The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1929, Page 1

| GASTONIA ¢ COMMUNIST PARTY IS ON BALLOT IN CITY ELECTIONS; OVER 20,000 WORKERS SIGN PETITION Despite the fascist terror against the workers and every possible ef- fort of the bosses t. hinder the work of the Communist Party, more than —_ !the ballot for the municipal elec tions, Rebeeca Grecht of the cam- n committee stated yesterday. ction Rallies. |tion rallies thruout the city and! unanimously approved endorsement t which the Communist candidates of the P. will speak. The delegates elected a committee of Needle ten, in addition to the nine elected trades workers will be The success of the Party in plac-jlargely represented at each rally. by the Joint Board. 20,000 workers in the City of New jing its ticket on the ballot, despite Their support of the Communist} Demonstration Noy. 3. York signed the petitions which |all obstacles placed in its way, will election program was reiterated) Preparations are being made for placed the Communist candidates on! be followed up with a series of elec-| when a meeting of shop delegates the demon Madison Square 2 Garden November | versary of the Russian Revolution and also the final campaign rally for the elections which will take | place November 6. The twelfth | anniversary of the Russian Revolu- tion comes after the completion of) which will be!the first year of the five year plan|the history of the American labor | y by the Joint Board.|a celebration of the twelfth anni-|in the Soviet Union, the suctess of | movement. which has been far greater than had | Communist Candidates. been expected. Many workers’ or-| The Communist candidates in the ganizations will cooperate in mak- municipal elections follow: ing this joint celedration of the Rus- CITY TICKET. sian Revolution and @lection rally] For mayor: William W. Weinstone. one of the largest demonstrations in| For comptroller: Otto Hall. For president, Board of Alder men: Harry M. Wicks BOROUGH TICKETS. Manhattan | For president, Borough of Man |hattan: J. Louis Engdahl. New York | For district attor | (Continued on Page Two) THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Botered as second-class stter at the Post Office at New Yor N.Y, Worker under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Company. Ine. Vol. VI., No. 186 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per yen year. ; Price 3 ‘Cents PROSECUTION BRINGS IN Delegates Coming to Charlotte for Southern Textile, rid : Tammany Underwo Strike-Breakers Meetings Saturday and : Sunday to Start Drive on Conditions in the South Southern Textile Workers Conference Sure of | »@tas ' : : Hundreds of Delegates from Many Mills iy : aS ’ 2. ' T. U. U. L. Convention Lays Basis for Union- izing All of Industries in New South BULLETI CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 1@—Secret meetings are going on all over the textile centers of the South and preparations are being made to send delegates to the Southern Textile Workers’ Conference, Char- lotte, Oct. 12-13. The prosecution planned to end the trial before October 12, and then raid and smash the conference, it became known here today. | Whether the mill barons’ black hundreds will try to smash the con- ference or beat and lynch the organizers and delegates while the trial is still in progress is not known. It is commonly reported that the bosses have instructions to wait until after the trial before re- suming their fascist murderous attacks upon the N.T.W. But whether or not an attempt will be made to break up the conference, the union organizers and delegates are determined this attack shall fail, and the conference must be held in spite of terror. A mass meeting was held tonight in North Charlotte, with Sophie Melvin, Russel Knight and Rose Clark as speakers. oo mes) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 10.—The offices of the National; Textile Workers’ Union here are receiving credentials and no- tifications from workers in hundreds of Carolina, Georgia and . Tennessee mills insuring that a huge delegation from the tex- Proposes “Arbitration” tile workers of all parts of the South will be present when the in Elizabethton Southern Textile Workers’ Conference opens in Charlotte, on ee ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., Oct. 10. Saturday. oS Along with the textile workers’ conference goes the South- —The iatest attempt of the United | Photo shows scab-driven truck, gunmen furnished the oil baro heavily guarded by police and by Tammany Hall, attempting to leave Standard Oil yard-at Kent « UTW TRIES NEW NTW Workers pt ax Call for Marion Sides = aoe to Join Pa., Oct. 10.—By unanimous vote at the general mem- ip meeting of the Allentown of the National Textile Work- Union, a letter to be sent to the i ae f : Textile Workers’ Union bureauc eels Pucuet Sis; date ern Convention of the Trade Union Unity League. This con- e eon tr AF a aR oS ved, textile strikers was ap vention starts on Oct. 13, in Charlotte, and will include repre- mills, perhaps decided upon as a re- ; The letter expresses the sympathy of the sentation from a number of in-® dustries in addition to the tex- RFID LF AVES FoR sults of their wiring both President th MaMahon at Toronto and the U ae Allentown workers for loss of five brave fighters in Marion, tile. It will lay a basis for or- gehen a Ua corer rdered by the mill owners’ depu- an ‘ is to, apply for arbitration, : : ganization work and_ strike ihe eaordnok: Aho mill » and sta worker: heer is a glorious one of bitte Won't Stay Sold. movements for higher wages and shorter hours, thruout the f fought strike battles, which were, “We are 100 percent with you for South. It works in cooperation with ning until the speciall sent U. refusing to stay “sold;” for refusing the National Textile Workers’ Union; : T. W. and the government agent to continue working under the same ‘i i vi rt mass pres jai hroug’ ement old miserable conditions that the irive, which will start mass pres- NF THE T i H] | mmed through the ttlemen’ ole ! : f uy) » EO OG & £23 which include dthe black misleaders of the United Textile sure against the mill barons of the OIL DRIVERS B00 TAMMANY MEN; 3000 ON STRIKE Strikers Distribute, | Read TUUL Leaflet, Daily Worker Union Official “Lost” ‘United Fight Urged;; The Trade Union Unity League's | exposure of the sinister alliance formed between Tammany Hall, the underworld, the police and the oil barons to break the strike of the New York gasoline truck drivers, which was printed in the Daily Worker yesterday, has brought! |Tammany alderman Dermody and ‘Tammany boss Joseph Lentil out of ‘thei edrne spluttering against the unwelcome publicity. These worthies appeared yester- day before a group of Standard Oil strikers picketing the corner of N. 10th and Kent Sts. and tried to hornswoggle the truckmen into be- lieving that their hang-out, the 14th | assembly district headquarters, is not the mobilization point for $25- a-day gunmen recruited from the “Little Augie” and De Vitto gangs for strike-breaking duty, that Tam- | many Hal lis not responsible for the murderous attacks in which four strikers have been injured, and that autémobiles used by Dermody and} Lentil have not been placed at the disposal of the thugs. Tammany Van Seen at S. O. Office. Their blustering denials met rau- cous ridicule from the pickets, who had themselves seen Dermody visit ‘the Standard Oil offices the day be- fore, when one striker was slashed with a knife and two others run down by a Standard Oil truck driven | Scabs Fall In | at South. Youth Conference. One of the important conferences to accompany the Southern Te: Conference is that of the worl youth of the Enormous amounts, of child re Us the souchern textile mills. Si Ge speaking for the youth confi ‘ 2, stated yesterday that there are at least a quarter of a mitlien young workers in the South. “These young workers are most exploited,” he stated, “receive less pay, and work equally long hours— the 12 hour day being not uncom- mon. “Rationalization, speed-up, longer | work day, the conveyor system, run- ning the machinery faster, ‘all these are used to extract the last bit of profit from the children, at the ex- pense of stunted bodies and disease for them. Pellagra, tuberculosis, and other illnesses are rife. The mill bosses try also to enslave the youthful mind with special mill sports organizations and semi-mili- taristic movements. “The youth conference at Char- * Jotte will continue the organization of Special Youth Sections in the militant unions, and will devise new methods of drawing in those who will be the future fighters and lead- ers of the labor movement,” Gerson says. oaturday will witness a great! (Continued on Page Three) Militant Shoe Union Still Battles State Move to Cripple It Police attack son pickets are fail- ing to destroy strike activities con- ducted by Independent Shoe Work- ers’ Union of Greater New York against three Brooklyn shops which violated the union agreement. | The employment of non-union help and discharge of union workers sig- nalized an attempt to break with n tional Te ¢ attend the conference of the Trad: NVT.U. Head to Attend T.U.U.L. Conference Jim Reid, president of tke Na- ile Workers’ Union, who left today for Charlotte, N. to Union Unity League Oct. 12 and 13 declared the presence of the Labor Jury at the Gastonia trial in Char- lotte, N. C., expresses the solidarity of the northern workers with the struggles of the southern working class.” The seven members al] in | danger of thirty-year terms are ail members of ite N. T. W. U. | Reid agreed with the statement ‘which the Labor Jury sent out to- {day that “The mill bosses of the |South, their agents in the govern- {ment which they control, and the press which they control have been most vicious in misrepresenting the issue really involved, which is the struggle of the mill workers for bet- ter living conditions, shorter hours, jhigher pay, against child labor and |the speed-up, They have gone to the \greatest excesses in trying to pre- judice the workers and public opin- ion by claiming tha tthe issues are |those of religion, race and commun- jism. This of course, is done to di- | vide the workers so as to keep them jin abject slavery.” | Reid said the International Labor |Defense, which is defending the workers in Gastonia, and which has \offered to aid the workers in Mar- ion, is one of the strongest factors jin behalf of the workers in their jfight for better conditions. | The International Labor Defense jdrive for 50,000 members should be | exceeded by thousands,” he said. “It is one of the most valiant fighters for the workers in the world today.” | | | Biedenkapp and other Communists “who are enemies of the United States for mof government.” The three shops r’. the Septurn, 83 Marcy Ave.; the Elbee, 449 Trout- Action. Workers’ Union agreed to in ending your last strike. We are 100 per- for coming out on The mill owners and, . of L. bureaucrats have ab- of how tired we are by scabs. The men told Dermody that many of the notorious gahg- sters who have instituted a wave of terror against the striking truck- men, under orders from Tammany and the oil companies, are known! Workers Force The workers’ pressure for a new t great two wee 0 that the officials had to is: for a strike vote. The taki nf the vote was postponed a weel strike became so bo: ly no ide #e0, ‘out. of aeupeets” the: of while being dr to them by sight, and that they had id, “for Konsul Kummer, ac 4 system, 12 a recognized several roaming the head of the 4 i berg anc a day at starvation wage: treets in cars belonging to the 14th hand the mill owners nued on Page Two) On the (Cont one embly district headquarters. 3,000 Now Out. The ranks of the strikers have now been increased to 3,000 and in- PREPARE STRIKE FOSTER BLASTS unless by that date the Asso- | ciated Dental Laboratories, Inc., an employers’ organization, accedes to union demands which include recog- | i j nition, the eight-hour day, dahout| Big Mass Meeting week and the minimum wage scale. | TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 10.— | is | Two months intensive organiza-|The mass meeting to expose the ATTACK GERMAN JOBLESS. | tion work in which several hundred | American Federation of Leboe Con: BERLIN, Oct. 10—Thursday’s ses- | new and lapsed members were en-,, vention of labor traitors now in ses- sion of the Reichstag passed on the | rolled has created favorable condi- sion here was held yesterday, with third reading the new law cutting | tion for a_ successful walk-out, | William Z. Foster, general secretary support of unemployed workers. h will also affect New Jersey| of the Trade Union Unity League merican compan’ vho had committed sduicide. The workers forced the of the ballot, and 3 practically unanimousls y There folowed the telegraphing for instructions by the local U. T, W. officers, an dtoday their an- nounement that if the mills would appoint one man, the U. T. W. would appoint one, and the two would pick another, the decision of the “arbi- tration board” to be final. Fake Arbitration. Since both the company’s man and the U. T. W, represent the employ- ers, it is hardly possible that such a board would do the strikers any good. taking See voted e, New York dental laborator, 800 TorontoWorkers in The Communists voted against the | M. J. Shalkan, organizer, told as the principal speaker, and over law. (Contmued on Page Two) | 600 workers there to hear him. | The nieeting was held just outside ‘ \the city limits. in spite of various Pioneers Hate to Return to: e . 4 This is the first meeting of mili- Capitalist { .S.A. After | SS tant workers held here in the last |six months which was not broken up rH A ‘ is yl were those of the Industrial Needl ae pained Weate pane Me ° re me (Trades Union of Canada. MacDon. epublic: T eir eception Is a 1 ‘ald (not the premier) and Ewan Pp » Pp y ently made a bitter exposure of the fas- including 11-year-old Elmer Me-|old daughter of New York needle tions in Toronto. A delegation of Donald, of Gastonia, have returned | trades workers; Delia Morelli, 14 | Hamilton steel strikers was received to America with eyes agleam at the| years old, daughter of a Pittsburgh | With an ovation, \sights of working class progress in| miner; Marion Semchyschen, War Danger. sorts of police terror and intimida- ‘by the police. The formal auspices Seven Young Pioncers of America,!Philadelphia; Jessie Taft, 14-year- | cist regime, which has its manifesta- \the Soviet Union. They attended years old, son of an automobile} Foster delivered a speech that was th emilitant shoe union in accord-|man St., and the Resined, 330 Mel- ance with instructions circulated by | rose St. + Charles W. Wood, Commissioner of A widespread campaign against New ork Department of Labor. the state instigated attempt to par- His recent letter had advised a alyze union activities is developed break on the grounds that the or- by the union the “Independent” ganization was controlled by Fred | through regional mass meetings. \the International Congress of Pion- worker in Detroit; Albert Soren, of jeers and heard “Gastonia” on the| Toronto, Canada; Herbert Halpern, |tengues of workers’ children from’ son of a New York shoe worker, and ;more than a score of lands. |Joe Shiffman, their leader. Those on the trip with the south Elmer, who had never been out- jern mill worker’s son, were Shelley side of Gastonia in his life before, Strickland, 12-year-old Negro of| «Continued on Page Two) 4 | 2 thorough exposure of the A. F. L. | policy of sell-out and war mongers. “The war danger,” Foster said, (Contmued on Page Two) Build Wp the United Front of the Working Class, COMMUNIST ISSUE Trade Union Unity Conventions VIRTUALLY ABANDONS PRETENSE OF | 1 KG | 'Defense Witnesses Prove Policeman Roach F MERELY MURDER TRIAL”; APPEALS TO SACCO-VANZETTI CASE PRECEDENT ired First Shot; 2 More Police Shots Before Strikers Began Firing in Self Defense ‘More Testify Police Announced Just Before Raid, Time Had Arrived CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 10.—An attempt to introduce to Kill Unionists in Tent Colony; Expose Cop’s Brutality as evidence the opinions of de- fendants and witnesses in the Gastonia case on political, economic and religious questions for the purpose of prejudicing the fundtmentalist jury was made this morning by the prosecution. Cansler, the mill owners’ lawyer, cited the decisions of the superior court of Mass setts in the Sacco-Vanzetti case as a precedent. The prosecution has been assuring the press for the pa not be another Sacco-Vanzeti case. N. Y. Unit Adopts Bessemer City, the Home of Ella May Workers and Organizatiions Must Aid at Once in Rushing “Daily” South 2. Unit 11F, Section of New York, adopts Bessemer City! Bessemer City is the scene of a fierce reign of terror on the part of the mill bosses, a terror against the mill workers which has spread from Gastonia. 2.50 a week, means that the workers side with Ella May Wiggins, that great fighter and s struggle, will receive a bundle of at least 25 Daily martyr in the cl Workers each da; The Gastonia Gazette, the mill boss-controlled sheet known to the mill workers as the “Gassy Gazette,” was the mill bosses’ chief instru- ment citing the Bessemer City reign of terror against the members of the National Textile Workers’ Union. And iy Bessemer City the mill bosses have circulated this mur- derous sheet among the mill workers. The Bessemer City workers did not read the “Gassy Gazette,” and inany of them instead wrote us to send copies of the Daily Worker to them. ' The pledge to contribute $2.50 a week means that a part of the Bessemer City workers, at least, will receive the Daily Worker every day. But there are over 1,000 mill workers in Bessemer City. Other units and working class groups can share in the adoption of (Continued on Page Two) MARION KILLERS the two companies of militia. They may be held up however, until the end of the hearings being conducted by Judge Harding on the murder charges preferred against Sheriff Oscar Adkins and his deputies. trouble which cost the lives of five people with 20 wounded, I feel the should be asked to move,” ed Pres. Marby Hart of the Id mill. ‘ording to the bosses, BULLETIN MARION, N, C., Oct. 10.—Del- mar Hampton and Amy Schech- ter, both released Gastonia trial defendants, cre here today to in- vestigate and offer relief and legal help to the strikers neglected by the U. T. W. officials. Wholesale evictions of strikers are causing much suffering, an dthe U. T. W. has done nothing to relieve it. ane | Adkins at Hearing. The hearing before Judge Hard- ing has now been turned into a forum for mill owners’ propaganda, | with Sheriff Oscar Adkins and his MARION, N. C,, Oct. 10,—No rest “deputies piously assuring the world from trouble is to be granted the that the strikers did most of the Marion and Clinchford cotton mill Shooting. |unionists. Ninety-two blacklisted! Previously, striker witnesses had families of the most active strikers! proved that there were no guns are to be evicted from their com-jamong the strikers, and that the |pany houses “After Wednesday’s|sheriff’s force did all the shooting. Daily Worker Will Run New Novel by Writer of U.S.S.R. '“The City of Bread”, By Alexander Neweroff, To Start Monday A pleasant surprise is in store for|peasants of the Samara district, ithe readers of the Daily Worker }combined with an unusual talent fit- when they open their dailies next |ted Neweroff for the task of chron- Monday. licking the lives of the poor peasants On that day the Daily Worker will | as few other writers in Soviet Rus- begin publication of another great | sia were fitted. novel by a Soviet writer—Alexan-| It remaine dfor the Revolution to der Neweroff. The book is called| bring out the talent of this proleta- “The City of Bread.” rian writer. Neweroff, the son of poor peas-| The “City of Bread,” his only full- ants, was born in the village of No- length novel, deals wit hthe famine vikoka, in the Samara province, in| years in the Soviet Union, in the 41886, A lifetime among the poor| (Continued on Page Two) All hat we want is a fair trial.” chu- st two months that “this will ° Everything they have done proves the reverse. Now that the defense witnesses are tear- ing apart the tissue of lies woven by perjured state’s wit- nesses, the prosecution in des- peration resorts to every pos- sibility to appeal to religious, politi- cal and racial prejudices of the 12 conservatives who will pass upon the guilt or innocence of seven militant unionists. Over and over again Jake Howell, attorney for the prosecution, asks witnesses if they are members of the Communist Party, with sneer- ing insinuations that the Commu- nists advocate everything that is detrimental or vicious. Although the judge sustains ob- jections by the defense to these questions and insinuations, neverthe- Jess the prosecution persists, know- ing that even if ruled out, their ly- ing distortion of Communist theory and misrepresentation of Commu- nism will have an effect on the jury, to whom Communism is synonomous with “anti-Christ.” Judge Barnhill listened to Can- sler’s arguments on the introduction of the opinions of the defendants and _ witne: and took the law books containing the decision home to study. He will render a decision later. es The contrast between the defense and the prosecution witnesses is startling. The defense witnesses are obviously telling the “truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” They are wowrkers, direct and honest. Their testimony deals with nothing but what they have seen with their own eyes. The | state’s witnesses were obviously mill hirelings, and disreputable | thugs, glibly saying whatever they thought would be of help in sending the unionists to the penitentiary. The testimony of the state’s wit- nes: was easily broken down by c xamination from the defense, while sneering verbal assault on the defense witnesses by the prosecution has not shaken them in the least. “One week before the shooting, Gilbert came to the union lot at night. He flashed his light on us and cussed us out for a bunch of bastards. He said he had half a mind ot shoot all us union people. ‘LT am coming down here some night with my gang and clean you out.’ I said, ‘Don’t pull your gun on me.’ \ Gilbert answered, ‘I’ll shoot you too, |god “damn you.’” ‘This is part of the testimony of C. D. Saylors, | whic occupied. all the afternoon session. Paid Only Expenses. Saylors told how he was dis- charged from the Myers mill in South Gastonia for joining the N T. W., and then became active in the W. I. R. and I. L. D. which paid |him only expenses. This morning Irene Curley, who is Gladys Wallace’s mother, and Katie, another daughter, orroborated the account given yesteray by Gladys Wallace. They told of Beal's speeh at the strike meeting before | the picket line proceeded toward the Loray mill, and denied that he told | (Continued on Page Three) 4