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

‘DAILY’-FREIHEIT BAZA AR THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week OPENS TODAY AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN! RALLY TO AID RED PRESS! aily = Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the net of March 3, Vol. VI., No. 179 Company. tnc.. 26-28 Union Square. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Pablishing N.Y, Par New Yo City, _NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1929 FINAL CITY EDITION 1879. Price 3 Cents by mail, $8.00 per year. $6.00 ver yea! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Yor Outside New York, by 3 STRIKERS KILLED AND 23 SHOT BY MARION SHERIFFS Who Are Plies Angels l of Peace? The voyage of Mr. James Ramsay MacDonald across the Atlantic to have conversations with President Hoover is being grected in the bourgeois press as the coming of world peace and the chief actors, MacDonald, Hoover, Dawes and Stimson, are hailed as peace angels. Actually this meeting and these conversations present only the the reaching of a new stage in the further development of Anglo-American rivalry which is driving on to a fresh worl dwar. Tomorrow, With the arrival of MacDonald, begins a series of re- splendent banquets, feasts of loving kindness, where humane, liberal an@ fraternal sentiments will be poured forth like water—all of it a hollow sham, designed to hide.the grim realities of the antagonism and of the war preparations being steadily carried on between rival im- perialisms and against the U.S.S.R. ert Hoover is the chosen alism who in his radio de- Who are these angels of peace? He instrument of aggressive American imperia claration last month was careful to state: “No president of the United States haz ever hesitated to declare war when the safety of the nation demand it.” The “safety” of the nation is to Hoover and his class synonimous with the interests of imperialism. Thus Hoover intimates to the Amer- ican bourgeoisie and to the world that his Quaker origins will not prevent him from carrying out to the full the war-like polic imperialism. Ramsay MacDonald, a pseudo-pzcifist during the war, signalized his first entry into office in 1924 by Iaying down the new cruiser which started the present armaments rac 1 this species of warship. He is the head of the government which Fas bloodily suppressed the Arab revolt in Palestine, which is shooting down every movement of the Indian n and by the infamous Meerut trial, is endeavoring to stem the rising revolutionary tide amongst the Indian proletariat and Ipeasentry, the government which is holding down Egypt by the strong hand, and is putting th» bond-holders’ conditions a sa prerequisite of the between Britain and the U.S.S.R.; resumption of full diplomatic relations a government whis has not rey the trade union act of 1927 to end all m: nt movements amongst the British trade unionists—in all this conti g actively the policy of its tory predecessors. The peace angels, MacDonald and Hoover, are but the instruments of th@r respective imperialisms, whose rivalry is operating in every pert of the globe and is involving all mankind with the prospects of a d rsore terrible war. The pseudo-pecifist and the Quaker are larly fitting instruments to carry on hypocritical negotiations hich the enly honest feature will be the fierce hatred of Communism that they have in common. What precisely are these negotiations? The preliminary negoti- a‘... of the last four months have been concerned with the setting of ax u>vard limit to the building “of cruisers and under any schemes verd more cruisers will be built. s concentration of cruisers and not upon armaments ? The explanation is that cruisers are beginning to be re- escent forms of armament in face of the enormous , aeroplanes and other more modern forms of war- a An upward limit was set to the building of battleships by the Washington conference of 1929, because the new methods of warfare hed partially declassed the battleships and so rendered it possible for fhe rival naval powers to agree upon an upward limit for these ex- Jremely expensive forms of armaments and so enable them to con- cntrate on war preparedness along the lines of newer and more deadly veapons. What applied to battleships in 1921 is now being discussed with regard to cruisers in 1929. In short, the limitation of battleships, followed now by the proposed limitation of cruisers, represents nothing more than a rationalization of war, leading to a more intensive pre- paration of the newer and more efficient instruments of slaughter. But so intenseis the rivalry that even this upward limitation of cruisers is not yet definitely set. It is to be noted that Prime Minister MacDonald brings with him no nava! expert and that he was careful te state at the moment of his departure that the object of his con- versations were not so much naval questions as a general understand- ing, in this way insuring himself against any possible breakdown. To be noted also is the very cool attitude of the State Department in all its official communications. This means that there is as yet no agree- ment even on cruisers. It means also, this spectacular voyage, that as soon as the deep underlined antagonisms ‘break forth once more, all three capitalist parties of Great Britain, T\ Liberal and Labor, will be firmly united against American impevialism. MacDonald will have swung the Labor Party and with it those of the masses who are not yet disillusioned, in behind the tory policy which he is driving through. Already at the Hague Conference MacDonald’s government showed itself a most effective instrument of British imperialism in fighting against the Young Plan of American imperialism. The visit of Snow- dent to the Hague, the stand he took there, the consequent rallying behind the Labor government of every section of the bourgeoisie, was nothing less than a test mobilization for war. But the enemy*at whom this test mobilization was aimed was not only the U. S. A. but still more the U. S. S. R. With this test mobilization behind him, enabling him to claim that the Minority Labor government speaks for the united forces of British imperialism, MacDonald comes with the object of staving off for a little the war for which neither imperialism is as yet completely pre- red. The price to be paid will be certain concessions by he im- perialism which has at present a superiority in cruisers. And, sec- ond and more important, the bargain will be struck for concerted action of the two imperialisms against the USSR whose progress in socialist construction is revolutionizing the workers of the world and under- mining still further the already shattered capitalist stabilization. Thus, not peace, but war, is the only outcome of these conversations. Therefore, the workers of the United States and the toiling masses must, at this moment more than ever, intensify their struggles against imperialist war, must fight for the defense of the Soviet Union, for the defeat of American imperialism, for the exposure of the reformists who by their empty chatter of pacifist phrases are actually of the great- est assistance to the war preparations of American imperialism. Every strike, every struggle, every election campaign in New York and Chicago, in Detroit and San Francisco, in every other part of the United States, must be linked up with the struggle against the war. THREAT TO KILL present to intimidate left wing and progressive workers who tried to! \eriticize the reactionary administra. | |tion of Local 900. | International Vice President Mar- | lino, who presided at the local meet- ing, ruled out all questions against ‘the right wing administration. He Traveli of Local 560, of the! asserted that the question of wheth- Barbers’ Union, who was pardoned | °. he was violating the union’s con- oy Gov. Smith in 1920 and released | faba ato hos ela tae al from Sing Sing, where he was serv- | Would Expose Machine. ng a life term for murder, threat- | The members asked why Presi- ened to kill militant members of jdent Daniels of the local was not Barvers’ Union, Local 900, at thei present, but no answer was forth- meciing held at Harlem (Crs'n~ |coming. Daniels was expelled be- Lenox Ave. and 116th St. Officials (Coutinued on Page Two) | ‘ tatits Thugs and gangsters led by Har- ‘dues stamps bearing the official in-| ganizations in industry and agricul- | s of U. S. | of Locals 918 and 752 were also. | | Workers Eager to Acq wire\N.T.W, LEADING “STRIKE AGAINST BLACKLIST; DEPUTIES TradeUnion Unity Louis WALKOUT OF 400 : M ember Books Now Oué \NLUDLOW, MASS. Women Go Or Out; Bikiins | Follow; Union Sends Second Organizer sere Unions to Retain Own Books, Pay Monthly Per Capita to New Union Center All Others Carry TUUL Books Which Bear RILU Insignia, Distributed by Local Leagues The Trade Union Unity has issued membership \Plan Mass Picketing; Communist to Speak League'those eligible for membership “all books and, wage workers and their labor or- 8 ‘ | signia “of the Red International of Labor Unions, and militant workers are eagerly applying for books and the initial October stamp. The card is acceptable as a free transfer into all organizations af- filiated with the T. U. U. L, it states, also quoting from the con- stitution the section which lists as ture, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, age or craft, who accept its program of class struggle.” (Special to the Daily Worker.) LUDLOW, Mass., Oct. 2.—Four hundred workers are striking here | Summary of Dues System. under the leadership of the National Briefly, the dues paying system | Textile Worl Union. can be summarized as follows: The} Yesterday 75 women workers | national industrial unions already) walked out, protesting the condi- affiliated with the League (which! tions and low wages, ‘The news of include the National Miners’ Union, | the strike spread rapidly throughout (Continued on Page Two) the mill, and today the number out (5 e 9 e National Textile Workers Union Dai y -Freheit Bazaar Opens ose: Nat. Richards is on the i = 5 2 the national office of the N.T.V in Madison Sq. Garden Tonite iis 2 iia iisciace oes Ludlow. A great strike mass meeting is |dressed by the organizers and by |j |local strikers, wil work out a strike Thousands Expected at Workers Dept. Store; Gastonia Prisoners Appear Tomorrow |had grown to 400, men and women. scene and word was received from | |John Mahorsky, was on his way to | planned for tonight. It will be ad- The gigantic four-day Daily, placed on sale is so wide that it) committee organization, and make Worker and Morning Freiheit | covers everything a proletarian | plans for organi-ed picketing. Bazaar to which thousnads of New family could make use of. For} An invited speaker at the strike York workers have been looking| weeks the members of the militant | meeting is Peter Chaunt, represent- forward opens this evening in Madi- | workers’ organizations which have | ing the Communist Party of Amer- son Square Garden, 50th St. and| made the bazaar possible have ey ica. Call Big Mass Meeting | 8th Ave. The final touches are be- devoting their spare time to mak- | ing given to the countless colorful| ing these articles. Men's rea | white goods, | f booths that comprise, in every |women’s — clothing, sense of the word, a working class shoes and slippers, shirts and neck- | | “MARION VICTIMS | HOOVER BEATEN TO GREET FLIERS sencine oreanizer, To, department store. wear, leather goods, caps, army. and | ON TARIFF BILL IN MADISON SQ. The range of commodities to be| (Continued on Page Two) Both Parties Divided USSR- US | Line Soon; Fliers Chart Route on Rate Issue | WASHINGON, Oct. 2.—Hoover his fight with the senate today on the flexible tariff. FIRE VOLLEY INTO FIRST PICKET LINE; EXCLUDE WORKERS IN GASTONIA VENIRE Jational Textile Workers Union Point Out Governor’s Statements of “Fairness” Are Always Signals For Murderous Attacks By Thugs With Marion Strikers, Who Have Wi orkers Union Mislez ders HURORS FROM THE fStnct'set'Sne_ GOVERNOR SENDS “STATE MILITIA RURAL DISTRICTS! "Sieve Deputies’ First Volley Defense Protests: Has | Editor Daily Stopped Trial 1 Day Did Most Damage BUL LE TIN. | |New York | Dear Comrade: Seer | CHARLOTTE, Pc. prs Pl iets ee ear things sent to us while in jail are MARION, N. C, —Sheriff Adkins admitted last night that he Among the many —Heavy rains all ral is the |four different donations sent to reason given for deputies not jus by Nick Di Domenico amount-| started) Ae: aac i A ileea completing the service of sum-| |ing to $85.25. This I believe he| |)" 0. Shae aa Vepirraae : ren.| {Collected in his society called| | >¥Y hurling tear gus bombs at them. mons for the panel of 150 ven-} | y || The sheriff admits only one bomb; witnesses say there were more. . . L’Adunata dei Refrattari. I am iremen drawn last night for | wetttihy yon ake oF the: letters he Calls For Solidarity of All Workers Been Betrayed By United Textile County Jail, Charlotte, and letters jury duty in the Gastonia case,||sent us. We want the Daily been tee weet found on We road and Judge M. V. Barnhill has an-/| Worker to publish the amount] |‘). pal’ ne Hae ue peel nla nounced there will be no session of} |sent us. hat one of the strikers was pursue | and shot there by the deputies. court today. | The money helped us much in Jn drawing the panel all names| | buying cigarettes, candy, books | MARION, N a Oct. 2—T ss from Charlotte township were| |and magazines, writing paper, | |emes oe ee bye Gorath oO. dropped, so that the veniremen| |ete. We all want to thank these | ee ie ‘a a ase a |would all come from the rural dis-| | comrades thru the Daily Worker. | | ee tranche, (ou cope | wath nairine as eaternaliy ynies | disorders arrived at 8:15 tonight, tricts. | ose || Carrying rifles and full field Tried It Before. | FRED E. BEAL, | ‘equipment, they marched with ban- wer the Sy pr*_oners. The judge proposed when the trial | | opened yesterday that no jurors be| selected from Charlotte township. | This is the only industrial section of Mecklinburg County, from which | ners flying, up the main street of Marion to their headquarters. MARION, Nini, ORG Three workers were killed and Gifts for “ihe araoaers can be| sent thru the National Office of | | the [International Labor Defense, | | 1th St., iN. ¥eiC, Cs The coalition of democrats and western republicans eliminated from asure the provision permit- ng the chief executive to raise| v lower rates 50 per cent after in- | estigation by the tariff commission,! SITKA The vote was not as close rain and necessity for more work on had been exp: their craft’s motors today caused ican Vote Split. the Soviet fliers to postpone until | BULLETIN. Alaska, Oct. 2.—Heavy Republ Thirtoon western republicans tomorrow the scheduled tale. -off of yoted with 34 democrats to substi- Re Bande of soyice tor, Sead. vate for the present flexible pro-] 4 mass reception for the four (Contraued on on Page Two) Soviet fliers now winging their way here from Moscow will be given in Madison Square Garden ca the eve- ning of Saturday, October 19th, the Friends of the Soviet Union an- nounced yesterday, with the possi- bility that another large hall will be secured to take care of the over- flow crowd expeted. An orchestra of 100 pieces, with soloists, will provide a musical pro- gram to fill in the lighter moments (Continued on Page Two) |Party Members! Report to District Office Tomorrow EXPEL POWERS FROM UNION Iron Workers Officers Start Red-Baiting The right wing administration of the Iron and Bronze Workers Union, following out the red-baiting policy of the International Union. with which it desires to affiliate, eipelled George E. Powers, former organizer, jat the union meeting held at the | Rand School, 7 E. 15th St. Business Agent Mauger, Presi- | dent Karasick and Eiiecutive Board | Party work.—District Executive Member O'Connor, active in Tam-| | Committee. (Continued on Page Two) = 6 All comrades are asked to re- port at the district office, 26 Union Square, tomorrow morn- ing at 9 o'clock for important Soviet Five Year Plan Even Exceeds Mark in First Year Reach New Economic Level of All Times, and Prove Position of Right Wing False Even the most optimistic expec- | year 1928-29 asserts. Production of tations of the Soviet government large scale industry has advanced for the first year of the five-year 60 percent above 1913, while the out- plan for the cenomiec development of | put of electrical power is 3% times Russia were exceeded in the fiscal greater. Railway freight operations year just closed, states Chairman level. Saul G. Bron of Amtorg, the Ameri- | can-Russian trading organization. vorable balance of $10,000,000 A new high economic levi for all against a large adverse balance in me has been reached and a new the previous year. Soviet-American cord in Russia-America trade es-|irade was $149,000,000, against tablished, the Aniare review of the (Continued on Page Three) _ Soviet foreign trade shows a fa-) neers poole eet ee AS jury, ahs ® four others fatally injured, eT pm peace | | and 23 were wounded alto- against such a scheme, evidently in-| ane thi : - rile. ef 0 0) acki: e jury getner, is morning when Defen trikers tended to help packing the jury | I d St with business men and landlords. Sheriff Adkins of McDowell The International Labor Defense,| The judge then proposed an lacs| gal County with a squad of armed depu which is at present carrying on the} native plan, for the sheriff to pick ties led a murderous attack on t |defense of the Gastonia strikers | Whoever he pleased, which was also picket line. ie | being tried in Charlotte, N. C and | strenuous ly objected to, It was aca The night shift in the Mr |has defended the textile strikers of | thought that the judge had yielded swer : +)] Manufacturing Company’s the Gastonia, Kings Mountain and/on both these plans, but when the Ans wer Appeal of Mil mill here struck last night 2 Bessemer City regions, offered its|time came to summon the second Workers of South the blacklisting of 110 > n. aid yesterday to the textile workers | Venire, he suddenly reverted to the} Sopa eS dent McMahon of the ite on strike in Marion, N. C., where|first scheme, and ordered all the| “The Daily Worker certainly is|tile Workers’ Union, v t a three workers were Killed and 18) names aren ss outside Char-| willing to help us. I wish the reat | Ue ene ike meres i ch- | wounded when deputies fired on|lotte. The ostensible reason given a es gating how fcld strike, abou ree wee igo, |pickets before the Marion Textile|by the court was that this would one workers here could know how in collaboration with Judge Town- | Manufacturing Company yesterday.|“speed the selection of a jury.” It| Willing you are, and what you could send, personal representative of As the result of a telegram dis-|has already proved to have just the|do for them.” This from a weaver Governor Gardner, sold out t patched la ght by the National | opposite result, but there is no in-| in a textile mill in Rosemary, N. C., Sttike, on the is of nothing Executive S tary the Interna- | dication of anoth r change of policy.! one of the many mill towns and vil- gained but the blacklist. , tional Labor Defe J. Louis Eng- lages of the South from which re-\eOveve”, McMahon evidently jdahl, to the southern district repre- 1 ll, . te 9m which re- failed for reasons of his own to let sentative of the organization, | quests fo the Daily Worker—the the workers he had bet rayed in on George Saul, southern organizer, “union paper”—have come. this little secret, or to convince those | left for Marion from Charlotte yes- |terday to offer the help of his or- | ganization. Support Marion Strikers. | The telegram, signed by J. Louis | Engdahl, stated: “The International Labor Defense through you offers | | every assistance against all class Here | collaboration policies and for their| right to organize, strike, picket, and | At Tuesday's Metropolitan Area | defend themselves against the em-|Trade Union Unity Conference at-| ployers, police, sheriff and state; tended by over 300 delegates (as | militia, The International Labor| Yesterday's city edition went to| Defense supports the Marion strik- | Press early, only 200 delegates were | ers in their heroic struggles against | Present at that time), Henry Sazer the speed-up for higher wages and/|teported on the recent struggles of | better working conditions. These|the New York and New Jersey| efforts of the southern workers can-| Workers and the part the T.U.U.L.| not be drowned in a blood bath per-|Played. He added that to develop petrated by the textile bosses.” the work in the New Jersey sec-} tion, an office is being opened at WINDOW WIPERS 93 Mercer St., Newark. The conference decided to inten- sify the campaign for the $3,000 Meet Tuesday Night to Discuss Action fund being raised to establish a new central headquarters for the Metro- The 40-hour, five-day week, a ten percent increase in the minimum politan Area Center and called upon | all affiliated unions, T.U.U.L. groups wage, provision of adequate safety devices and equal Jivis'on of work and shop committees to eee | are among the chief demands of the (Continued on Page Two) window cleaners of Greater New | Keller Scores Trickery York and vicinity, it was announced yester by the Window Cleane:. Protective Union, Local 8, at 15 F. Third St. So strong is the sentiment mM TASKS Establish he ew Headauarters Union| Eli Keller, National Secretary of of the union membership for these |the National Textile Workers’ | demands and so great the dissatis-| Union, stated last night that the faction with the general working |prosecution’s tactie in reducing conditions in the trade that a strike may be called when the present agreement expires Oct. 15, according to Harry Feinstein, secretary of the union. “At present the men are working i (Continued on Page Two) charges and dismissing part of the defendants in the Gastonia case in- dicate a determination to “get the leading members of the union,” for the releases and reductions are made only to give tactical advan- ai.) tages in the courtroom in regard to| “local boys” “Send us the Daily Workers. We have heard about it from workers in other mill towns. Send us a ker from the National Tex Vorkers Union, , but send us the union paper, too.” This is the appeal from a group of mill workers in Cordova, N. C., | wheer the 10 big mills work their slaves 15 and 16 hours a day. Another Appeal. “We want the union here in Rock- ingham, N. C., and the union paper too. Another appeal for the union and th eDaily Worker too. “If more workers in Johnson City and Elizabethton could read the Daily Worker, the rayon workers (Continued on Page Threc) GREEK FRACTION MEET A very important meeting of che Greek Fraction wi!l be held tonigh’, in the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Sq. Al! members are strongly urged to attend, as the last few meetings hav had to he called off because ot poor attendarce. N.T.W. Secretary Warns of Plot to Imprison Unionists . in the Gastonia Trial Change; “Aim at Workers’ Leaders” challenges, ete., to reduce the peal of the union for bigger more determined mass struggle, to make the impression that will be forgiven only the “Northern Communist trouble makers” will be given long term sentences to prison, which are worse than death sentences. Keller states: “The capitalist mill am (Continued on Page Two) 9. ap- and and the and who found it out that it was all right. When eighty workers of the night shift lost patience last night and wwalked out, others came to join them, and at 6:30 this morning, when the day shi ft came down to go to work, they found the night shift mass picketing. Sheriff Adkins and his deputized | mill owners’ gunmen were on the | job, heavily armed. Seeing wea- pons, some of the strikers equipped themselves with clubs. The depu- ties, under Adkins’ direct orders, disarmed one striker and started handcuffing him. the other lease. The sheriff, of course, that they fired on him, strikers absolutely deny this. It has not been proved that any of them had guns with which to fire. The sheriff and his men fived a volley directly Reports are that strikers demanded his re- alleges but tha into the crowd of mass pickets, during the argument over the arrested man, and although desultory shooting followed, most jof those hit were shot down in this first volley In the first volley, particular am Vickers and Ran- dolph Hall, strikers, were killed, and | George Jonas was so badly wounded that he died shortly before noon. Among the wounded are James Mills, shot in stomach, condition ious; George McCombs, shot in thumb and wrist, condition serious; Luther Ryson, wounds in |stomach, condition serious; W. S. Black, shot in neck, condition ser- jious; Bom Minish, head wound back of right ear; T. L. Carver, shot in neck; James Roberts, shot in ab- domen, ondition ser’ 3 John Wykle, Elsie Ballard, Kermit Fen- der, P, S. Long, Lucy Sparks, W. M, Sparks, A. M. Koon, Addie Hol- lar, Taylor Green, less seriously in- jured. | The sheriff and W. W. Neal, (state senator and connected with \ g (Continued on Page Three) ray