The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

state capitol, where Alvin T. Fuller,
then multi-millionaire governor, sat
through the night when Scco and
Vanzetti were burned alive in the
electric chair at the Charleston State
Prison, refusing to intervene in an
Swer to the protests of millions Of
workers throughout the world, thou
sands of workers gathered on Satur-
day afternoon in THE Commons" I'M
der the leadership of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. Chief of Po-
lice Crowley, with large numbers of
uniformed and plain clothes police,
were present, but did not interfere
with the gathering, which was ad-
dressed by ]. Louis Engdahl, general
secretary of the I. L. D.; Harry Cam
ter, Boston district organizer; Sam
Reed, representing the Communist
Party, Mark Lieberman, for the
Young Communist League, and A. A.
Colebrooke, for the ScottSboro United
Front Conference. Within recent
months all efforts to hold demon
STATIONS on 'The Commons" had
been broken up through bloody po-
lice attacks.
kilograms of protest and demand
ing the release Of the prisoners in
California, Alabama and Kentucky.
were sent to the governors of these
states.
NEW YORK. on Saturday
attacked the Sacco- Vanzetti and Am
nesty Day demonstration in Browns
vile, tearing the banners and slo-
gans from the hands of the workers
and clubbing several workers.
The attack occurred when the
workers started their parade follow
ing the mass meeting at Pennsylva-
MIA and Suffer AYES In spite of the
attack, the workers carried out their
plan Of marching to Saratoga and
Pitkin AYES, where the main dem
onstration was held
The largest demonstration in the
city occurred in Madison Square.
where several thousand gathered
after march from Bryant Park
In South Brooklyn a demonstra-
ton of 1000 workers was held in
Tompkins Square.
The Harlem demonstration, held in
Mount Morris Park, was attended by
sveral thousand Negro and white
workers. The parades converged on
the park, one starting at Tooth st.
and the larger parade beginning at
140th St. and Eighth Ave. and
marching through the Negro section
to Mount Morris Park.
The demonstrations were enthusi-
astic. Hundreds of banners and slo-
gans denounced the boss terror
against the working class, the frame
up and sentencing Of Tom Mooney
and Warren K. Billings, the at
tempted legal lynching Of the nine
Scottsboro Negro boys. the massacre
Of Camp Hill, Alabama. Negro crop
pers, by the landowners and police
Of Tallapoosa County, Alabama. the
railroading to Jail of the Imperial
Valley strike leaders, the murderous
terror against the striking miners
with the framing of hundreds of
their leaders.
The demonstrations unanimously
adopted demands for amnesty to all
class-war prisoners, for the release
of the Scottsboro and Camp Hill VIC
TINS and of the mine strikers. Reso-
lutions were also adopted denouncing
the bosses lynch terror against the
Negro workers, the deportation Of
militants and strike
leaders.
NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 23.-One
thousand workers demonstrated here
Saturday at the Military Park, In
of the murder of
Sacco and Vanzetti and for the de-
mand of amnesty to all class war
prisoners and the release of the
framed-up nine Scottsboro Negro
boys.
The enthusiastic workers we're adj
dressed by speakers from the Inter
national Labor Defense. the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, and
the Communist Party.