The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 3

DAILY Ww OBBER, NEM YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER ‘AS, 1929 EMENOFF, AIDED MOSCOW, Oct. 14.— The in- sions of Soviet territory by cz=: white guards and Chinese @ Int{fues as before. The a ds are active under the 1, of General Semenoff, restoulov and officer Savetiev. merous Soviet citizens have beer Id by these invaders. Today, the Soviet Foreign Com- ssariat handed ‘the German em-| ssy a note or transmission to the | w com otesting at the increased anti- viet attacks, particularly in the} nur region, the showing of fixed d floating mines, the bombarding | Soviet ships, killing and wound- | ic sailors, and other offenses of vaders of Soviet territo: nking and Mukden governments, | BY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT, COMMANDS BANDS KILLING MANY SOVIET CITIZENS ote Through German Embassy to Nanking, and Mukden Cites Amur Violations unishment Threatened for Bombarding of Ships, Killing Sov Soviet Sailors iet note threatens energetic invasions do not cease * Nanking Hard Pressed. SHANGHAI, Oct. 14,—Despite Nanking’s optimistic reports regard- ing the “suppression” of the South- , information shows Chang Fa-kwais troops have crossed the | Kwangsi frontier and captured Chu An Chow. The main rebel forces are concentrated at Nang Nin,/ | which Nanking orces now aim to capture. Thre: mies are converg- ing on Nang Chang Fa-kwai is “expected to join with Kwangsi in- \surgents. Feng Yu-shiang has is- ed orders to mobilize the Second ny against Nanking. | A ARTY PLENUM Revolutionary Tasks (Continued from Page One) ts in America, as well as the poli- sal degeneration and disintegra- of this movement on an interna- 1 scale, was given full attention. gainst Lovestone Renegades. ry thorough discussion was ven to the question of the strug- ruggle against the renegade move- ent of the right-wing opportun- ts Lovestone, Gitlow, Wolfe and o., the measures that have been, ken by the Party for the eradi- tion of all of the corrupting in-| rence of this group within the) nks of the Party. The Plenum ianimously upheld the actions of 1e Political Committee in the ex- alsion of the renegade elements ad in the campaign conducted for \e purification of the Party against tis poison. ~The gains that were, ade in uniting and clarifying the arty with the enlightenment cam- ign were discussed at length with 1 unsparing criticism of the short ymings of the enlightenment cam- iign. An outstanding feature of the dis- ission was the general agreement the Party has been united as} r before and enormously streng- jed during the struggle against ie right opportunist renedades and) cause of this struggle. e' 4 ations of right danger were a on.panied by expressions of unani- | ous opinion that the elimination of] 1e Lovestone group of treason does, UPHOLDS LINE ‘harp criticism on the other mani- | & ns within the Party and to ite the Party en the basis of | the C.I. line in the struggle against the right danger. In oréer to continue the work and Party leading organs new ces as well as those who were eliminated from this work or from the leading organs of the Party hecause of the factional fight, the lenum of the C.E.C. indicates the ity of bringing into the C. F.C. and Political Committee, as well as into district leadership, new forces and the forces of the former minority who were elimi- nated or barred from the work in these ergans on the ground of the now-liquidated factionalism. The motions were carried unani- mously, with the exception of the yote of Comrade Weisbord who ab- | stained. Trade Union Report. Comrad2 William Z, Foster re- ported on the question of applica- tion of the new line of Communist |tactics in trade union work, as es- |tablished by the Sixth World Con- gress and by the sharp contradic- tions of capitalism since the World Congress noted by the Tenth} |Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. Perticular problems in the organ- ization of the unorganized in this country, the enormous opportunities tn this field es a result of sharpen- ing of the class struggle, the pre- vious misconceptions and deviations which arose out of an underestima- tion of the situation ,were dealt with at length in the report and in |the discussion which followed. The building of new unions and the ap- plication of Party policy in various ‘important fields, such as mining, textile, shoe, needle trades, etc. was discussed with particular attention ,to each, in the Trade Union Unity League The work of the Party fraction) ruggle against the right oppor-| trade union center, was the center inist danger, but that on the con-| of attention. In all aspects a great ‘ary this danger has its roots in \deal of self-criticism was made by re historical conditions of the pre-| many speakers. ont American capitalist society as| A telegram of revolutionary greet- ell as in the negative aspects of|ings was sent by the Plenum to the 1e Party history. |defendants in the Gastonia trial. nt by any means complete the |in building up the League as the new} The discussion brought out cer- iin needs for amplification on some nportant points of the Thesis, but atirely in line with the Thesis. The abor Party question was brought p repeatedly by a number of speak- vs. The Secretariat thereupon pre- ented to the Plenum a motion cov-| ring the necessary amplification of ye Thesis on the Labor Party pol-| ‘y, completely in line with the hesis as originally presented. The hotion was considered by the Secre- ariat as merely a necessary state- rent of policy for the guidance of re various districts as follows: Our policy on the Labor Party Il be concretely applied as fol- lofrs: . The militant putting forward ot’ the Communist Party as the ing class. 2. Development of united front movements with workers’ class or- ganizations on general political issues and the winning of the sup- port of these organizations for Communist Party candidates in election period. 3. Propaganda for the Labor Party slogan, organized from be- low, on the basis of a struggle against the social reformists with the building of broad class revolu- tionary labor unions or shop com- mittees as a preliminary condition for the formation of such a Lsbor Party, local or national. 4. Fight against opportunist pro- osals of socialist party, Muste- ites, etc., for the formation of !o- al or national labor parties. The »t the Thesis be elaborated along lines of the discussion, and that regard to certain injustices that vere done in the Party during the ctional fight which has now been vercome, the following motion lhould be adopted: That the Picnum of the Central Committee states as a very im- as succeeded in Aiquidating fer. ionalism, to smash old factional revolutionary Party of the work- | Secretariat then proposed, After a discussion participated in |by many speakers and after the |summarizing remarks of Comrade Foster, the draft resolution on Trade Union work was presented. Amend- ments by Weisbord of a polemical nature directed against the C. I. line, the Party line and the Party |leadership, were voted down unani- mously except for the mover’s vote. The trade union draft resolution was unanimously adopted to be am- plified, with sections of criticism on | youth work and a statement of gen- eral policy on youth, also on women —also further elaboration of*section jon shop committees, so that it may bring out very clearly the points jelaborated on in the course of dis- cussion. News from Mexico. Comrade Moreau was given the floor to announce the recent actions of the Communist Party of Mexico in fighting the right danger in the Mexican Party, which fully endorsed ; the expulsion of the Lovestone rene- gade opportunists in the Communist Party of the U.S.A. and at the same time expelled from its own ranks four renegades of equally opportun- ist character. The ‘enum passed a motion una- |nimously approving the actions of the Mexican Communist Party and | gont a communication to the brother |Porty to that effect. Weissord Removed from C. C. A sharp, divergence from the line of the Party as exhibited by Com- rade Weisbord was discussed at some length together with actions of this comrade prior to the Plenum and following the receipt of the Comintern Address in this country. The Secretariat presented a resolu- tion covering this question which, with the exception of the vote of Comrade Weisbord himself, was una- nimously edopted by the Plenum. This resolution sharply characterized the open opportunistic perspective of Weisbord as to the development jof the Communist Party and of the’ prole*ericn revolution in the Unite! Sieies, iogether with his open age | | __Page Three Three anes Govt. Throttles| All Left Wing Unions; Arrests 16 Militants TOKIO, (By Mail).—A sisal jot the Enlarged Executive Commi ‘tee of the left trade union, w"Ktogo| Kai,” was raided by the police and} 16 members arrested. ener The Japan Home Ministry has issued a declaration that all left trade unions are to be dissolved, be-| lcause “they are a tool of the Com- All funds of confiscated \ munist International.” the unions have been and the leaders arrested. tions against the Party in support} of a petty-bourgeois opportunist line, and decided that Weisbord be | removed from the Central Commit-| tee of the Party and warned against | the continuation of his line which leads toward the camp of the Love-| stone group of opportunist rene- gades. Negro Work of Party. Comrade Otto Huiswood; head of the Negro department of the Cen- tral Committee of the Party, re- Party in this field, bringing out line of the Party as regards this work. Nowhere is the corruption} jof imperialist ideology in a Commu- | {nist Party more crassly shown than in the right wing opportunism in relation to Negro work. White | chauvinism, a fundamental part of the ideology of imperialism, is sys- tematically cultivated in the work- ing class and is constantly corroding even the Communist Party. The tasks of the Party, in combatting these weakenesses ,of really Bolshe- vizing the Communist Party ,and in fearlessly carrying out the revolu- tionary line of the Communist In- ternational were emphasized by the reporter. After. discussion by many speak- ers, the report, together with amend- ments ‘in line with it, was unani- mously adopted. Cable to Comintern. A motion was carried to send a cablegram to the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Interna- tional, as follows: Plenum of Central Committee American Section of Communist International, the first since liqui- ion of factional struggle with aid of Executive Committee of the Communist International, una- nimously greets Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Interna- tional, pledging all energies for defeat of right wing renegades, for combatting conciliators and for winning leadership over ma- jority of American proletariat in rapidly increasing and intensify- ing class struggles of third period, thereby effectively meeting war danger. Unanimously adopted Theses follows line Sixth World Congress and Tenth Plenum. Or- ganizational changes endeavor rec- tification previous factional dis- criminations and drawing new pro- letarian forces into leadership. Under Comintern leadership Cen- tral Committee Plenum points way | for development _ revolutionary mass Party in America. Representative To International. A motion was unanimously car- ried that the Plenum send a leading comrade to represent the Party in the Communist International. It was proposed that the Party once for all break with the habit of con- sidering the choice of its representa- |tive as a secondary question to be considered after the other needs of the Party. In view of the interna- tional situation, and the need of sup- plying the ECCI with the best forces for conducting the struggle against the right wing in the Comintern, it was proposed that the Plenum pro- ceed to elect the best comrade for the post. On this basis a comrade was unani- mously elected. Reinvigorating Polburo. The following motion, made on be- half of the Secretariat, was unani- mously adopted: That the Central Committee ap- proves the proposal of the Secre- tariat adopted by the Polburo to reinvigorate the political func- tioning of the Polburo of the Cen- tral Committee and that the Secretariat be organized n ad- ministrative secretariat to prepare the work of the Polburo and to carry out its decisions, In fulfilment of the earlier provi- sions adopted in respect to the fill- jing of vacancies on the Political \Committee and the Central Commit- tee the Secretariat unanimously proposed the following additions, To The Political Committee. Wm. F. Dunne; John Schmies; Harrison George; Clarence Hath- away. Candidates of Political Committee. Smith; Ford; Kamp. To the Central Committee. Dunne; George; Ford; Smith; Hathaway; Antonov; Kameno- vitch; Alpi; Wicks; Anderson; De- vine; Johnstone; Harvey. Candidates To Central Committee. Sazer, Simons; Aronberg. After a discussion a motion to cept the proposals of the Secretariat was adopted against one vote. Comrade Weinstone, on behalf of the Presidium briefly summarized, citing the achievements of the Plenum, the demonstrated unity of, the Party on the line of the Com- munist International, its will to fight for that line and to lead the working class in struggle, and the need now to put the decisions into diving reality, ported at length on the work of the| clearly the significance of the new) SOCIALISTS IN HIGHEST BERLIN POSTS GRAFTERS: Evidence “Proves Lord | Mayor Took Bribes | BERLIN, Oct. 14.—The exami- |nation of employes of the Sklark | | clothing and goods company, which arises over the graft charges against | the Berlin socialist municipal gov- | ernment, confirms the truth of the jaccusation made against the social- | list Lord Mayor Boess (now in the, | United States on a tour “for inspir- jation”), that Boess “purchased” \from Sklareks for his wife, a mink |fur coat worth four thousand marks for only four hundred. The Communist paper “Rote |Fahne” deals today with the career lof the socialist Kohl, the mayor of |Koepenick district, who became rich |as a result of dealings with Sklarek, whereas formerly Kohl was a penni- |less vagabond. In order to dertcact attention from the stinking corrup- jtion among the socialists, the social- ists are trying to spread tales about various organization in which Com- munists are interested inclding the | Workers’ International Relief and the Red Aid. No ccacrete accusa- tions are made, only innuendoes, which the organizations concerned have met with a statement of cate- goric denial. Yesterday’s “Rote Fahne” deals with the denials by leaders of the “Reichbanner” of charges that the latter organizations officially main- tained connections with the Sklareks, the ‘Rote Fahne,” proving with pho- tographic reproductions of docu- ments, that through its leaders the Reichbanner was supplied with uni- forms by Sklareks at about fifty marks each, although made -of |shoddy material. The leading body \of the Reichbanner received about two marks “commission” on each uniform supplied, therefore all com- plaints by members concerning the profiteering price (the uniforms cost Sklareks about twenty marks) and poor quality, were suppressed by the Reichbanner leaders, Plan Extension of I. L. D. Work in Phila. | PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14.—Plans for a greater scope of work than ever have been made by the Philadel- phia branch of the International La- bor Defense. A total of 2,500 has been assigned for new membership to be secured by the present mem- bers, during i:.. drive now going on. Philadelphia must secure 100 new members; Chester, 100; Wilmington, 50; Baltimore, 500 Washington, 200; Camden N. J., 50; Richmond, Va., 25; Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., 100; Trenton, 100; Roebling, N. J., 50; Easton, Bethlehem and Allen- town N. J., 200. The secretary of the district, Jennie Cooper, will make Portsmouth Oct. 23, Richmond Oct. 24, Washington Otc. 29, Baltimore Oct. 6, Wilmington Oct. 27. A membership meeting tomobilize for the membership drive will be held at Grand Fraternity Hall, 1628 Arch St. The district convention takes place Nov. 24, Philadelphia branch of the Joint Gastonia Defense and Relief Com- mittee held a conference Sunday night at which 36 new delegates from 12 unions and T. U. U. L. committees not previously affiliated were present, in addition to 54 del- egates regularly elected, and parti- cipating in this work previously. J. Louis Engdahl, of the International Labor Defense was the main speak- er. More work on a greater scale was planned. NTW Opens Silk Drive (Continued from Page One) young textile workers ever to be held. A conference of silk and rayon workers will also be held in Phila- delphia. Thousands of copies of the manifesto of the National Silk Com- mittee to all silk workers are being distributed to workers in the dye houses, silk mills, and rayon plants. This is being followed up by the organization of mill cqmmittees from which delegates are being elected. Martin Russak, secretary of the National Silk Committee reports that when the national conference opens in Allentown on November 3 delegates will be present for the first time from some of the largest rayon plants in the North, thus lay- ing the base fo rthe organization of these workers in this most vital war industry. Another important war industry ,the dye works, will also, according to Russak, be well represented, especially from Pater- son, where the biggest dye works are located. DOCKERS EXPECT STRIKE. SUNDERLAND, England (By Mail).—Dockers at the South Dock are fighting a firm of timber ex- porters who refused to observe the local custom of payment for the workers’ tea hour, A strike is ex- pected. a tour of the district, taking in) 90 Delegates at Phila. | Gastonia Relief Meet GASTONIA JUDGE WARS ON “REDS” With, Beal Testifying Attacks Communism (Continued from Page One) \by the witness is worthy of belief. It is a matter of impeachment. If the defendant is a Communist, and lis making an effort to overthroy the government, when he comes to trial under the laws of that government, he ought not to expect to be tried as a loyal citizen of that govern-| ment. When a man goes on a wit-| ness stand, he subjects his life and | his beliefs to the security of cross} examination. The jury is entitled| jto Know what manner of man he) is. This can only mean one thing: Communists cannot expect a fair| trial under a government they do | not support, and their views im- peach their testimony. They are outside the ‘aw, in Barnhill’s estim- ation. This ruling takes its place beside | the worst of the rulings of Judge| Thayer in’ the Sacco-Vanzetti case, jas a vicious anti-labor decision. It shatters the illusion the capitalist an exception to the rule, and that he eois “ideal” of an impartial judge. Beal Testifies. When the sharp legal battle be- tween the defense and prosecution the witness stand. Under direct examination, Beal had told about his record as a leader of textile work- ers, in various strikes. He told of | rence at the age of 14, |National Textile He said the Workers Textile Workers had become hope-| lessly reactionary, expelling from its ranks all progressives who be- lieved in a militant struggle for bet- ter conditions for the textile work- ers. him South to organize the highly! ember. In March, said Beal, the Loray | mill workers sent for him to help! the morganize a union. The Masked Gangsters. | lew Soviet Note Threatens Action to Stop Continued Invasions by White Guards DN Pie SHOPS Out for Ot for Easy Pickings, Lewis {0,000 SLAVE IN Pretends to Fight Corruption BIG TUBE PLAN? (By a Worker Ootreshendeat) ORIENT, Ill. (By Mail).- fight between two of the fakers’ cliques in the United Mine Workers is going on, John L, Lewis, presi- \dent of the so-called “International” union is fighting the Bao ef the Illinois district of the U. poe | He is doing that of course Be be | cause he is not a faker himself but because he wants to finish the job for the coal bosses and to take the remnant of the treasury in Illinois. Some of the miners are still under the illusion that Lewis is going to clean out corruption and everything will be O. K. in the U. M. W. A. To blind more miners and get rid of Fishwick’s grafters, more ea: to put in his own, the Lewis 1 chine is holding mass meetings sae the state with a demagogic to “clean out corruption.” mee local union is invited to send a speaker as official representat One of these mass meetings held on Sept. 29 at West Frankfort, Ill. Local 203 sent three observers to find out what is behind the move- ment. Aas or ordi to the observers’ report not a speaker at the mass meeting offered any concrete solution of the unbearable conditions of the miners, because no one was permitted to speak no how to solve the real prob: lems. Even simple questions were not allowed. At the W. Frankfort m meet- chairman James Teague of W. Frankfort spoke. Like all fakers he said everything and nothing. He attacked the National Miners Union and Freeman Thompson, one of its leaders. He said that once at Belle-| ville he asked Thompson “where he got his money to start a new or- ginization” and Thompson “refused to answer a question.” On that statement, one of the Orient observers Louis Joich stepped to the chairman and told hm ithat he will make a motion that Thompson be given an opportunity at hte next meeting to ansker this ge, but the chairman said he would not entertain such a motion. So the fakers refused t8 face the especially at the meeting near the union headquarters, on the afternoon of June 7. Beal gave a long speech on unionism, being the substance of | his speech on the afternoon in ques- tion. It disconcerted the prosecu- ion considerably to have Beal thus +| get before the jury an exact presen- | tation of the program of the N. |W. U. and a description of the con- |ditions in the Loray mill against which the workers were striking. Beal explained that he told the | strikers not to attack the police, as that was wha tthe police were trying to prove, to get an excuse to throw all of them in jail and break the; strike. He said he never advised the strikers to shoot but maintained their right to self-defense. “The bosses always send their stool pigeons and agents pyovoca- teurs in to start trouble and then blame all the violence upon the strik- ers,” declared Beal. Police for the Bosses. Beal answered the question of the press has built up that Barnhill is|Prosecution, “Why didn’t you get | textile strikes, protection from the police?” by is the personification of the bourg- | Stating that the police were domi- | ‘nated by the Manville-Jenckes Com- | stril | revie en he proved. this by ing t!.. violence of the police | on this question arose, Beal was on|@nd mill thags from the beginning | necessary to shoot the p-lice. of thi e. This was fcllowed by a recital by Pcs] of the events of |June 7. He described the attempt of the bo:.:3’ stool pigeons to break picket line went to the mill. Beal Union | stated that workers still in the Lo- | the above. was organized because the United | ray mill were ready to join the strik- | objections of the defense. A constant ers and th» picket line was sent to give the signal for the strike and cheer them as they came out. After the picket line left, went inside the office of the union. Twenty minutes later, Vera Buch, Beal stated the N, T. W. U. sent| Amy Schechter, Sophie Melvin and | fuse him in the least. Edith Miller returned and told how exploited Southern workers, in Dec-|the police had broken up the picket |ious insinuation, countering Cansler’s line with brutality. Shooting «Started. Then they heard shots and lieved the Manville-Jenckes mittee of 100” gangsters had arrived be- Beal | “Com- | PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14.—The| He told the often repeated story |to raid the headquarters, destroy it, of the strike at the Manville-Jenckes | and shoot the organizers. They lay Loray mill, of the picket lines broken !on the floor to escape bullets com- up with the utmost brutality by the |ing from the police. There were no police, of the destruction of the old/guns in the building, and no one union headquarters by the masked gang of Loray mill bosses’ hirelings, | and the voluntary formation of the | strikers’ guard to protect the new headquarters. He described the work of the) Workers’ International Relief in the tent colony it had established for) strikers evicted with their families, | their little ones and their sick, by | the Loray bosses. He told of the feeding of the strikers by the W. L R. He described the help given strik- ers arrested for strike activities by the I, L. D. Repeats His Speech. Then Beal was questioned in de- | \ { fired from the building. Harrison | was brought into the hall wounded and Beal took him to the hospital. \Then Beal went home, and found a \ear full of Loray gunmen there, and | came to Charlotte to consult Tom Jimison, attorney for the I, L. D. Jimison advised him to go to a friend’s home in Spartanburg until recvlled by Jimison. Beal then told how he was arrest- ed in Spartanburg, and taken to jail | in Monroe, passing through Gas- tonia, Rank and File Rule. The prosecution attempted show Beal as a dictator of the union tail by both the defense and the state | in Gastonia, But Beal insisted that COMPLETE TOUR FREE SOVIET VISAS The Oldest Travel Organization Send Tourists to the U. S. S. See...... SOVIET RUSSIA Be on the Red Square to Witness the Celebration of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOV. REVOLUTION °D9s. Group Sails:—S.S. AQUITANIA—October 23 WORLD TOURISTS 175 to Tele; to | | leader they slandered before the |miners. —L. J.—Orient Miner. is a democratic organization, con- trolled by rank and file workers. He said the strike committee was in charge of the strike. The prosecution produced a file of Daily Workers and Labor Defenders |and read all letters and articles writ- ten by Beal, asking him if his state- ments were true. He declared that “aha were. The attempt was made to prove that the N. T, W. U., the I. L, D. and the W. I. R., the Communist Party of the Young Communist League are all identical in member- | ship and purpose, and that Beal was the boss of them all in Gastonia and responsible for all of their ac- tivities This is to make the that Beal was the “ ‘ringleader ina conspiracy to overthrow the govern- | ment, using strikers for that pur- pose, to whith the murder of police was incidental.” The prosecution questioned Beal about his activities in New England, attempting to picture him as a pr. fes ssional trouble maker. | Prosecution Theory. The prosecution is trying to con- | |pany, and were always against the | | vince the jury that Beal’s theory was | | that: in-order to win the strike and overthrow the government, it was “Don’t you know that there is no such animal as peaceful picketing?” | Cansler, of the prosecution, growled, | at Beal. The judge permits Cansler working in the textile mills of Law-|up the meeting just before the|to make accusations and lectures |camouflaged as questions, such as | This is done despite the fire of objections by the defense was overruled by the court, which has | dropped all pretense of impartiality. Beal has made a very good wit- ne: Cansler k-3 been unable to | break his testimony down, or to con- Beal is quiet, wers each vic- self-possessed, and <7 speeches with statements of fact, | and giving full explanations of the | purposes of unionism. It is expected | that he will be on the stand all day, at least. As the defense plans to put all of the defendants on the stand, | the trial will probably last the rest lof the week. \Gaston Protest Echoes | lin Africa, Argentine | (Continued from Page One) release of these two martyrs. But Yankee capitalism will destroy itself | | with this new injustice. The fight- ing spirit of Gastonia and southern | proletariat, black and white, who are |struggling together against their | jexploiters in the interests of their | class, will question in a short time! the illusion that the U. S. capitalists |are the most strongly entrenched in| |the world, and the American prole- | tariat will fight with greater im- petus than any other part of the world, for the freedom of the work- as to the content of his speeches, the Nasional Textile Workers’ Union ing class.” NEW YORK LONDON LENINGRAD MOSCOW FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK Flatiron Building phone: Algonquin 6656 — 8797 * the men receive $4.40 a day. | Negroes and Mexicans. K / under IN YOUNGSTOW: Hell in Indiana Harber Tin, Coke, Steel Mille (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANA HARBOR, Ind. (F* Mail).—I_ was working for t Youngstown Sheet and Tube C€ here. There are three differe- plants here which are controlled } + the Youngstown Steel Co., the T> Mill, where they make plates a> ' tin, the coke plant, where coke a gas are manufactured, nad the ste side, where pipes, sheet plates, a steel bars are made. 10,000 Men Employed. The three plants employ abc 10,000 men. Of there between 3,0 and 4,000 are young workers und the age of 25 years. There workers of many different nation~ - ities such as Poles, Hungarians, groes, Mexicans, Slavs, Russia" etc. The bulk of the workers a foreign born. At least one third « all workers employed are Negro and Mexicans. These workers a among the most exploited in t} mills. There is a large number « young &irls working in the plants. Low Wages and Long Heurs. In the tin mill they work eig’ hours, three shifts. While we ay supposed to be working six days ~ week, too often many of us as* forced to work seven days a wee! The girls get abou $15 a week whil Th bosses of course, have the bonus sys | tem in all shops, which means great er speed-up, more production for the | boss. Negroes Slave Worst in Coke Plant. In the coke plant there are mostl: These worl the worst conditions. These workers are forced t oslave for eigh* ten and twelve hours a day. Man; work overtime for the same pay The seven day week is an establish- ed fact. The wages are $4.40 and up. Of course, here too the bost has the bonus system. The speed. | up is used most extensively. A great number of these workers are young. (To be Continued) Not only han the heurgeoisie forged wi hat denth to Karl Marx (Communit: Hed Beal BRANCH OF THE I. L. D. was formed last week in Oak- land, Cal. Three Ukrainian workers clubs with 210 mem- bers, in New York, affiliated with the International Labor Defense several days ago. These are the latest new groups to join in the drive for 50,000 new members of the ILL. D. DO YOU BELONG TO AN I. L. D. BRANCH? IS THERE AN I. L. D. BRANCH IN YOUR DISTRICT? If not, then form one as soon as possible and join the fight against capitalist speed-up, wage-cuts, brutalities, against murders such as at Marion and at Gastonia. 50,000 new members in the I. L. D. by January 1, 1930! 50,000 new subscrbiers to the Labor Defender! The Labor Defender is the monthly publication of the In- ternational Labor Defense. It is the most popular labor magazine in the country. Southern workers call it the “UNION BOOK.” If you want to protect the organization of workers in America, if you are for strong, fighting unions, you must Join the I. L. D. and read the Labor Defender! The bosses of Gastonia are determined to send Fred Beal and his six comrades to prison for 30 years. Will you let them? Join the fight to save the union strikers and leaders by joining the International La- bor Defense. 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