The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
Current Events
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during the lunch hour l liked to listen
to the ironworkers discussing the case.
There was a fighting spirit among the
taken that spirit is rapidly reviving.
On the day Clarence barrow was ac-
quilted Of the charge of obstructing
Justice in the same case I saw Bos-
ton policemen throw their hats in the
air with joy. Discomfort had pene-
trated deeply into the social fabric
those days. The capitalists had not
yet learned to use the labor leaders
as they do now. American capitalism
was not so husky as it is now. It's
machinery, now well oiled, was then
creaking audibly.
THE working class can be reused
today to do its sadly neglected
duty to the class war prisoners.
There are scores of members of the
r. W. w. in California jails, for mere
membership in an organization, that
has constitution as constitutional"
as any A. F. of L. union. The bosses
of CALIFORNIA decided to crush the /.
w. w. in California because its mem
bers hit the boss where he can be
easily panied, in his pocket. 1t is
possible to talk about birth control,
osteopathy, the Abrams method of d.
agnosing disease, or a cooperative
commonwealth thousand years from
now to a capitalist without putting
him on his high horse but his bile be-
gins to rise when a worker tries to
make hole in his stolen profits.
THERE seems to be no logical rea-
L son why the workers should not be
able to make a united front campaign
to release the class war prisoners. 1t
makes no difference what organization
they belong to. They are our prison
ers, and it is the basest kind of deser-
ton to forget them. To refuse par
ticipation in broad movement to
free them because of differences of
opinion is a position that is hard to
justify. Prejudices are hard to over
come but the thot of over one hun
dred Of our comrades behind the bars
should be an effective antidote to
prejudice.
THE DAILY WORKER carried a
= very welcome piece of news last
Saturday, the news that Rangel and
Cline and four other fellow victims
are promised their freedom by the end
of this year. Why eleven more
months of agony? Haven't these rev.
olutionists already suffered more than
enuf? Most of you heard the story
of Rangel and Cline and their efforts
to free the Mexican workers and peas
ants from the clutches of Diaz and
Wall Street paymabters. Fifteen
years behind prison walls was the re-
ward of their bravery.
HISTORY is replete with such Incl
II dents. The road along which the
workers have travelled in their stumb-
ling, cropping march to freedom, has
been strewn with thorns. Next month
we commemorate the Paris Commune,
the first labor government in human
history. That heroic struggle was
drowned in blood and the victorious
capitalists that they had labor eter-
nally subdued when the guns of their
butchers moved down the flower of
the Partisan proletariat like grain be-
fore a scythe. But it was not to be.
The workers are destined to triumph.
They have a historical mission to per-
form: to build up new social order.
That mission will be fulfilled.
THE victorious workers and peas
L ants Of Russia today salute their
predecessors, the heroes of the Paris
Commune. The sacrifice Of the Com
munards was not in vain. Thru death
and destruction, thru terror and per-
secution thru hunger and sorrow,
thru strikes and lockouts, thru pris-
ons and torture chambers the workers
of the world will reach the goal. Our
class war prisoners are heroes of the
struggle. We must fight for them rs
they fought for all Of us, for all the
workers when they were in a position
to do so. They must be freed.
Russian /. L. d. Branch
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