The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
The Treason of the Nine
Shoelnakers of Brockton
Grew Out of Nationalisrn
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

PICK up another --latest edition" Of one Of the many
Boston papers that pour in endless streams into Brock
ton almost the exclusion of the local kept press The first
to the Bimba trial reads follows:
YES he agftated for the people to organize"
1t the witness John Baonis talking BaIonis, the
renegade socialist! Baonis the ear-numbed shoeworker!
Douglas Shoe companys plant Baonis the stool pigeon
of his employers! Balonis, who has been in the United
States for o years. but who has worked for his boss so hard
that he hasn't had time to learn the English language
and must depend on interpreter to give his testimony in
court! Baons who is citizen of the American capitalist
republic because he took his first papers and then fought
In of Wall Streets This was but sample of the
prosecutor used trying convict Bmba of his real crme
in the words of BaIonis:
"Yes he agitated for the people to organized"
Any criminal charge good enough put
the gaor who dares urge the workers to organize behind
They charged that sacco and vanzetti were payroll
bandits They framed up charge Of murder against them
After years OF Imprisonment Sacco Vanzett still
before the electric chair in this because they
agitate for the workers to organize.
The of Merck be called again this week. Mer-
rick dared agtate for the organization of the
ers OF Haverhil, not far away. He also framed.
The nine of the factories of Brockton the
witnesses of the capitalist state said that Anthony Bmba
the Communist editor of the Lithuanian daily Lasve, of
Brooklyn NJ ~ had come among them telling of the cond-
lions in the factories of other cities he had visited
At HaVerhil, where the law took Merrick, Bimba had
seen the workers afraid to take their eyes off the machines
lest they lose few moments in their frantic piecewok
At Lawrence where the workers have ebeed time and
again and been defeated he found labor doing more
than three times much work for less pay than had pre-
Vousy received. -e-
In the mills Wilmington he had learned that Lithuan-
an women were beaten by the bosses in the mills
The nine Lithuanian shoe workers heard Binba tell all
this in his speech the Lithuanian National Hail. in Brock
ton Tuesday night Jan. 26th But their class spirit
dead that they permitted themselves become in the days
Immediately following the catspaw of the mill owners Off
ca prosecutors, who dragged 2oo years old
acted to protect the orthodox god the puans from the
attacks of unbeeves camouage for imprisoning the
Communist agitator of the year 1926
Some of them had by spark of the revo-
luton They had belonged to the socialist party the DAYS
before the BaIonis had marched in an international
May Day parade in Brockton in 1916
But the triumph OF the Russian and peasants
the white terrors reaction in Lhuana and of the American
capitalist rule under which they live.
The answer is simple. They Lithuanian nationalist
to the CORE these nine shoe workers. of paaed
for but short time conscious workers. who would
now rather support the cecaI-socalst terror regime in
Lthuana than Soviet republic established; who run to
aid the mill owners capitalist when they hear that
Communist agitatOr is abroad among the workers.
The story of these nine Lithuanian shoe workers of
Brockon teaches the lesson that chains of natonas
must be struck completely of labor before the
working class can struggle effectively for its liberation.
Nationalsm must be rooted lnternatonalsm must
be planted in the minds of the workers and grow
there instead.
Nine reasons Anthony w. Eudaco George A. Samp-
son. John Balones, Joseph Tranowcz Frank Ausow Carl
PIgoga John David, Mike Uzdavins and William SharEus
the nine Lithuanian shoe workers of Brockton Mass who
donned the hdeous mask their class in the trial
of the man of whom it said
he AGlTATED FOR THE PEOPLE TO ORGANIZED!