The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1929, Page 3

1 UAL WURADK, NW YURK, MUNDAY, UU! UBER ZL Page Th [ANTI-NANKING FORCES REPORTED ADVANCING ON HANKOW FROM THE NORTH, NORTHEAST AND SOUTH Report of Chengchow Capture Unconfirmed; “Tronsides” Veer March Towards Hankow Heavy Casualties in Struggle for Lung-hai Railway in Northwest Honan Province Fighting between Nanking and Kuominchun forces was general thruout Honan and Hupeh provinces yesterday, capitalist news sources report while admitting the impos- ce of confirming details owing Provincial Communist Party were confiscated, N * NANKING, China, Oct. 20.—Feng Yu-hsiang’s powerful army at \last reported on the march south- |ward, undoubtedly to attack Han- |kow. The Nanking State Council to- day ordered the arrest of its Min- Sick to the widespread disruption and strict. censorship. Battles between Nanking and Heavy Fighting Between Kuominchun troops in northwest Honan are reported from Japanese sources. The fighting is said to be for the possession of the Lung-hai railway, and its outcome is doubt- fut, the heavy casualties are alleged on both sides. | Chengchow, Honan, on important | railroad junction town, is reported to have been captured by the Kuom- | inehun, but the report is uncon- firmed. chun seems to be against Hankow, buf a section of the army is ad- vancing down the Hankiang River and has laid seige to the important | cities, Fan-cheng and Sian-yang, northwest of Hankow. | The so-called “ironsides” division of ;Chang-Fa-kwei has changed its | march from Kiang-si to the Han- kow route as tho to effect a junc- ister of War, Lun Chung-lin, and General Liu Chi, ablest of Feng’s commanders who have been in Nan- king—but ro unstable is Nanking in Jits c . epital that both cscaped. NMU BOARD GALL The main drive of the scammin FOR SHARP FIGHT Illinois Miners Ready for Struggle (Continued from Page One) clear to our membership. Although charges of graft, corruption, thiev- ery are made by both sides (and un- Nank ‘Chiang Kai-shek Will Be Dumped by U.S. as ineffective War Lord SHANGH I, Oct. king “government” today expressed “hope” to crush the rebellion in the south and issued the customary fal ims of national unity un- de king. | (Editoriai Note: It is to be ob- |served that Major-General Smed |D. Butler of the U. ine Corps at a lecture in Brooklyn Oct. 8, predicted that the present form }ef government in China would shortly be changed. Butler headed |5,000 marines in China for 18 months to establish in power the present gc nt, with which American impe: m is apparently becoming disappointed and plans to alter. Otherwise it was rank. in- gratitude for Butler to have said |“The Nationaiist Government is nothing but two or three war lords cating up the country.” Especially since Butler is some jiord hifmself. ‘Thus U. S. displeas- ure vith Chiang Kai-shek is not that he is a war lord, bu‘ that he is not war lord enough to remain on the roll ) tion will spell the end of the Lewis and Fishwick machines in Illinois.” Before any charters or seals are sent back to the YMWA, the secre- ry stresses, all locals must be cer- n that they have taken all legal steps to transfer funds, property, jete., from the control of the Lewis- Fishwick machine. Otherwise if the seals and charters are returned ahd this is not done, it gives the fakers absolute control of the halls, prop- jerties and funds. “Hold on to them juntil all legal requirements are ef- fected, then throw them at the fak- ers,” Toohey says. ing 20.—The Nan- ing of a war | ————— and Kuominch CHINA GENERALS’ COURT CONVICTS SOVIET CITIZENS Many Held After Trial Which Is Farce (Wireless By Imprecorr) MOSCOW, Oct. 20.—News from; Manchuria states that the Harbin jeourts yesterday passed sentence on the Soviet citizens arrested in the raid on the Harbin consulate. Five of the accused, Stankevitch, Tara- nov, Kanter, Poda and Zimbareviten were sentenced to nine years each. Twenty-one others received seven | ear sentences and four of the ac- ed were sentenced to four yea jeach. The Chinese accused were ac- |quitted. The Soviet press declares the trial was a farce, having only the jaim to justify the raid on the con- |sulate and th eseizure of the Chinese Eastern Railw The verdict rep- |resents a gift from the Chinese gen- jerals to foreign imperialism, which uses the trial and its circumstances jas a justification of the imperial- NTWU DRIVES ON Editor's Note: " Reports originat- Conferences Show U.T Jing from Manchurian sources yes- ee e poe W. Is Bitterly Hated terday stated that 38 Soviet citizens {and one Chinese, were sentenced to death, in addition to other prison (Continued from Page One) the bosses from electrocuting our) 23 defendants and to extend chr |sentences such as those noted in the above Moscow dispatch. organization throughout the Soup | The period that has elapsed from| conference takes us far ahead with | [filled with these un Forces Is Reported at Two Po IN THE ints SHOPS ee oil ie ae ALUMINUM. TRUST to Diseases in Canal Zone MELLON SLAVES (By a Soldier Correspondent) Housing for the soldiers in the Panama Canal Zone is terrible. It is said that when 1,500 W::t Indians were “digging the ditch” (Panama Canal), for every tie laid on the} railway, one West In" in died from malaria and yellow f-ver. S. soldiers are succumbing to these dread diseases. All talk about sani- tation in the Canal Zone is greatly exaggerated. The soldiers are housed in old buildings, many without any screening at 2'l, exposed at all times to these ¢’ eases. The hospitals are cases. Now Us| jtured jaw. In another instance an amateur dentist told a soldier he |would take care of him and pulled lout three teeth from the wrong side of his mouth. ' r The army Shop Nucleus in Plant Now about our food. grub is heavily saturated with salt Teentatts Lecter it ingteet ot butter we mave! =-XDIOIting 9,000 Joleomagrarine. Milk comes from aoe (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (By the “iron cow.” To every can of | |milk, about three pitchers of water lare added. Do we get any eggs in|Mail)—The foundation of the new the army? Why yes! We get|Unionism has been established in \chicken and eggs for breakfast, but | New Kensington. The former shop the chicken is still unborn and stinks. ,8Toup in the factory of the U. S. |The toughest thing in army life is |Aluminum Company passed a motion the steak they feed us. my is divided into two so- ‘s—officers and_privaes. The officers have their own sanitary houses. Many have their wives in | ing insane in the hospitals. Many eames Se eer shoe heen of the soldiers, in a desperate effort |t1.4 otricer’s club they often pull off to overcome their misery, take to/«wilq Whoopie Parti But if a smoking the “hay”—they call it! private so much as talks to an offi- “Mary Wana’ and “Gedjet.” Thi ’s daughter he is court-martialed. is a vile opiate and the ee bis Once we were forced to keep cutting lums here are filled up with the 20 ee ee eee ee ee ot the dicts of this drug. ola ee a danas oneate rt accetc lrain in order to make a playground What dentists! One fellow went | fo rthe officers’ children. I will tell to the dentist and had to go to the | about th ecourt-martial in my next hospital for three days with a frac- | letter. And what a hospital system! Many of those posing as doctors in| |... the army would be butchers or black- | 5 smiths on the out~ide. There are many cases of those dying and go- {laborers the other day was ordered \to shovel dirt to fill in the runway for trucks to back down and load up. Cement Worker on Subway Sacrificed to Greed of Bosses. He was ordered to shovel on the at its regular meeting held Oct, 1st to the effect that it affiliate with the Metal Workers’ Industrial Lea- gue, under the leadership of the T. Da Lie Organizers and other functionar- ies were chosen to carry on the work of organizing the 5,000 workers that work in the plant owned and con- | trolled by the Mellon family. These workers are the most exploited in this vicinity. Young workers are hired to d othe work of adult men, but in every case they receive from 5 to 15 cents an hour less. Men who have worked for years and have risen to the “grandeur” of 60c. an hour are laid off and are hired back again at 35-40c. an hour into the emergency labor gang from whence they are sent back to the |same jobs again in a few weeks and }again are given the chance to risé tion with the Kuominchun at|dobtedly both are correct) it is} “Brothers, mobilize instantly,” the our work going forward against all (By a Worker Correspondent) [blind side of the runway, and ajpy slow degrees until they are fit Hankow. clear that this is a struggle of two]. M. U. calls. “Birng every foree opposition. Since the first confer-| 41, working as ia truck ran into him, killing him im-) only to be thrown on the scrap heap * . coal interests for control of the min-|to bear and into play. Defeat the ence we have smashed the electrie | Am Working as an electric welder | mediately. lef thecpermanentl): iismbtoged: Reports that Feng Yu-hsiang has [ers in Illinois. ‘These coal companies |coal companies and their agents, chair of the bosses. We have ex-|0n the subway construction job at) Now this was done so that the! ‘There are hundreds of girls work 3 Te apa A ‘ tings of |Fishwick, Lewis 1 Farringto’ Se eee 4 Grand Concourse and 178th St., the | +,, % i , Phere a anareds OL giris WOrK- been arrested by General Yan Hsi-| have mouthpieces in both wings of |Fishwick, Lewis and ‘arrington. tended our organization throughout | p., tar Dita: eee uld be gotten out much ing jn thee spens who are getting shan, of Shansi province, were yes- |the corrupt Lewis-Fishwick machine. |'The rank and file convention addi-| (Continued from Page One) the main textile centers of the South |r ope gone on cost er tne see: | more quickly, as part of the speed-| shout 50 to 75 per cent of the wages terday denied and he was reported | Sharp Struggle. tional to signalizing a definite and|anq save our fair Southland from|in all the five states and we have e speed-up system on the work-| yp system. This worker was a vic- thi ‘ at men used to get for doing the same kind of work. Organization is The cop called searched him, and| very badly needed among them. found only a few pennies on the} At the same meeting a resolution jlaborer. Hypocritically a priest was was passed to put out shop paper called to say the “last rites” over | in the near future to spread the idea Union Unity. .league. sonterencs eysead vietim’s body. of industrial unionism among the showed that the second conferenca |. 2his worker he worked along-| workers and carry on a drive for was not only a big step forward |Sid¢ of me) left five motherless chil-| members to swell the list of the : 5 <q, dren. These workers are unorgan-| MWIL, alsg to expose the speed-up for the textile workers but also laid | ° vi bpacataraa | : the basis for the organtaation of the | ized. The cement men get very poor| rationalization, discrimination and ers on this job. Renault Co. has the cement con- tract on the job. One of the cement | immediate break with the UMWA to have re-entered Shensi province. | e | fakers, will also outline a practical * * # “Our membership must understand is a fight against the coal |, ee p The U. S. gunboat Pansy has been Ieteieees eae Cale cpunte ee the {Program of struggle against the ordered to Wuhu in connection with | eg pny, «a. | mine owners, We must prepare and the outbreak among the Nanking UMWA,” the Ictter pointed out. “As | oxganize for a mass split from the : : iNE | this struggle develops we will find/ mwa to the National Miners’ Idiers. It is stated that Nanking | Aaa S a M o the Nationa’ iners “layal” Grey Gack pate © | that it will take the form of a sharp | Union, as well as prepare at the | in| ei fofading tip ‘and @xeeuting’ the mu: |Prueme Suainst the coal operators: |-ame time for a general strike to | When we throw out he slogan and | o)¢ Pade ie anid “det a tineers. Two hundred are reported |, i obtain our demands and defeat the killed in the outbreak. |instruct the operators to check off | employers. 7 no more flues, we know that the! «Keep in direct touch with your these advocates of murder and revo- forced the bosses of Gaston County, tim of the speed-up system. lution.” the center of the cotton-spinning | “A ruling class never surrenders | industry to reduce the hours of work without violent struggle to maintain frem 60 to 55 hours. its power and privilege,” said Dunne. From Here We Go On “The Communist Party is not now “The Charlotte Conference lays attempting to organ‘ze an acoed i%-|the basis on which to consolidate | surrection in the South or else-| this force into a weapon to win our | where in the U. S. Its task at this|demands and to free our seven time is to organize the workers for) members from the clutches of the | as an organized force in unity with the northern workers. The Trade | miners mus fight the coal compan-/pistrict head quarters, Make this a taiiitant struggle for higher wages | textile bosses and their government. |pay, because of their lack of organ-| the rotten conditions in the differ- (By I. R. A. News Service) | ies to force this. Because the coal ; ; e this/and better working corditions and| van kand file convention a historic | for the political demands that arise | “The Charlotte conference was CANTON, China (By Mail)—The Kuangtung Provincial government has sent representatives to Hong- kong to arrange with the Governor of that port for the handing over to them of political refugees. As Com- munist refugees have long been handed over on demand the new ar- rangements concern members of op-| position factions within the Kou-| mintang itself. | Sia igs SHANGHAI, China (By Mail) —| Mlustrative of the growing rebellion among the students against the Kuo- mintang suppression of all their po-| litical activities was the outbreak | here the middle of July. Not until after autos belonging to Minister of | companies will support the Lewis and Fishwick machines against the militant National Miners’ Union and the rebellious miners, we must un- derstand that this fight is more than a fight against the crooks of the UMWA, but is in the main a strug- gle against the coal -perators, fight-| Among the facts which are com- | ing against wage-cuts, mechaniza- tion and c :vcz >= robberies, longer hours, lew pay, severe unemploy- ment, ete. The miners are becoming determined to fight and for this rea- son the coal companies adopt new methods of stemming off this rank and file revolt. Both Lewis and Fishwick < coal operator tools. Each is fighting for control of the |, ‘ests of Illinois miners ia the | gathering in the life of the Illinois miners. The miners in every coal field are watching you. The time is at hand.for quick action and mo- bilization,” the official communica- | tion concludes, Stealing Votes. ing out in the struggle between Lewis and Fishwick, is the follow- ing, a statement in the Fishwick journal, “The Illinois Miner”: “We say dictatorship advisedly, for the United Mine Workers have long ceased to present even a sem- blance of democracy. The machin- ery by which our members gay ex- their desires and find relief | ] attended by delegates from 5 states jfrom this struggle, to win the sup-|a total of 338 delegates from 175 port of the masses for these de-| mills in 65 textile cities throughout mands. This struggle consequently |the South, These delegates repre- jis not only against the bosses but) sented mill locals of the N. T. W. U.| Iso against the bosses’ government.| yank and file committees of the | |For the capture of power in a revo- United Textile Workers from South | lutionary crisis which will be pro-| Carolina, mill committees of unor- |duced by the contradictions of capi- | ganized wrokers and representatives talism itself, a majority of all ex-| from an independent textile workers ploited classes is necessary.” organization. Nine of the delegates Right of Self Defe' were from the U. T. W. and three of _ Dunne declared that “the prosecu- |{he delegates were Negro workers. tion has «done everythiag in its The youth delegates held a special power to obscure the central issue conference in connection with our in this case, the right of workers to | two day meeting. self defense. They hae tried to q make the views of the defendants on the Negro problem and on reli- se. Workers Make Plans. “The conference clearly showed unorganized unskilled workers both}: °° res black and white of the other indus- | 'ation—JACK N. tries. { ent departments. | “More Pay and Less Work is Aim | of Radicals,” was the caption of the | Charlotte newspapers on our con-| ference and we can add that the! conference laid the basis for the | struggle that will accomplish this | task. | THEI.L. D. IS RIGHT ON the JOB of Mob Viole Carolina Puts | Circus in Cou Finance T. V. Soong and other | their particular groups of mine own- for their grievances has been com- level vanes ruthileedly” deateovad Were ee eee ne els There has been no compromise, hov that this was a meeting of southern ile workers, all American-born Whether at Gastonia or in New: Yue. in, Ghieagy of on Solicitor Carpenter of Gastonia, t Solicitor Carpenter—Leader nce in North on One Man rt to Railroad 7 Strikers to Living Death! he man who led the mob of mill prominent people had been smashed | ap and the’ windows of a tram car} ers. The yaer fighting to smash all / Since the advent of Mr. Lewis, na- remnants of unionism and drive the | ¢ional elections of our union have ever, on the part of the N.T.W.U, or Workers who took the leading part San Francisco, especially now, | owners’ thugs against members of the National Textile Workers Union, the International Labor Defense and the Workers Interna- broken were the police able to stop the demonstrators. The affair was | an open anti-Nanking move. Police Sergeant Cardell plunged int othe crowd of students, kneck- ing the young fellows right and left. | As the rest of the police the ser-| geant soon got the worst of it and but for the arrival of assistance would have had a hard time. Twenty-seven of the demonstra- tors were arrested and a huge pile of leaflets issued by the Kiangsu ADOPT BESSEMER CITY AS A | MEMORIAL TO ELLA MAY Other Groups Must Join Womens Council Fj In Sending Daily There done in the Eastern states. Call Convention. and issued a call for a mass ran! and file convention of the miners ¢ jIllinois for Oct. 26, 27 and 28th, the national secretary continues. \“This convention will lead a mass split from the UMWA to the Na- tional Miners’ Union. This conven- H (Continued from Page One) || or more mill workers there received the Daily Worker each day, would |] be a fitting and lasting memorial to Ella May! \ Other working class groups must join with Working Women’s Council 2 in adopting Bessemer City! And scores of other mill towns and villages are calling for the National Textile Workers’ Union, and the Daily Worker, too. ; They too must be adopted by working class groups. Each dollar will send 10 copies of the Daily Worker to a southern mill village for a week. _ Individual workers too must answer the appeal made to them by their fellow werkers of the South! Enclosed is my contribution towards helping to rush the Daily Worker to the South. NAME seseccccreccennvcseeneeenseeateneeeseeeeeeeteerereseeeeeees Address . see City sccseceeeeeevececenserevens! SEAt€ sesseeeeeveeeesetenesenees . Amount $.. FOR ORGANIZATIONS (Name of Organization) We, City and State . 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..........weeks. We inclose $.......... Kindly send us the name of the mill village or city assigned to us, for we wish to communicate with the workers there, miners into slavery as they have “Your District Executive Board of | the National Miners’ Union has met the Communist Party on the racial issue which has been raised in the jtrial. The necessity of organizing the Negro workers for a struggle |shoulder to shouider with the white |become a |hired reta vo of as their ench and a by-word. His ners not only stole the of live locals, hey stole the vote vhole dead and extinct districts in planning the work of the confer- ence and its program of action. Dele- gates from the Danville, Va., area, delegates from Tennessee, delegates from the Atlanta, Ga., area, dele- with the drive against mili- tant workers, against foreign- born workers, is the I. L. D. greatly valuable for the work- ers. ticanl Retief, the kidnapping of th of Ben Wells—this same Carpen jury for the prosecution draws t ree union organizers and flogging iter in the closing speech to the he following pictures: "You defendants, it was peaceful in my com- munity before you came. It was sweet and own tellers’ reports will! Workers has becn emphasized The | fates from the Greenville area and | John S. Morgan, just out |show; so that by now it is abso! | Gomiunist Party has tacelaaaiy put | the Gastonia area, the Greensboro after five months in jail, rail- lutely safe to say that if the United; ¢o4h jts program ‘for full racial|@%ea and other sections, took the roaded by ship owners’ agents Mine Workers are still governed, | equality.” floor on discussion and carried the| for organizing seamen, de- |they are governed by the grim hand| “tore jn the Southe,” declared |Convention through the two days’) clared: “the I. L. D. was jof death—by the ghastly armies of | nupne, “the bosses are still able to |Sessions with facts and figures of prompt to get my bail re- {brave union miners slaughtered in the lost campaigns cf Mr. Lewis. “The international conventions, humorously desi-aated as the high- est tribunal of our union, are as farcical as the elections. Natjonal |organizers and provisional officers in the pay cf Mr. Lewis go into purel yimaginary districts of the U. M. W. of A., containing not a single, and at best only a handful, of dues- paying members, round up whatever numbers suit the purpose, designate them as delegates and furnish them wit hthe necessary cash for expenses and spending money—in the guise of aid to striking members. Arrived at the convention hall, the p: devils are accepted by a credentials com- mittee of Lewis appointees as duly aceredited delegates and are voted like so many sheep. As in elections, preme. Knock Out Insurgents. “Under these condjtions a delegate representing a dues-paying member- ship who is in opposition to the poli- cies of Dictator Lewis has absolute- ly no show of being recognized. If he persists in demahding the floor, he is simply knocked down by one of Lewis’ ex-prize fighters operating under the titl o2 sergeant-at-arms. These brutal attacks on opposing delegates have occurred again and again. Mr. Lewis improved on his rule through the hand of death by adding the fist and brass knucks of the professional slugger. And just as there is no longer any hope in miners’ elections and miners’ conventions, so neither is there in the so-called International Exec- utive Board of our organization; for this body, which was designed to constitute a check on the powers of the president, has long ago degen- erated into executive “boarders” liv- ing on the eharity of Mr. Lewis. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! so in conventions, death reigns su- | create dissention in the ranks of the |the prison conditions in the mills. workers, by their appeals to preju- |All the delegates stressed the need dice but the Communist Party has of a powerful organizatino and all done more to overcome this preju-|0f these delegates said, one after | ‘dice in the past six months than |the other that the National Textile ‘was done in the previous six years. Workers Union must me the organ The white workers are realizing that | ization. She it is impossible for them to become “Delegates from many sections lforee by stepping on the necks of |told of U. T. W. betrayals and that |a powerful economie and political|now they were fighting for the N.| the Negro workers.” |T. W. U. The two Negro members | “The class issues in this trial have |of the Labor Jury spoke and were ‘been put squarely before the work- received by thedelegates with great | ling class of the United States de-japplause. The delegates urged the |spite the pretenses of the prosecu-| unity of the black and white work- | the state and the capitalist | ers. | tion, ¢ | press that this is an ordinary mur-| “The first conference, the Besse- mer City conference was mainly a ‘der trial and that class issues are ‘not involved. The state has been| preliminary conference to lay the forced to recede its original position |basis for organizational activity that “this is an ordinary murder | throughout the south and was an) \trial which will be conducted in a agitational conference. The Cher- fair and impartial manner.” It has | lotte Conference was a much broad- been forced to release all but seven er affair, with representatives from | lof the original seventy defendants a greater number of mills with elect- | and to give up its hope to burnjed delegates representative of a) |them in the electric chair. These greater number of qrorkers— this) things do not just happen. They second conference was an organiza-| are the result of the militant cam- tional conference. | paign to arouse the working class Bosses’ Hopes Dashed. - to a realization of the class issues) “The Raleigh Observer, in a first in the trial and their significance page article a few days before the | to the whole labor movement. One conference, said that the Charlotte | recult of this has been that the capi-| conference would be a “mark to in-) |talist newspapers throughout the | dicate what the strength of the Com- | |nation and especially in the South | munists might be,’ and would in- jhave devoted an enormous amoun‘ | form us if they were on the decline. lof space to conditions in the mills,|The paper predicted that the con-) ‘wages, hours, and so forth, to the ference would show us up as a de- | prevalence of pellagra due to star-a- | feated group who were ready to pull) |tion wages. Since the struggle be- out. The conference proved that we gan in the South a few months ago have grown bigger and stronger, lin which the Communist Party has | that the bosses’ terror and murder | |been the stalwart leader, the South-| and attempt to prison the leaders | ‘ern working class have advanced | did not stop our work. The con-) ‘further because fo the sharpness of ference showed that the southern | \the struggle, then they would have! American workers were themselves | in a decade of ordinary times.” assembling in conference to decide | | ‘their problems. It showed that the | | MILLION BRITISH JOBLESS. bosses’ press which said the prob-| | LONDON (By Mail).—The latest lem would be solved if the northern | figure of unemployed in Great Brit- | organizers were run out was another | ain, in the government Sree tae It showed that the southern | understanding figures is 1,149,700.! workers were in the class struggle duced from $5,000 to $1,009, to fight for my release, put up a lawyer to defend me, and vend me $5 a month while I was in prison.” “Every worker should be a member of the I. L. D..” he said. The I. L. D. defends all fi] work against capitalist 9) “justice!” The government is now driving against all militant workers. Hundreds arrested everywhere. They are trying to crush the fight of workers for better conditions. The I. L. D. is fighting; back by a drive for 50,000 new members by Jan. 1, 1930. HAVE YOU JOINED YET? Here is a partial list of re- sults received today at‘ the National Office of the I. L. D. From, New | England, Robert Zelms reports: “In regards to the membership drive we have some good news already. This week the Harry Canter Branch of Boston turned in 28 new ap- plications; Peabody Polish Br., 2 applicatior nd New Bed- for Bill Heyw Br., 8 appli- cations, Reports from branches indicate that the drive is well under way.” From Eureka, Cal. “This to let you know that we hay just organized a branch of the 1. D, here in Eureka, Cal,, with 18 members at our first meeting.” From the Fred Berl Branch of West Oakland: “We had 31 members before but now 5. We are getting t ore in this eonference—Je happy in Gastonia, listenin’ to the hum of the spindle like the sound of the mockin’ bird on the spring morn’ until you came with your insidious doctrine.” "IT wish you could all know those mill owners as I do—the god-fearing, christian, upright mill owners of my country.” These “god-fearing, christian mill owners,” the Manville-Jenckes Company, owners of the Loray Mill in Gastonia, The “god-fearing” gentlemen who have made a “saving” of $500,000 in one year throuch the terrific speed-up, the 64-hour week, the $12 pay en- velope, chii1 labor and the slow starvation standard of living which causes pellagra, these exploiters of labor are put forth to the workers of the country as moral examples! The National Textile Workers Union and the International Labor Defense for havg dared to organize these workers ‘against their unbearable conditions, are to be given a thirty-year sentence, are be entombed in capitalist prisons for the major part of their life. Comrades! Workers! The prosecution lawyers are outright tools of the bosses. Judge Barnhill has taken off his mask of “impartiality” and has shown himself the agent of the bosses. Immedi- ately, without delay, the workers of this country must be aroused to the seriousness of this attack on the labor movement. If there is a dollar, or ten, or a hundred, or a thousand, lying about in your city it must be collected and sent in without fail to the defense fund. Act immediately! Don’t delay! | Gastonia Joint Defense & Reliet Committee 80 East Eleventh St., Room 402, New York City ‘sh and Mexican for Oakland. Sold 790 Tabor Defenders in Sentember.” ° the following ond send it at once to the Na tional Office of the tional Lahor Defense, & t Eleventh Street, New York City. I want to join the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Enclosed find 26 cents for initiation f NAME ADDRESS cITY STATE Auspices: INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RE! IEF, Endorsed by: NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS UNT \N Enclosed find my contribution of $........ for the defense of the Gastonia prisoners. Name ....,. Address ... City ..