The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1929, Page 1

es. BATILE GU AUBURN PRISONERS BURN JAIL; s é AS THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week —] aily ARDS; GIVEN CHOICE TO SURRENDER OR BURN A LIVE | Enfered ‘na second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. ee FINAL CITY EDITION ny by The Vol. VI, No. 122 Comprodally Publishing Sei sehe ese: , NEW YORS,MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929 ea to es Cents rice 3 TRIAL TO LEGALLY LYNCH 15 WORKERS STARTS TODAY: REPRESENTATIVES OF 55 MILLS AT BESSEMER MEET FRISCO WORKERS DENOUNCE CHIANG AT HIS CONSULATE: MANY AUGUST FIRST MEETINGS 2 Days of Demonstrations in Shanghai as China Workers Prepare for Defense of U.S.S.R. 50,000 Troops Mobilized in France; Police Jail 18 in Athens; Confiscate Vienna “Rote Fahne” Imperialists’ White Guards Abuse Soviet Workers in Manchuria : (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 28.—Reports have arrived from Khabarovsk of the increased activity of the White Guard Russians organized in bands and operating along the lines of the Chinese Eastern Railway. They are raiding Soviet Union citizens and railway workers. The workers are fleeing to the U.S. §. R. territory in spite of threats by the White Guardists and arrests by the militarist® government’s police. CHINA WORKERS Forty arrested Chinese rail- road workers have been trans- | | Burns; Women Men in Battle BULLETIN. AUBURN, N. Y., July 28.—Au- burn Prison, one of the penal institutions in New York, was almost destroyed tonight by fire. Corralled between two burning buildimgs the desperately fighing jrisoners were given their choice of surrendering or being left to burn alive. All. who. emerged without their hands above their heads were shot down. One of the groups of rebel prison- ers is barricaded in one of the prison shops. se * AUBURN, N. Y., July 28.—One week after 1,300 Dannemora pris- oners revolted in a desperate strug- gle against intolerable conditions, several thousand men and women crammed into Auburn jail yesterday afternoon set fire to the buildings and were still battling besieging state troopers and prison guards at a late hour last night. Six to ten prisoners are reported Bare Socialist Trickery. ported in chains from Pogran- iN NEW YORK IN itchnaya to Harbin. | MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., July 28.— DEMONSTRATION | Gregory Zinoviey, writing in-Pray- eo i a eee da, analyses the reaction of the so- | i i Pla | cial democrats in Germany, gFrance, * a England and elsewhere m ike pres: 4nti-Imperial Speakers | Hit Warlords ent war crisis, and states: “They are trying to blind the western workers to the fact that the seizure Qyer 500 workers, most of them of the railroad in Manchuria is a Chinese, attended the demonstration step in the capitalist plan to stran- held yesterday afternoon at 2 p. m.| siete Soe SHO i defense of the Soviet | id : . } , against the Nanking gov- ‘Frisco Workers Demonstrate. | ernment, the tools of the imperialist SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 28. powers, The demonstration was_| —Five hundred workers demon- held under the auspices of the New strated yesterday, at the call of the York Branch of the All-America Communist Party, before the Chin-| 4 nti-Imperialist League (U. S&S. ese Consulate. : The crowd carried) Section), Placards in English and placards reading: “Workers! Stand Chinese denounced the Nanking by the Soviet Union,” “Down with hirelings of imperialism, called for the Chinese Lackeys of the Imper-’ the defense of the Soviet Union, and ialists,” “Fight the Imperialist War) attacked American imperialism. rs of the same | pos dare te ____ Chiang’s Gang Out, | The San Francisco police assault-| The speakers were continually in- ed the demonstration, arrested the terrupted by cries from a band of Communist Party district organizer, Kuomintang hangers-on, especially E. Cardos; Anita Whitney, Nagura, when they condemned the Kuomin- a Japanese worker, and seven tang as “the running dogs of im- others. Each is held on $1,000 bail. | perialism.” P Gardos and a Chinese speaker, in| The speakers against the Kuo- addressing the demonstration, called mintang were Y. Y. Hsu, of the for workers to demonstrate on Aug. Alliance for the Support of the| 1, at California Hall. Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolution Preparations are going on in full | in China; H. T. Liu, acting national swing for great International Red secretary of the Chinese Students Day demonstrations, Aug. 1, not/| Alliance; _James Mo, Communist only at the California Hall, in San Party; William Simons, secretary, Francisco, but also at Broadway/U. S. Section, All-America. Anti- and 10th in Oakland, and at Rich-| Imperialist League; and I. Zimmer- mond, Wednesday evening, Fifth man, New York Branch of the and McDonald Ave. and in other| League. Ida Rothstein, of the Nee- cities, {dle Trades Workers’ Industrial The bay region press is running | Union, acted as chairman. screamirig headlines about it. Chinese Expose Chiang. Ree om Simons stressed the participation Shanghai Demonstrations. jof American imperialism in this SHANGHAI, China, July 28.—All | attack upon the Soviet Union and day Friday and Saturday the Chi- | the necessity of building the All- nese workers staged demonstrations | America Antilmperialist League as and speakers called for a general /a weapon against imperialism, and Gontinued on Page Three) for defense of the Soviet Union. 500.00 LOCKED OUT IN ENGLAND Cotton Mill Bosses in) , Wage Cut Demand K, Y. Hendryx, on of the 15 strik- ‘ MANCHESTER, England, July | crs in Gastonia facing electrocutions 28.—Half a million English textile) at the hands of the mill bosses’ aa nes er Sela rceig egal court facing slaving in the mills cashire, because they refused to ac- court, slaved in the mills of the south since a very early age. In cept a twelve and a half per ceht the following letter he tells of his ‘wage cut. Margaret Bondfield, labor . party minister of labor, has been holding a continual string of feverish con- ferences with the union heads, de- manding that they make conces- sions, and “save this important in- dustry from stoppage,” but the spirit of the workers is so strong that they have refused. . Try Smash Union. Several conferences, the last dur- ing the early hours of this morn- ing, between the representatives of the employers’ association and the ‘Continued on Page Five) lifetime of slavery and of the final rebellion against that slavery, as a result of which the Manville-Jenckes mill bosses are attempting to get him out of the way ,along with 14 other strikers, * ° . I was born July 4th, 1900 on a farm at Piney Creeck, N. C. My father was a poor farmed and the first nine years of my life were spent there. There were eight chil- dren and my mother died shortly Continued on Page Four. sa, to have escaped during the fierce battle and at least two are believed to have reached places of saféty temporarily out of reach of their pursuers. Warden E. S. Jennings and a num- (Continued on Page Five) . ALG.W.U, THUGS SHOOT UP SHOP Big Dress Mass Meet Tomorrow Night “Gorillas” in the hire of the In- ternational dies Garment Work- ers, the comp: union of the man- ufacturers, Saturday morning in- vaded the shop of the Style-Made Cloak Co., 241 W. 37th St., tor the purpose of making an attack on the workers there. The shop is affili- ated with the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union. The program of the right wing hirelings miscarried, however, for, unlike the practice in the Associ- ated shops of the I. L. G. W., the workers of the Industrial Union do not work on Saturdays. Find Lone Cutter. Arriving, guns in hand, at the shop the Schlesinger underworld “boys” found a cutter’ of Dubinsky’s local who was placed there only a few days ago after the Industrial Union, for various reasons, had failed to send a sufficient number of cutters to the shop. Dubinsky’s cutter arrived for work on Saturday and the strong- arms, under the impression that he was a member of the Industrial Union, fell upon him and beat him (Continued on Page Five) Hendryx, Bob Allen Write trom Prison in Gastonia Workers Tell of Lives of Class Struggle; Still | Fighting, Though Behind Prison Walls Robert Allen, before he was sent to Gastonia prison along with 14 other strikers, on a trumped-up charge of murder, was local secre- tary of the Workers Internetional Relief. His letter reaches us on the eve of his trial. * * . July 4, 1929, Gastonia, N. C. Dear Sir: I will write you a letter to let you know where I am at and why I am there and will tell you the com- plete story to the end. On the first day of April we called a strike in the Loray mill at Gastonia, and the very minute the strike was called the mill.owners and the mill bosses started fighting the union largest | Continued un Page Four. e Communists and workers were sent to jail of from two to five days because their militancy in the demonstration before the Chinese Consulate. Scores of others took off from work a full day or a half day in order to participate in the demonstration. These are times when the party and every member is tested. These are times when we must be ready for any and all work at a moment’s notice. These are times when no sacrifice is big enough for a Communist. Surely there is not a Communist who if faced with the | alternative of giving a.week’s pay or see the Daily Worker suspended, would not borrow the money and bring it to the party to assure the existence of the Daily Worker. | And yet the situation is so serious that the Daily Worker | did not appear one issue and every day it is only with the greatest difficulty that the Daily appears. | At no time do we feel certain that we can win against great odds. | No Communist paper can exist without the greatest sac- rifice on the part of its readers and supporters. Surely it is not asking too much of every Communist to | give a day’s pay. | Only 2000 members have responded to the call so far! | How about the other eight. to ten thousand? | We know that they must support the Gastonia defence and other work. | We know that that many are unemployed. But every Communist must realize that by failing to sup- port the party he is hindering the mobilization of the masses in the struggle against American Imperialism. Every Communist must answer by responding immediate ly with a full day’s pay. Every Communist must set an example to the rest of the | working class how to support the party and the Daily Worker. | FOOD WORKERS SHOE UNION WINS ~~ BACK RED DAY ANOTHER VICTORY \Gained 2,000 Members Shop Delegates Meet During Strike | Tomorrow Night | A resolution calling upon the food) The workers of the Carman Shoe workers and all other workers of Co., Saturday, forced the bosses to | New York to answer the call for the| accede to their demands after a | )strike and demonstration at 4 o'clock) strike which lasted only a few on Red Day, Thursday, August 1, | hours. } jwas adopted at an enthusiastic! The men walked out at the call | ‘meeting of the Hotel, Restaurant| of the Independent Shoe Workers | and Cafeteria Workers Union held) Union, demanding recognition of the | | Friday evening in the headquarters union, the 44-hour week and an in- |of the organization, 133 West 5lst/ crease in pay, So effective was the | | street. | strike that within ten minutes after, Resolutions were also passed| the walkout was declared, not one | |thanking the Workers International! of the workers was at his bench, | Relief, International Labor Defense,| with the result that by the after- | |the United Council of Working! noon of the same day the bosses had | Women and the Amalgamated Food| granted all the demands of the Workers Union, the parent organi- | workers. zation for the union, for its assis-| tance during the recent strike. | | Over 300 members were present) ‘at the meeting, which was the first | of its kind since the cafeteria strike began on March 4. Officials of the| (Continued on Page Five) | (Continued on Page Five) 23 Workers Slated for Gastonia Trial Today The 15 Gastonia strikers and organizers now in Gaston County Jail and scheduled for trial to- day on charges of murder, con- spiracy to commit murder and secret assault with a deadly wea- pon with intent to commit mur- der, are: Fred Beal, Louis McLaughlin, Amy Schechter, William McGin- nis, Vera Bush, George Carter, Sophie Melvin, K. 0. Byers, Jo- seph Harrison, I. C. Heffner, Robert Allen, Russell Knight, N, F. Gibbons, K. Y. Hendricks and | | Delmar Hampton. The eight now out on bonds, also held for trial today, on charges of secret assault with a deadly weapon with intent to com- mit murder, are: Ernest Martin, Clarence Town- send, D. I’, McDonald, Robert Aitoff, C. M. Dell, Clarence Mil- ler, Walter Lloyd and J. R. Pitt- man. To assist in their defense, rush funds and resolutions to Interna- tional Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., New York City. The danger is immediate. 4 ‘Red Front Leads In | Big Red Aid Parade; | Police Attack Fails, BERLIN (By Mail). — Last Sun-| | day an International Red Aid meet- ing took place in Mannheim. A pro- cession marched through the town with uniformed Red Front-fighters | in closed ranks and with uniformed groups of the Swiss Workers De- fense League. All the efforts of the police to arrest the uniformed demonstrators were countered by the energetic resistance of the dem- onstrators, Only after the concentration of strong forces of the police was the demonstration broken up, the uni- formed Red Front-fighters arrested and the Swiss comrades sent over the frontier. Immediately after- wards a second procession was form. ed twice as strong as the first and marched to the local authorities and demanded the immediate release of the arrester Red Front-fighters. Their demands were granted, This is the second strike called by | j BADLY CLUBBED BY “INSTITUTE” |2,000 Assemble Before | Holy Flop House to Voice Indignation |‘Robbed Us For Years’ LL.D. Defends Victims in Night Court The Seamen’s Institute, that off- spring of “missionary enterprise” | , against the seamen. a hotel where seamen are soaked for their rooms and abused when they do not take any scab job that comes along, com-! mitted the latest of its outrages last! | night. « Two seamen, barred from the in- stitution for some reason, early in the evening, sought to ent and on being spotted by the men’s Institute guard, were brutally clubbed and nearly killed. One man was so badly beaten over the head that he was drenched. with his. own blood, and at first was thought to have been killed. The other was also badly injured. The names of the men beaten are William Barnshal and Walter McDonald. Th re taken to the 54th Street Magistrate’s Court and charged with disorderly conduct. Their case put over to August 30, in the First Criminal Court. The magistrate’s court was filled with angry seamen who demanded} release of the arrested men, and would not leave until it was an- nounced that bail had been set at $500, which the I. L. D. is trying to raise. . The attack started when a plain clothes man hired by the Seamen’s Institute tried to throw out a sea- man whom he said “had made trouble there.” He punched the man and a fight started. The in- stitute’s uniformed policeman then went into the office and got two clubs, and the two private cops then beat up the first man and the man who was with him. Instead of taking the murderous guard to prison, the police dragged these two workers off to night! court, . Huge Meeting Starts. Several seamen witnesses of the assault protested, and in a_ short time a huge meeting was in process, | amounting to about 2,000 worke Many of those pwesent had been in- sulted and mistreated in the past by the officials of the institute, and feeling ran high against the “saint- ly” institution. Many speakers arose from amongst the crowd fo denounce the agency of the bosses, the Seamen’s nstitute, which regards a seaman jas merely so much raw material,) out of which by threats, force, and pious ‘religious bunk, by taking ad-| vantage of his frequent periods of (Continued on Page Five) { WORKING WOMEN! ATTENTION WOMEN! All Women’s Councils, fraternal | women’s organizations are requested | to report Thursday at 2 p. m., at 26 Union Square to make final arrange- ents for participation in the Anti- ‘ar meeting at 4 o'clock. TO EXPLOIT ARGENTINE LABOR AKRON, Ohio (By Mail),—The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. will acquire a site for a factory in the |Argentines, President Lichfield an-| nounced after a directors’ meeting | here today. ; 25¢% of Delegate The Trade Union Unity Conven- tion to be held in Cleveland on August 31 to September 2 is great importance to the thousands) of working youth of the United! States, " Auburn Prison TO ALL PARTY MEMBERS Two SEAMEN ARE AT BIG MEETING DEMAND RELEASE OF DEFENDANT Demonstration in Bessemer for Gastonia Defense; Plan Great Organization Campaign Gang Threatens Defense Attorneys; Two-thirds of Proposed Jurers Are Bosses’ Henchmen BESSEMER CITY, N. C., July 28.—While the legal of the International Labor Defense met today to put the fin- ishing touches on their case against the legal lynching of strikers and organizers held in Gaston County Jail on charges of murder, and scheduled for trial tomorrow, the mill we of the South held their largest and most important o1 —tional On the Road to August 1!. the world to the insolent imper- ialist attack on the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union will be tremendous mass strikes and | demonstrations on August First, | International Red Day Against) Imperialist War and for the De-' fense of the Soviet Union. In every imperialist country the statesmen, the diplomats, the generals, admirals, the bankers and industrialists and -all their retainers are feverishly prepar- ing for another imperialist world war. Only the action of the masses can defeat the war plots. | On last Thursday evening at the conference of trade unions! and other working class bodies called by the Communist Party a definite, permanent organiza-' tion was created to fight against, imperialist war. Only a few days! remain to complete the mobiliza-| tion of the workers for the rae | | est demonstrations against im- perialist war this country has ever seen. Workers of the City of New { York! Demonsirate against im-} perialist war! Down tool: at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Au- gust 1, march to Union Square and demonstrate against imper- war and in defense of the Soviet Union that is at this mo- ment being attacked by the mur- derous Chinese hirelings of im- perialism who, in serving their masters, the international bank- ers and industrialists, have al- ready been guilty of mass mur- ders of the very flower of the wotking class of China. A part of the war preparations is the drive of the American im- perialist government to destroy the working class organizations and to prevent the organizing of the unorganized masses in the in- dustries. The Gastonia workers who are today standing trial in the shadow of the electric chair are victims of this attempt te crush militant labor. This week is of tremendous importance to the working class inasmuch as the attempt to railroad these workers to the electric chair en- ters its second stage, the stage of the trials, at the same time workers everywhere are fighting against imperialist war. This is Gastonia defense week. Every class conscious worker must obtain the 1,000,000 signa- tures in a petition against the Gastonia conspiracy to murder fifteen of our comrades because they tried to organize the unor- ganized workers in the South- ern slave pens. Defend the Gastonia victims! Stop the hand of the execu- tioner! Fight Against Imperialist war! Defend the Soviet Union! Forward! To August First! 1 Ke conference thu | today. | The Southern Textile jers’ Conference of the N Textile Worl located in 29 towns of North Caro- lina, present when the meetir called to order. In addition were delegations from Eli ton, and Erwin, Tenn.; from Gr ville, Clover and G } Over a thousand and strikers from wa: mill Bessemer Gastonia, Charlotte, and surround: ~kers City, ing mill towns, dience, were in the au- In a harmonious, but determined, feven enth tic manner, the Southern Textile Conference planned the organization of the southern “mill workers into the fighting Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union planned the defense of the 2: ers and organizers charged h murder or assault because of the fatal wounding of Chief of Police Aderholt, when he tried to le murderous raid on the G strikers’ tents, June From the beginni tion ard defense work at ference went on simultaneous mill workers all ow that these men and women charged with mur- der and assault, and sl {elegtric chair or long pr are the heroes of the were risking their li the right of the w south to organize, and t |the only reason the bosses ha |for their desire to electrocute them. One of the main speakers today | at the conference was Dr. John Ran- |dolph Neal, of counsel for the de- fense. He pointed out that the strik- ers were going to insist in court that they had every right to organ- ize for their self protection against a reign of terror that had been in- stituted, against them by the ern- ployers. They have a right to post jickets, to arm these pickets, and to shoot when attacked by gunmen, jeven if police lead the gangsters, was Neal’s argument, and a very | satisfactory argument to the great | audience and delegates who heard him, Neal pointed out that the em- ployers had covered North Carolina land especially Gaston county, with |a flood of propaganda against the “Communists, atheists, foreigners and strikers,” and would seek in | spite of all protestations to the con- | trary, to lynch by form of law these workers on trial, William Z. Foster spoke on the organization and defense of the tex- tile workers and called for the con- | ference to support the Trade Union | Unity Convention, at Cleveland, 31, where a national center itant unions and progressive (Continued on Page Three) wor Vienna Police Bar Meeting to Honor ~~ 1927 Revolutionists VIENNA (By Mail).—The dem- onstration of the Communist Party of Austria in memory of the ve- 5 to Cleveland on the morning of Sund: July-14, was prohibited by the police. | With a new imperialist war immi- | i the nent, the young workers, who are in the vast majority of the unorganized and unskilled must look forward to | (Continued on Page Not only has bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; ft has also called Into existence the men who are to wield those wen modern working class pew! Five) so. Parl Mars (Communtet