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y formed NATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTO BER 29, 1929 WOULD GOLONIZE 100,000 WHITE GUARDS IN NIGARAGUA: PROMISES. PROFIT AND SAFETY TO YANKEES Czarist Officer Smells Chance to Shed Blood | of Latin American Workers Would Guarantee to Choke Nicaraguans’ Fight | for Freedom and Hold Canal BULLETIN. American imperialism, since “it WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—The | Would place in Américan ownership Navy Department here, in announe- | much land in the southern part o: ing that medals for U. S. Marines | Nicaragua where (he understands!) who have served are serving or will|the United States, will soon be dig- serve in Nicar@gua are being pre- | Sing 4 canal.” is pared, remarks that the medals are r The “count”, says that the “pres- ed before the armed occupation | ident” of Nicaragua has given “cor-| ‘ontrary to the custom in other dial assurance” that the white s, because “the present sit- | guards would be welcomed, and since caragua may continue |the U. S. owned “president” of Ni- This proves that the |Caragua never gives anyone assur-| ill continue op- |ance on anything without consulting sion of Yankee |the United States consul, it is cer- jtain that the Washington govern- (ment endorses the scheme. . i j fi The “count” incidentally gives a Holdingout to American imperial- an 1 ism the advantage of having 100,000 | description of the suffering of the ca white guard Russians in Ni-| White guards in Europe that would caragua to secure the proposed Yan] eacen the heart of any worker. kee canal ngainst any anti-imperial-|“They are becoming so desperate ist revolution and to act.as a horde| that an increasing number is driven of mercenary murderers of Nicara-|t0 suicide. There is no longer any guan workers and peasants who | Work for them in Germany. There is still resist the Yankee occupation, | money in the Balkans. In France Count Boris Jelita Dobrzynski, for-|the work in the devastated regions merly an aide-de-camp to the czar|'§ completed. There is little for them and organizer of counter-revolution |‘? do Kipp’ 8 ee aot ea in Southern Russia, has arrived in|Ployment at all,” is the “count’s New York to interest American im. | cheerful tale of the marvelous bene- perialists in a scheme to colonize | fits of Aiea which these as- Nicaragua with white guard re-|S#ssins fought for. fugees. . * * Nicaragua again came into the {news with the announcement that His scheme needs money—$5,000,-/one Tomas Soley Guell, who func- 000—but he promises rich rewards|tions as Wall Street’s financial) for Yankee capitalists. A company) handy-man around Central America, | with American directors is to be jis in New York looking for a loan From the 4,000,000 white| for Nicaragua among other of his now in European capitalist/tasks, Guell has been finance sec- 100,000 of the men, would | retary to Costa Rica to Wall Street’s colonized on fruit and coffee|entire satisfaction, arranging the in Nicaragua. They) Mortgage Loan Bank there ,and then would be indentured for five years | another one in Guatemala. Now he work there, and paid only half their is helping fasten a loan on Nicara- wages, to get the other half only by| gua, audit its old loans, and hold a remaining and obeying orders. \conferente “with the Nicaraguan The “count,” whose title is a bit! minister to Washington, a represen- upset by the Bolshevik revolution, | tative of the U. S. State Depart- Pp SOUTHERN COAL MINERS IN W. VA. AND TENN. CALL FOR THE DAILY Like the Mill Workers, They Ask That Daily Worker Be Rushed to Them (Continued from Page One) operators by the United Mine Workers, the coal bosses there have been enabled, in time of strikes in other coal states, to use the West Virginia miners as unwilling scabs. For these, miners, unorganized, were left at the mercy of the oper- ators, who brought conditions in the West Virginia fields down to rock bottom. This Morgantown miner tells of the need for the Daily, for the miners of Morgantown, Scotts Run, Osage, Everettsville, and scores of other West Virginia coal towns from Monongalia County in the North to Mingo and Logan in this southern part of West Virginia. “I gaye out copies of the Daily from time to time but neVer had enough to go around. Our fellow workers oughtn’t to let any such hing happen; they ought to see that there are always enough Dailies to give out to the miners here.” The letter from the miner of Soddy, Tennessee, tells the same story of corruption on the part of the United Mine Workers fakers, who, says the Soddy miner, have just concluded another sell-out agreement with the coal operators. The worker who writes from Soddy says that he gave out some copies of the Daily Worker in Elizabethton, to the rayon workers, also the victims of the A. F, of L. misleaders, the U. T. W.—and also looking to militant leadership—the National Textile Workers’ Union—in their forthcoming great struggles against slavery and terror. When the southern textile workers under the leadership of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, and the southern coal miners under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union begin their fight to the finish against their exploiters, will they have the Daily Worker as their mili- tant voice? That depends on the militant American workers! Rush funds at once to the drive to rush 10,000 Dailies South each day. ue ee Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. To the southern textfle workers and coal miners, calling for the leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union and the National Miners’ Union—and appealing for the Daily Worker, I send this con- tribution to the “Drive To Rush the Daily South.” that his is a bright idea for| ers.” Name Address .eccsceccesscnccccesssscsetoneecs City . ++ State . Amount $ I. L. D. Launches Drive (Continued from Page One) ifrin case, the Tapolschanyi the Wilkes-Barre sedition cad, the Salvatore’ Accorsi- case, the Wood- lawn sedition case, and a flood of others, too numerous to mention, are to the higher courts will cost $20,- 000 alone, -MAARINE WORKERS. s especial care to impress re-) ment ,and a representative of bank- | “The Chi@ago sedition case where 28 workers are held for member- ship in the Communist Party alone will cost $50,000 to defend. Five of the workers are under $15,000 bail each. The remainder are under $5.000 bond, “Then there is the case at San Bernardino Valley, California, where five women workers have been sen- tenced to ten-year terms for talking of the Soviet Union in a summer camp. “In the Mineola case, seven fur workers are coming up for trial charged with assault. Two of their comrades are serving two and & half to five-year terms, merely for strik- ing. “The Philadelphia cases—in which four workers face 5'to 20-year terms for distributing May Day leaflets. They are charged with sedition, Wil- Union organizer, is also framed up for murder. “The Bethlehem sedition case, the being defended by the Inte Labor Defense.” i ria Need More Funds. He stressed the absolute ‘urgency of more funds and of thousands of new members “‘to help the working- class wage a counter-offensive against the unprecedented wave of oppression.” Broader Gastonia Conferences. The national secretary briefly out- lined how the I. L. D, will carry through the drive, “By maintenance and by broadening all Gastonia con- ferences, under the leadership of the IL. D. These be made the basis of the ILD district conferences in Preparation for the Fourth Na- tional conference, Pittsburgh, De- cember 29-31. We must stress send- ing delegates to the fourth national conference. Broad Gastonia confer- enc ust be organized even in the smallest localities. While taking in all fraternal organizations, unions, ete,, definite orientation on work- fesence.” Horthy Won’t Discuss| Debts; But Bankers in| No Fret at Fascists \ Paris, Oct. 28 (UP).—Refusal of Hungary to discuss her obligations under the trianon treaty has halted | the work of the Eastern European | Young plan conference. It was feared the conference might break up. Polish Miners Demand Wage Raise by Nov. 3) WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 28 (UP). —Mine union leaders were reported today to have sent an ultimatum to the government and mine owners de- manding an increase in ‘wages before | Nov. 3 on threat of a strike Nov. 15. | GALL CONFERENCE (Continued from Page One) League to meet in the Port of San Francisco at 7 p. m., Saturday, No- vember 9 and to continue on Sun- day, November 10, 1929. The con- ference will be held at the Port of San Francisco and the delegates will be elected from and of ships, dock and fleet committees of longshore- |men and harbor, boatmen and from Marine Workers League. “Working conditions in the ma- rine industry, as in other industries, are steadily being worsened. On the | Pacific Coast, as elsewhere, the pre- |sent conditions aboard the ships are |intolerable. The Seamen’s Act is dead letter. On the Matson, Lucken- bach, Oceanic Oriental, and other lines, two watches ‘are supplanting the three watch system. On the steam schooners, seamen are forced to work the cargo. Not only is the wage scale far below that paid in 1920, but wage cuts are the order of the day. Vessels are put to sea | absolutely undermanned and inade- | quate crews are forced to work over- time, usually with no time off or no extra compensation. | “On the West Coast, the Fink | Halls, officially known as the Ma- rine Service Bureau of the Pacific Coast Ship Owners Association rules supreme, handling practically all | employment, Rationalization. “The rationalization drive in the | marine industry which has been well junder way since the world war, is |seen in the universal introduction of oil fuel, the Diesel engine, the Metal Mike, the automatic chipping ; hammer, the paint spraying ma- chine, etc. The introduction of these | labor saving devices has resulted in la terrific speed-up and mass unem- |ployment throwing thousands of seamen aml longshoremen out of iwork. We find, for instance, along the waterfront, that the gangs on the dock, deck and in the hold aver- jage from four to six men, while | formerly there were nine to thirteen jmen, “Commercial rivalry between America and Great Britain has ne- ver been at a more intense stage. |Because the sharpening struggles for world markets, fields of invest- |ments and raw materials, which in- jevitably result in war, both coun- tries, as are all the itnperialist pow- ers, are making frantic war prepara- tions under the cover of disarma- |ment schemes and peace pacts. At jthe same time the imperialis: in spite of their differences, are for- ming a united front to attack the Soviet Union, the first workers and peasants republic, where the work- ing class has introduced the seven- hour day and is upbuilding Social- j ism. “The rationalization drive of the shipowners, accompanied by their labor-smashing policies, is an in- separable part of the war-program of the employing class, as is the} | Naval Reserve system. This system} |has been passed in order to nrovide ja trained personnel available im- 2 {who could not remain president one BORNO AGAIN TO ELECT HIMSELF. HAITI PRESIDENT Hated by Haitians, He Is Kept by Marines PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 28.—The Haitian workers and peas- nts are indignant and becoming inced that only a genuine revolu- tion of the masses can oust the scoundrelly tyrant, Luis Borno, who calls fihself president and gets away with it by the aid of U. S. Marines. The cause of their growing indig- nation is the recent decree of Borno, that there will be no elections in 1930, as there was supposed to be; and it means that Borno will be} “elected” for another six years term by the automatic body called “the coucil o fstate” which Borno himself appointed. It is recalled that U. S. congress- men who visited Haiti a few years ago were impressed by the general hatred of the population for Borno, day without the U. S. marines. One congressman was amazed when, driven with Borno to the dock to take ship for New York, the coach- man took him aside and begged him to throw Borno overboard en route, offering in the name of a patrioaic {society a sum of money estimated to be an attraction to any congress- man. NMU CONVENTION READY TO FIGHT (Continued from Page One) locals of the N. M. U. on a dues paying basis, and to decide further steps towards tsruggle. The Belleville convention unani- mously adopted a resolution de- nouncing attemp ts by John Watt, national president of the N. M. U., to split the convention, and demand- ing that the national executive board of the union take action to immedi- ately remove Watt from office. The resolution stresses the very import- ant fact that in the National Min- ers’ Union no “leader” is going to be allowed to build a machine, or re- fues to carry out the policies of the rank and file, The convention de- mands democratic control, and not control by an individual, as Watt attempts. The Illinois district sev- ers connections with Watt until the natioanl board renders a decision on him, and meanwhile is going to expose his false policies, particular- ly his attempt to limit the struggle to a fight against the U. M. W. A. with the operators to be “neutrals,” his progra mof a split in the N. M. U.,*the miners’ own fighting or- ganization, and his general bureau- cratic methods. An official series of mass rallies for this purpose and ditions has already been arranged. Many Mass Meetings. There will be a meeting in Liv- ingston¢omorrow night, where Free- man Tohmpson and District Presi- niet seamen. Instead of organizing the seamen, the officialdom of the 1.S.U. busies itself with preaching craft skill, efficiency, and common inter- est with the shipowners, It concen- trates its activity in Washington on tryin gto get laws passed. It advo- cates abolition of Sea Service Bu- reaus and Fink Halls to be sup- planted not by union halls, but by shipping commissions! It pretends to be against the blacklist but in- stead advocates a government black- list. As a result of this, since 1921, the I.S.U. has decreased from a membership of about 115,000 to its present number of °5,000 scattered in 22-branches. Less than two thous- | mediately upon the outbreak of war. Already on the coast, the ships of Matson, Union Oil, L. A. Steamshpi Companies, etc., fly the Naval Re- serve flag. The Naval Reserve will agency against their fellow workers on merchant ships in time of strikes. Hoover and MacDonald may blind a part of the working class with their} fake peace talks but we seamen and longshoremen know that soon we will be called upon to face the sub- marines ,depth bombs, mines, aerial attacks, and poison gases in order to make more millions for Robert Dollar, U. §S. Steel Corporation, Standard Oil, ete. “The so-called International Sea- men’s Union, with its class collabo- ration policy, is nothing more than a strikebreaking agency. In this con- nection, however, we draw a sharp line between the officialdom and the membership. The rank and file of the I. S. U., for the most part, stand for organization, while the bureaucrats in control are engaged in misleading the union and in crush- ing all militancy on the part of the — shops must be developed. Mass meet: ings and demonstrations must reach ) their height toward the end of No- vember, immediately before holding the district conferences, I. L. D. Week in December. “The first week-of December will be an ILD week( to be featured by the most systematic house-house and shop collections yet organized. Dur- ng the second half of December, the ILD will arrange huge affairs, dances, concerts, bazaars, theatre performances, ete., a feature which also be used as a strikebreaking| With the exception of a few hundred and are in the Sailors Union of the Pacific. “The same picture is presented by the corrupt International Longshore- men’s Association headed by Ryan. members in Seattle and Tacoma on the Pacific, the I.L.A. is non-exist- ent. The extent to which the I.L.A. has degenerated may be judged by ius actions in San Francisco. Here, upon the recommendations of the executive committee of the ILA. Stir French to start the battle for better con-; |ports met for two days discussing IN THE SH OPS Inational Labor Defense yesterday, | declaring unswerving support of the |seven Gastonia textile strikers who |were sentenced to as high as 20 years prison sentences last week. By means of its intensified drive MILL § FROM WAGES Workers Up Against Polish (By a Worker Correspondent) EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (By Mail).—Easthampton is a town of about eleven thousand people, Most of them are workers. It is a textile own with four mills. There is only one moving picture theare which is of the old type, and hs no vitaphone; | tht represents the workers’ recrea- | ion in this town. The workers employed in the West Boylston Mills are the lowest paid | in the town :nd work the longest hours. The bsses of that mill are | using the old tactics of divide and rule. The West Boylston bsses are preparing for a cut in the wages and also to increase the hours of labor. The conditions in the mill are a8 fllows: All the night help have been laid ff indefinitely. This involves about 300 workers. In addition to that most of the Polish workers have been fired without notice. Many of them have received letters to leave the company houses in which they have been living for years. This means that the workers after working for the West Boylston for years, are faced with the proposition of living on the street or leaving the town, This is the reward of work- ers who have slaved for years in the West Roylston mill. Many of them face the prospect of starvingor leave the town. The bosses live on the sweat and agony of the workers. The Polish workers are being fired because they are fighters, The French workers are being used dent Voyzey of the N. M. U. will speak. Thursday there is a meet- ing in Taylorville. Friday in Gilles. pie, Jerry Allard and Pat Toohey, national secretary-treasurer of the N. M. U., will speak. Sunday after- noon in Springfield and Sunday eve- ning in Auburn, Toohey and Vice- President Boyce of the National Miners’ Union, a Negro miner, will be the main speakers. Additional Sunday meetings are scheduled for Panama, Collinsville, Harrisburg and other points. * * * U. M. W. A. Jails Militant. LIVINGSTON, Ill, Oct. 28. — Prompt action by the International Labor Defense, and the solidarity of the 500 members of Livingston local of the National Miners Union has rescued George Kidd, miner and ac- tive member of the N. M. U., at least temporarily from the jail, where United Mine Worker officials had him placed. Livingston local voted unanimous- ly last Thursday to leave the U. M. W. A. and join the real miners’ union, the N. M. U. Later, when officials of the Fishwick district ma- chine of the U. M. W. A. came to the hall to threaten them, they threw these fakers out by force. The U. M. W. A. then got out an injunction to enable the coal oper- ators to continue checking off the TEAL $ Company Gunmen to Awe Ry. Express Workers of Chicago (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO (By Mail.)—Changing the namie of the American Railway | Express Co. has not improved its | attitude toward the wokers. The Railway Express Exchange (its suc- cessor) has thrown aside all pre- | tense and given the worker to un- | derstan dthat they are slaves and j nothing more. | It has declared a martial law of | its own. The watchmen are no lon- ger the shifty eyed snooping “gum shoes” they once were. The more docile ones have been discharged and | in their places: we find the typical | corporation gunmen who wear their stars and guns where the boys can | see them. for 50,000 new members and by its growing united front, the Interna- tional Labor Defense is confident tha ta wave of unprecedented mass protest will sweep through the land and free the Gastonia prisoners, * men what to do and these instruc-| philadelphia Charge Dismissed. Rong eee soucwed out | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 28— The new company plionly shows | The charges against Herbert Benja- tht it intends to crush what little min, district organizer of the Com- sign of labor rganization thee is munist Pa Rudolph Shoan, L. among the express workers and re-| Lemley, F. } Cooper, B, Gil- duce them to a still lower degree of | bert, H. Bender and two other speak- slavery. It made these intentions ers at the Gastonia protest demon- plain soon after taking charge in| stration attacked by police here yes- March. It completely ignored the | terday wore dismissed. ‘The judge fact that its contract with the union expired in June. And up to the present time the union has been unable to draw the | company into negotiations on the subject cf a new contract. While the heaped maledictions and threats on the defendants but there were too many witnesses for the defense. The Philadelphia demonstration was a huge success, as after the police charged into the crowd at City company has made no outright de-| Hall Plaza, a parade was formed claration that it will not renew the|that marched singing and with contract it more and more infringes | flaunting banners all around the These gunmen, together with spe-|4 nthe rules of the old agreement. cial agents from the general office, | Those in charge around the depots rue the depots. Both are under the openly decare that the union must direct supervision of the superin- Plaza, and in sold ranks over a block and a half long through the streets and over to the Needle Trades tendent of terminals. | | Looking for petty thieves is only |tras working only a side line with these “dic Most | of their time is spent trying to find | some pretense for “turning in” an adverse report against some worker. These gunmen and special agents | also tell the Cspot agents and fore- against the Polish workers, About two weeks ago the doffers were notified of a cut in wages of 25 per | cent. The doffers walked out on strike. When the doffers came for | their pay they found that five dol- lars was missing from their pay. The doffers were then getting $20 a week, The doffers were working in No. 4 spinning department. The doffers are now working for a different mill. The bosses not content with mak- ing a cut in the wages, have the nerve to steal from the doffers $5 of their hard-earned money. This is a violation of the law. The National Textile Workers’ Union advises the workers to report to the union immediately. The union will do everything in its power to collect the money for the workers without cost or obligation that wa sstolen from you by the/ West Boylston. | | MILL WORKER. |The company fired Kidd, who was known as a leader of the miners. Kidd was then arrested, charged | with “stealing the charter and prop- erty of the Livingston local of the | \U. M. W. A”, an animal that had |become extinct. Kidd was let out on 1,000 bail, then given a hearing Friday and held for trial on the! same bail. This did not satisfy the U. M. W. A. and they had him ar- rested again, demanding that the bondsmen guarantee the production of the charter and property, The I. L. D. issued a leaflet ex- | posing the “injunction unionism” of | the U. M. W. A., and pointing out | that all workers must get behind | Kidd and the Livingston local, which | was fighting Lewis and Fishwick both, and their sell-out, wage cut-| ting program. It showed the close | ‘co-operation between the U. M. W } | A. and the bosses’ courts in Illinois. The result was the immediate re- lease of Kidd on the same bail, pend- | ing action by the grand jury in De- | men’s wages the U. M. W. A. dues. 17 and 18,.where 31 rank and file] delegates from the various eastern their problems and formulating plans for the launching of a new union. Z “In preparation for this new union the Atlantic Coast Conference set up a National Organizing Commit- tee and set dates for conferences on the Pacific and Gulf Coasts and on the Great Lakes. At the Trade Union Unity Convention held at Cleveland on August 81 where 690 delegates from shops ,mills and ships met to form a new revolutionary trade union center in direct opposi- tion to the corrupt A. F. of L. That the Marine Workers League will succeed in its task of organizing the seamen and longshoremen into a fighting industrial union is as- sured by its affiliation to the Trade Union Uity League and the Red International of Labor Unions, com- delegates from the Waterfront Em- ployes Associaton, company union, have been seated on the labor coun- cil. “The bureaucrats of the 1.8.U. and the L.A, with their strikebreaking tactics never have nor will carry on a real struggle against the bo: They fight to keep the workers de- videl and refuse to organize the un- organized, especially the Negro workers. “There is only one way in which the marine ¢! conscious workers can better their conditions—through a new union— a fighting industrial union, based on ship, dock and fleet committees and embracing all ma- ‘vine workers from all branches of the industry, irrespective of race, creed or color. i “It is in answer to this need of militant industrial organisation that the Marine Workers League has been formed. The Marine Workers, League, by organizing ship and dock committees and International Sea- men’s Clubs, in ports of New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Houston, ete, has laid the basis for a new union. “Another great step tof@ard in ’ can be the farewell to the delegates who are leaving for the national con- bi prised of sixteen million of the world’s organized workers which gives guidance and direction to the proletariat in its struggles the world over. “The M.W.L. hereby calls upon all marine workers on ships, docks, harbor crafts, to sen dtheir dele- gates to its Pacific Coast Conference which will take up the tasks of the seamen and longshoremen on this. coast and take up plans for the launching of this union. “1, Report on the marine indus- try and the task confronting the marine workers particularly on the Pacific Coast. * “2, Strengthening the Marine Workers League and biulding ship and dock committees as the basis for the new union. “8, The war danger and the struggle against it. “4. Building our national paper, The Marine Workers Voice; workers press, Labor Unity and workers cor- respondence, 4 “5, Election of members to the national organization of the M.W.L. “6, Election of West Coast Exe- cutive Committee. “1, The establishment of Inter- the direction was the holling of the Atlantic Coast Conference by the Marine Workexs League on August national Seamen’s Clubs in ports on the West Coast, “George Mink, Nationuj Sec’y.” WOODLAWN CASE Caribbean Red Aid cabled the Inter- el ace a li i lt Aa cember, APPEAL DENIED (Continued from Page One) Charlotte, wages and hours and mis- erable conditions of the workers in the Loray mill, in which Carrol had worked until the time of the now memorable strike of April 1. Si Gerson, organizer for the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, acted as chairman. A resolution was unanimously adopted denouncing the bosses’ at- tacks by means of courts and gun- men on the textile workers, It stated, in part: “We, workers of Atlanta, both black and white, in mass meeting assembled, here de- clare that we emphatically protest the vicious sntences given our fel- low workers, Beal, Harrison, Miller, McLaughlin, McGinnis, Carter and Hendrix by the bosses’ court in Charlotte, N. C. “We state that we recognize clear- ly that this is a blow aimed at the entire working class, at the right of the workers to o1 strike, and demend themselves, | “We pledge ourselves to work un- ceasingly until our fellow workers, | members and oganizers of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union are free, and to continue their strug- gle against the stretchout, long hours, pellagra and low wages.” Many Join. Many textile workers came up to the speakers after the meeting and | asked to be signed up in the union. | Other workers came and asked to be enrolled in the International La- | bor Defense; these included work- ers belonging to A. F. L. unions, The Negro workers, especially, were en- thusiastic, The N. T. W. U. is planning other meetings in Atlanta district in the very near future. | * e World Protest Grows. Weavers in Paisley, Scotland, | workers from Paris, from Buenos | be crushed. Those of the regular | Workers’ Industrial Union Hall at employees (of the workers are ex-| 89 North 10th St. during rush} The march took the police by sur- hors) who are not members of the | prise, and they were unable to stop union are urged by depot agents and| it. It is estimated that at least foremen to stay out of it. Shop| 20,000 workers watched it, many of stewards who make any effort to| them swinging in behind. Many in better the condition of the workers | the crowd joined the I. L. D. are promptly removed by the union | heads in response to pressure from | the company. (To Be Continued.) Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at ihe Enterprises! NEVER BEFORE HAS THERE BEEN SUCH A DRIVE AGAINST THE WORKERS AS TODAY Class Solidarity Calls You! The International Labor Defense has a tremendous burden to bear. It calls on the help of all workers. The ILD needs 50,000 New Members by January Ist, 1930 and hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend twenty cases of tremendous importance over the land. SEDITION CHARGES FRAME UP MURDER CHARGES ASSAULT CHARGES are brought out by the bosses to strangle militant labor in every city of the land. Glance at this partial list of cases the I. L. D. is defending GASTONIA—An appeal to the higher courts and to the Supreme Court will cost at least $20,000 and require tremendous mass protest. CHICAGO—28 workers are charged with sedition. $50,000 is needed to fight this case. It involves the legal- ity of the Communist Party and any other mili- tant working class organization. LOS ANGELES—Five workers have been sentenced to ten year terms for talking about the Soviet Union at a summer camp. We must get these workers out of jail. $10,000 is needed to fight this case. MINEOLA—Seven more fur workers are coming up for : trial. Two of their comrades are serving two and a half to five year terms. Shall the remaining seven go to jail, also, for striking? THE CENTRALIA WORKERS—Another case where eight workers have served ten years—railroaded to prison by the bosses. Shall they die in prison? PHILADELPHIA—William Streit, window cleaners union organizer is framed up for murder. Four work- ers face five to twenty year terms for distributing May Day leaflets, facing sedition charges. BETHLEHEM SEDITION CASE SHIFRIN CASE TAPOLSCHANYI CASE WILKES-BARRE SEDITION CASE SALVATORE ACCORSI CASE WOODLAWN SEDITION CASE What Is Your Answer? WILL YOU HELP THE I. .L D.? THEN JOIN AT ONCE! Raise Funds! Organize United Fronts! RAISE MASS PROTEST! Send Funds and Applciations for Membership At Once to INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE Ayres, Argentine and from the 80 EAST 11TH STREET, Room 402, NEW YORK CITY