The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1929, Page 3

| y j _ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1929 Page Three Workers in Capitali . Struggles Hail EVIDENCE PILES UP ON EVERY _ HAND-OF IMPERIALISTS’ PLAN FOR WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION Alarmed at Success of Industrialization, of U. oe. a uctralbon ae : S. S. R. Capitalism Conspires st Lands, in Rising Soviet Birthday Wireless by Imprecorr MOSCOW, Oct. 22.—The State Administration (0. G. P. U.) has |Gastonia Arouses Ally} M W A Loc ALS ‘Australia Although 7 UsMy Wark of Its Own Face Jail SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 21— A R E A § K | NG T0 The strike of nearly 20,000 timber | workers, which has been going on/ for ten months against the decision | of the Arbitraion Court under the | infamous Lukin Award, collapsed | ——— i A - Z panes ey National Miners Union |turing the murder trial at Charlotte,, Outlines Convention \North Carolina, of the American 2 textile strikers of Gastonia, and the (Continued from Page One) working class is ntensely interested, | ttayal, wage reductions, sell-outs, as the whole Australian proletariat Separate agreements and outright is under attack on all fronts, and| Collaboration with the operators in | fighting spirit is high despite the | the destruction of the once powerful hobbles placed on struggle by re-|U- M. W..A., it becomes necessary formists of all shades. |for t he National Miners’ Union to soviet Power Executes Imperialist Spies Who Had Planned to Wreck lis Defense Daily Worker | Soldiers (By a Soldier Correspondent) In the army court martial you are tried by officers and can only get an officer to defend you. You are liable to get six months in the guard |house on the most trivial charge, if |the officers don’t like your looks. lm the guard house you sleep on the springs of an iron cot. You are al- icabh Sal a discovered an organization of sabotagers and spies in the war industry @f the Soviet Union, acting in league with imperialist powers. | iettminals have been arreste dand t: | ; Most of these spies, whose effo | ing information, but at preparing widespread destruction of Soviet war xésources when the imperialists open war on the Soviet Union, were former szarist officers. The following former generals have already been executed.™ Other: to various terms 5 * * British Workers Defend U.S. S. R. ‘LONDON, Oct. 22.—The societv of Friends of the Soviet Union are sending a large delegation of work- ers to Moscow to participate in the, celebrations of the Twelfth Anni- versary of the Bolshevik Revolution) *qn’Nov.'7. ; * LONDON, Oct. 21—The British empire’s new dirigible, the R-101, has been designed especially for car- rying bombing planes in the next im- perialist war, experts have disclosed. The war bag can launch at least five bombers simultaneously from the under side of the huge hull and take them aboar dagain while in motion. The British War Office under the “Labor” Government is continuing the plan for war on the Soviet Union, in spite of resuming rela- tions, and an air war is tho be the most effective. This di is to be used from a hase in Ind to attack the Soviet Union on that front. eo PRAGUE, Oct. 2 aré goings on to unify the tamou Skodr» Works, the Boheman and Moravian Kolben Wor! and th Bruenn munitions factory, three of the: larcest munitions factories of Czecho-Slovakia with a total capita! $100,006,000. Ib os w PARIS, Oct. 22.—As a prelude to neve! nm,” George Leygu ot Marine, t Vyssotchansky, Dymann, Dechanov, Schulga and Michailovich. of imprisonment. ® * Negotiations | . headlines saying “French aviator is | An instance of the kinship felt with Gastonia, is the coincidence that on the day the seven Gastonia | victims were senenced, seven of the leaders of the Australian timber | workers are placed on trial for con- | spiracy. The ried. rts were directed not only at gather- were sentenced to death: Michailov, These 's of the accused have been sentenced BOSSES TRY 10 {ordered work pushed to complete the cruiser “Foch” and commanded | the keel laid for th cruiser “Duplex,” the last of nine new cruisers. He ulso announced a speed-up in sub- marine production, including five 1,500 ton high-seas subs, four 600 ton coastal sus, and planned the building next year of four more of these latte After doing this work on “disarmament,” Mass Arrests: Deport Deport 250 Workers (Continued from Page One) Marine Minister then began |munist Party and all militant sec- writing the French reply to the in-|tions of labor movement ine Illinois { next January’s |comes simultaneously with the turn- | ” conference. ling of thousands upon thousands of Cesta: | Illinois coal miners to the militant France, Oct. 22.—We| National Miners, Union, as a result their disgust with Lewis and soldiers along the of the United 1 the Young Plan becom ,” states the French Mi Colonies, Andre Maginot, | at a war monument dedi- | rance will not evacuate neland until Germany “gives | lof | Fishwick factions It follows closely the reign of ter- t the militant southern ile wrokers, which culminated onday in the raliroading to long guarantee. prison terms of seven of the best Ea: fighters among the Gastonia work- Oct. 22.——-Press of the | ¢rs. * MOSCOW, U. S. R. was angered today by a report that Dieudonne Coste, French aviator who flew from aris to Man- Mass arrests and deportations of |members of the Communist Party and other militant workers are the weapon of the Illinois open shop huria with Maurice Bellonte, has » of the Il sold plane to the government at| bosses in their drive to destroy the Mukden, Communist Party. Yesterday the headquarters of the Communist Party here were oc- cupied by police and a score or more workers in the offices searched. “After all we did to help find Coste | whe nit was believed he was lost over Siberian territory, he now as- py theca es the general) "The parole board of the State of eee an i fs Illinois today stated that its policy Sa a Saree Be eill be to deport all foreign-born BREAK CP. INILL, |hold a special convention, on a broad |seale in order to complete policies {and demands that will lead the min- ers out o fthis crisis. This latest | fight between Lewis, Fishwick and | | Farrington is a struggle for the con- | trol of funds and properties that be- long to the miners of Illinois.’”” The preparations for the conven- | tion include mass invasion of Lewis and Fishwick territory, holding of mass meetings under protection of defense groups, and energetic action | by militants within the U. M. W. A. | locals to organize a spit of the rank {and file away from the corrupt offi- cialdom, and its so-called union, the U. M. W. A. | The convention will discuss and | adopt wage demands as well as put linto effect the program for an ex- tensive campaign to win these de- | mands: Six-hour day—five-day week; no check off; no arbitration; no pen- alty clause; against the speed-up— enforcement of safety rules; improv- ed machinery and increased produc- tion—that now benefits the opera- |tors—to go to the miners in the form lof higher wages, shortening of hours jand better working conditions: istruggle against unemployment; so- @ial insurance for the unemploye: |no discrimination or lay-offs regar less of age, color or nationalit; against Jim-Crowism—for the unity of all workers; rank and file con- trol; the right to settle grievances | of strike is vested in the pit commit- |ee and the local union, | Salaries of the officers of the N. |M. U, will be the same as those of j the working men in the mine. | Former U. M. W. A. Locals, Too. | The N. M. U. gives the basis of \representation as one delegate from \each 100 members, or less if a local ‘has less, in the N, M. U., delegates Shop Paper Causes Flurry Among Illinois Harvester Co. Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) ROCK ISLAND, Ill., (By Mail).— A great sensation was caused among the workers of the International Harvester Company here by the ap- pearance of number two of The Farmall Worker on October Ist. lowed one thin blanket. | There was a whose father was infamous as a tlyncher of Negroes in the south, who kept on “rubbing the hide off” the men. One soldier, because he had the courage to complain to him against the treatment, got six months in the guard house. The leorporal tried to get the man to make a public apology to him, prom- ising him that he would bet let off easier, but the man refused. Contrast the well fitted officer’s ;club with the so-called recreation rooms we have. These “day rooms” |are down in the cellar—a regular ‘dug-outs. Here you will find some |cheap- magazines, “Wild West” and |detective stories, a victrola that | plays the same record over and over | |Labor Fakers in Church BRYSON, KILLED Reaches in Canal Zone {Tt MARION, WAS | again, etc. Now and then they show us movies for fifteen cents admis- sion. Old cow boy and Indian pre- | tures, pictures glorifying the czar of Russia, ete. Despite the ban on working class literature* the Daily Worker and| Young Worker has been reaching the soldiers from time to time. I may say that it was largely due to MEMBER OF NTW Took Part in Gastonia Strike (By « Worker Correspondent) certain corporal | the expose by these papers of our unbearable conditions that certain small improvements were forced through, such as the right to wear plain clothes when on leave, im- provements in the toilets, a let-up in abusive language by officers, ete. More and more soldiers are begin- ning to wake up that the class di- visions in the army—between offi- cers and men—is the same as class | divisions in society as a whole be- tween capitalists and workers. When the capitalists throw this country into another war for profits, they will find that plenty of soldiers will refuse to fight for them, but will line up with their brothers of the working class. SOLDIER CORRESPONDENT. German Work Women GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail.)— jLonny Bryso was a Loray striker, jLonny Bry on was killed by the thugs at Marion. He was a mem- ber of the N. T. W. U. He took part in the Gastonia strike and joined the N. T. W. U, there. Having folks in | Marion he went there and got work lin the mill. Strike comes and al- though he must have seen the re- actionary actions of Hoffman and other U. T. W. leaders he knew from the teachings he heard from Beal, Bush and the other N. T. W. U, lead- Jers at Gastonia that his duty, the duty of all fighting union men, was to line up and fight against the boss, | He took his place in the front line. He fell fighting. His death shows the spirit of solidarity that is forg- |ing forward among the textile work- ers of the South under the inspira- |the threatened wage cut. ‘Carrying a front page ‘streamer | i tle Bet ce Wane Cut reams Ue Ut Ge Coorige, Mile ize!” the four page shop paper ex- posed the preparations of the bosses | (By a Worker Correspondent) I am one of the unorganized to slash the piece rates in all de- partments and called upon the work- | ers to take united action in resisting | Workers who for many years be- | lieved that the American Federation Labor was really out to organize Since the shop paper was issued jot tion of the National Textile Work- there have been some slight reduc- tions made in about six departments but the men are preparing to fight back in case the wage cut is made general for the whole plant. Over 1,200 copies of the “Farmall Worker” were sold at the factory gates on the first day. The company guards threatened to beat up the workers selling the paper at the gates, but did not dare to carry out their intentions for fear of the consequenges at the hands of the thoroughly aroused and sympathetic workers. S. A. Krieger, local organize. of the Communist Party, however, was jarrested by the police in front of |the unorganizeg. But lately a friend jo fmine gave me a Daily Worker jand since that time it has been my habit to buy it every morning. | A mass meeting to “protest against” the killing of the Marion textile strikers was held Oct. 7 at |the Community Church, 34th St. and | Park Ave., New York City. The first speaker was Norman |Thomas who, like a minister, “prayed |for the souls” of those who died. Alfred Hoffman of the UTW also | spoke. Muste, of Brookwood College, | spoke too. Nowhere in this church were there workers, just ordinary {church people. Inspired by Struggle BERLIN, Oct. 21—On Sunday there opened here the National Con- grss of Toiling Women, with 408 delegates from all parts of Germany jand eight foreign delegates. Among the delegates were those represent- ing the working women of 229 fac- tories. British, French, Czech and Swedish delegates spoke. Thaelmann spoke for the Communist Party. Overlach made the main report, which was followed by long discus- sion. A delegation was elected to visit the Soviet Union for the 12th Anniversary of the Resolutions were adopted against fascism, the war danger, against so- cial fascism and for defense of the Soviet Union. AUSTRIAN C. P. EXPELS OPPORTUNISTS. Rally from Factories | Revolution. | | ers’ Union, ALF. ALLEN. ‘Italian Trade “Unions ‘Fighting Fascist Rule Break fromAmsterdars FRANCO-ITALIAN Frontier, Oct, 21.—The national cengress of the Italian Confederation of Labor was held secretly on October 12 to 14 inclusive. Thirty delegates were | present representing most important | industrial and agricultural districts. | The situation in Italy and the tasks | of revolutionary labor unions were thoroughly discussed. It was unani- musly enfirmed to break with the | reformist and class traitorous inter- | national of Amsterdam. |ing the decsions of the Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the |Communist International, promising Chitese_contrabandist.” Another newspaper charged that |“France has supplied Mukden with :¢/an airplane.” |workers arrested in the drive now |from groups in each of the United lroing on to destroy the Communist | Mine Workers Union locals which Party and other militant workers’ have not rallied a majority for the | organizations. split from the U. M. W. A. and dele- ‘According to thez International |gates from all U. M. W, A. locals Labor Defense, reliable information which have split from the Lewis or I am fully convinced that this bunch and the A. F, of L. will never ‘organize the workers and I say that \the National Textile Workers’ | Union is the only union whieh will jorganize these workers, and the thé Yellow Sleeve Valve Co. in E. Moline when he distributed cample copies of the Farmall Worker. The presiding magistrate tried to trick Krieger into waiving a jury trial but was not successful. Answer Railroading of 7 to _ Jail by Rushing Daily South Steel Trust City Respond with Contribution of $10. Workers in | ‘Only one answer is possible to the railroading of the seven Gas- <tonia textile workers and National Textile Workers’ Union organizers to prison. » >. That answer is to redouble the fi cagainst the exploiters whese Iack “ sereamed for the blood of Fred Beal, Clarence Miller, Joseph Harrison, | George Carter, Lewis McLaughlin, K. Y. Hendryx and William Mc- Ginnis, finally sending these brave fighters in the class struggle to the ving hell of a Carolina jail. i Now more than ever will the southern mill workers be determined sto enter into a fight to the finish against the mill owners who exploit “them—a fight of class against class. , In this coming great struggle, the southern mill owners will have _ ranged on their side all the forces of capitalist law, the brutal police, “the courts, the militia, the reign of terrorism—and the vicious, murder- inciting press of the South. The southern mill workers will have on their side the §ghting Na- tional Textile Workers Union, the backing of the militant American “workers—and. to oppose the mill-boss controlled press they will have the Daily Worker. While the murderous southern. press, howling for the blood of all militant mill workers, is circulated in every corner of the southern mill regions, the southern mill workers call for the “union paper”—as they know. the Daily Worker. The answer to the verdict of the bosses’ court at Charlotte is the organization by the National Textile Workers’ Union of all of the south- ‘ and the mass circulation of the Daily Worker in the ht of the southern mill workers South. . + ‘ten thousand copies of the Daily Worker must be rushed to the southern mill workers every day. » * The answer of working class groups to the appeals from workers in scores of southern mill villages for the Daily Worker, must be to adopt those ‘villages and see to it that they receive the Daily Worker each dey from now on. The answer of the Slovak Workers Club of Hammond, Indiana, chome of the stee] trust, was $10, which will send 100 copies of the Daily * Worker to a southern mill village each day for a week. What is the answer of your organization to the railroading of Bea! apd his comrades to prison? To the appeals of the southern mill evs for bandles of the Daily as an aid in their struggle against sl and terrorism? , Individual workers too must contribute at once ‘to “The Drive to Rush the Daily South.” I send the enclosed contribution to “The Drive to Rush the Daily South,” as a message of solidarity to the seven Gastonia workers and union organizers who were railroaded to prison by the mill bosses’ court in Charlotte. " WMAbOeR si cersegs Meisel ncosscés sakes ay nats dims ties Mannne naa (Bigs Oa os, State ..... PSN Saw'ale vas ‘Amount 8....0..++ ? FOR ORGANIZATIONS ». WEG), siete seas eihescutawst's Aa wie’ Be Se ae ste seeeeeeeesegece ¢ % fi (Name of Organization) . City and State ......... cee eee eee cee e be AE crag: Dritestacogswmuene ‘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. |. be Ke the Charlotte court room | proves that the big, open shop boss- Fishwick affiliation. es are behind the attack on the Com- munist Party and militant workers here. The International Labor De- fense, which is defending the ar- rested workers, is mobilizing all | working class forces in a determined lfight against the terror reign. Plans to combat the attempt to | crush the Communist Party and the \terrorization. of militant workers | will be taken up at a big Gastonia mass protest conference to be held at the Capitol Building, room 412, this Sunday, Oct. 27. Representa- ltives of hundreds of working class | organizations, including unions, shop committees, fraternal organizations, etc. are expected to take part in the mass conference. The close connection fo the Illinois |attempt to suppress the Communist | Party, with the reign of terror | against the Southern mill workers is shown in the fact that the 26 work- ers arrested at a Gastonia demon- | stration in Grant Park here in June will also be tried in one huge blanket. case with the newly ‘arrested work- ers, whose number is rapidly mount- inj Tacluded among the Gastonia dem- onstrators who may be drawn into the present terror drive is J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense. Czecho-Slovakia Wants (Only Its Own Fascism VIENNA, Oct. 22.—Reports from Prague state two Slovak mmebers of the Czecho-Slovakian cabineta have resigned in protest at the 15- year sentence given Professor Bela Tuka, whose leaning toward a fas- cist alliance with Hungary for Slov- jakia, is resented by the Szecho- |Slovak government, not because it |was fascism but because it was |Slovak, rather than Czecho-Slovak \fascism. Slovak resentment at the sentence is acute, as shown by the blank spaces in Slovak papers where the censor had deleted criticism. ‘Mexican Elections a Race Between Rival Bootlickers for U. S. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 22.—With Pascual Ortiz Rubio the candidate approved by Wall Street antt-back- ed by the Portes Gil government be- ing clearly ready to carry out the demands of Yankee imperialism, his chief opponent, Jose Vasconcelos of the “Anti-Re-clection” party also announces his willingness to be # bootlicker. He denies, in an inter- view to the United Press, all charges that he\is anti-American, and stated that “Mexico,” meaning himself, is interested in a “vigorous Pan Amer- icanism”—i. e., the Monroe Doctrine. The elections are about one month away. , | tom Up—at the Enterprises! The Illinois District of the Na- tional Miners’ Union calls on all its locals to hold special meetings and jelect delegates, call special meet- ings of conference committees and prepare for the convention, to organ- ize automobile caravans and tour the |mining districts going into towns jwith a large force, and holding meet- ings despite resistance of the Lewis or Fishwick sluggers. Mass meetings, and continued or- ganization of N, M. U, locals in all jmines are to be specially stressed. There will be organized defense groups in each local to defend speak- ers and protect the right of the min- ers to hold mass meetings. | Lewis-Fishwick Fight. | Meanwhile, there are some indi- cations that the two groups of la- bor misleaders, the Fishwick admin- istration of District 12 of the U. M. (Wireless by Imprecorr) PRAGUE, Oct. 22—Building workers employed on the extention of the state arsenal in Povarska | struck yesterday under the leader-| ship of a revolutionary union. | The wrokers struck because wage | negotiations were suddenly broken} off by employers, allegedly because it was impossible to negotiate with a Communist union because the un- dertaking was state property. Daily. Worker is the only paper in the English language which will fight for them. | An tar an 1 am concerned, 1 can't claim to have discovered the ex- istence of classes in modern society or thelr si against one another. | Middle-class historians long ago described the evolution of the class struggles, and political economists of showed the economic physiol the classes, I have added dup with certain phases of material production; 2) that the class straggle leads neces- sarily to the dictatorship of the Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Up—at the Enterprises! ‘ W .A. (Illinois) and the Lewis “in- \ternational” administration of the U. M. W. A,, are frightened enough by the rising miliancy of the over 50,000 rank and file miners in this district to begin o temporise with each other. The Illinois Miner (Fis! wick’s weekly paper) now demands |“autonomy” rather than secession, It | still, however, continues its assault on the Lewis administration, charg- ing graft. The latest issue uses this ‘sort of language against Lewis, the man Fishwick was loyally aiding in jhis fight against the left wing for the last three years: “Deadest duck this side of the milky way; defender of the fat; marshal of the Meal Ticket Legion; sublime keeper of the swag; imita- tion Mussolini; the dud; the carcass o fLewisism union wrecker; traitor.” The same issue carries a two-line red-ink streamer over the top of page one reading: | “Illinois Miners Have Paid $6,000,- 000 Into Indianapolis Since Lewis Got the Job. WHAT HAVE WE GOT TO SHOW FOR IT?” Of course it was the Fishwick and | Farrington regime in Illinois which turned the mo:2y over to Lewis, but ‘that is not being talked about now, in the Illinois Miner. Times have changed. HANDED TO HORTHY TERROR. | | VIENNA (By Mail).—The con- victed Hungarian Communists, Dr. August Grajczi, Rosa Hesky and Hermann Mueller, were escorted by | the police to the Austrian frontier | and compelled to leave Austrian ter- ritory, The fourth convicted Hun- garian Communist, Ernst Mueller. who was not ordered to be deporte by the court, has been given a short permission to stay in Austria at the expiration of. which he also must leave the country, i Build Up the United-Front of | | the Working Class From the Bot- | proletariat; 3) t ictatorship in but the transition to the aboli- tion of all classes and to the cre~ ation of a society of free and equal. —Marx, Indian. Summer Days ‘at CAMP NITGEDAIGET ARE WELL REMEMBERED Come Out Now and Enjoy Yourself. The first working class camp——entirely rebuilt The New Nitgedaiget Hotel of sixty :ooms with all latest improvements is in construction. It will be ready in November. WN. CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. Telephone Beacon 731 New York Telephone Easterbrook 1400 2 Take the Hudson River daily--from W. 42d St. o: New York Grand Central DIRECTIONS: Day. Line Boat—twice r 129th St. or by train— Trains Leave Every Hour VIENNA, Oct. 22—The political| to carry out same, condemning the Bureau of the Austrian Communist | expelled opportunists and withdraw- Party has expelled the conciliators,| ing their own opportunist opinions Riess and Pragan, because they re-|concerning fascism, social fascism fused to sign a declaration accept-|and the new labor union policy. WORKERS OF AMERICA! mobilize! Protest against “capitalist justice” Your fellow-workers of Gastonia have been sentenced to 20 years! Only you can save them from this slow torture! WOUGOVW®Y The battle is not over. The battle has begun. Those workers who had illusions of capitalist “justice” have learned their les- son.. Now they know no worker can get a fair trial in a bosses’ court. There is only one way to save your fellow-workers—and that is mass protest You workers of New York, of Philadelphia, of Chicago, of the steel, coal, textile dis- tricts from coast to coast, can save BEAL, HARRISON, MILLER, HENDRIX, McLAUGHLIN and McGINNIS There will be appeals to the higher courts, An appeal will be made to the North Caro- lina Supreme Court and then to the United States Supreme Court. But the strength of these appeals depends upon you. Remember, your mass pressure has already saved sixteen of the twenty-three Gastonia strikers. You must increase your protest to save the remaining seven. The bosses want to remove the Gastonia strikers from the labor movement. Tomor- row they may try to give you as long a term for organizing into militant unions. You must fight it out TODAY! AT ONCE! CONTINUE TO— SEND FUNDS. HOLD MASS PROTEST MEETINGS. SWELL THE UNITED FRONT. SEND TELEGRAMS OF SOLIDARITY, GASTONIA JOINT DEFENSE AND RELIEF COMMITTEE . 80 E. 11th St., Room 402, New York City Auspices: INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF Endorsed by: NAT'L TEXTILE WORKERS UNION