The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-28
MASS FUNERAL
OF KAT0VIS, II
4. Mr union SO.
Communist Party Calls
All to Attend
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of the uniformed thugs who killed
Steve Katovis and brutally assault
ed the thousands of workers who
Saturday at the City Hall, protested
shooting down of workers, the plans
for mass funeral today went on.
Whalen intimates strongly that he
will send his club wielders to attack
the funeral. The International La
Dor Defense formally notified the
police department of the line of
march.
Funeral At IL A. NJ.
The District Office of the Com
munist Party announced yesterday
that all workers will gather at II
o'clock at Union Square where from
two platforms all workers and rep
resentatives of militant workers or
CARNATIONS of New York will pay
their respects to their heroic COM
rade, Katovis, brutally murdered by
the police while he was on picket
duty in the Bronx. At the conclu-
sion of the meeting the body will be
taken from the Workers Center and
the procession will march up Broad
way to 21st St., cross-town on 21st
st. to 7th Ave, then north on It'll
Ave. to 10th st. From there all
will proceed. From 40th ST. work
ers who do not have other transpor-
tation facilities provided for them
can take the BIN. T. at Times
Square, transfer at Union Square
for the 18th st. Canarsie line and
get off at Grand st. station. There
take Roosevelt Ave-, Corona Heights
or Maspeth, L. l., trolley to the Mt.
Olivet Cemetery.
All Leave Work.
In an appeal issued by 1. Amter,
district organizer of the Communist
Party, all workers were called upon
to take off from work during the
time of the burial so as to partici-
pate in the meeting and procession.
Young Communist League members
are called upon to come in their
uniforms. Militant and revolution
airy labor organizations are urged
to send delegations with banners. A
guard of honor as announced at the
office of the district organizer yes
terday is as follows: I. Amter, H.
Benjamin, S. Darcy, A. Edwards, H.
Feinstein, Olga Gold, Gilbert Green,
G. Hynes, Otto Hall, A. Ivanoff,
Charles Katovis, l. Moore, Sam Mes
sin, N. Obermeier, I. Potash, D.
Rivera, H. SAFER, S. Siskind, George
Siskind, Jack Schneider.
The meeting in Union Square will
be conducted from two platforms
which will be under the chairman
ship of Comrades Sam Darcy and
Herbert Benjamin. The speakers
will be as follows: M. Adams, I.
Amter, Fred Biedenkapp, J. Louis
Engdahl, Gilbert Green, Robert Min
or, S. Nessin, George Siskind, Ben
Wells, Sam Weissman and Rose
Wortis.
The statement of the Communist
Party reads in part as follows: "The
completely of the socialist party in
the murder of Comrade Katovis is
becoming daily more clear. First it
became known that Charles Solo
mon, socialist attorney and candi-
date for comptroller of the socialist
party in the last municipal election,
obtained the injunction against
picketing under the authority of
which the police murdered Steve
Katovis. Now Norman Thomas in
a cheap imitation of disgustingly
cheap statement made by Herbert
Hoover, attempts to pass off" the
murder of Comrade Katovis and the
demonstration of the thousands of
workers against this murder as "a
mania for martyrdom on the part of
the Communists Only low, cow
ardly socialist preacher typical of
the political scavengers allied with
the bosses and the rotten New York
Tammany machine could treat the
murder of workers so cynically. The
many thousands of workers who will
participate in the demonstration to-
day viii fittingly answer the at
tempt of Norman Thomas and his
crew to make their ghoul;sh dance
at the grave of one of our dead
comrades"
IT will avenge the death of my
brother by joining the ranks and
fighting with the militant workers
for whom he gave his life"
This statement was made yester-
day by Charles Katovis, a food
worker in Jersey City, who came to
the New York district of the Inter
national Labor Defense and signed
up with the defense organization.
He is a brother of Steve Katovis,
whose body lies in the Workers
Center, awaiting burial to-day.
Part of Terror Program
The international Labor Defense
has addressed a statement to all
workers, saying:
''The International Labor Defense
calls on all it's members and sympa-
thizers to help mobilize the toiling
masses of New York City for Tues
days funeral Of the murdered
worker, Steve Katovis, developing
it into a giant demonstration
against the police brutality that
took the life Of our martyred COM
rade, that tried to hide its own