The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30

I issued statement on their behalf beginning 7 $A
"IN JAIL TWO YERs-FoR WHAT? lie ~
workers of America Do you that twen- ~ &OY
y more innocent workingmen now being slow "A NJ
y tortured to death in the Basties of Kansas? The ~
men in question those that have been held for TA
two without trial, what is known the nxTST
Wichita indictment. The charges of conspiracy
against these victims vague that to the
group
going the most vndetve persecution known in the history American
The despabe forces back of this damnabe outrage
mined have the blood of these The seuous sheets called
and Oklahoma are set crushing out semance unnm
derng up examples frightening
other workers into submission and keep them from organizing The
Right to Organize belongs to every man! Keep i'll :"
WHEN the Kansas prisoners finally convicted relief
" to them and glad because they being
going to serve long terms in the Federal prisons
The not content with its bitter persecution for
to prevent from raising funds for defense Appeals
and destroyed Our speakers arrested Meetings broken
After speaking City Minneapolis threats from
the Legion, Superior Workers
Miners had defense picnic outside the city The roum here
the end of truck just getting warmed the
sion when the sheriff and deputies said
meeting could not proceed they afraid bloodshed
The umberjacks asked whs
that you say Some of them adding We've got appoint
m n q M th away saying I'VE done an we can let EN- go
ruption was speaking about the Russian Revolution
THE preliminary hearing Chicago up on December
18TH 1917 We all gathered in the Federal Building those from
Flynn and Tesca from New York City, but the against
It'll demanded to know why his had been
he informed that the against him
protest and demanded that he be tried with the
But this allowed.
All the rest of us pleaded "Not Guilty"
The big trial began April Judge Kenesaw Mountain
District Of Illinois Eastern Division T Tour U n y. D. Nonen
legal talent against consisting district attor-
Chicago, Nebeke formerly attorney for the Utah
George F. vandever of Seattle who had ABLY
and successfully conducted the case Otto
Christensen of Chicago William Clearly Bsbee Arizona and
Caroline Love- who also Wichita case
The court room which tried white
with gilt The judges bench platform right
of the door which entered There which
The sat table judge attorneys for the
defense had table Immediately back of them. long
press table inside the railing that the spectators
At this sat and magazine
parts of the country we'll few from foreign lands
end of the table the
supposedly labor reporter who enthusiastically played
r sat- he b seng and rng
and of at the table with lawyers
men had been called.
Attorneys for the defense questioned socialism,
question would be asked Is the ndua ym involving e
exploitation society by few individuals the best possible scheme
the and exchange and the
operative carrying of production for instead proft?"
social system that is on trial" He asked:
Are you aware that cent of the population of
caused because industry do living you
the Of po in IT
chatte
whether be industrial slavery? in school about
the American Revolution Of 76 the French
king and made France republic the Russian
threw the auocracy and the Czar
people to vo Do recognize the idea of the
principles of the Declaration Independence which this nation
founded Do believe the right people govern
selves and to have voice in this government?
applies to industry well politics? prejudice you if it
should that these defendants believe
be owned by the people operated peope?"
In the merit nsalment Haywood tells hoo first
syn '0as discharged and one more suitable to tho prosecution