The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1929, Page 1

“COMMUNISTS DO NOT FEAR TO CARRY FIGHT INTO DEEP SOUTH”: HALL, NEGRO CANDIDATE ond the defendants to living deaths But|s held in St. Lukes e when I was in the South. illiam Z. Foster, speaking at the harlotte conference of the National extile Workers’ Union, gave the southern bosses their answer, once and for all. ‘We are for full social,! OTTo HALL nia strikers, the prosecution of the|the Negro, and we mean that in the|into nill bosses demanded that the jury|fullest sense of the term.’ Thus spoke Otto Hall, ) prison cells because one of them|for Comptroller on the oke on the same platform with) Party ticket, who will be one of the}clas peakers at the election rally to be| publican St., under the auspices of the Har-|diserimination, Hall said, and while lem section of the Communist Party|the soci |this Friday night, Oct. 18. The Communist Party, Hall said,|struggle for While the democratic and re-| white workers. parties stand responsible Hall, 125 W. 130th| for lynching, Jim-Crowism and race ued Hall, list party does not dare to Jenter the South on a program of the interests of the myth of white superiorit bugaboo of ‘Negro which the employing class seeks to|woman to be nominated for public divide the black and white workers|office in New York City. “In the trial of the seven Gas-jpolitical and economic equality for;does not hesitate to bring its fight; Negro workers, because it is nothing|in order more easily to oppress and|bcen extremely active in efforts tojwhich is the heart of the South, where|but a third party of the bosses, the|degrade them both. c : jrace prejudices are most deeply|Cosamunist Party carries on a re-| Besides Hall the other speakers) workers who are the victims of alllexploited Negro wor! ; candidate] rooted, and the flame of race-|lentless battle for full social, racial|will be William W. Weinstone, may-/forms of discrimination at the hands) Richard B. Moore, candidate for Communist | hatred fanned by the capitalist|and political equality for black and|joralty candidate, Richard B. Moore,|of their white employers. Congress in the 2Ist Dist is candidate for Congress “The Communist Party,” contin-|District, and Fanny Austin, “exposes the capitalist}date for alderman in the 2ist Dis-|of and the|trict. The latter, domination’ by|mestic worker, is truly the defender of the of the nize the mise m ebly exploited day] interest es of bitterly nown to thousands of workers in Negro Harlem not only because of “The Communist Par Fanny in the 21st y u istin said yesterday at the office cand the Communist Election Cam-|his activities as president of the)’ | who is a day do-|paign Committee, “is the only party|American Negro Labor Congress,|/ the first Negro|which ha sa fundamental economic,|but also as president and a leading political and social program for the spirit in the Harlem Tenants’ She has! working class and is the only party (Continued on Page Two) THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Governmeni To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ander the act of Vol. VI, No. 190 26-28 Union Square. New York City. s matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1929 FINAL CITY EDITION March 3, 187! CRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. suns Price 3 Cents GASTONIA DEFENSE City Trucks Scab on Oil WAR FLAMES IN Wicks Assails'MASS MEET OF WITNESSES QUIZZE ® ON BELIEFS EDITH SAUNDERS MILLER, HENDRICKS, D Tammany’sOil Serss S000 Naas tation CM COMGIME syike Tervor mutes MINERS, CARTER, TELL OF MURDEROUS POLICE ~ Workers for Walk-Out LIE OF “UNITY” | canst scons cy OALLEDBTNMAU. Baty. PROVE STRIKERS DEFENSE RIGHT British and American Gov't Strikebreaking ‘Coal Diggers Will Take | Rivalry Breaks Out Care of Themselves ; ‘on China Front as UMWA Splits “Arrest” Gangsters to Cover City-Underworld nant Walkers Fight For Graft | Alliance; Garage Workers to Strike : ‘ ae : 4.000 At Virden Service Prosecution Orators Rave Against Soviet Union and Revolution for ‘Cheer for N. M. U. Effect on Fundamentalist Jury; Fail to Shake Defense Witnesses PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 15.— The National Miners Union in N- jlinois is moving for a mass rank and file of the coal miners. While Lewis and Fishwick TUUL Holds Strike Meet; 2,000 Police Aid Gun- men in Terror; Bosses in Ultimatum Tammany police brutality against the striking gasoline truck drivers was assailed in a vigorous state- ment issued yesterday by H. M. Wicks, Communist ° candidate for president of the board of aldermen, from Communist campaign head- quarters, 26-28 Union Square. “The attack of Tammany police and Standard Oil thugs against the striking gasoline truck drivers,” the statenent saysa, “again emphasizes ythe real role of the city government las a strike-breaking and scab-herd- ling agency.” “The New York Times, which sup- ‘Judge Admits All Questions on God, Attitude Toward Capitalism and Use of Troops, Arrested for Self Defense, Tried for Unionism ing in a Panic) Ussss) R. States Facts of Manchurian Hell (Bulletin). LONDON, Oct. 15.—An_ uncon- firmed report from Nanking states that Feng Yu-hsiang has been cap- tured, through the aid of Yen Hsi- |shan. Though Nanking reports are Notwithstanding an unbridled reign of terror directed by | Tammany and republican politicians, the feverish attempts of | A.F.L. fat boys to stem the swelling sentiment for a general | strike, open scabbery by city officials and innumerable efforts | to smash their struggle by every means at hand, the 3,000| striking gasoline truck drivers continued in control yesterday, determined to fight for their demands to a finish. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 15.—If the mill owners’ prosecution in the trial of the Gas- tonia case now proceeding in Charlotte succeeds in railroading seven militant union leaders to long sentences in the penitentiary, it will be because of their opinions on political, economic, religious and racial questions, as well as for their activity in organizing a real union of textile convention More than one-half of the 5,000 filling station workers em- ployed in the five boroughs attended mass meetings in Man- hattan and Brooklyn last night with the intention of organizing imto-a Union, formllatiie Geo, a |unreliable, some credence is given |this one from the fact that Yen jappears to be playing his own game ibetween Feng and Nanking, and ports Walker and Tammany Hall in this campaign frankly states that Police Commissioner Whalen has |doubled the forces of policemen for fight for the right to exploit ie nage nage ape a ge ecriaus res ic Os CRI ea OT, miner#,sthelminevssarecfighting for|. _. e state this mor ning took several hours to question, their ow untén} the Ne Me, The religious and political beliefs,” declared Dr. John Randolph N Edith Saunders Miller on her eal of counsel for the defense Sane z ; this morning in a vain appeal to Judge Barnhill to rule against the prosecution’s deliberat i 1 ive 3 zai. Strikebreaking purposes, so that /call was issued yesterday from the; kel PPI eo oe prosecution's deliberate mands for shorter hours me BUILD T J I) L jee Sih rai A cade arn now 1,600 are on so-called ‘strike |N. M. U, district headquarters at, 8ttemppt to prejudice the jury. pay increases and voting on a) a Us Ye bes aaa he ttaanaets (Continued on. Page Two) West Frankfort for a special dis- > Drag in Prejudice. walk-out in support of the oil truckmen. As the Daily Work- er went to press results of the meetings had not been announced but it was known that the men were almost unanimously for throwing in ther lot with the strikers and barr- ing another A, F. L. betrayal, sim- ilar to that which sidetracked the ORGANIZATION ON FOSTER TOUR “? > | SHANGHAT, Oct, 15.—Chiang | Kai-shek, facing rebellion growing 30,000 CHEER USSR on all sides is considering shorten- | ing his lines of defense by surren- dering Hankow without struggle to the southward marching armies of Feng Yu-hsiang, establishing Nan- king’s northern line at Hsuchow-fu | SHIP IN SEATTLE The first of a series of receptions preposed city-wide trucking strike a few days ago, they were expected to come out at once. City Strike-Breakers. City street cleaning department trucks, under police guard, are now carrying Standard Oil drums of gasoline. Thus Tammany Hall ‘rings its strike-breaking program wat into the open, the T. U. U. L. declares, having failed to break the spirit of the men with the terror- Reports on Charlotte Conference ‘on the Tientsin-Pukow line in north | in honor of the four intrepid airmen | Kiangsu, westwar dto Kiukiang on who successfully manned their plane, the Yangtze and from there south |“tand of the Soviets,” from Moscow Just returned from addressing | to “no man’s land.” This limits Nan- | to Seattle, and will soon be en route | 400 workers in Baltimore, an en-|king to Chekiang, Kiangsi, Fukien, /t 9 New York, will be given this eve- | | thusiastic audience anxious to get|and parts of Anhui and Kiangsu ning at he Eagles Auditorium, Sev- | ‘down to practical organization of provinces. enth and Union Sts., Seattle, accord- | the Trade Union Unity League ap- ‘ing to a statement from the national paratus in that city, and ready to headquarters of the Friends of the depart for a still larger mass meet- Soviet Union, New York. This ing today at Boslover Hall in Phila- casion will mark the first off delphia, William Z. Foster, general No trains are runing from Pukow north further than Hsuchowfu, which means Shantung is lost to the rebels and most of Honan is occu- trict convention. | At the N. M. U. Virden Day ser- |vices at Staunton, Saturday, 4,000 miners applauded five N. M. U.| |speakers and voted to stop paying (Continued on Page Two) FOIL FRAMEUP ON 2 SHOE WORKERS: Another framed charge against tw omembers of the Independent ; | Shoe Workers was foiled at the! | Gates Ave. court, Brooklyn, yester- ‘Daily’ Distribution Forces Mill Boss to Reduce Hours Workers in Rockingham, and Cordova, N C.| Mills Want More Daily Workers A distribution of 25 copi of Cordova and Rockingham to reduce the workers’ hours! s of the Daily Worker in the mill villages C., forced the boss of one of the mills Let a textile worker of Cordova illustrate to you the need of rush- ing the Daily Worker South at once. ' The worker's letter, in his own language, follows: Dear editor: I am writen you again to let you hear from me. I gave out them papers and the boss got some of them and he have stop running from 15 hours in the card room. “Tt is very apparent,” said | Neal, “that the motive of the | State is not to impeach the | testimony of this witness, but {to drag into this trial every- thing that is irrelevant to the question of the guilt or innocence of the defendants, for the sole purpose of appealing to prejudice. The ma- | jor legal error in the Sacco-Vanzetti case the admission of just such material. I appeal to the court to put a stop to such unjust procedure.” Barnhill answered: “The court |has no legal right to exclude ques- tions regarding the views of the wit- ness, which are competent for im- peachment.”” Barnhill’s Fair Trial. pied by Feng’s armies. A mutiny at | welcome c” the fliers, following their day. : | By his ruling Judge Barnhill con- ism of gangsters and the police, |secretary of the T. U. U. L., yes-{ReG °Y Sens é El arriv Navy Field, Scattle,| Union organizer S. Lippa and Where the mill workers here did start at two and three o'clock (4.40 overvihine be hae aid an some 2,000 PENGH aecsat present | terday told the Daily Worker of the Bea reported crushed, Jit in estat the Navy |shop committee chairman Guardia,| in the morning they have gone to starting at six, and running through gaat po dta au ee see aa on duty in the strike zone. \spread of the organization and the] 30) to Chien, is thought ‘to be A report in New York from Leon held in $1,000 bail when charges | Noon and stopping at 6:30 p. m. Te deat Ae ea ie Station Workers’ Demands. rapid growelt ofits local’ generaliand| | est | Nanking: (At Cdstton, Gen-| Glazer, secretary of the Seattle F.|0f “malicious mischief” were pre- hat yet loaves us working 121-2 hours a) day, and they have | 1. paetedly that “this will be a The filling station workers’ de- | "dustrial leagues. Jeral Tang Sheng-chi is supposedly |S. U., states that the Soviet airmen | ferred against them last week by | not said a thing about paying any more money. So you see they paid der trial and not a hereey tual mands are for a 48-hour week, time| There were two meetings in Balti- joval to Nanking, but General Chen /have stirred up unusual interest in | the Elbee Shoe Company, 449 Trout- pie iil taal Rab ha Fe rn eae 8 oars. 3 and not another Sacco-Vanzetti l and a half for overtime, 20 per cent |More, one at the Marine Workers | Chi-tang has come out for the re- the Western city since their arrival man St., Brooklyn, were dismissed = We rt pani As 0 any The re people inithis county poet ” Also, he has said. “Chere is increases for those earning $25 a|}eague Hall, and eee ee “| bellion, addi g to the force of Chang here. At tonight's reception many pesuan lag te evidence cee BLEUE UATE TTA ee rae a tao one ealeet | ra inate except: the auesHon?<ekva ee ; the for all workers, u vn. The meet-! eats be ‘ade inka wt eareed eir arrest followed their | ae inion, . i the davendints: eollie een an ng $40 or under. of district machinery, with a good tion there. will be an interesting |in violation of the union agreement, that the people need a speaker to come here and tell the people what |i oes tio or other questions - In addition to these, more than| Membership to start with, and as- if musical program, Among the speak- (Continued on Page Two) arenes ereege wouecws una thag the union is their friend. | i iaectidadltal GoNvicHaneaBt REE: 8 wi surance of militant action, accord- } q Gea will ba Taniex Dantausitvom the | ae See Ai The workers here want a union. They know they need help. The te See ur ise Bee ee eee ie Touche ling to Foster. ‘The principal Balti. /@¥U¥ . Se Ae eM ee tear ere: | nee most of them have not go: any money and nothing to live on, but the | ial, economic, political and relig- . men ave not met by Saturday, Her.|™ore mecting has as Chairman : Sed ae pay Needle Workers Meet bosses have got them afraid to do anything by themselves. sou austere 0 hae: bh Dineen , man Cohen, president of the Garage |Flaiani, secretary of the local gen- (Continued on Page Two The textile workers here in Rockingham are nothing but slaves. ‘ai court, and shouldn't be per- ‘Workers’ Union, stated last night. | eral league in*Baltimore, nad as a Macharinh: iit’ polishers, | principal speaker in addition to Fos- service ay men and all other garage employes |ter, the Negro member, Welch. Tells of Growth in South. will be involved. Pressure of rank and file union, Foster’s speech,’ aside from the members forced Cohen to make this purely organizational aspects, for announcement following the issuance | immediate and practical work, dealt | WASHERS STRIKE | By an overwhelming majority, |New York window cleaners voted on a strike which began today after tan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., last a crowded mass meeting at Manhat- | Police Seek Framing Needle Trades Leader ‘on “Assault” Charge | Tammany police began another Tomorrew; Plan Fight on Betrayal Schemes At the company stores of the cotton mills around Rockingham they charge the workers such prices on what they sell them that the most of them don’t never draw any money. That puts them in the shape that they have to trade with the com- pany stores. They do like they please against us. At the Steel Cotton Mill and other mills around here the workers never see a penny of their money. Just a few of the bos such as New York needle trades workers |will challenge Schlesinger agency | |schemes to company-unionize the | dress trade at a general member- | mitted to becloud the issue. This is what Judge Barnhill said in his charge to the grand jury th: indicted the defendants. Now he is doing exactly wha the said he would not do: he is permitting the prose- cution to introduce material which m 7 ‘) . is I a : ‘ ‘ vers s ing boss, they get $35 and beclouds what he has said is the is- - lar “ultimatum” by Rocke- | with the Trade Uni Unit; > | as, | e bers Ship meeting called by Joint Board) the card room overseer, and the spinning room y th - feller’ Standard Oil Co, which “or- | vention aa (Olagelatay andthe on | nih Pewee tngentiepe a ieee Tn. [of the Needle Trades Workers’ In-) $40 a week to walk around and see that the workers keep slaving. sue, and prejudice the jury, ” i rk | conventii i i Two thousand men will participate | i i |dustrial Union at 7 p. m. tomorrow | But the hard working people don’t hardly get bread out of it. The International Labor Defense t ders” the strikers to return to work |conventions in Charlotte Saturday jdustrial Union when they arrested i * # ; ‘ 5 y’ | ' by Thursday night, on penalty of{and Sunday, the Southern Textile |in the strike, whic his being led by lIrving Potash, chairman of the or-|at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third | Our little children are running around, in the cold, with rags on, has all along pointed out that this n losing their jobs for good. Peter| Workers Conference, where repre-|the Window Cleaners’ Protective | panization department of the union, | AVe- ;, | While the mill boss is riding around in big cars, and their wives with a is a class case, that the defendants f. Prouty, mouth-piece for Standard | sentatives of 50,000 mill workers| Union, 15 E. Third St. lat the Cooperative Caffeteria, 26-28| The Joint Board has worked out) poodle dog in their lap and diamonds on ‘ .,, |ate being tried only incidentally for J Oil, Warner-Quinlan and the other (Continued on Page Two) | ‘The striker sare demanding a 40-| Union Square, yesterday. The|® Policy, which will be explained ee | Look oe SST He Linke elbaeey. ovary uraings sud me mill |“murder” that their real offense is e oil trusts against which the truck- ‘hour five-day week, wage gains and |charge was felonious assault. |tomorrow’s meeting, to meet tl ei owners eating his goo xl. My little children are going around hal that they dared to organize the - men are struggling, flatly refuses to | E ais sg» | adequate safety devices and compen-| His arrest followed a fight pro-| approaching fak estrike in the dress | Continued on Page Three) Southern mill workers nad fight to ‘i SELF-DENIAL IN “LABOR'S' aus y ia on i i trade to be called by the Schlesinger | overthrow the tyrannical system of t recognize the International Brother- CAUSE. |sation insurance. Non-union work- voked by the right wing gangsters | ‘ : | a ‘i ‘ 3 al sys . hood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs. 2 le saerr included, and special efforts of the Furriers’ Council against a|/¢ompany union. ; challenge,” the union leaflet urging |derworld and all the dark powers of exploitation practiced by the boss- r The oil barons will deal with the {LONDON (By Mail)—Loss of a arseheinie an ke pear arre ‘on member of the industrial union at| “The time is approaching when | mass attendance at the meeting de- reaction,” the leaflet adds, es. It _ was the prosecution and y strikers only as individuals, he said | $30,000 pearl necklace was the only nee aie shone 29th St. and Sixth Ave. in the morn-|the dressmakers will have to give a/|clares. | “you must answer their treach- Judge Barnhill who hypocritically — we eS eS Saeed yesterday, and in refusing offers of | incident which marred th recently- state “mediation” declared that | concluded trip to New York enjoyed there is “nothing to mediate.” |by Mrs. George Spero, wife of the “Jabor’”” Boss Trick Flops. labor” M. P. for W. Fulham. uring the day Prouty sent out | agents in cars to tell the strikers grouped around the struck plants that the “strike is over” and urge the men to “go back to work.” This ILD Calls for Workers’ Mass Action for Gaston Prisoners ra Potash’s arrest was made by two detectives later. | Taken to Jefferson Market Court, ‘bail was refused him by Judge Jesse | Silverman. However, the union later obtained | bail through another judge at $2,500. Potash’s trial will come up Oct. 22 | A mass parade from Manhattan pe Lyceum to the City Hall opened the | strike, |decisive answer to the Schlesinger | Russell Knight Speaks iat Womens’ ‘Gastonia’ Meet Tomorrow Night Russell Knight, one of the re- leased defendants in the Gastonia “Dressmaking! The Schlesinger erous plans by organizing and mob- stated, while they thought they had company union is mobilizing to per- ilizing your own ran o as to an easy task railroading throdgh a | |petrate a new treachery against you |frustrate all their conspiracies and Conviction, that it was purely a mur- |with the aid of the bosses, the un-| build and fortify your union.” de~ trial. ee 5g RRs | The opinions of the defendants and witnesses as to the “existence of a god who will punish them for lying” are not relevant to the fund- amental issue in this trial, which is Unions Join Gastonia Fight | Through Workers’ Pressure crude bait earned the Standard at the Jefferson Market Court. ~ trial, will be a featured speaker at “were the defendants justified in J henchmen nothing but colorful ridi- |the New York working women’s defending themselves against at- . cule. James Dawson, business agent | rally to support the Communist Par- tack,” argued the defense couns: n \\ of the Gas and Fuel Drivers’ Local| Iggues Official Statement on Judge Barnhill’s Gold, Olgin, Grecht ty election campaign and which will Realize Prisoners on Trial for Class Acti + The udge overruled them, and the f 553 later instructed the strik r 7 voice protest against the attempt to 2 % prosecution’s appeal to the preju- 1 ba She “ontil they ‘beara ftom Rulings | Will Speak at Bronx railroad the seven Gastonia strikers A. F. of L. Locals Greet ILD United Front dices of the jury goes on, Dawson.” hors The Trade Union Unity League, commenting on his bureaucratic and typically A. F. L. order, states that it indicates Dawson's intention to “setle” the srike without submitting the sell-ou agreement to a rank and file vote. ‘Restlessness and suspicion | of their “leaders” is already infect- ing the truckmen, as not a single meeting has bee ncalled by the union. fakers since the struggle began over a woek ago and no reports on the (Continued on Page Two) The International Labor Defense has contended time and again that the leaders of the Gastonia textile strike were on trial, not for murder, but for their attempts to organize the southen textile workers. The International Labor Defense also contended that it is folly on the ‘trial from a capitalist court and a ‘capitalist judge. The latest ruling The first indoor rally in the Bronx fied. Judge Barnhill ruled: |sinee the opening of the Communist “If the defendant is a Communist, | Party campaign will be held this land is making an effort to over- Friday evening at Rose Garden,'1347 throw the government, when he Boston Rd. jcomes to trial under the laws of that Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of the | | government, he ought not to expect | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial part of the workers t oexpect a fair |to be tried as a citizen of that gov-| Union, and candidate for alderman | ernment.” Speakers will include lin the 29th distritt, Bronx; Rose This ruling fs an attempt to out- | Wortis, candidate for assembly in of Judge Barnhill, presiding at the law the Communist Party and the the third district; M. J. Olgin, editor itvial of the seven textile leaders in| (Continued on Page Two) | of the Morning Freiheit and candi- | Election Meet Friday | | Charlotte, N. C., proves this conten- | isiee of the I. L. D. was fully justi- | |to living death in prison. The rally will be held at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 16th St., tomorrow night. |date for assembly in the 4th district; and Rebecca Grecht, candidate for assembly in the fifth district, Bronx. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Bronx section of the Communist Party, with the jcooperation of the Campaign Com- ers’ Industrial Union, mittee of the Needle Trades Work- | behalf of the Gastonia prisoners. oaneepneipamcangee While Edith Saunders Miller was | Rank and file workers learning ceived from the United Brotherhood 0". the stand, Hie Stale Nieto |that the Gastonia trial is not a of Carpenters and Joiners, Loca! evidence copies of the oung Pioneer |“murder” trial, as the capitalist |?" of Newton, Mass., Pl rs distributed by | 5 4 local, No. 100, of § nton, Pa., the |dildren in Gastonia. Jake Newell, press proclaimed, but one in which the Journeymen Stone Cutters As-|°f the prosecution counsel, read ex- |the defendants are being tried for sociation of Cincinnati, the Hod- tracts from this paper to show the |their working class activities, have carriers local, No. 447, of Reading, JY, as he savid, “what unpatriotic | forced many unions, some of them the Excavators Building Laborer: scoundrels Communists are, locals of the American Federation Union, local 1731, with 1500 mem- (Continued on Page Three) of Labor to join the united front of bers, of New ork. | |the International Labor Defense, on, Many workers are joining the In- |ternatinnal Labor Defense, now Today funds and protests were re-| Continued on Page Three) } these Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises}