The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1929, Page 2

Page Two NEW STEAMSHIP LINE TO U.SS.R IS CHARTERED Will Carry Machinery Bought in America the Soviet Union e for commerce with s chartered a regular tonnage of the Amer- announced offites, The steam- that a regular line between U, S. and Soviet nd that negotiations are un- , with the consent of the government, for a general rocal reduction of harbor dues Am-Derutha, on U, S, and U. §. S, R. ships. The ne e will carry principal- ly the pr of U. S. firms which have signed contracts to deliver large quantities of machinery to the Soviet government. Some of these firms are: Hugh L. Cooper & Co., Stuart, James & Cooke, Greyn Engineering Company, Radio Corporation of America, International General Electric Company, Nitrogen Er - eering Company, Du Pont de Nem- ours & Co., and Ford Motor Com- Longacre Engineering a n d iction Company, the McCor- mick Company, Albert Kahn, Ine., Taft Pierce Company, Frank Chase Company, C, F. Seabrook Company, Forster-Wheeler Corp., Dwight P. Robinson & Co., Roberts & Schaefer, Lockwood Greene Company, Hercu- les Motor Company and Seiberling Rubber Company. NEGROES JOIN IN TAG DAY DRIVES Need Immediate Funds to Bring Witnesses (Continued from Page One) afd Ku Klux-ridden South and not only to organize the exploited work- ets, but to fearlessly proclaim the union as committed to a program of s@tial equality for Negroes. This latter fact alone furnishes the reac- tignary classes of the South, Negro amd white, with grounds for strong opposition. Despite this, and know- img the cost, Beal, Dunne and oth- ers have not flinched nor tried to evade. “This kind of courage and un-| flinching adherence to principle will | net permit me to stand aside and simply admire. While for personal reasons I can not do more, still I can at least contribute my share to- ward the defense of the men and women who stand in the shadow of the chair, so I inclose $5, regretting I-ean not send more.” Workers Compete to Raise Funds. “How much did you bring in for Gastonia today?” This question is being asked in a thousand sections of the American working class today, competing with one another in the ten day Gasto- nia Joint Defense and Relief Cam- paign that began Aug. 26 and will |Workers hé places in a second=zy |; compensates for this little lack.” In| continue until Sept. 2. “Unless our sympathies for the |ing to Wilson, is more laws “for| there; the innate superiority of the|so militant that Hoffman cannot strikers are backed up by funds,” | the benefit of all the people.” But,|‘Nordic” race compensates for lack, suppress their fighting spirit, They one worker said, “our defense may | | The Sun God, huge war Sun God—Dedicated to the God o DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1929 f Imperialist War ending its round trip non-stop flight across the U. S. at Seattle, a Mamer (top) and Walker (bottom) the pilots. N. Carolina A. F. b., Fake Militancy By LISTON M. OAK In its “Annual Voi ‘North Carolina Labor called the State Federation of Labor sets forth its| program and its position, This pub- lication, it may be remarked, is filled with advertisements of North Carolina insurance companies, houses, retail business firms, hot the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com- pany, printing companies, lumber firms, building and loan associa- |tions, automobile companies, flour mills, real estate brokers, overall manufacturers, box manufacturers, jwashing machine manufacturer: leather manufacturers, construction jengineers, coal companies, b: ries, machinery manufacturers, woolen mills, brick and pipe manufacturer: capitalist newspapers, ice companies, soft drink manufacturers, ice cream manufacturers, patent medicines, steel and iron companies, creamer- ies and dairies, the State College, ete. There are ads of 16 ban public utilities companies, — g: electric light and power, electric railways, etc.—have advertisements jin this organ of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor. “The | Voice” is living proof of the indus- trialization of the South. It is con- servatively estimated that not more |than five per cent of the business} |firms that advertise in “North Caro- lina Labor” employ union labor, Friendly to Bosses. | The articles by T..A. Wilson, Al- |fred Hoffman, Mary Anderson of |the U. S. Department of Labor, |Matthew Woll, John Frey, William Green, John Peel, George Googe, and the other labor fakers of the A. for women in the textile mills, He advocates, not a fight of the organ- ized mill workers for abolition of night work for women, but another to the “slave owning planter psy- | chology.” | No, Mr. Hoffman, you are wrong. Have you forgotten the revolt of law, which according to his own ad- the New Bedford mill workers which mission elsewhere, would be ignored | your company union betrayed? We} by the mill barons as the present! will not let you, nor the workers, | laws limiting hours to sixty per! forget it, F week and providing for seats for oe women are violated at present with | Hota eee caer impunity. “Let’s take advantage of | The delegates of the International | the unrest and get some good laws Labor Defense and the Workers In- ‘Slaved in Mill 64 Yrs; Medal Is Her Reward NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 26. | Sixty-four of Julia Hanlon’s 71 years | | have been devoted to making profits | for Wamsutta cottom mills—and she | jhas not yet been thrown on the | streets. | She was 2 weaver for 38 years. | | When the New Bedford Board of Commerce, jous to encourage “long and ftithfui service” to the | millowners it represented, conducted | an Industrial Veterans competition. | | Julia won the first prize. The rich | reward for her years of punctual | obedience to the looms was a gold | medal. She led a field of 190 aged | industrial slavers—16 of them with records of more than 50 years. They didn’t all get medals like Julia, but | | they were congratulated by the man- | | ager of the mill, who shook hands | | with every one of them. | The Board of Commerce has prog- tessed since then. It is now conduct- ing a campaign for class collabora- tion, and company-unionism which it styles “promoting community fel- | lowship.” The “fellowship,” of course includes “non-union” workers, | employers, merchants, men of wealth.” | Hanlon was born at Tremont in the Cape Cod district. She started | | work in New Berford as a sweeper. “The mills couldn’t get men,” she said. “The machinery for the new mill was here, but they had to take it apart in little pieces and we girls earried it to where they built the | new mill. So many men were dead | or away at the war.” passed,” says Wilson. recommendation for the mill barons: stop the unrest and the growth of the militant National Textile Work- ers Union by passing some laws which you can subsequently ciolate! hat “Good Boss.” / d between ads of insur- ies and banks, there ap- pears an article by the apostle of Muste progressivism in the United Textile Workers (company) Union. Hoffman points out the misery in Marion due to starvation wages, then praises a nearby mill owner, |Eugene Cross, president of the Cross Mills, “a kindly Southern gentleman with a sincere interest in his work- ers, with an attractive mill village, a room in each house for a bath, a wage scale higher than in East Marion or Clinchfield, .a village which he is improving and is proud tof,” and holds up this as an exam- ple of an enlightened employer that the other mill barons should follow, so as to solve their labor problems. Mr. Cross, says his admirer Hoff- man, “has workers in his plant drawing as high as $27 per week.” Hoffman forgets to mention that Buttre: This is his/ F. of L., are all written so that no}low as $8 and $10 per week. -Hoff- there are workers there drawing as | ternational Relief went to Marion at a critical time, when the strikers |were threatened with wholesale evictions and the attacks of the po- lice, and the governor was threaten- ing to send in troops, to offer the strikers food and legal defense; |Hoffman had his guards watching all roads and came immediately to intercept the delegates and prevent them from reaching the rank and file. He told Juliet Stuart Poyntz | (while the strikers could not hear) the he is a progressive and does not agree with the bureaucrats, apolo- | gizing for the bitter attack he made ;at the Convention. He pleaded with the delegates of the N. T. W. not to \“interfere” at Marion. He proposed that the U. T. W. and N. T. W. should divide the Southern territory between them. When Comrade Poyntz told him that the N. T. W. does not “interfere” in strikes, but on the contrary, always helps to carry on a real struggle against the bosses and their agents, forming a united front against the bosses and their agents, Hoffman said that they did not need any help. He is afraid | jof being further discredited. Offer Help. Hoffman also told Poyntz that he} ,was not responsible for the sell-out | mained to counsed pacifism. He had held a mass meeting the night be- fore and told the strikers to keep |calm, avoid getting into fights. “If | you are insulted,” he said, “or if you | are attacked, swear out a warrant.” |He and all the other U, T. W. of-| \ficials preached law and order to these militant fighters whose rights were being trampled under the hels| of the mill barons, their police, mil- itary and thugs. ‘Peaceful persua- sion” was Hoffman’s slogan. After the attack Monday morning Hoff- man said: “I have not had time to collect my thoughts after this morn- |ing’s deadlock. . . . I hope there | won’t be any violence. I have ad- |vised the strikers against violence, | |and have instructed them to caryr ‘hymn books and bibles instead of ‘blackjacks and guns. We contem- plate no immediate action of any| } kind.” | | No action in a situation like this! | Bibles and hymnals! as protection against the vicious attacks, of the bosses’ hirelings and troops. If the | strikers at Gastonia had protected | themselves and their union head- quarters with bibles and hymnals many of them would now be six feet }manufacturer advertising in this Magazine could possibly take of- |fense at anything that is said. {man is interested only in the more skilled and better paid workers who can afford the high dues and initia- at Elizabethton, blaming it on Wil-)Under ground, and others still nurs- | The following summary of the|tion fees to support the bureaucracy two leading articles will show the/in luxury, and who will support re- complete surrender to conservatism, | formist leadership. |to capitalism, ofthe bureaucrats| Hoffman boasts of the fact that |and their loyal “progressive” oppo-|pis Jocal officers are “church work- sition, the Muste group. ers of widespread reputation.” | T. A. Wilson appeals for “legisla-|“Many of the workers cannot read |tive action” — demands that school|or write,” apologizes Hoffman. jboards, city authorities, the state|“They went into the mill too early |legislature, “function for the well-|t) ge any ‘book larnin,’ but their | being of all.” Better conditions for|racial purity and mountain breeding \place; what is most needed. accord-| other words, no damned foreigners he says, “higher wages and shorter | of education. collapse in the middle of the trial, | hours make it possible for the work- There are lawyers to pay, witnesses |¢t8 to have more means and time to feed and shelter, court stenogra- | to participate in civic and state af- “ward the week’s drive. phers, etc., who must be paid, and fairs as well; they create and main- | justice and a higher standard of in-| Aug. 19, the entire working class must help with funds.” Assess Members 50 Cents. Each member of the Needle Trades Industrial Union, nationally, has assessed himself fifty cents to- The Nation- al Executive Committee decided to hold mass conferences throughout New York either Thursday or next tain prosperity. | Offers to Tame Them. | “4 new conception of economic jiam Kelly. But when they ap-| proached the strikers, . Hoffman dropped his, apolegetic- attitude and | became menacing again. Than the delegates from the I. L. D. and W. I. R. told the strikers that although} Hoffman had said that they did not | need any legal help or food, that | the two organizations would always | be ready to extend their aid to the |Marion strikers, Poyntz congratu- | lated them on their militancy in re- sisting evictions. The Marion strikers, like all the) | Southern ‘mill workers in revolt, ate |prevented the sheriff from evicting |eleven of their comrades. The p picketed the Clinchfield mill and prevented it from reopening on They booed and hooted In years gone by| dustrial and business management|both the sheriff and Hoffman when | | the wage earners could not dress in| must be found to revive the textile |they tried to discourage them. Ac- |respectable clothes to attend public| industry,” is Hoffman’s advice to/|cording to the account in the Char- | gatherings.” tained, and so that workers can take |with the United Textile Workers So Wilson appeals to|the bosses of this “sick” industry. |lotte newspapers, when it became employers to pay higher wages so If they want higher profits and con-|apparent that the strike breakers that their prosperity will be main-|tented slaves they must cooperate | would be unable to enter the Clinch- |field mill, Hoffman came with Judge part in civic affairs, can be patri-| Union which with its long experi-| Townsend, representative of Gover- otic citizens, Wilson also points out|ence in suppressing workers’ strug-| nor Garner, Townsend addressed the that “we have the highest death rate gles can be of great value to the/strikers and told them that they ing wound- Such is militant progressive lea- dership as the Muste group con- ceives it, Plain cowardice, deser- tion and betrayal is the workers’ characterization of it. A Gastonia striker said to 1.e when he read the account of that morning’s events at Marion, “It makes me think of the Loray strike in 1921 when the U. T. W. sold us out. When it came to a fight, the U. T. W. organizers either disappeared or lost their nerve and told us to quit fighting and be quiet.” Hope to Save Farmer Trapped Days in Well ALLEGAN, Mich. Aug. 26.—Im- | prisoned at the bottom of a 35-foot wall since 1 p. m. Saturday, George Peet, 38-year-old farmer, was ex- pected to be liberated from his un- derground tomb by rescuers this morning. A 7 a. m. today, 42 hours after stone and earth poured down on Peet when the well caved in it was reported that all the debris had been removed except rocks lodged against | damages. a liner, at sea near Honolulu. Ma Develop Aviation for War Passengers being transferred to a blimp—an army baloon, from goes on among imperialist nations getting ready for war. OIL MERGER AIDS ULS, PREPARE WAR | SPEED-UP, CUTS \But Irritates Eastern Rivalry With British The Paragon Refining Company made its contribution to United States war preparations, when it an- nounced its merger with thé Valvo- \line Oil Company yesterday. Operating in every branch of the petroleum industry except produc- \tion, the new group will bring to- d race for aviation developments By ALBERT ous government of Mexico will fol hausted, The workers and peasants The fascist labor code is being adop' latures. In the fields, the leaders bloodedly. Latin American Briefs (Instructor in Latin-American Problems in the Workers’ School.) | THE WHITE TERROR IN MEXICO. Mr. Morrow is back to the United States assured that the murder- imperialists to “clean up” all the Communists and radical agitators. The list of the planned assassinations and executions is not yet ex- Comrade Hipolito Landero, organizer of the agricultural workers in Vera Cruz has fallen victim of the reactionary government. Like Comrades Rodriguez and Gomez who agitated against the forcible gether organizations active in the United States and Great Britain and its colonit W. Edwards, presi- |dent, said. Thus, by joining the Royal Dutch-Standard Oil scramble {in Persia and India, the new groups will irritate further the maturing Anglo-American imperialist rivalry. The Paragon organization has a complete refining plant with a ca- | pacity of 8,000 barrels a day on a 38 acre plot in Toledo, Ohio. It also operates a tank farm of 600,000 bar- rels capacity, and has four subsi- diary companies, The Valvoline group has refiner- ies at Warren and East Butler, Pa., and operates a filtering plant and canning factory at Edgewater, N. J. MOREAU, low the instructions of American are being attacked from all sides. ted by the reactionary state legis- of the peasants are killed cold- \t | disarming of the peasants, Landero was cowardly killed by government agents with the conspiracy of the agents of the traitor, Galvan, leader of the National Peasants League. The following excerpts from a letter of a militant worker vividly depict the murderous plan of the govern- ment: “We expect within a few days a new wave of terror against the militant workers; expulsions of comrades who are foreigners. The chief of police (an ex-thief and bandit) made a statement to the press that Mexico will be ‘cleaned of all foreign Communist elements by the end of this month (August).’ “Anonymous letters were received threatening to murder Com- rade Rafael Carrillo, secretary of the Communist Party, to deport Comrades Labore, the ousted Communist deputy, and Siqueiros, the secretary of the Unitary Trade Union Confederation. It is not a deportation but the exile to the Maria Islands.” The greater the persecutions, the greater the militanc: f the workers and peasants. Mexico is on the verge of another crisis but this time it will be a struggle of class against class: the workers and peasants against the bourgeoisie, against American imperialism. General Staff, French Wafd Party Welcomes Army Sues, Againstthe| British Imperialists Communist Humanite) Fake Freedom Plan PARIS (By Mail) —Fourteen offi- | libel and demanded 560,000, francs |“welcoming the opportunity The affair came up be-|examining the British proposals” fore the twelth Criminal Division | (of fake home rule) and “granting of the Paris courts, the plaintiffs be-|that British interests are not con- ing the officers Bernard, Poisard,|tradictory of independence.” * This Chauvineau, Deshogues, Devos, Dis-| marks a further step in the gradual tinguin, Elie, Gondailler, Jeanpierre, sell-out by the bourgeois independ- Joly, Renaud, Ribier and Thoral. ~ | ence Party, the Wafd, of the Egyp- The counsel for the defendant, | tian workers. Comrade Vienney, pleaded that the {Its last year’s $799,517 profit will be greatly increased with the jgreater application of speed-up and |wage cut measures which go with ithe merger. \Fine Los Angeles Workers for Giving Leaflets at Factory LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.—For | distribution of leaflets at factory | gates, nine Los Angeles workers were arrested and brought into | court for violation of a city ordin- ance. Lilliam Silverman and Harry Schneiderman were arrested at the Goodyear plant amidst protest by the workers against the police in- terference. After a long fight on the part of |Leo Gallegher, ILD attorney, the following workers were fined $15 each or 3 days in jail: Leon Mabille, CAIRO, Aug. 26.—The Wafd, the | Frank Spector, E. Sandler, B. Levin, cers and noncoms have brought an “independence party” of Egypt, is|L. Kreitzberg; and the cases of action against the “Humanite” for stated to have expressed itself as | Lillian Silverman and Harry Schnei- of |derman were dismissed. Arrest Leaders of Bombay Workers in Addressing Strikers BOMBAY (By Mail). — Three” leaders of the “Red Flag” organi- court is non-competent as the offi- cers had not been insulted in their FASCISTI GREETS FASCISTI. | zation were arrested in Bombay ROME, Aug. 26.—The delegation | when attempting to address a strike capacity of private persons but had u of American Legion fascists enroute been criticized as public officials. | to the Fidac Convention at Belgrade meeting banned by the police. The excited crowd endeavored to liberate. q Graf Nears U.S. on 3rd_ Lap of World Cruise LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.—Safely out of danger from the storms re- | ported off the Aleutian Islands, the | Wall Street backed flight of the| Graf Zeppelin appeared to be near- ing completion today. Yesterday) Commander Eckener, who was tra-| versing the northern steamship route in the Tokio to Los Angeles hop, changed the course of the weapon which will play an important part) in the coming imperialist war, aban- | doning the earlier plans to fly over | Seattle for the safer southern course. | At 10 o’clock this morning the Graf | radioed its position as 900 miles off the coast of California and if tail- winds continue to speed it along at the present rate of 80 miles an hour, it should be sighted over Cali- fornia late today. CAN'T STOP THEM. PRAGUE (By Mail).—The first number of the prohibited “Rude \the arrested men. A clash ensued, | were greeted here last night at a re-| in which the police made use of ception by their brother fascisti of their firearms. Several persons Italy. were arrested, LAST FOUR DAYS! | ... greater than the » Village of Sin...” “HER WAY OF LOVE” the tragedy of n Russian war-wife a Sovkino Production Film Guild Cinema introducing a Tre. markable Soviet 32 W. Sth St. Cea"*t =" screen artiste SPRing $095-5090-1716 EMMA spContinuous Dally—Noon fo, Midnite. ZESSARSKAYA Skturday and Sunday—i2 to 2-00 cents REGISTER NOW for Tuesday to mobilize for Gastonia|in the country. Sanitation and / mill barons. “Our succor comes from | were violating the law. He appealed Pravo,” and of the prohibited “Rude Peet’s feet. defense. The exact day will be an- nounced soon. Rose Wortis, of the executive com- mittee of the Needle Trades Union and her co-workers on the commit- tee, have pledged themselves to do their utmost for the campaign for funds. Shop Collections. “We emphasize shop collections, tobe continued all through the cam- paign. We are mobilizing our entire membership for the drive. Many other unions are expected to follow the needle workers’ precedent, Word was received from Boston that all the surrounding towns, as well as the city proper, are being scoured by workers for funds. New Haven, Conn., will hold a Gastonia meeting Friday, Aug. 30, to mobil- ize for collections. Workers of Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and as far west as the Pacific coast, are all aware of the absolute neces- sity of raising funds to save the Gastonia strikers. They are continu- ing the activities in the shops, in the streets, before factory gates, raising fulids through every possible medi- ‘red Wagenknecht, secretary of « D. or W. I. R, are anxious to ribute,” he said, and are most x to help the Gastonia prison- Their own shop conditions, and low wages generate ‘immediate sympathy for the Gasto- ny defendants who face execution” Rid wholesome amusement must be pro-|the hills in the great battle for the vided for workers in the cities,” | regeneration of the Southlagd and in Surely this is a slogan to arouse|the fight to save the textile industry the workers to a militant struggle |from the disintegration and stagna- — for “sanitation and wholesome/tion which a slave owning planter amusements.” |psychology has brought upon this | “Throw "Em a Law. jgreat staple industry,” says Hoff- Wilson also calls attention to the;man. “Fat Boy” Hoffman would jfact that “Only China and India, in| have us believe that everything is | addition to our Southern States, per-|fine in the Northern mills, where mit this,” referring to night work'the bosses are certainly not subject The British entry in the Schneider Cup race, euver soon to be held in England, Tuning British Entry for Imperialist Maneuver to Hoffman to disband the, picket lines or “it would be necessary to call in the troops.” Hoffman fol- |lowed the judge. He appealed for |law observance, and told the strik- ers they must make their decision |immediately, The stripers shouted |back: “Brini on your troops.” Hymns .and Bibles, Townsend and the sheriff left to summon the troops. Hoffman re- , @ foint British, Amertcan and Italian imperialiet man~ Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! e class. 43 EAST 125TH STREET GASTONIA Citadel of the Class Struggle in the New South By WM. F. DUNNE " HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the American working class analyzed and described by a veteran of the class struggle. To place this pamphlet in the hands of American workers is the duty of every class-conscious worker who realizes that the struggle in the. South is bound up with the fundamental interests of the whole American working and all Workers Book Shops Vecernik’” have appeared illegally. Last week the prohibited “Rude Sig- nal” also appeared illegally. 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