The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-23
CZECHS DEPORT GERMAN
COMMUNIST.
ACCORSPS Wife
FACES EVICTION
LID Takes Over Relief
as Well as Defense

Mrs. Salvatore Accorsi, her six
months-old baby in arms, told yes
terday in her small home from
which she has been threatened with
eviction, how her husband went to
work with pick and shovel" last
June and twas picked up" by Penn
sylvania state police who told her
they were taking Accorsi to the
electric chair"
Aceorsi goes on trial December
9 in Pittsburgh charged with the
murder of state trooper John j.
Downey, two years ago, at a dem
onstration August %, 1927, at Ches-
wick protesting the execution of
Sacco and Vanzetti.
The Accorsi family, bereft of
father, lives in small frame house
at the end of muddy little back
street known as Elbe Ave-, Staten
Island.
Mrs. Accorsi, 35 years old, was
surrounded by her three small chill
dren, Carolina, 8 years, fernando,
II months, and Louis, months.
They have been living on Staten
Island since April, 1928, when they
left the coal fields.
"Accorsi had been out on strike
for a year "and it was misery in
the coal fields" Mrs. Accorsi said
in Italian. eve came here" she
gestured at the bare rooms, most
of the furniture having already been
removed, "and Salvatore was work
ing at pick and shovel for con-
tractor"
Arrested While at Work.
Mrs. Accorsi told how astounded
Accorsi was when arrested. 1--WE
never dreamed of such a thing.
Salvatore was not at the demon
stration. He worked home fixing
the car the whole day." she said.
Lived Near Cheswick for Seven
Months After Shooting.
"For seven months we lived there
near Cheswick before Salvatore
came to New York to look for
work." she said. ''Then he sent for
US here"
She looked around at her small,
bare home. "The owner said we
got to get out or pay the rent. How
can l pay when Salvatore is in jail?
Where can we go in the winter,
here?"
Came Here in 1920.
Mrs. Accorsi said her husband
came to this land in 1920-after
having served during the World
War in the Italian army. He came
back to Italy over two years ago."
she said, "and brought me and my
daughter, Carolina, to America to
the coal fields"
| Mrs. Accorsi is alone in this land
all her relatives are in Italy, she
said.
The Accorsi case grew out of the
Cheswick meeting in which 1900
miners demonstrated against the
execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Tear gas bombs, cavalry charges by
the police, and swinging maces broke
up the meeting, and injured severely
a number of miners and their wives
Downey, who was Unfortunately
clubbing all whom he met, was sur
prised by one of the miners who
turned on him after being struck
and fired.
Collecting Funds.
The international Labor Defense
is taking over the care of the Ac-
corsi family, in addition to sending
them the regular 500 monthly sent
to all families of class war prisoners
by the LID.
The International Labor Defense
has organized "Save Accorsi" CON-
mittees in West Pennsylvania among
the coal miners and steel workers
to work in conjunction with the LID
branches. Funds are being sent tc
save Accorsi and for his family, to
the national office of the Interna.
tional Labor Defense, so E. 18th
St., room 400, New York City. AT
Italian bureau of the LID. has been
formed which is placing the fight tC
save Accorsi on a mass basis. BY
Jan. s, many conferences are planned
nationally to build the LID. to save
Accorsi and the many other class
war prisoners in the U. S. A. to-
day.