The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1929, Page 1

WORKERS OF NEW YORK TO MOBILIZE AT COMMUNIST ELECTION CONVENWION ‘1HiS SUNDAY Worker THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week { Unorganized Daily ew, — > ve —oe La At ESL — Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION = a Vol. VI, No. 108 Published daily cx Compan. ay by The Comprodaily Publishing m Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929 Outside Ni SUBSCRIPTION BATE jew York, by mai $6.00 per year. 1 Im New York. by mail, $8.00 per year. ~ Price 3 Cents GIGANTIC ANTI-SOVIET WAR PLOT Defense Starts Weekly Paper in. Gastonia to An CALL MEETING Daily Needs Six Pages to GROWING IN CHINA swer Lies of Mill Bosses GENERAL STRIKE Cloak Bosses, Company Union ORLEANS U NION OF ALL GASTON Print “I Saw It Myself,” ON AUGUST1FOR End Fake Stopppage Tuesday pFF 191A} § STOP COUNTY WORKERS Health Officer Trying | Unsuceessfully to Cripple Colony | Union Sends Organizer to Georgia Mills Defense Exposes Roach (Special to the Daily Worker.) | GASTONIA, N. C., July 11. —Since the Charlotte court yesterday held Delmar Hamp- ton for trial on a murder charge, the defense has not been idle. To counteract the lying propaganda of the mill owners through the Gastonia Gazette and in other ways, the International La- bor Defense has got out the first issue of the Gastonia Labor De- fender, a weekly paper that will) fight the falsifications of the bosses | and their prosecutors in the frame- up case right in their own home town. Call All To Meeting. Distributed along with the first issue of the Gastonia Defender is a ct calling a meeting of the mill ‘kers of Gaston county at the | Gastonia tent colony next Saturday. | Hugo Oehler and Dewey Martin, or-! ganizers for the National Textile| Workers Union, Walter Trumbull | for the International Labor Defense, | and Alfred Wagenknecht for the! Workers International Relief, will be , principal speakers. Five autos and 28 men have been distributing the leaflet throughout the county. County Health Officer Ryan is visiting the colony daily, harassing | the strikers, and trying to start! trouble, but has failed so far to find grounds for complaint. | Evict Woman. Ellie Carpenter, with two babies came to the colony yesterday for a place to sleep. She has been stay- _ ing with relatives at Belmont, but th e were threatened by the miffy who told tiem that unless) put her out they would be she was a “dangerous red” ke at the Loray mill. The . took care of her. it is the sheriff now who refuses ‘it the photographing of the -prisoners, and says the de- will have to get a court order The prosecution in the Charlotte! habeas corpus hearings for Delmar | Hempton yesterday had to present, in ligu of any real evidence, an af-| fidavit from the pseudo policeman! Roach which is at complete vari-| ance with his previous affidavits in| the preliminary hearing of the first | Mighty The Daily Worker is struggling fiercely to keep its head above water. The response to its urgent calls for aid has been regrettably slow in coming; on the average, the day’s mail is yielding up just one-half of the $1,000 abso- lutely required to carry the paper over a twenty-four hour period. But at the same time, unshaken in its belief that the militant working class will not suffer its chief organ to perish, we are pushing plans for making the Daily’s future more brilliant than its past. / One of these plans has to do with the publication, in serial form, of “I Saw It Myself,” a factuai novel by Henri Barbusse, the famous French Communist writer, author of “Under Fire,” who presided at the recent International Anti- Fascist Congress in Berlin and who is one of the leading fig- ures of the Communist Party of France. This book created a tremendous sensation when it first appeared on the continent and immediately established Bar- busse as one of the greatest proletarian writers in the world. Dealing with the last imperialist war and the white terror that followed in its wake, it presents a series of astounding scenes, all of them actually witnessed by the writer, show- ing the iron hand of reaction in all its bloody work. The story is given a coating of fiction but the events | and characters it describes are historic. In particular, the accounts of atrocities committed under Barbusse’s eyes by the counter-revolutionists of Serbia, Bulgaria and other Bal- kan states will at once horrify the working class reader and intensify his hatred of the capitalist class and all its murder- ous hirelings, ~ But before we can begin to print “I Saw It Myself” it is necessary that the Daily go back to six pages. With the space we have at our disposal now it is out of the question. Indeed, the possibility of complete suspension is more real today than it was three weeks ago, when The Daily Worker was ferced to suspend for one day. Because money has not come in quickly enough, the only English language labor daily, your daily, has been driven deeper and deeper into debt. The following bills, among many smaller ones, fall due at the end of this week: Photo-Engraving . . . . $ 875.46 Priniera 0.026088 - FB ISOS. News Service Byte 1,150.00 Postage, Circulation, Business 450.00 Loans ai eerie, ap ey ane 2,000.00 Telegraph and Telephone . . 265.00 ORE i secb ws oe kiscaey. o STROLLS Workers, it is you who are to pass judgment on The. Daily Worker. Is it to go back to six pages and become a stronger leader of the masses in their fight on the Gastonia Proletarian Book INT'L RED DAY Plan. Demonstrations, in All Factory Districts |Monster Central Rally To Show Unity Against | Imperialist War | The’Communist Party of America, New York District, has called a gen- eral strike, August 1, for Interna- | tional Red Day, to join the Ameri- can workers in the unity of the workers ofithe whole world against the growing preparations for a new ‘imperialist war. It is planned that the strike shall last for several hours during which demonstrations shall be held in all factory districts to culminate in a monster central demonstration in |Union Square, The exact time of} |the day when the strike will take place will be announced later. Exactly one week before Interna- | tional Red Day a conference of all) labor and fraternal organizations is} being called by the Communist Par-| |ty for the purpose of preparing for| jthe demonstration. The conference| will take place Thursday, July 25, at} 8 p.m, A call is being issued to all! organizations jnyiting them to send| |delegates. Because time is short it) jis urged that jrganizations meeting | in the next jfw days should form | Anti-Imperial War Committees land elect grofps of delegates with- |out awaiting ‘he official call. Cre-| |dentials should be mailed to Inter- ‘national Anti-Imperialist War Day Committee, 26-28 Union Square. The conference will be addressed by a number of prominent speakers many of whom were involved in fighting the war preparations in other countries and in the colonies and semi-colonies. Following the conference the city will be closely) covered by a network of street meet- ings which will finally culminate in |the big anti-imperialist war demon-| strations on International Red Day | itself on August 1. CONVENTION WILL HIT SPY SYSTEM pee Take Lead | | in Answer to: Whalen | All forces of the Communist, |Party, New York District, and of| ‘militant labor throughout the city, ‘will be mobilized at the Communist Conclude Sham Battle; Industrial Union Calls Workers to Repudiate Swindle BULLETIN. The borough of Manhattan nom- inating convention of the socialist party, held last night’in the Rand School, passed a resolution of greetings to the International La- dies Garment Workers Company Union on the glorious “strike” it and the cloak bosses have been conducting. August Claessens, for many years a leading office-boy of the socialist party machine, burst in- to exuberant praise of the corrupt company union agents and pledged the full support of the socialist party to all their future treacher- ies. Claessens bemoaned the fact, however, that, the workers who attended the company union meet- ings showed no enthusiasm. “ * © While sub-committees were busy yesterday putting the finishing touches on the fake agreement be- tween the cloak manufacturers and their company union, the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers, thousands of clozkmakers were pre- paring, under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, to repudiate with disgust a rdid fraud and consy > which Jhas few equals in the annals of American labor treachery. Y. agreement has ac- ched, and the cloak- “tremendous so much |space in the columns of the yellow Forward, but so little in the pocket- books of the workers. At 1 o'clock |this morning the Ind 1 Council |of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufac- |turers (inside manufacturers) its company union, after a well-ad- | vertised conference, concluded that |agreement which had been agreed upon long before the I. L. G. W called its fake stoppage. Earlier Conference. This conference followed an earl- ier one in the afternoon in the of- |fic& of Raymond Ing , $25,000- a-year “impartial” ck | industry, which was | repres es of the I. L. G the Industrial Council, the ies Garment / e American Cloak and |Suit Manufacturers’ Association (contractors), V n Green, pr |dent of the American Federation of | (Continued on Page Three) Soviet Airplane Starts on Long European Tour MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 11. —The tri-motored, all-mets! mon- oplane, “Wings of the Soviet,” left the Moscow airdrome today on a non-stop flight to Berlin, the first lap of a three weeks’ Euro- pean tour in the course of which it will cover 7,000 kilometers or about 4,375 miles. The Soviet flyers, Ghomof and Russanoff, are carrying eight passengers, including M. Zazar, | Inspector General of Civil Avia- tion, and four newspapermen. From Berlin the plane will be pi- loted to Friedrichshaven, and from thence to Paris, Rome, Vienna and Munich, returning to Berlin and circling over Warsaw on the way back to Moscow. A heavy thunderstorm burst shortly after the plane had taken off and unfavorable weather re- ports of thunder clouds every- where within a radius of 250 miles threatened to postpone the depar- ture, but it was finally decided to lighten the load of the “Wings of the Soviet” by leaving behind one of the Soviet correspondents scheduled to make the trip. NEGRO ARRESTED WOMEN WILL BE TRAINED FOR WAR IN LUMBER MILLS ion’ Gets Them Ready (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE (By Mail). now to be trained preparatory me production in what the Innova for apitalist papers delightedly call an | “innovation” in the planing mills of |the Weyerhauser Timber Compan at Longview, Washington. | Mill No. 1 is now ope employs appr 7% men, beth in act | struction at the sit No. 2 will be in of mn in another month r will employ about twice the number now wo ing. This will include women wo ers in the fast planing factories ad-|of the Needle Trades Workers In-| | joining the mill proper. These mills are the last word in mechanical efficiency and will pro- |éuce double the cmount of lumber | that standard mills now manufac- |ture. This means the “Hi-ball” s; |tem, in the vernacular of the lum- | ber worker, which is the equivalent of the “speed-up” system of the and | STRIKE MEETING Offer to Surrender to Bosses Demand for | Discrimination ‘Scabs Work Tomorrow | pest E.L. Calls Workers | to Unity Conference Tus NEW ORLEANS, N. C., July 11. —The New Orleans street car strikers will get a general strike of all building trades workers if these rank and file members are able to overpower the treacherous policy of | surrender their officials follow. The ike meeting of building workers, which was to be held today, has been called off by the building trades council. The building workers, by mass pressure, succeeded in getting a vote several days ago by the coun- cil for a general strike in solida: with the carmen, but the council slipped in a statement that “the strike would come when circum- stances permit” and immediately began to delay action in every way they can. Strike Breakers Saturday. Meanwhile, at a meeting between he Public Service Co. representa- "ties and officials of the Amalga- mated Associatior of Street and Electric Railway Employes, a dead- lock was reached over the question of recognizing the, union, and the company represe: ives left threat- | ening to resume service with strike- breakers Saturday. Instead of encouraging militant action, the union officials repress (Continued on Page Two) OPM WORKERS’ - DEFENSE UNITS ne and Needle Union in Move| | Aga Against Thugs First steps toward the formation Workers Defense Units were taken last night at a meeting of ac- | tive needle trades workers, members of dus’ Si ‘ial Union, in Irving Plaza, 15th nd Irving Pl. These units will protect workers from the guerillas |and underworld thugs hired by the | International Ladies Garment Work- ,ers Company Union to terrorize and attack workers who refuse to sign up with the scab outfit. The immediate event which caused Ay AVER 500 SOVIET OFFICIALS NOW FAILED IN HARBIN imperiali Blockade Soviet Syndicate, Union Offices ‘Disrupt Labor Unions sts | |Complicity of European Powers Evident BULLETIN. TOKIO, July 11.—A_ veritable campaign of organized terror was instituted in Manchuria late to- | day with the disruption of the | Russian labor unions, and attacks | by the police on militant workers, who fought to save their union headquarters from being torn down. Open fighting is going on at the railway stations and in the | streets between the workers and the troops of Chinese reaction. | Hundreds of Chinese workers | are fighting shoulder to shoulder | with their Russian comrades. According to a dispatch received | here, Ostroumove, White Guard- | ist, manager of the railroad un- | der the czarist regime, is slated to be given his old post by the Chinese imperialist heads. * Cee BULLETIN TOKIO, July 11.—The serious- ness of the situation in Manchuria where a gigantic anti-Soviet war provocative campaign is being carried on became more evident to-day with advices from Harbin reporting the full extent of the seizure of communication fa- cilities. The Nippon Dempo News Agency reported that the Chinese had seized practically all branches of the Chinese Eastern Railway, including the telegraph and tele- phone communications. All Rus- sian participation in the communi- | cations system were forced out | and more than 500 Communists were arrested, the advices said. The Soviet head of the Rail- way Control Bureau, M. Chinchat, was confined to his residence and Russian executives withdrew from their offices at 10 a. m. this morn- ing. Almost 50 Communists already | have been deported and Chinese | police have blockaded the Harbin | Branch of the offices of the Soviet | Petroleum Syndicate, the Textile | ‘Trust, the National Shipping and | Trade Departments and other or- ganizations. + 8 ® New Move Against U. S. S. R. HARBIN, Manchuria, July 11.—A |move in the united imgerialist policy of preparations for an attack upon the Soviet Union was seen yester- day in the arrest and jailing of over (Continued cn Page Two) |Varied Exploiters at : 99 strikers, | ; election conference to be held this cast. Anois MERE GUI ae el Re ; Contradicts Previous Affidavit, | frame-up, the war danger, the struggle for the establishment Sunday for the struggle against the iP *\murderous assault Wednesday on) Pier to Greet Davis : This new affidavit by Roach is, of a new industrial union center, and all the other activities czarist spy system established by Correspondents, flies: cl dakrnsais) (ee cniett anda tomtom ; quite different from the one he had| of the revolutionary workers? Or is it to go under? Commissioner Whalen in the fur- Hl R . ap inate |woman, by four tight wing gang-| MANILA, P. L, July 11—Dwight 4 made at the preliminary hearings | . Rien: Ba ther development of the strike- Join Fight On sters armed with knives, blackjacks |F: Davis arrived here today to as : of the 14 other Gastonia strikers; Bring your decision in the form of contributions to The breaking activities of the Walker| I jalist War |and brass knuckles, Tt was learned|‘tme tho governor-generalship of t Wy and organizers held for murder, and Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, or send government. : lanedotie “induirers’’| mperia lyesterday that one of these bearers| the Philippine Islands. +; | re or assault. son.| chem by special delivery, air-mail or telegraph at once. Behe Gi artamee See HeelO QUIPETS || Workers throughout the world| {of the torch of “socialism,” Sam| The governors of 30. provinces ; tradictory. One or the other of |——— street and ving place, will initiate | Seek to Frame Him frill hold: ngeat dempastrations 0 baci uy Get ie a oy a holder ee sea aie = Rowek - dbs: 4 éj | : ad e| — International Red Day, August 1,| | teresting past, including several in-| holiday. Eugene A. Gilmore, vice- ; pene Pieioenation rune th RESPONSE IS A L A RMIN TUR pea en Ee eet CHARLOTTE, N. C.. July 11—| |{g pretest against the prepara:| |dictments for ‘grand and petty lar-|governcr; Manuel Quezon, president , Pathe Aad tiinotey.sto vailvoathias ween | , mumdsba/o® workéce tf an aherpatic Acting for the Mecklenburg grand) tions for war by the imperial ceny. The criminal records of the | of the senate, and other political MAREE ectnen ito the alegtte | \Heht against the brutal terrorist of jury in its “investigation” of the’ | powers, and to express their sol- eee ce nye not yet been | leaders gave receptions for the new : chair for the Manville-Jenckes Co. | : |the Tammany tools of the bosses, Hana’ Wille MeDaniel, by'e white, (aati? with the workers of the! eorthy” of the noble. social, service | fonight. Ail the native and. amet ° ; | i , g Soviet Union, against whom the| | e ati A or Tie, fatease ttered in evidence Fund Hovering Around $600 Marke: (Goimot: om Peas Pyro [dlord mob, Slctor Carpenter or limpet porers are lowing) 3" WhEh they were engaged.” The can exoters Took forward ta é Piette tat Wieck ca drude cen : | 7 jday arrested another Negro worker |an attack. | good season, : disorderly two hours before the raid| Despite urgent appeals for a daily | “Daily” deeper and deeper into debt | Bronx Fire Endangers | who rat cally bee rine i ania ene The worker correspondents of} | on the tent colony. The sworn state- (ota of $1,000, the minimum sum that it appears at all. A dollar in L f VE Work |Chatr.on manipuisiad “evidence. the Daily Worker must he in the ments of Boe Melton, who runs |"equired to keep The Daily Worker time saves nine, Send in your con-! BNSE O ian AA | A New ramas-ups f front of the campaign against | | Fr e ; a refreshment stand on ti sna hes jon the press, the daily returns ate’ tributions post-haste! A large area in a populous work. en ree baling one ened ne ' the brewing war, and through! | u ust i rst - ti e | 2. “ . af eS (01 concern 1S rticular | $ y ‘ fenee Gieeloge and. caiasia, and Ota Gameiad LL a eal coe og howe | ing class section of the Bronx was case,” Carpenter admitted” “but we, (the ecg jepson apt ebiiget . ‘ontinued | 4 # { * ° menaced yesterday by a fire which | heliev v1 iH express eir dete | 7 i ‘ pins i ae Pages a eo cate! " cal, Fort Edward, N. Y.... 25.00 started in an apartment house ie hs Gwe | Sora EIRR BOM | ae August 1 a memorable day| | INTERNATIONAL* ANTI-WAR DAY, 4 Customs BS Admits, ” only by driving the (Continued on Page Two) |der construction on Bronx River | Meanwhile, fear of the ‘sanie ‘sav- of the class struggle. | ‘ ndide eo Rare d. | Parkway, near 219th St. and age lynching in which McDaniel was|| AS part of the by aap | % y * | quickly kindled blazes in 14 other killed is forcing Negro te ts to, against imperialist war, and as| | (7 ic 4 i Z Ca On “Tur " 4 eae. Lies Seeing Sei : saint International Red Day,| Communists Fight War, Plans. at Chicago, ; “Yesterday the customs bureau, Firemen extinguished the flames | pane eee the Daily Worker will devote an| | New York Conferences Tonight ; P Hah ce Cae on the particular edi- : a | after three hours. iE losi British entire worker correspond mee “Ae > ion ‘oltaire’s Candide, seized as —_— xpiosions In TIUISH | |tion to Anti-War Day. “Worker “How will the working class defeat the growing preparations for | “obscend” by the Bost | i ‘ F ‘ @eaend) | imperialist war 2 gneetted attark on the Soviet Gta’, am t [ ‘obec a a, ee | Send in Your Answer! 'Held Up Trunks in San Mines Claim Toll of Fare eeepnaeats Epeege sai get aeeg ne the Chad es me Soviet oanee ie 7 recently, Th : | + a | rae heap co Rer . is vital question will be the keynote of two significant meetings | A ony engl eal The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, | Francisco for Opium igontan Workers’ Lives | workers in those pg ee a to be held in New York and Chicago tonight." In Chicago, delegates t r 3 ‘ f — args “ie rom every industry in the city will join in the great shout of working - i te fi ange of imported After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am _ SAN FRANCISCO, July 11.—Wil- LONDON, England, July 11.— | | ready for the coming imperialist! | lass protest against imperialist war at a membership meeting called ‘ rorkers ture, if the proposed ai ‘g liam B, Hamilton, customs inspector, | Eight miners are known to bedead | | War must write at once regarding) | by the Communist Party at 8 p. m, today at the Mirror Hall, 1136. y bid Mite with a clause classifying sending you the enclosed amount, $ |admitted today that seven trunks, be-| in a mine explosion near Blaena- | International Red Day. North Western Ave. nif : i Ralenae | revolutionary books as “obscene’ Nawe | longing to Mrs. Yongo Kao, wife of | von, in the coal and iron district, | Workers in the various indus- In New York City, the signifieance of the iatest war measures | ‘ goes through, AME esses eeeeeereeeees | ae AS Vice Consul here, are| today. ‘Three other miners were | | tries are’ bepiece -f tell of ane to the workers will be discussed at a conference of general pieoa ir ! y ~ ‘ing held for examination, killed near Radstock, in Somerset, , | Various examples of preparation) | aries of the C ist Part; 3:30 -p. 0 i Build re ait on and draw | Bota peppne ve0 baie i sett It was rumored seizure was made| when the safety gate on a shaft | |for war as shown in their indus- Union. Suuades the, “pits or ra Shite petperrd eae Reese i | 2 more members into i com ed im the “Dally” with Nheseeted of suspicions that the trunks| suddenly opened and preicpitated | | tries, aim to secure the widest mass representation at the ‘iunerutations Gal { F Commapist Party. _ fe ~ — contained opium, hiss ie the men to the bottom sea. pe International Red Day Against\Jmperialist War on August First. ay *