The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-29
$4,000 WORKERS
PROTEST MURDER
Biggest Demonstration
at Katovis Funeral

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Millers Market, 161st st. and Union
Ave-, Bronx, struck by the Food
Clerks Union. The greatest demon
straton of workers ever seen in New
York was this one: against police
brutality, against unemployment
against imperialist war, for the de-
tense of the Soviet Union and for
the overthrow of capitalism.
Speakers from three red draped
platforms at Union Square and a
hand bill distributed in thousands of
copies to the huge crowd told of the
deeper meaning of the killing of Ka-
tovis, and Of the demonstration I'm
employment grips the whole world;
100000 tramp the streets looking
for work in the United States alone,
and the employers are crushing the
workers down to deeper depths of
misery, throwing millions out OF
employment, cutting wages, and try
ing to smash all workers organiza-
tons.
1t is no accident, speakers pointed
out, that the state power, the police
and the courts especially, at this
time concentrate their fury against
the workers, killing and imprisoning
them, as Katovis, Ella May. the
Marion strikers were killed, as the
Gastonia defendants were sentenced
to 20 year terms, in order to try and
break the resistance of the militant
workers. One after another, repre-
sentatives of the Communist Party,
the Young Communist League, the
National Textile Workers Union,
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, Independent Shoe Workers,
Food Workers Union, Labor Sports
Union and many others, pledged in
creased resistance, pledged a thou
sand more men for each worker fall
len in battle.
The crowd voted in thousands, a
forest Of raised hands, many with
clenched fists, to join the revolu-
tionary movement to take the
place of Katovis, murdered by the
police.
"Symbol of Capitalism"
"The most appropriate symbol of
the capitalist state" said Robert
Minor, speaking although still I'M
steady on his feet from the terrible
clubbing he received from Whalen's
thugs at the Saturday demonstra-
ton in City Hall Park, ais a police
man shooting striker in the back
as aKtovis was killed"
Among the speakers were Israel
Amter, New York district organizer
of the Communist Party, who called
on all to join the Party and fight
through to victory; Mary Adams,
Negro worker, Fred Biedenkapp,
general manager of the Shoe Work
ers; j. Louis Engdahl, national sec
rotary Of the International Labor
Defense; Gilbert Green, New York
district organizer of the Dung Com
munist League, Sam Nessin, New
York secretary of the LID; George
Siskind, New ork district secretary
of the T.U.U.L.; Ben Wells, kidnap-
ped and flogged by the mill owners
gangs in North Carolina; Doom
Ping, Chinese Worker and Commu-
mist; Otto Hall, Negro worker, and
director of Negro organization in
the Communist Party; Rose Wortis,
of the N.T.W.I.U., and Sophie Mel
vim, Of the National Textile Workers
Union, introduced as one saved from
the electric chair in the Gastonia
trial by the power of organized labor
and Mike Obermeier of the Cafeteria
Workers.
''Died Fighting Communist"
The leaflet distributed by the
Communist Party stated:
Steve KatOvis, the worker, the
Communist, murdered by the po-
lice of New York, died fighting
Communist on the firing line in
the cause of the working class.
''Stege Katovis died in the fight
of the workers of this city.
''TO organize into militant indus
trial unions.
ITO strike and picket without
interference of courts and police.
ITO organize the unemployed to
demand work or relief.
ITO fight against the coming
war.