The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1929, Page 4

~ Kage Four TATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929 M ore Workers, Faci ng | Electro MILL BOSSES’ Woman Siriker Tells of the \KGWIPONDIS A MISLEADERS OF Brutal Raid on Tent Colony’ penta guip, | FOOD UNION AIM FEAR 1S BEHIND FRAME-UP PLAN George Carter Tells of Textile Slavery a Cou Gastoni Jail | Cc. I am one of the fifteen members} f the N.T.W.U. in Gaston County} We are charged with murder. | m here bec > I chose to asso-} e with and help fellow-workers| rike was called because the| rs were being exploited to the| ere receiving pitifull that made it n to deny them- ome of the e textile workers. Dur- + two years I worked in ster. I, like egarded cheap g the 7 e Irving Mills in Che: held mills y have kept their ord too and we have seen several ove tov the south where the of Commerce guaranteed ontented workers. bad about it but aside rying ourselves never did to see to it that t living wage. B our southern fel- ere worse off than did not think they against ihe mill med up 8 ch to live down When I heard that southern work- “s were showing signs of a willing- 2ss to organize and to strike I was articularly interested and decided 3 investigate for myself and find ge vtruth about the south. {I was amazed to find that workers vere-living and working under the} ire-conditions I found to exist. | ! They had frightfully long hours, joor conditions of labor and the asly: wages. I soon found my heap down! cution in Gastonia, Send Messages to U. S. Toilers Gastonia, N. C., July 15, 1929. Maybe you would be interested in read about my litfle part in the rike and the night of the shoot: ing. I will tell you about it 2 you can get it printed somewhere it | will help a little to answer the lies that the papers are printing about | us. The bosses say we are a gang of murderous anarchists and most all the papers repeat whatever the On the night of the raid I was one of those who went down to the Lo- jray mill in the picket committee to | call the night shift out on strike. | But before we left the tent ead we had a meeting and Fred Beal made a fine speech. There wa me spies from the hosses’ com- mittee of 100 in the crowd and the tried to start trouble by throwing | stones and rotten eggs at the speak- ers. But the strikers drove them off the lot Beating a Woman. When we got a few bl from the Loray mill w the law. They broke up our picket line and chased us away. I saw them beating a woman. She fell on the sidewalk screaming. Then the law, | with Aderholt and some others, on up toward the tent colony. s of the shooting on the union jot spread fast. All night the Lo- ray village was alive. Large crowds stood near the railroad tracks on the street leading to the headquar- On the other side of ‘the tracks, in the semi-darkness, men could be seen holding guns and bay. Only the thugs and deputies allowed top. Running short of badges, white handker- chiefs tied on the arms were made to stand for the law. Whistling to Their Work. It was pitch dark as we rode the truck through the woods to the tent colony. A striker led the way the blackness to his tent. | were not there. a voice called his name and he stumbled out of the tent to find his family. We decided to get out of the tent and find some strikers, No one knew what would happen. | We expected the worst, At any mo- ment we expected a mob to swoop upon us. The children were crying and clinging to their mothers’ skirts. Then we heard them coming. Ulterior Motive Found! | | They were whistling, one whistle, another, another, endlessly. | Each family went into its own| tent. We heard the shouts and the ound of tents being slashed. They were outside our tent. ‘ up your “All you men throw hands and come out.” The answer came: “This s my house, come in| and get me.” “Come out.” “Come | into my house.” Then one of the striker’s voices on the outside asked } the man to come out, and put his head into the tent. Gangsters of the Loray mob came in, flashed eight or ten flashlights | all avound, pulled a young boy about eleven out of bed. We heard them march all! the men aw: but not before they had come back twice to search the tent for guns and men, Firing, Slashing. All night long they kept coming. Whole crews of them, whistling, | shouting, firing, slashing, flashing lights into the tents at the most | unexpected moments, smelling of liquor. The tent colony was not the only place searched that night, every triker and union sympathizer was | visited,” searched, insulted, threat- | ened. | None of us slept a wink that night. With the coming of the day | came gore arrests, the women and | children ran out of the tents into} the w@bds without clothes, food, | having no shelter. | One Rea! Lesson. | A lesson in the class, struggle | never to be forgotten. The first | of this kind for the South, so far) as [ know. A worker in the aristocratic South | grows up with the knowledge that there are classes. He is the poor white trash—the proletariat. He knows he has no chance of ever be- ing in any other class. So when we get organized, we'll stick to the union, to our class. | The bosses have done their best to terrorize us, to scare us away from the union. They’re afraid of what we can do if we have a union. There will be another strike and it will not be long before we will ce the Manville-Jenckes Co. to give us higher wages nd_ shorter | hou and do away h the} stretch-out system. | Fraternally yours, A WOMAN STRIKER. | Power Trustification | New Amkino Film Shows Siberian Hell Under Czar ® i ELECTRIC CHAIR \) BOSSES’ PLAN |THE American premiere showing of |* the latest Amkino release, “In| | Old Siberia” at Cameo Theatre will| st take place this Saturday. This will -—— ——— also introduce to this country the work of J. U. Reiseman, Soviet Rus- sia’s prominent young film director. He has very intelligently and aptly made use of a number of methods evolved in Soviet cinematography by | the brilliant group of experimenters. |The film testifies to the directors’ Libe Beat Has Hole; United Hebrew Trades | Unseaworthy | as Strikebreaker (By a Seaman Correspondent) | (By a Worker Correspondent) Shipowners seem to think that| The strike-breaking tactics of the they are putting something over by | right wing, clique in the A. F. of es i O. keeping unconditioned ships in ac-|L. and thew ited Hebrew Trades in | artistic tact, his sensitiveness to sub- tive service, but some day they will | the present strike is in line with the |title values and his search of new realize that they’ve done this to their tactics of these fakers in every class |means of eloquent screen expression. own detriment, |struggle. They are exposed once |“In Old Siberia” has placed Reise- This is written aboard the S. S. | more as traitors of the worst type. |™an in a prominent position among} Agwipond, a Ward Line vessel. I'll Fakers Divide Workers. the young film directors in Soviet | mention some of the interesting! Ip the summer of 1928, the Bakers’ | S¥ssia- points about “her.” | Local 500 passed a resolution to or-|_ There is no basic individual plot| In the first place they only pay ganize the open-shops in Broooklyn|in this film, Amidst the Siberian $55 per month for A.B.’s, the lowest | and the Bronx. The first step taken | blizzards, against the dreary winter wage imaginable for a tankes as | was to picket the shops controlled by |/andscapes and the gray grim prison the seaman aboard one of them is the Amalgamated Food Workers Lo-|Walls, with the mass of criminal always in the shadow of death; he |cal 3 in Brooklyn. They started a principals in the new Shubert revue, yeted in southern. enterprises “Broadway Nights” at the Forty-| yielded huge profits. ‘convicts for a human background, we | Fourth St ‘Harrison, Victim of Frame-up, Writes Gaston County Jail For years northern manufactur- ‘ers have been moving south. The }indueement has been an abundance of native American labor free from any traditions of unionism or mili- tant struggle against their oppres- sors. Whenever a northern manu- ifacturer found that he would be {compelled to recognize the union and |better the conditions he pulled i R \stakes and moved south. The em- Odette Myrtil, who is one of the | ployers found the money they in- { | | et Theatre. | More manufacturers came; those has the sword of Damocles perpetu- | fight between the German workers | See conflict of two elemgntal forces, | ally hanging over his head. When | of Local 8, A. F. W., and the Jewish | we went through the Panama Canal, workers in Local 500, A. F. of L. we had to get a tug-boat. She had | stirring up racial prejudice. been so overloaded that the Canal Then they also picketed the shops |“society”—these represent emula- officials could not possibly let her | controlled by the A. F. W. Local 164| tively and collectively the camp of get through. {in the Bronx. Both in Brooklyn and |physical force, In rough weather we used to have|the Bronx, the reactionary bureau-| Against them stands out the moral swimming parties in the foc’sle,|erats tried to send out on the picket (The foc’sle is the room in which line only the left wingers in Local |of political prisoners. seamen live aboard ships,—a dark 500 who were opposed to these fake| The parallel between the two is dingy hole where the light and sun- | methods of “organization.” Those | drawn in a firm, convincing manner, shine never penetrate, but on the/progressives who refused to picket | From the very beginning one senses | other hand, where the bed-bugs and the shops controlled by the A. F, W. | the inevitable triumph of the moral cockroaches are plentiful.) The oil/lost their jobs. : |foree over the apparently victorious vents were stopped up to prevent Expel Progressives. | physical force. evaporation, thereby making her a! Now these corrupt fakers are} floating death-trap. The generators | again starting to expel all progres- | went on the bum, causing the oilers|sives who are opposed to their and firemen to work in the gloomy |traitorous strikebreaking _ tactics. darkness and forcing them to use They have threatened to kick out of highly dangerous kerosene running the A. F. of L. all who help the cafe- lights. |teyia workers in their brave fight Hole in Lifeboat. ‘against the open-shop. The mislead- One day when we arrived in Phila-!ers do not stop at anything to main- delphia I was told (as I was the/|tain their dictatorship. They resort boatswain) to take the life-boat to|to gangsterism as well as expulsion. the water, together with a couple of| The only thing that the class con- seamen, As we hit the water the|scious workers in the A. F. of L. life-boat, instead of floating, kept on|food workers organizations can do going down. There had been a hole | now is to join the Amalgamated | ¢ ogt , in the bottom that we had never|Food Workers, which is the only |German film depicting the exploits seen, as we did not have any in- | militant industrial union in the in-|of a Teuton “Robin Hood” who lived spections during the whole trip. \dustry. It is based upon the class | The captain was a very good busi-| struggle instead of class collabora- | the German states. r ness man, too good in fact for us| tion. jis legendary and his poor sailors. He should have tried |“Schinderhannes” is his ability on the outside world some place, He used to buy cigar- ettes in the canteen in the Panama Canal for 90 cents a carton and re- sell them to us for $1.50! a ee The Film Guild Cinema announces |a second week of “Fighting for the | | Fatherland,” the film which was | |indirectly inspired by the novel “All | Quiet on the Western Front,” com- |mencing this Saturday. On the same program, the Film Guild Cinema is presenting John Barrymore in “Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” American premiere presentation of The character | name of —M. B. The prison warden’ Ostrobeylo|word in Germany. , | with his hangman-like overseers and its American version has been edited jthe mire of the servile provincial | and titled by Benjamin De Casseres. | is another plan of the Film Guild. |These are: |Camera” which has been acclaimed jforce as personified by the group|as the most revolutionary departure jin the cinema to date; “Arsenal”— the story of the Russian Revolution in the Ukraine; “Prisoners of Life,” “Pamir: The Roof of the World,” an expedition undertaken by a Russian seientifie group to a little-known part of Siberia. shown a picture of Sven Hedin’s ex- pedition to Mongolia and Tibet called “Through Unknown Hedin on his way back to Stockholm last week paid a visit to the Cinema |on West 8th Street, The Film Guild also announces the |Saxon Diet the German people's party man, Dr. Buenger, has been “The Prince of Rogues,” which is a/clected prime minister. before a conference of Saxon trade union Jeaders adopted a resolution |during the Napoleonic invasion of | declaring that the participation of | the social democratic party in the government was absolutely neces- a household | sary. already established expanded. They hungered for even greater profits and introduced the stretch-out sys- tem in the mills. The workers whom the bosses thought docile became restless. They had been living on the bare necessities of life. The northern workers decided to lend a helping hand to his fellow- workers in the south, Organizers were sent into the south and the task of organizing and training of workers began, Strikes broke out and the bosses began to realize the southern worker was no different from others when he was taught how to struggle against the bosses. The bosses decided to rid the south of the organizers and used every conceivable method to attain their goal, They failed, however, and found the workers were them- selves capable organizers, Thus as a last resort the bosses decided to get all the active union members. Today fifteen of us are lying in jail awaiting trial on a framed- up charge of murder, Eight more have been held on lesser charges and many more are in danger of being framed on similar charges if the bosses get away with this mur- der frame-up. Workers everywhere must do everything possible to defeat the bosses in this latest attack. — JOSEPH HARRISON, The picture in The booking of four Russian films | “The Man with the drama of war-prisoners; and Beginning on August 3rd will be Asia.” Dr. SAXON COALITION GOV'T. BERLIN (By Mail).—In_ the Two days | HH Everything else was sold in the same way. eae ses nee Or Doctor’s Slander Rammed Thru; Morgan {most without 3 ¥ ag On Soviet Drug Export $450,000,000 Merger 4 few days before the end of the trip we were practically starved. I hat.the necessities of life cost as tach in the south as in the north.| | T soon found that southerners lived) The libel suit of Dr. Henry Hurd; ALBANY, N. Y., July 19,—The | was elected by the rest of the sea- ‘neaply because they lived on a diet) Rusby, dean of the college of Phar-| $450,000,000 merger in which the |men to go to the captain to ask for { plain food chosen because it was|macy at Columbia _University,|voracious J. P. Morgan interests |the ration that the law provides for zectonly possible solution of the|against the magazine “Time” has| gobbled up three huge power sys-|@ seaman, so that if there is no tems officially came into being to-| cooking aboard you can always try day with the filing of the charter|to eat, The captain answered that soblem that confronts the majority| been thrown out of court by Magi- ¢ southern workers. This problem|strate Simpson, on the grounds that : how to make 10-12 dollats pro- ide a living fcr a family. I also found thst the southern orkers were tired of slaving under e conditions. In Gastonia I vund they were fighting for the .ght to organize. I decided that! rece workers were worth helping.| tho- is there that can truthfully | sy that these brave workers are| the matter called libelous by Dr. Rusby was true. Practically all of the ergot used in medicine is the product cither of Spain or the U. S. S. R. Recently Rusby made a series of attacks on the quality of the U. S. S. R. ex- ported ergot, claiming it was in- ferior to the Spanish variety. “Time” published the faét- that for the new Niagara-Hudson Power | Corporation. The new trust is a holding com- pany, its headquarters located in New York City. It controls the | great hydro-electric generating sta- tion at Niagara Falls and will be the chief beneficiary of the pro- | posed widening of the St. Lawrence | River, to be paid for with tax money |there was no supply left on board, |that he had taken twenty days’ sup- ply for a forty-four-day voyage and that we were fortunate to get what! we were getting! No wonder that/ |we were practically starving! | As we came to Philadelphia the) whole crew as a body went ashore | land joined the Marine Workers League at the same time warning t worth helping? I am sure that) Rusby was practically an agent of | sweated out of the workers and |other seamen against the Agripond, in America can| Howard W. Ambruster, drug im-| farmers. —Seaman. 8 porters, who have cornered the mar- ‘ t ason that fifteen|ket in Spanish ergot. Whereupon or It is| Rusby sued for libel, with the re- sult above stated. 2 se they were s agains’ ian-breaking conditions of slavery.) he bosses are afraid and want to/goyjpT F id the community of everyone who sks a decent living for himself and is fellow-workers. —GEORGE CARTER. Members of the National Textile Workers Union Charged With Murder! [AMUSEMENTS :) ILM SHOWN| |TO AMERICAN SCIENTISTS | “Love in Nature,” a Russian bio-| logical film, received a private show- ling before a group of prominent |American scientists during the week- fee Big Weck! Now Playing! A Blasting ‘Argument Against Imperialist Wars! SREEN FOR JIM CROW UNIONISM egro Workers ‘Back- | ward’ His Alibi | WASHINGTON, July 19.—Mili-) zat workers, white and black,’ are {end at Woods Hole Marine Biologi- cal Laboratory, according to a state- ment issued by Amkino Corporation. This film is one of the series of Russian scientific films to be dis-| tributed in the United States through the Amkino Corporation. It was favorably received and the general opinion expressed was that it is the | only film of its kind and deserves to | be widely distributed. rvatly aroused over the’ recent “PICCADILLY” AT THE) tatement given out to the Negro LITTLE CARNEGIE s by William Green, head of the PLAYHOUSE | rican Federation of Labor, in | rxich the faker upheld the Jim) f vow policy of his organization, ex-| ji ' sing it on the fallacious ground | at “the standards established by | » foremost ranks of workers can- ‘ progress further than they can} sist the downward pull of the eckwerd ranks. The backward naks have been the recent immi- tants and those racial groups ichin our country whose standards 1; below ours. The American Ne-| 19¢s have been in this class.” “ireen, however, has no objection tthe formation of Jim Crow ¥ ong ard ip certain cases will even | ‘affiliate’ with the! of L., as under this scheme | 1) djvision of the white and Negro} wrkers will be continued as before, | » the great advantage of the boss | igs, for the welfare of which the | 3 x is always on the alert, eiSeparate charters may be issued | -Gentral Labor Unions,” he says, oraposed exclusively of colored | , whore in the judgment of | ‘ecutive council it appears to) visable.” meetings of protest against chauvinism of Green and| paid un“- his ene “Piccadilly,” the British produc- tion directed by A. E. Dupont, crea- tor of “Variety,” will be held over for a second week at the Little Car- | negie Playhouse commencing this} Saturday. * | Gilda Gray is starred in this film. Anna May Wong and Jameson | Thomas are prominent in the cast. Dupont directed this photoplay from an origina] story by Arnold Bennett. AMKINO PRESENTS RUSSIAN TRE LATE ACHIEVEMENT AP. ic Inspired by anoramic |p ‘ #ALL QUIET Presentation of " (1) Compiled from the WESTERN siamo! § forthe —— on Pic taken under the Supervision of ' ‘ the General Staff —the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand which started a war which cost $228,000,000,000. —the tremendous German “March to Paris.” —the sinking of the Lusi! —millions die in the campaigns of the Marne and Argonne. , ~~both sides of the great battle in the snow of the Vosges Mts. —how 5,622 British ships were sunk, —140 days of hell at Verdun where 600,000 men were killed and 40,000,000 shells were fired in one battle. “FIGHTING FOR THE FATHERLAND” is a blasting argument against imperialist wars. —and on the same program— JOHN BARRYMORE—in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” es Film Guild Cinema 52 W. Sth St. (7a, 2's 208 SPRing 5095-509t-1716 Continuons seers, Popular Prices. P. M. to Midnight THEY FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 80 East 11th Street 8 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS The fight to free the fourteen leading Gastonia strikers from the electric chair is not only a fight for the lives of these working class leaders but is a struggle for the right of the workers of the entire South to organize and strug- gle for better conditions, ~ Rally to the Support of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Defend the National Textile Work- ers Union. The 14 Southern Textile Workers Must Not Die. The 22 Strikers Must Be Freed at Once. ‘ This new attack of capitalist justice 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 Room 402 New York, N.Y. * en, e pay, and is a part of the preparation of the capitalist government for a new bloody imperialist world war. ANOTHER SACCO-VANZETTI FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! The Struggle of the Southern Texe tile Workers is the Concern of the Entire American Work- j ing Class. The members of the National Textile Workers Union have been bayoneted, ar- rested, beaten, slugged and shot and evicted from their homes because they dared to fight for better conditions against mill owners, the government authorities and against the strike- breaking activities of the American Fed- eration of Labor. ma Thousands of dollars are needed for defense and relief of these heroic atrik- ers, members of the N. T. W. U. SE Ly MOEN Uy i t I hereby enclose $.......++.s.+0+4++,for the g Gastonia Defense. ’ i] 1 LY rt a ry ‘ i> 4 }