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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-04
Some Recent Victories and Unsolved
Problems of the LID.

elsewhere. The same condition eX-
lists, more or less, in all other cases
and in the localities.
This problem must be solved. 1t
can and will be solved, by the same
means which are necessary to build
and strengthen the l. l.. D. in all
phases of its work, as a broad
mass non-party defense movement.
First of all, the I. L. D. must
be given capable leading forces
from its supporting affiliated or
CARNATIONS.
Second, nationally and locally the
I. L. D. Committees must be en-
larged, drawing in the best sup
portsrs, mainly workers, but also
sympathizers of whatever origin.
The majority of all committees
should be loyal non-party workers
who will fight and work for the
1. L. D.
Third all supporting organiza-
lions must really affiliate to the
I. L. D. and give it regular finan-
cial support, seding delegates to its
committees and conferences.
Fifth, mass collections for the
I. L. D. campaigns and cases, and
for relief of prisoners and their de-
pendents, must be carried into every
shop, factory, fine, workers club
and organization. The dimes, nick
els and pennies of the workers
must be drawn into mighty
stream of defense for the class
war victims.
Sixth, the most exact financial
responsibility and accounting of all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-04
Adding Bloody Insult to
Mnrderons Injury

FIRST they them military
battle of Pennsylvania Avenue Washington
the
wounded killed outright
succmbed
otherwise than by They remained
starvation
recognized detachment of the working fighting
4.A.. ,
Violence to the But violence
entire country They took
tast atackswith clenched fists The had
his mdeos workers and veterans their
ranks firmly in face of the armed attack.
which also be accorded the of the
With military bugles screeched
scented the Of the William
soldiers killed
The that
presented" at the
both at the killing a IGNORING" .
What mockcryi What devilsh INSULT
did they performance? Did they
but who did
throwing
Did they
after they killed its members alleged
the illusions feeding
that the fighters
nation?
only
hatred of the and bonus march against
fighting
indignation the ong
the buges will be
rapng
capitalism, for bread for unemployment
the OF the for making the CAPITALISTS
,.ad the Of and estasDs
fsrmey government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-04
The Hoover>Green 5 Day
Week Proposal

As the shapens the Hoover
with
the workers.
the
form of the week and sxhor day. What is in
of the the Socialist
immed-
relief the of the
Secondly it being for
speeding further
their
estimates the President and his advisers the
sixhour day would put 100000
this would still
completely and millions
part this be the case,
would that all workers fully
would their cut down by than onehd
all would
result employment
workers be constantly
actually Through speeding
up production capitalists the
get out hour day
That this be from study
mining textile other industries
the crisis That this scheme confined
to the everywhere
capitalists results from the
Sesian coaleIds There
the socialist
14oo unemployed miners through forced onemonh
still employed
with what below itself:
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ser received an immediate parole.
The blocking of the Imperial Val-
ley militants' freedom goes together,
with the blocking of the freedom
of Tom Mooney and Billings for
Is years in prison because they
served their class. In turn these
acts of cruel oppression are but a
part of the whole vicious system of
boss-terror, most glaringly express
ed in the attempts to burn the
Scottsboro boys, the mob and legal
lynch-law-rule over the Negro
masses, the murder, clubbing, gas
sing, and falling of unemployed,
and, more recently, the bestial at
tack upon the war vets. Under the
leadership of the LID the Amer
lean masses are putting up a stiff
fight against the boss terror with
telling effect. The Scottsboro boys
have been so far saved from death;
so was Orphan Jones, Q Negro
worker framed by tho Southern
lynchers.
The LID is on the job in the I'm.
perial Valley case! 1t conducts .
militant fight to compel the Valley
barons to let go of their victims.
The LID calls upon workers or.
CARNATIONS, unions, fraternal, lib.
eral and progressive groups and in
dividuals to act Immediately and
send wires to Gov. James Rolph.
Jr., Sacramento, Calf; Charles
Neumiller, Chairman Board Of
Terms and Paroles, San Quentin.
Calf.
These wires must demand the
immediate release of Sklar, Hori.
uchi, Erickson, Roxas and Emery.
Also wires to Secretary Doak, at
Washington, D. c., demanding inn
mediate dismissal of deportation
charges ag@inst Sklar and Hori-
uchi, held in folsom.
In addition, the LID appeals to
all workers organizations and in
dividussls TO aid with funds it bad
~ and Immediately needs to fight
for the Imperial Valley militants.
Rush donations at once to the
International Labor Defense, so E.
18th ST., Room 43O, New York City.
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Valley Barons Hold
Their Victims
Trying to Rob Masses of Hard Earned
Victory

ANA, respectively, after serving 10
months. In the cases of Sklar and
Horiuchi, who we're victinized from |
the start by confinement in Folsom
"a medieval bastille for tough
criminals" the boards decision was
to release the prisoners on July
10, 1882 into the custody of the I'm.
migration authorities" This meant
for Horiuchi death at the hands
of Japan's fascist government, for
Sklar, indefinite stay in Folsom.
A Russian by birth, Sklar is not
deportable because of absence Of
relations with the U.S.SR.
Valley Barons at Work
The lid answered all the legal
requirements on Ericksons and
Roxas's paroles, securing guran.
tees of jobs outside. Ed. White,
the parole officer acting under his
bosses Instructions refused to OK. !
the jobs. In his talk with the Cal.
ifornia LID representative he re.
fused to OK. any job within the
state, adding che has no desire tol
repeat the 'Spector affair of last
year, who was given chance tol
get out of San Quentin and who
Immediately began to shoot his
mouth Off" Here he clearly ex-
pressed the bosses fear of the mil.
liant policy of the LID.
Graft Ridden Parole System
Over 1000 paroled prisoners in
San Quentin and Folsom rot away
in prison-unable to get jobs OUT
SIDE. Through an established graft
system the parole authorities OK.
dummy jobs for prisoners with
well-off relatives outside. During
my stay in San Quentin, at one
time the whole prison was rocking
with laughter at the clumsy graft
methods of the administration.
Lesser, a rich San Francisco con-
tractor, landed in San Quentin in
a huge bribery scandal involving
millions. To be sure, his sentence
was nothing to five" the small
est sentence for felons. Such cases
usually come up before The board
after 14-15 months. To make pos
sible the speedy termination of Les
ser's embarrassment "the board
suddenly announced decision to
consider number of nothing to
five cases." Joy reigned in the
camp of 'fivers." But it did not
last long. About a dozen convicts
were taken up including Mr.. Lesser.
The petty thieves received two to
three Oh five year sentences. Les
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-04
BY FRANK sPECTOR.


July 18th was the day when@the
' Imperial Valley prisoners, Oscar
Erickson, Danny Roxas, Carl Sklar,
and Tsuji Horiuchi were to leave
the stone walls of San Quentin and
Folsom prisons where Mooney and
Billings have been rotting for the
last is years. That they were to be
released was the decision of the
California State Board of Terms
and Paroles, made under the ter
rifle mass pressure of the campaign
led by the International Labor De-
Tense. To date, however, the four
militants are still in Jail. The
bloody hands of the American Fruit
Growers Association and the United
Fruit Company, the owners of the
Imperial Valley-are at work to rob
the masses of their hard-won VIC
tory in this historic case.
AZ Years for Striking
Eight militant workers, Oscar
Erickson and Lawrence Emery, ma
tive of California, Danny Roxas, a
Filipino, Eduardo Herrera, Braulio
Orozco, Latin American workers;
TSuji Horiuchi, a Japanese worker;
Carl Sklar and Frank Spector, were
sentenced in June, 1880 under the
Criminal Syndicalism Law to AZ
years in San Quentin and Folsom.
They led the Imperial Valley
workers-Mexican, Filipino, Negro
and native melon and lettuce pick
ers and packers in their revolt
against slave conditions bruta
contract system that robbed the
workers of their beggary wages and
condemned them to horrible living
conditions.
The whole weight of the govern
ment apparatus, from federal to
county, aided by the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company, with it's
imported scabs and gunner from
Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas,
was brought down to crush the
workers leader, the Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union, and to
smash the workers attempt to i'm
prove their inhuman conditions.
Bosses Efforts Checked by LID
On September 10, only a few
weeks after the eight Imperial VAL
ley militants were shipped to San
Quentin and Folsom, the trial
judge, v. Thompson, servile tool
of the valley bosses, wrote to the
Prison Board of Terms and Par
oles as follows:
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"The Court condisers the de-
PENDANTS of no use or benefit
whatever, but on the contrary a
decided menace and detriment to
society and civilization in gen.
eral; that under the circum-
stances any prison term less than
life for each defendant is quite
moderate.
ut is therefore recommc;- lied
and urged by the court tina. the
defendants be imprisoned for the
maximum time provided by law
upon the conviction of each
count, under the terms of the
judgement entered in this case"
In plain English this flunkey re-
qussted the board that the whole
of forty-two year senteces be given
the eight militants.
The workers, led by the LID gave
fitting answer to this fiendish
effort to bury the eight militants
alive. BY powerful mass pressure
they compelled the bosses to back
down. The Appellate Court of CAL
ifornia, after a whole years STALL
ing, was forced to grant conces-
sion. Conviction on two of the three
separate counts was set aside in the
cases of the seven of the workers.
In the case of Frank Spector,
Southern California and Imperial
Valley District Organizer of the
LID, all the three counts were re-.
versed.
Prison Boards Decision
But the LID was not satisfied with
this, though an important, partial
victory. Under its leadership the
California masses backed by the
workers all over the country ham,
mered on. The Board of Terms
and Paroles-the body which sets
the final sentenccs-was forced to
reduce the IA years of the remain
ing count to sentence of two
years in prison and ~ years on
parole for Erickson, Roxas, Sklar
and Horiuchi. Lawrence Emery was
given 21a years in prison and one
year on parole. Orozco and Herrera
were deported to Mexico and PAN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-04
BY EARL BROWDER.

With the Hoover -Doak policy of
intensified persecution and depor-
taiton of foreign born workers,
especially of leaders of the work.
ers' struggles, the LID has had adj
ditional big burdens placed on its
shoulders. The deportation-terror
of the government is a particularly
vicious attack, which creates
thousand problems of defense and
protection of the victims, which
are literally matters of life and
death for innumerable workers. Not
only does the lid have the task,
together with the Council for Pro-
lection of the Foreign-Born, to or
garize the widest political move
ment of protest, but it must also
handle the complicated and costly
details of defense attorneys, writs.
court proceedings, printing docu-
ments, bail questions, hearings, etc.
Without a well-organized LID with
mass membership and support, it
would certainly be impossible to
even begin to cope with these prob
lens.
The Fight Against Deportations.
Small as the achievements have
been, in hating or delaying this
deportation drive, they have been
of invaluable service to the move
ment. First of all, the lives of
many workers leaders have been
saved, when the LID, through mass
pressure, forced Doak to surrender
his determination to deport to fas-
cist countries those workers who
would thereby be sent to their
deaths. This is a small victory,
which does not yet touch the prin-
ciple issue of deportations, but still
very important one. In addition,
the services of hundreds of valu-
able leaders have been preserved
for periods of three months even
up to several years, after deporta-
ton orders have been issued, even
when final victory was impossible.
Hundreds Of cases have been won
entirely which in the absence of
the I. L. D. would have resulted
automatically in quick deportation.
And, most important of all, the
mass, protest against the deporta-
ton policy, reused and organized
by the I. L. D., have served ma
terially to force the government to
hesitate to apply it as ruthlessly
as they wish.
The heroic fight Of Edith Berk-
man, who has ben held without
bail by Doak since last October,
was the center Of one Of the most
effective campaigns, politically con-
sidered, by the I. L. D. against de-
portations. Conrade Berkman's
hunger strike, which defeated
Doak's conspiracy to railroad her
to an insane asylum pending de-
portation, was the occasion for
such a storm of protest that it
even penetrated into the sacred
precincts Of Doaks office, where
Ooak himself quailed before the
indignation Of the workers thrown
into his face by young Anna Bur-
lax, who headed the protesting
delegation.
It is clear that only by strength
ening the I. L. D. can we hope to
make a more effective struggle
against the deportation offensive
Of the Wall Street government
Thousands Of Local Struggles.
We have mentioned above only
a few Of the major national cases
and STRUGGLES which the I. L. D.
has handled IN the last year.
There are dozens OF others, some
Of them almost equally important,
In addition. however. TO these
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Labor conducting terror campaign
against militant workers.
funds must be guaranteed, nation
ally and in every locality, con-
trolled by auditing committees con-
tanning a majority Of non-party
workers from the shops, responsible
members of other workers organ
izations, giving the most complete
refutation Of all the ISLANDERS Of
our enemies.
Seventh, the I. L. D. must really
be taken seriously, by every revolu-
tionary worker, by every Party or
ganization, and given all the help,
political, organizational and ma
terial that is necessary to build
the 1. l.. d. into a real broad mass
organization, solidly based among
the workers in the shops and
capable of carrying forward our
defense organization to ever new
and higher achievements.
The I. L. D. has a glorious record
of struggle and achievements be-
hind it. We must all unite to push
it forward to an even more glorious
future Of struggles and victories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-04
INCREASED TERROR
ON WORKERS

An increase of nearly 300 per cent
in the number of workers arrested
for labor activities in the month of
June, over total for May is the
reature Of the report made public
today by the National Office of the
International Labor Defense of cases
handled by its branches during that
month. The June total in all class
incations is 1882 arrests, as against
327 for May and 200 for April.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-04
A Major Task Today Is to Build international
Labor Defense

outstanding problems of the I. L.
d. work, every local organization
of the I. l.. D. has its own mount
ing volume of problems in the
struggle against the rising police
terror. With the deepening of the
crisis, with the sharpening of class
lines, flood of literally thousands
of cases has almost swamped the
local organizations of the I. L. D.
Some local offices have an average
of 100 new cases a month during
1882. Each one, in it's own way,
is vitality important to the workers
struggle, end very many of them
are of the most serious nature.
Each case involves its own maze
of problems, technical, legal, polit-
ical, financial, which can only be
solved by good organization and
mass support of the 1. L. D.
There are many localities where
bllC WIN VI 1IlC l. L. H. lioS pCCh
indispensable to the continued
functioning and growth of the
workers organizations and their
struggles.
A Turning Point in l. L. d.
History.
Why has it been necessary to
make this review of the work of
the I. L. D.? Because the I. L. D.
is facing a serious crisis in it's life,
is rounding historical turn in its
development. To solve this crisis,
to make this turn successfully, we
must first of all bring the entire
movement to much keener realiza-
ton of the fundamental impor-
lance of the /. l.. D. We must
emphasize that it is question of
life or death for our movement to
really solve the problems of build
ing a stronger and more powerful
I. L. D.
The /. L. D. is not receiving the
support and cooperation which
the importance of its work de-
mands. The trade unions, the
workers clubs, the mutual aid So
cieties, the Party organizations, all
absorbed in their special daily
problems and work, get the idea
that, since the I. L. D. exists, this
relieves them of all responsibility
for the problems of defense. They
load these problems off onto the
I. L. D. and proceed to other busi-
ness.
But this will not work. The I.
L. D. does not consist Of the few
comrades placed in the offices to
handle it's business. If we leave
these problems to the unaided eff
forts of these few executives, then
the I. L. D. will surely break down.
it will not be able to handle the
terrific load that is being placed
upon it by the sharpening strug-
gle. And that is exactly what Is
happening now.
This condition must be reme-
died. Every Party committee and
unit, every member, every trade
union and club, must be made to
realize that this is part Of the 1.
L. D., most vital part, and If
these parts do not work and take
their share of the burden, then our
l, L. D. will break down under its
lead.
EVERY CLASS CONSCIOUS
WORKER AND WORKERS Or
GANIzATION MUST REALLY
Be- INTEEEsEED: IN THE I'LL. D.
AND BROUGHT INTO ! ACTIVE
cosoPERATrCNkN rTss WORK.
EVERY COMMIT TTUE Musr be-
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GIN TO DISCUSS AND DECIDE
THE PROBLEM OF WHAT IT
MUST DO TO HELP THE LID.
TO PERFORM ITS MOST I'M
PORTANT TASKS.
Build a Mass Financial Support.
One of the most immediate prob
lens of the I. L. D. is that of find
ing money to pay for its most press
ing tasks. This problem has be-
come really critical one. The old
methods no longer suffice. The
economic crisis has reduced the size
of contributions; those who for
merly gave $40 can now only give
81; those who formerly gave 81
now find it difficult to give 10
cents. The decline in the size of
contributions must be compen-
sated by increasing the mass of
contributors. That is entirely pos
sible, because the workers are ready
and willing to support the I. L. D.
But it requires much more organ
ization than ever before; mass con-
tributions cannot and will not
come into the 1. L. d. Spontane-
ously, but only as result of or
ganized efforts.
Mass organization requires the
services of the most capable or
ganizers and speakers. The LID.
must Be given the best services,
the best leading cadres, that are
available, if it is to solve this one
problem alone.
Then, too, the I. L. D. Is suffer-
ing seriously, in a financial way,
from the attacks of our enemies.
When, for example, in the Scots
boro campaign, we were so saw
agely attacked by the N.AA.CP.,
the Socialist Party and the Civil
Liberties Union, we met these at
tacks and defeated them politically
in most smashing and satlsfac-
tory manner. But the cost of these
attacks was very great; the N. A..
A. G. p diverted to itself over
$1,000 of contributions for the
Scottsboro case that should have
gone to the /. l.. D., which had
all the financial burdens of the
case, while the N. A. A. C. P. did
nothing but create additional diff
ficulties. From the office of the
Civil Liberties Union, letters were
sent out to sympathizers who
wanted to give money for Scots
boro, not to send this money to
the I. L. D. From the Socialist
Party press and the capitalist
papers went out a flood of warn
ings not to give to the I. L. D.
Scottsboro campaign because this
was only Communist racket" as
the New Leader expressed this
SANDER campaign.
IL would be foolish to deny that
these ISLANDERS hurt the /. L. D.
very much financially. That was
their main intention. Our enemies
hoped to create a financial break
down, and thus defeat us when
they could no do SO politically.
And 1t must be confessed that they
created the most tremendous diff
culties for us. In the whole
Scottsboro campaign the I. L. d.
recsipts have ben far from suffi-
cient to pay the legal expenses
alone. At the most critical points
of the case, financial collapse was
only averted by the I. L. D. calling
directly upon thes Communist Party
and borrowing several thousand
dollars OF the Party's meagre
funds, which were vitality needed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-04
Vote Communist For

3. Emergency relief for the poor
formers without restrictions by
the government ard banks; ex-
emption Of poor farmers from
taxes, and no forced collec.
ton Of rents or debts.
4. Equal rights for the Negroes ana
self determination for the BLACK
Bell
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A
while
numbering the fifth month the sit
while 1872 being given vacation
through peedup production
the stagger plan intro
october s and by December
jumped the last two months of the
available
must have the trend.
result increased
and lowering the living stand
ards of the UNEMPLOYMENT
CAUSE OF THE LOWERED STANDARDS WORKERS
both employed unemployed this
fight relief
insurance and against cuts in form
fight wokday be carried must be
fight REDUCTION OF HOURS WITHOUT REDUCTION IN PAY
objective fight 40hr without
With the full time week being around
3hou without reduction would be
the workers seriously and the
demand of IS 23 cent in
the able to defeat the
industry reality
the interests
irresponsible left radical phrases what
siding with
effect the against the
workers socialists putting
reality
the the heir
to the unemployed they struggle
their all
of of the bosses in the ranks of the workers
The Washington times., 1932-10-10
RED CROSS SETS
COUNTY GOAL

One thousand more member
shipsf than in 1882 will be the
goal of the annual Red Cross
roll call in Prince Georges county,
DR.. T. B. Symons stated today
as the drive for memberships got
under way.
With Al committees canvassing
the county, DR.. Symons expressed
the hope that enrolment would
exceed the mark set by heads of
the county chapter of the Req
Cross.
Pointing out that the demands
for help had been far greater in
Prince Georges county during the
past year than ever before, DR..
Symons declared that it is highly
probable that an even greater
strain might fall on Red Cross
resources during the coming Win
ter.