The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1929, Page 1

sat prejudice which has been , “of the Gastonia case, now being Cc. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS *or a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unor, ones Against Imperialist For the 40-Howr Week er Fl INAL CITY; ™ EDITION Vol. VI., No. 150 Published Company, Inc., fly except Sundsy by The 26-28 Union Square, Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. Y. Ontatde N SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per yen: jew York, by mall, $6.00 per year. BUSINESSMEN FOR DELEGATES TO HUGE TRADE UNION UNIT MLREADY E First Group Arrive From Basic Industries; Y CONVENTION NTER CLEVELAND All Eager te Get United Movement Started 250 From Mines; 100 From New York; 24 From California; 58 From Chicago Indusrial District CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 29.—Delegates eager to take part in the founding of militant unions and left wing sections in reactionary unions® | anxious to be started on the a the unorganized, are already Ina day or so, 250 delegai CHEER NEW YORK DELEGATES FOR UNITY CONGRESS the new trade union center of Il important task of organizing entering Cleveland by dozens. tes are expected from the min- *ing industry. From the South, | from the battle field where tex-| tle strikers so recently faced ine guns of the enemy, a strong delegation is reported on the way. Delegates are here from rubber, eae railroad, from the unorganized coal fields of Kentucky and Tenn- essee as well as from unionized ter- ritory. They are here from the -|ocean and Jake steamers and the Over 100 at Midnight | Start to Cleveland Hundreds of workers ‘about midnight to cheer the dele- gation of about a hundred New York representatives as they ap- peared to take busses chartered for the first leg of their trip to Cleve-| land to participate in the Trade Un- ion Unity Convention. As the Daily Worker went to press speeches were being made by lead- er of smilitant struggles in New York and New ersey, and an atmo- sphere of confidence and enthusiasm generally was prevalent. These “delegates, elected by local ; unions, shop committees, and Trade | Union. Educational League groups cheerfully face an all night ride through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, up to Buffalo, where they will take the boat to Cleveland. | A number of guests, taking the trip | cut of interest in the formation of | the new industrial union movement | were also waiting to travel with the, regularly elected delegates, who started last night. The number of | workers represented by the delega- tion runs into many thousands, ex- | act compilation not being possible, due to pressure of work in the local office of the T. U. E. L. be announced later. The delegation from New York and vicinity consists, the T. U. E. L. announced last night, of 15 needle | trades workers, 9 shoe and leather goods workers, 2 laundry workers, 9 metal and airplane workers, 2 traction workers, 4 marine transport | workers, 11 from the trades, 10 food workers, 3 printers, | 6 textile workers, 1 chemical work- er, 1 window cleaner, 1 barber, 1 160 de mae ea on Page Five) Defy Fascists; Send Help for Gaston Defense Breaking through the chains of fascism in Italy, where they are forced to work underground, the italian section of the International Labor Defense has sent 1,000 lire ‘ to America for the defense of the! | Ashkharh, Gastonia prisoners. This act of solidarity is especially stirring as the funds were collected cent by cent from Italian workers under fascist regime, at great risk and sacrifice. The contribution was sent in the name of the 7,300 work- ‘ing class prisoners of fascism, in the name of the workers of Italy who | not submitted to fascist re- action. The letter which accompanied the remittance follows: “Dear Comrades: We have received your appeal for the defense, of the Gastonia workers gathered | It will | (magistrate reconsidered his docks. The Trade Union Unity Conven- tion, at which a minimum of 700 | delegates are expected, ‘will open Aug. 31 at 9 a. m., in Slovanian Hall, 6409 St. Clair Ave. At 8 p. m. there will be a mass meeting in the same hall, with nationally known labor leaders as speakers, and with a | musical program. * 100 Leave New York. Late last night approximately 100 delegates weer assembling in the | Workers Center, New York, prepara- tory to taking busses for the journey toe Cleveland. Women delegates, Negro’ delegates, young worker deie- | gates, were there, representing tex- (tile mills in New Jersey, shve fac: tories in Brooklyn and Manhattan hotels, restaurants and cafeterias all over the Greater New York region, (Continued on Page Two) CAR UNION BOSS CALLS NEW VOTE? Push Betrayal of N. J. Street Car Workers NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 29. — De- feated in their first attempt to get | the 8,000 Public Service workers to | vote on arbitration of their demands |for the eight hour day and the 25 |per cent wage increase, officials of the Amalgamated Association of | Tuesday. This was decided on at an executive meeting called by Local | President William Wepner and at- | tended by ten officers of N. J. lo- cals, “Ballot” Will Aid Sell Out. Wepner will use the result of the | next ballot, regardless of the small | | (Continued on Page Yhree) JAIL SENTENCE GIVEN. EDITOR Patrick Selian, manager of Nor Armenian Communist newspaper, who was arrested Sat- urday night in the Bronx when cdl- lecting funds for the defense of the Gastonia strikers, was sentenced to 10 days in jail when arraigned in court Monday. The magistrate also said he would refer his case to the department of labor for investiga- | | | tion. On Wednesday, when the proba- tion officer who had been appointed to investigate the case reported, the sen- terice and gave Selian a suspended sentence. who are being threatened of murder (Continued on Page Two) When Seiian was arrested he re- (Continued on Page Five) Philip Snowden ! | | The “Labour” of the exchequer, of the interests of British imperial- ism against American imperialisne lat the Hague International Confer- ence on Reparations. Party chancellor FRANCE YIELDS, Say England Gets Most iof Reparation Claims THE HAGUE, Holland, Aug. 28. |—The British delegation issued a communique near midnight today, stating that the creditor powers were in agreement “in principle” on the amount to be received by Eng- land as her share of reparations ex- torted from Germany. The French-Belgian-Italian allies had yielded on 78 per cent of the British demands, the British state- ment says, and a method of regu- lating deliveries in kind has been worked out. able to make the chamber of depu- | ties accept this surrender, the Young } plan avill go into effect. BOMBARDULS.S., Execution Policy Is to Terrorize Strikers (Wireless by Imprecorr.) | . MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 29.— After a few days without incidends, the Chinese militarist rulers are re- newing their provocative acts. A report from Blagovestchensk states eleven miles from Manchuli was bombarder yesterday by Chinese artillery. A Soviet Union cutter and steam- ship, the “Karl Liebknecht,” on the building |Street and Electric Railway Em- | river Ussuri, was fired on by the ployees will hold another ballot next army of the Chinese war lords yes- |terday. The firing took place 20 sulted in the wounding of the captain and a numbér of passengers. ak eee Executions continue. HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 29 — The bodies of six beheaded Soviet Union citizens have been found in the Sungari River. The German Con- sul, acting for the U. S. S. R. is making a strong protest. It is the policy of the -militarist government of Manchuria to execute and Chinese workers on strike against the seizure of the railway. purpose of terrorizing the rest. Upholsterers Strike Although the lead leadership of the} union is opposing mass picketing, the strike started Tuesday by the Upholsters Union, Local 76, has al- ready in one shop settling and more than 500 workers going on strike, it was learned yesterday. The strike was called to organize the industry and so far has effected 15 shops whose workers have joined | the strike. The union officials are discourag- | good citizens and obey the law.” | \The Class Character staunch defender | STATE BRITISH If the, French government is now | FRONTIER POST that a Soviet Union frontier post | |miles from Blagovestchensk and re- | a certain number of Soviet citizens | ostensibly as spies, really for the | Palestine Revolt and Its national Political Signifi Inter- cance Statement of the Political Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. ‘THE CHARACTER OF THE REVOLT. The war in Palestine is not a race war, it is a class war, carried on by the expropriated Arabian peasants against British imperialism and their Zionist agents in Palestine Under no circumstances can we consider the Palestine revolt as a war between the Jews and Arabs over the territorial division of the Wailing Wall. Approaching the Palestine revolt from a class viewpoint, we sharply condemn the posi- tion of our Communist Jewish daily, the Morning Freiheit, as absolute opportunist and hardly, if at all, different from the stand of the Jewish Nationalist, Zionist, and the capitalist press. A Communist organ can- not, under any circumstances, look on the Palestine events as a race war between the Jews and Arabs. The slogans of the Freiheit and the contents of an editorial of August 25th had nothing in common with the Communist conception of the National liberation movement of the colo- nial people and their struggle against imperialism. The slogan issued by the Freiheit: “Protest against the British Government which has permitted pogroms on innocent people,” or the views expressed in an editorial in the Freiheit of August 25 which in part reads as follows: “The British imperialists have in Palestine enough soldiers, machine guns, cannons and airplanes. They have them prepared against the struggles of the toiling m s. If the government would only want they could easily settle with the 100 ‘pogromschiky’ (man killers).” Such a view represents the struggle of the Arabs against British impe- rialism simply as a war on Jews, distorts and belittles its political im- portance and completely fails to see the class character of this present Arabian struggle. The Freiheit deplores that the British having so many arms, did not use them more effectiv: ainst the revolting Arabs whom the Freiheit terms “Pogromschii These views are counter-revolutionary, Zionist views, characteristic of the social-demo- crats and bourgeoisie. The line is sharply condemned by the political committee of the Communist Party and all responsible for such articles published in the Freiheit will be taken to task by the Party. The roots of the revolt of the Arabian masses are to be found in the economic exploitation of the Arab peasantry, whose land has been ex- propriated by British imperialism, through the reactionary Jewish Zion- ism. The iron colonial rule of Great Britain, the suppression of the national liberation movement for independence of Palestine, and the abrogation of all political rights of the Arabian peasants, led to the present reyolt. The Palestine revolts are an integral part of the gen- eral struggle carried on by the oppressed people in the British and other colonies and protectorates for their national independence and against the yoke of British imperialism. The revolt of the Arabian peasants is of the same class character as the present and past revolts of the oppressed peasants of India, Egypt, ete. It is a part of the same struggle now being waged by the Bombay textile strikers and the mass strikes in Calciitta, all of which are directed against British im- perialism. The Arabs who are participating in the Palestine revolts are not “bandits” or “progromschikys,” as they are characterized by the capitalists and their tools, the Zionists. They are fellaheen—land la- borers—who are driven off their land by Zionism under the protection of British imperialism. The Arabs not only attacked the Jewish colonists, whom reaction- ary Zionism brought to Palestine to establish a Jewish “national home” in an overwhelmingly Arabian country by driving the Arabs off their land and thereby securing the domination of Great Britain over this mandate territory; they have also opened war on British troops and the British government in Palestine. The establishment of a Jewish coun- try in Palestine is the fig leaf of British imperialism in its land-grab- bing aggression in this part of Asia. And the Zionist movement is willingly and knowingly lending itself to this mission. 2. THE ROLE OF ZIONISM. Palestine is a mandate territory, given to Great Britain by the im- perialist tool known at the League of Nations. It is a very important country for world imperialism. It is rich in chemical resources, and it is cut through with oil pipe lines running from the oil wells of Mosul to the Mediterranean ports. Palestine is of very great strategic im- portance as the gateway to the Near East. These are the reasons for the fierce imperialist activity regarding the control of Palestine. The present Arabian revolt will give an opportunity to British imperialism directed by the “labor” government to establish more firmly the rule of Great Britain in Palestine and thereby building up another vasal state against the Soviet Union. The majority of the population in Palestine are not Jews but Arabs in a proportion of 8 to 1. The moyement to establish a Jewish “national home” in Palestine is reactionary. the land tilled by the Arabs and perpetuating the imperialist rule of Great Britain. The colonial policy of Great Britain in Palestine was to use the Jewish immigrants as a tool in expropriating the land of the poor Arabs, which was turned into orange groves and fruit plantations controlled by a parasitic group of Jewish financiers, where Arabian | and Jewish workers were mercilessly exploited. Therefore, to the Ara- (Continued on Page Five) Intensify Gastonia Defense Campaign Over Labor Day | Unions Pledge Funds to Defend the 23 Workers On Trial in Charlotte With three big industrial unions | Pledging substantial sums to help save the Gastonia defendants from | the electric chair, the national cam- | paign of the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Committee for funds, swung into an encouraging | | gait today. ee save the prisoners. The beaches and working class pleasure resorts will be scoured by workers seeking funds which are urgently necessary to penses since the trial at Charlotte| began. Labor Day week end is expected | tions, street collections, will be re-| mies of workers raising funds to | (Continued jrom Page One) It is based on the expropriation of | meet the high mounting legal ex-! Tag days, house to house collee-| JOIN ARABS IN WAR ON ZIONISM Conflict Spreads Takes Forms of Revolt; 1,000 Dead British Burn and Bomb |Hireling Arabian Emir | Fights Countrymen BEIRUT, Syria, Aug. 29.—Re- ports from French sources state that the dead in the Palestinian fighting number over 1,000. The British of- ficial figures of 96 Jews, 52 Mos- {lems and 4 Christians killed, are laughed to scorn here, as British |propaganda intended to save Brit-| lish prestige. | Jt is known here that Christian, | Jewish and Moslem peasants united | lin the attack upon Zionism, which | exploits them all. * * JERUSALEM, Palestine, Aug. 29.! —wWith Palestine full of British troops and marines, her harbors choked by England’s war fleet, and | Syria still flooded with the huge army of occupation left there after the Druse rebellion, news continued to arrive of widespread Arab upris- lings, which are assisted by Jewish | (Continued on Page Two) POSTPONE TRIAL OF 9 COMMUNISTS Jailed i in Harlem When | Addressing Negroes | The trial of nine members of the | Communist Party was adjourned un- | | til Sept. 24 when they appeared yes- |terday in Washington Heights Court, | St. Nicholas Ave. and 168th St. They were arrested when speaking at an | open air meeting 10 days ago ar-| |ranged by the Party at 188th St. | and Seventh Ave. which was broken | up by the police. They are J. Louis Engdahl, Albert Weisbord, Harold Williams, Leonard (Continued on eee Five) PORTO RICANS — SUPPORT PARTY |arlem Workers Rally! To Communists Stories of bit-) ter exploitation in restaurants and tobacco fac- tories, of fright- ful housing con- ditions and vi- race dis- crimination were told by hun- Narvaez dreds of Porto Rican workers t \ }Communist signature campaigne jin the 17th assembly district, Har- \lem. | Over 60,000 Porto Ricans, half of whom-are Negroes. live in lower Harlem, now known as “Little Porto Rico.” They slave long hours in| tobacco shops, and as dish washers and other kitchen help in restau-| rants and hotels for an ‘average (Continued on Page Vive) | TROUBLE FOR STOOL PIGEON | SHANGHAI (By Mai!).— Kuang Tze-yuen, a professional spy in the employ of the inner national settle- ment police, has been jailed on the charge of “planting” evidence to frame a robbery case against several of his ssi shi ima le aioe ATT ENTION SECTION 2 AND 3! Members of Sections 2 and 8 are ing all militant action on the part|to witness the appearance on the peated all over the country to make | urged to report immediately after of the workers, telling them to “be | streets in hundreds of cities, of ar- the campaign itself an indisputable | work today at 1179 Broadway for ‘important Communist Party work. CHARLOTTE TRY ADMIT PREJUDICE of the JEWISH WORKERS PROSECUTION THROWS OUT ALL WHO SHOW SYMPATHY FOR RIGHT TO ORGANIZE Questions Ede vememen Sh Venire | To Destroy Union Only Six Jurors in Box Of 300, Demanded by (Special to the CHARLOTTE, N. asked the prospective jurors of prosecution today showed aga’ counsel for the state, are deter! \the textile workers. Everybody who showed ae {least sympathy for labor | anybody who ever had a relative in a strike, on the side of the strik-| ers, anybody who ever read any la- \bor papers, was excluded, either by the judge, for cause, or by peremp- tory challenge by the prosecution | counsel. Don’t Want Workers. Everybody who had ever worked in a cotton mill, anybody whose rela- |tives ever worked in a cotton mill, | anybody who had a friend that ever worked in a cotton mill, was abso- lutely unacceptable to the state, un- til, by surprise, they passed a cot- ‘e a worker this afternoon. He meine Workers. When court adjourned for lunch, five were in the jury box and 105 | had been examined to get these five. | One more was added during the af- |ternoon, and the special venire of ' 200 was exhausted. The defense de- jmanded & new venire of 300, and | the judge ordered it called. The three added to the jury in| the morning session were C. W. | Martin, a carpenter, and J. C. Camp-| bell, a news dealer. In the after- jnoon, J. W. Hicks, formerly of the U. T. W., was passed, No Fairness to Atheist. Most of the venire were business jean) and they usually admitted | |much prejudice against the defend- ants. One nursery salesman quietly declared that he couldn’t give the |defendants a fair trial because he lag a religious man, and he didn’t | |think they were. “A man without, | religion will kill quicker than one believing in God,” he alleged as a reason for his readiness to use the electric chair on atheists. nother venireman declared belli- | coset that he not only couldn’t Bk union men a fair trial, but that he wouldn’t give them one. Many of the others were confi- dent they could give a fair trial to (Continued on Page Five) HILLMAN SELLS PHILA. TAILORS Daroff Shop PHILADELPHIA, ug. 29.— An | agreenient was signed yesterday be- |tween the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and H. Daroff | & Sons ending the ,‘strike” that has | been going on here for the last iew | weeks. “The firm has been assured,” said cooperation of our organization in tion.” Develop Efficiency. “We have today,” said * Daroff, “signed an agreement with Amalgamated Clothing Workers of our working organization as to ef- ficiency in operation and general im- | provement of our product. We be- lieve that with the help of the Amal- | (Continued on Page Three) C., Aug. owners of North Carolina, whose attorneys sit in the |burn these sixteen workers on t to a union and of organizing® | ganizer |U. Hillman, “that it will have the full | the efficient conduct of its produc- | the | America which we believe will help | gamated we will be able to manu-, men Show Bosses Hope By Electrocution ii at Night, New Venire Defense, to be Called Daily Worker.) 4 29.—The series of tions que the first special venire by the in most clearly that the mill ranks of that will ial for the crime of belonging CAROLINA MILL " WORKERS START FOR CLEVELAND Organizer » Oeiier Tells of Rising Militaney CHARLOTTE Hugo Gehler, of the Union, announced today t f delegates to the mined to have a jury ers 31, | at Cleveland on Aug. | Charlotte. This n group of delegates, the first left several days ago. On the ay, both groups of delegates will do or- ganizational work for the N. T. W. and the I. L. D. They will dis- tribute literature and a ge for meetings at which they will speak on their return trip. These meetings -| will be held at about fifteen textile centers in North Carolina and South Carolina as well as Tennessee, In the second group of delegates are Dewey Martin, local organizer of the N. T. W. U. and Ernest Martin and jothers. William Murdock, John Rich, Walter Lloyd and Jim Byers were in the first delegation. “While the trial of your fellow- workers and members of our union (Continued on Page Two) THUGS BEAT UP FOOD WORKERS Militants “Fight 300 Aides of Lehman More than 309 gangsters flunkies of the right wing W | Union, Local 1, last night v attacked and beat up a stv of militant food workers | giving ‘out leaflet Food Workers Li and where the union was hold- | ing a meeting. After the committee had been giv- ing out leaflets for a short time. a gang of more thar thugs headed by Izzie Strassberg, Sam Schrien, Joe Kant, Joe Hurwitz and ©. Nor- | man, came out of the hall and start- ed to attack the workers nearest the door. When the workers militantly fought back, knocking some of the gorillas down, the right wingers sent a call for help into the hall. More than 250 thugs rushed on the street j and surrounded the militant workers |who they started to beat without mercy. Charles Mercer, one of the prog- ressive workers knocked out several of the gangsters before he was piled upon by about 50 men, who kicked him in the face after he w flat. George Rubis, was cut up by the thugs and e: from them by jumping into a nassing 1 (Continued on Page Five) STATE WITNESS AT CHARLOTTE TRIAL IN FLOOD OF FILTH; SHOWS HOW PRESS INFLAMED MINDS This letter, ‘adios the feroc- whipped up by the Southern press, was written by a certain J. A. Mulwee, whose name appears in the ‘list of witnesses for the prosecution tried at arlotte, N. This is a fair example of the con- ception of a Communist as fostered by the Charlotte News, Gastonia August 15, 1929. Editor Labor Defender: bit of your rotten trash. If you think you can ram any such damn- able rot down the throats of the southern. people you have another ‘think coming. There is not a south- ern person that is any account that will pay any attention to anything that is published in any of the bloomin rotten Communist papers. Gazette, and other Southern papers. After God had finished the oer I have been reading a right smart | of tion he had the soul of a yellow| their heart he carries a lump of rot-|compared with a Communist for] and prostitutes to try to lynch me|of it filed a way and if you make | Joint Defense and Relief Campaign dog, the smile of a jackass, the hiss a tom-cat, the sense of a billy goat, and all the slyness that be- longs to a suck-egg dog left over, And the Devil taken all that and added a lot more filth that stunk real bad and created a Communist out of it. A Communist is a two legged animal with a cork-screw soul, A water-sogged brain and a) combination backbone made of jelly other people have ten principles. | When a Communist comes down|had him lynched he did have man- the street honest people turn their | hood enough about him to go off |back on him, the angels in heaven|and hang himself and get out of weep, and the Devil closes the gates | sight of honest people, And a Com- of hell to keep him out. No man or|munist has not got any manhood woman has any right to be a Com-| about them. munist as long as there is a pool of | Just look at that mob of Commu- water deep enough to drown them | nist bums and old strolops that was or rope ‘ong enough to hang Ee a out of the slums of New dirty carcas with, York and come to Gastonia, N. C. Judas Ise: riot was a gentleman | After they incited a mob of bos. cent people would have done they hung on till they commited murder and now stand face to face with the electric chair. They was trying to lynch me be- cause I was telling the truth on them and having it published in the Gas- tonia Daily Gazette. You may pub- lish this in some of your papers if you want to but you need not make ay Ps eagle ot ah ogee ops alll pi dita pore bro beng v Ng Re moni 47 et mt ARE OSE: | after he had betrayed the Lord and; | in the place of them leaving like de- | any change ii in it I will have it pub- | Committee at 80 E. | lished i in all the papers around here |to show what dirty work you will) do, If you publish this in your paper }you may send me a copy of it, | Address, J. A. Mulwee Mount, Holly, N. C. R. F. D. 2, * * . | The letter was received at the any changes in it for I have a copy | national offices of the Gastonia | Jetarint-—Marx, 4 4 11th St., New York City, which is rallying the workers to send funds to save the 28 Gastonia textile strikers, | Our own age, the bourgeois axe, ie fn distinguished by this—that yplificd cl and more, society Into two great hostile into two great and dire posed classes: bourgeoii