The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1929, Page 1

L THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS ( For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize. the Unorganized ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Baily —2 FINAL CITY EDITION ser VI., No. 145 Published daily except Sundsy by The Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. NEW Police ere AUGUST 24, 1929 Outside RATES: In New York, y mal New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. . $8.00 per year. COTTON MILL HANGERS- ON F OR LEGAL LYNCHING | SOVIET MASSES INFURIATED AT | CONTINUED NAN HINT IMPERIAL Old Treaty May Be Pre KING OUTRAGES; IST INTERVENTION: text for Powers to Seize Chinese Eastern Railroad Nanking-Manchurian crease After Warlord MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Au Troop Movements In- s’ Mukden Conference ig. 23.—The latest prov dation of the Chinese militarists and white guardists in Manchuria has caused a new wave of pro toilers of the Soviet Union. Mass meetings in the ind test and indignation among the ustrial towns and agrarian cen- ters demand that the Soviet government take energetic mea- | sures to repel the attacks , the Chinese war lords and their | -allies. Collections of defense funds are being raised rapidly throughout the Soviet Union. Workers and pea- sants, particularly the youth, volunteering on a mass scale to join the Red Army when required. The workers of many factories! have decided to contribute a per-| centage of their wages, in order to build tanks and airplanes and other war material needed to defend the} Workers’ Republic. Soe * WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—A new basis for imperialist intervention in i Manchuria has been suggested by | the Nanking government in the note delivered to Secretary of State Stimson by C. C. Wu, Chinese min- ister. The last paragraph of the leng- thy document makes reference to (Gontraxed: On Page) on Page ne) “SCABS “PICKET” UNIONIZED SHOP Cloakmakers Ignore Company Union , “Pickets’ of the scab Traeenactonal|| Ladies Garment Workers Union yes- terday morning appeared in front | of the cloak shop of Schwartz and | Salzman, 131 W. 35th St. which has an agreement with the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. This is the shop where Joe Jacobs, militant cutter, was murderously at- | tacked by gangsters of the company | union several weeks ago. Jacobs is still in the hospital in a very seri- | ous condition. The strikebreaking I. L. G. W. en- raged because the workers of the | Nelle eed on Page Five) TAMMANY LOWER IN BANK MIRE City Trust Trial Points to $5,000,000 Grab Another trial of sordid graft lead- ing directly to prominent Tammany city officials was struck at the grand jury trial on the City Trust Com- pany crash yesterday, when Anthony Di Paola, secretary-treasurer of the looted bank, gave enough evidence | to indicate where most of the $5,- 000,000 went. Pending indictments, names will be withheld, although the “new” Tammany will seek to keep as many of its stars out of the scandal as possible. “Now, at last, we have track of where a goodly part of the $5,000,- (Continued on Page Five) of* JERSEY HENRY FLIRTY Chairmen of the Boer FREOERICK L JEWERES free come 8 MEARMAN Genere! Manager CHARLES H MERMIMAN Treasures ABAAC MEMBER THE CotTon-TexTILe INSTITUTE, INC NEW YORK OFFICE Ag Lessard Suse PAWTUCKET, R.1. MANVILLE JENCKES COMPANY AKRON OFFICE Second Neviens! Bulag November | Mr. G. A. Johnstone, Resident Agent, Manville jenckes Loray: Division, Gastonia, N.C. Company, | Dear Mr.Johnstone; The Tisclaration of War Against the Workers of the Minville. Jenckes Co. Mute MAMVILLE te PAWTUCKET. R.1 WOOM@OCKET, A |. OLORGIAVILLE,® L, GASTONIA NOS HIM SHOALS. C. 8, 1927 I have been keeping close tabs on your payrolt “REFUSE T0 VOTE and production at Loray Division and I am glad to say it is very ON ARBITRATION gratifying to see your payroll come down and your production go 80 Per Cent Abstain; | Want Strike Action NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 23.—Deci- sively rejecting the collaborationist program of the officialdom of the ‘and Electric Railway Employees, nearly 80 per cent of the union membership refused to vote on ar- bitration of their demand fog a 25 per cent wage increase, it was re- vealed when the ballots were count- ed at City Hall tonight. The ballot | boxes were burned by the would- be arbitrators in dismay. Speaking for the Amalgamated leadership with whom he is cooper- ating to avert a strike, City Clerk Egan announced a conference to be held tomorrow to decide on another vote later. Another chance will thus \be provided the union bureaucracy “to perfect its strategy, and, accord- ing to the open accusations of the MConnsas an Rave on Page Fir) U.S. ATTACK ON N.Y. SHOE UNION: | |Anti-Labor | Questions | — Asked Workers | Agents of the United States de- | partment of labor yesterday visited | Shoe factories that have agreements | with the Independent Shoe Workers’ | Union and demanded that the work- ers fill out questionaires giving their name, address, place of birth, when they entered the country, whetlfer they are citizens and other questions lof a similar nature. Workers who refused to answer the questions were threatengd with arrest by Tammany Hall policemen, who accompanied the jlabor department agents, but no workers were taken into custody when they called the bluff of the government spies. Asks About Y. C. L. A special note on the bottom of the questionaire reads: “If children are connected with any Communist organizations, such as Young Pio- | neers, Young Workers’ League, or any Communist organization, same will be noted above,” When the goverrment agents and police entered the William Goldstein shop, 127 Spring St., several work- ers answered the questions before I. Girsch, shop chairman, was aware what was going on. When Girsch Fy (Continued on Page Five) Amalgamated Association of Street |, oe. to up. you Ups FLJ : EVé This letter to the man who Loray I want to apologize now for this scepticism. can:cut out $1.000.000. a year and still keep your production I am frank to say I was sceptical about your being able cut $500.000. a year on the Loray payroll and keep your production Now I think * I am in hopes of getting South but you are making rather than help. introduced the stretchout in the ill shows clearly the economic base of struggle for which thirteen of % the leaders, Fred Beal, Russell Knight, Robert Allen, « Yours very truly, K. O. Byers, Clarence Miller, W. M. George Carter, Joseph Harrison, J. C. Heffner, such a good job of it that I am oniy afraid I will upset things McGinnis, Louis McLaughlin, N. F. Gibson, K. W. Hendricks and Delmar Hampton are facing the electric chats. MEET IN SOUTH First Held in North Carolina CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 23. — |The first Sacco-Vanzetti memorial ‘meeting ever held in this state took ers Union hall, the union, Simon Gerson and Wal- ter Trumbull told Charlotte mill workers, how the capitalist class wrecked vengeance upon two Ital- ian workers, just as the Carolina mill owners are plotting to send 12 members of the National Textile Workers Union to the same fate. A second and much larger mass meeting is called for the city aud#- torium, Charlotte, under the joint Pauspices of the union and Interna- tional Labor Defense. The three women defendants will be among the speakers. A memorial meet- ing will also be held in the Work- (Continued on Page Five) place in the National Textile Work-| Thursday night. | Hugo Oehler, national organizer for | |day campaign te free the Gastonia strikers,, which started today, two |days before the trial re-opens, with \tag days across the land, is issued of the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Committee at the national office at 80 E, 1ith St., "Room 402, New York City. Fellow Workers: Today opens the ers International Relief tent col- ony. The International Labor Defense Sunday promises to be extremely successful, Numerous I. L. D. lo- cals have been built throughout the South, and delegates from great distances are expected. A National Textile Workers Un- ion picnic is also scheduled for the ame day at Davidson’s picnic conference called for Charlotte on) SACCO- VANZETT| Rally American Masses to Raise Funds for. Gastonia Defense Committee Calls for Nationwide Col-| lections on Tag Days to Save Strikers in South |Fail to Break Up Great A call to the millions of workers |ten-day campaign to raise funds and of America, to rally behind the ten-| protest on behalf of the Gastonia strikers, whe go on trial Monday at Charlotte for their lives. We have set aside these days to raise funds by means of tag days,| in this statement by the executive | house-to-house collections, street, shop and factory gate collections, by united-front efforts to secure the necessary money to meet the enor- mous expenses incurred in securing (Cgntinued on Page Five) ground, Rozell’s Ferry Road, Mt. Holly, N. C. Union organizers will tell about the preparations in pro- gress for the Charlotte Conference, caHed for Oct. 12, 13. DEMAND UNION WAGE FORT WAYNE, Ind. (By Mail).— The bakers of the Brudis Baking Co. here, 78 in number, are demand- ing union conditions and recogni- tion. POLICE, FASCISTS ATTACK MEETING Anti-Fascist Rally Despite the combined attacks of Tammany police and fascists and the arrest of two speakers, the open |air meeting at Bleeker and Mac- Dougal Sts. Thursday night, one of a series ¢alled by the anti-Fascist Alliance of North America to pro- |test against the sailing of 1,000 Sons of Italy on a “pilgrimage” to the land of fascismo, was carried through with splendid success, more than 500 workers demonstrating their solidarity with the workers and peasants of Italy wi are struggling against the fascist-capi- talist regime, and registering their determination to fight the reaction in the United States. Although Thomas di Fazio, act- ing secretary of the Alliance, had obtained police “permission” to hold the meeting, he and Peter Allegra of Il Martello were manhandled by (Continued on Page Five) TAG DAYS TODAY, TOMORROW ON EVE OF TRIALS CHARLOTTE, N. C., would pay no attention to the man to Dr. Neal at a local h CALL TUEL MEETS OVER WEEK-END Confabs ‘Bend Many To Cleveland BULLETIN CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 23.— The delegation elected to the Trade Union Unity, Convention by the Bessemer City Conference of the National Textile Workers Union, left here today. land, they will stop at Concord, Kan- napolis, Salisbury, Danville, Lexing- ton, Thomasville, Highpoint, Greens- | boro, Winston-Salem, Reidsville and Alto Visto, to distribute N. T. W. and I. L. D. literature and arrange (Continued on Page Five) ee Big Signature Dive | For the Communist Campaign Tomorrow All units of the Communist Party and sympathetic workers’ organizations are being mobilized for the election campaign signa- ture drive tomorrow. A large | turnout is expected, exceeding the number that reported on Red Sunday, Aug. 18, when over 1,500 signatures were obtained within a few hours. Special efforts are being made to mobilize for the drive in | Brownsville and in the Negro sec- tion in Harlem, In preparation of a leaflet calling upon the work- ers to put the Communist Party on the ballot are being distrib- uted. Three sections of the Party, Downtown Manhattan, Harlem and Brownsville, have challenged one another in the competition to | be the first to place their local | candidates on the ballot. While} the Downtowa Manhattan section | | has led the race thus far, it is) expected that Sunday’s returns] will put’ the Brownsville section) in the Tead. | Only six weeks remain for the} signature drive. All members of | the Communist Party and sympa- thizers are urged to report this Sunday morning at 9:30 and every night following at the following headquarters: Downtown Manhattan, Fourth St. Harlem—143 E. 103rd St. Harlem—235 W. 129th St. Bronx—1330 Wilkins Ave. Bronx—715 E. 138th St. Williamsburg—56 Manhattan | Ave. Brownsville—154 Watkins St. South Brooklyn—48 Bay St. 27 EL = En route to Cleve- | for Sunday’s drive, 25,000 copies | | ‘CHAIR FOR EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM’ IS CRY AS TRIAL OF 23 APPROACHES Tag Days All Over Country Start Today to Help Cover Expense of Charlotte Trial; Opens Mon. No Workers Are Eligible for Jury Duty, Only ; Property Holders on Venire By LISTON M. OAK. Aug. 23.—“If I were on that jury I evidence or the law and vote on the first ballot to electrocute every damn one of them.” This murderous sentiment, expressed by a cotton sales- otel today, echoéd by his com- panion, reflects the proj agiced open of the middle class in orth Carolina and through- abs the South. These petty bourgeois ele- ments depend on the textile indus- try for their prosperity, are class- conscious and as vicious as the mill owners themselves. The state of prejudice is demonstrated by this conversation between Neal and the two cotton salesmen from Tennes- |see who asked him why he “got |mixed up with these n Bolshe- deseus Why do you. nd such | scoundrels as these agitators?” | Neal explained the fundamental | Significance of the issues involved jand said that he is interested in de- |fending the workers’ right to organ- ize, strike and defend themselves. |The salesman laughed cynically and |made the above statement, that the jdefendants ought to be sent to the | chair. While the Charlotte Observer, or- gan of Duke power interests, is howling about that the union or- |ganizers and strikers are Commu- |nist “scoundrels that deserve to be exterminated but will get a fair |trial anyway for the sake of the | honor of the state, hundreds of such conversations are taking place in hotels, clubs and speakeasies, wher- | ever the capitalists and middle class gather. The topic is common here. | Business men say that they would |like to see all of the thirteen get the electric chair and the ten others sent to the pen for the limit. The mill owners and their lackeys want to “make examples” of the defend- ants as a warning to “foreign agi- tators to stay out of the South.” From this class the jury will be drawn that will swear that they are | unprejudiced and know, nothing jabout the merits of fhe case. | The importance of the Gastonia |case is recognized and has been on |the front pages of southern news- papers since the raid in which Ad- jerholt lost his life. It has been the chief topic of conversation and ey- jery literate citizen. has made up his nfind. | The workers are almost unani- | mously sympathetic with the de- fense, and the capitalist and mid- |dle class are overwhelmingly preju- (Continued on Page Five) TO HOLD TAILORS SHOP MEETING | A shop delegate conference of }Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union shops will take place Satur- |day, Sept. 14, at 11 a. m. at Stuy- jvesant Casino, Second Ave. and |Ninth St., the Amalgamated Sec- tion, Trade Union Educational League, announced yesterday. The conference will mobilize the rank and file tailors against piece- | work, speed-up and the reduction of (Continued on Page Five) THOUSANDS Volunteers for the Joint Gas. tonia Defense and Relief Tag Days are, asked to report for col- | lection boxes, credentials and in- structions to the following %ta- tions: Downtown—27 E. Fourth St., Workers’ Center; 26 Union Sq., Workers’ Center; 799 Broadway, a ne I. L. D.-W. I. R., Room 237; 51 E. | Tenth St., Shoe Workers’ Uftion; 4 W. 37th St., Millinery Workers’ Local 43; 640 Broadway, Millinery Workers’ Local 43; 15 E. Third St., Window Cleaners’ Local 8; | 131 W. 28th St. Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union; 66 E. Fourth St., Ukrainian Workers’ Club, Harlem—143 E. 103rd_St., Workers’ Center; 15 W. 126th* St. Finnish Workers’ Club; 1800 Seventh Ave., Unity Co-operative; 133 W. 51st St, Hotel, Restaurant | and Cafeteria Workers’ Union; 347 E, 72nd St., Czecho-Slovak Workers’ Home; 350 E. 81st St., Hungarian Workers’ Homa Bron x—1330 Wilkins Ave., Workers’ Center; 2700 Bronx TAG DAY TODAY! Park, E., United Workers’ Co-op- erative; 3861 Fourth Ave., Bak- ers’ Local 164. Brooklyn—Scandinavian Work- ers’ Club, I. O. G. T. Hall, 65th St.; Lithuanian Workers’ Club, 46 Ten Eyck St.; Finnish Work- ers’ Club, 764 40th St. , ane 1 OF N. Y. WORKERS ON STREETS TODAY IN DEFENSE DRIVE FOR GASTONIA STRIKERS Williamsburg—56 Manhattan Ave., Workers’ Center, Bath Beach—48 Bay St., ers’ Center. Brownsville—153 Watkins St, Workers’ Center, Borough Park—1373 43rd Sty Workers’ Club mS a ali A Work.