The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1929, Page 1

— +. A specialists in chemicals: THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily —- Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI, No. 121 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Pul quare, Company, Inc. 26-28 Union New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION BATES: In 3 Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Cents ~ Price 3 100 WORKER ORGANIZATIONS PLAN GASTONIA DEFENSE Shanghai Stnike Starts Before August 1; White Guards Scab OVER 200 DELEGATES iN DAY AND NIGHT SHIFTS OUT | AT WATERWORKS AS GENERAL WALK-OUT LOOMS NEARER Mass Meetings in Basle As News of Manchur' Stimson Meets Powers’ Hoover Over Arbitrati , and All Over U.S.S.R. ia Atrocities Arrives Diplomats; Woll Sees on; Propaganda Stunt BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, July 26.—Chiang Kai-shek’s minister at Wash- ington today told the press that his the retention of the Chinese Easter government was not contemplating n Railway. He tried to argue that the road had not been actually seized, and then said, while arguing for Stimson’s arbitration proposition, which the imperialists hope to use for propaganda purposes: “China had no intention at any time of retaining sole control of the rich transportation line or violating in any respect the Russo- Chinese agreement of 1924 under countries was stipulated.” which joint operation by the two * * . SHANGHAI, China, July 26.—A strike started yesterday of ‘both day and night shifts of the Shanghai waterworks, preliminary to the general strike called for August 1, against imperialist war and against the militarist governments of China attacking the Soviet Union at the behest of the im- oe ee penal powers. Notices calling the strike] and demonstration August 1/ were posted two days ago in) all the larger cities of China. | White Guard Russians are acting | as scabs at the water works today. | The strike was precipitated when | the management refused to yield to| a demand by the fitters that the | See YE SR, ue AEROS II Chemical Warfare || Peison Gas, Liquid Fire, Death and Destruction for Whole Popu- lations: Read, beginning in Monday’s Daily Worker, the facts about the | | next war! | A series of special articles by | “Chemical Warfare, the Chem- ical Kings and their Social Demo- cratic Tools.” Prepared by the International Propaganda Committee of the Chemical Industry of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions. Order from yours news stand or subscribe today for the Daily Worker so that you will not miss one article of this startling series. Facts, Figures, Exposures of War Plans. ®\ers, pouring out of the buildings at | union be represented. It is expected to spread rapidly. | ies Doe | Demonstrations in Basle. | (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) | | ternational POLICE ATTACK ANTI-WAR MEET; JAIL 10 WORKERS Hundreds Rally for Big | Aug. 1 Meet. ° Tammany police, following the example of their colleagues in other countries, yesterday showed that they know what Aug. 1 means when they broke up an anti-war meeting of the Communist Party in an ef- fort to prevent the workers of New York from being mobilized for In- Red Day for the De- fense of the Soviet Union on Aug. 1. Held at Sixth Ave. and 27th St., in the heart of the garment section, under the auspices of Section 2 of the Communist Party, the meeting was one of a series in preparation for the huge demonstration Aug. 1 Great Crowd *of Workers. Hundreds of needle trades work- the noon hour, when the meeting was held, rallied around placards bearing slogans such as: “Down with Imperialist War’; “American Workers Pledge to Defend the Only BASLE, Switzerland, July 26.—| Workers’ Fatherland, the Soviet Un- | There will be great public mass |ion”; “Class War Against Imperial- Pellagra Peril in South Spurs Pellagra, the deadly Southern dis- ease, is threatening the strikers of Gastonia and is spurring on the program to make successful Gastonia Defense and Relief Week, being held under the auspices of the Workers International Relief and the International Labor Defense. One hundred families of the strik- ers, many of them threatened by the disease born of lack of food, would be left entirely in starvation if not for the tent colony ‘of the W.LR. oline Drew, W. I. R. representative in Gastonia, told of the necessity for fresh foodstuffs, especially milk and fruits, to counteract the symp- tems of pellagra which many of the strikers show. Most of the strik- ers had symptoms of it when they came to the camp. Drew also writes: “Our Workers International Relief Committee shall prepare the food for the delegates to the Sunday, July 28, conference, to which representatives of mills throughout the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia will be present. She told of an attempt of the mill bosses to question and rescind the contract for the land on which the W. I. R. colony stands. She writes of the American Mill, No. 1, which is building a fence around the com- pany houses and that all workers, white or Negro, will be required to show passes—a last frantic attempt to keep the National Textile Work- ers Union from their workers. “All the babies who have had the whooping cough for some time are becoming very weak,” she writes. “Their poor arms and legs look wasted away. If we could supply them with some.fresh milk every day it would improve them. Help us supply them with the necessary foods.” DRESS RALLY ON TUESDAY NIGHT Fight to Free Jailed Needle Workers As a step in the intensive organi- zational drive among the dressmak- ers of New York City, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has arranged a mass meeting at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., for this coming Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The Joint Board of the Industrial Union will bring to this vital meet- W.I.R. Relief textile | A letter today received from Car- | TO EVERY COMMUNIST! | | Every day brings more convincing proof of the correct- Gastonia, the strikes of Detroit with more than 3,000 from many industries coming the present mood of the Amer wage cuts. fensive character. Our Party organization, t! situation. active. WORKERS, our leadership, MUNIST. is: IF YOU ARE NOT ONE DUTY AT THIS MOMENT? DEFENSE DRIVE Meet on Gastonia | From July 27 to Aug. 3 there will | The American workers are in motion. ling against the attacks of the employers who are imposing upon them ever heavier burdens thru rationalization and ness of the estimation of the radicalizing process of the American workers as given by the Comintern Address. the textile workers in North and South Carolina, Elizabethton, Tenn., the strike of the New Orleans carmen, the strikes in New England among the shoe workers, the beginnings among the auto workers in already on strike, the recent strikes in New York among the shoe workers, iron workers, food workers, and news of departmental or similar strikes in almost every day—such is ican workers. They are rebel- In many cases the struggles are assuming a definite of- The opportunities of our Party for work are unlimited. he DAILY WORKER and the entire Party press must be mobilized to meet ,this favorable This is no time for any member of our Party to be in- No Communist can fail in his duty at this moment. The Party is undertaking a systematic campaign of colonization, of distributing the forces of the Party in the best possible manner so that we can intensify the work of ORGANIZING THE MILLIONS OF UNORGANIZED The DAILY WORKER must every day print free copies to be distributed among the strikers who look forward to Only our Party can lead the struggles of the workers. Only the Communist Party can broaden these struggles, give them the necessary political content. WILL OUR PARTY FAIL IN ITS TASK? The answer to this question rests with EVERY COM- One of the questions that you must answer to yourself OF THE ONLY 2,000 THAT HAS GIVEN HIS DAY’S PAY ARE YOU DOING YOUR | Prompt action on the Day’s Pay must-be your answer. HOUSE TOHOUSE WAITERS’ CHIEFS FINALLY USTED N. Bedford Mill Hands Lehman, Sidus Took, Graft From Bosses Short shift was made of the lead- The workers of America are deter- | day night in Webster Hall when the be a tremendous stirring through- | ership of Waiters and Waitresses | out the working class of America. | Local 1 at a special meeting Thurs- | (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) A Lifetime of Slavery in the Mills- --and Rebellion Fred Beal, Child Slave in Textile Mills, a Strike | . Leader, Faces Electrocution For It By FRED BEAL Lawrence, Massachusetts is my birthplace, I was born on Sept. 11, 1896. Attended the public schools im Lawrence. I had a happy child- od; woods and fields all around amy home where I used to play with the other boys. Swimming was a favorite sport of mine and through the school vacations I spent much of my time swimming in the Shaw- sheen River which was close by my home. Having the organizational spirit, I organized a few clubs, one being “The Walking Club,” in which all the members would hike through the woods playing “spank the leader,” investigating ‘and mak- ing new discoveries. I was brought up in a strict re- ligious atmosphere, attending Sun- day school every Sunday morning and, prayer meetings throughout, the week.’ My parents belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church. My folks were strong against liquor of any kind and I made a pledge to my mother who is now dead, not ae to drink intoxicating liquors, a pledge I have carried out to this day. Some years later I joined the An- ti-Saloon League but I now disavow any connection with that organiza- tion as I believe real temperance cannot be had under a system of society that puts profits before any- thing else. 2 Began Slavery at 14. At the age of 18, my father mov- ed to the city section of Lawrerice. I finished the grammar school and at the age of 14 went to work in a textile mill in Lawrence, The name of this mill was the Cres- cent Worsted, nicknamed the “hen coop,” because the watchman kept chickens in the yard, This was a small mill employing only about 200 workers. It did not weave cloth but sent its finished yarn products to other mills. ‘As Bobbin Boy. My first job was bobbin boy, set- ting bobbins on 14 spinning ma- Continued on Page Four Gastonia Defense and Relief Week, in New York, begins with a monster Solidarity Demonstration and Festival today, at Pleasant Bay Park, at which 50,000 workers wi Southern textile bosses’ terror. The Workers International Relief and the Inter: ill voice their protest against the ational Labor De- fense have announced a splendid program at this festival in which speeches will be made by Louis Hyman, president of the Needle Trades Wi t Shoe Workers’ Union; M. ’ Industcial Union; Fred Biedenkapp, manager of the Inde- J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit; ih ing a series of recommendations and | | (Continued on Page Five) WAR REDUCTIONS SEEN AS SHAM Officers Allowed To Take Plenty Time. WASHINGTON, July 26. — The government policy in regard to mil- itary expenditures became plainer today. Despite Hoover’s loudly ad- vertised decision to “curtail” them, naval and military experts are pointing out. today that no specific curtailments are mentioned. A re- organization is demanded, but not curtailment. And even in the re-organization, which is to be carried out by a spe- cial general staff committee, al- ready in process of formation by Secretary of War Good, the repre- sentatives of the various branches of the “service” have plenty off op- portunity to convince the commit- tee that nothing can be taken away from their particular organizations. Senator David A. Reed, chairman of the senate military affairs com- mittee, today stated that he did not see where “any reduction can be made.” mined that not one striker is to go | to the electric chair, not one striker | |is to go to jail of those held for | | trial in Gastonia. The International Labor Defense jand the Workers International Re- lief have been assured by thousands of workers the country over that the million names for the petition will be obtained, that the $50,000 will be jraised and that the workers in ev- the Gastonia trial. To get the names for the petition, and to raise funds, one of the most important methods is by house to house collection and shop gollec- tion. Door to Door Campaign. the have not heard of the Gastonia ter- ror learn of it!” states the I. L. D. When the American proletariat learns that these strikers fought for the right of workers to union- ize for better conditions, and for the right of workers to unionize for to defend their homes and families boss-controlled police, they will im- mediately come to the textile strik- ers’ aid, “Let Gastonia be the chief topic in your shop papers and discussions. See the workers in your shop, tell (Continued on Page Three) “A door to door campaign among’ membership by a large majority voted for a ten-year suspension from union activity of William Leh- agent. Acceptance of hundreds of dollars in bribery from a Bronx open shop restaurant was the charge against them. Disordér caused by right-wing gangsters prevented action on the Proposal of yrogressive rank-and- lery mill and factory will learn of |filers for their expulsion from the >, union and for the calling of an emergency shop delegate confer- ence. Provision for a new election is to be made at the next union meeting, . Corruption Rife. Corruption accumulated in the un- ion “family” for years burst forth | at the meeting, when Meyer Orgel, working class; let those who) business agent, who “spilled the beans” on the other officials, again opened fire at the machine. He told how Lasher and Turkel hired gang- sters to threaten their lives as an excuse for removing the picket line in front of Rottenberg’s, at 19th St. and Fifth Ave., where an unsuccess- better conditions, and for the right | ful attempt was allegedly made to force the owners to “come across.” from the murderous onslaughts of | How union waiters pay as high as $300 for jobs was also revealed. How Lehman “adjusts” grievances on the job was illustrated by a sto- ry of workers in a Fordham restaur- ant waiting in vain for him to ap- pear at a shop meetin, while the boss (Continued on Page Five) NAVAL RAGE GOES ON UNDER HOOVER “PARITY” SCREEN | Also Question Legality | of Stopping Cruisers Without Senate |Air Base for Barracks | Governor’s Island May Be Plane Field WASHINGTON, July 26.—The big navy movement went right on in ‘Washington today, under the smoke- sereen of Hoover’s “parity” agree- |ruent with MacDonald. Various sen- ators and army and navy officials | are being allowed to argue that “real |parity means U. S. building more | |warships or Britain scrapping some.” As it is felt here that the Mac- | Donald program of stopping ship | building is merely an economy | measure, ,and that the development |of air and chemical warfare will be | reflected a little later in airplane carriers, submarine mother ships, ete, the war mongers feel fairly | well satisfied. Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, tonight reasserted his belief th’at President Hoover ex- ceeded his authority when he prom: ised to delay the cruiser construc- tion program of the United States.” In the army the “retrenchment |plan” seems best summed up by the | sole proposition put forward yet, the | abandonment of the army barracks | on Governor's ‘island, “because the | jisland could better be used as an} | air port.” | | |Whole Chinese Town is | |\Blown Up By Munitions | During ‘Preparedness’ | HONG KONG, July 26. — Details |of the ammunition depot explosion jin Yunan-fu are just arriving. The | | whole town was shattered, and hun- | dreds killed by a blast in an ammu- nition depot on July 11. The arsenals and munitions fac! ries are working overtime in antici pation of a military assault on the | U. 8. S. R., and because of the ad-| vances of the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants in the inte- | rior provinces, The speed-up is sup- | | posed to have resulted in an acci- | | dent. IRVING PLAZA PREPARE INTENSIVE RELEASE DRIVE Only Workers Can Save; No Fair Trial Possit Says Engdahl; “War Preparations”—Wicks Philadelphia Police Raid Gastonia Confer. Say No More Meetings for Gastonia Victi BULLETIN. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 26.—Acting under the direct orders of Safety Director Lemuel Schofield, who h issued a ukase that there shall be no more Gastonia def: meetings to interfere with the plan of the prosecution to rail- road 15 workers to the electric chair, police tonight raided and broke up the Philadelphia conference of 150 delegates from at least 75 working class organizations, unions and others. The conference was meeting at Grand Fraternity Hall, 16th and Arch St., when police smashed in, seized all the records ,and made 45 arrests, among whom are Herbert Ben- jamin, Jennie Cooper, and Leo Lemley. The police stated they “had other jobs to do tonight,” and seem to be mak a concerted drive against the defense. Up to a late hour tonight no charges had been placed, and the International Labor Defense will sue for habeas corpus tomorrow if none are made. Recent arrests of tonia meetings were accompanied by charges of state sedi- tion and incitement to riot. + * -« “The Gastonia strikers shall not die nor go td prison.” This cry literally shook the walls in Irving Plaza, New | York, last night, where the working class of the metropolitan enter was represented by one of the most militant assemblages of delegates who had ever met in any cause. They had come ‘to the conference on Gastonia Defense and Relief Weck, July ©27 to August 3, under the pices of the International ‘bor Defense and the Workers | International Relief, to plan an in- |tensive drive for the release of the Gastonia defendants, and the house to house canvass to raise defense ELECTROCUTION THREAT AROUSES |Queens, and all sections of New York district, cheered the membe of the National Textile Worke’ Union who go on trial Monday Big Textile Conference Aids Defense at. |Gastonia, with the electric chair or Boeke long terms in prison threatened By LISTON OAK. them by the textile bosses. The GASTONIA, N. C., July 26— |New York work demanded the rikers. With the Gastonia trial, the attempt | immediate release of the to send 15 workers to the electric| * “Mass Strength Will Save.” chair and 8 more to prison because) phe ma the Loray mill strikers dared to de- trength of the Amer- ‘Mill Hands Tear Up Charter fend their homes, their wives and |ican working class, as represented \children and themselves from a here,” said Louis gdahl, chair- brutal police raid, only a matter of | man of the confer¢ will save two days, the textile workers are |the brave members of the 1 pe (Continuedyon eager we)” || Textile. wor Union and their sympat! 's from the fate of Sacco-Vanzetti.” Engdahl pointed out that workers | The spirit that will go to build] the new fighting trade union center | which will be established at the Trade Union Unity Conference to |be held in Cleveland August 31 is) \illustrated in the action taken at |the last meeting of the Belmont, N. C., local of the corrupt United Tex= |tile Workers outfit. The executive of the Belmont local tore up the} |U. T. W. charter and decided to} ask for a charter of the National | Textile Workers’ Union and send five delegates to the Southern Tex-) tile Conference to be held in Bes-) semer City, N. C., on the 28th of | this month. | This conference, being held a few | miles from the scene of the murder frame-up upon the 15 Gastonia strikers and strike leaders, is one of the many conferences being ar- ranged thryout the United States in preparation for the Cleveland meet. Record of Betrayal. The treachery of the U. T. W. is well known not only in the South where it engineered a sell-out of the mill workers six years ago, but in many textile centers thruout the country. It is expected that mem- N m U; . Ce caf not expect a fair W tad yy t lis , the w man, secretary; Jack Lasher, presi- of oT ? for ew nion n er ss alco inet dent; and Motel Turkel, business | Belmont Mill Workers Tear Up UTW Charter, Send Delegates to Bessemer Conference |tradiction in terms. courts exist to convict workers, not to give them justice. He emphasized the Bessemer City Southern Textile Workers’ Confer- jence as the institution of a fight in bers of the U. T. W. locals in other |the South of militant workers places will follow the example of against the socialists, and the right the Belmont workers and thus help Wing misleaders, as well as against lay the basis for a trade union|the employers. movement which will represent the/ Wicks Shows War Danger. interests of the masses of the work-| Other speakers were: H, M. ers instead of the bosses. ers . | Wicks, for the Communist Party; + ry Cphtemabe Aig: a0: Karl Reeve, for the T. U. E. Li a Nea ati athe, Baron, for the New York In accordance with the decision | Rose , of the First Metropolitan Area| branches of the I. L. D., and for Trade Union Unity Conference, the Workers International Relief, many labor unions in New York, Landy. F Z New Jersey and vicinity are select-| Wicks pointed out that the N. T. ing delegates to the second confer-|W- U., going into the rayon indus- ence to be held August 20 in prep-|try* was in a position to interfere aration for the historic Cleveland | With the war makers, as rayon face meet. |tories are able to manufacture war With the slogans, “Organize to|chemical without change of plant. fight for trade union unity and for| For this purpose, the militant N. T, |the establishment of union condi-| W. U. is particularly singled out for \tions in the shops and factories,”| persecution by a ing class rushes \these organizations are being urged|ing rapidly towards a world con+ |to choose delegates to the confer-| flict. {ence which will discuss the latest de-| Among the more than 100 organi- | velopments in the labor movement. |zations which sent delegates were: The official call to all class strug-|The Window Cleaners, Local 8; the gle unions, all T.U.E.L.’s in the| Office Workers Union; Furrie |A. F. of L. unions, shop committees |ion (No. 1); Bakers Local No. 3, and all unorganized workers de-| A. F. W.; Amalgamated Food Work- (Continued on Page five) | (Continued on Page Two) and J. Louis Engdahl, Yascha Fishberg, famous violi will be dancing until two a. m. William Weinstone, secretary of the Communist Party of the New York district; and Rebecca Grecht, of the Millinery Workers’ Union, . inist, will conduct an orchestra of 50 musicians, formerly of the New York Symphony Orchestra, There Fireworks, a sport carnival, a camp fire, motion pictures, open air dancing and many other features are scheduled for the great crowd milla and Kamarinskay, both by Clinka; Aria Inflamatus, by Rossini, Dawning, by Cabman, (with the First Cornetist, Gluckstein as soloist); Strauss’ Blue Danube; Caucasian Liszt’s First Hungarian Rhapsody. among these. This solidarity demonstration Of course, they’ll sing the International. Sketches by Ippolitoff-Ivanoff and You'll find your favorite piece PROTEST AT THE GASTONIA SOLIDARITY FESTIVAL TODAY AT PLEASANT BAY PARK, BRONX electrocution or prison sentences, the joint relief and defense drive, which will last a week. The affair has been endorsed hy the Needle Trades Workers? Industrial Union, the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, the Office and festival takes place only two days before the opening of the trial of the Gastonia textile strikers | and erganizers, and will he the fi that is expected. The orchestral program includes Russlan and Lud- inal New York rally. It introduces | the most active phase of the campaign to save these 23 workers from | ve ea Workers’ Union, and the Labor Sports Union. The arrangement com- mittee of the Festival announced yesterday that Fifth Avenue buses will leave from the East 177th Street Subway Station and go direct to Pleasant Bay Park. This will save considerable time, ?