The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1929, Page 1

See Se ea THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered as ans matter at the Host Office at New York, N.Y ander the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY Vol. VI., No. 183 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Compnay. inc. 26-28 Union Square. New York City, N. ¥. <=. _ NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per yea’ ‘nad Price 3 Cents - —————— LABOR JURY THRO WN OUT OF GASTO MACDONALD KIDS ‘Adopt Southern Mill Village! SENATORS ARNT Rush the Daily Worker South! Eypey 1 INgIS STRIKE SPREADS; COMING CONFLICT *Tt’s) Unthinkable” of Course; Speech: Does Nothing to Stop It 5-Power Meet Called. Larger Naval States to Try Cheat Each Other SHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7.— MacDonald came down conference with the spokes- man of American imperialism in ‘the White House today to make a speech abeut war to the Senate. H> was allowed to stand in the vice-p dent’s place, and the sena- tors of course applauded when Mac- Donald said: “Speakers of our coun- tries innumerably have said: war between Great Britain and the United States is unthinkable.” MacDonald praised the Kellogg pact and lauded Streseman, Nothing About Cruisers. He did not talk about any of the details of the naval bargain on which the United States and Britain are still _ deadlocked. He referred to other nations’ probable suspicions or s his visit to U and insisted that the new peac atmosphere meant they had nothing to worrk about. The senate heard him, but will not _ change its naval policy on that ac- count, more than British imper- ialism will change its. Invitations to the Five Power Con- ference to meet in January were is- sued in London, about the time of the Premier’s visit. It will be com- posed of U. S., France, England. and Itely. Details will be d tomorrow, May Arbitrate Curtis Sister. It was unofficially stated here to- day that MacDonald and Hoover had of the -American arbitration tre thod of preventing war, this is perfec innocuous, for it everything that It of- cludes from the field of ell questions affecting s, domestic interests, the League of Na- , and MacDonald is out for a clause to inter-relations of the ses against the jo efforts of the employers, the gove ment and the union bur building trad showing exemplary solidarit; h sympathy strikes on many building jobs to force removal of scab plum- bers. eevee JOBLESS RESENT LIES. VIENNA, Oct. 7.—Tuesday, even- in= ceveral hurdred unemployed demonstrated before the of- the “Steierer Zeitung” in protest at the papcr’s slander that the unemployed did not want work,| but wanted to. prowl the streets.! Threatening to storm the building, | a editors were forced to promise | withdrawal of the slander. | “8 #® | UNITED PRONT FROM BELOW.| BRUSSELS, Oct. 7.—A miners’| delegate conference was held at Jumet, near Charleroi, under aus- pices of the Knights of Labor and the Belgian Communist Party, where decision was made for a fight for wage increases and improved working conditions over the heads of reformist union leaders who con- tinually sabotage miners’ struggle. ° Workers, Organzations “Rush the Daily to Sou Adopt a southern mill village! From the workers of scores of linas, from Georgia, Alabama, Tenn far-off Texas, appeals, swelling into tinue to come to us. Must Give at Once to thern Workers” Drive mill towns and villages of the Caro- essee and West Virginia, even from demands for the Daily Worker con-_ The southern mill workers of practically every mill center in these states, flooded with the vicious, murder-inciting stonia Gazette, re- fuse to read that sheet which they know as the organ of the mill owners, their foes. They demand instead, the Daily Worker. For with the fighting reputation of the National Textile Workers Union, has spread to every corner of the South, word of the “union paper”—the Daily Worker. From Gastonia, word of the fighting union and the fighting paper have spread to every corner of the South. Preparing for one of the greatest struggles in the history of the American workers, the mill workers of the South demand that the Daily Worker come to them. They demand bundles of the Dai the Daily Worker must reach the ily Worker. Ten thousand copies of southern mill workers every day! The class-conscious workers will not turn a deaf ear to the demands of these latest participants in the c! lass struggle. They must rush their contributions to the “Rush the Daily Worker to the Southern Mill Workers” Drive. All workingelass organizations once! must do their part as well—and at Every unit of the Communist Party, every local of the International Labor Defense, every council of the Workingclass Women, every mili- tant local union, and other workingclass groups, must adopt a mill village of the South! Larger groups must adopt a m ill town! This important duty must be carried out at once! For $2.50 a week. a bundle of mill village for a week. 25 Daily Workers can be sent to a For $5 a week a bundle of 50 Dailies can he sent to a mill village for a week. For $10 a week, a bundle of 100 Dailies will reach, the workers of a southern mill center for one week. “We can’t put up no longer with the stretchout system in the Spartan Mill, but we don’t hardly know what to do without the union— and the union paper,” writes a worker in Spartansburg, S. C. What answer to this worker? * To the Daily Worker: 26 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Here is my contribution with which T want mill workers. Daily Worker sent to the southern Name .. Address and State workers there are supplied with every day for............ weeks. * * hh to adopt a southern mill town or village, and see to it that the copies of the Daily Worker We inclose $ end us the name of the mill village or city assigned to us, vish to communicate with th’ workers there. H SOAB TW Toronto Convention to! Fight Textile Workers TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 8.—The iUe NTO UNION IN BIGGEST SHOPS Organize; Convention Srheduled Feb. 1 DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 7.—Fol- PART OF UMWA Graft Charges: Suits, and Ultimatums Are Order of the Day Farrington Readmitted Miners Joining N.M.U. | Fight Both Machines | SPRINGFIELD, Il, Oct. 7.—The | National Miners Union becomes more and more the hope of the coal »viners in these fields, and locals spring up in one town after another. even though the United Mine Work- ers of America makes ;wage cutting contracts with the bosses and in- stitutes the check-off. The miners | regard the check-off as so mvch re- | duction in theirtwages, and go ahead | to join the N. M. U. Meanwhile, the U. M. W. A. pro- ceeds through a fight between two gangs of misleaders each of which wants whatever spoils are left, i cluding the rich monopoly of the sell-out to the bosses, to split. | Practicat Split. Some compromise may yet be af- fected, but a practical split ex today between the Harry Fishwick, District 12 machine and the Lew machine, which controls the inter- national fofice of the union. Lewis last week sent what amounts to an ultimatum to the II- linois (District 12) executive board, demanding that they either approve 4000 OUT TODAY Secret Deals, Embargo, Price Boosts Used Against Men Out-of-Town Walkouts LEWIS READY TO FRUIT TRUCKERS COMES BACK AND STAYS: TW ih NIA CASE COUR 0 NEGRO WORKERS ON IT; ROACH, WITNESS FOR PROSECUTION, EXPOSED AS RAPIST State’s Perjurers Contradict Each Other in Effort to Involve Beal and Buch in “Conspiracy”; Can’t Agree on Words Used in Speech tips Solidarity Pledged by, Marion Striker Testifies Sheriff, Owner Called to Scabs, Then Began Peau ab: The Pennsylvania and Erie r lroads, the two lines hardest hit | the strike of 2,000 fruit and vege-| table truckmen, yesterday thr ened to place an embargo on all pe! ishable foodstuff unless the strikers ‘returned to work this morning. With |sympathy walkouts swelling the vanks of the strikers to 4,000, mil- lions of dollars worth of produce rot- ting in freight terminals and ship- |ping yards and other carloads ar- riving hourly to further clog the market, the strikers at a late hour Hast night were maintaining a stran- gle hold on the situation despite the veiled boasts of bi truckmen on nday that the cl: collaboration- yist leaders of the strike would be bought off. The move of the rail- road magnates was a last desperate move to break the strike. jwho went out on Saturday, twice that many freight handlers and rail- road workers were idle yesterday, while 700 more teamsters and chauf- jfeurs, working at the Harlem Mar- ket, quit in sympathy with the mem- In addition to the 2,000 truckers | or denounce the suit filed by A. C.|bers of Local 202 of the Interna- Lewis, chief counsel for District 12, 'tional Brotherhood of Teamsters and against John L. Lewis. for libel. If|/Chauffeurs, and another group of they don’t denounce it, they are con-/500 Newark men, affiliated with | (Continued on Page Two) NEEMIE WARKERS PONFER TONIGHT “Gastonia Meeting at Irving Plaza While needle trades workers here are holding their Gastonia confer- ence tonight in Irving Plaza, and similar conferences are being held throughout the country, word was y from Great Britain there holding demonstra- 2 the remaining seven ke est maneuver of the textile in freeing 16 of the 23 de- fendants, in order more easily to} Local 308, were called out last night. The Jersey City and Hoboken mar- kets were already tied up. The strike spread to as far out of town as Newburgh, N. Y., where (Continued on Page Two) TUGMEN REBEI. 0} UMION SELL-OUT Howl Down Misleader to Vote Strike Flinging the tacslor Cant dictator of the Workers, charg: sell out the proected s' rike of the towboatmen, 140 workers employed ; by the Dalzell owing Co. at a spon- taneous meeting held on the docks BULLETIN, (Wireless By Inprecorr) Tear Gassing Pickets, Followed With Volley of Shots MOSCOW, Oct. 7.—The Red International of Labor Unions has issued an appeal to the workers of the whole world, urging their support to the Gastonia textile workers. The appeal describes the case of those now on trial, and the latest developments, drawing a parallel between the Gastonia de- fendants and the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, concluding: “Help the textile workers smash United UTW CHIEFS ASK FOR MILITIAMEN Wants Troops to Guard House; Strike Goes On MARION, N. Y., Oct. 7.— Judge W. F. Harding today continued his hearing of the witnesses to the slaughter of five strikers and wounding of many more before the gates |of the Marion Manufacturing Co. here Wednesday. judge and the state prosecutors, more strikers testified to the brutal, and unprovoked assault of the po- lice on the mass picket line at the Marion mill, and told of the firing} “Shooting Off Gas.” Bradley, striker, the first witness, described the scene in front of the mill. “When I got there,” he said, “the law was inside the mill gate and there was a crowd in the road.” In spite of every effort of the| Save these workers from the capitalist murderers.” o “Things That Bring Tears’ | In Mill Town The following leter is from a |worker in a mill in a village located |about 150 miles from Gastonia. His story of unbelievable misery suffered by the mill workers in his townw will show to every worker the necessity of organizing these |workers for the coming great strug- gle in the South, and for sending | copies of the Daily Worker to every mill town and village in the South. | iret oe Dear Friend: I am writing you a few lines to let you know that I got those papers all O.K, and was glad to get them. But listen, don’t you send any more {to ——. So write your speaker in |Charlotte to write no more to ——, |N. C. The boss is watching and the one that looks after the company stor is postmastr also. So you send ;my mail to |the reds. | Ihave got a wife and six children . I am a friend to} WORKERS ANGRY ATLIES TOLD | Audience in Courtroom |Denounces Prosecution CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 7. —The labor jury sent by the {Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention to observe the Gas- |tonia case trial a render a ver- dict t» the working class, was |thrown out of the court room this morning. Just before the court convened, they took seats. The court attend- ant immediately told the Negro workers, Sol Harper and Charles Frank, that Negroes were not per- mitted to sit with white workers and that they would have to go to the balcony, where Negroes are usually | Jim Crowed. The whole labor jury |arose in a body as a protest against this racial discrimination and started |to the balcony. Bar Negroes, Before they could get seats there, }another attendant rushed up and “T heard Sheriff Adkins say for|and I have not got any money, and|told them that the judge had ruled say for anyone who wanted to go to work to come on.” would do. | | You know I have worked at the vone to stand back and I heard|if they were to throw me out now | that for this trial no Negroes would Adam Hunt who is mill foreman|I would not know hardly what I} be allowed in the court room at all, either in the balcony or downstairs. When the white workers of the “Then Adkins and Allie Stephen| mills all my life. I went to work |!abor jury protested against this, George Jonas raise his stick like he was going to hit the sheriff but I|thing, and I have lived hard at my| didn’t see him hit him, “Then I heard a shot. It wa: from down where the law was in railroad to 30 years imprisonment |jast night voted for the fourth time|the gate. the remaining seven leaders has to strike for a $25 mnothly pay in-| |stayed right there. fooled no workers. Internationally, | crease, time and a half for overtime “T thought it was a blank and I| Then there was as well as nationally, the mass pro-/and Sundays off, abrogating the|a lot of shooting and I saw Sam test increased in volume. rallying workers to even greater efforts to save the seven prisoners annual report of the executive coun-| lowing the election of officers for who are in greater danger than cil of the A. F. L., to the convention ‘the National Provisional Committee, ever before, reports the following ance at the meeting in a last minut work is booming for the organiza- great activity throughout the land. effort to hamstring the rebellious which started today in this city, | ims the strike breaking, sell-out activity of United Textile Work- ers’ Union in Elizabethon and Marion as “an outsanding labor de- velopment of the year.” The report was drafted by William Green, who personally directed the attempt to main emphasis on the organization , sell out the New Orleans street car- of gepartment committees and shop | men’s strike several weeks ago. The report makes false claims to a gain in membership. According | to the figures given, the A. F. L. (Continued en Page Two) STRIKE IN BELGIAN CONGO. BRUSSELS, Oct. 7.—Reports here say that a powerful strike movement is on in Brazzaville, Congo, of Chi- nese workers. Thirty Chinese have been artested, Experts Assert Biro-Bidjan Better Home Than Palestine Jewish Aut onomous Republic in Soviet Union Is Magnificent, Rich Land The Icor American commission of agricultural and engineering ex- perts to Biro-Bidjan, the newly pro- claimed autonomous Jewish republic in the Soviet Union, have completed their investigation and will leave Moscow for New York within a few days, according to Ab. Epstein, act- ing secretary of Icor, 799 Broadway, | better Siberia June 25. Advance advices from Moscow, | Epstein says, indicate that the ex- ports’ report will be a positive one. | In a conversation with the Moscow representative of Icor, Professor Franklin 8. Harris, head of the com- mission, said that Biro-Bidjan is a place, agriculturally and the American organization for Jew- | otherwise, for the establishment of Be intaion: in Soviet Ru: 1 -|a Jewish homeland than Palestine, ithe tion of a militant National Auto Workers Industrial Union. The union’s present form is being completely reorganized. The Pro- visional Committee is placing its locals and the present old A. F. L. structure is being entirely elimin- (Continued on Page Two) New York Active. | Representatives from all needle trades, cloak-makers, dress- makers, furriers, cap and millinery makers, will attend the meeting to- night at Irving Plaza. The needle (Continued on Page Two) Window Cleaner Killed Workers Meet Tonight ‘Women Workers Back T° Consider Walk-Out Communist Party in jdfike Iwaskiw, 38, a window Oct. 17 Gastonia Meet one” was killed when he fell yes- New York working women will demonstrate in solidarity with the Gastonia strikers while pledging their support to the Party which consistently champions their inter- ests—the Communist Party—at a mass meeting at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St., at 8p. m. Thursday, Oct. 17. . | The necessity of supporting the _Communist candidates—William: W. | Weinstone, for mayor; Otto Hall, for comptroller; and Harry M. | Wicks, for aldermanic president— will be explained by prominent Par- ty leaders, “Not only in Gastonia, but right here in New York, workers who struggle for better conditions are cruelly attacked and terrorized by the united forces of the bosses, the parties, and the reactionary labor fakers of all stripes,” the Party de- clares in its al for mass sup- jterday afternoon from the fifth \story of the building at 32 Union Square where he was working. |Though still alive when picked up and rushed to the New York Hospi- |tal he died there shortly afterwards. |He leaves a widow and three small jchildren who are without means of | support. | A Ukrainian, Iwaskiw was a mem- ‘ber of Window Cleaners Protective Union, Loal 8, for many years and |was one of its most militant mem- (Continued on Page Two) ATTENTION C P MEMBERS We have on Fraction files a num- |now 32, and I never have saved any- | table and wore always sorrow cloth- ing. Now my health is gone because lof being overworked. . Now the man I worked for is rich, and what chance have I in life? The | reds is on the right side after all. My friend, I would like to sit and |‘“decision” to delay action which was| Vickers fall dead. Then I knew it] tai with - ; The International Labor efense,|railroaded through at a general | wasn’t blanks they was shooting and Bou Cie nope enuaten you |mmebership meeting of the union \held on Sunday. When Maher put in his appear- IT ran.” “Who did you see shooting?” sked the solicitor. saw Broad Robbins, Forest h, Ed Cannon, Jim Owen, Webb union mémbers, he was met with a|Fender and that light headed man (Continued on Page Three) FOOD WORYERS ~ DEVELOP UNION Plan Mass Meets to Aid Organization | A plan to develop organization of ‘cafeteria workers was decided last ‘night at a meeting of the Executive Board of the Hotel, Restaurant and yOafeter'a Workeys’ Union at 183 W. dist St. On recommendation of the Exec- utive, the question will be put to the union rembersiip meeting at head- quarters next Friday night. The de- cision followed reports by organi- zers Michael Obermeier and Denis | Gitz. Wide circulation of leaflets ex- plaining present conditions in unor- ganized cafeterias and the neessity ‘of remedying the mthrough union the Volley of curses, fancy names and'sitting over in the corner,” he said. U.T.W. Still Misleading. | The ‘United Textile whose officials sold the strikers into a blacklist agreement Workers, ing to lead the renewed strike which was initiated with the Marion mas- sacre. Francis J. Gorman, who Sat- urday offered the Marion Mafufac- | turing Co, a compromise settlement, today called a conference of his fel- low bureaucrats in Marion to dis- |about things that I have come thru jin life. Say, I can tell you things |that if you got any heart at all it will bring tears in your eyes. Say, the half has never yet been told. | No longer than last winter I saw them lay and die with bloody mat- \ter running out of their mouth and | the company would not let them | Store, neither would they let them | would tell them, if they got well and Marion | have anything to eat out of their several weeks ago, are still pretend- | have coal to make them a fire. They.| :|began shooting off gas and I saw|when I was seven years old, I am|the flunkey threatened them all with arrest, and drove them out. This afternoon the labor jury jagain took seats, and have succeed- ed thus far in remaining. The labor jury issued a statement as follows: “The inclusion of Negro workers demonstrates the absence of racial prejudice among the white workers who elected them, and also sup- |ports the campaign to organize the |southern mill workers and millions of exploited Negro workers, | bosses have gone to extreme lengths to divide the ranks of the workers by appeals to religious and racial |prejudice. This must be combatted with determination. The workers’ interests are the same, whether they are white or black. Victory requires a united front of all races against | the bosses, and their agents.” Besides Harper, who represented |the Trade Union Unity League, and | went back to work, then they would| Frank, who represented the Amer- | get some more. But lots of them died for the need of things they could not get. Say, what I am telling you is the |truth and I can prove it. Say, be ican Negro Labor Congress, the |labor jury consisted of Leo Hoff- bauer, representing the Iron and |Bronze Workers’ Union, New York; F. P. Cush, American Association of cuss the situation, sure and don’t put my name to any-| Steel and Tin Workers’ Union, Pitts- | One of them, William Ross, has |thing yet and send my mail to Rock- | burgh; Henry Buckley, International allowed his friends to appeal for a ingham, N. C., and don’t send any Shoe and Leather Workers, New Pe ar Air ar iedice \activities will preface a mass meet- (because of, wrong address. This jing in the near future, a |would necessitate a check up thru | Over 2,000 workers joined the \the units which would take too long. | union in the recent stsike Obermeier We therefore call upon all com- jand Gitz reported. However, they government, the capitalist political | races who have received no letters for the meeting of the various T. \U. U. L. Fractions, to immediately send in their addresses to the Jn- | admitted tha tthe union had made tactical mistakes which will not be repeated in future struggles. Long hours, low pay and speed-up create on guard of militia around his house. Chief among the new+detpils. of the events of Wednesday morning | (Continued on Page Two) |more mail to | watching Yours truly, Kegemeomees) Drastic Wage Slashes Cut Mine workers are getting lower wages in Ohio than in any other im- portant coal state except Alabama, | Tennessee, or Virginia, says Anna Rochester, investigator for the Fed- erated Press, What the anti-union | drive 0 fthe operators and the sur- render of the J \the United ; meant Mine Workers in the pay envelopes of have the Miners Pay Thruout U. S. “All Fields Show Lower Wages in 1929 Years Previous than 5 | report issued b ythe U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, an d based on a payroll study made earl yin 1929. ‘In union cnd non-union territory alike, wage cuts have slashed the |minevs’ pay. What miner's and load- jers actually reeeived on the average period in 1924 and pay period in the first quarter of 1929 is sho Are on , for the boss is York; Ida Rothstein, Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, New York; Joe Golden, Marine Workers | League, New York; Daisy MacDon- ald, Gastonia; Taylor Shytle, Mada- denville; Charles Summey, Char- lotte; Wes Williams, Bessemer Citye Hubert Carroll, Forsythe, Ga. The testimony of state’s witnesses today was'as shaky and contradic- |tory as it has been since the begin- ning of the trial. This morning, A. C. Little, father of Mrs, Jenkins, | who testified yesterday, contradicted his daughter’s testimony on a minor point, but had learned his lines fair- ly well, otherwise. He told about seeing “scuffling between the offi- cers and the guard” immediately after the Aderholt raiding party ar- rived at the union lot. Then he said Continued on Page Three) VIENNA, Oct. 7.—Budapest re- cksonville scale by for each day's work during a day ports 2,5500 miners are striking for a wage increase | at Fungkirehen. The miners of the Salgotaryan dis- efstrike,