The life of our murdered Brother typifies the lives of all workers. The social system gave him no chance. At an early age he was forced to work to earn a living and to make profits for his employer. Together with other workers, he was sent to kill and be killed in the world war. What for? For freedom? No. For the sake of profits and imperialist markets for the bosses. Mark these words! There is only one way, one struggle in which a worker has a real interest. That is the struggle of Labor against Capital...This struggle against oppression is no easy task. On the side of the bosses are the police, the army, the courts. The mayor of Minneapolis does not consider the lives of the strikers worth protecting. The only thing of importance to him is the protection of the bosses’ property, the bosses’ right to keep workers enslaved at low wages and in misery...Brothers, Sisters as we leave this demonstration we must bear in our hearts a fierce resolve to carry on Brother Ness’s struggle. We must not fail him! We must avenge his murder. This we shall do if we struggle to win this strike, if we struggle to throw the exploiters from off our backs and to establish a new social order in which the workers may enjoy the fruits of his toil. Funeral oration by Albert Goldman for Henry B Ness, unarmed Minneapolis Teamsters picket killed by police fire in July 1934 with Ty and Kshama
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:15:01 +0000
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