The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1929, Page 7

*ALL WORKERS TO The Relationship of Forces if ILITANT M NEFEND U, $. $. 8, AGAINST POWERS Denounce Attack By Powers (Continued from Page One) Ss, to capture new markets, to sub- the entire working class to new ve standards, to plunge the work- |?’ i 5 | contained in a statement i y strikers, you the s . ng class into a war for the sake of | George Carter, Russell Knight, and) rades Poyntz and Trumbull—and the Laundry Workers’ Section of Driv-hel Comidunist: Party and the lett. wine. canvmobillze Phoebe, of said picnic ater profits of the American cap-| their eight fellow workers held on| consequently the biggest share o' the: ‘rade Union: > Bdheadlonal M pe y an yng aoe Fymdich the sane! talist sai: the three charges of murder, assault | the defense work falls on the local y jioue, The statement outlines the, the masses of American workers in defense of the heroic ( E car Cae eae he clubbing of workers in New With intent to kill and conspiracy, | members. tasks and demands of the bitterly| tonia workers who have made history for the American work-| 4, tho marks on the left i York, the arrest of pickets, the in-/@Nd the other defendants charged; A four-page bulletin is being is- : asion of the right of free speech, he establishment of a czarist police spy system is all part of the cam- vaign of the bourgeoisie to inttmi- | 5.—The Workers International| washers, mechanics, pullers, shak- ; organizations, neces) late the workers, to make them do- National Textile Workers Union on} cae 3s a f ilk : kere = * , 3 to me same man I s: talist class. 2.—The speed with which the In-|jisted workers. Relief work is car-|—it declares: officialdom and the yellow socialis ly none This campaign is part of the at-| ternational Labor Defense, the Na- ried tn in Loray. mill district by| “Oyer 30,000 workers — men, | hangmen of the workers, *k being made against the Soviet jion to destroy the first workers’! ind peasants’ republic. By reducing he workers of the United States to} telpless slaves, the capitalist class | ‘an conduct more efficiently, with- and the Perspective on the Gastonia Battlefront By BILL DUNNE GASTONIA, N. C., July 24 (By Mail)—The situation in and around Gastonia at present can be described as follows: 1.—In the last two weeks there has been a tremendous swing of popular sentiment to the side of Fred Beal, Louis McLaughlin, Vera| Bush, Joe Harrison, Sophie Melvin, with the two counts of “secret” as- sault and conspiracy as the result of the battle with the police who attacked the headquarters of the tional Textile Workers Union and| the Workers International Relief rallied their respective forces, brot order into the ranks of the textile | workers and scattered for a time by the fero- 1 _ The local section of the Interna- jasnal Labor Defense has 175 active |members. They are carrying on the |routine work and mass work of the defense in a way that would make experienced members in much lar- ger and older industrial centers ashamed of themselves. The National Office of the I.L.D. |has only two workers here—Com- |sued and it is planned to print and | distribute it weekly—at least up to | the date of the trial. means of the new tent colony set |up in Arlington. Relief work is also carried on in Charlotte and Besse- mer City. This is in spite of the temporarily demoralized) fact that the Gastonia authorities! ¢rom | still hold the W.LR, property in the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FR EN HIT MISLEADERS INLAUNDRY UNION Workers Are Called to Organization Fight An expose of the betrayal poli- cies of the officialdom of local 810 of the Laundry Drivers’ Union is exploited laundry workers and calls for the organization of one militant industrial union. Addressing itself to all laundry workers — ve women, young and adults, black and | white, — are employed in the laun- {dry industry in Greater New York. |Our working conditions are going bad to worse. Working like | slaves from early morning till late TO A WILLIAM GREEN, THE PRESIDE ICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, HAS UNION INSTRUCTING EVERY TRADE SUPPORT THE GASTONIA The SOCIALIST PARTY Reading, Pa., with James P. dent in the last elections on the head, have refused the ILD E. the GASTONIA DEFEN The American Civil L that they will defend onl. during the attack of the Gastonia police thugs ing class by their action. IDAY, JULY 26, 1929 YI NT OF THE AME NT A LETTER ' THEM NOT DEFENSE, UNICIPAL administration of candidate for vice pre: cialist party ticket, at its on to hold a tag day for Mar per! statement Ss arms t the ies Union published a those who did not p Only the Party and the WORKER can organize the United Front of the workers in the shops, the unions and fraternal The Party must expose Maurers and the Hillquits before the workers as the e of the American workers. To do this ye must strengthen our organization and secure the Gre LL COMMUNISTS! THE REBEL, WHO DIED GAME Workers, Another Such Murder Looms Continued from Page Tw “How does the nose of M compare with the no om » man of the face and neck corr URDER OF | Daily Worker ” b Pleasant Bay Park | Watch for Announcements “For Any Kind of Insurance” CARL BRODSKY Telephone: Murray Hil 4 f t sis A y WORKE 2 2d 7 Kast 42nd Street, New York vat any hindrance, its war against city of the attack of the mill barons,| city limits and have police deputies! st night, we hardly earn enough to| ee Cuistence of the DAILY WORKER, real lawyer was se-| 2 sawaitmmmneas he Soviet Union. |their local government tools and the| stationed there. | support ‘qiteelvaa cand oan familion No COMMUNIST can be slow in mob ¢ Joe Hill. Judge IN: | Seseeex erence renee BUTTE To defend the Gastonia strikers,,pvess, has astounded the Manville- | The fact that the textile workers; The average wage of drivers is be- the Party. anpeali e he | o aid these victims of class oppres-| ‘ion, means to support the movement | ‘ov the organization of the unorgan- zed against speedup and low wages, Jenckes Company and its chamber of commerce crowd of yapping re- tainers. 3.—The raid on the union head- |here live constantly at the subsist- jence level makes the W.LR. indis- pensable in the present situation. {tween 20 and 30 dollars per we men working inside get between 18 and 25 dollars, and girls, between 9 jand 15 dollars. Still there are many comrades that do not Even the DAY’S PAY has only met with the casion. of 2,000 members so far. t, score defendant and have so will- the woul Cooperators! Patronize SEROY 5 's Fi state nevi EMIST ong hours, means to combat the war quarters which followed the attack| ,OUrleAY fo Beal's Father. | |Anl, 10 U0 tne work under ARE YOU ONE OF THE 2,000? filly. diesetasdbaviie sels oa 6 CHEMIST lots of the capitalist class, means/in which the chief of police was), Ud Viae of Eee 1 Ve auHEls: edge NY, hot, and aay (Sie Wr en manufac led resemblances 657 Allerton Avenue 0 defend the Soviet Union, means to| killed, two policemen, one volunteer | here has been a stimulus to all sec-| horrible conditiogy: filthy, ety ca IF YOU ARE NOT THEN YOU MUST REALIZE THAT |, the excited imagination of . a\| Estabrook Bronx) NY. ight against greater slavery and op-|thug and one union organizer were | tions of the movement. The work-|badly ventilated plants; floors al- dresSion, Symbol of Struggle Members of the Communist Party! All Revolutionary workers! | You must look upon the Gastonia truggle as a symbol of the growing | truggle on the part of the workers | pf the entire country shown by the| tempts to terrorize the union mem-| \ttempt of the automobile workers in| bers and sympathetic workers fol- | Detroit to organize themselves the| heroic battle of the New Or! leans | Major Bulwinkle, Manville-Jenckes | treet carmen, shown by the move-| attorney, threatened and then pro- | ment of the workers throughout the! ntire world in defense. of the} for days, enabled the authorities and the mill to confiscate the entire list of union members. Promised Immunity. Systematic persecution and at- lowed. Workers were brought before mised immunity if they would de- nounce the union. Other workers | wounded, the raids on and searches | ¢™S treated him with a courtesy and ‘of workers homes which continued | deference that was the, finest thing |of its kind I have ever seen, After |the Bessemer City mass "Hneeting, |where he spoke a few words of greeting and appreciation, the work- lers formed in a long line and each one shook his hand as he passed by. “Fred Beal’s daddy” is a phrase |to conjure with in and around Gas- | tonia. In conclusion, it can be said that | progress has been made in restoring fatherland of the workers, the Union| were brought before Major Dolley,| the organization disrupted by the f Socialist Soviet Republics. |who is also a cotton mill attorney,|ffensive of the textile capitalists -The Gastonia workers are sur-/and who was second in command and the authorities which reached unded by the lynch law of the|of the troops brought to Gastonia its high point on June 8-9. wth, by the most bitter hostile | id prejudiced capitalist press. The! early in the strike. In spite of all this at the mass The| work had to be carried on at first |under illegal and semi-illegal condi- jastonia workers are having used, meeting held today in Bessemer City , tions—and this is still true to some gainst them the reactionary laws at the union headquarters, calls for | ¢xtent—but the outstanding fact in Organization Restored. | ways flooded with water from the washing machines. We are among the greatest sufferers from occupa- tional diseases, fainting spells, tu- berculosis, ete. The foreman is al- ways on the watch; in addition to | that, the bosses employ guerillas | and spies, in order to intimidate jinto submission to the ever increa |ing speed-up system. | Officials Work for Bosses | jbeen engaged in the struggle for) the improvement of working cond Itions. On the contrary; the offic of the unions work hand in hand with the bosses in order to betray “We must therefore organize shon committees of the workers of all |the departments jn the laundry. We | must unite all laundry work into WE MUST HAVE 100 PARTY. GIVE YOUR ANSWER. |THE PARTY CAN NOT FULFIL ITS TASKS WITH ONLY woman testifyin; | 15 OR 20 PER CENT SUPPORT. PER CENT SUPPORT OF THE GIVE IT AT ONCE. Send your full DAY’S PAY at once thru your nucleus to the Communist Party of America, 43 E. 125th St., New York! work, no vague impressions.” City. See that the DAY’S PAY is not kept for a week by the|be remarked, a “friend of the cou “The defunct locals have never | nucleus but is mailed immediately. See that every other comrade same. in your nucleus does the Denounce Imperialist War At Irving Plaza (Continued from Page One) fodder for the bosses) and Rick further demonstration marches in the evening, by torchlight. committee of action was elected to issue the call for the demonstra- tion to all shops, unions, and to sist in forming i-war committe: rd in a court room. He would have said: If you notice any resemblance state the facts on which it is based, and be so sure about it that you can state them in your own language, for remember that the life of a man depends up- on it, and there must be no g At the time of the trial; it may protested that the prosecutor v leading the witness. nm thousand workers were out iving day in Chicago at funeral, His songs ar in body knows he was innocent. But they killed him, just the same, because these workers, convinced of his innocence, did not soon enough into action to save him. This every part of the globe. |" » the peasant, the extinction fractions of the middle el IDR. J. MINDEL SURGECN DENTIST ‘i , ii i i iliate ‘w: e e story has been repeated al- 1 UNION SQUARE arried over from the days of slav-| organizers and speakers were re-|this phase of the struggle is the| one powerful industrial union, for | Moore, of the Harlem Tenants’ Manny Sac a ue mule stor a ee ier aah let ||| Reom 803—Phone: Algonquin 818% ; ty. These woxkers cannot expect|ported from four different mill] Courage and loyalty of the textile! 9 struggle against tho bosses on the League. pene a Peat © t AAA BYES RBRINT: hod aria Not connected with any 4 Ihe slightest shred of “justice.” towns. | workers and the tremendous vitality | ¢ollowing demands: ig after the demonstrations. it be told over again, about a ¢ other office The conference voted to support the defense of the Gastonia victims, to support the Daily Worker, which Everything will be mobilized against) ‘Two organizers are on the road Shown by the N.T.W., the LL.D. and hem in order to send them to the! and union connections have been re- | the W.LR. leetric chair. | Resolutions were sent by wire to tain case in Gastonia, North Caro- the Gastonia, Prague, and Paris vic- | lin | “1, Organize to fight for the 8- | hour, 5-day week. 2. For the abo- The capitalist class| established. In the face of actual terrorism—| )°: S : ts tims of the war lords pledging sup: : il seek vengeance against. these|<"4.—~The International Labor De-|® phrase which is much abused but |lition of piece work and the commis. gives the, news of labor struggles, port. : Comrade | vorkers because they have defended| tense has its legal staff fully organ. | entirely applicable in this case—|*!2" basis of pay. 3. Hor NE hoe and conducts an unceasing fight) The principal resolution adopted | eag> FROM FACTORY TO YoU! Frances Pilat hemselves against the murderous |ized, Lawyers who are not only able |such as few other sections of ‘Amer. 224 a minimum ae scale. against imperialist war, and out- analysed the Manchurian crisis and HIGH-GRADE MEN'S and ssault of the company controlled po-| but who express freely their con-|ican workers have had to face, the |P8Y for equal wor "alii at lined the main details of the dem-| pointed out the imperialist hand bs Ks MIDWIFE fee force. Everything is already|viction os terthe history, ora gun | “mill hands” so much despised” ana Vacation with pay. 6. Abolition of |onstrations on August 1 in New directing the attack on the U.S.SR. peeded to railroad these workers to lhe electric chair. Only the organ- zed power of the working class, only xtensive mass demonstrations, only lhe greater sacrifice of every individ- al member of the Party, of every evolutionary worker, of every hon- st worker loyal to the interests of the working class can stay the hand f the executioners in South Caro- i. ji Comrades! Revolutionary workers! fjupport the Conference your duty to your class. Defend e Gastonia workers! Arouse the owerful forces of labor in the nited States for aid to the Gas- onia victims. Make the Gastonia Defense Conference on Friday a| Prosecutor by Manville-Jenckes—| juge mobilization of labor in New Fork City. Make the Gastonia De- lense week an expression of power- jul support to our Gastonia fellow- yorkers. )emonstration Saturday, July 27. ally labor for the defense of the foviet Union! Mobilize for the Huilding of powerful industrial inions guided by revolutionary lead- rs, which alone can organize the un- rganized, can fight speedup and tionalization, can improve the liv- g standards of the working class. The American Federation of Lab- bureaucrats, the socialists, the uste social reformers are all work- together against the Gastonia orkers, By their policy of class llaboration they are fighting gainst the organization of the un- ganized, Only the militant unions, e left wing Jed by the Trade nion Educational League, fights for e organization of the unorganized, 1 unity of black and white work- ‘s, against the common oppressors. of the mde Union Educational League to Hjablish a new revolutionary trade Hon center in the United States. Redouble your energies! Give funds the defense! Join in the Tag Days ring Defense Week! ilding of powerful workingclass| ganizations for the liberation of e workers from capitalist Wael and) om the brutality of the police,| on, capitalist exploitation, om the executioners of Sacco and anzetti, from the murderous cap- alist system. Build the Commun- t Party, the revolutionary loader if the working class of America. OMMUNIST. PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DISTRICT COMMITTEE, NEW YORK DISTRICT, », ATTENTION DAILY WORKER AGENTS SECTION 5! {All the Daily Worker Agents of Section Five are re- quested to report to the office of the Daily Worker on Saturday, July 27 until 4 p.m. We have to take up some very important matters a Support the Solidarity! was as high as that of his fellow Give your) ppert to the movement for the |mental nature of the case have been )engaged. They have had a number of conferences with the representa- | tives of the LL.D. and the line of |the defense and the detail work ne- |cessary to carry it through have |been agreed upon unanimously, | Judge Carter of Asheville, J. |Frank Flowers of Charlotte, the \firm of Jimison and Abernathy— | the pioneer attorneys in defense 0: the N.T.W. organizers and members —John Randolph Neal of Knoxville, Tenn., and R, L. Sigmon of Gastonia —the only lawyer of the Gastonia |bar not offered a retainer as special | constitute a legal staff as good as the best the South affords, | “Chagrined Ferocity.” | The legal battalion of the Man- ville-Jenckes Company—some 16 in jall, according to the latest recruit- ing figures—seems to have lost |some of its morale in the last few days. The prosecution attitude to- \day probably can be described with |a maximum of accuracy as one of ;chagrined ferocity. | The prisoners are being furnished every comfort possible in a jail. They are in the best of spirits. Fred Beal told us yesterday that in the many times he has been in jail on minor charges as the result of strike activity, he has never been associ- jated with workers whose morale prisoners. Even among militant ‘workers where courage is a com- |monplace, these southern members of the N.T.W. whom the textile barons are trying to send to the electric chair are remarkable for their cheerfulness. FURNISHED ROOMS Now is your opportunity to get a room in the magnificent | Workers Hotel | | Unity Cooperative House 1800 SEVENTH AVENUE OPPOSITE CENTRAL PARK Cor. 110th Street Tel. Monument 0111 | | Due to the fact that a number of tenants were compelled to | | leave the city, we have a num- |'} ber of rooms to rent. No security necessary. Call at our office for further information. nd you must be present. mistreated by the lords of the new | capitalism have shown an uncon- | querable will to fight their oppres- | sors. | “The Most Men—and Women” General Early, the southern cav- |alryman who developed into the | Genghis Khan, the Mongol chieftain, |and General Budenny of the Red Army of the Soviet Union being the other two—once said when asked his formula for victory: “Get there first with the most men.” The Manville-Jenckes Company and its army of chamber of com- merce conscripts were here first. But within less than a month after} | greatest leader of mounted troops} in the “war between the States,”| |the bosses for jovertime. 7. Two 15-minute rest |periods during the day. 8. A sani- jtary control commission of workers. |9. Abolition of the “yellow dog” | contract. ‘accident and death insurance fund | to be paid by the bosses and man- aged by the workers’ organizations. “Forward to the organization of jall laundry workers into one pow- erful industrial union on the sbasis of equality for men, women, young and adult, white and Negro work- ers. Forward to the struggle against better conditions. Forward to victory.” After every revolution marking n progressive phase in the class strug- ule, the purely repressive character | the battle at the union headquarters, |the N.T.W, and the LL.D. have the| most men—and women. | It remains now to so dispose these |forces and to recruit and bring into | |the line of battle in the most ef- fective positions the great reserves {of the American working class. If there is no let down in our efforts, if renewed energy and forces are available in greater quantity and numbers every day as they must be, the issue of this historic class ¢on- fliet will not long remain in doubt. Life and Death Struggle. If Fred Beal and his fellow work- ers and fighters are freed so they | can resume their places at the head of the proletarian forces in the Gas-| tonia sector, the organization of the | 25,000 workers here in the N.T.W.| is a foregone conclusion. | This the Manville-Jenckes Com- pany and its allies realize even bet- | ter than we do. The struggle for the lives of Beal and the others is one in which the enemy will give no| quarter. Let there be no mistake about that. We are in a battle on the issue of which depends the lives of 15 of the best in our ranks, No effort is too strenuous and no sacrifice too great to assure victory in h ruggle. Tel.: DRYdock 8880 FRED SPITZ, Inc. FLORIST NOW AT 31 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 1st & 2nd Sts.) Flowers for All Occasions 18% REDUCTION TO READERS OF THE DAILY WORKER 26-28 UNION SQUARE (1 flight up) 2700 BRONX P/ “K EAST (corner Allerton Ave.) Cooperntors! PATRONIZE BERGMAN BROS. 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