The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1929, Page 1

LY Armed Workers Revolt in Colombia; Seize Dynamite; Battles in Two Departments THE DAILY WO For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week RKER FIGHTS ss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act Worker of March 3, 1879. » 26-28 Union Square, Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. _NEW ‘YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929 rin New York, | New York, by mal by mall, $6.00 py FINAL CITY EDITION — Price 3 Cents GASTONIA GRAND JURY INDICTS 1 —e 6 ON MURDER CHARGE Arrests By ET Hundreds, Police Attacks, Massing of Troops, Fail to Stop Aug. | 1 Plans 10 NEW YORK MASS MEETINGS ON EVE OF INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR DAY RALLY LABOR Felony Charges on Demonstrators in ’Frisco; Latin Workers Wire T.U.E.L They'll Strike National Miners Union Conducts Thru Loca.s August 1 Demonstrations ir in Coal Fields war against the Soviet Union. IF ight All Imperialist Wars! Defend Soviet Unies Socialist Fatherland! Down Tools August First, At Four P. M.! Demonstrate in Unien Square! In the course of the last two weeks the workers of the entire world have had a lesson on the nearness of a new imperialistic world war. Without the slightest provocation the Chinese war lords—hirelings of world imperial |the Chinese Eastern Railroad, maltreated and deported Soviet citizens, and committed a series of provocative acts of » Seized At this moment the war clouds hang heavily over the Chinese-Soviet borders. The Nanking government, that has butchered tens of thousands of Chinese workers and peasants, would never dare to raise its bloody hand against the Workers’ Republic, were it not assured of the support of the Imperialist powers. blood hounds of the capitalist class, the bourgeois press, has been howling against the Soviet Union, raising the cry of the The | Defendants as Man Business of -Indicting CLARENCE MILLER, FIRST CHARGE ASSAULT, NOW ON LIST SLATED FOR CHAIR | Prosecutor Announces Plan To Pick Out One of Who Shot Aderholt es 7 Others on Assault NEW YORK LABOR SHANGHAI STRIKE PREPARES STRIKE STILL GOING ON That the overwhelmingly | successful open air meetings of a week ago, which mustered 25,000 workers against the im- perialist war mongers and for the defense of the Soviet Union, will be far surpassed by | the series of similar mass dem- orstrations planned for the evening of Wednesday, July 31, the prediction of the Workers Ac- tion Committee elected at the Anti- Imperialist War: Conference in Iry- aes As August First, Interna- tional Red Day, for the De- fense of the Soviet Union and Against Imperialist War, ap- proaches, news arrives of dem- onstrations and strikes ar- ranged in many cities, both in the United States and abroad. Fifty thousand troops are massed in | Paris by the imperial government of France, to try and stop the strike movement and the huge dem- | onstrations which are being ar- is them by pacifist phrases to put the masses f toilers off thei TO FIGHT IN DEFENSE OF THEIR FATHERLAND—THE WARES, Imperialist war with its bloody destruction of the lives of millions of toilers is now on the order of the day. From day to day the competiton between the great powers is sharp- ening; the attacks of the imperialists upon the colonies are becoming more brutal. The United States and Britain are arming to the teeth for the inevitable war between them, which as each day passes grows ever nearer. The imperialists | will not and cannot disarm. The imperialist politicians are preparing for war with ferocious speed. They are preparing for a world war, under a elaele of lyi ing and poaeenc phrases | “Red Menace,” the cover under which the capitalists intend to invade the Soviet Union and destroy the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. There is no doubt that the Imperialists, which have been encircling the Soviets for years slightest pretext upon which to get into motion the great war machines for the destruction of the working cla: At this moment they are making further moves for common action against the Soviet Union and at the same time to deceive await the fatherland. r guard. THE WORKING CLASS MUST BE PREPARED, Over UNION—THEY MUST NOT BE CAUGHT UNA- Tot “world peace.” The more furious the armament pace be-| comes, the more energetic become the official and unofficial agents of imperialism in their howls of “peace,” in the produc- tion of “peace pacts” and in the organization of projects and proposals for “peace.” That is the meaning of the hullabolu of the Hoover government about the Kellogg Peace Pact, of the MacDonald government, of the reduction of the Navy. It is all intended to deceive the workers. is coming ever nearer, eee on nee Three). It only shows that war | Charges Goes on as Trial Starts BULLETIN GASTONIA, N. C., July 29.—Court adjourned today until 9:30 a.m. tomorrow to hear the remainder of the argument on change of venue. | Judge Barnhill stated that the defendants would not be tried before a | Gaston county jury, but whether this was his opinion or meant that the | jury would be summoned from outside the county (which is sometimes |done in North Carolina) or that the trial would move to another county, | was not made clear. Solicitor Carpenter stated that a verdict of first degree murder would be sought against the men whom the prosecution claims shot Aderholt, and that the others would get from four months to ten years on the con- spiracy charge. The indictments of conspiracy are so drawn, however, that the death penalty can be inflicted on any of those so charged. * GASTONIA, N , July —Any doubt as to the mur- derous efficiency of the property-owner grand jury of Gaston county disappeared this morning when the jury met, and at the demand of the prosecution, without any serious investigation whatever, indicted all 15 of those textile strikers and organizers ing Plaza Thursday night. Ten Meetings. These meetings, taking place on the eve of International Red Day, will serve as final recruiting rallies for the general strike and the colos- sal demonstration in Union Square on August 1. They will be held at the following points, coming to or- der at 8 p. m.: 10th St. and Second Ave.; 110th . and Fifth Ave.; Intervale and kins Aves.; Grand Street Extension; Stone and Pitkin Aves.; 13th Ave. and 48rd St.; |* Steinway and Jamaica Aves., As- toria, L. foot of Whitchall St. and South Ferry. There will also be an 1 additional meeting in the Harlem section one on Coney Island, the places to be announced later, Conference in Call The New York Workers Confer- ence Against Imperialist War And For the Defense of the Soviet Union, the permanent orgarization into which the Thursday conference resolved itself, was instructed, by unanimous decision of the delegates, to issue a call to all shops, trade unions, workers’ fraternal etc., to form- anti-war committees which shall affiliate with the Con- ference. The body also decided to further (Continued on Page Five) DRESSMAKERS T0 PLAN CAMPAIGN LL.G.W. Bails Out Its -Pet Thugs Traders of the Needle Trades Worsers Industrial Union will speak at a mass meeting of dressmakers to be held tonight in Webster Hall, 119 East 11th St., at 7 o'clock. The :neeting is part of an inten- sive organization drive now being planned by the Industrial Union, and plans for carrying on this campaign will be considered there. Following the taking over of the entire assets and liabilities of the International Garment Workers by the manufacturers, and its estab- lishment as a full-blown company union, the Schlesinger outfit is now prating about an “organization drive.” This, it is expected, will be (Continued on Page Five) ct and bodies, ranged in spite of attempts to pre- ivent them by arrest of approxi- mately a hundred leading Communist | Party and trade union leaders. Shanghai Strike The City of Shanghai is practi-| cally in a state of siege, with Chiang Kai-shek’s police and soldiery trying to stop demonstration after demon- stration, and the White Guard Rus- ,sians trying to make the water | works run, after the Chinese em- ployees walked out on strike. + Felony Charge in Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 29.— Charges of felony, “carrying signs in opposition to the U. S. govern- | | broke at several widely-separated | Japanese speaker at the Anti-War | ment” were placed against Nagura, and Defend the Soviet Union dem- onstration before the Chinese consu- late Saturday, when the ccses of| those arrested were called in Judge O’Brian’s court today. Nagura’s bail was raised from $1,000 /to $2,500. This was also done to Nadel, other speaker. Anita Whitney, District Organ- izer Gardos of the Communist Party, Daniels, Legin, Lans, Vasil, same offense, and as are also Nag- \ura and Nadel, with disturbance of the peace, and “distributing hand- | bills.” They will have a jury trial; the | penalty is five years, Sak a PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 29.—The national headquarters of the Nation- al Miners Union, at 119 Federal St., today announced that a tremendous ‘number of mass meetings and dem- \enstrations will be' held on August (1st by local unions and district or- ganizations of the N. M. U. demon- | strating against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Un- ion. Local union 601, Bicknell, Indi- ana, with a membership of 600 will demonstrate on August Ist. Central Pennsylvania will hold meetings in Portage, Hastings, and a numb er of other towns. The Hast- ings meeting, called for August 4, Continued on Page Three) \Sect. 2 Meet Tonight There will be a very important meeting in Section Two, New York, of the Communist Party, right after work, tonight, on the fifth floor of the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. This is for mobiliza- tion for the August 1 demonstration. an- | Manus | and Mo lotti are all charged with the | SAY COMMUNISTS: LEAD REVOLT IN COLOMBIA TOWNS ‘Railroad Workers Win Victories BOGOTA, Colombia, July 29.—The | wave of revolution in Colombia, re- | ported to be led by Communists, points over the week end, with ca- sualties among the revolting work- [ers and government forces still un- ing death toll. Following the alleged repulse of | revolutionary railroad workers at La Gomez station on the Puerto Wilches railway, the workers be- sieged the police barracks where the | government forces had barricaded themselves. The government reports state that the revolutionigts at La Gomez were under the leadership of Benigno Ar- ciniegas and that they tried to seize |the dynamite stores there. Though armed only with clubs and revolvers | | the workers appear to have succeed- ed in obtaining possession of the | dynamite and routing the govern-| ment forces since they later barri- | caded them in the barracks. Luis Umana Rivas, chief engi- neer, and a number of other railroad certain, but with a rapidly mount- } 3 (Continued on Page Three) HARLEM TENANT MEET, AUG. 7-8 At a meeting last night of the | Harlem Tenants League at the Pub- jlic Library, 108 West 135th Street, hundreds of tenants present were urged to prepare for united mass | action by speeding up the organiza- tion of house block committees to meet the new attack/by the land- lords who are again raising rents on August 1, The League issued 4 militant call for a conference against high rents and bad housing conditions to -be (Continued on Page Five) | The “Daily” Appears Today Because of Last-Minute Aid For hours yesterday it looked as though the Daily Worker would not be able to appear today. It was only be- cause a number of workers who could be reached quit their work and made loans to place at the disposal of the paper that you are reading the Daily now. Surely at this time, when the war clouds hang heavy ily over the Siberian-Manchurian border, when the imperialist " powers, through the hireling government of China, is wag- ing war against*the Soviet Union, when the Gastonia pris- oners face trial for their lives, when the new mass strikes are developing as in the textile mills of Britain, when the shameful trial at Meirut, India, is going on; when martial law is declared in Paris for August Ist because of fear of working class strikes and demonstrations against war, when Communists are being murdered in the streets of many Eu- ropean cities, the Daily Worker must not be permitted to suspend publication. If all our readers and Beanpathivens will rally to our support we will be able to survive and continue the fight. To be foreed now to suspend would mean a defeat for the whole working class‘ of the United States and a blow at the revolutionary movement of the world. Communists! Meet your one day’s assessment by at once securing the money and paying it to your unit and seeing that it is sent to the National Office of the Commu- nist Party, 43 E, 125th St. Readers!’ Sympathizers! Send donations at once to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. WORKERS SIGN SING SING ASKS GASTONIA ROLL ARMED CRUISER While the textile bosses of the | South are trying to railroad 15 mem- | bers of the National Textile Workers | Union to the chair at the trial which | began yesterday, the International | | Labor Defense announces thousands | of signatures on the mass protest petition have already poured in om: | all sections of the country. Gastonia Defense and R elie? | Week, July 27th to August 3rd,| which began in New York with a| gigantic Solidarity Festival at Pleas- | ant Bay Park at which thousands of workers were present, is, the | cause of tremendous activity proletariat today. BULLETIN. AUBURN, N. Y., Howling and hissing at guards and shouting angry de- mands for food, the 1,700 prison- ers who staged yesterday’s prisor revolt remained defiant within their crowded quarters tonight. Only four of the hundreds who had tried to win their freedom by setting fire to the prison and over- powering the guards remained at Jarge. ae oe | Ossining, N. Y., July 29. — Offi- 500,000 STRIKE: | THE UP BRITISH - COTTONINDUSTRY MacDonald 1 Tries to Assist Wage Cut | LONDON, England, July 29. | Over 1,800 cotton mills (the w hola industry) are idle today, and 5 workers are on strike in Lani e, in the higgest industrial battle since |the general strike. The workers | have refused every effort of the 00, 000 | | MacDonald cabinet to compel them assemble in the afternoon, and take| j to comprom with the employers on a wage cut. The bosses demand they sacrifice an eighth of their daily wages. Margaret Bondfi | minister of labor, has been trying | to get them to take an eight or ten per cent cut instead. In a statement today, Bondfield declared the government was “anx- watching” the strike. No strikebreakers were reported | today, and the numbers on strike are so large it is not believed that scabbing will be an important item, | at least until much later. CALL WORKERS TO DEFEND USSR: “Defend the Soviet Union from Pe eouk attack” is the keynote of {a statement just released by the | National Office of the United States | |Section of the All America Anti-| |Imperialist League, at 799 Broad- way, room 433. William Simons, | | National Secretary, called attention bid the Second World Congress of) the Anti-Imperialist League, now meeting in Frankfort, Germany, which has appealed to anti-imperial-| ists throughout the world to come | to, the defense of the Soviet Union. | “In carrying out the instructions of the World League,” says Simons, cials of Sing Sing prison, declaring |“we are calling on the working Requests are being made both at that they fear “rioting” at this in- | masses, organized and unorganized, the national offices of the I. L. D. | stitution, following the mutiny. in| | agricultural workers and poor farm-| the more militant members into (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Five) | i bao on Page Three) lotte a month ago. sniraey to commit murder” a a chare of ‘ ‘secret assault with a eee peg a ana fa arge, makin, a cate po mill owners’ ies tion is now trying its best to send to the electric chair. Trial Starts As soon as the indictments of those facing the death penalty were | rendered, the special term of court, before Judge M. V. Barnhill, an ap- pointee of Governor Gardner, ¥ called to meet this afternoon at The grand jury adjourned, 0. to re- up the cases of the seven remaining! on assault charges. With Miller, | s there had been eight held for and all were out on $750 bail, furnished by the International La- bor Defense. Rex Workers Close Mill Carpenter indicated the plan of the prosecution to pick out some one of the strikers for particular perse- cution, when he declared to the press: “The prosecution will furnish witnesses to show which of them shot Aderholt. He is among those indicted.” There was talk yesterday of a sympathy strike by workers in the Rex mill, and officials of the mill of trouble.” The grand jury was selected by | Barnhill from a venire of something over a hundred, of whom 40 were so plainly and flagrantly connected | with the mill owners that they could | not be used without too much scan- dal; The jury system in North Carolina | is | ow! atrocious. None but property mers may serve on any juries, which automatically packs the jury with non-workers, In addition to this and in addition to the prejudi- cial, press campaign carried on by | the mill owners, several private de- tective agencies have been used by the prosecution to approach every | (Continued on Page Three) Build shop committees and draw the Communist Party. leat announced today it would be closed| for ten days to “avoid the possibility | | the struggle for the 8-hour day,ca held in Gastonia jail after the habeas corpus hearings in Char- The indictments are for conspiracy to com- | mit murder, which in North Carolina carries the death penalty, In addition to this, the grand jury indicted on the “cons charge, Clarence Miller, an organ- zer, who was hitherto held on® BIG CONFERENCE ° ‘| SPEEDS DRIVE TO UNIONIZE MILLS Delegates Return as Organizers By BILL DUNNE GASTONI: N. C., July 29.— Southern textile orke meeting in the Southern xtile Workers Conference yesterday at Bessemer City under leadership of National Textile Workers Union, drafted a stern reply to the murder campaign of the textile mill owners on the Gastonia front and to the cautious conference of the United Textile Workers misleaders held in Rye, N. Y., seven hundred miles from the battle field where underpaid and pellagra-ridden textile workers are struggling against the worst living: and working conditions “in thé United States. Result of Struggle. This convention, developed out of minimum wage of $20 per week, abolition of night work, espeéially for women and children, and equal . pay for equal work, will in its turn both stimulate and give definite or- ganizational form to the growing |mass drive for the unionization of the textile industry on a militant program. Two hundred twenty-seven delegates from five states: North and South Carolina, Virginia, Geor- gia and Tennessee, wrote a new page in American labor history. They, represent directly 40,000 textile workers and indirectly) represented 35,000 more through representation from mill committees and organizas tion committees in mill centers. The resolution authorizing the Charlotte convention, as well as the official eall which will go out in a few days, emphasizes the necessity for all textile workers, organized and unore ganized. to take part in the prep- | (Continued on Page ghia FINAL MOBILIZATION FOR THURSDAY’S DEMONSTRATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE WEDNE DAY NIGHT ‘0th St. and 2nd Ave., Manhattan. |Intervale and Wilkins Aves., Bronx.) Steinway and Jam: AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES AT 8 P. M. a Aves., As- 110th St. and 5th Ave., Manhattan. 163rd St. and Prospect Ave. 138th St. and 7th Ave., Manhattan. 149th between 3rd. and Bergen. toria, L. I. 25th St. and Mermaid Ave., C. I. | DEMONSTRATE! Last Friday night we mobilized 25,000 workers in demonstration against the attacks on the Soviet Union instigated through the Nanking butchers, by the United States and other imperialist powers. There are only three days left until the big demonstration in Union eon ‘on Thursday, August 1, at four o'clock. On Wednesday night we t AUGUST 1, 4 P.M. will carry through the FINAL MOBILIZATION MEETINGS for Thurs-! tend that everything is quiet in connection with the attack of the Chit day’s demonstration. IF WE COULD RALLY 25,000 WORKERS LAST hirelings on the Soviet Union, news comes of increased oer ret FRIDAY NIGHT WE SHOULD RALLY TEN THOUSAND MORE THAN | war. The Manchurian war lords have already dug trenches, have massed THAT FOR THIS WEDNESDAY! | many tens of thousands of troops, and are conducting discussions with Despite the attempt of the bourgeois press to hide the facts, to pre-, the imperialists with a view goming to an agreement as to how, to Columbus Circle and 59th St., Man-/50th St. and 5th Ave., Brooklyn. Whitehall St. and South Ferry, hattan. Grand Street Extension, Brooklyn. Manhattan, 39th St. and 9th Ave. Manhattan, [Stone and Pitkin Aves., Brooklyn, 14th St. and University Pl. carry through the war on the ) iet Union. Just because the danger exists that the bourgeois press will put lates masses of workers to sleep, we must double and treble our energies in mobilizing them. WEDNESDAY NIGHT WE Must wae BB fh as final mobilization for Thursday afternoo ve