The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1929, Page 3

| —_—~ “the defunct “Far Eastern Republic.” R 12, 1 Page Three | DA \ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBE! 929 Japan Turns Over $700,000 to White Guard General Leading Attack on ‘Soviets SoM AMBASSADOR AT TOKIO PROTESTS SHAR PLY TO FOREIGN — OFFICE AT TREATY VIOLATION Big Government Bank Allowed to Pay Huge \ Fund Belonging to Soviet Union Tokio Government’s Complicity Shown by Tale marine of General’s “Disappearance” TOKIO, Oct. 11.—Official Japap- | ese aid to the Czarist white guards | to attak the Soviet Union, given the infamous white guard general Sem- | enoff, is seen in the protest made} by Alexandre Troyanowsky, Soviet ambassado rto Tokio delivered to} the foreign office today. | The Soviet ambassador called the |¥ Japanese government’s attention to the violation by Japan of the Soviet- Japanese treaty of 1925, which pro- vided that all porepty of all pre- vious Russian governments should be turned over to the Soviet Union, The violation was committed by permitting the Specie Bank of Yoko- homa, whih is pratically if not for- mally a government institution, to pay to the white guard general Sem- enoff about $700,000 once held by The bank makes the excuse that | Semenoff and another ex-czarist of- | ficer, Michael Podtiagien, who also shared in this deal, “played an im- portant part” in the development of the defunct “republic”? when as a matter of fact Semenoff, before, during and after that “republic,” 3 merely playe dthe role of a bandit | counter-revolutionary ready to serve | any imperialism then invading the Soviet Union, and gave but the |i faintest recognition, if any, to the | “Far Eastern Republic.” Sheltered by imperialist authority, \ mostly Japanese, but at times by | America, Semenoff wantonly mas- sacred and robbed the Siberian peas- antry and townspeople east of Lake Baikal and in the Amur region. Now this monster mass murderer is given $7550,000 by Japan and al- lowed on Japanese soil openly to or- ganize and arm the white guards who are at this moment trying to break through the Red Army lines | on the Soviet-Manchuria frontier. In the ambassador's protest to the Japanese foreign office, it is noted as an extraordinary circumstance that though the Japanese courts is- sued an order Thursday to the bank, SWEET FUTILITY. GENEVA, Oct. 11.—Although no attention will be paid to it, Sir Eric | Drummond, Secretary of the League of Nations today sent all nations the League “recommendations” to re-| duce tariff on sugar, thus to reduce | Sugar prices and inrease consump-| tion. This is the best the League can do to solve the world crisis aris- ing from too much sugar, requiring the money to be held, the bank paid it out and excused itself | hour after” the money was paid. Moreover, that the Japanese gov- ernment, whose vigilance over peo- | ple’s residence and moyements is such as to insure its knowledge just | where at any moment, any person is living o rtrayelling, asserts that | Semenoff “disappeared” after get- ting the money, shows that Japanese officials are directly involved, Troy- anowsky informed the foreign office that Semenoff undoubtedly intends to use the money to finance the Rus- sian white guards in Manchuria. DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF JAIL (Continucd from Page One) onstrations prevented the author- | ities fro mkeeping those arrested in | jail for a considerable time without a hearing or being permitted bail. During the past few weeks many | sueh arrests have been made in Cal- ifornia. Workers Arrested. James McCrary, organizer for the International Labor Defense, was arrested while telling of the bosses’ attacks on Gastonia workers, Ho was pulled down from the rear seat | of an automobile from which he was | speaking. |eould stand no higher “than the side- Police insisted that he walk level,” but the speaker refused to permit the meeting to be broken up and continued speaking. Arvid Owens immediately took the place of McCrary and began |speaking, but was immediateiy ar- rested. William aCrp, organizer for the Workers International Re- lief, and Joe Sturdevant, of the In- | ternational Labor Defense, were ar- rested for distributing Gastonia de- fense leaflets. Demonstration Continued. Others arested by police were John Little, District Organizer of the Young Communist League, Archie Brown, Joe Simon, George Babich and Jack Posin. Banners knocked down by the po- liee were picked up by other work- ers and carried to the city jail in the demonstratin against police ter- ror in California as wel} as for the Gastonia sicibere, YOUNG GASTONIA STRIKER CALLS ON WORKERS TO RUSH ‘DAILY’ SOUTH pee ‘Nervous’ Over \Navy, Boosts Budget) \54 Percent for 1930) 11.—The “interest- | ing which Ramsay | MaeDonald says the next five- power conference “will make to the | League of Nations Preparatory Dis-| |armament Commissino” appears to| be, for one thing, a sharp conflict ith France oyer submarines and |also with Italy, who insists on naval | lequality with Frauce, France has the biggest total sub- tonnage, 94,000, of any the U. S. has 90,000; Japan, Britain, 86,000 and Italy, PARIS, Oct. contribution” | powers 75,000; 40,000. France is building 14 submarines | now, and has increased its naval | by saying that the order “came an|budget 54 per cent for 1920 over }1929, French authorities are an-| | nounced as being “nervous” at the |coming conference. RACE ISSUE IN GASTONIA TRIAL | Witness States Gilbert | Threatened Raid (Continued from Page One) and Bulwinkle were trying to either jincriminate him or get him to tes- | tify for the state, Attorney Cansler of the prosecu- tion also read Saylors’ affidavit made the day after the kidnapping f the three organizers when Wells was beaten and threatened with lynching. Cansler attempted to poke fun at Saylors’ declaration that he saw Carpenter and Bul-| winkle and that they helped to or- |ganize the Loray gang that swept | through three counties the night | after the mistrial resulted from the ‘insanity of Juror Campbell. Prove Police Hatred. Cansler also tried to discredit |Saylors by references to his arrest with seven others for “overthrowing the government,” which charge was dropped when the state failed to produce any evidence. Despite Judge Barnhill’s ruling |yesterday excluding the testimony of Gladys Wallace that Buch and |Melvin had been beaten on the picket line, by the police, the de- fense succeeded in getting a great deal of such testimony into the ree- ord today oyer the strenuous objec- tion of the prosecution. It showed the brutality of the police, their hatred of the strikers and subserv- ience to the Manville-Jenckes Co., which necessitated arming the guards to protect the union, Flat contradiction to the perjury of the state’s witnesses who testified that K. Y. Hendricks ran into the house of Connie Neal, asking to be hid and saying, “We have shot Ader- holt and Gilbert,” was given in the testimony of Dewey Martin’ this morning. Martin told how he had re- | turned from the picket line which the police had broken up with vic- Hious br utality, and went to the house jof his father-in-law, Tom Phifer, near the union headquarters. Mrs. |Co mnie Neal was there, also Mrs, |Tramble, Tom Phifer and Martin's wife. They were standing in the | back yard when the hsooting oc- jeurred, Hendricks arrived while the shooting was going cn, so that it is | 15 Year Old Binnie Green from Gastonia Says impossible that Hendricks could Daily Worker Is Needed (Continued from Page One) that the workers all over the world “The mill workers say they no are ready to fight for them. lenger will have the Gastonia Ga- zette but will have the Daily Worker, for it is the only paper that tells the truth, “All the mill workers I know haye the union paper, the Daily wor! “The Daily Worker should go in the South are saying, we must ker, it is our paper. to every worker in the South, not just only to Gastonia, but all over the South, to keep the workers’ eyes open. “You workers who read the Daily should do your best to see that every worker in the South can haye the Daily every day.” As Binnie Green, fresh from the southern front of the class strug- gle in the United States says, all workers, and all working class organ- izations must see that the Daily Worker is rushed to the workers in the South who are demanding that t! hey receive the Daily each day. To answer the appeals of these workers means a tremendous finan- cial burden which all militant workers must help us bear. Individual workers must rush funds at once to the “Rush the Daily Worker to the Southern Workers” Drive. Working class organizations must adopt a mill village, and see that that village is supplied with bundles of the Daily every $2.50 each week from a Communist Party unit, or other working- class organi: southern mill village each day. tion mears that a bundle of 25 Daily Workers can go to a $10 a week will bring 100 copies of the Daily Worker to the work- ers of a southern mill village every day. What's the answer of the militant American workers to the work- ers of the South? The enclosed contribution is my, ern mill wor i To the Daily Worker, answer to. the appeal of the south- 26 Union Square, New York, N. Y. I want the enclosed contribution to go toward rushing the Daily Worker to my fellow workers in the South, Name .......45 AddreSS .scceeverreecereneeess Amount $..... FOR ORGANIZATIONS (Name of 0 City and Btate ..ccecesccsssecseves rganization) wish to adopt a southern mill town or village, and see to it that the workers there are supplied with every day for......... 8. We inclose $...... _ Kindly send us the name of the mill village or city assigned to us, fee we wish to communicate with the workers thera +++ copies of the Daily Worker i |have been at the union headquarters | when Aderholt was shot. While standing in the back yard, a boy ran by and told them the police had been killed. He said, “The police are looking for Beal.” Martin, Hen- ‘dricks and Martin’s wife went back |into the house, and found Hack Wil- ‘son, one of the Loray Committee of |100 there, Wilson left, returning |ten minutes later with a white hand- |kerchief around his arm. Hendricks |was with Martin and the others all the time. Judge Shields Police. Whenu Martin started to tell how Officer Jackson had knocked Earl Tompkinson down on the picket line and then kicked him, and how the | police had knocked old Mrs. MeGin- nis down, the prosecution objected. Barnhill sustained them, and this testimony was ruled out as irrele- vant. Marti nalso testified that he tod Hendricks that since Hendricks had been beaten by th? police, only a few days previously, they would be looking for him, and that he had better get out of town and offered to take him away in an auto, Hendricks refused, saying, “I have done nothing wrong. I don’t have to run away.” Then Hendriks went home to sleep and was arrested. Insinuations, N omore vicious cross examination ever took place in a coutr room than that to which Jake Newell of the proseution subjeted Martin in the attempt to disredit him and im- peah his testimony. Lying insinua- tions, vile suggestions, and innuendo were resorted to by Newell. The mill becses’ attorncy tried to give the jury a picture of Martin as an immoral scoundrel, He tried to harge by his questions that Martin ra naway with other men’s wives. Newell based all'his insinuations solely upon the fact that Martin went with Weisbord, Cecil Berger, and two women strikers to New York | to appeal for fands for the Workers’ International Telief to feed the Lo- |ray strikers. Newell intimated re- | peatedly, despite objections from the \ defense, overruled by t*> judge, that Martin believed in free love and that \this tour for the W. I. R. was im- moral, Newell then asked Martin the UNDER PARITY’ ALL EUROPE 10 Armaments a Gnly Begin With Talk of Peace | LONDON, Oct. 10. — Bourgeois | press reports state that P: |Doumergue of France is fe in Belgium to strengthen France’s | | alliance there, and forecasts similar advances toward Poland and Jugo- | slavia, in fear of military disad | tages arising from the British-' |S. conversations, Geneva reports, usually the v of the League of Nations, say “dis. armament circles’.’ are speculating that the principle of parity as reached between the U. 8. and Eng- jland, wil brling more armaments than before, since many nations will demand “parity” with their immed- iate rivals. This is obviously the result in the Mediterrean, where not only the Franco-Italian controyersy over ‘parity will arise, but where Spain also claims a right to a large navy, Then Jugoslayia, which starting to build a navy eh never agree to @ smaller one than Italy, and Italy, be it noted, demands “parity” with France—which has no intention of disarming, but quite to the onposite just inereased her nava) budget 54 per cent for 1930, n- question, “Didn’t you speak from the asme platform as Otto Hall, Negro | Communist, who advocated racial | equality ?” The court ruled against this ques- | tion, Reads Daily Worker. | “Aren’t you a orrespondent of the Daily Worker, Communist paper?” Newell asked. “No but I read it evary chance I get,” Martin answered, “When did you begin your career | jas a union orator?” asked Newell. ‘Well, I began to speak for the union soon after we went on strike,” Martin stated. “What did you say?” “I told the workers that the only way to win better wages was by sticking to the National Textile Workers’ Union and fighting the bosses,” said Martin, “When the new union headquarters was finished, I made a speeh ,and Gilbert was stand- alongside the stand. He said to me, ‘ou had better make much of it, Big oy, for your headquarters won't stand up there for a week.’” Saylors Tells of Shot. Before Martin took the stand Say- lors was again, today, subjected to sneering acusations by the prose- cution, who framed their lying in- sinuations in the form of questions, These questions were often so flag- rantly vicious in intent and so irre- levant that they had to be ruled out by the court ,but not before the de- sired effect had been made by the jury. Saylors repeated his testimony of yesterday tha tthe first shots came from the police. Who Said “Shoot?” John Woodle, mill worker. today reiterated the statement of all de- fense witnesses that Beal did not advise the strikers to shoot the olice, as harged by the prosecution. | He testified that he heard Jackson | tell Aderholt that there was no need of going down to the union head- quarters after breaking up the picket line, as “the trouble there is all over.” It has been shown by the testi- mony of several defense witnesses that the remark, “Shoot ’m down,” came not from the strikers but from some unidentified citizens aross the street, and was directed not to the workers’ guard but to the police. Saylors a!.o said he had been kept in jail eleven days without a warrant or a charge against him, He said he had seen two policemen admin- ister a severe beating to McGinnis, trying to extract a confession in| jail. {1 Duce Doesn’t Trust His Fellow Fascists ROME, Oct, 1(.—A bulletin of the Fascist party last night announced the reduction of the Fascist Grand Council! from 52 to 20 members. The Council is the executive branch of the government, and the reason for the change is seen in Mussolini’s speech of Sept. 14, declaring that the council had too many members to assure secrecy, He is intending to make his dic- tatorship even stronger in the coun- cil, for this reason having given up seven cabinet posts recently to de- vote more time to ruling the council. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! WHEN YOUR BACK SEEMS BREAKING Backaches arising from «1 lis often mean beers eyed lp A (ie i‘ prodding sponta juor, and take reas -Theyalio Ipirregular, scanty or burni ae fombadicrwesk: Seam. ness, enuine bear sig- nature of Dr.L.Midy gilisiger Da RUSH TO ARMS ‘Soldiers in Canal Zone (ein Workericomeimiaet nan I am a soldier of the U stationed in the Canal Zone, ma, You would find me typical of most of the buck privates in Ft. Randolph, Francef: jete. The recruiting posters ‘promis- | ling good wages and good times en-| |ticed me into the army at a time |when I was unemployed. The “good nt |Wages” consists of $21 per month. From this sum we must pay for uni-| |forms (these are supposed to be free, but if we don’t buy it we get| extra fatigue and other hardships from the officers), From our meas- .Jly. pay we are also forced to con- tribute to the Salvation Army, sick and ceath benfeit funds for offi- cers, funds for magazines, ete. | When you add to this the petty grafting in connection with the can- | teens you will realize that there is very little left of the $21 per month. The canteens are created from money mainly raised by the men. They charge exorbitant prizes have a check “credit system” by taken away from us before the NEGRO WORKERS ANALYZE CASE (Continued from Page One) system of exploitation, oppression, robbery, plunder and sl: by the| bosses. The workers’ interests are| the same and require the unity of all workers, white, black, brown, yellow, in fighting against our com- }mon enemy and exploiter, the capi- | talist class, Boss Splits Workers, “The cap ist class of the United States in order to maintain and pre-| serve their system of robbery and plunder of the working class main- tains the system of race discrimina- tion between Negro and white work- ers. This is done for the purpose of keeping the workers _separated,| keeping them divided and far apart in order to prevent the workers| from ng and organizing to- gether in order to fight for better working and living conditions, for) their emancipation from capitalism. ; “The whole history of the Amer- ican labor movement is filled with evidence of how this system of race} discrimination has been time and) time again used for the purpose of| putting one race of workers against | another race of workers. “The action of the court in re- fusing to permit us to sit in the court room either upstairs or down- stairs (with the other members of the labor jury) is another evidence of the whole vicious system of race} discrimination which is used by the| capitalist class against Negro work- ers. The fact that this is done by the court attendant itself, exposes | {this whole system in all its braze-| ness, Is Class Trial. “We declare to the American working class that the trial of these seven strikers and organizers is not | merely a “murder” trial. It is a trial which challenges the right of the workers, both black and white, |to organize, strike, picket and defend themselyes when attacked by the police, thugs and fascist gangs of the capitalist class. We declare that these are fundamental rights, which the workers both black and white, have fought for years to obtain, and which must be defended and pre- served at all costs by the workers both black and white. “The murder of Ella May, a tex-| tile striker, the murder of five| workers in Marion, and the wound- ing of scores more and the activityy of the bosses’ mob, bring clearly to the forefront the campaign of mur- der which is now being waged by) the capitalist class, and call for the | rallying and organization of all workers to fight for the fundamen- tal rights of labor and against lynch- ing, race discrimination, jim-crow- ism, ete. “The program of the Trade Union Unity League whose convention was | held at Cleveland, Ohio, recently, of all workers against the whole vile system of elass and race op- pression which the American work- ers are forced to suffer. ‘his time remitted. “You'll never get —!” This line of the song is more truth than poet y. The idea is: keep the sol- diers broke. This will keep them in the army, prevent them from “going {over the hill” (deserting), ete. I know a case of a soldier put in the guard house for four or five months. When he got out, he had He should have been paid $105 but he only received $84. When he complained to the officer he was forced to turn in his money and he did not receive a damn cent. Then there are our “beloved” sup- ply sergeants who run a little racket |of their own, but the company com- mander directly responsible for this. The private is allowed $164 | of clothing for three years. But the | soldier never takes that amount. If the soldier takes a pair of shoes on his account, the supply sergeant ‘month is up on-0: |checks him off for several coats and and | jextra money means of which most of our pay is) | Oet. | the 8 Bethlehem workers charged with sedition whose trial will be in |trial, J, C, Heffner, a young textile laid the basis for a militant fight) ; breeches at the same time. The is pocketed by these “high price glory” boys. I will tell more in my next letter. tant program of the T. U. U. L. which calls for the organization of | Negro and white workers into strong and powerful industrail unions, with equal pay for equal work for black and white workers, against race dis- crimination, against child class, the reactionary officialdom of the American Federation of Labor is a program around which all workers, Negro and white, must rally, must fight to carry through. | In doing will bring about inter-racial solida- rity of Negro and white workers which will have the powerful force of smashing all opposition, and of bringing about the emancipation of |the working class.” Free Gaston Prisoners (Continued from Page Que) fonth Africa. ‘Th s worke sent $9 and the South Africa ss ay ers enutrihuted $12. 4gre Workers A‘ding. From various sections of the United States come greetings and | pliges of unity with the ikers. Nopiies are being drawn more and more into the struggle to free the prisoners. Rothschild Francis, Ne- gro editor of the Virgin Islands, an | American possession, now teuring the Eastern cities on bchalf of the | Gastonia prisoners writes “I ad- dressed the Philadelphia Window Cleaners Union and they voted to send the National Office of vie T. | L. D. $25 from their treasury. “The meeting of the IT. L. D. | branch in Chester.” he writes, “w jalso a success. Negro worl showed great spirit in that cit when I stoke to them of the Gas- | tonis case.” His meeting previously | in aBltimore was well atended by Negro workers. ing Efforts. New York will hold conference for Gas- | end relief, Tuesday, 1b, m. in Irving Pla: The New Work district of the In- ternational Labor Defense and the Workers International Relief are arranging the conference and expect to jam the large hall full with work- s protesting the Southern mill- | owners’ brutalities and raurders. Incre: Workers in another mass tonia defense 1b, at 7 Kansas City and Denver Workers | Actvye, | The International Labor Defense | today reecived word from the T. L. |D. branch in Denyer that their or- ganization and the Workmen's Circle | raised $72.50 at a recent supper in behalf of Gastonia. A bazaar held in Kansas City Sept. 21 and 22 net- ted $358.62. Pennsylvania Workers Gastonia, ef Allento» Meeting for one of in tie ing to the susp ikers in the Seu The worker: the largest t land ave vali the textile sty December. labor, | |against the agents of the capitalist Carolina and Tennessee mills, so the American workers | | while output grows under modern |perceved when we realize that within . | structure of*capitalist prosperity in {utd HOLDING | In Unity ‘With Textile} And TUUL Conference | (Continued from Page One) | work before 12 years of age. The greatest number in the South entered the mill before the ages of | 12 and 16......” (From the same bulletin). Taking the textile industry as a whole, there were 200,000 young} workers between the ages of 16 and 19 years in thé entire American tex- tile industry This was in 1920— and only includes young workers between the ages of 16 and 19. Now, after nine years of the most intense i of machination and simplification the processes of the textile indust we can certainly estimate that ther are at least 500,000 young workers between the ages of 10 and 24 in the entire textile industry, and cer-| tainly a quarter of a million young textile workers in the South. These young workers work for| i wages of $4, $5 and $6 per week. |Pellagra and consumption are not | uncommon. The speed-up (called} stretch out in the South), the long hours and low wages haye left a} marked effect on the youth. The} you gworkers in the South, who} trace their descent back to the sturdy mountaineers of the North| are ‘gradually becoming a race phy: cally weaker than their ancesto: (Pellagra increased about 50 per cent in the last year in the state of North Carolina), These conditions have had their greatest effect on the youth. Therefore their role in all the struggles in this industry. The textile industry internationally is in a crisis. Over-production, a fundamental contradiction of capi- talism, is the main cause of the cri in the textile industry. The markets remain relatively the same machine methods with the severe in- jtensification of labor. The textile bosses, therefore, must—in the na- ture of things under capitalism— compete with each other by cut- throat gnethods in order to capture mark In order to undersell each \oher they must “lower production costs,” This they do by rationali- zation—speed-up, lengthening hours, the onveyor system, gearing machin- ery to a high speed, etc. Their sec- ond method of “liquidating” their crisis is war. (Hence the crisis in the textile industry can be seen as one of the factors making for war.) The international chaarcter of the crisis and the international char- acter of capitalist rationalization in th textile industry can be clearly the last year there have been strikes in the textile industry as far apart ag Gastonia, N, C.; Bom- bay; India; Lanashire, England; Ludlow, Mass.; Czecho-Slavakia and the north of France—all these strikes being primarily the efforts of the workers to struggle against the effects of capitalist rationaliza- tion, In the southern states inten- sification of labor ha salready as- sumed a classic form. The whole the South is based on the highest degree of rationalization. The youth, as a result, is rapidly displacing the adult workers in the industry and therefore are playing an important part in the struggles of the workers. It is symbolic of the Southern struggles that 6 of the 7 present de- fendants now on trial in Charlotte are young workers. It is also significant that three of the workers massacred in Marion were young workers, In Elizabethton, and in the Loray strike, young workers played an active and sometimes leading role. So much so, in fact that when young workers in the uniform of National Guard came, the youth took the ini- tiative in pointing out their strike- breaking role and in such an effect- ive manner that troops very often had to be withdrawn. It is also in- teresting to note that one of the re-} leased defendants in the Gastonia worker, was a member of the Na- tional Guard). The bosses have made tremendous efforts in the South to win the The mili-| sri See...... SOVIET RUSSIA Be on the Red Square to Witness the Celebration of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOV. The Oldest Travel) Organization to Send Tourists to the U. S. S. R. \| COMPLETE $ NEW YORK TOUR LONDON FREE 5. LENINGRAD SOVIET VISAS MOSCOW Group Sails:—S.S. AQUITANIA—October 23 WORLD 175 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK TOURISTS INC, »)youth. The young workers meet on REVOLUTION Telephone: Algonquin 6656 — 8797 every hand a barrage of capitalist propaganda aimed at poisoning them Flatiron Building agai nst the working class. The “Gastonia Gazette” puts the matter quite bluntly for the mill bosses, |speaking in reference to baseball |teams for young worker finances by |the bosses: “Mill owners and executives could well give some thought to the... financing. . of ... teams Bd , for the youngsters of today will’ be the operatives tomorrow. Train these young teen age boys in the principles of Americanism, fair play and clean sportsmanship now, and there will never be any further troubles in this country to equal those we had passed through this summer.” “Fair play and clean sportsman- ship” obviously means collecting a |mob of 300 armed thugs and beat- king one unarmed man almost to death. “Americanism,” according to the “Gastonio Gazette,” seems to be the doctrine of slow starvation or outright death through pellagra. The “troubles” referred to are the struggles of the workers in Gaston County to organize themsel and the Loray strike. Comp: ports is not the only way, however, countless crumbs are offered to, the young workers—a fake summer camp of Manville Jenckes, ice eerem suppers, barbecues, patriotic organizations, lete. We may expect even further and more intense efforts on the part \of the bosses to win the youth. The Youth conference at Charlotte becomes therefore a focal point for all young workers. The Charlotte Youth Conference will present the issue sharply to the young workers: Equal pay for equal work; a $20 minimum wage; 15 minute rest pe- .|riods each day; an 8 hour day for all workers—an even shorter workday for the young workers; abolition of child labor, ete. The Charlotte Youth Conference will point out the genera Inature of the struggle has already assumed a_ political form, {that it is a struggle not only for hours and wages, struggle against courts, National but also a sharp the boss police, Guard, in short, against the repressive state appara- tus of the bosses, Further, the Youth Conference will point out the increasing danger of war against the workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union, snd between the United States an@ Great Britain and how the crisis of the speed-up in the tex- tile industry is intimately connected up with the war danger. Youth Sections as the special or- ganizational form for the young workers will be stressed. Special youth activity must be emphasized. The drawing in of the young work- ers into the workers’ defense corps in each mill, is another point that will be stressed. SACCO and VANZETTI Were Burned to Death FOR THEIR BELIEFS and now living death, 30 years imprisonment, faces the seven Gastonia strikers for their ideas. The International Labor Defense has told the world that the union leaders and strikers are being tried for their beliefs—for daring to fight. for better conditions— for defending themselves from boss-police, The boss attorneys showed their hands yesterday and proved to the blindest worker that the International Labor Defense was right. The mill bosses openly named the Sac- co-Vanzetti case as their pre- cedent. They want to kill workers for their beliefs! The I. L. D. fights for workers to be able to strike, to picket without being killed like the Marion strikers, like Ella May. Have You Joined the I. L. D.? This organization is con- ducting a drive for 50,000 new members by Janury 1, 1930. Affiliate! Get Your Union to Build an I. L, D, that will fight the bosses’ drive against workers! Get in toueh with the fol- lowing district organizers of the I. L. D. throughout the United States. —Rose Baron, Room 422, Morris Childs, 80 E. 23 Max Salaman, al Room 410, PHILADELPHIA Jennie Cooper, 1124 Spring Garden St, BOSTON-—Robert Zelms, 113 Dud- t., Room 6. Ziegler, 3782 226 3 Lloyd, Firestone. , Third and Reeve Bloor, an. Roy Stephens, 524 36 W. Huron —G, Saul, 110 » PA.—Mike Harrison, 215 Ad‘rin Bldg. Or fill in the following blank and become a member of the International Labor Defense. I want to join the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Enclosed find 25 cents for initiation fee, NAME ADDRESS . International Laber De! 1 80 E, 11th St, New York City