The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For «a Workers-Farmers Government! To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION Daily Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. aed ~ <= ~ i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1929 176 Published daily except Su by ‘The Comprodaily abl Company, Ipc. 26-28 Union Square, New York ‘ity, N. Vol. VI, Ni >: Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. GASTONIA TRIAL REOPENS TODAY IN WORLD SPOTLIGHT a WORKERS DEMEND RELEASE: ACTIVELY ORGANIZE, AS MILL PROSECUTION ADDS LEGAL PROCESS TO ITS TERRORISM | Bosses Scheming to Cut Number of Peremptory Challenges and Pack |Jury; Determined to Eliminate 16 Unionists from Struggle Workers Mill Bosses Are Trying to Electrocute Sixteen Gastonia The Gastonia Struggle Goes| On Outside as Well as Inside ieee | today in Charlotte. Thirteen men are charged with first degree murder and the state is trying to railroad them the Court Room As the- trial of--the Gastonia textile workers reopens today at Charlotte, the class struggle that has raged outside the court room, in the slave pens and upon the public highways of North and South Caro- lina continues unabated. While Carpenter, the fascist leader of the ‘o th e electric | prosecution staff of the state, temporarily lays aside his personal lead- chair. The three ership of the armed fascist bands outside of the court room, to utilize women are charged with second degree murder and face long prison terms. The solidarity of the working class will save them, every device known to legal tricksters in order to give a legal veneer to the process of railroading to the electric chair or to prison for life the sixteen working class defendants, the superintendents, the foremen, the paid thugs and gunmen, the small business men and kept editors dependent upon the big financiers who own the mills, and the rest of the riff-raff that make up the fascist gangs will continue the cam- (paign of violence and terror against the other organizers and members | ie of the National Textile Workers’ Union in an effort to stop the move- | ———-——-—__..___._..__.___.. ment against starvation wages, the speed-up, lengthening of hours, women and child slavery. ANOTHER TEXTILE SUMMARY OF THE CASE OF] MASSES PROTEST “And even as the new trial begins the employers and the govern- GASTONIA WORKERS. | OL ment of North Carolina do not rely upon the legal machinery alone December, 1928, Fred Beal, to defeat the working class. | Southern District Organizer of | TONIA F A § E | On Friday a blood-thirsty band made a fascist attack upon Charles | |the National Textile Workers’ | | | |v: i fact | Eellew, organizer of the union, who was seriously injured by gunshot. | The attempt at legal murder in the court room is merged in the fascist | }]ocal in Charlotte and Gastonia. combination with the murder campaign by extra-legal means. Workers Boss Gunmen Attempt | April 2, 1929, 2,500 workers of Frisco Workers Defy! defense for the workers on trial. ‘ 4 : outside as well as inside the court room are in danger of assassination lthe Loray Mill in Gastonia of the| | 15,1: a get 3 Soe : Roca get eh! or iveli i i 7 : ed | * : SHA TE Sept. 29.—The Gastonia case begins again in the court room here at the hands of the hirelings of the mill owners and in both cases the to Kill Bellow llsteariieoeneker Gongaty kinks (| EOLce, Many Meetings ; tay at Dy tea ae er nireat ane: Glyde Hoes capers omorrow. ne . J “6 ies pd a _ °F ie oer Reign of Lynch Terror by Mill Owners’ Black Hundreds Intended to Check Mobilization of Masses, Frighter: Witnesses BULLLETIN. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 29.—On the eve of the Gastonia case trial, the defendants are encouraged by word received of great and militant mass meetings in San Fr ‘ conferences in Philadelphia, a world drive of meetings by the joint W.LR. and LL.D. committee, resolutions of soli- darity by militant labor organizations, the continued activities of the National Textile W orkers? Union for its Charlotte Textile Conference, October 12-13, and the Trade Union Unity Southern Convention called to meet at the same place and date to establish a wide labor movement, which will also be a Union, begins organizing a union | workers must defend themselves to the limit and be defended by the || under the banner of the National| aru A : - | A to be the sharpest in the South, and connected by family with the biggest mill owners, is again The slave drivers of the South are goaded to fury beca The terror of the mill bosses con-| |seyeral union members are fired. | Attempts by The mole, to, Diner h ; sh ; Foie . s eee inten shows foectn H 4 er-| | UP a Gas! r istra- 5 : Z pea tine i ie 4 aps cept eek ti % Seee he Seema tue Vor ane case, cat tron dereauins ot tenor Pumleny and snows: the real resisors|) April’ 18, the Workers ‘Inter-| | (ere waa tesisted by hundreds | with profits by trying to win any increase in wages or betterment of conditions for his mill tion, ‘The working class of the Carolinas and other sections of the in. Gastonia defendants, The mill boss-| |pand of masked men; break| | Workers. Saturday night. Twenty- slaves, Solicitor Carpenter of Gastonia, and Major Bulwinkle, the ManvilleJenckes attorney, ; 4 - f A illegal viol Rp ells off all unien. tl ceocas |The police brutality was answered eet pies. ree 4 ; ‘i rer a aqhivelyapros - f zers. 5 six vorker: rial there. Another National Textile Work. | Grand Jury “investigation” is| | “aster the first attempt to break entero eran: today know that while they are preparing further steps in the legal ers Union member was shot and | whitewash for mill fascists. | ‘ ; ear ecilinh Count asthes didjin Gaston Coun out the textile industi the Textile Workers’ Conf ¢ week, at Kings Mountain | June 7, drunken Gastonia po-) for several blocks, and then re- corrupt or ‘ me em 4 clanooene ted scene et > Ale industry prepare the Textile orkers’ Conference 0! ? x i d mill hirelings attack and} neeting. Placards bear- ty before the change of venue was granted. October 12-18, where tha gauge of battle will be thrown at the feet | Charles Bellew, active member of| (fre inte “Workers 7 Lieiahas uae Se areltey 8 " talist class of the South realizes that it is under fire, that its power of exploitation, heretofore confined only by the limits of physical ex- Union Unity League, the new national militant trade union center, that will hold its Southern conference at Charlotte on October 13, con- on the 12th of October. Thus, while the trial is proceeding, the class conflict rages also The working class of the United States and of the world must ~ mobilize inmillions to defeat-the murder conspiracy against the six- rest of the working class. CHARLOTTE, N. C. |Textile Workers’ Union when|| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 29. ready with his arguments for killing in the electric chair all organizers of unions that interfere workers, results in an intensification of the drive against rationaliza- for the attempt to electrocute the | national Relief Store raided by a dustrialized South, under the leadership of the Communist Party, defi- es are trying by legal trickery and| |down building and destroy food) |Seven were held on feony charges. 1... ta:en a few days’ vacation from their regular work of leading mill owners’ gunmen on The mill owners and their agents in the court tt Charlott ie oneal see. ti ; i Gulls DERE oragacing farther itepe i Teen k Jed Manville-Jenckes agents have been actively visiting, spying upon and endeavoring to lynching campaign, the National Textile Workers’ Union is busy thru- | Wounded by mill bosses’ thugs last | MES) Maser) ne Cr ere Daaece 2 u fire into Workers International sl is di ing the fascist Bare cant rroristi 7 av c lace since the mistrial was declare of the entire outfit of slave drivers. More than that, the whole capi- |the National ‘Textile Workers | Relief te ne siogens See “ A whole series of terroristic outrages have taken place since i d haustion of men, women and children, is to be challenged by the Trade currently with the Southern Textile Workers’ Conference which begins on the outside of the court room, and is reflected in the court room. teen working men, women and youth on trial today in Charlotte and Union, has reported to the office in Charlotte an attack upon him, which proves the mill bosses’ reign of terror continues, and that the life of every organizer and active mem- ber of the N. T. W. U. is in danger. Bellew was discharged from the} Cora Mill in Kings Mountain for} union activity. He was looking for | another job, and at the same time getting union members. When he |went back to the Cora mill to talk | | Relief tent colony in Gastonia, | | attacks upon the textile workers in | in the first Charlotte trial, nearly a month ago. after breaking up a picket line.| |Gastonia and protesting the murder Police Chief Aderholt is killed, | of Ella May, militant unionist, two policemen and one union or-| | were carried aloft. ganizer are wounded. | The same night the colony is The meeting which began 2 few raided again, 71 men and women) hundred increased to thousands thrown in jail, gassed and beaten.| | during the parade, which was very | Of these 22 are held for murder | militant and spirited, cheering the | or murderous assault. \speakers and booing the vicious ac- July 29, the trial opens in Gas-| | tion of the police. ' tonia with 13 men and 3 women When the International Labor Defense called at the second meet- Meeting Grows. The night of the mistrial, Solicitor Carpenter and Major Bulwinkle led a gang which ““Electrocute Them” ae ~kidnapped Organizer Ben Wells of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union, and C. D. Saylors and C. M. Lell, and later | flogged Wells into unconscious- ness. A part of this. gang paraded in autos to Charlotte with the expressed intention of lynching * harged with murder and 8 other the d se counsel, and union to enable the Communist Party and the National Textile Workers’ to friends there, he was attacked) Strikers cad aeatis. charged | | ing for funds to bail out those ar- aie a ; Union to defeat the mill owners and their fascist gunmen outside the by. three of the bosses thugs. Be with murderous -aseacit, rested at the first meeting the This! was followed “Sepisitsby an baie nde Oe sree J ba Me nl one a ee a July 30, after workers through- | | Workers responded generously, and attempt to lynch Organizer Frank _ The militant labor movenient is in Gastonia and the South and it Kill’ you: Ae gives) ® | out country protest vigorously||the 27 were immediately released. Fortner at Dallas. He drove away ix there to stay. The workers must and will answer the attacks of their guns at Bellew. As he ran, | 1 iinet the attempt to railroad| |The demonstration was held under i i his attackers with gunfire, the bosses by a determined, unrelenting struggle for the shorter work- | Several shots were fired at him. Res aoala the textile workers to death, a| | the auspices of the Gastonia Joint day, for unemployment insurance, against capitalist rationalization, for ,One bullet grazed his side, inflict- | r! | | Eight organizers were arrested change of venue to Charlotte,| | Defense und Relief Committce. higher wages and for the right to organize, for the organizetion of ling a painful flesh wound. He fell, Mecklenberg County, granted, || Another demonstratiqn scheduled ae ; a ee rate sel workers’ defense committees and for the right of workers to defend |but was able to crawl through the) | 1) oa cchochter, Vera | for October 1, wil! be held in Oak- Gos eas eae Te ee themselves against attacks of the bosses’ agents, for disarming of the |stass and weeds into some tall | Sagust Smy © 4 land. A gala bazaar to swell the e was no evidence for the fascist thugs of the mill bosses and preparation for a mass strike on brush where he hid. After night- Pains mad cape Melee. tree | behalf of the strikers in Gastonia who are fighting the battles of the fall, some of his fellow members of | | whole working class. |the union came looking for him, and h harge| {held in San Francisco, Oct. 11, 12, |kept him in a worker’s house until) |from prosecution that charge) | 45° ay) workers’ organizations are the next night, Then he was taken | | Would be changed to murderous! | 004 to participate by donating | ! . | to his mothers home and cared for | |#8sault. The prosecution changes) | es sooo and taking over 1 ' ' 1 | luntil he recovered sufficiently to ‘ its tactics to make easier the) Abothe at thes ; || booths at the bazaar. report to the union headquarters in’ | electrocution of the 13 men. Philadelphia Conference. Charlotte Friday. || August 19, trial of seven held) | 4 call is issued by the Gastonia | Since he was shot, Bellew has re-| |0n charges of assault with secret | | yin Relief and Defense Committee J " |weapons with intent to kill is hanged ‘murder are||iund for the defense and relief of | pronation. Me ceahan te | Southern textile workers will be released on bond, with indication | | Mufder Woman Unionist. On Sept. 14, the South Gastonia mass meeting was broken up by mill gangsters who murdered Ella XN a woman organizer of the N.T.W. On Sept. 18, mill gunmen kid- napped Cleo Tessner, an N.T.W. organizer, 1 flogged him nearly to death, after attempting to lynch him. The me night, thugs in 50 automobiles chased Organizers Car- ol, Phifer and Shepard and tried to ceived a threatening letter from the | ag lof Philadelphia for a delegate con- |bosses’ thugs, telling him that next | Postponed to October 15: n°) ference with representation from change of venue for the denfend- agar ielday eve: ; all labor organiz Gleb: Tesensate is back on the job | | SMS. Sete On, Hie cheese. ning, Oct. 11, at Grand Fraternity zing textile workers into | Freed on $5,000 bail each, they| yall, 1626 Arch St., Philadelphia. politan Area Trade time they will kill him, onierence whick w ‘ow night at The M Union Ln be Feld) temo: (Wireless by Inprecorr) VIENNA, Sept. 29.—Austrian ng |Communists organized big counter- of orga lynch them. This murder gang was Pls. Irving Place and 15th St.,/demonstrations today against the the union. He has recovered from | return to campaign to rally sup-| | ‘The call states led by Policeman Roach, one of the will hear @ report on the Cleveland fascist. Heimwehr. parades.. The (Continued on Page Three) Wes for selene. conducted by In-| | wtyyhold the right of the work- | Aderholt raiders, and an important ‘Trade Union y Conference by jcounter-demonstrations were un- Sees | | ernational, Usbor (Defense, 2nd |. -econeinilel on Page Three) prosecution witness in the Gastonia ee ie ces i general secre- | [:roken in spite of the large forces Hapa alert astern gee eee ee case. These are the tactics of the tary of the T.U.U.L. of police and military thrown \ i stty } A prosecution, Foster.wrill take up in great de-lagainst them. In Moedling, slone, SELL OUT TUNNEL eaeheee OE ne Sorc ; Immediate Tasks | The Defendants. tail the achievements of thot his- 25 Communists were arrested. | Bueast Ab; tial of) 16 venale in Election Drive | , sricie Werkess Cece atin ae toric, conference, reciting the deci-| According to the bourgeois re-| 5 Workers» charges. Tathy murder | | |dex"inéthe. first deste’ andl wala wae sions of the labor gathering which | ports, the results of the ireimvehe| WORKERS STRIKE. bictoer! in Charlotte, N. C.Man-| | Get signatures to place the electrocution if the mill cwnarie was attended by 690 delegates reparations for the long planned q | | ville-Jenckes attorneys, represent-|| | (ov munist candidates on the| | State can get a conviction are: Fred rwin Beal, Louis McLaughlin, pei | | ing the state, demand chair for The striking tunnel workers were! | 13 men defendants. |sold out yesterday when Tammany | Henry. Sazer, chairman of the “march on Vienna” were miserable, New York delegation to the Cleve- |i view of the careful preparations. Every Party member must) participate! || i 1 I is ‘ s ‘ William McGinnis, Ge land conference will report on the| At “vetti, 3,000 fascists paraded; | oiiticians and ‘Tammany labor of. | | “jeer Jane Rett denne’) || Five thousand signatures are Clyde R. Hoey, brother-in-law of Governor Gardner, big mill owner, IK. 0, Byers Joveph Hoste y, applications of the conference de-/at Poechlarn, 5,000; at Moedling,|ticials forced through a vote at the| | misteal, Five jurors announce| | |Feauited, and only one more || connected by family in several ways with the ruling textile barons |C. Heffner, Robert Allen, Russell cisions ‘to the labor movement of |xhere the Vienna fascists paraded | a mistrial. Five jurors announce Allen, week remains! * of 2 Sunday, Oct, 6, is Red Sunday | for: signature work. All com-| — A a Rea Profintern Call All Ww k | Miller was originally charged atachta as an Zaeaper| S or CLS wits assault, and was out on bond. must report for signatures every When he appeared in Charlotte for orth Carolina, reputed the “slickest” lawyer in the South, is the | Knight, N. F ting held at Manhattan L; m, i i % meeting hel anhattan Lyceum, | | acquittal was almost certain be tenth epaleayibon of tis ororeion. bid E. pone . jeictd isa complete cause of weakness of prosecution sib |betrayal of the strikers. Instea: case. Simultaneously, organized The fascists’ announcement of | fi Fe | . i Moh heii secu ‘avalon are. ex: of their orignial wage demands, the | | fascist black hundred led by . | American Federation of Labor be-| |Loray mill attorneys and police aggerated, as even according to cap- travers forced a settlement which s Be teats .. id made up of mill foremen, italist figures hardly one-fourth of colig for $1.50 a day i . ani : omen, . ] h z ey a y increase in | petty business men, etc., insti- A i t S t D fi d t the trial which di ial, WORKERS SCHOOL that number actually paraded, al |wages which the workers ardnandd| |tute reign of terror. Kidnap and evening this week. | Ct) ave Gas onia le en an Ss e trial which ended in msitrial, though the Heimwehr receives ‘he | ist ti he was “promoted” at the request of i i The Communist ticket must be 4 support of the capitalist government | “°8°* which the workers are not! |flog union leaders, dynamite | ; the prosecution, to the group held | 7 leven sure that they will obtani.| | headquart d rder Ell placed on the ballot! Peale es ‘ sas ahee OPENS TONIGHT ™ Yee eee | At yesterday's meetnig no proof of | |May, active unionist. Raise funds for the election! Red International of Labor Unions Condemns (yn) ‘Scncchter, Sophie Melvin | ‘the so-ealed increase was given the |" Percical investigation results| { | SMBSiER! * Murderous Flectrecution Plan of Bo and Vera Bush, the th de: | i « st” but- a us atiectrocution an O sses | a Bush, the three women de. Sepees' BAZAAR | LL AlD ea big oe bie ai oh in whitewash of Bulwinkle, Car- Pa Mage SY bn ee ieee ‘of Labor |80 E, iith | Riatentictedai |fendanst on trial in this case, were Tonight at the Workers Center | Under the sellout the workers are | | penter and other leaders, | tte nine wal oo , _St., which is defending | all originall indicted for first degree the opening assembly of all students | robbed Agee Rt - ver in| |" Sept. 25, company union an-| || scription lists in your shops, in| |UMions (Profintern), numbering | the Gastonia prisoners, and to the/murder. The prosecution, at the lag place on the fifth ed living gin daily, which they a nounced for southern textile || your union, in your fraternal or-| | millions of members throughout the| /74Ge, \nlon Unity League, © ‘|beginning of the first Charlotte in e large auditorium of the 5 | i} “| |workers, and governor threatens Gibbons, K. Y. Hen- |dricks, Delmar Hampton and Clar- jence Miller, New York and New Jersey. \hardly 3,000; at Stockerau, there Otto Hall will take up the ques-|/ was a better showing, with 19.000. tion cf organizing the Negro workers ., | as - 4 | 15th St., which is the American sec- | trial, changed the charge, thinking 24 |manded, will obtain at the most | Ove ganizations. ° | world, with headquarters in Moscow; | tion of the R. I. L. U. betes ° Bear The eneerar ig “audaiabty a $9.60; the helpers will get. $7.00 to outlaw union in North Caro- Take shop collections for the| has issued an appeal for the solid- evidently that they would stand a § lina. Communist campaign! hoe : Mill Owners Murderers. better chance of conviction if they to acquaint’ the students with the| With the murder trial of the six-jinstead of $9 and the laborers | ot 39 attempt to send 13 Take shop collections for the| | tity, of the working class of the! “The powerful Southern textile |made a gesture towards chivalry. organization of. the school, the|teen Gatonsia strikers and organ-|(muckers) will receive $6.70 daily Lae ‘ested He dhsic, and ||| Commcniat Tenipelgal |world to free the 23 Gastonia pris- barons are determined to murder | Another Case Follows teaching ‘methods ‘used and the|izers coming up again today in| instead of the $9 originally demand: | | tho. to penitentiary resumed in Get donations from your or-| |°M¢tS, Siteen of whom go on trial these heroic working class leaders! There are also seven workers matter of text books. Alvo the|Charlotte, N. C, the need for|ed. All the demands were for the | 1:01” while terror Tinian in| | | ganizations! for the lives in Charlotte, N. C.,| in their attempts to prevent the rev-|charged with assault with intent to teachers of the various depart-|strengthening the Daily Worker and Prevailing rate of wages. attempt to intimidate union. mem- Bay, ts Communist campaign || oon olutionary National Textile Workers | kill, and held on $750 bonds, whose ments of the school will be out-| Morning Freiheit, the only Amer-| The Trade Union Unity League, bers and prospecti: like. t st ! The text of the appeal was cabled ion from organizing the hundreds | trial date is set for some time in . (Continued on Page Two) - (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) todas tis i io | paige Cenecnye Janie sues. reson Ato el — to the International Labor Dateaba, | (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) TEN I.L.D. ORGANIZERS TOUR CCUNTRY TO RALLY WORKERS TO DEFENSE OF GASTONIA PRISONERS a Ten organizers for the Interna- tional Labor Defense are now tour- ing the United States to awaken the American working class to the full dangers of the Gastonia conspiracy. Juliet Stuart Poyntz will tour the following cities: Rochester, Oct. 2: (18 and 19; Washington, Oct. 20; | and 5; Detroit, Oct. 6; Toledo, Oct. 7 Chicago, Oct. 8; Milwaukee, Oct. 9; Minneapolis, Oct. 10; Duluth, Oct. 11; St. Paul, Oct. 12; Chicago, Oct. 18; St. Louis, Oct. 14 and 15; Cin- cinnati, Oct. 16; Pittsburgh, Oct. delphia, Oct. 21. Mike Harris, youth organizer for the National Textile Workers Union | im Gastonia, will speak to youth conferences and meetings in Phila- delphia, tonight; Detroit and Cleve- land, Oct. 5 and 6; Chicago, Pitts- Buffalo, Oct. 3; Cleveland, Oct. 4! Baltimore, evening of Oct. 20: Phiia-i burgh, Oct. 11 and 12; Buffalo, Oct. 16 and Wilkes-Barre, Oct. 18. }jail for daring to expose American} workers of the steel and coal dis-; mount, W. Va., Oct. 10; Detroit,) urges all workers who want to pro- Mother Ella Reeve Bloor is tour- imperialism, will talk in Washing-|tricts of Pennsylvania. Mich. Oct. 11 and 12; Chicago, test against the mill barons’ terror ing the Pacific Coast. |ton, Baltimore, Wilmington, Phila-| Louis Sass will speak before Hun- | Cleveland, Oct. 18 and 19; Akvon,|to join the organization and swell Ben Wells, who was flogged by|delphia, Chester and New York. garian workers in 19 cities with the | 0., Oct. 20; Buffalo, Oct. 21 and 22; the membership by 50,000, tour the Middle West, | G. Lloyd, I. O, Ford and Sadie aim of gaining 3,000 new members | Philadelphia, Oct. 23; New Bruns- Rothschild Francis, Negro editor; Van Veen, will ‘ur the Ohio dis-| in 100 branches by the first of 1930, | wick, N. J., Oct. 24; New York, Oct. Build Up the United Front of of “Liberator” of the Virgin Islands, trict, including 105 cities. He will talk at Portage, Pa., Oct. 25; and Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 26.' the Working Class From the Bot~ who recently served 15 months in| Sonia Kroll will speak to the|7; Pittsburgh, Oct, 8 and 9; Fair-| The International Labor Defense tom Up—at the Enterprises! 2jme/