The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1929, Page 1

| THOUSANDS CROWD SACCO, VANZETT DEMONSTR. | WANKING WARLORDS MASS TROOPS Millions of Workers in RAISE FUNDS TO GAS f / s (HE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government Fo Organize the Unorganized ‘ ‘Against Imperialist War | For the 40-Hour Week Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. I., No, 144 Outside 5 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Y $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929 w York, by m FINAL CITY EDITION k, by mail, $8.00 per year. TON WOMEN 15,000 NEW YORK WORKERS z BLP ONN HSM Price 3 <n Cents TION FOR THE DRIVE AGAINST THE SOVIET Zag Day Tomorrow to SEND DELEGATES DEFENDANTS AT PLEDGE TO FIGHT GASTONIA | UNION; 120,000 MEN RUSHED NORTH Open Gastonia Campaign 10 UNITY MEET Chiang Kai Shek to Hasten Army to Join Ten Day Period to Raise Funds and National Metropolitan Area to Qehler Scores U.T.W.| Chang Hsueh Liang in Attack Protest Will Continue Soviet Newspapers Denounce Incursions; Say | China Wants War to Hide Internal State MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 22.—Newspapers here last | night featured the statement of Chiang Kai-shek that he is| ready to move his army northeast to join forces with the Man-| Hundreds of workers’ organi churian war lord, Chang Hsueh-liang, and “help Manchuria tions in the mining, steel, textile Aa aN conferences Till Militants Are Free “Why do we insist upon the ten day drive to arouse the workers throughout the nation to collect a |gigantic defense fund?” Alfred | Wagenknecht, secretary of the Gas- tonia Joint Defense and Relief |Campaign stated today. “Why do we demand that beginning tomor- |row with a tag day and for every day during the entire course of the | trial we must work quick and hard, Jers’ organizations, all workers in |shops and elsewhere? “We want to score a complete |victory over the driving |southern mill barons in the lower court at Charlotte. We must win this first battle!” he exclaimed. “If the 23 textile workers and organ- izers are convicted, sentenced to death and long prison terms at | Charlotte, then it will be ten times as difficult to save their lives when |we appeal their conviction to the higher courts.” Wagneknecht pointed out the im- | portance of the tag days in the ten |mobilizing labor unions, all work-! Raise $3,000 in Week | For Cleveland | ‘Stockyards Send Dele-| | gates to Cleveland | | | Provisions for raising $3000 with- in the week to help defray expenses for the Trade Union Unity Conven- |tion in Cleveland Aug. 31, and to |send the hundred delegates from this jdistrict, was made Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity Conference. | Seventy-five of the delegates will |be sent directly from unions and} |shop committees offiliated with the | conference, and 25 elected Tuesday |night will be delegates at large. | Special busses have been chartered |for the trip at a considerable saving of expense, and all organizations are asked to communicate immediately with the local headquarters, room 205, 26 Union Square, Henry Sazer requested in a statement issued to- | for the executive council. Five hundred dollars was pledged (Continued on Page Five) PAINTERS STRIKE, Betrayal at Marion, | Calls for Struggle | Tag Days Throughout Nation; Bakers Union in ‘Call Many Conferences NTWU Spreading Fast Deman N. Y. Gives $2,500 to Fund Rally tor Charlotte | , Conference, Defense | BULLETIN United Textile Workers’ gangsters were routed when they attempted to break up a mass meeting of 300 Negroes and 100 white textile work- ers in Hickory last night. | When J. R. Pittman, one of the Gastonia defendants, Juliet Stuart Poyntz and Ben Wells called for sup- port of the defense for the 23 tex-| tile leaders who will face trial in three days, and for united action in the fight against the bosses and the U..T. W. ers, rank and file mem- bers of that organization and uncr-} ganized textile workers cheered them enthusiastically. Hoffman’s surren- der at Marion was exposed. Another meeting for Aug. 91 was announced. | ‘A National Textile Workers Union | mass rally and picnic is scheduled for Sunday, the day preceding the | | trial’s opening, at Davidson’s Picnic CHARLOTTE WEET CONSPIRACY AT SACCO MEET Rally for Joint Gastonia Defense and Relief Campaign at Huge Demonsiration 2) = d Release of 2: Against USSR; Many BUL ROSARIO, Argentina, Aug. workers, as well as to commem legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and to r 3 Prisoner —Complete p industries marked the second day of the The walkout has been called in sympathy ; Hit War Plots akers STIN. eat g with the et seco r the prot the Rosario workers against the new conspiracy of the American cap- italist class against 33 militant workers in Gastonia, N. C. Fierce encounters between strikers armed with Winchester rifles, occurred | t of the fighti counters two strikebreakers were killed and The police made many brutal attacks, the workers fighting getting far from the w refusing to give way. One street car was bombed running only a few cars, which had few of the vast majority of the population b Police today raided the headquarters of the One thousand armed police and shut it down. guarded by police, § injured. back and The pol d scabs succeeded in 5 the sympath ng solidly with the workers’ Union e patrolling the streets, trying to terrify the population. The stevedores are striking 100 per cent and the port is ¢ pletely tied up. The Communist Party of Argentina is playing a lead the strike. ¥ “Free the 23 Gastonia pri * role in ners !’ This was the cry Ground, Rozell’s Ferry Road, Mt.| 15,000 New York workers who yesterday ‘thronged Union Holly, N. C. in the greatest Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration since the te ae | great working class martyrs were burned in the el > chair CHARLOT Coan: two years ago. A resolution pledging a stri > in > of The life of the conference has been|sands of “letters of action” sent|day drive opening tomorrow. “We extended forty-eight hours and if,|0ut by the joint committee, con-| must raise $15,000 in New York by that time, no agreement can pe | cerning the tag days, Aug. 24 and/City alone, and $5,000 in Chicago,” . ary |25, Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and 2. Thejhe declared. “We*must work with reached there will be a short ple- | executive of the Gastonia Joint De-|the utmost energy and carry out nary session Saturday at which the |fense and Relief Campaign Commit- the following program of action,” funeral orations will be delivered. |tee, with national headquarters at jhe said. Briand Opposes German Plan. 80 E. 11th St. New York City,| “City-wide tag days, house to Tt i$ known"that Premier Briand |Stated today that a period of mass| house collections on Saturday, Sun- lof France is opposed to the de- | activity, such as never before has|/day, Aug. 24 and 25, continuing mand of Foreign Minister Strese- been duplicated in the American|eyery day, and then on Saturday, }mann of Germany that the three Working class will take place in Sunday, Monday, Aug 31, Sept. 1 million dollar reduction in German |¢very industrial section of the/and 2, another special effort and With only three days remainir fore they come to trial in Charlotte the Soviet Union and against imperialist war was adopted \ great acclaim. WAY BEGIN TODAY \For Wage Increase and Less Hours A strike of members of the Paint- Jers Union whose employers will not | \institute the 40 hour week and a) |10 per cent increase in wages to- on charges of murder, Sophie Melvin, : : ome militant young textile leader is Starting a little after 5 p. m., the demor speaking at mass meetings in dif- Soe Uriah ae at SIRS ADU b ferent parts of the State every day, |yallying the eager mill workers for | ‘the struggle against present condi- | tions to be chrystalized at the Char- lotte Conference Oct. 12 and 15, and! Vera Bush and Amy Schechter are | touring the Northern states under | the auspices of the International | workers were on JERSEY CAR MEN FIGHT “LEADERS” known wo called upon ond with * +. : . * * | industri: ters of the fight Russia.” In this connection, is quoted a Peking paper a other, indae Hee Guxtceie which points out that “this shows China wants war at all costs | joint Defense and Relief Campaign to distract attention from a dis-® | Committee that they will support to tressing internal situation.” HA § iJ f MEETING the utmost the ten day campaign Izvestia, commenting on the| cE 4 plat begins with tag days tomor- note which the Soviet government sue ; transmitted recently to the Nanking] | 3 me realize poe next ten days, authorities through the German em- | i Aug. 24 to Sept. 2, will determine bassy, declares that “the Soviet pro-| SUES BEEE fe f= i whether the thirteen members of AOREEEIMERE RIOR. Gaa onet lof -& the National Textile Workers’ Un- threatening character, was brought ion will be burned on the electric about by the acts of the Chinese| chair at Gastonia,” a letter stated authorities. The Soviet note indi-| s that came from the National Min- cates to all the world the growth of Ee ers Union at Christopher, Ill. ongues of which already light u ; sips A , a distant villages of Far Eastern si-| ing British Claims | ers of Brooklyn, N. Y., voted beria.” | unanimously to assess every one THE HAGUE, Aug. 22.—Secret| of the 1,500 members a dollar to Goiicentratel to Invades between representa-| contribute to the Gastonia Joint HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 29. | tives of various nations assembled | perenee saa weet Bird een Nanking authorities tonight moved|at the Hague to discuss the possi-| ¢' on the union eae sii a ie erie oe strength bility of making effective the Young} ‘The message of support came in Union. Mobilization of the entire reserve forces of the three northeastern provinces of Manchuria, Heilung- kiang, Kirin and Feng-tien, was ordered by Chang Hsueh-liang. It was estimated’ that the force from these provinces would total 120,000 men, Official advices from Peking to- day stated that 50,000 Manchurian troops are being rushed from Muk- den towards the Soviet frontier. The reparations payments be effective | United States. The ten day period | city-wide mass collections.” troop trains went by way of Tao- regardles of whether the creditor j will begin with tag days Aug. 24 nan-fu which is east of this city. | nations can agree among themselves | 274 25, for funds and will continue The aasueete a iat ai con- | as to the division of the spoils. This until the Gastonia strikers are free. ects with the Chinese Eastern at! opposition is based upon the desire | . 7 z Tsitsihar. : lof Briand to show Germany that (Committe. arrived last night from Simultaneously the Nanking au- she cannot expect to gain anything |the National Miners Union in Mlli- thorities moved troops for invasion | by listening to Snowden’s talk about NOiS: It stated: “Your letter of ac- from Kirin via Chang-chun. Most farther reduction of reparations. face es a wr you atrit- of the forces will probably go to|,, There is to be a short session | National Miners Union will be mo- the Pogranitchnaya district. jthis afternoon at which time /pilized during the ten day drive in The Nanking government seems |/Tance, Italy, Belgium and Japan) tilinois, The W. I. R. and I. L. D. to be concentrating its largest forces at Manchuli. | ss Col ii i i ‘iet | ” 5 -imedium of raisin, unds by tay nstant incursions into Soviet | W°Uld, with the small share of rep: di f raising funds by tag territory and firing upon Red Army | 2t8tions undistributed, give Britain | days, mass protest meetings, build- detachments and unarmed Soviet | What she demands in the way of ing of the W. I. R. and I. L. D., citizens continue to be reported, |Payments. distribution of leaflets, bulletins, | But it would not meet the oppo- | bills, Labor Defenders, etc. We in- [sition to the question of “pay-|tend to arrange around 20 mass |ments in kind,” which gives Ger- |many a guaranteed market at the meetings here during that period,” the letter announced. NEEDLE UNION A typica: letter received by the | He stressed the necessity for col- lections by means of the tag day ‘boxes’ or collection lists in every shop and factory. ‘Every shop |mi¥st be covered by collectors with- in the ten days,” Wagenknecht stated. Labor unions, picnics, collection lists, adoption: of resolutions to free the Gastonia prisoners, mass meet- lings, street meetings, factory gate meetings, distribution of leaflets will ask Germany to agree to an/and all organizations will be mobil-|"4 Posters are vital necessities in| yle until January 1, which the work- increase of 100,000,000 marks which| ized for united action through the |the campaign, Wagenknecht pointed | ers will not agree to. ae |in charge of the campaign especially |emphasizes that the ten day drive for funds is only the beginning of ;the national mobilization of work- ers to continue until the 23 Gasto- ‘nia prisoners are freed. expense of British industry. The economic condition of Brit- jain is such that no government can |yield on such 2 point without in- | curring serious” risk at home, GEB, TO MEET Sessions Tomorrow and Sunday The General Executive Board of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union will hold its first meet- ing since the formation of the union in January, at the national head- quarters, 16 W. 21st St., tomorrow and Sunday, Ben Gold, secretary- treasurer of the union, announced last night. | The session will be attended by executive board members from New sa00 OBTAINED py, TAXI SELL-OUT UNION R |ACKETEE Chauffeur Union Calls | For Militant Action Amalgamated Official mittees and an exposure of the Pockets Strike Tax || American Federation of Labor's S. plan to prevent unionization of the Three hundred dollars, collecte q|taxi drivers of New York City was ‘from the workers of the J. Fried-|St’essed in a statement issued last ;man shop on Long Island, has ini Slanted one Fave F888)! lGhand dtesway tito, the pockets: of | the right wing shop chairman, Rosen, jit was learned yesterday. During | the recent fake cloak strike of the | scab International Ladies’ Garment | Workers’ Union the 300 workers of the Friedman shop were each taxed $1, to be given to the company union DONATES $1,000 for the purpose of fighting the mass \of cloak and suit workers. Bakers’ Local, No. 3, Amalga-) 3 mated Food Workers, Brooklyn, set | By the time the money was col- a precedent Saturday, Aug. 17, at lected the I. L. G. W. had already their membership meeting, which S0ld out the strike, so a shop mect- every labor union in New York|ing was held, at which only 40 of, should follow in support of the Gas- |the 300 workers of the shop were. tonia workers, present. The membership of the union voted unanimously to assess the membership $1 for each member for the Joint International Labor De- fense, Workers’ International Relief (Continued on Page Vive) Greater New York, “All chauffeurs, garage men, me- |chanics and washers,” the statement |points out, “should organize in an |industrial union and fight shoulder ;to shoulder for a living wage, and jan eight hour day. We also must fight against police control of the |taxi drivers, for compensation for |injured drivers, against discrimina- tion in the courts and for the same yight on the public thoroughfares |as other vehicles.” Commenting on the statement ap- pearing in the August 19 issue of |the Weekly Taxi Sun, which states (Continued on Page Two) Only 22 Voted. A motion was made by one of} | the Amalgamated racketeers that the | $300 will be given as a gift to Rosen. Build Up the United Front of When a vote was taken 12 voted in| the Working Class From the Bot- (Continued on Page Five) tom Up—at the Enterprises! The organization of garage com-| A F ofl. PLANS Labor Sports Union Meeting The Gastonia National Committee | ing to a statement of the New York | District Council of the Painters Un- | ion. demonstration by t Tt added that about 40 per cent | stration in Union Square, New York |Wroant Strike Action for New York of their deterr of the employers have already | City, called on the anniversary of | s to allow their cour agreed to pay the new scale and in-| | morrow, will be called today, accord- | | Labor Defense, rallying support for | their fellow-defendants. | From the tremendous mass demon- the legal murder of Sacco and Van- ARBITRATION’ Wage Increase zetti was converted into a workers to b conspir: The memorial t sé |stitute the new working hours. The | 2¢tti, a wire was pares today by chair or be burie lagreement for the increase in wages | the local branch of the International! PATERSON A Aug. 22.— prison-holes of cap and reduction of hours was signed|Labor Defense pledging unabated “Sure we want a strike—it'll come jing the intensive Joi May 5 with the Building Trades | struggle until the 23 textile workers | off sooner than you expect it! But fense and Relief Drive, from J Employers Association. Many boss| are free to return to the ranks of! we want leadership!” a driver on 94 to Sept. 2, ld doce) painters have attempted to post-!the textile workers. Over 15,000 {he Public Service bus told the Daily thing in their power to 1 é pone the new hour and wage sched- | To celebrate the establishment of the 40 hour week in the building and the members of their family were present. Defense Rally. | Workers from far and wide will crowd the old City Auditorium on North College St., Charlotte, Satur- Worker yesterd The driver’s attitude expresses that taken by the great majority of the 8,000 street car and trolleymen employed by the corporation, who tion to arbitrate the wage fight be- BIG SAC (Continued on Page Five) trades tomorrow, Carpenters Union, | (Continued on Page Five) |were asked by collaborationist lead- Local 2090, will hold a picnic to-j ieee oO Jers of the Ams Assoc Aroma morrow at Kane Park, Classon tion of ¢ Railwa HE j | q Pi A Point, the Bronx. The carpenters BOMB STRIKERS Employes to vote on their sugges- 29 fu: te & i i be FE ' will attend. IN HEW ORLEANS Pledges Aid to Gastonia Drive Dynamite Tracks and ‘Beal Elected Honorary Chairman; Big Track) New orLra | | and Field Meet Tomorrow, Sunday \ The election of Fred Erwin Beal, ers Union organizers now charged with murder in Gastonia as hono-| |rary chairman of the convention; of the Taxi Chauffeurs Union of a telegram of protest to Governor | adoption of a resolution demanding the release of the Gastonig, victims Scab Run Car La., Aug. Police hurled tear gas bombs into a| ~ distrustful. tween them and the Public Service. As this edition of the Daily Worker went to press, results of the ballot were unavailable. As it is, the men resent the pro- posal to vote on arbitration at all Mindful of the action of the present union leaders when they lured them into acceptance of Public Se proposals three years ago, they ar Under the agreement (Continued on Page Five) Workers Defy Threats of Mayor Mackey PHILADELPHIA, Sacco-V A Aug. 22. several thousa in the center of the city, front of the City Hall, attended by 1 workers who rallied huge crowd of striking carmen and | under the direction of the Interna- sympathizers today, gathered on the tional: -Lator Defense. jthe Trade Union Educational tracks where a N. Claibourne Ave. UNORGANIZED T0 tho Mayor Mackey Ahi other organizations. | | ‘night by the Executive Committee ings to the Gastonia prisoners and | were given a great ovation, | one of the National Textile Work-| League, and by representatives of car was running, operated by a scab. | An explosion of dynamite on the} track of this line blew a portion of mittee of the I. ‘on of Sacco noon warned a L. D. that The three Gastonia strikers, Wal- : Hoe ne aaa ; ter Passmore, James Robinson and the steel rail through the floor and ATTEND MEETING pee she Lote ne any |George Bryson, representing the ceiling of the trolley, All the win- | State-of Mas ea th ad |the sending of a telegram of greet- | Southern District of the L. S. U., dows were blown out, and track | sing or Ms ucts eee torn up for several yards. ~~ : woul ve n up, the ; akers. s ‘ 2 Delegates from many unorganized | told the assembled workers of the The L. S. U. convention, which is| Ten people in the car, including | 4.45. will be represented at the |S etti case and the import- |Gardner of North Carolina; the| being attended by delegates from |the strike breakers running it, were working women’s delegate confer-;ance of preventing a si | many workers’ sports clubs through- | not injured. lence for the Communist Party el tion arising in North | out the country, further demon- | For the past two months, the | tion campaign to be held Tuesday, | coming to the aid of the Gastonia strated its participation in the strug- | strikers have been militantly hold-| at § p, m. at the Wor Center, | defendants who go on trial in Char- gle of the workers when yesterday |ing out against the relentless ter | 24-28 Union Square, if was an-, lotte ae wand pledging support to the Joint |Gastonia Defense and Relief Cam- paign — these were the outstand- ing occurrences at the first day’s business session yesterday of the Third National Convention of the Labor Sports Union. 5 The convention, which formally opened Wednesday night, is being held at Progressive Hall, 15 W. 126th St. At the opening night, which was attended by about 600 delegates and visitors, speeches of greetings were made by Walter | Burke, national secretary of the | Labor Sports Union; John William- son, assistant national secretary of afternoon’s session was adjourned at | 5.o’clock to permit the delegates to es of the L. S. U. in Flushing, L, I. |campaign. rorism of the police who have shot several strikers, bombed and club- the city council bar from the street siderably enlarged police force. rounce yesterday. question of mobilizing the working the committee in charge. WE CALL TO ACTION ALL WORKERS EVERYWHERE! HELP FREE THE 23 GASTONIA TEXTILE WORKERS, WHO FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR, LONG PRISON TERMS! MOBILIZE—ENLIST TOMORROW, SUNDAY, IN THE GREATEST TAG DAY NEW YORK HAS EVER HAD! MAKE THIS THE MOST GIGANTIC MASS COLLECTION NEW. YORK WORKERS EVER PARTICIPATED IN. DEFEAT THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE BOSS Asked for Committee. Many unio ic ea large| When } y heard that attend the huge Sacco-Vanzetti-Gas- |bed. the determined strike-breaking | yercanvare of wenn a nemnbe | the demons Pines te tonia Defense and Relief Demonstra- /actions of the car owners, courts! have already elected delegates to | held, he requested the I. L. D. to | tion in Union Square, where leaders | and city council who are actively co-| attend the conference. They include send 2 committee to see him this | of the Labor Sports Union spoke. | operating with them and their A. F.| the Dressmakers Local of the Needle Cc. r, F. Mozer, The convention continues all lay of L. misleaders who have been un-' Trades Workers Industrial Union, ek Meiden called today and will close in the even-|able to cope with what developed {po Independent Shoe Workers Un- who, after sta’ that jing. Tomorrow and Sunday the into a revolt against their policies jon; and the Millinary Workers Un- he believes in free h and free Third National Track and Field of retreat and collaboration. ion. asscimblage, stated that if any refer- Meet will be held under the auspice. Jitneys, which an ordinance of The conference will take up the cence would be made to the murder nd Vanzetti the meeting About 400 worker athletes, repre-| unless they post heavy bond, still! women of New York in support of would not lowed to continue. |senting nearly 40 clubs, will partici-|continue to run without charging the Cemmunist Part: The large| The sp ers at the demonstra- pate. Twenty-five per cent of the | fares, although they are trailed and | response from unorganized shops is tion included 1 Darey, Karl \proceeds will go to the Gastonia | arrested in large numbers by a con- | even greater than was expected by Reeve, Rudolph Shoan, Cooper, Mo- ES IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO TAKE THE LIVES OF THESE PRISONERS IN ORDER TO DRIVE THE NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS OUT OF THE SOUTH. EVERY WORKER ON THE JOB! COLLECT! COLLECT! COLLECT! iF