The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act u Published dally e: Company, Inc., Unton Square, Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N.Y. FINAL CITY EDITION _ 00 per year, Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, ‘IL STARTS NEW TERROR AGAINST MEXICO WORKERS Raid Communist Party, Suppress Central Organ J. S. Backs Reaction s Prelude to Church- State Alliance (Special to the Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, June 10.—Paving he way for the new reactionary lliance between the Portes Gil gov- rmment and the catho!'e church—j im alliance which has been blessed | ind actively aided by Wall Street— | he government has started a series if bloody repressions against work- ‘rs’ and peasants’ organizations and heir leaders which ‘e without varallel in Me Due to the rigid censorship en- ‘orced, news of the raiding and clos- ng of the headquarters of the Com- nunist Party of Mexico and the ‘uppression of its central organ, “El Machete,” late last Tuesday night, | 8 reaching the outside world only oday. This terrorist act, by which he Portes Gil government tore away he last shreds of its pretenses to ‘democracy,” has aroused the burn- ng resentment of thousands of Mex- can workers and peasants. Expose Portes Gil. The Mexican Red Aid has issued 1 protest, declaring that the police acted at the orders of President Portes Gil, who since the crushing, with the aid of American imperial- sm, of the landlord-clerical counter- revolutionary uprising, has himself secome the conscious instrument of all the reactionary forces in the country. The Red Aid declares that it will continue to support the Com- munist Party and all left wing or- ganizations against “acts of a gov- ernment which has joined the in- ternational bourgeoisie, this being nothing more than an alliance of the nationalist government and imperi-| alism.” The Red raids are being accom- panied by other suppressive meas- ares thruout the country. The gov-| ‘rmment, not content with having murdered Rodriguez and Durango, | peasant leaders, is aiming at the destruction of the entire militant! National Peasants League. The peasant guerillas, to whose efforts the speedy crushing of the recent | reactionary insurrection is in large | measure due, are now being for- | energetically Police attacks like the above have not dimmed the Gastonia mill strikers Police Terror Won’t Halt Mill Strikers in Gastonia to win. Photo shows a militant picket being arrested, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1929 spirit and. determination U.S, IMPERIALIST Workers in Settled Shops Pledge Aid to Fur Strike INTERVENTION IN WEST INDIAN RAID Oil Center in South America Involved WILLEMSTADT, Curarao, Dutch West Indies, June 10.—Mystery continues to surround the raid of several hundred men, who seized the waterfront of this city, captured a quantity of arms and ammunition and kidnapped the local governor, commander of troops and several lo- cal police, later bringing them back | unharmed. Although the officials have been spreading the story that these men were Venezuelan re- volutionists who needed arms and ammunition to fight the terror in Venezuela, yet there is a growing feeling here that they were an out- fit encouraged by American imperi- alists who.are anxious to seize this|aration for the general strike call | rich oil center. Curacao is only forty miles from the Venezuelan main- land, and receives most of the pe- troleum mined here, for refining. It is a strategic point for controlling Gold Denounces Untermyer “Investigation”; mills) cri | Many Meetings Mobilize for Struggle A pledge that they would not only respond to the general strike call of the furriers, but that they would stay out as long as is necessary, was made last night by the work- ers in the settled shops at an en- thusiastic meeting held at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. Every recourse at the command of these workers will be thrown into \the struggle, they declared, Vote Assessment. While no specific amount was set by the workers, the meeting decided that they would decide upon an as- sessment just as soon as the strike \call is made. | The meeting, which was of an un- | usually significant character, was |Lut one of the numerous being held |by many groups of workers in prep- which will be thrown into the faces lof the profit-glutted bosses now at !any moment. | Gold Denounces Untermyer. Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of MPDONALD WANTS HOOVER'S AID TO FIGHT COLONIES Final Election Returns | Are Published | LONDON, June 10.—The Labor Herald and other mouthpieces of the |tvaitorous fake “labor” government | |have indicated today that MacDon- |#ld gvill endeavor to establish co- |cperation with the United States in imperialist aggression in place of the competition which now exists. As a first step in this direction he the United States 2 confidential conference with President Hoover, the Wall. Street © The conference is to be Owner Paper’s Cry Is “Lynch” The Gastonia Gazette for Sati day, June 8, shouts hystericaliy for dlectrocution and jailed strikers. “The electric chair every one of the number who par- ticipated in the shooting,” howls an editorial statement, but it does not lynching of the should claim | content itself with “legal” frame-up | advice, “The Gazette has always coun- eled against mob violence, the edi- torial continues, in provocative, double meaning style. “It has not preached violence. It does not now. But we do insist that this is a clarion call to Gastonia, Gaston County and the state of North Carolina to clean out this Communist crowd whose stock in trade is violence in its worst form. The hour has struck. Uproot this evil or the Old North State will some day go down be- neath a wave of murder and blood and death.” Incites to Murder, CASTONIA STRIKERS PREPARE TO FIGHT LYNCHINGS Gastonia Mill MUST INCREASE SUPPORT T TENT COLONY: MAKE STRIK Workers International Relief Rallies All Forces ALL LABOR TO DEFEAT MURDER FRAMEUP; 0 TAKE BACK E VICTORIOUS to Feed Strikers Whom Bosses Offer Food As Bribe to Leave Union Investigation Shows Workers Guard Saves Te Southern White Labor Realizes Lynch Law GASTONIA, N. C., June 10.—Lynch Law, workers, when a corporation inspired mob trie the National Textile Workers Union from the were carrying him to an unknown jail in North | Another deputy sheriff was shot by one of his brother of Police Aderholt yesterday es } xtile Strikers’ Lives; Is for All Workers the traditional weapon lagainst the Negro masses, was today in full force against the white d to take Fred Beal of car in which officers Carolina last night. officers at the funeral of Chief The 65 strikers who are held in various jails scattered about the state are not out of Immediately below this wild yell, danger of lynching, for the local press, controlled by the mill owners is openly provoking upper the objective effect of which is cer- tainly to organize lynch mobs and di them against the strikers, ap- |pears an editorial, entitled, “Their | Blood Cries Out.” It slanders the heroic strike leaders as “boastful murderers” and says: “The blood of these men (Alder- |holt and the officers, not the men jthey bayoneted before the Loray vengeance. This community jable curs from the dives of Passaic, | Hoboken and New York. For weeks and weeks we have put up with in- sult and injury ... we have put up with it... although fingers were twitching to get at them. “Kill Beal.” “Tt is high time that this commu- nity were rid of these undesirables. . . + But Beal is missing... . Some | of his associates have been lodged ished. ... out to high heaven for| has | jbeen too lenient with these despic- | jin jail, but he is the bird this com- | munity wants to see jailed and pun- | “The blood of these officers shot |down in the dark from behind cries | jaloud, This display of gang law must not go unavenged.” The Gastonia Gazette, of the same issue, also features prominently on | the editorial page, without a word | of comment, a letter to the paper from a mill owner's friend, which Says: Rallies the Gang. “You have played with the dirty | gang of dogs till four officers of | the law are shot. Now if this dees and middle class elements who line up with the bosses Defense Forces at Gastonia Unable to Say Whether Fred Erwin Beal Is s Dead or Alive By BILL DUNNE. | (Special To The Daily Worker.) GASTONIA, North Carolina, June 10.—The Interna- tional Labor Defense, and its attorney, Tom P. Jimison of Charlotte, three days after the attack on the strikers’ tent | colony in which the chief of police lost his life and two | deputy sheriffs and a strike leader were wounded, is ynable to say whether Fred E. Beal, southern organizer for the National Textile Workers’ Union, is dead or alive The local officers and press state that Beal is in jail “somewhere in North Carolina” but it is known now that an attempt was made | to take him and K. O. Byers, who was arrested with him in Spartan- burg, away from the arresting officers in South Gastonia on Saturday night. The Raleigh News and Observer carries this story today for the first time. Local papers did not mention it. WHEREABOUTS OF PRISONERS UNKNOWN. The 60 or 65 workers—men and women—arrested after the at- tack on the tent colony have not been allowed to see either attorne: or friends. Even the whereabouts of many of the prisoners is unknown, The Gastonia authorities state that they are scattered around in six or seven different county jails but it has been impossible as yet to check up on these statements. It is known, however, through the report of sympathizers present when a number of prisoners were brought into the Gastonia jail, that the union members had been severely beaten and otherw mis- treated, bruised and bleeding, they were thrown into cells, they were denied water, the police and deputies continued to work on them with to violence against the strike, and ——~relief leaders.’ The first hear- ing of the arrested, scheduled |for tomorrow, has now been reported postponed, and may. take place Thursday. Mean- | while they are held incom- municado. | The city authorities, having starved the Loray strikers for three days by seizing all relief supplies and jailing all relief workers, is now planning to offer them food on condition that they “behave,” and thus to split them away the National Textile Workers’ Union, \the strike and the Workers Inter- national Relief. Two forces are actively at work here. On the one hand the mill owners and their subservient city government is continuing its policy of terrorism. The shooting at the funeral of Chief Aderholt created excitement, and distracted the mill boss agents from their real inten- tion at that funeral which was to whip up a frenzy for lynching among the great crowd gathered at the First Baptist Church. | . But while orators and whisperers were working up a mob against the “strikers who shot our police chief,” | (Continued on Page Two) CONVICT 17 WHO” eibly disarmed. Many functionaries of the Communist Party, of the left | wing trade unions and of the Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Bloc have been | arrested, Lake Maracaibo, the center of one| DEFY INJUNCTION “third degree’ methods. Most of the arrests made in and around the tent colony after the battle, as well as the beatings of strikers, were carried out by what is known as the “committee of one hundred,” the Manville-Jenckes of the world’s greatest oil producing halves oti a. W cree Se i ich means, in simpler jnot raise the indignation of the Deo- regions in the world. The develop-|‘T!4! Union, who was the leader of | Eng losed doors and /|ple so they will put this Communist ment of this territory began only | the successful furriers’ strike of hidden from the view of. the great |trash away from here, you are not | si |1926, denounced the “inestigation” | masses” who might nt the horse |fit to be called Americans any more. about ten years ago since when both | IN FOOD STRIKE In its supine fawning on Yankee American and British have been in|M@neuvers of the scab “Joint Coun- deal which will be made and which |If you want to put them away from} Company’s private organization of gunmen and sluggers. Imperialism, the Portes Gil govern-| een competition for control, with | “ls” pasiher with Soul aes would tie them to greater slavery, pee anne Aion ae | BOSSES THINK STRIKE IS BROKEN. cola ment has gonc to the extent of even|the Royal Dutch Company as the|™Yet% Wealthy corporation lawyer,| MacDonald, speaking over the ix St. and you will find one. es ayer Rs ; h ; ! even the Ro} c Feisty eaeiecudc ith then. as ; Be Se ine laters dened by vac Male Manville-Jenckes officials are claiming gleefully that the strike x expelling the Communist, Hernan | main present holder. iz radio today, evaded every important ie The Wolkecs thteratticoel tikes | Another Boss Bows:te Laborde, from the chamber of depu- ties. Laborde several months ago aroused the ire of the reactionaries (Continued on Page Two) The story that American imperial- \ists had a hand in the events is) | heightened by the fact that the ves- \sel which carried the “putchists”| was an American vessel of the At-| lantic and Steam Navigation Com- Concluding a yigorous speech, in issue, but indulged in considerable |wee, 108 Di: which he outlined the tasks facing the furriers, Gold declared: “We consider Untermyer, a law- yer and a member of the capitalist class, unfit to conduct any kind of ballyhoo for the cabinet. He re- ferred to his “old friend, Phillip | Snowden,” and to Benn, the secre- ‘y of state for India, as one who will have a “very trying time.” St., Gastonia. MILL WORKERS’ is over and the union broken up. tent colony is under guard of special deputies which have been selected by the Manville-Jenckes Company. Among them are Major A. L, Bulwinkle, former congressman, company attorney; William Pickering, | divisional superintendent of the Loray Mill; B. T. Hanna, Gastonia jailer and previously a hanger-on of the Manville-Jenckes Company in Cafeteria Union Charged with violation of the in- junction which forbids them to picket, or to carry on any other i be ‘ . " Pets ger * . i Pawtucket, R. I, Grady Morehead, mill boss. tivities, 22 striki fe- HA TTERS REJECT |pany. Immediately following the) an ‘investigation’ involving the Final Returns. BUS DYNAMITED ribguas ital Vidldalnt ere plaVing: 6 grominsat patt-in the’ aliempt to paces Se ' See pie ae Nae obee enorme | WnESTe: je eka 20 Ore of Mee iehh seaty frame up Beal—if he is still alive—and other strikers and union leaders driven back to the intolerable condi. BOSS’ DEMANDS Trimmers’ Meeting Today at 10 a, m. |W. Voetter, wired a call for Amer-| | Officials have clamped down on} | the facts, taking a very antagonistic attitude to anyone who tries to in- | vestigate the sources of the raid. * * * LONDON, June 10.—The foreign minister of Holland, Johnkeer F. |Beelaerts von Blockland said that Denouncing the mobilization of tempt to break the strike of the |furriers, Gold declared: “We will fight for the right to strike and picket no matter how (Continued on Page Five) IRON STRIKERS in parliament were completed today lican warships from Colon, Panama. the police as prearations for an at-|when the vote of the three seats ot |the Scottish combined universities |were reported, The seats were won by Sir George Berry and John Bu- jchan, the well-known novelist, both conservative, and D. M. Cowan, lib- eral. All were - re-elected. The standing of parliament then was: AT ELIZABETHTON (Threat to Rayon Labor | That Talked Strike such as Louis McLaughlin, who is hated by the mill officials and were in the crowd at the to “shoot and shoot to kill.” police and who was one of the workers bayonetted early in the strike. Pickering, Hanna, and Morehead have stated to the press that they ike meeting and heard Beal tell the workers An attempt was also made to use certain statements alleged to have been made by Carter, one of the arrested men, but Carter, held in jail in Asheville, denies these statements in | the local press. The Gastonia paper continues to whip up sentiment against Beal, s that prevail in the open shops were tried in Special Sessions, Part I, in the Criminal Court building yesterday. Seventeen of the strik- ers were found guilty and sentence will be pronounced on June 14, One was discharged and four adjourned to June 13. Seven other strikers jwere found guilty of defying the | | That the rank and file hatters will| the Venezuelan government in his| | Labor ... +-289 | ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. June (Continued’on Page Two) injunction last Friday and sentence fight the most recent offensive of | opinion had nothing whatever to do| | Conservative . -260 10.—A large bus was dynamited to- | also postponed to the 14th. the bosses, which includes a demand | with the events. He refused to com-| | Liberals p08 jday at the Beulah Dean bus ter-| ) Mass picketing demonstrations for the extensive use of non-union! mit himself on what the govern-| | Others .... righ minal, 15 miles from here. The ter- OIL BARONS TALK TRY TERROR IN were held yesterday before two cafe- workers, and especially of youth in| ment theory was as to who was re-| 5 FAS | minal is near Stoney Creek, where | |terias, the Sunray, 313 W. 36th St., several departments, was clearly | sponsible but did say that they are Total ....+. seeseeees 614 | many persons who work at the Bem- and the Brunswick, 287 W. 37th St. demonstrated at a rousing member- ship meeting of Local 8, United Hatters of America, held yesterday sending several warships to the scene, To Decide on Policy of The one remaining seat, Rugby, will bes contested in a bye-election on Thursday. The seat went con- | berg-Glanzstoff rayon mills reside. Some of these workers are strik- ‘CONSERVATION’ BETHLEHEM JAIL Five of the strikers participating in these demonstrations were arrested, charged with disorderly conduct. % Pa aA GTS oO) . ers who were tricked back to the Be meant st mngttan Lyceum, ital Joint Membership, Settlements servative in the last general elec-| mins by the United Textile Work- They were released on bail, to be 6 a pede ig and attended by |) : : - . |tion, with ane liberals a close sec- ers Union agreement with the em-/Standard Oil Seeks to ‘Dicks’ MenaceWorkers arraigned for trial today, | ee Aon Malic Meet of Section 2, 3,| Architectural iron and bronzejond and labor a poor third. ployers, which sold out a winning | . One more cafeteria owner has ) Following the report of a recent conference with the employers by officials of the organization, rank | and file members took the floor and |. let it be known that a stiff fight | (Continued on Page Five) * Millinery Picket Is Given Day Jail Term Fannie Rothman, member of Lo- 43, Millinery Workers, arrested fhile on the picket line near the inceton Hat Co., 57 West 38th St., was yesterday brought to Jefferson Market Court, where she was sent- enced to serve one day in jail or pay a fine of $5. She spurned the fine, and served, The strike at the Princeton Co., has been on for many weeks, but Tonight, Irving Plaza A’ special joint membership meet- ing of Sections 2 and 8, Communist Party, will be held today, immedi- ately after work, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. A complete mobilization of the membership is necessary as matters of extreme im- portance will be acted upon at this meeting. A roll call will be taken. SERB-HUNGARY DISPUTE. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, June 10. ~The Jugoslav government has in- structed its minister at Budapest to protest to the Hungarian gov- ernment the recent speech of Pre- mier Bethlen in which he indicated that the country would work for return of the territory and citizens lost to surrounding counties under workers will hold a strike mass ‘meeting today at 6:30 at Irving Hall, |15th Street and Irving Place. The progress of the strike will be report- ed on and a discussion will take place on the question of making in- dividual settlements, J. Rosenfeld, secretary-treasurer of the organiza- tion has announced. According to the strike leaders, a large number of bosses have already made application to the union for settlements, but the strikers Aave thus far followed the policy of not making individual settlements. The application for the injunction sought by the Madison Iron Works will come up tomorrow before Judge Tierney in the supreme court. Yesterday, John Cadlo, a striker, | of Wesminister), Harold Laski, G. practically demolished the bus—an | was arrested before the Tiffany Co., Maspeth, L. I., where he was picket- British Labor Fakers | Send Sympathy to _ Fascist Terror Head LONDON (By Mail).—Following the recent alleged attempt on the life of the fascist terrorist Premier Waldemaras of Lithuania, the Inde-, pendent Labor Party of England | sent the fascist premier the follow- ing message: “Regret attempt on your life, but urge you to refrain from perse- cution of opposition parties.” The message is signed by Laurence Housman, George Lansbury, Ellen Wilkinson, H. W. Nevinson (Canon D. H. Cole, and Fenner Brockway Several of those signing the mes- sage have been returned to parlia- | strike and gave the strikers noth- jing. | They are already talking strike, junder the leadership of the National | Textile Workers Union, and the bombing of the bus is considered |here as a mill owner’s reminder to \them that dynamite, bombs and ar- |{illery are on the side of the em- pleyers. No one was injured, according to word received here. The bus had |been parked outside the terminal ‘after a load of rayon workers from ‘the night shift of the plant had been taken to theic homes at Stoney oil resources of the nation,” the | Creek. | Shortly befcre the blast—which automobile was heard coming into Stoney Creek, and immediately after the dynamiting it was heard Crush Rivals COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 10,—A deadlock after a three- ;day argument between rival oil groups appeared the only possible ending to the Hoover oil conserva- tion conference which got under way here today. It was addressed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, |who characterized the gathering of oil barons as “the big hope of civili- zation.” Under the plea of “conscrving the | Standard Oil interests, which pushed the conference, seek measures which will consolidate their advantages | over their smaller western rivals by aiming for an agreement to secure even greater curtailment of western Arrested at Meet | BETHLEHEM, Pa., June 10,.— Attempts to intimidate and terror- ize the workers arre’ted Saturday | at the Bethlehem mass protest meet-! | ten of them are serving 30 day sen- tences because they refuse to pay fines. The Workers Guard at the ~* jing called by the Internat bor Defense to protest p talities at the May Day meeting, frightened off a gang of steel com- pany thugs who had been hired to ‘attack the meeting. The police then took their places, broke up the meeting, trampled children under- foot, and arrested speakers and some in the audience, All were thrown into jail, ing are reported from the jail, where | |signed an agreement with the union, (Continued on Page Five) Gastonia Strikers Tell at Open Air Meet of Mill Center Conditions Support for the Gastonia strikers voiced by several hu dred work- » attended an ope air meet- vat aight at iuch St. and | Secunw unde the auspices of |the Workers International Relief. The speakers were Kermit Hardin and Raymond Clark, Gastonia strik- lets; Veronica Kovas, Communist | Youth League; Sylvan A. Pollack, editor, “Solidarity,” official organ of the W. I. R. and A. Gordon. Sev- and) eral workers joined the W. L R, picketing continues vigorously, ac- ing, He is now free on bail. y#*), a a 4 ; i to leaders of the union, |terms of the Versailles, Treaty, * 4 . a ment on the Labor ticket, ¥ 0: out of town a OE (Continued on Page Two) ye. ~~ (Continued on Page Two) at the meeting. _, —“ hg >. i é »