The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1929, Page 2

Page Two POLICE TERROR AGAINST CHIGAGO WORKERS MEETS Sacco Meeting Is Planned CHICAGO, Au with the Gastonia atio beld in Grant Park on June 15 and the smashing up the August Anti-War Demonstration at Union Park, the police of Chicago have Huge 14.—Beginning demonstration continued their brutal tactics of breaking up meetings of workers and jailing those who _ protest methods of terrorism. Cc ago police department has completely outlawed the distri- bution of any kind of working class workers handbills rature occur daily, L night about a dozen meetings were broker speakers jailed, ment of Chicago was mobilized to terrorize the mass dem ce brutality Ashland orium on August Before any worker could enter the hall, we had to pass through a cor- do of armed police and detectives who searched every individual as he.came up the sta Women’s paeketbooks were ransacked and all such. dangerous weapons as pen- kwives were confiscated. A num- ber of workers were arrested at this méeting. The I. L. D. was on the job and in spite of the police tactics in spiriting workers from one police station:to another, succeeded in re- leasing the workers on bond. There are now eighty-two cases pending inithe Chicago city courts. *%h Bpite of. the police terrorism thousatids of workers filled the Ash- | lahd: “Auditori and militantly m denionstrated their determination to; continue the fight against the bosses anid their government agencies. This défiarice of police attacks and bra- tality extends not only to these eases which exist in Chicago, but is being shown in the attack upon the militant workers in the south who aré’now facing the possibility of the fate of Sacco and Vanzetti. The workers of Chicago are plan- ning a tremendous memorial and demonstration on the anniversary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. On August 22, at the Ukrainian Labor Home, 2457 W. Chicago Ave., @ mass meeting and demonstration | will be held under the ausp\ces of the I. L. D. and W. I. R. for the pur- pose not only of commemorating the death of the martyrs of the working class, Sacco and Vanzetti, but also to mobilize for a wide campaign for the freeing of the Gastonia strikers. This will be the opening gun of a tremendous drive in the Chicago district which it is hoped will stir| up in the middle west a huge wave of support for this defense. 4 Ships Run Aground in Heavy Boston Fog; 250 Children Stranded BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 14—A heavy fog completely paralyzed shipping here yesterday, causing four ships to run aground, including an excursion boat carrying more than 250 children bound for an out- ing. Only one of the stranded ships, the British freighter Far North, had been floated at high tide last night. The excursionists were transferred to other boats and taken back to Boston. The other vessels aground are the fishing smack, Gos- son, and the Elizabeth Nunan, both of Boston, which were headed for port with loads of fish from the Grand Banks when the struck the George's Island sand bar. Defend the Revolutionary Press. me to the Press Carnival. still | D AILY WORKE R, NEW YORK, Hundreds of Thousands of Workers to Hear Bush, Schechter. The complete list of the cities to be visited by Amy Schechter and h follow: at Providence, R. I., tonight (Wednesday) . Hall, ; Allentown, Slovak Hall, 121 North morrow; International Hall, 42 Wenonah St., arday; Cleveland, Monday, the 19th; lay, the 22nd. g cities: Paterson, N. J., Tex- (Wednesday); Passaic, N. J., Workers’ Home, 25 Dayton tomorrow; Philadelphia Labor Institute, 810 Locust St., Friday; Pi rgh, Labor Lyceum, 85 Miller St., Satur- the 17th; Wheeling, W. Va., R k, between 12th and 14th Westminst Boston, N tile Union Detroit, Tuesday, the 20th, and Ash- the 22nd; at Detroit and Chieago jointly. * oii. Boston Prepared to Greet Schechter. The Boston mass meeting for Amy Schechter has been arranged for Friday evening, Aug. 16, at New International Hall, 42 Wenonah St., Roxbury. In spite of the great difficulty to secure halls in Boston, be- cause of the police oppr for Gastonia, the Inter paring the meeting. a tional Labor Defense there has succeeded fn pre- . * * Philadelphia to Hold Joint Gastonia Sacco-Vanzetti Meet. The Philadelphia City Hall, above which stands the statue of William Penn, who tame to that state for “freedom,” will hear the call of the International Labor Defense for the freedom of the Gastonia prisoners, ou the occasion of the second anniversary of the Sacco-Vanzetti execu- tion, Aug. 2: Were pie! Wheeling, W. Va., to Greet Bush Aug. 18. Workers of Wheeling, a city having a militant labor history, will turn out en masse to gree ‘a Bush on Sunday, Aug. 18, at 7 o'clock in Riverside. Park, between 12th and 14th on Water St. * . * Allentown, Pa., Textile Center to Hear Schechter. The Slovak Workers’ Hall, 121 North Third St., will be the scene of | a mass demonstration greeting for Amy Schechter tomorrow at 8 p. m The wi of Gastonia from the lips of one of * the defendants. oe | New Bedford to Hold Defense Outing. | The joint Gastonia Defense and Relief Committee will hold a mass outing next Sunday on behalf of the Gastonia strikers. This will take the place of the outing spoiled by rain last week. eu. * St. Paul to Help Defense. The Gastonia joint Defense and Relief Committee has arranged a mass outing to be held in Como Park on Sunday, Aug. 18, when prom- inent speakers will be present to address the workers on the Gastonia terror. | Wilkes-Barre to Aid Gastonia at Mass Meet. All the miners of this hard coal section will come to the big outdoor | lass meeting tomorrow afternoon to hear one of the defendants in the Gastonia case, J. R. Pittman, a Gastonia striker, and Karl Reeve, of La- bor Unity. * * * Petitions Pour In. The petitions continue to pour in on every mail. Many of the work- ers are giving maximum coontributions rather than the 10-cent sum to cover the printing expenses. * . * | Rochester to Protest Hillman Gangsters, Gastonia. Amy Schechter will speak at the mass protest meeting at Rochester on Saturday, Aug. 17, when the workers of that city will show their soli- | darity with Gastonia and attack the murderous offensive of the Hillman | gangsters who have seriously injured Peter Teem, one of the most mili- tant fighters in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. ie oe | Los Angeles to Hear Bloor on Gastonia-Sacco-Vanzetti. | Mother Bloor, having traveled across country, forming scores of | locals of the International Labor Defense, and having explained the Gas- jtonia case to hundreds of thousands of workers, will be the principal speaker in Music Arts Hall, 233 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Aug. 21, at a combined Sacco-Vanzetti-Gastonia mass meeting, 5 eae Cleveland Arranges for Schechter Address Aug. 19. |__. The Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Committee will hold a Sacco- | Vanzetti-Gastonia mass demonstration in the public square of Cleveland on Aug. 19, when a conference will be held to mobilize the workers of that section. Amy Schechter will speak on that occasion, | . . . Teems Protest Meeting, Sacco-Vanzetti-Gastonia Meet at Rochester. The joint protest meeting against the brutalities that sent Peter Teem to the hospital with a fractured skull, against the Gastonia terror and the Sacco-Vanzetti execution, will be held in Rochester, Aug. 19, in- |stead of Aug. 17, the Gastonia Joint Defense-and Relief Committee an- ‘nounced today. EMERG id EN CY FU N DLindbergh Aids March |Of Yankee Imperialism ] Workingmen’s Ben. & Educa- In the Latin-Americas Cincinnati, Labor Temple, |} on and determination to break up the rallies |‘ ers here have been especially desirous of listening to the story |, PACIFIC SEAME GREET ATLANTIC | | iGreat Activity for | Cleveland Congress | Page One) transpc 1 delegates to the Convention to 1 in Cleveland Aug. 31-Sept convention will estat ha \ilitant trade union center in ted Stat To Meet on West Coast. ine jnew, r the U Commenting on the cable of greet- ings from the Pan Trans- port Workers Cc ence, George Mink secretar the Marine Workers League yesterday an- nounced that preparations are al ady under w or the issuance of an official call for a West Coast co nce. While the date for this conference has not as yet been set it will undoubtedly be held shortly after the Cleveland convention, At the same tim stated that he s alrea 1 word that a substantia’ n of West Coast nd the Cleve- land meet. seamer Shop Gate Meetings. Shop gate meetings are being} |held daily in New : City and jthroughout New Jer: acquainting | the ds of workers with the sec- | Area Trade Union a, Irv- ing Place and 15th St., at 7:30 p.| m.. iT s of workers are at- these rallies at which the a re u rged to elect dele- gates from their shops. | According to a statement issued yesterday by the Executive Council | of the Metropolitan Trade Union Center, many delegates from New Jersey st will be at the renc thousand e call have cor f the \ioees i already been di ed, | Delegates. | Man: hops and New York trade | i also have delegates at 2 conference, the statement con- t . The Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Wor! Union has al- ready elected d ates. Last night's | |meeting of the shop delegates of the Needle Trades Worwers Indus- | trial Union at Iriving Plaza, also took similar action. | | William Z. Foster, national si tary of the Trade Union Edu tional League, will address the con- | ference on the “Tasks Before the New Trade Union Center.” | ae aes Auto Workers Active. DETROIT, Aug. 14.—The ever in- | creasing revolt of the auto workers | against the speed-up, wage cuts! jand against the whole rationaliza- concrete expression when hundreds | of auto workers meet. here on Aug. 24 to lay the basis for a militant, industrial union of auto workers, | The conference, which will elect | delegates to the historic Trade; Union Unity Convention to be held | in Cleveland, is being called by the) Auto Workers Union in cooperation | with the Trade Union Educational | League, and will be held in the Auto| Workers’ hall, 3782 Woodward Ave. | eee * | Miners Hear Minerich. | INKERMAN, Pa., Aug. 14. — An-| |thony Minerich, organizer for the |National Miners Union, will speak on the Trade Union Unity Conven- | tion and urge miners to send a strong delegation from the anthra- cite region at the picnic of the In- ternational Labor Defense to be |held tomorrow (Thursday) at Val- ley View Park, Inkerman, Oher speakers will be J. R. Pitt-| man, one of the Gastonia defend- | jants released and on bail, and Karl |Reeve, managing editor of Labor Unity. A meeting at which the Cleveland convention will be taken up will be held in Exeter on Friday. Other jmeetings at which Minerich will |speak are as follows: Z | Aug, 17, Columbia Hall, Old Forge, Pa.; Aug. 18, Pittston; Aug. MEET HERE SOON : THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1 Tornado in Vermont Causes Big Damage and Injures Many RUTLAND, Vt, Aug. 14—A check-up was in progress today to ascertain whether any loss of life d from a tornado which cut e path between Lake Bomo- n and Middlebury late yesterday, flattening many luildings, uproot- ing threes, destroying crops and en- Jangering a store of boatmen. it ev resul se The storm, one of the w experienced in Central rmont, aged for nearly minutes. Much estock was reported to have per- Vv s men were reported to have been injured when their boat cap- cized. PUSH BETRAYAL OF MILL STRIKE Labor Rulers Arbitration (Continued from Page One) Speed interests on the arbitration hinted that Lord Gordon e of England, P court. Hewart, chi will fill this p MacDo ersations with the emplo: Saturday paved the way for thé successful diplom- acy of Sir Horace Wilson, perma nt secretary of the labor ministr: Today’s employers’ conference is a direct result of Wilson’s successful approach. The conference is e: pected to summon again the reform- ist union ground for the arbitration court which will meet at the Manchester town hall, Guarantees that the court will give its official seal to the wage cut are provided in the appointment of the usual “impartial” chairman. So confident is Wilson that the con- ference will settle the strike to the complete satisfaction of the employ- ers that he plans to sail for Canada Friday to join the labor imperialist J. H. Thomas, who is now in Canada to arrange plans to dump British unemployed on the already glutted Canadian labor market. National Training School for Young Workers in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Aug. 14.—A Na- tional Training School for young workers is to be held this summer. This school will take place in Cleve- land, Ohio, and will commence im- mediately after the "Trade. Union Educational League Convention. The students coming to the Young Work- ers Sehool are to come in time for the Convention, so that they may tion program of the bosses will find |have the benefits c* the congress. {rested workers, | leaders to prepare the| 29 9 ———__————- against in the schools, Negro works KANSAS CITY lRemember This Date! | 27° “nied admittance to m i places. Miserable housing | Aug. 18! tions, oppressive rents are the | POLICE BREAK || Pleasant Bay Park, the place of the Negro mass Police bru- i of the big carnival! | tality as been especially vicious against Negro workers throughout ._| |the city. Such have been the re- Aug. 18, the day of the big! | suits of support for the democratic | | carnival! Veer cay eras ; | 2 dag sf ie publican parties, the parties Wil it be the biggest affair in| |o¢ capitalism in the United Stat Say | years? pee ig : eas eae If preparations for entertain-|| Socialist Party No Better. Jail 14 Workers in Big | ment, athletic features, food,|| “The socialist party as well is dancing and what not mean any-| thing, it will! For your own sake keep this {date open! lthe enemy of the ‘Negro masses, & |dangerous agent of the b ranks of the worke: forms of all these par And watch for further ing to offer the | nouncements in the press! From them the Remember Sunday, Aug. 18! | |¢xpect only sharper atta jtem of discrimi | “The only | Attack KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 14.— The Gastonia defense meeting, at which Otto Hall was to speak, was ‘oken up Saturday by the police. The meeting was scheduled to be ‘held at Shannon’s Hall, 1520 East) '18th Street (an indoor meeting on} the third floor) at 8 p. m. Before | the crowd arrived or the speaker, | an- egro m increasing m the whole vile ers is the Otto Hall, the police came in and MEET AUSUST 21 Party of t nd announced that all were under ar- white wor } It is the only Party which has a progr f conerete demands for which fights for full omie and political equality rest. About twenty were present. | |The police then stationed three ; downstairs and prevented anyone} (Continued from Page One) from entering or leay:ng the build- | dates, to support. | ing. The police wanted to arrest| “The record of the democratic and |Negro workers, for orga the leading. comrades who they jrepublican parties proves conclu-|the Negro worker thought were in charge of the meet- | sively their open treachery and be-|tant unions. It \ing, thus prevénting any meeting |trayal of the interests of the Negro which fights against the dan) | being held. They held them there | masses and the working class as a}war, against the entire capital until about 9 p .m. when they called | whole. They have supported race) system which oppr and de- patrol wagons and took all to jail. | discrimination; they have refused to| grades the working 1 S, Fourteen were jailed. Seven suc-|¢arry on any real fight against!” “tn order to tally the Negro ceeded in getting out on $100 bail lynching. They are the parties of|workers behind this program, the each, but the other seven were held |the bosses who constantly attack the|New York District of the Commu- until late Sunday afternoon when | Wages and conditions of the Negro nist Party of the United States of they were finally released on bond | Workers, and fight against every| America is calling a conference of too. attempt a pe weete ee e Negro organizations, and unions of ‘ organize. ey are e parties of | whi, N roes embe: on | Some of those arrested and held in| Wail Street which is driving to a aa Mae oe jail until Sunday were Roy Stephens /new world war for the profits of the|Square, Room 202. It is the task and E, Thomas, district organizer|pankers and business interests of|of every fighting worker, white and |of the Communist Party and League | America. | black, to Support tHe. Batty oe the Womtttict, 10. respectively, Prince} «in New York City Jim-crowism| working class, the Communist Party, pa ae eterson, denmie Rovin-|is rampant, even as in the South.!in the forthcoming municipal elec. Sl ahah ccae |Negro students are discriminated tions.” se; | The police had made plans before- |hand to raid the meeting. A few days ago two detectives came to the | Party that had rented the hall and informed them that the meeting would be raided if it were held. This is the climax to a series of arrests and raids on Communist | {meetings and the headauarters of {the Communist Party here. Leo Grant and Roy Stephens were fined |heavily lately after police broke up| open air meetings held to demon-| ‘Starting This Saturday, Aug. 17: ... greater than the Village of Sin...” HER WAY of LOVE strate against the coming imperial- | Heh Ceram Pe Cae Gey ee ee \f wcreen artiste A Sovkino Production |framed up. | EMMA o “A great film from tts | Sunday morning in police court | ZESSARSKAYA Sco dusky besinning foi |the workers’ attérney succeeded in) toll Ce hieaste getting a continuance of the case | cia i od rs Eraphy +s powerful ‘ ‘ ‘. “How luminous he ” until Thursday in order to give more |} acting’: fascinat- oe oe Seeee ees nantigl eens. time to prepare the defense. |] ing figure... a great Ka (eres mass protest meeting against this) “°Us°""Cceman Press. a action of the police is being called | | jointly by the Communist Party and | the I. L. D. A big turnout for the | meeting is expected because the | Film Guild Cinema 52 W. Sth St. Ost SPRing 5095-5090-1716 Continuous Dally—Noon to Midnite workers all over the city are aroused over this action of the police. Funds are being collected to put up an ade- quate defense because the labor- j hating judge who presides in police | |court is certain to convict the ar-| Special Prices—12 to 2 Weekdays—i5e Saturday and Sunday—12 to 2—50 cents ) | J. H. Seitz, Willoughby, 0... $10.00 19, Lattimer; Aug. 20, McAdoo; K. Lakitskas, Freeland, Pa. 2.00/ tional Fed., Gary, Ind. > 5.00) | Aug. 21, Scranton; Aug. 22, Tamac- ihre? and. W. Lacson, |J. R. Jones, B’klyn, N.Y... 1.00/ WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Col.|qua; Aug. 23, Minersville; Aug. 24, The Fisrt Election Campaign Rally Will Take Place. 4.00 M. Danzig, Springfield, Mass. 6.00|L. Binschus, S. Bellingham, 6.00; Washington ....+-...0. W. P. Sukut, Chicago, Ill..... 19.00 Paper Plate & Bag Makers Union, Local 107, N. 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