The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1929, Page 1

Demonstrate Today, 5 P.M., in Union Square; Save Gastonia Frame-Up Victims \ ? COME IN MASSES AND HELP SMASH THE BOSSES’ PLOT TO BURN ALIVE 14 TEXTILE STRIKERS WHO, DEFENDED THEMSELVES AGAINST MASSACRE BY POLICE! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS “or a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Impe For the 40-Hour Week rialist War Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ——— Vol. VI, No. 93 Published daily except Sunday by The Company, Inc., 26-25 Union Square, - Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1929 « SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Outside New York, by ‘ork, by mati, $8.00 per |, $6.00 per year. year. ~ Price 3 Cents GASTONIA BOSSES BURN FI ARREST 59 FOLLOWING PICKETING DEMONSTRATION IN FUR STRIKE: OVER 3000 ARE NOW IN WALKOUT _ Workers Given Day in Jail Each in Attempt to Stop Spread of the Strike More Bosses Apply for Settlements; General Strike Committee Meets Tonight At Tender Mercies of Wall St. and Church ‘STRESEMANN IN PLEA FOR YOUNG PLAN, HITS U.S Warns That U. S. May Make Colony of Europe ° \Plan to Cut Wages © | | ERY CROSS AT TENT COLONY INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE MASS _ MEETING IN NEW YORK, SPEAKERS ON TOUR TO DESTROY TEXTILE FRAMEUP | Arrest Released Prisoner; Lynch Threat Continues; Gangs Organized; Major Dolley Advises Machine Guns Pointed at Str ikers New York, Pittsburgh Workers Demonstrate Today; Masses in Seattle, ‘Will Shift Debt Burden | Fifty-nine workers were arrested yesterday morning in By having its puppet government in Mexico make peace with the mass picketing demonstration held in connection with the Philadelphia Hear Mill Strikers’ Story of Southern Terror the catholic church, Wall Street has brought the latter into its ring on German Toilers ; ; ; Soi PS a > ——s general strike of the furriers which began last Wednesday| of tools to oppress the Mexican workers and peasants. Wall Street's eee ad Ror ern onal eee Defense, must morning under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’| ambassador to Mexico, Dwight W. Morrow (at right) gave Portes Sexdaathane ovata SVaataTenaee UNION SQUARE Savery ase: SS STRIKERS HOLD Industrial Union. Gil (at left) Wall Street's puppet president, the instructions on the |Germany, hinted to the Reichstag The arrested pickets were later brought into Jefferson Market Court where they were sentenced to serve one day each in jail or pay $2 fine each new betrayal of the Mexican workers and peasants, today in addressing it upon the pro- jected reparations conference that Europe is in danger of becoming a DEMONSTRATION must be on Union Square at 5 p. m. today. Remember Sacco and Van- |zettismash the Gastonia frame- up! Save the Gastonia victims GREAT MEETINGS i : ,, ,, " United States colony. from the lynch justice of the capi- by Magistrate Frees c-/PANW AND FILE ‘Chicago and Gastonia Prisons |i? 885.2 ot som ace eet oe Quade. All chose the jail term. | s % 7 ing a colony of Great Britain or} TODAY AT FIVE | movement that ve! force the courts IN MILL CITIES This makes a total of 156 strik | G Si lid W k France, but it ible to me| |to free them!” devel aertng ha-tikt ‘tive’ days ement Solidanty o OV REYS ‘rat aii Europe is in danger of be : [Gail reuse Wekkice, eae of the strike. This indicates that PLAN FIGHT ON coming a colony of a country which) i 3 I) sGveriitheon shen nities) otis Glaokee . the policy ‘of wholesale arrests in . + |was luckier than we were. The| Will Be Example to All| x the signature, of, George Asking for Tents$ force dusing the cafeteria workers Greeting Sent by I. L. D. Demonstrators in fact is that these colonics got to:| any wy | Letshing, District Organizer of the aie) strike will continue during the fur- Others gu Country | Communist Youth League, District Distr ibute Food riers’ determined fight to establish union conditions in the fur industry. strike leaders declared. Greatest Yet. The picketing demonstration yes- terday was the most impressive since the beginning of the strike which is a fight for the five-day, 40-hour week, and other union con- ditions. Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of the Industrial Union and chairman of the General Strike Committee, ard Aaron Gross, head of the fur department of the union, led the picket line which swung thru the HILUMAN TERROR Horowitz of Pressers Fired from Job Reyolts in numerous shops have followed the. institution of a new reign of terror by the corrupt Hill- man machine in the Amalgamated ‘against active members of the rank and file clubs, The workers in the Frumberg shop, Houston St., near Broadway, which is a contracting shop for the (Special to the Daily Worker.) | _COOK COUNTY JAIL, Chicago, | (By Mail).—While waiting to be | released on bail kere, the 27 Chi- | cago worl>-- jailed for demorstra- ting in Grant Park against the { frame-up of the Gastonia textile strikers, sent greetings to the North Carolina prisoners as fol- lows: “Greetings to our comrades in the dungeons of the Gastonia mill owners! Prison bars only help cement the solidarity of labor in Illinois to Their North Carolina Comrades Towards that end we struggle in common with you, for you, for the emancipation of all labor.— “Signed: — Theodore snes, Lydia Bennet, Anthony Bimba, Carl Carlson, Helen Childs, Jack Childs, Clara Cline, Paul Cline, Mary Dizoff, J. Louis Engdahl, Morris Fein, John Haecker, Irving Herman, Lydia Hilden, Benjamin Horowitz, William F. Kruse, Anna Liggett, Charlotte Melamed, Max Meltz, Alise Nasrak, Anne New- hoff, Jack Mineu, George Repres- gether to alleviate one another from the burdens from which the other side did not relieve them and which cannot be spirited away. That the German capitalists will use the Young plan to excuse the’ inauguration of a nation-wide drive against the working class in the |shape of wage-cuts, rationalization, lete., is seen behind the~clouds of | pessimism now being disseminated |by them. The Federation of Ger- |man Industries, together with the {commercial banks, affirm that the jannuities demanded by the plan \“are above the payment capacity of | Germany’s economy,” meaning that | Today at 5 p. m. thousands of | workers will gather in Union Square |and veice their protest against the Prraike-up which threatens to send to the electric chair or to long jail terms 22 of the outstanding textile strikers and strike leaders in Gas- tonia, N. C. | This meeting is expected to dem- onstrate on a large scale the de- termination of all workers to rally behind the International Labor De- fense and to save the lives of the Gastonia strikers. 2, this organization calls on all its members to attend the demonstra- tion today. The C. Y. L. statement | is as follows: | “All members of District 2 of the C. Y. L, are instructed to be present at the demonstration today at Union Square at 5 p. m. against the frame- up o fthe Gastonia Textile strikers and organizers. Eleven of those in | jail on framed up murder and as- |sault charges are young workers. It is imperative that every League | member be present.” Ifthe meeting in Union Square today should have to be postponed (Special to the Daily Worker.) GASTONIA, N. C., June 24— Viola Hampton, a young striker who was recently jailed for a week, charged with vagrancy and released without a trial, was arrested again yesterday and held several hours without a warrant or explanation, There is still an undercurrent of secret lynch talk, and quiet organi- zation of the mill owners’ hired thugs and some of the business men of the vicinity and the “chamber of commerce crovd” into murder gangs, which may, on a favoreble oppoi : ‘ . of . rk workers reali very 0M account of rain, it will be held | tunity, attempt to lynch the strike-s fur market and passed the impor- inside shop of J. Friedman, Long| Chicago and Gastonia. The fight- | sas, Carl Sklar, Ethel Stevens, | the workers and peasants will have, Bs ee ectners. roelee Vo inithe: game plate tWalnenins. held ir pidadit tant shops of the Industrial Asso- Island City, dropped their work| img spirit of the Haymarket | Edward Stevens and Sandy | to make up the difference. | well trom their experience wii le : ae i 3 ee SL Se eho Weg PP pe i cher | in. Bi |police frame-up system in any num- Bloor T: 13 in Gastonia Jail. ciation, the organization of the when Sholem Spector, a presser,| ™artyrs, of the Pullman strikers | Williams. | Stresemann in his speech today | i y loor Tour : ahs 4 bosses. was fired at the instigation of Hill-| under the leadership of the Ameri- The Chi tzation of the | 2¢Vised the acceptance of the Young ber of strikes here, needle trades,’ On Wednesday Mother Bloor} 1m Gastonia jail since the release Over 3,000 Now Out. man agents. When Spector came to| C8" Railway Union, of the steel acts ae 2 goesiongiaey plan, tried to show. that its burdens| cafeteria, shoe and iron, that the| and the two strikers will speak in| 0 bonds provided by the bs Doon Gold declared that iat, addi- Work he found the head of his pres-| Workers in this district in 1919, of | International Labor Defense is ar- were lighter than those of the|@mployers with their control of| Youngstown, 0., on Thursday in|the eight charged with “secret as- tional shops were struck yesterday, bringing the number struck thus far to well over 450, with over 3,000 workers out. The General Strike Committee will meet tonight at Manhattan Lyceum, 64 E. 4th St., to review the situation and to for- mulate plans to continue to spread the strike. The fur market during the picket- ing was swarmed with police, mem- bers of the Industrial Squad, pri- vate detectives and underworld char- acters in the hire of the manufac- turers and its company union, the Joint Council. Pickets were shoved, jostled and intimidated by the po- lice who broke the lines periodically. Each time the line, which circled be- fore the important fur shops in the market, re-formed. On a signal from a police captain, police would break up a segment of the line and sing machine removed, and then was | told that there was no work for him, Sluggers Against Workers. Earlier in the week Spector had been approached by HoMander, trade manager of the cloak departuient of the Amalgamated, who warned him to leave the Pressers Club. The firing followed when Spector re- fused. The Frumberg shop is now coy- ered with police and sluggers, un jder Hollander’s direction. Thre workers who looked “suspicious” t them were beaten Saturday. In the shop of Frankel and Sali- pidus, also, at 501 E, Houston St., (80 workers stopped work as a pro- test against the taking down of the ‘active workers. This shop is also ja contractor for the Friedman firm. | Horowitz Thrown from Job. the stockyards’ workers, the rail road workers here in the world’s greatest railroad center, the work- ers in the McCormick and the Deering Harvester plants, the Western Electric Plant, this fight- ing spirit goes into battle again, this time to defeat the exploiters bent on taking your lives. We pledge ourselves to awaken the fury of Chicago labor that will | help wreck the murderous plans of the capitalist class aimed | against }cu. The best planned | plots of the master class can be defeated by the united might of labor. Capitalism executed our comrades, Sacco and Vanzetti, and sneeringly threw their charred corpses at our feet. This time the | working class, heel upon the neck | of capitalism, must be the victor. ranging for a Tag Day <his Sun- day to raise funds for the Gas- tonia Defense. I. L. D. member- ship meetings are being held throughout the city to strengthen the organization. Dawes plan, and stated that Ger- ‘many would not consent to the es- tablishment of a Rhineland commis- sion by the allies as the price of | evacuation of Allied troops. He denounced the Ruhr calling them a “mistake.” GO INTO ACTION! strikes, | courts and officers of the law will always endeavor to use these means |to crush the workers’ movement for better wages and conditions, or for |the right to organize. They have |seen the bosses utilize vicious lying | testimony and every art of rail- |reading to prison or to death. Fight To Save 19 Lives. | The workers in New York remem- | ber how they fought for Sacco and Vanzetti, two workers slaughtered by process of law in Massachusetts. The working ciass in the United States must go into |The New York workers, seeing that action! Now! First of all! Labor must rescue the 14 workers threat- ened with being burned to death in the electric chair in Gastonia, North Carolina. Every other activity of American labor at this moment must support this major campaign, must be an integral part of it. the frame-up system is a universal tactic of the employers, are deter- mined to show all employers it is |very well known to them that any | scheme to murder their fellow work- Jers in Carolina is the concern of workers everywhere, and particu- \larly in New York. New York workers are intent on Erie, Pa., and Friday and Saturday in Cleveland. A big mass meeting in the Public Square has been ar- ranged in Cleveland for Saturday. | On July 4, Mother Bloor, Eliza- beth McGinnjs and Binney Green will speak on Gastonia for the I. L. D., at a picnic at Rochester Picnic Park, Detroit. Max Bedacht’ and Norman Tallentire will speak “for the Communist Party. Other cities ar. asking for speakers, and the. I. L. D. will assign them as quickly as possible. ae ae Seattle Workers’ Resolution. SEATTLE, Wash.—A good meet- ing was held in Painters’ Hall, Seat- tle, of workers who heard the call oi the I. L. D. and the Workers In- ternational Relief and: came under their joint auspices to hear the story !sault with intent to kill,” there re- | main 13 of the 14 held on frame-up murder charges for trial probably late in July. One is held in another jail. These mill strikers and organizers are those most hated by the mill owners of the 98 arrested during the night of June 7 and the two or three days following. An attempt is be- ing made to legally murder them, be- cause on the above date, the Gas- tonia chief of police, Aderholt, led a group of his deputies, and one man who was not an officer of the law at all, to an attack on the'strik- ers’ tent colony. The police opened fire on the tent colony, and all the « beginnings of a new Ludlow massacre were present, but the strikers, prepared, since a masked mob’ had destroyed the previous headquarters of the union, and se Thr : . . é 3 ‘i ight | fh Gastonia frameup. A reso- fought in defense of themselves and hustle them into the patrol wagons. The first vietim of the Hillman |Shiplacoff, Chief of The campaign for the Trade Union Unity Conference |M*King this demonstration tonight) jytion was adopted and sent to the their families. The chief of police besa ‘ees paved today rte Reeron a seh Ree Leather Union, Drops August 31st Sucanple for all those in other! press, to the governor of North|was killed and two of his deputies a demonstration in the morning. A jer o ressers’ Club. | 2 y é i Carolina and the National Textile | badly wounded. 0: trike lead strike bulletin is being distributed | works for the Lewis Co. Several| AJ] Workers’ Demands | The Anti-War Demonstrations on International Red | Prominent leaders of the working +. | (Continued on Pane: Pereeimet (Continued on Page Three) Feverish Preparations By H. M. WICKS | World Red Day to Mobilize Against Imperialist War | rae fifteenth anniversary of the opening of the last imperialist | war occurs at a time when the ques- tion of the inevitability of another’ world war is the central problem a the day. Far from overcoming the | danger of war, the intrigue of) statesmen and bankers around con- { (Continued on Page Three) for Attacks on USSR; Social-Democrats Aid Workers’ Foes |placing a greater burden upon the /masses of Germany. The Young pact also is designed to swing Germany into the orbit of Yankee imperial- ism in its world-wide struggle against its formidable rival, Great Britain. The Young pact is the latest of a series of events since the Sixth ference tables only indicates the| World Congress of the Communist sharpening of all the antagonisms leading to another world war. imperialists Plan War. Even while proclaiming their de- sire to liquidate the international difficulties arising out of the last war, the imperialist agents are lay- » ing the basis for the-next war. The _recently concluded Young pact is a classic example of this. Concessions were made to the German bour- geoisie only in order to swing Ger- many farther toward a “Western orientation,” to align the bourgeoisie Germany and their social-demo- ‘cratic henchmen etc ANe: Union unite—that ‘te the: relentless, drive i: e| threa’ ening them. There must be Periods . Simila “The Charlotte Observer repor- of Socialist Soviet dublics.. The| against the Soviet Union, which is ate eget date ee Name . Pe TE AAAS Mula a Ns no repetition of this in the Gastonia There is a certain similarity to) ters who so kindly interview Miss " pressu on reparat payments is carrying through the construction) send it. THIS IS AN EMER- frame-up. New York, the scene of this period in English history to be! Poyntz from day to day contin- ‘ d only in ‘to pave the | of: socialism. ‘ ||GENCY SITUATION AND NO ‘Addveds the huge Sacco-Vanzetti demonstra- discerned in the reaction to the in-| ually refer to the hangers-on ~ loans frori| ‘The imperialist war-mongers are icin “ak cilia tions of two yea! g0, which were camp followers as strikers Street nkers, thereby |International. that confirms the | judgment of that Congress that the jcentral task facing the Communist Parties of the world is the struggle against the war danger. The antagonisms between the | great powers, particularly the an- tagonisms between the two imperial- jist giants, the United States of America and Great Britain, have ; been tremendously accentuated. But |in spite, of all these antagonisms, in spite of world-wide “struggle for markets, for colonies, there is one conspiracy in which all the powers .... (Continued on Page’ Two) A joint meeting of all shop chair- -|men, section committees, and Joint; Council of the International Pocket- book Workers Union, will be held to- | day at 6 o’clock in the headquarters | of the union, it is learned. This meeting, according to the call, will “consider the establishment of a} strike apparatus.” Has Dropped Workers’ Demaids. In the same statement, issued by the administration, it is learned that the right wing clique, with Shipla- coff, manager of the union, as the head, has given up all the demands which the membership, put forth to the bosses, and is opening an office | jin the Pennsylvania Hotel to make settlements with individual employ-| (Continued on Page Three) | Central Committee Calls in All Funds in ‘Day’s Wage Drive By instructicns of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States you must collect AT ONCE the Special Day’s Pay Assessment from all members you can reach and forward the amount collected immediately to the National Of- fice, 43 East 125th St., New York, Do not wait until all members eee CAN BE TOLERATED. = V Day on August Ist. The organization of the unorganized and the building of new, class struggle trade unions. Support of the National Textile Workers’ Union, the In- ternational Labor Defense and Workers’ International Relief. The building of the solidarity of the Negro and white workers, North and South. Winning new masses for support of and membership in the Communist Party. Not one of these activities can be properly carried for- ward without a daily press spokesman in this fight—the Daily Worker. In past efforts “The Daily” has proved its tremendous value. It is doing so now. It must not only be kept: alive! It must be returned to six pages immediately. Whether it will be able to do this depends on you! Go into action armed for victory by having the Daily Worker steeled for the fight. Send in that contribution TODAY, and start making collections among all the workers with whom you come in contact. Rush in the results immediately. WILL “THE DAILY” SURVIVE? Send in Your Answer! 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, $ delay, class, as well as several Gastonia strikers, will tell of this vicious frame-up and will call the workers of New York to join with their fellow workers thruout the country, under the leadership of the Inter- national Labor Defense, to smash {this murder plot of the mill barons’ courts. Among the speakers will be |stone, Ben Lifshitz, J. Louis Eng- dahl, acting editor of the Daily Worker, M. J. Olgin, Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, D. Benjamin, Otto Hall, Karl Reeve, Rose Baron, Al- |bert Weisbord, Fred Biedenkapp, | Harriet Silverman, Morris Taft and | Sylvan A. Pollack. New Sacco-Vanzetti Case. The demonstration has been called International Labor Defense with |the co-operation of the National | Textile Workers’ Union, the Work- ers International Relief, District 2 jof the Communist Party, and the Trade Union Educational League. An appeal to all New York work- ers, issued last night by the New | York I. L. D. thru Rose Baron, | Secretary, states: “A new Sacco-Vanzetti case—only in Gastonia.. Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered by the capitalist class because the workers of the world, awoke too late to the danger held under the auspices of the In- |Robert Minor, William W. Wein-| (Continued on Page ™ Gastonia Boss Sheet Spouts Venom Against Mill Strikers “Gazette” Calls for the | By BILL DUNNE. Murder of All Frameup Victims; Wants to Starve Tent Colony | eruited for the textile mills from by the New York District of the Nothing, it seems, will satisfy| the country side. For years, as in- |the Gastonia Gazette short of the! dependent-minded tillers of the soil, jenactment of statutes similar to; they have been praised by the |those of the Elizabethan period in| southern press. Their homely vir- England against “sturdy rogues,”| tues have been the theme of in- when it comes to dealing with black-| numerable eloquent editorials. listed strikers—members of the Na-| With their advent into the cotton tional Textile Union—and their, mills—up until the time that large families. numbers began to rebel against the on a larger scale—is in the making| In England when the developing spinning and weaving industry was | Sweeping the rural population into the towns and factories, when the jcommons were enclosed and the | countryside tu; into sheep pas- | tures, landless and jobless men and women were branded as criminals.” | “Sturdy rogues” were to be tied to a cat-tail and whipped “until the blood ran down” for the first of- fense of being found idle. For the second offense they had their ears cut off, for the third they were hung, drawn and quartered. dustrialization process going on in the South. The workers are re- | greedy tyranny of the mill owners | —their praises continued to be sung. | Like the sturdy British yeomanry whose longbows and _ clothyard shafts (the term itself testimony to the influence of rising mercantile | capital) mowed down the flower of French chivalry ang won the decisive battles for Britain, the southern mill workers were hr'l»i as the back- bone of the new South. But now listen to this choice piece of billingsgate culled from the edi- torial columns of the Gastonia Ga- zette for June 21: (Continued on Page T' i4