The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1929, Page 1

To Organize the ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government Unorganized > Baily Entered as second-class a:1i< Worker FINAL CITY EDITION eee Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New York city, 28 Union Square, N.Y. ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by_mall, $6.00 per year. _Price 3 | Cents Fn STRIKERS IN “THE POWER BEHIND THE “DAILY” BESSEMER URGE! WAR ON FRAMEUP Prisoners in. in Gastonia | Jail Thank Workers | for Assistance | | Union, I. L. D. Growing | Mill Press Agitating | Suppression of Daily BULLETIN GASTONIA, July 5.—Delmar Hampton, arrested over a week { ago in South Carolina, was held | for the murder trial July 29 with the other 14 textile striker de- fendants. He has given a prelim- inary hearing today before City Recorder Jones of Gastonia, and the only evidence against him was | that of policeman Hord, who ad- | mitted under cross examination that all was peaceful at the tent colony when he came there with Chief Aderholt the night of the | raid and shooting, and policeman | ‘Rankin who repeated his testimony | given at the habeas corpus hear- jing. eo wee (Special to the Daily Worker.) BESSEMER CITY, N. C., July 5.—Textile mill strikers thronged to a great all-day picnie yesterday sn ; the new union and Workers Inter- national Relief grounds here. The picnic was followed by a mass meet- ing in the evening, at which the crowd amounted to at least 500, At the picnic and meeting was 2 delegation of the Gastonia strikers, | who were brought in by means of } trucks. The picnic and meeting were under the auspices of the Workers International Relief, Inter- national Labor Defense and National Textile Workers Union. The speakers at the picnic in the afternoon were Bill Dunne and Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national secretary of the I. L. D. In the evening striker Viola Hampden of Gastonia spoke and the father of one of the de- fendants in the Gastonia frame-up case, Fred Erwin Beal. Beal’s Yather got a great ovation from the strikers. He had to pass down a tong line of the strikers, for 2 were anxious to shake hands with him. The audiences pledged solidari with the International Labor De- fense, in its efforts te save Fred Beal and the fourteen other class | War prisoners held on murder} charges because some of the Loray | mill strikers in the tent colony in Gastonia shot the Gastonia sheriff dn self-defense when he led an a (Continued on Page Two) Sees thé Reparation Bank as Vise by Whick Mergan Bleeds Europe WASHINGTON, July 5.—Thomas W. Lamont, of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and one of the U. S. _ “unofficial” delegates to the Dawes | plan board of experts meeting in| Paris recently concluded, today de- clared that the world reparations bank originated by the U S. dele- gates and written into the board’s re- | port after some struggle on the part | of the European delegates, would be | much more important than a clear- | ing house for reparations. Lamont envisages it as a center .f international financial dealings, equipped with a veto power over al! really big enterprises in Europe, and controlled, of course, by. Morgan. | Democracy, Industrial Accidents to Be Issue in CommunistCampaign Building Trades Worker Analyzing New Safety | Code, Says Deaths, Injuries due to Speed-up Industrial accidents, due directly to speed-up methods, 8 frretme AGTIITIES FOR Thee Workers PLANS EO INTERNATIONAL (Workers! Smash Mill Boss FURRIER PICKET REN DAY MADE Plot to Facilitate Murder DEMONSTRATION INSTANT TASK By Barring Mails to ‘Daily’ Will Utilize War Date, Other Opportunities By WALTER GOLLMICK,. (Special to the Daily Worl BERLIN (By Mail). °; with the Comn Par of all other countries, the Communist Party of Germany is taking all the measures necessary to make the In- ternational Red Day a day of the broadest working class and peasant masses in town and country against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The aim of the anti-war campaign of the Commu- nist Parties is not to carry out any “putch” as the international Social and particularly the German reformists, declare, for very obvious reasons. The aim of the Communist Parties is not to organ- ize.a “putch” but to mobilize the masses against war. The political character of this campaign in Germany is determined by the international situation and by the situation in Germany itself. | The Communist Party of Germany| therefore stresses the following fac-| tors in its campaign: The danger of war is growing, a the disarmament conferences have) (Continued on Page Two) | T will be Among the usua] sewage spread over the editorial page of the Gastonia, North Caro- | lina, Gazette, prostitute rag of the mill textile barons who are plotting te burn out the lives of fifteen textile mill strikers, these “glad tidings” were found in the Wednesday issue: “The next step in the fight against Communism will be the barring of the Daily Worker itself from the mails. The envelopes bearing the unmailable legends have been barred by order of the post office depart- ment. The Daily Worker is as bad as any of these en- velopes were and it wili likely be the next to be stopped from the mail.” This paragraph needs little comment. It means that the murderous ' textile barons, working in cooperation with their flunkeys in Washington, were only warming up for their chief task when they refused the International Labor Defense the use of the capitalist mails. The axe is being sharpened for the Daily Worker because it alone, of all the newspapers in the United States is offering powerful op- position to the boss frame-up. It must be gotten out of the way to facilitate the mass slaughter. Workers, will you stand by and see the champion of the Gastonia strikers, the champion of militant workers the country over, felled to the ground without lifting a hand to save it? Remember yesterday, two weeks ago. For the first time in five and a half years the Daily was forced to suspend publication. What the loss of its militant organ, even for so short a time, meant to the working class was graphically revealed to us by the flood of anxious inquiries that, poured into our office from every corner of the United States on that Black Friday. Letters, telegrams, telephone calls and personal visits all testified to the mighty role played by our paper in the daily lives of workers everywhere. ae MORNING Plans Made to Broaden | General S Strike ~The striking Saree early Mon- laay morning, will again express their determination to win union condi- tions in the industry, by a mass pic- keting demonstration. | The General Strike Committee last night issued a call to all furriers |to join this demonstration. Not ‘only the striking furriers, however, | are expected to participate, but also |the furriers in the settled shops and | |all members of the Needle Trades | | Workers’ Industrial Union who are | prepared. to help the furriers win! |their strike. | In a statement issued yesterday |by the Industrial Union, it was \the fur manufacturers and their agents of the joint scab council will be pushed now more energetically than ever. The executive of the General Strike Committee met yes- |terday and worked out a series of (Continued on Page Two) | SLAVE WAGE UNDER FASCISTI BUDAPEST (By Mail).—The wages of building trades workers in Hungary have now gone as low as $1 a day, due to the suppression of strikes by the Horthy fascist dictatorship, ing class cannot simply of pana ie for state rpone. (Pa ere breaks the modere state power—Marx. | Next Sunday | pointed out that the struggle against’! RESPONSE STILL WEAK ‘Only Halt of } of Funds Needed Com: Coming In| ELECTION MEET 2 Red Nominating Meet | | “Class Against Class” \Factory and Open Air 1 Meetings All Week | ‘This week has been one of intense | preparation by all parties for the {coming election campaign. T: many used July 4 not only for city election purposes but also for|f | beginning a boom for Roosevelt for| president. Jimmy Walker _ har- rangued the first voters in front of city hall in an attempt to wring | from them their votes for the dem- ocratic party. On all programs, especially the one in City Hall Sq., there were loud wails about the | smallness of the navy and demands| for greater armaments. Through-| out the country war preparations was the keynote of all speeches. Slogan: “Clas! Against lass.” | Distyict 2 of the Communist] Party used July 4 and will use the} (Continued on Page Three) | IL D CENSCRSHIP CASE IN FEDERAL Defense Conference in in New York, July 26 The International Labor Defense | has started legal proceedings to re- strain the New York Postoffice from | |holding up its mail because the en- | velopes bear the cavtion: “Smash | the Murder Frameup Against the Gastonia Strikers.” The case will come up on Tuesday in federal | court, southern district, before Judge | |Thomas D. Thatcher. Isaac Shorr | is the attorney for the I. L. D. | Horace J. Donnelly, postoffice | solicitor in Washington, after re-| fusing to remove the ban, threat- ened to start criminal prosecution if Po a Blast IN FULL SWING SALT LAKE CIT CITY, Utah, July \Mass Picketing Blocks 2 | city council has ordered the com- |seph Molinerio, Uh REAL rae 5.—Three men were killed today in an explosion which wrecked the dynamite mixing room of the Bigt Shop Cl Hercules Powder Co. at Magna, | + : Utah, near here. Conference The dead: : paige Plan ‘Garden’ Meeting Willard Jenkins, 27, Magna. —_—— i Oliver Schafer, 36, Backus. Roa e a Reser Bosses and Tools Meet There were 1800 pounds of am- monia dynamite in the mixing Three major decisions aimed room when the accident occurred. ioneouvenn tl fake cloak st The cause of the explosion has not |‘ Convert the fake cloak stop- page into a genuine struggle been determined. for union conditions under the CL AGED CAR MAN; SHOOT 2 thousands of cloak filled Cooper Union to overf yesterday afternoon. 1. The calling, in the near ture, of a conference of Shop men and shop committe the task of beginning immediately a fight for union conditions will be taken up 2. Following this confe ce, the thousands of cloakmakers will called to a huge mass demonstra- tion in Madison Square Garden. 3. At the conference of shop delegates and shop committees and jee at the Madison Square Garden All Car Lines | be BULLETIN. | NEW ORLEANS, La., July 5— Three policemen, disgusted at the wanton slaughter of strikers by n e eeting, a rank and file general their fellow police, today tore off | strike committee will be selected, their badges and walked over to 4ywhich will, together with the In. the ranks of the pickets. A third | gustrial Union, push forward. the street car which tried to run with fight of the cloakmakers for union imported scabs after two others | were stopped was held by the mass pickets today, and the crowd | was pushing the motorman from | the car when police clubbed their way in and arrested 25. Many | more have been arrested. Thibodeaux, the second man shet by the police, has died. The conditions and for their right to be- |long to a genuine union and not a company outfit. Stormy Demonstration. The thousands of cloakmakers present joined in a stormy demon- ~ stration, stormed against thé fake stoppage and showed their deter- mination to convert it into a gen- uine struggle. The meeting, how- ever, did not content with mere enthusiasm. For the pian pro- posed by the Industrial Union for converting the stoppage into a real strike was taken up pany not to try to run cars with strikebreakers until more police are assembled Deer ae NEW ORLEANS, La., July 5.—Hundreds of police are makers present in a around the car barns today,!showed that the maneuvers of ie armed with revolvers, sub-| | (Continued on Page Three) machine guns, sawed-off shot § guns and long barrelled riot! guns. | They have killed one striker, Jo- | sixty years old,| | “The Cloak Stoppage| and Gov. Roosevelt,” In Monday’s “Daily” the I. L. D. continues to mail the| With a shot through the head, and Why «did the cloaky manntaé: envelopes. If convicted this carries probably fatally wounded another| | @ candi-the any union |with it a penalty of five years in|Striker, Sylvan Thibodeaux, also] | puch to Roosevelt, the Tammany | | jail or $5,000 or both. Nevertheless, | the I. L. D. is continuing to mail | |these envelopes carrying appeals to | jthousands of workers and sym pathizers throughout the country, | despite postoffice bans and threats. The I. L. D, envelopes are being (Continued cn Page Two) \Ask Scranton Workers | to Plan for Picnic to ‘Aid Gastonia Defense SCRANTON, Pa., July 5.—Groups | of the Communist Party in Scran-| ton and vicinity are asked by Jo-| seph Innamorato, 626 W. Lacka-} wanna Ave., to get in touch with him to complete plans for mobiliza- | tion for an international picnic to rush aid for the defense of the| framed Gastonia strikers. The pic- | nic, full details of which will be) announced later, will be held either in the last week of July or the first | week of August. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! shot through the head. || a | governor? ranged the | Twenty other strikers were cri-| | conference? 2 bosses (Continued on Page Two) | and their h through the LOW WAGE IN FRANCE | vee Men tae ca stoppage, according to a pre-ar- RIS (By 1).—-The average | | ranged plan, fi ge of French workers is Seay questio} s d in Monda: y Worker, Watch for it! | to accompli P now Skilled artisans now have a top scale of $1.92 a day. Agaas First Special Articles in Anti-War Campaign. Special articles for International Anti-War Day will appear regu- larly in the Daily Worker unti] August First, when a special edition will be issued setting forth the issues in the struggle of world labor against the danger of imperialist war. An article is being published today by Walter Gollmick, sent us specially by the International Press Correspondence, telling of the preparations for August First in Ger- many. An article will appear tomorrow by Etienne Digard telling of the August First preparations of the French Communist Party. The Daily Worker will report every day the preparations that are going on in this country. One of the first American mobilizations under the direction of the Communist Party takes place in the steel, coal, rail- road center of Pittsburgh, at a meeting of Party functionaries called for Sunday at 12 noon at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller Street. Every day short quotations from articles dealing with the ques- tion of the struggle against war, that have been written by Commu- nists during the last 15 years, will appear in these columns. The Daily Worker is planning the publication at an early date of Lenin's “Theses on World War,” drawn up in August, 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the imperialist slaughter. . one of the issues to be emphasized in the coming municipal campaign by candidates nominated by the Communist Party of the New York district, These accidents are especially prevalent among building trades workers, where speed-up methods are increasing each day. In | the follawing article, written by a building trades worker on the new Safety Code gotten out by the Labor Research Association, the neces- | sity of waging a vigorous fight on industrial accidents and occupa- . tional diseases, is pointed out. Toward this end all workers are urged to elect representatives from individual shops and local unions as | fraternal delegates to the City Nominating Convention of the Com- munist Party to be held in New York on July 14. - * ., _ By JEROME. KING. 1 tion eS is sure to mean a slip or a a Construction. Worker.) |fall or “walking off a beam hun-| One of the most serious problems | dreds of feet in the air into space the building worker is up and death. Because the bosses are. against is the pi .|so busy chasing the dollar that Accidents are they are not interested in studying methods of safeguarding ladders, caffolds and floor openings to make them safe, It is easier to add the (Continued on Page wor os construc: | And what if the Daily should be forced to suspend alto- gether? What if every day becomes a Black Friday, not only for the Gastonia strikers but for all class-conscious workers? Worker above water. It is not the mill bosses alone who threaten our exist- | °”¢! ence, Because of the continued poor response to our desperate appeals for aid, the question of whether the Daily Worker can go to press at all comes up each night. Archie Brown, Oakland, Calif. Unit 3A, Section 3, Dist. 3, Phila, Pa. Ukrainian Working Wome: 5 Educational Society, N. Y. International Branch, Unit 6, Sec, 7, South et le N.Y. Unit 4F, Sec. 6, N. Y. . Samuel Barnstin, N. Y. . is Bertha Jagendorf, Brooklyn, N, U. Unit 18F, Sec. 3..... B. Weiner, See, 3, Unit 1F, New York City «Unit 1F, See. 2 Workers, this cannot go on for long! The Daily Worker raust go back to six pages. But meanwhile it needs $1,000 a day merely to keep alive. Call at once with your contribu- fons, or send them by special delivery, air mail or telegraph « the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. (Use the Blank on Page Four) , 4.00} Shop Nucleus 1, Sec. 1, N. Y. 2.00! (Continu wo) Although the total of contributions received yesterday, $633.22, shows an increase over returns of previous day, it is yet just about half of the minimum sum absolutely required to keep the Daily Workers, smash the plots of the Gastonia tex- tile bosses to bar the Datly from the mails! Send in a day's pay at 7 8 . $5.00 ue Gurin, New York . +» 5.00 . Newberth, N. Y. c. +. 8.00 24.00 ae 26, Section 6, Dist. 2, Brooklyn, N. Y. 13.00 25.00 | J. Fitzpatrick, Brookl lyn, 2.00 Nathan Korell, Bronx, N. ‘YY. 2.00 32.00 | F4, Section 2, N. Y. 8.00 14.00|Eimer Lucken, Minneapolis, 8.00]. Minn. 2.00 New York S. Tyhdis, N. Y. 5.50 2.00|Andrew A, Antich and em- ployees, Asbury Park, N. J. 18.00 10.00 Poland Plans Attack on Russia. A semi-official journalist of the | Roumanian government, M. Bak- albaska, wrote the following in one of the most important news- papers of Roumania on the 2nd of October: “The preliminary contact be- tween Poland and Roumania has been established. Our task will be to make a frontal attack upon Russia and to hold up her forces untik the arrival of the forces of the Great Powers. As we shall be numerically at a disadvantage, we need at all casts very much war material.” — Marcel Cachin. From speech of Communist mem- ber of French Chamber of Depu- ties, Dec. 4, 1928, ’ Admiral Predicts War. “We (the United States) are nearer to a war than eyer be- fore. Before we venture to dis- pute the rule of the ocean with other powers, we shall have an- other war, as surely as we are now sitting in this room.—Ad- miral Plunkett, in a speech im 1918. Threaten War Against U.S. S. R. The rapidly increasing danger of war against the Soviet Union must be clearly recognized. This danger is today more immediate and more directly threatens many millions of human lives than the danger of war and military con- flicts among the imperialist states themselves.—Willi Munzenberg, of the Anti-Imperialist League, in “The Growing Danger of Bike i ae