The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1929, Page 2

UAtTLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU Workers” Must Free Us’, MASS STRENGTH MUST OPPOSE SS Exposes Hyp pocrisy -of “Chivalry The following sa tha address mad bosses are attempting | to electrocution. The ad is was ‘nade tw the thousands o tended the huge Gas- | ni se and Relief demonstra-| tion-im New York rec Feliow Workers Comrades: i ration to-| faith in own there ids of June | | Schechter and myself are he ight to speak to in the jails of onia, we owe this to the aren i gesture of southern ¢ chivalry toward women of the prosecution, who | » the one hand, to cover up| stake they have | g three women into ng what an set | to the ease, wishing | | nothing, ‘at chair, as possible to long prison} ces. | » prosecution did not change | this indictment against us—indeed | i s as it de in the be- | rinning. We are indicted also for | } first degree murder. Then the pro- | attorn announced that CAPITALISM PERFi Declares Bush; ECTS TORTURE the lenient toward the —_— Women, and would ask only £9" ®/ vain, Those boys bring back to our second degree verdict against US-|minds the Centralia, Washingt We thereupon asked ourselves, if) minds 1s who in 1919 took guns their hands like our boys. Whe mob came to attack them they d you are so chivalrous towards wo- n, State of North Carolina, mill ers of North Carolina, we ask ‘ow what about those rotten con- ditions for women which you have in your hell holes of textile iaills in blood; they had thé courage to | !a gun and now sit in a y on ing their sentences for their e South? Ve ask you what about Mire. “ Be South? ; We panes ie wo-|deed: Fundamentally our thirteer that tweve hour shift for the Wo-|1oy. and we women are framed men? We ask you what about the treatment of women on the picket lines? What about the bayonets that you cracked into women’s backs, what. «bout the and clubs on yomen’s heads? What about the police who grabbed us by the throats and choked us on June 7th, kicked us and shoved us into the cells ‘ike ra’ What about these thiz_:, we ask? We two are here tonight to speak | where they cannot breathe the fi air, because we dared to rebel gainst slavery and fought and on this charge for capitalist opressor raid, th which | ers in conducting this gamous raid of June 7th, not lie down like sheep in their own |and are here today and the boys are in their cells like animals in a cag |ganized the struggle against th @ same reason, We see the object of the mill own- Qn, in| if it should hap pen that things go through this coming month, we are not strong enough to at the bosses, and if it is neces- r us to pay the penalty for ill pay it. We are rd nothing. -We are > pay that penalty, a ift up it is for you to give your an- It is for you to say “we must the penalty.” We want to We want our lives to give ) the service of the working class. We want our lives to be our own, to e the workers as we have doing ‘until now. We don’t to-pay the ty and it is up u to show your strength |) s | that the state of North Carolina dare ed not convict us. It is up to-you to ze, h a- r= he to you. Down in Gastonia, our thir- | to the frame- up in which we sixteen that there shall not be one elec- are still behind the bars.|a%e now involved. There are two|trocution, not one prison sentence; Thirteen of the finest specimen of | Objects. Their immediate object was | not one or week in prison for |that by arresting all the leadi strikers, 100, by putting all the c ganizers in jail, to break jin the Loray Mill. Their object was to crush and destroy vestiges of organization in the Sov class manhood—sitting ing the outcome of their —the worst sentence which the state can give to any man. The boys in Gastonia bring back to our minds so many labor cases of | the past—the 7 in Chicago in the| year 1886 who dared to fight for an eight-hour day. Who framed up and convicted of murder also. Seven The working class, the Amer working class must give its to this drive of the ‘mill owne’ which has involved us ng defendants. , fellow is up to you if there rther Gastonias. Some you W il be in such a case, It behind us by organ- nt unions, Defense and Re- er in this ter-| lief Cc n Id of the were*hung for _ daring to fight for /rible aff The workers have the Communist the cig! i y. Gastonia brings | given their answer in the h y building to all these or- baci to bur s Tom Mooney and|They have said “our organization It is up to you to Billings, sitting in the jails of Cali- | shall not go.” They have stood u elves to te, to build fornia, after thirteen years, after the |one man. The answer, I will then all these working vey ‘judges and jurors openly | tonight. I will give you the answer tions, which lead us sta us aid in the struggle. i that they are innocent, but in|to the indictment of the mill ownc PREE THE GASTONIA PRISONERS! bpepay - '|Tenth Anniversary of Communist Party Picnic in Cleveland “CLEVELAND, Aug, 21. — The| Party will be celebrated at the pic- nic of District 6, on Labor Day, | Sept. 2 at Rybeck Grove, 6347 Tur- ney Road, starting at 10 a. m. There will be national speakers, labor | sports by the Labor Sports Union, a ball game, ments. The picnic will take place at the time of the convention of the Trade Union Educational League in Cleve- 10 "MILL BARONS” | | | | York recently. | Jland and a large number of the|the workers in Gastonia. | derous clutches |It is not only a battle to establ the right of the workers to organize | | bosses. tenth anniversary ofthe Communist | AY, AUGUST 2 22, 1 929 Venue Change a Tnick’, Says Schechter By William Siegal” “DEMONSTRATE PEFEAT THE “Throw Yourselves in Defense Drive” “Only you workers can save us,” declared Amy Schechter to the huge audience that heard her at the Gas- tonia defense demonstration in New Her speech follows: Fellow Wo 's and C ‘ades: The battle to free the 16 Gastonia prisoners, one of the most tremend- ous tasks before the American work- ing class today, is not only a battle to free 16 workers from the mur- of the mill owners. h in the South. It is a battle for the right of revolutionary unionism to} exigt in the United States, rades, if the workers of the United States do not yet realize that this is the beginning of our fight today, to free the prisoners, the capitalists of t!:e whole United States do real- ize this. They realize this is a turn- ing point in the history of the work- ers of the United States, cause of this the capita United States are united back of the mill owners of the South to railroad these workers to the electric chair. In this fi movement of organi- zation, of militant organization in the south, the capitalists saw that the workers of the south were not a reserve of reaction but a reserve of working class militancy and cour- age. The mill owners know that for the past ten or fifteen years the workers of the South have been thru | militant struggles, have been shot | down in their attempts to organize. About the tent colony there were women and children. The police _|would come around, the committee of 100 would threaten to tear our place down and kill the women and child-! One day before the raid they | tried to kill Red Hendricks, one of | ren. our leading defendants, the young mill worker. He was one of the first strikers to be arrested in the strike. He was one of the first to go up outside the iaill gates and to call to the workers to revolt against the That night a gang, togeth- er with some of the police tried to put him to death, when some of the workers came along and they had to drop him. When they got hold of Hendricks, he was on his way to a | house of a worker in the Loray mill, to talk about coming out. After dancing and refresh- | 2¢ was beaten up, he went to the} union headquarters, sat there spit- | ting blood for a few hours, and then he went to the house where the worker lived, to carry out his job fq the union. That is the spirit of When jdelegates to the convention will be they saw the spirit of the workers, at the picnic. Graf Stowaway Breaks |For Freedom, Caught HAMBURG, Aug. 21.—Albert Buschko, the stowaway on the re-| cent voyage of the Graf Zeppelin fat Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, | facts against them. N, J., attempted to escape from the 1 | One “Hundred opened fire on the mill owners decided to drown the strike in blood. The d-unken mob of police and the drunken committee of the workers there. Then the battle com- menced, as you know. Why did they take the sixteen defendants out of the one hundred arrested first? Not because they have ae any All the evi- dence of the prosecution is based on ship on which he had been deported | lying affidavits that will not be able | from America when it neared Ham- | to stand up when they reach the | burg today, jumping overboard and | light of day. ing out for shore. of the Graf Zeppelin as it pulled | ‘out of its hanger at Friedrichshafen, By Fred Ellis | { | weeks Affidavits of people | A boat pur- | who have been bought by a few dol-| | Defe ; he was recaptured and turned | lars. over ‘to the police and will be prose-| strike, has turned against us, can|every shop and factory the truth of | cuted on a charge of endangering | be used by the prosecution. Not, be-| the case. public transport by jumping on top| cause they had anything against | doors open and see that the workers | | go free. The other danger is a ‘atal- | Not one worker, active in the them, but because they were the | heart of the union in Gastonia. They were workers straight out of | the mill who in two months had developed to a point where they could go out and organize other) workers. Since I have been here, I saw there | were two great dangers which may send our workers to the electric chair. One is an illusion that be- cause there has been, a change of venue that the defendants will go free. This is a very dangerous illu- sion. This change of venue was ‘| forced out by the mass pressure of the workers. But if the workers |give up and rest on their laurels, the bosses will have won. This |change of venue is only the begin- ning of the fight. The next two will determine the fight. Com- | and be-|} s of the } Workers! | | Boston common after the legal m the 16 strikers, | Gastonia Colony Ts) In Need of Clothes; || W.LR. Asks for Help Clothes are badly needed in the tent colony near Gastonia, accord- ing to Caroline Drew, relief rep- resentative in the South. ‘The Workers International Relief urges workers everywhere to send bundles of clothes of every de- scription, and shoes to the W.LR. store at 418 Brook Ave.. New York City, in care of Louis Baum. Baum, who manages the store, announces that a truck wil) call for bundles if they cannot be sent direct. A cleaning establishment is also operated under Baum’s supervision, which not only mends and cleans garments before they are sent South, but also does ex- pert cleaning and dyeing for pa- trons, to cover the expenses of operating the store. All sympathizers are urged to patronize the store. Garments are called for and delivered. \Widow of Prisoner Killed in Auburn Jail Rebellion Sues BUFFALO, Aug. 21.—Suit for/| |$100,000 damages will be started York seeking damages fo: the death of Joseph Cirringone, 37, a prisoner bellion at Auburn, The suit is being brought in the name of Cirringone’s son, widow, and mother. It is based on the theory that a prisoner is entitled to) protection while in prison. His | death, it is charged, was due to care- lessness of the guards who fired on ‘prisoners, The claim will be filed in Albany in a few days. The guards are said to have shot right and left. Every ounce of energy must be put into organizing against the mill bosses during the next two weeks. They must throw themselves into the defense campaign, They must recruit members ‘into the W.1.R. and into the Gastonia Joint and Relief Committee. |They must show the workers in he LL.D., se They must force the jail listic attitude. They assume that the | bosses are too strong. that they have | | these workers and that they well all | | go to the electric chair. We will have a splendid funeral and we will |have a splendid demonstration. We will have the new working class | martyrs, We have too many working class martyrs today. Too many Mooneys in jail. We need fighters, today, not martyrs. We do not need mass demonstrations at the funerals of |these Gastonia workers. We need demonstrations now, to free these workers. And Comrades, we do not need splendid corpses for the rev- olutionary movement today. We need these workers and Comrades alive and free, to carry on the fight and organize the South, MODERN Under the Directio OPEN UNTIL SEI N. Woc olona COOPERATIVE ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Y- Fifty Miles from New York City BUNGALOWS, ELEC- TRICITY — MUSIC — SPORTS LECTURES AND DISCUSSION $23 for Tents—$27 for Bungalows Special LOW RATES for Members Round Trip Ticket Thru Our Office $2.00 Save $1.60 by getting tickets at the office Y. Office Phone Stuyvesant 6015 CAMP TELEPHONE — MONROE 89 WORKERS Camp mn of Ray Ragozyn PTEMBER 8, 1929 Reservations must be made afew days in’ advance Photo shows thousands of Boston this week against the State of New|* shot and killed in the prison re-| No socal ee ‘ns 3 OFFICIALS PLAN TO JAIL WORKERS IN ARMY PRISONS “Enforcement” Plan axtended by Hoover Aug. 21.—Work- can be forced to ndergo repressive discipline of the | military ja according to an agree- ment concluded today between pr ident Hoover, War Secretary Good jand Attorney Mitchell. Under the plea of “relieving overcrowding in Federal penitentiaries,” the agree- ment provides for the transfer to the State Justice Department of | military prisons not yet full. The first move in the new plan | will be to turn over the notorious | Leavenworth Military Prison to the | Department of Justice. The vicious ling class pri workers demonstrating on urder of Sacco and Vanzetti, Aug. 22, 19 A legal murder on a larger scale looms in Gastonia. Work- | discipline at Leavenworth has been ers, will you let the mill bosses murder the 16 fighters threatened | told more than once by soldiers and | with electrocution? Demonstrate, and aid the International Labor particularly by friends of John Defense and Workers International Relief joint campaign to free Eee Communist League or- | ganizer imprisoned for deserting the ———| army and becoming active in the |New Bedford textile strike. Gov- ernor’s Island and Aleatrez, where | Panl Crouch was imprisoned for ac- tivity in the Hawaiian Communist BIG ANTI-FASCIST MEET THIS FRIDAY = L are also included in the | jt lov aa move is inspired largely by the recent wholesale prison re- a " a | volts against terrific overcrowding, XY Wor kers | to Protest the use of military jails for the eivil- Fascist “Pilgrimage” | ian population fits well into the Hoover “law enforcement” plan, de- | signed. primarily as an extension of | repre ve measures against the jis to register approval of the strug- gle which is being waged by the; | workers. |workers and peasants of Italy’ against the infamous fascist-capi-| ag ine |talist regime; to demonstrate the| 820, 000, 000 Li jwill of anti-fascists to fight the re- [For Germany, USSR & |action in the United States; to de-| Japan Being Planned |mand the liberation of the Gastonia |frame-up victims and all political |prisoners languishing in capitalist] $ | jails, and to protest against the fas- | \cist propaganda ‘ “pilgrimages” to in- | Soviet Union and Japan, with termi. |quisitorial Italy, where more than| Pals in each of the three countries, 115,000 workers have been jailed, |WaS announced today by Capt. W ter Burns of the Aeronautic Soci- ety. Two liners of the Zeppelin type with a third craft in reserve for emergencies, and four flights |monthly from’ Berlin to Tokio and return are planned, the venture call- |ing for possible extension of service BERLIN, Germany, Ayg. 21 $20,000,000 project for regular di gible service between Germany, the More Charges on Quack Minister Affidavits and other papers com- piled by the Department of Health,; giv ing further exposures of the med- lieal quack, Rev. James Empring- ham, are in the hands of Deputy State Attorney-General Sol Ullman ver and San Francisco. Leningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Harbin | and possibly Osaka would be regular while the minister is traveling east|Stations on the route, with mooring |to face charges. The papers came|™asts used at intermediate points, from the State Board of Medical| While it is proposed to build a hang- Examiners yesterday, it was learned|®" @¢ Krasnoyarsk, U. S. S. 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