The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
NOT MOB LAW COMMISSION
BUT WORKERS SOLIDARITY.

courage them TO continue their campaign of
brutal, bloody murder upon the Negro masses.
Section three deals with travelling and sub
sistence expenses, which means more graft and
fraud. Section four authorizes the commits
sion to hold hearings and administer oaths,
which is only the preliminary before giving
the lynchers the withdrawing, while section
five, the last section, calls for the appropria-
ton OF such funds as may be necessary to
carry out the provisions of this resolution"
which is the beginning of the process toward
the reaping of huge sums in graft, fraud and
corruption, while the unemployed workers
starve, and the blood-thirsty lynchers continue
their murderous terror against the Negro mass
es and the whole working class. 1t is evident
that there is nothing in the sections of this
resolution intmating thai the capitalist class
intends to do anything to stop lynching. This
must be expected. Capitalism lives and breeds
on lynching
Boss Terror.
The raDid increase of lyrLhing in the Unitel
States is integral part of the nationwide
campaign OF terror, perSe cution and murder,
conducted egainst the working class by the
employing caSs. And it is especially intensified
in this period OF mass ureE ployment, S1ecd-up,
wage cuts and war prepare tions. Since JAN
uary, 1880 is Negro w5rEers have been bru-
tally lynched by the bosses lynch mobs. At the
same TIME JepSeSSlNe measures are De.H1 uJll-
'zed in all sections If the country in an a tempt
to suppress the rising struggles of the work
ers for better working ard living conditions.
The sentencing IF IL workers in Imperial Val
ley, California, to AZ years each in prison; the
determination of the southern bosses and THEN
governments, the Ku klux Khan and other
fascist agencies to murder in the electric chair
six militant Negro and white workers in At
lanta, Ga; the vicious sentence to lit years
imposed upon the seven Gastonia strikers and
organizers, the ralroading to prison of Foster.
Minor, Amter and Raymond, the New York
Unemployed Delegation, for three years with
out the semblance of a trial, the imprison-
ment of scores of workers under the infamous
Criminal Syndicalst and Sedition Laws; the
outright murder of workers, Alfred Levy. Con
zalo Gonzales, New York; H. Weizenberg,
Chicago; the smashing up of workers meet
ings and demonstrations, and the wholesale
Imprisonment of hundreds of workers struggl-
ing for improved economic conditions, and the
growing persecution of foreign-born workers
all these together with ly,,ching are part of
the employing class frantic attempts to ter
rorize and plunge the toiling masses of Ne
gro and white workers into deeper slavery
and oppression-to lay tn full burden of the
economic crisis upon the bacFs of the working
class, and are part of their preparations for
dHOtNeT liHpSTlSnSI WhT against tnlS Nt.JuS
and ruthless persecution of lynching and ter
ror, the working class Negro and white
must organize, unite and rally all its strength
for decisive and relentless struggle.
The International Labor Defense, the only
militant WORKING class defense organization
in the United States which defends all workers
prosecuted because of their activities in behalf
of labor, is conducting rational campaign
against lynching. Profess heetings and dem.
onstrations against lynchirP have been AMI ire
being held in all sections of the country. Thou
sands of anti-Iynchng Leaflets are being dis
tributed. TIE International Labor DEFENSE
calls upon Negro, white. and all other worke s.
not to be mislei by the creation of fake CAPT
talist "Mob Law Commission " but to increase
one hundred fold their strvcgle against lynch
ing and all prosecutions of Negro workers, and
the whole working class. Not a "Mob Law
Commission" but the organized might and
power of the working class abolish lynch
ing and the whole vile lynch law system. Join
the International Labor Defense and let us go
forward into the struggle.