The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1929, Page 2

__ Page Two 0 AIL is WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, _ JUNE 18, 1929 German Communist Congress Adopts Theses, One Against; War Thesis Is Unanimous : CONGRESS ENDS AND PARTY MUCH STRENGTHENED Heroes of “May Day Greet Delegates BERLIN, June 16.—At the Friday afternoon session of the Congress of the German Communist Party | No. Swell ibeminaer Resorts dap These Workers million crowded Nearly a workers Coney Island Sun- day, when they fled the city’s sweltering (CHARGE 16 WITH MURDER IN FRAME UP AT GASTONIA’ 41 Cases it in “Charlotte | Court Today (Continued from Poge One) jrequest by the I. L. D. to bail out Led in Bleeding | | | | | | | German Workers ‘Mill Press Is | Wild Because Smee ge OS Workers Rally. (Continued from Page One) propaganda for their cause, It is |high time the good law-abiding peo- ple of this country were fully cog- nizant of the hard and long drawn out fight they are facing in efforts |to run these Communists out of the |community.” “Something Drastic,” Comrade Merker spoke on the trade | heat to Coney Is- | Andreas and Ruby McMahon. | In large bold-faced type. on the union «qu He noted that the| land, one of the few 41 Held for Hearing. front page of the June 10 issue of developm cial democracy in- beaches open to the Attorney Jimison, of the Inter- the Gastonia Gazette is a frantic ‘ to social n has caused the noor of New York |hational Labor Defense, today re- appeal, slightly camouflaged, for party to < e in trade ‘ohere they were (ceived from Sheriff Lineberger and| lynching the heroic Loray strikers union. tactics where they were | Jailor Hanna of Gaston county the land their union leaders and relief, Brandler declares t packed. like sar- | complete list of strikers and or- workers: a reaction ists but also nst social democ- that from 2 union he cap- of the aga a co. s the antagonism between the workers and trade union bureau- | iS | eracy is incr Social democr the in- terests of the aristocracy of ‘hs | The International Federation Trade Unions (Amsterdam Interna | tional) is the organization of international corrupt section of the| trade unions. Amsterdam—Reactionary The reactionary development of} =, the International Federation of Trades Unions is shown in its ef- forts to win anti-working class American trade unions and the f dines. ‘PLOT WAR WHILE ‘How ‘the Lynching Party tor TALKING ‘PEACE? MacDonald a1 and Dawes Speak Soft Words | Organizer Fred Beal Failed « (Continaed from Page One) | to come off as per schedule will be discussed later. Here we wish to recite a few facts. There is no doubt as to the feel- auxiliary organizations. This is | small minority of the population in the Gastonia district—perhaps 20 to 25 per cent of the total. This minority holds the political |ganizers in their custody and the charges against them. The list to- tals 41, and shows that over the week- end charges have been dropped against 80 who were in jail during habeas corpus proceedings Friday. |One, Fula Carson, has been released jor bail, pending trial. | 16 for “Murder.” | The full Jist of those charged |both with murder and “secret as- sault” are: Fred Beal, Joe Harrison, J. C. Heffner, Robert Allen, Russell Knight, Geo. Carter, Louis Mc- Laughlin, N. F, Gibson, K. Y. Hen- dricks, K. O. Byers, J. O. Gardner, . C. Passmore, Wm. McGinnis, Amy Shechter, Vera Bush. | 25 For “Assault.” Those now charged with “secret assault” are: Clarence Miller, I. S. Hinsley, Dewey Ward, Sam Bou- knight, Ernest Martin, Robert Li- His job of bleeding the German workers, who pay the repara- mission for Wall Street, Morgan partner. German workers paid him heavy. tions, done, Owen D. Young is back, ready always to go on another With him, at right is Thomas Lamont, Morgan sent his own men to see to it that the and who failed to discover a single person who could be held account- able, is again in Gastonia “investi- gating.” Lumsden is being paid by jeonnections must be established by | personal contact. There is evidently a general de- sire among the mill workers of the | “Gastonia must either have mar. | tial law,” it says, “or her loyal citl. |zens must be armed by the hune dreds and deputized in order to pro- tect our homes, our lives and our property from death and destruction at the hands of the murderous jagents of the Cqammunist Interna- tional.” “American citizens are not going *! to sit supinely and see their homes and property and lives destroyed. “It looks like the hour has struck |when something drastic must be | done. “All incoming buses, jitneys and trains are being closely watched for suspicious persons.” Attack Negro Workers. \the Gastonia Gazette to split the | strikers by injecting the race issue, j |and to inflame race murder senti- Every attempt is being made by’ ‘, ; a : ji f the mill owners and their re- | powe ii ‘i iti it i nt in the communit; cist trade unions of Italy. The in-| (Continued from Pi [ne 0 = power. It can organize squads of|toff, O, M. Lell, Ri th the city authorities and has, it is| Carolinas for organizati a a|™e He ternational working class organiza-|ysturally di ie age One) | tainers towards Beal. Altho they| thugs for punitive expeditions. It/siaell, J R. cee Page AN stated, about a dozen spies working [number of aikeh Nove heck settled | A letter by @ loyal servant of the esate the Communist Interna. naturally directed to securing a knew that he had nothing to do with}can give them official protection—|TJoyd. Jame McGi in Walter {under him, the leat tw ra ts eae | mill owners, printed on the editorial navy that suits the United States, |the actual shooting which took place, jiloyd, James McGinnis, Walter ¥ © weeks, only to-break | nage of another issue of the Ga- bor | up to a certain point. It ean set uj § ‘ It i known that the officers i tional and Red International of Lebor ie ey tae acta ae he Toe Ps P| Lloyd, D. Sailors, J. L. Brewer, H.| Jt is now kno at the officers | out again. zette, tells of reading in the Daily Unions. The intensification of class | contradictions is causing the ny of the latter organizations. The op- pressed and unorganized sections of} the workers are closer to the party | than the labor aristocracy organ- | ized into trade unions. New Forms Needed It is a dangerous illusion to think _ that pressure from the masses can} force the trade union bureaucrac; to conduct a serious struggle for| the interests of the workers. The| revolutionary opposition must find new forms and organizations to mobilize the workers in economic political -mass- struggles. Apart from strike:committees, revolutionary shop councils are the most import- ant sea for mass mobiliza- tio erker quoted Stalin, accord- | Ba a speech a situation is quite conceivable in which it will be necessary to found parallel mass organizations. against the will of the trade union leaders. Comrade Merker declared that the ‘party did not fear such situations. The pres- ent . Period is one of great class stragiles in’ which the decision is approaching for the seizure of poli- tical power. Broad Discussion The. discussion was opened by delegates from the Rhineland, Thur- ingia, Hamburg, the Ruhr, ‘Berlin, East Prussia, Saar, and Halle. Com- rade Becker, for the conciliation, denied that they opposed independ- ent leadership of labor struggles. i The, xesults of labor struggles had ‘ not. been for the party as good as * had been expected because the unit- ed front tactic had been abandoned. The main weight of the party must be to.seek to strengthen the party position among the trade union or- ganized workers. Comrade, Merker then made the closiig speech. He declared Com- rade Becker’s remarks showed that the conciliators regarded the unor- ganized workers as inferior to the organized workers, just as the right wingers do. The conciliators would isolate the party from the masses. But the party will destroy all devi- ations and will prepare the work- ers for the coming struggles. The Congress adopted resolutions against the white terror and session closed. Wedding Red Front On Saturday, at the closing ses- sion, the Congress adopted the poli- tical resolution with one vote against. The Wedding District de- tachment of the prohibited Red Front. Fighters suddenly entered the hall in full uniform. The delegates greeted the detachment enthusiasti- cally, The speaker for the Red Front Fighters declared that the or- ganization still existed and works in spite of its prohibition. Comrade Heckert greeted them in the name of the Congress. Voting Results. The resolution on the inner-party _Sitwetion was adopted with one vote “against. The Congress adopted a declaration against the conciliators, dem=nding that they abandon their ‘semi-menshevist standpoint, dissolve their fraction and carry out party _ decisions, The War Danger resolu- tion was unanimously ‘adopted. The trade union resolution was adopted with one vote against. _ The Congress adopted a manifesto . to the German workers, calling upon them to carry out the historical tasks put on the proletariat at the present,; juncture and announcing that ongress resulted in a great | strengthening of the working clas: | vanguard, the’ Communist Party. at the = Ig would avenge dered May Day victims with ihment of the dictatorship roletariat.* The delegates and singing the In- ‘The Congress then ad- and it would be a ruinously expen. sive price for the favor of any na- |tion if we were to abandon the} standards and principles vital to our existence. That MacDonald, however, needs | Beal’s arrest came in to the effect! Becau little advice on the necessity of|that “if he comes through here we minority has been able to carry out working for the unchallenked su- premacy of the British Empire is in- icated in his continued silence on he Meerut trial, rade uni to heavy jail sentences on charges of “working for the overthrow of the empire.” The new government’s plans for rationalization in war and key in- dustries were expressed by Mac- | Donald in his reassuring note to the British Advertising Association con- vention today. “I have long been in consultation as to how we can as- sist industry and get in touch with its' more responsible people,” his his message, read to the association by- President Lord Riddel, declared. * 9 Killed in Plane Mishaps, LONDON, June 17.—The feverish | preparations for war which the im- perialist powers are making in the field or aeronautics today resulted in the death of nine persons and the injury of five others. It is pointed out that the Soviet Union, with a workers’ government which natur- ally takes all precautions to insure the safety of airplane pilots and mechanics, has not suffered a single accident in the air this year, a stag- gering contrast to the epidemic of crashes rampant in England and other capitalist countries. At Folkstone, the airplane, City of Ottawa, bound for Zurich, was forced down in the English channel, three miles off the coast, and, al- though help was sent from the} shore, seven of the passengers, wedged beneath the plane, were | drowned before it reached them. | Three other occupants, together with the pilot and flight engineer, were badly injured, but are expected to recover. Only one of the bodies has been recovered. Authorities ad- mit that this was “one of the most disastrous accidents in the history | of commercial aviation.” | About the same time that news | of the Folkstone crash became known, the sir ministry announced | that an officer and a pilot were) killed when the scout plane in which they were doing war maneuvers hurtled to the ground near Nethera- von, BOMB AT TEXTILE UNION OFFICES Failsto Explode; Crowd Grows at Meetings (Continued from Page One) Crouch, Ellen Dawson, and Wil- liams, a local striker. All are or- ganizers-for the N. T. W. * * * Boss Makes Threats. MARION, N. C., June 17.—E, M. Baldwin, president of the Marion Manufacturing Co., is making des- perate threats in the attempt to stop his workers from, organizing. Hay- ing heard that organizers from the National Textile Workers Union were lining up members, he stopped the mill for an hour and delivered a speech. He said that if the union was organized, he would stop the mill. Any workers who showed a willingness to scab would be “taken care of” and all those wicked people who joined the union and asked for li in danger. |necessitated a considerable detour lestimated variously as consisting of personally had shot Aderholt, the} chief of police. There are witnesses who heard| statements made by persons in the crowd that gathered when news of will take him out and end him.” The procedure of the Gastonia po- lice officers who took Beal from at which Indian | Spartanburg® jail merits attention. | not that the battle in the tent col- ists are being railroaded | They were familiar with the plans | ony took place, but that it did not| of the “mill crowd.” They knew} without doubt that Beal’s life was | Yet they secured a car} [for the trip which could not travel more than thirty miles per hour. Beal, who was to be placed in} the Monroe Jail, was taken through South Gastonia, a journey which | from the direct route between Spar- tanburg and Monroe. Stops Conveniently. When the machine reached South Gastonia, the car was stopped and one of the three poli¢e officers went | to get an ice cream soda. While he was gone a bunch of armed’ men— from six to twelve persons—came up to the car and asked who Beal waa. There was loud talking and threats. Beal said nothing. The officers moved off a short distance with the crowd and held a conversation with its leaders. The crowd left. The officers then took Beal out| of the car and walked with him a} mile or so through a lonely wooded | district. Another car met them and took them to Monroe. It is necessary to subject these | facts to some scrutiny and, taking | into consideration the devious meth- ods by which the mill owners and their hangers on operate in Gas-| tonia, a mill owner’s principality, | draw certain conclusions. Why did not the police officers | |hand Beal bver to the would-be exe- | cutioners? Why did not the armed squad take Beal from the officers when all facts point to the conclu- sion that this was the arrangement? It seems clear that in between) the time the news of Beal’s arrest was known in Gastonia, and the cort in South Gastonia something | went wrong with the program. It is probable, as is generally the case intend to stage a public execution of a worker. by extra-legal means in broad daylight, that the original program was for the gathering of a mob of sufficient size to give the | proceedings the character of an un- Not Enough Mob. The champions cf the mill owners who composed the armed squad were too few in numbers to make the fic- tion of a mass demonstration ten- able. The police officers doubtless were unwilling to turn Beal over to the mere handful who demanded him, They had expected a mob of a size which would make it possible for them to maintain plausibly that they had been overpowered. How did the police officers dis- suade the assailants from taking Beal by force? In all probability by telling them first, that the gang was too small to mak a good show- ing from the popular standpoint and second, by promising them that they would have another and better op- portunity. The trip through the woods on foot would appear to have been in line with such a promise. No ad- vantage was taken of it. Why? ‘or the reason that the whole program flivvered—because the only elements who hate the N. T. W. union and the strikers and Beal to the point where they are willing to commit murder openly are the mill more wages would be evicted from their homes. Organization proceeds, officials and the middle class and professional people clustered around the chamber of eommerce and its |inally on the payroll of the Loray {open struggle against the Manville- |Jenckes Company and its local gov- |of them will fight for the Manville- |ganizers—none of them is part of |the National Textile Workers, hated | time he appeared with his police es- |- such organizations as the “Commit- tee of One Hundred” composed of professional spies and gunmen nom- mill and foremen, superintendents, |; technical and clerical workers, etc. it. has political power this | systematic clubbings and jailings. It has been able to harass the strikers and their families until one wonders, | |take place weeks ago. But the one thing that the Man- | ville-Jenckes Company and itz mid- dle class supporters cannot do 13 to give these brutalities the character of a popular movement. It is forced to call on the power of the govern- ment, to give a “legal” veil to its acts precisely because, while it is still able to force miserable wages and working conditions on the mass of the mili workers, it can no longer mobilize them to fight its battles against the National Textile Work- ers Union. All the workers of Gastonia may not as yet be ready to engage in ernment. have reached this point, But none A large number of them Jenckes Company. None of them will take part in lynching union or- the chamber of commerce crowd. | These are the main reasons why Fred Beal, southern organizer of | by the mill owners and their retain- | ers but loved and respected by the| mill workers, is still alive. He is in jail charged ‘with murder. His life is still in danger and the mill barons will try to send him to the electric chair. The mill workers, under the lead- ership of the N. T. W., are mobiliz- ing to smash this murder plot. One Seaman Dead, 7 Stranded When Leaky Boat Breaks in Two ASTORIA, Ore., June 17.—Break- ing in two across a sand bar in the mouth of the Columbia River like a slab of tinder, the steamer Laurel when capitalists and their agents took a toll of one seaman dead andq a e are \several injured, leaving seven mem- |bers of the crew still helpless on the \half of the vessel that remained on jthe bar. Twenty-four sailors were concn by a coast guard cutter after they lrestrainable outburst of popular in-|had slid down the ropes with life | dignation. That this part of the plan |miscarried is evident. preservers on, plunging into the sed and fighting the waves as they groped their way hand over hand to the cutter. A heavy scum of oil on |the water made most of them sick and many were struck by timbers which, breaking loose from the deck, pounded against the sides of the tub. The dead seaman, Russell Smith lof Dorchester, Mass., went dowh with the fore part of the vessel, He kad been ordered forward by the mate who went along to see that he \east the anchor, but when danger threatened, A. Wilde, the mate, seampered to safety and left the seaman to his fate. Latest advices do not report the seven stranded seamen as having teen rescued and it is feared that they. have been lost. One of the rescued men is so badly injured that he is not expected to live. The own- ers of the leaky death-ship Laurel, like the owners ‘of the Vestris, expected to be given a clean bill of health by any official “investiga- tion.” Reap the benefits of the May Day demonstrations by getting into the Communist Party work- ers who participated. Build shop committees and draw the more militant members into the Communist Party. in deslcall |some of the defendants will be re- H. Mills, Harold Curry, D., E. Me- Donald, Earl Thompkinson, W. W. Sprouse, Clarence Townsend, Clay | Runner, Gladys Wallace, Caroline | Drew and Edith Saunders Miller. Juliet Stuart Poyntz of the Inter- national Labor Defense now has permission to visit the prisoners and it will be possible to do much more to ease their confinement than here- tofore. It is barely possible that leased at the hearing toniorrow be- cause of utter lack of even framed- up evidence against them. Hearing Today. The hearing this morning will determine what defendants will be held, and bail will be fixed for all those not charged with murder. The | burden of proof rests on the state, and copies of the prosecution affi- davits must be in the hands of the defense counsel by noon today or they cannot be used at the hearing. Army of Spies. Lumsden, the state detective who who have been hounding the strik- ers, raiding their homes, breaking up |the picket lines, beating men and women and who made the attack on |the new headquarters and tent col- ony which ended so disastrously for them, are special police on the city payroll. The sheriff claims that he has not sworn in a single deputy for this campaign of the Manville- Jenckes Co. Threats, arrests and all forms of intimidation continue to be used against the strikers. All organ- izers, union and I. L, D., axe fol- lowed constantly. Yesterday, when Ellen Dawson was talking to work- ers in the mill district, there was no time when a deputy was not within three feet of her. Workers Want Organizers. A number of mill worker delega- tions went in to Charlotte today to the offices of the National Textile Workers Union, asking that union organizers be sent to their localities. The union organizer staff has more “investigated” the wrecking of the strike headquarters of the N. T. W. and the relief store of the W. I. R., calls upon it than it can fill, al- though the membership lists are in the hands of the authorities and Evict W. I. R. Again. The mill bosses’ policesin Gas- tonia again evicted the Workers In- | ternational Relief station yester-| day, The police are determined to stop feeding of the strikers and |starve them back under control of Manville-Jenckes’ bosses, but the W. % RB. is just as determined to keep | jon feeding them. Yesterday’s dis- tribution was made from the road- side, but it was equal in quantity to the best distribution before the raids. The food from the W. I. R. is again mobilizing the strikers’ families for the struggle against the Loray mill. The W. I. R. is renting lots on which it will erect two tents for relief stores, The strikers’ families are stand- ing fast by the union and the strike. |They will remain on the scene and continue. the strike, if they can be fed and sheltered. The Workers In- ternational Relief needs funds for this purpose. All contributions for this should be sent to Workers In- ternational Relief, 1 Union Square, New York. | Worker how Harry Fox, of the |Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial } Union, and John Owens, a Negro | worker and speaker for the Commu- \nist Party, walked out of a New | Jersey restaurant when it refused |to serve Owens.’ The letter writer says: | “I cannot understand how our mill workers can join themselves with a | crowd like that, trying to break every principle that our forefathers fought to attain.” MALARIA KILLS NATIVES. CAPE TOWN, P. Africa (By Mail).—The malaria epidemic, which originated in Zululand, has reached alarming portions, and wiped out scores of villages, killing thousands of natives. Imperial at tne same time the most prostitute and the ultim- ate form of the State power which nascent middle-class society. had commenced to elaborate nx a means of its own emancipation from feud= alism, and which full-grewn bour- geois society had finally transe formed into a means for the en- sinvement of labor by capital, — Marx. Smash the Murder Frame-Up Against the Gastonia Textile Workers! 13 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union Charged With Murder! THEY FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 58 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS The fight to free Fred Beal and Vera Bush and eleven other leading Gastonia strikers from the electric chair is not only a fight for the lives of these work- ing class leaders but is a struggle for the right of the workers of the entire South to organize and struggle for bet- ter conditions. Rally to the Support of the In- ternational Labor Defense. Defend the National Textile Workers Union. Fred Beal and Vera Bush Must Not Die. “ The 71 Strikers Must Be Freed at Once. , This new attack of capitalist justice in North Carolina is a part of the attack of the American imperialist government on the entire working class. It goes hand in hand with the process of capital- ist “rationalization”, the speeding up of the workers at long hours ey for low Rush All Funds to the International Labor Defense pay, and is a part of the preparation of the capitalist government for a new bloody imperialist world war. ANOTHER SACCO-VANZETTI FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! The Struggle of the Southern Tex- tile Workers is the Concern of the Entire American Work- ' ing Class. ES The members of the National Textile Workers Union have been bayoneted, ar- rested, beaten, slugged and shot and evicted from their homes because they dared to fight for better conditions against mill owners, the government authorities and against the strike- breaking activities of the American Fed- eration of Labor. 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