The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
MISSES, POLICE
TRYING TO FRAME:
0HLER, OTHERS
Workers Party Rouses
Workers to Union
(By a Worker Correspondent

NAN SAS III Y, Kan. by MAIL
With the hearing for Hugo Oehl-
er, Nelson S. Yocum, f. B. East
wood and Sam Kassis, charged with
he violation of the Kansas State
Criminal Syndicalist Law, starting
Monday, l p. m. at the state court
house, there are practically no new
developments in the case of the
packing interests against the Com
nunist Party.
While only these four are indicted
for the violation of the syndicalist
code of the state there are six
others who are charged with va
grancy and against whom other
charges such as the syndicalist law
Or of a similar character will be
brought. The persecution and
he frame-up of militant workers
and Communists was carefully
planned by the company and gov
eminent officials. When the raid
on the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting,
which was held under the auspices
Of the International Labor Defense,
at Shawnee Park in Armourdale,
Kansas, the police had about a dcz-
en- spies, stool-pigeons from the
packing houses, and detectives all
clad in overalls, planted in the
crowd. At the same time higher
company officials and police in
plain clothes, headed by Beatty, cap
ain of the police force, were hiding
curing the meeting in the bushes.
When the meeting was finished
his aggregation reinformed by fiji
teen policemen in uniform descended
pom the meeting and began the ar
rests.
Oehler and E. B. Eastwood were
he first ones to be arrested, then
l~assis and Nelson S. Yocum, while
he stool-pigeons began to round up
The audience. Among the arrested
were mothers with their children,
Who were released after a protest.
Tt is important to note that Beatty
referred the protesting mothers to
he company official who evidently
was conducting the raid. The po-
Ice were careful to exclude Ameri-
can born workers and arrested only
those who looked like foreign-born
workers. When the arrested were
brought to the Jail they were
charged with vagrancy and released
ender a $500 bond. Meanwhile the
olice, the county and district at
torneys, were busy in formulating
the charges.
On Thursday afternoon it became
known that Hugo Oehler, district
organizer of District 10 of the
Workers (Communist) Party, and
Nelson S. Yocum, E. B. Eastwood
and Sam Kassis were indicted under
he criminal syndicalist law.
Hugo Oehler made a TRADE
,aainst the government in which he
said that Sacco and Vanzetti were
murdered by the capitalists and
their government, and that the
workers must organize in order to
prevent further occurrences. This
is seditious, according to the hard
boiled government officials, who re-
ceived their education while in serv-
ice Of the Armour Company. Then,
according to police statements,
Oehler urged to have the conditions
reversed and have the laborers kill
the capitalists. 1t is evident that
the stool-pigeons of the Armour Co.
will testify to statements that
Oehler never made and on the basis
of his speech at the Sacco-Vanzetti
meeting they will try to railroad
him.
More Grimes"
z. B. Eastwood, who is secretary
organizer of the Kansas City branch
of the international Labor Defense,
is also indicted on the same charges.
His crime consists in making an an
nouncement after the meeting of
some picnics and other 1. L. D. af-
fairs. So this is termed assisting
Hugo Oehler in organizing, teach
ing, preaching sedition, violence,
etc, against the government. Sam
Kassis, a member of the l. L. D.,
was, according to the police, dis
aributing the Labor Defender, the
official organ of the 1. L. D., and
other l. L. D. literature. This, too,
is a seditious act against the gov
eminent.
The Packing House workers who
were arrested at the Sacco-V anzetti
meeting in Armourdale are now be-
ing urged to turn state evidence
against Hugo Oehler and the others
If they fail to do so they will be
faced with the prospect of being
arrested on the charge of belonging
to the Communist Party and will
also lose their jobs.
Meanwhile the persecution of the
Communist Party and other militant
workers is the most "going" sub
ject of discussion, not only among
the Packing House bosses, but also
among workers in other industries
TIE workers know that the Com.
rnunists are prosecuted because they
are fighting for the interests of the
workers against those of the bosses
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