The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
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NUN lNNELD NUM- EANE ONEl
ing that the Edith Berkman Protest
Delegation would arrive at his office
on May 10, was answered by Doak
with letter in which he agreed to
receive the delegation, but hoped the
delegation would be limited to as
small number as possible" The Sec
rotary knows that the workers are
aroused, and fearS-as he we'll may
that too many of the nations prole-
TARA will be at his doors.
Edith Berkman, the 29-year old
National Textile Workers Union or
ganizer and leader of many strikes
who now is threatened with deporta-
ton, is held without bail in the
Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in
Boston.
Although i'll with incipient tuber-
culcsis, which she contracted while
held in the immigration detention
iiail, Edith Berkman is unwavering
in her demands for the release of
Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys,
and has declared a hunger strike de-
lnandipg her immediate and uncon-
diti0nAf release.
William z. Foster, candidate CT the
Communist Party for president in the
coming election, and general secre-
tary of the Trade Union Unity
League, has issued the following
statement on the Berkman case:
The attempt of this capitalist
government to deport Edith Berk-
man is not only Illegal but is an
affront to and an attack on the
foreign born workers and on the
other organized militant workers of
the United States" said William z.
Foster, today, following up his
stirring appeal for the Berkman
defense In the course of his May
Day speech at the Bronx Colise-
UNI. ''The thousands of workers in
the Trade Union Unity League and
its affiliated unions will never per-
init Edith Berkman to carry the
burden of protest on her shoulders
alone. They will demand from
Doak and from the Hoover gov
eminent itself the release of this
working class leader and organizer.
The Trade Union Unity League
stands firmly behind the Council
for the Protection of the Foreign
Born and the International Labor
Defense In their determined cam
paign."
From the national office of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
comes a declaration in support Of
Edith Berkman's fight for release
addressed to AL posts of the Work
lers Ex-Servicemen's League" Edith
Berkman." reads the declaration, "a
leader of the workers in many strikes
a devoted fighter for the cause Of
the working class, was arrested ille-
lga11y and is being held for deporta-
ton to Poland for her working class
activities"
1t is through such arbitrary and
working class deportations that
the Secretary of Labor Doak, is try
ing to crush the militancy of the
workers, the statement declared, and
for that very reason all workers, es-
lpecially all ex-servicemen, should de-
ifend her, particularly since she has
taken the initiative in declaring q
hunger strike to begin May 8.
"The fight of Edith Berkman Is
the fight of the entire working
Glass; continues the statement.
Each post of the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League should rally
for the release of Edith Berkrnan."
Among the tasks which the League
instructs each of its posts to take
up Immediately is the sending of pro-
test kilograms to Mrs. Anna Filling
hast, immigration officer, Boston
immigration Detention Home, Bos-
ton, Massachusetts,, and to elect del
egates, one from each post, TO take
part in the mass delegation which
is to interview Secretary Of Labor
Doak on Tuesday afternoon, May
10, in his office in Washington, DC.
to demand the release Of Edith Berk.
man. Each post IS also urged to sehd
funds to the Bdith Berlnnan Com