The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1929, Page 1

| FIGHT FRAME-UPS seeeiiebiomeeaaneiitl TO INTEN GASTONIA, N. C, June 11.—Albert Weisbord, national seere- tary of the National Textile Workers’ Union, and James P. Reid, its president, today made public the following statement of the N. T. W. U. Reid and Weisbord arrived here yesterday. For many weeks the cotton manufacturers of Gastonia have con- tinuously provoked trouble in the Loray strike area. Men, women and children have been daily clubbed, choked, beaten up, bayonetted, and even shot at. Union was demolished. One headquarters of the National Texti Our organizers haye been threatened Workers’ with | VSIFY ORGANIZATION DRIVE, SAYS NATION | better conditions. Under the leadership of the;National Textile Work- | to state that not the “reds,” ] death countless times. The editor of the Gastonia Gazette, with vi- ciousness that would have landed others in jail for incitement to riot long ago, daily carried on a most hysterical campaign for violence. This paper condoned the smashing of the relief headquarters of the Workers International Relief and the union headquarters, praised the dirty masked mob that did the work and did everything possible to start a lynching bee against the workers’ leaders, All this howlihg for the lynching of Beal and the,other leaders | of the union: what is its true meaning? Workers received eight to twelve dollars a week for 60 hours of slavery. They are striking for | AL ers’ Union, the strikers have fought a hard and courageous battle. The manufacturers see their slaves are no longergso cheap and docile as before. This is the basic cause for the shoéting and jailing of the workers, ‘ In spite of all the provocations of the Manville-Jenckes Co. and TEXTILE UNION STATEMENT FROM FREE TIE — GASTONIA as they called the strikers, but the state and county officials, acting for the manufacturers, had done all the violence, i ‘As the,strike continued unbroken, the manufacturers tried theftr last card. While organizers Beal and Bush were speaking, the agents , of the company began throwing rocks and eggs at the crowd ang speakers as they had done in High Shoals weeks ago, with the happy approval of all police authorities. When the strikers tried to form @ picket line, the most ruthless brutality took place against the strikers, (Continued on Page Five) the others living off the backs of the worke#s, the workers remained disciplined and unprovoked, as advised by the'leaders of the National Textile Workers’ Union. No action of violenge could be traced to the workers. Indeed many southern papers in their editorial columns had THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Vol. VI., No. 82 Published daily except Sunday by Company, Inc, 26-28 Union Squar: Hntered as second-class matier at the Post Office at Ne FINAL CITY EDITION w York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. sae i y Publishing v York City, N. ¥ NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. ide New York, by mail, $36.00 per year. Price 3 Cent} GASTONIA POLICE, THUGS, DESTROYING TENT COLON NANKING LOSE! CONTROL OF ITS OWN MINISTRIES KuomintangCollapsing workers will be given by Otto Hall,|War Transport Folios ‘As Strike Movement Greatly Grows Persecutions Increase Defense tonight at 8 o’eock at 1800/ Wil Consult Hoover Chiang-U. S. Contracts | Hall escaped from a lynch mob) Dawes, MacDonald to Defeated SHANGHAT, June 11—The con- tinuing disintegration of the Nan- king government was crassly shown today by the failure of the Nanking government to turn its air commu- nications over to the American gov- ernment after having signed a coi tract for that purpose, which fail- ure was due to the refusal of one of the ministries of the Chiang Kai- shek clique to obey Chiang’s orders. The ministry of railways, headed by Sun Fo, originally signed the contract. The ministry of commu- nications, which is controlled by one ef the many opposing factions to Chiang, refused to carry the con- tract through. The refusal to carry | out the contract has the support of the great masses of China who wish | to eliminate American imperialism Hall to Tell of Terror | in Gastonia at Harlem \LL.D. Meeting Tonight A vivid, first-hand account of the \new wave of terror against the tex- | tile strikers in Gastonia, N. C., and | \of the work of the International La- | bor Defense in defending framed-up Negro organizer of. the Trade Union | | Educational League, at a general) |membership meeting of the Harlem | Branch of the International Labor | Seventh Ave. | jin Gastonia and has just returned |to this city. TAMMANY PASS FAKE RENT LAW TO DUPE TENANTS. Wants Votes; Tenants | _ League Bares Fraud | WAR MACHINERY |. GIVEN TO LORDS. BY MACDONALD es Go to Lord Warr and Lord Russell Confer This Week BULLETIN. | Ramsay MacDonald has been) made a private advisor to the King, | through being elected with Lord | They Defend Gastonia Strikers’ Families | Some of the sturdy members of the Gastonia mill strikers’ de- | fense corps, who defend the families and tents of the strikers against | the police and company thugs. They prevented the attack upon the tent colony by the bosses’ thugs and the police last Friday night from becoming a massacre of defenseless women and children. WORKERS RELIEF, DEFENSE, NATIONAL TEXTILE UNION OFFICIALS FIGHT TO RECAPTURE TENTS AND PICKET MILLS eS8eS Swear Chief Aderholt Commanded Mill Bosses’ One Hundred Gunmen to Assault Strikers and “Shoot to Kill” Witn & | Cells; ring Friday; Defense Gets Habeas Corpus Writ ] Removed from Monroe Jail; Report Strikers Tortured in Announce H ea By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT. (Executive Secretary of Workers International Relief.) - Sankey to the Council of State to the Crown. The other members of the council | are Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. LONDON, June 11.—Following his policy of turning all legal and war preparation machinery over to the aristocracy, MacDonald today | appointed Lord De La Warr, as par-| As part of the systematic mobil Mass Open Forum Today at 1 To Hear Gold on Fur Strike Shop Chairmen’s Meeting Tomorrow Night; | Mobilize Women, Youth for Struggle GASTONIA, N. C., June 11—The tent colony in which the evicted Loray mill strikers have been living is being completely destroyed today by city police and gunmen of the Man-'* ville-Jenckes Co., in accordance with an ordinance said to have been passed by the Gastonia city council yesterday. The strikers’ families formerly dwelling in the tent colony are now | = 7 — —® woods nearby International Labor Defense pat? Weck, International Calls All Workers to Defeat tf € iving in the open : 4 Relief has engaged a Gastonia’ attorney to proceed to res ization drive of the Needle Trades establish the tent colony as the The Board of Aldermen yesterday \liamentary under-secretary of war, | passed unanimously the fake emer-|and Lord Russell, as parliamentary gency rent laws sponsored by Mayor | under-secretary of transport. Walker in a move to stifle the pro-| It is learned here that Charles G. Workers’ Industrial Union in preparation for the coming general strike | of the furriers, Ben Gold, secretary-treasuret of the union, will speak lat a mass open forum at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St., today at 1 o’clock. His topic will be: “The® ‘Fur Strike and Its Relation to the For. they are determined, as Murder Frameup in Gastonia strikers’ legal residence, and we are fighting extra-legal means used to destroy it and to prevent the dis-} tribution of food to the strikers who have been starving for four days.’ they never were before, to exter- |“Gastonia Trial Will Rank as New Centralia and its Chinese lackeys from con-j|tests of thousands of working class | Dawes, the expert robber of weaker trol, tenants and to corral their votes in Under the terms of the contract | the coming municipal elections. The signed with the Aviation Explora-|bill will be passed by the Board of tion Company, a Curtiss subsidiary, | Estimate tomorrow and will be ef- all the main air routes are turned fective until May 1, 1930. (Continued on Page Five) HOLD PIONEERS INN, Y. JAIL Six Months Threat to Jailed Pickets Three members of the Young Pio- neers, arrested last Thursday, June 6, for joining the striking cafeteria workers on the picket line, were (Continued on Page Two) The new law, which was backed i a see aay by Aldermen McGillick of Harlem COMMUNISTS IN unopposed by the landlords, Edward P. Doyle, representing the Real Estate Board of New York, appeared to make a gesture of “pro- test.” "Poor Tenants “May Sue.” By the terms of this law working Great Tasks necessities of life have the privilege BERLIN, June 11—The twelfth jof hiring expensive lawyers to sue congress of the German Communist |2ny landlord who demands more Party opened with a great demon-|than “a reasonable return” on his stration at the Sport Palace. The | investment. The law leaves it to great hall holding fifteen thousand |the courts, those wily instruments was jammed full. The streets were cf the landlords and all other ex- The party issued a special news-|McGillick yesterday told a represen- paper during the Congress. The police arrested several bands on the ground that the same belonged to the suppressed Red Front Fighters | League. Delegate Wilhelm Pieck opened} ticularly Eugen Levine executed ten years ago and thirty victims of the Berlin May Day Demonstration. The masses rose, standing in silent homage. Pieck opened the second session of the Congress in Pharus Hall in Wed- and Curley of the Bronx, is such a GERMANY MEET led ¢ E. tenants whose low wages mean crowded with workers cheering the |ploiters, to decide what constitutes the Congress, paying homage to the (Continued on Page Two) nations and colonies will arrive here late this week where he will hold | Situation in the Cloak Trade.” | A record attendance is expected minate once and for all the scab, A truck-load of food js here, andj union-wrecking Joint Council Only | at this meeting in view of the in- |tense spirit now prevailing among jthe members of the Industrial | conferencecs with MacDonald in or- |der to prepare the way for a fuller jeonference with Hoover later. | Union, and their determination” to Announcement of additional ap-| meet and crush all enemies who at- pointments to government offices tempt to hinder their fight for the (Continued on Page five) restoration of union conditions in PR Ser ER ESEY | the shops. 0 K 8 Shop Chairmen Tomorrow. _ HILLQUIT 0. K. YOUNG’S LOOT | preparations for the strike, and spe- ie |cifie activity in this direction will “Should. Be Honored,” be mapped out. SaysS.P.Chief | Ready For Them All! Officials of the corrupt A. F. Tomorrow at 7 o’clock will be held a special meeting of all Shop Chair- men at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. The meeting is called especially to consider last-minute which exists only by permission and thru the support of the | bosses—and to establish union | conditions. for which the needle trades workers have suffered and fought for years. | Characte tile Workers Centralia case” nion officials and ei and a classical ex an appeal to all workers to rally to ng the murder char murder and frameup tactics, the International Labor Defense has i Case,” Declares Strikers’ Defender rges against strikers, lief workers in Gastonia as “a 1 ample of the American employer: their aid. The stctement was i Mobilizing Women. | by Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national secretary of the I. L. D. from Gas- The women workers, members of | (2% where she has gone to take active leadership in the attempt to get the Industrial Union and wives and| tt 65 strikers out of jail and s hem from the electric chair. women-folk of members, are being} #1. L. D. calls the shooting Friday the culmination of a tong mobilized for the coming strike | 87s of attacks on the st , and applauds the determination of the textile workers their str Cutters Mest Tosctrew. extile workers to continue their st Tomorrow night at 7 o’clock a meeting of Local 6 of the cloak and | dress cutters will be held at 16 W. 21st St. The mecting is called for, a three-fold purpose: 1. To initiate; all the new members since the vic- torious dressmakers’ strike. 2. To listen to a general report on the ® TO AID U.S, WAR. Morris Hillquit, corporation law- of L., the Stetsky clique of the in tative of the Harlem Tenants League | J. P. Morgan Co. In a statement written for th |New York Telegram, praising that newspaper’s plan for a reception to} Young on his arrival in this city) Friday, Hillquit said: a “The principal of The Telegram’s suggestion is sound. Mr. Young has | rendered signal service in interna- tional relations, conducive to peace and good-will among the nations. I believe that persons who perform labor. Whalen’s uniformed thugs, gangsters of the underworld, and the prostitute press—these are being recruited to open its vicious attack on the fur workers. But those who doubt for a moment the ultimate result of the coming strike do not know the character of the furriers and the present temper of the needle trades work- ers. lyer and leader of the American so-| “Joint Council,” and the fur Present situation the "needle 7 ta : | Giaiiset patty and Aine betas a | manufacturers -<all cave (hntchins .| ‘waded ‘by Louts Hyman, president To Force Rival Groups |tioned as a probable candidate for| their conspiracy to beat back the oe eee Into Conservation” | mayor in the coming city election,| furriers to the sweatshops by all | /@st-minute preparations for the fur- ahh last night fully endorsed the plun-| the methods of strikebreaking Tits’ strike. | WASHINGTON, June 11.—While dering of the German workers by| known to modern misleaders of Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of : i shattndnatdal Uslon cand dekdar. of Standard Oil interests caucused for the heroic furriers’ struggle of 1926, last night made public a letter from J. M. Budish concerning the hypo- critical campaign for an “investiga- tion” into the fur strike made by | |the scab Joint Council. | Budish, who for many years was jeditor of the “Headgear Worker,” | official organ of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International, (Continued on Page Five) |which will enable the United States | to fight rival groups in opposing countries in the next war and at the same time whip into line smaller western groups which hamper the Hoover-sponsored move for “oil con- |servation,” Senator Cutting, repub- | \lican, of New Mexico, denounced the | |conservation order as “lawless” in | the senate today. He spoke during |diseussion on the conference. such public service should be honor- | ed by their fellow citizens.” Others who are being considered | are Louis Waldman, algo a lawyer,} Dr. Harry Laidler, secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, an organization operating among Less than a Third of Rayon Workers Submit to Blacklist | Ina bold call for conservation, larrogantly asserted the “absolute necessity” of conversation in the United States was to enjoy a free |hand in the war against opposing plans to effect unified oil production | . Mark L. Requa of Los Angeles had | uggle in the face of every obstacle. The statement follows: The International Labor Defense on workers and workers organi- to obilize for the support of the Gas- Textile strikers who have been aded to prison on a murder nd are being framed up by » of capitalist “justice” the The place in the history of the labor struggle in America beside the Centralia affair and the Sacco-Van- zetti Around the Gastonia will be forged the iron ring | ers’ defense. The masses of workers will mobilize for a nation- wide struggle to rescue the latest victims of the capitalist frame-up system and defend the new fighting textile union against this attempt of the bosses to destroy it. The Culmination. The clash at Gastonia is the in- evitable culmination of a long se of brutal attacks and provocation in- stigated and engineered by the tex- tile manufacturers and the govern- ment authorities in North Carolina. |The long and bitte ruggle of the workers of the textile mills against | intensified exploitation and unbear- in its y ing the strikers to are arranging distribution of} provisions to the families who are ~,...| Without a bite to eat. "4 We are going to continue assist- organize and fight the empl of the Loray mill, its mob tacties and lynch law. Sentiment for the union is increas- ing in all the mills around Gastonia, and the workers are awaiting or- gani from the National Textile Wor'! Union. The big press news services are coming to us to get information. All their papers have been printing only the employers’ side so far. The workers and even the store keep: of Gastonia are friendly to (Continued on Page Two) BEAL REMOVED ONCE MORE TO A SECRET JAIL Tells of Attempts Made to Lynch Him a! CHARLOT1 . C., June 11— After Attorney Jimison of the In- ternational Labor Defense was finally, allowed to see Fred Beal, southern organizer of the National, Textile Workers Union, for a short time Monroe County jail, Beal: was removed by the officers and taken to another prison. His where-* outs are again being kept secret bellow fraud that it was practically t | ‘Are Steeled to Tackle a constant struggle for the barest marching columns with banners. \“a reasonable return.” Alderman fallen heroes of the revolution, par- Mass Meet in Bronx Tomorrow Night Four striking laundry drivers are now out on $500 bail each follow- ing their arrest by the bosses of the Bronx Home Laundry, 1010 E. 178rd St. These workers are Irving Penner, Sidney Schlissel, Jack Pro- fosky and Rayfiel Ritt. The drivers in this laundry and the Commodore laundry (also known as ‘the “Reival,” are the latest to join the growing strike for union conditions. Revenge for Sirike. Exasperated because of the walk- out, the bosses of the Bronx Home Laurdry had resorted to an old de- vice, and had the four workers ar- restéd for “petty larceny.” This (Continued on Page Five) After every revolution marking a der rellet—Marx. at ie el tase yesterday threatened with severe prison sentences, as long as six months, in the Children’s Court.) Altho sentence was postponed for) three days, the Pioneers were not released, but are being kept in pri- son, under custody of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Child- ren. The three Pioneers are Leo Shapi- ro, 14 years of old, Morris Rosen- blatt, 14, and Sam Slipzen, 13, They were arrested while on the picket |!0W | line with a group of Young Pioneers, , Britain. ees, They are defended by the Interna-| New York District of the Com- tional Labor Defense. |munist Party has not waited for * “The answer of the New York the election to begin its campaign Pioneers to the arrest and confin¢- | n issues vital to the workers of the liberal college students, and which is subsidized by two wealthy ladies, and Algernon Lee, director of the Rand School, who while New York alderman, voted for the third issue of Liberty Bond in the recent im- perialist war. At this time they announce that they hope to win votes in the com- ing campaign on the strength of the accession to power of their fel- low social-imperialists in Great ment of the three workers’ children |city. These include attacks on Tam-| and the threatened sentence of six many police brutality, mobilization months will be a complete mobili-|0f the tenants to resist rising rents, zation of the Pioneers to aid on the ®”d mass violations of injunctions. picket line not only in the cafeterin| The socialist party, thru its yellow strike, but also in the coming fur- organ, the “New Leader,” has al- riers’ strike”, Ben Harper, Pioneer ¥eady shpwn its colors by apologiz- director of the District 2 of the ing for the activities of police ter- Young Pioneers of America stated | rorism in the cafeteria strike, and yesterday, attacking the huge demonstrations “The Pioneers will rally in hun-| at Union Square, dreds for the mass picketing and will break the terrorist methods of HAMBURG TAXI STRIKE. boss-controlled judges and police by! HAMBURG, Germany, June 11.— their solidarity with the young and|Taxi drivers of Hamburg wee on adult workers’, ~ : 3 } strike today, ae ¥ ro Elizabethton Textile Workers Militant; “Raw” Labor Recruits Frighten Union Misleaders By BILL DUNNE. | | ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., June 8] Ke, | (By Mail)—Only 774 former strik-| of them less than a year in indus- |ers in addition to the 484 now work-| try, as a victory by the United Tex- |4, according to E. T. Wilson, per- eration of Labor officials. Hoffman, |sonnel director and blacklist expert | the Muste group leader in the sit- }companies, who announced today, Wilson and his “impartiality.” |the end of the registration period. | It will sound strange to the ears | Only 1850, Wilson’s own figures, of workers in the old industrial cen- of the 5,000 workers have regis-| ters of the North but it is absolutely tered at the employment office.| true that the Bemberg and Glanz- This small percentage is eloquent! Stoff mill workers, only recently re- proof of the attitude of the mill cruited from the countryside, are workers towards the strike settle- just now grasping the fact that ment. It shows that they have| Wilson is paid by the companies; formed a correct opinion of the that the U, T. W. officials, eager “concession” made by the com-|to end the strike, cash in on their ployment office and the hiring of | Strike as difficult as possible, did the graduate stoolpigeon, Wilson, | not mention this all-important fact. equipped with his Passaic diploma, Too Much To Swallow. as director, One cannot blame the workers Blacklist Machinery. ‘here for being fooled by the theory This measure, the first step injof “impartial” arbitrators. They setting up an efficient blacklisting (Continued on Page. Two) ontinue machinery, was put before workers} engaged in their first strike, many} ing, will be given jobs before July tile Workers and the American Fed- | |for the Bemberg and Glanzstoff uation, vouched vociferously for panies, the establishment of an em-|infamy and make another militant) \cil interests in the next world clash. Gastonia Defense Tag ‘Days this Saturday |and Friday, June 15, 16 Tag Day Stations. | *Volunteers for the Gastonia-Shif- |rin-Mineola Defense Tag Days are asked to report to the following sta- tions: Bronx Co-operative, 2700 Bronx | Park East; Bronx Workers Club, 1472 Boston Rd.; Unity Co-opera- tive, 1800 Seventh Ave.; Non-Parti- |san Children’s School, 143 E. 103rd St.; Yorkville Czecho-Slovak Horne, 847 KE. 72nd St.; Workers Center, 26 Union Square, second floor; 56 Manhattan Ave., Williamsburg; 154 Watkins Ave., Brownsville; 1373 |48rd St., Boro Park; 2901 Mermaid Ave., Coney Island; Bath Beach | Workers Center, 48 Bay 28th St. | The main station, 26 Union Sq,, |will be open all day Saturday and |Sunday until 10 p. m. to settle for the Tag Day collections. | | Long Live the Revolutionary | | Struggle of the Oppressed Colo- nial Peoples} * i 1 — ee hes able slavery has been marked by the by the police. : most outrageous and brutal on- Beal told Jimison and the report-_ slaught of the police and company crs a graphic story of the attempte thugs, deputy sheriffs, American to lynch him while he was being: through South Castonig legionaires and local fascisti. Men, | brought women and children have been/after being arrested in Spartan- beaten, manhandled and _ stabbed jLurg. jwith bayonets. Force and violence has been used by the government and the guardians of capitalist class to break the strike. Families have | been evicted, men, women and chil- dren brutally attacked, union organ- izers arrested and beaten, union headquarters invaded and destroyed. | The strikers continue their strug- gle with undaunted courage. They were thrown out of their homes and then out of the tents in which they had taken refuge, but hunger, misery, homelessness and police at- tacks left the strikers undismayed. They returned day after day to the picket line and showed the most mili- (Continued on Page Two) Cop Goes to House, After midnight a crowd of armed, men surrounded the car which had. heen parked by the side of the street while one of the officers went into a nearby house for some reason he did not disclose. After some argument with the officers the lynchers left without Beal. It is presumed that either a they were not sure of Beal’s idene tity, or were given assurance by the officers they could get him later. “Would Have Lynched.” A responsible county official told Attorney Jimison last night that if \Beal had been in the Gastonia jail at any time from Friday night to Monday night he would have been lynched. Although local newspaper men have been allowed in jail to see So 2 DIE IN WRECK, MADRID, June 11.—Two persons were killed and 40 were injured when a surburbax train left the tracks at Florida crossing here last night. The presence of mind of one of the phie Melvin and Edith Saund switchmen avoided a greater loss of | Miller, their attorneys and frie Ne “ante barred. tet,