The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 1929, Page 1

|) Communist Party Op \ \ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Baily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of M Ga Vv THE WORLD [or Rafa) rker ch 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Ss “Vol. VL, No. 110 Company, Inc. Published dally except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. " SUBSCRIPTION % Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year MG one 3 Cents NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1929 OVIET UNION DEMANDS PEACEFUL NEGOTIATIONS AS CHANG, IMPERIALIST PUPPET, ADVANCES ON SIBERIA CALLS FOR DEFENSE OF SOVIET UNION, FIGHT ON THE WAR DANGER, DOWN TOOLS ON AUGUST FIRST Exposes Walker’s Strike-Breaking Government and Its Republican and Social Reformist Allies Weinstone Nominated for Mayor; Wicks, Presi- dent Board of Aldermen: Hall, Comptroller COMMUNIST PARTY MUNICIPAL For Mayor: William W. Weinstone. For President of the Board of Aldermen: H. M For City Comptroller: Otto Hall. For President, Borough of Manhattan: J. Louis Engdah! For President, Borough of Bronx: Juliet Stuart Poyntz. For President, Borough of Brooklyn: Fred Biedenkapp. For President, Borough of Queens: George Powers. For Congress, 21st Congressional District, Richard B. Moore. cia] Election. For Municipal Court, Second Judicia! District, Manhattan: Charles 8. Zimmerman. The full list of candidates for state assembly and board of alder- men will appear in tomorrow's issue. CANDIDATES Wicks. Spe- War against imperialist war, defense of the Soviet Union, oa struggle against the Tammany rule of brutal terrorism n strikes, and relentless battle against social reformists, rotten aousing conditions in the workers’ sections, graft and union smashing, a program of organization for Workers and militant slass struggle of the workers against the employers were the xeynotes of the all day session yesterday of the Communist Party District 2 (New York) nominating convention. A list of candidates, headed by W. W. Weinstone for mayor, was chosen, and after full discussion, a platform of the class struggle adopted. CALL TO ACTION. The platform is a ringi workers of New York, oppr che Tammany machine and the various “reform” and_ republi- xan officials who get votes be-)ers and the bankers for higher and sause they pretend to expose} higher profits, forcing wages down, Tammany, and then serve| lowering living standards of the ‘aithfully shoulder to shoulder) >? ieee Paes Hest vith Tammany against the} oxploitation cf the vorkers. | proaches a war crisis, The platform exposes along with| form, end the speaker hese “reformers” the reformist so-|t© yesterday’s news of a Pa sig ecoaee: < the ist war plot against the Soviet Phila: accialint. oftiatale of Union in China to prove their point ving unions send their gangsters to| to the hilt. eat up and terrorize members of Anti-War Day. nilitant unions, and militant mem- in past years successively by ibes the scramble of the employ- p- nt call to action, addressed to the | entence of the ‘platform, and de- | al- | ~~ | Seek Reentry | dtaCP. SU, MOSCOW, July 14.—Karl Radek, \Smilga’ and Preobrashensky, three lof the leaders of the expelled Trot- !sky opposition, have issued a state- |ment repudiating Trotskyism and asking to be readmitted to the Com-; munist Party of the Soviet Union. The statement is particularly jsharp in its condemnation of Trot- isky’s anti-Soviet writings in the capitalist press of the world. It jappeals to all members of the il- legal Trotsky organization to fol- How their example, abandon Trot- iskyism and apply for readmission | into the ranks of the revolutionary | vanguard of the working class. Others Abandon Trotskyism. The declaration of the former Trotskyites is accompanied \by telegrams from other leading {members of the underground Trot- |sky group in which they declare their repudiation of Trotskyism and adherence to the principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet} [Union and of the Communist Inter- | | national. | The final repudiation of Trotsky-| ism by three of its outstanding leaders is regarded here as one of the strongest blows dealt the coun-| ter-revolutionary Trotskyist move-| ;ment, marking the beginning of the ifinal stage of its complete disin-| tegration. During the past few months large numbers of the best proletarian elements whe were tem- | (Continued on Page Two) PREPARE FOR BIG GLOAK MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT |Needle Workers Called to Picket Today | | Repudiation of the fake agree- ment between the three cloak em- |ployers’ associations and their com- pany union, the International La- dies’ Garment Workers, is the key-| note of the activities of the Needle |Trades Workers’ Industrial Union| las it mobilizes the workers for aj \determined resistance against this; three |* puppet of the imperia are satisfied with the Nanking and Mukden come involved. This is the si ialist war that threatens the feat of this infamous attack August 31; for the Defense of nist Party, and then getting Don’t put off until tomorrow! The war clouds hang heavy in Manchuria. | Chang Hseuh-liang, the Manchurian war lord | list powers, has made every possible move against the Soviet Union except the actual declaration of war. Hostil- ities are actually in motion with the rushing | of Manchurian and Kolchakist emigres troops to the Soviet border. Washington and London war activities of their lackeys. Washington and London eagerly hope for the early out- break of actual hostilities against the Union of Soviet Re- publics, in which the whole of the imperialist forces can be- ituation in a nutshell. In this crisis, which must startle the working class of the world into action, the Communist Party and the Daily Worker must be steeled for the struggle more than ever. The Communist Party and its central organ, the Daily Worker, must win leadership and direction over increasing masses of workers and poor farmers for struggle against the imper- U.S. S. R., for a crushing de- on the socialist fatherland of world labor, for the victory of the toiling masses of all coun- tries against their oppressors. Every moment is precious. diately bring with it the heavy hand of the censorship, fore- ing the Daily Worker into illegality, cutting off its contact with the working class to a considerable extent. meantime every second must be made to count against the Wall Street bandit imperialism. Complete the raising of the $50,000 fund that will put the Daily Worker back to six pages, strengthen it for tre- mendous efforts today, enable it to carry on a really effec- tive campaign for International Day Against War, August First; for the Trade Union Unity Conference in Cleveland, War's outbreak will imme- In the heavily the Soviet Union and the cele- bration of its Twelfth Anniversary, November 7th. Strike a blow today against the imperialist war by giv- ing your limit to the Daily Worker, by building the Commu- others also to go into action. Tomorrow may be too late! ‘new open sell-out of their interests. Against this war menace, certain vers of their own unions for daring o struggle for better conditions and vages, “The Communist Party of the U. S. A. enters the New York City and state elections on a platform to find Wall Street America lead-} Today all cloakmakers and all ing American workers {o slaughter |other members of the Industrial if it goes a step further, the Com- {Union are being called to the picket | munist Party calls workers not only jline. They are to report at 7 a. to vote against the system, but to/m. at the union headquarters, 131 down teols August 1, Anti-Imperial- |W. 28th St. of class struggle,” states the first (Continued on Page Three) DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION! DOWN TOOLS AUGUST FIRST! THE ANSWER TO THE IMPERIALIST PUPPETS OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH IMPERIALISM THAT ARE PROVOKING WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION MUST | BE GIVEN AT ONCE BY THE BROAD TOILING MASSES ~ OF THE COUNTRY. The assault upon the Russian Chinese Eastern Railway followed by the movement of troops in Manchuria against the Soviet Union means that the actual beginning of an imperialist attack on the Soviet Union is in sight. The imperialists are eagerly seeking the moment and the pretext to invade the socialist fatherland and crush the . proletarian revolution. Militant workers, revolutionists, must now do their duty. The moment for preparedness to-fight against the war danger is here. Into the shops and trade unions. Prepare the mobilization of the international working class on August the First. 8 Organize anti-war committees in the shops. Arouse your fellow-workers in the trade unions. Spread the word, raise the banner. Down tools on August the First. In New York City all wheels of industry must stop at four o’clock and the workers must parade down to Union Square in a great anti-war demonstration. There is no time to be lost. Communists, revolutionary workers, speed up the work for a great mobilization on August the First. Take your place at once for the defense of the Soviet Union. Stay the hand of the imperialist lackeys. Send delegates to the Anti-War City Conference, July 5, from all shops, trade wnions and labor organizations. Big Meeting Tomorrow. | | Simultaneous with the intensifica- tion of picketing activities, prepara-| [tions are also being made on a large scale for the huge mass meet- | ing in St. Nicholas Rink (Lincoln Arena) tomorrow night at 6 o'clock, | iwhich has been called by the Rank| jand File Action Committee of 25.| |" (Continued on Page Three) | ————— | Break Up Spy Clique; |Operating In U.S.S. R. Platinum Organization | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Juiy 14.— Moscow papers carry the report of D. Y. Odintzoff, member of the board of directors of the Soviet gold and platinum organization, telling of | the discovery of a ring of counter- | revolutionists who had_ penetrated | the administration of the platinum mines and were working with capi- talists abroad to cause expense to the state mines, The plot was headed by the min- ing engineer Palchinsky and was or- ganized in 1922 or 1923, It oper ated by sabotage to cause floods in the mines, by installing worthless machinery, by extravagance, and its foreign members juggled the mar- ket to make high prices at the be- ginning of the summer, when the | Soviet work was laid out, and low) prices in the fall, when the platinum | was to be sold. The counter-revolu- tionary clique was tracked down by the state political organization and j its members convicted. Build shop committees and draw the more militant members into the Communist Party. “The only thing worth while, the Social Revolution, is put within our! reach—let nothing stand in the way.” This is the trumpet-throated ral- lying call of a Canadian comrade, L. Fillmore of Vancouver, who sees in the growing militancy of the workers, north and south, the strengthening of their revolution- ary leader, the Communist Party in the direction given by the Comintern Address; and the head- long plunge of the imperialist pow-| EMERGENCY FUND RALLY WORKERS Point Out That Dying Chief of Police Admitted Fault ‘Own Lights at Meeting Electric Co. Sabotage Fails at Bessemer GASTONIA, Cc. July 14—A series of great mass meetings con- jtinues to rally the workers of t vicinity to the defense of their fellow workers being framed for murder and assault, and to the need of carrying on the National Textile Workers’ Union organization and making it a power not only for ob- taining better wages and conditions, but to release the men and women in. jail. A huge mass meeting of mill workers from all over Gaston Coun- ty took place in the tent colony just outside of Gastonia yesterday. Hugo Oehler, Alfred Wagenknecht, Wal- ter Trumbull, and Dewey Martin spoke on union organization, and the need of defense and relief or- ganization. They were well ap- plauded,. and many new members ‘enlisted in the National Textile Workers’ Union, the Workers In- ternational Relief, and the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Over a thousand were in at- tendance at the meeting near Gas- tonia, and came from 25 different mills. The bosses “committee of one hundred” gangsters came out, but seeing the size of the crowd, beat a hasty retreat. Edgar Garran, a striker’s boy, was run out of town by the police for velling the Daily Worker and the Labo Defender. His 500 copies of each paper were confiscated by the police. Hugo Oehler, speaking for the N. T. W. U., stated: “Our forces are now rapidly in- creasing in number and strength. We are here to build a union as the best defense of the ‘prisoners and as the only means of effecti fighting against the stretch-out sj tem and for bettering the conditions of the w rs. union is going forward at full force.” * to further the imperialist war on the Soviet U The work of the} ens Municipal Campaign With Slogan “Class Against Class” Radek,Smilga Build the Daily Worker, the Communist Party and the Struggle Against War | GASTONIA MASS MEETINGS WHITE GUARD RUSSIANS, MANCHU MERCENARIES, | Moscow Government Sends Envoy to Harbin by Plane Asking Reply to Three-Day Declaration | Telegraph Agency of USSR Breaks Thru News | Blockade; First Story of Imperialist War Plot | While the capitalist press of the world was doing its part ion, represent- ing as a “suppressing of the plets of the Reds” the action of the Manchurian government of Chang Hsueh-liang in arrest- jing scores of Soviet Union officials on the Chinese Eastern | Railway (haif of which has been owned by the U.S. S. R.), and talking loudly about “Russian attacks on China,” a news blockade was thrown around Manchuria, and the exact situa- |tion was kept hidden from the outside world. | The Tass (Soviet Union Telegraph Agency) has just 1 w broken through this censorship, and published the facts, w’ ch jare printed below, and which indicate a well formulated pian \for an invasion of Siberia by the troops of the government of Manchuria, at the insistence of the imperialist powers, and the provocation of a war if possible, which can give an excuse for fa concerted attack by all imperialist nations against the U.S. S. R. After the Tass exposure, the news of troop move- ments in Manchuria was confirmed by Tokio dispatches, re- layed from Harbin. | The actual beginning of an. imperialist attack on Soviet Union appears to be in sight. It is apparently planned to be started by the colonial troops of the imperialist hireling, the Manchurian despot Chang Hsueh-liang. It takes place during a smoke screen of pacifist gestures by Secretary of State Stimson, Premier MacDonald, and others. Against such war- like and aggressive actions of the capitalist powers, the work- ers of the world are protesting with demonstrations on August 1, “Anti-War Day.” | * * . MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 14——The Soviet Union Tele- graph Agency (Tass) has broken through the censorship thrown around events in Manchuria by the imperialist hire- ‘ling there, Chang Hsueh-liang, with the fact that the Man- churian mercenary army, murderers of thousands of workers, is mobilized along the Siberian frontier, and that the shock troops of this army of provocation and invasion are the units made up of White Guard (Kolchakist emigres) Russians. Many of these white guards" ai U. §, 8. R. consulates in Man- are the murderous reaction- churia are occupied and garrisoned \aries who ruled in Siberia dur- by Chang’s troops. The Soviet ers toward a new world conflict Gastonia Labor Defender. with the destruction of the Soviet} At the meeting were distributed Union as the goal of their bloody copies of the first issue of the new ambitions, a conflict which the weekly publication, the Gastonia workers and farmers will turn into|{abor Defender. The leading ar- a civil war against the imperialists iicle is entitled, “Defend the Or- —this rank and file worker realizes | ganizers and Members of the Na- that in the next few years “real tional Textile Workers’ Union Whom | working class history will be made.” the Manville-Jenckes Co. and Its One shadow hovers over the hori- Agents Are Trying To Send To The zon and threatens to darken and flectrie Chair and To Long Prison hold back the dawn of the new era|Terms,” and makes a special point the first gleams of which are al-|of the fact that when Chief of Po- (Continued on Page Two) | Change of Venue in Mill Strike Frame-Up Desired CHARLOTTE, N. C., July 14.— “To hold the trial of the Gastonia cotton mill strikers and organizers being framed for murder in Gaston county would be outrageous,” de-| clared Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, today. “All the machinery of government in Gastonia is in the hands of the mill barons,” she said. “Mayor Denny, of Gastonia, is himself a cotton mill lawyer, and a member of the prosecution counsel. The local American Legion Post is commanded by Major Dolley, an- other member of the prosecution’s group of attorneys. Police, Gunmen Co-operate “The police force is at the entire disposal of the mill companies and the private band of local fascisti of these companies is under orders from Major Bulwinkle; it is always ready to aid the police in putting down strikers or acting against the workers, “Major Bulwinkle seems to regard himself as the uncrowned king of the town He is the leader of their band of Vigilantis, known as the (Continued on Page Two) HOLD PRACTICE comet eannemy FOR NEXT WAR at any time during the day, patrol- | ling up and down the streets of Gas- | tonia, near the city hall, presumably | to maintain ‘law and order.’ Workers Defy Terror. “Sentiment among the people of Gastonia is all on the side of the! strike. This is true of the thou- sands of workers in dozens of mills in Gastonia, in spite of the terror- Sham Battles Reveal Anti-Soviet Plans CAMP DIX, N. J., July 14.—The largest number of general officers isince the armistice was signed is |now here, directing the operations ism and intimidation that is used to |of the “Blue” batge se an ite ahi prevent their showing their sym-|battles with the “Red” army, an pathy. It is also true of the farmers |i™Portant part in the intensifie preparations for the coming imper- small business men of Gastonia who alist war. It is significant that the realize that higher wagex and better invaders are always Ealed the “Red conditions and higher standards of @¢™Y: indicating quite unmistakably living for the workers will help|that it is war against the Soviet them, too. | Union that the imperialists are “Great hullabaloo was raised by Planning. the city hall crowd, and the Man.-J.|, Major General Hanson Ely, committee of 100 at beginning of torious militarist and big army and this affair with aid of the Gastonia (Continued on Page Three) Gazette attempted to make the im- aE BES TST pression that the community was! 1 DEAD IN KANSAS FLOODS against the strikers. This bluff has| TOPEKA, Kansas, July. 14— collapsed miserably. Every one in| Floods swept down the valleys of Gastonia realizes today that senti- | Central and Southern Kansas today, in the vicinity. It is true too of no- (Continued on Page Three) one life, |lice Aderholt knew that he was) | Article 1—The Frame-Up System ment is overwhelmingly on the side | claiming heavy property losses and | ing Kolchak’s regime, and they are thirsting for a chance to return to their exploitation and an orgy of revenge for their decisive defeats by the Red Army during the civil wars. The Chinese E rn Railway and | | Union employees on this road, which belongs half to the U. S. S. R. and half to China, and was protected by solemn treaties with the present Chinese government, are either still held in Chang’s jails, or are deported across the Siberian frontier. The (Continued cn Page Two) LABOR MUST ACT QUICK The Gastonia case, in which mill owners are trying to electrocute 15 stri the Manville-Jencle and s Co. and other rganizers and place eight. more in prison for long terms, is a classical American frame-up, To show that it embodies all of the features of previous frame-up cases, through which the American ruling class has de- veloped an art and science of legalized murder, the present series of articles is written. The first, b low, emphas one feature that runs through them all, the supreme importance to the workers of realizing a frame-up is in process, and using their might immedi- ately. Other articles will show the development of the frame-up system, and will pt out the resemblance between various histor= * By VERN SMITH. The frame-up is invariably rected against successful union or: ganizers and strike leaders the bosses have not been able to buy or j intimidate. It always comes after a strike or series of str‘ in which the employers have either been de: feated or have suffered heavy lo: |The Gastonia frame-up is attempte \at the height of a wave of Souther’ textile strikes, and flows directly di tonia. The Haymarket trial, 1886. 87, came during the eight-hour di strike. The Homestead strike, 18: resulted in a frame-up trial. The Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone trial, | 1907, grew out of a series of meta! | mine struggles which welded the Western Federation of Miners into a fighting machine. The Ettor-Gio- vanitti and Caruso trial, 1912, came from the Loray mill strike at Gas- | ical cases and the Gastonia frame-up. a Jafter the his and the arre leaders there. ic Lawrence strike, Ford and Suhr were framed after the shooting at the Wheatland Hop Fields strike meet- ing, 1913; Masonovitch, Georgoro- vitch, Orlanditch, Schmidt, Scarlett and Tri went on trial in 1916 for the killing of a deputy during the Mesaba range strike. Mooney and Billings were well-known strike leaders, and Mooney was arrested as he was organizing the struggle of the San Francisco carmen, 1916, The Averett massacre, 1916, resulted in mass indictment, a trial and at- tempted frame-up, in the midst of |a cyclone of Wobbly lumber strikes. |The Centralia case was a deliberate attempt by the lumber trust to break down the renewed I. W. W, lorganization which had in 1916 a’, (Continued on Page Three) ~ 80 ee