The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1929, Page 1

* THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered as second-class at the Post Office at New York, N Worker under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION = = ee SS Company, tnc., Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing 28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUN 327, 1929 SRIPTION BATE Outside New York, by m ew York, by mai}, $8.00 per year : Price 3 Cents per year. ANOTHER GASTONIA STRIKER FRAMED; MU RDER CHARGE Mass Picketing in Furners General Strike Today Carolina Labor Body U/ORKERS IN ij) THERE MUST BE $5,000 BEFORE | SATURDAY TO SAVE THE ‘DAILY; This is the plain, unadorned fact. We put this question before our readers as our revolutionary duty to the working class. The | very appearance of the Daily itself reveals the tremendous diffi- culties under which we are keeping the paper alive. We had to re- duce the size of our paper from six to four pages. All our credit is cut of. Everything we get must he paid for spot cash. The United Press, that was furnishing us news service has cut off the ma- chines that carry that service into this office because we could not meet our debts. The engrav>rs have cut off our service for pictures for the same reason. It is only with the that we are able to get out inter: We are working on the vert narrowest margin to exist at all, and we see before us the end of the week with the heavy bills due and there are not sufficient funds coming in to UNLESS WE GET SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO PAY SOME OF OUR DEBTS AND THE CURRENT EXPENSES WE WILL BE FORCED TO SUSPEND ON At this moment when the working class of every section and of every industry in the country is beginning to fight against wage-cuts, the speed-up and all the effects of rationalization, at a moment when the capitalist class has set out to murder the leaders of the organizational drive of the National Textile Workers Union unless the working class of the United States and of the world is mobilized against it, the Daily Worker is more indespensable than ever before. MORE FUR SHOPS: JOIN THE STRIKE: Cloakmakers Told of| Left Wing Halls A mass picketing demon- stration, the most impressive since the general strike of the furriers began eight days ago, is ex- pected to take place at 7:30 this morning in the fur market. Not only furriers, but all members of the Needle Trades Workers and all other sympathetic workers are called to join the demonstration. Workers from 18 more shops yes- terday joined the strike. At the same time the General Strike Com- mittee announced that, in con- formity with a decision reached at its meeting on Tuesday night, the Industrial Union yesterday settled with a number of shops and nego- tiations are proceeding with over 200 others. Additional applications for settlements continue to come in laily, the union reports. In Jefferson Market’ Court yester-| @ay, Magistrate Louis Brodsky dis-| charged five furriers charged with) disorderly conduct. They were ar- rested while picketing. { Cloakmakers Called To Halls. Anticipating the International La- meet these bills. SATURDAY! greatest difficulties, dies’ Garment Workers’ organiza- tion, the company union of the bo will call their threatened fake strike any minute, the Indus- trial Union last night called upon | the cloakmakers to convert this move into a real strike for union conditions under its leadership. The Industrial Union calls upon the cloakmakers, when the “strike” is called, to report to the left wing halls, which will be the National Palace, 115 Houston St.; Aristocrat | Hall, 69 St. Marks Place, and Man- sion Hall, 57 St. Marks Place. These halls have a capacity of over 3,500. not 700 as stated by officials of the I. L. G.W. U. “We will pack these halls, and it may be necessary to hire more halls. Furthermore they will be used to check up and er the strikers, who will be coming and going all day long. There will be a showdown that will demonstrate that the right. wing is bankrupt financially and organiza- tionally,” Joseph Boruchowitz, man- ager of the Joint Board, said. 4 But just Surely, at such a time, our readers will realize the necessity of immediate financial assistance to enable us to get through the difficulties we now face. ation as exists at present in the United States that we have a real opportunity to become in fact what Lenin said a Communist paper should be, “not only the collective agitator but the collective organizer of the working class.” Rush your contribution to help us overcome this immediate crisis. funds direct to the Daily Worker office! tional news, Correspondents, Join the Fight to Save the Gastonia Prisoners! Aided by the capitalist courts of North Carolina, the mill bosses are attempting to send 14 Gastonia workers, with their leaders, to the electric chair. A large-scale Sacco-Vanzetti case looms. The voice of the powerful army of worker correspondents of. the Communist press must be raised to fight this attempted mass murder. Workers, let the mill bosses and the capitalist courts know that you will net permit the murder of these 14 courageons fighters. Let these 14 workers, faced with electrocution by the law of the bosses know that you will fight for their lives, to the end. Do this now. thru the Daily Worker. Worker correspondents, show your power. Write in at once, expressing your solidarity with the 14 frame-up victims of ‘the Gastonia courts. Do it now! It may soon be too e! Worker correspondents, the fight to save the G: STIMSON PUTS BANK BURDENS eatest sacrifice in this situation we face our It is in such a situ- Mail or bring BIG CHICAGO CITY CONFERENCE FOR LABOR DEFENSE Touring Speakers Get Strong Response | CHICAGO, IL, Ju ity-wide conference, representatives of many class organizations, is ranged by the local Labor Defense for noon, July 14, at Temple Marshfield and Van Buren where plans will be cor mobilizing all the workers Chicago district to raise funds for the defense of the victims of the ‘Gastonia frame-up. The conference j will also organize the defense of the 27 workers who were ar dat 26.—A big attended by working being ar- International after- Hall, Sts., Sunday an I, L. D. protest demon: tion against the Gastonia frame-up on |June 15. The conference will be followed by a mass meeting in the evening in the same place. Strikers To Two Gastonia textile s fred Hayes and John Wisna, will Assist. arrive in Chicago Saturday to aid in the preparatory work for the con- ference. They will be in Buffalo this Thursday and Friday in behalf of Gastonia defense. NEEDED TO SAVE Rebuffs Prosecution Strike Leader in Peril 9 CARLOADS OF 7. 4 DEPUTIES CARRY | Vee: f _ HAMPTON AWAY : | Kidnapped from South to North Carolina GASTONIA, N. C., | Another strike leader is arrested and |charged with murder. Delmar Hampton, an active textile striker of |Gastonia was jailed in Gaffney, pe s South Carolina, at 10 A. M. this Fred Erwin Beal, held in Gasto-| morning, and held until 3 P. M. in nia jail and slated for electrocution, | the afternoon, when he was handed along with 13 other workers, by or-|over to three carloads: of deputies der of the Manville Jenckes miil| from Gastonia, in charge of Sheriff owners. The Gastonia Gazette eays,| Lineberger, and carried without ex- “Beal is the bird we want.” He is|tradition papers to the Gastonia southern organizer of the National] jail. Textile Workers Union. Send funds June 26. — Hearing news of his arrest, the for defense of Beal and the other| International Labor Defense im- Gastonia frame-up victims to In-| mediately sent its representative, ternational Labor Defense, 80 East| Paul Crouch, from Charlotte to 11 street, New York. THOUSAND A DAY South Carolina, but he arrived after Hampton had been carried away. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national sec- retary of the I.L.D., is leaving this evening from Charlotte for Gastonia with the I.L.D.’s attorneys, to de- mand Hampton’s release on the grounds of lack of evidence and the |fact that he was kidnapped from Reject Attack on Strikers. UP TO ALLIES Holds France, England \Girls of Salofelt Shop | Give $10.50 to Daily The girl workers of the Salofelt Hat Company, realizing the grave danger in which the Daily Worker finds itself at the present moment, and knowing that the suspension of the only daily organ of the working would seriously cripple their struggles as well as the entire labor movement, have made 2 collection among them- selves and contributed a total of 50 out of their meager earn- ings to save the paver. They promise to give still more in the future. class EMERGENCY FUND NEGRO WORKER | SHOT BY BOSSES | Thugs Attack 3 Times; | Protest I Planned | A story of the most ferocious per- | secution of a Negro worker by boss gangsters has just been revealed to the Daily Worker, after weeks of suppression by the capitalist sheets . working hand in glove with the Tammany police. Alfred Jackson, driver of an ice wagon, who lives at 550 East 133rd | St. New York City, has been at- tacked and beaten on three separate occasions during the last six weeks, the latest attack landing him in the hospital with two bullets in his leg. In each case the murderous thugs IRON INJUNCTION HEARING TODAY Must Do Collecting | : FOOD STRIKERS WASHINGTON, June 26.—Secre- |tary of State Stimson today issued ARE RELEASED la statement designed to place on | France and England the burden oi | the looting of Germany by war vic- | |tors. He said that the U. S. gov-| ernment would not officially partici- pate in the “Reparations Bank,” the | financial institution established on | |the proposal by Owen D. Young and |J. P. Morgan at the Dawes Plan | ; Board of Experts mecting recently sentenced to 60 | ended. jail by justices of the special | : : f sessions court. were relaesed yester- | The reparations bank is an organi. day on a writ of habeas corpus. |zation which will handle all pay- Twelve strikers were freed Tues-|ments from Germany, and_ will Nearly 100 other strikers | finance the martcti-g of payment tenced to 60 days in the work-|in kind. Stimson’s statement today house are awaiting similar action. | does not mean that tHe U. S. will They were all convicted of violation | not have unofficially representation of the drastic injunction granted the }0n its board. Young and Morgan | Willow Cafeterias, Inc. and the | Were called “unofficial” delegates to ‘United Restaurant Owners Associ- |the board of experts, but-actually Bosses Try ‘to Frame- Up Striker The hearing on the application for an injunction against picketing in the strike being led by the architec- tural Iron and Bronze Workers Unionf which is being sought jointly by 15 bosses, will be heard today. Meanwhile, despite the application and possible court action, strikers held picketing demonstrations be- fore all the 15 places, and many others. Three more settlements were made yesterday, J. Rosenfeld, secretary. treasurer of the union announced. This makes a total of 3 ettled shops to date. The boss¢ agreed Were Jailed on Drastic Injunction Order Five more cafeteria strikers pre- | viously found guilty of violation of jthe injunction and Gay: ation by the supreme court. J exercised complete veto powers and Defense Reports Much Help; Not Enough | With the trial of 14 Gastonia tex- {tile strikers and strike leaders on; {charges of murder, tentatively set |for July 29, the importance of speed | in raising defense funds is being em- phasized by the International Labor Defense whose nation-wide campaign | in behalf of the Gastonia frameup victims is enlisting thousands of workers and sympathizers with the struggles of labor. One thousand dollars a day is the amount needed, the National Office of the I. L. D. announces. The secur- ing of an adequate corps of defense lawyers to combat the 14 leading | North Carolina attorneys who are in the employ of the Manville-Jenckes |Company’s courts and are determined | to send every one of the 14 framed men and women to the electric chair; | the bailing out of the eight workers who are facing charges of assault |with intent to kill; the countless Samuel Levittan N. Y. Isidor Stone, New York Joe Guarascio, New Yor! George Vonga ... Stephen Kovacs . Louis Lukaes D, Armando, New York 6 F. Sabo... 1M A, Shiper, New York .. 3, T. Hamm . a Joe Notoli, New York 4 A. Proffom 1.00 M. Mancusooo, New York » 2.00 Mirafsky 5.00 F. Lisi, New York .. 2.00 Andy Gyrych, Monessen, Pa... 5.00 O. Rosenbaum, New Yor' 2.00 I. M. Thomas, Barberton, Ohio 5.00 | S. Amler, New York .. 2.00 |S. Zino, Braddock, Pa. . «. 100 H, Raskin, New York .. 5.00 Al Minkin, Brooklyn, N. 1. D. Lubovitz, New York . . 8.00 Lee Zirlin, Bronx, N. Y, 2. Pete Swanson, Unit 4 S-4, N.Y. 5.00 Jve Miiler, Toledo, Ohio . 2. H. MeKiernon, Brooklyn , N. Y. 5.00 | Albert Langendorfer, Newport, Camp Nei-Leben, Glenham, NY 14.50' Kentucky .............0-- 1.00 H. Casten, Brooklyn, N. Y. .. 5.00 Helen & Fred Douglas, Pate 1F-Sec, 3, New York, N. Y..... 19.50! son, N. J. .... 20.00 Th. Sepp, Philadelphia, Pa. .. 10.00 M. Goldstein, Woodridge, N. 1.00 W. H. Fletcher, Hadley, Pa... 4.51 M. Arkin, Woodridge, N.Y... 4.00 ¢ Robert Tosche, Clifton, N. J... 5.00) Wm. Long. Wellington, Ohio 5.00 C. Faessler, Atlantic City, NJ 4.00 / Odessa Br. 225 W. C., N.Y... 25.00 Y, Palm, Chicago, Ill, ........ 1,00 David Falk, Canton, Ohio ... 2.00 J. J. Skahan, Hudson, Mass... 5.00 Charles Moschel, Cincinnati, f Russ. Wom. Aid Society, PPRMOIOL ys ernie’ ssahianw 0) a 5.00 \ Hegewisch, Ill. ...... - 10.00 Geo. Elles, Waukegan, Ill. 1.00 | { John Stropin, Chicago, Ill. «= 2.00 |Gust Pappas, Waukegan, II 1.09 \ John Reichle, Madison Heights, S. Sotiros, Waukegan, Ill. 50 Aa. Vas ‘th see 1.0¢ |W. N. Patterson, Zanesville, 0. 5.00. D. Zini, No. Little Rock, Ark. 20.00 Mlincis. .......eceseceeeee T. Pazar, Detroit, Mich. ...... 1) Nasto Tarleff, Waukegan, Il! Collection by S. Hartley, Cleve., 0.: Steve Tesinos, Waukegan, Ill. S. Hartley , + 2.00 Gust Frant: . Chi + 2,00) Mlinois 1.00 (Continued on | MILL “THE DAILY” SURVIVE? Send in Your Answer! The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. Nick Patkis, Waukegan, Ill... Nick Vassilopulos, Waukegan, | sending you the enclosed amount. $ 1% After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am 1.00 responsible were the same. The men behind the footpads are _wealthy Bronx ice dealers who re- sent Jackson’s “encroachments” upon what they regard as their pri- vate preserves. Jackson is well liked by his working class customers | and does a thriving trade in the neighborhood between 135th and 137th Streets and Cypress and |Brook Aves. The bosses have de. termined to get rid of his competi- |tion at any cost. | Their hired gunmen first set on |Jackson early in the morning of |May 2 as the Negro worker was | making his rounds. He was jumped on without warning, slugged and juries which incapacitated him for | several days. Again on May 4, two days after |the onslaught and before he had fully recovered from the first beat- |ing, Jackson was waylaid by the same pair of gunmen and slugged within an inch of his life. Though his body was horribly bruised as a result of the thrashing and though he knew that his very life was in 'danger, he stuck to his post, defy- jing the icé bosses and their paid assassins. | Ave. Two bullets entered his calf. | He was removed to the Lincoln Hos- pital where he was laid up for near- ly a week. Jackson has insisted on returning to his work in spite of the en- | treaties of his wife, who, fearing | that every trip may be his last, now _accompanies him on the wagon. Feeling among both black and white workers acquainted with the story of this dastardly boss perse- cution is running high in Harlem. A mass demonstration of protest barons and against the Tammany police who wink at such unheard-of violations of a worker’s “rights” is being arrangec in conjunction with the Communist Party of District 2 (New York). t | felled to the ground, suffering in-| | Then on June 4, at 8 o'clock in| \the morning, he was shot at from) a window while delivering ice in the} 0 \ vicinity of 135th St. and St. Ann’s against the guerilla rule of the ice | At a mass picketing demonstra- |tion at the New Way Cafeteria at 27th St. and 6th Ave. yesterday, 5 more strikers were arrested bring- \ing the total taken from the picket line to jail in the 18 weeks of the | strike to 1645. All of those arrested yesterday have been arrested at least 10 times in the course of the rike and one of them has been rrested 24 times and served three sentences of 3 days, 10 days and 30 days. They were arraigned in night court and released in $500 bail. tions. Stimson’s statement reiterates his announcement made May 16 that the United States would have noth- ing to do officially with the actual collection of the indemnity from Germany. He has several times stated that the United States insists on the full payment of debts owed by European countries to the United States. Young and Morgan, with their alternates, Perkins and Lamont, held ja conference yesterday with Presi- | dent Hoover, at which it is under- | stood they advocated at least un- official representation on the repara- tions’ bank board by the Washing- ton government. Communists fight on behalf of the immediate aims and interests of the working cinss, but in their | present movement they are also de~ fending the future of the move- ment.—Marx. Tailors Will Meet Tonight to Combat Hillman Pogrom Orlovsky, at Recent Meet, Admits 150 Cutters Have Lost Jobs Due to Hillman’s Speed-up Tailors, members of the Amalga- terday discussing remarks made mated Clothing Workers of America, | Tuesday night at a shop chairmen’y | will crowd Stuyvesant Casino, 142 | meeting of the Cutters Local by Phi- Second Ave., ‘ody at 5.30, imrae- | lip Orlovsky, manager of the Local. diately after wor, and hear recom- Orlovsky, who is an ardent patriot mendations for combatting the new for Abraham Beckerman, formerly reign of terror instituted against | the strong-arm manager of the New militants in the organization by the | York Joint Board, made some inte- | eerrupt, class-collaborating Hillman | resting admissions at this meeting, | machine. i |and one of these was that since this | The meeting is being called by season began 150 cutters have lost | the Committee of 35 which the rank their jobs due to the speed-up. At land file conference of clubs and! tke same time, at the same meeting, Teagues recently elected. | this bureaucrat dared to propose the This committee will bring concrete levying of a 10 per cent tax on the recommendations to the meeting and | cutters. lan immediate campaign will be| At the same meeting, Orlovsky started to put a halt to the Hill-| spilled the beans about Hillman’s man pogrom which is being conduct- | boasted “organization drive in Phi- ed with the aid of the “boys” c”/ladelphia.” “Just what this drive | the clique, police, gangsters, and has accomplished, Orlovsky said, I members of the Industrial Squad. don’t know.” Orlovsky Spills Beans. About Sidney Rissman, who was Amalgamated workers were yes- | (Continued on Page Two) a took general charge of the negotia- | to the demands of the union which Other legal expenses involved in a include: recognition of the union; | ttial of this size and importance 44-hour w- ‘minimum wage scale necessitate the raising of many 40, finishers and bronze | thousands of dollars, the I. L. D.| yout men and bronze Points out. 60. This is a general in-| Many Small Contributions. crease of $4 above the wages the workers are getting at present. The Tammany police terror against the iron and bronze strikers (Continued on Page Two) Though the response thus far to the emergency appeal of the I. L. D. | has (/2en good, it is still far below} the 151,000 a day that is needed. | Among the contributions received Saturday were $72.76 collected at the camp of the Followers of the Trail, | (Continued on Page Three) HAVERHILL SHOE. STRIKE. HAVERHILL, Mass., (By Mail). SONFERENCE ON RELIEF TONIGHT \_Over 250 workers of the Mitchen The South Carolina Federation of Labor meeting in Spartanburg, has refused to pass a resolution sub- mitted condemning the Gastonia strikers now in jail being framd up for murder. Speakers declared that, though they are against the National Tex- tile Workers Union, the federation would not go on record in any way that will interfere with the defense of the strikers in jail or the Loray strike. The American Legion, Gastonia post, however, at its meeting last night, issued a long resolution as- sailing the strikers and calling for conviction of those in jail, The Gastonia Gazette in its editor- ial today declared that it favored the A.F.L. textile union. This sheet has been trying to create a mur- derous lynching movement ever since the raid on the tent colony which re- sulted in the shooting of Chief of police Aderholt, who led the raiders. Poyntz tod y visited the strikers in Gastonia jail, and found them all in good spirits, and resolute in their loyalty to the strike and the union. They sent by her their greetings to The Daily Worker. ewig ae GASTONIA, N. C., June 26. — A local business man today notified several strikers that he had been approached by members of the “ch amber of commerce” crowd with a definite proposal that he join a new secret organization to “rid the old Tar Heel state” of all union or- ganizers. ‘ The plan as explained to this man, is to utilize the hired gunmen of the Manville Jenckes textile mills company, especially a group to be imported from the northern proper- ties of the company who will add Chicago gangster tactics to the old For Gastonia and Other wages and a five day week. familiar lynch law methods. Strikes; Tag Days | The Shop Delegate Conference of Local New York of the Workers In- | ternation@ Relief will be held in Irv- ling Place and 15th Street at 7 to- |night to plan the speeding-up of re- lief collections for the Gastonia tex- \tile strikers, evicted from their |homes, driven from their first tent colony by police violence, and now living in another tent colony or with _ friends. | We have received a letter from a The conference is called by tho poenretes a native of China, who |New York Section of the Workers|"rote, Of recent events there to | International Relief, for the City of One of his friends in the U.S. The | New York. facts it gives concerning the situa- | Plans for tag days in New York | jon Seema pie eae ke jon June 29 and June 30 will also be }those who realize the world impor- fworldedfout. \tance of the course of the struggles One of the features of the meet- |'" toa East. We print the letter |ing will be the first showing of the | V¢Tbatim \film, “Glimpses of the Gastonia] Dear Comrade: Strike” taken shortly before the raid] You have left China for almost |and shooting’ of June 7, which has|cne year. Within this one year the resulted in 22 strikers and organi-| revolutionary situation has greatly ae be A for trial on murder ane ie The fighting against and assault charges, jiang Kai-shik; conduced by Gen- The conference will discuss in ad-|eral Pai Chung Hsi and Li Tsung dition to the Gastonia situation, the| Jen, ended in a failure. But they relief work in the furriers, cafeteria, | are not exterminated yet, so they shee and iron and bronze strikes. jean still give the Nanking govern- Kanne Repealed ns Set pent Hey oo Besides that, | echt, L. Landay, A. Mark*|Genera’ eng Yu-Hsiang, the so- off, Harriet Silverman and Sylvan called Christian general, is to con- | Pollack, duct a campaign against Chiang » fee A Tremendously Interesting Letter of a Chinese Comrade Writes of Growing Movement, Persecutions, and Perspectives of the Struggle |Kai-shik and general Yen Hsi-shan, |the general “on the fence.” How- jever, the American and Japanese ‘imperialists are backing Chiang Ki ik, supplying him with am- munition and money. So there is |little hope for General Feng to win |the fight. But he plans, in case of defeat, to retreat to Shen-Si prov~ ince, where he will make a firm stand. In short, like mad dogs, the Komintang leaders or rather gen- erals are biting at one another, the result of which will again throw China into a great civil war. Now let me tell you something © about the different parties. Recent~ ly, Kvo Chia Chu Yi Pai or the Nationalist Party (not Kvyomin-~ tang) adopted some of the organi~ zation mechods of the Communist Party and reorganized itself. But it cannot find many followers. Sa (Continued on Page Three) , Z E i q