The daily worker., 1926-09-09

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ers and dozens of other large
and small cases.
Resolutions protesting against the
white terror in Poland and demand
ing the grant of general amnesty to
the thousands held in prisons there,
resolutions on the three appeals now
before the United States Supreme
Cout in the cases of Ruthenberg,
Whitney and Fiske, a statement
pledging renewed support of those
class fighters still in prisons in the
United States and the victims of
American imperialism in Latin-Amer-
lea were unanimously adopted by the
conference, delegates to which were
present from points so divergent as
Boston, New York, Philadelphia. San
Francisco. Oakland, Seattle and Cal
weston, Texas.
Adopt Program for New Year.
With enthusiasm the conference
adopted program for the coming
year for an intensive organization
drive to secure an individual member
ship Of $4,000 and a collective mem
-bership Of 250,OOO. under the direc-
tion of the new national executive
committee which now includes such
well-known labor fighters and pro-
gressives as Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,
Albert Weisbord, Charles Cline, Clar-
|ence Darrow and H. w. L. Dana. 4
The conference, opened by the sec
retary Of the |. L. D., James P. Can
non,' elected Edward C. Wentworth
rs temporary chairman, who turned
over the gayel, after the credentials
Of all the delegates had been accepted,
to the permanent conference chair.
man, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who had
just come from the Passaicn strike
field. Wentworth and Ralph Chaplin
were chosen was yice-chairmen and
George Maurer, Chicago secretary OF
|. L. D., was made secretary Of the
gathering.
The report Of the executive commit
tee on the work of the past year was
then given by James p Cannon. He
reviewed the growth of the organiza-
ton in the past year, the difficulties
1t had to meet, the bad defense or
ganizational traditions it had to over
come in the process of work, and the
doubts in the minds of many workers
which it had conquered by making
deeds out of the words of the resolu-
tions Of the first conference a year
before.
With facts and figures he traced
the campaigns conducted by the In
ternational Labor Defense in its first
year. indicating always the fact that
/. L. d. constantly maintained it's
standard Of nonpartisan and united
labor defense. In the defense Of the
Pittsburgh Communists, the Fall
River anarchists, the Zeigler miners,
the Passaic strikers, and its work for
numerous members of the l. w. W..
the American Federation of Labor,
for Sacco and vanzetti, l. L. D. had
lived up to the aim IT had set at the
frst conference tgS@,3
Maintains World Solidarity.
The organization had also main
tanned the spirit Of international soli-
darity to which IL had pledged itself.
The campaigns for class war victims
in Hungary Luthuania, Poland, Brit
ain and other lands was testimony
to this. And the reciprocal aid OF the
workers In other countries to the cam.
paign for ,Sacco and Vanzetti con.
Quoted here was adequate proof OF the
value Of worldwide labor unity.
Comrade Cannon then analyzed the
growth Of the organization, with ng.
nres which showed that the member.
ship In the last six months OF the year
had doubled over the figures for the
first six months. Not only the sales
OF dues stamps, but the sales OF 1T
erature had increased decislvely. A
careful compilation revealed an ndl.
vidual membership Of some 10000
workers in over $50 branches, and
collective affiliated membership OF be-.
tween $4,000 and 100000 members.
But what had been done up until now.
said Cannon. was as nothing com.
pared to what might have been ac-
s'F:a7lisc-1- The organization was
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