The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-28
May Day and the International
Labor Defense

Powers and j. c. Carr, organizers Of the Com
munist Party and the Young Communist
League, are facing death sentences in Georgia;
lib workers are threatened under the sedition
laws with 1,105 years imprisonment (some of
these are already in PRISON.; hundreds are fac"
ing deportation, others are being framed up and
rairoaded to chain gangs, jails and prisons on
the most ridiculous and far-fetched charges.
Sedition laws in IS states in this country
take the place of new oppressive laws being
prepared by other capitalist governments, such
as the German Flaw for safeguarding the Re-
public the "Ant-Terror Law" in Austria,
the "AntiCommunst Law" in Greece, to men,
ton only a few. The so-called Fright of asy-
lum" has been completely abolished, the United
States Government itself becoming the blood
hound of foreign fascist relationships (revoca-
ton OF citizenship and deportation proceedings
against the Hungarian worker in Pittsburgh,
Tapolscani), running down. victims for foreign
oppressors to put before their firing squads.
These are the weapons with which Whalen
Siege and other police chiefs threaten workers
on the eve of this International May Day,
while on May Day itself the most extensive
police notifications are planned for capitalist
class warfare against the workers.
The demand for the release of all class-war
prisoners is basic demand. 1t is raised for
N~SeSiii%
the decision of the North Carolina State Su-
preme Court, as well as for Mooney and Bill
lngs; Tor M. Fl. Powers and Joe Carr, charged
with lnsurrectlon and facing death in the cleo
trio chair in Georgia, as well as the Centralia
prisoners in Washington; for the Chester and
Woodlawn prisoners in Pennsylvania.
The Struggle Against Terrorism.
Statistics, which are incomplete, gathered byj
the world organization of the international La
Dor Defense, show that in 70 countries during
1929 there were 9449S workers murdered, 81
1874 workers injured in various struggles, thru
the bloody capitalist suppression of the upris-
ngs of the workers, demonstrations, meetings
and gatherings of various kinds.
During the same period there were S1,57S
workers arrested; $50 deportations; 56,564
searches made by the police; 1,541 bans on
meetings and organizations, while there were
497 prohibitions against the publication of
periodicals of various kinds.
In 5O countries there were total Of 1856
political trials resulting in sentences being
passed against 1916 individuals. Of these, g.
322 were sentenced to death, Sc to life i'm
prisonment, while sentences were imposed upon
others totalling 12,4l2 years imprisonment.
This international Nav Dav witnesses ~
preparations of outstanding financiers and in
dustrialists for Testimonial banquet" to
Dioouy VHdleH oH Way oCn because OF MIS-
efficiency" in making war on workers in New
Yory City.
This bloody feast is nothing less than Wall
Street imperaism's Qualification of the legal
murder of tens of thousands of workers in
scores OF lands, the sending of thousands Of
workers to endless years of Imprisonment,
since in many capitalist lands it is the Yankee
dollar that dominates governmental policies,
especially in colonial and semi-colonial coun-
tries. This is most true Of Latin American
countries.
The International Labor Defense on this
years May Day raises mighter than ever the
demand for increasing resistance to the grow
ing terrorism of Yankee Imperialism in all
lands. No death sentences No prison sem
fences! Release the class war prisonersl