The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-29
MILITANT STAND
OF JOHN PORTER
HAILED BY PARTY
Communists Fight for
EX-Soldier

from the military prison at For
Leavenworth is contained in a reso
luton adopted by the Sixth Nationa
Convention of the Communist Party
The resolution halls the heroic Com
nnunist position taken by the forme
soldier, who preferred to face year
in an army Jail rather than deser
the cause of the workers, and call
upon the armed forces "to learn tn
lesson of Comrade Porter's expert
ences; to organize within the mil
itary units and to prepare for +;
united fight together with the whole
working class against American i'm
perialism.
The resolution follows:
The Sixth National Conven-
ton of the Communist Party of
the U. S. A. extends heartiest
revolutionary greetings to our val
liant Comrade John Porter, now in
generated in the Fort Leaven-
worth Military prison by Ameri-
can Imperialism, for his partici-
patton in the leadership of the
New Bedford Textile strike.
Loyal to Working Class.
1t is not accidental that at this
time the capitalist class has sing
led out Comrade Porter for especi-
ally severe persecution. He SYM
bolized the growing unity between
the soldiers and the workers in the
factories. Particularly in this
period of war preparations, in
evitable because of the developing
rivalries among the imperialist
countries and the preparation for
war on the Soviet Union, do the
capitalists fear any determination
between the armed forces and the
workers.
Despite attempts of the govern
nlent to induce Comrade Porter to
repudiate his Communist position,
even offers of a sentence of one
month instead of two and half
years, Comrade Porter remained
firm in his loyalty to the working
class, saying at the court martial,
81 am sorry that I deserted from
the army. l wish 1 had remained
and won the other soldiers over
from the bourgeoisie to the cause
of the working class" This stand
has won him the most brutal tor
lures in prison. Another year of
this prison hell faces him.
The Sixth National Convention
Of the Communist Party greets
the heroic Communist position
taken by Comrade Porter and re-
solves to mobilize the workers and
soldiers for unity in struggle to
force the military authorities to
release him from prison.
Organize In Armed Forces.
We call particularly upon the
armed forces to learn the lesson
Of Comrade Porter's experiences,
to organize within the military
units and prepare for a united
fight together with the whole
working class against American
Imperialism. The workers, united
with the servicemen, must turn the
coming imperialist war into a war
for the overthrow of American
Imperialism and the establishment
of workers and farmers govern
ment.
Porter Tortured by Army Cars.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas,
March 28.-The military authorities
lere are continuing their efforts to
freak the militant spirit of John
'orter. The army officers refuse
o permit him to receive most of the
hundreds of letters coming from
workers. all over the country, and
will not let him write letters regard
ng the brutal treatment to which |
e is subjected.
The officers, however, are much |
Vorried by the many letters to Por-
err, which show that the workers
re beginning to realize the tremen-
Gus significance of the case.
wild Bill" Morrow.
Colonel William ("Wild Bill') |
borrow, the Commandant here, de-
hands that the guards use the most
avage methods against Porter. Nor
ow demonstrated his servility to
he true spirit of capitalism and
is hatred Of Communists and all
oldiers with courage to think for
themselves, while Commandant at
ne Alcatraz military prison, where
aul Crouch. Walter Trumbull and
Ieorge Pershing, soldier members
{ the Hawaiian Communist League,
fere confined.
Porter was sent here by War De-
ertmcnt, which knew the record of
Iorrcw. According to usual proce-
ure, Porter, who was court-mar-
aled at Fort Adams, R. l., should
ave been sent to Governors Island,
ut the army officers wished to re-
owe him as far as possible from |
IS friends and comrades in the
asst, ard counted on the cruelty of
.orrow to break his revolutionary
,irit. :
Always Loyal TO Workers.
The latest information received i
on Porter shows that the hopes i
the Officers are in vain. In 6
essage to the workers, he declares c
at nothing can remove him from I
e working class and that he would
Their give his life than betray the !