The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1929, Page 1

ow : he re d, ed he t, of 10 si y 4 ni dae ae ir as a THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Baily Entered as second-clans matter at (he Most Office at New York, N. Yq Vol. VI., No. 124 Published daily except are by Th Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Combroaal 7 Pi New York City, NEW YORK, WE! ES DAY, JULY 31, 1929 under the act of March 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: £ Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per yen FINAL CITY EDITION n New York, by mail, $5.00 per yenr. Price 3 Cents = = é a CHANGE OF VENUE TO CHARLOTTE IN GASTONIA CASE |Manchuria ‘Peace’ Plots Screen League's Preparations for War LABOR DEFENSE WARNS TFINAL MOBILIZATION FOR AUG. 1; DEMONSTRATION AT 15 MEETINGS THROUGHOUT NEW YORK TONIGHT Trade Union Unity Center, Shoe and Needle Workers Unions, LL.D. Endorse Call Berlin U.S.S.R. Ambassador Denies Lie About Negotiations Opening The intensive preparations for the general strike and mass demon! tion in Union Square tomorrow, Au- gust 1, International Red Day for the Defense of the Soviet Union and Against Imperialist War, which | have been going forward for the! last two weeks, will be brought to a stirring close tonight when the workers of New York City throng the fifteen outdoor arranged by district 2 munist Party, Final recruiting rallies for the lo- cal part in the great world working class protest, it is confidently ex- pected that they will outdo the mas demonstrations of Friday a wee! ago, when 25,000 workers were mus- of the Com- mass meetings | Over Chinese Eastern BERLIN, Germany, July 30. —A statement from the em- ba of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics here yester- day knocked in the head a vicious rumor spread by all capitalist agencies and de- stined to prevent the mobiliza- tion of the forces of Labor for August 1 demonstrations to defend the Soviet Union and fight against imperialist war. | In an attempt to soothe and | trick aroused workers in West- ‘ern Europe and America, the story has been circulated in all capitalist press services that s ed the U. S. S. R. and Chinese imperialist powers, ambassadors here are engaged | Mobilize Shops. in, or about to engage in negotia- Intensive mobilization in the shops | tions to settle the Manchurian crisis. and factories and on the docks, and ; |The Soviet Union embassy today the broad distribution of special | denied emphatically that negotia-| anti-imperialist war issues of shop| tions were pending in Berlin over | tered against the Nanking attacks | on the fatherland of the toilers in- stigated by Wall Street and other | ditions, Departmer* of Justice offi- third overcrowded.” iy See May Alter Baumes Laws. WHITEHALL, N. Y., July 30. — The possibility that the vicious Baumes laws may be inconsequenti- ally revised in an effort to free for the recent mutinies in Danne- mora and Auburn prisons, was seen to day in a statement by Governor may conduct the fourth “investiga- tion” now being planned, made the vague assertion that “the Baumes laws may be effective as a deter- rent, but they may be all wrong | for criminals sentenced under ; them. Under the terms of the Baumes | laws, which have repeatedly been made more and more stringent, four convictions for felonies makes life imprisonment automatic. The law can easily be turned into a power- | Continued on eee rage. A Three) ‘AN OUTBREAK IN Roosevelt. The Tammany chief, who | cials were today forced to admit | that “federal penitentiaries, reform-| atories and women’s prisons in va- | rious parts of the country are one- | | state officials from responsibility | (Crowding, Bad's Them From the Textile Bosses’ Murder !/ Food Causes of ie so Tail Mutinies WASIINGTON, D. C., July 30.—| In the wake of a series of prison} outbreaks caused by unbearable con- | Behind the bars of the Gaston County jail, from right to left, Amy Schechter, Sophie Melvin and Vera Bush, women organizers of the National Textile > Union. They are 16 strikers and organizers of the union indicted Monday for conspiracy to murder which, in North Carolina, he death penalty. Latin- Amerioas Warker Want ‘Daily’ to Live! Worker: among the carries In its fight against American imperialism the Daily Worker has been a powerful influence not only among the workers of the United States, but has come to be highly re- garded among the Latin American workers, so much so that the delegates to the Buenos Aires conference of Communist NON - UNIONISTS JOIN ENGLISH TEXTILE STRIKE Labor Gov't ‘Gives No| | Aid to Workers Plans Sellout’ Strike Benefits Issued Average Wage for Men Only $11.80 a Week | MANCHESTER, England, July 80.—The second day of the British textile workers strike (in many re- Ispects a lockout) saw all the mills closed down except for a few which did not try to enforce the twelve and a half per cent wage cut de- creed by the big employers’ ciation. Half a million men idle, and 1,800 mills shut down. The forces of the union are added to by 150,000 non-union men who struck with the 350,000 members of the union. The union is distributing strike bene $2 a week for young girls, |the card rooms, from a week to spinners. To these are added 72 cents a week for child de- | pendents. | The wages the workers have been living on amounted to an average | of $11.80 for men and $6.48 for wom- en workers per week. he cuts the bosses proposed would have reduced them to $9.84 for men and $6.48 for asso- of 80 a week to men in THIS I$ TRICK TO CALL TRIAL FAIR, PACK JURY “Only Supreme Efforts Can Save Mill Strikers, Menaced by New and More Subtle Attack” Tent Colony Defense Witnesses Threatened; 4 1 Prejudice Incited Raided by Mill Thugs; Daily Worker.) (Special To The STONIA, N..( \., July 30.—The court trying the cases of 16 Gastonia strikers and organizers on conspiracy to murder indictments ruled today for a change of venue to Charlotte, Mecklinburg ee The trial will take place there, before the same judge, M. V. Barnhill, and in all other respects the same except We ih prosecution will now be able to claim “great efforts for fairness,” and the mill owners who have spent much time corrupting and prejudicing all persons entitled by virtue of property ownership to serve on the jury in Gaston County, will have to transfer their campaign to Mecklinburg =e = >°County. Save These Warkerat| Tt is presumed that there will 16 Face Electric Chair have to be a delay of two or three wee s, during which ar- for the Charlotte trial are concluded. With their usual insolence, the mill owners’ prosecution in Gas- tonia have taken Clarence Mill- er, out on bonds charged with rangements 60 to $7.20 | papers are assisting the workers to gird themselves for the strike dem- onstration tomorrow. More militant. trade uniens.and workers’ fraternal organizations are endorsing Rad Day hourly. T. U. U. C. Issues Call. The local council of the Metro- politan Area Trade Union Unity Center, at its last meeting voted to issue a call to its affiliated or- ganizations, class struggle unions, Trade Union Educational League groups in the A. F. of L. unions, shop committees and to the work- ers in the unorganized shops to give the strike demonstration their full support. The Joint Council of the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers Union recom- mended at a meeting last Monday that the shop delegates’ conference be asked to adopt the strike call, A statement issued by the Inter- national Labor Defense yesterday and signed by Rose Baron, secre- tary, declares: I. L. D. Pledges Solidarity. “All members of the New York District of the International Labor Defense must show their solidarity with the workers of the world in this challenge to the capitalist war preparations and conspiracies. All members of the I. L. D. must pledge their solidarity with the Gastonia (Continued on Page Five) NEWARK CARMEN STRIKE LOOMING T.U.EL. Warns Men of Betrayal Policies By NAT KAPLAN NEWARK, N. J., July 30. — The possibility of a strike of over 7,400) traction and bus workers looms larger than ever following the cate- gorical refusal of the Public Serv- ice transportation companies to even consider the renewal of the contract which provides for a 25 per cent wage increase and an eight-hour day. Besides the street car operators and (Continued on Page Three) SPEND A NIGHT ON THE HUDSON.—COME TO THE MOONLITE CRUISE the Chinese Eastern Railway, seized from the joint Soviet and Chinese | control a short time ago by the mili-| tarist government of Chang Hsueh- liang. Hides War Move. The whole story is a camouflage, | meant to hide the imperialist attack taking form against the U. S. S. R., and which went one step farther to- day with receipt of news that the Nanking government had “appealed” to the League of Nations for assis- tance, undoubtedly on orders from} the imperialist powers. oe ae Platform For Invasion, NANKING, China, July 30.—It was stated officially here yesterday that the Chiang Kai-shek govern- ment was engaged in drafting an appeal to the League of Nations, which every one knows is the pre- SEnEY step demanded of the Nanking government, as an excuse on which to act against the Union| of Socialist Soviet Republics with| blockade, loans for war purposes to Chiang, and armed military invasion | of Soviet Union territory. une Civil War in Kansu. PEKING, China, July 30.—Re- ports reached here of a bitter civil war in that portion of Kansu pro- |vince which has recently been split off by the nationalist government and christened Chinghai province. The insurgents have captured after (Continued on Page Three) JAIL INDO-CHINA WORKERS. HANOI, French Indo-China, (By Mail).—Several workers who were |accused of having visited the grave of one of the leaders of the Anti- | French movement were sentenced to |penal servitude for this act of rev- erence. Welcoming their two fellow-wo1 ers who were released from jail jafter they had been murderously attacked by hired thugs of the Sea- men’s Church Institute, several hun- dred seamen held a protest meeting INDIA REPORTED Peasants “Thought in Arms in Hyderabad BOMBAY, India, July 30. — Re- workers, especially urging th doing. The Colombian comrades, Parties of Latin America send greetings to the American The following is part of a letter of Comrade William Simons who was present at the conference: “Delegates to the Buenos Aires Conference of Communist Parties of Latin America asked that we send them the Daily they might know what the revolutionary elements of the U. S. A. are women. * | The MacDgnald “labor” govern- 5 sav y Wor | em to save the Daily Worker. |ment, which has done nothing to protect. the workers from a wage jcut, is believed to be negotiating se- eretly for a return of the strikers on a compromise of a slightly smal- [ter reduction. Worker, so that among them Raul Mahecha, Jeader assault, and added him to the list of those for whom they can ask death penalty. There are now 16 workers facing electrocution in | Gastonia, in the present trial. They are: Fred Beal, Louis Me- | | Laughlin Amy Schechter, William || McGinnis, Vera Bi George | | Carter, Sophie Melvi 0. By- || ers Joseph Harrison, I. C. Heff- | |ner, Robert Allen, Russell Knight, N. F. Gibbons, W. Y. Hendricks, Delmar Hampton, and the latest to be added, Clarence Miller. | | Seven more are to be tried for assault, they are: Ernest Martin, | Clarence Tow | ald, Robert itoff, C. M. Dell, Walter Lloyd and J. R. Pittman. To assist in their defense, rush funds and resolutions to Interna- | nd, D. F. McDon- | | Proof of Prejudice, The the |began today’s proceedings defense by pre- senting a mass of evidence to show attorneys for | that although the worker population Jof Gaston might be abso- lutely the cascade of |anti-strike propaganda, a continuous of agitation | coupled with the vilest slanders, and | the County unmoved by barrage newspaper most outrageous provocation to jlynching, has been conducted by the |mill owners’-local organ, the Gas- ette, for the prejudicing of rors. Over a hundred copies ‘of this sheet were submitted in evi- jdence, and they were filled with the |editorials and “news” stories show- jing the straining of every argument \ports received here from Raichur |state that outbreaks have occurred there. It is presumed that the peas- ants are involved although there is an indication that railway workers may also be taking part. * The Indian government has suc- | ceeded in suppressing all details but it is understood that police and pos- sibly troops, are being hurried to the region, the. junction of two important rail- way lines. The town lies in the do- | minions of the nyzam of Hyderabad, jthe largest Mohammedan state in In- | dia. The nyzam, whose power is ab- |solute in dealing with his own sub- jects, is one of the native princes forstered by the British government to police the Indian territories for | them. The nyzam last month transfer- red 10,000,000 rupees from his trea- sury to the Imperial Bank of India. He. is reputed to have the largest fortune among the Indian princes. It represents the taxes wrung prin- cipally from the wretchedly op- pressed peasants in his domain. 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—.\ugust 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. Seamen Denounce ‘Institute’ at Waterfront Protest Meet 2 Marine Workers Released From Jail After Attack Upon Them, Speak at Rally against that scab agency at the waterfront on South St. last night. The meeting was held directly in front of the Institute. George Mink, secretary of the (Continued on Page Five) ie Raichur is an important town at of the heroic banana plantation strike, were enthusiastic about the sup- port given by the Daily Worker to their struggle. The Bolivian dele- gate was glad to receive the Daily Worker clipping of the interview of Harrison George with the Bolivian minister, in which the latter ad- mitted that the Bolivian Government was doing the bidding of the Standard Oil Co. “The delegates particularly wanted us to let them know what plans American imperialism is making against them, what loans are being negotiated. What better means than the Daily Worker to keep them informed? “The Communist International expects us, and so do the workers of Latin America to give full support to their struggles against im- perialism. This requires rousing the working masses of the U. S. A. for demonstrations and strikes, jointly with the workers of Latin America. Jointly with the Ford rubber slaves in Brazil working for fifty cents a day, with the meat packing workers of Uruguay and Argentina exploited Armour and Swift, with the automobile work- ers oppressed by Ford and General Motors in Argentina. Jointly with the banana plantation workers, shot down by the United Fruit Co. in Colombia and Guatemala. How can we ensure effective joint demon- strations? We must have a daily paper that tells of the real condi- tions of Latin America and that calls the workers to protest. “Our international duties, and especially with regard to Latin Amer. ica, require bending every energy to maintain and build the Dai Worker.” Again the workers of Colombia face in revolutionary struggle the fury of the agents of American imperialism. The “Daily” is needed to help them in their fight against American imperialism, Every Party member should at once pay his one day’s wage assessment and all sympathizers should send funds to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, in order to enable us to get through this most Wa period, DRESS CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN SOON Meeting 0.K’s Plans For Drive Specific steps for conducting the fortheoming organization drive of the dressmakers were decided upon at a well-attended meeting held at Webster hall, 11th St, and Third Ave., last night. Called by the Workers Industrial Union, the meet; ing was addressed by Charles ime | ;merman, head of the dress depart- ment, and Joseph Boruchowitz, man- A large number of workers | which piers the speeches, e Assessment. The te upon the recommen- dation of the Joint Board, decided upon a $2 tax for a fund to finance |the organization drive which will be- | gin soon. |” Zimmerman reported on the pro- | gress made thus far in preparation for the drive. He announced that a committee composed of volunteers has already been formed, and called upon other members to join also. Block and building committees are being organized, Zimmerman report- (Continued on Page Five) Needle Trades ‘Troops STRICT GENSOR HIDES COLOMBIA REVOLT FACTS Rushing to Scene of Battles BOGOTA, Colombia, July 30.—The government, in alarm, was rushing federal troops to affected areas to- day in an attempt to stem the ries of uprisings, purporting to be under Communist leadership, which have broken out in Tolima and San- tander departments. Stringent censorship has virtually annihilated all details of the pres- ent situation between the forces of armed workers and the government |troops and police, but the alarm which the government is manifest- ing, the troop movements, the long conferences between leading gov- se- ; ernment officials and the censorship oe A the Joint Board of the un-| i pautieipatal in a lively discussion | itself may be taken as a satisfactory indication that the authorities still consider the situation extremely | grave for them. It is understood that the cabinet met again today in extraordinary | session although no information was | afterwards given the press. the Lie to Fak (L.R.A.).—While Hoover makes a mild pacifist gesture of suspending cruiser construction for a year, the war preparations of finance capital-| ists go merrily on. ment of war chemicals as aire War Preparations Go On in All Basic Industries ot U.S. Activity in Coal, Oil, Steel Ship Building, Give | In the develop- | a Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th . New York City. The danger is immediate | to arouse hatred among the proper- |ty owning classes of Gaston County against the strikers. Strikers were attacked for Communism, fe Wises on the 5 race issue, and on all manner of ists who want to take away the liberty to hire workers for a twelve hour day in cotton mills at about (Continued on Page Three) $50,000 TO AID GASTON DEFENSE TO FOOD UNION Men Win AIL Demands After 14-Week Fight Following a hard-fought, ’ strike, Ratner’s Taeace 115 Second Ave., yesterday surren-| dered to the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ Union and signed| Fight For Your Right an agreement granting all the de ! mands of the organization. Ratner’s to Organize! 8 mes oF Ge restaurants on “We represent the State.” Blow To Association. The signing up of this restaurant | is clearly a sharp blow to the Res- taurant Owners’ Association and in- dicates its further break-up. Rat- |ner’s has long been considered one of the most influential members of the association. we | This was declared openly, brazen- ly by the Manville lawyer lackies sterday at the opening of the Gas- onia trial ‘which is aiming to legal- \ly lynch 16 members of the Nation- al Textile Workers Union. When A. G. Mangum, one of the prosecuting attorneys declared angri- s ; ly on behalf of his cronies, “No Picket Avresiel: lawyer here represnts any employer Another striker, Ferrero, was ar-|¢Y but the State,” he spoke more | rested yesterday while picketing the|than truth than he was aware of, \Ideal Restaurant, 113 E. 28rd St,|the International +Labor Defense AY etrite lisa beok i progress here | Pointed out today. His declaration Haciibout Ewan |came after a calblegram from Ger= many representing 600,000 workers protesting “against the industrial and police terrorism and class in- justice against the textile workers.” Mangum’s statement was the ase | sertion also of the chief prosecuting jattorney, John G. Carpenter, and |the assumption expressed by the | court, The state, which has always been jat the beck and call of the mill- owners and to exploit the workers,’ and has been connected by a thoue (Continued on Page Two) e “Peace” Talk Jucts in the coal and coke industry, Jin oil, steel and ship building, the | —— ndusirial financiers’ plans are un-| COSTUME BALL ON HUDSON disturbed by any Briand-Kellogg) AUGUST NINTH. pacts. Morgan, Mellon, Rockefeller, | | Continued on Page Three) GET YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE, (3 - DEMONSTRATE! Tonight is the final mobilization night for the demonstrations to- morrow—International Red Day Against Imperialist War and for the Defense of the Soviet Union. In fifteen mobilization meetings through- out: the city tens of thousands of workers will get final details for the demonstration. All Party members must be at the concentration points listed for ¥ hattan. 39th St. and 9th Ave., Manhattan, tonight to help in organizing the workers for tomorrow, All Party members must be prepared tomorrow for the most in- tense activity In mobilizing workers at the shop gates in the factory All workers must be in Union Square within a few THIS APPLIES ESPECIALLY TO ALL COM- MUNIST PARTY MEMBERS. The demonstration in the Square will | districts, ete. minutes after four. 10th St. and 2nd Ave., Manhattan. |Intervale and Wilkins Ave: 110th St. and 5th Ave., Manhattan. 138th St. and 7th Ave., Manhattan. Columbus Circle and 59th St., Man-|50th St. and 5th Ave., Brooklyn. AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES AT 8 P. M. 163rd St. and Prospect Ave. 149th between 3rd and Bergen. toria, L. I. Whitehall St. Grand Street Extension, Brooklyn. Manhattan. Stone and Pitkin Aves., Brooklyn. ! start at 4 o'clock. march out, Bronx.) Steinway and Jamaica Aves., As- 25th St. and Mermaid Ave., C. 1. and South Ferry, Iith St. and University PI. Today everything must be in readiness for the evening torch- light processions and meetings tomorrow night. ranged that all comrades reporting at the gathering places in the sec- tions tomorrow night need only to pick up the panniers’ torches and It must be so ar- MOBILIZATION TONIGHT FOR TOMORROW’S ‘DEMONSTRATIONS ————————— AUGUST 1, 4 PM. ! The Daily Worker will contain much and interesting material in | Thursday’s issue. You should use the Daily in your demonstrations, Order your copies today, ¢ f ALL OUT FOR A MONSTER MASS DEMONSTRATION IN, UNION SQUARE TOMORROW AT FOUR oC LOCK, — a ME ea AR tan we