The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-19
Many More Meetings.

IL Is announced Dy Cne international
Labor Defense. With the number
Of those charged with murder now
increased and with many charged
with assault with intent to kill and
others facing lesser charges, the
great mass campaign of the Inter
national Labor Defense to mobilize
the workers of this country to save
these militants is gaining momen-
tum daily.
The frame-up Of the Gastonia tex
tile strikers will be protested by
the workers of Baltimore at a mass
meeting called by the International
Labor Defense and the Workers In
ternational Relief at the Lithuanian
Hall, at 8 p. M, tomorrow. Ella
Reeve (Mother) Bloor will be the
chief speaker.
New York City is planning huge
open-air demonstration for Tuesday,
June 25, under the auspices of the
New York District of the l. L. D.
The meeting will be held at five
o'clock in Union Square. Several
strikers will be among the speak
ers.
A joint protest meeting against
the terror in Gastonia and in the
Oakland, CAL, auto strike will be
held Wednesday, June 26, at Cali
fornia Hall, Polk and Turk Sts.,
San Francisco, under the auspices
of the I. l.. D. This will be the
opening gun in the drive to raise
funds for Gastonia defense. Speak
ers will include several auto strik-
err.
. Meetings are also being arranged
2 many other cities and campaigns
for funds are well under way. All
funds should be sent to the National
Office of the International Labor
Defense, so E 18th ST., Room 402.
Shifrin Makes Appeal.
William Shifrin, militant New
York fur worker, who is now facing
a possible 20-year sentence on a
second degree murder charge as a
result of having defended himself
from six knife-wielding right wing
thugs, has issued personal appeal
to all workers to raise huge fund
to save the victims of the Gastonia
frame-up. Shifrin also appeals to
the workers of New York to support
the tag days being conducted all
week by the New York District of
the International Labor Defense.
Shifrin's appeal follows:
GAS one who is himself the VIC
tim of vicious frame-up, as one
whom the ruling class is trying to
railroad on a murder charge for
the crime of having fought for my
class, let me add my voice to the
great cry that has arisen through
out the country to save the victims
of the monstrous frame-up in Gas
tonia. We must call a halt to the
frame-ups and prosecutions of the
ruling class. Enough workers blood
has been split already. The bravest
fighters of our class are being
threatened in Gastonia. Their lives
are in danger. A powerful blow is
being aimed at every effort of the
workers to fight against eXploita-
ton and oppression.
81 appeal to all workers, to all
those who have aided in the fight
against my own frame-up, not to
let the mill owners of the South
gain their ends and drown in blood
the heroic struggle of the Gastonla
textile workers. 1 appeal to every
worker with the slightest spark of
proletarian solidarity to bend all
energies to raising funds so that the
International Labor Defense may de-
feat the murderous designs of the
mill barons' courts.
"The smashing of the frame-ups
in Gastonia is blow against the
entire frame-up system, blow for
the freedom of every class war pris-
oner. Everyone must help. And in
New York City this week all work
ers must see to it that huge fund
for Gastonia defense is raised
through the tag days"
Mother BloOr on Tour.
Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor, vet
Gran of more than generation OF
labor battles and an executive board
member Of the National Miners
Union, is leaving Friday (June III
on a nationwide tour in behalf Of
the victims of the Gastonia frame
up. The tour is being conducted
under the auspices Of the Interpa-
tional Labor Defense, which is en-
gagged in big mass campaign to
raise funds for the defense of the
framed strikers, 16 of whom are
charged with murder.
Mother Bloor will start her tour
in philadelphia, where she will
sneak at mass meetings Friday and
Saturday and at a picnic Sunday.
Accompanying her throughout the
country will be two young textile
strikers, Binnie Green and Edgar
passmor Binnie Green is IA years
old and was a member of the strik-
ers' delegation to Washington sew
cral weeks ago. Passmor is
brother of Barney Passmor, lead
inc member of the strike commit
+ae who is one of those framed for
murder. =.
The rest of the itinerary OF
H. @,x,o ctyilror.