The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1929, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ' THE DAILY-FREIHEIT BAZAAR TONIGHT, rker FINAL CITY EDITION Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, Y., ander the act of March 3%, 1879. 7 = dey by The Compr f es a ION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. . Vol. VI., No. 180 CER GRES ICE SST ELISE Re Re ene ae NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1929 We vatgetaiga weni Yon, Cyraiat es.be eek Seer Price 3 Cents Mass Action of the Wickets | Must be the Answer to the ' Massacre at Marion The massacre of textile mill strikers at Marion, North Carolina, confirms our accusations that the murder campaign being waged by the mill owners’ state power, is directed against the whole working class. Until now the Communists and the members of the National Textile Workers’ Union have been the sole victims of the terror campaign. The revolt of the workers in Gastonia against starvation wages, the speed-up (stretch-out) system, lengthening of hours, child labor, the resultant unemployment and all the other effects of rationalization, was given militant direction by the Communists and the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union. The leadership of the Gastonia workers wages an uncompromising struggle against the mill owners for elementary de- mands of the working class. Realizing that the leaders of the Gastonia struggle could not be bought, bribed or intimidated, the attack of the mill owners and their government has, from the first, been of a most malevolent and murderous fascist character. The events at Gastonia on the evening of June th were caused by an organized attack on the part @f Chief of Police Aderholt and his associate thugs and gunmen who intended to murder the men, women and children who had sought shelter in a tent colony after their evic- tion from company houses. That a massacre did not occur on that date, is to be attributed solely to the fact that the strikers, having been repeatedly attacked and frequently threaened with murder, were pre- pared to defend themselves and beat back the murder crew. During the early part of the strike that occurred in Marion the mill owners and their police and sheriffs resorted to tactics similar to the terror in Gastonia. Governor O. Max Gardner, himself a mill | ownér, sent in companies of state militia to defeat the strikers. But soon the bosses came to recognize that there was a vast difference be- tween the leadership of the two strikes and that the militia could be dispensed with. In Marion the’ mill owners discovered that the leaders of the strike, officials of the United Textile Workers’ Union, with Hoffmann, the “progressive” member of the Muste group and graduate of fthe Brookwood college of class collaboration at their head, were anxious to prove that they were better instruments to use for strite- breaking purposes than any other. The betrayal of the rayon workers at Elizabethtown, Tennessee, was noted by the Marion bosses and they were duly impressed by the ability of the American Federation of Labor strikebreakers. The Elizabethtown strikers had been deceived and were back in the plant, with the blacklist in effect against those who had taken an aggressive part in the strike. So an agreement was soon reached between the to the slave pens. -But-the workers; back in the mills, soon discovered that the black list was in effect; that the active union workers were being isolated on the night shift and the scabs all worked on the day forcing all the active former strikers out of the mills. Jt was this piece of trickery that evoked the strike of Wednesday morning. It was a strike against the mill owners and the treacherous officials who had conspired to break the strike and defeat the demands of the strikers. When the mill owners discovered their second strikebreaking policy had failed and that the workers would not follow the treacherous “labor leaders” they again went back to their first policy—open terror. Sheriff Oscar Adkins and his deputies, always at the beck and call of the mill owners, armed themselves with tear bombs and guns, and proceeded to the mill where they staged a massacre against the unarmed strikers, killing three outright and wounding more than a score, two of whom have since died. When the capitalist class of the state discovered that the Amer- ican Federation of Labor officials were unable to force the workers to accept slave conditions, the full fury of the capitalist state was un- leashed and defenseless workers shot in the back as they tried to escape the deadly attacks of the sheriff and his deputies. After committing this dastardly and cowardly crime against men and women mill work- ers, the craven murderer, Adkins, then frantically appealed to the chief director of the fascist attacks upon the workers of North Carolina, Governor O. Max Gardner, who rushed troops of state militia to Marion, to protect Adkins and his hoodlums from the vengeance of the fellow workers and relatives of the dead strikers, The dead and dying at Marion are victims of the united front of mill owners, the capitalist state and the labor bureaucracy. Marion shows clearly the utter futility of workers anywhere putting their trust in the reactionary labor leaders, whether they are avowed sup- porters of the Green machine or followers of the Muste-Brookwood- socialist bloc that tries to arrest the disintegration of the labor bureaucracy. It also indicates the terrific tasks that face the militant labor movement in waging the struggle against rationalization in the South. The reply to the massacre at Maron must be the mobilization of the broadest masses for the conference of textile workers at Charlotte on the 12th of this month, and the launching of an immediate widespread drive against rationalization, More than ever must the workers of the United States and of the world rally behind the defense of the Gastonia prisoners who are now in the hands of the same bloodthirsty gang that shed the blood of the Marion strikers. The working class can never accept anything other than unconditional release of these workers who on the night of June 7th, by their heroic action, averted a worse tragedy for the working class than that at Marion on Wednesday. Everywhere we must wage an unyielding fight for the existence of workers’ organizations, for the right of workers to organize and defend themselves. and their organizations against the murderous attacks of the fascist bands whether or not they are cloaked with state authority. These fascist thugs must be defeated and disarmed by the mass action of the workers themselves. a , different dialects. After an exchange NEE 4 of greetings they are led to the i} Bb f nearby staton dining hall and to their places where they are to stay for ten to twelve days. The opening o fthe Slet (Pioneer American Delegation at Moscow Rally Congress) took place at the Stadium Dynamo. Forty thousand children and adults were present. For the first time I had a chance to look at \the leaders of the Russian and | Continued on Page Three) (By Special Correspondent.) | ® it On Thareaays Ane. 16, st 7 a, Wad All Communists Must I was at the station awaiting the ’\ arrival. of our American Young Report at 9. a. m. for __ Pioneers from Charof. At 7.30//Vital Party Work sharp the first special ae from ‘i the Ukraine began to pull in. The a | tion committee strikes out. They) League must report at the dist- consist of a medical squad, a special | rict office, 26-28 Union S dave militia squad and a reception Young | promptly aia in todity oh i Pioneer squad. Cheers, heers with- tremely iniporant Party pret ‘League, work. Do not fail to be| | |on time, Punctuality is essentral. out an end. Five Hundred of them | tu:aes, singing songs and talking in, | % are here, all in their national cos- oo MARION DEPUTIES BEAT WOUNDED: I LET THEM BLEED eo eerecgerwemmmer, FOURTH DIES; STRIKERS TELL ABOUT Ea, Pee ee UNPROVOKED ATTACK COVERED WITH TEAR GAS; MILL BOSS FIRED PISTOL —— 4 — ———_—_—_____—__ Gastonia Case Prosecution Challenges Every Worker Proposed for | Jury; Threatens to Call Those First Freed Back for Trial Venire, Summoned from Outside of Industrial Section by Court Order, Composed Mostly of Farmers, Business Men; Organizer Arrested GASTONIA CASE 9 Released in MILL OFFICIALS iguring that they would be better able to get some of the best Gastonia mill workers and Na- tional Textile Workers Union organizers out of the way for a long time in this manner, the legal hirelings of Manville-Jenckes dropped charges against nine of the vF prisoners, in order to concentrate on the railroading of the remaining seven workers. The seven working class fighters who still face long prison terms are shown above in Charlotte They are, right to left, Louis McLaughlin, K. Y. 7, M. McGinnis and Joseph Harrison. court-room. George Carter, W DISCONTENT IN Foster Tours Country for | Trade Union Unity League Building Local Machinery General Secretary to Visit Twelve Industrial, | Centers Beginning October 14 LOOSE-WILES. 1, Worker hens Urges Solidarity in K. C. \By a Worker Correspondent) I am writing you a few lines to | tell about the conditions of the workers at the Loose-Wiles Biscnit plant in Long Island City. This is strike leaders and the mill owners at Marion and the strikers returned | the same company which owns the) plant in Kansas City, Mo., where 2,000 workers struck. In the Long Island plant young shift. It was plain that the night shift was to be suspended, thereby | Sitls work out their lives under a) | terrible speed-up system, and we ; men work under the same condi- | tions. I am glad to hear that the Kansas | City workers of Loose-Wiles went on strike, and hope that they stand firm on their demands. Over here | the bosses are scared and they are | watching everybody, but I am teli- ing all the workers here what the | Kansas City workers did. Here in this plant the workers | are far from being satisfied. The girls and men are always saying ' that someone should come and or- ganize them. | Now the company to work all day no straight time. | We are very busy now, because they want to break the Kan: City \strike but I think that this is the time to organize all the Loose-Wiles |Biscuit workers to fight’ for better (Continued on Page Three) + is forcing us Saturday. for Oct. 3.—The |National Textile Workers’ Union is } | jaaite mass meetings at the mill | LUDLOW, Mass., gates here, where 600 textile work- ers are on strike against the Lud- ‘low Manufacturing Associates, Mills ‘No. 11 and 8, in protest over the installation of new speed-up tactics and increase in amount of work re- “quired. After the strike started, the management claimed that the order | i \ Continued on Page Three) | | Gaston Prisoners at Madison Garden Demonstration Tonite Delegates to World Pioneer Congress Will Also | Address Workers; the Press Bazaar Committee and the International Labor Defense, the nine Gastonia defendants, whom mass pressure has just released from, the clutches of the mill barons and their class justice, will make their first appearance before the workers of New York at the Daily Worke rand Morning Freiheit Ba- caar in Madison Square Garden, ‘Sth St. and 8th Ave. this evening, hich has been designated Gastonia ight, The appearance of these militants | will undoubtedly be the signal for a | gigantic demonstration and may well set off a wave of national and Will Establish Organzation Program for Each | | District, Build New William Z. Foster, general secre-’ tary of the Trade Union Unity League will tour the country to |build on the solid base established lat the historic Cleveland Convention last August, district machinery and establish complete organizaitonal programs for each section, swellnig the membership of the new trade) union center. Increased circulation for Labor Unity, official organ of | the League, is expected to be anoth- | er result of the tour for which Fos- ter will leave New York Oct. 14. Monster mass meetings will mark Foster’s arrival in each of the 12 |major cities listed, and will be fol- lowed by Trade Union Uity League local conferences and additional meetings in outlying industrial cen- ters to build the organization among the unorganized workers in heavy industry. The tour will open in Baltimore, Oct. 14, Philadelphia, where two |unions, the Window Cleaners Pro- {tective Union and the new! ized union of over 700 floor laye have already forced the manufac- turers’ associations to accede to their demands as a result of the Hendryx, Clarence Miller, Fred Beal, JURY COMPLETED BULLETIN. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 3.— The twelfth juror was selected at 1 p. m. today in’ the Gastonia case trial. All the seven jurors added today are from the non- industrial regions, by court order. The last two selected are farmers. The defense had only one per- emptory challenge left, and the prosecution two. Out of the en- tire last panel, only two persons, both workers, expressed belief in the innocence of the defendants, which is the smallest proportion of any panel previously in either trial. There were only ten work- ers in the entire list examined sively farmer. The state opens its case tomorrow morning. The jurymen are: John L. Todd, | strikes which terminated recently, | rural mail carrier; E. L. Moore, Ford will be the second city Foster will|Motor Company employe; Zeke | visit. He will remain here Oct. 15,| Johnson, retired business man, and }16 and 17. J. A. Helms, C. L. Hill, J. W. Elliott, | New York City meetings will fol- | R. N. Caziah, J. T. Ferris, M. 4 low on the 18 and 19, New Haven! Flow B. Lawing, H. T. McAuley jon Oct. 20 and 21, Boston on Oct.|and S. L. Manson, Jr., all farmers. 22, 23 and 24. Foster will return! Fe see to New York City again for the) CHARLOTTE 25th and 26th when he will leave | Five more j for the Pittsburgh district where he | will remain until the 29th. Chicago|of the court today, where mill meetings and conferences will be|besses lawyers are prosecuting vhe held from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1. Foster| with intent to put them out of the will be in Detroit on No and re-|Class struggle with 20-year sen- main in the Michigan district until} ten the 4th. On the 5th, he will be in| During the questioning of venire- Cleveland and stay there until the;men, hte prosecution lawyers 8th of Nov., the date for which the|Snarled vicious comments, seeming- Buffalo meeting and conference is| ly reflecting the spirit of the state scheduled. ~ (Continued on Page Three} The general secretary will return} <A a ESE to the national headquarters at 2| ELMIRA SILK WORKERS STRIKE West 15th St. on Nov. 9 to report} ELMIRA, N. Y., (By Mail) to the Board meeting on the stride| Over 500 employees of the J. made by the Local General Leagues|Stierson Silk Mills here struck be- in membership establishment of | cause of a new speed-up system. district machiner ‘ompletion of or- Center’s Membership C., Oct. 3— , making ten in all, re passed in the morning session | { | Pledge Action CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 3.—The following statement is the Gastonia ase defendants released Monday morning when the prosecu- from tion concentrated its murder cam-| paign on Beal and six others: “For four months we have been in jail. Our only “crime” was to strike for better wages, for better (Samet and for the right to or- ganize and defend ourselves from the attacks of the drunken, hostile police and the vigilante “Committee of 100” of the Loray Mill. All the evidence which the State had then |they still have. They now confess |dence by dropping the |against us. charges "Why were we jailed? the garnd jury indict us? | “The answer is plain. We were jailed as a part of the attempt of the bosses to smash our union which is the purpose of their attempt to railroad us to electrocution or the penitentiary. They now admit that they could not obtain a first degree | verdict against any of us and cannot even obtain a verdict of any sort against those of us whom they have released. Those who are still on trial did no more than we did and they are as “innocent” as we are and we are as “guilty’ as they are. All of u swere guarding oor union hall and the lives of the women and children in the W, I. R. Tent Colony against the bosses gang.ters who had threatened to destroy our sec- ond headquarters just as they de- stroyed the first to take the lives Why did "of ou rleaders. Aroused Working Class. “The prosecution has not had any (Continued on Page Three) ganization programs for each dist- rict and the gains in Labor Unity \ circulation. | , 10,000 “Dailies” Must Reach GROWS; 600 OUT LAND OF SOVIETS MACHONAID Wy Southern Workers Each Day With the Daily ‘Workers Must Rush Funds to “Into the South Worker” Drive Gastonia Case | ORDERED KILLING } MARION, N. C., Oct. 3.— | While the fourth to die of the strikers at the Marion Manu- | facturing company bled his life away today in the hospital, his brother and other witnesses told of the brutal and unprovoked attack by the sheriff’s deputies terday morning, in whcih tear ¢ and bullets deliberately aimed from {guns held in both hands shot to | pieces a picket line, 23 wounded in addition to thosé killed, and four lof the wounded still expected to die. | Not content with massacring four strikers, and wounding 23 more, the sheriff mill owners’ and deputies today. The jury is almost exclu- | the flimsiness of this framed-up evi- here have obtained warrants against 38 of those their bullet: tually kill. They are with rebellion, riot, a tent to kill, tr and illegal as- semblage. The victims who failed to die when ordered by the sheriff, and who are now held for no one knows what sort of sentences in prison are: Charles Fitzgerald, Til- did not ac- all charged it with in- den Carver, Lonnie Bryson, Jim Bryson, Roush Mills, Ed Johnson, Kirk Lunsford, Wes Fowler, Roy Minish, Will Webb, John Wykle, ¥ K. Styles, Spurgeon Bradley, Bu gin Stacy, Del Lewis, Jeter Paris, Sambo Duncan, Wiley Newland, Davey Mills, Allen Stewart, George Buckner, W. G. Hall, Roy Woody, Lawrence Bradley, Willie Ellmore, Abner Elmore Buchanan, Jack Par- ker, Willard Johnson, Willie Allison, Daniel Frady, McClain Bradley, George McCombs, Charlie Taylor, W. M. Sparks, W. S. Black, Gudger Clark, Ed Redden, and C. G. Sprouse. Carver’ Wykle, McCombs and others are among those in the hos- pital with serious wounds. Pretend To Prosecute Killers. Warrants charging murder, with- out specifying the degree, were i sued today against Sheriff Oscar Adkins, 10 of his deputies, and four employes of the Marion mill. Each warrant had four counts—one for each of the four men killed. All through the night, Luther Bryson, years of age, bled con- tinuously. He died at seven o’clock this mornnig. His brother Jim told of the killing: By special arrangement betweeninternational protest and working- STARTS FOR U S.VISIT NEW YORK | SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 3—The! Reports state that two United four aviators of the U. S. S. R.|States cruisers, the Memphis and |monoplarie Land of the Soviets will} the Trenton, met the Berengaria at probably land at Port Angeles,|sea last night and accompanied it | Wash., late today, according to word |to port at New York by way of fur- received by the Sand Point naval Dishing a naval escort for Premier station here after the Soviet craft|J- Ramsey MacDonald, who is visit- |took off from Sitka, Alaska. Un-|ing the United States at, the time [favorable climatic conditions were | the labor party is in storny session. expected to cause the fliers to stop|_. The Berengaria is due in quaran- lat the northern point. tine at six o’clock this morning, but will not dock until about nine or ‘after, when he is to be welcomed by representatives of capitalist politi- cal parties in the city, with Mayor Walker representing Tammany and the democrats and the Rev. Norman Thomas and Attorney Hillquit of Riverside Drive, representing the socialists. Recognizing MacDonald as one of (Continued on Page Two) “Gastonia Night” HUGE DETROIT PROGRAM. ASTON {class solidarity that will bring about | the ucnenditional release of the re- pi DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 3.—Fifty- tenia Deiteioheaenen Les ee four working class organizations | sent deelgates to the citywide ILD- mittee declared yesterday. | : ; The four-day bazaar opened last | WIR Joint Conference for Gastonia night with thousands of workers | Relief and Defense held Sunday at from all corners of the city throng- | °782 Woodward Ave. ing Madison Square Garden before} A mass memorial meeting for the volunteer sals people could fine ELLA MAY WIGGINS will be held ish arranging their stock to the best on Sunday, Oct. 13th, at 2 p. m. a advantage, |Danceland Auditorium, Woodward One of the most popular spots on near Forest. Ben Wells, textile or the floor was the booth devoted to, anizer, who was badly beaten and art gobds, hand carved toys, novel- nearly lynched at the hands of a (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Three) t ties and dry goods made in the | murderous gang incited by the Gas- | “They (Sheriff Adkins of Me- Dowell County and his thugs) shot tear gas inot our faces, and then fired from revolvers. When the gas \cleared I was the only man stand- jing. Near me there were fourteen ‘on the ground, an. two were already dead. I saw three deputies hold np a wounded man and were beating him.” Jim Bryson and others, including 18-year-old S, Long, lying on a hos- pital bed told of the killing of Jonas, the man the sheriff alleges attacked Into the South with the Daily Worker! The Daily Worker must reach the masses workers of the South! Requests for the Daily Worker—for the “union paper” as the workers of the South know it—not requests, but demands—have come from over 200 mill villages in North and South Carolina, Georgia, ‘Tennessee, Alabama, and Virginia, and from scores of traction workers of New Orleans besides. “We got to have the Daily Worker down here, so we can keep track of the other southern mill workers who fight against the bosses,” writes a speeder hand in a cotton mill in Kanapolis, N. C. “Send us the union paper every day,” an Anderson, S. C., mill worker demands. “The workers in the Spartan ‘will just started working after a of exploited textile kers it , him with a stick, the action on shut-down. We're in pretty bad shape. We heard about the Daily which he bases his excuse for the Worker from men from Gastonia. They say it’s the union paper. Well, massacre. Jonas was 65 years old, we want the union paper.” “The York Enquirer of Yorkville don't tell nothing but lies about "1 ° oe and partly pa ‘The Y " clubbed him over the head, and the Gastonia workers. Send us the Daily Worker.” This is from a handcuffed him. Jonas wae then York, S. C., worker. ;shot, during the several minutes In their struggle against slavery, the awakening southérn mill workers must have the Daily Worker. It is absolutely indispensable to them, as their only voice. But we cannot supply it to them, for the expense is too great. The workers of the United States must rush to the aid of these awakening slaves of the South, who will soon take part in one of the greatest phases of the class struggle in the United States, Ten thousand Daily Workers must reach the Southern mill work- ers every day! To do this, $200 a day is absolutely necessary imme- diately. Are we with the southern mill workers? Show them your soli- darity by rushing your contribution at once to the “Into the South With the Daily Worker” Drive. when bullets were poured into the picket line. After the shooting, Jonas was picked up, and clubbed inot unconsciousness, then loaded into a car, head downward, with no attempt made to staunch his wound (carried bleeding to the hospital. He was placed on the operating table. and found dead from loss of blood After he died, and not before, a deputy came and took off the hand- cuffs. Strikers told of seeing another of the wounded thrown in a car and beaten up by deputies on his way to I want to put the Daily Worker into the hands of a fellow worker in the South. The southern mill workers are fighting a great battle aqainst slavery, and I want to show my solidarity with them. the hospital. : iy Others heard the mill officials, NOME. cap siniee veo just before the shooting, denouncing the strikers in speeches to the dep- A OBB siete scene 48 walee eee 6 . ; AACS eee eect ee erence nese neeaes uties, and demanding that they Gey ae teiaed tis should all be shot down. Strikers say they saw Mill Superintendent (Continued on Page Three) * Amount :.........6065