The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-24
WORKERS PICKET
AMERICAN sugar
TRUST OFFICES
N. Y. Labor Demands
Release of MeUG
tspeeIaI . Ths nsIIy workerl

especial 20 the Ralif WoFNeFl
NEW YORK, Dec. %, - over one
hundred and fifty workers pieketed
the American Sugar Refining COM
pany main offices at 117 Wall ST. at
noon today, demanding the release Of
Antonio MelIs, Imprisoned by the
Cuban government at the request Of
the American sugar interests thru It's
tool, Ambassador crowder.
Thousands Of workers were attract
ed to the scene by the signs that were
carried by the pickets. The district
became congested as the workers
milled around the pickets to be able
10 better read the demands on the
American sugar trust for the release
Of the Cuban labor leader who dared
20 organize the colonos against the
sugar trust exploitation.
The following slogans were carried
by the pickets:
Defend the Prosecuted Cuban Workers.
Down with American Imperialism.
American Imperialism Makes a Prison
81 Cuba.
Wal Street Is stransIIns the Cuban
Labor Movement.
The Antl-imperialist League Demands
the Liberty Of the Workers Champions.
mella Dies on Wall Street Lies the
Hail Julio MsIIa. cuba's Antl-ImperIai.
Jet Leader.
Freedom for Porto Rico, the Philippines
and the Virgin Islands.
The Monroe Doctrine Protects Latin
America from European Aggression. But
-4fr A m~t- g. AF-tt
Street?
Machado is Wall Streets Laekeyi
crowder Its Dictator.
Free Mella. Defender Of cuba's Sugar
Wall Street is killing julio A. MeIIa.
American imperialism Is cuba's Jaller.
The Cuban and American Workers
have the Same Enemies"
Melia Shall Not Be Murdered.
Free Melis, the Workers Champion.
The Workers Of America Demand
MeIla's Freedom.
Break the Prison Bars That Hold the
international Labor Defense is the
Workers Shield.
MeIla Shall Not Die.
Workers Of the World Unite.
An Injury to One Worker Is an Injury
American Workers Demand Freedom
for Meila and the other imprisoned
Workers.
The Blood Of Workers Champions
II Mella Dies the Workers VIII Lay
the Blame at the Door Of American Inn
periaism-
MeIla and II other Cuban Workers are
In Jail on Framed-up Charges.
The Defense Of Labor's Prisoners is the
Defense Of Labor's Vanguard.
The Sugar Trust Dictates TO Cuba.
The SUGAR interests Enslave Cuban
Workers.
MeiIs 4. t,,r-1,orsd nv Anar+, - ere
American Sugar Refining Company.
The Cuban Workers are Victlmized by
Wall Streets Greed.
Down With the American Sugar Re-
inning Company. It Ens'a*es Cuoa's
Toiers.
The mass picketing, which took
place in the financial heart not only
of America but of the world, was or
ganized by the AllAmerica Anti-Im-
perialist League, American section
and the international Labor Defense,
New York section.
kilograms were sent to Washing
ton, D. c., protesting the falling of
Antonio Mella and demanding his i'm
mediate release. The following tele-
gram was sent to President Calvin
Coolidge and the Secretary of State
Kellogg:
"The international Labor Defense,
New York section, in name of forty
thousand organized workers and af-
filIated organizations, protests
against Imprisonment of Mella and
twelve other Cuban workers in jail
on frame-up charges. MeIIa has
been on hunger strike for fourteen
days and Is now in dying condi-
tIon. If he dies Cuban workers as
we'll as their fellow workers in Am
erica will lay the blame at the door
Of American imperialism.
"Rose Baron, Secretary"