The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
TERROR FAILSTO
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San Antonio, Angeles
Workers Defy Cops
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| ana trying 10 arrest them. They ar
rested Geo. Papcm but had to re-
lease him because of the workers
response.
Then the police surrounded Turner
Hall and would not allow over 1000
workers to come into the hall The
Party modified these workers and
they marched to the Workers Cen
ter, though the Workers Center is
about Is blocks away.
The hall was crowded, many work.
ers had to stand on the stairs and
on the street below and listen to the
speakers defy the police and explain
the program of the Communist Par
ty. The workers were composed of
Negroes, MexicanS and white. This
is an accomplishment for the Party
in the southwest and especially in
San Antonio, as for the first time
the Party was able to bring out the
white and Negro and Mexican work.
ers to its mass meeting in such a
mass. The police wanted to break
up the meeting at the Workers Cen
ter but they dared not do it, because
of the feeling among the workers
who were determined to give battle
to ensure the holding of the Lenin
Memorial Meeting.
Comrade Alma KrauSe, secretary
of the Unit, opened up the meeting
and acted as chairman. Joe Muir
ply, a worker, VISA the next speak
er, explaining the lessons that Lenin
had taught the workers and also told
OF the life of the great leader. George
Papcun spoke. exposing the police
and the city officials, callings on the
workers to organize.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.-Despite
police intervention, 900 workers rail-
lied to the Cooperative Center at a
mass Lenin Memorial meeting, cheer
ing Lenin and the Communist In
ternational The workers pledged a
ten-fold increase in their activities
on behalf of the Unemployment In
surance Bill and the February 10th
national unemployment demonstra-
ton.
The carly mobilization of the
workers for the Lenin Memorial
meeting called forth heavily armed
police forces, closing off the Turn
verien Hall, the place originally ad-
vertised for the meeting. All sides
to the hall entrance were blocked by
scores of police.
Tom Ray, the chairman of the
meeting, was just bailed out of
prison. He has broken arm in a
sling as the result of the Hunger
March. He received a great ovation
from all present. The workers re-
solved to rally wide masses against
the fascist and police terror shown
in the smuggling of organizer Fried
man and the raiding and closing of
the Turnverien Hall. The manage
ment of the Turnverien Hall an
nounced today that the police Or
dered the closing of the Turnverien
Hall which was engaged for a Fos-
ter meeting, stating. at is plumb
suicide to hold the meeting" and TO
defy the police and their hackers,
adding that the hall was available
for the socialist party, the A. F. OF
l. but not for the Communist Party
or the Trade Union Unity League.
Secretary Buzzell of the A. F. OF
L Labor Council, speaking before the
American Bar Association Thursday
night, together with the professional
patriot, Smith. of the Better Amer
lean Federation, praised the A. F. OF
l.. as the mainstay OF the capitalist
government in the fight against
Communism.
The Lenin Memorial Meeting al
the Workers Center closed with
cheering and the pledge OF the un-
employed TO organize for fight fol
relief, as well as pledges to build the
revolutionary unions among the agri-
cultural workers. Unanimous reso,
lutions were passed to extend the
fight for the release OF the impris.
oned Imperial Valley organizers.
OMAHA. Neb., Jan. 25.-Johr
Dawson, Party organizer in Omaha
Nebraska, was arrested Wednesday
just two hours before the Lenir
Memorial meeting. Immediate ef.
forts to bail Dawson were turned
down and he is. being held under the
pretext of Investigation. The ar.
rest was an obvious move to destroy
the Ienin memorial meeting. But il
failed miserably, and the meeting
turned out to be the most success.
ful Lenin Memorial ever held III
| Omaha.
Comrade Paul Cline, district or
ganizer Of the Party, was the nsir
speaker, and William j. Patton acted
as chairman.
Close to 200 people made UP ca
pacity audience. Nine workers Joined
the Party.