The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1929, Page 1

| _ from the land. This was the sub- THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week atter at the Post Office at New York, under the act of Published dally except Sunday by The Company, Ipe., 26-28 Union Vol. VI., No. 170 Comprodaily Pab! New York City, N.Y. The Lies of the Capitalist Press About Gastonia The fact that all of the leading capitalist papers in many cities simultaneously publish editorials alleging falsely that there is a “popu- lar” movement against the National Textile Workers’ Union and against the Communist Party in the Gastonia textile region is, of course, proof of a widely concerted policy dictated from a common source, The object of the lie is, quite as certainly, to conceal the fact, astonishing and embarassing to the capitalist class, that the exact op- posite is the truth—that there is a wide popular movement in favor of the National Textile Workers’ Union and the Communist leadership of the struggle in the Piedmont region. As every reporter on the scene knows, not one single real worker from any textile mill or other industrial plant has participated in the violence against: the union or- ganizers. The so-called “workers” who, the capitalist newpsaper pros- titutes allege, took part in the crimes of fascist violence against the union, were simply and solely the superintendents, foremen and man- agers of the mills. Let no one labor under the illusion, however, that it is the situa- tion in the South alone that evokes the fury of the whole capitalist press, from the benighted Gastonia Gazette to the biggest metropolitan organs of capitalist exploitation, such as the New York Times and New York World. | This nation-wide assault is an attempt to stifle the militant trade union movement which has shown unmistakably that the only effective way for the workers to combat wage cuts, the speed- up, lengthening of hours, the resultant unemployment, and all other effects of capitalist rationalization, is through the militant strike and mass action against the capitalist class, inevitably involving a political struggle against the state power of the capitalist class. The burdens of capitalist rationalization of industry is evoking determined resis- tance on the part of the working class. Instead of following the bureaucracy" of the American Federation of Labor, the betrayers of labor who advocate class collaboration and who try to prevent workers from striking against employers, the masses in many of the most im- portant industries of the country are turning towards the new militant unions, It is no accident that this slander campaign follows close upon the Cleveland convention of the Trade Union Unity League which created a national coordinating center for the drive against rationalization and to organize the unorganized masses in the basic industries. It is because Gastonia is the symbol of a higher stage of the class struggle in this country: and because the movement for revolutionary unionism is a challenge to the whole capitalist class, that the fire of the enemy is today concentrated upon Gastonia. These attacks more than ever emphasize the fact, that the conflict in Gastonia is in behalf of the whole working class of the country. It is not only a challenge to the devastating exploitation of the workers in the United States, but a challenge to the imperialist policies of the United States ruling class, which is driving toward another imperialist world war in order to find markets and places of investment for the surplus forcibly taken from the workers of the United States and the masses of the colonial and semi-colonial countries that suffer under the blight of American imperialism. Just as the whole capitalist class is mobilized against the Com- munists and the militant unionists in Gastonia, so the whole working class mzs! te mobilized in their defense. -snado’s Terror Regime in Cuba Someone, at present unknown, introduced a resolution in the sen- ate, actusing President Machado of Cuba with wholesale corruption, assassination of political opponents, intimidation and other crimes and misdemeanors. Whatever senator introduced the resolution could only have meant is as a warning to a petty servant of the Wall Street gov- ernment. Machado is the puppet of American imperialism and his terror regime is perpetuated with the direct aid of the United States government, So the warning is given, not because of the crimes of Machado, but because 0. some sin in the division of the spoils. For years the workers of Cuba have been subjected to the most frightful campaigns of murder and torture to prevent any mass struggie against an exploitation that amounts to virtual slavery by the Ameri- can sugar trust and the American tobacco trust, Were it not for the control over Cuba exercised by the United States, the masses of Cuba would long ago have overthrown the Machado government and estab- lished a government that would resist the exploitation by the agents of the trusts. If the United States senate ever acts against Machado it will be because that hireling of imperialism has become so greedy that his peculations interfere with the profits of the Yankee trusts and not because of his tyrannical acts against Cubans. It will be followed y placing in power another lackey who will not demand so much of the spoils for himself. The real significance of the resolution in the senate lies in its nincer thet the Yankee capitalist class through its Wall Street rnment is the real ruler of Cuba, which it regards and treats as a eted colony. Not its own tool, Machado, but the masses of work- end peasants of Cuba, are the object of the insolent threat of vention on the part of United. Siates imperialism. The only hope for the Cuban masses is to unite with the masses of other Latin American countries in a powerful revolutionary move- ment against’ American imperialism and drive from their shores all the agents of Wall Street and their servants such as Machado. Such a movement is now under way and will have the full support of all class-conscious workers in the United States. Hold Successful | Street Meeting | Upholsterers and varnishers wil! in Brownsville | | meet at 6:30 p.m. today at 28 Union A rousing street demonstration | Square, ‘room 603, to make arrange- under direction of the Communist | ments for the Daily Worker-Freiheit arty was held Saturday night at| bazaar. Stone and Pitkin avenues, Browns- ville, the place where, a few days | before, a similar meeting was_ UPHOLSTERERS AND VAR- NISHERS MEET. MIILITARISTS 1 Ne GHINA QUARREL SOLDIERS MUTINY Chang Fa-kwei Seizes on Unrest to Lead Insurrection Red Army on Guard Rykoff States U.S.S.R. ' Will Not Surender BULLETIN. SHANGHAI, China, Sept. —Fighting is reported at a point ten miles from Ichang between troops of Chang Fa-kwei and some soldiers loaded on river steamers by the Nanking government and rushed up stream. * 22. + 8 Cabled reports from Shanghaij during Saturday and Sunday told of widespread dissatisfaction among the masses, extending into the ranks of the mercenary armies assembled | by the Chiang Kai-shek government at Nanking. A series of mutinies have taken place, a widely extended| plot to assassinate Chiang has been discovered, and it implicates mem- bers of his personally selected body: guard. Various subsidiary generals, sens- ing the new situation, and hoping to profit directly from it, have come out in the open against Nanking. | Chang Fa-kwei Marches. Last week General Chang Fa-; kwei, commander of one of the best} detachments of the Kuomintang army, abandoned his post at! Ichang, on the Yangtse, and was first reported to have marched to- ward Honan province to effect a |Jenction with Feng Yu-hsiang, the two to then make an attack coward | Nanking. ; Later news indicates that the) |situation is ‘even more serious. Chang Fa-kwei evidently has made some kind of arrangement with Feng to hold the North, and is japane rapidly toward Canton, |through Hunan and Kwantung sail | vines. Furthermore, an official com- /munique from the Nanking govern- i (Continued cn Page Two) 'General Membership ‘Meeting of District! |Two On September 24) The District Executive Committee | {calls upon all members to attend) the general membership meeting to \take place on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 7:30, at Webster Hall, 1ith St. and 3rd Ave. The sharpening struggle in Gas-| tonia, the attacks on the Party by| jthe Jewish legionnaires and social- ists on the issue of the revolt in |strikers of the U. S. Metals Refin- jin its efforts to lure the men back Palestine; the developing struggle of workers in unorganized indus-| tries; the war danger, call for the utmost mobilization of* all Party} members. The District, therefore, | urges all comraies to attend this) meeting on time so as to allow for | adequate report and ¢ ssion and get the meeting really under way. The order of business will be as| follows: 1. The tasks of the Party in nenres oeD with the Gastonia | struggle. The tasks of the Par- jty in view at the sharpening of the ‘class struggle. | Admission to the meeting will be by membership cards only. Mem- ‘bers of the Young Communist |League have a right to be present at the meeting. Build Up the United Front of | the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Up—at the Enterprises! broken up by a combined attack of ‘Workers Advised to Save for The Land of the Soviets, all-metal, bi-motored monoplane built by the workers of the U.S. S. R., in which Semyon Shestakov and three comrades have reached Alaska in their 12,500 mile flight from Moscow to New York. The Friends of the Sovict Union are planning mass receptions for the airmen in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Marine Workers West Coast Conference on October 19-20 Discussion at T .U. U. L. Convention Indicates Earlier Date Than Original One in November The West Coast marine workers, uled for Nov. conference of |tee that the West Coast conference originally sched-| be held earlier than was originally 30, has been changed | contemplated. to Oct. 19-20. It will be held in Secretary Mink reported to the an Francsico. The change was Executive Committee that a mem- made by the Executive Committee, ber of the Executive had been of the Marine Workers League, in| already sent to the West Coast to session Saturday, in New York City. take charge of this work, that com- The original date was set before mittees were functioning in Seattle the Trade Union Unity Convention and San Pedro, and that two or at Cleveland. The strong marine ganizers have already proceeded to worker delegation at this conven- the Gulf ports to start organization tion, discussing the matter with rep- work for the Gulf coast conference, resentatives of other industries, | which will be held in the very near found the situation so favorable on | |future. It will then be possible, he West Coast for immediate ac- | Mink said, to hold a national marine tion that they recommended to the| workers convention in the early Marine Workers Executive Commit-|part of 1930. METAL WORKERS'MELVIN, WELLS, CONTINUE STRIKE SCHECHTER AID Boycott CombanyVote’ in Carteret, N. J. CARTERET, N. J. Sept. Seventy-five per cent of the 2,300) ‘Organize Big Defense ‘for Gastonia Prisoners Pate With the reopening of the trial of the 16 Gastonia prisoners a little more than a week off, expressions ing Company are rejecting the al-| of solidarity from class war prison- leged “settlement” concluded by ers, workers and workers’ organ-| company agents acting in collabora-| izations here, in the Soviet Union! tion with Mayor Thomas J. Mul-|and Europe continue to pour into vihill yesterday. Most of the strikers boycotted the “ballot” engineered by the company the office of the Gastonia Joint De- fense and Relief Campaign (earth tee at 80 E, 11th St., Room 402, Y. C. Announcements of joint con- ferences and preparations for vast (Continued on Page Two) FRANCE AND U.S. to work. However, of the 750 bal- loting, 250 had voted against the betrayal terms offered. | Minor grievances which the com- pany states it is willing to adjust include the demand for weekly pay- ments and the elimination of the fraudulent bonus system PRA J Ay NI 8 The Metal Workers’ Ind-strial | hil % aes Ua) |League, affiliated with the Trade Wir . |Union Unity League, for a jcontinued struggle, led i y of State Stimson is en- file committees, for a m continuous conferen dustrial union to enable the worker ambassa¢ of I to win their demands Japan, officials at the PO BEE EE te department building have |, de known to the capitalist p Metal Workers Meet “Attnough nothing on the exact tage of negotiati ormitted for publication, it is known . that it has been virtually decided that Eng- | land shall issuc the invitations and} that the five power conference shall convene early next year, probably in London. Japanese Demands. The officials do not deny that a regular dog fight at the conference seems to be certain. Japan has pub- licly stated that it requires a 10-10-7 ratio in cvuisers although at the Washington conference Japan ac- cepted the smaller figure in a 5- ns is Tuesday to Discuss Organization Plans Under the auspices of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, organ- ized in Cleveland Aug. 31, a mass meeting will be held at Irving Plaza, 16th St. and Irving Place, Tuesday, Sept. 24. In a leaflet issued to all metal workers the League points out “the inhuman speed-up system introduced in this important indus- try, the bosses’ wage cutting cam- paign and the need for an indus-| as ABorker March 8, 1879. FINA L CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, 88.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Bikes F Cents LAND OF SOVIETS MILL PRESS ATTEMPTS TO PLOWS HAIL, FOC COVER FASCIST CRIMES IN TO REACH ATTU FRAMING UP (MURDER PLOT’ Speeds Across Bering Strait to Aleutian Isles at 112 MPH Next Stop Unalaska Prepare Reception to Fliers in N. Y. S : ., Sept. 22. Plowing through thick banks of hail, rain, snow and fog, the Land of the Soviets covered the 750 miles across Bering Strait from Petropav- vsk, Kamchatka, to Attu, most western of the Aleutian Island, at an average speed of 112 miles an hour, Tass, official Soviet news agency, announced today. The only factor favorable to the four Soviet fliers was the almost constant daylight, which enabled them to proceed on a direct line to their first landing point on Ameri- can soil. The great chain of i ghted after five hours of flying. ccording to the brief wireless dis- patches from the plane, the natives of Attu fled when they saw the machine approaching, but returned to their dwellings when it came to (Continued on Page Two) LONIST TOOLS FOUND GUILTY Cony icted. 6 Aiding Imperialism or ands was Four thousand Jewish workers crowded New Star Casino to capa- city, with hundreds more clamoring to enter the hall, in a remarkable demonstration yesterday against the betrayal of the cause of the work- ing class by the Jewish Daily For- ward and other Jewish newspapers © | which support imperialism and its instrument, Zionism, in Palestine. The. affair, arranged by the Jew- ish Bureau of the Communist Party, took the form of a trial, by the workers, of the mercenary jour- nalists who try to poison the work- ing class with capitalist class prop- {aganda in general and try to aid in the imperialist war to subjugate the Arabian peovle in Palestine. The case was “prosecuted” on be- half of the working class by M. J. nel Giant and M. Epstein, of the Jew- jish Communist Daily, the Morning | Freiheit, the judge being Paul Yu- dich, also of the Freiheit. Stirring |scenes were enacted when the jury |of twelve workers was chosen from among the audience, and when wit- ness after witness recited the evi- ce at betrayals and mercenary on the part of the writers and litors of the Forward, the Day and the Morning Journal. Some of the witnesses were workers who had at one time been inveigled into the Jewish Legion in the service of imperial affair de ine attitude of the da ‘Organizers’ Conference in Charotte Maps Out Strategy to Defeat Terror; Build Union “Ridiculous, Malicious in Intent,” of Mill Boss Lies; B Sept. COPE workers dre: HAGEN, their backs, took place here Saturday. teen men be executed in Gastonia?” banner. Police charged destroying banners. the * LONDON, Sept. burgh, Before procession, London and numerous other Says Oehler Foster “Named” LLETIN. —Great ed in prisoners’ stripes with the figure “13” painted on demonstrations, in which “Shall three women and six- was carried aloft in a huge m, arresting many workers and * * American embassies in Edin- British cities, workers are de- the manding the freedom of the Gastonia textile leaders in great dem- onstrations. * According to reports received at the headquarters of the Gas- tonia Joint Defense and Relief Committee, 3,000 workers in Aachen, German industrial center, signed a protest resolution demanding the release of the 23 Gastonia prisoners. j Other demonstrations are taking American countries and Europe. CHARLOTTE, * . C., Sept. place throughout the Latin 22.—A ridiculous attempt to turn attention from ae continued crimes of the fascist bands |of the mill owners in this region with a supposed “plot” to im- |port one Tony Grandones, so-c New York underworld,” alled “prominent figure in the to murder Solicitor Carpenter, Major Bulwinkle and other leading lights in the Manville-Jenckes bat- tery of attorne; Charlotte Observer. is made in the latest yarn cooked up by the The Charlotte Observer even tries to insinuate that Wm. Z. Foster, general secretary of and member of the secretariat some way connected with the the Trade Union Unity League of the Communist Party, is in “plot,” a reporter alleging that he saw Foster on the streets of Charlotte Saturday. TRY TO SHIFT BLAME, An ex-convict from North Carolina, now supposedly in New York City, is the hero, according to the Charlotte paper, SHEARER 1S GOAT IN PLOT 10 STOP GRUISER SCANDAL Senate Shields Schwab and Grace WASHINGTON, “Sept. 22.—Wil- liam B. Shearer’s secret employ- ment at the Geneva conference of 1927 by the Bethlehem Shipbuild- ing Corporation, a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, was known to at least one other big im- perialist power besides the United States government, according to well-informed circles here. It is generally known in Washington that spies of the American government discovered the fact that another power was about to expose the ac- tivity of the Yankee munitions and armor plate manufacturers at inter- national conferences and informed Washington. In order to avoid an international scandal President Hoo- | ver, himself, hastily published a de- Jewish a t /nunciation and demanded an investi- corruption of reactionary na- gation of the tool of the war-mon- tlonaltas and social-fascism, show-|gers. Shearer, in an effort to pro-| jing that the correction of the earlier tect the United States government lerrors of the Freheit, which «t first lfell into the trap of reactionary na- tionalism, will get the support of the Jewish proletarians of New York. France. It i: phased, “The United submarines, does not feel that this matter should be forced to the front, land is inclined to agree to whatever the other nations decide upon,” hich leaves France free to bring | pressure on Britain, States, while deploring the use of | acti from facing an exposure of its mili- | tary policies that would have equalled the expose of the German government and the Krupp scandals of 1913. Following the lead of Hoover, the senate, instead of investigating the vities of the heads of the steel and shipbuilding corporations, pro- ceeds to make the goat of the paid lackey, Shearer, and to whitewash Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- ®who epeet rorism. warned the Loray mill lawyers thus “saving their lives” in a letter to Edwin Bridges, another local attor+ ney. The letter is unsigned. In the leading paragraph of the story, the flogging of Cleo Tessner, the dynamiting of the National Textile Workers’ ‘Union headquarters in Kings Mountain, and the presence of gun- men supposedly brought in by the union, are linked up in a ridiculous- ly obvious attempt to shift the | blame from the shoulders of the millmen’s fascists, where every worker of this district knows it lays, to the “gunmen.” Commenting upon this malicious attempt, Hugo Oehler, southern or- ganizer of the N.T.W.U., said: “We do not follow the methods of our class enemies and employ thugs. We do not advocate individual ter- Any self defense that we are forced by the bosses to adopt, the workers themselves will attend to, not gunmen from New York or anywhere else. “We will do our best to defend ourselves against these murderous attacks of the mill barons’ hire- lings who murdered Ella May, but we have not and will not employ any gunmen for this or any pur- pose This comes in the (Continued on Page Two) STRESS DEFENSE ATT. UU. L. MEET Another Conference to be Held October 1. new “expose” the police and Zionists. Police were there early in the| evening and said the meeting could the Daily and Freiheit Bazarr ists, foundry workers, radio work- ets, auto and airplane workers, men trial union to fight for better con-|ratio. Stimson, when these state- | ditions.” aM ments by Japanese ministers in the| Toolmakers, machinists, special- Japanese press were called to his attention, pretended surprise. | The United States and England, Communist Struggle on War ontiniel Page Tw —— : eee et Se Support of the Gastonia workers, the election of defense committees in the shops and plans for the re- ception of the Soviet Fliers, were not proceed, that no Communist meetings would be held there. Comrade H. M. \"‘cks, candidate for president of the board of aldermen, told them arrangements had been made to conduct the meeting and it would be held. ‘While the police were discussing what their next move should be, the meeting started and from the first theré was a large crowd of workers listening atten- _ tively to the speakers for more than three hours. | Expose Zionist Imperialiats, Besides Wicks a number of other candidates spoke, among them Karl Reeve, A. Sazar and Ben Lifshitz. All the speakers dealt with the es of the municipal campaign ve also spoke on the question of rising in Palestine and the role _of the Zionists a: agents of British "imperialism in carrying on a cam-| paign to drive the native Arabs ject of discussion the night the! was violently broken up. A | (Continued on Page Two) 4 Sell Tickets to Dispel Impatience for Coming of October 3rd, Date Affair Opens The third of October seems to be, and Freiheit. We must help along approaching very slowly, particular- |by buying the articles they make. ly for the thousands of workers who Hiapbagy: Bince: we ‘get them” at, 8 i" . | great saving. have already stopped buying their ~ Ang of ote the Women’s Coun- necessities, in order to buy them at | eils, as usual are on the job. They the Daily Worker-Morning Freiheit | know the needs of our comrade- Bazaar, which will be held at the housewives and are speedily arrang- Madison Square Garden for four | ing a number of booths with just days beginning Oct. 3. ‘such articles. If you need a pot, We sympathize with these work- coffee drainer, a ladle or frying ers; of course, since we, too, are pan, just wait a few more days. awaiting this unusual opportunity | Why buy them elsewhere, when you to buy our things, but we can rec- can get them at the Bazaar. ommend only one remedy: have pa-, And while you are waiting, im- tience. You will be amply rewarded. | | patiently, get busy selling tickets. } finally be Just think of the suits, overcoats,! Of course, we presume you have hats, white goods, dresses, shoes and | bought your tickets already, but if all other things of every day use,|you have not—don’t wait to stand our comrades in the various trades | in line at the doors. Get your tickets are preparing for us, They work | right away, and what more—get a nights and Sundays making the suc- | hundle of tickets and sell them to (cess of the Bazaar certain and -thus | your friends in the shop and else- ‘the existence of the Daily Wotker | where. |Last Week to Register jat Workers School; All and women, regardless of race or : while far from an agreement be- (Continued on Page Two) ! tween themselves, go along with each other, at least just now, on the question of submarines, much commerce, each woud suffer severely from a submarine blockade, and each thinks she could gain con- trol of the s=rface of the seas, when war actually breaks out. Therefore, at present, and until France and Italy or some other “submarine” exponent is drawn into close alliance | with either Engla- 1 or U. S., both these latter empires are in favor of abolishing subs. France Bargains With U. S. This meets the most strenuous ob- jections from France, Italy and Ja- pan, which are all too poor to com- pete in a naval race to control the surface, and wish to concentrate on All those English students who have | su’. It is magnificent that registered at the school and who the U. S. state department | admits have not yet been informed of the t Stimson kas b+ night of their examinations are | long ¢ :"2rences on ° urged to immediately get in touch | Paul Claudel, French ambassador, with the school and inquire. |and that the latest semi- official pro- The District and Agitprop De-| nouncefnent from his a‘!es does not! (Continued on Page Two) Selected Must Report This is the final week for registra- tion before the opening of the Fall Term at the Workers School. In a letter issued to ll units yesterday, all those elected by the units on the partial scholarship basis are in- structed to register immediately in order that they may be properly as- signed. During the entire week of Sept. 23 examinations for English studies will be conducted, on the basis of which the students will assigned to their classes. Each has | The ten years’ battle of the Com- \leadership of the Communist Inter- national, against imperialist war jand for defense of the Soviet Union, jin a period which saw the complete | dapeuacatide of the socialist party |into an agency of imperialism, and the identification of the American Federation of Labor with the im- perialist war aims of the American government, will be told at the elec- tion campaign rally and 10th anni- versary celebration of the birth of the Communist Party, to be held this Friday night, at Central Opera House, according to a statement issued by the New York Communist |Campaign Committee. The statement described the break! exactly slam the door in the face of/ up of thc Seeond Socialist Interna- | munist Party of America, under the, Tenth Anniversary Keynote : Workers to Greet Party’s Election Candidates at Central Opera House Celebation Friday {tional during the world war, with the socialist parties of the world completely selling out to their re- spective governments and enlisting to give every aid to the imperialist designs of the capitalist states en- gaged in the war. It tells of the struggle of the left wing in the so- cialist party of America against the betrayals of the elements in control, and of the final organization by this left wing, together with the other revolutionary workers thruout the country, of the Communist Parts American section of the Communist International. “The tenth anniversary of the formation of the Communist Party in the United States,” declares the statement further, is being cele- (Continued on Page Two) the outstanding features of the con- ference of the Metropolitan Area, ‘ade Urfion Unity Conference, held Saturda afternoon at Irving Plaza, Irving place and 15th St. conference also decided that of the fact that the unor- nized workers work all day Satur- day, to hold another conference Oct. 1, when a full report on the Cleve- land Trade Union Unity Conference will be given. Among the other recommendations of the Local Executive Committee that were accepted, was to endorse Ti in view the Workers International Relief campaign to raise funds for the Arabian and Jewish masses in Palestine. The report was ren- dered by George Powers, temporary secretary of the Council, On the question of the Defense Committees, it was urged that they be organized at once, to protect workers’ meetings, also working class institutions. All unorganized workets in the metropolitan distriet were urged to have representatives tat the Oct, 1 conference,