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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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National conference of the Canadian Defense League in Toronto votes to intensify campaign for freedom of the nine Negro boys facing death in Alabama, planning demonstrations, literature, and special days including August 22 as Sacco-Vanzetti and Scottsboro Day.
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Engdahl Reports for World Plenum of Red Aid
TORONTO, Canada, July 17.-Intensification of the campaign throughout Canada for the freedom of the nine Negro boys facing death in Alabama was voted with enthusiasm by the national conference of the Canadian Defense League meeting here.
An increasing number of demonstrations before American consulates will be organized throughout Canada, while special literature will be issued to mobilize the Canadian masses for defense of their Negro class-brothers in the United States. A special edition of the Canadian Labor Defender is being arranged. August 22 has been designated as Sacco-Vanzetti and Scottsboro Day, and huge demonstrations will be held throughout Canada on that day. The August First demonstrations against Imperialist war preparations will also voice the demand for the unconditional release of the nine innocent boys.
J. Louis Engdahl, General Secretary of the International Labor Defense of the U. S. A. brought greetings to the conference from the workers of the United States. Engdahl also made the report on the Third Plenum of the Executive Committee of the International Red Aid, recently held in Moscow.
The Canadian Labor Defense pledged itself to carry out energetically all the decisions of the world plenum. It sent greetings through the International Red Aid to the Mopr, organization in the Soviet Union, pledging itself to struggle against the war danger and for the defense of the Soviet Union. It also pledged every possible aid to the German organization in the present crisis.
The Canadian organization is gaining in membership and rapidly developing as an independent, militant mass organization of struggle of the Canadian workers and farmers against the numerous forms of boss persecution.
Under the increasing fascization of the Canadian Government it has become mutiny in the armed forces, punishable with life imprisonment to protest the use of the military against workers' demonstrations.
Workers self-defense in the courts is being developed in face of the wholesale arrests and terror.
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Toronto, Canada
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July 17
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National conference of the Canadian Defense League in Toronto voted to intensify campaign for freedom of nine Negro boys in Alabama, planning demonstrations at American consulates, special literature, edition of Canadian Labor Defender, August 22 as Sacco-Vanzetti and Scottsboro Day with huge demonstrations, and August First anti-war demonstrations demanding release. J. Louis Engdahl brought US greetings and reported on Third Plenum of International Red Aid in Moscow. Canadian Labor Defense pledged to implement plenum decisions, greetings to Mopr in Soviet Union against war danger, aid to German organization, growing membership against persecution, noting fascization making military protests mutiny punishable by life imprisonment, developing workers self-defense in courts against arrests and terror.