The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-28
Union Square Meeting Rallies N Y. Workers
To Support of the Colorado Strike Struggle

their wives and children at Ludlow,
Colo, in 1914. He told how kerosene
was poured over the miners tents
and then set on fire.
List of Speakers.
Other speakers included Pat De-
vine, of the International Labor De-
tense; Max Rose of the l. W. W.;
Harry Meyers of the /. w. W.;
William w. Weinstone, district or
ganizer of the Workers (Communist)
rarity; Bert Miller, organization sec
retar% of the New York district of
the Workers Party; D. Benjamin, as
sociate director Of the Workers
School; Ludwig Lore, editor of The
New Yorker Nolkszeitung; Pat Too
hey of the United Mine Workers OF
America; Y. S. Van Valenbergh, an
archist group; and Juliet Stuart
Foyntz OF the Workers Party.
Many Banners.
Slogans around the stands said
eve Protest Against the Colorado
Assassins"; The Miners Were Muir
dered Fighting For Living Wage;
"The Workers of New York Pledge
Support to the Colorado Miners"
Labor is Stronger than Machine
Guns" and working Women are
Being Shot in Colorado"
A hundred five policemen, includ-
ing 10 mounted men, commanded by
Deputy Inspector Mcneil, and Is
members of the bomb squad headed
by Detective George Mccartney, were
assigned to the meeting.
1--WE don't want any parades start
ed" Detective Mccartney said.
A resolution of protest addressed
to Gov Adams of Colorado by tele-
gram is now in the governors office,
according to a dispatch last night.
The resolution said:
Want Thugs Disarmed.
"We thousands of workers assem-
.bled at Union Square in New York
in mass meeting emphatically pro-
test against the outrageous and I'M
warranted murder of workers exer-
clslng their rights of peaceful picket
ing and we demand that those guilty
of perpetrating this crime be i'm
modiately and adequately punished.
I'VE further demand the immedi-
ate withdrawal of the armed forces
of the state of Colorado from the
strike zone and the disarming of
the private armies of thugs. whose
presence in the Colorado strike re-
glons is for the sole purpose of in
tImidatjng miners who are exercising
their right to organize"
A representative committee of
seven has been formed to direct the
gathering of relief funds and clothing
for the Colorado strikers, as a result
of conference at the Labor Temple.
Second Ave. and F. 18th ST, attended
by 35 delegates representing the
Workers (Communist) Party, the. In
dustrial Workers of the World. the
international Labor Alliance. the
Furriers' Union Joint Board. the
Cloakmakers' Joint Board, the Anal
gamated Metal Workers and Anal
gamated Food Workers Union, the
Architectural Iron and Bronze Work
ers' Union and other labor and liberal
organization. William F. Dunno, of
the Workers Party, urged that the
conference constitute itself provis-
ional body and call a larger confer
ence to direct relief not only for the
Colorado miners but for the striking
miners Of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
This plan was rejected, with Harry
Meyers, of the New York Industrial
district council of the I. W. w., lead
ing the opposition.
The committee of seven consists of
Jack Walsh, Charles Cline, Lore,
Felix Matson. Frank Ralheu Iam-