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Page Tw ATLANTIC. COAST CONFERENCE FOR MARINE WORKERS Officially Announce Date, Aug. 17-18 (Continued from Page One) chipping hammers, the pa ing machines and even the ization of the cally reduced man to that of The introduction ing devices has r speed-up and are throw: Compan ous phy: becoming ir a man around the get a job. Hits Longshoremen Too This process of rationa affected not only the sean the longshor ] up and the ir chihery (conveyor: sulted sequent favori bribery, degrad. making the worker checks, The workers in the harbor on tow- boats, scows and barges have equal- ly miserable conditions: long how low-wages and wretched living con- ditions are the rule among harbor workers. While the marine workers are facing these abominable conditions. the shipowners are piling up tre- mendous profits. The government, with the passage of the Jones-White subsidy law has made it possible for the steamship compani to draw tremendous sums from the U. S. treasury for the exploitation of the seamen. The subsidy law together with the salé by the Shipping Board of all its most important lines, at rum- mage sale prices, to private interests marks the determination of the S. government to build up a mar- chant marine second to none. War Is Coming. This is a direct challenge to Brit- ish control of the seas. Commercial rivalry between Great Britain and America has never been at a more intense stage, and will inevitably result in war. Both countries are making frantic war preparations un- der the cover of disarmament schemes and peace pacts. In Amer- iga, the naval reserve law has been pasted in order to provide a trained personnel available immediately upon the outbreak of war. The sea- man will again be called upon to face® the submarines, the depth bombs, mines, aerial attacks and soison gases for the enrichment of their bosses. In the face of the conditions de- ceribed above, the marine workers are practically without any organ- ization and in no position to protect t for work themselves or to fight for better) conditions. The so-called International Sea- men’s Union is nothing but a strike- breaking company union. I. S. U. Obsolete. Does it organize the seamen? Does it fight for their i interest: We know that since 1921 the I.S.U. has decreased from a membership of 115,000 to its present 5,000, scat- tered in 22 different branches. Its very form is based on obsolete craft lines, its «c: 1 affiliation being DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929 Under the further sell-out of the n,| Mexican workers and peasants by f\ the Portes Gil government to Wall Street, the pact betu n the catholic church and the government, a great flock of priests flocked into Mesico, to fatten on the workers and peas- anis. The leader of the army of peddlers of religious dope is Arch- bichop Diaz, above. from all branches of the industry, rrespective of race, creed or color. The new union must have national contact with the new Trade Union Center to be established by the Trade Union Educational League at Cleveland Convention ow August 1 and international contact through the T.U.E.L. with the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions which comprises 16,000,000 of the world’s organized workers. Marine Workers League. The Marine Workers League | which has been laying the bases for the organization of this union calls upon all marine workers on ships, docks and harbor crafts to send their delegates to its Atlantic Coast Con- ference which will take up the task of the seamen on this coast and set a date for the national convention of the Marine Workers League which will launch this union. The following will be the agenda: 1—Preparation of the national convention; intensification of the work of the League, to establish headquarters in every port of the United States. 2.—The establishment of Interna- tional Seamen’s Clubs in all ports to serve as rallying centers for all marine workers in order to conter- act the destructive work done by stool pigeon headquarters of the shipowners, the subsidized Seamen’s Institutes, Bethel Missions, ete. 3.—The conference will take up the coming war danger. 4.—The creation of closer solidar- | ity with the seamen of the entire | world, and for international partici- pation in the World Seamen’s Con- gress in 1930. 5.—Special gtention must be given the Negro problem, the working out of a plan to draw the Negro marine worker into our ranks on the basis of complete equality. | 6—Extension of the system of ship committees which will be the basis for the new union. e f t 7.—Enlargement of our paper, the merely nominal as is evidenced by Marine Workers’ Voice. the separate branch “agreements”| 8,—Preparing of a draft constitu- (a misnomer) and at no time in its! tion for the new union to be sub- history has it ever cooperated with mitted to the National Convention. the foreign seamen’s strikes. In fact | Basis of Representation. it has assumed the role of strike-| N, Y, Local Marine Workers breaking by carrying scab coal to| League 15 delegates. break the great British coal strike.) Baltimore Marine Workers Lea- It has openly worked hand in glove | gue 10 delegates. with the late Havelock Wilson, who) Philadelphia Marine Workers Lea- will go down in history as the most | gue 5 delegates. infamous of British misleaders of labor. In fact the U. has been mote or less financially subsidised by Wilson. The vice-president of the 1.3.U., Patrick Flynn, was sent to delegates. Norfolk Marine Workers League 3 delegates. Southern Ports Marine Workers Boston Marine Workers League 5| Australia by Furuseth and aided Tom Walsh in forming a scab union, for the purpose of disrupting the Australian Seamen’s Union, which was too militant a character for Wil-| son and his ship-owner friends. The officialdom of the LSU. League 5 delegates, Every ship, fleet and dock com- mittee is to send at least one dele- | gate. Progressive groups in other marine organizations will receive | representation according to the num- _ber of progressive members repre- ee FRAMEUP VICTIM SGORES MURDER BY ORLEANS COP \Southern Workers Rise | Despite Terrorism (Continued from Page One) ers against the intolerable condi- tions of exploitation.” Threaten Organizer, In an attempt to prevent W. L. Rhodes, organizer for the National | Textile Workers Union, from organ- jizing the workers of the Rex mill, | the mill's attorney, Stroup, has sent him a letter warning him off the company property and threatening | dire punishment for trespassing if | he does not stay off. | The importance of keeping Rhodes |off company property is that the Rex workers all live in a mill vil- lage, and Rhodes is to be exiled | from them and prevented from talk- jing to them, if the company can manage it. Rhodes was fired two weeks ago for union activity and | evieted from his home. In another attempt to prevent the taking of photographs of the Gas- | tonia frame-up victims, the authori- |ties have flatly refused to honor |the grudging decision of the city ;Mmanager that “there is no reason | why they may not be photographed.” Action is being taken to force the | city to allow photographers in the | county: jail. | +: Se New Local Organized. | HOMESTEAD, N. C., July 9.—A | meeting was held here the night be- |fore last. This town is near Char- lotte. The workers in the Leekville | Woolen Mills have organized a new |local union of the National Textile Workers Union. There is a grow- |ing revolt among them against the stretch-out (speed-up) system. | ns METAL LATHERS STRIKE | READING, Pa. (By Mail).— | Thirty-nine metal lathers of the | Wallace Frits Contracting Co. have | struck because non-union plasterers | were employed by the firm. | INJUNCTION ON ORLEANS STRIKE \Threaten to Use Army 23,000 May Walk Out (Continued from Page One) nounced plans for a meeting of membéets of the organization to vote on a proposed sympathetic strike. Should the vote be in the affirma- tive, 23,000 members of the organ- ization would walk*out and thus paralyze virtually all activities and industries in the city. On the other hand, the reaction- ary officialdom of the Amalgamated lis expected to jump at the oppor- tunity te excuse a sell-out. Gus Bienvienu, secretary of the New Or- leans Local 194 of the Amalgamated, has already, on instructions from President Mahon, stated that the union would observe the injunction and would resort to court action only. In the injunction the court pre- vided that three peaceful pickets shall be allowed at every point of entry or egress of company shops and that strikers may board public service conveyances or enter com- pany property for picketing pur- poses. Swear In Gunmen. The decree was made subject to change or amendment at such time as the court may believe necessary. Immediately after the decision was announced Federal Marshal Loisel prepared to swear in a num- ber of deputies to carry out the strikebreaking provisions of the in- | junction. | The “petition upon which the in- | junction was granted was filed in behalf of the New York Trust Co., trustees, et al, the Chase National Bank of New York and Ramon 0. Williams of New York, a bond- holder. It was directed against the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes As- sociation of America, Division No. 194, naming Edwin Peyroux, presi- | Judge Aids Prosecution Children’s Delegation to the|| LG. W. OFFERS USSR NGSS Mas SaPlornd Ta eT Central Committee of Communist Party Issues Statement Giving Endorsement Mass support for the first work-] participating in the struggles of the ers children’s delegation to the So-| workers. | viet Union is urged by the Central {Committee of the Communist Party in a statement issued last night. | ‘The delegation, the statement de- |clares, symbolizes the solidarity be- tween the children of the USSR and |the United States, through which | mobilization of the world’s working |class against the preparations for \imperialist war and attacks on the USSR will be speeded up. “The Central Executive Commit- |tee of the Communist Party of the | United States calls upon all sections }of the working class to support the |first workers children’s delegation to the Soviet Union,” the Central | Committeo statement opens. “The Boy Scouts, an organization “The Young Pioneers of America, SeOOPIgeon Move Aims at Terror the sponsors of the USSR delegation and the leader of the working class children, unceasingly fight against the bosses in the school, in strikes and in every struggle of the work-| ing class. Every worker's child be- longs in their ranks. “This delegation is a symbol of | kinds of trouble. solidarity. between the Russian| children and the American working class children. It is a mobilization; of the children of the proletariat against the war preparations and against all attacks against the USSR. Red Day, August 1, will see the workers’ children side by side with the adult workers, taking a stand for the defense of the USSR cv Pie tata and against the imperialist war pre- |for the militarization of the working a " pig : i i * | parations. i |class children, will hold a ‘jamboree’)" «millions of child laborers slave jin England during August,” it con- in the factories, mines and mills of |tinues, “In the midst of intensive! the United States under far differ- | Preparations for an attack against ent conditions from the children of the Soviet Union and for new im-|the USSR who receive a proletarian| perialist wars the ‘jamboree’ is held’ education and enjoy the fruits of the in order to mobilize the workers’! gictatorship of the proletariat, A| childzen for the coming slaughter. | child worker of the Gastonia mills; “The workers’ children are partici-!a needle worker's child; a miner's pating more and more actively in|child; an auto worker; a Negro the, growing struggles of the Amer-| child from Philadelphia (represent- ican workers. In Passaic, in New! ing a group of Boy Scouts who have Bedford, in the miners’ struggle,| broken away from that organiza- and most recently in Gastonia,they tion) are the composition of the have taken their place at the head) USSR delegation. of picket lines and answered the) “The delegation leaves July 16. police brutality with songs and mili-| Time is short! Respond immediately. tant fighting spirit. In all these, Workers’ organizations, endorse the struggles the reformist leaders, the delegation! Send funds to the Young | characterization Boy Scouts, all the forces of the|Pioneets of America, 43 East 125th| this new move of the labor hatlo' capitalist state have made vicious | St., New York City. iby Charles Zimmerman, vice-presi- attacks upon the workers’ children Central Executive Committee, | dent of the Needle Trades Workers in an effort to prevent them from Communist Party of U. S. A. Industrial Union. “Their previous attempts having failed,” he said, “this *offer to become government (Continued from Page One) W.. government investigate Part of War Plans. When this list of manufacturers employing left wing workers is ac- tually compiled, it will mean the entrance of the department of jus- tice and the department of labor (under whose jurisdiction is the bu- reau of immigration) into the needle trades industry to attempt by frame: up, blackball. terror and deporta- tion to do what the company union agents have thus far been unable to do—deliver the workers com- pletely to the brutal exploitation of the employers. This new step becomes an in- tegral part of Hoover's drive against militant labor, which is part of the preparations for the coming imper- jalist war. The labor betrayers also |seek to aid the government to pre- vent by intimidation the mobiliza- Aug. 1. Act of Desperation. | This will be held from July 27 until Aug. 3. WILL CONTINUE |_ The instant mobilization of all| ver to terroriz 10 MAIL SLOGAN forces to collect funds to save the | Supporting their ‘strike’ es and their Gastonia strikers from the electric | company union. chair is the cry today. Street meet- “But this new move will not help |ings, collections, every possible ar- | them. The cloakmakers and. the rangement will be made to swell the | cther needle trades workérs know defense and relief funds for the|the game of these ‘socialist’? wor- strikers. thies. This only exposes them more The New York district of the In-| 48 agents of the employers and ternational Labor Defense will hold | gents of the employers’ imperial- an outing to Pleasant Bay Park, in ist state. But these new maneuvers the Bronx, Sunday, July 14, from | cannot terrorize the workers back 10 a.m linto their clutches; for the workers A conference for the defense of neal oe ele aye the framed-up textile workers in |Choices—the company union and Gastonia has been called by the New | more intensive slavery, or the In- York district of the I. L. D. for| dustrial Union and a real fight for Friday, July 26, in Irving Plaza, | «ni ditions: 15th St. and Irving Pl. ae By Drastie Ruling (Continued from Page One) bers of the National Textile Workers Pnion, who are in jail in Gastonia, N. C., charged with murder because they organized a union and led a strike. “The latest action of the fed- eral court in barring our envelopes gives assistance to the mill own- ers’ frame-up, but we will ignofe the judge’s decision and continue to mail these envelopes. We are determined that the masses of the “Despite these new threats, de- spite governor’s conferences, despite 2 KILLED IN PLANE FALL~ | secret agreements with, the bosses, workérs will lentn thé true facts BALBOA, C. Z., July 9—Two|the fake stoppage will be converted of this frame-up, which is a sec- | American army aviators were killed| into a real strike and the workers ond Sacco-Vanzetti case, this today when their airplane crashed | will fight against all their enemies time on a larger scale.” |at Fort Clayton and burst into|under the leadership of the Indus- The censorship of I. L. D. mail | flames. ‘trial Union.” Warkers school va LYNGHING TERROR ANTILABOR DRIVE ; | independent manufacturers that un- |, Y Y less they sign up with the I. L, G.|immediately will please telephone wil] |Stuyvesant 7770, and descend upon them and make all | Will be made for the next f | The pushing of thi tion of the militant needle workers | from 2,000 to 3,000 new members for a struggle against imperialist |for the union in the near future. war on International Red Day,| , | “An act of desperation,” was the | cessfully prevented scabs from en- given, yesterday to | tering the factories. stool-pigeons is a desperate maneu- | ze the workers into | | \ecther struck shops in the city con- Large Amount of Work SPREADING THRU TEXTILE STATES Militancy of Strikers Arouses Boss Frenzy Unemployed comrades, comrades n vacation, or any others who want to help the Work School are asked to report to the office at the Workers Center, on the fifth floor to clean up the mass of work that must be finished in order to aid in fulfill- ing our tasks in the election cam- paign, International Red Day \preparations and work for the fail term. Comrades who cannot offer help RALEIGH, N. C., June 9.—Wil- liam Lee, Negro worker accused of murdering a white man last year was brought up again for trial to- day. rangements Lee had been sentenced to be sctrocuted last December, but the flimsy evidence was so thin that a new trial was granted him. Two other prisoners, who ate also ace cused, have been removed to Kenans~ ville for trial. Little hope is held here for Lee’s freedom since “lynch terror,” is spreading in this state following the |killing of Sheriff Aderholt of Gas- |tonia, N. C., on June 7 in the attack jon the Workers International Relief \Colony. Evidence of this “lynch terror” also shown clearly yes- |terday when the naked body of Willie McDaniel, Negro farm hand, was dug up in Charlotte from a paupers grave following a pri against the rushed disposal of his body after he had been lynched by a mob of landlords on May 29th. The tremendous amount of wor |makes it imperative that all those {able to, should lend a hand. Shoe Workers to Begin Big Organization Drive On New Open Shops t) Plans to begin a new and inten- sified organization drive among the new open shops in New York City and vicinity were announced by the Independent Shoe Workers Union yesterday. The Joint Council of the union, at its regular meeting Mon- day night, had formulated the plans | for the election of a special organ- izational committee consisting of representatives of the workers in each of the organized shops. Grave Diggers Shocked. When McDaniel’s body was un- covered, he was found to have been |buried in heavy brown wrapping seca apie see ar. (Paper instead of clothing that his fae sbie ooee ay Benet inter | cousin, an old Negro woman, had ghana dn the city com {carried to the undertakers. ‘They |had promised that the clothing would be placed on the mutilated body of the Negro worker, | drive in the new open shops is expected to gain ference, | tinued picketing yesterday and suc- | Statement From Harold Williams, District 2, Negro Director Workers Urged to Eat In Restaurant Giving) Part Profits-to Daily Readers of the Daily Worker who are patronizing the Rational Vege- tarian R rant, 199 cond Ave. (between 12th and 13th Sts) in or- der to help the emergency campaign | fund are urged to ask for the special Daily Worker coupons upon paying their checks. These coupons are to be deposited in a box provided for the purpose and not, as previously reported, turned in to the Daily’s business office. The management of the restau- rant has pledged itself to devote a percentage of its proceeds to the “Willie McDaniels, a young Negro 1 jfarmer, was lynched June 29 by a igroup of landlords because he dared | |to demand decent treatment from his bogs, a farm owner. The lynch- ling of this Negro is only one of the many crimes of capitalism that the working class is forced to suffer, “One of the immediate tasks con- fronting the Amercan workers must be to establish an inter-racial work- ing, class defense corps to defend “not only Negro workers but the working class as a whole. “In Paterson, New Jersey, many of our Negro comrades and whites have been beaten up by gangsters who are the tools of the bosses. } “Lynching in the United States “Daily” every day this week. AS|must be met and defeated by the the food served is far above the jorganized might of the American § average, the atmosphere of the | workers, black and white, in theit place congenial and its prices within the bounds of a worker’s pocketbook, the Daily has no hésitation in ing all of its friends to evail them selves of this pleasant opportunity to swell the $50,000 fund. | Struggle against capitalist exploita- / tion and oppression.” \ Dance, Swim and See A MOVIE SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 26 AT WASHINGTON BATHS Coney Island || and help smash Gastonia frame-up —— Communists fight ¢n behalf of the immediate aims and interests of the working class, but in th present movement they are also fending the future of the move- ment.—Marx. began two weeks ago when the New York postmaster refused to accept the envelopes with the slogans on them. An appeal by the I. L. D. to, Post Office Solicitor Donnelly in| Washington found him backing the | New York postmaster, and indicated | that the move was dictated by the | rational government with the idea | of assisting in the mill owners’ plot to murder by frame-up and elec- trocution the 15 strikers held in Gastonia. The case in the federal courts | yesterday showed United States | District Attorney Tuttle fighting ~ Smash the Murder Frame-Up; Detend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! for the mill bosses. The I. L. D. attorney, Carol Weiss King, made the points that the slogan was not libellous, and that, being directed against the prosecution instead of any individual, it could not be barred on these grounds anyway. | Without taking evidence, the judge overruled the defense. Combined Drive. The International Labor Defense and Workers International Relief have prepared their plans for Na- tional Defense and Relief Week for the aid of the Gastonia victims. 15 Workers The fight to free the fourteen leading Gastonia strikers from -the electric thair is not only a fight for the lives of these working class leaders but is a struggle for the right of the workers of Have You a Ticket FOR THE JULY 20TH AFFAIR? AT WASHINGTON Coney Island BATHS busies itself with preaching craft skill, efficiency and common interest | * with the ship-owners. It concentrates “ its activities in Washington trying to get laws passed. It advocates abolition of sea service bureaus and fink halls to be supplanted, not by union halls, but by the shipping com- missioner!. It pretends to be against @ government blacklist. Its agents are merely “runners” for shystex lawyers. One branch agent runs 2 rooming house and a “hooch joint” {a veritable crimp)! It has advocat- ed the passage of the Naval Re- serve Law and is doing its utm to “herd the seamen into the ne: slaughter. I, L. A. Also Corrupt. The same picture is presented the corrupt International L: Shoremen’s Association headed | Ryan. The LL.A. is a gangst: controlled outfit and functions only fs a dues collecting and strike breaking agency. Nor have the har- bor workers any union worthy of the name or organizations to fight _ for their conditions. There is only one way in which >the marine workers can better their eonditions—through a new union— hting industrial union, based i pz all marine workers . the blacklist and instead advocates | p, dock and ficet committees ! Get one or more at the Office of | sented. GEORGE MINK, | dent, and Gus Bienvieuw, secretary, dha Lao bb a, Pah OL, hewn Gee National Sec’y. among 15 specific defendants. m==eSPEND YOUR VACATION IN | CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents. CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL Telephone Beacon 731 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 i. New York, N. Y. _ iii, Members of the National Textile Workers Union ‘ ! Charged With Murder! 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS pay, and is a part of the preparation of the capitalist government for a new j bloody imperialist world war. } j 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- . | Thopsands of Dollars are Needed to Defend These Heroic Strikers, Members of the National Textile Workers Union. | \eee2eeeewreeeeeeen ea am ; ‘ J I hereby enclose $..., sfor the # ( ' Gastonia Defense. ‘ : NAMB vi.cceuescevsecsessateeaeevensunesenpe B i; i] 8 ADDRNGS?..cecucviesanssecme caesoky ; ' sf ; \ . CITY AND STATE. .ssscccseneenerree ME \ e |. eration of Labor.