The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09

as the bill of Indictment, the exam
ination of the veniremen, amply
prove that the issues involved are
class issues,-the right # labor to
organize, sts-ike, picket, and defend
themselves. The capitalist class is
desperately trying to hide this fact,
and are enraged that they cannot
do it. The reason for their fury is
that the |. L. D. has proven the
correctness of its policy in this case,
and its statement that the issues are
the rights of workers, especially the
right of self-defense against vicious
attacks of the hirelings of the mill
owners, has b IN proven to the hilt
over and over again. The capitalist
papers are enraged not because the
l. L. D. shares their desire to cleo
trocute Fred Beal and his comrades,
but on the contrary because we
stand between the vengeance of the
mill owners and the defendants, the
shield of victimized workers.
In recent years, the l. L. D. has
defended many cases involving is
sues similar to those at stake in the
Gastonia case. The l. L. D. has de-
Tended workers in the following
cases: The Shifrin case, in which
one strike leader was indicted for
murder when he defended himself
against the attacks of five thugs
hired to "get" him; the Greco-Carillo
case, in which the two defendants
sent letter to the I. L. D. stating
that "if it had not been for the I.
L. D. we would undoubtedly have
been electrocuted"; the campaign,
still going on, to free Tom Mooney
and Billings from San Quentin peni-
tertiary in California where they
have been for the past 10 years,
sentenced to life imprisonment on
framed-up evidence; the Woodlawn
Sedition cases, in which % steel
workers were arrested in Pennsyl-
vania;: the Mineola case, where 8
furriers were charged with criminal
assault; the Passaic and New Bed
ford cases, where $50 strikers were
arrested, and thousands of dollars
spent by the I. L. D. to free them;
the Cheswick cases, where the |. L.
D. defended 5 workers charged with
violation of the Sedition law; the
Canter case, now being appealed, in
which Canter was charged with libel
for carrying placard denouncing
Judge Thayer as a murderer for
sentencing Sacco and Vanzettti to
electrocution; the cases of Minerich
and many other miners who resisted
the terrorism of the thugs and
strikebreakers hired by the coal COM
panies,-these and hundreds of.
other cases of workers suffering
from the brutality and terrorism of
the capitalist class, prove the value
to the working class of the I. L. D.
as shield from Capitalist justice"
workers Must AID.
Again the International Labor
Defense calls upon the working class
of America to rally to the support
of the defense of the sixteen mill
tant leaders of the Southern textile
workers. Return them to the ranks
of the National Textile Workers
Union to lead the coming struggle
against the stretch out and starva-
ton wages that will be initiated by
the Southern Textile Workers Con-
ference on October 18th and 18th at
Charlotte, the scene of the trial.
Defend the right of workers to
organize, strike and picket. Up
hold the right of strikers to defend
their lives, their union, and their
families against the murderous at
tacks of the bosses and their hire
lings.
Unconditional freedom for every
defendant in the Gastonia case! The
working class has enough martyrs.
Save the union organizers and strik-
ers from the vengeance of the mill
owners!