The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1929, Page 1

- cone, oe | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS ee For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION ail Worker Entered as second-clans matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. ander the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929 In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Vol. VI, No. 135 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents WOMEN DEFENDANTS | | | | | THOUSANDS GREET GASTONIA WOMEN MASS ARRESTS OF SOVIET WORKERS AVE OF ARRESTS AND LABOUR PARTY ‘SEAMEN ELECTED! ON CHINESE EASTERN RWY, LATEST Z28ROR SWEEPS LAND) cane qeytLe FOR CONFERENCE UNDREDS of Communists and other workers were ar- rested and thrown into jail in the United States during NANKING ATTEMPT TO ANNOY USSR the August First demonstrations against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. In spite of this the dem- STRIKE SELLOUT HERE AUG: 17-18 FACING ELECTROCUTION vTwo Hundred Thrown Into Chinese Jails ON onstrations, for the most part, were held in defiance of the Charge of Planning General Strike | Police. j | One fact of tremendous significance for the working class of America emerges from the August First demonstra- tions—the one force that leads a militant struggle for the right to demonstrate in the streets is the Communist Party. This fact is known to hundreds of thousands of workers and goads the capitalist government, its police and its courts to new excesses against every attempt of the workers to strengthen our fighting organizations. MacDonald and Bosses|Unity Meeting in Perfect Plans to Cleveland to be Held | Smash Walkout August 31 | Strikers Stand Firm Chester Seamen Elect |), Contrast Militant Program of NTWU With UTW Collaboration, Betrayals Melvin and Delegation to Invade N. C. Federa- Report Nanking Troops Attack Soviet Border tion Convention Today Patrol; 2 Chinese Killed HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 12.—Today’s events in the im-} perialist drive against the Soviet Union by way of the Chinese! Eastern Railroad were featured by the arrest of 200 Soviet | workers employed by the railway and the proclamation of mar- Gastonia Workers Hail Miners Preparing for British Strike Cleveland Meet OPEN UNION LOT GALL FOR MASS a 7 4 = GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 12— BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 12 | tial law along the line. be Ess ee ate ra ie © pig geo gee eleee Hailing the determined fight of 500,- Ten delega ad » Negro . tgs + ete :. : is y was ti ‘ ; s a i | ri workers T ed to at- The Soviet citizens are held in jail, charged with planning} VN Sunday the B. U. Bb. nal in Aansas Mity was raided | 999 British textile strikers against | marine worker e A esl 5 to start a general strike of— because a conference was held to select delegates to the the mill owners and the trecherous |tend the At Coast Conference DE Soni ciecbn tiie: cailsoud Cleveland conference for Trade Union Unity. In Ashley, | strikebreaking policies of the Mac- a Praga . Se 1 Nanki thoriti BILL T0 DEPORT | Pennsylvania, the T. U. E. L. meeting was raided and the lead- [ad fapee - EAE govern ee hers on Se : a | raster Giants A STA BUD OPTIC i BSSETY ers of the miners in that region thrown in jail. In Minne- | : followi sitet: " foodies tieaat Ganfarenee | By LISTON M. OAK. “We don’t want mass dem- that the proclamation of martial ts o 5 hae Se sent them the following greetings: The Atlantic Coa ‘onference 4 3 Sas 5 law is the answer to the derailment apolis, hoodlums from the Citizens’ Military Training Camp “The Southern textile workers un-| Will be held on Saturday and Sun-| CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 12— onctrations at funerals of tes of a freight train west of this city) attacked and disrupted a Communist meeting. Every day | der the leadership of the National | day, Aug. 17 and 18 at the Interna-|A delegation of Sophie Melvin, C.|).) vorkers ! cn Fee ne . vy} | hag Hoek , : ie Ohh ihe i ays ~\tile work We have too recently and that acts of sabotage! sees arrests of workers in New York for holding street meet- |'Textile Workers Union, in their | tional Seamen's Club, 28 South St. |W, Saylor and Dewey Martin lett "= N0' 0°10 ° aaa have been frequent on the line. — | ings. In California many workers are charged with criminal ‘tussle against the attempt to elec- | New York. jhere this morning for Raleigh, N.|Many martyrs already! We It is pointed out, however, that syndicalism and face long prison sentences because they or- trocute 13 of our members who, de~| Elect for Cleveland. to attend the convention of the need mass demonstrations and the derailment is the result of the ; : : fended themselves from the bosses’ | Ini eden f ‘Lat They support now that will bring general disorganization of the rail- ganized revolutionary demonstrations. Every day workers ! armed attack and who are fighting| Delegates to the Trade Union | State Federation of Labor hey Suppo ow that will e road which followed its taking over Bt: | are shot by police, murderously assaulted by thugs of the | to better their conditions, send tee ee ee ae be sissies at | will demand support for the 23 Gas- our fellow-workers out of jai by the Chinese authorities. Labor Gov’t Alarmed bosses and the right wing. ings to the rank and file textile |‘"® Sew ‘ork covference. Seamen |tonia defendants and contrast the and back into the struggle! We | workers who have voted down the |Will thus take an active part in the| | o+am of the National Textile have no need for splendid aa eok ae At Mass Unrest These desperate attacks are made because the employers | jeaders attempt ¢ eae formation of the new miitant trade | PF : : SS ag 3 ‘, : aa : eaders \Svtempt tO put over a wage | ini bere whic will Workers’ Union with that of the corpses! Report Chinese Attack. | A6ow 5 eral fear the growing militancy of the working class. They fear reduction and defeat the strike. \ edt Clay 1 Sy ae iGene ol eeaeaorar Tuited Textile Workers | Thin ia the idesdave Adie Sar | ay £5 “ § i x y i . B15 a ry e extile rkers is is the message Amy Sc - WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. Aa ec ateste ee em.| the rising prestige of the Communist Party, they fear the | ‘The textile wérkers,” the wire |'7°4 ™ ne eS ne aot: Bee ic tee and ‘VEG Bush two oe Theta it i i. A % “ + pa Pee ts | * rship. a 2 i: the | |) Unconfirmed reports from a Japa- powering the police to deport all) convening of the Trade Union Unity conference at Cleveland continues, “must intensify their fight ne | ; ; ‘epresenting Women still indicted for fir : pene Jaye mebiioya (quay..atate Coat A ders and militant workers) on the 31st of this month, because they know there will be | *£#inst the combined forces of the| CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 12—Dele-| The delegation, —_ representing gree murder, brought from th si two Chinese soldiers have been| Strike leaders and militant workers! ‘ : x ’ oS eee . textile bosses, their MacDonald Goy-| gates to the Atlantic Coast Con-|the International Labor _De- CON COUALY. TAU Rphiexe 16 Wee killed and many wounded and se-| Without form of tee was passed/ created a coordinating center for the new militant unions, the |ernment, and the reformist leader-|ference to be held at the Interna-|fense and the National Textile Work- till hed ee = awaiinee cretly conveyed to hospitals follow-| Yesterday Le ste ae re assem-/ factory committees and the left elements in the old unions. | ship who betrayed the workers in the | tional Seamen’s Club, 28 South St.,|ers Union, will tell the convention eights piesa prieoalan ing a border clash between Chinese 7 re aan ee easly calhd the, At sucha time of sharpening class struggle it is essential that general strike.” |New York, next Saturday and Sun-|that the fundamental issues in-| Wel tue blostrution deny and Red Army patrols. The en-| eee pcereeee cone, Soe . 4 ee * 8 8 day will be selected by the Chester | volved are the right of workers to] " : Be Ti Bill, indicat: the Daily Worker continue to exist in order that workers may : ‘ | 8 from the Southern text agement is said to have taken place| Times of Emergency Bill, indicating y ‘ , MANCHES' ingle |branch of the Marine Workers |organize, strike and defend them- secu : gag D hapa e ea 7 hs Aaah ‘ MANCHESTER, England, Aug. soharauhinaiede (Gk thoaa in the neighboghood of Manchuli, |that its framers aimed it at the/ Know what is happening in the United States and the world 1) “the labor party “government| League at a meeting tomorrow selves against attacks. ‘The ples aS ee we tecs cea ae It is believed that if the report| e@ders of Hslxpvalanonaty masses. over and in order that they may be able to benefit from the neared its object of smashing the|night at the Progressive Workers tion representing the left wing) ))° “Voth out, lone hour is correct the engagement resem-Mor°0ve?? 3: Menteath, home mem-| guidance of such a revolutionary publication. walkout of 500,000 textile workers | enter, 120 West Third St. junion will challenge the leadership Te » long i u i . . ns z hebis . of the U. T. W., comparing their *“ : bled the recent attack by white| tated that its purpose was to drive | But at this time, when the Daily is needed more than | “He? after a secret conference be-| Organization Needed. ‘ ery eos Thousands of New York City guardists on a Red Army. detach. | tween Premier Ramsay MacDonald, |program of class collaboration and ; y “out of the Presidency armed workers | truthfully state that we di t know f day 4 # : ’|. “Today the mass of the seamen | jetray; i e ili class; Workers, who jammed _ tk ment near Tcherniaysk, where two : | ever, we can truthfully state that we do not know from day sir Horace Wilson, permanent sec- ; [betzayal- with the amulitant., class 2 Red soldiers were killed. Whose attacks upon strike breakers) 49 day whether we will be able to avoid suspension. This retary to the ministry of labor, and|%%°, U"@anized,” the call for the /struggle program of the N. T. W. U, auditorium and baleony o |and government spies and. police | |have recently alarmed the authori-| ties. " Chester conference says, “and as a| 3 i J} result c-nditions are becoming more} The convention was characterized miserable every day. The Interna. |at the N. T. W. U. headquarters as tional Seamen's Union, with its ob-|@ Tallying center in the ranks of (Continued on Page Two) | the working class for the agents of | ee ee |the mill owners, to initiate a drive SECOND T.ULEL tral Opera Hous would strain their e mass protests and the defense of the (Continued on Page Five) ae a TOKIO, Japan, Aug. 12.—For- eign Minister Kijuro Shidehara is| The workers are reported to at-| today reported to be offering to/tack in small bands from cover, scat- | “mediate” the Japanese seizure of tering as soon as they have accom-| the Chinese Eastern Railroad. The| plished their object. This method | a a number of leading mill owners at Edinburgh, it was made known that an endeavor would be made to open the mills “pending arbitration.” | Meanwhile a private understanding (Continued on Page Five) Serious situation is not only a great danger to the whole work- ing class but it makes it doubly difficult to raise the standard of the Daily so that it can actually reflect and furnish a lead in the struggles of the workers. Every revolutionary worker, every reader of our paper, jagainst the left wing unions and hee aoe ae derene pave ast ease mil hay proved highly effective as guer-- every sympathiser should rush funds at once to the Daily sue aka ha ae cane ml anchuria, notably the Manchurian jjla warfare aganist the authorities | i i it i ‘1 ff movement of revolt among the Southern Railroad, and the move is|and thein apa, | Worker, 26 Union Square, to aid us in this trying period. AES tegdle waklers. eahe-dcle regarded as another phase of the im-| perialist attempt to take over the Chinese Eastern under the guise of “mediation.” PARIS WORKERS | The working class sections of | |Bombay and Poona are seething| with unrest which takes form in{ the covert attacks described. It is understood that the leaders of the Labor Party are thoroughly | in accord with the new extraordi- nary measure. * gation will expose the Muste Group, | represented by Hoffman, as working |in co-operation with the reactionary bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. SAXON WORKERS | Reveal I. L.G.W. Made Secret WAIL easTonia MEE AUGUST 20 Agreement on Minimun Scale |Many Delegates to Big ‘Send Protest to U. S.| Conference Shop Chairmen Meet Tomorrow; Jail 8 Boston. Embassy MORGAN ORDERS GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 12.—An-|J. P. Directs Fight on |nouncement that Sophie Melvin, one | Britain at Hague of the three women recently released Thousands of organized and un-|on bail and charged with second de- * * CALCUTTA, Aug. 12, — Rama- THE HAGUE, | js mn i : Go i ; organized workers in New York,|gree murder and Juliet Stuart!) ca hore FIGHT FASCISTS nada Chatterjee and Sajin Kantak, Pickets: vernor Names Strikebreakers A message of class solidarity for| New Jersey and vicinity will be rep. |Poyntz, will speak in the new union | cated brant editor and printer of the book, “In- A ‘ ; ‘ the brave textile strikers of Gastonia resented, at the Second Metropolitan |lot in Kings Mountain, next Satur- ey vee nen — dia in Bondage,” by the American,| A “supplementary agreement” by; to the Schlesinger “union” with the and a copy of a resolution protesting | Ayea Conference to be held next |day evening, was received with stirr- nont, Morgan p: Police Withhold All Details of Battle PARIS, Aug. 12.—Following three struggles between armed workers and Communists against men who are described as government-hired fascists or “greens,” heavy detach- ments of police were standing guard over the Paris catacombs today. Details of the fighting, which took place in the pitch darkness of the catacombs at the point where subway construction is going on, are not yet available and the authorities refuse all information. There is an unconfirmed report, however, that the struggle began between Com- munist workers and fascists whom the government attempted to put on the job, Three fierce clashes, in which re- volvers, picks and shovels served as weapons, took place during the day. "Many of the workers and their . opponents are reported to have been wounded and the police are holding an unknown number for the out- break. No official information is being given out. The first outbreak occurred on the construction job and continued until the police attack drove the workers along the catacombs. A half hour later a second dis- turbance broke out and the police, who were now stationed in the vicin- ity in large numbers, poured into the subway excavation and spread « through the catacombs shooting and beating the Communist workers. The third attack was begun by » a fascist, who fired point blank with his revolver at 3 worker who was _ creeping through thé catacomb, ap- ' parently to escape. » | Again the police attacked and made many arrests, . MOTORCYCLIST KILLED _ SOUTH AMBOY, N. J., Aug. 12, .—Howard Krause, 22,.of Brooklyn, was thrown 100 feet to his death » today when his motorcycle skidded / + as he crossed the viaduct over the “Pennsylvania trac’: near A D. J. T. Sutherland, have been sen- |tenced to three months in jail or a | which cloak bosses can Hgulexly,) | pay workers far below the scale, complaint that wages below the minimum scale are paid in a certain the murder frame-up in Gastonia has been received from the East fine of 1,000 rupees for publishing | and made by the Schlesinger gang | shop, this complaint {is first re- Saxon, Germany, Anti-War Com- the book. Chatterjee “Modern Review.” PUSH COMMUNIST Launch Plans campaign will be discussed by the New York District of the Commu- nist Party at unit meetings this week, when steps will be taken to carry the Communist message to workers in the factories and ma- rine transport and traction indus- tries. Meanwhile, while Party members are occupied with the task of ap- plying correct Communist strategy in the work of spreading the Par- ty’s election program to workers in strategic industries, a hotly-con- tested race is being fought by Sec- tion One and the Harlem Section (Continued on Page Five) PROGRAM IN SHOP Party Units Meet to| Political issues of the election| N. C. Federation of Labor at | Workers Union, has just been dis- | covered, edits the | in the International Ladies Garment | layed to the office of the associa- | mittees Conference, which was tion. Here the records are exam- ined: if it is found that the boss held | recently in Dresden, by the National | Office of the International Labor From authoritative sources it is | of the shop complained of reported | Defense. learned that by the simple device of | informing the bosses’ association, | time it was made, then, according! an employer can make an arrange- | ment with a worker by which the so-called scale is given the air. Further Exposes Fakers. | Concretely, when a worker comes the “special arrangement” at the to the supplementary agreement, nothing further is done. The revelation of the “supple- mentary agreement” has tended to (Continued on Page Five) |4 Are Killed, 4 Hurt! In Train-Auto Crash} FRANKFORT, Ind., Aug. 12. — Four persons were killed and four others injured, perhaps fatally, when a Nickel Plate passenger train struck a touring car at a crossing near here today. The victims were said to have been members of the same family. View of the tracks | where the accident occurred is ob- | scured by a house alongside of the tracks. | COMPROMISE LATHERS STRIKE. PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— Four hundred union lathers struck here for an increase in wages, but officials compromised the strike. Raleigh “Shotgun Wedding” Muste Group, A. F. of L., Politicians Join in “Industrialization” Convention, Fight NTWU | Soviet Vessel Goes to Rescue Stranded Men SEATTLE, Wash. Aug. 12— Wrecked on a bleak Siberian shore, 20 men of the crew of the fur trad- ing schooner “Elisif” today awaited rescue by the Soviet steamer “Sta- vatoll,” reported en route to the scene. The “Elisif” had just escaped from ice floes which had held her locked for a year in the Bering Sea when she went aground near Cape Bull- ings, Charles Hurtley, Seattle radio op- erator, sent word of the plight of himself and his mates and reassur- ances to his home. The “Elisif” sailed out of Elliott Bay, Seattle, July 10, 1928. A few jweeks later she was locked in the ice, where she was held until July 31, 1929. During the year the crew received food from land by airplanes flying from Alaska. The planes car- The Conference, which had for its | chief purpose the preparation for | International Red Day on August 1, was attended by 125 delegates from large factories and mass organiza- tions in East Saxony. The letter, forwarded thru the German Rote | Hilfe (1.L.D.) and which accom- | panied the greetings and a copy of (Continued on Page Two) LATHER SLUGGED IN JOB STAMPEDE iSeabs Hired by Union Chief for Cash One worker was slugged when po- lice were called out to disperse a crowd of 200 lathers who yesterday morning answered a call for a job at the contracting firm of Kaufman and Levine, 68th St. and 19th Ave., Brooklyn. The worker, Meyer Ba- gelman, was taken home after he was treated by a doctor. Only 10 men were actually re- quired on the job, but so great is the unemployment among the lath- ers that they flocked to the place in answer to the request for workers. This event comes on the heels of the revelations made at the last meeting of the lathers that one of | Tuesday, Aug. 20, at Irving Plaza | Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. | Delegates at the conference, which | will, in turn, choose representati to the Cleveland convention, wv jinclude food, building trades, nee- |dle trades, printing, metal and other workers, Workers frem basic indus- | tries in New Jersey will be repre sented and take part in the pro gram of the conference, The conference will discus the} latest. development in the labor movement in New York, New Jer- sey and throughout the country. It will ‘be its task to mobilize broad masses for the struggle against im-| perialist war preparations, in de- fense of the Soviet Union, to de- fend the Gastonia frame-up victims, to orgsnize the unorganized, to fight against the A. F. of L. bureau- | cracy and the Muste group of mis- | leaders. Workers are urged to organize shop committees and elect delegates to the conference, The basis of rep- | resentation is as follows: From local ones — one delegate and one addi- tional delegate for every 100 mem- bers; from local groups of T. U. E. L. — one delegate for each 25 members; from shop committees in organized and unorganized shops— one delegate each; from Joint Boards—four delegates. ing applause, Over 300 workers attended first meeting on the lot and heard Ben Wells tell of the organization drive in the textile centers through- out five states, preparing for the Charlotte Conference, October (Continued on Page Five) To Show Up Plans For Anti-Union Drive at Building Meet Friday The sly, anti-labor maneuvers of | the Building Trades bosses, working the |in close collaboration with the cor- rupt officialdom of the Building Trades Council, will be exposed at |a mass meeting of building trades | workers to be held this Friday eve- ning at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. Evidence showing that with the, waning of building activity the boss- | es now plan a vigorous offensive against union standards will be given by speakers at the meeting. Hundreds of carpenters, bricklay- ers, electricians, plumbers, painters and other building trades workers | are expected at the meeting, which | is being called by the Building! Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League. 12 0 Terror in “I Saw It Myself” Daily Worker to Begin Publishing Remarkable | ican delega Conferenc tion of in Engl 1 tion at the en MacDonald conferred w nd the governor of t nd, Montague Norm y and gave as the subject of their conference the technical as- pects of establishing the interna- tional reparations bank of the Young Plan. It is obv: however, that their conference covered a much wider field. Meanwhile persistent rumors that J. P. Morgan had arrived here sec- retly and dined last night with the British treas' expert at the In- ternational Conference here, F. W. Leith Rose, continued to be em- phatically denied. Neverthe! it is certain that Morgan, who has un- til recently been shooting grouse in Scotland, has communicated private- 2 to 1 upon t an when t thi nd discus: nd of last v n, last now ly to the Hague that it is his de- sire that two sub-committees be es- tablished to study separately delivs (Continuea on Page Five) 3COMMUNISTS ON TRIAL AUGUST 19 ee | maith Barbusse Tells of War, White “Arrest Shows Growth of Party in Harlem” Trial of Harold Williams, Negro Director of the New York District of the Communist Party; Albert Weisbord and Albert Glosford was By BILL DUNNE. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 12.— The three-day convention of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor opened in Raleigh today. The struggle of the workers in the tex- tile industry against the stretchout —the Southern equivalent of the speed-up—will turn this hitherto peacefui gathering, whose principal ried valuable cargoes of furs back Class War Document Soon | yesterday postponed till next Mon- function has been to endorse the democratic party candidates cf the bosses into a battleground of class forces. The State of North Carolina fs dominated by the Southern Power Company—the Duke electric light and power interests and its subsid- iaries—which in turn dominates the textile industry. Andrew Mellon, (Continued on Page Two) to the shore. TRAIN SNOWBOUND. SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 12.—A trans-Andean passenger train which had been snowbound in the moun- tains near Los Andes for three days was released today, a message from Los Andes said and was expected to arrive at Santiago tonight, 1 he alll a, hl neon the high officials of the union, Wil- lie Cohen, had received checks amounting to thousands from mem- bers’ bosses—members of the bosses’ association. Several of these checks, made out by Holzman, Schwartz and other bosses, and bearing the en- dorsement of Cohen, were put in evidence at the meeting. Thes two events have completely aroused the membership and have put the men in a fighting mood, al AabatineN stl F" these graphic sketches of war andj _ (Continued “I Saw It Myself.” | white terror which will soon begin Such is the laconic title given by) their exclusive serial publication in Henri Barbusse, world-famous|the “Daily.”: These tales have on French Communist writer, to the re-/them the flesh of reality. Once markable new book of class-war/read, they can never be forgotten. sketches based on his personal ex-| “I Saw It Myself” is divided into periences and.investigations. jthree parts: “The War,” “The White | And “I saw it myself” will be the Terror” and “The Rest.” These) feeling of the readers of the Daily | sketches are fact, not fiction. All) Worker when they finish reading are based either on the authors own’ Paoe Five) gy’ day by Magistrate Flood, who heard charges of “blocking traffic” in con- nection with the arrest of the three at an election rally of the Party at 138th St. and Seventh Ave. Satur- day night. They were held until Sunday mid-day before the New York District of the International Labor Defense was able to arrange bail at $100 each. D. Lawyer Jacques Buitenkant will defend at , (Continued on Page Fi 4