The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS vor a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week —— aily Entered as second-cia’ matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879, Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Vol. VL, No. 138 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. DEFENSE MEETING IN RALEIGH, N.C,\Comaunist Campaign —|TAMMANY FEARS CHILD KILLED BY NEW YORK, FRIDA SUBSCRIPTION RAT Outside New FINAL CITY EDITION ~ - a In New York, by mall, $5.00 per year, rk, by mail, $6.00 per year. Y, AUGUST 16, 1929 ATTENDED BY 700 INCLUDING DELE-- Radly at Pleasant Bay COMMUNIST GAIN SCAB TROLLEY; GATES OF STATE FEDERATION MEET) 9 ark Picnic on Sunday iN NEGRO HARLEM FIGHT CONTINUES Rank and File Delegates Volunteer to Help Ar- ‘Many Events Arranged for All-Day Carnival to sanes Engdakl, ©. P.|New Orleans A,F. of L. range Meetings for Defense in Their Towns No ‘Voluntary’ Cut in Hours Possible if NTWU Struggle Hadn’t Forced It, Says Reid RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 15.—Rank and file delegates to the North Carolina State Federation of Labor and 700 others heard Sophie Melvin, one of the girl textile defendants, speak at the Wake County Court House tonight. Melvin was refused the floor at the convention by the A. F. of L. bureaucrats. | Dewey Martin and S. D. Saylors, National Textile Work- ers Union organizers, and Ju-¢ maria a CALL OFF BRITISH TEXTILE STRIKE Melvin told about the great, wide- | spread struggle in the textile mills Workers Solid; Fight Bureaucrats which the United Textile Workers | Unon has betrayed whenever they | gained control in any mill town, She told about the militant struggle which caused the mill owners to de- termine to uproot the left wing union | even if it had to be drowned in blood. | T. A. Wilson, president of the| state federation, and William Kelly | were present to hear their company unions and bureaucracy exposed as betrayers during the struggle. Mel- vin scored the A. F. of L. severely for supporting the mill operators in their attempt to send her fellow- defenders to jail, by officially refus- ing to support the defense drive and ctually fighting the I. L. D. which ; conducting the defense, Many rank and file delegates who had attended the convention which adjourned yesterday pledged their | support for the defense and volun- teered to help arrange meetings in their towns. A large number of Negroes who attended the meeting joined the whites in pledging support. A branch of the International La- bor Defense was organized in Ra- leigh after the meeting. day, the organizers of the I. L. D. and the N.-T. W. will stop at the Henders6n mills and arrange a se- ries of meetings. * * * The veritable storm of petitions protestin gthe Gastonia terror which | are being received daily at the na- tional office of the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Committee at 80 E. 11th St., New York City, show hat the Chicago district is surpass- he all other sections of the country m activity. More than 300,000 sig- natures have already been received. Chicago, with = quota of 100,000 signatures, has exceeded 50 per cent of its allotment already with 53,000 names. Philadelphia runs a close second with 48,000 names in its quota of 100,000. New York workers were at first | in the lead, but have fallen to a| poor third in the last few days with | 30 per cent of their quota of 250,000, | with 75,000. Detroit, with a quota of 100,000, | has sent in a total to date of 35,00 Pittsburgh, with a quota of 25,000 has sent in 10,000; Cleveland has secured 20,000 of its 50,000 quota; { (Continued on Page Five) REPARE FOR BIG SACCO MEMORIAL Prominent Speakers at Union Sq. Meet Elaborate preparations are being ea by the New York District of h e International Labor Defense for Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demon- stration that will rival the huge demonstrations of two years ago. Next Thursday, Aug. 22, at 5 p.m., thousands of New Yorkers will rally in Union Square to commemorate the second anniversary of the execu- tion of the two working class mar- tyrs and to demand the immediate release of the victims of another capitalist murder conspiracy, the 23 Gastonia textile strikers and strike leaders. Since the Sacco-Vanzetti demon- stration will be held only four days (Continued on Page Three) SHOOT STRIKERS ATHENS (By Mail).—Seven hun- dred wor! -s of a great fertilizer factory have struck work. In a clash with the police, two policemen and a striker were severely injured. On their return to Charlotte to- | MANCHESTER, England, Aug. | 15.—Class conciliation was the key- | note of the arbitration proceedings | at the Manchester Town Hall today when reformist trade union leaders encouraged by Sir Horace Wilson of the labor government, decided that | | the 500,000 strikers return to work | |while the hearing proceeds. | The ruling was made in the face of the stirring solidarity of the strikers, who had voted against the 12% per cent wage cut from the ont- | | set. 7 Bosses Arrogant. Encouraged by the cringing atti- | tude of the government conciliators and the reformist leaders of the |trade union congress, the Master (Continued on Page Five) COURT CONVICTS NEGRO ON LIES Ten Years for Aged | Tennessee Worker | CENTREVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 15. |—Open admission by three women witnesses that they had given false |testimony was carefully ignored by a Circuit Court jury when they found Turley Wright, aged Negro, guilty on vague “attack” charges | brought by a white woman. He was | sentenced to ten years. His attor- ney will in the meantime move for a new trial. In line with the usual policy of conviction of Negroes on the slight- (Continued on Page Five) NEWARK CARMEN EXPECT SELLOUT In spite of the obvious will of 7,400 Newark street car and bus workers for a strike against the refusal of the Public Service Corporation to meet the demands of the men for wage increases and shorter hours, officials of the Trolley and Bus- mens’ Union are expected to agree to the suggestion of Matthew R. Boylan, vice-president of the com- pany, for a board of arbitration. The Aid in Maintaining Party Press Mass Demonstration in Afternoon as Leading Boro President Candidate Attacks Strikers’ | Militaney Candidates Expound Platform of Class War Hits Police Brutality Hits Strikers’ Relief The first big Communist campaign rally will take place ‘Stands Trial Monday Federal Court Jails at Pleasant Bay Park this Sunday (Aug. 18), where the Press Picnic and Carnival will be held throughout the whole day Arrangements have been made to make it a monster working class rally. All sorts of amusements and games will take place in different parts of the*park, both before and after the campaign speeches, which will’ be delivered during the afternoon. EXPECT RECORD CROWD It is expected that a big crowd will attend the picnic and carnival, which, as a yearly event, has attracted ever larger attendance. But this year, with the combined press picnic and election rally, the crowd will be exceptionally large. CLASS DEMONSTRATION The meeting in the afternoon will be a demonstration of the working class against the capitalist political parties and all the agents of capitalism. The role of the strikebreaking city administration will be exposed, the socailist alliance with the bosses and Tammany, with particular attention to the specific acts of the Rev. Norman Thomas, will be dealt with, while the fake liberal, La Guardia, and his running mates, strikebreakers and scab-herders all, will be pilloried. The war danger, the Gastonia conspiracy, speed-up, ra- tionalization, the housing scandals, the sewer graft, organ- ized gangsterism, will be dealt with from a revolutionary standpoint. LEADING CANDIDATES WILL SPEAK William W. Weinstone, candidate for mayor; H. M. Wicks, candidate for president of the board of aldermen; J. Louis Engdahl, candidate for president of the Borough of Manhat- tan; M. J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit; Rebecca Grecht and others will speak. MANY SPORTS EVENTS A large number of games and sports events have been arranged and the performances will convey some idea of the development of working class sports organizations within re- cent years, Food in abundance will be provided and the Armenian comrades will again supply their famous shashlik. Admission is only 35 cents. Busses will meet you at the 177th St. subway station and take you to the park. Delegates form Ford Plant at Metropolitan Area Meet 'Seamen’s Confab Opers Tomorrow; Chicago. Meet Sunday for Cleveland Convention CHICAGO, IIl., Aug. 15.—A con-| ference called by the Trade Union jers of the Ford plant at Kearney, | Educational League will be held|N. J. will be at the Second Metro- Sunday at the Northwest hall, at/politan Area Trade Union Unity which delegates from many shops | Conference to be held Tuesday, Aug. will prepare for the Trade Union|20 at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and Unity Conference to be held in| 15th St., it was announced yesterday Cleveland, Ohio, beginning Aug. 31.|by the Executive Council of the A report of tle program of the | Trade Union Center. Workers from Trade Union Educational League | many other large industrial plants will be given by C. A. Hathaway |in New Jersey will also be repre- (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Five) NTLW.U, SHOWS UNION VICTORY '5-Hour Cut Result of Gastonia Struggle GASTONIA, N. CG. Aug. 15.—Ten Delegates representing the work- road is thus opened for a sell-out. Whatever the results of the con- ciliation conference, Boylan specifies, wage cuts must be expected. At yesterday’s parley with union lead- ers he repeated the earlier plea of the company that the service has been operated at heavy loss during the past few years. It is widely known, however, that the “lost prof- (Continued on Page Five) Negroes’, Says iFirst Negro Woman “The Communist Party is the only political party which fights consist- ently for the Negro workers and for their emancipation as a class and a race.” Fanny Austin, Communist Party candidate for the Board of Aldermen in the 21st Aldermanic District, Manhattan, told the Daily Worker yesterday. “While all other parties cither Other Parties for Race Discrimination | thousand leaflets were distributed by ‘Communists Alone Fight for N.T.W.U. today to the mill work- ers throughout Gaston County. The |leaflet stated that the reduction in ‘hours from 60 to 55 hours per week granted a few days ago by the mill owners of Gaston County is a con- cession forced from them by the workers. The leaflet reads, in part: “The reduction in hours is the re- sult of 5 months of strikes, picket- Fanny Austin Candidate Denounces openly support the policy of the most | L vicious race discrimination, or like, | 0M by the Nationa! Textile Workers the socialist party, cowardly evade | Union, its organizers, members and the issue, the Communist Party | sympathizers, shows itself to be the Party of the | “It domes right after the Bessemer oppressed Negroes by being the first | City Conference of the National Tex- to nominate a Negro woman for tile Workers Union where 227 dele- municipal office. I ant nroud to be gates representing 75,000 workers the, first to claim that distinction,” iin 5 states endorsed the demands (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Two) | .With Six Others | L | “It is not an accident that the most vicious attacks by the Tam many Hall police should be launch- ed just now against the Communist Party campaign rallies in Harlem,” declared J. Loui ngdahl, Commu- nist candidate for president of the Borough of Manhattan, in comment- ing on the breaking up of Commu- jnist meetings at 138th. St. and Sev- enth Ave. and the arrest of Com- munist speakers. lott precisely in Harlem, with jits great discontented population of Negro workers, that Tammany Hall fears loss of strength in its ef. forts to re-elect Mayor Jimmy Walker. It feels that this loss will go to the Communist Party. It fights back with the only weapon | it knows, the same police oppri sion that it has been using against ‘workers in recent. strik in the food, needle, iron and other indus. tries.” | Engdahl was among those re- cently arrested when police broke up the Communist Pa campaign rally at 18th St. and Seventh Ave. He will appear with others arrested in the Magistrate’s Court of the | Twelfth District on Monday to an- |swer to the usual charge of disor- derly conduct, “The charge against us is mere camouflage,” declared Engdahl. “This is also true of the claim of the police officialdom that meetings must be forbidden on Seventh and | Eighth Avenues in order not to in- | terfere with traffic. “It is only Communist meetings that are broken up. Religious gath- erings have not been interfered with. And*thé police themselves | (Continued on Page Five) | AND OF SOVIETS CREW UNHARMED Plane Down at Chita | Flight May Be Off , | Many Workers NEW ORLEA 5 The three. La., Aug of Floyd ; r-old boy, under the wheels 15 death today of a street car run by a scab is the | latest crime laid at the door of Pub- lic Service, Inc. Mass demonstra- tions in which tens of thousands par- ticipate against the action of the City Coun who are cooperating with the car company by pass | strike-breaking ordinances, the fed- 1 court which is sending active strikers to jail, and the attempt to run the trolleys by scab labor, are | continuing. The city, state and federal police forces were increased once more to- day, and they are making promiscu- ous use of night sticks, tea bombs end guns throughout the ci Armed retaliation from the strike attacks on scab-run cars and d: niting of tracks continued all day, according to reports today. Workers Storm Car. After the infuriated c surrounded the street car, not allowing Robert Blair, ar scab motorman, to move the car on. thonities Police attacked the crowd, attempt- (Continued on Page Two) BUILDING TRADES PROTEST TONIGHT t | Price 3 Cents GIFTS FOR TANKS, PLANES POURED OUT BY WORKERS | TO DEFEND SOVIET UNION gas | . citizens formerly »|the Chinese a-' fering great privation because the Two Thousand Jailed or Driven Out of Country in Last Two Days ‘Communist Youth, Other Groups Volunteer to Join Red Army Against Imperialist Attack __ "y BUL IN. MOSCOW, Aug. 15.—The government tonight issued a warning to all foreign governments, banks and individuals not to recognize any obligations undertaken by the Chinese tern Railway in Man- churia or by Chinese authorities in behalf of the railway since its seizure from Soviet control. Leo Ka han, acting foreign commissar, issued a statement to the press which described the railroad as facing financial disasters He alluded to alleged efforts of the Chinese authorities to obtain foreign banking aid. MOSCOW, U. . R., Aug. 15.—Terror of the Nanking authorities against Soviet citizens is increasing, not only em- ployes of the Chinese Eastern Railroad but also persons having absolutely no connection with the railway are being persecuted. In the last few days over two thousand |or deported. Two-thirds have been arrested of the Soviet employed by ern are suf- Nanking authorities have confiscated their personal property. A number of Soviet citizens are uck the boy, an also reported to have been killed The white guardist Russians zealou: are ing the Nanking au- in their persecution. Recent reports show a further con- centration of troops along the Sov- iet frontier. Armored trains, ar- tillery and machine gun companies have been concentrated near the border. Wires are constantly arriving from all parts of the Soviet Union de- manding that the government take energetic action against the Nan- king generals in order to protect the Workers Will Meet jn | lives of Soviet citizens in Manchuria | Irving Plaza and along the Soviet frontier. Collections are being coriducted with tremendous enthusiasm in or- A capacity response is expected to | der to build tanks, airplanes, ett. the call of the Building Trades Sec- tion of the Trade Union Educational League for the mass meeting .of building trades workers to be held tonight at 7:30 in Irving Plaza Hall 15th St. and Irving Place. of elec- Hundreds carpenters, tricians, painters and other building General Blucher, . trades workers will attend the meet-|the Special Far Eastern Re: ing tonight and express their indig- nation at the recent sell-out of the workers—in the form of “truce” MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 15.—| Pending arbitration of differences the Red Army as volunteers. |Pilot Semyon Shestakof has radioed |that arose during the fake promise | the Soviet military authorities at Sosnozeresk, 80 miles from China, of the five-day week, Speakers active in the left wing that its crew of four escaped, un- labor movement will point out this harmed, when the Land of the Soy-| arbitration, as is already known, iets, en route from Moscow to New| Will result in a surrender to the All large scale industrial works and labor unions are contributing in order to present the Red Army with airplanes and tanks and other mili- *|tary equipment, bearing the names of the donors. The Supreme Military Council and d Army, are constantly receiving offers of groups of former irregulars, Young Communist groups and others to join * MUKDEN, Manchuria, Aug. Unconfirmed today mated that Lu Yuan-huan; * % reports int the commander of | ing and union organization carried | York, made a forced landing in the electrical fixture manufacturers, as |04 sad oa fade pa cones uninhabited forest region of the|the union bureaucracy will permit Might be made the scapegoats by trans-Baikal district north of the|them to import and install non-|the Nanking government for its (Continued on Page Five) union assembled fixtures, As for | ®i#ure of the road and would be dis- GRAF HOPS USSR ON NEXT FLIGHT \8 Japanese on Trip to Study Air Bombing BERLIN, Aug. 15.—The German dirigible Graf Zeppelin, which took the air at Friedrichshafen on the second stage of its world tour Wed- nesday at 10:35 (eastern standard time), crossed the Latvian frontie> into Soviet Russia at 1:30 this af- ternoon, after passing over Danzig, Konigsberg and Lithuania. It was reported proceeding toward Smol- | ensk, a course which would take it |considerably to the south of Mos- cow, indicating that perhaps Ecke- ner, commander of the war bag, had decided not to pass over the So- viet capital. | Pleasant Bay Park, Sunday, | Aug. 18. CLAY WORKERS “TRIKE PRAGUE (By Mail). — On Mon- jday 1,200 clay strike in Wildstein (West Bohemia). |They demand a wage raise of 15 per cent. The fighting spirit is ex- jeellent. | Game of baseball, soccer, etc., at the Press Carnival. workers went on) the other trades, it is pointed out, even more work will be done under non-union conditions instead of on the job than has been done here- tofore. Lovestone, Removal) Bucharin and Gitlow | One of the principal reasons for the “truce,” it is further pointed out, was to give the bosses more | |time to finish up whatever urgent work they have and towards the end of the year, with growing un- employment, to launch an attack upon the union, at a time when the. adopted resolutions particular- jworkers are least prepared to re- % : ly approving the expulsion of |sist a long fight. || Lovestone, Spector and Jilek | How best to, meet this threatened, | and the removal of Buchari \esught on the already low stand-|| and Gitlow from the Presi ards of the workers will be told at|| of the Comintern. |the meeting tonight, | MOSCOW, t S. R., Aug. | 15, — After lively discussions the Tenth Plenum of the Exec- utive Committee of the Com- munist International has | Slander Against Defendants | and ILD Denounced by Neal ‘Defense Counsel Declares Press Inflames Jurors Against Strikers i The slanderous stories appearing | for several days to discuss the trial in the southern canitalist press and with the International Labor De- reproduced with enthusiasm in the | fense, told reporters in an interview jnorth by liberal as well as capital-|yesterday that the newspapers of ist journals, concerning the Interna- Mecklenburg and Gaston counti ional Labor Defense and other or-|were seeking to inflame the minds jganizations helping the Gastonia of all prospective jurymen against strikers, were termed “a monstrous the defendants, |campaign of villification” by Dr.| Contrary to the slanders that have |John Randolph Neal, of the defense appeared in the New Republic, the | counsel, Nation, the German Volkszeitung Dr. Neal, who was in New York! (Continued on Page Three) MOVE TO MAKE | THE COMMUNIST PARTY ILLEGAL Part of Capitalist Drive on Workers Is Another sinister move of the gov- ernment to outlaw the Communist Party, and declare it “illegal,” is seen in the appeal taken by the fed- eral authorities against the decision of the New York federal court which freed John Voich, a foreign born worker, living in Prescott, Ari- zona, who v lated for deporta- tion to Jugo- ia where a fascist government, would soon put him to death. F 1 Judge Thomas D. Thacher, of d States district court for the southern district of New York, (made the ruling three weeks ago, resulting in Voich’s freedom, that he Communist Party was not a “proscribed” organization, Distributed Literature. Voich, an unnaturalized foreigner, was charged with distributing “prow scribed” literature and belonging to a “proscribed” organization — the Communist Party. Federal Judge Thacher’s decision was based partly on the fact that the Communist Party had taken part in political campaigns and was therefore a legal party. man- ger of the Chinese Eastern Rail- The federal government, through United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, has filed an appeal on this decision on the grounds that the r the Commu- His appeal in part states: “The Court erred in holding that the Com- (Continued on Page Five) REFUTE CLAIM ON MLM, MEMBERS Industrial Union Nails Company Union Lies The claim of the International Ladies Garment Union, the company »' union of the garment bosses, that more than 28,900 cloakmakers are now enrolled in that organization was yesterday branded as a lie by Joseph Borouchowitz. general mana- (Continued on Page Five) DENTAL WORKERS MAY STRIKE SOON The possibility of a general strike called by the Dental Laboratory Workers Union, Sept. 15, when their agreement with the dental labora- sses expires, was taken up at a meeting of the union held last night at Irving Plaza hall, Irving Pl. and 15th St. According to Max J. Shalkin, or- (Continued on Page Five) ‘POME TO DAILY WORKER CARNIVAL AT PLEASAN } What are you going to do with ) yourself this Sunday? |. What about a day in the open at leasant Bay Park, out of the heat crowded quarters of the city, ith sports, music, daticing, eats ind what eats!), a holiday of real he class entertainment that marks, at the same time, the open- ing of the Communist election cam- | Ppaign in New York City. | This Press Carnival is also a dem- enstration for your working class press, for the proceeds go to the support of the Daily Workers. The Labor Sports Union has ar- ranged a rousing athletic program, including a baseball game between | The food, alone, which is being crack teams representing the Party | served at the lowest possible cost by and the Communist Youth League |the Amalgamated Food Workers, and a soccer game featuring the all-| will be worth the trip to the park. | star Freiheit Sport Club, There will be—but you'll see for Then there will be dancing with a| yourself when you get there. It’s blaring band if you don’t go in for|enough to tell you there will be more strenuous sports, and even if|heaps of Armenion shashlik, without you do. , [which no Daily Worker would be complete. And, after the eats, there’s th | beautiful park, with its trees an e id |lawns and paths by the water for comrades to roam in. You'd better not come alone, comrades, | The Carnival begins at 10 o'clock in the morning and will continue un- workers at the 177th St. subway sta-!for mayor; H. M. Wicks, for presi- ee taking them directly to Plea-/dent of the board of aldermen; J. sant Bay Park. |Louis Engdahl, for president of the Many of the candidates on the Borough of Manhattan; Fred Bie- Communist Party ticket are sched-|denkapp, for president of the Bor- uled to address the throngs expected |ough of Brooklyn; Rebecca Grecht, jto participate in the opening rally|for state assembly from the 5th \of the city campaign. Among them|A. D.; Ben Gold, candidate for al- festival iil midnight. Busses will meet the|are William W. Weinstone, candidate |derman, 29th A. D.; Rose Wortis, T BAY PARK, THIS SUNDAY: IS ELECTION RALLY |for state assembly from the 3rd A. D. ;M. J. Olgin, for state assem- bly from the 4th A. D., and Fannie | Austin, candidate for alderman from |the 2ist A, D. old, Olgin, Grecht k at the Press y a Weinstone, ang others will | Cakaival,