The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-10
By a Worker Corresponding

EdbUI AfG4eIlSG lOt The IGlGoSS VI !
Hugo Oeh1er, E. B. Eastwood, Mat |
thew Cushing and others arrested |
for speaking at a Communist cleo
ton campaign and a Sacco-Vanzetti
memorial meeting of international
Labor Defense, in Kansas City, |
Kansas, on charges of violating the |
Criminal Syndicalism Law, is going |
on with great energy. Sentiment |
for the repeal of this notorious anti |
labor law is constantly growing and |
literature is being spread through
cut the state urging the develop
ment of a movement to quash this !
law on the statute books.
The record of the hearing held in
The city court Of Kansas City, third |
division, before Judge L. R. Gates,
which has just been made public,
indicates the total Ignorance of the
court and the prosecution of the
beliefs and activities of the defend
ants and their determination, never
theless, to but them behind prison
bars at the behest of the Armour
racking interests who are disturbed
at the activities of the Communists
in organizing the slaughter-house
workers to improve their present
miserable conditions.
The examination of Stanley
Beatty, police captain, by Prescott
ing Attorney Ward, is shown in the
record literally as follows:
Answer; He (Oehler) said there
would he obstacles put in the way
Of the workers-that there had been
Obstacles put in their way as he
referred to them by the bushwazee
end by the government, and they
would have obstacles again.
Question: Who was the bush
wazee?
Answer: Supposed to be the po
lice officers and the court-anyone
in an official capacity. He referred
to police officers and he referred to
Governor Fuller, the governor of
Massachusetts,, as the bushwazee of
Massachusetts, and also called the
officers in Omaha by the same name
all those who took part in break
ing up the meeting and they re-
ferred to them as the bushwazee of
Omaha, and the mounted police as
the cossacks.
The Court: You are included in
that too.
Answer: l am included in that.
The Court: Then I don't feel so
bad about that.
I am sending you leaflet which
IS being broadcast among the work
ers at the packing houses here. 1t
urges the workers to fight against
the anti-syndicalist law and is be-
ing eagerly received and read by the
packing house workers. It reads as
follows:
A vicious Anti-Labor Law in the
state of Kansas. known as the
Criminal Syndicalist law, is being
exercised by the big open shop and
big business interests against the
workers and workers organizations
During the postwar period the big
open shoppers under the guise of
~patriotism enacted this law and are
using it in every fight against the
workers.
When Armour and Company faced
the growing sentiment of the organi
cation of their workers into a union
they instirated the police to break
IN a meeting called at the gates by
the Workers (Communist) Party
The speakers were arrested and the
aov+ p . Sacco and Vanzetti meet
ING in Shawnee Park was raided anc
ten arrested. The Meat Trust anc
4heir flurkies have initiated prose
cution of these eight workers, wht
have been active in the work of or
ganizing the packing house workers
The second meeting was under TIL
auspices of the International Labo,
Defense. Hugo Oehler and Mat
thew Gushing are indicted becaus
thew spoke to the workers on organi
cation. E. B. Eastwood is indicte'
because he was chairman of the In
ternational Labor Defense meeting
at Shawnee Park, Vacuum and Kas
sis are indicted because they ha
some International Labor Defens
literature that enters u. s. mail a
second class matter. Three packin
house workers were arrested becaus
they attended the meeting in Shaw
nee Park with scores of other people
Hugo Oehler spoke for the organi
cation of the packing house workers
spoke against the capitalist venge
ance against Sacco and Vanzett
spoke for Foster and Gitlow TO
President and President of tn
United States, spoke for a Workers
and Farmers Government. This
his crime. According to the law tn
others are just as guilty becaus
they assembled with. etc. In othe
words should the Criminal Synd
calist law be allowed to exist it b'
comes a crime to advocate the estat
lshment of workers and farmer
government, criticize the iudici;
~stem or the action of judges {
even advocate organizing an indu
trial union. The law is so drast
that it is not only a crime to spea
but Is equally a crime to assemb
with.