The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1929, Page 2

: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1929 a ORGANIZATION DRIVE IN SHOPS atle® Complete Solidarity Huge Convention (Continued from Page One) eoneluding speech of the convention. “We have a clear cut line and we must set to work immediately.” A workers’ delegation to the So- viet Union will be sent under the auspices of the new trade union cen- ter, the convention decided. his delegation will be able to see the five year plan of industrialization in operation. Direct from the Shops, The splendid representation from the shops, and the big Negro repre- sentation, Foster pointed out, were the most significant features of the Convention. “It almost sounds like a list of trusts,” Foster declared, al- luding to the list of plants repre- sented. John Williamson reported that of the 690 delegates, 130 were elected by shop committees, 802 by indus- trial unions, and 1 by j.E.L. groups and local affiliations, Frater- nal delegates numbered 40, general TUEL representatives, 27 and the national committee, 46, Of the shops represented, 24 are steel mills, including plants such as U. S. Steel, Carnegie Steel, Central Alloy, Jones and Laughlin, Timpkin Roller, the n: yards, Winchester Arms, Rc_ublic Steel, et>. Westing- house Electric and the Hawthorne plants sent electrical workers, while the workers of the Goodyear, Buck- eye, Firestone, Miller Tire, Fisk and Goodrich y‘ants sent an equally strong delegation. Biggest Auto Works. Fourteen atittomobile shops were| represented. Murray Body, Pack- ard, Fisher Body, Studebaker, Ford, Chrysler, Budd, Flint and Hudson are the shops listed under this cate- gory by the credentials committee. Of the packing houses, Armour, Swift and Hines workers were repre- sented in addition to a delegation from the canneries of California. Standard Oil of Indiana, New Jer- sey and Erie sent a militant repre- sentative to voice their demand for | organization. Seven railroad lines sent delegates. In addition, the coal and metal miners, building trades, printing, marine, shoe, tertile, needle unions and many A. F. of L. locals and T. U. E. L. groups sent strong del- egations. Special Negro Conference. The Negro conference held Sun- day night, was the most signifi- cant gathering of Negro delegates ever held on the American conti- nent, rank and file speakers pointed out. To continue the ‘work beean by the Negro conference? J. “W.° Ford must be formed as the units of the local Trade Union Unity Leagues jon a slid basis, functioning, dues- | paying basis. It was clear from the scussion that the worker delegates n reality personified the growing resistance of the masses to capital- ist rationalization with its wage cuts, lengthening of hours, speed-up and resultant unemployment Throughout the course of the afternoon of Sept. 1, delegates from basie industries, miners, marine and transport workers, building, food, inting, metal, automobile, rubber, cil, shoc and textile workers, Negro and white, young and old, women textile workers called for Octobe [12 and 13, and the Charleston, W. |Va., conference of Southern. coal miners will be the first steps in this direction to follow the convention. 120 Young Workers. | Over 120 of the delegates be- lIonged to the youth section, and in- fused the convention with enthusi- asm and militancy. Thé youth con- ference held Sunday, night was the most spirited of all the conferences. {One of the clearest manifestations jof the growing class consciousness of the young workers, av the conference str d, are the | ever-increasing number of strikes and men, joined in hailing the birth A few of the small of who escaped drowning group passengers when the old and. dila- pidated Pacific Coast | liner San Juan crashed with Dodd the oil’ tanker last Thureday night near San Fran- cisco, Seamen- hint at corruption of federal authorities, who allow- ed the old hulk to sail. NO NEW JURORS IN CHARLOTTE N.T.W. Organization Drive Gontinues ~* | | (Continued: from Paye One) llaw. It is evident that this law the speakers is highly unfair to the worker de-/ing class \fendants. _ The defense has used 109. per- _. ters on June 7, | workers to the electric chair, TELEGRAMS FROM STRIKE, TRIALS AT CONVENTION Worker Organizations | Send Greetings | (Continued from Page One) terms. We hail you as the living examples of the whole struggle against the speed-up, the stretch- ‘out and the growing war danger. “The struggle in the southern | textile industry is part of the inter- national crisis in the textile indus- try which is part of the crisis of |world capitalism which leads straight to another imperialist war. The raid on the N.T.W.U. headquar- e mass arrests, the attempt to railroad 13 militant is part of the war preparations of Wall | Street imperialism, \ “We pledge ourselves to uphold | the right of worker’s self-defense, jthe right to organize, to strike, to picket, and to protect our lives, fam- ijes and union headquarters for which you are fighting. These are fundamental working class issues jwe will never surrender, Any wa- | vering on these issues we condemn as cowardly opportunism. The | growing mass pressure of the work- already compelled the change of venue to Charlotte. Mass |pressure likewise compels the state t of the new trade union center, de- manded affiliation with the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, called for defeat of capitalist rationaliza- tion and militantly urged defense of the Soviet Union. Eager To Hear. Spirit ran high. Although the session lasted over six hours. the hall remained jammed and the last |hood of Locomotive, Firemen. and | Engineers received as thunderous an | ovation as any along the line. Kamp is the chairman of the Rail- road Amalgamation which is fighting to bring all rail- road workers into one industrial union. He poihted out the futility of craft unionism, stressing the folly lof the strike of 1922 when seven unions scabbed on the nine striking unions. Pointing out the’ danger of war now facing the workers of the world, a war which is even now be- ing waged by the imperialist powers against. the only workers’ govern- |ment in the world, the Soviet Re. public, H. M. Wicks declared, “The Trade Union Unity League must meet the war danger and one way (js by a campaign in the war indus- ‘tries.. We must make clear to the workers in these industries the -na- ; ture of these industries. We must |go frankly before the workers of the war industries, and instead of | concealing the war nature, as some jleft-wing forces have done in the |past, we must explain it. speaker, John Kan:p of the Brother- | Committee | Steel, | was elected national Negro organ-|inotors, fuel, chemicals and trans- izer. The Negro conference was the | port—we must be able through. these i largest of all the conferences held | industries to strike a blow at the in the building. and continued long} given moment that wil! cripple the after the others adjourned. The} war machine. earnest discussion indicated the keen | Anti-Imperialist Work. grasp of the task before them, and|. “The Trade Union Unity League, a conerete plan for future work was William Simons, secretary of All- outlined and presented to the Con-| America Anti-Imperialist League, de- vention Sunday afternoon. _ |clared, “should be an important fac- The reports of the industriel con- | tor in the Anti-Imperialist League, ferences gave conclusive proof of | and at this conyention should affili- the new fighting mood of the Amer-| ate and call upon the organizations ican working class, and of the cor-/| you represent to do likewise. The rectness of the R. I. L. U. line, dele- gates pointed out. Continuous Discussion. Through all the recesses, a ten- dency io stand in knots and discuss the problems raised on the conven- | tion floor, in conferences and com- mittee meetings, indicated the deep- going interest the workers are tak- colonial trade union ‘movements are carrying on an _ anti-imperialist struggle. So are we in the impe- rialist countries. Bue we must link up our movements.” The workers in an imperialist country especially must militantly support the struggles of the colonies junder the heel of 5 : * imperialism, ing in the new trade union center . and their determination to go on with the work of building it. .The national committee of 50 in- cluded six representatives from the textile industry, Jim Reed, Bill Ser- oka, Fred Beal, Dewey Martin, Eli oes aah Keller and Berlam. The miners’ Negro and White Union. _ representatives of the committee in-| The imperative necessity of bring- clude Freeman Thompson, Frank |ing about unity between the Negro Guynn. Pat Toohey, Isaiah Hawkins, jand white workers, especially of the a Negro miner from the coke re-| South, was stressed in Otto Hall’s gions, Joe Tashinsky and Emil|report. “We must not only say that Sovilly, a metal miner. |we are willing to take in Negroes,” Gitlow Snowed Under. | Hall said, “but we must go out and Benjamin Gitlow was nominated |vBanize the Negroes into all of the for the needle trades section, but |Unions the Trade Union Unity received only two of the 690 votes | League will have affiliated with it. of the convention. Louis Hyman, | Hall urged the appointment of full Ben Gold, Rose Wortis, Henry Sa-|time Negro organizers in the exist- zer, Hertz and Boruchowitz com-|ing miners, textile and needle trades prise this section. Fred Biedenkapp |union as immediate tasks. and Joseph Dian of Haverhill rep- Women Come Forward. resent the shoe industry. M. Ober-| Ora Boyce. Negro leader of the mier and P. R. Gillis, from the food | women’s auxiliaries of the National industry, Thompson Nole and Philip | Miners Union and wife of its vice- Raymond from the auto section,| president, demanded that women George Mink and Upshaw frem the come forward.in the struggle, form marine transport, Otto Wangrin and | powérful. auxiliaries, fight on the W. A. Williams from the railroads, | picket line, to a:d in the relief work, Nils Kjar and Max Rosen from the | and help their men folk build a mili- | Simons stressed, and the American | worker must extend his hand in sol- idarity. to the colonial and semi colonial peoples of Latin America, China, India, and the rest of the | oppressed peoples. each building trades. With John Otis from the elec- trical, George Pitkin, Aberdeen log- ger from the lumber, Triva repre- senting rubber, J. C. Miller the agri- cultural representative, Tom Perks from the oilfields and H. M. Wicks from the printing trade, an addition- al general group of nine active left wing leaders complete the commit- tee. The nine include Philip Aron- berg, J. J. Ballam, Earl Browder, William F. Dunne, Harrison George, Bill Murdoch, Hugo Oehler, Pater and Bill Simons. Demand Shop Committees. ‘On the second day delegates from the industries of the country en- thusiastically called for immediate organization of shop committees in -all industries as a basis for building the Trade Unien Unity League. In establishment such committees ‘tant mass union. “This is our job lin the mine fields,” she said, “but you women who work in industries must play a leading part in the unions. “Many of the women hinder men,” | sh. said. “They come up with ham- mers wrapped in rags—with talk about morals, religion and public opinion. None of these ever got the workers anywhere.” The church ard fraternal organ- izations that condeseendingly admit Negroes, she pointed out, mean noth- ing. “Trust only the organization built on class lines. When that !Negro down South got down on his knees to pray, it didn’t keep the mob of church-goers from building a fire arownd him.” | Concentration in the South was ‘stressed by many rank and file dele- gates. The Charlotte conference of led by young workers. | “These strikes develop not only because of the attitude of the re- |actionary trade union officials who prevent the organization of the | young workers, but out of the very {conditions of the young workers themselves,” Bill Seroka pointed out, “The extra-exploitation of the youth jin the youth departments of heavy | industry, ‘youth occupations’ and ‘youth industries’ often forces them to declare a strike at a moment that | does not always coincide with a sim- ilar movement for the adult work- ers.” This acts as a lever in bring- ing the entire industry on strike, he said, pointing to Elizabethton and Oshawa as examples. | “The new trade union center must lutilize this militancy of the young workers, and set as one of its most |important tasks the organization of the American working ¢lass youth.” | In the field of social insurance, Clarence Hathaway pointed out, the United States lags furthest b2hind, and the Trade Union Unity League ust make militant demands. He {suggested demands for a federal | system of old age pension insurance {administered by a, commission of workers representing trade unions, | workers’ benefit societies and shop !committees; weekly payments at a |minimum of $20 a week to all de- pendent men and women 55 years ‘old and over, and other measures. | Scores of rank ‘and file delegates, eager td tell of the conditions’ in |their industries and discuss the pro- |posed program of the new trade junion center and’ make’ additional |proposals for strengthening “its or- ganization into a powerful weapon of struggle, were unable to get the |floor Sunday. Over 80 delegates representing-a great diversity of i dustries participated in the discus: ion which struck a strong -revolu- tionary note and showed keen de- |termination to struggle against the evils of the present system which they recounted. | GEORGIA TOILERS READY TO FIGHT \Funds, More Funds Is | Need for Strikers (Continued from Page One) a tremendous activity in shops ani |workers’ organizations throughout the land. Not only the East, but |the far West, and the South are |combining in the drive to save the |23 strikers from death or imprison- |ment. The international wave of protest is increasing, with daily ca- blegrams from Germany, Austria, ‘France, Mexico, the lands along the Caribbean Sea. Workers’ Pennies Raising Defense Fund. Most of the money received by |the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re- ilief Campaign Committee has been \gathered dollar by dollar by work- ‘ers and workers’ organizations who are fighting for the freedom of their fellow workers in Gastonia in the spirit of working elass solidarity and on the basis of a common strug- gle against the common enemy — capitalist reaction and thé union- smashing terrorism of the bosses. The organizations which are rais- ing the Gastonia Defense fund are |the same who raised half a million \dollars for the Passaic strike and |who have supported labor defense i: 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 of the Southern bosses to underestimate the power of the International Labor: Pefenre and its ability to organize working class defense on an independent ba- sis is only another effort of the reactionary capitalist interests to be- little the splendid defense which the International Labor Defense has or- ganized for the Gastonia_atrikei { |emptory challenges and the state 45./to make a pretense of impartiality This indicates approximately the|in the hope of covering up the |percentage of middle class venire- | frame-up features of the trial and men who aré openely prejudiced and|of -hiding the naked class issues. of workers and farmers who are} Only an increase of mass pressure lopenely sympathetic to the defend- | can defeat the murder plot of the jants. The deferise has 59 challenges mill owners and their agents. left and the state’ 58. For this we pledge ourselves to Defend Right to Strike. ‘fight. We pledge our fullest sup- The right. of organizing and of | port to the International Labor De- |tions in the selection of jurors and| Campaign of the I. L. D. and |it becomes increasingly apparent to | W- I. R.” jeveryone that this will ‘be the prin- Resolution on Porter. cipal issue of the trial. The convention also sent the fol- self-defense dre the central ques-|fense. and to the Joint Defense | | Conviction would in effect outlaw | these rights of workers. The prose- but the workers” rights. Organization Goes On. The eight meetings held Saturday night under the joint auspices of the I. L. D. and N..T, W. U. at various textile centers, proved very success- ful. At Kings Mt. 300 workers ap- plauded the speakers, Frank H, Kirkland, Caroline. Drew, Sam Pfifer and Si Gerson, who appealed | for support of the I. L. D. campaign jon behalf of the defendants in the \Gastonia case and called for a mo- | bilization of the Southern mill work- \ers for a general movement of strug- gle against the bosses and their agents. joined-the N. T. W. U. and an equal | number joined the I. L. D. after the meeting. --Mass meetings are held at Kings Mt. every Saturday night. At Bessemer City, Paul Shep- herd, Mike Harris, Wes Williams |and Hubert .Carroll spoke to about 100 workers. A'Yocal doctor pledged his support from the ‘platform to |the I. L. D. Workers for Defense. At McAdenville 300 workers lis- ened with great interest to Juliet Stuart Poyntz of the I. L. D., who told them about the examination of veniremen, in the courtroom, point- ing out that practically all venire- men of the capitalist and middle classes were prejudiced against the |defendants, while | the | unskilled openly sympathetic to the defend- ants and their struggle for better |conditions for the workers. | |there was a joint meeting at which |there were about 125 workers. The |speakers were George Saul, a local worker, Ben Wells. and_ Lillian Gannes. This is. the first mass |meeting to be held at North Belmont. It was arranged at the request of the workers at three mills. there. | Another meeting will be held Mon- day night. Seventeen workers joined the I. L. D. after the meet- ing. | Meetings at several other places were likewise successful. A telegram was received from the workers of Monroe requesting or- ganizers of the N. T. W. U. to hold meetings there and a meeting was arranged by the workers’ themselves for last Saturday night. Every worker Who attended joined the union. Some of them are working in a rayon plant and were formerly U, T. W. members.” The first ques- tion they asked Ben Wells was, “Are you connected with that bunch at Marion? If so, we don’t want anything to do with your union.” They were assured that the N. T. W. U. recognizes that the leader- jship of the U. T. W. is one which betrays the workers and that the program of the N. T. W. U, is a pro- gram of class struggle, not of class collaboration.. Another ‘meeting has been arranged for next Saturday. Jolt’ té Boss. A certain “mill owner who has moved his: mill from Rhode Island to North Carolina in order to avoid “labor troubles’”:and:to obtain “cheap and docile labor’ ’is:due to receive a rude awakening. The N. T. W. U. has just started organization of the workers’ in this’ plant. ‘Thirty-six ‘out of 150 have* joined the union within the° last two days: and a secret meeting has‘ been. arranged fo next week, The name and lo- cation of ‘this plant cannot be given at this time as it might result in the discharge and eviction-of those who have joined the union. As soon as the union is sufficiently well .or- ganized there, open mass meetings will be held. - ’ A meeting was held Sunday after- About 25. new members | ‘lowing telegram to John Porter, | militant young worker in the New jcution is desperately determined to | Bedford strike, sentenced by court | \burn not only the union organizers’| martial because he left the army jwhen he found it was a strike- breaking machine. “The Trade Union Unity Conven- ition sends you brotherly greetings. |We are continuing the struggle to build a strong revolutionary labor movement in this country, in which lyou so actively participated during the New Bedford strike. We look {forward to the day when you will resume your post in the labor move- ment. This convention will inten- sify the struggle against capitalist |militarism which you so militantly | fought. The 132 youth delegates |from every important industry and | section of the country send you their special message of solidarity. We will do everything in our power to free you from jail, where the bosses Keep you.” News of a successful strike in West Frankfort, Ill. reached the Further condemnation of the gangster methods of the Lovestone clique against the Communist Party is expressed in a resolution unani- mously sed by Unit 6F, Section \8, New York District 2. “Unit 6F of Section 3 expresses lits disgust and contempt of the |means that Lovestone’s supporters are using in order to break our Party,” the resolution declares. “Tt condemns the latest vandalism of Lovestone’s gangsters, who raided our National Office and robbed our Party’s property and records. “We call upon all proletarian ele- ments in the Party who still have some sympathy for these counter- revolutionaries to sever relations with this group as they have al- ready shown how far they have gone in the camp of the enemies of the working class. “We ask the Central Executive {Committee of our Party and our | District Executive Committee to tid jour Party of those that, notwith- | standing the openly counter-revolu- tionary attacks of Lovestone and his gangsters on our Party, still main- tain a conciliatory attitude towards | them. YOUTH DAY MASS' MEET, UNION SQ, Demonstrate Against War Plans Friday | (Continued from Page One) | 7th Ave., among the Negro workers, in which all units will participate. Shop Gate Meetings Fifteen factory gate meetings have also been arranged at basic shops employing young workers for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. | Big Union Square Meeting. | on Friday, Sept. 8th at 6:00 p.| m. the youth of New York will demonstrate on Union Square against imperialist war and for de- fense of the Soviet Union. The en-; tire League will be present in uni- forms, plus thousands of young | workers from the factories. Adult) workers will also be present to join hands with the youth in their demon- stration. Mass Rally in Palisades. On Sunday the Young Communist League of the entire district will hold a mass youth rally at Palisades Park. Every unit in the district will |be present. Special efforts have |been made to bring hundreds of young workers from all over the dis- trict to the rally. Sports, games, ‘entertainment, music, refreshments, jand other novel features have been prepared for this day. The units are to meet at their headquarters, and proceed in a group to Dykeman St. | Ferry. On the Jersey side of the | Ferry all units will meet at 10:00 \a. m., and proceed in one group to |the field. All workers and especially PARTY LIFE [SOUTHERN ARABS “The Party must be 100 per cent behind the Communist International. No wavering should be allowed at the present time. | “Hither 100 per cent for the Party against Lovestone and his gang, or out of the Party with the enemies of | the working class, must be the ques- tion put to every member by our leading bodies. “Unit 6F of Section 3 demands | that the Party take drastic action | in this case.” Pledge Fight Against Lovestone. “International Branch, Section 8 | is aware of the fact that the de- generate Lovestone group pulled the strings and was the factor to carry through this shameful act,” declares a resolution passed by the branch | denouncing the Lovestone burg-| laries. “This is an indication that verifies the statement of the Comintern that they are out to build a counter- revolutionary party, an agency of imperialism. We pledge ourselves to fight all vestiges of Lovestoneism | in the Party, concealed or open, by | all means at our disposal.” MARION WORKERS ASSAIL SELL-OUT IN REVOLT; SAY FAOUR PREPARES British, Zionists Raid Arab Villages (Continued from Page One) Arab insurrectionists, at least 1,000 Arabian armed troops crossed) the border Sunday night and attacked the police barracks at Hittin, eight miles west of Tiberias. Yesterday the Arabs are reported to have attacked again at Telpicth where they are said to have been repulsed by superior British troops. Making a pretext of the uprising, the proclamation of the British high commissioner Sir John Chancellor today foreshadows the establishment of a permanent armed froce to con- trol this valuable unit of British imperialism on the road to India, and an increase in the police forces throughout the entire country. 2 In the meanwhile a veritable po- lice pogrom against the revolting Arab masses is being carried on by the British authorities, with the as- sistance of the Zionists, in all the working class sections of the cities ., and throughout the villages. 32 Many arrests have been made, the prisoners being kept strictly incom- * municado, . “ %. ik | es Oar as Bibnen: \Zionist Drive Against (Continued from Page One) Ware Shoals were sold out. irying to make an agreement that the boss likes. “He sits around the table with Judge Townsend instead of planning picket lines. “We must smash Hoffman's sell- He’s | (Continued from Page One) munist Party. Patrol Jewish Sections, Jewish fascists are patrolling the cut! Jewish sections of the city and are “We must fight for a $20 mini- | destroying every copy of the Frei-.: mum wage! |heit they are able to obtain. They the Communist Party “ \geoisie and petty-bourgeoise to use © |violent methods against the Com- — Organized groups of Zionists and -} convention late Saturday night.|young workers who want to spend “Schillings reports Oakhill mine on/|a real day, should not miss this op" \strike over firing of Polesky and|portunity. Admission to this rally | |Bradshaw. Men stood solid. Sub-|is free. district president of U. M. W. A. | William Jack and Bradshaw hotly debated at mine head,” the wire said, Bradshaw is a member of the militant National Miners Union. “Men cheered Bradshaw and Na- tional Miners Union, and the com- pany capitulated in the face of sol-| idarity. Sub-district President Jack | | | Italian Club Risorgimento made up of plasterers’ helpers,” another com- munication received here today said, “We are organized with the object of fighting the reactionary policies and despotic rule of the bureaucratic leaders of our local union to which workers and poor farmers were} At North Belmont and Mt. Holly | ; Thompson, Dan Slinger, George Voy- |zey and Gerry Allard, leading Illi- {nois miners, were among the delega- j tion from the coal and metal mines, which numbered 250. The Hardwood Floor Workers Un- ‘ion of Philadelphia, entering into a strike, sent the following wire: “Hearty greetings to the National | Trade Union Unity Convention. Our members who are just entering upon a struggle against the bosses and are confident that your deliberations will result in the founding of a broad mass movement.” __ From Pan-Pacific Workers. Wires of greetings from far and | wide poured into the Convention and were the signal for deafening ap- plause and spirited demonstrations. From the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference now in session in Viadi- “The second Pan-Pacific Trade Un- ion Conference greets the ‘frade Union Unity Convention and wishes success in its work. We urge you, while solving the problems of organ- izing the unorganized, new unions, etc, to give full support to the young trade union movement in the colonies and semi-colonies, to expose the predatory role of American im- perialism and its agents, the Pan- American Federation of Labor, and raise broad, mass demands for the liberation of the Latin American peoples and the Filipinos, and to denounce American conspiracies in China participating in war prepara- tions against the Soviet Union.” From Latin America. From the Confederacion Sindical of Latin America, comes “very fra. ternal and deep greetings and a pledge to cement our forces for the consolidation of all the revolutionary ‘organizations in Latin America and the United States.” “We, undersigned, represent the noon at Homestead, near Charlotte, and at the W. I. R. tent colony near Gastonia. A meeting of the local organizers in Gaston County was held at the Gaston County headquarters of the union, which. was recently opened in Gastonio at 1120 W. Airline Ave. A meeting was also held at Dallas Sunday afternoon, slunk home: All the workers joined |belong about 2,500 members. Every the N. M. U.” member of our club is a union man. Henry Corbishley, Freeman| “We learned with great pleasure yostock comes the following cable: | of the militant national center.” that similar movements exist within other local unions and that there is under way a movement to organ- ize a new national union controlled by the rank and file,” it continued. “We learned too late about the con- vention in Cleveland and therefore we are sorry to say that it is not possible for us to send a delegate. But we authorize the T. U. U. L.! to have a building trades worker | from New York represent our club/ in the convention and as soon as he | returns to report on the result of the convention before a member-! ship meeting of our club. “From today on,” it declared, “you may consider our club a part of this movement. We will always fight on your side for a real healthy union of the workers of this coun- | try. The communication is signed by Angelo Belediad, president, and Caloger Castro, secretary. From Mother Bloor. “As one of the pioneers in the militant labor movement,” a tele- gram from “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor said, “I greet you young, vig- orous delegates, all earnest fight- ers from the mine fields, the lum- ber camps, the textile mills and nee- dle trades, all. together rally. for the support and defense of the brave strikers of Gastonia.” “The Lumber Workers and Small Farmers industrial conference of the upper Peninsula Michigan re- gion, greets the Trade Union Unity Convention,” a wire from the con- ference said, “as a revolutionary step of the American working class and pledges every support for the organization of the industrial work- ers of the American industries that will really fight for the interests of the working class.” From I. L. D. The national offiee of the Inter- national Labor Defense wired: “Pro- letarian greetings from the mem- bership of the International Labor. Defense and from cla:; war pris- oners in America’s bastilles to the first gathering of the Trade Union Unity Convention, Earnest wishes for the building of adamant foun- dation for clars ¢:uggle trade un- ions in America under the banner “We must smash the stretch-out system! “We must fight against night | work for women and young work- ers! “We must fight against child | labor! “We must fight like our fellow- workers fought in Gaston County under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union! “Fight those who sell out strikes! “Fight the Hoffman fakers!” This leaflet is signed by “Rank und File Committee of the’ Marion Workers and The National Textile Workers Union.” “Don’t Break Our Strike.” The leaflet addressed to the mil- itia states: ‘Fellow Workers in Uniform: Why were you sent here? You were sent here to break our strike! “By breaking our strike you are hurting yourself. If we get lower wages you get lower wages. If our children starve, your children will starve. Breaking our strike means | that you cut your own throats. “Don’t do the dirty work of the | bosses! | “Refuse to act as strikebreakers! | “Support the strike of the Clinch- | field textile workers!” This leaflet is signed by “A Com- | mittee of the Rank and File Work- | ers.” EDISON HAS PNEUMONIA. WEST ORANGE, N. J., Sept. 3— The illness which confined Thomas A. Edison to his home at Llewellyn Park here since August 11 was an- nounced today as pneumonia. A bulletin issued by his personal physi- cian Dr. Hubert S. Howe, indicated | the inventor is out of danger. | socialist party and the young peo- are also bringing pressure to bear ~ handling the Freiheit. These bands = of fascists, who in the main, con- sist of Zionists and members of the >: ples socialist league, also attack open air meetings arranged by the: Communist Party in Jewish sections 7+ of the city. They’ start shouting “Murderers of the Jews” and “Sup- meetings open in an attempt to in- cite other Jews in the neighborhood against the speakers. Meeting Tonight. A’meeting of all Jewish members , | of the Communist Party in the New York district will be held at 8 0’-. clock tonight :t Manhattan Lyceum, |66 East Fourth St. to discuss the | present situation in Palestine. It \has been called by the Jewish Bureau ,of the Party. The secretaries and active mem- |bers of the Jewish Workers Clubs of New York will hold a special» meeting at 6:30 o’clock tonight at 108 East 14th St., when the question of events in Palestine and the pro- vocative actions of the Jewish fas-.< cists will be taken up, Call Upon Workers. A group of members of the Jewish Legion who fought in Pales- tine during the last war, and who now realize that they were dupes of British i-\perialism, issued a statement yesterday urging. the Jewish workers of America not to join the new Jewish Legion which is now being recruited here for ser- vice in Palestine. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- * tom Up—at the Enterprises! The Best Time for Vacation! Unity Camp Will be Open During the Month of September UNITY WINGDA Camp Telephon CAMP LE, N. Y. e: Wingdale 51 N. Y. Office: 1800 7th Ave. Tel: Monument 0111-0112 Buses leave from 1800 IMPROVEMENTS Hot and cold showers Open-air theatre A new sport field | A new writing room: is being built. ; A fine library elec Seventh Avenue today, 2:00 P. M., Friday Evening at 6:30 o’clock and Saturday Afternoon at. 1:30 o'clock sharp. Spend a few days of the “Indian Summer” in Camp Unity. 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