The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
Rr EVA LEDER.

WHITE terror in California especially In the
Southern part. is at its height, and only that
of the south can perhaps be compared with 1t.
Not demonstration passes by, not meeting
masses .bv. without violent clashes with the po-
lice and the Red Squad.
Especially since last Spring. after the 1Inper-
ial Valley affair the white terror in Southern
California has increased tremendously. The
bosses have absolutely decided to wipe our Party
out OF existence. Not only the Party. but the
whole of the revolutionary working class move
r,ent. in the city. Hynes has faithfully tried his
best to live up to his promise of last April no
more red demonstrations" although the work
crs Of Los Angeles have l1eroically, on many &C.
cssiors fought this attack Of the bosses.
The boss class Of Southern California has re-
sorted not only to legal" means In combating
the workers in their Struggle--the police, the
Red" Squad. the newspapers, the courts, the
radio, etc, but now is resorting TO eXtra-legal
means in it's onslaught against the masses 1t
is using Machado's methods-physical attacks,
planned for aSsaSSinations, If successful,
For the last six or seven months we have had
three such attacks, the last one being on Com
rade Bonehi Freedman, the Party organizer OF
Southern California Section Of District No. 10.
Attempt to Kill Freedman.
I Comrade Freedman walked home o'clock in
the evening on Saturday, Jan. IT. At O'Clock
he was due back at the same place where he
, was at g. to committee meeting. About 8
minutes after entering the house, he was con-
fronted with two men carrying shot-guns. They
looked straight into his face, quickly threw salt
in his eyes in order to blind him, so that he
would not be able 10 recognize them and with
a "this is for your disciplined Party" started
to give him the works"
Comrade Freedman was seriously beaten up,
was unconscious for many hours, and delirious for
a few days
"Dicks" were the words he would shout from
time to time, for like dicks looked the men that
beat him up Although the attack on Comrade
Freedman was meant to kill him, as in the other
cases. still there are good hopes that Comrade
Freedman will recover, and be able to again
serve the working class, serve our movement
However this will take some time!
Attack on Movement Must Be Fought
Firstly it must be understood that these Ma
chado-Hynes attacks are attacks against our
movement. 1t is not enough Tor the bosses TO
break up our meetings our demonstrations, to
fill the filthy rotten California jails with US,
to hand out savage sentences of 3 to AZ years,
all this is not sufficient they see that our move
rnent is not being wiped out, no matter now
strong their oppressive methods are, they think
individual terror Will do the job. They think
L6oy Will TOD EdILy VI D~oO Ao4SNo Ao~oi'st
will scare away the others, thus demorah1ng
our ranks and crush our movement.
OF course they are morons to think that. They
can never stop the struggle Of the workers, and
therefore our movement, by putting us into JAIL
by beating us up, by killing many Of US. Said
Lenin:
There are enemies who can be temporarily
beaten by a few defeats but who cannot be
annihilated by any forces, not even when re-