The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1929, Page 1

a THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the For the 40-H. Against Imperialist War Unorganized our Week B aily Entered as second-class 1 FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodally Publishing n Vol. VL, No. 96 Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square,’ New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1929 Amalgamated Gangste: ONE NEAR DEATH, TWO BADLY HURT BY WIRED THUGS Meeting Says Workers Will Stop Pogrom Directed personally by one of! President Hillman’s trade managers in the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America, a gang of thugs’ hired by the union, yesterday made a murderous attack on several work- ers, before the labor bureau of the union, on 15th St. As a result of the attack by the knife. yielding crew, Louis Sandero- vich, a tailor, and a member of Lo- cal 8, and financial secretary of the Pressers’ Branch (now the Pressers’ Br , is lying in a critical con- dition in the Beth Israel Hospital. He was stabbed with a knife near the heart, a’d again in the stomach and in the wicht side. Sol Ellison, .. member of Opera- tors Local 5, ¥ s slugged on the head a lead wipe. His nose was broken and is Yerribly br uised. Mazzini, a member of Loca! BO. viciously eut over the face ith a blackjack and brass kn He is also suffering from in- ternal injuries. Called Workers to Meeting. These workers were giving out leaflets calling upon the tailors the Amalgamated to attend a meet. in, led by the Committee of 35 at Stuyvesant Casino Jast night to ‘combat the growing terror of the Hillman machine as a result of which wi , have been beaten up by hire: gs and have been thrown theyoxposed fyote the jobs: because snce of the bureaucrats with ganized butchery on rank members of the union was 7 directed by one of the | managers of the Hillman | Workers saw this worthy scene of the onslaught trad machine. roll up to the 3 ty an automobile, together with the eangster battalion. The observed that he remained seated in the aut: mobile, and obviously under hic direction, the murder crew péer- formed their work. So open was the attack on the workers that three of the thugs, who gave their names as Vincent Matters, Albert Snyder and Joseph Di Andrea were arrested. The police were evidently disinclined to take these gentlemen away with the same speed as they do pickets, but the attack was so murderous that th least went thru the formality of ting them. determined is the Hillman clicve to crush the growing revo of the tailors that their hired gan; sters and sluggers are becomi (Continued on Page Two) New York ILD Outing July 14 to Raise Funds for Gastonia Defense, | Plans are already under way for) the annual International Outing of the New York District of the Inter- national Labor Defense which will be held in Pleasant Bay Park, the Bronx, Sunday, July 14. ted to attend this year’s outing \ Thousands of workers are ex- e: ich will furnish funds for the de- .& fense of the victims of the Gastonia frame-up and of other class war prisoners. Starting at 10 a, m., the outing | will last until late at night. A pro-' gram of athletics, open air dancing to the music of a Negro jazz band, games, ete., is being arranged. Tic- | kets are on sale at the New York I. | L. D. office, 799 Broadway, Room | 422, and at the Workers Center, 26 | ‘Union Square. 1 Power Trust Editors AUGUSTA, Ga., June 27.—An in- ternal war in’ the International Paper and Power Co. group that controls the Augusta Chronicle, the Columbia Record, the Spartanburg Herald and Spartanburg Journal, today brought a threat from Wil- liam Lavarre to tell the whole truth about the power trust activities. | _ Lavarre and his partner Harold | Hall took $870,000 from the power | trust and bought the four pape: ‘Now Hall brings an injunction sui: _ Pgainst Lavarre, Lavarre declared, “Unless th: mhatter is stopped I will give th whole history of the deal. I do na to do that because ‘it weuld b: | MANY WORKERS RALLY TO SAVE THE “DAILY” Must Reach the $5,000 Mark Before Saturday Night to Keep the “Daily” Going Yesterday we placed before our readers the absolute necessity of raising $5,000 be- fore this week ends in order to ensure the ap- pearance of the Daily Worker on Monday. It is yet too early to determine the response to this statement of fact regarding the dangers faced by us. If all our readers are as alert as some of them have already been the Daily will survive. A group of revolutionary workers in Ambridge, Penn- sylvania, one of the most reactionary places in that state, and the main works of the American Bridge Company, a part of the United States Steel Corporation, realize what the Daily means to them and to the working class. Although among the lowest paid workers in the country a few of them raised $25 and rushed it into the office of the Daily Worker, with the following letter: Dear Comrades: Enclosed you will find a check of $25 as a donation to the Daily Worker, which was contributed by some of the readers of our only working class paper. Realizing what it would mean to the workers to lose the only workers’ daily in the English language we dug down into our pockets and gave everythitg we could to save the Daily. But we don’t intend to stop by this donation, but as soon as pay day comes again you will receive another check from the militant workers of Ambridge. With Comradely greetings, M. HORVATIN. From the mining and farming regions of northern Michi- gan we received a letter from the students of the Commu- nist Youth League-Young Workers’ Training Courses, at Negaunee, enclosing a check for $41, These young workers Said they were determined to help to do their bit to “HELP AROUSE THE WORKERS TO FREE THE GASTONIA VICTIMS.” An affair was held to celebrate the opening of the Finnish Workers’ Festival and the students took up a collection and sent it at once to the Daily. That they realize what the Daily means to the class struggle is indicated by their letter which says in part: “We know that the only way our comrades can be Saved from the electri¢ chair is by mass action of the working class. In order to arouse the working class we need our Daily Worker. It is one of the strongest weapons we have. “<All of us at the school are miners or farmers, or the chil- dren of miners or farmers. We know how important the Dai Worker is in the struggles of the working class. We pledge our- selves to continue to fight to save our paper—the Daily Worker.” Every reader of the Daily should follow the example of the Ambridge comrades and collect funds and rush them at once to the office of the Daily Worker. If workers every- where would respond as quickly as did those comrades of the bridge town we would need but one announcement re- garding the dangers we face. It is in such places, where the struggle is most bitter, that the masses of workers know what it means to be deprived of the Daily. Let everyone who is in a summer school or camp do what the Negaunee comrades have done. * These letters should spur to action those who have not yet done their part to Save the Daily. The question of the existence of the Daily next week rests with the readers and supporters. Do not delay action one day. Rush funds as quickly as possible to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. EM ERG ENC Y FU N D Bosses Need More Samples, So Need $3,500 More in Next Two Days 1.L.G.W. Puts Off Fake Strike Yesterday we were able to report a total income of over eight hundred dollars. Today we cannot even report three hundred. Those loyal revolutionaries whose efforts as shown below are saving the Daily are not being sufficiently supported. Remember, only two days to raise five thousand dollars and only slightly over fifteen hundred dollars raised. Don’t wait. Send in your contribution immediately. Louis Crane, Bellaire, Ohio .. $2.25 | Tony Maffe, Bellaire, Ohio .. 25 John Zatezalo, Bellaire, Ohio 1.25 | John Forneris, Bellaire, Ohio 25 Ralph Perich, Bellaire, Ohio 1.00 | Rose Ansinella, Bellaire, Ohio 25 Arthur ertozzi, Bellaire, Ohio 45) Harry Leff, New York .. 2.00 Joe Palombi, Bellaire, Ohio. . .25| Amal. Food Work, Local No. Math Gmiendl, Bellaire, Ohio -30| 6, Jersey City, N. J. .... 5.00 Anna Gmiendl, Bellaire, Ohio -50 | Percy D, Quimby, Westport, Rose Gmiendl, Bellaire, Ohio 25) Conn. 2.00 Josephine Gmiendl, Bellaire, A. Ziblatt, Bronx, N. Y. 3. Ohi -25|Eugene China, Alexandria Pali :25| Bay, New York ,.......,. 2.00 .25 | John Platoin,Alexandria Bay, 25 (Continued on Page Two) - 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 1} arm sonding you the enclosed amount, $ JAIL 56 PICKETS IN FUR STRIKE: MORE SHOPS OUT ‘Settlements Continue | As More Join | Walkout ‘Strike Meet Today at 1 Gena 6 Pioneers are Among | | Those Arrested - | | Fifty-six workers were arrested | yesterday in picketing demonstra- | | tions in connection with the strike | ef the furriers. Thirty-six were ar- j rested in the morning and.20 in the jearly afternoon. Six children, mem- | ers of the Young Pioneers of Amer- ica, were among those arrested, in- | cluding two Pioneer Correspondents ef’the Daily Worker. The children | are now being held at the Child- | ren’s Society, 137 E. 22nd St., for hearing on Monday. Twenty-four of the pickets ar- rested yesterday were discharged when brought before Magistrate |Louis D. Brodsky in Jefferson Mar- |ket court and the cases of six were | postponed. The cases of the 20 arrested yes- \terday afternoon were to have been disposed of last night in the 57th St. night court. As the Daily Worker went to press the outcome |of the hearings was not yet known. |Ten of the 20 pickets were girls. | Another picketing demonstration | |will be held this morning at 7:30 in the fur market. All raembers’ of the Industrial Union and other sym- i | pathetic workers are urged to partic- ipate. | | At the same time it was an- nounced that a meeting of aii strik- ers will be held this afternoon at 1 o'clock in Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Plaee. Ben Gold, chair- man of the strike committee, Aaron Gross, Irving Potash, and other ‘leaders of the strike will speak and lreport on the progress of the strug- jgle. While the union continued to make | settlements with individual fur bos- |ses, it at the same time intensified {its fight against others, with the |vesult that workers in several other shops yesterday joined the ranks of the strikérs. Among these shops |are found some of the most im- | vortant in the trade, several of them heing members of the Associated, the chief association of the manu- turers, which rules over the Joint Couneil” company union of the bosses. The exact number of shops with vhich the union has already settled not yet been officially made pub- ic by the strike committee, but it known that a large number have eady agreed to union term In number of these shops the wi 5 have been sent back to their jobs under union conditions, and in others the workers will return today or to-1@ woman who was sick with pel- morrow. lief. Bertha Crawford has been chairman the brutal assault on the strikeys’ tent colony on June 7 in which Chief small cell and one night they put another woman’ striker in the cell, s Make Murderous Attack on 3 Tailors Know What Mill Owners’ Brutality Means! Just arrived from Gastonia, N, C., these three textile strikers are here to aid the campaign of the Workers Intrnational Relief. They are, left to right, Bertha Crawford, chairs W.1R. committee in Gastonia, Roy Crawford and Helen Lodge, both members n of the of the committee. They have been among the most militant fighters in the National Textile Workers Union since the beginning of the strike. The above drawing was made by the proletarian artist, Jacob Burck, while the strikers were being interviewed in the Daily Worker office. “Attacks Only Strengthen Our : Fight,” Say Gastonia Strikers Three, New in N. Y., Tell of Terror After Raid; Urge Workers to Help | “Every time they make a sieve ‘pane wchsrne ae ce MAUD DEFEAT ; ‘ JEUNE Ay i “The strike has opened the eyes} : of the workers of the South.” 4 MOVE TO OUST “This frame-up can’t break our A / AGW MILITANT struggle. It only makes us fight all the harder.” Such were some of the sentiments expressed by Bertha Crawford, Roy) Crawford and Helen Lodge, ‘Gas- tonia textile strikers, as they sat in | the office of the Daily Worker yes- Workers of Rochester | terday. They had just come up from Gas- tonia to aid in the relief campaign of the Workers International Re- dat Hillman ROCHESTER, Y., June | The entire membership of the Amal- 27.— Weak Bodies, Strong Spirit. Their bodies showed the havoc of long hours of toil at insufficient wages to buy proper food. Thin and worn-out, but with a look in their eyes that shows that their spirit is strong and determined to fight on until they win. All three are members of the W. I. R. committee in Gastonia and its union-breaking policies back at the latest meeting-on Tues- day by the rank and file, and th willingness of the machine to go as| far as b: ing up the union rather than permit the membership to thru its will has stirred the wo: to open revolt. This was caused by the attempt machine to fi an Local 202 at which over 600} ent, a motion to remove gle as shop chairman in the on the ground that a left winger. The work- s voted nearly two to one agains’ machine. They assailed since the start of the strike. She was one of over 90 arrested after Police Aderholt fatally * vounded. “They put me in a cell togeth with Amy Schechter and Carolir w,” she said. “It was only was Dre Fy to remove honest ’ | fighters. Sa ct ap Sy When, following the vote, the Industrial Union Calls Meeting Monday Night of Shop Chairmen, Active Members The threatened fake strike! ,of the cloakmakers which is being planned by the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers | company union, has been postponed | at the express request of the bosses, leaders of the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union declared last) | This action is being taken, it is pointed out, because the bosses do |not at this time have ready a suf- ficient amount of samples and du- plicates, Proves Conspiracy. These facts are now known in the market, according to Joseph Boru- chowitz, manager of the Joint Board of the Industrial Unjon, who says that this is further evidence of the conspiracy between the Schlesinger-Dubinsky clique and the manufacturers to foist a fake strike | upon the cloakmakerg for the pur- pose of strengthening the company union and squeezing thousands of| dollars out of the workers, | The call for the “strike” is, how- iriflicted on workers and peasants by | The chiefs | the Zivkovich dictatorship. Dr. A. ever, <. maiter of days. of the company union have made ‘all preparations-——and these of | for the fake stoppage in the hope of bringing thousands of dollars \ into the coffers of the strikebreak- ing crew, and also in the hope of Ww orkers to Protest cgainst the white terror in Jugo- Slavia at a mass meeting to be held tomorrow (Saturday) night at % o'clock at the Czecho-Slovak Work- ers Home, 347 E, 72nd St. meeting will be held under the aus- ipices of the Jugo-Slav Branch of ,° week’s vacation with pay for work- | the International Labot Defense. Markoff, who recently returned from the International Anti-Fascist Con- | course need not be very elaborate in| gress in Berlin, will be view of the fact that no struggle!/speaker in English, machine men realized that the work- ers had gone beyond their control and that they would be defeated on several other important propositions that were still to come up, they pro- voked a fight and the meeting ended in a free for all, in which all did not go wall with the Chatman-Hill- man clique supporters. The next day three wi s were told by their bosses that the clique officials had ordered that they be taken from the jobs on the ground that they had participated in the fight which the is planned against the bi Thir- teen of the loyal “boys” have al- ready been named to issue the call Workers declare that this action ill not go unchallenged. The left ing, which has been consistently carrying on the struggle against the jbetrayals of the Hillman forces now finds the workers in the whole in- dustry looking to it for leadership in their struggles. Jugo-Slay Terror at ; ars Mass Meet Tomorrow®*General Electric Co. in “Vacation” Scheme to Make Toilers Sheep The General Electric Co., for which reds of thousands of work ve at low wages and long hours, s begun a new scheme to take sheep of its employes by offering (Continued on Page Two) Workers of New York will protest The | ers slaving for it three years con- J rn A tinuously or more, and two weeks Speakers in English and Croatian vacation if the workers slave ov ilk tell of the murders and tortures /ten years. Frequent layoffs male |continuous employment almost im- * | possible, It is the ultima aim of this he chief| work (“Capital”) to reveal the economic law of motion of modern : - | soctety—Marx ‘ | 'y | Cleveland. jrubber industry. ‘ eat dancing, sports, and games. machine had provoked. | New York, by mall, $5.00 per year. “York, by mall, $6.00 per year. OSSES ASK SPECIAL COURT T0 RUSH GASTONIA TRIAL MAYOR DENNEY ENDEAVORS BELATEDLY TO DISGUISE Lawyers To Be Cal | Speakers to Enlist MILLER, TEXTILE WILL ORGANIZER, TO 60 ON TOUR To Carry on Labor Defense Work x. ——— Clarence Miller, youth organizer | of National Textile Workers Union, jand one of the eight workers who are now out on $750 bail on charges | of assault with intent to kill in the onia frameup, will soon leave for a speaking tour of various states to raise funds for the defense. Mil- ler’s tour will be conducted under the auspices of the International La- bor Defense. Miller will be accompanied by two Gastonia textile strikers and will |eover Michigan, southern Illinois, southern Ohio, Indiana and other sections on the tour. | Miller was originally charged with | murder, but the charge was changed | to.assault with intent to kill. When | able suspicion is cast upon the pin* Nan he was arrested oa the night of June; 7 after the fatal shooting of Chief! of Police O, F, Aderholt, who led a} murderous assault on the strikers’ | tent colony, he was brutally beaten by the police. 7 8 8 | Bloor Speaks at Many Meets. | Crowded and enthusiastic meet- | ings, marked by a determination to | save the victims of the monstrous Gastonia frameup, are everywhere | greeting Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor, | | | veteran of countless labor battles, | Elizabeth McGinnis and Binney | Green, who speak at all the meetings. | Today and tomorrow Mother Bloor | and the two strikers will be in A big open-air mass meeting will be held in the Cleve-| speak. | thra the| Sunday and Monday Mother Bloor will be in Akron, 0., center of the Tuesday, July 2,| she will be in Canton, O., and July | 3-4 in Detroit. On July 4, Mother Bloor and the two strikers will speak July 11; and Superior, Wis., July 12.) * * * | OAKLAND, Cal., June 25.—Under the auspices of the International La- | | bor Defense and the Workers Inter-}| national Relief and other labor or- ganizations, a picnic will be held) July 4 in East Shore Park, for the | benefit of the Gastonia textile| strikers. An all-day program is ar- | ranged, and there will be plenty to | 700 DELEGATES — “AT WIR MEETING Over 200 delegates attended the | Shop Delegates’ Conference of Local | New York, Workers’ International Relief, at Irving Plaza Hall last night to work out plans for speeding the relief collections now being made | for the Gastonia textile strikers. Plans for tag days in New York! on June 29 and 30 were completed. Relief work in the furriers, cafe- teria, shoe, and iron and bronze strikes were also discussed. The featyre of the meeting was | the showing of a film taken shortly before the poilce raid of June 7,| | which resulted in the arrest of 22 strikers and N. T. W. U. organizers on charges of murder and assault. Ludwig Landy addressed the dele- gates on organizational tasks of the W. I. R. in China while A. Markoff, recently returned from Europe, spoke on relief work there. In ad- dition to three Gastonia strikers, the speakers included B, Crawford, H. Silverman, Otto Hall, S. Pol Clark and it MILL’S PART IN FRAMEUP led City Attorneys International Labor Defense Extends Tours of SULWINKLE AND NOLLEY LEADING ATTACK ON 22 ray Counsel, Militia Officer Out for Blood GASTONIA, N. C, June 27.—The frame-up proceeds against the total of 23 workers held in jail on charges f murder, conspiracy, and “secret as- sault with intent to commit murder.” The mill owners’ legal advisers, who make up the company of prosecution attorneys’ are stumbling over each other in their endeavors to force a quick trial, before the International | Labor Defense can rally the workers and assemble funds. The plan of the prosecution is to |secure a special term of court to | begin July 29. Camouflage Mill Lawyers. Evidently realizing that considet- ciples of the prosecution by the iact that Major Bulwinkie, attorney for the Manville-Jenckes Co., heads it, and has under hgm a dezen other textile mill company lawyers, an at- tempt is being made now by the city of Gastonia to re-classify these bosses agents as “employes of the city.” Mayor E. B. Denny has stated that every mill attorney among them is from now on not to be called a mill attorney any more but is to be a “Gastonia city attorney,” even Bul- | gamated Clothing Workers here is in| who is'now on a nation-wide tour] winkle, who, the mayor admits, “has an uproar over the latest attempts{under the auspices of the Ipterna-| represented the of reactionary machine to jam thru| tional Labor Defense. With her are| Company, owners of the Loray mill, Its _set-| two young Gastonia textile strikers, | where the strike was called in April, Manville-Jenckes prior to the present time.” Mayor Denney cited the names of Bulwinkle, A. G. Magnum, Earnest Warren, R. G. Perry, Major Stephen B. Dolley and Clyde R. Hoey as the new city aids to the prosecution, and lland Public Square at which they will jintimated that he himself, City Solicitor George B. Mason, City At- torney A. E. Woltz, and Solicitor John C. Carpenter would be with the prosecution, The Major Dolley in the above list was the commander of the militia at the time they were used against the st {at a huge picnic of the Communist! .trikers in Gastonia, the Party in Detroit. From Detroit they| The Hoey mentioned is the brother- tactics of Hillman’s tool,| Will go to Chicago, July 5-6-7; Mil-| intaw of the governor of North , and denounced all efforts; Waukee, July 8; St. Paul, July 95/ Carolina, and was chief inquisitor workingclass | Minneapolis, July 10; Duluth, Minn.;| at the time of the habeas corpus hearings in Charlotte. Gazette for A. F. of L. The Gastonia Gazette, faithful or- gan of the mi!l owners,. the chief newspaper instigating _ violence against the strikers, also chief advo- cate of the legal murder of those held in jail, came out editorially yes- terday in favor of the United Textile Workers Union, and the A. F. of L. ‘The Gazette, like the mill owners, has evidently become convinced that the mill workers intend to organize, The mill owners’ press is now strug-\ gling to direct this organization into channels where it can be betrayed by the men who sold out the rayon strike in Elizabethton, Tenn. It states editorially today: that because it is fighting for the conviction of Beal, Amy Schechter, Vera Bush and the others arrested, this doas not _ mean that it is against nigher wages. © Only if a union is necessary, the A. F. of L. should have been called in instead of the National ‘Textile Workers Union! 296 Business Groups Split Over New Roads; Government is Worried — WASHINGTON, June 27.—The Interstate .Commerce Commission, — finding 296 civic and municipal or- ganizations about equally divided over the desirability of allowing the Great Northern and the Western Pacific railroads to enter the of California with new lines, issued an unprecedented F that the roads should stop #1 the I. C. 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