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

2 CW UNION HAS DELEGATESAT Seven Hun dred | te TO TRAIN YOUNG PIONEER LEADERS: Hardwood Floor Workers To All Party Organizations! The Agitprop Department of the Central Executive Committee and the Daily Worker, decided to estab- | Strike in Philadelphia Led by their dirty document. This is proof enough that they made the job and |now have my name and address.” He further writes: se Too! WORKERS SCHOOL| PARTY LIFE LABOR DEFENSE "sce tonen pss: TU. AUTO WORKERS, “NEEDLE TOILERS, ~ PYEVELAND MEET SLANDER ATTACK. IN GASTON DRIVE lish @ special “Party Life” column| “It made me laugh to read the Demand Wage Raise and Recognition PHILADELPHIA, 15 weeks of prep . Philadelphia and surrounding terri- tory, the Hardwood Floor Layers of | Philadelphia have successfully com- pleted the organization of the whole trade. A membership meeting at- tended by 500 floor workers was k at 506 Pine Street ike which begins to- The mem! | land Trade They were Benjamin and The hai two delegates t vention. The floor 300 and 700 strong, comprising fin- rs, layers, scrapper' have called a city Their demands include the abolition of piece 5 90 cents and hour, and recognition | of the union. Due to the speedup | that has been gradually put into] effect by the contractors, the floor} nailers, | y Herbert | , a minimum wage of | © wee gion, it is work = Jabotinsky, h Legion slaughtered Arab and in the late im-| itish imperials n responsible | for the race rioting now going on in r- B the 7 orted, the Arabs in ae eee ie atrike, |Palestine, for his fascist Jewish Le- sought to pri Jerusalem la: whose | Urge Units to Award Scholarships Among the most . successful classes given at the Workers School have been the courses for Pioneer leaders and those interested in the workers’ children movement. The courses in Problems of Work- |taught during the coming term by. |Edith Saunders and Mary Himoff, jon Tuesdays and Mondays respec- | tively, from 8:30 to 9:50 p. m, {in all of our Party press. The pur- |pose of this column will be to make |the Daily Worker and our other |Party press reflect, not only the gen- \eral political struggles of the Party land of the American working class, |but also to involve the Daily Work. ler in the inner struggles of the Party for the correct. Party line, against all deviations. from our jall negations from the correct Com- |munist position that may occur. in lany section of the Party. |. The “Party Life” column in the ci ll they | ; contents, the renegades lay all t ‘@| Workers Use TED: for are guilty of at the door of the C. |E. C. Imagine having the nerve to lcall the present leadership ‘wreck- ers of the C. I’ How any honest, | right-thinking persons can take any stock in this group and support it is more than I can understand. Evi- jdently there are none.” | The resolution adopted by the Can- ing Class Children and the Pioneer |Present struggle against the right|ton, Ohio, unit of the Communist Movement and Its Tasks, will -be|Witg group of Lovestone and against |Party reads in part as follows: We condemn the renegade counter- revolutionary gang of Lovestone, |Gitlow and company. The outrage- ous attack on the Communist Party | The courses on Problems of Work- | Daily Worker will have also as its/of the United States of America, in ing Class Children deals with the|task to bring closer to the working |connection with the Aug. 1 demon- bor, pauperism, under-education and mis-education, militarization ~ of children, discrimination against Ne- |gro and farmer children, and re- lates these problems to the capital- | ist system from which they origi- jnate. It shows the necessity and {basis of a Pioneer movement, and| joutlines the program of action| ladopted by the Young Pioneers in meeting their problems. The Course on the Pioneer Move- of our Party. This column will re- |flect the political and organizational | activities of the Party organizations. It will also contain strnmaries of all important decisions of National and District leading bodies for the lower) Party units, This column will. be} widely utilized by the National Agit- prop and Information Departments, | where answers to immediate impor- | tant Party questions will appear regularly. | Particularly will the “Party Life” special problems such as child la-|masses the daily life and activities | stration, by this minimizing the sig- nificance of the international soli- darity of the proletarian masses in defeating the imperialist attacks planned against the only workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union. This gang, by their last agent provoca- teur act in raiding the C. E. C. of- fice and stealing important political documents of the Party and the C. I, to be published for the use of Amer- ican and international ‘apitalism proves that they openly placed them- selves in the service of Chiang Kai- ‘Many Defense Cases (Continued from Page One) (Continucd from Page One) | workers’ organizations and to belit- |tle the power of the workers to or4| ganize and to defend themselves. “The Gastonia defense fund has been raised by workers, and work- ers’ organizations. Contributions |have been received “:om other sour- ces, such as the American Fund for Public Service, but the largest part| of the money needed has been gath-| and workers’ organizations who are fighting for the freedom of their fellow workers in Gastonia in the spirit of working class solidarity and on the basis of a common strug-| gle against the common enemy,| capitalist reaction and the union-| smashing terrorism of the bosses. | One of Many Fights. “The organizations which are| raising the Gastonia Defense Fund are the same as those which raised a half a million dollars for the ered dollar by dollar by workers/ Wall Street's new envoy to Hol- land, Gerrit J. Diekema, of Michi- gan, @ business man and republican politician. FIGHT TO OUST BRITISH RULERS Warship Shells Village Trans Jordania Revolts (Continued from Page One) two attacking columns strike it they Youth Call Conference for Sentember 15 (Continued from Page One) lief Conference, August 17 and divided their work in the following manner: 1—Protest days. 2—City wide Defense and Relief Conference, Sunday, Septembér 29, 11 a. m, at 3783 Woodward Ave. * | 8—Language Conferences to be called by all language groups, also |special Youth, Women and Negro Conferences. | 4—Movie “Gastonia” Visit to the Soviet Union,” day, September 21 at McCollester Hall. “ 5—Open membership meeting ‘of the I.L.D., Friday, Aug. 30, at 3782 Woodward Avenue, Workers Organizations Mobilize. The Gastonia Joint Defense and | Relief Campai-n poi out that it jis an absolute necessity to continue the work of mobilization of the masses until the Gastonia strikers are freed. On this basis the Pro- visional Youth Conference for Gas- signature collection and “A - Satur-~ FORGING CLASS et : | ment and Its Tasks deals primarily Passaic strike, and which have sup-| yj a workers are compelled to turn out sheks, Hoovers, MacDonalds and |will break through. One of these )+onia Defense and Relief has been double the work they did three ears ago for the same wages. >ioce work has made 2 third of the workers jobless. The new union will follow out the policy of the TUEL, f control by the workers, and a militant struggle for their demands. Beginning Tuesday, the strikers ill picket the jobs and have ex- ¥:sed their determination to strug- 2 until tl bos: are defeated. rike headquar‘:rs will be main- ined at TUEL headquarters, 1108 Wfrch St. A strike committee of 25 has been formed. Vivian is its hairman, and Goldman is secretary f the u..ton. SHOE UNION TO _ HOLD MEETING dally Will- Protest Government Action A mass meeting arranged by the ndependent Shoe Workers Union to ally the shoe workers agairst the United States government policy of srorism in the form of attempting register the workers with the bor Department, will be» held wrsday, Sept. 12, at Arcadia Hall, wooklyn. Recently U. S. Depart- vent of Labor operatives and Tam- any Hall policemen visited union factories and demarded that workers fill out questionnai ing whether they are citi nen they entered this country and ner questions of a similar nature. \ meeting of the Joint Council the union and of all shop dele- ves will be held Thursday, Sept. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and th St., to prepare for the mceting. The urion wii! hold a picnic to- orrow at Harmony Park, Gras- ore, S. Ho reach the picnic -ound take either the I. R. T. or . M. T. subway to South Ferry. hen take the St. George ferry to jaten Island. From there the Con- rd bus to Singerboaard. UTO WORKERS IN SEDITION CHARGE Mobilized by I..L. D., Communist Party FLINT, Mich., Sept. 1—Arrested st night as they were attempting » hold an indoor meeting to elect elegates to the Cleveland Trade Tnity Convention, John Marr and eo Thompson, youth organizers of he Auto Workers Union and mem- vers of the Young Communist eague, are being held on charges © gedit: ition. ‘Mimeographed leaflets advertising eeting were being distributed ide and outside the Buick factory hd in the neighborhood of the meet- ing hall. Before the workers had an _ opportunity to assemble, the hall ‘was surrounded by police who pro- ‘hil any from entering. Some managed to get in by the q entrance and Marr started the ti He was immediately ar- Thompson was seized when pan speaking. Trial of both is d early in September. The tional Labor Defense will de- id Thompson are already trial arising out of their dis- on of leaflets at the Buick ry. They were held six days , being released on $500 bond completely General Mo- n. Its police chief was for- manager at the Buick plant. Auto Workers Union, the In- | Labor Defense, the Com- Party and the Communist th League are pushing a mili- ; fight for the right of the work- to speed organization, against ) terror and for the right ‘kers to the streets, UNION CENTER \Send Labor Jury to Sit | In Charlotte Trial (Continued from Page One) jence, October 12 and 13, will be the signal for a general, intensive drive Jagainst rationalization, and they lurged the |this one of the immediate jobs be- jfore the new trade union center. * * * Negro Vice Chairman. | John Shmies, a Detroit auto | worker, and William Boyce, Negro vice-president of the National Min- jers’ Union, were elected chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of Saturday’s session. William Z. Foster, for years an |outstanding leader of the militant | working class struggles, made the keynote speech, traced the history of the Trade Union |iEducational League (of which he was secretary since its inception) and sounded the revolutionary call to action to launch a determined offensive against capitalist rationalization, wage-cuts, lerfgthening of hours, speed-up and the resultant unem- ployment. “All the power of American impe- rialism will not be able to stop our League from organizing the Ameri- can workers,” Foster declared. “The situation is ripe for struggle all al- ong the line. This Convention must + |be followed with a period of intense work, Let us iurn this Convention into. the most historical event in labor history.” The Trade Union Egucational League, Foster recounted, was born in the struggle against the post-war offensive of the capitalists; and its |first convention was held in 1922. The fourth convention, now in ses- sion, occurs in a period of frenzied production taken literally out of the lives of workers, in the midst of a great rationalization and war drive. Profound'| changes have taken place in the League, he pointed out, in its development from only a left wing until it now comes forward as litant unions which it must build. cruisers bear a “union brought {much |laughter |fronr |the Convention body. * * + Exposes Muste. The Muste moyement bases its policies upon class’ collaboration; and any organization that believes in class collaboration is part and parcel of the A. F. of L. As a result of the fierce’ pressure, intensified exploitation and drive in every industry with.safety regula- |tions thrown into the discard, acci- dents mounting and unemployment on the increase, while wages decline, the workers are becoming rapidly radicalized. “The new unions in the coal, tex- \tile, shoe, needle trades, food and marine industries are the chief ex- pression of this new wave of radi- calization. and more revolutionary means of struggle,” Foster pointed | out. , “We cannot ask the workers to join the corrupt American Federa- tion of Labor Unions,” Foster said. “The A. P. of L. does not lead the We need a new unionism.” will be based upon a fighting pol- + Convention to consider a trade union center and organizer of class struggle unions. The central |task of the new center will be to organize a struggle against ration- alization through the medium of mi- Charaeterizing the National Aer- onautical Exposition, which is. fill- ing the columns of the local press, as another manifestation of the pre- paration for war which is becoming more acute., Foster called for a mil- litant stand of the Cjojn|vle|nitiilon against imperialist war.. The jingo policy of the American Federation of Labor which accepts war prepa- rations just so long as some of the label,” workers in struggle, but to defeat. The new unionism which the new trade union center will help develop icy of “class against class” and not an instrument to help capitalist ex- to’ increase the class consciousne with the methods, technique and problems of Pioneer work, having as its principal aim the training of comrades to supply the ever increas- | ing demand for workers in the chil- | dren’s movement (Pioneer leaders). | The discussions in the class will be} based upon actual problems arising in the work of the Pioneer leaders. Children who are actively partici- | | pating in the Pioneer movement and {are in line for special training as| |leaders in the movement should take | these courses. Pioneer units are urged to select | three or more of the most active and | promising comrades in each unit for the award of scholarships for these | training courses, | Registration begins on September 2 and continues through September 30, when regular classes begin. Cat- alogues can be secured at the Work- ers School, | | ploitation through collaboration pol- icies. They will be industrial in| form and draw in every worker in the plant, Negro and white, women | and youth. “Each shop a local un- | ion” is the slogan Foster suggested. | tion in the railroad industry where 16 craft unions exist. Unskilled and semi-skilled workers must be the foundation of the new unions. | “Capitalism is doomed because of | the deeper and ev2r deeper contra-/ | dictions developing,” Foster declar- ed, “and the death blow must be struck by the workers. The A. F. of L. is a prop for this system; and} we must knock out that prop.” International Affiliation. The new union center will be link-| ed up with the international labor} movement through its affiliation| with the Red International of La-| bor Unions. “We must join hands/ with the Latin American Federation of Labor and affiliate with the Pan- Pacific Trade Union Secretariat,” Foster said. The central task of the new trade union center will be the organiza- tion of the unorganized, and intens: \fied activity must be concentrated | in the South. In addition, district \leagues must be built in every in- dustrial center, large and small, to lead the struggles of the workers. | The adjournment of the Convention will not be the end, but the begin- ning of the work. William F. Dunne, fresh from the North Carolina class war battle- fields, speaking on the subject: “Or- ganization of the Unorganized and Strike Strategy,” told of the new militancy in the South, and outlined a general plan for unity of action thrown into ection at definite sec- tions of the front. Unions Basic ‘ The program of the R. I. L. U., Comrade Dunne declared, is one cf organizing the workers into revolu- tionary trade unions, both in the im- perialist and semi-colonial countries, “The R. I. L. U. sees correctly that trade unions are the basic combat organizations of the proletariat and that through their trade unions, the) revolutionary working class can lead to victorious struggle against the capitalist class and its govern- ment power, all other exploited sec- tions of the population. The main objective of the R. I. L. U,, the overthrow of capitalism, re- quires for its attainment “the or- ganization of the workers in disci- plined battalions around a program which meets the daily needs of the masses,” Comrade ‘Dunne declared. He referred to the fact that in this |period of intensified class struggle, jall serious economic struggles take ‘on a political character and tend more and more toward a revolution- ary political character. Our best ‘strategy, that of attacking the weakest. linkin the imperialist sec- tion of the enemy front, is that em- bracing the basic industries with their millions of unorganized white and Negro workers. Mass Movements. Partial strikes, he said, are some- times necessary, but as a means to an end — that of sweeping mass movements. “A central part of our strategy is the raising of every struggle to a higher political level, a = allan aie He pointed out the ridiculous situa- |"! | the police. that would enable all forces to be | mands for generally improved con- column be utilized for the’ publica-| tion of the important. political and | organizational decisions of the Cen-| tral Executive Committee as: well) as of the District Executive Commit- | tees, All Party organizations: Dis- trict- Executive Committees, Unit| Executives, shop nuclei, etc, shall} consider the establishment of the} “Party Life” column seriously and| cooperate with the National Agit- prop Department. to make. this col-| umn of interest to all Party mem-)| bers. } | The National Agitprop Depart- ment calls upon: all Party units, District and Sections. execute com- mittees to send copies of all their important organizational decisions | and of all their important political | resolutions. | Address all material: Party Life| Column, Daily Worker. | ee Party Units React Sharply Aga‘nst| the Renegades, | The burglary of the National Of- fice of the Party by the Lovestone gang has aroused the membership into the sharpest protests against these enemies of the Party. A unit secretary from Canton, Ohio, writes 8: “This time Lovestone and his gang made a bum job of trying to cover up that the burglary. was done by It made me laugh to read in the Daily Worker that Lovestone | is denying his act and at the same | time suddenly finding him sending me his vile circular -letter slander-| ing the present Central Executive Committee, etc. Although I have been a supporter of the former ma-| jority I have never received any caucus or anti-Comintern material, Greens and their agents, the inter- national reformists of the degener- ated Second International. “With Bolshevik determination we must defeat Lovestone’s attempt to split the Party. Hands off our Rev- olutionary Party! The stalwart leader of the proletarian masses of the United States of America.” We condemn every Party member who associates himself with Love- stone; such comrades have no place in our Communist ranks. We call upon’ the D. E. C. and C. E. C. to take the most drastic measures against such members.” From all industrial districts of our Party resolutions come in condemn- ing our American renegades and pledging their full support to the C. E. C. in its struggle for the Com- intern in America. eee ee Resolution from Nucleus 13, Sec- tion 1, Cleveland, Ohio, reads, in part, as follows: “We pledge our united support to the C. E. C. in its continued fight against all enemies of the Party, whether in the form: of gur open capitalist enemies or the renegades from the ranks of the Party. We will do everything to clean from our ranks all remnants of opportunism and factionalism, in order that we may as a united Communist Party meet the task ‘of organizing the un- organized, fight against the war danger and for the defense of the Soviet Union, so that in the struggle we may lead the working class in |civil war against the capitalist class and capitalist government and for the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government in the United and now a few days after the bur-States of America. CHICAGO DRESS’ WORKERS. STRIKE N-L.W.LU. Fights for! Recognition | CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 1.— Forty milliners struck today in response to the call of the Chicago Needle | Trade Workers’ Industrial Union. | The strikers demand recognition |of the union and improved working | conditions. { The Joint Board-of the industrial union is preparing a° general drive \in dress and milinery shops. Aboli- tion of the speed-up and higher wage rates will be-some of the de- ditions, . * REUTER 2 nT SAIN Se aa |of the masses on the basis of their experience in these. struggles and to bring them in ever. larger numbers | to a conscious acceptance of our| policy — the overthrow of capital- ism and the establishment of a/ workers’ and farmers’ government.” | Comrade Dunne then went into an analysis of the corréct strike strat- egy for the, present period. “Our chief*strategic error,” he said, “has been to underestimate the capitalist offensive, to fail to understand fully the basis of this offensive in the infernal contradictions of American capitalism and the sharpéning im- perialist contradictions throughout the world, to underestimate th e strength and desire of the masses for struggle,” this error resulting in the wrong tactical line, caused fail. ure to foresee important struggles. ‘The points of strike strategy an- alyzed by Comrade Dunne included} acquaintance of the industrial uni- | ons with the specific conditions. in the respective industries, the organ- ization of a core of militant workers around the issues of the daily strug- gle, the exposure of and the strug- gle against the reformist bureau- eracy, by concrete examples, confer- ences called on a broad base and provisional committee to prepare the approaching struggles, in unorgan- ized industires. These conferences, in industries where Negroes are em- ployed, to be utilized to break down all white chauvinistic prejudices and NECKWEAR SELL- OUT INDICATED Union Officials For Wage Reduction The possibility of a betrayal of the members of the Neckwear Makers. Union by its leaders, who favor the acceptance of a reduction of wages by its 4,000 members, was seen yesterday by progressive mem- bers of the union. At a meeting of the union, held Wednesday at Copper Union, a re- port was- given: by the conference board of the union, It stated that the Men’s Neckwear Manufacturers’ Association demanded that the work- ers accept a 25 per cent reduction in wages, but the representatives of the union signified their willingness to accept a wage cut, but not of such a large amount. May Call Strike. The conference board and the ex- ecutive board of the union said it favorel making individual settle- ments with members of the associa- tion if the association would con- tinue to demand that the workers accept a 25 per cent reduction in wages. It also said it favored the calling of a strike against those shops who would not sign with the union, Militant members of the union stated yesterday that only by affili- ating with the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union can the neck- wear workers: conduct a victorious struggle and build a strong union. Dutch Imperialists Arrest 25 Militant Labor Union Leaders BATAVIA, Java (By Mail).—The Dutch government, following the lead given by the British govern- ment in India (the arrest of the 33 now being tried at Meerut), has ar- rested 25 leaders of the new Trade Union Federation in Indonesia, the “Sarekat Kaoem Boereoh Indonesia.” According to the Telegraph Agency “Aneta,” the main charge against the accused is that their organiza-| to create the basis’ for a genuine united front from below, ty 2 Against Imperialism, tion has affiliated to the League mii, mB Es fie ae Sane ported the Labor Defense in many) other cases where the fees have} ranged from $5,000 to $50,000. “The Gastonia defense is only one of a large number of labor defense cases now being conducted all over the country -by the International La- bor Defense, among them three su- preme court appeals, | “The campaign to underestimate the interest of the International La-| bor Defense and its ability to or-| ganize working class defense on an independent basis is only another petty effort of the reactionary cap-| italist interests to interfere with the through the I. L. D. are conducting for the Gastonia strikers.” 4 148 WARRANTS. AT CLINCHFIELD Strikers Defy U.T.W.| Plea and Mass Picket | (Continued (rom Page One) and they immediately began break- ing up the picket line, ‘and patrol- ing the mill grounds with fixed bay- onets. “Rebellion.” Sheriff’ Adkins swore out 143} warrants and arrests started and are still continuing. All those ar- rested are charged in addition to the usval rioting and assault, with “rebellion against the state of North Carolina.” All strike breakers entering the | mill Saturday were searched by militiamen, to make sure that no unionists were slipping in to distri- bute strike calls or otherwise inter- fere with company profits. Another troop of cavalry, from | Lincolnton, and a machine gun com- | pany from Statesville are ordered to Marion. * 8 Thomas Pleads. RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 1.—Gov- ernor Gardner is in receipt of a communication from the Rev. Nor- man Thomas, residing now at Brook- wodd College, N. Y., which requests him .to withdraw the militia from Marion, as “the companies and gov- | ernment are trying to use the same tactics on strikers in Marion and Clinchfield as were used at Gasto- nia, despite the fact that the Gas- tonia strike was held under the au- spices of the Communist Party, which regards violence as part of the order of the day, and the strikes at Marion and Clinchfield are being held under the auspices of the Amer- ican Federation cf Labor which does not countenance violence.” > ¢ Workers Asked to Send Their Gastonia Petitions in at Once In order to send the mass’ pro- test petition, with the hundreds of thousands of workers’ names attached, to the state authorities of North Carolina, demanding the freedom of the Gastonia textile workers, all petition lists are asked to be returned at once to the national office of the Gas- tonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Committee, at 80 E. |} 11th St, room 402, New York City. —act ly witl soothing e! on blalder' itation 073 painful eliminations and Syrian armies is. made up of Druses, led by Sheik Atrashe who has been in constant rebellion against France since the French mandate was es- tablished, and has never either sur- the most of the Jebel Druse tribes signed a peace treaty with the French after their revolt two years ago. wee, ae Jews Aid Revolt. The other advancing force is made up of Arabs, Jews and Chris- tians, all opposed to British imperi- splendid defense which the workers} alism and its agent, Zionism, and daermined on independence. =, The greatest fears are expressed ‘ay British militarists and governing officials in Syria and Palestine that a general Arab insurrection is. un- der way, with reinforcements from the innumerable tribes in the desert, and possibly with co-operation from the |Hedjaz, |where |the |Wahabbis are in control, and saying little at present Battleships Shells Villages. The battleship Barham vigorously shelled) the country surrounding Haifa with her 15 inch guns Friday night, because it was reported fresh attacks on Haifa and the Barham was probable, The number of Ara- bian non-combatants, women and children’ killed when the huge shells wiped out the Arab village is not officially reported, but is known to be large. Three British offiecrs have been killed in the fighting during the last three days. One was shot in Tibe- rias, one in Hebron, and the other was poisoned at a restaurant where the British troops compelled Arabs to serve them. TAILORS OPPOSE HILLMAN POLICY Conference of Shop Delegates, Sept. 14 “Only by organized and unified action can we combat the attacks on our standards,” it was pointed out yesterday by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Section, Trade Union Educational League which is calling a conference of shop dele- getes to be held Saturday, Sept. 14, at 11 a.m., at Stuyvesant Casino, 2nd Ave. and 9th St., which will mobilize the New York tailors for an aggressive fight against the class collaboration policy of the un- ion officialdom, headed by Sidney Hillman. “Each one alone,” the statement continues, “is powerless against the combination of boss officials and gangsters. By acting together we can defeat the Hillman clique. For this purpose the left wing is organ- izing shop committees in every shop and is calling a conference of shop REGISTRATION AT WORKERS SCHOOL =: Central School of the C. P. of the U. S.A. ECONOMICS HISTORY IMPERIALISM 5 MARXISM-LENINISM POLITICS SOCIOLOGY TRADE-UNIONISM ETC., ETC. Regin Sept. 2 t Write for Catalogue. — 26.2! a rendered or been captured, though; ENGLISH INTERMEDIATE. BLEMENTARY ADVANCED established with offices at 80 E 11th Room 402, which will or- the youth organizations, youth sections of unions, sports, ete., behind Gastonia defense. A ‘conference has been called Sunday, | September 15, in New York at Irv- ing Plaza. A conference of shop delegates and shop committees from all sec- tions of the needle trades to raise funds for the defense of the Gas- tonia strikers will be held Wednes- day, September 11, at Webster Hall, lith Street neat Third Avenue. Representatives will be present from the shops of the Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union, Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers |Union, International Fur Workers Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Cap and Millinery Work- ers, and unorganized shops, Editors to’ Help Publicity. At a meeting of editors of the revolutionary press, it was decided to not only report on news of the trial at Charlotte, but also on the very important activities of the workers nationally mobilizing. for the defense of the Gastonia strikers. National and International move- ments and expressions of solidarity of the workers for the Gastonia. strikers will be featured in the news. of the various working class papers in the different languages. The editors will call on workers to continue the’: work of organizing the International Labor Defense, in spreading the organization thru all sections of the country. | Street, ganize ‘Campaigning For War Recruits at St. Paul \Jingoist Encampment ST. PAUL, Sept. 30.—Two mes- sengers from “imperialist Washing- |ton” today told Veterans of Foreign | Wars what the administration is doing for “preparedness.” Assistant Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley said “American must be completely | prepared.” Every vetern suffering from a service disability will be “adequately cared for,” Frank T. Hines, U. S. |Govt. Veterans’ Bureau director, | said in a speech which was a thinly veiled attempt to bribe further re- cruits for the next imperialist war by telling glowing pictures of what pensions they get when they would be maimed in conflict. The “veterans” are at their 30th annual encampment. committees to be held Saturday, Sept. 14. “Come to the conference! Ore ganize and fight for @ 40-hour, 5- day week; week work; reinstate- ment of all expelled members; rank and file control of the labor bu- reau; real smalgamation; one un- ion in the needle industry; aboli+ tion of hire and fire and unemploy- ment insurance to be paid imme diately to unemployed and. partial- ly unemployed workers.” OPENS TODAY! THE Group Courses for TRADE UNIONISTS NEGRO WORKERS WOMEN WORKERS LATIN-AMERICAN WORKERS . YOUNG WORKERS ©. P, FUNCTIONARIES: YOUNG PIONEER FUNCTIONARIES tration jo Sept. 30 8 UNION SQ, NEW YORK ars es