The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1929, Page 1

| Vol. VI, No. 164 ‘RADNIK’ BANNED BY CANADA GOV'T Fear “Radnik,” Slav | TORONTO; Ont., Sept. 15.—Fol- No when the Freiheit, New York Yid- THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Baily FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879. 3 Com) Ine. ye Published datly except Sunday by The Comprodaily Pablii 26-28 Union Square. New York City, YX. Sn SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. * Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1929 The Murder of Ella Is a Challenge to the Work- ing Class of America Gastonia has become the signal for the whole working class of America to mobilize, not only on behalf of the sec- tion of workers in North Carolina, but on its own behalf against the offensive of the capitalists. The events of last week in Gastonia show the boss-class offensive in full drive. After the declaration of a mistrial and the glimpse it revealed of sympathy for the Gastonia defendants, the terror broke out again in full force. On Monday, a band of 500 mill owners and their thugs in 100 automobiles terrorized the textile towns of North Carolina, and seught to torture or kill all the union organizers. The next day several of the victims of this all-but-successful lynching were able to identify some dozen of the capitalist mob-leaders, including Carpenter, the attorney for the state prosecution, and Bulwinkle, a leader of the mill owners. On Wednes- day, the governor of North Carolina a«tually charged this same Car- accused! On Thursday, two of the victims of the outrage and six other workers were seized by the police without warrant and without any charge being preferred and a day later were charged with sedition and attempt to overthrow the government of North Carolina—with a half-dozen shotguns, On Saturday a mass trade union meeting had been called for Gastonia. The workers thronging to it were forced,back by detach- ments of automobiles full of gunmen. One truckload of Bessemer City textile workers was pursued by two automobiles. One went ahead and blocked the truck, the other rode past and fired upon the pas- , sengers with deadly effect. Ella Mays Wiggins, a woman textile worker, mother of five young children, hey killed outright. The brutal terror of Gastonia does not stand alone. Throughout the whole United States, the imperialists are striving to stem the new oncoming tide of revolutionary working class struggle, by every means in their power, by recourse to terror and repression. From the sharpening contradiction between the greatly expanded productive powers of U. S. imperialism and its shrinking market, the capitalists seek a-way-out at the expense of the working class. By means of speed-up, stretch-out, by wage cuts, by mass unemployment, they would increase the exploitation of the workers. The resistance of the workers, their refusal to submit to the con- sequences of capitalist rationalization, alarms the capitalist class, who meet every strike, every movement to organize the unorganized, every propaganda of resistance and of turning the resistance into a prole- tarian offensive, by the most brutal and bloody grepression." Not only in Gastonia, but everywhere this terror is launched—in New Orleans against the carmen on strike, in New York against the street demonstrations of the Communist Party, in Chicago against the Gastonia protest meetings. As the imperialists intensify every day their feverish war prep- arations, they seek by every means to break and destroy the working class resistance, so that “their rear” may be secured when they enter upon the second world war. Gastonia, therefore, being the sector of the working class front which is the first to bear the full brunt of the boss-class offensive, must be a signal to the whole working class of the U. S. to mobilize for resistance. The ruthless action of the Gastonia gunmen against the organ- | izers and members of a fighting trade union, means not a defeat of the union, not a set-back in the struggle. (Not one, not one, nor thousands must they slay but one and all if they would dusk the d But on the contrary, the raising of the struggle to a higher phase from an economic fight to a political struggle, to a stage of naked class conflict, to a confrontation in class warfare of the U, S. work- ers and U. S. capitalism, with all its apparatus of police and judges and guns and thugs. To withstand this general capitalist onslaught a real mass mobil- ization of the working class is needed. Such a mobilization must proceed on the basis of a united front of all workers from below, on the basis of steady energetic work inside the shops and factories. “To the masses! To the masses in the workshops!” Thus only | can the mobilization be carried through. In evéry shop it is necessary to create Workers Defense Commit- tees which shall gather together the workers for protest against the bloody deeds of Gastonia. Shop meetings must be held to elect these Committees of Workers Defense. Protest demonstrations must be organized, strikes must be prepared. The working class of the U. S., under the leadership of the Communist Party, takes up the challenge of the American capitalist class. Over the torn body of Ella May Wiggins, the working class takes up the challenge, and will defend its right to organization, the right of all workers to organize and to defend themselves and their organiza- tions against the attacks of the gunmen, the police, and the whole state apparatus, corrupt, bloody and murderous. The Workers Defense Committees will prepare mass meetings, will prepare mass strikes against the Gastonia terror; will fight for the disarmament of the fascist thugs. Workers! Elect your Defense Committees! and Saznanie, Bulgarian weekly. The new drive on ‘the foreign- language Communist press forms part of the repressive measures against workers’ organizations in- tensified by the government early | this year last winter. The suppression has reached a etsehac mtas raom fthtaom ahtam a city ordinances speeches other than} ‘in the English language are forbid- j |den in public halls, and where hall-! | owners renting to Communists | sacrifice their license automatically. The drive is not confined to inside activities. Open air meetings called | by the Communist Party or the; Canadian Labor Defense, which is | defending in the courts workers ar- | rested in the free speech fight. given| Language bureaus of the United P States Communist Party are joining th Communist daily, was banned the widespread campaign of protest a second time early this year. | and are sending resolutions protest- er papers forbidden entry into ing against the banning of workers’ ida are Uj Elore, Hungarian | press to the Canadian ambassador + Il Lavoratore, Italian weekly, !at Washington. D. C. Communist Paper \g its banning of four Commu- it papers from importatinn into nada, the Dominion government, iving no reason, has informed the adnik, South Slav Communist er published in Chicago, that it been barred from the mails, “explanation” was penter to inquire into the outrage of which he had been formally | GHANG'S MURDER OF PRISONERS Disease Rages Through Concentration Camps Says Soviet Note \Find Corpses Each Day Manchurian Business at Standstill BULLETIN MOSCOW, Sept. 15.—The Peo- ple’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, in a note to Germany made public tonight, geiterated its charges of mist-eatment of Soviet Union citizens in China, citing a record of arrests and murders. Disease is spreading in the con- centration camps and the headless corpses of Soviet citizens are found almost daily, the note said. A reply from the Nanking gov- ernment rejecting the Soviet con- ditions for an amicable settlement was made public yesterday. * * * Capitalist press correspondents in Manchuria report that trade and production is at a standstill in the whole northern part, The Trans-Siberian Railway car- ried principally through trade from one Siberian border to the other, and with the seizure of the road, this stopped. It has made no money for its Mukden managers. ition, a reign Of terror cre- lated by the troops of Chang Hsuch- liang has spread along the whole line, and no Soviet citizen will work for it. The fear of what will hap- pep if imperialist pressure actually hurls large forces of Chanf’s army against the Red Army, has caused the native and white guard Russian merchants to nail up their doors, and move their stocks of goods southward. + * Troops Mutiny. SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 15.— The United Press feeling that their officers are graft- ling the pay they should have, are |turning robbers and pirates. | | high point in Toronto, where by|f Norwegian it went They capture] the teamship Botmia when ficers for $250,000 ransome. INDICT 26 THIS WK. ON SEDITION CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—This week will doubtless see the actual indict- ments chargir® sedition returned against the 26 members of the Inter- national Labor Defense charged with holding a Gastonia Protest Demon- GASTONIA BOSSES’ GUNMEN KILL WOMAN MILL WORKER ALL WORKERS OUT TO MASS FUNERAL ON TUESDAY ! Figgins USSR POINTS TO Ella Wiggins, |4,000 MINERS — Fearless Class . War Fighter | Ella May Wiggins, who was mur- | |dered Saturday night while going | to the South Gastonia meeting, was | a fearless leader of the North Caro- lina textile strikers. When the ce was called in Bessemer City, | affecting four mills, Ella May. was among the first to join the National Textile Workers Union, and to enter) {the strike, She was a member of the strike committee in Bessemer City, was active in the union, the| | International Labor Defence and the | ) Workers International Relief work! | there. | In the strikers’ delegation to the | | United States Senate, last spring, Ella May displayed the same fear-| lessness in exposing the lies of Sen-/| ator Overman of North Carolina, to his face, in the Capitol building | (Continued on Page Three) LEAGUE. DEFENDS ARABIAN. REVOLT ‘Anti-Imperialists Call Workers to Assist While press reports from Pales- tine over the week end told of fur- ther terror against the Arabian peasantry by British troops, many \arrests and preparations for mas§ trials, and the League of Jewish Revisionists met Saturday night in Irving Plaza, New York, to demand | that the head of the official Zionist | organization be replaced with a) man whose policy would be to turn \the whole Zionist -population. into an organized armed force with Bri- \tish officers, the All-America Anti- Imperialist League, U. S. Section, issued a statement from the world organization against imperialism. denouncing Zionist-imperialist activ- | ities in Palestine. The proelama tion in part is as follows: ‘| “A bloody conflict on a hitherto} unprecedented scale has broken out| in Palestine between the Arab in-| correspondent habitants and the immigrant Zionist! and 105th St., here reports that starving soldiers | population artificially imported into|the six months sentence of Harry of the Nanking government army Palestine under the notorious Bal-| Eisman, a Pioneer, for his activi ‘four Declaration. This general re- | Continued on Page Three) — | | as stration in Grant Park, June 15. This new charge was threatened ground in the river near Haichow one week ago when State’s Attorney | demonstration in front of the Amer-} esterday, and are holding the of-| Everett 0. Hutchins appeared be-|ican Society for the Prevention of fore Judge John H. Lyle and de-| manded warrants based on an al- leged violat:.1 of the state anti-| sedition act adopted in the post- war year 1919. | | After the defendants appeared | last Monday before Judge Gaentzal, | in response to a writ of habeas cor- pus granted in July freeing the ‘prisoners on reduced bail, when! Judge Lyle ‘fixed bonds at an ex-| |horbitant amount, the hearing was |_postponed one week until tomorrow. | Last Monday, Judge Lyle went through the gesture of revoking the | “(Continued on Page Three) ‘Mass Protest, SaveGaston Prisoners’: Melvin Declares Bosses Desperate Before Growth of National Textile Workers Union “When workers left their looms, and rushed to volunteer their aid to defend uz, when they heard of the fascist raids last Monday night, we knew the days of Man- ville - Jenckes starvation rule Gastonia num- Sophie Melvin, nine- teen years old, looking so young one can’t imagine che is held on charges of first degree murder, made this statement upon her arrival in New York last night, Bosses Sce Workers’ Victory “Every conceivable form of terror is being used against the National Mass Aid Will Textile Workers Union, the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Work- ers’ International Relief, but the bosses see defeat staring them in the face,” she said. Must Recognize Union. “The bosses use every conceivable form of hypocrisy to becloud the issue of organizing the workers into a ~ "tant pries -ad thes charges show they -- desperate in face of the growth of +’ > National Tc~tile Workers Union.” Although Sophie Melvin is out on $5,000 bail, together with Vera Bush and Amy Schechter, and the mill bosses’ attorneys have declared they will not press for “electrocu- tion” for the women, the charges of first degree murder against them | stand unchanged, Murder Charge Not Changed. “They have not changed the | charges against us,” Melvin said, “and, believe me, we have little faith in ‘Southern chivalry.’ “The many resolutions and peti- Continued on Page Three) | liery. |lieries operated by the Glen Alden | |Has Been Repudiated ARMED FASCISTS AMBUSH WORKERS ON WAY FROM THE UNION MEETING: “GOAL WAGE GUT!“ VOLLEY KILIS ELLA MAY WIGGINS Actively Attemptng ae toDrive Them Back County Solicitor Rhodes Identified Leading Murderers; Not Arrested, Tonk ¢ | Six Other Killers Out on Light Bonds; I. L. D. Reporters Jailed Workers Assail Boylan, Declare They Will Tie Manville-Jenckes Committee of 100, and Local Reactionaries Break Up Other Collieries Meeting; Workers Planning More Mass Demonstrations WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Sept STRIKE AGAINST COAL WAGE CUT BULLETIN. oe Ce a eared in GASTONIA, N. C., Sept. 15.—The National Textile Workers’ Union is planning a Loomis, Pa. The miners were cut mass funeral to take place in Bessemer City for Ella May Wiggins. The forces that rule Gaston County are attempting to rush the funeral through immediately to prevent a mass demonstration of the thousands of textile workers who are outraged at the mur- der. Indignation is mounting high throughout the textile counties of North Carolina. * * * The Loomis Col- col- $3.00 on a yard. is one of some twenty Coal Co., the Anthracite Coal Fields. The Glen Alden Coal Co. operat- ors are some of the most ruthless exploiters in the anthracite. They pay for loading a five ton car what some collieries pay for loading a three ton car. The coal operators in | The National Textile Workers’ Union has called upon every worker in every mill, shop and factory in the textile region of the Piedmont district to throw down-his tools, leave off all work on Tuesday—and attend the funeral of Ella May Wiggins, murdered Saturday by the thugs of the textile mill bosses. m All out Tuesday! To the funeral of our martyred dead! * —. oe GASTONIA, N. C. Sept. 15—Ella May Wiggins, one of the most active’ National September, 1930. Several coal com- | Textile Workers’ Union organizers, a worker from Bessemer City, was trapped and deliber- panies have already cut wages, with | qtely murdered by mill owners’ gunmen while giding in a truck with 20 other Bessemer City the Boylan-Lewis machine having workers who had been trying to travel to the South Gastonia mass meeting Saturday. Deeseeer En BIST Ae eae | County Commissioner C. J. Rhodes was identified as among the assassins, John Boylan, president of District | , gis 3 i - JES 1, United Mine Workers of Americzs The mass meeting was advertised after Hugo Oehler, Southern organizer of the Na- (Continued .on Page Three) tional Textile Workers’ Union, and others had been set upon by an organized gang of some ‘ $00 of the Manville-Jenckes Committee of 100 and local reactionary elements incited by them POLICE BREAK UP st": Sheriff Lineberger of Gaston County had practically advertised to the world that. he would condone any murderous action the mill owners desired to take to prevent the<organiza- PIONEERS’ RALLY tion of the Pinckney mill in South Gastonia, when he stated last Thutsday that, “if the meet+ |ing were held, he would be unable to prevent a lynching, and that the only way to stop keen |‘those people in South Gastonia’ is to call off the mass meeting.” Jail 26, Including . Starting from the Loray mill, and under the leadership of bosses in the mill, the Man- Yi Cc nist ville-Jenckes Committee of 100 Saturday afternoon paraded to the speaking grounds in South oung Communists | Gastonia before the hour set for the meeting. They were accompanied by several hundred local Twenty-six members of the Young |Teactionaries—businessgmen and hangers on of the mills, many of them with cars. Pioneers and the Young Communist | © They threw armed guards out on all of the roads to the League were arrested Saturday af-| T N speaking grounds, and abusively drove back with threats of ternoon: when holding “an open air 0 death workers attempting to come to the meeting. demonstration at Lexington Ave. AR re 7 . protesting against _Ella May Wiggins, mother of five children, an active or- FIGHT AGAINST ganizer and speaker at all union and International Labor De- |fense or Workers International Relief meetings in this part against the Boy Scouts. He is in| !of North Carolina, was in a truck with 20 other Bessemer pelinaet eay at ae GENERAL TERRO City workers. When the truck from Bessemer City neared fee ciate Hamu Gt ine |South Gastonia, it was met by the armed guards, and the Pioncars wed Laagte first held a| driver forced to return the way it had come. It was fol- Campaign Comm. Calls it is not an accident that this fo OWC4 by cars loaded with Cruelty to Children, Fifth Ave. and For All to Rally hoe cataneie ea GLa tee | When the truck fia Se seseded 105th St. They carried many ban- ino: & é militant shoe workers in New York, |Some distance, a car owned one ners, some of them reading: “Free| «phe violent suppression of Com- savawiipathe -aidiot tia’ h een VR Te Moreen eatin eoeeye ef i ar : Bee sete ere eee. thease | mmntat Party meetings in Browns-| force the foreign-born workers to and forced it to stop, One carlond (Continued on Page Two) {ville and Negro Harlem and of the | pegicter, and the Chicago authorities of assassins then swept. past it, ene a |demonstration of the Anti-Imperial-| pjacing a charge of sedition against Pouring a volley of shots=into the Communists Ref ute * League before the Mexican con- 4 score of militants for taking part Closely packed workers standing in < Ree sulate by the Tammany police, ac-/j, 4 meeting held in behalf of the the truck. One bullet struck Ella Slander That Williams companied with numerous arrests | Gastonia defendants, May Wiggins in the right breast and brutal clubbing of scores of Secialiata Help Poll and inflicted a wound from which workers in the audiences, is part of | a b Gs is ve ae inst She died within a short time. a premeditated drive by the capi- n this attac! rected agains‘ aks The Negro Department of the talist class against the militant, the whole working class the Bomaes | eegted beside eaceniedOe of “the Communist Party ished a state- | vanguard of the working class,” is have the aid of the socialist party | truck, declares thats Morrow: -detib- ment denouncing ther slanderous | the declaration of the Election Cam- and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats. | orately headed it off=and stowed. it statement of the capitalist Press |paign Committee of the Communist | While the socialists and Musteites | gown, to seacthe sad id te that Harold Williams, a Negro |Party of the U. S. A., New York|Mouth progressive phrases and pro-|tina‘y tareet, urderers. a sta- Communist, was not representing | District, in a statement made public | fess opposition to the strikebreaking | rah * 3 the Party at the meeting last Thurs- jast night. |policies of the A. F. L. leadership,| Solicitor Carpenter,“ who day at Stone and Pitkins Ave. The 4 in order to hold back the workers |¢Vidence of the victims. kidnapped, meeting was “attacked by Zionists Accompanies Lynch Law. \ rom following the leadership of the !¢¢ @ Manville-Jenckes gang. that and broken up by the police. “It is no. mere coincidence,” the Communist Party, they prove them-| tok R. M. Lell, Ben Wels and C. D, The statement says: “Harold | statement says,” that this violence|seives tools of the bosses by their |5@vlor out of cheir boarding house Williams of the Communist Party of the New York police takes place |actions in every decisive situation, | TUesday with intent to lynch them, was officially assigned to speak at|on the very day when the North Overcome Obstacles. jand actually did beat Wells nearly this meeting. ‘We are not surprised |Carolina mill owners establish the! “There can be no doubt that this |t? death, is now pretending to head at the reports of the capitalist supremacy of lynch law in Gastonia concerted attack on the Communist ® Coroner’s jury probe of the kill- press, in their reference to the fact |and the official authorities use|Party will find further expression i of Ella May Wiggins. that the Communist Party repudi-|every “legal” pretext to throw into|in the coming weeks and months. It George B. Linglefoot, the driver ated Williams’ alleged connections, |prison not the lynchers but all the|is certain that the only political of the truck, testified before the This only proves that the bourgeois |active union and defense workers.’ (Continued on Page Two) | jury: : press will stoop to anything in or-| ——-——— ti <iiitatertes She Sapo a 5 | “One automobile catcin @head of Over Body of Labor’s Latest der to justify their leadership ove: us and forced us to:ruq into a the masses of people, to claim that (Continued on Page Three) Martyr Build Gaston Defense Internation! Labor Defense Appeals for Aid SLUGS UNION MAN in fighting for one common cause, the annihilation of the present sys- tem of capitalist: oppression, Following Murder of Ella May Wiggins — | Max Fortal, a cloakmaker and | member of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, was murder- ously assaulted when on his way to work at 1370 Broadway, by Sam Greenberg, a well-known gangster of the scab International Garment Union. Fortal “was hit arp instrument and had stitches taken. in- his: head. When arraigned in Jefferson. Mar- Business Men's Press. “These same papers are owned | and controlled by big business men, ! such as real estate, landlords, ete. : Naturally, the workers of America, | Workers! Mob violence, this me Solicitor John G. Carpenter, of black and white, cannot expect to resulting in outright brutal murder,! Gastonia, who was recognized in the get justice at the hands of these has again been invoked by the mill| mob that kidnapped and murder-| papers, since the interest. of each millionaires of Gastonia, North Ca-| ously lashed Saylor, Lell and Wells, class fundamentally oppose> the |rolina, to defeat the efforts of the | last Monday night, announces with other, and can expect the truth only workers to build their forces under | the other officers of the law as from such papers as the Daily | the Icadership of the National Tex-| usual that they have some clues, Worker, the official organ of tho tile Workers | but that “the identity of the men Communist Party, the Party ef the| It has left dend and mangled) who did the shooting had not been working man and the oppressed Ne- | Workers in its wake, arrests have | discovered.” ket Court, Greenberg was charged gro, as well as such papers as the | been made, but not of the assassins) Everybody Knows the Murderers. | with felonious assault and released of the Manville-Jenckes Corpora-| There can be no mystery about,on $3,500 bail until bad 80th. Negro champion and other working | class papers.” y #4)" yf ~.P tion's faacist “Black Hundreds.” | __ (Continued on Page Two) sex. Greenburg.