The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-28
By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

"RLOoDY" WHALEN, Wall Streets police
commissioner on the home front against
the working class, has announced through the
yellow press, that there will be extensive raids
against militant labor organizations, that for
eign-born workers will be arrested wholesale
and held for deportation and that other meas
ures will be taken ito "demoralize" prepare
tions for this years celebration of Interna-
tional May Day.
This new threat of intensifying the ven-
geance campaign of the capitalist class paral
lels the desperate resistance of the unstable
fascist relationships of Europe to the growing
rehabilitation of labor.
Struggles Against Imperialist Wars.
1t is here that the International Labor De-
tense enters as a bulwark of resistance to
capitalist oppression the shield of the work
ing class-although it also stands in the fore
front of the struggle championing all the de-
mands of International May Day.
The LID, as working class defense or
ganization supports the struggle against the
imperialist war, joins in the call to all labor
for the defense of the Soviet Union, helps
mobilize resistance to growing fascist and So
cial fascist attacks, and organizes the defense
of imprisoned jobless and employed in their
joint struggle for "Work or Wages!"
Bloody" Whalen's threats not new. They
grow out of capitalism's fear of militant labor
in all countries They are but part of the
growing terrorism with which the ruling class
in all countries seeks to meet the revolutionary
upsurge in capitalist colonial and semi-cooniaI
lands
Whalen and Siege.
Whalen has his blood brother in Siege, the
superintendent of police in Chicago, who has
sent his uniformed gunner against the head
quarters. of the Communist Party and other
organizations in the Chicago district, making
wholesale arrests without warrants, savagely
beating ad torturing prisoners in their cells
attacking workers who dared raise the slogans
of Eight for Social Insurance for all Workers!
Organize! Fight Against the Speed-up! De-
mand the 7hour day, 5-day week."
Whalcn fears that Siege, of Chicago, where
workers were slaughtered in 1886 when they
militantly raised the demand for the S-hour
day, has out-reached him in pungng his hands
into the blood of the working class.
Whaen fears that he has not earned the
blood feast that Wall Street is preparing for
him on May 9th, in clarifying the efficiency
of capitalist police oppression in the murder of
the strike picket Steve Katovs. the killing of
the anti-fascst worker, Gno Mazzola the
murderous attacks the March Sixth unem-
ployed demonstrations and other protest ga
therings Of the workers.
Liberties" Forgotten.
The. police preparations for May Day cannot
be separated from the year-around attacks on
the workers. On May Day, however, the capt.
talist rulers have special fear of the mighty
solidarity of the working class on it's holiday.
The police preparations for May Day are
characterized by attacks on revolutionary work
ers' organizations, by reducing to naught the
so-caled political liberties" freedom of as
sembly, freedom of speech and press, the right
to organize.
For demanding and attempting to enjoy
these rights the Unemployed Delegation Of
New York City, William z. Foster, Robert
Minor, Israel Amter, Joseph Lesten and Harry
Raymond, is now on Blackwell Island; M. H.