The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1929, Page 1

Thousands of fur workers first day of the strike finds the of the struggle. go out on strike today! COMMUNIST PARTY and its | in every struggle of the workers, the COMMUNIST PARTY | and DAILY WORKER have heen the first to go on the firing | TREMENDOUS HANDICAPS. We pledge that every last ef-| line and will be the last to leave. The drain on the meager sources of these, your weapons, is telling heavily. The small funds received from dues and routine income is, for an active, struggling Communist Party, entirely insufficient. The DAILY WORKER is being pub- lished at a loss of many tens of thousands of dollars every year. | strike of the Gastonia workers The ent murder frame-up charges has taken away the small margin $50,000 EMERGENCY FUND. ‘on which both revolutionary institutions are working. official organ, the DAILY WORKER, in the front line trenches | cr tests evn regs me gag vibine Throughout this strike, as has been the case | jcan revolutionary movement. WE ARE ENTERING TH \fort of your Party and newspap and their defense in the pres- | PLETING The| WORKERS OF of the Amer-| tles mean that the offensive of | will be weakened and that the E FUR STRUGGLE UNDER be strengthened. er will go in the defense of the t}an ever before. ‘ proletariat and against the bosses. If, however, the battle is the suspension of the strongest WORKER, if the battle is not to be weakened because of the lessening of COMMUNIST PARTY activities because of the lack of funds, then YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY SEND IN The increasing struggles up till now, pondissed the heroic, BIG SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS COM-| CAN YOU AFFORD TO ft to be i ted through not to be interrupted throug’ |WITH YOUR WEAPONS -weapon, you have, the DAILY BY STRENGTHENING DAILY WORKER! Use the following blank: THE COMMUNIST PARTY-DAILY I AMERICA! are working | the first of a nation-wide movement. We are entering big struggles. IN STRENGTHEN THE WORKING CL WORKER | ANSWER THE CALL Daily The strike struggles are The victory of these bat- the bosses against the workers movement of the workers will | of the Respond immediately to the Appeal Worker for aid in the present crisis. More decisive struggles The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am sending you the enclosed amount, $ | ENTER THESE BATTLES | DAMAGED CONDITION? THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Daily = Entered as second-class oftter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. ge VI., No. 88 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WED ESDAY, JUNE. 19, “1929 ON ALL FRONTS) || \“"* THE COMMU cadre SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TODAY. a" butorn will be published in the “Daily” wit FINAL CITY EDITION ae a susscnibrigs RATES: In New Yo or ¥ a Price 3 Cents MILL WORKERS FILL COURT ROOM Defendants Giiened on| Belief in God CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 18.—The first step in the Man- “ville Jenckes conspiracy to rail- road Fred Beal and 21 other National Textile Workers’ Union organizers and strike leaders to the electric chair and the penitentiary was taken when 14 defendants were held without bail on double charges of murder and assault with intent to kill growing out of the battle in the Workers International Relief tent colony in Gastonia on the night of June 7. The habeas corpus hear- ing is over, The rest of the 41 cases are dropped. The workers held on ~ double charges without bail are Fred Beal, Louis McLaughlin, Amy Shechter, William McGinnis, Vera Bush, George Carter, Sophie Melvin, K. O. Byers, Joseph Harrison, I. C. Heffner, Robert Allen, Russell Knight, N. F. Gibbons, and K. Y. Hendricks. Held For “Assault.” Those held on charges of “assault with intent to kill,” with bail set at $75Q, are Ernest Martin, Walter Lloyd, : Clarence Miller, Clarence Townsend, D. E. McDonald, Robert Litoff, C. M. Lell and J. R. Pittman. The prisoners were bound over to ‘the grand jury in spite of the fact that not a single witness or affi- davit identifies them as having fired the shots which killed Chief of Po- lice Aderholt and wounded three other officers. They were held in spite of the fact that Adam Hord, acting chief of police, testified un- “der cross-examination that the po- Iie were the aggressors, that they had invaded the property of the N. T. W. without a warrant and that one of the wounded men, Roach, was not a police officer. Roach had been “asked to come along.” It is now known that Policeman Colbert, one of those shot in the raid on the strikers, was found drunk and disorderly by the Charlotte po- lice three or four hours before the shooting, and sent back to Gastonia. One hour before the shooting he col- lected a crowd of local fascisti, small business men’ mostly and mill of- fice hangers on, and boasted to them that he was going down to “clean up the place” of strikers. Saw Police Shoot First. - Gladys Wallace, for the defense, testified that she had seen the first sHot fired from the police car, and that she believed it was fired by Roach. She told of the breaking} up of the picket line previous to the raid on the headquarters by the po- lice, and how Roach arf? Colbert had ‘ Mrs. McGinnis down and her glasses off.’ They ‘had ® More Gastonia Children Tour For the I.L.D. | “The evicted strikers in Gastonia lare still standing fast, they aim to stick by their union, the National Textile Workers Union, and they are glad to be getting the help of the workers to defend their relatives and fellow strikers and union lead- ers in jail,” said Elizabeth McGinnis, aged 16, one of three young Gas- tonia strikers now in New York, waiting to start Saturday on a na- tion-wide tour to raise defense funds under the auspices of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. With Elizabeth were Binney Green, aged 14, and Edgar Passmore, aged 17. All are active strike leaders and the two girls have. been speakers at strike meetings in Gastonia. Binney ‘was a member of the strikers’ dele- gation to Washington. All three (Continued on Page Two) beaten and choked other women, she said. Otto Matson, another prosecution witness, also admitted under cross- examination that the police had as- |saulted one of the workers on the union headquarters before any | shooting was done, Worried About God. Edith Saunders, one of the re- leased prisoners, testified that she saw none of the shooting, and that she and Vera Bush and Amy Shech- ter and others were in the inside of- fice of the union hall when the bat-| tle occurred. Attorney Hoey, for the prosecu- tion cross-examined her and spent much of his time in inquiries rela-! tive to the belief of the witness in god. The rest of his examination) was an endeavor to establish the) identity of the workers who used firearms. A significant side line on the methods of the prosecution was disclosed when Gladys Wallace told of being taken from the Gastonia jail to the office of Major Dolley, retained by Manville-Jenckes to as-| sist the prosecution, and there ex- amined. The trial will probably be held late in July. jor Bulwinkle, attorney for the Man- ville-Jenckes Co. The chief spokes- man today for those who want to kill the strikers, however, is At- (Continued on Page Two) QUARRYMAN HURT. BALTIMOR2, Md., (By Mail).— | Working at the Gwynn Falls Quarry, Douglass Marshall received a frac- tured skull, when a box of stone fell ‘on his head. He may dies TAXI STRIKE. SCRANTON, Pa. (By Mail).— Taxi drivers in Scranton have gone jon’ strike for better conditions, , The prosecution is headed by Ma- | International Labor Defense Arranges Speaking Tours to Mobilize All Labor; Raise Funds Needed Immediately to Save Lives > “HERESY TRIAL,” STATES DEFENSE “Hearing in Spirit of Lynch Law,’ ’_Poyntz CHARLOTTE, N._ N. C., June 18.— The International Labor Defense, which is conducting nation-wide or- ganization campaigns to defend the Gastonia textile mill strikers, issued today through its executive secre- tary, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who is in Charlotte to direct defense work, the following statement: | The habeas corpus hearing today | ‘was conducted in the medieval spirit | of entrenched autocracy, and in the! spirit of lynch law. Though in| habeas corpus proceedings, the pros- ecution is supposed to show cause why the workers should not be re- leased, the judge threw the burden of proof on the defendants, and made them show cause why they should be released. Heresy Trial. The attitude was that of a heresy | trial, a trial, for political and eco- nomic and religious heresy, an at- titude prevalent in the dark South. | The prosecution’s questions show that “belief in god” is one of the} main points on which the workers | are being tried. The trial is the attempt of the tex. |tile mill owners’ bureaucracy in the South to murder and burn away by | jelectrocution every obstacle to their | continued brutal exploit: ion at long jhours and $9 or-$10 a week wages | of the Negro and white labor here. | They are determined to “Keep the Negro in his place,” and “Keep the} poor white in his place,” no matter) how many rebels they kill, legally | or illegally. Workers, Negroes and | \Communists are without the pale of | their law. The International Labor Defense | lis determined to smash this frame: | jup. It relies on the workers of the world to Roper y 7 its ‘MORE N, Y. IRON BOSSES GIVE IN | |\Seventeen n Yield to the’ Union’s Demands The solidarity of the 4,000 strik- | | ‘ing iron and bronze workers of | Greater New York has forced 17 bosses to yield to the demands of \the workers, the Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers Union, which is leading the strike, announced yes- | 'terday. | The surrender of the remaining shops seems certain to occur shortly, the union announced. The shops which have yielded are members of the Bronx and Manhattan Iron (Continued on Page Five) A His Majesty’s Man, Ramsay 3 MacDonald | Here is the head of His Majesty’s Labor Party, Ramsey Mac- Donald, whose “Labor” cabinet is composed of staunch supporters of the British Empire which enslaves millions of colonial workers and. peasants. MacDonald is here shown alighting before Bucking- ham Palace, to be received by the British king. Tammany Fires 300 City Engineers Who Who Asked Raise | General Strike Is Urged as aa -Daton’s Reply to Commissioner Delaney’s Action True to the consistent anti-labor, |is retaliating against unionist ac-| junion-hating policy of Tammany |tivities.” Hall, Commissioner Delaney yester-| The union, following: its demon- day ‘fired outright 300 engineers. stration before the City Hall the The men were employed in the jother day when Mayor Walker re- {weeks of intensive mobilization, not only among the furrie needle trades workers, but among large masses of militant workers thruout the city. FURRIERS STRIKE TODAY! Gastonia Mill B Ul Bosses Try Rush Strikers’ Electrocution Before Workers Can Rally PROSECUTION WANTS MURDER TF TRIALS IN JULY; DROPS CASES OF ALL BUT 22 TO HASTEN THE FRAME UP; 14 MURDER AND § ASSAULT CASES Held to Grand Jury Although Evidence Is Entirely Lacking Against Them; Defense Witnesses Withstand “Best Lawyers” STRUGGLE BEGINS TO WIPE OUT SWEAT SHOPS; DESTROY COMPANY UNION; WIN 5-DAY, 40-HOUR WEEK IN INDUSTRY Strike Is Called for 8 o’clock Today in Al! Shops Without Exception; Meetings Arranged in Many Halls itant Union Based on the Class Struggle; Ready to Meet and Defeat All Strikebreaking Forces Cloakmakers Meet. Tomorrow in Manhattan Lyceum to Lay Plans for Converting Fake “Stoppage” Into Real Struggle The fur strike is on! at 8 o’clock in the morning begins the General Strike in the entire fur trade! Today, Thousands of fur workers will respond to the general strike call which was made after rs and the thousands of other The furriers are ready! They are ready to meet and destroy the “Joint Council” scab company union of the fur manufacturers. They are ready to meet the uniformed thugs of 18.— | ; June The strike call has just been® been arranged for thruout the| An opinion from J. G. | the Tammany police department and the underworld guerillas who lie in wait to attack them lin their heroic struggle to abolish the sweatshops in the industry. issued by the Joint Board of | Wisconsin Legislature |the Needle Trades Workers’ In-'tg Vote on State Booze |dustrial Union, which an- Dry § Kill Anoth |nounces the halls which have| FY pies Kill 1 nother MOVE ON PEKING MILWAU! t VEER city. Meetings will be ar- Gerlavoven: i jranged in each of these halls aE: : ‘ at 13 30 Bicinck! ' Serge Sie par st oi e War Lords sacked by Halls the union may manufacture Imperialist Powers Association, any Ready. and re. At eight o'clock this morning|‘#i Hauor has resulted in a new) sHaNGHAI, June 18—Governor thousands of furriers will walk from |dtive in Wisconsin against prohibi-| vy, tei-shan, of Shansi, has at last ij the shops and march to the strike | tion. abandoned hia formal? aie + 4 halls in the following order: | As a result of that statement, two ae vant ee i < : - the Nanking government and has z 1. All workers from shops lo-| Wisconsin legislators were prepar- : ‘ made a | with Feng Yue { board of transportation, of which Delaney is the chief. Their firing |followed repeated demands that they get the same wage scale as the en- gineers of like grade in other city fused to see them, has been cir- culating a petition demanding the re- moval of Delaney. | Resentment against the dismissal of the men is at fever heat, and cated in Brooklyn, East Broadwa: |East Side and West Side up to and| Placed before the state ai ing today a joint resolution to be y|hsiang whereby Yen is to maintain departments, an increase in their|sentiment in the union is strong for javerage pay from $2,160 to $3,120 an immediate general strike. Work- lyearly. ers point out that Delaney’s action Marcel E. Sherer, organizer of the |is in accord with the usual labor- {Union of Technical Men last night|hating policy of Tammany Hall, |declared that a general strike of the | which helped crush the strike of the engineers will be the.answer to De-|traction workers and sends out its \laney’s action. “It’s a labor union |police against workers in every ‘lockout,” Sherer charged. “Delaney struggle with their employers. RED PICNIC T0 = PASS NEW LAWS BEHELD SUNDAY TO ROB TENANTS. \Games, Election Rally |Harlem Situation Calls at Pleasant Bay for Big Rent Strike The New York District of the! prodded on bi y the * municipal Communist Party of U. S. A. an-| gigolo, Mayor Walker, who, secing nounces that plans are well under }js political “prestige” slipping rap- way for its huge mass Red Picnic to idly, thought it best to throw an- be held Sunday, June 23, at Pleasant |ciher sop to the working class ten-| |Bay Park, which by now is tradi-/ants of New York, the board of al- tional to the New York workers who |dermen yesterday passed the latest |have in the past turned out by the jin a series of ordinances designed thousands and who are this year|to ‘ ‘relieve the housing situation”- expected to turn out in still greater for the bosses. numbers for this event. tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street. 2. All workers from shops lo- cated on 23rd St., 24th St. 25th) St., 26th St. and 27th St. st and| West; also all fur pointe: TRY TO DEPORT \ing Place. As 3. All workers from shops lo- soe ; cated on 28th St, 20th St. and soth|French Worker Was St., East and West, and all work- ers from shops and retail shops lo- ated East and West above 30th St. Jailed as Picket The persecution of arrested cafe- ++| teria strikers is assuming new forms. |Broadway, Harlem and Bronx,| pe A portation is the latest threat ae Webster Hall, 11th St. and) against militant pickets, introduced in the case of Frank Boujard, a e strike is called in all the fur| French food striker, who was arrest- see without exception. All work-|ed for picketing and sentenced to ers of the ASSOCIATED shops, of | 30 days in the workhouse. the TRIMMING ASSOCIATION | Not content with this sentence, shops, UNION shops, CONTRACT- an inspector from Ellis Island was ING shops, SECTION CONTRACT- | séni to the Welfare Island work- ING shops, GREEK shops, RETAIL | house to see Boujard. After much shops, OPEN shops, and FUR | questioning and intimidation, Bouj- |POINTING shops—all are called on | ard was taken to Ellis Island where strike, he is now being held for deporta- Tho strike call is addressed to | tion to France, where the govern- ell fur workers, without excep- |ment wants him for militant actiy- tion; cutters, squarers, operators, | ities, nailers, examiners, _ finishers, The New York District of the In- pointers, head and tailmakers—all | ternational Labor Defense, through workers who are employed in the | its attorney, Isaac Shorr, is fighting sae FOOD STRIKER |to Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irv-| lincluding 22nd Street, also workers providing for entrance of Wisconsin’|an attitude of “neutrali in the of all Greek shops, and all unem-|into the liquor business. [new militarist ween Feng ployed workers—march to Manhat-| =r and Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Nanking government. Yen’s “neutrality” means that the mies of Feng will be permitted to through Sharsi province, which their approach rom s because of this obstacle in ath that Feng has been “loafing” and has made no di- rect thrust at any important point. Simultaneous with the announee= ent of the new agreement between eng and the governor of Shansi comes the news that the armies of Feng are now moving southward through Honan province, intent on_ (Continued cn Page Two) CAPMAKERS TO. MEET TONIGHT Section of T. U. Eye Issues Appeal A meeting of f the « capmakers will he held tonight, immediately “after work, The announcement further states jthat the picnic this year will serve as a rallying center for the begin- ning of the Party’s municipal elec- tion campaign to bring before the masses of New York the issues in the coming election and mobilize the existing se-timent for the Party amongst the workers who look upon (Continued on Page Five), The new bill gives the capitalist jcourts jurisdiction over rentals, |which is merely passing the black- jack from the left hand of the landlord class to the right, and pro- vides that a tenant may “ask” the bench to determine whether he is being robbed, As for the money that has heen taken from tenants since the Emergency Rent Law ex- (Continued on Page Five) 5 fur shops—shipping clerks, floor boys, wetters, stretchers, office workers—all are called to join the ranks of the strikers. Led By Industrial Union, This strike will be the first of | the furriers’ struggles under the leadership of the Needle Workers | industrial Union, and the meaning . (Continued on Page Five) the efforts to deport Boujard. MINERS BADLY HURT HAZELTON, Pa., June 18.—Clos- ing his eyes just as a pocket of mine }gas exploded, John Kissel saved his him about the face. Richard Rossi, | working with him in the Lattimer mines, was burned about the hands w sand legs, to Second ement with the manufacturers, ” Union Educational League issued @ eyesight, although the flames burned |Statement to the rank and file eap- makers, warning them of new plans” increase shops, which n » (Continued on Page Five) in Stuyvesant Casino; 140 099, Ave., to consider the new eve of the meeting the ion of the Trade the speed-up in the will increase