The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-24

my city. Gosh, if I could only be
there, instead of knitting sweaters!"
(The. Ellis Island chiefs amuse the
prisoners by making them weave
sWeaters.)
Comrade Elsie got up quickly.
No Work to Be Had
"And what about me? I have
tramped from place to place, and
there is no work. Sammy too, he
couldn't go to anyone, he could just
stay on my lap"
AS his name was spoken, the baby
began to dance about on his mothers
knee. Mother and father, full of
youth, charm, and revolutionary en-
thuSiasm, look proudly at their son.
Sammy is nine months old. He
looks about two years old. He is like
a small photograph Of his father.
When he laughs, not only his dim
pies. but the whole world laughs.
Three soldiers walked in, and
something came to an end.
See that 1 get the Daily Worker
every day." Leonardo said as he
disappeared, surrounded ,by the
guards.
Undesirable"
The Ellis Island launch went back
to New York. Every moment carried
the three women and the baby
farther away from the place from
which Comrade Leonardo, the red
sailors, and other revolutionary
workers are to be deported. They are
undesirable. To deport them may
terTorize the other active comrades,
and the revolutionary masses. Across
the wateri =.
across the water, or over the fire
high above you and around you, COM
rades, in close ranks, like a wall,
stands the unity of all the reyolu-
tionary workers of the world"
Back in New York, Around the
waterfront shadows of people, rag
ged, dirty, gloomy.
fYour Leonardo fought for these
against unemployment, against hun
ger. The workers shouldn't work so
hard for such miserable wages. Fam
lilies shouldn't be broken UP. The
death rate and accidents among the
miners are terribly high"
Six In Family
The comrade tried to comfort
Mother Domiano. Comrade Elsie put
in a word here and there. But
Mother Domiono looked sorrowfully
over the water.
Leonardo was her oldest son.
There were five more in the family.
the youngest six years old For more
than six years she hasn't been able
to get her fill of looking at her old
est boy. He was now in one city
now in another. And if ever he did
come home to Boston, there were
meetings and meetings, books and
books, and newspapers.
Her husband was a building trades
worker, but for a year there had
been no work There were hopes a
child would grow up. Things would
get better.
For eight months she had not
embraced her Leonardo. In that jail
allegheny County JaiD, the motor
ious prison that held so many of the
rebellious miners of the Pittsburgh
section, she could only stare at him
through the bars. 1t was a long
journey there, too, and cost much
money.
Her husband, in his younger days,
was the same way. He had to run
away from Italy.
Shoe Worker at Is
And here is the biography of that
dynamic young revolutionist, Com
rade. Leonardo Domiano, or jim
Evans as he was known in the move
ment.
At thirteen he worked in Boston
shoe factory. His first revolutionary
teacher was his father, though later
the old mans revolutionary ardol
cooled. He went to school as fal
as. the eighth grade, and no further
because he had to go TO work. He
continued his studies in night school
He liked to study and read. tt
know the TRUTH his mother said.
Sacco and Vanzetti gave him his
first strong urge to join and wori
in the revolutionary moyement-ol
rather the Daily Worker, which ac-
quainted him with Sammo and Van
zetti, He saw copy Of it, and Their
for two weeks he looked for more
copies.
in the Jewish neighborhood, 20,
will set the Daily Worker" someone
told him. This was eight years ago
ID. O. in Buffalo.
In 1928, Leonardo was district
organizer Of the Y. c. L. in Buffalo
Later he participated in the Textile
Workers strike in New England
When Edith Berkman was arrested
he was locked up for ten days. Fol
the last two years, he had been &C.
tive among the miners in Pennsyl.
vania.
Leonardo was sentenced to be de-
ported for being a leader of tn,
march OF the unemployed miners O
Pennsylvania. He was arrested b,
state authorities at Uniontown. Hi
record was red. Bail was set high
Fourteen others were locked up will
him, also held in terribly high bail
He was sentenced to be deported
bit the I. l.. D. organized a figh
and won for him voluntary de-
parture to the Soviet Union. Prett.
Elsie, whom he met and married
while working in Pennsylvania, wa,
going with him
Concluded Tomorrow