The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1929, Page 3

II | Hi) Stormy ‘Scenes at LABOR IMPERIALISTS RESENT DEMAND TO RELEASE INDIAN MacDonaldites Seize and Gag Women Who fortunate Demand Persecutions Cease Unemployed Demand ‘Labor’ Authorities Stop, Denying Jobless Aid BRIGHTON, England, Oct. 3.—|of giving up the British mandate in| was crus He made clear that the| government adhered to the Balfour Stormy scenes in which Communist women hacklers chained themselves to a baleony to prevent being thrown out before their mission was done, marked today’s session of the 29th annual “Labor” Party con- ference, After a male hackler had been ejected by thugs called “attendants” two women dressed in black fastened themselves to the balcony rail and threw leaflets into the hall, shout- ing “release the Meerut prisoners!” The “attendants” seized them, and finding them chained to the bal- cony, brutally thrust gags into their mouths. But the women struggled and the chains had to be eut before they could be thrown out of the hall. The previous heckler, a tall man, rose in the public gallery at a com- Paratively quiet moment, and loudly demanded: “When is the labor gov- ernment going to halt its persecu- tions of workers?” He was thrown out, but not before scattering a bundle of leaflets into the arena, The leaflets, issued by the Na- tional Unemployed Workers’ Coun-|yushlisht and all the other leaders. | 11. cil, were addressed to the “Labor” conference, and cited figures on the number of claims for unemployment compensation rejected monthly by officials of the labor exchanges. 88 (Wireless by Inpre@rr) LONDON, Oct. 3.—Strong protest demonstrations in behalf of the Meerut (India) prisoners, were or- ganized Thursday by the Commun- ist Party, the Anti-Imperialist Lea- gue and the Meerut Defense Com- mittee, against the speech of Drum- mond Shield, reported yesterday, Arthur Henderson yesterday gave a long exposition of the foreign policy of the “labor” government, declaring that it had no intention MILL OFFICIALS — ORDERED KILLING Superintendent Seen Firing on Pickets (Continued from Page One) Hunt with a gun in his hand, firing into the picket line. Those killed are Jonas, Bryson, Sam Vickers and Randolph Hall, The following are so badly wounded that they are not expected to liye: T. L. Carver, James Roberts and Robert Minish. After Carver was picked up wounded, he was placed in a car, and handeuffed on his way to the hospital. Fourteen fo those injured may be crippled for life. Strikers Indignant, In the knots of strikers gathered on street corners, theer is bitter re- sentment and indignation runs high as they repeat over and over again the horrible story of the massacre, Outwardly this mountain mill vil- lage appears quiet with troops patrolling the streets. One com- pany is stationed around the mill, and another quartered in town, and they relieve each other at stated in- tervals. All picketing and meetins of the strikers are forbidden. The m protest meeting planned for this morning was prevented by troops. Solicitor Pless went through the form of getting out warrants for the arrest of 13 deputies thig morn- ing. Among them are Adam Hunt, superintendent of the Marion Manu- facturing Co, mill; John Snoddy, foreman; Webb Fender and Forest Smith, scabs and company steol pig- eons and Sheriff Adkins. Like Gaston Police. The deputies have reputations similar to those of Hord, Roach and Gilbert, Gastonia policemen who participated in the murderuos raid on the W. I, R. tent colony there last June, and who are now star witnesses for the prosecution in the Gastonia ease trial. The inquest into the death of the Marion strikers was postponed un- til late this afternoon, awaiting the arrival of Judge Harding, who pre- sided at the fake preliminary hear- ings of the defendants in the Gas- tonia ea: According to newspaper Teport- ers, there were about 70 shots fired by the orout ies and and none by the strik Eight of the strikers have been arrested chargeil wth resisting an officer. The first three strikers to die, Jonas, Vickers and Hall, were all married. At their homes, their wives and children are prostrated with grief and bitter hatred of the bosses upon whose hands is the blood of these latest victims of North Carolina mil barons’ terrorism, pit hei de dabbollfitd Bhaddl a biaaSg INFORMATION WANTED — Anyone aware, of the wherenahouts of Niek March communicate with > A. Vilong, 211 Hi. 40th St. Api . ¥. C. Something very iniporti See me at once, Palestine, |Declaration involving making Pale- |stine the national home of the Jews. tiations, Henderson declared that |the agreement reached would |closely than had heen the case for | years. |" Henderson reviewed the “disarma- |ment” negotiations and concluded with the emotional appeal to “make” this a disarmament year!” PIONEER METIS INSPIRING. EVENT American Delegation at Moscow Rally | (Continued from Page One) | World proletariat. There is Kalinen, |Comrade Traskowsky comes in, fol- |lowed by Krupskaya and Gorky. Our \eolorful American delegation at- |tracted much attention. The opening of the business of the conference took place in the Krem- |lin. I was with the hildren most o fthe time. It’s really hard to de- seribe everything. Again Traslow- sky, Bela Kun, Krupskaya, Max Hoeltz and others greeted the con- ference of the Young Pioneers, A presidium, representing all delega- tions, was elected and the business jof the conference began. This con- |tinued for three days, after which the International Children’s Congress }opened with a mass carnival at the Park of Culture. _Wit hthe foreign delegations on the stage, with the |representatives of the Comintern and other C. C. members the congress opened, Max Hoeltz got a big ova- tion. After he was through he was made an honorary member of the Young Pioneers and presented with a red kerchief by a Chinese delega- tion. Again and again the Young Pioneers filled the air with their |revolutionary songs, cheers and mass reciting. Long, long, late into the |night these songs were heard all lover the streets sung by the Kom- somels and other young workers. On the next day th formal opening o fthe International Children’s Con- gress took place at the big hall in the Palace of Labor, Krupskaya greeted the congress, She told of the life and work of Lenin, The Lit- tle Pioneers listened with attention. Harry Eisman was elected an hon- orary member of the Presidium, A protest resolution against his im- prisonment was also adopted. went to meet with the Red Army. Around a band of fires over 7,000 delegates watched util three in the morning listening to the stories of the Revolution and civil war told by the commanders and older soldiers. Games, songs and dancing seemed to be endl Nobody wanted to go to sleep. T! Red Army comrades worked like bees to accommodate their little comrades. The little dele- gates felt that and showed it by their happiness, All the time the delegates are guided by special squads of nurses, doctors, guards- men. Everything is provided for them. The whole government apparatus and all social institutions are taking care of them. Not only that, but in general kids are well taken care of here—better than anywhere else I know of. But the most unforgetable seene T have ever witnessed in my life was the elosing in Slet in the Stadium Dynamo, August 25th, Old timers, I am told, don’t remember anything like it. A band of 75 5played without end. About 6.30 the first delegation be- gan to march in headed by two bands. It seemed to me that there will be no end to the marching. Mongolians, Tartars, Ukranians, Chinese, delegates from every cor- ner of the Soviet Union, most of them followed by their own orches- tras. Each delegation taking their assigned places midst cheers and greetngs. It gets dark and the big lighting ETROPOLITAN on ot Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of pen Mondaya (all day) unt ng by Mail AB THIRD AVE NOI In the evening all the delegations | ‘ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 i LJ a jSoctety Accou rT Cert) Reformists Betray a |Spontaneous Uprising jof Colombian Workers | MEXICO CITY (By Mail). —" The peres scutions committed by the im- alist lackey government of Col- new uprisings throughout the last |days of July and the first of August in va regions of Colombia. Un- ly, trecherous opportunist Jelements of the so-called “Socitiist Revolutionary Party,” and so-called “left” liberals, inserted themselves a tthe head of this spontaneous | movement, dispersing and betray- | Jing its forces. | | The result was htat the movement ed by soldiery and police. More than 300 workers and peas-| ants were killed in battles which! |took place at Bucaramenga, La, |Gomez, La Tigra, Libano, Palo- Referring to Anglo-Soviet nego-| blanco, Palmira, Hobo, Velez, Puerto |the dove of peace, only, as he said, Wilches and other places. Hun- bring |dreds more were wounded and the | as angels.” To prove this platitude, the two countries together more | prisons are filled with revolutionary | he declared that “Peace hall be con- workers. {DL GROWS; G00 OUT A. F L. Head Offers to! | Lead Them Back | | a | i} OW STRIKE | (Continued from Page One) | was only an experiment. If that) was so, it turned out badly for the | bosses. | | ‘The next day a strike meeting | | was held at the gates of No. 8 mill, | which ended with a parade to No. From both mills the number cf strikers grew, until the present number of 600 was reached, and work in the two factcries Was com- | pletely paralyzed. Big Meetings. A meeting held in Italian Hall Tuesday night and another mass meeting last night were well at- | | tended. | | John F. Gatelee, president of the | Ludlow Central Labor Council, A. F. L., i sbusily campaigning against “Communist leadership.” He “offers |bis services” to “lead the strike,” jand at the same time advises the |workers not to spread the strike to other mills or departments in the | |two that are struck. He wants them |to go peacefully back to work. | At the meeting last night, strike | committees were formed of repre- |sentatives of the different depart- ments, and picket eaptains elected, Mass picketing will be continued. The mill bosses are threatening dis- crimination, and the use of more active forms of terror. FREE OIL GRAFTER. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, — The} |first jail term in connection with the Teapot Dome oil affair expired | today when Henry Mason Day, busi: |ness associate of Harry F. Sinelair, |oil millionaire, was freed. towers light the entire Stadium. The Moscow Pioneers march in last. | They are greeted by the 7,000 dele-| |gates and thousands of guests. On| \the big field come 3,000 Moscow Pioneers running. They show right, | away what they can do, Only Russia ‘could give out such an organized | _group of mass games ,singing and | DAILY WORKER, 'W YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1929 “JUBILLEE” OF LEAGUE NO SIGN. OF WORLD PEACE War Plans Forge On, Amidst Peace Prattle | (A Review) Did you notice it? The League) of Nations hr! a “Jugilee Session” | at Geneva right after Henderson] kicked the sk'ns of France at the} Hague Conference after splitting | the P':parations swag. | While Henderson played the vil-| lain at the Hague, at Geneva Mac-\| Donald himself essayed the role of | “The powers must not be regarded solidated.” “Criminal disturbances of peace| and order,” MacDonald termed the | outbreak in Palestine of Arab resent- | ment at the British mandate, and in the name of the British labor-i~per- ialist government he declared that g ‘vernment recognizes the principle of mandates. | At the “Jubilee Session” Briand | also spoke of disarmament as a| “sacred duty of the League of Na- tions,” but amended it by saying that it is “not yet” in a position to pre- vent war, and the whole question is | very ‘difficult.” | GASTONIA CASE French Communists in Protest to Envoy Meanwhile, as the world buzzed (Contind from Page One) with pacifist lies about “redultion,” | authorities shown yesterday in the limitation, parity, and what not,) massacre of textile workers in Senator Hale, Chairman of the U, 8.) Marion. Naval Committee, says that Mac-| All Farmers. Donald may come and MacDonald! The five jurors p may go, but nothing will be allowed | all farmers, professi to interfere with America going | methodis ahead building 15 cruisers. | Attorney Cansler, for the proze- Read the full article on the “Jubi-| cution, cbjected to Defense Attorney lee Session” in No. 50 of the “In-|Jimison’s question asked a juror: precorr.” |“You know the solicitor freed nine ———_——. | defendants? | Cansler FREED WORKERS =. * with leave.” | “Well, they're all out,” said Jimi- | | con. Ly | snapped CansJer. The prosecution challenged every venireman who said he had ever “We didn’t free nolle prossed them be out long,” (Continued jrom Page One) chlange of heart. They are as| anxious to send members of our | by continuing to take an active part union to the electric chair as they | in the workers’ struggles for de- ever were, but at the last trial it|fense of their rights and for im- was hsown that this attempt must| provement of their conditions, work- fail. They know now that before | ing in full cooperation with the I. an aroused working class this is im-|L. D. and N. T. W. U. at whatever possible. Their action in releasing | work is assigned to us, either in the some of us is an acknowledgment | South or in the North. We call upon of the weakness of their case and| the workers everywhere to intensify the strength of our support. The their splendid work whih has forced mill owners who are our real prose-|this retreat of the prosecution. Ef- cutors are more determined than forts must be continued and inten- ever to smash our union. They still | sified tenfold to free our seven com- expect to do this by railroading our|rades in jail. We must compel the seven leaders to long prison terms mill owners and their lawyers to and by continuing their reign of ter- complete ir retreat and release ror—kidnapping, flogging and mur-|our brothers. We must fight with dering active members and organi- the spirit of our martyred sister, zers of the N. T. W. U. Pledge to Free Others. Gastonia class-war prisoners and “We who have been released)for the union which is leading our pledge ourselves to do everything in| fight for better conditions.” our power to help free our fellow-| The statement is signed by K. O. workers still in jail. We are out Byers, Vera Buch, Russell Knight, because of the organized efforts and J. C. Heffner, Amy Schechter, N. F. support of the workers of the world. | Gibson, Sophie Melvin, Robert Allen, We can only express our solidarity |Del Hampton. mass pledges and plays. Kalinin comes in, All eyes are| turned on him, An enormous bench | ‘is erected over the field. Then the mass play and reciting began. A voice over the microphone, “Who broke the Chinese Eastern pact?” | |Three thousand voices answer:! “Crooks!” The best part of the program was that showing 'the growth of the five-year plan. The stage in the center of the Stadium suddenly opened up and within four minutes it was no more stage, but factories of all sorts of industries. A heavy smoke began to pour out of the) chimneys, the buildings were lighted, | the noise of th heavy hammers was | mingled with the noise of the work within the factories, A huge anvil with a hammer showed up on the |wall, knocking up and down, Three |thousand hands followed it, all at one moment at the same second. | Unforgettable scenes, hard to trans- fer on paper. Airplanes began to rise in the air \under heavy searchlights, fireworks of thousands of colors and hundreds | jof different forms, lighted up in all) ‘parts of the Stadium. The air-) \planes added more fireworks. Amidst | all this, with the singing of the International the slot then closed. | The young delegates are returning home. The Congress of the yetaoin |home, The Congress has reached its aim. Through the program worked out by the Congress the Young Pio- neers will double their membership, will be able to take better care of all the other kids not yet members of the Young Pioneers. SAVINGS BAN | 7PM in Act JURY COMPLETED |Hila May, for the freedom of the| * sabor” Party Meet as” Thugs Attack Communist SHWE S IN. He Ousted by Men as Traitor: | AFL Reinstates Rosenzweig |decision in the name of the local. Reactionary Clique Whitewashes. The bake “progressive” clique was not satisfied with the previous betrayal and went further. Through the steamroller they succeeded in whitewashing that other “socialist” (By « Worker Correspondent) After Rosenzweig of the Laundry Drivers Union Local 810 was ousted by the members for betra: jing strikers, he did not give up his |fat $90 a week job; but with the aid of the fakirs was put back on ness against the deci- sion of the rank and file. The joint council was not inter- ested in the charges of betrayal brought by the executive board of local 810; but heard his tirade against the “Communist terror.” | At that meeting of local 810, the decision of the oint council was sup- posed to be discussed and voted on. 'It is interesting to see the actions lof another reactfonary clique which, masquerading as “progressives,” supported the Rosenzweig clique. This clique now is joined by Still- man, renegade president of the lo- who forgot the “progressive” speeches he used to make before get- |ting his ‘fat job, Under the,direc- jtion of the reactionary ex-presi Siskind put over on the membership a trick preventing them from vot-| workers’ industrial union under the ing on the joint council decision but | leadership of the Trade Union Unity as self-appointed dictator took it on | League. himself to accept the joint council | DISCONTENT IN LOOSE-WILES, L Out of four factory workers and two mechanics examined this morn- | ing, the prosecution challenged five. | | The defense, under the same disad- vantages as have prevailed since : F ; this trial started, of having the| Solidarity in K. C. | judge qualify all those who admit | they think the defendants are guilty ' so long as the prospective juror is persuaded to say that he will “judge | by the evidence,” used up six of its 13 remaining peremptory challenges jand has only seven left. The prosecution has four left which it will use to keep workers | off the jury—and it has the judge’s |rulings whieh are worth any num- ber of challenges. In addition to the workers ex- amined, six business men, 21 far- ‘mers, and three clerical workers | were examined. Only one of the 28 declared that he favored the defend- | ants. | * Arrest Youth Organizer. cial secretary, Shechter, the same clique openly stated in a previous meeting that they had grave charges against him. Militant Industrial Union To Fakers. These two betrayals of the inter- ests of the laundry drivers proves conclusively that the leaders of the A of L. craft unions are a nest of crooked misleaders who care only about their fat obs but cannot and will not organize the great masses of unorganized, exploited workers in the laundry indu: drivers in- cluded. The only way for the work- ers in the laundry industry ot better their miserable conditions, to in- er » their starvation wages, is to anize into a militant laundry Answer | —H. B. worked in a factory, Challenge All Workers. | “Are you a worker?” was a ques- tantly repeated by prosecution, (Continued from Page One) ‘conditions and better wages. I know men and women that have slaved here for nine years and still are getting the same $14 a week for women and $20 for men. I am one of the “lucky” fellows. I am getting $26 weekly, and have work- ed there three years. That is what is called “luck” in Loose-Wiles. T hope that all the Loose-Wiles workers are organized in one big, industrial union. J. N. C.—Loose-Wiles Worker. HUGE DETROIT GASTON PROGRAM. (Continued from Page One) |tonia mill barons, will be the chief CHARLOTTE, N. G., Oct. 3.—Al-/ speaker at this memorial meeting. bert Tetherow, organizer of the | Preparations are being made for an Youth Section of the National Tex-| overflow meeting on this occation. |tile Workers Union, was arrested] The next meeting of the Detroit |this morning and charged with driv-|ILD-WIR Joint Defense-Relief Con- | ing a car without a license. The ar- | ference was set for 1 p. m,, Sunday, jrest wat made 15 minutes after the | Oct. 27th, the afternoon of the day |car, owned by Mrs. Weaver, the |'set for the Cadillac Square demon- * * householder wheer the union organi-| stration. A bazaar was planned to zers room, had left the garage. |be held in February-March. Ar- This arre shows the continual | rangements were made for three police supervision under which the | erganizers work, a supervision that |has never saved any of them from attacks by lynch gangs sent by the bosses, Tetherow is released on bonds ‘furnished by Mrs. Weaver. meetings to be held Sunday, Oct. | 6th. The moving pictures “A Trip |to the Soviet Union” and “Gas- | Auditorium on Tuesday, Nov. 12th, at 8 p. m., under the auspices of the W.TR. Today, Tomorrow and Sunday THIRD ANNUAL Daily 22= Worker and MORNING FREIHEIT BAZAAR Madison Square Garden Eighth Avenue, 49th and 50th Streets OCTOBER 4, 5, 6 Vernon Andrade’s Negro Rennaissance will play every night ” BARGAINSN : ADMJSSION—on Thursday, Friday or Sunday 50 Cents SATURDAY—MASQUE BALL—$1.00 , FOR ALL FOUR DAYS—$1,25 Tickets on sale at Daily Worker Office or at the Box Offics anata misleader nad betrayer, the finan-| although | Worker There Urges) | tonia? will be shcwn at Danceland | tent Page Three bad a ae Hecklers ‘LUMBER SLAVES: IN WISCONSIN HAVE SLAVE LOT Unorganized Men Are Easy Victims (By a Worker Correspondent) LAONA, Wis. (By Mail).—I ar- rived at the lumber camp Friday afternoon the 13th of Sept. and say! I thought I have been in some tough outfits but there were a paradise alongside of that one They hav: Nd le bunks an@ 0 lousy th most walk and the how is rotten Well, the best rt of it was some boys that shipped up to the ee and asked for ing to- bacco and the Idn’t give it to them until worked out their railroad fare was a fine how do you do to have to go © week or more without iY So I tried tc « the not working unless we got our to- bacco. But they were all a bunch |of hoosiers and wouldn't do it be- cause they thought it wouldn’t work. morning and went |I left the next to a different outfit which was al- most as bad. It is owned by a |man named Connor. He owns three jeamps that I know of and a big ‘saw mill here in Laona. The most Jof the men get $3.25 for a ten-hour | day. | boarding house. to get th Of course he now. He robs Connor has When men are ¢ have to stay ther |i snot so par the men of a dollar |sme kind of an a Jis not to help the wor can assure you. Connor wouldn't |hire a man past the age of 45 and |if you work till you are 45 he is |liable to find something wrong with you and fire you. What in the hell is an oid man going to do? {one with half sense it is impo: |to save money for old age out of a | mere 30 cents an hour. a All of us young fellows are going |to be old some day and there has got to be something done about it, all we need here is a good organizer, a man who could talk and mix with the crowd, a man who is not afraid | of work. I would like to get some Commu- nist literature and learn more about it, LUMBER WORKER NEW MEMBERS | BY NEW YEAR! Many Trade Union Organizations, Co- operatives, Frater- nal Organizations, Workers’ Sports Clubs, Women’s Or- ganizations, Negro Organizations Are Affiliated with the International * Labor Defense Within the ranks of the I. L. D. you can fight ef- feetively for the release of The Gastonia Prisoners All Class War Prisoners Against peresecution of workers and for the de- fense of all strikers! Workers, Friends? Is your organization affill- ated? If not get it to join now! Write for further information to the Inter- national Labor Defense 80 E. 11th St., New York