The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
Problems and Tasks of the.L D.

must not be permitted to obscure the class
struggle policies of the LID.
fhe Gastonia trial brought sharply into the
foreground the differences between policies
pursued by the LID. and the American Civil
Liberties Union The A.C.L.U. held aloof
from the Gastonia struggle, holding that it
was a murder trial and not a trial for opinion
the type of cases in which it is interested.
But its leading spokesman Joined in the claim
that the imprisoned workers were getting
flair trial' while spreading openly the prop
uganda that the policies of the LID. were en-
dangering the lives of the defendants, thus
actually helping to injure the defense activities.
The LID. greets whatever assistance and
cooperation is Forthcoming from the American
Civil Liberties Union and the American Fund
for Public Service, but insists that it's policies
must be carried through in the cases under
its direction.
There must be immediate mobilization
of the whole working class against the decision
of the North Carolina Supreme Court on the
appeal from the vicious sentences of Judge
Barnhll's court at Charlotte. The Fourth Ma
tional Convention of the LID. greets the pro-
posal Of. the Second National Convention of
the National Textile Workers Union for one
day strike of protest on April l against the
Gastonia prosecution and the threatening State
Supreme Court decision and against the whole
system of murderous exploitation Of the mill
slaves.
One of the most effective employers attacks
against the organization of the unorganized
and the growth of the class Struggle trade
unions is being developed by the use of the
criminal syndicalist laws that exist in 35 states.
The prosecution under these laws are serious,
not only because they carry heavy sentences,
but because. they strike at the most elemental
activities of class conscious labor 1t is neces-
sary not only to develop wave of protest
against the convictions secured but to launch
an effective counter offensive against this
whole phase of the master class attack.
Mobilization of labor in support of athe H.
linois and other developing strike struggles in
the mine fields under the leadership of the
National Miners Union becomes one of the
major tasks Of the Fourth LID Conference
increasing manifold what is already being done
The Fourth National Convention of the LID
calls for energetic support of the Shifrn and
Mineola defense.
Work Among Negroes
The merest beginnings have been achieved
in mobilizing and developing the struggles of
the LID. against the whole system of persec-
ution organized against the 100000 Negro.
workers and poor farmers, the most oppressed
section of the American population. The task
of the LID. is to become the militant and
energetic defense organization of the persec-
uted Negro masses.
While there has been great migration of
Negroes into the northern industrial areas,
the great bulk of the Negro population is still
to be found in the Southern states, victims
of lynching, jim-crowism, segregation in it's
worst forms, the most extreme determinations
which are, in the last analysis, methods of
class persecution
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sues arising out of race discrimination and be
more aggressive in resisting the prosecutions
resulting therefrom Every manifestation of
white chauvnsm must be energetcally COM
batted. Greater attention must also be given
to drawing Chinese, Japanese and Hindu work.
ers, into the general activities Of the organic
alton LID. branches, especially in the South,