The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1929, Page 3

| Stop Municipai Investigati TIAL DISSOLUTION’ FAKE ‘PAR OF FASCIST STAHLHELM 0 GET ANTI-LABOR LAW THROUGH Yugoslav Ambassador Refuses to Hear Worker |... Delegation Protesti ng Against Murders Socialist “Vorwaerts” Furnishes Terrorist with Specious Argument Against Red Aid "(Wireless By Imprecorr) | inent persons in the Sklarek scandal. The muiticipal inquiries have been $ BERLIN, Germany, Oct. 10.—The | Sklarek scandal, involving the ma-|Stopped “at the request of the pub- yor of Berlni in graft, continués to|lic pfosecutor” as allegedly interfer- grow. The borugeotste press pub-| nig with the prosecutor’s activities. lishes a statement of Lehman, the| Fake Dissolution. i attested bookkeeper of the Sklarek| The fascist “Stahlhelm” organiza-| fitm, stating that the fur coat given | tion was “dissolved” by the author-| as a bribe to the wife of Mayor ities in the Rhineland and West- | Boess of Berlin was sent by the|Phalia’ as a military organization | Sklarek firm nad that the transac- | compromising Germany's foreign re- | RIDA _ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, F on in Berlin to Co Canal Must Be Built If Every Nicaraguan Be Killed or Jailed MANAGUE, Nncaragua, Oct. 10,— Haynig locked up several political opponents, President Moncada, in- stalled and maintained in office by Yankee marines, has written a Inog accu ion against them in ng that they were aid- nad “plotting against He intimates follow. bandits the government.” more arrests ma WORKERS THRONG. TO’ CHARLOTTE Conventions Oct. 12-13 to Plan Great Drive (Continued frome Page One) mass meeting, to which delegates and all other workers are invited, the! BIG GAIN IN USSR GRAIN. PURCHASE IS REPORTED Collections Increase 100 P. C. Over 1928 A United Press dispatch from g says that despite the vigor- tance by wealthier peasants, the grain purchases in the first three months of the 1929 agricultural year, ended Sept. 80, exceeded Soviet plans. Bread gains collected in- Y, OCTOBER 11, 1929 creased 100 pet cent over the same months in 1928. | The success of the grain collection | has been made in the face of the! most violent opposition from the| “Kulaks,” the wealthier peasants. | Reports come almost daily from} the grain centers that murder, arson and sabotage are being resorted to) Page Three ~ = as ‘Government Takes Back ver Connection ot Socialists with IN THE SHOPS earner Swindle | | | CHEAT CANNERY AU oF His corover’s Fay) OTTERS IN UA | (By a Soldier Correspondent.) | ANCON, Panama Canal Zone (By| Mail).—I have had just a chance to read the Daily Worker for the first] time and it certainly made me feel| |good to see one paper that fights| for the working class and us poor| devils in the army. | We are now on the range, that is| e shooting for record. We are forced to pay for the ammunition for practice. we Now a ment issues us for the purpose of learning how to shoot down our own brother workers in of war. They usually go bad on us after firing on the range; powder filling |remains in the bore (not the sol- case show you how they get this miser- able $21 a month back from us. We get paid on the last day of the month, and by the time we reach the door we have left only the mem- ory of holding the money in our hands for a few minutes. Most of us never get out of debt to our wonderful government. Here is what we have to pay from the lousy .| the unbearable Shop Committee There | Fights Slavery | (By a Worker Correspondent) | OAKLAND, Cal. (By You know, fellow work speed-up whic Mail). — about h has ut the rifle the govern-| $8 for laundry} $1 for community | been steadily forced upon us to such chest; $1 shoe shine; $3 at least--| 8" extent that we are not getting tailor and shoemaker; $3 cigarettes; | even an hour's lunch and $3 at least—toilet articles. supper combined, Many other things too. We have) You know we are being cheated to pay for uniforms, $21 in amount, | oUt of overtime pay whcih we are Jand for all sorts of ornaments— | Supposed to get, because we are not even for buttons. permitted to keep our own time re- Workers, don’t think us soldiers ;cord. Our time is punched by the rest for We time counter who daily cheats us tion was a sale, for which 400 marks | lations. lhere in Old City Auditorium. under the leadership of richer peas- igeis Pauley Aadite oldice us forced xe ee ee ee about 2% hour (| GASTONIA TRIAL was to be paid. Actually, the fur coat was order- ed by the Sklarek outfit from the | most elegant furriers, and cost about 4,000 marks. Boess hasn’t even paid the bill of 400 so far, Hid Friend’s Graft. The Rote Fahne, Communist gan, publishes a sensational @ closure that weeks before the dis- covery of the Sklarek swindle, the Rote Fahne informant sent a regis- tered letter to Mayor Boess, reveal- ing the details of the Sklarek swin- | dies. Boess ignored this letter, and un- dertook no inquiries. The Rote | The Rote Fahne points out that) | this “partial dissolution” is a swir-| dle in order to rush through the new “Law for the Defense of the Republic” against revolutionary | workers, | | _ Terrorist Evades Workers. | The delegation of Berlin wor! |calling upon the Jugo Slav amba: jsador here was refused an audience jtoday. This delegation was elected | at a great mass meeting under the auspices of the International Red The speakers are James P. Reid, president of the National Textile Workers’ Union; George Maurer, for the Trade Union Unity League; Russel Knight, Delmar Hampton, K. O. Byers, Sophie Melvin, E. Teth- erow, Hugo Oehler, and others. It TS | will be devoted largely to mobiliza-| tion against the bosses’ black hun- dred terror in the South, and is in commemoration for the murdered Ella May and the five kille in Mar- ion. It will rally support for the | Aid, in order to protest against the Gastonia case defendants. ants. The poorer peasant classes generally support the government and frequently force their rich neighbors to surrender hidden crops supplies. vs The richer peasants have resorted to such methods as oturder of local Soviet officials and even the firing of collective farms and entire vil- lages is not uncommon. The Soviet government is taking energetic measures and these caught are charged with counter-revoluticn. oe ended Oct. 5 totaled onl 135,000 |to pay for it just the same. bushels as compared to 4,728,C00 bu-} This we have to pay from the shels for the similar week in 1928.|lousy wages of $21 a month. I will | Wealthier farmers are keeping are looking to the day when we will turn our guns on our enemies— the capitalist class. | —G.—A SOLDIER. their grain in storage in elevators. | The situation, however, means ruin | for tenants and those with smal! farms, who are unalle to meet their current expenses. | Unemployment and wage cuts of | industrial workers in the United| States is constantly reducing their | |purehasing power and taking it im- Carpenters Mulcted By Misleaders for Fake Pension Fund (By a Worker “Twenty-five cents per month per member in addition to what the car- ‘orrespondent) ) additional 25 cents a month from each member. In this time of general unemploy- ment it would be proper to intreduce a resolution to reduce the salaries of the officials all around. Not one | penny more of burden on the mem- bership. The home and _ pension scheme is a cloak for the fakers to th fixing the time so tha tthe company does not | have to pay the overtime rate. You know that little strike of the cutters on Aug. 3rd gave a | little victory to the: But because | the other departments did not strike | with them and we failed to complete |an organization they are now, after a few weeks time losing what they | gained by their strike. | Seven truck drivers who walked |out in support of the cutters’ strike were fired. Were you glad to see | the | ple to buy the agricultural prod- | murderous terror of the Jugo Slav | government. The secretary of the | Jugo Slav embassy telephoned the |social democatic paper “Vorwaerts” Fahne published the letter, and the | asking about the I. R. A, and was receipt signed by Boess. |told by the editcrs: “The Red Aid Feverish aterapts are being made|is a Communist blackmail organiza- to conceal the participation of prom- tion.” GLASS WAR IN “Beeause I am blacklisted.” — “Why did you quit your job at |the Loray mill?” the prosecution de- | ded manded. “Because they didn’t pay enough to buy even fatback and biscuits.” Gilbert Known As Bad Character. Four character witnesses took the . ba | stand to testify that Gilbert had a ‘Defense Witnesses Say | Jet Hewett, J. W. z i bad reputation, Police Shot First Beard, and S. W. Knight, who have (Continued from Page One) known Gilbert from five to twelve years each, swore he is generally the strikers to “go into the mill and | reptited to be a drunkard and a drag them out by force,” and “shoot | fighter. They told of one “drunken ‘and shoot to kill,” as prosecution |frachs” after another in which Gil- - witnesses have quoted him. | bert was involved. All the defense witnesses agree| Knight is a Charlotte carpenter, ‘that Beal told the strikers in the who saw Roach and Gilbert at 5} speech to form a picket line and go|p. m: the day of the-road, June 7.| to the mill, an dthe night shift) Me said they were drunk. He asked torney would join them on strike. Nothing was said by Beal about dragging the workers out of the mills, or about Gilbert if he wasn’t afraid he would | get into trouble. “Hell no,” answered Gilbert, “As shooting the officers. long as I have this badge, I can do The National Tetile Workers Union yesterday issued the following state- ment, over the signature of Dewey Martin, for the District Executive Comittee here. It points out the re- lation between the present Gastonia ase trial, and the need of organiza- tion on the part of the southern \textile workers. It says: “Senator Simmons of North Caro- lina, in shielding the textile barons in the proposed senate investigation on the textile situation in the South, claims tha tthe workers are not re- ceiving low wages and in general everything is satisfactory. Senator Simmons for years has been the political boss in the state contorlling the democratic primaries, and in these same years has always consist- ently voted with the Republicans in their measures to help the power trust, the lumber trust and the capi- talist interests against the workers and poor farmers, both black and white . Real Conditions. “Clyde Hoey, Manville-Jenckes at- prosecuting the leaders of the National Textile Workers’ Union, is Senator Simmons’ representative in this section. Clyde Hoey, Senator Simmons, Mr. Jenckes, Mr. Cramer, Huge Wheat Surplus in U. S— |P e ag | which remain in elevators and Exports Fall. The surplus of wheat in the United States exceeds any previous warehouses. t Britain is turning to Canada wheat supply. American Q | \for i record, while exports are rapidly de- | have been sending their |penter already has to pay out of his |sweat and blood to the misleaders of |the Carpenters’ Union;” this is the jway the special circular sent out by | Frank Duffy, general treasurer of cover their betrayals, W. A.W. |YOUr friends thrown out? Of course not. Accord Between Soviet Then why permit this? Even the little strikes show that the bosses have to give in quickly during the busy season when experi- If the workers jcreasing, according to reports of the | Department of Agriculture and Com- merce, | Exports o wfheat for the week the union, should have read. Duffy believes in “democracy” and therefore he sends out a citetlar on a resolutio nsent in by his hench- growers grain to Canada, where they get a jhigher price, despite the duty of 12! jcents per bushel. Alabama, no limit. “Many mills, 11-hour day and 12- hour night (women included)” “These figures and any other fig- ures hat will be taken from the Labor Department will prove that the Southern textile workers work the longest hours for the smallest pay. More Product, Less Wage. “At the 21st annual convention of formed the convention that the tex- are no wproducing 100 to 200 per cent more than ‘hey did several years ago. This tremendous increase in production has been accompanied by wage reductions and a general worsening of the mill workers’ con- ditions throughout the Carolinas % x 5 }men from local union 58, Chicago, ying union of the workers in the state | and endorsed by 25 locals in 25 —to outlaw workers? organizations, | states, for in every state the bu- |both political and industrial, that|ycaucraey from the general office the Southern Textile Association, | he bosses’ associations, held at Ashe- | ville July 55th, the Secretary in-/| tile workers in the mills of the South | stand for class struggle—and to | whitewash those responsible for the | Marion massate, the brutal murder | of Ella May and the terroristic acts of the black hundreds led by Solici- tor Carpentet and Major Bulwinkle. | “The textile workers and the} work ers of other industries and the | poor farmer, white and black, are| | uniting and are building industrial unions to fight for better conditions and will unite in a workers’ politi- cal ticket to smash all these servants | of the bosses, both demorats and re- publicans, and any of their fake third party group:.” Jail 60 Soldiers Who Protect Communists in | and the entire South. Bohemia from Arrest Tells of Gilbert’s Threats. Irene Corley told about hearing Gilbert say, after the officers had broken up the picket line, ‘Let's go down and kill the sons-of-bitches.” She also heard Gilbert say to the strikers’ guard who demanded a warrant, damn warrant.” She said she smelled whiskey on Gilbert and Roaoch when they were driving back the picket line from the Loray mill, “cursing and raisin cain with the strikers” Mrs. Corley said: “I heard Gil- “We don’t need no god ” |democrats and republicans are united ee ener ae [against the textile workers in their Paul Shepard, a divinity student struggle for higher wages, long who lives in Gastonia was the last hours and against the stretch-out. |witness this morning. He can not| «A few facts of the textile indus- \be impaeched for strange doctrines | t,y figures taken from the bosses’ fis he if a fundamentalist. He heard own information bireaus—will prove Beal’s speech, saw the picket line that Senator Simmons is again faith- broken up, and saw the shooting. |fylly representing the interests of He corroborated all essential details | the bosses against the workers: oi the previous defense witnesses. |" «for 158 cotton mills in the coun- He said he saw the guard at the/try, the average per hour earnings front of the union hall, who shouted | 54 'a1) workers were 32.4¢, Compar- bad Gilbert, “Tarn him lose” when | able figures for the eastern states |Gilbert seized the guard and dis-|injude Connecticut, 39.1¢; Maine, “Senator Simmons and Governor Gardner may be political enemies, other bosses, there is a united front against the workers and poor far- mers and especially against the most exploited, the Negro workers. Workers Unite. “Senator Simmons and Governor Gardner supports the textile work- ers like a rope suppor‘: a hanged man. Both Senator Simmons and Governor Gardner are doing all in but when it comes to protecting the | interests of the textile bosses end the | PRAGUE, (By Mail).—According | to a report received from Bohemian | Budweis several Communists were arrested there while distributing | anti-militarist leaflets among the} soldiers. When the latter saw the arrests of the Communists they at- tempted to interfere and prevent the arrest. Sixty soldiers were there- upon arrested, | Build Up the United Front of manager to have control of one or more locals by means very well |known to the membership which suf- fers under the despotic rule of Hutcheosn and his clicque. The fakers call for a general vote on the question, “Shall th: monthly | per capita tax to the home and pen- sion fund be increased 25 cents per member per month?” The membership voted this prop- j osition down in 1928, For the Home and Pension fund is an additional income for the bureaucracy instead of relief to the members. The offi- cials’ wages are from $5,000 to $12,- 000 a year and expenses from $300) to $500 a month and and occasional | tri pto Europe, such as the general president Hutcheson and general treasure Duffy took this summer. This is not enough, so they need an Workers Are Eager to Join the LEWES, —Representatives of Great Britain and Soviet Russia reached as agree- ment today looking toward resump- tion of relations between the two countries. It was understood the agreement must be approved by | tive, + 8 * Editorial Note: No illusion should | {be entertained that any resumption of relations with the Soviet Union means that British imperialism has | slackened its war plans against the | Soviet Union. The maneuver was needed at this moment when the Labor Party leaders face a ctitical situation at the British Conference, but Ramsay MacDonald’s visit to Hoover is known to be designed to reach an accord, not for world peace but for wrld imperialist war on the and Britain Implies No. Change in Imperialsm Eng., Oct. 10—(UP). parliament before becoming opera- enced help kicks. realized that by all departments getting together and setting up de- mands backed by courage and un- {derstanding and a willingness to |fight for these demands, their work- Jing conditions would be quickly bet- | tered. This would show that the workers mean to stand for their elementary human rights. Then organize a shop committee {at once and fight for the fellowing demands: 1. Weighing of fruit to be done | within sight of the cutters. 2. Each worker to punch his or her own time. 8. Fruit of poorer grade to be paid day work. 4. Double time for overtime 5. Equal pay for equal work—no favoritism. {Get in touch with the present Ac- | ting Shop Committee by writing to V. Raymon, 708 Peralta St., Oakland, California. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bet- | Soviet Union. tom Up—at the Enterprises! LIVING DEATH faces the 7 GASTONIA DEFENDANTS the Working Class From the Bot- | bert tell Katie, ‘I’ll knock your damn | armed him. Thereupon: Roach turn- 32.70; Massachusetts, 39.2c; New tom Up—at the Enterprises! their power to help smash the grow- brains out.” ed around and shot at the guard, Under cross examination Mrs.) who tan back into the union hall. | Corley said she and her whole fam-|Two more shots came from the po- ily had been blacklisted and cannot | lice car, nad then the strikers began get jobs eithe rin Gastonia or else-| ing. “Wh caer ae) where in North Carolina. She has| Shepard helped to take Harrison been given food and shelter ever |to the hospital and went home where since the strike by the Workers’ In-|he was arrested the next morning | ternational Reliet, she stated. For | at four o'clock. the past three weeks she has been| “I worked for six years in the supported by the International La-| cotton mills, so I know how bad bor Defense. conditions are,” Shepard told the} The prosecution has asked every | prosecution, wher. asked why he was | defense witness, “Who is paying | sympathetic with the N. T. W. U your expenses?” They ate attempt-|and the I. L. D. in gto draw an inference from this that the National Textile Workers’ Union, the W. I. R. and the Com- munist Party are all identical, and that since the I. L D, is conducting the defense and supporting the wit+ id more. jety two great host wreat and directly contra- naeut bourgeoisie and pro- Hampshire, 41.9¢; New York, 40.4¢; and Rhode Island, 41c. for the southern group of states were: Alabama, 24.4c; Georgia, 26¢; North Carolina, 29.5¢; South Caro- lina, 26c, and Virginia, 31.6c. “The above table shows that there is a difference of 15.2¢ per hour between average wages in the South and North. This is of the greatest significance as indicating the ex- tremely low standard of living. “Average annual earnings cotton mill workers in the four leading New England states are 558.5 per cent higher than in four leading Southern states.” (Census Manu- facturing, 1923-P. 216). North Carolina, Georgia, 60-hour week, South Carolina, 55-hour week nesses, therefore they are all biased, bought and paid for, as the states’ witnesses were obviously bought by the Manville-Jenckes Co, | Tells of Stool-igeon Attacks, | It was on this point that a sharp lash came between the defense and the prosecution on the question of permitting the prosecution to appeal to the prejudices of the jury by ad- yerse inferences to atheism, over+ throwing the government, ect. | Katie Corley corroborated her) mother’s testimony and told in more detai labout the stool-pigeons’ at- tempt to break up the meeting at whih Beal spoke of throwing eggs, _rocks and bottles at him and Buch. 1853 ‘The Same Addres Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,600.00, at the rate of n Monda on by Mall. ETROPOLITAN SAVINGS ASSETS EXCEEDING §29,000,01 Deposith made on or before day of the month will from the Ist day of AY. all day) until 7 P, M. oclety Acco A. B. A, Travelers Cer 5 Over 75 Years 100 ra ES ‘A is Acet led Katie saw the police knock Earl Thompkinson down on the picket line and then “stamp on him.” She was so angered at this that she threw a rock at the police, who then * theatenred to “knok your god damn ‘brains out.” * @ said, the police beat old ih Katie also ~ quoted Gilbert as saying, “Let’s go down and kill every god domn one ‘ of those sons of bitches.” Saw Roach Fire. Katie heard Gilbert tell the guard at the tent colony, who demanded a warrant, “We don’t need no god damn warrant.” Then, she said, Roach fired the first shot at the strikers’ guard, Then she ran for ty, while the shooting from both strikers and police followed. In answer to the question, “Why fon’t You wrok2” Katie answered, Moscow. Art Shields uncover: timber. Subscribe, $ LABOR D. 80 EAST 11TH STREET Fua page drawing of Ella May, by Fred Ellis. and J. Louis Engdahl on Gastonia. Photos showing interna- tional movement for the defense of the Gastonia prisoners. The Soviet Fliers, the T. U. U. L., the miners, Pioneers in Mexico, Bombay, Workers’ sports. Bill Dunne 's unknown heroes of southern Now for Sale. 1,00 a year. EFENDER NEW YORK, N. Y. The rates | | The first working class construction. Telephone New York Grand Central Indian Summer Days at CAMP NITGEDAIGET ARE WELL REMEMBERED Come Out Now and Enjoy Yourself. The New Nitgedaiget Hotel of sixty 100ms with all latest improvements is in It will be ready in November. MN, CAMP NITGEDAIGET. BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Easterbrook 1400 DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily—from W. 42d St. or 129th St. or by train— camp——entirely rebuilt Beacon 731 Trains Leave Every Hour ie Oe is the statement of the Inter- national Labor Defense or- ganizer, Jane Croll, in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. “Send us a good supply of application cards,” she writes. “I find from visiting union and fraternal locals around here that the workers are wil- ling and eager to join the I. L. D.,” this organizer de- clares, HAVE YOU ASKED YOUR UNION YET TO AFFILIATE WITH THE I, L. D.? The work of this organiza- tion at Gastonia has put it before the eyes of the entire working class not only of the United States but interna- tionally. GASTONIA NEW BEDFORD PASSAIC all tell the great work the I. L. D. carries on for the work- ing class, “WE WILL GET 1000 NEW MEMBERS TO JOIN” writes F. Firestone, I. L. D. organizer in the Los Angeles district. FROM EAST TO WEST THE I. L. D. IS KNOWN AND NEEDED! The I. L. D. is calling for 50,000 new members by Janu- ary 1, 1930, Have You Joined Yet? Sign the following blank and become a member, I want to join the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Nnclosed find 25 cents for initiation fee, NAME ADDRESS ort... International Labor Defense SOK. 11th St, New York City occurred your production up.” $9 and $12. by undernourishment. defense of these seven GREATER MASS The time is short! 80 EAST 11TH STREET HAYMARKET SHALL IT BE MOONBY & BILLINGS 1917 CENTRALIA GASTONTA gacco « vANaertt 1919 1929 1927 They Face 30 Years Prison! F. L. Jenckes, co-partner of the Manville-Jenckes Co. which also has mills in New England, writes to his resident agent G. A. Johnstone, commending him for his manage- ment of the Loray Mill in Gastonia, where the strike “I am frank to say that I was skeptical about your being able to cut $500,000 a year on the Loray payroll and keep production up. I want to apologize now for this skepticism. Now I think you can cut $1,000,000 a year and still keep That tells the story. A story of a constantly lengthened work day tnd constantly decreased wages. It telss of the speeding up of production in order to make the $500,000 saving for the Manville-Jenckes Corporation. the abject misery and suffering of these workers forced to work 60 and 64 hours a week for a pay envelope of It explains why so many workers of the South suffer with pellagra—that dread disease caused The reign of terror instituted by the mill bosses to crush the workers organizations, the kidnap- ping and flogging of National Textile Workers Union and International Labor Defese orgaizers, the murder of Ella May—courageous woman strike leader, the murder of five Marion textile strikers and the wounding of 23 pickets—chal- lenges the organized strength of the working class to resist these attacks, It is a challenge to every workers organization to get behind the LIBERATE ALL GASTONIA PRISONERS! RUSH FUNDS TO Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign It tells of strike leaders. PRESSURE WILL Our responsibility is great! jp. NEW YORK CITY