The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1929, Page 2

Page Two_ GIL STARTS NEW TERROR AGAINST one WORKERS _ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 192! MOB TO MURDER MILL STRIKERS BETHLEHEM JAIL ‘Dicks’ Menace Workers | Arrested at Meet (Continued from Page One) Herbert Benjamin, district organizer jof the Communist Party, was taken Workers Guard Heroic ally Protects Workers Church- ce) lia A for a grilling. He was led into a (Continued from Page One) darkened room, his spectacles re- the action of excited deputy sher- moved, and the detectives grouped C iffs in pumping lead ‘into Deputy George Moore, while all w a general and rec re firing | about him in tempt at intimi- nswers to their held on a charge dation, After } questions, he was shots at a fleeing st of “disorderly conduct.” to Wall Street. ed to ses and add ta the frame-up All taken in the raid were placed tl Bat che x 7 proccedings, convinced many that der the same charge and fined re ee eats ths new rele | of the fame tort (of ,aeeident. might nd costs. They were committed ( nailed derno® pets peieer Lea deputies to county jail on default of fine. a »mmunist eeaeeas eit i The police were ready to shoot c its organ t The vant colouys separ in the to break up the meeting, they told ¢ hands of the police, and a lynch Benjamin. “You guys ought all of 8 mob of twelve patrolling the roads ‘you be stood up against a wall and around nia stopped the car in shot,” the authorities said. fr which C it Councilmen Robert Craig Anna Berlak, a young worker of 9 oe fe fone Ase Bethlehem, was picked up by Police rl eal and EC 6 vies tsa cee the day before as she sat eating in w North Carolina from Spartanburg, fee ates charac ic aiteibtie : ‘ ae eee! ee aie ed ae Heater it charged with distribut- n charged with “complicity in the Ce eeiaeh go 2 murder of Aderholt.” The mob de- Ges bail oe eas immediate fi ‘hela manded the prisoners, and the po- forfeited ae she Chait xéhedled 0 aes lice claim that they refused to give the’ next dayvat four o'dloekwid ct Rees fo Mexico, them up. It is stated here by others e next day at four o'clock, de- : between, and the h genes a agitating for the killing of Beal and a the fact that she was on time, c Ce a a other strike leaders that a mistake " f hie. vam tea ene 3 tee 9 ene nent ands of Wall Stre Se els, ie MaRaIne AGL ETAL ; ae d : : : ves ni late and pocketed the money. fe =e) 8 crowd, as the police were almost as rhe attack on Friday night by police and company thugs failed to break the spirit of the Gastonia The police terror in this city is et Conferences with Chureh Start. numerous as the armed lynchers,| mill strikers, who are all the more determined to stay solid until the strike is won and to resist the |* steal cine repsttane of out-of- be a: ate ‘ s ie ae aasinia | Ie ie an ge ¢ nts own capitalistic papers were ar- rt MEXICO CITY, June 10—Con- : ; rane Ga BEEN “el ape of the police d thugs on their tents, ec Hee ae So lead Wiiiiswekeh, Dis Beth. A ferences start d tod: between He re is the Gastonia Howitzer Con pany, he Gastonia : 3 Aeleais i “ inf. t’ chaver t anueder” | lehem Steel Company, of Charles ec President Portes Gil and the two Uf Bosses’ td prandke widlencé and for an | ‘The situation is very tense; the |Vety informal charges 0 mnueser Ol |Faster Rail Service Schwab, the saintly capitalist, is be- Di papal en attach of troons and polies on the were the \Gastonia Herald is calling for the @"d “inciting to murder. L BAR N | A fevabaolite,rclan of: pia uit F aus AN Gtaak by Gaatont police: and cot thugs, in |electrie chair for all those who are| A nation-wide appeal is being is-| © | Brings More Speedup, beaten yeti sel ee ate f cual Diaz of Aderholt was killed. not “taught North Carolina justice” |sued immediately by the I. L. D. to Dangers to Workers} two reporters of a Philadelphia e3 The announcement, bj y Portes Gil 7 $$$. | by oe lynch crowd before going to |rally all labor back of this defense | ‘CONSERVATION’ —_ capitalist paper were pulled in “for th on Saturday that the government trial. There is common talk of a/and stop what seems to be a com-| “4 " + | bei i t Rig would consent to no changes in the Defense Forces at Gastonia new and more destructive raid on |bination of the Centralia (Washing- Si aie eaanite Big ae Pade erate teeny jeutally Gatien : yeligious laws, made to cloak his, the in preparation which jton), Wheatland (California) hop [cute in the sinning Uaie os Wat | about the neck and body when he asa betrayal of one of the most U ble to F Fi d F d B ll chall absolutely destroy every tent fields, and Ludlow (Colorado) mas- Standard “Oil Seeks to |e ey irae Cone eee crea ciny| protested. His notes on the meet. s important achievements of the Mex- naple to nc re CAL ond run the families out of town. —sacre frame-up proceedings. | Ie leading aaileonde ao “lacgely | ine Were snatched from his hand and is ettt ot ail the Ainies cuemasties On the other rand, all the forces| Aired Wagenknecht, executive Crush_ Rivals [meet automobile competition? rail. |to™ up by County Detective tT Tt is an open secret that the con-, Amy Schechter, Vera Bush, McLaughlin and all others considered to car y on the fight, to reorganize ltional Relief, who arrived here 3 LG Gnearied | [rants Soe western routes are confronted with| Bethlehem Steel in the raid. P e strike relief, to rebuild the tent -| production than is provided by the | the effects of greater application of ees c he atme tonia is murderous. have played a leading role. phere in Ga ferences include a fourth pa terday from New York, stated y 2, | government oil Ic Our own age, the bourgeois age, whether present in person or not is| The county attorney there informed Defense Attorney Jimison that SL OE Bay Lepper that the authority of the W. I. -R J order. | rationalization methods through! jg Uistineuishea “by thlsccthat 1¢ of little consequence. His name is it would be im to attempt to see the ners held in | caust now Bi ila shal aan over the tent colony will be estab-| ‘The appointment of a commission | which the rail companies plan to in-| has simplified class antagonisms. Dwight W. Morrow, Wall Street am- | Gasto: It will probably be necessary to get out a writ of habeas | 1%, Tee Mey rae ent welves {shed and food agein furnished to jis the most that is expected swe greater profits at the expense| ay Inte two sreat hostile cape, fl bassador to Mexic corpus to force the authorities to give the prisoners a hearing. The tis Sat end’ themselves lithe strikers, The I. #., Wagen- | the conf e, at least one govern-| of the workers, into two great and directly contra- . turned to this city 6 9 the strikers union leaders is confined mostly to the ie lynchings ‘being pre-|inocht added, will insist that the| ment official believes. The-vedugton th canting this ci} Pate the United States mill officials and the business elements. |mill deputies leave the tent colony} One of the main ta f the pro-|through passenger trains between § Hundreds of workers from sur-|at once. The deputies have been in| posed commission, it is expected, | Chicago and the West will be five| it had been announc not be back until Ju to tie the knot in t between the church there is the feeling that the sole kes companies and the aut . One of eration of Labor officials, whose name cannot he used for obvious reasons, stated privately that “the police and deputies got what they were looking for.” ponsibility 2 new 1 and state. rounding towns are flocking to Gas- | tonia to protect the strikers, workers agree that if it had not| been for the determined resistance All| the colony since their raid on it Fri- day’ night. With the deputies pa- |trolling the W. I. R. and union head- |quarters the relief work is being | would be to try to whip public lands states of the west into line by ob- taining modification of the leasing order of last March which cancelled ) hours, making the new schedules seven to ten hours faster than those tof five years ago. Freight trains are also speeding Visit Russia LOWEST PRICE 329 and up of the Workers Guard at the tent | \hampered. colony, their alertness in stopping | wry. eesture of the authoriti every attempt of the mill owners’ | sarnish food,” said Wainvbna? secret agents to poison the camp]. st i-ebreaking move on the part water supply, their announced wil- |). "soa men and must be an leases on public lands and stopped | up to an extent never equalled in jail prospecting for oil and gas.) railroad history. A ten day freight Those hit by such action, and who| service will be started today by the declared their firm resistance to| |Erie, Pennsylvania, Southern Paci- such proposals even if they are | fie, Santa Fe, Union Pacifie and Launch Organization Campaign for Negro Workers in Baltimore The line of the prosecution has been indicated already by stch that made by Gilbert, one of the wounded deputies and outstanding persecutor of the stril notorious for provocation slugging at every opportunit is version of the affair is that complete tour New York-Mos- cow and return, incl. all expenses eket line in pol ies, followin which the strik and women, beaten and choked, rode lingness to shoot .to pieces any masked mobs which might be or- swered by the workers of America| brought before the conference, are} Western Pacifie between New York First time sirice the re- BALTIMORE, June 8, (By Mail) men ere vallyi i Hikers, |generally mining groups whose in- “The ot ‘ we wiih thelr cae and got out on a lof next td the Nenddulttats of the |panized (9 destroy tha acrike baad. | AUvipe. £9, tip.sid: at; the strikers, | Cr Os tetion ts only in| ny eee a véliatton that You de Hut trikers, that they were fired on as so hey had been challenged ‘ The W, I. R. will again furnish food I y ‘The new speed plans have alread Bt rom te - organic piriiess, that they eet Oe Me ea he aan Gales cE Tor ef i eels 2 destroyed, to the strikers and defeat the plans |cidental, yet large enough to be hurt. ¢he Pennsylvania and New York need previous visa ap- Negro wo: ; The only police of- and relief offices were destroyed, | a ae . Ai} | by the encroachments of the Stand-| ' : open air meeting held raid; but ie lynehers woul ave t who a at the The “absolute necessity” of. con-| « a 20—Levinth: pices of the American Negro Labor DISCREPANCIES IN PROSECUTION’S STORY. done the fob, probably with terrifie Increment who wa State nee fe sevation’ 26, endbla ‘they, United SHEER PME OT ERT ay “New ay He —Geers, ashineton t F ‘a ans t se i . , fs J \vi our july 27—Leviathan Congress. st It is here that the discrepaney between the deputy’s story and (08S of life among the strikers, a8 losses and their allies in public of- |States to fight rival oil trusts in op-| York-Chicago service under whieh Pi An enthusiastic ce of about A as nether ie ri Ea, | at ths Cake youse Seo Se DMleWs tang all those who want’ the 6 posing countries was the keynote " : Free Russian Visas; Stopover tl ee eero workers het Si oe ae y eee inl Ma wan akakiher a Mleee MENA Ue eo (Onn [eee Unie erie itis wen pul pene tet the epeseh of Math Le fedia leer Ve eo ee Mapec ey auto pn roan re ¥ akin ad 8 i 7 | c F i} e speec! Mark L. | ife, ays, cable requen' EO tana y Fred eet puildings tn ceed ee Wt at walocy where the striker head. | AS i was, although many strik-|tunds at once to the national office | Los Angeles. “Isolation of the prob- att) Salilngss Beery Tour" and f Welch of the y ers were arrested and some were lof the Workers International Relief, lem within the United States is an| Reap the benefits of the May |jT™See your steamship agent or Fa delegates of the Zeague, D. Flaiani, 1 Educational League organizer Irving Keith of the Com! Youth League. The chairman, a Negro worker, ex- posed the miserable conditions under which the Negro workers are forced to toil, and made an appeal for the and quarters is located. This indicates that the police and deputies were attacking before the strikers fired. So far all hostile from indiyiduals who are known to be either on the Manville-Jenckes Company or under their influence for oth stories come yroll of the er reasons. An application made by Jimison for permission for Juliet Stuart Poyntz of the International Labor Defense and Alfred Wagenknecht, of the Workers International Relief, to interview the prisoners has been denied. Wagenknecht has announced that strike relief will be continued and that the deputies must be removed from the grounds of eaten, only one striker was shot four of the raiders were hit. e fatally. The lynching methods, which many white workers, even in the have used against Negro | do not look the same to} | w, When the business men | of Gastonia are demanding that said. “The| st Indies, in bility,” Requa in the Dutch atamia, Iraq, Rus » have ns in the United fae ‘g |1 Union Square, New York € | Wagenknecht stated that as a ree {sult of the st of all W. f. R." |representatives no food has been dis- |tributed for the last three da The strikers have been going around The food in the tent colony and e e Strikers Get 2: $200 from Milwaukee | hungr) was str deputy sher ed by the police The destitute st and South | ect relations to con- | Day demonstrations by getting into the Communist Party work- | ers who participated. American - Russian TRAVEL AGENCY, INCe 100-5th Av., Chel. 4477-5124, N.¥.C. A. N. L. ©. which resulted in the| the tent colony at once. white Workers be lynched. one lesperate condition se | enrollment of a number of new mem- James. Reta, president, of the National Textile Wotkers’ Union, | ito Hall, Negro organiter forla Pty Pies Sart a | ILD; Picnic June 16) atronize Our ¢ bers. Further open meetings will and Albert We -treasurer, arrived today. They an- the National Textile Workers’ |facine, them. The arrest of Caro- | h be held in the coming weeks, the| nounce that « n Work W intensified and extended and |tnion, spoke at Gastonia just be-|line Drew and Amy Schechter, W.| ~MILWAUKEE, Wis. June 10— %¢ next one being on June 14 (F. )| that the defense of the union mem rged with murder and at- Fe R. revresentatives here, was part | Hundreds of workers will attend the vert sers @ fore the shooting and then addressed ep. Rf the corner of Petin and | tempts to murder will be made a na __|a meeting at Bessemer City. Onis |of the Manville-Jenckes Co. plot to 1a faa ie fe eee a gg epi Plans have alréady been made to route nationally known speakers |way back sympathizers from Gas-|break the strike by mass terrorism |) Poubiem rex BIKA OY UNt) ’ : “Dai for fans shectingw in all the nt industrial cahters of the Netth |tonia stopped him and warned him |and starvation. It is now becoming | local International Labor Defense at) Don’t forget to mention the Daily esgeccsiva plus in the clas attne. | 21d South to utilize the t t in the Gastonia case, |of lynch mobs secking his life. Hall clear that the police attack on tho | (chal, Grove, raid pclae Worker” to the proprietor whenever you aR " to show the immediate necessity for organization of the textile work- jescaped and the entire incident |tent colony Friday night was Welle ery . a8, O8 PUBASY;, * ¢ apg Gy eset acaea one in ers ‘and breaking the autocratic power of such corporations as the |cpens the eyes of Southern workers | planned. After the workers were | June 16. purchase clothes, furniture, etc., or eat 5 bolder and bolder relief —Marx. | Manville-Jenckes Company. lto a new situation. White workers | shot at, beaten, some of the tents| A sum of $200 was collected for in a restaurant i { |who have. been incited into race |destroyed and strikers, their wives | textile strike ee e et i: bi ne a wars and race murder, find thatthe |and children thrown into the road, |in cooperation with the Workers In- |employers who whipped them on are |the next move would be to stop the ternational Relief in its recent ‘a ' Will Fight one wai Workers, for Bastia Bowes in Pate eee a en ee rere aide (ot ince; | NOnerEs. Noten \AsleMtiats DAWN ; and Negro workers alike, and rally |Schechter and the other W. T. R.|Slav, Russian, Finnish and other | 7 H against this menace as sensible men |relief committee workers confirms | Heese organizations aided the | : | would, by protecting their Negro | this. drive, } |fellow-workers against the common ‘ h ? enemy. FS aE r ' The tent colony, which inspection | P - iy ' showed later, was wrecked in an) °o : 0 even more wanton and destructive | fashion than was at first indicated, | W I R ‘ is still inhabited by hundreds of | e de e E strikers! families, living among their Cooperative Summer Home for Workers 3 shattered furniture and trying to use | * e § their torn and bullet pierced cook- WINGDALE, N. Y. — TEL. WINGDALE 51 » a bid List ads ids nkloual cece New York Office: 1800 SEVENTH AVENUE h } lot he Pah re : Tete voted | Telephone MONument: 0111 and 0112 i ‘ Union, is expected here today, com- F ay dl - ? 7 ing down from the union headquar- riendly .. * i\ |ters in New York to take personal peat Sick Women and Children Have Been ; i |°Mthe. mags demonstrations before P Thrown Into the Road! The Strikers | ‘the Friday raid have already drawn | Fresh Food Have Not Eaten for Three Days! The |many of the textile workers out of $ * * j [the ‘Loray' ‘mil, and reports from (| Bathing Mill Bosses Want to Break the Strike by inside state that a mass insurrec- Attorneys for the International Rowing, Fishing Friday—6:30 p. m. Saturday—1:30 p. m. Mass Terrorism Against the Workers! ( \tion is brewing a sibel Aiea Sports in i ‘ers are new to labor struggles, an po! § | f£ them did not lize that © (ites ehdne foe niyo | Entertainment They Must Not Succeed! ge their fellow-workers outside. ie : i z tena ms palais iri and the Cultural Activities ' ii cruel attempts at lynching ond iff Hiking The Tent Colony Must Continue to ‘ pve tap i iat aul pt $17.00 PER WEEK Function! Food Must be Furnished to js ‘ike i aaseta i ! Bhar ate Ste fe the strike in Nc sims ba es Wie As he the Strikers! The Strike Must be Won! Rush Funds to the Workers International Relief One Union Square. New York City Labor Defense, whose national sec- retary, Julfet Stuart Poyntz, arrived yesterday, are demanding that the strikers and relief workers be re- leased on bail, and are attempting b4 habeas corpus procedings to force the judges to pass on the 65 lworkers, who are held on ne evi- dence whatever, and #0 far on only, oe ‘ A from 1800 Seventh Avenue, corner 110th Street, New York. CHILDREN’S COLONY ©} for children from 5 to 10-years of age. Supervision of experienced leaders—Comrade Torrent in charge. Some if the female politicians of the three British capitalist parties of England returned to par- liament iy, the recent elections are shown above. Left to right, above, Marian Philips, Labor; Miss san Lawrence, Labor, one of those who aided in the betrayal of British workers in the general ‘elow, left to right, Margaret Bondfield, Labor, of Blanesborough Report fame, who recom- @ reduction in the unemployment dole by the government; “Lady” Cynthia Mosley, one of the 's “aristocrats,” whose comfortable fortune came from the sweat of the workers, and Ethel Bent- another ows of Labor's wealthy members. Ali will serve their British bo 8 well in parliament, wed ia