The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1929, Page 2

; | sf “their children to break the spirit! kind of government they have in} - of the others and drive them back » to work on the basis of a surrender. ‘Due to the heroism and resistance “carry out by direct means. This plan ficjent numbers, and soon enough. NAILY WORKER, EW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929 * | Mexican Puppet Govt. 1: in Pact ‘naw CHIGACD PRISON: ‘URY DISMISSED Were Jailed at I. L. D. Meeting on Gastonia (Contin “reached . the examining apy When ‘ d fo of the fat pri sts returning for the easy pickings. With Church )AWES PROPOSES TRUCE, TO FIGHT U.S.SR, COLONIES: Speech Applauded by Henderson, Tories (Continued from Poge One) ch to give himself away. Labor ex-minister ap- and uproarious- ved plainly that was on, and in a} st phrase- tpone naval efinitely while a com- al officgrs labored and for ages to devise a “yard- | at iv \d measure na’ e each country ti ing to bend the advantage of its pa e, willing to listen | meanwhile. There are | all of them minor the main imperi- en England and hich the two military ,, rie catholic parasites have begun flocking back to Mexico, for | pow an co-operate for a mo- ey have been assured the right to mulct the Mexican workers |ment. Both hate the Union of So- by Portes Gil, who tales his orders from Wall Street. Here are some | cialist So Republics. Both have {colonial revolts. India and Egypt are ‘BOSSES BENT ec) ON KILLING 14 “! Bvidence Shows Raid- ers Were Drunk | Labor D country ap in Gaston of the Manvil the I. L. D. The statement ci ‘Each mail brings to a! (Continued from Page One) Be saulted one of the workers on the nC/ynion headquarters before any tas shooting was done, o sent! The trial will probably e on. One| jate in July. : Le nen eee | In the meantime, the workers held are er ethe, 7, /o% the murder charge will be al- . ie" |lowed to see only persons accom- 0 and promises panied by and directly ynder the ‘ supervision of their attorneys. The a International Labor Defence will “So huge, h are the eX-|begin tomorrow to deposit bail for penses inyolved in saving the framed | eight workers held on the assault workers, 14 of w face murder | charge. charges, that even this enthusiastic - workér @éHected 25 dsWwepaid wor The*s¥ath L. Bedias w moras on Cash. Juggle Murder Charge. Tespsyset;is far below the sums j | needed immediatel The prosecution dropped the mur- “Phet!Manvill kes Company |er charge against Amy Schechter, is reported to have furnished $250,- director of the Workers Interna- murder and jail the arrested tional Relief, Gastonia station, on s.and to cow the rest back to which no preliminary hearing had hove This figure is con-|been held, but reinstated it again | sidered underestimated and the prob-|#fter an hour or so by simply say- abilities are that the mill owners |ing that they had made a mistake. are Spending close to a half million) Judgé Hading countenanced the dollars in their mass murde¥ cam-| Procedure, The record sustained the | paign,_ |ebjection of the defense, showing) “PkeabAternational Labor Defense Clearly that Carpenter, in behalf- of | calls upon all workers and sympa-|the prosecution, had stated that the | thigers throughout the country to|charge was dropped. The judge ip ad this huge murder fund by|Tuled that waiving of preliminary | raiging one equally as large to save hearing by defense counsel placed | the heroic fighters for the cause of |the burden of rebutting presumption | Labor in Gastonia. This must be)of guilt inherent in the commitment | done at once as the mill owners’|paper's upon the defense. | courts are trying to rush the trial] Schechter Good Witness. thru as fast as possible in order to| The defense called Amy Schechter | prevent the I. D. from raising|and established the fact that she the necessary means of defense. All| was in the hall and office when the | contributions must be rushed im-| battle took place, that she went into | mediately to the national office of |the inner office when the shooting the International Labor Defense, 80 began with Vera Bush, Sophie Mel- BE. 11th St., Room 402.” ven, Clarence Miller and others of | see ventad. Massacre. |the defendants and that she saw/ The workers are learning that the|none of the shooting. After the| strikers charged with murder. are|Shooting, Beal said he was taking | fae teamed: up t e the Work-, Harrison, the wounded striker, to| ers’ Guard at G mill the hospital, and left. | tent colony def ikers| Schechter was cross-examined for | against. a organized and delib-| almost an hour by Clyde Hoey, con- erately planned attempt to massacre | Sidered the best lawyer in the state. | men, women and c on. The mill | Hoey was sneering and sarcastic. owners were desperate, and sent|He asked Schechter if she believed | their city police and hired deputies in god, and if she believed in the to kill enough of the strikers or| American governmend or “in the Russia.” Schechter replied that she believed “in a government of the workers and farmers, who happen to be, in this country and in Russia, the ma- Now it is obvious the mill bosses, | jority of the population. This is| by means of every influence that|the kind of government they have wealih can wield, are trying to carry |in Russia.” of | through by use of the courts the| Hoey inquired in detail about} slaughter they were not able to/firearms in the headquarters, who used them, and so forth, and if Schechter saw any of the shooting. She testified that she had seen guns of the Workers. Guard, the plan! failed. of theirs must fail too, and it will! fail if the workers rally behind the International Labor Defense, for the | in the office, but that she had not Gastonia frame-up victims, in suf-|seen anyone use them. Hoey ap- \parently had no conception of wha‘ the Workers International Relief was representing, and constantly i CORRECTION. esent ‘ confused it with the union. Th the June 19 issue of the Daily | . Schechter was not bothered by Worker, a “Letter From a Young : z fe if Striker” includes by mistake | Hoey’s browbeating, and made a Sati af Robert Allen in a lixt|8°C? sPpearance on the stand, several: who left the strike. Rob- Mill Workers Crowd In. Allen is one of those charged The court room was packed to i murder in- the Gastonia| capacity with mill workers from e-up. Gastonia district and the corridor , CE was filled with others who could ifind no room inside. The state ek New War Debt again had its full battery of 16 law- 7 yers present. i ley to Continue the J. Frank Flowers and William H. perialist Wrangling | Abernathy appeared with Attorney I _ Jimison for the defense. The hear- PARIS, June 19.—Premier Poin-|ing adjourned until 2:30, after At- torney Jimison had commented caus- — in turmoil. The Pan-American con- ny they were asked to repudiate |r yonce did not go so well. Hoover rete, enmee their Te-lhad to cut short his Latin-American iA Sach Nee he KP /trip because of the expressed. hos- Saige Wak 1: ‘Cartan Sede tens tility of the masses which could not meatie hen rter, one of the |e covered by the official “welcom- | ate’s most prominent attorneys, 0% “ermiand has her French prob: | hes doce, the Apllowing alegre 4) horn, cad. U,, S bas: Hex’ debe ebllbe. | strikers’ case which have never been| , Dawes’ sspeech plainly threatened influenced by prejudicial publica- | Britain. He referred to he ta tions. My engagements in state and | 000,000 naval estimates of the U. S., federal courts preclude the possibil- ity of my acceptance of employment | f there can be a general agree- s confident that it can | suggested. I greatly fear there will | Ment (to let U. S. imperialists have | be railroaded injustice in these|their, way) these ships will not be| cases. I will follow your fight with | Duilt” was his polite way of stating found sympathy Frank Carter.” | Washington’s and Wall Street’s The whole attitude of the mill| Packmail formula owners’ legal staff shows determing- | eo tion to secure convictions of strik- ers and organizers by all possible LEGALIZE COAL means. The dropping of the charges | against all but 22 of the prisoners | does not mean any weakening on} the part of the prosecution, rather it | jmeans that these 24 are those | |against whom they have found it} easiest to frame a case and against | |whom it is easier to arouse popular | prejudice. |Tents Provide New AND IRON THUGS IN PENNA, Governor Fisher’s New . x, “ 4 ” Union and Relief | Regulations Center in Gastonia PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 19— tions” for the Coal and Iron Police cf Pennsylvania which are actually 2 legalization of these hired thugs of ithe coal companies, These regula- tons follow the passage by the | Shipments of food, clothing and * I: 1 remittances of money for the relict Stats, Legislature of the Mansfield of the strikers are arriving here! , from various Southern petit The dorsement’ by the governor. The | destruction of the tent colony has Mansfield bill legalized the Coal and | aroused workgrs in all the states don Polite, ave" permikkon to com: south of the Mason-Dixon line. esta’ ey ets gave BENG . 3 Ay \these legal thugs the standing of da ain ee Beene oa all ‘police in class 1 cities and constables. nding Gas- Ce a tonia is continuing. These workers _The governor’s regulations de- are being thrown out into the streets © °°. that the activities of the Coal * gad Iron Police must be limited to (Continued from Page One) the Manville-Jenckes Co. moves’ to break ‘the strike. Food Arriving. Governor Fisher has issued “regula- | No fancy sv are sequestered for the rich. The Muddy Hudson is the Wo These wo ning pools for the children of the New York workers; no swell beaches—all those gelass kids could escape the torrid heat only by swimming in the muddy, garbage-filled Hudson River. rkers’ Childrens Swimming Pool USSR NAILS LIES OF SOVIET ARMY INVADING CHINA ‘Stories Are Inspired by British Sources (Continued from Page One) ~ jon its domination by American im- perialism, includes the rebuilding of \the city of Nanking according to | American plans, Ernest P. Good- |rich, New York consulting engineer land one of the many helpful Amer- ican “advisers” of Nanking, has completed the first part of his work of drawing up city plans and is sail- ing for the United States F y. The total cost of the project will |involve millions of dollars, which the |Nanking government can finance in cnly two ways, either by mulcting more money out of those elements Jin the population who are not on the starvation line, or by see’ foreign loans. The widespread ¢ content throughout the count. A NEGROES AND WHITE ARE PEONS ‘Plantation Owner on | Bonds; Jail Negroes |p. sehoticta said MACON, Ga., June 19.—W. L. Arnold, a plantation _ owner, is charged by Claude King, a white laborer, and by four egro workers: John Vanover, Tuck Bronner, Jor- dan Haywood and Joe Howard, with nd the money already appropriated. | holding them in peonage and using | the lash freely to make them work harder. The last three named Negro work- ers are in jail and Arnold is free on bonds, with no serious action ex- pected against him, as any jury s ‘ould surely have on it men who Iso hold‘ Negro slaves on their plantations. | One indictment charges Aryold |with holding Vanover since last De- cember, and King, the white worker, lsince March 5. , The assistant U. 8. attorney ad-| mits that a month ago Vanover came to him and complained about being severely whipped, The U. 8.| attorney, A. F. Smith, admits that Vanover bore on his body the marks | ‘of a terrible beating; and swore that Arnold told him he would be killed lit he ever’told of the whipping. Our own age, the bourgeois age, is distinguished by this—that it has simplified class antagonisms, More and more, society is splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great and directly contra- posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letariat—Marx. | MONEY TALKS | PHILADELPHIA, June 19.—Al- phonse (Scarface) Capone has of- fered $50,000 to any lawyer or group | lof lawyers who can gain his release from Holmesburg county prison be- \fore his one-year sentence for car- lrying concealed weapons expires, Director of Public Safety Lemuel | PUSH JIM CROW BOY SCOUT MOVE | Philadelphia Council Wants Segregation PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— |iected in this part of the country pians for the segregation of Negro| Arrested when urging the workers Boy Scouts from white troops are tovealed as the latest “good deed” of ihe Philadelphia Council Scout. The Jim Crow practise, slated to be in- troduced at the Treasure Island which is already groaning under op- pressive taxes, together with the jcritical political situation as a re- sult of the war against Nanking that has been started by Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, make domestic loans unlikely. Foreign loans mean the further shylocking of China by Wall Street 3 bankers. Trial July 3 While Nanking “Americanizes,” —— |Feng Yu-hsiang, supported by Brit- DETROIT, Mich., June 19.—Trial|ish and Japanese imperialism, con- of two workers arrested Monday |tinues to march south to Peking. {morning while speaking at a factory gate meeting before the Fisher Body Power Trust Back of Southern Papers, to Corporation Plant at Pontiac has Spread Its Propaganda been postponed to Wednesday, July 8. The arrested are Philip Raymond, WASHINGTON, June 19.—Evi- dence that $50,000 of the money used organizer of the Auto Workers Union which is leading an organi- to establish the Mobile, Ala., Press, came indirectly from Judge Logan gation drive throughout the country, {and Philip Frankfeld, district or- Martin, General Counsel of the Ala- bama Power Co. was presented to lganizer of the Communist Youth \League. Both are held in $400 bail each, the Federal Trade Commission today ‘by Abner Aldridge, of Birmingham Aldridge, according to his test? lmoney, is an official in the Stith Coal Co., the Southeastern Fuel Co., JAIL SPEAKERS FOR AUTO UNION Detroit Workers Stand to “organize to resist the wage cuts, linereased speedup and worsened con- ditions,” a weak charge of “molest- fig employees” brought by the prose- jcuting attorney forced the judge to summer camp, has caused to date 18|postpone the trial on the grounds} and the Union Coal Co, The two \Negro troops with a membership of that he had “never heard of this |latter firms, he said, are subsidiaries 700 boys to return their charters. charge—it requires time to investi-|of the Southeastern Light & Power Twenty troops are maintained’ in the gate the law.” \Co., which in turn is controlled by city. Militant workers are following the |the Alabama Power Co. The ruling, explained by Council: Jad of members of District Seven| The Power Trust, which was President Charles D. Hart as “in the of the Communist Party to raise bail |proved to have financed a large part pest interests of all concerned,” jend continue an active Michigan or-|of the northern capitalist press, as created some protest from other leaders, who, while anxious to pre- jserve the militarist nature of the jastitution, fear its ultimate decline | especially when its race-disecrimina~ tion tactics are exposed. The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made machinery, and wield it for its purpone....This new Commune (Paris Commune) breaks the modern state povwer—Marx. \ganization campaign among the auto |well as colleges and professors, also ‘workers. financed many southern papers, PERU TO RATIFY. LIMA, .Peru, June. 19,,—. The. {Peruvian Congress plans to ratify lthe Tacna-Arica agreement at the same time that it is approved by he Chilean government, before thy end of the current week, it was ‘learned here today. textile strikes of the south. 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 die. because they had given shelter to A ‘ £ My Nia ~” protecting the property and interests some of the Loray mill strikers after (> tp. companies for whom they are Whe mil owners’ thugs destroyed the working and that they must not “use | re rh colony oe June ith. ‘undue violence” in making arrests, | tho Caroline Drew, W. I. R. eic, The capitalist press is making | representative, and several strikers’, big noise about these regulations, | who are members of the local W.'t-ying to give the impression that} I. R. committee, have been released, 4 \ey limit the powers of the Coal and| there were rumors last night that Jron Police. This is being done to| they are to be arrested again on/Kill the indignation that has been | other charges, in order to interfere proused among the workers and| with the feeding of the strilers. population generally over the Heavy demands are being made \prutalities and murderous activities | on the W. I. R. for special food ¢f these thugs against the workers. diets ae ae many pellagra patients) te National Miners Union is fae Sy cer aotile au ae warning the miners not to be fooled a 3 Feat by these “regulations” of Governor roid sear ne to be purchased for Fisher, The Coal and Iron Police : sed workers, Pellagra is a star-'..4 and remain a most vicious and ‘ation disease due to lack of fresh jyutal instrument in the hands of sae and vegetables, etc, in the tne coal operators to be used against 2 the workers, particularly during CLEVELAND, 0O., (By Mail).— Charges of “distributing leaflets without a permit” and “being sus- picious persons” were today brought against Betty Gannet, district or- | ganizer of the Communist Youth League, and Pete Sturgeon, a steel worker. They were both fined. Their arrest followed distribution of leaflets exposing the American | Legion as a recetionary, anti-work- ing class organization at a Legion | parade at Warren at which Paul V. McNutt, commander, had. campaign- reparations conference to ad-|tically on the line of the prosecu- outstanding details incidental |tion which contends that the court) the systematic bleeding of the|has no right to pass on legality of n workers to defray the cost the commitment but which exercises | world imperialist war was|that right itself by dropping the , for housing the homeless strikers, pee A another important point is that bade thera nied eae will be used for holding union mass ¢ho workers. meetings until the deputies are) Sf n f 5 The new tent colony will be the 4 center of a new struggle of the) 5 striking workers against exploita- tion by mill owners. The need for) great. Many strikers who have had no place to sleep since the police raid on the tent colony on June 7th must be taken care of immediately delay but rush money to the Work- ers International Relief, One Union Square, New York City. * ‘Whitewash for Guilty CLEVELAND, June 19.—A four weeks “investigation” into the Cleveland Clinic disaster of May 15, conducted by Coroner A. J. Pearse, In addition to the importance of | strikes, The miners, and all work- ejected from the regular union head- GET JAIL, FINES 4 in the new colony. Officials in Blast in was ended today, without blame be- ed against the Soviet Union, Led by the Communist Youth League, young workers had given out leaf- lets denouncing the war preparations of the Hoover government. Two struggle The 2 Once. in North The fight to free the fourteen leading Gastonia strikers from the electric chair is not only a fight for the lives of these working class leaders but is a the entire South to organize and strug- gle for better conditions. Rally to the Support of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Defend the National Textile Work- ers Union. The 14 Southern Textile Workers Must Not Die. This new attack of capitalist justice of the American imperialist government on the entire working class. hand in hand with the process of capital- ist “rationalization”, the speeding up of the workers at long hours and for low Smash the Murder Frame-Up; Defend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! 14 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union Charged With Murder! THEY FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 8 OTHERS FACE,LONG PRISON TERMS for the right of the workers of 2 Strikers Must Be Freed at Carolina is a part of the attack It goes ‘agreed to by the German for- minister, Stresemann. lan government consent for will be obtained by in as soon as he returns, that should the erection of the new tent colony | ors must work fot the complete quarters, more funds for more tents is very) Funds are needed at once. Do not Ohio Clinic; 125 Killed The charges against certain of the pris- ixg fixed or cause determined. loners when the defense shows the ‘eroner’s report said me~y probable frame-up nature of the accusations. exuses for combustion of the X-Ray Railroad to Chain Gang. 'f’lms in the clinic. The films were A number of the new members |rtored on the premises near clinic against whom the murder and as-'rooms in violation of safety laws, pe materialize the Ger-|sault charges have been dropped and city officials failed to have the representatives will have been t-rned over to the Gas-|X-Ray room inspected. i ir fight for removal of hindrances” which tonia city authorities and railroaded| Thus the hospital authorities and n to the chain gang where conditions tie city officials, reparations fulfill- are unspeakable. Many of the re-‘a:ter, are uilty cf the dis- A ty the “in- white ion.” prisoners have stated publicly ne ae Re were arrested at the instigation of the legionnaires, and when Garnet and Sturgeon inquired about the ar- rested, they were also held incom- municado for 24 hours. . The local International Labor De- fense, which defended the workers, declared the incident gives workers one more example of the close con- nection between the Republic Steel ‘Company, which controls Warre! and thy courts, k se } te 80 East 11th Street “Room 402 _ ., New Xork, N. ¥- fe 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. 4 7 4 7 r ’ ( bs The members of the National Textile f / : Workers Union have been’ bayoneted, ar- rested, beaten, slugged and shot and } evicted from their homes because they td . dared to fight for better conditions against mill owners, the government authorities and against the strike- : - | breaking activities of the American Fed- Ni 4 eration of Labor, s Thousands of Dollars are Needed to Defend These Heroic Strikers, Members of the National Textile Workers Union. i : pects esse eee ee see i 1 J : BU hereby enclose $......ssse.seeeee++.for the # 2 n " g Gastonia Defense, iB . f 1 ' : p NAME cessseseesseeeseeeeesaratecennneneese . 1 ' ' ADDRESS cesssesesececereeesseeeseesenen Bh Ug CITY AND STATE. cerereriene | ME which are active in attacking the kak ate tae ae in es hk, Met hha > 06 Ca i