The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-13
Bio Business Backs Prosecution.


with which to dope the workers.
Big Business Backs Prosecution.
For this "blasphemy" of god and
the church he was arrested on
charge of sedition which was later
changed to a charge of blasphemy by
one of the Lithuanian nationalist or
CARNATIONS. The employing class Of
Brockton and vicinity is very much in
terested in this case and the Douglas
Shoe company, the Diamond Shoe Co.
and a number of other manufacturers
and Mayor Harold D. Bent, leading
Brockton merchants, members of the
Knights of Columbus cardinal O'Con-
nell assembly as well as the clergy
and the Lithuanian red-baiters are
united to see Bimba sent to Jail on
this charge. A number of the dis
credited red-baiters are panhandling
among the business men to raise a
fund to fight radiealism.
If the employers are successful in
their attempt to send Bimba to Jail
for the violation of this relic of the
matchmaking days of the ancestors
OF the likes of strikebreaker Coolidge,
they believe they will be able to ar
rest labor union organizers in this state
and Jail them on frame-up charges
of blasphemy. Not only will labor
union organizers be framed and ar
rested ON this charge but even pro-
minent scientists such as Luther Bur
bank had better stay away from
Massachusetts. The modernists, who
do not want to be so credulous as to
believe that Christ was the son Of
virgin and the holy ghost will also
find themselves on their way to Jail
if they express their opinions in Mas
sachussetts.
The International Labor Defense is
handling the case and are determined
to push it to the highest court.
Jam Hall to Protest Arrest.
Over one thousand workers jammed
the Lithuanian Hall to protest against
the arrest of Bimba. Bimba in a
speech in English told the assembled
workers that this was a conspiracy on
the part of the tyrannical government
Of Lithuania to silence workers not
only in Lithuania but in other coun-
tries who dare to expose the nature of
the government. His speech was in
terrupted at many times with ire
mendous applause. He read a number
of documents in which the tortures
that political prisoners were forced to
undergo in the prisons of Lithuania
we're wildly portrayed.
He pointed out that the corrupt
clerical officials of the Lithuanian gov
eminent depend on the sums collected
in this country to maintain them
selves in power and called upon the
workers not to contribute to, the sup
port of the Lithuanian clerical gov.
eminent. :.
Jack Mccarthy and Bert Miller of
Moston were the other two speakers
at this protests meeting.
Only one previous case is known to
have been tried under this law and
that in the case of Albert Keeland, an
editor, who served 60 days in Jail
after the supreme court had upheld
the law but cut his sentence from
three months. Keeland acted as his
attorney and pointed out that the law
confiicted with the federal naturaliza-
ton laws which permitted Jew, Mo-
hammedan and Gentle to become
citizens but did not prevent them from
denying each others gods.
Workers Back !. L. D.
Lithuanian workers all over the |
country are raising funds to aid the
International Labor Defense push this
case to the limit and defeat the at
tempts Of the Lithuanian clericals and
social-democrats to terrorize workers
IN other lands.
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