The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized aly Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥Y. under the act of March ED FINAL CITY ITION Vol. VI, 1 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodally Publishing SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per y mail, $6.00 per year. Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square, New York City, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929 _ Outside N. ew Yor! year. — RALLY WORKERS OF NATION TO DEFEAT FRAMED-UP — MURDER CHARGE AGAINST MILL STRIKERS IN SOUTH CHINA MASSES IN BIG STRIKE WAVE: DENOUNCE RAIDS Nanking Clique Tries to Evade Blame for _ Attacks on USSR 7,000 Miners on Strike War Lords Continue to Maneuver HARBIN, North Manchuria, June | 9.—The demand of the Soviet Union and Chinese masses that the U. S. S. R. take action against the war lords because of their attacks on the Soviet consulates in North Man- churia has thrown panic into the/| Nanking clique who are now trying to crawl out of the situation by pre- tending that they had nothing to do with the raids. { C. T. Wang, Nanking foreign min- | ister, declared that the raids were carried out without central author-| ity. This is obviously untrue since there were several raids at inter- vals and the central government had | plenty of time to stop them if it} wished, While the Nanking govern- | ment further weakened its position with the masses through these raids, | Feng Yu-hsiang, opposing war lord, | was busy solidifying his position with the governor of the Honan | province, General Yen Hsi-shan, through whose province he must go} in order to reach Peking {now} Peiping), which is the aim of his first attack. | New Strike Moyements. | Throughout the whole of China, especially in Northern Manchuria, | there has been a great growth of| (Continued on Page Two) STEEL POLICE SMASH MEET AND ARREST 10 Benjamin, Others Face | Month in Prison | (Special to the Daily Worker) BETHLEHEM, Pa. June 9.— Bethlehem Steel Co. Detective Schweitzer, leading deputies and po- lice, burst into the open-air meeting of the International Labor Defense at Mechanic and Hobart Sts. last night, trampled children underfoot, attacked the crowd and arrested ten speakers and workers from the audi- | ence. | The officers attacked it just as | Herbert Benjamin, Philadelphia dis- trict organizer of the Communist | Party, was speaking. | “Ready to Shoot.” The police had boasted just be- fore raiding the meeting that they were ready to shoot to break it up. Previously to the police raid it was reported to the workers that a hundred hired steel company thugs were assembled to break up the meeting. The workers’ defense squad from Philadelphia arrived on the scene and prevented this attack. All were taken to Bethlehem jail, \pwhere the hearing was held on ¢harges of disorderly conduct, and (fined $25 or 30 days in jail. All refused to pay the fine, and the jail | iwentences are being appealed. Workers! Volunteer Help in W.LR. Office for Gastonia Strike Due to the police attack on the Loray mill strikers’ tent colony in Gastonia, the savage destruc- tion of tents and food during the raid, with arrest of 60 styMers against some of whom frame-up murder charges will be placed, the Workers International Relief, One Union Square, Room 606, is in need of volunteers to help ad- dress and mail a special appeal report. Come any time during the day. It is of the utmost im- portance that workers give help to the W. I. R. during this cri- tical period. where such a real Party spirit. prevailed. N. Y. Functionaries for Comintern Address, Against Open and Concealed Opposition and For Unconditional Carrying Out of Address Gree 200 leading functionaries of the New York District of the Com- munist Party, after hearing the reports of Comrades Max Bedacht, William Z. Foster and William W. Weinstone on the work of the Amer- ican Commission and the meaning of the Address to the Party mem- bership by the Communist International, adopted a resolution unani- mously supporting the viewpoint of the Comintern on the situation in the American Party and pledging unreserved struggle for the carry- ing out of the Address against the splitting tactics of Lovestone, Gitlow and Wolfe and against any concealed opposition to the Address. The Functionaries’ Meeting of the New York district was calléd by the Secretariat of the Central Committee and took place on Wednes- day and Friday of the past week. In the discussion which followed the reports the following com- trades participated: Etler, Jonas, M. Gordon, Koeppel, S. Ziebel, Rozo- moyitch, Baskoff, Lilienstein, Molnar, Olga Gold, Radzi, Lena Cher- nenko, Rosemond, Scharfenberg, Nat Kaplan, Rijak, Rubinstein, Rad- wanski, Glazin, Zartarian, Robert Minor, Jack Stachel, Earl Browder, J. J. Ballam, Gus Sklar, A. S. Newton (the latter twe are Lenin students who have just returned and who attended the sessions of the American Commission). Many more comrades requested the floor but were unable | to speak because of the lateness of the hour. Comrades Bedacht, Foster and Weinstone in their reports told of the work of the Commission, elaborated on the meaning of the Ad- dress, emphasizing particularly those errors made by the groups to which they formerly belonged and pointed out that the Address is not a victory for any group but a weapon for the consolidation of the Party and the shattering of all groups. All three reporters strongly condemned the tactics of split fol- | lowed by Lovestone, Gitlow and Wolfe, as well as those who conceal themselves behind a mere lip service acceptance of the Comintern de- cision. The functionaries in their remarks practically all referred to the fact that the Address was already having a shattering effect on the group situation, that the Address was timely and correct and that the splitting tactics of Lovestone and the others would be doomed to guick defeat. The functionaries stated their full support in the attack upon the concealed opposition as being more dangerous than open op- position because it conceals itself under the banner of the Comintern. The atmosphere of the meeting was commented upon by practically all speakers, that for many years we did not haye a meeting where | self-criticism was engaged in free from factional one-sidedness and The meeting emphasized that the real test of the carrying out of the Address will consist in its application by all bodies of the Party to the practical everyday work. The resolution as adopted follows: “The special meeting of functionaries of the Central Committee and New York District \consisting of Central Committee members, members of the District Committee, Bureau of the national Young Communist League, members of the District Bureau of the Young Communist League, members of the Bureaus of the Section Committees, functionaries of shop nuclei, functionaries of departments of the Cen- tral Committees and district and auxiliary bodies as well as leading functionaries of the Language Fractions, Trade Union Fractions, Press, ete., assembled on the call of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, wholeheartedly and unreservedly accept and endorse the Address of the Communist International to the membership of the Communist Party of the United States of America. “The Address of the Comintern correctly describes the devastating effects of the long standing factional struggle in the Party and analyzes correctly the Right errors and Right tendencies of the Party. The Address is a powerful instrument for the shattering of the existing groups and for the consolidation and Bolshevization of the Communist Party of the U.S. A. “The special meeting of functionaries declares that one of the basic tests for a Communist Party is its internationalism, its being an organic part of the Communist International. The Communist Party of the U. S. A. has always prided itself in being a Comintern Party. The meeting therefore declares that any attempt to challenge the decisions of the Communist Inernational, violate its discipline and to split the American Section will find in us a militant foe, whether such splitting tactics take on the form of open opposition to the de- cisions as in the case of Comrades Lovestone, Gitlow and Wolfe, or the form of an opposition to the Address, concealing itself behthd the cover of formal disciplinary acceptance of the decisions of the Comin- tern. “The meeting regards such hidden opposition as the more danger- ous because it attempts to undermine the unity of the Party while giving lip service to the decisions of the Comintern at the same time that it carries on the work of building a new faction against the Com- munist International. “The meeting of New York functionaries declares that it will fight all opposition to the Communist International, open or concealed, and will defeat all attempts at splitting the American Party. “The meeting declares its endorsement and acceptance of the plan of action to carry out the Address embodied in the unanimous deci- sions of the Central Committee of June 4 entitled “Manifesto of the Central Committee”—and pledges full and energetic work to mobilize the entire Party in this district for active and concrete application of the Address ¢o the daily work of the Party. “The meeting emphasizes the need of arousing the entire Party io a thoroughgoing understanding of the decisions of the Sixth World Congress, of the Open Letter to our Sixth National Convention and th: Address, for a fight against factionalism, and destruction of the existin: groupings, for an intensified struggle against the Right danger, fo: the development of broad and deep proletarian self-criticism and inner- Party democracy accompanied by the building up of the firmest disci- pline in the Party, for building the Party and intensifying all phases of our Pary work (struggle against the war danger, trade union work, fight against the effects of capitalist rationalization, etc., ete.), for the unification of the Party and for build’s: \ powerful Bolshevized section of the Communist International.” i 3 5 " MacDONALD BOWS; TO KING AS INDIA REVOLT GROWS | Imperialists Applaud | While ‘Labor Leader’ | Kisses King’s Hand | Colonial Strikes Grow | Iron, Textile, Railway | | Workers in Revolt LONDON, June 9\—Ten Downng Street, headquarters of British im- perialism, experienced yesterday a change of directors when MacDonald and his henchmen took control. Earlier in the day MacDonald in formal wear accompanied by his similarly outfitted colleagues called on the king at Windsor Castle and after much kissing of hands and kneeling before the royal parasites he received the seals of his office. These ceremonies were accom- panied by loud praise from the most reactionary press who generally an- nounced extreme satisfaction with | the new administration. The Times, | the outstanding mouthpiece of re- | action declared that the ministry | was “the best” that could be ob- | | tained for the tasks of saving the decaying empire. While this horn blowing was going (Continued on Page Two) pursued and fired upon a which accompanied it. HAT BOSSES PUSH (Special by Phone to striker. (Special by Phone to GASTONIA, N. C., June 9.—“The Gastonia Strikers Defense Committee of the Interna- tional Labor Defense is being organized here to defend the 60 strikers now in jail and facing a framed-up murder trial,” stated Juliet Stuart Poyntz, National Secretary of the I. L. D. today. Poyntz arrived in Gastonia as soon as the trip could be made after hearing of the mass arrests and terror which followed the attack on the strikers’ tent colony and the shooting BULLETIN. the Daily Worker). the Daily Worker) W. I. R. WILL RE-OPEN TENT COLONY. ANTL-UNION DRIVE ‘Defend Union,’ Urges | Progressive Group Following pressure by the rank and file, the manufacturers at a re- | cent conference with the officials of | the United Hatters of America finally agreed to withdraw their de- | mand for a cut in wages from $3.50 | a dozen to $2.75, At the same time, however, they |pushed their principal demand for non-union men, and especially young |workers in the following depart- ments: Brim-ironing, erown-punch- ing, machine blocking, — slicking, KELLEY’S RAID Distribute Leaflets to ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., June 9. —Indignation is growing here packing and pressing—which means that the biggest part of the hat will |be done under non-union control and |non-unon conditions if the bosses |have their way. In view of this situation, the Pro- gressive Group in the Uniteq Hat- (Continued on Page Three) | Over Eighth of Calif. Prisoners Are Jobless against Kelly, of the United Tex tile Workers Union, who, after be- traying the strike of the 5,000 rayon , | workers here, led the raid on the | room of the organizers of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union Directed Reid. | During the first stage of the raid | last Wednesday Kelly remained in an automobile in front of the board- ing house where the organizers of the National Textile Workers Union RAYON WORKERS POLICE CHIEF LEADS MILL INDIGNANT OVER DEPUTIES IN SHOOTING UP LONY; 1S KILLED TENT CO (Special to th GASTONIA, N. C., June 9. iffs bristling with arms, city thugs and gunmen employed by the Manville-Jenckes mill com- pany have nearly wrecked the tent colony of the Loray strikers here, and placed over 60 of the strikers in jail to face frame- Tent Colony Partly Destroyed in Raids by) Gunmen Trying to Smash Textile Strike | {character of capitalist courts. The were held for more than four hours under arrest, where the so-called “ynion” deputy sheriff, Pat Taylor, continually went to consult with him and get orders as to what he Workers from Mexico, | SACRAMENTO, Calif. (By Mail). | —Out of 1346 new prisoners in San} Quentin Prison in the last two years, 1127 were under 30 and 278 were |*hould do next. nani under age. More than one-eighth) It was near the end of this period | were Mexican workers jailed for| that Kelly exposed his leadership of “vagrancy,” a charge made against | the arrest and -ransacking of the | these workers when they are unem-|Toom, by entering it llegally and ployed. | (Continued on Page Two) Court Records in “Trials” of ‘Food Workers Show Frame-ups | kee Lawyer “Assists” Judge in Attacks on | Strikers; “His Honor” Froths at the Mouth Recently, John Taylor, a cafeteria] extracts from the record of court | striker, was sentenced to six months | proceedings follow: BY THE COURT: Q. What is your name? A. John Taylor. | in the workhouse by Magistrate Ed- |ward Weil in Jefferson Market Court charged with “disorderly con- | duct.” The only evidence upon Q. What do you work at? which this vicious sentence was| A. Bus boy and waiter in a res- based, was that Taylor was picket-| taurant. ing and that he had been sentenced | Q. At present you are on strike? twice before during the strike for| A. On strike. the same reason. | BY DEFENDANTS’ COUNSEL: Taylor was arraigned together; Q. All right, tell us what hap- vith two girl members of the Com-/ pened, in your own way. vunist Youth League, who got sus-| A. I was on the pickét line for onded sentences, and two other about two minutes. I was served trikers, Dagis and Bonnerick, who! with no injunction. I was just under ‘ot five days each in the workhouse. | arrest by an officer, That was all following excerpts from the that happened. :enographic record of the court pro-; Q. How long were you there? ceedings of the trial of these work-' A. About two minutes. lers, reveals once more the class; Q. And how long were you on the (Continued on Page Two) ns lili I ats i as FUR WORKERS IN | SETTLED SHOPS 70 MEET TODAY Millinery Workers Join Industrial Union Last minute preparations for the general, strike of the furriers by the Joint Board of the Needle Trades | | Workers Industrial Unon are being | | made. | | Today, immediately after work,} | will be held a meeting of all work- | ers in the settled shops, in Webster | Hall, 119 East 11th St. This meet- | ing, according to an announcement ‘by the Joint Board, is of unnsual | | significance ¥o all furriers, and es- pecially to those working in the settled shops. Vital Reports. | Reports of the most vital nature will be made at this time, it is an- nounced, | These workers have for over ers and the youth for the coming struggle of the furriers is continuing | (Continued on Page Five) BLAST KILLS WORKER OSLO, Norway (By Mail).—A_ |workman was killed and several se-| verely injured when three buildings | of the Norwegian Mines, Ltd., ex- | plosives factory were destroyed by | a detonation, The surrounding woods | caught fiy- 2. ee | Pemanrae::) 3 Satine | provocation. Expose Muste ‘Union’ |Three Deputies Wounded; Nat’l Textile Union| | Official Shot; 60 Arrested Face Trial ¢ Daily Worker) .—Savage raids by deputy sher- police and armed club-swinging ? up charges, either of murder or of being accessories to mur- der. Joseph Harrison, presi dent of the Passaic local of the N tional Textile Workers’ Union, seriously wounded in the hospital. He was shot by deputies, and is charged with murder, All of the local National Textile Workers Union officials, all of the Wor International Relief workers, and many of the well known strikers are arrested. Fred Beal, southern or- ganizer of the N. T. W. U., was ar- rested last night in Spartanburg, S. C., with K. O. Dyers, a union or- ganizer. Police Chief Led Attack. Chief of Police Aderholt died in the Gastonia sanitarium late last night. At 10:30 Friday night he led a troop of deputies onto the tent grounds where the evicted strikers live near the new headquarters building of the National Textile Workers’ Union. The murderous raiders came without warrant or other authority. The sheriff and deputies started shooting without Joseph Harrison, who had recently arrived from Passaic, fell, shot through by a bullet. Chief Aderholt himself was shot, and later died. Policemen Tom Gilbert, Charles Roach, and Charles Ferguson were wounded in the legs. Previous Brutality. Aderholt and Ferguson have been the most notorious and brutal of of- ficers in their previous attacks on (Continued on Page Two) It fi ultimate aim of thin work (“Capital”) to reveal the economic law of motion of modern society —Marx ure Restore Tent Colony Despite Jailing of Strike, Relief Leaders GASTONIA, N. C., June 9.—Eye witnesses to the shooting Friday in the Gastonia tent colony have stated to the International Labor Defense representatives here that they saw Chief of Police Aderholt start the shooting. He fired the first shot, without provocation directly into a crowd of strikers, and his deputies followed suit. The United Press correspondent in Gastonia reports that George Moore, Gaston county deputy sheriff, was seriously wounded this afternoon when, during funeral services for Chief of Police Aderholt several deputies The United Press report states: “Moore is believed to have been struck acci- dentally by a bullet fired by another deputy.” “The Defense will undertake immediately a nation-wide campaign to rally the work- ers against what is starting out as another of the historic frame-up cases of American class- | war history. This new Centralia case, this attempt to legally murder strikers through the use of the courts as a result of provocative attacks by agents, whether police or not, of the mill owners, will meet with the sternest resistance.” | | “The Workers’ International Relief is determined to carry on the feeding of the strikers and refurnishing of the | tent colony in spite of every obstacle,” stated Alfred Wagenknecht, National Secretary of the Workers’ International Relief Committee, who is taking personal charge of re-establishing the rélief work checked by the surrounding of the union head- quarters and tent colony by 20 armed deputies, and the arrest of every known relief worker by the Gastonia police. The leaders of the national and local-organizations of the National Textile Workers Union join with Poyntz and Wag- enknecht in giving the following account of the murderous attack on the strikers by police:? “Sixty strikers, including Na~ tional Textile Workers’ Union, Workers’ International Relief, and International Labor De- fense officials, are in three jails in Gastonia and vicinity, held” incommunicado, and are sup- posed to be brought up for earing Tuesday. The charges against them will be murder. They may never come to trial, for all the mill owners’ press is shrieking for their lynching, and there is abundant evidence that the crowd at the public funeral tomorrow will be whip- ped on by bloody minded speak- ers to turn itself into a lynch mob. “Fred E. Beal, southern or- ganizer of the National Textile Workers’ Union was arrested while he was on union business in South Carolina, and is being, held no one knows where. He may be lynched at any moment, as the mill bosses’ hatred for the leader of this stubborn strike is intense. Kept Press Spreads Lies. “No credence whatever can be placed in the stories in the employ-_ ers’ papers that anybody has cons ssed to shooting any of the depu- S| ties or police. It is ‘impossible for »| anybody but the mill bosses and (Continued on Page Two} LAUNDRY DRIVERS DEFY BOSS THUGS Bronx Strikers Fight Crude Frameups Both the gangsters and the Tammany police have been underworld recruited by the owners of the three Bronx laundries against which @ ‘strike has existed for some weeks. These strikes are being led by Laundr: at the Fairview Laundry, 1882 Cro- tona Ave., the Starlight Laundry, 2075 Washington Ave., and the Jes ~ rome Laundry, 1690 Jerome Ave, Frame Up Leader. 7 Last week, a striker, M. Gord was brutally assaulted with a k pipe by Sam Gross, a laundry man+ ager. Although this Gordon has @ distinguished police record as @& gangster, yet he walks atand frea, unmolested, to continue his thuggery and scab work, Police who came answer to the cries of the assault 4 (Continued on Page Five) x Drivers’ Union Local 810 ~