The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1929, Page 1

|! | \ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at FINAL Clix EDITION New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879. | (== | Vol. VIL, No. 175 Published di: ly except Sundoy by The Comprodaily Publishing Company. Ine., 26-28 Unton Square, New York City, N. ¥.@B™21 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929 Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. CALL SOUTHERN TRADE UNION UNITY CONVENTION OCT.13 es Fadi in the. Capitalist Courts But Faith in the Working Class! On the eve of the reopening of the Gastonia trial and for a week | g}past there has been vague talk in the mill owners’ press about “reduc- tion of the charges” from first degree murder, which carries the death penalty, to second degree murder, which means anything from ten years , to life imprisonment. { Whatever else this is, it is first of all an attempt to arrest the mass movement of the working class to save the National Textile Work- ers organizers and strikers. These “rumors” vaguely circulated by newspapers owned and controlled by the same mill owners who own and control the prosecutors, can have only one purpose: to facilitate the conviction of the men and women who dared defend themselves | against the murderous attack of police and mill thugs on June 7 last. The whole capitalist press is prominently playing up the story, al- though admitting that there has been no definite or authoritative state- ment of any sort regarding the reduction of the charges. What if it were true that, to secure “an easier conviction,” the mill owners’ flunkeys were to put our brothers and sisters away to rot their lives out in prison instead of quicker death in the fire of the electric chair? Is there any red-blooded worker who would not be infuriated by this cowardly device for the essentially same criminal result? The capitalist class of the entire United States is interested he- cause the heroic resistance of the North Carolina workers represents a higher phase of the class struggle in the United States, a stage in which every strike, from its inception, takes on a political character. The fury of the imperialist powers of the United States is still fur- ther aroused by the fact tHat the working class of other countries, re- membering the seven years’ torture and the final monstrous legal as- sassination of Sacco and Vanzetti, is being mobilized in behalf of the Gastonia victims. The talk about reduction of the charges is a delib- erate attempt to quiet down the aroused masses of the United States and of the world. No class conscious worker should be fooled by such an artifice. The Gastonia Gazette, organ of the capitalist class in general and the Manville-Jenckes Co. in particular, with its murder bands of mill superintendents, police and foremen, declares that such a reduction of charges would “speed up” the trial. This is nothing but a declaration of the intent to railroad the defendants. If thé state should resort to the device of ‘reducing” the charge of murder, it woull gain certain sinister advantages. For instance, if first degree murder is charged, the defendants would have twelve peremptory challenges, each, against unfavorable jurymen, but if the charges were reduced they would have only four challenges each. This would fit in very neatly with the past program—for we have not forgotten that Mr. Carpenter has been lead- ing company gunmen to terrorize the community with rope and gun in order to make it next to impossible for the defense to secure any fay- orable jurymen. Now Mr. Carpenter, not as mob leader, but as prose- cutor, might well like to take away some of the defendants’ rights of riddance of Carpenter’s products of terrorism on the next jury. Most deceptive of all the propaganda calculated to arrest the mass movement in behalf of the Gastonia prisoners is the bed-time story to the effect that since the prosecution “introduced all its evidence” in the mistrial, therefore the defense has full knowledge and opportunity to prepare to combat it. Everyone familiar with the history of labor persecutions country knows that is a lie. -The evidence presented by the the mistrial was largely dictated at will by the mill owners’ prosecu- tor, and was not based on facts. By the same guage their new evidence will not be based upon facts, but upen what the perjured witnesses are instructed to say. In every trial of a labor case in a capitalist court the prosecutors take full liberty to create and to change evidence at will, That was so in the Mooney case, it was just as notoriously so in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. These were glaring examples of how state’s evidence is manufactured by the employers and their kept prose- cutors and solemnly admitted in the records by capitalist judges. Following the procedure that has characterized his incitement to wholesale murder against unarmed strikers, the governor of the state, O. Max Gardner, himself a mill owner, is busy issuing attacks against the Communists and against the pr day. The early part of the wee! Arthur M. Dixon, president of Association; Stuart W. Cremer, H. Separk, president of the Ni sociation and the these are Gaston C dJenckes crowd, were the inst | in horrible beatings for m Ella May Wiggins. After the ¢ bosses it was publicly ad laws for dealing with the t+ i i in this state in a nt of that bod ile Ma: than preparation for a ft olent class warfare to exterminate the labor movement, to c every pretense of civil rights for the working c mill workers back to their slavery at the “strete “legal” shenanigan to cover up the violent ‘dictato talist class. The eyes of the class con: tonia. Not for ono moment raus! t hip of the capi- workers of the world are on Gas- here be tag pause in the r cure cgainct the jackal pack that is today howlii e blood of the heroie men and women and youth who dared to emselves ar ‘gonized murder band on June 7th. There must be no compromises, no half measures. Class conscious workers thro sweet songs intended to lull them to mill owners’ courts which have but o capitalists: to hang or other with the capitalists’ profits. Our faith is not in the ¢ power of the million-rold mass |, aroused. We will arouse them! NEWS FLASHES ‘ (Wireless By Inprecorr) AUSTRIAN FASCISM, VIENNA, Sept. 26.—Today’s “Rote Fahne” is confiscated for de- elaring the Schober government a fascist government and Schober ihe " murderer of workers and responsible for the massacre in July, 1927. ut*the world must listen to no > in faith in the capitalist ‘unction in a society ruled by y or punish those who interfere ist u s of the working class—when these are courts, but in the unfailing * It declares the Schobcr government represents fulfillment of the im- | | mediate aims of the Heimwehr and accuses socialist leaders of sup- | porting Schober. Apps is made to workers to form committees of action, prepare political protest strikes and concludes with “Down With Fascism,” “Long Live the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government.” When } Schober’s government was announced workers organized spontaneous Street demonstrations under Communist leaders, but many, socialist Workers participating. New war minister, Vaugouin, is known to be ®@ Heimwehr representative. 2 N. Y. Textile Workers | Conference Sunday “\ New York textile workers are opening a big organization cam- | paign under the leadership of the i left wing National Textile Workers’ Encouraged by the heroic strug- gles of the textile workers in the South and in the big textile centers in the North, the workers in the knit goods and silk trade and in the tug industry are beginning to stir. A shop delegate conference has been called for 11 a. m, Sunday, Sept. 29, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and PL prea WORKERS THRONG “bri=sSemra>_| TO CELEBRATE is ANNIVERSARY ‘Birthdate Communist | | Party in America Is | Observed by 3,000 ‘Unions Send Greetings | Speakers Stress Fight | Now Beoing Waged | | | | President of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, huge armament maru-} facturers whose lobyist agent, Wil- liam Shearer, has recently made statements which show the steel\ rtust’s activity in promoting th ; With over 8,000 workers packed into Central Opera House, every available seat used and man} standing, hundreds coming who not get in, the Tenth Anni- of the Communist Party of could America was celebrated by its Nev; |armament race between Great Brit-| York Dictrict last night. |ain and the U. S. in order to pro-| On the stage, in plain sight, sur- |" *eel orders and profits. | |mounting two red flags m | for the Communi of | 8. A, District 2. was a huge PURE EG ber RR ERS RES | “4919-1929,” “Tenth Anniverse EARER i of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., Section of the Communist International. Build the Party of Lenin in America! Fight under the GHEYED SH Iw @ Ke LE | —— banner of the Communist Interna- ~ | Hail Rona te ; Government to Blame tion of the working c , Few Individuals litelist slavery and wars, throuzh | | |the Proletarian Dictatorship! For-| Reports from Washington are to| ward to the revolutionary struggle the effect that the state, navy and| jfor a Workers’ and Farmers’ gov- justice departments, are to be en- ernmen’.” listed to furnish all material they Before the speaking began, the have on hand or can secure against | Young Pioneers, thronged in the | William B. Shearer, big navy prop- | gallery, sang “Solidarity Forever.” agandist and agent at the Geneva | | Unions: Sea Blowers, arms conference of Charles M. On the stage were masses of Soret Bue Teoh sorecelend. other flowers, sent in fraternal grect- Shipbuilding and munition mag-| ings by unions and other workers’ Rates. The full force of the gov- organizations, with whom the Com- ¢T™mment is brought to bear to re-| munist Party has fought shoulder |Yive the whole crooked career of |to~shoulder against the ~boafes. | SHearer, #8 Warning to “other | Among the donors were Hove! Res- | #gents of mperialism, in case any) | i taurant and Cafeteria Workers; °f them might be tempted to give jocal 164 of the Bakers’ Union; @Way the game of the war-mongers Brownsville Branch of the Ameri- by publicly demanding back pay for can Negro Labor Congress; the In- ‘heir crooked deals. | jdependent Shoe Workers’ Union of Naval Officers Involved. | So deeply involved in the scandal | is the United States navy that cer-| tain officers are in grave danger of | (Continued on Page Twos calling for {march on Vienna to take place Sun- 2 VIENNA WORKERS MEETS IN CHARLOTTE CONCURRENTLY IN CLASH WITH’ WHTH TEXTILE WORKERS’ CONFERENCE: SUSE ENS 20,000 COPIES OF CALL ARE ISSUED Program of Dictator Against Workers Is T. U. U. L. Plans to Build Great Militant Movement on Basis of Heroic d Struggle of Gastonia Strikers; Points Out Oppression in South Given in Speech Civil War Expecte Acute Crisis Nearing|Bulwinkle, Manville-Jenckes Attorney, Not to be Dropped from the with Fascist March | Prosecution in Gastonia Case; New Trial Begins Monday BU Se a AL CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 27.—Twenty thousand leaflets issued by the Trade Union situation is Fae critical in Unity League, calling the Southern T. U. U. L. Convention at Charlotte, October 13, con- view of the fascist Heimwehr armed currently with the Textile Workers Conference, of Oct. 12-13, are being ributed through- out the South. os die ihe formation Ob aks The convention will work out detailed programs to stimulate the organization of militant Yeeteviny, the ‘national counci], unions in all the industries of the South, thus giving a broad basis to the revolt of the ex- ploited Southern textile workers, and assuring them of organized support, which will be repaid with solidarity from the mill workers when other industries need it. The call for the con- elected Schober as prime minister; Vauguin, war minister; Foedermayr, Baas aa pee eo Beene vention points out that the new militant unions, industrial in form, will be workers’ organiza- Gaatise i as a voriaa pe Heim, tions, withuot highly paid bureaucracies as in the American Federation of Labor. Representation to the convention will be from rank and file groups in the A. F, of L. and United Textile Workers local unions, delegates from the independent unions, and from unions directly affiliated with the T.U.U.L., along with representation from organizing com- mittees in various industries. The T.U.U.L. calls upon workers in the shops to establish for themselves shop committees and organizing committees, and to elect and send delegates from these committees. wehr leaders will occupy at least one of the still vacant cabinet seats. Schober made a speech on his program for the new government in today’s session of the national coun- cil, praised the Heimwehr and de- nied that the fascist movement was : os of “putchist” character. He de- The call is signed by William Z. Foster, general secretary of the T.U.U.L., by W illiam ara eae wee, Ber snneny. ove Es Dunne, of the T.U.U.L., and by 0 provisional committee which includes Fred Beal, one of Heimwehr and would fulfill Heim.|the Gastonia case defendants, Hugo Oehler, southern organizer of the National Textile Work- (Continued on Page Two) ers’ Union, and eight other leaders in the southern struggle. Sete ji © The convention call points out that the Cleveland Conven- \ a . * : POF e. * . .. if Li tion, in which 695 delegates from many industries established JURY CONSIDERS P ithe Trade Union Unity League as a militant trade union center, i sy ee laid down a general policy struggle and a basis of organiza- Mi AN ‘tion on which the southern workers can build. BARKOSKI CASE GUMANT URtU! L COTTON MILLS Don’t Ask - Chair - for IN wr a) A FOLLOWS N. T. W. CAMPAIGN. Miner’s Murders “The campaign led by the N.T.WU.,” says the T.U.U.L. eall, “has brought down upon it the fierce persecution of the mill owners, their capitalist’ allies in other industries and their government forces. The attempt to railroad Fred Beal, Louis Maes ‘McLaughlin, Vera Bush, Rus- T NEL TRIKERS sell Knight, Clarence Miller, | Sophie Melvin, Del Hampton ficulé by his cherge. The judge experts, lays down an_ ideological ‘ stressed the ail-embraci power basis for electrocuting or imprison- | of the coal and iron police, hired by 3 A n Facts Refute Lauding PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 27.. of Bosses by Writers Judge Gray gave the case of Jon Barkoski’s murderers to the jury A sudden flood of articles in the today, tfter making a verdict of city newspapers all-over the U. S.) first degree murder extremely dif- y n by high pressure publicity (Special to the Daily Worker.) tile Workers’ Union to the elec- tric chair and to long prisop terms in order to crush the union, is proof of the severity ganizers of the National Tex- trikers and organizers going and 16 other members and or- ing for long terms the 13 textile the coal company and licensed by | L ‘the Freih it Singi Wit | DISCUSS lthe state, in coal town kingdoms. |trial next week in Charlotte, and of the struggle which must be OY) HAS SINGH BEI 2a GU% | Otherwise the charge was unim-|makes an excuse for fascist tactics, toe sored] carried on for militant unionism, (ae the singing the Pior | portant, being merely a statement company union schemes, and martial No Compr omise Urged against the stretch-out, for shorter ee eiaee ee sa EEC f ier Sr a eam brief law against the National Textile at Union Meeting hours, abolition of night work, ete. | Gheer Hou! Party Zed tn 8 82 Woe ponies Gey e OGee aber evo Orkere i Udion) -and, a@ainse/ te : The attempt to legally murder | wee ge is t 1 of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. | Charlotte conference of textile work-- Warning the striking tunnel ine ; | iner’s death. ; ers scheduled for Oct. 12, 13. workers that Tammany politicians these members and organizers of of, The defense address to the jury The campaign waged by these and Tammany labor offi are |the N. . U. for their leadership Se ee ae is oS TE and special feature writers is to the ef-| meeting behind closed doors to sell in the Loray strike and their de- 6 “out ‘and? lasted “seve s with Attorney | Fritchard,, fect that the Southern mill owners /out the strike, the Trade Union | fense of themselves and their union and lasted severa Metropolitan | cloquently waving the flag. “I ask are not savage terrorists, using|Unity League, 26-28 Union Se iene ae ‘i lacks (lbemkers/were: n Unity League | that you say of my Sie viene lynch law and legal | trickery to|last night issued a statement call head lar re no eee 2 he I HaoREAll ss Nowto vonganizes oaterenee, to be held Tuesday ant Walter a eee oe - murder their workers’ leaders, or ing upon the workers not to com. the desperate s to which the |Minerich of the Young Communis: | 2t at Irving Plaz ee ee we Pe eet Fale (Continued on Page Three) promise and to continue the strike bosses » to maintain starva- |Leagne; William Z Foster, of the i" Sethe Now York T, U. U. Le| Although District Attorney Clunk, Needle Trades Meet eihe UU. i statement’ call A csemplets. conten \Secretariat of the Communist war tae up this question. to whom the e against the + * pau Rta Aamidinte Lome pa the workers in in- Party; Robert Minor. editor of the | Daily the pana ela ae ee William Z. I’oster, general secre-| , for the working women, and ‘tiled report of the Cleveland! 7 cinstonc, district ore-n- Conference, while Rose Wortis will) ce 2 GP, Un S. vt on the tasks of the women; | ae Ge AR ‘y Yaris on youth problems and| Boh ae a Otto Hall on the organization of Shee : Negro workers. d Bini 3 of other be reported 1 of the late hou cevibed in later ed . and the ches could « because nd will be d of the Daily Needle Trade Fraction : to Mect This Monday: | Worker. Bedecht told of the birth of the, A special general fraction meet- party in struggle cinst imper- ing of all needle trades comrades of alist war and reformism, ® strug- the Party will be held on Monday,! (Continued <n Page Two) September 30, at Irving Piaza, 15th oe . and Irving Place, at 8 p. m.! PRENCH IMPERIALIST FIGHT. sharp. The general fraction meet- PARIS, Sept. 27.—The French ing will diseuss recommendations of plane Question Mark, headed north- sreatest importance in connection east from Paris on a long-distance, with the present situation in the flight attempt, flew over Cologne, needle trades. Every member is Germany, at 10.22 a. m. French time instructed to lay aside any and all today. ‘work and come to this meeting. Starving Workers Send Aid | to Jailed Gastonia Militants Steve Zilka, of Bentleyville, Pa.,|collected $23.75 which he sent to the tasted capitalistic justice when he|Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief was crippled for life by the shots!Campaign Committee, of 80 ‘E. ired by a coal and iron policeman) Eleventh St. several years ago. Mass Collection Days. | Almost on the verge of starvetion,! Thousands of workers like Steve he and his wife went out on the|Z'lka took part in the mass collec- |streets of their small steel town | tions Saturday and Sunday through- cowering between the steel furnaces | out the United States to help defray of Charles Schwab, and told their the doubled expenses caused by the friends of Gastonia. jmistrial, The trial beginning Sept. “You see what happened to me!i0, in Charlotte, N. C., has centered for protesting aganist conditions upon it the eyes of the entire world. here. They are trying to do worse|Demonstraitons in European coun- to the 23 Gastonia strikers. They|tries, in Copenhagen, Edinburgh, want to send 16 to the elccstric| Paris, in Latin America and the U. chair.” S. S. R. are continuing with in- As a result of his petition, Zilka (Continued on Page Three) {During the week, special efforts will three members of Mellon’s private/ Thursday to Support | rank and file shaft committees and army was relegated, claimed that f Gian eI TUaa Ge aie te nardile OMe vo workers are robbed he wanted a first degree verdict 16 Gastonia Workers gro and white workers on the/and oppressed worse than the white against Watts and Lyster, who 4 meeting of shop chairmen of |strike committee. It condemns the | workers a. ithe calondine cesawerd tortured the miner inhumancly, and 411 the needle trades will be held| dealing with Tammany Hall poli-/hy the bosses to keep the workers Cores ON en ATe Line) Thursday, at 7 p. m. at Irving ms and stressed that only the | divided and weaken the struggle for ee Plaza, Irving Pl, and 15th St., to| Workers themselves can win the | hotter wages, better working condi- to support for the 16 Gastonia | strike. SIGNATURE RIVE set iam sian to ut | tions and powerful unions. Unions for effective action against the boss- The Engineers’ and _ Blasters’|es must include all workers in each Unions are urged to join the strike, |industry—colored and white. As going over the heads of the offi-|long as one section of the working \cials, who are holding them back, | class is forced into worse conditions | acting as agents of McGovern Con-|than another section, or division is Call to Engineers, Blasters. Monday morning. Representatives of hundreds of dress, cloak, fur, millinery and tailor shops are expected to be ; Genatures ave Present to mobilize their full sup-| struction Co, against whom the | created through racial prejudice, the Five thousand eras ina ba port for the workers who are in| tunnel workers are striking. | whole working cl can be defeated required to prace the Communist qanger of the mill bosses’ electric| It was learned yesterday that|and enslaved, Unity of Negro and candidates on the ballot ni New York! chair. All organized and unorgan-/| McConville, business agent of the | white workers in militant unions is City, Only one week remains iM i7eq shops are urged to be repre Engineers’ Union, who has been|a necessity for successful struggle Cee eee ee ee eee au | Sented hy’ delegate | (Continued on Page Two) | against company towns, starvation Ra etienaeOnnaities shich cre. —— | wages, to 10, 11 and 12-hour day. Rationaliation. “Low wages, long hours, the intro= Needle Trades Workers Busy | duction of new machinery that needs Preparing for Press Bazaar °°.) 23" workers, like the attempt to : a \ ‘oad the 23 Gastonia strikers and The militant needle trades work-|but wait until the bazaar and save | organizers to the electric chair and ers are unusually busy in prepaving | money.” {long prison terms—this is rational- for the Daily Worker and Morning| One of the special features will| ‘garnn and is preparation for im- Freiheit four-day bazaar that opens | be a model barber shop organized perialist war. Without militant in- at Madison Square Garden, Thurs-|by the workers of the Cooperative | dustrial unions the millions of work- day, October 3 nd continues unti!/ Barber Shops, 26-28 Union Square|ers in the huge industries of the October 6. and the Cooperative Colony in the| United States are almost helpless. und cloah.r ys | Bronx. | They are at the mercy of the bosses in arranging for a beoth| Italian and Chinese restaurants | and their agents in the ranks of the with a wide selection of ¢v-cses|Will be open during the four days|wroking class—like the officials of and coats of tie latest styles. | and those who enjoy oriental and|the American Federation of Labor are working evenings preparing| Italian dishes will be amply re-|and those of the United Textile these dresses and voats so when the | Warded by being present. | Workers, whose job it is to fool the bazaar opens there will be a wide| pare rcner ce: | CaS Se nok Chel ate cicg Ibe eral surprises that will not be an-| Those who like to dance will have|fore they become a menace to the eee Jan opportunity to do so, to the| profits of the bosses, as they did in Men's Clothing. music of Andre’s Negro orchestra,! Ware Shoals, N. C.; New Bedford, quires the immediate mobilization of all Communists and sympathizers in order to safeguard the Communist ticket. Sunday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Oct. 6, will be special mobilization days in the final week of the drive. be made to organize groups for this work each night. The headquarters of the various sections of the Com-| munist Party will be open every eve- ning from 6.30 p. m. on. All units of the Communist Party, all sympathizers are called upon to rally their forces for energetic par- ticipation in the last days of the sig- nature campaign. | All militants out this Sunday to solicit signatures for the Communist! Candidates! The following head- quarters ~vill be open: Down Town Manhattan: 4th St. Harlem: 143 EB, 1 7 EB. ard St.,| 235 W. 129th St. Bron 30 Wil- The tailors have also promised to, which is famous for its jazz tunes.| Ma Elizabethton, Tenn; in kins Ave., 715 E. 138th St. Williams- have an attractive booth ready when, It was stated last night that sev-| Marion and as they did on a big burg: 56 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn. the doors open next Thursday. They eral surprizes that will not be a scale in North Carolnia in 192 Brownsville: 154 Watkins St., will have a wide selection of men’s nounced, have been prepared “Organization of the unorganized Brooklyn. Boro Park, 48 Bay 28th suits and coais on hand. Their motto workers who attend will enjoy them | —t! cay—the five-day St, Bath Beach, jis; “Do not buy any clothing now,\to the maximum, ‘ (Continued on Page Three) ‘ v