The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1929, Page 3

GLASS JUSTICE OF CAPITALISM _ TAKES TOLL OF WORKERS’ LIVES "IN EUROPE AS IN GASTONIA, N. 6. : Rising Struggles of Proletariat Fought by Fascist White Terror Everywhere Communists, Vanguard of Class War in All Lands, Drive on KOUNO (By Mail)—The five persons arrested some months ago in the secrst Communist printing shop at Kouno have been tried by court-martial. | Two -* the prisoners, Kontautas and Kut-:ugkas, were sentenced to death. A girl of “5, Kristinaite, was sentenced to penal servitude for life, one man go; a long term of impris- onment an dthe fifth man was ac- quitted. The sentences pronounced by court-martial are executed within 24 hours in Lithuania. It is therefore more than probable that the latest victims of the sanguinary Fascists regime have already been shot. Hoc) eee KOVNO (By Mail).—A Lithuan- ian subject of the name of Alsaskas has been tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. It was alleged that he had gone down to the Polish frontier with the intention of receiv- ing pistols, hand grenades and an infernal machine brought there by the followers of Pleshkaitis. The sentence has been already put into/| execution. An “intention” is an offense in- curring the death penalty in the country of Holdemaras. oe BERLIN (By Mail).—The Koen- igsberg Communist Bludau has been sentenced to 18 months fortress by the Reichsgericht begause a number | of old copies of the legal newspa- pers “Der Reichswehrsoldat” (The | Reichswehr Soldier) and “Der Poli- zeibeamte” (The Police Official) were found in his possession. Al-} though the prosecution could prove no punishable offence, it demanded 18 months fortress for the accused, “in order to prevent him from con- tinuing to work for the Communist Party.” * * * WARSAW (By Mail). — Two years ago a member of the Young Cemmunist League of Poland, Schlenski, was sentenced to 12 years penitentiary for having killed a well-known labor spy and agent provocateur in Lodz. Last first of May he refused to do his prison la-| bor. He was removed from the War- saw prison “Mokotow” and for a long time it was not known where he was kept, Just now it is reported, that he has been brought to the prison of “The Holy Cross” (a prison in a mountain range in Poland), where he is kept in solitary confinement. This prison has the reputation that from its doors only prisoners are released when they are lying in their coffins. The conditions in that pris- on are so terrible that even a Sejm- Commission ordered some time azo that prisoners are not to be kept there. Piao ae WARSAW (By ‘Mail).—In Lowies two young workers arrested a year ago in their trade union meeting hall while writnig posters with the slogans. “Down with war,” “Long live the Soviet Union” and the like have now been sentenced to four and three years’ penal servitude for this offense. | Puls. aeaae VIENNA (By Mail).—Reports of a new wave of terror in Jugoslavia have reached here. In Stip a stu- dent with the name of Monew was brought before the police nad beaten to death. His mother, who in her despair called the police a band of murderers in public, was also ar- rested. Two more students from Ueskub as well as the mayor of a city in Macedonia were also put un- der arrest. In several, other cities mass arrests of workers took place. The police threatens to arrest ‘all radicals who are known to them. 1 ete VIENNA (By Mail)—The way the, investigation of the wholesale killing of the workers in Lupeni, ’ Rumania, is carried on, can be seen by a report of “Brassei Laport,” which states that the blood bath has cost the lives of 62 workers. “The investigation will be continued.” But as the first result of the continued investigation—35 workers have been arrested, The workers know that the “in- vestigation” is only providing the cloak under which the authorities can save the fnurderer Rosvany. set ys SOFIA (By Mail).—Three work- efs, Jordan iijew, Smirka Karak- newa and Nikola Skrabin, the latter secretary of the Workers Party in Sofia, have been sentenced to three years penitentiary and a fine of 50,- 000 Leva each, for having issued a call to fight against the new wave fo terrorism of the fascist regime. chee be AIGA (By Mail). — Eighteen persons, among them the leader of the Independent socialists, Abe Kis- sins and Paul Sokolowsky, a mem- ber of the Municipal Council and ‘of the Worker’s and Peasant’s Party, have been arrested in Dvinsk. * * * FASCISTS STAB WORKERS VIENNA (By Mail).—Three members of the Workers’ Samaritan League returning to Vienna on their motorcycles were attacked by Heim- wehrs near St. Mareiin and injured by blows and stabbed with knives. Theymotorcycles were broken, and | Despite Sacrifice the sanitary material they ¢: ie destroyed. One of the men was so seriously injured that he had to be taken to a hospital. ee GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, (By Mail).—The rising discontent of the Ecuadorean workers with their conditions has become so | | | * great that the police have thrown huge cordons around Communist and other militant labor headquarters thruout the country. Editors of Guayaquil papers agreed with v~ ernment orders not to publish any news of labor activities. A general strike may be called. WUSIGH, Kiangsu _ Province, China (By Mail).—In a series of raids on surrounding villages eleven | Communist suspects have been ar- has been a noutstanding ‘reward of $500. T CONVICTED HA WON BOSS HATE All Were Active in the Union,Worker Heroes (Continued from Page One) Young Communist League for sev- | eral years, and was in charge of the Philadelphia district of the League for a year. He has often been ar- rested for his activity in the labor movement, and during the Passaic strike was under $10,000 bail. He served a sentence in Occagram, Va.. for participating in a demonstration demanding the release of John Por- ter. He came to Gastonia about the middle of May to organize the young workers. * * Joseph Herrison. Joseph Harrison was the striker who was wounded on the night of June 7th when Aderholt led his raid- ing party in an attempt to destroy) the headquarters of the union. He was born in 1905 in New York City. He had to go to work in Passaic at the age of fourteen in a bleachery earning $9.60 per week. When the Passaic strike broke out) he was working in the United Piece Dyeworks in Lodi N. J. During the course of the:strike he was arrested several times for picketing. During the summer of 1927 he participated in the New Bedford strike. * * K. Y. Hendryx. Hendryx, 29 years old, is the son} of a poor farmer of Piney Creek, N.; C. He attended school for several years and “learned to xead and write.” At nine years of age he was working in the Fries, Va., cot- ton mill as a doffer. Just before the strike was called) he had been offered a better job in the Loray mill than the one he had in the Trenton mill. “When I learned that the strike had been called I walked out.” eee George Carter. George Carter was born at Miz- pah, Atlantic County, New Jersey, on April 10, 1906. His father was a landscape gardener and forester.| In 1923, he left high school while in | the second year and worked for his} father for about 18 months. He) has worked as a section hand, on) subway construction, in an auto) * * ,chinery of capitalist class legali Social Democrats Aid In Betrayal of Austria |Glanzstoff Silk Strike | | Bis VIENNA (By Mail).—A few da ago a strike broke out in the Glan stoff factory in St. Poelton in order 0 secure the dismissal of 15 work- rs organize’ in the Christian trade unions. At first the directors were prepared to remove the 15 yellow not to dismiss them as the workers demanded, but at least to place them in other positions. After the social democratic trade union leaders and the social democratic mayor of St. t Poelton had persuaded the workers |Trade Union Unity League. to go back to work, the directors then withdrew their origi and put the 15 workers back old posts. leaders used their whole at their influe , 1 in order to prevent the workers | prove the truth of this again taking up the struggle. result of the social democrati tude that the heitsbund,” which is the fascist organization of the Christian trade unions, is, a cording to a report of the “Reich: post,” about to set up a “Glanzstoff Company.” atti- VERDICT OF THE WORKERS" JURY Case (Continued from Page One) Workers Union so that they could offer | , The social democratic! gicty The as the meetings of the local occur. rested, including one for whom there Decision in the Gaston | continue, in the future as in the} past, to distill the very life blood of | #000 miners voted unanimously to men, women and children ito profits. It was a trial of workers for da: ing to defend themselves against or- police authority. effort to wreak vengeance upon these seven defendants because they | Which refused to abandon the struggle of |cheers as miner after miner spoke. s and cowardly leave the| The policy laid down by representa- | territory when their very lives were | tives of the National Miners’ Union | the work threatened on innumerable occasions, | Was adopted. | s was fully brought out by the evidence. The charges of conspiracy to murder were initiated against the defendants in an attempt to kiil them through the use of the ma- | { after the murderous assault on the | tent colony was repulsed by the heroic defense of the workers them- selves. The trial was a part of the union smashing campaign that has been waged under various forms since the Gastonia workers against starvation wages, the speed-up child slavery, long hours of labor, horrible conditions of work, and all the frightful suffering, poverty and disease (pellagra) as a result of over-work and undernourishment. We, the labor jury, have not only found the defendants not guilty, but our verdict is a verdict for the whole working class. In finding Governor Gardner, Judge Barnhill, Solicitor Carpenter, the Manville-Jenckes company, i short the entire crew of mill owners and their state offi- cials and legal flunkeys GUILTY, indict the whole capitalist class and will pillory them before the working class throughout the United States and the entire world as mon- jbeginning of the struggle of the sters whose hands drip with the | blood of our murder May, an dthe working class victims of their sadistic attacks during the course o fthe Gastonia struggle. In the courtroom we represented the mass of awakened workers of the |United States whose delegates at the |Cleveland Trade Union Unity Con- | vention elected us, and now that the rial is over we will expose before the working class everywhere the real meaning for our class of capi- talist class justice and democracy. One of the principal illusions of | the legal system in the United States is that every man is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers. If our brothers who faced trial in Char- lotte had been tried by a jury of plant, as a gardener, and in a tex- | their peers it would have been a tile mill. He worked for a time in|labor jury, a jury of workers who the Irving Worsted Mill in Chester junderstood the nature of their strug- and joined the National Textile|gle and of labor’s struggle in gen- Workers’ Union. He came Souts as) a union worker when the strike) broke out and was an active fighter throughout. He was arrested after the raid on the workers’ camp in| Gastonia and charged with the mur-| der of the police chief. + #28 Louis MacLaughlin, One fo the most active of the strikers is Louis MacLaughlin. He was born into a family of mill work- ers in 1906, in Atlanta, Ga. When he was thirteen years old he went to work as a sweeper in the Augusta Cotton Mills. Three years later he came to Gastonia—in 1928. He worked for the Manville-Jenckes Co. both in their High Shoals and Loray Mills. He was working at the Loray mill when the strike was called. { “I walked out with the rest and was always ready to do my share to help win the strike. I am with them and that’s why I’m in jail today.” * * * W. M. McGinnis. W. M. McGinnis was one of the most active of the Loray mill strikers. He was born in the South and, althouh in his early twenties, he has worked in the mills for a number of years. He joined the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union as soon as the strike was called in the Loray mill and played an_ active part on the picket lines and in or- anizational work. He was arrested and chared with murder after the vaid on the camp on June 7. ug eral. It is the purpose of the state in such cases not to secure a jury of peers of defendants, but to secure a mercenary, servile jury that WILL | CONVICT REGARDLESS OF THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED, That is precisely what happened at the Charlotte trial. The judge upon the bench, Barnhill, proved himself an instrument of the capi- talist class by a series of rulings which conclusively proved his role. He openly stated that Communists cannot come into a capitalist court and expect a fair trial, because Com- munists believe that’ the laws and the government under which they are tri edare wrong. He endeavored to cast aspersions upon and to ques- tion the truthfulness of a young woman witness for the defense be- cause she did not believe in the fun- damentalist god cf the mill owners and the old ruling class of the South. The smug hypocrisy of Barnhill was further revealed when, after stating at the opening of the trial that it was solely a tria to ascertain re- sponsibility for the death of Ader- holt and that it would be conducted as such without any reference to political, economic, religious or rac- ial questions, he ruled, during the trial that such questions and the ac- tivity o fthe yjtnesses for the de- fense in carry’=g out their political and economic policies may be used against them for impeaching their t estimony. Yet not once did Barn- hill-raise the question of the credi- bility or honesty, of the witnesses |shelter in the colony after being! {evicted from company houses of the | | Manville - Jenckes anized murder at the hands of a|the National Miners’ Union, after a ous, drunken, depraved gang of | SPitited meeting here, mill-owners hoodlums, clothed with | Were raised simutaneously when the The trial was an| Vote was called. | d comrade, Ella | purpose was to massacre the men. | direct connection with the Manville- (stretch-out), | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 1929 Pag e Three a MINERS SOLID AS' THOUSANDS JOIN, NIM, IN ILLINOIS Franklin Co., Former UMW Hold. Revolts -| (Continued from Page One) new trade union center, the the “All fields report that the miners | | re ready to go,” Dan Slinge | seeretary-treasurer of the Tllino' wrote to the national office “The next few days will statement, last week, Rapidly moving events of the 1: few da prove that the reports from the fields were | that the National strictein Illin not abate its| activty until over 50,000 are included in the locals spread throughout the | me ox ux UNION DRIVES ON DESPITE VERDICT * * PITTSBURGH, Pa., Ord for 10,090 dues stamps, books and charters, have been filled and rushe dto the Illinois district from the central office of the National Miners’ Union here. | | Pat Toohey, national secretary, | Savage Sentences j | left yesterday to speak at a series} ‘ mh) of mass rallies arranged for this| Gastonia Case week beginning in West Frankfort) Sunday. West Frankfort is in} Franklin County. (Continued from Page One) the release an. whitewashing of mill thugs who kidnapped and tried to \lynch Wells, Saylors and Lell, the killing of six unarmed pickets in| | Marion, and the conviction of work- ers who stood for the right of self- |defense against such outrages means nan immediate revival of black hun- dred terror, mill owners’ fascism. | Orgenize for Self-Defense. * * STAUNTON, Il., Oct. 21.—Over unoad the Fishwick-Farrington fak- ers as well as the Lewis machine as tools of the operators and join All hands Not one man left the spontaneously meeting broke into |™ t be organized in eve: mill, or no worker fighting the rationaliza- | tion, the long hours and low wages and speed-up and stretch-out, is sure j of living from day to day. It was agreed that every local union cease to pa dues to the U. M. W. A. by serving notice on the coal companies to cease to check-off dues but wait to ask for recognition of the N. M. U. until the demand is made by the district as a whoe. Readiness to follow up this demand with militant struggle if necessary was stressed by the rank and file, industries | southe is relied upon by mill worke ionDrive Goes On, The drive of the National Tex-| tile Workers Union, plannel at the |Southern Textile Workers Confer- }ence and the Trade Union Unity |League Conventions held in Char- |lotte Oct, 13-14 has already won a \victory in the Leaksville Woolen | Mills at Homestead, N. C. The mill |is near Charlotte. There is a strong jlocal of the N. T. W. U. there. A |fight looms over the questino of | raising the wages. the L for the prosecution in spite of the fact hat theirs was a mass of con- tradictory evidence, and that their Jenckes concern was brought out in almost every case. © The fact that | ei 4 | Workers Union here immediately hin adam ei pees spears | stated that the Gostonia ease verdict Stubied for the state have long is a class decision, that the mill records of homicidal drunkenness | yorkers of the South are as deter- and ae a few hours before the | mined to organize, as before and as events of the evening of June 7th, | determined, snice the lesson of the assaulted citizens of Gastonia, and Marion Massacre where’ unarmed and the fact that they were known | strikers were shot down in heans, t obe in conspiracy with the Loray|t. defend themselves against the Mill fascist, “Committee of 100,”| next organized attempt of the bosses | did not evoke from Judge Barnhill y z jat mass murder. any question of the impeachment of | The tours of the organizers sent} their testimony. !out by the Charlotte conventions will It was conclusively shown in the|go on, and already hundreds of mill | testimony that the first shot on the workers are organizing locals of the night of June 7 was fired by the|union, None of the organizers or police; that the attack on the colony members of the union are terrified was organized at the behest of the|at the unfair verdict and savage Manville-Jenckes bosses ad that its | sentences. eee Soae women and children who sought! Union Square Demonstration. i Thousands of New York Workers | corporation, to | Will participate in a mass demon- smash the National Textile Workers |St'ation of protest against he class nion and to prevent the spread of | Verdict in the Gastonia case, and to the strike to other mills. We are | Plan action in solidarity with the solutely certain thag if the/ ‘lass war heroes given brutally long rikers had not defended themselves Sentences yesterday for daring t there would have been a massacre (fend themselves against massacre. unprecedented in the annals of labor | Nationally known leaders of the struggles in this country. The | Militant labor movement will speak. strikers, their wives and children |The meeting Maa caed aa ze m. would have been slaughtered as were | The International | Lal bor Defense, Ella May near Gastonia and the|Which directed the Gastonia case de- five unarmed strikers at Marion, |fense, will take its fight for the de- North Carolina, during the course fendants’ freedom to the United of the Charlotte trial. States Supreme Court, a statement We, the labor jury, affirm it to|issued today said. |speed-up of 125 per cent for Workers’ self-defense committees | § Mass support of all workers in all | ¢ | Officials of the National Textile} > be the duty of the working class to organize and defend itself against any and all attacks of the employers and any of their hired killers, even though they are acting under state authority. The Gastonia cases and the long struggle that with these cases has entered a new militant stage in the South show again to the working class the real character of the capitalist state.as an instru-| ment of terror and _ oppression against the working class, One final word is necessary re- garding the treatment accorded our jury. From the first day of our arrival we were subjected to all sorts of thraets and a veritable cam- paign of incitement to lynching launched by the mill owners’ press. The composition of the jury itself was a smeshing blow against the race prejudices that the employing class of the South tries to foster in order to keep Negro and white workers diyided into two camps, thereby striving to prevent their united class action against industrial slavery. There were two Negroes on the jury and as soon as we enter- ed the court room the court attend- ants tried to divide the jury by fore- ing the Negro members to sit in the “jim crow” gallery, But we re- fused to be divided and so the whole jury was “jim crowed.” The em- ployers of the South were enraged at this because it symbolized before the whole working class of the South the great struggle that is now rag- ing, wherein the same lynching and mob violence that was for decades used against Negro workers has now been extended to white workers who revolt against slavery. The Negro and white workers, subject alike to we att ln Louis J. Engdahl, nationa secre-| jtary of the International Labor De- fense, with headquarters in New York, issued the statement. | the same system of exploitation and| |terror are uniting for defense of |their class interests. The mill own- ers and their political tools, the gov- ernors, judges, prosecutors, police, and fascist hordes, tremble ‘n fear beforay the increasing solidarity of Negroes and poor whites in the South, They “now it heralds their own impending downfall before the inter-racial and class solidarity of | the masses. | The Gastonia case was one of jclass against class. The fight must and will apntinue, not only until these workers are all set free, but |the workers must wage a direst |fight against the whole system of (capitalist exploitation and tyranny until the time comes that, instead of the wrokers appearing in capitalist courts before the Barnhills and their ilk, the situation will be reversel and the mill owners, the Gardners, : the Carpenters and the whole array of conspirators to murder and enslave the working class will appear before working class tribunals to answer for their crimes against us. Hubert Carroll Ida Simons Daisy MacDonald E. P. Cush, Foreman Wes Williams Charles Summey Taylor Shytle Charles Frank Joe Golden Sol Harper Bourns Mill Workers in Fall | j\TE, MINE A River Strike Despite Fake (By a Worker Correspondent) FALL RIVER, (By Mail).—On Oct. 8 the bosses of the Bourne Tex- tile Mill attempted to introduce a the weavers. Where before the weaver! ran sixteen to twenty looms, after the new speed-up they would have to run 40 to 44 looms. The weavers, in spite of the cor- rupted American Federation of tile Operatives leadership, refuse] to come to work the next day, and struck of their own accord. The of the rest departments realized that they would be speeded | up more as well as the weavers if} the latter lost, so they showed their solidarit striking side by side with the weavers. were to win the organize strong ee mediately the bo: d on theix company unions (U.T. W. and A. '. O.) to call upon the workers r zed that if they to go on the picket line, thereby breaking the strikers’ spirit. | Monday morning the National Textile Workers’ Union went down into the mill and called on the work- ers to organize strong picket lines. Fo5rty to fifty workers followed the NTW organizers, and prevented all scabs from going into the mill and Many Cities Arrange Anniversary Meetings ) 1758 , spea at Workers s, Juliet, District Two, York City, Nov. 3 rden, 2p. m. at hth Ave w son Square ¢ nad 49th St. Distriet Thr phia, Novy, 8, 810 Locust , Herbert m., Labor speaker: and udely Det :, t jamin try M. Wi ington, Nov Wicks, local spe Pittsbure Lyeeun M. Wieks, P. Dovino BE. Pittsburgh, Workers Home, Aves., E. Pittsbur; vine Arnold. Pa., Friday, Nov Umbria Hall, local speakers. District Six, Harry . 8 p.m, Cleveland, Ohio, eer 2 Tem Moose Hall. 1,000’ Walnut &t., speak- ers, Louis Engdahl; 1. Amter and others. ~ Distriet Seven. Mich., Nov Auditorium, speaker, Dp. Woodw: wm Detroit , m.. a Ave., District Ei , TI, No’ Audit Hatha ixht. Minor, C. Davennort, Io Central Turner H "10, 2.20.7.m cott and Third Davenport, Iowa District Nine. linn., Nov. 7. Ave., Duluth, speakers, The Stronger The LL.D. Grows the More Bosses Fear It! The International Labor De- fense is growing. Its drive for 50,000 new members is being held in every city of the land. The more it grows, the great- er the attacks on it grow in the capitalist press. The papers throughout the country have printed violent lies about the I. L. D. They bring every charge except this: The I. L. D. Defends All Class-War Prisoners! They do not say the I. L. D is a mass organization that has gained the hatred of all the bosses in the land. You have seen what the GASTONIA GAZETTE the NEW YORK TIMES the NATION the FORWARDS have said about the I, L, D, They fear it because The I. L. D. Is the Shield of the Working Class, Every Workers Should Be a Member! | Workers and Farmers in §/ Williston, North Dakota, to- day announced a new branch of the I. L. D. Workers in every part of the land are §, joining and forming new branches. Workers feel the bosses’ 9) drive against them. Workers are arvested by the hundreds throughout the land. §- The bosses say to be mili- tant for better conditions is a crime. The bosses want to give you 30 years for striking. Join the I. Lb. D, at oncet Fill out the following blank ff! and send it at once to tho Na- tional Office of the Interna- 9) tional Labor Defense, 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City. | I want to join the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Enclosed find 25 cents for initiation fee, NAME ADDRESS , CITY .. Leo Hoffbauer Henry Buckley, STATE riy + | gathering IN THE SH > 1S oss to cl ;thus forcing the b The NTW issued leaflets to the workers explaining the betrayals of the UTW and the AFTO in the past, and called on the workers to organ- ize a strike committee of the rank and file so the fakers would not sell them out. Immediately the fakers organized th gangsters and threatened the NTW organi and barred workers that fought for a militant program. Despite the terror the NTW is speeding the organization of these workers and exposing the fakers. —A, R. P, AT PHILA. MEET 800 Workers Hear T.U. U. L. Report (Continued from Page One) inions, and the TUUL units will h offices, under the same roof, is being secured. | Every effort is being made by the Philadelphia militants to spread the circulation of Labor Unity, the of- ficial organ of the TUUL. Special committees are established in all units of the League for this work. As Foster was interviewed, he n the point of leaving for the New England tour, where he has meetings in New Haven, yesterday, in Haverhill, Mass. Tuesday, and in Boston Thursday. After the New {England meetings, comes one in }New York Friday, and then a trip through Pittsburgh, Chicago, and |lake region towns. | An enhusiastie meeting heard | Foster's report of the Cleveland con- vention Sunday. The league general secretary explained in detail the revolutionary achievements of the and tasks incidental to applying the Cleveland decisions to | the work of the district. | The New Haven district T. U. U. |L. apparatus ws: strengthened at a | later meeting which mapped out de- | tails for a campaign to organize lo- jeal Leagues throughout the | rounding territory, speakers, ; speakers, v, 10, speak- Tooney. | Reeve and Pat : District ei Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, Nov. 7. ers, Car! | It is the t OPS ND OlL WORKERS IN VA, PAID LOW Negro Toilers Being Worst Exploited (By a Worker Correspondent) NORFOLK, Va., (By Mail).—I want to again write you about con- ditions in various plants and indus- tries in Virginia, In Norfolk hundreds of workers are employed in the burlap factories, such as the Atlantic Jute Mills, Nor- folk Bag Co., ete. Most of the workers in this industry are Negro They are paid from 18 to an hou Very few are re- more t 5 en 35 cents an hour. s of toil are from 9 1-2 to d sometimes as high as n Berkley (South Norfolk) e thousands of workers em- din the oil refine: They aving for such firms as the Portsmouth Oil Refining, the Texas Oil Co., American Oil, Standard Oil, etc. A large number of Negro workers are employed in this indus- try. They are paid from 30 to 45 cents an hour, the limit being 50 cents, which only the stool pigeons and the straw bosses receive. Work- ing hours for the oil workers are |from nine to twelve a day. Another important industry in Virginia is coal mining. Including the figures of wagon mines which are producing less than 100 tons, the coal output of Virginia for the year 1928 in 86 coal mines totalled 11,900, tons, valued at $20,375,- 000. Wise county is producing the greatest tonnage of coal, with 5,- 061,902 tons for the year 1928. The coal miners in Virginia re- ceive an average day’s pay of $4.30. The conditions of the miners of Virginia are deplorable, abandoned as they were by the United Mine Workers of America fakers such as John L. Lewis, Boylan and their cliques, they were left at the mercy of the coal operators, of the revolutionary National Miners’ Union to organize these miners. G. RAILROAD WORKER KILLED. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 21— The New York-to Cincinnati Ex- press ploughed through a switch ‘near here, and the locomotive and three coaches overturned. William |Thompson, fireman of the locomo- | tive, was scalded to death and En- | gineer P. J. Maloney was burned to badly he may die. sur- | 1 their masters! We must not let up one States! Workers ‘Guilty’ at Charlotte ! Bosses Not Guilty at Concord! Workers Everywhere PROTEST. But the workers fight must go on! he seven Gastonia strikers have been found “guilty.” It took the bosses’ jury ONE HOUR to do the bidding of minute! We will carry the fight to the Supreme Court of North Carolina and to the Supreme Court of the United The only verdict the working class will accept is UNQUALIFIED ACQUITAL Every workers must remember what goes on in the courts is a reflection of what goes on outside. Powerful mass protest forced the bosse TO FREE 16 of the 23 trikers who were held for death or life imprison- ment at first. The bosses fear the mass pressure of the working class. Mass pressure will free the remaining seven, But it MUST BE INCREASED! To carry the fight into higher courts workers must remember the huge sums of money necessary to pay the lawyers, court stenographers, witnesses’ expenses. Remember, the bosses put up huge sums to convict the strikers. The workers must answer them. We will not let them railroad the Gastonia strikers for daring to organizing the southern workers, We must aid the workers at Marion, Elizabethton and every other southern mill center. We must continue the struggle at all costs, defending the workers in their efforts to organize, to strike, to picket and to defend themselves. If we let down, and the strikers go to prison for long terms, then bloody Gastonia fascist justice will be the rule elsewhere. Long prison terms will face militant workers everywhere. % 1 1 CONTINUE % TO SEND FUNDS! ; TO HOLD MASS PROTEST MEETINGS! TO SWELL THE UNITED FRONT! TO SEND TELEGRAMS OF SOLIDARITY! ie Gastonia Joint Defense & Reliet Committ 80 East Eleventh St., Room 402, New York City Auspices: INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF Endorsed by: NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS UNION ee ¢ <<