The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1929, Page 3

Laie = iil a liiaiadll Page Three ™ DAILY WORKER ARAB VILLAGES; THREATEN DEATH Abuse Peasants; Zion- ists Killed Many Heavily armed British patrols are rushing through the villages of Palestine, searching houses, arrest-| ing men, and threatening the whole Arab population that their rifles and machine guns will be loosed on them and wipe them out if they are not absolutely submissive, say capi- talist press dispatches from Jeru- salem. One of the officers in a patrol ac- companied by a correspondent is quoted as saying, after terrorizing a peaceful village: “That is. why these patrols are valuable: for the moral effect on the Arabe. The pa- trols put the fear of god in them.” Machine Guns, One such campaign is described as being made by a platoon of the King’s Regiment, and a platoon of the South Wales Borderers, with a machine gun detachment equipped with eight guns. They rode in mo- tor trucks and smashed through three villages in a single afternoon, stopping all work, insulting the vil- lage officials, lecturing them sev- erely in Arabic, forcing all the men to come from the houses, which were being searched, and sit under guard of bayonets while they listened, The women are abused and driven to the house tops, where they must watch their men facing the ring of British bayonets, and looking into the muzzles of machine guns. Zionists Ambush Arabs, The evidence is so clear that the Zionists at Acre attacked the Arabs instead of the other way around, that 44 of them have been arrested by the government in a gesture of “fairness” and confined in the citadel there, to await trial for am- bushing and murdering peasants and workers, They are not considered in any particular danger, and the Zionist flour mill at Haifa and bakeries are providing them with good food, and making much over them. NMU INVADING MINGO COUNTY “Intto the South,” Is Miners’ Ne wSlogan (Continued from Page One) which the tremendous interest, en- thusiasm and readiness to organize under militant leadership, indicate will be successful, are scheduled for the near future. According to the announcement, the campaign will center in South- ern West Virginia, Eastern and and Western Kentucky and the coke region of Southeastern Pennsyl- vania. Squads of rank and file or- ganizers, under the supervision of the Executive Board, have been as- signed, and will organize represent- ative conferences in each of the sections. The main Southern conference is tentatively set for Charleston, West Virginia, Preceding the Charleston Conference, a number of sectional and State conferences, in Eastern and Western Kentucky, Northern West Virginia (Morgantown-Fair- mont), in the Georges Creek coal belt of Maryland, as well as the Up- per Potomac field of Maryland are scheduled. . Tremendous obstacles confront the Union in its work in Southern West Virginia, for practically every town is closed and admittance refused un- less the “proper” credentials are shown. Coal company gunmen are here in hundreds. Scores of deputy sheriffs, deputized by the state but employed by the coal companies, also exist. These gunmen exert ex- treme vigilance to keep unionism out of the region. Company spies and stool-pigeons pollute the region from end to end. Thirty thousand circulars are be- ing distributed to the Southern West Virginia miners, calling on them to mobilize for the big Charleston con- ference, organize and strike for union wages, hours and working conditions, Organization work in the Northern West Virginia area, involving the Morgantown, Fair- mont section is already under way. The Northern West Virginia Con- ference will include the Georges Creek and Upper Potomac coal fields of Maryland. Rank and file organizers already report good re- sults from these fields where union has not existed for many years. At the same time, the National Miners Union is callenging the gun- men rule of the coal barons in the invamous “coke region” of South- eastern Pennsylvania, where 60,000 miners are held in virtual slavery by the Frick, Rainey companies as well as in Westmoreland and Somer- set counties. The entire organizational drive is under the direct supervision of the Executive Board. In all this organization work, the utilization of squads of rank and file volunteer organizers will play a major pa “Into the South,’ the slogan laid down at the Cleveland T. U. U. L. Convention is being put into effect with a bang. CALCUTTA, India, Sept. 17.— |With shouts from the throng of | workers and peasants along the way of, “Long live the revolution,” “Down with the British govern- ment,” the body of Jatinranath Das, who died from hunger striking last week, was borne in funeral proces- sion yesterday. | along an eight mile route to Keora- tala, and many more thousands as- sembled to demonstrate against the | Anglo-British government as the procession passed. Das was one of those arrested in the British government’s drive against officials of trade unions, and members of the Communist Party, He went on hunger strike against the brutalities in prison, and the warders calmly let him starve to death. WELLS EVIDENCE IS RULED OUT Barred Since He “Does Not Believe in God” (Continusd from Page One) finished his testimony, one of the Manville-Jenckes lawyers asked him if he believed that god would punish him if he lied to the court. Rule Out. Wells said he did not believe in any such superstition. The lawyers then demanded that his testimony be stricken out as his lack of belief in god disqualifies him as a witness in North Carolina. The judge ruled that Wells should be disqualified. This means that no one who does not state on the stand that he Shares this medieval superstition is disqualified to testify in court. In Charlotte, for the past three days the Manville-Jenckes lawyers, napping Wells, Saylors and Lell and up alibis for their clients and the superintendents and hirelings of the Loray and other mills. They have brought into court business men, mill superintendents and offi- cials, all enemies of the workers and of the union, willing to swear to anything to help their fellow members of the bosses’ black hun- dreds, Leaders in the gang that beat Wells, that were recognized by a number of witnesses were able to “prove that they were far from the scene of the crime,” by the perjured testimony of their fellow conspira- tors against the union, in other words, the ones who were not recog- nized and arrested. Try To Get Unions. The principle purpose of the charges of conspiring to overthrow the government placed against the eight National Textile Workers Union members, and which were dismissed Monday because of the resentment of the workers, who clearly saw them as part of a plan to disarm workers so that they could be more easily murdered by the bosses, had another purpose. They were intended to outlaw the National Textile Workers Union ard all other workers organizations. This has been temporarily de- feated. will be taken to assist the murder- ous offensive of the bosses by out- lawing all organizations in which Communists are active is to be seen in the pronouncements of Governor O. Max Gardner of the past few days and statements of other state officials calling for “legal” meas- ures to help the fascist attacks led by the mill owners. Boss Press Calls On State. The newspaper editorials are also howling for state action against all Communist activities, at the same tioning the terrorism and murder that has already taken place. The murderous attacks of the bosses’ black }-undreds of Monday ‘Down With England”! Shout Indian Throngs At Funeral of J. Das Thousands accompanied the bier | defending in the preliminary hear-| ings, the fourteen charged with kid- | flogging Wells, have been framing | But that new measures) time condoning or even openly sanc-| BULGAR COUNTER REVOLUTIONISTS. KILL TWO MORE Workers Demonstrate | Over Sports Meeting (Wireless By Inprecorr) VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 17.— Reports reached here yesterday from Sofia, Bulgaria, of two mur- ders in that country, on September |15. The victims are Athanas Spa- jsitch, a photographer, and Mikolov, a lawyer. The murderers are prob- |ably Macedonian counter-revolution- | ists. On Sunday the nationalist sports union meeting took place in the in- dustrial district of Kreiskirchen, in | spite of the Socialist appeal to boy- | cott it. | The workers, under the leadership | of the Communists, conducted coun- | ter demonstrations. and Saturday are compared favor- ably to the Boston tea party by the editors of the Southern capitalist | press. | Fake Probe of Murder. | The white washing proceedings went on in both Gastonia and Char- | lotte Sunday and Monday. The coroner’s inquest was held |Sunday in Gastonia by Solicitor | Carpenter, one of the ringleaders lof the bosses, offensive. He was forced by outraged popular opinion to take some action and after a fake investigation had six of the hirelings of the Manville-Jenckes | Company arrested. Manager Baugh Jof the Loray mill, where they are jall hired, signed their bond of | $1,000 each, Already the Manville-Jenckes | lawyers are preparing alibis and perjured testimony and working |feverishly to clear their hirelings of the murder of Ella May. | One More Liar. The superintendent of the Amer- jican Spinning Mills in Bessemer City, G. R. Spencer, testified at the inquest that the shot that murdered Ella May came from behind a nearby house, not from the cars full of thugs that had chased the work- lers’ truck from Gastonia. The manager also charged that the workers in the truck had guns, It is evident that the state will at- tempt to clear the thugs and fasten the guilt on the unarmed workers \themselyes, who-were atacked. At |the inquest the driver and other workers on the truck testified to |the facts of the murder, how the |truck with over 20 Bessemer City workers was turned back when it |approached the South Gastonia |speaking grounds, was trapped and wrecked by a car driven by the thug Morrow and how the mill bosses and their gunmen in the other cars pulling alongside of it opened fire jand killed Ella May, besides wound- |ing two other workers. | Many of the worker witnesses |were not summoned at all, Attor- lmeys for the International Labor | Defense who were present were told |to “keep out of this.” ‘To Hold Cleaning and ‘Dyeing Workers Shop Delegate Conference A shop delegate conference of cleaners and dyers will be held soon, it was decided recently at a meet- |ing called by the cleaners and |Dyers Section, Trade Union Unity |League and held at the Workers | Center, 26-28 Union Square, Re- | ports were given on shop conditions |and it found that the need of form- jing shop committees at the present ‘time is absolutely necessary. L. ‘Hoffman, of the Laundry Drivers Section, T. U. E. L., report- |ed on the Cleveland Convention and |called for,a united struggle of all |laundry, cleaning and dyeing workers. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Citadel of the A American working class. 15 cents ( Place your orde: 43 EAST 125TH STREET GASTONIA in the New South By WM. F. DUNNE HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the by 4 veteran of the class struggle. To place this pamphlet in the bands of American workers is the duty of every class-conscious worker who realizes that the struggle in the South is bound up with the fundamental interests of the whole American working WORKERS [LIBRARY PUBLISHERS and all Workers Book Shops Class Struggle a ‘All But Two Brussels Shoe Factories. are Idle Thru Strike, Lockout BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 17.— There are 2,000 shoe workers locked jaut here, and in addition the work- ers in two more factories, the Franz |Fils and the Sanders firms, have struck. There are only two Brus- sels shoe district factories operat- ing, the La Chaussures and the Chaussures St. Martin, Two other districts are working, the Iseghem and the Turnhout, All \the work in these districts is done |by hand. The cost of living in these districts is lower than in Brussels, and the wages about the same. A strike meeting last week re- fused the offers of the Brussels em- ployers. | Shoe Union Hits A.F.L. U.S. Labor Department ‘Attack on the Toilers The attack against the Independ- !ent Shoe Workers Union by the U. the American Federation of Labor and the Association of Shoe Manu- facturers, is assailed in a statement issued by the Joint Council of the union. Letters were recently sent by the Labor Department to all shoe manufacturers having agreements with the union, in which they were instructed to break their contracts, “This atttack is made against us,” the statement points out, “because we have successfully organized the shoe workers and achieved job con- trol under the workers’ direction that strikes fear into the hearts of the bosses who are exploiting work- ers to the very marrow of the bone. Want To Lower Wages. “The statement made about our union being a Communist organiza- tion is just camouflage to cover the true intent and ultimate object— namely to re-establish the open shop with low wages, long hours, speed- up and the yellow dog contract for which the workers are compelled to deposit $100.00 and be faithful wage slaves to the bosses. ‘ “The charge that our general manager, Brother Biedenkapp is not a citizen is a brazen lie—Brother Biedenkapp was raised in New York City and is a citizen of over 20 years standing. “The attempt on the part of the police to force workers to sign ques- tionnaires against their will is noth- ing less than Tzarism intended to intimidate and frighten workers— particularly ‘the foreign born non- citizen workers —into submission and to intimidate them by threaten- ing deportation, ete. all of which we oppose with all our might. “We have paid bitterly for what won and we don’t propose it taken from us—the road to have backward is closed—we march for- ward only.” Italian and Russian Courses to be Given at Workers School The Italian and Russian Bureaus of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. announced yesterday the Workers School for courses in the Italian and Russian languages, as well as in English for the training of active militant organizers, among the foreign born workers and the drawing of the mass of these for- eign born workers more closely to the class struggle in the United States. For the Italian Bureau L. Can- della announced the organization of one course in Fundamentals of Com- munism and another in the History of the Labor Movement, both to be given in the Italian language. In addition to that, all Italian workers are asked to join the English classes class analyzed and described per copy postage) r today with the NEW YORK CITY Eighth ‘Strikers of the U.S. Metals Retining Co. | BRITISH RAIDING completion of arrangements of the) Will Remain Out Solidly, Say s Correspondent 10 FIGHT BATTLE Entire Families Slave in Roberts Canning Company ENGINEER UNION WITHOUT BENEFIT OF GREEN, A FL Stick to Their Militant | Demands (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md. (By Mail).— “Beat it, here comes the inspector!” “All kids who have no permits, joutside the back door!” | “Don’t worry, your pay goes on | just the same!” This is whet I heard in one of the | Baltimore canneries. This was just | before the inspector arrived. I would |not have believed it had I not been there myself. | How the “Inspector” Inspects. | (By a Worker Correspondent) | CARTERET, N. J. (By Mail). — {On the morning of Sept. 10 the ru- | mor spread over the U. S. Metals Hie tergeetiint sat Gin iyeees ate | jobs and made themselves scarce un- not report to work. Thevelectri-| i! after the visit of the “inspector.” |cians, bricklayers and masons went |— cursory glance over the factory, | in order to eke out bare lhome at noon and the tank men{2 joke with the foreman, and the|Children who are too | followed i “inspector” was off again. So much| string beans tend the ba All Men Out! | Slave 12-16 Hours a Day. , The afternoon shift reported to| J got a job at the R. H. Robert |work and finished their work at 12| cannery but only lasted three da midnight. Nobody reported at 12| that night. The followir., morning}, man’s wage of thirty cents an| |2,500 workers appeared at the gate/hour, A number of kids did the ; tory. All the strikers, as one, chat-| cents an hour, ted and joked with each other. | Without Benefit of Green. The foremen and subs joined with tered the gates, It was a 100 per/hour. cent strike. Thus we organized |workers, without the “leadership” of | Women Collapse. Among the dust and the heat | |these women a terrific lapsing are not sult of these ec allowed for lunch but blows several minutes ing time and not the workers are eral minutes. off for supper. man, reminds us that if we Children of 8, 10 and 12 left their more we will get ho: |for the child labor laws of Maryland. | their mothers are wor |fore midnight it i As I was 21 years of age I received to bed S. Department of Labor, assisted by |to see if any scab entered the fac-|same work for wages of 15 and 20 will continue. On For this munificent ers org \salary we lugged forty and sixty the Com |pound cases of vegetables, for 12 the parasites off their backs and 16 hours a day. Women work- workers in ‘the workers outside and no man en-,ing on the belt receive 25 cents an slavery end and will the women ‘OFFICIALS OF PAID ROYALLY Of Course; They Con- trol the Funds (By a Worker ( CHICAGO | part ¢ Thirty minutes are su N After 10 p. m., P. H,, t me ear Entire Families S$ Whole families slave ae s heen spent nd local , secre- ng. Ju young children ha Organize! are w Whil we nize under the | unist Party 100 to 200 mer ployed and \ existence Russia did will children be especially c 1 fo they are in the U.S. S. R. L. W. B. i of |Mr. Green and Woll and Co. and walk out to a man and demand our rights. Whet are our demands? The walkout is evidence that we are | demanding what we are entitled to. | In the past few months the company | initiated the so-called bonus system.| \It is a bonus for 100 per cent at- tendance, If a worker does not miss (By a Worker Correspondent) attendance receiving 45 cents hour normal rate get 49% with bonus. If a man feels ill and stays home| the representatiy a0 'T,, the militants of the rank and file cents | weeks. day before we walked out stating the losing of one day a week affects the bonus, When the management ‘ discovered that the bonus did not/|fleor for 5 minutes. ing the electric chair. posted stating chat the bonus sys-/ the local union. et tem was abolished and the 5 cents /N¢SS manager was at the meeting walked out demanding 10 cents an|"0unced the militant, hour increase in wages and time and ‘a half for Sunday work . The shift men, numbering about 1,500, work 7 days a week, no rest except on Christmas and July 4. The| rank and file membership. Yes, if pee ia henry wad dangerome. Most) A, or, of La tank aud file could { jof the workers must wear respira- Ramee g ity Hi | 7 e the prosperity Hoover and { |tors and goggles. The dust, smol ° | Green have, sure they would do very | | ys [ene be santa Working seven well, We know very well that Mr. | days a week at straight time in|” , | gaseous places and at 49% cents to|/Green with his company draws a) |57 cents an hour is what we would | big salary from the A. F. of L. and tips from the bosses. a gL Nal OR We workers know better than any We denand 10 cents On: hour in-|0ne else that we need industrial crease, abolition of the bonus sys- wont which apainde all Saker tem, and time and a half for Sunday |*T0™ Sweepers up to mechanics, lwork, We wil stick 100 per cent|Which will stand and fight for the | |till we win. Unemployed workers, | Tight of all workers. Then we will | accept no jobs in New York for the| Wik U, S, Metals Refining Co., Carteret, | Bae MAXIM TRAMP. Chemists’ Wage Plea | ‘Endorsed By (. . of the richest countries in world,” PAINTER. where special attention will be paid |to the correction and accent. The Union of Technical Men | G, Rubin announced for the Rus-|/has issued a statement endorsing sian Bureau the organization of two|the demands for an increase in jcourses in the Russian Language, in| wages by the chemists employed by jaddition to the special English| the City of New York. | lcourses for Russian workers. The| The statement points out that the |first of these is the History of the | chemists are asking for a minimum | American Labor Movement with in-| salary of $2,160, and proportional | istructor B, Borisov, and History of | salaries fo sitions of higher re- | the American Labor Movement, in-| sponsibility. “The Union of Tech- |structor to be announced. nical Men,” it continues, “urges that | The fees for both of these courses | the budget director i: ides in the! are very low and registration for budget for the coming year suffi-| them is now going on at the Work-| cient funds to meet the demands of ers School, these chemists.” Answer the Attacks of the Social Fascists Against the DAILY WORKER MORNING _FREIHEIT by getting behind the BAZAAR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Avenue, 49th and 50th Streets OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, 6 ' Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Leave all your buying for those days because Madison Square Garden will be turned into A FOUR-DAY DEPARTMENT STORE Thursday, October 3rd.. 50 cae oem ed Friday, October 4th. 50 5 ( Saturday, October 5th. $1.00 Combination for all four days Sunday, October 6th... 50 yee $1.25 Tota os bain ea Sai80: On Sale at Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York The Steamroller Gets|Drop Charges Against) : Into Action Against 12 Pioneers Jailed in jsmale The Militant Painters Protest Meet Saturday) ,.i:i | PONTIAC, Mich. (By Mail).—At | Pioneers ar a day in 15 he receives 5 cents per|the meeting of the Painters and|noon at Lexington Ave, and 105th |of near a m jhour bonus. That is, those with full| Decorators Union local, of A. F. of St., when demonstrati fought for the floor to be given to |Eisman, a member of the organi- one day he loses the bonus for two|and a member of the Auto Workers | Boy Scouts, had the charge of “dis-| belongs to th Union to speak on the defense of | turbing the public peace” dis The company posted the notice the | the Gastonia N. T, U. workers fac-, When they were arraigned in Chil- | |dren’s Court, 22nd St. near Lex- Comrade Antov. was given the | ington Ave. Fourteen members of Antov spoke | the Young Communist League, bs |briefly and applied for relief from| rested at the same time, were dis- | airplane the men another notice was y ‘ & fhe : , ; airplane ae The national busi-| missed in Night Court Satur |which was formerly called the bonus | 8° 88 Soon as comrade Antov spoke, magistrate stated that ‘ | was now to be an cneHiane. Weraid| 8S iia him out and McGee, he should not take part in politics and; dent of the Consolidated Ai \ 1 foe th nd bait and/@gent of the Green and Woll, de-|should act like children and Bo earns nue need Mr. McGee| the fresh air.” said that the “American workers | heve the Pioneers promise that they |should be thankful for being in one|never again would be a the | similar No discussion was allowed the|Defense appeared as attorney. the in- s for speed- n and venti up, nsolidat ve amalga- union to meet the Twelve members of the Young] posses sted Saturday after-| Our intern in the treas- inst the | UtY of the death ber fund. But months’ sentence given Harry | \, DAT vi, PRONE aks tus g i. Nothing, absolutely nothing. It be- longs to the officials to do with ~ of the I. L. D. | zation, for his activities against the | what they ple: But by right it ers. I will tell .__.,|more of this graf sssed | More of this g KILLED IN PLANE CRASH, LONDON, Ont., Sept. 17 (U,P).— ar- | Injuries sustained last week in an crash near here today | proved fatal to Mrs. Loretta Golem, Before dismissing the charge, the| of North Tonawan N. Y., seer children | tary of Maj. Reuben H leet, ft latter suffered go in| Corporation. The He attempted to| minor injurics. The plane, on the last lap of a ested on a | 20,000 m air tour, crashed 20 | charge. Jacques Buiten-| miles west of St. Thomas, ‘Ont. |kant of the International Labor | pinning Fleet and his secretary be- Jneath it. THE ROPE as. well as The Electric Chair threatens the 23 Gastonia Strikers The bosses’ lynch gang, the Black Hundred of the Man- ville-Jenckes Corporation, are out to kill our 23 fellow- workers in prison, the Gastonia union members and organizers, The posse of lynchers, led by Prosecutor rpenter and Major Bulwinkle, redoubled their fascist terrorism when they kidnapped three organizers of the National Textile Workers Union and the International Labor Defense, and four days later the same fascist gangsters killed Ella May Wiggins, mother of five children and an active union member. The textile workers in Gastonia are fighting splendidly! They do not allow themselves to be intimidated! But they need the assistance of ALL WORKERS to meet the com- bined attacks of the mill owners and the government! The Gastonia Workers Are Appealing to You Their Lives Are in Great Danger! Smash the Fascist Rule ot the South! The trial sour September 30 at Charlotte, N. C. THE MISTRIAL DOUBLED THE EXPENSES It repeats lawyers’ fees, expenses for court stenographers and for witnesses’ food. You Must Double Your Efforts --and’ Raise Double the Funds! Help the National Textile Workers Union organ- ize the 300,000 textile workers of the South! Help the International Labor Defense form a powerful shield to defend the working class! Help the Workers International Relief save the southern pellagra-stricken workers of starvation! Join the drive of the International Labor Defense and the Workres International Relief HOLD MASS PROTEST MEETINGS! September 21st and 22nd PARTICIPATE IN MASS COLLECTION DAYS BUILD A UNITED FRONT IN THE SHOPS, FACTORIES AND MINES! No let-up until all the Gastonia prisoners are freed from the danger of lynch law and legal murder! Rush Funds to the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign 80 EAST ELEVENTH ST., Room 402, NEW YORK CITY Write to above addrpss for literature on Gastonia.