The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-05
WORLD WORKERS
DEMAND FREEING
OF MILL VICTIMS
Barnett Denounces Lie
Against the LID.

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tonia strike and to punish" those
who dare to face Wall Street power
and to fight for the better condi-
tions OF their class.
Long live the alliance Of the
American working class with the
Latin-American proletariat in the
fight against Yankee imperialism!
"Long live the International La
Dor Defense, strong defender of all
the victims of the class struggled"
And From Canada.
The Canadian Labor Defense
League has written that the confer
ence held in that land Friday, July
26, was an outstanding success and
that the working class organizations
represented set machinery into mo-
ton to aid financially and morally
the Gastonia strikers.
This message came at the Same
time as telegram from the Bay
Cities Joint Defense and Relief Con-
ference, in California, conference
of SO delegates representing over
Is trade unions and workers frater-
nal organizations in session, Sun
day, July rs. hereby expresses its
solidarity with the imprisoned tex
tile workers who face death and pro-
tests against the mill barons and So
called legal authorities in their ter
ror against the strikers and textile
union leaders"
Centralia Boys Send Greetings.
eve are hoping you save Fred
Beal and the other comrades in
North Carolina from legal lynch
ing"
This expression Of class solidarity
comes from behind the bars of Walla
Walla penitentiary at Seattle, where
the Centralia victims have spent al
most a decade of their lives
framed up by the capitalist system.
In the same letter Eugene Bar
nett denies the statement in the I.
w. W. press that the international
Labor Defense has been repudiated
by the Centralia victims.
Are For ]. l.. D.
He wrote to the National Office
of the International Labor Defense
as follows:
"The statement in the l. w. W.
press that the I. l.. D. has been re-
pudiated by the Centralia victims is
a lie. Britt Smith sent out a dirty
letter denouncing the I. L. d. and
everyone else not controlled by the
faction of the I. w. w. he is con-
trolled by. But his letter did not
express the opinion of more than
two persons in the Centralia group
and Britt Smith was one of the two"
Barnett, despite his own inevi-
table anguish at wasting so many
years in prison on the lies of the
bosses, has the class solidarity to
think of the Gastonia prisoners
first.
His example may well be followed
by the millions OF workers in this
country-to think of saving the
class war prisoners who have been
thrown into Jail for fighting for
the working class.
A mass International Labor De-
tense of more than 100000 members
will not only help greatly to free
the members of the National Tex
tile Workers Union, but will also
help save the Centralia victims from
living out their days in the dreary
cells of Walla Walla.
The International Labor Defense,
with national headquarters at so
E. 18th St., Room 402, has extended
Gastonia defense and relief activi-
ties until the trial reopens at Char
lotte on Aug. %.
In that time the working class
will gather more than 100000 sig
natures for the mass protest petit
ton.
The working class will collect
more than $4,000 for the defense
fund.
The working class will increase
the membership of the international
Labor Defense to 100000 by the
end of the trial.