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ray f{ Page Three “% CHCHINESE LABOR =TESTIN STRIKES; USSR STATES POLICY Soviet Will Defend Its Border (Continued from Page One) Chiang Kai-shek government at Nanking. The Arbitration Trap. Part of the plot evidently was that some imperialist nation should offer to arbitrate, and if the U. S. S. R. refused to fall into this trap, it could then be said that the Soviet government was rejecting “peaceful settle £ nt” and “insisting on war.” The Su ciet government’s note was ify elear-cut and logical, that Stim- jon evidently thought that it was sary to make a further pre- tensé of fairness, by offering, un- officially, to meet the obvious ob- jections. Stimson stated today to the press that “restoration of the status quo ante ‘as near as pos- sible’ was customary in interna- tional and domestic disputes.” Chiang Plays To Empires. Chiang Kai-shek’s minister in Washington, C. C. Wu, called on Stimson today, with a long docu- mentary answer to the U. S., French, English and Japanese proclamation, in which he played into the hands of the imperialists completely. He avoided the subject of seizure of the road by alleging that it had not been actually seized. “China,” ‘said Wu, “had only taken over the offices to stop Com- munist propaganda,” and had dis- charged some “disloyal employes.” He made the expected statement, useful to Stimson in a further cam- paign against the U. S. S. R., that “China had not invaded Russia, and Article 5—ETTOR, CARUSO, GIOVANNITTI. By VERN SMITH. Lawrence, Mass., even in 1912, was a huge textile center; 35,000 toiled in the mills of the American Woolen Co., Pacific Mills, Arlington Mills, Atlantic, Pemberton, Everett, | Kuhnhardt, Duck, and 18 other mill) companies. Wages were around $11.06. Commissioner of Labor} Chas. P, Neil, in his report of 1911, stated, however, that in the year’s javerage 22,000 were getting less than $7 a week. The price of living had begun to rise. The 12 hour day prevailed. Half the workers were women and children. The companies had instituted what in the South is called a “stretch out” system: |doubling the number of looms per | worker, in some cases, increasing them in all cases._ At the turn of the year, most of the mills ar- bitrarily cut wages, the first notice of it many workers had was when the envelopes of women and children showed short pay. Conditions Like Gastonia. Take it all around, Lawrence, was just about like the South today: same low wages, same speed up, | |same long day, same wage-cuts, same despotic control by the bosses. The main difference was a greater con- centration of mills in one city, and \the fact that the workers were of many nationalities and dialects .in | Lawrence, instead of all being of old | | American stock, as in the South. | On Jan, 10, 1912, in Lawrence, a} meeting of 1,000 Italian and Polish | weavers was held, in a hall, and| voted to strike. The next day the! spinning department of the Arling- ton mill struck. This mill was owned by Whitman, a front for J. Pierpont Morgan—as the Manville-Jenckes 'Go. in Gastonia, also has on its jboard one Mr. Graustein, the head! of the International Paper and | Power Co., with Morgan money back | lof him, too, Both Whitman and| vocateurs were shooting at the strik- ers and near the police. Lo Pizzo was with a few of the strikers, and a group of police and detectives were standing near, The shot came from the direction of one police officer, Osear Benoit, but he insisted that it was fired from behind him, by an enemy of his, and at him. | + NEW WEAPON TUNEL CALLS ALL * DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929 for the present intensified attack is to prevent the realization of the five-year plan. Soviet Union Example To Workers The Soviet Union stands before the workers cf the world as an cx- ample of what can be achieved with TO DEFEND USSR iA the workers in power. It is. an in- ! 4 tries who are struggling against ay ee | long hours, low wages, and the in-| human speed-up systems which cre inherent in capitalism. It the workers to struggle capitalism and for a workers’ and farmers’ government. Proves Imperialist War Plot Back of Crisis at they will! sc 4000 CONVICTS : to the last. 5 ican workers especially, are to join in these world REVOLT i PROTEST must be made to realize 5 pre- thi if they dare to plunge the s from World into a new war—or go fur- Dem-|ther in the attacks on the ay A iL CONDITIONS er The working mass tates must immediately s ations. The American rul- carrying through their plans. ‘ations must be organized im-|Union—they must confront a prole- ately in every ci erving no-|tarian revolution. They must be t'ee that the American workers shown that the proletarian masses) Prigonkeepers Kill 3, will: not tolerate war against. the|of the United States will defend the | ane Soviet Union, and that such a war U-S.S. R. with every means at their Injure 20 only lead to civil war—to “isp — (Continued from Page One) |the Rhode Is: (Continued from Page One) India and fascist Poland, Finland, Roumania, and other border states, at the behest of American imper ialism and of the other imperial Ettor, Giovannitti Jailed. No arrest was made at the time, but immediately afterwards, Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti were jailed 5 and charged with complicity in the | jowers, are preparing to attack murder of Annie Lo Pizzo. Giovan- fom the West. These are the war me ted Lass in ewrenaion pan plans of the imperialists against the 20.. He was the editor o! role- Soviet Union. tario, official organ of the Italian! ‘ saa a lees Socialist Federation, and had much|, While English imperialism has NURGESR ec staceer thn lati He beech most aggressive the American vit OO ee See © imperialist government is also in Wibass niga a ile ae sued ae the forefront in the attempt to Great relier society, and was an €0-| crush the workers’ and peasants’ quent speaker at strike méetings, To ieqverninenévor“Ruasiny = the td: the bosses, it seemed as though Ettor |}... continuously refused to grant and Giovannitti were the leaders, | dinlomatie recognition. without whom the strike would col-| tary intervention was carried out by tapbes Bo ‘they sweneanrested, the U. S. troopg in Archangel and The bosses didn’t realize that this | Siberia. The Hoover famine relief really spontaneous strike had or-| committee was utilized in attempts ganized itself, that its strike commit- | to undermine the government of the tee would function without any par-|Soviet Union. Money and military ticular leader, and that many new | equipment was turned over to the organizers were in action, chief|counter-revolutionary white guard mong whom was the former textile |forees. Heavy loans with which to worker, and then labor member of|equip huge armies were made to ind legislature, James | fascist Poland and to other border P, Reid. Reid is now president of |states. Now the Wall Street gov- the National Textile Workers Union,|crnment in Washington grants full which is leading the strike in Gas-|recognition to the Kuomintang gov- tonia. If the bosses had known|ernment in China and utilizes it in what he was going to be doing in|a further attack on the workers’ years to come, he surely would haye | Soviet Republic. been charged with murder along! The constant aggressive and or- with Ettor and Giovannitti, |ganized hostility against the U. S. | termined to throw all of their forces The imperialist powers are con- scious of these facts. They are de- against the Soviet Union in an ef- fort to smash this first workers’ state. Despite the great. antagon- isms between the imperialist power themselves (especially the antazc isms between England and Amer- ica) they are able to unite in a common struggle against the U. S. S. R. They are utilizing their hi |lings at the head of the Kuomin- jtang government in China to strike Active mili-! the first blow, While this attack is being made and further attacks are being pre- pared, the social reformists of all ~ hues and complexion, from the British labor government of Ram- say MacDonald to the A. F. of L. leaders, the socialist party and the Musteites, join in the cry that there is no war danger. They attempt to create illusions amongst the wo’ ers that the Kellogg Peace Pact and the League of Nations will prevent war, whereas these and all other fake “peace” schemes are the smoke sereens of the imperialists to cover up their feverish war preparations. By carrying on this pacifist propa- | ganda the reformists try to prevent the mobilization of the workers for the defense of the Soviet Union and pr - for action, The members and supporters of the Trade Union Educational League must immediately intensify the struggle against imperialists. The campaign for the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention must be pushed with great vigor. Shop committees must be set up. The work in the old unions must be pushed forward. Local T. U. E conferences must be held. Leader- ship must be given to the growing an revolution in the United States. Demonstrate At Once. These demonstrations must be) held immediately and thoroughly nized. Shop committees must immediately set up and mobilized Resolutions must be in- troduced in all local unions. Local United Front. conferences must be called. Strikes must: be organized in as many shops as possible. Dem- be onstrations must be held before the|*i"ugele of the workers against Chinese embassy and consulates and| W786. Culs, long Aours = and the speed-up. Immediate demonstra- before American government insti- tutions. The workers must be made ) realize that an attack on the Soviet Union means an attack on he working class everywhere. The | mperialists must be made to 1 tions must be organized for the de- fense of the Soviet Union. Strikes, especially in the war industries, and mass demonstrations must be organ- ed for International Red Day on 3 5 August Firs i varies that they will have the determined AUSUSt First. The entire working Eshop lesan class mast be mobilized against While th a li esa imperialist war. hile the most immediate danger Batre Paar oli is the imperialist attack on the| Defend the Soviet Union! Fight U. S. S. R. danger of war’ also|°##inst imperialist war! looms between various imperialist Organize immediate demonstra- powers themselves. The rivalries tions! Strike! — Demonstrate on between the imperialist pc August First! pecially between Great Britain and| Away with the Muste-socialist A the United States is due to their/ F. of L.! Forward to the Cleve- struggle for new markets, fields for saad: Trade Union Unity Conven- ion! investments, and sources of raw, Hon % . materials, are sharpening td the! Forward to international working breaking point. The tempo of mili-| ‘lass solidarity! tary preparations has become fev- when they were immediately slaugh- tered by guards as they tried to scale the wall by the human ladder | method. Others staggered back under the raurderous hail of rifle fir For weeks earlier the prisoners had murmured sullenly against the L.| Jong hours of work and the uneat- able food. Men Made Desperate. Their unrest had been noted by officials, but the men, solidly united in their determination to risk certain death rather than stay longer in the walled hell-hole, let no inkling of ' their plans escape. Watchful ward- ers, stool-pigeons, superintendents— none knew of the plan in spite of the number of stoolpigeons which in- | fest the building. | The convicts paid the penalty. But as they were murderously reputsed from the wall, they wrecked the power dynamo, which furnishes light and power to the institution. ‘The carpenter and weaving shops, where |the prisoners slave long hours every day under the eye of the guards, ere fired. War Publicist Aids Officials. | When the general alarm was |sounded and prison officials began calling for aid, Thomas R. Shipp, Washirzton publicity relations coun- “Big Bill.” | About the time Ettor and Giovan- nitti were arrested, Big Bill Hay-! wood hit town, and was placed in command. Haywood v pobably the most able strike tactician that| the “Russians are the aggressors.” |Gyaustein were great for buying up |the American working class has ever Along with this came the usual hypocritical charges about ‘Commu nist propaganda for assassination: “discovered in the Russian lates,” ete. The statement by Wu was along the line of the proclama- tion issued yesterday from Nanking, asa platform for imperialist inva- sion of the U. S. S. R. ee Appeals To Imperialist League. SHANGHAI, China, July 22—The Nanking government announced to- day a plan to draw the imperialist League of Nations directly into the Manchurian situation, against the U.S. S. R. It was stated by ign minister, Wang, that “if present situation continues,” Nations. Such an appcal, undoubtedly. sug- gested by the foreign imperialist diploniats here, would give every ex- cuse required for the war fleets o! the League countries to appear he-| fore the ports of the U. S. S. R, and for imperialist .expeditionary forces to land on Soviet territory, as well as for foreign military ad- jisors and munitions to be rushed | Manchuria. jer eee British Cut Off Mail. LONDON, July 22.—The post- master general announced today that the dispatch of mail to China and Japan ¥ia Siberia had been sus- pended until further notice. es aa Japan For Stimson Move. TOKIO, July 22.—The move of consu- | the | Hina will appeal to the League of | | the Mass Picketing. | { ne department of the Everett mill, hich by that time had a few pic- £ it. The strikers crowded from | cpazvtment to department, turned in masses into the Wood, Washing- jton and Ayer mills of the American | | Woolen trust, shut them down, and! | | mill territory. | Then they organized a strike com- mittee with every mill and nationality, built up rolief and publicity machinery. The chairman and one main or- ganizer of the strike committee was doe Ettor, of the General Executive Board of the I. W. W. He had been called into Lawrence by a telegram from Angelo Rocco, chairman of the June 10th meeting. The strike with mass picketing lasted nine weeks. The bosses made use of militia and mill owners’ gun- | |men against the sttikers; streams | {of cold water were played on the pic- | kets from fire hose, shots were fired On the 12th, a strike started in| ooouch ets from the Arlington mill outside Lan tn victory. the power, called everybody out, le5ok Poem: ft the Everett mill empty, charged |}. an adequate story of Haywood, | | representation from} produced, a dynamic personality, a fine speaker, and a mass leader who couldn’t be beat. He furnished inspiration alone to have jovercome the effect of arresting the! lcaders, and the strike went right) Haywood a man of} the workers, became a Communist as soon as the Communist movement But this article cannot rv of many spectacular and interest- | ¢ features of the Lawrence strike, such as the sending of the children} pt over most of the rest of the | cut of the city to work in other| cities; we must get back to the! fvameup aspects. | Developing the Frame-Up. |getically carried out. \this trick, that 20,000 of them went | wonder that the first act of the U. for the struggle against imperialist | SR. isd f i : ; i due to the fact that in the| var, thereby openly serving the in- Soviet Union the workers and peas- ants are in power. Through their political party, the Communist Par- ty, and through their trade unions} Rally To Defense of USSR. with over ten million members, the) The workers and peasants of the workers completely control the gov-; Soviet Union are rallying as one ernment and all social and economic| man to defend their revolution, to institutions. In the Soviet Union| maintain the U. S. S. R. as the socialism is being built. The seven-| fatherland of the workers of the hour day has been established.| world, to hurl back the mercenaiy Great improvements have taken) hordes of the imperialist invaders. | of imperialism generally. |place in the working and living con-| Hundreds of thousands have volun- ions of the workers and peasants.| teered for service in the proletarian Still greater gains will be achieved; Red Army—the heroic defenders of under the five-year industrializa-|the workers’ state in many battles. tion plan which is now being ener-|In Germany, France, England and The reason many other countries huge demon- American principles of government, | failed. What wonder then, that the ete, employer class of America, in these General Strike. | days of centralization, has called out The textile workers of Lawrence | its federal government to the aid of were so far from being taken in by| the Gastonia prosecution? What terests of American imperialism and | |tween the imperialist powers them-|cracy” of labor, the building trades, In the United States every industry is being put on a war The bosses’ rationalization , the murderous attacks on the i and the New Orleans lice terror against| s in New York, Bos- Detroit, ete., are al part of the war preparations and the struggle for imperialist expan- sion at the expense of the workers. Proof of War Plot. The very intensity and complexity of the so-called peace maneuve (the Kellogg Pact, the conferences sel, was among the first to help Organized Labor Wins oH eek that no prisoners got free. Slight Wage Increases Shipp understands the necessity As Unorganized Suffer of well organized, repressive disci- pline in state institutions. During “Manufacturing employment is | the last imperialist war he helped now probably in the neighborhood of | flood the country. with the war pub- 10 per cent Above the low point of |licity on the Y.M.C.A., Red Cross, 927,” according to the July issue of |and Plattsburgh training camps. “Facts for Workers,” published by | The traditional “investigation” the Labor Bureau, Inc., 2 W. 43rd | have started. Meantime, the prison- St. The article points out that this|ers continue to eat disease-breeding fact answers the claim of manufac-| swill, sweat in the stifling summer turers that the workers thrown out | heat in badly-ventilated cells, and of industry in 1927 have been ab-| hundreds, denied cells because of between Dawes and MacDonald, the | S°*ed in other industries. The only | overcrowding, will sleep—or try to talk of naval disarmament, the pro-|S°Urce for this increased number of | sleep—in the corridors. posed visit of MacDonald to the| Workers would be from the unem- | United States, ete. etc.) are in ployed. That these workers have re- Communists fight on behalf of the themselves further preparation for| turned to work after long periods) immediate aims Hagan a war and proof of the immediate . war ery at reduced wee Beech sa eset oleeieee Bide es danger of war. egos ea ih 3s fending the future of the move- The war danger looms menacing-| While some gain in wages Was) ment—Marx. ly over the world—imperialist war | indicated for the month of June this | against the U. S. S. R. and war be-|Was entirely among the “aristo- time since 1926, showed a very slight gain, the total increase in workers out on a great demonstration gen- The prosecution at first proceeded | ¢Tal strike during the days just be- on the same theory as in the Hay-|fore and during the trial. their followers to violence, in the|the general strike. owner” demonstration failed, ac- |complishing little beyond the dis- |play of several thousand dollars | worth of bunting. The defense shot Annie Lo Pizzo. The incongruity of one striker shooting another bothered them, and they attempted to cure this by ar- resting some striker whom they} accumulated and man Benoit, the bullet missing him, the pitiful wages of workers all over | at the strikers, and there were many | errests. In one batch, 36 strikers | were tried without jury, without be- | ing permitted counsel, and most of | them were sentenced to a year apiece | \by Judge Mahoney. One child | striker, Johnny Ramie, was bayonet- | ted to death by the militia. The whole strike was one terrific ; Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, battle, and ended with a substantial of the United States “to promote| Victory, Sunday, March 12, with in- peace” between Russia and China is | teases of from 5 to 25 per cent, satisfactory to Japan, it was indi-|™ostly for the lower paid workers, could have killed Annie. For this|the world. Much of it was spent on purpose, during a period from March | Publicity, to tell the facts of the 12 to April 17, the head of the Cal-|{rame-up to the world. The defense lahan Detective Agency of Boston, | Publicity in American Woolen Co. pay, | Speakers, distributed many leaflets, hounded Joseph Caruso from job to| ond supplied a news service to over job, getting him fired as fast as he |1,000 newspapers and magazines all got work, The intention was plainly ‘Yer this country and abroad. to make him leave town, and “by The working class as a whole was Miners, | fense's envelopes, by means of which market case, that the defendants transport workers, and many other | the workers of the world were to be | had by speech and writing incited | £Toups all over the country joined in| informed of the situation in Gas- The “god and tonia? | y - course of which some striker had Country, catholic church and mil! wners’ press in Gastonia calls for committee toured many, S. postoffice has been to bar the mails to the International Labor De- | What wonder that the mill! the suppression of the Daily Work- er, which has from the beginning ex- posed the murderous and fraudulent basis of the attempt to railroad 15 textile strikers in Gastonia to the e striker hoped to prove had shot at police-|*pent about $60,000, donations from | ‘lecttic chair? The capitalist class knows that if the workers know about Gastonia the electrocution program will fail. The capitalist class learns by ex- perience the art of frame-vp, and never forgets a thing that it hes ever learned, but the workers wil! learn, too. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three, who recently won a strike, in some this war,|Sections of the printing trades and to defend the Soviet Union. of the transportation workers. All On August First, International of these increases came as a result Red Day, strikes and great mass of the efforts of trade unions. No demonstrations will take place in|"ecord of the wages of the unorgan- every country. On that day the,ized workers is given. workers will serve effective notice selves, The American must organize to r workers being less than 2,000. Employment figures as a whole show an increase of 7 per cent above the figures for May, 1928. ‘The-June 1928 figure is not given; peculiarly. Wage cuts, longer hours, and speed-up systems ‘have been the lot of the great mass Railroad employment, for the first of workers. eated today. Militants Fight Compromise in Mill Strike in Silesia BERLIN (By Mail)—The de- cision of the arbitration court in the Silesian textile workers’ lockout providing for a wage increase of 3.7 pfennig immediately and a fur- ther increase of 2 pfennig from April 1, 1980, has been accepted by a meeting of officials of the Ger- man Textile Workers Union under the influence of the trade union lead- ers.* The trade union originally de- inded a wage increase of 11.7 fennig hourly and the oppcsition lemanded 15 pfennig. The decision has been rejected b; the textile industrialists. The dp- position declares that the advance offered is not sufficient and that the demands for the increase of the wages of the women workers, for an increase in the length of the holidays and for a shortening of working time have not deen granted. Therefore the opposition demands. the continuation of the struggle despite the arbitration court if it declares its decision bind- ing. 1000 German Electric Industry Workers on Strike for Wage Rise BERLIN, (By Mail).—About 1,000 workers of the signal building de- artment of the A. E, G. in the runnen Strasse adopted a “Canny” trike. In the evening a meeting f the shop stewards took place to- gether vith representatives of the other departments, and it was de- cided to continue the passive resis- tance. The workers demand that the higher co-efficient be immediate- ly employed in reckoning their wages, as provided for in the new wage agreement, whilst the direc- torial board wishes to introluco th2 | time and a half for overtime, modifi- cation of the premium system, and 2 promise of no discrimination. | Paid Provocateurs. Provocative actions by labor spies and company detectives were prom- jinent in the strike. On Jan. 19, the Boston American came out with a story that the police had found dyna- mite planted under a mill bridge by the strikers. This was an unusually bad break for this paper to make, for its story finding the dynamite was being sold on the street before the hour set by the police for find- ing the dynamite. After that, there was nothing left to do but to hunt up a “goat” who would admit planting the explosive to discredit the strikers, and save the mill owners, the real instigators | of the plant. A school committee- man named Breen, who was also an undertaker and church member un- der Father Reilly, the mill owners’ catholic priest, pleaded guilty and was fined $500. Wood Arrested. But then, .a division grew up be- tween District Attorney Pellieter and some political rivals under the thumb of President Wood of the American Woolen Trust, and Pellieter arrested Wood, Wood's close friend Atteaux who was president of the Atteaux Mill Supply Co., and one D. J. Col- lins, for planting the dynamite. He had as evidence the statement made by Ernest Pittman, president of the Pittman (mill) Construction Co. who boasted in public one day how the mill owners plotted in a private of- fice this dynamite plant. Pittman was drunk at the time, and when he. became sober he killed himself. Nothing ever happened to Wood & Co. Capitalists’ political differences aren't serious enough to actually send the head of the Woolen trust to jail for anything he does against the strikers. But on January 29, while the strike was at its height, and 50 mill owner detectives, acting as provo- eatours, wore smashing street car | well financed movement, “for God had a good many workers on it. The | evidence was a joke. Even prosecu-| tion witnesses testified to the pro-| vocation, to the violence of the police, and more the testimony showed Caruso could have had nothing to do with the shooting, and more and) more it pointed to Policeman Benoit | himself as the shooter, i Advancing From Haymarket. Whereupon the prosecution| evolved the theory, an advance on} the Haymarket precedent, that the | strike led to a condition during which | violence and murder could take place, | therefore the death of any person | in the strike, by whomever killed, is | correctly charged against the strike leaders: a viciously useful interpre- tation of law to any boss in any strike, since he would merely have to hire some dttective to kill some striker, and then arrest all the strike leaders and hang them. It was, moreover, no more essentially illogi- cal a theory than the original Hay- market precedent, which will surely | be used in the approaching Gastonia case, This wonderful murder scheme failed entirely because of the mass uprising against it, and the theory advanced by the bosses has not been used again so far. The prosecution understood fully the necessity of rousing the community to a point ot hysteria against the strikers, in which the jury would be intimidated, and during which the rotten evidence of the prosecution would look reason- able and sufficient to it. Father Reilly led an inspired and and country” against “all anarchists; Communists, and foreign agitators”: just such a movement as the mill owners in Gastonia are trying now, as shown by the continued fulmina- tions against foreigners and Com- munists and atheists,” and to lay a basis for which the mill prosecutor, Clyde Hoey, demands of all the de- wincows, a young girl striler, Annie Zendants a habeas corpus hearing higher wage scale only by degrees. . Lo Pizzo, was shot and killed. Pro- whether they believe.in god, and the flight give evidence of a sense ot |Well informed, and knew the nature workers face electrocution or guilt.” Howver, Caruso stayed in|¢? the frame-up, the jury was not prison terms! Rally ‘all forces to Lawrence, and was arrested there,| intimidated or “psychologized” by save them. Defense and Relief April 17, for firing the shot, |the bosses, and the frame-up col- Week July 27—August 3! Sign The trial started Sept. 29, before |!#psed., With a verdict of “not the Protc:t “oll! Rush funds to Judge Quinn, in Salem. There had | £¥ilty- International Labor Defense, 89 been a change of venue. The jury | Whenever, and wherever a frame- East 11th Street, New York. up has been attempted by the bosses | and the workers as a whole have Build shop committees and draw | the more militant members into legalized murder has the Communist Party. Lecome aware of the facts, that at- tempt at JUST OFF THE PRESS July Issue The Communist] A Magazine of the Theory and Practise of Marxism-Leninism THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AGAINST IM- PERIALIST WAR H. M. WICKS THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION—AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION A. LANDY RIGHT TENDENCIES AT THE TRADE UNION UNITY CONGRESS WM. Z. FOSTER GASTONIA—THE CENTER OF THE CLASS STRUG- GLE IN THE “NEW SOUTH” WM. F. DUNNE THE YOUNG PLAN , The Reparations Conference and the War Danger A. FRIED The New Reparations Plan, by G. P. FURTHER NOTES ON THE NEGRO QUESTION IN THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE STRIKES CYRIL BRIGGS CAPITALISM AND AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA (Continued) Vv. I. LENIN ‘ ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY E. VARGA LITERATURE AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE | FRANZ MEHRING | REVIEWS AND BOOKS Price 25 Cents | WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS | 39 EAST 125TH STREET . NEW YORK CITY Solidanty Demonstration with Gastonia Workers ! Sunday, July the 27th, 1929 (From Noon Until After Midnight) PLEASANT BAY PARK, THE BRONX Fifth Avenue Buses will go direct to the Park from East 177th St. Subway Station Admission Fifty Cents 50,000 Workers Will Demonstrate with the 15 Workers Who Go on Trial in Gastonia Monday Speakers: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER JULIET STUART POYNTZ WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE " ALFRED WAGENKNECHT and others 1 Symphony Orchestra of Fifty Men YASCHA FISHBERG, Conductor Motion Pictures—Open-Air Dancing Fireworks, Campfire—Other Features THE SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION TAKES PLACE TWO DAYS BE- FORE THE OPENING OF THE TRIAL IN GASTONIA AND WILL BE THE FINAL NEW YORK RALLY. TRADE UNIONS AND FRATER- NAL ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD ATTEND IN A BODY AND BRING ALONG THEIR ORGANIZATION BANNERS. COME IN MASSES! Local New York, Workers International Relief N. Y. District, International Labor Defense Auspices: