The daily worker., 1930-06-12
IMPERIAL VALLEY CRIMINAL
SYNDICALISM CASE

shed that was destroyed would not send out
any cantaloupes." '"This is another of the
damned sheds that ought to be blown sky
ward" Zone of these days we will blow
this God-damned Jail and City Hall skywards
and take these officials and we wouldn't
bother to put them into jail" "lf neces-
sary, we will wipe out whole cities" Oscar
Ericsson, national secretary of the ANVIL. is
charged with having asked the stool pigeons
for poisoned dope or tear gas" for use in the
strike The Holy Trinity of stool pigeons af
firm that "the purpose of this strike was to
overthrow the present capitalistic system of
government" and that the mass arrests on
April 14th were to prevent 1.-The start of hos
tile activities, when sheds would be destroyed,
fields would be destroyed and human lives
would be taken" And to give local color to
this delrious dream, bridge was blown up
in Imperial Valley only recently, and will un-
doubtedly be thrown into the evidence against
the ten defendants.
Going Matthew WOll One Better.
VOLTS fairy story of Bill Foster bringing
into the country million and a quarter dol
lars of Russian gold is dished up in improved
Imperial Valley style A defendant is charged
with saying: MANY think this is a lot of
money, but when you divide it up in all the
different headquarters and districts out of
New York, and it is there used, it didn't
each individual
The black oath! Doesn't it make a cold
shiver run up and down your spine! The
black oathl "The oath that new members
take when they join the Communist Party"
One stool pigeon didn't take it, but he knew
the other one did. But the other one couldn't
get it all, there was so much talking going
on at the time at was hard to get the en-
tire oath, but the gist of the oath is to turn
against and overthrow the government, that
the different unions, the T.U.U.L, the LID
and the Agricultural Workers and so forth
were to be used as gun fodder in the revolu-
ton. That we owe no allegiance to the Amer
lean flag. We are under oaths to the Party
to go off and where they see fit to send us
regardless of position, financial standing or
anything else. The, Party work must go
first"
And of course, the flag has to be dragged
in, just as in the C. S. cases of 1919 to 1924
Whenever one of the defendants Amer
lean flag anywhere, said the stool-pigeons, he
would in true real life Immediately mutter:
81 would like to tear that goddamned piece of
rag down and put red flag in its place"
The suitcase of a defendant is opened, and 10
and behold, red flag is found there! The
prosecutor will wrap himself around the Amer
lean flag, to protect it from the foul villains
who would trample its purity in the mud
The T.U.U.L. and the Communist Party are
the same thing, say the stool pigeons. The
T.U.U.L. was a temporary form of organiza-
ton for gathering workers to overthrow the
government" they said. "The TU.UL. is af-
fliated with the R.I.L,U, the Communist Par
ty of Moscow" And the Daily Worker and
Labor Unity! Horrors! "They call Hoover
liar" Among the exhibits which will be used
against the defendants "Why Every Work
or RpcnD1e Communism A
B. c. of Communism"
Far Away, But Yet So Near.
The evidence in the Grand jury Investiga-
ton is just one tissue Of lies, by few degen-
crates in the employ of the master class, On
their imagination, the state will try to convict
ten of the most active workers in the state of
California. If they succeed, it means spread
ing of similar cases all over the state of
California. What can be expected from the
jury? Already in the Impartial Grand Jury
Investigation, a juror, after hearing about
Communist pamphlets and newspapers said:
at seems to me the government Of the United
States, they know all about this literature
through the mail, | can't figure out how the
laws of the United States would permit them"
Another juror, referring to the Communist
Party headquarters in Los Angeles, asked
"Why don't they close them up?" Capitalist
justice!
The Imperial valley case is not isolated.
Over the radio last night, announcement was
made of government agents investigating the
activities of the Communist Party The state
and government will strive to convict others
under the same C. S. Act if they get away
with their drive in the Valley. Only mass pres
sure can secure acquital in the Imperial
Valley case. Because it signifies the revival of
the criminal syndicalst prosecutions in Cali
fornia, because of its aim to prevent the or
ganization of the agricultural workers in I'm
peral Valley, because it involves colonial work
ers, Mexican, Filipino, well as japanese and
American, this case is of national Importance.
The case may be far off geographically from
the rest of the country but this requires all
the more energy for it through the entire
country Workers organizations from all over
the U. S. A. should Immediately start move
ment for the release of the workers on trial in
Imperial Valley, and send kilograms to the
Defendants, Criminal Case, Court House, Ell
! Centre, California.