The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1929, Page 1

eae ONLY 2 DAYS TILL MOONLITE CRUISE; aily Entered as second-class matter THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS ‘For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized ‘Against Imperialist War . For the 40-Hour Week GET TICKETS NOW, DON’T BE AMONG THE DISAPPOINTED Vol. VI, N 130 Company, inc. 26-28 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing jon Square, New York City, Nt ¥. N RATES: In Outside New York, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Ne by mail, $6.00 mail, $8.00 per year. jer year, EXPECT S00 DELEGATES TO BE j AT GENERAL SOUTHERN TEXTILE CONFERENCE; ORGANIZING FAST Meetings Twice a Week on Ground Newly Leased by Union Near Important Cotton Mills Gastonia Presecution Threatening Witnesses of Defense; 100 More to Be Subpoenaed Today: BULLETIN. GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 6.—Solicitor Carpenter, of Gastonia, the official head of the prosecution of the 23 textile strikers and organ- izers, as the Manville-Jenckes Co. attorneys are the unofficial and real heads, has been threatening witnesses, and trying to drive those who can testify for the defense out of town. There will be a conference of defense attorneys in Charlotte tomorrow, and a hundred defense wit- nesses will be subpoenaed. 2 ee <8 GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 6.—Organizers continue to re- port encouraging progress in the preparation of the General Southern Textile Workers’ Conference, scheduled for Charlotte, October 12 and 13. This conference is being loudly acclaimed National Textile Workers’ Union go. It was called by the Bessemer City Southern Tex-* t}e Conference, a little over CUTTER HA ARE ek ago, and is for the pur- pose of preparing the actual details of widespread struggle against the, speed-up, for the eight-hour day and a substantial wage raise, a great | 5 simultaneous uprising of the south-| ern textiJe workers, and an organ- ization of all of them into the NT. Wes U. Hugo Oehler, southern district or- ‘ ganizer for the National Textile Meet Tomorrow Will orker nion, announces : Deal with Gangsterism “In Dallas, South Gastonia, Bel- mont and Kings Mountain, we have} Jack Jacobs, the left wing cloak | leased ground for union meetings (cutter whose skull was, cracked. by. during the past. few days, and mass | lhired thugs of the “International, meetings and union local meetings | |company union of the manufactur- | lers, has a fighting chance to live, | week. In South Gastonia we have | according to the report made by a taken a lot near mills and the workers have shown that they are reedy for struggle for “At the Rex mill, which shut | « }wn during the past week, the boss s been forced to back down from} te threat to reopen Monday with-| members. He found out that prac- tically all his employes are mem- bers of the N. T. W. U. and had to order the wholesale evictions premature strike and to create dis- sention in our ranks has failed ut- terly. “In Dallas, John Fortnell and an- | discharged and evicted. While the eviction was going on, the Mirai) staged a demonstration in front the houses. The Workers Tees | 16 members of these two families | end the work of the union will not be interrupted.” Ochler said that he expects a (Special To The Daily Worker.) at all meetings of mill workers, wherever the organizers of the sre being held regularly twice a better conditions. out any of the most active union stopped. His effort to precipitate a other active union organizer were tional Relief is taking care of the (Continued on Page Five) SECTION AND UNIT INDUS- TRIAL ORGANIZERS, ATTENTION All section and unit industrial or- | ganizers must report at the District | Office cn Thursday, Aug. 8, 1929, at | 8 p. m. sharp, when very important matters in connection with the Trade Upion activities of the Party will tf taken up. This meeting is called the Secretariat of the District in view of the fact that there has been no meeting of section and unit in- | dustrial organizers for some time. ATTENTION UNIT AND SECTION WOMEN’S WORK DIRECTORS A conference of unit: and section women’s work organizers will take place tonight at 8 p. m. at 26-28 Union Sq. Pare eae Rr ns Put the Communist) » Party on Ballot All Party members are urged to report for nominating petitions to put the Communist Party on the hallot in the coming city elec- tions, at the following headquar- ter Downtown, 27 E. Fourth St.; Harlem, 143 E. 108rd St. and 35 W. 129th St.; Bronx, 1330 ilkins Ave. and 715 E. 138th t.; Williamsburg, 56 Manhattan ‘Ave., Brooklyn; Bath Beach, 48 Bay 28th St., Brooklyn; Browns- ville, 154 Watkins Ave., Brook- > lyn. } The headquarters will be open from 6 to 10 p. m. every night, as well as Saturday and Sunday mornings. $——_______________» the five Rankin | prominent brain specialist, who ex- | ¢Ut- U.S. PROPOSES IMPERIALISTS HOLD CHINESE EASTERN 20000 INDIAN ‘TO EVERY COMMUNIST ! 7R00PS FIRE AT PLAN FOR U. U.S. $, JAPAN “JUTE WEAVERS OUT ON STRIKE Geer 500,000 000 English Cotton Mill Workers Reject Sell-Out Proposed By Officials Labor Gov’t Tries to) Drive Workers Back { | | BULLETIN. | CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 6— | About 15,000 strikers, mass pick- eting before a jute mill here, clashed with the scabs, police and soldiers, and in the fighting four scabs were killed. The strike has grown; 200,000 are now out. * * CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 6.—At- tempts of the employers to increase the hours of work and introduce the universal 60-hour week in the jute |industry brought on a strike here of | 120,000 workers and shut down | 20,000 looms, practically half of | those in the entire Indian jute in-| dustry. , Another point in dispute is the refusal of the emplo ya ‘bonus promised to part of the| weavers. | ee ee) Reject Sell Out Plan. MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 6. —The conference of delegates from district associations in the Amalga- mation of Spinners and Cotton Op- eratives yesterday voted down al- | most unanimously the proposal of the right wing executive committee | f the union that it be given pow-| ers to settle the strike of over half |a million cotton mill workers here |on the basis of a compromise wage Today there is mere iiconelatead facts that the United States government is mobilizing the capitalist nations of the world for direct and immediate intervention against the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union. This is the international class struggle raised to the highest stage possible at the moment. The facts published in today’s Daily Worker rip the hypocritical pacifist mask from the faces of Hoover, Stimson and the rest of the eminences of the strike-breaking govern- ment. Without the Daily you would never know the sinister portent for the workers of the world of the present move of Stimson in proposing that representatives of nations “in- vestigate the causes of the strife on the Manchurian border.” The most powerful imperialist nation is mobilizing all possible forces against the proletarian state in the hope of crushing the revolution and turning one-sixth of the inhabit- able globe into a giant slaughter house in which the imper- ialist butchers hope to wage a campaign of vengeance and extermination against the very flower of the workers and peasants, Can the working class afford to iet the Daily suspend at such a critical time? That question must be answered by you. Yesterday we told you the details of our financial con- dition. Our income is less than current expenses, say noth- ing of pressing debts that threaten to force suspension. Funds are urgent, nay imperative, in order that we may sur- vive the difficult summer months. ° Rush funds at once to the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. Print 100,000 Leaflets on Cleveland Convention Soo Auto, Marine and Shoe Workers | One hundred th fliousassd leaflets on. the forthcoming Cleveland Harel Union Unity Convention wil! printed soon by the Trade | ‘amined the worker yesterday. | Employers and the capitalist press | Jacobs has been in Bellevue hospi- | Bad celebrated prematurely over the | | «, ‘ | ° s | “acceptance of a five per cent cut | tal since Friday afternoon when the } ihatead of the! owners’ 12 and a half | Schlesinger gangsters made the at-| ‘ ” 295 [tack Saon him eat the hallway of the Pet cent cue and were ae MG shop where he was working. Most | officials of the union for their “pub- of the time he has been unconscious, a ae iubcat Pentaiicent iio |unable to see or talk to his wife and | _, Te workers Fn ence | two young children or know of the | “tructed the union officials that | hundreds of anxious needle trades | there must be no negotiations on the | basis of a wage cut. | noxva, WITH FASCISTS. on White Guard, Police (Wireless to Inprecorr.) PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Aug. 6.—In the industrial town of Boro- | a real battle between the workers on the one side, and fas- | workers who came directly to the i hospital or called on the telephone'| Bondfield Aids Treachery. The officials’ action was taken as bo eet ot Meena part of a deal with the ministry of | | The two thugs who were arrested lives of the MacDonald government |immediately following the attack | (Continued on Page Five) i ag Pg Seta atl JAILROCHESTER ORLEANS STRIKE terday morning, but due to the un- | (Continued on Page Five) | ACW MILITANTS one Killed; 2 Missing | | Four Injured | (Special to the Daily Worker.) | WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Thomas | | | ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 6.— H, Mitten, owner of the street rail-| Hired gangsters of the Hiilman- jways of Philadelphia and certain) |Chattman administration in the /other cities, has been selected by, | Amalgamated Clothing _ Workers Secretary of Labor Davis to act as) here attacked a group of militant | workers who were distributing leaf- | street car strike. \lets before the Fashion-Park fac-| Mitten’s choice is apparently a| tory. The leaflets contained a call|part of the sell-out scheme of the to a Shop Chairmen’s Conference on | Mahon brothers, who control the in- Monday to fight the miserable con- ternational offices of the Amalga- ditions prevailing in the shops and | mated Street and Electric Railway | to prepare for a National Confer- | Employees Association, which is on ence, strike in New Orleans. Following the attack, three active} The Mahons have sold out to the | ; militant workers were arrested and | Mittens in Philadelphia, agreeing to| held under high bail. These are|organize no more of the Mitten Horowitz, Eisner and Peter Teen.|roads if they are allowed a check- Lawyers for the International Labor | off from workers on certain of the} Defense, who have taken over the Mitten lines. Both the Mittens and defense, charge that the arrests are|Mahons are notorious class collab- the result of a frame-up. orationists. Ward Off Those Left Alone ‘Blues! Buy Your Ticket Now Daily Worker’s Moonlite Cruise and Costume “arbitrator” in the New Orleans He has accepted. | |the workers, of whom «ver a hun- “There ain't no cheet Sittin’ on the pier, All by yourself in the moonlite.” But unless you clinch your berth en the Hudson River Day Line steamer Peter Stuyvesant by get- ting your ticket at once, the dank, dismal fate of being left on the dock when the Daily Worker’s char- tered boat shoves off for the moon- lite cruise and costume ball Red Fri- day night may be yours. The affair is just two days aw: Ball Friday Night Should Not Be Missed Although the capacity of the “cruiser” is 3,500, only 2,500 tick- ets have been printed, in order to give the Red Revelers the maxi- -mum of elbow room, and, judging from the present rate of sale, these will be gobbled up before the hour of sailing, We have it on the best authority that the tones with which the Ne- gro Renaissance Orchestra will spellbind the members of the Stuy- (Continued on Page Five) cists and police on the other, took | \place here yesterday. Weapons were used and the workers erected barricades. They were eventually jOvensetay by police reinforcemnts. aes, teak Many Hurt in Nurmberg. * (Wireless to Inprecorr.) | NUREMBERG, Germany, Aug. 6. | —The fascist demonstration, led by | Hitler, yesterday ended with an at- tack on the Communist Party of- fices. Workers were beaten up. The fascists used revolvers. When the police arrived they arrested the workers. Many workers, fascists and police were injured in the fight- ing. Cer ee: Police Fire in Mannheim, MANNHEIM, Germany, Aug. 6.— The prohibited Communist demon- stration took place yesterday. The police attacked brutally, firing on | dred were arrested. a ae (Wireless to Inprecorr.) PARIS, France, Aug. 6.—Ninety Communists, who were arrested and | charged with conspiracy against the state, were released on Aug. 3, ow- ing to complete lack of evidence against them. 22 INJURED IN° ELEVATOR CRASH Defective Cab Cable Said to| -Be Cause | Twenty-two persons, most of them | garment and office workers, were | hurt yesterday when a_heavily-| loaded elevator fell from the twelfth | floor to the basement, bounced up to the ground floor and then crashed again into the basement of the building at 535 Eighth Ave. At least 30 persons were crowded into the car when it fell. After the twenty suffering from injuries and shock had been cared for in the building where the accident oc- curred, two were taken to the New York Hospital and nineteen were taken to their homes. A defective cable was said to have been the cause of the accident, ‘ ucational League and will be distrib- | uted widely in every industrial ait in the United States. The conven- European Lal Labor Wars ‘tion, which will be held Aug. sist-| Imperialist Victims of, Sept. 2nd, will build a new, militant trade union center which will fight | wage cuts, long hours, speed up and begin a real campaign for the or- |ganization of the millions of unor- ganized workers, It will fight the imperialist war plans and call for {the defense of the Soviet Union. Urging workers everywhere to or- | ganize shop committees who in turn |will pick delegates to the Cleveland convention the call says: “Organize and fight for trade union conditions in factories, mines; build the new unions; elect delegates to the Trade |Union Unity Convention.” Wages Down, Profits up. Conditions in the industries are |being constantly worsened, the call \says; wages are being reduced, hours Continued on Page Three) PARTY CAMPAIGN TO OPEN MONDAY Signature Drive. Now) In Full Swing The active participation of the |Communist Party in the campaign |for the forthcoming municipal elec- tions will be inaugurated next Sun- |day, according to Rebecca Grecht, campaign manager. Itineraries for the working class candidates are now being prepared. Meanwhile the drive to obtain the signatures necessary to place the} | ticket on the ballot is making head- way. Section 1, Lower Manhat- | a a has already collected | he endorsements __re- | aaa in lie sixth assembly dis- trict, has made the best showing. In | the course of its house to house een (Continued on Page Five) if | 85 Longshoremen in| Boston Call Strike ‘Against Speed - Up | BOSTON, Aug. 6—Eighty-five longshoremen, engaged in unload- ing the cargo of the American- | Hawaiian Line steamship Ohioan, struck against the speed-up to- day. The strike resulted follow- ing a demand that the longshore- men carry three 300-pound bales! of wool on a truck, whereas in| | Alaska, and thence to Seattie, San Je |the past they had carried only | = hale. \| RUMANIAN MINE; 88 ARE KILLED Many Hit: Strikers Fight Back; Wreck The Machinery Workers More Militant Government is Brutal Bosses’ Tyranny DUPENI, Rumania, Aug. 6. — Fifty-eight miners were killed and over 100 injured when Bloody Queen Marie’s gendarmes fired into the BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND GERMANY TO RUN ROADS Pravda Sees Hand of U.S. Railroad Advisor at Nanking; Exposes War Preparation Resignation of Chiang’s Minister Soong Shows Great Mercenary Army at Foreign Disposal BULLETIN. WASHINGTO: Aug. 6.—Officials at the state department, in the absence of Seer y of State Stimson, admitted today’ to the press that “tentative proposals were made several days ago to nee, Eng- jMass pickets at mines near this} Jand, Germany and Japan for a joint inyestigation of the Manchurian town. Many of the wounded are ex- situation.” | pecked to die. he ke | After the shooting the miners WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Information has leaked out here stormed the mine and effectually prevented attempts to run the worl with scabs by wrecking all elect equipment and the pumping stations. | More troops are being sent, There has been constantly increas jing resistance by workers to the, government’s policy mashing every attempt at labor organization jand the use of troops in strikes for |some time. The Rumanian government | hideous tyranny, in which a yey |rate of rich speculators rules thru| the queen who made herself famous {by her neglect of wounded during |the world war 4nd her extravagant orgies at home and abr Con- stant intrigues take place around Many Preliminary Conferences Being Called; |the young boy king, and there is a Anti- lenperiataata Urge | Support of Revolt (Continued on Page Five) 10 EXHUME WAR ‘DEAD INU. S.S.R, that Secretary of State Stimson has sent confidential notes to Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Italy and France, suggesting that these great imperialist powers appoint a joint commission to investigate the Manchurian situation and intervene in the controversy over, the Chinése militarists’ seizure of the Chinese astern Railway in Manchuria, MORE ARSESTS |and announce a majority deci- sion that the Soviet Union is the aggressor. The purpose would be to propagandize the world’s neutral during a military invasion by the imperjalist countries. invasion are’ hinted at in the second part of Stimson’s note, nam that the nor road from a foreign manager for neither from U. S. S. R. China be placed in charge, and sup- ported by armed force while “meth- ods for the future administration of BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 6.—| the disputed road” being taken The stringent censorship by the/ by the imperialists. 3 Colombian government is continuing, * * suppressing news of the rebellion of (Wireless By Inprecorr) armed workers and peasants. De- MOSCOW, U. S. S. R ts spite this reports of further ai of Communists reached the pr Troops have not been able to erush the outbreaks which have pread over three departments. U.S. to Be Sent Back | BERLIN nae Second Revolt in Year. The All-Am Anti-Imperialist League (U. S. section), feces amr cans, whose movements have been guarded with the greatest secrecy, are now in this city en route to the northern part of the Soviet Union for the purpose, it is said, of exhum- ing the bodies of more than 100 | department, Albert Moreau, on the Colombian workers’ rebellion: American soldiers who died in the|, “Only half a year ago, 20,000 Archangel area during the campaign | banana plantation workers of Co- launched by the imperialist powers |lombia conducted a heroic struggle in 1918-19 to erush the young So. @eainst the United Fruit Co. and viet government. They» plan to, their tools, the Colombian govern- ment. Again, the ma‘ eee ee on Sse Five) lombian workers are in revolt; and again, troops are used in an at- (Continued on Page puaree) 3 DEFENDANTS T0 Textile Workers Here) Called to Join Mass Protest on Gastonia James P. Reid, president of the |National Textile Workers Unio Harriet Silverman, of the Workers International Relief, and Helen Lodge, a Gastonia striker, will be | among the speakers at a mass meet.| What happened in Gastonia? The story of one of the greatest revolts and one of the greatest class war trials in the history of the American workingclass will be told to the ing to be held tomorrow night at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl., to protest against the Gastonia frame-up and the attempts to crush arranged by the National Toxtile |SPending weeks in jail on a charge Workers Union. “Textile workers |of first degree sauniler have jus of New York!” it says, “The fight |been released on $5,000 bail, the jof the Southern textile workers is | charge against them having been your fight! If the attack of the| Changed to second degree mtrder. |mill owners succeeds and the union |And on Monday night, at the Cen- is driven from the South the entire j tral Opera House, 67th St. and Third | working class of America suffers a | Ave., they will tell their story and | severe defeat.” ‘ LCoS on | Page mite) U.S.S.R. Fliers Take Off on Round-the- World Trip Today ‘Plight to Take 40 Days; to Stop at Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and New York through its | national secretary, William Simons, | the imperialists in the Far E and the head of its Latin-American | yester-| Sun F day issued the following statement! the textile workers’ union in the|Workers of New York on Monday south. night by the three women who are A special call has been issued to | 2mong the 23 victims of the Gas-| |textile workers of New York to at-|tonia frameup. Amy Schechter, tend the meeting, which has been Vera Bush and Sophie Melvin, after | | MOSCOW, Aug. 6.—The mono- plane Land of the Soviets will take | off from the Moscow airdrome some | time tomorrow on a round-the-world | flight via New York City. The ex: | act hour of departure depends on the weather. | | It is proposed to fly by leisurely | stages across the Soviet Union, Si- beria, and the Behring Straits to York. | Five Soviet aviators are to make I the 22, 000-mile trip, which will prob- | Francisco, Chicago and New ably take 40 days to complete. The first lap of 1,400 miles to Omsk will be the longest. single jump, al- |though the plane could manage a |2,500-mile hop with its two motors and three-ton gasoline capacity. The Land of the Soviets will prob- ably reach the Siberian coast at Ticolaievsk in 12 or 18 days. For the transoceanic flight the plane will be fitted with pontoons, the rossing consuming upwards of a, |fortnight, with stops at Petropov- Hlovsk, the Aleutian Islands, Seward, Sitka and Seattle. ree te , Aug. 6.— Pravda, official organ of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union, declared yesterday that U. S. Secre- tary of State Stimson’s proposal to “liquidate the conflict over the Chinese Eastern Railway” reveals the boundless hypocrisy of Stimson, art shows the an iet plans of Pravda quotes the declaration of the transport ministe® of the Nanking government, made July 115, showing that the railway was seized at the orders of the Chiang Kai-shek government. Pravda declares that it is d that Mantel, the ican railway adviser of the Nanking government did not know of preparations being made to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway. ficult Amer- to believe the Pravda points out that the paci- fist hullabaloo of the imperialist powers, particularly the activities in Washington and Pa‘ is intended only to conceal the real aims of the imperiali and their Chinese in- strumen The “interested parties” mentioned by Stimson undoubtedly mean share- holders of the former Russian Asiatic Bank plus various capitalist groups who make a fictitious claim on the Chinese Eastérn Railwa The French government is anxious to support any combination leading (Continued on Page Five) -RASKOB BUYS UP PLANE INTEREST John J, Raskob, boss of the Gene eral Motors trust and its political subsidiary, the democratic party, preparing to get his share of the profits out of the impending imper- ialist war on the Soviet Union, has bought up a large interest in the Areo Supply Manufacturing Co., the oldest airplane accessory enterprise in the country. Raskob has been studying var- ious units in the aviation industry for some time and is understood te have made “substantial investments” plane corporations Wall Street reports that he will seek to consolidate some of the larger ac- cessory companies, in line with the Hoover policy of war efficiency. in several war Areo Supply in the first sis months of this year did a total busi ness of $1, 918, Raskob, whe managed tht election cam Tammany. Ql Smith, ostensib signed” chairman of Ge Motors finance committee previous to the presidential election, but war “restored” to the board immediately following it. He is still in conte of the democratic party.