The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1929, Page 3

se iPS SO a Ae hie ee aL eie : = [SSS —_ DA'LY WORKER, NEW YOR LY 3 30, 1929, K, Ea BSD AY, J Fight Impenalist War, Detend the Soviet Union, Is _ ot Anti- War Meet of N. Y. WORKERS MUST DOWN TOOLS ON AUGUST 1! Must Fight in Defense of the U.S.S.R. Fellow Workers: Now is the time to prepare for the fight against im- perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The Social Demo- crats and reformists that betrayed | the workers in the last war, are now the best agents for the imperialists | o prepare the coming war. The \. F. of L. chiefs, the Hillquits, 1 Thomases, and the Mustes are all part official and unofficial of the capitalist war machinery. Their) support of the Kellogg peace pact | and the fake disarmament schemes are all part of the war plans. | Fellow Workers: War is inevit- able under capitalism. Only by | overthrowing capitzlism can war be | prevented. Only by class war can imperialist war be overcome. The capitalist class, driven by the neces- | sity of obtaining new markets, and to win greater profits, are doing everything in their power to foree down the living standards of the workers, and are raising the bloody ; hand of white terror to carry through their plans for war. That | is why they are beating down wages, company unionizing the trade unions, framing up workers, railroading workers to the electric chair, in- creasing police brutality, invading the rights and freedom of the work- ing class on all fronts. They are doing everything possible to cast the | workers into chains and to break | the backbone of the revolutionary | movement. The imperialists are es- | tablishing a united front from the | | | Hoovers to the Greens, Wolls, Thom- | ases and Mustes to carry through | heir murderous designs to plunge lorgaivacrs daniduen MeracatithesN: the working class into the shambles | of a new. world war. Now is the time to act. The work- ing class must not delay their united front to fight imperialist war. The workers must organize its weapons, must show its will and determina- tion to fight and defend its class interests. August Ist, the day set aside by the revolutionary workers the world over, is the day of mobilization against imperialist war. It is the day when the white, black, and yel- low toilers in the farthest corners of the world, on the plantations, in the factories, in the mines and on the railways, in the woods and in the desert, in the huge cities, and in the country, will raise the banner of class struggle against imperialist war. August Ist is the day to es-| tablish firmer the unity of the work- ing class in the life and death battle against the capitalist system— oreeder of wars and exploitation. Workers of New York: On this | day the Greater New York Confer- | ence against Imperialist War and for the Defense of the Soviet Union calls upon you to join in the great demonstration for your class inter- | ests. Down tools on this day at 4 P.M. March to the Union Square demonstration, Show your will to{ fight your class enem Against the deadly speed up tem, low wages, long hours, poli brutality, Against break up of the unions, against invasion of your | rights of organization, .acsemblage | and speech, For the heroic support of the Gas- | tonia workers who are fighting the | battle of the workers of the entire country. j Against police brutality. | Against the imperialist hangmen | and\their Social reformist allies. Dewn with the Fake Peace Pacts. For the Figh€ against the imper- : ialist war. For the Defense of the Soviet Union. Workers of New York— needle trades workers, metal, shoe, food, marine transport workers——workers of all crafts—August 1st is your day. When the imperialists snuff out the great flame of revolution in the Wast, they will crack the whip ‘of slavery over your backs with all the) ferociousness c* the whi guard terrorists. Defend your class and your working class fatherland. Fight for yourselves, for your class, for your brothers the world over. Out on August Ist. Down tools. Show proletarian firmness and determination, On to Union Square. Long live the Soviet Union. Long Live the Unity of the working class. —Workers Anti-Imperialist War and Defend the Soviet Union Conference ne Greater New York. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial began July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prizon terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. New Mass Arrests HELSINGFORS (By Mail) —The Finnish police has effected numer- ous arrests. The excuse offered for these proceedings is the alleged dis- covering of a “secret Communist or- ganization pees to effect a rev- elutiotin Finlan Al Leave for Rehearsals £6 a. Imperialist War The Tist Infantry left Saturday for Camp Smith, where they will weeks, as part of the preparation for the real imperialist war which is now in the of, Just before they left girl members of the Commi tributed leaflets to them: warning them that they are being. prepared for calling for thdefense of the Soviet Union. regiment leaving the armory. later released, Two of the young Comn SPEEDS DRIVE T0 UNIONIZE MILLS 227 Delegates Return as Organizers (Continued from Page One) aration of the convention and in the struggle which it symbolizes and of which it is part. Special emphasis is laid on this point and an appeal | is directed to the membership of the reactionary U.*T. W. Building Defense. Side by side with the preparations for the Charlotte convention will go the agitational and organizationa! work for the building of a powerful movement for the freeing of the T. W. U. — Fred Beal, Laughlin, Russell Bush, K. O. Byers, Amy Schechter, Sophie Melvin, Del Hampton and others — now facing the electric chair on a murder charge which followed the repulse of an armed raid on the Gastonia headquarters of the N. T. W, U. on the night o: June 7. The delegates came from fifty- | four different cities and villages. All day long textile workers from the neighborhood mill towns crowded the frame building which houses the Bessemer City Jocal of the N. T.} W. U. and the big yard in the rear. Louis Me- tation, used by the delegates and} were parked a} visiting workers, | quarter of a mile each way from the headquarters on the highway which | it faces and which is the main street of this typical mill town. A delega- | tion from the Bemberg and Glans- toff Rayon Mill, in Elizabethon, Tenn., was present. Conferences of women and youth were held in the evening after the adjournment of the main conference. A remark-| able feature of these two gatherings was the singing of union songs com- posed by the union members them- | selves and set to the crooning airs | of the southern folk music. The southern class struggle is develop- | ing its own battle songs already. No such publicity has ever been received by a labor conference in the South. The Charlotte Ob- server, published in the largest city of the state, this morning gives practically its whole first page to the conference and the Gastonia trial. It has a three- column cut of Foster, a four-col- umn cut of a section of the con- ference and a column cut of Bin- ney Green, who spoke at the con- ference as a delegate of the union from the Loray mills. Each delegate goes back to the mills as an organizer of the N. T. W. U,, carrying a minimum of 25 four-page folders giving the pro- gram and demands of the union, with an application card on the back page. Ten thousand of these were distributed throughout the Southern textile industry today. The work of the conference was a remarkable demonstration of the organizational ability developed by Southern textile workers in the last few months. All arrangements went off. like clockwork, including the feeding of 300 delegates and their wives and families. Food was pro- vided by the Workers International Relief and. prepared and served by women folks of the union. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial began July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush f> *- to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. the t an ok all on ation of a suciety of free Mars. ea Knight, Vera) established. f | j ‘New Lithuania L aw Threatens Death to Communist Members KOVNO, Lithuania (By Mail).— The Woldemaras government ga- | zettes the new emergency bill ren- dering liable to the penalty of death uny person belonging to organiza- tions in existence in the “o d territody of Lithuania” (i. e., Wilna) or in any foreign eountry and pur- | posing the annexation of Lithuania or any part of Lithuania, to a for- cign country, or the incitement of unrest within the state of Lithuania, or the subversion of the cxistent form of government. Any attempt on the life of member of the government or any public official entails the penalty of death, The same penalty attaches to any istance rendered in such an en- terprise, even if this assistance con- s only in the transportation of literature serving the aims of any of the organizations mentioned »bove into or within Lithuania. In this case, however, a sentence of penal servitude may be pronounced if attenuating circumstances can be | All cases falling under sis law are to be tried by court | | martials, The jaw took effect on, the day of PREUERGIONS aegis GALL WORKERS Autos, the only means of transpor- | | the hypocritical efforts of American | | | imperialism to act as a peace dove lin this situation, invoking the Kel- | | oppression and murder TO DEFEND USSR | Anti- ImperialistsWarn ' of Foe’s Plans (Continued from Page One) ers, and all other sincere foes of im- perialism to show energetically where they stand, to arrange dem- | onstrations and meetings.” The | statement follows in part: “To the working class, and other | anti-imperialists in the U. S. A.: “The U, S. Section of the ‘AAAIL | calls on all workers, organized and| unorganized, poor farmers, and other sincere enemies of imperialism | to rally to the defense of the Soviet! Union. The only working class re-) public of the world is in danger. The long conceived imperialist plan for the crushing of the Soviet Union |is coming to a head, the Nanking Government being a willing tool of) this plan. All sincere enemies of) imperialism must raise their voices at this moment in loud protest; they must demonstrate in masses aaginst this plan. We particularly draw attention to logg “peace” pact, which was aj smoke screen to disguise the fever- ish war preparations of the U.S.A., and a weapon against the League of Nations under British domination. Stimson, who followed a policy of | in Latin! America, now sings sweet peace notes. It is only a few months since troops and machine guns of the Brazilian government were used by Henry Ford to force back to work the 6,000 strikers on his rubber plan- tation in Amazonia, who were strug- gling for an improvement of their daily wage of fifty cents a day. The military campaign against Sandino continues, In the United States, the imperi- r the next two Photo shows uth League dis- a Wall Street slaughter, and vunists were held and quizzed, but ‘play at war’? ‘SAY COMMUNISTS _ LEAD REVOLT Railroad Werkers | Victories | (Continued from Page One) Win workers, about 12 in all, are report- ed to have lost their lives in the bat- tle. | Sunday night the workers town of Libano revolted and fought the police. Details are lacking but lit is known that bombs were used during the struggle. Other clashes between government | ists are reported today from Tolima troops and the police and revolution- | h Libano is lo- department in w cated, The authorities assert that they have captured th of the workers and are holding them aboard a gunboat in the Magdalena river, The'towns of San Vicente and Chu- | churi near La Gomez in Santander ldepartment, are also reported to have been the scene of bitter armed fighting. After nervous conferences between government officials and Abadia Mendez, the president, the minister of war, Cabal Pombo, issued the us- ual statement that the government believes it is capable of coping with the revolt. Continuation of the fighting in Santander and Tolima tends to dis- credit this statement. against the workers who seek to bet- ter their conditions, as in Gastonia ~mong the textile workers. They bytter down working ¢onditions; thiy seek to weaken the working clas, so as to have a free hand in the attack on Soviet Russia. If the imperiilists succeed in smashing the Soviet Union, they will follow | this with the most’ brutal suppres- sion of the working class organiza- | ions in this country. We call on the working masses, poor farmers, and all friends of the Soviet Union, all anti-imperialists to ‘rise as you never rose before, nor dared before, nor hoped before; and show as never shown before, the power that lies in you.’ Agitate in the shops, factories, mines and mills. Explain the situa- tion to your fellow workers in the shops, at the bench, during lunch time, Elect anti-war committees in the shops and get in touch with us. Stand by the workers and peas- ants of the Soviet union! Defend the Soviet Union from imperialist attack! Down with American imperialism! | Down with the Nanking hirelings of | the imperialist powers! Hail the Frankfurt world anti-im- perialist congress, champion for the defense of the Soviet Union. Support the demonstrations of the Anti-Imperialist League, Signed: All America Anti-Imperial- ist League (U. S, Section). William Simons, National retary, Sec- The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial began July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 alists use the police and troops East 11th Street, New York. MODERN $23 for Tents—$ N. Y. Wocolona COOPERATIVE ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Fifty Miles from New York City BUNGALOWS, ELEC- TRICITY — MUSIC — SPORTS LECTURES AND DISCUSSION Under the Direction of Ray Ragozyn Special LOW RATES for Members Round Trip Ticket Thru Our Office $2.00 Save $1.60 by getting tickets at the office Office Phone Stuyvesant 6015 CAMP TELEPHONE — MONROE 89 Reservations must he made afew days in WORKERS Camp 27 for Bungalows advance of the |, SMR RESTS | > M g (Continued fron to technical ma a monster gatherin -onnsylvania ecal miners. The national headquarters been informed the \unions are also mobilizing behin the | August Ist der rations, though | the list of such meeting: d hes not arrived as yet. The West Virginia di hold a number of gath ces of combined local due be unions, in the tts Run area of Northern West V Latin Workers Wire U. EB. L. Un onal office in N eceived a cable fr n Confederation of L in American Secre- | of The League yesterday Pan Am bor, and the tariat of the Red Internationa’ Labor Unions, stating: “To commemorate the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, end Anti-Impe- | rialist War Day, the Confederation ndicale has de a general s against imperialist war, and for the freedom of political prison- ers on August 23. We await your is cabling an an- the decision ion to the Gas- Cleveland Trade ention, of August the demonstra- applaudi calling atte a case and t Union Unity Con 51, and announ tions ers for August’ 1 against im |war and for the defense of the viet Union, | ti os | New York Workei House to house d in working class sections and innumer- able street meetings and factory te noon-day meetings between now and August 1, are scattering | hundred. of thousands of circulars calling for a strike at 4 p. m. in every industry and a huge demon- stration immediately thereafter in Union Square, to the multitudes of New York workers, After the demonstration there will be a torchlight parade. | es, ae | (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) London Demonstration. LONDON, England, July 29. Battling at times with the police, a ‘large number of workers, led by | the Communist Party of Great Brit- ain yesterday staged a demonstra- tion before the Chiang Kai-shek government’s consulate in London, They denounced the use made of the militarist governments in China by the imperialist powers. Earlier in the day, there was a huge anti-imp: ist war meeting in Trafalgar Square, of 5,000 women workers called by the Communist | Party. | * 8 © Three Montreal Meetings. MONTREAL, Canada, Ju August Fi will see distr tion of special leaflets, and three meetings at 8:30 p. m. at Prince Ar- thur Hall, Finnish Hall, and French Hall. Ci Many Milwaukee Meetings. MILWAUKEE, Wisc., July 29.— | Many noon day méetings before the big shops, special issues of six shop papers, distribution of thousands of leaflets, will lead up to a huge pa- rade and demonstration August 1st through the heart of the city and | up to a meeting at Second and Wells Streets. A number of workers’ clubs have pledged their attendance, jand active resistance to any police, gangster and socialist attacks on the | demonstration, * * * Baltimore Sets Pace, BALTIMORE, Md., July 29. —| |Richard B. Moore, Negro workin; class leader of New York, Dominick |Flaiani, Baltimore secretary of the | Communist Party, and Irving Keith, Baltimore secretary of the Commu- nist Youth League, will be the main | speakers at the August 1 demonstra- | tion, Baltimore and Hopkins Place, 3 to|* ‘been applied as well; | police specially brought her daugh- Killed in in ‘Plane Crash it6 INDICTED FOR | MURDERBY GRAND JURY IN GASTONIA iClarence Miller Added to Previous 15 (Continued from Page One) prospecti juror in Gaston county and ascertain his stand on the case, further prejudicing all those eligi- ble. Joseph Bogart, 35, airplane salesman, was killed when his tiny monoplane crashed near Binghamton, N. Y. Above is the wrecked plane with one wing hanging on the electric wire. Destruction from the air will play a great role in the coming imperialist war which now looms. COMMUNISTS IN WORKERS SIGN JAPAN TORTURED GASTONIA ROLL Police Told id They Could Thousands Join to Save Kill Workers | Prisoners sy TAMURA (Continued jrom Page One) The cane anese government is still 1 and of the district offices of the 2 tion, for collec- f erucl vepres. Tation-wide organiza P dag ea Sao eaia ag tion boxes, literature on Gastonia, ment, Not content with the mass | Petition blanks, and other necessary arrests of Communists and the dis- paraphernalia. solution. of revolutionary working “Workers must not let up one Glace organizations in March and instant throughout the week” the April, the Japanese authori- \I. L, D. stated. “There are specific ie carried out mass ar./29d vitally necessary goals to Sa eee eette ig Anil and achieve. A membershtp of 100,000 May this year. Hundreds of Com- |f0F the I. L. D. is an absolute neces- munists have been cast into prison, | Sity for the aid of class-war pris- where they have to put up with the | ers of today and the future, Fifty most inhuman treatment. Some | thousand dollars to bring the trial idea may be gained of how Com-|t0 a successful conclusion must also munists are treated in prison from |be collected. the speech of Yamamoto, the work-; “The mass petition of 1,000,060 ing class member of parliament |"@mes is also a major requirement. who s recently murdered by a “Don’t forget that the successful fascist thug when speaking before | one of the parliamentary sub-com- | not only an attack against wage-cut missions. and speed-up, but it is a powerful “{ have in my possession facts |arraignment against the bosses’ _|Plans to hurl the workers of the LL Saeed a te ea (Pane into another bloody holocaust, ; 4 : as in 1914. munist plot trial are being tor- |, ; tured Such (detained persons heva| couect fundst $59,000 must be} secured! Hold house to house col-| ae er Hiioze. Mo: |leetions; shop collections; tag days; Kio, onthe Island of Hokkaido, and |°ontributions direct to national head- “ es | quarters of the I. L. D. Cea ee Rew eat EACaileck signatures: One million il 1 Fukutse, who was arrested in{70™eS Will tell a powerful story of Hakodate (Hokkaido Island), was ee eanart aa iisaticas eas first stripped naked by the police, 100,000: menihers will ale thrown on to a stone floor and then beaten with bamboo canes until he | lost consciousness. Sidziu, another | arrested Communist, was also tor- tured. till he lost consciousness. | When he returned to consciousness ; some hours after he found prepa-| rations being made for his funeral | —to avoid any unpleasantness the | police had simply decided to bury him alive. Other tortures have some have | been hung by the feet and left in| that pesition till they lost their | joners and all others in the coming | jintensified labor struggles.” The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial began July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to saye them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. | attorneys, defense of the Gastonia prisoners is | effectively | shield the Gastonia class-war pris- | Demand Venue Change. The International Labor Defense counsel for the Gastonia: victims, will present in the after- noon session of court, or as soon as | possible, more than a hundred affi- davits showing that a fair trial is impossible in Gaston county, and ars guing for a change of venue. The prosecution , having everything ar- ranged for an easy conviction with- out regard to evidence in Gaston county, has already indicated it will bitterly fight any motion fot a: change of venue, History of Case. The present case grew out of the brutalities and attacks made upon the Loray mill strikers in Gastonia, Under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union, of which | Fred E. Beal was southern organ- lizer, these Loray workers struck against the twelve hour day, ten dol- lar a week wage, and unendurable housing conditions, They were then evicted from the company houses, |and began to live in tents furnished |by the Workers International Re- jlief, They were many times slug- ged, bayoneted and arrested on the picket line. Early in the strike a mill owners’ masked mob’ raided, destroyed their |headquarters and W. I. R. sta- tion. Constant threats were made that the new headquarters, relief station and tent colony would be | similarly wrecked, The strikers posted armed guards, jfired on men trying to poison their water supply and announced to the | governor and the press that they would resist further assaults, Chief Leads Mob. On the night of June 7, Chief of | Police Aderholt, who had previously led attacks upon them, came with a raiding party made up of police, rep- uties, and one mill gangster who was not any kind of an officer. The raiders declared they bad no , Warrants and needed none when the strikers’ guard challenged them, and | proceeded to assault him and fire into the tents. Aderholt was killed in the return fire, and his followers wounded, Wholesale arrests followed; an at- tempt was made to work up a lynch mob against the prisoners but fail- ed because the working class of the |district was in favor of the strik- ers; and finally 23 of the leaders jand most active strikers, relief work- ers, ete., were held for trial. The prosecution attorneys are led by Major Bulwinkle, counsel, for the Manville-Jenckes Loray mill, and a fund of at least $500,000 has been raised by mill owners to railroad these workers to electrocution or long prison terms. senses. -There have been cases of Communist prisoners having their finger nails torn out. Further, all| the arrested persons (in Osaka, To- | kio and elsewhere) state that on be- ginning to torture them the police | told them they were prepared to go as far as killing them, as not they themselves but their chiefs and other officials would be held re- sponsible for the consequences. Among those arrested in Sapoiro was a woman, the mother of a fif- teen-year-old daughter. When this | woman was being interrogated the ter in her presence and in front of the mother’s eyes did such ayful things with the girl that they are not to be described in black and white. When the facts were men- ioned in court, the judge himself | had to drop his head in shame. I have only given a few of the many | facts that could be cited without | end.” | Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! CHICAGO The only and best vacation plac All modern conveniences with have already been built. playground. Register before you go on your For information ‘call: Rockwell Every Saturday 2 o'clock a bus operative office. HAVE YOU VISITED NITGEDAIGET? CAMP NITGEDAIGET A tank has been built for the children to bathe, also a special Concerts, entertainments, lectures every week. 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