The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

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be able to take part in the next
anniversary.
(signedD Haywood Patterson.
campaign for his release. It has
revived the Mooney case on an in
ternstional scale, arousing the work
ers Of Europe and Latin America
on his behalf
1t has taken up the fight for
James Mcnamara, who has already
spent % years in San Quentin, one
of the worst of the capitalist pris-
ons, for his activities as working
class leader on the Pacific Coast.
The ruling class wants to keep Nc
Namara. one of the finest and brav-
est fighters of the working class,
buried for life in San Quentin. They
thought he had been forgotten, I'M
til the LID. brought his case to
light. Now the demand for the
freedom of Mcnamara has become
a part of every protest Of the work
ing class of America and the LID.
will not cease its activities in his
behalf until his freedom has been
won.
In these cases also, the LID has
demonstrated that it is an indis-
pensabls organization; that without
it the needs of the class struggle
of the workers could not be fulfilled.
The LID. in Strike Struggles
In the Thousands of strike strug-
giles waged throughout the country,
the LID. has played a leading role
and proved itself an invaluable
weapon of the working class. This
was particularly evidenced in the
Utah and New Mexico coal strikes,
where the terror against the strik-
erS took the form Of criminal syn
dicalism charges, with enormous
bonds set for those arrested. At
one time more than 400 pickets were
he'd in Jail, and the entire strike
leadership was held under criminal
syndicalism charges. The LID.
through mass pressure and legal &C
tor forced the ruling class to re-
lease all of the prisoners.
In the California fruit pickers
strike, the Aeronauticsl strike in
Buffalo, where the LID. forced the
release of II strikers, the knit goods
strike in Phila aelphia, In the strug-
giles Of the miners and steel work
ers in Birmingham, as we'll as In
all of the struggles of the farmers
and of the unemployed, the LID.
has been in the forefront Of the
struggle, rallying the workers for
mass defense, supplying legal aid,
raising funds for the class war pris-
oners and their families, and max
ing itself an inseparable part Of
every struggle.
The Fight Against Deportations
Although the Roosevelt regime
announced that it would abandon
the policy of intensified persecution
and deportation of foreign born
workers inaugurated by Hoover, the
attack on the foreign born, especi-
ally on the leaders of the workers
struggles has not ceased. This was
evidenced in the case OF Emil Gar
dos, whose citizenship has been re-
voked by the capitalist courts, be-
cause when swearing allegiance to
the American Constitution, he had
mental reservations" of allegiance
to the working class. Hundreds of
thousands Of Mexican workers, with
Ne connivance of the Wall Street
controlled Mexican government, are
being deported to Mexico. The de-
portation of militant foreign born
workers to fascist European coun-
tries is common occurrence.
The achievements of the LID. in
hating and delaying this depor-
tation drive have been of invaluable
service to the movement. Hundreds
Of cases have been won, the lives
of many workers have been saved,
and the services of hundreds of
valuable leaders preserved for long
periods, even when final victory was
impossible. More important of all,
the mass protest against the de-
portation policy, reused and organ
lied by the LID. have forced the
Government to hesitate to apply it
as ruthlessly as they wish.
It is clear that only by strength
ening the LID. can we hope to
crush the growing fascist attacks Of
the ruling class on the foreign born
workers
The LID. Fights for the Work
ing Glass Of the World
The International Labor Defense
is all that its name implies. It
fights not only for the working class
of America, but for the workers of
the world. 1t reused mass protest
for the Rueggs imprisoned by Kuo-
mintang China; it fought for the
freedom of Dif1itroff, Torgler, Pop
off and Taneff; it fights for the
freedom of Thaelmann and the
ariti-fascist fighters imprisoned in
the concentration camps and jails of
fascist Germany; it carries on
struggle for the prisoners of Polish
reaction; it raises funds for the vic
TINS of Austrian fascism: it estab-
fishes patronage over political pris-
oners in the fascist prisons of
Europe, and through its organ. the
Labor Defender. fights for interna-
tional solidarity in every struggle of
the working class throughout the
world.