The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
CONTINUED from yesterday

TT was our second visit to Comrade
Leonardo. Tuesday and Thurs
day are the visiting-days. He was
impatient 1t was the First of Aug
ust, day Of struggle against Imperi-t
alist War. The revolutionary work
ers would be out on the streets To-
day in his coal district too, the strike
was growing to greater proportions.
To stay in this place on such a day!
Almost all Of his family we're here
to visit him. His sister Rose and
his brother Jimmy-his mother,
Elsie, Sammy, and the comrade Of
the LID.
The receiving-room was damned
full On every bench sat a deportee
and his visitors. There was tumult,
noise. On all sides stood civil and
military guards. The visitors and
prisoners mostly looked scared and
humble The greater part of them
were new immigrants.
Mother Damiano and her daughter
Rose were all excited. They chat
tered quickly in Italian. Old talk.
as Elsie told me later: let him get
rid of the reds.
Mother. sister, don't worry about
me. My family-the whole working
class-is big and strong am as
sured of safety wherever I 60"
Fear Fascist Terror
But they wiz eend you to Italy!
We have letter from our relatives
in Italy, and it says that as soon
as you are deported they will send
you to the island. or perhaps cut
your head off. They have already
shot one of our relativesi"
Leonardos relatives are italian
revolutionists. Leonardo and Elsie
are proud of them.
A bell rings. The visit is ended
Comrade Leonardo embraces his
family. Rose is crying. The mother
is flushed and excited, worried
Sammy is crying too.
| 1.-THE reds are responsible for our
misfortunes. they have broken up
our home!" Rose screams as they
make for the Ellis Island launch.
Instruments and Books"
Other people stop, look, listen in.
Elsie is busy helping the comrade
from the LID. All at once Mother
Damiano hands Sammy over to his
mother. Sammy begins to cry. Quick,
sharp italian words stream from out
ragged Mother Damiano. Italians, out
siders, mix in. Elsie bursts into tears.
Jimmy not quite IA, is quiet. He
went through public school. One
must help ones family. Leonardo,
his older brother, is revolutionary
BY day. Jimmie shines shoes. At
night, he studies mechanics"
Instruments and books fill up the
celler," Rosie says
eff only I could take Jimmie to
Soviet Russia, he would become the
greatest mechanic there" says
Leonardo.
: Jimmie takes charge of Sammy
always in Prison"
Leonardo only worries about
others" Rosie says. HE should be
content with his wife. his child, his
family. 1t is more than six years
now, that he is like the wind-here
and there in the Massachusetts
prison-in the Pittsburgh prison
now in Ellis Island. He broke up
cur home"
Most of the Damiano families are
in Boston. The revolutionary ones
are in Italy. Most of the others are
good Catholics, good democrats.
Leonardo, the d-hearted, honest
boy, is off the track they think.
But he must be saved! Let it be to
the Soviet Union, so long as it is
not the italian prisons, or death!
In the family's eyes, it is Leon
ardo's fault that the family is a
shame in its members eyes.
The Statue Of Liberty stood on the
left of the boat. Rosie was cry
ing, and Elsie could scarcely con-
tain herself. Jimmie was holding
Sammy, who walled loudly.
The Statue Of Liberty stood on the
left, harsh and cold, careless Of the
smashing Of the Americanized
Domiano family
Deported for Organizing
Father Domiano built houses.
Mother Domiano gave birth to five
children. All were working. And
as soon as Leonardo took the path
Of organizing the starving miners,
they deported him. They separated
him from his wife, his son, his fam
lily.
Wait, you beasts!" he had shout
ed at the Uniontown cops when they
arrested him for deportation. "You
will not separate me from my wife
and my son. My class is everywhere!
my son is native-born, and so
is my wife. My wife will continue
with my work. My son, when he
grows up, will go in the road Of
Lenin. And together with all my
class, we will shatter your crazy in
human laws!"
Elsie repeated her husbands words
proudly, looking steadily at the
Statue of Liberty. Rosie stopped
crying.
Rosie worked in candy factory
ten hours a day, for ten to twelve
dollars a week.
In the LID. comrades house, she
began to talk.
"Only don't talk about God" she
said, pointing to her mother.
mo. I don't earn enough money
We need a union" Rosie said
Mother Damiano was looking over
Russian magazine. There were
pictures of Lenin's tomb. the Krem-
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