The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
EXPOSE KANSAS DRIVE
AGAINST COMMUNISTS

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duty, necessity, propriety, expedi-
ency or justification of a means of
accomplishing, effecting or bringing
about industrial or political ends,
change or revolution, and one Nell
son, S. Yocum, one Sam Kassin, and
one E. B. Eastwood, being then and
there voluntarily present in person,
did unlawfully, wilfully, and feloni-
ously assist and abet him, the said
Hugo Oehler, in the commission of
the aforesaid offense, with the in
tent to spread the same and did then
and there unlawfully, wilfully,
knowingly, openly, publicly, volun-
tarily, feloniously bring, have dis
played, circulate, distribute, give
and sell to various and numerous
persons, certain written and printed
leaflets, books and other printed
matter, suggesting, affirmative by
teaching and advising the necessary
propriety, expediency and justffica-
ton of doing acts of physical vio-
lence and the commission of unlaw-
full acts as means of accomplishing,
effecting, or bringing about indus
trial or political ends. changes or
revolution"
Evidence"
The "evidence" to prove this,
seized by the police at the two meet
ings they broke up, consists of 20
copies of the national election pro-
gram of the Workers Communist
Party, application cards for member
ship in the Party, book on Sacco
and Vanzetti by Max Shachtman,
copies of the Labor Defender, the
official organ of the international
Labor Defense, number of leaflets
issued by the nucleus of the Work
ers Party in the Armour plant and
similar material.
/. L. ID. Statement.
The statement of the national Of
flee of international Labor Defense
on the case issued by Martin Ahern,
assistant national secretary, says, in
part, as follows:
"The reactionary authorities Of
Kansas, alarmed at the growth of
the radical labor movement in the
state, and urged on by the Packing
Trust which is also dissatisfied with
the activities of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party whose members have
been agitating for union in the
plants of Kansas City, have taken
the first steps towards driving a
working class party out Of existence
in the state and railroading it's most
active members to long years of i'm
prisonment in the state peniten-
tiaries.
"The arrest of the dozen workers
in Kansas City, and the breaking up
of meetings in front of Armour's,
and the International Labor Defense
meetings in Kansas City and Arma
is indicative of the determination
with which the authorities lire going
about with their dirty anti-labor
work. The attack, directed primar-
lily against the Workers Party, is an
attack against legal political or
ganization, whose candidates for the
presidency and vice-presidency, Will
liam 2. Foster and Benjamin Git
low respectively, are officially on
the ballot in the state of Kansas.
The holding of political meetings are
supposed to be guaranteed by the
U. S. constitution.
Attack on Communists.
"The Kansas Criminal Syndical-
ism Law is one of the many adopted
throughout the country in a vicious
attempt to crush the labor and revo-
lutionary movement. In Kansas it
has already been used on numerous
occasions to imprison some of the
best militants in the state for no
other reason than their membership
in a labor organization and their
devotion to the cause of the working
class.
"The charges against the workers
arrested in Kansas City SINNERS
down to the crime of belonging to
the Workers (Communist) Party and
advocating its program, the pro-
gram of a legally recognized politi-
cal organization"
The International Labor Defense
then calls upon all workers to rally
to the support of the defense imme-
diately so that the authorities may
be prevented from sending innocent
workers to serve long terms of i'm
priscnmcnt.
All unions, and other labor organ
izations ere urged to adopt resolu-
tons Immediately calling for the re-
lease of the prisoners and for the
irnmAdiate reneal of the Criminal