The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
III. PROTEST

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| III. PROTEST /
CCREENED by uneven rows of trees, and set
y among we'll kept lawns stands the Dedham Jail.
Behind the green painted bars man will peer
occasionally at the clouds rolling in the distance.
An odor of freshness will breeze thru the barred
window to which he had become insensitive after
seven years of confinement.
Dedham, the seat of Norfolk County, is perfect
example of New England bigotry foreign prejudice,
intolerance, and labor hate. 1t stands with its
mented door knockers, brown shinged roofs, and
carefully cleaned streets as a symbol of the Anglo
Saxon Supremacy" which is threatening to
take us ALL
The man who after seven years still stands in
the shadow of the electric chair challenged that
supremacy. 1t not personal challenge mind
you, but part of the challenge the working
class is putting up everywhere. For that the aded
aristocracy of Massachusetts wants him to die, and
to legalize his execution they trumped up charges
of murder against him.
Elsewhere in the Bay State is the Charlestown
penitentiary. Here another worker is waiting the
same gruesome fate for the same challenge. The
faces of both are lined by the yellow prison pallor,
and the flesh under their eyes has that frozen look.
Both separated by space but bound together by
the same cause which ties them to the rest of the
working class.
On May Day millions of workers viii hold demon
strations for their freedom but their protests will
be futile as long the of workers hold them
IN their behalf only, Workers. II they are to hight
effectively, must stop thinking of themselves as in
divduals and begin to think in classes They must
realize that they are part of the working class:
The large family that Sacco and Vanzetti be-
long to- Only then will the workers succeed, where
law has failed in freeing them.
Nv. LABOR GIANT |
THE Fur Workers Union is young giant, power
full with the strength that comes of solidarity
This giant into being in May 1925, when, after
long and bitter campaign the left wing suppanted
the broken down Kaufman machine.
The left wing inherited union where gangster-
ism corruption, and graft rampant. The mem
bership terrorized at local meetings stayed away
in disgust. After systematic housekeeping at the
hands of the left wing the union took on new life.
Its enemies were being driven from the organiza-
ton, and in a short time there emerged from mere
name, strong, militant union. This was the young
giant in birth.
The following year general strike was declared.
1t is here that the adversary of the growing giant
combined with the A. F. of L. reactionary leaders
to stab him in the back. Together they plotted,
schemed, and finally reached secret agreement
with the bosses over the heads of the Strike Com
mittee. What followed is now history. Under the
dynamic leadership of Ben Gold the strike was
finally won.
Foes of the now powerful union increased. Fore
most among them the A. F. of L. officaldom.
Rumblings of unrest in the miners union, talk of
amalgamation in the needle trades forced them to
take drastic and unheard of measures to protect
their bureaucratic positions which the young giant