The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1929, Page 1

e THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ee) aily $25 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by Company, inc., Vol, Vol. VI. No. 120 ‘NEW YORK, FRIDAY, ‘JULY 26, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: orker Outside New York,-by mall, $6.00 per year, FINAL CITY EDITION In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Price & Cents 500 WORKER DELEGATES VOTE STRIKE AUGUST FIRST Enormous Armies Prepared to Invade Soviet Union Over Po Polish, Rumanian Border F ight Against All Imperialist War! For Defense of the Soviet Union! Down Tools at 4 P. M, August 1! WORKERS MASS OPPOSITION TO IMPERIALIST WAR ON AUGUST 1 NECESSARY 10 DEFEND U.S. S.R, 2,500,000 Soldiers Can Be Mobilized Within 30 Days by Border States; Imperial Vassals Burst of Speed in Polish. Munitions Factories; France Promises 12 Divisions; Britain to Aid BERLIN, July 23, Tpenead): —The offensive cordon around the Soviet Union is drawn tighter than ever; the dan- ger of war is growing acute. In the Far East, Japan is plan- ning the complete annexation of Manchuria, whose provincial government is actually merely an imperialist catspaw. In Southern Asia the war base of imperialist Britain is laid in Persia, Irak, and Mossul, where? strong squadrons of bombers Against iniseikatiot War! For the Defense of the Soviet Union! Down tools 4 o’clock Thursday, Aug. 1 Fellow Workers: The Soviet Union, the Fatherland of tie’ | workers.and farmers of the world, the land of Socialist construction, the First Workers’ Re- public, is being attacked by the Chinese war n| lords, hirelings of world imperialism. The seizure of the Chinese |Eastern Railway across which the capitalists would send hordes of mercenaries and attack airplanes are con- centrating for the conquest of the Caucasian oil-fields andthe cotton district of Turkestan. ‘With the aid of the new Ameer of Afghani: - tan, Habibullah, England is using Afghanistan as an out; egainst the Soviet Union. The danger of war is most acute, however, on the western border of the Soviet Union; Poland and Ru- mania, the vassal states of the En- tente, are feverishly arming them- selves for war. Here are some facts on the Polish and Rumanian armaments. France Gives Weapons. In addition, Poland has received) from France in the six years from | 1923 to 1929 no less than 150,000 | rifles, 5,000 machine guns, 1,000 heavy and light field guns, 500,000 | shells, 1,000 war planes, and 250 tanks. As Poland was unable to finance these huge armament ex-! penditures alone, France granted Poland loans aggregating 800,000,- 000 francs during the last five years. The war preparations of Poland and Roumania have progressed s0 far that they can now cover own 1: m for munitions follow rifles, GE per cent; light (Continued m Page Five) STEREOTYE “GAIN. ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (By Mail).— wage increase of 16 cents an ce CHINA WORKERS CALL STRIKES FOR AUGUST | French Police Boast of Anti-U.S.S.R. Raids SHANGHAI, China, July 25. Great demonstrations of the Chinese avorkers and strikes have been call- | ed by the Chinese Communist Par-{ ty and the Red Labor Unions, to} take place on a nation-wide scale. | | Aug. 1. The Chinese Red Army of, york: | ‘ers and peasants now holds fal of | _Fukien province and is advanting ‘northward. The Chinese Communist | |Party has been forced underground by the white terror, but is growing | | in numbers and influence, French Police Arrest. PARIS, July 25.—Yesterday Louis Barthou, natgigue, public prosecutor, and M. Chiappe, Paris Prefect of over the prosecution and deporta- tion measures to be visited upon the more than 100 Communist Party French minister of jus-) tice, held a long conference with Do-| Policey| has been won by stereotypers here. and labor union leaders arrested in They are organized. | (Continued on Page Five) Mexican Workers, Peasants Score Attacks on U.S. S. R. The Hands Off Soviet Russia and| Russia and Anti-Imperialist War Anti-Imperialist War Committee of|Ccmmittee, formed by representa- Mexico, speaking in the name of| tives of numerous trade unions and thousands of Mexican workers andj worker and peasant organizations.| peasants, has sent a statement to the | This committee will fight energetic- | All-America Anti-Imperialist League | ally against imperialist war in gen-| U. S. Section, denouncing the im-| eral and against the aggression of} perialist war plots against the Soviet) the imperialist powers on the Soviet) Union. The statement, signed by| Union. We consider that the enemies | Hernan Laborde, general secretary, of the Soviet Union are the enemies/| declares: of the working class of the world. Be-| “Tt has been decided to constitute | cause of our class interests we must! this committee as the Hands Off! (Continued on Page ee The Attempt to Railroad 15 Strikers to Electrocution The working class of America, rendered watchful by the murder of Sacco-Vanzetti, still remembering the Haymarket martyrs, are earnestly following every detail of the impending Gastonia trial which begins next Monday, July 29, only a few days off. Aroused by the constant warnings of the International Labor De- fense that the electric chair is the bosses’ punishment for unionizing | and fighting for better conditions, the workers realize that the Gas- tonia fight is their fight. | against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics; the arrest of trade representatives of Soviet industries and the arrests of thousands of employes of the Chinese Eastern Railroad who refused to carry soldiers and arms to the frontier with which to attack the Soviet Union; the arrest of all officials- | equipped with the weapons of murder supplied by the United States, Great Britain and other imperialist powers on the Soviet border; these but indicate the acute immediate danger of imperialist war against the U. S. S. R. Under the pretense of “mediation” United States, Great Britain, Japan and France are jockying for favorable posi- tions both against each other and from which they could | more effectively attack the Soviet Union.. The whole bour- | geois press, including that of the socialists and reactionary labor fakers in the American Federation of Labor and of- ficials of so-called independent unions of the Amalgamated | Clothing Workers’ Union type, scream their hatred against | the land of the emancipated working class by crying about “red imperialism” when every honest worker throughout the world knows that the Soviet Union, our Socialist Fatherland, | raised the demand on every occasion including the so-called | disarmament conferences that a complete and universal dis- armament immediately take place. These proposals were rejected by the bosses’ representatives at these confrences. | Instead the workers of the world are now experiencing in- creased burdens, which greater armaments in preparation for war is putting upon them. The United States is leading the race for war prepara- The reports of the government at Washington admit that expenditures for war preparations by the United States government is greater in this country than in any other country of the world, including the other big imperialist powers. Coupled with these huge expenditures for war, we ¢ have the increased rationalization of the masses of the work- ers’ organizations, the frame-up and murder of workers, as in the cases of Sacco and Vanzetti, the murder of the car strikers in New Orleans and the present attempt to railroad textile strikers in Gastonia to the electric chair. As a result of rationalization and capitalist efficiency which is being in- tensified so as to give the American capitalist class greater possibilities for the domination of the world and as a result of the preparations which are aimed at securing by military force such domination, the bosses are piling up huge profits while the conditions of the workers are continually being worsened. The colonial workers in Latin America (Nicaragua, Venezuela), in the East (India, China, Morocco), and thru- | pathy with the U.S. S. R.; the massing of Chinese hirelings | | tions. out the world are in revolt against their imperialist masters | who are ruling them thru puppet governments which are maintained by troops of the great powers. The Soviet Union is the pole around which all the op- pressed workers and farmers eniae the world are rally- ing in the = against their bosses. The Soviet Union | is the living example for all toilers which shows the road of and members of workers’ organizations which were in sym- | revolution which the oppressed will have to take if they are to emancipate themselves. The Soviet Union is today the leader of all the world’s workers against their oppressors. The bourgeoisie hope by making |war on the Soviet Union, by suppressing the great land of liberated proletarian workers, to succeed through a reign of white-guard murder to suppress the rising tide of the class struggle in their own imperialist countries. They hope by destroying the Russian Revolution to be free from this revolutionary force that is a danger to the capitalist system and an inspiration to the world proletariat and oppressed colonial peoples and fight cut the antagonisms among themselves springing from the need of new markets, raw materials—antagonisms that are leading to a world war among the imperialist powers. The American government, the government of the big bankers and trust magnates, the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti, the government of the Gastonia frame-up, the gov- ernment of the open shop, the strikebreaking government, the champion and defender of the speed-up system, of un- employment, of low wages,’the government that murdered the New Orleans car strikers, the government that imprisons workers, that deports workers, that frames up workers, the government of capitalist exploiters, this government, our enemy, the enemy of the working class and poor farmers in the United States, and of the colonial workers, this govern- ment is now supporting the counter-revolutionary Nanking | government, the butcher of the Chinese workers, and is pre- | paring jointly with them to attack our Socialist Fatherland, the Soviet Union. Workers of New York! Diplomatic gestures about “mediation” must not fool you. TheSe are only the cries of the bourgeoisie with which they hope to befuddle the masses, to turn the attention of the masses away from their prepara- tions for war against the Soviet Union, and thereby to put themselves in stronger position for waging war on the Soviet Union. The period of preparation for world war is also a period for preparation for world revolution. The events since the end of 1928, the time when the call for International Red Day was issued, have brilliantly proved the correctness of | the analysis on which basis I. R. D. was organized. The de- velopments in Manchuria especially, show that we are en- tering the eve of the outbreak of war. This period must be | | CITY CONFERENCE OF MANY ORGANIZATIONS PREPARES DEFENSE OF SOVIET UNION “War Crisis, Pacifiat Offensive Offensive, and Workers’ | Resistance, Tuned Together,” Says Foster Great Demonstration In Unien Square, Torch Procession for International Red Day Five hundred delegates from every sort of militant work- jers’ organization crowded Irving Plaza Hall last night and | voted with enthusiasm to constitute themselves into the Work- ers’ Anti-Imperialist War and Defend the Soviet Union Con- | ference of Greater New York. They voted to struggle against | imperialist war and the attack on the Soviet Union, plainly isible through the | ist smoke screen that surrounds GASTONIA THUGS : the war preparations. “When the Commur T R Yy NEW RAID: tional announced Au ternational Anti-Impe j Day,” said William first speaker, “ |up from the over the world, at the Hack on realism.’ we ARE BEATEN OFF 200 Workers’ Rally For ‘the pranlaseteved rice Defense of Colony Woy date ats very date of Anti-Imper 7 Day, the imperialist powe GASTONIA, N, C., » July 24.—Quick | an attack against the Soviet Uni action by workers circumvented what |and the August 1st de might have resulted in another at-|have to take on the tack at the new Workers Interna- Of ‘Defend the Soviet Union tional Relief tent colony outside of <P the Gemma Gastonia Tuesday night. Nearly all | preparations ever: the men from the tent colony went | tween the imp to a big mass meeting at the Rex meet on August 1 mill in the evening. In fheir ab-| test against war, sence the committee of one hundred against it.” and special deputies rode around the| The other _ principal tent colony and threatened to wreck were Louis Hyman, it. at 2 democrat ‘Commur peace, ow on but S} the } Union for dle Trades Industrial During the night members of the the Gastonia striker, committee of one hundred were seen | told of capitalist prowling in the surrounding woods |strike breaking th and several shots were fired, sup-| tion for the imperialist war. posedly by the Loray gang, but liam W. Weinstone report without doing damage. conference for the Commu and today Attorney Neal issued a statement ne Y. Y. Hseu, for the Jefense of the Work a period for the most effective mobilization of the masses for the overthrow of the whole capitalist system! Workers of New York! August First has been set aside by the workers of the world as a special day of mobilization and demonstration against the imperialist war preparations, against the attacks on the Soviet Union, and for the defense of our Socialist Fatherland. At a monster mass conference held last night, it was decided that all workers should DOWN TOOLS AT FOUR O'CLOCK AND JOIN THE GENERAL STRIKE DEMON- STRATIONS TO BE HELD IN UNION SQUARE. March from your work shop to Union Square to dem- onstrate! Let the voice of Labor be heard with all its invincible power. Stand by the Soviet Union, the land of the workers and peasants! Defend the Soviet Union against the Chinese war lords, | the hirelings of world imperialism, and the threatened inter- | vention of the big powers against our Socialist. Fatherland. COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA. DISTRICT TWO. DEFEND THE GASTONIA TEXTILE STRIKERS! FIGHT EXECUTIONERS OF WORKING CLASS! |To All Party Members, brutal forms ee rationalization. {alization and through the pressure | ants Revolution in China; Pershing, for the Young ( nist League (young we considered the (Continued on page George mmu- “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 W#YS minds of prosecution jurors have been inflamed by prejudice against (Continued on Page Five) 7) TO TELL GRAFT IN BANK CRASH Are HALL SPEAKS FOR CLEVELAND MEET Injured Workers Great enthusiasm in many cities Hit By Closing for the forthcoming Trade Union| — Unity Conference to be held in, EAST ORAN N. J., Jul, Cleveland on Aug. 31 is reported | —Graft disclosures on the a by Otto Hall, head of the Negro|°f the closed Hobart T department of the Trade Union Ed-| Pany and its two subsidi ucational League who is now on a|¢xpected to be made at a special tour through the East and the Mid- pees Grand Jury ion today. dle West. y charges will be made by ex~ Thousands of Negro and white Vice-president Willard H. Elliott, |workers are responding eagerly to “/idnapped” a month ago while on \the movement which will culmin- his way to answer bank examiners? late in the establishment of a new (uestions. Meanwhile, the bank is (Continued on Page five) in the hands of recei Workers’ Compensation Sacrificed. 1. L. D. Gains In Fight , Many of the crowd were crippled (On Cheswick Courts was deposited in the bank. Many of laborers whose compensation money them unable to read or understand As a result of the fight made by English, their wives and children |To All Revolutionary Workers: Through low wages and speedup, | which the capitalists are conducting the New York District of the Inter- Coontinued on Page S. aoe = are tightening their chain on the working class every- The trial of the Gastonia strikers is now approaching. Fifteen work- | they are aiming to reduce the living) in the entire country, they are aim-| national Labor Defense, the appelate| pies ied i lenin tee their tortures the increased speed-up and the low ‘ers are about to be railroaded to the electric chair. These Gastonia Standards of theermeneey at the en-| ing to outstrip their imperialist riv- court has granted a stay of extradi-- ARREST GREE PRIKERS = tire count rough this rati6n- Continued on pa: DP batet tehime obthe Gastonia case should begin with the. bare bratal workers are being framed up by the capitalist class because they have ry: ig} ( on page 7.) tion to Salvatore Accorisi, Italian ATHENS (By Mail) Leaders | | fact that.15 members of the National Textile Workers Union are charged with murder. For these the electric chair is a great possibility. Fight mere are héld on charges of assault with intent to kill. Three ¢ those charged with murder are women, one of them a girl of nine- een. Their crime consists in attempting to organize the most exploited element of all American labor, the Southern textile workers, white and black. To understand this case more fully, one should realize the South is the stronghold of the American bourbon. It is rapidly be- onlae, industrialized, drawing the textile industries there from the th, because of cheap labor, because of cheap water power, because ¢ unorganized conditions of the workers, e South is also the home of pellagra, the disease caused by un- dernourishment, and the first six months of this year found an in- Continued on Page Four dared to challenge the southern textile barons, because they have at- | tempted to organize into a union in order to improve their living conditions. They are about to‘ be railroaded to the electric chair by capitalist “justice” because white and black workers have stood shoul- der to shoulder in one struggle for ing in the south for the organization of the textile slaves, black and white, as well as.the building up of |the power of the working class in their common rights of organization. | the south against the speedup sys These Gastonia workers that have | tem, low wages, long hours, oppres- stood out heroically against the sive state machinery that is owned united forces of the bosses, of the | hody and soul by the industrial mag- capitalist states, of the treacherous| nates, power trusts and bankers. A. F. of L. officialdom and the Mus- Brutal Rationalization te group of social reformists are Denounce Calles as Betrayer General Plutarco Elias Calles is sharply denounced as the betrayer and persecutor of the Mexican mass- es is a statement issued last night his way to Europe ‘seeking to im- | prove his health.’ Sold Out to U. S. worker, who is being framed up in| of the Tobacco Workers Union were Pennsylvania on a charge of murder arrested following a two hour pro- jin connection with the notorious! test strike against oppression by the Cheswick cases. fas government. Accorisi is accused of having fired |» ————______— | the shot that killed state trooper Holt ov ‘1. 22, 1927, when state'| Turn to Page 4! —> by the Spanish Bureau of the Com- munist Party of the U. S. A. on the} departure of Calles for Europe. The statement declares: “General Plutarco Fiias Calles, \one of the most outspoken enemies The capitalist class is subjecting of the workers and peasants of Mex- part of a huge movement develop-'the southern workers to the most ico is now in the United States on | |can Revolution, who completely sold| PARRA ESR "aeidie | |himself to the | | “Calles, the betrayer of the Mexi-| Coontinued on Page Six interesets of the) COMPROMISE STRIKE American imperialists, is directly | ST. LOUIS, Mo, (By Mail). responsible for the assassinations Union officials compromised the and cold blooded murders perpetrated strike of the boilermakers here, send- by the lackey Government of Mexico| ing the men back at a wage increase| during and after his presidency. He! of 5 instead of the 10 cents de- | (Continued on Page Five) | manded. ON PAGE 4 of this issue is an article which all workers should read: “The Proletarian Attitude Towards the Army,” from the Theses and Res- olutions of the Sixth World Con- zress of the C. I. GASTONIA DEFENSE WEEK CONFERENCE AT IRVING PLAZA, 15TH STREET AND IRVING PLACE TONI Serra GHT! Save the 15 Gastonia strikers from the electric chair or long terms in prison. Send delegates to mobilize the New York work- ers for Defense Week, July 27 to August 3, (i), Hae Diced ale viele hale RALLY MASSES TO SAVE THEM Me a lai ay aie