The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-17
MASS MOVEMENT.
CROWS TO 81 OCK
BOSSES REVENGE
Drive On To Organize
the Unemployed
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looking the fact that he did his best
to run away from them.
Protest at New Center.

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The Charleston Workers Center was
opened here Friday with crowd of
go present at the beginning which
grew continually as the meeting
progressed. The workers turned
this occasion into protest move
ment against the arrest of the
elected representatives Of the un-
employed demonstrations on March
6, and demanded release for all of
them.
The descriptions of the demonstra-
tons, and the police attacks on them
were read from The Daily Worker
by one of the speakers.
The meeting was opened by Fred
Walsh, organizer of the Marine
Workers League and of the Inter
national Labor Defense; plans were
made to speed up organization
among the longshoremen.
To train new fighters in the class
struggle a Workers School is
opened in the new center. From
four to TX, daily, beginning tomor-
row, young workers between the
ages Of 10 and Is will have classes.
Older workers meet at the same
time, Wednesdays and Sundays. I'm
der the auspices of the LID, to
raise funds for the defense Of work
ers' leaders arrested, there will be
a package party, March rs, in the
new Center.
A workers jury is being elected
at union meetings and meetings, of
the unemployed that will sit in at
every session Of the court trying
Forter, Amter, Minor, Raymond and
Lesten. These meetings also adopt
resolutions and rally mass support
for them, demanding the release of
all arrested as result of the March
6 demonstrations. These meetings
likewise elect delegates to the New
York York City conference on un-
which meets March 27,
at the call of the Trade Union Unity
League and the unemployed coun-
ellis, three days after the fake trial
of the committee begins in Special
Sessions court. Everywhere dele
gates are being chosen for the ma
tional conference in New York on
March 20.
Yonkers Council of the Unemploy-
ed and the T.U.U.L. building trades
Council of the Unemployed met Sat-
urday.
Many Meetings.
Today, at II a. M, the Harlem
Council of the unemployed will meet,
there will also be unemployment
mass meetings at Marine Workers
League headquarters, 139 Broad ST.,
IL a. m. and at 27 East 4th st. The
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, the National Textile Work
ers Union, the Building Maintenance
Workers Union and others hold
for the same purposes to-
day.
In Milwaukee huge protest meet
ing is scheduled for tomorrow, at
Liberty Hall, p. M, Eighth and
Walnut. Milwaukee has So arrests
of its own to protest.
In Columbia Hall, Perth Amboy,
N. j., there was to be a protest and
meeting for the unem-
ployed yesterday which adopted res
olutions and promised support to the
delegates of the unemployed in New
York. Similar meetings were held
in Elizabeth and in Newark.
Block Boss Vengeance.
Functionaries of the New York
district of the LID. adopted reso-
luton, which the members of the
LID. will introduce into union and
workers fraternal organization
everywhere. 1t states:
"The March Sixth demonstrations
against unemployment were tremen-
dous mass notifications in defense
Of the interests of the whole working
class.
"The reply of the employers gov
eminent to these giant protests of
labor, to the thunderous demand
for work or full wages was the
arrests Of the March Sixth
fighters for the jobless in all sec
tons of the country.
"These hundreds of arrests fol-
lowed the concentration for capital
list class warfare against the work.
ers in all cities of armies of police,
on foot and on horseback, with ma
chine guns, armored cars and so So
called riot wagons.
"In New York City the Committee
of the Unemployed was arrested at
the City Hall when it attempted to
carry to Mayor Walker the demands
Of the 10000 workers demonstrate
ing in Union Square who had elected
the committee. The effort is now
being made to railroad to long terms
of imprisonment the members of the
unemployed delegation.
eve demand freedom for Foster,
Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten,
the members of the New York dele
cation of the March Sixth unem-
rloyed demonstration.
"We see in this capitalist class
against the March Sixth |
fighters for the unemployed the
growing attack of the boss class in
its efforts to outlaw the class strug-
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