The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1929, Page 1

) THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Governmeut To Organize the Unorganized ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI, No. 98_ Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1929 _ In New York, by mail, w York, by mail, $6.00 per year. . $8.00 per year. Price GASTONIA APPEAL EN VELOPES BARRED FROM MAILS: ORDER SPECIAL COURT TO TRY TEXTILE STRIKERS GALL PIGKETS IN “SAVE THE DAILY”, SAYS TALK PEACE BUT MARINE WORKERS FUR STRIKE THIS MORNING AT 7:30 Women Are Urged to Participate in Appeal Mass, Meet Tomorrow Boston Boss on Rocks After Union Fight A mass picket demonstra-| tion will be held early this morning on the twelfth day of | the general strike of the fur-| riers, under the leadership of | the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union. In a call issued last night by the Industrial Union, the vital impor-) tance of an impressive picket line) this morning is emphasized. “All! workers who are eager to build aj powerful and honest trade union | movement should join the picket! demonstration,” the call says. Call Women Workers. At the same time a call to all women workers to join the picket | line was issued by the Women’s | Committee of the Communist Party, | New York District. | Mass Meet Tuesday. } The General Strike Committee has also issued a call to all furriers of the settled shops to come to a mass (Continued on Page Three) ACTIVE CLOAK WORKERS WILL MEET TONIGHT Fake Stoppage Call is, Expected Soon | A special meeting of all active cloakmakers will be held tonight at} 6 o’clock in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. The meeting is be- | ing called by the Joint Board of the | Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union to consider the present sit-| uation in the cloak trade, and par- ticularly the fake stoppage being en- gineered by the cloak manufacturers and its company union. Leaders of the Industrial Union will speak. The call for the “strike” is ex- | pected sometime this week—or as | soon as the samples and duplicates for the manufacturers are com- pleted. The stoppage was due to come off last week, but suddenly all propaganda for it ceased. What was the reason? The bosses weren't veady for it—they needed fore Samples and duplicates. For the past few weeks, all the | trade journals of the bosses, Women’s Wear, Daily News Record, and the generous New York Times— all were whooping it up for the strike. “The bosses, curiously, are eager for this move, and just as soon as they are ready they will give the signal to the chiefs of their com- pany union, Shlesinger, Dubinsky and Breslau. The “call” will then be issued. Meanwhile, the Industrial Union is pointing out to the cloakmakers that the stoppage is a move for the col- lection of thousands of dollars and assessments and a campaign on the part of the big manufacturers to “or- ganize” the small shops for their own benefit. The Industrial Union urges the cloakmakers to convert the fake strike into a real strike for union conditions under its leadership, —<—$— BETRAY CARPENTERS SOUTH BEND, Ind. (by mail) — Over 500 union carpenters here who went on strike for $1.15 an hour— a 15 cents pe hour increase, were forced by misleaders of the union to return to work “pending arbitra- tion.” BRICK WORKERS STRIKE. EAST BRADY, Pa, (By Mail).— workers of the Upper Kittan- ning Brick Co. have gone on strike | for better conditions, and the glass and clay product departments are tied up. Ne i aa | THEATRE WORKERS STRIKE. | LANCASTER, Pa,, (By Mail).— Workers at the Grand, Capitol, went | 9n strike when hours were increa:<:) and an organist discharged, ) « FATHER OF FRED BEAL What the Daily Worker means to the workingclass of the United States was yester- day vividly brought home to us thru the words of two different workers—one, 70- year-old veteran, ruthlessly thrown aside by the capitalist class after nearly a half cen- tury of slavery—the other an 18-year-old Gastonia mil] striker, The old worker was W. W. Beal, the father of Fred E. Beal, a leader of the Gastonia mill strikers, one of the 14 threatened with electrocution by the mill barons’ courts in North Carolina. W. W. Beal, over 70, and dismissed from his railroad job after giving 48 years of his life to the Boston and Maine Railroad, and 18 year old Elbert Fetherow, one of the Gastonia strikers here for the Workers International Re- lief, both urge all the militant workers of the United States to rally to the aid of their fighting paper, which faces ex- tinction if immediate help is not forthcoming. “I can’t imagine what the workers would do, should they lose the Daily Worker,” said W. W. Beal. “It’s thru Fred that I began reading the Daily Worker. That was two years ago, and I can't be without it now. We workers in Lawrence, (the Massachusetts mill city which is the home of Fred Beal's father) have found it our only friend. We workers can- not afford to be without the Daily Worker; every worker must come to the Daily’s help at once.” This is what the Daily Worker means to an old fighter in the labor movement. Let young Elbert Fetherow tell you what the Daily Worker means to the Gastonia mill strikers, and to the 14 strikers who are threatened with electrocution on framed up charges of murder: “T can hardly figure what we would do in Gastonia with- out the Daily Worker. We'd all be shut off from everything without it. Do we like it? Well, you know, the strikers just crowd the home of the union member where the Daily bundle comes every day. We all know that the Gastonia papers are the bosses’ papers, and they lie about us and our leaders. “When the Daily Worker comes down there, the little boys all take bundles and sell it thru the streets, You'd just ought to see the boss grab a paper, start to read it, and just rave and tear it up. “To show you what the Daily Worker means to us, the Gastonia Gazette, the bosses’ paper here, is just tickled to death because the Daily Worker is down to four pages. We Gastonia workers aresure that the American workers won’t stand by and let the Daily go under; we need it more than ever now. You ask any striker in Gastonia if that’s not so.” The Gastonia mill bosses, eager to murder 14 mill strik. ers, rejoice that the Daily Worker had to suspend for one day recently. With no Daily Worker to speak for the working- class of this country, the mill bosses see a Roman holiday in sight for them at the trial of the 14 mill workers on July 29. The American workers cannot stand by and see the Daily Worker go under, thus providing a clear road for the mill bosses’ frameup. We just managed to come through with today’s issue although the $5,000 needed by Saturday night, was not all forthcoming. The exact figures will be published in to- morrow's “Daily.” In the meantime we have another week hefore us, every day fraught with new dangers. Answer the call of W. W. Beal, young Fethow, and the other Gastonia strikers. Send your contribution at once Send it by telegraph, special delivery or air mail, bring it in personally, but rush it to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, at once. 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 sending you the enclosed amount, $ Worker I ame \ Address Names of contributory will be p delay, INCREASE NAVY; TARIFF WAR ON Hoover Hails, Meeting on Armaments, But | Builds Cruisers Britain Retains Forts | Canada, England, Will Fight U. S. Duties WASHINGTON, June 30.—While | | President Hoover went through the | formality of asserting that “he was |pleased at the approach of a new arms limitation conference,” the lcauses and weapons of war con- | tinued to pile up over the week end. | The U. S. navy department issued | orders for the construction of two |mew cruisers of 10,000 tons each. One is to be built by the Puget | Sound Navy Yard, and the other by |the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Cot-| | poration, the combined cost to be! about $20,000,000. The Washington administration | expressed considerable satisfaction with the proposal in two British papers that the British West In- dian fortifications, a direct threat to U. S. imperialism, be abandoned. | But it is noticed that the bulk of |the British press does not join in this request, and that ‘the Mac- | Donald government makes no state- ment on it. Meanwhile the most influential of London papers, the Times, in Sat- urday’s issue calls for a tariff war by England on the U. S, saying, |The tariff bill as it left the House | probably is the most extreme mea-| sure of protection ever proposed by a modern state,” and emphasizes that though 20 nations object to it, it seems to be aimed especially at England. | SANDINO SCORES US. IMPERIALISM | Tells Mexican Workers His Army Fights on VERA CRUZ, June 30.—In an in- terview with the pre: General |Augustino Sandino, leader of the | heroic Army of National Liberation | of Nicaragua, who arrived here from Guatemala, bitterly denounced Amer- | ican imperialism. “Right now | American imperialism,” he said, “is |provoking trouble between Hon- |duras, Salvador and Guatemala, striving to create an opportunity to {step in and acquire islands for the establishment of a new naval base.” Sandino also addressed a large crowd of wildly enthusiastic workers from his hotel window. He told the workers that he had not given up the struggle against Wall Street’s marines in Nicaragua, but had left trusted officers in charge of his men | who were fighting on while he went | jabroad to form closer connections with the anti-imperialist movement of the world. Though he looked worn as a result jof his rigorous campaigns, his words | jShowed that his spirit remains} | strong and uncompromising. | US. PUTS SCREW DOWN ON FRANCE Stimson, Borah, Reject | Pay Postponement WASHINGTON, June 30.—It was | made very plain to France yester- | day, in an unofficial but sharp man- | ner, that the French government has |to pay up its debt to the U. S| government ahd the U. S. bankers, Paul Claudel, the French ambassa- dor, called on Secretary of State Stimson, in pursuance with instrue- tions from the French government to ask for a deygy in payment. Noth- | ing was said for publication, but of- |ficials of the state department let jit be known Claudel's request was} campaign. OF EAST IN CALL FOR CONFERENCE Will Meet Aug. 17-18 to Work Out Pro- gram for Action Fight Wage Cut Policy Will Plan Organization of Harbor Workers A great conference for organiza- tion purposes and to plan active struggle against the prevailing low wages and bad conditions on the At- lantie shipping was announced y terday by the Marine Workers League, 28 South St. The meeting will be August 17 and 18, at the International Sea- men’s Club headquarters, the above address, and will develop a program of action, badly needed by east coast marine workers. The Marine Workers League is the only militant and growing or- | ganization of seamen and longshore-| men in America. It has branches now in practically all of the larger ports, and fights the owners for improvements, carries on an educa- tional program among seamen, or- ganizes them, and exposes the sell- out and treacherous policies of the International Seamen’s Union and International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, The announcement of this East Goast’ Conference of Marine Work- ers is signed by George Mink, na- tional secretary of the M. W. L., and states: Fight Speed-Up. “The purpose of this conference will be to develop a program of ac- tion, and to organize the Marine Workers against the present speed- up system and wage cutting cam- paign of the ship owners, and against the open betrayal of the A. of L. International Seamen’s Union (Fureseth Olander and Co.) also against the International Long- shoremen’s Association (Ryan and (Continued on Page Three) GREEN IN PLEA FOR PULLMAN C9, * Union Profitable to Them, He Says Follcwing the , betrayal of the Fullman porters and maids in the, spring of 1928, after they had over- whelmingly voted for a strike, Wil- liam Green, president of the Amer- iean Federation of Labor, in a speech as the Abyssinian Baptist (Chureh, 138th St. and Seventh Ave., | {yester |ganizatior of these workers so that afternoon, urged the or- “we can help make the industry nore productive and more efficient.” The Pullman Company, he hastened » “would never regret it.” After the strike vote last year Green ordred the walkout called off d urged instead “an educational Because the Communists (Continued on Page Three) have COPIALISTS AID HAMBURE COURTS Prosecute Communists; ‘Lefts’ Defy Misleader (Wireless By Inprecorr.) HAMBURG, Germany, June 30.— fe senate of Hamburg, 2 so-called ‘free city,” decided today, the votes of the socialists with the majority deciding the issue, since the social- ists and Commu have had a maj mentary immunity should be with- drawn from almost the whole Com- |munist Party fraction, s together would ‘ity, that parlia- Twenty-five members of the Communist fraction in the senate jare now being prosecuted for “ro- (sisting lawful authority.” The case arose when the Commu- | than $100,000,000 in eight cities. Lynch Plots Renewed; Electric Chair Ready Danger Immediate, Trial Less T and Desperate, Says International Labor Defense; ian Month Away; Huge Prosecution Fund National TEM T BY INTERNATIOD Mu cet that the governor of North Carolina has ordered a special session of the trial of the Gastonia textile strikers (which means trial some time AL LABOR DEF criminal court for t in July); The fact that the federal government has come into the case and is attempting in violation of its own laws to hamper the campaign to mobilize the workers in defense of the Gastonia defendants; The fe et that in Gasto: a new wave of mob terror is being prepared: all this shows that union lead n Gastonia are in grave danger of being lynched or of being railroaded to the electric chair or to long prison terms, uniess the w orking class, by immediate mobilization and demonstration of its willgthat these innocent workers shall go free, saves them. Hald deme rations; support the International Labor Defens , and send funds for defense to International L: ew York City. ; send telegrams of bor Defense, 80 East "HTS ‘Proud of My DISCOVER PLOTS on, Beal's (19. RAID TENTS, _ Father SOS yunure RELIEF FOR proud of my bo | Be: 70-year-old fath of Fred/ +, |Beal, Gastonia strike leader, re-|q 9+ . Lawyers Wo Ut! cently told a group of labor mis.|speCcial Committee to > Mand in Lawrence, Mass., who for Man at him because his son was| sss sbor De. | in Prisen, on a framed up charge 5 The Internat abor De-| °¢ murder, faced with electrocution| fense w yesterday notified | at the h f the courts controlled | ae f the Criminal cae y the New York postmaster|by the North Carolina mill bosses. |SPecial term of the Criminal Cou oy the “New York posmmasety The elder Beal, an old railroad|of Gaston County was ordered Fri- ying let- | wo; arrived in New York yes-|day by Governor Gagner of North workers to|terday from his home in Lawrence, | ¢, The term will begin in a mill center, and will leave for Gastonia in a day or two, to see his|t¢ later part of July and will try nizers|son and to take part in defense work| the « ed-up| Under the auspices of the Interna |tional Labor Defense. He vis | the y Worker office and was| ar in stating his views. | revealing some of the s that Fred Beal, the south- |! zer of the National Tex- kers’ Union, had undergone t, the old man told how was a victim of the te leaders cial to the Daily Worker.) STONIA, N. C., June 30.—A that its envelopes car ters appealing to arolina. orgar for the defense of the 15 Gastonia striker and o frar s of 15 Gastonia strikers rganizers who are held on fake and eight held on ult. ans that their trial facing electrocution on charges of murd facing long pri will nonth, nore essential that e sent without de- 1 Labor Defense, New York, 7 rushed at the in- ge crowd of mill within a The excus clause in the vho have been onia city special is the Fired, This group of frame- its envelopes: , laved for includes Clyde Hoey of Frame-Up Against Boston and ilroad, onl; brother-in-law of Strikers.” be thrown on by the r, and is headed by i Suit Starts road comp: when it had t attorney for che ets tee re fanaa the of my life from me he owners cf uch thing; all they as a pass on the Boston and the offer of a gate hman's job, That job ey, ho took it no good, for to stated: Jyestaniay inst which the steps are being t attempt of the to stab the G. back by cutting off funds and keeping t tril Jease from the wor Resisted Massacre. Attorne: Or... The Gastoni arose out of | Carol W fans here struck for {%¢ death of Chief of Police Ader lon the fir ase to $1.25 an hour holt, who wes killed on the night mandamus to compel the pos are!0f June 7 when evicted Loray strik- (Continued on Page Three) crs defended themselves against the ste hief of police, three of his deputies da mill company gunman who was not an officer of the law at all, but who went along with the others Power Trust Chieftan Sits hn et tne th he a af when they were led by Aderholt in on Manville-Jenckes Board 7220" 0 ot o tre ten id perpetrate another Lud- + low M acre, Bloody Foe of Loray Strikers Connected with . Power Trust $100,000,000 Corruption of Press WASHINGTON, Jun jebly the most sensational e |disclosed at the hearing: yesterday) on Power Tr propa- day week. Plumbe: ing for the same increase. The 15 now held on chayges of nurder,” “conspiracy” and “seeret ult with a deadly weapon with | Il,” are: Fred Beal, Louis cLaughlin, Schechter, Wil- MeGinn Bush, George Sophie Melvin, K. O. Byers, on, J. C. Heffner, Rob- t Allen. Russell Knight, N. F, bbons, K. Y. Hendricks and Del- hich failed to file correct. owner- ship statements. These newspapers had been pos ling as “independent” and “fearless |ganda before the Federal ‘Trade |champions of the people,” while at [Commission were the recent revela- the same time they were taking tions that the International Paper |Power Trust money in secret | pace neee, recently area Sadar ty peqtettbined | newsprint |bribed and controlled by one of the| ,,,T0s® Rew out on a ee and utility group, had investments |largest and most merciless of the bit Pi ge ape ied ly in newspapers aggregating more trusts, Dean, Retest ie ca a As| This Graustein, president and Townsend, Walter shed director of the International Paper ithnen, a result of testimony by A. R. ¢ | flatly denied, Borah Denounces France. Senator Borah, head of the foreign (Continued on Page Three) nists were previously ordered from jthe chamber. They refused, and were ejected by the police, The Com- (Continued on. Page Two) .. ten of the newspapers involved. At-| torney General Mitchell has been! forced by the growing scandal to | state that he is now considering whether to prosecute newspaners of the Loray Mills in Gastonia, exploiters of labor par excellence, and now engaged in spending half a million dollars. hiring a dozen (Continued on Page Two) stein, president of the company, the| end Power Co. (Power Trust). ie ah Pitinan, Post office department required| cleo a director of the Manville. Lexington Judge Presides. amended ownership statements from| Jenckes Textile Mills Co., owners The governor specified in his or= der for a special court term that Judge H. Hoyle Sink of Lexington was assigned to preside. This is |the same judge who signed the \ (Continued on Page Tum) A a