The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YOF & JRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929 Page | Three _ 4 4 Senate Hears Revolt Looms Against U.S. Imperialist Puppet, Machado Calls Stimson “CUBAN PRESIDENT RULES BY MURDER SMASHES UNIONS His ARSGEETNN Sent to Kill Workers Abroad WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19. —Fear that such a_ revolutionary situation is developing against President Machado of Cuba that American imperialist interests there are in danger, yesterday caused the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to summon Secretary of State Stim- son to appear before it next Wed- esday to testify to Machado’s acts, which the committee is afraid are tactless, The committee hopes in this way to either dispose of the mass of material forced upon it, charging the Machado regime with outrage- ous suppression of speech, unions} and outrageous acts against the workers, or to decide against him and substitute some less well known tyrant. Some of the charges against the Machado government involve assas- sination. Some of these are in con- Austrian Government) Suggests Council Move From Vienna “Mob” (Wireless By Inprecorr.) VIENNA, Austria, Sept.‘19.—The Reichspost, the government mouth- ; piece, points out in yesterday’s issue | the constitutional possibility of re- |moving the national council from | | Vienna, and appeals for such re- moval, declaring that in Vienna the |council is “under pressure from the mob.” | Graz is suggested as the proper place to which to move. Fights between workers ant fas- cist bands took place yesterday near | Kapfenberg. Three fascists were | put in the hospital. There were also collisions in | Liesing. | Last night, fascists stole six |machine guns stored in the Neu |chen town hall. where a soci |administration is in office. Capitalist press reports from Vienna stated yesterday that the Austrian Heimwehr (a fascist or-| ganization) has just published an alarming manifesto, stating that 200,000 armed men stand ready to} follow it for the overthrow of the| present government and the institu-| tion of a dictatorship like the Ital-| jian, unless the constitutional | |changes demanded by it are made. While Police President Shober | jto overthrow the Kuomintang an HARMFUL THOTS, LAW USED FIRST TIME BY CHIANG. |\Directed “Against All Revolutionists (By I. R. A. Press S NANKING, China (By The first use of the infamous “ for the prevention of counter revolu- | tion” is requested by the Nanking |government authorities in the trial of several arrested students here. | The code was promulgated March 9, 1927, but has never been used be- fore. is a vicious anti-labor law. A “counter-revolutionist” is de- fined yone who, with intent the National Government, or with intent to impair the Three People’s Principles, creates a riot by vio- lence”, The term as used by the Kuomintang means, of course, any- one who disagrees with its regime. Punishment of the ringleader shall \be death. Important principals in | the |sentence or life imprisonment. Under the clauses dealing with nection with suppression of labor.|states that his 10,000 gendarmes treason and espionage, it is provid- Machado, representing American capitalists, has outlawed every mili- tant labor union, and has impri- soned, tortured and murdered doz- ens of labor leaders without trial. When he ean not easily arrest his victims, he has sent assassins to kill them, even in foreign countries, as in the case of the Cuban Com- munist Mella, slain in Mexico City. Machado, who was first elected in 1924, announced publicly that he | would not stand for re-election. In| 1927, the Cuban Congress, in which | he exercised control, adopted consti- tutional reforms extending his term two years. In the next year, a con- stitutional convention called to ap- prove these reforms, did not extend his term, but voted instead a single six-year term: for presidents andj} specified that it did not apply to) re-elected last | Machado. He was fall and inaugurated this spring. Among the charges is one that Machado controls the through the government lottery, by controlling the assignment of the 2,000 collectors who sell lottery tickets. The legal price of the tickets is $20 a piece, but they are sold for higher prices, sometimes as high as Lee TRY TO LYNCH 3 WNION LEADERS (Continued from Page One) in York, South Carolina, was arrest- ed and charged with distributing ad- | vertising matter without a license. This morning he was run out of | town and told “it would | be healthy | for you to stay away.” First he was threatened with sixty days on the chain gang. With the customary pretense of impartial upholding of the law, Gov- ernor Gardner today announced that he “would make a diligent search for, and prosecution of, perpetrators of the crimes” against tessner. In an adjoining column of the news- paper printing this bunkum, is an) article that blames all vicious crimes of the bosses’ black hundreds upon the Communists and which justifies | the “outarged citizens of Gaston County who are maintaining law and order and the sanctity of the stars and stripes, asserting their inalienable right to repel sinister foreign invasion by whatever meth- od.” Thus murder is sanctioned by all the reactionary forces and agencies of capitalist society in the South. + 8 8 A series of mass protest rallies, which tens of thousands are expect- ed to attend, will be held throughout New York City Friday night. Com- munist Party candidates for muni- cipal election will be the principle speakers, ARAB TRIBES HIT SAUD AS BRITISH (Continued from Page One) against British imperialist domina- tion, and is precipitated by the need of giving aid to the Arabs in Pal- estine. so 8 oe Maxton Aid of Empire. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) LONDON, England, Sept. 19.— For failure to carry out the deci- sions of the Central Committee of the British Section of the Anti-Im- perialist League to fight against the Zionist imperialist attack on the Arabs, James Maxton, chairman of the independent labor party has been expelled from the League. Broke Promises. The central committee of the league issued a statement referring to Maxton’s declaration at the Frankfort Congress of the anti-im- perialist world organization regard- ing: the necessity of fighting the im- perielist polic, of the British labor party government and contrasting this declaration by Maxton with his failure to carry out the promises. ‘The League’s statement points out congress | and 4,000 regular army troops will | suppress any revolt, “from either | the left or the right,” it is under- | stood here that these are only words, and that the Austrian national council is seriously discussing mak- ing the constitutional changes. They would establish a dictatorship under the president, which could easily change into a direct rule by the fas- cists. While the socialists talk in gen- jeral terms about opposing the fas- cist coup which is set for the end of September, the Communists will call jon the workers to prepare for open | fighting. WORKER ON HUNGER STRIKE| PRAGUE (By Mail)—The jailed | Communist worker Carnocky, of Moravska Ostrova, is on hunger strike. He is being artificially jnourished by force since four days. His condition inspires grave anxiety. Ella May Is Dead But Her Class Songs Live | (Continucd from Page One) |that I can watch the children at jnight.” Not much of a favor to |grant, but individual needs appar- ently could not balance a slight in- yeonvenience to the company, and they refused. To nurse the chil- dren, she had to quit her job. With pay cut off, a doctor or nurse was impossible, and she lost four of the |nine she had raised with such dif- ficulty. After that Ella May thought, a | good deal. When organizers brought the word that workers should stand together to gain some control over | their own lives, her whole being an- \swered, “Yes, we should.” She not only joined the union and spoke at meetings, but her incredibly robust spirit bubbled over in innumerable songs. In her own words she told the hope and power of the union,| using the old mountain folk tunes. These songs spread over the coun- tryside faster than literature or leaflets. Listless and half-illiterate mill workers glowed to life as they heard them, grinned at the novel) lidea that instead of standing their| \conditions they could get together and change them. They grinned, |and agreed; and the word grew in power, Ella May, intelligent, steadfast, and talented, became a worker to be reckoned with. “Persons un- nown” turned their attention upon her. They poisoned her well, and sent her several threats of death. But they misjudged their Ella May. She did not fear to go to Washing- ton to testify against the mill own- ers in the Senate investigation of the southern textile industry. Re- turning, she continued to give her unquenchable vigor to the union and the defense of the 16 Gastonia work- ers on trial. Always she kept on singing and |making up new songs, “strike bal- jlets” as she called them. I saw her three weeks ago at an I. L. D. picnic for workers in the woods at Mt. Holly (near Gastonia). A slight figure with brown bobbed hair, a firm profile, and a very thorough smile. She stood on the stoop of a deserted shack while men, women and children crowded around to hear her. Her full throaty voice gave the songs in mountain style, with an odd sort of yip at the end of each line that delighted her ay- dience. “We'll never, no we'll never let our leaders die—yi!” “Purtiest singin’ I ever heard,” said one of the women, who had been standing since the beginning of the meeting with feet firmly planted, baring her breast occa- sionally to nurse the baby in her arms. The workers chuckled at Ella May’s apt digs at the mill bosses, and kept calling on her for more favorites; they would not let her stop. She responded without that the New Leader, the organ of the independent labor party, sup- ports the labor party government’s crushing of the Arabian revolt in Palestine. The committee declared that Max- ton refused to carry out the League’s request that he publish his own Frankfort statement in the New Leader. Maxton’s expulsion followed. ed that “anyone damaging or de- stroying the railroads or other means of communication by methods of dynamite or other illegal means, or making them unavailable for communication and doing so with a counter-revolutionary aim” shall be punished with death, life imprison- ment or not less than the second- degree punishment. All-Embracing Clause. Article 6 of this code is the most far-reaching of all for its provisions legally justify the Kuomintang and the Nanking Government in com- pletely suppressing every form of criticism of policy. There is abso- lutely no way left open for legal and public opposition to its despotism. This section reads: “Whoever propa- gates a doctrine irreconcilible with Three People’s Principles or has an opinion which is disadvantageous to the revolution shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than the second degree and not less than the fourth degree”. Organizers To Be Punished, Organizers of mass meetings or meetings to organize for “counter- revolutionary” purposes (counter- revolutionary from the standpoint of the reactionaries) shall be punished according to the relative importance of their actions. The assembly shall be dispersed and those attending or who have joined the organization shall be sentenced as therein pro- vided. Rewards For Betraying. Several months after the promul- gation of this code additional regu- lations were announced providing for reducing or remitting the sen- tences of revolutionists who would turn police informers, “When a Communist, before performing im- portant duties of the Communist Party, and while he has as yet not committed the crimes (before de- scribed—Ed.) and before the pro- jected crimes have been discovered, surrenders himself to the authori- ties he may be pardoned.” If on the other hand he has already com- mitted the crimes mentioned but surrenders himself before their dis- covery, his punishment shall be re- duced by one-third or one-half.” Two further articles provide ad- ditional incentives for betrayal of the revolutionary movement. One stipulates that “A Communist who has surrendered himself may have his punishment partially or wholly remitted if he will disclose the crimes committed by other Com- munists and provided his disclosures lead to the arrests of such other communists and the seizure of vital evidence.” The other clause stipulates that “When a party to the crime of Com- munism is discovered his punish- ment shall be reduced by one-third or one-half on condition that he surrenders himself and discloses the other crimes, committed,” Armed Rebellion Only Way. It is by means of such all-inclu- sive provisions that the clique of high Kuomintang officials, civil and military, who have arrogated to themselves the political control of a nation of over 400,000,000, fortify their positions and seek to make im- possible the organization of any movement for their overthrow, What the high officials have done at Nanking and Shanghai and the provincial centers the lesser fry— the local militarists, the gentry and the landlords, the struggling ngtion- al bourgeoisie and their hanger-ons —try to accomplish within their re- spective spheres. These suppres- sions are having their inevitable ef- fect—the developing unrest of the masses. hesitation or affectation, smiling with pleasure when they smiled. Now Ella May is dead. The un- quenchable has been quenched—by a bullet in the heart. But even this ruthless murder has failed to stop her work. Wherever her songs go— and they will go far in the newly awakening South—she will go too. “That's one of Ella May’s,” the singer will explain. “Ain't you heard about her? They killed her, you know, because she loved the union, Her singin’ set the bossmen on edge, Shot her down in cold blood on the public highwawy. And her with five young ones, too. That’s the kind they are,” affairs shall receive the same] Right Wing Minority. |At C:G.T.U. Congress \Refuted Bye Speakers | (Wireless B By Diteniecort) PARIS, France, Sept. 18.—On the | third day of the Fifth Congress oi the Confederation Generale de Trayaille Unitaire the discussion on |the executive report was continued. | The right wing minority speakers attacked the Communist Pi the majority in the C. G. T. U. Bourneton and Tillon speaking for the majority, repulsed the cpposi- tional attacks and proved the con- zky. Greetings to the congress from |the Red International of Labor | Unions were read amidst great >| applause. “MILL OUTRAGES DEFY LABOR I. L. D. Head Calls All _ to Answer Blows (Continued from Page One) ing at the union headquarters at Kirgs Mountain by the mill owners “black hundreds,” thunder in, unison for decisive action by American labor against fascist rule of the Southern mill barons, I heard the story of National Tex- tile Workers’ Union organizer Tess- ner, from his own lips, and I talked to the 13 prisoners in the county jaii through the heavy grating that separates them from all visitors. News of the latest dynamiting out- rage, this time at Kings Mountain, came in 6ver the telephone. If Workers Could See It. If every worker in the land could have had his turn at Tess- ner’s bed of pain, or in the visitor’s gallery of the county jail, and had felt the impact of the Kings Moun- tain dynamiting that only close proximity can give, then the dic- tatorial power of the Manville- Jenckes corporation would not only crumble, but American capitalism would sit uneasy upon an unsafe throne. Support Textile Workers. The appeal of the International Labor Defense, for the support of the Southern textile workers in their struggle, must bring about exactly this result; raising before the masses the absolute necessity of supporting the North Carolina tex- tile labor in its battles with the Manville-Jenckes fascist tyranny, upholding them in their effort to defend themselves, to organize the unorganized, to use the strike wea- pon, to march forward for their class. Every worker in the land must help increase the growing nation- wide demonstrations against the bloody terror that seeks to lift its crimson fist, dyed wwitwh workers’ blood, in the face of all American labor. Defy Police, Aid Gastonia Defense at Boston Meeting BOSTON, Mass. (By Mail).—De- fying threatened police attacks, the Communist Party joined by other workers’ organizations, held a meet- ing to protest against Gastonia | mill-boss terror and raised a sum of $28 for strikers’ defense. Carl Hacker, district organizer of the Party, announced he spoke without a permit since he had been denied one at City Hall the week before. Other speakers included Herbert Riley, Fannie Rudd, of the Workers International Relief, and Sarah Halpern, of the Young Com- munist League. nection of the opposition with Trot- | fascist terror in North Carolina; the | GANG WORK IN Upper Michigan “Lumber BIG WESTERN - ELECTRIC PLANT eee '66 Hour Week to Eke Out Meager Wages CHICAGO (By Mail)—The work- ing conditions in the wire mill de- partment 8385 of the Hawthorn plant of the Western Electric are| | among the worst at Hawthorne, |where conditions are very bad all| over. The wages are based on gang |piece work; there are from three to |five men in each gang; the hourly \rates for operators on number 1 and 2 machines vary from 53 to 60 cents an hour; each operator has to run} two to four machines depending on the kind of machine and the sizé of the wire drawn. The night workers are requested to work six nights a week; we} fail to report to work Saturday nights we are asked all sorts of |questions and dare not refuse. This makes a 66-hour week and it is the !only way we can make a living wage. Since the work is very hard, dirty | and sloppy and the rates are so low | it is hard for the company to get the workers to stick to their jobs, so lately they have been hiring now, inexperienced workers at straight hourly rates of 73 cents an hour— while the workers with long service and a lot of experience are work- ing at piece work and average only 56 cents an hour. The workers here are ripe for) organization into a militant union under the leadership of the Com-| munist Party. | HAWTHORNE WORKER. \Must Make Collection Blow at Boss Terror | (Continued from Page One) Road (near John R); Jewish Work- | ers Club Rooms, 9148 Oakland (nr. Owens); New Workers Home, 1343 E. Ferry (near Russell); East Side Hall, 5770 Grandy (at Hendrie); Cooperative Restaurant, 2934 Ye- mans (near 10,000 Jos Campau); Cooperative Restaurant, 2718 eines (near 9200 Jos Campau); T. U. E. L, Centre, 3782 Woodward (near Shae Finnish Hall, 5969 Fourteenth (near McGraw); Ukrain- ian Hall, 4959 Martin (north of 6800 Michigan); West Side Hall, 28th St. (1 block north of Michigan); Ath- letic Club, 6982 W. Jefferson (near Post); Workers Club, 8890 Copland (near 8800 W. Jefferson); Lithuan- ian Club Rooms, on 24th at Michi- gan. Boston Drive. Sept. 14 to Sept. 22. Delegates from many cities in Massachusetts, including Haverhill, New Bedford, Peabody, Boston, | Malden, Concord, Manchester, as | well as from New Hampshire, were | present at a conference which mob- | ilized workers for mass collection | days the week of Sept. 14 to 22. San Francisco Preparing Bazaar. A huge three-day bazaar, Oct. 11, | 12 and 13 at the K. of C. Auditor- | ium, 150 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, is being prepared to raise | funds for Gastonia. These activities are in addition to the intensive cam- paign of Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, organizer of the Gastonia Joint De- fense and Relief Campaign, al! along the western coast. Cleveland Arrangements Completed. The arrangements for mass col-| lection were completed yesterday at | Cleveland for Sept. 21 and 22, All| language branches have been in- | structed to call language conferences not later than Sept. 30. A general | conference of the I. L. D. district | cffice will be held there on Oct. 7. |found all over cattle, foul air | American Oil Company's new re- |the boss cut out the overtime andj PITTSBURGH, GAL: Workers Are Organizing TiN SLAVES FIND (By a Worker Correspondent) MUNISING, Mich. (By Mail).— Rotten conditions in the lumber mills and camps are intensifying the workers’ fight for better conditions. Upper Michigan is known for i beautiful lakes, streams and forests, but it is a different story to the | lumber workers, living in the wood day in and day out and being e: ploited, cutting and hauling timber so a few bosses can gather the wealth, No Paradis@for Workers. The conditions of the workers in the lumber camps are such as are whet the worke are unorganized. Low wages. hours, rotten conditions in the bunk camps and mess camps. The hours you read about in the early hi of the U still prevail forests—“from day break down.” led in Camps. camps many worke are herded together like so ma exists, nothing b nests of diseas The speedup i fierce and you slave until ready to drop. and paper mills it is the same—the 10 hour day prevailing, with speed- up system. | you're | delegates Ker With the workers in the saw mills | a National Lumber Workers ‘ starting | etter conditions. it on st ea use they were and were fooled x The lumber stir and deman They have walk which have failed bi not well organized, by the A. F. of L. Sold Out By A. In 1919 the A. unions in this sec but ion policy soon bre In 1920 the work wor are F. of L. Fr equently 2 land 14 in mill manding shor wage but v F. of L Money nd a living | we sold out by the A. supposed to be sent tin f relief was never sent, A well paid | of A. F. of L. organizer conducted the gas! bi strike until he v for Corp. The work ers. lost out. Taught a Lesson. | <A ro These things have taught Ohio on. When they h $60 in his le Union Unity Conf arms, and “ sent delegates th A conference} Due to the was cal at which reported on the T. U. U. i and work was begun to organize | mostly Union, | re: Jeader- | goin; od Sept. hich will furnish us hone: together, h The M. W. Kellogg Co., sey contractors, hired five pipelay- ers to go to Aruba, Dutch West Indies, to work piping on the Pan finery in Aruba. They were prom- | free transportation. They got the $86 for a while but | then along comes the Dutch go’- ernment officials and tell them that they will have to pay income tax | en this $86, also on $225 that the Kellogg Co. charged them for trans- portation. The transportation was taken out of their pay at the rate of $18.75 a week, The men refused to pay so they | were told that they would have to go to jail at the rate of 60 cents a Oil Pipelayers Shipped to Dutch West Indies, Cheated New Jer-;of going to ja \ised $86 a week with overtime and|Lago Oil made day. The boys didn’t like the idea LIFE THERE HELL olumbia Mill Lays off of years at are aute > "t get ip. |enough mone e bum- LUMBER WORKER, | ming or are not in a position to do jso are staying here. Housing f | and the ri |The company | the owners some dirty, disrer | rent. Food is high and not always |best. At the mill x nt soup, so they paid and | bread, butter, coffee, t and po- to find out about the money due quit the job. When they went to|tatoes usually run 5 ship home on the tanker Danziger| In most pl: I’ve worked, when they read their papers and found | pay day falls on a day the mill is that it was supposed to be a free |off they pay on the last day they passage. ‘The s company, the | worked before pay day. Recently, hem sign papers | here pa yy came on Monday. The , |that the company would not be re-| mill was closed down TI y and |sponsible for any disaster or ship- | resumed operations the following wreck, Tuesday. We were forced to st: When they landed in New York|in Pittsburgh Thursday, Fr’ they went to the M. W. Kellogg Co. | Saturday, Sunday and part of Mons day without any mony or a chance them and they had to pay $125 for |to break. their passage home. Thé boys were| My message to all tin workers told at the Kellogg office that they |and all office workers: organize} were only being charged for 24]Organized, we wouldn’t have the meals. One of the boys told them|tyranny wwe have here in Pitts< that he could live at the Blenheim Hotel at Atlantic City for that. Tell all the workers to keep away from Aruba, Dutch West Indies. ADAM WEAVER. burgh—SINGLE BOY. tom Up—at the Enterprises! Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- } i res ee Green Wants AFL Not! to Do Anything About Murder of Ella May COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 19.—| President William Green stated here today that he “deplores the shoot- ing of Ella May from a humanitar- ian standpoint,” but that the A, F. L. general council would not do any- ‘thing about it “because the textile | workers there are not affiliated with | |the Federation.” Green said W. D. Mahon, presi- dent of the Amalgamated Associa- [tion of Street and Electrical Rail-| way Employes, was on his way to} New Orleans to “confer on the set- tlement of the street car strike.” | Which means that because of the| resistance of the workers on strike | there, Mahon is going himself, to threaten them back to work at the bosses’ terms. BOARDERS WANTED Children or Adults. Special Dict and care for children or invalids. A. SALNER MAPLE FARM, ROUTE No. CONTOOCOOK, N. H. ONE Answer the Attacks of the Social Fascists Against the DAILY WORKER MCRNING ‘FREIHEIT by getting b2bind the BAZAAR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Eighth Avenue, 49th and 50th Streets OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, 6 “kursday, Friday, baleedie ead Sunday Leave all your buying for those days because Madison Square Garden will be turned into A FOUR-DAY DEPARTMENT STORE Thursday, October 3rd. Friday, October 4th Sunday, October 6th. . Total Saturday, October 5th. » 50 . 50 - $1.90 » 50 $2.50 a) Combination for all four days $1.25 SS On Sele at Daily Worker, 26 Upion Square, New. York 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, Jed by Prosecutor Carpenter and Major Bulwinkle, redoubled their fascist terrorism when they kidnapped three organizers of the National Textile Workers Union and the Intemfational Labor Defense,- and four days later the same fascist gangsters killed Ella May Wiggins, mother of five children and anu 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 reopens 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 organize the 300,000 textile workers of the South! Help the International Labor Defense form a powerfal shield t odefend the working class! Help the Workers International Relief save the southern pellagra-stricken workers from starvation! Join the drive of the International Labor Defense and the Workers International Relief! HOLD MASS PROTEST MEETINGS! PARTICIPATE IN MASS COLLECTION DAYS September 21st and 22nd 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! 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