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police carried out the orders * * * of the bosses of this city, the bankers,
and manufacturers, and shot down Katovis * * * in this fight * * =&amp;
the * * * police were aided by the American Federation of Labor, who
betray the workers, who will not organize, but help the bosses keep the conditions
 of the workers down. By the workers of New York Steve Katovis will
always be remembered *. * * He showed how a Communist lives and dies—
a fighter for his class * * * hating the capitalist class * * * and in
the fight * * * ghot down by the tools of the capitalists. One thousand
workers mist jump into the place left vacant by the death of Steve Katovis,
determined to carry on the fight against the murderers of the working class,
against the capitalist who beat us up, jail us, shoot us down, and murder us,
Join the Communist Party; fight against the coming imperalist war; defend the
Soviet Union. Our fight is not only against the police; our fight is against the
entire capitalist system. We must organize to smash it followin g the path of the
organized workers to establish in the United States a Soviet Union Workers’
government. Take the place of Steve Katovis! Attend the Mass Funeral
Demonstration Tuesday at 11 a. m. Show your solidarity.
According to the New York newspapers over 10,000 “the majority
under 30 years of age, shouting revolutionary slogans, carrying
revolutionary placards, and singing revolutionary songs,” marched
several miles in a down-pouring rain from their headquarters at 26
Union Square with the Katovis coffin draped in red and decorated
with red flowers and the red admonition: “Unite with the Workers of
the World,” a communistic organization largely financed and directed
from Moscow and whose ‘“membership” is described in the New
York Times of February 2 as—
Largely alien and split into 16 foreign-language federations—‘a modern
Babel,” as one of the Moscow representatives recently reported.
This is the organization which recently stirred up all the communistic
trouble in the textile mills of North Carolina, hinted at by Mr.
Hugh Mitchell of the P. O. S. of A. legislation committee, before this
committee last Tuesday, and which is back of such social equality,
interracial dances as that held even here in Washington not long ago,
and recently called to the attention of this committee by Congressman
Gibson, and which is held out to the colored race as one of the goals
of communism. i CL }
_ It is such manifestations and activities as the Katovis “demonstration,”
 of even oath-bound organizations of unassimilated foreignborn
 persons in our very midst, who would tear down this house of
ours, in which they are merely our guests, and their revolutionary
efforts to establish here such an arrogant, tyrannical, dictatorship as
now exists in Russia, where people are starving and where the “Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse” have already ridden in, decimating the
Russian population, and where once there were said to be 180,000,-000
 people but reduced now to less than 150,000,000; while in the
United States, as a result of individual liberty and our free institution,
a person is able to get for a day’s labor from four to forty times more
of the good things of life than he can get in any other land—it is such
subversive activity that in part actuates members of the league in
their desires for more restriction and better naturalization laws,
Several years ago at Cleveland, Ohio, on a May Day, there was a
parade of agitators, indecent, sacreligious, subversive, and unlawful.
Of the 116 arrested, 112 were aliens, and in the pocket of one of the
arrested aliens was found a pay check for $88 for 88 hours work—
wages he could not have earned in any other country in the world.
Briefly, the attitude of the league seems to be that the United
States now has more of the immigrant type than it can absorb eom-