The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-04
W0RkERSMEET
IN CHICAGO TO
PROTEST TERROR
AFL Cops Hit Marine
Conference in Frisco

ton sentences on the three Com
munist workers convicted in the
Wo6dlawr case. Now it draws in
The corrupt A. F. L. f''reaucracy
dir. The A. F. L. appoints the
police who tr. to smash militant
.eamen's organ ION.
Murphy is charged with mali
cious mischief, and distributing cir
culars without a permit" Hhe was
bailed out by the International
Labor Defense, which will also de-
9 him.
In Pennsylvania, Friday, Police
Chief P. Welsh, of Arnold, Mellon
controlled town. broke up the Com
n,uriist election meeting and ar
rested Leon Gaibrish, candidate for
burgess; Carlo di Santo, candidate
for council; John Sara, candidate for
tax collector; Pearlman and Pat
Devine, Communist Party district
organizer.
The meeting was the celebration
of the Twelfth Anniversary OF the
Bolshevik Revolution. The princi-
pal orders the police had received
from the steel and coal companies
we're evidently to prevent the Com
nunist organizer from speaking,
and to disrupt the meeting, without
creating much excitement in the
neighborhood if possible. For
while they contented themselves
with manhandling the speakers, and
did not at first arrest them.
workers Supply Bail.
However, District Organizer De-
vine was arrested as soon as he
began in his speech to connect the
ection of the police in this meeting
with the general attack in other
cities on the Communist Party.
The candidates and the speakers
for the Young communist League
persisted in carrying on the meet
ing despite the display of force.
The workers presnt cheered enthusi-
astically every reference to the
Soviet Union and showed a fighting
spirit, promising to defend the
Communist Party. ....t.,s
The audience showed its attitude
towards the arrests by immediately
raising Sis bail for the defendants.
Tbs cases will be tried today.
5000 In New Bedford.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Nov. d
Last week 5000 New Bedford work
ers came from the textile mills to
attend the biggest demonstration
since the strike, to protest the Gas
tonia verdict, and welcome Fred
3eal; Gastonia defendant, and leader
OF the New Bedford strike last year.
Zeal was not released from jail, on
bonds. as had been anticipated, and
Harry Wicks substituted fo- him, de-
scribing the situation in the South,
the bosses terror, and the use OF the
courts as part Of that terroristlc
campaign. The crowd enthusiast
tically adopted resolutions condemn
ing Lne NeEUlSl, anu NSie
release Of the prisoners.
Banners carried in the demonstra-
ton read: Down with Bosses Gov
eminent" 1--WE Demand the Release
of Beal and the Six Others With
Him." Eight Against Speed-Up, For
Higher Wages, Less Hours" Join
TIC National Textile Workers
Union" "Class Against Glass" "Join
the Communist Party" "Join the
Young Communist League"
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 3.-The
appeal of five members of the Com
munist Party and the Young Com
munist League here from sentences
of 500 fines or thirty d..ys in jail
arising out of street meeting on
Aug. is, has been continued for two
weeks to allow attorneys for the de-
tense and the Commonwealth to file
briefs with the trial judge.
The Communist Party has de-
manded a permit to hold a meeting
at its regular corner in the heart
fthe working class section on the
North Side. Chief of Police Walsh
and the Chamber of Commerce, de-
aied the application and offered in
stead a permit for a meeting in the
center Of Sehenly Park-literally
miles away from the homes of the
workers. Naturally he was told to
20 to hell and the meeting was held
N defiance Of the hundr-1 odd uni
formed and plainclothes police who
rienacingly twirled their clubs and
blaekjacks. but didn't interrupt for
fear Of arousing the resentment OF
the seven hundred workers who en-
Enthusiastically received the speakers.
The following day, however, war
rants were served on Mike Harrison,
Pat Cush, candidate for mayor on
he Communist ticket; Fanny
Toohey, candidate for council; Sam
Herman, district organizer of the
YCL, and Fred Kearns.