The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1929, Page 1

\\ FRENCH WoxwikS ARE PREPARING FOR INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR DAY DEMONSIRALLUNS By ETIENNE DIGARD (Special by Inprecorr to the Daily Worker) PARIS.—The International Anti-War Day (August First) was not the subject of popular propaganda in ['rance until quite recently. It was only shortly before May Day that this work was seriously taken i d, In the provincial press of the Party the-o * agitation. The “Humanite,” the central organ of th ady considerable Party, has started a daily rubric in which the significance of the Red Day, its necessity, | and the practical tasks connected with its preparation are set forth. Within the Party there is a tendency towards regarding the pre- parations for the International Day and the Day itself merely in the light of an agitational campaign. In reality, however, it is not only agitation that we have to keep in view but also, as the object of our agitation, the organization and continuation of the proletarian fight against the bourgeoisie and social-democrats. The Central Committee attaches special importance to the particular rubric of the “Humanite,” which is intended to contribute towards the better distribution of the directives to the broad mass of Party members. By means of the 200,000 copies of the “Humanite” that are distributed daily, the directives of the Central Committee are brought to the im- mediate notice of the Party members and sympathizers, whereby the work of enlightenment and preparation for the International Day against Imperialist Wars is greatly promoted. While the general influence of the Party is growing (witness the | results of the municipal elections and the elections for the General Councils, the increasing circulation of the “Humanite,” and the like), while the strike movement advances at ever quicker rate and radical- ization spreads to ever wider circles, while the objective situation for the mobilization of these masses grows more and more favorable, our Party cannot succeed in mobilizing the massce sufficiently under the principles of a’direct fight against the bourgeoisie and against wars, though the very same masses are willing enough to take up arms for the realization of their daily demands. Undoubtedly the new situation | Continued on Page Four THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily Company, tne., Union Square, Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Ne} ork City, N. ¥. EXPOSE CONSPIRACY BETWEEN Mill Striker Quy Daily Must Be Mighty NEW YORE 8 Power Blocking March to START © CLOAK ‘UNION’ CHIEFS, BOSSES Tells of Gas Bomb Attack In New York, by mail. $8.00 per year. York. by mail, $6.00 per year. "Price 3 Cents EDERAL URDER CHARGE 15 NOW BEING FRAMED FOR ELECTRIC CHAIR: AND TAMMANY HALL POLITICIANS ... .. <—... .. strike of the Gastonia mill workers | Ly having their thugs and the police attack the tent colony of the strik- Getting Injunction on, Gastonia’s Electric Chair STR Governor’s Conference Arranged Before Fake Stoppage; ‘Socialists’ in on Plot \ I, L. G. W. “Strike” to End July 22; Plan Fight on Left Wing at Negotiations Wednesday The Daily Worker is now in a position to reveal all the im- portant details of the brazen conspiracy by which the “social-| ist” officials of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Company union, in collaboration with the employers and the capitalist state government are secking to defraud thousands of cloakmakers and to inten-® sify the sweatshop conditions ers had failed the Manville-Jenckes Co. reserted to a second desperate attempt to crush the spirits of the strikers The raid of the mill thugs and police on the Workers International Relief tent colony resulted in the wholesale arrest of strikers and their leaders on all sorts of trumped up charges. In the prison of these strikers tear gas bombs were exploded by Gas- | tonia police. Men and women strik- ers gasped, choked and cried for water, and even this relief was at, The frame-up trial of the fifteen Gas- tonia strikers whom the textile bosses have marked for electrocution is only twenty-one days away—Three Weeks! At a time wh-n the Daily Worker, as the representative of militant labor, should be re- doubling its efforts to snatch these heroic workers from the clutches of their would-be murderers, it is fighting for its own life. New Orleans Carmen; Charge ‘Rioting’ Seab Train Is Stalled Police Supervisor Says | Pickets Will Be Shot Two New Y National and Co urday federal intervention banks, the C New York T basis the laid the for strike- breaker, into the New Orleans street as a WEAK POLICE EVIDENCE Policeman Horde Admits on Cross Examination Tent Colony Was Peaceful When Raid Began Rex Mill Bosses Start Eviction Program; One Family Already Driven Out; Gets Tent GASTONIA, N. C., July 7.—One the same flimsy evidence that has already sent 14 strikers and organizers to the county jail here to be held for trial on murder charges on July 29, Delmar Hampton was held at his preliminary hearing Friday, The hearing was before City Recorder Jones at Gastonia. The under which they are laboring. From absolutely authoritative sources close tc the bosses’ associa- s and to their “union,” the Daily Worker has learned the following: 1, The fake stoppage is sched- uled to end, by previous arrange- ment, on July 22. 2. The conference with Gov- ernsr Roosevelt was arranged not after the “strike” was called, as was made to appear, but before, and was part of the pre-arranged plan. “STRIKE” BIG FLOP. 3. The conference was called not because of the “tremendous success” of the so-called strike, as the headlines of the yellow For- ward maintained, but because it was such a tremendous flop, a flop which the employers and the company union officials foresaw and expected. 4. The conference was ar- ranged not by the governor, as was announced, but by the lead- ers of the bosses’ associations and the I. L. G. W. clique. 5. The draft of the ietter of in- vitation sent out by the governor was prepared by repfesentatives of the three bosses’ associations and of their “union.” This draft was given to the governor in ad- vance and it formed the basis of his subsequent letter. PLAN “OUTSIDE” TRIBU L. 6. The conference was ar- ranged not for the purpose of con- sidering a new agreement and bet- (Continued on Page Three} [NDUSTRIAL UNION Convert Fake Stoppage Tnto Real Strike This morning at 7 o'clock thou- sands of cloakmakers are being called to give their answer to the brazen. conspiracy between the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- \ers Company Union, the bos: and | Tammany Hall by mass picketing of all cloak shops. The picketing call has been issued by the Needle jal Union. al Union calle on ali rs to make today’s pick- demonstration against the y of the cor- ” clique and for the nm of the fake stoppage into a real strike for union condi- active cl nd furriers, as well as the bers of the Organization Com- mittee, are called to report at 6:30 ing at the Joint Board of Union, 131 W. 28th “All me ed on Page Three) FUPPIERS CAL! Conference in Webster Hall Tomorrow Nirh to Plan Aid for Fur, Cloak Struggles Determined to win their fight for union conditions, a big mass picket demonstration of the striking fur- riers will be held at 7 o’clock this morning, undeterred by the com- bined assault of bosses, scab A. F. of L. Joint Council and the Tain- many police. The Needle Trad Workers Industrial Union is callin all furriers, both those on st and those in settled shops, to take part in this picket demonstration. Plans have been made by the gen- eral strike committee for strength- loning the strike machinery. and for intensifying and spr the struggle of the fu : will be. concentrs uring the present week on stopping a number of se: +e Strike Conference Torserro Tomorrow night represent organizations — wi ter Hali at an all- nt conference to form plans the fur ond cloak strikes {now being conducted by the Indus- trial Union. All militant working class organizations are asked i send delegates. t to first denied them, One of the strikers who was in cne of the cells at the time the tear s. choked the arrested men and women was John L. Brewer, who ed one of the strikers now in New York aid the International Labor De- e in its campaign against the ame-up of the 14 workers charged vith murder, | | Tells “The Daily.” | Brewer visited the Daily Worker yesterday, and told of the horrors | undergone by the strikers in their prison cells during the gas-bomb attack. Brewer is an ex-servise man, and has slaved in the mills for many-| years. “TI fought in the world war,” | jhe said, “the so-called war for free- dom, as they fooled us workers into believing. |I managed to escape gas poisoning. But on June 8, it remained for the Manville-Jenckes Co., in this so-| called free country, to poison me with gas, when they had their thugs, their so-called deputies and| the police, throw tear gas bombs into the cells packed with men and women strikers. “On June 7, a Friday, I was walk- ing up Loray St. when I saw a company mob coming toward me. This was after the attack on the tent ¢ y of the strike Police were i mt of this mo’, and one (Continued on Page Two) DAR GASTONIA BENEFIT GAMES International Labor Defense Law- ver Jacques Bruitenkant has taken | up the fight of the Workers’ eee Association, affiliated with the La- vr Sports Union, over the refusal | of the management of Starlight Park, E. 177th St. and Boston Rd., | | Bronx, to honor a contract for the | juse of the park soccer field for | |games to be played tomorrow for | | the benefit of the Gastonia strik- | eee | Leading professional teams have | been given use of the field instead | | by the park management, which | returned the check sent it by the j Workers’ Soccer Association. Well, during that time » Every day invaluable time, space and energy is lost in desperate attempts to get the paper on the press, inevitably weakening the fight against the most gigantic frame-up in American working class history. The same black forces that are bent on burning out the lives of fifteen of our fellow-workers and sending eight others up for long jail terms because they dared to revolt against slavery are at this moment plotting to bar the Daily from the mails. Even in its weakened condition, the Daily Worker is acknowledged as a dangerous enemy by the bosses drunk with blood-lust. It is a barricade blocking the path from the death house to the electric chair. That is why the mill barons, seeing the Daily tottering, hail the spectaele with savage glee. That is why, ably assisted by their federal lackeys, they are striving to give it the final blow that will send it thundering to the ground, The situation demands that your Daily be restored to all possible strength without delay. With a four-page paper, with financial insecurity hampering its werk, the Daily is like a fighter with one hand tied behind his back. The preparations for International Anti-War Day, the building of new, class struggle industrial unions, the winning of new masses of white and Negro workers and farmers for the Communist movement, all the activities of the militant working class are being restricted by the continued insecurity ef the only English language labor daily. We do not believe that you will lend your tacit agree- ment to the slaughter of the Gastonia strikers, to the ripping out of the tongue of labor, to the crippling of mass struggles on every front. Dock yourself a day’s pay to save the Daily Worker and strengthen the fighting arm of your class! Start the new week by rushing your contributions to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. Bring them in person, or send them by telegraph, special delivery or air mail, but get them off today! . 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 am sending you the enclosed amount, $ Address os . Names of contributors will be published in tHe “Daily” without delay. Its Unity; Decisively Defea ear strike. These two bank s bond holders of the New Orleans Public Service Corporation, received of Judge , Wayne C. Borah, in the Federal Dis- ‘trict Court, an order to the Amal- gamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Men, that the union should show cause by July 9 why an injunction should not be issued against them. The banks claim that the strike was injuring their pro- perty in the street railways of New | Orleans, and made the usual flimsy ‘charges of “rioters destroying the company property,” ete. * * # Stall Traintoad of Scabs. NEW ORLEANS, La., July 7.— Sunday began quietly for the New Orleans car strike, although a whole trainload of imported scabs lay just outside of the city limits, or was be- ing shunted around aimlessly thru (Continued cn Page Two) N.Y, COMMUNIST PLATFORM SHOWS TAMMANY SRAFT To Choose Candidates Sunday, July 14 Preliminary dis of the draft platform of District Two (New York) of the Communist Party in the coming clection campaign have brought to light the great misery |that exists among the masses of workers in New York City and en- | virons which is now under Tammany rule. | Unemployment Grows Unemployment is on the increase. Despite false government statistics, \it is becoming clear by the admis- |sions of the capitalists that there \are today 200,000 workers less on tke payrolls in New York State than |Wwas tne case three years ago. At | the same time individual production tréaendously increased, and is still increasing thus making for further junen acyment. The incra: average output per w r is 16 (Continued on Page Three) sions Party Is Thoroughly Mobilized Against All Attempts to Break ts Lovestone’s Splitting Program ouly evidence presented against officers. him was the testimony of police Policeman Horde admitted under cross examination that CONNECT WHITE LANDLORD. WITH NEGRO. LYNCHING 'Reprieve Florida Killer of Negro CHARLOTTE, N. C.,qJuly 7.— The body of the young Negro worker, Willie McDaniel, will be exhumed tomorrow in an effort to cover up the fact that he was lynched and mutilated at the insti- gation of Mell Grier, the white landlord for whom he was working. The effort will now be made to prove that he was not hung, but was killed by shooting. McDaniel was found last Sunday lying face downwards in a patch of | woods near here, where he had been dragged after being hung. Indica- tions were that his wrists had been tied, his neck broken by a strong blow and that he had been other- wise brutally mishandled. Police Ignore Evidence. Jake F. Newell, who has been en- gaged as attorney by a number of Negro tenants and friends of the murdered man, has unearthed facts | which the police, who give solemn| assurances that they are “working on the case,” are studiously ignor- ing. From Negro neighbors of McDaniel he learned that Negro cropper had driven to Grier’s home in his wagon on Saturday and had demanded that Grier pay him for some work he had done and pay his wife for blackberries she had picked for Grier. Grier arrogantly refused to pay a-eent. After heated words, McDaniel started to drive off. \Grier-ran after him and insulted ‘him. The Negro jumped off his wagon and began grappling with t |Grier, but the white man ran into his house in fear, emerging a mo- | (Continued on Page~Three) RICH PLANTER IS FREED BY COURT AMERICUS, Ga., July 7.—Al- though evidehce from 22 witneses| showed that W. D. Arnold, wealthy | Statement of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the U. S. A. FUND SLOWLY PICKS UP he. “everything was quiet at the tent colony when he went thére, June 7, with Chief of Police Aderholt, Policeman Gilbert and Roach (Roach is not an officer at all but just a mill thug). Horde testified that he tried to disarm a guard and that the shoot- ing followed. ankin Repeats, Policeman’ Rankin repeated his testimony given before the habeas corpus hearing of Hampton last | week. Rankin said that he was told by Hampton in an auto on the way from South Carolina that Hampton was captain of the guard at the tent colony on the night of the shooting and was armed with a pistol, that Hampton and Beal were | talking in the inner office of the | union when the shooting started, |and that no shots were fired from | the union office. UAE ihe alabeng--corpux eestor Rankin admitted that he had not warned the defendant that what- ever he said would be used against him. It was also brought out that Hampton’s revolver could not have been used against Aderholt, as the dead chief of police had only shot- gun wounds, There was no other evidence of- fered, but Jones nevertheless sus- tained the charge of “murder in the first degree” and Hampton will go to trial with the others. More Evictions. A family of workers in the Rex mill was evicted Friday for mem- bership in the National . Textile Workers Union, and are being pro- |vided with a tent in the Loray | strikers’ tent colony by the Work- ers International Relief. | Attorney Sigmon, of the Interna- jtional Labor Defense, is handling | their case against eviction in the court. Another eviction notice has been served. Many more evictions | are threatened and the W. I. R. |needs funds to enlarge the tent | colony and piovide needed relief fer * | these, | Paul Crouch of the I. L. D. has ip Seen recovered from what | turned out to be a light case of pneu- |}monia and ulcers in the stomach to |go Friday to his mother’s farm near North Wilkesboro to recuperate. Hoodlums Frighten | Negro Workers in | Jim Crow Tenement As a result of the strike call of the publicity committee of the Har- - Still Below th On Saturday the Daily's working‘ class readers made the b showing of the emergency campaign. But the total of $682.91 is s short of the minimum amount absolutely needed to carry our paper through the day. Workers, don't let down! Answer the threat of the Gastonia mill barons to bar the Daily Worker from the mails by send- ing in your contributions at once. The sooner the quota of $1,000 a ' day is filled, the sooner we will get back to six pages. | I. W. C., New Brunswick... — 8.00°— sae SE TAKA John Kundra, Brooklyn .... 10.00!S. Swanson, Long Cowe..... 1.75 Swan Swansen, Long Cowe, | Del. Vzd. Spol. Pokrok, Maine . i . .25| Baltimore, Md. . 5.00 A. Loderton, Long Cowe 26 Strikers from the F. Nelson, Long Cowe .. 60 Jencks Co., Loray Mill 9.06 A, Pearson, Long Cowe B. Golihman, Chicago ..... 7.00) onel Miners Union, Pitts- F 0. Anderson, Long Cowe. G. Nelson, Long Cowe “gh Res $8. Wm. Smolander, Long Cowe of Corai: ad J. Friscich, °O. Matson, Long Cowe...... SUI (Continued on Page Three) 6 y - j line of the Comintern by the immediate and almost unanimous support of the Central Com- ‘ The campaign for the unreserved acceptance and immediate appli- cation of the Address of the Communist International to our Party has now proceeded for about one month. In this month the campaign has mobilized the Party, has made the Party fully conscious of the time- liness and correctness of the criticisms contained in the Address, and of the correctness of the political line laid down by it, and has forti- fied its determination to fight against and to defeat all. efforts of crawing the Party away from the political path of the 6th Congress and on the road of opportunism, of Brandlerism. The Party is thorcughly mobilized against any attempts of breaking the unity of our Party, and has decisively defeated Lovestone’s attempt to split. The first response justified the judgment that our Party was 2 Comintern Party politically and organizationally, an integral part of the Communist International. The Party fully realized the right char- acter of the political line represented by Lovestone. It realized thai | the actions of Lovestone up to and including his defiance of the Com munist International were attempts to replace the revolutionary, poli cal line of the Comintern by a right opportunist line. The Party rojects this right line. It defends and will follow the revolutionary It has manifested this intention very definitely . | mittee in the expulsion of Lovestone. Aside from some hesitation shown _ in the Connecticut-and California districts, the district committees and functionary bodies have, practically unanimously, endorsed Lovestone’s expulsion. Lovestone unierestimated the political soundness of our Party. He | hoped to carry it with him on the wave of a factional momentum ‘or a struggle against the Communist International. The promptness with which the Party met this attempt of anti-Comintern mobili ation un- deceived him. Therefore, he changed his tactics. At first intending to mobilize the Party in its overwhelming majority for a direct fight against the Comintern, he now concentrates on mobilizing his handful of followers for a struggle against the leadership of the Party. That is why he made his gesture of a bow to Comintern discipline by a for- mal acceptance of the Address; but at the same time he reiterated his platform of opposition to the Comintern decisions, utilizing it as a veeruiting platform for his followers. The political conflict between ‘sim and the Comintern is the all overshadowing issue with him and ‘is followers. Thus, even their statements of “submission” take the rm of a challenge to the political and organizational authority of the ommunist International. anittee statement on Lovestone’s expulsion again manifests itself: in words, we had condemnations of the opportunists in Czechoslovakia, Le, (Continued on Page Two) (2) 4 The conflict pointed out in the Central Com- | plantation owner, conditions of feudal slavery over his farm hands by brutal use of the shotgun a: | ‘eral court jury acqui rr of peon- age charge ie tart John Vanove, Horst and his white » slow-wor.ci, Craadf King. | Still adhering to his stubborn de- |fense that the charges had. been |“maneuvered by jealous neighbors,” Arnold nevertheless admitted that jhe had once killed a Negro—on the |stock excuse of “self-defense.” He jadmitted, too, that he had beaten a 70-year-old Negro and at. earlier (Continued on Page Two) CARPENTERS’ STRIKE. READING, Pa. (By Mail).—Car- penters of the Degler Contracting ie are striking against a 10 hour lay. ies gap oer pene 4 had maintained | lem Tenants’ League on July 1, as Richard B. Moore, president of the league pointed out in the following: statement issued last night, “The rent sharks have already backed down where they have been met by @ united front of the tenants. In jSome houses of the Terry Holding” |Company and Nail & Park, they. have accepted rent at the old rate. i The tenants in an apartment housa. at 550 E. 138d St., were thrown into, |® state of war Saturday night as a result of the fourth attempt to kill Alfred Jackson, Negro ice wagon |driver. The gangsters broke into Jackson’s apartment where they tore jdown the electric wires, The Tenants League are holding a meeting tonight at 8:00 P. M. at the Public Library, 103 W. 135th St. William Weinstone, District Or- ganizer of the Communist Party will speak, _ (Preis “ e