The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered as second-cinas matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Mar@h 3, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. VI., No. 153 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company. Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929 |3 More Jurors Picked at MOSLEM RULER Charlotte, Under Judge’s FEARS 60,000 Restrictions Fifty-nine Rushed Through Examination in| pyo-British Chiefs Not First Half Day After Barnhill Orders Speed-up! Able ta Stifle Rebels Exceptions Taken to fense From Showing Prejudice; Attack Union 12 Battles Overnight BULLETIN. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 2.—The defense exhausted by noon today 91 of its 168 peremptory challenges, and the prosecution 33 of its 58. The judge’s ruling that fi emptory challenges is in accord with North Carolina capitalist law, A tenth juror was selected late in very unfair to the defendants. the afternoon. He is G. L. Shufo: * on Questions JOINING REVOLT Ruling Preventing De-| Thruout Co oe \India, Turkey, Persia, Egypt, Nejd, Restless BULLETIN. BEIRUT, Syria, Sept. Ma- | jor Elliott, the British liason of- ‘orces the defense to waste its per- 2. rd, a car repairer. . . Masses Launch CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 2.—With the adoption of the platform and constitution and the election of officers and national committee the initial convention of the Trade Union Unity League closed this evening and the delegates started for their places of work to put into effect the de- cisions. The convention itself was a great success in every sense of the word, there was never for a moment any of that flippancy that characterized American Federation of Labor conventions. The conferences of various industries took up much of the time of the convention. were taken up. The convention itself planned the campaigns for mobilizing and leading great ma: imperialist war, etc. But the completion of the work depends entirely on the action of the delegates when they return home, their ability to cz The convention burst into spontaneous demonstration when William Z. Foster was NEW UNION GENTER SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, Outside New York. by mall, $6.00 per year. $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents of Workers in Convention Trade Union Unity League into the factories, mines, ete., the spirit of the Cleveland t nominated general secretary by Pat Toohey, secretary-treasurer of the National Miners’ Union. ‘The demonstration lasted for fifteen minutes. BULLETIN. ons. John Schmies, of Detroit, an auto worker, is In these conferences the problems of various industries truggles against rationalization, the speed-up, ry stant secretary; Jack Johnstone is national —_ ficer in Syria, returned here by organizer; James Ford is Negro organizer. A national committee of approximately 55 was selected upon the basis of nominations from the indus- i (Special to The Daily Worker. | airplane after a conference with trial groups. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 2—Under Judge Barnhill's, British een ite Relesting : Sgr aah | pressure and his orders to speed up the selection of the jury,| French and Brjtish commands CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 2.—The American working class has organized a militant trade union movement. In ine Barnhill Innitation Sie thie ut de tibange priaieiy agzinet.” Arabian ‘revolutioniste, | thee crowded days, of convention in Slovenian Auditorium, over 700 delegates from the most basic industries of this | questions forced the defense to use more liberally its limited| ®"¢ will try with their united |eountry, delegates representing whole fighting national industrial unions and militant local unions in reactionary iH forces to hold the border between the two mandates. There is thus a united front of imperialist pow- ers to hold the Arabs in subjec- tion. number of peremptory challenges. Exceptions, on which an appeal can be based, were@—— * # * taken to the judge’s ruling. M | L | Tl A T AlD In the whole 59, all but two c | JERUSALEM, Palestine, Sept. 2. MARION ' VICTION |—Battles raged during last night at . Ba Jitwelve towns and villages where unions, others representing the masses of the unorganized who have gathered together in their shops to send one of their fellow workers to represent them, delegates from Trade Union Educational League groups in many cities, Negro workers’ representatives, those who represent the working youth and the working women in industry, have organized themselves on a national scale for class war against the capitalist system and for a real fight under their own lead- ers against exploitation and discrimination. were either so prejudiced against the defendants or so evidently fair to; them as to be inacceptable either to) a too Foie aisited anh Arabian insurrectionists fought Brit- The necessity of a new labor movement was entirely clear to the representatives of the American working Sena os age ate A AR ALL P AR ADES * Voobtineed on’ paces. of ‘| class, assembled in this convention, after they had heard, and themselves reported on the steady offensive of the em- s ming. g . : A A A = Lepansdd, « railway quail deck andl Seer ployers, centralized into larger and larger me Laterge and mergers of corporations, and in control of all state A | machinery. Labor Defense Offers SHOE UNION TQ Recover 35 Bodies of 2 SEAMEN KILLED) = worker att k ted ts, unemployment in- . [fF enough property to come into the}- Help to Arrested | | Italian Workers in: & © LU Worker after worker reported on wage cuts, unemploy a2 d class from which jurors-are selected Mir eeny MEET TONIGHT Algiers House Wreck creasing, increased profits for the bosses going hand in hand wit in North Carolina. fe | °. = 3 Dathss “meciss “wine a thé bex, and) MARION, N. C., Sept. 2. — A | | ALGIERS, Sept. 2—Thirty-five AS BOATS CRASH increased poverty of the masses. The present labor movement, the per eon eae ee ee | amar bodies haresanen: etavered fun the A. F. of L, unions and the railroad brotherhoods and such “independ. haust idly. lebris of a fire-story apartmen' ae. ab } . A : a P dudgs ‘Bubnhill Migselt took’ & houes which collapsed last week. Tanned in the Hold of ents” as the sg a or gaa ei rceiigs alhtais a ~~ api seen ae | proceeding on a totally wrong basis, limiting themselves to the skilled, | graphers’ Union, and Conrad Tor- rence, a 24-year-old worker, who has conference of Judge Townsend, | Governor Gardner, Albert Hoff- i man, Mawbry Hart, president of Joint the Clinchfield mills, and various | Council, Shop Delegates Confer former member of the Railroad Tele- hand in the examination of jurors, Police said they believed probably disregarding the arguments of de-| members of the U. T. W. execu- 40 bodies are still buried in the ruins Freighter | . L aes pisces: | ” fense counsel. tive, arranged today for the quiet | A meeting of the Joint Council|of the house, which was occupied jand to sections only of these, corroded with craft spirit and jurisdic- | \ The line of the prosecution’s| betrayal of the strike. It is un- |of the Independent Shoe Workers) by Italian workmens’ families. Two marine workers were trap- questions shows they are as deter- mined as ever to center their attack (Continued on Page Two) SINCLAIR GETS AUTO RIDE DAILY derstood the strikers are to aban- |Union and shop delegates of the) don mass picketing, pending a re- | union will be held tonight at Irv- | turn to work with the Elizabeth- {ing Plaza hall, Irving Place and ton type of “arbitration boards.” |15th St. The meeting will take up guaranteeing that the militant do |the recent attempt of agents of the not get their jobs back — under |U. S. Department of Labor to com- the Elizabethton type of “no dis- |pel members of the union to answer crimination.” Court cases are to a questionnaire which asked when| be dropped and evictions stopped. |the workers entered the country, | “* * * whether they are citizens, and oth- MARION, N. C., Sept. ers of a similar nature, 2. .—Today, REPORT CHANG IS RETURNING ROAD ‘Tried Final Attack on |crew are Lewis Tarvis, enginee ped and drowned when the freight- ers Eurana and Dorothy crashed at high speed off the Potomac River mouth, seventy miles below Balti- more Sunday. |lision were made known as_ the freighter Eurana neared New York late yesterday. ims of the Dorothy's of fire- The two Baltimore, and Albert Ruize, Details of the col-| tional quarrels, and led by gangs, machines, of traitors to the labor LAND OF SOVIETS movement like the Lewises and McMahons, who seek every op- portunity to bleed the members financially for their own agran- dizement, who consider themselves merely brokers of labor, who live lives of luxury and sell out the rank and-file with in- numerable class collaboration schemes and spread an atmos- NEARING PACIFIC On Last Leg of Siberia phere of pacifism and defeat. The rallying calls of this new movement are ‘The s <-hour day and the five-day week” and “Organize the unorganized” celebrated by the most conservative) The meeting tonight will also|U.S.S$.R. and Was Beat Henaih of Sandan Porto Rico. Speen iti and “racial, social and political equality for the Negroe s.” ; 3 ranks of labor as its holiday, and‘ prepare for a mass meeting arrang-| ithe Murand made for port: with art 0 op Build the new unions” and “fight the misleaders in the / / But Grafter’s Trip Is | recognized as a legal day of rest and|ed by the union will be held os The United Press correspondent in| +, 39 survivors who had narrowly | BI AGOCESHENS Si oeia old unions,” were words heard on every side, as the massed ° “ ° . ” a class collaboration joy-fest by| Thursday, Sept. 12, at Arcadia hall,,Mukden, Manchuria, wired yester- fe eeeR ord . rammed | one ‘SHENS ‘ OT By) a nian Pe > mi: Palas e meta tt ere ; Strict Business nearly. every state in the union, | Brooklyn, day that there was a reliable report| ‘seeped drowning when the ramvied| Sept, 2.—The Soviet airplane Land delesetlons trom ge ae ae ey Soe Teh i oe pu a. | found four companies of state mili- | a that the Chang Hsueh-liang govern-| f°? Oat ; of Soviets, en route from Moscow to | automobile, printing, Tallroag, WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Harry | tia on guard here with fixed bayo- Ref ists Hel B ‘ k | ment had agreed after the failure| sh. New York via Siberia and Alaska, shoe, needle trades, marine y See hick atk BIL ieee eal nets and machine guns with which AWCLOFMIStS Help break | o¢ white guard Russian invasions of| Because the Dorothy was not arrived here today at 9:20 a. m.| transport, electrical, chemical, a is to shoot down striking textile work-|Big) Pipelayers’ Strike Soviet territory over the week end, equipped with watertight compart- Moscow time (2.20 a. m. Eastern ty “associates” is due to the pleas-| ors if they dared to stage a parade. | to dismiss the Chinese manager of| ments, Tarvis and Ruiz were trap-| Standard) from Chita. te day ie EE Res bi ere Se ates cereal A hurried session. of the Marion | (Wireless By Inprecorr) the Chinese Eastern Railroad, in) ped bensite they icone a from! The Land of the Soviets has | HOLDS RED DAY mered out the forms of organization, Eamae waske’ whe secret was ex-|citY council “prohibited parades in| BERLIN, Sept. 2—The pipelay- | Compliance with the demands of the the ship's See ieee nearly completed its crossing of | and laid their plans for the great- plained by Jail Superintendent Peak today. the city, and while the county offi-| ers’ strike here is extending.’ The| cials were busy doing the same for| yeformists and employers are co- the country outside the city limits, U.S. S. R. The recently reported agreement ART AIDS WALKER Siberia and will leave here for Khabarovsk, its next stop. BERLIN, Sept. 2.—International est organization campaign ever seen in America. n a9, *, * fie: ti ¥ ti ikout: \of the Nanking government to re- | The plane encountered bad|y, aaah ’ neice “ rganizatic ust ate ue, Eat ae sunshine tiPS | where is located the Clinchfield nfl | °PT*"® '° Maur eee turn the road to its legal, joint So- weather on Saturday, and aftgr| SUN Day Broved* very successfull | one Section wee be were not just idle pleasure rides,|: 1 hich th ik raer) | — i Chi 1. block. sins x r throughout Germany. The Berlin for struggle,” stated William Z. Fos- Peak hastened to add. As jail phar-|'" on e strike took place, the viet“and Chinese control, was. bloc! leaving Irkutsk for Chita, met | . |ter, at the climax of his masterly 3 (Continued on Page Two) OFFICE WORKERS TODAY. Jed for several days by the refusal storms over Lake Baikal and fought | demonstration was particularly im-|._° > Se macist and physician’s assistant, Sinclair must accompany Dr. Mor- All office workers are urged to of the Chang militarist government IN N.Y, CAMPAIGN headwinds for hours. It made a| pressive, with tens of thousands of, analysis of the forces moving now in the industrial world, the ration- ‘ jal jail. clini jattend the open air meeting to be|in Mukden to dismiss the reaction- |non-scheduled stop at Verkhni-| young workers participating. featt : ‘ i ris Hyman to a special jail clinic} |, Bow] a (i ; : | Pp v alization, wage-cutting and union- ] i i-trus- per. the jheld at 26th St. and Madison Ave.|ary agents it had placed in charge Udinsk and then left for Chita, Hundreds of young workers ap- Riot ; j | on Potomac river where semi-trus-| a thene fi mt today en of the road.. Apparently, if present | young ‘P-|smashing campaign of the employ- 4 ty prisoners — those who serve real | .tayms because they have no rich nN eee to pull the necessary strings ‘load and unload commodities | sMipped by water to and from city | institutions. | The teapot dome star is expected | to be released some time before his sentence expires ‘1 November. He issupposed to be serving six months for contempt of senate in connec- ) tion with his jury shadowing ac- tivities. BITTEN BY WAR BUG, DIE. Two unlicensed pilots, who were flying an airplane which had been built during the war, were killed near Purcell, Okla., Sunday. Their plane nose-dived into a hard pas- ture, The victims were Lawrence Oates and JJoe Pritchard, ‘Two other fliers, Arnold V. Gel- 5 12:30 pe m, the | mee ae | auspices of the Office Workers Un- | y |2 are therefore % ion. \Pacific Coast Needle Union Hails Gastonia Prisoners | | Wilkes-Barre and Bicknell, Indiana, Miners) Holding Collections, Joint Defense Meets Three thousand miles away, on,of the intensive activities there, as the other side of the continent, work-|teported by Mother Ella Reeve ers are mobilizing themselves, | Bloor, who is building the Interna- sheild by. the detertlintion that tional Labor Defense, and Gastonia reports are correct, Chang decided on one more ‘attack on the U. S. S. R., and then, when that failed to ac- complish anything but defeat for the white guardists sent to carry it out, he reluctantly submitted, 1 Burned, 5, Overcome In Tenement Fire Five firemen were overcome by smoke and one worker living in a tenement at 268 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, was slightly burned yes- terday when flames quickly razed the top stories of the flimsy build- ing. Breaking out in the third floor of the Gastonia ‘strikers, now being tried for their lives at Charlotte, N. C., will not be legally murdered. dart, 35, and Rex Crouse, 18, lost| The following telegram, sent to their lives on the Pacific Coast | Charlotte, coming from the Los An- when their plane fell into a ceme-|geles local of the Needle Trades Joint Defense and Relief Commit- tees on the Pacific Coast. The telegram read: “We pledge our local support to you who cour- ageously carry on the struggle of the working class. We greet you in your trial which shall become the tery near Los Angeles. ‘ Workers Industrial Union, is part (Continued on Page Two) ‘the four story structure, the fire quickly spread, Wuen firemen ar- |rived the flames had broken thru the roof and was spreading rapidly on the upper floors. William Daly, who was burned, was taken to St. Catherine’s hospi- tal for treatment. Traction Co. Gives Money to City In an effort to give added \Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany has given the city a check for lmore than $9,000,000 settling an old \claim of the city against the trac- |tion company. By paying the money ministration at the beginning of th election campaign, the I. R. T. is making it possible for the demo- cratic party to use the receipt of the money as a campaign issue. That is, to pretend that it is fighting the traction interests, while actually it is working hand in hand with them. Tammany Hall hopes that the voters will remember that the city received (Continued on Page ive) tom Up—at the Enterprises! to the Tammany-controlled city ad-| As part of the great reception | planned for the flyers of the Land of the Soviets, on their arrival in |New York, American workers will | present a gift of tractors and trucks | Soviet Union, | Details of Re-organizat peared in the uniform of the pro- hibited Red Front Fighters’ League. The demonstration halted dive min- utes in Neukoelln at the scene of the three days’ May first barricade strength to the Tammany ticket, the to the workers and peasants of the| fighting, in memory Of the fallen fighters. . ‘Workers School Registration. Opens; New Catalogue Ready ion Announced; Regis- ter Now for Widest Choice of Classes Registration for the seventh year| The reorganization plan is aimed jof the Workers School begins today. at the purpose of establishing a two- e details concerning the reorgani-| year course which will be a complete | The detail: i h i hich will b i ers, the treason of the A. and socialist leaders, the f tion of the A. F. of L. unions and the rising tide of militancy, the strike wave and stern r ance of the workers as in Gaston “Our organization must be ready to wage a merciless struggle not only against the employers but against social reformism and right tendencies in the T. U. E. L.” But with the adoption of the draft program and constitution for the new center, the Trade Union Eduea- tional League, which called this con- vention, and got an unprecedented response from delegates represent- ing hundreds of thousands of work- ers, has now become the Trade Union Unity League—a new labor movement, on which centers the hope of millions of exploited American of L, ascisiza- | zation of the school were announced study of the Marxist-Leninist the-| workers. |yesterday and the complete catalog ‘Square, fifth floor. | ory in its main applications, For Build Up the United Front of | is now available at the school office this purpose the entire curriculum! of national industrial the Working Class From the Bot- |at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union, was simplified, useless and overlap-| which those already The new organization is made up unions, of formed, the (Continued on Page Five) (Continued cn Page Two) NDISCREET SOUTHERN PAPER ADMITS CLASS NATURE OF CHARLOTTE TRIAL: SAVE DEFENDANTS! “From the frying pan of Gastonia to the fire of Charlotte.” That is the phrase used in an ac- is. under the caption “Mecklenburg, 0, Is, Against the Communists, Tom Bost.” ‘The truth that the case is one be- | tween classes, and not a mere murder trial, will come to the sur- face despite the efforts of the for he writes: “Class obtruded itself over the stricted prohibitions. The workman who has ‘fraternized with the union get hiv ‘>structions, if the campaign of the Southern pres oft-pedall- ing the class charccter of the case of “Fair Trial.” Bost, in his account cite! further “that Mecklenburg is as hostile to the defendants as Gaston. The bias is all pervading. Mecklen- burg is frank about these Com- Thus, it i: apparent to everyone, that the case ic one of class against class. And that the talk of a “fair trial” flutters into nothingness when one sees the universality of hos- tility against the defendants by the petty-bourgeois and bourgeois ele- pective jurymen must be men of Carolina, ;Only Mass rotest and Funds Will Save Them. The Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief “ampaign Committee, of 80 most. Funds, which are a funda- property and pay taxes, in Nortlf\mental requirement to carry on a shop collections. p [tremendous caze of this kind, must! Building the Zin. centerline Bn Ba — be raised and continue to flow in; until all the prisoners are freed. Th workers must battle with the only means at their hands. These Acquainting the workers with the facts of the case through speakers and the distribution of leaflets and other printed: matter. count of the trial by W. T. Bost, in| bosses and their allies, the author-|was prejudiced in favor of the ac-|munists hereabouts, though these |ments who are vastly in the major-|Kast Eleventh Street, N. Y. C./are: | Raising a wave of mass protest ‘the Greensboro News and reprinted | ities to misrepresent the real issues. | cused, Pd words have not been bandied about jit ~~:-~ the prospective jurymen.|points out that more than ever the| United front conferences. large enough to free the 23 strikers, in the Gastonia Gazette. The story; Tom Bost, apparently, failed to Let No Worker be Fooled by Talk the court as yet.” This is due to the fact that all pros-|necessity for mass protest is upper-| Tag Days. House-to-house, factory. gate and i Up the United Front of the VJorking Class From the Bot- D. gud W. 1. Rj tom Up—at the Enterprises