The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 1

— > SOVIET UNION WORKERS ARE FOR: PEACE, The workers and peasants of the ‘oviet Union are for peace, but are ready to defend the workers’ fatherland at any time. They, and the Red Army troops, know that the workers of the world will ifot stand -by and allow the imperialists, thru their puppets, : the Chinese war lord8, to attack the U. S. S. R. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Vol.-VI., No. 116 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publ Company, Inc, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, | 1 { cor at the Post Office at New York, Red Army troops, above. At the left tury corps’ r rvice ra@ady to defend the Soviet Union | Army troops at Kiev, BUT READY TO DEFEND SOCIALIST FATHER are shown training dogs for sani- “SUBSCRIPTION In New Outside New York, by SLAND me workers have offered their services to defend the U. § At right, machine gun detachments of the Red Army. FINAL CITY EDITION York, by mail, $5.00 per yex mail, $6.00 per year. “Price 3 Cents AUGUST FIRST WILL BE SOVIET UNION DEFENSE DAY Mill Prosecution Tnes to ISSUETHOUSANDS. OF LEAFLETS FOR TEXTILE MEETING 18,000 Copies of Call, Defense Bulletins, Out in Carolina Press Favors. U. T. W. Witnesses Against Roach Hidden By LISTON OAK GASTONIA, N. C., July 21. Eighteen thousand pieces of litera- ture, issued by the National Textile Workers Union and the Internation- al Labor Defense, the call for the Southern Textile Workers Confer- ence at Bessemer City July 28 and the second number of the Gastonia Labor Defender, were distributed Saturday and Sunday to the mill workers throughout Gasten and Mecklinburg counties. Hundreds of strikers took part in ithe distribution, and reached the Gistant mills by ten autos. The growing attendance at the meetings which are steadily increas- | ing in number and size, and the responses to the call are alarming the bosses, who now exert unsuc- cessfully their greatest pressure to prevent the workers from joining the union, Bosses Like a Tame Union. The Southern newspapers now change their line, and “recognize the right of the textile workers to or- ganize.” In’ the United Textile Workers, of course, not in the N. T. W. U. They point to the re- spectability and class collaboration policies of the U. T. W. The papers now unanimously call for a “fair trial” and are trying to cover up the class significance of the case and to convict the prisoners of “another Sacco-Vanzetti case.” The agents of the prosecution question little children of the strik- ers, trying to get information for vse against the prisoners. Wife Admits Threats I interviewed the wife of Pedro Melton, the keeper of the refresh- ment stand. He was the man driven into the Catawaba river and shot at by Roach. She admitted that Melton had been warned that of- ficers were on the way out to sub- poena him, and that he had better disappear. She refused to admit that this. warning came from the prosecution in the Gastonia textile workers’ case, but she did not deny it. The fake prosecution of these two, Roach and Gilbert, is only an attempt to quell the general in- dignation of the workers, and gives the prosecution of the 15 in Gas- (Continued on Page Three) The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three _ we face electrocution or prison tenms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Reltef: Week July 2’—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. Still Fights Wall St. 4 General Augusto. Sandino, leader of the Nien guan workers and veasonts in their fight on the Wall Street imperialist troops and the Wall Street pupet government in Nicaragua. The above photo was | taken in Mexico where Sandino re- cently arrived to enlist the active support of the Mexican workers and peasants in the fight against the imperialists. The workers and peas- ants are continuing the struggle against Wall Street. DENOUNCE MOVE Anti-Imperialists Are FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, July 21 — Denunciation of _ imperialist- planned provocation “against the Soviet Union in Manchuria was the gress of the Anti-Imperialist Jeague at its second session today. Over 300 delegates were seated. in& rallied to defeat the imperialist intrigue of the Nanking Government, delegates from workers’ and peas- the far east, told the conference... Strong delegations from Indian groups and from Latin-America em- phasized the activities of the League mobilizing the oppressed colonial peoples against imperialist aggres- sion. Latin-American delegates repre- sented sections of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League in Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Bra- zil, and Cuba. Trade unions were represented from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador and Mexico. Other delegates came from Great Britain, Soviet Union, France, Hol- land, India, Arabian countries, Ko- rea, China and the Philippines, ..« PARK WORKERS GAIN. BOSTON (By Mail).—Organized municipal park employes raised wages 25 cents a day. Their new rate is $4.75 a day, AGAINST U,S.S.R. in Session at Frankfort | high light of the second World Con- | Widespread support is already be- | ants’ organizations, especially from Hl SIGN YOURNAME 25,000 WORKERS = TOGASTONCASE PROTEST ATTACK PROTEST ROLL! ON SOVIET UNION 1,000,000 Signatures to Denounce: Imperialist | Be Expected During War Plot. ins Defense Week Many Conferences Mass Meets Many Join the Party Socialists, Employers Police Brandish Clubs; Try to Check Drive Attack Pioneer The working class of America, To the thunderous roar of work- fighting the united resistance of ing class protest again: the capitalists and the reformists, | Petialist drive on the First W h vor of “socialist” |" Republic that is now rising such as the mayor of “socialist” | trom every corner of the world, the Reading, Pa., who refused to grant | voices of York work- 00 New a permit for a Gastonia aid tag o were -added lay night at day, are prepared to make the great- ht outdoor ma meetings held est mass protest in the history of | simultancously in widely separated the American working ¢ the | sections of the city. week of July 27th to August 3rd. anged the. New York. Dis- A petition of protest to which 1,-| trict of the Communist Party as 000,000 names of workers will be|;ecruiting allies for the enormous affixed, is being sen. out during the | Union Square demonstration to |Joint Gastonia Defense Week of the place on International Red Da International Labor Defense and the) August 1, and for the Anti-Impe Workers International Relief. i ar Day Conference of July $50,000 must be raised during this ich will lead up to it, week. The membership of the I.| meetings were so L. D. must be increased to reach | supported, both num the quota of 100,000 by thé end of the trial; relief must still be sent to 100 Gastonia families entirely de- 5,000 at One Meeting pendent on the W. I. R. At one meeting place alone, that The I. L. D. announces reports; at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, from every part of the country) Harlem, 5,000 workers turned out showing that millions of workers/to challenge the imperialist act of are behind the campaign. | war in seizing, through Chinese toa- rally, that the wildest expectations of the sponsors were put behind. Continued on Page Three) (Continuea on Page Five) Things You Must Do! 1. Rouse the workers in the factories to the danger con- fronting the Soviet Union. 2 2. Organize anti-war committees in the shops. Prepara- | tory for the antiwar demonstration August Ist, resolutions must be passed in the shops protesting the provocative acts agaifist 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. 5.—Propagate for the slogan of anti-war day on August First! Join the demonstration at 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 1 een energies; speed up the fight! 1 Defend the Soviet Union! | lap for wal Street Jose Vasconcelos (above, center), | ‘former minister in thee Obregon cabinet, aims to serve Wall Street as “its puppet ruler in Mexico, but the Gil government seems to hav gotten the Wall Street O.K. Vas concelos will oppose the Gil cundi- date as the “anti-re-electionist” candidate. An emergency conference will be | dies, the Chinese Eastern Railway | | the 12 workers arrested at last Fr! | the consular offices of the Nanking | | Assembly in the | Weinstone, organizer JAIL FOR EIGHT DEMONSTRATORS Judge Vicious After Anti-Nanking Meet “You are the peope who are against any sort of authority and who dare to shout ‘Down with Police | Brutality’ outside the consular of- | fices of a foreign government,” / Magistrate Hyman Bushel sneered | as he passed sentence on nine of! day’s mass demonstration outside} government at 13 Astor Place. » Jail Demonstrators. Those he tried on disorderly con duct charges included William W.} of the New York district of the Communist Party and mayoralty candidate in| | the municipal elections. He was | suspended. Seven others took two) days in*jail rather than pay a ten-| dollar fine, and Adolph Stern and| Nat Kaplan, Party candidate for ird A. D., Bronx, were sent down for five days when they refused to pay the fine. The, two released were James Mu, of the | Alliance for Support of the Chinese | Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolution, and Lydia Okin, of the Communist | | Youth League. {We went to demosntrate against | | forced to s ORLEANS LABOR SHOUTS FOR A GENERAL STRIKE egro, White Toilers “ake Part in Huge Demonstration Werkers Families Aid Misleader Is Booed Off’ Platform New Orleans, La., J thousand New Or sembled at the g New Or s has pledg striking their voice De The Claiborne white and gether roux, president of the 's Union, Division 194 ward Pillsbu Louisiana Public Service Commis- ion, and other local politicians, | The attempt to speak made by Marcusy, who r against the general greeted with boos and ca the workers present. Marcusy was down, | Workers’ Families Aid Strike. The meeting unanimously adopted | a resolution to refuse to ride in the scab-manned ¢: to refuse to use electric light furnished by the Pub- tic Service Co., or cook with gas \furnished by the company. Thus a strike of the workers and their fam- ilies has developed against the Pub- lie Service Corporation. United States Marshal Loisel is still in complete charge of operating cars with scabs. Through him the (Continued on Page THREATEN TO DEPORT PIONEER BULLETIN. Three of those arrested for par- ticipating in the Pioneer demonstra- tion-against the militaristic world scout jamboree last Saturday, Ben Harper, Murray Silver and Sol Efron, were haled into Jefferson |Market Court yesterday morning. | The case was adjourned until Thurs- |the Chiang Kai-shek government, | day by Magistrate Vitale, who want- |hirelings of world imperialism, and | ed time in whieh to drum up per- | its provocative attacks against the | jured “witnesses.” Soviet Union,” Weinstone said from the 54th St. Court stand. “ “The signs we carried,” he said | in answer to Bushel’s inquiry, “read | ‘Stand by the workers and peasants jof the Soviet Union; the hirelings | nouncing citizens’ military training, ae of world imperialism .are backing the latest aggressive move against the workers’ and peasants’ govern- (Contes, on Page Five) Jas a milit Harry Eisman, the fourth Pioneer arrested, will be called before the Children’s Court today. Caer Soe ist organization, de- and calling for the Defense of the Soviet Union, rharched onto the pie: at the foot of Fourteenth street and pe on Page Five) Whitewash Roach and Gilbert COMINTERN CALLS FOR A WORLD PROTEST AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR PLOT Chinese War Lords, “Capitalist Press Follow Stimson Program, Invent Fake “Invasion” Barrage of Lies to Lay Basis for Military, Attack; First Ones Exposed; More Follow (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., July 21.—The Com- munist International in recognition of the growing war danger in the Far East has issued an appeal to the world proletariat in which the following slogans lead: “Organize a determined defense campaign against the wire pullers of the counter-revolutionary campaign against the Soviet Union! “The working masses of China will reply to the adventure organized by the mad generals by consolidating a fraternal alliance with the proletariat of the Soviet Union. “Forward to the struggle against World Imperialism, the defense of the Soviet Union! “Convert International Red Day, which is the day of world struggle against the imperialist war, August 1, into a fighti demonstration against the organizers of a new bloody massacre, “Reply to provocation of a fresh war by revolutionary demonstrations of proletarian forces against the imperialist war makers! “Down with the counter-revolutionary Kuomintang! “Long live the Chinese Revolution! “Down with imperialist war makers! “Long live the fraternal alliance of the Chinese and Soviet Union workers! “Long live the socialist world revolution! The executive bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions issues an appeal to the workers of the world, stating among other things: “The action of the Chinese militarists is with the obvious cooperation of the diplomatic representatives of America, England, France and Japan. All these are anxious to distract ihe Chinese workers and peasants from the imperialist ma- | chinations. The R. I. L. U. calls on all affiliated organizations to fight ‘energetically against the war instigators and their social im- | perialist lackeys. All power must be exerted towards making the First of August a warning for the wire-pullers of the Chinese military clique. CT ane for The concentrated propaganda attack on the U.S. S. R. in the press of all capitalist countries continues, and is given | substance by the deliberately provocative “peace gestures” of the governments of United States, England, France and Japan, acting in unison and after conferences between their diplomats in Washington. The latest lie is an Associated Press dispatch late yestem day quoting Chang Hsueh-liang, the Manchurian war lord, as reporting to the Chiang Kai-shek government at Nanking that the “Red Army opened an attack on Chinese at 8 a. m. along the Suifenho River, using poison gas.” Before they understood what was required of them, the Chinese militarists had denied the earlier reports of battles with Russian invaders at Manchuli, Blagoveschensk, and Po« granichnaya, The Nanking government has also issued, yesterday, its previously announced declaration to the world, in which it re« peats the series of prevarications about “Russian provocation \and officials of the railroad fomenting an. insurrection, engagy t ing in assassination, etc. The widespread Hearst chain of newspapers in the United (Continued on am Three) i 4