The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-08
DEMAND RELEASE
Of David GORDON
Young Workers League
DenounceS Conviction
(Contia1le,i from Page One J

liable sources is he d
incommunicado, all attempts to reach
him, save by members of his i'm
mediate family or his attorneys, be-
ing rigidly opposed. ~at
The final attempt to secure Cor
don's release is motion for reargu.
ment of an appeal filed with the
court of appeals last Monday by
Joseph r. Brodsky, his attorney. The
higher court has already upheld the
conviction.
Y. w. L. Issues Statement.
The district executive committee of
the Young Workers League, of which
Gordon was a member, last night is
sued statement dencuncing his con-
viction and demanding that he be re-
leased at once.
The statement follows;
David Gordon is a young Commu-
mist. He is being prosecuted because
of his membership in the Young
Workers (Communist) League, and
not because of his having written any
"obscene poetry" His arrest and
conviction is based on an attempt to
crush The DAILY WORKER, the
organ Of the Workers Communist
Party of America; an attempt to
combat the growing prestige and in
fluence of the Young Workers (Com-
munist) League amongst the young
workers Of America; in an attempt
to undermine and demoralize all man
ifestat;ons of revolutionary discomfort
amongst the working and student
youth.
Active in League.
Gordon is a member of the Dis
trict Executive Committee of the
New York Young Workers Commu-
mist League. He was an active mem
Der of the Williamsburg Unit of the
Communist youth organization, and
as such carried on excellent work
amongst the young workers and stu
dents in Williamsburg. He was and
is well known for his revolutionary
activity there. The Young Workers
Communist League has participated in
all of the struggles of the young
workers and students in New York,
Leaflets and bulletins have been
distributed to thousands of young
workers in large and small factories;
the League arranged demonstration
against the invasion Of Nicaragua in
front of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Tin
which Gordon participated); the
Young Workers Communist League
helped the Paperbox Makers Union
when it was out on strike recently,
Gordon, as an active member of
the Young Workers Communist
League, participated in. all of these
struggles of the youth and helped the
League in all of it's work. The nu-
merical growth of the Communist
youth organization shows that the
young workers and students are re-
spending and reacting to its call and
activity.
"The case of David Gordon is a Pc
litical one, and not literary" one
The fact that his poem was used as a
basis by the Key Men of America ran
ultra-patriotic and yed-baiting organi-
cation of professional patriotcarsI in
an attempt to suppress The DAILY
WORKER, which voices and reflects
the struggles of militant labor in
America proves this conclusively.
rThe Young Workers Communist
League demands the immediate and
unconditional release of David Cor
don. 1t calls upon the young workers
and students upon the entire working
class of America to rally to the de-
Tense Of Gordon. The Young Work
ers' (Communist) League will not be
daunted by the attempt to persecute
and suppress it, but instead will in
crease it's activities amongst the
working class and student youth to
build up, strengthen and develop a
powerful mass Communist youth
movement in America.
down with the Key Men of Amer
lea and all other anti-workingclass
organizations! Demand the immedi-
ate and unconditional release of Da-
vid Gordon! A united front of all
working and student youth organiza-
tons for the release of Gordon. Long
live The DAILY WORKER! Long
live the Young Workers Leapuei