The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1929, Page 1

Ni | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the el ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of March « 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Yol. VI., No. 111 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 16, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION BATES: In New Outside New York. b: . by mail, $8.00 per year. 6.00 per year. MANCHURIAN MILITARISTS MOBILIZE HUGE ARMY AS. WORKERS OF HARBIN CALL FOR ANTI-WAR STRIKE ‘National Texitle Union Tn- State Conference ai Bessemer City GLOAKMAKERS TO ORGANIZE STRUGGLE AGAINST SELLOUT AT BIG MASS MEET TONIGHT “Ignore Treacherous Settlement; Not a Cent to Company Union” I, L. G. W. Tries to Squeeze More Cash Out of Cloakmakers; Dressmakers Meet Thursday “Ignore the treacherous settlement; continue to fight for | a real union and union conditions under the leadership of the Industrial Union.” This will be the keynote of the huge mass meeting in St. Nicholas Rink (Lincoln Arena), 69 W. 66 St., at 6 o'clock | NEGRO LAUNDRY SLAVES ILL PAID IN BROWNSVILLE Ready for Militant Union Conditions in the laundries of the Negro section of Brooklyn, Browns- | ville, are so intolerable that hun- dreds of the laundry workers are ready to join a militant union. Long hours and low wages char- acterize every laundry in the Brownsville section. A typical slave pen is the Independent Laundry, Herzl and Livonia Streets, where conditions are unsanitary, wages miserable, and the workers contin- ually mistreated by the foremen and bosses. Of the 90 girls and 35 men work- ing here,’ the girls receive $11 to $13 a week for night work, that is, 45 hours. Boys of 12 and girls from 13 up are often forced to work during the night. A dgmand by the owners for a larger output of 820 shirts has been made, when the utmost that is hu- manly possible is 117, A girl who was a witness when the boss brutally kicked a worker, was fired. On July 30 the foremen of the laundry insulted and beat Negro girls in the laundry. A worker desiring to leave the job is) often brutally beaten up. Another hell hole for the work-| ers is the Bristol Laundry in the | « same section. The speed-up is) (Continued on Page Three) GARY’S DEA ARTICLE Il. THE HAYMARKET MARTYRS. By VERN SMITH. A strike wave swept thyough the southern textile industry in the Spring and Summer of 1929: Gas- tonia, Bessemer, Ware Shoals, Mills | Mills, Lexington, Elizabethton, and many other places have witnessed uprisings of the exploited workers, spontaneous outbreaks usually, but ~the most energetic the strikes led by the National Textile Workers Union, a militant organization. Forty-three years ago, there was a similar strike wave, in other in- dustries. In 1886 there were rail- | road strikes; one tied up the whole Gould lines, There was a miners’ strike; the Connellsville region went | out solid, and the bosses evicted miners by, wholesale, throwing them out of their houses and throwing their belongings into the streets, even as the Gastonia textile bosses evicted the textile strikers. The strike movement of 1886 cul- minated in the eight hour day strike |Upholsterers Strike 100 Per Cent Against Brooklyn Scab Shop) Forty-one workers of the National | Parlor Suite Company, 67 Ashland | Pl, Brooklyn, responded 190 per ‘cent to the strike call issued yes- terday by Local 76 of the Uphol- sterers International Union in pro- test against the opening of another “National Parlor” shop, operating on scab conditions in the same build- ing, under the name of Stein and Company. The strike call was joined immediately by the 15 work- ers of the scab shop, and picketing began immediately, The strikers demand organization of the Stein shop and its operation, with the already organized National Parlor Suites shop, under the latter name. demands also include equal di ion of work, closed shop, the forty-hour week and union rec- | ognition. WORKER PROTEST is Call to Workers *tonight where thousands of ‘cloakmakers will demonstrate their determination to strug- gle against the new fake settlement that the “socialist” betrayers of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Company Union, in collabora- tion with the employers and Tam- many Hall, are seeking to impose on them. Called By Rank and File Body. Called by the Rank and File Ac- tion Committee of 25, this all-im- portant meeting is expected to open ‘a new chapter in the struggles of | the bitterly exploited, shamelessly | betrayed cloakmakers. All the de- tails of the employer-Tammany-|7() Organizations Send company union fraud will be ex- Delegates in Chicago plained to the workers and plans| made to defeat the agents of the bosses in their conspiracy to shackle} A storm of protest against the the cloakmakers for another three jardin frame-up at Gastonia, N. years under even more unbearable| ©: of the 15 members of the Na- | conditions, tional Textile Workers Union is ing from the rank and file of the | Among the speakers will be alt | si : the leaders of the Industrial Union | American working class, reports be ing received by the national office =a Hyman, Ben Gold, 4: Bow) cetue thteniational Labor Uiefanke, uchowitz, Rose Wortis, Irving Po-| tash—as well as a number of rank|*° E. 11th St, show, and file: | It involves shop meetings in fac- “Ratify” Fake Pact. n 2 Yesterday the I. L. G. W. chiefs|¢ts’ conferences, work in textile had their fake agreement with the| centers to save the strikers; thou- bosses (which was secretly arranged | sands are flocking to the meetings weeks in advance) “ratified” by the | being held on the tours of the strik- workers! The vote was, as usual,|¢rs, Mother Bloor and others. “overwhclming.” Thousands and Conferences in Big Cities. thousands of cloakmakers—in fac’ Conferences have been heM in more than there are in the entir hicago, Boston, Lawrence, Pea- industry—“voted approval” to the! body, New Bedford, where intense machinations of the “socialist” | preparation is being made to build Schlesinger-Dubinsky clique. Today; the I. L. D. membership to 100,000 they are being sent back to work| by the end of the Gastonia trial, to like sheep to the slaughter (so the| fight for the right of workers to company, union gang thinks). But| form unions in the South to fight first they must have working cards| the terrific rationalization, and for from the “union,” and that’s not s0| their right to defend themselves RISES AGAINST: MILL FRAME-UP. | tories throughout the land, work- | easy ss it sounds. To celebrate the “glorious victory” the workers are being asked (in plain language— (Continued on Page Three) DLY RULING of May 1, and by the Fourth of May 50,000 were out in Chicago, alone. Chicago was the center of that movement, as Gastonia is the center of the present strike movement. The police of Chicago led by Cap- tain Bonfield, chief inspector, brutally clubbed and on occasion fired on the workers—just as the police of Gastonia clubbed, bayonetted, choked and on occasion fired volleys at the workers. |. Great protest meetings were held in Chicago against police brutality. On May 3, a meeting of 16,000 lum- ber shovers held before the McCor- jmick Harvester Co. works (they ‘called, it “reaper works” in those days) was fired on by Pinkerton de- tectives hired by the company, as Gastonia strikers were several times fired on by deputies hired by the Manville-Jenckes Co. On May 4, a mass meeting of pro- test against police brutality was (Continued on Page Three) — from murderous attacks of the boss controlled police and thugs. Mother Bloor is now touring the Middle West for the International Labor Defense; Clarence Miller, one of the eight charged with assault with intent to kill at Gastonia, is also touring, and Otto Hall, the Ne- (Continued on Page Two) DRILL SOLDIERS FOR COMING WAR War arse Stir Anti- Soviet Sentiment BORDENTOWN, N. J., July 15.— “The ultimate object of the Blue Army is to destroy the Reds, or drive them back to the coast,” de- clares instructions circulated in United States Army camp today, where under the command of the re- nowned imperiflist Hanson E. Ely, Blue troops will defend New York and Philadelphia from attacking enemy Reds. The games, important in the United States preparations for im- perialist war against the Soviet (Continued on Page Three) Our News Service Breaks \Through Censorship and The first move on the part of the im- perialist agents and their mercenary native and Russian white-guardist emigre forces, when they bega> their drive against the Se- viet Union on the Chinese Eastern Railway, was to establish what they thought would be an impenetrable censorship. The imperialist powers in their efforts to steal the railway and to incite a war against the workers’ and peasants’ government tried to shut off all news except that manufactured by their own lie factories. That was part of their conspiracy against the Soviet Union. They wanted to convince workers who had defended the Soviet Union that the Soviets were the aggressors. It was a weapon from their agitation and propaganda arsenal. But the imperialist conspirac} failed. The TASS news agency, furnishing news cable dispatches to.the DAILY / WORKER broke through ‘the censorship and sent to the | world the first authentic story of the actual happenings, de- scribed the mobilization of armed forces on the Soviet fron- tier in Manchuria. The military movements had taken place days before the arrests and deportations of Soviet officials and workers. Our news agency proved that the conspiracy had been under consideration for a long time. It exposed the lies of the reptile press. Comrades! In this hour of imminent danger of a world war, of a war against the Soviet Union, do you want the one paper that publishes the full, unabridged TASS reports to be forced to suspend? Do you realize what a blow that would be to the working class of the whole world? It would mean the crippling of one of the important parts of the Commu- nist machine for fighting against the war danger! FOOD AND STEEL WORKERS HELP DAILY. Many workers realize that the suspension of the DAILY would be a major calamity for the working class and have | contributed to the Emergency Fund. The nucleus of one of the Ford plants of Detroit sent in $60.00 yesterday and prom- ised more soon. A nucleus in a steel mill at Canton, Ohio, sent in $24.00 and promised to raise $500.00 for the drive to save the Daily Worker. These are the high lights of yes- terday. These workers in basic industries know what a pow- erful weapon in their struggles our Daily is even in its weak- ened condition. They have done their best that the Daily might live. Other workers can do the same. But not all our readers have responded as well. Many have not yet done their part. For instance the total income yesterday, in spite of the aid from the Ford shop and the steel mill, was only $448.00, which is less than half our normal needs. This means that we are not as well off today as we were yester- day. It means that the paper is in greater danger today. With the sharpening international situation and the in- tense drive for rationalization in the United States, produc- ing increasing resistance on the part of the working class, the Daily must play an ever-increasing role. If it can be kept alive over this period it stands a good chance of continued existence. But today funds are needed as seldom before and unless they are forthcoming the Daily cannot live. Rush funds at once to THE DAILY WORKER, 26 Union Square, New York City. INCOME FALLS TO TO $400 Crisis of Daily Is Growing ‘More Acute. Instead of the $1,000 required to| turn to six pages; it will not pub-) day’s mail brought just $448.90.| proletarian book of Henri Bar- /Bills continue to pile up while the| busses it will not remain in the response to the emergency campaign | fight against the Gastonia murder steadily declines. Workers, at this|frame-up, the fight against the war rate your spokesman will not re- (Continued on Page Two) bring the Daily Worker out, the|lish “I saw It Myself,” the great| WILL BUILD NEW GENTER IN SOUTH) Exposes Manchuria Plot Of MILL WORKERS | cnr cuties Weeanication Goes On Rapidly; Workers | Flock to Offices Big Meetings at Mills'| Organizers Conference | | at Gastonia Today (Special to the Daily Worker). | GASTONIA, N. C., July 15.—A} great conference of southern textile workers has been called by the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. It | will assemble July 28, the day before the Gastonia trial, at Bessemer City, near here. There will be represen-j| tatives from the principal mills of} this section and from South Carolina| ‘and Tennessee. | The conference will lay plans for intensifying the drive to unionize the textile workers of the South, under the banner of the Natiohal Textile Workers Union, and will mobilize all | organized strength back of the In-| ternational Labor Defense, which is defending the 23 Gastonia strikers and organizers being framed on mur- der and assault charges. Contact With 90 Mills. Prospects for strengthening the union are very favorable. During the last week activity has speeded up.| The union now has connections in 90| mills. These will be extended and} organized into a southern district to| |direct organization in that territory. | Today at the Gastonia tent colony auto loads of mill workers (75 autos in all) from all parts of Gaston County and some from South Caro- lina were arriving all day long. Meetings were held at the Rex Mill in Gastonia, and at Bessemer City, attended by 400 workers each, yesterday. | | New Local. Oehler, Murdock, and Wells, union organizers, arrived in the morning to visit the prisoners. A meeting yesterday afternoon at Leeksville mill at Homestead, near Charlotte where the workers are very actively organizing a strong local of the N. T. W., was well attended. A conference of organizers and active members of the union will be held tomorrow at Gastonia to re- double the efforts to build the union there, and to fight for the release of the prisoners gnd against the sttetch-out system. Oehler, Murdock and local officials will be there. A preacher approached the owner of the lot where the raid was made, and asked to rent it. The owner told him it was already rented to |the National Textile Workers Union. |It is suspected the man was sent to |try and get the ground away from \the N. T, W. An organization called The Patri- |otic Sons of America met in confer- lence near Shelby, N. C., a few days |ago. Attorney Cherry of the mill | owners’ prosecution in the Gastonia |case made an attack on the “danger- ous textile workers in jail at Gas- (eae and calling on the members to “defend the freedom they won at the battle of Kings Mountain.” A strike sympathizer from Gas- tonia answered him, saying that the dangers came from the mill owners jand their gunmen, and that the tex- tile workers didn’t get any of that {freedom won at Kings Mountain. | Over half the audience joined in ap- plauding this answer. 700 INSURGENTS SLAIN. JERUSALEM, July 15.—Over 700 Wahabi insurgents have been slaughtered by King Saud, bloody dictator of Nejd and Hedjaz, who announces that he has definitely put WAVE OF DENUNCIATION OVER OUTRAGE SWEEPS USSR CITIES, VILLAGES Hastily Confers with Cabinet On Nanking Answer to Soviet Union |MacDonald Turns to Imperialist League of Nations for Action; Demonstrate Aug. First! BULLETIN SHANGHAI, July 15.—The Tachung, semi-official news agency, today quoted Sun Fo, Minister of Railways in the Chiang Kai-shek government as saying that the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway was made on authority from Nanking, and that “the railways ministry is now preparing to take over the disputed railway and reorganize its adminis- tration.” Sac Te (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., July 15.—The Chinese situation is very strained. Four divisions of Chang Hsueh-liang’s troops have arrived at Harbin. They include two cavalry regiments. Two armored trains have been sent to the Soviet Unien border from the interior of Manchuria. Detachments of Hsueh-liang continue to concentrate on the U.S.S.R. border, preparatory to a raid into Siberia. Immediately prior to the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway by Chang’s men, the consul of the Chiang Kai-shek government at Chita, Siberia, handed over to the Soviet au- thorities a note demanding the dissolution of the local organi- zation of the Communist Party. Harbin Unions Call Strike. the they This insolence caused a storm of indignation by workers in Chita, and other Siberian cities as soon as heard of it. The Communist Party organization and the labor unions in Harbin in spite of the terror of the Chang government, and the prohibition of meetings, are appealing for a general strike there. Enormous workers demonstrations continue before the “ inese consulates in Moscow, Leningrad, Odessa, Charkov, and many other cities of the Soviet Union, the demonstrators always demanding that the brutal Chiang Kai- shek and Chang Hseuh-liang governments be made to under- stand that the peaceful policy of the Soviet government is not based on weakness, but on strength, and that strong measures must be taken if the persecution and threatened invasion develops any further. baie ater Chinese Students Protest. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., July 15.—‘We don’t want war, but we are ready to leave the machines and take up arms in de- | fense of the proletarian fatherland,” was the theme of thou- sands of speeches, resolutions and editorials in the U.S.S.R. today, as the anti-Chinese militarist demonstrations. con- tinued. Despite intermittent rains, hundreds of thousands of working men and women marched from tle factories through the streets, carrying banners and singing revolutionary songs. Several hundred Chinese students from the Chinese Sun Yat Sen University were in the parade, wearing Red Army uniforms and carrying banners which said “Down with the imperialists and their Chinese hirelings.” * # 8 CHIANG KAI-SHEK CONFERS. SHANGHAI, China, July 15.—It is reported here that President Chiang Kai-shek is nearing Nanking from Peking, where he has been for several days. He will hold a meeting of his advisers to decide on the Manchurian situation. There is every indication that Foreign Minister C. T. Wang will be given the right to begin negotiations with the U. S. S. R. It has been officially denied in Harbin by the Chang gov- ernment that the Chinese Eastern Railroad is being per- manently held. The tactics of the Chinese militarists seem to be to delay down the latest in a series of re- volts against his tyrannical rule. decision, and try to get the road in running order. It stopped (Continued on Page Two) | New York Workers to Protest Friday Against Attack of Imperialists on the U.S.S.R. As a stirring prelude to the gigantic demonstration against im- perialist war which is to be held in Union Square on International Red Day, August 1, the New York District of the Communist Party has arranged to stage outdoor mass meetings throughout the city on the evening of Friday, July 19, for the purpose of rallying the workers to concerted protest against the recent Wall Street-instigated seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway by Manchurian puppet imperialists and , ee jailing of Mindsede of Soviet oftictala and workers, “This provocative act is a flagrant attempt of the imperialists to lead the counter-revolutionary Nanking government into war against the First Workers’ Republic, so that Wall Street can drive in its hired hordes in a desperate effort to destroy the Soviet Union, which stands as a menace to the entire capitalist system,” said Sam Darcy, director of the Anti-Imperialist War Day Activities Committee which is pre- paring the ground for the great August 1st demonstration. “It makes the dangef of a united imperialist attack on the U. S. 8. R. more im- mediate than ever,” SEVEN MASS MEETINGS. There will be seven separate mass meetings to challenge this high- handed attack on the fatherland of the world’s workers, District 2 of the Communist Party announces, with thé possibility that others may be called later. Well known working class speakers, including the nominees of the Communist Party selected at the City Nominating Convention Sunday, will address the demonstrators Friday night. Among those scheduled to speak are William W. Weinstone, H. M. ied 4 Wicks, Otto Hall, J, Louis Engdah), Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Fred | kapp, George Powers, William Z. Foster, Charles Zimmerman, Max Bedacht, Ben Lifshitz, George Pershing, Richard B, Moore, Rebecca Grecht, Sam Darcy, Ben Gold, Jack Stachel, M. J. Olgin, Harold Williams and Abraham Markoff. The meetings are called for 8 o'clock at the following points: 10th Street and Second Ave.; 110th Street and Fifth Ave.; Intervale and Wilkins Ave., Bronx; Grand Street Extension, Brooklyn; Stone and Pitkin Aves., Brooklyn; 13th Ave. and 43rd St., Brooklyn; Sipinway (Continued on Page Two) , re i fae