The daily worker., 1929-01-21
DENOUNCE U.S..
PERIALISMS'
KELLOGG TREATY
Score Murder of Mella
and Persecution
of Negroes
Defend Soviet UniOn!
Foster, Gitlow Urge
Intensified Struggle

Amid the cheers of $4,000 mill
ant workers, speakers at the Lenin
memorial meeting in Madison Square
Garden, Saturday night, served no.
tice on the imperialist powers that
n the event of new imperialist
var and an attack on the Soviet
Union, the workers of the United
States and of other countries will
Join hands with the Red Army of
the U. S. S. R. in the struggle for
he overthrow of capitalism and the
establishment of workers and pea
SAINTS republic in America and
throughout the world.
The speakers were William 2.
Foster and Ben Gitlow, members of
the Secretariat of the Workers
(Communist) Party; Otto Huiswood,
director of Negro work, and Julia
Stuart Poyntz, director women's
work of the Party, and Andre Rod
eigo, Cuban Communist. leader. Will
liam w. Weinstone, district crgan-
izer of the Workers Party, struck
The keynote of the protest rally when
ne declared that the murder of Julio
Mella by spies of Machado was the
first result of Hoover's goodwill"
trip to Latin-American.
Three Resolutions Adopted.
Three resolutions were unani-
mously adopted, dealing with the
political, social and economic situa-
ton. The first denounced the ex-
-tensive preparations of the Wall
Street government for new war.
1t exposed the Kellogg peace pact
as "smoke-screen before the
masses to hide the war aims and
create illusions regarding pacifist
desires of American capitalism" A
second resolution assailed the brutal
Staying of Mella, the White Terror
in the Caribbean and Latin-Ameri-
can countries and pledged the CO.
operation of the revolutionary
masses of this country to the end
of the dethronement of the puppet
governments of Wall Street.
The third dealt with the atrocious
treatment of the Negro masses in
the United States. 1t called for an
end to the "lynch rope, the stake,
Jim -Crowism, peonage, segregation
and discrimination" and it embodied
the pledge of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party to fight for racial equal
ity, for self-determination of the op-
pressed Negro race and for the over
throw of capitalism.
Cheer Speakers.
The revolutionary sentiment of
the vast audience at the Garden
gathered to commemorate the fifth
anniversary of the death of Lenin,
was clear and unmistakable through
out the evening. When Herbert
Fam, national secretary Of the
Young Workers League, asserted
that though Lenin was gone, Lenin-
ism lives on and grows in it's might,
the asesmblage roared it's approval.
Again the workers cheered and
cheered when Otto Huiswood re-
counted the aims Of the Workers
Party to fight for the exploited Ne
gro masses and against the use of
the lynch rope and bayonets. There
was thunderous applause when Juliet
Stuart Poyntz called on the masses
to help build the Daily Worker, the
Freiheit and other sections Of the
Workers (Communist) Party press.
And Andre Rodrigo, who, in Span
ish, reviewed the persecution Of
MelIa and the ultimate Staying, was
given hearty reception and an as
surance of solidarity. Rodrigo left
yesterday for Mexico City, to at
tend the National Assembly Of
Workers and Peasants, which will
form a new trade union organiza-
tion in Mexico.
But the $4,000 men and women
went wild in appreciation when Ben
Gitlow declared "that the Red Army
Of the Soviet Union is our army, the
army of the working class. In the
event Of an attack by the imperial
list powers against the Soviet Union,
we will fight for the Soviet Union
and for the defeat Of imperialism.
Our slogan is: Class against class.
Defend the Soviet Union. Down
With imperialism sin the United
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