The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-22
LOVESTONF, BALDWIN
WANT LIVING DEATH
FOR GASTONIA STRIKERS
Renegades Want to Make I. L. D. Responsible
For FALLING OF Strikers
Baldwin, With Shopkeepers Soul, Concerned
About the Ball. Not Workers

Lovestone and other renegade ele-
ments developed a most vicious at
tack on the working class policies
of the International Labor Defense,
that has continued down to the
present, and that now flares up
anew in an EFFORT to injure labor's
only working class defense organi-
cation. These elements raise their
petty bourgeois "frame-up" slogan
as against the working class strug-
gle for the right of self-defense,
upon which all of the defendants
were agreed. 1t is significant that
during the year and half Of Bit
ter struggle in the South, begin
ming with the Gastonia strike,
April 1, 1929 during which our or
ganization at Bessemer City, Ella
May, was shot through the heart
and killed by a mill owners mob;
during which our organizaer George
Saul, was sentenced to the chain
gang for attempting to hold
meeting; while another of our or
ganizers, Ann Burlak, now faces
the electric chair at Atlanta, Geor-
gia, for merely protesting to the
police against the breaking up of
a meeting, that during this entire
period there has not been a single
desertion of Importance from the
defense struggle under the leader
ship Of the international Labor De-
Tense, especially among the South
ern workers.
Renegades Back Bite.
As good lackeys of the capitalist
class these Lovestone clements con-
tinue in their efforts to shift the
burden of railroading these work
ers to long prison terms from the
capitalist courts to labor's defense
organizations. The International
Labor Defense, before the whole
working class, exposes this provo
cative role of the Lovestone lackeys
of capitalism who are trying to
provoke more extreme measures
by the capitalist courts, suggest
ing the revocation, refusing or
setting of prohibitive bail. Such
provocative attacks are made in
the face of the fact that long ago
the capitalist courts had already
developed unheard of tyrannies
against workers, such as the re-
fusal of bail to the New York I'm
employed Delegation, William z. /
Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Am
ter, Harry Raymond and Joseph
Lester; that holds six organizers
of the Agricultural Workers In
dustrial Union in Southern Cali
fornia without bail during the ap-
peal against the 42-year prison
sentences imposed against them;
that demanded $4,000 instead of
the usual $1,000 bail in the deport-
alton case of Gupido Serio, now
being held at kiss Island for de-
portation and death in Fascist
Italy; that at first refused bail to
the six Atlanta workers arrested
and charged with instruction"
for merely attempting to hold
meetings against unemployment
and lynching in Atlanta, Georgia,
the home of the Ku Klux Khan and
newly organized American Fascist
Association of Black Shirt League.
AS far as the bail is concerned.
only penny-pinching, petty shop
keepers's souls can make this the
prime issue. The working class
masses will understand very well
that the isue is not a measly few
dollars that were put up in bail
bonds. They will understand that
the isue is srores of years under
unspeakable prison conditions for
a few strikers who defend their
families and their tent colony
against the murderous attack of
drunken policemen and mill own
ers' thugs. 1t is true that indi-
vidual workers have contributed
out of their savings to the bail
fund. But we assure these that
the collective efforts of the mass
es of workers will succeed in re-
funding these contributions. The
international Labor Defense will
certainly be glad to give it's best
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