The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1929, Page 2

Page Two COMBINE DEFENSE RELIEF WEEK FOR GASTONIA CASES Censorship Trial Today on Barring of I. L. D. Envelopes from Mail Miners Eager to Assist Drive to Secure 100,000 Defense Membership National Def and Relic nsé Week, for the aid of the Gas- tenia victims, been de- cided upon by combined forces of the In ational La- ber Defense and national R from July During tions will funds to rangement defense and strikers. Miners Aid De Funds are annot the Frauen Verein der 1} reien ( mande of Milwaukee, . Ringler ef Liberty, N. Y., who is ill in $7.50. The secretary of the tional Mine Union locai at neli, Indiana, writes that the min- ds te s, but are ocal braneh est the neces- ers are not only collecti help the Gastonia alse ready to 7 of the I. L. D. and re: sary supplies to do so. The district branch of the I. L. D. announces an Bay Park, Sunday ning at 10 a. m conference Friday, J m. in Irving Plaza, 15th ving Pl. for the aid of the strikers. LABOR ATHLE MEET AUGUST 2 oe ) is mM Convention The Labor Sports Union will hold its third National Convention and athletic meet in New York in Au- gust, The Convention will be held August 2i, 22 and _the meet ill be held August 25. Nearly five hundred athletes took part in the many eyents on last year’s pro- gram in New York. Indications peint to a larger number of par- tieipants this year. Conscious that they are part of a militant labor movement, this is well illustrated by them taking part in the general day-to-day struggles of the workers, in their support of strikes, etc. At the present time members of the L. 8. U. are work- ing hard to raise funds for the de- fense of the framed Gastonia strik- ers. Funds are also being raised to maintain worker children’s summer camps. Through L. S. U. to Class Struggle. The convention call issued by the L, 8. U,, after correctly reviewing the relationship between the work- ers and the bosses, points out th: “This is a period of intense speed- up, lowering of the living standard “of the workers, attacks of the bosses upon working class organi- zations, fraternal, political, trade- union and sport, and the greater ex- ploitation and segregation of Ne- groes. It is a period of prepara- tion for another imperialist war, for} an attack upon the U. S. S. R. To us it is a period of greater struggles against the bosses sport organiza- tions and for the winning of the working youth to the Labor Sports Union and class struggle.” The Call further points out that} “in the field of sports there is no} neutrality,” and calls upon all work- | ing class sport organizations that at present remain “neutral” to join the ranks of the L. S. U, | a DATLY WORKER, Lenin’s Appeal in 1914 An Urge tor Anti-War Day (Continued from Page One) which are slavishly repeated by the socialist opportunists—the open as well as the concealed—who cling to the bourgeoisie, the following sophism must specially be mentioned and condemned: When the Ger- man bourgeoisie call for the defense of the fatherland, for the defense against czarism, for the defense of liberty, of cultural and national development—they lie, as Prussian junkerism, with Wilhelm II at the head, and the big bourgeoisie always have and always will—no matter what may be the result of the war—conduct a policy of defending czarist monarchy and neyer hesitate to hasten to its aid; they lie be- cause as a matter of faet, the Austrian bourgeoisie are embarking on a robber campaign against Servia, the German bourgeoisie are sup- pressing Danes, Poles and French (in Alsace-Lorraine) and are con- ducting a war of aggression against Belgium and France in order to plunder richer and freer counties. They organized the attack at the moment which seemed to them most suitable for using their latest per- feetions in war technique, and on the eve of the carrying out of the so-called great military program by Russia. When the French bour- geoisie likewise call for the defense of native country, etc., they also lie, as in reality they are defending countries more backward as regards capitalist technique and developing more slowly, in that they with their milliards bought the reactionary bands of Russian czarism for the pur- | pose of conducting an agg: ‘ive war in order to plunder Austrian and | Germen provinces. There is nothing to choose between the two fighting sreups of peoples in regard to the cruelty and barbarity with which they are conducting the war. 6. The task of the soe in the first place the ruthless and unconditional fight against the Pan- Russian and czarist-monarchist chauvinism, and against its sophistic cefense by the Russian Liberals, Cadets, ete., and by a portion of the Narodniki. From the point of view of the working class and of the masses of !1 peoples of Russia, the defeat of the czarist monarchy, which sup- presses Poles, Ukrainians and a whole number of peoples of Russia and promotes the increase of the suppression of the other nationalities by the Great Russians as well as the consolidation of the reaction, which arouses national hatred amongst the peoples of Russia—the de- feat of the czarist monarchy and of its troops would be the lesser evil. 7. The slogans of the social-democracy must at present be the fol- lowing: first an all-round propaganda, extending to the troops and the scenes of war, of the socialist revolution and of the necessity of di- recting the weapons not against their own brothers, the wage-slaves of ether countries, but against the reaction of the bourgeois governments and parties of all countries, Absolute necessity of organizing illegal nuclei and groups among the troops of all nations for the purpose of ca & on such propaganda in all languages. Ruthless fight against the chauvinism and patriotism of the petty-bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie of all countries without exception. Against those leaders of the present International who have betrayed Socialism, appeal must be made to the revolutionary consciousness of the working masses who bear the entire burden of war and who are hostile to chauvinism. acute illness as a result of the at- tack by the detectives. A young Negro worker entering the house as the detectives were leaving was severely beaten by the latter. More Cases of Brutality. The brutality of the Tammany police toward Mrs. Noel is but one f a series of brutal police actions toward Negro workers living in Brownsville. On Saturday 18 Ne- gro boys playing cricket in Betsy- head Park, a public park, were ap- TOILERS IN B'KN mash Up Home, Shoot at Worker ° (Continued from Page On) handed procedure the detectives as- Ited her and severely bruised . They threatened to have her ported to the West Indies. Ill-treat Mother and Children. Failing to find anything in their search, the detectives insulted and illtreated Mrs. Noel, who is the! mother of two young children. The children were also illtreated by the police thugs. The children were ir hed at the time. The effects of the illtreatment at the detectives’ hands vre still visible. one of the boys and arrested all on the charge of playing without a per- mit. While workers in the section state that no permit has even been required hefore in this park, Extort $300 From Workers. At the police station $300 was exacted from the boys on_ bail bonds. The case was dismissed the following day, but the bail was not returned, the boys state. cousin, Cyrus, who ran to Mrs, Noel’s assistance, continued on Sat- urday night. Three detectives broke into his home at 340 Osborne St., Brow Held Captive in Home. a par and attempted to extort When the mother protested that | money from those present. The de- she had to obtain food for her ba-|tectives threatened to arrest those bies, the detectives refused to allow | present if bribes were not forth- her to leaye the house. A cousin| coming. They succeeded in fright- of Mrs. Noel, S. Cyrus, was at-| ening some of those present into tracted to the house by the dis-| giving them money. turbance made by the detectives and Communists Fight Brutality. tried to enter. One of the detectives The Communist Party is planning thereupon drew his gun and fired an intense fight on the brutality of a shot over Cyrus’ head, narrowly | the police toward the Negro work- n ers of Brownsville. Open-air meet- ings during the election campaign will be part of this drive. The Communist campaign will also take in the housing situation of the Negro workers in Brownsville, where the workers live in ram- shackle, wooden firetraps, with un- sanitary toilets in the hallways, rubbage littering the houses, due to the landlords’ failure to clean them, and no playgrounds for the Negro workers’ childrrn The In- ternational Labor Defense and the Ameriean Negro Labor Congress will aid the fight on the terror. Detectives Damage House. | Pita’ Wi Ne PEA Her home was badly damaged by ‘Two Killed in New the detectives; the door had been | a broken in, furniture upset and a| Wreck of Airplane gaping bullet hole in the wall at- | —— tested to the brutality of the de- _ NEW PRESTON, Conn., July 8.— tectives. Richard (“Texas”) Brown, 35, for- The children were badly fright- | mer air mail pilot, and Gordon Spen- ened and were on the border of | cer Whittley, 19, his brother-in-law, \f jolent strugzle Mrs. Noel succeeded in eluding the detectives and went for some food for her chil- dren. She told a policeman what had oceurred, but the latter paid not the slightest attention to her. Hastening to the nearest police sta- tion, Mrs. Noel again related what had oceurred at her home. One after | another of the police officials ig- | nored her, telling her to take the matter to some other official. The | same thing occurred at a neighbor- | ing police station. ~ EMERGENCY FUND (Continued from Page Onc) | Oskland Unit, Oakland, Calif. 57.50) Street Nucleus 2, Pittsburgh, Gi tinct vedas: 24.00 | Nucleus 13, Sec. 1, Cleveland, | RDS Sci wo biiasniis san oe 20.50 | Nueleus 12, Sec. 1, Cleveland, Ohio ..-. - 20.00} Nucleus 31, Sec, 3, Cleveland, | Ohlo....,5., tudeswscie cee). SOOT Street Nucleus 2, Detroit, MMI a alo'e oa dos 38.00 Street Nucleus 1, Sec. 1, De- troit, Mich. ....... + 81.00 init 3, Sec. Detroit, Mic! 37.00 nit 1001, Dist, 10, Kansas . 13.50 " Unit 3, Sec, 7, » City.... 26.00 W. Concord Unit, Concord, HH .. + 22.10 Pauline Abramson, N. Y. City 5.00 R, Long, Phila, Pa...... 1.00 M. Richter, Chicago, Ill.. 50.00 Babich, West Allis, Wisc.. 5.00 : 5.00 50} Wild, Gloversville, N, Y. 2,00 ‘aul Befge, Powhatan, Ohio. 5,00 Jes Faessler, Atlantic 3.00 $00) were killed instantly this afternoon |when a Waco biplane in which they | were flying from New Jersey to | Lake Waramaug developed motor trouble and crashed against a hill- 2.00 | side S. Hochheim, Chicago, Ill. I-democracy of Russia is especially and ! proached by a detective, who beat | The persecution of Mrs. Noel’s| ville, where he was holding | UNION GROWING GASTONIA STRIKE Detroit Political Committee Endorse Expulsion of Lovestone GIVES IMPETU Try to Stop Taking of Victims’ Pictures (Continued from Page One) | Communism, Negroes, and his opin- ions on “free love” which would cause the Daily Worker to be barred from the mails if printed. He did not make clear what any of these matters had to do with the taking of the photographs. | Judging from the odor of his breath, Hord was not clear about it himself. | the tent colony and the reception of the father of Fred F. Beal, one -of the defendants, at the meeting in Bessemer City, | Two Mass Meetings. Mass meetings continue to be held. Arthur Dorsey, Tom Jimison, Liston Oak and Ruby MacMahon were speakers at a meeting in Bessemer. Wes Williams was chairman. An-| other meeting was held in the Ar- lington tent colony, the Loray strik- ers’ tent colony just outside of Gas- tonia; Wagenknecht, of the Work- jers International Relief, Dewey | Martin, and Eula Carson were the) speakers here, | The International Labor Defense) |committee met yesterday in Gas-| jtonia to elect officers and plan en- |largement of the committee. | Representatives are coming from many of the Southern Textile mills. There was also a conference of the | National Textile Workers Union or- ganizers yesterday. Two organizers! are being sent on the road today in| response to insistent demands which} are greater than the supply of or-| |ganizers. Now organizers are being | trained. | Children To Relief Camp. The strikers’ children, Red Howell, Odell Crawlen, Elmer MacDonald, and Essie Ackerage are being sent |to the children’s camp in Philadel-| phia run by the Workers Interna- tional Relief. | The Stevens family with an eigh-| /teen months’ old baby and four other children are evicted by the Loray company, and the Ryan fam- {ily with six children, including a two months’ old baby are evicted from |the Rex mill. Their furniture is |seized and stored. None but com- |pany houses are for rent. The} |workers are destitute, and their need is great. + * * Withdraw Militia. WARE SHOALS, §, C., July 8—| Governor Richards is believed about} jto order the militia company now }at Ware Shoals textile strike to Camp Jackson for two weeks’ spe- cial training. There never was any reason for sending them to the strike area. The strike is still on.| | The Camp Jackson training will | jinclude about 3,000 national guards- men, practising for the approaching Hoover war, and coming from three} southern states, | | | |Workers to Attend | IL. D. Outing for Gastonia on Sunday | |. While mass demonstrations are being held in European cities con- jdemning the Gastonia terror, the In- ternational Labor Defense will fight \ the ban on its mail in the New York courts today. The postal authorities did not wait | long to join hands with the brutal |forces of the Gastonia mill owners | and have refused to permit thou- | sands of envelopes to go through | bearing the slogan, “Smash the! Murder Frame-Up Against the Gas- tonia Strikers.” Isaae Shorr, attorney, will fight the government’s motion to dismiss | the proceedings. The hearing will be held before Judge Thacher in the old Postoffice building, For 100,000 Members. | The International Labor Defense appeals té all workers not only to contribute funds, but also to build | up the membership of the I. L. D. that will foree the bosses’ recognition in all labor disputes of the future. One hundred thousand members by the end of the trials is the slogan of the International Labor Defense. The trial is now only 20 days off, twenty days before the fifteen strikers are tried for murder and face the electric chair. M. Hochheim, Chicago, Ill... . Crew of the Falko Shoe Co., Brooklyn, N. Y...... George Nickerson, Minneapo- 1,00 | lis, Minn. ,,......+>. pene | RAD Herman Jensen, Milwaukee, WIS ee ivssc er esvevece see 5,00 South Slavic Fraction, Kan- sas City, Kan...,......... 20,00, Hans Larson, Menno, S, Dak. 2,00 Paul Podjun, Luther, Mich... 5.00 J. P, Jones, Gaston Co., N. C. 10.00 Maurice Taburian, Bicknell, \ Mee s+ + bien hh 4 Ge Wee ws 2.00, Davy W. Jones, Bicknell, Ind. 1.00 Joseph Legerstein, Mt. Ver- | non, N.Y, . a.» 11,00 A, M,, N. Y. City. save Cane M, White, Brooklyn, NY. 8,00 Hangen, Hicksville, L, + ti de 1,00 J. Martin, N, Y. City + 2,00} I. Warshofsky, N. Y. City.., 2,00 1, Machover, Brooklyn, N. Y, 1,00, A. Overgood, N Y. City,.... 2,00] J. Kiran, N. Y. City.....+.., 5,00 TOTAL Proviously . ++ $600.25 «5,708.34 {15 FIFTH AVENUE TOTAL TO DATE....$6,308.59 | Soviet Russia VIA LONDON—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND . 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW TOURS FROM $ 385. Sailings Every Month NEXT SAILING — BERENGARIA — JULY 16 Visas Guaranteed—Permitting visits to any part of the U, INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. (Flatiron Bldg.) Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 | to | NEW YORK, Removal of Wolfe Also Supported; Measures Urged Against Conciliators Hampering Party Struggle Against Right Splitters; Demand Welfe, Gitlow Repudiate Their Present Positions Reports from functionaries meetings in different parts of the country, the decisions of distri: adopted by membership meetings of sections and units of the Party, all testify to the overwhelming support of the action taken by the Central Committee in expelling Jay Lovestone from the Party, in re- moving Bertram D. Wolfe from the political committee, and pledging every possible support in the fight aga all efforts to draw the Party away from the political path of the Sixth Congress of the Com- munist International. This is further indication that the Party is thoreughly mobi against any attempts of breaking the unity of our Party and that Lovestone’s attempt to split the Party has been thoroughly defeated. | Photographs were also made of BOSTON DISTRICT URGES MEASURES AGAINST CONCILIATORS Especially signi ferences held in the two important districts of Boston and Minnesota, the District Executive Committee of the Boston Communist Youth League and the Political Committee of the Detroit District. The Boston District Functionaries Conference meeting last Satur- day by unanimous yote, with no abstentions, adopted the resolution of the District Bureau supporting the Address of the Communist Inter- national and endorsing the action of the Central Committee in deciding for the expulsion of Jay Lovestone and the removal of Wolfe from the political committee. The Boston Conference urged measures against the conciliators hampering the Party struggle against the Right splitters. DETROIT CALLS FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST SPLITTERS Similar action was taken unanimously by the Political Committee | of District Seven (Detroit), speaking for this section of Party closely connected with the workers in the shops, especially in the automobile industry. The action of the District Political Committee was as fol- lows: UNANIMOUS ACTION OF DETROIT POLITICAL COMMITTEE icant is the action taken by the Functionaries Con-- political committees and resolutions | “The Political Committee of District Seven categorically condemns | the splitting tactics of Lovestone and calls upon the entire Party mem- bership to mobilize all its forces to fight these splitting policies, as evidenced in his leaving the Soviet Union against the instructions of the Executive Committee of the Communist International; as evidenced in his communications sent to comrades throughout the country; his refusal to appear before the Central Committee of our Party and his indication of a deliberate intention to carry on a fight against the Com- intern, which must be resisted and defeated without hesitation. The Political Committee of District Seven declares its conviction that Love- stone is organizing a Right wing fraction in America which is part of the international right wing in the struggle against the Comintern and its American section. “The Political Committee of District Seven approves the expulsion of Loyestone from the ranks of the Communist Party of the United States by the Central Committee. “The Politieal Committee of District Seven condemns the attitude of Comrade Wolfe in refusing to defend and accept the line and de- cisions of the Communist International, and demands of the Central Committee that severe disciplinary action be taken against Comrades Wolfe and Gitlow, unless they will repudiate their present positions | and make a clear-cut, uncompromising fight for the defense of the line of the Comintern.” QUICK APPROVAL OF LOVESTONE’S EXPULSION After the most thorough discussion yet held in a functionaries meeting of District Nine (Minnesota) the following resolution was unanimously adopted: “This functionaries meeting of every section of the Party in Dis- — trict Nine (Minnesota) together with leading comrades from shop | nuclei and auxiliary organizations, unreservedly supports, accepts and pledges its untiring energy for the acceptance of the open Address of the Comintern to the American Party. ), ting tactics, fight agains “We welcome the fact that the District Bureau immediately en- dorsed the letter and strongly condemned the splitting tactics of Git- low, Wolfe and Loyestone. . “Meeting as we do the day after the publication of the Central Committee statement on the expulsion of Lovestone from the Party, - we unhesitatingly endorse this action and eali upon all Party members who previously have been associated with him to repudiate his split- iliatory tendencies that may be shown ith him in his anti-Comintern fight. towards him and those “The suspension of Comrade Wolfe from the Poleom is a very necessary step in view of his unsatisfactory attitude on the Address of the Comintern. We urge that Comrade Wolfe be removed from the Central Committee if he continues his present attitude. “The Open Letter is a very tower of strength to the Party in its fight against the Right Danger. We, in District Nine, have shown a hesitating attitude in carrying out 2 complete repudiation and separation from our opportunist tendencies in the past. The address considerably * assists us in this task, “In especially emphasizing and using as the central point in its analysis the third period, i. e., intensifieation of the class struggle, the Comintern clearly shows the line to be pursued by the Party. With the liquidation of all factions in the Party, which is an es- sential prerequisite for the carrying out of the Open Address we can now march forward under the leadership of the Central Committee and the Comintern towards hecoming a real Mass Party of class struggle.” BOSTON COMMUNIST YOUTH UNANIMOUS “The District Executive Committee of the Communist Youth Leagse of District One, Boston, taking cognizance of the fact that Lovestone defied the decisions of the Communist International and returned to the United States in order to mobilize against the Comintern, which was proven immediately upon his arrival, approves and greets the actions of the Central Committee in expelling Lovestone from our ranks and suspending Comrade Wolfe from the Political Committee. The latest acts of Loyestone are the beginning of carrying through the anti-Party cable of May 15. The Party, therefore, acted firmly and in a Bolshevik manner in taking this action in defense of the line of the Communist International. “We condemn the methods of intrigue, falsehood and disruptive activities and petty-bourgeois politiciandom which are heing utilized by the concealed and cpen opposition to the line of the Comintern. “We also approve the action of the National Executive Committee in removing Comrades Rubenstein and Silvis because they openly allied themselves with Lovestone in a struggle against the decisions and lead- ership of the Communist International. This is in line with the deci- sions of the Fifth National Convention that the League must become one of the best interpreters of the decisions of the Communist Inter- national. This was also important hecause we cannot tolerate opposi- tion to the Comintern decisions in the Bureau of the National Executive Committee. Z “The District Committee of the Communist Youth League points out that w! Comrade Rubenstein came to Boston to speak for the Comintern decisions, however, events after that have shown that Com- rade Rubenstein has not fully understood the Comintern decisions which was evidenced in his stand against the removal of Comrade Miller and Grey for their opposition views. This attitude was correctly character- ized by the NEC Bureau as conciliatory tendencies and which, with the arrival of Lovestone, have been unfurled into an open opposition to the Comintern decisions. “The DEC calls upon every League member to carry out the deci- sions of the Comintern and the Party by concretely applying the Com- intern line to our everyday activities. Our main task is stability and regularity in our work, Every League member an organizer for Inter- national Red Day! Every League member a fighter for the release of the Gastonia framed-up workers! Every League member an active defender of the line of the Communist International!” Material on ihe Enlightenment Campaign will be found on Page Four Today. The fight to free the fourteen leading Gastonia strikers from the electric 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 Once. This new attack of capitalist justice in North Carolina is a part of the attack of the American imperialist government on the entire working class. It goes 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 Room 402 _ New York, N. Ye w Smash the Murder Frame-Up; Defend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! 14 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union Charged With Murder! THEY FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS pay, and is a part of the preparation of the capitalist government for a new bloody imperialist world war. ANOTHER SACCO-VANZETTI FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! The Struggle of the Southern Tex- tile Workers is the Concern of the Entire American Work- ing Class. The members of the National Textile Workers Union have been bayoneted, ar- rested, beaten, slugged and shot and evicted from their homes because they dared to fight for better conditions against mill owners, the government authorities and against the strike- breaking activities of the American Fed- eration of Labor. % Thousands of Dollars are Needed to Defend These Heroic Strikers, Members of the National Textile Workers Union, wenmeeweweeeceeeeer seve ‘ ‘ T hereby enclose $...ssesseseeeeeeesssfor the @ Gastonia Defense. 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