The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ~ FINAL CITY EDITION aily Entered ax xecond-clans matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, acai a Price 3 Cents Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodai Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. EW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929 Outside New Y Vol. VI, No. 133 WORKERS HOLD STREETS OF BERLIN AGAINST POLICE Gastonia Detendants Shall Burn! --- Says Carpenter, Manville- Jenckes Prosecutor WILL DEMAND ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR C7nndey One Condition SMALL FRY ARE LATEST STIMSON FIGHTING LIKE THAT OF THIRTEEN PRISONERS HE DECLARES = Only Must Daily Be | WIPED OUT IN NOTE PAVES WAY, MAY DAY BREAKS OUT ON DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESS' Forced fo Suspend STOCK DECLINE TO ATTACK USSR aE DAR TRATLIRE Tremendous Workers’ Protest and Strong | Yesterday, C. C. Wu, the representative at Washington | Federal Reserve Ruling | Wu, Called by Phone to | Defense Imperative of the murderous imperialistic puppet government of Chiang Sends Issues Down State Department Bees aen Workers itencr alice Attack. Wier! j 4 A Kai Shek, had a secret conference at the state department the Toboggan | Admits Confab | a one Bteatinniig Harned N#.W.U Combines Drive For Charlotte Meet! o¢ Morgan's government at Washington, It is known that wee | Sia | Counter-Demon s Ba With Rally For Defense ® the question of the attack against the Soviet Union was dis- |London Reserve Hit Cannot Disclose Plans: Fighting Still in Progress in East End, Work- ing Class District cussed. No one can doubt that the Hoover outfit is doing | everything in its power to incite international armed inter- vention in the hope of destroying the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union. Just as Chiang Kai Shek and the Kuomintang butchers have tortured and beheaded GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 9.—The State of North Carolina} will be satisfied only with first degree murder verdicts—the | electric chair—for the thirteen men defendants in the gigantic trial of the National Textile Workers’ Union members at Gas- tonia, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, chief of the Manville- Jenckes’ battery of lawyers told a capitalist press correspon- Billions of Dollars Lost On Wall Street BULLETIN Sterling has declined on the New York stock exchange to a |Harbin Lumber Yards! Are Burned | BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 9.—The government and diplomatic circles BERLIN, Aug. 9.—For the second time this year street fighting between police and workers led by the Communist | Party broke out in the east end here this afternoon. One Communist is reported to have been severely wounded | - dent, Henry Lesesne, of the In-@—---—-—— ternational News Service, in a) special interview here today. The policy of the prosecution has obviously been to quell the mass protest by pretending to abate the ferocity of its attack. The change of venue, the postponement of the trial to Aug. 26, and the gesture of Southern “chivalry” in reducing charges against the three women leaders, Sophie Melvin, Amy Schech- ter and Vera Bush to second degree murder were the highlights in the campaign to make it easier to send the 13 men to the electric chair, | and the three womeh to long prison | terms. Solicitor Carpenter’s bald state- ment of the intention of the bosses’ courts to legally murder the strike leaders because they defended the tent colony from the attack of an armed gang headed by the police, will awaken these workers who were | fooled by these gestures, and the) consistent campaign in the Southern | press assuring a “fair trial,” to hard reality. Support Arrested. The arrested leaders maintain | they were perfectly correct in de- | tending those living in the colony from what might have been a sec- end Ludlow massacre. The Nation- | al Textile Workers Union, while pre- | paring through widespread mass meetings and an intensive organiza- tional campaign for its conference | in Charlotte October 12 and 13, sup-| (Continued on Page Five) JACOBS STILL IN CRITICAL STATE Gangster Victim Near | Point of Death The condition of Jack Jacobs, the cloak cutter who was attacked by I. L. G. W. gangsters, and who is now lying in Bellevue Hospital, is still critical. He is a victim of the| same methods as are used by the | Hillman-Chatman bureaucrats in| Rochester. | Large numbers of left wing work- ers continued to visit the hospital! yesterday and inquire about Jacobs’ | condition. Whether or not Jacobs’ will live is not yet known, but even if he does it will take many months | before he is able to be up and about. | (Continued on Page Five) BAN REFUGEES FROM MEXICO Morrow Move Seen in Government Action | spac ° MEXICO CITY, Aug. 9.—Com munists from Central and South America seeking refuge in Mexico will not be permitted to enter the country, it was officially announced by the ministry of the interior to- day in connection with a report that 100 refugees are attempting to find asylum here, Instructions have been sent to im- migration authorities at all ports of |ers of New York will give to Vera entry. The ministry announced at the same time that a large number, (the exact number unspecified) of Rus- sian workers have been deported re- cently “because of seditious activi- ties. The deportation details are a_| government secret. By the term Latin American Com- munists, the Mexican government obviously intends to include all op- ponents of American imperialism south of the Rio Grande. Some: of ‘tured skull. | | thousands upon thousands of Chinese revolutionists, so the | whole imperialistic front would carry out the extermination of the workers and peasant masses of the Soviet Union if they ever get the upper hand. The Daily Worker is the one paper in the English lan- guage that exposes the diabolical schemes of Hoover, Stimson and Co. against the Soviet Union. One of the most effective weapons against imperialistic war will be taken from the hands of the working class if the Daily is forced to suspend. When this country openly enters war, one of the first acts of the imperialistic government at Washington will be the suspension of the Daily Worker. But we will fight against imperialism to the last. If we are forced to lower our banners, we wil! do it while fighting face to face with the enemy. Such temporary suspension would be no dis- grace. On the contrary, it would be an honor, a tribute to our revolutionary integrity. And it would be only temporary, » because under other forms we would carry on the reyolution- ary struggle until we have vanquished capitalism and can again publish the Daily and as many other papers as we desire, . But should we be forced to suspend before the enemy has moved with full force against us; should we be forced, as we once were, to suspend because of lack of funds from our readers and supporters, that would be a disgrace, a deep humiliation to us and to the whole revolutionary movement. We are sure, if for a moment, you think of what diffi- culties you would have explaining to your shopmates the suspension of the Daily because of lack of support, you will do everything you can to see that funds are rushed at once to The Daily Worker, 26 Union Sauare. We face the gravest danger of another suspension, which will mean the last unless funds come in within twenty- four hours to ensure our existence. The capitalist class should never be permitted to get away with a battle so easily. ASSAULT VICTIM OF ACW. THUG IS NEAR DEATH Teems Attacked Near Amalgamated Office (Special to the Daily Worker.) ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug Peter Teems, 43-years-old, secretary of the local Trade Union Educational League, and a working-class fighter, for many years, may die as 2 re- sult of the murderous attack made upon him yesterday by Hill- man-Chatman thugs near the head- quarters of the Amalgamated Cloth- | ing Workers. He is now in the Genesee Hospital suffering from concussions 9 fthe brain and a frac- The attack was niade while Teems was on his way to work, Struck over the head by two blows from a hammer in the hand} of. one of the gangsters, Teems staggered into a doorway near the seene of the attack in Clinton Ave., North, He collapsed there and was taken to the hospital. Attack Planned. Only partially conscious, Teems was hardly able to give a descrip- tion of the thugs. He said he was on his way to work at the Payne Tailoring Com- pany, 411 Clinton Ave., No., about 7:30, when he passed the head- quarters of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, at No. 476. As he walked, a sedan stopped at the curb just ahead of him. When he was abreast of. the car, two men jumped out. Without a word, one of the men drew a hammer from his coat pocket Continued on Page Three) Foster Tells of Preparation for Cleveland Convention Expect 600-700 Delegates; Mine, Auto, Food Marine, Needle Workers Represented ? ordinating center to connect up | pn aR ee SN | The prospects for the success of | the forthcoming Trade Union Unity! the left wing unions and work ‘of Convention to be held in Cleveland,| the T, U. E. L. groups in the old Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 for the purpose | unions, to lay out a practical pro- the growing war danger and for BERLIN, Aug. 9.—Aided by ex-| William Z. Foster, national pecte=| Continued on Page Three) ceptional weather conditions and by | tary, and John Williamson, assistant | cruising rate of $5 miles an hour, | organizing the conference, | the Graf Zeppelin had reached the| The convention, Foster said, Pal the Wall St. backed world flight. | movement. Between 600 and 700 delegates, ized, to unite the workers against States was discussed yesterday by ible along far above its normal | Union Educational League which is miles from the end of its first on|the history of the American labor TO USSR FLIERS. A conference to prepare for the) | Melvin, the three women defendants gram for organizing the unorgan- ing trade union center in the United strong winds which pushed the dirig-|"@tional secretary of the Trade PL AN RECEPTION British channel this morning, 700 | be one of the outstanding events in representing thousands of organized by and unorganized workers, will be Mare una more, ae present. at the conference, he said. up into two t “It will have many important pon de ‘claws tasks. Among these are the es- letariat—Marx. tablishment of a national co- To Hit Frameup at Welcome to 3 Gastonia Women Monday Workers to Greet Bush, Schechter, Melvin; Demonstrate for Union, ILD, WIR The great welcome that the work- to the southern mill workers and to the joint drive of the International Labor Defense and Workers Inter- national Relief for Gastonia defense and relief. t An overflow crowd fs expected to attend this welcome which has been arranged by the New York District of the- International Labor Defense, the Workers International Relief and the National Textile Workers Union. The meeting in New York is part of the tour which the three defendants are making through va; rious sections of the country to Bush, Amy Schechter and Sophie in the Gastonia trial, on Monday night in Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., will also be a mighty demonstration against the monstrous conspiracy by which the mill owners of North Carolina hope to railroad to the electric chair or the penitentiary 23 of the best fighters for the brutally exploited and oppressed textile workers, ‘And it will be an expression of support the latest fruits of Morrow's di- plomacy are here being gathered, A to the campaign of the National | gather funds and rally thousands Textile Workers Union to organize (Continued on Page Fivo) ; ‘ai reception of the four Soviet flyers | who are making a round-the-world jflight to New York in the mono- |plane “Land of the Soviets” has |been called for 8 p. m. Tuesday, Aug. |18, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. jand Irving Pl., to which all trade junions and workers’ fraternal or- | ganizations sympathetic to the Sov- |iet Union, as well as workers in the shops and factories, are invited to \send delegates, The conference, to be held under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union, is the outgrowth of a |preliminary meeting last Friday, at- tended by 75 delegates. The tenta- ltive reception committee points out \that the crew of the Soviet plane are the first emissaries of good will jfrom the workers and peasants of jthe U. S, S. R. and carry with them| |greetings and expressions of soli- darity from the working class of |Soviet Russia to the working class |of the United States, In order that the reception these flyers deserve may be accorded \them, it is necessar: at the larg- jest number of sy: etic organ- jizations, including# women’s coun- cils, workers’ bodiggsrepresenting the | border countries the U. S. S. R. | (Polish, Finnish® Lithuanian, Lat se (Continued om P bi Ga oe point where it will be profitable to ship gold from London to New York. The low point was reached Thursday before the announce- ment of the federal reserve bank rise in the rediscount rate and on Friday sterling sank still lower. This creates a critical situation in London znd endangers the gold reserve of the Bank of England, which is already below the mini- mum of 150,000,000 pounds, due to heavy shipments to France dur- ing the past month. Special pres- sure was started on sterling as a reply to Philip Snowden’s fight at the Hague against the Young plan, which is regarded by the British imperialist government as a crushing blow against English bankers and industrialists. New York bankers are buying London balances for the purpose of “ear- marking” London gold and hold- | ing it in Europe for investments on continental Europe, thus sav- | ing the cost of transportation. | Friday was one of the worst | days in the history of the New | Yerk stock exchange for the small (Continued on Page Three) 1 KILLED, 7 HURT INTANKER BLAST Standard Oil Guilty of \ Murder BAYONNE, N. J., Aug. 9.—The |greed for profits of the Standard \Oil Company of New Jersey, which ae extended to its neglect to re- | pair a broken steam pipe on the jtanker William Rockefeller, today made a human torch out of John Ward, a watchman on the ship, jburning him to a crisp, when a \blast o nthe tanker threw him, clothes aflame, 75 feet in the air, jand injured seven other members jof the tanker’s crew. The William Rockefeller, 21,000- \ton hell-hole, burst into five succes- (Continued on Page Five) POLISH WORKERS’ BODY IN MOSCOW 'Pravda Hails Group Fighting Fascism (Wireless to Inprecorr.) LUBLIN, Poland, Aug. 9.—The \details of the bloody massacre of class war prisoners here who dem- onstrated on International Red Day, |Aug. 1, are just becoming known. |The iron-clad censorship of the Pil- \Sudski dictatorship took special |pains to keep this outrage from |reaching the outside world. Two class war prisoners were {killed, six severely wounded and | many others were less seriously ‘assault. Lublin prison was little j better than a shambles after it was jover. The prison contains 120 polit- jical prisoners and 47 common pris- joners, On International Red Day the political prisoners, all thrown into jail for their opposition to the (fascist Pilsudski regime, committed | the heinous crime of singing the In- | ternationale in the courtyard. This so infuriated the authorities that the tiiaga war prisoners were violently incarcerated in punishment cells. The prisoners, unintimidated, bar- ricaded the cell doors. Police and |firemen were called and while the jlatter played a hose off the prison- jers the police maintained a heavy \carbine fire, slaughtering and wound- ing the heroic prisoners, | The bourgeois newspapers report that order has now been restored. It is the here received information from Po- land that the Polish government is taking advantage of the attention jof the world on the imperialist man- | euvers against the U. S. S. R. to j}do a little imperialist work itself. |The plan reported is for the Polish army and irregulars to suddenly in- jvade Lithuania and set up a puppet government in Kovno. “8 # WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The admission of state department of- ficials today, in the absence of Sec- retary of State Stimson, that a new shek’s minister, Wu, is taken here to |indicate that the Wall Street gov- jernment is taking further steps to carry out its intrigue for interven- | tion in Manchuria against the Union ‘of Socialist Soviet Republics. Dr. Wu was hurriedly summoned by telegram to meet the executives of his imperialist masters in the | war, state and navy departments building, He went, and when he came out he smilingly told news- paper men that he had ‘discussed the Chinese Eastern Railway ques- tion with the state department and its advisors, but that “the nature of the development he had under dis- cussion was such that it could not, be made public at present.” | Former U. S. Minister to China, Crae, accompanied Wu to the ap- pointment, and left with him. GALL BUILDING ~ WORKERS’ MEET |TUEL Section Warns | Of Boss Attack A mass meeting of all carpenters, |bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, jand painters is called by the Build- jing Trades Section of the Trade | Union Educational League for Fri- | |day evening, Aug. 16, at 7:30 in | Irving Plaza hall, 15th St. and Irv- | ing Place. | The present move of the building bosses in recalling the five-day week, the call for the meeting says, is an indication that they are pre- paring to launch a drive on the building trades workers in order to establish open shop conditions in the industry. | The corrupt union officialdom is doing nothing to meet this situation, | the call continues, and with the | building industry in an ever-increas- }ing slump, both the speed up and jnote had been handed Chiang Kai-| and two police are believed to have been killed in the fighting so far, Exact figures, however, are still unobtainable. The authorities state that fighting, similar to that which broke out on May Day, is being repeated in the streets of the east end today. The Communist Party ed to have or- dered the workers to hold the streets against the police attack. i Indications of restlessness were apparent throughout this | working class district all during the day, as the workers pre- pared to protest against the republican demonstrations tomor- row and Sunday. The Communist Party had planned a counter-demonstra- | tion which has been banned by the police, who feared that the demonstration might develop into armed fighting between the workers and the police and fascists. Although the official report states that “quiet has been restored” in the east end tonight, shooting is still audible there ‘and it is evident that fighting is in progres STRIKING GRAVE SNOWDEN SAYS DIGGER KILLED HE’S READY TO BY SCAB SHOTS END HAGUE MEET Followed Clash at the France Relies on Deal Cemetery With U.S. Empire THE HAGUE, Stanley Z i, 40, one of the Holland, Aug. 9.— 300 Cavalry Cemetery strikers who In the short session today of the walked cut more than a week ago, finance commission of the Young was yesterday shot and killed plan conference here iowden, the Ms . . labor party minister of the exche- His body was discovered just out- ‘uer, who represents British anes side Calvary cemetery on Betts Ave., "ialism better and more frankly “ than any of his Tory predecessors, Maspeth, ens. ; Meier BASDRL USSR ' continued his intransigent stand. He Blessed By Church. notified the representatives The murder of the striker was ap- France, Belgium, Ital parently with the full blessing of | ne®, Pe sium rs i a" 3 Pi is. th many that the confe St. Patrick's Cathedral which is the [2°0"tne Young plan pruntee ct tue comerery ynene. We | that ngland: g 00,000 more strikers are fighting for a wage in-| annually of the German war loot, that England’s whole share is to be | Philip Nuninziotti, a strikebreak- b paid unconditionally and not left to er, was arrested charged with firing other event it iain eae the shot that killed Zasadzinski. | Young plan, and that payment in | It is expected, however, that he poods, which ive of Bad will be released just as soon as the |land’s market influential roman catholic interests | ‘There is ‘an apparently well fighting the strikers give the high founded rumor among the attaches sign to their friends in the Tam- of the conference that Snowden is many police department. wows |Packed, ready to leave Monday. May Frame Strikers. Germany Dubious. The shooting is said to have oc-! Ip summing up the crisis the only curred when a fight started between thing the German delegates would the strikers and a contingent of scabs who were about to enter the |cemetery. Two hundred of them had |been hired immediately after the | walkout began to bury bodies in | trenches and such separate graves | that they could dig. | There is a strong possibility that \the police will attempt to frame-up | one of the strikers. say today was that if a ful of Snowden’s dem Iment nds envisaged an increase in r '$ reparations burdens beyond the Young plan, the Reich representatives were not will- ing even to discuss the matter, The suspicion of the Germans has been aroused considerably through the revelation that before the repa- Several of them rations conference in Paris the Brit- jured during the murderous police | violent, repressive order of | | were severely grilled by them yes- (Continued on Page Five) terday afternoon, Build shop committees and draw | the more militant members into the Communist Party. | After every revolution marking 1 Progressive phase in the class strug- ale, the purely repressive character of the St Dower stands out 1p Ider rel Marx. bolder and Shoe Labor Form Industria! Union at Conference Today ‘Call for Shop Delegate System; Will Delegates to Cleveland Conference Elect ent Shoe Workers Union, which be- ;¢ame an example to shoe workers |everywhere as a result of its fight ‘ing policies, will open the confer- jence today. One of the principal tasks of the gathering will be the selection of jdelegates to the Trade Union Unity Convention to be held in Cleveland. The establishment of the shop delegate system in the new unio is being emph; ed in a “Call for Action” being distributed to thou- The first outstanding conference preparatory to the Trade Union | Unity Convention will be held to- ;day and tomorrow when _ several hundred delegates meet at a con- ference of shoe and leather workers jin Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irv- jing Place. The conference, which will take | the first step in the organization jof a militant, industrial union of all shoe, hide and leather workers, is being called by the Independent ;Shoe Workers Union and the Trade | Union Educational League. , Pick Cleveland Delegates. the East. jSands of shoe workers throughout | Delegates are expected from Phil-, tish, Italian and French financial ex- perts held a conference in London to discuss methods of procedure and that they had reached a general agreement, he, Same a | French Capital Furious. my PARIS, France, Aug. 9. — Com- ment among leading French finan- clers is extremely bitter against England for her demands. The French government feels that her many sacrifices to American bond- |holders guarantee U. S. support in her quarrel with England over the division of the war spoils, It is well known here that there is an irre- concilable clash between British and American imperialism, the only |problem being to which side France should sell herself. The present cir- (Continued on Page Three) Try to Assassinate Sakao, Bandit King ALLAHABAD, India, Aug. 8.— Advices received here’ tonight said attempt had been made to assas~- inate Bach, ‘ao, British-support- ed bandit, king of Afghanistan. When the bandit-king was return- ing from Maidaw to Kabul, the cap- ital, a bullet aimed at h bile crashed into the windsh hy