The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS “or @ Workers-Farmers Governnzc: To Organize the ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganizec rker FINA EDITION L Cree Vol. VL, No. M.. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, ie A Outside Ne “New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. $6.00 per year. A FUR WORKERS GIVEN vicioUs PRISON TERMS Were Framed Up by Bosses’ Scab “Council” 1 Gets 14-Month Term Picket Demonstration Monday Morning | Four furriers were yesterday sen- tenced to long terms in prison by Justice Koenig in Genéral Sessions as a result of a frame-up engineered by the “Joint Council,” company union of the fur bosses, even before the present strike began. The workers are Philip Cagner, Samuel Goldman, William Karpuzes and Mike Karvelos. Cagner was sen- tenced to one year and two months in the workhouse; Goldman to six months; Karpuzas and Karvelos were each sentenced to sixty days. The workers who received these ferocious sentences were found guil- ty of “felonious assault” last Mon- day as a result of charges made by, Philip Awstrack, alias Finney, who Org. Committee This Morning. ‘A meeting of the Organization Committee will be held this morn- ing at 10 o’clock at 16 W. 21st St., the Industrial Union announced. is widely known as a scab and gang- ster in the hire of the “Joint Coun- cil.” This strikebreaking outfit push- ed the frame-up against the workers. The charges against them was that on May 15, they beat up one of the patriots of the Fur. Council, altho as a matter of fact the reverse was the case, as asserted by eye-witness- es. In fact, one of ‘the gangsters was caught red-handed immediately after the attack with his knife in (Continued on Page Three) MACDONALD LETS OWNERS DECIDE MINE WORK DAY Tells Miners Tory Law Won’t Be Repealed LONDON, June 28.—“We must consult the coal owner first” was the answer given the coal miners of Britain yesterday when a delega- tion from the Miners Federation came to consult with Premier Ram- say MacDonald of the “labor” party about repeal of the Baldwin legisla- | tion lengthening the work day in the mines. | Repeal of this longer work day law, the passage of which precipi- tated the great miners’ strike and general strike, was one of the elec- tion promises of the labor party. MacDonald received the miners’ union committee in secret, and no public statement was made of the | results of the conference. But miners’ officials, coming out of the meeting, let it be known that the “labor” cabinet “fears that a simple repeal of the law to increase (Continued on Page Two) | COLLECTION FOR GASTONIA RELIEF ST RTING TODAY rebuild the Gas Today and tomorrow hundreds of | New York workers will participate | in the city-wide tag days of the! Workers International Relief to raise funds for the Gastonia textile strikers. funds will be used to I. R. tent colony in also to buy food and medi- \ cine for the militant workers. _ The shop delegate conference of the W. I. R., held Thursday at Irv- ing Plaza, prepared for participa- tion in the tag days, Members of » trade unions and labor-fra- organizations will collect. | class headquarters thruout ity will be used for stations. he central station is located at th ice of local New York, Workc! ternational Relief, Room 221, 7° % NEW MASKED M C+ 26-28 Union Square, New York City, RK, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1929 INDICTED GASTONIA STRIKERS IN PLEA FOR $5,000 TODAY ‘One Half of This Sum Has Been Raised; Will the “Daily” Appear Monday Morning? The Daily Worker has to date received only $2,266.04 of the $5,000 absolutely needed before tonight, otherwise the paper will have to suspend. The office of the Daily Worker will be open until 9 o'clock tonight. There is still half of the minimum sum ab- solutely needed to save the Daily Worker still to come, and if it does not arrive by 9 p. m., it will be very doubtful whether the paper will appear on Monday. It has already been pointed out that for the Daily Worker to suspend will seriously cripple the Gastonia tex- tile strike defense of 15 workers facing electrocution. Here is what four of the worker defendants now out on bail said about it immediately after their arrival in New York City to begin tours to assist their defense: INDICTED GASTONIA STRIKERS’ PLEA. “We, Gastonia textile strikers and organizers, being framed up on charges of ‘secret assault with intent to kill?’ and prosecuted by the attorneys of our bosses against whom we are striking, call upon the workers to realize that their fight is our fight, that the frame-up against us may be the lot of any militant striker, and that if they do not support us, and the 15 charged with murder, we will all be sentenced to.death or to long prison terms, “In our struggle, the press of the mill owners has consistently lied about us, and about the shooting which has been made the basis for the Gastonia murder and assault trial. “We have found the Daily Worker always ready to give the facts about the attempt to murder by a framed up trial 15 of the Gastonia workers, and to imprison 8 more of us, including the undersigned. “We see that the Gastonia Gazette, the mill owners’ press, is exulting over the suspension for one day of the Daily Worker, which they hope will be permanent and which they say will end our chances to defeat the frame-up and save our fellow workers from electrocu- tion and from jail sentences. “We declare to all workers that it will be a crime against labor, and will injure our chances to arouse the world of labor to our defense, if the Daily Worker is crushed. “We appeal to all workers to send in donations to the Daily Worker, to get the $5,000 it needs by 9 o'clock tonight without which it will have to cease pub- lication. “We need the Daily Worker to fight for us, and other workers in the near future will need it to save themselves in other similar cases. (Signed) “J. R. PITMAN. “WALTER LOYD. “CLARENCE TOWNSEND. “CLARENCE MILLER.” Re: am That is the plea of workers facing long prison sen- tences on the frame-up charge of “secret assault with in- tent to kill.” They speak for the 14 Gastonia strikers now in prison facing the still more serious frame-up charge of murder, on which the textile mill owners hope to railroad them to death in the electric chair. They call on all labor to help the Daily Worker reach the goal of $5,000 set for tonight to insure its appearance on Monday morning. Bring in your contribution personally. Send it by telegraph, by special delivery air mail, or any other method that suits your convenience. But get it here on time. Rush funds to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. 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, $ Name Address Names of contributors will be “Daily” without deta: THE WASTONIA STRIKERS f1GH The subway boss speeding up the wo' 8, hiring st have caused many disasters u are still sanctioned by the bo n. | Wooden Cars—Heading for Another Disaster | * greed for more profits takes the form of and making them joint @ company union. Also wobdden cars—which h great loss of life in the past, but OB READY TO WRECK GASTONIA TEN m Avote Diss" CREAT CROWD AT HUNTSINGER FUNERAL ool-pigeons to spy on the workers trolled transit commission. CALL ALL ACTIVE CLOAKMAKERS 10 MEETING MONDAY Important Problems at Special Meeting A special meeting of all active cloakmakers will be held on Monday at 6 o’clock in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. The meeting, which is being called ‘by the Joint Board of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, will consider the present situation jin the trade, and particularly the plans for the fake stoppage with which the cloakmakers will be | saddled by the company union, the International Ladies’ Garment Work- fers, and the manufacturers. | The stoppage, which was sche-| |duled to come off during the week, \had been postponed at the express | request of the bosses because they |meeded more samples and duplicates. Just as soon as this little accommo-| dation is put thru, the fake strike | will probably be called. The chiefs of the I. L. G. W. are | polishing their coffers, and hate al-| |ready announced that cloakmakers in various cities will be assessed, presumably for strike purposes, but jactually to pay off some of the | “boys” in the organization and their ~ hired sluggers. Not Real Strike. Assurances have been made by |the scab union to the Industrial! Council, the association of the! bosses, that no individual settle- | ments will be made ‘with independent manufacturers in an effort to push them into the association. So no more hitches remain in the path of the fake strike. | The Industrial Union is urging | all cloakmakers to convert the fake | strike into a genuine struggle for! union conditions under its leader-| ship. On the ocasion of William Green’s arrival in New York to speak be- fore the Pullman porters whose strike he together with the rest of | the A. F. of L. Executive Council! betrayed, the Department of Negre Work of the Trade Union Educa- tional League issued a statement which follows in part: | Fellow Workers: | William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, will address you this Sunday afternoon, upon the invitation of your leaders, | Will William Green tell you why} the Brotherhood’s strike was be- trayed at the instigation of the| American Federation of Labor? Will he tell you why he and the others of the reactionary clique which con- trols the A. F. of L. were so re- luctant in recognizing the Brother-| hood and the right of the Negro | employees of the millionaire Pull- man Company to organize for a living wage? Or why, after they reluctantly recognized this right of, yours, they proceeded. to issue local | charters to your various locals in- stead of an international charter for your organization as a whole? What was their purpose in thus seeking to prevent your unity of action? Why did they prevent and betray your strike at. a time when even your national organizer admitted that the chances of success were excellent? Why did they’ insist on giving the Pullman Company warn- ing of your intention and time to organize strike-breaking measures. The Negro workers are rightly ‘and all other union conditions are Negro Trade Union Militants ‘Show A.F.L. Sellout of Porters LABOR DEFENSE N.Y, ATTORNEY VISITS GASTONIA Frameup Defendant to Talk Here Tomorrow Joseph Brodsky, attorney for the International Labor Defense will leave tomorrow for Gastonia, N. C., to confer with the southern lawyers of the I. L. D. on the defense of the 23 workers who have been framed up on charges of murder and assault with intent to kill. Brodsky declares that the serious: ness of the frameup has not yet Entire Crew of Rubens Restaurant on Strike; Other Pickets Freed The entire forc8 of nine workers walked out of the Rubens Restaur- ant, 441 Ninth Ave., in a spontane- ous strike yesterday under the lead- ership of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Branch of the} Amalgamated Food Workers Union. A picket line was immediately es- tablished, and the strike will’ con- tinue until recognition of the union achieved, leaders said. WAITERS REMOVE LEHMAN, 6 AIDES ON GRAFT CHARGE Yellow ‘Forward’ Hush. fisures é , ’ Gastonia textile workers. Brodsky Up Grafters’ Names jurges all workers not to delay, but Following charges that they had/ country. Thousands of dollars for the defense will be necessary to com- bat the many thousands being sup- plied by the Manville-Jenckes Com- pany to railroad the outstanding to raise funds at once and to send them to the National Office of the received a bribe of $1,200. from’ a/International Labor Defense, 80 E.| large Bronx restaurant for prevent-|i1th St., Room 402, New York City. ing a walkout there, William Leh-| Clarence Mill uthern youth man and six other top officials of! organizer of the National Textile Local 1, Waiters and Waitresses,| Workers Union and one of the de- were removed from offi:e following} fendants in the mill barons’ frameup an all-night meeting of the organi-| in Gastonia, will be the chief speak- zation Thursday at Webster Hall,| er at a Gastonia defense meeting to- Eleventh Street and Third Avenue. morrow night at 8 o’clock at the In- The action was taken by a vote of ternational Seaman's Club, 28 South 350 to 206. St. The meeting will be held under Lehman, secretary of the local the auspices of the Marine Workers and vice-president of the Interna-| (Continued on Page Three) Genel bihodie tag asad of nel . F. of L. forces in the struggle . HILLMAN THUGS FREED ON BAll of the cafeteria wor’.ers against the AFTER ASSAU 12-hour day. All the deposed officials, including | |Amalgamated Thugs Jack Lasher, president, and Metel Turtel, business agent, will be placed Have Records on trial within a period of four weeks as provided for in the recom- mendations submitted by the inves- tigation committee. In the me&an- Louis Sanderovich, a tailor, still lies in a serious condition in the Beth Israel Hospital after he and two | other workers were murderously at- time, the affairs of ihe union, includ-| ing negotiations with the bosses for (Continued on Page Two) se tacked by hired thugs, Thursday, suspicious of the A. F. of L. Our! ander the direction of one of the memory may be short, as our op-| trade managers in the Amalgamated pressors believe, but we well remem-| Clothing Workers of America. The ber how the A. F. of L, betraye!) workers were assaulted with knives, the strike of the Negro laundry blackjacks and lead pipes. workers of New York City, going} Three of the underworld charac- the length of calling off this strike/ ters in the hire of Amalgamated and recalling their charter when) who were arrested after the bloody these terribly exploited workers’ assault were arraigned before Mag- tried to abdlish some of the heart-|istrate Louis Brodsky in Jefferson breaking misery existing in the| Market court yesterday morning and laundry industry. It was the A. F.| were released in $2,500 bail each for of L. leadership that consigned (Continued on Page Two) these Negro workers back to the ———— hellish exploitation of the pitiless FAIL TA CN NIN laundry bosses from which they sought to escape by organization. With the denial yesterday of two jinjunctions sought against the 400 Yes, the Negro workers have cause to remember the treacherous role of iron and bronze strikers who have |tied up nearly all the shops in the the A. F. of L. bureaucracy! Fellow workers of the Brother- |New York area, 15 applications for injunctions © still hung over the hood! Join the fight against the strikers. rotten, treacherous A. F. of L. lead- ership! Join the struggle for. the removal The State Supreme Court in 161st St. yesterday denied the injunctions sought by the Lazar and Kaplan of the color.bar in all working class organizations, for the abolition of Tron Works and the Grossman Iron Works, both of the Bronx. race hatred and racial separation, for the abolition of lynching and white ruling class terrorism which will only be abolished by a united The strikers continued to hold ex- tensive picket demonstrations both in Brooklyn and the Bronx. The two largest picket demonstrations were working class. held at the plants of the Pollachek Join the new trade union center. Send delegates to the trade union Tron Works and the Sexauer and Lemcke Iron Works, both in Brook- unity convention in Cleveland, Au- lyn. gust 31, Department of Negro Work, Trade Union Educational League, Otto Hall, Director. (Endorsed by the American Negro Labor Congress.) been realized by the workers of this| figures in the heroic~strike of the | PLEDGES FIGHT ON PLAN OF MILL BOSSES TO MAKE 15 MORE BURIALS NECESSARY Working Women to Hear Speaker from International Labor Defei More Funds, Organization, Needed to Save Lives |Tour of “Mother” Bloor, Labor Defender Editor, Strikers, Defendants | Continues; Workers in Big Cities Hear of Frameup ‘Executioners Hope tor End of ‘The Daily’ The Gastonia Gazette of June 24 contains loud whoops of glee ove! the financial difficulties of the Dail: Worker, a paper which, being by, for and of the working class, has no | mill owners to subsidize it or ad- | vertise in it, and depends upon the| | working class for its support, giving | the workers likewise its complete al- | legiance. | The Gazette reprints the appeal |for funds to continue printing the Daily Worker, which appeared in the Daily Worker dated June 22, and exults: “The Daily Worker, the Commu- nist organ which is supporting, the cause of those in jail here on the charge of murder is making frenzied appeals for :noney to keep going an- other day or two. This newspaper is on its last legs, it seems. With its collapse will go nvach ef the bally- hoo that has helped the cause along.” | This same issue of the Gazette publishes under the title “Amen,” a reprint of an editorial headed, “Let Us Run Them Out,” which it says first appeared in the, Stanley News H id. The editorial, with the usual and meaningless bow to the of “constitutional” and “legal” | measures, uses this language: “Shall our people take such dangerous | characters as Beal into theit bosoms | ws desirable incomers? Shall the general public in North Carolina in-| cluding some of the outstanding | | Newspapers of the South offer even slight words of sympathy for such characters as those who shot the | Gastonia police chief in the back last week? ... As the Charlotte News well says, when a rattlesnak@ shakes himself it is time to strike him (Continued on Page Three) of $116.50 for “Daily” Units anxious to smash records for the Daily Worker Emergency Drive are challenged by Branch 4, Section 5 of the New York District | of the Communist Party whose mem- bers are working hard to realize their intention of doubling their con- | tribution of $116.50. Registration Closes Monday for Camp Registration for the W. I. R. chil- drens camp at Wingdale, N. Y. will close Monday for the first group of children, Registration takes place from 1 to 6 p. m. daily at the office of Local New York, W. I. R., Room | 221, 799 Broadway. |Charge Hampton ON PROSECUTION IN SECRET QUIZZES. LATEST JANLE Workers’ Guards (Special to the Daily Worl GASTONIA, N. C., June —It was renorted today : meeting of the Worke national Relief Commit a newly organized masked of 250 Loray mill gan and Gastonia city hirelings | been organized to attack the new Gastonia strike colony to- night, tear down the dump the strikers’ fur: to the creek, lead ¢ and their families om. 4¢ks without name plates and rur them off into South Carolina. The strikers at the m cided to get together at ti ony tonight and await the pers. Rumors of planned attacks x i thugs are numerous. 7 € nights ago was to be roup of Manville-Jenel had been organized to blow relief office at 512 West Ai . any. GASTONIA, N. C., June great crowd of Loray mill workers from surfot attended the funeral yeste1 noon of Joseph Huntsinger, strike leader here, who died of failure while rushing to’ colony of the evicted strikers defend it. A rumor was in ¢ - tion that the mill thugs planned ans other assault upon the strikers, simi=: lar to that of June 7, when Chief Police Aderholt, three”d : a mill gunman who was deputy tried to shoot it repulsed with one dead lost, or like the raids } men following Ader! which destroyed the colony : the strikers from it. Delmar Hampton, whi napped across the Sout line by three car loads mill deputies Wednesday, |in Gastonia jail. As tion was made upon h larrest. He is accused commander of the Wi at the Gastonia strikers on the night that Aderh raid, and was:shote The charges against Hi stated to be “murder”? assault with a deadly \intent to kill.” The date jing is not set. Up again today. lars to go to reach the five thou the contributions increase every quota! The following comrades press time: C. Thorwaldson, Glenmore, Me $ 1.00 U. Bergeten, Glenmore, Me. .. 1.00 H. Magnusan, Glenmore, Me. 25 | Unit 9F Sec. 1, New York, N.Y 9.50 | Unit 7F Sec. 1, New York, N.Y 32.58 |N. 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