The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1929, Page 1

JPQE ' VN Daily Hatered as sei THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS Por a Workers-Farmers Government ; To Organize the Unorganized x Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION the Post Office at New York, 3 EW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929 3 Cents Publishee datly except Sanday by The Company. tnc.. 26-28 Union SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per yenr. comprodaily Publishing Square. New York City, N. ¥. Vol. VI., No. 188 Price TEXTILE CONFERENCE IN CHARLOTTE STARTS DRIVE Workers and Peasants AFL MISLEADERS ‘City Bread’ CHARLOTTE MEET QVER 300 DELEGATES FROM 175 MILLS of Mexico Rally to Aid BLOCK GTY-WME Cr Page Foy CULES FIGHT LAUNCH UNITED ATTACK ON SPEED-UP of Gastonia Defendants TRUCKERS STRIKE eet ON TEXTILE BOSS LOW PAY. FASCIST TERROR, LONG DAY Three More Witnesses Tell of Police Statement|95 990 Drivers Demand IManitesto of Southern Trade Union Unity League Southern Convention Meeting Same Time; Lays Basis for Militant Organization in All Industries Before Raid They Would Slay Unionists Sympathy Walk-Out ft Meek ae Co etanence “Let’s Go Down With Oilmen | Is Adopted s Go and Kill That Whole Bunch,” gels Said Gilbert : 700 Join; Scabs Hurt) fter Beating Up Old Woman CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 13.—The trial of seven Gastonia PTJUL, Bares Sell Move strikers and organizers the mill owners and their state govern- oui “ilk ; ment are trying to railroad to thirty year sentences in prison! Fruit Strike Brews because a chief of police was killed June 7, while he was lead- TMheGAah Tonwelce vented a general strike of the 25,- | |Gives List of Demands Battle Along Economic and Political Lines | CHARLOTT: Oct. 13.—A | {manifesto unanimously adopted by Foster. Reid, Harper, McDonald, Point to U. S S. R. As Example; Call for Union of Negro and White Workers Against Bosses . sell-out artists pre- SUA ree CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 13.—Two great delegate meetings, the Southern Convention Ing a murderous raid on the Loray mill strikers’ tent colony | and headquarters, will go on tomorrow morning, and all next “The City of Bread,” the fine week, with scores of witn and murderous cha ster of the raid, and to the fact that the | jooq |000 New York truck drivers organiz- | novel by the Soviet writer Alexander testifying to the premeditated | 4 jnto the International Brother-Neweroff, begins today on page |the Southern Textile Workers today, jand endorsed by the Trade Union | Unity League Southern Convention, of the Trade Union Unity League, now in session, and the Southern Textile Workers’ Confer- ence, which started yesterday, are coordinating organization work and laying a broad basis ‘for an intensive drive in the textile industry of the South against wage cuts, the 12-hour day, of Te-msters, Chauffeurs, four of the Daily Worker. jalso meeting today, outlines the the g tch out system, and the barbarous campaign of terror and attempts t z i vas star’ ice : ae siigeee Wi i te eeciiow 4 oday, i speed-up, and stretch out system, us campaig and pts to shooting wer Beied by the police. c _|Stablemen and Helpers from being le SvoEker aa ee rea in ac. | struggle in the South. It was pro- | 441 ynion leaders by process of law for which this section has lately become notorious, Witnesses will further ex- called last Friday is the proud boast sone peumantlad ‘oR Mire Niiney posed to the conference by James pose sharacter > police 5 7 jDOod: Dens z pers P. Reid, national preside PLAN F Ss JGGLE, pose the character of the police DAVIS ft F E N A N of James J. Dawson, business agent to Tashkent in search of bread for| 4’, Reid, national nresident of the PLAN FOR STRUGGLE deputies and company stool “4 ce] ste of the Gas and Fuel Drivers’ Local his family. | : pigeons who were all the prose- zution was able touse in its at- tempt to build a chain of per- jury and prejudice that will give the strike leaders what amounts to life sentences. Saturday three witnesses for the lefense brought out more facts of he events of June 7. W. E. Ray, a textile worker, told} iow Policeman Gilbert acted on the} ricket line. Gilbert was one of ‘hose who a few minutes later was tccompanying Chief of Police Ader- 1olt in the attempt to disarm the strikers’ guard at the union lot and ent colony, in preparation for the nassacre that was to be perpetrated »y the police. Ray witnessed the atfack by the zastonia deputies on the strikers’ vicket- line, which marched from the ent colony and National Textile Workers’ Union headquarters to- vard the Loray mill, and was broken | ip, just before the police attacked 533, whose members forced the pres- ent struggle of the gasoline truck- men, Dawson has revealed through the capitalist press ‘that delegates from the 18 local unions, vote a city-wide trucking wakout, met late Friday night, and although the sentiment of the rank and file SPEAK FOR BOSS Delegates Take Ex. pensive Vacation : : Erma mediate struggle, the A. F. L, mis- TORONTO,. Canada, Oct. 13. leaders “held them back” because of With only $60,000 to pay for rent the “grave consequencés to the pub- of the imposing hall of the Royal |lic” which would have ensued. York Hotel here, $60,000 that would | The bureaucratic machinery of the save the Gastonia defendants, or} Brotherhood was brought into play win the New Orleans strike, or the! and decision delayed until tomor- Elizabethton strike, or feed the stiil |row, when the delegates will recon- vene in the offices of Local 533, at closer Hamilton car workers, the A. F, L. convention delegates treat- 208 W. 14th St., after the sentiment of the drivers has once more been ed themselves to two more glorious ‘sounded out.” Thomas Lyons, sec- empowerd to days of vacation. There are thou- mds of dollars to meet their hotel | and-junketing expenses in the A. F. L. treasury, so why worry about starving strikers, says the mislead-! has admitted that the delay is a cus- tomary A. F. L, sell-out maneuver by declaring: “The men are ready Davis Speaks. was overwhelmingly in favor of im- With Mishka, on the journey to Tashkent, the worker will meet the | (Continued on Page Two) 7,500,000 Soviet Wheat Acres to | Combat Famines Mean Flour for Gov’t Bakeries in 5-Yr. Plan MOSCOW, Oct. 1 Soviet Union will participate tomor- row in a day of “collectivization” for the purpose of convincing peasants of the necessity of merging the land into large-scale Communized farms, a capitalist news service re- ported last night. —The entire is an outstanding factor in the |Soviet economic situation. On May |1, 1928, there were only 33,000 such acres and embracing more than 3,- and seconded in a vigorous speech jby Bill Dunne. It states that the |conditions under which the southern |textile workers live and toil are worse than in any other section of | America. ‘The only comparison,” says the manifesto, “is to be found in the {conditions in India and China. Wages and living standard of the southern mill workers approach closely thosé of the so-calld ‘coolie’ | labor in colonial countries, of work- Jers who suffer from both class an¢ racial oppression while their im- |perialist masters prepare for new | wars to decide which group of im- | perialists shall get the loot. “The industrial situation of the South is carried through at the ex- | | pense of masses of the newest re- jeruits to the ranks of the industrial jworkers upon whose backs is built | what is called Southern prosperity. retary of the brotherhood council,; The rapid growth of such farms| “This prosperity is class prosper- lity. The masses of the workers suf- (Continuea on Page Two) The Southern Textile Workers Conference being held in Charlotte marks a tremendous advance over the Bessemer City conference in influence upon and in the organization of the textile workers throughout the South. Three hundred and thirty-eight elected delegates, repre- senting directly 60,000 textile workers, gathered at the Auditorium to lay plans for struggle = for the economic demands they there formulated. nters of five southern states. As one after another of the | delegates took the floor for their reports, it was evident that HOLD 5 ON $31 N00 | their mood is definitely for struggle against the intolerable con- 5 | At the mass meeting which opened this epochal conference, FOR SELF DEFENS | Saturday afternoon, the old barn-like auditorium was crowded | to the doors with enthusiastic and militant southern mill work- ers, determined that the reign of terror shall not prevent them lthe bosses to abolish the Needle Workers; ORLEANS BOSSES stretch-out system, child labor, Jail Five | low pay, long work day, and all CHICAGO, Oct. 13—The right| ADMIT BLACKLIST have gone with the industrial- dice’ G ork Gaioneite ization and rationalization of ies’ arment Yorkers’ Jno) . Chicago, in its despair and rage the South. against the militant dressmakers | KERS. These delegates come directly from 175 mills in 65 textile i | cer | ditions prevailing in the mills. Terror Against Chicago *from their purpose of forcing the other conditions which wing clique of the International La- OF GAR STRIKERS Foster, Knight, Melvin Speak. distributing circulars, caused the ar-/otreet Railway States | trade Union Unity League; Russel he headquarters. «nq | @h § o’no sessions on Saturday or to back up the gasoline truck drivers |farms. The figure in 1929 will ex-| who defended themselves against! _, At this operting meeting, William He testified that he saw Tom Gil-| Sunday. ‘in their demands. It will hardly be (ceed 100,000, covering 38,000,000 y) attack by right wing sluggers while | Z. Foster, general secretary of the vert blackjack a man and then} ; 2 ro) 5 smock down old Mrs. McGinnis, a srandmother, but one of the pickets. Chen Gilbert said, “Let’s go down| . here and run them out and ted heir place up. I'd figet a woman! triker, member of the Youth De-| vartment of the N.T.W.U., corro-| rorated the testimony of all other lefense witnesses who were at the) trike meeting which preceded the| (Continued on Page Two) On Friday, the main business laa ted in hearing that usual y cheering report from Secre- y of Labor Davis fo the U. S. A. SOVIET GOVERNMENT IN’ would be solved, He didn’t worry them auy more about the cesistless march of the labor displacing machine, or excite MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—A capitalist news ‘agency last night reported 000,000 peasant households. By January 1 there will be 120 government “bread factories” backed by 7,500,000 acres of grain-growing |ment and Communized farms. It is hoped to simplify the Soviet bread problem by raising this percentage to 45 in 1930. WASHERS STRIKE ‘Union Vote Tomorrow window cleaners will be involved in a general strike TwWo thousand Knight, of the National Textile Workers’ Union; James Reid, presi- dent of the N.T.W.U.; Sophie Mel- vin, released Gastonia defendant; rest of five of the militants on Fri-| day, and are aiding in the attempt | to railroad these workers to the penitentiary. Will Keep Its Scabs NEW ORLEANS, L The ew Orleans Public Oct. 13. ervice Co} is i : ai fe ; irae Hugo Oehler, southern organizer of is soon as a man.” Davis told them the saine old list) NEW PROTEST AGAINST jt2nc. During the present year Sree _ Bail of $37,000 for the five was) ooration, woner of the street car|the N.T.W.U.; George Maurer, of : ene ¥ of “funny” stories, and then as- |about 20 per cent of all marketable Will Start Wednesday: fixed by the vicious labor-baiting|j; 4, which have been struck now the: LED: ore Bnsdahinva: ) Marie Huntzinger, a 17 year old|sured them that unemployment OUTRAGES OF NANKING sr2in bas come from these govern- Ut etar ednesday; judge, under the influence of the I. e LL.D; J. Louis Engdahl, na- fo: over four months, yesterday an- nounced that even though the men had voted 794 to 39, to return to work, only 150 would be hired at prseent, only about 600 altogether, tional secretary of the I.L.D.; Solo- mon Harper, Negro member of the workers’ jury in the Gastonia case; Elbert Tetherow, of the N.T.W.U.; L, G. W. U. reactionaries. The In- ternational Labor Defense, working | with the Needle Trades Industrial Union put up the bonds. ri “ea " = | * aaa i stat) Elmer McDonald, young worker ake ; _ the them about speed-up, ete. He just that the Soviet government has pro SS to start Wednesday at the call of ,_ The workers will have a jury trial. 114 that in every case the company from GAStOHTA: Fecently in the U ricketing, and vefuted the prosecu- toi them, “Our country is content- tested to China against new attacks tke Window Cleaners Protective |The entire left wing movement in| | 1114 pick the men it wanted back,|g s R childven’s deboon : apreoye icnnee) Cogthed = teasimouyy 6a. Worker’ anid employer: are, in.) sme the Manchitien border stow: i Union, it was announced at union the needle trades here has mobilized | | d Seal take only enough to add | See gcaiisen Side nchey hat Beal told the pickets to go info ¢ocjcked in a goodwill which neith. ing out of disputed possession of The a Pes i headdnarters at 15 E. Third St, bebind the Needle Trades Industrial | /” Lie EasGen OE dake aR aetR ved organizer Byers, spoke. he all ae ue qc ou Boek Cai bee the Chinese Eastern Railway. penandie Union. The militant workers state}. company would not discharge|,, 1heY Outlined the development of o the mill and picket, and that a Of course he was talking of the The latest protest said Soviet EXPOSING GRAFT The men are wlaking out because that they are determined to continue the class struggle in the new South abs. p 4 ‘ emselves a or Boy ® and pointed out that the t 3 n i out in New Orleans and at| gunboats escorting merchant ships ce salt Use defending themselves and to crush | ®"Y aoe _,./and_poini it that the time i a . Nickey g Manhattan Window Cleaning tr a Tae The vote to: call off: thecstrike| va.tarc auc. aahae gov aidceras sroup of the night workers would ‘yi,ahethton, not the volley of along the Amur River af the mouth TEaplOeRE TPatectivens Agapcintion (whe terror of the right wing. ree ate to ty a tenemwation | TaPidly approaching for widespread ‘ome out and join them on strike.| |) Smployers rotective ssociation ‘ Q . was accompanied by a reservation | ¢ de said nothing about shooting. Huntzinger saw the battle, and estified that Gilbert attacked the suard, Harrison, and that the po- ice fired the first shots. During the cross-examination, the »rosecution attorneys pointed dra- natically up to the gallery, where | he labor jury, with two Negro mem- vers on it, sits throughout the trial, ‘eady to report to the working class he results and methods of the »rosecution’s attempted railroading. The gallery is the Jim Crow sec- ion, and the whole labor jury sits here in solidarity with the two Negro members, who were thrown mut of the regular section for the vhite audience down below. The prosecution tried to intimate hat the labor jury was influencing he defense witness by boarding at ter mother’s boarding house. Saw First Shot Fired. Floyd Rathbone, a textile worker, old of events at the meeting, tes- ified that Beal did not make the! femarks ascribed to him by the of the Sungari river were obliged to take decisive measures against an unprovoked Chinese machine gun at- at Marion, Peter Heenan, C of La in Cana sions, nadian Minister , told of social insurance a, including old age pen-| tack at dawn on Saturday. This was in answer to Davis’ There were casualties among the whose only social plans were pic-\jcrews and serious damage to the tures of the possible short hour age ships, the protest said. It also ac- of the future, with co-operative | cused the Chinese of floating mines housing developed—and no prop- in the Amur River to destroy Soviet osals for bringing it about. \ shipping. : § The Daily or the Mill Bosse ‘Press for Southern Workers? Workers Must Decide; Two More Units Adopt | Mill Villages. Two more units of the Communist Party in New York have adopted southern mill towns. | With its contribution of $6, Unit 4F, Section 2, assures the mill | workers of Kings Mountain, N. C., that they will receive a bundle of 60 Daily Workers every day for a week. And Unit 2F, Section 2, has contributed $3.25, which assures the 9 Split Widens; Fishwick Shows Up Vote Frauds} SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct. 18.—The split widens between the two U. M. W. A. cliques which are both fight- ing for the right to sell out the min- ers in Illinois, the largest U. M. W. A, district, which has about half the union membership, such as it is. While the National Miners Union} |draws in the miners, John Lewis, president of the United Mine Work- ers of America ,and Harry Fishwick, who now has the grafter, Frank Farrington back in the union to as- | sist him battle for control of the Illi- nois union treasury and the right to levy check-off, are hurling anathe- mas at each other. “Discover” Frauds. When the Save-T:>-Union Move- ment gained a majority of the votes in the 1926 elections, Fishwick and | (Continued on Page Two) has refused to grant new union de- |mands. These include the 40-hour 5-day week; increased minimum wage from $45 to $49 a week; prop- er safety appliances; adeéuate com- pensation, insurance and eéual dis- tribution of work in slack periods. The strike call will be endorsed by vote at the unian mmebership meeting at Manhattan yceum, 66 E. Fourth St., at 7.30 P. M. tomorrow night. Eight hundred window cleaners are already out as a result fo a (Cortinued en Page Two) GASTONIA MEET HERE TUESDAY Defense Conference to Be at Irving Plaza movements to enforce the de- the demanding arbitration of what seemed to be a black list clause in| workers, the contract. The action of the! yoster told o’fthe role of the T. U. company now settles that matter./ U1. in the American labor move- It is not only blacklist, but s very! ment and the necessity of a revo- complete and open form of it. lutionary trade union center. Called in Priest. “Elmer McDonald, who has just The contract was negotiated by| spoken to you,” he said, “has re- President Mahon of the Amalga-| turned from the only country where CHICAGO, (By Mail).—The Nee- mands of southern textile dle Trades Industrial Union is mak- | ing itself felt as a force among the {needle trades. workers in Chicago, it jis shows, by the attacks of the right wing union misleaders, using | gangs of thugs, on the girls dis-| tributing leaflets for the militant union. the workers and farmers have taken Last Wednesday, Oct. 9, militant) workers distributing leaflets in the needle trades center on Jackson, be-} tween Market and Franklin were mated Association of Street and| Electrical Railway Employees, un-| the last step towards emancipation. der the direct auspices of William Bxposes’ U. TW. and after negotiations between Green and the officials of the com- pany conducted through the inter- thugs had threatened physical injury mediary of a Catholic priest, named to the girls should the latter attempt Grady. The deal was signed in to give out the leaflets again. This|New York about a month ago, and time the girls were accompanied by Was at first indignantly rejected the men of the N.T.I.U., and many | by the New Orleans strikers, by a sympathetic workers as well. When) Vote of 1,000 to 80. As soon as this the thugs attacked they met with|hsppened, Green, Mahon and the fierce resistance, and were beaten. | U. S. government began a merciless The police later came to the aid! bull dozing drive against the strik- met by thugs hired by the right) wing. At previous distributions the lof the bosses, misleaders and thugs | ers, threatening to expel their locals | the bosses, , by pouncing on the members of the | and trying in every other way toi. the industrial union. |make them accept the open’ shop, Green, president of the A. F. L.,| «yoy southern workers are just taking the first step, which is or- | ganization into militant trade unions. | The idea spread by the U. T. W. la- | bor fakers that by appeal to bosses |and their government the workers {ean get better coinditions is an il- ‘lusion that must be combatted. Class | collaboration is teh policy of treach- jery and surrender. All that you can get is just what you force the bosses to grant by organized strength. | The U. T, W. is an auxiliary to hile the N. T. W. U. The enemy of the bosse.s wrosecution’s perjurers, and told, Mill workers of Belmont, N. C., that 33 copies of the Daily Worker will Plans for broadening the joint) '"'Terworizing the girls at the head-| blacklist agreement, which hesiden |O° My Yee its advocacy of effi- ilso of Policeman Jacksons beating | ‘ome to them daily for one week. |Gastonia defense and relief cam- Continued on Pi Thre (Continued on Page Three) ciency schemes to increase proddae These units must follow up their contributions and see to it that ined ee) ORURUEC 0 ao |tion helps the boc-es to maintain the ip a striker on the picket line, and ‘f Gilbert’s declaration that the ime had come to go up and kill out Ill the unionists. He also saw the police fire the frst shot at the union grounds, that hey had gone there soon after weaking up the picket line, and evi- lently in agreement with Gilbert’s imnouncement that it was time to till all the unionists. Rathbone saw Silbert holding the guard on the) rround, after the police had wrest- Md away his gun, and other police ating him with their guns. Rathbone told of Gilbert’s attempt o raise a gang a few days before he actual raid, when he met a crowd f boys at a Gastonia lunch counter nd told them that they “could go ‘own to union headquarters any ime they wanted.and raise hell, and € they needed any liquor, he would vet it for them All witnesses testified the nee | vad been ing. X the mill workers of Kings Mountain and Belmont continue to receive the Daily Worker steadily. All Communist Party units, all workingclass groups must adopt a southern mill town or village and assure the workers there of receiving the Daily Worker, so that these workers may not be left in a wilderness during their coming great struggles, under the leadership of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, against unbearable exploitation and ter- | ror by the mill bosses. Individual workers must also send at once their contributions to | the “Rush the Daily South” Drive. | While mill workers in hundreds of mill centers in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia find themselves without the Daily—‘“the union paper”—as Carolina mill workers know it— i While calls for the organizers from the National Textile Workers come in from these mill villages and towns and villegs— While representatives of the workers in scores of these mill cen- ters are sent to the Charlotte conference to plan for the coming strug- gle against the mill bosses— While the mill bosses’ high-priced staff of lawyers screams for th¢ jong imprisonment of seven organizers and members of the National Textile Workers Union— i While these things go on, the mill workers are being deluged with (Continued on Page Two) the papers of the bosses, which denounce the N.J,W.U, the Charlotte — BANNER TOUSSE Working Women Elec- tion Rally on Oct. 17 The United Council of Working Women is cooperating with the Woman’s Department of the Com- munist Party to make the Working | Women’s Election Rally to be held | at 8 p, m. Oct. 17 at Irving Plaza, | Irving Pl. and 15th St., a success. The council has issued a special leaf- let on the meeting. At the mass rally a banner will | be given to the women of the work- | ers’ delegation to the Soviet Union | to be presented to the women of the USSR. In its leaflet the council warns jthe working women against the pro- paign will be discussed at a mass | conference Tuesday night at 7 o'clock at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. The conference has been called by the New York district | of the International Labor Defense | and the New York local of the! | Workers International Relief. | A call has been sent out to trade unions, shops, workers’ clubs and other working class organizations pointing out the necessity of inten- \sifying the campaign to defeat the conspiracy of the mill barons’ courts j and to strengthen the heroic fight | of the Gastonia textile workers. All| working class organizations are urged to send delegates to this mass conference, paganda of the bourgeois women's organizations which have been mo- bilized for the election campaign pointing out that the Communist Party is the only Party of the work- ing class, ein M H National Movement to Aid Gaston Prisoners Swelling 250 Negroes Active in Toledo; Hear Poyntz; Organizations to Confer in Cleveland is now conducting a drive for 50,000 new members by January 1, 1930. The workers of Duluth, Minnesota, Fifty Negroes of Toledo, ea) were among those militant workers who attended a meeting yesterday) |addressed by Juliet Stuart Poyntz, crowded Campbell Hall and pledged| touring for the Gastonia Joint De-|a Tag Day, to take place on Oct. fense and Relief Campaign in behalf | 19. In Minneapolis and Milwaukee, of the seven workers now on trial|large groups heard Poyntz who re- ‘n Charlotte, N. C, lated the events in Gastonia from Negro and white workers pledged the time of the Loray Mill strike wemselves to fight shoulder to until the trial now taking place in shoulder to free their comrades from Charlotte. the danger of 30 years in prison.| In Chicago, workers filling Ukran- Many are joining the I, L. D., which, (Continued qn Page Three) |stretch-out system. The U. T. W. |has deserted the Marion strikers. | At Danville, Asheville and other tex- {tile centers, the bosses have encour- aged their workers to join the U. T. |W., as they realize its usefulness ‘to them as a means of curbing the | militancy of the workers and quell- ing revolt.” Foster was interview by capitalist | pres sreporters after the meeting. | They wanted to cure the main | issues in the truggle and concentrate on the racial question as a means |of creating prejudice. They refused to use what Foster apy about intolerable conditions and | (Continued on Page Three) | SENTENCE MUTINEERS. | PARIS, (By Mail).—A _ court- | martial was held on board the gun- boat “Remiremont” on the mutineers of the French vessel “Gethary.” /The sentence has not been published. \ ‘hs