The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29

except in the socialist platform where 1t appears
merely afterthought. Both democratic and
republican parties uphold the whole infamous in
junction system, while the socialists merely utter
a pious wish for "the abolition of injunctions in
labor disputes" but glories capitalist class JUS
tice when 1t throws workers into Jail for violate
ing tnjunctions Magistrate Ewalds sentence of
left wing furriers in New York City to long terms
Of imprisonment. While the democrats forget
entirely about lynchng, the republicans and So
cialists propose honeyed anti-ynching legislation
with mention of the whole brutal system of
race discrimination and Jim Crowism. The
publcans in power have never adopted anti
lynching laws and the socialists brotherhood of
Pullman Porters), when the question has been
proposed concretely have Joined with the police
In securing the arrest of those raising this issue
(arrest and Imprisonment of Sol Harper New
York City,. Lynching outrages take place in re-
publican Indiana well as democratic Georgia.
The shading of difference therefore between the
democratic republican and socialist parties Is al
most imperceptible. Only the Communist Party
raises sharply the struggle for amnesty, for the
release Of all political prisoners for the right of
asylum, for the repeal of all criminal syndicalism
laws and similar oppressive anti-labor legisla-
ton, for full social economic and political equal
ity for Negro workers. for the right Of workers
self defense against the mob and police attacks
of labors class enemies.
The Communist Party struggles against the
boss class terror in all capitalist countries,
against fascism, for the right of the workers to
organize, strike and picket.
Being vitality interested a working class or
ganization in all above issues, the National Ex-
ecutive Committee OF the International Labor
Defense, therefore, endorses the United Front
Election Campaign of the Communist Party.
Support of the Communist Party election cam
paign, however must not be mere lip service.
It must be intensive effort to mobilize such
masses as can be reached by the International
Labor Defense for active struggle, especially in
the mines and mills, in the factories and on the
railroads. The election campaign offers the In
ternational Labor Defense the following ire
mendous opportunities:
First: To expose before the workers and
farmers the real character of the growing fascist
regime with its increasingly repressive measures
against the working class-deportation, police
terror, criminal syndicalism laws legislation
against the foreign born; to raise the demand for
asylum for all political refugees.
Second: Demands for the liberation Of the
imprisoned unemployed leaders March 6th) in
New York and Milwaukee.
Third: Raising especially before the workers
and poor farmers of the South the real meaning
Of the savage sentences to a living death i'm
posed the seven Gastonia textile strikers and
organizers, and the attempt to send to the cleo
trio chair six workers, including two Negro and
two women workers, at Atlanta, Georgia, with
numerous other arrests and vicious sentences i'm
posed in Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, the Caro-
Hnas, and Louisiana.
Fourth: Increasing struggle against lynching,
Jim -crowism, and increasing fight against the
barbarous chain gang system.
Fifth: To raise more theoretically the struggle
for the defense Of workers prosecuted under the
seditfon laws pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan Il
hnois, California, New Jersey, demanding the
immediate and unconditional liberation of Peltz
and Holmes, Muselin lima, and Resetar In Penn
sylvania; as well freedom for the Imperial
Valley victims of the California despotism
that is crushing out the lives of Mooney and
IfV1crC
Stromberg, to its dungeons for ten years.
Sixth: To raise before masses of workers
the hangman's role Of Yankee imperialism in
China, in India, and in Latin America. where the
machine gun diplomacy of the Washington gov
eminent has Joined in the murder of thousands
of struggling workers and peasants. and in the
colonies of Yankee imperialism.
Seventh: To champion actively the right
OF workers to organize, to strike to picket. To
intensity the demand for the right of legal ex-
istence of the Communist Party, the Trade Union
Unity League and its affiliated organizations and
all other militant organizations of the working
class, and to demand the right of self defense
against lynching mobs, organized gangsterism
and police attacks.
Eighth: To join in the demand for the recog-
milton and defense of the Soviet Union and the
struggle against the imperialist danger
Thus the International Labor Defense joins in
all election campaign demonstrations and
, meetings with its own speakers, slogans, htera-
ture and banners 1t organizes campaign meet
ings to which Communist candidates are invited.
1t moblizes its forces for general activities in the
election campaign collection of signatures to put
Communist candidates the ballot, distribution
and sale of literature organization and direction
of meetings, canvassng of voters work at the
polls, and the like). In order to amplify these
activities the National Executive Committee de-
cides the following:
First: That the October issue of the LABOR
DEFENDER feature the election campaign.
Second: That special pamphlet be issued
well suitable leaflets especially by the various
district organizations
Third: That this declaration be submitted to
the various District Committees as the basis for
the adoption of suitable resolutions on the cleo
ton campaign within their various jurisdictions
Participation in the election campaign should
be utilized fully for the purpose of BUILDING
THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE
INTO A MASS DEFENSE ORGANIZATION OF
THE WORKING CLASS.