The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1929, Page 3

«| TwREaT oF Warships for “Lesser LONDON, Oct. 7—While Mac- Donald’s visit to Hoover played up to the whole world as “a step toward” disarmament, more cautiously stated as armament “re- duction,” the announcement by the Admiralty of what “may” be scrapped in the line of fighting ships, simultaneously conveys the idea that if America does not in this field, as Snowden said at the Hague when talking reparations, “give Britain her rightful place once more,” then the additional phrase used that new ships to re- place those to be scrapped will not be built “if” agreement is reached, acquires the character of a chal- lenge to American imperialism. It is also enlightening to note that the six ships of 6-inch gun class slated to play stage property role for scrapping in this pacifist farce «, built ships now off or soon to be off, the active list, while eleven more, which were launched early in the war, are also out-of-dated and slated in any event for early scrap- ping. In addition, the Admiralty’s an- nounced solicitude about what is to be done with the shipyards “in case of” building “no more” warships, re- veals that the intention is to build warships just the same, only they are said to be for “smaller naval powers”—with whom England can count, perhaps, in a war with Amer- iea—and elso construction of mer- chant vessels, which will not only inerease shipping competition with DRASTIC WAGE | CUTS IN COAL (Continued from Page One) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for 11 soft coal states. Average day’s pay of miners and loaders. 1924 1929 Alabama .. + $4.57 $4.03 Colorado + 7.23 6.18 Mlinois .. - 8.85 7.04 Indiana . - 8.56 6.83 Kansas .. + 9.52 5.03 Kentucy » 5.63 5.15 Ohio .. oo 4.87 Penna. (bituminous) 6.40 5.27 Tennessee . 4.08 3.86 West Virgi:. 6.10 5.35 Virginia » 465 4.30 Illinois and Indiana, in spite of drastic cuts unde rthe 1928 agree- ments, show a higher wage than Kentucky or West Virginia, but the difference is less than it was five years ago. And the miners in Ohio, the state where bituminous miners first organized a union now earn les son the average than the men in the non-union southern fields. Unemployment. Miners of the old central competi- tive field have not only faced the most drastic wage cuts, but they have seen the greatest number of men thrown permanently out of the coal industry during the past five years. In Illinois, Indiana and Penn- sylvania, four out of every ten work- ers employed in and about bitumin- ous mines in 1923 are no longer in the industry. Nearly 200,000 have been frozen out since 1923 and some 150,000 of these men were in these four northern states. Mines in Illi- nois, Indiana, and Ohio operate on the average less than 200 days in the year, so that even Illinois—which still leads the list with average earnings of $7.04 a day—does not give the miner’s family a living wage. | More Cuts Reently. y ‘ Meantime, important companies have put over further wage cuts in several states since the federal bureau gathered these wage figures early in 1929. In April, Pittsburgh Coal and Carnegie Coal bot posted reductions of 7 per cent and a wave of similar cuts swept the Pittsburgh district as other companies followed their example. and technicians, reported in August that a group of Ohio companies had just cut wages 10 per cent, And in the center of District 2, at least one important central Pennsylvania company—the Sonman Shaft, near Portage—has brought the inside day rate down from $6 to $5 and is paying outside day labor from 45 to 55 cents an hour. oe 8 N. M. U. Fights Cuts. The National Miners Union re- cently reported a series of wage cuts in mines around Pittsburgh, and is rallying the miners for a fight inst this continued drive of the loyers. At Avel'-, Pa., recently, the de- termined resistance of the miners, under the leadershi» of the N, M. U. has checked a threatened wage cut, and forced the employers of the P. & W. mire to put entry men whose wages were cut back to wor! in rooms at the old wage, is being| of “disarmament” are all pre-war) “Coal Age,” organ of operators j MORE ARMAMENTS IF AMERICA REJECTS ‘RIGHTS’ OF BRITAIN, SEEN IN ‘REDUCTION’ Challenge U. S. Imperialist Plan for 15 More| Cruisers, Regardless of “Accord” Powers” and Merchan Vessels, Equally War Preparations American merchant marine, but in addition, as everyone knows, mer- \chant ships are now all built for quick and simple transformation into fighting ships, being equipped with gun bases and other naval re- quirements. WORKERS ANGRY ~ATLIES TOLD Denounces Prosecution (Gontinued from Page One) and firing followed. | Little didn’t identify where the |firing came from or who shot first. Mrs. Little, who was on a porch across the street wiwth her husband, testified to the same effect. Try Dramatic Tricks. jpress the jury by dramatizing ho |Gilbert approached the gua, who ;pointed a gun at him, demanding he stop and show a warrant. The prosecution lawyer acted as Gilbert jand had Mrs, Little use a cane as a@ gun,.and point it at him as she said the guard threatened Gilbert |with it. Mrs, Gamble testified she was at home near the union lot, and saw the police get out of the automobile and walk on the union grounds. Her account of how Gilbert grappled with the guard, whom she couldn’t identify, differed from Mrs. Little’s account. She ran into her house at the first shot, which she said was fired i®to the air, and “shots fell upon her head from the sky as she fled for the house.” Mrs. George MacMahon said she went to the meeting June 7, and heard Buch say, “We have to fight to win this strike, and we’re going to pull those scabs out if it takes blood to do it” She als> oucted Beal as saying from the stand, “We're going down and beat hell out of the police and thugs. If they come up here, we’ll shoot, and shsot to kill.’ Would Convict on Perjury. It is almost entirely upon these distorted reports of perjured wit- nesses that the prosecution depends to prove conspira:} Several .aill workers who were in court this morning came out at noon recess boiling with rage. They stopped your cvrrespondent and said: “The Manville-Jenckes law- yers think that because they can buy wives of the scabs to swear to lies they will get the jury to believe it. We was there, and Beal and Vera di ii't say no sch words. they said was that the s should go to the mill and picket and try to pu!l the nigh. shift cut on strike. He said that we couldn't ex- pect the law to protect us against the Loray gang and we would have to protect vurselves. He never did say we shcvld kill anybody.’ Deputy Sheriff Upton tried to connect Miller with the cnospiracy by testifying that when he came to the union headquarters after the ;Shooting, Miller admitted ordering Aderholt off the lot and that Mil- ler had ammunition in his pockets. Policemen Roach and Gilbert were placed on the stand in the afternoon, and told approximately the same story as in the first Charlotte trial —the story that jury did not be- lieve. They claimed with some con- tradictions between them, that they went on the lot with Aderholt and that the strikers fired first. Gilbert denied the attack on the pickets, admits that he he saw Mc- | Audience in Courtroom | some one yelled, “Turn him loose,” | The prosecution attempted to im-| s|couldn’t ask questions regarding the Ginnis and McLaughlin only once _ Arabs Have Not Ended \Struggle Against the \British in Palestine JERUSALEM, Oct. 7—The mu- tual boycott by Arabs reflect the |latest hostility pervading Palestine, and it must be said that since the ‘abs constitute the enormous ma- jority of the population that the boycott is harder on the Jews than on the Arabs, It i as a revolt against Brit- list policy using the Zion- movement as an instrument, sther than comnig:from religious One of the secretaries ab executive states Arab demands as follows: “What we want from the British Government is a retraction of the Balfour declaration and the estab- lishment of a national democratic government here. Jews have always lived in this country and we are | willing to allow them here, but Pal- estine cannot become ‘the’ Jewish national home, for the land rightly belongs to us who have been living here for many centuries.” from the Arab executive which has betrayed the interests of the masses, and proves that mass feeling forces this much militancy in words. Ta view of MacDonald, the “La- the last Geneva conference, that his government recognizes the mandate |system and will uphold the Balfour |declraation, the struggle of Arabs in Palestine by no means can be considered “settled.” Neither, of course, would the program of the Arab executive settle it, excluding as it does the interests of the worker and peasant masses of both races. | efore, but nevertheless “identified” them as shooting. | Roach Was Grafter. | Attorney Jimison, for the defense, | brought out in cross examination | that while serving as special deputy |Roach was reported frequently to | Sheriff Ryan for taking graft. His favorite form of graft was to hold jup petting parties, and force them to put up ten or twenty dollars bond which he pocketed. This happen so frequently that the Sheriff pu licly rebuked him and finally dis- charged him. Was Raper, Too. Roach raped the daughter of R. P. Reynolds of Gwen, N. C., and the daughter of M. B. Spencer of Smprna, S. C. B. T. Behler took care of the Spencer girl during con- finement and several months sub- sequently, at Roach’s reduest. Beh- [ler was in court and stood up as Jimison asked Roach, “Didn’t you refuse to pay this man for the ex- penses of confinement of the girl whom you debauched?” Roach denied everything in his black record of crime and violence except that he admitted paying two heavy fines for bootlegging. A9mong other things he admitted that two autos belonging to him burned and he collected insurance. But he denied that he set fire to them for the nisurance. Hé admit- ted also that during the last trial, he had remarked in the court room, “These damned Russians ought to be shot for the stuff they are preach- ing. We don’t need no Russian atheists in North Carolina.” Admits Trying Shooting. “Then you tried on June 7 to shoot them?” asked Jimison. “Yes,” Roach answered. The judge ruled that the defense assault on Pedro Melton. Roach and Gilbert were drunk on the afternoon of June 7, and shot up a refresh- ment stand run by Melton, and tried to kill him. In the first trial, Roach and Gilbert blamed each other for starting the shootnig. However, the judge now says that s no longer denied that the| bor” imperialist, having declared at | |and aviation transport in the U. S. jculture by the use of tractors will put tremendous demands on the in-| court conclusively that Roach and | attack NEW BIG GAIN IN SOVIET OIL IS REPORTED (Record Output Aids Five-Year Plan | . Oil production in the Soviet Union )for the fiscal year ending Septem- ber 30, 1929, is estimated at 100,- |000,000 barrels, according to the |Amotorg Trading Corporation which has just issued a pamphlet entitled the “Petroleum Industry of the U. S. S. R.” in connection with the |Internationat Petroleum Exposition which is being held at Tulsa, Okla- |homa, from October 5 to October 12. |This production constitutes an all- time record for Russia and repre- sents an increase of 17 per cent| |over the previous year, and 49 per Jeent over the last pre-war year. | Refining and |production during the year, the |kerosene output, at 17,150,000 bar- \rels, showing an increase of 23 per jcent and gasoline, at 8,460,000 bar- rels, a gain of 28 per cent over the |preceding year. Oil exports conti- nued the rapid gain shown in 1928- 1929, an increase of 27 per cent over the preceding year and over 3% times the exports in 1913, Pur- |chases of American equipment for |the Soviet oil industry during the fiscal year just ended amounted to $9,600,000, this constituting the |most important class of machinery | purchases made for the Soviet Union Jin this country, The five-year plan for the deve- lopment of the oil industry recently ratified by the Soviet government, calls for doubling the production by |1932-33, the output for that year jbeing set at 26,000,000 tons. Re- | fining operations will be expanded | correspondingly, especially by the |eracking method. The capacities of |the recently completed Grozny- Tuapse pipe line and theBak of a new pipe line from the Caspian Sea to Moscow, will be begun. The rapid development of automobile S. R. and the mechanization of agri- dustry in the next few years. them, and thus part of their crim- inal record was excluded. It could not be shown before the Gilbert were drunk only a few hours before their raid on the tent colony without the story of the af- fair at Meltons. Plan Murder in Rosemary. A letter was received today from} an active union member in Rose-} mary. This worker had previously | written for an organizer. In the let- ter today he said that the mill su-| perintendent th had organized a gang the same as i nthe Loray mill, and had arranged with the police that when the National Textile Workers’ Union organizer arrived, | drilling operations | | It must be noted that this comes!kept pace with the increase in crude | Ba- | tum line, now nearing completion, | will be doubled and the construction | | as this would tend to incriminate | | | | } BIRO-BIDJAN IS RIGH COUNTRY Jewish Republic Found Better Than Palestine (Continued from Page One) which he also visited in his capacit as expert agriculturist. The commission is scheduled to arrive here on or about Octot 2. Their arrival will be followed by banquet at the Lincoln Hotel, Fri- day, October 25 and a mass recep- tion on Sunday October 27 at the Martin Beck Teatre. The National Geographical So- ciety, with headquarters in Wash- ington, D. C., has just issued a bul- letin which describes Biro-Bidjan as follows: “Marshy lowlands contrast with tall-wooded ranges and _ trecless plains with magnificent forests. Much of the scenery along the Amur River may achieve notoriety for its wild beauty when the country is bet- ter known to the world at large. “Nor is perpetual snow a charac- teristic of the region, Often for months during the winter there will be no snow at all The short sum- mers are comfortably warm. “There are rich agricultural dis- tricts in the province and gold is mined extensively, Coal has not been mined so much but there is an abundant supply.” Following the arrival of the com- mission the Icor will launch a cam- paign here to make the advantages 66 the law would disappear and leave | the feild clear to the mill gang to| the organizer and active) members, | | FAKE AMNESTY. | BELGRADE (By Mail).—On ac- | casion of the baptism of the third | son of King Alexander an amnetsy | was given for all offences punished by penalties up to two months’ im-| prisonment. The amnesty was not extended to political prisoners. The since they are under indictment, they must not be forced to testify, king offered his loyal subjects 28,- 000 orders instead. LENIN ON Fifteen cents at CLASS LITERATURE A Feature in the October Full Book Number of NEW MASSES workers book shop in the country WORKING COMPLETE TOUR FREE SOVIET VISAS The Oldest Travel Organization Send Tourists to the U. S. S. R. See...... SOVIET RUSSIA Be on the Red Square to Witness the Celebration of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOV. REVOLUTION °D95. Group Sails:—S,S, AQUITANIA—October 23 WORLD , TOURISTS to 175 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK Telephone: Algonquin 6656 — 8797 NEW YORK LONDON LENINGRAD MOSCOW Flatiron Building ENDORoE THE LL.D. DRIVE FOR 50,000 NEW MEMBERS” That is the gist of a resolu- tion passed yesterday by the National Textile Workers Union. The textile workers know who helped them best at PASSAIC NEW BEDFORD xASTONIA The Executive Committee of the National Textile Work- ers Union termed the I, L. D. indispensable in the struggle of labor against capital. The N.T.W.U, called on all members to join the I. L. D. Have You Joined Yet? New maneuvers in Gastonia to railroad seven leaders to living death in the jails of North Carolina must be met by redoubled efforts on the part of the working class. The campaign for the 50,000 new members will be over January 1 Bring Your Shopmates Have Them Join Up! Come hear the I. L. I. or- ganizers throughout the land. JULIET STUART POYNTZ, who was in charge of I. L. D. activities in the South, is now on a national tour. She will speak in MILWAUKEE to- morrow, 8 p. m, at Harmonie Hall, First Ave. and Mineral St. You will then hear the truth of the capitalist slught- er sin Gastonia and Marion. Fill out the following blank and become a member of the International Labor Defense. I want. to tional Labor find 25 cents, NAME ,.. ADDRESS CITY wsseeee tates International Defense 80 E. 11th St, New York City join the Interna; efense, Enclosed ns i als ___ BAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1929 _ a ————E—EE ro | Scrapping of Obsolete Warships Furnishes Pacifist Lie of Peace and Disarmament IN THE SHOPS ‘Exposes Sellout of Food Workers CZAR. DRENNEN Pee +. Olde egy Detravers OTROS Gee Once before I have shown they The great Daily Worker the open betrayal by| workers are the A. F. of L. fakers and the eH-|days a week brew Trades-Forward clique, against | at the Amalgamated Food Workers | Union. And now I will tell of the betrayal they are carrying | against the cafeteria workers. | The so-called Food Council of the hake ‘settles” where the Ta ytae} ie aehleaxieap 1D Men to J out oin Union ettling” A. F. of L, has announced in th (By a Worker Correspondent) yellow “Forward” that they have | lass conscious workers | ld like to already “settled” with certain cafe-|this in.mind; patronize only th¢ the Daily !terios in the garment center and s th ttle with the A. Jick English {als on the East Side. The workera/ IF. W. U. Only in this way will a ‘who work in these “settled’ cafe-|you help the cafeteria workers or- , By DRDSEES terias know the speed-up and slave ea strong union. e have charge of all taxi conditions in these shops. MORRIS BAER. _, They have a court at enwich St. in which they try the i The man in charge 4 Ms e is a man 1 Drennen. No one Chicago Workers Swell News That Henry Ford js attowea trial. Drennen is both prosecutor and All Gastonia, Marion, N.C. Laid Off Over 25,000 Protest Next Tuesday Suppressed in i y the taxi driver are disregarded. llowed for the driver. statements mi Press ni his own No lawyer Regardless was given in the capitalist | cireumsta t winter to Henry Ford’s|m that he would employ | guil workers. The fact that | nig 1 off 25,000 workers at| dr Rouge plant in recent /trial” that is CHICAGO, Oct, 7.—Chicago work-| | DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 7.—Wide ers will join the mass protest against | 5, p) the mill-owners’ terror in the Gas- | jtonia and Marion strike areas at a mass meeting Tuesday at 2457 W Chiago The meeting will be} porg under the auspices of the Gastonia |i}. Joint Defense and Relief Committee. | eeks has been suppressed by the | conditions will fo: axi drivers It will be addressed by Juliet capitalist newspapers. Besides the! to realize that their proper place is Stuart Poyntz, on tour for the Inter-|jay-off at the River Rouge plant,| with the Taxicab Chauffeurs Union, tional Labor Defense, and other the Dearborn plant is shut down, af-| affiliated with the Trade Union eakers, fecting thousands more workers. Unity League, the only organization that has their interests in considera- tion. of the charge, and the under ent 0,000 54,000 taxi we get the “fair about? Such Riv | Isp When the plants resume hiring, he men laid off will be taken back “new men” at the minimum wage. | y other automobile plants have — laid off thousands. On one shift of | 3 WAR PREPARATIONS of Biro-Bidjan as a. Jewish home-jthe Bricg ‘0 Seok ee pee the Briggs Body Co. plant mot al” Cauinun ww. S_New Jersey land widely known. £ The Soviet government has made its contribution to the tran aside seven, million rubles f | continental airport chain as part of | American war preparations when establishment of a modern scientific : state farm. Already caterpillar and || Gov. Larson dedicated yesterday the | 200-acre Central Airport as 150 wheel tractors, biulding material, woodworking machinery and farm ; implements sent by Icor are on the tion of the League Against Impe: spot and intensive cultivation will) ialism will be held at the Fria begin next year. ‘Hall Oct. 5. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Up—at the Enterprises! | TAXI DRIVER. man is working. set FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR. LONDON, Oct. 4.—The inaugural conference of the British youth sec-| planes darted overhead. Customary air races, promoted to ’ aid developing public “air conscious- |ness,” marked the ceremonies. Gigantic Reception Saturday Evening, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. (Doors Open at 5:30) AERONAVIGATOR eT Pilon The four fliers of the “Land of the Soviets” will be officially welcomed at Madison Square Garden Fiftieth Street and Eighth Avenue Tickets on Sale NOW at the offices of the FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION 175 Fifth Ave., at 23d St. Alg. 2745. Room 512 Program and Features: 100-piece orchestra; Finnish Workers Sports Union Gymnastics Prominent Speakers Out-of-town delegations BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE! Prices—75e—$1—$1.50 Auspices Friend of the Soviet Union 175 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C, are asked to report at offices of F. S. U. at 2 p. m. on day of the reception