The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1929, Page 2

a __Pase Two SE mo DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER & 1929 ” Women TUUL Delegates Open Campaign iO Organize Unorganized Fellow- Workers 500,000 SLAVE IN INDUSTRY; AFL. IGNORING THEM | ene Women Among 72 Delegates , 5. CLEVELAND, Sept. ‘Women delegw es to the Trade Union Unity adopted prop for organization n cormection with the new national | center to reach the great} masses of unorganized women in in-} dustry throughout the country. ecial conference, 7 representing 14 in-| calling for Meeting in a heard reports in each industry a campaign of action. ion ap wor ence recog-| nized that one of the major tasks of the Trade Union Unity League will be to 500,000 women ally unorgan- workers, z of the trial Union, in ng the ses: pointed out that} in spite of rapidly increasing num- bers of women in industry, the] American federation of Labor has entirely ignored the whole problem. Where formerly women were cen- tered largely in the lighter indus- tries, today they are exploited also in war industries and in heavy in- dustry generall numbers of women auto workers increased by 408 per cent and women steel workers by 145 per cent in ten years. Negro Woman Delegate. Delegate Voyce, Negro representa- tive from a Ladies’ Auxiliary, Na- tional Miners’ Union, and chairman of the women’s conference, was one of seven representatives from min- ers’ auxiliaries. A steel worker, Katharine Mylan, of Wheeling, W. Va., described the need for organ- ization among women steel workers and ended with a ringing call to all nk-and-file workers, “We are not} going to wait for speakers to be sent to us. We are going to make speakers out of ourselves.” Textile workers, South and North, cotton and silk, were well represent- ed by eight women delegates from Gastonia, New Bedford, Bethlehem, Pa., and other centers. Daisy Mac- Donald, one of the Gastonia strikers who showed such splendid fighting spirit on the picket line, appealed for more organizers in the southern textile field. Anna Burlak, young silk worker and one of the two wo- men representatives elected to the National Committee of the T.U.U.L., spoke for the young workers who are outnumbering old women in the textile industries. Mary Correia of New Bedford brought enthusiastic applause by her appeal to married women “not to make excuses of their husbands.” For the 16 women delegates from garment trades, Yaninskaya, who organized the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, described successful organization methods in the Boston field, Expose A. F. of L. Chicago waitresses were repre- sented by Alma Polkoff who de- scribed the failure of the A. F. of L. Waitresses Union, which has done nothing to organize 50,000 wait- resses in the city, among whom are 10,000 Negroes. Only in the Russian Workers Cooperative restaurant have the workers union conditions. Among other women who spoke on condi- tions in their mdustries were dele- gates Ross of the Chicago electrical workers, Getz and Morrison of the Detroit auto workers, a representa- tive of laundry workers in Washing- ton, D. C., and a delegate from the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union who told of a woman’s depart- ment in the new union, giving wo- men an opportunity never granted in any old A. F. of L. union. Women workers’ demands include equal pay for equal work,sthe seven- hour day, five-day week, prohibition of night work, protection for mother and child, especially in the period before and after child birth and so- sial insurance against unemployment, illness and old age. With a splen- did spirit of determination women delegates went home fram _ the Cleveland convention ready to fight for these demands in the unions al- ready organized and to work for the organization. of over 8,000,000 un- organized women workers, Upholsterers Strike Is Centinuing; Officials Bar Militant Action The Upholsters Union strike en- ters its second week with union of- ficials continuing their policy of pre- venting the workers from forming mass picket lines cr spreading the strike to larze factcries. The strike is heing led by the executive board of the union, the mass of workers having no say in the formation of policy. The officialdom has opposed the election of a strike committee and haye not brought the most ac- tive members of the union into or- ganization work. In those shops, all of them small, in which strikes have been callec the response has been 100 per cent. sage Convention enthusiastically} and{ Needle |t {of murder in the f defense counsel. en Where Arabs Fight ‘Tmperialists A scene at Jaffa, a center of the Arabs’ rebellion against perialism: of both Britain and France. Trial Is to Have Packed Jury ued from Page One) ble questions. If the venireman is a business man or the Manville-Jenckes lawyers have confidential information from their im- agents of the mill owners who hoped to get them on the jury. Whether or not any of these succeeded in| getting on the jury, cannot be said. Other questions of the defense counsel were: “Do you believe that if detectives that the venireman is “OQ.K.,” these are the only questions workers have the right to organize? and the venireman is “passed” to the/Are you prejudiced against labor| unions that are not affiliated with | the A. F. of L.? Are you prejudiced | against northern organizers coming down South to organize and lead defense for questioning. But if he is a worker, or a farmer, he is asked yu a member of any labor organization? Do you read the Daily Worker or any other labor paper? |strikes? Do you believe that a man| Are you a church member? Do you/has a right to defend himself and believe in capital punishment? his property against unlawful attack, even if the attacker is an officer?” | 75 per cent answered this last ques- tion with a very decided “Yes!” Southerners believe in self-defense. Almost none of the prosperous petty bourgeoisie that admitted pre-| ,judice against the defendants could give any specific reasons for their prejudice or any facts upon which they based their opinions. The usual | answer was “from what I read in| the Charlotte Observer or the Char- lotte News and what I have heard.” | “Ringleaders, Like Beal.” But most of them knew quite well against whom their prejurice is di- rected—“the ringleaders, like Beal. The northern agitators who are res- ponsible for coming down and stir- ring up all the trouble.” Ninety-five per cent of the work- ers and farmers answered yes to the | query “Do you believe in the right of labor to organize and strike?” Not many of the business men would say “No” to that question, but when} asked if they were projudiced| against “radical unions not afffi ated with the A. F. of L., they would | unhesitatingly answer “Yes, I am.” Many were led into saying that they thought “unions are alright unless | they start strikes.” In other words they subscribe to the class-collabo- jration industrial peace policies of Woll, Green and Co. But when it comes to unions that have a program of class struggle, of fighting the bosses for higher wages and better |conditions, for abolition of the sys-| |tem of exploitation, they are class conscious—they would like to see/ the leaders of such unions as the| N.T.W.U.. electrocuted, without any scruples about evidence or law. Paens of praise to the “impartial- ity” of Judge Barnhill cannot con- ceal this fact made evident through six days of questioning of nearly 500 veniremen—taxpayers of Mec- klenburg County. The state of bit- ter hostility on the part of the} capitalist and middle class toward the defendants, the N.T.W.U. and! the I.L.D. added to the fact that capitalist laws and capitalist courts | Would you render a verdict of guilty st degree when it means electrocution, upon circum- stantial evidence only?” It is remarkable that a very large percentage of the veniremen, espe- cially workers and farmers, have conscientious scruples against cap- ital punishment, especially on cir- cumstantial evidence. There have been only a very few that are not members of some church—mostly Presbyterians and Methodists. A great many have ad- mitted that they could not believe the testimony of the defendants in their own behalf, “if it should ap- pear that they hold radical religious beliefs or none at all.” They would be “more ready to convict a labor organizer who is an atheist or ag- nostic than a good Christian.” Just a “Fair” Conviction. The prosecution pretends to “want only a fair trial,” but when a ven- ireman states frankly that he be- lieves the defendants are guilty, the prosecution readily accepts him as a juror and “passes” him to the Then Frank Flow- ers, Tom Jimison or Thad Adams asks the following question: “What papers have you read?” The answer being “the Charlotte Observer or the News, the defense asks “Have you! formed or expressed an opinion from | what you have read and heard about this case that any or all of the de- fendants are guilty? Would you carry your opinions into the jury box with you? Would it take evi-| dence to remove your prejudice?” About sixty per cent of those exam-! ined thus far have admitted pre- judice against the defendants. This corresponds almost exactly with the percentage of business men, sales- men, professionals, executives and wealthy farmers. About fifteen per cent have expressed the opnion that the defendants are not guilty. Near- ly all of these are poor or tenant farmers or unskilled workers; a few small storekeepers and skilled work- ers and here and there an unusually intelligent and liberal “white collar are designel to protect the inter- slave” will express sympathy with csts of the capitalist class, make the defendants. A still smaller impossible an impartial trial in number of workers or farmers will be prejudiced against the defendants. But these are rare exceptions—one can prophesy with startling accuracy | what the answers will be as soon as the venireman takes the stand, by his appearance, occupation and social | status. About 25 per cent say that they have no fixed convictions, and can |drive among thousands of food clerks | be impartial jurors. Out of these,|—especially in the big chain stores | twelve have been selected as jurors,,—were formulated when the Food Charlotte. Food Clerks Organize Industrially Through) ‘Amalgamated’ Merger | Plans for a city-wide organization defense. | Amalgamated Food! Workers, re- May Be Packed. \ceived its charter from the parent Of course it is probable that many | body at 220 E. 14th St. last night. |Press will mean the building up of of those who swore that they are| The organization was formesly) impartial, are prejudiced against the| known as the Retail Grocery, Fruit, defendants, but were coached by the|Butcher and Dairy Clerks’ Union. SPEND YOUR VACATION IN THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL Mowever, the union officials are only sending several pickets to each struck shop, telling them to picket according to instructions of the pol- iceman on the post. Several shops have already settled with the union, granting its demands of 40 hour week, $44 week wage, equal division of work »™ 7 dis- charge of workers. BEACON, N. Y. Telephone Beacon 731 |T.U.U.L, At the Labor | (1) an immediate subscription cam- ‘cuss this important subject if not |those workers who have just been |campaigns, more distribution by the acceptable to both prosecution and | Clerks’ Industrial Union, Local 17,/ CAMP NITGEDAIGET 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents. CAMP NITGEDAIGET New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 DISCUSS PAPERS|CHARLOTTE TRIAL ANDTHE T.ULUL.OPENS WITH LIE OFFICIAL ORGAN BY STAR WITNESS eters the Daily| Worker | (Continucd from Page One) | the front ranks of the struggles Sof the workers against rationalization, |for the National Textile Workers | Union in the South, in the Gastonia |defense, in defense of the Soviet] Union, etc. The Press Committee has prepared a special resolution on the Daily Worker, endorsing its campaigns. We have our own organ, Labor Unity, the official organ of the/ Bring in Image of Dead| Chief to Jolt Jury (Continued from Page One) |having been in jail a short time be-} fore the shooting. Thus the testimony of the state’s star known facts and contradicts his own | previous testimony. The spectators in court will be | made up of the workers and theis ! jenemies. The questioning of the] veniremen, taxpayers according to North Carolina law, and therefore | Unity con-| not including a fair proportion of ference last night, attended by more | workers, still has given a good idea | than 50 delegates, a thorough dis-|cf the class division and the reac- cussion, participated in by almost/tion of businessmen and workers, to everyone present, took place, andj the right of union men to defend | the conference unanimously adopted | themselves, and their organization, | a resolution taking concrete steps|from murderous aitack. for the strengthening of our press.| For instance, during the question- (This resolution was unanimously|ing, C. H. James, a mechanic, once adopted by the convention.) In addi-|2 member of the International As- tion, a large number of suggestions |<ociation of Machinists, stated: were made which will be turned|2m absolutely convinced of the in- over to the incoming National Exe-/nocence of the defendants. I believe cutive Board for action. that they had a perfect right to de- The conference proposes fend themselves. The police were interfering with them, and had no business te do so.” Mates Non-A. F. L. Union. On the other hand, a local member of the Brotherhood of Railway | Clerks for 16 years stated: “I am prejudiced against the radical union | that the defendants belong to be- that: paign be carried on with the imme- diate aim of securing 25,000 yearly subscriptions for Labor Unity. (2) Every T.U.U.L. group be instructed to select a Labor Unity agent, and a number of other definite steps to broaden the distribution and put the finances on a sound basis, including} cause it is not affiliated with the the distribution of Labor Unity at} A. F. of L., and that prejudice would factory gates, house to house distri-| influence my verdict.” In other bution, etc. (3) Every T.U.U.L. unit} words, this A. F. L. member would to select a worker correspondent. | send 16 union members to electrocu- Worker Correspondents. |tion because they are organizing 2 | Workers correspondence was taken | miiltant union and fighting not only | up at length in our conference./ bosses hut A. F. L. bureaucrats who Workers correspondence is the life| are agents of bosses within the labor blood of the paper, sinking the roots | movement. of the T.U.U.L, deep among the fac-| Another venireman, J. H. Pruett, tory workers. Workers correspon-| « carpenter who has started a small dents must write about not only) grocery store, and whose customers local factory matters, but about} are all mill workers, said: “I don’t general subjects as well, such as}think any of the defendants are | strike strategy, for who should dis-| guilty. I have talked to werkers from Gastonia in my store, and I be- | lieve that the union people were right to defend themselves. Also I know one of the officers who was with Aderholt when they raided the union grounds and that makes mej more pathetic with the defend- ants. , I could not be impartial, T would vote to acquit them.” Knows They're Innocent. Cc. A. VanDyke, now a farmer, but who worked for 25 years in the mills declared, “From what T have | read and heard I don’t think they | could possibly be guilty of murder. | I am opposed to capital punishment | on circumstantial evidence, too. But I would vote for conviction if the | evidence showed conclusively they i} through a strike? Labor Unity be- longs to the workers of the T.U.U.L. and they must make it their paper |by writing for it and seeing to it| |that it is distributed on a mass scale. It is not necessary here to go into the importance of the press to the T.U.U.L. This was taken up in my \speech during the discussion yester- jday. The press is not only the mouth-| piece of the T.U.U.L., bringing the! | program and campaign of the R.I.L. | U, and T.U.U.L. to the workers, and |suming up the iessons of past ac- tivities, but it is also an actual or- ganizer of the left wing movement. Labor Unity is one of tie chief meuns in briaging the program of the T.U.U.L, to the unorganized |masses, introducing and drawing hitherto unreached masses of work- ers into our movement. To Improve. Mary shortcomings were pointed out in the Labor Unity conference, much constructive criticism given, all of which was carefully noted and will be acted upon. The financial | and editorial weakness of Labor! | Unity has been largely the accom- paniment of the organizational! weakness of the movement in gen- eral. Just as this convention marks | a big step forward in unifying and bettering the organization of the T.U.U.L., just as this convention means the strengthening and en-| larging of the organizational side of the work, so will this convention} mark a turning point for Labor) Unity. Editorially, we must better the paper. The convention must also mean the establishment of Labor | Unity on a sound financiai basis. the building up of Labor Unity agents, district conferences to bet- ter distribution, wide subscription bundle order distribution. The for-| mation of the new trade union cen- ter means the beginning of the building of a mass press, sinking its roots deep among the workers, the building of a weapon cf major| importance to the trade union movement of this coun- try. 1 revolutionary | Thursday, Friday, MADISON SQU new unicns, etc. We nay expect that the at-ention witness conflicts with all the Tat the Workers Center, 26-28 Union that have|end 6 at Madison Square G The Bazaar €ommittee reports that the Bazaar this and previ | Square. | must have the support of the work- | proletariat; 3) that this dictatorship BAZAA October 3—4—5--6 Arabs Planning Fight on Imperiali The crimes of British imperialism against the Arabian workers and peasants, perpetrated by Zionist cides, are being denounced here by the speakers at a mass meeting of outside Jaffe Gate. Worker-Freiheit Bazar |Prepare for the Daily ‘Meeting on Sept. 10th| Worker- Freiheit Bazar A conference of all Daily Worker| and Freiheit Bazaar be held September 10th at 8 p. m Organizations not as yet elected a committee should do so at once and if no meet- ing will be held until after the con- ference, the secretary should repre- sent the organization. | were guilty.” The state eliminated him with 2 2 peremptory challenge. The reporte: for the Times, Shap- len, has been spreading the story that the I. L. D. want to make mar-| tyrs of the defendants for the sake | ‘of propaganda. He is trying to hurt the defense in every possible way. He told newspaper reporters that the I. L. D. and American Civil Lib- erties Union were in conflict on the ease. This, Arthur Garfield Hays denied, and the next day the Times said that Hays repudiated the de- nial. Hays had to again repeat his previous statement, and the Times reporter is exposed as a malicious liar. The I. L. D. states again that it | dignantly repudiates the lie that onvictions, and brands this lie as part of a campaign to injure the defenso and endanger the sup- port of the workers for these six. teen worke! n trial. The I. L. D. is doing everything possible to save the 16 members of the N. T. W. and return them to the ranks of the |militans labor movement, but it The attacks of the en- emies of the workers must not divide | the ranks of the defense. The work- crs must present a united front against the bosses and their agents. | ee As far ax 1 am concerned, I can’t claim to have discovered the ex- istence of classes in modern society | or their strife against one another. | Middie-claxs historians long ago described the evolution of the class struggles, and political economists | ing class. the classes, contribution the following proposi- tlons: 1) that the existence of classes is bound up with certain phases of material production; 2) that the class struggle lends necese sarily to the dictatorship of the in but the transition to the aboll. tion of all classes and to the ¢ ation of a society of free and equi —Marx. Saturday, Sunday * ARE GARDEN i given by this conveneian to our Labor Unity as a real mass organ, having scores of thousands of sub- scribers and scores of thousands of Citadel of the ENTIRELY REBUILT "4 by a veteran of the class s Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL class. 15 cents (plas Se. 43 EAST 125TH STREET GASTONIA in the New South By WM. F. DUNNE HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the , American working class analyzed and described To place this pamphlet in the hands of American workers is the duty of every class-conscious worker who realizes that ike struggle in the South is bound up with the fundamental interests of the whole American working Place your order today with the WORKERS [IBRARY PUBLISHERS and all Workers Book Shops Class Struggle’ oi % truggle. per copy peatage) ¥ NEW YORK CITY Workers Committees | great annual event, the Daily Work- elected by various organizations will] ¢, ers promise to have a real millinery shop where you will be the latest styles in hats. and cloakmakers are already making | ENTHUSIASM FOR T.U,U.L.'S FUTURE RUNNING HIGH Pledge of Solidarity \from Mexican Workers | (Continued from Page One) | of murders of workers and peasants, raids upon headquarters, suppres- sion of newspapers including ‘the | “Defensa Proletaria,” organ of the |Conferedacion Sindical Unitaria de “The Portes Gil government in its | desire tc suppress all possible critic- \ism, against the reactionary labor |code he is trying to impose upon Mexican labor, does not hesitate in! its repressive measures against us.” Another fundamental task, the let- ter points out, is, “The problem of the hundreds of thousands of Mex- ican and Spanish speaking workers in the southern part of the United States living in the most incredible conditions of slavery and exploita- are "preparing for the tion, These workers you must reach and Morning Freiheit Bazaar | and ors Only in this way can "| which will be held on Oct, 2, 4, G| We Secure an important ally either in the struggle against American imperialism in the United States as in the struggle the Latin | American bourgeoisie, especially the YOUNG WORKERS IN ARDAY JAIL’ den. year will be larger more elaborate than ones. The millinery work- the two able to get The dress up beartiful dresses and coats which will be sold at bargain prices. The | clothing workers are making prep- ipo arations to have the largest assort- Gastonia Girl Striker ment of men’s top coats, suits, and) Was as Leaflets overcoats. The Women's Council AnSaear Sept.) 5.— working in full speed for th f alas ‘ Langdon, booths. They promise to have 12 | 14" bath membre Of booths where they will sell kitchen |% a : er bt easne ae utensils. And of course the jewelers | he Commun evening uk ware will be there with their factory and repair shop. | up Thi ing the best cooks in the city fo: our restaurant and they urge all | comrades to stop eating until the Bazaar. If you are eating at home | onment i? they ever returned. the grocery elerks have promised to yk t : ri Arrested. supply us with all the best canned ! S : i | goods in the city and if you are ¢,| Paul Crouch, Oliva Salminen, and vegetarian you will be able to ob- | tai tie! vegetarian prices. The committee requests that if any organization has not yet begun | | on war 3 were |to work on the Bazaar to get in| held and that bail be set. All were | toueh with the Bazaar Committee at | immediately arrested and locked in onee Get your tickets at once. Organ- | Crouch and the other izations the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! terday evening at Fort arrested y They are also making some new revolutionary emblems. ie cafeteria workers are organiz Angry army intimidate them impris« fficers tried .to with threats of six montrs’ Steve Karsten late: called at mili- n fresh and canned vegetables at | tary headquarters, as a committeo | representing the International Labor | Defense and demanded the charges Grant, Langdon, were released further threats | the guard house. should take bundles of | this morning after | egainst them. The Highwood police telephoned Waukegan police requesting them to vse tear gas to prevent the Youth Day demonstration. kets. Build Up the United Front of ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Deposita made on or before the Srd yh from the Ist day of the month. w Last Quarterly Dividend paid a: on all amounts from $5.60 to $7,500.00, at the rate of 4% fa ij Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. Banking by Mall. Soctety Accounts Accepted. uM ‘Travelers Certified Checks [2NOl. THIRD AVE. Cor: 7% 57. The Best Time for Vacation! Unity Camp Will be Open During the Month of September UNITY CAMP WINGDALE, N. Y. Wiel Telephone: Miogoe 51 ' IMPROVEMENTS: Hot and cold showers Open-air theatre A new sport field A new writing room is being built, A fine library 2? Buses leave from 1800 Seventh Avenue tonight at 6:30; tomorrow at 1:30 p. m. Spend a few days of the “Indian Summer” in Camp Unity. ~ Pleasant Memories! OO rr