The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1929, Page 1

YOUNG “ a THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week \ WORKERS! ON UNION SQ. AT 6 TONIGHT! DEMONSTRATE FOR INTERNATIONAL YUUTH DAY! Worker 1979. FINAL CITY EDITION i Entered ax xevond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1929 Price 3 Cents —— Vol. VI., No. 156 Published daily except si Company. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, 98.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 96.00 per year. e Comprodaily Pablis! mm Square. New York City. TUUL Delegates Return| from Cleveland; Express Enthusiasm for Future | ARABS FIGHTING Zndict’ Accorsi CHARLOTTE PROSECUTION’S PRINCIPAL | BRITISH PLANES ¢” Famed “P WITNESS COMES WITH STORY THAT IS Murder Charge AND ARTILLERY... scm see MAZE OF PERJURY AND CONTRADICTION Battles at Many Cities, . legheny County, Pennsylvania, to | stand trial in Mellon’s state on | Throughout Palestine; | Import Rifles | ae are, Cenfederacion Sindical Unitaria Mexico Greets Solidarity, Urges United Struggle charges of first degree murder for protesting the fate of Sacco-Van- zetti two years ago at Cheswick. Accorsi was arrested on the frame- up charge in Staten Island for the murder of a state trooper Avg. 22, 1927, when a troop of Cossacks rode down 2,000 miners at a Sacco-Van. zetti demonstration. Accorsi’s extradition to Ponns: vania was fought by the New Yo International Labor Defense, wh’ charged that he had not yet been |indicted. On those grounds extra- Mason, Man with Criminal Record, Testifies Aderholt’s Raiders Were Armed with Demands and Program Laid Down} Harmless as Lambs, Never Fired Single Shet | for Each Industry, Delegates Ready for Work | 4 Mass Trials Proposed High Zionist Admits | Provocative Act BULLETIN. | _ JERUSALEM, Palestine, Sept. 5.—British officers are rushing Mill Lawyers Try Cheap Melodrama; Bring in Gory Image of Dead Chief in Uniform; Doctor Also Contradicts Previous Words Busses loaded with delegates from the Trade Union Unity Convention arriving home in the early hours of the morning, heavy-lidded but enthusiastic, tell of night-long, spirited dis- cussions about what is unanimously characterized as the most significant and far-reaching national meeting of left-wing mili- tants determined to put up a real fight ever held. i ieee By LISTON OAK cd CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 5.—The weaknesses, contradictions, perjuries of the prosecu- tion’s case with which they hope to send the strikers and organizers in the Gastonia case now ——— we've decided on our demands and led by the Wahhabi party. Five habeas corpus hearings, = @ re troops to the border, id | iti vi revi ird- 4 A 5 . . | Proposed programs of strug-! Younder of the Spatakus League; Hae yeas, worried eae ‘the ge Sees ee aa ea on trial to the electric chair or long prison terms, were apparent today the first day of testi- DISCUSS PAPERS gle drawn up by 17 different i ,dered by the. German. hour | port here today that large bands avoided. mony, when the prosecution’s star witness Otto Mason took the stand. sll ee el cunterenges, ead te geoisie in 1919. ; Raila Rance Nedj aoe He was arrested two years after His testimony, like that of Doctor McConnell, who was the state’s first witness, con- reported on the convention floor, elles ~ | the shovting took place. He was al- | ¢y.,, , i ‘1 os ri is idavi BNP THE T | l! | "were especially talked about “Now | dependent Arabian state, control- fegsd “totnneetmed” Pennsylvania flicted on several important points not only with the facts, but also with his affidavit at the seer) WS Os Ua Ua bet | OFFICIAL ORGAN Encorse the Daily Worker By KARL REEVE. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. The following is, in outline, the re- port given by Karl Reeve to the Cleveland Convention of the work of the Labor Unity Conference and the Press Committee session on the second day of the convention: x # My report deals with four main points: (1) Our official organ, La- bor Unity (2) the building of shop papers (3) industrial papers printed by the new unions (4) the Daily Worker. It is nec to clear up thi e relation between the official orgaz of the T.U.U.L. and the indus al papers. Both are necessary, the in- dustrial paper, for example, the Marine Workers’ Voice, printing more in detail the news, campaigns, struggles and program of the T.U. U.L., mainly in the marine industry, the work and aims of the Marine Workers League. At the same time it is necessary for the marinz work- ers to read Labor Unity in orde: to maintain close contact wih the general work and policies of T.U.U.L. and the R.L.L.U. Daily Worker Supports. The Daily Worker has supported all of the campaigns and activities of the Trade Union Educational League, of the preparations and cempagins leading to this conven- tion. The Daily Worker has been in (Continued on Page Two) OFFICIALS SELL BIKE Green Presides at Meet Arranging Surrender The New Orleans street car strike was solid out yesterday under the direct auspices of Wiliam Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor. Representatives of the New Orleans Public Service Co. and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employees met in New York and agreed to scrap the old argument, which provided for a closed shop, end take back such of the employees as the company does not care to make a case against, in order of seniority. Seabs Remain. There is no provision for discharge of the scabs, who under heavy police protection, have been running the cars. The union is “recognized” to save the reputation of the official- dom which conducted the sell-out, but the workers get nothing they were fighting fcr in the way of im- proved wages or conditions. The New Orleans strike was a most militant one, with mass pick- eting unti! the officials of the union prevented it. A drastic federal in- junction against picketing was granted the company, which the union bureaucrats demanded the strikers observe. Mass meetings to call a general strike to assist the carmen were postponed and other- wise sabotaged by the New Orleans labor council. Contributions Swell Communist Election Campaign Fund Here Contributions from workers or- the | Fr the line—to work!” was the sub- stance of a thousand comments made s the convention adjourned, en route home, and in the shops and mills. The agricultural workers went home satisfiel that at last she j of organizing and fighting for *) yb eir demands on a national scale was be- | gun. Their section will include har- vest work si nce the introduction of co harvesters, reapers and_ binde: dairy workers who comprise perhaps the most mechanized of all agricul- tural industry because of cow milk- ing machines—cream _ separators, aerators, and the introduction of fleets of delivery trucks), fruit pick- ers predominantly of the South and West who find themselves terribly exploited by enormous capitalist en- terprises, operating complicated cul- tivation machinery, disinfectants, irrigation apparatus. Now that a definite campaign of action to amalgamate the 2! craft 2ilway unions into one industrial union has been decided upon. dele- eates are returning to rally their ‘ellow-workers for the job. At the railway workers conference detailed rategy and a nationai coramittec elected, to direct the drive, great optimism was apparent. In the metal conference, especial- ly, everybody was struck. with the ‘ermined business-like manner of Few delegates went off tangent. “What is your pro- posal?” recurred frequently from the floor. The program presented hy Andrew Overgard was discussed in detail, and on the basis of dis- yn, greatly expanded. The tremendous Negro, youth an? women’s delegation was noted with much gratification and discussed by s, particularly important | YOUTH TO HOLD Crowds Will Fill Union Square Today From all indicati stration in Union S 6 p. m, will be an e of the Ame apitalist militar Not only are young ng mobilized from shops tories, hut the Young Pioneers have distributed leaflets calling upon the working class children also to dem- onstrate against the boy scouts and cenitalist mili | "TRe demonstration will _ start promptly at 6 p. m. with the singing of the International. The crowd will be addressed by William Wein- stone, Otto Hal, Louis Engdahl, | Bob Minor, John Har Dave Mates, Gilbert, Green, etc. The Pioneers have also arranged for special children speakers. The main issue at the demonstra- tion will be the attack upon the Soviet Union. and the necessity for all workers to defend the only work- ers and farmers government in the (Continued on Page Three) 1S BRIAND BUNK ‘Plots United Front Ly 9 delegates and visitors standing in | Against U.S. S. R. Imots in corridors and outside the | carne erars hall. In the busses going home te- | (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) rence to the leading role played recurred frequently. s of Labor Unitl bearing the sed program and constitution carefully preserved for careful study, Over the signature of vb. A. Siqueiros, general secretary of the | Confederacion Sindical Unitaria de Mexico, came a long letter of greet- ing and pledge of solidarity. “Due to the economic conditions in which our organization is placed, it has not been possible for us to have a fraternal delegate in your | Convention,” it stated. “But, of | course, we cannot be silent when a Convention of the magnitude of the Trade Union Unity Convention is taking place.” | “We are absolutely sure that un- |der the leadership of the T. U. E. | L. your Convention will be a success |and will mark a turning point in ‘the history of the American labor | movement. We feel that it will | mean the development to the unmost of the Revolutionary center in the | United States’ only way of conduct- |ing the struggle against American | imperialism and for the coordination jof the work between the newly es- | tablished left-wing unions and the minority movements in the old unions and for the organization of | the unorganized. That is why we hail the Trade Union Unity Conven- | tion as the preliminary step for the |ereation of the most powerful | weapon that will shake American imperialism down to ts base and | will end by completing the historical |task of the Proletariat,” the letter | declares, Again stressing that, although they were unable to send a fraternal delegate, the desire to coordinate the movements of Mexico and the United | States is strong, the latter points out that in Mexico, “we are desper- | ately fighting against the reuction- ‘ary Portes Gil government which | completely sold out to the Yankee interests and unxious to get the best GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 5.— Press comments in Geneva are very sceptical about the verity of Mac- | Donald’s statements that U. S. and | England are in practical accord on naval parity, and that an era of peace is approaching. The Journal de Geneves writes: “MacDonald's hrases are evidently intended to javoid dealing with concrete ques- | tions,” and adds, “Biblical quotations |won’t assist in the solution of the armament problems.” * * * GENEVA, Sept. 5.—“Although the |most important part is an economic |agreement, there also should be a political and social link without ef- |fecting in any way the sovereignty Continued on Page Three) SHORT STRIKE IS WON BY DRIVERS 8,000 Teamsters Gain 8 Hour Day More than 8,000 teamsters and truckdrivers won their strike for an eight hour day within a few hours | after striking yesterday morning | when employers agreed to demands \ef the workers who belong to the International Brotherhood of Team- (Continued on Page Three) ROOT FORMULA ‘Stimson Approves; US Empire Wins Point 4 ' | | years ago they extended their ter- ritory by driving the British pup- pet ruler from the kingdom of the Hedjaz. They are well equipped for war, . JERUSALEM, Palestine, Scpt. 5. —Fighiing continues throughout many villages and small towns of the country. The Arabian revolu- tionists have during the last 2 hours been engaged with British in- fantry, artillery and air forces. Pritish bombing planes attacked Arab in Nablus. a city of 20,000 in a narrow valley near Jerusalem. The official figures are five killed | 20 wounded Arabs with no in- dication as to how many were com- batants and how many were women | and children of the town. A fierce battle took place at Safed, in which Arabian tribesmen |fought for hours with the British force occupying the town. Eighty wounded arrived at Haifa this morn- ing from this battle. Airplenes bombed Arabian en- |campments around Tiberias, cn <he | Sea of Gallilee. On Monday night an indecisive battle took place at Talpioth 2 | miles south of Jerusalem, The British are arresting many Arabs for a mass-trial soon; 170 at Waleta, 66 at Beisan, and others clsewhere. The British have been able to stop few cars crossing the bridges of the Jordan and smuggling im rifles and ammunition for the Arabian revolution. One car stopped had 14 | rifles and 1,000 cartridges. Many recruits for the Arabian forces, and |other supplies of ammunition are known to have been floated over the Jordan between the bridges. ee ee Dr. David J. Kaliski, acting chair- nan of the Zionist Organization of America, today agreed with Felix | Warburg that the Zionists made a | Serious tactical blunder by holding a provocative demonstration xt the “Wailing Wall” against the Arabs. It was this demonstration that start- ed the first fight, according to War- burg. FINAL RECEPTION * * ‘To Complete Plans for Greeting USSR Fliers | A final conference to complee the arrangements for the reception |to the crew of the Soviet plane, |Land of the Soviets, expected here |in a few days, has been called by |the Ways and Means Committee of the Friends of the Soviet Union for Monday evening, September 9, at |Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. The 600 delegates, representing (Continued on Page Three) Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! after the Cheswick brutalities. As s matter of fact Accorsi worked fo seven months after the demonstra- tion three miles outside Cheswick. The Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration | lwas attacked by state police, who beat men, women end children ove: | the head and back. One miner sui- | fered a broken and a miner's wife died from injuries. One worker shot a state cop in elf defense. For two years the |shooting went unsolved, until the police fastened upon Accorsi to rail- road him to the chair. The international Labor Defense will retain a nationally known law- yer to help Accorsi fight for free- dom. Workers throughout the land | j will be mobilized to help Accorsi | as well as the 16 Gastonia prisoners, | who face the electric chair, at Char- lotte, N. C. | The Gastonia Defense Committee, at 80 E. Eleventh St., room 402, N. Y. C,, is collecting funds to save the jsouthern textile strikers, and will jalso work to save Accorsi. SOVIET MINING OFFICIALS HERE ! ‘ To Confer with U. S. Engineering Firms | nes | A delegation of three leading of- | ficials of the Soviet Yuzhtrest (Southern Ore Trust), the principal | iron ore mining organization of eee Soviet Union, has just arrived here! to study iron ore mining and equip- |ment markets in the United States. Included in the delegation are I. N. Grinyev, director of the central mines of the Krivoy Rog district in |searched for him. In North Carolina the defense is allowed to examine thi trial begins. , an 2 Daye for Callcting POLICE FIRE ON Gaston Defense Funds mith, twelve-year-cld N ero child, a Young Pioneer, was jail- ed for two days in Harlem, when | he was arrested for collecting money | MANY BEATEN UP for the Gastonia Joint Defense and | = aera Sig 113 Jailed in Attack on New York Tammany police, es- | Garninice Meet vecially brutal toward the Negro | workers, kept the child incommun- | icado while his parents frantically | | ! | Continuing their reign of terror-| ism against the Communist Party in| the Negro section of Harlem, Tam- | many police Wednesday night fired on and brutally assaulted more than a score of members of the Com- munist Party and Young Communist League, when they broke up an open air meeting at 137th St. and 7th Ave. Thirteen workers were ar- rested, two of whom were sentenced to one day each in jail. | More than a half a dozen meet-| |ings have been broken up at, this corner during the last few weeks. | Furious that ‘their terroristic The boy was later released on pro- bation. The police gave as their reason for the arrest the fact that the boy’s identification card “was written in pencil.” The box with nickels, dimes and quarters the child collect- ed is being kept by the police, but’ the International Labor Defense will | fight for its return, and will protest | against the police. |methods in the past, did not stop STEEL WORKERS |holding of meetings, their attack on the Negro and white workers was AID GASTONIA unusually savage. Many Others Helping Used Blackjacks. When Richard B. Moore, Com- in Need for Funds The forces of Charles Schwab, munist candidate for Congress in the 21st district w - speaking, two white and one Negro policemen, with clubs | drawn sailed into the crowd and ar- jrested Moore and a worker named! N. Friedman. Then more than two steel king of Pennsylvania, have three times refused to allow work- Continued on Page Three) ing class affairs to ielp the Gas- tonia strikers, to be run in Bentley- | e state’s witnesses before the d when the defense examined the doctor and Mason a few days ago, their testi- mony was quite different in sev- eral respects to what they said on the stand this morning. The doctor testified that Aderholt died of 16 shot-gun wounds fired directly into his back. This is a contradiction to his state- ment to the Defense Counsel the other day that these shots were fired at an angle. This is an im- portant point as will be brought out later in determining where the shots came from. Prosecution Melodrama. The cheap melodramatic attempt of the prosecution to horrify the jury by the introduction of a terrific looking life size model of Aderholt with the death palor on his face, wearing the uniform he had on dur- ing the raid, was ruled out when the defense objected to this contemptible strategy. But it succeeded to the extent that the model was seen by the jury and had its effects on their emotions. The prosecution also had Ader- holt'’s widow and daughter sit directly in front of the jury box, weeping, throughout the morning session. Thus, the state, in the absence of facts, is depending upon perjurous testimony and melodramatic stunts, after the manner of movie thriller:, to play upon the emotions of the jury. Mason’s Yarn. Witness Mason lives next to the lot where the union headquarters were located and is evidently the state’s only eye-witness. He testi- fied that he heard Beal and Bush speak at the mass meeting on the union lot on June 7, and that they told the strikers to form a picket MEETING MONDAY the Ukraine; A. V. Britchkin, chief | ville, Pa. a steel center, but work-| engineer of the northern group of|ers there refuse to “knuckle down.” | mines, and B. N. Gladovsky, chief! “I can just think how the com- | mechanical engineer of the Trust. |rades in jail are thinking,” a | Iron ore production in the Krivoy | Bentleyville steel worker wrote. “I Rog Basin, which accounts for more | can see how they are hoping for us than two-thirds of the total produc- | (Continued on Page Three) | |tion of the Soviet Union, has been | — | | showing a rapid increase in recent! | years, and is to effect even ester HILLM AN SPEEDUP | production next year as the mines |of the Southern Ore Trust will be} | completely reorganized. The Southern Ore Trust delega-| tion which will soon be joined by! four additional Soviet engineers, in-| — | tends to establish contacts with Increased Production American engineering firms and zi Promised Boss possibly to arrange for technical as- | jline and go to the mill and if neces- STATEMENT ON HARLEM ISSUED The Negro Department Denounces Firing Following the firing upon Negro and white workers at a Communist open air election meeting in Har-| lem by Tammany police, the Negro Department of District 2, Communist Party of the U. S. A. has issued | this statement: The activities of the Communist sistance in the upbuilding of the Soviet iron ore industry—one of the SYRACUSE, Sept. few industries which has not as yet promise to speed-up the workers and | Party and the Young Communist the past few months have been met with wholesale police terrorism, | sary enter the mill to take work- ers out on strike. Mason said that the picket line went off toward the Loray mill and returned in about half an hour. Be- fore they returned, he said, Ader- holt, with the other officers, drove up, got out and started toward the | union headquarters. They were met by three guards and challenged, ac- cording to Mason’s story, and Ader- holt asked, “What is the trouble?” Then, Mason alleges, one of the guards answered, “None of your damned buisness. Says Police Didn’t Shoot. Then, Mason testtifies, the offi- cers tried to disarm Harrison, and 5—With a |League in its open air meetings in| McGinnis shouted from in front of the headquarters “Turn him loose.” building, jattained it -war position. reduc it thy ti - j meet [irene teeters BAU 9. | aie is ee ee es HY cisch sane ba met with oatienbion | Monon declared. yien that / MM crease, the Amalgamated Clothing |°f the entire Party in the District to | Ginnes fired the first shot. Workers of America yesterday sign-|defend the Negro masses of Har-| ‘This is contrary to the fact, and ed an agreement with the Wash- Jem in fighting for the right of free |it will be proven that the police cugal Clothing Co., Inc., which rec- SPeech. The class character of this fired first. Mason stated that the ognizes the union. Six hundred and |C@mpaign of terrorism is clearly seen |police did not fire at all. fifty workers are affected. jby the fact that the democratic and/ Other points of conflict of testi- The terms of the agreement call |TePublican parties and various religi- mony of this Manville-Jenckes hire- Continued on Page Three) joue organizations are permitted to/ling are that he said Beal and Bush Sheen jhold open air meetings without any | were at the door of the headquarters CHANG ARRESTS hindrance, while almost every meet- | building when the shooting occurred, SIMONS HELD IN $1,000. | William Simons, who was arrested | ‘when speaking at a Communist | Party open air meeting at Seventh | | St. and Avenue B, Thursday night, | was held in $1,000 bail yesterday by | Magistrate Gottlieb. He was GSI posing the imperialistic role of the British government in Palestine and | | the aid it is receiving from the Zion- \ ists, when he was jailed. PASSES LEAGU Reporter Analyses Examination of 500 Venire- By LISTON M. OAK. janswer to this court or anyone un- men in Gastonia Case at Charlotte Trial | Prosecution’s Idea of “Fair”, Trial Is to Have Packed Ju ry al to the venireman who stands | COAILOTTE, N. C., Sept. 5.— before the judge’s bench holding the Tests, of Soviet Union citizens, in- “Swear that you will give a true bible. He kisses the book and turns |Cluding members of the technical to face the barrage of questions | \from the prosecution and defense 08d, who were previously untouched, broken up in the most brutal fashion! Heard Shot at Meeting: by the Harlem police. Mason said that during the meet- During the past few months sev-| ing, when Beal was speaking, a shot eral of our Negro and white com- was fired, and he came around and Fev have been srmpater and ON saw strikers scuffling with stool- 3 r |Jected to savage terror. On several |pigeons who tried to break up the fers Anti-Strike Law occasions officer 5353, has threatened meeting. He said he saw Beal in in Nanking Gov’t Continued on Page Three) hee crowd, which is not true, as Beal pies remained on the platform. Mason Celt ay Inprecor®) Section Functidnaries |*"° said that Bush stayed at the MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 5.—| Must Attend Meeting toward the Loray mill. Again this is ing of the Communist Party, since| and that they shouted, “Shoot him.” the election campaign, has been Both were actually inside the office. union lot when the picket line went Reports from Harbin, Manchuria, not true, as Bush acco i ‘~ « By , as s mpanied the are that on Saturday and Sunday} jin “Center” Tonight | pickets. Mason admitted that when night there were further mass ar- |Aderholt arrived there was no All section organizers, section |trouble at union headquarters, He industrial organizers, section elec- also said that Policeman Jackson service of the Chinese Eastern Rail-| tion campaign managers and sec- | was at the meeting in the afternoon, ganizations to swell the Communist | 5 election campaign fund are being re-,T¢W2'd does not hesitate to carry WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—Elihu |der its direction touching upon your Root’s formula for American adher- | fitness or competence to serve as a counsel. The Chinese war lords transported ceived daily at the New York head- quarters of the Communist Party. Over 2,009 collection lists have been circulated in shops, unions and fraternal organizations, «14 “Voie Continued on Pgge Three) out wholesale murders of workers and agarians,all over the country.” Every day, the letter continues, word comes of additional incarcera- uion of the best militants, of scores (Continued on Page Two) sais, Continued on Page Three) Do You Read D: Worker? | “What is your business?’ Have you formed or expressed an opinion | ence to the World Court was formal- |juror so help me god. Kiss the book.” ly adopted as an administration After the cute curly headed little | project today. girl at the judge’s side draws the | | The governments of cach «f the|name of the 500 veniremen sum- ‘hat the defendants or any of them 40 countries met now ratiiy tha|moned for jury service, from a hat, ate not guilty?” are the prosecu- the court attendant mumbles this) ae (Continued on Page Two), me their prisoners in closed cattle cars Continued on Page Three) tion agitprop directors must at- tend the meeting to be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the Workers Center, 26 Union Square. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Up—at the Enterprises! i The problems of the present municipal election campaign and other important Party tasks are to | be taken up, j but this policeman did not arrest those who threw eggs and rocks at Bush,fired the shot into the air in an attempt to terrorize the strikers, and attacked Clatence Miller, one of the present defendants, This Mason has a criminal record, (Continued on Page Two) i anrenes t Fie