The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1929, Page 3

| “Labor” Party Breaks ts Election Promise. to Restore the 7-Hour Day to UA. J, COOK, FAKE “LEFT LEADER WHO LED MINERS TO PLAGE ALL HOPE IN “LABOR”, DISCREDITED MacDonald Government Openly Violates Its Pre-Election Promise to Workers 1 \Italian Paper Slams | “Labor” Hypocrisy of Fake Peace Chatter ROME, Oct. 17.W—Concerning in- to the five-power val i don next Jz “A the ne that “t orecall the Kellogg treaty, which excludes v nd then announce that as a consequence of it the British and American fleets will have reached a par development in 1936 is plain contardiction which only | a labor minister (MacDonald) could Defending Interests of Mine Owners, “Labor” *¢ forth.” Regime Sets Up Tr (Wireless by Imprecorr.) day’s session | of the government Coal Commission, the so-called “la-| bor” government announced its in- tenton of introducing the seven-and-| Donald thus abandoned its a-half-hour day fon miners in 1930, and the formation of a cl: collab- orationist national committee of “miners, owners, and consumers” to! control production and _ regulate prices. Further reduction of hours, the government said, depends on the progress made with reorganization |i: I of the mining industry. A. J. Cook, | formances. renegade “left” leader of the miners LONDON, Oct. 17—At yester-|Who attacked the Communi predicting the suffer great ¢ government action. res which the miners lost their being sold out by the Trade| This present, betrayal will add to the disillusion of the British workers in the “Labor” Party and it: icky Joint Council STEEL LORDS IN -BIG NEW MERGER promise made during the elections to/ NMLU Calls Werkers to re the work Way to houws| Fight Open Shop Drive result of | for resent betrayal, will redit b¥ the present 1 ‘ The “labor” government of Mac- | (Continued from Page One) | goes into hundreds of millions of | dollars. ‘These companies control | : “some of the richest ore mines in reform-|, ‘ . . PB |the Lake Superior regions, thus in- apitalist per- . = : suring them adequate supply of iron ore for the next 75 years.” j Union Congress in the 1926. stri ist promises and pro: ¢ | B WORK ON GASTON °stsy's chitaren Mac JURY PREJUDIGE Hoey in Vicious Attack on “Reds” (Continued from Page One) quence filled with biblical references and appeal to patriotism and preju- dices was probably effective. Two of the jurors were seen wip- ing tears from their eyes. His speech was accompanied by the sob- bing of Aderholt’s widow and daugh- ter and other women in the court} bert. greatest sympathy with the textile strikers of Gastonia and wishes to show hi the militant martyr’s waukee Poyntz, tional Labor Defense spoke, another offer was made to adopt one of Ella May’s children by a pair of workers on behalf of the Gastonia! and any miner who dares, e All Exploit | “All of them own coal mines in wfactically all mining fiel It is hinted in tl» papers that these com- | panies merged into a veritable trust, | will be in a position to command | better terms from the United States | Steel in case they decide to join it; and it is hinted that this is the ob-| jeetive in view. Thus will be formed a monopolistic empire in one of the country’s war industrie: | The Trade U: Some of these companies recog- some of the A, F. L. craft union. cements with U. M.| ‘ince the loss of the 1927 | (Continued from Page One) He declares he has been in s solidarity by raising one of children. At the mass meeting of the Mil-| local, when Juliet Stuart representing the Interna-| niz ome had A. But worker Finnish W ie ‘ jstrike, the U. M, W. A. has not aj tnish ‘Workers Active. member in their m All the | One of the most active group of |companies are bitter union busters, | ven in| room, put there for the dramatic ef. |Sttikers is the Finnish seetion of | the: mildest words, to comment on| fect. the working class. Almost daily |the wages or the work conditions is| After he sat down a richly dressed funds are sent in from Finnish | immediately di: ‘ged. The same| woman behind the Daily Worker re- porter said solemnly, “His voice is the voice of god.” Johnson MacCail then launched} into a thorough analysis of the evi dence. In his appeal to the jury| for the freedom of the defendants, |greetings and a contribution of $12 he reviewed the long record of atro-| was cities committed by the police and|Branch No. 462, who congratulated | |th> Then he called attention to the|“upon the splendid fight waged|through the help of the bosses. All|and marks a huge advance over the | against the brutal textile capitalists | in of the South.” mill thugs against the strikers. fact that Gilbert, Roach, Hord and other policemen and Loray mercen- aries had criminal records. He stated, “How can you blame the strikers for arming themselves for self protection against the attacks of such brutal thugs?” | “The forces of law and order were | literally taken in charge by the Man- | ville-Jenckes Co, and used to break | the strike. “What were they for? government and church? put an end to industrial slave: which women and children as well 4s | men slave their lives away for a pit- | tance. Have you ever gone into a) cotton mill and seen the pallid white | faces of the little girls and boys who should be in school?” McCall told the jury, “The mill owners are coining their sweat and | blood into shekels, that their profits | may be swelled. workers to fight against that sort of thing. When the mill owners or- ganize for the advancement of their interests it is praised as progress and patriotism, but when the work-} ers organize it is called treason.” The prosecution has quoted Beal as advocating militancy and a fight- ing union. Fighting for higher wages does not mean fighting with ing union. It was shown by wit- nesses that Beal did not advocate shooting as a means of winning the strike. That was not the kind of fighting that Beal advocated in this strike. “All life is a struggle from cradle to grave. As long as injustice pre- | vails it is necessary to fight against it. Labor will never escape from industrial slavery except by fighting | for its rights. | “The police force of Gastonia was | a collection of blackguards who brought the law and courts into con- tempt. Their cowardice and con- temptible conduct was a disgrace. “Gentlemen of the jury there can be no doubt that these policemen went down to union headquarters with th edeliberate purpose of shoot- ing it up. The sttikers couldn’t get protection from the police and were forced to protect themselves. Of all the ridiculous theories ever invented for the purpose of decid- nig @ jury this theory of the prosec- ution that the defendants conspired to shoot the police is the most ridicu- lous and incredible that I ever heard. And Hoey asks you to believe such nonsense. The only crime of the defendants was to strike for better conditions. I ask you for their un- conditional release.” | To destroy No. To! NEW SPANISH BOSS PARTY. MADRID (By Mail).—The “Re- publican-Radicsl-Socialist” Party is the latest of. the Spanish joitical groups to enter the field in the ser- vie of the capitalist class. ¥ The' party’s aim is to establish a bourgeois “Iberian Republic” to take in Spain and Portugal. The working ¢inaa Jay hold of whiner: workers in all parts of the land.| applies to the mills. Today $40 was received from the |mills recog Finnish Women’s Club in Woodland, | Washington and $20 from the Work. e California sent $25 today. progress is being made on the West Coast where Mother Bloor is organizing units of the I.| |bers have joined since the drive for |" |50,000 new members was begun. ty in| factory in Astoria, Long Island, do- nated $9.78 to a committee that ap-| |strike defense ani workers then organized another col- |lection inside their shop and con- |tributed a total of $4.25. workers have previously given lib-| erally out of their small wages to| striking coal miners, the New Bed- Beal organized the FS strikers. tributed branch of the Workers International | workers practically the came. Relief for the oint Gastonia cam-| paign, | “Native Americans” Assail Gardner. ¢7der the leade today from a group of workers in Chicago, Ill.: “Governor Max Gard- ner! The below, as native born and| ers by mercenary and ignominous \tools of the textile employes. | will be a black mark on North Caro- conviction, son, Ted Jones, John Trench, Marion in China Tortures Men Few of the| © some skilled crafts. | What Is the A. F. L, Doing? | The A. F. L. and its affiliated] |unions have played the game of] “support our friends,” the coal, | steel, ete. barons and betrayed all| the in the steel industry. The | unions that still exist are numeri-| cally very weak, and live only; ’ Society in East Chicago. From Atlanta, Ga., a m age of sent by Workmen’s Circle, International Labor Defense tions are that even these weak | ons will be smashed, West Coast Busy. Merger and the Workers. | Anil, Ohbiadantn Sante Orig) (ok See a a tine| santa © rz, | tion to “efficiently run the mill’s of | Much | these concerns, to eliminate waste, loss of space, replace worn out ma- chinery, and introduce up-to-date machinery.” It will “give the nerged concerns greater capacity | | f production, possibility of buying | + 3 # the most modern machinery; make | Workers in the Steinway piano| it possible to scrape the un-econ- omieal plants and develop the eco- |nomical plants to the iull of thi |capacity.” It will “give them—if | These | not equal—at least advantageous | | footing in their fights for markets.” The boosters admit to the workers it will mean the speed up and ra- tionalization lay off and unemploy- ment, lower wages and ever-increas- ing denger of war. When these) companies start to fight for the markets, their first step will be to Jeut the wages of the workers. The | The Century shop workers con-| wages of the miners have been cut $22.25 to the New York| below the 1917 mark, and the steel $22.2 un Ella Reeve . D., and reports many new mem- lo peared at the gate for the Gastonia d_ relief. These | ord textile strikers and on a num- er of occasions to the Gastonia Act . M. Ul officials ip of the National | Miners Union, izing the men werking in the mines. of the U. M. U. are organized in practically all of the mines of this | Miners Mu: The rniners, say The following letter was received | ) new tr The membership int | i strong American ancestry, pro- these locals is ever on the increase, est the brutal treatment of work-| with new ferces coming in at a steady rate. In the steel mills there are shop committees, but not in such numbers as could make on open} fight against wagé cuts, or for bet- ter wages and working conditions. This must be remedied. ALL THE | MILITANT STEEL WORKERS | |MUST IMMEDIATELY WRIEE | 00 THE TUUL, 2 WEST 15TH ST., | NEW YORK, OR DISTRICT COM- | MITTERS OF THE TUUL, OR ITS | METAI, DEPARTMENT. | Locals of the Metal Trades must | be organized and linked up to the | general T U. U,. L. city locals. The | militants in the mining and iron ore | industries must get in touch with | national or district office of the N. M. U,, Pittsburgh, and organize locals of the N. M. U. It lina’s history if there be even one Signed, Norman Denni- Gates, Allen Batt, Alice Mills, and Norman Freelick.” White Guard Warden SHANGHAI, China (By Mail).—| Quite a stir was created in the Pro- visional Court recently when two prisoners chayged that prisoners in the Settlement ail are badly mis- treated by the. guards. They de- clared they had been’ beaten up from time to time and that all condemned men are thus brutaly handled. The section for the condemned is under the supervision of a foreign ser- geant, evidently a White Russian. The two men were afterwards taken to the prison in the Chinese terri- tery where they were strangled to death, ATTENDANTS WANT UNION. INDIANA HARBOR, Ind. (By Mail)—Theatre attendants here de- mand union onditions, and state they may strike to get them. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class. 1852 ‘ga E The Snme Address Over 75 Year: N SAVINGS BAN 1929 y of tl ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Deposits made a if the mon from 1 Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 (all day) until 7 P.M. Society Accounts Accepted ravelers Certified Cheeks to $7,500.00, at the rate of i, 0) (08 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, CHARLOTTE MEET SPURS STRUGGLE OF OPPRESSED Negro Workers Play the common enemy, the employer. jcro: about the Negroes. \the “evils and inefficiency of racial OCTOBER 18, 1929 about “race equality,” and “danger- | ous Reds,” don’t turn them away. 6—The Negro workers played strong role at the conventions— | something never seen before in the South. 7—There was an atmosphere of readiness for struggle against the bosses. A whole concrete program was laid out for building mill com- mittees, and local unions of the N. T. W., also local general leagues and local industrial leagues of the T. U. U. L. in all important industrial cen- ters, and personnel was canvassed, and assigned to specific tasks to | bring about this organization. 8—The defense of our imprisoned fellow workers now on trial in the Gastonia cas, and the struggle against bosses’ terrorism, against fascism, permeated the whole of both conventions. Program of Action. In addition to adopting a long program of action, and declaration of principles (previously summar- zed in the Daily Worker) the South- ern Textile Workers’ Conference adopted resolutions on organization, on the unionization of Negro work- ers, on the rationalization and speed- up practiced by the: bosses in all industries, and the approaching war danger. Referring particularly to the mur- der of Ella May, the Marion Mas- sacre and the black-hundred activi- ties of the Gastonia mill bosses, the resolution on organization says: “The textile bosses’ offensive against the textile workers has reached a new stage. In the past Vital Role (Continued from Page One) social equality of races among work- ers, and of a united struggle against | “The Southern press representa- tives surrounded me in throngs, and s examined me on our theories ‘They advanced all the stale old arguments about | natural infeziority of colored races,” mixtures,” and asked me with hor- ror, “Do you believe in the amalga- mation of races?” Solidarity of All Workers. I pointed out to them that the races amalgamate, whether they like it or‘not; that as soon as the bar- riers to communication and isolation of the races are brol:sn down, there is a mixture of races. I proved by examples from their own midst, that despite the old prejudice against “squaw men,” every man now, and there are many in the South, who can prove he has a little Indian blood in him, proceeds to boast about it. I told them we were for solid- arity and social equality of all work- ers. “The capitalist reporters were so mad they almost choked. “The terror against the N. T. W. is accompanied by a barrage of pro- paganda against racial equality, and against ‘Reds.’ But this is the talk of the capitalists, the employers. The delegates to these conventions proved by their actions that they : i are not afraid of either of these | militia and their black hundreds.’ 3 things, not anything like as preju- | It goes on to point out that this diced against them a sthe Southern | terror does not stop the workers bosses would like them to be, would | from organizing, and refers to the like the world to think they are.” united front of the bosses, the press ¢ Main Facts Established. and their flunkies, Senator Simmons The main facts brought out at the |and Governor Gardner of North Charlotte conferences, said Foster, | Carolina, “who support the textile were: workers like a rope supports a 1—That the N. T. W. and the hanged man,” and the U. T. W. con- T. U. U, L. had thereby established | trolled by a little group of highpaid a number of the very best connec- | officials. The U. T. W., it points tions with thousands of mill work-| out, is a company union. ers and worker sin other industries. Textile Program. 2—The good representation showed | The National Textile Workers’ that the N. T. W.-T. U, U. L. drive | Union, however, is a real workers’ in the South has real volume to it,| union, controlled by its rank and file workers, an dfighting for them. It is necessary, in order to carry down and our hours up through the eviction, the blacklist and the power lof the press. But today, when the | stretch-out is on the increase and we ‘are producing one hundred to two {hundred per cent more production than sevearl years ago, the bosses are attempting to stop our organi- zation of the industry with gunmen, jthe police, the electric chair, the situation considered very favorable then, prevailing at the recent Besse- | out its purpose, recognizing the mer City conference, class struggle, to put into effect 3—The discussion showed that the the following program: conditions in the textile industry| “1. The creation of a special fund weer not only simply horrible, but |to organize every mill in the South. are rapidly growing worse, with new) “2. We have enlisted and are wage cuts, more speed-up, more ter- | training a staff of Southern worker- ror, and worse living standards. | organizers in all principal mills and 4—The delegates showed that the! textile centers, but must increase Southern workers’ opposition to the |this greatly, A. F. L. and the United Textile} “3, We must establish sub-district Workers is very bitter. They do | offices within the next few months aot for a moment forget the treach- |in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Ten- eries practiced on them by the U. |nessee and in other parts of North 'T. W. misleaders in the last’ strike,|and South Carolina to strengthen and they are beginning to hear of |the work of the organizers already the betrayals of labor in Elizabeth- | functioning in these sections. ton and Marion, Ware Shoals and| “4, More organizational activity other scenes of U, T. W, activity. |wlil have to be carried on in the 6—The southern workers pin great | rayon section of the industry. hopes on the new militant unions.| “5. We must work out a clear pro- The hysterical shouts of the bossesigram for social insurance of all Indian Summer Days at CAMP NITGEDAIGET TEMBERED Ro ARE WELL Come Out Now anu Enjoy Yourself. The. first working class camp——entirely rebuilt The New Nitgedaiget Hotel of sixty 100ms with all latest improvements is in construction. It will be ready in November. cM CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. Telephone Beacon 731 New York Telephone Easterbrook 1400 DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily—from W. 42d St. or 129th St. or by train— New York Grand Central Trains Leave Every Hour the mill barons have held our wages | Workers in Wa. | lliston at Miners CHEAT INDIANA Mercy of Their Exploiters’ sree) WORKERS (By a Worker Correspondent) WILLISTON, N. D. (By Mail). Wil part of North Dakota, the former ston is located in the western at the ¢ me BY “INSURANCE” “paradise” of the Non-Partisan of the girl hern ae League, but for the workers of Wil- e isie Bosses Scheme Gyps liston, like all other small and large left their past week be- he M cities over the country, no paradise. cause of food limitation the Men So far as I know there is no The management is p y in- ow EE ean oreehy union organization among the sisting on their g¢ the left-overs PU : pt er, and the nine-hour day prevails 80 as to reduc jor upkeep” and, INDIANA HARBOR, Ind. (By with much overtime for’ those on ‘hus increase profits. The health| Mail)—In the Youngstown Sheet the job so there may be plenty of the workers is no concern of|and Tube Co., in the steel side of unemployed slaves. theirs. One work s he finished | the plant, the men work ten hourg There is an eight-hour day for his coffe this morning, re-|a day, and seven d week, wemen which is fainly well en- ma , I am ready for the The day sh 15 minutes for forced so far ca actual hours of madhouse again,” referring to his|lunch whilt the night shift is more labor is concerned. Many the ‘Ivcky,” they have a half hour for workers are afraid to let it be he workers in Williston need to | lunch. known that they are in any way |° 1 they need to get in-| In thi ll we have the “Spell radical or en n ideas of union- king class lit that is the system whereby ism. The s are well organiz ard wideawake to their on t have the eight- but they kinds, The present workmen’s com- pensation laws aer almost useless. We must use all election campzig: organization campaigns, and ma pressure to secure insurance, to be paid by the bosses and their govern- ment.” Bosses Use Race Issue. “The mill owners of the South have been trying for years to keep the Negro and white workers divid- ed. For years they have been say- ing that they “will neve rmix their |labor.” Mill owner asvhe a definite purpose for doin gthis—in order to extract more profits frm the work- ers. They know that if the workers are divided one against the other, white against blact:, there can be no common struggle against the bosses,” says the resolution on or- ganization of Negro workers. “The mill owners are not interest- ed i nthe white workers welfare as opposed to Negro workers. They are interested only in profits.” The resolution describes the op- | pression of the Negroes as double oppression, both as a race and as a class, It declare: | “The N. T. W. U., realizing that the interests of the Negro and white workers are the same, that the in- terests of all. workers, regardless of race, creed-or color, are the same, that tk all suffer from the same oppression robbery and_ plunder, cannot and will not permit the mill owners to divide the ranks of the working class. The N. T. W. U.| pledges itself to organize all textile workers, black and white, in a mili- tant industrial union, and to carry | forward a militant struggle against | all sppressipn and exploitation of | Fight 30 Years Pri- son for Organizing Southern Workers! The bosses of Gastonia, with the help of their court and Judge Barnhill, are de- termined to send the seven Gastonia strikers to prison for thirty years. The International Labor De- fense Is Determined to Stop Them! * The bosses are prejudicing the jury of farmers by appeal- ing to their religious beliefs, to sentence the organizers to thirty years living death for organizing workers. If you want to help the workers you will join the In- ternational Labor Defense, now conducting a drive for 50,000 new members by Janu- ary 1, 1930. Join at once and help save the Gastonia strikers! Thirty years in prison— practically life terms—face them! Those I. L. D. members vho want to help the class- 1 prisoners MUST pay their An I. L. D. branch in a West Coast town writes: “We have 337 members—147 pay dues.” Something is wrong when less than fifty per cent of the members pay dues. Pay your dues and help save workers from capitalist dungeons. 100,000 Four-Page Leaf- lets Telling of the I. L. D. Have Been Printed. They answer the question “What is the International Labor Defensee.” They tell what the I. L. D. means to workers and why they should join it. 100,000 copies of these must be distributed. Order a bundle for distribution in your union, fraternal organization, shop, mine and mill. The price is $4 a thousand, Fill out the blank below and forward together with your check to the National Office of the I. L. D. Enclosed find $....,.for, which send so. a leaflets “WHAT I8 THE i. L. D.? NAME .... ADDRESS cITry STATE i ni) International EB. ith a Labor, Dk » New York g other o get int ocontact w activities of their fellow wor! world, and lear: parts of the brave struggles of their fel- in the textile industry of the Williston Worker. the by the mill owne Rationalization. THhe resolution on rationalization | an dthe war danger points out that speed-up, stretch-out, unemployment long hours and low pay are getting worse. The employers control all state and national political offices, and prove by such act sas those in Gastonia and Marion what state power is used for. The working class, which produces the wealth, is get- ting increasingly lower wages, lon- ger hours, and worsening conditions, | Less than 3,000,000 of the 27,000,000 , workers are anized and most of thee into conservative, highly skilled | unions The resoultion hails the Cleveland convention as showing the way out, by a program of militant unionism, based on the unskilled and semi- skilled nz , the factory workers especially, War Danger. The war danger arises from the | conflict of the over-stuffed master | casses i neach country, struggling | for the same markets, sources of | raw material and cheap labor power. | The workers of the world are called upon to join hands and fight | all these robber groups, and to de- fend the Soviet Union, menaced by all of them. It ends: “The Trade Union Unity League is the center that can direct the struggle of the working class against speed-up, | stretch-out and the coming war of the imperialist rulers.” Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! |us organize. system,” en work one hour and then ney get a half hour off. Some of the workers work in half-hour peri- ods. é This “spell is used not au he | 2 to give us workers a rest MH. The hard labor, th nd its effect upon the wo: makes it impos- sible for a ian being to work continually While we workers are forced to pay insurance, hardly any social in- surance is being paid to workers. The bosses find excuses for not pay- ing the workers any accident in- surance, and thye always get away with it. On the other hand the boss takes off $2.20 from the first pay check and $ for the last f this way the steel company is able to rob the workers a little more. pay each month for insurance. In Must Form Shop Committees. The steel workers, both white and Negro, must form into shop com- mittees, and lay the ground for a strong industrial union. The Trade Union Unity League which was formed in Cleveland, should send in organizers and help Many of the workers in the Youngstown Steel Mills, as well as in other steel mills in Indi- ana Harbor, dre ready for organiza- tion. By uniting our forces, by sticking together, only in this way will we succeed in improving our condi- tions, smash the speed-up system and win a decent wage and the | right to organize into a union. —A Steel Worker. FAKER “ELECTED.” WASHINGTON (By Mail),—Wil- liam J. McSorley, long with a re- actionary record as head of the A. F. of L. building trades department, | has been “reelected” president of the | Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers’ Union, by the misleaders of that union. % Are There Still. Any Who Think Workers Given a “Fa a Capitalist Can Be ir Trial” By Judge in a Capitalist, Corrupt Court? The trial now proceeding in Charlotte against the Gastonia strike organizers has been stripped of all pre- tense that the seven work- ers will receive a “fair trial.” There volved—the right to organ- is one issue in- ize the southern workers. It is clear—the organiza- tion of the workers means a fight against speed-up, against child labor, against a 64-hour week, against starvation wages. ‘It is also clear—the tex- tile interests will go to any lengths to prevent the or- ganization of the workers, for these very reasons. It is speed-up, child labor, low wages, long hours, that has made it possible for the Manville-Jenckes Loray Mill in Gastonia to make a $500,000 “saving” last year. And it is even more clear —that the workers of this country must make a mighty protest that will be heard in the court room in Charlotte, North Carolina, which will be their answer to the bosses’ attacks on their leaders. The bosses are using their weapons—the courts and the prosecution against the workers The workers must use their united strength to fight back the attacks of the bosses by con- tributing to the defense of their fellow-work- ers by sending telegr: Gastonia defendants a ams of greeting to the nd by holding mass pro- test meetings in defense of the southern work- ers’ right to organize. The trial is on now. The money is needed now. Send Your Con tributions Now! Gastonia Joint Defense & Relief Committee 80 East Eleventh St., Room 402, New York City Auspices: INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF Endorsed by: NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS UNION