The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Published daily except Sunday by The Company. Inc., 26-28 Union Square. Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. SCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. . Outside New York, by mail. 86.00 per year. rice 3 Cents FINAL CITY EDITION | Vol. VI, No. 160 IL Stop the: Murder Conspiracy HE murderous attack upon a group of organizers of the National Textile Workers Union at Gastonia on Sunday was followed by the kidnapping and torture of union organizers by a posse of business men and thugs and gunmen of the mill owners as soon as the mistrial was declared on Monday. The ruling class has decreed the death of the strike leaders and union organizers who are leading the resistance of the workers to the stretch out, wage cuts, lengthening of hours, child slavery and all the effects of capitalist rationalization. The gunmen and the infamous “committee of one hundred” failed because of the heroic defense of the strikers in the Gastonia tent colony, to achieve their murderous aim on the night of June 7. They then re- sorted to an attempt at legal murder of those whe dared defend their lives. Neither the attack on the tent colony nor the attempt at legal murder could stop the determined drive against the slave system in vogue in the textile mills, The sudden interruption of the irial aud the dismissal of the jury showed that the special machinery of the capitalist state for the legal riugder of the strike leaders was not working to the satisfaction of the ruling class. In view of declarations of several jurors that they be- lieved the defendants all innocent it is quite evident that the fit of in- sanity on the part of one juror was not unwelcome to the prosecution. This “slowness” of their own machinery fdr a legal murder in- furiated still further the mill owners and their henchmen, The posse of business men set out on Monday night with the plain intent of seiz- ing and torturing and murdering some of the more prominent of the strike leaders and those directing the defense of the Gastonia prisoners. Every strike leader and union organizer in the field is in imminent danger of death at the hands of the fiendish “committee of one hun- dred.” D ite the pretenses of the “New Leader” and the fulsome praises of the “fair trial” which the mill owners’ courts are supposed to give the mill workers, the trial itsel as stated in Saturdays Daily Work- er, a battle of class against class. The reality of the naked class is the cold ferocity of the capitalists towards those who would organize the workers in militant trade unions is shown by these fascist tortures vd attempted murders. The forced recess in proceedings means no re- : in the murder drive of the ruling class. The attempted lynching of Monday night showed that the same fight continues under other forms. The blocd-thirsty posse of Gastonia is challenging the whole working class. The working class must answer their insolence with more determined resistance than ever. The workers of Gastonia and the Seuth must be aided by the workers of the United States and of the world so that they can continue to defend themselves against the capitalist jackal pack. The workers must display a determined solidar- ity in this fight to defeat the murder conspirators. Only the mass ac- tion of the working class can save the Gastonia victims now in jail awaiting the next stage of the attempt to legally burn them to death in the electric chair. Only a determined defense will avert the mill- owners-carrying out their dastardly plans either in court or on the public highways. The War on the Soviet Union. The attack of the Chinese armies and the Czarist White Guard troons against the Soviet Union on its far Eastern border, forcing the rmy to pursue and disperse the attackers, is the climax of the in- ¢ war danger of the past two menths. m against the workers’ and peasants’ govern- immediately threatening. During these two months the Chinese hirelings of world imperial- ism, so far from responding to the determinedly peaceful policy of the Soviet government, have utilized the time to mobilize their troops, to enroll their divisions of Czarist White Guards and to make their prep- arations for a launching of war. During these two months the hirclings of imperialism have flouted every effort of the Soviet Government at peaceful negotiations. Every et Government, ii ing its latest concession with f of the railroad, has been taken to be a sign of not have launched pelicy of the imperial- n diplomatic note of July 22, which propesed that the great impericlist powers should establish an “international control” over the Chinese Eastern Railway, with the ob- vious intention of creating there a military base from which the Soviet Union could be attacked, as it were, in the rear, once the mobilization of the forces of capitalist Europe against the U.'S. S. R. (one of the aims of Aristide Briand’s “United States pf Europe”) was nearer com- pletion. The renewed attack of world imperialism on the Soviet Union is the signal for the workers of the world to rally to the defense of the Soviet Union. In this movement thé proletariat and all the toilers of the United States must be called upon to fight for the victory for the Soviet Union, for the transformation of the imperialist war into Civil War. for victory to the Red Army, for the defeat of American imperialism, Under these general slogans of mass mobilization, the Communist Party of the United States must carrry out its practical tasks as set forth in the August First theses of the Central Executive Committee. While the organs of the so-called “left” opportunists, (“Contre Le Courant,” etc.,) take up a counter-revolutionary position in support of Chiang Kai-shek, while the Lovestones commit treason to the work- ing class by their attack on the Party’s call to strike on International Red Day, the response of the workers assembled in the Trade Union Unity Convention at Cleveland to the slogan of “Defend the Soviet Union” demonstrates that in carrying out its tasks against the danger of war that is now facing us, the Communist Party can lead the broad masses of the proletariat in their struggle against the danger of im- perialist war. International Red Day, by the wide response of masses of workers to the Communist Party’s call, by the demonstrations held in many cities and places for the first time, was a first attempt at a test mobilization of the proletariat and a successful attempt. A greater test mobilization approaches. Every Party member, every worker, e¢ery toiler should be prepared. Attention! At this moment of approaching war on the Soviet. Union, every Party member should read the thesis of the C. E. C. of the C.P.S.U. on the War Danger and the Tasks of the Communist Party, published in the Daily Worker Aug. 1 and 2, 1929. War Danger. Comrades should also read the resolutions on war of the Eighth Plenum (May, 1927) and of the Sixth World Congress as well as Com- ade Lenin’s instructions to the delegates to the Hague conference , (1022). |NOTE TELLS OF | TEBORDER RAIDS Chinese Militarists’ i} Attack Part of Big Imperialist Drive Invaders Are Defeated Reported to be Taking Retaliatory Action BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 10.— The press reports a note from the People Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union to the German government, relating details of 18 separate invasions or bom-}| bardments of U.S S.R. territory, at-| fempts to destroy navigation on the Amur and Ussuri Rivers by setting mines, and firing on shipping, and feclares that the Sovie’ govern- ment has had to take “firm retalia- tory action” to preser its borders. The note states: “The Soviet Government, as previ- | j ously, considers that the only way jof avoiding additional serious con- | sequences is by immediate measures \to terminate these new assaults on| Bue territory.” } | Murders Continue. \ The note also gave instances of | the terr rism against Soviet work-|Amsterdam News, denounces the ac-| subsidiary of American Metals Ltd., ‘ers, particularly those formerly em-|tion of the police in breaking up a the big German trust. The Ameri- Ex ‘ern Rail-| Meeting at which Richard B. Moore,|can brancl of the concern netted ployed on the Ch’nese | way, including the arrest and mal-| treatment of over 2,000 of them, | continuous executions as “spies” ‘and executions without trial or afiy NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1929 L THUGS IN MUR SOVIET UNION IK. Negro Worker 9500 STRIKE. AT Shot Dead by Tammany Cop Within the last four days a series of deadly assaults by Tammany po- lice have been made upon Negro workers. Vincent Holbert, 59 West 133rd St., taking a taxi Saturday night from an uptown garage to another garage for his employer had a min- or accident with another car. He was seized by Patrolman William Bourbon and clubbed unmercifully. Holbert broke away and fled into the cellar of a house. The police- man followed and shot him in the back. Holbert died the next day. While he lay in Bellevue, relativ were refused permission to visit him. Patrolman Walter Lowe was rid- ing with a friend in the Fulton St. elevated in Brooklyn, when Ralph Baker, Negro student, 124 Willow- dale Ave., Montclair, N. J., and William Fontaine sat next to him. Lowe objected to sitting with Ne- groes, followed the two onto the platform at Rockaway Ave. and tried to arrest them. plain clothes, and gave no evidence of being an officer. The boys re- fused to go with him, and as they were walking away, Lowe fired four shots. One bullet struck Baker in the back, he is in St. John’s hospi- |tal, Brooklyn, in a serious condition. 8¢t them to come out. Fontaine was arrested. W. A. Domingo, writing in the Negro worker, and Communist nominee for Congress, was speaking at Seventh Ave. and 137th St. Wednesday night. * Domingo points Lowe was in| AM, METAL 0.; PLANT ALL OUT TOs as Metal Bureau | Secretary Addresses | Mass Meeting | |Men Fight Fake Bonus! Speed-Up CATARET, N. J., Sept. 10.—| Secretary Overgaarde of the Metal \Industries Bureau .: the T. U. U. L. last night addressed a meeting of the 2500 mc- who deserted the mills of the United States S| t- ing and Refining Company here, striking for a ten cent raise, time and a half for Sunday and holiday | work, weekly pay, ar’ the recogni-| tion of a shop committee elected by | the workers. While the Charlotte News Labor Defense, ready to protect thirsty mill hirelings, Many newspaper reporter that it with full details of the vicious Only a handful of men are left inside — foremen, superintendents | and a couple of old workers who have been with the company so long that they wouldn’t have a chance getting a job elsewhere—and the strikers } ~en’t even tried to molished the headquarters of Company Made Big Profits. U. S. Smelting and Refining is a| kidnapped 24-year-old Ben We In addition to Bulwinkle posse were Charlie Ferguson, ¢ profits of over two and a half.mill- June 7; Morehead, superintend ion dollars last year. The dispute began ‘in the rigging \ ; jdepartment at 11 a. m. Saturday, ; jexcuse 0° 2red- at all, starvation. of Out that. everything was orderly at/cyiminating in the discharge of swe [ST TUUL BOARD ‘children whose parents have been |#he meeting until the police attacked | o¢ the Immediately the| ane arrested, and other similar acts by} the Chinese war lords. | The German foreign office is re- ported to hav. answer-d in a tem-| porizing manner, “ng doubt on! the worst atrocity stories, and de- claring that ‘> Germen consulates are doing all that they .can to care for the Soviet workers. ee A “Rear Front.” The attacks on the Soviet frontier, which have increased greatly in number and seriousness during the last few days, accompany and form a part of the series of encirclement measures going on against the So- viet Union in the League of Nations Assembly and by ne.ns of notes from the U.S. Stete Department. | Th indicate that a military | front is. bei built u ainst “:e} J, S. S. R. in the East, while all} prepar are going on among} the imperiali-t + y of Europe ard America for attac’: in the West. These preparations include the (Continued on Page Two) SHEARER PROBE. PART OF DRIVE \Prepare for Congres- sional Elections | WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—The senate naval affairs committee to- day voted for an investigation of \the activities of William B. Shearer, “naval expert” and high-powered | jingo. | Shearer, who has posed for years | as an expert on naval affairs and who was supposed to be a dis- interested patriot has been revealed as in the pay of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company, the New-| port News Shipbuilding and Dry-, dock Company and the American) Continued on Page Three) BETRAYERS WANT AN ENDORSEMENT: | After agreeing to the demands of | the neckwear manufacturers that! wages of members of the United Neckwear Makers’ Union be re- duced, the union officials, headed by Louis Fuchs, manager, has called /a membership meeting for Thursday at which they will attempt to con- vince the workers they should en- |dorse the betrayal. The union officials have agreed that the workers’ wages be cut from at. NY JIM CROWISM HIT AT MEETING Discrimination on Day |Line Flayed by Moore pared the organized power of the egro workers in alliance with the |elass-conscious white workers can abolish racial discrimination in America,” declared Richard B. Moore, Communist congressional candidate in the 21st district at the mass meeting held at St. Mark’s Church in Harlem, Thursday night to protest ag ‘ast discrimination of Negro students by the Hudson River Day Line Company. Some weeks ago a group of Neg riggers. whole department walked out—150 men. When the mechanical depart- ment went to lunch at noon they | |joined the strike immediately they | heard of it. == Councils of war were held Sun-|Tymber Union Joins day, with the result that the whole : mill is now shut down. | A half dozen guards, town police and state ¢ sacks patrol the en-| The first session cf the National trance to the plant and gruffly re- | Executive Board of (Continued on Page Two) after the THREE MILITANT 2 | Trade Union tomorrow, will regis- although Unity Lear: |ter conside able it convener only a week days Cleveland Applica ues Lumber Workers Union from. the | Int nal We ‘orkers Union| e through George Pit- kin, its -ze’ cy, At the Cleveland Grafter Lehman Convention, lumbermen from the as r vest and mid “e west laid the al union, | Expelled “for Flaying |! On orders from Edward Flore its high school and college students, |internaticnal president, Wait established three districts as members of the Students Literary) Union, Local 16, yesterday cxpelled |"22¢° fer the unicn’s expansion. Club of Harlem, went on an ex-' from the union three of its dele aia iv , Ris 2 Three Districts. cursion on one of the Hudson River gates to the New York Joint Exec- sis ‘ hoats to Indian Point. When they | ytive Board ’ 2cause they-had issued) District One will include Michi- arrived, the company offizials Continued on Page Three) re- Demands of Garage Union to Be Acted Upon by Employers The Garage Associates, Inc., own- ers of garages whose workers are scheduled to go on strike Sunday, against the 14-hour day, will take up the workers’ demands at an out- ing they will hold tomorrow when they will go to Bear Mountain, the Daily Worker learned yesterday. The 2,500 garage workers of Man- hattan and Bronx will strike under the direction of the Garage Wash- ers and Polishers’ Union, Local 272, for an ingrease in wages and a re- duction the working hours. a statement condemning William | gan, Minnesota and Wisconsin; Dis- Lehman, secretary of Local 1, who|trict Two, Washington, Oregon and | was removed from his office re-|Idaho; District Three, the state of cently by the membership of the | California, The International Wood- | local on charges of graft. Those | workers Union will become the foun- \expelled were Dave Kanner, Louis {dation for District Two. Its head-| |Taffer and J. M. McDonald. \quarters are in Aberden, Wash. Pit- After his expulsion, Lehman ap- kin was elected provisional secretary ypealed to Flore and the machine-|of the lumber division of the Trade packed national convention of the Union Unity League at the special |union, lment. At the time when his re-|the convention. J. C. Miller is the instatement wos being ordered the | provisional secretary. three delegates of Local 16 issued | Draft programs presented by the a statement endorsing the expul- | Washington delegation and the sion, Michigan group were thoroughly t Abstained from Voting. discussed and a joint program A short time previous, at a meet-|agreed upon tentatively and has ing of the Joint Executive Board |been presented to the Bureau of the j}when the question of voting on the | League and will be taken up at to- expulsion was on the order of busi- | morrow’s session. A national com- mittee of five lumbermen, including a secretariat of three made up of Continued on Page Three) | Pitkin, R. Sandstrom and Jack Low- Fight Fascists Attempt to Swi 20 te eke! Keep Commun ence. ists Off Ballott . Worker,” will be inaugurated imme- New Bulletin. Intensified Signature Campaign to Meet Zion- ‘iately. The job of. organizing lo- ist Socialist Attacks _ The Communist Party is facing, in the present election campaign, | greater difficulties than ever before. The attack of the Jewish fascists and the increasing police terror in Harlem and elsewhere is an indica- tion that the Party may be con- fronted with an earnest attempt to keep the Communist ticket off the ballot, is the warning of the Election Campaign Committee of the Com- munist Party in a statement issued (Continued on Page Three, last nig/ cals preparatory to establishing dis- trict machinery in the other sec- tions of the country, is already un- | Our enemies, the statement says, | der way. District conferences will |will no doubt take advantage of be called in the near future, Pitkin every legal technicality, We must |*4id. |meet this danger by mobilizing the | whole Party membership and sym-| Unity circulation and building it up | pathizers for a more intensive drive|as an organizing factor of the new |to secure the necessary signatures |trade union center was deliberated at length. Decisions arrived at pro- | Successful Mobilization. mise real gains in this direction. | The reports from all sections, the! The tentative constitution of the | statement declares, showed that the| new industrial lumber union follows ; Signature drive started out with ‘athe line laid down by the convention, i (Continued on Page Two) ‘on the nomination petitions. | was deliberately planned. was over, told the story as though it were a “spontane New Center | and two Conven- | which ordered his reinstate- | conference held in conjunction with | monthly bulletin, the “Lumber | The question of expanding Labor | a (Continued on Page Twod ~ ' —— ————— ———— Se AA GUNMEN LED BY LORAY ATTORNEY AND OFFICIAL HEAD OF THE GASTONIA CASE PROSECUTION; FLOG ORGANIZER WELLS Attack W. I. R. Tent Colony; Kidnap Three Union Leaders from House; Try to Lynch Defense Lawyers, Hugo Oehler and Bill Dunne in 105 Autos Continue Murder Campaign While Trial Halts Temporarily; Wells, Facing Death, Defiant BULLETIN. is inciting the bourgeoisie to organize another fascist gang attack, workers are pouring into the offices of the National Textile Workers’ Union and the International their union and leaders from destruction at the hands of the blood- s were “tipped off” about the raid in advance, conclusively proving The first edition of the Charlotte Observer printed before the raid us uprising.” The reporters were familiar attack before it took place, * * * By SENDER GARLIN. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 10.—Fascism, black and bloody, swept over North Caro- lina’s greatest industrial center last night. Led and organized by Major Bulwinkle, special counsel of the Manville-Jenckes Co., and solicitor Carpenter, both members of the prosecution in the trial of the 16 Gastonia strikers, an armed posse of about 300 Manville-Jenckes superintendents, foremen, etc., last night de- the National Textile Workers’ Union both in Gastonia and Bessemer City, raided the Charlotte headquarters of the International Labor Defense, and lls, C. D. Saylors and C. M. Lell, organizers of the N. T. W. U. and Solicitor Carpenter, the others recognized in the armed a Gastonia policeman who accompanied Aderholt on the raid ent of the Loray mill; Dewey Carver, assistant foreman of the Loray mill; Carl Holloway, bossman &nd notorious stool pigeon;Morris Ling, overseer of the Myers mill of Gastonia, and Tom Gilbert, another state star witness who accompanied Aderholt and took part in the at- 7 ®tack of June 7. Provided With Autos. Travelling in 105 automo- biles, the posse invaded the city of Charlotte and began a feverish hunt for all active members of the N. T. W. U., including Vera Bush, Amy Schechter and Sophie Melvin, defendants out on bail, and Caroline Drew of the Workers In- ternational Relief, Led Mill Thugs whe ee . ay ‘ese, Roe ge A section of the posse in 25 auto- mobiles stormed Walton Hotel in their search for Hugo Oehler, south- ern organizer for the textile union jand Bill Dunne, shouting, “Lynch them!” Roused to fury because they were unable to find the two men, they tore up the hotel register before leaving. | Hardly had the order of mistrial in the Gastonia case been made when the Manville-Jenckes murder crew, fully organized and prepared in advance, swooped down upon the Gastonia headquarters of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union and the Workers -rvational Relief, kidnapped s rs and Lell, and then pro. 41 to Bessemer , City where they demolished the headquarters of the union there. These two men led the Manville-, Wells, the most severely beaten, is Jenckes thugs and officials who today under a doctor's care, suffer. kidnapped and attempted to lynch|ing from wounds and lacerations on three textile workers and organizers, | the head and body. Above, Carpenter, a leader of the| Wells, Saylor and Lell returned and State of North to Charlotte this i i ; : : C morni Carolina’s array of attorneys which o'clock, ng about six is trying to railroad 16 strikers and organizers to electrocution. | Bullwinkle, mill Thugs Sing Hymn. Below, Major | bosses’ lawyer. UNION GROWING _ DESPITE TERROR “ve Big Conference Oct. 12, FUNDS! FUNDS! 13, Says ler |"The innocence and rights to free- defendants is so clear [to the working masses, Hugo| Must Push Sept. 21-22 ehler, Southern organizer for the Coll . | ections Nationa! Textile Workers Union, | said today, “that the bosses’ thugs ‘ want to wreak vengeance.” News of the unparallelled terror of lynch law in Gastonia and Char lotte following directly on the tem- porary close of the trial due to one juror’s insanity, has swept like an electric shock throughout 4 inerica complete lack of convincing evi-| and across the ocean to Europe and dence in the prosecution’s presen- | Asia, tation. The mistrial decision will " give the prosecution another month|,, 2¢ warns the workers of America to cook up a new line and bring in |‘R&t the wave of mass protest must new perjurers to take the places of | St°¥—that the mass collection days those completely discredited. ae Go BL and 28 muss Dee 7 niost successful in the history of If the case had gone to the jury the American labor movement, for at the closing session last week,” | today, more than ever, the need for KContinued on Page Three) Yea, (Conti on Page Three) The organizers were seized in the home of Mrs. Helen Lodge in Gastonia by the posse singing “Praise God from whom all bless- ings flow” as they rushed in, The Lodge home at 512 Gastonia Ave., is the headquarters of the southern | C, A. Martin, one of the jurors in the Gastonia case, declared today that the jury was virtually unani- mous for acquittal, stressing the Wing