The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, ‘SW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1929 Page Three ~ “Release the Meerut Prisoner!” | SPEAKERS ROAST OF GAINS IN IMPERIALIST M SHRINK FROM WORKER CRITICS: Vague Postponement of Election Promise to Repeal Anti-Trade Union Law Thomas Apologetic o Offers Nothing But More Promises (Wireless by Inprecorr.) LONDON, Oct. 1.—The conference of the “Labor” Party opened at Brighton yesterday under the chair- 4 manship of the government Minister \" Transport, Morrisea, Morrison’s speech was a hymm of | praise for the government’s policy and successes, including the suecess- ful policy of imperialist blood-let- ting in Palestine. Referring to the unemployment problem, the speaker made vague allusions but avoided exact information. Regarding the “Labor” promise to repeal the Anti-Trade Union Law and to re-introduce the seven-hour day in the mines, Morrison declared “these questions are being treated.” Despite preeautions taken to pre- vent the entry of Communists into the convention hall, Lovell, secretary of the Red Aid, an Indian, and the Communist leader, Palme Dutt, suc- ceeded in being admitted and in shouting protests against the “la- bor” government’s treatment of the trade unionists being tried for trea- son to the British erown at Meerut, India. a Indian students and English work- ers together toured the town with placards and leaflets protesting against the Indian policy of the “la- bor” government and demanding the release of the Meerut and other pri- soners. At Tuesday's session J. H. Thom- IGASTONIA FOCAL POINT FOR LABOR Oehler Cites Struggle in South as Example (Continued from Page One) On the one hand is a conscious movement of the workers in the current of class struggle in the South under revolutionary leader- ship, and on the other hand the terroristie methods of the bosses, their government, their press, their black hundreds, trying to smash the budding movement of the proleta- riat. Now Political Struggle. “The economic struggle of the textile workers in Gastonia against Manville-Jenckes and Co, developed within a few short weeks from an industrial conflict to a political struggle that has laid bare the capi- talist front and has brought to the ASSACRES, BUT n Unemployment and jas, gover-™ent minister on unem-/} ploymen -merated to the confer-| ence th~ sures taken by the gov- ernmer cure unemployment, but admitt- was unable to make any | He announced “a magni- me” to spend 44,000,000 | public money to provide Thomas. disputed the state- work. ment that unemployment has in- creased since June, but did not claim that the “labor” government had reduced unemployment. A strongly critical feeling was) evident among the worker delegates | and a motion to refer back a part) of the Thomas report was defeated lonly by a small margin. If carried,} |it would have implied a censure of | jthe government. 100,000 PROTEST ~ATBERLIN MEET Rights of Jobless and Defense, the Issues (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Oct. 1. — A mass dem- onstration, with 100,000 workers | | participating, occurred here today \under the leadership of the Commy- |’ nist Party, against the robbery of | benefits from the unemployed wrok- ‘ers by the socialist-led government. The Lustgarten was filled to over- flowing. The workers also demanded the| abolition of the outlaw decree | lagainst the Red Front Fighters’ | League. In many factories the wrokers carried out a one-hour pro- | test strike, which was particularly |complete in the buildnig trades. tendents under the watchful eye of ‘law and order.’ “On June 7 the law, drunk and brazen, intended to disarm the tent leolony to enable the Loray commit- tee of one hundred to shoot down} the union organizers and union mem- bers. They were defeated. For the| heroic act of self-defense on the} |part6f the strikers, 23 of our mem- bers are facing the electric chair or long prison terms. On September 7 hundreds of armed thugs, mill boss- es, ete., beat up several organizers | in South Carolina and on September |9 the indications of an acquital jury land the mistrial was a signal for the bosses of the South to organize the black hundreds and attempt to i | ! fore cross currents: racialy sectional, |lynch Fred Beal, the other prisoners and any N.T.W.U. organizers they Communist Jailed Chinese Eastern Workers Plan Hunger Strike Against Terror HARBIN, Manchuria, Oct. 1. The 1,200 Soviet citizens held in the Sungbie internment camp as_pris- oners, in the absence of war and without charges being put against them, threaten to begin a hunger strike today unless the Chinese authorities either prefer definite charges against each prisoner or release him, Another demand is that the re- tirement allowance, which is due each railway worker when he leaves the service, be immediately paid to those who resigned their positions when the Chinese seized the Chinese Eastern Railway. The demands, accompanied by the threat of a hunger strike, were placed in the hands of the German consul, who is showing himself hos- tile to the interests of the Soviet citizens although Germany agreed to look after the interests of Soviet ivilians in China in the absence of Soviet-Chinese relations, PA sKING JURY IN GASTONIA TRIAL ‘ew Way of Choosing Is Blow At Defense (Continued from Page One) ified them, and the defense had to resort to peremptory challenges to eep them out. This attitude of the judge is of course flagrantly unfair, and makes diculous the pretense of impar- ality. Visited By Boss Agents. Furthermore, after the defense had accepted the veniremen as jurors and until they are finally cepted by the state, they are per- mitted to wander around town at liberty between sessions of court, and are subject to influence from the mill owners’ agents. This gives the Manyille-Jenckes agents every opportunity to reach these prospect- ive jurors and if they cannot he “fixed” they will be challenged by the prosecution. Class Divisions, Prejudice against or sympathy with the defendants is even more pronounced than at the other trial here in Charlotte. Very few ven- iremen claim to be impartial. This morning there were 25 middle class property owners examined, and all |but two openly admitted prejudice. There were 11 farmers, most of whom own their own farms, and ten skilled and four unskilled work- ers, Altogether, 26 of these venire- men said they had such fixed preju- dice that they could not be im- partial. Ten of them pretended that de- spite their prejudice they would be fair. Nine others were convinced that the defendants were innocent and five had not formed any opin- ion definitely, they said. Two stated that up to yesterday they thought the defendants all guilty, but snice the state released some of them, IN THE FIELD, FLOUT NANKING |New Loan Is Floated to | Disband Troops SHANGHAI, Oct. 1. — Nanking is, for the second time, issuing a loan of $70,000,000 for disbandment of troops,” of whom there are over 2,000,000. tongue in check, to disband their |troops, and in February a loan of | $50,000,000 was issued to carry it out. But nothing of the kind happen- | ed, Instead, the money was used |trying to squelch the Hankow and |Kwangsi rebellion of last March, | which lasted till May. Then more Jattack by Feng Yu-hsian from |Honan. And, to top it all, the at- |tack on the Soviet Union in Man- churia has been a costly affair bur- Vaan dening the treasury which exists on | a deficit and is wholly dependent on |the pleasure of imperialist bankers. | The new loan of $70,000,000 bears interest at 8.4 per cent and bonds are sold at 98, to be redeemed in {100 installments by 1937, “secured” | by customs receipts, which by this | time are loaded with debts of $332,- | 000,000 toatl of new loans, not to speak of the old ones of past de- cades whose totals are fearful. It must be noted that Nanking’s own figures show that of its total annual income of $450,000,000, military ex- penses take $396,000,000. The numerous militarists control- ing regions and provinces in all di- | rections, not only continue to collect jand keep for themselves all loca taxes, but cynically capitalize Nan- |king’s chatter about national unity | Last January a confer-| jence of rival generals “agreed,” with | MANY GENERALS | | | | | | | | | |millions were used to forestall an| (By a Worker Correspondent) In this letter I want to bring to the attention of the working class another case of brutal outrage of |the will of the rank and file mem- bership of the Laundry Drivers Union, Local 810 by the betrayers of the workers interests, by the mis- |leaders, the officials of the Teams- |ters and Chauffeurs International of New York, who enjoy over $100 a week salaries, squeezed out of the meagre wages of the member- ship—$4 a month dues and high taxes. The last strike of Li al 810 which | ten craft unionism of the A. F. of L. Misleaders of Laundry Drivers Work ‘or Bosses MEMBER OF THE Demand at “Labor” Party Conference IN THE SHOPS “PROUD TO BEA 4 the strike. This is especially true of j the business agent Rosenzweig of NTW STRIKER Local 810, obedta Rosenaweig Ousted for Betraying. The executive board of Local 810 was forced because of the open acts of betrayal by Rosenzweig of strikes in the Bronx and because of the fierce criticism by the rank and file members of Local 810 at the union meetings to bring Rosen- aweig on charges of selling out and “We Will Continue to Fight in Gastonia” (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail)—I will write you a few lines to tell about conditions for the workers of gross betrayal of the last strike of t ‘ five laundries in the Bronx and he|the South. It is hell for the textile was tried by the membership. workers right down here in Gas- ; tonia, because the Manville-Jenckes s trial it was proven that HARD SLAVERY ON ‘MUNORLEANS' Gaston Demonstrators |Are Freed At St. Louis (By a Seaman Correspondent) A few days ago I shipped on the S.S. Munorleans of the rotten Mun- {son Line. I worked several days |aboard this madhouse. {even pay shipping board wages |which is about $2 higher than the Munson Line pays. There was only one man in the Salley to do the cooking and bak- ing; the steward would not hire an- other man until the ship signed on the crew. thus saving the company They didn’t | involved five laundries in the Bronx : Company bought out the law was lost mainly because of the rot- Jer of the strike, served and thugs and sent them out to h injunctions of one of ‘beat up our men and kill our wo- The workers saw how instead of of a laundry against his | men and do all the dirt they can. spreading the strike through every |Striking and sending the men beck| Go -ades. dan’t you see haw they section of the loundry workers, in-|t0 Work and in this way compelling |t.ie4 to railroad those sixteen ¢ side and outside, and in that way them to desert the ranks of the ti. wor to the electric chair? shutting down every laundry in- Strikers and Killing the morale of Ware fighting a battle for bet- volved, workers in other sections of the strike; and did everything to) to. conditions, for the eight-hour serve the bosses causing the strikes the laundry, being unorganized, were scabbing and gave the bosses | t0 be lost. a chance to break the strike by hay-| The betrayed membership in-| ing them handle bundles delivered|senced with a feeling of hatred by scab drivers. against this voted by a great major- The corrupt A. F. of L. officials ity in a secret ballot to oust him betrayed the workers by cripplingifrom his job as business agent. TUUL FIGHTING LOOSE WILES 60. Calls Workers to Stop Shipments “rom N, Y. (Continued from Page One) jeago, Pittsburgh, Boston, etc., call- ling them to support the Kansas City strikers, says: “This strike was forecast at the Trade Union Unity Convention, when delegates from all over the country emphasized the need to set up shop committees in the big, unorganized factories, where the workers face new exploitation daily through new automatic de- vices, travelling belts, ete., which, instead of adding to labor’s produc- tivity, force a greater expenditure jby asking it to pay their soldiers’ 315 to°st9 tor a few days. | Wages. : || The food they gave us was ter- Moreover, not only refusing to yible. Rotten eggs for breakfast, jdisband armies without Nanking | stinking meat for dinner, and no jpays all the accrued back wages, fruit at any time unless you bought |these generals themselves, after be- your own, |ing bribed heavily to pay formal al- | The wages are so poor that only |legiance to Nanking, are now in seamen who are absolutely destitute large proportion, taking the field | wit] slave on Munson liners, The |against Nanknig in the new armed |.Jeoping quarters are filthy, no elec- | struggle to oust Chiang Kai-shek tric fans, altho the officers have from power. |them. The crew have to sleep in the | Serre ‘hot rooms or on deck, and you may ‘PIONEERS WILL Seamen must wake up and join | the Marine Workers League, based | LAND ON FRIDAY jon ship committees. Then they will to work ill or not, just the same. |get better conditions by having a | fighting union in back of them. jget ill sleeping on deck. You have! in their plants, in support of the struggle of the Kansas City work- ers, will be issued. This leaflet will further call upon these workers to organize shop committees in their plants, and lay the basis for a mili- tant union in the industry.” Strikers Are Girls. The majority of the workers in the Kansas City plant are young girls. Those in the cracker depart- |ment struck first, and the others fol- lowed them last Friday. The fol- lowing day a mass meeting was “held at the call of the Trade Union Unity League in Kansas City, and |voted to establish a strike commit- |tee, mass picketing, and to call for |the strike to spread to other cities, of energy, more nervous strain, and a higher rate of accidents. Jn the small shops, the A. F, of L, is doing the bosses’ dirty work by providing ‘efficient’ workers, capable of endur- ing long hours of speed-up. The task of the Food Workers’ Industrial League is to fight against such methods, and to lay the basis of its organization inside the large fac- tories as the beginning for building up a national industrial union for day and more pay so we can school our children and bring them up to fight the stretchout system. We want all our children to be Pioneers and that is what my boy is—a Young Pioneer. We want bet- ter conditions and we are going to have them. I have worked in mills all over the South and it bad for the workers everywhere. We must fight |for our rights. We are no more in the eles of ‘the textile bosses than dogs. Sisters, comrades, I am proud to let the people over the South know that I am a member of the National Tex- tile Workers Union and the Inter- national Labor Defense. I am do- ing all I can to help win the victory for the workers. So if you are not a member of the N.T.W. take the jadvice of a girl striker and oin it jnow.—G.W. is | COMMUNISTS EXPELLED FROM SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM (By Mail)—The | Crown Council decreed the expulsion of Albert Schneider, a German sub- ject, from Swedish territory for al- |leged Communist activities on Aug. all food workers.” | 1. Another German Communist, John | Buchmann, is also to be. expelled | from Sweden as he entered the coun- | JAIL REICH COMMUNISTS. | try without permission, | BERLIN (By Mail)—In the neigh- | borhood of Stuttgart the former dis- | triet leader of the Red Front Fight- lers League has been arrested. In | Stuttgart itself the police have ar- | | POLISH “FREEDOM OF PRESS.” An Ukrainian paper in Cholm, ‘Nashe Shitza,” had to stop its pub- \Delegates Will Spread The Bakery and Confectionary rested a number of Communist work- | lication, as all editors have been, one after another, arrested. ‘Turn to Communists of Workers Union, A. F. L., then|ers who formerly belonged to the Message Thru U. §. (Continued from Page One) child of a needle trades worker in New York, an auto worker's child from Detroit, a miner’s child from the coal fields near Pittsburgh, a |boy representing the workers’ chil- \South African Negroes ‘Alarms Imperialists munist Party received from the na-| tive Negro workers and peasants in stepped in, and called a meeting in}R, F. F. Le | An indictment for high treason has | the labor temple. This same union made a sell-out agreement with the jbosses earlier in the year, for a/editor of the Communist “Arbei- CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Oct. general wage-cut, longer hours, and | terstimme” 1—The wide response which the|J¢ss paid holidays. They pursue a| Dresden for referring to the Reichs-| poliey of the South African Com- | Policy of selling the “union label” banner murder demonstration in con- to small shops, Food Workers’ Statement. dren of Canada, and a representa- |tive of the Non-Partisan Jewish workers children schools. The lead- ler of the delegation is Joe Schiff- the last election, and the success! The Food Workers Industrial | Aug. 6. | | been filed against the responsible | (Workers Voice) in nection wit hthe attack of the Reichs- | banner upon the Berlin workers on | MASSES International and Labor Unions | met by the adherents of the Red | League, affiliated with the TU-U.L.,| issuing a statement to all Loos Build Up the United Front of | economic and political. against the Amsterdam reformist| Wiles workers, in Long Island, Chi- the Working Cla man, national Pioneer director. “The rationalization and worsen- ing of conditions in the textile in- dustry was answered by a wave of strikes in the South in over a dozen mill centers in the spring of the year, In Gastonia, the cotton spin- ning center of the United States, the strike, led by the National Tex-/ tile Workers Union against the Manville-Jenckes Co. for less h more pay and the abolition cf the stretch-out soon developed to the bitterest struggle of capital and labor that the country has seen for some period. Every Weapon Used. “The Manville-Jenckes Company and the textile bosses used every conceivable method to check the or- ganization of the workers into an industrial union. They used the gun- ment, the police and the courts. They used the National Guards, the state power and the press. They used the Loray “committee of one hundred” and the black hundreds. ‘They are attempting to use the elec- |jtric chair against Fred Beal and twelve others. They tried to out- law the N.T.W.U. by the arrest of Geo Saul and seven others, charzed with an attempt to overthrow the government. They use the spy, hired liars and the officials of the U.T.W. They used the black hun- dred to flog our organizers and at- tempted to lynch our organizers. They murdered Ella May and will murder more if possible. They have filled the jails with our leaders. “But the union marches on and the class-conscious workers accept the leadership of the ‘Communist Party. The American proletariat of the South have joined hands with their brothers of the North and West who have a revolutionary tra- dition. The white workers of the South must join hands with the Negro workers and march together forward to victory. Attempt at Massacre. “The struggle in Gastonia is lead- ing the . AS soon as mass pick- eting was established the National Guards came in as strikebreakers and did all possible to defeat the strike. The headquarters of the N.T.W.U. was demolished by mask thugs, the mill owners mob, while the militia looked on, Next the Workers International Relief relief supplies were destroyed this mill ewners’ mob of bosses superin- hu “*,| thugs who were led by Solicitor Car- eculd lay hand on. These black hun- *; swept through three counties te’ -~ Wells, Lell and Saylor out \to kill them, destroying property and threatening members of the union and the attorneys of the de- fense. State Aids Murderers. “On September 14 these same penter and Major Bulwinkle of Char- lotte prosecution on the 9th, mur- \dered Ella May, Gastonia being thrown open to the bands of the black hundreds by the county and city authorities. The Gastonia Ga- zette for days declared open season on the N.T.W.U. organizers, paving the way for the murder.of Ella May. This terror continued and ex- tended to South Carolina with the attempt to murder Cleo Tesenair and the invasion of Blacksburg by Roack and his gang to break up a meeting and lynch the organizers. “Other organizers throughout the Gastonia area encounter these armed bands nightly. The terror continues and the united front of the textile bosses, the state and the press has reached a higher level of suppres- sion. “But the union activity continues also and the unity of the southern and northern, black and white, has reached a higher plane of class conscious! and organizational ac- tivity. Both forces the textile boss- es and the textile workers are con- \tinuing the class struggle, now in lone form and now in another. | “The main struggle is waged ‘around the issue of the organization lof the industry into a powerful in- dustrial union. The immediate ob- jective of attack on the part of the |bosses and their black hundreds is |to prevent the mobilization of the workers for the Charlotte Confer-| ence October 12 and 13, and the} other workers for the Southern Trade Union Unity Conference, The workers of the South are answering with greater preparations for the Charlotte Conference and are mak- ing definite preparations for a gen- eral struggle throughout the indus- try for our demands: the eight- hour day, .the abolition of the stretchout, increase pay, freedom for the 23 prisoners, the right of workers to organize, strike and de- fend themselves from th2 bosses’ armed thugs.” the ythought all must be innocent. Beal Defies the Terror. Rred Beal, leader of the Gastonia strike, and Southern organizer of the National Textile Workers Union actively functioning until the bosses started to railroad him through the courts, defied the mill terror in a statement yesterday. “The mill owners,” Beal said, “wil abandon their present tactics when they find they eannot freight- en us away. Our organizers are carrying on, though handicapped by the necessity of undercover methods, and we will call a series of textile strikes after the Southern confer- ence we plan to hold here Oct. 12. “I cannot and will not accept the view that we should rttreat from the field now, and leave it to the United Textile Workers, the A. F. of L. or- ganization. First, I do not believe they would do much actual organ- ization work among unskilled textile workers. They never have and I don’t think they ever intend to.” A. F. of L. Won't Organize. “There is a sharp clash over pol- icy between the Northern and South- ern A. F. of L. groups, as was re- vealed at their Rockhill (S. C.) con- ference Sunday. It already is ap- parent that the reactionary forces in control of the A. F. of L. and the U. T. W. will not permit a wide- spread Southern campaign. Every federation convention for the last ten years has passed a resolution to organize the workers of the South, but nothing ever has come of it. We are going to stick.” . T. U. U. L. SHOWS WAY IN PHILADELPHIA. (Continued from Page One) working conditions and safety pre- cautions. Immediately following this, independent firms not allied with the Employers’ Association signed the agreement. Only three firms have not signed, and a vigorous fight is in progress with daily picket lines. These victories have centered the attention of large masses of ex- ploited, unorganized workers upon the new trade union center, the Trade Union Unity League, and its militant, direction, Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bat- ‘tom Up—at, the Enterprises! The Young Pioneers, in a state- |ment issued yesterday, say, “the re- turn of the first workers’ children delegation to the workers’ father- land, the Soviet Union, should be |greeted with joy by, every worker's |child in this country, and by the jentire working class. “This delegation will give a re- |port to the children, telling them about the conditions of the workers children in the Soviet Union, It will tell about the progress made by the |Russian workers under a workers government, “It is very significant that our delegation should be coming aboard the same ship that carries J. Ram- \say MacDonald, head of the ‘social- list? government of England. bs “This ‘socialist?’ sent troops to Palestine to shoot down the Arab workers and peasants when they re- volted against the rule of the Brit- ish imperialists and their Zionist tools. It was he and his ‘labor’ ministry that broke the strike of the half-million textile strikers in Manchester, England, this summer. “MacDonald is only continuing regime of the bosses, even though | there is supposed to be a labor gov- ernment in power. The labor gov- |ernment is only another instrument jin the hands of the English bosses against the workers. “There is a sharp contrast in these two delegations. MacDonald is coming to form a united front with the American bosses’ govern- ment in order to attack the only | workers’ and farmers’ government, |the U.S.S.R. | “On the other hand, the children’s delegation is coming back to the United States to rally the working class children, and all the workers for the defense of workers’ Russia,” The Pioneers are planning to hold a huge meeting, the time and place of which is to be announced in the “near future, to greet the delegation. It will be held in a large hall, with prominent speal representing many working class organizations. This meeting will be held jointly with the Communist Party and the Young Communist League of the New York District. The Pioneers also plan to tour these delegates throughout the country, spreading | the message of international work- ing class solidarity among children all over the United States, wae. en Negro leader, Kedvalie, is giving | alarm to British imperialism. | In an attempt to check this, Prem- | ier Smuts urged before the Assem- | bly that “tighter” laws be made to bar all white Communists from even entering areas populated heavily by Negroes, Additional precautions taken are to forbid all Negro meetings as un-| lawful, naturally to check Negro Communist workers, Build Up the United Front of | the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Up—at the Enterprises! Eighth A Thursday, October 3rd. Friday, October 4th. Saturday, October 5th. Sunday, October 6th... Total.... 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Has your union, your frater- ! nal organization, joined? | District after district are | lining up for the big member- ship drive of the International Labor Defense. The Cleveland district is touring four organ- izers who will visit more than 100 cities in the drive. Phila- delphia has arranged a tour for Sonia Kroll, who will cover the entire Lehigh Valley for the drive. Morris Childs, of the Chi- cago district reports: “At our next meeting of the City Cen- tral Committee we will discuss in detail the organizational drive where we hope to re- cruit thousands of new mem- bers. We are planning to ar- range an extensive tour throughout the district. “In Chicago, in the newly formed Interracial Branch of the I.L.D. on the South Side, 55 new members showed up at the last meeting—85 per cent of these were Negro workers. Twelve new Negro workers joined. We will con- tinue this work in the Negro sections of the city and dis- triet.” swe Other Districts ‘Are Getting in Line Help build a mighty defense organization capable of meet- ing the growing white terror of the bosses. For further in- formation communicate with the National Office of the In- ternational Labor Defense at 80 East Eleventh St., N. ¥. ©.