The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 1

aes INTO T THE DAILY WO ssafhta RKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized ‘Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week yioobth sad FUNDS aily Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., onder the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY 4° EDITION - by 26-28 Union Square, Company, Inc., omprodaily Publishing New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: in New York, by mail, $5.00 per ye Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents MILL PROSECUTION CENTERS ON DRIVE TO BURN BEAL ‘Socialists Fail to Halt 'NRAB TOWNS AND SPEAKERS READY AT CLEVELAND TO REPORT TODAY.ON BURNING ISSUES BEFORE WORKING CLASS ® Beal,Miller Denounce Lovestone Burglary From Charlotte Jail Characterizing the raid of the Lovestone gang ¢ «ae National | Office of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. as “similar to the vapitalist police,” Fred Erwin | | Collections tor Gastonia TRIBES JOIN WAR Defense in the Factories OF INDEPENDENCE QUESTIONING OF JURORS BETRAYS ANXIETY TO KILL Beal and Clarence Miller, two of “I made collections in my shop,{the drive increased for the Labor Gastonia Case to Be Reported and Convention Will Pledge United Defense of Strikers Well Known Militants Take Up Problems of | Wage Cuts and Rationalization Drive of Bosses | The national office of the Trade Union Educational League, | | which is calling the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention, announces that when the huge meeting is called to order today | speakers well known to the militant labor movement for lead- ership in strenuous struggles will address them on a series of the most important problems confronting the workers at this time. CURRES Coa: SS a ee The fight against wage cuts, DELEGATES F | LL speed up and for trade union ; | unity will be the topic of the eras : ; “There is but one manner in| Pe reco aie Cl EVELAND HALL which to deal with traitors and tion of the working. yotth will be| ~~ " burglars. The whole Party and discussed by Wm. Sroka. Wm. F. class comecious workers. must} Dunne is listed as the reporter on the organization of the unorganized, and on strike strategy. Wm. Simon: recently returned from the congress which met in Uruguay and organ- ized the Latin American Confedeva- tion of Labor, wil report on the | struggle of the colonial peoples! against American imperialism. Otto Hall, southern Negro organizer of the National Textile W rs Union FOR CONFERENCE From Basie Industries, | By BARBARA RAND. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 30. | —Hundreds of automobiles and speaks on trade unionism and the busses loaded with delegates to the Negro worker. Trade Union Unity Convention have The first day’s session will in- |atrived at Slovenian Auditorium, evitably center around the Gastonia | Situated in the center of the Cleve- case, and the organization drive of |land metal plants for the prelimin- the National Textile Workers Union |ary session today. There are. Ne- in the South, The report on-wage/ eto lumberjazks from Seattle, tex- cuts and against rationalization and |tile workers from the South, coal the report on organizing the unor-| miners from the anthracite, and bi- ganized will deal largely with the |tuminous regions as far south as/ the strike leaders who the textile | bosses are now trying to send to | the electric .chair in Charlotte, have sent the following denunci- |the workers Militant and Eager | LOVESTONE GAN IN- NEW ROBBERY ation of the right opposition: “Just heard of the latest out- rage of Lovestone opposition,” state, “in raiding Party center in manner similar | to capitalist police. of this right opposition, together | with Cannon-Trotsky group, Mr. Lore and liberals, against the working class line of our defense in Gastonia case is strike break- ing and helping to electrocute us. “There can be no doubt now that this same opposition will try | to block the progress of the T.) U. U. C. at Cleveland. | stand up unitedly against the Loyvestone opposition and for the | Party, for the building of the| Red International of Trade Un- ions in this country and for our defense to save our lives from the hands of the executioner. | “This latest outrage must be the dying gasp of the Lovestone opposition. | “(Signed) Clarence Miller, } “Fred Erwin Beal.” | 2. G against opposition of socialists,” | |writes A. S. Barabasoff, of Cleve-| jland, O., collecting funds in the 10- |day campaign of the Gastonia Joint | Defense and Relief Campaign Com-; Day week end. Indiana Miners Express Solidarity. The miners of Bicknell, Ind., write that their state “has held its district convention of coal miners Invite Jewish Workers _ LEADERS AND SMASH UNION The attack | | mittee. “But the socialists know) of the National Miners Union and |very little and nobody pays any at-| has gone on record to send its greet jtention to them,” this worker/ings to all Gastonia prisone: | writes. | These miners have been especially Thus in hundreds of factories} active in raising funds and protest |throughout the land, workers are|for the Gastonia strikers. |holding shop collections to help the; Youth Conference for Gastonia Gastonia strikers, against opposi- | Defense. tion not only of the bosses, but of The provisional committee of the the social-reformists as well. Youth Conference for Gastonia De- With pledges of support by the fense and Relief, created under the | | young workers of the country, by| auspices of the International Labor | the miners and textile workers of | Defense and Workers International | |the anthracite district about Wilkes| Relief, is drawing into the cam- Barre, Pa., and inerease dactivities REPORT CHINA RULERS, YIELD ‘Said to Agree to Joint | Control of Railroad BULLETIN Latest reports of the United Press are to the effect that‘ the Soyiet Government will re-appoint the former manager of the Chin- ese Eastern Railway, who was de- ported from Manchuria when the railroad was seized, and will in- struct other employees to return to work. : in the mine fields of, Bicknell, Ind., | conditions of Southern textile work- ers, who were met with the most brutal police and mill thugs’ repres- sion when they organized, and struck for living wages and conditions. Strikers had to organize armed re- | sistance to the mass mudrer at- tempts of the bosses. Speakers will point cut that the whole working the Gastonia strikers now on trial for their lives in the court house at Charlotte, as this is the most im- mediate battle for the right to or- ganize. Harry M. Wicks will talk on the fight against the war danger and the the necessity of defense of the Soviet Union. Clarence Hathaway will re- port on social insurance. All of these topics are at present burning issues in the American la- bor movement. The T. U. E. L. draft program submitted to the Trade Union Unity Congress and proposed for adoption as the program of the new trade union and left wing center to be created there has a series of prac- tical demands for immediate con- flict to stop the wage cutting and rationalizing campaign of the bosses. These are the demands of (Continued on Page Two) HOLD FREIHEIT PICNIC TODAY Soccer, Dancing, Music Are on Program The Morning Freiheit picnic will be held today in Ulmer Park, Brook- lyn. To reach the picnic ground take the West End B. to 26th Ave. station. An elaborate program has been arranged, including two: soccer games, a sport tournament, dancing, music, entertainment and speeches. The soccer games will be: Frei- heit Sport Club ‘vs. Arista and the Freiheit Sport Club vs. the Harlem Progressive Sport Club, Among the organizations that will attend are the Labor Sports Union, Freiheit Sport Club, Harlem Pro- | gressive Sport Club, as well as many branches of the Workmen’s Circle and the Independent Wcerk- men’s Circle. Tickets at 40 cents each, can be West Virginia, iron miners from} Secti Minnesota, stockyards workers from | | Chicago, railroad men from Kan-| sas City, automobile workers from | Detroit among the early comers. and eagerness to build the new cen- ter, manifested by the delegates, ;who animatedly support the draft quarters. of Section One of the Com- class has to rally to the defense of |constitution and program proposed |munist Party located on Fourth St. (Continued on Page Five) ZIONISTS BREAK “UP AIR MEETING Communist Assaulted By Jewish Fascists Jewish fascists broke up an open air meeting of the Communist Party Thursday night at Washington Ave. and Claremont Parkway, the Bronx, and severely beat up Louis A. Baum, who was speaking. Although out- numbered 50 to one, the small group of Communists bravely fought back and gave a good account of them- selves. Baum was rushed off the plat- form by a large group of Jewish; | business men who kicked him after | he was on the ground. Before Baum was beaten to the ground he used |the end of the platform as a club _and hit one of the Zionists on the There is tremendous enthusiasm ered in the buxglary of the National | * on 1 Headquarters | A United Press dispatch from | Moscow states that word has been Is Looted lyeceived there that the Chang Not content with the laurels gath- | Hseuh-liang government of Man- churia has yielded on the question of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, and agrees to restore the status quo (i. e., return the railroad to joint | Soviet and Chinese control) so that | On Thursday, Aug. 29, between | negotiations may start. |the hours of 1 a. m. and 6 p. m. the |Section Headquarters of Section One| +he Nanking government is agreed |was entered and robbed. After in-|{ this. It quotes a dispatch from vestigating, we find the following:| arbin, that the U. S. S. R. has The robbery was committed by | named Jokoff general manager of |someone who knew where various |the railroad. ide jmaterial was kept. All records and| In the same dispatch it is stated * * | Office, Jay Lovestone’s gang of ren- | legndes now burglarized the head- | The dispatch does not say whether | \literature of Section One are kept in a cabinet which has upper and lower that Chang’s police yesterday raided the Shefotinovsky printing plant at |paign all youth’s organizations, (Continued on Page Five) VOICE SUPPORT FOR COMMUNISTS William W. Weinstone, Commun- ist candidate for mayor; J. L. Fng- |dahl, candidate for president of the Borough of Manhattan; Fred Rie- denkapp, candidate for president of the Borough of Brooklyn; H. M. Wicks, candidate for president of the board of aldermen; and Otto Hall, Negro candidate for comptrol- ‘fication conferences called by the | Communist Party, New York die-) | trict, to endorse the Communist pro- |gram and candidates in the munic- | | ipal elections. : | The conferences will be held Sun- | day, Sept. 8 at 2 p.m., at the fol-| (Continued on Page Three) YOUTH TO MEET FOR GASTONIA | Conference Sept. 15 to} Aid Defense, Relief ‘Ratification Meets to) 'Hear Party Nominees| ler, will speak at the county rati-| To Assist Throw Off | aS hina a British Yoke One New Juror Obtained by Night; Workers peas |All Refuse to Convict, Bosses Refuse to Acquit SOEs See CAMPS Charlotte Attorneys Declare Defendants Ought Ibn Saud’s Agent Says | To Be Strung Up Whether Guilty or Not War .s Over Land -| a oe ae CHARLOTTE, N. British propaganda agency qeare| that the movement for Arabian in- = “ A dependence is spreading. At Kiryath | _ By LISTON OAK ma : Anavian, the Arabian peasantry | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 30.—That the big guns of the brought their children to the Jewish | prosecution in the Charlotte trial of the sixteen National T farm workers as proof that they had | ¢ije Workers Union members and organizers on murder charg 1 ee (eae eerste | will be directed particularly against Fred I in Beal, the Bint 4 : astonia strike, the Arabian peasantry and tribes-| Union’s southern organizer and leader of the men invited the Jewish agricultural | became increasingly clear this morning. workers to a united attack on British ——— The reasons of the stream of imperialism and the landlords who ce A pegs on vecee inoue’ reg Uno DoLn arabe abd geWe poisonous propaganda against the leaders of the Loray strike, | eee, In Tulkerim, Jenin, and at Nablus, PUBLISHER A | D § e | which was especially venemous the Arabian peasantry have declared | against Beal, were seen as one r | their independence of England. It | | | is said they have invited the Turkish | Ply [4 1 dle class venireman government to intervene and protect | admitted under the BULLETIN, Aug. 30.—Shortly before court adjourned He is A. F. Parker, a 26- year-old grocer and member of a religious sect called “True Light.” reser them. Jewish workers are taking | questioning by the part in the independence movement | neys that he had been convinced by in all these centers, and in other | what he read in the Charlotte Ob- parts of Palestine. The Dhur tribes | server and the News th | have joined the independence move- | * * responsible because he a ment. i ‘No Strike,’ Cries Block the trouble.” “Some of the Ini : ion leaders are probably guil Jews, Arabs Unite. | wer oP ot union : ; : say these defenders of the Manvill Jewish, Arabian’ and Christian & ney eee Cesare eae ae tho: _ |Jenckes Co., and “especially NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 30—Praise |from the North.” for the sensible. advice”’.of the of-) No additional jurymen could > | ficialdom of the Amalgamated As-) selected this morning be | sociation of Street and Electric Rail- this violent and undisguised preju- | population in Syria, where Zionism | has no foothold, are uniting in fur- (Continued on Page Two) BANQUET TO HAIL RED CANDIDATES Ratify Communists at Brooklyn Sept. 14 A Ratification Banquet to greet the Communist candidates municipal elections has been ar- ranged by the Williamsburg Party Section for Sunday, Sept. 14, at the Williamsburg Workers Center, 56 Manhattan Ave. in the; way Employees, which is using every | means to get the 8,000 New Jersey street car workers to accep! wage leuts by “arbitration,” is expressed by Paul Block, wealthy newspaper | | owner and publisher of the Newark |Star-Eagle in his paper today. | Block’s paper has consistently sup- ported the Public Service and their | A. F. of L. allies since the men first began to demand militant strike ac- | tion to fight the company demands | | and enforce a 25 per cent wage gain. | This community will be spared a costly and disastrous strike and a tie-up of transportation facilities if Among the speakers will be Wil-| the members of the bus and trolley Harbin, where the Russian language newspaper, Pravda, was printed, and arrested Editor Nechkin and former Editor Molva, both of whom are now charged with influencing the Soviet employees of the road to continue the strike they started when the Manchurian militarist government seized the road. ficials call the action of the news- paper “vandalism” and both men are in danger of execution. Arrests and executions oontinue in Manchuria. compartments. The upper compart-| ment contains only literature and \is locked separately. There is no} way of telling that there is litera-| ture in this compartment except af-| |ter opening the door. The bottom | compartment contained various rec- | ords of the different section de- partments, as well as that of units. |This compartment is also separately | locked. At the time of the discov- | ery of the robbery, the top part |was locked and intact while only \the bottom part had been broken} (Continued on Page Two) 74 DROWNED IN Not only has the hourgestale ri it bring The Chang of-| (Continued on Page Five) Karl Marx (Comm Mill Bosses’ Lawyers Blandly Claim Represent State Only PACIFIC CRASH Saifors Blame Company For Rotten Ship SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3¢.—De- M. T. subway | Prosecutors. Known to By LISTON M, OAK Everybody knows that the huge |battery of lawyers “assisting” the solicitor, John Carpenter, to railroad the sixteen defendants in the Gas- tonia case to electrocution or to the | penitentiary are actually the attor- neys of the Manville-Jenckes and other mill owners. In addition to whatever they gét as a fee from the jcity of Gatsonia or Gaston county, |they undoubtedly get another and very much larger retainer from the Companies’ Fees Profess Public Service | tails of another tragedy almost as disastrous as the Vestris sinking be- came known today when it was re- ported that 74 passengers and many of the crew of the coaster San Juai were still unaccounted for. The San Juan, owned by the Los Angeles and whom they were employed and paid. | gan Francisco Navigation Company, Every one of them repeated. that | collided early this morning with the they were employed and paid by the | standard Oil Tanker S. C. T. Dodd city of Gastonia or by Gaston coun- | thirty miles south of here in a heavy ty. Besides the Gastonia lawyers | roy, Be Enriched by Textile, Pointing out particularly that ;most of the workers on trial for | their lives in Charlotte now are| |young workers, the Provisional |Youth Conference for Gastonia De- | 2: \|fense and Relief, recently establish- jed, with offices at 80 E. 11th St., |New York City, has issued the fol- |lowing call to young workers every- | where: | | “The National Youth Committee | of the Gastonia Joint Defense and| | Relief Committee is organizing a| |series of youth conferences in all} \large cities, in order to rally the} young workers in defense of the imprisoned young workers of Gas- tonia. In New York City a Youth| |Conference is being called by. the) | Provisional Committee for Sunday, | Sept. 15. | Sept. 15 in New York. “We urge you to discuss this | question and elect delegates to the New York Conference for Gastonia Defense and Relief to be held at | Fraternity Room, Irving Plaza hall, 15-17 Irving Place, New York, Sun- day, Sept. 15 at 11 am. Kindly | fill out the enclosed blank and send it by return mail to the Provisional Committee of the Youth Conference |at 80 E. 11th St., New York City.” This call was signed by members of the Provisional Committee, Youth | Section, National Textile Workers | Union; Labor Sports Union, Youth | Section, Needle Trades Industrial | | Union, and the Young Communist | liam W. Weinstone, Communist Can- didate for Mayor. Fred Biedenkapp, candidate for President, Borough of Brooklyn. Joseph Magliacano, Can- didate for Assembly in the Sixth A. Roy Mizara, candidate for As- sembly in the 13th A. D. Samuel Nesin, candidate for Assembly in the 14th A. D. Fredefick Makel, candidate for Alderman in the 33rd Ald. District, and Hyman Gordon, candidate for Alderman in the 35th Ald. District. Militant workers organizations in Williamsburg are being mobilized to make this banquet a success. Tickets are 75 cents and places should be reserved in advance. Hold Picnic Tomorrow |At Pleasant Bay Park A picnic will be held tomorrow at | Pleasant Bay Park, the Bronx, un- | der the joint auspices of Nes Ash- jkhar, Armenian Communist news- munist newspaper. Twenty per cent of the proceeds will go for the de- fense of the Gastonia strikers now on trial in Charlotte, N. C. Admis- sion to the picnic will be 35 cents. union will follow the sensible advice (Continued on Page Three) LAND OF SOVIETS AT VLADIVOSTOK Soviet Fliers to Reach Seattle in Week | MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 30.— The Land of the Soviets, en route from Moscow to New York, will! reach the Siberian coast at Vladivo- | stok tomorrow morning, where Pi- |lot Shestakov and his three com- dice. Nearly all the veniremen ex at thi ssion were mer men, real estate men, et were very few workers, and almost all of them ayere frank in stating their belief in the right of the strikers to defend themselves, thus automatically eliminating themselves as jurors. One interesting feature morning’s sion was the large (Continued on Page Five) JAIL 22 NN. J, * FURRIER STRIKE I of the se iS] Industrial Union Leading Struggle PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 30. Twenty-two striking fur rabbit work- ers were arrested yesterday while picketing the Brighton Fur Dressing Co, plant at River and W: A general strike of fur r tories of Paterson, Newark, Brook- lyn and other dressing centers is now taking place under the leader- ship of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, which is demand- ing an increase in wages for the workers. Although the scab Inter- national Fur Workers’ Union is at- tempting to prevent the workers |paper and Empross, Greek Com- | |rades will attach pontoons to the | from striking, they are going on the |plane for the transoceanic crossing, | picket line determined to win their flying next to Kamchatka and ar- struggle. riving in Seattle some time next! Morris Langer and Julius Weil week. were among those arrested in front of the Brighton shop. % Cm A. Shestakov, second pilot Philip! Bolotov, Dmitri Fufayev, mechanic, | and Boris Sterlingov, navigator, dete Moscow in the first Land of the So-| |viets Aug. 8, being forced down dur. | Continued on Page Three) Sidelights on = | | | | | the Charlotte Trial of the Gastonia Strikers NEEDLE TRADES TO AID GASTONIA Call Shop Conferenee For Sept. 11 the prosecution has employed two very expensive Charlotte lawyers, E, T, Cansler and Jake Newell. | The city of Gastonia has no le-_ gal right or power to aid criminal | prosecution. Such action is beyond | its corporate powers. While the prosecution counsel de- | The rotten timbers of the ancient | League. craft crupled up helplessly immed- iately the tanker hit her. It sank so swiftly that there was not even time to launch the life-boats. Blame Company. ry Categorically accusing the com- pany of responsibility for another Tecariat purchased at the office of the Frei- | mill owners who are anxious to get heit, 30 Union Square. rid of the union organizers. TRY FOR ENDURANCE RECORD | CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Two Chi- cago endurance fliers, seeking to better the 421-hour record of the St. Louis Robin, neared the end of their first week in the air today with the motor of their monoplane “Chicago — We Will’ working smoothly. Who Are Their Bosses? When the superior court of Meck- session Monday, Aug. 26, the de- fense counsel repeated the demand made at Gastonia on July 29, that the lawyers for the*prosecution re- veal their employers. Judge Barn- hill granted the motion and ordered the prosecution lawyers to state by lenburg county opened in special; nied that they are -being paid by disaster because of its anxiety for the Loray mill or other mills, it is| profits rather than for the safety a matter of common knowledge that) of its 110 crew, and passengers, a number of them, in private life,| sailors on the Emarcadero St. water- are regularly employed as attor- front heer say that the ship should neys for the Loray and other mills.| have been scrapped right after the Major Bulwinkle for instance, is spe-| war, cial counsel for the Manville-Jen- At that time, she was reported to \ckes Company, and George B, Ma-|have earned her original cost on son, who has been helping the pros-| each round trip to Central America. ecution is another Loray mill legal! That the ship was useless and (Continued on Page Five) | menaced the safety of its passen- gers and crew was tacitly recog- nized by the company, which recent- ly relegated the boat to cut-rate | carrier trade between California’s two principal ports. At the same time, reluctant to relinquish means of still further | profit, the company maintained a | passenger service also. It charged $8, $9 and $10 for the trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles and usually had a capacity olad. a A conference of shop delegates |Manville-Jenckes Moves to Keep Workers ands shob come ee cn From the Jury; Told From the Courtroom |; fdetenvenatia funds for the defense of the Gasto- nia workers will be held Wednes- BY SENDER GARLIN Mr. E. T, Cansler, Sr., is éxartin-| A.—Yeh, I think some of them / St. near Third Ave., it was an- jing prospective jurors for the pros-| are. jnounced yesterday. ecution. Q.—Pass. (The juror is satisfac-| Representatives from shops of the Q.—Do you read the Labor De-|tory to the Manville Jenckes Com-| Needle Trades Workers Industrial of the defendants are not guilty? day, Sépt. 11, at Webster hall, 11th fender? |Pany, but is challenged by counsel | Union, International Ladies Gar- A—No. - for the defense.) | (Continued on Page Five) -Q—Do you read the union paper, oe ey the Daily Worker? A—No. , Q.—What papers do you read? A.—The Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte News. Q.—Have you formed or. ex- pressed an opinion that all or some ‘ eren | “Do you believe in labor organ-a- zations?” Cansler asks, | “Excused by the state.” | “Do any of your kin work ‘n a cotton mill?” he asks another, | “Excused by the state.” (Continued on Page Five) i 16 DIE IN BUS CRASH TLEMCEN, Morocco, Aug. 30,— Sixteen persons were killed and 13 others were injgred when an auto- bus crashed down a ravine after a blow-out last night. i » a