The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1929, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1929 Page Five bs FISHWICK ‘SAYS More Labor Unions Join in WILL BOSS IS MILL PROSECUTOR Negroes Sone in Danine Heat RICH FARMERS on Texas Cotton Compress Jobs | GAIN BY NEW UJOHN L, LEWIS IS. Drive tor the Gastonia Seven’ Labor unions, many of the locals of the American Federation of La- a} bor, responding to pressure of rank ‘OUTINU.M.W.A Implies Graft, States united front activities of the Inter- |nationai Labor Defense on behalf | of the Gastonia prisoners, and today jand file workers are joining the} Constitution Smashed funds came from the United Broth- lars and send it along. Success to your defense work,” writes a teacher from Los Angeles, whose name shall be withheld because she would lost her job if known. Two more teachers in Poughkeep- “We're both socialists” but they de- sie, N. Y. send five doliars. stating | FORTAME AFL. DEMAND REVENGE “UNIONOFFAKERS ON GASTONIA \Witnesses of Marion Says Gastonia Strikers “Slander Bosses” | Massacre Driven Out | BEAUMONT, Texas, Oct. 22, — foreman operates the controls of the steam compress and Negroes truck Wherever extreme muscular effort is iictaetica ane bale ib ‘ : 2 vo | the cotton a e it, resized 30, cpoutieast jTeas you Twice a minute on the average of are pretty sure to see a Negro on!» quarter-ton bale is rolled on and the job. joff the stell table that rises and| “Ten to 18 hours a day in tha!) flattens the cotton against an upper | heat, and every day, it takes nig-!plate by steam pressure. Each man) TARIFF LAWS Debenture Plan in New Bill gers to do it,” said the superintend-|has his task, and it is rush work, ent of the cotton compressing plant | continued 10 to 18 hours a day du WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. ~— The on the Beaumont docks where bales|ing the three months of the com-/ Senate has voted to include the “de- are squeezed to half their former | pressing season. benture plan” in the tariff bill in erhood of Carpenters and Joiners, |local 275, in Newton; Mass., ard | Plasterers local, No. 100 of Scran- ton, Pa., and the Journeymen Stone cided to send the money “to the} worthy cause of defending the Gas- | onia strikers.” Y Growing Front Among Unions. * SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct. 22. — The Fishwick-Lewis dog fight over who. shall have *the Illinois Miners If a union of textile workers in| “When you put the testimony of the South is unavoidable, then it|the states’ witnesses together—as |should be a union “reasonable in| much of their contradictory evidence Union treasury and the monopoly on the check-off and sell-out priv-| ileges in those coal fields has re-| sulted in the Lewis administration in District 12 of the U. M, W. A (Illinois) exposing to some extent the collapse of ‘the old union and the enormous field for the militant! National Miners Union. | Fishwick’s organ, The Illinois) Miner, publishes a table showing U. M. W. A. losses during the last few years as follows: (figures in| the first column show dues paying | members in the various districts in Cutters Association of Cincinnati. The front has grown to include in- tellectual workers and letters re- ceived by the International Labor . | Defense from teachers declare that “school teachers are ashamed to teach civies, in light of the Gastonia fascist outrages.” Not only teachers, but even some shurch societies are represented in the growing united front., Although workers are of course, by far pre-| dominant in the aid sent for Gas- tonia, an increasing number of in- tellectual workers, shocked by the} 1921 when’ Lewis took office, and|bare-faced capitalistic violence in those in the last show what is left! the South, have entered their pro- after Lewis’ and Farrington’s and | tests and are joining in the cam- Fishwick’s betrayals) : | paign for 50,000 new members being 275, of Newton, Mass., today sent $50 and the Plasterers’ local No, 100, of Scrantont, Pa., comprising 114 members, also sent funds, The Journeymen Stone Cutters Association of Cincinnati, 0, sent $15, and the Astoria, Ore. branch of the I. L. D. $7.23 today. Cloth Cap and Milliners Local No. 26 sent $5 and workers in the Bernus Cloak | shop, in New York, with right wing | affiliations, gave $20, Youth Active. Many meetings by Youth organ- |izations are being held throughout | the land. Mike Harris, organizer for the Youth division of the Gas- |tonia Defense and Relief Campaign | Committee, will speak in Buffalo, |the 16th; Scranton, the 18h. Meet- of youth organizations are scheduled in Detroit and Cleveland, the 18th; in Cleveland, the 2ist; in San Francisco and Boston, and Su- perior, the 22nd, in Detroit, the 27th TOILERS ENDORSE WITNESS FOR 7 Communist Describes Cross Examination (Continued from Page One) for us, a slong as we take a mili- 9: 29 | conducted by the 1s SEB 9 bit boi | _ “As a high school teacher of civies ¢ 1,347 it is diffieult to talk to young people Penney 5 ree 7|about the first amendment (the | ings ieee ok . "4g '740 ; amendment purporting to give civil oe: 42040 1,061 /Tights to the people) and at the India o7'374 10,609) S8™me time call their attention to ticki Paolo 902 | current events such as the Gastonia | aeuiand 9306 0 affair. I'm glad to borrow five dol-| and in Chicago, Nov. 3, linois 86,711 53,088 | Tennessess « 5,310 588 ss Alabama 3,761 2 i t S Arkansas . 3,038 1} as Onia y Oklahoma 8,580 * . teas ns Killed by G Missouri 7,830 88 | U Z y as Towa . 4,977 . Kanezs 3,120 Om wn é Colorado f ths | Wyoming +e , tain 1'sit| GASTONIA, N. C. (F.P.).—Still Washington . 1,204 | another suit may follow as the aft- Georgia 2 O|ermath of the shooting of Police} North Dakota 0 Chief Aderholt of Gastonia—this | Virginia Q|one brought against Solicitor John) Utah 16|G. Carpenter by the mother of Mar- tant stand. Total. .365,749 Pads Own Figures. It must be noted that even ‘this | table, being Fishwick propaganda, is | padded. The 53,088 miners claimed | son, recommended to Carpenter by a | for the Wishwick machine in Illinois railroad detective, was hired s00n | are not bona-fide dues paying mem- | bers of the U.M.W.A. Many of them | are good militant members of the cell with the unionists to get in-| N.M.U. But because Fishwick has | made wage cutting contracts for | them with the bosses, these bosses give him, the check-off on the min-| ers’ wages, and he counts all such involuntary dues payers as “mem- bers.” Much the same situation exists in Ohio and other districts. The Complete collapse of the Penn- sylvania section (several U.M.W.A. districts) where the National Min- ers Union has its® headquarters, is significant. . The National Mners Union is cal- ling an Illinois convention to ex-} pese both Fishwick and Lewis’| eachery to the workers, and the | M. U. is certain to have a huge growth there, as the miners learn that it is their own union, controlled by, them, and fighting for them. Gall Free State Force British Gov’t Maneuver “DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Oct. | 22.—Police were busy tearing down: copies of a proclamation purportedly | issued by the Irish Republican Coun- | cil and posted throughout Dublin last night denouncing the projected establishment of a volunteer free! State force. | The proclamation describes the move as a British maneuver to create a British-controlled. military force useable to suppress efforts to win sovereignty for the Free State. | Instead of joining such a reserve, force, the proclamation says, “it is the duty of young Irishmen of mili- | tary age to join the republican | army, which is determined to break the imperial connection and reassert Irelands unalienable rights as a sovereign nation.” it | i Music Notes | |. PHILHARMONIC. | Scipione, Guidi and Alfred Wal- Jenstein, coneertmaster and first Mist of the Philharmonic-Symphony Orohe stya will be the soloists in the Brahms Concerto for Violin and ‘cello in A minor at the Thursday evening, Friday afternoon, and Sun- day afternoon concerts this coming at Carnegie Hall. Arturo Tos- canini will also conduct Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, Stravinsky's Fireworks” and Debus “La ” er.’ - At tomorrow afternoon’s concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music the following is the program: Over- ture to “Il Sargino,” Paer; Sym- jhony No.8, Beethoven; Les Eolides, Frenck; Feste Romane, Respighi. | Basile Kibalchich, conductor of the Russian Symphonic Choir, ap- pearing at Town Hall on Sunday eatterncen, will give a , that be comprised of Russian, classi- | The Stringwood Ensemble will their season at Town Hall on Wednesday evening. The program jncludes: Mozart's Trio for clarinet, viola and piano. Variations on a ussian folk song, and Gabriel Du- ont's “Poeme” for piano and string quartet. etree ag | ‘The concert of the Junior ‘Orchestral series will take place to sue for $100,00 damages against Carpenter and the city of Gastonia. Mrs. Johnson charges that her after the shooting at the union headquarters. He was placed in the criminating evidence. The very first night a tear gas bomb was hurled into the evidently got the worst of it. He Johnson, already in poor health, had to be taken out the next day, partially blinded. The gas affected his lungs, Mrs. Johnson states, and he never recovered. Because the de- tective failed to hear anything par- ‘ticularly useful against the strikers, Solicitor Carpenter refused to pay him anything for his time or his docor’s bills. FOSTER TOUR IN OHIO CENTERS Organization Work Is Prepared by TUUL CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct, 22.—Or- | ganization work in preparation for | William Z. Foster’s tour of the Ohio | District of the Trade Union Unity League, is already in full blast, ac- | cording to Tom Johnson, District Secretary of the T. U. U. L, A new District Office of the T. U. U. L. has been opened at 1426) West 8rd St., Room 80, Cleveland, | and meetings of shop committees, local unions and industrial leagues of the T. U. U./L., are being held there almost every night, in prep- arations for Foster's mass meetings in the Ohio District. Foster is to speak at three meet- ings in Ohio early in November. His first meeting will be an organiza- tional conference with all active members of the local T. U, U. L. present, at the T. U. U. L. office in Cleveland, on Tuesday, Nov. 5th. The next night Foster will go to Youngs- town, in the heart of the stee) mill belt, where he will speak at a mass meeting. Youngstown steel workers know Foster well from the great 1919 steel strike and a big turn out ig expected at this meeting. Tuesday, Nov. 7th, Foster will ad- dress a big mass meeting at Moose Hall, 1008 Walnut St,, Cleveland. It is expected that over a thousand workers from the big auto, steel and textile plants will be at the hall to hear Foster’s report of the Trade Union Unity League Convention. next Saturday morning at Carnegi Hall under the direction of Ernest Schelling. The program, based on music of Germanic composers, will include Weber's Overture to “Ober- on,” J. C, Bach’s Sinfonia in B flat, Beethoven's “Leonore” Overture No. 8, Wagner's Ride of the Walkure, and the Liszt Concerto in E flat, with Yolanda Mero as a soloist. has simplified class ao Li lal More and more, society fs apihting Bp fato two great hostile campa; into two great and directly contra- nosed classes! bourgeoisie aad pro- letariate-Marx, y ¥ Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- cell. | Workers in the court |vin Johnson, Charlotte mill detec-|room came up to me after the testi- 84,369 | tive, who died recently. She intends | mony, and said they were glad to see we were not afraid. for taking an offensive against the mill bosses. Farmers Awakened. “Two farmers were talking during the court recess, after my testimony. They were talking about organiza- tion of the farmers, an idea that | had not yet occurred t othem, until I referred to our work among the children of the mill workers and far- mers. “Newell tried to bring out in cross examination that the children were not in the struggle, and that | we were trying to involve little in- jnocent chidren in our nefarious plots, Of course, the children are very much in the struggle. They go into |the mills at 11 or 12 years of age, and are very much exploited. Many jof them have no schooing at all, becaues on wages the mills pay their |parents are unable to buy school {books and supplies, and North | Carolina is one of those stated which makes the pupjl or his family supply text books and all other materials. Many of the schools are on company ground, owned outright by the bosses, who also own the superin- tendents and school trustees.” Edith came to Gastonia about six weeks before the June 7 raid on the strikers’ tent colony. She was active in the Youth Section of the National Textile Workers’ Union, She was also an organizer of the Young | Pioneers of America. She knew the} young workers of Gastonia, , and) when prosecution attorneys challeng- ed her on the witness stand to “name one child at work in our Southern | mills,” she obligingly named more than they wanted to hear. Among the Gastonia strikers was young Elmer MacDonald, who was sent on the Youth delegation to U. S. S. R. His present activities con- sist in active organization work, and speaking at numerous meetings on what he saw in the Workers’ Repub- lic, so much disliked by the Man-) ville-Jenckes prosecution. Elmer's mother is a member of the Labor Jury, and his father was one of those charged with “assault” as a result of the June 7 affair. Edith tells how after the assault on the picket line by police, she went back to the union headquarters to report, Beal and Clarence Miller were there. Within five minutes after her arrival, she heard one shot, then a series of shots. She closed the door. They were in the inner office and could see nothing. There were no arms there, contrary to what the mill bosses’ liars said, There were also no knot holes from which “shots were fired from the union hall,” as the prosecution con- tends. ; After the shooting she looked out and saw Harrison, one of the work- | | | a ers’ guard being helped toward the headquarters. He was wounded. Beal took him to the hospital, Edith and other women went to the hos- pital and found the doctors and nurses had not attended to Harri- son. They persuaded the hospital to attend to his wounds. She was ar- rested later at home and held 11 days without charge. On the stand she testified to this, was quizzed about her political and religious beliefs, and the prosecutor made sneering insinuations that her civil marriage to Clarence Miller was immoral. This was to prejudice the fundamentalist jury, which re- gards religious ceremonies as of in- estimable value, She denied the existence of god and defendol rev- olutionary principles on the witness stand, jaccording to a statement by one of the largest mill owners of the South to the United Press yesterday. The statement follows, in part: “We are not anxious to have our em- ployees unionized, That, perhaps, is entirely natural. But if unioniza- tion is to come, and it probably i: on its way, it ought to be done in |an orderly manner. If the employee is to be a union member he should belong to a union upon which he ean depend and which will not lead him into radicalism. And if the | The United Brotherhod of Carpen- | what it asks” and “which will not|as will go together, you will find ters and Joiners of America, locakjlead the workers into radicalism,” | there is not evidence of conspiracy. “I have never seen a man placed on trial in all my experience as a |lawyer with so little evidence against him as there is against! these defendants. The father of the conspiracy charge is the desire of the Manville-Jenckes company to convict them for organizing their \workers. When that tragedy oc- {curred on the union lot, Manville- | |Jenckes said gleefully: ‘Now we'll get Beal and smash his union by a bulk for onvenience in shipping. | The expenditure of energy is enormous on those cotton} |compress jobs. Here under the roof | of a long low building a dozen Ne groes, stripped to the waist, toss! 600-pound bales about in the intense The black men in the compress| physical} gang are all nearly young men.| They have to be. One who might/ have been in his forties seemed old | in comparison, perhaps prematurely | old from the strain. It is a terrific pace. They didn’t heat of the escaping steam. A white|work so fast in chattel slave times, — ———————————————_ |with glee when Beal came to our |peaceful, contented community to} |bring strike, riot and murder into} our midst. “In the name of eternal righteous- charge of conspiracy against him |ness I ask you to punish these mur- USSR FLIERS OFF | employer must deal with a union he wants it to be one qualified to speak with authority, to be reasonable in what it asks... .” Drive Out Witnesses. Officials of the Marion, N. C., mills expressed determination to force strikers to leave the mill vil- \lages by any means. In an effort |to remove the most militant of the| |strikers, who are incidentally wit- litt and his deputies, the mill offi-|@¢e Poor Working people whe can't cials propose to pay moving ex. | BRR ORs: ey cant get jobs: be- | pense band’ give’“a few dollars” to [cause they are blacklisted for union each family if they will “go away.” |" uvities. | “If Gilbert and Roach had not MASS PROTEST gone down to union headquarters | | | ON MILL TERROR ne | \tanked. up on bootleg liquor there Defense Referring to Canslers statement ‘that ‘Beal is unworthy of belief be- cause he said his salary was $15 a | week,’ Flowers declared: “That is Cansler’s standard of truth and ex- cellence. But I take off my hat to the man who jis giving his life to |the cause of his class despite the danger to his person, Witnesses Blacklisted. “The prosecution tried to discredit would have been no trouble. And if conditions in the Loray Mill were so fine and ideal as the state contends Beal would never have been able to call the strike there. “The state would have you believe that Beal came down from Massa- Conferences ‘chusetts and disrupted the whole and. alt his followers. |derers, gentlemen of the jury.” “One of the defense witnesses tried to drag the names of Major Bulwinkle and myself into the mire. | They have tried to bring discredit and disgrace upon our splendid of- ficers of the law. These defendants! (Continued from Page One) and their witnesses hate the law and the Polo Grounds, New York. religion and everything that is sweet) tn Seattle and Oakland the work- a ne ing class demonstrations of welcome |, “Beal is the general of these |for Shestakov, Bolotov, Sterlingov Oe alee rae eevee ey ind jand Fufaev, who comprise the crew shape aataas P ~\of the Land of the Soviets, have ex- (peers a serpent in the Garden ceeded all expecations, nearly 30,000 | Punish Goyernment’s Enemies. aEnoe che “a Beatle. | “Do you believe in the American The Soviet fliers have covered ‘flag, in Americanism, in American | more than 10,000 miles of their 12,- | government, in our glorious state of 600-mile flight from Moscow to New North Carolina? Then you must| York, which began on Aug. 23. They punish the enemies of ail that is;Succeeded in completing the first \sacred in America? west-to-east transpacific flight, after “The defense has slandered our |hazardous hops over uncharted Si- beria, the Behring Strait, the Aleut- splendid patriots, the mill owners of || e Gastonia, who are building up our |ians and Alaska, constantly impeded by storms and fog. | prosperity which Beal would destroy. The flight is backed by Osoaviak- |Beal is a traitor worse than Bene- | dict Arnlod.” him, the principal popular organiza- tion in he Soviet Union for promot- TO CHEYENNE Osoaviakhim Directed Krassin Rescue Reading a long passage from the | They are; Newcastle and Liverpool American consulates, poster parades have |South. This is -ridicvlous. When| Follow Protest Meets (Grvemor ‘Gardner received the bible, Caxpenter ended with a de | \ ete , ian’ i .|mand for vengeance as erholt’s | (oudtnuad from: Mage One) eee letter, why didn’t he inves. | adowaeenniondly: “Maybe he did investigate and| Judge Barnhill reversed his de- found that the letter was true and | cision-to give his charce to the jury taken place outside ofthem, hal S€V-| didn’t care enough about troubles | oa ne riley eaten 'D- of the workers to take any action. London to the American ambassa- dor. A group called on the Amer-| iean consul in Plymouth and pro- tested, The Communist Party is calling ;mass theetings in m-any other cities | throughout the country, and the In- |The lawyers representing the state | in this case know why the state did | not protect the srikers in Gastonia, The prosecution asks you to discredit the: defense witnesses because of |their racial, religious and political | beliefs. And they ask you to believe | 4 “ jrather the drunken policemen and |ternational. Labor Defense is. ar- Tint mercenaries who testified for nging united front conferences in 11. state, jevery large industrial city, | “I would prefer a thousand times Greetings Come, to believe Edith Saunders Miller, The Workers: Life, of Sydney.) whatever her religious _ beliefs, Australia, cables the greetings of | vather than Roach, who said in this Australian workers, and states that | courtroom that the defendants ought the Australian papers are featuring |t, be shot for their beliefs, |the hysterical, labor-hating prosecu-| «pemember the animus of all of | tion, y the state’s witnesses against the de- | The Workers and Peasants’ Bloc | fendants and their union,” and the Communist Party of Mexico| “piowers closed with a moving ap- sent a telegram of greetings to the | peat to the jury to disregard pre-| seven Gastonia prisoners and has indice and render a verdict of not pledged natien-wide protests on -be- guilty. | half of the textile strikers. | Carpenter Repeats Slanders. The Mexican message was sent) solicitor Carpenter, in making the from a conference of delegates Who | 1osing plea for convictions, repeated met at Mexico City Saturday and 4) jthe slanderous accusations that |Sunday. They reported that demon-|the prosecuor depends to influence | strations had already been held in the judgment of the jury in the ab- twenty Mexican cities. sence of evidence against the de- | Oslo Workers Greet. fendants. | A similar message of greetings; yy, constantly. referred to the was received yesterday by cable roves of the NvT,W. and the IL.D.| from Oslo, Norway, in which the 2; “the forces of hell itself” except Confederation of Trade Unions and / wien he said these “incluences came the Norwegian Labor Party indi-/¢ our fair southland from Soviet | cated their sympathies with the Russia, Satan must have danced strikers in danger of 30 year terms on trial at Charlotte. The Norwe- turn, He has been the skilled right gian workers also sent a contribu-| hand of the battery of Manville- tion of $266.00. Jenckes’ lawyers and at every oppor- Railroaded. |tunity he has dealt a hard blow be- The mill owners, with the whole | neath the belt against the defense | force o fthe capitalist class behind | wihout dropping his hypocritical role them, have succeeded in railroading | as an impartial referee, except when the seven members of the militant |the fight was going against the | National Textile Workers’ Union to| state. When the defense had shown | long terms behind the bars, where tha tthe evidence in the case proved | they cannot lead the fight against the defendants not guilty, Barnhill | the stretch-out system, starvation let down the gates for the prosecu- wages, long hours, and child labor. | tion to inflame the prejudices of the | | journed till thon, The mill owners’ prosecution selected a jury that would do its bidding, and inflamed the prejudices of that jury to secure convicions. In this, the prosecution had the close co-opera- tion of Judge Barnhill throughout the trial. It has once more been clearly and conclusively demonstrat- ed that the impartiality of capitalist courts is an illusion, that justice in class justice. Prejudice, Terror. talist class, thrown into the Char- lotte court room during the past few days through the prosecution, the judge and the whole machinery of capitalist law succeeded in prejudic- ing and terrorizing those jurors who were not bought outright, The mill owners and the southern capitalist class generally could not afford to lose the first great legal battle be- tween capital an abdlor here, Noth- ing was spared to defeat the work- ing class in its determination to set free these class war prisoners. But the American working class has only just begun to fight for the freedom of these defendants. This victory of capitalist justice will only serve to spur workers to greater ffort, more militant struggle. The fight will go on, Skilled Agent of Bosses. Barnhill has played his part as an agen of capitalist justice with con- summate skill, winning praise from capitalist, liberal social press as a “just and upright judge.” He has served the mill owners well at every these courts is always capitalist | The tremendous force of the capi- | ilives, the lives of the wives and \children of union members and their | jury and insure convictions, | Fascist reaction is in the saddle | in North Carolina. Militant workers’ organizations are outlawed. The black hundreds of the bosses may beat strikers and union organizers, kidnap them flog them and murder them, as they murdered Ella May and the Marion strikers with abso- lute impunity. But workers who fight for their righs who defend | themselves against these murderous atacks of the bosses’ fascist gangs | are jailed—practically for life. | Press Plays Part. The minds of the jurors had been | prejudiced by the capitalist press | for months and this prejudice was | inflamed by the prosecution and the | | judge. The verdict was a foregone conclusion. This trial has become a! glaring example of class vengeance, The masses of textile workers | stand amazed and horrified at thts verdict, convinced that the workers on trial exercised the elementary | right of Self defense, thousands of |Southern workers have been confi- dent of acquittal, Southern capital- ism by is monstrous verdict and sen- |tences has destroyed all illusions as to the impartiality of its courts, The |sardistic assailants of Saylors’ Lell, and Wells go free. Beal, McLaugh- lin, and five other workers, the lead- ers of union men and. women who fought armed assassins of the Man- ville-Jenckes Co, go to prison for life, for their heroic defense of their union headquarters, atest i tonight. He will give it Monday morning at 9 o'clock. The court ad- Detroit Workers to | Welcome Soviet World| Flyers at Mass Meet} DETROIT, Oct. 22.—Five work- ‘ers of Detroit will leave soon for) |the Soviet Union, to take part in the celebration of the anniversary of the twenfth anniversary of the Revolu- | tion, Detroit workers are also pre- paring for the reception of the So-| viet world flyers, who will stop off | at Detroit. A mass reception of the | flyers is planned, at which Jeanette | Pearl will speak. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Up—at the Enterprises! > Are You Reading > This Paper for > the First of thousands o} tories. language in th class. labor. Russia. Gi verike IA world over ar Ts to join it. Give'the Coupon Be on hand when I call. ‘HIS ELECTION EDITION of the DAILY WORKER has been distributed to tens ‘HE DAILY WORKER is every worker’s ! paper. It is the only daily in the English swervingly for the interests of the working HE DAILY WORKER every day informs ' you about the bosses’ program of wage cuts and speed-up, It exposes the misleaders of It gives news of the organization of workers into new, militant, fighting unions. ‘HE DAILY WORKER tells you about the ' war danger, the attempt of the bosses of the world and their governments to over- throw the only workers’ strikes and struggles of the workers the rectly interpreted in the DAILY WORKER. E DAILY WORKER desires to convince you that the Communist Party is the only political party of the working class, asks you to vote for it in this election, wants you Read the DAILY WORKER every day. TO MY NEWSSTAND DEALER: This is notification to you that I will call at |! r newsstand every day for a copy of the | DAILY WORKER. Make sure to have my copy 28 Union Square, New York City. ing aviation, whic hhas sponsored all the notable flights made by the Soviet airmen in recent years. Semyon Shestakov first pilot of the Land of the Soviets flew from Moscow to Tokio and return in 1927 unde rthe auspices of Osoaviakhim. lIn the same year the Soviet aviators, Kosheley and Lukhtaided went to the assistance of a group of settlers on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean, taking off from the steamer Kolyga. The fliers then proceeded along the Lena River to Irkutsk, covering adistance f 5,000 kilomet- ers. Osoaviakhim also organized the expedition sent out to rescue the marooned members of the dirigible Italia, Several ice-breakers, among them the Krassin and the Malygin, equipped with planes, forced through the ice of the polar region; planes manned by the Soviet airmen, Chu- khnovsky and Babushkin, played a particularly important role in the rescue work, the daring and heroism exhibited by the Soviet pilots re- ceiving universal a Time f workers in the shops and fac- e United States that stands un- country, Soviet and other big labor trials, the e accurately reported and cor- low to Your Newsstand 3 spite of the opposition of President Hoover. The “debenture plan” has been widely advertised as the solution of the difficulties of the farmers, An examination of the plan, however, shows that it nitended to give special advantages to very wealthy farmers who ship their products abroad, and especially to manufacturers of agri- cultural products. It was in the in- terest of this latter group that the senators from the “farm belt” have been making their fight in the sen- It will mean a gain for them at some expense to Eastern indus- trialists. According to the “debenture plan,” manufacturers of farm commodities and exporters of agricultural prod- ucts will get “debenture certificates” equal to half the custom duty on such product, and these certificates, which are exchangable, will be ac- cepted by customs collectors as pay- ment for duties on imported articles. For instance, the tariff on wheat is 42 cents a bushel, The exported would get certificates for 21 cents for every bushel of wheat sent abroad. These might be sold at some discount to importers of for- eign goods. The profit would be re- ceived by the exporters and manu- facturers of agricultural products, and the farmer would gain but little or nothing by this much advertised plan. Marion Wounded Held (Continued from Page One) they raised about $2,000. Held for Ransom. Now in their time of trouble the hospital turns against them with exorbitant fees. hose who died es- caped, but those less seriously wounded were held for ransom. One man had his shoes locked up till he came across with $26. He was shot in the elbow; his wound had been dressed only once in five days. You can get excellent board and room in Marion for $7 a week. Had he spent five days in Marion’s best hotel and taken full meals the bill would have been only $15. ate. Not only has the forged bourge that working clans—t Karl Marx (Comm Build Up the United Front of the Working Class. WE HAVE SEVEN MORE GASTONIA STRIKERS TO SAVE@ The International Labor Defense rallied the masses of workers the world over to save the 23 Gastonia strikers. We forced the bosses to release sixteen workers! Our job is far from done. The bosses think they will be able to send the seven Gastonia strikers to jail for practi- cally life sentences—slow torture to these militant workers. . Fight the bosses! Build the workers’ or- ganizations fighting them! Build the International Labor Defense! The I. L. D. seeks 5 new members by January 1, 1930. A powerful I, L. D. will mean a powerful appeal in the higher courts for the Gastonia strikers. Add your strength to save the strikers! Branches of the I. L. D. are springing up every- where, from Miami, Flo- rida, to Seattle, Wash. Every Worker Must Be a Member. Tomorrow the bosses will try to give you “Gas- tonia Justice.” The I. L. D. will be there to fight them. For the protection of your- self, of the working class build the I, L. D. into a powerful mass movement. Join the I. L. D. at once! Fill out the following blank and send it at once to the Na- tional Office of the Interna~- tional Labor Defense, 80 1 Hleventh street, New York City: I want to Jol tional Labor De! find 25 cents for NAME ADDRESS CITY .. “STATE