The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1929, Page 1

IC OF COMMUNIST PARTY TOMORROW, PLEASANT BAY PAR c Grounds, sree sh ee op NNUAL RED INTERNATIONAL PICN FINAL CITY 4 3 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Sgeince Imperialist War ‘or the 40-Hour Week mai}, $8.00 per year. 8.00 per years __Price 3 Cents \ Vol. VL, No. 91 ola rah ae in oneage aco pele terre NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929 peneCNOutatae. New York. hy" ama RAMED GASTONIA MILL STRIKERS TORTURED IN CELLS % Ib LABOR CONFERENCE TO SUPPORT FUR STRIKE eo Hen seve Gotnia omen Vict DEMONSTRATORS AMY WORKER REPORTER _ TO BE HELD TODAY; ARREST 24 IN THE PICKETING JEMONSTRATION; MORE WORKERS JOIN STRUGGLE urriers in Over 400 Shops Have Joined the Strike, Ben Gold Reports; | Enthusiastic Meetings Are Held in Strike Halls | eneral Picket and Organization Committee Meets This Morning; | New York I. L. D. Pledges Defense to Jailed Pickets SN nt EES ERIE S| | A mobilization of all forces in the progressive and left wing labor movement for sup- | ‘FOR GASTONIA VicrTs CELLS; TOLD OF THE DEFENSE BALED “TERRIBLE BEATINGS THERE | Strikers Extend | to Chicago Loray Strikers Meetings at ew Tent Colony; . —— | American Legion Asks Death for Prisoners (Special to the Daily Worker) PERSE SE Pate Mea CHICAGO, June 21.—After aj : . ie F, four-day battle through city and|Lynchers Planning Quietly to Kill Prisoners { | county courts, the 27 workers ar-| in Jail When Strikers No Longer Watch | ort of the general strike of the furriers will take place at a vital conference to be held in| lnefenke: dehioneretion Rela IniGeant | Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, today at 12 o'clock. Park last. Saturday against the | ee eS BULLETIN. ] The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union urges all organizations to have repre- |frame-up of the Gastonia, North | ie Cee N05 sa et Although cipal is quiet on sentatives at this conference, which will take concrete measures for aiding the present strug- {parolees ee ee ber thea: that tres aan Aout are plaice pean ts Pass fo oo gle of the furriers, lapse of the entire court attack| sometime in the near future when they think the workers are no Halt More Shops. lagainst them is being predicted, longer on the alert, and lynch all the defendants including the three women. CO THOUSANDS OF CLOAKMAKERS AT | Hundreds of progressive or- : |_ ‘The final battle was staged before ; gailisatlons “ares expected to ? : : oe |Judge Robert E. Gentzel in the Su- TRY JINGOISM T0 ) WOMEN FPFED | participate in this significant sei es we ana heres roe jeri wiht i J ' MEET PLEDGE T0 CONVERT F AKE Gee en Three young Gastonia tertile strikers who are now in New freeing the 27 prisoners from the ; Forty-seven more shops were| York to aid in the great nation-wide campaign of the International | stip ae onan ae a ae fila ASSIST FRAMEUP ON VAG CHARGE 6 ] | halted yesterday, according to Ben | Labor Defense to smash the frame-up of 22 strikers and+strike lead- biped Court, whe had baa his ana STRIKE INTO A GENUINE STRIKE | Gold, chairman of the General Strike) ers in Gastonia. They are, left to right, Edgar Passmore, 17 years |fully planned mass trail, which was pa Sahion aaelte | Committee, maki total of | ‘ eg Re : ' ; | : oe pore ; abi attic. Aiea penis a old; Elizabeth McGinnis, 16; and Binney Green, 14. ! (Continued on Page Two) | AssociatedPress Whips 22 in Prison Ask Books Fr : : Ds Be the ranks of ‘the siikers are ex- South Against North | Be Donated to The fe eee cane eer FRIDAY’S SUSPENSION OF THE | uc fet So | Pe Desist tee A large number of furriers joined | An Associated Press dispatch sent | GASTONIA, N. C., June 21 z the strike yesterday, on the third ; out from Charlotte during the time 5; ‘ Hyman, Boruchowitz, Others Speak; Show Plot day of the struggle following an DAILY WO RKE R M U ST A of the trial, plays up the prosecu-| —All prisoners, with the excep- if 3 impressive picketing demonstration #41 : - i resentil th th | tj. 7 rter iw ¢. with Bosses; Back Furriers’ Strike lin the fur market. musiont the Nord | tom OF Geokay. Carter ae ae pera the Norte | still in the Asheville jail, } : : ; Arrest 24 Pickets, T WORKERS TO A CT No such dispatch has appeared in| ~ REE vile jau, have A determined pledge to con-| the strike. ea) iain’ ALL ; MILITAN Northern papers; it is evidently in-| been visited by Juliet Stuart eae Cheer Industrial Union. Police brutality increased as the , 2 : ae, Solea ta. we Among the speakers were Lonis|Strike forces grew, and yesterday 24 baad Dae aiernt: te Seid | Poyntz of the International La~ rl t Workers’ Uni ee ies | Hyman, president of the Industrial |Pickets were arrested, many of Ree : Z il sectional fecling. as an aid to the| Pr Defense, Bill Dunne, and Attar | : ae : — Union, ‘the | Union Jou, Besson, tered Shean bie Ranbentied by Whales Because of inability to meet financial demands the NE bee -i | ey:ideninontir--tis te ee aN { , manager 01 1 03 Board; 4 ~ * . : s c : { 4 % | into a genuine strike for union con-| Wise, manager of the cloak depart-| Two 17-year-old girls, Edith Teiz-| Worker was forced to suspend publication Friday morning. This The A. P. dispatch exults over the | left later to see Carter. ditions under the leadership of the| ment; J. H. Cohen, vice president of|man and Anna Skolly, were each fact alone is evidence of the serious danger we face—a danger that decision of Judge Harding to throw! ‘These wor sea operas amma pe s comprise, includ- Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial the union, and an active cloakmaker| sentenced to 10 days in the work- e burden of proof ,on the defense € ; aay |ing Carter, the 14 Gastonia strike Umit. was made Thursday vba pee many years; Oswaldo, manager | house. These were among the 28| must be instantly overcome, aap e eae ak Piecing burs. ers, National Te ile Wreeae noon by the thousands of cloakmak-,of the Italian department, and B.| strikers arrested Thursday morning. if fi. i " ; v| Uni ae ; late Wis filled ‘Manhatten SOpaval Kaplan. -fevmueily @ qentber of thal THe cates Of tho rect oP the cme: We have surmounted many difficult periods, we have overcome | age about the testimony of Amy| Union and Workers Interatiotad House, 34th St. and Bighth Ave. | “Tolerance Group,” and now a mem-| ers were postponed to June 25, and obstacles that would long ago have crushed any other than a Com- se flea Glare can pit oo Relief organizers and officials held : 2s er of the General Executive Board| they were freed an bail aft: hear- A A * Tras : 728" over to the grand jury wi i A pesclution analyzing this move Cf’ the Industrial Union, Bernstein|ing before Magistrate Simpeon za| MMunist paper. This has been possible because we were supported |tonia since the caily days of the Cet © the grand jury without bail f the company union and ¢ontain-| +d as chairman, Jefferson Market Court, by class-conscious workers who understand the imperative necessity of keeping alive this | strike, and now charged with mur- ©" double charges of murder and “sg the above pledge was unani-| 2 ‘i * 1 a lt nf hi der and assault: “secret assault with intent to com- ously passed by the gathering, Every mention of the Industrial| Enthusiastic meetings were’ yes- one Communist daily in the English language. Weare absolutely Seed eee ee Patty, “Clyde R. Hoey, of tion, | Mit murder,” and eight h Id hi i J hich heard leaders of the cloak-|Union and the fur strike which it|terday held in the strike halls. The| membership and our readers and sympathizers did not realize the grave danger we faced, VES the AROCYs | OF | Dropecntion, aay ght held on the F} i 3 site 7 ; a ‘ cross-examined her and the | assault charge. pee cay uit of many wine is ig present leading was greeted [spirit cee tae ne meetings otherwise we would never have had to suspend for a day. ica Campa Naat cae Le i ssault charg s iemonstrate at je furl . epee . . * . : ‘, . s a ‘ac a i acike ad Tinea Fe ele pati Metaraa gg gees bal etc to struggle, aha at ire This difficult financial situation which we face at present is easily understood by | izers, newspaper reporters and oth- Face Electrocution. verting it into a genuine struggle. | All of the speakers laughed at the|S#™e time to strengthen their| workers who know and appreciate the role of the Daily Worker in the American labor Meet ne: eecaiee Be are ng framed up, and the The second resolution expresses claim of the company union that it|St™ugele. movement. In the many strikes that have occurred we have consistently exposed the be- _|5f' sfyec wont after ban a ces headed! be Mase et ti a solidarity with the fur strikers and W@S about to lead the cloakmakers| Picket, Org. Committees Today. trayals of the reactionary bureaucracy of the A. F, of L. and the enemies of labor at the head of the suave, impressive manner and soon | torney ier the a ee urges the cloakmakers to help them | in @ strike for better conditions, and| lay plans for the tremendous| S°cialist party. The Daily has played a most important role in the work of laying the foundations for {had her saying she did not know to Co. whose Loray mill the strikers in every way, morally and finan-|Pointed out that a genuine struggle | mass picketing demonstration which | the New unions in the mining, the textile and needle industries. It has been a unifying and leading | nearly every question he asked her. hove been picketing, are rushing th cially, until the strike for union|W&S out of the question, since the |ic expected early Monday morning,| force in all these struggles. When workers were on strike, facing the savage attacks of the entire capi- There was a sharp exchange between | trial of the 14 charged with ied es conditions under the leadership of company union exists only by the a meeting of all the members of the | talist class, the Daily Worker was distributed free by hundreds of thousands—even at times when we |them when he asked her if she be- murder, Manville-Jenckes is | : ' eH : f é i in a determined effor' the Industrial Union is won. ‘The direct eonsent of the manufacturers. General Picket and General Organ | ad to make tremendous financial sacrifices to do so. But when it came to a question of financial lieved in God. She hever tid senly Gecermned effort to send them cloakmakers, as well as the dress-| Hyman Exposes Conspiracy. ization committees will be held this| S2¢Tifices as opposed to weakening our defense of the elementary rights of the workers, we never hesi- |directly, but parried the question TOK P makers, were urged to join the fur- Hyman, who received a tremen- morning at 10 o'clock at Irving tated for one second. The question of the struggle comes first—always. | by saying that the question was cap- r made by the of the brutal- the arrested strikers s were treated follow- ri onthe picket line and parti-|dous ovation when he arose to Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl, The i But never, in any crisis, have we concealed from our readers the dangers facing us and some- jable of too many interpretations. |: cipate actively in every phase of| (Continued on Page Five) meeting is being called by the Gen-| ‘imes threatening our existence. In every instance that we have appealed for aid, it has been forth- Mr. Hoey asked her this question | rae GPUS Bbrtice | Counmittess vithe meric coming and we are convinced that the workers will rally. to our support and enable us to overcome the to impeach her oath, asking her if and organ’ bers are urged to be present on present crisis, } (Continued on Page Two) ing the raids on the night of June 7 45 FOOD PICKETS ‘JAIL 4 IRON time. First of all, in this drive for funds, the Party members must do their duty by paying AT ONCE Pah Wise The women Prison: The Strik ittee ‘yesterd: the assessment of One Day’s Pay toward the $50,000 Communist Party-Daily Worker campaign. This * aes 7 in their cells e Tipeeslt tak prea eet os must be followed up with the most intense money-raising campaign among the masses of workers who | Cen tr al Committee si se and ewes of the men who |bosses have already applied for set-| have come to regard the Daily as the one indispensable organ in the class struggle. The Party mem- Calls in All Funds in| '“ere being beaten, and the torture 5 : _one in a ! Nitta Sp) lasted most of the night. tl fs th bers will understand that the present difficulties are, in part, attributable to the whole situation in the ’ ° | ‘eh bi, FREED BY ORDER BRONZE PICKETS Dobie ines Ree one Party, the long exhaustive factional struggle which is now fast becoming a thing of the past, and the Day Ss Wage Drive | | In addition to Vera Bush, Amy The plan is first to spread the strike consequent disorganization and irresponsibility arising out of the factional struggle. This led up to, at Schechter and Sophie Melvin, there | ” raider A rf haracter of nothing less than 4 A jare four women textile mill strik- he } in all shops of the trade. However, the present moment, a situation in which actions can occur that bear the cl u By instructions of the Central] | c Decision Also Releases Ranks of Brooklyn it is possible that such settlements| Sabotage. The Party membership and the closest sympathizers among the workers know the Party is Committee of the Communist| |°TS held in the Gaston County jail vi i ter date. dealing ruthlessly with this phase of our difficulties. We will absolutely exterminate any such ten- Party of the ¢ s jon fake charges of “vagrancy.” Two 100 Others Bosses Broken eu i kato] i dencies in our Party. Racer eotfact py eae hs aK jwomen strikers, Viola Hampden and A REAR ~ The New York District of the In- Today, more than ever, is the Daily Worker needed in the class struggle in America. In every Special Day’s Pay Assessment ule Garon had vagrancy charges ]|__ Forty-five cafeteria strikers, con-| Twenty-nine iron and bronze strik-| ternational Labor Defense, in a} section of the country, in every industry, the workers are beginning to take the offensive in the fight from all members you can reach| |2&#inst them dismissed when they victed of “contempt of court” for| ers, arrested for picketing, faced| statement issued last night, pledged| against wage-cuts, the speed-up, and all the miserable conditions imposed upon them as a result of and forward the amount collected| |2PPe@red yesterday in court, violating the injunction against pick-| with the alternative of day in jail,|its utmost support to the striking| the widespread rationalization of industry. Many tasks face the working class in connection with the immediately to the National of.| |With Attorney Abernathy represent. eting were Thursday freed on a writ | or $5 fine apiece, yesterday chose (Continued of Page Three) new situation. Among these is the mobilization of the militant workers for the T. U. E. L. conference fice, 43 East 125th St, New York. jing the International Labor De- "habeas corpus obtained by law-|the former, in Sixth District court, Batae eases which must create a coordinating center for the new unions and the revolutionary elements in the old Do not wait until all members cite The hearings of four other _ js for- the Cafeteria Workers’ | i6ist St. qitonts have paid, but send what you | women, held on similar charges, tion. They had been sentenced to. ‘the strikers were arrested on LYNCHERS SHOOT | Then, also, the present period without the Daily Worker is unthinkable because of the manifest haye and then collect the rest and| | 1< Lepper and they may be (0, days each. x Thursday, while on picket duty at | intention of the ruling class of this country to endeavor to crush by murder and terror the rising mili- serd it, THIS IS AN EMER- east Stn ail. If they are tried _ The order was signed by Judge|the Lazer and Kaplan Tron Works, tancy of the working class. Certainly, the one English language daily that mercilessly pilloried the GENCY SITUATION AND No| |27¢ convicted appeals will be filed Loydon of the state supreme court. | 12ist street and Southern Boulevard. | murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti and defended those workers to the last against all their enemies and DELAY CAN BE TOLERATED. | '*"4 bail deposited for their release. As a result of this order, 100 other| While an injunction sought by N 0 | exposed the vacillations of their alleged friends who in reality aided in their execution, is needed now (Continued on Page Two) } strikers who were awaiting trial on| the Madison Iron Works against the | even more than then. For the first time in the history of our Party a number of our members and cota | supporters face death at the hands of the capitalist executioners. Just as the capitalist class of this | the same injunction will be released. | strikers was yesterday denied, two | me Thhse 145 strikers cannot be sent | other injunctions sought by iron and : : country wreaked vengeance upon Sacco and Vanzetti for daring to strive to organize the workers of T ! I ] R d 5° now on the same charge. bronze bosses were pending. The 50 in Autos Take Him the textile and shoe centers of New England, so they now strive to shoot bolts of chained lightning | omorrow. nternationa e The 45 strikers were convicted in| firms seeking the injunctions are from His Bed through the bodies of 14 men, women and youth who were active in the textile strikes of the South. | e e special sessions court thru Justices|the Lazer and Kaplan Iron Works, These strikers and strike leaders are sacrificing their very lives in the class struggle. Surely our Picnic at Pleasant Bay Park Solomon, Kerrigan and Kelley. where the 29 pickets were arrested JACKSONVILLE, Fla. June 21. readers and all our sympathizers will not begrudge the few dollars needed from each of them in order Philip Wittenberg, of Boudin and and the Grossman Iron Works. Jim Mencion, a Negro carpenter, to guarantee the continued existence of the one English daily that defends them. ; 3 iba Naw. woe Bie HG one. f Wittenberg, who argued the writ,/These firms are members of the Al-| 12, shot three times, fearfully ' At this moment the imperialist war-mongers are engaged in frenzied maneuvers in preparation C A) ork District of the) for mass participation of the thou- contended that inasmuch as the in-|lied Metal Building Trades Associ- Beaten. aver'the head with revolvers, for another world war; when all antagonisms between the two imperialist giants, the United States and ommunist Party announces that|sands present. The sports clubs of Sanction was obtained in a civil | ation. and left for dead in a street here| Great Britain are reaching a climax that has all the elements of a cataclysm. But, in spite of all their | Plans have been completed for the) the Labor Sports Union will display j}court, it was outside the jurisdic} A break in the ranks of the|/by @ mob of unmasked white busi-| antagonisms, these imperialist butchers meet on common ground in their hatred of the Soviet Union | "uae gala Red Picnic, the holiday | their prowess in soccer games, cal= }| tion of the criminal court to try and | Brooklyn iron bosses was made yes-| ness men. and their provocations and war conspiracies against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. To be | °f the left wing and revolutionary |isthenics, _ pyramids. representing ' | convict the strikers, terday when two Brooklyn shops,| ‘Mencion was building a house for; deprived of the Daily Worker in such a situation would be not only a catastrophe for the workers of | workers of New York, for tomor-|symbols of the class struggle, ete, “The conviction of A. Frank, aj members of the iron league, settled|, white man, and sleeping in the| the United States but would be a blow to the revolutionary working class of the whole world. row, all day, at Pleasant Bay Park. | Sack races, one-legged ‘races, “fat teria striker, was used as a test|with the Iron and Bronze Workers| unfinished structure. The white All class-conscious workers will understand the important role that the Daily must play in the Amidst the many strikes and/ man’s" races, children’s races and for the appeal, and he was| Union, which is leading the strike.) residents of the neighborhood or-| world-wide campaign that is now on for the celebration on August Ist, of International Red Day Against | Struggles of the workers the Com-|many more will all be present to | These shops are the High Grade/ dered him to stop sleeping there.| Imperialist War. The Daily appears again today because of the fact that we were able to appeal to jmunist Party has arranged its huge | participate and display their talents continuing to win|Iron Works and the Chiet Iron|Then they invaded his bedroom in| workers who came to our support. as soon as they realized the danger we faced. Many of these workers | Red Picnic, both as a demonstra-|in these gamer, Interesting prizes — . The last was achieved|Works. Thus far 25 shops have| the dead of night, dragged him out,| gave the last cent they had in order that the Daily Worker might appear another day. They realized the | tion of the influence of the Commu-|will be offered to the winners of imesday when the New Bruns-|yYielded to the union, beat him up, and told him to run.| seriousness of our situation. We are sure that thousands of other workers will do likewise, in order to {Mist Party and as an opportunity |the various contests. 4 Cafeteria signed up with the} A mass meeting of the strikers/He had staggered only ten fect) ensure the continued existence of their own fighting’ paper. for the thousands present to disport| Aside. from fun-making this Red will be held Tuesday at 6:30 p. m.! when they began to shoot at him. Party members! Meet your obligation for the One Day’s Pay Assessment at once! themselves in a galaxy of labor |Pienie will also be utilized to ursday an aeroplane flew|at Irving Plaza. The mob left in several expensive Collect funds everywhere workers are to be found! Sports, games, dancing, good eats \before the workers the issues in the garment ‘district and cars. Mencion may not live. Sher- Save the Daily Worker! and general fun making. coming municipal election campaign, of leaflets telling Pg Hagberg way eunnti iff W. B. Cahoon has issued a Give all you can so that never again will we have to suspend publication because of lack of funds! The entertainment, labor sports where leaders of the Communist the cafeteria work- machinery, and: wiel statement saying that his office With Communist greetings, and games have been arranged by |Party and of the left wing union support of the stru: : in “has no hope of identifying” any] CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST the Eastern District of the Labor |at present engaged in strike ma alee ieee of the mob of 50 or more. PA OF THE UNITED STATES. Sports Union and has been designed! gles will speak, sassaaitad h: xt