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29 ETE Page Three DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 19 | (By «@ Worker Correspondent) say that the explosion was “due to RENTON, Pa. (By Mail).—There factors unknown.” We miners know are two mines of the Union Collier-|that the explosion was due to thej ies here. Despite the name ,this|company penny-pinching policy, aj concern is one of the 100 per cent, policy that permits the bosses to up AMAZING CHARGES OF POLITICAL | crt teense OF SOCIALISTS sees eee CRIME AGAINST FOREIGN OFFICE <= ROCKS GERMANY Fight Killing of Miners STANDARD OIL nst_each other in the still dis-| (Wirelese By “Inprecorr”) ted Chaco, but in each country @| BERLIN, Oct. The exposures | ct between Bolivia and Para- £| i eee i Piet | bv Boss Negligence (0, OF INDIANA Henderson Deports Afghan Minister, Siezes tot only are there still around 70 S0Cialists - Fascists —_—_____—. 4 strong opposition to the government !in the Communist paper. “Rote | Afghan Exposes Scandal on “Labor” Government as Kabul Falls to Foes of Bntain AFGHAN MINISTER TOLONDON IN © “Conriie‘a' tne’ way BERLIN EXPO SE| H @) Pp S Baggage, and Raids Regular Legation —_“*!|, forts of, these countries set) Linked in Graft Attempt to Hush Up Scandal of Astoundin SLAVES WAKING Means “Labor” Imperialists Use BULL ETI PESHAWAR, India, Oct. 9—Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, and seat of the bandit pretender to the Afghan throne, Bacho Sacho, has fallen before the revolutionary troops of ir Khen, whose broth Shah Wali, is in full control of the city, which fell from revolt wit as wewll as by attack from without. ei) te * LONDON, Oct. 9.—A_ political |treaty rights, immunit scandal of major importance direct- 2nd ev! other thing which they ty proving tha tthe so-caled “labor” |themselves ascribe t othe “Bolshe- government commits the most out- |v’ rageous violations of international law to forward the interests of Brit- ish imperialism, “is revealed in the | astounding allegations against the} British Foreign Office, headed by | Arthur Henderson, with MacDonald one of the outstanding leaders of the socialist Second international, | meade by the Afghan minister to| London, Shua-Ed-Dowleh. | Shuja Ed-Dowleh has for a long time represented Afghanistan at | London, as duly recognized minister | of a formally recognized govern- | ment. This must be especially noted | as England up to this moment has not withdrawn recognition from the | Afghan king, Amanullah, who ap-| pointed Shuja. Now, he changes from Berlin, where he has taken refuge, that he was expelled from England about } one month ago on the order of Ar- thur Henderson as head of the For- | eign Office, being given only 24 hours to leave the country, that bag- gage he took with him was seized and still held at Harvich by order of the British Government, and that after his departure Scotland Yard detectives. accompanied by Foreign Office officials, broke down the doors of the Afghan legation, raided the legation quarters, engaged in| a gun battle with legation attend- | ants and the Afghan soldier lega- | tion guard, seized the legation ar- | chives and his private banking ac- | count, and has hushed up the whole amazing incident. | The whole stinking affair comes up as a legal demand of the Afghan | minister, to ownership of the pre- cious stones he charges were seized s,” to’ defend the interests of imperialism in Afghanistan —which interests are to make an‘ keep that country subject to Britain as a road to attack the Soviet Union. It must not be ima, ed that the crime consists principally in the for- mal matter of violation of law, le; tion immunity and what not. The political nature of the crime goes much further. early a year through British intrigue, King nullahé, whose governmen: ago, on friendly terms with the Soviet Union, was overthrown by the so- called “water boy,” the bandit, Bacho Sacho. Amanullah took re- fuge abroad and is now in Italy. The British pretended to be very sorry about this. But as Bacho a British impe against him gained about the time the British Foreign Office under the “labor” party felt it necessary to raid the Afghan le- gation in London, the revolution against its Afgéhan tool was reach- ing a crucial stage. There no need to cémment further on why the “labor” government resorted to this astounding crime. It hoped to check any outside help to the revolution. acho was openly tool, revolt headwa LUDLOW STRIKE LEADERS FINED (Continued from Page One) structing traffic. They immediately Ama- | and | with his baggage. This demand for | appealed the case to the Sperior enormously valuable lapis lazuli} Court and were released on bail. jewels, which Shuja says were the} s he} ‘These arrests grew out of the re-| property of King Amanulleh, will | cent Ludlow, Ma strike. On Sept. policy is threatening revolt. Recently, the Paraguayan govern- ment declared a “state of seige,” virtually martial law, against an opposition reported to me threaten- ing revolt at the government’s policy toward Bolivia, claiming it was, not strong enough. Now reports from Bolivia state that the La Paz gov- ernment has taken extraordinary measures, arresting its noted gen- eral, Montes, and exiling the. ex- vice-president, Abdno Saaverda, and others, whose oppostion seems to be based on the government’s policy toward Paraguay. GASTONIA JUDGE SHIELDS POLICE (Continued from Page One) present defendants. She said the first shot came from near the police car. Judge Barnhill this morning over- ruled a motion by the defense for non-suit, although no credible evi- has been offered that the n ational Textile Workers Union Strikers and organizers in the Loray strike who are now on trial for the death of Chief of Police Aderholt committed any murder. The State has rested its case. The Manville-Jenckes lawyers have no ore perjured testimony to offer, although Gastonia City Solicitor Carpenter, boasting this morning about 20 more witnesses haid he did not see fit to call many of them. Scab, Stool Pigeon “Evidence.” This particular attempt to stop the organizing of southern workers will have to rest on the peculiarly contradictory and unreliable evi- dence of the assortment of scabs, proven stool pigeons, and deputy po- licement with criminal records that has been given so far, | Today Frank Flowers, counsel for the defense, employed by the Inter- national Lafor Defense, reviewed the mass of contradictory testimony dence se | offered by 37 hirelings of the Loray Mil blosses. He poinied out that the case of the prosecution was not suf- come up in court shortly, unless the | British ‘labor” government manages to silence the scandal in compromise. | The whole affair is a glaring ex-| posure of the limitless venality and even criminality of the social im- perialistie “labor” party regime, | which thus flouts international law, WORKERS VOTE FOR NEW STRIKE « (Continued from Page One) | Kummer had killed himself with a razor a few days after his special | blacklist expert, the so-called “per- sonnel manager” of both companies, | had taken a fake strike vote inside | the mill and declared a majority against strike. Postponement Didn’t Work. Apparently the U. T. W. mislead- ers hoped that postponement of the ballot would end the matter, but it didn’t work. The rank and file, twice betrayed and sold back to the mills, the last time after an unusual- ly vigorous and militant strike, in which militia, armed guards and the injunction courts were alike defied, insisted on voting for a strike. The local U. T. W. heads are now employing tactics of delay to stave off the struggle. Telegrams were sent to International President Thomas S. McMahon, and Interna- tional Vice-President Francis J, Gor- man, who are at the Toronto con- vention of the, A. F, L, Gorman came there directly from the U. T. W. to sell-out in Marion, resentment against the blacklist instituted there, similar to the one in Elizabethton, cause da strike last week that was shot up by the mill owner's deputies, with five strikers killed. The telegrams ask for instruc- tions. Call Government. Another telegram went today from the U, T. W. chiefs in Eliza- bethton to W. F. Kermin, of the U. S, Department of Labor, remind- ing him that “The government is a party to the last settlement,” and asking, “Do you anticipate any ac- tion? Please instruct.” The part the Department of La- por played in the last settlement has become notorious. A special agent was sent to Elizabethton, who ar- arranged the sell-out with Hoffman®;),, police an dthe A. F. L. in the of,the U. T. W. and the mill bosses, then called a packed “union meet- ing,” with militants excluded, and had it railroaded through as a set- tlement ‘ne National Textile Workers Union has been maintaining solidid- arity with the Elizabethton strikers since thei? second strike, and will undoubtedly gain in favor with them as they realize more and more the wabby nature of U, T. We tactics. 30, 75 spinners of Mill 8 of the Lud- low Manufacturing Associates walk- ed out against the attempt of the company to force them to run four sides in place of two. Jack Ross and Nat Richards, or- ganizers for the N. T. W. U., a sisted by-Peter Chaunt of the Trade | Union Unity League, and the mem- | bers of the Springfield unit® of the Young Communist League and Com- munist Party, immediatly stepped in and raised the slogan of a genera} strike. They organized a strike com- mittee, formed a militant picket line, and upon their advice the strike committee raised demands for all the workers, unskilled as well as skilled. The militant picket line with bat- tle songs paraded the mill and pulled out over half the workers. Mill Agent Quimby, terrified by ficiently strong to go on with the and asked the judge to dis- the charges. 3arnhill answered that he consid- ‘ers the evidence sufficient to leave it to the jury to decide on the ques- tion of guilt or innocence of the de- fendants. Then Flowers moved for the dis- issal of the charges against Clar- Miller because of the absence dence against him. Miller was originally charged merely with as- sault, but when he appeared at the first Charlotte trial he was charged mi; {also with murder. The judge overruled this motion also, but this provides another basis for an appeal to a higher court in case there are convictions. The defense then began to put the first of its hundred or more witness- les on the stand this afternoon, to be- | the solidarity and spirit of the st Jers, called in the pot-bellied faker |John Gatelee, president grafter of | |the Central Labor Union of Spring-| ies Pees < field, affiliated to the American the lives of their wives and children, i ‘ v s_ thei: dquarters Federation of Labor He with the/@8 well as their hea aid of company stool pigeons, police | against the murderous attacks upon thugs, gangsters, and some of the| them. eas strike committee whom he succeed-| To Expose State's Witnesses. ed in creating the illusion that the| These defense witnesses will ex- | strike could be won by a round table | post the State’s witnesses as lying conference with the bosses, violently |hirclings of the Manville-Jenckes ejected the organizers of the N. T./ Company. W. U. from the organizational meet-| The last of the State’s witnesses ing Wednesday night against the were Jackson ard C. M. Ferguson, protests of many workers Gastonia policemen who accompan- Spread the Strike. ‘ied Aderholt on the raid, Attorney Police Follow A. F. L. Jimison, for the defense, finished The next morning, October 3,|the exposure of Jackson, which he when the organizers of the N. T.|/began yesterday. His biting sar- W. U. came in front of the mill they casm completely confused and broke {were set upon by the police and |down Jackson. Jimison pointed out forcibly prevented from talking to/after another of the discrepancies the workers, Comrades Richards, | both in his present testimony and in {gin proving that the strikers were forced by the terrorism of the Loray gangsters to defend their lives and Ross, Hersh, Rose Ross and Ruth} Fisher were, without any warning, thrown into the police partol, man-) handled, beaten with clubs and | threatened. In the police station the | police thugs assaulted Richards with | their clubs and but for the presence ; of the girls, who made an outcry, the men would have fared far worse. In the afternoon Bill Sroka, member | of the National Executive Board of the N. T, W. U. and John Nahorski, Polish organizer, N. T. W. U., were also pulled in for distributing leaf- lets, but were later released. The five arrested were placed on Itria Monday, October 7. They made a militant defense of | themselves and exposed the role of strike. The convictions and fines followed. All refused to pay the fine, and the casé is appealed. The workers who were swindled back to the mills by Gatelee are dis- satisfied, and N. 'T. W. and T, U. U. L. organization work proceeds among them. the previous mistrial. Jackson brought into court the famous “little red book” in which he said he lad written down part of Beal’s speech: “Shoot to kill, etc.” For two hb Jimison ridiculed Jackson and his “little red book,” which turned out to be a black book, until nobody in the ourt room be- lcieved anything Jackson had said. Ferguson said he went down to the union lot with Aderholt, Whita- ker, Praether, and Hord. Roach and Gilbert stopped on the way to break up the picket line. His account of their trip and what happened en route conflicted in several details with the accounts given by other of- ficers. He denied, as they all did, that they had beaten up strikers on the picket line, including old Mrs, McGinnis and other women, The defens> has dozens of wit- nesses able to testify to the reign of terror, the ruthless brutality of the police and the Loray thugs necessi- tating the organizing of the strike- ers’ guard, ‘ Ferguson, who fired his rifle at Build Up the United Front of | the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Up—at the Enterprises! the strikers, and then ran like a rabbit when trouble started at the union headquarters, was followed Fahne” show that Proseclutor Tetz- laff, now conducting the ‘investige- tion” into the Sklarek swindles is himself involved. | The socialists involved include the mayors of two sections of Berlin, Mayor Hirsch and Mayor Ostrovski, councillor Bubnitz, who is leader of | the socialist municipal fraction, and | tionalists (fascist) press to white- wash their socialist friends, today’s “Rote Fahne” publishes the names also of prominent Nationalists in- volved in the gigantic grafting scan- dal, including Bruhn, a member of the German Reichstag and of the Central Committee of the German party’s weekly paper, “Wahrheit,” fascist councillor Honette, who is ac- cused of making 2,000 marks graft on a deal arrangéed with the munic- lipality. ‘How “Justice” Works in Hugary of Horthy; Framing Up of a Toiler BUDAPEST (By Mail).—The fol- lowing case is characteristic of i stances of the way justice is admin- istered in the Hungary of Horthy and Bethlen: Julius Papp, a metal worker was sentenced to two years imprisonment for a political offense two years ago. His term expired in April, but he was not released as of right, but sent under escort to his home tow: Here the public prosecutor discov- ered that a warrant had been issued | against Papp ten years ago for an| alleged offense committed during the period of the Hungarian Soviet Re- public. sentenced to seven years’ penal ser- vitude. What is remarkable in the sentence is not only its extreme se- verity but the fact that Papp to ac- count only after hi sfirst term of imprisonment had expired. He was again indicted and| COMRADE LEPSE DEAD. MOSCOW, Oct. 8.—Following a long sickness, Comrade Lepse Chair- man of the Central Committee of the Metal Workers’ Union, is dead here. by a prosecution witness named Grady on the strand. Grady said that McGinnis boasted to him that, “We have guns at headquarters and know how to use them. If any Lo-| ray thugs come down, and try to} destroy our new hall they are likely to be carried back dead.” Parrot Prosecution Lies. | Ferguson repeated parrot like the! story on which all prosecution wit- nesses are coached. This is the only point of agreement in their mass} of conflicting testimony. It is as Prosecutor Wasmund. iy Answering attempts of the Na-| joriginally hailed. SEVEN ON TRIAL Nationalist Party and editor of a DISCUSS MUSTE | | (Continued from Page One) best they are satisfied with improv- ing the conditions of a few skilled workers, at the se of the large | mass of worke The A. F. of L. is offering itself to the bi as open shop, penny-pinching type. Since the smas hof the memorable miners strike of 192728, when the coal operators with the help of John L. Lewis and Pat Fagan sent 550,000 Western Penn, miners back to slave for these blood suckers without an agreement and conditions and wages have grown steadily worse. The direct and indirect wage cuts have brought the wages lower than the 1917 scale. This was done by re- mo the union checkweighmen and robbing the men of half the coal they load; the dead work which was ng paid for narrow working places, thick slate, bad bottom, ete., was cut entirely. The miners are forced to deal in the company store, where the prices are much higher, and this is not all. The Union Collieries, in their |greed to increase the already over- swelled profits of the coupon clip- ‘pers, neglect the most elementary safety measures, and as a result the accidents have gone up by leaps and bounds. This negligence is respon- erect flimsy canvass brattices in a mine that is wet. These brattices | mould and rot away in a few weeks, and no attention is paid to them any more. This not only makes for ex- plosions by the developing of gas in these places, but also it becomes im-| possible for men to work in such| bad air. The bad air makes many miners sick, and forces them to quit work, After the explosion, Local 113 of | the National Miners’ Union issued | a leaflet calling the men’s attention | to the situation and conditions here. | The Renton local has decided to put | up a hard fight to fight these con-| ditions. | | The Young Communist League mobilized a number of young girls | (it was impossible to use men or boys who are working in the mine, as they would lose their jobs) who| went into the coal company camp| and left one leaflet in every house. | The Coal and Iron policemen of the Union Collieries were lapping booze | somewhere while the girls were dis- Are Getting Wise to Company Union (By a Worker Correspondent) WHITING, Ind. (By Mail).—-Ia Whiting, Ind., heart of the oil-retin- ing industry of the United States and home of the Standard Oil Co. the workers have heard the call of the T. U. U. L, and have started to organize. Several delegates from Whiting attended the Cleveland con- vention. They returned to the job with new tnthusiasm and energy. The propaganda and organizational work took on new life. The result is that a genuine beginning has been made in the formation of a real shop committee. The committee meets regularly, calls mass meetings and has the sympathy of large num- bers of workers in the shop. The Standard Oil Co, is an out- standing exponent of benevolent Company unionism. A fake em- ployees representation committee has been set up compoesd of com- sible for the explosion that took) tributing the leaflets, but later in| pany lickspittles. This committee is | the best means of checking the! Place in the mpine recently, in which | the night made a visit to the homes | supposed to be for satisfying the ing militancy But the / not reckoned seriously rowing militancy. In some sections of the South the U. T. W. cannot show its face. The |record of the U. T. W. in the South |during the struggle of 1919-21 in | Greenville, Charlotte, Gastonia, Con- cord, and a host of other texti jcenters, were not forgotten. The latest betra in Elizabethton and | Ware Shoals a the minds of the wor The A. F. of L. left the worke at the mercy of the bosses, and the most active workers were bleaklisted and were forced to return to the moun- | grov | wor with this jtains and farms from where they| The betrayal in Marion last month was a little too | much, if the U. T. W. U. expected | to stay in the South and “sell” un- ionism to the bosses. The new strike | this week was an attempt to save | their face before the workers. | Disavow Strike. | door and mangled. be amputated as a r nf the Sonthern| five men were burned badly one, a of several girls suspected of partici-| claims and grievances of the men. F. of L. has/| lad of 16, was hurled through a trap! pating. We wish to thank the YCL| Actually it serves the same purpose His leg had to members for their work in helping | as a lightning rod—to stop effective sult. It’s a/us to build a strong NMU local here, | action on the part of the men. So miracle that all of the 400 men were | and we urge them to continue their | openly has this committee worked in not bk. The vn to dust. state mining inspectors ean struggle aganist the very capitalist system. These elements must be fought. The labor movement must go back to Gompers under whose MT Ten nd eadership the A. F. of L. during|for Better Conditions the last war was the “best supporter of the Government next to the Army and Navy” according to Sam Gomp- ers himself. Such is the “progres- sive” plicy of the Reverand. The American Gapon, In the 1q -cbis peiBgev..Ndare In the South the workers are tak- ing up the struggle against the most vicious exploitation, In this situation Rev. Muste re-| calls a famous figure from the his- tory of Russian working class move- ment: Father Gapon, Following the good work. | ' A RENTON MINER. Coney Island Laundry | |Workers Will Fight (By a Worker Correspondent) The laundry workers of Coney I: and an dmust organize shop commit- tees and build a powerful union to better our conditions. We are work- ing from 6 a. m. to 8 p. m, with but half an hour for lunch in the |Brighton Laundry. You will have to work another hour and finish out the work, says the boss of the Coney |Island Laundry to the workers at 8 o'clock at night. Of course, no ex- tra pay for that. the interests of the company that large numbers of oil workers are disillusioned. The result is that the leaflets being gotten out under the name of the Standard Oil workers’ shop committee are being eagerly taken and discussed. The shop com- mittee is proceeding carefully and energetically with its work, laying a firm foundation for complete or- ganization of the Standard Oil plant. 45 Drowned As Ship |. Sinks in Storm Off the Coast of Norway, COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 9. —Forty-five persons were drowned and others were rescued from choppy seas ast night when the Norwegian Babeven*Hers, wetsceh 4fonl bie Risso Japancee y-wans when athe | steamship Haakon VII was wrecked Charlotte News of October 6: “Ac-|masses of Russian workers gaining cording to the members of the labor | their class consciousness in a strug- delegation (that went to see Goy-|gle not only against the immediate | These things show the miserable conditions we have. The Coney Isl- and laundry workers can no longer tolerate these conditions, and are | after it happened.” ernor Gardner at Raleigh) the strike of the 60 union members early Wed- nesday morning which precipitated |the riot in which five were killed jand a score wounded was not offi- cial, had not been called by the of- ficials of the U. T. W. U., and the officials knew nothing of it until Not for a minute do I wish to im- ply that the strike was not justified, to the contrary there was too much exploitation and too many issues for the workers not to have struck. The various struggles in the| South are developing not only into isolated strikes, but also into strug- follows: “Aderholt, Gilbert and Roach approached the guard and grabbed him. Some one yelled, “turn him loose,” and then fired. I fell off the fender of an outo, where I was sitting and incidentally fired into the air. Then I was shot | down, and Gilbert and Roach fell on top of me. Aderholt said, ‘I’m shot, and fel into the ditch. I was stunned and didn’t know what to do, so I ran to telephone.” Then he told how he ran from one house to another in confusion. Finally he reached the drug store, telephoned to police headquarters, and then got some one to take him to the hospital. It was found he had only two shots in his skin, he ad-/ mitted, Flowers, attorney for the defense, in cross examination pointed out not only disrepancies in the story, but actual physical impossibilities, to which Ferguson swore, for instance, Ferguson said the officers’ car parked at the edge of the union lot, had its lights on the side of the union headquarters, sixty feet away, but these lights covered only an area | of 12 feet between the two windows, | and did not shine into the windows. At that distane the lights would have illuminated the entire building. Ferguson denied that he inflicted the third degree upon McLaughlin) in jail that night, following his ar- rest, to obtain the ‘confecsion.” gles of the utmost political import- ance. The rationalization of indus- try, the stretch-out system, long hours of work, low wages and the low standard of living are calling forth bitter struggles on the part of the worknig cl More and more economie demands but also against |Czardom itself—the Czarists pusher forward Father Gapon. It was he who led the “procession of the Cross” to the Winter Palace to peti- tion the Czar for some better condi- tions. Amongst the eceonomic de- mands there was also a “revolution- ary’ demand against Czardom it- elf! Following Gapon in the pro- cession were the crosses, church ban- ner ictures of the: Czar, etc. that were cal d by the rge masses of workers. The ans' of the Czar was the shooting down of several hundred workers. But the very movement organized by this tool .f the Czar that was to act as a “safety valve” agairst the growing militancy of the workers, set off the most important factor that precipitated the first Russian Revolution, the 1905 rehearsal of the October Revolution, that established |ized 1” | Militarism, ete.” \“Back to Compers!” and especially | are the workers beginning to under-| tho f Workers Republic. stand that the struggles are not| Now comes the Reverand. I do| imply struggles for their economic | not wish to insinuate that he will demands, but rae struggles directed! set off the most important factor | against the very foundations of the that will lead to the setablishment | capitalist system. of a workers republic in this coun- Muste As a Mask. try. “History repeats itself, the The American Federation of La- first time as a tragedy the second | bor, the conscious agent of the im-| time as a farce.” The Reverand| perialists, is discredited amongst the | takes the second place, even though) large mass of workers. At this time | he represents a very dangerous posi- “the Reverand A. J. Muste, from} tion to the working class, But to| Brookwood College” as he was ap-' quote Marx: “It is the conditions propriately called by the whole that make it possible for a medioc- | Southern press, steps forward with | rity to parade in the gard of a| a whole string of “Revolutionary” | hero.” phrases, as the saviour of the A.! F. of L. “Organize the unorgan- “Against imperialism and But the true na-| ture of the Muste lead “progressive” movement is shown in the slogans: by the one “Fight the Communists and the ew Unions!” | The Communists and the New Unions are the only living and ac- tive forces in the labor movement today, that are succeeding in organ- izing masses of workers not only for , a struggle for the improvement of | the workers’ conditions but for a | Citadel of the be e October Issue of the and J, Louis Engdahl on Gast Moscow, timber, Subscribe, $ 80 EAST 11TH STREET , Full page drawing of Ella May, by Fred tional movement for the defense of the Gastonia prisoners. The Soviet Fliers, the T, U. U. L., the miners, Pioneers in Art Shields uncovers unknown heroes of southern Mexico, Bombay, Workers’ sports, LABOR DEFENDER by a veteran of the class s Bill Dunne class, onia. Photos showing interna- 15 cents (plus Be. Now for Sale. 1.00 a year. 43 EAST 125TH STREET | | | | | | | NEW YORK, N. ¥, | GASTONIA in the New South By WM. F. DUNNE HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the American working class analyzed and described To place this pamphlet in the bands of American workers is the duty of every class-conscious worker who realizes that ihe struggle in the South is bound up with the fundamental interests of the whole American working Place your order today with the WORKERS [LIBRARY PUBLISHERS and all Workers Book Shops |ready for organization. In fact, a shop delegate conference of the Coney Island laundry work- ‘ers has already been held. . It took |place Sept. 27 at 22901 Mermaid | | Ave., Coney Island. Twenty work- | ers represented the workers of eight | | big Coney Island laundries at the) | conference. | | The conference made preparations for militant action. It decided to af- filiate with the Trade Union Unity | League. Demands as follows were adopted: | 1. The eight-hour, five-day week. 2. Abolition of piece work and com- | | mission basis. 3, A standard mini-| mum wage scale. 4. Abolition of jovertime. 5. Two weeks’ vacation |with pay. 6. Equal pay for equal | |work for men and women, Negro and white workers. 7. A 155-minute rest period morning and noon. 8. Unem- ployment, sick accident insurance | fund to be paid by the bosses, man- | aged and controlle dby the union, | shop committees and representatives of the unemployed. 9. A sanitary control committee of workers. 10. | Abolition of Yellow Dog Contracts. The Musteites in the South, head- | ed by Hoffman, have been preach- | ing industrial “peace” and telling | the workers to picket and parade | with bibles. The answer of the cap- | italists was the Marion Massacre, that in some respects is similar to) the attack upon us in Gastonia onj{ the night of June 7. | Class Struggle truggle. per copy fe) NEW YORK CITY in a heavy fog near Floroe on the west coast of Norway. The vessel sank in three minutes after striking rocks, and indescrib- able panic was reported. THE I. L. D. FIGHTS TO HALT LYNCHING An editorial of the Gastonia Gazette, October 7, calls for lynching the union members and leaders. “No matter what it costs ... we ought to do it right away,” it shouts. Will you help the Interna- tional Labor Defense fight this? The I. L. D. wants 50,000 new members by January 1, 1930, to combat such lynch- lovers as the Gastonia Gazette, ‘organ of the mill bosses in Gaston County. The I. L. D. helps the new militant unions Kiet for better wages, less ours, against speed-up, and against the lynch laws of the capitalists. [Have You Decided to Join { This Fight? |Join the Fight for Better { Conditions by Joining { the I. L. D.! { Are you attending the I.L.D. mass meetings and united front conferences being held throughout the country. Have you heard | Juliet Stuart Poyntz on her national tour? will speak at Minneapolis, the 10th; Duluth, the 11¢) St. Paul, the 12th and Chicago, ithe 13th. ew I. L. D. Branches Are Being Formed Everywhere. ( Word was received today at the National Office of the I. iL. D, that another branch was formed in Allentown, Pa., in the heart of capitalist reac- tion. “We call this branch the Ella May branch in honor jand appreciation of the un- flinching fighting spirit of this victim of the class strug- gle,” the workers declared. Ella May was an I. L. D. or- ganizer in the South. Add Your Name to the List of I. L. D. Members! | Sign the following blank ‘and become a member. I want to join the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Enclosed find 25 cents. NAME ADDRESS .. CITY ... International \ She Labor 80 E, 11th St, New York City Deter