The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1929, Page 1

- rain, was a big success. @ bers stood in the downpour until of- | BIG SEND-OFF FOR CHILDREN’S DELEGATION TO USSR TONIGHT AT MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 8:30 P.1 aily THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-H Unorganized our Week Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION 7 by Thi Sq Comprodaily Publ » New York City, Outside New York, 1ON RATES: In N ork, , $8.00 per y mail, $6.00 per year. Cents Vol. VI., No. 117 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929 U.S.S.R. REJECTS “ARBITRATION” PLOT OF MOREORGANIZERS PREPARE FOR BIG TEXTILE MEETING Gastonia Trial Nears;) Defense and Union Double Efforts | Boss Would Bar Meets| Try to Buy Assembly | Grourds, But Fail By LISTON OAK GASTON N. .C., July .22.—] With less than a \reek before the date set for the trial on charges of murder of 15 textile mill strikers and organizers, now in Gaston} County jail, and trial on assault | charges of eight more now out on| bail, the International Labor De-| fense redoubled its efforts for legal; defense, and the National Textile Workers Union speeded up its or- ganization campaign. Walter Trumbull, LL.D, represen- tative in Charlotte, with B. N. Camp, N.T.W.U. organizer, left today for a tour of the largest Carolina and Tennessee mill centers, to organize. Local unions of the N.T.W. will be built, shop committees organized, delegates elected to the great South- ern Textile Workers Conference in Bessemer City July 28. At the same time, branches of the International Labor Defense will be built in the mills, Bosses Fear Organization The bosses are desperately afraid of the organizing campaign now on in full swing, of which Trumbull and Camp are but-a part. They are try- ing to stop the meetings, and are especially active trying to buy up the ground which meetings can be held, but have not succeeded in pre- venting them. Local 68 of the National Textile Workers Union held a meeting near Gastonia today, which in spite of The mem- ficers were elected, and the regular | business transacted, including selec- tion of delegates for the Bessemer conference. th Similar meetings took place four mills today. Tent Quarantined. In the Gastonia strikers’ (Work- ers International Relief) tent colony, one tent has been quarantined on} account of whooping cough. One of the most active strikers in the relief and defense work Gladys Wallace, fell off the relief truck to- day and broke her leg. The need for relief and medical care for these sick is still urgent. Funds for relief and defense can be sent to International Labor Defense, | 80 East 11 St., New York. | WORKERS EAGER TO SIGN PROTEST Labor Defense Rousing | Labor to Gaston Case “The workers of the Middle West are anxious to add their names to the million workers signing the pro- test Gastonia petition,” Clarence Miller, one of the 23 National Tex- tile Workers’ Union members who go on trial next Monday at Gas- -tonia for murder or assault, stated today. . Miller came to the office of the International Labor Defense at 80 E. 11th St., New York, and told of his tour through the Middle West, in ‘DAILY’ FACES SERIOUS DANGER Response to Return to Six Pages Not Sufficient to Keep Going When on Saturday the Daily Worker re- turned to the publication of six pages daily instead of four we were perfectly frank with our readers and Party members when we plainly stated that this change was made be- cause of the demands of the international situation, not because the response to our appeals for funds had been sufficient to enable us safely to take on the additional financial burden. By resuming publication of six pages the Daily Worker remained true to the revolu- tionary tradition it has established in the labor movement—never to count the cost when we face the enemy, but to fight with every means at hand. Today we face not merely the threat of a world war, but at this moment the war of the imperialist powers of the world is actual- ly being waged against the Soviet Union. That the war is thus far being waged openly with the vile instrument of Chinese banditry, under a gang of murderers, highwaymen and thieves called the Chiang Kai-shek govern- ment, does not for a moment indicate that the great powers of the world are not back of the bandits. Everyone knows that the Chiang Kai-shek government hasn’t suffi- cient power of its own to wage any sort of war. The fact that it has organized a cam- paign of war against the Soviet Union is alone evidence that behind that monstrous government that waded to power through rivers of blood of the working class and peasantry of China is backed by Wall Street, Lombard Streét, and the imperialists, great and small, of the-world.— The resistance of the workers and peas- ants of the Soviet Union to the war of ex- termination that. has beén let loose against them is a defense of the interests of the working class of the whole world. The least the workers of the imperialist countries, whose governments are back of the war drive against the workers and peas- ants of the Soviet Union, can do is to aid in strengthening their weapons against their own capitalist class and its government. Not only does every worker in the Soviet Union, man or woman, stand ready to sacri- fice his or her life for the revolution, but in their every-day activity they display a self- sacrificing devotion that should put to shame those in imperialist countries who complain of the least sacrifice to the revolutionary cause. Every worker in the Soviet Union is voluntarily giving not one day’s pay, but ONE WEEK’S WAGES, to aid the struggle against the imperialist invasion. Surely anyone who calls himself a revo- lutionist in America can give one day’s pay to help keep alive the Daily Worker. The failure of a Party member to meet his obli- gation for one day’s wage is evidence of in- ability to understand the dangers involved in the present critical world situation, it indi- cates capitulation before the capitalist class, is a form of degeneration. At all periods characterized by a sharp turn in the class struggle such weaknesses reveal themselves. At such a time the Party must be alert to detect and correct such defects. It is from this point of view that failure to meet the assessment must be regarded ‘and under- stood. 0 eye Every Party member, every reader, every Sympathizer must realize that the Daily is still in very grave danger. Funds must’ be sent in or the Daily will have to suspend. This is the plain, blunt, unadorned truth. Rush funds at once to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York. © |Section 5 Membership! Volunteers Wanted to) Address Envelopes Meeting Held Tonight USSR DELEGATES 1,000 Convicts Revolt Against Jail Conditions DANNEMORA, N. ¥., July 22.— Defeated after a fiye-hour mass re- volt against horribly repressive con- ditions at the ill-famed Clinton prison here, 1,000 convicts marched |Lack to them cells while prison offi- cials planned even greater hardships against them for their protest demonstration in which three pris ers were killed and 20 injured. The revolt was crushed by heavily armed state troopers, customs Worder patrolmen and local hundred- Iper-centers who rushed to the aid of the guards. | Toiling Carpenters Lead. The dash for the free side of the £0-foot wall of the prison was led by carpenters after the inmates had tried to eat the swill which euthor- ities had dished up at the mess table for “breakfast.” There are 1,568 |prisoners in the notoriously over- crowded building. “Come on, boys,” \the insurrectionists shouted as they | passed the corridors on the way to clean the cells after the ten minute | recreation period. ' Hurling aside the guards. they | broke for the free side of the wall. | ‘The weary struggle of three lifers egainst prison repression ended Continued on Page Three) | 2 DEFENSE WEEK OPENS SATURDAY’ Solidarity Festival for | Gastonia | Workers of New York, fighting for the framed-up National Textile Workers Union members, 15 of whom go on trial in a week for murder, are rallying to the plans for | the Gastonia Defense and Relief | Week, July 27 to August 3, by a series of open air meetings next week. A membership meeting at which; Volunteers to address envelopes all Communist Party members of |for the Children’s Camp Department Section 5 are required to be present le the W. I. R. should report to will be held tonight, 8 p. m. sharp, | Rose Pastor Stokes, Room 606, One et 1330 Wilkins Ave. |Union Square, New York City. Exceedingly important questions, EG Ee a including the preparations for Inter- | PLUMBERS STRIKE. national Red Day and the sortherat | POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. (By ing municipal elections, are on the | Mail).—Ninety organized plumbers yder of business, |struck for a five-day week here. Defend the Soviet Union! The first rally will be held Mon- day when Robert W. Dunn, of the Labor Research Association; Grace Hutchins, author of “Silk and La- \bor”; Sylvan A. Pollack, editor of Solidarity, W. I. R. organ, ana others will speak on Monday, at GET “SEND-OFF” \Meeting Tonight for | Those Going to USSR | meetings to be held in front of the Eagle Pencil Co. at noon; and at Hundreds of workers will gather | Tenth street and Secord avenue at tonight at the Manhattan Lyceum, |night, |66 E. 4th St., at 8:30 p. m. in a) Defense Week will be opened by a farewell demonstration for the chil-| giant Solidarity Festival to be held | dren’s delegation to the Soviet | Saturday, July 27, at Pleasant Bay | Price 3 IMPERIALISTS MILITANT TRADE UNIONS AND WORKERS FRATERNAL IN ANTI-WAR ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE MEETING THIS THURSDAY a eee BODIES URGED TO uss. Answers Stimson; Nails Lies About PICK DELEGATES WITHOUT DELAY,” Jailed Demonstrators Endorse Meet “Now is the time to enroll in the struggle against the imperialist war danger! All militant trade unions and workers fraternal organizations must elect delegates to the Mass | Anti-War Conferences July at Irving Plaza!” ‘Bhis is the emphatic endorsement given to the conference call issued by the New York District of the Communist Party, 100,000 copies of which were mailed out today, by the 12 workers arrested, after being fetociously slugged by Tammany thugs, at the mass demonstration outside the consular offices of the | Nanking government here last F d ay “The 0. of the growing brutality police, like the drive to worsen the conditions of the workers, to lop off their wages and lengthen the work- ing day, to speed-up the already ter- rifie speed-up, is linked up with the preparations for war on the socialist | fatherland of the working class, the Soviet Union,” William W. Wein- stone, Communist Party candidate for mayor of New York City and one of the arrested demonstrators said to a Daily Worker reporter | yesterday. Workers Answer Boss Plot “By the free use of the night- stick and the fist, Wall Street, through its uniformed strike-break- (Continuea on Page Five) The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief t WASHINGTON, July 22.—The U. S. d Invasion”; Will Resist Border Attack Re . iang Kai-shek Minister Excuses Larceny of Railroad, Relies on Imperialist Assistance | BULLETIN, | FRANKFORT, Germany, July 22.—The World Anti- Imperialist Congress today, with representation from millions of workers, applauded speeches denouncing the imperialist plot against the Soviet Union, and the use by imperialists of the Chinese war lords as tools for an attack on the U.S. S. R. state department made strenuous efforts today to convince the Soviet govern- ment that it should let the imperialist governments of either France or U. S. arbitrate the dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railway. The U. S. S. R. had already refused the offer of Foreign Minister Briand of France to play the part of preju- diced judge between the hangman of the workers, Chiang Kai- shek, and the first Workers’ Republic. Secretary of State Stimson today notified Chiang’s min< ister, Wu, so he telis the press, that return of the Chinese Eastern to the Soviet Union and Chinese joint control is neces- sary for “arbitration.” He did not condemn the seizure out- right, he merely made a gesture designed to allay workers’ re~ sentment of the war plot, which the imperialist designs go on under cover of “arbitration.” Then conditions impossible for the Workers’ Republic can be included in the “arbitor’s” ruling, and the onus of the following military invasion of the U.S. S. R. thrown upon it. * * . CHINESE WORKERS STRIKE. HARBIN, Manchuria, July 22.—Deportation today of 63 additional Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway, as leaders of the strikers, was followed by the strike of many more employes, both Soviet Union citizens and Chinese on the East- jern Branch of the railway Unable to work the railway to capacity with reduced forces and with most of its trade gone, the new militarist control bureau of the Chinese Eastern® 5 State Stimson, through Railway today discontinued two Week July 27—August 3! Sign |trains between the east and the Protest Roll! Rush funds to | west borders of Manchuria. International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. a, Sse pea U. S. S. R. States Policy BRITISH JOBLESS GROW. WASHINGTON, July The LONDON (By Mail).—The Labor | answer of the Union of Socialist Things You Must Do! Rouse the workers in the factories to the danger con- 1. 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. * s Union. Prominent leaders in the labor movement will speak. Among them will be: William W. Weinstone, can- didate for mayor on the Communist Party ticket, Ben Gold of the Needle Trades Workers Union, George Powers, of the iron workers, George Pershing of the Young Communist League, and a Pioneer speaker. The delegation will be an answer to the imperialist attacks on the So- viet Union, which are clearly shown | Park, at which 50,000 workers will pledge their solidarity with the 15 Gastonia National Textile Workers | Union members. | All working women are urged to| jattend the festival by the Executive | Committee of the United Council of | Working Women. “Let the voice of the New York working class ring |s0 loud it can be heard in the South. | All workers for the defense of the |15 Gastonia strikers,” the message |reads. The demonstration includes ministry admits to a total of 1,200,- | Soviet Republics to the threat of in- 000 unemployed in England. This is | tervention against the Soviet Union a gain of 5000 in a single ‘week and|by the four largest imperialist pow- a gain of 70,000 in a year. jers was transmitted to Secretary of T.U.E.L. Calls All Workers to Defend the Soviet Union A stirring call to the working masses of the United States to rally Imperialists Plan Attack. 3. Adopt resolutions of protest and support for the Soviet Union in all trade unions and in all labor organ- izations. 4 4, Elect delegates, from three to five, in all labor organ- izations, small or large, to attend the mass Anti-War Con- in the provocative actions of the |a symphony orchestra of 50, fire- Chinese militarist lackeys of im- | works, moving pictures, and speeches perialism. {at 3 o'clock by William Z. Foster, Showed Up Boy Scouts. \ William W. Weinstone, Alfred Wa- ¥ ¥ genknecht, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz. The Young Pioneers, in their cam- , i paar : The campaign for a million signa- | 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 tH€ 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. posed the role of the Boy Scouts as the organization of the American besses, to train the workers’ chil- dren for future wars, and for an at- tack on the Soviet Union. The delegation is composed of an auto worker’s boy, the child of a needle trades worker, a Negro Boy Scout who has left that organiza- ion because of its race discrimina- tion policies, a child from Gastonia, a miner's child from the coal fields |paign for the delegation, have ex- | tures to be sent to Gastonia during the trial is continuing throughout the nation. ILD. and W.LR. branches throughout the country \are collecting signatures at all work- | ling class meetings. Signature col- \lectors are visiting trade unions, and |labor, fraternal organization secur- ing signatures, The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July °9! Twenty-three at once to the defense of the Soviet Union in view of the present attack upon it is contained in a statement issued yesterday by the Trade Union Educational League. The statement follows: The working class of the United States, acting in accord with the militant workers of the entire world, must immediately and decisively tally to the defense of the Soviet Union. The imperialist powers that for years have been forging a mili- tary ring around the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics have now decided to act. The reactionary The stealing of the Chinese East- jern Railway, the arrest, imprison- ment and deportation of the Soviet |managers and workers, the massing under the leadership of the blood- of tens of thousands of white guards | th French ambassador, Claudel The Soviet U again that the first Workers’ public has not invaded \ This brands as lies the wh of rumors set on foot war lords and imaginat mongering Am The world ha been stant new tales of “Red vasions,” at Manchuli, at Pogran- ichnaya, at Blagovestchensk, and other points on or near the Man- churian border. As fast as one story is admitted to be false, an- other is concocted. Will Defend Border. . The U. S. S. R., in its note to Stimson, makes clear that no mili- tary attack on Manchurian territory is contemplated, unless the Chinese | militarists’ troops, or White Guard ; Russians in their employ, invade the | Soviet Union. The note rejects Foreign Minister Briand’s offer to arbitrate the dis- | thirsty Seminoff and reactionary | pute, and points out that the seizure Chinese troops on the Manchurian|o¢ the Chinese Hastern Railway in border are the first steps in the im-| ntter defiance of treaty rights de- perialist powers to open the attack! stroys “the basis for negotiations which is designed to crush the first) and demands the return of the | workers’ and peasants’ states. “status quo.” Imperialists Plan Attack. Stimson had united Japan, France, The stealing of the Chinese East-| England and U. S. in a treacherous ern Railway, the arrest, imprison-| attack on the U. S. S. R. by remind- ment and deportation of the Soviet|ing that country that it must not managers and workers, the massing attack China, reminding China with Chiang Kai-shek government in/of tens of thousands of white guards where thousands of workers ex- pressed immediate protest upon hearing of the Gastonia terror. Shop Collections. “In Pittsburgh, Canton, Cleve- land, Chicago, St. Louis and Cin- cinnati, wherever I spoke, there was (Continued on Page Five) 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 » soldier of the world proletarian army. To forsake your duty at this moment is treachery to the work- ing class! All unit fungtionaries, all Party members, redouble your energies; speed, up the fight! near Pittsburgh, and a representa- Workers’ Children’s School. The District Committee of the Communist Party in a statement yesterday, urges al! workers to at- at the pier tomorrow at five. tive of the Non-Partisan Jewish tend the meeting tonight, and to be | workers face electrocution or prison terms! Nally all-forces to save them. Defcnse ad Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 | East 11th Street, New York. China, which but a few months ago attempted to drown the Chinese revolution in blood, murdering hun- dreds of working class leaders and smashing the Chinese trade unions, is being used by the imperialist powers to open the attack which is designed to crush the first work- ers’ and peasants’ state. under the leadership of the blodd- thirsty Seminoff and reactionary perialist drive against the U. S. S. R. While the fascist Kuo-Min-tang forces attack in the East, England is preparing to attack through | (Continued on Page Three) Chinese troops on the Manchurian | border are the first steps in the im-| an appearance of fairness that it must not attack the U, R., but saying nothing about the return of the railroad, or the release of the Soviet employes arrested by the |Chang Hsueh-liang government of Manchuria, at the insistence of the (Continued on Page Three) AMERICAN WORKERS MUST MAKE HISTORY DURING GASTONIA DEFENSE WEEK JULY 27 TO AUG. 3 Six days more and 22 textile strikers of Gastonia, North Carolina, face the boss controlled courts, 15 of these confronted with death in the electric chair, This is the grim fact that challenges every worker in the land, not only the 22 workers actually under .indietment. ever, is not faken up by the great multitudes passes many by, ignored. This challenge, how- of those who toil. It To make this trial and its mighty class issues known to the tens of millions of men, women and children who labor in the land, to make against the robber master class; a week of ma: ¥ its vital class issue clear to the whole working class is the object of jastonia Week,” July 27 to August 3; a. week of intensive struggle protest that will make history for the American working class. It was the speed-up that forced the workers in the Gastonia tex- tile mills to struggle, to strike, when they were forced out of their company-owned homes to live in tents, and when their tent colony was attacked, to fight back, courageously, heroically. We have heard an echo of their militancy in the strikes of the street car workers of New Orleans, the automobile strikers of Detroit, and similar struggles elsewhere, the numerous battles of the workers in various trades and industries of New York City, for instance. The textile workers of Gastonia have given convincing evidence of their fighting spirit. They will keep on battling, against every obstacle. Millions of workers, East and West, North and South, protesting effectively, during _the Week of July 27 to August 3, will help imbu 4 strations on August First, Anternati ional Red Day Against War; and for the Trade Union Unity Conference, August 31st, in Cleveland. “Gastonia Defense Week” is held under the joint direction of the International Labor Defense and the Workers International Relief with ebjects as follows: (1) Gathering one million names on a “Protest Pe- tition”; (2) Raising $50,000 for the Defense Fund; (3) Increasing the membership of the International L: 100,000 by the end of the trial; (4) | families entirely dependent on the W. I. R. dit Every red-blooded Worker 4n the land abor Defense to reach the quota of Raising relief for the 100 Gastonia wil workers in the South to form mili the widest ranks of the working class with the same mood for struggle. | and fight for the important issues involved: (1) The right of the The full observance, therefore, of “Gastonia Week” will be an energetic mobilization, in its way, of the working class for strikes amd demon- itant unions to fight for better con- ditions and higher wages; (2) The right of the workers to defend them- selves against the murderous onsl: thugs. aught of boss-controlled police and The fifteen strikers are being tied in the electric chair of the ruling class tyranny, and the electric current will burn out their lives unless the working class calls a sudden hal It. Prepare for Gastonia Defense Week by organizing for this purpose in your shop or factory, your mill town or village. al se, 799 or mine, or railroad, in your city, r Get in touch with local International Defense Or- ganization in your city or write for further information to the Inter- a ‘ New York ¢