The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-31
DEFEND Miners
is new APPEAL.
Bonita, MENDOZA, Moleski
Must Be Saved

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Mar. 3d.
An urgent appeal to the workers of
the country today sent out by the Be-
nita-M oleski-Mendola Defense Com
mittee, Stanley Dziengielewski, sec
rotary, from the headquarters of the
committee, Room 513, Coal Exchange
Building.
The date of tie trial Of the three
innocent miners indicted for murder
is but 10 days off, the statement
points out. Unless labor rises to the
defense of these class war prisoners.
they will be railroaded to the electric
chair.
The statement follows:
"The Bonita, Moleski, MENDOZA De-
tense Committee considers it neces-
sary in view of recent utterances re-
ported in some newspapers with re-
gard to cur committee, to make clear
that ours is the only committee or
gained and authorized to conduct the
campaign for defense of Bonita, Mo
leski and MENDOZA.
The Only Committee
"Our committee was organized in
the very first days following the ar
rests of these honest rank and file
fighters against the individual CON
tract system and other evils from
which The miners suffer. The officers
and members of this committee are
officers and members of Local 1903
who were officially commissioned by
Local 1903 to organize and conduct
the defense campaign, they have
broadened the committee by drawing
into it members of other locals in
District One who enjoy the confidence
of the defendants and CT the rank
and file of the union as d whole.
The Cause OF All.
sour committee realizes that the
workers of the region and of the en-
tire country are vitality concerned in
this case. Bonita, Moleski and Men
dola symbolic at this time the strug-
gle of the rank and file of the miners
union against the efforts of the
operators and contractors to destroy
our union and undermine our working
conditions by means of corruption
and terror. If Bonita, Moleski and
MENDOZA are pat to death it will be
a blow to the whole labor movement
"Our committee realizes that we
must expect to be attacked not only
by the contractors, Cappelini and
others who are directly involved in
the attempt to railroad Bonita-Mo
leslli-Mendola to the electric chair,
hut also by all those would-be leaders
who are fighting Cappelini only so
they may get his job.
every act that brings division and
confusion into the ranks of those who
want to save Bonita, Moleski and
MENDOZA from the electric chair and
restore them in freedom to their fam
lilies and fellow workers helps the
Lewis-Cappelini murder and frame
up machine.
VIII Fight.
"Ous committee, with the help OF
the workers of this region and the en-
tire country will fight against all the
enemies of Bonita, Moleski and Men
dola whether they are avowed or Sc
cret, deliberate or unintentional al.
lies of those who would railroad these
brave miners to tine electric chair.
Bonita, Moleski, MENDOZA must be
freed.
1--WE shall carry forward the cam.
paign for their defense; we will unite
the workers of this country for that
purpose despite every effort of Lewis
Cappelini, the operators, the ccntrac-
tors, and all of their agents who at.
tempt to disrupt and split the defense
movement" Ell
Ill 10 che ,.l. liz.