The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929 — German Commu WAR DANGER IS CHIEF QUESTION IN DISCUSSION: Deyiators Must Submit (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, June 16—The discus- sign on the report of the Central Executive Committee, made by] ‘Fhaelman, was continued today in| the. Germen Communist Party Con- | fmess The first speaker, Gomrade- Dengel, declared for the Genital Committee that the concili- ators’ group held an opinion about the development of capitalism which was more to the right even than thetsef Brandler, who was recently expelled from the Communist Party. The :conciliators were pessimists end defeat The Congress must destroy~all vestige of opportunism, Class Character of Congress. | Delegates from Leipzig, Hamburg and-Halle spoke. Stoecker delivered the final report for the credentials committee; 217 delegates, 132 from factories and 76 from shop councils, 213delegates from organized trade unions, of which 91 held trade union positions; 26 women delegates, in- cluding 16 factory workers. Comrade Gallacher, from Great} Britain, read a declaration approv- | ing the speech of the representative of the Comintern, Semard. The dec- laration was signed by the Commu- session. Use Militarist Flag Day for Jingoist demonstrations like the above were held thruout the U. S. as part of the plan to arouse in preparations for imperialist war. “patriotism nisl Party Discu Jingoist Wa ssion by Factory Workers Sharp Against Co nciliators r Demonstrations e Li : HEARING OF 47 MORE TEXTILE ~ STRIKERS SOON I. L. D. Pushes Fight! on Frame-Up (Continued. from Poge One) | Charlotte or on the way to or from Charlotte, and they came in to pro- tect their strike leaders. In front of the workers were the prisoners, some of them like Me- Ginnis with clothes still caked with |Llood from injuries inflicted by the | mill owners’ thugs, and Harrison, the striker who was shot, with one | arm in a sling and a partly healed | wound on the other. | } Boss Has 14 Lawyers. | Gathered around a long table to |the right were the fourteen law- yers of the prosecution, including |Clyde Hooey, looking like Oscar} Wilde and considered the sharpest | PROMISE INGO. | Workers Relief Gonos To Feed Gastonia Victims AIRPLANE SHOW Feverish War GoingAhead (Continued from Page One) Plans nist Parties of France, Great Bri-|face certain conviction on charges tain, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy, Poland, of “working for the overthrow of Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Austria | the British Empire.” and Switzerland. ti * Seek Cruiser Bids. Ee |. WASHINGTON, June 16.—Wit Comradc Remelle then made a |t lapse of the Geneva confer- eM the cessnd weine ob tha | oe errs On ee. Cones conten A ence on “limitation” giving the enda: The Struggle Against Im-| ee Seas 2 < naval department its needed excuse, perialist War. He said that today| anq Hoover pushing continually for * social democracy is leading the) 9 speeding up of the war machinery, ideological preparations for War | Secretary of the Navy Adams y against the Soviet Union. The CON | terday asked for bids. for the con- tradictions of capitalism was shown | struction of five more cruisers of in the increased production at the|the largest type, 10,000,000 tons. same time that there is a decrease in markets because one-sixth of the | world, namely Soviet Russia, is re- moved from capitalist influence. The only. solution which capitalism | can seek is war against the Soviet Union. The industrialization of the | Soviet Union is developing. The Soviet Union is a power for peace, while the capitalist countries are powers for war. Germany Prepares for War. Germany has abandoned the Ra- pallo treaty and is participating in war preparations, together with the western powers. The Reichswehr is a special army against the Soviet Union, consisting of seven infantry and cavalry divisions, that is an army for use in cpen field against the Red Army. Industry is being prepared for instant transformation for war purposes. The bourgeoisie are preparing laws against strikes in. the transport industries. The metographical and economic situa- tion, in-Germany determines its role im the coming war against the Sov- iet-Union as a bridge for the inter- vention of troops and a carrier of war -materials. For Workers’ Red Army. -The-Red Army is the weapon of e ‘oletariat, Seventy-two per ent of its officers were workers ind peasants. Lenin warned against the illusion pf slogan, “Answer war with he ral strike.” The struggle gaingt ‘war is difficult. The out- reak .@f war means the release of a jowerful wave of chauvinism. At the inning of the war Commu- ists*M021l have to work underground. These are the first of the Coolidge} program of 15, and are in addition to the nine cruisers now nearing) completion. | Expensive Ships. The bids already in are from New- port News Shipbuilding and Dry} Dock Co., Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., and New York Shipbuilding Co.) They range from $10,730,000 for one ship (Bethlehem) to $11,130,000) (Newsport News). Navy Yards are estimating the cost at from $8,880,-| 000 to $10,903,000 each. With guns| the cruisers will cost about $17,000,-| 000 each. Two will be built in pri-| vate yards and three in navy yards owned by the government. The American Federation of La-! bor bureaucracy stands ready to stick the union label on all navy yard ships, and on the others if the! labor misleaders are allowed to claim closed shop on any of the! ships. | The naval race is on in full swing. | platform of the conciliators show that they are now the right wingers in the Party. The Political Com- mission places the following de- mands before the conciligtors: 1. That they abandon their semi-Men- shevik point of view. 2. Theat they recognize the factional character of 4. Carry out Party decisions. The conciliators must adopt the policy of the Party or leave the Party. The German proletariat, un- der the leadership of the Party, will crush the bourgeoisie and social fas- cism and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, ‘he throw of the bourgeoisie Th 7 e; . refi’ haelman’s closing speech was AS Boe ta cr je eee et ay greeted with storms of applause and : e en na ating ‘out: Cargying out the Communist the singing of the eaters , Ppolicy would turn the next war| as rar nw 1 am concerned, I can't / into civil war for the overthrow ot| claim to have discovered the ex- pitalism and thus accomplish the ternal abolition of war. Discussion followed, Delegates ‘om all parts of Germany supple- mented Remmele’s remarks. ‘ Conciliators Exposed. The chairman read a telegram of greeting from the R. I. L. U. After the close of the session the deie- gates attended a mass demonstra- tion of the Wedding district organ- ization of the Communist Party, where the bulk of the May Day fighting took place. The discussion was continued the istence of classes in modern societ: or their strife against one anoth: Middie-class historians long described the evolution of the cla struggles, and politieal economists showed the economic physiology of the elasses, I have added as a new contribution the following proposi- tions: 1) that the existence of classes is bound up with certain phases of material production; 2) that the class struggle leads neces- sarily to the dictatorship of the proletnriat; 3) that this dictatorship is but the transition to the aboli- tion of all classes and to the erz= ation of a society of free and equal. —Marx. | tent colony and their group. 3. Dissolve the faction. | Fearing a second strike of its! workers employed in the Loray mil] | at Gastonia, N. C., ‘the Manville- Jenckes Company through its agents jand spies laid careful plans to bring jabout a situation which would close |down the W. I. R. tent colony, ter- rorize the strikers and by making relief distribution impossible, starve |the men, women and children strik- {ers into leaving the strike zone. The W. I. R. tent colony, the h |quarters of the National Te Workers Union, the regular relief distributions of food, medicines, clothes and shoes, constituted a sym- bol for organizing the South. Tex. tile workers came to the W. I. R. tent colony from miles around to receive inspiration and to be com- missioned as textile organizers and relief workers. The W. I. R. tent colony constituted a daily threat to the Loray mill .bosses, a beacon: | light to the non-union workers in- side the Loray mill heralding the ad- vent of militant unionism. The wages of the non-union workers in | side the mill had already been re-| duced several times and exploitation | of these workers had ‘been intensi- | fied. Groups of workers had been | discharged for talking unionism and | relief. The workers were restless and rebellious and were ready for action. Reign of Terror. After a two months reign of ter | ror, during which time the state mil- itia was called out, special mill depu ties appointed, strikers shot at, stab- bed and bludgeoned, union and re- lief headquarters mobbed and des- troyed, homes invaded, women beaten and choked, the strikers and their! families, following the wholesale| evictions, decided to establish a} build their own| union headquarters, from where | they intended to carry on their! strike activities protected from mob! | violence. Guards were appointed. | Prowlers and company provocateurs were kept off the grounds. The union | began to establish itself and func- tion. | | The Loray mill owners began to plot to destroy the'tent colony. Ex- perienced company thugs were im- ported from its plant in Pawtucket. The deputies began to invade the tent colony in order to create strife, | Company officials attempted to se- | cure complaints from resident neigh- |bors of the W. I. R. tent colony in order to find a basis for closing it |down, An attempt was made to {poison the spring from which. the | strikers carried water. Police Start Attack. | At the strikers’ mass meeting, held | Friday evening, the speakers were |rotten-egged and stoned by mill |company lackeys. Despite this, the picket line organized itself and |marched towards the Loray mill. The strikers had assurance that the non-union workers in the Loray mill were ready to strike with them. The picket line was attacked by the depu- ties, men were beaten and women choked. The picket line returned to | wounded, es lawyer in the state; and Major Bul- winkle, who looks like a well-bred | bull frog, and had a gun poking out | of his coat above «his hip pocket. | Bulwinkle was there in his capacity | las special prosecutor and Manville- | gum and Carpenter did most of the | talking for the prosecution, The| company’s battery of legal lights | made a miserable showing. In the !first place, they have no case, even {from a legal. standpoint. In the | second place, they have not had} the W. I. R. tent colony. After the strikers’ families had all retired to their’tents and all vis- itors had left. and while the union organizers were at work at union problems in the union headquarters, an auto load of police suddenly ap- |. peared. They dove right into the|time yet to complete the frame-up tent colony, began to attack and fired | on which they base their hopes of upon the guards. After. the. smoke clectrocuting and’ jailing the work- | of battle had. cleared, four, deputies |°" efendants. i aaa and one. union organizer were found | Magnum Incites. Following the deputies| As the hearing progressed and} came the “committee of 100” headed |the controversy between Defense | by Major Bullwinkle, counsel for| Attorney, Jimison and the prosecu- the Manville-Jenckes company and|tion grew heated, the legal array Dr. Johnson, in the pay of the com. |sathered by Manville-Jenckes began { pany. This mob of thugs and raid-|to wilt. It wilted still more after ers invaded the tents and strikers’| Magnum tried to stage a demonstra- homes, choked the woman and ar-|tion against the defendants which rested all strikers’ guards, strikers |flivvered. posing side. | and the members of the Gastonia re- and W. I, R. workers: they could find. Try Race: Prej dice. To encourage the-Iynching spirit and increase its terrorism, the Man- ville-Jenckes company had its agents set fire to two of its company houses. Prejudice against the Ne- groes was injected as an issue when the mill agents reported that the police went to the W. I. R. tent| colony to settle a dispute between white workers over the hanging of a Negro picture in the union head-. quarters. Evidencé is “now. at that several of the deputies wounded! at the W. I. R. tent colony were in-| toxicated and had at 6:30 that same evening shot at.a man a few miles from Gastonia ard, drove -him into! the river, te | Seventy strikers, strike leaders lief committee of the W. I..R. lie in| jail. They are being given the third degree. _Thé defensé attorney has not yet been permitted to visit them..| Mill company deputies have taken charge of the W. I. R, tent colony jand the union headquarters. It has been impossible to distribute relief | |to the jailed strikers’ families for four days. They are starving and | destitute. New Relief Committee. Alfred Wagenknecht, national sec-| retary of the Workers International | Relief proceeded to Gastonia at once. | He is instructed to select a‘ tempo- rary relief committee and continue \relief distribution immediately. Steps jare being taken to remove the mill {company deputies from the W. I. R. jtent colony. All relief activities will {be again established so that the |strikers may continue their struggle against the mill barons, so that the organization of the unorganized tex- | tile workers may proceed thru-out the South, Workers and sympathizers, friend- lly organizations everywhere, are | called upon to come to the immediate | assistance of the families of the im-| |prisoned strikers so that they may |again receive their regular food ra- tions. Altho the lynching spirit pre- vails and mob violence is rampant, our W. J, R. workers in Gastonia must face these dangers, must defeat the Manville-Jenckes company in its attempt to railroad the National Tex- tile Workers Union out of the South. The southern mill qwners’ program jerand jury by its waiving examina- \the quarter of a million fund ‘that The prosecution staff included be- sides Bulwinkle, attorney for Man- ville-Jenckes -Co., Magnum, Dolley, Whitake,-Wooltaz and Hoey, all at- torneys for cotton companies. They were playing for time. In| addition they had three main points | they wished to put across, in which they failed. First, they wanted the’ court to re- fuse to fix bail sé they could have the amount fixed by Municipal Judge Jones of Gastonia. Second, they wanted a ruling that the de- fense had lost its’ rights to any fur- ther hearing previous to that ef the tion while the habeas corpus pro-| ceeding was pending. Third, they | wanted, a ruling which would pre- | vent any examination of the evi-| dence on which 13 workers are be- ing held without bail on a joint charge of murder and assault with intent to kill. Shows Weak Case. The-prosecution contended that its principal material witnesses, the two deputies, Roach and Gilbert, were too badly wounded to come into court or.even make depositions. Complainants’ Bad Reputations. Their emphasis on the necessity of having these two witnesses ex- posed the weakness of their case. They have the same five names signed to all the complaints against the defendants. These names are those of Polson, a notoriously worth- less character whom no one will be- lieve; Roach, who was fired from the police force after beating up a] woman with a blackjack; Ferguson, a motorcycle cop, whose favorite pastime has been abusing strikers; Mason, a gambler just released after serving six months; and John- son, Said to be a gambler and drunk- ard. It is the prevailing opinion here that the testimony of this crew is worth exactly nothing. # But the Manville-Jenckes Com- pany quite obviously intends to rem- edy this basic defect in its rank frame-up program by an army of legal lights and the lavish use of has been raised by the mill owners. The International Labor Defense has begun a campaign for a bail fund. It is necessary for tke most complete exposure of the plot against the strikers and organizers Planning Frame-Ups Against Bri Photo shows Inspector McBride of Scotland Yard, and a detective conferring on the plans for anoth nists charge that a “Red plot” i nists charge that a “Red plot” is being hatcheed by Scotland Yard in connection with the growing militancy of the Indian workers and The MacDonald “labor” government will give Scotland Yard free reigix in this plot, as it did when in power before. peasants, von workers ANT. IMPERIAL ‘MEET DENOUNCES ‘INGO WAR PLANS 200 Delegates Attend Vital Conference (Continued from Page One) r an attack upon the Soviet ndications of which are seen |in the recent raids upon the Soviet censnlates in Manchuria and subse- quent events which were instigated |by British and American imperial- Jenounces Labor Party. Johnstone denounced the labor party government in Great Britain as equally imperialist as the Bald- |win conservative government. “The |reign of terrorism which the Mac- Donald government carried on in India in 1924 shows that the present attempt to crush the revolutionary trade unions and anti-imperialist organizations started by the Bald- win government will be continued by MacDonald. The labor party government is planning to try to er “Red plot,” so that British Com- 's being hatched by Scotland Yard and the attempt to destroy the Na- tioal Textile Workers Union that as bailed out at once. The hearing today finished with Judge Harding issuing a written or- cer to the sheriff of Gaston County permitting Attorney Jimison to hold conferences with the prisoners at any time, A decision was also made that all affidavits dealing with the evidence against the prisoners must be in| duplicate and a copy given the op- This will allow the de- fense to put on witnesses to refute any false statements occurring in the prosecution affidavits. The defense case will be made by verbal testimony of the prisoners and other witnesses. 4 Beal is looking cheerful and has borne the severe neryous strain without perceptible effect. The other prisoners are cheerful, steadfast and determined, All but Beal of those in court to- day have been returned to Gastonia jail. Letters and telegrams will be delivered to them, although, of course, they will be read by the au- thorities, The Manville-Jenckes Co. and its attorneys are dragging in the Com- munist Party at every opportunity, and seem determined to make it a case against the Party. Mayor Denny of Gastonia was at | the hearing. The Gastonia Gazette yesterday and today appealed to every Gastonia attorney to attend the case. Die by A. swinging scaffold hoisted has- tily on the Mariners Church threw two construction workers off their balance to instant death. Workers on the job say that elementary pre- cautions by the contractors would have prevented the accident—but | the boss was too busy calculating profits to think of such trifles as workers’ safety. reach an agreement, a truce, with the United States in order to carry \San Francisco to Jenckes’ attorney. Attorneys Man-|many as possible of the prisoners be) Hold July 4 Picnic for |cvt its imperialist sessions in In- dia, China and elsewhere, and its jattack upon the Soviet Union. Describes Strike Wave, | Harry M. Wicks, representing the Communist Party of the United | States of America, pointed to the | LL. D.and W.L R. SAN FRANCISCO, (By Mail).— A great July 4 picnic being planned by the Workers Interna- is tional Relief, to which workers of the Bay cities have been urged to The picnic will be held in conjunction with the International | Labor Defense. The work of these} | two organizations has so widened in| |scope that all workers should aid | them. come, 'German Railwaymen Demand Wage Raise BERLIN, (By Mail)i—The Ger- present strike wave in the United States as well as in Europe to show that the masses of workers and farmers throughout the world are growing increasingly radical, and ready for revolutionary struggles. He declared that the Union of So- alist Soviet Republics serves as an inspiration for the colonial reoples and the working class all over the world, and that this is the basic on for the imperialist prepara- ions for an attack upon this first workers, and peasants’ government. “The day is not so far distant as most at this conference imagine, when a Soviet government will be established here in this mightiest of imperialist nations.” Benjamin Marsh, secretary of the |Peoples Lobby of Washington, said that “the appointment of Stimson of Wall Street as secretary of state, Dawes as ambassador to Great Bri- tain and Hughes to the world court, indicate that the present regime will be one that will carry out the im- | perialist designs of Wall Street.” )man railwaymen put forward a de- }/mand for an hourly increase in wages of 15 pfennig. This demand was arbitrarily reduced by the re- formist leaders to 6 pfennig (less than a penny). An arbitration de- cision has now been passed provid- ing for an increase of from three to four pfennig, This decision should be valid until the 31st of March, 1931. The trade union lead- ers are in favor of accepting the decisions while the Reichbakn is against it. The railwaymen are| angry at the smallness of the in-| tional in character, Negroes,: Chi- crease offered them. The decision|nese, Japanese, East Indians, West was arrived at on the suggestion of| Indians, Hawaiians, Filipinos, Latin- the official organ of the German} Americans and various other nation- social democratic party, the “Vor-|alities being represented among the | waerts.” delegates, i ViSiteeeee2000000 Soviet Russia VIA LONDON—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW TOURS FROM $3 85. Sailings Every Month INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. 175 FIFTH AVENUE (Flatiron Bldg.) | NEW YORK, N. Y. 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This can be | accomplished if you will extend both j your hands filled with money for | relief, as the sign of your solidar- ity. | Today—Right Now—your help is |needed. Send.a maximum contribu- |tion to the Workers International | Relief, One Union Square, New York | City. A $5 deposit is required with every registration, Special low rates to members. Write for informa- tion re membership. ‘next morning. Comrade Eberling, a ‘conciliator, “declared that he ap- proved the thesis against war, but i nded the omission of the state- that “In the interests of the imperialists the conciliators detract ttention from the war prepara- ‘tions’? Nobody has the right to ‘doubt the loyalty of the conciliators 0 the Party and the Soviet Union. é Comrade Schneller declared the eonciliators paid only lip service to the thesis. The vonciliators’ memo- | ‘vandum showed fundamental differ- ences with the Party. 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