The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-31
THREAT or POST
OFFICE WILL Be
DEFIED; GOMEZ
Conference to Organize
Local Committee Called
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If the mails can be used to help
seamp out tuberculosis We insist upon
AZ right to use them to heip stamp
SAt Imperialism said Gomez, at the
New York headquarters of the or
ganiz&tiOn, 50 Union Square, We are
not frightened by the threat from the
pGst office department. and we shall
not surrender to IFS high-handed in
reference"
Form Committee Here.
Calling for Concerted action to de-
feat Wall S,reets war against Mic
aragua, . provisional New York
committee headed by ade-unionists,
pubicists and ex-soldiers yesterday
sent broadcast invitations to a local
conference TO be held Sunday after
noon, Feb. 10, at the Labor Temple,
z43 Z. saith St.
The conference will consider ways
and means to meet the Nicaraguan
situation" and will set up a perma-
rent New York branch organization
Of the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League, under the auspices of whose
national committee Socrates SANDING,
brother of. the Nicaraguan liberation
leader, made his first public appear
ance in this country.
Committee Members.
Among those signing the cali as
members of the provisional New York
branch committee Of the anti-imperial-
list league are: Capt Paxton Hibben;
Scott Nearing; Dr. Edward Chatfee,
director of the Labor Temple; Freda
klrchWay, managing editor Of the
Nation; John Dos Passos, author of
Three Soldiers" Darcy Milliken, of
Typographical Union No. 6; Dr. w. E.
B Dubois, executive officer of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People; Arthur Gar
field Hays, counsel for the American
Civil Liberties Union; Louis F. Blu
denz, organizer of the Knitgoods
Workers Union; Robert W. Dunn, au-
rnor OF "AmericaH Foreign Invest
nlents." and Gomez.
To Censor Letters.
According to information received
BY the Post Office Department, you
are offering for sale stamp reading
"troIest Against Marine Rule in
Nicaragua" which il is proposed shall
be pasted on the outside of mail, ="
Postmaster Kiely's letter to the
league said; "By direction of the
solicitor for the Post Office Depart
nent, you are informed that the pla-
cling of such stamps upon all mail will
bring it within the purview of Section
2l2, United States Penal Code, copy
Of which is enclosed herewith. Any
mail with such stamps thereon will,
therefore, be treated as unavailable.
Ask For Stamps.
"Ilease acknowledge the receipt Of
this letter and furnish several speci-
nfeps of the stamp using the enclosed
official envelope which requires no
postage"
The stamp, being sold in books, is.
about the size of a two-cent stamp.
The inscription is in black type on
yellow background,
The American Empire.
In Great Britain it is said that no
subject is sacred save the King and
the empire, Gomez said. "The
Emitted States has no king, but it has
am empire nevertheless, rapidly ex-
panding empire which is being built
up at the cost Of unreasonable saeri4
flces on the part of oppressed peoples
abroad and of workers and farmers
in this country itself. So dear is the
American empire to the hearts of the
powers that be, and so shaky is its
base, that they are extraordinarily
t0uchy about it. They dare not toll
crate the slightest criticism of it.
notwithstanding their pretense Of
democracy and free speech!
The reason the government is
afraid of protest against marine rule
IN Nicaragua is that the overwheim-
ing majority of American workers and
farmers are opposed to the war of
invasion which Wall Street and
Washington are conducting there
Z This is plainly indicated in the letters
alfd published statements of fathers
OF marines killed in action in Mic.
aragua.
Is Subterfuge.
Postmaster Kiely's letter to US as
serts that our stamps violate Section
~ OF the T. S. penal coda. This is
ridiculous subterfuge Section 212,
otherwise known as the obsconity law,
relates to matter OF an indecent, lewd,
iascivious, obscene, libelous, scurrii-
GUS, defamatory or threatening char
acter.'
STAMPS reading Protest Against
Marine Rule in Nicaragua could not
be- considered indecent even by an ex-
pert unless the point Of view be ac-
cepted that the presence Of the mar
ines on Nicaraguan soil is in itself
indecent. Nor can stamps calling for
protest be considered threatening.
Favor Marine Rule.
"Mr. Kiely's attitude must there
fore be based on the Interpretation
that use of the term marine rule is