The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1929, Page 1

.More Rationalization $50,000.00 NEEDED TO STRENGT jers into a powerful steel-like unity which fights back with Never since the world war has the working class resisted the onslaughts of the bosses as fiercely as they do now. And) never have the bosses resorted to such extreme methods in their attempts to break the resistance of the workers. Demonstrations of workers are attacked by police and militia with drawn revolvers, rifles and bayonets. Frame-up charges, especially those of murder, are increasing. Beginning with the Sacco and Vanzetti executions there follow the Ches- wick case, Mineola, Shifrin, Canter, Morgan, the sea organizer, the cafeteria strikers, the iron strikers, an endless number of others and now the biggest of all, the wholesale Gastonia frame-ups. These attacks are not weakening but tempering the work- courage such as only the proletariat can show. The weapons of the workers, however, are not growing with the needs of the struggle. The best spokesman of the oppressed workers, the official organ of the Communist Party of America ,jthe DAILY WORKER is again threatened. The suiamer period is always the most difficult one. Now it is ever more so. Kor example let us consider even from a technical angle the tasks that the Gastonia strike has put on the DAILY WORKER. Telegram and telephone cails with news to the DAILY from Gastonia, which make possible the speedy spread of all latest developments in the Gastonia strike and the fast mobilization of the workers of the nation against the frame-up, cost for the past week alone over $450.00. This does not include the expenses of our correspondents, the tre-| mendous numbers of copies distributed free to the strikers, the additional cost of getting last-minute news into the press, etc. This is of course the biggest battle at the moment. But every fight of the workers is the cause of the DAILY WORK- ER. When the struggles of the proletariat increase the tasks of the DAILY increase. IF THE WORKERS DO NOT GIVE US MORE SUPPORT WE CANNOT MEET OUR TASKS! | *Workers! Make it possible for us to fight more effec- tively for you! It is for this that the Central Committee calls upon ail militant workers to contribute to the COMMUNIST PARTY- DAILY WORKER $50,000 EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN. | Send your contribution today! Use the following blank: THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week under the act of March 3, HEN THE WORKERS’ STRUGGLES ° ANSWER THE CALL Respond immediately to the Appeal of the Daily er for aid in the present cri The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I amt sending you the enclosed amount, $ Name Address Names of contributors will be published in the without FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1929 _ SUBSCRIPTION Vol. VI, No. 87 Company, Inc. S Union Square, 16 NOW M’DONALD, DAWE TALK PEACE; WAR PLANS. 0 “Labor” Imperialists Say Nothing About India Terror \Proceedings to Clear Bosses in the Vestris Disaster Begin Again LONDON, June 17.—The ry” into the sinking of the hell- ip Vestris off the Virginia Capes last November, when 111 lives were lost, was resumed today by the Board of Trade. This marked the 26th day of actual purpose of which is a desperate at- tempt to whitewash the owners of the rotten hulk, who sacrificed the lives of seamen in their lust for profits. ‘ SENATOR BLEASE ine Nine Killed in British Plane Crashes LONDON, June 17.—‘My talk with Mr. MacDonald was the be- ginning of the last stage of man’s journey toward lasting peace,” was the rhetorical comment made » THE WHITE HOUSE General. Charles G, Dawes, Wall Street ambassador to England, in! veference to his chat with Ramsay | Dehentures Come Up MacDonald in Forres, Scotland, as : A his train pulled into London. Mean.| in Tariff Argument BULLETIN. while, British war department ex- | hearings, the) CHARGED WITH MURDER IN | Photo shows part of a sham battle staged in the war manenvers at Governor's Island, in prepara- (Story on Page 5) | tion for the coming imperialist war. | sta Sa abe im Fur Strike Machinery Is Prepared at Big Meeting wave WEAK CASE ‘Women Needle Workers Meet Tomorrow; Cloak GASTONIA, N. C., night in Gastonia again MILL BOSS SPIES E! Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per GASTONIA FRAME-UP Wr Mane at Gosermas Wind in Pea frst le CHARCED WITH ASSAULT: 41 CASES DEFENDED 8Y LABOR DEI .NSE TODAY AT CHARLOTTE HEARING; FUNDS NEEDED Amy Shechter Latest Slated for Electrocution; 35 Lashes for Striker; More Strikes; Workers Ask Union Organizers; WIR Evicted 00 per year. ar. Price 3 Cent: ‘LL.D. Buffalo Meeting; High Bail for Kruse, Engdahl for Speeches All Workers Called to Assist in Tag: Days in New York BULLETIN. June 17.—Paul Crouch and Bill Dunne are speaking to- ist what has been today discovered to be a well organized plot of the Manville-Jenckes Co., and its henchmen in control of Gastonia City government to arrest ail released striker prisoners, sentence them to the chain gang for “vagrancy” and have the guards flog them unmercifully. The scheme of the company is to drive all defense witnesses from the vicinity perts jealously guarded the secrets of tremendous developments in the technique of air war which wil! astound onlookers at the coming Olympia exhibition to demonstrate Britain’s progress in the race for armaments. The London press reports that foreign ministers’ of France, Ger- many and Belgium will participate in the Paris conference this week- end, at which MacDonald will be assisted by Arthur Henderson, who first attracted attention to his zeal for empire when he sanctioned the murder of Irish revolutionists while a member of the 1916 coalition cab- inet. Casting aside the well-worn plati- tudes on the “historic occasion” which filled the columns of most London newspapers, the conserva- tive Morning Post warned MacDon- ald that “the American policy is (Continued on Page Two) TENANTS EXPOSE FAME RENT BILL Meeting Adopts Plan to Organize and Fight BULLETIN. Using Madison Square Garden for an auction room, “Daddy” Edward W. Browning, famous for “Peaches,” sold 15 parcels of Wew York real estate, none of them or- chards, for a net profit of $2,515,- 000. This is the first step in his loudly touted model tenement stunt | *\ with the Rockefellers as partners. * * ya 4 * The Rent Bill, so-called, up for final passage today, will be met with barrage of facts showing how the (Continued on Page five) his | WASHINGTON, June 17.—The | Borah resolution to limit higher | tariff duties to agricultural prod- ucts was defeated this afternoon by a vote of 39 to 38. After that | the senate voted by 57 to 23 to | take one month’s recess beginning June 19. The recess provisions has to be approved by the house. ee ee WASHINGTON, June 17.—An ef- fort was made today to put the Senate officially on record for the already well observed Jim Crow so- cial regulations in Washington of- ficial life. Senator Blease of South Carolina introduced a resolution in connection with news that Mrs. Oscar De | Priest, wife of a Negro congress- man, had been received at a luncheon at the White House, where Hoov is trying to get his republican ma- chine in operation in the South. Attacks Negro. The preamble of the resolution stated that it was reported “Mrs. | Hoover entertained the Negro wife of a Negro congressman by the \name of De Priest,” at dinner in the White House and that the wife | of the attorney general and the wife |of the secretary of the navy were |seated at the table and that the Negro woman sat on Mrs. Hoover's right as her equal and as the guest | of honor.” | It ‘resolved “that the president |and Mrs. Hoover be requested to re- | member that the house in which they are temporarily residing is the | White House and that Virginia, | Texas, Florida, Tennessee and North | Carolina contributed to their becom- jing its custodians, | Tariff In Senate. | In the house a bill was passed to | appropriate at once $150,000,000 for |the newly created farm board to play with. This money is to be loaned to farmers on mortgage; and will end by consolidation of fore- closed farms in big business estates. Boss Cheats Eight L. I. Steel Workers Out of $1,760 Wages Company, Planning Ba nkrupcy, Repeatedly Put Off With Promises + ’ How eight structural steel work-|eral of them even lent part of their ers were cheated out of $1,760 in|personal savings to the bosses, the wages and personal savings by the|plea that in this way he would Hammar Structural Steel Co., Inc.,|strengthen his credit and make pos- of Winfield, L. I., was yesterday |sible the repayment of their wages. told the Daily Worker by one of the Put Off Repeatedly. vietims. At the same time, the company Fearful of losing their jobs, the!planning bankruptcy, put the men workers were wheedled into per- off time after time until it was too mitting their wages to remain un- /late for the workers to collect. , , in the meantime . borrowing... After repeated attempts to obiain nd skimping in order to exist, Sey-| _ (Continued on Page Five) 4 : | Makers Thursday; Big Conference Saturday CONDITION OF 3 SLUGGED BAKERS REPORTED GRAVE Right Wing in Pogrom at Meeting Three of the militant workers who were murderously attacked by the administration gang at a meeting of Bakers’ Local 500 held last Friday afternoon in Webster Hall, 11th St. ‘and Third Ave., are still in a ser- |ious condition, it was learned yes- | terday. The pogrom on the militant work- |ers was made when they resisted the attempt of the administration to railroad thru one of their henchmen as chairman of the meeting. Slug Blind Worker. Two of the workers are lying in the Bellevue Hospital, and one is being treated by doctors at home. One of the workers, Aaron Mintz, is suffering from a broken rib and in- juries about the head. He recently went thru an operation for appendi- citis and rupture. The other at the hospital, Isidore Okin, who is com- pletely blind, has a broken leg, 'smashed by a blackjack wielded by one of the right wing thugs. He was also slugged about the head and eyes. The third worker, beaten, Three of the strong-arm men of the union officialdom first beat him with their fists and with chairs, and then, when he was lying on the floor unconscious, jumped upon him, Brainski, Dichter and Salarchick, other progressive bakers, are also badly beaten up. Brainski’s lips and gums are badly cut, and both Dichter and Salarchick had_ their noses broken by the blunt instru- ments of the right wing thugs. Hearing Wednesday. All witnesses are asked to appear in Essex Market Court tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and ask for Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for the militant workers. One of the left wing workers who was arrested is Salarchick, who was badly slugged by henchmen. Littman, according to members of the union, served ten years in Sing Sing in connection with a murder case. In an effort to evade the charge against him, he | framed counter-charges against Sal- asshick, the progrgssive worker, Alex Weiss, | who has one glass eye, was severely | How the Lynching Party tor Organizer Fred Beal Failed Facts Show That the Police Officials Did Their Best to Co-operate with Lynchers | An enthusiastic meeting of all ac- tive members of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union was held last night at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E, Fourth St., where, in preparation | for the general strike of the fur- r soon, strike machinery was perfected and all necessary commit- tees selected. Ben Gold, secretary- treasurer of the Industrial Union, and Irving Potash, of the organiza- tion department, spoke. The meeting was dominated by great enthusiasm, all present pledg- ing themselves to stand firm in the coming strike until yictory is won. Cloakmakers Meet Thursday. At the same time the Industrial Union is continuing with the mob- ilization among the cloakmakers. As the first concrete step for trans- forming the threatened fake cloak “stoppage” into a genuine struggle for union conditions, the Industrial Union is calling a mass meeting of all cloakmakers at Cooper Union \this Thursday evening, immediately jafter work. | Women Meet Tomorrow. | As part of the last-minute prep- \arations for the furriers’ strike the |N, T. W. I. U. is also calling a mass |meeting of women, to be held to- |morrow night in Webster Hall, 11th jSt. and Third Ave. The Industrial | Union calls specifically to this meet- ing all women furriers, dressmak- \ers, millinery workers, cloakmakers and other women workers in the ineedle trades. Tomorrow, also, will be held a |mecting of all active furriers and cloakmakers in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. This meeting is lof the greatest importance, the |Joint Board announces. The Joint Board last night made (Continued on Page Five) jers WITH AFFIDAVITS Gaston Frameup Fails| to Show Any Evidence | Fifteen affidavits submitted by order of the court by the prosecu- | tion to the defense, constitute the | mill owners’ case against the strik- ers and organizers for the hearing in {Charlotte tomorrow. The out- standing feature of these documents is the attempt to fasten a charge of murder on Beal by statemenis pur- porting to quote from his speeches and other utterances before the bat- tle occurred. The attempt tc make | a case against other organizers and strikers follows the same line. Typical Affidavit. | One affidavit, sworn to by C. L. Glimp, is typical and sa; “T live at 825 Read Vance St., Gastonia. I| went down to headquarters on the night of the shooting. I heard a| |woman make a speec&, but don’t know her name, but would know her \if I saw her agein, and she said, |‘that the time was not long now until they would form a picket line | |and was going to that mill and drag them out, that if it took fighting to do it they would fight, and if| blood had to be shed it would be | shed.’ | “When she was through speaking Beal got up and he said, ‘the time was now and they were going to |form a picket line.’ And I went |back to the mill office.” ‘ Shows Himself Spy. The phrase “went back to the mill office” shows that this deponent is one of the Loray mill’s “local” em- ployes, that is, a hired spy. He “goes back to the mill office” to report, he does not go to the mill. By BILL DUNNE. How did Fred Beal, Soythern or- ganizer for the National Textile Workers Union, now charged with murder in Gaston county following the attack on the strikers tent col- ony by police and deputies on Fri- day, June 7, escape lynching after his arrest while being brought ‘through South Gastonia Sunday morning, June 9? This question is asked in Gastonia and Charlotte by everyone familiar with the murderous freazy of the middle class elements in Gaston pbonnty w= they learned that the cz. mill workers had dared to defend i themselves and strike back after weeks of insults, jailings, bayonet- tings and clubbings at the hands of troops, police and mill owners thugs sworn in as special deputies, Officers Helped Lynchers. The facts as known so far tend to show first, that plans were made to lynch Beal. Second, that the offi- cers who arrested Beal in the tele- graph office in Spartanburg knew BOMB AT TEXTILE of the other 24. GASTONIA, N. C., June striker already condemned to a who come up on and 20 years in prison for the others. * * * (Special to the Daily Worker) and to smash the strike and the local union by this form of terrorism. CHICAGO, June 17.—The judge today threatened the workers arrested in the Gastonia demonstration here yesterday with deportation for foreign born All demanded jury trial and the bail was raised to $12,000 for Kruse, $3,000 each for Engdahl and Bimba, $1,500 for each 17.—Another charge of murder, the lashing of one Gastonia month on the chain gang, ev The International Labor Defense is actively engaged in p | and organi habeas corpus hearings tomorr« UNION OFFICES IN BESSEMER CITY Fails to Explode; Crowd Grows at Meetings BESSEMER CITY, N. C., June 17.—Instead of making any effort to find the man who planted a dyna- mite bomb in front of the National Textile Workers Union headquar- ters in this city, police authorities are racking their brains for a method they can use to abolish the head- quarters. The bomb, made of dynamite with cap and partly burned fuse, was found a couple of days ago. The expected destruction failed, evident- ly when the fuse went out, and the union continued its business, refus- ing to be intimidated by the bomb- sters. Try to Take Headquarters. Chief of Police Hoyle, of Bes- semer City stated today that ef- forts were being made to have the property on which the headquarters of the N. T. W. U. is erected, directly across the street from the Gambrill Mellville mills, condemned for non- payment of taxes, and sold, the new owner to evict the union. So far the city has not been able to carry out this plan of Hoyle and the Gambrill Mellville outfit. : On Friday a distribution of relief was made by the Workers Interna- of these plans. Third, that these effieers gave a lynching party plenty of opportunity to carry out sons for the failure cf the lynching (Continued on Page Two) tional Relief at Bessemer City. The union meetings continue, and are growing. They have increased from their plans. The presumable rea-|@bout 40 to 400 within tho last week. | Sacco-Vanzetti case. They are flood- The speakers Friday night were Paul Mill Press Is Wild Because Workers Rally The Gastonia Gazette, which for- merly printed copiously from the Daily Worker, including the straight story of the shooting which appear- ed in an issue of the Daily early last week, seems to have learned a lesson in the art of frame-up. The re-print of the article in the Daily evidently gave a good many South- jerns w jeauses of the shooting and the ac- tual events on that Friday night which they had not had before. Later editions of the Gastoniajprign for de Gazette avoid Daily Worker ar- \ticles giving actual news, and quote ‘at length from the statements of the International Labor Defense as printed in tne Daily Worker, Angered by Defense. | This mill owners’ paper, the Gazette, seeks to give out an i |pression that it is something i |decent and horrible that the I. L. D. should be busy rel'ying the w ing class of the world against the \murderous frame up of the Manville- and its servile Gaston county officials and police. ovk= isue of June 15 says: “Jt may he that the Gazette is giving its read ers an insight into the a An editorial in the Gazette’s 1s-) tion once more of the Workers International Relief station in Gastonia, increase of the strike wave and so many requests from different points for organizers that the National Textile Workers Union headquarters in Charlotte is swamped with them, feature the last two days of the situation here. reparing defense for 41 strikers in Charlotte, Meeting in Buffalo. Meetings are being held tonight in Detroit, and tomorrow night in Cleveland. Tomorrow night in§Buf- falo, Carlo Reeve, editor of the La- bor Defender, official organ of the I. L. D., will be the main speaker at a great meeting in Workers Cen- ter, 200 Ellicott St. Reeve is just back from Gastonia and other south- ern mill centers, and will give the background of the struggle. A mass meeting, addition to the week of tag days in New York is being arranged and will be announced soon. Those wishing to collect funds for the Gastonia defense should secure their collection cans id stations from the New York district of the International Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, at once. . D. cam- fense funds is gather- ing momentum. All contributions should be sent to the National Of- fice of the I. L. D., 80 E. 11th St, jroom 402, | The nation-wide I. | “hechter on Murder Charge... . Amy Shechter, relief director of the Gastonia station of the W. I. R. ce the early days of the strike, as served yesterday with a war- rant charging murder, which in North Carolina may mean electro- cution. | Two Workers International Re- ief representatives held in Gastonia il, Caroline Drew and Bertha rawford, have been released. The affidavits submitted by the prose- |eution to the defense today men- (Continued on Page Two) jers too much of the Red propaganda tion Drew’s name only once, and as |through its columns, but it is done the person who introduced a Negro for the sole and simple purpose of | speaker as ‘Brother.” For this she |acquainting our folks with the char- | was charged with secret assault acter of the opposition. It is malig- | with intent to kill. nant, vicious, subtle; like a rattle- |snake. They are preparing to make |martyrs of all the defendants in} |jail bere. They are openly boasting that thir is going to be another John Andreas, one of the strikers arrested for “vagrancy” after | shooting, and sentenced to 30° on the road gang, was given ~ \lashes by the whipping boss yes= ing the country with literature and |tenday. The court today der uj, (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) ii 4