The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1929, Page 2

anes oe SSH eer CAROLINA MILL WORKERS START FOR CLEVELAND (Continued from Page One) Judge Barnhill, presiding in the|plant, and particularly, did on the etgotng on,” s ra- trial of the sixteen Gastonia strik-/8rd day of April, 1929, actually ob- ; union and ers and organizers charged with| struct the street immediately in Textile momentum, the imy of the | ion w. U e union ince the Bessemer has extende¢ its inflr 1,|workers for better conditions by |the agents, employees and laborers | j means of strike and other methods | therein engaged in the discharge of | s|by the state, saying only that he/ making such threats of violence and DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 19 New Bill of Particulars at Charlotte Outlaws Strikes Claims Organization of Workers Is Illegal and Those Who Take Part in Them Are Outlaws murder, has admitted in its entirety front of said manufacturing plant, the second bill of particulars brought | not only with their presence, but by will not permit evidence relating to | intimidations against said employees the first section, i. e., conspiracy to} as to render it necessary for the stop work in the Manville-Jenckes |} police and other peace officers of Co. by striking and picketing. But} said city and county to attempt to this section stands, and the strikers clear said street and guard the mill e being tried for it. | gates, so as to prevent the said de- The strategy of the Manville-|fendants and divers other persons Jenckes Co. has as its’ objective a/ to the solicitor unknown, from going return to’ the old common law ruling | into the mill of said company and that unions and combinations of| assaulting, beating and wounding| are illegal, and workers who take | their duties, and in said attempt, did { Be eee | criminately as .a result of the ric perialists to divide the work fierce rioting occurred. Where British Kill Both Jews and Arabs TET British troops-are killing both Jewish and Arab workers indis- ed up by the British im- | g Above, a sceng in Hebron, where e- Part in them are outlawed. out stopping. y, persecution with veraging $12.32 week, according to of the 1929 Census s, Actually a very large percentage get only $10 or less d in Georgia less. na the average ws $13.28 per week; in Miss $10.60. Over 10 per cent of them are so less, so discontented with con- ditions that they constitute a per- manent floating population, always looking for new jobs hoping that at some cther mill, things will not be so bad. Women On Night Shift. “Women work on the 11 and 12 hour night shift in every Southern State. About 35 per cent of the women work at night. In North Carolina the law requires that chil- dren be 14 years of age before they go to work and if they have finished the 4th grade in school they can work 60 hours per week. Actually everyone admits that there is no attention paid to the law. The au- thorities complacently state that there is no means of enforcing the law or punishing violations. There are plenty of members of the Youth Section of the T. 'W. U. who are 10, 11, and 12 years old who have been working in the mills. They are militant unionists too. You should hear them singing the union songs they have made up themselves to the Their wages | A conviction in this case will es- tablish the precedent for the execu- tion and jailing of all workers whose union activities force them to defend themselves, and will likewise auto- matically outlaw strikes as move-| ments calculated to produce violent struggles. The working class of the world must struggle against this mass murder campaign of the state of | North Carolina against unionism. The second bill of particulars is as follows: * * * Pursuant to the order of court i, made in the above-entitled cause, | the solicitor for the state furnishes |to the prisoners’ counsel the follow- ing bill of particulars of the sub- stantive facts upon which the state will rely for a conviction of the de- fendants of the crime of murder, with which they are charged in the bill of indictment, to-wit: That the prisoners and each of them, together with other persons to the solicitor unknown, at: various meetings held by them in their union hall, in or near the City of Gastonia, County of Gaston, State of North Carolina, at divers times between the Ist day of April, 1929 jand the 8th day of June, 1929, at divers other times and places to the | solicitor unknown, did unlawfully combine, conspire, confederate and agree together to prevent, hinder jand deter by violence, threats and |intimidation, the Manville-Jenckes Company, a corporation duly credit- ed and existing under the law, and |then and there engaged in operating a textile manufacturing plant in said county and state, from retaining and taking into its employment tunes of old mountain folk songs. Clarence Jolly, James Farrow, Frank ‘We'll never, no we'll never, let our| West, Jessie Johnson and divers leaders die!’ is the refrain of one.|other persons to the solicitor un- These children are stunted by mal-|known, then and there being em- nutrition and hard work. The death | ployed and engaged as textile labor- rate from pellagra increased 50 per |ers in said manufacturing plant, to cent in the past six months in North | the great damage of the said Man- Carolina—458 deaths from this dread | ville Jenckes Company, Clarence disease due to malnutrition. This is| Jolly, James Farrow, Frank West, one of the first fruits of the stretch- | Jessie Johnson and others then and out and starvation wages. We charge |there being employed; and in fur- the mill owners with the niurder of |therance of said combination, con- these 459 workers who died in this|spiracy and confederacy and agree- state during the past six months, | ment, did, on or about the 3rd day of pellagra. is it any exaggeration! of April, 1929, at or near the man- See ae to say that the mill owners’ hands are red with the blood of these mill slaves? . No! More Work, Less Pay. “What is this stretch-out? It is simple. A worker is given more machines or more sides to run with- oat ineressing his pay axd in most cases with a wage cut. In the wrods of one workers: “We were making $25 to $30 a week running 6 to 8 looms. 12 looms and getting $15 to $20 a week. This is more than any man, let. plone a woman, can stand. Jt just wears you out.” Another work er vestifies, “I used to run 8 twister frames and made as high as $30. But when the stretch-out care T had to run 1¥# frames and get only $16 to $18 per week.” “The mill workers get an average annual wage of about $650, while the officials reeeive salaries of $25,- 000 to $100,000. Such is Hooverian prosperity.” “Heré you have some of the reasons for the 14 strikes since March. All except the Loray strike and the Marion strike were spon- taneous. The Southern workers are in revolt. Without leadership, with- out ilitant union, they cannot win ‘the organized power of the | bos: New Unicn Leads. “The N. T. W. U. will organize and lead these workers in a general movement of struggle which will be} initi by the Southern Textile Wo Conference on October 12 and 13. We hope that by that time i, tiga will be free to help lead. this struggle to victory. At any cet the demands of the union will be formulated and these demands will be made upon the bosses. “Between the Bessemer City Con- | ference on July 28 and the N. T, W.| U.) pienie and I. L. D. conference last Sunday at Mt. Holly, there have . been exactly 118 meetings held by the N. T. W. U. and the I. L, D. jointly, in this immediate territory; indluding meetings at the W. I. R. tent colony near Gastonia, Bessemer City, Charlotte, Dallas, the Rex Mill near Gastonia, Kings Mountain, Hickory, Henderson, Raleigh, Wake Forest, Greenville, Anderson, Gaff- ney, Lexington, Wanville, Moores- ville, Highland Park, Mt. Holly, Tramorton, Belmont and other places. We have distributed well over 200,- 000 pieces of I. L. D. and N. T. W. U. literature during this time, thru- out five states, including 100,000 copies of the Cal! to the Charlotte Conference. “An increasing number of local Now we are running 10 to | jufacturing plant of :>id company, in |}the County and State aforesaid, at divers other times and places upon the ptblic strects or highways of said City and County, the exact |times and places being to the solici- | tor unknown, by violence, thre=is, intimidations and assaults com- |mitted upon civers and sundry em- | ployees of the Manville-Jenckes Co., attempt to hinder, delay and prevent the said employees of said company from freely going to and from the manufacturing plant of said com- pany for the purpose of performing work or labor in said plant, in order to prevent said company and its workmen employed in its plant from carrying on the orc:nary operations of said plant; and in furtherance of said unlawful combination, conspir- acy and agreement, did at the times and places aforesaid, resist the at- tempts of the police and other peace officers of the city and county afore- said to discharge their lawful duty of undertaking to keep the streets and highways of said city and coun- ty free and unobstructed, so that the employees of caid manufacturing plant might freely and without fear or molestation go to and from said ——— SS izers and sent out into the field, as far as Rome, Georgia. Special tours | have been made by groups who have toured thru these states distributing literature and arranging meetings. | A sub-district office has been es- tablished in Anderson and Greenville, S.C. There is every indication that the Charlotte Conference will be very successful in mobilizing the Southern workers for the struggle and consolidating our forces for a fight for better conditions, “We contrast our program of mili- tant struggle with the policy of the Us T. W. of class colloboration, sur- render and betrayal. The treachery |of the. U. T. W. bureaucrats ex- |emplified at Elizabethton has been repeated now in Marion by the terms of the agreement reached there. The Southern workers are losing what little faith they may have had in these labor fakers who are the worst enemies of the working class. The workers are turning to the N. T. W. U. which will really organize the unorganized and lead them in the fight against the bosses and their agents. A real struggle is looming on the horizon that will dwarf the strike at the Loray mill. But the Loray strike and the Gastonia case that arose fsom it re: as land- marks of tremendous significance historically, marking the entrance into the South of the left-wing in- are being trained as orgas-/ dustrial union mavamant_” me the Working Class. 2 uiky violently resist the efforts of the officers aforesaid in keeping the street clear, and preventing said de- fendants and others from entering the gates and premises. of said manufacturing plant, and while so resisting, did assault several of the police officers of said city, including the deceased, Aderholt, and there- after, in furtherance of said unlaw- ful combination, conspiracy and agreement, did at a meeting in the union hall of the defendants, held on the night of June 7, 1929, unlaw- fully combine, conspire and agree to proceed from said union hall on said night, together with divers other conspirators and confederates, the manufacturing plant of said company, and by force and violence, expel said employees from said plant, and after so agreed, combined and conspired, the defendant Beal, did then rnd there order and\direct his co-defendants and divers other conspirators and confederates to the solicitor unknown, to proceed to the manufacturing plant of the Man- ville-Jenckes Company, and by force, violence, threats and intimidation, drag the employees of said company from said manufacturing plant, un- less they could be persuaded to vol- untarily leave the same; and in fur- therance of said conspiracy, orders and directions, certain of said de- fendants, together with other co- conspirators and confederates to the solicitor unknown, did forthwith riot- ously, tumultously and unlawfully proceed along the streets of the City of Gastonia in the direction of the manufacturing plant of said com- pany, for the purpose aforesaid, un- til they had reached West Franklin Avenue, when and where they were met by the deceased, Aderholt, and certain other policemen of the City of Gastonia, who then and there or- dered the defendants and their co- conspirators, and confederates to de- sist from proceeding further in tHe direction of said mill, and to.dis- perse when and where the said riot- out and tumultuous assembly, real- izing that for the time being, it was useless to resist the officers of the law, returning to the Union Hall of said defendants, which had there- | tofore been heavily guarded with shot guns by certain said defend- ants, including Robert Allen, K. O. Byers, George Carter, N. F. Gibson, Delmar Hampton, Joseph Harrison, J. C. Heffner, K. Y. Hendricks, Rus- sel Knight, Clarence Miller, W. M. McGinnis and Louis McLaughlin, and, ordered by the said Beal, by and with the consent and approval of the other defendants, conspirators and confederates, by the use of said deadiy weapons, to resist and pre- vent at all hazards the police offi- cers of said city from entering the | premises of said Union Headquar- | ters, in the lawful discharge of their duties, and to arrest any other per- sons who might come upon the said premises and bring them before the said Beal and his co-conspirators for the purpose of inflicting upon them such punishment as they might deem proper; and in furtherance of the combinations conspiracies and agreements then and there thereto- fore entered into, and realizing that it would be necessary to completely rid themselves of police interference in order to carry out and consum- mate their unlawful purpose of clos- ing said mill in the manner and by the means cforesaid, the said de- fendants, other than Vera Bush, Amy Schechter snd Sophie Melvin, after their veturn to the strike head- quarters, as afo! ‘4, when the de- ceased and several other policemen, in response to the importunities of certain citizens living near said strike headquarters, had peacefully entered upon the lot upon which said union hall was located, for the pur- pose of ivvestigating the cause of the trouble, which had been rerort- ed to them, being then and there encouraged by the said said Fred Beal, Vera Bush, Amy Schechter and Sophie Melvin to shoot and kill the deceased and others of his subordi- nates, did forthwith, without cause, excuse or justifications, and while the deceased had his back turned to them, and while he and others of his subordinates were leaving the union grounds, fire a volley of shot from numerous shot guns with intent to kill and murder the deceased and his subordinates, shooting down two of his subordinates and wounding another, »fter which the defendants percipitately fled and concealed themselves in various and sundry nearby places, where they, with the exception of Beal and Byers, were shortly therexfter arrested, the said Beal and Byers having been arrested on the subsequent day. (Signed) JOHN G. CARPENTER, ¢ Solicitor. Build Up the United Front of to}so rapidly \“Mlegal” Italian LL.D. Lovestone . The East New York Unit, {8, Communist Party of t J. S.A, at its meeting held Au; arp condemns the recent act of burglary committed by the Lovestone gang on the National Office of the C, P. This act clearly reveals the anti- working class and anti-Communist character to which this unscrupulous group of renegade opportunists have degenerated. Such an outrage could have been committed only by the worst enemies of the Party. This is an act of counter- revolution, This is an act typical of Mr. Lovestone, expert in crooked Tammany Hall methods, who would subject the Party to a continuation of his corrupt, rotten factional tac- tics and opportunist political line. The Party knows how to answer the attacks of the petty-bourgeois Section East N. Y. Unit Denounces Gang Burglary politici tor: let ism ns and richt wing liquida- who have become an anti-pi n agency of social imperial- We pledge’ ourselves to a relent-| less struggle against the Lovestone gang. We pledge ourselves to strug- gle any manifestation of right opportunis conciliate titude tov pledge ourselves to carry out the line of the Sixth World Congress, the Comintern Address and the the- is of the Tenth Plenum, and to fight t attempts of the \interna- tional right wing to substitute their opportunist line. Clean the Party of the right wing opportunists! Forward to a mass under the leadership of the ! d unanimously.) SEND HELP FOR GASTON DEFENSE Gives 1,000 Lire (Continued from Page One) by American capitalism. The Italian proletariat, always at the vanguard in the struggle for the freedom of all countries, greets in the jailed MOBILIZE FOR GASTON DEFENSE Wilkes-Barre I. L. D. in} Conference WIL BARRE, Aug. 29.—A pledge to mobilize workers here in defense of-the Gastonia strikers was expressed in_a :resolution passed by the Wilkes-Barre Conference on | and vicinity wil! go to the Cleveland lof the forces of the proletariat of |of the I. L. D. greets the militant brothers of Gastonia, the fighters of | Gastonia Defense. The Conference, | which represented 31 workers’ or- a common struggle. H x. T The struggle conducted hy the ganizations, also pledged support of workers of Gastonia is one of inter- | the International Labor Défense in est to the workers of all other coun- | the anthracite istrict. tries; it is a struggle which is being| Immediately release of Mooney fought in one of the largest sections | and Billings and all other class war of the Lattle-front of the world pro- | Prisoners was demanded. in the res- letariat against capitalism. | olution, the full text of which fol- To the coalition of the capitalist | lows: forces we must oppose the coalition! 1—The Wilkes-Barre Conference all countries. |strikers and leaders of Gastonia The legal justice of American cap- | who are about to bs tried on a italism which murdered Sacco and | charge of murder beccuse they dared Vanzetti is not less brutal than the} reaction than the legal “justice” of | Italian fascism which openly reveals | its class character. The objective of | both capitalisms is the same: to crush every movement. of the work- | ing class. | The Italian proeltariat which is | going through one of its most bloody experiences and the most violent of oppressions, is very sensitive to the problems of working class solidarity in defense of the victims of the ¢ justice of international capitalism. The Italian proletariat under- stands and emphasises that mass ac- tion, mass action organized on a} world scale, alone can prevent Amer- | ican capitalism to commit this new | crime. The defense of the Gastonia | workers is one of the most important tasks of the proletariat of all countries. | The Italian workers, therefore, are with you in this fight and express to you their profoundest of soli- darity. We are enclosing 1,000 lire as a contribution to the eampaign you} have started. The Italian proletariat, | which finds itself in miserabie con- | Gitions due to the oppression of the | fascist dictatorship, is not in a posi- tion to send a more substantial sum | as it is very much in need of aid) itself. Nevertheless; the Italian workers wish to show even in this modest way their solidarity with | their fighting comrades in America. In the name of 7,500 prisoners of fascism, in the name of the workers of our country who have not sub- mitted to the fascist reaction, we greet the brothers of Gastonia and ,hope that the united and immediate action of the workers of every country will save them from the danger that threatens them. With fraternal greetings. the International Red Aid. Communists Open Full Time School for the Workers in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 29.—A_ full time school to train workers for bet- ter sefvice in the class struggle will be opened by. the Communist Party here in the near future. Those who have already expressed their intention to attend include workers from the steel mills, mines, railways shops and meat packing factories They will attend classes in Lenin- ism, history of the international la- bor movement and other subjects to give them-a basic understanding of the @lass struecle. The E. C. of the Italian section of | | to organize the exploited textile workers in the National Textile Workers Union and defend them- selves against the armed attacks of the police thugs. 2.—This Conf ce, ropresenting sections of the militant miners in the Anthracite, recognize that the struggle of the textile workers in the South under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union is of tremendous importance to the miners in the Anthracite. 3.—The heroic struggle of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union in be- half of the textile workers is an inspiration for the militant miners to build the new union in the min- ing industry, The National Miners Union. 4.—This Conference pledges to | mobilize the workers of Wilkes- Barre and vicinity against the at- tempt of the textile mill barons of the South to murder our fellow workers in Gastonia because of their loyalty to the working class. 5.—We recognize that only mass working class support and pressure under the leadership of the I. L, D. can save the Gastonia defendants from the electric chair. We there- fore call upon all workers’ organiza- tions to rally. to the defense of the Gastonia strikers. 6.—This Conference also pledges to support and strengthen the I. L. D, in the Anthracite district, which not only helps to defend the Gas- tonia strikers but is a stalwart de- fender of all workers who are per- secuted by the police in the Anthra- cite, because of their struggle in the interests of the workers in gen- eral and the miners in particular. 7.—This Conference approves the line of defense at the Gastonia trial as laid down by the National Organ- ization of the International Labor Defense on August 26, in Charlotte, N. CG, which is, the right of the ltextile workers to organize in the | National Textile Workers Union and the right of workers to defend them- selves against the armed attacks of |the bosses’ thugs. : 8.—This Conference, representing 87 workers’ organizations, demands the immediate and unconditional re- lease of the 23 workers of Gastonia. 9.—This Conference also demands the immediate release of Tom Moon- ey and Billings and all other class~ war prisoners. CHINA RED RAID SHANGHAT (By Mail),—A con- siderable quantity of Communist lit- erature is alleged to have beer se'zed in a police raid upon Chinan| | DELEGATES NOW ARRIVING FOR UNITY CONGRESS Coming From All Basie Industrial Centers (Continued from Page One) and the important needle trades in- | dustries of New York, in which so |} many magnificent struggles have | taken place during recent years. | Many other industries are represent- | ed in the New York delegation. 135 From Pittsburgh. | The National Office of the Trade | Union Educational League has word | that 185 delegates from Pittsburgh | convention. These include 102 miners, 9 steel workers, 7 from the electrical | industry, and others from baking, | needle trades, printers and trans- | portation industries. There are in| the Pittsburgh delegation 15 young | workers, 5 women workers and 14 Negro workers. Buffalo is sending 14 delegates: | | bakers, steel workers, auto workers, | clothing workers, laborers, moulders | and machinists. | New Haven has a group of 13 of | whom three are munitions workers, | 6 building workers, others from elec- | tric, textile and other industries. From West Coast. Los Angeles and Southern Cal- ifornia send seven, in spite of the | great distance, of whom one is a} Mexican foundry worker, and one is | a Japanese worker. | The San Francisco | | | | delegation | amounts to 17: agricultural, auto, building, food, clothing, and other workers. There are two Negro workers from machine shops. one Mexican, one Japanese, one Chinese | worker, and some seamen. | In St. Paul, a considerable delega- | tion includes retresentatives of local | unions in the railway clerks, needle | trades, Pulman porters, packing | house and capmakers unions. The Chicago delegation consists of | 46: 17 from needle trades, 6 building, | 12 railroad, 2 food, 2 stockyards, 1) Western Electric. 1 Crane Co., 1 Harvester factory, 1 printing, 1 chauffeur, and two from the General | T. U. E. L. group. There are eight | oil and steel workers from Gary, Hammond, Indiana Harbor, and Whiting. Four from the Deere Plow | Co., rubber and metal factories come | from Rock Island. | Many More. i The national office of the T. U. E: L. points out that this is merely a representative list, of typical, indus- trial centers, and not comprehensive. Every real industrial district of America is sending delegations-from | local unions, T. U. E. L. groups, and shop committees in unorganized in- dustries. The number of those rep- resenting recently organized shop committees and organization groups which will build shop committees is very large. The convention soon after going into session will hear reports from a long list of industries, and will get down to planning an organiza- tion campaign immediately. JOIN ARABS IN WAR ON ZIONISM Fight Spreads; Takes) Forms of Revolt. | (Continued from Page One) | peasants and workers who do not) follow the Zionist imperialist move-| ment, The British naval planes continue | bombing raids on Arabian villages, and machine gun and rifle fire can beheard in most of the towns as) guerilla conflicts continue, The revolt is taking a steadily less “pogram” character, and more of a revolutionary aspect. The Arabian peasantry are beginning to realize that the wealthy Jewish imperialists and their own rich tribal leaders and landlords are guilty of co-operating with Britisp imperialists to loot the peasantry of their land and exploit in wage slavery, Moslems Jews and Christians alike. Attack Offices. At Tulkare and Nablus, in which no Jews live, the Arab peasants and laborers attacked the government of- fices yesterday. British troops were rushed to both places. Bedouins of the Samour and Beni Saher tribes dashed across the Jor- dan and. entered Palestine at Ram- lah, A British army attacked them and. captured their leaders The Syrian. sheik, Atrashe, who fought the French to a standstill in the last revolt, is reported leading an army. of 2,000 Druses toward the Palestine border, At Haifa, troops from the destroy- ers in the harbor are burning all houses belonging to outstanding Arabian leaders and a considerable part of the city is on fire. The Emir, Abdullah Ibp Hussein, is assisting the British to ‘suppress the revolt.in Trans Jordania._. FRENCH EXPEL COMMUNISTS SHANGHAI (By Mail).—Two al- leged Communists, Liu Hou-seng and Zi se-ying, have been summarily expelled from the French Conces- sion. They were arrested and tried by the same French official. 4 eh it alno called men who are to the om College in Chengiu, near here. OFF WITH YOUR COAT Until the Clock || Strikes 12, Mid- night Monday September 2nd UP WITH YOUR SLEEVES Work With Might and Main to Save the Lives of the’ Gastonia Prisoners Collect in the Streets! Collect from House to House! Collect in the Mills, Shops! Peseta, Complete the TEN DAY DRIVE | With Credit to Yourself AROUSE ALL WORKERS EVERY- WHERE! er LABOR ORGANIZATIONS! INTO ACTION! QUICK! . AS IF YOUR OWN LIFE DEPENDED TAKE YOUR TASK SERIOUSLY! y | UPON IT! THEIR LIVES DO! THEY DEPEND UPON YOU: ee ee The situation demands the most com- plete mobilization of masses of workers we have ever had for the collection of funds to help free the 23 Gastonia tex- tile workers and organizers who face the electric chair and long imprisonment. And After Midnight Monday | Keep Up Your Speed Until All Are Freeda aa Gastonia Joint Relief and |i Defense Committee jf. 80 East 11th Street, New York, N. Y: Fs > Auspices: International Labor Defense Workers International Relief ne ee Endorsed by The National Textile Workers Union