The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-12

CONTINUED from rage OneJ
of Sacco and Vanzetti in the electri
chair in Charleston Prison, Boston
Mass.
Joint Committee to Direct.
Alfred Wagenknecht, who directe(
the National Miners Relief Cam
paign (1927-2S) and the Passai,
Strikers Relief Committee (1925-26,
will be drawn into the enlarged &C
tivities of the Gastonia Joint De
tense and Relief Campaign as direc
tor. The Joint Campaign Commit
tee will thus consist of j. Louis
Engdahl, national secretary of thu
International Labor Defense; jim
Reid, secretary of the National Tex
tile Workers Union; Robert Minor
representing the working class
press Ludwig Landy, of the Work
ers International Relief and Wagon
knectt.
The Joint Committee, in its initia
statements, calls to the attention o,
all Joint Campaign Committees ane
to workers and workers organiza
tions that the battle for the freedom
of the % strikers and organizers o.
the National Textile Workers Unior
does not end subsequent to the open
ing trial date, August 26th.
THE mobilization of the
workers nationally and interna-
tionally must continue until the
imprisoned and indicted workers
again take their places in the
ranks of the Southern textile
workers. assisting in the offensive
against the bosses and in the or
ganization campaign of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union.
TsRyfpare for Probable Appeals.
Appeals to the state and to the
United States Supreme Courts will
have to be financed and the power
of the working class must be
brought to bear upon these CAPT
talist institutions if these workers
are to e saved from the electric
chair and long terms of imprison-
ment. We face long period of
hard aid intensive work.
Steps will be taken to secure
the mobilization of workers in
other countries in protest against
the attempt to murder these
workers"
It is pointed out that the frs
requisite in the campaign for de
tense or relief is to institute d,
broad national mass movement
among the workers, to effect thei
theological conversion upon the is
sues involved and to center thi
mass movement in large unitet
fronts in the various cities. Finan
cial and organizational gains result
in the main from such a mass move
ment.
1t therefore becomes immediatel,
necessary to establish broad unite,
front activities in all the cities, t,
carry on speedy and steady mas
agitation among the workers. To
ward this end the following pro
gram has been decided upon by tn
National Center of the Gastoni;
Joint Defense and Relief Committee
Issues in the Campaign.
l. "The right of the Nationa
Textile Workers Union to organize
picket and strike.
ITO defeat the mill owners an,
the state in their attempt to electro
cute the defendants in order to i'm
pede the organization of the textil
workers.
"The right of the workers to de
fend themselves, their union head
quarters, their homes in the ten
colony. (This is not a classi
frame-up case tho it has elements O
frame-up tactics of the employer
and the state, such as perjured evi
dence and the prosecution of work
ers and organizers who were no
implicated in the shooting. How
ever the defense policy is the RICH
to self t,fense).
"The role Of the American Fede
ration of Labor in the south (Unitet
Textile Workers.. It's sell-out O.
the Workers (Elizabethton ant
Ware Shoals), the demand by demo
cratic politicians and the southern
capitalist press that the mill owner.
accept the United Textile Worker.
as the organization for the southern
textile workers.
The Southern Textile Worker.
Conference, Charlotte, N. C. in
October, white h constitutes the
mobilization point to lead these ex.