The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
III J. LOUIS ENGDAHL

AN D. AOGAG ENGDAh1
Bloody Detroit" -- the automo-
Afie capitol Of the world; streets
stained crimson with workers
blood in Dearborn, the private city
OF Henry Ford, where Ford's pri-
vstely- owned assassins massacred
Che jobless demanding work and
bread; these new struggles, new
martyrdoms, new heroic efforts Of
labor give greater meaning to the
Sixty First Anniversary Of the Pa
MS Commune, March 10, CONNIE
morated by labor the world over
g1der the banners Of the Inter
national Labor Defense.
March 10, the commemoration OF
Che valiant struggles Of the Pari-
sian proletariat, who seized power
and held it for 70 days, becomes
an event Of greater historic I'M
portance to Americas workers this
year because Of their own ire
mendous and growing sacrifices.
In Memory of Our Dead
March 10. 1882, becomes a DAY Of
mass struggles-in parades, demon
strations and in great mass meet
lngs in memory Of our dead $500
Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Ken
lucky, New York, Pennsylvania.
March IS, 1882, becomes a day Of
struggle for the defense Of the per-
secuted of the working class; for
the immediate defeat of the man
hunt organized by FordNTphy pro-
secutors in Detroit; to save the
nine Scottsboro Negro boys from
the electric chair; to open the
doors Of prison for Tom Mooney
and Warren K. Billings; to de-
nand the unconditional release Of
the Kentucky, Tampa, Pennsyl-
vania, Atlanta, Imperial Valley and
all other class war prisoners.
Against Lynching and Deportation
March Is. 1882, becomes a day
Of struggle against the infamous
and murderous boss class weapon
of lynching, against the deportation
of the foreign-born, against the
reaction, nationally and interna-
tionally.
Twelve millions of jobIess, chou-
sands arrested and thrown into
boss class dungeons, the martyr
dom Jsof the best working class
fighters by the bullets Of police and
guntaugs, the mounting wave Of
-ly1aching and other savage persecu-
tionsrof Negroes, ali help to bring
the sAmerican working class this
year closer than ever to the valiant
fighters of the Paris Commune.
Unemployment Aid Hunger
The workers Of Paris, upon the
defeat Of France in the Franco
Prussian War, were plunged deep
in unemployment and hunger.
Thousands were evicted from their
homes by the landlords. They came
out into the streets demanding
peace and Breadp Under the at
tack of the Partisan workers the
government was forced to retreat
and entrench itself in Versailles.
Because of numerous weaknesses,
the Commune was crushed The
Fords and Murphys Of 1871. be-
tween May 81 and "a, let loose
monsJrous blood bath upon the
workers that has only been ex-
ceeded in its horrors by the Chin
csc counter-revolution of the Chang
Kai-shek Kuomintang terror in
1927, that is today being repeated
With the aid of the mass mas
sacres carried through by the jap
anese impsrialists, aided by the
powers" Of the League of Nations
and the Versailles Peace.
In the United States the nine
Scottsboro Negro boys face the
electric chair; Mooney and Bill
ings still rot in prison with Nc
Namara and Schmidt; coal miners
with defense and relief workers in
Kentucky await murder trials with
the threat of the electric chair,
some are already serving life SEN
fences, many face long prison
terms on charges Of criminal syn
dicalism, the leaders Of the miners
have been Kidnapped, flogged and
left for dead on the mountain
sides, others have been murdered
by the hired assassins Of the Rookie
feIler- Mellon-I insult Ford interests
on the open highways, irvestigat-
ing committees Of the International
Labor Defense, bringing relief 10
the miners and their families have