The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1929, Page 2

HINDU REBELS “CET LIFE TERM; _ DAWES HONORED ‘Noel, Baldwin Expert, | to Advise MacDonald | (Continued from Page One) through being elected with Lord Page Two | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1929 ____ (START SECRET PARLEYS WITH | MEYIC0 CHURCH ‘Student Strikers Seize | University (Continued from Page One) ing and closing of -the Communist hem for Comi ‘4 Im One of the Tents That Was _ . Torn Down 5 : BERLIN MEET IN DISCUSSION OF perialist War ae x (Continue plan and Ve | cial democ Party headquarters and the suppres- | | Sankey to the Council of State to part of sion of “El Machete,” central organ the Crown, ; paratu of the Communist Party. | The other members of the council democ are Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and Dr. | Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Morrow Is “Silent” Partner. | A “silent” tho immensely inter-| ested partner to the conferences | National Textile Workers Union strikers’ tent in Gastonia, N. C. tent colony. This is the sort of tent and family into which the police and mill owners’ gunmen fired a fussilade of bullets Friday night, WAR Progress that are now going on is the United) nq whick they tore down yesterday to throw this woman and these | Canterbury. | Beciereriat States, with Wall Street's ambassa-| children out into the forest and starve her back to slavery in the SE LODdUn See ae suURy Thaely dor, Dwight W. Morrow, acting as} mmiit, said today that Charles G. Dawes, id ch their previo cial demo: |the most famous strikebreaker in \the U. S., is bringing a “cordial in- KH ART § AYS vise from President Hoover asking Premier J. Ramsay Mac- a one-man steering committee for Portes Gil, On his arrival in this city “suddenly” from the United States last Saturday, Morrow im- MOOR TRIBESMEN BRO solidation of the Mexican reaction. mediately went into consultation | Donald to visit Washington. The with Gil to map out the details of | Standard headlined its story “Mr. Wall Street’s program in the con- IN NEW |Hoover invites Mr. MacDonald.” z Reo | E Dawes is at sea aboard the Olympic, The number of mmer military training camps is greater this year than ever before in the U. S. General Calles also arrived here which sailed from New York on June rene As the preparations for imperi grow more feverish, Wall Street opens up more camps to train cgiddenlgst Erora aetna aha Sarah \7, inside atalor as Eahisks ‘ biti 5) , 7 La Pee A mei tne _the youth to carry out its imperialist ambitions, He bee is reported he will take part in the| Kill 138, Wound Many | “The “Laborite” Daily Herald said Thaelm: ) lynching, but I don’t think they can} negotiations with the pope’s servi-| today it understood that Philip J. Imperial Troups | | Noel Baker, labor member of par- liament, would accompany J. Ram- say MacDonald on his proposed do anything now.” tors. He too has shown himself| tractable to the wishes of American | imperialism. gles since the } workers were AURDER CHARGE | FIRST MESSAGE Union Meetings (Continued from Page One) | But Allows Tariff Bill Rwaeiihe capital i Reports from Be are that Pe ea officers, and two companies of ma-/to Bar Militant Papers | visit to Washington, counter-offensives. The new ta PLACED AGAINST the local union of the National Tex- FROM STRIKERS Students Seize University. jchine gunners of 120 men each, be-| Baker is an “expert on foreign of the Comm s consist chi tile Workers Union. is holding regu- & | MEXICO CITY, June 12.—The/ Sides cavalry and Foreign Legion | (Continued from Page One) | affairs.” He served on the British “ @ great change in Trade Union pol- lar meetings and that organization lred flag waved today over the Mex- | detachments, |the conference committee's report | delegation during the peace confer- icy whereby new organizational work is going ahead more rapidly | |ican National University where 2,-| The French war ministry has sup- |on the farm bill hecause the deben- |€nce. Participating in making the forms are nd. The new policy j than before. A number of work 000 striking students are in com-/|pressed details of the skirmish, it |tuye plan was left out. | blood-sucking Versailles Treaty and resulted in breaking through trade who are behind have paid their dues plete control. They are determined |is indicated by its statement that | Boovde Dieu ¢ Piat |was on the League of Nations inion discipline, n decisions —- and new member have jolts ee — |to remain there until their demands | ‘due to the distance and bad weather uae aes ettad me ‘ ‘ secretariat until 1922. Rati invifis - orevi | ee ss . i semer is a proletarian center, there + f *. lare met. \a fragmentary account of the skir- resident Hoover issued a forma’ Batctenice. sight of 1-L4D. Is Holding Many |peing scarcely any middle class ele-|Gastonia Paper Again) "ro the strike of the university |mish ean be given.” |statement washing his hands of the the work is now in the factories and mass organizations. The strug- gle against r m is not only tactical but also an organizational Defense Meetings (Continued from Page One) Large numbers of mill workers from problem. The network of revolu-' Bessemer and other nearby centers tionary shop councils in the factories | are expected to attend. must be ext d. The struggle for Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national the majority of the German prole- secretary of the Int ional Labor i of the | Defense, states that a s of m struggle | meetings all over the country under must be cond d aga reform-/the auspices of the I. L. D. are al- ism, social fa n and deviations from the Party line. After the ex- pulsion of the right gers, the conciliators are continuing their former role. Where the Party en- ergetically carried out the new trade union tactic t successes were achieved. Th nann then dealt with the Berlin May strug- gles; the masses developed a higher stage in the class struggle. The social democrats bear the exclusive guilt. The social democrat: anted to provoke the Communist Party into a new March action and ren- der the Party incapable of fighting for a long period in which the bour- geoisie could then prepare for war | against the Soviet Union unhinder-| ed. Hundreds of thousands followed the slogan of the Party, “Demon- strate on May Day,” when police brutalities compelled the -workers to adopt the offen: demanded arms. The Party was un- able to grant the demand because the general situation was unripe for | judge before whom the hearing is | armed insurrection. The Party acted | t® be held in Charlotte is said to be} correctly in issuing the slogan for the mass strike. Although the strike was only partially successful it expressed nevertheless <he soli- darity of the proletarian ited front against the bourgeoi and social fascists. Concluding, ael- mann enumerated the tasks of the Party in the struggle against im-| perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, against reformism, against the capitalist offensive and for the dictatorship of the prole-| "ize this procedure. He will cite| tariat. After a report by Habisch on the | {Utther juggling with the writ is at-| work of the Young Communist League the session closed, Today’s session of the congress commenced with a speech by Over- lach on Party work among women. The speaker stressed particularly womens’ activity in the Berlin May itruggles, Discussion on Thaelmann speech| commenced with delegates from Berlin, Saxony, Wuerttemberg, Sil-| esia, Thuringia, Rhineland, Ruhr, | ete., expressing themselves as un- reservedly for the Party policy. Ul- bricht, member of the Central Com- mittee, declared that the May strug- gles broke through police prohibi-| tion for the first time since 1923.| For the first time the workers adopted the political mass strike} and barricades in self defense, The May experiences were exemplary for future struggles. By barricades and self defense against police terror the Berlin workers showed the broad masses that police were not invincible and this increased the | confidence of the workers. No revo- lutionary situation for armed insur- rection existed, but organized resist- mee was necessary. The Party b would do the same again. The struggle against police terror for the streets won us valuable experi- ence necessary for the overthrow of the bourgeois power. Owing to the presence of King Fuad in Berlin the presidium pro- posed the issue of a declaration of solidarity of the Egyptian workers and peasants. The delegates rose singing the International, and the session closed. -IMPERIALIST CONFERENCE. PARIS, June 12.—Forty nations, | , including 15 non-members, attended meeting of the International Ci ission for Air Navigation yes- Le y. The meeting was held in y offices of the Foreign Ministry. | ‘he any made application for entry. | Soviet Union was deliberately | invited. After every revolution marking a progressive phase in the class strug- | character elder and bolder reliet—Mara, — e. The*workers ready being started. The entire working class of America will be rallied behind the defense of the strikers of Gastonia, and the most determined efforts made to save them from the electric chair or prison terms. I. L. D. Demands. The IM L. D. demands the imme- diate and unconditional freeing of the now nearly 70 ikers held by the mill-owned Gastonia city gov- ernment, and the smashing of the framed up assault, conspiracy or complicity and murder charges placed against them at the instiga- tion of the Manville-Jenckes Co. The Gastonia authorities are try- ing this morning to evade the habeas corpus writ served on them yester- day in behalf of Fred Beal and 17 | other prisoners, The Gastonia prosecutor asked for delay on the ground that one of his distant relatives had died. The | out of town, and other such ex- cuses are made, It is believed that the Gastonia authorities will try to bring up some of the prisoners, who are charged with minor offenses in connection with the main case, for a prelimin- ary hearing and will try to railroad them. Attorney Jimison, for the Inter- | tions, it is likewise true that the |the mothers carrying small children national Labor Defense, is here this | 2uthorities are using this in an ef-|and older ones trudging wearily be- e to recog-| fort to intimidate N. T. W. organ-| hind. morning and will refus the sheriff for contempt of court if tempted. McLaughlin Tells of Raid. | Louis McLaughlin and Carter, two | of the tent colony guards who are| held in the Asheville Jail, were in- | terviewed yesterday by Jimison. McLaughlin, one of the best | known local union leaders, and -uni- versally respected, who was in the Workers International Relief tent colony when the police and deputies arrived and the shooting took place, gave an account of the battle which shows that the strikers shot in self defense and only after one of a number of revolver shots fired by Roach, one of the wounded deputies, had passed through the cap of McGinnis, a striker, now in jail in Gastonia. Beaten by Deputies. McLaughlin, who was born and raised in this vicinity, was beaten up in the Gastonia Jail by deputies. After the beating he was removed to Asheville and was abused con- tinually during the trip in a ma- chine, The authorities are playing up a statement made by one Polson, in which he claims to have been an eye-witness to the shooting and maintains that the strikers fired on the officers without provocation. Only the hangers-on of the mill | barons give any credence to Polson’s | statement. He is what Southerners call “sorry,” or “no account.” His reputation is that of never telling the truth, and of general worthless- ness. Furthermore, there are peo- ple who are able and willing to testify that he was not at the tent | colony when the battle took place, Sentiment Favorable. Sentiment among the workers and the masses of the people generally is increasingly favorable for the union and the defense. A local sym- pathizer, whose name cannot be used yet, but whose business brings him into intimate contact with large numbers of people caily, reported this morning that “nine out of ten persons I have talked with are with the strikers and the union. Of course | the Loray mill crowd, officials, busi- ness men and so on are all hostile. They tried mighty hard to have a ments in the community. | Another decisive indication of the atiment among the workers is the| |fact that yesterday and today work ers are coming in with information| |yvelative to persons who saw the battle, persons who overheard the |police and deputies talking about| oing down and cleaning out” the tent colony, who saw or heard the beatings given to the pris | oners after their arrest, etc. Farmer Comes In. For the most part these all- portant scraps of information ar written on the backs of store bills, | wrapping paper and the margins of newspapers; they are weirdly spelled and quite often almost illegible; those who bring them in, like one little wrinkled farmer stained to his knees with the red Carolina clay, do not want their names mentioned now. But one and all they ‘say, “Ain’t nobody against the union and the boys in jail ’cept them mill people.” |The phrase “mill people” used in \this connection here always means mill owners, superintendents and | | bosses and the chamber of commerce | | crowd. | May Release Some. | Juliet ‘Stuart Poyntz visited the, jail this morning and was informed | that about half of.the prisoners| would be released today, including | | Vera Bush and Amy Schechter: The | | police sergeant informed her that, | in his opinion, Bush and Schechter | should leave town immediately as | they might be in danger of being} | subjected to violence. While there | is no question but that the chamber | ; of commerce crowd would like to} stage a few lynchings or deporta- | izers, strikers, and I. L. D, and) W. I. R. workers. | |Wall Street Attempts to Scare Nicaraguans in .an Armed Display MANAGUA, June 12—W all} Street yesterday treated the Nicara- guan workers and peasants to an| armed display of its forces, as an attempt to overawe the discontent of the oppressed workers. The United States marine forces passed in review before Brigadier General Dion ‘Williams, command- ing the Wall Street troops here, in @ ceremony in which rifles. and bay- | onets bristled. Medals were awarded | to several marine officers for their | service to Wall Street in slaughter- | ing the Nicaraguan workers. An attempt was made by the ma- | vine officers to appease the resi- dents of San Pedro, a nearby town, where marines several days ago desecrated tombstones, to the great indignation of the inhabifints. Wreaths were placed on the stones by the officers. Branch 1, Long Island, } New Gastonia Frameup The first unit of the Communist Party of the United States of Amer- ica to respond to the appeal for de- fense for the latest frame-up vic- |tims in Gastonia is the International Branch 1, Section 9, Long Island City, which at its last meeting con- tributed $22, The money, which was at once forwarded to the International La- bor Defense, 799 Broadway, which is conducting the defense of the workers, was collected through the efforts of the following comrades: Rock, Mangeri, Brandell, Aswell, Chaloupka, U, U., De Frank, Mar- tinson and Christi. International Branch 1 urges all other units of the Party and sym- pathetic workers’ groups to follow their example and rush financial aid at once to the I, L, D. to beat the woods at night and on vacant] | ground. All the strikers’ furniture has \friendiy grocer to Gives $22.00 to Defeat | Incites to Lynch (Continued from Page One) ers a month's rent free in com- pany houses. Important for us to see the lawyer.” The proper stand was le: on which the tents ed from one Rice. x 8 Driven From Tents. GASTONIA, N. C., June 12.— |When Alfred Wagenknecht, secre- tary of the Workers International Relief, arrived in Gastonia with James P, Reid, national president of the National Textile Workers Union, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national secretary of the International La- Lor Defense, he stepped out of the omobile directly in front of po- ice headquarters and went immedi- ately to the attorney’s office to n action to restore the tents and of the tent colony to the strikers in order to re-establish the colony at once and to force the city | to return the strikers’ furniture to | them, so that they could make use of it. A committee of the strikers told |Wagenknecht that after they were | |driven from the tent grounds Sat- | urday by mill owners’ deputies, they went back the next day and found the deputies in charge. These mill owners’ thugs told them they could never live in the-tents again. The starving families asked permission of the deputies to go to the tents | and get the food left over from the last distribution, but were refused in many cases. Strikers Roam Streets. The strikers’ families are now walking along the streets and roads, They have no place to go, and are sleeping in the open in the | disappeared, One truck, belonging | to the Workers International Relief, | has been taken away somewhere by the authorities. The Loray mill bosses’ “Welfare Committee,” an organization formed | to offer food to strikers who prom- | ise to return to work, has repeated | its food bribes to the twice-evicted strikers, and has been told, in every case, “We don’t want your Loray food.” Distribute Food. Arrangements have been made for the temporary relief committe? here of the W. I. R. to visit all strik- ers on the relief list to secure the | names of the families, and the num- ber in each family, with the inten- tion of distributing a large supply of food rations today, through a whose store the strikers can come. Gaston County. is corporation- vidden and boasts more textile mil- lionaires than any other county in the south, It is corrupted further by a general scattering of textile |stock among the residents. ‘ | Even in the center of the town a terror is maintained. It is prohibi- tory for even two strikers to talk together on the street. OLWEST COST EXCURSIONS TO RUSSIA S. 8. Leviathan. NEW YORK—LENINGRAD— MOSCOW Complete Round Trip All Expenses FREE 8 et Visas No Documents Required See your steam: agent or ERI Ce BURSA ‘Travel Agency, Ine, |students, which has been in pro- \gress for about a month, has not, | so far as is known, important poli- |tical implications, it is considered significant of the widespread dis- satisfaction with the increasingly jreactionary and autocratic policies |of President Portes Gil. | Several university officials were seized by the students, but later re- |leased. The students are demand- ing the resignation of the rector, | Antonio Castro Leal. Great resent-! ment is also felt because of th dilatory tactics of the governmen in making the university an auton-| omous institution, free from the con- trol of the Department of Public Instruction. WORKERS ARMED TO SAVE LWES | Sheriff in New Jail | (Continued from Page One) erriving in Gastonia from Elizabeth. | ton, and finding that three deputies | had ‘caught striker Hendricks two| nights before, alone, and beat him severely. | He told of having been bombarded | | with eggs and rocks while speaking at the strike meetin; Friday by agents of the mill owners, Was Not Fleeing. Beal told how the Spartanburg | trip had been planned before the shooting, and how he went there Sunday-in the regular course of union business. “If I had been trying to run away, I would have gone to New York or Chicago,” he is quoted by | the reporters, and they add that the sheriff confirmed his statement that he had money with him when ar- rested to have paid his fare to New York, Beal told of being arrested in bed in Spartanburg, and officers admit- ted he made no attempt to conceal his identity. He told the story of how he was threatened by a lynch mob in South Gastonia while under the custody of officers, and that one of the mob wore a dress suit. Beal was interviewed in the of- fice of Sheriff Cliff Fowler of Union county, and was kept hand- cuffed to a deputy throughout the interview., a Unity New York Office: 180 Friendly Atmosphere Fresh Food Bathing Rowing, Fishing Sports Entertainment Cultural Activities Hiking Friday—6:30 p. m. latest sinister fram the mill bosses, D aps Aaa 100 FIFTH AVE. N.Y. Phone: Chelsea 4477 crry The rebellion of the tribesmen has been brewing for some time as the weight of the French oppression has been growing heavier. Frequent so- called “punitive” expeditions of the French imperialist forces led to the present attack by the tribesmien, The French war ministry has or- dered the concentration of large forces of troops in the area in which the skirmish occurred, indicating that suppression of the outbreak will be attempted by a brutal mas- cre of men, women and children, as has been done in the past. Air fotces have also been rushed to the area by the French army, to bomb the mountain villages. AGAIN POSTPONE GHESWICK TRIAL Beal Concealed by the 10 Miners Face “Riot” | Charge; ILD Defends, PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 12— The well-known Cheswick case in- volving ten miners, was again post- poned. The case was scheduled for trial Monday, and all-arrangements for the defense were made by the local International Labor Defense. Arising out of their activity in the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations, the | ten miners are charged with “riot- | ing, inciting to riot, unlawful as- sembly and resisting an officer” and are liable to a jail sentence, if found guilty, to a term of from two to eight years. The case has attracted wide at- tention since one of the state troop- ers was shot to death and hundreds of workers were brutally assaulted by state troopers and twenty miners were arrested at a Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration August 22, 1927, 2 WORKERS KILLED. Before a group of school children, two men working on the walls of the Chelsea Italana Church at Oliver) and Henry Streets, fell to their | death from a scaffold on the fourth | floor today. | The men were Frank Flynn and Dominick Miconi. The accident was caused by the scaffolding swinging away from the wall, causing the men to lose their balance. The chil- dren who witnessed their plunge were about to enter the public school across the street. Camp Cooperative Summer Home for Workers WINGDALE, N. Y. — TEL. WINGDALE 51 0 SEVENTH AVENUE Telephone MONument: 0111 and 0112 , / + \\I $17.00 PER WEEK . Our busses leave every Wednesday at 2 p. m. Saturday—1:30 p. m. 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. | fractions about this conference. “All| |“delay in farm relief,” and the sham | battle will now continue. The senators depending on farm | |votes know well enough that the de- | benture plan will never help the | farmers any, but they know, too, |that the plan without debentures is jequally a fraud, and they are inter- ested in being able to disavow their |responsibility for it when the next | election comes around. Chicago Conference 'MELBA” SEAMEN WIN NEW VICTORY Marine Worker League Pushes Drive (Continued from Page One) rine Workers League is conducting for Training School for Young Workers CHICAGO, June 12.—On Sunday, | June 16, the second Communist} | Youth League Training School Con- | ference will take place, at 2021 W.} | Division St., at 11 o’clock. All rep- | resentatives to this conference are urged to be present without fail. |There are many important matters which need immediate action if the school is to be successful. All lan. guage fraction secretaries are ur gently requested to notify immedi- ately the representative from their militant working class organiza- tions are asked to send represen- tatives and to participate in the conference, SENTENCE GRAFTER. ELIZABETH, N. J., June 12.—| Accused of the extortion of $100 from a building contractor to have {a “Red Ticket” quashed and ap- | proval given a building alleged to be in violation of the City Building Code, Thomas A, Archipley, presi- dent of the Linden City Council, was sentenced to serve six months in the | | throughout the world. | Negro marine workers, the League announces, are recognizing the neces- ity of a militant union in the ma- ine industry, This is being demon- strated by Negro workers being ac- tively engaged on board ships as job delegates in securing workers into the Marine Workers League. Organize Negro Seamen. One of the Negro ship delegates has sent in the following report: “I boarded the ‘Ormis,’ belonging to he famous United Fruit Company, which made millions upon millions of dollars from the exploitation of the Colombia plantation workers, as well as from the American workers who are being exploited of their ships. The crew of this ship has no mess men, they must go for their own meals to the galley and wash their own dishes. Eating and sleep- ing in the same quarters makes the conditions rotten and filthy. Or- ganization possibilities are very bright, and many are joining the League. ASBESTOS STRIKERS WIN. BUFFALO, (FP).—Striking as- bestos workers got a $1 scale, but, failed to wring the 5-day week from county jail and fined $500. their employers. SEND the Daily Worker 9 HOUSANDS of worker: the DAILY WorKER, b position to send it Although we send thou- sands daily—it is insuf- ficient to cover the de- mand. Even these bund- les we will be compelled *o discontinue unless aid is forthcoming. The DaILy WoRKER as in all previous strug- gles during the past few years must be the guide and directing force. In addition to re« lief send them the or» gan of class struggle. DAILY WoRKER 26 UNION SQUARE NEw York City Enclosed find §$.... NOM rsecstoatinn SACORORR ceaciex access to a Striker @ ‘s on strike desire to receive ut we are not in a financial VVIVVIVFVIVVVV ..to be used for the DAILY WORKER fund to supply bundles of Daily Workers to the strikers im various sections of the country. State