The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 1

a SS Se ee al ee Se ee ee n a 2 8 J 1 D r THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week : Entered as second-class matter at “Woe S Le, CLromeens[or 1 roa fore > Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879, the Po! Vol. VL, No. 119 Published daily except Sunday by The Cortprodally Publishing Square, Company, Ine. 26-28 Union New York City, N. Y. NEW V YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 25, “1929 FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION BATES: In New York, by mall, 88.00 Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per ye Price 3 PRAGUE WORKERS IN UNITED FRONT F OR USSR. Anti-In -[mperialist War Conference ot ¢ Unions, F ‘raternal Bodies i in Inving P Plaza Tonight HOOVER, MACDONALD SIMULTANEOUSLY DEMAND THEIR WAR MACHINES BE MADE 20 WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS NOW | SLATED TO OPEN MEET; EXPECT LAST-MINUTE CREDENTIAL FLOOD Special Edition of Daily Worker Out on Streets Before Meet; Gold, N. T. W. U. Joint Board, Labor Sports Union Endorse Red Day Preparations Agenda Given The number of militant trade unions and workers’ fra- ternal organizations which will take part in the Anti-Imperialist War Conference tonight in Irving Plaza to work out final plans for the general strike and the vast demonstration in Union Square August 1, International Red Day, was brought up to 20 yesterday with the addition®- ve mame coveree'e™ WORKERS’ QUICK ACTION REPELS NEW GASTON RAID only a fraction of the working class bodies, whose delegates the creden- tials committee will seat, when the meeting is called to order at 8 p. m.,” Sam Darey, director of the Anti-Imperialist War Day Commit- tee, said in a statement issued last night. “We know of many organ- | izations that are holding last-minute | 4 elections of delegates. Unit Delegates. “Also, the representatives to be sent by every Communist Party unit | in the city will considerably enlarge | the scope of the meeting’s influ- ence.” Carolina Penalties GASTONIA, N. C.,, July 24— Everything points to a very suc- cessful conference at Bessemer City, The five organizations added to| July 28, Preparations are being the roll yesterday are: Branch 586] of the Independent Workmen's Cir-|™#d° te transport the delegates evle, Flushing, N. Y.; Branch 115 | from many points in the Carolinas, of the same body, Brooklyn; the| and some are coming from Tennes- Jewelry Workers Welfare Club; the|see and Georgia. New York Drug Clerks Association Everybody in Gastonia knows that: and the Spanish Workers Center, |the prosecution. which is trying to The Daily Worker is issuing ajelectrocute the fifteen workers in special anti-war edition of 60,000) Gastonia jail sent detectives thru- copies which will be ready in time|out the county for the conference. Party units|farmers, and prejudicing them which have not yet done so must against the defendants, and then subseribe for bundles, selling at $7) sent summons only to those they Neal Shocked. at Brutal | Fifteen Gastonia textile ee are facing the electric chair. Eight others are facing long term jail sentences. WHY? Because they challenged the rotten sys- tem of low wages, inhuman exploitation in the textile mills of the South. ° Because they roused the masses to strug- gle against speed-up, wage cuts, imposed upon them by the textile barons. Because they organized into the National Textile Workers Union and are fighting for the organization of all the textile workers and are demanding an end to this exploita- tion. Because the textile barons recognize that through this struggle they are carrying on a fight against the very foundation of cap- italism. Because the textile barons and the cap- italists of the entire country and their gov- ernment recognize that the struggle in Gas- tonia is a struggle in the interests of the workers of the entire country. Because the leaders of the Gastonia strug- gle are Communists who are exposing the capitalist government, the American Fed- eration of Labor and the socialists as the enemies of the workers. What is the duty of the Communist Party and every Communist? To mobilize the great mass of the Amer- TO ALL COMMUNISTS! ican | iclipceihen to a full understanding of the Gastonia struggle. To organize the mass of the American workers for the defense of the Gastonia strikers. To answer the attacks of the textile barons with an intensification of the cam- paign to organize the textile workers into the N. T. W. U. To build the Communist Party, the Inter- national Labor Defense and the Workers International Relief. To build the Daily Worker and the entire Party press. Are you satisfied that you are doing everything possible in this struggle? Are you one of the 2,000 that have given their day’s pay? If not don’t you think that you are hindering the mobilization of the masses? Do you think you are doing your duty to the Party at a time when we have such tren.endous tasks and when the Daily Worker is faced with suspension? Your answer must be prompt and sub- stantial. Send your full DAY’S PAY at once thru your nucleus to the Communist Party of America, 43 E. 125th St., New York City. ‘ See that the DAY’S PAY is not kept for a week by the nucleus but is mailed imme- diately. See that every other comrade in your nucleus does the same. | MORE EFFECTIVE, DEADLIER, CHEAPER: Lettie War-Lord, in indian’ Entrenches Himself Either for Big Military Adventure Against Soviet Union, | Hoover Promulgates Kellogg Pact, and Admits | War Preparations Than Any Rival; Usual or Negotiations Us -acifist Camouflage | President Hoover and Premier MacDonald made an even start yesterday as though by pre-arrangement in the re-organization of the rival military machines they lead, and all junder the guise of limitation of armaments, and by Hoover, the celebration of the proclama- tion of the Kellogg treaties, | Not a single sentence of either of them gave any indication of a reduction in the \terrific new war weapons, the airplane, poison gas, the submarine, tanks, tractor artillery jand portable machine guns, which the last war produced, and the present pr r period has developed to unheard of lengths. jexpensive and more or less useless dead timber. hang over the U.S. S. R., hated by both alike. Both the the Soviet Union to force it to submit to an “arbitration” or junder U. S. leadership, and the other pushing for League of ' dominates. HOOVER BLURTS OUT WAR SECRET; Big Expenditure for, Imperialist War By |Powers; U. S. Lead s| Following are the expenditures 50 Shoe ski aces Win! \Fight After Walkout » MACDONALD apes MILLIONS SPENT ‘or the coming war by the larger | capitalist powers. Note the in- |erease as the war date draws | hearer. British Empire. Their whole attention was taken up with the c While Hoover and MacDonald thus talked hypocritically, Britis now going a little slow, wondering what Japan may do, and for fear of the growing resent- ment of the workers, but both are maneuvering, one to have pr x out of the war clouds continued to h and American emp are ure enough brought on “conciliation” by the powers Nations action, where Britain CZECH WORKERS DEFY THE POLICE; DEFEND THE lISSR Spends More On - interviewing the| MAKE ATTACK | reported. yesterday by the Ind eben-| a thousand, collect the money im- mediately and forward it to the busi- ness office of the without fail. Sections will mobilize at once for distributing the papers in their respective neighborhoods. Order of Business. The order of business, nounced last night, follows: 1. Report on war moves against the Soviet Union and our, tasks. .2. Preparations for International Anti-Imperialist War Day. as an- 3. Ways and means to fight im-! perialist war. Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union, gave out the, following statement in support of the confer- ence yesterday: “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union pledges its fullest | support to the workers and pea- sants of the Soviet Union in their defense against the imperialist ban- dits of China, as well as of any other attack of the imperialist pow- ers. Defend Soviet Union. “The Industrial Union calls upon all of its locals to send delegates to the Anti-Imperialist War Conference of working class organizations being held on July 25 for the pyrpose of organizing a strike demonstration against the imperialist war threats and for the defense of the Soviet Union.” The Joint Board of the union also issued a statement, part of which is given below: “The needle trades workers of the United States of America, who have been in the front ranks of every struggle against the capitalists of this country and their agents, the (Continued on Page Five) The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 2°! 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! Ru’ funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. Daily tonight) ithink are sure will convict. Neal Demands Venue Change. Attorney Neal issued a statement | today: “Only a few days before the most important trial in the history of the South, I do not see how any fair minded person can doubt that the Fie of prosecution jurors have en inflamed by prejudice against | the defendants, making a fair trial impossible. “I am amazed at the brutality of ;North Carolina law, stipulating the death penalty for four crimes: arson, rape, murder and burglary, The past week, and {particularly the last several days, have seen a tremendous growth of the Nation- al Textile Workers Union and of the International Labor Defense. This expansion in these organiza- tions exceeded even the expectations of the local organizers and the rep- resentatives of the national offices. It indicates a great swing of popular sentiment in favor of the union and in defense of the .strik- lers and union organizers jailed and awaiting trial next Monday for the shooting of Gastonia’s chief of po- lice, during his raid on the strikers’ ents June 7. Various liberals as well as newspaper reporters have come to the local offices of I. L. D., (Continued on Page Three) . | They shall not be electrocuted! | They shall not serve long sere in |jail! That is the answer to the Gas- tonia textile bosses which the million {names on the mass protest petition will give. T: will be the greatest mass peti- tion in the history of the American | working class. It will be eirculated | during Gastonia Defense and Relief 1,000,000 Signatures I. L. D. Goal in Gastonia Relief Work Workers “Slugged By} Police, Ship Thugs Rankled by the second demonstra- tion at the pier in one Week? offi- cials of the Cunard Line, with the aid of hired sluggers and police, yes- terday were respcnsible for a sav- uge attack on a large number of | workers who gathered for a send-off of the Children’s Pioneer Delega-| | tion which was leaving for the Sov- liet Unicn. | The demonstration was staged | just before the sailing of the S. S. Mauretania, upon which the seven | Pioneers were leaving. J. P. Mor- gan, who recently joined in com- pleting the bleeding of the German workers, was a passenger on the same boat. Singing and cheering, the work- (Continued on Page Five) Section 1 Communists In Center Meet Friday A membership meeting of Section 1 of the New York District of bal Communist Party will be held at the fifth floor of the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow. Week, July 27 to ‘August 3. For the purposé of discussing this | and other phases of the mass move- | ment to free the textile workers at) Gastonia, the thousands of workers of New York will send delegates to| the Defense Week Conference at Irving Plaza, Irving Plaza and dent Shoe Workers Union in the set- | . 8S. Strips for Race Toward Conflict HOOVER GESTURE ~ 300 Soviet Empoyees Jailed in Manchuria 51,464,200 | 1929-1980 ., 47,274,600 +1928. cp || tlement three hours after the dec- Stops 2 Cruisers But laration of the strike by the fifty workers of the Sterlind Shoe Co. Atlantie Ave. and Sackman St., Brooklyn. The workers went out on strike at the call of the union and so com- plete was the walkout and so deter- mined the spirit of the workers that |the firm signed an-agreement with the union, conceding all the demands of the workers the same day. These | demands include recognition of the union, the 44-hour working week and increased p: FURRIERS TOLD OF NEW TASKS Industrial Un ion Survey of Strike (The Daily Worker published yesterday the first part of a state- ment issued by the Furriers’ Gen eral Strike Committee of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union officially terminating the strike. Today is published the last half of the statement, giving a de- tailed analysis of the struggle, its gains, shortcomings and present tasks.) in Sammarizing the cenit of the strike, the statement says: About three thousand fur work- ers registered in the halls as strikers. Close to five hundred shops were stopped off during the strike. Several hundred workers did not register at the strike for fear of the immigration authorities and | the spies of the Department of Jus- tice, who were instigated by the A. F. of L. and socialist provocateurs of the Joint Council company union Fifteenth Street, tonight. | There they will discuss plans to| | (Continued on Page Five) tation. When we take into account the (Continued on Page Two) | Builds War Planes LONDON, England, July 2 | Premier MacDonald today made his|! expected speech in Commons on the; declared that} naval program. He the necessities of economy, and the possibility of “parity” with the S., by inference England’s real im-| perialist rival, would permit the/ suspending of work on the ery 1s ‘Surrey and Northumberland, a ‘Sub- mother ship, and two marine templated submarines. | But earlier in the day, Hoover is- Answering a question from the sued to the press a statement point- ) floor, MacDonald stated that the x out that the U war and navy was no intention to impair the/|department expenditures ® are the fighting strength of the British |Jargest of any ¢ untry in the world, war and navy department. No sug-|and that the money is not spent to gestion leading to a reduction of Britain’s rapidly increasing air force | (Continued on Page Three) DODGE ORLEANS GENERAL STRIKE Misleaders Stop Aid to »Carmen | NEW ORLEANS, July 24.—With union leaders again advising against “rash action,” the question of the general strike was not even put to the vote at last night’s long-delayed meeting of New Orleans organized labor, called to decide on the gen- eval strike in sympathy with the street carmen. Some 1,590 work- ers attended at the headquarters of the Carmen’s Union, 528 Bienville St. They represented 8% local or- ganizations with a total member- ship of approximately 4,500. Thus, by resorting to the usual |to threaten the workers with depor- , maneuvering, practiced since the be- ginning of the strike, the union bu- reaucrats were again successful in Continued on Eve Three) u.| con- ; WASHINGTON, July 24. — Pres- ident Hoover met the representatives }of powers signatory to the Kellogg pacts today in the White House. ing before them was a copy of the ct itself, embalmed in green hand- jtooled leather, and reposing in a coffin of green. Hoover delivered one of his usu- al almost platitudinous speeches j about the conscience of nations be- jing appealed to by the prov ms of |the pact, to “renounce war as a means of international relations,” ete. Biggest Army and Navy the best adve>tage in the creation |of the machinery of slaughter. Hoo- ver did not propose reduction of a! |single item of really modern and. effective warfare. “We hope to save materially on |naval expenditures by internation- | Staff a commission of leading army officers to and other outlays h:ve become ob- (Continued on Page Three) jarmy program, to see what services | French Empire. 1928-1929 . « 407,915,000 1929-1930 .. | ese ae as Vananesotingiee’ || CHITA, Uv. § 1927-1928 .. . 212,383,000 |Bands of White | 1928-1929 ,000| brought to the 1929-1930 .. 51,000| | by Chinese mili Le into Soviet territory on the 624,600,000 | into viet it ory on th | of June 12 . 684,700,000 | 741,000,000 | ious poir of Kolchak 1929-1930. The exp for Great| |of Ko | Britain, France and Japan cover| Siberia in’ | all military expenses, including | ahs of the army, navy and aviation.) || gees I These figures were supplied by | Bee the Bureau of Foreign and Do-| ‘tion in a p| mestic Commerce, while the ex-| 0 the railv penditures for the United States | were supplied by President Hoo- ver. (Wir PRAGUE, 24.—The Proletarian nittee Greater Pr closed conference of including soci party worke an Anti-Imperialist War ( Paterson Workers Hold Negro Protest Friday PATERSON, N. J., July 24.— Negro and white workers will joi pecan 6 worsens Wi 3°!)| Meanwhile the polic in a protest demonstration against) Workers’ Home, race discrimination, capitalist class|ference, searched the Czech i of Continittee. surrounded the di: al agreement on naval arms. In the °Ppression and gangsterism this arrested 40 dele handcuffed matter of army outlay I am in| Friday night, July 26, at 3 Governor ¢ ng Deputy agreement with the Secretary of St. ° | ; of the War to set up within the General} Speakers will include M. J.| ude Pravo. The police atta Olgin, editor of the Fretheit, Jewish stimulated by the government’s fear For Solidarity The provocative actions of the Chinese war lords against the First Workers’ Republic, Soviet Russia, are not representative of the Chin- ese masses who, in the words of the Chinese workers in the United States, “know that in their hour of need, when they were beset by the armed hordes of the imperialist powers, the one government on earth that stood by us was the SOY: | reconsider our whole | Communist daily; Harold Williams, °! Ug. 1 demonstrations, Soviet of the Negro Labor Congress, and| Union Defense Day. The govern- C. Alexander, of the Young Com-|™ent has also suspended the paper Veuainechaagtel Proletarska Telovoycheva for six months. mechs se N L b C C ll | Jail 300 Soviet Employes. egro apor ongress ALIS) roxio, tapan, July 24—Japanese news service reports that the Chang with the | SS Hsueh-liang government of Manchu. jria has just arr | the Soviet employ jernment of the Union of Socialist | Eastern Railroad, 1 ted 300 more of on the Chinese ing the usual Soviet Republics.” charges of prop; nda against Chiang Kai-shek, who now main- them. jtains power by mass slaughter and| It is known here that some such terrorism against the Chinese work-| move was contemplated by the Chi- ers and their labor unions, is the | ese milit ation for the traitor whose counter-revolutionary | sudden st coup, d’etat in 1927 revealed him as | Ployes of t d and many of an agent of the foreign imperialist the Chin v rs on it. Tho enemies of his country and robbed | strike has tied up transportation and (Continued on chia Two) geantinied on Page sich | ll the Soviet em- ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE DEMONSTRATES AT 8 P. M. AT IRVING PLAZA, 15TH ST. AND IRVING PL. TONIGHT! Tonight is the monster mass conference of all working class or- ganizations to lay plans for the struggle against the attacks of the capitalists and imperialists against the Soviet Union through their tools, the Nanking government in China. The American boss government pretends io want to “mediate the differences” betwecn the Soviet Union and China, wv Actually, however, Enlist under the banner of Defense of the Soviet Union! Send delegates from your workers’ organizations, from shops, cooperatives, etc. Make it a monster United Front Against the Imperialist War-Mongers. The pre- tense at fairness by Secretary Stimson is a huge joke when one re- members the repeated attacks that have been made by Hoover and his cabinet against the Soviet Union and the high praise they have always held for Chiang Kai-shek and the Nanking butchers. While the Soviet government is not even recognized, the Nanking government is sub- A FORWARD TO AUGUST FIRS Wall Street and its executive committee at Washington, is jockeying | sidized with money and arms with Which to crush the uprisings of the | for better position from which to attack the Soviet Union. workers and peasants and to carry thru their nefarious attacks upon our Socialist Fatherland. Now is the time for the workers of the whole world to rally against this concerted drive of the imperialists against the Soviet Union, Tonight’s conference must be made the center of the unifica- tion of all workers’ organizations in defense of the only workers’ republic, a Be sure that your delegates are there. Come to the conference and | hear the reports and plans adopted there for the anti-war sti g Rally the workers in your shops to DOWN TOOLS THURSD. GUST FIRST, AT 4 O'CLOCK AND JOIN THE GREAT Dp) STRATION IN UNION SQUARE AGAINST THE IMPE WAR PREPARATIONS AND FOR THE DEFENSE H] UNION! bis er —_