The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1929, Page 1

| I THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS » a Workers-Farmers Government >» Organize the Against Imperialist War For the 40, Unorganized our Week Baily FINAL CITY EDITION Published 4: Company. Inc. 26-28 Unton Square, New York City. N. (oat y by The Comprodally Pablishing ly except S: NEW YORK, MONDAY, _ OCTOBER 7, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. __ Price 3 Cents BiG WAR GAME TO BE STAGED © THIS THURSDAY annon, Planes, Poison Gases Figure in | Display —— ShowWar Development Hur! Ton of Steel Over Thirty Miles | WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—Altho almost every other department of United States armed forces have) great reserves in peace-time indus- | try that can be changed overnight into war industries, the ordimance | department still lags behnid, accord- ing to an onnouncement by Maj. Gen. Clarence C, Andrews, chief .of the army ordinance division, United | States army. Major General Andrews made | this declaration in connection with the announcement that on Thurs-| day there will be held at the Aber- | deen, Maryland, proving ground a| display of virtually every important | development in ordinance industry | since the world war. Ton of Steel 30 Miles The largest gun in use in this! (ountry, a giant seacoast rifle, cap- | able of hurling a ton of solid steel | thirty miles will be used in the dis- play. The exhibition will open early in the morning with an exhibition of the army’s new 50-calibre ma- chine gun and a 37- mm. automatic | cannon. There will also be an ex-| hibition of the most improved de- | signs of guns for anti-aircraft use with fall strength service charges of explosives. Display Air Forces. \ the army has made during | year if the development ‘d field equipment, anti - aircraft artillery and aerial war- fare will be demonstrated for the t time in public. of field artillery dem- the new 75-mm. gun re- ; adopted as standard for the are to be seen, This type of gun “fives a 15-pound projectile fir- ile the guns roar ground airplanes will per- dorm stunts over head. 2or a variety of simulated war ns, smoke-screens, recent and other war gasses, and powered explosives will be| es ‘well as a new smokeless shless powder which is also needed more than an: according to ‘Wiliams, of a whole series plants so that in the ible time a sufficient mo of or. e can be produced “emergency. XC for eay BERLIN, tests of the industrialist ‘Peoples’ Party,” the proposal to place the Oct. 6—Due to pro- social democrat, Herman Mueller,) in the ministry of foreign affairs to | succeed Stresemann, is given up, and Dr. Julius Curtis of the Peoples’ | Party is named for the post. Soviet Union. collisions occurred between fascists Graz, and Weiz. streets with bayonets. ing no arrests. * NEWS FLASHES | SOVIET WORKERS MURDERED. MOSCOW, Oct. 6.—The ‘execution of three Soviet railwaymen, Os- sipov, Srokov, and Vassilyuk, at Tsitsikar in Manchuria, was followed y the discovery in the railway station at Lidahedsi of the corpse of viet citizen Usteretzki, showing signs of torture. . * * LABOR FIGHTS NANKING. SHANGHAI, Oct. 6.—The All-China Labor Federation has issued an appeal to workers for an energetic fight against the Nanking policy which serves imperialist interests against the Chinese workers. and the * WORKERS AND FASCISTS CLASH. VIENNA, Oct. 6.—Following Heimwehr demonstrations Sunday, At Stockerau military was called out to clear the Disturbances lasted till late at night. ous fascists were wounded at Neunkirchen. * RAIDS IN CZECHO- SLOVAKIA. PRAGUE, Oct. 6.—Yesterday police raided the offices of District No. 1, of the Communist Party, confiscating various materials, but mak- * LOOKED FOR IT; GOT IT. MOSCOW, Oct. 6.—Press reports from the Manchurian border state that a band of 50 White Guard Russians was wiped out by the Red |... ‘Thus does the imperial agent More Southern Mill ‘Towns Send Hurry-Call to the Daily ‘Workers Must Answer Their Appeal! Send Funds At Once to “Rush the Daily to the Southern Workers” Drive Workers in a score of southern mill towns and villages sent hurry calls for the Daily Worker—‘“the union paper”—as the southern mill workjers know it—over the week-end. While the mill workers of such Georgia mill centers as, for in- stance, Aragon, Barnsville, Dalton, Rome, Cartersville, Dunwoodie, and many other towns appeal for the Daily Worker, they tell us that they are being flooded daily with copies of the Gastonia Gazette, the murder- inciting, labor-hating sheet of the Gastonia mill bosses. Calling for the paper which fights for them, and deceiving the sheet that calls for their murder if they dare oppose the mill bosses who enslave them! The militant American workers will not let this continue! “After the mill workers of Aragon read the Daily Worker they calléd for the union in which both the white and the Negro workers are members,” writes a Negro textile worker of that village. The Aragon workers heard of the Daily Worker from a Gastonia striker, sent for some copiés of it, and now demand that the Daily keep coming to them every day. Similar demands have come from hundreds of workers in scores of other mill towns in the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia, Yet the great financial burden it would entail to send Daily Work- ers to all the mill villages demanding their “union paper” necessary for us to call on the militant workers to come to the aid of the exploited mill workers of the South—to see to it that their appeals for the Daily Worker every day is answered. Through the Daily Worker, the way will be prepared for one of the greatest phases of the class struggle in the history of the American working class—the coming great battle of the mill workers throughout | the South against their exploiters. Against their exploiters, who have unlimited ions behind them with which to circulate the vicious “Gassy Gazette’—the workers must match their dollars—and rush the Daily Worker into every mill town and village in the South. ‘The mill workers of at least 200 mill towns in the South are await- ing daily bundles of the Daily Worker, all the while refusing to read the murderdus Gastonia Gazette with which they are being deluged. They are waiting for the militant American workers to take that action which will bring them the Daily Worker every day. Ten thousand Daily Workers must be rushed into the South, be- ginning at once, every day! Fight the deluge of murder-inciting mill boss-owned sheets with the Daily Worker! Funds at once, for the “Rush the Daily Worker to the Southern Mill Workers” Drive! Harry Leff, a New York Worker, was the first to answer the call of the southern mill workers for the Daily Worker. His $5 means that a Georgia mill village will receive a bundle of 50 Daily Workers for one week. To the Daily, Worker: 26 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Here is my answer to the appeal of the southern mill workers for the Daily Worker. I know that they must have the Daily, and so I send my contribution to the “Rush the Daily Worker to the Southern Mill Workers” Drive. Name ...cseeseereseeeeee Address .....+ City TOW BOAT MEN EMPIRES CLASH OEMAND STRIKE AT AFL MEETING Misleader Mansvers to Ramsay Peeyed G Effect Sellout Green ; Over a thousand towboatmen,| TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 6.—The members of the Associated Marine American Federation of Labor Con- Workers, gathered at Palm Garden’ vention opens here tomorrow, with yesterday afternoon to take a strike | President William Green and and all vote. They yelled for a strike while the “fat boys” already on the ground Capt. Maher, union czar, refused to} and preparing for the annual denun- put the question officially to the ciation of the “R eds’ who think vote, and finally succeeded in put-/ the workers should fight the bosses ting’ the sell-out machinery in mo-|for better wages and conditions, tion by stalling off any action until| whereas the offcial A, F. L. policy another meeting scheduled for next is that they shoul dtake a few wage (Continued on eas Two) cuts’ now and then, in order to pre- x Bi sent a united front with the bosses in the coming imperialist war. | William Z. Foster, general secre- | tary of the Trade Union Unity Lea- | gue, will be the main speaker in op- | position to these policies at a great | mass meeting Wednesday, under the auspices of the T. U. U. L. and the Trade Union Edueational League of ; |Canada. There the program of mili-| {tant struggle, real industrial unions | controlled by workers instead of by | | ganization of the unorganized, who | are left to be exploited by the A. F. . L., will come up. Empires Clash. Green is angry at the attitude of British imperialisms champion in America, Prime Minister MacDon- ‘ald o fthe British labor party. J | ‘Three tele grams sent to MacDon- ald recently by Green were answered by otherwise unknown secretaries, who said that “unfortunately the Prime Minister’s time is all taken | up, without a minute to spare, by | those arranging his tour, and he | cannot greet the convention in per- and workers at Stockerau, Brunn, Numer- Army when they invaded the Soviet frontier under shelter of Chinese | snub the staunchest supporters of a afire. * 4 FASCISTS ATTACK U. S. SEAMEN. 4 LONDON, Oct. 6—Dispatches from Italy’s frontier tell of commo- ‘on at Genoa, when several members of the crew of the U. S. steamer ‘sident Van Buren wewre injured in a clash with fascists. in a small quarrel, the dispatch states the Americans were forced ve to repel attack of a hundred fascists, including fascist militia. | ascist was killed and Stephen Edwin, Baltimore seaman, seriously * | rival imperialism. Council of the A. F. L. has before (Continued on Page Three) | Begin- Build Up the United Front of | the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! ’ makes it | Foster to Expose Both | a treacherous bureaucracy, and or- | In addition to that, the Executive | NMU LEADS FIGHT STRIKE DF “00 CONTRADICT FIRST TESTIMONY WHILE TRYING TO IMPROVE IT; DUFFY AND NEAL BOUGHT OUTRIGHT BY BOSSES drivers en- | | | t FLIERS SAFE IN | GRAIG, ALASKA Motors Die in Storm; | Plan Chicago Greet CRAIG, Alaska, Oct. 6.—Two of |the four Soviet aviators making a 12,500 mile flight from Moscow to New York in the monoplane Land of |the Soviets, missing since Thursday |when it left Sitka for Seattle, made |their way to this tiny settlement on the Prince of Wales Island on Sat- jurday. They reported the plane had | been forced down by motor trouble | at Waterfall, 12 miles north of here, | after its crew had narrowly escaped | disaster, | Flying only a few feet above the water, with a severe electrical storm SLASH PROGRAM TIES UP MARE T If They'd Fight of Bosses Militants Watching | Break Picket-Linie to lea dthe miners of the P. & W. (ae of this mine is testing | when the market truckmen’s asso- | Brotherhood of \depending on how the workers act. | 202, flatly refused the drivers’ de- wage in the form of a cut in yard-| Twenty-five stable stewards were | ters per yard. When this cut was|immediately after out. All of the entry men refused to (Continued on ee hee Two) | ferred them to rooms and pillars and | Local Union 104, National Miners’ | | question of wage cut. This special | |Governor’ s y Message Is 1—Bhat the threat of the coal (Continued on Page ae Over the signature of Bill Dunne, statement from the Party was issued - i Reduced hee of Union Leaders Will Be te | Bomghh Ort, Hint il '‘Retreated | Temporar Yi Lose $400,0¢ 000 Daily Give Men Other Jobs; | Walker Sends Police to| AVELLA, Pa., Oct. 4—The Na-| 7 ts sucand tuck tional Miners’ Union stands ready; TW° thousand “true gaged in transporting fruit and pro- mine here in active strike against | duce from the railroad terminals of the wage ut policy of the bosses. The | Ne wYork went on strike Saturday out the resistance of the men with | ciation, following a week of daily a form of wage cut which they can | negotiations with representatives of retreat from, or pres sto a logical|the International | conclusion, whichever they wish, and | Teamsters and Chauffeurs, | On Sept. 19th the entry men in| mands for an eight-hour day and the P. & W. mine learned that a|time and a half for overtime. age has taken place. The cut was|awaiting the return of the union \for 60c. to loaders and 10c. for cut-|delegates at the local offices, and | conifrmed by the Pitt boss a large }outcome of the negotiations, which number of the entry men walked|came to an end at 2.30 Saturday af- | work in the entries under this cut. | | The management immediately trans: | |tasted that the entries would shut COMMUNISTS HIT down f or a year. Union, immediately called a special} GARDNER TERROR meeting to consider action on this | meeting of the local established fol- lowimg facts: War Declaration company to shut down the entries for a year is a bluff, as the miners; CHARLOTTE, N. C., Ost. 6.— representative of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, a here today on the reign of terror {against the textile strikers. |massacre, where workers were shot others murdered and wounded they retreated from a volley of shots and tear gas bombs fired by the deputies. J[t says: “Governor Gardner again appears, \this time in a more ambition scheme {of mass murder, as the state execu- tioner of the mill workers, as he (Continued on Page Two) Window Cleaners May Strike; Meet Tomorrow Night A general strike of all window cleaners of New York City cinity may be called soon if the win- do weleaning loyers persist in endangering their huge machine,| "fusing to consider the demands of blinded by rain and fighting a ter.|the Window Cleancrs’ Protective rifie wind, the airmen had managed! Union, it is announced. The “qu to cover 200 miles when the left |tion of a strike will be di motor. suddenly went dead. |2 meeting of organized and unor- Two of the fliers remained with ganized workers tomorrow night at| the Land of the Soviets, which was |7-20 at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E.| moored after considerable difficulty | Fourth St. in the heavy wind, the others setting| The chief deniands of the union} out for ai Resumption of the are the 40-hour, five-day week, an for a week while the left motor is | to $49.50, adequate compensation in- replaced and the. right repaired with | surance, the provision of proper saf- parts which will be shipped from | ety de vices and equal division of Seattle. lwork in slack penede: MacDonald Honored by His King — Ramsay MacDonald, whose career has now been crowned “by the great honor of a telegram from Hih Majesty”—a typical court sycho- | phant’s phrase, such as the courtiers of the Czar were wont to mouth— began his political life as a candidate for parliament of the bourgeois Liberal Party. H In all his activities and writings his specific function has been by suave, by hypocritical, high-sounding banalities to inject bourgeois ideology into the heart of the workers’ movement. He is now fighting for’ the maintenance of the empire of his masters, faithfully doing their bidding, shooting down Arabs in Pales- tine, brutally suppressing the struggles of the Indian workers and peasants, training the naval cadets of Chiang Kaisshek to make him a more efficient hangman of the Chinese revolution. In this he only puts into practice the theory which he already developed more than twenty years ago: wwhen at the international socialist congress at | Stuttgart in 1907 his spreading of opportunist poison inside the Sec- ond International showed itself in the proposal to recognize the “civiliz- ing influence” of imperialism in the colonial countries. MacDonald has had the opportunity to see his theories put into practice. Those of hsi admirers in the United States who have the same social reformist theories—the Hillquits, Mustes, Norman Thom- ases—would surely, in similar circumstances ,also give orders for shoot- ing down workers and farmers and so carry out the “civilizing mission” of United States imperialism, H But it is not necessary to wait for any such hypothetical future to see wither the theories of the socialist party lead. Already by their activities in support of the A. F. of L., b ytheir attitude in Gastonia, in Marion, Elizabethton, and by their uniting with Tammany police and gangsters’ in fascist drives against the working class of New York they have shown themselves to be the accomplices of the bourgeoisie. Local | hearing of the! It calls attention to the Marion | in the back for the most part, and | as | Seattle hop will probably be halted increase of minimum wage from $45 | Released Gastonia Defendants Actively Building Organization to Save Fellow Workers; Buch, Shechter, Melvin at Meetings U. T. W. Misleaders Seek to Compromise Strike; Appeal to Gov ernor Who Is Mill Boss and Enemy of Wor kers, to “Investigate’ ORGANIZERS IN NTWU Plan to Defeat Bosses’ Drive RALEIGH, N. C., Oct. 6—A mass protest meeting here to- day against the murder of Ella | May at Gastonia and the five strikers slain in the Marion HALLER had as speakers Vera | Buch and George Saul. | recently released from a murder charge in the Gastonia case. While the Manville-Jenckes prosecution is |trying to railroad the seven defend- ants in Charlotte, their released comrades are carrying on organiza- tion work among the southern work- ers. Saul appealed for support for the, International Labor Defense against the bosses’ terrorism. | Buch attacked the United Textile Workers for the appeal of their of- |ficials to Governor Gardner Satur- {day that he investigate the Marion massacre. She pointed out that a big mill owner, who |giv s the signal for each new ter- {ror with his proclamations for each new revival of lynch gangsterism and black hundred’s operations, is an enemy of the workers. U. T. W. Gang Fails. A meeting was ‘held Saturday night in Greenville, at which Sophie Melvin, Wm. Murdock, and Phifer spoke in the outdoors as all halls (Cont aned on Page Two) BOSSES, FASCISTI SUPPORT WALKER Organi is — Fur, yarment Workers 7A and vi-{ Notorious exploiters of garment, fur and marine work |ized boss committees inte a Garment, |Industries League with the avowed |purpose of bulldozing and duping {the workers of their respective in- Tam- in the | dustr into supporting the \many gigolo Mayor Walker |forthcoming municipal elections, was admitted by Benjamin Schreiber, manager of the democratic cam- paign, on Saturday. “Fifteen prominent shipping men” have followed suit with a so-called Maritime Committee of the Port of New York, mittee, whose members include some of the wealthiest fur merchants in the city, will do all in its power to line up the fur workers, forcefully if necessary, for the ticket of the corrupt democratic party. fe That thes taaciall fusdgnize tnlthe sporty Walker a fellow champion of reaction is indicated in the an- nouncement that the leaders of the \Italian-American democratic clubs lof Bronx have endorsed his can- didacy. Wm. Sirovich, congressional repre- sentative and president of the Indus- trial National Bank, has been made chairman of the committee arrang- ing a “non-partisan” testimonial dinner to be given for Walker at the Central Plaza on Oct. 27. A parade which will follow the\and are displaying great militancy, catiing “is intended as a pageant to/| union officials bbs yesterday, dinner illustrate the contributions of the | Walker administration toward the | development of the East Side,” Ben- |jamin Greenspan, corporation law- jyer on the committee, announced. It is safe to assume that workers' organizations supporting the Com- munist Party, the only political | party fighting for the interests of ithe wi ng class and against the ‘capitalist trin the republican, | democratic and socialist parties, will ‘not be asked to testify to how the ; Tammany gang has “developed” the \crowded working class sections of lthe East Side, | TEXTILE MEET) Buch was! e organ- it | The Fur Industry Com- | || Marion Massacre | Pleases President | of Textile Mill MARION, NC. (F.P. Son, you say there were 60 to 75 shots | fired?” parried Pres. Baldwin of the Marion Mfg. Co., interviewed | |by your correspondent on the | |massacre ot Oct. 2. “Well, if | there were, V'll say the sheriff }and his men were good marks- | | men, “If eved I organize an army, | \they can have jobs with me.| | There was three tons of lead} jused in the world war to kijl jevery man. Here we used less than five poundss and four are {dead and 20 wounded. Damn / | good, I say.” This statement was made to| | the reported on the night of Oct. 3 by Pres. Baldwin in the pres- ence of four newspaper men. quotation, in the above words, | MUST INCREASE MASS PRESSURE : Unconditional Release ‘Is I. L. D. Demand Mass working class pressure to secure the release of all the Gas- tonia prison is reflected in united front campaigns, bazaars and other local drives which are being organ- ized throughout the country. The renewed activity is one result of the last meeting of the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Committee. “Build broaded Gastoni confer. ences! Speed the literature of the Gastonia campaign! Hold mass demonstrations! Hold mass meet- nigs, distribute literature and make collections at factories!” were a few of the instructions the committee sent out t am and letter to the hund of Interr mal Labor Defense, Workers International Re- lief and National Textile Workers Union secretaries throughout the land. The reduction of cha s to s ond degree and the dismissal of teen defendants was a ruse in order to disarm the working class protest )- and more readily railroad the maining seven defendants to year prison terms, This fact y (Continued on Page Two) Elbee Shop Lock-Out Follows Jailing of 2 Unionists, Violations | Culminating a series of flagrant violations of their agreement with the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, the Elbee Shoe Co., 449 Trautman St., Brooklyn, locked out its fifty workers Saturday causing the arrest of C. j union organizer, and shop commi tee, chairman Gardian for “disor- derly conduct.” The immediate cause of the lock- out was the shop committee’s de- |mand for the discharge of a non- union worker. The bosses, despite the closed shop agreement, refused. | The arrested workers, who were held for $1,000 bail, will be given a The | | was ee for southern ern papers. ! , will after | Lippa, a) CAN'T AGREE ON VITAL DETAILS |Slip Shows “Polise Had Plot to be Called In BU 1h The labor Jury provided for by the Trade Union Unity Cony at Cleveland to attend the tonia case trial and render a ver- dict to the workers of the world, left New York for Charlotte, S. Saturday night. Southern workers ern workers, representing several industries. Theer are two Negro workers included. It consists of six and six North- * CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct 6. The mill bosses’ prosecution attempt tomorrow and Tuesday, with the testimony of |their few remaining perjurers, to railroad to prison sentences which are merely slow death, Fred Er Beal, Louis McLaugh- in, W McGinr »seph Har- rison, K. Y. Hendricks and Clarence Miller, leaders of the south ganization drive of the Natic Textile Workers’ Union, and Gas tonia strikers, The police who accompaniéd Chief Aderholt on his raid on the Workers International Relief Tent Colony at Gastonia, June 7, will tell over again the stories they offered the jury in the first trial, the mis- trial. in lect” Jury. Three-quarters of the jury in that trial came voluntarily to the defend- ants after they were discharged and declared they never would have con- ected anybody on such obviously false stories. But this is another jury, selected from among non- workers by judicial order, and with only 28 peremptory challenges al lowed the defense, instead of the 16 they had at the first Charlotte trial. The prosecut evidence will all be in by after which the defense will put on sonfething over a hundred witnesses. The prosecution ta ties with its evidence. Witnesses Saturday freely changed the testi- mony they gave at the first Char- lotte trial. great liber- Twist Previous Evidence, Mrs. Connie Neal, who operated a ‘ding house in Gastonia on June told again her story of K. Y. Ken- running into the house after the shooting, and saying that Ader- fGontinvedt on Page Three) FAMOUS WRITERS AID 7 ON TRIAL The Central Committee Workers’ International Relicf Berlin has ied a call among w famous intellectuals and writer pport of the Ga Among those who call are Upton Sinclair, Maxim Gorki, Henri Barbusse, Lind- hagen Prof, Alfred Goldschmidt and in the name of the Central Commi*- of the in rd for tonia strikers. have signed the hearing in the Gages Ave. court this morning and will be defended by a LS.W.U, lawyer. Their fellow work- ers are picketing the shop en masse ‘Protest Mill Terror at Baltimore Meeting | BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 6.—Roth- |schild Francis, Negro editor of the |“Liberator,” of the Virgin Islands, | will speak at a mass meeting to pro- test against the mill owners’ reign of terror in the Gastonia and Marion strike areas at 1619 Druid Hill Ave. at 8 p. m. tomorrow night. Francis recently served 15 months imperialism, in jail for his exposure of American | i (Continued on Page Two) e of the W. I. Georg Ledebour and Willi M enberg, Erwin Piscator, known as the most modern prod openly advo- a revolutionary stage as a | Weapon of the ce struggle, has called on various American writers to show “that the intellectual work- I re forming one united front to give a voice to their indi Gerhard Pohl, German writer and biographer of Upton Sinclair, also sent a telegram to Upton Sinclair which reads in part, “16 arrested textile workers are threatened by the same fate as met Sacco and Van zetti. . . the prosecution has proposed the death penalty. We must rouse the world conscience, The irght of mankind is at stake.” In Berlin a meeting of the shop )