The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1929, Page 3

het DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY DENY LIES ABOUT European Imperiaists Develop Air War Technique, Too JULY 31, 1929 ‘CHANGE OF VENUE = ul By W. RURKE. fight for sports r | ‘ B Russia and for unity of the interna- 5 per PORTS OF SO a] iat ae National tional labor sports movement. This ) A i fl p e fe eee i on Aceutt 2 festival proves conclusively that the | j aes ‘ aN} Tees the Ga: masses of the workers sportsme S93 8 Paka & pease | F The Li and the workers apap | ——- ueted a cam-| favor of un olice Try to Suppress | Dotense Warnson New hese a epee ee tac lines palicy ofthe ve T.U.E.L. Warns Men of Aug. 1 Preparations Prosecution Trick cont cf the proceeds from the Na- Betrayal Policies of the Lucerne Sport Inte |e tional Meet it further shows its soli- Boxing. Last ee Pa 6 (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) Cevity with the struggles of the! Sammny Mandell the leading cock (Continued from Page One) _ +) [Pp fierce battle the city of Danghar. a week, that the mill yorker: in the lightweight division men, wor! n the repair n- ay ws ee Bartsing: = ee tors | From all indications this meet|Words the Se nEien ve a e shops * illions starving and resorting to ase m 3 » best ever | pounde: the caulif! fected s ik ; | will prove to be one of the best ever te ee penile. Shy rine. of rade oF | = Gace held by the Labor Sports Union. At|nity is having his troubles in mak Jerviea companies aie ations by the Nanking government | hreaten Witnesses. . . date over 100 entries have n& weight for his fight against | ee ws ie pttoops, and interruption of the| A mass of affidavits from indi-|, mer {Tony Canzoneri, which will take n red figures de- te [polender line of communications is | viduals showed that prosecution | °°" TO tional Convention of |Place in Chicago this Friday night. it ward of ee chet neta aiiee Oe dis famine: agents had circulated around the i geese he asta eae 21st, | Sammy has not been very busy of |jion dollars in tion di the Ali reports of the fighting go} country, arguing with prospective |tne Let wil! be nee *\late and the weight that he has : $ z ft Wbhcough Pakingwand ta’ tha ‘Kuc- juror) trying! te prejudices thens,|Zondeand oe ee saat (oy ee taken on is sticking to his ribs. Man. |P28t three years under the previous f Emintang censorship office, become | and ascertaining their opinions, so|0pening night of the convention, ja from all indications, like + it cannot pay > Btransformed into “Mohammedan | as to bar those who might have which will be HA Ge oe audio Tommy Loughran, is outgrowing his ns that the t- uprisings,” “bandit attacks,” ete. open mind on the guilt or innocence sive Hall, 15 W. 126th, St. a Sov kino | and this fight might prove his mile boosting rf ith ane fanciful details oe alnaehie of the victims before the court. motion picture, the Spartakiade, will is abate lichtwe ehivel a But it Beeconaltied “by. tie <eMonammes aoe were Puan ee show. be ba UAE ESE Ga Saat secre ant ker dbs ware 5 <a oane ye ” z that the } ville-Jenckes “Co: ie ja 2rna a wares favorite in asbetting, bu « huge Ta ete Soe mittee of 100” thugs raided the Gas- ¢zs oly held in Moscow. Be- pee Uae LE AM e ee aad 0 Mees tonia strikers’ tent colony last night | sides t cture, greetings will be |)... etsaste cali eaacd Sane ig Strike in Lille. and threatened with violence all who received from the many labor or- | Ike alt professional sports is in con- | ¢ Thursday. = PARIS,, France, July 30. — The might appear as witnesses for th tions and a dance will be held. | (10. g oe eae ay er is This Thur: . ne ofthe arrest o° two Communist carpenters defense. The Manville-Jenckes gang|The admission for the evening will | ,26 0S (one Many times to draw Ont State Conference Board consi curing the nation wide “Red raids” se. “ fired shots into the camp. be 50c. eit ion “that Mandell will be Heel tithe prenilenta Goer ype ec ye E clnente sacl Briand Stimulation of “air-consciousness” as part of the imperialist war preparations is no monopoly The defense also offered an affi-| One of the most important points | timed the winner on points after | Of the ¢ r iy Rae “2 ae Ween oe 2A of the United States, as this picture shows. Made to carry 180 passengers, (read soldiers) the gi- davit from Viola Hampton, ajon the agenda for the convention] 1. Vining, ‘ meet to con s Brent August 1 demonstrations, re-) gantic Dernier DX plane just completed a success ful maiden flight from Lake Constance, Switzer Striker, which said she knew the will be the question of international Tennis nds b: mpan y Th yi nat, a a immediate oe A land. Its 12 nine-cylindered motors give it a speed of 156 miles an hour—a fair clip for any plane man who fired the shot which kil tion, The members of the} |, | nited States tennis team| The Trade Union Educational oe Ree aes ne lustry in Lille and whose main task will be to bomb military and civilian populations when the Kellogg pact is thrown Aderholt the night of June 7, A Ee ce nece ney Ory DOME sia ooo che Aue eaaecentied. as | Wieeenocot “Newark in. @acnineerne surrounding towns is crippled, in the imperialist waste-paper basket. The powerful stern motors are shown below, right. On the was afraid to testify because ted internationally and will iiboins ees ais Davis NG ee las Se ce ti re . te E Raids and arrests continue in ev- left is a side view of the hangar. ; had been warned by “sev per- take steps to be so at this conven- ig back the Davis Cup, a syr Mee tee ioe ase — ffery part of France. Yesterday 51 ian oe jah . |sons” she would spend the rest of tion. Practically all the members of | Pol oe PearReinu tennis supremacy, purauaerice os ae Amalgamated Communists were arrested at Ly- | FAKERS STOP STRIKE her life in jail if she appeared in|the LSU are in sympathy with the |to the United States. The Frenel aldom ini New Yorks ona lons, and about the same number in CHICAGO (By Mail).—“Arbit court. all probability the decision to af-| Men have successfully defeated Bill iuggles. It urges the immed Nn BMarsei Se Nea : y Mail).—‘Arbitra- ae Sond liate to the RSI will be unani-| Tilden and Geo. M. Lott in the|diate organization of rank and file Marseilles. In all the large cities, | 5 tion” proved a convenient method | Insult Jimi filiate tovthe: RSL, will be-unenin | ae of th ee feb i th oi the police have been reinforced by Fi eitalarn cat thes Beitherhood | innethen nthida wits rting that Mo inals of the Davis cup tournament. | committees around the car barns S [fspecial guards, furnished in many i i : Tom Jimison, of defense counsel Workers|Sports:in Germany. | ccuts Uke: all’ sports under. control |'and shop, wlich’ would prevents hs osaeaii vet Siienatacticen of Firemen, Oilers and Maintenance Suen or penne BOE Mor. | Of the bourgeoisie is used on the in-| sell-out around the arbitration ta- » Boolice Chi |following facts cnocerning these AUBURN, N. Y., July 30, — Au- of Iwycrs is Major Bulwintle, at-| of space. | pe anise ae heen Bee at levers Whousepreacnt “ud: eaiploy- ? a 1 haneeiann "continued to be an arm. Rey for the Manville-Jenckes mill! The Opposition was expelled from | Bw arene ee ” : : cee es | BRA thic’ x ao Uti ees s Waderatia $5 Isore ho , mand - 2 ¢ er but the state.’ eace” Talk led camp following the mutiny on 28ainst which the Gastonia strikers the Federation because of their BUSSES LEAVE TODAY AT2P.M. Constant patrolling of the streets began today by these police forcés. More Troops to Paris. Additional troops of the Repub- lican Guards, a reactionary militia, drawn from the outlying districts, and made up largely of the sons of landlords and small business men, reached Paris today. They are quartered in the outskirts, ready for assault upon the August 1 demon- strators. The office of Prefect of private telephone lines to all points of the city and to the ambushed | regular army troops, special police Laborers to prevent a strike of workers in the Chicago sanitary dis- trict. GASTON DEFENSE nignt-Ror Yous Richt to Onanize! "WAR PLANS BO ON IN BASIC TRADES sand secret strings with the bosses, Give the Lie to Fake is thus openly linked with the tex- tile barons feverishly seeking the blood of the workers. | For the I. L. D. has learned the Major A. J. Bulwinkle is special counsel for the Manville-Jenckes detachments, Republican and Civie Company, where the strike began; (Continued from Page One) DuPont and other leading magnates are heavily interested in these war PRISON MUTINIES |“Dried Prunes, Bread, | Served as Meal” (Continued from Page One) jful weapon against wc~kers engaged |in labor struggles. * + * Auburn Armed Camp. | Sunday. | The prisoners continued in a re- bellious mood following the out- had been assaulted and called a vile name on the main street of Gas- tonia, also was read F. Frank Flowers began reading ce of J. D. Mc- Call, . When court opened, defense coun- who was si sel challenged the host of pi tion attorneys seated at City S tor Carpenter’s table, what right the mill owners had to take over the prosecution. The chief of the prosecution group ecu ici- were struggling, and the instigator them in the course of the strike. demanding | : The district festival held in Ber- lin on June 29th and 30th by the opposition (expelled) of the 1st dis- trict of the Workers Gymnastic and. Federation proved to be a great success, much to the dismay | the social-democratic leaders of leration and the Lucernce | t) Sport International, Over 's sportsmen took part in the events with 70,000 worker spectators looking on. Thousands more were turned away due to lack | of the (so sympath for the Soviet Union, of most of the brutal attacks upon | Bees —— = The Gastonia Textile Workers’ Among the list of assistant pros- ble, ternational games for the purpose of spreading jingoism and for propogation of national supremacy. “The bluff of the Public Service Only in the workers sports will one | must be answered by the workers by fight the spirit of real sportsman-| downing tools until the 25 per cent ship based on the solidarity of the! wage increase and the eight-hour work y is won,” the T, U. E. L. says. instead of carrying through an ective strike. Spend Your Vacation at Unity Camp From 1800 7th Avenue marching the streets. Police and de- tectives are hunting for more Com- munist and labor union leaders to arrest, * Meanwhile the workers are grow- ling more angry and detefmined hourly. The elaborate preparations to hold them prisoners in their fac- tories incensed them, and the strike ies break out before August 1, * * * Police Attack in Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Md., July 30. — A jmeeting called by the Communist Party for Defense of the Soviet Un- on, against imperialist war and gainst the legal lynching of the vastonia strikers, was attacked by the police last night. The meeting was in the open air at Baltimore and Bond Streets, Dominick Flaiari, Baltimore or- ganizer of the Communist ‘Party, Irving Keith and Elmer Smith were arrested on a technical charge of blocking the street, and released on $100 bail. This morning they were dismissed at their hearing in court, The Baltimore Communists are go- ing to continue the meetings in spite of police terror. * * * Battle in Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 30. —The first meeting under Commu- nist Party auspices in Chinatown here, in preparation for the anti- imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union demonstrations | resulted in an attack by the reac-| tionary Chinese Kuomintang. The workers’ defense corps was on duty, and as a result, little damage was done to the speakers. Chiang Kai- | shek’s henchmen attacked as soon as | district organizer Gardos finished | speaking and Benjamin Fee began to translate the speech into Chinese. There were no z~“ests, | of Gov. O. Max Gardner, owner of |a number of mills; Mangum is him- )self-a mill owner; Major S. B. Dol- ; jley is a commander of the local|other chemical by-products of the \militiacand R, G. Cherry is state;coal industry. By-product coke is commander of the American Legion.|4 main source for explosives, espe- | The I. L. D. with national offices |‘i@lly TNT, and for other war chem- lat 80 E. Eleventh St., Room 402,|ials- With production of this by- |N. Y., points out that the most | Product coke already doubled since earnest work of the masses thruout|!918, leaders in this industry are Gastonia Defense and Relief Week, | facing the problem of increasing de- July 27 to August 3, is absolutely mand for the chemical by-products. necessary to defeat the united front |At present, these are turned largely of the bosses, the court and the|t© industrial uses, but possibilities state. i |of chemical combinations are enor- Remember the aims; $50,000 for ously’ varied. The industry could the defense; 100,000 new members| Shift almost over night to war chem- by the end of the trial; 3,090,000 | cals and find enormous profits in signatures for the mass protest pe-|2 war market. jfour men in the United States, is |especially interested in coke and tition. | Mellon War Interests. House to house collections; shop collections; tag days; conferences with workers’ organizations, per-| Pets companies which own large coal |manent officers of these conferences | at least for the duration of the| trial; are means to achieve these ends. Remember that the fight for the Kentucky and cooperate with the Mellon-controlled Pittsburgh Coal Co. Koppers are the chief construc- tors of by-product coke ovens; they properties in West Virginia and, Gastonia strikers is the fight not only for their lives but the fight for the right of workers to organize into militant unions for better conditions; and their right to defend themselves \fron: the murderous attacks of the boss-controlled police and gangsters. Remember that the fight for the Gastonia strikers is the fight against wage-cut and speed-up, the also operate coke plants in connec- tion with various city gas plants,— among others with the Brooklyn Un- ion Gas Co., a subsidiary of the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Thus the Mellon brothers already |profit from coke and would profit largely from its further by-products easily developed for war use. J. P. Morgan, money lender to the | Fearing another mutiny, over 50 state troopers are manning the walls with cocked riot guns and sub-machine guns. Outside the walls contingents of the 108th Infantry, National patrol, are patrolling with sidearms, In an effort to cow the | prisoners, rifles and Browning ma- chine guns were cleaned and ready for action, while piles of open am- munition boxes stood ready. Rotten Food Caused Revolts. | The Dannemora and Auburn pris- Jon mutinies were staged by prison- suers driven to desperatin by in- |sufficient and rotten food, accord- ing to a statement made yesterday by Henry Spengler Williams, a stu- ‘dent of prison methods and for many years an associate of Thomas | j \ Mellon interests control the Kop- | Mott Osborne, the prison reformer. | | Williams himself spent over fifteen years in prison. Working regular factory hours making baskets for peach growers, | underwear, blankets and other mer- chandise at the rate of one cent and a half a day, the men, according to Williams are fed on this diet: Breakfast: Mush and milk (called “sky blue” because of the milk’s col- or), two slices of unbuttered bread, coffee. The coffee, he said, is of- tert “bootleg,” that is made from dried bread or corn. | Dinner: Dish of beans or bean soup; few slices of bread, tea. Oc- fight against imperialist war, al-|world, is no less interested in coke|casionadjy beans are varied: by beef proletariat. die! They shail not go to jail! $50,000 for their defense! L. D, by the end of the trial! 1,000,000 names for the mass pro- test petition! Controlling the U. S. Steel Corp., sented also on the board of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. Steel com- panies are the chief coke producers. |U. S. Steel Corp. is the largest the United States and most of lite coal goes to its own by-product coke ovens. jready on the horizon for the world| production, steel and ship building. stew, made from bones the meat lof which is sold for cash by the The Gastonia strikers shall not| Morgan interests are now repre-|commissary department. Supper: Dried prunes or apricots, bread, tea. Williams declared that the food is | usually unpalatable, the bread is 100,000 new members for the I.|single producer of bituminous coal |soggy, and underbaked. Favoritism for Few. Dannemora, Auburn and Sing Sing all operate commissary departments, |among others, R. G, Cherry, state |commander of the American Legion, |whose Gastonir post has called in| several resolutions for the electro- | cution of the strikers. ee | . i Warning by I. L. D. | “The change of venue is not a victory,” said the International La- bor Defense, 80 E. 11th St. in a |statement last night, “except that it shows the defense was on the job, and has prevented one, the first, attempt to try the Gastonia victims in a prejudiced atmosphere and with a packed jury. “The mill owners’ making a tactical retreat, intending } to point out that the trial is now ling anything from cigarettes to | sirloin steaks. But only those who | get money from the outside can get these luxuries. The commissary has gas stoves where those who can afford to make purchases can cook Odors of e the other | prisoners, Williams said. So unbearable are the conditions, he said, that if he had to choose between a long term in either one of these prisons or the electrfe chair, he would choose the latter. Conditions Unbearable. Unbearable conditions, particu- larly in Auburn, undoubtedly caused the mutinies, Williams said, The hot weather made their unventilated cells unendurable. He concluded: “Imagine trying to sleep, after a hard day’s factory work, in an iron |frame, seven and one-half by four feet in dimensions and seven and one-half feet high, with bedbugs and the foul slop pail under the bed. In the tier of cells destroyed there was no plumbing, nothing but the slop buckets.” prosecution is | guards. George B. Mason is another attor- iuduateles | break which, all evidence now shows, : Clyde R. H trial began July 29! Twenty-three - : | Ok! stries. Hie P i j- ecutors we lyde R, Hoey, a kers face electrocution or : Troops are to b ted ney for the same company; O. F. was caused by the indescribable vi- | °*' ; Bee cey, 8) workers Tel: Mon * ere brastiuae ti) tevacee cakes. {2° | Mason is a brother of George B.| Andrew J. Mellon, secretary of|cious and inhuman conditions in the pee a soe Gostnen prison terms! Rally all forces to Jonument 0111-0112 iF st Patri jy Mason; Clyde Hoey is brother-in-law the treasury and one of the richest | prison. jand immersed to his ears in the) cave them. Defense and Relief ling to strike, Patrols are already | | y seed dee mill owning crowd. With him was,| Week Ju Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 | East 11th Street, New York. | GOVERNMENT LAYS OFF 600. WASHINGTON, About 600 women workers were dis- missed by the bureau of engraving | and printing following the even of the new small size paper money. perfectly fair, since it is to be in Charlotte instead of Gastonia, in nburg county instead of the | ing Gaston county. sled! The mill own- ers, who were abundantly proved by affidavits in the first two days of the trial in Gastonia to have intimi- dated defense witnesses, created a} ign of terror against their friends and the friends of the prisoners on| trial, and who, by huge expendi- tures of money in the minds of the whole popula- tion allowed to serve on juries, will continue and intensify their cam- paign. The prosecution has a half million dollar slush fund at its dis- | posal, accumulated by the mill} owners who are determined to elec- | trocute these strikers and crush their union. | “All workers must rally their ut-| most forces, for the danger is now | greater than ever, because of the | veil of apparent fairness the mill owners have been able to throw over the case, “All out for defense week, which lasts until August 3! Collect money for defense. Get the 1,000,000 sig- natures to the protest roll. Make a house to house canvass. Send in a flood of protest resolutions from |mass meetings and shop and union meetings, from worker fraternal (By... Mail). — |} prejudiced the case | j INFORMATION WANTED! Could any person give information as to the whereabouts of three Finnish children, who have been taken from the Sault Ste. Marie Children’s Home four years ago, to the St. Catherine's Children’s Homey and according to information received, have been later adopts ed into different families. The children are, WILI POHJALA, age 18, WALTER, age 15, and a girl, HILDA, age 12, These children are all members of one family. Their present addresses are unknown, except that the oldest now uses the name, W. HAINES. If anyone knows anything about these children, or their present addresses, please write to the following address: SODERENA Box 26 Bruce Mines, Ont., Canada On The Road To Bolshevization n introduct the press! handbook for every American Communist WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY on by the Committee, CPUSA (1) Important excerpts from the Sixth C, I. Congress (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention (3) The Address to the Membership | organizations, and from individuals. | |Send greetings dirgct to the pris- | | oners. We have a chance to win and | save these workers from the chair) ‘or life sentences, but only if we put! forth supreme efforts.” Chinese Communist Party leaflets | ese workers present was beaten up. DISCOUNTS OFFERED ON QUANTITY ORDERS! vast night there was a Japanese anti-imperialist war meeting, with Chinese and English speakers also, Pe Ae Many Anthracite Meetings. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 30.— | In the anthracite coal region, ant: imperialist war and defend the Sovi- | b Union mass meetings will be held at: Scranton, tomorrow, Wednesday, at 7 p.m. Workmen’s Circle hall, 508 Lackawanna Ave. Speaker, D. A. Gorman, organizer anthracite dis- trict. Communist Party. 150 Pine St. (Hanover), Speakers, Frank Vratarich and Michael Zaldo- UNKNOWN PLACES the Direction RE OU adie) and Dancin leas Waa ta oe oe JACOB SHAEFFER JACOB MASTEL EDITH SEGAL vat 106 S. Main St. Speaker, D, A. | Seeman. BLUE WATERS OF THE HUDSON THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS Luzerne, Friday, 7 p. m,, Italian rall, 206 Oliver St. A. Gorman and Pat Brennan, Ai , 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—Auguct 3! Sign Nanticoke, Pa., Zadekaitis hall, | Speakers, D. | Costume-Ball the Protest Roll! 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