The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1929, Page 2

Page Two ~ AIMS OF By REBECCA GRECHT. The Cow New Yprk ci sriod of The open government f social reform- Federation of he workegs f e to the sharping rmment and em- ion of th if a revo- er, for a determined, ene the brutal po! New York mpant in that have In the re taken place New York, in the ‘ strikes of th hoe workers, the cafeteria Vv ers, the iron and bronze w the needle workers, it has been clearly shown that the Par which fights for the is Communist Party of ° present me clear fights against war, against pacif! The So- cialist Party in its complete aban- donment of the class struggle has become the champion of the union breaking policies of the labor bu- reaucrats, and today also stands DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1929 y, must be used as one of the weapons of the workers in t struggles, FIVE THOUSAND s| NEW READERS OF THE DAILY the Soviet ELECTI c ¢|WORKER MUST BE WON BY for a mass Communist election cam- | ELECTION DAY. In every shop paigi All forces must be mobil- and factory, at every street demon- ized for this e stration, in every working class or- ganization, the DAILY WORKER must be brought before the work- The working class cannot ef- vely carry on its struggles and fulfill its tasks without the vital weapon of a revolutionary pri The DAILY WORKER is thi weapon, A MINIMUM OF FIFTY NEW COMMUNIST SHOPS MUST BE ORGANIZED BY NOVEMBER 5th, in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Richmond, Long Island and Manhattan — in every factory where contacts are es- tablished new members won, These Communist shop nuclei will becom: the center in the factories for ganization of the workers, for their mobilization against imperialist war. They will become centers for the revolutionary activity of the work- ing class. In this way by this elec- tion campaign, the Communist Par- ty can make a great contribution to the growth of the struggle both in strength and intensity of the work- jing elass to overthrow the whole capitalist system. Together with the building of fac- tory nuclei, we must aim further to establish new Communist shop pa- Win the Masses, ent for support of am and candi- oped among the in shops and factories, in ilitant trade unions, among the of the unions still con- i y bureauer nal labor organiza- zn committees for the election apaign must up in all shops, fraternal or- tions, trade unions, tenants’ recruits of the be carried on THOU- MBE OF THE RTY BY NOV. CTION DAY must be e thousand new mem- trengthen and build the tion struggle inst the bers © to Central Slogans. We must carry our campaign, our program, our demands, our aims, into every proletarian section of the} Around the basic problems of the shops must be developed a broad campaign of mobilization of the workers for aggressive action against their bosses and for mili- tant participation in the struggle against the capitalist state power. mong the workers in muni- machine shops, refiner- es, shoe factories, automobile plants, needle factories and bakeries; among the wage slaves of the traction trust; among the miserably exploit- rkers on the water front. : = leaflets will raise the slo- Need $25,000, “Fight against imperialist In order to carry on the intensive drive planned, a Communist cam- paign .fund of $25,000 must be raised. Every working cfass organ- ization, every militant must become mtributor to the election fund. ‘Defend the Soviet Union!” | ‘ight against speed-up,” and the entire system of “capitalist efficien- cy.” Fight for the protection of women, young workers and children | workers, for full equality for the |Every effort must be made to raise oppressed Negro masses! Build rev-|this fund so that our aims in the olu ary unions! Organize and election campaign may be achieved prepare for the struggle for final | Class Against Class. emancipation of the working class,| These are among the concrete under the leadership of the Com- aims of the Communist Party in the munist Party and Communist Inter-| New York election campaign. Ev- national. ery member of the party, every Leaflets will not be the only | fighter, must become a driving force of developing a mass Com- to attain them. The Communist munist election drive. In this cam-|Party will utilize the 1929 election paign, the DAILY WORKER, the! campaign to strengthen the power -\official organ of the Communist|of the working class, develop their |did say it was something like the ON CAMPAIGN | ; a €! pers. DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF WO MILLION LEAFLETS | CoMMUNIST FACTORY NEWS.! SUED BY NOVEM-| papprs buted at factory ‘i class solidarity, The centra the Communist Party in t tion campaign is to adva working class further on the road of clas ruggle, nearer the goat of the neipation of the working a Communist Party will on its drive to unite labor in v York into a powerful army to the conditions of the and prepare them for the em of wage of a improve Workers and ses’ Government.” Fifteen textile workers facing electrocution and eight more confronted with long prison terms appeal today through the. International Labor Defense as follows: “Only through the mass protest of the working class aroused to the realization of our danger _and of the importance and significance of the Gastonia case can we be saved from elec- trocution or the penitentiary. The militant w°rkers throughout the nation must im- mediately voice their protest and redouble their determination that we members of the National Textile Workers Union shall be freed.” Support the International Labor Defense in its fight for “No Death Sentences! No Prison Sentences! Free Our Fellow Workers! Restore them to the Ranks of the Work- ing Class! Defend the Right of the Workers to Defend Their Lives and Their Union Against the Attack of the Armed Forces of the Bos: r) bers of the board of pardons of | enemies. The taller masked man Colorado, in which mine gunmen and n | coward. |two sons watching him. He was a little battles in lonely mountain LABOR NOT ON TE { E JOB The cowards were rather the mem-|quarrelsome man, and he had his|canyons in Idaho, Utah, Arizona. Utah. Article ee | | Busky, a migratory laborer, stating wa: | Two hours before Joe Hill|said, “We've shot, a telegram, giving an af-| opened fire. fidavit made in Seattle by Wm.|son were killed. Morrison and his elder Joe Hill himself stated the case “Owing to the prominence of Mr. got you now,” and both | miners “shot it out” in the night. And Hill was a rebel and a fighter. |The employers had plenty of rea- jsons to get him; they couldn’t pin | that he was with Hill on the night|this way, while his lawyers were | any of these fights on him, so they used the shooting of Morrison, Joe Hill had practically no coun Morrison, there had to be a goat.) sel at his trial, in June, 1914. He And the undersigned, being, as they friendless tramp; a Swede, and worst of all, an I.W.W., | By VERN SMITH. suits her husband wore, but it) Morrison was shot, and providing | appealing: Joe Hill woke up in the prison )Wwasn’t his. Everybody knew there an alibi, had caused the members of | lat Salt Lake City, Utah, at four, Was no evidence that any clothing|the board of pardons to assemble, | lo'clock in the morning, November Yobbery accompanied. the shooting of | of their own accord. They began to }19, 1915, and embered he was Morrison. wonder if it was best to go ahead| thought, a to be shot at He looked for| Still, the murderers of Joe Hill| with thé execution. The whole world \his blue suit he had asked for; the; were fairly well satisfied. If the| was crying out against the mani-| last act of the clumsy farce had been hissed, there was one indecent epi- logue that could be played out. They could say that Joe Hill “bawling out” the guards who tried to play this little second-hand ‘clothing trick on him, and clouting one of them over the head with a broom handle warden had laid it away ne: y before, when he w: rested; it and he had a the suit they thing wron, inches too pocket, was a s trial at which Hill was framed. Swedish ambassador (Joseph Hill- just ar- as his only good suit, y to die in it. But ave him had some- ith it. It was some and inside on_ the rip of cloth, nicely long in America) had protested, Under pressure President Wilsom had wired Governor Spry of Utah jasking a respite. Labor everywhere \letter, “J. S. Morrison.” |for it, was “losing his nerve,” that|had at last awakened to what was The frame-up, pure and simple,|he had a “hysterical fit.” And they going on in the Mormon capital: was hing out after Joe Hill, to| said it. The “Saints” Get Busy. shroud his body and smirch his! Fortunately there were those in| But the forces crystallized in the Utah Construction Co. and the Utah Copper Co. (alias the Mormon Church), had dictated through Gov. reputation even after his death. His| prison who knew what happened, suit had been changed for another |'and there were Joe Hill’s last words, by those who had arranged that and his telegrams. |Joe Hill should be shot for a crime| The reporter allowed to see Hill) g,.. tempt ti he never committed. His body: was |shot cays he spoke as he was seated |eiiton” qe ccin is other ao many |to be exhibited with a suit tagged|in the chair in the prison yard,| rds : A | pany h P words that Wilson might be wor- as Morrison’s. Morrison was the|across from a_curtained doorway | ried about the effect on U. 8. world | hat had been killed in a|which masked the faces of the fir-| » oyi¢s, ‘ Kin 0 ehh its \ datar i |polities of this execution, but the neighborhood feud, Jan. 10, 1914,| ing squad. Pedi femployers’ of Utah bad badenioeh jand for whose death Joe Hill was Gentlemen, I die with a clear) o¢ these agitators, and had this one being executed. It would make ajconscience, I never did anything| whore the: ‘watited hin ice little story for the press, when} wrong in my life. I die fighting— if ¥ peti Pee | m And these dark and bloody forces some reporter, properly tipped off,|not like a coward. Good by. Fire! discovered” that “Joseph Hillstrom Let ’er go. lof the pardons board. As its white- bette? paren Leincpnied heed “Don’t Mourn—Organize!” |faced spokesman said to the re- tin i ‘es rat brhigeie rom his Vic-| The day before he was shot he| porters, “They have decided not to sania ours pace erat sent a tei2gram to Bill Haywood: | interfere with the execution.” Wasn't Even Morrison's. “Gogd-by Bill, I will die like a true-| They had had it pretty. easy Hill was shot in his prison clothes, blue rebel. Dont waste any time in| framing Joe Hill, and there is a big {and they had to say that a guard mourning. Organize.” lesson to labor in this case. found the name in the suit and| And then, as an afterthought, an-| Nobody in tl world at large paid wouldn’t let Joe Hill wear it. They | other wire: “It is a hundred miles|any attention to the shooting of the | showed it to Morrison’s widow, and|from here to Wyoming. Could you| grocer Morrison in Salt Lake City. {asked her to identify it as one of|arrange to have my body hauled to| Two masked men had entered his {her husband’s, but she was tired of|the state line to be buried? Don’t) store, where he sat with a revolver the dirty game, and refused. She'want to be found dead in Utah.” /laid in an open ice box, counting This is not the language of ajsales slips at 10 p. m, and with his strom was a Swedish subject, though | dealt with the impromptu meeting} festly unjust verdict and unfair) The | had no right to live anyway and was therefore selected to be the gcat.” But Joe Hill was a little modest. He was more than a_ friendless tramp, he was the rebel songbird. His jecring verse had girdled the world, and it is immortal as long as capitalism lasts. It has burst the bounds of I. W. W. sectarian- ism, and the rollicking tunes and words of “Long Haired Preachers Come Out Every Night,” “Casey Jones,” “Tramp, Tramp, Keep’ on A-Tramping,” “There is Power, There is Power in a Band of Work- ingmen,” and many others are heard from Seattle to Gastonia and from San Diego to Boston. “Neath the Red Flag.” Joe Hill had been a fighter. He was with Jack Mosby in the at- tempt to set up a workers’ republic in America, the Republic of Lower California, and the first Red Army since the days of the Paris Com- mune. The chorus of one of his songs begins: “Should I ever be a soldier, ’Neath the Red Flag I would fight; Should a gun I ever shoulder, It’s to crush the tyrant’s might.” ‘The best intewpretation cf Joe Hill’s refasal to explain a wound on his hand when he was arrested four days after the shooting of Morrison is that there was an abundance of fighting in’ the mining regions of the Rockys that year, plenty of strikes, small and large, and fierce | region. | took place at cxactly that time. The had no defense fund to speak of, and, | worst of all, no adequate publicity. |The I, W. W. press was weak, with small circulation; the organization was in one of its periodic ‘slumps. The great war was looming. There was war a-plenty in every mining The massacre at Ludlow | trial was not even reported in the Appeal to Reason, in the Masses, or in most of the liberal bourgeois® papers. The International Socialist Review carried one stingy little Jet- ‘ter. hidden away in the back, ask- \ing for funds for the case. There | was no real publicity bureau. James Rowan, who later Ied the “emer- gency program” split in the I. W. | W., was in charge of defense; he | was crazy. The jury was packed; the fore- | man and over half of the jurors were never subpoenaed for jury duty. They were Utah Construction and Copper Co. men, simply placed jin the box by the sheriff. The Mor- mon Church hierarchy owned mines and did general construction con- | tracting—end this was a Mormon | town. Never Identified. The younger son of Morrison, {even under the most outrageous prompting, couldn’t identify Joe Hill jas one of the assassins. But Phoebe | Seeley, dragged up from somewhere | by the prosecution, said she saw j two men near the grocery store, and one of them “looked about the size of the defendant.” The district attorney questioned: Continued on Page Seven One month ago, June 21, The Daily Worker did not appear for lack of funds. This was the first time that this suspension occurred since the founding of The Daily Worker five and one-half years ago. We resumed publication the next day. A few com- rades and friends in New York pooled their resources to save the Daily, and give it a chance to appeal to the readers and loyal supporters. The campaign for funds is now five weeks old, and yet the Daily is in the same precarious condition it has been in at the beginning. The money coming in is too slow to cover the deficit, and give the Daily a breathing spell. Ten thousand dollars has been collected, when at least $1,000 per day is needed to pull the Daily out of its present crisis. Will the Daily get this money? 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