The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 5

Fy Brags of Huge Force of Imperial Militia | | | | The fight for the defense of the! Soviet-Union which had been begun’ with the great demonstrations held in recent years before the Chinese consulate was continued in the night court before Judge Bushel, a Walk- er appointee and attorney for the right wing union officials, When By VERN SMITH. In February, 1906, Moyer, Hay- wood and Pettibone were arrested in Denver, Colorado, and smuggled out of town on a special train to Boise, Idaho. They were charged with the murder, by a bomb explo- sion, of ex-Governor Stuenenberg of Idaho, The trip to Idaho was kidnap- ving, illegal, criminal and all of that. No extradition papers were sought, and the sole purpose of this man-stealing raid by the state a ministration of Idaho was to get hold of leaders of a great strike the workers arrested at the demon-| Movement in the Rocky Mountain stration Friday noon, headed by district, under the leadership espe- William W. Weinstone, Communist cially of Haywood. nominee for mayor, appeared Friday yp tight charged with disorderly con- duct. The arrested comrades were defended by the International Tabor| Defense. Thev Were Militants. The Western Federation of Min- crs, of which Charles E. Moyer was president, William D. Haywood sec- retary-treasurer, and Pettibone vice- In taking the stand, Weinstone president, had led a series of strikes scored the police for their brutality | of unprecedented militancy in that in beating up workers who had as-/ part of the world; Cripple Creek, sembled in accord with their right) Telluride, Coeur d’Alenes and the to protest the provocation of the strikes around Butte and Denver Chinese war lords against the Soviet | were Union, what the placards were, Weéinstone | so hard fought that even Asked by Judge Bushel! pitched battles were frequent. In all of these Haywood, espe- told all the slogans of the Party in cjally, and Moyer and Pettibone to the present fight for the defense of 4 lesser but important degree, were | the Soviet Union, much to the dis- recognized as leaders. comfort of the court. In rapid suc. cession he gave the slogans, what appeared as an explanation was in reality a denunciation of the enemies of the Soviet Union, Weinstone referred to the sloga: “The Chinese War Lords Are Hire. lings of World Imperialism.” “The government that frames up workers at Gastonia is making war against the Soviet Union,” he said. “Wall Street is behind the\war on the Soviet Union, the fatherland of the world proletariat.” At several points Judge Bushel threatened to disperse the audience in the court for their sympathies with the arrested. Nat Kaplan and Sim, for their attack on the police brutality which they upheld in court, were sentenced to five days in the workhouse. /Kaplan, who is New Jersey organ- izer for the New York district of the Communist Party, declared in court after being sentenced, “That the arrests and imprisonments would not intimidate the workers in | | | their fight for the Soviet Union! against the Chinese war lords, hire- lings of world imperialism.” The Chinese student Mu and Ed Royce were dismissed, Weinstone | killed, if possible. That was why they had to be As many at- tempts to quietly assassinate them had failed, the mine owners set’ one of their state governments on them, o do the job legally. In exactly this way, Fred Beal and 22 other textile strikers and organizers in Gastonia have been se- lected for trial, and 15 of them picked for execution. The most serious crime against the capitalist class is to actually interfere with its profits, to lead strike movements that are likely to force some em- ployers to pay larger wages. It Had to Be Idaho. The mine leaders were kidnapped to Idaho because that was the near- est state in which a prominent man had been killed, and therefore the logical place to frame up the mine leaders. Most of the defendants in the much later Gastonia case were in North Carolina and did not have to be kidnapped, but the kidnapping angle enters even in the Gastonia ease. One striker, Delmar Hamp- ten, had gone to Gaffney, Sdéuth Carolina. He was arrested there, and, as in Haywood’s case, was im- and Oken received suspended sen-| mediately rushed out of the state ténces, and Chorover, Stern, Horo-| without extradition by officers sent witz, Rose Rubin, Taylor, and Sonia|to get him by the mill owners. The Zucker were fined from 5 to 10 dol- Jars. They refused to pay the fines and served two days instead. All those found guilty were or- dered finger printed except Wein- stone, who was exempted and grant- ed suspended sentence because, ac- cording to the judge, he “wished to be charitable since the defendant was a candidate for office.” audience in the court room laughed loudly at this declaration. The Gastonia Text‘: Worlers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East llth Street, New York. PLAN DRIVE FOR GASTONIA FRIDAY I. L. D. Calls Parley in New York Only three days before the frame- up trial of the 23 Gastonia strikers end strike leaders starts, repre- sentatives of working class organi- zations of New York City and vi- cinity will gather in Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, and formulate plans for raising thou- sands of dollars among the work- ers of the New York district to save the frame-up victims. This all-important conference, to be held Friday evening at 8 o'clock, has been called by the New York District of the International Labor Defense. A number of prominent working class leaders, who have been active in the Gastonia case, will speak and point out the impor- tance of organizing a broad defense campaign to include all section of the: militant working class. ~ ternal organizations are urged to elect delegates for this ¢énference at onee and send in their creden- tials to the office of the New York I. L. D., 799 Broadway, Room 422, New York City. Unit Agit Props Must Be Present The} | | | { | At Meet Tonight | ‘All unit agitprops must be pres- ent at an important meeting tonight at 8 p.m, at 26 Union Square. On the agenda will be the July 25 con- ference, August 1, and the election campaign, MINER KILLED. TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (By Mail).— Caught under a cage at the bottom of a mine shaft nine of the Peabody Coal Company near here, Orville Wright, 27, a miner, was crushed to death, fact that such a kidnapping is itself a crime means nothing in matters of this sort. The employers, with their intentions fixed on killing, de- termined to have their spies swear men’s lives away, will not stop at 8 lesser thing like kidnapping. Their purpose is always to “get the lead- erat The Haywood case, besides bring- ing the tactic of kidnapping into the science of the frame-up, no part of which is ever forgotten by the American capitalist. class, developed to the highest degree known at that time the use of the stool-pigeon wit- ness. The trial started before Judge Woods, in May,.1907. with the now Senator Borah as chief prosecutor, and Darrow chief defense counsel. The Perfect Provocateur. Practically the only evidence against Moyer, Haywood and Petti- bone was that of Harry Orchard. This Orchard was a labor spy suspected by Haywood a couple of years before and distrusted. He suddenly flamed forth like a meteor at the Boise trial, with an incred- ible tale of burning a cheese fac- tory in Canada, blowing up the Bun- ker Hill and Sullivan mill in the Coeur d’Alenes, taking a job as | stool-pigeon in the Western Federa- ‘tion of Miners’ national office in Denver, from which he reported reg- ularly to Detective Scott and the ‘izens’ Alliance (a fascist organ- ization), trying with two other ¥stool-pigeons to wreck a train and kill 200 men in Cripple Creek, plot- ting the Vindicator and Indepen- dence Depot explosions, which cost many lives, and trying to assassin- ate a long list of noted persons, end- ing with the killing of Stuenenberg. Orchard-accused the W. F. M. of- ficials, of course, of hiring him to ill Stuenenberg, and cf taking part in some of his explosions. But he made his story so good that when the three on trial were acquitted, Orchard became a drug on the stool- pigeon market. His employers had to pretend to believe his crimes were real, and, on his own testimony, he | was sentenced to the penitentiary, Trade unions and labor and fra- where he still is. But the breed continues and will undoubtedly be prominent in the Gastonia case. Quote From Writings. Aside from Orchard’s testimony, the prosecution attempted to show animus by quoting from the official organs of the W. F. M., in which some harsh things were said about Stuenenberg, who had called out the troops and set up bull pens in the Coeur d’Alenes’ strike. Sim- ilarly, the mill prosecution lays stress on speeches alleged to have been delivered before the shooting in the Gastonia case, A press and “public-man” cam- paign against the Boise defendants was resorted to, as in Gastonia, and President Roosevelt branded them as “undesirable citizens.” Why They Were Acquitted. But the men were acquitted. Why? This case was an outstanding ex- ample of the effect of rallying of working class opinion, workers’ money and organizations to the de- THREATEN TO fense of the frame-up victims. Hay- wood states, in his autobiography>| “Many letters were coming to us| from different organizations all | over the country, with news of wide- spread demonstrations on our be- half. There. had been a protest meeting on Boston Common, where it was estimated 200,000 people had gathered to voice their condemna- tion of our illegal arrest and kid- | napping. Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone | parades were being held every-j where. In Chicago, 50,000 union | men and women marched in pro-| test. In New York, the parade was | even larger. It was not hard for | me to imagine I could hear the, marching millions shouting aloud: | ‘ff Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone | die, millions of workers will know | the reason why!’” | This is the kind of action that gets results. The frame-up machin- | ery of the bosses was working in the | Haywood case as it worked in the Haymarket case. But now it met in head-on collision with other ma- chinery, started soon enough to save the proposed vietims from the hang- man. The power of an aroused working class saved Moyer, Hay- wood and Pettibone. and nothing else. If the workers take the same | stand soon enough in the Gastonia case, the mill workers, too, can be saved. ‘ DEPORT PIONEER’ Police Slug at Anti-. Scout Rally (Continued from Page One) Threats of deportation were yes- terday made against two of those who were arrested in the demonstra- tion Saturday of 70 Young Pioneers against the Boy Scouts sailing for a World Scout Jamboree to be held in England. The demonstration was held as part of the campaign of the Young Pioneers to expose the role of the Boy Scouts as an organization being groomed and trained for use against | the Soviet Union in the coming im- | perialist war. | The 70 demonstrators, carrying banners denouncing the Boy Scouts Hudson River in mass formation, where several hundred Boy Scouts were sailing on the S.S. Corinthia for the World Scout Jamboree in Birkenhead, England. | This jamboree is being led by Sir | Arthur Baden-Powell, director of the Boy Scout organization, who recent- ly announced that the Boy Scouts | throughout the world would be used | against the Soviet Union in the com- ing imperialist war. | The Pioneers marched onto the | pier singing the Internationale, Ben | Harper, district Pioneer director, | then spoke on the dock platform, telling of how the Scouts were be- ing groomed for use against the | workers, and stating that the jam-_ boree in England will be held for the purpose of organizing the Scouts for the imperialist war. Harper called on the working class children to join the Young Pi- oneers. It was at this point that police, together with adult relatives | of the Boy Scouts, attacked the Young Pioneers, Harper was seized by police. The Pioneers demanded his release, whereupon police resort- | ed to brutalities. | The police seized Eva Resnikoff, | a Pinoeer, and began to choke her. So badly was Charles Cohn, another Pioneer, manhandled by the police that he was sent to a doctor for treatment. He was struck behind the ear with a policeman’s club. Many of the demonstrating Pi- oneers were young girls, and the) police did not hesitate to handle! them as brutally as they did the boys among the demonstrators, Those arrested were Ben Harper, district director of the Young Pi- oneers; Harry Eisman, Sol Efren, | and Murray Silver. EHisman is a member of the Young Pioneers, and Efren and Silver of the Young Com- munist League. The threats to deport Hisman and Silver were made in an attempt to cow the Pioneers, who have shown their readiness to hold demonstra- tions continually in order to show their support of the workers of the Soviet Union and to expose the use of bourgeois youth organizations as part of the plans “or the attack be- ing plotted against the Soviet Union. The International Labor Defense is defending those who are held as a result of the demonstration and will fight any attempts to deport Eisman and Silver. Membership Meet of Iron Workers’ Union For Tomorrow Night A detailed report on the progress of the iron workers’ strike will be given at a membership meeting of the Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. Important organization plans will be discussed ‘at this meeting and a financial statement will be given. All members are urged to attend. WIREMEN GAIN. SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail).— Electric inside wiremen here have won an increase in wages to $11 a day after 400 struck, | rey { | workers coned their plan to disdupt | demonstration. Collections for the emerg: DAILY WORKER, NEW AGAINST U.S. $.R, Pledge USSR Defense; Police Active (Continuea from Page One) YORK, MONDAY, JULY - WARDEPARTMENT THE KIDNAPING TACTIC 95,900 DENOUNCE f BOASTS OF A, F. L, Article 4--Moyer, Haywood, Pettibone |MPERIALIST WAR "ARMY OFFICERS 29. 1929 A. F. of L. Misleaders Aim Orleans Car Strikers r Any oF (CARL BRODSKY Telephone: Murray Hil. 7 East 42nd Street, New Yo Cooperators! Patronize } SEROY CHEMIST | 657 Allerton Avenue |] Estabrook 3215 Bronx, N. Y. in Manchuria and jailing hundreds of Soviet workers, and to pledge their solidarity with work where for the defense’ of the cialist fatherland, the U In every case the spe re- ported a large turnout; an intent and inspirited reception of the speeches, interrupted by outbursts cf mass resentment as the machi- nations of the imperialist powers were laid bare one by one and by| rms of applause for each allu-| sion to the Soviet Union; generous donations to the Communist Party- Daily Worker $50,000 emergency fund; a clamorous demand for Par- ty literature, and many applications for membership im the Communist | Party. Harbor Workers Rally. The waterfront meeting at the foot of Whitehall St. and South Ferry was especially well received, the seamen, longshoremen and har- bor workers realizing that they will he among the first to be s' into the bloody maelstrom w British, Wall Street and Japanese capitalists are preparing on the Si- berian border. The speakers, J. Louis Engdahl, Albert Moreau, C. Brodsky, B. Siskind, C. Alexander and James Mo, were all followed with undivided attention and their message, “Defend the Soviet Un- ion, socialist fatherland of the world working class!” was cheered to thé echo. At the close of the meeting the unanimously endorsed a resolution denouncing the imperia- list attack on the U. S. S. R. and pledging themselves to join the gen- eral strike at four o’elock August 1, which is part of the great anti- war demonstration scheduled for that day. Many Join Party The waterfront meeting demon- strated in a very clear-cut manner that the seamen and harbor work- | ers ave ripe for organization, J. Louis Engdahl said. “The crowd of 1,000 workers stood their ground |for four solid hours and were re- luctant to ‘eave when the meeting broke up at 11:30. Many recruits for the Party, including Negro workers, were obtained.” The ferocious Tammany police and their skulleracking night-stick were in evidence as usual, but sporadic attempts to bresk un the meetings went for aught, as the workers met their attacks with men- acing hoots and thronged closer te the platforms to protect the speak- crs. Attack Pioneer Speaker At Steinway and Jamaica Aves.. | Astoria, L. I., harness bulls pulled Ruth Youkelson, a Pioneer, off the platform as she was beginning to address the 2,500 workers gathered there in the largest outdoor meet- ing that the section has ever seen. Cowed by the indignation of the | working class audience, members of which demanded an explanation for this high-handed proceeding, the police permitted her to take the floor again, after which the meet- ing Eroceeded without intcrrupticn. Jingoes Flabbergasted The Astoria Veterans of Forei Wars, whose hall is only one biv from the meeting place and have been accustomed heckle Communist gatherings in the ne Lorhood were flabbergasted by t ich | ~|he asked Patrolman O’Neill, v p.m. pointment. 6022 By their willingness to mediate the New Orle Labor Davis and the conciliators of the government, again proved themselves labor devs. Part of the would betray are shown abov nstrating around a sca JAIL FOR EIGHT ommunist Party Candidate Speaks a coe At Workers Outing Ei | Dr. M. Wolfson 141 Secon Aw ei Phone, Or In case of trouble w come to see your friend, who has and oan assure They add th spirit which helped the lini tant Judge Vicious After Anti-Nanking Meet (Continued from Page Onc) ment; Defend the Soviet Un the S ¢ Fatherland of the World Working Class.’ “We were conducting our demon- : DRY¥dock 8880 SPITZ, Inc. 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He assured | fo |the court there was no fighting— ful drive are bright. |“but there was shouting and sing- Must Fight Compa |ing—a scene of violence.” OF «i “That’s a classic definition of! mu violence,” one of the prisoners com-| ug mented sarcastically while waiting fingerprinted. “That- six-foot | ¢ ” she told the Daily W on her release from Jeff ket Court, “just crouched and his club mere: ly on the le; arms of every one around hi Wah oe ARILAN Y Resvatranr [ Bigesrials wg Will Always Find It Pleasant to Dine at Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx {hie By Patronizing the W. I. R. Store you will enable us to clean and repair the clothing we send to striking and destitute workers. (near 174th PRO ) NE:— 9149, INTER “Not Charity—But Solidarity!” MEET YOUR FRIENDS at Messinger’s Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant 1763 Southern Blvd., ™ onx, N.Y. Right off 174th St, Subway Station Those who served the two days were er, Joseph Cion, Rose ard Royce, Sol. 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