The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-16

The delegates represented
members of workers benefit a
1900 members of permanent
branches of International Labor
Defense.
Henry Corbishley, the central
figure Of the cass Of the fifteen zeigler
miners now under serious criminal
charges in the southern Illinois coal
fields, reported on the frame-up he
and his comrades are now being sub
ieoted to. The conference pledged
its support to the hght Of the zeigler
miners and then and there raised
over 100000 for the defense fund.
To Raise More Than Dollars.
W. 8. Nilsson Of the Car
penters' Union brought out the
dynamic phase Of the I. L. D. Not
mere dollars, he said, are needed,
but while these are good to use in
the routine work Of paying lawyers
and gaining publicity, yet the function
of the l. L. D. is to raise the spirit
of the working masses, to bring the
collective force of wide masses into
action to demonstrate to capitalist
governmental oppressors that the
working class will fight solidly, unit
ed as one man behind Its spokesman
and fighters who are chosen as vic
tins by the master class.
With wide masses aroused and de-
termined the courts and other wolves
Of capitalist state power win hesitate
TO carry out their brutal desires of
framing up, killing and burytng alive
our brothers who fight in the front
ranks.
Victims Of U. s. Imperialism.
Max Hankin Of Local 1S9, Machin-
lists, spoke on the recent outburst of
brutality against the Cuban workers,
In which Jose Miguel Perez, the sec
rotary Of the Cuban Communist Party,
only Just organized. has been deport-
ed and the trade unions are being
viciously attacked
A resolution Of protest and pledg-
ing the support OF Chicago workers
was offered and passed. In which the
fact that American Imperialism has
practically usurped complete govern
mental power of the Cuban state, was
accented as a. special factor making
necessary the duty of American work
ers to combat the evil forces Of i'm
perialist persecution
The !. w. w. Fighters Remembered.
Fred Mann, member of the L L. D.
national executive committee, took
the floor to bring out the part Of the
I. W. W. as victims of class persecu-
tons. He wished to make clear that
he did not represent the ]. W. W. but
merely took part as an individual in
terested in class war prisoners de-
Tense, in this respect, however, rep
resenting a certain sentiment among
the membership Of the w. W. There
ware about 100 good revolutionary
fighters in prison in this country,
where we have an American counter
part Of the white terror Of Europe.
The European workers have suffered
CHASTITY prosecutions and stin suffer.
It is necessary that we give our ut
most solidarity to them
Here, particularly in California and
Washington, the L w. W. whose re-
cord Of revolutionary struggle is
known not only nationally but thru
out the world, the American white ter
ror has jailed scores upon scores Of
the most conscious fighters for their
GLASS. In California a worker needed
to commit no crime to 60 to. JAN. Mere
membership in the L W. W. sent
workers to prison for from one to
fifteen years.
The General Defense and the Cali
fornia Defense have done all they
could for these men and done very
well. But the I. L. d. with its init
mate connections within all labor and
radical unions thruout America could
do more, It could raise a huge cry
Of protest on a national scale in ex-
posing the tyranny that has sent
these these fine fighters OF the I. w.
w. into the hell holes OF California
prisons.
CentraIla tho Test.
The Centralia victims lying in