The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1929, Page 2

Plant, Cleveland SHOP GROUPS AIM FOR 100 PER GENT STRIKE IN PLANT lA. F. of L. Misleaders | Work for Sell-Out cs DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1929 Arrest 8 T.U.E.L. Speakers at Orga MIKE BOSS SPIES Foreign Born Workers Deported by Wall Street Government MAKE WEAK CASE WITH AFFIDAVITS Gaston F nization Mee at Eaton Axle [ARMIES OF FENG. MARCH SOUTH IN MOVE ON PEKING ‘Governor of Shansi in| Pact with Feng | (Continued from Page One) ng the offensive against the | Nanking government. This means | thas the war between Feng and} Deport Seriously Il] Worker rameup Fails to Show Any Evidence CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 18.— | Right Trade Union Educational |League speakers were arrested to- day under orders from the Eaton in that area. mass, his troops on the Han River |west of Shanghai and that the ma- |jor engagement, if it comes, will be /Chiang has now actually started. Dispatches indicate Feng will | Axle Company while continuing ef- |forts to organize the plant, whose | polishers and buffers struck follow- jing a 20 per cent wage cut. The |arrested are Tom Johnson, a steel | worker, Charles Guynn, T. U. E. L. organizer, John Boris, Martil Cat- los, Lily Andrews, Joe Lednicki and M. Glick. Although formal permission had {been given the League to hold the |mecting, a waiting police patrol ar- Imperialists Back Militarists. The struggle between Feng and |Chiang is intricately bound with | jthe conflicts among the rival im-| | perialist powers. The Chiang Kai- \ League is working hard to extend |shek clique has shown: itself com- | i i oa} A Gels the speakers immediatel Scores of foreign born workers, whom the Wall Street government deer were | pletely subservient to American im- ans, thas tation rdeges: to), depiras Toriensbors-sonberai whom: the «| eN oeuee eet eee deported to fascist Italy and other fascist-controlied countries in Europe mort... BStialiaGh, yy e) Bean And Tae ee eee ee ee ne eee eee ee ema ciarace citer wegen. catia of them because they were unable to obtain work due to rationa Photo s workers and |nese imperialism are backing Feng. Wie se ipl bk sive ae aie te laa 95 me deslone ate pare hy workers’ families being held at Ellis Island, just bef ing placed on boats for deportation. The In-an effort to make a show of | ener ier 4 ate Pi insecll & Pe ore vith deportation, to terrorize them into being willing sheep of the bosses. j ternal conflicts that are speedily | e : tndtactions from fey Baten! “able Fane 18 j es ae ere . = os % |making, for the disintegration of} . . Company. ie grees areal Nanking, the central executive - | G t B PI t 5 , , h MEET TQ PUSH Gastonia Children NEGRO WORKERS mites: st “Nanking ‘dss, adopted “a | astonia DOSsses anning to The Trade Union Educational , iy ‘ 3 * to Tour in Defense resolution urging immediate aboli- Paul Crouch . . x A page = the strike to a hundred per cent sha Beal Croce Drive for Strikers fon of ait uneruai treaties between! = MM yydder 3 Working Women ‘s,s, 4,neet peo sae FIGHT AGAINST Conlendieg: from Page 0. JOIN COMMUNIST | ability. of Sie anita poneieaen TREES TERMITE ARIES re (Deki OF eee Fifteen Pe ti AA Me Grey < |to carry out a unified policy was| GASTONIA, N. C., June 1—Three}time she has been in jail for. her la-|0Ut the plant. Bulletins denouncing order of the e rectly on Gi ae é lvecently indicated by its failure to|women are among the ten strikers |bor activities. She is greatly beloved | the company wage cut program and tion to , constitute the IMPERIALISM Grech aud Pai aoe wil tote with PARTY Hi M & ET w= over all its airways to theland strike lekders who have been|among the children of the strikers. |€XPosing the Company eee of mill oy against the strik-| Métien Blea, aaakine thats fect “H | American government, as it had con- framed for murder here in connec-| Amy Shechter has seldom been out | the reactionary A. F. of L, are -eksend or r the hearing | pasele at the Philadelphia sh 0) ay tracted, because of internal wrang-|tion with the shooting of Police|/of organization and relief work dur-|‘Teely circulated. z A Hw"Charlotte today. The out-|\_ pienfe Sunday McGinnis will go on| fe «. |Iing among its minigtries, |Chief Aderholt during the brutal as-|ing the past two years. She was| The A. F. of L. continues its in- PiSeme feature of these documents Negro Workers Attend another route, with other speakers, | 2XDOSC Garveyites in —_— |sault on the strikers’ colony on Fri-|connected with the Pennsylvania-| difference to the strike, Although {S°H@ Attempt to fasten a charge of Yiurder on Beal by statemenis pur- foerting to quote from his speeches “itd other utterances before the bat- Chicago Conference CHICAGO, IIl., June 16 (By Mail). —Fforty delegates representing 28 workers and anti-imperialist organi- | zations met today at 512 Capitol ilding, Randolph and State Sts. to {devise means of fighting im-| . |perialism, and declare support of the! coming Second World Congress Against Imperialism, “U. S. Imperialism is foremost in its war preparations,” reads one of the resolutions passed. “Our main jobject should be to mobilize as wide agein, and she said, ja strata of workers and sympathetic was not long now jorganizations as possible to fight the id form a picket line | war preparations.” 7 | 1 to that mill and drag} ‘The conference was opened by | beheim out, that if it took fighting |Winiam H. Holly, chairman of the Mtoside’ it they would fight, and if te xceutive committee. Leo Fisher re- sihloott*had to be shed it. would be ported on the war danger; Earl ‘shed? ° ting Browder on U. S. Imperialism in si9'WWhen she was through speeking |T atin America, China, etc.; Doty on Beak-gcot up and he. said, ‘the time |i, Negro and Imperialism; Al- astonia. I rters on the | 1 heard a a speech, but don’t , but would know her bifclssaw her “net the time saintil: they wou odnd was goi McGinnis and Passmore each have | Chicago a brother in the against whom | murder charges were placed. | CHICAGO, (By Mail)—One of “At three o’clock in the night,|the most successful mass meetings after the shooting, a policeman came |¢ver held by the local Communist to our house,’ said Binney, “‘and|Party among Negro workers. was knocked my mother away from the jheld last Friday.in the .west. side door and searched it without a war-|Negro section. Of an audience of rant. He just threw everything |about 175, over. 100 were Negro around. He said he was looking for| Workers. This was the first time Beal, and he looked in the flour can|that the Communist Party message | and into the stove. I am sure he|had been brot to this neighborhood. | would have arrested my brother, who | Twenty-six Negro workers filled ap- was asleep in the house at the time, |Plication car”:, and 50 others gave if he hadn't been working for the |their names.to be called. to fuvare man who: owns’the house; and this |meetings. . ‘ man needed him to get the rent.” Petty-bourgeois supporters of the Arrested and Released. Garveyite Universal Negro Im- Edgar Passmore was arrested on vement association who tried to the night of the shooting, and re-|jexploit the meeting by. publicizing leased with the first 24 let out last|their platform were defeated by week. The latest news is that the|Paul Cline, who. emphasized that murder charge against B, C. Pass-!the Communist Party is-.a party | | lday, June 7. They are Vera Bush, | lorganizer of the National Textile |Workers Ufion, Sophie Melvin, or- ganizer of the children’s section in the strikers’ tent colony, and Amy Shechter, Workers International Re- \lief director since the early days of the strike, Bush has already a notable record jin. American labor struggles. She |was active in the Passaic strike, or- ganizing the Women’s Section. Two years ago she was in Detroit doing work in preparation for the confer-| lence that launched a drive to organ-| jize the automobile-workers. Last year she was active in the coal strike, working with the left wing Protestant Bone Drys Make Terrific Verbal Onslaught on Al Smith ROANOKE, Va., June 18.—The hard-shell Baptists and booze-chas- ing Methodists of the South opened terrifie fire on Tammany Al Smith, bosses’ figurehead of the democratic party, when the Virginia Anti- Smith convention came to order here today. * The delegates, whose aim is to depose Smith, not. becavise he is an enemy of the working class, but. be- cause his-deligious “ideas” and alco- holie content do not agree with their |“Save-the-Union” group that launch- | Jed the National Miners Union. She | own, rcared with approval when S. Howie Williamson, keynote spéaker, raked the “Smith-Raskob-Tammany regime” and belabored \party hacks for supporting Al in the last presi- dential campaign, ‘came to Gastonia in the early part of the strike and was an active lead- er until her arrest. Would Electrocute Girl of 19, Sophie Melvin is only nineteen But Ohio miners’ relief, the National|the Polishers’ Union promised to Miners Relief, and was an active or- | provide leaflets and banners for use ganizer in the coal fields for the|in the strike nothing was done. The Save-the-Union Committee and the| International vice president com- National Miners Union, particularly | pletely aided the sell-out when he in central Pennsylvania. She was |came to Cleveland and left without arrested while organizing for the|¢ven going through customary National Textile Workers Union in| strike formalities. New Bedford for picketing, She has had charge of the Workers Interna-| tional Relief store in Gastonia since it was established, and was arrested there for protesting the masked mob attack «on the headquarters and for a And if the mill owners have their No Chivalry for Bosses. way, they will be sent to the electric The fact that the 16 workers|chair unless thousands of workers |framed on murder charges include|and sympathizers throughout the three women shows the important |country smash this brazen frame-up role that women are playing in the|by rallying behind the fight the In- class struggle, Fighting side by side |ternational Labor Defense is waging with the. men on the picket, line,|to free them. This fight involves starving with them and sharing with|thousands of dollars, thousands ‘of jthem the brutal attacks of the po-/'dollars which must be raised by the \lice, they are being. selected for|working class. All contributions in the struggle of class against class. These heroic women, typical of thou- sands of others, are now being ‘tor- tured and abused in jail without con- sideration for their sex. was now and they were going to meniana on India an dthe Philippines | form:a picket line.’ And I went} beck to the ae ee g sentation, a large number of the hows “Himself Spy. \delegates were from Negro organi- Besides a good trade union repre-| more,, his. brother, was dropped to-/of workers- only. “The. floor | day. of this meeting will be given All these young strikers look sev-!only to workers from the eral years younger than their real ages and are undersized, due to the attempt of their families to live on| | Shops—professional people are not |welcome,” he’ said. Many, workers remained after. the years old and looks younger. |special victimization equally with the |should be sent without delay to the Long Live the Revolutionary Struggle of the Oppressed Colo- had considerable experience in the nial Peoples! class war and this is not the first sex” collapses like a pricked balloon despite her youth she has already|men. The hollow ruling class pre-|National Office of the International tense of “courtesy” to “the weaker Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., room 402. |the starvation pay of mill workers. |All are determined to defend the men in jail, and to bring the message of the strikers before the working class. The strikers in Gastonia are meeting, to ask the speakers. ques- ‘tions and express their support of what had been said, Healthy pro-| \letarian Negro elements who will re- | i " re/main in the Party were recruited as undergoing severe hardships in their |g result of the meeting, members re- | ‘An affidavit, sworn to by Eunice|other Negro organizations took an effort to smash the frame-up -and port. Section Three of the Party, Mason say active part in the conference. continue the strike, The three young lin cooperation: with Section’ of the “T tive next door to strike head-| Resolutions were passed on U. ees told of debe families, that | Communist Youth League, which has | quarters. On the night of the shoot-|tmperialism in Latin-America and|the eliect eed 6 amt that vf Ma, [Dee Very active in this work, is| ing, I heard the defendant, Fred the building of the All-America Anti- | Donald, ie Pee Wee = 1 jarranging for another mass meeting Beal, instruct the guards to arrest! Imperialist League. \Donald, with 4 children, the eldest| in ane same neighborhood on a larger scale, The phrase “went back to the mill |zations, The Factory Women’s As- office” shows that this deponent is |sociation, with five hundred Negro one of the Loray mill’s “local” em-|factory workers, was represented ployes, that is, a hired spy. He/and affiliated to the League. Latin-| “goes back to the mill office” to|American and Filipino organiza- zeport, he does not go to the mill tions were well represented. Several Smash the Murder Frame-Up; — Defend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! anybody who came about the grounds | \12, in which the. children were left “We heartily greet the coming and turn them over to him and he/Second World Congress of the} would give them a-plenty of what League to be held in Paris July 20,”| ihey had been giving him. said a resolution introduced by the “After the shooting began, J. R. Secretary, Harry Gannes, in report- Pitman ran in the back door of ourling on the League and the interna- house and clapped his hands anditional body. “We know this Con-| said, ‘They got Tommy. meaning} gress, attended and supported by ~ Policeman Gilbert.” lsome of the best fighters against im- Did Not See Shooting. |perialism will consolidate the anti- McLaughlin, Carter, McGinnis, |imperialist movement and initiate a "Vera Bush, Amy Shechter, Bob!concerted world-wide attack against Allen, Hendricks, are named in var-|the growing war-danger and the in- ious affidavits but none of them|creasing encroachments of the capi- states directly that they did any/talist powers.” lyou know how things are at present | shooting. ' Another affidavit sworn to by George Franklin shows to what lengths the prosecution is forced to go to build up a case. It says: “I live near Myrtle Hill above union headquarters. I do not belong to the union but did at one time. About three days before the shoot- ing occurred I was at union head- "quarters and heard Fred E. Beal ‘ give instructions to his guards. He | them that he had rented that id out there and that the police- men had no business out there and if they came out there, especially Chief Aderholt, to pour it into them if they got to messing up. han Police Were Attacking. affidavits clearly show that lice were the aggressors al- they do not admit that the " began the shooting. But merous defense witnesses can and lidtestify that they did. The af- fidavits show clearly that the strik- believed that they were in con- nt danger of attack and subse- int events have proved they were rrested and Whipped. effort to drive the striking s back to the mill, the Man- fenckes Co. is having all strik- who cannot show as much as in cash, arrested on “vagrancy” which means at least a on the chain gang and whip- Wy the prison officials. re-establishment of the W. I. colony will prevent the mil] rs from using this excuse when ‘the striking workers. he Workers International Relief The relief distribu- on the roads and Delegates Doty and Gannes were | elected to the international meet from the Chicago All-America Anti- \Imperialist League, and a campaign |was initiated to collect funds for sending them, A further resolution pointed out “that the main basis of an anti-im- perialist organization are the work- | ers,” and that closer relations must be established with other U. S. branches of the League, the national headquarters, Latin-American branches, and the international center.” An executive committee of fifteen members was elected to carry on the work of the League, Wreck W. I. R. Truck, The W. 1. |been anissing for ‘several days since the raid on the tent colony and It could be given outside the city limits, but that is a mile away. The |food for several days was given out W. I. R. and National Textile Work- jers..Union headquarters, ras been \found wrecked. Loray mill gang- sters and vandals did it: to help istarve the strikers. The tires have been cut off, the top broken in, the hood is gone and the motor has been tempered with, parts of it being re- moved, The W. I. R., however, is deter- mined to: continue giving food to the strikers and furnish shelter. The new W. I. R. relief committee work- ing in cooperation with Alfred Wag- enknecht, natioaal secretavy of tne W. R., is active fo a maximum de- gree in feeding the strikers regu- larly and furnishing shelter. In this critical time, the need for funds is more urgent than ever before. Rush all contributions to the Workers In- ternational Relief, 1 Union Sq., New York City, .-----—-—~- yp without parents ene the arrests. | Both Thompson and McDonald are! in jail. MORE PARLEYS — ONREPARATIONS Poincare Wants Confab on Evacuation PARIS, June 18.—Premier © Ray- time. With about sixty-nine of our Mond Poincare has decided that it organizers and leaders in jail, you | Will be necessary to call an interna- can imagine what a time we are |tional conference of all imperialist having trying to carry on the strike, /Nations, perhaps as early as July, to The majority are sticking to the |Settle the reparation plans by which union and fighting harder than ever, |the German workers will be bled to We realize what this means. We the utmost to pay for the late im- are more determined than ever to |Perialist world war. win. We started out to win and a} Poincare and Foreign Minister little thing like this is not going to |Briand will discuss the project to- stop us. Young Gastonia Girl! Striker Writes of, Determination to Win West Gastonia, N. C. June 14, 1929. | As Ruby is in jail with a sentence of thirty days, will write you to let | Some of our union mem-|marrow with Gustav Stresemann, bers, such as Carl Holloway, Robert |German foreign minister, who will |, R. truck, which has | Allen, Ruth and Alma Rillen, have went back on us and joined the hired jare still some left out of jail that |will fight for the union until it is won. The strikers in Bessemer City still |have their mass meetirigs. land myself were asked to go over \and speak tonight. We are planning |to reopen our mass meetings as soon as possible. Us strikers will carry on to the best of our ability until the work, Some say the strike is over, they have lost and they know it, but the majority say the worst is yet to be. I for one know the strike is not over, for we intend to win if it takes ten years to do so, The bosses and police are scared almost. to death. Have got about 300 armed deputies and hired thugs that are afte us all the time. Have taken our headquar- ters and ere using it as their kead- quarters, but I am sure they will not keep it always. I only wish I knew what to do in a time like this, I am doing everything I can and i will continue to do so, Some of our leaders will be given a hearing this morning, Would be good if you wonld give us some ad- vice as to what would be best to do in regard to opening our mass mect- — A YOUNG STRIKER: thugs of the mill bosses, but there | Viola | we get more organizers to direct| arrive from Spain to represent Ger- man big business at the conference. The proposal will then be submit- \ted to Washington, London, Brussels, ‘Rome and other imperialist powers |to which the German workers will |be forced to pay for the world war. Under the scheme of Poincare, the jallied creditor powers would evacu- ‘ate the Rhineland, in exchange for early payments of the reparations by Germany. ‘ ase Shy Morgan Men to Report. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18.— |The American representatives to the jreparations conference in Paris are |to report in person next Tuesday on |their work in.further shackling the German workers. Besides Owen Young, J. P. Morgan and Thomas Lamont, Morgan partner, will see Hoover. | LIVES 4 DAYS ON OXYGEN CHICAGO, June 18.—Given the ber tube attached. to, an’ inhalator, Raymond Dichiara, 16-months-old, was still alive today, the fourth day since he was stricken with acute bronchial pneumonia. i Firemen working in shifts of two are administering oxygen to the in- \breath of life through a small rub- | THEY FACE THE 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 and for low Rush All Funds to the International Labor Defense 80 East 11th Street Room 402 fant under the direction of Dr. John Pighotta, oak acto S| > New _Xork, N. re © tlle 16 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union Charged With Murder! ELECTRIC CHAIR 58 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS pay, and is a part of the preparation of the capitalist government for a new bloody imperialist world war. ANOTHER SACCO-VANZETTI tile Workers is the Concern of the Entire American Work- ing Class. 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. Thousands of Dollars are Needed to Defend These Heroic Strikers, Members of the First Workers’ D. fense Corps. : Vente esse eee eee se 1 ' “g Thereby enclose $.....4sssesseeeeee+ efor the Bf g Gastonia Defense, y ! 1 | NAME " ' 1 : i 1 ' I CITY AND STATE. f FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! { The Struggle of the Southern Tex- \ The members of the National Textile om a