The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1929, Page 1

a ee f THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered ax second- s matter at the Post Oftice at New York, N. ¥. ander the net of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Var Si, te, 10D ee ee eer eer ere es NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1929 “C™"'Ening."cr'ran tr ashr'sen'me yer” “rice 3 Cents CHARGE EIGHT G Disarming Workers Is ‘But CHINA WARLO a Preparation for a Blood Bath in | Gastonia Today The raiding of private houses and disarming of the strikers and strike leaders in Gastonia and vicinity have but one meaning. The mill owners and their murderous vassals, the police and private thugs and gunmen, are preparing one of the most monstrous blood-baths for the’workers in the histery of the country. The strategy pursued in arresting workers and seizing their weapons with which they .have prepared to defend themselves, their wives and children from fiendish tortures and violent death, is precisely that which was tried on the night of June 7th when the workers de- fended themselves against a murderous attack. On that night the police were chosen to clear the path for the en- trance of the posse called “the committee of one hundred,” whose leaders had boasted that they would “wipe out” the tent colony. That every man, woman and child in the colony was not killed by the agents of the mill owners, is due solely to the fact that the workers defended themselves. Tlie arrests by the police and the seizure of arms on Friday is calculated to prepare the way for a massacre against defenseless workers. The whole capitalist class of North Carolina, and the bankers of Wall Street, who hold stocks in the newly industrialized South, are the instigators of these murder plots. Governor Max Gardner, him- self a mill owner and hence an exploiter of men, women and children, is the. chief conspirator in the murder plots. With the most depraved cynicism this political agent of the capitalist class insists upon Prose- cutor Carpenter heading a committee to “investigate” a fascist raid in which Carpenter himself played a leading, in fact the leading, part. Governor Gardner does not even indulge in the formalities of Governor Fuller, one of the vilest instruments of the capitalist class of this country, in the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Fuller appointed as- seciate murderers, Lowell, Grant and Stratton, to pretend to pass upon the procedure of Judge Thayer. Not even the blood-streaked Fuller appointed Thayer to pass upon his own acts. The appointment of Carpenter to investigate the mob that he led amounts to a public announcement that Governor Gardner has set his official seal of approval upon any and all murderous attacks that may be made against the workers. Developments of the past forty-eight hours in Gastonia and vicinity mean that all pretense to capitalist legal- ity has been abolished and that a wholesale orgy of murder is being epenly and brazenly prepared, with the governor of the state as the chief instigator. The nature of the preparations for the next murder attack is of RDS INVENT BATTLES TO SHIELD RAIDS WhiteGuards Invading |USSR Border Smashed | in 20 Minutes Imperialists Drive On |Large Seale Conflict If Main Army Attacks ; American news service corre- spondents in China wired yesterday | that Soviet government officials in- terviewed ridicule the stories spread |by the Kuomin news agency of ‘Nanking, the Mukden officials, and jthe Japanese correspondents, who jhave been growing steadily more jhostile to the Soviet’ Union some time. |. The lurid tales of a battle line ‘along the Manchurian Siberian ae Leg are set down as fiction. perialism Drives Militarists. It is well understood by the workers of U.S. S. R. that foreign imperialism is goading on the Chi- nese militarists to attack on the So- viet Union. There have been con- tinual raids into U. S, S. R. terri- ASTONIA |Gastonia Strikers, Organizer, | Left to right are C. M, Lell, the Manville-Jenckes mill thugs, leaders of the prosecution attempting to rail’oad 16 s ganizers to death, kidnapped in UNIONISTS WITH ugs Victims of Th Ben Wells, and C. Saylors, whom led by Carpenter and Bulwinkle, ‘ers and or- the reign of terror in which they | planned to murder all organizers of the National Textile Workers Union in Gastonia. BRITAIN STRIKES AT FRENCH ARMY U.S. Entry Into World| Court Progresses The capitalist press correspon- dents at the League of Nations as- | sembly 2 | in Geneva yesterday re- FORGE 2ND VOTE ~ONN. 6. SELLOUT Carmen Battle Against A. F. of &. Betrayal NE WORLEANS, La, Sept. 13.— Hundreds of police and special deputies are patrolling the streets SEDI 110 ANGLO-AMERICAN POLICE PREDICT LYNCHING NAVAL PACT OFF AT GASTONIA RALLY TODAY; STIMSON STATES DISARM WORK Will Call Conference of | Five Powers on | Armaments | New Pacifist Drive! Arrest Witnesses Befo ‘MacDonald Visit Here) Leader Empty Gesture 13.—The 3; ILD Prepares CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sep on the warrant i WASHINGTON, Sept. pacifist offensive of the United } States government to conceal its preparations for another world war, {entered a new stage today when | Bexcetary of State Stimson an- nounced that Anglo-American naval armaments is ready for considera- tion at a conference of all interested ing held by them is a crime. ee 5 issued for the arrest of all oth ; Five Power Conference. Tie NERS eHaaoas LR The expectation is that the United | ee) % stile be ihe 1 States government will invite four, divers other evilly disposed jother powers, France, Italy, Japan known unlawfully and feloniou {and Great Britain, to participate in) agreed together to hold public the conference. = al linberg and Gaston County a At the same time it mee announced) 9, Saturday, Sept. 14, and a that no agreement would be con- places for the purpose of di Communism in order to over Textile Workers’ Union, the C ternational Labor Defense. Membership in these orga ing to this “impartial” court’s |eluded. between the two chief im-| perialist. rivals, Great Britain and tory, together with arrest of thou- norted that the British delegation, jsands of Soviet workers formerly | through Lord Robert Cecil made an jemployed on the Chinese Eastern’ attack on their French rivals mili- | Railroad, s:nce the road was seized/ tary establishment in the form of jby the Chang Hsueh-liang govern-| 4 motion he annouriced he had ready |ment. But the raiders have been '¢, introduce, to give the League of dispersed as fast as they come, and| Nations control of budgets for the Chinese troops have not as yet! standing armies and training re- dared an advance on a large scale.! seve, “There has been no general en-| ‘This js a stab in the back for here, viciously breaking into the pic-|the United States. The long “con- | kets and forcing the scab-run street |versations” between Charles cars through, in preparation for the | Dawes, American ambassador | second vote to accept the A. F. of L.| England, and Premier | sell-out ordered by President W. D. | MacDonald, of the labor imperialist Mahon of the Amalgamated Asso-| government, cannot lead to any ciation of Street and Electrical | (Continued on Page Three) to | Railways Employees. Carmen who have waged a mili- | tant struggle against the attempt of G. Ramsay | pons . . and with large q all persons who might be ass ings and more particularly in them . . . to be held in Sou gagement, no Red Army invasion |of China and will be none, until the | France, which at the last prepara- | Public Service, Inc. to run the lines WORKERS SCORE great historical significance. It proves that the ruling class that has, through its relentless exploitation of every member of thousands upon thousands of working class families, brought about conditions where the workers would rather face. terror—-and-death—than longer endure the slavery of the mills. In spite of the blood-thirsty yelping of the mill owners’ press, the Gastonia Gazette, the Charlotte News and othe? such journals, the masses cannot be incited to take mob action against the strikers and strike leaders. The ruling class itself has to bribe special corps of gunmen and personally lead them in attacks upon its own working’ class. Carpenter, representative. of Governor Gardner, was charged with direction of the attack upon strike leaders imme- diately after the mistrial and the dismissal of the jury. The disarming of the workers comes on the eve of the mass meet- ing that is to be held today at South’ Gastonia. At the same time, the authorities seize all the arms and munitions of workers they can lay their hands on, they themselves openly establish a veritable arsenal in a house behind the Workers International Relief tent colony where the meeting is to be held. In order to prepare further the massacre the reptile press venemously strive to incite a lynching spirit among all the hangers-on of the capitalist class. The Charlotte Observer in- cites to murder: + “If. the Communists persist in their announced determination to hold a rally in South Gastonia next Saturday they do it at their own risk. That is the word from the good people ‘of the community who have been law-abiding about as long as they can stand it.” There is but one power at this moment ‘that stands between the heroic workers of Gastonia and a sanguinary massacre and that is their own power to defend themselves. It is to be hoved that thou- sands of workers will mobilize in such numbers and, if attacked, de- fend themselves with such determination, that fascism in North Caro- lina Will receive a staggering blow from which it will not soon recover. Every class conscious worker, every revolutionary will today anxiously await the news from the battle front at Gastonia, and will stani by the heroic mill workers until they have defeated the mill owners and their fascist bands. While these workers, men, women and children are daily facing death on the firing line, the very least that workers elsewhere can do is to see that they have funds with which to carry on the fight. Every- where collections must be taken for the joint drive of the International Labor Defense and Workers International Relief for funds to enable the fight to be carried on to a victorious conclusion. Police Beat ‘Up Sick Drop Murder Charge NegroWoman Against Strikebreaker Police brutality against the Negro ‘Grand The Queens Grand Jury has re- workers of this city is continuing. fused to indict Philip Nunziato, Mrs, Elizabeth Scott, 1252 Coney scab, who shot and killed Stanislaus Island Ave., Brooklyn, was beaten up by two policemen on the board- walk, Coney Island several days ago. When she was unconscious she was taken to the observation ward of Kings County Hospital and then arraigned in magistrates court, where the judge dismissed the charge against her with the warn- ing: “Go home, and the next time you are told to get off the board- walk, do it.” . Mrs. Seott who has been ill for some time went to the beach and placed a camp chair next to.that of a white women who was sitting on the boardwalk. Patrolman Rhodes came up to her and said she would have to get: off the boarwalk with her chair. She protested, pointing out that the other woman was al- lowed to sit there. The policeman left, but returned several minutes later with another patrolman. With- out a word they grabbed and Zasdzinski, union leader, during the recent strike of gravediggers of Calvary Cemetery. The only charge against Nunziato now is violation of the Sullivan law, on which he has been released on $500 by Magis- trate Daly in Ridgewood Court. Assistant District Attorney Leo Hefferman had the homicide charge dismissed against the murderer of the strike leader and recommended that he be held only for carrying a concealed weapon. Nunziato was caught red-handed shooting Zasd- zinski and did not deny that he killed him, . Calvary Cemetery is owned by St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which used police and armed scabs to break the strike, The next day she was discharged from the hospital and brought to the magistrates court where she dragged her over the boardwalk and Chinese militarists attack on a wide front,” said the Soviet officials. The stories..of great battles are ex- plained as in most cases exaggera- tions of smaller engagements in which the Red Army catches detach- }ments, often white guard Russians |in Chang Hsueh-liang’s pay, raiding into U. S. S. R. territory, (Continued on Page Two) MELVIN BANQUET AT CENTER TODAY Young Workers Greet Gastonia Victim A rousing banquet of welcome will be given by the young Communist |League for Sophie Melvin, one of |the defendants in the Gastonia | murder trial, tonight at 8 o’clock in jthe Worlers Center, 26-28 Union |Square, Fy ~thing has been ar- |ranged with an eye to making the jreception a memo: ‘le affcir in the |annals of New York young S A crack orchestra will fur music for dancing, and beside good food, the League preparing a bang-up program, in which prominent : eakers of the C nist Party and the League will have a part. This will be Sophie Melvin’s first appearance in New York since she went to work in the Gastonia strike field and was arrested with 22 other is colony. All young workers are urged to be present at the banquet | tonight, tickets for. which are 50 cents at the door. and polishers went on strike in the Bronx yesterday, affecting 300 gar- ages. The strike was called by the Garage Washers and Polishers’ Union, Local 272. “Endorsed” by the American Federation of Labor, it undoubtedly will be betrayed by that body as was the strike of the busmen of Staten Island and the street car men of New Orleans. walkout, Herman Cohen, president of the union, charged that police were beating up pickets who had been distributing leaflets in non- union garages. It was learned last night that the Industrial Squad has been mobilized to protect the scabs and assault the union members. The strikers’ demands are a nine- hour day, six-day week; a minimum wage of $35 a wéek for washers, $30 for polishers and $28 for day men, and union recognition. |tory disarmament conference yielded d ielded on an open shop basis, as well as to Britain on the naval question in| against their misleaders who have i} assembled to carry out thei ERS IN RAIDS N. T. W. Determined to Hold Meeting Today; Caroline Drew Frame don Liquor Charge re Hearing on Lynch Habeas Corpus Writs BULLETIN. {. 13.—Interpretation placed sued today for the arrest of eight union and I. L. D. organizers outlaws completely the National ‘ommunist Party and the In- anizations is a crime, accord- interpretation, and any meet- Similar warrants are to be er union organizers. at the eight arrested, “and persons to the affiants un- isly combined to conspire and meetings in places in Meck- nd in the town of Gastonia, t diverse other times and seminating the doctrines of throw by force the govern- ment in the counties aforesaid and to that end, and in fur- therance of said unlawful and felonious combination, ete., heavily armed themselves with a number of deadly wea- uantities of ammunition for the purpose of feloniously assaulting and killing any and embled at any of said meet- the meetings advertised by th Gastonia on Saturday, for the purpose of opposing the above mentioned conspirators r unlawful conspiracy and textile workers and organizers fol-| | lowing the raid on the W. I. R. tent, Garage Workers Strike Fifteen hundred garage washers | return for a statement from Eng- land and the United States” wi drawing objection to | training of reserves. France’s big army is the mighti- est weapon in western Europe, and at the same time it was felt by unlimited and other nations it could be endured | because it might at any time be needed for a united invasion of the | Soviet Union by a coalition of im- | perialist nations. Now, however, the British labor party, always serving British im- | (Continued on Page Two) Shoe Workers Resolve ito Fight Government Attack on the Union United action of the textile and jshoe workers against the govern- ment and state attacks against the Independent Shoe Workers Union in New York and the National Textile Workers Union in North Carolina, was voiced last night by Jim Reid, president of the N. T. W. U, speak- ing at a membership meeting of the shoe workers union at Cooper Union, . Third Ave. and 8th St. The assembled shoe workers adopted a resolution to fight the action of the U. S. Department of vabor, which has sent letters to all shoe manufacturers having agree- iments with the union, der. nding ‘they be broken; also the attempt to have the union members fill out an anti-labox, questionaire. The work- ers resolved to continue their fight and building a powerful union. Other speakers were Fred Bieden- kapp, general nianager of the union; | Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer, Needle Trades Workers - Industrial Union and Joseph Magliacano, PLANE SINKS; 13 SAVED. rowly escaped with their lives. to- a trial flight during. which one of its motors began missing fire, with“tion, city council and police to brea! |been cooperating with the corpora the strike, voted 1,009 to 87 against \the latest betrayal. 'In | William Green, president of the! " |A. F. of L. drew up the agreement | Communist Protest which calls for re-employment of | the strikers only “when conditions| Police yesterday brutally beat and |Ppermit, in cooperation with A. B.| arrested 15 members of the | Patterson of Public Service, Inc. j|munist . Party, including Robert Green is telling the street car| Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, strikers that they “misunderstand,” |and Abraham Markoff, of the Anti- and demands acceptance of his|Fascist League, when several hun- superior judgment and O. K. the be-|dred workers demonstrated before trayal. Even local union officials |the Mexican Consulate in New York admitted today that spproximately |aainst the reign of terror and mass 400 strikers had no chance of re-|arrests of militant workers in Mex- employment under the agreement ico. Six women workers were MEXICAN TERROR Anti - Imperialist, | Com- | | agreement to disseminate at said meetings, the said doctrine of Communism for the purpose of overthrowing the government. * * CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 1 Returning from a suc- cessful union meeting in North Charlotte where a powerful workers’ defense corps was on guard, R. M. Lell and C. D. Saylor, whose kidnapping is.being investigated “impartially” by Solicitor Carpenter, one ef the ringleaders of the attack, were arrested together with six other union and International XOFPi © Labor Defense organizers and * 2 Be publicly disseminating the doctrines of Communism, in order to over- throw by force the existing govern- TRAVEMUENDE, Germany, Sept. | the A. F, of L. is trying to jam down their throats. Martial Law Declared in Paraguay Against Unions, Communists United Press repos from Asun- cion, Paraguay, state that the gov- ernment is undertakin ; a series of ed raids” against unions, Commu- nists and anarchists. Martial law has been declared throughout the country to give the color of legality to the campaign of arrests expected. President Jose P. Guggiara issued | \the declaration. The period of ef- \fectiveness set is three months. Imperialists: Demand It. | Montevedio, Uruguay, near by, | Was the scene of the great congress \for the formation of a Latin-Amer- \ican Confederation of Labor several | months ago, which assembled dele- gates from every country but Chile, jand enthusiastically .organized a | and returned to start a strong ,and militant labor movement. | States dominated. ‘eign imperialism is back of the at- ‘tacks on the labor movement, “Mob terror and judicial tyranny unite in complete fascist solidarity to combat the heroic efforts of the Southern textile workers to organ- ize under the banners of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. Fight Gastonia Fascists! Within a few hours after the! Save Gastonia Prisoners! |Two Day Drive, Sept. 21 and 22, Must Sweep The. shop : Land to Defend Defendants and Strikers | ing workers seeking to defend them- selves against the lynching. gangs | of the employers. Carpenter Led Fascists. The leader of the Gastonia mob, an outstanding figure in the Charlotte NEGRO WORKERS; |among those arrested. The demonstration, organized by the Communist Party and the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, was held in front of the Mexican Consulate at 225 W. 34th St., as a ment of the state of North Caro- lina.” SMASH MEETING In preparation for the attack upon the mass rally scheduled for Saturday, a squad of county police are breaking into the homes of ac- expression of the solidarity of|/Communist Candidates tive ‘unionist. on the “pretext at American workers with the Mexican| } ; searching for liquor, and confiscat- snipen lint ORAEEG THER aes] . — 3 same time, ammunition is - being munist Party illegal, suppressed its St- and Lenox Ave., last night to/gang in a house behind the Work- organ, El Machete, ‘murdered Jose hear Communist candidates and /ers International Relief tent colony Rodriguez, Communist leader, and| ther speakers tell the aims of the | where the rally will be held, in read- deported Cuban-born workers to Communist Party in the city munici-liness for a massacre. Cuba, where the Machado regime Pal elections. A large par of the has jailed or murdered them, ;audience and all of the speakers he come down from a meeting broken Over ©,000 workers from the uy at 137th St. and Seventh Ave. shops and’ offices in the vicinity) Among the speakers were” Charles were attracted to the demonstration, Alexander, Otto Hall, William Z jand many joined in booing of the | Foster, Wm. Sroka, and Wm. Wein- After a pint of liquor had been anted in the room occupied by aroline Drew, relief representative in the South, a warrant for her ar- rest was sworn out, and they are looking for her. |police when the latter displayed) tone.’ The crowd burned red Will Lynch, Says Sheriff. their characteristic brutality against {oy ches, Sheriff Lineberger of Gaston the demonstrating workers. |) “Wicloualy clubbing | the’ women County formally declared to news- | As Robert Minor began to ad-| workers especially, so hard that the dress the workers the police began! sound of blows could be heard for their attempts to smash the demon-|half block, Tammany police stration. While workers marched’ smashed the lection campaign in picket array before the consulate, | meeting of the Communist Party |Italian organizer. Steve Alexander-|great militant trade union center. bearing aloft signs that scored the jast night at 137th St. and Seventh son, president of the union, presided. | Delegates from Paraguay partici- | terrorism of the Gil government and| aye, About 400 were present. The |U. S. imperialism, Minor told of the| meeting started about 8:45, and threw her into the patrolwagon. Placed in Insane Ward. As a result of the brutal hand- ling, Mrs. Scott was unconscious when. thrown into the wagon and oe taken to the ward for insane future, Mrs. Scott has written a letter of protest to Police Commissioner Whal ui has not received any reply, |was released with a warning to |keep off the boardwalk in the U.S.S.R. ORDERS 7 SHIPS. LONDON, Sept. 12.—The Soviet Government is reported to have given a contract of $300,000 to an Aberdeen firm to build seven ships, “lincluding two experimental trawlers. ¥ “What the Gastonia mob of mill| prosecution’ of the 16 strikers and superintendents, failed to accomplish | organizers facing death in the elec- earlier in the week, through kid- | tric chair, now directs the fraudulent napping, beating and threats investigation, of the :ttacks on the lynching, the courts are now striv-| textile organizers. The investiga- ing to fulfill through wholesale jail-| tion is turned into the actual arrest ings and indictments, and disarm- (Continued on Page Two) ‘abs . jattempt of the Portes Gil govern- |from the box upon which he was (standing by a policeman. Imme- diately Markoff jumped upon the \makeshift platform and was also larrested. Speaker after speaker climbed upon the platform to re- | (Continued on Page Two) Tailors Meet Today | delegates conference jealled by the Amalgamated Seetion, |Trade Union Unity League, will be ‘held at 11 a. m, today at Stuyvesant Casin6, Second Ave. and 9th St., at which the question of mobilizing the membership of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union against |the company union polities of the | Sidney Hillman clique will be acted | \upon. Delegates from scores of | tailoring shops are expected to be present. The speakers at the conference will be William Z. Foster, general secretary, Trade Union Unity League; Ben Gold, secretary-treas- Richard B. Moore, Communist can- “ Paraguay is largely controlled by |ment to crush the rising tide of a: samen’ from the 12.—The 13 occupants of the Rohr-| British capital, and is in the throes | militancy among the Mexican wore: cio por aie Nea York, was ‘bach superhydroplane Romar nar-|of a near war with Bolivia, United ers and peasants by declaring the | : y It is thought|Communist Party illegal and impris- day when the giant craft sank after here that the desire to placate for- joning its members. He was pulled) speaking when half a dozen police jcame and ordered the meeting stopped, William Z. Foster, secre- tary of the Communist Party, and W. W. Weinstone, candidate for , Mayor, argued with the police, and explained to them that this is an jelection campaign, that the meeting jis under the auspices of the Com- |munist Party, and that candidates! are speaking. Negro Workers Boo Cops. | The police retreated to the corner, | and Moore continued. ‘Then, with |reinforcements, they returned and | dragged Moore from the platform. (Continued on Page Two) | | In-| Ss. urer, Needle Trades Workers’ dustrial Union; Sam Liptzen, Weisman and A. Osweldo. | Afmong the questions the confer: ences will take up will be the sei! jing out of the tailors in New ¥ Philadelphia and other market |where the company union adzunis tration, in c>»peration with ths em- ployers, reduce wages, lengthea| hours and speed ip the woreers | ‘ paper men and the union officials today that he would “not be able to protect them from a lynching if they hold this meeting tomorrow.” “The only y to avoid a lynch- ing,” said Lineberger, “is to stop the meeting. If it goes ahead as planned, I shall not be able to re- strain those people down in South astonia.” “Organizers of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union have been ar- rested and disarmed to render them helpless to resist the murderous at- tack that is being planned by the mill owners’ gang for next Satur- day afternoon upon the meeting in South Gastonia, which we are thor- oughly determined to carry thru,” (Continued on Page Three) WIR Sends Clothes to Workers in Gastonia cases of clothing were sent by the Workers International Relief this week to Gastonia textile strikers and unemployed Illinois miners, The W.I. R. asks workers to push dispatch of more cases by sending old clothes to the W. I. R. at ‘1 | Union Square, or to stations at 799 Broadwa Hungarian _ Workers’ Home, 350 E. 81st St.; Unity Co- operative House, 1800 Seventh Ave.; United Workers’ Co-operative, 2,800 Bronx Park, E.; Women’s Council, 849 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, or to the Brighton Beach Barber Shop, 249 Brighton Beach Ave. Several