The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1929, Page 1

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE FOR THESE CANDIDATES ON COMMUNIST TICKET! CITY TICKET. BOROUGH TICK4is. Bronx. Brool-lyn. Bronx. | 16th A. D.: Morris Kushinsky. 17th Ald. Dist.: Libertad Narvaez. | Brooklyn | Manhattan. | George Pershing 22nd A. D.: Alfred Wagenknecht 20th Ald. Dist.: Gaetano DiFazio ati For mayor: William W. Weinstone. For president, Borough of Man-,_ or president, oBrough of Bronx: | For president, Borough of Brook- Rose Wortis. d A. D.: Rachel Ragozin, eist Ald vine ache 35th Ald. Dist.:Hyman Gordon. hattan: J. Louis Engdahl. Juliet Stuart Poyntz. lyn: Frederick Biedenkapp. | 4th A. D.: Moissaye J. Olgin. | FOR BOARD OF ALDERMEN. | ~~ * ae , 49th Ald. Dist.: Nathaniel Kapl © For comptroller: Otto Hall. | For district attorney, New York| For district attorney, Bronx Coun-| 45. sheriff: Hyman Levine. | 5th A, D.: Rebecca Grecht. | | Bronx. fi ogee obs DIB b se aeICL an ery County: Vern Smith. ty: Belle Robbins. Pence a eine Brooklyn Menhattan. 1 ae 1 50th Ald, Dist.: Samuel Wisem Porpresident: Hoard of Aldermen?! roy, é Lele aee ae Lie ee ; | dere avs , : eae : ; ee | 255t5h Ald, Dist.: John Harvey, | 50th Ald, Dist.: Samuel Wiseman, president, Board of Aldermen: For sheriff, New York County:| For sheriff, Bronx County: Leo For Congress, 21st District: Rich- 6th A, D.: Joseph Magliacano. 6th Ald. Dist.: Adolph Bassen. SEA ETE: Spool ees : Harry M. Wicks. | Samuel Kramberg. | Hoffbauer, ard B, Moore (special election). 14th A. D.: Samuel Nesin, 8th Ald. Dist: Samuel Darcy. EA SE ae He 56th Ald, Dist.: Lena Chernenko, VOTE RED! VOTE FOR YOUR CLASS! VOTE COMMUN __ REGISTER | TODAY! VOTE RED! VOTE FOR YOUR CLASS! VOTE COMMU ST! REGISTER TODAY! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY rker EDITION (ter at the Pont Office at New York. N. ¥,, ander the act of March 3, a eee ee NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, m= UC foe ee =e Price 5 Cale \PROSECUTION BRINGS RACE ISSUE IN GASTON TRIAL Southern Textile Workers C Conterence nce Opens in in Charlotte 1 Today to Plan Great Drive Foster, Starts for Textile RENEWED STRKE Workers, Mec OL TRUCKMEN'S (CLAIMS IT IMPEACHES CREDIBILITY C: nference, Predicts Big OF SOLD PRODUCE Daily fe oe STRIKE SPREADS; | ‘Suruggle Against Terror DRVERS LOOMING pecemmsemmng.SHAUFFERS JON nei SURE EH jung eUUL. Conv vention Sunday in Same City Will '3,000 Food _ ‘Handlers |AFL Official a for Govt. Strikebrea s, Build Local Organizations May Join; Bosse; = : | For Heo Terror G Grows Judge Still Withholds Ruling on Charge of Communism Against ignt § inst Starvation Wage; Long! = | Defendants and Defense Witnesses, But Jury Has Been Notified Work Day, Mill Town Slavery, Speed-Up Monopoly Hits Farms | Whalen Doubles Police | “The Southern Textile W fee: Gonrerence starting to-/T, U. U. L. pints Out TUUL Calin, for Fight/Saylors Testifies Policeman Gilbert Threatened Week Before Raid to morrcw in Charlotte, N. C., and the Trade Union Unity League’s = Get His G d Murder All of Unionists in Tent Colony Pha rg! ores ¥ iB p ntion set His Gang an ists in Te olony hern convention beginning in the same city the next dey | Boss Maneuv er | On Interve ti will defy the black hundred terror of the southern employers,|, The possibility of a wholesale BULLETIN. | BULLETIN. ind iay the basis for widespread organization and a movement} lock-out on the one hand, and of a) f A general strike of all truck driv-| CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 11.—R. H. Howell testified today in the Gastonia case, and smashed fer abolition of the starvation wage and the twelve hour work rere the Produce ack se zh Ne on ee ee ill ers in the city, with consequent the lie of the prosecution witnesses that defendants ina = out Katt: Holes in the union headquar- ” An 7 Boater Nae Beas strike, betray: - BF. o meet im the Dally Worker Monday. id other ildi s hy h. Howell stated that he saw Ed Kelly, and Tom Carver, members of sa , ¢ /, yster, ge e a te paralyzation of food, fuel and othe! ters building to shoot throug! y 5 Bi Wi ir Ze Bosvet Be eral sear One ee SEEAte (tacers last fa yesterday grew |On that day the fine Soviet novel, |Hetiveries, was threatened last night| the Loray vigilante committee, and policemen, punching out these knot-holes on June 8, the day after n Unity League, yesterday, on the eve of his departure : for out of the state’s attempt to cet | “The City of Bread,” by Alexander lwhen delegates of 16 Chauffeurs’ tlie alone Charlotte. Si an i aside section 9 of the new agreement f. starts in the Daily. unions lined up behind the striking Russel Knight testified to police participation in the attempt to break up the strike meeting on faxck: Gantinia Defense: § 5 | between the hauling contractors and | : r died, grandmother | gasoline truckmen. the union lot before the picketing. He told of Beal's real words at the meeting which did not include Bec . ;commission merchants, which pro-| died, then father. There was only Or eres | any advice to enter the mill or to shoot. Knight saw Policeman Ferguson beat McLaughlin with a gun The two conventions will be ¥ vides that out-of-town trucks must | Mishka left, with his mother and| ygications that the militancy of| in jail to extract a “confession” from him. He told of Gilbert’s being drunk and Gilbert's threat made used to mobilize masses of ' be unloaded on West St. and their |two littie brothers. The youngest, | the strikers is so great that they a week before the shooting to kill the strikers. Knight told also of the attempt of a bosses’ agent io southern workers btck of the MARION alt LINGS | perishables reloaded into city trucks, | Your years old, the middle one, eight. | wit not brook the usual A. F.-of L. poison the strikers’ water supply. Seven if the second hau! is for a| Mishka himself was twelve.” | zastoni f . break Z | ay ... |sell-out was seen in an SOS for Clyde Macabe, a passer-by, intended as a prosecution witness, testified for the defense that Gil- peeing. ¢ rears Shag DiSer ype fee gtaerieavcn |yprumeer! “Tt set Mishka thinking. |jegq] intervention sent out by bert said to Aderholt, “Let’s go down to the union lot and run them off or kill "em.” down the fascist power which As the boss truckmen pretend | Mishka went out into hte street; 3h | | Michael Cahin, business manager of Re ES ae sed wi ce uals ae Is rg that if the load-unload rule is |;HUIKS | weer ie ing about Tash: the Teamsters’ Union, last night. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 11—‘“We propose to show,” said Attorney Canslers, mem- ‘2 rs of the textile workers,” he Y& Ly | broken they will not be “able” to Kent. Bread was very cheap there.” “The temper of our men is such " : < z e sinh i age z : i |pay the $5 weekly increases thrown | , “TWO thousand versts away!” | 112+ unless some city, state or fed- ber of the mill owners’ prosecution trying to eliminate seven textile unionists from the class The T.U.U.L. gene secretary jas a sop to the drivers when their | Could a boy go theer too? eral authority steps in to compel | Struggle forever by long prison sentences, “that this Negro spoke on the same platform with indicated that an intensive organiza- Whitewash Proceeds oe eee for the 8-hour day and time Vee es ee es the Standard Oil Company and other | this man and that social equality between whites and blacks was advocated. This is an im- ti truggle throughout the South i jand a half f verti vas sold, | “",) AE ta . we} ent tate the'eonterences, Flans|. rearding’s Court — (ih tareaten ether t witinnw the| Tee story of Miubka's long jone-|ditriters to Utes to, resson, ©®/ peaching question.” eS ae ie eee | | will be laid at the 1 . south-| 7 ARION, N. C., Oct. 11 (UP).—| imetease or to ease operations en- | MCY to Tashkent in search of bresd | quences,” he eald: | The witness was Dewey Martin, active organizer of the National Textile Workers ern conyention to establish local in- .. a “an | tirely- will endear him to all workers who bok ae | Union. He was testifying for Fred Beal, Louis McLaughlin, William McGinnis, George Car- Ati ct ceneeal leazuce of ghe| SHOMEE (0. JF.\7-Adkine- and seven is apy read the Daily Worker. | . pee : 5 a 5 Sareea? hy ae a EE eeesccen nd others were exonerated’ today of all Militaney Unchecked. Between Comrade Kondratyev, lo-| With Tammany Hall frantically| ter, Joseph Harrison, K. Y, Hendricks, and Clarence Miller, accused of murdering Chief of Po- T.U.U.L. throughout the South, and ethers a 9 | The fine militancy of the drivers, | comotive enj h rushing more mobs of police and/lice Aderholt of Gastonia, because the chief was killed during a murderous raid tgainst the 4 pasa Aiea eh eae DE ass SO a pre | oe . CD t gineer, who aided Mish- ig ice Aderholt of Gastonia, because the chief was killed during a murderous raid tg probael a series of speakers will the blame in the killing of six tex- | which the “settlement” has failed to! ka on his wa: Kondratyev, the true | gunmen to the aid of the oil bosses, Loray mill strikers, living in the Workers International Relief Tent Colony at Gastonia, June 7. om the convention to tour jtile workers in t:> strike riot here| quell, asverted i : red e : ke s | quell, asserted itself in demands for to intensify the terror in the strike the industrial centers of the Caro- type of Communist workers, and the | e “ ‘4 T°" Oet. 2, in an oral opinion handed | an immediate walkout as soon as the | American working class reader will | Zones, the struggle of the 3,000 oil “DID A NEGRO SPEAK?” linas, Tennesse, Georgia, and Vir- é ; a their Rareities & y - eae ginia and other southern states. down by Judge Harding. Sens pee icay tsar " Neate ikaielt went’ sory all pee Tucan" “eane = intial | Martin had begun to describe the events of the evening of June 7 and told of himself 7 rganization ¢: i vill be Eight others must stand trial, oe ee a ee waste is. 3 | tne hardships of the life of the poor |truckmen employed by the Austin speaking at a strike meeting there, eee sections where the workers show | gar; Fa aero cameo etn es peasant under te czar and during | Nichols Co, manufacturers of Sun- ® “Did a Negro speak from the sections “where the workers show ,¢mitted firing shots during. the CHil DREN TELL the yeurs of famine ereated hy the beam, Food, went out in sympathy ¥ és * sae” pluton witheyont ake MGR caticee tet cade riot. Their pleas of self defense enemies of the first Workers and| with the oil workers on Thursday, Y g M ll St k C Il sew Newe ae For Concrete Demand: want: Re vohaniderba bya Jukes Peasants Republic and have been joined by the drivers; oun 1 Yl er a S on manded James F. Newell, mem Concrete plans of o and e will be Charlotte stretch-cut § e After the defense had closed its We ath e the prosecution produced wit- nesses who testified that John Jonas, who wa schot while scuffling with ff, was very feeble and, due , ast the {@ raewmatism, could net close his al - f : 7 n I : A iss Oe to subscribe for the > Daily. Continued on Page Two) “I worked in the mills three sh . . rgue for ac able peri h of the youngest |right hand. Defense witnesses had ( g e ee months before the strike. I want to |to argue for a considerable period children particularly. testifie dthat Jonas was a powerful | 7°" Delegation which returned a Sees CRESS say that without the Daily Worker I and other mill workers wouldn't that any recognition of a Negro as Governor Gardner’s use of state|man and that it took four men tof 2¥s ago from the Soviet Union, have known where to turn. , ; on an equality with a white man Swan tovrubklassly wubpress ‘every \acrent tli after ha Had aseatled the (Seeking lact night at Manhattan PROLONG W HAIL FOOD UNION _ “When I worked in the mills I never made enough to get food proved that the white man could not attempt of the workers to assert sheriff with a club. (letter : iis re conte enix sparen eorrced.. «a1 [De believed on the witness stand. lel dest cites (5 orgauideCand ateika| qu? evoneiating © Bhecit “aR Martha Stone was chairman of ‘The only paper in Gastonia is the Gazette. And no worker will No Ruling On Polit Te eee eee ane sald thiols tt yas Ce Fake Pisnonr-dubegetion and to| WASHERS STRIKE RIV : AT MEET ve the Ghteciee Gazette is the bosses’ In that they. | eos nce pally wrulede Sitesohe are giving the southern workers a the duty of the sheriff, he being the C°™® the Pioneer deleg: * pe = eh josses' paper. in that paper they | jury of conservative white farmers fine lesson in the role of the state head of the law enforcing depart- | hear its report. only have jokes, and some love stories, and about the games which have s simple talent, and the fact |of the Royal Glass Co., Brooklyn, e ber of the mill owners’ prose- he himself was a poor peasant | and additional concerns. W k t R h D ly S th ae pecially qualified Neweroff to put| Pickets were shot at by strike- or ers 0 us al ou Defense counsel objected to the pote n on paper this odyssey of Mish- | breaking gangsters at the corner of | question as irrelevant and imma- “The kids in Soviet schools really | ka in the famine years N. 10th St. and Wythe Ave. yester- “I myself am a mill worker, 15 years old,” said Binnie Green, young | terial. But the judge took the mat- rule the teachers instead of the Tell your fellow workers about day, with mounted policemen look-' Gastonia striker yesterday, in urging all workers and organizations to |ter very seriously. He sent the jury t achers ruling the children,” de- “The City of Bread,” and get them ing on approvingly. A number of) aid the drive to rush the Daily Worker to the southern mill workers. to its room, and permitted Cansler clared Marion Semchy of the Pio- € c \ the mer: in labor struggles, and the reporters ment of ts county, to go to the 4 as Morelli, : tales of athe been bel thru the uk k, ae also lies about Ee mill oe ane fies acne ae = enticed <at ee - a «_,. delegation, was the first speaker “They never say why we have to starve and slave so hard. nie eiaPOMIn Abia eae sede geen Wes Wautieta dhe tlnwi Hes wal tke Soviet Union and the success of the) Tnsurance Demand Direct Campaign no longer just ‘common workers and slaves.’ foi, thet the objection NUR IERE |judge of that, not this court.” five year plan. Hubert Halpern “The Daily Worker keeps the workers awake and lets them know | 2) -tained i * . * then spoke. Jessie Taft, Secretary The strike of 800 window cleaners! “Unionize the open shops!” was Gontieed oa Page Brae’ | s i. : f ; MARION, N. C., Oct. 11—The of the delegation, told of the Inter- throughout the city and vicinity en-| the slogan which expressed the sen- | There is no ruling at this writing \death in the hospital here today of | national Proletarian Children’s Con- ters its third day today with prac-/timent of cafeteria workers organ- |on the question taken under advise- |, L. Carver, 52, married and the | gress in Moscow, A resolution was | tically all of the men still out. ised in the Hotel, Restaurent aud 'F Th I I WwW ld C. jment yesterday by Judge Barnhill, IN FRONT OF JAIL father of four small childern brought passed at the ConSress protesting | Ten employing about 50 Cafeteria Workers’ Branch of the | vee em! Ss Or VV on whether the political and religious the death list in the Marionu textile | against the sentence of Harry Eis- Saati yielded to the demand | | Amalgamated Food! Workers: at «| - é os anti relia aps ue the de- strike to six. All these men were man. He was made a honorary | ¢¢ the Window Cleaners’ Protective | membership meeting at union head- Behalt of Gastonia Prisoners Ge an 8 oe cecenie witness See murdered by the posse of deputy; member of the Presidium. ‘Union, Local 8, which called the |quarters, 133 W. 551st St., last night, to be made a part of the proceedings Force Release of Nine sheriffs headed by. Sheriff Adkins! After the speeches of the dele- \,tinont, that they provide adequate | ‘The meeting’ enthusiastically en- gaainst them in this trial. Jailed in Oakland: of McDowell County when they shot | gates, a graduation of Pioneers was | compensation insurance for their jdorsed steps to complete unionization| Rank and file interests in the |fense in fighting for the freedom of Here too, however, the prosecu- (Continued on Page Two) held. workers. of New York cafeterias decided by | fate of the seven Gastonia prison-| these menaced workers. jtion’s constant declarations that the e “Communists and Ath- OAKLAND, if. (By Mail).— loyed by these firms | the Executive Board. ; ers has caused the Norwegian Con-| Cablegrams were also received to- | Unionists i Hunderds of pene {te Aieoea a rete we ote Ss eataciaer while| Thousands of cafeteria workers | federations of Trade Unions and La-|day from workers in Luzerne, eists, sent in to overthrow the Amer- onstrated before the city pail here, y outh H ave Intense Interest the rest continued picketing their/toil from 12 to 14 hours a day for | bor Party of Norway to send $266.49 | SWitzerland, and also Johannesburg, Sone 2 lary vis the ae North after police had broken up a Gas- | shops. llow wage sat intense speed-up,|to aid the Internztional Labor De- (Continued on Page Three) jverciina,. haye come: betory the tonia defense meeting and arrested © R It f Ch 1 tt M t' The strike wad valladapainat all! |workers who spoke from the floor jury, h is as religious as it is nine for speaking, holding banners in esu S 0 ar 0 e ee firms carrying compensation insur- Pointed hip They cag thy a mass | Resicnins fake a i and distributing pamphlets. The ance with the Empire State Mu- | pede e muen rive, f egro Vor ers on La or Jury © pro ation read a es Fs workers refused to leave until those tual Insurance Company, recently e first of a series of mass meet- alleged to have been made by Say- in jail had been reelased. Not until | i > } “4 Fi ings will be announce din a leaflet lors after his arrest with 70 others, the authorities gave in and released Organizer Explains Young Workers : mport coated ie ie iB, a few days’ time, Organizers at Charlotte Analyze Ousting all charged with shooting Aderholt. those arrested on bail, furnished by ance in Southern Industry; Most Exploited No or er will return to work! Michael Obermeier and Denis Gitz This statement differed in some Anita Whitney, did the workers ee hk had Wed Pro’ reported. Both exposed the strike- particulars from Saylor’s testimony leave. In the meantime they con-| CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 11.—|structure of the entire industry, ac- Mea larry stein, een 2 |breaking role of the Food Council| Explaining to the members of the|League to act as a jury of the Amer-|today, but Saylors <2clared it had tinued their demonstration, workers “Of all sections of the working | cording to Gerson. It is estimated | the eae ba a ay, ‘i the Of the A. F. of L., virtually an em-| working class the significance to|ican working class in the trial of been altered and included some speaking from the steps of the city class, the youth in the textile mills | that in the South 50 per cent of the | Charge’ that te insolvency t «| ployers’ organization. \labor of exclusion of Negro workers/the seven strikers and union organ-| things he never said. hall itself. has most to look forward to in the|workers in the textile mills are | Company Ger Ae to we emp slash Two delegates from organized and| from the court room at Charlotte, |izers of the National Textile Work- | Under Thiteata: The militancy of the hundreds of |Charlotte Conference. The youth is | young workers, many of them en- Practice of violating the state work-| (Continued on Page Two) — |Solomon Harper and Charles Frank, ers Union in Charlotte, N. C., issue} Furthermore, it was obtained workers who took part in the dem- | confronted wit htwo alternatives—| tering the mills at the ages of 11) ™en’s Scaetoe nae ctane acer ce: the two Negro members of the La-|the following statement to the under duress at a time of great ex- (Continued on Page Three) | cithe rorganization or a slavery|and 12. (The entering age as pre- | insurance or less men than they|ynion’s demands, including a 40-|bor Jury sent by the Trade Union| American workers: citaniehtsendanaeds —— |growing progressively worse,” stated | scribed by law is 14). The U, S.| employ. 4 jhour, five-day week, an increase in| Unity League to observe the trial] “We, Negro workers, are fully| Saylors explained that Carpenter BELGRADE (By Mail).—Mirko | Si Gerson, youth organizer for the|Department of Labor (Bulletin of| Twelve window cleaning firms/the minimum wage from $45 to|of seven unionists there, have is-|aware of the fact that the interest Continued on Page Three) Bukovee, a young factory hand was | National Textile Workers’ Union, to-|the Women’s Burea't, No. 52) esti-|not affected by the present stop-| $49.50, proper safety devices for the |sued the following statement: of one worker is the interest of all sentenced to ter. years with hard | day. mates that 10.7 per cent of the|page yesterday signed agreements | workers, adequate compensation in-| “We, Negro workers of the Labor | workers, that the Negro and white Build Up the United Front of labor for being a member of the| ‘The youth is playing a greater|/women in the cotton mills began) accepting the union’s terms. | surance, and equal division of work |Jury, elected by the Cleveland Con-| workers’ are subjected to the same| the Working Class From the Bot- Young Communist meen and more important role in the (Continued on Page Three) The association has oleae the | in slack periods, vention of the Trade Union Unity (Continued on pane Three) | tom Up—at the cabictoe te HELP DEFEND GASTONIA AND OTHER CLASS WAR CASES BY ATTENDING BIG LL.D. 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