The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1929, Page 1

ea Rg f THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS © For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized ~ Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week al Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office 41 at New York, N. ¥., under the net of March 3, 1879. Vol. VIL, No. 152 Published daily except Sundsy by The Company. Inc., 26-28 Union Square, Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RA’ Outside New York. by mall, $6.00 per yenr. ES: In New York. by mnil, $8.00 per year. : Price 3 Cents 700 DELEGATES BUILD CLASS MOVEMENT IN CLEVELAND: Charlotte Court Cuts the Scope of Questions; No New Jurors Picked AT CLINGHFIELD | | bd | 148 WARRANTS $5000 Is Quota Set by ARAB ARMIES SENDING FOR “REBELLION Detroit AutoWorkers for FIGHT 10 OUST Gastonia Defense Fund BRITISH RU LER } LABOR JURY T0 CHARLOTTE TRIAL; PICKET : "| TWO “JIM CROW” HOTELS ‘More Militia Rushed to “Collect Until They’re Free,” Is Slogan for Tag Trans Jordania Seized | Textile Town Because | Days for Gastonia Class War Prisoners By Revolt; Invasion ‘Pledge Full Support to 16 on Trial; Foster Picketi | Lass " Of Palestine Soon | «ht ana Charlotte Mass Meeting for Union and Defense | ag i Workers Youth Conference to Mobilize in «| States Need for Fighting Organization Daily Worker Reporter Pledges Aid Strikers Defy U.T.W. Unions to Aid Defendants Warship Shells Village CHARLOTTE, N, C., Sept. 1—Court will start tomorrow, Thomas Argues This Is _ Detroit, center of the gresiert a | eee jeer Aate 4 E ast! Non-Zionist Jews Unite | which is not a holiday in North Carolina, and continue the exam-| . * dustry of America, the manufacture | Eleventh Street, N. Y. C., Room 402, | i Arabian Forces Poe ioniee mentors Obtieescond venirern nenenscuive Garaned OU, Friendly Strike | cr’ automobiles, and center of the| mobilizing the masses of workers to| With Real Estate Man From New York Among Venire Admits Would Like to Kill Unionists Dunne Tells of Southern Field; Outlines Real Strategy for Victory; Organize Masses in the trial of the 16 Gastonia strikers and organizers. No additional jurors were accepted in the session Saturday. There are still seven in the box. During the questioning Sat- urday Judge Barnhill stated that unless the scope of the questions was voluntarily limited he would enforce strict regulations upon it. This ruling came just after the defense attorneys brought out that a certain shoe repair man who had passed by the judge and the prosecution was born and brought up in Gaston County and was be- ginning to make a case against him. Realtor Would Electrocute. F. W. Fredrickson, a former New York real estate man, was one of those who admitted’ that he would| like to electrocute all the unionists. He was excused for cause, Two of the prospective jurors said they could not treat defendants from outside of the state the same as those from within its borders, One young Charlotte shipping clerk in- (Continued on Page Five) CHINA WAR LORDS IN NEW ATTACKS Raiding Over Border LABOR DEFENSE ANSWERS LATEST SLANDER ATTACK Workers Use LL.D. for, Many Defense Cases) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 1. — Smashing through a new barrage of lies which company agents are using to discredit the defense and dishear- ten the textile workers supporting) the defendants, the Charlotte office of the International Labor Defense today issued the following state- ment: “The offensive against the Gas-| tonia strikers and the International Labor Defense which has charge of their defense assumes all forms. “The latest attack-is a ‘wh'sper- ing campaign origin..!ing | camp of the prosecution, and spread industriously among the newspaper ‘correspondents and elsewhere, to |the effect that the I. L. D. is a mere figurehead in the Gastonia case, that it is not supporting the | Gastonia defense and is only a ben- in’ the) | speed-up, comparing only with the MARION, S. C., Sept. 1—Clinch- | Southern textile districts, has |field is another Elizabethton. In pledged itself to raise $5000 within | spite of the strenuous efforts of Al-|the next few weeks for the defense |fred Hoffman, crganizer of the! of the Gastonia strikc:3. | United Textile Workers to brow- This word was received today at | beat the strikers into complete sub-| the national . ‘fice of the Interna- jection and passivism, they are mass | save the Gastonia strikers from the electric chair. Detroit, as many other cities rais- | ling funds and protest, held a pre- |liminary Gastonia Defense and Re-| (Continued on Page Two) | BULLETIN. | BAGDAD, Iraq, Sept. 1—The | Arabian | is seething in this British protec- | torate. There were ten casualties independence movement picketing so vigorously that two/ companies of state militia have been A E AND ARMS rushed to the vicinity of the mills, | and the sheriff’s posse is arresting | | 148 strikers. It has already arrest- ed 74, including Hoffman, who wad | A not, however, made to spend any | |time in jail. He was immediately | | released on bail. Run Out Sheriff. Friday night over 600 strikers | surrounded the company house from | = which a striker family was recently! GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 1— | evi;ged. When Sheriff Oscar Da-|The League of Nations assembly | kins of McDowell county and a/| opens tomorrow to discuss the Root | dozen deputies came to instal a scab | formula on world courts, the Kellogg family in the house, the erowd drove | pacts, and to speak cautiously about | away the scabs and deputies after | limitation of armaments. |a sharp tussle in which there was} The Root plan and the Kellogg | Some slugging. |pact represent an invasion of the _N. A, Townsend, executive coun-| field reserved by the League of Na- selor of Governor Gardner then or- |tions by the American imperialist | dered two troops of state cavalry | offensive, Both enable the U. S. | Which were quartered in the town/t) sit in a favored position at |of Marion, about a mile from | Teague councils, or to bring strong | Clinehfield, to the scene of action, | pressure on the League and its mem- (Continued on Page Two) bers. | eS dees The “Parity” War. | cC 4 The arms limitation conference Colombia Paper Spies | which is to be called soon, will find “Gold From Moscow” Britain struggling with U. S. for i a little more “parity” as-interpreted | CARTAGENA, Colombia, Sept. 1. \League Torn Over by the experts of each country, and \Clash on Submarines! at Different Points | aficiary of rich liberal elements who |are financing the defense, The United Press correspondent Attack on Workers. in Moscow reports that news is re- | “This is a complete misrepresen- ceived there of white guard Russian | tation and is part of the campaign bands in the service of the Chinese | conducted by the textile mill bosses militarist government in Manchuria|and their agents to slander the raiding again, and of stiff skirm- | (Continued on Page Two) ishes when these bands cross the | Siberian border. These attacks, made in violation Fascist Who Flopped in| of the recently concluded agreement to veturn the Chinese Eastern rai Nobile Rescue to Make road to joint control and to open|Curba Hop in November negotiations, cast a shadow of un- —Under cover of an attack on |the |Communist |International, |the | government-controlled paper La Patria (The Fatherland) yesterday gave a complete whitewash to the oil companies which have repeatedly | played political faction against fac- tion here, and blamed the recent up- |risings of workers and peons as ‘usual on “Moscow gold.” Alluding to the outbreaks, which |occurred in two provinces and held | at bay for weeks, the Patria opines |that this “Communistic banditry” the government police and troops / certainty over the whole situation, | ROME, Sept. 1.—Major Mad- | bears a resemblance to similar out- and create doubt as to whether the | dalena, fascist flier, is planning to|breaks in Pedu, Chile, Argentina agreement may not have been mere- make a non-stop flight from Italy| and Uuruguay. This is not surpris- ly a trick of the Chinese war lords.| to Cuba in November of this year. | ing to anyone except the editors of Mukden Uses Excuse. He was the first to sight the|the Patria who do not care to re- | pal ae ,| Stranded crew of the Italia during | flect that the oppressive conditions | CAE ee I lh eal the search for the infamous Nobile| against which the Colombian work- | Of them ‘is still more onimous. | expedition in 1928, but left the ac-' ers and peasants were in revolt are | United Press correspondents in Muk-| ‘val rescues to the heroic crew of paralleled in all Latin ‘American | den give the story, as received from the Soviet icebreaker Krassin and | countries. both united against the French-Ital- ian-Japanese policy of more subma- |rines. Which does not mean that |the French and the Italians agree (Continued on Page Five) Franco-Turk Treaty tA Step in Plans for Attack on the USSR PARIS, Sept. 1—A new com- mercial treaty has been signed be- twen France and Turkey, which grants huge decreases in the tariffs |of both countries for the signers of the treaty. The treaty is a step in the shifting of Turkey by Kemal to- wards the imperialist powers which plan to use Turkey in the attack on the Soviet Union. today when police and British | troops clashed with an Arab dem- CALL FIGHT ON aeeatiee in the streets. The | Arabs were protesting the Brit- CAR SELL-OUT | | ish troops in Palestine. |T.U.E.L. Expose N. J. | Fakers’ Plans | BEIRUT, Syria, Sept. 1—Three Separate |concentrations jof {Arab |and Druse tribesmen who have de- |nounced the British mandate and |declared their independence are un-| — der way. Two are in Southern Sy- PATERSON, N, J., Sept. 1. —/ria, and will march on the northern Fighting the crude attempt to sell! border of Palestine in a few days. out the New Jersey traction workers! Qne jis in Trans Jordania, whose lby a fake arbitration scheme, the/fmir, |Abdullah (Ibn [Hussein, [has | Traction Workers Section of the| sold out to the British, but who can- jTrade Union Educational League) not control the Bedouins determined | yesterday issued a statement to all) on overthrowing British imperiaism. |public service employees of New| ‘The British have practically lost |Jersey. It is as follows: control of Trans Jordania, and are | Se ees |hoping for the moment merely to Brothers: Tuesday, Sept. 3, has/hoid the line of the Jordan river | been set by the State Conference | spainst ie Hedoumeateners Board as the date on which another) “The Syrian-Palestine border is jarbitration or renewal of the old) and Gb in vexpected that iarhen the | and browbeat the men into accept-| | tration without taking another vote. cover up their brazen sell-out to the (Continued on Page Five) \c hardened jingoes the exclama. | agreement. For the past week Wep- é |ner and the other officials, hand in| (Continued on Page Two) | r | YCL GIRLS BEAT ing arbitration. Arthur Quinn,| + president of the State Federation of |He calls for an open defiance of} . al lies caver grids eoeaaiame wal ucacked. in) Antic Way Meet, Defy Arrest Me Satie tion, “Jeez, those girls got guts!’ R. R, CLAIMS ANOTHER lyesterday saved a young woman | vote will be taken on the questions | guarded by both British and French | (hand with P. S., have been doing ev-| Labor, is so brazen in his betrayal | | that he has urged the State Confer-| | jority of the membership. | An inspiring display of working OSSINING, N. Y., Sept. 1.—The| Worker from imprisonment when of either submitting our demands oO Ceoape bul 4 is fingsanaereealayy erything in their power to terrorize! jence Board to go ahead with arbi- In an attempt to scare us and to company, they have been shrieking class solidarity which wrung from dismembered body of a man about| Military police, acting on the orders forty years old was found on the|°f their officers, attacked an anti- BULLETIN. By BARBARA RAND, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1.—Twelve rank and file workers were elected by the Trade Union Unity Convention today to proceed to Charlotte immediately after the adjourn- ment of the convention to attend the trial as a workers’ jury and render a verdict to the working class. A long telegram of solidarity with the Southern textile strikers and the defendants now on trial and to be tried was adopted today and ordered sent. It commended the stand of the strikers in defending their union headquarters from the attack of the mill operators and the police and demanding: unconditional release. The Cleveland workers demonstrated their support of the textile workers of Carolina by giving a great ovation to the Southern delegates at the mass meeting Saturday night, held after the convention had adjourned for the day. Over two hundred delegates left Hotel Inn and Kennard Hotel, enmasse, when Negro delegates were barred late Sat- urday night. At a conference of the miner delegates to the convention, the coal diggers voted unanimously to picket the hotels. Among the speakers at the mass meeting were Fos- ter, Dunne, Padmore and James Reid. All committees were elected at the first session of the convention and got to work immediately on resolutions, con- stitution and press service, with Foster, Johnstone and Bie- denkapp, respectively, as chairmen. Fifteen industrial con- ferences were held last night. They laid the basis for na- tional conferences for each important industry to be held in the near future. Fred Beal, now on trial for murder in Charlotte, was elected honorary chairman of the convention. Today’s ses- sion was presided over by Johnstone, with Rose Wortis as vice-chairman. * 8 @ CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1.—The new trade union center, forged in the fire of the class struggle in the United States, assumed definite form at noon yesterday when the gavel fell and opened the Trade Union Unity Convention, From factories, mills, mines,¢@—_______ railways, oil fields, stock yards} and canneries, docks and ships, Ne-| 5 gro and white, men and women, young and old, came from every part | jof the United States to help ait AND DEFENDANTS the Trade Union Unity League.| Seven hundred workers, predomin- antly from the basic industries of ‘were found in his pockets, tracks” of the New York Central |imperialist war demonstration held Railroad here today. Apparently he|¥der the auspices of the Commu- had been struck by more than one| Mist Youth League at Camp Smith, train. One cent and a bunch of keys) > the country, burst into spontaneous and familiar songs of the class struggle. Unlike the convention of : ‘the American Federation of Labor, Twelve New York girls led th e| which is undistinguishable from a | meeting, one of a series being con-| convention of the National Business “They’rve All Guilty,” Is Crv |ducted by the League to open the Men's Association, the distinct prole- |eyes of the national guardsmen now|tarian character was obvious from |encamped there to the fact that the start. jt ey, members of the working class, | When B. J. Byers, a leading tex- GO TO CLEVELAND Third Delegation From Southern Textile Mills CHARLOTTE, N. C. (By Mail). —The third group of delegates from |the Southern District of the Na- Chang Hsueh-liang, the Manchurian the Soviet airman Chukhonvski. =a ae if (Continued on Page Five) LIONISTS PLAN TO ATTACK MEET leveland Communists Will Defy Them CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1—A vicious campaign rages here against the Jewish Communists in connec- tion with a protest meeting on the situation in Palestine. There is a united front of Zionists and labor misleaders. On the last day, Car- penters Hall, where the meeting was =to be held, was cancelled. ~. The Jewish World, a local paper, is openly inciting to violence. It calls for the “extermination of Com- munists, murderers and _ traitors.” The Zionists are mobilizing to break up the meeting scheduled for tonight, should it be held in any other place. Epstein is scheduled to be the principal speaker at tonight's meting and another is in prepara- tion, ACCUSE MINE FAKER, | CARTERVILLE, Ill. (By Mail) —! Australian toadies of British imper- John Terry, former president and |ialism are trying to have the “Song) three former officials of United|of Australia” declared the national | Mine Workers Union local 12 near here are accused by witnesses in court of receiving money on death claims outlawed by union rulers. Gastonia Defense Greets the: TUUC in 2nd |Questions Asked Juror: By LISTON OAK. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 1— |The following telegram was sent to |the Trade Union Unity Convention |yesterday, signed by the Interna- | tional Labor Defense, Southern Dis- trict, Gastonia Defense Committee: “Greetings to the Trade Union Unity Convention from the work- ers of the South, struggling against persecution, terrorism and lynch law in the stronghold of Out to Smash Unionism in This Trial BLEAT “PATRIOTISM” ADELAIDE, Australia, Sept. 1.— |anthem in order to lash up “patriot- | ism” and offset the rising tide of militancy among the workers and farmers, By SENDER GARLIN CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 1— Droning voices of the lawyers re- peat the same set of questions a hundred times. This is the third day of jury-picking in the Meck- lenburg county court house, and when the session was over Thursday at 5:30, a total of six jurors had been selected: Court opens at 9:30. In fifteen minutes two jurors are placed in Sixth Dead in Jingo Air Meet; Sacrificed In War Preparation CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1. — Thomas Reid, trying for a new solo endurance flight record, crashed to his death early yesterday morning after 38 hours in the air, and brought the fatalities of the na- |tional air races and aeronautical ex- Week of Trial 3 Prove Prosecution Is| capitalist reaction. The textile bosses are trying to utilize the Gastonia trial to smash militant uionism by railroading N. T. W. U. organizers to prison and electrocu- tion and destroy the workers’ right to organize, strike, picket and de- fend themselves. The National Guard has been sent into Marion to break the ranks of the strikers and cover betrayal of Hoffman, (Continued on Page Five) of One Chartotte Venireman Sidelights on Great Trial Show How Mill Boss | Press Has Roused Opinion Against Prisoners | the box: J. G. Campbell, 40, a news | vendor of Charlotte, and C. W. Mar- tin, a carpenter who is a member of the American Federation of La-| bor. | Campbell swears on the bible that | he is a Baptist, and believes “in nothing but the law and the good God.” * * * “I believe all the defendants are (Continued on Page Three) position up to six. It is believed that Reid fell asleep at the controls, Others sacrificed to the Wall St. war propaganda meet were “Lady” Heath, who crashed into the roof of a factory building, endangering the lives of 75 workers, while practicing for the races; one of the partici- pants in the women’s air derby, and the three occupants of a plane en- tered in the Philadelphia to Cleve- Effigies of Gastonia Bosses (Continued on Page Five) tile organizer and father of one of Te as the Gastonia prisoners now in the TRAIN YOUTH FOR WAR shadow of the electric chair, mount- CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Sept. 1. — jed the platform’ “Hold the fort!” Bradford Wiles, 14-year-old Chicago , tang through the house. Daisy Mc- school boy, today held for the second | Donald, wife of another defendant, straight year the championship in| and Binnie Green, the 14-year-old | the Class B event of the cea sitting-kneeling Junior Rifle Corps matches here. Wiles scored 281.|reiterated their determination to}Green, Robert Litoff and Clarence The event is part of the plan to continue |to |struggle jagainst |the |Townsend. The last two are among [tional Textile Workers Union to the Trade Union Unity Convention which begins August 31 in Cleve- land, left August 29 by auto. This delegation, elected at the Bessemer textile delegate from Charlotte, told | City Conference on July 28th, con- jtrain youth as cannon fodder for mill owners. The Charlotte confer-| the seven defendants in the Gasto- nis. case charged with secret assault | with intent to “kill who are out in | (Continued on Page Five) war. | (Continued on Page Two) | ‘Still Grinding Jingo Burned Briti Propaganda From Graf ne by sh Workers Flight; Whalen Aids Swell International Protest Against Manville- More air propaganda will be * * . round out of the Graf flight to- » Jenckes “Justice” of Carolina Prosecution {ry when a network of radio sta. . eee ome reert tions broadcast the New York re- Effigies of the mill owners of {sage of solidarity came cablegrams ception to the crew and passengers Gastonia were burned at a mass|from more German working class|of the German dirigible at both the meeting of several thousand British | organizations, received at the na- Battery and city hall. Jingo speeches workers in Tower Hill, England, | tional offices of the Gastonia Joint|at the orgy to be staged for the when a resolution demanding the| Defense ard Relief Campaign Com- | city’s “guests” in the Hotel Astor freedom of the 23 Gastonia strik-| mittee, 80 East 11th St., N. Y. City, will also pollute the air. Gorgeous land derby, which was wrecked at Boston, ers was sent to this country. | now conducting a drive for funds|Grover Whalen is in charge of the Together with the English mes- (Continued on Page Five) | reception. “YOUR CRIME IS FIGHTING FOR WORKERS,’ NEW BEDFORD HAILS GASTONIA STRIKERS, ‘SAVE THEM’ The Gastonia Defense and Relief Campaign Committee at 80 East 11th St., Room 402, N. Y. City, calls ‘on all workers to make a success of the tag days on August 20, 31, September 1 and Labor Day, by winding up this period today with ~great collections, house to house, street, and in the various amuse- ‘ment and_ recreational centers where workers gather, Collect funds while you are on vacation. The rapidly mounting expenses of the trial will not permit delay. money must be brought in to meet the bills. ‘ Go ot the beaches, to the parks, to the camps and collect funds to- day. You can make this week-end period successful by a big drive to- day. The second week of the trial be- 'gins today,’ You can see by the cerated in jail due to the machina- tions o fthe textile mill slave driy- ers. Your crime in their eyes is that you fight in the workers’ cause with us. This is your crowning glory. You shall all be free. This is the determination of the textile workers in the north and south bul- warked by millions of workers in other callings. Long live the Na- tional Textile Workers Union.” progress of choosing the jurors, how charged with prejudice the air is in Charlotte, N. C, Only by the mass activities of the workers will the Gastonia strikers be freed. Follow the lead of the New England conference of cotton mill workers, Which has sent the following telegram from New Bed- ford to the strikers on trial: orking class greetings to you, nt union members, now incar- » Defense and Relief Tag day today in New York are asked to report for collection boxes, credentials and instructions to the following sta- tions: Downtown—27 East Fourth St., Workers Center; 26 Union Square., Workers Center; 799 Broadway, ILD-WIR room 237; 51 East Tenth Street, Shoe Workers’ Union; 4 W. 87th St., Millinery Workers’ Local __ Volunteers for the Gagtonia Joint |42; 15 East Third St, Window Clee: \ ners Local 8; 131 W. 28th Street Needle, Trades Workers’ Industrial Union; 66 E, 4th St. Ukrainians Club. : Harlem—143 E. 103rd St., Work- ers Center; 15 W. 126th St., Finnish Workers Club; 1800 Seventh Ave., Unity Cooperative 133 W. 51st St.,| Lithuanian Workers Club, 46 Ten Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria| Eyck St.; Finnish Workers Club, Workers Union; 347 E. 72nd St.,|764—40th Street. | volume of wage payments by an- Czecho-Slovak Workers’ Home; 350| Williamsburg—56 Manhatan Avy- thracite collieries in Pennsylvania is E. 8ist St, Hungarian Workers’ | enue Workers’ Center. \17 per cent less than a year ago, Home. Bath Beach—4 Bay St., Workers Bronx—1330 Wilkins Ave., Work- | Center. ers Center; 2700 Bronx Park E.| Brownsville—153 Watkins Street, United Workers Cooperative; 3861|Workers Center. Fourth Ave. Bakers Local. Borough Park—1373 48rd Street. Brooklyn—Scandinavian Workers Workers Club. Club, I. O. G. T. Hall, 65th Street; MINE WAGES DOWN. PITTSBURGH (By Mail).—The ‘ A about the trial now in progress and | sisted of Daisy McDonald, Binny ‘