The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-24
MAYOR D. HOAN
DENOUNCES THE
PASSAIC TERROR
Sinclair, /. w. w. and
Others Join Protest


Following closely upon the heels Of
the endorsement given by the Amerl-
can Civil Liberties Union to the Pas
sale Defense United Front campaign
of the International Labor Defense
comes a telegram of solidarity from
Daniel W. Hoan, socialist mayor Of
the city Of Milwaukee, the second teIe-
gram from prominent socialist party
leader In a couple Of days, the first
having been Congressman Victor l..
Berger. Ef tB 15
!; Hoan's Message.
1.-THE highyhanded methods Of the
executive and judicial officials who are
dealing with the Passaic strike, its
leaders and speakers" wires Hoan,
sis an outrage upon decenoy. Nothing
but slavish subserviency to vested
interests could induce such brutal con-
duct. This is in sharp contrast to the
peaceful conditions existing in Mil
waukee. The bill of rights means
nothing in the Passaic strike district
This condition will continue so long
as the workers fail to organize polit-
zeal party for the purpose of having
some voice in governmental affairs"
Sinclair Wires.
Upton Sinclair, the internationally
Famous novelist, and Kate Crane Gartz
Of California send a message: Some
body ought to point out to our indus
trial masters what very serious
thing It is to let the workers under
stand that they intend to use poison
gas bombs against women and chill
dren demanding living wage. This
IS the message now going out from
Passaic to all America"
Austin Lewis.
The famous western labor lawyer
and writer, Austin Lewis, who worked
in the cases of Ford and Suhr, tele-
graphs:
ARREST of leaders in the Passaic
strike is proof of the control Of author
ity by the factory owners and their
determination to crush freedom of ex-
preston and the right to strike. All
labor and liberal organizations thru
out the country should combine in an
effort to defeat this latest manifesto
ton Of American fascismo. Freedom
to strike is as essential as freedom of
speech or of the press. Passaic is now
the pivotal point of progress in the
United States"
David Rhys Williams
The Reverend David Rhys Williams
of Chicago sends a message of greet
ing in reply to the statement of the
International Labor Defense: 1.-THE
Mussolini tactics of big business and
lawless officials has got to be stopped.
The cowardly un-American arrests of
the Passaic strike sympathizers is a
challenge to all liberty-loving Ameri-
cans, regardless Of political faith"
Wobblies Join.
The Industrial Workers of the
World, thru their general secretary,
John Turner, and their general de-
Tense committee thru its secretary,
Edward w. Andersen, sent joint
message:
"The arrests and brutal beating of
pickets and strikers, and the failing
of strike leaders, including Albert
Weisbord, Norman Thomas, Robert
Dunn and Esther Lowell, abrogate
every principle of civil liberty and
set up in supposedly civilized state
a reign OF police and judicial terror
ism more barbarous than that which
made the old tsarist okhrana a stencil
in the nostrils of decent human be-
ings. The free speech struggle in
Passaic must be fought to a finish and
won as an imperative tactic of indus
trial welfare"
Unity Campaign.
Reports from New York indicate
that the campaign for united action
initiated by the International Labor
Defense is gaining an enthusiastic re-
Spouse for the purpose of uniting all
forces acting in the interests Of the
defense of those arrested.
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