The Daily Worker

500 Attend Meet
to Plan Defense
of Athos Terzani

NEW YORK.-Nearly five hundred
deadgates were present at a meeting
of the organizations represented in
the United Front Terzani Defense
Committee in Irving Plaza Hall Saturday night.
Terzani is framed for the murder
of Fierro, young anti-fascist worker,
in a fight which broke up a meeting
of the Khaki Shirts of America in
Queens.
This conference marked a step
forward in united front experience,
more representatives of the Socialist
Party and Young People's Socialist
League being present with delegates
of the Communist Party than at any
previous meeting.
Two resolutions were presented for
discussion. The majority report by
the anarchist and Socialist groups
was attacked by the representatives
of the International Labor Defense
and the Communist Party on the
ground that it was a weak statement
of the bare facts of the case, not
containing a clear analysis of the
class forces behind this frame-up, nor
a clear-cut program of action to
break the charges against Terzani.
The minority report, presented by
William Patterson for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, gave a clear
analysis of the forces that are oper-
ating to carry through such frame-
ups as the Terzani case and encour-
age the growth of fascist groups such
as the Khaki Shirts of America. In
this report was a clear-cut program
of mass action to free Terzani, and
provision was made for the broad-
ening of the defense committee.
The majority vote came mainly
from representatives of anarchist,
renegade Communist and Socialist
groups. Representatives of the So-
cialist Party moved to accept the
majority report as a preamble and
refer the proposals for action of the
International Labor Defense to the
committee for consideration.
The I.L.D. is carrying the struggle
to the members of the Socialist Party
and other organizations represented
on the committee in the effort to
make their leaders convert the de-
fense committee into a really broad
united front committee.