The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1929, Page 2

rage Iwo AILY WORKER, Tell of Charlotte, N.C. Conte STREAM IN FROM MANY VILLAGES INTO CHARLOTTE Schechter, Melvin Are Speakers BY SENDER GARLIN. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. Despite inte: tent showers, mill workers joined an all day picnic and International Labor Defense at Davidson’s r Mt. Holly on ia defendan was arranged jointly by The picn’ the I L ion. mill Nint; South Carolina, tly 60,000 workers All the delegat d by local unions and mill me Amy Schechter, Sophie Melvin, | Litoff, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Hugo Oehler, Simon Gerson and’ George | Saul were among the speakers. Walter Trumbull was the chairman. New Haymarket Case. Saul, national organizer for the I. L. D. urged the necessity for a mass ‘defens organization to protect workers in struggle. Schechter cited the Haymarket executions as an ex- emple of the bosses’ efforts to halt the movement for the eight hour day and drew a parallel with the present drive in the South to smash the movement for the abolition of the stretchout which the bosses are who just returned from an organization tour, reported | enthusiasm for the union, and a genuine interest in the fight to free the defendants. Oehler, ‘union organizer of the Southern district, reported wide- spread activity, and in a stirirng | speech told of the great progress in preparation for the Charlotte Con- ference scheduled for Oct. 12 and 13. Free Defendants. “We must free the Gastonia pris- oners,” Poyntz declared. “There is | a crying need for our organization | to expose the boss propaganda of the assurance of an ‘impartial trial.’” | A delegation of five was elected by the conference to visit the de- fendants in the Gastonia jail and bring greetings from the thousands represented at the Conferenee. An executive committee consisting of Gardner Lynch and Mrs. Lynch, | Daisy McDonald, Williams, S. C. Saylors, Greer, Ella Mary Berryhill, Martin, Elizabeth McGinnis, Binney Green, Clarence Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. Lodge, Mrs. Frong Fortnier, Schertel, and Sam Phiffer. The picnie and conference, held on en old plantation, was enthusiastic and colorful. The workers arrived | in 300 trucks and flivvers. Women mill workers arranged the barbecue which they prepared during the night. A workers’ string orchestra played songs written by the strikers themselves. A program of sports in- cluded boxing. Resolutions demanding the uncon- ditional release of the defendants and endorsed the national campaign of the I. L. D. Another resolution called for all Southern workers to join the National Textile Workers Union, form mill committees and elect delegates to the Charlotte Con- ference, Oct. 12 and 13. Other reso- lutions called for the defense of the Soviet Union and on the war danger. W.I.R. Arranges Tour To Soviet Union For Ney. 7th Celebration Ten days stay in the Soviet Union as the guests of the Workers In- ternational Relief of the Soviet Un- ion, stops and sight-seeing in Lon- don and Helsingfors, special visits to factories, villages, rest homes, theatre and moving picture studios, with trained W.LR. guides, is of- d exclusively to workers for the tt time by the W. I. R. "The first group of worker tour- s will leave on Oct. 23 on the yquitania and will arrive in Mos- on Novy. 6 to participate in the anniversary celebration of the ishevik Revolution. his exceptional opportunity for rkers is offered by the Workers rnational Relief at the cost price $300, which includes also passage ‘return steamer from Berlin, Pa- or London. similar tour has been arranged ithe W. I. R. for May 1, 1930. To e it easier financially for many rkers to participate in the May ‘celebrations in Moscow, a part ment plan has been arranged ereby workers can start making ments on the trip at once. All workers interested should their applications to S. Rappo- , Workers International Relief, nion Sq., New York City. WORKERS ELECTROCUTED WEYMOUTH, Mass., Aug. 27.— jel Grady, 55, of Someryille, was “and a companion, Edward , 37, of Hingham, was fatally today when they fell onto a former carrying 13,800 volts, North Weymouth plant of the Electric and Tiluminating D. and the National Textile U ng workers from | villages streamed | 100,000 were seated at the conference. | were elec w burned. Photo gives striking aer ral-big fires breaking out rkingclass families, threatened t simultaneously in the industrial di. to wipe out that section of the. city ial view of the fir rence Prepartion at B Fires in Milwaukee Industrial Section Threaten Workers sewsncmonnaers istrict of Milwaukee, inhabited: by . Many *homes of workers were 1 ] | By LOUIS SISSELMAN. | One might ask what is our im- mediate task in the election cam- |paign? The answer is put the party jeandidates on the ballot. Thus to jenable the class conscious workers Build the Party in Election Campaign {to vote for their candidates, and to |express their protest against capital- ist oppression, for Communism. At the same time to make it Possible for the Party to carry on the cam- paign. The capitalist rulers have estab- |with these workers in the places | where they work, at the place of residence; carry on an intensive | struggle for the organization of these unorganized work Through these Porto Rican workers we have the ‘St opportunity to establish more contact with the Communist | Party of Porto Rico and build: the Party there. Much of this work can be accomplished through the signa- ture drive. It therefore requires that all the Party forces be mobilized | the Soviet® Union: | workers, still more to oppress these | Workers and wage a bloody struggle | against the militant forces of the | workers.” All these are ‘links in the | chain of preparations on the part of | the’ imperial to wage war against | Our campaign will be brought into | the shops,’ factories and homes of | the workers. It will be broadened. | In our election campaign the Party | aims to arouse thé class-conscious-| TO Bloody Kuomintang | ness of the workers for the de- NEW YORK, AULA. 2 1929 ———— Volunteers Report For Defense and| Relief Tag Days} s for the and d to report for col- , credentials and in- ntown— Fourth St,,| | Workers’ Cen Union Sq.,| | Workers’ ; 799 Broadway,| LL. DW » Room 237; 51 E.| Tenth St., Shoe Workers’ Union; 4 W. 37th St., Millinery Workers’ | Local 43; 640 Broadway, Millinery | Workers’ Local ¥3; 15 E. Third} St., Window Cleaners’ Local 8; 131 W. 28th St., Needle Trades} Workers’ Industrial Union; 66 E.} | Fourth St., Ukrainian Wor ers’| Club, | Harlem—143_ E. 103rd__St.,| Workers’ Center; W. 126th) St., Finnish Workers’ Club; 1800 Seventh Ave., Unity Co-operative; 133 W. 51st St., Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers’ Union; 347 E. 72nd Czecho-Slovak Workers’ Home; 350 E. 81st St., Hungarian Workers’ Home. Bronx—1330 Wilkins Ave., Workers’ Center; 2700 Bronx Park, United Workers’ Co-op- erative; 3861 Fourth Ave., Bak- ers’ Local 164. Brooklyn—Scandinayian Work- ers’ Club, I. O. G. T. Hall, 65th |St.; Lithuanian Workers’ Club, 46 Ten Eyck St.; Finnish Wow ers’ Club, 764 40th St. | Williamsburg—56 Manhattan Ave., Workers’ Center. | Bath Beach—48 Bay St., | ers’ Center. |. Brownsville—153 Watkins St. | Work-| | Workers’ Center. || | Borough Park—1373 43rd St.,| | Workers’ Club. | ons to the following sta-| | beaches for the rich or middle clas: glimpse of how they are packed at All the best beaches having been long since gobbled up as private to flee when unbearable heat waves hit New York. And here’s a ig National Textile Union Picnic ney—Where the Poor Swelter by Millions NI 8, the workers have Coney Island that beach. Imperialist Police Hand Workers Over CLEANING SHOPS German Socialist Youth in Rebellion Against the Yellows | with the trial of the | tions to be put on the ballot ( {munist Party). |lished their laws by which to pro- | 8° as to be able to havé more time jtect their capitalist “democracy,” |'© speak to these workers, give them and put all obstacles in the road of }OUr literature and establish connec- independent working class organiza-| tions. These 25,000 who will sign the petitions of the Party offer a cially this holds true of the Com-/broad field for activity. We must In the present case|Tealize and utilize this fact. Not they require twenty-five thousand|nly Harlem but in every working (26,000) signatures of citizens to|¢lass district (and the Party candi- enable’ our candidates to enter on|@ates are mainly in working class the ballot. These signatures must districts) we must approach these be collected proportionally in every| Workers on a class basis in accord- election, assembly, and aldermanic|@nce with the basic line of the district. To some comrades -it will|Party ¢lection program — “Class surely seem yery hard. They will| Against Class.” Our explanations, ask how is it possible to get these | Signatures? “But a Communist,” said Lenin, “Must have faith in.the Party and in the working class.” As in all phases of our struggle, this holds good in this case as well. Only a little energy is required on the part of every comrade. Then every- one would realize that not only can we get the necessary amount of sig- natures, but Build the Party and es tablish contacts while getting these signatures, Relating Some Experiences. It was in Harlem, on a Sunday morning, that the writer of these lines went out to collect signatures. rade. Of course, at none of these houses did we notice any of the tions are to pay to Wall Street. (It jers do the paying.) These were |poor slums, dark, old wooden cor- Tidors—actual fire traps. Poverty The furniture and household of their right place in a junk ‘shop. Harlem is a neighborhood mainly of colored and Porto Rican workers. To many of these oppressed slaves the Communist Party was foreign. Some of them never heard of it before. However, after we explained to them in a concrete and simple manner what it stands for, then not only did they give their signatures but in many instances they were eager to get more contacts with the Party. These oppressed colored workers felt that it is their Party. Also the Porto Rican workers had a special sympathetic attitude towards the Party. These workers as well as the colored know best what the “iron- heel oppression” of Yankee imperi- alism really is. In some cases tnese Porto Rican workers not only gave their own signatures, but took me over to their neighbors and urged them to sign. “Oh! yes,” said one Porto Rican to’ me. “I wish there would be a strong Party in Porto Rico and we would organize all the workers against the Yankee gener- als and the bosses. I worked on a tobacco plantation from sunrise to sunset and earned $2.00 to $2.50 a week. My wife, my six-year-old son and myself get altogether from $6.00 to $6.50 a week. “We came here after many dif- ficulties looking for improvements. But what's the use? How can one live here when earning 35 cents an hour in a wire factory?” This is the situation that prevails among these workers. Our Party cannot be considered a mass Party and worthy of its stan- dard as a section of the Communist International unless we have in our ranks these Whousands of Porto Rican workers and colored workers. For these workers will be in the first trenches of battle against the oligarchy of American imperialism. These workers are employed in the most exploited unorganized indus- tries. We must establish contacts at the same’ time must be expresséd | fense df the Soviet. Union; for the defense and release of the Gastonia prisoners; “against the speed-up; | against the capitalist parties ‘and | their alliés, the ‘Thomases, Mustes, |Greené, ‘and the like. ~~” The capitalist ‘class is class-con- | scious. They Know that the Com-| munists do not enter the election campaign as the socialists do for the purpose of helping the capitalist class still more to oppress the work- ers, but the Communists enter the | election campaign for the purpose of | mobilizing. the working masses to |mintang authorities want to arrest SHANGHAI (By Mail). — The | settlement authorities have turned a BERLIN, (By Mail).—There is |tromble in the Socialist Working Youth Organization, the youth or- ganization of the Social Democratic |Party, concerning the celebrations millworker over to the Chinese au- thorities on suspicion of being al\Organization Drive Is Communist. If the reactionary Kuo-| . %. Awaited anyone in the Settlements they re- A quest their good friends, the im-| (Continued from Page One) perialists, to do this for them. Pro-| @tations for a shop delegate con- vided the alleged Communist is a | ference. __|that red flags would not be per- Chinese there is no trouble at all.| All members of the Progressive | mitted in the Constitution Demon- |mar Constitution. In Duisburg in the Ruhr the social democratic police Labor Party got in power in Eng-|0f the company union are to be or-|take any part in the Constitution |on the 10th anniversary of the Wei-| | president Meyer informed the youth| There has not been the slightest | Groups which has been conducting | strations on the 11th of August. The | change of procedure since the British | @ fight against the corrupt officials | Young Socialists then decided not to! de Ms | overthrow’ the capitalist rule. It is | Suily a ary. itherefore not an accident that a] At the same time we must have !reign of terror is waged against | in mind the specific. prolétarian | our candidates and speakers in Har-| group in a given neighborhood, with |jem, The Tammany strikebreaking | its special problems and ways and| government which has its police means of approach; our approach: | trained to break the heads of the | against race discrimination; for full) militant workers on the picket line social and racial equality for the|and throw: them ‘into’ jail—these This experience can serve as a good| Communist lesson for every com- | |shall be understood that the work-| and misery was seen in every corner. | many of these flats would surely fill | | Negroes; against the landlord sharks; against fascism; against | |the speed-up; for organization of the unorganized; against the police bru- | tality; against the yellow betrayers; | @gainst company unionism; for mili- |tant revolutionary unions; agains |the capitalist parties; for the tevo- | | lutionary Party of the working class, ; the Communist Party. | The Present Period. | | At the same time we musi realize ent election campaign in a perion | of sharpened class struggles which assume a mass base. The Heroic | | struggle in Gastonia, the strike wave | |that is spreading through the south; | the strike in the automobile indus- try in Detroit; the strike in New | Orleans; the general wage cuts; in |New York the combination of the |Tammany strikebreaking govern- | ment with the trade union bureau- | | eracy as in the case of the garment Opposition Candidate} Wins Coahuila Ballot) After ‘Street Fighting | MEXICO CITY, Aug. 27.— Two} persons were killed and 100 injured | in clashes during the Coahuila State elections on Sunday, dispatthes from | Torreon said today. ~ £ Returns thus far indicated that | Nazario Ortiz Garza, the opposition candidate for governor defeated his | opponent, Vito Alessio Robles, Calles’ man, Signs Threaten Negroes Who Use’ | Road Near Detroit | DETROIT—(By Mail).—Two large signs placed by chauvinists on the Lake Shore Drive at Mt. Clem- ens, a suburb of Detroit, insulted and threatened Negroes. Both signs were on the right hand side of the road. The two. signs read: “Colored Folks, Keep Out,” “Private Road—Colored Folks Keep Out.” The signs were situated in ens is county seat. End Wage Cut Pact On British Railroads | LONDON — (By Mail). — Three months’ notice has been served on the railroad companies by the three railroad unions to terminate the agreement reached by misleaders and rail owners 12 months ago re- ducing wages by 2% per cent. Shop- men have also given a notice to end a similar agreement, ~ Macomb county of which Mt. Clem- | capitalist education. same police break up our’ meetings in Harlem, beat up our speakers and arrest them. Yes, the loyal servants of Wall Street do not want the oppressed | and segregated Negro workers to hear the Communist speakers. But the Negro workers of Harlem ac- cept our speakers with enthusiasm. So do all’ the workers wherever our speakers appear. It remains now the duty of every Party member to | $23,163,869,993 that fourteen na-| that the Party enters into the pres-| harness himself or herself into the | work of the campaign, and ‘to bring our méssage before the workers. .Every Party member an active campaigner! “Every class-conscious | worker who is not in the Party, to help the Party of his class; Lagging in activity at the present time on the part of a Party member means | directly or indirectly helping the splitters—renegades and all enemies of the Party and of the working class, All Menries in City In Nebraska Lose Jobs in Terror Reign FAIRBURY. Neb. (By Mail).— Every Negro in this town has been dismissed from his job; some have been working at their jobs for over ten years. This place is near No. Platte, where Negroes were recently ‘British Bar Chinese Paper Entering India CANTON — (By: Mail). — The “China. Truth,” a Chinese-owned | Weekly published here in Chinese |and English, has been barred from India, evidently because of crit- \icisms of the deportation from Shanghai of Sikhs charged with dis- loyalty to King Georgie. The barred journal is a typical | Kuomintang sheet, of the: servile liberal mentality characteristic of the returned-students psychology, educated on the democratic pap of Instead , of boldly and openly attacking British imperialism for its suppression of any words on behalf of its subject peoples ‘this weekly: érawls on ‘its hands and.knees to point out that it had only “incidentally remarked that the Indians should be free.” This weekly is strongly anti- Soviet and bittérly anti-Red. Its editors have protested to the British Labor Government against this vio- lation of ‘democratic rights” and has asked tho Nanking Government bat the ban, 0) oy 4 driven from the city, | to request its imperialist friends to land, Claim Italy Withdraws | From Imperialist Race, France, Wall St. Out! ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. 27.— The United States is definitely out of the Schneider cup races, to be held in England, Sept. 6-7, and orig- inally planned as a test of war plane strength for Britain, France, fascist Italy and Wall ‘Street. A long series of mishaps, includ- ing bad waether, a fire, a near sink- ing, and lack of ventilation which nearly asphyxiated the imperialist flier, prevented Williams from giv- ing the speed plane a thorough test, but he still has hopes of breaking the world’s speed mark with the machine. A new 24-cylinder en- installed. ae ae It was widely reported here today that Italy has withdrawn from the Schneider cup races, although Lieut. Monti, the fascist assistant air at- tache, said that he knew nothing about the reports. France has al- weady dropped out, having failed to prepare seaplanes in time. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Ex- tension of the air mail service from Pasco, Wash., to Spokane, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. effective Sept. 15, was announced today. Citadel of the A American working 15 cents | ganized on the basis of shop com- mittees, and new workers are to be recruited, especially among the most } exploited sections of the Negroes, | women, young workers and unskill- | Celebrations at all. In Dortmund in Westphalia where a similar decision was passed by the youth and stormy scenes occurred, the social democrats ed workers, it was announced yes- terday. Workers Are Ready. Due to the miserablé working con- their own members. SEATTLE—(By Mail).—The an- nual convention of the International called the police in order to disperse | gine, rated at 1,100 h.p., is being | CALSHOT, England, Aug. 27.— | GASTONIA in the New South =" By WM. F. DUNNE HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the 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 class. (plus Se, postage) Place your order today with the WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS and all Workers Book Shops 43 EAST 125TH STREET ditions existing in the trade there is a readiness among workers to join in the movement to establish protect the workers interests and against wage cuts and the attacks of the employers. Recently, it was pointed out, a number of shops cut wages or dis- |charged all workers receiving «more than a certain maximum wage. The Sunshine Cleaning and Dyeing Co, discharged all pressers receiving more than $40 a wek, also a num- ber of drivers. They were replaced with workers receiving lower wages. The officials of thé company ‘un- | ion arranged with the boss to re-em- ploy the discharged workers for one | week in order to give them legal no- jticee This prevented the workers from going on strike. All dry ¢ledning shop workers are urged to communicate with the Dry Cleaning Shop Workers Section, T, U. E. L., room 205, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. |BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27.—Two unmasked bandits invaded the city hall today, held up the paymaster of the Bureau of Highways and es- caped with $20,000, Class Struggle class analyzed and described per copy NEW YORK CITY - shop committees which will fight to| | POLICE FAIL TO COW SAGCO MEET HELD IN ST.LOUIS Hundreds Gather at ST. LOUIS, Aug. 27.—Saturday night the police of St.Louis made an attempt to brek up an open air meeting at Broadway and Park, con- ducted by the International Labor Defense for the defense of the Gas- tonia strikers and to commemorate the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. When the ‘first speaker, Delbert |Early, mounted the platform and began to compare the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, Mooney and Billings ixteen accused who are facing textile strike charges of mur came to the speaker’s platfor told him he must s creating “antagon with his speech. The speaker answered that he would maintain his right to speak, whereupon he was pulled down and placed under arrest, The | crowd of about two hundred workers |that had gathered was enraged by | the action of the detectives and be- gan to applaud the speaker and jeer | the police. Comrade Fisher, from | Chicago, next mounted the platform jand began to speak, but before he |could say more than a few words | he was pulled down too and placed under arrest. A resolution of protest was unani- mously adopted. The two arrested were charged with “speaking with- out a permit.” Later they were released on bail of $500 each. Their trial is scheduled for the 27th Aug- ust. This was the second interference of the police with the I. L. D. meet- jings in the week in St. Louis. Last | Tuesday a Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial meeting was planned to be held in |the Croatian Sokol Hall, but the } management closed the hall, which was occupied by a squad of police. | Last Sunday a successful I. L. D. conference was held, with represen- tation from various labor organiza- tions, extensive plans were adopted | for intensified I. L. D. work, it was unanimously decided to make -ef- forts to strengthen the I. L. D. by securing new affiliations from labor bodies, and to hold a tag day on the 8th of September. The police attacks did not suc- |eeed in cowing the workers; in St. Louis, but on the contrary they be- }eame only more aroused and de~ |termined for greater activities. | SHE HELPED MILL SELL-OUT LONDON, Aug. 27.—Miss Mar- | garet Bondfield, British Minister of Labor, slipped and fell on the rocks Typographical Union will be held here September 9 to 14. sae “ [Rerrsery i Te- markable Soviet screen artiste EMMA ZESSARSKAYA Unity Wingdale, N. Y. ' BY TRAIN From 125th St. or Grand Central Station Direct to Wingdale, New York. 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