The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11


police of an admitted spy to frame
up leading members of the Com
munist Party on serious charges
the wholesale arrests IN chicago as
part of the governments campaign
to outlaw the Communist Party in
this important industrial center; il
the murder of Ella May and the
Marion strike martyrs; in the new
attempts to charge the l. L. D. or
ganizer, Cliff Saylors, with the death
of the Gastonia chief of police, Alder
holt; with the repeated police mobili-
cations against all working class
demonstrations First of May,
Gastonia, the First of August, In
ternational Youth Day, Hayti, Cuba,
Mexico, etc, etc. resulting in bloody
beatings and arrests of workers; at
tempted registration of workers in
the shops New York shoe workers.;
proposed closing of immigration to
alien Communists and barring of
all revolutionary literature (tariff
act); special registration of workers
in the 1880 census, accompanied by a
whole series of petty prosecutions
and determinations. &
Fight the Lynch Mobs
Mass arrests and raids by govern
ment agencies, orgies Of violence by.
extra-legal organizations (the Ameri-
can Legion, the Ku KluX Khan, Sons
of American Freedom, etc, etc.,
attacks on workers and their organi-
cations by lynching mobs organized
by employers agents, like City
Solicitor Carpenter and Major Bull
Wrinkle at Gastonia, will characterize
this period in other sections of the
nation as well as in the South, call
ing for ever-increasing and strength
ened defense activities, for the or
ganization of Worker Defense Corps.
The Iong-deIayed recognition of
the fact that 1t must aUage u11re-
Ienting struggle against lynching, ,
that 1T must take up seriously the
fight against race discrimination,
that Negro aOorkers must be
dralOR in large numbers into all
ats leading bodies, burst with full
force upon the Pittsburgh conUen-
ton of the LID,
Hold Effective Demonstration.
1t was dramatized by an effective
demonstration against the Monoga-
hela Hotel, that had refused to house
Negro as well as white delegates.
The whole convention participated in
the protest.
The 25 Negro delegates, from
many states and all important in
dustries, entered into the convention
debates with enthusiasm, helping to
solve it's problems. The Southern
white delegates acclaimed the fact
that, "This is the first time we have
ever heard Negro woman make a
, speech"
The Graham Case at Norfolk.
Definite struggle for the Negro
workers had brought to the con-
vention the fight for Stephen
Graham, the young white worker
! of Norfolk, Va, charged with in
citing Negro workers against white
workers because he had brought
workers of both races together at
the same meeting and carried on
the work of organizing them into
the Trade Union Unity League.
Self-Defense on the Agenda.
1t was the first time that sup
port of labor's struggle to defend
itself had ever been placed squarely
before an LID. convention. 1t was
an outstanding slogan at Pittsburgh,
just as it will be a major issue in
all mass struggles to come.
| Self-defense, that took the field
against the Manville-Jenckes mob at
Gastonia, that was raised in the
Accorsi case, that will be raised in
the Shifrin case in New ork City,
was not on the agenda of the first
three conventions of the LID. 1t
has definite place there now.
Fights All Labor's Enemies.
Bqsing itself squarely on the
classstruggLe the International
Labor Defense takes ZIP the fight
against all enemies of the p0orking
class.
The LID. cannot tolerate as
members of its organization those
qoho are opposed to ats class strug-
gle policies. Alsf,g 1884
1t combats the hostile policies of
Cannon and Lovestone, viciously and
those who support them. The LID.
as class organization supports the
Union of Soviet Republics and joins
actively in the growing defense of
the Soviet Union. The theories of
Cannon and Lovestone and of those
at tacking and opening hostile to the
Soviet Power, undermining the Five
Year Plan. the victories of which
are already clearly apparent, seek
ing to build a Chinese wall between
the Soviet Government and the
worker and peasant masses declar-
ing that they have interests hostile
to each other, and negating the
creative power of the Proletarian
Revolution itself, constitute open
support of the counter-revolution of
the imperialist attack against the
First Workers Republic.
The LID. supports the policies
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