The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-01

Workers In Pa. for, Defense
Andrew T. Mcnamara told the au-
dience how labor is prosecuted by the
steel barons Of Western Pennsylvania.
ut isn't safe to be in the labor move
ment in Pennsylvania. Any man at
all who is active in the workers move
ment there can be put in Jail legally
under our infamous, socalled 'sedition'
act. Dozens already have been. We
workers In Western Pennsylvania
look upon what the conference did
here today as a great boon. Perse-
cutions of workers in Pennsylvania
alone are sufficient justification for
the founding of the International La
Dor Defense"
Ovation for Bishop Brown
Bishop William Montgomery Brown
was given an ovation and his speech
partly humorous and yet expressing
the bishops sincere convictions con-
corning the struggle of the workers
against the domination of capital left
the workers and delegates present
with sense Of marked appreciation
for the bravery and spirit of the cour-
ageous old man who was recently ex-
PEELED by his church because of his at
tachment to the workers cause.
Chaplin Speaks for Prisoners
Ralph Chaplin spoke in behalf of
the 1913 class war prisoners in the
jails of the country. "If the workers
on the outside realized what it means
to those behind the bars to know that
meetings like this are being held for
them they would hold them every
night in the week.
Those of us who have been locked
up can tell you that you are doing a
great service for our imprisoned bro
theirs in uniting the forces Of the
workers movement to let them know
that you haven't forgotten them. And
we can appreciate too, the simple, but
to those in prison, highly necessary,
extension of a few ordinary comforts
such as tobacco and books"
Crowd Cheers GltIow
When Chairman Dunno introduced
Gitlow, whose conviction has been sus-
tanned by the supreme court of the
United States, the a-aience rose
and yelled for two minutes. when
that robed committee representing
Wall Street, the supreme court, hand
ed down its decision in my case say
ing that workers could be sent to jail
for being class-conscious and for hav-
ing opinions, it issued both. a warn
ing and a challenge to the workers Of
this country that they can expect no
quarter in the class war between them
and their exploiters," Gitlow began,
1.-THE conference that was held today
and the work that 1t accomplished in
uniting the bonds OF solidarity be-
tween all the various parts of the la
Dor movement for workers, defense, is
timely indeed and throws that chal-
lenge back into the teeth Of the
master class of this country.
I'VE are showing them here today
that we are prepared to meet their
vicious and poisonous propaganda,
their iailings and lynchings of work
ers, their laws and their injunctions
with a united front OF class conscious
workers prepared to fight them to a
finish"
Meeting Is Great Success
The success of the meeting was at
tested to by the fact that although
there were two thousand people jam
med into the hall and the meeting
lasted almost three hours scarcely a
person left until the rnish when the
audience filed out with cheers and ap-
plause for the speakers on the plat
form and for the International Labor
Defense.