The International Labor Defense was a legal advocacy organization established in 1925 in the United States as the American section of the Comintern's International Red Aid network. The ILD defended Sa
Party leaders jailed in connection with the August 1922 raid on the CPA's Bridgman Convention. Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg is seated in the front row in the middle. The Labor Defense Council was established to defend the individuals arrested in this raid.
Rare pinback button issued by the Labor Defense Council in conjunction with the 1923 trials of chief Bridgman defendants William Z. Foster and C.E. Ruthenberg
Symbol of International Red Aid used at the time of its 10th Anniversary in 1932
James P. Cannon (left) and George Maurer of the Labor Defense Council, 1925
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the Apr
International Labor Defense
…advocacy organization established in 1925 in the United States as the American section of the Comintern's International Red Aid network. The ILD defended Sacco and Vanzetti, was active in the anti-lynching, movements for civil rights, and prominently participated in the defense and legal appeals in the cause célèbre of the…
Anarchist trial defendants Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right)
.32 Savage Model 1907 semi-automatic pistol
Norfolk County Courthouse, Dedham, Massachusetts, site of the second trial