The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-25
LOS ANGELES
WORKERS HURL
PRO-CHINA CRY
Voice Their Protest with
Cheers and Cash
BY FRAPIEsA.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Last night
Los Angeles workers, from the Old
and New World, assembled at Music
Arts Hall, 23S South Broadway, and
launched their protest against the bar
barous crushing of the Chinese peo-
pie by imperialist powers. They dem
onstrated that the bulldozing rulers of
this city, assisted by wave of hot
weather that has been flowing, as
from the mouth of hell, upon the
sweltering community have failed ut
terly to suppress the spirit of liberty
in them. Enlisted even unto death in
the cause of freedom, they hurled the
def Truth, crushed to earth, will
rise again!" They showed themselves
to be stronger and more determined
than before the recent anti-labor laws
were passed.
StaIwart Audience.
Men and women present were diff
ferent from those who usually attend
such meetings. They were on an av-
erage under 40 years of age. Ten
years ago such an audience would be
composed principally of industrial
derelicts who had learned their lesson
too late to profit by it. Last nights
audience indicated vast improve
ment in the working class of Los An
geles, showing that the stalwarts are
spending less time at base ball games,
prize fights, ETC., and more at the
struggle to save themselves from the
industrial junk pile The average
man in this audience would be physic-
ally a match for an enlisted soldier
and mentally much his superior
Absence of Mexicans.
Men and women from every impor-
tant county in Asia, Europe and Amer
lea were present but it was easy to
observe that there were few Mexicans.
To impulsive persons this might APP
pear to be discouraging. But it is ac-
tually gratifying. 1t shows an i'm
mense, fertile field that offers itself
for Development. There are 100000
Mexicans in Southern California, Ari-
IONA, New Mexico and Texas and
100000 of them are adults, the worst
exploited element, lacking only organ
ization to turn upon the exploiters and
square accounts. A9"
Mexicans form great potential fac
tor in the revolutionary. movement of
the Southwest, They are, by force of
necessity, Communists. If properly
approached and informed, they will
lend themselves to every manifesto.
ton against injustice. AT such meet
ing as that held last night they would
have been forceful participants.
But it is well to remember that q
reserve is essential and that the Mexi
cans are unframed industrial fighters
awaiting instruction. p
Four Organizations Call.
Representatives of the Kuomintant
(Chinese). Japanese Workers Associa
ton, American Civil Liberties UnioI
and Workers Party addressed the
meeting and voiced the sentiments o
these four organizations. Resolutions
uniting in one ringing protest the in
| dignation and resentment of the four
were approved unanimously by the au
dience calling for the withdrawal Of
foreign troops from China, for the abo
lition of extra-judicial powers of con
suls, for industrial justice, and for gen
eral reform in that country along line
of modern progress.
Funds were raised in short ordeI
for forwarding to the aid of tn,
Shanghai strikers. Cooperation o
the Workers Party of America will
the workers of China, as we'll as al
other countries, was pledged. Befor
the meeting terminated it becam
clearly outlined that nothing had beer
left undone to show the beasts of pre-,
of Imperialism that the workers o
Los Angeles are prepared to wag
war upon them in behalf of the OF
pressed anywhere and everywhere al
over the world.