The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1929, Page 1

“Mill Strikers Have New Tent Colony 7 HELD FOR GRAND JURY ALMOST INCOMMUNICADO: ALL ARRESTED AT LABOR DEFENSE MEET IN CHIGAGO IN JAIL AGAIN: BONDSMEN FINED; JURY DISMISSED Drop Murder Charge on Schechter; Replaced Hour Later by Court Fiat; Prosecution Has No Evidence But Determined to Kill Strikers The first hearing in Chariotte resulted in fourteen strikers |heroes. Capitalist law is and was written against the interests} and strike leaders being held without bail on the framed up| of the workers. murder charges. If ever the workers needed mockery, the Charlotte hearing: proof that the “law” is only a| S$ provided it. The oppression! of the workers is, for capitalism, the chief law, and when in| exceptional moments the written law of the boss class does|the worst crisis in its financial history. To arouse the working class fully is our great task. . The COMMUNIST PARTY, and its official organ, the DAILY WORKER, are the chief weapons for this task. Today, however, the DAILY WORKER is facing what is The question of its not serve its purpose of expediting this oppression, it is set| ability to continue fighting the working class battles during aside. the summer months depends on the extent of the sacrifices Charlotte is the dramatic stage setting which indicates that must be made by you. the intensifying class struggle. American history holds many Help is needed immediately. The next fou? weeks will What is your answer? Will you wait until it is too late? Or will you use the blank in the last column and send in your contribution at once? Loyal readers of the DAILY WORKER must set themselves the task of raising ten dollars each. If you can only afford to give less, gather the rest from your friends, and feliow workers, and send it in. We are living in a period vibrant with class struggle. If the proletariat is to emerge victoriously then its weapons must be sharp and strong. The COMMUNIST PARTY and the DAILY WORKER, the most militant fighters of the working class, are being hin- ANSWER THE CALL Respond immediately to the Appeal of the Daily Worker for aid in the present crisis. 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, $ similar situations, The eight hour movement starting in 1886 determine the fate of the only working class daily newspaper dered in their work for lack of funds. NAMB i acevo cata rrtasckerviees ndbis cq corse nts dgeer eran was punctuated by the Haymarket frame-up; the beginning of in the English language. You must insure the life of your! STRENGTHEN THE STRUGGLE OF THE WORKING : the offensive against the workers after the world war was, paper by contributing heavily to the 'CLASS BY STRENGTHENING THE PARTY AND PAPER pe its Ba a oe es or ‘ee swansea punctuated by the Centralia events. Only an aroused working class can save the Gastonia} GENCY FU! COMMUNIST PARTY-DAILY WORKER $50,000 EMER- OF YOUR CLASS! Use the blank following: delay. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the For the 40-H Against Imperialist War Unorganized our Week > Entered as second-¢ls tier at the Post Office at N Vol. VI, No. 89 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. er aL Claman {oe HE Woe oft T > eee ew York, N. Y., uner the act Sf March 3, 1879. rker FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION 2A Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per ye: x = ~ = TES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. ~ Price 3 Cents "NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929 FURRIERS GENERAL STRIKE CRIPPLES THE INDUSTRY Labor’s Contributions to Save Lives of Frame-up Victims Begin to Come In; Much More Needed Quickly for Defense and Strike Relief DEFENSEGATHERS Tents Provide 91 PUT BACK IN MORE WITNESSES Realizes Necessity of Immediate Mobilizing | CHARLOTTE, N. C., June) bosses, a new Workers International] CHICAGO, Ill, June 19.—When of | Relief tent colony is being estab-|27 workers, including Engdahl, act- 19.—The southern office the International Labor De-| fense established here with! Union Center In Gastonia GASTONIA, N. C., June 19.—In spite of the terrorism of the mill} lished here. Six tents are already) up and the Browder and Tetherow in Gastonia; Union Cente | Y ‘Leads Butchery Seymour Lowman, commissioner of internal revenue, is the man who orders the dry agents to shoot down violators of the prohibttion 'law— provided they are workers. BIG CAFETERIA SURRENDERS 10 CHICAGO PRISON Judge Fires Jury; Has Bondsmen Arrested ing editor of the Daily Worker, and Kruse, district organizer of the Com- munist Party, came up for trial to-} USSR NAILS LIES DAWES PROPOSES OF SOVIET ARMY TRUGE, TO FIGHT INVADING CHINA U.S.SR. COLONIES British Sources Try to Speech at Swell ‘Labor’, Worsen the Soviet- | Dinner Applauded by | China Relations | Henderson, Tories acti | ee Plan No Military Action Postpone Naval Meet Nanking to Seek More'!Dawes and ‘Laborites’ U.S. Coin Talk to Hide War The Daily Worker has received) LONDON, June 19.—The Dawes: | the following cable from Interna-| MacDonald discussion on armaments, | tional Press Correspondence, giving | now in the cocktail’stage, took pos-| | the official expression of the Soviet) session of the “Pilgrim's Society government on the lies that have|~ : Hie appeared in the capitalist press con- | Dinner” last night. This social func- | tion of London high society was pre- sided over by Lord Desborough. | Alongside of him were the labor party’s foreign minister, Henderson, and General Dawes, with the French and German ambassadors and Aus- ten Chamberlain, the outgoing tory ‘foreign minister. cerning Soviet invasions of China: ps zee BERLIN, June 19.—The London report that Soviet troops have in- vaded China is absolutely untrue, it is reliably learned from official Soviet government sources, The | Reuter report represents a con- |84th St. and Eighth Ave., to} |being called by the Interna-) THOUSANDS OF WORKERS IN RESPONSE TO CALL ON THE FIRST DAY OF STRUGGLE Giant Mass Picket Demonstration Early This Morning in the Fur Market Mass Meeting of Cloakmakers Today at 4 p. m. in the Manhattan Opera House CLOAK WORKERS MORE SHOPS TO FOR REAL FIGHT. GO DOWN TODAY Hsien it pitta “Convert Fake Strike!|Distribute Strike Call Into Genuine Strike” by Thousands Today, at 4 o’clock in the} Thousands of furriers yes- afternoon, the cloakmakers are ay Oy path the A : strike call issued by the called to a giant mass meeting mereuer a oY Joint Board of the Needle Be aa tee an OueEe 0Use |Trades Workers’ Industrial -1.,| Union. act on the fraudulent stri e| ‘As’ a result, the fur (ere try is crippled. A large num- tional Ladies’ Garment Work- Walter Trumbull in charge, is buzz-| families were the first to move in. day, Judge Lyle dismissed the jury, | tinuation of the campaign of slan- | While these amiable “peace”| oy ty ion the company union, as| Pe? of additional shops are expected ing with activity, listing witnesses! The W. I. R. is distributing food/and ordered the investigation and | der from British sources aiming | functions between Ambassador) °™S fies : ee oa if arranged|*? 8° down this morning and the for the defense of the 22 National] at the new colony lot, The first dis-|arrest of all bondsmen. The work-| at worsening the relations be- | Dawes and the labor government go|® -Hesi)' Of & Conspiracy alte The | Strike to spread daily. Textile Workers’ Union strikers and |, iputi lentare backs fale pall | tween the Soviet. Union and | merrily on in London, British andj With the aid and consent o: nf A Finish Fight. organizers who are now held or | Cribution took place on Monday and | °* ‘a Chi This includes the Harbin | American imperialism are talking|™@nufacturers. The meeting is : ee wine 2 »|another distribution is scheduled! They had been arrested Saturday ee Abe erp ayy nce irate PERERA Y + ‘sie ;called by the Joint Board of the; ‘Thus the fur workers began a we fee ae re at Eas for today. during the International Labor De-| story about a session of the Third ect a at A supporting | Needle Trades Workere’. Industrial finish fight against the fur ‘manu- lence by Judge Harding’s habeas seated 1 wats r ia| z i International having been held in iang Kai-shek’s Nanking govern-| 77 ~ s é x ravers’ whith? walk Cones jee ine r Pressure has heen brought to/fense demonstzation for Gastonia) Demonstrate Against Te MOR acre cotta: luleatrand ths Briuah backing Beng | U2I00- \facturers which will terminate only Testimony of the prosecution is bear on the local Atlantic and Pa- cific Tea Co. store, by the main of-| mill strikers’ defense. Their bail Injunctions Today was fixed at a total of over $100,- the story about Russian support Yu-hsiang in the open war that is! At this time the thousands of| With the victory’ of the furriers and cloakmakers will give their mighty| their achievement of the following Call To Workers! being dug into, and the motives of 5, hee tele |000. They were released last night : of Feng Yu-hsiagg, etc. The Sov- |now on between the two war lords. : demands: the 40-hour, 5 week; those appearing for the Manville: | on iat een aeoeeli. samy (after demanding a jury trial, on a/ cant victory was| jet Union has ken no military | In this aristocratic London atmos-| answer om the tirwate of the claus, | creisa\ ini wagee; ect en Jenekes Co. prosecution are being |More food to the Workers interns |total of $118,000 property bail set riking Ho-| action of any, kind and does not Phere, Dawes proceeded in a set/and transform the fake “strike” UCI’ im ttre anon tnemploy= laid bare. Hong es ’ Beene aes rie judge, and raised: iy-the ef ria Work-| intend to take any. Reports of (Continued on Page Two) into a genuine strike for the 5-day,| WOT i} ie nce fund maintained aes ional Relief. This is another of |PY the judge, Gra’ Union’ when tha New Brace 4 avestaita “are. udtoanded. 40-hour week, guaranteed minimum | ™en| ance 1 mai An attempt is being made to ac-| . forts of the I. L. D. bi ae Nae < Swick | troop movements ai " — — 2 Se : with the cash of the bosses, but ad- ee MAGEE atin Coes dts (Continued on Page Two) |Cafeteria, 207 W. 7th St., signed | Bets. e wage scales, the right to the job,| with the cash of the bosses, but ad- eT SGHEn Geta. focal: ismisses Jury up with the union, agreeing to all! — Nanking’s ““Americanization.” CAP OFFICIALS and other necessary demand moinietered by the ee Se tion has shown that although the Manville-Jenckes Co. with its half million dollar blood fund has bought up many of the best known attor- neys there are a considerable num- ber who despise the murder meth- ods resorted to by the prosecution. WORKERS TO HIT GASTONIA TERROR First Trial Most Important. The I. L. D. realizes that it is vitally important to strain every nerve, to mobilize every man every- where, and get every cent possible for expenses immediately, as the history of American labor frame-up cases shows that when once the, first conviction is secured, every! _technicality is resorted to by the prosecution to prevent a review or retrial of the cases. The prosecution’s tactics are to tush the case through before labor A mighty demonstration against the lynch justice of the capitalist | South, which is threatening to mur- der 14 textile strikers and strike leaders in Gastonia and to railroad many others to jail, will be held by the workers of New York next Tues- day at 5 p, m. in Union Square. The demonstration, called by the New York District of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense, with the co- | operation of the Workers Interna- | tional Relief, the National Textile When they appeared in court for the demands of the organization. | irial today, Attorney Bentall, for! ‘his surrender to the strikers is the I. L. D. reminded the judge that especially important in view of the a higher court had issued an in-| fact that the New Brunswick was junction against police interference yp till now one of the leading spirits with the demonstration in Grant|jin the Restaurant Owners’ Associa- Park. | tion, Judge Lyle declared this state- ment prejudiced the jury, dismissed the jury, and made his attack on the bondsmen, At the first hearing, even the | young assistant district attorney got into hot water and argued with his honor when the judge’s antics (Continued on Page \Two) Floods Kill Hundreds, Injure Many in West Boss Ranks Cracking. away from the bosses’ association which, during the past 12 weeks of the strike, has been rallying the em- (Continued on Page five) 'P. Krat, Scab Window Cleaner Is Expelled from Communist Party SHANGHAI, June 19.—The Nan- king government’s “Americaniza- tion” program, which is a reflection | (Continued on Page Two) RAILROAD THRU Expose White Terror The following statement urging all cloakmakers to attend the meet- ing was issued last night by the} Joint Board of the Needle Trades| Workers’ Industrial Union, and} signed by Joseph Boruchowitz, gen- conditions for young workers in the trade, abolition of the piece-work and speed-up system. Mass Picketing. A tremendous mass _ picketing demonstration will be held in the fur market this morning. These With its capitulation, it breaks in Mexico in Mass Meet This Monday A mass meeting to potest against jthe white terror supervised by the | Gil-Calles-Morrow alliance in Mex- ‘ico will be ‘held at the Spanish | Workers Center, 26 W, 115th St., at |8:30 p. m. Monday, June 24. Speak- lers at the meeting will also analyze \the Venezuelan situation. | Paul Diaz, secretary of the Latin-| Ave., following the railroading of|struggle for the establishment of The Communist Party of the Uni-| America department of the All-|the union agreement in the midst Week work, a 40-hour, 5-day week, _-NEW AGREEMENT “Strong Arms” Act to | Bar Discussion | | Several workers severely beaten at a membership meeting of the Capmakers Union, held last! jnight at Stuyvesant Casino, Second were eral manager, and A. Wise, man- ager of the cloak department: “Workers of the cloak trade: “The fake strike of the company union must be converted into a strike against the bosses for union conditions, under the leadership of the Industrial Union. “Your conditions in the shops can be improved if on the day of the| fake strike you will leave your shops to convert the fake strike into a will be repeated each day despite ~ the massing of hundreds of Tam= {many police against the strikers, | the jailings of workers by the boss courts and the murderous opera= — tions of the gangsters of the bosses — and their company union. Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of ” the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus= trial Union and chairman of the~ General Strike Committee, declared that the response of the furriers” was excellent. Figures, however, he said, would not be available until Workers Union, District 2 of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Educational League, is part of the campaign to mobilize the workers of New York and vicinity behind the fight of the International Labor Defense to save the {tamed workers, Africa and Columbia tea states of America, New York|America Anti-Imperialist League, |, \District, has expelled Paul Krat, | will expose the sell-out of the Mex- | member of the Party and member | ican petty-hourgeois government of | ~ |of the Window Cleaners Union for|the bankers, of Wall St., and Louis 'which affects cver 1,600 workers. the following reasons: |Vampa, of the Venezuela Revolu-| The attack on the workers by the | 1—Paul Krat has opposed the |tionary Party, will explain the lat- | strong-arm squad prepared by the | policies which would strengthen the {est developments of the strengthen- union in the fight against the em-|ing revolutionary wave against the { turmoil, confusion and disorder, |SUaranteed minimum wage | scales, \the right to your job and all other A Fi Only 153 voted for the agreement | eek i ;,,.,day and last night committees were | demands which will mean decent liv | busy registering the strikers. " jing conditions for the workers. | : * Hold Strike Meetings. Camouflage. | a 5 7 Enthusiastic meetings were ‘Cloakmakers, | the strike _Which | yesterday in the halls arranged jadministration came when H. Sazer,|the company union is planning to hy the union. Gold, Gross, Shapit | member of Local 1, rose to demand |¢all is nothing but camouflage, thru! and other leaders of the fu as a whole realizes it has a new Sacco-Vanzetti trial on its hands. Workers Organizing. The southern offices of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union is ‘equally active. Textile mill work- ejrs, not intimidated at all by the tte at lynching of their Gas- ; today, inasmuch as all day yester= SILCHAR, West Equatorial Af- rica, June 19.—Hundreds of people |have perished by drowning in the unprecedented floods now sweeping through this district in the wake of heavy mountain rains. Ninety per tonia fellow workers, and the fol-| Thousands of leaflets are now be-|cent of the live stock has likewise | ployers. \fascist-United States-controlled Ven- ee va anita " 7 low up attempt at legal lynching| ing distributed among the workers | been destroyed, while half the flimsy} 2.—He is working with right wing ezuela government. 1 (Continued' on Page Five) _|"hich they want to fool you into/spoke at these meetings, beside now going on, throng in and demand/|cf New York, calling on them to at-|houses of workers and farmers have | elements. | \the yoke of slavery onthe Bag J, Olgin, editor of the Ses | y 4 : organizers. The working population of the South is waking up, and this ground swell of sympathy with the tend this protest demonstration. been washed away. 3.—He is a self-seeking individual and has not the interest of the work- ing class at heart. Hear of Pocketbook Sell-Out Gastonia strikers is a favorable point in the approaching trial. The evidence submitted at the Big New York Picnic This 4.—During the last strike, despite | the instruction that Party members, habeas corpus hearing yesterday, which hundreds of strikers and mill workers came to Charlotte to hear, has convinced practically all of them that the accounts related to the workers in mills by the bosses are all wrong. One prosecution witness yesterday got so tangled under cross-examina- tion that he admitted that the so- called “deputies” are really mill gunmen on Manville-Jenckes payroll, and deputized by the city at the re- quest of the company. _ Otto Matson, another prosecution ss, also admitted under cross- ued on Loge Piva) i _ Sunday at Pleasant Bay Park many of them engaged now in the bitterly fought cafeteria and fur strikes, will be out at Pleasant Bay Park Sunday, at the annual picnic of the New York District of the Workers Communist Party to spend a day of vacation and hear William %. Foster, W. W. Weinstone, Robert Minor and others tell of strike strategy. Starts Campaign. They will hear these speakers Thousands of New York rin te that the police had as-|give details of the political factors e k y > adi v i t A 1 of the ‘present awakening of mill, cvery sort of amusement, eats U, S, A. NEW, YORK DISTRICT, _nistration Has giyen up. their yet sui, (Continued on Page Five) , strike for union conditions which’ ‘ cs * regardless of whether or not the shop in which they are working, is settled or not, must give full time in the strike and must not go back to work until the strike is over, Paul Krat remained at work in a settled shop. In view of the fact that Paul Krat still pretends to be a Communist, the district makes known this expul- sion in order to expose him as a renegade and as a disruptive element opposed to the interests of the work- ers. tancy among the workers. This pienic inaugurates the election cam- paign of the Communist Party which will have candidates for city offices in this year’s election, against those of the democratic, re- publican and socialist capitalist par- ties. Besides it will be good entertain- ment. The Labor Sports Union will be out in force, and entrance is open to all workers to engage in all kinds of athletic contests, There will be eats in 17 languages and Fraternally, DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMIT- TEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF Agreement at Meet Tonight An important general membership meeting of the pocketbook workers will be held tonight at 6 o’clock in Cooper Union, 8th St. and Astor Place. The administration is attempting to calm down the rage and indigna- tion of the leather goods workers against them thru various maneu- vers and schemes, The members al ready know full well that the admi | Meet at Cooper Union; Workers Urged to Fight for 40-Hour Week, Other Conditions demands and is bringing to this meeting the old agreement. H The settlement, which the confer- ence committee made with the man- ufacturers, consists of the signing of the old agreement to expire on May 1, 1929. In the settlement is also under- stood to be a stipulation that the agreements with the Independent bosses should expire at the same ish Communist morning daily. Gold yesterday charged th notorious gangs have already im- vaded the fur market in an effo: to intimidate the fur strikers. are in the direct hire of the \makers. The agreement between \the clique and the bosses, until now} |provided for the 40-hour week and ja guaranteed wage scale. Despite this agreement, however, the clique, | permitted the bosses to wipe out all facturers and their puppet comf ‘union conditions in the shops. You ynion, Gold said, and are know jwere forced to work under open|their murderous activities | shop and sweat-shop conditions with! previous struggles. the knowledge and consent of the One of the gangs is und {company union. |generalship of the notori “The settlement which these! Yacker and the other is agents of the bosses will make) murder crew. public within a few days after ener Call Spread in Market fake strike, will sound very good! Under the supervision of on paper. But in the company| General Strike Committee, of union shops, you will have to work | Ben Goldy leader of the viet under worse conditions than those! strike of 1926, is chairman,” under which you have been slaving| sands of copies of the st until now; unless you unite with the| were distributed in the fur other workers to convert the fake) early yesterday morning. strike into a struggle, a real general| tribution was accomplished (Continued on Page & ah Aa 28