The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1929, Page 2

wage Two Sell Booze to Workers in Ca __DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1929 Save the Victims of the. ¥. COMMUNIST Gastonia Conspiracy! « t d from Page One) tile workers is an isolated, local question—a question only of North Carolina, or of the South. The issue is basic—and behind the Gastonia frame-up stands the whole bour- geoisie of this country. A part of the so- called textile industry of this country, the artificial silk, or rayon industry, is a part of the chemical industry. The rayon plants lants for production of e within a few hours. It is in reality a war industry and it is to be expected that the union that attempts to or- ganize the workers in that industry will meet with the fiercest resistance. The fact that the Gastonia mills are not part of the rayon industry does not in any way refute the statement that the present attack upon the National Textile Union is in- separable from the arations being made for the next world war. It is this union that has exposed the beirayal of the American Federation of Labor in the rayon mills at Elizabethton, Tenn., and that is mobilizing the rayon workers for a continuation of the struggle against rationalization. can be turned into p ORGANIZATION OF NEGRO WORKERS. There is aiso involved in the Gastonia struggle a fundamentai problem for the workers of the South: the organization of the Negro workers. In an endeavor to carry out this task, the union meets with all the ac- cumulated hatreds and prejudices that have been carefully cultivated by the southern rul- ing classes for three centuries. Negro organ- izers face the constant threat of lynching and it was only by the loyal support of the poor white workers that one of the Negro organizers of the union was not hanged an riddied with bullets or burned at the s by the frenzied mobs that were organized immediately after the battle at Gastonia. These native-born white workers who were herded into the mills to become slaves of the new industrialization, the terrific speed-up and all the devastating effects of rationaliza- tion, have shown in their first struggles a degree of class consciousness that threatens to explode the myth that the South is the place where cheap, supine iabor can be ob- tained at the lowest wages in the whole coun- try. In this conspiracy against the leaders of the union and the striking workers of Gas- tonia the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy plays its customary role of agent of the capitalist class and ‘police informer. In this connection it is also necessary to de- nounce the Brookwood labor college graduate and supporter of the Muste “progressive” outfit, Hoffman, for his depraved role as a strikebreaker. In Gastonia the struggle of the American working class against the capitalist despoil- ers has entered a new phase. The workers will no longer submit to extermination by murder without defending themselves. Lud- low, Calumet, the savagestorture and murder of Frank Little, recede into the past. The glorious defense of the workers’ hall at Cen- tralia, Washington, on Armistice Day, 1919, was the prelude to: the defense of the tent colony at Gastonia, and the masses of worx- ers in this country must stand as one man in (lefense of these victims of this latest frame- up. We must insist upon the right of the workers to defend themselves against the hired assassins of the capitalist class, Workers of America and of the world! Rally behind the defense of the Gastonia prisoners, Stage mighty demonstrations acy! against this new murder conspir- Pillory the American capitalist class so that it will be despised throughout the whole world! Fight to organize the unorganized workers! Challenge the open shop in the war industries! Smash the lynching conspiracies! Rally to the defensg of the victims of the Gastonia f= Down with the executioners of the working class! Ms Defeat the imperialist war-mongers! Defend the right of workers to defend themselves! Build the new unions! Support the National Textile Workers Union! Long live the solidarity of the Negro and whif> - 3 of the South! : Long live the proletarian revolution! CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES OF' AMERICA. HOOVER GROUP IN ATTAGK ON LABOR (Continued from Page One) carries also the signature of Repre- eentative Frank Murphy of Ohio. It is printed on fake congr mal sta- tionary, and asks those receiving the letters to contribute $10 immediately and $10 every three months there- after. The plan proposed is to send out “anti-red” public’ once a week to all papers, particularly those in small towns, and to send the Na- tional Renublic to 5,000 editors of napers who might be influenced by it. The sponsors of the plan announce the fight against all revolutionary ideas aS one of their main purposes, ‘the boosting of Hoover and enlarge- ment of his power and prestige being the other. Work says that ‘through these} means the sponsors will get before! the people “safe, sane and old fash-| ioned ideas of government and sound | Americanism as opposed to the vast amount of destructive propaganda | which is going out.” Senator Watson declares: “The Workers Homeless Since Destruction of W. I. R. Tent Colony Arrested on “Vagrancy” Charges Given 35 Lashes and Sentenced to 30 THIS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE! Food and Shelter Must Be Provided for the Strikers, Their Wives and Children! THEY ARE IN NEED OF HELP! LASH USED on Gastonia Strikers! Days on the Chain Gang! | forces of discontent and radicalism are active and multiplying. They are cireilating scores of publications with an aggregate circulation of mil- lions of copies weekly.” He says the National Republic will be “the most effective means” for a fight against ] “socialism, communism and revolu- ||} tionary radicalism in general.” The publicity service is to be in charge of Carl W. Riddick, former republican representative from Mon- tana. j Riddick is a tool of the Anaconda Copper Mines Co., and his chief sup- porter in his campaign was the edi- tor of the Helena Independent, a *aper which called, openly for the ‘lynching of the farmer labor or- gavizers. | Burton is a member of Harding’s “Ohio Ganz”. Murrhy is a big Anter and reai estate magnate. | WILL YOU DO YOUR SHARE? One Union Square Rush Funds to the Workers International Relief New York City . sume es eee ese ew wee ee ee Workers International Relic‘, One Union Square, New York City. T enclose $ , ' poadas obuu aes se Faas to feed and shelter the | militant Gastonia strikers. Tell them to keep on striking until they win. MAME s.. cbse dead kook oul dilaaovne eres Fosebwodiaesess | Addres6 oo... ec ieescccvese hee be tasees A eeeeee Pals re ' MNS en cat Care veo deeence BISe ives cess ese on ELECTION CALL OPENS CAMPAIGN Convention Is July 14, Scores 3 Old Parties (Continued. from Page One) ia, and the shoe strike in Bos- great, heroic struggle of the South- textile workers in Gastonia, Elizabethton, Bessemer City and other Southern towns, while in the other countries of the world we wit- ness such stirring events as the! growing revolutionary movement in India, the great May Day demon- | strations of the Berlin workers who | fought.on the streets behind barri- | cades for the right to demonstrate | in the streets on May Day. Southern Strikes. uthern textile strikes are historic significance, they do the awakening resistance of the Southern workers, |whose number consist mainly of na- tive American and Negro workers. | The militancy, the heroism, the ca- | pecity for fighting of the Southern | ‘workers bodes ill for the capitalist | |class. In an effort to stem the tide | and defeat the struggle of ‘the! Southern textile workers against | jeapitalist rationalization and for the right to organize, the capitalist dass | is now engaged in the greatest | frame-up of workers, strikers and | organizers in its long history of| murders and executions, which in- | clude Sacco and Vanzetti, Mooney | and Billings and Centralia, The use of militia, evictions of workers from | homes, slugging of women and chil- dren, is now being climaxed by an attempt to railroad 22 strikers and! “The S or, to prison. ther the capi throughout the country, against the militant workers of New York City. “In this election campaign, the workers of New rk City must} ‘demonstrate their "class-conscious- | mp Construction Job in Belmar, L.I. Says Corresponden ers, as in transit schools. “Rents have been increasing sky high, particularly for the poorer ten- ants. This has been especially true since the expiration of the emer- gency rent laws on June 1, which the democratic and republican par- ties have allowed to lapse, Discrim- ination against Negro tenants has beer permitted and encouraged by the democratic and republican par- ties, which serve the real estate in, terests and landlords, as well as the great public utility companies, man- ufacturers and bankers. Workers will not be fooled by the fake laws passed by the municipal assembly as housing, and in Chelsea, there is the|an election campaign gesture, nor cial equ by the moves of the socialist party, which fights any attempt on the the improvement of their conditions. “On the important question of lican parties have again shown themselves as tools of the traction interests. The seven-cent fare steal, far from being stopped, Has simply been put over until after election time, s0 as not to interfere with the election plans of Jimmie Walker. In the meantime, overcrowding and accidents continue and the workers are not allowed to organize. “The city government exposed its anti-working class character when, a few days ago, it discharged 300 technical engineers for daring to carty on union activities and for de- manding an increase in wages. Three Capitalist Parties, “The Democratic, republican and socialist parties vie with each other as parties of the capitalist class. The socialist party, which betrayed the working class in the last world war, which endorses fake Kellogg peace vacts, and Young reparation plans which are aimed at the Soviet Union and are but instruments of | war, which has worked hand in hand with the police and the reactionary | trade union bureaucracy of the American , Federation of Labor in ers to the electric chair or breaking strikes of workers, which | And in one form or an-|stands for municipal ownership of | t state repeats transit facilities, ete, as though | ment means improvement of the lot of the passengers and the workers employed, has nominated the Rev. |in all the struggles of the workers. | conditions. and |manufacturers, on a program of |graft and corruption, on a program of police brutality and injunctions. |The republican party of Hoover, which is led in New York state by Machold, identified with the lar; {power and public utility interests in this state and country, is looking Jaround for a successful business man for it candidate to remind the capitalists that the republican party is the party of big business. | One Party for Workers. “Only the Communist Party fights for the working class against the |speed-up, wage cuts and unemploy- |ment. Only the Communist Party |fights for political, social and ra- ality for the oppressed Ne- Only the Jgro race. |the party of the small business man, | Party fights for social insurance \laws for sickness, unemployment |part of the workers to struggle for /and old age. The Communist Party |fights against child labor, for the |defense of the interests of the young jtransit, the democratic and repub- | workers, for the protection of women workers and foreign-born workers. The Communist Party is the Party lof the working class against the|because of this speed-up system the leapitalist class, the revolutionary |}party of the working class that fights for the overthrow of the cap- italist s; em and for the institu- tion of a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment. “It is only the Communist Party that calls the attention of the work- ers to the danger of war, of war be- tween the United States and Great britain for the mastery of trade and colonies. of war between American |imperialism and the colonial peo- ples, especially of Latin-America, of war by the imperialist powers of the world against the Soviet Union, the Workers’ Fatherland. The Com- munist Party warns against pacif- ism, against the fake Kellogg peace | pacts, the fake disarmament confer- ences and the Young Reparations plan. It calls for a fight against imperialism and imperialist wars, for the defense of the Soviet Union and for turning the next imperial- ing class against the capitalist class for the overthrow of capitalism. Support Communist Party. jmust su ! UNREST GROWS SLAVE 14HOURS AMONG SLAVES DAILY TO BUILD AT SCHWEINLER NEW STATE PARK Press Co. Hires Deaf Men Soaked $9.50 a and Dumb Workers Week for Board By a Worker Capratvondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘Cindisinne’ aa the I walked up the Bowery a week or so ago and I came to Ferrara’s unorganized workers of the Schweinler Press Co., ‘ r Labor Agency, an employment n ist New York, are becoming worse a Pen: bk Communist bagels i he sa! mths ag ne agency. I saw a sign the agency hired a new efficiency expert. who | 22d out for men wanted in Belmore, Long Island, for a construction job. I had heard a lot from other work- ers who had shipped out from Fer- ‘rara’s agency and to his camps and came back to town, with very little money, Ferrara having got most of it from the sale of booze, which is sold in his commissary. Deduct From Pay. Ferrara was hiring about 24 men for the Belmar Contracting Co., a has introduced a speed-up system. Produce Twice as Much. This speed-up system now com- pels the workers to produce prac- tically twice as much work. Also more effective workers have been laid off for two or three days in each week. The | lay-off, and the fact that the bosses jare taking measures to hand out|Troy concern, Their commissary the worst jobs to those workers who | man, an Italian, picked out the were active in the past strike, slaves. I was among the first dozen ist war into a civil war of the work- |, “All class-conscious workers and|understand the role which the boss |tion Co. viclence against the workers| ownership by a capitalist govern-|all militant workers’ organizations wants them to play, and they are | pport the Communist Party ready to join the other workers in| in the coming election campaign, as |the shop in the struggle for better |14 hours a day, for 50 cents an hour. Norman Thomas as its candidate for | Forward to the fight in the coming | x mayor. In its convention last week | election campaign, on the basis of tempt to keep them from joining lunch, and then work again from ness, their will to fight as clas8!the socialist party showed its true |the revolutionary platform of the against class, their determination to |follow the revolutionary party of ‘the workers, the party of the class struggle, the Communist Party of the United States. | Police Brutality. “The true nature of the capitalist system is shown not only by its in- | junctions against workers, its police | brutality against pickets, its frame- jup of strikers (in the cafeteria | workers’ strike alone over 500 work- | lers have been arrested), but also in ‘the local problems facing the work- so non—ecsersione | | | | | | | | JRUSSIA) LONDON | KIEL CANAL ; HELSINGFORS and 10 DAYS LENINGRAD and of Satlings every month NEXT SAILINGS: “Berengaria” - “Paris” R “Mauretania” ‘June 29 Visas Guaranteed! WORLDa| TOURS FROM S| character as a party of the bosses, police commissioner, for its antics and theatrics and for not establish- jelass struggle! | with its criticism of Whalen, the | “All Communist Party units in |New York City are requested to {send delegates to the convention to again spreading wide discontent in| picked and we were lined up to the plant. Even those workers who |sign contracts. The pay was to be were hired during the strike are’ 50 cents an hour, and the contract talking of putting up a militant /stated that $5 was to be deducted fight in order to obtain better con-|from the wages for employment Gttions, agency fee and 54 cents also to be Shop Committee Active. deducted for transportation. Despite the spy system which We were shipped out in the com- has been installed in the shop the | ™issary man’s truck and got to Bel- boss has failed to liquidate the shop ™more about 3:30 p. m., when we got committee; which is organized to|Sandwiches and coffee, and then look out for the interests of the; Went to work and worked there tiil men in the plants. Failing in his | 8:30 p. m, behind a concrete mixer. empts to find out who the ac-|They were constructing a state e elements of the shop commit-|park. There were about 100 ‘men tee are, the boss has resorted to|0n the job. other tactics. | The conditions on the job are rot- He has employed deaf and dumb ten. There are no facilities to wash workers from an institution. This UP, not saying anything about het done so that these workers will|water, in the camp. The commis- jot receive the message of organiza-|Sary was run by a man named Mar- n from the shop committee. These |chese, who was related to one of w s, however, are beginning to |the owners of the Belmar Construc- 14 Hours a Day. The hours were often as long as Working hours were from 6 a. m. The foreman here made every at- to 12 noon, then a half hour for the shop committee. But these Ne-| 12:30 p. m. to 6:30, 7 and after |gro workers have realized that they |8:30 p. m, The workers were soaked $9.50 a week for board by the company own- ers, and the food was rotten, all out face the same common struggle as | their fellow white workers, and pal some cases they are taking the lead | ing “law and order,” tne “law and|be held by the Communist Party, /in fighting for better conditions in cf proportion to the big fee charged erder” of the capitalist system that |New York District, on July 14, for |the shop. shows itself in the beating of pick-|ihe purpose of adopting a platform | past administration. “The democratic party offers Wal- ser, Whalen and Delaney as their leaders and candidates on a program of subservience to the traction in- terests, the public utilities, the real estate companies, the bankers and | tions and other workers’ organiza- tions are called upon to send fra- ‘ternal delegates. All organizations the campaign lets and the clubbing of strikers,/and nominating city candidates. All|alize the importance and power of |which has been used in an increas- | unions, factory and shop commit-|the shop committee. They are de- jingly menacing manner during the |tees, left wing groups in unions and termined to continue their fight for | working class fraternal organiza- | better conditions through the shop lare asked to support the campaiga| workers to obtain recognition and |by making an initial contribution to | decent working conditions. |cach man for board. We had to lw ork on Sundays. In the camp the beds were full of lice. One of the worst parts of the life in the camp is the sale of rotten booze in the commissary, The booze is sold by Marchese, and the pur- pose and effect of the sale of booze is to keep the workers drunk, to dope them and keep them from thinking about their rotten condi- tions, THE RED PANTHER. The workers in the plant fully re- committee, The very near future will bring another determined ef- fort on the part of these exploited ROBERT CLARK. Rally Once. Rush TOURISTS} | 4] 175 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK B awe - RB Telephone: Algonquin 6656 R 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; 14 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union THEY FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS 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. to the Support of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Defend the National Textile Work- ers Union. The 14 Southern Textile Workers Must Not Die. The 22 Strikers Must Be Freed at This new attack of capitalist justice in North Carolina is a part of the attack of the American imperialist government Tt goes All Funds to the International Labor Defense 80 East 11th Street New York, N. Y. Room 402 Defend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! Charged With Murder! struggle for the right of the workers of ee: | a FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! The Struggle of the Southern Tex- tile Workers is the Concern of the Entire American Work- ing Class. The members of the National Textile 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 National Textile Workers Union. yeeetee een eee eee sees I hereby enclose $.... ‘ Gastonia Defense. 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