The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1929, Page 2

rage Two 1AGHARGED WITH MURDER IN. GASTONIA Masses Being Mobilized for Defense €Continued Ree an office in Ga at the mi ing, and I he union. Half Join Union. Cre Paul meeting Besseme 1,200 belor In agents are campaign for freeing the prisoners by smashing the frame-up. A mass meeting of coal miners in Wilkes-Barre yesterd voted full support to Fred Beal, one of those charged with murder, and Southern organizer for the National Textile Workers Union. d all others ar- rested in the mill owners’ frame up in Gastonia. The coal miners’ reso- lution followed an address by J. Louis Engdahl of the Daily Worker, the Southern textile w who told of strike and linked it up parations for an im the attack on the § Poyntz announced today that the International Labor Defense is is- suing a half million leaflets, telling the story of the Gastonia frame-up and calling on all workers to con- tribute immediately. These leaflets will be distributed in shops, work- ing class organizations, at meetings and at other places where workers gather. | The I. L. D. is arranging confer-| ences of working class organizations to be held all over the country which | will make the drive to-save the Gas-| tonia strikers a real* united front campaign of the American working class. Mass meetings have already been started in various parts of the | country. Two mectings were held in: New. Bedford, } s gteat. textile strike last year, at whieh. Karl Reeve was the principal speaker. Several thousand workers | attended these meetings and pledged thtir utmost support. A meeting wa8°dlso held in Boston, at which Reéve and Robert Zelms, New Eng-| land’ secretary of the I. L. D., spoke. | ith the pre- ist war and | |is fighting hard to secure the re- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929 | its face deliberately s chairi e Tam n of the New Yo: any for use at t others who tes ng superintendent to make w Court Shy to Arrest Tammany-Fascist Swindlers unced a week ago, sabotaging the’ probe. On the left is f rk State Republican Committe he next elections. Fortune Ga tified at the probe. s an cen the bank and allied concerns of thousands of for themselves and the support of fascistgorganizations. Tammany is so deep in the swindle that y Warder. , SAVE GASTONIA VICTIMS, URGES CANTER IN JAIL |Militant Slaves 14-Hr. | Day in Prison (Continued from Page One) | self, but also Fred Beal and the | Gastonia strikers from the clutches | |of capitalist cl justice. Beal's | jcrime was that he organized the | | workers into the National Textile Workers Union, that he led a strug- gle for better conditions and higher | pay which threatened the profits of | the mill owners. His life is in grave | | danger and the workers and sympa- | thizers must aid in every possible | | way the campaign of the I. L. D. to | free all class war prisoners, includ- | ing myself and the Southern textile | workers. | Denied Visitors. | Canter is allowed to receive only jone visitor every two weeks, and this must be a visitor from his im- mediate family, either brother, sis- ter, parents or children. All other | Visitors must secure special permis- | sion from the penal commissioner at Laughlin, who was | Boston. I took the police boat at| er. At the right is H.W. Machold, | two o'clock, and after a brief stop wious to exploit the crash only to | at Long Island, the poor house lo-| ter top, and Ralph Jonas and Ar- | cated one half hour’s journey out in | | Boston Harbor, we landed at Deer q j Supreme Court Justice Cropsey is George V. urged to rush funds without delay 2} to the National Office of the Inter- 1al Labor Defense, 80 EK. 11th St., Room 402. Collection lists are | | also being issued by the I. L. D, and} workers are asked to collect as much as possible on these lists among] their friends, shopmates and organi-| zations. | Another telegram has been sent| out of the Gastonia jail, by the im- prisoned strike leaders and relief | workers there. It was signed by Relief, Workers Amy Schechter and Caroline Drew, and by Vera Bush, National Textile Workers Union or- ganizer. The telegram says: “Urge all prisoners under indictment be taken to Charlotte Thursday. This includes the bar- | becue man who is not a striker. Arrests on vagrancy charges were made today and sentences are for 30 days. Appeal the case. We are buying tobacco for the men and a little fruit. We advise you send tobacco to these men in the couxty jail. Send coffee, fruit, and choco- jate for 30 in Gastenia jail. Your telegram was the first word of cheer.” { Maris Whitman was released yes-| terday from the jail. She describes the inside as very bad. She was| forced to sleep on the concrete floor | for two nights, and was given no | other food than one sandwich every} twelve hours. Mrs. Gardner is worried about her | striker husband who is held in jail.| He is very ill with tuberculosis ‘ana | was unable even to come to meet-| ings at the time of his arrest. The International Labor Defense | lease of at least one of the W. I. R. representatives arrested. An at-| tempt will be made to get Drew out | on bail. Her arrest is even more| flagrant than that of some others, as she was not in Gastonia at all | the night of the shooting, but was |dred and fifty Labor Defense 1. for Gastonia Prisoners (Continued from Page One) of Police Aderholt was killed, per haps by one of his own deputies or! a provocateur, and three city po- licemen were wounded. The first! to fall wounded in the attack of the policemen was an organizer for the N. T. W. U., Joseph Harrison. The fate of Fred Beal, leader of the strike, and of the Gastonia strikers who are now in jail, charged with complicity to murder, is the concern of the entire American working class. The Southern mill} owners are determined to drive the| union out of the South. The 300,000) textile workers of the South, receiv- | ing an average wage of $8 to $10 a week, working on a 12-hour day shift, suffering an intense speed-up! system, working and living under | indescribably unsanitary conditions, revolted and went on strike. Hundreds Arrested. In the course of the ten weeks’ | strike in Gastonia, hundreds have | been arrested. A masked mob of 200 thugs, which included special deputies, demolished the headquar- | ters of the union, while the Na-| tional Guardsmen called out by the) mill-owning governor, Max Gardner, | looked on. Strikers have been bay- | oneted almost daily, beaten up, shot at and arrested. Old women have been unmercifully beaten. One hun- strikers’ families | were evicted from their homes and thrown with their furniture upon the | streets. | In spite of these ten weeks of in- tense persecution, the strikers cour- | ageously continued their struggle} for better conditions, for recognition | of the union, for higher pay and| shorter hours and against the speed-| | Island, made famous by the deporta- | |tion raids of 1919-20. Here at least | lone prisoner committed suicide at} that time in protest against brutal | {treatment. Canter’s lot is not made easy for him. He was put on the kitchen shift which means that he must work seven days a week for| | 18-14 hours every day. | I filed into the prison visiting room, near the warf, which is located | | Just in front of the main prison building surmounted by menacing | sharp pointed turrets. The visitors | sit on one side of a long table and | the prisoners opposite, with a parti-| tion a foot high separating them in| the center of the table. A guard watches at the end of each table so} j that nothing can be passed to the| prisoner by the visitor. The place} and representatives of the I. L. D. | reminded me of the visitors room at are in the field, The legal strug- | Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, gle has begun. A Gastonia Strik- | Allowed No Rest. ers’ Defense Committee has been | Canter first told of his daily rou- organized. tine. He gets up every morning at Rally to the support of the /five o'clock, works from 5:30 until | courageous southern textile work- | ¢:39 pecling vegetables and waiting | ers, smash the attack of the mill | oy the prisoners at breakfast table owners on the N. T. W. U. Smash | and then eats his own breakfast. | the murderous frame-up on the | Then begins the daily grind of peel- Gastonia strikers. Fred Beal must ling potatoes, turnips, carrots and| not die. Rush all funds to the | onions, of washing floors and clean- National Office of the Interna- | ing kettles. One of his jobs is un- tional Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th | ioading from trucks sacks of pota- St, Room 402, New York City. | toes and barrels of salted meat. An- CO e st Lace ‘other is to keep a 10° gallon brass | kettle polished on the outside ana MINE F M A N § | clean it on the inside several times a | day whenever it gets dirty. « Load Car for Industry |who knows the- printing trade New Slogan of Bosses | thoroughly, as the y: son authorities n Mass Drive Need Thousands of Dollars. Thousands of dollars are needed to conduct the defense of these heroic strikers. If funds are not rushed at once by the entire working class of the country, this murderous at- tack cn the most important front of the class struggle today will succeed. The International Labor De- fense is conducting the defense of the Gastonia strikers. Lawyers In the polishing of the kettle only | ordinary soap is used which makes | the task doubly hard. The kettle is | steaming hot while being cleaned. A —— make it as unpleasant for him as SHENANDOAH, Pa., June 13.— | possible. Most of the prisoners are The P. & R. C. & I. Co. is posting | given an hours’ rest after lunch, be- notices in its mines here, scolding|ing locked in their cells for this | job was recently open in the print 2! shop but was not given to Canter, the miners for not working harder, | period, but Canter is forced to work and demanding that they “load a/during this time. | work, but awakens around 2 a. m.,/ Capt. Albin Ahrenberg and Lt. Amel Floden, Swedish army aviators, on a transatlantic flight to the U. S., to boost the Swedish reactionary and fascist government. The Swedish reactionaries (altho Sweden was supposed to be neutral), sent their army flyers to fight the workers of the Soviet Union when the latter were fight- ing the monarchists, in 1919-20, and will do so again, addition to having trouble with his | “I’m already getting out of the habit stomach, Canter declares he has been| of thinking straight in this place. unable to sleep at night. The | The work is only a little worse than prisoners are given no exercise| any factory job, you get so tired at periods. Immediately after work, | night that you don’t feel like reading around 6:30 or seven o’clock, Canter | even if you do have books, is taken to his cell and locked in Fuller is Guilty. until 5:30 the following morning | “Fuller escaped us this time, when the routine is repeated. Canter} Canter said. “He went away to his told me that he falls asleep about} country home and we were unable 8 o’oclock, exhausted by his daily|to bring him before the bar, But he is already found guilty before the |bar of the working class of killing Sacco and Vanzetti. He killed them | just as the courts, as part of the frame-up system against the work- ers jailed Mooney and Billings, j as the courts and the government jailed Fred Beal and 60 other strike leaders in the South. This is the frame-up system of capitalism, which can be abolished only by the overthrow of that system by the working class, organized under the banner of the Communist Party.” ” and is unable to sleep again. Paper Rationed. Prison regulations allow Canter only two sheets of paper each month, | and he is allowed to write only two, | one page letters each month. . He is| given no paper for taking notes in} his cell. On Sunday Canter follows | the same routine as on week days, | except that he is allowed a few minutes off to watch about four in-| nings of the weekly ball game Pa fore being led away to prepare the | °°) 'T . we ; BON meals. These workers in the kitchen| “I Will carry on the fight in jail get no free time. Canter wrote him- | or out, to expose the class murder self down as an atheist and the|f Sacco and Vanzetti by the Mas- prison chaplain, he was told, is look- sachusetts authorities with Fuller at ing for him to try to “convert” him. | their head. I will do everything Nice to Judge. Beesslta and will ceteris im Py 4 jlong as is necessary in the fight o: senate, fe ante Uelaonee Tey \the workers for the workers dictator- sort. This is Judge John Hannon of | ship. I am at the disposal of the Waltham, another example of Maes | Gommnnniss Party and of the work- sustice” vas jailed | ing class. ee ae sce ase Canter was still talking when the Judge: Hannon was immediately|¥@rd pounded on the table and given a soft job as a clerk in the said. “This terminates the ME for receiving office, and was given many oe. es evel Aree special privileges. The prison guards | S°4¢e Toni 4 SOR a Onere, ie 7 Ae bow to him when they meet him and| Ut” I had just ‘time to shake the warden offers him cigars. Can-| hands warmly with Canter. “Give sg = . .|my regards to all the Comrades” heel rcetaatid ate Dobe apeane Canter called as he marched away : a * with the rest of the striped blue Saat Hae Whersia enema nl ee uniformed prisoners. Immediately after my entrance Canter asked news of the South, both Gastonia and Tennessee. He then asked for news of the Com- muist Party. Canter was arrested last fall in an election demonstration The working ciass cannot simply Iny hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purpos.,.,This ney Commune (Paris Commune) breaks the modern state power.—Marx. machinery, and wield it for its own HITCONCILIATORS AT CONGRESS OF BERMAN PARTY |Show Opportunist Line of Evert Group (Continued from Poge One) | must: dispose of the conciliators finally. | Muenzenberg declared the chief | difference between the majority and |the conciliators was the question of | the estimation of the third period of post-war capitalism. The majority declares that the capitalist stabiliza- tion is shaking, while the concilia- tors declare that the stabilization is consolidating. The majority brought |dozens of new arguments in order te support their position, while Evert | was unable to offer a single new ar- gument, The greatest crime of the |Brandler group is their attack on |the Communist International. The majority stands enthusiastically for the Comintern and the Soviet Union, |Muenzenberg said. | Evert Speech Dishonest. | Remmele declared that Evert’s |speech was dishonest. The concilia- \tors declared that their difference | with the majority was purely tac- 1, while Evert says that the cone ciliators hold another estimation of \the present period than the majority at the Sixth World Congress of the |Comintern. The conciliators’ memo- randum handed to the Congress rep- |resents a new step away from Com- jmunism. The conciliators declare |that they are willing to maintain |discipline, but their memorandum | quotes Lenin, proving that the pre- liminary condition for discipline is correct party leadership, and the conciliators declare that the party leadership is incorrect, therefore all their talk about maintaining discip- line is dishonest. The conciliators now stand where Brandler stood previously, Their conception of fas- cism and democracy means the de- |nial of social fascism, Remmele {pointed out. The role of the con- \ciliators is blunting the party wea- pons. The Congress must finish |with the conciliators, he said. | Women Delegates Speak. In the Wednesday morning ses- sion, delegates from Wurtemberg, |Halle, Munich, Frankfort, and vari- ous women delegates spoke. Ernst Meyer declared that the ,statement that the majority of the Central Committee could not wark because of the opposition of the conciliators was a damaging condemnation of the Central Committee, because the conciliators were poorly represented on it. Meyer said that the Communist Party was weaker in the labor struggles and in the trade unfons than a year ago, for the Party fails te utilize given favorable situations after May Day by a correct appli- |cation of the united front policy. The mass strike failed, he said, because the Communist Party over- estimated its own strength and failed to apply united front tactics. The strike was only successful where the opposition to reformist leadership had a majority in the junions. The majority of the Party, he declared, had abandoned the de- jeisions of the Essen Congress for trade union work. *Dourof was a famous Russian trainer showing the W. I. R. strike film,|up system. car a day extra for tle industry,”| Canter’s health has not yet begun|staged by the Communist Party. purpose. This new Commune (Paris | of animals, His menagerie contained The °f. L. D. will also tour well- known speakers thruout the coun-| tryéJz Louis Engdahl, acting editor of; the Daily Worker, has already lefton.a speaking tour. Engdahl wilk“speak in Chicago Saturday at! a ‘Mass demonstration and parade undér “the auspices of the Interna- tion#i Labor Defense and the Com-| munist Party, and at the annual pienie: of the Chicago I. L. D. Sun- On Monday night Engdahl will | “Passaic,” in ‘Bessemer City when the shootings took place. Distribution of food has been o: ganized and is proceeding, stat Wagenknecht. Relief was given to- day to a few of the most needy| families and arrangements are be- ing made for a complete distribu. tion of large rations tomorrow from the W. I. R. relief tent on the same lot’ where the union headquarters was erected. All the strikers’ tents were torn down, but two tents on | headquarters and h: Now after the strikers with their own hands have built their new ave erected. aj tent colony to care for the evicted | strikers, after the mill owners see} that the strikers are determined to} maintain their union as a permanent | institution in the South to defen their union with their lives, th murder frame-up has been insti-| tuted. Defended Union. The only crime committed by | |torial that appeared in May in the | quality, Bpeaksin Detroit at a membership| the union lot are still standing, one mobidization meeting of the I. L. D.| of which is the large relief distribu- in preparation for a mass meeting! tobe held Tuesday. | Tuesday night Engdahl speaks at} an I, L. D. mass meeting in Cleve-| land-at Insurance Center Hall, 1783 Ejlith St., at 8 p. m. The I. L. D. will also tour severa Gastonia strikers who will help| raise funds and build the I. L. D.| in’various sections of the country. | Jans also call for the holding of | noon-day shop meetings in shops | and factories all over the country | to reach thousands of workers di-) rectly in this great mass campaign. | The defense work in Gastonia is | at’ present seriously hampered be- cause of lack of funds, the I. L. D.| states. Cash bonds are needed to} segure the release of the prisoners since all property bonds have been refused. Thousands of dollars are needed to pay for the legal expenses. | All workers and sympathizers are | German Section WIR Cables Solidarity to Strikers in Frame-up The Workers International Re- lief national office, 1 Union S New York, has received the fol- lowing cablegram from the Ger- man section of the W. I. R. - “The German section of the Workers International Relief pro- tests against the brutal police as- sault on the Gastonia strikers ‘the W. LR. tent colony for <a cope We are sending erly greetings.” The cable is signed by Prof. Goldschmidt, president of _ German Section, and by Duenninghaus, secretary. tion tent. The police continually visit the home of Helen Lodge of the W. I. R. committee where the W. I. R. lodge is located and threaten her with ar- rest. She stands pat. She refuses jto allow a search nor the carrying away of any of the W. I. R. records. Mrs. Sellers, who has been walk- ing about on the streets since being evicted from her tent, carrying a small baby in her arms, has been provided with a temporary lodging in the home of one of the strikers. Some strikers are still living in company houses. Eviction threatens them at any time. The company realtor has already notified a striker that he will have to come back to work at once, or get out of his house. When the strikers were evicted from the tents, there was general looting of their belongings by friends of the mill owners, The strikers’ trunks were broken open. Clothing and other belongings have | been stolen. Relief meetings have been held |among the strikers in small groups) \in private homes, and a spirit. of militancy and high morale was in \evidence. Meetings will continue in front of the W. I. R. relief tent and junion headquarters. The strikers are quite fearless. The situation is gradually improving, and re-organi- zation of the strike and the relief work is proceeding. ABSOLVE DRY SPY. DETROIT, June 13.—Jonah Cox, customs border patrolman, who shot | and fatally wounded Archibald Eug- ster, 21, will be absolved of any blame in the youth’s death, James E, Chenot, Wayne county prosecut- ing attorney annowneed tedaw \tive part in the class struggle. the union members is that they defended their union against the assaults of the mill owners and the government authorities in the service of the mill owners. | As in the Mooney case, Fred Beal | and dozens of others of the leading | strikers are threatened with death} because they dared to challenge the! rights of the mill owners to grind unlimited profits out of their weak- | ened bodies, | As in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, | workers are faced with death in Gastonia because they took an ac- The defense of Fred Beal and the 60 Jeading Gastonia strikers is the most important task before the American working class at | | this time. If the mill owners succeed in rail- roading to prison for long terms |these workers, in smashing the N. T. W. U. and in burning Fred Beal in the electric chair, the American) working class will suffer a severe! blow. All Workers Must Defend. The destitute textile workers of the South have taken their place in the ranks of the class struggle as among the most militant, cour- ageous and best fighters in the labor movement of this country. The lives of these workers must be defended by the entire American working class. Their fight is your fight. The workers must answer this bloody attack, The textile workers of the South are determined that they shall no longer be merely “cheap labor” but white and Negro worker alike on an equal basis shall join together to fight the intense ex- ploitation which they have suffered. If the attack of the mill owners succeeds and the union is driven from the South, the entire working | |such punishment upon themselves by | | days.” ‘claimed the right to take an occa-| | New Bedford Textile |as during the war they had to “load to be seriously effected, but he de- a car for Uncle Sam.” The state-/clares that the change of diet has |ments are carbon copies of an edi- | affected him. The food, of poor is badly cooked, being Shenandoah Herald. It starts out:|steamed, and is the usual almost “The day of snap jobs has gone. |uneatable American prison fare. In' After Canter had,told me of his ; Commune). . .breaks the modern daily routine he dictated his state- |. State power—Marx. performing rats, mice, hens, sea-lions, ete, ete. ment. Canter has as yet, received no books or newspapers from out- | side. At one point of his statement | he hesitated for a minute and said, | SEND the The worker must make a ShOWi, | ——— or his place will be filled by an-\Qoo Om orrow (Sat.) ther.’” | It claims that one mine closed | down for three weeks to punish! some of the men who stayed away the day after pay day, and says: | “Punishment.” | “The mine workers are bringing | remaining from work following pay And it is possible that the coal corporations will establish this plan as a rule until the men realize that their labor is wantcd every| day possible. . | “The men who imagine they can! work or lie idle when they please! are heading for idleness. . + . It is| production today.” The miners tear these notices down when they see them. The mine work is done on a piece | *, | work basis, and miners have always | —and on the sam logical reactions of a drowni Added Attraction — “THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE” See the intimate work- ings of the capital- istic Monte ‘arlo sional holiday, as the work is ex- tremely unhealthy and dangerous. The National Miners’ Union is drawing more and more men into its ranks, to fight such slave driv- ing tactics as is illustrated by these notices in Shenandoah, | TARTUFE ‘Wed., Thurs., Jane 19-20 | FILM 52 W. 8th Workers Hit Arrests NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 13. —The New Bedford textile workers gathered at a big mass meeting here yesterday, called by the Inter- national Labor Defense, and adopted a resolution condemning the attack and frame-up on the textile work- ers of Gastonia. The speakers were Carl Reeve, Hagekias and Lameiras. A collec- tion was taken up for defense. The Boston meeting of the I. L. D. is Tuesday night, with Reeve as speaker. A large picnic in New Bedford Sunday heard Reeve and Pires speak, and adopted a resolu- tion protesting the arrest of Fred Mondays (all di by Mi So . Travelers class of America suffexs a severe Beal, a leader in the strike hore last AVE Cot men 4 and Sunday Only! Daily. Worker E “THE LAST LAUGH” “THE LAST MOMENT” “one of the few screen efforts that one can watch several times and al- ways find interesting.” —and continuing the JANNINGS REPERTOIRE— | THE LAST COMMAND CONTINUOUS 2 P. M. TO MIDNIGHT s ° e N.B—Write for particu! ie Essay in Gastonia Region san Mabey Ceatert gre peneen sient e program— ‘ing man —New York Times. E the HYPOCRITE GUILD CINEMA St, (ust West) Spring 5095 (of Sth Av.) F' ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Depoat or before the ard Last Quarterly Dividend paid 1 on all amounts from nay: | L,Y to $7,500.00, at the rate o' lay) until 7 P. M. 'y Accounts Accepted. led Checks to a Striker @ er Ler te, han Ltr A Mm hr, ham ay Ms HOUSANDS of workers on strike desire to receive the DAILy Worker, but we are not in a financial 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 to discontinue unless aid is forthcoming. The Day WoRKER as in all previous strug- gles during the past few years must be the guide and directing force. In addition to ree lief send them the ore gan of class struggle. DAILY WoRKER 26 UNION SQUARE NEw York City Enclosed find §...........t0 be used for the DAILY WORKER fund to supply bundles of Daily Workers to the strikers in various sections of the country. Name nageveneenenmeeennens Address City State