The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1929, Page 1

: pe . L Pesci cs Sg ed. or or nd. ie THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ail Entered as ne ander the act of FINAL CITY EDITION March 3, 1879. Vol. VI., No. 199 Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥ a1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. EW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929 _ Price 3 Cents MASS PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS IN FASCIST SOUTH Bosses’ Terror Will Fail eed) Terror Will ail to Predicts Solid Support WASS RECEPTION par ADELPHIA WORKERS ASSEMBLED Seven mass protest meetings against the Gastonia case boss class verdict and the open legislation of lynching and murder as long as i is practiced against members of the National Textile Workers Union, shows that the bosses’ terror is failing to paralyse the workers’ movement. The savage 20-year sentences handed out by Judge Barnhill to the Gastonia strikers and organizers were meant to chill with fear all militant workers in the South. They meant that if workers defended themselves in the future against such massacres as that at Marion, or the killing of Ella May, or the lynch gangsters’ attack on Wells, «they would get life sentences or electrocution for daring to do it. ‘ At the same time, the very same grand jury that rushed through the indictment against the Gastonia strikers, has refused to indict the murderers of Ella May, though these mill bosses and company gunmen were identified by scores of textile workers, whom they fired volleys at and “hunted like rabbits across the fields.” This brazen confirmation of the right of the bosses to murder is ratified by the refusal of Judge Harding’s court in Marion to place on trial Sheriff Adkins and his most importgpt aids in the Marion massacre. It is sealed by the pure’ and simple whitewashing before a packe] jury, with judge and prosecutor assisting in every way the mill lawyers defending them, of the lynch gangsters who kidnapped Wells, Saylors and Lell. In piain words, th can kill any man or woman t Also that if the prospective vict s himself, h@ will be rail- roaded through the bosses’ courts and will get a death sentence, either by cleetrocution or the slow death of confinement in prison. Nor are plain words lacking. The mill owners’ Gastonia Gazette states editorially, “It will not be safe for any so-called union or- ganizers to be found snooping around here,” and the Atlanta Constitu- tien raves in an editorial entitled, “Let the Reds Be Warned,” “Ever plant of Russian Communism in the South will be promptly and fe lessly rooted out.” Against this rule by murder, the exploited working class has re- volted. Seven mass meetings to protest the terror, addressed by N. T. W. officials, Communists, and Gastonia case defendants, is a pretty ~good answer to the challenge, as a beginning. Organization and mili- ‘tant labor action is the next word to speak. The courage and per- tsistence they show in the face of ruthless and organized killers, is ‘guarantee that they will go on to victory. Threat to Deport Southern Worker W ho Gave Out Daily Raliy to Fight on Terror by Rushing the Daily POR Worker South! : mean that any mill gunman cr, and be safe in doing it. The arrest of Stephen Graham, a worker of Norfolk, Virginia, for distributing copies of the Daily Worker to Negro workers, must be an- swered by militant workers by rushing the hundreds of copies of the Daily Worker into Norfolk every day, which Graham says is necessary, and demanded by the workers ef Norfolk. The fact that the Daily Worker, which was the voice of the Caro- lina_mill workers in their struggle against slavery and terror, was reaching the Norfolk workers, threw a therough scare into the open | shop bosses, and the governmert officials of this center of the textile ‘and war industries. For they know that the Daily Worker brings the message of a clear cut class fight by the southern workers. aid of the federal government, which counts cn the Virginia war in- dustries in the imperialist war which it is preparing. - And so Stephen Graham is being threatened with deportation to fascist Jugoslavia, where imprisonment end pos death at the hands of the white terror feces him. To go to this length to prevent the uno —Negro and white—from getiing the Deily V thinking worker what the Daily Wor':cr signif southern boss. ized southern workers ws every s to the mind of the To these bosses, the Daily wer workers means that these workers w of mere chattel. cr in (he hands of the southern I! no longer stand for the status This is what the Daily means to the southern mill bosses. see what the Daily Worker means to the southern workers. Writes a worker who slaved side by side with Ella May Wiggins “I never heard tell of such good news ~ as that some fellow workers in New York are going to adopt Bessemer « City, and send the Daily Worker down here always. Let us “If we all down here can always have the Daily Worker, then I tell , the northern workers that they can be sure we'll never be satisfied to «be slaves.” 5 The southern bosses, organizing a terror reign to stop the Daily Worker from reaching the southern workers—and the southern work- ers demanding the Daily Worker regularly; what is the answer of £ militant American workers to them? { Send your contributions at once to the “Drive To Rush the Daily Gastonia Prisoners to Be at and other industrial » Organizations must adopt southern mill centers! Individual workers too must aid! - 12th Anniversary Meeting ‘ Three: of the defendants in the Gastonia case whom mill owners’ ‘justice’ has sentenced to long terms in jail, will bring the message of the Gastonia struggle to thousands of New York Workers at the huge cele- bration of the 12th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and Com- ‘munist Election Rally, to be held in Madison Square Garden on Sunday noon, Nov. 3. three workers, who have the terror of the mill bosses e South, will be pointed to as ‘symbols of the fight of the work- ‘of Chicago, New York and every of the country against capital- terror and exploitation. The rela- ion of this struggle to the election ampaign in New York, the real is- es of this campaign such as the it against speedup and all forms capitalist realization, the fight t imperialist was, which have been raised only by the Communist \election program, will be brought | coneretely before the workers of ee York at the Nov. 3 demonstra- tion by the leading candidates of the Communist Party, The striking contrast between con- dtions in capitalist U. S, A. and. in socialist USSR will be made clear by the speakers who will explain the great significance of the Five-Year Plan of Socialist Construction to the workers of all countries. An entertainment program of an unsual nature is being arranged for the Madison Square Garden rally. Workers are urged to buy their tickets in advance at following sta- tions: New York District of the Communist Party, 26 Union Square; Freiheit, 30 Union Square; Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, 131 W. 28th St., and Workers’ Book- sho, 90 Union Sauer mau tor NMU on. Eve of the | Illinois Mine Convention ‘Caravans of Miners Tour Ill, Knit U.M.W.A. | Locals Together for Belleville Convention /Monster Mass Meeting Sunday Night in Belle- ville; Officials Threaten Attack Convention BELLEVILLE, IIl., Oct. 25.—That the National Miners’ Union will have rallied the bulk of the old membership of the United Mine Workers of America before the district conven- tion opens at Liederkranz Hall here Saturday, is the confident prediction of Freeman Thompson, national board member of the militant new union which is directing the struggle to wrest control of the miners’ organization from the leech-like clinging |of the Lewis officialdom on one side, and the Fishwick-Farring- ton machine on the other. Both machines are fighting in court for the money bags and property of the coal diggers, with the ;coal operators backing up both. Se eg GASTON 7 LOOK ~TOTHE WORKERS: ® The convention will also in- augurate determined struggle for the abolition of the check- off t othe fakers, for the day rate system, the six-hour day and five-day week, for unem- pioymert in: e and for the con- trol of the conveyers and other ma- chines. iConfident in Mass Big Mass Meeting. Brotests A monster mass meeting which Thé seven vailroaded Gastonia Miners from the entire Belleville sub-district will attend, is scheduled |for Sunday night. Machine officials are openly threatening to round up thugs to strikers have confidence that they will be freed by the mass protest of the internationa working class, Hugo Oehler, southern organizer! Rest Sai : = ‘ ie ttack the Illinois Convention as for the National Textile Workers’ |* : (erent pas Union, declared yesterday on a visit |they_ did Le a to New York. \burgh over a year ago, when TO U.S.S\R, FLIERS, IN CHICAGD SUN. Over 25,000 Workers to Greet Crew of the | “Land of Soviets” Detroit Hop Monday GreatWelcome on Field | in Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 25.—A great wel- come marked the arrival of the Soviet Moscow-to-New York fliers at Curtis Field in Chicago yester- day, in the monoplane Land of the Soviets. | Hundreds of workers were on hand at the field, despite the time of the day in which the fliers ar- rived. The four fliers made a non- stop flight from North Platte, | Nebraska, to Chicago. ni ar CHICAGO, Oct. 25. — Chicago! workers will tender a mass recep-| tion, the greatest so far received by ithe crew of the Land of the Soviets, this Sunday, Oct. 27, at 2 p. m. at the Broadway Armory 5875 Broad- way. The four fliers, Shestakov, Bolotov, Fufaev and Sterlingov, will address the Chicago workers at unday’s reception. Over 25,000 workers of Chicago! and vicinity are expected to honor! the fliers at the reception. Workers | of Chicag® have subscribed tractors and trigks as their gift to the} workers and peasants of the Soviet IN DEFIANCE OF POLICE TERROR ARE BRUTALLY ATTACKED; MANY MEETINGS A. F. of L. Socialists” Combine in Atlanta to Interfere with Big Mass Meetings Called to Denounce Gastonia Verdict Find Steel Trust Behind Prosecution for Sedition of Communists Arrested in Cleveland International Red Day Meetings BULLETIN The attempt to frame up Streit, on charges of “murder” in connection with the shooting of a right wing thug, was also assailed. The marchers also met before the offices of the Needle Trades Industrial Union, against which a particularly vicious terror has been directed by police, needle trades reactionary misleaders, and thugs ug! en get ie PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25.—Police broke up the mass demonstration of workers held tonight at City Hall, protest against the railroading to jail of the seven Gastonia workers and organizers, arresting seven demonstrators, including Herbert Benjamin, district organizer of the Communist Party, and also the district organizer of the Communist Youth League. The demonstration was preceded by a march of over 500 workers, singing revolutionary songs and carrying banners demanding the unconditional release of the Gastonia prisoners and attacking the terror against militant Philadelphia workers. * * * M demonstrations have already begun in the larger cities of U. S. and in the heart of the fascist ruled South, as the first waves of an ocean of denunciation and protest over the general terror against the Communist Party and all militant labor organizations. Thursday night in Charlotte, James Reid, president of the National Textile Workers’ Union; William Murdoch, its vice president; George Maurer, southern organizer of the Inter- national Labor Defense, and other speakers told the story of the murder by gunmen and by court action which is the outstanding feature in the South today, next to the growing drive of the union and the Trade Union Unity League for a real organization of the exploited workers. Last night, in Philadelphia, thousands of workers defied the terroristic attitude of po- lice, capitalist press, and patriotic organizations, and assembled for a giant protest meeting, at which J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the I. L D., and Herbert Benjamin, Communist Party district organizer, were principal speakers. Therefore the open shop bosses of Virginia quickly obtained the | | “They feel sure that the mass | weight of the working class demand- jing their release will gain their free- ‘dom in the tial of the superior courts \of North Caroliza or in the United |States Supreme Court.” Oehler came north with K. 0. Byers, one of the 13 men who were |oiginally in danger of the electric chair, but who was later released on | pressure of the working class. Byers |will go to the Soviet Union to at- \tend the tw-’'th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. “The great need in the South for the work of the Union’ Oehler de- clared, “is funds. The spirit of the |workers is splendid. They declare jthe union is here to stay and the \I. L. D. will help us.” Ochler told of the report of Amy |Schechter and Del Hampton work- ing in the western part of the state |among the lumber workers and cop- |per miners, th-t these workers are | greatly in sympathy with the Gas: | tonia srikers. | Oehler told of macs meetings of ed | worke 's on behalf of the conv at | Gastonia :kers at Charlotte, Greenville and at Atlanta, Ga. Oehler declared that the I. L. D. was greatly popular among the mill workers, and that all workers should join the International Labor Defense in its campaign for 50,000 new mem- bers by Jcn. 1. He also appealed for workers to send funds to the Gas- | tonia Joint Defense and Relief Cam- |paign, 80 East 11th St., Room 402, New York City, to help fight the case in the higher courts. ‘ JAIL 7 WINDOW STRIKE PICKETS Charges of disorderly conduct against seven striking window clean- ers were dismissed at Jefferson Market Court yesterday following their arrest while picketing scab firms in the downtown city section. The seven were Louis Grand, J. Roberts, Joseph Mello, H. Silver, W. Kohut A. Gilian and Ambrose Grankiltz. The number of arrests was the largest made since 2,000 window washers, led by the Window Clean- ers’ Union in a fight for wage gains and better conditions, began the | strike Oct. 16. ‘ Firms picketed included R. H. Macy and Co., Lord and Taylor, Best and Co, and Tiffany’s. new union came into being. That | Union, and as an aid in the Five ‘the Mlinois’ miners will be ready to| Year Plan of construction in the repulse any such attempts, is the) U. S. S. R. promise of the militant coal diggers From Chicago the Land of the here. Soviets will take off for Detroit, + This convention will.blow up the which it will -probably reach the 'Fishwick-Farrington-Nesbit plan to|same day. In Detroit, as in all organize a separate company union cities along the route of the fliers, which they expected to call the/another huge reception from the “Tllinois Mine Workers’ Union!” workers awaits the four fliers. Contrary to th efakers’ policy of New York workers will receive the splitting the bituminous miners fliers in Madison Square Garden, on from the anthracite, and district the arrival of the Soviet plane at from district, the National Miners’ its goal. Union has broadened its organiza- ee 8) tion to take in metal miners in ad- dition to coal miners. | Mills’ Official Happy file organizers who won the leader- | Automobile caravans of rank and| ship as a result of militant activity | in the struggle, and organizers sent | in by the Pittsburgh national office | and the various districts to help in| the emergency, go from town to town and mine to mine knitting to- gether the membership of the locals, | With the memory of the New York workers, assembled HUNDREDS HEAR 1 FOSTER EXPOSE —ALPLL AT MEE Aid Labor Unity; Join TUUL After Appeal Hundreds of workers gathered in Irving Plaza Hall last night cheered tumultuously when William Z. Fos- ter, general secretary of the T. U. U. L., pointed to the thotsands of Illinois miners leaving the U. M. W. |A. and joining the National Mine +) them. many of «which number over a thou- sand, for the struggle. | I meeti: are held in every coal mining town in the state, and the 1 Digger, official organ of the left wing union, is being spread broadcast. In addition, thousands of leaflets carrying the official call for the convention and explaining |the objectives and plan for repre- |sentation, are being sent thru the Illinois fields. | Among the active organizers who are mobilizing the Illinois miners in support of the N.M.U. are William Boyce, Negro vice president of the union; Vincent Kamenevitch, secre- ‘tary of District 5, N.M.U., and na- ‘tional board member; Joe Tash, na- tional youth organizer; and Charles Guynn, board member from the Ohio district who recently has been in the West Virginia field. ELECTION MEET 'Candidates Speak At Joint Rally | Both Spanish and English lan- |guage speakers will address a com- |bined New York election campaign ‘and Gastonia defense mass meeting’, |to be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. at {Laurel Garden, 75-79 East 116th St., |New York. (will be J, Louis Engdahl, Commu- nist candidate for boro president in Manhattan; Albert Moreau, candi- IN HARLEM SUN, Among the speakers, | Ella May Case Closed Union as a proof that the workers realize that the reactionary unions are no good, and that Secretary Morrison and President Green were padding the figures when they claimed there was a gain in A. F. L. membership during the year. The other principal speaker was |Charles Frank, Negro member of |the Gastonia Labor Jury. Frank told jan interested audience of the rail- GASTONIA, N. C., Oct. Mayor F. B. Denny of Gastonuia is jubilant over the speed with which the grand jury is acting on the cases before it of murder and attempted lynching, kidnapping, beating, etc, |committed by gunmen of the Man- | ville- Jenckes Co. ~ | After the grand jury had refused | to indict the murderers of Ella May, the mayor was interviewed in a res- | aa \taurant near the court room. |proof of their innocence, and the | “It looks like they are making a Prosecution’s cross - examination, | quick end of the calendar,’ he said. | Which paid no attention to the inci- “Then is the case of the murder | dents of June 7, but concerned it- \of Ella May closed?” as was asked. | Self solely with the prisoners’ poli~ “Yes, I think it is,” he replied | tical, religious, and race equality be- with obvious satisfaction, adding as_ liefs. an afterthought, “unless somebody| Assistant Secretary Schmies of | talks.” the T. U. U. L. appealed for the | Sink Runs a Bluff. support of Labor Unity, and a sub- Bpt the mill bosses will see thet stantial donation for the paper was |everybody in the murder gang is, raised. George Powers )satisfied, and there is little immed- | was chairman, iate likelihood of any embarassing and a call to join the T.U.U.L. was confessions. |responded to by workers in the Judge Hoyle Sink knows this, too. | audience. He is just now going through’ the Foster began by telling of his ad- formal gesture of protesting against | dressing a left wing meeting on ar- the faliure to indict anybody for | riving in Toronto, the firs left wing | killing Ella May, National Textile ; meeting held there—only it was not | Workers Union organizer, murder-| quite there. It was a foot and a ed by a gang of mill bosses’ gunmen {half outside the city limits, “and on the open road, in broad daylight, | this foot and a half legality was all when they shot up a truck load of that saved it fro mbeing raided by mill workers who had tried to attend | the police.” ja mass meeting in South Gastonia.| “The A. F. L. convention was held Sink told the grand jury they were in the palatial Royal York Hotel, elected for six months, and should and the A. F, L. paid $60,000 for \do something to kind who killed Ella | hall rent alone,” said Foster. It | May. ‘was attended by all the important _fakers of the A. F. L., and was the /Communist Party Hold |most reactionary convention yet, in roading of the Gastonia boys, the! Two more independent firms sur-| date for assembly from the 17th As- rendered to the union’s demands to-|sembly District; Rebecca Grecht, day as the strike spread through the |candidate for assembly from the city. |Bronx; Abraham Markoff, candidate Thirty-seven firms have signed the union agreement, which! and Paul Diaz, of the All-America calls for the 40-hour, five-day week, | Anti-Imperialist League. an increase in the minimum wage from $45 to =f a week, proper safety devices @to be provided by Autumn Youth Dance bosses, and adéquate compensation’ Don't forget the Autumn Youth insurance carried with a@ solvent) Dance under the auspiées of tho company. | Young Communist League, District The 160 workers the 37 firms em-| No, 2, tonight at Stuyvesant Casino, ploy have now gone back to the job.| Second Ave, and Ninth St, ‘ Pesicm . % spite of the attempt of the Muste Rousing Election Rally | Group and th esocialists to say that it was progresisve. Foster told of the opportunities of militant unionism, such as is rep- resented in the T, U. U. L., and to say: L. cannot provide. rb) Y %, a He told of the depression coming, | sige Tail ‘Coast tek cae ‘the collapse of the stock market izers are born in Russia, of course!) is only the overture to the grand | _.. pyeve’ ch dapiréasion.”” bbe a and fearlessly root- | A rousing election rally was held? jat 181st St. and Seventh Ave. by |the Communist Party last night in | now for assembly from the 18th District,| spite of police who sought for an whic hthe ALE. |opportunity to break the meeting. | Many. Negro workers attended. | The issues of the election cam-| paign from the working class view- | point were analyzed by the Commu- | nist Party speakers. They included Richard B. Moore candidate for Congress in the 21st District, Brooklyn, N. Garcia and C. Hope, Me denunciations of the bosses’ terror by thousands of militant Thursday evening in a mass protest meeting at Union Square, PS before them, workers of Boston, demonstrate in Boston Com- mon Sunday at 4 p. m.; workers of Cleveland in the Public Square at 2 p. m.; and meetings in Kansas City, Detroit, San Francisco, and other cities are under preparation. i IMPORTANCE IN SOUTH. | The mass protest meetings in the South, however, con- | tinue to bulk large in significance, as this is the first such in- | cident known to the history of labor there. | James P. Reid and Sophie Melvin, one of the released Gas- tonia defendants, will speak at Greenville, South Carolina, an |important textile city. The local unions of Ashville, N. C., |have themselves called and are® advertising a great protest} meeting, and have invited Amy Schechter and Delmar Hamp- working class leaders—SG) will find ton, two of the released Gas-|the South dangerous territory for tonia defendants to address] that kind of work.” Hugo Oehler, southern or-| . Despite this lynch threat the Na- ganizer of the N.T.W.U., will like-|tional Textile Workers Union wise be a speaker. growing. Yesterday when the N. T. W. U. organizers called the local secretary of the Workmen’s Circle, telling him that they had just arrived from Charlotte and wanted the oppor- tunity to speak to his organizatior '—he gruffly informed them that he “would have nothing to do with a left wing organization.” Only if he “got a letter from the socialist party ie * * jfrom Norman Thomas,” would he A.F.L. Refuses Hall. jconsent. Or “from the A. F. of L.” ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. -25,—The Bi ae S mass protest meeting here against) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 25.— | the Gastonia case verdict and sen-| The steel trust is prominent in back \tences, and the mill company’s ter-| of the campaign in Ohio to suppress \ror in the South will be held, Si) the Communist Party, and all mili- |Gerson, one of the speakers now on tant sections of the labor movement. \the ground, stated today, in spite|Five members of the Communist of every opposition. The American) Party, and the Young Communist |Federation of Labor central body League, Tom Johnson, Charles here has refused the use of the! Guynn, Betty Gannett, Lil Andrews local labor temple. Another meet-\and Zorka Yori are charged with ing place will be found. sedition because they distributed The forces of reaction in Atlanta|shop bulletins in the steel-trust con- jare all being mobilized in the holy| trolled town of Martins Ferry, in crusade against the “Reds”—(read|the mining section, and called an the entire working class of Georgia| August First meeting there. |for “Reds”). Ten hours after two) On Oct. 28 the county court at St. jorganizers of the National Textile Clairsville’ will set tas dies for the Workers’ Union came into Atlanta,|trial of the five members fo the |the Atlanta “Constitution” printed Communist Party and Young Com- jan editorial which can only be|munst League. |termed as lynch incitement. It is, : worthy of the best that the prosti-. icipated een sdb tuted pens of the servants of ‘be Aichi ip Baa sancechat shoal 2, Gebipta Power Company can mae reign against the Communist Party Pico ke butt ete: APN Ose sags Coconanies autre captioned. eee» ot "8 | were stopped during the election . campaign, altho the Communist Par- The ostensible reason for the ty was on the ballot. jeditorial is the conviction and vici- | NEE A ‘ ous sentences imposed upon our com. | Since that time all halls in that rades by the Charlotte class court |t°¥ have ben closed to the Com- workers of Georgia, who have so little to lose anyway) : “They (union organizers and all! is | Other meetings are being rapidly arranged for, and in the South where every oppressive agency is a the beck and call of the textile mill |bosses, this is highly significant of the rising tide of resentment against Marion massacres, and Gastonia ver- dicts, as well as the bitter exploita- tion in mills and other industri lof the bosses. The Atlanta “Con-|™unist Party and meetings fo the stitution,” after a quiet bit of lip-| International Labor Defense, both smacking at the conviction goes on|™embership nad mass meetings, |have been barred. | The terror against the militant la- ‘bor groups has been increased in Ohio, just as in Illinois, as the coal miners begin in greater numbers to turn to the National Miners Union. The growing militancy of the coal , Net, only has the Honrieviels Despite the fact that the Atlanta miners and the steel workers has Genin: tollinelfe te han ‘aino’ eniien | Constitution” concludes with this| resulted in statements by the bosses cet note of warning (whcih somehow that they will resort to all means \strikes n onote of terror in the “to keep the area clean of militant hearts of the bitterly exploited mill | organizers.” Bana cg we de bai «vee » rs s