The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 5

" TAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, -SIDELIGHTS: ON THE TRIAL OF MILL WORKERS Bankers, Brokers and Clerks Want to Convict (Continued from Page One) “Do any of your kin work in a manufacturing plant?” he asks a third. “Excused by the state.” vee L. Hubbard, a farmer, is called. Brother in a cotton mill and son in a woolen mill. “Is your nephew Tom Hubbard, the one that} was in the car strike about years ago or thereabouts? “Excused by the state.” * * * * B. W. G. Stiegal, an aged far “hinks that fellow Beal is guilty. man John -W. Fo: Major Bulwinkle wants this EES DE pest on, the jury. Challenged by the de- looking business man. Head of th fense. i trust department in the American Ra, my Trust Company in Charlotte. Very eager to serve on this jury. Has read all the mill owners propaganda against the defendants, but has “no C.G. Long works for the Stand- ard Oil Company; a credit clerk. “Are you prejudiced against labor unions,” asks defense council. “Yes, Pinion about it.” Challenged by against the more radical kind, like the defense, | the one that came down here and j Manville-Jenckes’ hig caused all the trouble.” yers didn’t want T. C. Marghew, for he has been a textile worker for 14 J. C. Reiss is an old, gaunt, work- Ape toatea atte ass oh) caly years and thought that workers had ridden farmer, with a thin, str black moustache. Read nothing | Tight not only to organize into shout the ease Didn't know the (Unions, but to shoot in self defense chief was killed, No. prejudice When company thugs invade the tent against labor unions. Toray law- \©°lony of strikers. | | The “State” thought they’d take Oscar L, McLellan is a “constant |@ chance on W. P. Sloan, president reader” of the Charlotte News and ig the Sloan Building Supply Co. the Charlotte Observer. Gentle, | Small individual, black suit and cel- home-loving married man who is a |luloid colar. “Some of ’em are guil- claim agent for the Model C. Laun-|t,” he thought. “I’m sure T can f Been there six years, good|five ‘em a fair trial accordin’ to worker, “Yeh, some of tem | the evidence, your honor.” Chal- t lenged by defense. | ® } yers don’t want this man. - ¥ air guilty.” Challenged by defense. | “They won't take this one,” says my neighbor, a barber in Charlotte. “Looks too much like the defen- |dants.” The prospective juror was |a farmer in North Charlotte. “Do you own your own land?” No, he doesn’t. No, the state doesn’t want this man, They want the defen- jdants to get a “fair” trial. “i MORNING FREIRETT jalright. F. H. Kimball has been a merchant in Charlotte for the past |27 years. Sure he can listen to the jevidence without prejudice. Chal- lenged by the defense. ‘ s #8 No negied A cabinet worker is un$afe on rh jthe jury, Manville-Jenckes’ lawyers ly feel. F'. C. Stewart works for War- |ren and Co. “It’s fifteen years now.” | Challenged by the state. es 8 8 | “Have you formed or expressed }an opinion as to the innocence of |these defendants?” J. T, Nevins, a |textile machinist, is asked. “Yes, {I think they’re not guilty.” Major |Bulwinkle scowls. “Excused by the state.” eae The defense takes no chances on jinsurance agents, but neither does |the prosecution, for that matter. |H. B. Mason is an agent for the |Prudential Life Insurance Co.—for \the past 12 years now. He is ques- tioned by the state: | Q—Do you deal with ordinary |life insurance—or, also industrial | insurance ? In Ulmer any opinion as to the guilt of these defendants, or any of them? A.—Yes, some of them must be guilty. Thus the defense is forced to use up another of its 168 peremptory challenges. a ad SPORTS 2 Soccer Games Freiheit Sport Club (A) vs im E, B. Latta would give Fred Beal and the other workers a fair trial, that’s a cinch. Son of former own- er of Charlotte street railway sys- tem. The lad, now about 40, is in the real estate business. Arista ; Freiheit Sport Club (B) v8 Q.—Are you prejudiced against Harlem Prog. Sport labor organ-a-zations? . Club A—Not as a whole; I am against some of them, though. Mr, Latta’s services are dispensed with by the lawyers for the de- fense, Sport Tournament Workers Sport Union Vesa Athletic Club Bronx Workers Athletic Club Red Star Athletic Club Caan amet The state smiles pleasantly upon the person of J, C. Blake, a travel- ing salesman. Frail, dark, horn- rimmed glasses. Has read the Char- Here’s for a jury of your peers, | | A.—Both | . Park Q.—Are any of your customers— | (West End B. M. T. policyholders—workers in the mills? Line to 25th Ave. A.—Both, sir. Station) Q.—Have you formed or expressed lotte News and Observer, Ques-| tions by defense: Q.—Would you be prejudiced against the defendants if it was brought in the evidence that some of them came from New York State? | | A.—I guess not. | Q.—Have you formed or expressed }an opinion as to the guilt or inno- jcence of any or all of these defend- | ants? ; A.—Why, yes, some of them. | Q.—Which? A.—The leader, Beal. Sunk | The courtclerk sings out before ja juror is accepted by the defense. | “Juror look upon the prisoners; prisoners look upon the juror. you like him?” occasions, Johnson D. McCall, for! the defense, replied: “No!” | When court closed at 5:30 on | Wednesday three jurors had been |chosen out of over 50 examined.| | These were: S. L. Caldwell, former, | Huntersville; J. L. McCoy, steel worker, of Charlotte; Eb. Morris, | Jy., farmer, near Matthews. | FAIL TO HALT | Socialists’ Tactics Lose | In Shops | (Continued from Page One) sport clubs, fraternal and labor} | bodies. A youth conference will} |be held in New York City Sunday, | September 15. “We urge you to dis-| cuss this question and elect dele- gates to the New York Youth Con- ference for Gastonia Defense and Relief to be held at Fraternity] Room, Irving Plaza, 15-17 Irving) | Pi,” the committee writes. | This campaign of the youth will | | be held on a national scale, Dave | Mates, organizer, declared. House to house collections, tag days, street and factory gate collections will be part of the activities of the youth, | he declared. More than §C youth | organizations, including the youth ; section of the National Textile | Workers Union, the Labor Sports | Union, the Youth Section of the | Needle Trades Industrial Union, the |Young Communist League, the | Youth Committee of the Office | Workers Union. | Philadelphia District Increasingly *| Active. The International Labor Defense | monthly conference will meet Mon- day, Sept. 2, at 8 p. m. in Free Letts | Hall, 531 North 7th St., when Gas- | tonia will be the chief issue. Other | problems of local nature will be con- sidered at the meeting. Jennie Cooper, secretary of the Internation- al Labor Defense’ there, reports house to house collections through- out the entire district. She is be- ginning to tour tomorrow, through the district to mobilize the I. L. D. membership for conference, house to house collections, etc., in Chester, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Trenton, Roebling, Beth- lehem, Allentown and Easton. Mass Conference in Chicago. | The campaign in Chicago is as- | |suming momentum as it goes on.) A mass conference is arranged for the 22nd of September to be held | in room 901, Capital Building. Since | the wave of police terror, the work- ers have been unable to hire the large Ashland Auditorium for any purpose since the proprietors refuse Kaytee Athletic Club Political Rally Leading nationally-known speakers will discuss the coming political issues. MUSIC by a large band. DANCING in a large hall. REFRESHMENTS food and drinks all you'll want, and the best. 8:30 NICHOLAS KARLASH Bass-Baritone in Russian Folk Songs and Opera Arias VICTOR PECKER WOLF BARZEL in New Original Acts, Recitations and Comedy Entertainments rece Tickets 40 Cents in advance at “Morning Freiheit” 30 Union Square, New York. “ICOR” 799 Broadway Grand “ICOR” Concert JEWISH CataNaxa rio tw THE SOVIET UNION Saturday, Sept, 14th 1929 TOWN HALL 113-123 West 43rd Street PROGRAM Admission 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 P.M. YASHA FISHERMAN Great Soviet Pianist in New Soviet Compositions FAMOUS RUSSIAN TRIO VICTOR KUTCHERO—violin BASIL BELAIEFF—cello JOSEPH MARANZ—piano Telephone Stuyvesant 0867 Bridge, Built by Workers Risking Lives ~ FUND CAMPAIGN : Photo shows the bridge across Lake Champlain, from New York to Vermont on its opening. Many . | workers’ lives were lost in its construction. MILL LAWYERS DENY MASTERS Claim They Represent Only the State (Continued from Page One) lackey. attorneys are also mill owners and owners of mill stock. I. L. D. Defends Workers. On the other hand, in response to motion of E, T. Cansler, now a ee leading the prosecution, granted by | Except on three | Judge Barnhill, the defense counsel | all stated that they are employed by the International Labor Defense. Arthur Garfield Hays is also en- gaged by the I. L. D. He stated that he is counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, but that he was requested to enter this case by the I. L. D It was interesting that many of |the prospective jurymen, in answer | to the question, “are against labor unions?”, answered, “T am against radical unions like the National Textile Workers Un- ion.” Not one venireman examined now belongs to a union. Several once were merabers of A, F. of L. unions. They said that they are prejudiced against the defendants and against this “radical textile un- ion” that is led by men like Beal. u prejudiced Prejudice and “Prejudice.” “The reasoning of many venire- men was that, since Aderholt had certainly been shot by somebody, “all of the defendants must be more or less guilty, otherwise why are they here in court?” In other words anybody arrested and charged with murder must be a scoundrel, espe cially if a strike leader or union or- ganizer. to rent it, having been intimidated by the police. Wilkes Barre Workers Organizations Helping! A conference at which 37 workers organizations were represented, de- manded the immediate and uncondi- tional release of the 23 workers of Gastonia. This conference organized tag days, mass meetings of protest in the Anthracite, elected an executive of nine members to be in charge of carrying out the Gastonia campaign, and decided to popularize the La- bor Defender. St. Paul, Minn. Active. A general membership meeting of all I. L, D. members and sympathiz- ers was held Wednesday evening, | Aug. 28, at 435 Rice St., in Com- monwealth hall, when the workers were mobilized for increased Gasto- nia activities. Conferences in Pittsburgh District. | The various activities of the Pitts- burgh district, Johnstown, East Pittsburgh, etc., are holding confer- ences, mobilizing workers to hold many activities to raise funds for Gastonia house to house collections, | shop and factory gate collections are being held throughout the en- tire steel and bituminous mine sec- tion here, INGERSOLL FORUM PYTHIAN TEMPLE THOMAS JEFFERSON HALL 135 West 70th St. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 WOOLSEY TELLER “THE CASE AGAINST GOD’ ADMISSION 25 CENTS Phone: LEHIGH 6382 International Barber Shop M, W. SALA, Prop. 2016 Second Avenue, New York (bet. 103rd & 104th Sts.) Ladies’ Bobs Our Specialty Private Beauty Parlor Unity Co-operators Patronize SAM, LESSER Ladies’ and Gents’ Tailor 1818 - 7th Ave. New York etween 110th and 111th Sti t to Unity © Comrade Frances Pilat MIDWIFE 351 E. 7/th St., New York, N. Y. Tel. Rhinelander 3916 AUGUST 31, 1929 , PROSECUTION IN Fraternal Org SPECIAL DRIVE TO KILL LEADERS Questions Show Aim Is to Crush Unionism | (Continued from Page One) | number of veniremen excused by the state becai believe sixteen men should be sent to the clectrie chair on circum- stantial evidence. In fact, the prosecution used this | to save their limited number of per- jemptory challenges, asking every venireman whether he believes in capital punishment on circumstantial | Almost every farmer and red “No.” J. Crane, testile manufacturer, | declared, “I am positive that Beal i i but I will disabuse my \ evidence. | worker ansy mind of this prejudice and give him} and the others a fair trial. Many | business men are frank in admitting their prejudice because they want to |} avoid being locked up in the jury for a trial which may last for a |month and would interfere with theiz business. | Two prominent men of the local bar who have been sitting in the court room were heard to remark today, ‘All of the damned Reds are |surely guilty, but whether they are Many of these cotton mill| guilty or not, they ought to be hung | \up by their toes and their lawyers | with them.” Second Venire Present. The entire venire of 200 men drawn for the jury service was ex- hausted today, with only six jurors selected, and 300 additional venire- men reported this afternoon for ex- | amination. The jurors picked so far are C, W. Martin, J. C. Campbell, J. W. Hicks, S. L. Caldwell, Zeb Morris and J. D. McCay. By noon today, 74 admitted they thought one or more of the defend- ants are not guilty and fifty said they had not made up their mind Out of these 50, only the six men- tioned above were acceptable to both defense and prosecution for jury service to render a verdict on the three charges of murder, conspiracy, and “secret assault with deadly | | weapons with intent to commit mur- der,” against the 16 members of the National Textile Workers Union, whose crime was leading the Loray mill workers in a struggle against the stretch-out (speed-up) system and starvation wages. NEEDLE TRADES 10 AID GASTONIA ‘Call Shop Conference For Sept. 11 (Continued from Page One) ment Workers Union, International Fur Workers Union, Amalgamated | Clothing Workers, Cap and Millin- ery Workers, also unorganized shops have been invited to send delegates to the conference which will act on plans for an extensive campaign to |immediately collect funds to save the 28 workers from the electric |chair and long terms in prison, The New York Joint Board of the | Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union announced yesterday that it has endorsed the plan of the Gen- eral Executive Board of the union for a 50 cent tax on all the union members for the defense of the | Gastonia workers, 1Gse FROM FACTORY TO YOU! HIGH-GRADE MEN'S and YOUNG MEN'S SUITS From $12.50 to $25.00 PARK CLOTHING STORE 9 Ave. A, Cor. Gth St. N. ¥. ©. PIC (Park Open: Swimming Jeorge Ferry to Staten Island; Aus 51 East 10th § se they said they do not | THE Shoe Workers REVEL AND TOMORROW HARMONY PARK Grasmere, Staten Island ADMISSION 50 CENTS Independent Shoe Workers Union anizations Scandinavian Workers Outing. "| . Store Volunteers. The Scandinavian Workers Club: 2 3 ot Broo and New York are ting by bus to al in Bridgeport. ndinavian holding on worker who d his ni on, 167 E Sunday Sept. 1 to go alo address to St. New York. welcome eras Workers Picnic. dent Shoe Workers Un ed a picnic for Sunday rmony Park, Grasm program; well known th Reach Gastonia Meet e Hef Aug Sho The Ind ion hi Sept Sa speaker ut Hi ood Oy Sl oe Spanish Workers Art Exposition. The Spanish Workers Center is holding an exhibition of Porto R Mexican and Central American pro- B Brownsville neh, I All me 3 letarian art, in the form of pictures, ( Jcartouns, etc. at its club rooms, 26/154 Watkins & ; W. 16th St.,’all this week. On’ the ‘ final evening the exposition Union urday, Aug, 31, a group of ‘Por Th Rican’ worke: th music festival. * Office Workers Dance The Office Workers Union will give its first Fall dance on Saturday eve- ning, Sept, 14, at the Hecksher dation Roof Garden, 1 E. 104th § Admission 50 s. * a 8 orto ll give a dance and | Br 1 workers welcome r * Freiheit Singin at Pleasa he. Freiteit cho: haefer, will appe m of songs and John C. Smith vill provide music for dancing ICE SUPPORT Z OR COMMUNISTS UP AIR MEETING Ratification Meets to Communist Assaulted |Hear Party Nominees By Jewish Fascists F (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) lowing centers: Manhattan confer- head. ete cee ae great and Baum was forced to the lyn conference, 56 Manhattan Ave, Stound where The strike breaking role of La| stepped upon by Guardia and Walker, the united front of capitalist and socialist par-| ties in the attacks upon the Soviet Union and the preparations for a |new imperialist war will be exposed speak the well organized group of by the Communist standard bearers fascists started to shout and yell, | before the delegates from shops, un- stating that no Communist meeting ions, and fraternal organizations| would be allowed on that corner. that are mobilizing their forces to| They denounced the Daily Worker support the Communist ticket. and the Jewish Daily Freiheit. Coming immediately after the| When Baum started to speek, the |}Trade Union Unity Convention in| mob became more menacing. They Cleveland, these ratification confer-| said that if the meeting was not fences will rally the militant work-| ended at once, they would break it ers behind a program of aggressive|up. When Baum replied that the | struggle against the bosses, Ame Communist Party had no intention can Federation of Labor bureau-|of taking orders from Zionists, one |crats and social reformists general-| of the f f h ly, and for the organization of fight- | 4 property owner in that section and ing unions under the leadership of | would see to it that no meetings the Trade Union Unity Center,|would be held. Most of the mob which has the full endorsement and| consisted of business men and sup- support of the Communist Party. | porters of the socialist party. | Workers organizations are urged! Another Meeting Thursday. | by the Party to elect their delegates! [¢ was announced that another {immediately if they have not yet) meeting will be held at the same | done so. | corner next Thursday night at whick | —_—— |@ workers guard will be on hand to Call For Volunteers | rrstect the speakers from the Jew- To Aid in Office | Of Workers School | Workers who have free time, either during the day or in the! Jevening, are requested to volunteer | at the office of the Workers School, Room 1, 5th floor, 26 Union Square, for office work in connection with | registration, ete, However, the odds were too kicked and he w fascists e Jewish Mob Was Organized. soon as A. Shapiro, who was chairman of the meeting started to Patronize No-Tip Barber Shops 26-28 UNION SQUARE | (1. flight up) | 2700 BRONX P/ ~K EAST | (corner Allerton Ave.) Build Up the United Front of i || Advertise your Union Meetings the Working Class. | here. 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Flowers for All Occasions 15% REDUCTION TO READERS OF THE DAILY WORKER treet, New York AAA iat s stated that he was) ‘DEL CLEVELAND HALL FOR CONFERENCE From Basic Industries, Militant and Eager (Continued from Page One) especially urg- their dis- f the new ich experience f r dele- “and so I arn twice pectec and will speak. n hall f the huge is un- who treets where Foster, J nu- merous other lebat legates crowd the | auditorium able hol r dele dustries niority of baste fme shop com- at I n the are sent by oxy unorganized workers. as a basis for the con- all are extremely optimistic future le in Amer- ica under the militant leadership of the new trade union center. mitte With t ver.tion about the The prisoners now on trial at Charlotte have been transferred from the Gaston County jail to the Mecklinburg County jail, Char- lotter, N. C. 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