The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1929, Page 2

} Page Two MASS. MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AS TRIAL NEARS| Many Workers Have Not Heard of Case ONLY TED TO THE TRIAL! Rush workers GASTONIA to save 15 the electric funds from chair to International Labor | Defense, 80 E. 11th St., New York City. mployed men in n hearing for the stonia murder harne on this ” Mother Bloor writes from t, where she is on a highly telling thousands the frame-up. of who g on trial July 29 for, murder. Mother. Bloor wrote to the Na- tional Office of the International Labor. Defense yesterday that wherever the workers hear of the | Gastonia t ir rage is imme- diately rot Mother Bloor re-| lates that some of the unemployed men were in tears and a collection was volun’ ed- by them, in which a total of including 150 pennies, | were included. Many Stiil to Reach. Mother Bloor reports that many workers throughout the West are still unaware of the tremendous im- | portance of Gastonia—of the fight | to organize into militant unions in| the South to fight the murderous speed-up and wage cuts, and of the fight for the right of workers to| defend. themselves from the terror | of boss-controlled police and gun-) men. Duluth, Superior, Demonstration. The student body of the Commu- nist Youth League training school at Superior, Wis., sends a telegram | of support for Gastonia to the In- ternatitfal Labor Defense. Tayo street® démonstrations were staged in Duluth and Superior when $15.77 was collected. Many more demon- strations, were planned. Tag day! will be;held July 29 and the whole | student body, consisting of farmers | and iron mine workers, appeal to the | Comnranist League throughout the countryto get on the job for Gas- tonia.¥ <7 The ‘flowing telegram has been | received from West Frankfort, Ill: | “At a,state conference here of the | Natiopal, Miners Union a resolution | was passed pledging all possible | support to the heroie strikers of the South_and all others striking against the greedy captains of i ve heartily_endorse the work International Labor Defense Workérs_ International. Relief.” Meeting Yesterday at Chicago. The Eugene Barnett branch of the I. L. ‘Mat Chicago held a confer- | ence on last Friday, July 19, at 8 p. m,, in Kedzie Hall, 1621 N. Ked- | zie Ave.,“when all workers were ex- [ pected to bring as many sympa-| thizers..as, possible to hear about | Gastonia from the lips of the strik- | ers themselves. An I. L. D. picnic | is being.held in Worcester on Sun- day in the Scandinavian Workers’ Park. The L. S. U. will have a/ prominent part in the day’s activi-) ties. Expect 50,000 Out. Fifty thousand workers are to! take part in the Solidarity Festival | of the I. L. D. and W. I. R. July 27) at Pleasant Bay Park, when Foster, Weinstone, Poyntz and Wagen- knecht will speak. Sam Kramberg, secrtary of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Union, is | among the union leaders calling on all members of his union to attend | the demonstration. “I call upon ali members of the Motel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Union to attend this dem- onstration and show their working class solidarity with the heroic Gas- tonia workers, who are facing the | electri¢é chair because they fought | in the interests of the working class. “The working class must not al- low arother Sacco-Vanzetti frame- up. They must raise their voices in such a mighty. protest that bosses. will not dare to go through with their plans. huge demonstration on July 27.” July 27 to August 3 is Gastonia De- fense Week, when the workers will use every’ ounce of energy to build the I.°L. D. to a membership of 100,009 and raise funds for relief and defense of the Gastonia strikers. New York Conference. The conference of the New York Districtinf the I. L. D. will be held at Irving Plaza, July 26, at 8 o’clock, when all workers’ organizations and sympathizers wil! be present to aid the Gastonia struggle. MORE DAYS | Workers Union | he | All out for the |. Scene of Imperialist Attack on U.S.S.R.; Chinese Toilers S | Soviet Unien | | | At.the top is part of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the seizure ist plan te attack the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, through the lords. demonstrated against the war lords, expressing their s in Harbin and in Dairen in support of the Soviet Union are probable. of which imperiali DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, upport the UNIONS, STRIKE Relief Secretary Reports Union ‘Grows in Gastonia’ par IN MURDER part of the imperial- e. Chinese war SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929 LEADERS RALLY TO CONFERENCE Elect Delegates to Citywide Meet (Continued from Page One) common an ov stering hate and | fear of the U. . R. whose work- ers’ government as a menace to the entire cap’ stem,” he said. “For this reason they are banding’ together for a united on-| ; : slaught on the socialist fatherlavid— that they know the details of this ‘the opening blow has already been |S0rt of work. They have been ‘ n Manchuria. No class-con- |SPlendidly received, and produce a ction of the United States |00d impression ng class will let this dastardly | Sentiment Improves. Baqmpebalisngeds: Oehler, besides textile experience, . Food Workers Rally has a record of organization work Michael Obermeier, organizer of |in the heavy industry, having been the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria jrecently in Colorado, during the min- Wor s Union, likewise recognizes | ers’ strike there. the cl cut class character of the| Murdock was one of the first) Manchurian outrage and pledges the |leaders to appear in the bitterly support of the food workers to the |fought New Bedford strike, which International Red Day manifesta- |laid the basis for organization of the) {tions of working class opposition to | National Textile Workers’ Union. | | Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of {the Workers International Relief, jarriving fresh from the Gastonia tent colony stated yesterday: “The stoppage in organization work caused by the arrest of all union organizers in the Gastonia area has been overcome almost over- Hugo Oehler and William Murdock, and the development of local or- ganizers from among the strikers and workers in surrounding mills. “Oehler and Murdock are two ex- perienced organizers, whom the workers have only to talk to, to see the imperialist war schemes, as well] “The sentiment throughout the las the July 25 conference, at which | South is continuing to develop fav- they will be well represented. lorably for the defendants,” said “This conspiracy,” he said to the |Wagenknecht. “Workers in textile| Daily Worker, “throws a glaring | mills especially prove this by their light on the war preparations of {anxiety to join the I. L. D., and or-| the Wall Street government. Ra-/|ganizers for the defense will be able tionalization, the constant worsen-|to secure thousands of members | |ing of working and living condi-| throughout the field. tions, the wage cut drive, all flow| “The I. L. D. application for mem- |from these preparations. The food |bership cards were handed out at |workers, who are just emerging |the Workers International Relief} from a long and heroic strike, know |food distribution in Gastonja a few that their main struggle, the strug-|days ago. This has been particu- gle of the whole working class |larly successful, The strikers came against the boss plot to lay low the |back with many new members night by the arrival of Organizer} _ (A NEW SOZZI very friendiy towards the Workers International Relief, as immediately after the shooting, it was the first) organized force on the ground, and| jterror of the mill bosses by starting Goce Like That of jagain its food distribution, and be- ‘, ginning at once the re-establishment | Matteotti, Sozzi ZURICH (By Mail).—Three weeks of the tent colony for the strikers,” \have now passed since the metal said Wagenknecht. “The re-establishment of I. L. D. and union mass meetings with the| worker, Giuseppe Peretti, a Swiss W. I. R.. tent colony as a center was | <uhje - hi |the basis for the renewed offensive| ay station upon his arrival.in jagainst the m:ll owners and city | Milan. Up to the present. neither his | authorities’ reign of terror, and the | friends nor the lawyers employed. exploitation in the mills, and start-| 9, his behalf have been able to -dis- ed the campaign to save the defend-|.over why he was arrested. The ants,” he added. Swiss consul has also not yet been “The southern textile workers are| permitted to see Peretti. learning very rapidly about the! According to information from labor movement in general and are! Milan from a reliable source, Jeretti beginning to understand the power and usclessness of such organiza- tions as the I. L, D. and W. R. in strike situations. There no , was arrested at the rafl- quarters of the fascist militia in Milan where he was held for three days until inquiries began’ to be is ceptance of the National Stes oe Textile |over to the police. It must be orkers’ Union. jfeared that the Italian authorities oe |have been using illegal means to Build shop committees and draw | force “confessions” or “information” the more militant members into ‘from Peretti. What these means are the Communist Party. we know full well. ‘ was first of all taken to the head-" doubt as to their whole hearted ac-|made about him when he was handed ° a 2282 Below, Chinese dock laborers at Dairen, Manchuria, who togethe idarity with the Soviet with rs of Harbin, os of ftaram: \Pirst_ Workers’ Republic with fire fend sword, has just begun. They j will pour out to the street meetings Letter from Beal Answers ~ “Nation” Gastonia Editorial The Nation, New York weekly]Monroe. These officers know the magazine, publishes in the current | ones that held me up (one of the issue, in its carrespondence column, | hold-ups wore a dress suit). Why a letter from. Fred Beal. It does not) were not these gunmen a’ publish the whole letter. The en-/ Because as usual it is a tire letter, a-carbon copy of w “law and order,” the t The Daily Worker has secured, is and order. However, this was not published below, with the portions the first time my life was threat- omitted by the Nation emphasized| ened. I have received telephone by The Daily Worker with bold calls in Gastonia to get out of, town on the oc Vein nettt i nion Square, urges all militant faced type in 24 hours’ time or suffer the con- But T mast say that, at, the Sa na eae. Roa Paee te Yep ‘ ; sequences—notes likewise. See full | time there is something wrong when | je} f nia Gaston County Jail page adv. in the Gastonia Gazette| ihe Nation goes to the antidabor| eaten (ote, comeerenee and mall | Gastonia, North Carolina, (urging the citizenry to commit vio- July 2, 1929. lent acts upon me. Paul Blanchard, To the Editor of The Nation: jin one of his articles in the Nation, Sir: This is typewritten from the | truthfully wrote that I had to have Gaston. County jail. I am allowéd|an armed guard nights as I slept. \the use of a typewriter and the per- | But the vast majority of the citizens mission to write and receive as many Of Gastonia and Gaston community letters as I wish. paid little attention to these cries “After reading your editorial of |and the lying newspapers which | Jane 19th on the shooting affair in Were and are now entirely on the — | the Loray section of Gastonia I have |Side of the manufacturers (excep- come to the conclusion that you have |tions made for Raleigh News and received most of your information Observer and Greensboro News). from the Manville-Jenckes (Loray) | Here ig some more information mill ‘paper, the Gastonia Gazette. ihat you will not find in the Ga: This so-called newspaper has been tonia Gazette: THE STRIKE IS “erying to the heavens” for the yop OVER. .If the strike W nod Oe ne oreanizers ever since OVER how was it possible for s pr aie ea Bees Sie eral hundred strikers to go to the “Hysteria and Hate” have been mill and “drag” out those working, ee Bol id ae ve Na-'as stated by the persecuting prose- tional Textile Workers Union began cutors? The bosses claimed to have pel borer ‘work to increase the a full working force (2,500), There psig & 4 seh si. yay hia fi the was a Re in at 9:15 on the night ly €X- of June 7th. No one was arrested ploited textile workers in the south. for picketing—though many women This hysteria and hate is confined | were choked by the police—no onc wares to Pita eet ah x went to the mill with arms of any eir “Committee of One Hundred” | kind. Many of those IN THE MILI thugs and gunmen, the Chamber of were given cae by the company ee: oat EN eben and which they carried with them around angers-on, the manufacturers’ con- the mill. Does it not sound ridicul- trolled press and some of the local ous that a hundred unarmed work- police who are in the habit of get-| ers should go to the mill to “drag” ting drunk and amusing themselves | oyt 1,500 night workers, some of running around shooting up people. whom were armed? Great numbers This element “hates” anyone who of those working in the mill were comes to challenge the big profits of | anxious to come out on strike again. the textile barons and put some of,But they were terrorized by the it inte the pockets of the workers] bosses who had armed thugs on where it belongs. guard inside of the mill. I had been true that my life was in]in constant touch with many of danger; that L came near being shot | those working on the inside and they or lynched on the night of June 8th} were waiting for a picket line which oe hy pod a aa okie et oy. eee nian iF fer ie was that,,the officers who me hand-| found out by the ses and in a cuffed. to. a. striker saved my life.|frenzy of fear of a huge walkout There was no necessity to bring me they instigated the throwing of eggs. through “Gastonia on the way to!rocks and the shooting of a gun dur-' jom marking © Ben thtip phase 1 cinas atrug- a. urely repressive characte: Pha wer nds FOLKS WITH OUNG” KIDNEYS middle life need not yield to kid- ney weakness. Many older folks, formebly sufferis ea, night from ¥ sising, irregular, painful elimination, etc. we comparatively “young” kidneys BSS now thanks: to,a proper diet and idy capsules. Genuii ure of Dr.L. Midy, physician. Good cree the Nation for a number of years thought. I was happy over its stand) Oe, ot j tonight, they will send delegates to ass meeting Friday ‘night, | the Anti-Imperialist War Day Con- ne Vera Bush and myself | ference at Irving Plaza, July 25, and were t Neither of us got they will be in the forefront of the hit. Despite the terror created by demonstration in Union Square on the bosses with their “Committee of | August 1.” SLL Ou | File Credentials Now. ft coche no relenting |. Mang other ‘strike léaders, repre- until the exploited: textile 1 ee uae Tan one he work of the Manville-Jenekes and. other miigpertts 7 Relies mills throughout. the. south -receive .<75 ave Voicing thelr. determination a decent living wage and the eight-| jorsonstration, and the conference hour day. I have been a reader of | Syich will lead up to it, a tre. endows success. The Anti-Imper- t War Day Committee, 26-28 7th. and always thought it fair in liberal | credentials to its headquarters im- | mediately. pharanronlen ‘Soviet Textile Mills Dock Fire Kills ‘Three. HireAmericanExperts; In Seattle; 10 Burned Industry is Growing July 19—A| The Amtorg Trading Company an- the ‘Under. Pax nounced yesterday that’ a contract ans = has been signed between the All- U. cifie docks here tonight. Three men!'S, S, R. Textile Syndicate and the ing and are believed to have | Lockwood Greene, Engineers, Inc., been burned. “Ten ‘firernen ave inj to furnish textile mill experts to the ice is | Soviet State textile factories. The from burns. The Mat-.) sngineers to be sent over include ex- 1a Lai was towed |yerts in spinning, dying and finish- the docks; ing. ia Gazette for correct infor- FRED ERWIN BEAL he hospit. son. liner I blazing fr : TOURS to Soviet Russia VIA LONDON—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW TOURS FROM $385. 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D. | “The, workers, and the sympa- |thizers, among whom are people not jconnected with the strike in any| jWway, are voluntarily: coming for- jward to state the facts about the) | shooting. | Prosecution Embarrassed. “Many of these who are now mak-| ing affidavits for the defense have | been interviewed by the prosecution | |to give testimony for the prosecu- }tion, but were dropped like hot | potatoes when the Manville-Jenckes | jlawyers found out what they really knew. | “Many affidavits from important | sources have been received in sub-| stantiation of the claim of the I.) |L. D; that a fair trial can not be obtained in Gaston county. It is labsolutely necessary to hold the trial in some other county, and ef- | \forts for a change of venue continue. | Wagenknecht stated that he saw) the prisoners just before he left, and | found them in excellent. spirits, healthy, and confident, . “They beep as militant inside o: jjail as they were before they were} arrested,” he said. | “The jailed workers want. espe- ‘cially to hear more from their \friends. .They want more news of the labor movement generally thru- | out the U. S. and the world, and} wish to be kept aware all the time ‘of what is happening in other in- Demonstrate Your Solidarity with the Gastonia Strikers Come to the Relief--Defense Festival Saturday, July 27th, 1929 FROM NOON UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT PLEASANT BAY PARK, Bronx (Busses will take you from subway station to the park) Symphony Orchestra of Fifty Men Motion Pictures—Open-Air Dancing Fireworks, Campfire-Other Features auspices: Local New York WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF N. Y. 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