The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1929, Page 1

= AMY SCHECHTER, VERA BUSH THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Published daily except Sunday Company, Inc. 26-28 Union 127 by The Comprodaily Publishing Square, New York City, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Outside New York, RED DAY DEMO Issue Official Call to SOPHIE MELVIN, BAILED OUT; WARN OF “GOURTESY® TRICK Mill Workers Expose Fraud of ‘Higher Wages’ Coupled With Speed-up and Unemployment | Oehler, N.T.W. Southern District Organizer, States Conference Preparations Going Well BULLETIN CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 2.— 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 end the traitorous social reformists in the union can win for you.” By LISTON OAK. | GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 2.—Amy Schechter, Vera Buch| and Sophie Melvin, the three girl organizers of the National | Textile Workers Union who have been in jail in Gastonia since the shooting of Chief of Police Aderholt on June 7th, charged with first degree murder, were released today in $5,000 bail each. The International Labor Defense posted the bail money FRESH OUTBREAK IN WIDE REVOLT murder. * Armed Workers Battle | When interviewed at Gastonia At Dos Quebradas upon their release, the girls were all quite indignant that they should be | BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 2.— Breaking the iron censorship with shown any preference on accounts of their sex. “The boys are not any which the Colombian government is ing to cloak the extent of re- more guilty than we are,” Vera Buch said very emphatically. “In cent revolts of workers thruout the coun newspapers here today our opinion this is a ‘gesture of Southern chivalry’ cafculated to ap- printed accounts of.a new insurrec- tion. * * in Critical Condition “An ardent supporter and tool of . S. imperialism, a warm admirer of Mussolini, twice decorated by the Italian fascist government for his services during the world war, and a pliant servant and apologist of the bosses, This is how Rebecca Grecht, cam: paign manager of the Communist, Party in the forthcoming mayoralty | election and candidate in the 5th As- | sembly District of the Bronx, yes-| peal to publi: opinion. We would prefer to stay in jail with the others | unless everyone is released, although | of course we will be glad to get back to whatever wor ned to us by the National Textile Work- ers Union or the International La- bor Defense, or the Workers Inter- include a few novels but most of Work Harder Now “Our release is a con ion of| In an outbreak, reputed to be led the weakness of the prosecution’s | by Communists, at Dos Quebradas, | case against all of the cl war |Six persons are reported killed and prisoners,” declared 17 y old | twelve wounded. Obviously the of- | Sophie Melvin. “But of course the ficial figures minimize the number union and the I.L.D. will now have | of casualties. to work harder than ever to prevent | The Colombian government yester- | thé mill owners who control the day characterized the present out- courts in Charlotte as well as in (Continued on Page Five) Gastonia, from succeeding in their Cease desperate effort to railroad us all entiary.” “This change in the line of the State against us, including the iS A LT granting of the motion of the de- | fense counsel for a change of venue, i is to be interrupted as an attempt to preserve the illusion of impartial- BY i L if W THUGS ity, fairness and democratic justice, IVs to delude the workers, to lull them ea oes into passivity. We will help the LL.D. to. fight against this,” Amy | Reported Schechter, the oldest and most ma- | ture of the three declared. | The girl said they had contributed | Joe Jacobs, 28, a cloak cutter their library, accumulated during the jiving at 2420 Bronx Park East, is| past seven weeks in jail, to the thir-| now lying at the point of death in teen boys still in jail charged with | Bellevue Hospital, after having been first degree murder. These books |murderously assaulted by two hired include a few novels but most of thugs of the International Ladies’ them are on economics and socio- | Garment Workers, the company logy. There were several books by union of the cloak manufacturers. Lenin among the collection. | Hospital doctors say that Jacobs is Can’t Expect Fair Trial ) suffering from a fracture of the} The girls were positive that | Skull and lacerations of the face and! neither they nor the other strikers | Scalp. ‘ 4 and organizers who will be tried on | Schlesinger’s “Drivers.” August 26 in Charlotte, can pos-| The attack on Jacobs was made sibly get a fair trial, claiming that | Upon him as he was leaving the shop the class of people from whom the where he is working at 131 Ww. 35th jury will be drawn in Mecklenburg St. A large number, witnessing the county will be prejudiced against assault, chased the assailants and the union and its Communist lead- (Continued on Page Five) ers, “We do not by any means con- sider that the change of venue will guarantee us a fair trial,” Amy Schechter stated. “It simply means | that the attempt to railroad us to the chair or penitentiary and as, quickly as possible to prevent the | LL.D. from mobilizing the workers | of the nation in our defense in a community inflamed by a campaign of vilification has been defeated by the defense counsel,—at least temporarily. The methods of the prosecution have changed, that is} all. The effort will now be made to do the job for the Manville- Jenckes and other mill owners more in accordance with the usual process of capitalist law, giving it the ap- pearance of fairness, avoiding a| scandal is possible. They were afraid of the effect upon the radi- calized workers of the South of (Continued on Page Five) Working Youth to Back Thousands Demonstrate Against Imperialists at Big N. Y. Meet SS Frage v.sisg IMAI Re Va teed See 4 Photo shows small section of ‘the crowd of twenty-five thousand New York workers who attacked the preparations for the next imperialist war and jotned with millions of workers thruout the world in pledg- ing themselves to defend the Soviet Union in a great demonstration held August First in Union Square. Thousands of other workers left their shops at 4 o'clock at the call of the Communist Party. and most militant workingclass demonstration held in New York City in many years. ously resisted the attempts of the Tammany police to break up their processions on the way to the demon- Especially conspicuous in this respect were members of the Communist Youth League and the In the foreground can be seen the new headquarters of Tammany Hall, that corrupt outfit thru which the bosses of the state and city expregs thew will. stration. Young Pioneers of America. NSTRATIONS SWEE The Daily Succeeded in With the greatest effort and against what many times appeared insurmountable obstacles the Daily Worker was able to-live to carry out its part in the job of mobilizing the workers of the United States for the great demonstrations on Thursday—International Red Day Against Imperialist War and in Defense of the Soviet Union. The campaign for Red Day is over, but the demonstrations, the mobiliza- tion of the masses on that day, mark only a stage in the fight against imperialist war. Many campaig: against war. are still going on in addition to the Struggle The Gastonia prisoners are in the shadow of the electric chair, from which,they must be rescued and returned to the ranks of the working class. Union Unity ce The next big job is the preparations for the Trade ference at Cleveland on the 31st of this month. Work- ers in every industry are struggling against wage-cuts, speed-up, lengthening of hours and other effects of rationalization, A powerful directing and coordinating force is needed. Only the Communist Party can function as that force. The Daily Worker one of the most pow- erful weapons of the Party, of the whole working class. One of the worst calamities that could befall the workers at this critical time would be the suspension of the Daily. Yet, we must now frankly tell our readers and Party members that there have been many times during the past weeks that we did not think we would ever exist to publish the story of the International Red Day demonstrations. Today we face a serious situation where funds are as urgently needed as’ they have been for a long time. means. You must know what that Without a moment's delay every comrade, every worker, who is inspired by the tremendous demonstrations of August Ist should rally to the financial aid of the Daily. Rush funds at once to the Daily Wowker, 26 Union Square, New York. BUILDING WORKER 15 ARRESTED IN GROUP DENGUNCE CHICAGO BATTLE GASTONIA TRIAL GET JURY TRIAL |Workers Everywhere. | Must Act to Save 23 | The National Progressive Build- jing Trades Committee of the Trade} Union Educational League has sent from New York to Judge Barnhill in Gastonia a telegram of hot pro- test at the attempt of the mill bosses to railroad the 23 textile strikers and organizers to electro- eution or prison terms. It declares the “workers have a right to defend (Continued on Page Five) “La Guardia War Candidate, Pliant Tool of the Bosses” Weinstone and Other Communist Nominees to Speak at “Freiheit” Picnic Today terday chracterized Congressman Fiorella La Guardia, just chosen by the Republican Party to run for mayor of New York City. War Candidate. La Guardia came into prominece as a result of his services in the world war, and one of the major rea- sons why he was selected to run at | this time was because of the fever- ish preparations for a new imperi- (Continued on Page Five) | i Police Charge Engdahl Strated Struggle (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 2.—Jury trials were secured today for 15 workers arrested in the Communist anti-war demonstration here yester- day, in which thousands of workers fought the mobilized police force for use of the streets and for use of | Union Park, in the heart of the west side, for working class gath- erings. Judge Burke, in Desplaines St. Police Court, admitted the pris- oners to bail after they had spent the night in foul, underground cells, some appearing in court this morn- ing with their hair clotted in blood, clothes torn and bloody. The police, armed with night- sticks, iron bars and using revolver butts, attacked under orders to “smash the demonstration and take no prisoners.” The prisoners now include: Isa- dore Abrahamson, Tony Bruno, J. Louis Engdahl, Jack Guzu, John Heinrichson, Olga _Heinrichson, Henry Kaye, Nick Kottonyk, Frank O’Brien, Alex Pastrich, Anna Schultz, George Starek, Kasimir | Walden, A. Walter Yowalski and Joe | and a half in time saves bitter di: | Zielinski, Cops Roh Washerwoman. Christina Lewis, a,German wash- erwoman, was released after spend- ing the night in jail. (Continued on Page Five) ‘MOST EXPLOITED; ORGANIZATION IS NOW VITAL NEED Six-hour Day; Fight on Speed-up, Demands | of Youth ‘For New Union Center ‘Denounce Treachery of A.F.L., Reformists The official call to the working youth of the United States to join in the building of a new trade union center by supporting the forthcom- \ing Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention has just been issued by the Youth Committee of the Trade Union Educational League. The convention will be held Aug. 31-Sept. 2 and delegates from the major industries of the U. S. will be- present. At least. 20 per cent of the delegates will be working youth, it is expected. The official call of the Youth Com- mittee follows: “The National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League has issued a call for the formation of a new trade union center to be or- ganized at a convention in Cleve- land, Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. This Convengion is of great importance to the working class youth of this country. “In no country in the world is there such a great percentage of young workers as in America. Out of 40,000,000 workers, 10,000,000 ‘are young workers and 3,000,000 are child laLorers. This is a direct re- sult of the rapid process of ration- ” ‘dl alization, With the continuous de- ‘Many Others Beaten; velopment of new machinery the Tip Defends |skilled workers are being replaced |by unskilled laborers, the bulk of A total of 30 workers were ar-| |which are young workers. rested during the International Red | Youth Most Exploited. Day demonstrations of the Commun- | “It is we young workers who are ist Party and during the prepara.|the most exploited section of the tions for International Red Day on|Working class. It is we young work- Wednesday. Many other workers | who, as a result*of rationaliza- were brutally attacked by the police | tion, are being speeded up, working who were infuriated by the mili- for long hours and for low wages, taney of the demonstrations and the |under unsanitary conditions. The courageous defense put up by the bosses not only exploit us, not only workers. All the arrested workers are being defendgd by the New York District of the Mternational Labor Defense, which also furnished bail for all those not realeased otherwis Jacques Buitenkant is the attorney for the I. L. D. The list of arrests follows: Wednesday, July 31: Mary Stat- ler, arrested at Grand St. Exten- sion for distributing Anti-War Day The greatest Workers courage- POLICE ARREST 30 jobs, but also use us against our own fathers and brothers, use we are not organized into militant trade unions which would protect our living conditions. | “The A. F. of L. has degenerated linto an organization which does not \fight for the interest of the work- ers but for the interests of the boss The A. F.*of L. is there- leaflets, Released in $500 bail. Re- | fore, naturally not interested in or- |ceived a hearing in Bridge Plaza|Sanizing the unorganized youn Court, Brooklyn. Case postponed Workers. More than that it is do- until Aug. 9. jing everything in its power to pre- ‘Served? Jail. Dari’ vent the young workers from be- James Makus, arrested at 27th |C™iMg organized. Has it not been Gr au SethtaveMtecditcnicig |: (Cuneo oe Anti-War Day leaflets. Taken to. gpcTION 1 REPORT TODAY. Jefferson Market Court on a charge j : disorderly conduct and sentenced |, Section 1 membership must report to $10 fine or one day in jail. He | headquarters today at 1:30 p. m. | served. se Sunday at 9:30. | Isidore Klinghofer and Benjamin | | Kaplan, arrested for speaking at an Anti-War Day preparatory meeting (Continued on Page Five) S. COSTUME BALL ON HUDSON AUGUST NINTH. GET YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE. give us the hardest and dirtiest | FINAL CITY EDITION “New York, by mall, $5.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. 3 Cents P WHOLE WORLD Cleveland Meet CAPITALIST PRESS CENSORS NEWS OF HUGE MEETINGS IN ALL BIG INDUSTRIAL CITIES 15,000 Demonstrate in Pittsburgh; Battle With Police in Almost Every City \Inprecorr Press Service Breaks Censorship Refutes Lies; Tells of European Meetings New York workers who staged an overflow meeting of be- tween 20,000 and 25,000 in Union Square, and countless smaller meetings before and after throughout the city and stuck it out in the face of rain and police were yesterday drawing a lesson from the attempts of the capitalist press to represent their huge demonstration as a trivial affair, of from five to ten thou- sand workers, who “were broken up by the rain.’ They see in this policy of censorship and lying evidence that the reports of a “quiet” International Red Day in Europe are false, and like- wise similar reports of “nothing happening” in Europe. The Daily Worker, through its own telegraph reports from workers on the scene in various American cities, and the Inter- national Press Correspondence (‘Inprecorr’’ Wireless) from Europe herewith presents abundant proof that millions demon- strated in the chief industrial cities of the world, and that news of these demonstrations was censored and deleted by the bosses’ papers. GORKY, CHINESE 15,000 FIGHT DEFEND U.S.S.R, IN PITTSBURGH (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) | BULLETIN MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. (Special to the Daily Worker.) 2.—President Kalinin and Max-| , CROWN POINT, Ind., Aug. Otto Wangerin, prominent as an or- ganizer of railr workers, and sev- eral steel worke are held in jail ‘here on criminal syndicalism charges a result of participating in an anti-war mass meeting at Hammond, im Gorky addressed a tremen- dous demonstration of workers in the Cultural and Recrea- | tional Park here, after tremen- |dous street demonstrations. A Ger- Ba 2 eekatng man worker, wounded in the May a ‘ fe 1 fighting in Berlin was received|, They are being held on $5,000 with thunderous applause when he Pail. ‘A successful August First meet- rose to speak, There were deni-nstrations every- where in the Soviet Union. ing was also held in Waukegan, an Illinois steel town. aie where mass meetings inciudin a p ae tically he workers and peasants| (Special to the Daily Worker.) in the vicinity, expressed a deter-/ PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. mination to defend fatherland to the workers took everywhere. thousand workers took part in International Red Day demonstrations here yes- the proletarian | —_Fifteen utmost. Chinese a prominent part ‘ * * terday, and protested police | (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) action in violently smashing 140,000 Meet in Berlin. jancebinige and arresting 28 workers, BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 2. including Pat Devin Communist Tens of thousands of workers struck |Party district 0 Sam Her- in Berlin yesterday on the Commu-|™an, Clyde, Pat ecretary- National nist Party call to finish work early | treasu of the Miners’ in the afternoon and come to dem-| Union; Elbert Tetherow, Gastonia onstrations. Strikes took place in|Striker, and.others the departments of Siemens, Baun-| ‘During the day the police pre- ion, and General etric works, in|Pared openly to smash the meetings the Potsdamer station, and in the|@gainst war. The entire press here carried stories of the determination of the authorities to “prevent the Reds from using the streets.” Mounted, motorcycle and uni- |formed plain clothes police, plus all leity police patroled the |section where the meeting was sche- |duled to take place during the day. Fight For Streets. |Sarotti, Lorenz and other factories. | Metal, building, shoe and cigarette |workers flocked out on strike. | The Communist demonstration in the Lustgarten, led by Communists, was composed of approximately 140,- 000 workers. The social democratic | counter demonstration at Friedrichs- bain drew at the most about 80,000. The Communist demonstrations bore} In answer to repeated threats as a fighting character, while the so-|to what would happen if the meet- cialist meetings were very tame. jing were held, the Co: unist Party There were no serious incidents, | intimated its determination to fight but much police jostling. for the use of the stree A ‘number of workers were ar- The Lehi Sens aay |rested for wearing Red Front Fight. cd Place simultane ers uniforms. The huge crowd was|‘hree other meetings at (Continued on Page Five) vantage points, : | The police ruthlessiy reserves, | down rode Eisman, Milita LESS THAN WEEK TO DAILY’S BIG MOONLITE CRUISE ,.« Get Tickets in Advance Can a working cl ild defend the interests of his ¢ in this “free” and “democratic” country? For Aug. 9 Affair | The capitalist courts are saying The date of the Daily Worker's moonlite cruise and costume ball, “yo” in an unmistakeable manner Friday, August 9, is now less than in the case of Harry Eisman, 15- jone week away, and as the number! year-old member of the Young Pion- jof tickets available, limited to start |Gers, In Children’s Court, 22nd St. ‘with, are dwindling hourly, it is not and Lexington Ave., yesterday af- ternoon Eisman was sentenced by out of place to ring in a few hack- neyed bromides for the benefit of] Magistrate O'Keefe to six months wish Guardians at |those workers who plan to take the ‘in the Home of Je trip but have not yet bagged their Hawthorne, N. Y. The crime—that he took part in the Pioneer demon- | pasteboards. | The early bird catches the worm. 'stration against the Boy Scouts at Procrastination is the thief of time. Pier 53 on Saturday, July 20, and Forewarned is forearmed. A buck defended himself when he was at- S-' tacked by a mounted policeman. ‘appointment. Do it now! | The magistrate, in pronouncing The word has already gotten|sentence, added the threat that if around among the local toilers that Eisman doesn’t “behave,” he will be this Hudson blow-out will outjink all) sent at the expiration of his sen- She was previous working class highjinks on|tence on Jan. 29, 1930, to a reform-| the Pioneers. t (Continued on Page Five) hatorx—ona af those vile schools of 6-Month Sentence in a ‘Home ge Threatens Reformatory, Attack Pioneers; Eisman Makes Strong Reply |the crowds, arrested speakers ‘tried to precipitate a riot. ;searched many bystanders. The workers demonstrated and ? picketed in front of the police sta- tion all evening, denouncing the at- tack on the Soviet Union and showed the most militant spirit yet Ss the seen in the city. Factory Demonstraticns. Three thousand steel workers of McKeesport National Tube Co., as- {erime and corruption where capital-|sembled at a noonday meeting to ism “reforms” its intractable youth | demonstrate against the attack on Here he will have to remain until) the Soviet Union. They vigorously the age of 21, | resisted the attempt of the police to and They nt Pioneer, Gets The magistrate also launched a break up the meeting and remained violent tirade against the Pioneers out of work 30 minutes after the and praised the Boy Scouts. lunch hour. Kisman, undaunted, replied and) Doycle, Herman, four speakers told of the work of the Pioneers as defenders and enlighteners of the workers’ children. “The Boy Scouts,” |he said, “are the tools of the mili- tarvists and are helping to prepare the next bosses’ war.” vs Fisman was defended by Jacques Buitenkant, representing the New York District of the International Labor Defense. The I, L. D. will) ganizer of the M. U appeal the case. | The entire crowd picketed the po- Eisman has shown himself on lice station until the prisoners were many occasions one of the most mil- | released. itant and courageous members of! Thousands of workers attended He has been arrested | meetings in the steel towns, such as (Continued on Page Five) i (Continued on Page Five) and a Young Pioneer were arrested and very brutally handled by the local police. In New Kensington, a noon day meeting before Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon’s American Aluminum Co., was attacked by po- lice and four speakers arrested, in- Joe Tashinsk Youth or-