The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1929, Page 2

>Page Two COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY START PARTY CONGRESS Reéord Demonstration of Heroic Berlin Proletariat Many Bring Greetings Is Steeled to Tackle Important Tasks (Continued from Page One) ding, a workers suburb of Berlin. The Presidium was unanimously elected, and included Thaelmann, Remmele, Heckert, Pieck, Nieder- Kirchner. Stalin, L Molotov, Kus- inen, M: i, and class war pris- oners Terracini, Marty, Doblog- heanu, noff, Pashin, and Rakoshi were elected members of the Presidiur Fighters Proud of Co tive of the Wed- Samer, represe: ding workers add amidst great applause, declaring the Wedding workers who fought for the proletarian cause on May Day are is held in proud that the Con; Wedding. Bittner of Poland, greeted the Congress, declaring the right wing was practically settled and the con- ciliants within the Party were more dangero Boeck, of Belgium, pra heroic Berlin workers and d closer co-operation of the Communist Parties of western Europe as an answer to the reparations confer- ence. Amidst storms of applause, Blascio greeted the Congress in the name of the Italian Communist Party and dec the Fas danger is inte The Ge man social democracy is abolishing democratic institutions and the only alternative is bourgeois or prole- tarian dictatorship. ised the Strikers Show Correctness. Delegate Tchykish declared the farm hands strike in Slovakia proved the correctness of the Communist Party’s struggle against the liquida- tors and opportunists. . Schueller of Austria praised the Berlin workers, declaring the Ger- man Communist Party had followed the correct Leninist policy on May | Day: He said the Austrian social-| democracy was developing in the} ) same direction as the German. The Communist Parties of many telegrams. Pieck answered the greetings of} these brothers parties in the name! of the Central Committee of. the | | | Victim of Subway Magnates’ Greed. for more profits, the New York sub- way magnates pack the workers into the cars like sardines. Dozens of workers are in- * jured every day in the crush. Mary Woods, 4 year old daughter of a worker, above, was badly injured when a subway train slammed against her. door sed the congress | French alliance oppression, pressure in some cases included many estab- on Germany, imperialist oppression | lishments, |of colonial peoples, and against the worke: The colonial people’s in- ruggle against imperial- Another feature of the disputes which proves the class character of the workers’ i ahe wale ied in the strike |e yer, eeeeles is the rela ng: ism was exemplif é tively large number of strikes of the Bombay textile workers who : Pat SR Ks : : ; : tee against vict i e: ee adopted political de- aR: ictimization. There re ‘7 for reinstatement of dismissed |workers, 18 for wage increases and 11 against ill-treatment. What will \be regarded as extraordinary is that jonly two strikes took place against | |the unbearably long hours of 12 to |16 hours a day, and even more in some cases. This is not a surprise jto those connected with the move- most dangerous form of|™ent in China. The wages are so cism is the social fascism of|!ow that the ordinary worker re- Severing, Zoergiebel, etc. Mac- gards amelioration in the direction Donald would also crush the Indian|©f more wages as an immediate | Revolutionary movement and prose- | Problem. cute capitalist rationalization for|, We have no figures for the last “industrial peace” and persecute the |f@w months, but by pointing to the growing Communist movement. The ™&ny strikes which have taken place | growing activity of the workers is We Can assure the workers that the the most important factor for under-|™ulitant spirit of the Chinese work- | mining capitalist stabilization. fev ero oeeuiet amperslishex- | | ploitation. mands. e fascist danger is now particularly acute: in the fascist coup in Yugoslavia, the intensifica- jtion of the fascist dictatorship in | Pola and the swift development sm in Austria whereby the ul social democracy is help- The on them in an attempt to manufac- ture evidence for a frame-up. White Terror, The Gastonia police have let loose 5) 1. L. 0, APPEALS Py ritable white terror. They have d upon this case as a pretext for terrorizing the strikers, for keeping the women and children in the tent colony ih a state of seige, and for starting a man-hunt for every strike leader, organizer and active member of the N. T. W. U. The dragnet that they have spread GASTONIA CASES ‘New Centralia’ States National Secretary _|has gathered in the best of the union workers, men and women, (Continued from Page One) | The organizers have kept up f their activity in the face of attack, intimidation and imprisonment. The rage and resentment of the employ- tant fighting spirit in the face o: brutality and intimidation. Strict Discipline. Jers has fallen especially upon Beal Throughout the strike the strikers | and Bush and other union organ- | have maintained the strongest prole-|izers. They are the special objects tarian discipline. By their splendid|of the capitalist clan for revenge | organization, all the efforts of the|and for smashing the organization. police and thugs to terrorize them} The lynching spirit has been at and provoke trouble has been in}fever heat since the shooting, and vain, The most extreme provocation |has been whipped up by the bosses [found the workers firm and dis-|and their agents with the purpose ciplined with ranks unbroken, When of instituting a reign of terror in the textile manufacturers and .the| the Gastonia district to drive out the government officials found that all/union, root and branch. their efforts at terrorism were in| and that the union organiza-| _, tion remained firm and strong, they} The I. L. D. issues a call to all determined to use the most extreme | Workers and workers organizations s ures to break the strike and| ‘2 rally to the defense of the 60 ir smash the fighting textile workers |Ptisoned textile strikers of Gastonia, uinon which had succeeded in build-|'® help the I, L. D. to smash the ing the t stronghold of worl ers |{tame-up murder indictment, to organizations in the textile industry )*escue the leaders of the N. T. W. U. Of the nani: |from the clutches of capitalist white h |terror and lynch law in the south. Provocation. | _ Gastonia lifted the lid of exploita- | The provocation of the police and|tion in the black South. It is the the hired company thugs have in-| first step on the road to freedom for creased as the strike progressed and |the millions of exploited masses of their attitude became particularly |the south, Negro and white. That menacing during the last week, road will be marked by many bloody Gun-play, drunken insult and provo- | battles in the class struggle. The cation, attacks upon strikers: with|defense of the Gastonia strikers fist and blackjack have character-;™must be conducted not merely in ized the conduct of the Gastonia} courts and by legal advisors, but police during this last week partic-|7ather by the mass action of the ularly, |Ameriean working class. This brutal attack came to a head|,, Workers and workers organiza- on Friday when the union gathered |tions ‘must rally at once to the sup- to prepare a picket demonstration |P0't of the I. L. D, Gastonia strikers defense. Hold mass meetings. before the Loray salll Wisse OAS Dernonsteata yous eolidaniny rate Rally to Defense. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929 GASTONIA POLICE DESTROY STRIKER COLONY OF TENTS Move to Prevent Food Coming to Families (Continued from Page One) |the strikers, but the Committee of |One Hundred, the Loray mill ow: ers’ gunmen, are creating te throughout the city. Pressure On Lot Owners. There is a report here that the owner of the lot which was leased to the N, T. W. U. for the erection of the union headquarters was asked by the city authorities to give permission for them to tear down the building. William Rice, owner of the tent women and children of the families | of the strikers, inany of them sick, | te survive a period of bad weather | }ond the strike to be continued. | | Their. attempt to destroy the col- | ony is seen here as a further strike- | breaking tactisof the employers, | City police and mill own thugs |have been in arbitrary possession of ithe colony since Saturday, the day | jafter Chief of Police Aderholt and) \three of his deputies were shot dur- ling an attempt to shoot it up. They| Murderer of Peasant have destroyed all the food in the) T aaday Rewarded relic are deliberately | star rikers, their women| | : and child in the hope of crush-;, MEXICO CITY, June 11—Cloak- ng them back to slavery in the Lo-|ing in the profoundest secrecy, be- cause of fear of the resentment of | ‘Movoto Statve Stnkehe: the masses, the maneuvers by which The announced intention of Alfred |h¢ aims to betray one of the major Wagenknecht, executive secretary of achievements of the Mexican Teve- the W. I, R, now in Gastonia, to |!ution—the suppression of the re- send a truckload of food into the |9¢tionary catholic church—President tent colony evidently provoked the |Portes Gil held a long conference nedanteovannthiate at yesterday with Dwight W. Morrow, | State Senator Wooltz, who is city | Wall Street ambassador to Mexico. attorney of Gastonia, yesterday |The subject of the conference, it is | Defense Attorney Jimison |Commonly believed, was the new al- spoke ta Defense Attorney) it gy (lignce belng planned with the cath- PORTES GIL IN SEGRET PARLEY vay mill. about closing down the W. I. R,liance NANKING LOSES CHICAGO TOILERS CONTROL OF ITS HELP CHILDREN'S _ OWN MINISTRIES USSR DELEGATION Chiang-U. S. Contracts Defeated | (Continued from Page One) over to the United States. ton, Hankow and Shanghai and Pe- king. The increasingly open opposition to Chiang Kai-shek by his own for- |, These | |include the most strategic military jiet Union is viewed by the Chicago countries sent fraternal letters and | Points between Nanking ana Can- | District of the Pioneers as the most | filled with company spies and thugs| | who attempted to provoke the strik- by throwing eggs and stones | when the union organizers, Bush and Beal were speaking. The strikers, men, children, marched off in solid rank | from the. mill, only to meet an or-| | ganized and armed resistance of the police who fell upon them savagely, ‘beating them up and attacking and choking the women and children.} | Overwhelmed by this brutal assault, \the strikers returned to their tent] colony and dispersed in their tents. | It was upon this quiet tent colony | with its dozens of families, men, women and children, preparing for | sleep that the police of Gastonia made an organized assault, important political campaign ever Aderholt Leads. lyet undertaken by any children’s or- | Led by police chief Aderholt who, {ganization in this country, |during the entire -period of the The propaganda of the bosses will Strike, had been most provocative Plan to Combat Boss Propaganda CHICAGO, June 11.—The sending | of a children’s delegation to’ the Sov- women and} the imprisoned strikers. Show your determination to rescue them from the clutches of the capitalist courts. Collect contributions for the defense fund on the widest scale possible. Build the I. L. D. as a larger mass organization. Recruit new members, affiliate all workers organizations. Fight the white terror and the bosses offensive in America and all other countries. GIL RELEASES MELLA MURDERER Censors Workers Press | But Favors Assassin MEXICO CITY, June 11.—Jose colony lot, is said to have given the |city permission to dismantle the tent colony, the lumber to be taken by Rice and the tents and srikers’ furniure stored. No one knows whether this is true or not. It is clear that the destruction of the tent colony by the city is an at- tempt to disperse the witnesses to tent’colony. Wooltz claimed he was afraid a mob would burn down the tents and destroy everything. Jim- ison informed Wooltz that Wagen- Knecht had charge of the tent col- leony) as representative of the na- tional cffice of the W, I. R. Also |that the ground was under the ae the shooting Friday, who might ap- yy "ye. ad geet wets pear in defense of the arrested strik-| "4," Aisne ers when they are put on trial. | Waeenknecht stated that he was | Jt is clearly established by credi-| sour to inform Wooltz that the ble witnesses that ‘the Manville-|?ot ttn tay up and the union |Jenckes gunmen burned down com-|,°"'S y |pany houses last night, to give a fresh ex fi Boaati d to that relief will continue to be dis- fresh excuse for mob action and to/tibuted, He added that he will ab increase the terror. | cage é solutely oppose any attempt to close |, den whe were employed in the ‘down the tent colony no matter what jLoray mill at the time of the shoot- 11 ,oats are made by mobs of the {ing stated yesterday before three} : ‘ jcompany. witnesses that the first attack on| 2 ‘ | the speakers at the tent colony meet-| Beal in Monroe County Jail. |ing Friday night was organized by|, A writ of habeas corpus secured |the fascist committee of the Man-|i Charlotte yesterday smoked out | ville-Jenckes bosses at the mill. The|the authorities who have been keep- |bosses were heard ordering their/img Fred Beal, southern organizer |hirelings to throw eggs at the ce she. Nationa Textile one spea - 7] ‘ nion, hidden in various jails. ev peakers, when the demonstration SAEtIKGac thai Ha hae Iaen Anco roe County jail but have removed him again to some other prison. |headquarters would remain, before the Loray mill was being or- genized, These witnesses state that Chief ) $0 [of Police Aderholt, after his police| _ Attorney Jimison, for the Interna- jline turned back the strikers’ picket | tional Labor Defense, Sunday asked demonstration Friday, ordered the|0f the judge in Charlotte a writ Committee of One Hundred to arm forcing the sheriffs and wardens of also | and come out of the mill. | | “Shoot To Kill.” | This mill worker heard Aderholt| {order the Committee of One Hun-| dred to go to the tent colony with| |the police and “shoot to kill.” | | He saw this gang of mill bosses’ gunmen shoot up the colony, tear jdown the tents, and loot the union) headquarters after the shooting of| ithe officers and the strike leader,| | Harrison. | | This National Textile. Workers’) Union member further stated he| was in Gastonia the night Fred} |Beal, union orgenizer, “was taken) | through by the police, who were in-| structed by the city solicitor not to| jails in Gaston County to allow Jvtiet Stuart Poyntz, national sec- retary of the I. L. D., and attorneys to visit the arrested strikers, The judge asked for time, and yester- day refused the writ. Yesterday, however, the TI, L. D. attorney demanded a writ of habeas corpus, to return all arrested stri ers for a hearing in Charlotte to- day. There is a law in North Caro- lina fining any judge $2,500 if he refuses to sign a reasonable writ of | habeas corpus when demanded. So the judge signed this writ, making the cases returnable in Charlotte, but temorrow at. 10a, m, State Senator Wooltz, city attor- for Gastonia, when he heard of mer supporters is only a reflection jcf the tremendous opposition to him Workers Greet Congress. jon the part. of the vast masses of Delegations from the International Chinese -proletariat and peasantry, Red Aid, the children’s conference,| The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Sec- the Silesian textile workers, the retariat has obtained, through a Hamburg dock workers, the Stettin | publication recently issued by the dock workers greeted the Congress.| Bureau of Social Affairs for the , The Congress unanimously adopted {city of Shanghai, figures containing / telegrams of greeting to the Exec-|the number of strikes which took utive Committee of the Communist Communist Party of Germany. nine months of 1928, best be eombatted by the revolution- ary children’s movements, by the sending of strong children’s delega-; tions to the Russian Pioneer Con- lention, which takes place the same jmonth as the Boy Scout Jamboree. On June 23 a big fraternal and sympathetic children’s organization conference is being called by the Young Pioneers of District 8 to lay place in this port during the first /ont plans of work for this district |outcome of the . prov and brutal of all, the band of police, td entered the tent. colony and at-|Magrinat, the Cuban spy, who or- tempted to invade it. Halted by the | Sanized the assassination of Julio guards and asked for their search Mella, was released from jail after warrant, Aderhold answered: “We|four months, “for lack of proofs,” don’t need any God damned search | #fter which he immediately disap- warrant.” Then his men grappled | peared and his whereabouts are un- with the guards and Aderholt raised | known. ; his revolver and fired. The shots| The release of Magrinat took place that followed his were the inevitable | at the same date when the magazine tion of | “Mella,” organ of the International iti ney. ie ee See ea ae 10% the writ, issued an order to hear the M : “Take hg cord aah eh 7 |cases ‘at Gastonia, instead of at “Send Him in a Coffin.” | Charlotte, at 9 a, m. tomorrow. | He overheard a remark made in) Today, from the same sources, a |the court house yesterday, “If Jimi-|Statement ‘was issued, postponing |son comes to Gastonia, return him'the hearing until Friday. Such a ‘to Charlotte in a coffin!” (Jimison postponement of execution of a writ |is the attorney for the International f habeas corpus is illegal without consent of both parties. | Labor Defense.) + | Iwas informed yesterday in Char-| Poyntz has made public a state- |ment pledging every resource of the } International, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions, the strike committees of the Bombay textile workers, and the Bulgarian tobacco workers. The session concluded with Hec- nese press during January and Feb- \language fraction secretaries are They prove in support of the children’s delega-|Weeks. In the confused firing that|Labor Defense of the Caribbean, that the trade union and mass move-|tion to Russia. This ‘conference will ment is definitely rising. |take place at the Workers’ Center, In a publication issued by another | 2021 W. Division St., at 10 a.m. A jorganization, the Chinese Aid So-|call is being: sent out to a number ciety, statistics taken from the Chi-|o¢ such organizations and the Party followed, several police were| Was censored and a whole issue of |lotte that it was “inadvisable” for me to come to Gastonia, as I would \I. L. D, and calling on every worker wounded and Aderholt paid with his | the “Cuba Libre,” the organ of the life for his brutal and murderous at-|Tefugee Cuban evolutionists in tacks. | Mexico, was confiscated. |to ‘Assist in the fight to defeat the \frame-up against the arrested strik- jers, and Reid and Weisbord have jbe assaulted. I arrived here with jan attorney to serve a writ of habeas corpus on Sheriff Line- After the disappearance of Magri- The shootings by the police were / nat, the prosecutor of Mexico an-| kert- reading numerous letters and|ruary for the current year deals especially asked to co-operate with telegrams of greetings from factory with arrests and executions. In workers and peasants organizations. | both cases they cannot be complete. In the afternoon the delegates| Strikes can occur of which the were driven in motor trucks decora-|Social Affairs Bureau may have no "lution, ted with red through the streets of the workers’ quarters, where they | were enthusiastically greeted, to the Friedrichsfelde Cemetery where are | the graves of Liebknecht, Luxem- burg, and other victims of the Revo-| including the May Day | mtrdered. | Pieck spoke and the Internationale| _ Was sung. | cies Visit Battle Scene. | The returning delegates were| _ / driven through Koeslinerstrasse where the fiercest May Day barri-| cade fighting occurred. The work- ers greeted the delegates here with tremendous enthusiasm. . I the Monday - session, further foreign delegates greeted Congress, assuring the Party support in the struggle against de- viations. _ Heckert reported for the creden- tials commission: two hundred and one delegates including one hundred | and thirty-two factory workers and five farm laborers. The overwhelm- ing majority of the delegates were trade unionists. Over fifty per cent ‘ef the delegates suffered imprison- ment for revolutionary activity. ‘The chairman then read a letter from a worker delegate to the social- democratic Magdeburg Congress de- scribing the secret session discussing May Day and Zoegiebel’s prohibi- tion, The social democrats were very much depressed because May Day developed so catastrophically for the social democratic party. Zoer- gebel was criticized. The social democrat session finally decided the ‘withdrawal of the demonstration prohibition ‘was necessary. Thaelman Speaks. reading numerous further and letters greeting the 8, Ernst Thaelmann took the and was greeted by singing of Internationale. Thaelman spoke six hours, declaring that the tion of the imperialist an- since the Sixth World confirmed the latter's ‘regarding the character of knowledge, as most workers cor- rectly regard this Kuomintang Bu- reau as a definite institution of the enemy, an agency of the employers and imperialists to cheat and op- press the strikers; and some em- ployers do not always report dis- putes, preferring to manage their own affairs, Regarding the second point, it is no exaggeration to say that hundreds of torturous killings are committed by the Kuomintang militarists without the public hav- ing any knowledge or without ever appearing in the press. Therefore these figures. are all the more im- portant and not at all exaggerated. | In fact the figures relating to the latter probably do not record half the total number of arrests or ex- ecutions. Last January 938 were arrested (presumably retained), but 861 were either shot, strangled, beheaded or tortured to death by diverse meth- ods; while in February there were 2,441 and 797, respectively, and sim- ilarly treated. However, notwith- standing that these conditions pre- vailed during the first nine months of 1928 we find that there were in Shanghai alone 175 strikes involv- ing 283,481 workers and 6,340 estab- lishments. This proves the militant spirit of the Chinese masses has not been lost and that conditions are so bad that many militant leaders of the masses are prepared to risk ar- rest and even death at the hands of the Kuomintang militarists rather’ than submit. The P. P, T. U. S., in making an abstract of the figures for its affili- ated organizations, finds that there were 71,369 women and 12,389 chil- dren involved. This is because light industry (cotton, silk, tobacco, matches, etc.) employ mostly women and children, To give only one ex- ample there were 3,300 males, 4,000 women and 2,000 children in a strike against the British American To- bacco Co., who struck against ill- treatment and for better wages. Most of the strikes, however, in- volved Chinese industries, There Period. He described the in antagonism were only 38 strikes, involving 1 the Pioneers of District 8 in the circles where they have influence. Communists fight on behalf of the immediate aims and interests of the working clas#, but in their present movement they are also de~ fending the future of the move ment.—Marx, |seconded by attacks from the Gas-| |tonia fascisti, 200 strong, under the! jleadership of Major Bullwinkle, the |local Mussolini, and attorney for the mill owners. Women and children | were herded into the tents and kept), The working class cannot simply |K. O. Byers, K. Y. Hendricks, W. M. |there by force incommunicado. | Strikers were pursued, organizers | dragged to jail and beaten and tor- itured. The third degree was used nounced that more facts have been| discovered which would justify hold- | |ing Magrinat in jail. |tay hold of the ready-made state | machinery, and wield it for ite own |purpose....This nervy Commune (Paris |Commune) breaks the modern state power—Marx, (Continued from Page Onc) have not had the experience of the clothing trades workers, for in- stance, with this breed of bosses’ |agents. But to find that the subject of the loud and laudatory comments of the U. T. W. ballyhooers is just another high-salaried company of- ficial is too much for them to swal- low. In the light of Willson’s latest announcement, the calling off of the strike becomes a deed of a still darker tinge. The companies are picking and choosing carefully; all known rebels and those suspected of rebellious tendencies are being sifted_out. Kelley, the resident bur- eaucrat of the U. T. W., makes only to fool the more observant work- ers. But these he tries to discredit by various methods and this aids the companies, who intend to starve such workers into leaving town. The U. T. W. is just as anxious as the companies to get rid of work- ers like one Dan Taylor, for in- stance. At the trial where 44 former strikers drew fines and jail sen- tences for violation of the injunc- tion, a rather frightened German technician testified that Dan Tay- lor pulled out om strike one whole department by himself when the second strike was declared, that he went from room to room shouting, “All out!” and that if the doors were locked, he broke them down, An Armed Picket, Neither are the U. T. W. of- ficials enthusiastic about young workers like Cole, who picketed the main highway to the mills with a +38 Colt on a 45 frame, Most of the automobiles loaded with mis- | guided workers who had not yet quit, stopped and unloaded as he re- quested. The hardier drivers who failed to stop had their tires shot full of -holes. Most of the workers are young, but some of the minority of oldsters nurse ideas which have their source in the pioneer and mountaineer tra- ditions that die hard, ideas profound- ly disturbing to bureaucrats whose background is that of social reform- ists the world over: “employers rep- resentatives and employes represen- tatives gathered around the confer- ence table—collective bargaining. Good employers bargain, bad em- ployers force the workers to strike. a pretense of protest, not sufficient, Strikes are bad for both the wage earners and employes.” Shudder, Under the Fat. If the vertebrae of Hoffman and Kelley were not covered with a layer of fat of a thickness unusual even in this type of “labor leader,” one could see a shudder travel to and through their lumbar regions when they hear a grey headed worker calmly state that: “This here road picketing is all right for you-all young ’uns, but in the next strike I’m for some of us gittin’ our rifle- guns and layin’ out on the ridges.” The mills lie in the valley within easy rifle-range of the nearest for- ested hilltops, “ridges.” Spring is here and it is not necessary to wait for “when the leaves come out,” as in Ralph Chaplin’s poem. This combination of modern fac- tory industry with its workers gath- ered from a countryside where the individualism of the frontier and the Less Than Third of Rayon Workers Submit to Blacklist in Elizabethton maintained till the present by small farming and isolation, creates an at- mosphere similar in many respects |to that in which the old Western Federation of Miners fought its bat- tles. Like the rank and file of the Western Federation in the days when Cripple Creek, Coer d’Alene, Goldfield and Butte symbolized struggle, we have here a new con- tingent of workers of native stock moying up to the front line of the class struggle.’ New Reeruits. They are fresh, raw troops but unlike the miners of the old West, they cannot retreat. Industry, trus- tified and re-trustified industry, in- terlocked and finance-capital until the union is indivisible, leaves open no road but that of struggle, These workers will not follow the Mustes, the. Hoffmans, the Kelleys, and those for whom they act as pro- curers, the Greens, Wolls, and Mc- Gradys. They will not be betrayed twice. Mass production in plants where every process is standardized Jeayes no decisive group of labor aristocrats with which the bureau- crats can maneuver, The militant program of the American section of the R. I. L. U., the Trade Union Educational League, and the industrial unions affiliated to it, like the National Textile Workers Union, will rally and organize these new detachments of the American proletariat and alone can give leadership to their struggles, . ° (Coming—“The A. F. L. andthe Negro Palegel in Southern® In. massa idea ot sieges dates dear" By. PA eet. berger of Gaston county, demanding that Union Organizer Vera Bush, relief workers Carolina Drew, Amy jissued a statement for the N. T. W. U. that it will fight unceasingly to win this strike and will intensify the campaign to organize the whole Schechter, Sophie Melvin, Bertha \ Crawford, Edith Saunders, organ- |izers and strikers Marie Whitton, south, Incite Race Hatred. North Carolina newspapers |McGinnis, Russel Knight, Tom Helf, Publishing news J. R. Pittman, Horace Lloyd, Geo. |?¢450n the police came to the W. I. W. Carter, Louis McLaughlin, Jo-|R. tent colony on Friday was be- seph Harrison, Clarence Miller and|C@use some of the strikers were N. 'T. W. Southern Organizer Fred |fighting over whether a Negro pic- Beal, be brought before Superior|ture should hang in the union head- Court Judge W. F. Harding at Char-|(uarters. This lie is being circu- lotte tomorrow at ten in the morn-|lated to create race prejudice among ing for preliminary hearings. | the workers here and to further Stil: Tnoommunteade: stimalate lynch mobs. Drew, Schechter, and all the oth- ers are still held incommunicado. The Gastonia city authorities have attempted to secure the consent of Beal and Vera Bush to dismantle the tent colony. They refused. The attorney for the International Labor Defense, Tom Jimison, in- formed the city authorities that the W. I. R. and its executive secretary were in charge of the tent colony. He also told them where I could be found, but they made no effort to get in touch with me. Torture Arrested Strikers. My answer to a request for dis- mantling the colony would have been a refusal, The policy of the Work- ers International Relief is exactly the. opposite, We are determined to increase the size of the colony and increase the distribution of relief. A crowd of workers went out to the tent grounds last night, having heafd that there would be a meet- ing there. The deputies turned them back. Reports from the jail are current here that the strikers arrested and held there are being mistreated. They are being assaulted in their cells by the police. They are being “third degreed,” and drenched with water, * ° Drive against Tent Colony. GASTONIA, N. C., June 11— Yesterday it was announced here that the Gastonia city council are stories that the FOR 4 tribution of Relief. In This Critical Period Striking Workers! Workers adopted an ordinance abolishing the International tent colony, This colony was estab- he! lished ‘three weeks ago by the Relief Workers International Relief, which Name collected funds from workers all| |} One Union Square, ever the United States to buy the tents as shelter for strikers evicted from their homes by orders of the company. The tents enabled ‘th Saat hela 3 New York, NO FOOD Armed Deputies and Police Thugs of Gastonia Patrol the W. I, R. Tent Colony and Bar Dis- What Is Your Answer? The Strikers Must be Fed! Police and Depu- ties Must Leave the W. I. R. Tent Colony! Answer the Cry of the Children and Sick Women! Send Funds Today! Workers International Relief, One Union Square, New York City. Here is my donation for the brave Gas- tonia strikers, keep on striking until they win, Address GLE ys pip osha rrr cE be a icon ; olic church, an alliance whose terms lare being worked out under the di- |vection of American imperialism |which is eager to consolidate the |reactionary forces in Mexico that are so submissive to its will | The negotiations between Portes |Gil and the two papal emissaries, 'Archbishop Ruiz y Flores and | Bishop Pascual Diaz, which were |scheduled to start yesterday, have |been postponed, presumably because Ambassador Morrow, who arrived in {this city only Saturday after a three weeks’ trip to the United States, needed more. time to talk over Wall Street’s instructions with Portes Gil. Calles Also Arrives. Minister of War Calles has also arrived here “suddenly” from a va- cation in northern Mexico, It is be- lieved he will participate in the ne- gotiations. Meanwhile the bloody repressive measures against the Communist Party, the National Peasants’ League, the Workers’ and Peasants® Bloe and all other left wing organ- izations and their leaders continue, | though the smouldering resentment jof the masses threatens to burst into |flame at any moment. Reward Murderer. MEXICO CITY (By Mail).—The |murderer of Jose Guadelupe Rodri- | guez, Communist and peasant or- ganizer in the province of Durango. has received his reward. General |Medinaveytia, commander of the |military operations in Durango, who ordered the summary execution |without court-martial of Rodriquez, |has been cited for “special services” |for this Bloody offering to the Mex- ican bourgeoisie, | Medinaveytia explained to Presi- dent Portes Gil that he had Rodri- guez shot in conformity with a |telegraphic authorization from Min- ister of War Calles for “unauthor- \ized purchasing of munitions” (a jcharge of which he was exonerated |shorily before by the civil judge) !and on account of the “antecedents of this individual and because the [military command considered him |dangerous to the public peace and |because the work of Rodriguez ,.. may have induced the masses to re- volt.” At the same time Valente Guin- tana, chief of the secret police of Mexico City, who received a medal from President (“Butcher”) Ma- chado of Cuba at the time of the assassination in Mexico City of Julio |Mella, leader of the Cuban Commu- nist Party, and who is believed to have had a hand in the assassina- |tion, has been promoted to be chief lef police of the federal district. New Reactionary Moye. ee MEXICO CITY, June 11.—Riding |the new wave of reaction, the ex- |treme Anti-Re-elections Party is planning to introduce a proposal at its convention in this city in July to deny soldiers the right to vote. This move is intended to stifle the rising revolutionary sentiments among large disillusioned masses of the soldiers and is a possible pre- liminary to the disfranchisement of large numbers of the armed pea- santry. DAYS! Rally to the Aid of the Tell them I want them to