The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-12
Terror in Los Angeles.


LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. IL
The Los Angeles workers celebra-
ton of the Twelfth Anniversary Of
the October Revolution was a great
success, attended by 1000 workers.
despite tn eterror reign by the
police.
Police arrested Leo Gallagher, In
lternational Labor Defense Attorney
Jose Arispe, Mexican worker; John
Owens, Negro worker; and two
Japanese at the mass meeting.
In addition, Ia workers had been
arrested between Nov. 7 and Nov.
10. A big collection was raised, and
great enthusiasm displayed.
On Saturday, two open air meet
iigs were broken up by the police,
ant six members of the Communist
Party were beaten up and arrested.
Later they were released on bail.
Three Young Pioneers are still held.
The workers at the demonstration
fought the police in order to protect
the Communist speakers.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. lin an
effort to crush the revolutionary
spirit of militant workers here, who
were preparing for the Twelfth An
niversary celebration, police ar
rested eight workers in a week.
Those arrested were charged with
illegal distribution of handbills,"
because they gave workers dodgers
telling of the Twelfth Anniversary
meeting. These victims of the To-
cal Chamber of Commerce are Lii
liam Silverman, Gus Hunter, George
Kiosz, Soko Hariuchi, Rose Spector,
Minnie Fradkin and Sima Kaspin.
Bail was furnished by the Inter
national Labor Defense. Despite the
arrests, over $4,000 leaflets in Eng
lish, Spanish, japanese and Chinese
have been distributed by the Com
munist Party and Communist Youth
League. Street corner meetings are
being held in spite of police inter-
| ference.
The terror against Los Angeles
Communists and other militant
workers is part of the general ter
ror instigated by the open shop
bosses in the state. Included in this
terror reign was the arrest and sem
fencing to long prison terms of those
who conducted the workers chill
dren's camp at Yucaipa.
WILKES BARRE, Nov. IL. -
Charges of Sadition--the club that
the Pennsylvania industrialists WELD
to batter down the demands of the
working class are now in Wilkes
Barre, in the Anthracite, where Jen-
ME German and d. A. German go
on trial November 20.
Both are out under $4,000 bail.
Jennie German was arrested July 81,
for distributing leaflets calling on
workers to demonstrate against i'm
perialist war on international Anti
War Day, August l.
Her husband, d. A. German, was
taken in custody the following day
when he appeared in police court to
inquire concerning his wife.
Both were told they would be
freed if they promised to leave the
district and never appear there
again. When the workers refused,
sedition charges we're clapped on
them.
Their case is the fourth current in
Pennsylvania. These are: the Wood
lawn case, which resulted in three
workers going to prison for five
years; the Bethlehem sedition case
in which three more workers, VIM.
Murdoch, VIM. Brown and Anna
Burlak, 60 on trial in December and
the Philadelphia sedition case where
two workers face trial at the next
term of court.
The International Labor Defense,
now conducting Z drive for $4,000
new members and for immediate
funds to fight this wave of oppres-
sion, calls on the working-class Of
The land, 10 mobilize in mass protest.