The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-03
H0N0RS FOR COP
KILLING KATOVIS
PART OF TERROR
Communist Party Calls
For Workers Answer

For Workers Answer
Stating that the exoneration of
the murder of Steve KatoYis, the
Communist fighter, by the Tam
many Walker Whalen police, was ex-
pected, the District Buro of the
Communist Party, District New
York, has issued the following state
ment:
"The Bronx County grand jury
at its session on Jan. 81 has exon
Grated police officer Kiritz for the
murder of Steve Katovis. No work
er could have any illusions as to
what the decision of the Bronx
County grand jury would be. The
grand jury composed of bankers and
business men had a specific func-
tion-to sanction the murder of
workers who fight on the picket line
for decent conditions.
1.-THE grand jury has put the
stamp of approval on the shooting
down of workers by the police, de-
tectives and gangsters. This is the
function of the capitalist court and
all other capitalist institutions,
which recognize that in this period
the workers will struggle and that
the police have their duty to per-
form-namely to murder the best
fighters of the working class.
What Courts Are For.
Nothing else must be expected
of capitalist court. At this per-
iod, when the workers are fighting
against the rotten conditions in the
shops, when they are demanding
shorter hours and higher wages
when they are demanding the right
to organize, strike and picket with
out interference of the police and
courts, when millions of workers are
unemployed the capitalist courts
and the police use their brutal pow
err to make an assault on the
workers.
"The capitalists disregard their
own mandates to such a degree that
although the injunction against the
strikers at Miller's Food Market,
where Steve Katovis was murdered
by the police, was vacated, two
women picketing for the Food
Clerks Union, were brutally beaten
up by the detectives.
1.-THE Communists have no illu-
sions and the workers must learn
from the current experiences. The
capitalist courts and police are for
the protection of the capitalists
against the fighting workers.
"The capitalist courts and police
are for the protection of the work.
ers who submit to the bosses. Thus
Walker has promised full police pro-
lection to the Schlesinger- Green In
ternational Ladies Garment Work
ers company union, which is calling
fake stoppage on Feb. 8. By pre-
arrangement with the authorities,
the traitors at the head of this or
ganization will be granted full po-
lice protection. The reason is clear:
This is a company union working
hand in hand with the dress manu-
facturers. But fighting workers are
shot down by the police.
1.-THE Bronx Grand Jury session
exposed the role of the American
Civil Liberties Union, which first
sanctioned the use of police violence
against the murder of Steve Ka-
tovis, and then appealed to the
hangmen's court to place response
bility upon the police who shot down
Steve Katovis.
Mighty Demonstration.
1.-THE Bronx County grand jury
exposed the social fascist role of
the socialist party which sees in the
shooting of Steve Katovis, the fight
ing worker, only mania of the
Communists to be martyrs.
1.-THE demonstration at the funeral
of Steve Katovis, which was a
mighty protest of New York work
ers not only against the savagery
of the police, but also demonstra-
ton against unemployment, against
the growing danger Of war, against
the breaking off Of relations Of the
Mexican fascist government with
the government Of the Soviet Union,
Is the answer that the workers Of
New York have given to the police,
the courts, the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, the socialist party
and the American Civil Liberties
| Union.
1.-THE workers have learned that
they can obtain their rights only by
fighting for them. The Communist
Party is mobilizing the workers for
this fight and the support giver
the Communists in this struggle Ia
the best and only answer.
"Steve Katovis, the first Commu.
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