The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1929, Page 2

meyer es DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TU MEET OPENS IN RALEIGH TO-DAY “Shotgun Wedding” of Labor’s Eenemies (Continued from Page One) tates tr minum trust is in North Car- f the water h has just an- ry clinching its control le power sites, an ad- ,000,000 development that will turn s of square miles of eoltitryside into an island sea and néeessitate the destruction of a half- dozen towns. Boosts UTW The Raleigh convention will be an industrialization convention in every sense of the word. Yester Raleigh News and Ob- secretary of the Un ury, head of whose) argest p powe noun of all a ditional $1 ssion expected to be the move of the United Textile Workers ted with the Amer- iean Federation of Labor and op- posed to the Communistic National Textile Workers, to organize the textile workers of the South. Al- fred Hoffman, organizer for the United, whe is in charge of the strike in Marion, will be present, bringing with him a delegation of the striking unit there.” “At a recent meeting of the Piedmont Organizing Council, held in Raleigh, labor leaders from all over the State expressed the be- lief that the federation convention would be one of the most import- ant held in years. They based their belief on the ground that the South now stands at the beginning of an unprecedented campaign to- ward organization.” Conceal Real Issues The Southern journalists, as the above quotation shows, are rapidly developing the faculty of concealing zeal issues by the use of the formal factual method further proof that the Raleigh convention is an industrialization convention and that, in spite of the pride of craftmanship still noticeable in many Southern journalists, they are now part of the propaganda machinery of the new Southern capitalist class. Nothing could be more false than the statement in the above extract which says that “the major topic of GiseusSfon at the convention is ex- peeted, fo be the move of the United Textile Workers, affiliated to the American Federation of Labor . . to organize the textile workers of the South.” This statement is cal- culated to fool further the rank and file delegates who believe this to be,the purpose of the convention, and. to fool the masses of unorgan- ized.workers in the textile and other industries. Caucus With Authorities The main topic of discussion in the corridors and lobby rooms of the Hall of the House of Representatives —where the convention is meeting— and where McGrady, “the trusted personal representative” of Presi- dent Green of the A. F. of L., will caucus with the state government cfficials and state federation leaders over bottles of “cohn lickah,” will be héW’to prevent the organization of the workers and how best to util- ize Hoffman of the Muste group and the UTW for this purpose. Mellon’s Blessing The-Raleigh convention is in the nature of a wedding—a marital un- iort between the bureaucrats of the North and South. This union will have the’ blessing of Andrew Mellon and his class brothers—the capi- talists of both North and South. It is, to carry the metaphor a little farther, in the nature of a “shotgun wedding”—a well known Southern institution. The bride, in this case N. C. FEDERATION “Offici verdict. South, the militancy tion with which the } tinued and exten¢ j campaign, the repres¢ a wo! sponse to conference sweeping r ization and struggle for the day, against the stretch-out organization er ¢ ers ¢ hour throughout the South—all these de- | velopments, occuring in short space of six months, jhave convinced the capit t class of the South that just as it learned about industrializa- tion rthern kinsmen, so } must learn to use against the Southern proletariat industrializa- tion brought into being, the| same weapons used by its class | brothers-in-arms. The use of traitors in the ranks recognized mili In all no where more than in the class struggle, The class struggle has { bur: pon the new ruling class of the uth suddenly and found it unprepared, with a speed intended to make up for its past careless- ness, Southern capitalism, repre- sented by the Southern trade union bureaucracy, has prepared in Ral- eigh a rousing welcome for the trusted traitors in the ranks of the American workers, traitors whose qualifications for the role they play |have been vouched for by discrimi- nating patrons — Andrew Mellon, for instance. All Set. The wedding will take place. For- {mally it has already taken place. jIt neds only to be consummated. |The feeble bride must be strength- |ened for the ordeal. Her spirits |must be raised and her anemic form !made beautiful for the bridegroom. So there will be wine, and trump-| eters,,and flowers at the wedding feast, and gay garments aplenty. There will also be rewards for \the lessed servitors and promises of still greater rewards for those }who will wear proudly the shame- ful livery of the new capitalism’s |lackeys. | The marriage covenant? | It reads as follows: | 1. The convention is to be the rallying center for the mobilization jof all agents of the te: owners — and their allies — in| the ranks of the Southern working \class. It is to initiate a movement, 'not for the organization of the tex- tile workers but against their or- ganization. The convention is to |lay the basis for an intensive drive jagainst the N. T. W. U. and the Communists which is to be the first |step in a campaign designed to |throttle the whole movement of the | working class revolt in the South. | Try Strengthen U. T. W. | 2. The convention, in connection | with struggles | tors appear and are used — and | Where Oil Barge Blast Killed Six Workers ly loaded oil barge which exploded in the Ohio River near Kosmodale, Ky. ” will clear the barge jal investigators owners with a “cause unknown” Manville-Jenckes at Pawtucket, R. . I. to Hear Bush and Schechter. | Workers at Manville-Jenckes, of Pawtucket, R. I, the parent plant lof the Loray mill in Gastonia, will |tonia terror against their fellows. | tional Labor Defense, the Workers I Textile Workers’ Union. The defendants, Amy Schechter hear tonight the &tory of the Gas- The meeting will be held in Pulaski Hall, at 218 Mill St., at 8 o’clock. It is arranged jointly by the Interna- | nternational Relief and the National and Vera Bush, spoke last night in Washington, where they were cheered to the skies by the masses of workers that attended. SDAY, AUGUST 1 1929 FOR CONFERENCE HERE AUG: 17-1 Miners Preparing for Cleveland Meet (Continued from Page One) | | | | of solete form t organi! Jand its treacherous leadership |(which openly connives with the ship owners), has lost the confi- dence of the sexmen, The I. L. A. jis much the same, and with its ir |tiation fee of $55 has only a section lof the 'ongshoremen under its con- trol. Its jcorrupt as the I. S. U. clique.” | With a severe winter of industrial depression, unemployment and wage reductions ahead, the call concludes, jthe only way in which the marine workers can better their conditions is to back the new, militant indus- trial union the basis for which will |be laid «+ t'2 East C--:t Confer- ence. Build ~" ** The ser.icn are urged to choose delegates from all shin do! and from all harbor jobs. They are urged to call their fellow workers t\g-'*er and discuss their |mutual problems, draw up yesolu- tions, elect delegates, and come to the conference and see that their opinions are recorded. cre -~ Union. jin the marine industry,” the call | concludes. ae * JESSUP, Pa., Aug. 12.—Despite the threats of police and henchmen |of the Lewis machine, plans are | proceeding for a meeting to be held here tomorrow night (Tuesday) at Church St, and Giobetti corner, | with Anthony Minerich, of the Na- tional Miners Union as one of the speakers. This, as well as the meet- ing which was broken up in Ashley on Sunday, is one of a large number being held in the anthracite region in preparation for the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention. | Cleveland is of tremendous impor- |tance to the coal miners of the an- | thracite district,” a call recently is- sued by the Miners’ Section of the Trade Union Educational League says. Many Meetings. | Besides the meeting, in Jessup, other meetings are being arranged in the following places: Simpson, Aug. 14; Old Forge, Aug. 17; Pitts- jton, Aug. 18; Lattimer, Aug. 19; Other meetings, with Schechter, Bush and Melvin speaking, will be: McAdoo, Aug. 20; Scranton, Aug. Sunday, Aug. 11, in the National Textile Workers’ Union Hall in New |21; Tamacqua, Aug. 22; Minersville, | Bedford, and on “Liberty Lot,” Fall Central Opera House; Tuesday, Russian Literary Hall, 287 Erving Ave.,| or River; Monday night, New York, at Lawrence, Mass., with Fred Beal’s father also as a speaker; Wednesday, Aug. 14, there will be a meeting at A. C. A. Hall, 1755 Westminster St.,|fense to be he'd in Inkerman on 2 5. Providence, R. I, and at the Union Hall, 205 Paterson St., Paterson, N. J.) Phursde~, Aug. 15. Thursday, Aug. 15, they will speak Passaic, N. J., and at Allentown, Pa. at Workers’ Home, 25 Dayton Ave., Wilkes-Barre Workers to Hold Gastonia Picnic Aug. 15. The miners and other workers of Wilkes-Barre, that reactionary city | in the heart of the anthracite region, will hold a festival Aug. 15, when the mines will be idle. Karl Reeve, ed: itor of Labor Defender, and one of the Gastonia defendants will be the speakers. * * * Workers Defy Socialist Ban in Reading. ile mill | ternational Labor Defense and the peal to the masses. Despite the poli are aiding the bosses railroad 13 me: The ban of the socialist mayor of Reading, Pa., will not halt the In- Workers International Relief’s ap- ice ban there, in which the socialists mbers of the National Textile Work- ers Union to the chair, a series of open-air meetings have been arranged by Lee Meldon, of the Philadelphia House to house collections will be today. * * section of the I. L. D. and W. I. R. held and 10,000 leaflets distributed Philadelphia Completes Arrangement for Mass Meeting. Vera Bush and Amy Schechter will be greeted by thousands of Phila- the above main line, is making | 4¢!phia workers at the Broad St. station, Aug. 16 at 7 p. m. and will be the rather feeble Southern trade un- every effort to strengthen the U.| escorted to the Labor Institute at 810 Locust St. The Sacco-Vanzetti ion bureaucracy, is facing a situa- tion which is a scandal in the best bureaucratic circles. The working elass which is supposed to shield from seduction and whose political purity it is supposed to guard, has left the old homestead under circum- stances which wring tears mingled sorrow and wrath from the eyes of its self appointed guardians. Industrialization — that handsome | try, in connection with the coming | young enemy of the conservatism among workers—has been meeting the labor movement at the mill gates ~~and in the homes of the workers. The Southern working class is preg- nant with thé urge for militant struggle against the very class it has been taveht by the bureaucrats to revere as its benefactor—the cap- italists, those holy givers of jobs whose preachers said that untiring industvy—represented by the eleven and twelve hour day—and meekness, represented by the uncomplaining acceptance of an average wage of $12 per week—entitled workers man- ifest—those cardinal virtues dinned into the ears of the toilers in a capitalist society, to the blessed privilege of roaming beyond the stars, wrapped in eternal bliss, con- tented and carefree—after they are dead. Bosses Use AFL The strike struggle in Gaston county, led by the National Textile Workers Union, in the very heart of jcotton spinning industry of the ith, the battle at the NTWU head- ers on the night of June 7 the organizers and members defended themselves against a mur- derous attack by the mercenaries of @ mill owners, the attempt to real- 28 members and organizers of TWU to the electric chair, the “Support given these workers heir fellow workers of the entire jblow of | |T. W. in North Carolina, and con- sequently throughout the South, so that it can become a more effec- tive weapon in the hands of the mill owners. 8, The convention will attempt to jorganize an immediate offensive leader of the struggle in the strong- hold of the cotton spinning indus- |and organizers of the N. T. W. U., jand in connection with the mass convention of textile workers from jall over the South which is to }meet October 12-13, | 4, The convention is to endorse the closer working of the state fed- jeration officials with the executive council of the A. F. of L. and to agree that the state federation will | hereafter follow closely the program jand ins‘ructions of this agency of | Wall Street in the labor movement. | Muste Satelite. | 5. The Muste group — His Mellon | Majesty Green’s loyal opposition — represented in the convention by |Hoffman, is to refrain from open | criticism of the “apathy” of the A. |F. of L. leadership and to endorse |t he “management-cooperation” speed up system, denounce the Com- |munists and the N. T. W. U. and |thereby cleanse itself of any li |gering suspicion that it has any hes- itation about taking up an openly strike breaking role. (Capitalists ;are cautious folk, Why they should have any doubts about the trust- worthiness of these most valuable recruits is hard to understand after \the betrayals in Elizabethton and |Ware Shoals. Perhaps they are suspicious, not of intentions, but of ability.) | But the trumpeters will have to steutorian blasts. Perhaps, memorial meeting on behalf of the Gastonia defendants will be held in| front of the City Hall, Aug. 22. I. L. D. Branches Growing in Far West, Mother Bloor Writes. | “At Bismarck, I stirred up the against the N, T. W. U., as the} road town, I gave out many copies of the Labor | tising the meeting to which a good number came,” writes Mother Bloor | from Montana. “The Defender is the best ally I have,” she states. “Send |trial for the murder of 13 members | ® bundle to Butte, General Delivery, as well as to Seattle. ports that many new young workers cymbals will be needed to reinforce hall, there is gathered an army of mill workers whose growls and jeers, in ‘@ rumbling undertone, will reach the ears of the nervous bride. Demand Militant Union. These workers-have not read the full text of the wedding covenant but they have more than a suspicion |that someone is trying to sell them |into worse slavery than is their lot today. They will not allow ‘themselves to be betrayed again as the U. T. W. leaders betrayed them in 1920-21, These workers demand a union con- trolled by workers, a union that will fight, that knows how to fight and that has proved itself in bitter struggle. In Gaston county jail are 13 work- ers, organizers and members of the National Textile Workers Union, | who are the living symbols of the demands of the textile workers and the kind of struggle needed to win them, Fred Beal, Russell Knight, Clar- ence Miller, Louis McLaughlin and their nine fellow fighters will not them, for outside of the wedding | whole town, ahd at Mandau, a rail- Defender there, adver- If possible I | shall go to see the Centralia boys while near them at Spokane.” She re- | are responding to her call. EE |be at the Raleigh convention, But a delegation which speaks for them, for their union, for the strug- gle which they lead and will lead again, which speaks for the textile textile barons, will interrupt the wedding feast. Dewey Martin, C. W. Saylor and Sophie Melvin will tell the dele- gates to the convention of the strug- gle in Gaston county and ask them to endorse a united front movement of all textile workers, regardless of union affiliation, for the 8-hour day, the abolition of the stretchout and textile industry in a militant indus- trial union, Against the “industrial peace” policy — the peace of death for unionism — of the bureaucrats of the A, F. of L. and their still more dangerous allies of the Muste group, against “peace” at the ex- jense of the textile workers, the N. T. W. U. delegation will draw the bright sword of the class struggle. will be confronted by fightérs of the class they betray, It will be an industrialization con- vention in every sense of the word. the 100 per cent organization of the | Traitors to their class in Raleigh | Aug. 23; Port Carbon, Aug. 24. Speakers from the National Min- s Union will also address the pic- |nic at the International Labor De- | | } BASEBALL GAME BETWEEN PARTY AND LEAGUE — SOCCER, Ete. Etc. Let’s Go tion leaders are equally as| from all | “The T. U. E, L. convention in’ Daily SE AMEN ELECTED: : Morgan to Decide Reparation bork J. P. Morgan in Europe to per- sonally supervise the “settlement” of the reparations question to see that the house of Morgan gets its spoils. Morgan is shown above, at right, in England. SAXON WORKERS ‘HAIL, GASTONIA Send Protest to U. S. Embassy | (Continued from Page One) the resolution sent to the United States general embassy in Berlin, states that the greetings were unan- | imously and enthusiastically decided upon at the conference. The I.L.D. “Help build a new fighting union | has transferred the greetings to the | |Nationat Textile Workers Union. | The greetings state: Pledge Support “The Conference of the Anti-War Committces of East Saxony, meet- jing July 28 at Dresden, expresses its heartiest sympathy for the strik- ing textile workers of Gastonia who are engaged in a bitter struggle with | the officials of Manville-Jenckes. everything in its power to mobilize the working class of East Saxony and prevent a new legal murder of |the jailed textile workers of Gas- tonia. “Long live the struggle of the striking textile workers of Gastonia! “Long live the International Soli- darity of the working classes!” Sent to Consulate | was sent by the conference to the American embassy in Berlin: “The Conference of the Anti-War Committees of East Saxony, meeting in Dresden on July 28, protests sharply against the legal plot against the 16 textile strikes of Gas- tonia, who are falsely charged with murder. “The police attacked the workers’ colony in Gastonia, during which the chief of police was killed. In spite of the fact that there was no evi- | dence to be found against the textile ‘workers, who have been engaged in “The Conference promises to do} The following protest resolution | \a long struggle, 16 strikers were ar- | rested and were subjected to fearful jtorture in prison, Tear-gas bombs | were thrown into the cells in order to subdue the prisoners! “The officials of Manville-Jenckes want to break the textile strike with the help of their willing class-judge. “Sixteen innocent workers are to be tried for murder so that the profits of the textile barons shall | not be reduced. Another legal mur- |der such as the Sacco-Vanzetti case, must be prevented. “This Conference protests against {the plans of the American bourg- | eoisie to deliver these 16 workers to | the electric chair. We demand of |the American government and Gas- | tonia officials that the inhuman tor- |ture be immediately stopped and |that the workers be released.” lSwiss Atlantic Flyers, Lost 4 Days Turn Up in Portugal LISBON, Aug. 12.—The three |Swiss airmen who started from | Paris on Thursday on the first part jof their attempted trans-Atlantic flight to the United States. Arrived at the Alverga Airport, 16 miles north of here, early today. \they left Paris and-had been sought | jin France, Spain and Portugal. For/ ® while it was fearzd they had been | lost in the Pyrenees Moutains. | The pilot, Kaeser, said he and his} |two companions. would remain here |for several days to tune up their |plane for the flight across the At-| lantic. METAL WORKERS GAIN. VANCOUVER, B. C. (By Mail) — A wage increase of 50 cents a day | was won by the sheet metal workers | here, who are union men. WANT UNION WAGE. CALIFORNIA, Pa. (By Mail).— Building workers here are on strike for union wages and conditions. Everybody is going to the PRESS Gold, FROM NOON TILL DAWN Entertainment — Sports Dancing—Refreshments Admission 35c only ! We'll All B PITTSBURGH To HEAR GASTONIA “GLASS. VICTEMS | ‘Bush, Schechter There August 17 a |workers of Pittsburgh will’ voice le protest against the frame-up of the 28 textile strikers and their leaders of Gastonia in a protest | meeting to be held Saturday, Aug. 17th, 7:00 P. M. at the Labor Ly- ceum, 35 Miller Street. | Vera Bush, one of the women charged with murder, when a group jot bosses agents attacked the work- , ers tent colony on June 7th will be the main speaker at the meeting. |She has just been released on $5000 ~ bail till August 26th, when the trial |will open. She has been a textile junion organizer for many years, having participated actively in the strikes of the textile workers in Passaif and New Bedford, Among the spea’.crs will be Elbert Tetherow, Gastonia striker, Pat | Devine, Pittsburgh organizer for the * |Communist Party, Pat H. Toohey, | Secretary of the National Miners |Union; a Negro speaker and others, {Max Salzman, Pittsburgh District Secretary of the International Labor defense will be chairman of | meeting. All Labor and pathetic organi- |zations are invited t~ send delega- j tions to the meeting, which will be |the largest labor prote-t meeting held in Pittsburgh in recent years. The workers of Pittsburgh will“ add their voices to those of the | workers in other parts of the coun- |try, in saying, “Defend the right of the workers to defend themselves,” “The bosses shall not repeat ‘the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti,” “De- |fend the Gastonia strikers and their leaders,” “Support the struggles of the Southern textile workers.” |meeting is being held under the ause | pices of the International Labor De- The fliers had been missing since |Relief and a committee of labor |fense, the Workers International organizations. Further information about the meeting can be gotten from Max? Salzman at Room 410, 119 Federal St, N. S. Pitts vurgh, Pa, |Several Believed Dead In Texas Train Wreck DALLAS, Texas., Aug. 12.—The first reports of thegwreck of the Texas and Pacific Railroad’s Sun- shine Special, which crashed into a* motor truck at a grade crossing near here tonight, said that part of the train bad been hurled from the tracks and that several persons: had been killed or injured. The Fisrt Election Campaign Rally Will Take Place. Weinstone, Wicks, Engdahl, Olgin, Bidenkapp, Rebecca Grecht, Rose Wortis and Others Will Speak. | | PLEASANT BAY PARK | workers in the very fortress of the | unday, Aug. 18 177th subway station direct to the park Fifth Avenue Buses will take you from e There! the. The*