The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the ‘Against Imper For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized ialist War Baily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Yo. orker under the act of March 3 Vol. VI. Penilands daily osees _Com Inc. 26-28 day by The Comprodaily Publishing jaare, New York N.Y. CHINESE WAR LORD Extend Union Organization ROACH, GILBERT 'IN GRAND JURY OVER GUN PLAY Manville-Jenckes Tells Its Gunmen to be More Brutal Another LL. LD. Lawyer Workers Reject Loray Mill Owners’ Bribe BULLETIN. ‘Gastonia Defense M Meet Will Be Attended By Worker Body Delegates Many working class organizations are now electing delegates for the| hig city-wide conference for the de- | fense of the Gastonia frame-up vic- | tims, to be held in Irving Plaza, 15th| St. and Irving Place, Friday evening, | July 26, at 8 o'clock, The confer- | ence has been called by the New York District of the International Labor Defense. A number of organizations have} | already - ont in their credentials and all othefs are urged to send veal in as quick!y as possible to the New York office of the I. Broadway, Room 422, government of work; L.* D; 799 | rest, In New York FINAL CITY EDITION 7 mail, $5.00 per year _by_mall. $0.00 per year. Price 3 Cents IN NEW PROVOCATION ONUSSR Workers of America! Defend the Soviet Union! The imperialists of the world forging an iron ring of military powers around the Soviet Union are now moving. definitely toward war against the and peasants. cations, the stealing of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the ar- imprisonment, deportations of Soviet managers and | workers, the massing of tens of thousands of troops on the Manchurian border, are part. of the imperialist drive that is now launched to destroy the revolution in the domain of the former czars and let loose a reign of terror and mass mur- at have for years been The insolent provo- ilized the solidarity of the lutionary risings are gainin: provinces. Stand By the Workers and Peasants of the USSR Against Imperialist War Provocations! | Prepare for the Anti-War Strikes and Demonstrations on August First! | churian border are the result of the world-wide front of the capitalist powers against the Soviet Union. Against the unity of the capitalist cla: is being mob- In the Soviet working class. Union the masses are rising as one man to hurl back the mercenary hordes of imperialist invaders. In China the revo- 'g momentum in In Berlin, Paris, London, a half dozen | The impoverished and tortured workers and peas- ants are rising against the monstrous despotism of the im- as Defense in Gastonia Frame- up CHINESE LABOR REVOLTS AGAINS’ .ULER: WHO ARE TOOLS JF IME 2RTALISTS Nanking’s Cable is Another Crude Provocation; | Full of Extreme Imperialist Propaganda Workers Flood Soviet Gov’t. Offices with Promises of Support; German Demonstrations BULLETIN, The Associated Press in a Moscow story states that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has severed dipiomatic re- poze with the Chinese government. e: 8 8 TAMMANY HALL FXPOSED BY C.P. MAYCR NOMINEE. Exposes Roosev elt and Walker in Fakery BOTS UGE LOU) Cane ga tence: penne ATTACK U. S. 8. R. CUSTOM HOUSE. Stockholm, Copenhagen the masses are mobilizing in defense xe y , : | cyaeeee By Inprecorr.) of the socialist fatherland, the Soviet Union. Here in Amer- | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 17.—Further excesses by the ica t ‘kers will show their solidarity with the revolu- __, i, i Bar on iebschy MS the-world. ‘This conapi acy against the Chang Hsueh-liang eceeeniedl in Manchuria (which is backed 44 " ; | by the Nanking government) are reported. Chang’s police in Soviet Union now sheds a clear light upon the long war the trontice thaw OF Pl sichwiay. saciensfulle: S41 tail preparations of the Wall Street gang and their government SRE AT GSS OU UCU i ee a AON to enter the Soviet consulate. They surrounded the customs at Washington. The fierce drive to consolidate its power in : e page Latin America. was calculated to give American imperialism house late in the evening and also attempted, unsuccessfully, a free hand in other parts of the world. The union-wrecking | to eS i campaign, the Gastonia conspiracy, the increasing treachery orkers’ demonstrations continue throughout the Soviet GASTONIA, N. C., July 17.— The mill owners’ “committee of 100” called a meeting last night st the school house, at which 500 were present. When volunteers were valled for to raid the strik- ers’ tent colony, only 50 re- sponded. So they gave up the plan. temporarily. The United Press correspondent here cuotes a deputy sheriff as telling him that some of the po- der unparalleled in history. The imperialist butchers have instructed their hirelings at the head of the Kuo Min-tang government of China to strike the first blow in Manchuria on the Siberian frontier in the hope of diverting forces of the Red Army from the Fin- nish, Polish and Roumanian border, so tha. turopean reac- tion can strike a blow on the Western front. British forces have been mobilizing for months in India awaiting an op- portune time for a drive northward into the land of the Soviets in Middle Asia.~ lice in the raid, June 7, when the , of the labor officials at the head of the reactionary un Union. A tremendous wave of enthusiasm is_ ris ar The | sheeting took place, were drank William W. Weinstone, candidate In spite of the fundamental imperialist antagonisms be- 2 dl & cart of the wat commitacy. ‘The fight against — Chinese ambassador at Moscow declared to the U. S. S. R. and looking for trouble. ‘There | for mayor of New York City on the te be werd abe. lies tween the two giant powers, the United States and Great Britain, in spite of the conflicts between France and Britain, Italy and France, Italy and Jugo-slavia, Jugo-slavia and Commissariat of Foreign Affairs that, owing to the ‘diftical- st i ire fi he American working class *. 4 f a ne ee 2 | ties of translation, the Nanking answer to the Soviet Union's After rot a person to blame for the of Aderholt,” this deputy “but the mayor. He is an Communist ticket, today issued an expose of the Roosevelt and Walker against the American capitalists. crushing your ef cotton mills and was afraid that the strike would ‘Soe QHARLOTTE, N. C., July 17.— Tho srand jury of Mecklinburg | government and its attempt to make political capital out of the fake stoppage of the Schlesinger com- pany union by pretending to be in- terested in the welfare of the needle trades workers. “G prnor Roosevelt is foilowing | Union. Hungary, Germany and France, all the ruling classes of the capitalist world have found one common platform on which they meet—their implacable hatred and fear of the Soviet The sharpening world situation, the onward march of against the Soviet Union. conspiracy ! | unions, jailing and executing the best leaders of labor, ruling class now moves, if collaboration with other powers, | | Every worker must fight against this latest imperialist this | note was delayed, but he promised an immediate answer. He peinted out that the events on the Chinese Eastern Railway need not interrupt diplomatic relations. AWAIT OFFICIAL ANSWER. The Soviet government has decided to ignore the state- ments of the Nanking ambassador until the official answer of his government arrives. In answer to the permission brought by the ambassador | for the Soviet Chief of Transport Serebriakov to enter China, the Soviet government declares that recent events render Sere- briakov’s journey useless before a satisfactory answer'has been received from the Chinese government. Stand by the workers and peasanis of the Soviet Union! Defend the Soviet Union against the Chinese war lords, | hirelings of world imperialism! Fight the imperialist war danger! Down tools August First! County is today examining witnesses | in the footsteps of Governor Smith’s | nection with bills charging the ; commission that is responsible for ‘oach and Gilbert, a Gas-| putting over reorganization and for | eman, with assault with| beginning the bloody war of de- deadly weapon with intent to kill.| struction of the _ cloakmakers’ | The charges were given the grand union,” Weinstone said. } ry yesterday by Gastonia City| “Governor Roosevelt, Lieutenant Solicitor John Carpenter by order of |Governor Lehman and Mayor Wal. Judge Shaw. | ker are fastening new chains of the forces in the Soviet Union toward the building of so- cialism, the certainty of realizing the five-year plan of in- dustrialization that will tremendously increase the power and influence of the Soviets, have hastened the war con- | spiracies of the imperialist powers. The events on the Man- | The charges are based on_affi- | davits given the International Labor | (Continued en Page Two) i slavery upon the tens of thcusands ee ee <= SECRETARY DAVIS Day’ s ; Pay Assessment GLOAKWORKERS: (Continued o' on Diga Three) N. Y. Workers Join Protest AGREES TO HELP ‘Against Plot to Attack USSR BETRAY CAR MEN That the workers of New York City will add their voices in no uncertain tones to the swelling roar of world working class protest against the imperialist plot to use the mercenary | Manchurian and White Guard tr which to hurl their home fc indicated by reports coming from the Anti-Imperialist War Day Committee yesterday. Thousands of leaflets calling for the defense of the Fatherland of the Workers and urging all militant toilers to stream forth to the city- wide outdoor mass meetings on Fri-| day night are being distributed, the committee announces. These street assemblies, which, RIGHT OF SELFDEFENSE Article 3—Homestead By VERN SMITH. The Homestead steel strike, and the attempted frame-up that fol- lowed it, was an answer in more wavs than one to the Haymarket pros. ution. Inba strike of unexampled mili- Pied the steel workers showed thal they were not intimidated by the execution a few years before of four ‘strikers’ leaders in Chicago And in answer to the theory worked | out by Judge Gary, the corner stone | of the frame-up system, that in, hanging a labor leader, legally, it is | Hasty Effort to Avoid General Strike ‘oops as a flying column behind NEW ORLEANS, La, upon the Soviet Union was the building trades workers of New Orleans and the rank and file of cther unions has at last compelled the building trades council to call will work up mass support for the colossal demonstration to be held in Union Square on International Red Day, August 1, are scheduled | Z for eight widely separated points: another mass meeting tomorrow 10th Street and Second Ave.; 110th| Might, to decide on the question ot Street and Fiith Ave; Intervale|® general strike of 45,000 or 50,000 and Wilkins “Ave. Bronx; Grand| Workers, tying up New Orleans in Street Extension, Brooklyn; Stone | dustry. and Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn; 13th Continued on Page Three) Ithe Amalgamated Association of vioves in subjection and force them to obey the federal strikebreaking injunction of Judge Borah, Presi- dent W. D. McMahon of the union has speeded up his betrayal plans. He announced today that he had | submitted the case to the labor de- judge has ever admitted this prip- | partment in Washington, and that | ciple, but wherever the working! Secretary of Labor Davis had con- | class has sufficiently mobilized the | sented to act as act as arbitor.” » principle has stood. Those “Tractable” Toilers. Homestead in 1892 was already a| PLAN DRESS DRIVE. steel town. The Carnegie Steel Co. | in 1886 (Haymarket year) had| AT MEET TONIGHT bought the Klomans mill, on the banks of the Monongahela. There Tonight the dressmakers will take action against the open shops in were 4,000 workers in its Homestead mills by the year of the strike. They were of the class known fa- vorably to employers (as in Gas- tonia) as “docile.” \their industry. A general member- July 17.—| The nearly unanimous demand of Feeling that he would not be able | to much longer hold the members of | Street and Electric Railway Em- | and Donations Must Be REAP BETRAYAL Made to Continue Work FRUITS IN SHOPS: This doesn’t mean that Party work will stop, but it does mean that it will not be possible to continue the drives that are under way and bring them to a successful conclusion un- less the Party members instantly meet their obligations of the One Day’s Pay assessment and mobilize all the Party sympathizers with whom they are acquainted to collect dona- tions for the Daily Worker. The Party itself is stronger than it has ever been, in the sense that it is participating in and leading more vital campaigns than ever before. As the war clouds grow ever darker, the capitalists and their government, launch more vicious drives against the living and working standards of the working class. But, at the same time, the workers swing | into action and in many places assume the offensive against the employers. In such a situation there are immense possi- bilities for revolutionary activity. But lack of funds seriously | hamper our work. And the danger of suspension of the Daily whicn has threatened us every day for the past few weeks | Our Party is largely judged by the | makes matters worse. non-Party masses by the appearance of the Daily Worker. When we have to cut our edition to four pages, that is taken as a sign of weakness, and our one day’s suspension was viewed by friends and foe alike as the worst blow we had re- ceived in the history of our Party. Industrial Union ae | Growing Revolt The several tho who- were sent back to work I scab International Ladies nt Workers yesterday and Tuesday learned the meaning of their “glori- ous victory” soon enough. In the office of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, many of them told |the story of the abuses and indig- nities that they had been subjected to on their first day. There was a new arrogance in the bosses, a new ‘determination to squeeze everything they could out of the workers. | Already tke discontent is wide- ispread. Those who had any illusions about the agreement signed between |the employers and the company union with the connivance of Tam- imany Hall quickly discovered their | error. As pointed out time and again by the leaders of the Industrial Union, the fake agreement leaves (everything as it was before, re- | | pudiates the 40 hour five-day week, | makes no mention of piece-work, | abandons unemployment insurance (Continued on Page Three) _ ———_____. Unemployed, Report | Center, 11:30 Today) All unemployed comrades} and those able to take time) off from work are to be at| y the The three days given the Chiang Kai-shek government in | which to answer the Soviet Union’s demands expire today. e ee 8 BERLIN DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Germany, July 17.—Last night mass meetings of tens of thousands of workers were held in 20 meeting places 2 protest provocation by the Chinese war lords against the viet Union, and for the support of the Soviet Union. There was a magnificent demonstration, in spite of lack of previous preparation.’ The German press is divided. The Nationalist, fascist, and against the Soviet Union, while the great dailies, the Frank- furter Zeitung, Vossische Zeitung, Berliner, Tageblatt, Koel- nische Zeitung, and Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, agree gen- erally that the attitude of the USSR is conciliatory and her de- mands just. The Koelnische Zeitung writes: “The Soviet note to China represents the greatest pc e political moderation and is unique in diplomatic history. Feit ne” MORE TROOPS MOVE ON MANCHURIA. TOKIO, Japan, July 17.—The Japanese press agency in Manchuria reports 15,000 more troops of the brigand chieftain, Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the late Chang Tso-lin, “Tupan” of Manchuria and practically absolute ruler as long as he takes his orders from foreign imperialism, have been sent to the eastern terminus of the Chinese Eastern Railway, on the bor- der of Siberia. This is part of the four divisions (about 100,000 men) already mobilized along the railway by Chang. Six armored trains constantly patrol the road. They are manned by White Guard Russians, in the pay of Chang. White Guard Russians are along the border opposite Pogranitochaya. | All traffic has ceased from Siberia to Manchuria over this line, and the road is slumping towards bankruptcy, although under fhe S. S. R. administration it was making millions yearly. arses Ve CHINESE WORKERS IN REVOLT. | AMOY, China, July 17.—The Chinese worker and peasant armies have struck another blow at the war lords who rule in Nanking and Mukden, by capturing about half the rich pro- vince of Fukien, in South Eastern China, at the very time the generals who rule by subservience to imperialists attempt to the Workers Center tomor- row at 11:30 a. m., for very | important special tasks. New York District Com- mittee, Communist Party, U.S. a Some time before, Captain Jones, | ship meeting of, all dressmakers is an official of the Edgar Thompson | being called by the Joint Board of Works (owned by Carnegie at the|the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- time of the strike), had said: ‘trial Union for 7 o’clock in Webster “My experience has shown that |Hall, 119 E. 11th St. at which Germans, Ivish, Swedes and ‘buck- | plans will be made for * intensive wheats’ (young American country | organization drive to embrace the (Continued on Page Two) entire industry. not necessary to prove he actually committed an overt act, the Home- | stead defense rested on the grounds that when a strike meeting is at- tacked strikers can fight in self- defense, and, when once the battle is joined, do not necessarily have | to remain on the defensive. No| throw their country intoyan attack on the first workers’ re- public, the Soviet Union. The Red armies, which have never been destroyed in | Fukien, Kiangsi and Kwangtung, in spite of many expedition- ary forces sent against them from Canton, and which also \ (Continued on Page Two) In order to save the Daily from a worse fate the Party members must meet their obligation to the Party and pay the one day’s wage assessment. And then proceed to collect as much as possible from sympathizers until we are through the present crisis. "alee Eee ate 8 ‘Demonstrate! sass=—""S225-=:.. Forward to August First! 10th Street and Second Avenue Grand Street Extension, Brooklyn. 110th Street and 5th Avenue . Stone and Pitkin Avenues, Brooklyn Kote Workers! Your P8h sgn the DOWN TOOLS AT 4 O’CLOCK, THURSDAY, Fatherland of the workers of the world, is | ing the Anti-U.S.S.R. war moves! Defend the . Soviet Union! Join with the workers of the AUGUST FIRST, INTERNATIONAL RED Tomorrow Night at 8 o ‘clock! Demonstrate Against the Attacks on Soviet Union! perialism. _ Organize the workers in your | stops, unions, and neighborhood to join the threatened with war by ; mass demonstrations being held ‘throughout | world to defeat the imperialists! Prepare to , DAY AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR! the city, Raise the banner of struggle against the Wall Street government which is support- the Chinese war ' ‘lords, tools of American and world im- | *