The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1929, Page 3

_DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1929 STRIKE MOVEMENT GROWING ALL OVER EUROPE AS CLASS FIGHT SHARPENS OVER WAGE BATTLES British Wool Workers Learn from Cotton Mill Betrayal to Oppose Officials Strike Wave in Czecho-Slovakia Spreads as sia and En; Miners Collide with Police LONDON, Oct. 18.—The ballot of the wool workers regarding the em- ployers’ demand for a reduction of 8.3 per cent has resulted in a vote of seven to one by the workers against acceptance of the reduction. The trade union leaders, as in the Lancashire cotton strike, are follow- ing “labor” party policy and sabot- aging the strike, only carrying out the ballot in order to put pressure on the employers. A Minority Move- ment conference is being held at Bradford to organize resistance to the wage c’' and take strike action, * eee BRADFORD, England, Oct. 18— Reformist leaders of the textile workers’ union here have gladly BRUCZELS, Oct. 18.—Two thou- sand strikers in Borinas» district struck yesterday; demanding ten per cent increase, rejecting teh “mixed” commission’s offer of from three to six per ce‘, The reformists are striving to secure acceptance and stop the strike. * * * LONDON (By Mail)—The textile jreturned an overwhelming majority jagainst accepting a reduction in wages threatened by the employers. 6% per cent cut generally, with 25 |per cent reduced for ring spinners. The bosses have threatened to lock out nearly 1,000 workers if they re- | comrades workers of Cathine, Ayresshire, have | The bosses seck to put through a| | i i - agreed to a reduction of four shil-| sist the cut. lings on the wages of the workers | whose dues they collect. ; WORKER BEATEN TO DEATH. They expressed their approval of BELGRADE (By Mail).—Ac- the labor government’s campaign of |Cording to a report received from wage-cutting through arbitration at|Zagreb a youthful worker by the a meeting with the Wool Textile|name of Pavel Morganovich who Industrial Council. ha! been arrested on the eve of May The mill-owners were so gratified|1 died in the prison of that city. at the concession that they imme-|Morganovich had been badly mauled diately slapped another 14 cents on/by the police.* The post-mortem ex- * * & the original cut volunteered by their |amination held on his body showed | trade union friends. the cause of his death to be in heavy * * inner injuries as a consequence of BERLIN BUILDERS MILITANT. |the brutal treatment recieved. BERLIN, Oct. 18.—The plumbers’ | EAD IN %, a | SHOT DEAD IN PRISON. strike continues. Through efforts | WARSAW (By Mail).—In the jointly of the reformists and em-| ojo i. ‘ ’ ployers a number of scabs were ob- | peneeneety 26 ve iii alg recently when the c i ome | volt occurred ea eater pier building | syutineers broke the cell doors and email itikes. antd lockout, A péAs jattacked the warders with clubs, cral strike meeting Tuesday decided rene ane Aube testes Wopden Dantt overwhelmingly to hold out. Pee el CN Tagan |fered more or less serious injuries. Ure saene had i ap, | They then fired a volley which killed s NG} § ATTACKED. | two political prisoners outright and PRAGUE, Oct. 18.—The miners’| wounded two others. One hundred strike continues, with serious collis- | und thirty prisners took part in the ions between miners and police in revolt, Komotau. Armed police prevented miners from demonstration at the Andreas pithead, many miners were wounded and others hunted through the surrounding fields. * * * * + * RB WHITE TERROR GROWS. BELGRADE (By Mail).—In the last fifteen days the Yugoslavian |courts were particularly active. |Bjelavac, a working man was sen- |tenced to two years’ penal.servitude. |On July 16, twelve comrades were sentenced in Celjato from three jyears to five months’ penal servi- tude. Five workers were sentenced lin Belgrade to three aand two years’ penal servitude. Three workers were sentenced in Maribor to eight ‘* UNION BOSS SCABS. NELSON, Lancashire, (By Mail). —One hundred weavers walked out on a lightning strike when employ- ers refused to deal with repeated complaints of bad weft. Marching in a body to the offi- cers of the. Weavers’ Association, they were informed the strike was “unofficial.” The only blackleg was a union official who remained at and three months’ penal servitude. Comrade Bukavao, of Mostar, was tensented to ten years’ penal servi- Socialist Speaks in | Aid of French Hopes for Pan-Europe Rule BERLIN, Oct. 18.—Edouard Her- riot, French radical-socialist leader, in a speech today elaborating on Premier “ristide Briand’s Pan- Europa thesis, said Europe mus | remedy present anarchical condition: |to meet su ully the competition of better-org: 1 sections of the world, Recalling objections that Briand’s heme i: ed as not dire nited States. CZECH WORKERS’ HUNGER STRIKE, PRAGUE (By Mail).—The 5 arrested in with the International Red Day in Carpatho-Russia were in part sen- tenced to various shorter terms of imprisonment, but many of them ill in custody on remand) Nine des therefore went on hunger harike in Berehovo prison as a sign of protest against their unlawful detension, They demand immediate | release. 59 ce PRAGUE tBy Mail atives of the glass factory “Invald” in Prague laid down work by de- cision of the general bela a of the} workers as a demonstration in favor of the immediate reféase of | loading Nanking bonds on the | comrade Harus and hsi fellow- | Shanghai stock exchange, reports workers. The strike lasted fifteen|here indicate that Feng is “under minutes. A delegation of workers protection” of Yen in Shansi, rather mzrched to the Ministry of Justice and demanded the release of all the persons arrested. The factory was immediately surrounded by a whole army of policemen and gendarmes. The workers of the Invald factory also appealed to the workers of other factories to take common ac- tion to secure the release of the workers arrested on Augustl and stil held in custody. A rN SCOTTISH STEEL STRIKE, | GLASGOW Scotland «(By Mail). —Four hundred steel workers are on strike against bad working condi- \tions at the Brady Steel Rolling | Mills. Rank and file strike commit- |tees are opposing local trade union reformist manda who want the men to go back to work and “dis- cuss” afterwar oe oe PRAGUE, Oct. 18.—The miners’ is extending <nd now em- rcces eight thousar” workers. * + THEY’LL WELCOME HIM. * * LONDON, (By Mail) —Another | Shek, charging him with wasting|posing a uniform successful liberal candidate, Victor | Duval, has joined the labor party. GASTON DEFENSE ITS LORAY BOSS |patek to the Daily Telegraph said i connection | |was quiet with the rebels still in ).—The oper-| jtion” by Yen Hsi-shan to stop un- YANGTZE RIVER PORT FALLS 10 | CHINA REBELS Feng “Arrest” May Be} Onl a Maneuver | LONDON, Oct. 18 (UP).—Twelve thousand Chinese troops have re- volted at Wuhu, China, seized the city and looted it, a Shanghai dis- today. Foreign residents took refuge on the British gunboat Cricket with the exception of three American jonaries who refused to leave. Reports at noon said ‘he s uation A. Japancse| unded the Jap- e. An additional Bii- tish gunboat an a Japenese gun- boat were en route to Wuhu, where |two Japanese shivs were already |stationed, in addition to the cricket. | * |control of the 31 * * PEKING, China, Oct. 18. — Al- though Nanking officials of Chiang Kai-shek seem confident enough of Feng Yu-hsiang’s reported ‘“deten- than being under arrest. In any event, Feng’s arrest does not appear to have stopped the drive southward of his subordinate gen- erals with 400,000 troops, and Feng’s representative in Shanghai is re- ported to be strangely confident. Re- ports here are that Yen, and, in ad- dition, Chang Hsueh-liang of Man- churia, are “neutral,” ‘although | Nanking states that Yeng Hsi-shan, “detaining” Feng, added that Yen's army of 200,000 was “at the dis- eS Editorial Note:—The veracity of |China’s warlords is traditionally way jbelow par. Feng himself has been silent for months.. But his subor- |dinate generals, after his supposed “retirement” came straggling into | Nanking, pledging loyalty to Chiang | Kai-shek in one breath and asking |funds for their soldiers’ back wages |the next. Having extracted an esti- |mated $20,000,000 from Nanking, | jthey declared war on Chiang Kai-|organized for the purpose of im-|0f organizing the workers |money, One guess is as good as an- other on whether Yen Hsi-shan is |not pulling the same trick, placing his army “at the disposal” of Nank- |ing, which means that Nanking is expected to finance it, but with the |possibility that it may move, not |against Feng’s subordinates, but against Nanking. | COMMUNIST EDITOR JAILED. | BERLIN, Oct. 18—The German ® | | | | | | | $24 a Week Maximum | in Big Carteret \ and Chemical Plants (By a Worker Correspondent) Metal | IN ‘Lewis Thugs Threaten to THE SHOPS UNORGANIZED, Kall Militant Ill. Miner BAYONNE CABLE (By a Worker Correspondent) ORIENT, Ill (By Mail) —At a meetig onf Local Unio 303, United Mine Workers, obesrver Lo Joich gave to his local union a report on the Lewis me-iing in W. Frankfort. But after his report a local union chairman and also one of the ob-} servers, Slim Fryman, made the fol- lowing report, in substance: “T have nothing to report because brother Louis Joich covered the |whole proceedings of the meeting. |But, one thing, brothers, I urge you cause a gang is after hin kil him the local union w If I hadn’t been there last Sunday and told them that brother Joich was officially sent by the local union they were going to get him, because they said that he is an agent of the | Communist Party. I believe Joich has a right to his opinion, but it is dangerous to send him again, GARTERET. N. J. (By Maily| “The sub-district president has ro a tls jeeived and read there a threatening Hache, voenalie wee catteret are ‘letter and if anything happens to three big plants where about 10,000 | yim they -ill be after brother Joich. when wiring Nanking that he was| posal’ of Nanking. | * the loom. tude. Workers Groups Aaawer Call to Rush Daily Worker South Adopt Mill Village; Miner Gives $5 in Answer te Mil! Hands’ Appeals « Working class organizations and groups have not allowed the ap- peals of the mill workers in the South for the Daily Worker to go un- answered. International Unit 1, Section 2, New York City, with its pledge of $2.50 weekly, has assured the workers of a southern mill town that they will receive 25 Daily Workers daily. The Finnish Working Women’s Club of New York City has made it possible for the workers of a southern mill town to receive a bundle of 60 Daily Workers for one week.” $6 was this group's contribution. Unit 15, Section 2, has contributed $2 to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South” thus sending 20 copies of ‘the Daily Worker to a southern mill village for a week. - It will be noticed that these workers’ groups are all located in New York City. Is there no answer from the working class groups outside New York to the appeals of the southern workers for the Daily Worker? What is the matter with the workers’ groups, and the Communist Party units in Chicago? In Philadelphia? San Francisco, in Cleveland and other c' 2 2, They must at once answer the demands for the Daily Worker made | | by the southern mill workers, by adopting mill villages! Show the southern mill workers that they are not alone, in a wil- derness, without fellow workers thruout the country ready to rush to their their fight on the mill bosses’ reign of terror, a struggle led by the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union. Every dollar from a working class group will send 10 copies of the Daily Worker to a southern mill village every day for a week. Individual workers, too, must immediately answer ihe call of their " fellow workers in the South. They must follow the lead of Charles Moschel, a Chicago worker, who sent $10 so that the southern mill workers may have the Daily Worker. The answer of Steve Morasky, a miner of Caldwell, Ohio, to the demands of the southern workers for the Daily was to rush $5 to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South.” What is your answer? Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. \ I wish to help fight the reign of terror of the mill bosses against the southern mill workers, by aiding to obtain a mass circulation of the Daily Worker thruout the South. I therefore send the enclosed sum for the “Drive to Rush the Daily Worker South.” “4 \ Name ... City ... wee State . Amount $....ssseeseseeeene FOR ORGANIZATIONS . We, (Name of Organization) City and State . UIPE DOL AC NaN itgs (skeesis ssa ves wish to adopt a southern mill town or village, and see to it that the workers there are supplied with..........copies of the Daily Worker every day for..........weelks. We inclose $........ Kindly send us the nme of the mill villege or city assigned to us, fox we wish to communicate with the workers there. 4 Prosecution Claims the | Supreme Court has sentenced Erich ° . | Birkenhauer, editor of the Commu-} Strikers Should Die {nist journal, “The Ruhr Echo,” to a OR year’s imprisonment in a fortress} (Continued from Page One) | and one hundred marks fine ,for ar- the Manville-Jenckes company paid ticles about the Berlin bloodbath of him he earned with his plea that| May Ist. | capitalist justice be done, in jtwo| SRN | hours of impassioned oratory this| ‘i |morning. Every state's lawyer has|°hatées have been 5 Age | with leave, Sppealed tothe basest prejudices af" sp iicwing Cansler, Tom Jithison LRA Laker ana a “any of BEN a stirring and powerful outline nolle prossed In Detroit, Los Angeles, | them. His attack upon the defendants was couched in terms well calculated to stir hatred of Communists, ath- eists, northerners, as advocating doc- trines of class war, Negro equality, destruction of church and state, and Russian Revolution.” 1 Denied Right of Defense. This was Cansler’s thesis, though not put so crudely as this. | He denied the right of the strikers | to self defense and defended the murderous police as heroes protect- | jing home and fireside, defenders of |the faith, peaceful men doing their} |sacred duty. He attacked not only the defend- jants but their lawyers with vituper- ‘ation and invective. | “Taking their cue from Beal and} | Miller,” he shouted, “Adams and | McCall have stooped to an infamous id in their great struggle against intolerable exploitation, in @ttack upon our best citizens, the fidavits which the defense produced | | mill owners, public officials and of- \ficers of the law. “They called them ‘mill thugs, tin- star deputies, exploiters of labor coining shekels from bowels of bab- ies and the virtue of women.’” “The defense has tried to appeal |to the sympathy of the jury by in- | eendiary speeches against the mill |owners of the Piedmont region, the jsource of our progress and pros- perity.” Cansler launched into an inflam- “|matory denunciation of all the de- fense witnesses as “idlers, riffraff, | hoboes, malcontents, supported and paid for by the I, L. D. to testify against the honest citizens. “These strikes were foisted on ig- rant mill workers by Communist AM tates; They want to close down the mills and bring about ruin and destruction. They thrive on mur- de rand bloodshed and hate. “Beal tried to dictate to the mill owners how the mills should be run. The influence of Beal, Miller and the I. L. D. is the most insidious, damn- able and destructive ever loosed in the state of North Caroliha. “They would assasinate the char- acter of every good citizen in the state, including Carpenter and Bul- winkle. If we allow the I. L. D, to ‘flourish, no man’s property will be | safe.” | Wants Nine Others Tried. | Carter that ‘we could get character | Manville-Jenckes. of the case for the defense. With | biting sarcasm, he exposed the ap- | | Peals of the state to the prejudice |of the jurors and pleaded with them | not to be influenced by the dema- |gogy of the prosecution. | | Boss from North Too. , Referring to the oft-repeated at- tack upon “northern agitators,” | Jimison said: “It is all right for | Manville-Jenckes to come down here from Rhode Island to North Carolina where they could get cheaper labor an dto grind the faces of the poor to pile up profits which are taken outside of the state, but when Bea and Miller came down to organize the workers it is called treason.” | Jimison spoke of the state’s wit-| nesses who testified to the good! character of Gilbert, Roach and Hord. “Hoey said in referring to the af- testifying to the good character of) witnesses for the devil.’ “Yes, Mr. Hoey, and you have proved it by getting charecter wit- nesses for these drankea ho dlums | with long criminal records who hid behind the uniform and baage of an officer to do the dirty work ot “Roach and Gilbert, -with their blackjacks and pistols, are the de- fenders of the faith, the protectors of god'and his church and of the interests of the mill barons.” | Jimison declared that from the| evidence it is impossible to deter-| mine who shot Aderholt. “Tt is my opinion that Aderholt was shot by Hord, who run around the house with his riot gun, shot at Harrison and Carter and his chief. “The crime for which the state is asking you to send these boys to the penitentiary for thirty years is the crime of organizing workers. “The mill owners think they can lock up the organized labor move-| ment and keep their mill workers in| industrial slavery working for star- vation wages, but they can’t do it, “I ask you to free these seven men so that they can go on with | their splendid struggle for better, conditions for the exploited mill) workers,” | Frank Flowers spoke next for the Cansler ended by declaring that to 7 nine defendants jagainst whom the the duty of Soicitor Carpenter | appeal for the freedom of the de- ut on trial all the rest of the! fendants. defense, with a clear and forceful! Then Carpenter gave the) jand sickle inscribed upon it at a | reactionary Union League Club, The | workers are employed. The three plants pay a uniform wage scale. The worker seeking employment meets the same problem at the gates of each plant. At the Foster-Wheeler Corp. plant the workers work 5 nights a week of 12 hours or 60 hour a week. hey receive 40 cents an hour— $24 a week. Day workers get 40 cents an hour for a 6 day, 60 hour week, The Warner Chemical Co, ploys men 10 hours a day at 40 cents an hour, of 60 hours a week at $24. The U. S. Metls Refining Co. pays 49% cents an hour. The workers work 8 hours a day of 48 a week at 49% cents an hour—or $24 a week. | So wherever you go the mniimum | wage is th esame. The U. S. Metals | Refining pays more per hour and for less time, but, there is the great | danger from gas, dust and smoke. | The hours and wages in these]! three plants are regulated by the Manufacturers Association, to which all three belong. The bosses are standard of | slavery and starvation wage scale on the workers of the district. Every worker should realize that | organization is important. See how | th ebosses have organized to keep down the workers’ conditions in Car- teret. MAOIM TRAMP. Arrest U.S. Workers (Continued from Page One) speed-up’ and wage-cut program whic hthe capitalists have brought on for greater profits. Police have corralled 150 workers | in Chieago, including Clarence Hath- | away and other leaders of the Com- | munist Party. Indications are that | the state will combine the cases into | one great sedition trial with the la- gality of the Communist Party as the issue, In California, seven workers have | been found guilty of sedition and are in danger of ten-year terms because | thew flew a banner with a hammer | | | children’s camp near Los Angeles. Sixty workers face trial for a} number of cha | Many S In Philadelphia three workers are. being tried for sedition. In New York the Mineola cases are due up for trial again and Sal- yatore Accorsi, Staten Island la- borer, has been delivered to the Pennsylvania authorities to stand | trial on framed charges of murder. | In Charlotte, N. C., seven workers | may go to prison for thirty-year | terms for organizing the bitterly ex- ploited southern textile workers. The trial has wound up in approved Red baiting fashion, with the prose- cution showering a barrage of pre-| judicing questions, and caused the impeachment of witnesses on ac- count of their religious faith and economic beliefs. Drive Nationwide. Because the onslaught is nation- | wide, observers suspect the Federal | authorities are making a drive to! illegalize the Communist Party, to destroy various organizations of the foreign-born workers, to make their exploitation under present conditions | easier. The International Labor Defense, which defends these working-class | prisoners, is now holding a drive for $50,000 and 50,000 new members by | Jan. 1, 1930. Workers, recognizing the danger they are in, are forming | locals throughout the land in order | to be able to fight back this present wave of terrorism against their or- ganizations. Lamont for Thomas (Continued from Page One) endorsement given by Corliss La- mont is open evidence that Wall | Street has decided to make greater | use of the Socialist party than for- merly and confirms the statement made in the Daily Worker a few days ago regarding the role of Thomas and the Socialists, ARREST RED FRONT FIGHTER. BERLIN, Oct. 18.—The police to- day arrested Karl Olbrich, former em-| \I know brother Joich does not be- will but the; an the F m there any | lieve in such 1 blame him 12 gang. So dor more. | Observer Louis Joich then stated that he did not know of the con- spiracy, but local union secretary | Kerneth Turner ratified the report | jof Fryman, saying that he also had | |heard at the Lewis meeting, that a Joich and M, Ru- |kavina, nlso said that one of the gangmen vas deputized, but that he didn’t know the man’s name, but would recogniz him if he saw him again. y| The Local Union d ers to the ne Kight were nominated and among them was Joich. Six of them de- clined. Joich state to the L. U.: not compete’ for anything, but if you really want to elect and send me again, I will aceept, and in spite of tha conspiracy I am going there, if I ge tthe credential of this L. U.” I am not scared to die for a work- ingel; cau | —Louis Joich, Orient Miner. Must Lead Workers in Revolutionary Fight (Continued from Page One) the rising revolt of the workers jagainst their terrible condition and the wide respond made by the tex- tile workers to the organizing cam- paigns of the National Textile Workers’ Union and the Trade Union and the Trade Union Unity League. The million collars that they are going to raise is to help the em- ployers to fight against any form of militant organization whether it be the Communist Party or the new revolution unions, the question se- condary to them depending on the plans of the employers and whether or not they are still abe to fool the workers into accepting their class colaboration schemes, their craft and racial forms of organiza- tion. The T.U.U.L. is also determined to organize the southern workers, nowhere to raise such an immense it has no million dollar fund, and) TULL, AND AFL. ILLINOIS MINERS CLASH IN SOUTH IN GREAT RALLY Largest Locals Burn | UMWA Charters (Continued from Page One) administration of District 12 of the U.M.W.A. (Illinois) against Inter- national President Lewis and his group, is goin gto show a lot of graft, corruption, and swindling and sell-out of the miners, say the dis- trict officials of the National Min- ers’ Union. Lewis bases his claim to the district on the graft com- mittel in it by Fi Fishwick declares he will peacefully | resign if auditors do not show that Lewis stole more than Fishwick did. | The National Miners’ Union is admitted now by the press and all reactionaries to be in a very strong position, and both the Fishwick and Lewis gangs are worried. The charges long ago proved against both Fishwick and Lewis by the N.! |M. U., these worthies are now prov- ‘ing against each other. At the recent Staunton mass |meetings, 4,000 miners commemor- ated the Virden Day heroes, who in “I do|° hwick’s men, and; MEN HELPLESS Safety Plant Workers Pay Is Low (By a Worker Correspondent) BAYONNE, N. J. (By Mail).— I am writing about conditions in the Safety Cable Co. plant in Bayonne. They tell a man when he starts that he will for the first three months, and then you will get a raise. If you don’t get laid off before that time, they make you go to the boss about 100 bet 45 cents an hour times before they give you an in- se, and all you get is a raise of two cents an hour. No how you work there, if you don’t a machine you never get any more, and if the workers kicks, the tells him there are plenty of men at the gate looking for the job and if you hap- pen to be a married man with a family you just shut up. Some of the men have worked here for more than eight , and get matter long get boss only 58 cents an hour. “If you don’t like it, you know what you ean do,” he is told if he asked for a raise. What else can happen when the men are unorganized? If all the men were in the union which we are trying to form, then the bosses would have to come down a lot. —SAFETY CABLE WORKER. British Complete Largest Airship LONDON, Oct. 18.—The world’s largest airship, the R-101, has been completed and taken from its han- gar. Its trial flight will be made today or Tuesday. The R-101 is considerably larger than the Graf Zeppelin, formerly the world’s largest airship. It is the irst of huge airships by means of vhich Great Britain plans to estab- supremacy. While officially the R-101 and the even larger ships being constructed and planned, they can be converted quickly for military use against the Soviet Union or imperialist rivals. i | work |1898 beat off with rifle fire a train- rarer amen aa eee load of scabs and armed scab herd- National Railroads Industrial ers, and ended scabbing pretty gen- erally in Illinois until Lewis and Fishwick sold out the last strike. This meeting was under the aus- pices of the N.M.U. and at a special conference there, the militant de-| mands now sweeping the coal fields of Illinois were first published. These demands are: 1.—Stop payment of dues by giv- ing the coal companies orders to stop the checking 0." of dues, either for Lewis or Fishwic’:. Smash the League, affiliated to the T.U.U.L. are making organized drives in their respective indutiesrs with marked success, local Trade Union Unity Leagues are being formed, a number of successful southern conferences have been held and the of organization is being pushed on a broader basis everyday. In spite of the success of their first campaigns made in the south by the WHAT 15 YOUR VERDICT ? Are you with the Interna- tional Labor Defense in its fight against railroading the Gastonia strikers to thirty years prison? Are you with the workers? Then you must help build the I. L. D. which defends all workers, into a powerful mass movement. T.U.U.L, which has brought thou- sands of workers under its leader- ship, millions of unorganized work- ers have yet to be won over and organized into the new revolutionary unions that make up the T.U.U.L. The struggle toorganize the work- ers whether it be in the North or the South ,will be met by the most ruthless suppression, discrimination and terror, because envolved in the organization campaign is the strug- check-off. —Destroy the charters of the} U. M. W. A. Demand recognition | of the National Miners’ Union. 3.—Capture the U.M.W.A. local unions for the membership, and let them join the N. M. U. in a body. | ESTHONIAN PERSECUTIONS. REVEL, Oct. 18.—The Esthonian Communist Piarn, arrested in 1922 with Victor Kingisepp, the latter| What is your answer? The I. L.: D. seeks 50,000 new members by January 1, 1930. Have you joined yet? Has your organization affili- ated yet? Ella Reeve Bloor, organizer for the I. L. D. on the West Coast, reports that Executive Board of the International Shingle Weavers Union has | workers form a potential base for |most of whom have personal inter | gle against rationalization, mechan-|being shot by the white terrorists | ization, speed up, etc., which brings while Piarn received eight years the workers almost immediately in-|hard labor, is now re-sentenced to to conflict with the state, develop-| fifteen ycars in the penitentiary. As| ing a class understanding of the Piarn’s release approached at the) struggle, a hatred of capitalist ex- end of the first eight years, the| ploitation and the need for working | authorities commenced new proceed- | class solidarity. The A. F. of L. ings, accusing him of having been| cannot stop this development, this the chairman of the revolutionary is shown even in the strikes that tribunal at Valki during the civil) they have led recently in the South,/war, although Piarn was never in while they succeeded in betraying |that place in his life. the workers and breaking their) Ee strikes, thousands of workers have | The working Class cannot simply heen disallusioned, they now see|(M¥,,held of the renay-mede state! clearly how they were duped, these | purpe Jommnne (Paris, Commune) breaks the modern state pov, er.—Marx, the organizing of a revolutionary | union. |members of the A. F. of L., fighting | The A. F. of L. born in a period | for the everyday demands of the of early capitalist development, workers, for the right to organize, clinging to the old craft form of for the right of workers to organize organization ,believing in the fin-|and arm for self defense against the ality of the capitalist system, satu-| fascist terror, to turn the struggles | rated with graft and corruption,|of the workers against rationaliza-! ruled by a well paid bureaucracy,|tion, mechanization of industry, \speed-up, ete, into a conscious est in capitalist concerns, many of | struggle against war and for the! them actual employers ‘of labor, sup- | defense of the Soviet Union, to link| ported by the socialist party, the|up the everyday struggles of the Muste group and the most reaction- | Workers with the final struggle for) \ary forces in the country with mil-|the overthrow of capitalism and the jlions of dollars at their disposal, | establishment of a workers and far- after thirty years of deliberately | mers government, this is the role ignoring the South, is now being and task of the T.U.U.L.—the pri- called upon to try an dput the|/mary task being one of organizing southern workers back to sleep, a the unorganizod, state from which the workers have | just recently awakened from, only) to find that they have been stripped of everything but their overalls! The extent that the A. F. of L.| will be able to fool and betray the| workers in the South depends to a) Best Treated by large extend upon the activities of Age-Old Method the T.U.U.L. Here the two union centers come into open clash. The | Santal Midy capsules—India's age-old relief ri 3 - «| act: ptly with grateful soothing effect | Boe ecto nie ath its class collabora | on bladder itritation and painful elimination, 4 i i ‘They aid old folks to gain cone # olutionary union center affiliated) ¢rol overfrequent night rising. with the R.I.L.U., supported by the | Genuine only bear signatureof Communist Party and the most mili-| Prt. Midy,noted French physician. Bladder Catarti Berlin district leader of the Red last "plea for capitalist “justice.” Front Fighters. jis, etiis sand, tant class conscious elements of the| | | | : é druggists | working class, many of whom are - fo tave » ete | decided to affiliate locally as well as nationally, She reports the following FIVE locals of the union have already affiliated _locally: Grays Harbor, Kalama, Cen- tralia, Willipaw and Everett. Have you gotten your union to affiliate? Bloor also reports the affili- ation of the Woman’s Finnish Club and the Lithuanian Work- ers Club in Seattle, Wash, What Can You Report of Your City? You must help the I. L. D. gain 50,000 new members by the time of its national con- ference in Pittsburgh, at the close of this year, December 29, 30 and 31. 100,000 Four-Page Leaf- lets Teiling 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 “aR aie ci has “WHAT is THE IL. D.? NAME ADDRESS CITY .. STATE Send to the International ber Defense SOE. Lith St. New York City |