The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1929, Page 3

* DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929 ~ (Bulletin) LONDON, Oct. 4.—Press reports from India state that Philip Spratt and six other Meerut defendants were unable to appear in trial court on account of exhaustion from hunger strike lasting from the 23rd to the 29th of September. ae aa (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) LONDON, Oct. 4.—Thursday’s session of the Labor Party Confer- ence at Brighton heard Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, defend the increased bank rate, declaring the bank action necessary in order to correct unfavorable exchange rates and regulate the basis of credit. Snowden disputed the statement that the rise means an increase of unemployment, but finally promised a committee inquiry into banking, credit, and effects on industry. This move for an “investigation” by com- mittees represents an old trick of the “labor” government to disarm U. S. Influences at Work in Argentina Against the British BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 4.—An interesting proof of the influence of North American imperialism in Ar- gentine politics is the series of at- tacks on the Irigoyen government by the newspaper “La Nacion” for many alleged “discourtesies” toward the United States. The paper bland- ly states: “If there is one thing to be In- ferred fro mthe present Argentine government’s foreign policy, it Is the foolish belief that we are threat- ened by 4 fantastic policy of im- perialism which exists only in the minds of a few agitators. The fear of this imperialism appears to in- duce President Irigoven to take sides between the two great Anglo-Saxon ‘powers. There exists no important political rivalry between Great Brit- ain and the United States.” Of course the denial of any Anglo- American rivalry is intended to in- fluence a change from the present pro-British policy. BAN CZECH UNION PAPER. PRAGUE (By Mail).—The trade unions of CZecho-Slovakia intended | to publish a paper for the organized working women of that country. The Prague police forbade the pub- lication on the grounds that the new paper was to be a substitute for an- other paper suspended by the police. By this method the publication of any Communist paper can be unlaw- fully prevented. SO-CALLED “LEFT” LABORITES RETREAT AT BRIGHTON BEFORE SNOWDEN’S CAPITALIST POLICY Treason to Labor at Home and Abroad Gets Not Eeven Reproof from “Left” “Labor” Government’s Conformity to Bank) Capital to Increase Unemployment criticism. Snowden’s speech was an open defense of the policy of finance capital. The so-called “left” opposition in the conference collapsed, while the Independent Labor Party’s vaunted intention to demand nationalization of banks failed to materialize. MASON’S STORY BADLY DAMAGED Moved Home to Spy on New Union Hall (Continued from Page One) electrician. This is the first time the defense has been able to estab- lish his role as a labor spy. In his testimony in the first trial, more or less repeated in this one, Mason appeared to be the only per- son claiming to be an eye witness for the state, except for the much discredited police officers. Mason’s Lies. He alleged that McGinnis fired the first shot, a statement which will be abundantly contradicted by the defense witnesses, who can prove the police fired first. Mason claimed that the women defendants now released stood in the door of the headquarters, and shouted “kill him,” to the workers’ guard. This was impossible, for they were in the inner office, Mason said that dur- ing the meeting, when Beal was a scuffle, and that Beal was in the crowd. There will be plenty of wit- nesses to testify that Beal remained on the platform. He said that Vera Bush remained at the tent colony during the march of the pickets, and this is also untrue, for Bush ac- companied the pickets. Mason’s testimony was also con- tradicted in details by other prose- cution witnesses in the first trial, and contradicts his own statements in the hearing before the lawyers before the trial. evidence the alleged statements of Carter of McGinnis. In the first trial, with the ury barred, defense witnesses told of the torturing of these prisoners after their arrest to extract “confessions” from them. The so-callde confessions, when in- troduced, told of no shots fired at Aderholt. Carter’s was abcut his being attacked by the police, ang McGinnis alleged statement says hi fired, but not at any one in par- ticular and only after the police had fired the first shot. A National Textile Workers Meerut Victims of ‘Labor’ Government Imperialism, on Hunger Strike in German Communists, Jailed In Rhineland \By French Imperialists | | PARIS (By Mail).—The French military police arrested five German Communist in Treves on the charge | of having distributed leaflets of a |seditious nature among the French | occupation troops. They were alleged to have been; caught in the act of throwing a bundle of leaflets over the wall of a building in which French soldiers} were billeted. Two of the men ar- rested were soon released again, but three are held-in the French} military prison, The charge is entirely unfounded, | as the leaflets found are in German| and therefore could not have been| lused. to foment sedition among/| |French troops who do not under- stand that language. The imperial and Commisseriat in Coblenz has, raised protest against this arbitrary | imprisonment of German citizens by | the French police. RELIGIOUS DOPE FROM A. J. MUSTE \Strike Grows, Workers | Swear to Continue (Continued from Page One) | wounds received at the mill gates. At the hearing today, Douglas El- ler, Asheville, N. C., newspaperman, {the first witness to testify before Judge W. F. Harding’s “investiga. tion” into the Marion mill shooting of Wednesday, told the court that the sheriff’s officers fired first. Witnesses proved today that al- | most all of the 25 wounded or killed by the bullets of the sheriff’s depu- ties were shot in the back while try- ling to escape the deadly fusilade. When the first few shots were fired, |ter of Sam Vickers, the widow and| following the tear gas bomb attack, the unarmed strikers turned to run, but were hemmed in by the wire | fence of the mill on one side, of the | street an dthe high cement wall on | the other. The helpless strikers | were mowed down like hunted beasts | i |an dlay moaning, bleeding, writhing |Pany ordered a road drag yesterday | in the libraries of the railway sta- and the company. speaking, he heard a shot and 50 | ome able to ae Ito Beaty, and | to scrape the road and cover up the/| tions and in the street kiosks. | others remaining as targets for their | {murderers unti Ithe deputies peu | ‘permit other strikers to return and} |take them to the hospital, or until |they arrested them and took them | away, handcuffed, but still bleeding. Offers of legal aid made by the International Labor Defense through |Sophie Melvin, who hurried to |Marion when the massacre was re- | accepted: thus far. The officialdom ‘o fthe I. T. W. is trying to take charge of the situation, | The strike continues. Nearly 500 | of the 600 workers in the mill were; out on spontaneous strike today. i | The home of Luther Bryson, who’ | died in the hospital of bullet wounds yesterday is badly stricken. Luther's | Union meeting in North Carolina last night was attended by about |200 workers from the textile and some other industires. Among the [speakers were Hampton, Tetherow, |Sophie Melvin, William Murdock, jand Amy Schechter. | |ported in Charlotte, have not been|N. REVOLUTIONISTS © LEAD STRIKE AT CZECH ARSENAL Contractors Broke Off Wage Negotiations PRAGUE (By Mail).—The build- | sion work for the State arsenal in| Povarska Bystrica have gone on| strike under the leadership of the | revolutionary industrial union of | building workers. The strike was | caused by the fact that the contrac- | tors suddenly broke off wage nego- tiations which were proceeding by declaring that they could not come to any agreement with a Communist | organization because the work in| question was being performed for | the State. The strikers demand wage increases, a reduction of work- ing hours, which are at present 11 a day, the abolition of the speed-up 8 m and the dismissal of a Fas- cist foreman. The gendarmie has been mobilized and the secretary of the union, Kolar, has been arrested. brother-in-law died of one of the} long illnesses textile workers are| prone to, and there will be a double | funeral. In addition to this,>all of | the remaining Bryson brothers are arrested. Hundreds o fworkers gathered at the homes of those who died where} the young wife of Randolph Hall,| now a widow the widow and daugh- seven children of George Jonas, were pitiful in their sorrow. The visitors express their sympathy, and then collect in groups to swear to continue the fight against starvation wages and the stretch-out system} in spite ef terrorism, All day yesterday the hospital was besiebed by friends an drelatives of | the twelve workers still there, fight- | ing for life with their tortured bodies torn b ythe bullets fired into them by “law and order” of the bosses’) (Prague) and of the “Pravda” (Pil-|better work. variety. The Marion Manufacturing Com-! enumerated would no longer be sold jto the advantage of the forelady |sthers, it opened their eyes to what | pools of workers blood left there afte rthe massacre. R. W, Baldwin was in court yes-| terday with a highly pleased expres- | sion on his fat gross face, ready to sign a bond for his efficient sharp- | shooters. | INFORMATION WANTED — Anyone| aware of the whereabouts of Mr. | Nick March communicate with N«.| A 211 E. 40th St.. Apt. 61,/ Something very important. | ¢ me at on | } BLADDER PAINS YOU CAN AVOID Many (crreieine oe needlessly—in blad- der and kidneys—their passages and outlets —can be safely relieved with India’s ancient remedy—Santal Midy. Good also for sore membranes, an aid to bladder oon Ree catarrh and to better control ‘% sules bear signature of } functions. Genuine cap- Dr.L, Midy, the originator, Today and Tomorrow THIRD ANNUAL Daily 52; Worker | and MORNING FREIHEIT BAZAAR Austro-Fascisti to Form Armed Railway Corps for Scabking VIENNA (By Mail).—The Press Bureau of the Austrian Heimwehr declares that the executive commit- ee ot the eHimwehr has decided to | § found a fascist railway defense corps for the whole of Austria. This corps will be organized on a mili tary scale and will be recruited fror amongst the members of all ed non-Marxist trade unions from amongst the unor ling workers engaged in the exten-| workers. According to the Heim-|tion for wehr, the aim of this corps wi the maintenance of the railw vice under all circumstances. also during ikes. I bi Austrian Workers in Clash with Fascists (Wireless By Inprecorr) VIENNA, Oct. 4.—At the coun- ter-demonstration at Modeling of workers against the Heimwehr fas- cists, socialists cooperated with the police against the revolutionary workers. A protest meeting was held, fol- lowed by a parade. The police at- tracted the paraders with bayonets, wounding several workers and ar- resting many. . Heimwehr speakers all declared the Schober government is based on the Heimwehr. At Stockerau, a pa- rade was followed by collisions with workers ,the fascists firing arms and wounding one worker, Today’s “Rote Fahne,” Communist organ, was again confiscated. In Payerbach, fascists carried out a dynamite attempt to destroy a workers’ club, seriously damaging the premises and smashing all win- dows in the neighborhood. Indignant workers demonstrated on the streets against fascism. The military was called out to aissst the police against the mass protest of workers, PERSECUTE COMMUNIST PRESS LIRAGUE (By Mail).—The pub- lishing offices of the “Vorwar (Reichenberg), of the “Rude Pravo” son) weer notified that the papers ’\ers by getting a present Page Three re ne Indian Jail Ill. Miners Show What They WAGE SLASH ON. ALL OPERATIONS AT FISHER BODY Is Think of Gaston Bosses Lies of ional Miners Union sev- ll. of Local 303 Mine Workers of Americ: own initiative wrote a le > Gaste we condemne to th Gastonia Chamber of Commerce and Gastonia Chamber of Commer i them “what is the dispute be-| Inc., Located in the Combed en the workers and the employ-| Manufacturing Center of t ” T asked Daltow why he wrote| South. letter to t Mr. George Daltow, Sec’ United Mine Secretary Daltow: | Any bosse Your correspondence to hand, ete., | ° \to the N. L ) adopted to x n the iett is no industrial disturbance Gastonia bosses with a n } A handful of Communists | have been trying to cause trouble . playing it up in a paper led the Daily Worker for the pu . of trying to raise money u a cordial invitation to > to Gastonia and see one of the < industrial centers in this coun. Jo2 S. Wray, Executive Sec the Local Union reje arguments, | Miners of this local are ve gressi Recently they a resoluticn to assess themse cents each for defense of t tonia prisoners. Because ers of Orient are very were able to also organ | 14c These boxes were oy The state inspectors did not overfilled boxes. The rebelled and demanded the ighing of boxes and found that weighed 1-4 lbs. over. 4* | 5 ters on Aug. 3, because their boxes | ad ae ea | point- ening the cnosciousness | exploited workers IN NEIL cutting and stoning of | 4 hes for a box wieghing 41 1 | sate élled. | (By a Worker Co mondent) |ce these OAKLAND, Cal. (By | workers The worst part of the canning de-| rev partment in the Nielsen plant is|th 4 favoritism shown by the forelady,|this little strike the boxes have bet- Mrs. Raisser. She places the ones|ter weight and the bosses are more she likes at the head of the table, | hushed. insuring them of the most and the| best fruit, while those working at| the end get very little and cannot make perfect trays. The canning department workers, thouglg they did not strike at the time, were also promised a half- | iii : yy [cent raise per tray. This raise was One girl showed me her check,| not given to us when we got our where because of this favoritism she | jay. We were short $2 to $3, The made only 75c. for the whole fore-| workers of this department saw noon on this hard work. Others)that they had to follow the ex- make very little more and mai ample of the cutters, and sent rep- resentatives to the boss. The boss Nee laid the blame on the office girl for forelady, 0, she would ‘give them|™ ne > little mistake Though this str This created hard| | feeling among the workers, which is |little to the cutters, |have to quit work. Some of the girls acted gave very canners and a determined struggle may mean. A spontaneous little strike of cut- —Anne Allen. Gigantic Reception Saturday Evening, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. AERONAVIGATOR (Doors Open at 5:30) ess tllon SECOND NAVAL PILOT The four fliers of the “Land of the Soviets” will be officially welcomed at Madison Square Garden Fifti eth Street and Eighth Avenue '|Seantiment of Men for Organization (By a W oe Gn FLINT, Mi Auto Workers’ h print in the ite, for he fears He pretends h the boys and z and such small “friendly ts, but all the time he is planning how he can grind more work out of them for less w Headliners, front eat men ed for more money and | they were told that they could quit. of these n worked there ever since this plant opened and our slick superintendent told them that they had worked there too damn long. It is to see that he knows himself that conditi are wrong, and that the comp wants new men all the time so they will realize the truth. There one way only to end this—organize into the Auto Workers’ Union.—Flint Fisher Worker Prepare FOR COMING STRUGGLES! JOIN THE 1. L. DJ! Wage Cuts and Speed-up are com- ing. They are fight- ing it in the South today. You will be fighting tomorrow. The International La- bor Defense protects all slass-war prisoners. It is the shield of the working ‘lass. Without it thous- ands of workers would be rotting in prisons today the land over. Thousands more are still in jail. Without the I. L. D. the Gastonia prisoners would have been railroaded to the electric chair long ago. The I. L. D. needs 30,000 new members by January 1, 1930 It needs that number of new members to prepare for YOUR strikes—YOUR struggles. You May Be in Need of the I. L. D. Tomorrow! Local 22 of the National Minors Union at Piney Fork, Ohio, writes: “Our men, the coal miners, throughout the country are doing their best to help the Gastonia textile strikers and heir leaders. We, the miners, are wait- ing the day when we are going to give the final blow to the coal barons and free ourselves from the present slavery. Do what you can, miners, to free the Gastonia textile workers because we need them in our coming strug- gle. We need leaders to- day and not martyrs.” The Best You Can Do Is sy ~ Madison Square Garden Eighth Avenue, 49th and 50th Streets | OCTOBER 5, 6 Vernon Andrade’s Negro Rennaissance will play every night | "SLOSS" [Gorwa sare w paen W BARGAINS Finnish Workers Sports Prices—75c—$1—$1.50 Union Auspices Friend of the Soviet Union ADMISSION—on Thursday, Friday or Sunday 50 Cents FOR ALL FOUR DAYS—$1.25 BATURDAYs-MASQUE BALI-—-$1.00 .... Rigkets on gale at Daily. Worker Office or at the Box Office! Strengthen the I. L. D.! JOIN IT! Send ‘the coupon below to the 1 Office and become a r of the l. L. B the Interna- ense, Enclosed Tickets on Sale NOW at the offices of the FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION 175 Fifth Ave., at 23d St. Alg. 2745. 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