The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
CALL WEIzENBE:R(3
MASS FUNERA
Jobless to Form Guard
of Honor

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Stirred by the cold-blooded muir
der of Herzel Weizenberg, and by
the threat of the police to prohibit
any demonstration, thousands of
militant workers are determined to
carry out a mass funeral for their
fallen comrade, regardless of the
permission of the city administra-
ton.
The delegates who are arriving
from every part of the country for
the Unemployed Convention on
July 4 and will form a guard of
honor for Weizenberg. The Com
munist Party of the Chicago Dis
trict issued the following statement
on the murder:
Saturday, July %, Herzel Wei
zenberg, member of the Trade
Union Unity League and the Com
munist Party, was brutally muir
dered by the hired gangsters of the
strike-breaking officialdom of the
Painters Union. Another worker,
also a member of the T. U. U. L.,
David Manhanna, was brutally
slugged and taken unconscious to
the hospital.
"The worker, Weizenberg, was
killed for distributing leaflet call
ing upon the painters, who are suf-
fering from unemployment and
heavy wage-cuts, to organize and
fight against unemployment and
wage-cuts. The leaflet called upon
the workers to support the candi-
date of the Progressive Group, John
Heindrickson, vice-president of Lo-
cal 275. This group works under
the guidance of the 7. U. U. L.
against the strike breaking Wallace.
"The killing of Comrade Weizen-
berg is part of the growing fascist
terror of the Thompson fascist city
administration. Of course, no one
can expect the police, allied with
the gangster world and under the
supervision of the city administra-
ton, controlled by the insult trac-
ton interests, to make even the
slightest attempt to prosecute those
responsible for Weizenberg's killing
and the smuggling of David Mahanna.
"The workers must build the
Trade Union Unity League as the
new revolutionary trade union cen
ter, which will organize them in
their struggles against the grow
ing unemployment and wage-cuts,
and in that way they can only be
successful if they carry on a most
decisive struggle against the fas-
cists and social-fascists Of the
American Federation of Labor. The
killing of Weizenherg, taking place
on the eve of the July 5 Unemploy-
ment Convention in Chicago, is SYM
bolical of the growing struggles of
the workers and the Importance Of
the July 5 Convention. The state
ment of Durkin, viee-president of
the Building Trades Council, urging
the police to prevent the July A
unemployed demonstration in Union
Park and breaking up the July 5
unemployed convention is one more
proof of the complete merger of
the strike-breaking officialdom of
the A. T. of l.. with the bosses and
police.
"The workers must answer the
killing of Weizenberg and the state
ment of Durkin with organizing
their self-defense corps.
"In the coming elections the
workers must support the Commu-
mist Party, as the only party which
organizes the workers in struggle
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OF .1-. w Inst the growing
war ia, 50,
Build the Trade Union Unity
League! Demonstrate on July a!
Elect delegates to the July 5 I'm
employed Convention! Bull your
defense corps! Fight against wage
cuts and speed-up! Demand work
or wages! Fight for social insur-
ance! White and Negro workers,
unite against your common enemy,
the bosses! Drive out the agents
of the bosses in the ranks of the
working class, the fascists and So
cial-fascists! Vote Communist!
Join the Communist Party! De-
fend the Soviet Union!"
The Trade Union Unity League,
of which Weizenberg was a men,
Der, also issued statement on the
murder of Weizenberg and the saw
age attack against the new revolu-
tionary trade union center.
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