The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-15
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NNON IlNUEO fHOM FAGE ON6l
individual colleries. Foster had an
nounced his intention of outlining
plan of organizing rank and file
committees in each local union to
lead strikes against the cut.
Others among the crowd were rail-
road men, who came to hear Fosters
proposal of formation of branches of
the National Railroad Brotherhood's
Unity Movement in lodges and local
unions of the railroad brotherhoods
and ALL. shop unions, etc., to fight
the second betrayal of the railroad
men this year by their officials, and
to prepare to gre againfc the adj
ditional S per cent wage cut the op-
orators now propose.
Coal and Railroad Controlled.
Scranton, the center of the an
thracite area, surrounded by mines
owned by railroad companies, is in
ferment over the smashing OF Eos
ter's meeting by city authorities.
Foster was held in Jail Friday
night until $25 bail was provided.
He appeared in court before Magis-
trate John P. Kelly Saturday, with
Attorney Gerald G. Dolphin of the
International Labor Defense as coun-
sci.
Dolphin pSo1ted out that the
charge of "disorderly conduct" was a
pure absurdity. Foster was speaking
at regularly advertised meeting on
private property rented for the &C.
casion.
They Welcomed Thomas
He pointed out that Norman
Thomas, candidate of the Socialist
Party, spoke in Scranton short
time ago with every courtesy ex-
tended by tn police, and spoke at
the Chamber of Commerce. He de-
clared that If other presidential can
didates, Roosevelt or Hoover, should
speak in Scranton, they would not
be arrested.
Police Captain Gleason, in charge
of the arrest of Foster, could only
argue that it was disorderly conduct
for Foster to speak if the police
didn't want him to.
Magistrate Kelley smashed
through the legal arguments of both
sides with the bare bald statement
that "Lackawanna does not want
Communism and / will do my part
to stamp 1t QUIT"
Kelly then declared Foster guilty
and fined him 500 or 80 days in
jail, and he was taken back to Jail
The case was Immediately appealed
and bail presented.
On instructions given the court
by Captain Gleason, all property
bond. was refused. Later, cash bail
of 500 was provided, and Foster left
for his meeting today in Bingham
ton.
| Fight Goes On.
Foster in his campaign tour has
emphasized those planks of the ma
tional election platform of the Com
munist Party which read: Unemploy-
ment and social insurance at TIL;
expense of the state and the EN-.
ployers," and Against Hoover's
wage-cutting policy"
The fight for the right to meet ane
speak, for unemployment insurance
and against the wage cuts will go OF
in Scranton. The Unemployed Coun.
ellis OF Lackawanna county are pre-.
pairing a mass hunger march or
Scranton.
| Fosters other two arrests in thi.
election campaign we're: In Los An.
geles, where he started to speak II
protest against the shooting down o.
an unemployed worker when polio,
raided an Unemployed Council meet.
ing in private house; and, in Law.
renee week ago, where he was tt
speak against the wage cuts anc
starvation of textile workers.
Foster speaks in Cleveland, August
II, in Toledo August 10, in Columbus
August 20, in Canton, Oio, August 90
in Akron August % and in Charlero
August "a.