The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-30
RED AID CALLS
FOR SUPPORT TO
CASTOR VICTIMS
w orld Solidarity of
Workers Urged

MOSCOW, Aug. 29.-The EXecu-
tive Committee of the International
Red Aid has issued the following
appeal:
"A great political process has be-
gun in the state of North Carolina
in the U. S. A. against 16 workers
and a number of working women
who are standing their trial at the
bar of American capitalism which
strives to crush all attacks of the
working class upon it. What was
the crime of the 16? They led
workers of Gastonia in struggle
for elementary demands for mini
mum wage, for the eight hour day,
against the terrible exploitation, for
the reduction of the extremely high
rents and for the recognition of the
young Textile Workers Union. In
answer, the textile barons modified
the militia, which made an armed
attack upon the headquarters of the
union and upon the homes of the
strikers. The workers defended
themselves. They were turned out
of their homes, but continued to de-
fend their trade Mon organization.
Now the capitalists have set their
legal machine into action and a
murder charge has been made
against workers who only defended
themselves. The capitalists did not
succeed in destroying the strike in
street fighting and they are there
fore now preparing a frame-up.
The electric chair is to finish the
work commenced by the raid of the
armed police. Two years ago the
American capitalists executed two
proletarians, Sacco and Vanzetti.
."Now they want to do the same
with Is revolutionary workers. Sacco
and Vanzetti were held for seven
years before being executed. But
the textile barons now want to rail-
road these 16 class conscious work
ers to the electric chair without any
preparation The process against
these workers is of tremendous in
ternational significance. At the
commencement of new great wave
Of the revolutionary working class
movement, the United States capt.
talists wish to show the capitalists
of other countries how workers who
rise against capitalism must be de-
feated. The class aim of the coming
trial is to slaughter class conscious
and active revolutionary workers
and to break the working class move
aent. The blod of the miners shed
by the Roumanian gendarmerie in
the jul valley is hardly dry, and
already the American capitalists are
preparing "the legal basis" for the
murder of striking workers.
workers of the United States
and of the whole World! Stop the
hangmen in their work! In 1927
the protest of the workers of all
countries was lot sufficient to pre-
vent the murder of Sacco and Van
zetti. The hangmen did their bloody
work. This time the voice of pro-
test must be louder than ever. In
the United States and in Europe, in
the whole world, the masses must
be modified in protest. The strug-
gle to save the lives of the Gastonia
hostages must be conducted with all
possible means and with all possible
strength.
Every working man and every
working woman must know that the
execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was
a life and death challenge to all rev.
olutionary class conscious workers,
defending their rights against CAPT
talism. Every working man and
every working woman must know
that the Is workers in GGastonia
are threa.en just like Sacco and
Vanzetti, with an already prepared
death sentence of their class enem-
les, the American textile barons.
Working men and working women!
Workers of the world! Raise your
voices in protest! Demand the re-
lease of the Gastonia prisoners!
Save them from the hands of the
hangman! Drag them from the
moose which is already around their
necks! Remember Sacco and Van
zetti! Remember, and defend the 16
Gastonia workers with redoubled
force!
"The Executive Comm. of the IRA"