The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1929, Page 1

_— a) 5 ! THE DAILY WO! For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week RKER FIGHTS Vol. VI, No, 154 Published daily except Sundsy by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square. New York City, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, | SEPTEMBER 4, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION Outside N RATES: im New York, by rail, 98.00 per year. jew York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ‘Price 3 Cents | TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE PROGRAM FOR ACTION; “CAN AND MUST WIN UNORGANIZED MASSES” — FOSTER National Textile Workers Union Continues to| Rank and | File, NTWU Organize; Holds Meetings With I.L.D. 150 More Prospective Jurors to Appear Tomor- suet row; Defense Challenges Becoming Exhausted |Ask Militia to Resist BULLETIN | C., Sept. 3.—The examination of veniremen in CHARLOTTE, N. the trial of the Gastonia case this morning did not differ from that of | the preceding five days in the respect that the middle class veniremen | continued to admit their prejudice the responsibility for the killing “the northern agitators, especially against the defendants and to place | of Chief of Police Aderholt upon Beal.” | The workers and farmers examined this morning, like those pre- viously questioned, were almost all convinced of the innocence of the | defendants and therefore excused f: rom jury service by the state. Of the 500 veniremen who have been examined since the trial started, only three did not belong to any church. All the others were deyout church members, the majority being Presbyterians and Metho- dists. one foreign born venireman, a Gree! and no women on the special yenire. * By LISTON OAK CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. ing, until tomorrow, defending themselves against "The remaining 24 venirem ined without a single new ape being found acceptable to both | prosecution and defen: third special panel of 150 i is or-| dered to report — morning. There are now ten jw accepted. Pressure from Judge. The tempo of examination of the prospective jurors who will render a verdict that will either send the sixteen defendants in the Gastonia ase to electrocution or the peniten- jary, or free them to continue or-| ganizing the Southern workers, was speeded up today and yesterday in| the courtroom in Charlotte. The judge is exercising pressure | to try to get the jury selected more rapidly. After a venireman has admitted that he believes the defendants guilty and has been challenged by the defense for cause, the judge asks him: “Well, sir, are you convinced that defendants did not kill Ader- holt in self defense? It would be your duty as a juror to disabuse your mind of any preconceived ideas and pass impartially on the evi- dence. Do you think you could do this?” Wearing Out Challenges. Iz the venireman answers “Yes,” he is ruled competent even though he has previously admitted fixed | prejudice, thus necessitating the de- | fense using up another peremptory challenge. In this procedure the judge is acting strictly in accord- ance with North Carolina capitalist (Continued on Page Two) Winnipeg Fire Kills 8; Poor Fire Escape Hastened Casualties WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 3.—The greatest loss of life by fire occurred in Winnipeg this morning when flames swept through the Medway Block, a five-story apartment build- ing. Eighht persons were killed and at least ten injured. Had the building been provided with adequate provisions for fire- escape this number would have been reduced considerably, Seven died in the apartment house, trapped in the upper floor suites. Hospital treatment was un- able to effect the recovery of the eighth. The wooden interior of the build- ing easily caught the flames which are believed to have started in the basement of the building. Portions of the roof collapsed. Trapped in the house, several jumped in whatever firemen’s nets were available, while the less for- tunate leaped to the pavement in despair. Youth Protest Imperial Wars at Milwaukee perialist war will be held by the Young Communist’ League here on International Youth Day, Sept. 6, at Tenth and Wisconsin at 8 p. m. The event will be a continuation of the League’s August First Demonstration, a ke ea in the trial of 16 Gastonia strikers and) organizers whom the mill owners propose to electrocute for There was one lone Catholic among the 500; also there was | k. There were, of course, no Negroes * * \ 3.—Court adjourned this morn- a murderous attack last June. | en of the last panel were exam- “GEORGIA TOILERS READY TO FIGHT; f ASK LL.D. TO AID ‘Funds, More Funds Is} Need for Strikers “The workers of Georgia need you. | When will you come?” This cry came out of pellagra- ridden Georgia today in a letter re- | ceived by the national office of the International Labor Defense, at 80 E, 11th St., room 402, New York! City. The I. L. D., in conjunction with the Workers International Relief and National Textile Workers Un- ion, is campaigning nationally for | funds, immediate funds, as money is} greatly necessary to fight the case | successfully at Charlotte. The Georgia worker, no doubt suf-| fering as harsh conditions as those | which caused the Loray workers to rise in revolt, knew the work the |I. L. D. was doing in the South. Jim | Reid, president of the National Tex- |tile Workers Union, states that he |also received a number of such pleas. | “I Will Do All I Can.” | The entire letter reads: “Please |send me all the literature you can | that will help me to help others pave the way for you. Georgia needs you. When will you come? I will do all I can to raise the fighting fund. Textile workers here are only wait- ing for a leader. Send me member- ship cards and I will do the best I can until you come.” The Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Committee reports (Continued on Page Two) BOMB FRAME-UP IN NEW ORLEANS Harmless Blasts Where Two Seabs Live NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 3.— What seems to be an attempt to punish some of the street cac strik- ers by means of the old reliable bomb plot frame-up took’ place to- day. Blasts which injured no one were set off at the homes of two of the ;scabs. One was at the house of Charles Siegwart, a car barn strike- breaker, and the other, in the same block, was at the house of S. Deris, a conductor. ‘ No one was in the parts of the houses affected by the explosions. Build Up the United Front of | tives, | netted Expose Traitorous Role of U.T.W. \“Don’t Break Strike” Appeal to Soldiers MARION, N. C., Sept. 3.—While meetings arranging details of the contemplated sell-out of the Clinch- field and Marion strikers continue | at which the Governor’s representa- | the United Textile Workers | \ Union officials, the local sheriff and | judge, and various A. F. of L. or- |ganizers scheme, and while the militia still menace the real strikers with their machine guns and bayon- rifles, the workers them- selves are exposing the treason. Answering an invitation from a committee of the rank and file, rep- Labor fiend Over Gaston Protest from the workers of Asia, Australia and America against the tn see es of ee eel Br itish Plan Permanent ‘onia case defendants is contained i, @ resolution passed by the Pan-| 00" ge see to Hold alestine Pacific ‘Trade Union Secretariat, an Attack Police WN REVOLT: SAY ~ FAQUR PREPARES an- | organization of millions of workers, | which has just held a congress in Vladivostok. The following text of Arabs the resolution was cabled to the Daily Worker: “The Pan Pacific Secretariat of the Pan Pacifie Congress of ‘Trade Unions, in the name of all the or- ganized workers of the P: coasts, joins in a most energetic pro- |test against the attempt of capi- |talists and their governmental tools |to legally murder our thirteen com- rades, the leaders and organizers of the heroic textile strikers of Gas- tonia. | “The workers of the entire world | must join in the denunciation of this monstrous crime, the attempt to jelectrocute these workers on trial in iCharlotte, which again reveals the true nature of the so-called “demo- ific | | British, Zionists Raid Arab Villages (Wireless by Imprecorr.) MOSCOW, U.S. S. Yesterday thousands of workers here held a mass meeting to discuss the events in Palestine, They adopted a resolution condemning the imperialist policy MacDonald and the treachery of tue international Zionist organization | which, allied with imperialism, is op- |pressing the masses. The mass meeting appealed Jewish and Arabian workers to form Jewish provocative resentatives of the National Textile |cracy” of America as a capitalist a united front against the British, Workers Union appeared, and after a meeting the workers dréw up leaf- Why One states: “The National Guard is here with guns and bayonets; what has Hoff- |man done to prepare us for the | struggle? “Hoffman has long enough! meeting with Secrecy? been fooling us For days he has been | Judge Townsend — | always behind closed doors! “Why doesn’t Hoffman know what he is doing? let us Because he |is preparing to sell us out to the boss! That's why! “He's preparing to sell us out just | like the workers of Elizabethton and | (Continued on Page Two) TUUC MOBILIZES WOMEN WORKERS ‘Says Rebecca Grecht, Women’s Delegate “Never before have working women been so bitterly exploited in | industry, and never before have they organized their forces so succes fully to combc.: this exploitation as | at the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention,” said Rebecca Grecht, convention delegate of the Women’s cCoapraved an Pee) on Page Five) SHOE UNION TO RESIST ATTACK Gov’t Plan Is Hit The government attack on the In- dependent Shoe Workers Union was taken up last night at a meeting | of the Join’; Council and shop dele- gates of the union’ at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St. During the last few weeks agents of the U. S.) Department of Labor and Tammany (Continued on Page Five) pee eS Carolina Schools Say Don’t Want Dirty Striker Kiddies Here’ GASTONIA, C., Sept. 3.— The little sister of K. O. Byers) was refused admittance to school | in Gastonia yesterday .morning. Other workers’ children living in the tent colony were also sent back home by the teachers, who told them that they wanted “no dirty strikers’ kids here.” Thousands of mill workers can- not afford to buy school books. The Young Pioneers, together with the National Textile Work- ers’ Union mothers’ committee and the International Labor De- fense, will demand of school au- the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! ers’ children, free books and sup- | plies. thorities reinstatement of strik-| | “Registration | dictatorship. | tect our threatened comrades from capitalist vengeance, “(SIGNED) Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, Yu Ling, Chairraan, Earl Browder, secre- tary. ZIONIST DRIVE AGAINST 6. P, | Destroy Freiheit and | Break Up Meetings’ Five hundred Zionists and social- ists last night attempted to break up an open air meeting of the Young Communist League held at the cor- near of Stone and Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, which was attented by more than 2,000 workers. Although the Jewish fascists rushed the platform a score of times they were repulsed by the strong Workers Guard that was on hand, The Zionists and socialists |were well organized but they were no match for the disciplined Work- ers Guard, The speakers included Sidney Magidson, Herbert Fink, Sophie \Trotsky, I. Schwartz and Louis |Burtz. | The five policemen who were at the meeting ‘helped the Zionists. One of them teld a Jewish fascist |that they should push the speaker loff the platf-m. * 38 The Zionist-socialist campaign against the Communist Party, the ‘Daily Worker and the Jewish Daily; Freiheit for their exposure of the ni aired aims of Zionism and for heir support of the Arabs in their} ae against British imperialism, is continuing. Provocative articles against the Communist Party and its press ap- pear every day in the three capi- \talist Jewish newspapers—the For- | ward, the Day and the Jewish Morn- | ing Journal. They denounce the Com- | (Continued on Page Two) | MORE ARRESTS IN BUKHAREST | BUKHAREST (By Mail |erous searches were effected by the | police of Bukharest. 42 persons, all | of them officials of the Unitarian Trade Unions were arrested, | “Rouse the working class to pro-| lets addressed to the militia and the | | strikers. \Jewish and Arabian bourgeoisies. * * JERUSALEM, Palestine, Sept. |—Insurrectionary movement aithg the Bedouin tribes near Beersheba far south of ‘any point in the fight- ing to date; the reported revolt of Emir Faour, who is said to be }massing Arab forces on the Syrian |frontier, |British warships, were the out- standing features of today’s news of the struggle of the Arab masses against British authorities and their Zionist allies in Palestine. ' Despite the statement of British and French authorities that their joint forces had established an “air tight” cordon along the Syrian bor- de= to prevent further invasion of (Continued on Page Two) McGRADY GIVEN MEDAL AS SCAB Loyal Legion Banquets Him Over Elizabethton “Casey Jones, he got a wooden medal for scabbing on the S. P. line,” might have been sung with real conviction at the banquet of the Loyal Legion Monday at Whitestone Landing, L. I., when Edward F. Mc- Grady was presented with the medal of the L. L. for being “the most outstanding labor leader in 1929.” Matthew Woll, taking a few hours toff from the master’s task in the | scabby National Civic Federation, of which he is acting president with- out relinquishing his other job as ‘vice-president of the A. F. of L., 'made the presentation speech. For Expert Betrayal. Woll told the world and the smirking McGrady, as he pinned on the medal, “You deserve this for |your attacks on the Communists in the New York needle trades, and for | settling the strike of the Elizabeth-| iton txtile workers, at the risk of | your life.” Woll and McGrady together or- munists and urge the Jewish bour- Banized the pogroms against the left | ¢; othing Workers Union, hi (Continued on Page Five) | |NEW LEADER OF DRY THUGS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—Ap- )—Num- oointitient of W. D. Moss as prohibi-| interests of the workers, the need jtion administrator for the Albany, | In, Y. district was announced today | lby Assistant Treasury Secretary | |Seymour Lewman. Workers of Austria, where. the |Heimwehr threatens almost daily | to throw the country into as harsh | |a distatorship as Italy, have cried jout, “The Gastonia strikers must not die,” at scores of factory meet- ings and have sent a cablegram of | solidarity to the strikers at Char- lotte. At the same time, more workers of Germany, carefully follow ig the, Workers in Austria Active for Gastonia Defendants “We Are Ready to Raise Banner of Interna- tional Solidarity,” Cablegram Says |Gastonia strikers’ case, have sent, in resolutions from Flensburg and Neumunster declaring, “We are ready to raise the banner of inter- national solidarity and fight along with them.” The Austrian workers presented the following resolution at numer- ous meetings throughout the land. It was passed at Sacco- Vanzetti (Continue . R., Sept. 3.— of | to and the arrival of more | Exhaust Charlotte Venire, MARION WORKERS, ‘Pan - Pacific ‘SOUTHERN ARABS Telegrams of No New Jurors Passed; ASSAIL SELL-OUT Attack Centering on Beal PLAN OF HOFFMAN Strike, Trial, at Convention CLEVELAND, 0, | Sept. 3. huge stopped in the midst of its discus- The Trade Union Unity Convention sion of problems vital to the wel- | fare of the hundreds of thousands of workers whose representatives it a telegram read from the 16 textile was, heard workers on trial for murder trocution or prison because Gasto- nia strikers dared to defend them- selves and their union, and sent the following answer: “Six hhundred and gates from all ninety dele- industries and all DELEGATES FROM HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS IN BASIC INDUSTRIES PLAN CAMPAIGN Shop Committees in Every Factory, Complete Solidarity of Negro and White Workers in Charlotte, facing elec- Tong and Free Discussions With Decisions Feature League a realit: Unanimous Huge Convention By BARBARA RAND CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 3. i rade Union Unity a program of militant action to battle against parts of the United States meeting Capitalist rationalization and organize the masses of unorgan- in Cleveland in the fourth conven- | ized workers, the basic demands of every industry represented tion of the Trade Union (Educa- worked out, and national officers elected, the last convention of tional) Unity League, send you the pledge of their unswerving support against the attempt of thé textile to take lives of 13 of you and send ten more to the prison for long the Trade Union Educational I in a veritable thunder of cheers and song. veague adjourned Monday night William Z. Foster mill owners and their government} Was nominated as general secretary of the T. U. U. L. by Pat Toohey, national secretary-treasurer of the National Miners’ Union, which had the Strongest delegation there. A spon- (Continued on Has Two) YOUTH DAY MASS _ : MEET, UNION SQ. Demonstrate ct War Plans Friday | The Young eaumicniet League of District 2 is planning to make In- ternational Youth Day an historic event in the struggle agains perialist war end for the defense of the Soviet Union. Thousands of young workers in shops and fac- tories will be mobilized against the coming imperialist war by an inten- | sive week of activity on the part of our Youth League, On Tuesday and Wednesda 3rd and 4th, the league in Ne ept. York | will hold special International Youth | © ‘Day Red Nights. On Tuesday night rallies will be held on the following | corners: Harlem, 115th and 5th Waterfront, Whitehall and Si Bronx, Intervale and W kins, and on 163rd and Simpson; Williamsburg, Grant St. Sxtension; Bath Beach, 19th and 5th Ave., Brooklyn; Brownsville, Stone and Pitkin. On Wednesday night, a large rally will be held on 138th and (Continued on Page Two) EXPECT MANY AT TAILORS MEETING To Take Up Hillman | Betrayals Sept. 14 | ; Reports reachirg the Amalgamat- | ed Section, Trade Union Educational League, 26-28 Union Sq., indicate | that the shop delegate conference | to be held Saturday, Sept. 14, at 11 la.m., at Stuyvesant Casino, 2nd} Ave. and 9th St., will be attended | (by many scores of workers repre- senting thousands of tailors who are in revolt, against the company ‘union policy’ of the Amalgamated | | Sidney Hillman and other enemies | | of the workers. | With the Hillman machine’ con-| tinuing its policy of betraying the of solidifying the ranks of the mili- tant and progressive forees amcng the tailors, is of utmost importance, | left wing members of the union pointed out yesterday. They men- tioned the recent “strike” in Phila- delphia where Hillman sent the | workers back to the H. Daroff and Sons shop, with a promise that the union would see to it that the work- ers are speeded up, This and other limportant trade questions will be taken up at the Sept. 14 conference, | jm added. iCall Party, League Members to do Vital | Work Tomorrow Nite To All Party Members: | To All League Members: | You are instructed to report to |143_ E. 103rd St. on Thursday, jing the work that WILLIAM Z. FOSTER General Secretary Trade Union Unity League CONFERENCES BY INDUSTRY AT THE: CLEVELAND MEET Arrange and Report on Organization Drives CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 3 Some of the most important work, leading to the organization of new | industrial unions, or the strengthen- ing of the old ones, conferences of the delegates from each industry. These conferences nave been meeting at various since Saturday evening. discussing the situation within the various branches of the industries, criticis- they had done and faiied to do in the past, and mapping out both general and con- crete programs for the work that is to come. The conferences then sent reporters to the convention. Looming large among these re- ports, were those of the represent- atives of the miners, ‘the textile es ers for all these have functioning in- lished in the fields. and already have |fought and won battles for the workers, Farm Workers Heard. No Jess important, and even more revolutionary in the sense of bemg | new to American trade union con- ventions, was the report of the agri- cultural workers. J. ©. Miller eda ik ok on oe Three) LAND OF SOVIETS IN KHABAROVSK KHABAROVSK, U. S.S. R., Sept 3.—The four Soviet fliers, bourd for New York in the monoplane Land of the Soviets arrived here today from Blagoveshchenck, U. S. S. R. The wheels of the all-metal, bi- motored craft weer removed and pontoons attached, transforming it | into a seaplane for the datgerour | Sept. 5, at 7 p. m. for important sae and League work. flight ever the Aleutian Islands to | was dene in| dustrial unions already well estab- | *taneous burst of shouts of ap- proval and cheers broke out from the entire huge convention, which rose in a body, electing Fc ter unanimously. Whole delegations marched through the hall, singing: “Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong!” Election of John Schmies, Detroit machinist, and Jack Johnston, mi tant fighter of long standing as as- ant secretary-treasurer and na- tional organizer, was the signal for another outburst. Militant determination, intense terest, thorough and fruitful d sion by rank and file delegates and arbusiness-like method. of dispatch- ing the organizational business, characterized the convention from start to finish. It was the final ses- sion, however, which reached the highest point of enthu n- scus- iasm an - tensive work, when the demands formulated by industrial conven- tions were presented as programs for struggle, when they adopted a program and constitution calling for a scientific form of organization un- der the leadership of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions ‘and elected officers, a national commits tee of 50 and a bureau of 14. Must Rally Masses. “The Trade Union Unity League has developed a real program of struggle with basic demands, a pro- ram to rally the behind, This we can do, we nd we will do!” Foster in the (Continued on Page Two) FAKE STRIKE STARTS TODAY masse must, declared |The Industrial Union Warns of Sell-out “The “strike” of pleaters, stitch- ers and bonnaz embroidery work- ers scheduled to start this morning under the direction of the scab Ins ternational Ladies Garment Worke ers Union, was branded as a fake strike in a statement issued last night by Joseph Borouchowitz, gen- workers, the needle trades workers, jeral manager of the New York Joint ded by | the shoe workers and the auto work- | Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. “The strike,” Borouchowitz point- ed out, “is of the same characted as the recent cloak ‘strike’ led by the company union, It has not been called for the purpose of securing (Continued on Page Five) “Daily” Agents, Unit Organizers Meet Thurs, A special conference of all Com- ‘manist Party unit organizers and Daily Worker agents of District 2 wil’ be held Thursday at 8 p.m., at the Workers Center, 28 Union Sq. The Daily Worker-Freiheit bazaar will be taken up, All party units must be sal dona SINGS “TOO LOUD,” a7 AILED. BERLIN (By Mail), — Gustav Schmidt, a working man, was re- cently sentenced to one month’s im- prisonment and his wife to 50 marks fine by the district court of Prenz- jlau. The charge against Schmidt and his wife was that he had sung too loud during a demonstration and iwhen about t» be arr -ted for this vim, (Continued on Rage Five) amt ai’ coffence” had resisted arrest, gigi!