The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1929, Page 2

Page Two hid The strike committee of 50 held if the town of Homestead until July {J 12, when the militia ved. On July 18 a number of strikers were If) rested and charged with murder ] harged with “treason against the e of Pennsylvanis Paxton addressing hat was voting on tments, shouted We can have some sympathy with a mob driven to desperation by hunger, as in the days of the French Reyolution, but we can have none for men receiving steady em- ployment at exceptior wages ef Justice grand ry son inc Homestead Proved Need to Do So (Continued fro in sisting the law and in resorting to violence id bloodshed in the asser- tion of imaginary rights and in en- tailing such a vast expense upon agreement with C rie. Some ¢ e taxpayers of the Common- the men were paid on a tonnage | wealth.” basis, and, for purposes of cslculat-! On the other hand, and directly ing wages, 3 i oppos hear the defense in the placed on thi ase 0: lvester Critchow, the company, 1 striker brought to trial, as a test H.C. ¥: case. Attorney Irwin. stated in from $ c rt “Yes, these workers had a right to shoot, and to shoot to kill even on the very precipice of hell, for they were defending elves against an army of in- A strike co’ ganized, and peaceful, with picketing, refu place his de offering to guard them s, who stood on theiz y, at the very doors of tents, where w: and chil- were huddled, and fought st a squad-of gunmen attack- night! | their Armed Strikebreakers. dren On June 20, whil were still going on, gained with Robert A. head of the Pinkerton Agency, for 300 day per man. They on July 6, sneak into town by the water route, through the picket line and break up m pick In the some charges themselves, indictments against the Carnegie of- | the strikers won They had made securing Homestead court case. ficials and the Pinkertons, and all | cases were dropped by mutual sons ent. | sm: eting. Two barges were | at Ashtabula, armor plated inside. But the real reason the right of and stored with self-defense prevailed in Homestead, und did not at Haymarket and some n. other frame-up trials, was because Cap- | the ers were organized, had reached the world with their side of the sto and a militant and aroused working class stood bac! of them. If we have that situation in the Gastonia trial, the defense can say, here also: “Yes, the strikers shot, vifles and an unlimited s pistols, clubs and ammur Two tugs belonging to a barges up the r The sheriff, V was told by the C egie people he was to deputize these Pinkertons. He always claimed he did not prom- ise to do so, but he sent Deputy Sheriff Gray, with General Super-| they had a right to shoot,” and the intendent Potter of the Carnegie | jury will say, “Not guilty.” Co., to meet the boats and come up Pec uae ee the river with them CORRECTION The strikers had foreseen such a nlot, and had a picket on horseback [wo typographical errors in the article printed yesterday on the stationed down the river. He gal- Haymarket case change the sense loped ahead of the boats, and the strikers’ picket boat at Homestead | intended. Where it reads “Fielden was hanged,” it is meant, “Fisher | gave the warning with its whi By the time the bar; was hanged.” Omitting the word Homestead, one of the tugboats had |“, eniye” in another case makes the implication that there were ten| broken down and the boat named “Little Bill” was towing both | workers placed on the jury. There barges, shmewhat more slowly. | were only ten workers in the whole | The strikers gathered on the| yenire, and the jury was composed hank followed the barges toward the | jargely of business men. nill and shots were exchanged. The ' PLAN S PROCEED iron fence around the mill and gath- Will Be Active in Anti-, cred on the high bank, between the mill and the pier. Gunmen Attack. The Pinkertons shot off another volley and charged up the bank. A steady fire from the pickets drove them back. The battle started at A 4a. m. and lasted to 5 p. m. The War Drive Pinkertons about noon raised 2 white flag, and sent a number of; Plans for the organization of dead and wounded away on the| workers wives, which are featured by a conerete plan for the organ- ization of the Negro working class |women, are rapidly being carried out by the United Council of Work- ing Women. The plans are the outgrowth of the conference ‘of the Council which | was held on June 22, at which 87} jcouncil delegates were present. | Thirty-seven fraternal delegates | worker, Sam Burgett, led a detach-|from various women’s labor organ- | ment of strikers and captured a| izations were also present at this eannon belonging to the river squad. | conference. There was no propet ammunition. The Working Women’s Council has | {t had to be loaded with scrap iron, | pledged its active co-operation to-| and it burst after several shots.| ward making International Red Day | Although there is no evidence that | on Aug. 1 a success, and will bring | the cannon did the armored barge| home to the working women the} much damage, it may have shaken | growing danger of imperialist war. | the nerves of Carnegie’s Pinker-| Other plans were made at the| tons. “Little Bill’; then they made an- cther attempt to attack. The pick- éts had meanwhile built barricades of pig iron and other substantial preducis of their labor made while toiling for Carnegie, at an average wage of 14 cents an hour. The at- tack failed and rifle firing con- tinued. To break the impasse, a Negro They raised the white flare | June 22 conference and the first | | July 29 on murder ch: DAILY WORKER, UNITE IN GREAT | DRIVE IN SOUTH Workers Reject Loray Mill Owners’ Bribe (Continued from Page One) Defense by Pedro Melton, who runs hment stand on the automo- ghway from Gastonia to e, and a visitor at his stand, sle Both of these a tate that about three hour: the shooting in Gastonia, and Gilbert, drunk and dis- orderly, drove Melten into the creek, where Gilbert threw rocks at him, and that Roach menaced him with his gun. They then attacked Hensley and | Roach fired a couple of shots a him. Both officers: were. cursing vilely at Melton and Hensley ecunede te By LISTON OAK. GASTONIA, N. C., July 17.—The i e counsel met yester Asheville office of Judge Ca | ver to make plans for the building of the strongest possible case to re- lease the 15 textile unionists held in the Gaston County jail for trial arges. The International Labor Defense realizes, however, that the strong- est defense is the building of a pow- erful National Textile Workers Union and the TD. We Us isi x doubling its organization activities. Organize to Organize. A conference was held today at vnion headquarters near the tent colony outside of Gastonia. Organ- izer Hugo Oehler and William Mur- | doch conferred with local organizers and active members on launching an organization campaign leading to the July 28 Southern Textile Work- ’ Conference at Bessemer City. ers Strenuous efforts will be made to get large representation from as many mills as time and forces make possible. The meeting at the tent eclony was addressed by Oehler, Murdoch, Wagenknecht of the Work- | ers International Relief, and Dewey Martin. Gray Mill Workers Come. There were delegates from many other mills and an especially large delegation from the Gray mill at Gastonia. The conference was announced and forces were organized to be- gin the campaign. A meeting at Bessemer City the night before last had Wes Williams as chairman, with Oehler and Mur- doch as speakers. The speakers were welcomed by the strikers. A meeting was held last night at the | Rex mill, at Gastonia, with the same speakers and local organizers. Loray Incites Brutality. It is openly stated here that the Loray mill bosses are much dissat isfied with the Committee of One | Hundred thugs and gunmen and are calling them cowards and insisting that they be more aggressive and brutal toward the strikers and union members. The bosses are astonished and alarmed at the rapid growth of the National Textile Workers Union. The Manville-Jenckes Co., which owns the Loray mill, is known to be planning the organization of a “Committee of One Hundred” at its High Shoals mill, where the wor ers are rebelling. This is the re- sult of the increasing discontent of the textile mill workers Try Bribery Four leading strikers in Gastonia were approached by representatives | of the Loray mill management and | hegged to come back to work, at | double wages for themselves, and | told they could have a nice union| inside the mill without“‘outside agi- | tators” interfering . | The strikers answered: | “We have had your kind of com- | pany union before, and it did us no good. Now we want our own union | and we prefer outside agitators to the bosses. You have made prom- again at 5 o’clock and surrendered. | meeting of the new executive com- | ises before, and broken them. You The strike committee formed a/| mittee on July 2 includes the organ- euatd to protect them from the ization of unorganized working relatives of the strikers they had| women into trade unions, and the murdered in their attack. They | education of working class women were kept prisoners in the skating | toward training their children along rink for a time and sent to Pitts-|class lines. This part of the pro- burgh. | gram will include a campaign ex- Seven Pinkertons had been killed| posing such organizations as the and 30 wounded. ‘vounded, as, with the prospect of alimperialist wars. Can Daily Survive? funds vital if our press is to live Respond immediately to the abbeal of the Daily Worker for aid in its present crisis! The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York. After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am sending you the enclosed amount, $ Name Address .. Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without jeiny. Eleven strikers | Boy Scouts as schemes to train the| after being discharged for joining were killed, an unknown number | children to hecome cannon-fodder in| the union. | 8:15. Speakers: Bloomfield. Mar- | would pay us double wages for a week or two and then cut wages | worse than ever before. We are going to keep on fighting until we force you to recognize our union and grant its demands.” Five families at the Arlington | mill have received eviction notices W. T. R. Grows. Gastonia Committee met Monday afternoon for routine work. Its or- ganization is growing rapidly. The Labor Sports Club held a |meeting yesterday afternoon to com- plete the organization of baseball |teams in Gaston and Bessemer. Leon Josephson arrived yesterday | from Trenton, to join the counsel of the defense, engaged by the Inter- national Labor Defense. He issued a statement that OPEN-AIR MEETINGS TODAY. Tenth St. and Second Ave., at koff and Sersokoy. 1321d St. and Lenox Ave., at 8 p. m. Speakers: Donaldson and Glassford. Frances Reil Hardware Factory, at 5 p.m. Speakers: Brody and Harper. MAKE STRIKERS RETURN. Pa. (By Mail).— HAZELTON, Milk wagon drivers here who struck for a wage incre: better hours and union recognition were told to return by union officials pending “continuation of negotiations,” ‘ereate dissension within our ranks. The Workers International Relief | "UNION, DEFENSE Chinese Workers Revolt as EW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929 > tic procession to the Chinese em- War Lords Menace USSR sion with asta Mass Support for Soviet Union From Factory and Village Organizations; Demonstrations (Continued from Page One) hold la b@ province of Hunan, are now approaching Changchow from 3 ves ter | Promises Answer gece ‘ pealed until our typewriter ribbon Unit 8F, Sec. 1, New York.. a seg pe Des. Aa The cable of.the Nanking rulers| The laughter disappeared, and @) and our nerves have been worn to | Unit R2, Sec. 1, New York .. 13.00 fe a 4 ; s. | to Moscow does not answer the note angry but terrified diplomatic | 4 frazzle is not forthcoming at International Unit 5, Sec. 7, smaller cities in their path. To! of the Commissariat of Foreign Af-| official rushed out and fled from| once, it will take a deep-sea diver | Brooklyn, New York .. 9.00 the north of Changchow, al-| fairs of the Union of Socialist Sov-| the building in an official autom=-| {9 locate the paper next week. St. Nucleus 1, Detroit, Mich. 10.00 most to the city limits of the] iet Republics, Tt peal meoisiaes ee ean ere Se aoa iS ih oy Ea a thea a . ‘i an answer, “when translation pees ee ; Init 37, Sec. 1, New York .. $1.00 Uni 2, Chicago, Ill. 15.5 a opplis, neat ENG COUN: |e crpletedi Sadi RtAtaE thag Chu Wite in a veritable torrent from | pnt Tae sles se hie ie Loo Unit n Francisco, Cal. 16.00 yside is in fevolt against the | Ghow.yan, formerly Nanking's en- | Workers’ factory meetings every- | tit oF ‘Sec. 1, New York.. 7.00 Unit 4, Section 4, New York 11.50 milita rulers, adherents of | yey at Moscow, will return thers | Where, and from peasants soviets, | nit 9F, Sec. 1, New York.. 5.00 | Mansfield Unit, Mansfield, 0. 19.00 the Chiang Kai-shek govern-/from Nanking in the near future to |#!! demanding strong measures “to | Grit gF, Sec. 1, New York,. ~19.0¢ | Unit 206, Sec, 2, New Yo 17.00 ment. negotiate the settlement of. the nepieet ne poarae Fehesane |Unit 8D, San Francisco, Cal. 21.00 Unit 6, Sec. 5, New York .. 37.00 When Changchow falls, asi ex- | Manchurian question. ae, pledge inereased activ. | URit B, Section 4, New York 12.00 ot aE pected in a few days, the whole road | Imperialist Propaganda ity, offer to work overtime and to| Rochester: Unit, Rochester, De eekes etme h a? +t Ee is clear for a drive against Fuchow.| The cable then continues with the | ao'ate days’ wages, and readiness |New York ..... Paethe 17.50} Previously Collected .. .9,301.71 Militarist garrisons in the territory | pretense that “the seizure of the |;ONMO “AV, WARES, ant | Building Nucleus, Phila., Pa. 2.00 ia south of Fuchow are concentrated |Chinese Eastern Railway. was neces- | *° § y | Unit 82, Sec, 8, Cleve. 0... 34.00, Total todate .....+4++$9,769.86 at Kingwafu and Yungchun. vance, once past Changchow. Crude Provocation. ther det s of the telegram sent to | the Chinese acting charge d'affairs | ¢l@ Moscow by the cabinet of Chiang | 'S shek indicate that in contradic- | * tion to the peace camouflage in the beginning of the message, first le public, it contains and is es- ntially a provocative document, officials and workers on the Chi- | nese Eastern Railway, their arres' and deportation and the seizure of | the railroad itself. | Chiang Threatens. speech in which he stated plainly | that the capture of the railroad was | ways welcome Soviet subjects and|the workers must obey meekly and merely the first stage of the at-| merchants in China, but the recent | close their eyes to betrayals. tack on the U. S. S. R., and that: | arrest of Russians in Manchuria is | jonly just, being necessary suppression of Communist propa- | points out that this strike is not a ganda and the maintenance ot order | struggle for improved conditions for {in Manchuria.” “After the first stage we will go further. The imperialist powers are greatly excited over our coup against the Russians and are united against us for fear that their in-| terests may be involved. As long as we Chinese are united, we need not fear oppression from the out- side. Unfortunately, we have a small group, known as the Reorgan- | ization Cliques, which is seeking to We must eliminate such elements and continue our program.” The official organ of the Kuomin- tang, in an_ editorial yesterday, stated: “Since the unification of the country, the government has paid special attention to the probiems of North China, especially relating to Russia and Japan. The taking over cf the Chinese Eastern Railway has Spend Your VACATION Unity Camp The Cooperative Summer Home for Workers WINGDALE, N. Y. Phone Wingdale 51 Bungalows and Tents Ready for a Thousand Boating, Bathing, Fishing Comradely Atmosphere Fresh Food Mountain Trails Hiking—Sports Mass-Singing Comic Paper “THE RED COCK” All for $17.00 a Week HOW TO GET THERE Our Busses Leave: Sunday 9 o'clock a. m. from Unity House By train from 125th Street or from Grand Central Station to WINGDALE, NEW YORK New York Offices 1800 7th AVENUE (CORNER 110TH STREET) TEL. MONUMENT 0111-0112 | received the special consideration of e sections of the near-| the national government and the government is meet coming developments. They | sar are already panicky, and will not be! Soviet officials there were spread- able to stop the revolutionists’ ad-|ing Communist propaganda, endan gering the Chinese government and | the social | “release of all Chinese arrested in NANKING, China, July 17—Fur- | "etaliation for the arrest of the Sov- |iet workers on the railroad,”; adequate protection.” king have issued a statement claim- | | ing that 1,000 Chinese have heen ar- | deliberatelywmttempting to justify | Tested in the U. 8. 8. R. No names | the criminal assault on the Soviet |®7 given, and the whole argument sounds thin. ¢|to state that this is “not a counter | Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers In- demand,” the Chinese merchants, ete., they would At the same time, Chiang Kai- | first have to go out and arrest them.|that hardly any of the workers shek, chief militarist, and, nomin-| The Nanking telegram ends, hypo-| know what they are striking for. ly, “president” of China, made a critically: |in abasement. | When the proce: peared, the chief envoy laughed at them out of the window. Chinese workers immediately shoved in front {of his face a huge sign: “Away with | the militarist blackguards from | China—hail the Chinese proletar- | and Chinese workers shouted | unison, “Do you see it, Mr. Am- bassador?” sion first ap- fully prepared to in because of the discov that} .The Red Army camp at Tomsk calls for “vigorous action against the traitors to China—the hirelings cludes: “We are ready, with arms | in hand, to support the govern- ment’s demands.” CAP STRIKE IS FAKE STRUGGLE tem,” and calls for the nd ims that the Chinese government worried if the government of the } viet Union “does not give them Chiang’s propagandists in Nan- A strike has been called by the The cable is careful | right wing machine in the Cloth ternational against all cap shops idently feeling that if the U. S, | that have refused to sign the new R. feally desired to release 1,000 “agreement with the union.. The strike is remarkable for the fact Nanking war lords Like all right wing strikes, this one “The national government will al- | has been engineered from above and The Capmakers Section of the y tor the | Tr Union Educational League | the workers. The new agreement Detend the Gastonia Textile Workers ! 15 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union Charged With Murder! in North Carolina is a part of the attack of the American imperialist government on the entire working class, It goes hand in hand with the process of capital- ist “rationalization”, the speeding up of the workers at long hours and for low Rush All Funds to the International Labor Defense 80 East 11th Street Room 402 New York, N. Y. + |of foreign imperialism,” and i BENERAL STRIKE Negroes From Homes IN BUENOS AIRES \48-Hr. Walk-out Stops |driven out of town by a mob July 17.—The 48 hour general strike | * in the port of Buenos Aires has, “permitted” to retrn to their quar- stopped all shipping. a united front demonstration ar- ranged by the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions, in sympathy with the h-~bor workers of Rosario, a river port, i#M§RE) ers were representatives of the boss by a fascist organization, the Ar- | back gentine Patriotic League, which is supplying scabs, and armed guards. 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS The fight to free the fourteen leading pay, and is a part of tlre preparation of : Gastonia strikers from the electric the capitalist government for a new zhair is not only a fight for the lives of bloody imperialist world war. these working class leadérs but is a struggle for the right of the workers of ANOTHER SACCO-VANZETTI. the entire South to organize and strug- FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! gle for better conditions. 1 bs cseh 7 _Rally to the Support of the Interna- pert . “ i Concise . ht Deeg ene. the Entiré American Work- Defend the National Textile Work- ing Class, began Th bers of the National Textile e members of the National Tex! og i4 ae Textile Workers Workers Union have been bayoneted, ar- Maia ee rested, ‘beaten, slugged and shot and The 22 Strikers Must Be Freed at evicted from their homes because they Once. e dared to fight for better conditions : against mill owners, the government This new attack of capitalist justice aathoeiGeasland aoa hat tha ates breaking activities of the American Fed- eration of Labor. Thousands of Dollars are Needed to Defend These Heroic Strikers, Members of the National Textile Workers Union. ° pT ee eeeeeesenes eer ‘ N ‘ Wg “Daily” Is Barely Hanging On to Life Day by Day the financial con- Unit N S S W, Milwaukee, dition of the Daily Worker has Wisconsin ... s 19.00 been sinking until now, with less nit 2B, Philadelphia, P: 50.00 than half of the $1,000 daily quota | Unit 1, Sec. 8, B’klyn, N 5.00 being subscribed, we appear to | Unit 5, Sec. 5, New York.... 55.50 Wocolona Unit, Camp Woe lona, N.Y, «2.0. tee it 4 ec, 1, New York.. have touched the bottom of our resources, If the immediate mass response for which we have ap- Are ‘Allowing’ Return NORTH PLATTE, Neb., July 17. —The 200 Negro workers who were of kluxers following the alleged shoot- ing of a policeman by Louis See- All Shipping * ... |man, Negro, who was later mobbed UENO E ee ees een elo d auvdeeed $n his home, axe bales This strike is | ters, Several of the Negro families that were chased into the surrounding country by the lynchers, whose lead- The Rosario wor..e.> are menaced | class, ventured to make their way to North Platte yesterday while others are reported to be en route. WORKERS Wocolona COOPERATIVE Camp ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Y. Fifty Miles from New York City Sia ease |is the same as the old; all the union | Mass Movement of Workers. | bureaucrats want is the right tc MODERN BUNGALOWS, ELEC- MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 17.— | take the bosses to court to settle a ox ite |The Commissariat of Foreign Af-|dispnte. In other words, they are TRICITY : MUSIC SPORTS fairs states that it will make no an-| trying to delude the workers into LECTURES AND DISCUSSION P | swer to the telegram from Nanking, | believing banal bays ehapa can S DIRECTION OF RAY RAGOZIN : | just received, but will await the | won in the capitalist courts, an | promised note in answer to the notc | this is what they are being asked to | $23 for Tents—$27 for Bungalows of protest sent from Moscow. strike for. | Special LOW RATES for Members : Meanwhile the proofs that the) All capmakers are urged to fabs | Round Trip Ticket Thru Our Office $2.00 1 | worker and peasant population of | for the inclusion of real demands in | Rapa . the U. S. S. R. is unanimously be- | the new agreements, demands that Save $1.60 by getting tickets at the office ; hind any policy of defense the Sov-| will help alleviate the present in- | N. Y. Office Phone Stuyvesant 6015 i iet government may decide to carry | tolerable conditions under which the | CAMP TELEPHONE — MONROE 89 r out are simply flooding in. capmakers are slaving. Only in this i “Do You See?” way can the cap strike be converted | “ ¢ Spontaneous demonstrations of | into a real struggle against the bru- Reservations must be made afew days in advance workers from the factories swarm tal exploitation of the employers. F t I ————————————EE a eee ener a ee WIV VV VV VTC TCO T OTTO OT ON ; : d b e d = f d 9 F t ti ELECTRIC CHAIR i, . I hereby enclose $.......4...+..++.++.for the g § Gastonia Defense. Ree eereececcae CITY AND STATE.......0004/ssseeeeehs ae