some of the repair men, employed by the Riter-Conley Co. were blown for a hundred feet through the air. Grand Jury Refuses To Hear Detective Burns (Continued from Page One) affidavit which Ruddy and Judge Wright drew up for McMullin to sign, alleging that the attorney gen- eral’s office was itself corrupting the Fall Sinclair trial jury. The report is that Gordon was trying to get Rud- dy to “come clean” and testify against his chief, Burns. However, when Ruddy came out, he went into con- ference with Burns, Pinchot’s Part. Owen J. Roberts, government coun- sel in the Teapot Dome oil graft trial, stated today that he would testify for McMullin, if his character was at- tacked, and that he ‘believed ex-Gov- ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania would testify for him too.” Pinchot plays a curious and as yet unexplained part in the whole affair. It was he who brought McMullin to the prosecution. Some say he plant- ed him in the Burns camp, There are free charges that the Rockefeller interests are determined to finally ruin their rival, Sinclair, and also that the White House is anxious to see Burns discredited, since he has all the inside information of the Harding- Coolidge regime at the height of the Teapot Dome and their big deals and might want to talk some time. McMullin, when he joined Burns, took the name of a friend of his, Wm. V. Long, a\former sergeant in the New Jersey state police and later a runner for an insurance company. Long wants to prosecute McMullin, and has written the U. S. district at- torney a letter “exposing” him. GENERAL McRAE ATTACKS REDS Speaking in Christ Church yester- day, Major Gen. McRae assailed paci- and file elements, and it must be done | in the face of the strongest coma tion from the Lewis administration.” e fists because they interfered with the work of the army in exterminating radicals. , ‘THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16, 1927 Trotsky and Zinoviev Are Expelled (Continued from Page One) barred from responsible governmen- tal posts, | The text of the resolution follows in full; | “In order to enable the whole of the All Union Communist Party to ade- quately prepare itself for the Fif- teenth Congress, the Central Commit- tee has published the theses of the Central Committee a month before the Congress in accordance with the statute of the Party. Illegal Meetings. “Tt also published in a ‘discussion bulletin’ the counter-theses of the Op- position as soon as it received them, and also published the speeches and the articles of the Opposition afford- ing the Opposition leaders the fullest opportunity to defend theit views in ° the press as well as in Party organi- zations.and Party nuclei. “Trotsky and Zinoviev, however, did not deem it necessary to attend Party meetings, but continued to or- ganize illegal meetings, in which rep- resentatives of the Party did not par- ticipate. Non-Party Allies. “In spite of this, the Opposition far from relinquishing its policy of dis- ruption and disintegration of Party unity, increased its destructive work. Having been thoroughly repudiated by ‘all nuelei, in which discussions were held, and having failed to obtain even one per cent of the votes of Party members participating in the discussions, the Opposition proceeded to issue illegal leaflets distorting the activities of the Party, which were printed with stolen type and paper. “Secondly, it proceeded to organize a series of illegal anti-Party meetings, in which non-proletarian elements hostile to the Party and the working class participated. “Thirdly, it prepared illegal anti- Party meetings and anti-Party dem- onstrations at which plans were dis- cussed for a continued struggle against the Party, and into which tile ‘to: the Party, the Soviet Union and the proletariat. Seized Lecture Rooms. to. seize lecture rooms in the Moscow Technical College for anti-Party meet- ing at which representatives of the Party policy were abused. “Fifthly, it organized open meet- ings at which speeches were delivered against the All Union Communist Party and the Soviet Government. “Sixthly, the Opposition leaders in- stead of coming on the platform near Lenin’s mausoleum and greeting, in conjunction with the other comrades, the millions of Moscow and Leningrad workers, went into the highways and byways in an effort to organize a demonstration against the Party and attempted to seatter and post leaflets against the Party appealing to ele- ments hostile to the Party and the Soviet Government to seize important premises, substituting their own com- mandants for Soviet commandants and posting their own armed guards, thus infringing on Soviet law and or- der and becoming the mouthpiece of forces hostile to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Inadmissable Actions. “The Central Control Commission and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union declare these actions utterly inad- missable for members of the Party— particularly for members of the Cen- tral Committee and the Central Con- trol Commission—and resolve: “First, to expel from the Central Committee the following members and candidates: Kameneff, Smilga, Yevdo- kimoff, Rakovsky, Avdeyeff and to expel the following members from the Central Control Commission—Mur- aloff, Bakaeff, Shklovsky, Peterson, Solovieff and Lisdin. “Secondly, the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission consider it essential to relieve the said comrades from responsible Party and governmental work. _ Expel Trotsiy, Zinoviev. “Thirdly, in regard to Trotsky and Zinoviev who are the chief leaders of the anti-Party activity which is clear- ly developing into anti-Soviet activity and undermining the dictatorship of the proletariat, and taking into con- sideration that in response to the cat- egorical demand that the Opposition immediately cease its organization of anti-Party meetings and refrain from carrying inner-Party discussion be- yond the limits of the Party, Trotsky and Zinoviev demonstratively left the sessjon of the Praesidium of the Cen- tral Control Commission (November 11, 1927), sending it a few hours stance the proposition to adhere to these obligations which are the ele- —in view of these to expel Trotsky and Zinoviev from the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Submit Question to Congress. “Fourthly, to warn ®ameneff, Smil- ga, Yevdokimoff, Rakovsky, Avdeyeff, Radek, Muraloff, Bakaeff, Shklovsky, Peterson, Solovieff and Lisdin that the question of the compatibility of their fractional activity with their further membership in the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union will be submitted by the Praes- idium of the Central Control Commi; sion to the Fifteenth Party Congress, MORE ARMY PROPAGANDA. Several units of the United States army is being loaned to the Pathe- Bray Productions, a film company, to were-drawn bourgeois elements hos-} later a written reply rejecting in sub- | mentary duties of any Party member | Oa aim Walsh Opposes Governor Smith As a Candidate WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, — Al- though not mentioning his name, J. S. Senator Walsh of Montana, in a speech before the National Wom- en’s Democratic League, let it be known that he is opposed to the nom- ination of Al. Smith, governor of New York as a_ presidential Walsh, who was chairman of the last democratic national convention, de- clared that nomination by the demo- crats of an “outstanding wet” would defeat the party at the polls next year by injecting the wet and dry is- sue into the campaign. Criticizes Foreign Policy. In his speech Senator Walsh also demands a radical change in the for- eign policy of the government, de- claring that the United. States while not exactly hated by the world, is not regarded by any nation with any de- gtee of good-will. He also commented en the suggestion that the headquar- transferred from Washington to a South American city and declared that is a “protest on the part of Latin-Americans on what they regard as aggressions by, our government.” Charge Tax Cutters Got Hundred Dollar Bills From Wealthy WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15.— Half veiled charges that the state governors, legislators and judges brought to testify before the tax committee, were bribed by rich men anxious to have the federal inherit- ance tax revoked are contained in a “Fourthly, the Opposition proceeded | !etter from Representative-elect R. C. Johnson of South Dakota. Johnson refers to the “alleged ways and means committee” conduct- ing the hearings, because of his con- tention, also in the letter, that the committee is without legal authority to hold the hearings. The Lobby In Action. “In one of these cases before the alleged ways and means committee,” says Representativé Johnson, “per- tinent, evidence was secured with ref- erence to tax laws, in spite of the fact that witnesses, evidently well- advised as to their legal rights, re- fused to testify concerning a well financed anti-inheritance tax lobby. Says $50,000 Was Paid. “Had this committee possessed legal powers it could undoubtedly prove that the pay-off man of this group at the Raleigh Hotel recently had approximately $50,000 in hun- dred-dollar bills and paid off those hired to be in Washington to make the demonstration before the alleged committee. Had it legal powers it could have shown that approximately $8,500 was paid to Oregon men alone and $700 to one man from Arizona. About $500 was, as can be shown, paid to men from my own state of South Dakota, who were brought here to convince the alleged commit- tee that that state desired repeal of the inheritance tax. “Tt could have been shown that $100,000 was contributed to this fund by one Montana corporation or indi- viduals interested in it.” Work Daily for the Daily Worker! POST CARDS — BUTTONS MEDALLIONS — PHOTOS R your correspondence-—why not use a revolutionary post- cord? Send them also to your friends for propaganda purposes! 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SARA et tev ed Rae Sat at Ne candidate. | ters of the Pan-American Union be | Labor Defense to Wage| | Waron Frame-up | | (Continued from Page One) fight to release all the class war) | prisoners now confined in the prisons of American capitalism. Special at- | tention was given to those labor men | whose cases have almost beer for- |gotten by the labor movement and | who must still serve long terms, some of them for life, for their activities in the working class movement. To all the men in prison, the conference sent warm greetings, expressing its hope | that they would be speedily released | to resume their place in the move- |ment from which they were snatched | | by capitalist jailers. | Support was also pledged te con- tinue the policy of the I. L. D. in ex- |tending fraternal aid to workers in other countries who are victimized and persecuted for labor and revolutionary activities, The reign of terror that exists in such countries as Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, J ug o-Slavia, Italy, Spain, Hungary, China and elsewhere was vigorously denounced by the conference in a special resolu- tion. 7 Debs-Ruthenberg Deaths Labor's Loss Separate resolutions were adopted on the death of Eugene V. Debs and C. E. Ruthenberg, both of whom were members of the National Committee of International Labor Defense. “The working class movemerit, and the I. L. D. in particular, suffered a great loss in the death of these two fighters whose militant and unyielding sup- port of the deathless cause of labor brought them so often to the capi- talist prison cell,” said the confer- ence, The conference also pledged itself to fight in the spirit of the martyrs of Boston and Haymarket. “When the names and memories of their executioners shall long have been forgotten, or recalled only to be scorned and hated, the names of Saceo, Vanzetti, Parsons, Spies, Engel, Fischer and Lang will still be deathless. They are an immortal guide to the struggling masses, and a con- stant source of inspiration.” Greet Colorado Miners. | The Colorado striking miners were greeted in one of the resolutions adopted, and the best wishes of the conference sent to them for speedy and victorious conclusion of the strug- gle against the Rockefeller Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. ‘e The conference also reaffirmed the resolutions and decisions of the previ- ous conferences, instructing the in- coming executive committee to fol- low the same main line that had been followed prior to the conference. A special resolution for the establish- ing and building of a permanent bail fund was also adopted. Support Greco and Carrillo. Resolutions calling for more en- energetic support to the official organ of the I. L. D., the Labor Defender, and for better organizational pro- cedure and structure, were also adop- ted. The case of Greeo and Carrillo received special attention and the ef- forts of the I. L. D. pledged for their swift vindication and release. The case was compared with that of Sacco and Vanzetti. The conference also sent telegrams of greeting to all class war prisoners, to the Colorado miners, and to the chairman of the I. L. D., Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, whose illness prevented her from attending. * * 4 Adopt Manifesto. The Conference, at the conclusion of its sessions, also adopted a mani- festo addressed to the working class of the United States, ‘reading as fol- lows: MANIFESTO OF THE THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF IN- ‘TERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE “The capitalist class of America has imprisoned and murdered many members of the working class of this country. The memory of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti is still fresh in the minds of the workers of the world. These two noble heroes of the working class were burned to death in the electric chair solely because of their unswerving devotion to the cause of labor’s freedom. The martyrdom of these two rebels is an urgent ap- peal to all the workers to organize their determination to fight against the repetition of such a frightful ex- jample of capitalist ‘justice.’ ” | Prisons Filled with Labor Fighters. “Dozens of American workers are today languishing in prisons from jcoast to coast for their activities in the labor movement. ‘Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, innocent men of labor, have been buried for ten years and more in California peniten- tiaries. In Walia Walla prison in Washington, eight members of the I. W. W. of Centralia have suffered for eight years for daring to defend their hall from the brutal assault 6f Ameri- can legionnaries. In New Jersey's prisons almost a dozen of the textile workers of the Passaic strike must rot for years as a symbol of the vengefulness of the mill barons. “In other parts of the country the prisons of capitalism have also been filled with working class fighters. Sacco-Vanzetti Frame-Up Victims, Sacco and Vanzetti were victims of the frame-up system. This in- famous system has already claimed Many fighters, and it is already reaching out for more. In New the two Italian workers, Tver Carrillo, are being dragged along the same road of terror and death that ended in the electrie chair for Sacco and Vanzetti. In Cheswick, Pennsyl- vania, twenty miners have bee: - dicted for participating in a aioe. Vanzetti protest meeting, which was brutally attacked by the notorious Pennsylvania Cossacks. In New ‘York, the cloakmakers and furriers ~ Rayon Workers of Bemberg, Tenn, on Strike Once More) ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., Nov. 15.) —Three hundred of the workers at’ the Bemberg Works (rayon) of this city are on strike, and efforts are be-| ing made to tie up the entire mill em- | ploying 1200 men and women. Conditions in this mill are abomin- able. The bosses do not know waat humanity is. They work the men 66 to 72 hours a week at wages of 28 to ents an hour. The girls and wom- en work 10 hours a day, and 56 hours a week. They begin with $8.96 for’ 56 hours, The average séale for women is 20 cents an hour after they learn how to do the work. Living expenses, on the other hand are as high as in the big cities. Board and room cost from $7 te $10 a week. Unhealthy Work. The work is unhealthy for the women, and many of them get tuber- culosis. But there is a vast reservoir of workers in the hills of Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky to draw on—innocent, ignorant “hill-billies,” who are being turned into industrial slaves, The workers in this plant have struck before. Last spring they were on strike, but after three days went back defeated. This time they are demanding 8 hours work and higher pay. They are trying to form a local union and hope this time that they will win. Up to the present only 300 have gone out, but these men and women are doing everything possible to get out the 1000 others. When workers begin to strike in the south—and twice within a period of a few months ,then there is hope for the American workers. Anniversary Meetings Will Last Thruout the Month; Here Are 2 More The celebration of the tenth anni- versary of the Bolshevik revolution by the American workers will last for almost an entire month. Many meet- ings have been arranged for the next two weeks. Meetings will be held in the following cities of Washington and Maryland. Washington, Nov. 25, 8 p. m. Play- house, 1318 N St. N. W.; W. W. Wein- stone, speaker. ‘ Baltimore, Noy. 20, 8 p. m., Hippo- drome Theater, Eutaw and Baltimore Sts.; Jay Lovestone, speaker. ee) must still run the gauntlet of the courts for their courageous resistance to the efforts of the employers to lower their standard of life. In Colo- rado the jails are already choked with striking miners who dare to fight against the Rockefeller interests. Not a day passes without the news of another attack against the work- ers. Injunctions against labor and its organizations, laws "against picketing, police brutalities, the corrupted courts and the kept judges, the criminal syndicalist laws, the immigration de- partment and the department of “jus- tice”—all of the governmental ma- chinery of the ruling class—are all mobilized to railroad to prison or death the best workers. The new struggles that are already visible on the horizon will bring with them an even greater number of victims of the class battle. Urge Fight on Frame-up. “All of these workers must be sur- rounded by an army of dabor that will keep them from the cynical brue tality of the capitalist class. The en- tire working class of this country must be aroused to the menace of that already well-established Amer ican institution—the frame-up sys- tem. Its organized strength must be directed toward preventing the im- prisonment of workers for their po- litieal or economic opinions or activie ties. “We must build a movement of ae bor solidarity for those workers i prison and those who are being groomed for the penitentiary. The labor movement must fulfil its duty to the men behind the bars. It must swing open the doors that confine these men. It must aid them and their dependents with relief meage ures. It must fight with its entire energies for their release so that they can be weleomed back into active ser vice for the labor movement. Build Defense Movement. | “The Internaticnal Labor Defehse, which for more than two years has worked to build a class movement for labor defense, on the basis of non- partisanship and unity of all forces, calls upon the’ workers of America to rally its great power for this move+ ment. The I. L. D. seeks to build a movement to serve as an arm of the working class. It is becoming @ shield of the labor movement. “We call upon the workers of America to join in the fight for the release of Tom Mooney, Billings, the Centralia, I. W. W., the Passaic strik~ ers and all other imprisoned labor fighters from prison. All workers, irrespective of their opinion or af» filiations, must join in the great movement of solidarity for this strug- gle. “Build a wall of labor defense against the frame-up system! “Fight for the release of all the class war prisoners!” GET A NEW READER! BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! _ — i ECE OE oost Ram 2 NRCS