The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1929, Page 3

iff DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1929 Page Three | DATTLE RAGES ONLY 45 MILES FROM KABUL AS 500 PICKED TROOPS DRIVE TOWARD CAPITAL Former Ally of Amanullah, Nadir Khan, Leads Anti-British Army Bacho Sacho, Anti-Soviet British Tool, Faces Strong Revolutionary Force | i | PESHAWAR, India, Sept. 30.—A fierce battle is raging in the Loh- garh Valley in Afghanistan corey as Nadir Khan advanced with 5,000 jicked troops in a surprise march| i Kabul, the Afghan capital. | | Nadir Khan, selecting 5,000 from| must now admit that although Amanullah was forced into exile and resigned hope of return, Na- dir Khan seems to have rallied strong forces for an independent fight against the tool of England. his way to Kabul, a distance of only 45 miles, and overthrow the present | monarch, Bacho Sacho, known as| to Oust King Saud ish control near the Khyber Pass | in worthern India, from where | JERUSALEM, Sept. 30.—An ex- British imperialism intrigued with | tension of the Arab fight in Pales- cho, was expected 75 maura, Tris sixty were slain, is supposedly a f |dary. The battle, the resluts of British Imperialism’s Afghanistan Lackey Is Threatened by We \Chinese Militarists Buy Torture Machine Just Like Foreigners According to the local Chinese the nationalist government s bought an electric machine for torturing prisoners. In justification they point to the fact that such ma- chines have long been in use in the foreign settlements. Colonel Yuan, director of public safety bureau of the Chinese the} CONFLICT GROWS FOR CHINA RULE Foes of Nanking Show Relative Strength SHANGHAI, Sept. ing’s announcement that 3,000 of Chang Fa-kwei’s troops were cap- municipality, declares that “per-| tured’ cnd many killed after Me suanive ally fail to bring) army was trapped between Nank- forth a on.” In China— as in Japan—it is the primary ob- ject of the police to get a confes- sion, These are deemed absolute proof of guilt. Colonel Yuan pub- licly detldred that the purchase was “in emulation of the plan adopted by the police stations of the Inter- national Settlement.” “For Female Prisoners.” bought The machine already is described as follow t has terminal wires corthected with its two poles, the positive and the nega- tive, At the end of each wire is a metal holder. A prisoner is stripped of his clothes and placed naked on a bamboo ladder with his body and limbs all tightly tied to it. His s are placed in front of his H t and his palms are set to hold the two metal terminals. The cur- |rent is then turned on, passing through his whole body and caus- ing such unendurable — sensations that ‘even the strongest and fierc- est will directly confess without more ado,’” For female prisoners a slightly different treatment is used, the ma- chine having a voltage adjustable to the physical conditions of the prisoners, two ‘ing troops and the Feng River in |Hunan, fails to impress the “left” |Kuomintang who now seek re- | spectability under the name of “the Reorganizationists” in trying to joverthrow Chiang Kai-shek. The |false nature of Nanking accounts of victories is proverbial. These Reorganizationists hi headquarters in Shanghai and clare that 24 local Kuomintang o: ganizations throughout China have openly sided with them, in add mn to 48 counties in Fukien pr jvince, They hotly resent charges that they have any connection with Communists, and while fishing for |mass support limit their program to jan ousting of Chiang Kai-shek |such bourgeois slogans as “a cl }and honest government.” The Com- munists stand for “a workers’ and peasants’ government.” There are ten points in the Re- ganizationist manifesto against |Chiang Kai-shek: (1) Official cor- jruption; (2) favoritism in civil | service positions; (3) misuse of jfunds for military; (4) executions |and property confiscations; (5) use jof demobilization funds to bribe | wavering generals and to buy arms; (6) reconstruction funds used for military ends; (7) destruction of and ean | or} | . — Nank- iq | UTW CONFERENC PLAYS T0 BOSSES Has No Textile Toilers Wers on Militants | (Continued from Page One) effort to “appeal to the conscience jof mill owners.” | Then Gorman launched into a long |harangue against the National Tex- ll-Armed Revolt IN THE SHOPS “Don’t Let ee e Gastonia Die” \7Y. S.S.R. Mill Workers Say “We Shall Not Allow Our Gastonia Comrade To Be Beaten Down!” At the end of the shift, the women workers of the “Red Dawn” | Knitting Factory (Moscow) did not hurry home. With stern and anxi- | ous faces they gatheered together at the meeting to protest against the railroading of the Gastonia textile workers. Once again the Sacco and Vanzetti business is being repeated in America—this is heard®on every hand among the women workers. “Now, the electric chair is being got ready for women workers,” said a young woman, a member of the Young Communist League, to her elder companions. “Why are th attacking everywhere, our comrades, the women textile workers?” asked women workers Tukin, the chairwoman of the factory committee, perplexedly. y to this question was made by Comrade Klemenchenko, poke of th ms for the terroristic measures adopted by the Amer bourge He urged the workers to protest to save the lives their comrades. The rain prevented a development of the discussion. But the resolu- tion adopted by this open meeting of the workers and women workers of the “Red Dawn” factory declares: “We appeal to all men and women textile workers throughout the world to protest together with us against the attempt to murder the Gastonia textile workers. Of lae, the bourgeoisie everywhere have | been attacking the textile workers. And today, in Gastonia, enraged at the opposition and resistance of the working class, the most reac- tionary section of the American bourgeoisie desires to ‘give the work- ers a lesson’ and drive it into them that they must not use the strike weapon as a measure of self-defense. They are preparing the electric chair for thirteen of our textile workers. “Men and women textile workers! Let us resist the insolent bour- geoisie in an organized fashion! “Don’t allow a bloody repetition of the Sacco and Vanzetti frame- “Don’t allow a bloody repetition of the Sacco-Vanzetti frame-up! Don’t allow our Gastonia comrades to be cut down!” * . . when he ‘WE BUILD UNION THAT WILL LAST’ |Terror Will Not Break the N. T. W. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHARLOTTE, N. C. (By Mail),— I have been a reader of your paper for some time and must say that I enjoy reading it. The capi- |talist press tries to misrepresent the facts about the conditions here and |denies that there is any black ter- jrorism going on in the state of |North Carolina; but they have ut- |terly failed in the effort, for those of us who have been hunted by the thugs and police know better. Twice have I been locked up without any warrant and turned loose without lany trial. Three times have I been threatened and told to leave town but I am still here and expect to \stay here. The black hundreds have extended | their terror far beyond the limist of |Gaston and Mecklinburg Counties. They roam the streets day and night looking for the organizers and the active union members. I have been accoasted by part of this gang of outlaws, in towns fifty miles from Gastonia. Part of our people |are uneasy all the time for they are conscious that they have no pro- |tection whatever from the law. We who are going through the thick of “the water boy,” who deposed King | Amanullah and occupied the throne | at Kabul early this year. the bandit leader, Bacho Sacho, | tine against British imperialism is and religious-feudal reactionary |seen in the 15-hour battle between elements, to overthrow Amanul- |troops of the British lackey, King tain control of Afghanistan as another link of the anti-Soviet chain from Manchuria to Finland e @n army of 25,000 and well equipped HEDJAZ REVOLT So eae Editorial Note: The above news | lah, because under Amanullah, {Ibn Saud, of Hedjaz, and rebel Afghanistan was friendly to the (troops commanded By Faisal El along the Soviet frontier. Th above dispatch acquires greater with Lewis guns, hopes to P| ANTL-BRITISH source, Peshawar, is under Brit- | Soviet Union. | Dowish, on the Nejd-Koweit boun- importance from the fact that it + ji LD, WARNS OF NEW MANEUVER Call Workers to Save Gastonia Victims (Continued from Page One) favor of and in sympathy with higher wages and the shorter work- day for textile labor, which is the comes from British sources, which | beginning of an attempt to over- throw King Saud. SCORE BARKOSKI | judicial system and surrender of na-|tile Workers Union and the Com-| tional rights by accepting “favored | munists, revealing the real purpose |nation” clause in new treaties; (8)|0f the conference of bureaucrats |secret section in Shangtung agree-| With the government and mill of- |ment with Japan making Tsingtao- | ficials. |Tsinanfu railway Japanese and rec-| Hugo Oehler stated today that the |ognizing the Nishihara loans (Japan |Conference was the next logical move was willing to publish this, but|0f the bosses’ agents withiri the la- Nanking objected); (9) despotism; | bor movement to consiolidate their GASTONIA CASE CENTERS ONT TRIAL AT MEET |\Pittsburgh Workers Rally Tonight (Continued from Page One) | Pittman. |and puncture the lung; had broken | Bail was refused the seven held |his breast bone so that when his |" Second degree charges. This was widow gently laid her hand upon | ostensibly because the lives of th his chest it collapsed and she found defendants would be in danger it had been stuffed with cotton to|they were allowed out of the j hold it up; had twisted his ears so |nd is a recognition of the reign o viciously that, although unconscious, |terror by the mill owners’ gang- he cried out; had inflicted 16 sters, threatening the lives of all wounds upon his head with a heavy, Union organizers in the South, smiss 9, Cut Charges to Pack the Jury (Continued from Page Onc) |McDonald, Robert Litoff and J. R. worst falsehood. This is the opium|tiunt instrument (admittedly the that the employers seek to feed to/ putt of a 88-revolver), and had Threat To Lynch. The Daily Worker correspondent |(10) packing the Third Kuomintang | Congress. The manifesto calls for: (1) gov- | ernment reorganization under lead- |ers in power at the Second Kuomin- |tang Congress; (2) a new and “bona | fide” congress; (3) nullification of all actions since the Third Congress; (4) repudiation of secret agree- |ments; (5) cancellation of the $70,- 100,000 so-called “disbandment” ond issue, |Force Chinese Workers |to Attend Anti-Soviet ‘Meet; Then CheatThem the workers, when labor is growing stronger. Must Fight New Meneuver. | caused his whole body to be, accord- jing to the testimony of the doctor | performing the inquest, a mass of Facing a complete collapse eG pe qacerations san their murder charges, confronted | dislocations—these three men, W. with an exposure of the revolting |Lycester, Harold Watts and Fran conditions that preval in the suoth-|Slapekis, today stand acduitted. , ern textile industry, the mill owners| Had John Barkoski. “hunky” ave completely dropped their oer ae in eee Lae coal attack against nine of the defend-|and iron thug, District Attorney ‘ants, and now center their efforts | Gardner himself would have pros- in a conspiracy to railroad seven of | ecuted the case, The Pittsbugh Coal the prisoners, the outstanding lead- | Company would not have hired two ers, to life terms in prison. *Four ;of the best criminal lawyer in West- of these are organizers who came ern Pennsylvania (one of them at- down South from the North to help|torney for the Nir ed in the organization of the industry.|in this state) to defend him; Dist- The three others are militant South-|rict Attorney Gardner would not ern textile workers who have taken a| have excused him from the witness leading part in the strike struggle |stand just as he was beginning to since the strike was declared April| break down and confess his guilt. 1 a tthe Loray Mill of the Manville- | Mellon’s Judge. Jenckes, Corporation in Gastonia. | District Attorney Gardner would Labor everywhere wi!] look upon this | not have failed to ask the electric latest maneuver as a new and dan-|chair for him in his address to the gerous challenge that must be com-| jury; Judge Gray would not have, pattered energetically and defeated.'by his charge to the jury, made it The Past Is a Warning. virtually aie or ie to hi } ;.| bring in a verdict of guilty of mur- blest vend pet 1p ea |der in the first degree. In fact, fornia; the Centralia prisenrs {in| Sshn Barkoski would long airiee ha Washington, are testimony to vic-|"° ons. ctl 7 d ‘i jn | been burned to death in the electric tories won by the employing class in Math, had'he illed’s Mell Nee rrying through this form of at-|C?#", had fe killed a Mellon police tacks sehr the working class in| man, even in self-defense. - the past, It must not be repeted. In the course of his charge to the Labor everywhere, under the pban-{Jury Judge Gray admitted the tre- ners of the International Labor De- mendous power of the coal and iron ; | police—telling the jury htat, altho fense, will press forward more ener. {Band feat af getically than ever for the complete employed by private | corporations ; ; : js-|in the interests of the corporaitons. liberation of all the Gastonia pris: _ ‘The International Labor De- tkeir powers were equal to those of be i F the police in New York, Philadel- fense, that has directed from the fas BabtabubeH, eee eginning the resistance of the work- SNe ‘gh, etc. ing class to this attempted judicial Slynching, where the violence of the ‘employers’ mobs have failed, will not RESCUE TRAPPED MINERS. overheard one of the Loray hire- SHANGHAI, China (By Mail).— lings remark _on the courthouse | Cotton mill workers in Pootong have steps after adjournment of court: petitioned the Kuomintang to com- If they don’t send them bastard | pel their employers to pay them BRUSSELS, Sept. 30.—Five min- | |Reds to jail they are going to be killed like Ella May.” The prosecution is trying hard to speed up the trial so that it will be ended before the Charlotte confer-| ence, which the mill bosses will try to break up, Consolidate Charges. The charge against all the de- fendants held for trial, lying orig- inally also against those dismissed, of “secret assault with intent to kill Gilbert, Roach, and Ferguson, followers of Chief of Police Ader- holt in the murderout June 7 raid on the tent colony at Gastonia in which Aderholt lost his life and his police were wounded, are now con- solidated with the charge of mur- dering Aderholt. The judge over- ruled the defense objection to this consolidation, which will permit the prosecution to introduce a great variety of perjured testimony which otherwise could not be legally used against the defendants. | Leon Josephson, of the counsel |for the defense, made the following statement today: “The reduction of charges against seven of the defendants and the dis- missal of nine others is an admis- | sion by the prosecution that it has no case. If there was conspiracy arising out of the speeches and carried out by the workers’ guard, then all are guilty, Here are nine persons who are held in jail since June 7, yet not a scintilla of evi- dence was had against them. “The state moved to consolidate | wages for July 30, the day they were required by the government to stop work in order to attend an the officials of the city. This was | the meeting at which the Kuomin- | tang press claimed there were 120,- |000 present. As a matter of fact jsaere were just about one-tenth that many—which gives a good measure |for the braggadocio of the Kuomin- he militarists, thereby deprived of a large number of peremptory challenges and their chances of getting a fair jury are accordingly reduced very greatly. | Even though a juror admits his |hostility against the defendants, yet |if he thinks or says he can decide according to the evidence impartial- ly, he qualifies. This we know is | phychologically impossible. The |chances are that the new jury will | be composed of such persons. Will Pack Jury. “The action of the state is most inconsistent, t osay the least. They alleged from the beginnnik that the ‘murder’ resulted from a conspiracy. Planning premeditation is a neces- |sary element of conspiracy. Second degree murder is murder with mal- ice, but wtihout premeditation. To |say that these defendants conspired to commit second degree murder is to say that the defendants planned a premeditated murder without pre- meditation! “With the increased prejudices in Mecklenburg County since the mis- anti-Soviet mass meeting called by| forces against the rising tide of militant mill workers. Fear Growing N.T.W.U. “Alarmed by the threat of the rapidly growing N.T.W.U.,” said} Oehler, and the prospect of a tre-| mendously successful Southern Tex- tile Workers Conference in Charlotte on October 12, in cooperation with | the Trade Union Unity League! Southern Convention at the same place on October 13, which meetings will initiate a general struggle against the stretch-out (speed-up) and starvation wages. The U.T.W. and the mill barons are doing their utmost to prevent this organization work and this struggle. It is signi-| ficant that wwhile the N.T.W. in- vites the rank and file of the U,T, W. to elect delegates to the Char- lotte conference, the bureaucrats threw out of the Rock Hill gather- ing the rank and file members of the N.T.W.U.” The southern capitalist press edi- torials gloat over the expulsion of N.T.W. representatives from the conference of the U.T.W. bureau- crats. ‘Anti-Red’ Writer of Shanghai Is Forger | SHANGHAI, China (By Mail).— | Eugene Pick, alias Kojevnikov, etc., etc., confessed stoolpigeon for the | imperialist powers, has been sen-| tenced by the Provisional Court to| nine months imprisonment for hav- ing forged the American consul’s name to certain documen3s. Evi- dence showed that Pick was an abso- | lute scoundrel. Not only has the wi It the hourgeotnle eapons that bring | 1 it has also called | “No Bourgeois Terror Will Disrupt Working Class Unity!” On this anniversary of the death of Sacco and Vanzetti, murdered by the American hangmen, the workers and employes of the Moscow Knitting Factory No. 11, condemn the shameful and insolent attempt of the American bourgeoisie to make a repetition of their bloody crime by sending the sixteen arrested Gastonia textile workers to the elec- tric chair. We protest in no uncertain voice against the violence and perse- cution of the workers of Gastonia who raised the banner of struggle against the exploiters. We demand that the revolutionary textile workers be immediately released from prison! We declare that not even the electric chair itself can hold up the mighty advance of the revolutionary labor movement or disrupt work- ing class unity! Long live trade union unity! Long live the Communist International—the leader of the prole- tariat the world over! Hands Across Sea—USSR R.R. Workers to Gastonia “Our Answer to the Call of the U. S. Workers” Dear Comrades of Gastonia: We have read in our railway workers’ paper “Gudok” (Whistle) about the dirty crime the North Caroline officials and the mill bosses are trying to commit, against the sixteen strikers and organizers of Gastonia. We, the railroad workers of the station “Bagalie” protest vigor- | ously against this attempt to murder sixteen revolutionary fighters. We demand the freedom of these workers who dared to fight against the mill bosses. This new attempt of the bosses against the workers calls us to close our ranks with the workers of the U.S.A. With comradely greetings, PERIMIGIN, in the name of the as- sembled workers of Bagalie station. . “We Have Heard Dear Gastonia Comrades: We, the shop and clerical workers of the Topochova railroad sta- tion at our meeting have heard the call of the U. S. workers to rally to the sixteen workers in Gastonia who face imprisonment for long terms or electrocution. We stamped the U.S, government with a black stamp for the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. We protest against the desire of the U.S. mill barons and government to repeat the same dirty work in Gastonia. We demand the immediate release of the Gastonia prisoners. With proletarian greetings, ~—Thirteen workers of the Topochova station, Your Call.” Answer the Attacks of the Social Fascists Against the DAILY WORKER to {the battle know just what it means |to be forced to face blood-thirsty |thugs bent on beating and lynching every union member in the South. They have said openly and boast- fully that they are not going to have a union in the South, and they are Jready to do anything to stop the |union but we have determined that we shall not leave the South. The workers realize as never be- re that they must organize and fight together in one concrete body for better conditions. We who have worked in the southern mills for many years, for small wages year after year, sixty hours a week with no vacation fully realize that if we are to have shorter hours and more pay that we have got to put up a battle to secure them, The workers are for us; they are showing their solidarity and faith in the union as never before. Thousands have heard of the union for the first time, thousands have been on the picket line for the first time; it is |true that we are inexperienced but | if you were on the battle front with jus you would agree that we doing | our best. —A WORKER. Fastonla the Biggest Issue Before the Work- ing Class Today Workers of America have not heard all there is to know about Gastonia. They do not yet understand the unequalled terrorism going on down there. They do not yet know the great herroism of the southern workers and organizers. The International Labor De- fense has sent ten organizers on the road telling masses of workers the complete truth about Gastonia. Have You Heard the Truth About GASTONIA? You will hear it from Juliet Stuart Poyntz MORNING FREIHEIT who will tour the following concede a single hour in prison for any worker to the mill millionaires of North Carolina. The International Labor Defense will continue to support, wth greater efforts than ever, the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union in its struggle + oorganize completely the textile industry, to strike, to picket and to defend its members against the mill owners’ ‘Black Hands’, led by the Bulwinkles and Carpenters who appear openly members of the legal staff of the prosecution in the Charlotte court, ‘Workers! Rally to the defense of the imprisoned organizers of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. Strengthen the Gastonia Confer- ences. Develop mass demonstration! Raise funds. Win ne wsupporters for the International Labor Defe: in its drive for 50,000 new member! ‘The South must organize under the banners of militant, class struggle nionism. Se International Labor Defense, J. Louis Engdahl, secretary. ers who were buried Wednesday under a falling roof in Winterslag \the charges of assault on the other |officers and reduced the degree of trial was declared, and with reduc- tion in the number of challenges, we think it is impossible for us to get a fair jury ot try these defendants.” murder for two reasons. And the first is that the defendants| are Colliery in the province of Limbourg were rescued today. See...... SOVIET RUSSIA Be on the Red Square to Witness the Celebration of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOV. REVOLUTION COMPLETE $ NEW YORK TOUR ‘ > LONDON FREE, Qs. LENINGRAD SOVIET VISAS MOSCOW Group Sails: —S.S. 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