The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929 = Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S, A. Published by the Comprodafly Publishing Co. Ine... Sunday, at 26-28 fon Square, New Telephone Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable: SUBSCRIPTION RATES; By Mail (in New York only): $4.50 six months Daily, except ity, . Ye ‘DAIWORK." 3 * $8.00 a year $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 a year $3.80 six months $2.v0 three months Address and mai) all checks to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square. New York, N. ¥. <s.- | The Fruits of Zionism We Britain secured the league of nations’ mandate for Palestine, Lord Balfour contrived to utilize’the Zionist movement to carry out the vicious policy of expropriating the land from the Arabian population. The rich leaders of Zion- ism were willing tools of Balfour and have, under the guise of building a Jewish nationalist home, carried out the most frightful campaigns of land robbery against the Arab popula- uon. Hundreds Of thousands of Arabs have been driven from their land axl upon the ruins of the small farms great orange plantations have been established. . A few parasite capital- ists, leaders of the Zionist movement in Palestine, exploit in the most bestial manner many Jewish workers and thousands of Arabs. : By playing the debased role of puppets of British imper- ialism for the privilege of sharing in the profits rung from the Jewish and Arabian population, the Zionists have be- come the symbol of tyranny in the eyes of the oppressed > masses. The oyerwhelming majority of the Arab victims of Zionism in the service of imperialism only see their immedi- ate oppressor, the Zionists. Instead of perceiving their plight as a result of class oppression they see only the ra¢ial characteristics. The first (stage of revolt of the Arabs is misdirected and includes, without discrimination (if reports from Jerusalem are accurate), all the Jews. Britain is quick to take advantage of the opportunity to conceal the real class character of the movement and proclaim to the world that it is a religious conflict, just as British imperialism tried this spring to befog .the class issues in India by inter- preting them as strife between Hindoos and Moslems. But there is an ever-growing number, though at present a minority, that perceive behind the Jewish mask of Zion- ism the malignant features and the bloody talons of the Brit- ish ravager of colonial peoples. The Communist Party of Palestine, embracing Jews and Arabs, is striving’ to direct the movement into open anti-imperialist channels that will drive out the British imperialists and their agents. Without hesitation the working class must accuse the Zionist leaders for their crimipal role. These pawns in the hands of British imperialism have brought about a situation where the Jewish people in Palestirte have had to bear the shock of the first colonial uprising. It is precisely these Zionists and the British master class they so willingly serve that are responsible for the massacres in Palestine: The present events are the consequence of their own sevility’ to British imperialism: ‘ These Zionists in America and else- where who have collected millions of dollars to aid in for- warding the Balfour imperialist policy, are the ones “who have brought upon the heads of many innocent people of Jewish lineage the massacres of the past few days. Britain must be defeated in its attempt, by fanning the flames of religious hatreds, to prevent a joint movement of Jewish workers and Arabs against its imperialist exploita- tion. The working class of the United States must not be deceived by the hypocritical pleas of the Zionists. The class- conscious Jewish workers especially will not be’ misled by those responsible for the plight of the Jews in the fake homeland organized to carry out the policies of the imper- ialist British government, but will aid in every way the at- tempts of the Jewish and the‘Arab victims of imperialist rapacity to scourge the class enemy from Palestine. That the imperialists recognize the character of the movement as a struggle against colonial domination is proved by the speed with which Britain is rushing warships and air. | forces to the scene of the bloodshed and the hasty action of France in throwing heavier forces ito Syria, lying just north of Pafestine. : The United States imperialist government is” algo ode- manding suppressive measures under the guise of protecting its citizens. The whole imperialist world is alarmed at any colonial outbreak, because they fear such events as those of 1925-26, when the French forces stormed Damascus in order to,crush the Syrian revolt, and those in Palestine today may ignite the whole Near East with, the flame of colonial revolt and eventually extend to the rest of the colonial world. One Way to Aid Class War Prisoners iw IS certainly no tribute to our revolutionary movement that class war prisoners have had to write requests for books to read. One of the least things the class conscious workers.can do for these victims of capitalist vengeance is to enable them to obtain the literature they need to enable ‘them to read and study, thereby equipping themselves. to ‘wage the fight more effectively against capitalism when they “return to the ranks of the working class. According to reports from the International Labor De- $ fense many requests for books have,come from prisoners and a fund is being collected for the purpose of obtaining books ; for them. Such books must be.sent‘direct from the publish- ers and the I. L, D. has made arrangements whereby books _ for prisoners can be obtained at a discount. -_ In the revolutipnary history of czarist ‘Russia many of _ the future leafers of the revolution took advantage of periods , of imprisonment to’ equipethemselves ideologically for :the tasks history’imposed upon them. Many of our class war prisoners today will be leaders’ of the revolution tomorrow. » We must aid the~ ° ke rdvanteg> of their GASTONIA — 1929 ——=——== By Fred Ellis | telling N. C. Ovs of the Colonial and other BY SENDER GARLIN. HEY started the trial of the 16 Gastonia strikers and strike lead- ers in real Southern fashion. “Ye'll hev tuh git out,”-one of Sheriff Ir- win’s lieutenants told the Negroes sitting up in the Jim Crow balcony as the Mecklenburg county court- room was beginning to fill up. And, of course, they got out. There were ‘over 100 of them altogether, most éf them in working clothes, some of them in overalls. Some of them, less cowed than the others, hovered about the corridors and every now and again peered thru the open door of the courtroom. They had come early to be sure to get seats and | were kicked out five minutes before the trial opened to make place for 25 whites who came late. se | The three girl defendants, Amy Schechter, Vera Bush and Sophie Melvin had a tough time crashing in_on the trial. They ambled lias- | uréely into the court room. They came in before the boys arrived and sat down in the places arranged for the ) prisoners. These girls are apparent- ly better known to thousands of mill workers down here in the Piedmont section thgn. they are to the Char- lotte ward-heelers. One of them, a layal. court attendant, dashtd over to the girls and said challengingly: “Ye cain’t set heré. These places | are for the prisoners,” . cate Selene pete court howse grounds lopked like a university campus, but the com- parison is only skin deep, for in this to build, proud citizens say) will be enacted, during the next three or four weeks, one of the most signi- ficant trials in the history of the American labor movement. It must look like a “fair” trial. The high- priced Blackstones hired by the Man- | ville-Jenckes Company havg decided | on that point, alright. None of your | Sacco-Vanzetti, As Mitchell Palmer trials here, ladies and. gentlemen. It'll give the game away and put everybody ‘wise. Don’t want machine guns, mounted thugs. on prancing steeds, don’t want brassy military bands playing the “Star Spangled Banner” outside the wide windows of the courtroom. Gentlemen, let’s put this thing over pretty..... * Besides, friends, in the great state of North Carolina (owned by Mellon and Duke) everything is jake.* No chance of getting them mill hands jon this jury. You’ve got to own | property and pay taxes to the county |to make’ the grade. These fellows that don’t own nothing. don’t know right from wrong, anyhow. Twelve jurors, good. men and true, taxpay- ers—we can depend on them all alright... . eo #8 i lee Gastonia Gafette {the Gassy Gazette, the mill hands call it)— it’s a bit too*vociferous, too noisy, some of the good citizens think. he Charlotte Observer and the harlotte News, they’re a little more subtle in this fair trial stuff: “The jury shouldn’t care if the defend- ants are bomb throwers, nigger lov- ers, Salad from the dives of Hoboken and New York—all it needs to know is: did these agitators shoot our sainted Chief Aderholt?” Pret- ty slick, isn’t it? The prisonérs are led into the cotrtroom from the country jail the upner floor and their ayechnely great stone building (it cost heaps | Sidelites of the Charlotte Trial |Seventy-five per cent of the spec-)and picnic held at Mt. Holly on taters in the courtroom are mill/Sunday. While 14-year-old Binny hands, and the boys sense it. I|Green, a mill worker, was singing saw them all in the Gastonia jail|songs written by the strikers them- the other day: Clarence Miller had| selves, Heffner told hew he had |just finished leading a discussion on | worked in the mills for the past 17| | Trade Union Tactics in the eight by |years—as a picker and in the card| jten cell where they have simmered |rooms. Let hig: ‘tell you what the |for the past three months in the |stretch-out mear®. ‘ heat of a North Carolina summer.| “I’m working in Kings Mountain | Here they are in court: Beal, blonde, | now, 60 hours a week for $14. This sapial, cheerful, in his -shirtsleeves, | week I put in extra work time and jacknowledging long-distance greet-|so I give up*my dinner time.” ings from fellow-workers and friends| The National Textile Workers | in the courtroom; Louis MacLaugh- | Union, Heffner said enthusiastically, lin, .Vera Buch, Amy Schechter, | is “the best thing ever come to this | Russell Knight, Joseph Harrison, | country.” his arm full of gunshot wounds CS from the rifles of Chief Aderholt’s} enry Clay’s double’s in the court |drunken ‘deputies; Clarence Miller, room, He’s Clyde Hoey (it’s actu- | Wilfiam McGinnis, K. Y. (“Red”) ally pronounced Hooey around here). Hendryx, K. 0. Byers, Robert Allen, | Brown cutaway ‘suit, long gray oily N. F. Gibson, Sophie Melvin, George | Jocks, a, wind-blown bob, an ‘Adams | Carter, J. C. Heffner. apple collar. Chief counsel for | * * * |Manville-Jenckes in the _ trial.| |4YOUR father told me to tell you | Brother-in-law of G-vernor 0, Max | T he'd try to come over here from|Gafdner, mill owner. This. trial Kings Mountain arid see you in a|/™eans much to Hoey. A conviction, couple of days,” I told young Heff- and it’s a sure seat in Congress for ner, while the county clerk was the alleged silver-tongued orator, drawling out the names of prospec- 2nd impassioned debates there for | tive tax-paying jurors. Young Heff-|hard-surface roads in the South. . ner, one of the boys for whom Solic- | 2 * 4 itor Carpenter will respectfully ask! And Major Bulwinkle, the ¢ |the electric chair, is only 17 years ageous major who with his glorious old. : legions—the Committee of 100 and “I worked in the mill since I was | Pride of Manville-Jenckes—swooped 14,” the young mill hand said, “My |down upon the W. I. R. tent colony | first jgb was in the Regan Mill at | after the raid op the night of June| Bessemer City. I worked there for|7. Although they were armed with about a year, I was doffing in thé | Pistols, rifles and bayonets with) twister room, I then went to work|Which to massacre the strikers— there about two years. Shortly | Was no fear in the Major’s heart. after the strike in the Loray Mill 2 ~. began in April I got a job there.! The Major and his associates axe | But I didn’t want to scab and there- | somewhat disturbed by the masterly fore left and joined the union, ang legal argument of Arthur Garfield I’ve been with it since.” | Hays, togged out in trim blue suit, I had met young Heffner’s father, matching Solicitor Carpenter’s car- who.is 51, at the I. L. D. conference nation with one of his own. Hays Situation and Problems Confronting the Carpenters > ‘ By A, PETERSON. jagreements to expire at the same + (Continued) time in May, to be ratified by a} The delegates at the Cleveland|referendum of the membership. | | convention who will represent the 3.—Amalgamatjon of all the, building trades, will have to takes building trades, This would abolish into consideration that our present the ruinous jurisdictional disputes union bureaucrats will, like all|as well as centralize the activities brutal beasts in their agony before and unify the forces of all building | dying, become more brutal in their | trade workers. fight against all militants in the| 4 A joint drive by all unions to| unions. It is therefore of great im-| organize the unorganized. | portance that the Cleveland conven- tion shall put for us in the building trades an energetic leadership, which |proved by their past to be capable to lead and sacrifice for a just cause, . We carpenters, as all the other building trades workers, are at pres- ent in need of a militant leadership 5.—Social insurance against dis-, | ability and. old age, anf unemploy- ment fund to be administered by the unions, e 6.—Mass violations of all injunc- tions in labor disputes, struggle |against the enacting of anti-strike laws. in the Arlington Mill and stayed!men, women and children—there, around whom all the militant forces in the union -~d the unorganized outside the union shall rally. We are in need of a real education in class struggle. We are in need of @ clear program of action fot |the carpenters, The following points should be taken into consideration by those who will diseuss a national program for the carpenters: 1The 7-hour day and fye-day week in order to decrease the de- \nporalizing effect of rationalization bp the workers, 7.—Development of job and shop control through job or shop com-,| mittees and stewards so as to stop the hire and fire system and put an end to the speed-up methods. 8,—Restoration of all union mem- bers expelled or suspended for their opinions and restoration of revoked charters, 9.—No discrimination against Ne- groes, or other races. 10.—Support of a political party composed of and in the interest of labor, recognizing the economical struggle as a political sti a Patan § is fluent, suave and at the same time belligerent. He reads the Bill of Particulars which he character- izes as “vague, evasive and loose— a general dragnet for all the de- fendants.” The lawyer reads the document prepared by the prosecu- tign; Hi “The defendants did on or about the 7th day of June, 1929, with force and arms and in said county, in said state, pursuant to an unlawful combination, conspir- acy, confederation and agreement theretofore entered into between them and divers other eyil- disposed persons, to the jurors unknown, feloniously, wilfully and with malice - aforethought, did. kill and murder 0. F. Ader- holt, contrary to the statute in | such cases made and provided | and against the peace and dig- | nity of the state.” . | * * * H has learned something about militancy in the South. The other day he went over to see the “boys” while they were still in the Gastonia jail. | “What are you going to do if you get out?” Hays asked K. 0. rs thru the bars. “Are you! going back to the Loray mill?” * | “Hell, no!” By replied, “I’m a union organizer from now on even if I have to live on bread) and water.” ‘trenches and were pouring lead into them. Woll Screams for Sky} High Tariff in Paper) of Engraver Fakers| | WASHINGTON—(By Mail). An) attdck on all those who have criti-| cized the labor fakers for their de* mand for a high tariff is made by Matthew Woll in the current issue of the “Photo Engraver,” journal of the labor fakers of the Photo- Engravers Union. “High tariff is necessary to maintain high stand- ards for’ American labor,” states Woll. ' Kuomintang Admits Overcrowding Jails; NANKING—(By Mail).—The au- | thorities have at last been compelled to acknowledge the horrible over- crowding of the prisons. The Tsao Ho-ching prison at Nantac has 1,500 prisoners altho built for but 800. Persons hereafter convicted — by | courtmarital—mainly alleged “Com- munists”—will be sent to the former military academy at Soochow. This has been converted into a jail. It is announced in this connection that a “model” prison will shortly be constructed at Chinkiang, ‘the capital of, Kiahgsu Province. It will cos# $400,000, It seems that the Kuomintang is going to specialize on building jails! OVERWORKED, KILLS SELF CHESTER, N. Y., Aug, 28.—The blackened and blistered body of George Cornwell, 22, was found at the base of a 75-foot power trans- mission tower near here today, five days after he left a note in his car indicating suicide intentions. He had worked his way through Cornell University, being graduated this year. DEMAND INCREASE i LONDON—(By Mail),—London engineering wopkers are demanding | mana y ose or NAY SELF by permission, from “I Saw It Myself” by Henri Barbusse, nd eopyrighted by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, New York. AS for the loathsome drunkard (I have been told that in the army drunkenness is an aggravating circumstance), who had indisputably committed murder with premeditation (mistaken identify had nothing to do with it), he did indeed appear before - the court martial held at Casablanca on the 13th of January, 1926, The court con- demned him to two months’ imprisonment and fined him 200 francs with remission of sentence, which means that they sen- tenced him to nothing at all. A hypocritical sentence worth less than no trial at all. What plainer method could there be of infantry regiments, that they would be very foolish to put themselves out should they x feel inclined to make a soldier’s carcass the target for their bullets? They run the risk of immunity, if I may say so. When will the working classes, those tragis purveyors to the slaughter house, who provide such splendid food for powder in time of war—when will they spit forth what is left in them of the tradi- tional worship of national armies, of courts martial and of those upper- lings called War Ministers? * * * DEAD ALIVE URING the war, as the result of various wounds, I passed through a good many hospitals. I was at Breteuil, and at Chartres, and at Courville, and at Brives. The inside of Plombieres Hospital saw me too—saw enough of me, I may add, after a brief stay, for I did not live in odour of sanctity with the black-robed nuns, with the super- visors and orderlies in cassocks of blue. Their uniforms were blue, but their faces were ruddy with health, for one and all, from the highest to the lowest, were vicars in ordinary life. But I now wish to speak of another matter—of an evening we spent, sick and wounded side by side, round the stove which battled with November, in the large ward upstairs. Our talk was of misery, wrongs and crimes. Every survivor floating on the surface there had his own true story to tell. During these evenings, I collected the stories af many eye-witnesses which I afterwards used in my books. And if those pages have sometimes moved the reader, it was because they woke to life some vibration of the living truth, like those violins which, old fables say, stirred the heart-strings of all listeners, not because an artist had made them, but because somebody’s soul was imprisoned within them. NE of the speakers—I shall call him Peter—said this: “There was a man dead alive once—lived after he was shot. And to prove it, I’ll give his name—Waterlot Francis. “They shot him all right—it was up against a haystack. But after his execution, he was as fit as a fiddle.” Peter told us the story; it began with a picture of exhaustion and despair. ‘: as Rourid Meaurs, near Sezanne, the soldiers of 327th line regiment were supporting the 270th which held the front lines. On the night of September 5th and 6th, 1914, they were on the lookout in the outskirts of wood, These were Peter’s words: “They had chucked themselves down on the ground on the edge of this wood and were ‘snoozing beside their haversacks—just like ’em they looked, Leave was given that night to sleep, fully equipped. You bet they slept; ever since war broke out these chaps from the North, who had been in the Belgian retreat, had had a rough time of it. Worn out they were. What with tramping this way and that, and then: the long march backwards, they had had that too. Always on their feet, always tied to their haversacks like walking packs of troubles, always goaded on, always on the watch, always damned. And they were already played out when, three days before this, the great offen- sive began, and piled on the agony. “So there they were, sleeping in the dark, dead beat and dead still, and truce hung for a moment over this half-cemetery of soldiers. . . “QUT up at the front, in the firing line, there was dirty work. The German armoured cars had managed to get in on top of the French Taken by surprise and completely staggered, the 270th chaps, N. C. 0.’s ahead, gave ground, left the”trench and streamed back. They reached the wood, and the 327th, who were lying on the ground asleep, were stirred up by the feet of these men wandering through the night with the enemy’s fire close on their heels. So then they blinked an eye, stood up, shook them- selves into life. They saw, as well as eyes could see in the dark, these | ghosts hurrying by! No N. C. 0. had thought fit to stay with the men. Discipline was gone. And s6, of course, up they got, away they went with the flowing tide, “But this panic (as you know, a panic has something mechanical about it, like a railway engine, and it can’t be stopped all at once when steam’s up and it’s for running off the lines)—the panic didn’t last. long. The nightmare vanished with the first streaks of light. The men belonging to the 327th formed up again in Lachies village, and there were a good three hundred now, beginning to look around for their regiment and yawning. “But, worse luck for them, who should come trotting that way but General Bouteguord. “General Boutegourd was in command of the 51st Division. And he was the brute of brutes. d eo es . «YOU'LL understand,” said Peter, “that if I give him that name when there are dozens of first-rate candidates among general officers. commanding, it is because there are pretty good reasons. “He had the heaviest hand and sharpest tongue of all leaders. He would clap his revolver on you on the least provocation and was always talking of wiping out French soldiers (because, you see, he wouldn’t have nearly such a good chance with the German soldiers). He often would hit laggards and slow-coaches himself with his cane, and we all-know that that same cane stopped our fellows in Guigni- court from drinking the water which the inhabitants had put out in buckets along the side of the street for them to drink. If you gave way to temptation, down on your, shoulders whack! came the cane of this little god almighty (who didn’t feel thirsty or else was frightened and wanted to hop it still quicker). And many other things he’s done of which he shall hear more. “So this was the general, complete with staff, who ran into the lads of the 327th in Lachies Street. é ‘ “‘Who are these men?’ shouted brassy brass hat, in a fury, already. “He questioned one. : “What's that you say? Looking’ for your regiment? You don’t catch me with that story. You’re deserters. Pick me out six men and a corporal, and shoot them on the spot.’ Ae te “Used as the general staff was to saying Amen to all the utter- ances of this pontiff whose cap was so stiff with gold braid, the officers now pulled a,long face and took upon themselves to say¢ “Excuse us, sir, but that can’t be done.’ i “To be brief, they pointed out that things weren’t quite so simple as that: these men had not abandoned their posts, for they hadn’t: been in action. They were resting in the rear and had been swept back in the night, with no leaders to control them in the general panic. Besides, before shooting seven men, they must sentence them, and before sen- tencing them, try them, and that was exactly what court martials were for. Two honorable men, Colonel Vezat and Major Richard Vitry (which proves that we must never generalize, and talk about ‘the officers’ en bloc), submitted these arguments to ears which did not understand, then perest, saplcer this Grand Mogul creature who is hands. held life and death in hi pre eg by (To be continued),