The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1929, Page 1

f rectly, and through shop committees ‘J i iy | textile industry. 4 Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, Recah HE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week “Leavenworth Has Latest Prison Rebellion; ily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, ~ under the act of March 3, 1879. fly except Su 7, Inc, 26-28 U: New York City, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929 TE! "SUBSCRIPTION RA 20,000 NEW YORK WORKERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST jt In New York, by Outside New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Many Hours FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents _IMPERIALTST WAR; MANY THOUSANDS MORE STRIKE ‘Set Date October 12-13 for Southern Textile Conference TO MAKE ALL ARRANGEMENTS FOR GIGANTIC BATTLE OF THE MILL WORKERS AGAINST EVILS. Fighting for Eight Hour Day, Against Low. Wages, Child Slavery, Inhuman Conditions Called to Meet in Charlotte By Conference with Delegates from 75,000 in Bessemer City BULLETIN. | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 1.—The provisional committee of the; Southern Textile Conference has sent the following cable to the 500,000! striking British textile workers: | “The Southern Textile Workers’ Conference held here with 230 delegates representing over 50,000 Southern Textile Workers, who are fighting the mill owners’ attempt to electrocute 13 of our members and) | send ten others to the penitentiary, and are organizing a struggle against the speed-up and for higher wages, send greetings to their English \ brothers who are striking against wage cuts. Only struggle against the “combined forces of the bosses, the treacherous MacDonald government and the traitorous social reformists in the union can win for you.” * * * The General Southern Textile Conference, a two day meet- ing of delegates from thé workers in all textile mills of the| South is today called to meet in Charlotte, October 12-13 to, arrange for the imminent struggle, the huge mass movement | of textile workers against starvation wages, to win the eight hour day, to abolish child slavery, and improve their conditions generally. ‘ During and out of the struggle will arise a powerful Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union,?—— organized in every mill, able to SEVEN D E AD IN maintain the victories won. The General Southern Textile | PRISON M U T l N y IN LEAVENWORTH €onference is called by the Provi- sional Executive Committee, elected at the Southern Textile Workers €onference held Sunday at Besse- mer City, with 227 delegates, repre- senting 40,000 textile workers di- ‘indirectly representing 35,000 more. | The provisional commi acted on the orders of the Bessemer City.con- BS ference, which voted unanimously Pr isoner There for the new, larger October 12-13 a . General Southern Textile Confer-| LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Aug. 1. ence, an organization to outline the | —Six prisoners and one guard in the fight against intolerable conditions | federal penitentiary were reported in the South. killed here this afternoon following an uprising which began during the Following is the call for the Char-| noon meal hour. lotte conference, 100,000 copies of| ‘This is the second prison mutiny which are being printed and distrib- | in one week, two other revolts hav- uted throughout the South, reaching | ing occurred in Dannemora and Au- every mill in every textile center. | burn prisons in New York state. As in the New York prisons, vile food, overcrowding and mistreat- Porter, Strike Leader, * * * | | Call for General Southern Textile | ment of the prisoners were largely | | responsible for it. | Workers Conference The time is at hand for the tex- tile workers of the South to unite in one great movement to put an end to the intolerable working and living conditions prevailing in the The conference of Southern Textile Workers, held by the National Textile Workers Union in Bessemer City, N. C., July 28, consisting of 227 delegates directly representing 40,000 workers (and delegates from mill and mill center organizing committees indirectly representing 35,000 more), from 87 , mills, in 54 cities, in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Guards Use Machine Guns. Immediately after the uprising guns and rifles and tear gas, a were placed on duty and the prison- ers made the walls ring with curses and shouting. The zebellion broke out within the prison about one o’clock and it was not until seven o'clock in the eve- ning that the guards, heavily armed, (Continued on Page Five) CALL FAKE CLOAK STRIKE IN PHILA, I. L. G. W. Stoppage is Grim Joke PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.—The | local agents of the scab outfit known as the International Ladies Garment Workers yesterday unsheathed their swords and declared here one of their now familiar stoppages in the cloak trade which they call by the name of “strike.” This action fol- lowed several weeks of booming both in the yellow socialist and the local capitalist press. Today it was already evident that this action on their part is a hollow joke. The I..L. G. W. chiefs man- aged to gather up some of their own “boys,” many of them not working anyway. At the same time they as- calls upon all organized and unor- ganized Southern workers to join with us in a great Southern textile conference to be held in Charlotte, N. C., on October 12 and 13. The central’ purpose of this con- ference will be to prepare the de- mands of the textile workers of the (Continued on Page Five) HAVE A HOT TIME AND COOL OFF Gool off and have a hot time do- ing it! Here’s how: Go to the business office of the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, or the Workers Bookshop, 30 Union Square, or Sollin’s, 216 East 14th St., or the Needle Tradey Workers was crushed with the use of machine | double shift of heavily armed guards | The 16 strikers and strike leaders, members of the National Textile Workers’ Union, who have been selected by the mill owners for electrocution and long prison terms, in order to crush the growing They are Fred E. Beal, Vera Bush, Amy Schechter, Clarence Mil- revolt of the southern textile slave ler, K. Y. Hendricks, Sophie Melvin, Joseuh Hurrison, Robert Allen, George Carter, K. O. Byers, Russell Knight, N. F. Gibson, Louis The three women face long prison terms, Will You Let the Mill Owners Murder These Fighter: McLoughlin 2 s for Your Class? <8 2 we | jnight. The police ran wi bing everybody who stood The clash started wl parading with torches anc ers, unintimidated, dodged they began breaking up t fought back. e | the J. C. Heffner, William MeGinnis, and Delmar Hampton. {when a worker knocked him down with a chair. TO EVERY COMMUNIST! | News dispatches from all countries over the world report | that the workers came out on the streets yesterday to dem- onstrate against the growing war danger and the need of the workers to come to the defense of the Soviet Union. These demonstrations showed the workers that the Commu- |. nist. Party and militant trade unions will not be caught off guard when the next World War comes. They are an answer to the militarists of China and their imperialist supporters, that the revolutionary working class is ready to defend their fatherland—the Soviet Union. In the preparations for a new world slaughter, the social democracy is an active sup- porter of the capitalist class. In America, the revolutionary working class in the tens of thousands responded to the call of the Communist Party in downing their tools to demon- strate against the preparations that are being made by American imperialism, for a new imperialist war. Demon- | strations of tremendous size were held in New York, Chicago, ; Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit and other cities. A note of | militancy ran through all these demonstrations. In the preparation and mobilization of the workers for | these demonstrations and other struggles that are taking | place, the Daily Worker has played an active role. For weeks | the Daily Worker has through the medium of its columns, prepared the workers for International Red Day. At the present time, the Daily Worker is in financial difficulties that impairs its fighting capacities and endangers its very life. The workers all over the country must re- spond to the call of the Daily Worker. All members of the Communist Party must immediately pay their day’s pay assessment. | This is one of the best means to struggle against Im- | perialist War and to defend the Soviet Union. Answer at once. Send all funds to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. § TEXTILE STRIKE MORE SERIOUS IN BRITAIN IS INDICTMENT OF SEEN SPREADING 27 IN CHICAGO ‘MacDonald Agents Try Gastonia Protest Case | Again to Break It | Postponed to Sept. 9 | LONDON, Aug. 1. — Efforts of |the British Labor Party to end the) CHICAGO, Aug. 1. — There is | strike of 500,000 Lancashire textile every indication here that the pros- | workers in a manner gratifying to ecution will try to indict for still \the marnfacturers seemed as far as |more serious offenses the 27 work- ers who were arrested at the great ever from any chance of success to- , |Gastonia Defense demonstration day, the fourth day of the big walk-|/here June 15, When the case was | out. ‘ealled today, the prosecution se- Despite carefully broadcasted ru- cured a continuance to Sept. 9. mors of negotiations between the; The court room was filled with spinners’ unicn and the manufac-/police and -plain clothes men who turers, no action has as yet been \tried to terrorize sympathizers with taken by the officials of the union \the defense. An effort will be made with the object of ending the strike. to get a change of venue from the Far from ending it the strikers labor hating judge, Lyle, on the are showing every inclination to ground of prejudice, spread the strike in face of the man- (Special to the Daily Worker.) The Chicago section of the Inter- Industrial Union headquarters, 131 West 28th St, or the Unity House, 1800 Seventh Ave,, or any Commu- nist arty station and lay down one dollar and fifty cents, for a ticket to (Continued on Page Five) sured the bosses, through the capi- talist press, that the “strike” would not last more than two weeks, Philadelphia cloakmakers ar e laughing scornfully at the so-called (Continued on Page Five) ufacturers’ announcement of a twelve and a half cent wage cut posted yesterday, It is reported that the card room operatives will meet tonight to con- sider the situation, |national Labor Deferse is energeti- cally pushing the joint defense and relief week drive to raise funds for the Gastonia defense. The Chicago workers held for (Continued on Page Five) sistance, then began attac | Entire Crew of 250° | At Ward Baking Co. ‘Walk Out at 4 P.M. ENTIRE CREW .. ..ETAO N | Did the workers of New York, respond to the call of the Com- munist Party to drop tools at 4 p. m, yesterday and demonstrate) against imperialist war? Well, here is just one instance: Promptly at the stroke of 4 the entire crew of 250 of the Ward Baking Company, on E. 76th St., walked out to a man. Because of the threat of rain the workers did not proceed to the Union Square demonstration, but held a | |meeting outside the factory, |speakers from the Communist Party. } What happened at the Ward Baking Company happened in jhundreds of shops and factories) | throughout the city despite the fact that the employers, with the | active cooperation of many “so- cialist” and A. F. of L. trade union officials, threatened to fire all those whe went out. GOVERNOR SETS CHARLOTTE TRIAL FOR AUGUST 26 Prisoners, Defense, Hit! r'tne Communist Party, was the | “Fairness” Argument [first speaker up. He was arrested. | J. Louis Engdahl was the other prin- 1.—The cipal speaker. of the! Three wagon loads of prisoners 23 textile strikers and organizers|were carried off to the jail. An at- whom the. mill owners of North|tempt will be made tonight by the Carolina are trying to railroad to| International Labor Defense to bail the electric chair and state peniten-i them out. tiary, has been set for Aug. 26, . tae: ¥ according to Tyre Taylor, secretary| BOSTON, M Aug. 1.—A huge crowd of workers at Tremont and |to Gov. Max Gardner. Het pinesie ted aabeatea x, 3 e |Appelton Streets today celebrated | yest eed e ee he eee ey, “atte4 International Red Day. They were oot de MV. toobtan ann; lattacked by police armed with riot |and that Judge M. V. Baxfthill would | Rad? “eeRrEhAlly. > oluseneeo in New York ja new imperialist war, dem up in Gastonia, and joinec CHIGAGO POLICE ATTACK MEETING CHICAGD, Ill., Aug. 1—After a terrific struggle, in which many heads were broken, the Chicago po- lice broke up the second mass meet- ing here to demonstrate against im- perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Many are ar- rested. What is practically martial law prevails in this district, with police out with machine guns. The demonstration was planned for Union Park, in the center of town, At the last moment Park Commissioner Robertson refused the request for a permit. When the demonstrators arrived, a barricade jmanned by police barred them out. Everybody had been ordered out of |the park at 6 p.m. The demons! tion took place, with thousands pa: |ticipating, near the pagk. Police charged into this meeting, and dis- persed it, only to have it reassemble half a block further up the street. Here the police attacked again, |but the meeting dispersed only after stern resistance. C. Hathaway, dis- RALEIGH, N. C., date of the C * on ae tld uns, preside. Barnhill is the special | &" 4 ner preiise Bight workers, including William judge appointed by Gardner to try | sir ons of the All-America Anti the case, when he ordered a special | ; term of court to start in Gastonth [imperialist League, were arrested July 29. The defense’ was ‘able to and charged with holding a meeting prove so overwhelmingly that the| Wmv & permits mill owners had terrorized witnesses | ,.,.6 MCetn® Was prepared for by and corrupted juror “material in distribution of many : circulars Gaston County, that the judge, in through the” shops. ° Police Super. order to cast a veil of apparent intendent Crowley had boasted that “fairness” over. the legal Inwehing, 8 had assembled the greatest ordered a change of venue to Char. | "med force ever seen in Boston lotte. |since the execution of Sacco and | Vanzetti. He was prepared, he said, |to call for the state militia at a moment's notice, and had stationed police at the railroad stations to keep workers away from the meet- ings. | Tried for Opinions. | The International Labor Defense and the prisoners themselves are issuing statements to refute the flood of editorials in southern and ‘northern metropolitan newspapers. | The capitalist press alleges that the |change of venue shows that the |strikers will be tried for “murder, jnot for their opinions.” ! @* Many Coal Fields Meets. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. 1.— Reports reach here tonight of many mass meetings and August First demonstrations against imperialist war and for the defense of the So- viet Union. Most of these meetings are held through the locals of the (Continued on Page Five) + * The strik- ers on trial point out that it is just exactly their opinions that they ‘are being tzied for, as evidenced by ‘the nature of the questions asked |them by the prosecution at the | | ‘ (Continued on Page Five) Cheer Soviet Union, Gastonia, BULLETIN, police and ran to the platform. . . * 22, 23 now at Wilkins and Intervale Aves., tl id through the crowd of thousands that had gathered, brutally club- in their way and trampling over children. being planned by the in MASSES DEFY POLICE BRUTALITY, RAIN, BOSSES; ALSO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST “SOCIALIST” LACKEYS: AT RAND SCHOOL 'Big Mass Meets Continue at Night; Call for Forming Defense Corps Communist Candidates ‘Street Fighting in Paris, Bucharest, Shanghai, and Chicago; Workers Demonstrate in All Big Cities of World; Millions Participate Workers engaged the police in furious battle when the latter tried to prevent an Anti- War Demonstration of the Communist Par Bronx, last hen two policemen tried to stop a procession of workers who were banners to the platform at Wilkins and Intervale Ave. The work- Soon more police arrived and e.platform and attacking the workers who refused to disband and One plainclothesman drew a gun, which he was only prevented from The police, infuriated by the worker ing the great crowd that had gathered. {and Sidney Bloomfield, Communist Party speaker, and several others were arrested. using ” Te- A police wagon was called Rallying in Union Square in one of the greatest open air demonstrations ever held 20,000 workers yesterday as with one voice denounced the preparations anded the release of the for textile workers who have been framed with millions of workers throughout the world in ple |selves to defend the Soviet Union from the attacks © powers and their hirelings. | The 20,000 who gathered in Union Square were ging them- perialist only a small fraction of the tens of thousands of New York workers who, at the call of the Communist work at 4 p. m. yesterday as® a protest against the imperial- ist war preparations. Thou- sands of workers who did not attend the demonstration because of the threat of rain or for other rea- sons struck yesterday. Establishes Red Day Party of District 2, stopped FIGHT Pol IN MANY CITIES ieee : SHANGHAI, China, August 1— Rivalling the huge Sace nzetti , 4 Z ; I'wo great demonstrations of wi mass meetings of two years ago, ; lyesterday’s demonstration, part of "S today ght with Chiang I the world-wide demonstrations on shek’s police, and when they were August 1, International Red Day for broken up, othe arted in other the Defense of the Soviet Union and patis of the c a late hour Against Imperialist War, signalized | night, there were still many |the definite establishment of August meetings going on, with the polic js the anniversary of the last im-/and soldiers rushing about try perialist slaughter, as the great to stop then mobilization day for the fight against imperialist war. It showed anc that the workers of New York are aware of the growing danger of aored cars patrolled t war and of imperialist attacks on concession, and the entire the Workers’ and Peasants’ Repub- lic and are ready to fight relent- ist police force and all re at the bounds Most of the dem- lessly, under the leadership of the ions were in the Chinese Communist Party and the Commu-| workers’ quarters. nist International, against the dark eas plottings of the imperialists. Paris Workers Out. Starting at 4 o'clock, the masses PARIS, August 1.-—Tens defied the rain, police attacks and of tho left the the intimidation of the bosses to shops rdsmen stage a demonstration that was a_ stood with full equ , rifles and mighty challenge to the war mon- bayonets, and in proces- gers and their horde of faithful| sions in the capital in defiance of lackeys of the socialist party and ‘the decree of Police Prefect Chiappe, A. F. of L. bureaucracy. That the workers understand the role of the that.there must be no demonstration imperialist and the at- “socialist” camp followers of the) tack on the Soviet Union. imperialists was evidenced by the} At 9 p. m. a de upon the spontaneous demonstration staged, boulevards was contemplated. The 15 minutes before the big Union| police were still frantically making Square demonstration closed, in arrests, over 300 now being under front of the Rand School where,|Icck and key. ‘Thirty thousand under the leadership of the Young|troops are quartered in the city, |Communist League, speeches were and extensive police reserves are on made and the treacherous role of/iand. The workers demonstrate the socialist party exposed. nevertheless. Police in-Savage Attacks, The leaders of the conservative The Tammany police were ob- viously enraged at the size and mili- tancy of the demonstration and made savage attacks. Their rage was increased by the persistence of ! the crowd in remaining through the Confederation of Labor issued a statement sabotaging the demonstra- tions to the best of their ability, by advising the workers to stay on the job and keep away from the demon- tions. ee er demonstration despite a heavy down- Tathinwiacetea pour of rain which started about chappallts tse bag 5:30 and by the behavior of the EVO, J , August members of the Young Communist League, who, garbed in new khaki uniforms, presented a striking and disciplined corps that played a lead- ing role in the demonstration. The Young Pioneers were also dressed in khaki uniforms and the police were further infuriated when these ten and twelve year olds defied them, refused to allow their lines to be city, where the shot was fired in 1914 over which the great powers made an excuse for world war, a battle of the class war raged st night. Two workmen were killed and several wounded when po- lice and crowds of strikers clashed e led by fight was »monstrations When sts. broken up and held their banners aloft. The demonstration itself was ar ‘ event that will be long remembered ; by the thousands of workers who ‘ (Continued on Page Five) the railroad were in having been set afire during dd on Page Five) hops DO NOT FORGET FRIDAY AUG. 9th.