The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1929, Page 1

i ly BIG RED PRESS S BAZAAR ONLY TWO DAYS OFF; BARGAINS! DANCING! COME AID DAILY, FREIHEIT! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Bai Entered ax se: cond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, Published daily except Sunday by The Company. tne.. 26-28 Union Square. Vol. VI, No. 178 Comprodaily Publishia New York City. v, aha NEW YORK, WEDN orker » under the act of March 3, FINAL CITY EDITION 1879, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mai , $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per yea’ Price 3 Cents OPENLY PACKING A Danger Signal for the Whole Working Class At this moment the working class faces one of the most critical periods in the whole sanguinary history of the Gastonia struggle. The six defendants are being railroaded to rot away their lives in prison. The so-called “impartial” judge, Barnhill, is aiding the mob leader and prosecutor, Carpenter, carry out the decisions of the mill owners. It qvould be the sheerest folly to imagine that the blood- ked capitalist class and its fascist bands have changed their policy of waging a campaign of murder and terror against organization of the working class. From the beginning of the Gastonia conflict the mill owners, their paid lackeys, their police, their prosecutors and their state governor, the mill owner, 0. Max Gardner, have invariably pursued one objective—to crush through organized violence, “legal” and illegal, the militant labor movement that will otherwise force the capitalists to disgorge in additional labor costs some little fraction of their millions that have been distilled from the very life blood of men, women and child slaves. That there is no crime too monstrous for these despoilers of labor to invoke in order to crush the movement to abolish the speed-up, starvation wages, long hours, child labor, the resultant unemployment and other effects of capitalist rationalization, the dead body of Ella May Wiggins bears testimony. As we told our readers yesterday, the dismissal of the charges against nine defendants and the reduction of the charges against the remaining six from first degree murder to second degree murder was a strategic move on the part of the mill owners state government made only in order to advance on more favorable ground against the National Textile Workers’ Union and the defendants. To regard this move of the workers’ enemies as constituting, in itself, a victory for the work- ing class would be a dangerous illusion. This action of the prosecu- tion can lead to the greatest defeat of the working class in Gastonia. And it was intended for precisely that purpose. Jt was a counter-move against the mass pressure of the working class. It was the culmina- tion of a whole series of events, carefully staged by the mill owners, their governor and the prosecution, all calculated to throw dust in the eyes of the working class of the United States and of the world that had rallied in mighty protests against the monstrous conspiracy to railroad to their deaths the most determined and valiant working class fighters. That the jury is being packed is evident. Judge Barnhill insolently ruled that the fact that prospective jurors are eligible to serve even though they believe the defendants guilty, It is a plain case of railroading. The conference between Governor Gardner and other mill owners held last week at Raleigh, capitol of the state, laid down the strategy to be pursued in the present situation, as well as to lay plans for dealing with future eventualities arising out of the class struggle in the South. No attempt was made to conceal the fact that a program of anti-labor legislation, designed to cloak with legality the crimes against labor, was decided upon. The conference recognized that laws made in the past when North Carolina was almost solely an agricul- tural state are somewhat awkward for dealing with the problems of crushing the workers in the newly industrialized South, that is, for covering with legality all the crimes of violence of the capitalist class. Too much room is left to crimes that cannot be made to appear in the dirty garb of capitalist law. The conference dealt with the present situation by devising means of making use of the existing machinery to crush militant labor through legalized murder, to expedite the selection of a jury that can be relied upon to convict. It was the large number of peremptory challenges that the defense had in the first trial that made it possible to select a jury partly reflecting the mass sentiment of the working class population against the mill owners’ yranny. The mistrial revealed that the majority of the former jury would have voted to free the defendants. In the present case the number of peremptory challenges is reduced from 168 to 28. Thus the prosecution hopes to secure a jury that will not reflect the deep- going resentment of. the community against the mill owners, but will be subservient to the mill owners and bring in a mill owners’ verdict. Let no worker think that the verdict for second degree murder means anything other than the verdict for first degree murder—DEATH! | The reduction of the charges is designed, as we said yesterday, The mill owners and their state government have not given up hope of killing the defendants. They have only abandoned the electric chair for another form of death to the leaders of the strike—long years cf fiendish torture in state prison, until actual death ends their agony. Meanwhile Governor Gardner, as spokesman for all the mill owners and all the capitalist class, indulges in weasel words about the mill owners pursuing a softer policy toward labor—talking of increasing wages and reducing hours on the basis of unity of all classes, but witheut a unien. This is, of course. nothing but hypoericy, intended to destroy the union and to defeat the movement for militant labor organ- ization and forge the chains of slavery more firmly upon the workers, The working class of the United States and of the world that has rallied in such numbers to the defense of the Gastonia victims has forced the mill owners and their government to indulge in the latest strategic move, to maneuver for more favorable ground from which to carry on their assaults against the workers in Gastonia and vicinity and their vanguard, the Communist Party. It is not the capitalist court that will determine the outcome of the Gastonia trials, but the working class. Working class demonstra- tions must be increased many fold. The drive to organize the unor- ganized mill workers into the National Textile Union must proceed with giant strides. The fight against’ capitalist rationalization and for the economic demands of the working class must embrace hundreds of thousands who will hurl their mass power against the greedy mill owners and create defense committees in every mill to stop the murder campaign of the mill owners and their lackeys, The fascist thugs of the mill owners must be disarmed by the m&ss power of the working class, Workers everywhere must rally in greater and more determined numbers to save the Gastonia prisoners from the vengeance of the capitalist class. Prepare to meet the insolent challenge with a mass strike that will stop the Gastonia murder plot! RYAN THREATENS, TO BREAK STRIKE Tells LL.A. Checkers to Take Lower Wage Joe Ryan, president of the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Associa- tion, who has just signed up a con- tract for the I. L. A. without con- sulting any of its members, came down personally Monday night to break the resistance to this contract among his checkers and steamship | clerks. The two locals, 874 and 975, who. theught they were going to have a hew agreement at $8 a da: Me that Ryan had sold them to the boss for $6.50. The rank and file pro- tested so much the officials called a Colomba Hall, 331 West 25th St., for local members only, to discuss the wage agreement. Ryan appeared and told them that if they dared to go on strike, he would fill their places with long- shoremen. The checkers even ar- gued that they did not ask thelong- _shoremen to go out, but Ryan in- sisted he would break any strike they dared to call. The vote had to be taken five times before Ryan could get a majority. MOVIE OPERATORS GAIN. BUFFALO, N. Y., (By Mail).— Organized movie operators at the nessee and Strand Theatres here n union working conditions after found a ctrike, meeting Monday night at St. | FOSTER 3EPORTS ON CLEVELAND TUUL MEET | 200 Delegates Attend’ Metropolitan Area Conference |Represent For Gastonia Workers; Defense of U.S.S.R. More than 200 delegates, repre- unorganized workers of New York |and New Jersey, attended the Met- jvopolitan Area Trade Union Unity |Conference held last night at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 155th St. William Z, Foster, General Secre- | tary of the T. U. U. L., delivered | a report on the Cleveland conference |of the T. U. U. L., which was fol- [lowed by general discussion from \the floor, |the national T, U. U. | the support of the Gastonia workers, | for the organization of the unorgan- |ized; for the defense of the Soviet Union and against imperialist war The conference was opened by |George E. Powers, temporary sec- ;retary. Andrew Overgaard was jelected chairman and Mortimer Johnson, a Negro worker, vice-chair- man, Foster recite dthe facts leading up to the calling of the Trade Union pointed out that rationalization is nereasing, likewise the radicalization of the workers. He also stressed the treachery of the American Federa- tion of Labor. He told of the composition of the (Continued on Page Two) T.UU. L. SHOWS Lead Floor Layers and Cleaners to Victory | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. |Proving that the new militant unions limder the guidance of fie ‘Trade | Union Unity League are strong and capable of victorious struggle in the |American-plan open shop Philadel- |phia, are the demands won by the |Hardwood Floor Layers Protective Union and the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union. | Although an e young o ganizati the indow Clear Protective Union of Philadelphia, 400 members are already enrolled, the major of which are Negro | workers truggle in- | volving ‘arrests of pickets and beat. lings by hired thugs, the Employer | Association signed an agreement {with the union, granting shorter |hours, a wage increase and better (Continued on Pa on Page Three) Needle Meet to Aid Gastonia Tomorrow Defense of the Gastonia workers be taken up tomorrow at the needle jtrades shop delegates meeting to be held at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., at 7 p. m. All sections of the needle trades are ex- pected to be represented. WOMEN’S WORK DIRECTORS. All section women’s work direc- | tors must attend a special women’s Union Square. Daily Worker-Freiheit Madison Square Garden is in transformation, Groups of carpen- ters in one corner, painters in an- other, are busily arranging booths for the opening of the Daily Worker - Morning Freiheit Bazaar Thursday. The variety of goods offered for sale in the booths is so great that) it is safe to say that a tremendo department store is being speedily | organized for the benefit of the! Daily Worker-Freiheit readers. The, 4 t Thous sands | senting thousands of organized and! A resolution was then | | adopted calling for affiliation with| L., also for] | Unity Conference in Cleveland. He| WAY IN PHILA. now on trial in Charlotte, N. C., will) | tors and unit women’s work direc- | Garden tor Press Bazaar **: Thursday; Many Features Arranged the | Needle Union MELLON P01 IRTS Endorses C. TO TRY ASGORSI, Candida id FRAMER WORKER Joint Board Votes Unanimously New Cheswick Victim The New York Joint Board of To Be Extradited To Pennsylvania the Needle Workers’ Industrial ‘Union, after reading the call sent |by the Communist Party, New York! District, to all militant labor organ- izations, asking for their support ix the Municipal Election Campaign, |by a unanimous vote endorsed the Communist program and ticket, and | pledged itself to mobilize the masses | \of needle workers to give their ac- itive support to the Communist cam- paign and to vote Communist on Election Day. A Campaign Committee of 11 was elected representing all the de- partments of the union, and it was decided to invite a representative of the Communist Party to address the Shop Delegates Conference called for this Thursday, where the report on the endorsement will be one of the main orders of business. Outline Work. | Salvatore Accorsi, of Staten Isl- The Needle Workers Campaign ,and, is the worker, and he is charged has already met and outlined a plan with having fired the shot that lof work by which the Communist {killed state trooper Downey shortly Election Campaign will be carried |after the breaking up of a into the shops, to the Needle Trades | Vanzetti protest demons ndustrial markets and the various Cheswick, Pa., on Aug. 22, 1927. sections in the city where needle | workers live. Philip Goodman was cette he Ormanisation awa Tout |Save Accorsi shifted from the state 4 : 4 of New York to Pennsylvania, when Ie bantu sne cone gnay uiauD) AS geeioe |Tsaac Shorr, attorney for the New |York District of the International Labor Defense, appearing in the Ap- pellate Division of the Supreme | Court, Brooklyn, withdrew the ap- peal from the decision to extradite Accorsi to Pennsylvania. The ap- peal has been based on the ground (Continued on Page Two) Immediately following the Shop f A GASTONIA FOC! Delegates Conference, endorsement | lof the Communist ticket will be| | Aan taken up at various shop meetings | Line | and an intensive drive for finances begun. A sub committee of four) ‘was elected to have charge of the distribution of Communist Campaign subscription lists, Vote Communist |buttons, and all literature issued for | mig distribution. | On the eve of the renewed tri: The committee further plans tojof the case, and th ~_ | issue a series of leaflets to all the|weeks before the date of the \needle workers, exposing the alliance Charlotte conference of tex of the socialist labor bureaucrats, |ers, Hugo Ochler, southern with the manufacturers, with Tam- izer of the National Textile Wo: many Hall, and other forces in the ers Union, states: attempt to force more miserable’ «A, Focal point at which to exam- conditions of exploitation upon the ine capitalism in America tod: needle workers, greater speed-up, the situation in. the longer hours, wage cuts. Since April, 1929 | the textile workers under the hip of the 1 Textile W Union has been intensified harpencd and before us are loom ing big tonia prelude to thi brought to. the for ‘ forms the cross currents w social order and the class s “On the one hand is the increased penetration of northern capital and its hegemony over the former slug- |gish feudal conditions of the South, and the increased rationalization, and on the other hand is the wor- sening of the worke and the radicalization of broader strata of the American proletariat. Continued on Hed a: Paes 3 Three) Prepare Murder Trial ILD Starts Mass Drive to Save Worker Only three days after Mellon's courts in Pennsylvania turned in |the brazen verdict of “not gui in the farcical trial of three coal and iron policemen for the brutal tor- ture and murder of John Barkoski, a miner employed by the Pittsburgh Coal Company, the machinery these same courts has been set in motion for a totall; pose: to convict, worker on a framed murder charg of To Fight Case n Pennsy! Yesterday the scene of the fight to ia. The committee plans to start open | air meetings in the Bronx, Brook-}| lyn, and Harlem particularly, begin- ning Wednesday, Oct. 9, with a meeting at Intervale and Wilkins | Aves. Many needle workers have already volunteered to act and serve jas speakers at these meetings. A} | special campaign office will be set up at the union headquarters. At Shop Meetings. 'Oehler Cites Struggle in South as Example the struge Shop Papers to Have Election Issue; Call ecial Meet Friday The factory newspapers issued by the Communist Party of New York District in many shops throughout the city, will have a special issue in October, dealing with the Municipal | Election Campaign and the defense |of the Gastonia workers, according |to the Communist campaign com-; mittee. In order to prepare the October issue of the shop papers, all sec- tions and unit shop paper commit- tees of the Communist Party, all section agitprop directors, all sec- tion campaign managers, ‘are called ‘to an important meeting on Friday, at 730 p. m., at the Workers Cen-} ter, 26-28 Union Square. EXPLORE MONGOLIA. FOR HIGH C0 i RT LONDON, Cct. 1.— Dr. Sven Hedin, noted Swedish explorer, left | Stockholm tonight to join an expe-| Ten members of the Communist | wor! k conference at 8 p, m. at 26-28/dition in China which will make | Party and Young Communist League | wide explorations in Mongolia. | arrested Sept. 12 when police broke up an open air meeting at Stone and Pitkin Aves., Brooklyn, were Prepare Madison Square Pek ee pea when arraigned before Magistrate in New Jersey Ave. Court, Brooklyn, yesterday morning. | They will appear in the New Jers Court again this morning shen higher bail will be set for the 10 | Communists. They are now out on | $200 bail each. |carpenters, painters, electricians, | Cop Becomes Confused. ‘ete, are working day and night to| At yesterday’s hearing in the prepare the immense number of magistrate’s court Patrolman King, booths needed for this great assort- who lead the arrest of the 10 work- |ment of wares. The comrades injers, became confused when he was the various trade union groups and | on the witness stand. When asked | fraternal orgnaizations are seeing | to identify the defendants he said to it that the booths ‘are filled in. (that Harry Yaris and Jack Harris Clothing for men, women and/ were Sam and Julius Cohen. ‘The (children, of the best quality and of other six workers are Harold Wil- the latest modejs, latest styles in| liams, New York Negro district or- women’s wear, millinery, shoes, food | ganizev, Communist Party; Hyman i (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) Affair Will Open on emptory challenges to 28. and \ . talist press that th ’ conditions § WO WORKERS HELD | USSR Returning Friday « sare coming aboard the liner Beren- GASTONIA TURY. “RAILROADING” CASE JUDGE PASSES VENIREMEN WHO SAY THEY BELIEVE UNIONISTS GUILTY AND STATES HIS FINAL DECISION ON JURORS 5 Only 28 Challenges Used with Five Jurors Selected; i n Call Defendants Innocent; Others Say “Guilty” 1B of Defense’ posed to Visits by Mill Owners’ Agents Shane el Begins Formal Questioning of Them CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 1.—The utter impossibility of obtaining an impartial jury under the changed procedure consequent upon the reduction of charges against the seven Te » Workers’ Union leaders whom the mili owners’ prosecution lawyers are bus ily trying to place in prison for terms that are practically life sentences, was amply dem- on ed in the court room here today. Selection of the jury from a special panel of 100 summoned yesterday by Judge Barn- hill began in the Gastonia case this morning. The reduction of the number of defendants and of the charges on those remaining from first to second degree murder cuts the defense per- During the trial starting the last of August, later declared a m me each venireman was examined first by the prosecution and then by the defense, final ¢ with the defens Now that the state has been forced to acknowledge the Me perjured testimony and reduce its demands in the way of prospective sen- tem is quite different, and much more prejudicial to the strikers on trial. Now the prosecution examines the veniremen until it has picked twelve sufficiently pre- judiced to ke a cceptable to those who fight unionism. : Not until these twelve are chosen, by the prosecution, does H t wlan 1 get an opportunity to examine them. The ce 4 He se peremptory challenges to eliminate the j most prejudiced or get them ex sed by the judge for cause, which means frank admission of fixed prejudice. Then the defense must examine the veniremen and choose twelve. These twelve are then passsd by the defense to the prosecution and final acceptance thus lies with the state. Previously the defense had two rights. it loses now: a arge number of peremptory challenges, and the fact that final acceptance rested with it. Poartial; the prosecut eee partial; the prosecution peremptor- First Juror Accepted. ily challenged him. Convinced of Innocence. C. W. Williams, ex-member of A. now employed by Southern tences, 7 ne defense couns defense must exer $ | During the morning session tional Office ee of court only one juror was ac-|F. I ; adensdeas ,;cepted by both the defense and | Utilities Company as a service man : id he is convinced of the inno- the state. He is J. L. Todd, a) 0 once of the defendants from read- ier for the pasting the testimony at the last trial. he had relatives worked in cotton mills The Union Un s rural mail car Todd said years. a lot of talk about the Gas-|in Bessemer City. He was chal- } tonia case, and the events of the|lenged for cause by the state. Cc. “Recently scuit “fruggle from which it arose: He|H. Hill, a farmer, said he had Conran te talled in its plants @ crated that, “Some one killed him| formed no opinion, and was e- new method of speed-up called the (Chics of Police Aderholt, who cepted as four juror. D. L. Car- nit” system. This is nothing 31 during a murderous raid he led'riker, salesman, said he talked to SP eeuatne wer ce on the Workers Intefnational Re-, workers in Gastonia about the case, SE une ere orn lief Tent Colony at Gastonia, and| and formed the opinion that the defendants shot in self defense. He stated he is in sympathy with the on in all other indu for whose death the seven unionists Catch Boss are being tried), but I don’t know ‘who or whether’ it was justifiable workers’ struggle for better condi- . ' killing. I don’t | ng to no union, tions. He was challenged for cause to the capitalist but I reckon that workers have the |and eliminated by the state. t v that the work » right to organize if they want to. Millionaire On. E iaighil’ ayetenk earnedanrs in No, I hain’t got no prejudices agin’| Zieg Johnson, a wealthy retired under the old system. This Northern org rs nor the strange wholesale grocer, said he had no fed as a lie by the work- doctrines they preaches. Yes, of prejudices and no opinions, What ] answered by course, I think people has the right he has read made no impression on d to abolish the speed-up, to defend tt sath agin’ the po-/his mind, he said. His bank ac- 1 1 for lice w nttacked. They hain’t got | count of nearly a million dollars no more rieht than anybody else to! qualifies him as a good juror in the ney further a invade private pro) unlawfu of the prosecution, and he was ed as the fifth juror. he defense used 15 peremptory allenges today, and the state five. The defense has 13 left, and the A new venire of 150 will Throw Out Workers. of the company will for the Kansas City plant. believes he will defeat the stri ke of the Kansas C workers and f them to wo: Nine veniremen were accepted by the defense out of a hundred exam- ined today. Of these, the prosecu- tion peremptorily challenged D. Davis, a granite cutter, member of pan ico the A. F. L., operating a closed shop to uae {thee peNentS tans cee | boeause hé declared he had no pre- jc in edie tu ‘elitsd omen ae oe aes judice against Communism. The who at frist admitted that they same fate met W. W. Normand,!thought the defendants guilty and |_ “The National T.U.U.L. calls upon painter, ex-member of A. F. L., who| that they could not enter the jury to come stri in the in also declared he had no prejudice ssistance of the ME against the defendants or their radi-|were innocent. They admitted also ene pose Wiles. Sisal cal views, that it would take evidence to re- Company in Kansas City, and to de-/ &, 1, Moore, a Ford mechanic, had/ move this prejudice. Nevertheless, velop this strike throughout the en-'no opinions on guilt or innocence, judge asked them whether tire industry. Leaflets calling upon and was accepte! by both se eniat eeveonestved’ Gail box with the assumption that th the workers in the other plants of! A, Helms, a farmer, was ss uit: of the workers this company to fight against the accepted by both sides. KE. 0. Law on trial, they could assume th: duty new speed-up system b; installed of North Charlotte, a mill worker, of a juror die: elidene: Continued on Page Three) tow i declared emphatically his convic efendants a fair and 2 a rt that the defendants are not gu they answered, Build Up the United Front of as they were shooting in self upon the judge q' the Working Class From the Bot- | fen. He was a textile striker 10 Continued on Page Three) tom Up—at the Enterprises! jyears agox he said he would be im- ‘ a ; Metal Wor Sens League Children’s Delegation to Vill Meet. Tonight The regular meeting of the Metal Yorkers Industrial League will take | vt ce toright at 8 p. m, at Irving Hall, 15th St. and Irving Will Spread Message ef Solidarity Thruout Pac where plans for extending the fluence of t'e League into the United States; MacDonald on Same Boat } pes York and v Great Britain. MacDonald is on his At this mee which was orig- way to pay a “visit” to Presid i duled for Tuesday, elec- Hoover, and confer with him on tion of officers of the L “disarmament.” |take pla’. All metal workers who The delegation, which left in July,| are in sympathy with the League’s includes workers’ children from all! program for militant industrial sections of the country, selected unionism are invited to attend. from the basic industries. The dele- | gation includes a child of a textile worker in Gastonia, a Negro boy, a (Continued on Page Three) facturing shops in New nity, will be discussed. Returning from a, three month’ tour of the Soviet Union, the firs American workers’ children delega- tion to the USSR will arrive in New York on Friday, October 4. They £¢ garia. On the same boat with the celegation, which was sent by the | Young Pioneers of America early ‘this summer, is J. Ramsay Mae- (Donald, the “Labor” premier of] Build Up the U the Working Class From the Bot- i tom Up—at ihe Enterprises}