The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1929, Page 1

| } | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Unorganized Entered as secon aily = = 3 eh Clwomcens{ oF HE WORLD| LwoaKens{ OF Cay d-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act Vol. VL, No. 115 Published daily except is y by The Comprodaily Publishing Square, New York City, N. ¥. _NEW. YORK, \TURDAY, JULY 20, 1929 | Worker r of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ‘Price 3 Cents U.S. INTERVENTION THREAT AGAINST SOVIET UNION; NEW YORK WORKERS’ ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE, JULY 5, Huge Gathering Denounces Militarist Agent in New VorkU. $.5.R. EXPOSES IMPERIAL 5,000 WORKERS DEMONSTRATE AT CHINA CONSULATE Resist Whalen Police in Noon Protest; 13 Arrested Pledge USSR Defense Jail Weinstone, Mayor) Candidate of C. P. Five thousand New York work- ers yesterday swelled the world- wide protest against the latest im- perialist attack on the Soviet Union at a demonstration outside the Nan- Ling government consular offices at | the Alexander Hamilton building at 13 Astor Pl. Marked by unusually vicious po- lice brutality, which failed to drive ; off the workers who held Astor Pl. for fully 45 minutes, the demonstra- tion was perhaps the best-organized, most militant expression of work- | ing class protest ever seen in New! York City, workers declared. Revo- lutionary Chinese workers headed | the preliminary march. ‘ | Arrest 13. Thirteen were arrested when po- | lice repeatedly charged the picket | lines. They included James Mu, of | the Alliance For Support of the Chinese ,Workers’~-and- Beapagie | Revolution, and William W. Wein- stone, New York district organizer | of the Communist Party, which | planned the demonstration. Wein- stone is Party candidate for mayor | in the municipal elections. The arrested workers were to face trial at the Tenth District Magistrate’s Court at 57th St. last night. As this edition of the Daily Worker went to press, results of the trial were not available. Shout Workers’ Slogans. “Stand by the Workers and Pea- sants of the Soviet Union! The Capitalist Class of America is Back- | ing the Anti-Soviet Move in China! | Down Tools at 4 O’clock on August First! Smash the Gastonia Frame- up!” read some of the signs carried | by 1,009 Party and Conmunist | Youth League members as they led the march along Astor Pl. eee | Fourth Ave. and Broadway. Workers releascd from neighbor- | ing warehouses and offices gathered eagerly on all‘sides of the ma! ers. They read the defiant dua | hundreds joining in the enthusiastic cheers which answered the call to “defend the Soviet Union.” The crowd surged through Astor Place, while the marchers shouted battle- cries of the class war with renewed vigor, joining in mass chorus for | the International. Uncowed by Police. A first contingent of police swung | their clubs savagely at the cheering | demonstrators, They couldn’t ere | the solid lines. The great.crowd quietened a little. | Sturdy Party members supported a j wooden platform, on whicn speakers, pointing at the Kuomintang gov- ernment office on the sixth floor of the building, told of the bloody crimes of the government it repre- sented and its latest attempt to fire the opening shot in a world imper- (Continued on Page Five) N. Y. Workers In Big Gastonia Fete Thousands of New York workers will join tonight in a huge prole- tarian festival and demonstration against the Gastonia frame-ups at the Washington Baths, 21st St. and Boardwalk, Coney Island, where a big Midsummer Festival and Swim- ming Carnival will be held. The event has been arranged by the Jewish Section of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and all the proceeds will go for the defense of the Gastonia strikers, The Midsummer Ball will be held in the open air, with music by Smith’s 12-piece orchestra. Among the speakers will be Wil- liam Z. Foster, William W. Wein- stone, M. J. Olgin, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz. THE DAILY WORKER RETURNS 10 SIX PAGES In Spite of Terrific Obstacles Paper is Enlarge and in Defense of dto Carry on Struggle Against Imperialist War the Soviet Union. With this issue the Daily Worker abandons its four-page edition and again resumes the publication of six pages every day. This does not by any means indicate recovery from our financial difficulties. On the contrary, our financial condition does not permit us to safely resume the six page paper. But at such a time as this we cannot base our activity upon firan- cial considerations. For years we have exposed the fact that the im- perialist jackal pack was preparing for a war of in- | tervention to destroy the government of workers and peasants in the domain of the former czars. This war is now being actively waged. The bandit govern- ment of Chiang Kai-shek and his associate imperial- ist hirelings are acting for the imperialists of the United States, England and Japan. This imperialist attack, this challenge to the working class of the whole world, must be met with all the power that can be mustered by the international working class. The Daily Worker, which for years has fought against and exposed every provocation against the Soviet Union, cannot in this critical moment, dimin- ish its defense, when there is now taking place the | first step in the general imperialist military attack against the Soviet Union. We must be able to coun- teract the lies and calumny that are piled upon the Soviet Union by the capitalist press of this country. We must be. able to have sufficient space in which to expose the insolent hypocrisy of Secretary of State Stimson who yesterday had the audacity to send a note to the Soviet Union regarding the Kellogg pact as an instrument of peace, when the pact itself was designed to counteract the Soviet proposals for com- plete disarmament. was the first power that recognized the bloody gov- ernment of Chiang Kai-shek, while refusing recogni- tion to the Soviet government of workers and peas- ants. It is one of the main powers now backing the armed assaults against the Soviet Union. Secretary Stimson, of the Hoover cabinet, himself formerly an imperialist agent in the Far East, engaged in fasten- ing more firmly the chains of slavery upon the | masses of the Philippines and perfecting military and naval bases to protect the interests of the Wall Street gang in the orient, sent his insulting note to Soviet INDICTMENT OF FUND AND ‘ The United States government | Union only in order to try to justify more open and vicious imperialist intervention in the immediate fu- ture and to aid in spreading poison propaganda against the workers’ and peasants’ government. | At the same time the American ruling class | while engaged in war against the Soviet Union, through its imperialist lackeys in China, carries out in the United States a policy of increasing exploita- tion through rationalization of industry, beating down wages, lengthening of hours, speed-up and con- sequent unemployment of millions permanently out of industry. The attacks on the workers’ standard of life, the union-wrecking campaigns, the attempts to send to the electric chair the fighters in the ranks of the working class are all a part of the war prep- arations of the United States imperialist power. Never before has the working class of the United States and of the world stood before such tremendous form of the world-wide class struggle. Each day brings forth new problems, new tasks, new demands upon the fighting ability of the working class and its vanguard, the Communist Parties. | At such a time every revolutionist must do every- thing possible to make the fight effective. Certainly everyone who is class conscious can realize the im- portance of strengthening the Party at such a time, and enabling the Daily to really become what Lenin said a Communist paper must be, “not only the col- lective agitator, but the collective organizer” of the working class. Party members! Meet your obligation to the Party for One Day’s Pay at once! Every sympathizer and every reader should donate as much as possible to the Daily Worker and collect funds from trade unions and all other workers’ organizations in order keep the Daily Worker in existence and strengthen It. Our return to six pages means greater demands for finances. __ It means that unless we obtain funds at once we will again face the danger of immediate suspension. Rush funds at once to the Daily Worker, 26 | Union Square, New York City. DAILY’ LOW 50,000 ORLEANS GASTONIA THUGS Less Than $5 $500 Comes Ih Comes In; F Peril Great UNIONISTS MEET WHITEWASH PLAN Rushed to Trial: Mass more days like this and we will be Emergency Drive. |S. Gaynor, City.......... «.$ 1.00 Meets Grow Larger Kina Shalit, Unit 11, Section | 8, City . 3.00 CHARLOTTE, N. C., July 19— | pheo, Holzer, 5.00 The prosecution’s policy in allow- | Weinstein, City .... 4 -50 | ing their two star witnesses, | Charles Depkin, Cit; 2 hee | N. Pachter, Bronx, N. Y.... 2.00! Roach and Gilbert, to be indicted Just $498.37 of the $1,000 daily quota wa $1,000 daily quota was received yesterday, or enough to prolong the danger of suspension that has been threatening the only English language labor newspaper for the past month. A few TO AID STRIKERS in a position to discontinue the a~- peals—and all the rest of the Daily. hehe City es Held to Impotent Plan Sidney Herman, City .00 | [Perey D. Qi mbyy Westport, ' By Bureaucracy | Conn 1.00 ‘ Scape |Perth Amboy, ) 4.50 (Special to the Daily Worker.) Collected by John E. NEW ORLEANS, La., July 19.—| Cedarhurst, L. I.........+ 4.25 The strike is still deadlocked, with (Continued on Page Five) the Public Service Company demand- events. The war against the Soviet Union is a higher | T. UE. L FleuTs CHARGES THAT RED ARMY ACCIDENT HORROR “IS INVADING MANCHURIA” BY ORGANIZATION “No Attack By USSR Unless China War Lords Cleveland Congress to Battle Speed Up By Uniting Militants Form Shop Committees |Send Delegates Aug. 31 | to Unity Convention The Trade U: in ion Educational atement organ St. New cular attention to the calls pax in- creased speed-up, the unemployment resulting, and the horrible jin indus , de inc as and These | disease res them. conditions can be improved by ade- e organization, it points out, ya: “The great Trade Union Unity |Convention, to be held in Cleveland August 31, is the center of concen- | tration of the forces of the fighting militant workers from all industries and all sections of the country. It | |will fight for the seven-hour day, for increase in wages and better conditions.” | The statement in full is as fol- Hows: | Workers: Conditions in the indus- tries are being constantly worsened. | Wages are being reduced. Hours of labor are longer. The inhuman speed-up system is being introduced in every factory, mill and mine. The bosses are only concerned with ever greater production at less cost —they are concerned only with greater profits. While wages are bing cut 10, 20 and 30 per cent, the profits of the (Genta eg on Page nae UNIONS, STRIKE LEADERS RALLY TO CONFERENCE se Cross Border,” Says Commissar of Railroads Workers of All Lands Rally for Annie Day; New York Preparatory Conference, July 25 _ BULLETIN WASHINGTON, July 19. — Semi-official press dispatches issued here apenly: threaten in- tervention in the Manchurian affair against the Soviet Union by the United States, England, France and Japan, with all economic and mili- tary power. The Stimson note to the Soviet Union and the Nanking government was issued, it was made known here today, after:long and ‘thorough conferences between Stimson, Hoover ‘and the army and navy experts, with the French, British and Japanese ambassadors called in. ae oe STIMSON PROVOCATIVE. WASHINGTON, July 19.—Secretary of State Stimson to- day entered the Manchurian situation with a provocative and slanderous statement, in the form of a warning to “both China and Russia” to “remember they are both signatories of the Kellogg pacts,” and to “keep the peace.” Stimson said not a word against the act of brigandage committed by the Chang Hsueh-liang troops, with the consent of the Nanking goyern- ment, in seizing the Chinese Eastern Railway from the Soviet Union, and arresting and deporting hundreds of Soviet workers on it, closing the U. S. S. R- consulates in Manchuria, and raiding some of them. He deliberately placed the U. S. S. R., because it broke off diplomatic relations with the governments making this at- ‘tack upon it, in the same class as imperialist nations, evidently for the propaganda effect he hoped this might have on the workers of the world. Stimson committed this underhanded assault on the U. S. 8. R. after consultation with the Chiang Kai-shek minister in Washington, and the French, British and Japanese diplomatic representatives. * * . MOSCOW, U , July 19.—The Communist Inter- national today pact bs "workers throughout the world to Elect Delegates to support the Soviet Union in the present crisis against Citywide Meet | A large number of militant trade unions and workers’ fraternal or- ganizations have already signalized their intention to participate in the | conference called by the New Yok District of the Communist Party for Thursday, ay 5, at 7 p. m., at Irving Pl: 15th St. and Irving Cl, to lay down final plans for the \general strike and the huge Union |Sa. demonstration against imper-| \ialist war on International Red Day, | | August 1. Gold Denounces Conspiracy. Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of | | crystal by the grand jury for assault with intent to kill became clear as today. The case was rushed to trial this morning, and all the oppos' witnesses had disappeared. It was a clear at- tempt to whitewash these two characters, in order to be able to | use them in the trial of the 15 | workers now in Gastonia jai] and the eight out on bonds. The procedure was too raw, however, and the indictments are not yet dismissed. The trial of Roach and Gilbert has been post- poned. 8 8 Juggling With Judges. A good deal of maneuvering took place in the change of judges. Gov- ernor Gardner did not have to act in repudiation of any of his previ- ous appointments. He went away to the conference of governors. Then Judge Sink had to write a letter to the state house, claiming that his mother was sick and he wanted to be excused. Then the governor’s counsel, Judge Town- send, appointed Judge Barnhill to replace Sink. Large and enthusiastic meetings | of mill workers continue every day, /as part of the campaign leading to ‘the July 28 Southern Textile Confer- ence of, the National Textile Workers | Union, é The largest and most enthusias- | tic meeting so far took place two/ nights ago in Bessemer City. Over | 500 were present. | The speakers were Organizers | Oehler and Murdoch, of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, and Wells, who brought the greetings of the eae textile workers and sailors. Meetings are now held regularly every day at Bessemer. They are | held three times weekly at the Rex yaill in Gastonia, on Monday, Thurs- day and Saturday. Meetings at the Relief tent colony at Gastonia are on Monday, Wednesday and Satur- day. The first meeting at the Pinck- ney mills was held yesterday after- noon, The new office of the National Textile Workers Union has been established at the Gastonia strikers’ tent colony. ing the open shop and the Amalga- {he Needle Trades Workers Indus- mated Association of Street and|trial Union, in a statement to the | Electric Railways Employees de-| Daily Worker yesterday, : “The ee a clased shop with arbitra-| campaign of union-smashing, the | Gastonia frame-up, the growing NEEDLE WORKERS: jfrom the rank and file forced their |Labor and | Building Trades Council to grant. While the scab International la- |The meeting was held last night. But | spiracy. The struggle against im- i dies Garment Workers “Union” con- | the officialdom succeeded in turning | perialist war automatically takes in |tinues to wage its so-called war on what the workers expected would be | all the fights of the American work- the sweatshops by seeking the aid|a meeting to call a general strike |ing class against the rapacity of Wall of Tammany’s Mayor Walker, of the |into a mere “pep” affair for ex- | Street, and the needle trades work- big open-shop department stores and |tending sympathy to the street car | crs will shop their solidarity with of other bitter enemies of the work- | strikers, and to give certain state | the revolutionary workers of the ers, the Needle Trades Workers In- | and city poiticians a chance to ap-| world by joining the general strike dustrial Union is extending its mili- pear before the crowd. Day and marching to the scene of tant fight on the sweatshops by the Won't Ride Cars. I Nee Siew creat aatiseee cena! organization drive in the dress in- | dustry which is now being launched.| The meeting gladly -adopted the | stration, Union Square. The drive in the dress industry | single militant suggestion that. the| Fred Biedenkapp, president of the Goes not mean any let-up in the | officials allowed to come to a vote, |{ndependent Shoe Workers Union, campaign to organize all non-union | by pledging not to ride the cars, and|calls on every class-conscious work- cloak and fur shops, Industrial | to use other light than electricity or| crs’ body to elect delegates to the Union leaders point out. gas, both of which services are|conference and challenge the latest _ * owned by the car lines company. imperialist plot aiming at the de- Report for Picket Duty Monday. The workers are’ militant, but still|struction of the First Workers Re- All members of the Industrial | badly fooled by their leadership, and ; public. Union are called to report Monday |do not express real discontent with| “The capitalists of the world, de- morning at 7 o'clock at the office the way the strike is handled. They | spite the cut-throat rivalries among of the Joint Board, 131 W. 28th St.,|are eager to extend financial sup-|their respective powers, have in for clook pleker duty, ‘port to the strikers, (Continued on Page Two) other company unions | tae thousand workers turned out | treachery of the misleaders at the jot the mass meeting which pressure | head of the American Federation of | are all bound up with the war con- | \at 4 o’clock on International Red | “Chiang Kai-shek, the hangman of Chinese workers and peas- (Continued on Page Five) Defend the Soviet Union! Things You Must Do! 1. Rouse the workers in the factories to the danger con- fronting the Soviet Union. 2. Organize anti-war committees in the shops. Prepara- tory for the antiwar demonstration August 1st, resolutions | must be passed in the shops protesting the provocative acts against the Soviet Union and resolutions for the defense of the Soviet Union. 3. Adopt resolutions of protest and support for the Soviet Union in all trade unions and in all labor organ- izations. 4, Elect delegates, from three to five, in all labor organ- izations, small or large, to attend the mass Anti-War Con- ference on July 25, in Irving Plaza, to defend the Soviet Union and to organize the anti-war demonstrations of Au- gust 1. DOWN TOOLS AUGUST FIRST! 5. Propagate for the slogan of anti-war day, August 1. Down tools at 4 o’clock! Join the demonstration at Union Square. Parade from your shop to Union Square. 6. On every occasion, wherever possible, speak at fac- tory gate meetings, spread Party leaflets, issue special edi- tions of shop bulletins, issue special leaflets to the factories in your locality raising the call for the fight against the com- ing war! Down tools August First. 7. Be prepared for the call of the Party for every event in the present war developments. The above tasks are the concern of every loyal member that feels himself a soldier of the world proletarian army. To forsake your duty at this moment is treachery to the work- ing class! All unit functionaries, all Party members, redouble your energies; speed up the fight! GASTONIA DEFENSE CARNIVAL, CONEY ISLAND, TONIGHT; FOSTER, -WEINSTONE, OLGIN TO SPEAK b,