The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
CASES OF e62,
FRAME UP OF Is,
T0COME UP SOON
Affair Under. Auspices
of IL, D.

NEW BEUF URD, Mass, Jan. 10.
The New Bedford workers, alive
to the need of building up strong
local of the International Labor De-
tense, and the necessity Of raising
money for the defense Of the 662
New Bedford strikers, whose cases
are to come up soon, in the New
Bedford courts will. hold a bazaar
in Sharpshooters Hall, New Bedford,
on January "A, % and 26. Fraternal
organizations, unions and individuals
can help make this affair successful
By contributing clothing, furniture,
candy, groceries-any sort of article
which can be sold at the bazaar.
There was no I. L. D. in New
bedford before last summers strike
but as the struggle progressed, the
workers felt more and more the
need of establishing a permanent
organization in New Bedford, to
take care OF the local defense cases,
and to join with other workers
throughout the world to fight for
the protection and defense of all
workers prosecuted for their acti-
yities in the class struggle. Now the
New Bedford I. L. D. local, with a
membership of over 700, has three
branches. 1t is an active organiza-
ton, with membership meetings
twice month, meetings of the Exc
cutive Committee of Is twice a
faonth, and occasional mass meet
ings, with local and out-of-town
speakers.
!. l.. ID. Aided Strikers.
During the strike when mass ar
rests were made, when workers were
b-utally beaten up for going on the
l..clset line, when the whole strength
81 the bosses, through the police,
through the courts and through the
press, was used aaginst the strikers,
class-conscious fighting organiza-
lion was forged. In no instance did
enc Of the 662 arrested strikers plead
guilty. All the cases were appealed.
Almost a half million dollars in
bail was put up. Thousands of dol
lars were raised to pay the bail
commissioners fee. Nearly three
quarters of a million dollars in prop
erty was tied up. All these 662
workers were taken care of by the
rewly- built local of the I. L. D. All
The money raised. all the bail put
VI, was gottenssfpeaa s=lecal synpa-
thizers. Sss7gsssss
After the strike, the bosses again
attempted to smash the militant
National Textile Workers Union and
it's growing local in New Bedford,
BY the framed up Conspiracy"
charges against rs of the active
workers and organizers, the charges
being Conspiracy to disturb the
l.eace" and Conspiracy to parade
without a permit Again the local
LID. arranged bail when these
workers were arrested. When Ellen
Dawson, organizer, and one of the
vice presidents of The National
Union, was illegally held last month
III the New Bedford county Jail for
one week. with 10 charge against
her. the LID. fought for her re-
lease. It's members are not forget
ting Patrick Cabral, textile striker,
sentenced to six months by a jury
OF business men, on a trumped up
charge Of assault-the man assault
ed, incidentally, testifying he could
not identify Cabral, and also, incl
dentally, going to work the next day
as usual. Cabral Is in the county
jail serving his six months sentence,
while the tax collector of the neigh
boring town of Westport, tried for
an unexplained Shortage" of $72,-
COO, rides by, free, in his car.
Bazaar Rallying Point.
The coming bazaar will be raj
lying point for new members for
the LID. The committee in charge,
sure of the support of the several
thousand members of the New Bed
ford local of the National Textile
Workers Union, hopes to raise a
large sum of money for the defense
Of the 662 arrested strikers. The
committee consists of Antonio Sa-
nerio. New Bedford LID. organ
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