The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Governmeut To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class n. 1 at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. ander the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1929 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. oe —] SUBSCRIPTION AATES: In New York, by mail. $8.00 per year. . ‘ Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per ye: Price 3 Cents Vol. VI., No. 107 NEW ORLEANS BUILDING TRADES VOTE GENERAL STRIKE Be Hampton Held on Framed Murder Charge; Witness Changes Testimony JUDGE ACCEPTS Fight Against Imperialist [.L.6.W, THUGS IN New Czarist Spy | NEW PERJURY BY War Must Rally Masses of BLOODY ASSAULT 5¢ Met by @ Militant Struggle Tq qlp DRIVES WITNESS ROACH Workers Throughout U.S. ONCLOAKMAKERS National Textile Union Sending Organizer to | Georgia Mill Field Workers Ask for Union Gazette’s Yarn Brings Many Offers of Land © BULLETIN | CHARLOTTE, N. C., July 10.— Judge Shaw today denied the mo- | tion of attorneys for the Interna- tional Labor Defense to release Delmar Hampton, the 15th charged with murder in Gastonia for the shooting of Chief Aderholt. The | ution was yesterday given 5 p.m. today to produce new evidence. Their handyman, Roach who participated in the attack on the strikers’ tent colony, came forth with an affidavit completely at | yariance with his previous story, | and contradictory to it, and on the basis of this, Hampton was held. Attorney Neal was at the hear- ing. He stated today that there | was no definite and specific evi- | dence against the defendants and that he was in the case to fight | the evident danger of the strikers | being convicted merely for their | beliefs or because they organized and as a result of hysteria created \ by the prosecutions “ 168 (Special to the Daily Worker.) CHARLOTTE, N. C., July 10.—The habeas corpus case of Delmar Hampton, the fifte of the strikers and organizers to be held on murder charges in Gastonia jail for trial July 29, is in Judge Harding’s. court again today. The Hampton habeas corpus has had a weird history. Hampton was arrested in Gaffney, South Carolina, on June 27 and spirited across the line into Gastonia by Manville Jen- ckes police officers without extra- dition papers. He was just held in Gastonia jail without a preliminary hearing on a murder charge for the death of Chief of Police Aderholt, killed while trying to raid the Gas- tonia tent colony, June 7. Habeas Corpus. On July 4 Hampton was brought on habeas corpus writ obtained by the attorneys for the International , Labor Defense, before Judge Hard-| ing in Charlotte, who ordered the, hearing adjourned to Monday, July | 8, and instructed the prosecution to give Hampton a preliminary hear- ing. | On Friday, July 5, Hampton was | railroaded through by City Recorder Jones of Gastonia and held for mur- der, without any evidence worth while in a court of law or anywhere else, The habeas corpus case then was to be finished at Newton, but the police chief of Gastonia committed contempt of court and failed to bring the prisoner. Judge Harding showed his sympathy for the prosecution and refused to press the contempt case against the chief. The capitalist governments and the im- perialists of the whole the preparations going on everywhere to make August 1 a day of mobilization of the masses for revolutionary struggle against the war danger. The trickery, the duplicity, the stealthy Industrial Union Calls Meet Tonight to Plan Defense Measures '3 Workers are Stabbed One is Critical; “Terror Shows Desperation” world are alarmed at scab International Ladies Garment Spy System ‘Must' Statement of District Executive Committee of Communist Party on Whalen’s Spy System The formation of a squad of se-|plicate of the czarist secret police cret police by Police Commissioner | whose infamous agent provocateur Whalen, which, according to the an-| work is known to the labor move- nouncements in the press will be) ment of the entire wrold. modelled after the Army Intelli-| Anti-Labor. gence Service and the under-cover| The declaration of Police Com- bureaus of Scotland Yard, is a new| missioner Whalen that this special weapon of the oppressive capitalist |secret spying squad consisting of 50 government of the city of New|police and which will be consider- York and of the employers to break |ably enlarged, is intended to fight strikes, to demolish the trade|criminals in the underworld is a junions, to prevent the organization| mere sham and bluff to deceive the lof the unorganized and to combat| workers of New York City as to its The underworld hirelings of the|the new industrial unions estab-|true character. This secret bureau | Police Commissioner Whalen has lished in the city as well as combat} of the police will aim to establish OFFICIALS TRY “TO PUT IT OFF UNTIL SELL OUT 250 Deputy "Marshalls with Rifles Placed in the Car Barns SECRET POLICE. ON N.Y, WORKERS Anti-Labor Squad to Break Strikes, Bait Militants After Foreign-Born To Attempt to Disrupt Unions Declare for Open Shop Mass Meetings to Vote On Walk Out NEW ORLEANS, La., July 10.—Acting at last, through direct ne ty because of the determination of 45,000 union members, the delegates to the Building Trades Council last night voted to approve a generai announced the appointment of enth | preparations that are being made to plunge the world into another war are being exposed in every capitalist country in the world. August 1 must put the war-mongers on the defensive. In no uncertain terms the masses will rally against the con- spiracies, the provecations and the open war preparations against the Soviet Union, the federated republic of workers and peasants, The workers in the two giant imperialist countries, the United States and England, will stage strikes and great dem- enstrations against the war preparations of their govern- ments. The Communist Party of the United States is the driving force in the fight against imperialist war here. The biggest districts of the Party have already held conferences that laid down the principal agitational and organization tasks for | August 1. There will be demonstrations of a nature never before staged in the Tinited States. Many war industries themselves will be hit by the workers employed in them. In the preparation for August 1, the Daily Worker plays an increasingly important role. We expose the war plans of the imperialists, and act as collective organizer in mobilizing the workers in the great basic industries for the struggle against the war danger. We have plans on foot to publish some of the most startling information about the war game of the United States government. But in order to be able to carry out our tasks funds are urgenily needed to keep the Daily alive. The raising of funds to help the Daily and the campaign for the One Day’s Wage for the Party and the Daily are a part of the fight against the imperialists. The Communist International, in its direc- tives for International Day Against War, August 1, urged the raising of funds with which to carry on the struggle not only for the mightiest of demonstrations and strikes on that day, but to enable the Parties to be in a financial condition to con- tinue and intensify the struggle in the coming months; it must be the turning point whereby the workers take the of- fensive against the war-mongers. Instead of the end it is the beginning of our offensive. But first and foremost it is necessary that our Party press survive in order that the workers may be able to get day by day information the development of the struggle. Workers “Union” yesterday went on |the growing influence of the Com-|spies and stoolpigeons in the trade another bloody’ rampage against cloakmakers who refused to be ter- rorized by the company clique. Three striking cloakmakers, members of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, fell vic- tims to an onslaught as brutal and deliberate as has been seen in the garment district for a long time. As a result of this murderous at- | tack, Max Freedman, a cloakmaker, is now lying in the hospital in a critical condition after being stabhed in the abdomen and slashed on the left ear. Louis Kapper was ke- verely beaten with a blackjack and club and Celia Helfgot had her | munist. movement. =| This new pernicious organization | union | of the police will be a reinforcement | will seek and ferret out militant lof the brutal strike-breaking indus- | |trial squad and will constitute a du-| union movement to carry on the pro-| Henry E. Bruckman as head of the vocative and demoralizing activities, |. .rigt secret police squad which workers and carry on work of pro- has just been formed as an auxil- (Continued on Page Three) iary strike-breaking, union-smash- NANKING SEIZES WIRES, JAILS 186 | US.S.R, OFFICIALS ing and Communist-baiting arm of formed capitalist militia. LABOR CABINET BUILDS BIGGER SUB-SEA BOATS the uni This spy organization, which be- gan functioning Monday consists of 50 thoroughly trained agent provo- but be |greatly augmented as it begins to cateurs, its forces will get in its nefarious work. strike of all building wor! n the city in solidarity with the strik street car men. The Jatter struggling under a federal inj (tion and the expressed willingness of their officials to send the men back to work without the safe- guards aga y charge, strike. Try to Betray Strike. The Building Trades Council in- troduced a joker into the general strike resolution, in the shape of a clause saying the strike was to be called “as soon as conditions per- mit.” But they were forced by head so severely cut that half a) dozen stitches were necessary. After | being treated, the latter two were | reported out of danger. + Four Gangsters Arrested. So open and brutal was the at-| \tack on the three workers that | ¢, Grover Whalen’s police, who have | been giving all possible aid tc the right wing guerillas, could no longer close their eyes. They arrested four men who had made free use of knives, blackjacks, clubs and brass knuckles in their attempt to break May Grab Railway in Provocation Plot BULLETIN. July 10.—A dispatch TOKIO, | Soviet officials and workers of the Chinese Eastern Railway into jail. Twelve telegraphers, charged with \“spreading Communist propaganda” were reported to have been arrested ‘, she yesterday, at which time the Chinese Were eng menetration of striking reactionaries seized control of the (Continued on Page Three) entire telegraph wyster. ‘Empire Rulers Exploit | H-47 Sinking | LONDON, July 10.—Using the |H-47 submarine disaster, in which om Harbin. says that Nanking) 24 sailors perished when returning \authorities have thrown, 174 more! so.) war maneuvers in the Irish |sea, the new labor government will jcampaign to abclish the present ‘scheme for building six submarines | of the H-47 type and bring in in. | stead a new naval building propa, |ganda to include even more pow- | erful craft, it was reported by those | {close to the admiralty department | today. BY DEFENSE WEEK It was ostensibly created to fer- | sentiment of the union membership to permit. a mass meeting of the union members. They postponed it until tomorrow night, but dared not put it off any later. The pelicy of the Street and Electric Rail ployes to Local 194, of which strikers belong, will be to se the strike on any terms befor general strike can be started The Public Service Comp: employer, has declared for shop and stated that it ret out criminals and snoop upon (Continued on Page Three) STOP MARCH TO ELECTRIC CHAIR Amalgam the e open will not meet with the union as a union. Mayor O'Keefe has called a citi zen’s committee session to trate” and assist in strikebrea Workers Prepare for FLECTION DRIVE BEGINS JULY 1 Many Negro delegates are ex- pected to attend the Communist nominating convention, which will be held Sunday, July 14, beginning at 10 a. m., at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. During the last year large masses of Negro workers have rallied to the Communist’ Party, which. in its determined and uncompromising struggle for full social, economic and political equality for all Negro workers, has proven itself the only political party championing their in- * 2 * HARBIN, Manchuria, July 10.—| Nanking forces seized the telegraph administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway early today and ar- | rested 12 Soviet officials, placing | against them the usual charge of | “spreading fake Communist propa- jganda.” | This is the latest in a series of |provocative acts sponsored by the Chinese imperalists. | The Chinese Eastern Railway has been the special object of their harassing tactics. Only a few days |ago reactionaries on the border of outer Mongolia staged an anti-Soviet demonstration, ‘Marine Workers Meet; Protests Framing of |Textile Mill Strikers | ander. Gastonia Meetings “The framed up Gastonia strikers may all go to the electric chair.” This terrible sentence came in a |telegram from Juliet Stuart Poyntz Official cabinet announcement of the new plans is expected in the near future. Deaths in the disaster were placed at 24 today in the house of com- mons by First Sea Lord A. V. Alex- Two victims were members tional office of the International of the crew of the L-12 caught in |tator Defense. Following close on the crash. the heels of the decision of Federal Search vessels, sent by the gov-| Judge Thacher, hanning I. L. D. ernment largely to allay widespread | mail for relief, extraordinary meth- indignation against the tragedy in| ods were begun by the organiza- which common seamen were the | tions aiding the 15 framed-up Gas- chief victims, were forced off the|tonia sttikers. | still fu concessions and isfy ti ny. The citi vited are all corporati jin Gastonia yesterday to the na-| Loisel } But this cannot be done without immediate assistance. Rush funds at once to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York. \Gastonia Strikers to) The program of events assures a terests. The Communist election) program, which will be presented to| A big audience, mostly seamen the convention on Sunday, callsjand longshoremen, gathered in the especially for an intensive drive for | second Gastonia defense meeting on | the organization of Negro workers, |the waterfront yesterday, and voted | |and against the miserable housing to join the world-wide protest | copditions and vicious police brutal-| against the frame-up of 15 textile | telegraph operator, Sydney Cleburne, | scene in the Irish sea today by raging storms, That the weak condition of the| submarine’s “water-tight” doors, | which the crew were unable to close | just when their successful operation | meant at least greater chance of escape for them, is admitted even in| the official adniiralty report. It) states that orders had been given to close the doors and abandon the ship. The evidence of commanding officer, Lieutenant Gardner, and shows that the doors did not work. “We will fight the judge and the bosses by a defense week, July 27 to August 3, in which tremendous activity will be let loose,” Carl Hacker, of the national committec of the I. L. D. stated today. “The working class is beginning to wake up to the fact that a num- ber of all the strikers framed on murder charges may meet Sacco- Venzetti’s fate,” he said. if the union officials do not efficials of such o: the Rotary Club, K Two U. . men are o that they are calliag of :nicn and ec tives Victor deputy mar- med men with revol Un \shals and and rifles. all the car bar force the federal injunction granted yesterday by Judge Borah, permit- |ting only three pickets jway in the barns. Ma had stopped the car movements for a week and forced a whole train- load of scabs to remain outside the city limits. Chief of Police Theodore Ray has hastened to assure the U. S. mar- “Aside from the general activity| shal that he will co-operate fully on behalf of the strikers, we will with the federal gunmen. Ray’s set aside the defense week for all! son is a scab in one of the car barns good time to everyone. Games, | ity under which they suffer today. outdoor dancing to the music of | strikers on murder charges and | The plight of the crew trapped was Attend Outing of the. New York ILD Sunday Several Gastonia strikers will| ‘Tickets should be bought in ad- take part in the big international | vance to avoid the rush at the park. outing of the New York District of | They are on sale at the office of the International Labor Defense, to | the New Epri Le Te Do toe proed be held this Sunday in Pleasant Bay | W®¥> Room 422, and at the Workers Park, the Bronx. The strikers will “enter, 26-28 Union Square. John ©. Smith’s Negro Syncopators, a torchlight parade and many other | activities are being arranged. According to Richard B. Moore, | eight more on assault charges be- president of the Harlem Tenants | cause they defended their homes and | League, which has a membership |families against a police raid. | of over 600, the League will endorse} All the speakers told of the situ- |the Communist platform and candi-|ation in Gastonia, and the danger dates, because it has seen that the|in which the strikers in the jail Communist Party is the only Party | there finc themselves, facing elec- supporting their fight against high |trocution or long prison terms un- | vents and carrying on an energetic |less the working class rescues them (Continued on Page Three) Spy creating a strong defense. |inereased by the antiquated emer- gency breathing “lung” equipment which should have enabled them to} breathe for some time while under | water. After every revolution marking a progressive phase in lass strug- | ‘gle, the purely repressive charncter | | of the State power stands out in workers to exert all their strength, | and recently got the worst of the all their mass solidarity, to save | fight when he and other scabs ate (Continued on Page Two) tacked some pickets. August First INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR DAY. Case Continued Again. join with their New York fellow- | Hampton then appeared before Judge Thomas J. Shaw, who reject- ed the technicalities on which the prosecution relied to hold Hampton, and continued the case again until today at Charlotte, the prosecution boasting that it could bring more evidence, Agitprop Directors to Hold Important Reorganization Meet — The Department for Agitation and Propaganda for District 2, Com- munist Party, announces a very im- portant meeting of section agitprop directors together with the District Agitprop Committee for Saturday, July 18 at 2 p. m. at the office of the Workers School. The matters to be considered are: International Red Day; Election Campaign; Workers School Organi- zation Matters; Summer Unit Agit- prop Work. Because of the nature of the ques- tions to be discussed, only workers who come under the specific categor- les listed above will be admitted. | workers in a program of proletarian | festivity that will last from 10 in the morning until ate at night. | The proceeds of the I. L. D. out- | ing will go for the defense of the | Gastonia frame-up victims and of ether class war prisoners. | Special Functionaries’ Meeting Called by the. District for Friday All functionaries of Conmunis: Party units an1 the Young Commu- nist League, and secretaries of trade union and languege fractions, are called to a special general function- aries’ conference this Friday at 7:30 p. m. at 26 Union Square, fifth floor. This conference is called by the District Executive Committee of District 2, Communist Party, tc mobilize the Party for the important | campaigns now fscing it. The agenda of the conference will | include the municipal election cam- | paign, the International Red Day. Trade Union Unity Convention and | the Gastonia defense, Statement of National Executive Commitee -- YCL-- USA on Suspension of Rubenstein and Silvis from NEC Buro OMRADE JACK RUBENSTEIN, a member of the Bureau of the C and Comrade Miriam Silvis, a candidate member, have been suspended from the National Executive Committee Bureau and from the leading | posts which they held, because of their open Right opposition to the Address of the Communist International to the American Party member- ship and to the whole line of the Comintern as laid down at the Sixth World Congress and specifically applied to the United States in this Address and other decision. These National Executive Committee of the Young Communist League, — | and our Party, but they open up a fight against the unanimous decisions of our Fifth National Convention for which they themselves voted. Here these comrades show the same political inconsistency and unprincipled- ness which has marked their course since the convention. On May 20th these comrades voted “to endorse and energetically support the Address and to mobilize the entire mmbership of the League to fight together withthe membership of the Party for a full under- | standing of its line... .. to unconditionally and unreservedly carry into effect the decisions contained comrades have further been carry- ing on factional activities within the League, Comrade Rubenstein attended a caucus meeting with Lovestone and spoke at a full meeting of the New York District Executive Committee against the line of the National Executive Committee which he is supposed to defend as a NEC member, In speeches, with factional activ- ity and by their written statement these comrades not only brazenly attack the Communist International The following cable was | open right wing. \ Cable from Young Communist International munist League of the U.S. A. from the Young Communist {nternational, on July 6, 1929: “Endorse suspension Rubenstein and Silvis. Call upon all members and units to unite against concealed and Fight renegades and splitters, for Com- intern Address and your Congress decisions, YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL, in this Address and ‘to become one | of the best interpreters of the pol- | icy of the Comintern on the Amer- ican question.’” This is how these | comrades spoke when they were fighting in a concealed manner against the line of the League, the Party and the Comintern. Today the pledge of “energetic support” is replaced by “We find it necessary to state our disagree- ment to the Address . . because the consequences of the Address are so received by the Young Com- disastrous that we must declare ie (Continued on Page Tw Communists Fight War Plans at New York Conference Friday Will Mobilize Against Imperialist War at Chicago Communist Meeting Friday “Strengthen the city’s defenses!” became the watchword of air- force generais who lead the fight for the transformation of New York City into a key city in the schemes to erect a chain of air-ports across the continent. These war measures, and their significance to the working class, will be the main subject fpr discussion at a conference of general fune- tionaries of the New York District of the Communist Party at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at the fifth floor of the Workers Center, 26 Union Square. To lay plans to draw the great mass of the New York working class into International Red Day on August First—this is the prime task of Friday’s conference. * ‘ CHICAGO, IIL, July 10.—Plans to mobilize the working class in every basic industry for participation. in. International Red Day on August 1, will be discussed at the membership meeting called by the Chicago District of the Communist Party for this Friday at 8 p. m., at Mirror Hall, 1136 North Western Avenue. Workers close to the Gastonia battlefront will tell the story of the class war in the south, whieh precipitated the fierce class fight in which 15 strikers are being railroaded to the electric chair. Defeat of these boss plans will be a leading item on the agenda of the meeting, which will also hear reports on the progress of the great Trade Union Unity | Convention to be held in Cleveland on August 31. ys * . \