The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1929, Page 2

COAST WORKERS ao a Bins: zy AID DEFENSE OF Coal Miners Too Fight for Mill Slaves (Continued from Page One) signal to the workers all over the country to realize that only through organized forces in a militant labor movement will we succeed in com- batting all attacks of our enemies and which will lead us to the final i nm of the working class. our tant union. The nd your heroic Long live future belon deeds bring the future nearer.” to Much Organizational Advance in| Far West. | Mother Bloor writes from San| Francisco, to the national office of the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re- lief Campaign Committee, at 80 East Eleventh Street, N. Y. C., that “conferences have been held in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. They are now systematically work- ing on house to house collections, street, factory gate collections, ete.” Regular I. L, D. headquarters are} to be established by her at Seattle, Washington for the entire North- western section of the land. She reports conferences, meetings, étc., in the following cities: Los An- geles, San Francisco, Richmond, Santa Barbara, Long Beach, Castle Rock, San Diego, Fort Bragg Eure- ka, Oregon, and Seattle. Active in Southwest Too, | The activities on behalf of the Gastonia strikes have also spread to the extreme Southwest and sums of money are being received from San Antonio, Tex. The San Antonio Young Pioneers are enlisted, under | the direction of their leader, Sara) Leveen, and ave holding street and hor-2-to-house collections. Coal Regions Busy for Defense. Besides reports of activities com- ing from the coal regions about Bicknell, Indiana, Pittsburgh, Pa., increased effort is being made in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsy]- vania, at Wilkes Barre, to save the} Gastonia strikers. R. Zoldkas, secre-} tary of the International Labor De- fense in that district writes of the| conference September 29, when many workers organizations will be represented for additional activities. W. 1. R. c-1 N. T. W. U. in South} Appeal to Workers. | Caroline Drew, representative of the W. IR. in the South, and Hugo Oehler, Southern organizer of the ‘our workers at the Brook Ruins after blast wn above. Responsib Injures 4 Workers at the Brooklyn. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929 le tor Burning to Death of 8 Negro Children in Tenn. Asylu Army Base lyn army basc were badly injured when an acetylene tank-exploded. ] FORM NEW UNION CENTER IN 3-DAY OLEVELAND MEET Masses Represented in Huge Convention (Continued from Page One) | National Miners Union, the National Textile Workers Union, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, and others form the core at present, | with others to be created soon, and | National Industrial Leagues, work- ing in the old unions where mili- tant minorities exist, and among the great masses, the 30,000,000 unor- ganiz@d workers, mostly unskilled, | jand hitherto neglected by the “offi- ) MORE PICKED cial” trade union movement. practice. Wall Street is putting training than ever, as imperialist | | It is these masses, these lowly| |paid millions of foreign-born and| |native workers, many of them newly | drawn into industrial life from} farms and plantations, that the T.! U. U. C, turns its most immediate jattention towards. Speaker after | speaker has pointed this out, during |the three decisive days of the Trade | Union Unity Convention. Program of Class Struggle. The Trade Union Unity League, Show Attack on Union (Continued from Page One) on union organization itself, and to smash the southern textile workers’ Warming Up to Kill Workers |\Freighter Goes Down, | in Crash off Maryland; Believe Engineer Dead | BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 2—In| a crash off Smith’s Point, 110 miles down the Chesapeake Bay, the coast- | wise freighter Dorothy, was sunk | late Saturday night after a collision| INDIANA COAL MINERS MEET Militants Convene Bicknell in | |States its constitution shall include |as members, “all wage workers and their labor organizations, in indus- |try and agriculture, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, age or craft, who accept its program of class struggle.” The constitution provides for a democratic efficiency, secured by easy removal of officers, limiting of officers’ wages to the average paid FEARS 60,000 JOINING REVOLT Pro-British Chiefs Not rebellion against the twelve hour day and the $12 a week wage by kill- ing off the leaders of the National Textile Workers Union southern or- ganization drive. The sixteen workers being tried here for murder, assault with intent |to kill, and conspiracy are: | Fred Beal, southern organizer of | |the N, T. W. U., Louis McLaughlin, | Amy Schechter, director of the Workers International Relief station ARTICLE 1 BICKNELL, Indiana (By Mail). ~The: Indiana District Convention of the National Miners Union was formally opened here with the hold-| ing of a large mass meeting under| the auspices of Local 601, Bicknell, in Miners-Hall.. The speakers were Patrick Toohey, National Secretary- Treasurer; A. Boyce, Na-} William A, tional Vice-President, a native of Indiana; Mrs. Ora L. Boyce, repre- senting. the National Ladies Aux iliaries of the N; M. U.; Nels Kjar, Trade Union Educational League, and local speakers. Herman Col- lins, Persident of the local union 601, largest of N. M..U. locals’ in Indiana’ présided. Holding the Convention in Bick- nell, with a number of Negro dele- | gates present, is of the greatest! significance. For_years Bicknell has | been noted for its anti-Negro atti-| Able to Check Tribes with the Eurana, another freight ship. (Continued from Page One) The first engineer of the Dorothy | Zionists, Britain’s imperialist van- is reported to have lost his life but guard in this country. | the remainder of the crew of 30 was Meanwhile, the Moslem grand| rescued, Rr ce: |mufti,. El Houssein, called on the The Eurana is a steel screw Palesti d apes | steamer 6f-6689 tons, ‘belonging to|7 Ucstine mandate commissioners | the Planet Steamship Corporation, |8%4 announced that unless’ the im-| The survivors were taken aboard {Perialists ceased their policy’ of re- | the Eurana, which then put into|pression he could no longer hold in Newport News for repairs.. The | control 60,000. Arabs determined on Baltimore Maritime Exchange Was | independence,» 2 not notified of the accident until to- | day, when meager radiograms to} the ships agencies here revealed the | disaster. officers are anxiously awaiting the ‘The Dorothy: was bound for Balti-| first reports. of conflict, with Be- more from Tampa with-a cargo of |douin columns marching from Syria | Phosphate rock for a chemical. com- jand Trans-Jordania, and are wonder- | pany at Curtis Bay. The Eurana, | ing what attitude the independent | bound from Baltimore to Los An-|0vernment of Nejd and Mecca will | geles was im command of Captain}take. Uprisings have already taken | Svane. Neither. ship-.carried--pas- | Place at Bagdad, inthe British pro- | Rush to Frontiers. The situation is tense and British in their industry, centralization but} | flexibility in the organization, and | frequent meetings of central bodies. | in Gastonia, William McGinnis, Vera Bush, N. T. W. organizer and in ‘A convention is to be held yearly in| which shall be represented local un- ions, shop committees and local in- dustrial leagues elected on a broad | basis, one delegate from each fifty members, national industrial unions with one delegate from each thou- sand members, leagues. with five delegates each, and local, national, state and district industrial leagues with three dele- gates each guaranteeing complete control of the new movement by its} membership. | The national conventions elect a national committee of 41, represent- ing all industries, and departmental- ized into: organization, financial, | international, Negro, youth and wo- men’s departments. It is to meet twice a year. The executive com- national industrial | N. T. W. U. have sentiletiers to all|tude, fostered by the Ku Klux. Klan working class organizations, urg-|and the coal companies, There. are ing them to support the campaign |signs at all entrances to Bicknell for funds of the Gastonia Joint De-| reading: “Niggers, this is Bicknell, fense and Relief Campaign Com-/|keep on travelling.” The National mittee, of 80 East 11th Street, N.|Miners Union determined to wipe Y. C., Room 402. |this out if it ever secured strength “Remember the southern workers | in Bicknell, and upon building L. U. are poor and unorganized” they|601 into a powerful local union of write. “The success of the cam-|more than 600 members took or- paign for funds rests on you north-| ganizational steps to challenge the ern and western workers, who have|discrimination against Negroes. Con- higher wages and are more class|sequently the convention was sched- conscious. The southerners are just|uled for Bicknell and Negro dele-| learning—give them a chance, give|gates brought to attend, and to} them a helping hand—and you'll} soon have a force you can count on in our common fight against the] bosses.” they write. | BALTIMORE RIOT Jail 2 Negro Workers; Dared Defense BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 2.—A representative of the American Ne- gro Labor Congress is investigating the recent “race riot” here as a re- sult of which 20 combattants were injured and two Negro workers ar- rested on charges of “disturbing the peace” by daring to defend them- selves against white chauvinists. Penknies, brickbats, clubs and paving -bricks were wielded in the battle which is said to have begun in a street fight between two boys of about 8 years, one Negro and| the other white. A squad of 15 policemen rushed into the fray with drawn service clubs and centered their attack on the outnumbered Ne- gro workers, quelling the riot after a half-hour struggle. Only Negroes were jailed by the .jim crow police( Wm. Miller being! fined $50 for not turning the other | cheek, and Wm. Thomas, who de- manded a jury trial, held under $1,- 000 bail for “assault and disturbing the peace,” 11, Including Entire Family, Burnt to Death fn Fire in Birmingham BIRMINGHM, Eng., Sept. 2.— Pleven workers lost their lives to- day when fire destroyed two houses _ fm Smethwick. The dead included an entire family named MacDonald, consisting of Father, mother and four children, The victims either ‘were burned to death or died from injuries recei:d when they jumped from the upper floors. JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE. ‘PERTH, Australia (By Mail)— sands * unemployed workers ) demonstrated and were at- d by the police. The unem- workers resisted, ke ) spealc -at- the public mass meetings. Economies of Race War. William A. Boyce was the fir Negro ever to speak in Bicknell. The speeches of Boyce and Mrs, Boy were. enthusiastically applauded throughout the meeting. Boyce ad- dressed the meeting principally with regard to the economic base for ra- cial discrimination, and,the organi- zation of the Negro miners as an necessary task in the building of the N. M, U. inte a powerful organiz: tion. “The Negro miners, perse- cuted both as a race and as a class, are, desirous of. organization, but because of.,the race. prejudice .sys- tematically fostered by the employ- ers and gullibly absorbed by many workers, they are being driven from the side. of the workers. and into the camp of the enemy.” sengers.. The-cause o:-the-aecident had not been determined teday. MILITIA TO AID MARION EVICTION Labor Defense Offer: Help to Arrested (Continued from Page On national guard did a little prohil ing of its own, Alfred Hoffman, Workers’ union organizer, arrested as a matter-of form by the sheriff when he swore out warrants against 148 mill strikers two days ago, was immediately released on low, bonds, and is now busy as ysual, telling the workers to “do nothing radical,” and Ss to “preserve the peace.” Major Eugene Coston, commander of the national guard companies in this vicinity; Governor O. Max Gardner, Judge N. A. Townsend, his confidential adviser, and Adjt.-Gen. J. Van B. Mett, conferred in Shelby yesterday, and decided to keep the |militia in Marion to assist in the) jeviction from their homes of about | \tectorate of Iraq ‘(Mesopotamia). | Mittee elected by the national com- |There are also rumors of uprisings |Mittee has the same officers as the contemplated soon in Egypt, North "ational committee and meets twice Africa and India. "Persia and’ Tur- | month. The officers, a general key are showing signs of synipathy Secretary, assistant secretary and with the Arabian — independence | treasurer, national organizer, na- | movement. on Nee acre ane, uae | he Britis . or constitute the Bureau of the Nation- lee pees aS paar |al Executive Board and meet weekly.| |stiff policy, of repression .and ter-| plate aR loon i a Broclamation tae. The various nations 1 industrial un- day te Uaclanhs hak 40 &. conch. ions have their own organization leant far tig. alenedoe ail negotia, | Suitable to the form of industry in { ‘ r vhich they function, but it is speci- tions between the mandate commis-|\ saigatt NAA sioners and the Arabian tribes for a| et that any industrial union in | United Textile | more representative form of govern- }ment are broken off. Sk oe Police Attack in Berlin. BERLIN, Germany, Sept: 2—Com- munist demonstrations ‘against the Zionist meetings and parades in this city were attacked by the’ police, but nothing was’ done against the | Zionists. Jewish rabbis and ‘busi- ness men are permitted by the gov- ernment to abuse the Arabian inde- | pendence movement and to call upon | the British for more bloodshed, more repressive measures, TO HACK TARIFF the T. U, U. L, must accept the |restrictions in regard to officers’ pay, their easy recall if incompetent and must base its policy on the jclass struggle. | Other stipulations upon the in- dustrial unions of the T. U. U. L. }are: democratic centralization with \the control in the rank and file of the union, particularly control of strikes; majority of all leading com- mittees to come from the shops; complete equality of Negro workers; \special sections for youth and wo- men workers, and for education; low initiation fees and dues within the easy reach of the lowest paid workers in the industry; universal free transfer from one union to an- other; building of strike funds and benefit systems; yearly national conventions; monthly reports to the National Committee of the T. U. U. |1,200 strikers and members of the! Mrs. Boyce, in addition to discus- | strikers’ families during the week. BILL WEDNESDAY L. Union Press. ging diseriminati-n, dealt with the necessity of the organization of the women and stablishment of aux-| iliaries for the women and daught- | ers of the miners, as a force of or- ganizational support to the miners in their struggle against the mine- | owners. Arrangements were made for the establishment of Auxiliaries in Bicknell and in several adjacent | towns. D. W. Jones, District President, welcomed the delegates and spoke of the rapid achievements of ‘the | N, M.U., in Indiana district, and | stated that the constructive deci- sions of the convention would guar- | antee the deyelopment of a strong N. M. U. in the state of Indiana. Condemning the U. M. W. A. for! their many betrayals of the coal! miners, Jones declared that the In- diana miners look to the N, M. U.) for militant leadership’ in their struggle. ‘New Trade Union Center. Kjar, organizer for the Trade Union Educational League, spoke of the historic significance. of the Cleveland Convention, which will form a new militant. trade’ union center, P | Toohey presented the program of | the National Miners Union on) mechanization and unemployment, and called attention to the fact that today the miners of Indiana face the most bitter struggle tey have ever known, due to thousands being dis- placed and driven from the industry by the installation of machinery, the growth of perma >n; unem>loyment and the lack of social insurance. I, L. D. Offers Aid. The folowing telegram was sent to the textile strikers who have re- cently been arrested in Marion: “The International Labor De- fense offers to aid and defend you against the frame-up which is be- ing organized against you by the bosses of the Clinchfield mills. The International L a b o r Defense stands ready to provide you with legal defense and with financial: and moral support from your fel- low workers, The Marion bosses are trying to break your strike by framing up fake bomb plots in order to railroad you to prison and to bring in troops to spread terrorism. The International La- bor Defense urges you to stand firm against these union smash- ing plots of the hosses and against all attempts to sell out your strike and rob you of the fruits of your struggle. Continue your fight to the end, until you build a real and ready to defend you to the limit against this frame-up as we are already defending the Gastonia strikers: here in Char- lotte who are threatened with pris- on and the electric chair for the crime of organizing a union. The International Labor. Defense stands ready to defend all workers victimized in the struggle with the bosses, With fraternal greet- ings. 4 “International Labor Defensé, “110 Court Arcade, “Charlotte, N. C.” | Industry RivalsScheme | To Monopolize Profit WASHINGTON, ‘Sept. %. — An- other sharp fight over the senate ltariff bill’ will opén Wednesday, ‘when administration republicans will present their bill, slightly mod- ified but still favoring latge indus- trial interests, for hacking by “in- dependent” farm republicans and in- dividual New England nufactur- ers temporarily: -4 ance with them. 4 4 The stand ‘6f the latter was ex- pressed by the democrat senator, David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, | who characterizes the present bill as /“a stiletto thrust at Eastern busi- |ness interests. F ‘ | | ed that the new | bill spoiled prov’ : tariff under which “bulky' raw ma- terials cduld be imported by water and used near the ;laces of their importantion,” ~~ i are ‘Under the new schedules, he held, interior manufacturers’ could force New.England manufacturers to buy from them’ exclusively. |rehashed the’ familiar A. F. of L, argument of “protection of Ameri- can labor.” t American women in Amefican shoe factories,” he said. “He~had no dif- ” by the tariff, ms of the earlier To jystify the 20 per cent tariff on imported shoes Senator Smoot “The measure would |keep ‘employed the thousands of ficulty, of’ course, "in avoiding the slightest curiosity as‘to the wages mericah workers, alleged to be Each union is to publish a bulle- \tin, which must be subscribed for y all its members, and each must support the official organ of the T. |U. U. L., Labor Unity, | The National Industrial Leagues are to be composed of shop commit- tees’ local unions, and groups of workers in unorganized industries, local industrial leagues, and sympa- thetic locals in reactionary unions. National Industrial Leagues are or- ganized in all industries except where the national industrial unions are firmly organized and where in addition, the reactionary unions are absent or very weak. It is provided in the constitution that in all industrial centers there shall be local Trade Union Unity Leagues to lead and co-ordinate the general struggle of workers in all industries there. These local leagues are composed of delegates from lo- cal unions, shop committees, local industrial leagues arid groups of in- dividual members.’ Individua)-mem- ‘\bership is accepted from workers where no stronger organization is for the moment possible, but it is the policy of the new movement to organize groups, shop committees, local unions of the National Indi trial Unions, ete., as rapidly as pos- sible, Fraternal delegates from such or- ganizations as the International La- bor Defense, the Workers Interna- } ‘are encouraged. tional’ Relief, ete., and close frater- nal relations with workers’ sport clubs, workers’ fraternal orders, etc., The Trade Union Unity League recognizes that the class war is in-|paign, charge of women’s work, George Carter, Sophie Melvin, youth organ- izer of the N. T. W. U., K. 0. By- ers, Joseph Harrison, N. T. W. U. organizer from Passaic, I. C, Heff- ner, Robert Allen, Russell Knigh N. F, Gibbons, K. Y. Hendricks, Del. mar Hampton, and Clarence Miller, who was first charged with assault and was indicted for murder by the grand jury. To Try Seven at Gastonia. There are still seven more, arrest- ed at the same time as most of the first 16, and charged with assault, Their trial is scheduled for Gastonia, to start Oct. 15. They were not given a change of venue with the others. They are: Ernest Martin, Clarence Townsend, D. F. McDonald, Robert Aikoff, C. M. Lell, Walter Lloyd, and J. R. Pittman, They have all been active in union work, and in speaking, col- lecting and organizing for the In- ternational Labor Defense since their release on bonds. | Arrest Hungarian Show Worker Leaders BUDAPEST (By Mail).—In Szi- getvar, leather workers wished to found a local branch of the Leather Workers Union. The owner of the local shoe factory employing most of the workers in question appealed to the authorities who promptly ar- | rested several leaders of the move- }ment and expelled others from the | district. When the secretary of the Leather. Workers National Union and the district organizer came to Szigetvar to raise ‘protest against the unlawful action of the authori- ties they were both arrested by the gendarmes, | ELECTRICIANS STRIKE. BELLEVILLE, Ill. (By Mail) — Electrical workers here went on strike for a wage increase from $1.50 to $1.75 an hour, which the contractors refused. | |ternational and affiliates with the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secre- tariat, the Latin-American Confed- Jeration of Labor, the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions and its na- tional industrial unions join the ap- propriate international committees for propaganda and “ction of the RIL. Uv. The T. U. U. L. finances itself by dues payments from its affili- ated bodies. Its slogans as announced at the convention, amidst cheers and en- thusiastic pledges of support from all the various delegations are: Build the Trade Union Unity League. Fight Against Imperialist War. Defend the Soviet Union, Fight Against Capitalist Ration- alization. Organize the Unorganized. For the 7-Hour Day, 5-Day Week, For Social Insurance. For Full Racial, Social and Po- litical Equality for Negroes. Organize the Youth and the Wo- men, Defeat the Misleaders of Labor. For World Trade Union Unity. 12 to the Charlotte trial. tration, points out the basi ;|spectors is probable. In its first day’s session it pledg- ed complete support to the Gastonia strikers, and sent a labor jury of It has adopted a program of ac- tion, which begins with a definition and analysis of the class struggle, pledges itself against class collabo- of the rationalization drive of the employ- ers, leading directly to a war danger, exposes the treasonable role of the A. F. of L., the socialists, and the Muste group of pseudo-liberals, and calls for immediaate, direct struggle combined with the organizstion cam- ae Infantrymen of the U. S. army at Camp Perry, Ohio, at rifle its troops through more intensive war draws nearer. FEDERAL GUILT IN CHARLOTTE IN SEA DISASTER. Prosecution Questions Allowed 47-Year Old| San Juan to Sail SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2.—Sea- men up and down the Pacific Coast |are blaming the federal steamship | | inspection authoriti®S for the loss of at least 74 lives in the crash be- |tween the old steamer San Juan and |the oil tanker Dodd. While federal | authorities pretended to “determine responsibility” for last Friday’s dis- | aster, it was charged by seamen that | only corruption could have permitted | the federal authorities to permit the |47-year-old San Juan to function as | |a carrier of passengers. |. The fact that the San Juan sunk jin five minutes was clear evidence that the old hulk was unseaworthy. | To whitewash themselves for the responsibility for the loss of 74 jlives, the fedealr authorities are at- |tempting to make members of the San Juan crew, most of whom per- ished when the ship went down, the |goats for the disaster, spreading re- |ports of “cowardice” on the crew's part. Charges of cowardice on the crew’s part are slanders, coastwise |seamen state, pointing out that no jerew could have done anything with |an old ship like the San Juan, which | |sunk so rapidly due to its unsea-| worthiness. The federal hearing, which started Satv -day will be resumed to- | morrow before Captain Frank Turn- jer and Joseph Dolan, federal in- | spectors of boilers and hulls. Com- plete whitewash for the federal in- | | Only two bodies have been picked \up thus far. This is due to the fact | that the wat-z, 12 miles off Pigeon | Point, scene of the dise ter, is about 2500 feet deep. Vessels were comb- jing the seas for bodies. Confusion in ‘passenger lists places the exact number of victims in Doubt, but 74 | is the total known missing thus far. ‘French Officials Encourage Murder Of Workingmen | LILLE (By Mail).—If bourgeois | murder working men, the courts do | their best to let them go scot-free, | as the following instance shows: | In the evening following the by- | election in Lille the socialist worker |Joseph Dillies was run over and | killed by two mcn named Wattine jand Wineke. Their trial resulted in |their being conditionally sentenced to 15 d-ys’ imprisonment and 30 days’ imprisonment respectively and to a fine of 100 francs (about 16 | shillings) each. In spite of evidence |to the contrary, the court assumed | that accidental homicide had oc- \curred, In the summing up the judge declared that Dillies was himself to blame for his death as it had been “a laék of prudence to take part in a street demonstration.” In the suit brought against the murderers by the children of the murdered man only 30,000 francs damages were accorded owing to the above mentioned statement of the court concerning Dillies’ imprudence. The plaintiffs appealed against the decision of the cou DROP AN PAYROLLS. WASHINGTON, (By Mail).—A drop of 1.9 per cent in payrolls is admitted for last month by the de- partment of labor. VIA LONDON—KIEL CA: 175 FIFTH AVENUE | strikers. TOURS to : Soviet Russia 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW (First Class Travel and Hotels in U. S. S. R.) TOURS FROM $385. ee fivery Month NEXT SAILING —— BERENGARIA —— SEPT. 18 Visas Guaranteed—Permitting visits to any part of the U.S.S.R. INQUIR®: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. (Flatiron Bldg.) Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 mM FEW EXITS IN “FIRE TRAP IN. MEMPHIS HOME. More Bodies May Be Among Ruins MEMPHIS, Tenn. Sept. 2—, The bodies of eight Negro children have thus far been taken from the ruins of the Negro Industrial Settle- ment Home which burned down yes- terday. All of the children were less than six years of age. : The children were victims of the '” Jim Crow laws in the South, which applies even to orphan and so- called “charitable” industrial homes for children. The scattered few* {homes provided for the Negro chil?* dren in this state are all fire-traps,® wooden, dilapidated buildings, and ” this is the kind of building in which the Negro children were trapped™* and burned to death, The home was overcrowded, hou! ing 88 children. Some of the death?~ children are believed to have beerf-* trampled to death in thetrush for= the few exits from the buildin Search is continuing for more bod: ies believed to be in the ruins of thes home. be ot acd More is Promised A very warm welcome, led by cheers, was given to. the Gastoniatw strikers by campers at Camp Woco+ lona, a workers’ cooperative campy: on Saturday, Aug. 24. VOT Bertha Crawford, a woman striker, and Gladys Byers, a 13-year-old striker, came to Wocolona to make an appeal for the workers who ares? now on trial in North Carolina. After telling of conditions in the mills in Gastonia, Mrs.Crawford asked for help for those who are now1o2 on trial. ‘aw Jeanette Pearl gave a short talk and appealed for funds. A collection followed which amounted: to abou! # $225. In addition, a Batik scarf i now being raffled off for which $100 has already been collected. This, is% the fourth collection that has ber taken up this season for'the Gastonia * The last one, amounting to $130, was taken about two weeks ago. Camp Wocolona has always. been’ among the first to respond to the appeals of striking workers Last year, over $1,000 was collected for, the relief of striking miners, New... Bedford strikers, needle trades workers. i A midnight supper for the relief |” of the Gastonia strikers and for the defense of the Gastonia prisoners. | facing the electric chair will be held: Sunday, Sept. 1. Efforts will be made to have all campers attend, thereby raising as large a sum as * possible and ending the season with, a fine spirit of solidarity with the* striking Gastonia workers. St. Patrick’s Cathedral Celebrates Breaking of... Gravediggers’ Strike e St. Patrick’s cathedral, which re* cently broke the strike of the grave diggers of the Calvary cemetery; * which it controls, yesterday “‘cele+ brated” Labor Day when.a special: service was held with a sermon on the “Dignity and Privilege of La+~ bor.” The catholic church, as welt as the protestant and Jewish sects, °> approve the class collaboration and union smashing policies of the Ac F. of L. SURGEON MISSING. Py tending a meeting of the American Society of Physicians and Surgeons? here no trace has ben found today: of Dr. Fra~’: M, Ende, New Yorky physician. , Friends and associates were con~. vinced that Dr. Ende either met’ with an accident or is a victim of} NAL—HELSINGFORS AND NEW YORK, N. ¥. CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 2.—Fifteem s-.* days after he disappeared while ate =< : & @ a i