The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1929, Page 1

Mw ee THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily = Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the net of March #, 1879, orker FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. Vi No 155_ Published daily except Sundsy by The Company. Inc. 2 Union Square. Comprodally Publishing New York City, N.Y. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 96.00 per year. _ Price 3 Cents Charlotte dary Conwics Testimony Begins Today - in Attempt to Kill Strikers tion; Reject Reporter Assaulted by Deputies Union Organization G oes Successfully; Mass Meetings in Towns Where Never Held Before By LISTON OAK CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 4.—With the selection today ef the twelfth juror, the attack of the Manville-Jenckes prose- cution upon the 16 members of the National Textile Workers Union and their demand that the right of workers to organize, strike, picket and defend themselves be outlawed, will probably w — begin tomorrow morning. F. M. Stillwell the eleventh juror to be accepted by the de- fense counsel after six days of sharp struggle to keep out of the jury box the most pele middle class elements, is a farmer who owns what he describes as a come horse farm,” near Matthews. stated on the stand that he Saar read anything about the case in the! newspapers but has heard talk.” Believes in Right of Defense. “I believe in the right of self de- fense against attack even if an offi- cer is attacking, unless he has the) proper authority,” says Matthews. His kin work in the mills at Paw- ereek, he said. He has a child in school where Aderholt’s brother is principal. He is a Baptist, 47 years old and is the third farmer to be ac- cepted on the jury. John Phillips, another farme: chosen later in the day, comp the jury. Phillips owns 98 acres near Char- lotte. He is 46 years old. Twenty years ago he worked in the cotton mills and joined the United Textile Workers Union, “T got fired for joining the union,” raid Phillips. “The bosses put tho | union out of business.” He de- clared his firm belief in the right of workers to self defense, even aS. against the unlawful attacks of the | police. Of 20 middle class veniremen ex- LABOR DEFENSE DEMANDS TROOPS ‘LEAVE MARION Urges Workers Reject | Hoffman’s Sell-out By LISTON OAK. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 4.— The International Labor Defense | jyesterday issued a statement de- | manding the withdrawal of the| [troops fiom Marion, N. C., where | the textile mill workers are on strike, This statement was issued in Marion, through Juliet Stuart , Who + 2nt there represent- D., to investigate and | offer the le- id of the I, L. D. to jstrikers who were arrested and charged with inciting to riot. The | United Textile Workers officials have failed to provide Marion strikers with adequate legal protec- {tion and they are in danger of being railroaded to “he penitentiary for |from ten to thirty years. | Mill Governor. The I. L. D. statement charges that the mill owning governor of |North Carolina has again proved amined this morning, 15 admitted | himself te servile agent of the mill varying degrees of prejudice against | barons by @ending in troops to break the defendants. Only five said they |the strike, The governor’s arbitra- believed the defendants innocent, | tor, Judge ‘Townsend, first attempt- and were excused by the state for Jed in collusion with Hoffman of the cause. Four of them thought, “somebody is guilty,” but were not sure whether it was the defendants or some one else. Three said they | had not made up their minds. One farmer thought the defendants were guilty end three were impartial. Against “Agitators.” “If the northern agitators had not come down and stirred up ae there would have been no mvrd Some of the union people must Tet guilty or they wouldn’t have been errested,” said one after another of business men under examination | prospective jurors. Legette Blythe, Charlotte rep aken for a beaten into uncon: dence during the P Loray mills before th among the veniremen examin’ Blythe was gathering ne’ his paper during one of the attack: by armed deputies on the line, and one of the deputies seeing | fim near the jail, made a vicious | assault on him and nearly split his head. Blythe was excused by the court because of his which the court feared and Blythe admitted thight influence him in his | (Continued om Page Two) Yeung Worker Held in Chicago for Selling Y. C. L. Organ in Street) Chicago, Tl, Sept. 4.—Convicted and held without bail for selling the er hy * Young Worker, organ of the Young Communist League, on the streets. Ralph Stramoni, 14, was located in the House of Correction by the I. I. D. after police had denied all in- formation concerning the young workers. Even a habeas corpus writ sworn out-by Attorney Albert Gold- | man was ignored. Through the I. L. D. Stramoni was released on.a $50 bond, which was later increased to $3,900 by Judge | Lyle. He was immediately re-ar- rested and kept till the I. L. D. se- cured his release. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Call ‘Speakers Meet At “Center” Tonight The District Executive Com- mittee is calling a speakers con- ference to discuss the Tenth An- niversary of the Party tonight at 8 p. m, at the Workers Center All speakers are instructed to he present without fail, ‘ All comrades living in Browns- ville are to report at 154 Watkins St. teday at & p. m. for very im- portant Party work, picket | experience | |U. T. W. to sell out the strikers. The U. T. W. officialdom gave up jevery demand of the strikers except that members of the U. T. W. |should not be discriminated against. (Continued on ede Sot Two) ALD, HITS HARD AT MILL TRIAL t-.But Needs Support to eeu Win the Case Cut of 408 veniremen examined during the past six days of selecting the jury, the great majority were middle class elements who acimitted undi vised prejudice against the ‘ers, proving the assertion. of the lr L. D that tihs class of citizens jof Mecklinburg County ave hardly less prejudiced than in Gaston County. The best defense being an offen. sive, the working class through the It. L. D. has dealt some sledgeham- ‘mer blows at the plot of the mill owners to railroad the members of the N. T. W. to electrocution or the penitentiary. The danger threatening the de- (Continued on Page Three) Shipwreck and Floods Killing Hindu Toilers; Gev’t Rescue Tardy CALCUTTA, India, Sept. 4—An overcrowded river boat filled with the workers of the Alexandriz ji mill turned over and sank in the | Hoogly River today, with a loss of |17 lives, and perhaps more. There were 50 men, women and | children aboard. Loss of life in the flooded area where the Indus’ River 1s out of its ' banks grows continually. Su:vivors | are living on house tops and in trees. Higher water is coming. The Brit- ish government, admirably organ- @|ized for repressive and tax collect- ing purposes, is not overworking it- \ self at rescuing the peasants. FLIERS NEAR DISASTER. CALSHOT, England, Sept. 4.— Two Schneider cup cont vowly escaped disaster e today while practicing for the ‘impori: races which opens here Friday and in which -both British. and Kalian fascist fliers are to participate... Build Up the United Front of | the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Some Carolina ARABS DEFY THE et? Cannot SEPARATE INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCES Shames se Just “For A fifty per cent increase in pel- lagra in North Carolina this year; | | thousands of workers on starvation Two Farmers Picked on Sixth Day of Examina- | wage; familfes dispossessed and | thrown into the rain; instant use by | the bosses of state troopers; twelve | hours a day labor; child labor. These teristic “shames” of North Carolina. And John J. Leary, Jr., corres- | pondent of the New York World at Charlotte, on the Gastonia case glee- fully sums up his story that was quoted in the Gastonia Gazeite—in the Gazette that cried out for lynch- ings—with this strange and charac- tic sentence: “North Carolina have nothing to be ashamed of or.to explain.” He writes that “Fred Erwin Beal and his ‘comrades’ are in for a fair trial.” Leary, whose accounts in the New York World of the American Fed- eration of Labor activities are al- ways highly disinfectant, portrays his hatred for the workers in his whitewash of the North Carolina authorities. Stretching the Facts. He makes it appear as though the prosecution and state was astound- (Continued on anor aU. Two) SAY N. J, CARMEN by Union Officials NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 4.—“It’s a stuffed ballot!” was the practically unanimous response of the 7,400 on the proposal to arbitrate the men’s fight for the 25 per cent wage increase and the eight hour day. Although the vote was forced by the workers to vote Aug. 22, Wil- liam Wepner, local president of the Amalgamated Association of Street end Electric Railway Employees. gave out figures which stated that 2,962 voted for renewal of the old contract which expires in Sept. 30. Some 2,240 were supposed to vote for arbitration. “No mere, will be said about a wage increase and shorter hours,” Wepner said, “if those voting for renewal of the present contract are in 2. majority.” Voting or no voting, the men hold, thought of Wepner. His program, they charge, has been one of con- sistent betrayal. members of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, were today fined $50 cach at the First Precinct Court, Washington and Court St.} for dis- tributing leaflets. expressing the | League's demand for a 100 per cent |strike against arbitration through crganization of rank and file barn committees. GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 4.— Chao Chu Wu, minister to U. S. from Chiang Kai-shek’s government, ap- peared today before the League of Nations Assembly, and uncer the general head of a petition against unequal treaties, delivered to the ap- proving delegates of capitaiist na- tions a series of denunciations and slanders against the Soviet Union. Anti-Soviet Propaganda, The minister made it clear that the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway from its joint Soviet and Chinese control was intended to in- jure Bolshevism, and argued that China was essentially peaceful in so doing, would uphold the Kellogg pact, and thought the European na- tions should assist her. It is believed here that he had the consent before hand of the strong militarist nations. to make this speech, and that it is propaganda for united front of imperialist powers against the U.S. S. R. Die, From Explosion intense gas explosion swept the south Penn mine near here late to- day. ~ Five men, removed from the mine after the explosion, were taken to a hospital. One of them probably was fatally injured. The company is trying to mini- mize the accident and issucs state- ments that no more are in danger. These are not believed by workers here. The National Miners ‘Jnion is are a few of the charac- | “STUFFED VOTE,” Denounce Ne: New Sellout | Public Service workers when told | that 5,000 had voted at a new ballot | a wage increase would be the last | May Sfasman and Fred Koodary, | CHIANG ASKING LEAGUE TO HELP Five Injured; One May, POTTSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 4—An|. ; BRITISH BEFORE ‘GOVT OFFICES |Troops Turn Guns On, Beat Them; New Arab Attack Airplanes Te Terrorize Sweeps Masses BULLETIN. have arrested 170 Arabs in the vil- lage of Welleta, near Jerusalem, and | |60 more have been captured at Bei- san, two of them considered to be| leaders. Reports of skirmishes in North | Palestine continue. British troops are fighting with a tribe of Bedouins near Gaza. rae |the region of Tiberias were reported | |to be preparing dn offensive against the British forces today in following their repulse when attacking the police barracks at Hittin Sunday. British detachments were hastily sent to the region, At the same time, a fresh wave of resentment, resulting from the Hit- |tin incident, the savage police searches and arrests, and the recent British high commissioner, has surged over the Arab masses. | Reports of outbreaks of Arabs in several places thruout the country (Continued on Page Two) TO DEMONSTRATE FOR YOUTH DAY Union Sq. Friday The International. Youth Day |demonstration on Union Square | Friday at 6 p. m. will be: an his- | toric event in the life of the Young | City. International Youth Day will be a) continuation of the splendid militancy and enthusiasm shown in |the Red Day demonstration on |Union Square by the revolutionary | youth. | Thousands of leaflets haye been \distributed at all tories, section held all over the city, factory gate (Continued on Page Three)‘ A, rie as secs "4 FRUIT PICKERS HELP GASTONIA Workers All Over Land}; Send Aid The poverty-stricken laborers in the fruit orchards of Oregon, work- ing from state to state to earn a bare living, have recognized their solidarity with the Gastonia strikers and sent in a small sum of money collected penny by penny from their comardes, organizing” the Oregon workers jsaid, “and we, although unorgan- (Continued on Page Three) Communists Attacked by Socialist - Zionist Fascists in the Bronx Incited by provocative articles in the Jewish Daily Forward and Jewish Day, a mob of socialists and Zionists attacked members of the Communist Party and Young Com- munist League in front of their headquarters, 1330 Wilkins Ave., the Bronx, severely beating up some of them. Sidney Bloomfield was among those seriously assaulted, four stitches were taken in his lip. The attack followed an open air meeting held by the Communist Party at Invervale and Wilkins Ave., one block from headquarters. The (Continued on Page Three) ° Rich Pals Speed Fight to Release Sinclair WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—With Harry F, Sinclair's petition for im- mediate pardon filed two weeks ago, wealthy friends of the multi-million- aire oil grafter are speeding their fight for his release. His sentence would normally ex- pire early in November, although they expect him out before that date, The Teapot Dome grafter is enjJoy- ing the pleasant vacation at the jail, even though his automobile trips fighting to prevent the forcing. of | have—at least on co reords—been ~ LONDON, Sept, 4.—British troops | JERUSALEM, Sept. 4.—Arabs in| proclamation of Sir John Chancellor, | 'Young Workers to Fill| the refusal of nearly 90.per cent of | Recognize H But Hate Beal Al TRADE U By NION UNITY CONVENTION eee, -PaAN ORGANIZATION | IN EVERY FIELD —They hate Fred Beal, especially. |One after another, the merchants, ‘salesmen, foremen and clerks, an- swer to their names, smack the Holy | Bible and vote the electric chair for the reddish-haired, genial and slow- | speaking textile organizer. They |ean’t even identify him, but they Specia Committee smiles, while the friendly eyes of his fellow-defendants turn warmly upon him. Special Atten * * * This atmosphere of hatred may | prevail in the Workers from Shops Amend and ‘eas Draft Programs Proposed; Works on Plans of Great Building Union i |Wave of Resentment know he is the “leader.” Beal only| Coal Miners Unite with Metal Miners, Promise Textile Workers Their tion Will Be Given to Southern Drive CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 4.—The Trade Union Unity League, created in a magnifi- two-million-dollar | cent demonstration of mass support, when 690 delegates, speaking with the voices of unlimited Mecklenburg county courthouse, but numbers of organized and unorganized workers met for three days in Cleveland, August 31 to not in the banquet hall of the Char- |Sept. 2, did not neglect the det: lotte chamber of commerce where | | represented. | good fellows got together the other | day and listened to speeches, and the ences during the recesses of the | singing of “Waiting for the Sun- | | plans and programs of the entire session. It will conduct organization work on all fronts. ails of organization in each of the various important industries A series of industrial confer- convention worked out in specific form the most important Delegates from distant points consulted with fellow aes by the fearless male quartet. | workers in their trade and definite programs of demands and plans for struggle grew out of * * * |them. Demands for the seven fendants were invited. Judge Varn- | hill almost cut in with the invi tion as the examining prosecutioi lawyer asked a prospective juror: “Are you opposed to capital punish- ment? Would you vote to pin ish | the defendants by death in the elec- tric chair if the evidence convinces you they are guilty?” The church- | going veniremen promised he would, and court took a recess until 2.3 to enable the judge; counsel for both prosecution and» defense, and all press representatives to join in a luncheon given by the Charlotce (N. C.) chamber of commerce. oa 8 programs were ad opted. CARMEN SELLOUT IN FINAL STAGES Bosses Consider Offer | of Union Officials NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 4.— The invited guests sat at long ta- A final act is being staged in the bles, and when curling smoke be- selling out of the militant street car- gan to roll from a hundred long) men’s strike here. Directors of the Poniae ct ee G0. Kuester| New Orleans Public Service, Inc.| e up-and-comi - é | ger of the chamber of commerce met today to consider the proposal| | made the regulation booster address | of acting Mayor T. S. Walmsiey for} of welcome. “The real assets of |settlement of the street car strike, | now in its fourth month. (Continued on Page Two) Edwin Peyroux, local president of | Employees, and the union lawyer Ed- | |ward Rightor,. together with the | _notorious Mahons who control the \international organization, have not |41 was provided for by the draft | | program, the convention elected one | hour day and five day week were in all of the reports made Practically every one but the de-| from these conferences to the main convention. Reports and recommendations from-the ‘com- mittees occuppied the major part of the final sessions, and many amendments to the original Amended Programs The delegates to the convention changed the draft constitu- tion and draft program in certain particulars, without altering the general line or form of organization, but amending both in secured from reports of the? delegates from so many of the| largest industrial plants. f Whereas a national committee of |Hoover Seés J Admirals; of 51. The 138, enlarged executive board of to 15, whose membership, elected as the draft constitution provided, by the new national executive committee which held a meeting immediately after adjournment of the convention, is: Foster, general secretary of the T.U. U. C3 Schmies, assistant secre-| LO Build More Ships tary-treasurer; Johnstone, national - organizer; Ford, Negro organizer; BULLETIN, ¥, GENEVA, Sept. 4.—The forty members of the World Court at the Hague decided unanimously teday to sign the Elihu Root Protocol admitting the United States to the Court. The signatories voted, however, to refer the protocol back to the Dunne; Hyman, needle Trades; Too- hey, miners; Mink, marine transport; Keller, textiles; Sroka, youth; Wor- tis, women; Biedenkapp, shoe work- ers; Obermeier, food workers, and Hawkins, a Negro miner; and the editor of Labor Unity. | Communist League of New York} important fac- | rallies have been! Attack 2 Youths After Court Releases Them Policemen of Passaic, living true to the reputations for brutality they gained in the Passaic textile strike \several years ago, beat up two young |workers yesterday, after the latter were discharged on suspended sen- lie service workers, The young workers who were beaten up were Stephen Gede and John Kovac. They had been arrest- ed and thrown into jail. Five of |their friends who came to bail the two out were also arrested and held SLUG WORKERS tences for passing leaflets to pub- | lonly agreed to the present plan, of | returning to work with all questions | left to the tender mercies of an offi-| \cial arbitration board, but have ac- | tually instigated it. FAKE PLEATERS STRIKE FAILS. Needle Workers Spurn | ‘Company Union The fake Aaa of embroidery | workers, hemstitchers, pleaters and |tuckers called yesterday httiog by |same time stressing the necessity for \continuing the struggle against the For Industrial Building Union, Max Rosen’s report for the build- ing trades, ranked as one of the meatiest of the group. Analyzing the| activities of the left wing forces in the craft building unions and the trend in the industry, Rosen asserted that the present decline brings in its wake a radicalization process and desire for militant struggle. A construction section of the Trade Union Unity League embracing a} |much larger field than the building trades was proposed by the confer- ence, Rosen said, which would in- clude highways, workers on bridges, subways, etc. The situation is ripe |for the organization of a new in- dustrial union, he declared, at the League of Nations Assembly for approval before actually opening it for signatare. * + WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—In flat answer to Premier McDonald’s boast- ing assertion before the League As- sembly yesterday that the U. S. Ae Britain are “nearly in accord,” “agreed on 17 out %f 20 points,” sp came a denial from secretary of state Stimson today, and a confer- jence of naval experts at a Hoover breakfast this morning. It was stated by government off'- cials that MacDonald was prepared (Continued from Page One) HALL WILL SPEAK in prison overnight. |the scab International Ladies Gar- The judge suspended sentence and) ment Workers Union, as part of its dismissed the youths. Gede and Ko-)yacket of collecting dues and acting | vae thereupon went to the Workers/as a company union for the em- | |Home where they were followed by | ployers. was a fizzle, reports reach- | © policemen. The latter, without warn-| ing the New York Joint Board of | collaboration policies and betrayals. | | After a spirited discussion, a na- tional committee of 19 was elected to redraft the proposed program, to incorporate the amendments sug- HERE ON SUNDAY |Negro Communist to “We hail the Gastonia strikers for | ing, then attacked the two youths) and beat them severely inside the | © building. The International Labor Defense is fighting the case on behalf of the young workers and will bring charges against the vicious police officers. Laundry Union Tonite Acts on Reinstatement of Strike Betrayer Laundry Drivers Union, Loval 810, at Forward Hall, 175 East Broad- way, tonight, will take up the action of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters with national headquar- ters at Indianapolis, Ind., which re- instated S. Rosensweig, business agent of the local, removed for be- traying the drivers during recent Bronx strikes. Rosensweig was given a hearing by the executive board of the local which recommended his removal to ‘the membership. The members of the local concurred and he was oust- ed. Nominations for a new secre- tary were made but the electicn was halted by the arrival of a tclegram from Indianapolis which said that Rosensweig should again function as the business agent. Tonight’s meeting will also act on the charges against A. Schechter, business agent, who aided Rosen- sweig in betraying the workers. The Laundry Drivers Section, T. U. BE. L., issued a statement last night denouncing the action of the national office of the union in sup- porting Rosensweig. The statement points out that during the strike, the national office of the union gave no assistance to the strikers. NEW LEADER OF DRY THUGS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Ap- pointment of W. D. Moss as prohibi- tion administrator for the Albany, N. Y. district was announced today by Assistant Treasury Tove ae ON Continued on Page Three) NAPLES RECEIVES SONS OF ITALY iFascists Attempt to | . Win Them Over NAPLES, Italy, Sept. 4.—Fif- teen hundred -embers of the Ital- ian fraternal order, Sons of Italy, arrived here from the United States today. They are under the direction of the Philadelphia lawyer and fas- cist, John di Silvestro. The officers of this order are largely fascists while the member- ship contains a large percentage of workers. It is for the purpose of influencing these workers to become fascists that the present delegation has been sent to this country. They | will be dined and wined while every |precaution is taken by the authori- ties to keep the true facts: of the oppression of the Italian masses by the fascist regime from the tourists. Police Smash Harlem ‘Open Air Meeting A Communist meeting at Seventh | Ave. and 137th St. was broken up last night when a police auto drove into the crowd, dispersing more than 500 workers, mostly Negroes. Twelve policemen with drawn clubs then charged into the crowd beating up several members of the Young Coni- munist League. The speakers included Charles Alexander, Gilbert Lewis, Richard B. Moore, Martha “Stone und A. Rosen. Solomon Harper presided. gested. Significantly enough, two| Negroes and two laborers are in- cluded on the committee—the first time a national committee of build- ing trades workers included repre- sentatives from these highly ex- ploited sections. Bill Dunne’s Pamphlet | On Gastonia Will Have Bill Dunne’s pamphlet, “Gastonia, Citadel of the Class Struggle in the New South,” dealing with the strike at Gastonia from every angle, is off the press and is being circulated not only in America, but practically ev- ery country of the world. “What is going on in Gastonia — in the New South,” is the ques- tion that came by the thousands to the International Labor Defense tional headquarters at 80 E. 1th St., Room 402, New York City. Dunne’s pamphlets answers every question concerning the strike, the bitter conditions of the worker in the South, concerning the economic position, not only of the worker, but of the bouvgeoisie in the south- ern states. Dunne has been on the scene since the beginning of the strike and has made a wide study of all the conditions at first hand. Written in the effective style which has made him famous as bor writer, he deals with all angles and history of the strike. Dunne is now at Charlotte, N. C. where he is directing the defense of the strikers. His pamphlet, selling for 15 cents, and five cents for rai ean be secured by writing for it to the International Labor Defense, at 80 E. 11th St., room 402, New York City. Address Conference Otto Hall, Negro ( Communist can. didate for Comptroller in the muni- cipal elections, will be one of the principal speakers at the Communist County Ratification Conferences in Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn, Sunday, at 2 p. m. Hall has just returned from a |country-wide tour during which he WidespreadCirculation | has mobilized Negro workers for the Trade Union Unity Convention held in Cleveland. For many years an active fighter in the ranks of the revolutionary working class move- (Continued on Page Three) BRITISH MINERS CAST ON STREETS Rationalization By Labor Gov't Cause LONDON, Sept. 4—Thousands of British coal miners face unemploy- ment as details of the rationaliza- tion process, directly sponsored by Labor Premier Ramsay MacDonald, are put into effect by a committee of coalowners’ associations this week. Pits which are slow profit pro- ducers will be colsed down by the new plan, and even after the first batch of the eliminated workers are thrown on the streets thousands more will be dispensed through wide- spread introduction of modern labor- saving machinery. A national industrial committee will determine national production and thus cancel hundreds of in Durham, South Wales, Yorkshire and Derbyshire. The owners are further protected Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- Build Up the United Front of Class, 5 tom Up—at the Enterprises! by a levy to be imposed on the total | output to prevent or reduce “losses” ‘on export, ~~