The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 1

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ET TONIGHT FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, FRIDAY, S MBER 20, 1929 _ ILL FASCISTS TRY TO LYNCH THREE ORGANIZERS “The forthcoming meeting of Herbert Hoover, representatives of American imperialism, and Ramsay MacDonald, representative of British imperialism, to fix “naval parity” with a “yardstick” has been heralded. by three months’ intensive propaganda of the big-bourgeois and social-democratic press in chorus so as to make it seem that this meeting will-end Anglo-American rivalry and bring peace on earth. Yet even the professed purpose of this meeting, as well as of the proposed five-power conference to follow it next year, bears no such interpretation. It is a meeting ostensibly to put an upward limit to cruiser tonnage, just as the Washington conference of 1921 put an upward limit to battleship tonnage. Just. as the pact to limit battleships at Washington in 1921 was of no avail to end Anglo-American rivalry but was followed by a more acute struggle, so the Hoover-McDonald meeting to limit cruisers will be but the starting point of a new phase of acute conflict. That is to say, it is to settle certain conditions of the coming naval warfare, and has as little to do with stopping that warfare as the preliminary arrangements in a prize ring have to do with putting an end to prize fighting. Actually, if the reported terms of the naval parity are carried out, it will, mean. an enormous building of cruisers, Therefore, even on the surface of the matter, the task of a peace conference is merely an attempt to gull the pettty bourgeoisie and to deceive the workers. But in any case no speeches or policies of capitalist statesmen, “no agreements between capitalist governments, can solve Anglo-Amer- ican rivalry, whose roots lie deep in the nature of capitalism itself. Capitalism itself is the .7us2 of wars, Only by the destruction of cap- italism, by the establishment of the proletarian dictatorship, can there be peace. . Especially in this period of intensified inner and outer contradic- tions cf capitalisni the drive to a fresh series of wars becomes swifter every day. The limitation of cruisers is accompanied by the limitless expan- sion.of war preparedness in peace-time war industries, such as rayon, in airplanes, in poison gas, etc., ete. What ‘then is the significance of this proposed agreement? It is the basis of a united front of British imperialism and American im- perialism against the Soviet Union, whose success in socialistic con- ‘Peace’ Preparations for War' ile Wi are shown at the grave. tional Relief. e the grave of Ella May Wiggins, mur kevs Union, Ella May's fellow-wor unionization to which their martyred leader had been so devoted. Left homeless and destitute, they will be cared forsby the Worke Bury. Ella May, Victim of Mill Thugs Terror rs pledged the: The vm, \ | | \ in the Na- fight for Ella May 3 Interna- | five children left | night. = ~ HUNTED BY 50 AUTOMOBILES OF GUNMEN LED BY GASTONIA POLICEMAN ROACH: WERE 10 SPEAK AT BLACKSBURG RALLY All National Mass Meeting to Condemn Murc Textile Workers Organizers to Meet Sunday to Defeat Bosses’ Ter- ror; Intensify Campaign For Charlotte Conference ler of Ella May, Protest Continued Terror, to Bé Held in New York Friday; Communist Municipal Candidates to Speak CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 19.—Three more union and International Labor Defense or- ga ers narrowly escaped from the murderous terror of the bosses’ black fascist gangs last Hubert Carrol and Sam Phifer of the National Textile Workers’ Union and Paul Shep- pard of the I. L. D. went to Blacksburg to speak to the mill workers there. When they ar- rived at one of the worker’s homes, they were informed that the Loray gang was there under the leadership of Charles Roach, a Gastonia policeman who, according to testimony presented at t tent colony June 7. n ten immedi be postponed, a the murdero The three then got into their car and left town. he trial of the Gastonia textile leaders, fired the first shot at the raid on the had been roaming the town for hours, looking for victims of their vicious g that if the speakers came they would be lynched. sent word through a union member to the workers, that the meeting would the workers were not sufficiently prepared to defend themselves against mslaught of such a large gang. The three organ- As they drove through the streets a struction is revglutionizing the workers of every country, whose strength 5 RT a oe ee I Sa = Se m they. were spotted, and bosses’ gangs ae ae ye sg ee ee a He ~~ ; makes it more and’more dreaded as the stronghold of the world - * e. e ! furnished them by the Loray mill and the Gastonia police department. .Fortunately e : revolution. at ave ALLS union auto was fast enough to outdistance the bloodthirsty fascist gang. ; 4 Over ali these questions, over all maneuvers of British imperialism | 5 Fr A conference of all organizers of the N. T. W. U. will be held next Sunday to plan a i to surpass France inside oe over all maneuvers of American im- 2 Coal Dig: ers Sees fel tee elt ae Bee : atl aR at ete ‘uropean power against another, there stands HINTS AT WAR £4 SAUD AS BRITISH aids © WORKERS INDIGNANT. 3 Only for the war against the Soviet Union can there be the least = | Roach Terror continues, and bitter indignation among the work- : = eas is at Powhatan a | ; - temporary accord between British and U. S. imperialism. - : .) . tl N = ers is tense. For the next few days it may operate under- A : France Threatens Blow ‘ Battle of 60,000 ear; | ground, but at any moment it may break out again into open : ny: ae | at Five Power Plan - Nine Others Severely Maxton, Labor Traitor violence—gangs of mill superintendents, overseers, their hire- oe | j jlings and police sweeping through the state, shooting unarmed : Defeat the Gastonia Terror | BULLETIN. * ‘ Injured Capitalist "press reports from leechers - Ella May sah es beating ceeanibees Wells, . J {__gNo worker should be fooled for one second about the role of the | ROME, Italy, Sept. 19—Italy POWHATAN, Ohio, Sept, 19.— jerusalem and Bagdad indicate tae \Tessner, Oehler, Gerson, Harry and Martin were beaten, and I ctate in the present reign of terror in Gastonia and vicinity. As the ‘‘rengthening the army reserves. rw men were killed and five over- have risen a inde Thin Saud} sultan | carrying out their threats of lynching. Capitalist papers are special instrument of coercion in the hands of ‘ - ruling class for All university students are drafted 5 ; ee : nik : : eas i bi ievindeioe: Ruepink’ the woekiie Wlaay ii st" + the ordinary 5 reserves, and will serve in spe- | come by black damp today when fire of Nejd and king of Hedjaz, and un- proclaiming that the terror is over, that “the decent citizens 1 va sed i % ¥ cial detachments. broke out in the Powhatan coal mine til recently governing the larger of North Carolina have come to their senses” and “that the Sete 2S a SS SS re? executive ma- adequate in the forms of state power—the police, the judiciar; chinery, the jailors and hangmen—have proveu struggle to stem the rising tide of working clas; resistance against the increasingly devastating exploitation in the slave pens. In spite of the full force of state power being brought into action against the textile workers, they have intensified their fight against wage cuts, lengthening of hours, the speed-up, women and child slavery. The ruling class finds its ordinary state machinery cumbersome, slow to function, in this sharpened class struggle. Hence it utilizes the state power for the purpose of creating extra-legal fascist bands to carry out its murderous policies. The imprisonment and attempts to railroad to the electric chair the sixteen organizers of the National Textile Workers’ Union was invoked as an act of vengeance against these militant workers for defiantly defending themselves against Chief of Police Aderholt and his gang of assassins. The collapse of the first trial revealed such a mass sentiment for the stri and against the capitalist class that the terror was resumed with increased for The identical officials € 3 iy ne d in the legal prosecu tion of the Gastonia defendants, left the court room and proceeded to utilize their positio: o arm gangs of hooligans and organize them into murder bands. W creating armed fascist squadrons the. of- ficials of the government utilized their police power to take away from the workers the few guns they possessed. They wanted the workers disarmed and helpless before the murderous attacks of the fascists. The prosecuting attorney, Carpenter, with a special com- mission from Governor Gardner, not only led the mob action against the workers in the kidnapping and assaults immediately after the collapse of the legal trial, but directed the disarming of the workers and paved the way for the vile murder of Ella May Wiggins. Certainly, in view of these facts, no one can for one moment imagine that the government of the state of North Carolina will take action against the fascist murderers. It will not act against its own creatures. The trivia! fact that a few of the participants in the mob violence have been arrested and released on bail will deceive no one. These arrests are only for the purpose of trying to conceal the role of the chief butchers, the capitalist class and their governor, Max Gardner, and his, vassal, Carpenter. In Gastonia today the class struggle in the United States has reached. new heights. But it is not an isolated thing. It.is not some- thing alien to the rest of the country. It simply dramatizes to a high degree the struggle of the working class against its capitalist ex- ploiters.ineall parts of the United States. Even the insolent organiza- tion of fascist bands by the state government in an attempt to crush, through terror, the counter-offensive of the working class, is in evi- dence, in a lesser degree, in many sections of the United States. The extent of the terror is apparent when we consider only a few of the outstanding recent events in the class struggle: the bloody suppres- sion of the car strikers of New Orleans. the state militia against the workers in Marion and Elizabethton, the breaking up of meeting: and: wholesale arrests of Communists in New York, Chicago, Boston. Pittsburgh and other parts of the country. This systematic, organiza tion of: fas terror against the workers in Gastonia must be de- feated. . Wit the most relentless determination, there must proceed the mass ‘mobilization of the working class, In the shops, factories, mines, mills,” onthe railroads, the workers, men and women, the Negro: the youth, must be mobilized to defeat this terror and to save from the electric chair the sixteen Gastonia prisoners who heroically defended themselves and their fellow workers against ex- termination on the night of June 7th last. In the South every ounce of energy must be directed toward the Charlotte conference on October 12th which will be the signal for a more intensive struggle for the seven-hour day, for higher wages, for unemployment insurance, against capitalist rationalization and | for the right to organize. Everywhere there must be created Workers’ Defense Committees to resist all fascist attacks: upon workers no matter what form they take. The fascist thugs and gunmen must be disarmed. In ‘every industry, in every section of the country, conferences must be called in behalf of the Gastonia victims in preparation for a strike of protest against the terror in Gastonia and inst fas- cist attacks against the workers everywhere. While preparing to re- sist with every means at hand the fascist attacks the working masse? must give the maximum of support to the International Labor Defense and the; Workers International Relief. The fascist attacks of ‘the ruling class must be turned into a counter-offensive by the working class. i 3 Ata but | 'Satyrday, Sunday and holiday to tees, Daily-Freiheit Bazaar Will _ Be Workers Dep’t Store | +o ee While the resistance of the French arists rapidly stiffened against the British intrigue, for the encircle- ment of France, in which France says U. S. has a big part, President Hoover made a significant state- ment Wednesday night over a spec- ial radio hook-up arranged for the dedication of Columbia Broadeasting Co.’s new building in New York. Columbia broageasting is one of (Continued on Page Two} HIT MILL TERROR BY COLLECTION Sept. 21-22 Is Drive For Gastonia Defense The unbroken bravery of the -vorkers and organizers in Gastonia, in face of the most brutal terrcrism. has inspired the working class of America to unparallelled activities on the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign, especially the two days of mass collections, Sept. 21 and 22, ‘ Reports from Detroit, San Fran- cisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland and New York today assured vest ac- tivity on the streets, in the shops. mills and mines, for Gastonia, and |to fight the fascist lynchers and) a great outpouring of workers to gather funds on Sept. 21 and 22. Detroit Holding Weekly Collections. | tonia Defense and Relief Tag Days | °"S wager Commas Pag Workers of Detroit are coming to|on September 21 and 22, and to | Ship, to fight against the fas the following headquarters every Sent. 29 to secure collection cans, rs Hall, 116 East Six Mila Continued@ on Page Three) Four others were-trying’ to Part of Arabia, Armies of 30,000 they were severely 07 each side are nearing battle. The revolt seems to be directed as much inst British imperialism as t the native ruler. The quar- e started in 1927 here. escape when urned. | Only 30 of the 700*men employed ae in the mine were in the diggings at | S82)nS" the nal the time the fire started. The night! 1. thn Saud’s right hand man, jerew had just gone off duty. The | When Tn Sends rene pane the rest escaped uninjured. =» Mutair tribesmen, and the Ajman A strong local of the National confederation, headed by Ibn Hith- | Miners Union is functioning here, | j.j,, began to raid into the British! jand is preparing for struggle to force the mine operators to take safety precautions to protect their lives. FERRARI GAVE JUDE 525.000 Cashed chee chdorsed _ by Francis X. Mancuso, Tammany Hall judge of the court of general ses- sions in New York, show that he was getting a thousand dollars a month from the swindler Ferrari, though he swore several months ago *that he was only nominally chair- (Continued. on Page Two) Gastonia Leaflets Are ‘Ready at the District | Fifty thousand leaflets, issued by the Communist Party, New York District, calling upon the workers murderers, to support the Gastonia prisoners, to participate in the Gas- ‘organize Workers Defense Commit- are now ready for distribution. Comrades must call a¥ once for these leaflets. All must be distri- buted before Sunday. Hand Made Articles at Great Savings On Sale At Huge Affair for Red Press |Square Garden into a huge depart-|hand, on their own time, the var-|politan Area Trade Union Unity | ment store for New York workers. | ious wares to be offered when the | Center. . Mot gimeracks, but useful articles bazaar opens, less than two weeks | | ° Unlike the usual run of “bazaars,” at which gaudy knick-knacks are foisted upon reluctant purchasers, the Daily Worker and Morning Frei- heit Bazaar will turn Madigon nd necessities of life will be fea- ured at this four-day gala market mined to prevent the black forces of ganizer, also reports on work among” wage. clothing, furniture, shoes, hats. books and everything else essential to the well-being of workers will be en sale in the colorful booths, and at a saving of at least one-thir | Many trade union groups and jaeiernal organizations are mobiliz- jing their membership to make by from today. These workers, deter- reaction from crushing their mili- tant press, put their best into their | (Continued on Page Two) ol : mandate of Iraq. Bribed By England. Ibn Saud has been taking money from England at times and at other times in opposition. In this critical period, however, the sultan of Nejd furiously attacked his own tribes- men in the interest of British im- perialism and decisively defeated them. The present uprising of the same two confederacies of tribes, with, it is said, the Ateiba tribes in league with them, and controlling the ter- ritory between Ibn Saud’s capital at | Riadh and Hedjaz, is believed to be part of the general Arabic unrest | (Continued on Page Three) HAIL COMMUNIST TRIUMPH SEPT. 27 ‘Celebrate Ten Years’ Struggle at Rally Mobilization of New York work- leader- ist ter- |ror of the employers and their gov- ‘ernment, will sound the keynote of the combined celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Commu- nist Party and election campaign rally on Friday night, September 27, at Centra) Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. | The story of ten years of struggle of the American working class, ten (Continued on Page Two) Report on Cleveland Conference Will Be | Given Here Saturday A report on the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Conference will be giver Saturday at 1 o'clock, at Irv- ing Plaza, Irving Place, and 15th St., at the conference of the Metro- Other reports will include Negro Work by Otto Hall, T.U.U.L. or- women and youth activities. The conference, it was announced A (Continued ‘on Page Two) spa 'when the \\ Charles Roach, man who led the Gastonia poli latest fascist at- tack yesterday. Roach, according to testimony presented at the Gas- tonia trial, fired the first shot at the Aderholt raid on the tent col- ony. He also took a couple of shots at a stand proprietor severil hours before the raid, but when the trial came up all witnesses were “absent.” | MILL OUTRAGES ~ DEFY LABOR I. L. D. Head Calls All To Answer Blows By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (National Secretary, I. L. D.) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 18.— The bleeding body of Cleo Tessner, lying on a cot in a local hotel; thir- teen strikers and organizers caged like wild animals in the local county jail. facing death, and the dynamit- (Continued on Page Three) ®governor has control and su- ;premacy of law has been re- established.” The beating of Tessner and the attempt to victimize three organizers last night gives the lie to this pretense that the state stands against the fascist terror. With the full cooperation of the TO PUSH FIGHT |p. ON MILL TERROR Communist Candidates Will Speak “Organize strikes for Gastonia de- fense! Combat the fascist violence | of the capitalist state! Organize Workers Defense Corps! Form a broad united front in the shops against the boss offensive. Strug-} gle against the parties of the cap- italist class by fighting for the| Party of the working class!” These | will be the central slogans to which | thousands of New York workers will respond tonight in protest meetings against Gastonia mill-boss terror in which Ella May Wiggins, active union organizer, was murdered. | Broad mass movements, with the | International Labor Defense and the Workers International Relief as a base, will be launched at the key meeting of the series at Central| Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. Communist Candidates to Speak. William W. Weinstone, Com- munist Party candidate for Mayor, (Continued on Page Two) | ATTENTION SECTION 3! By order of the Section Buro, all members of Section 3 must appear at section headquarters today at 6 m. for very important Party | business. Ella May, Murdered, Lives - in Her Songs of Class Strife Southern Workers Will Never Forget Song- stress Who Gave Life for the Union By JESSIE LLOYD. (Federated Press.) GASTONIA, N. C.—Ella May Wiggins was a heroine long before her death. Twenty-nine and wid-| owed, she worked the 60-hour week | at the American Mills in Bessemer | City, and supported her five little hildren—the oldest 11—on a $9 Some women would find enough to sap their energy. that But May answered with her whole heart and soul, and worked without fear or fatigue. For she had reason to know the needs for union. Of nine children that she had borne before the age of 29, four had died. It is hard to keep youngsters healthy on the mill wage, and when a spell of whooping cough came, Ella May grew desperate. “Change me to the day shift,” local government authorities and the open condonement of capitalist newspaper editors, fascists still have complete control of the forces that rule Gaston County and con- tinue to ride rough-shod over every right of the workers. The life of every organizer and active member of the N. T. W. is in jeopardy. Slaughter continues on two fronts, legal and fascist, with hegemony in the hands of the mill barons. While maintaining the pre- tense of impartiality, and spreading illusions of the “classless” charac- ter of the state, public officials and editors give full support to the fas- cists, blaming all violence upon the unionists. Those who have been identified by witnesses as leaders, of fascist gangs, namely, Solicitor Carpenter and Major Bulwinkle, are white- washed, while lesser lackeys of the bosses are indicted in order to keep up the illusion that “the state. pun- ishes lawlessness on the part of Communists and anti-Communists alike.’ But when they are tried, these hirelings will also be white- washed. i Declaring that he did not believe |Saylors’ testimony that Carpenter and Bulwinkle were in the gang that kidnapped Wells, Lell and Saylors, Judge Shaw refused to call to the witness stand other witnesses who would identify these two Manville- Jenckes lackeys, and they are free to continue their generalship of fas- cist forces. One of the weapons of the boases is legal persecution. of organizers of the N. T. W., the I, L. D. and thé W. I. R. Seven organizers ar- rested and charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government last week were released and the charges were thrown out of court as there was absolutely no evidence against them. Similarly this morning Caro- line Drew, representative of the W. I. R., was tried in Gastonia on a charge of possessing liquor. It was so manifestly framed up that Soli- citor Carpenter, admitting that there was no evidence, threw the case out of court. Such cases in- terfete with the work of the or- ganizers and add to the enormous” expenses of the I. L. D. and there- fore these cases multiply. Schultze, an N. T. W, member who she had begged the company, “so was distributing literature yesterday to union came, Ella| a (Continued on Page Two) sup ' ¢ (Continued on Page Thras) ui. mY