The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 2

é j | Preshs ware DETAILED DRAFT PLAN OFFERED FOR NEW LEAGUE Declares Class War;) Sees Rising Militancy (Continued from Page One) | and unemployment means competi- tion with other countries running on a similar base, Wholesale Slaughter. The program points to the de- structiveness of the coming war, due not only to the certainty that it will be an even greater world war than the last, but because of the start- ling improvement of the technique of slaughter (poison gas, improved planes, use of disease germs, etc.). The workers in the Soviet Union face an imminent attack from the capitalist states, including America, the program states. The reason is that the Soviet Union workers, through their control of industry, are making such strikes in progress as has never before been seen in} history. The new five year plan is described, and emphasis laid on the continued improvement of the stand- ard of living and real wages in the U.S. S. R., while these things fall in every other country. Why They Hate Russia. Success of the Soviet plan means the doom of capitalism, and the cap- italist rulers in America and West- ern Europe realize this and prepare for a bloody onslaught on the U. S, S. R., the present acts in this direc- tion having led to the Chinese East- ern Railroad incident in Manchuria. Partly as war preparations, and partly from the needs of the em- ployers themselves, says the pro- gram, a tremendous growth of state capitalism and fascism takes place in all capitalist countries, including Amétita. With much detail, and by specific instances, the mergers of American industry are described, and the fascisization of American trade unions of the A. F. of L. is pointed out, as well as the flood of prop- aganda from the Tugwell’s and others which accompanies it, and justifies company unionism, welfare schemes, ctc. Exposes Reformists. The role of the Muste group of fake progressives, and of the social- ist party is explaincd, as the cov- ering’ shield for this fascisization. In ‘opposition to this drive by the employers and imperialists is grow- ing, the draft program points out, and gives details of the recent strikes and the continued resistance of the workers, particularly in the Sotith. Since the A. F. of L. has based itself on highly skilled crafts, and is in control of social fascists, the real leadership ofthe new mili- tancy must be by the Trade Union Unity League, principally through the néw industrial unions, but with- out abandoning the struggle against the misleaders in the reactionary unions. Militant Policies. As for the policies of the new unions, the draft program states: “The new unionism bases itself upon the experience of the class struggle. Its slogan is ‘class against class.’ Based on Unskilled. “The new unions are based, pri- marily upon the semi-skilled and unskilled masses, and fight for the interests of the working class as a whole. These are the most exploited and most militant sections of the working class. The A. F. of L. pro- gram of basing the labor movement upon the skilled workers, a policy that was always wrong, is made increasingly disastrous and futile by the wholesale elimination of skill in the industries through standardiza- tion, specialization, mechanization, and a thousand other devices and efficiency systems. Negroes, Women, Youth, “The class struggle unions are industrial in structure, with efficient departmentalization for the various industrial sections, and with special national and local sections for the youth and women. The new unions organize all sections of the workers: Negro, women, youth, skilled and un- skilled. The great consolidation of the forces of imperialist capitalism makes industrial unionism impera- tive.” The new unionism, the draft pro- gram points out, leads through class struggle to a goal which is the abolition of capitalism and the es- tablishment of a workers’ state. In America it realizes itself part of an international struggle toward this end, and shows it by affiliating with the militant world organiza- tion, the Red International of Labor Unions, and with the Pan-Pacific Federation of Trade Unions and the Latin‘ American Confederation of Labor. icago Meet Sunday 00 B Wall Streets head butcher in the late imperialist world war, Per these lads are being trained by men like Pershing to take part in fut DAILY WORKER, Some Day’, NEW YORK, 'THUKSUVAY, AUWUS1 “9, Lyzy ‘ ~ PHILA, ALF. OF L, RANK AND FILE "HELP GASTONIA Refuse to Stand By as Bosses Kill Comrades (Continued from Page One) respond to this great burden. The committee urges all workers who do not wish to see their comrades burn- ed in the electric chair to expend every bit of energy on the drive to raise funds. A, F. of L. Unions Responding. In Philadelphia, the A. F. of L. |Carpenters Local, No, 1050, and the Paper Hangers Union, have serious |internal quarrels between the offi- \cialdont and the rank and filers on the quéstion of aiding Gastonia, Jennie Cooper, secretary of the In- ports. “The Paper Hangers Union, de- spite the attack of the right wing elements, decided to hold a member- wre slaughter of worker: BAR-FROM JURY |Zextile Region ALL WHO READ As the trial of the 16 workers and] jorganizers of the National Textile Charlotte eu OSecutiOn | workers Union opens in Charlotte, Calls Union Crime |X. Cs thousands of copies of the |September issue of the Labor De- fender are finding their way into homes of Southern workers as well (Continued from Page One) prosecution was, “Do you read the| Daily Worker, Labor Defender or 9° of workers throughout the coun- any other labor papers?” An af-| ‘TY: firmative answer brought a peremp- | tory challenge from the prosecution. One foundry worker, D. T. Rivers, said: “I believe that the strikers | were minding their own business and not bothering anybody, and the po- lice had no right t6 interfere with them.” He gave an affirmative an- swer when asked if he thought the strikers had a right to defend them- selves when the police, led by Ader- holt, came without a warrant to in- terfere. He said that a boy had handed him a copy of the Daly Worker and he had read it caref and that he was sympathe’ the defendants. He was challenged | and eliminated by the state. State Likes Observer. Reading the Daily Worker or the| Labor Defender seems to disqualify | a person for jury service, put read- ing the Charlotte Observer, the re- actionary organ of the Duke Power interests and the mill owners, does not prejudice the prospective jurors, | according to the state. Another invariable question of the | . prosecution was: “Are you a mem-| The current issue, devoted.to.the | ber of any labor organization, and | Gastonia prisoners and their de- do you read labor papers?” ‘Those | £e8e, is full of material on the ease who said “yes” were challenged by j and is a powerful call to action. the state, but when they said they | The need for the Labor Defender read only the local capitalist papers, 28 an effective instrument in carry- they were passed almost without img on the campaign for the release further questioning. | of the prisoners has necessitated the : largest edition in the history of the Th remp- | x aie stale cua enged ver peremP- | Labor Defender. This month 27,000 The de-| cages ? fense exercised eleven peremptory | jp ee ara o be: iseedian yOrsers 5,000 L | textile workers in their struggle. ~~ |ship meeting this week and draw up |complete plans to help the Gastonia | striker” Philadelphia, like Detroit and San Frantisco, as well as other cities, reports another united front confer- ence to ke held on a more broad |scale than previously. Many Cities Mobilized. “Our entire district,” Cooper said, “including such cities as Ports+ mouth, Va., Richmond, Va., Chester, Pa., Trenton, N. J., Roebling, N. J., Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, as well as Philadelphia are mobilized for the campaign and are holding tag days, house to house. street and | factory gate collections, «4 well as |united front conferences. | Detroit Busy on Campaign. Word was received today from |Detroit that a broad conference, in- eluding all types of working class | organizations, will be held Sunday, |Sept. 29 in Workers Hall, 3782 |Woodward Ave. The city sent in $400 today for the first two tag days of the campaign. New England Active. Stirring demonstrations on Aug. 22 and 23 in New Bedford, where 2,000 gathered on Saulnier’s Lot, jand in Fall River, where 500 were |present on Liberty Lot, opened the |period of intensified activities in |that district. Boston, where 800 workers attended the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting in New International Hall, |Roxbury, Aug. 24, despite police |ban, is most active in the campaign, |with shop collections, tag days, house to house collections. N. Y. Workers Intensify Campaign. Millinery Local No, 43, the Win- ‘dow Cleaners and the Needle Trades have found it necessary to increase | Workers are the most active among their orders due to the demand for|the New York workers during the the Labor Defender raised by the|campaign. They are stressing shop Gastonia campaign, according to re- | collections, vying with one another ports received in the Labor Defend-jin the drive to secure the most er office. : In addition.to literature |funds and report much success. already issued by the Gastonia Joint | Meetings are being held before shop Defense Committee, including gates, and collections being made. four-page leaflet giving the story of | Gastonia, posters, and other leaflets, the Labor Defender is serving as an organizer in the campaign. Receives abor Detenders 5,000 to Gastonia. Of these, 5,000 has been demanded from the Charlotte and Gastonia regions alone, illustrating the tre- mendous headway made by the-In- ternational Labor Defense in gain- ing the confidence of the Southern Many of the northern districts ‘okey Chelsea, Mass., to Hold Sacco Demonstration. Chelsea, Mass., reports a mass meting to be held in the Labor Ly- was excused by the court because he was a county employee. Would Burn Agitators. Several. merchants admitted pre-| judice on the ground that although | perhaps none of the defendants were guilty, the Northern agitators came | down and stirred up trouble, end so | are responsible for the killing of Aderholt. One hundred and twenty-six of the veniremen are residents of Charlotte. The others are from nearly towns. | Three jurymen have been accepted | so far, two farmers and one worker. | 4 They are evidently prosperous, and jOrtsgruppe Hamburg, Eppendorf, read only the Charlotte Observer and |#"4 Hoheluft, and the West Sax- News. They said they had talked | °2Y. workers pledged their solidarity to no one about the case and have | With the Gastonia strikers. | no prejudices . | “We protest against the desire of | Attorney Casler questioned the | the textile barons to electrocute| veniremen for the prosecution, and | thirteen textile workers of Gastonia} Attorney McCall for the defense. It | to death because they desired to bet-| challenges and nine for cause. One} MEXICAN MASSES: Hold Meets; Demand 23 Be Freed “av (Continued from Page One) tions in Otsgruppe Eimsbuttel, in HAIL GASTONIA: seems certain that it will be neces- | sary to summon additional venire- | men. | The trial will not start until next | Monday, probably. The prosecution requested the de- fense to agree to consolidate all three charges of assault, conspiracy, and murder and have the defendants tried on all three at one time. Fear- ing difficulty in getting conviction for murder, the prosecution hopes to get conviction for assault and con- ter their living conditions, Their criminal intentions of the textile} mill owners is especially significant | in that their legal proceedings take place exactly two years after the! legal murder of Sacco-Vanzetti.” | Workers of Mexico, in the midst | of a white terror set into motion by Wall Street, are violently protesting against the plans of American cap- italism to send the sixteen Gastonia | textile workers to the chair. Throughout the land, despite police spiracy. The defense refused the re- |oppression, the Mexican workers held | guest. Big Anti-Fascist Meet In Phila. this Friday; | Markoff Will Speak! | PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.— An! international anti-fascist mass meet- ‘o Plan Reception ot Soviet Fliers | CHICAGO, anizations and Soviet Union sym- hizers have been called to a con- ence at Ashland Auditorium at a, m. Sunday, Sept. 1, to plan a fitting mass reception to the Spvict flicrs, now on their way from loscow to the United States in the monoplane ! .nd of the Soviets, great turn-out is expected by the provisional committee in charge ithe Chicago reception, as enthu- mover the first emissaries of workers’ republic is running . ‘All shops, trade unions, work- fraternal, cultural and benefit | 80, 8:30 p. m., in the auditorium of |the Workingmen’s Progressive In- Aug. 28.—Workers’ | ing will be held here Friday, August stitute, 1208 Tasker St., to protest | gainst the jailing and slaughteing |- of workers Ly the world-wide capi- talist. reaction, and formulate plans for building a powerful anti-fascist movement among the workers of the United States. Dr. A. Markoff, leader of the American delegates to the recent International Anti-Fascist Conven- tion in Berlin, will give a report on the work of the convention. There will be speakers in Italian, includ- ing T. De Fazio, acting secretary of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America, Lithuanian and Hungarian, Build Up the United Front of are requested to send delp- the conferenc.. Lt the Working Class from the bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! demonstrations, sent telegrams of protest to the North Carolina au- thorities, demanding the immediate freedom of the strikers, | A banned meeting in Mexico City, was transformed to a street demon-| stration in which the workers carried | banners stating “Solidarity to our American comrades,” The National Youth International Labor Defense of that lend, in con- ference at Mexico City, decided to intensify their Gastonia campaign. They appealed to all young workers LAST TW introducing @ ¥e- markable Soviet screen artiste EMMA ZESSARSKAYA Satued: \charged by numerous members of |Equity with being chiefly respon- “HER WAY OF LOVE” the tragedy of Film Guild Cinema 52 W. Sth St, (kit ert) ceum Aug. 30 in a Sacco-Vanzetti Gastonia demonstration, when the |workers will be further mobilized on behalf of the Gastonia campaign. A defense and relief outing is to be held in Roslindale, near Boston, Sunday, Sept. 1, on behalf of Gas- and peasants of Latin America for support of the international cam- paign to free the victims. A telegram from the Mexican youth | leclares, “Solidarity to our impris- | oned comrades, ‘Vanzetti-Gas- tonia meetings held in twenty sec- | tions of Mexico demanded the im-|iahor Day Week Ends Peak of n te freedom of the workers.” | “ Campaign i » international movement to| Most of the cities are intensify- the strikers has spread through-|ing their campaigns to reach the out the world; ‘find the Gastonia trial | peak during the week end, including is in the eyes not only of American|Tabor Day. ‘The thousands of labor but of ‘the working class in| workers’ celebrations to be held the every and. Jland over will be utilized for fur- ther Gastonia activity. Street, house- {to-house campaigns, shop and fac- tory gate collections, tag days, are most of the activities planned in hundreds of cities to raise funds that day Activities Everywhere. Further activities reported are: Finnish Workers’ Society, held pic- nic last Sunday in Scotia, N. Y., and sent $33 to help Gastonia, Flint, Sacco-Vanzetti-Gastonia pic- nic held by I. L, D. last Sunday, raised $75. Maplewood, N. J., Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Local, No. 17,806, reports a collection of $23 for Gastonia de- fense. Canton, Ohio, collected $40 at a Jack Dempsey Kicked Out of Actors Union For Talkie Scabbery'| Jack Dempsey, one-time heavy- weight champion of the boss- controlled boxing industry, was sus- pended by the Actors’ Equity Coun- cil Monday for seabbing during the recent effort to organize members of the theatrical profession em-! ployed in the talking pictures Ethel Barrymore, Broadway star, sible for the failure to induce Holly- wood film magnates to accept a con-| tract approved by the actors’ union,) Build Up thé United Front of may also be thrown out, it was | the Working Class. hinted. WHAT WAS ITS BUSINESS THERE? MEXICO CITY, Aug. 28.—An} American plane piloted by R. G. Taylor crashed and was wrecked while attemptingsto land near Her- | mosillo today, a dispatch to the, newspaper Universal said. Taylor saved his life by leaping in a para- chute. He said he had been unable to find the regular: landing field. 0 DAYS! ee eater than the Village of Sin...” Special LOW RA Russian war-wife Prodaction a Sovict: SPRing $095-5090-1716 — Dally—Noon te Prices—12 to 2. Weeki bier Goma ay and Sunday—i2 ternational Labor Defense there re-| Wocolona BD a “Kill Arabs” Demand A New York demonstration of Jewish Bourgeoisie PROTEST FIRING ON JEWS, ARABS IN PALESTINE Demonstrate Before British Consulate (Continued from Page One) over the Jordan attempts to prév vent Arab tribesmen from the coun try beyond from entering Palestine, Many have crossed between the bridges. The Syrian frontier is closed to everyone. Airplanes ar@ flying over the country, bombing and Arabs seen on the march, and machine gunning their encampments and villages. An English railway official and British bluejackets were attacked at Haifa today. The Jewish fascist organization the Jewish petty-bourgeoisie and the Jewish Legion, which fought for the same British imperialism re- sponsible for the rioting, calling for mass slaughter of Arabs by the imperialist troops. | (Continued from Page One) ganize, to strike and to picket—| against the stretch-out (speed-up), | ; wage cuts and the tyranny of the {mill owners and their government | authorities. The issue involved in our case is the right of workers to) defend themselves, to organize to) defend themselves and to build unions and fight for decent living conditions. We believe that all work- ers should and will support us and |the International Labor Defense, which was on the ground organizing and was on the job day after the |battle at-our union headquarters. ) We will not make any compromise {on the issues in this case. We be- |lieve that to compromise and to try |to make this case an ordinary frame- up ease would be to confuse the t Os CLOSE PARK ON DEMONSTRATORS Terror in Toronto’s Free Speech Fight TORONTO, Aug, 28.—Motor traf- | fic was turned away from Queens Park and workers were forbidden | entrance by police who maintained a closed guard today to break an attempted meeting protesting against police brutality and demand- | ing the right of free speech, an- nounced by workers’ organizations | led by the Communist Party. The park has been the scene of family picnic held by the Jewish branch of the I. L. D. Hartford and New Haven to Hold Mass Meetings. | A Gastonia mass meeting will be held in Hartford, Conn., Friday, Aug. 30, at 8 p, m, in the Labor Temple at 97 Park St., where many former United States Rubber Com- pany workers, thrown into the streets by their company’s removal from the town, will be present. A mags meeting will also be held in New Haven tomorrow. A most successful mass meeting for the defense of the Gastonia strikers was held Tuesday night at Oakland Camera Hall, 616 Sixteenth St., Oakland, California, when Mother Bloor spoke and received splendid response. KERS Camp ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Y. Fifty Miles from New York City MODERN BUNGALOWS, ELEC- TRICITY — MUSIC — SPORTS LECTURES AND DISCUSSION Under the Direction of Ray Ragozyn $23 for Tents—$27 for Bungalows TES for Members Round Trip Ticket Thru Our Office $2.00 Save $1.60 by getting tickets at the office OPEN UNTIL SEPTEMBER 8, 1929 N. Y. Office Phone Stuyvesant 6015 CAMP TELEPHONE — MONROE 89 i rae (0SSen A joa jd ansen— | GASTONIA DEFENDANTS IN APPEAL clear, working class issues that are part of it. There are frame-up fea- | tures in connection with the case— perjured- witnesses, intimidatiqn of jurors, pressure by the mill own- ers, The mass of the workers in Gaston County—the biggest cotton spinning textile center in the Suuth —are with us and understand what they and we are fighting for. The legal expenses in this case are very heavy. The prosecution has a total of 22 attorneys. The I. L. D. has retained good lawyers. But |defense for us all during the strike|the money to pay them has to come from workers and their sympa- thizers. Please aid us financially and in every other way you can. Send all donations to the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Commfttee, 80 E. 11th St., Room 402, New York City. Henfrten fierce clashes with the police, who have maintained a consistent policy of relentless violence against all at- tempts to gain the bandstand plat- form by the Communist Party speakers. Two lines of foot and mounted guards surrounded the stand. To “legalize” the expected onslaught against the crowd, Mayor McBride had prepared to read the riot act. Several workers were seized when they tried to pass through the lines. Led by the tory Chief Draper and encouraged by the Judge Coats- worth, police have not confined their activities to breaking open air dem- onstrations, They smashed the last meeting of the Canadian Labor De- fense League at the Ukrainian Hall, Bathurst St., when hundreds of workers rallied to commemorate the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and demonstrate against the Gastonia conspiracy. Berlin Pipelayers on Strike for Wage Gain (Wireless By Inprecorr) is attacking Arabs and has burned |a number of houses. A hand gren- | ade thrown by a member of this or- |ganization at a group of Arabs in | Jerusalem is said to have provoked the first attack. * CAIRO, Egypt, August 28.—The Moslem league here has wired the Mohammedan leaders in India that | British and Zionist forces are mur- dering Arabs and asking assistance, * BY M. ALPI The Jewish element imported in | Palestine represents a base of Brit- ish imperialism and is regarded by the native population as an invador. |In fact the Jewish ¢apitalists have lin their hands a great portion of | commerce in Jerusalen, and in Jaffa, | Beirut and in other centers are the | great agrarian owners who exploit not only the Arabian labor but even the labor of the Jewish immigrants | who are generally prone to gratify | the wishes of the owners because of religious sentiment instilled in them | by the rabbies and the prominent | Zionists. In other words, the Jewish |element is nothing but the instru- ment employed by British imperial- ism to expropriate the Arabians and chase them out of their land. Fascism. Lately part of the Jewish Zionists adopted methods of struggle which are completely fasgist in character | under the slogan “Palestine must be returned to the Jews, the native pop- ulation must be driven toward the | Orient.” | The fascist Jewish squads, pro- | tected hy the British authority, con- tinued to provocate and to threaten | the Arabian population to the extent | that this has been compelled to arise | not only in Jerusalem but thruout | the country. ri | Is this merely a religious struggle | limited to the conflict between Arab- | ians and Jews? Certainly not. This is an uprising of the Arabian popu- lation against the Jewish bourgeoisie which continues to expropriate their perialism and are its instruments for | the subjugation of the colony. Against Imperialism. This is an uprising against British imperialism, the first step toward | the struggle for the national in- j of Palestine. Jerusalem are shaking the whole Arabian people and France is al- | ready adopting some effective meas- | ures in order to prevent the uprising | from extending itself in Syria. This is a new.proof fo the sharp-, ening conflict between the colonial | people and imperi m, which is not | to be considered in itself, but is to | be regarded as part of a large move- ment of national independence that in Tunis, Tripoli, Egypt, Arabia, etc., jis extending itself from Morocco ‘o | Indochina. Worker With Arabs. The Jewish workers must not let themselves be taken in by nationalist | Sentimentalism. They must not fall under the influence of chauvinist | Zionists, under the influence of Jew- jish bankers, pillars of world imper- lialism, who in Palestine see nothing lands, and, generally, against. the-< | foreign elements which represent im- < | dependence of the Arabian people - In fact the events in., BERLIN, Aug. 28.—Fifteen hun-/ else but a source of profit. They dred pipelayers struck today for | must fight on the side of the Arab- wage increases and recognition of ian population .that is struggling the oppositional Association of Pipe- against imperialiam. This is algo the ._, | task of the Jewish workers of Pal- Lite oat ce reformist estine who are exploited just as | much as the Arabians. 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. 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