The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1929, Page 2

wv , 4 5 a gantic world demonstration against} just as if we were their brothers. “Day, August 1. i Page Two CLOAK MAKERS TO MEET IN COOPER UNION AT 1 P.M, Industrial Union in Call to Strikers (Contin vad froin. Page One) many whose police and magistrates ve set records for trutality and viciousness in their campaigns against s The Industrial Union yesterday received a telegram from its repre- sentatives in Boston which sheds a harp light on the present swindle against the cloakmakers. The mes- sage follows: “Don't Worry,” Says Bosses. “From reliable sour it as learned here y that owners of several local department stores have received telegrams from New York cloak manufacturers that they should not reckon with the strike ald not withhold any cloak ‘We have an understanding with the representatives of the union,’ the telegram of the manu- facturers said, that the stoppage will not last long.” The union yesterday also received a letter from Lena Parini, the young Italian cloak worker who was sen- tenced Tuesday to serve 20 days in Harts Island for picketing. The let- ter follows: “IT received the $10 which you sent me. Give my regards to all the comrades ij Imow that this prison sentence will not serve to discourage me. When my term will end I will again be in the front line ranks of the strug- FIGHT WAR PIANS IN COOPERATIVES Launch International Campaign Saturday (Continued from Page One) is the apparatus of the Alliance being utilized increasingly as part ci the pitalist state repressive the union. Let them | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1929 Farm Rationalization Ends \Jypee REFUSES $1,500 S CITY, Mo., July 4.—] Rationalization, through the use of | machinery on farms, has taken away the jobs of 35,000 of the 5 000 harvest hands needed a few years ago to take in the wheat har- vest, facts made public here .by the employment offices indicate. { Betore the use of small combined harvesters and tractors became prevalent, the annual wheat harv its starting in Texas, developing full strength in Kansas and then sweeping northward through Ne- braska and the Dakotas inte Can- ada, was one way to live for the hosts of migratory laborers, unem- ployed throughout the winter. | This year shows only 15,000, one man per section of wheat land in Kansas, employed. The other 35,- 000, swelled by those thrown out of work by the use of new technique and labor-saving machin in non- farming industries, are just simply out of luck. Aeroplanes for F VASHINGTON, July irplane as a farm implement in dusting and spraying operations for se of cotton and other crops is proving effective on a wide scale in the Uni States i foreign count , it wa the agricultural depar Pe Applicati been 1 ed today at h creps as ches, pecans, walnuts, wheat, al- falfa, tomatoes, cantaloupes and pep- pers, besides numerous others. Vari- ous types of forest areas have beer. treated also in this way. Poisonous chemicals distributed from a height by airplanes quite HEARING TODAY Union Organization is Actively Conducted 1 /conttened feo Page One) holt and his followers on the tent colony in Gastonia, June 7, duri which Aderholt was shot. The defense will demand a change of venue, the transfer of the trial out of Gaston County, on the grounds of prejudice in Gaston which is a town whose administra- tion is controlled by the mill com- frequently poison farm animals and | panies, people thé fo: ining a seh Be fields, but sine are big Meetings Organize I. L. D. | business now, and the farmers are GASTONIA, N. C., July 4.— being forced ‘to mo: and more Seventy-five w ers of the Rex mechanize holdings, nothing | mill met last night here, and were is done abou ental poisonings. STRIKER FOUGHT FOR RED ARMY Mill Worker Refused to Fight Bolsheviki (Continued from Page One) perialist army, and joined the Bol- sheviks. “T was one of those who were| fooled into joining the army during the world war. Before we left Gas-) tonia we were told, ‘Your job will be waiting for you when you come} back. They made all kinds of heroes | lout of us. Well, what happened |when we came back is a different | story. “They first shipped me to France. I was wounded there,” and Pink showed the deep scars of his wounds | on his leg. “Then we were sent to fight agairist the Russian workers, only we didn’t know we were going to do that, before we arrived in Vladivos- tok. But -we soon found out what we were in Siberia for. We were) there to put down the Russian work- | ers, and wé were sent there by the boss class, SHOE STRIKERS RESIST SELLOUT Haverhill Fakers Want Workers to Return HAVERHILL, Mass., July 4.— Following a ing rebuke from the rank file of the striking shoe 23 sti and $ on helr against the recommendation of the reactionary union officieldom, plans were again fut through a sell-or wo! June which voted over gly in motion them to put A demand that the workers give up the demand for the 10 per cent | increase and return to work was made by the labor fakers at a meet- ing between the General and District Councils of the Shoe Workers’ Pro- tective Union. David M. Fitzgerald, general sec- retary-treasurer of the union, urged that the walkout be called off at once, and that the workers return to work on terms guaranteeing the continuation of the present wage scale for five years. Parades and demonstrations have machine? | “1 and other men in my company On International Cooperator Day,|saw that these workers were being! called by the Cooperative Section of |driven into slavery by the white | the Communist International for | troops and the Japanese troops, | this Saturday, July 6, these are| Whom “we were aiding to occupy | emong the problems to be consid-| Vladivostok at that time. | ered by the workers. | Officers’ Lies. | | As against the policy of the co-| «] saw that they were fighting for operative bureaucrats who use the|q workers’ government, the same as day for the popularization of class| we ought to have here. The officers collaboration, cooperative utopias | tried to tell us that the Bolsheviks | and pacifist illusions, the workers were beasts, but we saw that these | will make the event part of the gi-| workers treated us American boys imperialist war on International Red | ° | “Well, we decided we wouldn’t In League With Traitors. Indicating the extent of pacifist tveachery of the International Co- operative Alliance, the Communist International Cooperative Section points to the class collaboration tac- tics used by the Alliance in its rela- tions with the Second and Amster- dam Internationals. Its close relationship with the state machine is expressed in the “more or less open support for the popularization of imperialist ideas on the lines of the foreign policy ef the individual governments, sup- port for the policy of colonial op- pression and exploitation, and part- ly material participation in it,” a statement of the Cooperative Sec- tion points out. U.S8.S.R. Cooperatives Grow Faced by the tremendous growth of real workers’ and peasants’ co- operatives in the U, S, S. R., where there are now 26,000 trading units in the cities and 60,000 units in the villages, the Alliance has consistent- ly maintained 2 hostile attitude to the U. S. S. R. cooperative program question, At the same time, it is definitely granting its machine to the League of Nations and the im- perialist powers grouped within it to aid the fight to encircle the Soviet Union with the guns of imperialist aggression. Exposure of these plans will be part of the program of Internation. al Cooperator Day on Saturday. Negro Anti-Imperialist Lavds World Congress (Continued from Page On) erete program of how to fight im- perialism and establish full social, vacial and economic equality. “The United States branch of the League will hold here in New York | 2 series of preliminary conferences for this mobilization, in which every worker, regardless of race, creed or color, should participate in present- ing their point of view for the re- tlization of that great task.’ Farewell to Delegation. The national office of the United States section of the A. A. A. I. L. tated yesterday: “The role of the American delega- ion to. Frankfort will be a very ‘significant onc. The All-America ti-Imperialist League called a council meeting for July 8 the Irving Plaza Hall at 8 p. m. | order to give detailed instructions the delegation on behalf of the n anti-imperialist | move- July 9, Tuesday, a farewell will be held in the Mandarin urant. 30 Bowery, at 8 p. m., delegates and repyesenta- fight ’em. So we went over to the Russian workers’ side, to help them | win their freedom. Some of the boys! stayed there, and are still in Soviet Russia, ever since that day, helping to build a workers’ government. | “I was imprisoned for months by \the army officers. Then they framed me up, and confined me to the army hospital, saying I was drunk, etc,. all lies, just_to punish me for helping |the Russian workers. They scattered jus thru the Philippines and Hawaii, to punish us. “I know now why the world war was fought. It was nothing but a war made by the capitalists and we workers were the goats. | Manville-Jenckes Slavery. | “There’s many a war veteran among the Gastonia strikers, and we won't help the capitalists in the next war that they start. We know that the same bosses we are fighting in Gastonia are part of the gang that makes the wars.” | “The Manville-Jenckes Co. was | ‘kindhearted’ enough to give me a job at $12 a week when I got back. I worked in the mills ever since I was | eight years old, when I started in at| 25 cents a day. Before I went to! war I was a doffer in the spinning | |toom of the Loray mill. “They soon started to cut wages, | |speed us up, and put three men’s, jobs on one man, Conditions got so) bad, we just had to join the National | Textile Workers Union and go out jon strike. And we’re going to stick to the union until we win.” | Telephone Beacon 731 been held here by the workers in protest against the proposed sell- out. They have let it be known that they will stick fast in their deter- tination to continue the strike, which is now in its seventh week, until they win all demands, includ- ing the ten per cent increase. LIBERALS’ WIELD JAPANESE KNOUT Sharpening Fight for Nanking Control (Continued from Page One) pointment indicates that Japanese imperialists regard the job of win- ning over the Nanking reactionaries as being of higher importance than sparring with their imperialist rivals in London, for Saburi is un- doubtedly the slickest diplomat in their pay. Exploiters Pleased. Japanese capitalists are univer- sally pleased with the new “liberal” cabinet, to which Koizumi, a former fireman and carpenter, has been ap- pointed in order to give the gov- ernment a “popular” tinge and | throw a sop to the masses, whose growing resentment at the combined oppression of the-feudal aristocracy end the industrialists is alarming the exploiters. Volunteers Wanted by addressed on organization and de- fense work by Walter Trumbull. The workers reported iageats by the management that the¥ would be evicted and blacklisted unless worked docilly for the bosses. A committee of workers me! terday in Gastonia to organize a local branch of the Internationel Labor Defense. The next mee will be tomor Plans are b |formulated to establish a large de-| fense committee throughout the South with representatives in every mill. | they Send Letters Through Jimison. All communications to the prison- ers in Gastonia jail should be sent care of Attorney Tom Jimison, 116 Court. Arcade, Charlotte, N.©. The prisoners are very anxious to re- ceive messages and books on_his- tory, biography, geography, econ- omics and similar subjects, also re- cent good fiction, from their friends | outside, | Those held in the Gastonia jail are all under charges of murder, secret assault with a deadly wea- pon with intent to kill, and con- spiracy, McLaughlin, Amy Schechter, Wil. ‘liam McGinnis, Vera Bush, George" | Carter, Sophie Melvin, K. O. Byers, | Joseph Harrison, I. C. Heffner, Rob- jert Allen, Russel Knight, N. F. | Gibbons, K. Y. Hendricks and Del- mar Hampton. HOOVER ADMITS ~ UNEMPLOYMENT ‘Says May Investigate | It Sometime - WASHINGTON, July 4.—Presi- dent Hoover, who never during the election campaign abandoned his | position that there was no unem-| ployment problem, no matter how | much evidence was presented to show there were millions out of work, today admitted in effect that he was spreading nonsense. | In answer to one of the typically sycophantic letters of a state fed- eration of labor head, praying for | him to do something about finding out the causes of unemployment, | | Hoover wrote today: m4 _ “Sometime.” “T believe it is desirable that an} | exhaustive inquiry should be made | into the subject. I am in hopes that |when some of the momentarily | pressing problems of the adminis tration are out of the way we will be able to take it up.” | Hoover’s “special committee on recent economic changes” in its re- jport admitted the throwing out of jemployment of ‘millions of workers | | by the introduction of machinery, | | but sought to salve over this sore | |in modern life by saying that “leis- | |ure is consumable” and that “how- | jever great a hardship introduction | of labor saving machinery may be | | to the individual, it works a’ social change.” I. L. D. to Assist Office Aside from Hoover's final admis- for Gastonia Defense The National Office of the In- ternational Labor Defense asks volunteers to assist in mailing and addressing envelopes for the Gastonia Defense Drive to re- port at Room 402, 80 E. 11th St., day or evening, including Sun- days. jsion that an unemployment situa- jtion exists, his conference plan | seems to be little more than a prom- toes that at some remote date, a committee of employers will reiter- | jate what the committee on economic changes said. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER JACOB MASTEL THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents, Take car direct to Camp—20 cents. CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. New York Director of Dramatics Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL » Telephone Esterbrook 1400 $ They are: Fred Beal, Louis | Y | Sovtorgflot, Needed Daily, States Labor Defense little over three il the opening of the stonia frame-up trial on July the National Office of the Interi tional Labor D e announces that num neces- sary till the conclu: to defend the ganizers who rs and or- cing the elec- jail terms. » banning of I. L. D. appeals y the post office because they enclosed in envelopes sh the Murder fighting this ban, w to smash the defense campaign, and is continuing to mail out these en- velope s no assurance that ands of through- he country to whom they are addressed. The Internati of the dang minimizing the mu: tions of the ‘mill Despite post office ban: schemes stoppin; e, funds 1 in every ow and all g the de- once part rushed to the the Inter i E, llth St., City. Own Followers Say Ramsay MacDonald Fleuts the Jobless (Continued from Page One) The question has not been with America, the foreign said. ed nister Dawes’ Soft Soap. American Ambassador Dawes, in a speech to the American Society’s i carefully avoided giving any m for naval reduction or ad- ig any haste, but contented him- self w ost fulsome and a st platitudes, eay- States United Britain feel it a sense of duty to and Great one another and to the world to further the ideal of comradeship as opposed to force as an arbiter be- tween nations. “We are finding,” he said, “that many of our high resolves are not curs alone, but those of two great speaking peoples jointly re- izing what continued peace and amity mean to us and to the world, jointly determined it co-operation with other naval powers.” World Tourist Group Sails for U.S.S.R. Tour The latest group of World Tourists which left on the Cunard liner Car- ia, included educators and who will visit Leningrad, Mos- cow and Kiev, and in a tour south will study the triumphs of collective agriculture based on the worker- peasant alliance. The group was headed by Dr. Joshua Kunitz, lec- turer on Russian languages at the College of the City of New York. The World Tourist group will have the cooperation and advice of the Soviet Government travel trust, cooperating with World Tourists, Flatiron Building, Fifth Avenue and 23rd St., New York City. It is the ultimate aim of this work (“Capital”) to reveal the economic law of motion of modern society.—Marx. n of the trial/ g vec SFM Black Haiti SHIELD KILLERS Vhite Landlord is Not Quizzed by Police (Continued cn Page Two) likely that the police may have in- eriminating evidence in their pos- session which they are hiding. The Negroes in this section are greatly aroused over the brutal urder and are demanding action in | onsion of the murderer. | ling tactics of the po- | lice, it seems likely that they will let the case drag until the resent- | ment of the Negroes has blown! over and the murder becomes merely | other of the “unexplained mys- | Den ed by Upper Harlem I. L. D.| Executive Member. | brutal exposition of what | now confined in Gastonia | © in danger of was de-| t night by Solomon Har- | per, executive member of the Upper | Harlem Branch of the International | | Labor Defense. “The Negro workers | of the South should be organized | with their fellow white worker | slaves into defense. unions of work- | to overthrow the slave system | This 1 we |which is grinding the white andj black workers to death in many ways. “Detail plans of a general protest and defense meeting will be arranged at our next executive meet- ing. We shall expose the republican campaign vote catchers, who submit | anti-lynch bills yearly to the capi- | talistie congress only to keep “old | time” Negroes voting, for the party | | of Wall Street. “Tt only yesterday that the! capitalist press published a column | of bunk to the effect ‘Only 4 Negroes | lynched this year,’ and at once the bosses introduce again the American Pastime of brutal lynching of Willie | McDaniel. Only the Communist! Party can be depended upon to drive | tem out of existence and any | Negro worker who fails to accept the | principles and become a member of this international Party which freed millions of minorities from brutal | pogroms in old Russia may sooner or later expect to be tracted in the same way as young Joe Boxley, 19, who was lynched in Almo, Tenn., June 1, the seme day the Harlem) Tenants’ League pataded thru 44) bloeks of Harlem protesting against landlordism, and carrying slogans such as ‘defend the Soviet Union.’ | “We shall fight for the Soviet Union of America which will come | s sure as lynching will stop by| forced mass strength of the workers and members of the Communist Party. A membership meeting of the I. L, D. will be held at the Har- | lem Labor Center, 235 West 129th St. Friday evening July 12th.” 500 Workers Turn Out. For Street Meeting of | Downtown Unit 2, YCL| Over 500 workers attended a} street meeting held under the aus- pices of Downtown Unit 2 of the Communist Youth League at 89th] St. and Ninth Ave. Tuesday night. Although shepherded by a squad of | Tammany police, the meeting was | allowed to precsed without moles- tation after those in charge had procured the regulation flag . of American imperialism, which the! bulls at first insisted should cover | ‘the banner of the unit. g celebrating the physical culture il Interest for 3 months ending to July 17th, 1929 PENG revolaution of the Soviet Republic. “SPARTAKIADA” a remarkable Sovkino film record of the “RED OLYMPIAD” RECENTLY HELD IN MOSCOW Showing men and women workers of Russia and other countries exhibiting remarkable skill, speed and strength in all forms of athletics. Film Guild Cinema 52 W. Sth St. (7st Fh and} Continuons Performance. POLITAN: SAVINGS BAN] Wels, ASSETS EXCEEDING rEg, (all day) until 7 P. M. Society Accounts Accepted, ‘fravelers Certified Chee HIRD: AVE: Cor RUSSIA SPRing $095-$099 Popular Prices. 1 P.M. to Midnight Int. TST wip ae in named George Hey, the author mpany m Port au Prince, Haiti, at ist straw-boss whon ee, betrays him, and after way- hin unconscious with a gun. riend, and Hey and his gets a job at the Electric Light ¢ 5 a month. nt into h col n, a whit a salary of f; pi Dicharson has tak Z ¢ Dicharson make: native girl, Pauli Dicharson, in the comp pretend to be interested, g Company, in order to get 7 is done. He decides to con 2 chief of police and others who hief at the Electrie Light is insulted and nothing By JACQL THE NEXT DAY I went to to see a radical one, but s confidence in the Haitian “r me or perhaps yellow. So I got that he had to buck Bleo and | with. As I never had much in my pocket, The only si drop. Not wanting to intrude too m fairs I only came once a day at | SON. Someone had advised me © the Chauvet affair I didn’t place They seemed a little too pink for er, but when that worthy saw ique, he wanted to have $50 to begin h in money I only had a dollar or 80 ble thing I could do was to let the matter on George’s internal family af- ; house for my meals. I had met a Haitian that had a second-hand furniture store on the Grande Rue. Mevs was his name. He was alright; he let me sleep in the back of his place at night. thing I objected to, was the mosquitoes. They had been ‘ore, but now that the v her was getting hotter they were positive enemies an they showed it!.... It was there that I caught malaria. One evening I was shaking so bad that I could only drag myself to Hey’s place. That .night he took me to the Hospital General. * * . EXT MORNING when I awoke I took possession of my surround. ings. It is an acceptql fact that malaria only attacks one periodi- cally. I mean when it’s ofly in its first stage. That morning I didn’t feel so bad, I was only a little weak. Apparently there was a shortage of beds. The American doctor had put me on the floor with a straw mattress. Natives surrounded me. Some on the floor like myself, others on beds. They were suffering from all known diseases, from ‘elephantatia to syphilitic ulcers. The fellow on the bec next to me was suffering from dropsy. He scared me at times, times when I thought I had nightmares. He would blow up, get fat, fat and fatter like the proverbial frog in the fable, till I was scared he would be shattered into fragments. And I remember I was frightened that the pieces would fly over me. The other one on the floor beside me was quieter. He had had part of his sexual organs taken out the day before, and was still under the influence of ether, But nevertheless the place had a cheery outlook. In the morning the French sisters would bring us tea. Bush tea and a piece of dry bread. “At twelve o'clock they would give us some red beans with a lonely banana floating in the middle, but without bread. At supper time we had the same thing as for breakfast, only at times they would vary and give us some moldy hardtack. * * * HE FIRST FEW DAYS it wasn’t so bad, but at the end of the week I had grown so weak and thin that I must have frightened even the comrades that were sleeping alongside of me. No wonder the doctors didn’t bother about visiting me. I remember that the man suf- fering from dropsy would give me some of his milk. That was a great help. The army doctors came and went, but never with a word of cheer for me. Perhaps they had heard that I was an American too and they were ashamed. I tried to speak to the sisters in their own tongue, but they would make believe they did not understand me, Perhaps I was deliring!... At the end of the first week Hey came to see me and brought me some milk and a few magazines and some cigarettes. He wrote me afterward that that day he sure thought that I was a gonner, and that he would never have forgiven the system if I had kicked the bucket. ‘ * * * HEN CAME A TIME which I do not remember too clearly, A time when indeed I must have been very near the border of death. I would come to realize my own predicament only to smile to myself. Hell, I thought, I would fool them anyway. They would have to bury me. My death would be at thejr expense. It was not they that would kill me, it was myself. Yes, sometimts I felt glad that I was in this condition sutrounded by natives. -It would show them that a white man was not a demon after all. It would show them that a white man could suffer and undergo the same things and treatment as they were undergoing and suffer the same circumstances. It would show them the bond of the exploited and oppressed of all colors. Yes, if I had to minutely describe the petty things that happened to me in that hospital you wouldn’t believe them. The swarms of fat flies unmercifully buzzing about, when I did not have the strength to chase them. The petty persecutions such as no sugar in the tea. Bread er biscuits a few weeks old.... Petty things, you say? Yes, petty, but really big to a human being that was om the brim of the pit of death! Hey saved my life, with what he brought me every two days or so. The man on my left had a share of it, and human forgetfulness, I do not even remember his name now. What did I do, you may as! unpardonable by the ruling cla: truth to slaves. Ee PASS LIGHTLY on my remaining time in the Temple of Tor- tures. Just let me state that one morning the Haitian doctor at. tending me declared that I was out of death’s control, and fit to go where I might choose. My mattress was needed for another poor devil! Iwas so weak I could not bring a glass of water to my mouth without spilling half of it. When I entered the hospital I weighed over 130 pounds; now I didn’t think I could reach a hundred. I borrowed a coco-macaque, a huge native stick, from one of the natives, and shakingly made my way out. My first steps were di. rected toward George’s house. He had told me to go there as soon as I could come out. But never was I a pet of Dame Fortune. Pauline erying on the bed. to be persecuted like that? A crime Organizing peons. Teaching the As I entered I found She told me that Hey had had a fall while reaching for some heavy material in one of the overhead bine in the store-room. He wasn’t hurt bad, she said, but was badly shaken. I left. 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