The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1929, Page 1

HUNDRED THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For « Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week LAST TWO DAYS OF DAILY-FREIHEIT BAZAAR MAST BRING ATTENDANCE TO. D THOUSAND! FINAL CI] Pk EDI —— Price 3 Cents SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. Expose MacDonald! Ramsay MacDonald and the so-called “Labor” Party does not vepresent the working class of England, but sveal:s and acts for British imperialism. In the struggle of class against cl MacDonald has lined up with the British capital against British workers and colonial oppressed masses, Under his first premiership, his government shot down Indian workers demanding bread and freedom, forced by threat of bombard- ment of Canton, China, the. illegal landing of munitions to be used by reaction against Sun Yat-sen’s government, chained Egypt tighter to imperialist domination, aided the enslavement of German workers by the Dawes plan, and made an unprincipled exit by swallowing as genuine the “Zinoviev Letter” faked by the Tories; a disgrace only eclipsed by his adoptior of Tory policics on again attaining office. MacDonald’s “Labor” Party in the meanwhile, led the betrayal of the Miners’ Strike in 1926, and through the British Trade Union Congress shackled labor to collaboration with capital by the infa- mous Mond plan, and approved the break in relations with the Soviet Union made through the lies of the unspeakable Joynsno Hic In p r again, MacDonald does not expose, but retains intact and in action the British spy and sabotage crew inside the Sovict Union, and the whole noxious spy and forgery system at work in China, India, Persia etc., against oppres$ed volonial masses. MacDonald at Geneva svecifically upheld the tyrannous mandate system, and in its name laid w in fire and slaughter the Arab villages of Palestine. His government, while hypocy ly negotiating with the Sov ion, intrigues against it in Afehanictan and ord its Chin keys to murderous attacks on the Siberian frontier. MacDonald’s undevling in office, dares to stand up at Brighton and in the name of “labor” pronounce a ceath sentence for 32 trade unionists of India on trial at Mecrut for “attempting to deprive the Kinz Emperor of’ sovereignty over India.” This bootlicker to His Majesty, George the Fifth, leaves the shores of England where, 1,250,000 jobless workers starve and millions live in slow starvation of slums from John O’Groats to Land’s End, after a shameless betrayal of the Lancashire textile workers to a reduction of their miserable wages. MacDonald, to hide his crime against British workers, now makes great fanfare of publicity on the issue of “peace,” pretends to ield of foreign relations in an effort to iil not perceive the rapid advance of war. for the purpose of agreeing on a further campaign against the Soviet Union. Chancelor Snowden, “hero” of MacDonald's foreign policy, con- idsted all capitalist forces behind his imperialist “labor” party by his eetions at the Hague, and with this united force comes to threaten American imperialism with, war! » British imperialism-andAmerican imperialism agree only on one thing, their hatred of the Soviet Union. MacDonald and Hoover may talk of peace between England and America only for one purpose— to attack the Soviet Union! ‘This babbler of illusions, this traitor to and assassin of the British and colonial workers, MacDonald, brings not peace, but war! TH, MEETING AT PIONEERS BACK AFL CONVENTION FROM U.S S.R Foster, Canada Toilers Trip to Soviet Union a to Answer Misleaders| Lasting Memory ill Strikers Sheriff Oscar F. Ad (third from riz uties, who, acting as agsse for the bosses, fired point blank into a group of the Marion mill, killing ce outright, and x two more of whom later died after mistreatment in the mill-boss con- trolled hospital. Askins and the deputies are being held, but a farce “tavestigation” seems likely to free them. The strikers who were fired on were workers who were blacklisted wnder the sell-out agree- ment between the U. T. W. ‘3 and the mill owners. us Which Shall They Have the “Daily” or Gastonia Gazette? NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, | Seven Guards and Six ER DIES IN MARIO 1929 N; MASS FUNERAL COLORADO PRISON REVOLT ENDS AS LEADERS SUICIDE Death Preferred to Life Under Vicious Regime Kill Prison Hangman Prisoners Dead NON CITY The mutiny of prizone’ by the be: Oct. 4— goaded Dis to desperation ial tiary here. ended teday with seven guards and six prisoners dead, and the penetentiary building of ruins as a result of fire and all night battle between prisoners inside one of the cell blocks and the suards, militia and recruits from the “town and countryside whe swarmed to the scene when the owt- break occurred yesterday noon. |Labor Betrayer Here | | STAR WITNESS OF STATE ADMITS LONG RECORD AS - STOOL-PIGEON OF MANVILLE Prosecution Attempts Prejudicial Stunt Similar to Effigy; Use Diagrams i} ” Admit Alleged Statements of Defendants; Taken by Torttiring Prisoners RELIGIOUS DOPE MASON'S STORY ‘FROM A.J. MUSTE. BADLY DAMAGED | 'Strike Grows, Workers |Moved Home to Spy on Swear to Continue | New Union Hall MARION, N. C., Oct. 4—| CHARLOTTE, Re Young James Roberts, textle|The opening of the state's |striker, died today in the hos-|case in the Gastonia trial in {pital here of wounds received} court here this morning was Many workers were beaten up yesterday morning, when they dem- onstrated against J. Ramsay Mac- Donald, betrayer of the British workers who arrived here to confer with President Hoover, allegedly for but in reality to formulate on plans for an attack on the Soviet | Union nad the further enslavement | of the colonial masses now under the iron heel of British and American limperialism. “peace” Regime Worse Than Death. The vicious prison regime, the| | frightful punishment meted out be- | cause of the slightest infr of Funds Needed at Once to Rush the aay Worker to the Southern Mill Workers 1 stri litv While all the southern mill centers are being flooded with the Gas- ae aes ees eae tonia Gazette, the lying, murder-i g sheet of the Gastonia mill | dished out as food caused the out-| bosses, the mill workers of North and South Carolina, Georgia Alabama, | real. | —— Virginia are daily calling for thousands of copies of the |- The outbreak occurred suddenly The unlimited millions of the Carolina mill bosses are behind the |{y.! puie, Prisoners instantly seized “Gassy Gazette,” leading the campaign of murder and lies against the |)" the desrised auscts ne hatunas| mill workers, has been adopted by the mill bosses thruout the South, |}o ine fone tena nied | as their chief weapon against the National Textile Workers’ Union. It is | sieisaie. ricon dclivene Ward being placed into the hands of mill workers in every southern state, | Wholesale Pron deltvers.. Word Deluged with ““Gassy Gazettes” by the tens-of thousands, the milf) TASHENE to Warden Francis Craw-| workers refuse to read it, but instead are calling for the Daily Worker. tk ae ittha gudcde aod be tes From mill village after mill village comes the call, “Send us the |(Dung) Ao Une Buarce would De re. union paper, and a union organizer.” [guards would be killed. Crawford The southern mill workers demand thousands of Daity Workers. [727s Wand be [luc Crawiord: Ten thousand Daily Workers must reach these workers each day. Yet | co” pias are a usec of went the great financial burden this necessary duty entails makes it impos. | PUSH Buards are a specs or vine sible to keep up with the demands of the southern workers. Aas Charset atid vistaasa ea While the huge fortunes of the mill bosses insure the Gastonia |G'VS, Of Any city and vefused fo Gazette getting into the hands of the mill workers, only with imme- |COMP'Y | ‘ diate aid from the militant American workers can the Daily Worker |?” S°P*?S: _ be rushed to the thousands of mill workers who demand their “union | Militia Attacks Prison. | paper.” The state militia of Colorado, re-| A minimum of $200 a day is required, at once, to rush the Daily Worker to the southern workers. Which shall it be, the Daily Worker, or the lying, murderous Gas- | tonia Gazette? | | | sons of the rich for use of the (Continued on Page Two) * * This is my answer. To show my solidarity with my fellow workers * 7 Bronx Communists POLICE BEAT UP DEMONSTRATORS McDonald Guarded by Over Thousand Cops Tammany Hall police to the num- ber of about one thousand who were protecting J, Ramsey MacDonald on | his arrival in New York, broke up a} | | demonstration shortly after 11 a. m. yesterday outside Pennsylvania station, Seventh Ave. and 32d St., when the British premier took th train for Washington where he will spend the next few days with Presi dent Hoover, Anna Pagrebusky was arrested and held in $500 bail for trial on Oct. 7th. She is charged with dis- orderly conduct. The International defense. As soon as MacDonald stepped demonstrators, members of the Com- |petrated a massacre of unarmed jmass pickets at the gates of the Marion Manufacturing | Wednesday morning. The other four strikers who have died so far were buried in a mass funeral participated in by nearly a {thousand people today in Marion. |The funeral became a great demon- stration against the terror, in spite off every effort of the United Tex- ‘tile Workers misleaders to keep it on a sweet Christian plane. | Preachers and Bankers. Workers standing around, dressed in rough brown shirts and overalls ard five preachers, including Rev. |A. J. Muste, head of the so-called | AFL, progressives, or “Muste |Group” tell the strikers to rely on |the vengeance of god, and support |the U.T.W. Muste began his ser- mon with a bible text. They heard lbanker Jenkins, of Ashville, tell cruited from the middle class and| Labor Defense is in charge of the|them that he was glad to hear that | Jesus was in their midst, and that jhe had always told his associates in Jout of his automobile, decorated |Gastonia that the U.T.W. could be |with American and British flags, the |of much service to the mill owners, as it hated the Communists and the | Natiousl Textile Workers’ Union as Company ! prosecution, when Sheriff Adkins and his featured by the defense bring- |Jeputized mill, gunmen per-/ing out the fact hat Otto Ma- son, one of the most important of the witnesses for the mill owne and was a hired Manville-Jenckes stool pigeon for a long time before the June 7 raid in which Aderholt was killed, and for whose death seven workers are being tried on murder charges. The prosecution tried again in this trial to introduce sensational stunts intended to prejudice the jury by an appeal to..emotion, similar to that of the introduction of the ghi leffigy of Aderholt, which was u in the first trial, although ruled by the judge. | Diagram Shows Beal. This time they tried a picture of Aderholt, and a diagram of the scene of the shooting, showing the body of Aderholt, and with like- {nesses of Beal and McGinnis promi- nently displayed. Following the previous decisior the effigy matter, this present terial was ruled out without jury seeing it. the The textile strikers and organizer are being tried before a jury con posed mostly of farmers. The ju of the South I enclose my contribution to the “Rush the Daily ‘To the | Sentenced to Prison munist Party, Young Communist | aye ae ile|men are: John L. Todd, rural mail TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 4. The first American Workers’ Chil-| Southern Textile Workers” Drive. — Pee seisy A Aioricat Ae Leaner |e ate, “gaedtined Vall aay |eartier; EAL: Mootey "Word Motte When the American Federation of jdren’s Delegation to the Soviet) y The trial of 17 young workers, |ist League andthe International La-) eto), 28tP Dee who owns | Company employe; Zeke Johnson, re- Tabor starts what promises to be|Union arrived in New York yester-| »*™"* ESE BL oar arrested more than a month ago inj bor Defense raised their banners de-| MOC) 80s eo county, end tired business man, and J. A. Helms, iis most elass collaboration conven- day on the Be-cagania, after com-| Address ......0.eceeeeuseeeeeranteres a eee sstssssssuseeeeees [the Bronx, took place yesterday be-jnouncing British Imperialism. More |" oo ot. regard the slaughter |C- L- Hill, J. W. Elliott, R. N. ticn here next week, the workers of | pleting a tour of ‘ |fore Magistrate McKinery in the | than a score of workers were beaten | t os canine workers ania pee aste of ;Caziah, J. T. Ferris, M. M. Flow Tezento will find all of the argu-. The Deleg .2:c City eee ee eeeees Rem ayo Maik Laurea es LS ONE AE ON Aa + |Sixth Magistrates Court, 161st St.)up. Moi Fine and Ben Brenner | or bind 8 as as jE. Lawn koa. MeAviey. ahd ments of businessmen, militarists,’ Taft, New Yor! APRON oes racials sien eis Cesc ieee epioiat Maye : the Bronx. Seven of the workers|were most severely assaulted. pee t . Manson, Jr., all farmers, ledor and other of their New York; Marion Semchy, Detroit; | be ea oan Seen ad Geile on SAUD CE tt i""""*_| were convicted and are now serving Police 10 Feet Apart. Workers Will Act. Nees enemies answered immediately. Delia Morelli, Pittsbur Shelly A jail terms. The charge against the} Hundreds of patrolmen who lined| Vice President Gorman of the U.| -—-— “4™ ; The convention of the A. F, of L. Strickland, Philadelphia; Klmer| Prepare for Big ILD other 10 was dismissed. They are the street from the Battery to Penn-|T. W. asked for a senate investiga-| Mason testified today on cross- hegins en eae an ae aa Macdonald, Gastonia; Albert Soren, Revel Next Saturday | all members of the Communist Party | svivania Station at intervals of 10|tion, and John Peel, vice president examination by Jimison that h Union Unity League of U. S. an Canada, and was under the leader- ‘Trade Union Educational League of | ship of Jonah Shiffman, national di- Canada will hold a joint meeting rector of the Young Pioneers of | Wednesday, Oct. 9, to expose A. F.| America. th of L. propaganda and lay down a_ policy of militant organization and struggle against rationalization and and the Young Communist League. | feet, were on the alert to stem any Peter Kaminsky is serving three |demonstration. Scores of mounted days; Sidney Bloomfield two days} police, motor eycle police and detect- and Philip Hoffman, Jeanette Rubin, | ives also helped to protect the labor Shirley Pearl, Helen Shipman and misleader and betrayer from the All four members of the crew of} Sonia Zuker one day. |wrath of the workers of New York. jof the North Carolina Federation of moved into the house across fr |Labor, told the strikers to leave|the new union headquarters as soon |their cause with god. Local preach-,as this new hall was built, and that Jers said the whole trouble was due he moved again as soon as the raid |to the presence of «the devil in the 2nd arrests ceased, following the leaatucnity: battle there. He moved back to the Preparations now being made for e big Proletarian Autumn Revel of the New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense indicate that this year’s event will be the The delegation went on an invita- ‘tion from the Russian Pioneers and {attended the International Congress of Proleta:’-. Children in Moscow. ; At the congress they took up three points. 1. The question of strength- jening the correspondence between |the Pioneers cf different countries. 2, The war danger and 3. The de- jfense of the Soviet Union. | The impriscm.-nt of Harry Eis- man, a New York Pioneer, serving | six mon'“s in a reformatory because jhe demonstrated against the Boy Scouts, was a':o discussed. A reso- lution was adopted protesting the sentence and E:nan wa made an honorary member of the presidium ‘o fthe Congress. Delegates to Tour Country. The delegates will tour the United States and tell American workers’ children how good it is for the work- ers’ children in the Soviet Union. wage cuts, and against imperialist war. William Z. Foster, general secre- tary of the . U. U. L., will be the principal speaker, and several prom- inent militant workers of Canada will also speak. The T.U.U.L. and T.U.E.L. will cri- ticize the A.F.L. tactics, shown so ‘badly recently in the selling out of ithe New Orleans strike, the betrayal of the Elizabethton and Marion tex- tile strikes, the international long- shoremen’s wage smashing agree- ment, and the cooperation of Presi- dent William Green in every jingois- tic and militaristic ceremony, as well as many other treasons to the work- ing class. “ The speakers will explain the movement, which started with the Cleveland Trade Union Unity con- vention Sept. 1, at which a fighting trade union center was organized, with cooperation of left wing minori- ties in the conservative unions, and with a program for organizing the unorganized on a class basi Needle Trade Meeting for Gastonia, Tuesday The needle trade workers of New York, who have been active in the defense of the Gastonia strikers, have determined to redouble their efforts in order to.save the remain- ing seven Gastonia strikers from 30 year terms of imprisonment, and will hold a conference Tuesday night at Irving Plaza. Ben Gold, Rose Wortis, Louis Hyman and Harriet Silverman will Charges Against Two ILGW Thugs Dropped Charles against the two right wing thugs who assaulted and nearly killed Jack Jacobs of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union on Aug. 2, were dismissed when they were brought before Magistrate Weil in Jefferson Market Court. Samuel Markew'-h, International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union attorney, appeared as lawyer for the two guerrillas, Weil ignored all evidence in dis- missing the charges against the gangsters, The Neegle Trade Workers Indus- 4 most elaborate the ILD has ever the Soviet plane, Land of. the Sav- 119 E. 11th St. The New York District of the In held. The revel will take place next iets, are safe after they made a| ternational Labor Defense defended : Saturday evening in Webster Hall, forced landing at Waterfall, Alaska; | the workers, with Jacques Buiten- | automobile. kant as attorney. At a meeting of the City Central Committee of the ILD plans were made for the revel and committees elected to take charge. It is ex- pected that proletarian dress will predominate as prizes will be given to those wearing the oldest and shabbiest clothes. Dance music will be provided by John C. Smith’s Negro -Syncopators and_ refresh- ments will be served. Tickets are on sale at the office of the New York ILD, 799 Broadway, Room 422, Durant } Motor Co, Lays, Off 600 Metal Workers Closes New York Plant Six hundred workers of the metal division of the Durant Motor Co. plant in New York, the last re-| maining operating unit, were laid off Sept. 30, and the plant will | close down by October 15. All these workers were unorganized. | | | “THIEVES FALL OU | WASHINGTON. Oct. “Tn. | a capitalist press report states. SS Two Freed Gaston Prisoners Greeted at Red Press Bazaar Teday, Tomorrow Last Chances for Workers of New York to Lay in Year’s Supply Thousands of New York workers|remarkable speech that would have gathered at the Daily Worker and|done credit to the most finished rev- Morning Freiheit Bazaar in Madison | olutionary speaker declared: “We Square Garden last night to greet will not rest until our seven com- K. O. Byers and Russell Knight,| rades have been freed. As for my- two of the Gastonia prisoners who self, the period spent in prison and have just emerged from the shadow) the danger of the electric chair did of the electric chair. not frighten me from my duties, . I The pallor of prison was on the |am going to continue in the labor faces of the militants but their zeal) movement and work for the organ- for the union was. unchecked. “It! ization of the 300,000 southern tex- feels good to be free,” they told the | tile strikers.” workers, “but we won’t feel right| His friend and fellow workers, K. until Beal and our six comrades are|Q, Byers, reiterated Knight's mili- freed.” tant stand, saying: “We came North Byers, a 20 year old worker who|to rouse the workers to save our! has been in the mills sincé 14, and, seven comrades who are threatened trigue and politics have figured in| Knight, 24, who shows the blem- with long jail terms for daring to the actions of the tariff commission |ishes of small-pox he contracted | organize the workers of the South.” during the past seven years,” Sen-| while in jail, described the gangs| Both Byers and M. J. Olgin, edi- ator Johnson, Rep., Calif., declared | that are out to lynch union organ-|tor of the Freiheit, commented on in the Senate today during a speech |izers and workers in the South, the splendid spirit of the demonstra- denouncing the flexible tariff, | “Mill bosses, superintendents and, tion, Olgin contrasting it to the dem- the law,” they said. “These are the | onstration earlier in the day for the \ofies who are out to kill and to lynch, imperialist premier of Great Britain, 5.-A |'These and some. gangsters to help Ramsay MacDonald, QUAKE I FABRIANOQ, | Iialy ITALY, Oct. \trial Union announced yesterday it brief, undulatory earthquake was | them.” Today and tomorrow are the last speak. The meeting will begin at|will take the case to the grand jury|felt here today, There was no dam-| Amid | A eetin be ase A i | id the thunderous cheers of |days of the bazaar, th last chances Deven o'clock ae for action oo i lige és ee " __ sl, 10,000 workers, Russell Knight, in ® diye (Continued on Page Two)’ & The demonstration started as soon s MacDonald stepped out of the Due to the unusually large amount of police present, the demonstrators were not able to |reach the front of the Penn station, | which was carefully guarded by hun- | dreds of patrolmen. Assembling on |the right side of the street in front | of the Pennsylvania Hotel, the work- ers raised the banners and threw hundreds of leaflets issued by the Communist Party into the crowd, some of which blew near MacDonald. Workers Attacked. Also simultaneously with Mac- Donald getting out of the car, about 100 motor cycle policemen jumped off their machines and sailed into the line of workers holding the ban- ners, Hitting right and left with their fists, they quickly broke up the demonstration. They were assisted by patrolmen who were lined up along Seventh Ave. to the number of about 2,000. Due to the large num- ber of police, the demonstrators were outnumbered almost 10 to one. The banners weve torn up, some of the workers being driven into the hotel, while others were chased by the police in the direction of 33rd St. and Sixth Ave. 30 Feet Away. By the time the demonstration was broken up MacDonald had en- tered the railroad station and was on his way to Washington. Al- though the demonstration took place less than 30 feet from the British labor imperialist, he never turned his head in its direction. However, he looked worried and apparently knew what was going on. Having confidence that the Tammany police NX (Continued on Page Two) But the strikers and workers from S@me residence he left to spy on surrounding mills continued to talk the union hall. among themselves of carrying on| Mason has been posing agran hon- the strike, of extending the fight,;est worker, a carpenter, and an |of involving all the southern mills, in a great movement against the starvation wages, speed-up and rot- jten mill villages. They realize, more than ever before, how abso- lutely correct the strikers in Gas- tonia were, when they defended the |Workers International Relief Tent colony at which they were living, against what was intended for a similar massacre. Would Railroad 45, 45 of thees their bullets did not ac- | semblage. Some of those who failed Forty of the strikers were ar- evidence against them. Boss Bails Thugs. apiece to release its gunmen. Judge Harding yesterday refused to permit the hearing to take place \either yesterday afternoon as orig- | inally scheduled, or this afternoon. He insisted on holding it this morn- ing, in conflict with the mass | funeral of the first four to die of (Continued on Page Three) LL.D. WANTS VOLUNTEERS. The International Labor Defense asks volunteers to aid the Gastonia campaign to report at Room 402, 80 E. 11th St, Build Up the United Front of the eae Class From the Bot- to} f! \ (Continued on Page Three) | Working Women Mass ‘Rally for Gastonia ‘to Be Held October 17 Working women in New York who have been supporting the southern textile workers will again show their solidarity at a mass meeting Thurs- day, Oct. 17, at 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall. When they heard that the south- rested yesterday. Five more against | °' textile workers had come out oa whom warrants were issued are in| Sttike against the inhuman stretch- |the hospital fighting for life, while | ut, the $8 to $12 weekly pay en- the mill baron’s attorneys frame up |Velopes, the 60 to 65 hour work | Week, they knew the tasks of the |northern workers was to send strike The Marion Manufacturing Com-|#™munition, food and clothing, to pany provided cash bail of $2,000 | keep the southern strikers |being starved back to the mi The majority of mill workers are women and children. They repre- sent the poorest paid workers. | In all southern mill towns women have two major jobs—the mill and the home. In the early evening women can be seen walking to the mill. They usually carry a small pack- age—a biscuit and fat ba their midnight supper, eaten while the boss is not looking. Workers in New Yo from vote again on November 7. They can voica their opposition to the bosses’ po- lice who club picket lines, graft- jridden government, rotten housing system, high rents, etc., by increas- rises! wep ing the Communist Party, , r al *