The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
.AT0vIS is DEAD
PROTEST TODAY!
All at City Hall, 1890,
Noon, Demonstration


are sending workers to prison for
long terms!
"The unemployed workers demand
unemployment insurance!
"We will fight against the coming
imperialist war!
"We will defend the Soviet Union
against the attacks of the imperial
ist American government!
'"The time has come for the work
ers to mobilize their forces to meet
the growing attacks, the growing
fascism,
Organize! Mobilize! Join and
build up the fighting organization
of the working class, the Communist
Party!
ANSWER the murder of our COM
rade by coming in thousands to the
monster protest demonstration at
ity Hall, Saturday at $780,
Uniformed thugs are also raiding
Headquarters of the Independent
Shoe Workers Union with drawn
guns, trying to break the militant
struggle of the workers. Against
this the whole labor movement of
New York must be aroused, says the
Communist Party. The socialist
party and the American Federation
of Labor are joined with the police
in making these attacks. 1t has
been established that Charles Solo
mon, one of the leading candidates
of the socialist party ticket of the
last election, was the lawyer who
obtained the injunction against the
Fruit Clerks Union in the Bronx.
under which injunction the shooting
into the picket line which resulted
in the wounding of a number Of
forkers took place.
In calls issued by the Needle
'rades Workers Industrial Union,
til Independent Shoe Workers
Union and the Cafeteria Branch of
the Amaigamated Food Workers
Union and others, all the members
Of these unions were called upon to
participate in the demonstration.
Workers are urged to obtain BAN
ners from their union headquarters
or from the district headquarters
of the Communist Party, 26 Union
Square, carrying their demands in
the demonstration. In leaflet is
sued yesterday in several tens OF
thousands of copies, the Communist
Party called upon all workers to
join in the demonstration under the
following slogans:
u. Labor demands the right to
picket-Down with injunetions.
"2. We demand unemployment
insurance-We demand old-age pen
sions.
"3. We demand the 5-day week
We demand the 7-hour day.
-. Free political prisoners.
rs. We demand political, social
and racial equality for the oppressed
Negro race.
IS. Equal pay for equal work--No
discrimination against women or
young workers. w
~. Organize against unemploy-
ment and against worsening condi-
tions-Join the Communist Party.
IS. Paragraph 500 means more
persecution against workers-Abol-
ish this paragraph through mass
struggle.
20. Down with police brutality.
80. All honor to Steve Katovis--
killed by the murderous bosses po-
lice. %
III. Stop the murderous attacks
Of the police on the workers-Or-
ganize for militant struggle.
: "12. Down with imperialist war
preparations.
"13. Defend the Soviet Union"
Call to Shoe Workers.
Fred Biedenkapp, general mana
ger of the Independent Shoe Work
ers Union, said yesterday:
"Tf,e mass demonstration tomor-
row against police brutality, labor
injunctions. wholesale arrests, ex.
horbitant bail in labor cases and de.
portation Of unwilling wage slaves
must receive the active support Of
every shoe worker. All these meas
urss OF oppression are used against
.hS sbos workers IN their present
fishs against the bosses lockout
program. which II the forsrunner Of
ihsiY policy Of wage slashing and
Ssllsw Dig contracts.
Shoe workers! Demonstrate, re-
s;st oppression, fight militantly for