The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.4 under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol, VL, No. 94 Published dally except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Uxion Square, Company, Inc., 26-28 New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Yerk, by ail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents THROW TEAR GAS INTO GASTONIA STRIKERS’ 50 FUR BOSSES APPLY TO UNION FOR SETTLEMENTS; 156 PICKETS ARRESTED SINCE STRIKE BEGAN Lawyer for Manufacturers and Company Union | in Court to Demand Severe Sentences General Strike Committee Meets; Calls for workers in the electric chair. Huge Picket Demonstration Tomorrow | As the general strike of the furriers spreads, 50 fur bosses, | SMASH GASTONIA FRAME-UP! The fight to save the life of the Daily Worker | is directly bound up with the struggle to smash the Gastonia frame-up of the textile mill own-| ers that seeks to burn out the lives of 14 heroic No adequate struggle can be waged to rescue the North Carolina textile workers from the hideous death that awaits them,.without a powerful Daily Worker to aid in members of the Fur Trimming Association, yesterday and| the fight. | Monday applied for settlements Industrial Union, which is. leading the struggle for the five-| threatened. day, 40-hour week and other Strike Committee announced yesterday that it has decided to | begin settlements. to the Needle Trades Workers’ | union demands. The General| Yet, at this very moment, the life of the Daily Worker is Last Friday morning there was no Daily Worker. For the first time since it was established the Daily Worker missed an issue. |» One day’s fight for the Gastonia frame-up victims was lost. unionists was resumed today, the | FRAMEUP POLICY IN INDIA TRIAL Prosecutor Attack on the Communists in Violent Jail Another Militant. Anglo-U.S. Truce Aims, at Gagging Colonials (Wireless by Inprecorr) LONDON, June 25.—When the THRONG DEFIES Meerut trial of 32 militant trade) RAIN T0 HEAR British im- — STRIKERS SCAT > “Release Mill Prisoners’ Is CELLS WORKERS MUST SAVE DAILY: MACDONALD IN THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE IN NEW YORK FOR RELEASE OF GASTONIA TEXTILE MILL ED FOR ELECTROCUTION Loray Strikers Get Back Confiscated Furniture, Broken, Parts Stolen; | Sanitary Officers Harass ‘Colony; Try to Break It Up Goldberg Mill at Bessemer City Buys Property Under Union Offices; Orders Eviction; New Headquarters in Preparation ‘STORES SEIZING |The struggle against the threatening war danger, leading ap Pueeecusir, took’ Let = Butt pe to International Red Day (Anti-War Day) August First, was poalem, ppencied 2: Vindictive ake | halted. On this day the Daily Worker did not function on the | o> tnaia students in seebpaieacs|| picket lines in the New York furriers’ strike, when elaborate | also charged that the Communists plans had been made to distribute thousands of copies of “The | have sent emissaries to India. Daily”, thus using it as an effective medium for spreading the | Phillip Spratt, he claimed, came strike. For this day the campaign for the Trade Union Unity Pea nais (a Ce egeare 8 Reoleeeller Conference, August 31st, had to be suspended. Every other |v arty, hes a cae pee ae labor activity was seriously affected. | liberation of the Hindu masses from Workers the nation over felt the loss. Following a picketing ‘om- TAILORS T0 MEE onstration in the fur market, | Lena Chernenko and Mary, aM Bp eH Gaizer were fined $2 each or on | LH} nw F T CNRS Wf HT day in jail by Magistrate Francis McQuade in Jefferson Market Court. Workers are Called to Stuyvesant Casino | STOVES; COOKING. ce eT ON OUTDOOR FRE | great New York mass meeting yes-| terday, in Union Square condemn-) Cordner, Tubercular, re |Resolution Demands} Release of Prisoners | ing the frame-up of Gastonia tex-| : [tile strikers, and pointing out the| Denied Treatment cing ox | mill owners’ reason for resorting to| NS! oY Mo. Tune: 29-0 l she nttampb-al-therhurder'of 14 | —Police used their clubs to smash | rh, resolution states: | e resolution states: | textile strikers report that hirelings up a great meeting in the open | 5 rae ‘ | air here, protesting the Gastonia | “American capitalism is trying to| of the Loray mills are torturing the GASTONIA STORY The workers paid the fine. Boss Lawyer. in Court. Twenty-five pickets were given suspended sentences, and the cases of five others were adjourned until July 18, on $1,000 bail each. Sam Reiss from the office of Sam Markowitz, attorney for the Inter- (Special to the Daily Worker.) Letters, inquiries | the intolerable yoke of the British GASTONIA, June 25.—Released by telephone and telegraph, have been received from workers | imperialists thru revolution, rs everywhere, revealing the fact, clearly and unmistakably, that! Hutchison has been placed under 4 i Tor : e 4 peer arrest and is now among the ac-! frame. hee s |railroad to death 14 union organ-| strikers unhindered by the pri uae sober a nel aay: A mass meeting to protest against the Daily Worker is a mighty factor in the daily lives of the aimed: Ramee jue aed Bes jee ‘i _ Z = : a basesk te # Ha slate ae bail and severe sentences on behalf the growing terror against militants | workers in all sections of the land. The day that the Daily, A leading article in the Daiiy| Ike Lerner and have held them for | 272. 204 strikers and. six throw: teac™ gas bombs into the of the employers and the company union who are cooperating in attac! ing the militant left wing industr‘ union. A meeting of the General Strike by the Hillman machine in the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers is being called for tomorrow at 5.30 in Stuy- along all the battlefronts of labor. The fact that the Daily Worker has reappeared does not sesant Casino, 219 Second Avenue. mean that it is out of danger. Quite the contrary. | Worker did not appear, there was an inevitable weakening Herald, labor party organ, today jumped on the prosecutor for work- ing up prejudice against thc class war prisoners, but declared that | investigation. The police raided | workers to long term imprisonment the Communist Party headquar- jfor leading and engaging in the ters and confiscated everything. | heroic Gastonia strike and for de- The frame-up charges against the | fending themselves . against the prison cells through the windows. This is playing havoe with the health of the prisoners. Joe Gard- ner, who has tuberculosis, acquired ‘ Agtcs : tet ithe trial, which was incited by the arrested workers are for black- | brutal attacks of the militia and| after many years of work in the | Committee was held last night at| The meeting, which is being called| fp the first place, there has been a reduction in size from former conservative government,! mail, as the police are trying to |gunmen of the southern textile| mills, has lost 12 pounds since his Manhattan Lyceum and made plans Ly the Banik ae File Committes of | cy to four pages. This was inevitable. This comes at the very | ™ust be cue cee by. pies labors show that letters were written on | manufacturers, and incarceration. s condition has ee aes paki sane dies oe will isi al es ateasl eae moment when the Daily Worker should have been increased sea ice Pictahion te ite MtacDraat a Ae pewter iB the party of- | “The capitalist state, not satis-|been also aggravated by the refusal by PiacGcld, shiienan see jamal combed the Hillman terror, which | rather than decreased in size. This means that two full Pages gang. town. twat ee tied wy ie prsmsijon foment ae hia ascii be pula a mie he ee that the re- seeceaaes in ferocity during the had to be eliminated, the Worker Correspondents’ Page (Page| ‘The negotiations now going cn SEN (Continued on Page Two) clementary treatment ar iw caaeee! sponse 0’ ie workers was en- ast week. ss Sr Siar ana Bs thusiastic showing their readiness to struggle for the abolition of the sweatshop with its low wages and in- tolerable conditions, and for the building of 4 real fighting industrial union. A picketing demonstration, which | is expected to exceed in size the demonstravion held on Monday morn- (Continued on Page Two) “Black Haiti,” Unique Narrative, Starts in \ the “Daily” Tomorrow “Black Haiti,” a remarkable narrative of persecution in one of the colonies of Wall Street, will start in the Daily Worker tomor- row. This unique story, which is fact, not fiction, has been written by a worker, Jacques Dicharson, a seaman who has spent the last three years in the countries of the Caribbean. The narrative is based upon personal experiences and observation and has been written specially for the Daily Worker. Resentment Great. Resentment against the most re- cent pogrom tactics of the Amal- gamated machine is high among the workers, and the meeting tomorrow | enemy capitalist class. This weakness must be overcome im- | Soviet Union throws a glaring light is being looked forward_to as an cpportunity to begin plans for re- sisting the Hillman terror This t is expressing itself in the form of taking individual workers shops, slugging workers ok “suspicious” to the machine agents and their hired thugs, and a campaign of intimida- tion of all workers who show dis- satisfaction with the Hillman poli- Important Correction. | In yesterday’s story of the Amal- gamated in the Daily Worker, it was reported that a presser, Sholem Spector, was fired at the instigation | of the Hillman machine, from the/| Frumberg shop, Houston St., near Broadway. This is incorrect. Spec- tor was a worker in the shop of J. | Friedman, Long Island City, and the | Frumberg Company is a contracting shop for Friedman. Along with| (Continued on Page Two) | Four) and the page given over to Foreign News (Page Three). | This is like a soldier going into action short of ammunition. | It is a huge piece of working class artillery that hasn't suf-| ficient strength to make an effective attack on the well armed | | mediately. | In the meantime, however, the life of the Daily Worker is continually in jeopardy. The immediate task is not a res- toration of size to six pages. | EVERY EFFORT IS NEEDED NOW TO MAINTAIN THE DAILY WORKER EVEN IN THE REDUCED SIZE, TO PRE- | VENT ITS COMPLETE SUSPENSION, TO SAVE ITS LIFE. The readers of the Daily Worker must meet this acute! crisis, just as they have successfully overcome similar diffi- culties in the past. We know that you will keep the Daily Worker alive to expose and defeat the Gastonia frame-up, to| rally the whole working class against the threatening imperial. | ist war, to develop the campaign for the organization of the unorganized in the basic industries, to bring new masses of workers into the Communist Party, building it into a mass. organization leading the workers to ever greater and greater victories. Instant action is required, however. Every hour, practi- | cally, the life of the Daily Worker faces new dangers. Every | day some new and pressing obligations must be met. On| Mondays the workers in the composing room must be paid. | between the British and American| Standing for twenty minutes at imperialists, aiming at a temporary jthe end of the meeting in a pouring tfuce in order to better carry on a | vain, too interested to 0 away thou- joint suppression of the colonial sands of New York militant work- countries and plans for war on the | ers crowded the north end of Union | Square yesterday, and shouted a roaring “No,” when William Z. Fos- | ter and other speakers demanded of | them whether they would allow their scious workers in the colonies and! fellow workers in Gastonia to be at home, the line laid down by electrocuted. Baldwin, will not be swerved from | by the “labor” misleaders. on the “labor” program of Mac- Donald and his fellow jumping- jacks. The frame-up of class-con- many Tammany police. It was a forrest of such placards jand signs born on poles, as “Down with Capitalist Terrorism—The Tex- tile Strikers Demand 20 per cent In- crease in Wages”; “Fight the Gas tonia Frame-Up; Join the I. L. D.”; “Down with the Executioners of the Working Class; Join the Communist | Party”; “The Mill Barons are Thirst- Strike Will Continue, |ing for Workers’ Blood”; “Detend . . the Gastonia Young Strikers”: Kramberg Says “Raise the Voice of Labor in a Twelve cafeteria strikers mere: crriuy Dowel fon the ee yesterday released on a writ of Champion Manville habeas corpus signed by Supreme |Jenckes Makes Millions of Profits dudge Leighton. by Exgloiting Child Lal The order was obtained by Philip A resolution demanding the end Vittenberg, lawyer for the cafeteria |cf the frame-up and the immediate Court Rules “Multiple Dwellings Law” To Be |Breach of Constitution The “multiple dwellings law passed at the last legislature was \held unconstitutional yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Richard R. | Lydon, on the technical grounds that York and was passed without an emergency message from the gover- nor to the legislature, and without a two-thirds’ majority. Banker Woodroff, Foe of Farmers, Slated To Be Republican Leader WASHINGTON, June 25.—George Woodruff, one of the Hoover gang, is being groomed for chairman of the republican party national com- mittee, it was stated here tonight by party leaders. Woodruff was Chi- cago campaign manager for Hoover during the 1928 elections. Investigations today brought many opinions that the fiery cross burned before the strikers’ tent colony yesterday was set up and lighted by paid agents of the Man- ville Jenckes Co., in an attempt to make the strikers fear that they | were to be attacked by the Ku Klux | (Continued on Page Two) The meeting was surrounded by | it affected only the City of xev TELLS OF WARDER GRAFT DEMANDS Ferrari’s Widow Shows Tammany’s Hand Tammany’s corrupt record in the Gity Trust Company erash, to which | many of its leaders contributed, was revealed even more glaringly at yes- terday’s Moreland probe investiga- |tions, when the widow of the dead |banker Ferrari told the hearing that \“whenever Ferrari was ont of sorts r angry he would talk of these . a 7 F He is a big banker of Joliett, Ill, The rules of the Typographical Union do not permit of an in- | workers union, on the ground that) stant’s delay. On Fridays the wages of the stereotypers and | the special sessions court which eel bressmen must be ready. White paper must be bought. Our | Victed the strikers had no jurisdic- telegraphic service was stopped twice during the past week. | “°™ Our engravers have refused to grant us any credit. This means | +people who were always wanting Glynn and Mr. ” Warder continually black- |mailed graft from Ferrari, she said, Glynn is the nephew of former |Governor Smith, and has bean previ- freeing of all the mill owners’ vie-| and Chicago, and has paid especial tims held on charges of murder and | care to the exploitation of farmers W (Continued on Page Two) \ by agricultural loan banking. EMERGENCY FUND Others Jailed. The Returns Are Too Small By Far that cash must be paid daily for all engravings, cartoons, il- The released workers had been sentenced to serve 60 days in jail for) Gastonia’s Plumed Knights, ously mentioned in ‘the hearings” as lustrations and other features that help to make a live, ef-| violating an injunction obtained by ‘ Tees of i een eS ea: Returns are far too slow. Tens of thousands of dollars must | fective “Daily”. |the Wil-low Cafeterias, Inc. Over Defenders of Law and Order |tundreds of working clase Hlasiateies eh tepied see 3M ner proeent presen wan and ly hundreds are Last Friday “The Daily” did not appear because we were ee Bac Ran a erated vere ruined. His friends who shared Of Will vou sh nt, membership and sympathizers must wake | unable to raise $1,000. Publication was continued with the | | in the profits were Warren F. Hub- up! Will yo it until it is too late b ding? is Te : ‘ i @ |same charge are expected to be re-| . H . A We Peon Reber ieiemaiiately, fi on cits v Oue Wahon i understanding that this sum would be raised immediately. The | leased in the next few days. | All Gastonia Divided Into Two Class Camps are nese ips Ree “ : SEM Jor GN @Ntire weer: printer threatens to shut down at any moment unless payment | In Jefferson Market Court Magis- | : : - eee Sa au and millionaive, oubRunee k VeDWAR NY VO sic sk $10.00 Ludwig Landy, 8F, Sec, 1 is soon forthcoming. trate McQuade yesterday sentenced | By BILL DUNNE. | Every loyal Gastonian was sup-| f the Ttalian fascist: newepe aaa F Teesd acti C IN » , » 4, 6 cafeteria strikers to $2 fine or| Gastonia and vicinity, under the) posed to stand by and be ready tof the onan TAecisy, Pe ong Is ‘ion Com- ew York . 6.00 Another shutdown, even for a single day, may prove fatal. tm tai rule of Manville-Jenckes, furnishes answer the call of duty. If this in- | Progresso. munist Party .... 97.00 | A. Wagenknecht, hi e v9 + | one day in jail. They chose to spend i : beets 5 7 os F The widow Ferrari added to prev- ‘A.M. Kuntz, N. ¥.C. 25.00) 1, New York 6.09 | LHis must not occur. The Daily Worker must not die. It must | a day in jail. They had been ar-| 8" interesting study in tyranny and volved being the victim of blackmail | sid roving: sbaMisieyeinae J. Shavchuker, No. 2 Mary’ Himmoff, (¥.W.L.) NY 425| live to battle for the lives of the 14 comrades facing the electric | rested in the mass picketing demon. |t@?Torism. The strike led by the levied by members of the police| icus evidence during eee eG Chis eB ene eee CREEL Paulin: to tights tse thal eect miners, steel workers, the auto |sttation in front of the Princeton National Textile Workers Union force, one could always eey a ra poanies darn fans a t » N.Y. . . , ‘i . y y | 4 | re for thi li to | the great for di d the|administration as state banki Geo. Paptheodore, N. Y. C. 5.00 £. R. Link, 8F, Section 1, workers, the furriers, the iron, food and other strikers in New | ©2feteria, 27th St. and 6th Avenu ite fia eseetts rides tovar THe frre ibe ‘had to be made for| superintendent. Tn return Warder Henry Leff, N. Y. C. 5.00) N York ‘ape z 4 é ew | on Monday. Four others were dis- | e and exercise wider powers. The | sacrifices that had to be made for | SUP! Z Ab : as he 5.00 | Mhonrcane we eye 5.00 | York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, San Fran- |charged and four cases adjourned to | ower middle class elements of “e|the heroes in khaki. Was this not a|had openly connived at Ferrari’s vin- } x Bath Dene Henan . ae cisco and a multitude of other cities, | June 29. local citizenry suffered to some ex-|similar emeggency? Certainly alba of form panko bs : é $5.80 | Anonymous, New York ....., 1.00 |. , One of our younger comrades, Sonny Roback, of New York| There are now 33 cafeteria ener Bae poaaane aat ee | Mat ue ice ae a a eae hearer ae ae ; saute: Giese mei tah LI, City, sends in his four months savings, of $1.85. This is the ie have i ba cis bier es raid on and the battle in the Work- | could not be too critical of these NE HERTS ‘ st digg vcsr+++. 5,00) spirit that makes defeat impossible. the: union), involving: ” over ers International Relief tent colony | brave defenders of the right of the Rothstein Ganeste ib lla as ot ; t's But the response must be quick. The need is great at this nce inning of Fight and the National Textile Workers |Loray mill officials to pay starva. "VOU UR GIN 7BU8 08 : [John Gilbert, Now York =... sao] Yer¥ moment. Every hour counts. Every hour must be made | “This i, ncie me tertenteg of the Ma re ih ine ee Gets Lead Se 4 beets Rochester, N.Y HD Mille, Baleimare, Md... 1.00} to count effectively through an increasing flow of contributions | fight for union conditions in the/ otic fortitude. The battle of the y‘-ht of June| Frankie Marlow, side-kick of aS tol eae . ae emer, Md. 1.00| from every section of the land. Use the blank below: cafeterias of New York,” Kramberg| Couples whose coupes were parked|7, the wholesale raids on workers’, Arnold Rothstein, millionaire dope Anna Thom son, Unit : Fa a ee cbant Aes an cates EW . declared. “The union has made @/in the lush foliage of the roadside,| homes and the mass arrests which | peddler who was bumped off a short Septinka ‘ v. 2.00 pad erbert, Grand Rapids, ‘ very excellent beginning in this|merrymakers emptying a flask of | followed, the campaign of terrorism | while ago, was taken for a ride last He kmion id N.Y. ich Re Saunt eecees 2.00 | if Lo] 4 Pioneer strike of the food workers /their favorite tipple in the seclusion | initiated under the direction of city| night. His body, with three bullets — The, Bed Painter’ N. + ‘aieg pe qi » Allen, Washington, S q 4 : who have | of some wooded dell, even ctaid citi-| and mill officials, the murder|in his head, was found sprawled out Saul. Divon, N.Y... 2.60 Tact a oa Hughes are gt . | open-shop |zens whose business engagements| charges preferred against 14 work-| in the middle of a Long Island Road. Fea dates oY. rao Me rem agate Md. 3.00 . | bership has doubled. Every day sees | had kept t':om out after dar’. wore|ers for defending themselves and| The parasites of organized crime, bia Nao ty Ry.” Seal teati? ied No, Provi- Send in Your Answer! | more workers joining the union from accosted and detained by members | their union headquarters, the nation-|like the clerical parasites, are ‘heb Mathodice, N.Y. 500 f dence, R. I... . eee eee 1.00 cafeterias which have not yet been| of the Gastonia police force. wide campaign of publicity launched| financed by Wall Street. Gum ‘0. Methodios, N. ani \, Rarsamian, N. Providence, The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. struck. In the course of time we| There was little if any public pro-| by the International Labor Defense,|to be used by the bosses in ton |ieee acne Nee id is have Ladi nett fit bi: test even sh some of the offi-|the evidence of sympathy for and/ing strikes and attacking eine Vy cers, N. Y, After reading th f for atd in th a on a much larger scale than the /cers insisted that fines be paid in| support of the I L. D. and the Na- demonstrations of the workers Bale aes ak veal Bok Gai ah MAA e in the Daily Worker 1 am || present strike.” cash on the spot—phe “fines” never | tional Textile Workers Union among | ceive their training in the fie eal bento bos Ee ca : ts 3 PMOUNS, appearing in the police court} big sections of «workers—all have|rum running, dope peddling ihe ein dg ilbert, | Providence, r “Daily” Agents Meet | tecords. The strike was on in the|had the effect of loosening tongues | kindred trades, Only these ae Neem vt Pigs RRM putts 2.00] | NAME re ii cedeveseaesesees eT ene ee poe mill. ba: police, after the | and sharpening tempers. rete and +Mellons, ‘not vichter, sess 5,0 nist i 5 een aily Worker” agents of Section | troops were withdrawn were the sole} A re-alignment of forces is taking| millions of workers undet ick, 3F, Section 1,N.¥. 4,25) Louisiana. ...... se), 6.00) | MUGFEBS eerie ee ieee, oe ‘ 2 of the New York District of the) bulwark between the mill barons, | plac y ‘ bes Init 4 b e as always happens in social| thumbs, cannot start a F, Section ea 3 At Providence Unit ub .. Provi- Po) homed of contributors will be published in the Communist Party will meet at 7:30 ee chamber of commerce coterie, centlicts, Utterances which a week| they fall out among th Sn 00| (Continued on Page Three) p.m. today at 101 W. 47th St, and the striking mill Peat (Continued on Page Three) 4 | must shoot it out in p {