The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
WORKERS JAILED
IN WASHINGTON
SEND GREETINGS
MINOR, Montana and
Tresca Speak

Several hundred workers, filling
Webster Hall, 119 E. 18th St., yes
terday afternoon denounced Musso.
lini's international terror and de.
manded the release of all class wal
prisoners in Italy.
The meeting, arranged by the
New York section of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Anti
Fascist Alliance of North America
was called especially to protest
against the recent execution in Italy
of Michele Della Maggiora, italian
Communist, and the murder in De-
troit of Tony Barra, anti-fascist
worker, by agents of Mussolini.
Telegram From Jailed Workers.
The three speakers, Robert Min
or, editor of the Daily Worker, V,
Montana, national organizer of the
Italian Bureau of the Workers
(Communist) Party, and Carlo
Tresca, editor of the al Martello, +"
each pointed out the international
character of the fascist terror and
called on the workers to fight re-
lentlessly against it. Minor spoke
in English, while Montana and
Tresca addressed the audience in
Italian.
Cheers greeted the reading of a
telegram of greetings from 29
workers who we're arrested at a
demonstration in Washington. The
telegram follows:
Twenty workers, arrested
at a demonstration before the War
Department for the release of John
Porter and against the imperialist
war, send greetings from the Wash
ington Jail to the New York work
ers assembled to protest against
fascism in America and abroad. The
workers of America will realize the
significance of the fact that today,
Armistice Day, when the United
States government is making mill
tary displays, workers demonstrate
ing against imperialist war are in
prison.
Signed for participating organ
izations and arrested members.
international Labor Defense,
Karl Reeve; National Textile Work
ers' Union, William Lawrence; ALL
America Anti-Imperialist League,
Paul Crouch; American Negro La
Dor Congress, Karl Jones; Workers
(Communist) Party, Herbert Benja-
min; Young Workers (Communist)
League, Clarence Miller; Young
Pioneers, Helen Colony"
Mussolini--Yellow Socialist.
"Mussolini started as a yellow So
cialist," Minor said in his speech,
'and he stands today as an example
to the workers of what yellow So
cialism leads to. The Italian work
ers in 1920 seized the factories, but
they left the government and the
army intact. Mussolini was able to
mobilize all the strikebreaking ele-
ments and with the financial help
of the American ambassador,
crushed the workers revolution and
established his bloody regime. The
Italian workers will never make
that mistake again. When they
seize the factories, they will also
seize political power; they will over
throw the capitalist state and estab-
lish the rule of the workers and
peasants,
"The election, of Hoover and his
visit to Latin America are indica-
tions of the period of reaction and
oppression to be expected by the
American and Latin American
workers. All the forces of the
working class must be organized to
meet this reaction in the world war
that is coming. The interest of the
working masses of the United
States will be to defeat the United
States government in the next i'm
perialist war"
Resolution Against Terror.
A resolution was unanimously
passed protesting against the Mus
solini terror and demanding the re-
lease of all class war prisoners, the
holding of all trials in the oper
and the right Of legal existence IL
the Communist Party and all Other
political and labor organizations in
Italy.
William Murdoch, one of the lead
ers of the New Bedford textile
strike, who is among the 662 work
ers now facing trial for militant &C
tivity in that great struggle, acted
as chairman OF the meeting.