The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered as secomd-cinss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nol, VI., No. 125 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Sai e, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, THURSD AY, AUGUST 1, 1929 Outside New Yor! 10N RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per yenr. ik, by mail, $6.00 per year, FINAL CITY EDITION "Price 3 Cents DOWN TOOLS FOUR FIGHT FOR YOUR O'CLOCK, MARCH TO UNION SQUARE CLASS AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR Gastonia Victims in the Shadow ¢ ot Electric Chair; Rally Today to Save Them LABOR DEFENSE | pea New Vestris TO EVERY COMMUNIST! pRiT|SH POLICE REPORT WHITE RUSSIANS IN PLUNGES INTO RENEWED EFFORTS 10 RESCUE GASTONIA VICTIMS; NEW RISK Trial May Come in 2 Weekiy} National Textile Union Mustering For Greater Struggle Women Defendants Released Today; Schechter Warns Against Delusion Trial Will Be Fair GASTONIA, N. C., July.31—The International Labor De- | fense is speeding up its efforts to assemble the largest pos- sible number of witnesses to the brutalities and direct civil war waged against the Gastonia strikers before the attack on their tent colony, and witnesses to the deliberate assault on the tent colony led by | Chief of BRITISH STRIKE SPREADING; NEW MILLS CUT PAY MacDonald. Agents Try Again to Break It MANCHESTER, England, July 31, — The great British textile strike in its third day today, seems to be growing. The British Cotton Waste Spinners Association (em- ployers) has posted a notice that wages will be cut twelve and a half per cent. It is not believed that tle workers will stand for this, and that they will refuse to go to work as did the 350,000 members of the tex- | tile union workers in other cotton mills in Lancashire, and 150,000 more non-members, who joined them in resisting this attempt to lower the standards of living, already very low. Some Run at Full Pay. The cotton industry in Lancashire is practically tied up. There are only one-eighth of the spindles and one-fifth of the looms in this dis- trict running, and these belong to mills outside of the employers’ as- sociation which decreed the first wage cut, and have not attempted any cutting of the pay. There is practically no scabbing. | Five women worked in on? mill in the Preston district today, and were booed and hissed by mass pickets | when they emerged. Police, subordi- | nate to the MacDonald labor gov-| ernment, rushe1 down and escorted them to safety. Bosses Admit Effectiveness. The British Federation of Master Cotton Spinners admits that 98 per cent of the spindles of its member mills are idle; the claim of two per | cent working is laughed at here as a gross exaggeration. There are probably less than one tenth of one | per cent working. The labor party government con- tinues to work overtime to effect a sell out of the strike, which is {usually called heze a lockout, as the mill bosses arbitrarily cut wages and refused to run on the old scale. Commissioners of the ministry of labor are continually arranging con- ferences between the most conserva- tive of the mill union officials and the employers, So far these have effected nothing. . Another is sched- uled for tonight. Report Workers Center All unemployéd Party members and all who can take off must re- port at the fifth floor of the Work- ers Center today at 2 p. m. BOAST OF MISLEADERSHIP LONDON (By Mail). — The mis- leaders of the Boot and Shoe Work- ers Union boast that there has been no strike in the industry for 35 years. The lack of strikes was due to forcing the workers to suffer BRITISH JOBLESS \ LONDON (By Mail). — The total of registered unemployed last week , throughout England totalled 1,144,- 200, This is an increase of 2,000 in a week. LET’S GO TO THE MOONLITE CRUISE, ON AUG. 9 Police Aderholt on the night of *his death—killed in self de- fense by the strikers upon whom he was leading his gun- men in the attack. The workers of this vicinity know full well that the change of venue, which will change the scene of the mill owners’ at- tempt to railroad to the electric chair at least 13 of the Gastonia strikers and organizers and long prison terms for ten more, is not slacking in the least and that de- fense efforts must be corresponding- ly increased. The date of the new trial has not been announced. It will certainly be |far enough in the future, to give the mill owners time to perpetrate the acts of prejudicing juror ma- terial, and use of private detectives on jurors, exposure of which in the case of Gaston County, forced the | judge to make a gesture of fairness and change the venue and order the | trial moved te Charlotte. Unless the governor calls a special term | will be Sept. | If the special term is called, the trial in Charlctte will probably be in about two weeis time. Meanwhi orga: The workers rea on. ze that the of | court, as he says he will, the trial | tion plans go Report Again | Shields Guilty Board of Trade, reporting today on its investigation into the sinking of the steamer Vestris last November, showed itself just as adept at pass- ing ,the buck as the American “in- vestigators.” The Board of Trade also showed that it knows how to return a compliment: the American so-called investigations put the chief blame on the dead British Captain Carey and the British officers (hav- ing failed in strenuous efforts to frame the crew); the Board of Trade reserves most of its ire for three officials of the American-firm, San- (Continued on Page Five) BESSEMER MEET HISTORIC, HEAD OF N. T. W. SAYS Oct. 12-18 “The Southern Textile Confer- ence held Sunday in Bessemer City, N. C., on the eve of the opening of the court battle in which the mill | owners seek to railroad our members | to jail was one of great historic im- | portance,” James P. Reid, president of the National Textile Workers Union, told the Daily Worker yes- terday. | This conference, which was the largest and most important organi- zational conference held thus far |in the south, was attended by 230 delegates from 87 nills distributed in five states of the south, } “Super-Drive Opens.” ” Re'd said, | “It announees, “the LONDON, July 31, — The British | Second Southern Meet) The appearance of the Daily Worker is threatened un- less immediate aid from our readers is forthcoming. are not mere words but the actual state of affairs. sponse to date from our readers is not enough to cover the ordinary deficit that we are confronted with daily. not allow the suspension to happen at a time when so many mass struggles are taking place and others are in preparation. To these large masses of unorganized workers, the Daily Worker acts as their spokesmen and guide for action. highly successful conference lives and families from the g Chief Aderholt. of these workers. We must their defense. less. pect us to do our bit. need. their Day’s wage tax without WORCESTER, Mass., July 31. basis of a real defense is an aroused | °Pening of a super-drive of the mill |—With the slogan, “Forward to a and organized working class, Or- ganizers go out in the near future | to every mill town in the textile re- gion. Many are already on the way, the delegates at the successful Bes- semer City Southern Textile Work- ers’ Conference being all of them now delegates of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union. All this union organization ac- tivity leads up to the fighting Char- lotte conference, called to meet in| about two months time by the Bes- semer City Conference. This con- ference will be based on sufficient (Continued on Page Five) \Food Pickets Arrested |Before “Ideal”; Police Act as Strikebreakers | Several more strikers were ar- | rested yesterday while picketing the Ideal Cafeteria, 113, E. 28rd St. Ar- raigned in Jefferson Market Court, they were all freed. in this cafeteria joined in a spon- taneous walkout last week and ap- plied for leadership to the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ Union. This week nine pickets were ar- rested by police as they were picket- ing; five were released at once and two received suspended sentences. Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for ithe union, yesterday vigorously de- nounced this action of the police in (arresting strikers for picketing ac- tivity. Police officials bluntly told Buiten- kant that their men would arrest the pickets as soon as they made | their appearance on the line. | To Continue Picketing. The union attorney declared that the police were simply acting as strikebreaking agents. Picketing would continue in spite of this ter- rorism, he said, until the strike is won. f 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 ‘aly “T—Argust 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 The workers | (Continued on Page Five) GET MANY NAMES IN BALLOT DRIVE Signatures 3 Pile Up For City Election Workers throughout the city are |responding with enthusiasm to the |request for their signatures in the drive to place the Communist ticket on the ballot in the New York City elections, According to reports from ‘every section, workers who are ap- | proached, not only willingly sign | | their names to the nominating peti- tions, but eagerly ask for literature to acquaint them further with the aims of the Communist, Party in the election campaign, In many in- stances also they have expressed |their readiness to join the Commu- nist Party. | The drive for 25, 000 signatures to |place all the Communist candidates {on the ballot will proceed with a ‘special mobilization for Sunday, morning, August 4, at the various headqucrters of the Communist Party in the boroughs of Manhat- tan, Bronx and Brooklyn. Follow- ing this, headquarters will be open every night, Saturday afternoons and Sundays. The election laws of New York City and State are of a character to make it exceptionally difficult to place Communist candidates on the ballot. The Commrnist Party calls upon workers everywhere to sup- port its signature drive, to sign their names on the nominating petitions and to actively participate in the work of soliciting signatures. The following headquarters will! be open on Sunday, August 4, and every night thereafter: i Downtown Manhattan: 27 East 4th Street. Harlem: 43 East 103rd Street. Bronx: 1330 Wilkins Avenue; 715 East 138th Street. Williamsburg: 56 Manhattan Ave- nue, Brooklyn, Brownsville: 154 Watkins Street, Brooklyn. Boro Park: | 18738 48rd Street, East 11th Street, New York, E ieet 2 a a new fighting trade union move- ment,” the Trade Union Educational League has called a city conference here for the purpose of selecting | working class all over the country the need for rallying to Without the Daily Worker, we will be help- These workers in jail under a charge of murder ex- We will not fail them in this hour of These The re- We can- The of the textile workers of the South would not be what it was had not the Daily Worker been on the job mobilizing them for struggle under the lead- ership of the National Textile Workers’ Union. Sixteen textile workers are on trial for defending their unmen under the leadership of The Daily Worker is the only English news- paper that is mobilizing a mass movement for the freedom FIRE ON INDIAN Injured in Massacre at Bangalore Repeats 1928 Murders Bombay Aroused Over Firing on Masses BOMBAY, India, July 31—Fifty | Indian workers and students are re- ported to have been shot when police |fired today on crowds in Bangalore. bring to the attention of the Rally to the defense of the 16 textile workers by sup- Porting the campaign of the Daily Worker. To Party members—it is important that they remit on delay. Send your donations to the Daily Worker, Room 201, 26 Union Square, New York City. Delay may prove fatal. Worcester, Mass. Conference Will Plan tor T.U.E.L. Meet BY VENUE CHANGE : Experience of Detroit, “‘Workars Proves Need | WARNS THE LL.D, For Fighting Trade Union Center delegates to the forthcoming Trade Union Unity Convention to be held in Cleveland Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. The conference, which will be held ug. 14 in Belmont Hall, 52 Belmont (Continued on Page Three) la dnd INT'L OFFERS AIDAGAINSTUSSR “Socialists” P: Promise to Help Imperialists ZURICH, July 31—The Second (“Socilist”) International joined the imperialist powers in a threat of a military blockade against the Soviet | Union in a resolution on the Man-| churian crisis, adopted by its execu- tive committee, which has just con- cluded its semi-annual session here. The resolution declares that “in case of the acute danger of war” between the Soviet Union and China, the socialist and labor parties of all countries are called on “to prevent the production and transportation of munitions to the countries con- cerned.” Offer of Aid to Imperialists. Under the hypocritical guise of | “impartiality” in the latest imperi- alist aggressions against the U. S. S. R., the Yellow International in- tentionally ignores the fact that, in case of war, the Chinese militarists will, despite pious resolutions to the contrary, be supplied with all the) munitions they want by their im- perialist masters (as is, in fact, the ease even now). ‘Thus this resolu- tion is in reality an offer to the im- Crowding Cause of Mutinies, Prison Chief Forced to Admit Auburn Prisoners Shout, Hammer on Cell Bars! In Protest Against Vile Food, Crowding | perialist powers to aid them in crip- | pling the defense of the only work- ers’ and peasants’ republic. It is of interest to note that the inal resolution did not contain this clause which was inserted at the urgent request of Morris Hill- quit, worthy corporation lawyer, shareholder in the open-shop Burns Coal Company and head of the| | American socialist party. ‘The reso- | luti ion also parrots the imperialist | press in recognizing the right of | China “to demand removal of Rus- | sian control over the portion of the ; Chinese Eastern Railway which lies | |on Chinese soil,” and repeats the tales about “Red propaganda” which | always furnishes the imperialists with a pretext for attacks on the Soviet Union and murderous sup- pressions of their own working class. Distinguished Renegades. Among the delegates who stamp- ed their O.K. on this thinly veiled imperialist document were Otto Bauer, head of the ‘left” Austrian social-democratic party; A. Fenner Brockway, another “left winger,” of the British Independent Labor Par- ty; Jean Longuet and M. Bracke, of the French socialist party, Arthur Crispien and Breitscheid, of the Ger- man _ social-democratic party, and Emil Vandervelde, of the Belgian so- cialist party. Vandervelde was elected president of the executive committee to suc- ceed Henderson. Many of the wounded are not ex- pected to live, The outbreak occurred on a day of mouraing on the anniversary of a similar event in 1928, Early in the day the police were on hand and, as the crowds began to mass, they poured a volley of rifle fire into their midst. The firing on the crowds in Banga- lore has had a serious repercussion | here where the Anglo-Indian gov- ernment is holding the police in | readiness in event of disturbances. Details of the outbreak in Banga- ; | lore are being strictly withheld by | the censorship. DONT BE FOOLED ‘Miners Wire ( Greetings to Gastonia Victims The Illinois district of the National Miners Union, through Secretary H. Corbishley, has sent a sharp tele- gram to the International Labor De- fense office in Charlotte, N. C. | follows: “The militant miners of Illinois greet the Gastonia frame-up victims of capitalism. We will fight en | getically the attempts of the mil- lionaire textile bosses to execute or imprison our brothers, the textile workers, who were absolutely right in defending their colony. We con- cemn the capitalist party and A. F. of L, bureaucrats in their betraying actions. the working class will stop the hand of the executioner.” Don’t Be Fooled By Venue Change. @hariotte, N. C., where the trial Continued on Page Tee) REVOLT SPREADS THRU COLOMBIA Strict Censorship Still is Kept BOGOTA, Colombia, July 31. Despite the stringent cansntanicl preventing all details from leaking through, it was learned tonight that several sections of the country, while the government is arresting all revolutionary leaders it can lay its hands on. rushing to the scene of fighting be- | tween armed workers and govern- ment police and local troops. The government tonight sent a circular message to ten officials throughout Colombia asking the organization of “civic police” to pre- vent the danger of further Commu- nist rioting such as cost 12 lives) last week- end and has broken out again.” AUBURN, N. Y., July 31, — So complete has been ©e proof that one of the chief, causes of the re- cent mutinies in Dannemora and haga Prisons was indescribabl on State Commissioner of Cor- | rections, was t-day finally forced | Ito join in the general chorus that | (Costiniied on Page Three), oh. overcrowding, that Dr. Raymond F. | Police are reported to have seized | the revolutionary headquarters at the town of Armenia and looted it of documents in search of a plan for a general revolution. SPEND A NIGHT ON THE HUDSON.—COME TO THE MOONLITE CRUISE aby WS Sinperer er yrrvien. sunne ne wy We NGnDENI ano SHUG The organized might of | Trains loaded with troops are|U. Huge Preparations for Police Plan to Attack PI MORE LIES ABOUT “NEGOTIATIONS” TOKIO, Japan, July 31.—A rumor, which started in Man- churia, says the Japanese news service here, of negotiations between U. S. S. R. officers and Chang’s officers over technical |matters relating to the mark- ing of the boundary, has now | been stated by the Chang gov- ernment’s press service as a negotiation over the return of jthe Chinese Eastern Railway iy joint control. It is considered here that] a is part of the campaign | of falsehoods, deliberately set) on foot during the last few days by imperialist powers and their agents, to lull the work- rs into a feeling of security, and by representing the crisis as past, interfere with the Au-| gust 1 demonstrations now ar- ranged in every large city in the world for the defense of the Soviet Union and against imperialist war. BERLIN, eve July 31.—On the of International Red Day, s When workers the world over |will participate in a gigantic demonstration against imper- ialist war and in defense of the Soviet Union, are reported to have raided into So- viet territory and attacked the city of Chita. At the same time, lying and ri- diculous reports that the Red sol- diers are aiding the whites are be- ing circulated. These are palpable lies. It is believed however, that the White Russians have invaded the territory of the U. S. S. R. with the connivance of the Nanking mili- ee authorities. Simultaneously with news of the loners invasion, a semi-official re- port from Chinese sources last reg stated that the police author- ities empowered to arrest employes and also customers of the Far East- ern Bank in Harbin, Manchuria, jhave taken virtual control of that | institution. They have demanded that the keys + |to all the important vaults be sur- baanlh ed to them, * | SHANGHAI, Chine, July 31—In} speech bristling with threats | |against the Soviet Union, Hu Han-| |min, president of the Nanking legis- lit is a mistake to suppose that the} Chinese army cannot cope with the Soviet Red Army. He speke frankly jof the possibility of war on the 8. S.R. At the same time, the Nanking |authorities have instituted a series of raids on Communists, that in the French concession resulting in the jarrest of 300 workers, much litera-| ture and rifles and ammunition. | Shanghai is reported to have been, divided into six districts for the | anti-imperialist war and defense of | |the Soviet Union demonstrations to- | morrow. The authorities are plan- ning to suppress the demonstrations at all costs and it is expected that open fighting will result, * 8 # PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 31.— | Superintendent of Police Mills will | |attempt to smash the International | Red Day demonstration tomorrow, ia Continued on Page Arsen Worker and Wife in Wilkes- White Russian forces | © RAID ON CHITA, USSR TOWN; CROWD; WOUND 50 SFI7E SOVIET EASTERN BANK Many Believed Fatally | Red Day Demonstra- tions Defy Police of Many Countries hiladelphia Parade; Jail Barre 'EAVING SHOPS TO DEFEND USSR Today is International Red Day for the Defense of the Soviet Union and Against Im- perialist War. Today the workers in every industrial center of the world will take possession of the streets to manifest their class solidarity with the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, the fatherland of all toilers, to unleash their fury over t peria instigated attack the Nanking war lords oa the Ifirst workers’ republic, and to challenge the police terror, the mobilization of the military, the wholesale arrests and wanton murderers of which the imperialist powers have been guilty in their fu tile attempts to balk the prepara- tions for August 1. Show of Mass Power. Today tens York workers protest with the world over, of thousands of New ynchronising their fellow toilers the will down tools at four o'clock and march to Union Square to take part in a mass demonstra- tion against the r ity of the in- ternational capi the ruthless smashing of mass stings called for the defens the G frame-up _victi: part of Street’s war campaign, th sion of Communist newspe France, the slaughter of s leaders will be answered here, in Berlin, Paris, Prague, Hel- singfors, Hamburg, London, Shang- hai, |and revolutionary power. by a show of mass r istance Several platforms, from which strike leaders, representative work- ers and militants who have actively participated in the struggle against imperialist war preparations in Europe, the Philippines and Man- churia, will address the throngs of demonstrators, are to be erected in Union Square. Four hundred pla- cards emblazoned with the slogans of the fighting workers are being prepared for the huge demonstra- tion. Militant Speakers. Among the speakers scheduled to voice the anti-imperialism of the demonstrators are such stalwart militants as Wm. Z. Foster, Max Bedacht, Jack Stachel, Wm. W. Weinstone, J. Louis Engdahl, Sam (Continued on Page Five) Communist Speakers at fresh outbreaks have occurred in|lative yuan, yesterday declared that Street Meeting Refuse To Stop For the Police Two police sergeants and about eight patrolmen looked with great disfavor last night as the Daily Worker was ready to go to press, on a Communist street meeting at 138th’ St. and Seventh Ave., but seemed afraid to break it up, on account of the approval of the speeches by a crowd of at least 500 workers, Meetings here have been broken up in the past. The patrolman on the scene told the speakers to stop. They refused, He called a sergeant, |who also argued the meeting should \stop. The speakers refused, and gained, and a second sergeant and more police came. Two police cats came, "st the speakers, Mania Reiss, Glassford, Geo. Speelz, Alex+ ander and Harold Williams (chaire mi ny continued their meeting, tiara sich coat lie,