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HATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929 Page Three se pals ae BI | ; ; Copyright, 1929, by International Publishers Go., Ine, 40 Years for Centralia Boys; Jury Afterwards Admits Verdict Unjustified; Burns Exposed; “The Red Dawn”; Haywood Leaves U. S. In the last issue Haywood was describing the Centralia tragedy, and the frame-up trial of the unionists arrested after the shootii He told of the jury’s intimidation, their verdict of guilty, and reco mendation for mercy. At this time Haywood was himself under 20 years’ sentence, but was out on bonds during appeal of his case, All rights reserved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission. and was directing the I.W.W. General Defense. * * * By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD PART 114. “LABOR JURY” was elected from the A. F. of L. unions of Wash- ington state who attended the trial. The verdict of the labor jury was “Not guilty,” voting to give their report to the press. It was signed Theodore Meyer of the Everett Central Labor Council and John O. Craft of the Seattle Metal Trades Council. S John M. Wilson was the judge presiding at this trial. Vanderveer told him in open court: “There was a time when I thought your rulings were due to ignorance of the law. That idea will no longer ex- plain them.” Judge John M, Wilson sentenced the seven con- victed men to terms of from 25 to 40 years in the Walla Walla penitentiary. Though the jury had asked for lenicncy, the judge gave the men the limit of the law. These men are still in prison and there is a movement on foot for their release. Five of the regular jurymen have since sworn to affidavits that the verdict was unjust. One told of a preliminary ballot unanimously for acquittal. I tried to get each member of the I.W.W. who had been released from the penitentiary on bond to make a lecture tour in behalf of himself, his fellow workers, and the ‘organization generally. It was upon my suggestion that Ralph Chaplin went to the Northwest. While there he gathered material for his splendid pamphlet, The Centralia Conspiracy. id * * * ger application for a new trial had been denied by the United States Court of Appeals, though that court overruled one of the counts under which we were convicted and eliminated the fines that had been imposed upon us by Judge Landis. It is evident, however, that the court did not review the testimony. As for example, Clyde Hough, a young machinist from Rockford, Ill. was convicted with us though he was in prison at the time the Espionage Law was passed and remained there until finally sent to Leavenworth. He had had no chance to violate the law under which he was convicted, even had he wanted to, Then there was Walter T. Nef, who at the time of his arrest was secretary of the Marine Transport Workers at Philadelphia. Nef was a Swiss by birth, and felt a bitter antipathy towards the Kaiser and everything German. He was a protagonist of the war and had never hesitated to say how he felt about it. His appeal, like that of the rest of us, was denied. Our next move and last hope was to take the case to the United States Supreme Court, where it was pending when I left the country. The decision of this august body would determine whether or not we should return to Leavenworth prison, and with those who were still there, whether we should serve out the time of our sentences. I learned that President Harding was interviewed by Meyer Lon- don, Socialist congressman from the State of New York, and was told Ly the president that the I.W.W. members would be pardoned with the exception of Haywood, whom they were going to hold. * * * 'T was good news when I learned in 1924 of the downfall of William J. Burns, the director of the Department of Justice, who had been handling the affairs of this government department in the interests of his private detective agency. / The I.W.W. “came into possession” of personal documents af Wil- liam J. Burns, which they printed in their official organ. As a result of the exposure, Burns was dumped out on the dung heap where he properly belonged, and several detectives and agents provocateurs were discovered and expelled from the I.W.W. by the General Executive Board. When the reactionaries wanted to cast opprobrium upon the I.W.W. they would call us “Bolshevists.” We were sometimes hailed with ap- proval as “Bolsheviki” by the others. Immediately after the Russian Revolution, Harrison George began a pamphlet entitled Red Dawn. He vividly portrayed the historic de- velopment of the Russian Revolution. I had it published in February, 1918. Many thousands of copies were distributed. But when the new administration took over the headquarters in 1920, it reflected the op- | position which had developed in the I.W.W. against the state character of the Soviets, and the remainder of George’s pamphlet was destroyed. About this time a lengthy letter reached us addressed to the I.W.W. by the Communist International. This letter spoke of the situation of capitalism after the imperialist war, outlined the points in common held by the I.W.W. and the Communists, warned of the coming attacks on the workers, pictured the futility of reformism, analyzed the capitalist state and the role of the dictatorship of the proletariat and told how the Soviet state of workers and peasants was constructed. Such basic questions as “political” and “industrial” action, democratic centraliza- tion, the nature of the social revolution and of future society were gone into thoroughly. After I had finished reading it, I called Ralph Chaplin over to my desk and said to him: “Here is what we have been dreaming about; here is the I.W.W. all feathered out!” The receipt of this letter was a momentous circumstance in my somewhat eventful life, While it was addressed to the I.W.W. as an s| organization, I felt, as I knew many other members did, that it was | a tribute to ourselves, as each had helped to build this class conscious | movement. | * * * | N July 4th, 1920, I spoke at Renton Park, Seattle, where an enor- | mous crowd had gathered. After the meeting I was introduced to one of Wesley Everest’s closest friends. He had served with Everest | in the trenches and had been so badly injured in the back that it was impossible for him to move without assistance. Seattle meeting was something over $6,000. From Seattle I went to Portland, Ore., where another large meet- ing was held. George F. Vanderveer, the attorney, was the chairman. At this meeting considerable over $1,000 was raised for the defense. As soon as the consolidation of the Communist Party in the United States was effected, I became a member. John Martin was elected secretary of the General Defense Committee. I came on to New York City and there urged members of the Central Executive Committee and other leaders who were known to me that some effort must be made to get the Party or an organiza- tion representing it out from underground, giving it as my opinion that little would be accomplished until we could freely publish our papers and take a place on the public platform. % I spoke at several meetings for the defense, the last of which was held in the Rand School. At this meeting two of my co-defendants, who were out on bail, George Andreychine and Charles Ashleigh, were i also speakers. “ ‘ The income from the * * * ‘HE suggestion had been made.to me that I should go to Russia. There was little hope entertained of a favorable decision from the United States Supreme Court, and my friends thought it would be an unnecessary sacrifice for me to spend the rest of my life in prison. When I was told that I should go to Russia, I said: “It may not be 30 easy for me to get. away, but I will make the effort.” I was booked with other friends on the S.S. Oscar II, which had seen Henry Ford’s “peace ship.” After bidding my friends farewell, { stopped in the home of a Lettish family—my last night in the United 3tates. From there I went early in the morning to a hotel in Hoboken where I had breakfast. I then went to the wharf and direct to the yoat where I showed to the inspector what purported to be a passport. ‘ went aboard and down into the hold where a berth had been reserved. ‘ remained there until the ship was under way. When I came on deek ve were passing the Statue of Liberty. Saluting the old hag with her iplifted torch, I said: “Good-by, you’ve had your back turned on me 00 long. I am now going to the land of freedom.” * * * Tn the next issue, Haywood finishes his story. You can get Bill Haywood’s Book free with one year’s subscription to the Daily Worker. w SOCIALISTS PUT STATE OF SIEGE. ON HAMBURG CITY Workers at Socialist Meet Score Murders (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) BERLIN, May 17.—The Hamburg | senate consisting fifty per cent of| social-democrats today declared a state of siege in Hamburg. It or-| dered suppressed the Communist! newspapers “Hamburger Volks Zei-| ;tung” and “Norddeutsche Zeitung,” | as well as the prohibition of all leaf- | jlets of the Communist Party. It| | prohibited all meetings, either in the | | open air or in halls of the Commu- | nist Party and similar organizations. | This prohibition is effective be- | tween the seventeenth and twenty- first of May inclus' and is an at- tempt of the social-democrats to prevent the Red Front Fighters con- ferences scheduled for the week of |May 19. The _ social-democratic Heilmann, well-known for his con- nection with the corrupt Barmat deal, involving bribery and graft on an extensive scale, today proposed to withdraw parliamentary immun- ity from two Communist members of the Reichstag, Bertz and Florin, and the Reichstag agreed. Bertz is, accused of assault, and Florin of signing an appeal to the Ruhr miners, They will be turned over to the prosecutor of the capita- ist state, and may be sent to prison. A meeting of the social-democratitc party of Germany in Cologne dev oped lively scenes when the opposi- tion workers present condemned the social-democratie chief of police in Berlin, Zoergiebel, for his orders to shoot down workers engaged in May Day demonstrations, and declared the bourgeois policy of the social- democratic party responsible for the Berlin blood bath. The officiat speaker for the socialist youth join- ed the opposition, NEGRO PRESSERS IN BIG ROLE NOW Out of the many new industries in which Negro labor plays an im- portant role in Baltimore, the clean- ling and dyeing business may be as- cribed entirely to Negro Workers. | There is no other industry in this city where Negro labor so completely predominates. Especially is this true in the pressing business, where | we are worked at an alarming speed for wages that are extremely low and not infrequently cheated out in various ways by the employers, either by selling us some worthless |suits at an exorbitant price, or by saying that we drew during the week more money then we actually did draw. Negro pressers must al- ways draw money from day to day to subsist on, for their salaries are too small to carry them over from one week to another. | Negro workers need unions, and expecially in the cleaning and dye industry here. Our employers are constantly engaging new help for lower pay due to our competition for the job. We are constantly getting | less and less money, while our land- | lords and storekeepers are extorting | more from us all the time. We must junite. We must get together and de- | fend ourselves against lower condi- tions in our shops. We must also | fight against other abuses, as Jim- | Crowism, segregation and official | extortion when we buy our means of livelihood. It is true that our experience in or- ganization is little. The A. F. of L. has never given us a chance to or- ganize ourselves into their unions. They practice labor Jim-Crowism against us. To them we are in- dustrially, politically and socially “personsa non grata.” There is only one movement where we are received with open arms, as equal members»of the workingclass— the movement built and developed | by the Communist Party. We must look to its leadership. The Negro | masses must get close around the |Party and must ask it to guide us | and lead us into the victorious strug- | gle. | The pressers in the cleaning and | dyeing industry of Baltimore must | get ready for organization into a union. We must also affiliate our- selves with the Communist Party to \fight against the bosses, against |Jim-Crowism and white supremacy, | for full economic, social and politi- | cal equality. Machado, deputy, | th Imperialist Fiver UNITED FRUIT CO, me’ || OUSTS COLOMBIA BANANA WORKERS Import 10,000 Jamaica Negroes to Slave BOGOTA, Colombia, May 17 The importation of the 10,000 Ne- groes from Jamaica to replace the native Colombian workers on the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company and to destroy their union, has begun, according to a dis- patch to the bourgesis newspaper, ! \“El Espectador,” of Bosotg. A few weeks ago the United! Fruit Com; -:ny asked the Colombian government to permit the importa- tion of Negroes from Jamaica, and With French and Wall Street im- perialism planning long flights to | boost their air services, British im-| the company has already begun to | perialism does not want to be out-| import the Jamaicans in large num- done. So Frank Mase, New Zealand|bers. The “Federacion Obrera Sin- flyer, ig planning a flight from|Aical del Atlantico” (The Labor | London to New Zealand, “to boost| Union Federation of the Atlantic | AREA st! Coast of Colombia) sent a telegram | the British imperialisé air service.|to the Colombian minister oft fae eign affairs asking him whether the United Fruit Company had already |received that permi imported “amaicans were already ‘LEATHER WORKER | working in the banana fields of Santa Marta, where , Colombian |workers were being di 1. | The Labor Federation says in its ° * , (telegram to the minister that the Comments on Letter in | teal Fruit Contady reities to # . 5 take vengeance on the Colombian Daily Worker |workers for their participation in the recent strike, and to eliminate (By a Fancy Leather Goods Worker.) | Colombian workers altogether in In yesterday's issue of the Daily | their own country. Workers (Mey 16), appeared an ar-| Se ticle by a fancy leather goods work- er, calling upon the leather goods |f 5 |workers to defeat the administra- tion’s plans to betray the workers. On the whole, the article covers a! must lead one to the conclusion that i |Shiplacoff and his henchmen will sign any agreement (if it is not r we signed already) as long as they can Curtis Saves Secrecy on draw their fat salaries, It is likely . that Shiplacoff’s plan is to bring an Lenroot Vote }agreement with some “trimmings,” jeuss the disputed debenture pro a |sion of the farm relief bill, Chair- man MeNary of +the Senate Com- | mittee announced today. The adoption of a resolution to submit debentures to a joint com- mittee was by vote of 240 to 119,} jand followed a sharp debate, in| whichs various congressmen e sought| |to put themselves in a position to} |tell their farmer voters that they,| |personally did everything possible |for relief, and the forthcoming bill, which every one knows will give no | relief, is not their fault. | Condition of Trade. The writer above mentioned, how- ever, in calling for immediate strike mobilization, failed to mention the conditions of our trade generally and at this moment, which would more fully convince the workers of the absolute necessity for such a step. The manufacturers are getting richer from day to day, which they accomplish through a vicious system of speed-up and intensive exploita- tion of the workers. The introduc- tion of new machinery in the in- dustry seriously points to a chronic unemployment situation, whicl# will! Representative Pou, Dem., N. C., especially effect the cutters. The) said the “republican steam roller of unskilled and semi-skilled workers,|the House is in action to prevent a| (helpers) who constitute the largest} vote on the debenture plan. Your section of the trade, are most mis-| object is plain. You want to pre- erably abused and exploited. |vent a vote on the debenture plan.| Most radical changes must be ef-| You will then go back home and see | fected in the new agreement with | how your constituents stand. and! the bosses in order to lessen the ex-'then you will tell them you Would! ploitation to which we are at pres-| have vcted the way they want, and ent subjected. Therefore, the ques-|ycur speaker is violating the con- tions of 40-hour, five-day week, stitution to give you the privilege.” | j week work, one week trial, one mini-| Representative La Guardia of! mum scale for mechanics, a mini- New York said the democrats were mum scale for general helpers, as playing politics and the republicans well as the rest of the demands,/were too scared to come into the must be won. \open. Boss-Faker Conspiracy. At this very moment the union of-| , z = ficials, with’ their conspiracy of, Meanwhile the Senate held up its) silence and do-nothing, and the vote to anDprove of the appointment bosses through lay-offs, discharge Qf the notorious power trust agent, and discrimination of workers in all) Senator Irving I, Lenroot, of Wis- kinds of ways, ate together cooper-|O°Si" to the post of justice of the Pou Explains Plan. | Secret Vote on Lenroot. | ion as many?Cooperation of British authorities, e Wall Street Puppet in Cuba, to s German Militaris The contemplated trans-Atlan to boost German gnilitarism, had trouble. The Graf Zeppelin is Revolt in the ‘Belgian Is Ruthlessly LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Congo State, (By Mail).—With the active the Belgian colonial government in| Ruanda has drowned in blood the revolt. of the natives who rose in protest against their exploitation by the Belgian oppress Robbed and Kidnapped. Land had been taken away from the natives and handed over to the concession companies. The natives, | who formerly owned the lands, were carried off to work in the copper | mines of Kantanga. As a result of this robbery and the kidnapping of the natives, the fields were not tilled and a famine broke out. The situa- tion of the natives reached an un- usually severe state with unlimited suffering. Revolts of the natives started in Anko and Uganda. The leader of the revolt was brother of the king of Ruanda, assisted by a priest- ess of the sect of Nya Bingri. This sect announced that justice in Africa | will only return when the European oppressors have been driven out and j Hee WASHINGTON, May 17=Com-| annealed to the natives to rie | Berens! (vo make iy lool better) anittees representing the House and|cinet the iemme | but will be basically worse than the | Soto will meet Monday ie de) against the invaders. | other. nate will meet Monday: to dis- Natives Revolt, The revolt spread to Gastsibou, where native princes known to be} dered. The Belgians were driven! out and a number of officials were | killed. A military expedition armed | with afl modern methods of colonial | warfare, was sent out by the Belgian governor-general, who defeated the natives after a bitter struggle. The leaders of the revolt fled to the neighboring territory of Uganda where they were immediately arrest- ed by the British authorities and handed over to the Belgians. British troops acted jointly with the Bel- gian troops and occupied Kyante, which was regarded as the center of the revolt. For the time being the revolt has been broken, but only machine guns and rifles can estab- lish the authority of the oppressors, | and ultimately it will be broken, * + To Hold Meet. | On May 24, at Harlem Casino, Lenox Ave. and 116th St.,"the All- America Anti-Imperialist League | will hold a conference of all Negro | and labor organizations of New York wher the question of the fight for freedom being conducted by the oppressed masses of Africa will be discussed. ALMA RUEBENS INSANE. LOS ANGELES, May 16.—Alma Ruebens, cne of the high priced ladies of the screen until she began to take too much dope became in- ating to break the backbone of the| union membership. Not only did | the administration fail in calling special meetings for mobilization andsinformation purposes, but even failed to call the regular monthly meeting. Any worker can see what dis- aster this will bring to our union if we remain with our hands folded. Immediate mobilization for struggle must be on the lips of every fancy leather goods worker. Report at Least 2,000) Killed In Persia Quake | | TEHERAN, Persia, May 17.—The | death toll in the earthquake recent- ly reported along the Soviet-Persian border totals about 2,000, the gov- ernor of Kkorassan reported today after a trip through the stricken area. Another 2,000 persons were injured and the crops damaged to such an extent that the food situa- tion is desperate. Union Lists Cafeterias | The following cafeterias have set- jtled with the union and workers |who have to eat in cafeterias should patronize them: | Pearl, 94 Fifth Ave.; New Gold, 554 Eighth Ave.; Roman, 119 W. 26th St.; Waldorf, 12 W. 27th St.; Royal, 436 Sixth Ave.; Adele, 118 Second Ave.; Moon, 13 W. 27th St.; |College, 883 Sixth Ave.; Terminal, 54 W. 18th St.; Tower, 154 Delan- cey St.; Morsel, 67 E. 8th St.; State, 611 Sixth Ave.; Haynes, 411 Broad- way; Rialto, 556 Seventh Ave.; H. Which Have Signed Terms ,P., 234 W. 26th St.; Original, 5 W. | 21st St.; B. and B., 484 Sixth Ave.; | Finer Food, 240 W. 35th St.; Shel- don, 865 Sixth Ave.; Consolidated, 645 Broadway; Eureka, 40 W, 18th St.; Savoy, 6 E. 18th St.; Melrose, | 109 Delancey St.; U. S., 63 E, 8th) |St.; Natural, 6 W. 2ist St. Workers should also patronize the | Proletcos Cafeteria, 26 Union Sq.; Unity Co-operative Cafeteria, 1800 Seventh Ave., and the United, 2735 |White Plains Rd., Bronx. These ’ cafeterias are never on strike, U. S. Court of Customs Appeals, to sane today and attacked her nurse. Abandon Zeppelin Flight tic flight of the Graf Zeppelin, to be abandoned, duc to motor 2 above. t Congo Suppressed ‘REDS’ DEFEATED IN MIMIC WAR Forces of, Wall Street Practice , COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 17. climax inethe “air battle” now being waged between the so-called “Red” and “Blue” forces, as a pre-war maneuver and a scheme to get pub- licity for the Wall Street air forces, will be reached tomorrow. Accompanied by 21 fast pursuit | ships, five Keystone bombers, each armed with six machine guns and carrying more than a ton of high ex- plosive “bombs” from the “Red” camp at Norton Field here, descend- | ed late today upon Fairfield Airport, near Dayton, base of the “Blue” army. The primary purpose of the man- @uver is to stir up interest in the air service, in order é0 lure canon fodder for the coming imperialist war. A hint of what was in store for | friendly to the foreigners were mur-| the workers in the coming war was given the workers here in the im- perialist air maneuvers, Buenos Aires Workers Strike Against Rats BUEN®6S AIRES, (B, Mail). — Thee hundred workers of the Buenos Aires Railway Company went on strike on account of the rats in the railway repair shops. They declare that the rats are threaten- ing to spread the bubonic plague and that they will not return to work until the rats are exterminated. The company in answer advised the workers to have themselves in- | oculated voluntarily with anti-bu- bonic vaccine. —— The Communist Party is the po- litical leader of the working class. —Stalin. Deport W orkers WORKERS OFFICE RAIDED; MANY ARE ARRESTED Literature Confiscated, | Keep Close Watch HAVAN M —The headquarter ainian work- ers’ organiz: n here, “Uniey,” was raided May 6 by the police of Dic- tator Machado, Yankee imperialism’s puppet president in Cuba. The police confiscated all records and lite ure found, and arrested the off and all active members of the organization for deportation to Europe. | Ivan Kovalchuk, dice, Basil Martinuk, and Daniel Tokalo were among those | arrested, ted to this organ- |ization are Czechoslovakian and Yu- goslavian emigrants, but the per- secutions are mainly directed against Ukr ian 1 Ru | ers natural-born Bolsheviks. Nothing incriminating has been found among the newspapers and books monfiscated, but the capitalist Nicholas Fase- press makes a big noise about the ¢ons of Communist literature that were supposed to e been found and about the “dangerous Commu- mst agitators” arrested. eee oe The Novy Mir, New York Com- munist weckly in the Russian lan- guage, and the Ukrainian Daily News have received telegrams from workers in Cuba asking them not to send their papers to them because the police are watching closely and are ready to persecute them at any preten: The International Labor Defense is working on the cases, Marine ‘Workers Hear ‘Bill Dunne Tomorrow — “The Organization of the Unor- ganized” will be discussed by Bill |Dunne, member of the council of the Red International of Labor Union- ism, at the Seamen’s Club, 28 South St., at 8 p. m. Sunday. In the course of his talk Dunne will deal largely with teh organiza- tion of teh %ew seamen’s industrial union to be discussed at the Cleve- land Trade Union Unity Conven- tion June 1. Discussion and ques- tions will follow the lecture. The Marine Workers League urges seamen to ensure attendance at the meeting and contribute to the discussion, | nes see SAY MEXICO DISCOVERED IN 1170. PARIS, May 17 (UP).—From the sere pages of a crumbling yellow {book in the British museum, Stella |Cleaver-Cox, well known historical and archaeological research worker, \believes she has reconstructed the \daring adventure of Prince Madoc of England and his band of Welsh- |men, who as early as 1170 journeyed across the sea to a land believed to be on the gulf of Mexico. Among all the classes that con- front the bourgeoisie today, the | proletariat alone is really revolu- tionary—Marx. —Just RED CARTOONS 1929 Off the Press! \the Senate, ruled that this vote re- argue whether the vote for secret| sessions should be made public, | Senators who thought it inadvis- able to vote for Lenroot mustered 38 v@es te make the vote public, against 86 who wanted to vote for| Lenroot, but were afraid to let the workers and farmers know they} were doing it. Vice President Cur- tis, in his capacity of chairman of| She has heen committed to the city psychopathic ward. 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