The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1929, Page 2

': rRES ane LABOR DEFENSE Party Mobilized Ag WARNS TIME OF | FRAME UP NEAR Miners, Others Rush Funds for Gastonia Only 21 mo remain for the workers of Amer to rally behind the fifteen strikers of Gastonia, N. C., who are standing in the shadow of the elec’ r on frame-up murder charges. Workers throughout the nation are daily becoming more convinced that a mass Sacco-Vanzetti murder will be tried by the bosses in Gas- tonia. Miners from Be Jil; textile workers from Paterson, N. J.; workers from Wisconsin to York, from Connecticut to the West are responding to the strik- ers’ aid The International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., announced today th: 21,500 a day is an absolute neces- sity to provide proper defense for the framed-up strikers. In fact, to- day alone, a sum of $5,000 is re- quired to meet obligations for the lawyers. The I. L. D. urgently ap- | reals to have all collected funds | sént in at once to the national of- fice. Bloor Tour Results. Mother Bloor’s tour through the Middle West ving extremely suecessful. he sent in over the weék-end the following sums: Erie, $100; Cleveland, $85; Detroit, $142. She will speak in Milwaukee to- night, after having completed a three-d: tour of Chicago, where she spoke in the steel district Sat- | urday night and in Washington Park last night. | Mother Bloor will be in St. Paul} July 9, Minneapolis July 10 and 11,} Duluth the 12th and 138th, Superior the 1th and 15th. A series of | dates are scheduled in the iron mine districts of Montana and leter on the West Coas ; At the same time, Clarence Miller and Walter Lloyd, two defendants in the Gastonia case, both out un- der bond, are touring the Middle | West. They have sent in $100, co!- lected in Pittsburgh. They will speak in Akron July 7 and 8, Toledo July 9 and 10 and in Chi-} cago July 11, 12, 13 and 14. The fellowing contributions have heen received: Superior, Wis., $241; | Renld, Ill, local of the National | Miners’ Union, $12; Women’s Coun- | cil, branch 18, New York, $25; | Stamford, Cénn., $32; Paterson, N. | J., local of the N. T. W. U., $73. Miners Will Not Be Idle. Dan Slinger, of the National Min- ets Union, Illinois administration, declared at Benld, Ill., the miners | will not sit back and watch the elec- | trocution of the workers of Gas-| tonia. “The miners in Illinois,” he seid, “are rallying to the support | of the framed-up workers of Gas- | tonia. More meetings are being ar- ~anged and everything will be done to free the strikers.” Miller and Lloyd, after making their hurried trip through the coun- try seeking aid for their impris- ened friends, will be obliged to cut their trip short July 20 in Cincin- nati. At that time they will return to Gastonia to stand trial. A huge conference is scheduled in Chicago by the I. L. D. for July 14, fifteen days before the trial begins. The T. U. E. L. and many other workers’ organizations will co-op- | eraté in sending the much-needed id to Gastonia. NEW YORK BANKS STRIKE BREAKING; Ask Federal Injunction Against Orleans Strike | (Continued from Page Onc) the railroad yards in an effort to reach the car barns. } The strikers buried the two men, killed by police Friday, Joseph Mol-| inario and Sylvan Thibodaux. Each | had been shot through the head by | policeman. The others shot or| clubbed or ridden down by police are_ all reported recovering. | Five Cars Burned. | During the fighting at the Canal Street car barn, a fire was started in the barn, which burned five cars down to the trucks. George Reyer, supervisor of police, today announced that all the scabs in this car barn are now heavily armed with automatic pistols and “iot guns, that the police are there in force, and that mass picketing in <ront of it will “result in certain | death” for the strikers, Professional scabs are gradually being accumulated in the barns, and it is believed that the company. which now hides behind an orde: from the city council not to rur _ ears, will try again tomorrow or th: LOCK OUT BRICK WORKERS BERLIN (By Mail)—Negotiation: between the workers and the em oloyers in the Rhine-Westfalic orickmaking industry having broke n and the employers have locke: ut the workers ,last turday Vage differences are the cause. ROPE WORKERS FIGHT CUT. ‘WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (By Mail)., The ropemakers of the Hazzard | pe Company here threaten to go| wit on strike if a proposed wage- | is made by the company. | | 1929 ainst All Attempts t DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 8, Mttempts to Break Its Unity Statement of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the U.S, A. (Continued from Page One) Germany—but in deeds we met mobilization of the Party against the Comintern under the slogan of struggle against Brandler, Hais,” of the conciliators,—but in deeds we met mobilization against the Com- intern under the slogan “the Comintern is killing such valuable elements as Evert, Humbert Droz, etc.”; in words, we were treated to condemna- tions of the Rights in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—but in deeds we were confronted by mobilization against the Comintern and lestructive Comintern methods in the ete; in words, we had condemnations against the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under the slogan of “no hooliganism”; in words, we are assured that they support the policies ofthe leadership of the C. P, S. U.—but in deeds we are treated to an attempt of mobilization against the five- year plan; in words, we are assured of submission to the decisions of the Comintern—but the deeds take the form of mobilization against the Comintern under the slogan “the Address destroys the Party and its leadership”; in words, they call upon all to dissolve the factions—in deeds we find Lovestone in caucuses, making strenuous efforts to re- crganize and reconstitute his faction for a struggle against the Party policy and against the Party. This conflict between wordy protestations of loyalty to the Party and the Comintern and active creation and mobi tion of disloyalty has now taken the form of an open conflict of Lovestone’s anti-Party tendencies with the Party. are trying to deceive the Party by a continuation of Lovestone’s methods. They attempt to cover the meaning of their open anti-Party and anti- Comintern speeches with the introduction of and the vote for a formal declaration of submission to the Comintern. The Party resents this insult hurled at its political intelligence. It can distinguish very well between its loyal members and its enemies who parade under the dis- guise of loyalty. It demands unreserved submission to the leadership of the Communist International. It demands that every Party member become an instrument in carrying out the political line of the Communist International. It will not permit any member to mobilize any section of the Party against the Communist International. with formal professions of acceptance and submission; it will demand action for the line of the Comintern, The expulsion of Lovestone has brought out into the open his politi- cal platform. This platform is one of political and organizational struggle against the Comintern. Its political contentions build bridges into the camps of different enemies of the Comintern. Lovestone’s persistent propaganda of the deterioration and disintegration of the Comintern bows to Trotsky’s theory of Thermidor. His assertions of the growing power of imperialism and his ridiculing of the most serious zecent struggles of the working class, such as the May Day events in Berlin, are a bid to Brandler. His challenging of the correctness of the five-year plan of the C. P, S. U. are an open announcement of his engagement with the Right wing in the C. P. §. U. Lovestone’s platform is now supplying one of the crystallization points of hidden opportunists in our Party. When the Comintern de- mands disassociation from Lovestone, it demands primarily the re- jection of the Right platform of Lovestone and the unconditional de- fense of the revolutionary platform of the Communist International. Some members of our Party are still meeting and caucusing with Lovestone. Some of them aré consciously determined to follow Love- stone’s path of struggle against the Party; others are still wavering and undecided. To all those the Party wants to make clear that the time of compromise is passed. The unity of the Party demands a quick choice between the line of Lovestone and the line of the Com- munist International. Some of the delegates who recently returned from Moscow have not yet reported to the Central Committee for Party duty; but they are found to tour the districts to agitate the Party in favor of Lovestone’s anti-Comintern platform. They must choose and | choose quickly between allegiance to the Party and allegiance to Love- stone. Comrade Gitlow has not even found his way yet to formal submis- mission to the Comintern decisions. In the meeting of the Presidium of the Comintern on May 14, he declared that he will not only not accept, but that he will actively oppose the decision. On June 29 he declared in a written statement to the Central Committee that: “I have nothing to add or detract from the statement I made to the Presidium of the Comintern in reference to the Address of the Comintern to the American Party. I adhere to that statement.” Thus Gitlow upholds his declaration of war against the Comintern, The Party takes cognizance of this as well as of the active steps against Comintern decisions taken by him and others who declare their formal acceptance. The Party decisively rejects the theory that one can be for the Party as an organization, while being against the political line and purpose of the Party. The Party as an organization is only the means to put the political line into operation and to achieve the Party’s purpose. The rejection of the line of the Party, after the discussion period is over, becomes a rejection of the Party itself. Unwillingness to carry out the line of the Party is objective support to the Party’s enemies, The Party fully understands this and will not permit anyone to play further with pro-Party words in order to hide anti-Party deeds. The Party has shown this determination in the promptness and decisive- ness with which it supported the action of the Central Committee against Lovestone. The open defiance of the Comintern by Lovestone has put his political conflict with the Comintern into such clear relief that dec- larations of formal submission can no longer cover it. That is why the concealed opposition of yesterday becomes the open anti-Party army of Lovestone within our Party to-day. This fact enables the Party to meet NOW PLAYING Vivid! Actual! Thrilling! Revealing the New Russia! Celebrating the physical culture revolution of the Soviet Republic “SPARTAKIADA” a remarkable Sovkino film record of the “RED OLYMPIAD” ling the NEW RUSSIA. Showing men d other countries exhibiting remark- . recently helg In Moscow, Rev and women workers of Russia able skill, speed and strength in all forms of athletics. FILM GUILD CINEMA {entinuons Daily 25 W, 8th Street The small handful of followers of Lovestone | | the political assertions and propaganda of the Right wing opposition in the open. This will contribute to the clarification of the situation. There is yet rampant in the Party a large amount of rumoring and whispering. ‘Secret decisions” are peddied concerning new additions to the secretariat or the Poleom of the Party; wholesale expulsions from the Comintern and by the Comintern are peddled as evidence of the disintegration of that body. With such rumors and whispers the Love- stone Right opposition is endeavoring to undermine the authority of the Comintern International and of the Central Committee. ing to create and keep alive suspicions and factional sympathies. Even loyal Party members are still giving credence to such rumors and whis* pers and relay them. Thereby they help the enemies of the Party. Rumor and whispering campaigns are a disintegrating poison and must be treated as such. The carriers of rumors and whispers are poison peddlers and must be challenged as enemies of the Party: The campaign for the acceptance and application of the Comintern Address has resulted in consciousness of the Party of the correctness of the revolutionary line of the Comintern. The political health of the Party found expression in its unswerving confidence in the Communist International. The Patty will not permit any individual or any group of individuals to play with this confidence. The unity of the Party and its revolutionary integrity stand above all. The Party will defend this unity and strengthen this integrity by brushing aside all obstacles in its path. It will defeat all efforts to push it from the line of the revolution- ary class struggle. That the Party may do that effectively all the leading committees must carefully analyze their tasks and must inten- sify their activity. While a marked tendency is noticeable toward in- tensification of our trade union activity and of our work among the unorganized masses, yet there is still too much laxity; there is a lack of system in the plans as well as a lack of energy in the execution. This shortcoming must be consciously combatted. The coming Con- vention of the Trade Union Educational League must be made a con- centration point of these activities. The Party must wholeheartedly support the endeavors of the League to create a center for the left wing in the existing trade unions, and to build up an active organiza. tion center for the masses of unorganized workers. Tt will not be satisfied | The reorientation and revitalization of the work among the Negro masses leaves still much to be desired. The leading committees of the varty must take up in a concrete form all the problems connected with this task, otherwise the Comintern Address will not be transformed into real pulsating life of the Party, into an clement of Bolshevization. The most important activities facing us at the present moment is | the strengthening of our old and ithe systematic building of new shop | nuclei. The intensification of every form of Party work finds its most effective expression in this specific work. Party districts that will not | increase manifold their activities in this field cannot claim to accept and carry out the Address of the Cumintern unreservedly. ‘The Party’s face toward the factories” is a most important slogan of the hour. The problem of mobilization against the war danger is the problem of mobilizing the working masses for the class struggle. We cannot solve this problem if we do not extend the roots of our Party more into the working class. Only if our Party has its members and units distributed over all important industries and industrial establishments. can it claim to be a real Communist Party. The Party has as yet spent inadequate efforts on events in Gas- tonia. The outrageous attack by the police and mill guards on the strikers’ colony and the dastardly frame-up against the strike leaders must find an echo in every city and every industrial establishment of the country. The Party must carry its agitation into evéry factory so that the capitalist conspiracy in Gastonia will be met by the united protest and resistance from the working class of the whole country. The next concentration point of all of our Party activities must be International Red Day, on Aug. 1. Every fiber of strength that our Party has must be brought into action to achieve mass mobiliza- | tion for this day. We have defeated the right opposition politically in the-enlightenment campaign. We will annihilate it organizationaliy by putting the Party to work. In this work we will demonstrate the correctness and value for our Party of the Comintern Address, In this work we will also weed out from our Party all elements in opposition to the political line of the Party. The revolutionary enthusiasm and the Bolshevist determination of the ranks of the’ Party will sweep these elements out of the path of the progress of the Party and none will shed a tear for the loss, | FOR THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, THE SECRETARIAT. It is endeavor- | FRANKFORT MEET THREATENED BY BRITISH GOVT. ‘Quiz Germany on Anti- Imperialist Congress The German foreign office is in receipt of a cautiously formulated memorandum from the MacDonald | government inquiring what action the German government proposed | to take with regard to the Second | | World Congress Against Imperial- jism which is to be held now in |Prankfort. The concerted action of | the British and French governments | made the holding of this conference in Paris impossible. The labor lac- keys of British imperialism are pur- | suing with stubbornness their aim to suppress the Congress and trying to induce the German government toward repressive measures, | Workers Want Congres - The Liberal Party of Japan has taken over the government and the 5 lead in suppressing the Japanese In the German governmental cir- | Workers and peasants and imprison- cles in the Wilhelmstrasse the in-|ing and butchering Communists. quiry of the British government was | Yuko Hamaguchi (above) heads the rather embarrassing in view of the |New ministry, succeeding Tanaka, the indignation of the German workers, | Conservative whose government has which any provocative step of the |a law making membership in the government against the anti-imper-| Communist Party punishable by | ialist movement is likely to rouse. | death, passed by the Diet. Hama- Sandin Refliecd Passport guchi will continue the anti-labor e ‘) baler | policies of Tanaka, and will not with- The forces of the British govern- | | F | draw Japanese troops from China. ment and the intrigues of the} United States imperialism denying | a passport to Sandino are only too TRY T0 FRAME easily understood. The Second} World Congress Against Imperial- ism in Frankfort will be a vigorous display of the growing forces of the | anti-imperialist movement on an un- usual seale, Hundreds of delegates Pa Ke will attend from India, Egypt, the ai aic Arabian countries, China and Latin- Hold Picket on. Fake Américe. Assault Charge According to the latest dispatches i from Mexico City, General Sandino| Another attempt at frame up in | intends to go to Paris in spite of all|the strike of nearly 4,000 iron and difficulties and the calla ree \bronze workers in New York is cuvers to prevent him. A strong | being made, with the arrest Satur- | United States anti-imperialist dele- | day of Joseph Spiegel, a striker. igation, including trade umionists,| Spiegel was arrested while picket- Negroes, Latin-Americans and Far | ing at the Empire Iron Works, the \Eastern organization representa- | Bronx. He was held under a charge ives will also attend. |of felonious assault, and later re- New York Farewell Dinner. leased under $2,500 bail for hearing The All-America Anti-Imperialist | t°¢ay- ‘ : [League is organizing a farewcll| A mass Babar for all-the iron |dinner for this delegation, where |&Pd bronze strikers will be held to- | Scott Nearing, John Ballam, George |morrew at Irving Plaza, Irving Place Pershing and others will speak. |@nd 1th St. by the Arehitectua Louis Gibarti will address the ban- oi ee the strike | auek on the pubject: “We ond San: |: sabotage atthe strike: by. the: A. i ren iaea |F. of L. misleaders and yellow so- ets ae ee rat ae |cialists continues, with frequent. vi- TASEEE in the anti-imperiaiist | gious attacks being made by the cause are invited to participate. | press of the latter, particularly the Tickets may be obtained in the New yellow Jewish Forward, York branch of the All-America |” ‘The reactionary officials of the Anti-Imperialist League, 799 Broad-| 4. F, of L. Metal *Polishers’ Union | way, Room 221, jhave ordered the members of ob union who struck when the other | Long Live the Revolutionary | workers in their shops went out, to “Struggle of the Oppressed Cofo- | return at once, using threats to force nial Peoples! these polishers to return. ~ STRIKER TELLS ~ OFGAS ATTACK | Water Denied Women, Men in Cells (Continued from Page One) | of them shouted at me to go home and go to bed. Then one of the | members of the company mob hol- lered: ‘There’s one of those damned strikers; get him.’ “They kept throwing _ strikers, men and women, into those cells | all that night. I’d like to tell you something about the man whq hol- lered ‘grab him.’ That man used to hang around outside the mill, and when I and other strikers were paid he’d call us over and offer to \sell us whiskey. That’s the typical ind of man on the ‘Committee of. 160’ gotten up by the Manville- Jenckes Co. to ‘maintain law and or- der,’ in other words, to try to break the strike. Gas Bomb Thrown. “Well, the next day came the gas | attack. The Gastonia police sud- ‘denly threw the gas bombs into the cells, and immediately men and women strikers began choking, gasping, or asking for water. We | didn’t think we’d pull through that alive. There were three in each cell. “When we asked for water they told us we could wait. Finally a fireman brought some water for us after the gas had cleared awa: Meanwhile we suffered terribly. “Most of us have been coughing terribly since, as I have been do- ing.” The effect of the gas attack on Brewer was seen as the striker kept continually coughing, a dry, ominous cough. Brewer was later released from prison. Negroes Wouldn't Scab. Brewer also told of the attempt lof the mill bosses to Stir up racial |hatred and make scabs out of Ne- gro workers. The attempts failed, as the Negro workers would not scab. “Manville-Jenckes paid one Ne- | ero preacher $300 to preach to the Negro workers to keep away from |the white strikers, that the strike | was none of their business and that | they should work in the mills while the strike was on. “Then they attempted to get J. D. Davis, a Negro fortune-teller |who is popular with the Negro workers, to urge the Negro work- ars to scab, The bosses offered |Davis $25 to get up before the strikers and make a speech against |taking Negro workers into the junion, and then give him $75 for a /second speech like that. They said | they'd take care of him and protect. him with special deputies. But | Davis refused and told us about it.” RICH PLANTER IS | FREED BY COURT ‘Ignore Testimony of | Slave Driven Hands (Continued from Page One) sessions calmly told the court that he had slugged Vanover several times over the head with an auto- mobile jack, | Ruled by Lash. Such slugging was merely inci- |dental to the brutal rule of Arnold} over his peons, previous evidence from Vanover and King had shown. When King once attempted ape, Arnold’s men recaptured him and lashed him on the bare skin while Arnold made sure they hit hard |enough by supervising proceedings | with a revolver. Vanover and King had both been forced to seek refuge in the Athens Jail between sessions at the court. They feared lynching at the hands of Arnold and his aides for testify- ing. Gastonia The jury was composed of far- mers in the same class as Arnold, who altogéther got 36 friends to try ‘to bolster up his witness stand story. ==5SPEND YOUR VACATION IN! THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — Educational Activities Under , the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL BEACON, N. Y. Telephone Beacon 731 CAMP NITGEDAIGET 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light A an eLALNEUL UM a er nchNOU Op ONDINE ve ce SE Pee 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 New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 ENTIRELY REBUILT Once. Director of Sports, Athletics in North and Dancing EDITH SEGAL The fight to free the fourteen leading chair is not only a fight for the lives of these working class leaders but is a | struggle for the right of the workers of , the entire South to organize and strug- | gle for better conditions. Rally to the Support of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense. Defend the National Textile Work- ers Union, The 14 Southern Textile Workers Must Not Die. The 22 Strikers Must Be Freed at of the American imperialist government | on the entire working class. hand in hand with the process of capital- ist “rationalization”, the speeding up of the workers at long hours and for low Rush All Funds to the International Labor Defense 80 East 11th Street ‘ New York, N. Y. Smash the Murder Frame-Up; Detend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! 14 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS i strikers from the electric bloody imperialist world war. FRAME-UP IN GAST ing Class. The members of the Natio evicted from their homes be | dared to fight for better ‘ . ; | against mill owners, the government This new attack of capitalist justice | authorities and against the strike- breaking activities of the American Fed- Carolina is a part of the attack it bak eration of Labor. : Thousands of Dollars are L hereby enclose $.......s0065 Gastonia Defense. ADDRESS \ |} ‘ 1 ‘ ‘ t Room 402 1 1 Charged With Murder! | THEY FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR : pay, and is a part of the preparation of the capitalist government for a new ANOTHER SACCO-VANZETTI The Struggle of the Southern Tex« tile Workers is the Concern of the Entire American Work- Workers Union have been bayoneted, ar- rested, beaten, slugged and shot and Defend These Heroic Strikers, Members of the National Textile Workers Union. eee eee eee errr ee ree yy | CITY AND STATE........csecssssseeees ONIA! nal Textile cause they conditions Needed to a