The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1929, Page 1

x 4 . i a THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week | FINAL CITY EDITION ‘he re. Vol. VI, Comprodally Pablishing New York City. N. ¥- “NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by ma $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per ye: The Social Democracy; Enemy FLIERS LAND IN Oil Companies Threaten NMU BOARD CALL COURT WHITEWASHES THE CAL. AS WAITING Militant Strikers with Jail ILLINOIS MINERS [ YNCHERS WHO BEAT WELLS; of Labor No more infamous an example of the utter rottenness of the social democracy, the socialist parties of the Second International, than the urging of the leading socialist paper of Germany, “The Vorwaerts,” that the German consuls in Manchuria have nothing to do with the thousands of Soviet citizens being tortured ,starved and murdered in Manchuria, whose welfare the Soviet Government was compelled to leave in the hands of German consuls when its own consuls were with- drawn following the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway by the Chinese militarists acting as tools for the imperialist powers. While not only the Communist press, but the bourgeois papers also, carry photographic evidence of the horrible tortures and beheadings, stories that make the blood of every worker boil with anger of the deliberate ill treatment of these thousands of working men, women and children—this “Vorwaerts,” the vile mouthpiece of fascist scoundrels mouthing phrases of socialism, would have the very little relief afforded these victims by German consuls, taken from them. “Let them die! Go ahead, they are workers, Soviet workers, so murder and torture your fill!” Such is the urging of the Second International leaders to their blood-brothers, the savage monarchist White Guards of the Czar and the human butchers of Chang Hsueh-- liang and Nanking—both the purchased agents of the imperialist powers. Where is the Philistine Kautsky with his weasel words of “demo- eracy” and his philosophy of vegetarianism in revolution? Ah! But Kautsky was not defending the workers, but defending the Russian bourgeoisie, when the Russian workers with iron hand and guided by the Bolshevik party of Lenin swept their despots and exploiters into the dust bin of history. Dried are the tears of Kautsky and his socialist ilk. Proving to capitalism that they are its best defenders, capitalism has taken’ them to its bosom—they are one and the same thing! And now, with a whole generation of social democrats in political power and fatten from the prerequisites of office, as the proletariat rises—is forced to rise by its conditions which the socialists actively worsen—social democracy has openly and putridly decomposed into social fascism, mouthing socialist phrases and bathing itself in proletarian blood. “The social democracy is strong,” say the international renegades from Communism, omitting to note that it is strong only in stinking + amalgamation with the bourgeoisie, refusing to see that the proletariat is repulsed more and more by such malodorous traitors, clearing the way for Communist leadership—if it acts decisively. “The A. F. of L. is strong,” say the Right renegades of American Communism, arguing against decisive, independent leadership of Amer- ican workers by Communists. ‘How about the progressives? How can you dare neglect the progressives? How sectarian!” wails in the same “Right” key the malevolent renegade Trotsky-Cannon gang of fake “leftists” arguing precisely for the same thing as the Lovestone “Right,” and both diawing pap from the teats of the socialist party. These deceivers who strive to weaken and destroy the independent role, the decisive role, of the Communist Party, are the liquidators of class struggle on the part of the workers, trying to hamstring their will to struggle, to split and disperse its forces in the face of’ an on- coming fascist wave the signs of which can be seen on every hand. No truce with the Right danger within the Communist Party! Expose and smash any attempt of renegades to split the Communist Party! War on the “progressive” of Muste & Co., who lead the work- ers into betrayal by the socialist party and A. F. of L. Implacable struggle against all who oppose independent, revolutionary leadership of the masses. 5 ‘ The fight against the social democracy, against reformism, for the majority of the working class, is the task of every Communist worker. Substitute Special Daily Worker for 12th Anniversary Program Workingclass Organizations to Send Greetings fer 12th Anniversary Celebration Instead ofthe souvenir program )son Square Garden on Sunday eve- that had been originally planned for ning, November 3. nati ; Arranged by the Communist Par- ey ceviation ol thaviatinarniver- || <ce Tyisisiet &, this ostebration mill sary of the Russian Revolution, a be part of the celebrations to be special 12th anniversary edition of held in every industrial section of the Daily Worker will- be issued ;the country and throughout the Trade crime , linking the workers of all Units, branches of the International es, all races and all trade ae ty demonstration for the d sence ee the Soviet Union st the efforts of the imper icts to plunge the workers of the sverld into a new blood-bath. In New York this year’s cele>ra- Individual workers will also $e tion has special significance as it able to greet the 12th anniversary |comes on the eve of the municipal of the Russian Revolution by senc- | clections to be held Nov. 5, Madison ing in their names at 25 cents a| Square Garden on Nov. 3 will there- name for the Solidarity Pact with fore, not merely witness the great- the workers and peasants of the! cst Russian Revolutionary anniver- Soviet Union. ry celebration that the workers of The 12th anniversary of the Rus-|New York have ever held, but will sian Revolution will be celebrated by | also witnes sfinal mobilization rally the workers of New York in Madi-|of the Communist election campaign. unions, Party | or count ense and the Workers In- {¢ ternational Relief and other wovrk- ing class organizations are urged send’ in greetings for this spccial anniversary edition. 2 Cafeteria Workers Greeted on Release | Speakers Conference This Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p. nat STth St. court Saturday morning. ‘THOUSANDSROAR Suits Give Fakers Excuse FOR SHARP FIGHT Land of Soviets Gets| Rank and File Must Take Control of Strike or War on Bosses’ Tools. | |\Carpenter Kneels on Floor in Charlotte Court And Prays For Conviction of Unionists Tremendous.Ovation; ; Fliers in Parade Address Seattle Meet | ‘Plan NY Reception at Final Meet Today | OAKLAND, Cal., Oct. 20.—The | greatest reception ever accorded any | aviators here was given the four |Soviet fliers when they spiraled | 'dow nto a perfect landing at the municipa lairport yesterday after- | noon, completing the 500-mile Se- | tatle-Oakland leg of their Moscow t oNew York flight. Airport at-| tendants said that they had seen| nothing like it since Lindburgh’s | first visit to Oakland following his hop to Paris. | The huge monoplane was first | sighted fro mthe west and from an | altitude of 2,000 feet came down in three sweeping circles. It taxied to| the airport administration building amid the cheers of thousands of | workers, who -broke through. the | (Continued on Page Two) WINDOW FIRMS YiELD IN STRIKE Jeneral Tie-Up Forces | 33 to Grant Demands Leading a militant strike of the 00 window cleaners for wage | gains and improved working condi. tions, the Window Cleaners’ Protec- tive Union, -L :al 8, hag forced 33 | independent window cleaning con-| tractors to surrender to their terms. | The announcement was made by} Harry. Einstein, union. secretary,to-.| day. The firms employ about 150 mn, jwho have gone back to work on| ‘union terms, Einstein adds. The | demands they won included the 40- jhour, five-day week, an increase in | |the minimum wage from $45 to | $49.50 a week; proper safety devices and adequate compensation insur- ance. } | The general strike will be con-| tinue dwith even stronger determi, nation against the Manhatian Win- dow Cleaning Employers’ Protective Association, which has refused to negotiate terms with the union. Released on $3,500 bail each on framed charges of “assault” arising from their strike activities, retary Peter Darck and_ busin ent Peter Lahowit will face tri Oct. 30. Their case was adjourned Denouncing the latest attempt to “get” leading strikers, Feinstein characterized the arrest as a pal pable frame-up. The high bail, he pointed out, is higher than is some- times set for a murder charge. Five hundred former open shop | workers have joined the union since jthe strike, which is spreading daily, | started, | SSS SSS | CZECH STRIKES GROWING. | PRAGUE, Oct. 20.—The Komotau | district miners’ strike is extending. Five thousand are now out and fur- | ther walkouts are expected, although reformists union leaders are striving | to throttle the movement. [ The machinists of the Tannwald | works in Reichenberg struck for a ithe American Bemberg and Amer-| defended himself against an attempt |give Green a chance to agree openly Bureaucracy Will Call It Off | Companies Admit Huge Expense Caused by the | Walk Out and Use of Police and Thugs The coalition between strikebreaking bosses in the oil truckmen’s strike and the reactionary union officials, anxious to finis hthe betrayal of the strike and send the men back to work at a practically unlimited working day, took a new turn Saturday and Sunday. | To the presgure of hired gangsters, many of them part of the socialist machine used against militant needle trades work- ers, to the Tammany police and police of the republican 14th District in Brooklyn, to the defeatist propaganda carried out by lies in the capitalist papers and statements of the teamsters’ union officialdom, is added now; militant pickets will be haled up and the direct threat of prosecu- "ailroaded to prison, and that union officials will be given an excuse to OD ier Nias demand of a reluctant rank and file Suits Threatened. |the calling off of the strike, “to Officials of the Standard Oil Com- save the union treasury.” pany, Warner-Quinlan Oil Company, | and others announced Saturday that they were on the point of conduct- ing suits for damages, and criminal action against “not only the unions, but against individuals.” In Tam- meny courts this means that the The Trade Union Unity League } continues iis vctive propaganda by meetings in the strike zone, and by | leaflets distributed among the strik- ers, to spread the strike, to fight (Continued on Page Two) Standard Oil Coining Huge | Profits on Driven Workers Parent New Jersey Firm Gets Average of 71 Per Cent a Year Returns on Stock Labor Research Association, 799, through 67,800 pumps in this ter- Broadway, summarizes the profits |ritory alone. The company, in con- wrung by Standard Oil Co. from its | nection with this distributing trade, efinery slaves, toiling in constant|owns 6,000 motor tank wagons, danger of fire and chemicals for | trucks and vehicles. miserable wages, and its truck driv-| This company employs about 47,- ers, working a day that has abso-/000 workers in this and foreign lutely no limit in honrs under 24 | countries. Its stockholders, how- its findings are as follows: ever, are fewer in number, the i ee 8 profits heing drawn out largely by Standard Oil Co. of New York be-| the same circle of millionaires close | sides being one of the world’s great- to the Rockefellers. The market | est producing companies, is the dom-| value of the stock of this company | inant marketing organization for increased from $41,250,000 in 1912) gas and oil of New York and the to $579,903,785 last year (1928). It New England States. In this terri-| has been estimated that one of these tory the company has over 600 bulk investors who purchased only 10 of | stations and more than 1,200 service |the common shares of the stock in| stations. It also sells wholesale to/ 1913 for $4,330 received a return on other consumers and in all its So-/this investment during the follow- ony gasoline trade is served| (Continued en Page Two) i tf 0 RAYON WARE MARINE WORKERS 1° TW EXGUSE APPLAUD MORGAN : Call It Big Pay; Fort Delegate Just Out Fekers Stall Strike | of Jail Has Meeting la, Oct. 18.— ident of the A. Marine workers crowded the In- ternational Seamen’s Club hall last See carianaly |Dight nad gave a great ovation to nsidering seriously | yohn §, Morgan, just out from six in by his| months’ imprisonment on Welfare directors of Island. He was sent up because he the “correction” sent friends, the board of : ; re jes {to slug him for organizing on a| 7 stoff nies, a trea ds cs dean One hthton, | Standard Oil ship in New York har- CAL TAN |bor. Morgan is the Marine Workers | Samuel R. Fuller, chairman of the| League port organizer in New York. companies, boasts that the average) Morgan in his speech vigorously weekly wage is $19.64. This will) | isted that despite jail sentences or anything else, he would continue : rgani harbor tile Workers, who are still delaying SSE Sa tere We hs the hope the, ‘strike, votd practically, unan'-|of the marine workers in their battle ee an wen’t® ™ against intolerable conditions. The | piisahatoen sg cre. marine workers of Baltimore have Official Strikebreaking. jasked that he be sent there to ad- with the officials of the United Tex- {made the report, also announced the affiliation of the Woman’s Finnish from Jail Sentences ae | > | | i / Greeting two fellow-workers re- . Jf leased from Welfare Island jail Sun- day morning, 50 New York cafeteria workers yesterday expressed their determination to continue organiza- tion activities in a demonstration of 59th St, rQa etaion shrdlu shrdlu welcome at Queensboro Bridge. The jailed strikers were Hyman Blumberg and John Taylor. They had been sentenced to six rionths for picket line activities during the cafeteria struggle for improved con- ditions this spring. Michael Obermeier, organizer of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Branch of the Amalga- mated Food Workers, which lead the strike, was chief speaker at the re- ception. Taylor and Blumberg later attended the mass meeting to elect delegates to the U. S. S. R. at New Star Cazino, 107th St. and Park Ave. The cafeteria union is now in the midst of an organization drive to prepare to continue its attack on open shops successfully launched this spring. It will announce mass meetings, to be attended by shop delegates, in the near future, Ober- meier reports, r MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20.—Twenty- five, prisoners escaped from the state penitentiary, San Luis Potosi, through an old tunnel, dispatches to the newspaper Prensa said today. im. a meeting of all Party speakers 8° increase and after a short ctrike won all demands. ‘will be held at the Workers. Center, . 4th floor, to take up the question of | | Expose “_s on U S. S, R. the decisions of the last plenum of | LONDON (By Mail).—To offset the Central Executive Committee of lies told by three employers’ agents |the Party and the district plenums. told to “report” on their visit to the | s. fi «| U. S. S. R., the British Friends of 2 ye Weinstone mal iad the dis | the Soviet Union proposes to send a Suenon which will be aimed at pre- delegate from the Tilmanstone Col- paring the speakers for the drive to|liery, Kent, * the Soviet Union to popularize the decisions in all Party|see for themselves the triumphs of units. socialist economy. N.T.W.U. Drive to Organize South Speeded by Conference Southern Organizer Tells of Hatred Workers Show for United Textile Misleaders While seven textile workers were|tile Workers Union. In the court facing the bosses and their agents|room the uniformed law was guard. in the Charlotte court in a battle|ing the trial while the Labor Jury for freedom and the right of the|from the balcony looked on, and at wrokers to strike, organize, picket|the City auditorium, textile workers and defend htemselyes against the|from the mills were stationed at bosses’ thugs, in the City Auditor- |every door guarding the convention jium of Charlotte the southern tex: to insure its success. tile workers were assembling in con- | “The Bessemer City Conference ference to map out plans to smash was held uly 28, 9 day befoye the the bosses’ attack and advance onr = trial mobilized the textile work- jPosition,” said Hugo Oehler, south-|ers and their supports’ to prevent Jern organizer of the National Tex- (Continued on Page Three) ’ | Rvery trick of the trade has been dress them. used by these office holders, who | Conference Coming. draw in expenses and salaries more | ‘i te fi | Morgan claled for support of the Der dey, aoe oven eee figures |; nternational Labor Defense, which | for the operatives, to prevent this! ¢.' % fivild inst the blacklist and| fights for all workers attacked parece ey sapeies through the police and courts by worsening conditions. First they b ta oe oath ‘ seide | bosses’ intent on driving them from postponed it because of the suicide lthe class struggle. f fthe acti resident of the mills, . ied or enue with the U. S. de. | The Marine Workers League has partment of labor and the U.T.W. called a Pacific Coast conference to heads in Toronto, and then they pro- ee a nae ma pear tinea teen \ i ion. jization and make a drive for mem- Bopedl acbinenge | bership on the west coast. This con- | ference follows the successful Ma- LaundryWorkers Hear inc Workers Atlantic Coast Con- ste |ference, held a short time ago in| T.U.U.L., Communists, i Yorks “An industrial union for at B’klyn Shop Meet the whole marine industry is the ob- | jective of the league. Geo. Mink, | Defying all police attempts to halt | M. W. L. secretary was chairman at | organization of Brownsville laundry |the meeting last night. | workers, the Laundry Workers Sec- tion of the Trade Union Unity League, the Communist Party and” the Young Communist League will hold a factory gate meeting in front of the Independent Laundry on Herzl and Livonia Aves. directly after work tomorrow night. Underpaid and overworked, the | “Independent” workers, most of whom are Negro girls, work 9, 10, anl often 11 hours a day from $12|jice from breaking .up this meet-| to $15 a week. ing—although they had to arrest) They had welcomed leaflets urg- four speakers and swing, fast clubs ing organization to fight the speed- | against the others before they suc- up distributed by members of the! ceeded BERLIN FASCISTS RIOT. | Widespread disorders and several | ‘casualties were reported from Ber-| |lin by the Exchange Telegraph to-! ‘day as the result of demonstrations | |by fascists. T.U.U.L. at a shop-gate meeting last Tuesday. Permits did not prevent Brown po- Ine UsMy WerA;, Is Demand Prepare for Strike Fight on Wages, Hours and Against Fakers WEST FRANKFORT, IIL. Oct. 20. —While the dog fight between the Fishwick-Farrington machine and the Lewis outfit is coming to a cli- max, the miners of Illinois are rally- ing to the slogans of genuine strug- gle against al enemies raised by the National Miners’ Union, “Spread the word far and wide ‘Pay no more check-off to the Fishwick-Lewis ma- chine,’ ‘Prepare to strike for decent conditions,’ ‘The equalization of work to care for those thrown out of work by the introduction of machines, un- employment relief and the introduc- tion of the day rate system.’” Lo- cals numbering as many as a thou- sand strong are splitting off bodily and joining the militant National Miners’ Union. Beth Boss Tools. “The fight between Fi Lewis has now reache _ BOSSES TO KILL CONCORD, N. C., Oct. 20.— Saturday the leaders of the mill the same outfit murdered Ella May, were whitewashed, pronounced not guilty by a jury here. The Loray gang has thus been reassured that they will not be punished for their attack on the organizers of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union since the bosses’ cour’ re on their side. This whitewashing will give the bosses’ black hundreds added en- couragement to kidnap, blackjack, and flog militant union organizer When the murderers of Ella 1} likewise are whitewashed, they will indeed be certain that they may even murder with impunity. its climax. The two corrupt machines, caimed | by many to be the agents of two} coal inerests who struggle for domi- nation over the Illinois miners, are now engaged in a bitter fight for the control of the property, funds and right to betray the Illinois min- ers.” A communication signed by To Whitewash Murderers. Pat Toohey from the National Exec- The fake proceedings against utive Board which reached every lo-| those indicted for Ella May’s mur- day. Gastonia. “That Farrington, notorious tool of the Peabody Coal Company, and recently readmitted t othe UMWA, leads the fight in support of the dis- eredited Fishwick machine, is evi- dence that the Peabody Coal Com- pany is greatly interested in the struggle. On the other hand, pow- erful coal interests support the Lewis machine. This fact must be (Continued on Page Three) LARGER ILD BLOW AT MILL BOSSES Gastonia Cace Brings Class Solidarity The executive board of the Inter- national Shingle Weavers’ Union has decided to affiliate with the In- ternational Labor Defense, and five that “We have the solicitor, judge, the jury, and all the police on our side. We can do what we damn please and get away with it. We can get all the witnesses Wwe want to swear to our ali ers. Their chieftains, Solicitor Car- |penter of Gastonia, and Major Bul- ecutor, were there to help them. C. D. Saylors and C. M. Lell tes- before Judge Shaw in Charlotte. Law Leaders. y told how they were taken from their boarding house by a gang of thugs, among which they recognized Carpenter and Bulwinkle, and certain mill bosses and gunmen, locals of that union in the state of taken out to the country, where Washington, at Grays Harbor, Kal-| Preparations were made to lynch ama, Centralia, Willipaw and Wells. t Wells was flogged, 7 after he refused to denounce the ett have affiliated lo 4 This report was received at the I. L. D. headquarters today in the midst of activities for its drive for 50,000 new members. Ella Reeve Bloor, organizer for the defense or- ganization on the West Coast, who union, nad Saylor and Lell refused to flog him. A party of hunters came along and frightened the lynchers away. The ‘iprosecution” of the floggers, conducted by Solicitor Zeb was perfunctory, and half hearted, helping the mill lawyers defend the Loray gangsters on trial. Club and the Lithuanian’ Workers’ Club in Seattle, with the I. L, D. I. L. D. Grows. J. Louis Engdahl, national secre- COMMUNISTS FIGHT HONORING | OF STRESEMAN. SAARBRUCKEN, Germany, Oct. of the I. L. D., just returned 20. — The Saarbrucken C: Plan- m the court room at Charlotte, ning Commission, strongly opposed also received the reports that a new by the Communists, has decided to branch of the I. L. D. with thirteen |rename the city’s principal street | ‘after Streseman, Adopt Bessemer City As a Memorial to Ella May! Other Groups Must Join Womens Council 2 In Sending Daily There (Continued on Page Two) As if in answer to the letter of two womén mill workers in Bes- | semer City, N. C., asking that the Daily Worker be sent to them, comes the contribution of $10 to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South,” from Working Women’s Council No. 2, of Newark, N. J. The $10 given by Council No. 2 means that the mill workers of Bessemer City are assured of receiving 100 more copies of the Daily Worker every day for one week. In the Bessemer City textile mills slaved Ella May Wiggins, mur- dered by mill thugs for her activity as a member of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union. The mill bosses’ terror against members of the N.T.W. still reigns in Bessemer /City, as well as in Gastonia, Kings Mountain, and other mill towns which were the scenes of rebellion of the mill workers against their slavery. Mass circulation of the Daily Worker in the South is the most ef- fective weapon of the mill workers against this terror, and the con- tribution of Council 2 of Newark will aid in the struggle against that terror, - The mill workers of Bessemer City, and all the mill towns and villages of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia look to their fellow workers to come to their aid in the fight against slavery and terrorism, That is why they appeal to militant American workers to rush the Daily Worker to them at once. More than 100 copies of the Daily Worker must go to Bessemer City each day; it is a town of over 1,000 mill workers. The permanent adoption of Bessemer City, so that all of the 1,000 (Continued on Page Three) | International That is exactly what happened|posed the plot of the Manville- in Concord~in the “trial” of those | Je indicted for kidnapping ad flogging. | ut Nearly every member of the Com- forces of Gastonia and the courts of mittee of 100 was paraded in court | North Carolina as well as its fas- to establish the alibis of their lead-|cist Committee of 100. | tified to the same account as they | fense. did in the investigations conducted | clearly brought out during the eight | | | Long, | MILL PROSECUTOR RAVES Bill Dunne Speaks to Workers’ Mass Meeting, Answers Solicitors Attack on Communism VERDICT INVITES MILL PROSECUTOR WANTS REVENGE CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 20. The trial in Charlotte has owners’ gang which kidnapped| come to an end—except for the Ben Wells, C. D. Saylors, and| judge’s C. M. Lell, beat Wells into in-| which sensibility and tried to lynch} morning and the verdict which him, all this just a few days beforejis expected Tuesday. charge to the jury will be given Monday The jury of propertied farmers listened to 12 hours of final argument, six for the defense and six for the prosecution. The speeches of the four defense lawyers with their emphasis upon the evidence bore the same marked contrast to the oratory of the four prosecution lawyers that the testi- mony of the defense witnesses bore to the perjured testimony of the state’s witnesses. The mill owners’ lawyers, Hoey, Newell, Cansler and Carpenter, devoted their six hours to the most venomous invective, vi- cious accusations of immorality and criminality. They performed every melodramatic trick known to shyster lawyers in their impassioned appeal to the prejudices of the jury. The cal union in the Illinois district to-|der will be resumed on Monday in|defense, on the contrary, gave a | It is the boast of mem-| searching analy: bers of the Loray Committee of 100|in the case proving with incisive the | logic s of the evidence that the state’s evidence is weak, contradictory, perjurious and flim Johnson D. McCall, Thad- deus Adams, Tom Jimison and Frank Flowers, lawyers engaged by the Labor Defense, ex- Co..to smash. the union, ing for this purpose the police They re- viewed the long series of atrocities committed by the agents of the |winkle, attorney for the Manville-|Loray mill necessitating the forma- | Jenckes Co., and Gastonia case pros-|tion of strikers’ guards. Adams gave a particularly powerful plea for the right of workers to self de- The class issues were very speeches to the jury. Disregard Evidence. None of the four lawyers for the prosecution paid any attention to the evidence. For six hours they distorted the opinions of the defend- ants and defense witnesses on racial, religious political and economic problems. The most contemptible of all was Solicitor Carpenter. Even Judge Barnhill turned his face away and hid his laughter behind a news- paper while Carpenter was resort- ing to melodramatic trickery to stir the emotions and prejudices of the Jury. The courtroom was crowded to the doors when Carpenter began, but it was only half-full at the end of tis two hour harangue. Nearly half of the spectators had left in disgust. It seems incomprehensible |that any jury could be swayed by such cajolery and chicanery. It is clear that the verdict result- ing from such appeals will be pure- ly a class verdict. For two hours Carpenter gave the jury his wierd interpretations of the doctrines of Communism “from the wild precincts of Soviet Russia.” Under ruling of Judge Barnhill it was permitted for the prosecution to present their distortions of Commu- nism to the jury for the sole pur- |pose of appealing to prejudice, but the defense was not permitted to |put Bill Dunne on the stand as an expert on Communism to give the jury a correct statement of Marxism. Two hours after Carpenter had finished his harangue to the jury in the court room, Bill Dunne spoke to the workers of North Charlotte, at a meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the Young Pioneers. He gave them a speech |which if the jury had heard it would have answered the lies of Carpenter. Dunne pointed out that the trial has brought forward the question of violence and revolution before the workers of the South, among the issues of the trial. The prosecution has tried to convince the jury that the purpose of the Communists in the South is to “immediately organ- ize an armed insurrection to over- throw, the government, kill all po- licemen, public officials and mill }owners, seize control of the mlils and set up a Soviet.” The prosecu- tivn has appeated tc the jury to ‘do their duty as patriotie Americans Continued on Page Three) Build Up the United Front of the Working Class,