The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1929, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, _NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER | i, 1929 Soviet Trust Buys Two U.S. Clock Plants; To Produce Millions of Watches Annually WILL BOSS GANG AAIDS UNIONISTS; TRIES TO LYNCH Prosecution Lawyers Lead Murder Attack (Continued from Page One) ection of the Workers International | Relief, with Drew charge. Many ers live there. seized The leadé > nearness of the imper periali Newport ng been built in the =: 1ST TUUL BOARD SESSION TODAY Lumber Union ew Center being i at har three f the Sout and threats thugs, d continue mill owners growing N. T. Joins (Continued from Page One) zation of every regardless of e, ete., he union whose t will be the mill committee al of this union shall re- than the average . industry,” the orga n the indus: being take and you will nev in the lu specify. Child Labor. Commenting upon the tremendous g the thousands of in the saw, paper mills and amps now under w: ted out the extremely low and almost unbearable con- “he was bl ed in an uncon-; ; r over one | x Iyachidie excursion, jacked and rem. scious condition Especially venomous against the} young organizer because of union activity among the mill wor ers of Gaston County, his told him that lynch him and his face. families in the| nas become im-| meet, rugele | s but | make both ends In this desperate ence not only the wi Throughout the entire ride of miles, the mill bosses’ gang was vio- for e lent against the National Textile Workers Union announcing that they will “fill with lead anyone who at also the children under ten years of | age have been drawn into the lum-/ ber work, the union.” T announced ‘y common sight in the lum- “we will go to that jail and get amps of Mic in today, red-headed bastard Beal.” of families, men, women ‘and | After leaving Charlotte, the raid- ren, cutting and pealing pulp| and railroad ties from four ‘clock in the morning until eight jat night during the summer, and/ from dawn to dark in the winter. “These families are compelled to |buy lumber and build their ‘shacks at their own expense, A man and |wife are able to earn this way up A family of five or s $5 to $6 a day. When they are located far from the r there is no schooling for the c ers stopped about eight miles from Concord where they beat the ganizers once more. Only the that a numbc> of car re coming and the knowledge that Sa lors, one of the union organizeys and a native of Gastonia had recog-| nized a large number of the pos prevented the nned lync from actually tak place. The black hundred gang tried, by a flimsy ruse, to lure Oehler to a point in Charlotte where they ¢ seize him and lynch him, thus fol- lowing out threats they have made since he first arrived to take charge of the Southern work of the N. T. W. U. They forced Wells, at the point of drawn revolvers, to call the of-} fice of the union on the telephone | and speak to Ochbler asking him to! come to “the cprner of College and | Trade Streets in 20 minutes.” This is in the neighborhood of Walton Hotel. With remarkable ence! CHICAGO, IIL, Sept. 10—Devel- of mind, Wells gave the addr S|opments in the militant strike be-| “corner of College and Tryon ing carried on under the leadership ‘Wells :Coursgeous. of the Needle Trades Workers In- Wells’ deliberate, unnatural repe-| qustrial Union have once more dem- Shion of she ein onstrated the united front between his continued refusal to amplify it,| the police department and the right ng the workers have to dispose of the |shacks as best they can, or leave them to rot—and on to the next} camp. Workers in the lumber in-| dustry are more than ready for a| Negro, White Workers. |\United Against Scabs’ | 'Terrorism in Chicag easily conve to th ee: wing of the reactionary 1.L.G.W.U. Oehler the |. ng plot being pre- the 7 i spared against him. fake union The Manville-Jenck: in105| “Within the last two days there | automobiles, invaded Charlotte/have been more than twenty arrests about 11 o’clock. Warned by Wells’|on Market Street. telephone call, the staff of the N./gangsters stand around and point)? T. W. U. and the I. L. D. had left|out to the police pickets they want the office. Part of the posse made|arrested. The machine that carries | its way to the Walton Hotel where |the scabs and the patrol wagon usu- a feverish but unsuccessful hunt for | ally arrive together. In spite of the Dunne and Oehler was made, gnd/slugging tactics the hired gangsters then it rode to the office of the/and the police terror the workers I. L. D. in Charlotte where they | reform their picket lines and will forced an entry and ransacked the | not be intimidated. place. | In all of the cases the Interna- The Manville-Jenckes gang then|tional Labor Defense has given full gathered near the home of Attorney |support and has secured the release Tom Jimison of the defense where | f the strike pickets on bond, pend- they shouted, “Come on, let’s get! ing trial by jury. Jimison! Get him and lynch him!”| ‘The solidarity of Negro and white Jimison had earned the deadly en-| workers has again been proven in mity of the mill owners in this vi-)this strike. The Negro workers cinity because he stepped into thejtake their place along with the strike situation immediately after|white in the picket line and not only the Loray struggle began, defending | daily face the attacks of the police, members of the N. T. W. U.drom/put are thrown into prison along the legdl offensive of the bosses. [with the white workers. © Papers in League. | John Voorhees, correspondent of News, past eight months before the } , Pit-} the Charlotte Observer, who was evidently acquainted in advance with the prearranged plans of the gang, wrote in this morning’s issue of his paper that “Gastonia police professed to have no knowledge of city and county authorities cooper- ated with the terrorists and gave them a free hand. All pretense of ordinary legal procedure was aban- doned following the declaration of mistrial in Judge Barnhill’s court the actions of the crowd.” here for two weeks the state has Although Charles Ferguson, Gas-|been demanding the lives of 13 tonia policeman who was with Ader-|working men who defended them- holt on the night af the June 7/selves and their union against an at- raid was one of the leaders of the |tack on a smaller scale, but similar posse last night and other policemen|in its murderous purpose to that were also recognized. Ferguson was | staged during the night of Sept. 9. to have been one of the star wit-| nesses in the trial of the Gastonia) defendants, It was just learned that Houston, staff photographer of the Asso- ciated Press, went to Gastonia just before the raid on the union head- quarters. Asked how he happened to get there, he replied that he got a tip in the afternoon from the Gas- tonia Gazette. Two counties, Gaston and Meck- lenburg, constituting the center, of the cotton spinning section of the} Southern textile industry, were tak- ide by an unofficial army. The After Organizers. The invasion of Charlotte, a city of 100,000 population, by the Man- ville-Jenckes gang who rode in and searched high and low for Oehler, Dunne and Gerson, the youth organ- izer of the N.T.W.U., and all other workers on the staffs of the N. T. W. U, and the I. L. D., is a brazen terrorist act, union organizers point- ed out. The local press plays up the at- tack as a fight on the Communists carried in.an eight column streamer, “Communist Offices Raided By Anti: Reds.” ialist war is indicated Above, Wall Street's latest wa Va. The Houston is one of a ser Lost Air Liner Found in New Mexico; Crash Killed All 8 of Crew! LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10.—All eight passengers aboard the Trans-| continental Air Transport Company monoplane City of San Francisco were killed when the plane crashed into the side of a 10,000 foot moun- |tain and burned last Tuesday, ad- vices to the T.A.T. said yesterday. The crash occurred in one of the most desolate sections of New Mex- ico. The wreckage w discovered on the south slope of Mount Taylor at | 11:30 yesterday morning by a West- ern Air Express pass-nger plane. | Transcontinental is one of the sev- eral groups specializing in coast-to- coast plane ‘ransport. The system can easily be adjusted—in line with its real purpose—to the war office scheme for militarization of air mes in preparation for the next | aaa ete war. 2500 STRIKE AT AM. METAL C0. E.OeUds Metal Bureau | | Secretary Speaks | (Continued from Page One) |fuse admittancse to any but scabs,| |or bosses. | of their business bosses f-* no st:tement t> make. Completely unorganized, rationali- |zation and intense speedup had the} men ready to strike on any excuse. |The strike started under the leader- ship of an inexperienced but deter- | six | ments. One of the chief bones of conten- tion is the so-called “bonus sys-| jtem.” In April 1928 the bosses in- | troduced a five cent wage cut,| |simultaneously offering a five be “bonus” for those workers who los! no more than seven working Heed during the two week pay period.) 0 |The result has been that any work- | er who through sickness or injury essa a day’s work, on top of that| he had | period. Many Accidents. Strikers compla’: that the make for many ccidents, that, | jaware of its high accident record, | | bed or :t least resting his in- jury, jas he has recovered. | Due to the large amount of lead After he was cut up he was on the jused in the manufacture o- brass | point of death for several weeks | —one of the principle products of the company—lead poisoning is fre- quent. Each worker must be exam- ined for its monthly, and if lead is found in his blood he is sent home and his bonus is divided among the stockholders of the company. If the poisoning clears up he may get his job back; if not, and if he is a foreign born worker, he dies and the company denies responsibility. Long Hours, Low Wages. Over 1,500 of the men have been receiving the unskilled labor rate, 40 cents. Work for the smelters is seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. One worker on a regular nine-hour day recently was forced to work 44% hours overtime within a space of five days. Continuous processes, working a regular eight-hour day, are forced to do the doulbe shift six- teen hours every two wéeks when the shift changes, and seven days a week throughout the year, al- though Christmas and the Fourth of July are holidays. T. U. U. L. Active. The fact that the T. U. U. L. is already on the job shows how seri- ously the line laid down by the T. U. U. L. convention is being taken. Overgaard will emphasize, giving the recent Murray Body strike as an example, the necessity of developing a real organization before returning to work. The workers of the Murray Body Cor- poration (manufacturers of bodies of Ford cars) successfully resisted a 20 per cent wage cut imposed by the company, only to find that be- cause they returned to work with- out a sufficiently powerful organ- ization, their leaders had been sac- rificed, A real shop committee must be established, deriving its authority Launch New Wall Street War Cruiser for Imperialist War the Houston was launched. } | | Daily Worker reporters | |from the west and south, the Soviet were told that the strike was none | Workers and that the | messages of solidarity from their dren. When the camp closes down, |mined strike committee of some! t teen men—two from each depart- | Pictures |day’s pay he was robbed of five|member of the Needle Trades Work- | {cents an hour fox every other hour|ers Industrial Union came up yes-| worked during the pay|terday morning in Jefferson Market in- | torney. ,|than a month ago by thugs of the jthe company follows the policy of! scab International Ladies Garment | giving a man hell every time he gets | Workers Union when he was on his) hurt, often forcing him to remain| way to work. The right wing| pie the job when he should be home| rested charged with felonious as- and often firing him as soon! opportunity ‘SOVIET UNION IN NOTE TELLS OF |Reported to be Taking | Retaliatory Action | (Continued from Page One) |Stimson notes of July 22 to all im- \perialist governments, proposing joint “investigation” of the seizure of the C’ “~>se Eastern Railroad and events following it, and the Hen- by the speeding up of the cruiser construction 7 wear cruiser, the 10,000 ton Houston, |4etSon speech in the League of Na- of eight such 10,000 ton cruisers, |tiD8 assembly last week proposing incorporation of Kel!c-: pacts in the league statutes, and furnishing lof finances to “any country which is }the v’ ‘in: of an aggressor’s at- GREETS TWELFTH }tack” (In practice, the imperialist pores or its agent, for example, hiang Kai-shek, is always repre- (cee as being attacked). The j prepara ons for war on the U. S. R. also include the Briand pro- pee for a confederation of Euro- pean imperialist powers and those Workers Send Message} in’ their orbit, reco. ized by the Thru Labor Defender Saree press 2s an Anti-Soviet move, The November e of the La-| bor Defender, which will contain 48) Japanese official reports, the pages of working class life and ac- | Nanking governr-ent’s Kuomin in the Soviet Union and in| News Agency, Reuters (European) other countri is to be a message |telegraph agency and American of solidarity om the American | news services report a heavy battle working class to the Russian work-| at Pogranitchnaya yesterday and ers and peasants, on the 12th Soviet’ Monday, in which the garrison of Anniversary edition, the Chang Hsueh-liang government The Labor Defender has opened|was driven from the city by the the pages of its November issue for|Red Army’s artillery fire and air- greetings from working class or-|plane attack, and the city looted by ganizations and individual workers {bandits in the absence of the troops. to the Soviet Union. Organiza~|'‘The Mukden government states that tions may send greetings thru the it lost 500 men, including deserters, Labor Defender at the cost of $5.00|in the first attack, nd more after- per inch, $25.00 per quarter page,| wards. The stories refer to the $40.00 per half page and $75.00 per|Manchurian town of Pogranitchna- full page. Individual greetings will) ya, not the railway station on U. S. be forwarded to the Soviet Union| S, R. territory. thru the pages of the Labor De-| his is interpreted here as the fender at $1.00 per name. All copy | Chinese militarist government’s ver- |must be in by October 10th, it is an-| sion of the repulse of one of their jnounced. The office of Labor Unity yaiding parties into the oviet is at 80 E, 11th Street. Union, and the fighting that fol- Greet Russians. |lowed when the raiders sought During this trying period, when | Security behind the entrenched posi- the Chinese and white-guardist war| tions of the Chang Hsueh-liang | provocations are molesting the So-| ‘TPS massed along the oer viet Union from the East, while| Warlords Lose 100. other imperialist intrigues continue} A report from Tokio sent by the United Prec: states that the Muk- |den government’s losses in a five- hour border fight at Manchuli (a |class brothers all over the world. |town near the western border of The October issue of the Labor| Manchuria) was 100. The story |Defender, which will be off the| yesterday, contrary to the version |press by September 21st, will con-|fiven Monday, does not speak of tain first hand accounts of the trial | any. advance of Red Army forces of the 16 Gastonia strikers and Union organizers as well as many |fers to the i-sults of heavy artillery of the Cleveland TUEL|fire, from 150 field pieces, located | Convention and other’ important|on Soviet Union territory. This is workingclass activities. |undoubtedly the result of the dis- persal * “nother of the attempts |of the Chinese and white guard Rus- ‘sian mercenary troops to penetrate |into the Soviet Union, and of the Firing at Pagranitchnaya. are expecting powerful POSTPONE TRIAL \tions by Chinese artillery and {machine guns which accompanied the raid. | The United Press correspondent at Manchuli repeats a Mukden offi- |Soviet workers arrested last night are to be immec’ttcly executed as “spies.” The same news service’s corre- |spondent at Harbin wires a report jot three Soviet government air- | planes b abarding Pogranitchnaya Jacobs was severely cut up more again at 7 a. m, yesterday. When the trial of Joe Jacobs, ;Court it was postponed until Sept. |30 on recommendation of his at- He was then ar- Thursday, Friday, B sault, altho he did not even have an| to defend himself against the right ving gangsters. and is still in a very serious condi- tion from the loss of blood. The trial was postponed yesterday so he could enter Hunts Point Hospital for further treatment. from the mass of the workers; 2 dues system set up and a shop bul- letin issued. The demands of the workers, in addition to the wage increase, weekly pay, time and a half for all overtime, must include “no discrimination against any strikers” and a six-day week. msSPEND YOUR VACATION IN October 19 BORDER RAIDS: across the line, but apparently re-| |bombardment of U. S. S. R. posi-| AZAA | MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Seen iotene Teresnrisner Nero G Use Eifigy h in Attempt to Hlectoasate 16 WORKERS OF U. S, TO HELP REBUILD PLANTS INU,S.S.R. Technicians Bought Through Amtorg To manufacture inexpensive watches and clocks for the workers and peasants of the U.S.S.R., the Soviet Precision Machinery Trust has bought through the Amtorg Trading Corporation, 261 Fifth Ave, the entire equipment and machinery of two American clock and watch factories. The Ansonia Clock Company at Brooklyn and the Deuber-Hampden | Watch Company at Canton, 0., are the purchased plants. A. M. Bod- roff, chairman of the Soviet trust, and I. G. Sarkin, technical director, inspected the machinery and equip- ment of the plants before the pur- chase was closed. American factory foremen will help reassemble the machinery and erect the plants in the Soviet Union, The two factories will be recon- structed in Moscow, U.S.S.R., to be ready for production in 1931, the Amtorg representative reports. Some 1,000,000 inexpensive watches, 1,000,000 alarm clocks, 500,000 wall and electric clocks and 200,000 bet- ter-type watches will be produced annually. Wall clocks are manufac- tured by the Soviet trust at the rate of 1,000,000 yearly, according to present schedules. The trust also makes typewriters, aviation accessories and medical, optical and labarotory instruments. Its output last year was valued by Amtorg at $10,000,000. British Mill Bosses Victimize Workers Active in Big Strike MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 10.—Abut 100 of the workers most active in the recent strike at the woolen mills of Calder Valley have been refused reemployment by the mill owners. The blacklisting came directly as a result of these workers militant activities. | | TRAIN DERAILED. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 10.— Train 46, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, bound from New Haven to Boston, was de- railed at Hop River, a hamlet west |of Willimantic, it was announced to- This is the effigy of the Police Chicf Aderholt which the mill bosses’ lawyers composing the prosecution for the state of North |day at the railroads offices here, Carolina, used in an attempt to play on iurors’ emotions and thug |N© one was injured. | Lfacilitate railroading of 16 Gastonia striters and National ‘Textile | =a | Workers Union organizers to the electric chair, TANNERS WIN STRIKE. 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