The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1929, Page 1

ation of on Seamen’s Conference Here Takes First Step in korm ail Entered as seco} New Industrial Un class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY - EDITION der the act of March 3, 1879. ily Publ New York City, Vol. VL, No. 140 AUGUST 19, 1929 Fe rc ka _| DEFENSE COUNSEL, PRISONERS AND Speed Up in Gastonia —SEAMEN'S MEET 2nd TRADE UNION BR WITNESSES READY FOR TRIAL NEXT Drive with Trial of 23 LAY BASIS FOR UNITY MEET HERE’ QF MANCHURIA AS A LIE; WEEK TO FIGHT ELECTRIC CHAIR = ©Workers Only Week Off FIHTING UNION TOMORROW NIGHT’ NANKING ATTACKS GO ON Yefendants Show Keen Interest in Mass Pro- 4!range Tag Days, Collections, Mass Meets in 79° Delegates Attend Unorganized Workers Government Reports White Guardist and Nan- king Inroads at Several Points in U.S.S.R. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, Published daily except Sunday by The Comproda' Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, , test Rallies and Growing Textile Struggles | Joint Defense, Relief Campaign From Ports on Will Send Many | . . : East Coast Delegates . a ; «, Sacco Memorials to be Great Gastonia Rallies; pies slit | See ee ris Dror Union ei ob ae Workers Hail Bush, Schechter Build Ship Committees To Elect to Cleveland With only one week remaining be-|of 102 Franklin St., Clinton, Mass., re the most tremendous trial in) who writes to the Gastonia Joint Mobilization of Thousands of Nanking Gov't Troops Reported | - | With the trial of 283 Gastonia textile leaders exactly one 5, Foster and Schechter Foster, Others Among | i week off, activities on all fronts for their defense are being in-|the history of the American labor Defense and Relief Committee, 80 tensified. The tour of Amy Schechter and Vera Bush, two of | movement the women defendants charged with murder, will wind up in Chicago Aug. 22, when they will return to Charlotte to face trial. The campaign for funds to jefend the arrested and protest oetitions is gaining momentum, and the Gastonia Joint Defense ahd Relief Committee announces that its machinery will be running full speed during the ten-day drive arranged for Aug. 24 to Sept. 3. In addition, the. European and South American countries are initi- ating big drives and strikes, demon- strating their solidarity. The anni- versary of. Sacco and Vanzetti’s legal murder will be the occasion for scores of Gastonia protest meetings throughout the world. “We have too many martyrs already! We don’t want splendid corpses! We need live, militant leaders!” are the slo- gans echoed all along the Bush- \Schechter tour.” The headquarters of the. legal feounsel for the textile defendants, provided by the International Labor Defense, is buzzing with activity, making final preparations for the trial. Although the workers complain that Solicitor Carpenter (prosecuting attorney) has been personally visit- ing prospective witnesses and threatening them, the lawyer’s of- fice is constantly visited by textile workers offering to testify in behalf of their leaders. The 13 defenders for wrom Carpenter declares nothing short of a ‘000 WORKERS AT “DAILY” PICNIC. FLAY WAR PLANS: Denounce Imperialist ‘Plot Against U.S.S.R. | Five thousand workers who at- tended the Daily Worker Press Car- nival and first election campaign | |rally at Pleasant Bay Park, the | Bronx, yesterday cheered the Com-| munist speakers when they de- nounced the imperialist plans for an |attack on the Soviet Union. They | | voiced their support with the Soviet | | workers and pledged to acquaint the | workers of New York with the pro- |vocative acts of the Chinese bandit | Charlotte, N. C., in- tensive activities are being carried on by American workers, rallied by the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re- lief Committee, to make an over- whelming success of the defense and relief campaign Aug, 24 to Sept. 2. Tag days, house-to-house collec- tions, united front campaigns and mass meetings are taking place everywhere to save the 23 members f the Nutional Textile Workers Union from death or long prison terms. | Sends Day’s Wages. | Indicating the vast stir on behalf | of the Gastonia prisoners is the let-| ter received from Stanley Szablak,| E. 11th St., N. Y. C., the following: I have heard from newspapers that your organization is taking the leading part in the defense of the Gastonia workers and labor leaders. I think that every worker, who can only hear and see what is going on, should help with money, or with other means to help all defendants to be freed. As a worker I am sending to your | committee my one day’s earnings, amounting to $4, Workers of New York will make a mass house-to-house collection campaign next Saturday and Sun-| day. Unions and working class or- (Continued on Page Two) SINCLAIR ASKS TO BE RELEASED Rich Friends Say Oil Swindler “TIl” WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Harry | TO “ARBITRATE” N. J, CAR DISPUTE Union Fakers Scheme Sell-Out J., Aug. 18.—The NEWARK, 'war lords, backed by the imperialist |, Sinclair, millionaire oil swind- officials of the Amalgamated As- | powers. | | Leading Communist candidates | took up the issues of the campaign and characterized the three capital- jist candidates, Walker, La Guar- |dia and Thomas as candidates of the capitalists. They discussed the po- |lice terror against striking workers | j and the issuing of -injunctions by | | Tammany Hall judges. They also death sentence will be acceptable to called for surnort for the Trade the Manville-Jenckes attorneys who | Union Unity Conference to be held. ler, who is toying with pills in the district jail dispensary for jury shadowing in connection with the |teapot dome scandal, has filed ap- | Jerse: plication for commutation of sen- | tence on the grounds of “ill health.” With influential friends pulling the | strings, he stands good chances of getting his request granted. Although Sinclair has sociation of Street Car and Electric Railway Employees yesterday indi- cated that they would recommend to the members of the union in New that they “arbitrate” their demands for increase wages with the Public Service which controls virtually all the trac- tion lines in the state. The reply of the joint conference |board of the union to the Public been Service Corporation’s proposal for Corporation, | will represent the state in this trial, | in Clveland beginning Aug, 31, and|fawned upon by specially retained |an arbitration of the wage dispute Speak at Meet | When the two-day Atlantic Coast Workers League ended at the International Seamen’s Club, 28 South St. last ;night, the basis had been laid for a new militant industrial union of ma- |rine workers, Conference of the Marine Seventy-two delegates, including {nine Negro workers from Houston, Tex., New Orleans, Philadelphia, Chester, Baltimore and Norfolk, at- tended the conference and gave first-hand reports from the s and took an active part in the dis Jeussion. Five of the delegates came |directly from ship committees. With the election of a new na- tional committee of 21, the first jtask decided upon was preparations |for a series of conferences, espe- cially on the Pacific Coast, Great | Lakes and the Gulf region, in prep- |aration for a national convention to organize a new industrial marine workers’ union. The keynote of the conference was struck by William Z. Foster, national secretary of the Trade Un- ion Educational League, who urged that the new marine workers’ un- | }ion be “built from the bottom up} |through ship committees.” Foster, | ‘who greeted the conference when it | opened Saturday evening, empha- sized the importance of building up a powerful marine transport work- | ers’ union, not only as a weapon for (Continued on Page Two) | ‘izations who have already elected | | \ Area | Speakers The Second Metropolitan Trade Union Unity Conference will be held tomorrow night at Irving | Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15’th St. with delegates present representing thou- sands of organized and unorganized workers of New York and New Jer- sey. The conference will elect dele- | gates to the National Trade Union| Unity Conference to be held in Cleve- | land, Ohio, beginning Aug. 31. | The conference will start prompt- ly at 7.30 p. m. and delegates from New Jersey and other outlaying sec- tions were urged, in a statement is- sued yesterday by the Executive | Council, to be on time. | All organ- | delegates should immediately send in | their credentials to the office of the | Trade Union Educational League, | Room 205, 26-28 Union Square. Many Unorgsnized Represented. | The number of delegates repre-| senting unorganized workers that will be seated as delegates will greatly exceed the original estimates \of the arrangement committee. These | | delegates will represent workers inj | the most basic industries of the met- | ropolitan district. | The Executive Council yesterday | issued the names of several more or- nizations that will be represented by delegates at tomorrow's confer- ence. They include The Public} Power Plants and Building Service | | Workers Union, which selected three | delegates at the last. meeting of the | ‘union. The workers of the Otis Ele- | (Continued on Page Five) | follow with keen interest news of he | for the Joint Defense and Relief |servants ever since his “sentence” mass protest demonstrations in their Campaign leading the fight for the } last May, his friends claim he is behalt. | lives of the 16 textile workers facing | underweight because of prison re- These organizers, most of whom’ death in the electric chair at Gas-| are under 20 years old snatched tonia, N. C. forcibly out of the front ranks of he struggle for better wages and entertained the assembled workers. | conditions, and the fight to beat the |It included soccer games between stretchout, look forward with the ut; the Scandinavian Workers Athletic | most enthusiasm to hear the latest |Club and the Spartacus Club. The | of employing jury-shadowers.. The in each city where there is a loc: developments in the preparations for | Finnish athletic clubs presented a|earlier sentence was for contempt of the union. Then the ten pres of games and pyramid of senate arising out of his refusal dents of the local unions who at- the Charlotte Conference, Oct. 12, | program and the strengthening of the Nation- building. strictions. The joke was bitterly denounced by the real prisoners at | An elaborate program of sports| the district jail who suffer the only | arbitration hardships inflicted. | Sinclair is now serving a six months’ term on the specific charge | will be submitted to the 7,400 car- men at a series of local union meet- ings thruout the state on Tuesday. The joint board adjourned its meeting to consider the request for without further an- nouncement as to the action it had taken, On Tuesday meetings will be held Dance music was fur-|to answer questions to the court.|tended the joint conference board q' al. Textile Workers Union, their |nished by John C. Smith’s Negro | Actually, of course, both sentences meeting will recommend to the mem- center for the great against the mill barons. These boys who have been among the leaders of the Loray sthike, im- patient to return to the fight, declare that their fate lies, to a great degree, (Continued on Page Five) CONTINUE PLANS offensive orchestra. | H. M. Wicks, editor of the Daily | (Continued on Page Five) Recover Bodies of 28 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Wall St. War on USSR KANSAS CITY, Aug. 19.—The | | bodies of 28 of the 128 American | | soldiers killed in the Archangel sec- | were merely formal. POGROMONKOVNO TERROR PROGRAM Shoot, Beat Workers; "anion with the | bers not to meet the Public Service’s \threat to slash wages with militant, strike action, but to “arbitrate” and |permit another betrayal by the union officials, The present agreement of the Public Service Cor- poration exp September 30. De- manding a 25 per cent wage in- crease, the men were given warn- ing would probably be reduced instead. Besides the trolley workers, work- TEXTILE OWNERS cueap HEADS TO: PLOT A “TRUCE” CONTINUE FIGHT BULL WASHINGTON, Aug. 60,000 troops to the Manchurian-Si C, Wu announced here tonight. MOSCOW, Aug. 18—Mlitary * IN 19.—The Nanking Government has ordered berian border, Chinese Minister C, * preparedness of the youth of the Soviet Union against imperialist enemies will be stressed this week at a meeting here of 5,000 children from all parts of the country. children, members of the “Pioneer: The s,” convened today. The convention, meeting at the moment of a grave crisis with China, will center on the necessi enem The government remains firm the Chinese Eastern Railroad to So settlement of the present dispute ity for defense against capitalist in its demands that China return viet control before negotiations for are started but it officially denied reports that Soviet armies have invaded Manchuria. * MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Au today denied categorically the | * ig. 18.—The Soviet government ies spread by the Nanking gov- ernment, while it cloaks its own outrages with an appeal to the Kellogg pact, that Soviet t China. On the contrary, BRITAIN REFUSES TO BACK DOWN ON both whi U.S. YOUNG PLAN ‘Labor’ Minister Issues Imperialist Blast THE HAGUE, Aug. 18. — The reply of Phillip Snowden, British “labor” chancellor of the exchequer, ‘o the efforts of France, Italy, Ja- pan and Belgium to get him to ac- cept American imperialism’s Young reparations plan, is a categorical re- fusal. Karly yesterday morning Snow- den handed his formal note of refu- sal to Premier Jaspar, of Belgium, who has been acting as go-between, But House Anxious to | ana shortly afterwards it, was eom? » cated to the four other credi- ees Talk “Enforcement” |?or nat NCHESTER, August 18. — |tor nations who had been trying to : .,|maneuver Snowden into some sort ing home its victory in which | WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — The | o¢ compromise on the question of it was aided by the labor govern-|fight over the tariff will be con-|ingiand’s share of the German war ment against the 55,000 textile| tinued by representatives of Cuban I oot, Seek More Wage Cuts; sates Arbitrate Wednesday | workers, mill owners are expected to take action to organize a “perma- outs” at arbitration which began Wednesday. The action, with another which will seek “to improve conditions in | the British cotton industry in yiew sugar interests and the American | But Snowden, staunch defender of beet concerns when the House re-| British imperialism, refused to back nent truce against strikes and Jook-|Convenes tomorrow after a summer | proceedings | recess. The senate was to have begun its consideration of the Hawley tar- iff bill, but because the senate fi- nance committee has not yet com- down on his demand for about $10,- 000,000 more yearly than Britain would get under the , p nt ar- rangements. A proposal ss made by the four other creditor nations which they claim meets 80 per éent by the company that wages | of foreign competition,” will be con-|Pleted its revision of the bill, the|of the British demands, but Snow- sidered toward the end of the con-|'¢Vised draft is not expected to be}den, whose devotion to British im- Iference. By stressing foreign com-|Teady till labor day. perialism has ‘evoked paeans of | petition, of course, the manufactur-| Beet and sugar cane spokesmen | praise from all capitalist quarters ers’ organizations will be given fur-|at the last session denounced the | in England, declared that the propo- ther excuses to lay the basis for | committee figures on the sugar tar-|Sal meets only 20 per cent of what even greater wage slashes than the |iff as inadequate to keep outside | England wants. TO GREET FLIERS, tion and in the Dvina River valley | Death for Militants | \ers on busses operated by the Pub- 12% per cent cut they will enforce. competition from injuring them. in the Wall Street campaign against | the Red Army following the October | KOVNO, Lithuania, Aug. 18. — revolution have been recovered, ac-| The bloody dictatorship headed by USSR Fliers Reception Meets This Week As the crew of the Land of the Soviets, forced down near Chita, Si- beria, is to resume its Moscow to New York flight immediately, the Friends of the Soviet Union under whose auspices a great working class reception is being prepared or the four intrepid airmen who are bringing greetings and expres- sions of solidarity from the work- ers and peasants of the U. S. S. R. to the workers and farmers of the United States is pushing its plans for the welcoming ceremony. The executive of the ways and means committee announces a spe- cial meetifig of the Workmen’s Cir- cle and the Independent Workmen’s Cirele branch representatives who attended the Irving Plaza confer- ence last for tonight, 6:30 p.m, at 175 Ave., room 304, the F. S. U. headquarters. Dele- gates from W. C. and I. W. C. branches which did not take part in that conference are also invited. —————————— Postpone Needle cording to advices received by the|Premier Voldemayas and President | national headquarters of the Veter-|Smetona is now concentrating its | /ans of Foreign Wars from its com-| terror against the Jewish workers; | mission in Archangel, U. S. S. R. | bands of armed fascisti roam the The dead workers, mostly from Michigan, were part of the imperi- alist forces hurled against the So- viet Republic in a desperate attempt to overthrow the workers and peas- ants government. Many of the American soldiers, ordered to fire on their fellow workers, deserted to the side of the Red Army. WELSH MILITANTS CONFER. CARLIFF, (By Mail).—Dele- gates from trade union branches and trades councils in this area were largely represented at the confer- ence of the South Wales District of the National Minority Movement, held at the Stacey Road Labor Hall. | Streets of the capitol, seeking an op-| Negro Seaman, 64, j to Stirring Co. Fraction Meeting The general fraction meeting of all needle trades comrades (cloak, dress, amalgamated, fur- Wilbur Upshaw, a 64-year-old Ne- “New Union Will Be Hard to Stop”; Is Moved By Story of Gastonia Struggle riers, cap and millinery) is post- poned to this coming Thursday, gates at the Atlantic Coast confer- gro seaman, was cne of the dele- | H: portunity to repeat the pogrom of Aug. 9, in which hundreds of work- ing class Jews were shot and bru- tally beaten. The police are in open) alliance with the .anti-Semetic ter-| rorists, saying that they have “no orders to prevent a pogrom” when| appealed to for protection. The government has issued strict | orders to all newspapers forbidding | any mention whatsoever of the at- tacks, which are bound up with the} Savage repressions visited upon all militant workers. The editor of | Die Yiddishe Stimme, Kovno Jewish | Daily, has been sentenced to a| month’s imprisonment because his | (Continued on Page Five) Delegate nference Here Why, I was born in Eastville, North lampton county, Virginia, on the 25th of December, 1865, That makes | Workers International ‘Relief. a Aug. 22, ot 8 p. m., at the same place. The district expects all needle comrades to attend this meeting. New York District Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. William W. Weinstone, Dist. Org. Sean eo ence held here Saturday and Sun- ony at the International Seamen’s lub. Vigorous and enthusiastic, Up- shaw took an active part in the conference and sezved on several committees. “How long I've been in the game? me 64 years old.” A delegate from Chester, Pa., Upshaw was until two years ago, | president of Loz-! 1239 of the In- | ternational Longshoremen’s Associ- | ation. “The fakers in the Interna-_ tional suspended our local a couple | (Continued on Page Five) Missy - n Wy lic Service Corporation are also af- fected. MORE RALLY TO SACCO MEETINGS Many Organizations Support Plans A large number of working class organizations have already endorsed | and pledged their support to the big Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demonstra- tion that will be held in Union Square Thursday, Aug, 22, at 5 p. m. The demonstration is being ar- ranged by the New York district of the International Labor Defense and the New York Local of the In | addition to commemorating the sec- ond anniversary of the legal murder of the two working class martyrs, the workers of New York will at this great mass meeting protest against the mill owners’ conspiracy in Gastonia and rally behind the joint Gastonia Defense and Relief campaign that has been launched by the I. L. D. and the W. I. R. Among the organizations that are supporting the Union Square dem- (Continued on Page Five) U. S. FASCISTS MEET ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Aug. 18. —The annual state convention of the Sons of Italy, an Italian society which has now become a fascist or- ganization, opened here today. The purpose of the organization seems jnow to carry out propaganda on. be sent to the governor of North Prefisiatistins ~. ¢Carolina and the press.”, behalf of The boasted “impartial” chairman | Cuban interests and the democrats | of the board will be the tory justice, Rigby Swift, former member of the| house of commons. | Ramsay MacDonald will continue ; his good services to the employers by arguing for a subsidy to insure larger profits, he hinted last night in a speech “welcoming the end of the strike.” “The strike is by no means end- ed,” argue rank and file committees of the Minority Movement and the Communist Party, which call on the workers to resist the surrender by union congress and the labor govy- ernment, 'Seandinavia Toilers | Demand Freedom for Gastonia Prisoners _inavian workers assembled here in a convention to raise their voices for jthe release of the Gastonia class | war prisoners. They adopted a reso- | lution, which reads in part: | Youngstown, Erie and Jamestown assembled at Geneva, Ohio on a educational convention, emphatically voice our protest against the bru- tality of the Gastonia police and state militia against’ the textile strikers. “We demand the immediate release |of the framed up strikers now on | trial. We further demand the im- | mediate withdrawal of the state mil- | itia and hired thugs of the textile | owners. | “Be it resolved that this resolution * the reformist leaders of the trade} GENEVA, Ohio, Aug. 18.—Scand-| “We, Scandinavian workers from | Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Akron, | and progressives aligned with them | claimed, on the other hand, that the increases were far in excess of what |was necessary to protect the beet and sugar industry. When the Hots reconvenes to- morrow, however,’the tariff will not be the only issue. Whatever their iprice quarrels, republicans, demo- crats and progressives are anxious to talk the Hoover naval armaments policy and the speedy application of the national law enforcement bill | to be used against the workers, | IMPERIALISTS DISPORT NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 18—Former British Exchequer Chan- (cellor Churchill visited both sides of the Falls yesterday with his family. |He is touring Canada to aid British empire supporters resist the pres- sure of American investment hold- After Snowden had given his formal refusal to accept the pro- posal of the four other creditor na- (Continued on Page Two) roops had in any way invaded te guardist and Nanking troops ®have repeatedly invaded Soviet territory, fired upon and killed and wounded Soviet citizens, and are at present concentrating on the frontier as powerful a force as A concentration |of twenty thousand troops under General Chang Hsueh-liang is the latest figure given by Nanking mob- can be mobilized. Fe on the eastern front alone. “Recent days have witnessed an augmentation of attacks by white guardist and Nanking forces upon the official “Raids and firing and peaceful popula- an_ exceptionally our frontier posts,” | statement say: on our posi tion, of reckless character, occurred in the region of Manchuria Station, Lake Hanka and the village of Poltavsk, twenty-five miles from Pogranitchnaya Station. “Our frontier posts offered the | most determined resistance to raids. “The Chinese disseminate lying that the initiative in the skirmishes was taken by us. Thus reports they try to screen their own at- tacks.” The official report states that “our posts have limited themselves on all occasions to a firm and determined resistance to the raids and shoot- the Chinese and white guard bands.” ings proceeding from & «@ Nanking Concentrates. HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 18.— General Chang Hsueh-liang has or- dered the of twenty thousand troops tu be concentrated along the eastern Manchurian front, it was reported here yesterday. Chang mobilization Tso-ksiang, governor of Kirin is said to be in command of the troops. ANNOUNCE ANTI TAMMANY CLOAK IMPERIAL TOUR Simons to Address U.S. Workers The All America Anti-Imperialist League (U. S. Section) announces a |national tour on the subject “The Struggle gainst World Imperialism, The Frankfort Congress and Latin- America.” The speaker will be Wil- liam Simons, National Secretary of the U. S. Section of the All-America imperialist war breaks. ers in the Dominion when the next} Anti-Imperialist League. Two days (Continued on Page Five) Vivid Barbusse Tales Start in Daily Worker Tomorrow “I Saw It Myself,” Unforgettable Sketches of War and White Terror “Etched in fire on my mind.” Rest.” The first sketch, which the MEETING TODAY Fake Commission Holds First Session: The Cloak and Suit Industry Com- mission created by Tammany Hall and the International Laides’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, the company union in the cloak and dress trade, will hold its first meeting today at ithe office of Raymond V. Ingersoll, According to information in the cap- italist press, Ingersoll will be chosen executive director of the commission. The commission was organized after ‘the recent fake stoppage of the |company union was ended with the | (Continued on Page Five) NEW HOSPITAL TRUST. The New York City Sospital and | Cornell Medical College filed plans \here for a new east side medical center comprising 13 buildings to be jerected at a cost of more than $20, 000,000. Work on the project, which is expected to take three years to complete, will begin at This is what Henri Barbusse him- | “Daily” will start publishing tomor- | once, \self said of the intense, stark |row, is called “Song of a Soldier.” sketches he has gathered together It is unforgettable. blocks, extending from 68th to 71st in book form under the title of | All True Stories. |Street, between York Avenue and |Saw It Myself.” All the stories in “I Saw It My-/ Exterior Strets, on the East River, Tomorrow the first instalment of | Self” are true, They were all either Must north of the Rockefeller Insti- these vivid stories will be printed in |¢xperienced by Barbusse himself or tute for medical research. No poor the Daily Worker. The book is di- | gathered from reliable eye-witnesses | patients will be admitted; onl? the vided into three parts: “The War,” | and authoritative documents. Some extremely wealthy will be able to “The White Terror.” and “The) — (Continued on Page Five) -ipay the high rates, “~~ > ¥ Yes \ The buildings will cover three city