The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. rker FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI., No. 86 Company, Inc., Published dally except Sunday by Thé Comprodaily Pablishing 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929 by mail, $8.00 per year. 6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents 47 MORE GASTONIA PRISONERS IN The Situation Is Ripe | for Victorious Struggle; — Help Provide the Means! More Bitter Class War Demand Greater Efforts and Funds Sharper, Make Working Class Stronger by Giving More Means to Communist Party In the midst of its tremendous campaigns and at a time} when the Communist Party is carrying out the tremendous tasks before it, it is compelled to initiate a drive for finances | in order to be enabled to successfully complete even its most elementary undertakings, and to lay the basis for carrying out the decisions and assignment of practical work outlined iBRITISH “1 ABOR” Blast Killing Three Shipyard CHIEFS PROMISE JINGO AIR SHOW As U.S. Calls for Bids for 5 Cruisers for War Plans Push India Frame- Up McDonald Sees Dawes, Talks “Peace” LONDON, June 16.—While Anglo- American imperialist rivalry hid modestly behind the fluttering folds of the union-jack as General Charles G. Dawes, new ambassador to Bri-} tain, met Ramsay MacDonald in| Forres, Scotland, the announcement Workers |Vienna Socialists Jail Company Neglect Three workers were killed and 18 injured in a blast at Robins Drydock, Brooklyn, Friday. The blast was caused by oil drained from in drydock The a ship catching fire. company was guilty of these deaths be- cause it allowed the accumulate. the oil to Photo scene of the explo- shows sion. SPECIAL MEETIN HEARING TUESDAY. LABOR DEFENSE SECURES “HABEAS CORPUS WRITS: WEEK OF MASS MEETINGS 19 Heard Friday in Charlotte; Two Released; | 11 Held Without Bail; All Others, $2,000 Manville Jenckes Attorney, Leading 13 Lawyers | Makes Weak Case; No Evidence CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 16.—The International Labor Defense has secured writs of habeas corpus for 47 more Gas- | tonia strikers, held in Gastonia and other jails around about North Carolina and undergoing frame-up proceedings insti- gated by the Manville-Jenckes Co. The charges against most of these 47 are “assault with intent to kill.’ They will be | brought ‘uesday, according to® : pie : that England was prepar- | in the Comintern Address. The Central Committee after reviewing the ae pe sinthee eee iee YE “air| KEEP WORKERS Workers Who Protest the order secured yesterday | A NT | entire situation, has decided to launch a progress” during the summer) from Judge Harding, to his = months. | Bad Tenant Laws court in Charlotte, to have their * * Several closely guarded secrets | FROM SLATE AT | ne hearing along with the 17 held over Communist Party - Daily Worker $50,000 {wit be revealed during the summer, | VIENNA, June 15. — Twenty- fom belay Mente. MEET DENOUNCES Emergency Campaign For the Party membership this is a campaign in which every Party member is assessed a day’s pay. The Party has not assessed the mem- bership with a day’s pay since the 1924 Election Campaign. Every mem- ber can feel that every dollar’ he pays on the Day’s Pay Campaign, goes toward the building of the Party.- Many of our Party members are facing the most brutal attacks of the combination of trust capital, the capitalist state, and the social reformists of all brands. The present period offers great opportunities for the building up of the Party, the Party press and the workers’ mass organizations. It would be criminal if we were not able to carry out these tasks because of the financial crises. Yet this is the danger! For this reason one of the great tasks of the Party now is to raise this fund of $50,000 so that we can carry out the de- cisions of the Communist International and take advantage of the pres- ent opportunities, and lay the basis for a mass Communist Party. The immediate tasks in connection with the TUEL Convention to be held August 31st; the preparation for the International Red Day, August ist, which is to be a day of mobilization against imperialist war; the preparation for the Tenth Anniversary of the Party, September 1, 1929; the carrying out of the enlightenment campaign in such a manner that it will raise the level of the Party, purify the ranks of the Party, correct the line of the Party, and lead the Bolshevization of the Amer- ican Section of the Communist International, all these tasks cannot be undertaken unless this fund is raised, and above all, these tasks cannot be undertaken and carried out without the Daily Worker, whose very! existence is endangered because of the financial crisis with which it is| faced. The crisis in the Daily Worker is particularly emphasized now be- cause of the expense that the Daily Worker will have to incur in con- nection with the frame-up in Gastonia, because of the trial of the editors | in connection with the Hillquit libel case to take place in October, be- cause of the free distribution of tens of thousands of copies in the var- it is promised. Airplanes along “new and radical lines’’ be shown for the first time at an/ exhibition in Olympia on July 16, it) is announced. The Air Ministry has promised that one of the closest kept secrets of his office, the new) small airplane designed with fold-| ing wings to fit into a submarine, | will be made public on this occa- | “SOCIALIST MEET Rev. Thomas Will Run for Mayor Norman Thomas, who advocates eight militant workers were arrested by the police of the reactionary So- cialist Vienna government when they answered the call of the Communist Party of Vienna to demonstrate against the abolition of the law for tenants protection. In spite of a police order forbidding the demon- |stration large numbers of workers responded. They refused to be CHIEFS TONIGHT Mobilization for the | Struggle Goes On A special meeting of the General Many of these 47 are strikers whose names were just learned by the defense within the last few days. They were arrested in indiscriminate raids on the strikers’ tents following the first police attack in which Chief of Police Aderholt was killed and three of his followers wounded while trying to shoot up the tent colony. JINGO WAR PLANS 200 Delegates Attend Vital Conference sion. The Labor Government will con-|that Marxism be revised because Of the Viennese police, but ins was nomin in the current issue of New Leade: tinue faithfully the imperialist prep- |; arations for war, and announces | that it will soon arrange for the| test flights of the R100 and 4101,| Great Britain’s war threats in the| gay and Sunday. Louis Waldman lighter-than-air field. After their| ‘va, mentioned for comptroller, but, trial the R100 will fly to Canada thinking the job too small for him, is not “up-to-date, ated as mayor on the socialist party ticket at the New York City conven- tion held at the Rand School Satur- and the 4101 to Egypt and India. declined. Charles Solomon “got the |reason for sabotaging the During the chat with Dawes, Mac-| job.” Algy Lee, manager of Rand Donald rolled out his customary | School, was nominated as president smoke-screen platitudes about “world | 6¢ the board of aldermen. Thus, not peace” while his Meerut statesmen! yea! worker ‘appears on the en- pushed forwarding the railroading tire slate. The aldermen will be of the Indian trade unionists who| nominated by the local branches of (Continued on Page Two) the party. N. Y. Public School Lunchrooms Are Bad; Lack Good Food, Chairs The platform, as it was first'read, did not, among other omissions, even mention the word “injunctions.” Only after a hot debate was the platform committee forced to em- body a weak platonic phrase on the Official investigation of public issue. The remainder contained the school lunch rooms resulted in a re-|usual petty-bourgeois _ reformist port yesterday that they are very |schemes, all of which tend only to bad. They do not have enough | increase the burden on the workers. chairs, enough fresh vegetables, or; The workers’ struggles in Gasto- enough hot food. Apparently the/nia, New York and in the rest ol school |the country and the world were en- x |terrorized by the provocative acts j ed on completely showing up the /nature of the tenement laws w \the socialists of Vienna are advertis- jing as of great benefit to the juonkera: 1,000 DENOUNCE GASTONIA TERROR Engdahl, Others, Jailed as Chicago Cops Attack CHICAGO, IIl., June 16.—J. Louis |Engdahl, acting editor of the Daily Workem was arrested with other speakers and a police attack was |made on the Gastonia mass meeting, parade and demonstration held here yesterday by the International La- bor Defense. “Down with Police Terror.” The procession carried banners in- scribed, “Down with Police Terror in Gastonia.” Picket Committee and of the Organ-| Held Incommunicado. ization Committee will be held at} The prisoners have becn held in- Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St.,/communicado for a week, starved, tonight. This meeting is being held preparation for the general s forced to sleep packed like sardines Forces that were operating for a new imperialist war with the mem- bers of the working class victims, in on the cement floors of crowded cells,| Were described by speakers at the e of |and some of them badly beaten and|@nnual conference of the All-Amer- the furriers and is called by the |tortured in the effort to secure “‘con-/ica Anti-Imperialist League Satur- Joint Board of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. fessions” from them. Collections for the defense of all The Industrial Union has sent out|these workers are being conducted | special communications to all those | this week in several big cities of the who are to attend this meeting, and|/country. The International Labor lothers are not expected to be pres-|Defense New York section has ent. It is especially important,/started its week of tag days. All | therefore, that all who have received | workers are urged to go immediately these letters be on hand to partici-|to the office, 799 Broadway, and get pate in the important business to be |collection cans and other equipment taken up. lat once. Cloak Mass Meet. | At Factory Gates. At the same time the Joint Board; Great mass meetings Saturday and | announced that a special mass meet- | today are bei-z held in Chicago, and ing will be held this week to con-|aiso a series of factory gate meet- sider the fake stoppage which the|ings, where workers coming out for | International Ladies’ Garment Work-!noon hour can be told the story of ers, the company union of the cloak |the bloody plot to kill 13 of their) manufacturers is threatening. At fellow workers by electrocution, and this meeting plans will be made to/to sentence 58 more of them to long transform the stoppage into a gen-| prison terms. uine struggle for union conditions. Tomorrow night and Tuesday The Joint Board, ft is announced, !night mass meetings are scheduled day at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. Attended by nearly 200 delegates, representing more than 100 organ- | izations, the conference met, accord- ing to Robert W. Dunn of the Labor Research Association, to “elect a fone and widely representative delegation to the Second Anti-Im- |perialist World Congress in Paris, |July 20-31, and to strengthen and broaden the anti-imperialist move- ment within the United States, ce- menting tho alliance between all or- ganizations here and in the coun- | tries under the yoke of Wall Street, for an intensified fight against the increasing aggression and ruthless- ness of Yankee imperialism.” | Thousands Represented. The speakers included Louis Gi- harti, representative of the Interna- lunch is to make trade for conces- tirely forgotten. st ~. will bring to this mass meeting a/foy Detroit. Tuesd: ight there|tional League Against I ‘ialism; i § ' ; - # | 3 rchers reached Grant 1 i e J : uesday nig! ere g mperialism jous struggles and the necessity of adding many new features to the |sionaries who sell milk and crack-| ‘The only trouble with the police Se aoe aes Grant series of recommendations in this|will be another in Cleveland, All| Roger Baldwin, of the American Daily Worker. ers in the same buildings. |department, according to the social- 1. the parade, and arrested the fey |oo eee aa ae the cloak- |sworkers Re taciien Meare hee Givil Liberties Union; Richard B. It is in this light that the $50,000 Communist Party-Daily Worker mice ist platform, is its “political | yeaker to address the crowd there. | ™#Kers will be expected to act, resolutions to protest the police-mill core, of the American Negro La- ii ILD Wants Volunteers | éomination.” They yearn for “popu-| 4. owuvnthar a ban ancthel| Mobilization Continues. owners frame up of the strikers, bor Congres: illiam Pickens, of Emergency Campaign must be approached. S fan oes is eotpatane and [eee re See ee lees i é land der ion the Association for th ‘ It R t to Aid Ww k | election” of magistra aoe platform to speak, they were each The mobilization of the workers | anc the raid upon and d truction ao © - an jon or the Advance- In addition to the day's pay which every Party member is assessed, | O ener Du f we ahaead ar sis pe tient arrested and immediately beaten up for the gene al trike, of the fur. eel colon with its resultant pe poled Peni _— i ‘ i nae criticism against the beutality by the police. Men, women and riers is proceeding full blast. And |evic kers s, there of th se Students’ J 3 cere inl meal ctionae woreers in thet). Bon: the hesls. of for Gastonia Defense (i. 'yciice against strikers. children were slugged with great it will be a genuine, fighting strug-|will be a collection made for the de- | Jack Johnstone, of the Trade Union the activities and tasks of.the Party and the working class. This appeal Elimination of “censorship dver|brutality by the police. gle for the re-establishment of a|fense of these workers. Educational League, and Benjamia will take the concrete forms of raising funds from the non-Party masses, | will be through shop collections, donations from organizations and in-| Workers are asked by, the Inter- on: Lm national Labor Defense to report at | the political, religious and economic Room 402, 80 EF. 11th St., at day | Views of teachers by the Board of 4 I | Education” is asked by the same | Twenty-five were arrested, includ- | ing Engdahl, Kruse, Sklar, and many others. The International Labor De- strong union of the workers and for | the winning of union conditions, as opposed to the fake “strikes” of the) There is every indication that the trial will be long and expensive. Marsh, of the Peoples Lobby. A resolution was adopted, calling the Kellogg pact, disarmament con- ividual, Hecti it pieni ffair: d a generous a) 1 to all ight f ili doth k a ; x Strikes S 5 Be enaeyer ree se Pence Aerts Be Ppenr° 2° lSieidental to its campaign for the|@roup which unofficially endorsed fense is doing its best to get them|company union gang in the I. L.| Reciees Berea ferences and proposals of peace readers of the entire Party press. Lata ‘ ‘ Fin, | IG. W, While these textile strikers are (alks between President H defense of the Gastonia strikers. (Continued on Page five) jout. - W. fadinp triiltoncdatin gto aintartere| oe resident Hoover and 1.—The drive begins on June 15th with the declaration of the 2 eee 2 a — — vith? soil’ oomarsvexpldttadions:ttiey fee MacDonald “a smoke screen Central Committee in the Party press and will last until July 21. i I SE HE RST Aral cadirad. by cadwea taiibgy antl Grose oe ee be 2.—Every Party unit will hold a special meeting during the I L G.W. SOCIALIST CHIEFS, BOSSES PRA A Sieh thS ee vOle se auremc ese eT Staten. ss hundred workers struck last week at pio N weeks of June 16th to 28th at which the'principal order of business bbe Pe hs sr ne Seal oe the Lydia mill, at Clinton, S. C., de- ichard B. Moore appealed to the must be the Day’s Pay Campaign, and. the discussion of course, must u ee iN lmanding the discharge of a slave Pan apace oes to participate ac- be on the present Party activities in the light of the Comintern Ad- | Letters from Dubinsky and Grossman Show That Threatened Cloak “Stoppage” Is Conspiracy driving foreman. Seong Soren re an ie dress. Section executives, and districts must see to it that repre- The Ware Shoals, mills in South ibing the capitals pestis sentatives are sent to all unit meetings. pd us ans0 Carolina where 2,000 are on strike, ; s as the common enemy of al | are still tied up, although the United ¢ypressed peoples. 8.—All unit organizers will be held directly responsible for col- ‘ I N D U S T RI A L nae AT LINTERNATIONAL | Textile Workers and the South Caro-| ~ Se lecting the day’s pay from every Party member and to send the 2 S COUN CIL LADIES’ GARMENT WORKERS’ UNION | lina “Conciliation Board” are trying Jchnstone Tells of Indfa. funds directly to the National Office of the Party together with the Cloak, S i ae WEST.IG4 STREET | 2 ae ‘4 ares ae Ree rast of an ponte kd a Just re- aan cate lnaks Suit and Shirt Manufacturers, Ince ey . | it, The board is sitting, and trying | tur n India where he was amis blanks enclosed filled in, giving the name of every comrade and the . ie Ene | to evolve a settlement that will put prisoned by the British government amount paid. 225 eee STREFT Si | the workers back to work with noth- bie i _ attended the Altndia 4,—Every Party member will receive a special Day’s Pay Stamp tins Ris Saad PAESIDENT'S OFFICE | ing gained. rade Union Congress, and subse- which will be sent you in the next week or so. All those not having pens Tune 32) 1229: At Mills mills in Greenville, 8, C., auently ey tae i ee 3 . spies é fi att ad 550 workers are still out, and de- | “!@ Is on the eve of great and woyld- such a stamp will not be considered in good standing. Pred pees oe Hand. Sigs iapeate: : shaking events. “The Indian Palys moe. |@re tapidly Peconil 5,—After every unit meeting, all money collected must be sent om pace The National Textile Workers |°"° ™@Pidly becoming more revolu- in immediately to the National Office, and the unit organizer shall not wait until the full amount is collected from all the comrades, but the money shall be sent in as collected. 6.—Every Party member is expected to give his day’s pay not later than the week of July 15th. All comrades are urged, however, — to give the day’s pay immediately so that we can go on with the work, 7.—All comrades who do not come to meetings must be visited Chon AaOW cet eye oe Sypeering ii she How York doupned present to ite handvete ENA gts ‘aed vee their chief killed in the process, held which threaten to break the strangle- and be made to give their full day's pay, and also told that unless Me ASKIE nd impartial review of ti the paint of vlew of the laboring marees andy ware eepectallys |11 for a continuation of the hearing hold of foreign i iali: This they become active in the Party, they will be dropped from the roll pe haa beret a Ring oi ebepbey te Belen aa ' | Tuesday, without bai | si ee rakes the British i a ‘ nat you are ti int Fan enlightenad trades union ae the International Ladies’ oarmen | sday, , 3 not only makes the British imper- ey ‘y, they pped from the rolls. me t 4 . ‘ the International Ladies! oarment Bleed, Ere held ia for not onl kes the British imper- During the past period our Party has taken great strides forward. Re Gros + thousanés cf workers and many millions Woncers' Untony which has been a ploneer in improving vastly the Pee ithodt, bath fare ues: |ialists fear the loss oftheir risheaaa We can go forward at a much faster pace if we can get the material AunanT sacey sollarse Seation on. $2000 bath cece ony | Colony» but it interferes ‘with hep ‘ee nh Co inc ’ Sincerely yours, lot ef the workerse tinuation on $2,000 bail each, and preparations for imperialist war means to make it possible. The situation demands great sacrifices. To the extent that we make these sacrifices, to that extent are we eliigible to carry on the great traditions of revolutionary struggle established by our International, to establish our leadership over the working class | TAltor, The ening Sournal, tae re Gihy bese Garis Ws are writing fo © apr our Appreoistion for the intareet your great publication in the criaie ow aontronting our. industry. iba Ca In in going over the olippings I on the situation, we were particularly MoRR)S EPRAYRIOIN Speaegen # Masa Yovee & wn Wika wag i ee a Maou PRESIDENT aie et lose Dene Sint You ara ta he conn! imented and accureey af the aneounh in tedagehew York Ewantng tourna af the siete sftuation in the vomen*e Wew Yorke Th tem pleasure to ese wuch # powerful organ ay the Yours Berid, Union continues to hold big mass meetings in front of the Bessemer, N.C. mills. The union is growing rapidly. | Judge W. F. Harding, hearing habeas corpus proceedings Friday |in Charlotte on 19 of those arrested in Gastonia after the police shot |up the strikers’ tent colony and got . upon the enverpriiey falenees ent Induetry In Greater released two, The court room gave a clear pic- ture of the class forces whose clash in Gastonia has produced this his- very sincereiyy tionary. The impoverished workers and peasants are growing restive under the yoke of British imperial- ism, as is shown by the recent strike wave, In April, while I was there, sixty workers were massacred and 700 wounded by the bullets of Brit- - ish imperialis The oppressors a growing hysterical with fear hatred of the revolutionary masse: (Continued on Page Two) BALTIMORE SEAMEN TO MEET. and lead it into decisive and victorious battles. i cee “Acting Presidente tate rt hoaidler bas BALTIMORE, Md., June 14—A case, ree jundres m2 i i -kers. All Party members and militant workers must now pull together workers jammed the room, and sail be eld at the. tec more than ever before to make this drive successful. others crowded the corridors. Two) Seamen’s Club, 1710 Thames St» tis eae If anything more were needed tojnational Ladies Garment Workers |dent of the I. L. G. W. and I. Gross- its “impartiality” of an account of hundred of these came in from Gas- | Baltimore, Sunday at 8 p. m. show the identity of interests be. tween the Industrial Council, the as- sociation of the cloak manufacturers, and ite eamnany nnion. the “Inter Union,” these two letttrs will show |man, it. presideht of the Industrial |the threatened fake stoppage in the Send ALL FUNDS, aside from the day's pay, ists COL Kah RAM OT Sno GER ec Ge Ne eee es v5 ithin a space o: hours of eac ion 0 ie anti-union, reptile ie New Lor! ournal!l, June a Rall Worker. 26 Union Sauare. New York Ciiy. other. David Dubinsky. acting presi-!Heavst press. congratulating it gui. (Continued on Pawo Kived __ Pe EE ES tonia, They were strikers who had mission is free. George Mink, na- heard of attempts on the part of the | tional secretary of the Marine Work+ mill bosses to raise a lynch mob at|ers’ League, will speak on “organ= as. (Continued on Page Two), tia ization,” tans ; o