The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1929, Page 1

— — i ) | 4 PUSH DRIVE TO FREE GASTONIA PRISON ERS AS NEVER BEFORE! MISTRIAL DOUBLES EXPENSES THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week \ rR + aily FINAL CIFY EDITION® Vol. VI., No. 159 26-28 Union Sqr--~ except Sundsy by The Comprodaily Pabl| New York City. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 ver year, per year. Price 3 Cents GASTONIA JUROR GOES “MAD”, MISTRIAL IS DECLARED Plans for Building Metal BRITISH GABNET/ Popper Expelled from \PRAVDA EXPOSES FOUR JU Industrial Union Laid at STRIVES T0 STOP Comintern for Frauds, \MPERIALISMIN RORS, DISMISSED, DECLARE THEY BELIEVE Trade Union Convention iPSET OVER WAR Deceit Against ECCI CHNESE AFFAIR pecennanrs NOT GUILTY Sixty dustries Attend Special Conference Overgaard Named Provisional Secretary; First Task Is*Building Shop Committees So very fmportant were the various conferences held as part of the Trade Union Unity Convention that it is impossible to pick out any one and say that it was the most vital of them. Employing in its various branches literally millions of men, women and young workers, and being the basic industry of this period as well as the basic war industry, it was only fitting} and proper that the metal in-®—— dustries’ conference at the f iTiZ E \ i N Cleveland Convention should had one of the largest del ION and should have accom- ga pq Overguard Secretary. cay. HAP Pie? * splendid response vo! the Shows Bosses Know SP Is Safe Tool supporters K ion center and a blow to all the pessi who can) s not see the growing radicalization |The endorsement of Norman , id homas, mayoralty candidate of the of the alist party, by the Citizen’s Union, in its statement made public Monday morning, as one who “would bring dignity and character to the mayor’s office,” is new evidence that the socialist party has lost every vestige of working class char- acter and is considered by the spokesmen of big business in New York as a safe tool of capitalism, the Election Campaign Committee of the Communist Party, New York District, declared in a statement is- sued last night. ional secre section of he determin: it of the 690 coming from the most basic in tries to form a new trade union cen- ter was.a living proof of the c yectness of the@decisions 2: the fourth congress of the R. LL. U. and that the United States is no exception from the general crises of capitalism.” Sixty-nine delegates fron. the iron, steel, wire, tin, copper and aluminum mills, tie machine shops, the tube mills, the foundries, the navy yards, munition works, ete., took p: The so-called Citizen’s Union, the statement continues, is a New York Committee composed of big business men and corporation lawyers. It has functioned for years as a “non- partisan” organization in the inter- ests of “clean” and “efficient? gov- ernment, that is, government that would function more economically Big Plants. Read the list of the bosses of the delegates to the convention and it sounds, as U. U. L. Secretary Henderson’s Plot | | Snowden Misleads |Germany With Briand, |HendersonVery Cold to | French Premier’s Plan | BULLETIN. , | GENEVA, Sept. 9.—Before the, Assembly of the League of Nations, Stresseman of Germany and Benes, | of Czecho-slovakia, spoke in favor | of the Briand plan for a French in- fluenced Icague against the USSR. | . * | LONDON, England, Sept. 9.—] British evening papers carry stories of a “split in the labor party cab- inet” and a split among the liberal! party members of Commons as well | as great dissension in the rank and| file of the labor party over the Hen- * derson-McDonald encircling move-| ment against the Soviet Union.| Henderson in his speech to the) Igague of Nations Assembly last| week proposed that the League of| Nations incorporate the Kellogg| pact, with the addition that the im- perialist powers pledge to give fi-| rancial support to nations who “find themselves attacked by an aggres- | sor.” | This is easily. understood as an| | attempt to teplace the American im- perialist rival league, created in fact if not obviously, by the Kellogg pacts, by a British influenced or- ganization, and to finance Poland, Roumania, the Chiang Kai-shek gov- ernment in China, or any other gov: ernment that is to be sent ahead a the vanguard in an attack on th U. S. S. R. The financed country British Workers Uneasy. It is known here that there tense dissatisfaction among the Bri- \ | | the | Mexico: Foster remarked, “like a list of the great trusts of the country.” Dele- gates from the U. S. Steel Corpora- tion’s plants in Clariton and Mones- (Continued om Page Two) NEGRO WORKERS FIGHT RENT HORS Also Denounce Group of Lovestoneites RicH&rd B. Moore, Communist candidate for Congress in the 21st District and president of the Har- lem Tenants League, at a meeting at the Public Library, 103 W. 135th St., last night, assailed the landlords who are raising the rents in Harlem and called for an energetic cam- paign under leadership of the League. Moore also denounced a group of Lovestone supporters headed by Morris Nemser, Edward Welsh and Anna Thompson, who were present. Welsh took the floor and attempt- ed to defend his position. He wa: followed by many rank and file Ne- gro workers who supported the re- marks made by Moore when he opened the meeting. Daily Worker-Freiheit Bezaar Conference to be Held at 8 Tonight The trade unions, Workmen's Cir- cle branches, workers’ clubs and fraternal organizations and Party units must have their representa tives at the Daily Worker and F: heit Bazaar Conference tonight at 8 Le at Workers Center. jis is the last big conference where final arrangements for the bazaar will be made. All organiza. tions that did not elect delegates should be represented by their of- ficers. FIRE SWEEPS SUMATRA TOWN BATAVIA, Java (By Mail).— Fire in Palembang and vicinity in Sumatra burned three peasants to death, destroye ' 400 houses, and left 100 peasants homeless, Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tem U; 3 on € tish workers who put the Mac- and more efficiently in the interests |Donald cabinet in power with the| of capitalism. Its “non-partisan” | Jingoistic utterances of Henderson character consists in endorsing and) (Continued on Page Two) supporting candidates for office, ir-| respective of which party label they| cr Hinetianee ern ate afeap tical CARMEN TELL 0 : such “clean” and “effi- LL r ient” government. Results of Its Thor’ Right Wing Opportunism Basis of Policy bf es conn Intrigue and Destructive Factionalism (Wireless By “Inprecor”) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. 9.— After hearing John Pepper's ex- planations afd studying the material, the International Control Commission 02 the Communist In- ternational records: 1, That fractional reasons in- duced Pepper to refuse to obey the order of the Executive Committee of the Communist International that he should leave America for Europe and place himself at the disposal of the E. C. C. I. Instead Pepper re- mained in New York, or in the neighboring vicinity, with the object of incensing the majority faction of the Communist Party of America against the Executive Committee of Communist International. N-ver in Mexico. 2, To deceive he E. C. C. I. and the American Communi Party, Pepper, with Lovestone’s stance, invented a story about a trip to Mexico and for several months as- | sured the E. C. C. I. and the Inter- natioz<! Control Commission that he was returning to Mc::>w accorcing to instructions, but owing to un- controllable ‘“~cumsta:.ces was com- pelled to return to New York from in Mexico, as he admitted to the July 11. 3. only in the American Communist munist International. Pepper ‘we really never?’ -nine Representatives from Metal In- Rank and File Dislike International Control Commission Announces Continuous Attacks by| | |Campbell Driven Insane by Ghastly Efigy and Prosecution’s Attempt to Kill Unionists ough Investigation | jgether with Lovestone, swayed the | Communist Party of America Con- jvention, which \consiz’_d mostly of followers of Pepper and Lovestone, | against the basic line mapped out by the Presidium of the Communist In- | ternatic-al and incensed congres | delega' inst | del | | 4+ not only to a¢ nit his impermissible | attitude towards the Comintern be- for the I. C. C., but also persistently maintained that he wasn’t in New ;York during the Fifth Party Con- vention, and that he didn’t lead the | majority faction, although the falsity of these statements is proved by numerous comrades: Green, Hannes, Stachel, Minor, ete. Pepper admitted his guilt only when his lies were completely ex- | tposed and Lovestone was aiready | expelled from the Party. | | During the inquiry ver Pepper, a further case revealed where Pepper lied to the Executive Committee of the Communist International. In} {1928, Pepper submitted to the E. C. |G. I. a bill for a journey to Cores, | although he never went there. Right Wing Opportunist. Pepper's intolerable behavior, tic ‘1 About Where Ie Was. ° For tyvo months Pepper failed | 5. | International Control Commission, 'failure to carry out the instructions | forces, of the Executive Committee of the Conducting factionalism, not Communist International, and man-|Polaask after a bombardment with ner of fooling the Communist Party | |Party, but also against the Com-jof America and the E.C.C.I. is ex- Pepper, to-}, J we (Continued..on PagePhree) BY ZIONISTS Workers Are | Bronx Beaten Up A mob of Jéwish fapcists attacked | several left wing workers in Cro- tona Park Sunday afternoon because FRE HL MEBaGe caer | «Ce = Ben 8S role of the Zionists in Palestine. One SeeHan is doing Bednieche. fi — of the militant workers, L. Brody, the past the Citizen's Union en-/Threaten Non-Voters |. (0d that phe next Hme they d such republican or “fusion” : ; with Loss of Job By -N. B. HARDY. NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 9.—The | rank and ‘file of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of N. J. have been completely sold out. They are now faced with a new agreement) signed by their reactionary State Conference Board and the Public Service utility trust for three years. | The new agreement completely ig- nores the demands of the workers (Continued on Page Two) Ship Believed Sunk Off of Massachusetts, BOSTON, Sept. An unknown ship was apparently sunk when it and the steamer Emile Franqui col- as John Purroy Mitchel, mayor, Frank D. Waterman, | ious open shop employer of the Waterman Fountain Pen Co., Nathan L. Miller, corporation law- yer, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. The Citizen’s Union can_ be judged by the character of its lead- ing lights. To mention but a few, iis Executive Committee includes the following: William Jay Schief- felin, chairman, is a director of the Druggists Supply Corporation, American Kitchen Products Co., Druggists Importing Corporation, |president of the National Associa- |tion of Wholesale Druggists, and is |connected with many other eom- |panies; Henry Fletcher, vice chair- | man, is a director of the Irving Bank and Columbia Trust Co. and \from 1915 to 1922 was chairman of | the Board of Directors of the Swan| janl Finch Co, (a subsidiary of|lided about 160. miles southeast of | ‘Standard Oil); Sam A. Lewisohn,/Cape Cod between 7 and 8 p. m.| ‘treasurer of the Citizen’s Union, is|today. Desperate attempts to lo- |a member of Adolph Lewisohn & cate the unknown ship were being Sons, Investment Bankers, vice pres-|made without results at a late hour lident and treasurer of the Miami|last night. High speed in the fog (Continued on Page Three) was the cause. ‘Draw Gun on Seamen Trying to Escape Burning Tanker Paulsboro Was Death Trap, Sailors Write to Marine Workers League Office When 26 sailors tried to escape | Dear Sir, I am writing you about from ‘the tanker Paulsboro—de-/the rescue at sea of the S.S. Pauls- \seribed by the men as a floating boro at 1:14 p. m. August 27. i death-trap, they were threatened} Flames sfarted coming in our fo’-| with the gun by the captain. Thejcas’le and then somebody yelled: \graphic story of the outbreak which | “Fire!” There were all kinds of ‘followed was told yesterday to the|screams and yells and there was al-| Marine Workers League by seaman|most a panic. Our fo'cas'le was| |Raymond E. Dawson, the sailor nothing more than a fire-trap. We sequently rescued on Aug. 27. |all ran to the only . There were When police saw the fight, not knowing what was going on, ar- rested one of the fascists named Sam Sliefer, and a left wing work- er, Max Rosenblatt. Rosenblatt, who had been attacked several min- utes previously, had his baby in his arms when taken into custody. When Rosenblatt and Sliefer were (Continued on Page Threc) GARAGE WORKERS STRIKE SUNDAY Now Toil 14 Hours for Low Wages About 2,500 garage workers of Manhattan an! the Bronx who now work 12 to 14 hours a day are scheduled to strike Sunday under the directtion of the Garage Wash- ers and Polishers Union, Local 272. The strike, according to Herman Cohen, president of the union will attempt to organize the industry. The workers will demand a nine hour day, six day week and a mini- mum wage of $35 a week for wash- |ers, $30 for polishers and $28 for day men, 6 Seamen Endangered HALIFAX, N. S., Sept. 9.--Six of the crew of the small Gloucester schooner Edith N. Cooney, narrowly escaped drowning today when the ship sank off Sambro, Halifax County. The schooner had been leaking for some days, but the owners persisted in using it till the last moment. Twenty minutes after Captain Carri- gan ordered the crew to the boats 5 letters follow: I included. The flames were all +a (Continued on Page Thread x . 7 Sept. 3, 1929. Gsores Minky syed longing, saving only the clothes they freight elevator and the shaft wall| Gastonia strikers and their leaders he lacked fire, so they hired a dozen! | fe. \in.a huilding at 440 Claremont Ave. that when the prosecution formally | , (Continued on Page Three), a } t ‘ er WOre | Mercenary Troops on Soviet Union | yi Repulses All Chiang Propagandists | Mistrial Declared: New Trial Set for Sept. 36; Jurors for Acquittal are of Working Class , Say Lost 500 Men . 2 plenciersreree ‘ CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 9—C. A. Martin, an A. F. L. car- (Wireless By Inprecorr) penter, J. 0. McCoy, steel worker, J. W. Hicks, a mill worker, and MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. 9—|| G. L. Benson, a mail clerk: all members of the jury which was ray res t vsistent man-|| dismissed after Barnhill declared a mistrial, voluntarily approac pe Ce ie = eH a sean.|| Sophie Melvin this afternoon and expressed their hope that she and cuvering of the Nanking govern-| | the other 15 defendants will be acquitted. ; ment in the matter of the relations “We were all of the opinion that you are all innocent,” said created by the seizure of the Chi-|| these workers. “The state hasn't produced any evidence and even nese Eastern Railroad by the for-|| without hearing the defense witnesses we would have voted ve turn es of the Chine: i ris vern- you free. Campbell began to go crazy rig! t after that horrible ces of the Chinese militarist govern-| | 2Pr 9. of Aderholt was brought into court,” they stated. ment is caused dy the foreign im-| J ‘108 perialist backers of the Nanking By LISTON OAK. government, who are continually : striving to prevent the peaceable | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 9.—J. G. Campbell, one of the settlement of the conflict. |jurors in the trial of 16 members of the National Textile also said that the juror had The workers of the Soviet Union,| Workers’ Union was declared to be “emotionally insane” this A peasalit ctoesieciney “of taal etane by file darters, who alte oe Nanking militarists, but have| Cracked under the terrific strain imposed upon his mind and awaited peaceful acts. The Soviet | emotions by the character of the trial. Union is prepared now as before to energetically repulse invasions of Soviet territory. * Battles Fought. The United Press correspondent in Mose reports that news has reached Moscow from Siberian- Manchurian border points of a ser- ies of raids onto U.S.S.R. territory by Chang Hsueh-Liang government A column of Chinese mer- attacked at Gradekova GREAT INCREASE IN FUNDS VITAL SINCE MISTRIAL ‘Intensify Gaston Drive Committee Warns Pointing out that the declaration of a mistrial in the Gastonia case added burdens to the defense of the | workers, and will increase tremend- cenaries: rtillery and machine guns, and ere repulsed by the Red Army. Chang’s men also attacked the ship Lyeszag on the Ussuri River, but did not capture it. Other ships were also fired on. Additional ar- rests of Soviet workers in Man-| ously the costs of carrying on the churia are reported. | case, the Gastonia Joint Defense The Kuomin news agency, the and Relief Campaign Committee makes the following statement: official propaganda organization of seen i The declaration of a mistrial and Chiang Kai-shek’s government in} ® Campbell had to be .~vow- \ered this morning. He was de- manding a gun to “end it all.” “Bury me face down,” he shrieked. | Shocked By Effigy. The doctors stated that the juror had received % emotional shock when the state ifitroduced the grue- some model of Adevholt at the be- ginning of the triat This* cheap sensational and melodramatic stunt of the prosecution, designed to shock the jury, began the break- \down that was completed by the |character of the state’s evidence and the prosecution’s repeated brutal demands for the lives of 13 of the workers on trial. The sharp clashes of the prosecu- |tion lawyers with those of the de- fense, the tense atmosphere of the | courtroom, the attempts of the state | to appeal to the emotions and preju- dices of the jury, have driven Camp- bell into homicidal insanity. ¥G.L WORKERS Girls Had Distributed |four day battle at Pograneichnaya, the postponement of the Gastonia) Day after day the state’s wit- trial greatly increases the burdens | nesses presented the defendants as of the Gastonia Joint Defense and| murderous gunmen in desperate de- It |termination to impress the jury and : on the eastern border between U. S. | Leaflets to Soldiers |s. R. and Manchuria, in which the The four girl members of the Young Communist League arrested Sunday when distributing leaflets in front of the 369th Infantry armory were convicted yesterday afternoon by Magistrate McQuade in the 12th Magistrate’s Court and held without | bail for sentence tomorrow. They are Ray Leventhal, Georgia Kaper, | Lilian Roth and Ray Levine. | After their conviction they were | \finger-printed and taken to their! cells where they will be held until |tomorrow. McQuade said he wanted more time to investigate the case| before meting out sentence. Charge Against Workers. | The charge against the four} young workers were breach of the peace, annoying members of the Na- tional Guard; distributing inflama- | tory literature and causing a crowd to collect. Jacques Buitenkant, attorney of the International Labor Defense ap- peared in court for the Y. C. L. members. The sentences were denounced in a statement issued last night by the |New York District of the Young Communist League, which pointed out that it is an attempt on the part of the authorities to stop the anti-imperialist activities of the League. It also said that the League has been giving out leaflets to the National Guard regiments all summer when they left for camp, and added that the arrests will not stop the work of exposing the war plans of Arrerican capitalism. | * * ® | Two Women Discharged. | Mary Drowkin and Olga Klodin, ; who were arrested more than a> |month ago when distributing leaflets in the Bronx, were discharged yes- terday when arraigned before} Magistrate Vitale in the 168th St. | ‘court. Worker Crushed Under Freight Elevator; Use Torches to Get Body JERSEY CITY, J., Sept. 9. The body of Paul Hillick, 17, of 15 Cator Ave., Jersey City, was found 2 -about 25 panie-stricken men there,'she sank. All the men lost their be- today crushed between the floor of a_ -\the legal |Relief Campaign Committee. adds very serious obstacles that} must be met and overcome in order | to save our sixteen fellow-workers of the National Textile Workers Union from the electric chair. Chief of these is the vast financial increase in carrying on the case, lacing a great burden on the de- (Continued on Page Two) Mukden goyernment’s troops lost 500, “including desertions.” CANADA WIREMEN GAIN. MONTREAL (By Mail).—Elec- trical workers here have gained the 44-hour week and wage increases. Rates will gradually be increased | Pl to $1 an hour. | 2 |Winitsky and Gilbert Not Party Members | The Central Control Committee MILL LAWYERS, [has found that Harry Winitsky| | land Gilbert are politically and| |... otherwise unreliable; that neither! Times, World Men Help Hold 2 in Charlotte of them is a Party member at present, although both data ai | 85 inits : z Lereee th ein an peed By SENDER GARLIN. iliary organization for the direct CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 9.— | Support of Lovestone’s splitting| | Joseph Shaplen, correspondent of | the New York Times at the trial) of the 16 Gastonia defendants here, | and John J. Leary, Jr, of the New| campaign. Therefore, the Central Control York World, today were responsible | for preventing the release of Del-| | Committee has decided that Wi- |nitsky be removed from his posi- \tion; that both, Winitsky and mar Hampton, one of the defen- | dants. They can now claim credit for | |Gilbert, shall not be considered keeping this 29-year-old mill worker | jas members of the Party; and \that all Party organizations are facing the electric chair and con- fined in prison without bail, al- | linstructed to have nothing to do though seriously ill, being practi- | |with them, (Continued on Page Two) Central Control Committee C. P. of U.S. A. Chas. Dirba, Sec’y. ® Manville-Jenckes Tries to Put Over an Expensive Act “The Trial of Mary Dugan” Makes Impression on Mill Bosses’ Legal Array By SENDER GARLIN. HARLOTTE, N. C. (By Mail).— “The Trial of Mary Dagan,” a melodrama which had a successful two weeks’ run at the Carolina Theatre here recently, evidently left a sharp impress upon the minds of began presenting its testimony in the Mecklenberg County courthouse this morning it made a bold at- tempt to put over one of the shab- biest acts in the whole history of capitalist legal lynchings. 8 6 (Continued on Page Three) Labor Defense Calls |for Greater Efforts jin Serious Situation | The International Labor De- fense, 80 East 11 Street, New York, states that the following telegram has just been re- ceived from the Gastonia Strik- ers Defense Committee of the bp | Es “The mistrial means a delay of a month in the trial and call- ing an entire new panel of veniremen to select a new jury. All defense work must be done over again. Witnesses must be maintained for the entire period. Legal fees and ex- penses will be greatly in- creased. The cost of the trial will be doubled. The prosecu- tion has considerable advan- tage by the mistrial. It has additional time to mobilize its forces which were badly shat- tered by our offensive. “The delay also means a tremendous increase in strain on the defendants. Delmar Hampton is seriously ill. The judge has refused bail to the defendants although not suffi- cient evidence has been pro- duced by the prosecution to hold them for even 24 hours if this were an ordinary criminal trial. “The prison conditions are very hard and the defendants are closely confined with no exercise or fresh air for months. Strict jail regula- tions are enforced now. Even attorneys have difficulty seeing prisoners. When the defense requested a change in the court order relative to seeing the prisoners the judge replied by a sarcastic remark that the attorneys were not supposed to be running back and forth to jail all the time. The pris- oners can be seen only once a week and then they may speak © battery in the hire of Solicitor Carpenter, a tall, wil- Manville-Jenckes of Pawtucket, R.|lowy, ‘neffectual-looking politician, | I. For so weak is their case upon! opens for the state (read: Manville- which they hope to convict the 16|Jenckes). The mill owners thought only through a small grating. The mistrial puts great addi- tional burden on the defense, and necessitates a speed-up of defense ities in all fields.” |