The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New, York, N. ¥,, ander the act of March i FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI, No. 147 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodatly Publishing Company, Inc., 46-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, iat 27, “1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATE Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. $8.00 per year. n New York, by mai Price 8 ssi GASTO NIA INDICTMENT TISSUE OF VAGUE CHARGES FOUNDER OF MUSTE MOVE HAILS UNITY CONVENTION, DENOUNCES POSITION OF “PROGRESSIVES” Budish, Recent AFL Official, Cites Disintegra- | tion of Reactionary and Muste Unions “Cleveland Convention Destined to Become | Historical,” Cap Uni J..M. Budish, one of the foremost founders of the Muste ion Leader Declares [Lovestone Gang Burglarizes\J, §, DEMANDS MUNITIONS BLAST Communist Party Office To all members of the Communist Party of the United States of America and to all revolutionary workers of the U.S.A.: Lovestone’s group of renegades, who have already dem- onstrated in deeds not in words only their anti-Communist the preparation of the strike, against the Party’s call to strike on International Red Day, and after having denounced a Com- munist to the police in one of their factional documents, have now crowned their infamy by organizing an open attack against the Party. On Sunday night, Aug. 25, the National Office of the and anti-working class attitude by their intervention, during | | | { movement, until recently a prominent official in the A. F. of L.| | controlled Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union and an} | outstanding labor journalist, hails the Trade Union Unity Con- vention, declaring that “there is an urgent, indeed a crying) necessity for uniting and solidifying all live forces within the| /Communist Party of the U. S. A. was broken into and raided by a group of Lovestone gangsters. Desks were rifled, the office ransacked and Party documents of importance stolen. Among the documents there are organizational data, reports | of the districts and other Party organizations, confidential working class so that they may® be able to build up really pow- erful organizations for defen- sive and offensive purposes. I un-| derstand this is the major task of| the coming Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention.” Stressing the organization of the | unorganized as the first task of the Convention, the task second in im-/ portance, Budish declares, is the knitting together of all “uncorrupt- ed, class conscious elements” within the reactionary and so-called “pro-| |gressive” unions scattered through- ; out the country. Hl Commenting on the Muste move-/ ment of which he was a founder but whose policies he can no longer en-| dorse, Budish says “Now, when the PREPARE STRIKE AGAINST CUTS Fighting Them NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 26.—With at least 6,000 Public Service work-| ers openly declaring their intention to strike in defiance of reactionary leaders of the Amalgamated Asso- | expulsion of Calhoun leaves not the ciation of Street and Electric Rail-| JERSEY CAR MEN) A. F. of L. Fa Fakers Plot | | telegrams from the Communist International, confidential | minutes of leading Party organs, documents on the financial i situation of the Party, etc. Lovestone’s agents did not hesi- |.tate to rob the Party office even of the check books and bank book. They have stolen not only political documents belonging to the Party and the Communist International as a whole, but have attempted also to steal the money of the Party. Tomorrow all confidential documents of the Party will be spread about by Lovestone. Thus the American social-dem- ocracy, the American bourgeoisie, the American police, will be furnished by Lovestone with arguments and documents to be used against the Communist Party of the United States of America and against the Communist International, together with forged documents which Lovestone can pretend to have discovered amongst the stolen documents. In his cable of May 15, giving directives how to seize Party property and documents, Lovestone sought to split the MORE TROOPS IN SHOWS NANKING. PALESTINE WARPLANS FOR WAR British Navy Steams , Even Mongolian Revolt On Jaffa; 150 Dead; Fails to Stop Plan | More Battles Loom To Attack USSR Land Thefts C Cause Riot Shoot Soviet Citizens [Rich ‘Arab Cl Clerics Use|Terrorist Act Covered Old Trick of Pogrom By Charge of Spying WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Secre- | NANKING, China, Aug. 26.— A tary of State Stimson cabled Am-| huge ammunition dump, assembled bassador Dawes at London, for the} |by the Chiang Kai-shek government third time today, ordering him to} |for war against the Soviet Union, jurge upon the British government | blew up today in the outskirts of | | more vigorous repressive measures this city and killed 17 persons. Gov- | in Palestine, where many rich Amer- | ernment officials estimated the dam- ican Zionists have plantations on|age at “several million dollars.” which both Jewish and Arabian | Troops were thrown into the deves- workers are exploited. | tated region. ae eae ie! iat te Rush More Troops. Mongols Revolt. JERUSALEM, Palestine, Aug. 26.| PEKING, China, Aug. 26.—Peking —Putting on all steam and nearly | militarists are greatly alarmed at | bursting their boilers in the attempt | the revolt of tribesmen in Inner Mon- at more speed, the British battleship | golia, but are determined to continue Barham and cruiser Sussex, the air-|to concentrate troops in Manchuria plane carrier Courageous and the |for an attack on the Soviet Union destroyers Veteran and Wanderer if diplomatic arrangements with the | are speeding to Jaffa, carrying bat-| foreign imperial powers continue to talions of infantry rushed aboard to | make it advisable in their opinion. | | Malta, Alexandria and Gibraltar, to | They will take a chance on losing |shoot down reyolting Arabs who | control of Inner Mongolia, if neces- |have been led by the policy of the sary, to carry out their orders from British imperial government to an | their emperialist masters. DEFENSE SECURES ORDER THAT PROSECUTION MUST CITE SPECIFIC ACTIONS \16 Defendants Facing Chair Interested Most in Progress of Organization and Defense Drive Textile Workers Throng Court Room to Greet Leaders on Trial; Court Ousts Negroes BULLETIN, CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 26——The defense in the trial of the 16 Gastonia strikers and organizers today won a decision from Judge M. V. Barnhill that the prosecution must redraft part of its bill of particulars which makes a general and unspecified charge of con- spiracy to commit murder, but reserved decision on another important part of the bill, relating to events leading up to the shooting on June | 7, in which Chief of Police Aderholt lost his life. Court adjourned soon after Barnhill’s decision. * * . By BILL DUNNE CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 26.—A long and costly legal | battle involving the interpretation of amendments six and four teen of the constitution and dealing specifically with the at- tempt to deprive the sixteen defendants charged with murder of life and liberty without due process of law was made certain this morning one hour after Judge Barnhill ordered the crier a Le Ge Open proccedings ‘in. his NEGROES JOIN IN| seis! court here with the ancient phrase, “Oyez, oyez, the court is open and may God de- fend the state of North Carolina and this court.” The defense took the offensive from the first moment and in all slightest doubt as to the disintegra- | way Employees, sentiment for a 100 tion of the so-called progressives,| per cent tie-up as advocated by the this part of the work of the Cleve-| Traction Workers Section of the land Convention gains still greater Trade Union Educational League is | importance.” |rapidly growing. : Budish was editor of the official) The state-wide strike will follow journal of the capmakers’ union |unless a new agreement, granting since 1916. He has fought the re*|/the 25 per cent wage increase and actionary. policies of the A--F. of L.| the eight-hour day is forthcoming officials, and was finally forced out|on Sept. 30, Public Service drivers, of the federation when he militantly | who in self defense asked their Party. method of gangsterism. He now seeks to carry out the same plan by this This shameless raid upon the political property of the whole Party is the work of political crooks who are now be- come the most unscrupulous enemies of the Communist In- ternational and of the working class. should. open the eyes of all honest proletarians to the class attitude of Lovestone and his group. stone group or gang, as they should now properly be called, This shameful work In this way the Love- | attack on the Jewish Zionists. | * * More Attacks Coming. A new battle looms at Tel-Aviv, which contains 40,000 Jewish immi- | grants. The authorities have pro- | hibited an Arabian funeral proces- sion to bury those falling in the} last two days fighting at Jaffa. } | The officials figures are that 45 | |Jews are killed in Hebron and 59 | wounded. One Jew was killed, 20 were wounded and 50 Arabs wounded cree sts s—/TQ ALD GASTONIA HARBIN, Manchuria, ce 26.— | Four Mongols and two Soviet Un- ion citizens were shot yesterday | after'a drumhead court martial on) | charges of being “Soviet spies.” This | | announcement was made this morn- | hi viva ing by the offieldls. ofthe Chate i Negroes as well as white workers Hsueh-liang (Mukden) government. jave mobilized themselves for the It is reported here that other ex- ten day Gastonia defense and relief Need Immediate Funds to Bring Witnesses probability the spectators and prose- cution counsel heard more legal ar- gument in the hour the defense made its motions and supported them than any court has heard in a long time. Attorneys Jimison, Flowers, and Hayes made the motions and argu- ment against the indictment and the bill of particulars brought by the prosecution. Flowers and Hayes showed that the prosecution had Huge Money Cost. fought the Mahon-Mitten plan in) Philadelphia. The Mahon brothers, in control of | the International Street and Elec- | trical Railway Employees’ Union, | |\made a deal with the Mitten inter-) ests whereby the union agreed not | [fs attempt to organize other lines| in exchange for permission , from the Mittens to organize a section of their workers. These same Ma- names to be withheld, told the Daily Workers today. | The wage gains certainly will not come’ through the’ arbitration cam- |paigned for by William Wepner and his official aides, the men hold. | They agree with the stand of their | fellow workers organized in T. U. | E. L.—‘we refuse to have our rights gambled away around the arbitra- tion table.” have lined themselves up with methods which previously it was the privilege of the police alone to use against the Com- munist Party. In informing members of the Communist Party and all revolutionary workers of the United States of this shameful anti-working class outrage, the Secretariat calls upon all units to meet, discuss and express unhesitatingly their condemna- tion of this outrage upon the whole Party. Yat Tel-Aviv last night. The total | | number of dead is estimated at 150 | for the last two days. Among those | | killed in Jerusalem was an English | rorize the strikers back to work. | officer. Seventy Jews and 40 Arabs | are reported killed at Babhamoud. ! Imperialist Zionism. Railroad have been carried out by carrying Mukden soldiers to the |frontier, and the situation grows British imperialism, in its attempt | °te@dily more tense. The railroad, jto subdue and ravish Palestine, en-|W"der Chinese and white guard courages the so-called nationalist | Russian management loses enormous employees of the Chinese Eastern | the militarists in the effort to ter- | Meanwhile only troop trains move, \ecutions of Soviet Union and Chinese | campaign Aug. 4 to Sept. 2, and de-| clarations from various unions, such as the Needle Trade Workers Indus- trial Union, who have assessed each member 50 cents for Gastonia de- fense, and reports on tag days thru- The case is costing the Labor De- fense $2,000 per day and while it is ly impossible to give a com- pletely accurate estimate of the ecution. expense, Jccal at |timate it at eight thousa pros- out the country, indicate intensive | per day. Predictions activities from the Atlantic to the that the case will la Pacific to raise funds. of four w It | The following letter from a Ne-| the list of 200 prospective ju hons are responsible for the betray- al of the workers in the scries of at-) _ Wepner has called another con- tempts to strike on the N. Y. C. | ference for Wednesday, when he subway lines. will prepare plans for another at- “The A. F. of L, follows a policy| tempt at a ballot—which this time which makes disintegration inevita- | will be used as an excuse for arbi- ble,” Budish declares in a letter ad- |tration whatever the response, he dressed to the Trade Union Educa-| 88 declared. He will also prepare tional League. “As a factor to or-| his machinery to break the expected ganize the approximately 80 to 85) Walkout. City authorities are aiding him) per cent of the entire working class} that are at present unorganized, the|by preparing to import scab buses A. F. of L. may practically be con- | from a dozen outside points, includ- sidered non-existent. \ing New York, New Haven and “Worse,” he continues, “their | Boston. strategy which is never based upon. Whatever the outcome, the city the power of the organized. work-| is completing its scab-herding so ers themselves, but upon the a: | thet it will be ready to meet recur- sumed ability to convince the em-/|Tent outbreaks. Transportation Su- ployer that it ‘pays’ them to have pervisor Crawford is making recip- of Work Day in \“Bosses Are Determined to Burn Us, But We Think Workers Realize Importance of Case’ CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, August 26.—In splen- did spirits and confident “Our Only Crime Was Organizing Workers” “Effect of Union Already Shown by Shortening |» which fruit and other products Gaston County” that working class pro- > relation to India and the whole | movement of the Jews, known as | Zionism. The Jewish capitalists, | jagents of British imperialism, an the Jewish “labor leaders” of the |second international, are the direct | instruments of British imperialism | in waging a campaign to drive from | the land the Arabs so that such land | can be turned into vast plantations Jo can be raised. | The conquest of Palestine, with the aid of the Zionists, is also a part of British imperialist policy in| Arabian East. Palestine is a part) \of the chain of British mandated | jernery. that is held with the ob- | jective of eventually dominating all that territory between the eastern TAILORS SUPPORT gro worker indicates the spirit of |the Negroes on the work done by sums daily. ion in the South where 16 members of the textile union are being tried for their lives in Charlotte, N. C. The Negro addressing the letter to the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re- lief Campaign, sent $5 to the fund. “As a Negro,” he writes, “I am keenly conscious of the value of the DELEGATE MEET ‘Workers eee Militant | work that is being done by the Na- tional Textile Workers Union where, Struggle Jin the face of opposition from the |dominant forces of the South and Men clothing workers throughout the labor aristocrats of the A. F. of New York City are discussing the|L,, it undertakes the very necessary Shop Delegate Conference of Amal-|task of unionizing both the Negro gamated Clothing Workers’ Union| and white workers of that vast ter- |shops, to be held Saturday, Sept. 14,/ritory which today constitutes the at 11 a. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving | greatest reservoir of reaction in the the National Textile Workers Un-| | battle drawn this morning will be exh: ed without the jury box being f Defendants Courageous. Fred Beal, Robert Allen, Sophie Melvin, Russell Knight and the twelve other defendants appez ared to be the least interested in of all the spe € court room. But what fey E terested in and what the quire about is the progr defense campaign, the meetings that e being he finances collected for ie defense, what the labor presg says about the case, what the union organiz doing, what the workers are saying about the case, etc. These are the things all the prisoners always ask about from visitors and the attor- neys. in- always in their workers unionized, is in itself | a serious hindrance interfering with | the roganization of the workers. “Spontaneous movements of the} workers are nipped in the bud by that deadening spirit and disinte- grating strategy. This strategy of the A. F. of L. is responsible for the present state of stagnation in ithe existing unions. The labor or- ganizations are at best marking time and in most cases are losing one position after another. The membership of the greater major- ity of the unions is continuously de- creasing. “Now, within most, indeed all of these unions there are some uncor- rupted working class elements, there are some class conscious elements who are the only hope for a re- vival, a new life and vigor. But they are scattered, unfortunately, and cannot be really effective. “For all these reasons,” Budish concludes, “and many more which I haven’t the opportunity to go in- to, the Cleveland Convention is by the nature of events destined to be- come historical in the annals of the American Labor movement, It can and should open a new chapter in its history.” (Continued on Page Five) . |TUEL Locals to Hold Important Meeting at Workers Center Today ; A very important meeting of the Trade Union Educational | League of Locals 38, 20, 62, 66,91 | International Ladies Garment | Workers Union will be held at | the Workers Center, 26-28 Union | Square, today at 5:30 p. m. sharp. Election of delegates to the Trade Union Unity Convention will take place. It is therefore absolutely necessary that all com- rades of the above enumerated locals be present. LOCKOUT LOCKSMITHS. BERLIN (By Mail).—The wage struggle of the Berlin locksmiths has increased in intensity owing to the fact that the employers have de- cided to lockout all the locksmiths. 6,000 locksmiths were then locked out this morning. Despite the strike prohibition for apprentices, the latter have downed tools and test throughout the world will force their release, Fred Beal and the twelve other defendants issued a statement just be- fore they were taken from Gastonia jail to the court room in Charlotte. “We know that we are innocent,” their statement says, and continues: “The only ‘crime’ that we have committed was to help the workers to organize into a fighting union. That our ef- forts have not been in vain is shown by the shortening of the work day in the Gaston County yarn mills from sixty to fifty- | five hours and by the fact that thousands of workers are flocking into the National Textile Workers’ Union. “The bosses are absolutely determined to have us burn in the electric chair. They will stop at nothing to achieve this and only the working class can save us from the clutches of boss justice. “We realize that if we are convicted the capitalist class of the entire country will chortle with glee. The employers re- alize that if we are sent to the electric chair it means a defeat for the entire working class, but we are confident that the working class realizes the tremendous significance of this case, and will mobilize all its forces in our defense.” BLACKLIST MILITANTS. A “Black List” for the railway- men has been introduced here. All those who participated in the anti-|P. Koehler has been arrested in JAIL CZECH COMMUNISTS REICHENBERG, (By Mail).— The secretary of the Tcheckish C. joined their adult fellow workers in the struggle. war demonstrations on the 1st of|Reichenberg and the trade union August are to be registered. secretary Mai in Aussig. end of the Mediterranean and India. PJ. and 15th St., which has been called by the Trade Union Educa-| tional League of the Amalgamated. | The conference will formulate poli-| cies for a militant struggle against Continued on Page Three) | Organized Terror. The imperialist Zionists and the! labor fakers affiliated with the (Continued on Page Five) WOMEN WORKERS TO MEET TONIGHT BURNT TO DEATH. PALMYRA, N. J., Aug. 26.— | Martin Rosner, 34, was burned to death today when fire razed ent His wife, Rose, 33, and a hter, Norma 9, and son, Israel tse cdi seriously burned. 'Mobilize “to. Support | + 4) | Communist Party |Labor Unity Prints Draft TUELProgram New York working women will | hold a conference at the Workers | Center, 26-28 Union Square at 7.30 | o'clock tonight to mobilize in sup- | port of the Communist Party can- didates in the coming election. Rep- resentatives of many trade unions and shop committees will be present to prepare for the municipal cam- paign. The conference will fight for the organization of women Workers into militant trade unions; for the 7-hour (Continued on Page Three) The proposed constitution and program for the new trade union center which will be established at the Trade Union Unity Con- vention in Cleveland, Aug. 31, will appear in a special issue of Labor Unity which is now on the press. Bundle iss and single copies are available at the headquarters of the Trade Union Educational League, 2 West 15th St., New York City. = GONFAB FLAYED United States. | “In undertaking this task, the N. Ir. W. U. demonstrates a brand of courage that stands without a peer \in this country. It takes courage to \go into the very heart of the priest Cen ce aaa) on Page Two) Distribute Daily Worker. Five thouasnd copies of the Daily Workers with the facsimile of the stretch-out letter of the Manville- Jenckes Co., are being sold and dis- tributed in Charlotte and Gastonia today. (This letter sent bythe main office of the Manville-Jenckes Co. to the Loray Division management exults ave the cutting off of half a million liars a year from the Loray pay- or and predicts a wage cut of $1,- 000,000 a year, “while still keeping | production up.”) “Tell the workers the fundamental COMPANY UNION | class issues involved in this case. Boruchowitz,_ Exposes | They will support us. Build the In- Its Dress Racket ternational Labor Defense. That's what we expect from our fellow “The letter sent to the dress man- | WoTkers on the outside,” said Fred ufacturers ‘by the company union,” Beal to me this morning. . Joseph Boruchowitz, general mana- | Avoid Names and Places. \ger, New York Joint Board, Needle CHARLOTTE, C., Aug. 26.— {Trades Workers Industrial Union| Attorneys Arthur Garfield Hayes, stated last night, “inviting them to Tom Jimmison and F. Frank Flow- a conference ostensibly in order to ers, engaged by the International establish union conditions in t h e Labor Defense, clearly demonstrat- dress trade is but another fake ma-|ed in court here today that the neuver of the International Ladies’ jmill owners’ prosecution indictment Garment. Workers Union to extort|of the 16 Gastonia defendants is money from the dressmakers, simi- ambiguous and lacking in definite Continued on Page Three) \ (Continued on Page Five) JMORE THAN HALF MILLION N.Y. WORKERS SIGN PROTEST PETITION FOR GASTON DEFENDANTS More than a half mililon workers in America have signed their names to the greatest mass protest petition in the history of America, which are pouring in at the national offices of the Gastonia Joint Defense and ety. pare at 80 E. 11th St., N.Y. Paildethia gout ran a close second to Chicago last week in se- curing signatures for'the mass pro- test petition has forged to the lead and. continues to hold it. More than 60,000 Philadelphia workers have sent in their names protesting the Gastonia officials’ the prisoners. Philadelphia’s signa- ture quota is 100,000. Chicago is second with 58,000 names. All petition slips should be brutality against the. strikers, and demanding the immediate release of COLLECT sent in as ‘soon as possible to the national office of the defense cam- IN SHOPS! paign committee. Other cities follow in order of Cleveland, 24,000 out of a quota of 50,000. Boston 31,000 out of a quota of 'their standing in the matter of si curing gignatures for the petitio New York, 90,900 out of a quota of 250,000. 75,000, Detroit, 38,000 out of a quota of California, 26,000 out of a quota 100,000. of 75,060. Pittsburgh, 14,000 out of a quota) Buffalo, 3,600 out of a quota of of 25,000. 110,000, * Susman”