The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1929, Page 1

eat +f . | FUNDS! MORE F { UNDS! THEY ARE AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY TO SAVE THE GASTONIA DEFENDANTS THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Orggnize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of 3 . FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except SundSy by The Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Squ: Vol. VI., No. 148 = Comprodaily Publish: New York City, SUBSCRIPTION RA’ Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. TES: in New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, : CAROLINA WRITES BILL OF P UGUST 28, 1929 ARTICULARS FOR PROPOSE CONSTITUTION FOR TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE TO BE FORMED AT CLEVELAND Flexible, Democratic, But Closely Knit Center Using New Unions, and Winning Old Ones Majorities of Actual Workers on All Leading Committees; Officers Get Only Worker Wage | The Trade Union Educational League, which called the Trade Union Unity Convention meeting Aug..31 in Cleveland, has published through its weekly organ, Labor Unity, a draft constitution for the new labor union center to be established at the convention. The draft constitution proposed to the convention by tant unions already organized and in action, with the beginnings of i stew unions, and the groups of mili- ' tants in the organized and reaction- League.” It will be composed of eae National Industrial Unions, and Na- New York TUEL Asks | tional Industria! Leagues. For Names at Once The National Industrial Union will most basic industries in the Greater |itiative for their particular needs New York and New Jersey section and requirements, but along the line 3 «q_| Of one union in each indusiry, shop of ule countey will garlic atten md- | asiesteiavatan, dedipenatic/centrat: night, at 1 a. m., before the Work- |actual workers, and ease of removing i incompetent officers. The majority The New York office of the Trade | of all leading committees gnd boards Union Tancational League today is-| is to be composed of workers direct- the ary unions. be based on the shop delegate sys- ization, control of strikes in the ers’ Center, Friday, to start in a sued an app. to all organizations | !y from the shops. They are te have Thrown on Street by U.S. Rubber Co. Without Notice |Plant Closed to Move Industry to Detroit; Men Organize Solid Fight for Compensation \Communist Party Leads Struggle Against Company; Gov’t and A. F. L. Reformists HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 27. —| Immediately organizing men from |The United States Rubber Compa-jall departments, the Communist |ny’s sudden announcement today | Party held meetings which were at- | that it was closing its local plant|tended by several hundred rubber \and moving its industry to Detroit,|workers who unanimously support thereby throwing 1,400 men and/the Party’s demands. These include women on the streets without notice |three months’ pay for all discharged; or compensation has aroused t h e/ pension for all over forty; equal dis- | workers ? aggressive action. (Continued on Page Five) Funds! More Funds! to Save the Gastonia Defendants |Not to Give Is a “Heinous Crime Against the Revolutionary Movement” “Funds!” fail, either through apathy, laziness, | The absolute necessity of more|or ‘just neyer thought’ will be guil- |funds to meet the sky-rocketing in- ty of the most heinous crime against crease in legal expenses since eee revolutionary movement,” he | trial began at Charlotte, N. C., of|said. “Funds, funds,” he said, “is \the Gastonia strikers, was pressed |the cryeat this time.” jon the workers of America by Jim) Workers everywhere throughout | Reid, president of the National Tex- the country are now realizing the tile Workers Union today. .. |absolute necessity for funds. Let- “Those who fail to take part in| ters arriving daily at the national jthe ten day Gastonia Joint Defense joffice of the Gastonia Joint Defense land Relief Campaign for funds will) and Relief Campaign Committee, at be guilty of a terrible crime against |g9 K, 11th St., indicate the growth |the American labor movement,” he! of the solffarity of the masses be- |declared, © 7m ‘hind the Gastonia strikers, ‘Pheyeampaign to reine funds bas) p50 Wortis, of the executive com- § ©L. U. E. L. outlines a complete- 1 0 DELEGATES ly organized activity, in which will be co-ordinated the mili- The name proposed for the new center is “Trade Union Unity tem, will kave a uniform plan of or- Over a hundred delegates from the | ga, ticn, with local needs and in- hands of rank and file, election of body for the Cleveland Trade Union officers at broad conventions of Unity Convention. sending delegates to rush in the) | names of their delegates to the lo- | cal office of the T. U. E. L., poet Union Square, Room 205, so that | (Continued on Page Five) NEGRO WORKERS ENDORSE PARTY Communist Candidates | State Program | Thirty Negro workers represent-| ing 12 organizations last night en- dorsed the Communist Party candi- | dates at a conference held at the| Workers’ Center, 28 Union Square. It was arranged by the Negro De- partment of the Communist Party, New York District. The conference adopted a resolu- tion against the high rents, fire traps, slums and unsanitary condi- tions in the Negiy working class sections of the city and pointed out that only the Communist Party stood for a united struggle of the Negro and white workers. The conference was addressed by Fanny Austin, candidate for alder- man, 21st district, Manhattan; Fred- erick Make}, candidate for alderman, 38rd district, Brooklyn, and J. I ouis Engdahl, candidate for presiden: of the Borough of Manha‘tan. Richard B. Moore presided at the conference. Gilbert Lewis was vice- chairman and Hermine Dumount secretary. The conference was opened by Harold Williams, district organizer of the Negro Department of the Party. The delegates at the conference will attend the @orough ratification conferences, which will be held Sun- day, Sept. 8, it was announced. MINEEXPLOSION; NUMBER INJURED STILL UNKNOWN PITTSTON, Pa. Aug. 27.—An explosion occurred within the in- terior of No. 9 colliery of the Penn- sylvania Coal Company at Hughes- town, Pa., today where 150 men were at work. Rescue squads prepared to go into the mine and learn the fate of the workers. The explosion was felt on the surface and shortly afterwards several miners came up and re- Dorjed the disaster on the interior, J special sections to deal. with young women and Negro workers, low in- itiation fees, officers to get no more than the average paid in the indus- try, ete. The national committee or the na- tional executive board of the T. U. U. L. will pass on all decisive strikes and organization campaigns to se- cure united action. The T. U. U. L. National Indus- trial Leagues will be made up of militants in reactionary unions, lo- | cal unions not part of an industrial union, shop groups, etc., where there | are no industrial unions affiliated with the T. U, U. L. The leading bodies of the T. U. U. L, are its yearly convention, with a broad base of representation, from which is elected a National Commit- | tee of 41 representing all industries, to meet twice a year, or oftener if special meetings are called by mem- bers or officers, and an executive board to meet monthly. The bureau of the National Exec- utive Board is composed of the of- ficers of the new League, who are also the officers of the Natio! Committee. They will be a national secretary, assistants, organizers, etc., who will head the various depart- ments, Local organization in uaivas and In¢esirial Leagues is provided for and local general organization to co- ordinate the wo-k in each large in- dustrial center. The whole scheme is a flexible, but closely co-ordinated organiza- tion, to fight on two fields within the reactionary unions, and against the bosses in the open, with new and militant unions, each part of the organization supporting all other parts. The T, U. U. L., it is proposed, shall join the Red International of Labor Unions, the single great in- ternational class struggle organiza- tion on the industrial field, and the various unions affiliated with the T. U. U. L. are to join the respective propaganda and action departments of the R. I. L. U. 2 MEETS TO PUSH RECEPTION PLANS As the four Soviet fliers who have resumed their Moscow to New York flight in a new plane are expected here within a few weeks, the ways and means committee elected by the board conference of 189 working class organizations on Aug. 13 to plan a great reception for the Soviet emissaries of good will is urging all workers and U. S. S. R. sympathizers to speed up the collection of funds for the purchase of the tractors and trucks which will be presented to the Land of the Soviets crew. A conference of trade unions jas (Continued on Page Five) wed been carried across the country by |the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re- \lief Campaign Committee which urges the workers to continue their efforts unceasingly until the Gasto- nia defendants have been released | from prison. The importance of shop collections, of tag days, of house to house, street and factory gate collections, of united front campaigns, were stress- ed by Reid. ill,test the sincerity of all work- ers, whether in the textile industry or not. It is the method of fighting | the class battle in a practical way.” | “We must take from the maws of the mill barons our 16 comrades. Financial assistance is imperative at this stage, for success. Those who “The ten day drive| | 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. “We emphasize shop col- lections, to be continued all through the campaign.” A partial list of funds that came in or were promised through var‘ |ous sources, as part of the ten day \campaign follow (these exclude the | tag day collections, the returns for | which are not yet tabulated): | Camp Unity — $500, raised by the W. I. R. committee; Camp Wocolona — $223 ($40 from jcamp workers); Jugo-Slav Workers in Chicago — (Continued on Page Five) TAILORS OPPOSE | DAY PAY TAX Salutsky Admits Union Aids Bosses An attempt to force the one days pay tax on the members of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers Union will be made at the meeting of Local 5, which will be held at 8 o’clock to- night at Amalgamated Temple, Arion Pl., Brooklyn. Opposition to the tax is growing in the market, many tailors refusing to pay it. As soon as the Sidney Hillman clique is notified, the work- ers are removed from their jobs. The Amalgamated officialdom claims that the money collectea from the tax will be used to organize the Philadelphia market. The answer of the progressive and militant tailors is that the organization drive in Philadelphia is a fake and for proof quote from the August 23 issue of The Advance, official organ cf the gate Communist. Referring to a Philadelphia manu- facturer who recently signed up with the Amalgamated, it states editorially: “The manufacturer announced that he would not do without the Union’s aid on a basis of efficiency.” Further: “’ success of the cam- paign in Philadelphia is important to the employers in New York City and consequently it is bound to prove of value to the clothing work- ers in New York City.” Because the tailors are opposed to this policy of class collaboration they are refusing to pay the tax, which is being used for the benefit of the bosses. They are rallying to the support of the Trade Union Ed- ucational League which has called a shop delegate conference to be held Saturday, Sept, 14 at 11 a. m. at Irving Plaza hall, Irving Place and jlbth St, ae ¥ v neds Sead union edited by J. B. Salutsky, rene- | WORKERS REBUFF SCAB FUR UNION [Terror Plot Defeated: Militant Assaulted The scab International Fur Work- ers Union was defcated yesterday when it attempted to terrorize the workers of the Shelberg and Buch- man shop, 242 W. 30th St., who are members of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. A gang of company, union gang- sters entered the shop yesterday and forced the furriers to accom- pany them to the headquarters of the scab fur union located at 28 W. 31st St, On their arrival they were taken into a room where they were lectured by Business Agent Hemo- witz of the company union, who said that the scab outfit would improve their conditions if they left the In- dustrial Union and joined the right wing clique. Exposes Right Wing. George Katz, one of the workers |of the Shelberg and Buchman shop, took objection to the remarks of Hemowitz and stated that the Indus- trial Union fights for the interests of the workers. He pointed out that the company union is not interested in improving the conditions of the workers while the Industrial Union has always been in the front ranks of the fight for the workers. Realizing that the speech of Katz had exposed the strike breaking role of the company unicn, Willie Yack- er, notorious right wing thug, as- saulted Katz, who had to be taken to the New York Hospital for med- ical treatment. When the workers left the right wing office they stated they would not have anything to do with the scab union and would continue to fight in the ranks of the Industrial Union. The Shelberg and Buchman shop has an agreement with the N. T, W. 1 U, A 1,400 Hartford Workers BRITISH MARINES LOVESTONE. GANG FIRE ON BOTH JEWS AND ARABS \French Say 600 Dead; Druse, Trans Jordan | Tribesmen in Revolt |Pogrom To Halt Revolt Swindled Arabs Misled | Into Attack on Jews BULLETIN | JERUSALEM, Palestine, Aug. 27. |—Britich marines opened fire with rifles, machine guns ,and artillery today on Jews and Arabs alike when ja fight broke out at Haifa. Many were killed. The Druse tribesmen in Syria are jrising, and one detachment, joined to 2,000 Arabs is marching over the |border toward Jerusalem. Arabs |are rising in revolt in Trans Jor- | dania, and it is feared here by Brit- | ish officials that even the heavy re- | inforcements, planes and artillery | brought by battleships today will not be able to stop them. ! ee JAFFA, Palestine, Aug. 27-—The |French colonial administration de- clared tht the number of Jewish col- onist and Arabian dead will exceed |6U0, and intimates that the British | Palestinian mandate commissioners are concealing the extent of the up- rising to save their imperial prestige. Bedouin tribes from the desert are | on the march toward Jerusalem, | Jaffa, Tel-Aviv and Hebron to join in the fighting. Reports of eye- | witnesses state that the attacks dur- | ing the last few days were made by Arabs armed only with clubs and | knives, but with the advent of the | desert tribes, rifle fighting is ex-| | pected. | | Another thousand British troops |from Egypt left today for this city. | The first of 20 British war shi (Continued on Page Vive) WOMEN WORKERS. ENDORSE THE 6. P Conference Prepares| For Local Election | Representatives of many working | class organizations and shop dele- | gates attended the working womens conference last night called by the | | Communist Party, New York Dis |rict to mobilize the exploited work- | ing class women in support of the Communist candidates in the coming | elections. It was held at the Work- | ers Center, 26-28 Union Square. | Resolutions weer adopted pledging | the working women to help defend | the Soviet Union from the: attacks | of the Chinese war lords and their imperialist allies, to conduct an en- ergetic struggle against the three parties of capialism, the democratic | party, republican party and socialist | party; solidarity with the 16 Gas-| tonia workers who are now on trial in Charlotte, N. C. and an endorse- ment of the Trade Union Unity Con ference which opens in Cleveland on Saturday. Chernenko Presides. Lena Chernenko, candidate for | alderman in the 56th district, Brook- lyn, was elected chairman of the con- ference which was opened by Olga Gold, secretary of the New York womens committee of the Party. . The conference was addressed by | J. Louis Engdahl, secretary of the (Continued on Page Five) SHOE UNIONISTS. TRIAL SEPT, 16 Jailed for Opposing Anti-Labor Quizz The trial of Israel Zimmerman, of |the Independent Shoe Workers’ |Union, who was arrested Saturday |at the Dan Palter shoe factory, 151 W. 26th St., when he advised the workers not to answer the anti-labor questionnaire presented by Tam- many Hall policemen and agents of the U. S. Labor Department, was postponed until Sept. 16, when he | | that the Chinese Eastern Railroad | result of the railway tie-up. LAUNDRY DRIVERS LEFT TRACES OF THEIR BURGLARY Smashed Locks, Went Through Desks for Party Documents Stole Bank Check Book Knew Exactly Where to Find Material In an interview yesterday Comrade Peter Smith, manager of the Na- tional Office of the Communist Party of the United States, de- scribed the discovery of the burg- lary perpetrated by the Lovestone gang some time Sunday. “T was the first one to arrive at/ the office,” said | Comrade Smith.| “When I reached’ the front door I| noticed the lock had been tampered with. When I entered my room I} found everything in disorder; doc- uments and other material were| scattered over the floor and the| desks, My desk had been pillaged and papers removed. Minutes Were Stolen. } “Soon Comrade Bedacht came in and I told him about someone going | through my desk and about the ibis having been tampered with. He had also noticed the lock. When he en- tered his room it looked as though a cyclone had hit it. Books had been thrown out of the book-cases on to} the floor. The entire contents of | (Continued on Page Five) RAIDS AGAINST U.S.SR, CONTINUE Nanking ‘Still Invades Soviet Soil SHANGHAI, Aug. 27.— While raids of Nanking and white guardist troops into the Soviet Union and firing on Soviet citizens continue, dispatches from Nanking today re- | port that one of the groups in the | Kuomintang is spreading propa- ganda to offer new terms to the Soviet government on the Chinese Eastern Railroad. | The terms suggest a conference | and would be transmitted thru Mar- } shal Chang Hsueh-liang. | According to the plans of the Kuomintang group, the Chang would be instructed to meet the Soviet gov- ernment “half way” in the demand be restored to immediate status quo ante, and the immediate reinstate- ment of the Soviet department heads who were ousted when the Nanking government, acting for the imperial- ist powers, seized the railroad two months ago. The group proposing these meas- ures is said to be actuated in part by the heavy losses whiclt the Nan- king government is suffering as a VOTE TOMORROW Rosen Is Left Wing Nominee All militant and progressive mem- bers of Laundry Drives Union, Local 810, are urged to vote for S. Rosen for business agent of the local at the union meeting which will be held tomorrow night at For- ward Hall, 175 E. Broadway. Five candidates were elected for the office at the last meeting of the (Continued on Page Five) CLEANING SHOP WORKERS READY Organization Drive is Awaited The Dry Cleaning Shop Workers Section, Trade Union Educational League, has decided to begin an or- ganization campaign among the BOSSES AN AGREEMENT TO STRIKE IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH, IN CHARLOTTE COURTROOM Judge Accepts Mill Lawyers’ Amended Bill | Which Centers Main Fire on Beal and 3 Women Solicitor Carpenter Denies Report He Will Not Ask for Death; Demands 13 Die in Chair By BILL DUNNE CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. —(From the prosecu- tion’s new bill of particulars): . that the prisoners and each of them together with other persons to the solicitor tuknown, at various meetings held by them in the union hall in or near the city of Gastonia, at divers times between the first day of April and the eight day of June, at divers other times and places to the solicitor unknown, did unlaw- fully combine, conspire, confederate and agree together to prevent, hinder and deter by violence, threats and intimida- tion, the Manville-Jenckes Co., a corporation duly created and existing under the Jaw, and then and there engaged in operating a textile manufacturing plant, from retaining and taking into its employment Clarence Jolly, and divers other persons to the solicitor unknown, then and there being employed and engaged as textile laborers in said manufacturing plant to the great damage of the said Man- ville-Jenckes Co., Clarence Jolly and others then and there being employed. “In furtherance of the combinations, conspiracies, and agreements then and there entered into, and realizing that it would be necessary to completely rid themselves of po- lice interference in order to carry out and consummate their unlawful purpose of closing said mill, the said defend- ants, after their return to strike headquarters when the deceased and several other policemen had peacefully en- tered the lot upon which the union hall was located, the defendants being then and there encouraged by the said Fred Beal, Vera Bush, Amy Schechter and Sophie Melvin to shoot and kill the deceased and others of his subordi- nates, did forthwith fire a volley of shots from numerous shot guns with intent to kill and murder the deceased and his subordinates, which resulted in mortally wounding said deceased, shooting down two of his subordinates and wound- ing another.” Death in the Shadows. The electric chair, grewsome in its mercil modern effi ciency, so plainly in sight in the Gastonia court room, has been hidden in the soft shadows of the Charlotte trial chamber. Voices of opposing counsel are pleasantly modulated. Judge Barnhill, tall, slender and dark—slim face, slim hands moving SECOND BILL OF in easy flowing gestures PARTICULARS IS. WITHOUT DETAIL “Constructive Murder” Charge on Strikers BY LISTON OAK. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. The two bills of particulars sub- | mitted by the state against the Gas- tonia defendants, the second bill brought in today as the result of Judge Barnhill’s order yesterday to change the first one, make the real issue in this historic trial the right of workers to organize, to strike, and to defend themselves. The death of Chief of Police Ader- holt of Gastonia during his June 7 raid upon the Gastonia strikers, tent colony, is made the legal excuse on which to pin a charge of murder. The language of the latest bill, accepted by Judge Barnhill today, in an hour’s session, after which court adjourned, is the language of an injunction issued to prevent strikes and picketing. In this respect, this second bill of particulars raises even more clearly than the first one the basic clas: issue in this case. Death For Striking. The strategy of the state is to send thirteen workers to electrocu- tion (the prosecution says, at least, that it will not ask the death penalty (Continued on Page Three) Negro May Die After Attack By White Mob in Miss. JACKSON, Miss. (By Mail) — Beaten and robbed, Horace Neil, 31- y Id Negro worker from Vir- gi is not expected to survive in- -speaks low and slowly. —* ; Sixteen working men and women are on trial for their lives, but the opposing lawyers shake hands The court room is filled—whites below, Negroes in the bale: ne- ty per cent of the spectators are workers. White people are standing in the court room, A bailiff goes to the balcony, ord out the Negroes and white peonle file in. The Ne- groes must b/ kept in their place though, and y chaps because, ruling class whites are trying to send working class whites to their death for their leadership of a revolt, Would Blur Class Lines. The wide shuttered windows fac- ing the east let in a soft light that cuts the sharp edges even from th angular features of Attorneys s- ler and Ho the leaders of the prosecution staff of cotton mill law- yers. The atmosphere in the court room is almost cathedral-like. The sharp class lines so apparent in the first legal exchanges in Gastonia, where the defense attorneys were even threatened in the street, have |been dulled somewhat here. | _ The defense attorneys show that the prosecution has felt sure of its ability to railroad the organizers {and members of the Nation; tile Workers Union that it has not even taken the trouble to specify jin the indictment and bill of par- ticulars the time, place, methods and | persons involved in an alleged crime ind the conspiracy to commit this “crime.” Some Charges Abandoned. Constitutional questions a sed |by the defense attorneys: The at- tempt to deprive the defendants of |life and liberty without due process of law. There are snarls from some of the prosecution. The judge rules that the section of the indictment dealing with the alleged conspiracy to en r the Loray mill and remove “loyal” | workers by force must be dropped since the prosecution itself claims that this conspiracy was ended when the police broke up the picket line a short time before they made their armed attack on the union head- was arraigned in Jefferson Market | cleaning workers for the organiza- Court yesterday. Jacques Bulen- | tion of shop committees and prep- _.. (Continygas on Page Two) ee) juries received at the hands of a quarters and the Workers Interna- white mob, His condition is so seri-/ tidpal Relief tent colony, in which ous that he is unable to talk, |” (Continued on Page Fivod idwe