The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week 3] Entered as second-clai matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. VI., No. 146 a daily except Sundsy by The Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929 Outside SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $5.00 per yenr. New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. TRY SIXTEEN FOR LIFE IN Entire Worker and Peasant Population Roused Anthracite and Bituminous Miners Send 250 Arabs and Jews Clash ‘TUEL Traction Section By Continued Invasions and Outrages Complicity of Chinese War Lords in Raids on Plea for Funds to Send Metropolitan Area’ Siberian Border Proved; Yen Builds Arsenal MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., August 25.—The wrath he wi _| Louis Hyman, president of the | Council urges immediate contribu-) : Be a ea Ne Se UCP | carat readies Wievers Teanetrial| Gonaiaud gericcnt bt funds oledeed ers and peasants continues to rise against the invasions of white guard Russian mercenari ies of the Mukden government Delegates; ‘Mother’ Guynn Is a Representative|, Over the Ancient | Distributes Leaflets; Delegates to Clevel and Made by TUEL | Union; Ben Gold, general secretary,| at the conference. last Tuesday to s'and Jack Schneider were elected |insure the delegates fare to Cleve- and the persecutions and arrest of Soviet Union workers on the| delegates to the Trade Union Unity | land. Chinese Eastern railroad. Convention at the session of the Over 250 of the delegates who will “Disarm the White Guard Bandits,” is the main thesis of General Executive Board yesterday.|gather at the Trade Union Unity editorials and leading articles in the Moscow press, and the press of other cities. It is understood that extra defen- sive measures are being taken by the Red Army in the Far East, and that orders have gone out to spare no effort to cut off the white guards when they cross the boundary line. Numerous such invasions have ended in disast/ for the hirelings of for- eign in erialism which uses the hines¢ ar lords as middlemen, but ‘ith {+ active assistance of the vhinese army of Chang Hsue-liang, armed white guard bands of consider- able size still slip over the extensive Manchurian-Siberian border, to at- tack railway bridges, and raid into ~ a few villages. Would Destroy White Guards. The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, now demand, through their press and through countless resolutions from shop and village meetings that these murderous white guardists be followed to their nests, and deptived of any possibility of continuing their attacks, While the situation remains doubt- ful, the doubt is only about whether the Mukden government, and its backer, the Nanking government, will continue to defy the demand of the Soviet Union government that the seized Chinese Eastern railway be restored to joint control, the in- asions of U. S. S. R.| territory topped, and negotiations then pened to settle this question. The determination that events take this course and the complete, unanimous backing of the Soviet government by the whole worker and peasant population is clearly evident. Many workers believe, and the (Continued on Page Five) BACK WORKING WOMEN’S MEET Conference Tues. for C. P. Campaign The working women’s conference called by the New York District of the Communist Party was endorsed yesterday in a statement issued by the United Council of Working Wo- men, Kate Gitlow, secretary. The conference will be held Tuesday, at & p. m., at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, to mobilize support among the working women of New York for the Communist Party can- didate in the election campaign. “It is high time,” the statement eclares, “that the working women hould get interested in political ac- ion. The working women are being exploited even more than the men workers. “The working women at home suf- fer a great deal. Low wages drive them more and more into the fac- tories, mills and other fields of oc- cupation to earn some money, leav- ing the children without care be- cause their husbands are not earning enough to support them.” The conference will be attended by delegates from many unorganized factories and shops, delegates also being present from trade unions with a large percentage of women mem- bers. ‘ARREST THIRTY- ONE AT DETROIT | _ SACCO MEETING |L.L.D. Fights for Their | Liberation | DETROIT, Aug..25.—A fight for | the release of 31 workers arrested at | a Sacco-Vanzetti memorial and dem- | onstration against the Gastonia conspiracy at Cadillac Sq. Saturday is being conducted by the Interna- | tional Labor Defense. | Thousands of workers had re- | sponded to the call of the Commun- | ist Party, the I. L. D. and workers’ organizations which had called the demonstrations, when about 100 mounted police and detectives say- agely attacked the crowd. The arrested include Norman Tallentire, District Organizer of the Communist Party, and Philip Frank- feld, District Organizer of the Young Communist League. A Ker- stalky and B. Gerlack were so se- verely manhandled that they re- quired medical attention. Police brutality failed to cow the miiltancy of the workers, however, who demonstrated again at Circus Park. This meeting was also smashed. Jail Woman Collector |For Gastonia Defense Sadie Cinnan was arrested on Surf Ave., Coney Island yesterday, when collecting funds for the tag days arranged by the Gastonia Joint | Defense and Relief Campaign Com- | mittee. She was taken to the 71st | Brooklyn police station. The Inter- national Labor Defense will defend the arrested worker. The Trades Union Educational League branch of locals 38, 20, 62, 66 and 91 of the International La- dies Garment Workers Union, will elect delegates to the Cleveland convention at a special meeting jcalled for tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. et the Workers Center, 26 Union Sq. Special busses at rates consider- ably reduced have been chartered %o |take delegates to the convention. | Friday morning at 3 o’clock the busses will leave from the Workers Center for Buffalo where the dele- gates will have sleeping accommoda- |tions on a Lake vessel headed fcr | Gleveland. The hundred or more | delegates will reach the convention hall early Saturday morning. All organizations who have al- | ready elected delegates are request- jed to make reservations for the bus at the Metropolitan Area headquar- |ters, 26 Union Sq. The Executiv: | CONTINUE QUIZZ OF SHOE WORKERS Zimmerman Jailed for Opposing Questions | Tammany Hall police and United States Department of Labor agents arrested Israel Zimmerman of the | Independent Shoe Workers’ Union on |Saturday when he advised the 350 | workers of the Dan Palter shoe fac- | tory, 151 W. 26th St., not to answer the anti-labor questionaire presented by six patrolmen and agents of the U. S. Labor Department. Zimmerman was first roughly handled by Captain Brady, who headed the police, and when he con- | tinued to tell the shoe workers that |it was within their legal rights not |to answer the questions, he was | taken into custody. When arraigned lin the Jefferson Market Court be- 3 (Continued on Page Three) Protest upon protest, cablegram after cablegram continue to pour into this country, flooding the au- thorities with the above demand on behalf of the textile strikers. The latest protest, a cable from the Anti-Facist Defense Organiza- tion of Aachen, Germany, where bit- ter strikes have occurred time and again, was received at the national office of the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Committee, at 80 E. 11th St., New York City. The cablegram is one of a rum- ber from German working class or- ganizations, including the working women, the International Labor ‘De- fense, of the Central district, and trade unions throughout the land. These are supplemented by protests from French trade unions, eighteen of whom sent their seals on a protest from Latin American, Canadian and Workers’ Organizations Abroad Protest Gastonia British Sunday Worker Opens Gastonia De- fense and Relief Fund Russian unions, as well as Interna- tional Labor Defense organizations. The anti-fascist “schutzbund” of Aachen stated in their cablegram: “The participants in the mass meet- ings of the Anti-fascist Defense Corps raise flaming protest against the new “Sacco-Vanzetti crime of the American bourgeoisie. “We demand the immediate free- dom the 23 imprisoned textile work- ers! Hands off the 16 revolutionary workers and working women, whom the American executioners are anxi- ous to send to the electric chair!” In addition to those protests, word was received yesterday from the well known working class paper of Eng- land, the Sunday Worker, stating that the columns of that paper have been opened for contributions to the fund to save the Gastonia strikers, during Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign, Aug. 24 to Sept. 2. Convention in Cleveland, Aug. 31, will come from the bituminous and anthracite coal mines. In addition, representatives from the Ladies’ Auxiliaries of the National Miners | Union of Lansing, Ohio, Wheeling, W. Va., and Masontown, Pa., have registered their credentials thus |far. “Mother” Guynn, militant | Strike leader from Ohio will be among them. Dan Slinger, secretary-treasurer of the Illinois district of the Nation- al Miners Union, reports that the locals of that district which have not yet elected delegates, will do so at meetings scheduled for this week. Freeman Thompson reports from Southern Illinois, last hold of the United Mine Workers, that a dele- gation from that section will also join the miners’ section in Cleve- land. The Indiana district annual con- vention of the N. M. U., which clos- ed last night, «lected its quota, ac- | cording to Secretary M. Taburiaux. | The delegation from Los Angeles, jland, This district was able to send only seven, because of the great dis- tance and expense involved, They include a Mexican foundry worker, a jrepresentative from the Japanese | Food Workers Association, another from the Marine Workers League |of San Pedro, and cigar and needle | trades workers. Shop committees of the Harvester works and the Deere Plow plant of Rock Island, Indiana, are sending | four delegates. Steel, oil, rubber and |metal workers of Hammond, Whit- ling and Indiana Harbor are also sending representatives elected by shop committees of the unorganized workers, NEEDLE TRADES TOOPEN BIG DRIVE Organize Campaign Throughout Country An extensive organization cam- | paign in the needle trades centers | thruous the country, endorsement of | the Trade Union Unity Conference that opens in Cleveland on Aug. 21, and support for the 16 Gastonia workers who go on trial for murder in Charlotte, N. C., today, featured the two day session of the General Executive Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union (Continued on Page Three) HAGUE MEETING IN NEW CRISIS —The French-Belgian-Italian allied financial experts are working cver- time to be able to present to Snow- den, the British labor party and imperial English representative at the Young plan conference here, a new offer. Snowden demanded it in writing and set a time limit, not later than the opening session Monday. He re- (Continued on Page Five) | Calif. has already left for Cleve-| Wailing Wall ‘Hundreds Wounded ‘Labor” Warships, Troops BULLETIN ONDON, Aug. er MacDonald with Lord Reading for several | hours tonight the Palestine situa- tion, and it is reported that Read- | ing will be sent to command the | troops being used against both | Arab and Jewish workers there. | . . | WASHINGTON, Ang. 25.—Eman- uel Celler, republican congressman of New York, demanded today of Secretary of State Stimson that the| cruiser Raleigh be sent to Palestine |immediately to protect investments |of Americans there. American cap- jitalists making use of the Zionist movement, says Keller Celler, have |big holdings at Tel Aviv, where | fighting is reported, oe * |..JERUSALEM, Aug. two British warships speeding to Palestine and troops dispatched from Cairo at the order of the Brit- ish “labor” government, sporadic fighting between Arabs and Jews continues after the fierce clashes of yesterday and Friday, in which be- |tween 50 and 100 were killed on both sides and ‘several hundred wounded. F | Martial law has been proclaimed, | British police are patrolling the | streets with rifles and armored cars jand no one is permitted on the (Continued on Page Five) ARMS TALK NEAR FATAL COLLAPSE |Expect End of McDo ald- Dawes Farce PARIS, France, Aug. 25. — The French press hails with delight President Hoover's recent statement that the limitation of armaments conference between Premier McDon- ald of England and U. S. Ambassa- | dor Dawes has not progressed as |far as the general opinion seems to |grant. The French government is |said to be particularly pleased with | Hoover’s statement that France and Italy must be included in the “arms limitations” talks. n- sibilities of a clash between France |and Italy. England, with its supe- rior surface navy, has always man- euvered to have the French subma- rine fleet cut. Recent disagree- ments at the Hague have intensified the suspicion of the French govern- ment that England is trying to bar- gain with the U. S. to make a unit- ed front against submarines, which are England’s most dangerous ene- my and France’s best weapon in a war with England. But Italy also depends largely on her submarine navy, and Mussolini has demanded parity with France, | which demand the French govern- | ment rejects, Le Temps, semi-offi- cial Paris newspaper, which recent- ly surprised the world with its ad- vance information that the Dawes- McDonald conversations had “reach- ed the point of death,” admits that the Franco - Italian controversy, while seemingly insolvable, must be compromised some way, otherwise Italy and France will not be able to meet the British apd possible U. S. attack on submarifes. 25.—With This revives the whole submarine | issue and also opens up strong pos-| For Mass Walkout Wapner Cries “Reds” Gov’t Sends Twists “Rules” to Aid| Another Ballot NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 25.— Leaf- lets calling for a 100 per cent strike | were distributed at Public Ser car barnes throughout New Jersey today by the Traction Workers Sec- tion of the Trade Union Educational League, while reactionary union of- ficials met in secret conference to prepare to break the strike threat- ened by 80 per cent of the men when they refused to vote on arbitration of their demands for a 25 per cent wage raise. A Convenient Constitution. Contrary to previous avowed “ex- planations” of the union ofticials that according to union constitution a 51 per cent vote is necessary to sanction arbitration, local president William Wepner today declared that he and his supporters will openly (Continued on Page Five) HUGE CHARLOTTE DEFENSE MEET Dunne Indicts Bosses | For Many Killings By LISTON M. OAK. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 25.— On the eve of the Gastonia trial a |joint International Labor Defense |and National Textile Workers’ Union defense meeting was held last night in the city auditorium here. Despite the heavy downpour of rain nearly 500 workers came to enthu- siastically applaud the speakers and pledge their support to the defense. | Juliet Stuart Poyntz of the In- | ternational Labor Defense declared that the Gastonia case is not iso- lated, but part of the whole offen- sive of the bosses against the work- ers. i Part of Rationalization. “Everywhere except the Soviet Union,” she said, “the workers suf- fer continual persecution, brutality and terrorism. The stretch-out in the south is part of capitalist ra- tionalization with which goes an at- tack upon all militant workers’ or- ganizations. Every worker has a |fense and demanding freedom for |the defendants.” Binnie Green, 14 year old striker, said that while the bosses’ children are going to college learning how (Continued on Page Five) CHARLOTTE COURT SOVIET UNION WORKERS DEMAND Hondveds of Credentials BRITAIN INGITES NJ CAR MEN PUSH HITE GUARD BANDS BE PURSUED Reach TUEL as Cleveland PALESTINE FEUD; STRIKE: AFL PLOT TO THEIR BASES AND DISARMED Convention Approaches VER at KILLED TO THROTTLE 1 class interest in supporting the de-| FINAL CITY EDITION ePrice 3 Cents TODAY MILL OWNERS ASSEMBLE LAWYERS AND PERJURERS TO KILL STRIKE LEADERS Textile Workers Gather to Testify for Leaders | Who Face Electrocuti ion for Union Activity Southern Mill Hands Not Intimidated; Hurry | CHARLOTTE, N will come to trial in the Charl Barnhill. The prosecution sta: Jenckes’ attorneys, include Cly Aug. 2) Plans for Great Charlotte Conference Tomorrow 16 textile leaders lotte Court before Judge M. V. ff of 16, made up of nvil de Hoev, brother-in-law of Gov. | Gardner, A. L. Bulwinkle, commander of American Legion, the mayor of Gastonia and the m ||How Bosses Inflame N. Carolina Opinion Against 16 on Trial Typical of the way in which the Carolina bosses inflame public feeling against the 16 strike lead- ers of the National Textile work- ers whose trial for first degree murder ‘opens here today, while hypocritically calling for a “fair trial,” are the following lies from | the Charlotte News. “The leaders of the National Textile Workers Union are Com- munists,” the News s, “and | are a menace to all that we hold most sacred. They believe in vio- \lence, arson, murder. They want to destroy our institutions, our tradi- | tions. They are undermining all | morality, all religion. But never- theless they must be given a fair trial, although everyone knows that they deserve to be shot at | sunrise.” ISSUE CALL FOR NEGRODELEGATES |\Big Conference to Be| Held August 27 Calling upon all left wing unions | and fraternal organizations to elect | delegates, the Negro Committee of} | District Two of the Communist Party of the United States yester- day issued the following call for aj Negro Conference Aug. 27: “The District Negro Committee of | the Communist Party calls upon all left wing trade unions and frater- nal organizations to elect delegates to the Negro Party Conference | which will be held on Aug. 27, for the purpose of endorsing our Ne- | gro candidates, | “AIL progressive Negro fraternal | organizations are asked to send del- egates. “Conference called at 8 p.m. sharp | at 26-28 Union Square, room 202. | “The importance of this confer- lence cannot be overestimated.” ‘Tresca Tries to Maim Defense Editor in the An effort of Carlo Tresca, editor {of the anarchist weekly, “Il Mar- tello,” to cripple the defense of Sal- |vatore Accorsi, Italian worker who charge in connection with the Ches- wick, Pa. cases, has just been dis- jeovered by the New York District of the International Labor Defense, |which is fighting to save Accorsi. Accorsi is being charged with hav- ing fired the shot that killed State Trooper James Downey when state troopers brutally attacked a big | is being framed up on a murder) of Worker Framed for Murder! ‘LLD. Exposes Fake Campaign of Anarchist Accorsi Case Saceo-Vanzetti demonstration held !in Cheswick, Pa., a mining town, Aug. 22, 1927. This charge has |been made in an effort to find a scapegoat despite the fact that Ac- corsi was not even present at the demonstration, but at his home four miles away. Governor Roosevelt granted the request of the Penn- sylvania authorities to extradite Ac- corsi and the Kings county supreme court, refused the request of Isaac Shorr, attorney for the I. L. D., for (Continued on Page Five) ost prominent among the legal alent of the st They will charge that the textile workers and leaders conspired to mur- der and murdered holt. The affida the prose: based, indicate Police Ch 's ca: and framed-up defendants will ited quantity. The de |neys, procured by Labor Defense, inc Jimison, Dr. John Ran prominent Knoxville attor: Southern attorn sephson of sent affidavits prove that the attack upon the t colony, which resulted in the death of Aderholt and wounc tional Textile Workers’ Union Or- ganizer Joe Harrison and two of the raiding party, was part of a campaign of terrorism when the strike started. Defense witnesses will tell of the intense brutality of the polic thugs and the national gu woman will show the c on her arm by the by a militiaman. y will be the raid and destruction of the first relief store and headquarters, April 18, conducted under the very nose of the militia, and the grand jury in- vestigation which resulted in a com- plete white w for the raiders. rgurated Of the three witnesses upon whose affidavits the major charges of the prosecution are ba: man Tom Gilbert and Charles Roach, for- mer policeman and mill hanger-on, who was invited to jump into Ader- holt’s car and join the shooting ty, were indicted fc der since the Gaston other shooting spree day. Witnesses v Somehow on the eve and no other steps were against them. Policeman Rankin, another star witness who came with Aderholt, is also badly blasted. In spite of the prosecution attorney’s attempt to hush up the matter, exposed by | defense affidavits, a Gastonia den- tist is suing the policeman for com- ing into his office while he was ab- sent, and shooting up the place. Additional witnesses, probably of the same variety as Rankin and Roach, will be brought forth by the mill operators’ attorneys, who have declared they will accept nothing short of a death sentence. Textile workers who participated |in the struggle from the start, who | were present at the mass meeting (Continued on Page Five) POLICE ‘PROTECT’ FASCISTPILGRIMS Forewarned that the Anti-fascist Alliance of North America was plan- ning a demonstration on the dock to protest against the sailing of 1,000 Sons of Italy on a “pilgrimage” to fascist Italy, the police and New York fascists organized huge forces (Continued on Page Three) N. Y. WORKERS TO CONTINUE GASTONIA CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS IN SHOP There will be few of New York’s ven million inhabitants who have t learned of Gastonia or contrib- ited to the defense and relief fund Ay Sept. 2, \ Activities in the various unions throughout the city, and the wide- spread activities on the opening tag days, Saturday and Sunday, indicate the most intense work to raise funds will continue until after Sept. 2. The National Executive Board of the Needle Trades Industrial Un- jon at their meeting Saturday in Ners York, decided to hold meetings ers for the Gastonia campaign. They will award a prize to the largest collection made by a needle trades shop. The prize, a ten pound box of candy, was presented by Morris Sokowitz, vice-president of the Bos- ton sectioll. Alfred Wagneknecht, secretary of the Gastonia Joint Defenve and Re- lief Campaign Committee, with na- tional headquarters at 20 KE. 11th St., New York City, stated that “the results of tag days Saturday and Sunday were not commensurate with the possibilities.” of shori chairmen to mobilize work- He pressed for a continuance of \ the activities throughout the week and added efforts on the tag days, Aug. 81, Sept. 1 and Sept. 2. He stated that efforts must be concentrated on shop collection, on street and factory gate collections and declared that many workers, who have not affiliated themselves yet with the Workers International Defense were most eager to “help the Gastonia prisoners, derstand the issues in the Gastonia case,” he said. “Their own shop conditions, speed-up, low wages, generates immediate sympathy for the Gastonia prisoners who face ex- Relief or the International Labor | ecution.” “All militant workers understand that our main task today is to “Workers generally quickly un-| struggle against capitalist rationali- zation, to organize the semi-skilled and unskilled into fighting unions. This program has been challenged in the south by the textile bosses. The south is today the center of a vicious opposition to the whole na- tional movement to organize the workers in the basic industries, “This attempt of the southern tex- tile bosses and the state of North Carolina to send 23 strikers and or- ganizers to the chair is not only an effort to smash the National Textile Workers Union in the south. It is COLLECT IN SHOPS! a first step towards smashing the entire miJitant union movement. It is the bosses’ challenge to the Cleve- land convention for a new fighting trade union center,” he said. Other activities in New York for the Gastonia campaign are: a meet- ing of chairladies tonight at head- quarters at 4 W, 37th St. of local meetings in the industrial sections jat noon every day, including the fol- | lowing speakers, Harriet Silverman, Isidor Cohen and Sidney Bloomfield; | volunteers are asked to apply every 48, of the Millinery Workers; street | ing of the ten day day by phone or personally in soon be in by W, S, STREETS, TILL SEPT. 2. 221, 80 E. 11th St., New York City, the district office of the W. I. R. for collection activities. At a meeting Friday, the needle |trades, upholsterers, milliners, shoo workers, textile workers, Amalga- | mated Clothing workers, food work- ers and bakers made plans for the campaign, The peak of the activi- ties are planned for Labor Day week end. All funds on the open: