The daily worker., 1929-02-23
WORKERS STAND BY DAILY"
AGAINST SOCIALIST JAILERS
Comrades:


machine, is being answered by militant workers
and workers organizations. A hasty checkup OF
the contributions as this is being written shows
that in all probability their total will exceed con-
sideraby those of the previous days. The time
elapsing since publication of the Hlllquit de-
mand of the New York County Grand Jury for the
indictment, arrest and trial Of the editors and busi-
ness manager of the Daily Worker and the Frei-
heit is too short to make possible response from
districts outside of New York, but the stimulus
givec to the campaign in New York City will GER
tainly be reflected in other centers.
We urge all our supporters to concentrate
their efforts in mass organizations and to make
their appeal in addition to the general line of the
campaign for the Daily Worker as the fighting
organ of the class struggle, upon the fact that
Hilquit, the leader of the socialist party in the
United States the party whose chief role is,
through its alliance with the A. +. OF l.. bureau
cracy and bourgeois liberalism, to attempt to
fuse the masses and betray them into the camp of
imperialism, now has openly sought the aid of the
judicial and police powers Of capitalist government
in an effort to throttle the only revolutionary Eng
lish language daily in the world.
With the low cunning inherent in the whole
foul fraternity of socialist lawyers, Hillquit
timed his attack with the utmost nicely. He waited
until he was certain that the Daily Worker was en-
gagged in life and death battle-and then struck
his blow through the state machinery of capi-
talism.
If HiIIquits charges of criminal libel made
with the purpose of jailing members OF the Daily
Worker staff and involving our paper in costly
legal proceedings, are sustained, he will undOubt-
edly file civil suit for heavy damages which he
plans to add to the loot secured from the manipua
tiOn of the shares of the /. L. G. W. bank
The Daily Worker faces now long series of
court proceedings for which it must expend thou
sands of dollars Even if the Daily and its editors
and business managers are not convicted the legal
expenses must still be paid Hquit is a clever
enemy of the Daily Worker, of the working class
for whom it fights in the class struggle.
The class hatred and the cleverness of Hill
quit, the s0cialist-imperialist, backed by the A.
F. of L. bureaucrats and the forces of Tammany
Hail. can be answered only by militant workers de-
termined to defeat this new conspiracy.
The Daily Worker is not on the defensive The
Hillquits can pile up the charges of criminal libel
until they are hOarse. We shall continue to expose
their betrayal of the Masses the methods by which
betrayas become bank accounts and the connection
of the leaders of sociaist-imperiasm with the
whole imperiaist system, it's wage-cutting speed
ing-up unemployment, poverty and wars OF con-
quest.
Does it appear far-fetched to say that Hlquits at
tack on Daily Worker is part of the preparation for inn
perialist war;? Then remember that the Daily Worker is
the only English language daily in the United States that
gives feminist explanation of the cause of inn
peralist and tries to rally the for uncomprom
sing struggle turn imperast into struggle for
prOletarian state power.
No one knows better than Hlquit the rewards that
imperialism has for those who help to destroy hamper
the revolutionary press
Into the mass organizations comrades and fellow
workers. 1t from these that the answer to Hill
quit will come.
Three branches of the Hungarian Sick Benefit and
Educational Society have already respondedNew York
branch No with $780, New York branch No. 29 with $1O
Astoria L. L. branch with $a total of $S5 for this one
organization.