The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1929, Page 1

a THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ah Hess a Y. under the act of M Morker arch 3. 187 FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily ex Con Ine. 26 Vol. VL, No. 185 Union Square. New York City Be et to England to Fight British Working y Class aq & When Ramsay MacDonald appeared before the United States Senate a «? Monday almost his first words were: . “There are two functions that the prime minister of Great is Britain fills. The first, he is the leader of his party, and he is the t. head of a party government. But there is a second function far . more important than that: he represent: nation. He leads not 1 only his party, but the house of commons itself. IN THE SEC- d OND CAPACITY, Mr. President, 1 HAVE COME HERE.” r MacDonald, of course, meant this as a re; ance that he, Mr. Mac- Donald—though he faces the necessity of posing as a representative of \- working class for certain purposes—appears before the fat million- it airs of the United States Senate only in the “second capacity”—his e real capacity as the chief and most adrojt strike-breaker of the big n bourgeoisie of Great Britain. In other words, that he can throw off his s disguise among his own kind. d MacDonald has been “sitting on a log” in the woods of Virginia engaged in maneuvers with the other arch imperialist, Hoover, for ad- vantages (each against othe other) in the coming imperialist war. v And he wants it understood, by all except British workingmen, that he Y, is no such low creature as a representative of our class, but that he is t the real, credentialed representative of the finance-capital of the mighty n empire of Great Britain; that he represents the bosses and not the work- £ ers. “In foreign affairs,” said the Tory chief, Stanley Baldwin, “the | 0 socialist government (of England) has undoubtedly achieved a measure | f of success very largely because there has been no break in the continuity with the declared policy of its predecessors, the conservative govern- ment.” And MacDonald sails home tomorrow with whatever results he may have been able to obtain in the fencing with Hoover, by way of preparation of the British Navy for the coming war with the Wall Street Empire. The prophet of “Peace” on his arrival in London will first of all rush into conference with the military and naval chiefs to show what he got for the coming war. But once this is done, MacDonald will turn his attention to the immediate strike-breaking in hand. There is much of it to be done. For, while MacDonald and the British “labor” gov- ernment, of which he is the head, are carrying out an aggressive war policy in the foreign field (and interpreting as a great victory for peace every one of it: maneuvers leading to a new imperialist war), the internal situation in Encland becomes more and more unstable. The characteristics of the thi~! period of post-war erisis of capitalism— distinguished from the previous period by a growing shakiness and pre- cariousness of capitalist stabilization—are outstanding. The internal situation of the country is marked by a rapid sharpening of the inner contradictions of capitalism. Unemployment is growing at a rapid rece, industry is still lagging behind the pre-war level, and in not less than four branches of industry there are conflicts directly involving not Jovs than three million workers. These are: In the cotton textile industry wages are being lowered below the starvation wages heretofore existing. In the woolen industry a ten per cent wage cut is in prospect. In the railroad transport industry the workers are demanding the restoration of the 2% per cent wage cut imposed upon them two years ago by Thomas and his fellow labor fakers, and the railroad manage- ment replies that not only is it impossible for the industry to restore the former wage, but condtions are such that a new wage cut will “have to be” enforced so that the roads can continue to operate at a profit. In the coal industry crisis continues. The mine owners, with the full approval of the “labor” government, drew up a plan for the na- tional organization of coal production and marketing, which dooms new masses of coal miners to the misery and starvation resulting from permanent unemployment. To a marked degree the situation in Britain is reminiscent of the crisis of 1926, the year of the general strike. But whereas in 1926 the crisis in coal was the predominent factor, this time the crisis em- braces many more industries. Meanwhile the “labor” government of the British bourgeoisie and the trade union bureaucracy (equally its servants) are doing everything in their rower to discourage and defeat any preparations on the part of the working class for struggle against their oppressors. The British bosses through their spokesmen of the “labor” ministry propose to “solve” the mining cr by an international agreement of mine owners regardnig volume of production. Phillip» Snowden, as spokesman for Ptitish imperialism at the Hague, d to pave the way for the mine owners overcoming some of their difficulties by insistently demanding that the Young Plan for reparations settlements must not be interpreted as guaranteeing a market for German coal as part of the reparations nayments in kind (payments by industrial products instead of gold). Snowwden finally reached an agreement whereby Italy guarantees to take a stipulated amount of British coal in an effort articifially to up- hold its rapidly falling coal market. The British bourgeoisie through its “labor” government endeavors constantly to deceive the workers into believing that the astute Mac- Donald, Henderson and Snowden can, by following an “aggressive” for- eign policy, solve the difficulties at home. The game of the “labor” statesmen is to persuade the workers to refrain from action against the wage cuts, speed-un, increasing unemployment and other efforts of ra- tionalization of British in “@ry, while they help the employers and the government more firmly to consolidate their forces against the abso- lutely assured oncoming offensive of the working class. Then the in- herent social-fascist character of the MacDonald government and “labor” party will be exposed in naked action to the eyes of even’ the most credulous worker. The labor bureaveracy, esvecially the former so-called “left” forces of the General Council. are aiding the rovernment put through its policy | against the working class. A. J. Cook fawns hefore the mine owners | and publicly praises them in the public press. While MacDonald is de- ceiving the massses with a program of “peace” abroad, Cook and the rest of the former left of the General Council are advocating “peace” in industry at home. This division of labor between the laborites at the head of the “labor” imperialist government and the trade union leaders has a com- mon objective—the consolidation of the ruling class at the top and the subjugation of the working masses, in preparation for imperialist war that is today the central question of the world situation. The labor government boasts that it has achieved unity of the cap- italist elements at the ton. Snowwden at Geneva, and now MacDonald, visiting Hoover at Washington, both proclaim that they speak as repre- sentatives of the entire nation. Snowden’s course at Geneva had the enthusiastic approval of the labor imperialists, the liberals and tories. MacDonald, before the representatives of the American big bourgeoisie at Washington. is clear in his assurance that he represents the big bourgeoisie of England. But while MacDonald can, with full approval of all its sections speak in behalf of the capitalist class, there are large sections of the working ace its vanguard, the Communist Party, and the Minority Movement,.that wage a determined militant campaign against this im- ) perialist government of war-mongers, masquerading as “labor.” The economic crisis in England has develoned the material conditions for mighty struggles against capitalism and events of the near future ill produce an open conflict between the millions of workers whose standard of life is being driven even lower and the “labor” government, under the leadership of the imperialist lackey, MacDonald. It is class against class, and the front-line trenches of the bourgeoisie will be officered by the party of the social-fascists, MacDonald, Snowden, Hen- derson & Co. Anv of course these British “so..alist’ cnem.es of the working class “comrades” of the American “socialist” enemies of the wroking . plasm the strikewrenking Socialist Party of the United States, yuge ‘| Ramsay MacDonald Returns’ (Cartoon published in Moscow “Pravda” Donald for America. A Friendly Order EW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: in New York, by mali, $8.00 per Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 JUDGE BARS STORY OF ASSAULT ON LO on departure of Ramsay Mac- USED UPON 2000, STRIKING OMEN Allied with Bosses in Strikebreaking, | TUUL Shows 4 Truckmen Attacked Gunmen Use Tammany Center, Cars Two thousand truck drivers em- ployed in hauling gasoline for seven |different oil companies have joined the strike which began last Saturday when the Standard Oil bosses fired | 12 truckmen for union activities a |week after they had signed up with |Local 553 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, ‘Chauf- fers, Stablemen an] Helpers, and with the struggle only four days old, the terror inaugurated by gangsters and scabs supplied to the oil barons | by Tammany Hall had already ac. counted for three hurderous at- tacks on strikers yesterday. | The first victim of the gunmen,! who belong to the notorious “Little | Augie” and De Vito gangs, and |several hundred of whom had been! hired at $25 a day to break the strik, was James McCabe, a Stand-| ard Oil workers, stabbed in the} back and now languishing in a local hospital. Yesterday another striker | was slashed with a knife while FIVE IMPERIALIST POWERS TO MEET Plan Confab in London in January WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—The for- mal invitation to another “naval disarmament” conference to be held in London during the last week in January has een presented to the American ambassador, General Dawes, by Arthur Henderson, the “Socialist” foreign minister of Brit- ish imperialism. | The official announcement of an- \other “disarmament” conference was |made in effort to conceal the war |preparations between the United (Continued on Page Two) 00 NY. WINDOW [Insurance Battle May Becoe Mass Tieup Refusal of a demand for adequate compensation insurance forced a strike involving some 800 window cleaners throughout New York City this morning. They are led by the Window Cleaners Protective Union, 15 E. Third St. The walkout was precipitated by the insolvency of the Empire State Mutual Insurance Company, an or- ganization created by the employe’ to carry workmens’ compensation in- surance. Through the commonly-practiced trick of the companies which took out insurance for fewer number of | workers than they employed so as to ge! lighter insarance premiums, the ‘Empire State was forced into bank- | (Continued on Page Two) LUDLOW STRIKE LEADERS FINED Organization Proceeds Among Mill Workers 9. LUDLOW, Mass., Oct. Richards, organizer of Dis National Textile Union, Jack Ross, District Secretary, Harry Hersh, or- ganizer of District 15, Young Com- munist League, Ruth Fisher and |Rose Ross, active members of the |N. T. W. U. were fined $5 each in the Springfield District Court, Mon- day on the technical charge of ob- ve f “Fly with peace, but come back with cruisers.” WASHERS STRIKE. * der picketing. Earlier in the day John Sergeo and a fellow striker, riding in an | automobile, were deliberately run down by a standard Oil truck man- ned by scabs, who attempted to overturn the car. The strikers were \critically injured, one receiving a |fractured skull and the other a broken arm. That Tammany Hall’s 14th as- sembby district headquarters is the |mobilization point for‘ the under- world elements being used by the! |bosses in an attempt to force the |truckmen back to slavery under the | terms against which they are re-| (Continued on Page Two) | MUST REGISTER NOW TO VOTE Communist Party Is On | the Ballot The indiffersnes of the workers of New York to the claims of the | capitalist candidates is shown by the WORKERS VOTE FOR NEW STRIKE 1120 to 64 Is Answer in Elizabethton ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., Oct. 9. —In spite of everything the United |Textile Workers bureaucracy coud! |do, the workers in the American Bemberg and American Glanzstoff {corporations (rayon mills) voted to- |day to strike. The vote was 1,120 to 64. One week ago, on the eve of the vote, and after the ballot boxes were being distributed the officialdom of the N. U. T, W. recalled the boxes and postponed the ballot, ‘as an ex- pression of sympathy and regret for the deplorable death of Konsul Kum- mer,” acting head of both companies. (Continued on Page Three) The task of placing the Commun- is. Party on the ballot has been | achieved, and now every worker should register immediately so that ‘he will be able to vote. Registra- tion places re open ever'y day this week at 5 p. m. to 10.30 p. m. 20 istration has totaled 341,237, as com- this indifference on the part of the : the democratic, republican and so- | the Communist Party October 13, 2:50 P. M., at 314 East Guardia to use “race” issues in or- pared to 573,275 during the first two days last year. In Manhattan, ‘only 96,931 registered, as compared | jto 160,057 during the first two days workers to am awakening to class- | consciousness. cialist parties of the bosses; many | : are learning tha tthe Communist | An indoor _ election meeting under auspices of the Har- | their interest. 104th Street. Speakers in English and Italian will point out the class der to get Italian votes. p.m The claims of the capitalist press | {unusually low registration this year. jot the registration period of 1928. TQ MEET SUNDAY Secret But the workers are | campaign Party is the only party fighting in lem-Italian section ,of the Com- character of the eelction compaign supporting La Guardia that he will Build Up the United Front of During the first two days the reg- The capitalists, however, prefer Campaign Rally For not only becoming disgusted with! munist Party will be held Sunday, and expose the efforts of Le (Continued on Page Two) on Saturday from 7 a. m. to 10.30 Gastonia Defendants Discuss Rev. Muste’s Role in South Miller Compares Him to Father Gapon as Part | of Machinery of Suppression; Will Fail CHARLOTTE, Oct. 9.—The Gas-) resorted to. tonia case defendants are taking a} Clarence Miller, one of the Gas- jgreat interest in the Marion Mas-|tonia defendants said today: | sacre, and the antics of the U. T. The A. F, of L. in the South. W. officials in that situation. They| The whole policy of the A. F. of | point out the similarity of this mur-|L. in the South is to “sell” the idea | with at attempted against|of unionism to the bosses, I mean/| them in Gastonia June 7, which was| A. F. of L. unionism. Their strat- jrevented by the heroism of the|egy is to show that they are the workers’ guard in the tent colony|best means fo fighting against the | that was slated by the mill owners Communists and the militant ation fo: destruction. It'was for dewend- al Textile Workers Union. Their ing because this defense was made, | unionism is not a unionism that that th present attempt to give prac- fights for the improvement of the tical lif sences to the seven Gas- conditions of all the workers. At won trial w; Three) es ” the Working Class. 5a yea Cents ‘Price 3 RA ANNOUNCEMENT “NOW | Y PICKETS TAMMANY THUGS DEFENSE WITNESS TELLS OF POLICE S BEST TIME TO KILL THEM” WHICH STARTED RAID Woman Striker Smashes State’s Theory of Conspiracy Within Union Hall By ‘Testifying She Placed Board in Window to Block Spies Defense Proves Prosecution Witnesses’ Testimony Is Conflicting and ° Self Contradictory; Barnhill Refuses to Quash Charges « BULLETIN. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 9—Henry strong, formerly a Loray carpenter testified in the Gastonia case today that he saw police break up the picket lines and heard Gilbert yell to Aderholt, “Let’s go down and kill ’em. This is the best time to do it.” towards headquarters. He said five officers then got into the car and went Gladys Wallace, a defense witness was asked by the prosecution how wmany speeches she had made,, and what she said. She said, me up on the picket line and threatened to get me in the wark.” “Well, once I made a speech and told how the police beat “Did you report this to the police?” asked the prosecution lawyer. <o, it wouldn't do any good,” stated Wallace, “because the 1 They arrested me nine times for picketing and once for arguing wi so you hate officers?” asked the prosecution. “Well, I don’t love them any,” replied the witness. law is on the side of the bosses, th scabs.” The main argument of the prosecution is that the strikers conspired to kill the officers, in that they held a conference just before the picket line in the office, and planned the whole thing behind a window closed by card board. broken window because twow stool-pigeons were trying to listen holding a meeting in the office. She told of the destruction of the first union headquarters. Gladys Wallace testified she placed the card board over the while the strike committee was She lived nearby am the noise woke her up, but the national guard wouldn't let any of the strikers to the headquarters. * . * CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 9.—Judge Barnhill this afternoon ruled out all evi- dence offered by the defense in the Gastonia case to prove that before Chief of Police Aderholt let the raiding party on the union hea lowers of his had assaulted strikers on the picket line. When Gladys Wallace took the stand and began to Daily Given Out in Metal Strike in Alabama; Ask More Militant Workers and Workngclass Organiza- tions Must Rush the Daily South! A letter from a mill worker at the Goodyear mill in Gadsden, Ala., asking that the Daily Worker be sent there, appeared in the Daily Worker yesterday. Another letter from a worker in Alabama, from the town of An- derton, shows that not only the textile workers of the South, but also workers in the basic, metal industries, have heard of ths Daily Worker. This letters is from a worker in one of the big pipe foundries in Anderton. Recently a strike broke out in Anderton. Molders of two of the sanitary pipe foundries there struck for higher wages and better con- ditions. Abuot 1,000 unorganized workers worked in these two plants. A worker from Chatanooga, Tenn., who had heard of the Daily and had often written us of the rayon strikes in nearby Elizabethton and Johnson City, Tenn., sent in a report of the Anderton strike. A few copies of the Dail were sent to Anderton, and Worker carrying the news of the strike istributed. Were it not for financial difficulties, not a few, but thousands of copies of the Daily could be distributed to the workers on occasions like this. Here is part of the letter from a pipe foundry worker in Anderton: “We got the Dailies O.K. The Anderton paper was against us from the start, and so was everyone else except the Daily Worker. There should have been more Daily Workers to give out.” And here is part of a letter from a mill worker in Charlotte, N. C.: “T have been a member of the U.T.W. in one strike they pulled and sold out. They have pulled several strikes here in North Carolina, but have deserted the field and sold out when the battle waxed hot. “Southern mill workers, join the National Textile Workers Union. Write to the Daily Worker—the union paper!” As southern workers continue to write to the Daily Worker, large- scale distributions of the Daily must be made in the town from which the letter comes. The appeals for Daily Workers from the southern work- ers must be answered. Individual workers must answer these appeals by sending contri- butions at once, so that the Daily Worker can be rushed to the south- ern workers. Workingclass organizations must adopt a mill village so that bundles of the Daily Worker can be send daily to the mill village. To the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York, N. Y. The southern textile workers cannot go without the Daily Worker in their preparations for the great struggles they will soon go through. 1 am sending my contribution to help rush the Daily Worker to them. Names). becsiy City . Amount $.. FOR ORGANIZATIONS (Name of Organization) City and State ... wish to adopt a southern mill town or village, and see to it that the workers there are supplied with..........copies of the Daily Worker every day for.. -weeks, We inclose $. Kindly send us the name of the mill village or cit for we wish to communicate with (he workers there. tn lit ali nat é assigned to us, ee. dquarters, these police fol- tell how Policemen Gilbert, ®Roach, Ferguson and others | who a few minutes later went with Aderholt to atttck the {tent colony, had attacked the | picket line on June 7, the pros- | ecution objected. The judge sustain- ica the objection. Workers Forced to Arm. The defense contended that they should be allowed to show what hap- |pened prior to Aderholt’s raid upon the headquarters in order to prove |the animus of the police against the trikers, and the reign of terror that |forced the strikers to arm them- selves. The defense intended to prove the |police were the aggressors and the |strikers were on the defensive. The |defense argued that the attacks of jthe police on the picket line and |later on the headquarters were all part o fthe same offensive against | the union. | The conduct of the police just be- fore they went to the headquarters is important for this reasons, and legally competent, the defense con tended, to show that the strikers had to defend themselves. Overrule Defense. But Barnhill overruled the de- fense, and evidence will not be. per- mitted to show how the strikers weer attacked, beaten brutally, and per- secuted continuously from April 1 |to June 7, when the fatal raid oc- curred. | When interrupted by the prosecu- tion’s objection, Gladys Wallace was telling how the police were choking | Vera Buch and Sophie Melvin, beat- |ing old Mrs. McGinnis and others on the picket line. She denied ever \hearing Beal instrucing the guard |to “shoot and shoot to kill,” as pro- |secution witnesses tried to say. | Wallace told how the state’s wit- jness Glymph, who testified yester- jday, and Hanna, a Loray mill elec- trician, and other Loray stcol-pig- jeons tried to breark up the strike |meeting before the picket line | started, by throwing rotten eggs and rocks at Beal. This evidence was leatad out by the court. Gladys Wal- \lace teld how Harrison and other |strikers grabbed the Loray stoo!- | pigeons to throw them off the union lot. Harrison was knocked down, she said, wheh one of the stool-pig- jeons fired a shot. | Tells of Broken Picket Line. Finally the strikers threw their assailants off the lot and the speak- ling went on. Then she followed the picket line and saw it broken up. She came back to the headquarters jand saw Aderholt, Gibbert and Roach approach a guard threaten- lingly. The guard asked for x war- ie a lao | TATE Police Fired First. “We don’t need no god damned warrant, answered Gilbert who then started to disarm Carter one of the (Continued on Page Three) WHITEWASH KY. GOVERNOR. FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 9.—Gov Flem D. Sampson was acquitted of a charge of ccepting gifts of |value” from publishing houses as chairman of the State Textbooli ‘ Commission, %