The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
June Labor Defender"
Vividly Portrays Nine
Years Work of /. i. D.

LABOR DEFENDER, organ Of the
International Labor Defense. June
10 Cents.
Reviewed by HELEN SHERIDAN
THE June Labor Defender is out
in a blaze Of blue. Although the
color blue is ordinarily associated
with passivity halcyon calm, etc,
this fighting paper of a fighting or
ganization succeeds in imparting as
aggressive a quality to this tender
color as If it had been flaming
red.
This issue celebrates the ninth
anniversary of the International
Labor Defense. Nine years of in
tensive struggle. Nine years of in
defstigable work in defense OF all
workers, irrespective of race, creed,
color, or political Affiliations, who
have run afoul of capitalist law
and justice. These nine years have
seen some major struggles Of the
American working class. The num-
Der Of cases fought vsliantly by the
I. L. D. are too many to list Among
the best known are the Mooney
case, Sacco- Vansetti. Scottsboro,
Gastonia, Imperial Valley, Utah
miners, Greece and Garlic, Angelo
Herndon, etc.
The l. L. D. has a heroic record,
and is easily the most beloved mass
organization in the country, Thru
out its work, that excellent maya
zine, the Labor Defender, has been
its right arm. A pictorial sheet
primarily, it reproduces scenes taken
right out Of the class-war front,
making them more vivid and real
than any number of articles can
do. We are shown workers being
beaten by cops, picket lines smashed,
demonstrations broken up, and
other actual events photographed
on the battle field of the class
struggle. In this June issue We
have pictures of the present long
shoremen's strike in San Francisco,
the attack Of the police on the
| Anti-Nazi demonstra ton in York
vile, the Los Angeles c. w. A. pro-
test demonstration, the marine
workers march on Washington, the
Alabama mine strike, and scenes
Of workers struggles in Poland,
France, Cuba, Austria. A double
spread is devoted to pictures Of
prominent ctass-war fighters and
victims: young Harry Sims, Joe
York, Louis Fngdahl. Eugene V.
Debs, Ann Burlak, Edith Berkman,
VIM. Patterson, Ada Wright. Ralph
Gray, Mother Bloor and others.
THE work Of the LID. for the past
l nine years is reviewed in an ar
ticle by Rose Baron William L.
Patterson, National Secretary Of the
LID, writes about the perspeo-
tives Of the organization, pledging
more intensive activity in defense
of all class struggle victims and for
a relentless battle against every
agency Of ruling class justice which
is a rule of terror, force and vio-
lence; Sam Stein relates an Incl
dent during the National Scots
boro-T haelmann tour when an at
tempt to Jim Grow Ada Wright,
mother of Andy and Roy Wright,
two Of the Scottsboro boys, by a
Cleveland restaurant was smashed
by the rousing of powerful mass
protest and the formation of a pick
ct line of enraged workers. There
are other equally interesting arti-
cles by Mother Bloor Leo Gala
CHER. Sam Strong. S. K. Davis,
George Hart. M. stern, Marguerite
Young. Jacob Hurwitz and Irving
Goodman.
A unique standing feature of the
Labor Defender is page devoted
to Voices from Prison. Angelo Hern-
don, young Negro worker sentenced
to 20 years on the chain gang for
leading demonstration of the un-
employed in Atlanta, writes one of
his stirring letters from behind
prison bars, ringing with courage,
defiance, and an unShakeable faith
in the working class. There are
also letters from M. Hagopa, Mary
Burnnan and Granville Vaughn,
whose tortured lives are made more
bearable by the material and moral
help supplied by the LID.
To read the Labor Defender is
to participate in the struggles of
the working class all over this
country and abroad.
Keep informed of the world wide
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