The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1929, Page 1

=) t A Vol. VI., No. 192 J é THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Entered as se: s matter at the Post Office at New York, N. inday by ‘The nion Square, ‘omprodaily Publishing New York City. N. ¥. 2 1929 STATE'S APPEAL TO JURY A NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, ee HOWL OF FAS SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Outside New FINA ork, by mail, $6.00 per rear. In New York, by mail, 88.00 per L CITY EDITION year. Price 3 Cents Trade Union Unity League Calls Mass Meeting of All Striking Truckmen Today Try to Stampede Oilmen BIG COMMUNIST Negro Workers Play Vital PROSECUTION 0 Back to Work with Wild FILECTION MEETS Role in Charlotte TUUL “Strike Collapse” Yarns HERE TONIGHT Confere | % 5 A. F. L, Misleaders Sabotage Strike, Halt Ali Youth in Manhattan Full Equality of Moves to Spread Struggle Over City Strikers Kept in Dark, Ready to Throw Off) Fakers; Longshoremen Act Against Seabs Capitalizing on the suspicious mood that has been fostered in the ranks of the striking gasoline truckmen by the A. F. L. policy of blocking every effort to spread the walk-out, and of keeping the strikers in total darkness as to strike developments, the oil barons yesterday deluged the capitalist press with rumors about the “collapse” of the 12-day-old struggle in hopes of stampeding the drivers back to work. Peter Prunty, mouth-piece for the Rockefeller, Mellon, Sinclair and other big oil interests affected, announced that two Standard Oil strikers called on him during the morning to “discuss terms” on behalf of the hundreds of Standard truck- men. That on this visit, if it took place at all, the workers represented only themselves is shown by the fact that the noon meeting of the Trade Union® —_——— sit Unity League, held at N. "TE LINOIS MINERS St. and Wythe Ave., was better Lay Plans for District attended by Standard strikers, than either of the previous two. Furthermore, the men! present showed no inclination to give an inch in the fight, although bitterness against the shuffling “leadership” of their A. F. L. officials was growing upon them, I. U. U, L. organizers said, Another “Collapse.” The Gull Refining Co. offered, as evidence of the strike’s “collapse,” a y to the effect that one Gulf er had also called on Prunty, ing to get his job back. The sulf bosses immediately spread the rumor that he was a “representa- ive” of all the other striking Gulf men. The tale hatched out by Warner-Quinlan bosses was more ambitious. According to them, their ruck drivers returned to work in a (Contmued on Pa Two) POLICE PROTECT STRIKEBREAKERS Window Washers Score Them; Strike Gains Police chief Whalen’s announce- Convention Oct. 26 (Special to the Daily Worker.) ZEIGLER,, Ill., Oct. 17—A huge conference, of Illinois miners at Belleville, Ill., yesterday, represent- ing over 100 local unions of the Na- tional Miners’ Union and United Mine Workers voted unaimously to sh reactionary charters of the U W.A., the checkoff sy: to emand recognition of the tional Miners’ Union from the ope ators The conference furt to call a special dis’ laid plans t convention, Oct. 26, 27, 28 at Leiderkranz Hall, Bei le, starting at 10 a. m. Sat- urd In a situation ovewrhelming all expectations, 700 members of the Staunton, 800 members of the Poca- hontas, 900 members of the Coello and scores of unreported locals are carrying out to the limit the Na- tional Miners’ program to smash the charters, the checkoff and join the National Miners’ Union in a body. The strike will continue, in spite of police-aided terrorism, till the ment that he has assigned 100 of |union wins all its demands, Feinstein tis uniformed strikebreakers to | ‘protect non-union window cleaners | :mployed to replace strikers,” was | rigorously denounced yesterday by | workers orge~ized in ths Window | Jleaners’ Px tective Union, Local 8, | vhich is leading the strike’ of 2,000 | declares. Released on $500 bail, H. Hry- schishen, a striker, will face trial on charges of “disorderly conduct” on Thursday, Oct. 24. Another | striker arrested on the same charge was dismissed yesterday. Both were | Lyceum; Bronx and Harlem Rallies (Candidates to Speak) Gastonia Leaders Will Address Workers A series of meetings, the climax of a week of active campaigning on the part of leading Communist can- didates, will be held tonight in vari- ous parts of this city. Each of the meetings is expected to attract hun- dreds of nhite and Negro working men, women and youth. “Three maor rallies are arranged for tonight—a meeting in Negr Harlem at St. Lukes Hall, 125 West 130th St., the first open air election | y in the Bronx, at Rose Garden. Boston Rd., a youth meeting hattan Lyceum, 66 E, 4th St., to protest against the railroad- ing of seven militant textile work- ers to long prison terms. At this meeting, leading Communist eandi- dates will discuss the issues of the present campaign. William W. Weinstone, candidate for mayor, Otto Hall, candidate for Comptrolled, Richard B. Moore, can- didate for Congress in the 21st dis- trict and Fanny Austin, candidate for alderman in the 21st district will be the speakers at the Harlem Negro rally. Weinstone will also speak a tthe Youth rally. Iscues of the most vital import- ance to workers will be discussed by a group of leading candidates at the Bronx meeting. The rally, which is zrranged in one of the most pop- working c’ass districts in the city, will hear H. M. Wicks, candi- date. for president of the Board of (Continued on Page Two) BRITISH. EMPIRE TALKS 0 A. F.L MacDonald Gives Wall St. Lackeys Threats TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 17.—The leading labor imperialists of Britain and America met yesterday, when at the A. F. of L. convention Mac- Donald delivered a rather blunt declaration of war although lightly veiled in considerable chatter about MacDonald himself being a “mis- ‘sionary of peace.” Feeling himself at home in the, atmosphere of labor lieutenants of vindow cleaners of Greater New| defended by union attorney Jacques | capital, MacDonald set about alter- York and vicinity. The strike began | Wednesday. | “Our bitter experience in the gen- | wal strike of window cleaners two! rears ago, when nearly 100 strikers were arrested, convinces us that | hese policemen will be used against | he strikers,” said Harry Feinstein, | mion secretary, “Whalen sends his men to ‘protect’ | itrikebreakers, but there were no| volice to protect the former secre- | ary of our union, Peter Darck, when te was brutally attacked and beaten tp by three hired thugs Monday | tight.” | A, Ambrose, a striker, was | lugged yesterday in front of the rand American :nd Bradford Win- low Cleaning Company where he iad stopped to watch the picketing. Police Permit Slugging. Buitenkant. j (Continued on Page Two) Giant Steel Merger of Open Shop Companies; Own Mines National Miners Union Calls Workers to Unite and Oppose Bosses Ready for Drive on Them, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 17.—An extensive merger in steel companies is taking place in ennsylvania. Pitts- burgh papers .ixte that ‘the merged | town Sheet and Tube, Republic Iron & Steel, Trumbull Steel, Central Al- loy, Otis Steel, Corrigan-McKinney, Midland Steel, Inland Stecl, Empire | | concerns will have wide ramifica- Steel, American Rolling Mills, Pitts- | | tions,” and “will have greater pro- | burgh Steel, and through control of | ducing capacity than the Schwab|stock, a number of other concerns _ interests,” and “will be second in the , which | steel industry, smaller only than the | practically includes all are net mentioned, the This | inde- | A thug attacked him with a black- | U. S. Steel Corporation,” the Na- pendent steel producers outside of ack and lead pipe. Police, of course, vere too busy “protectins” strike- wreakers to interfere. ‘tional office of the National Miners Union pointed out today. The merged concerns are: You>> | COMMUNIST ‘ELECTION RA the United States Steel, and the capital stock of these companies | Continued on Page Threes — | LLIES T » nce, Foster Says gro, White Workers Shown in Conference; Capitalist Reporters Raged Whole Program, Conference Shows Readiness of Southern: Workers for Stiffer Struggle William Z. Foster, general secre tary of the Trade Union Unity Lea- gue, interviewed in New York after his return fro mthe Trade Union -Unity Southern Cor -ention in Char- lotte last Sunday, and the Southern Conference» of Textile Workers, also in Charlot Caturd-:, teports the two meetings of delegates repre- senting the tens of thousands of workers, were huge successes, and | certain to initiate the great est or- ganization drive ever seen in the South, accompanied by a struggle particularly in the textile industry against conditions tha tare ynbear- able and are growing worse. Particularly important, in the con- ference of over 300 delegates ent | ‘om locals of the National Textile Workers’ Union, and from all mill committees and organization groups | in the unorganized mills, was the close unity and recognition of class | equality among Negro and workers. Negroes, Whites Together. “Negro worker ssat down before | the hall was full in the sae | meeings,” said Foster, ‘and imme- diately the white delegates already in the meeting went over and frater- nized with them. Not only that, but the Negro delegates rose and spoke from: fhe platform, to the accom-| chr’ paniment of much applause from the | WELLS TALKS AT WOMEN'S MEET RATOR WORKS ON THEIR PREJUDICE WITH VICIOUS ANTI-COMMUNIST LIES AND ADERHOLT’S “LAST WORDS” Defense Declares Strikers Justified in Arming Themselves Against Textil Police Attacks -e Shown As Struggle of Men, Women and Children Against Industrial Slavery CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 17.—The final arguments of prosecution and defense attor- white /neys to the jury in the Gastonia c began this morning with Clyde Hoey, agent of the tex- tile mill owners, appealing to the jury for a verdiet of guilty of murder. His long emotional speech was followed by an appeal to the jury for the freedom of the seven defendants,by Johnson McCall of the defense. Every tr oratory was k of cajolery w | jury. His flower used by the mountebank H tently directed towards oey to stir the emotions of the appealing to reactionary preju- | dices. He never referred to the evidence that has been presented during the past three weeks. He pictured the seven defendants as “veritable limls of ‘satan plotting the destruction of FIGHT COMPANY ITS SHADOW IN DRESS “UNION’ eePAAN YOTING GNIGHT IN HARLEM. B Exposed at N.T.W.LU, Membership Meet Tells Union Progress At Election Rally “The Southern workers are learn-| “No company union in the, dress trade!” was the sogan cheered 1,500 New ing their real friends,” declared Ben by Welis, Southern textile organizer at | over York dressmakers the Women’s Communist election at a general membership meeting balls at ering Pinca iat tipht led the Joint Board of the ge fi Roepe atiagee i dle Trades Workers’ Industrial ells, who was beaten almost to Union at Webster Hall, 11th St. and | Third Ave., last night. Addres: death by a cotton mill owners’ mob, told how that the workers are build- ing the union in spite of Fascist ter- ror, d described the successful con- ference held at Charlotte. “Only the organized power of the workers can free the organizers and strikers now on trial,” Wells told the large audience. He p ointed out | that the workers must not merely | fight for the release of those being tried in Charlotte, bi. must fight | for the right of workers everywhere to defend themselves. “Defense or- (Continued on Page Two) ed by Rose Wortis, chair- man; Louis Hyman, _ president; Julius ortnoy, secretary-treasurer, and by rank-and-file workers from the shops, the meeting declared its intention to expose and destroy the “conspiracy of the Schlesinger agency in the dress trade.” At the same *‘me, every speaker emphasized the necessity of defeat- ing the attempts of right-wing gangsters who operate in the fur, cloak an ddress markets to terrorize (Continued on Page Twe) ‘Daily Must Be Rushed South,’ says Wells, NTW Organize Southern Mill Hands Give Out of Meager Wages for Their Paper A month age Ben Wells, young organizer for the National Textile Workers’ Union in the South, was kidnapped and nearly beaten io death by thugs employed by the mill bosses of Gastonia. Wells, as organizer, saw and spoke to the mill workers of scores of mill villages. In each village, he states, the workers appealed that the Daily Worker be sent to them—and regularly. “The day after I was kidnapped by the mill owners’ thugs, I re- ceived letters from southern mill @orkers themselves, enclosing money which they had collected together out of their meager wages, which vane requested be used to send bundles of the Daily Worker to their villages. “Just think of that.. These southern mill workers contributing themselves so that the Daily can be rushed South! “These workers, thru reading the Daily Worker, have begun to 7 realize that they will have a leading part in the class struggle. “The Daily Worker, the organ of the Communist Party, has found a place in the homes of all the southern textile workers. “In my experience as an organizer in the southern mill towns and villages I found that the workers made a demand for the Daily Worker in most cases. “Where we gave the mill workers a few copies, all we could, they demanded the Daily regularly. ‘ “It was wonderful to see these workers crowd around to read one copy of the Daily when I pulled it out of my pocket. “In Gastonia, the children of the mill workers (Continued om Page Two) ell the Daily on RONX! Fight Young Plan by Revolution Only BERLIN, Oct. 17.—The so-called “peoples’ referendum,” initiated by the fascists on the Young Plan, opened yesterday. The Communist Party issued an appeal exposing the fraudulency of the fascist campaign and declaring that the only way to throw off the burden of r rations is by proletarian revolution. Hindenbuyg has sent an open let- ter t othe socialist prime minister, Mueller, forbidding ‘he use of Hin- denburg’s rame in the refeerndum eith eras being for or against the referendum. The Communist paper, “Rote Fahne,” declares that Hindenburg’s intervention alters th ewhole poli- tical situation, and represents a dem- onstration of Hindenburg’s favor for the fascists, casting a shadow of coming ‘decisive events in Germany. Yesterday at Essen, collisions o curred between police and worl after a fascist meeting. The fas cists were thrashed and a number of police injured. The police used their anity, civilization and morality.” firearms, but di dnot succeed in’ “illing any we-‘:ers. CAFETERIA ACTION MEETING. A special fraction meeting of the Cafeteria Workers’ branch A. F. W., will be hel Fdriday at 8 p. m. sharp. Very important matters will be dis- cussed. Hoey held up Aderholt and of peace protecting our sacred by Russian reds.” the police in Gastonia as “mes institutions against destruction In tremulous voice he referred to Aderholt’s widow and daughter and their statement that Aderholt’s last words were, “I don’t know why they shot me, I tried to keep the peace.” Then Hoey pointed an accusing finger at Beal and weep- ing, like a consummate actor, he cried, “There the murderer sits without shame or regret in his black heart.” Hoey directed most of his MASS TRIAL OF COMMUNISTS IN CHICAGO PLANNED Sedition Charge Faces Scores More CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Indications that a lareg scale trial of Commun- ists is looming, a sort of grand Ro- man holiday on the part of the Chi- cago courts, were today seen, when it was reported that the trial of Di: trict Organizer Clarence Hathaway, Nels Kjar, Zinich, Herman, Murphy and 22 other leading Communists and militant labor organizers on se- dition charges will be consolidated with all other ¢ now pending against Chicago Communists. The four above mentioned are now out on bail of $3,000 each after be- ing arrested Monday at Communist Party headquarters here and held on coupled charges of “robbery at the point of a gun” and “sedition.” Trial date is set for Oct. Should the cases against other Communists be combined with the | Oct. 22 trial, J. Louis Engdahl, and Offers to Adopt Ella May’s Children Received at I.L.D. Aid for Gaston Struggle and Greeting to Labor Defense Sent from Workers Thruout Country The life and heroism of Ella May has stirred the workers of the count: Her militancy has touched a responding chord throughout the masses, ‘ Offers to adopt the children of stri Ella May, martyred secretary of the Bessemer City branch of the Inter- national Labor Defense, who was murdered by agents of the southern textile bosses, have been received at the national office of tho Inter- inatioval Labor Defense YOUTH AT MAN In addition to these offers hun- dreds of letters are being heceived from labor unions, workers zations from all parts of the to sending greetings the rs and pledging solidarity by contributions large and small. Shop collections are being held in many parts of the land. An Hungarian worker in South Bend, Indiana, has offered to adopt Oia May's three-year-old son Al- Continued on Page Three) forensic attack at Beal. Shaking his long - flowing locks, Hoey charged that the strikers destroyed their owr headquarters for the purpose of winning public sympathy He referred to the testimony of one of the state’s witnesses that Red Hendricks, “crowed like a rooster” just before the picket line went to the Loray mill. “A rooster does not crow be- ‘ore going to bed A rooster crows n before going into battle,’ he declared, asserted that the prosecu tion of the defendants was part of the righteous warfare against law- lessness. ‘ Hoey looks exactly like a Shake- spearian actor of the old school o1 a quack in a patent medicine show sting large: propertied farmers, reac: in polities and fundamen- talists in religion, his flowery elo- (Continued on Page Three) at d Hoey But to this jury cons’ of 25 others arrested in a Gastonia demonstration in New York here a few months ago, will also be includ- ed in the new attempt to railroad Communists t lo~~ prison terms. In making the arrests, the court ruled that membership in the Com- munist Part yis sufficient basis fora charge of sedition. Warrants have jbeen issued for the arrest of all leading Chicago Communists, The legality of the Communist Party has been made the issue. The In national Labor Dgfense and the arrested men have called on all workers to take part in a national campaign against the attempt to suppr the Communist Party in Tilino’ Communist Campaign, (Gaston Banquet, Sun, Prominent speakers, a varied pro- gram of entertainment and good food, is promised at the Communist Campign Castonia Banquet arranged by Section 4, Communist Party, at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 E. 8ist St., Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Build Up the United Front of ! the Working Class, ATTAN LYCEUM!