The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-11
TRY TO PREVENT
SHOWING or FLAG
SANDING SEIZED
Head of Natl Security
League Joins Red
Batting Drive
Flag on Way to U. S.
Big Demonstration at
Garden Jan. 10

Definite legal steps will be con-
sidered today by the National
Security League to block the plan
of the Workers (Communist) Party
to display the American flag cap
tured by General SANDING on Satur-
day evening, Jan. 10, at the Lenin
Memorial Meeting in Madison
Square Garden. The banner is to
be exhibited as first hand evidence
of Wall Streets bloody intervention
in Nicaragua.
The executive committee of the
Security League, which represents
$4,000 of the richest and most vici-
Gus parasites in the United States,
will discuss the question of getting
out an injunction against the Work
ers Party at meeting this after
noon at 2 o'clock. This information
was given out yesterday by S. Stan
wood Menken, chairman of the
Board of the patriotic bunk-dis-
seminating organization. Menken is
a millionaire corporation lawyer, a
well known fighte- against the revo-
lutionary working class movement in
America, and an arch enemy of the
working class.
Attacks Communists.
When interviewed yesterday, Men
ken waxed very bitter against the
Communists. AS he finished read
ing the plans OF the Lenin Memorial
arrangements committee to exhibit
the captured flag, he burst out:
"This god damned thing ought to
be stopped - Thereupon, he
launched into a torrid denunciation
of the Communists. They're OBJ
structors, always seeking to create
trouble. I've talked to them, I've
mingled with them, I've attended
their affairs. They're crazy. The
United States Government has been
following serious and high-minded
policy in Nicaragua. The govern
ment should receive the support of
all Americans"
He depressed to say complacently:
"There are some people waiting to
see me about a million dollar case"
He speaks of millions as the success
full fisherman of fish. They come
easily. The corporation lawyer re-
turned to the subject at hand. IL
call up General Billiard" General
Robert Lee Billiard is the president
of the league.) But his secretary
failed to reach the noted militarist.
To Seek Injunction.
"Well," said Menken, well take
up the matter of an injunction at an
executive meeting tomorrow. There's
federal statute, l think, that for
bids such a proceeding"
Menken's declarations followed
hot on the heels of attacks by lead
ers Of two other patriotic agencies.
Fred R. Marvin, of the Keymen of
America, has urged that federal au-
1 thorities tnke action to halt the
meeting. Walter l. Joyce, head of
the Americanization Committee of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ex-
pressed the view that either the
federal authorities or the city should
intervene.
Meanwhile, the arrangements
committee, entirely undaunted, is
rushing preparations for the largest
mass demonstration ever held in
Greater New York to emphasize the
war danger. The speakers will be
Jay Lovestone, William z. Foster,
Ben Gitlow and others.
Flag on Way to u. S.
The committee has announced that
the flag captured from the United
States marines by SANDING is now
being transmitted to America from
Mexico through the courtesy of the
Anti-Imperialist League.
The Lenin meeting will be marked
by an elaborate entertainment pro-
gram. Jascha Fisherman, noted
Soviet pianist, will play, the Fret
heit Gesangs Verein Gall sections)
will sing and the Labor Sports
Union will offer a labor sports
spectacle.