The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1929, Page 2

Two ALL NAILED UP IN ELIZABETHTON Senators Reverse Probe Vote; Hear of Strike i 8 Pa (Continued from workers here the s There is a real victorious struggle leadership of the Workers. Union, something w rayon wor and determi been shamefull T. W. The Ke man clique came three month: y mised” the men bac Battled Militia The strike sta later, and picket vigorously again tuted by deput with tear gas, bayonetted rifl Thugs fro: mill companies dynamited the strik- ers’, water supply and the strikers’ homes. Militiamen bayonetted girl strikers. Over a hundred pickets| were arrested for violation of an in- junction against picketing issued in the first strike, under w! were made in the second strik A delegation of abethton | strikers is visiting Gastonia, to see how the N. T. W. I. U. conducts t fight. Again Sidetrack Probe. WASHINGTON, May manufacturers, committee senate today again rever: and shunted the investigation starvation in southern textile mills, requested by a resolution introduced into the senate, to the federal trade commission. Hearings on this ed several weeks bosses and the offici breaking United T. Were heard. When a delegation of Gastonie strikers arrived to testify, the committee adjourned for over week, until, they had left Washing- ton. The committee voted to turn the whole investigation over to the fed- eral trade commission, then recon- “sidered, and by a vote of 6 to 5 de- cided the senate should investigate. | Now they have again reversed them- | selves, and the probe is burried in the routine of the federal trade com- mission. The vote to have the senate in- vestigate came just after news that the labor department spies and the U, T. W. had sold out the rayon strike. The present vote comes as news arrives that the Elizabethton workers may strike again. Hatfield Decides. The vote to have the commissions instead of the senate make the in- vestigation follows: For: Deneen, Rep., Ill.; Hale, Rep., Majne; Metcalf, Rep., R. I.; Hatfield, Rep., West. Va.; Goldsborough, Rep., Md.; and Smith, S. C. Against: Lafollette, Rep., Wis.; MeNary, Rep., Ore.; Wheeler, Dem., Mont.; Sheppard, Dem., Tex.; and Tyson, Dem., Tenn. Senator Hatfield’s was the decid- ing vote. Last week he voted against the senatorial investigation, carry- ing the committee with him. Mon- day he voted for a senatorial in- vestigation, once more casting the deciding vote. Yesterday, under the impression that the Elizabethton strike was over, Secretary of. War Good prom- ised to investigate the illegal use of Tennessee national guard unifor and rifles and othe strike breaking purp: Strike was going on, G: statement saying that information” convinced him it was all right for the militia equipment to be used. WATT CONVICTED IN HERRIN CASE S equipment for While the d issued a Men Enraged at UMW ‘ Frame-up of Leader * {Continued from Page Onc) United Mine Workers. There was not a shred of evidence against him, i Sneed Heads Attack. William Sneed, district vice-presi- dent of the U. M, W. A. and Illinois state senator, took charge of the case against Watt, aided in the at- tempt to terrorize and browbeat Watt and others arrested with him, got William Mattheson and Bernard arrested when they arrived to fur- nish bonds for Watt, and gave every evidence of being the actual prose- cutor. The U. M. W. is fighting desper- ately with every corrupt means in its control to stop the growth and prevent the meetings of the Na- tional Miners Union in southern Il- linois, and is failing. The Herrin miners especially are enraged at the freming of Watt, who is an Il- lineis miner himself, and are join- _ ing the N. M. U. in numbers. The Watt case has been appealed by the International Labor Defense to the circuit court. RECOUNT HAGUE VOTE. JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 29.— The ballots which gave Mayor Frank _ Hague and his fellow democrat can- - didates a victory over the fusion | ticket in the clection here May 14, ~ ah it was decided here today, “volunteer | recounted beginning Monday | ATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929 Jingoists American Legion and other “patr capitalism. These Mock Wall Str jingoists, howl eet Victims. g held today by the ” organizations controlled by ing for another imperialst war, mock the victims of Wall Strect who fell in the last imperialist world war. Urge Unity of Party on Basis ot Address trom Comintern CANTER GIVEN | YEAR IN JAIL HORTHY INU, $2 parties in the field, namely, the Conservative, Liberal and Labor Party. Dragged from Court as Scorés Fuller Page One) ¢ of the desire to inflict n him as soon as possible the se- vere conditions pr ling at Deer Island, Another on for rushing Can- ter into his prison term is that he ‘o be the main speaker at the D. picnic at Caledonia Grove Roxbury, Mass., tomorrow. mond peremptorily d nm made in cour for a new trial. Deer Island is where the Palmer were held Appeal Unfair Triai. is appealing to the basis of the during the and demands that he be given while. Canter was brought c trial Thursday, charged with riminal libel because he carried a sign in a demonstration during the Communist Party election campaign on which was written, “Fuller— Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti.” The judge, in his charge to the {3 specified that they must find Canter guilty unless they were con- vinced that Fuller, then governor of the state, murdered Sacco and Van- tti with his own hand. He also to prove Fuller’s connection with |the frame-up and electrocution of the two workers, and sent the jury out of ihe room while such evidence was being presented by attorneys of Additional Endorsements Received from Party ‘he Sacco-Vanzetti defense, and Organizations and Functionaries (Continued from Page One) FOR MASS COMMUNIST PARTY. As proletarian Central Committee member I fully and wholehearted- | ly approve and endorse the Address of the Comintern to the membership of our Party. I also approve the unanimous Polcom action. I will exert every effort to carry decision into full effect amongst entire member- ship. Forward to a united Mass Comintern —JOHN KAMP, Detroit Communist Party. Mich. Long live the SUPPORTS ADDRESS TO THE UTMOST. The last factional strife was rui could do no different than it has done. do my utmost to support it and hope no member will fail to do so.— ZARTARIAN, Editor, Norashkor. pus to the Party. The Comintern I welcome the address and will GREEK EDITOR ENDORSES UNCONDITIONALLY. I endorse unconditionally the Address of the Executive Committee of the Communist International—Editor Empros, Greek Communist Daily, New York, SCANDINAVIAN EDITOR ACCEPTS LETTER. I accept and endorse without reservations the Comintern letter and the decision of the Poleoom.—ALBERT PEARSON, Editor of N. Y. Tid, Scandinavian Communist organ. LUPIN ENDORSES FULLY. I fully endorse the Ganintar Ieier, Leng, jive the. Gommanist | UODeNAlEtS International—ABRAHAM LUPIN, » New’ York. ENDORSEMENT FROM WILMINGTON DELAWARE. I wholeheartedly endorse and pledge support to the Comintern Address to liquidate factionalism.—N. MILO, Wilmington, Delaware. DECISIVE STEP. TOWARD LIQUIDATING FACTIONALISM. I wish to state that I welcome the Address sent to the American Party by the Comintern as a decisive step toward the final liquidation of factionalism and factional groupings in the Party, toward the cleans- ing of the Party of the impermissible political methods which have been used by both groups in the factional struggle and the re-orientation of the Party on the correct line for the struggle against imperialism and the capitalist offensive, The C omintern has in this Address shown itself again as in the past as the leader of the American Party along the true Communist line and the membership should rally to the support of this leadership with united forces—JULIET STUART POYNTZ, New York City. FOR COMPLETE AND REAL COMMUNIST UNITY. I accept fully and unconditionally the Comintern letter and the decisions of the Polcom ‘of the American Party relative to this letter. I pledge myself to work wholeheartedly to carry out these decisions in letter and spirit against factionalism, for complete and real Com- munist unity in our Party-ROBERT ZELMS, Organization Secretary, District No. One (Boston) Communist Party of the United States. RUSSIAN FRACTION SECRETARY FOR LETTER. As a loyal member of the Communist International I accept its Ad- dress to our Party and will work to carry out its decision. The Central Bureau of the Russian Fraction will meet and define its position in regard to the Address of the Communist International.— A. STRIZ, Secretary of Russian Bu | FOR BUILDING POW reau, Communist Party. ERFUL MASS PARTY. After reading carefully the Open Letter of the Communist Interna- tional and the decisions unanimously adopted by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America we wish to state that Comintern. we are first, last and all the time loyal members and supporters of the We, will, therefore, endorse wholly and unreservedly the political and organizational decisions and we will work hard to put them into effect. Factionalism must be done away with for good as the first prerequisite to the building of a powerful mass Communist Party in the United States, For the editorial | PIRES, PETER HAGELIAS AND * District No. 5 Adopts Resolution. The District Bureau of District No, 5 (Pittsburgh) has adopted the following two resolutions: 1—The District Bureau of District 5 of the Communist Party of 5 U, S. A. fully endorses the addresses of the Comintern and the decisions (of the C. E. C. and pledges itself to carry them out without reserva- tions We pledge ourselves to take) energetic mc>-ures to win over the |entire membership for the unquali- fied support of the Address and| |to carry on a relentless struggle | against the right danger and crystal- lize the leftward drift of the work- lers into a struggle against war and capitalist rationalization and to build | the Party during these struggles. The secretariat is instructed to immediately arrange a membership |meeting in Pi.cburgh and to tour | representatives of the District Exe- cutive Committee to all outlying |units to discuss the Open Letter to jthe VIth Party Convention and the Address to the membership. | 2.—We recognize it as mistake of | Distriet Five Delegation to the 6th | National Conventicn to sign a reso- |lution wh:.) had as its purpose slan- dering and undermining the Open Letter and the organizational de- S staff of a Vangnasda—RAPHAEL ELI KELLER, New Bedford, Mass. tcisions, the only guaranty for real- | izing the Open Letter. This is the first prerequisite to the understand- ing and realization of the Open Let- |ter in this district—Abram Jakira, acting district organizer, District Five, Pittsburgh. * * 8 Section 3, N. Y. District, Takes Action. . The Bureau of Section 3, District 2, New York resolved unanimously: 1.—To accept the address to the membership by the Comintern print- cl in the Daily Worker on May 20, unreservedly and unconditionally. 2.—To endorse the decision of the Central Committee of the Party in regard to the open letter and the \address, and to give wholehearted \antd sincere support to the Central Committee in its carrying out of decisions of the Comintern, 8.—To rally the membership of jour section behind the decisions of the Comintern, 4.—To call upon all comrades of all groups and factions to renounce all caucuses and former groupings |for the purpose of @ real unifica- |tion of the Communist Party of the U, S, A.—Bureau, Section Three, District 2, New York others. He refused to allow Fuller jto be forced on the stand, | The jury, after less than itwo hours’ consideration, acted on the frame-up orders of Judge Raymond, jand found Carter guilty, Friday. From his prison Canter issued to- day a written statement, covering much of what he wished to say in court. He condemns the executors ef Sacco and Vanzetti, and expresses \his solidarity with the working class, also praises the International ! Labor Defense for its work in his behalf. | The International Labor Defense in Boston has pledged itself to mob- lize a mass movement for Canter’s release,. and to re-open the Sacco jand Vanzetti case, _ SOVIET CONSULS Seek to Provoke War (Continued from Page One) some time back by Chiang and his imperialist allies is born out by the fact that the Nanking war lord had published last week what he pur- ported to be documentary proof of an “alliance between Moscow and Feng,” who is leading the armies against the Nanking regime. It is to prepare the way for further im- | perialist invasion of China, in the} iface of the growing revolutionary movement that these raids were made, the consular staffs arrested! took the seat just behind Woll, in |the papers. The funny part about and the papers and documents found in the consulates carted to the gov-/ ernment offices, in an attempt to ‘invent and forge “proof” of the “Moscow maneuvers.” Another reason for the raids is the desire of the Nanking regime and the imperialists to gain full con- part of which is controlled by the | Soviet government, in ovder to use the road in an attack against the | Soviet Union. Despite the strenuous protest of the Soviet Consulates the consular | officials were kept in jail while the | documents were taken away, and 36 | persons are still imprisoned. as Wik, SHANGHAI, China, May 29.— | Letters from missionaries in Honan |province indicate that Marshali Feng Yu-tsiang, between whom the Nanking regime a state of war ex- \ ists, is busy maneuvering his troops, \in preparation for his drive on Chi- yang Kai-shek. LYNCH NEGRO FARM LABORER (Continued from Page One) bee, jim-crow, gentlemanly tradi- tions of the south, and hung. Sheriff “Learns.” The sheriff who arrested Boxley | explained that he had “learned that the Negro was working in a near- by field” when the attack was sup- posed to have taken place. Lynchings have taken place be- fore in Tennessee. Horner, who sent the militia against the strikers of Elizabethton and has |turned his back on lynchings be- | fore, the only thing that can be ex- | pected is the shielding of the men who led the mob. Boxley remained composed until | the end. His body was found later |hanging from a tree four miles from the town, MERCHANTS’ BUND HAS 8,044 The Merchants Association has completed a membership drive in which it added 2,004 new members, bringing its membership to 8,044 corporations, firms and business men in New York. It fights labor and is fog imperialism, barred from the record all evidence | From Governor | P’ HITINVASION OF CAMPAIGN BY PROMISES HOOVER FRAMEUP Hungarian Fascisti in Anti-“Red” Drive (Continued from Page One) League, affiliated with the, Anti- Fascist Federation, exposed the of- ficial alliance the Hun- ‘garian fascisti here and the Horthy regime in Hungary. Feher, also of the League, and John Mitchell, dis- trict organizer of the Communist Party, spoke, between Mayor Supports Fascisti. The forceful breaking up of the enti-fascist demonstration to take |place tonight before the hotel in which the “Horthy Parliament” is holding its sessions, was promised today to the Hungarian fascisti by Frank X. Schwab, millionaire mayor of Buffalo, who officially opened the sessions of the parliament today, The Anti-Horthy Alliance, which has 25,600 members, together with | the Anti-Fascist Federation, with which it is affiliated, and the Com- munist Party in Buffalo have de- clared their intention of holding their demonstration. despite the brutality of the police who have been offered to the fascisti by the {mayor. Anti-Communist Drive. Arthur Vakar, official representa- tive of Horthy in this country, un- der whose direction the “parliament” was arranged, is present at the fas- \cist sessions in Buffalo. session today the fascisti decided jupon launching a drive against |Communists in this country and for ‘their deportation. A nationa! press jclub was formed to seek publicity for the fascist aims. During the sessions of the Hor- thyites here th political reactionary | alliances were reflected by the hold- ing of separate caucuses by the Catholic priests, already openly al- lied with Italian fascism, and the veformed Evangelic priests. At a pre-convention caucus five members of the executive council of nine jwere already elected. There was a minority fight for Kosztin, editor of \the Buffalo Hirado, Horthy sheet, |who took for himself the money col- jlected by the Hungarian reactionar- ies for the Petoffi monument, MORERAIDSON © Woll Has Heart-to-Heart Talk With Daily Worker Reporter | (Continued from Page One) ers” who, later, seated in the train, ate some sandwiches from a lunch- ,box in the most shameless fashion. “From the Press, of Course.” | Mr. Woll assumed that because | ithe Daily Worker reporter was ap- | |parently fraternizing with the rep- | jresentatives of the capitalist press \that he was “one of the boys.” It ;was warm, no evening papers were | available, so why shouldn’t the |“great” man be sc: able? The writer couldn’t ask any “lead- ing questions,” of course, The train pulled in. Woll clam- |bered in, followed by the naive re- porter. The latter thoughtfully order not to appear too intrusive. “You're a lawyer, also, aren’t you, Mr. Woll?” was the deferential question, “Sure, I'm a Lawyer!” Woll admitted that he was a bar- rister. “Studied law at nights at the Lake Forest Law School in Chi- | trol of the Chinese Eastern Railway, |cago while working at my trade as | |photo-engraver,” he confided rather | proudly. | “Were you planning to practice jlaw?” | “Yes,” he replied. “But the year I passed the bar I went as a dele- |gate to the convention of our union |— the photo-engravers—and the boys wanted me to become interna- tional president.” The reporter could not restrain his jadmiration for Woll’s manifold ac- complishments, Q. “Are there many young fel- lows coming up in the Federation who show qualities of leadership?” A. “Oh, there are some.” Q. “Are most of them, eh, pro- gressive—or are they more or less ecnservative ?” It “Depends.” A. “Oh, it depends. Of course, ‘progressive’ or ‘conservative’ doesn’t mean much. The way I look at it, it’s easy for a man on the floor to point out the shortcomings of the fellows at the top; but just oon as that fellow gets into a position of responsibility he sobers down. And the reason for that is found in the fact that just as soon as he gets around a conference table with the employer, he runs into a lot of problems he never thought of be- fore.” i e reporter was quick to ex- ress appreciation for clarification on the subject. Q. “By the way, Mr. Woll, why does the A. F. of L. permit the Communists to run those strikes down south? It was always my idea that it was the prerogative of the Federation to lead strikes when they come up.” A. “It doesn’t always work out that way. Whoever is there, is { there, They’re just in it for the raoney’and the publicity.” (Note:—Woll is known as a “publicity hound” among labor reporters on the bourgeois pi He draws fat salaries from se eral different organizations.) A lull in the conversation. It’s shot in the train. Woll looks at his At their | The British elections take place The Communist Party is the only workingclass champion. today. There are three capitalist Due to the difficulties put in the way by bourgeois law the Communist Party has | only 26 candidates in the field. By A. JONES (London). | “The Labor Party has emerged from heing a Party of protest, from being a band of dreamers, from being pioneers of a better order; it is now a Party with a complete program for the national needs.” (Glasgow “Forward,” May 11, 1929—organ of, Inde- | pendent Labor Party.) | | In all bourgeois ‘democratic” elec- tiens, the main characteristic of the | election manifestos issued by all the bourgeois parties is that they consist of a list of promises to the electors. In this respect, the election mani- festo issued by the British Labor | Party is a typical bourgeois election {document. It contains no analysis of | the present situation in Britain, it | formulates no demands, it has no program—just a list of promises. | Party of Capitalism. | Even within these bourgeois limits, | the Labor Party is considerably | handicapped, because it is not a free | | political party, it is a party of capi- | | talist lieutenants, Take, for example, | the burning issue of the general elec- tion: unemployment, When these docile servants of | | capitalism have uttered a word, they look backwards to see what effect | jit has had upon the masters they | serve, Thus, while we find no word | Jabout socialism in the manifesto, there is a declaration that “The La-| bor Party is neither Bolshevist nor | Communist. It is opposed to force, revolution, and confiscation as means | of establishing the new social order. |It believes in ordered progress and in democratic methods.” And this | is the only declaration of faith made | throughout the manifesto, | While every line of the manifesto | | breathes the bourgeois character of | | the Labor Party, a striking illustra- | tion of its complete dependence upon | |bourgeois public opinion is to be |found in the references to the Trade Union Act and the Miners Eight- |Hours Act. These two laws were re- | garded by the workers at large as | a retaliation by the conservatives for | the General Strike and the miner’s | lockout, and there was no doubt in {their minds that the Labor Party | would not only declare their inten- | oe and expresses concern about |missing his appointment at the Cen- jteal Labor Council in Jersey City \that night, | Those Bolsheviks. The interview is resumed. “I see where Russia is sending some flyers over to the United | States,” the reporter ventured. “It’s a. pretty long trip, 5,000 miles. I wonder if the government will let ‘em in?” | Woll: “Oh, I guess they will, al- vight, although these Russians be- hind the flight are just interested in \getting publicity, If the trip is a | success, of course they’ll get into all | those Russians is that they say they hate capitalism and still their great jhero in the United States is Henry Ford, who wouldn’t be what he is lif it weren’t for ‘capitalism.’ ” | The Daily Worker reporter ob- | served that it WAS “an interest- ing paradox,” but hastened to venture “that the Russian workers | simply wanted to utilize Ford's | technique and — organizational | genius for the benefit of the masses of the population.” No reply. Woll drew his match-lighter from jhis vest pocket and re-lit his Cor- (ona-Corona. He graciously offered |the “Daily” reporter a cigar, but |the latter declined onthe ground \that he deesn’t smoke. \ Hypocritical Even in Details. “Wish I had never started,” Woll |vemarked, and puffed away con- |tentedly. He looked out into the |blue Hudson. The sun was setting. “That sure was a fine ride up here lin that boat,” he said, (Woll and \the rest of the Council had come up tion of repealing these two infamous | laws, but that this would be the first | action of a Labor Government. But in their manifesto the Labor Party do not even mention the word “repeal,” and instead of finding this | in the forefront of their program, it is mentioned only incidentally: “Among the other measures (our bold face) which a Labor Govern- ment would enact are its Factories Bill, the ratification of the Washing- ton Eight Hours Convention, and the | amendment (bold face ours) of the) Workmen’s Compensation Acts and | the Trade Union Law.” | When it comes to a question of rationalization, however, they feel on much safer ground, for here they are speaking directly to their mas- ters. Here the manifesto speaks openly and definitely, It is true, a sentence is thrown in that a Labor | majority would nationalize the mines | and minerals (of course, with com- pensation, being implied), and this is | the only instance throughout the) manifesto in which nationalization | is mentioned. With regard to industry generally, “a Labor Government will set to work at once by using export credits and trade facilities guarantees, to/| stimulate the depressed export trades | of iron and steel, engineering ana textile manufactures,” Then again: “It will also, as promised, appoint committees of enquiry into the causes of depression in the cotton and iron and steel industries with a view to their organization.” No word even about nationalization or state control, the one time articles of “socialist” faith of the Labor Party, but just capitalist “reorgani- zation.” What has the Labor manifesto to say about the question of imperialist exploitation, and in particular, the | burning issue of imperialist oppres- sion in India and the awakening of the Indian masses? The only refer- ence to the Empire is the following: | “There is a greater market overseas, especially in India and the Crown Colonies, where there are enormous | populations with a very low standard of living and vast undeveloped re-| sources.” Even the one-time Liberal- Labor demand for self-government within the Empire is omitted, and all that Labor can see in the Em- pire is a market for super-profit! Grovelling Election “Program.” It is therefore not surprising that | even the Tories are somewhat stag- gered by the extreme moderation of the Labor Party’s manifesto, In his speech opening the election cam- paign at Albert Hall, Baldwin de- elared: “So great is the spirit of moderation at the moment in the speeches and literature of the so- cialist party that we all rub our eyes and ask, ‘Can these be the same men who preached the fiery propaganda of the last election?’ It seems to me jas though they were men who have forsaken their old gods of Etna and Vesuvius and are recommending worship at the shrines of Highgate and Hampstead.” Hampstead are typical bourgeois districts in London.) that the Tories are finding it really difficult to dig out points of con- troversy with their Labor “op- ponents.” The one time bogey of the capital levy has been long ago buried by the Labor Party, and even its successor the surtax has been dis- ereetly dropped, which reduced Bald- win to complain in his Albert Hall speech: “The surtax is in hiding. He may be detected in the shadows, but he is not in the spotlight.” Communists Expose Imperialist Role. The same idea is expressed in the comment of the “Daily Telegraph” (May 10, 1929) in connection with Comrade Saklatvala’s (Communist Member of Parliament) speech in the House of Commons on May 9, which described Saklatvala as “horri- fied by the recent conversion of sa many Labor men to respectability and the British Empire.” The “Tele- graph” concludes with the remark that “Mr. Saklatvala’s denunciation is, of course, honey to the Labor Party in its present efforts to ap- pear extremely respectable in its electoral opinions. . . .” We can add, to West Point in the palatial yacht of William R. Todd, millionaire.) The writer was tired and hot. John Leary, ‘Jr., of the “World” and Louis Stark of the “Times” had rolled up into the West Point Academy grounds in a new model Cadillac. But the Daily Worker reported had hitch-hiked up. He was quite tired. Thus, in spite of the animated conversation, he fell asleep, o 8 @ “Here we are, young fellow!” Woll was touching my shoulder. He thoughtfully woke me up. We walked together to the Weehauken ferry, and stood on the prow, watch- ing the old tubs jammed with sweat- ling workers returning to their Jer- sey “cottages”—“so that the kids ean get some air. * * © We arrived at 42nd St. New York. “Well, I've got to hurry now. *T'll see you again, young fellow,” said Woll, offering his hand, quite unconscious of my perfidy and his own gullibility, “Good-bye, Mr, Woll, glad I met jyou.” ” The vice-president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor hailed a toxi and was off, The Daily Worker reporter boarded a rumbling surface car to the B. M. T, station, thence to Union Square, ,. ay ' oa SEMIS sgt it is not just an appearance of re- spectability, for respectability is the very soul of the Labor Party. This manifesto of the Labor Party brings out the role of the Inde- pendent Labor Party in the most striking form. The moderate Liberal character of the manifesto compelled even the Independent Labor Party | to “criticize” it; they could not af-| ford, as the “socialist vanguard” of the Labor Party, to keep silent. We now have before us the Inde- pendent Labor Party. “Appeal for Socialism,” which begins: “Your Na- tional Council calls on you for un- stinted service on behalf of the La- hor candidates.” It claims the Labor Party as the challenger of capitalist society, adding that in that claim and in that task to which it (a Labor Government) “will devote its genius and its strength, it will receive the whole-hearted support of every mem- ber of the Independent Labor Party,” Here we have the hypocritical and treacherous role of the Independent Labor Party in its most naked form. While “criticising” this openly pro- war, pro-rationalization manifesto, they call upon the workers to return a Labor Government which will carry through, this manifesto; in other words, to return to power a govern- ment of counter-revolutionary war and reactionary offensive against the hich Ook tots ae rD (Highgate and! The fact is| war conscription, tag" bor Party Fights Loyalty for Empire EXPERTS PROBING FACTORY CITIES End Debenture Farce; Speed Draft Laws (Continued from Page One) fight for wages and conditions, is covered with the convenient excuse that there are gangs there. End Debenture Farce? The joint committee from the house and the senate which has held the farm bill deadlocked over the debenture clause, today began to hint strongly that it has agreed to drop debentures. Hoover is op- posed to them, the reason for put~ ting them in is to free certain sen- ators of the charges facing them at home that they did nothing for the farmers, and this debenture scheme, which could not be of any use “ the real agriculturists, has s as their excuse, But now it is necessary the matter, in order to make the proposed three month’ at the end of which Seer War Good’s legislation provi 4 for complete industrial and man power conscription during the ap- proaching imperialist war, will be ready. Tariff Bars Worker Papers The Hoover tariff bill, which passed the house yesterday by a strictly machine majority, is now be- fore the senate, and Senator Smoot, head of the finance committee stat- ed today that secret hearings and discussion in his committee will de- lay his report on it until Sept. 1, thus providing another excuse to call the congress into session three months from now for the militar- ist features being worked out by Good. The senate finance committee de- cided today to start closed session hearings on the tariff bill June 11, Only witnesses who did not appear before the house ways and means committee will be heard. The tariff bill was jammed thru the house without any real amend- ments being permitted, and contains the clause prohibiting the importa- tion of revolutionary literature on which there has not been allowed any debate whatever. ANOTHER MILL IN GASTONIA STRIKE Dixon Workers Fight Slave Driving (Continued from Page One) accused Smith of allowing some waste to stay on the floor, altho Smith had just swept up, Wilson attacked Smith who put up a good fight. The other workers in the mill re- sented the straw boss’s action and protested. Wilson told them if they did not like his action they could leave the mill. They then walked out of the mill, held a meeting, drew jup their demands and elected their | committee to call on the superin- i | tendent. The National Textile Workers Union and the Workers International | Relief is preparing to conduct the picketing and relief activities of the new strike. The workers of the Loray mill who have been on strike since April 1, greeted the new strik- ers with open arms and have pledged joint struggle with them until they | are victorious. | 75 Hours a Week. he conditions in the Dixon mil! aré very bad, many of the workers | toiled as long as 75 hours a week. | Pickers, who must supply both the night and day shift, ran 5,040 pounds daily, and worked 75 hours a week to produce en-:gh for both shifts. The pickers get $15 a week for working 60 hours and |25 cents for extra work, Four young Blizabethton, Tennes- see strikers reached Gastonia today. They came with the National Textile | Workers Union and Workers Inter- national Relief delegation who went to Elizabethton to offer the soli- darity of the Gastonia strikers to the rayon workers, sold out by the United Textile Workers Union, The Loray Milt is ‘withdrawing all bonuses given scabs to keep them at work, it was learned today, The twisting room workers have had their wages cut $2.50 a week; spin- ning room help, $4 a week; picking room $2.50 weekly and the splicing room $4 a week. There is great un- rest among the strikebreakers and | some are expected to go on strike, A mass meeting was held last night in Stumptown, Bessemer City, atiended by whito and Negro work- ers. Negro and white s>2akers ad- dressed the assembled workers. Stumptown is the Negro section of Bessemer City| and is in a very dilapitated condition, Funds to aid the striking workers of the Dixon and Loray mills should be rushed to the Workers Interna- tional Relief, One Union Square, New York City. MOTION FOR SCHWIMMER WASHINGTON, May 29, — An amendment to the naturalization law to permit naturalization of Ro- sika Schwimmer, who was denied citizenship by a supreme court deci- sion, was introduced in the house by Rep. Griffin, Dem., N. Y., today. She pacifist and was refused pa- pe because the supreme court thought she would have a bad in- fluence on discipline in the coming he 4