The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1929, Page 3

) : \ DAT GENERAL STRIKE AND BOYCOTT OF BRITISH SHAKE PALESTINE AS ARABS RESIST TERRORISM |Visitors at Funeral’ ‘of Hungarian Worker Arrested by Horthy| (Wireless By Imprecorr) | | VIENNA, Nov, 6.—Budapest re- | ports that Irma Lenz, a German | subject, fiancee of Alexander | Loewy, who died Oct. 28 in Hun-| 6, uY WORK NEW YOR CHINESE MAKING | NEW ATTACKS ON | SOVIET FRONTIER (Wireless By Imprecorr) CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 4.—|school management, causing great Jerusalem reports that the severe sentences of Arabs by the British imperialist courts are adding to|sreat demonstrations are bringing Palestine unrest. In Haifa three Arabian peasants are condemned to death, twelve to life sentences nad four to ten years prison. minrs are given long terms. Many Arabian demonstrations are | taking place in the different towns | against the terrorist verdicts, The| political prisoners at Jerusalem, Akka and Jaffa, are on a hunger! strike for better prsion regime. | Arabian school children at Naples, | participating in the protest strike | of the 26th of October against Brit- Even | public organizatio |gary’s prison hell from torture and hunger ke, was arrested at the cemetery while attending Loewy’s | funeral. | Others attending the funeral were | also arrested on a charge of “Com- | |munist conspiracy.” The German | subject, Irma Lenz, is charged with “espionage,” although _ travelling openly and legally. In the prisons lish imperialism, were flogged by the |indignation of the Arab population. A general strike is proclaimed and |conflicts with police. | A protest strike in all Arabian schools is declared, and Arabian are demanding [punishment of the child floggers or Invasions Foree Red Army to Take Action (Wireless By Imprecorr) MOSCOW, Nov. 6.—Harbin re- jorts that continued arrests of |Soviet citizens are made by Chi- nese authorities. Inhuman tortures la boycott of all government schools. The Palestine Young Communist League is appealing to both Arabian and Jewish workers to protest against the mistreatment of the Arabia children at Naplus. The The British government commission which arrvied on Oct. 24 to “in- yestigate” encountered a boycott, iboth of it and of British goods. BLAME UMW FOR | UNEMPLOYMENT (Continued from Page One) | coal state, and 10,000 of them were in Tilinois. But this is not the whoie| story. | Taking the country as a whole, more soft coal was mined in 1924 than in 1913. And in 1928, more | coal was mined than in 1924, Thus} far, the output this year has run) considerably ahead of the output} last year. No, the total demand for | coal has not fallen below the pre- war level. | Lewis Arranged It. Miners in the northern fields are | idle chiefly because their coal has | been s olargely displaced by non- union southern coal. Kentucky and | West Virginia operators pushed | their output and opened new mines | during the war boom, just as all; other operators were donig. Since} 1920, the output from these states | has continues to rise while the out- put in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio | worked stooped over all night, and |looking to military support of fas- has steadily fallen. Pennsylvania | dropped after 1918, but since 1924, the Pennsylvania output has held} its own. | Wage rates, variations in the quality of coal, and freight rates|walk around, for the superintend-| of the Austrian are commonly considered as jointly | responsible for the shift from north- ern mines to southern mines, But) the pressure for low wages and the | failure of the U. M. W. A. to resist | the southern operators’ hostility to union conditions are the most basic | factors in the situation. Leading Illinois operators have} taken a considerable share in devel- oping the southern fields. Peabody Coal—which mined close to one-sixth of the Illinois total last year—has | extensive properties in Kentucky and also operates mines in West Vir- ginia. Who Is in the South. Old Ben Coal Corporation has a West Virginia subsidiary. Old Ben nad Franklin County Coal are both tied up with Cassett and Company with a Morgan bank in Philadelphia, {ths Loray mill about a year when HENDRYY TELLS OF RAILROADING (Continued from Page One) Trenton mill in Gastonia, and Loray mill in Gastonia. He had been in the strike started. U. T. W. Fraud. i All mills have bad _ conditions. Hendryx joined the United Textile Workers at Cdnapolis, in 1920. The U. T. W. chiefs took $2.50 from | each worker and left the country, doing nothing whatever for then. He has no use for that kind of a) union. The National Textile Work- ers stays right in the fight, and that is what the workers want. The Loray mill had the worst con- | ditions of any he had been\ in—12- | hour day, even for children weigh- \where the many Hungarian work- jers are being murdered, the prison directors permit no visitors and give |no information to friends or counsel of the political prisoners, preserv- ing strict silence on what is going on behind the walls. SHAKES AUSTRIA (Wiveless By Imprecorr) VIENNA, Nov. 6.—The workers {in the Haid works at Stockerau unanimously refuse to admit fas. cists into the plant and the workers are locked out. Other factories’ workers are staging demonstra- tions of solidarity with the Haid jworkers. The Communist Party is appealing to all workers to remove fascists from all factories and pro- claim a solidarity strike with the workers of the Haid plant. Stockerau was quiet Sunday, but there were conflicts at Moedling near Vienna between fascist “Na- tional Socialists,” staging a propa- ganda demonstration for the muni- cipal election, and the provoked workers. Armed police intervened. The Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, General Heye, is ex- pected to arrive in Vienna on a pre- ing no more than 95 pounds, and $4 a week for these, in addition to | their being ‘cussed kicked and abused.” ’ | Hendryx, a doffer, told of how he | did up all his work, then sat down | to get 15 minutes rest. The boss} excitedly roused him out of it:) “Don’t you dare sit down. If you| haven’t anything to do, anyway ent is coming through.” Why He Was Picked. | The reason he was picked out,| along with six other innocent men, to be railroaded to sentences up to 20 years in prison by the mill bosses, | Hendryx says, was because of his| activity in the strike and what he) saw, ‘He jumped right into it, and) during the first two days, when ony | about 900 were out, made speeches text of participation in the dedica- tion of a monument to Field Mar- around and/ shal Hoetzendorf, but the real rea- | son is to hold conferences between German and Austrian army leaders, cist movements in both countries. es Austrian Fascists in Berlin. (Wireless By Imprecorr) BERLIN, Nov. 6.—A local group “Home Defense League” was formed in Berlin on Oct. 29, under protection of the German fascist “Stell Helmet” or- ganization. Led by Communists, a New Revolt Breaks in Kwangsi, South China from the corner of the employment! (Wireless By Imprecorra joffice, and pulled out 900 more.;| SHANGHAI, Nov. 4.—The local Then he was put in charge of the authorities at Peking have proclaim- Workers International Relief Store,/ed a state of war against the ac- |and when the masked gangsters | tivities of rebels. Severe fighting destroyed it, he told the world he! is going on in Honan, where Chiang could identify some of them. They! Kai-shek leads Nanking troops were mill superintendents and against the Kuominchun army, Nan- | bosses. He was in charge of the re-| king’s withdrawal of troops from the lief store at the tent colony. villages of Hupeh province for Gilbert Knew of Raid. fighting the forces of Feng Yu- raid, he jare forcing prisoners to make false | Statements to be used for propa- ganda in the imperialist press. The {Chinese authorities have ordered {the German consul, Stobbe, to dis- charge the Soviet employes now aid- ‘ing him settle Soviet citizens’ af- fairs. He has refused, and the C nese are hindering payment of relief to interned Soviet citizens through Stobbe. Harborovsk reports the syste- matic bombardment of the Soviet frontier by Chinese troops and Russian white guardist invasions. A Soviet village on the Amur near Nertschinuk, and the works and station at Clotschinskaya, are being | bombarded by machine guns. Many Soviet citizens are killed and the | grain harvest disorganized. | White guard bands armed by the Chinese have attacked the frontier ‘in the Trans-Baikal gold district, and the railwi and roads in the coastal district. Mines in the Amur river threaten the Soviet flotilla. The Sowet troops are forced to |"! take energetic measures to protect !* aaS iDelegates Show Rising Militancy in Mills (Continued from Page One) manufacturers everywhere, produc- ing a sharp radicalization of the s throughout the whole She Sannled: {industry that exprosses itself in ' scores of spontaneous strike strug- s, and the realization by the workers of the necessity of a na- tional struggle to link up all the strikes. Silk Workers More Militant. Hugo Oehler, of the Trade Union Unity League, ointed out the insta- bility of American capitalism as evidenced by the crash |Street and the growing of the American all indust “The movement of CHEER BEAL AS HE LEAVES CELL (Continued from Page One) seeking the punishment of the mur- derers of Ella May, while at the same time he knows the names of 4 ude in every person in the Essex car from | the silk worke aid Oehler, “is which the volley came that killed | Part of the radicalization of the Ella May in broad daylight on the |ntire workingelass which is being state highway. met by the most brutal terror of Major Bulwinkle appears as de-|the capitalist state, that we must fense attorney. These two hire- |now expect and be prepared to meet lingS"of the Manville-Jenckes Co. | effectively. The drive among the have had their bond of black broth- | Sik worker part of the great erhood christened and cemented by | Struggle of t T, W. U. in the the blood of Ella May. The main | South and of the mass movement to job of these two procurers of mur- free the seven Gastonia prisoners. der and perjury is to find a scape-|Only the ‘Trade Union Unity goat among the smaller fry of the | League,” he concluded, “is giving black hundred band who in return | Ctganizational form to the struggles for a few favors will take upon him. | cf the workers, and we must build self the heavy burden of the kid-|the N. T. W. U. as a powerful sec- nappings, floggings and murders of |tion of the T. U. U. L. jrevolting workers in this Manville-| George Siskind, Paterson orgari- Jenckes principality. jizer, declared that as a result of It’s Their “Honor.” |ruthless offensive of the silk bosses The “honor of North Carolina,” | against the workers in Paterson the the commonwealth of pellagra | where licenses are issued for the murder of striking workers much | as licenses are issued for big game hunting in other parts of the United States, demands one or more indict- ments for the murder of Ella May. The mill workers have made their indictment already. They know who wo! and both of these Philadelphia bank: | Three days before the ing houses have other coal interests was stopped on the railroad tracks, in the southern fields. lat a dark corner, by Tom Gilbert, Chicago, Wilmington and Frank-j|and four other men, and beat up./ lin Coal Company—owner of the New Orient, the largest mine in the | world—is tied up with Boston inter- ests, Iniking it with West Kentucky | Coal Company, and with the West | Virginia. mining subsidiaries of the | Massachusetts Gas Companies. Cosgrove-Meehan Coal Corpora- tion not only owns a subsidiary of similar name in Illinois and another in West Virginia, but the chairman of this company is president of the West Virginia Coal and Coke. Madigon Goal Corporation, sub- sidiary of the Illinois Central Rail- way, has mines also in Kentucky. In fact, all the railroad coal com- panies, which together mine at least one-eighth of the Illinois coal, are controlled by groups of financiers with great industrial interests, in- cluding vast coal properties in southern fields. ‘ But meantime, these larger Illi- nois producers are driving to pro- “tect their Illinois investments, no matter what happens to other com- paniés or to the Illinois minework- ers. So they are busily consolidat- ing their interests, closing down certain mines, mechanizing and speeding up in other mines, cutting wage scales, continuing intrigues with the U. M. W. A. in Illinois, and facing the militant National Miners’ Union with growing hos- tility. Mechanical loading, which is the latest thing in mechanization for underground mining, has increased in Illinois by more than 50%per cent in the past two years. Illinois now leads all other states in the ton- nage of deep-mined coal mechani- cally loaded, though the percentage of state cutput loaded by machine is higher in Wyoming, Indiana, Utah and Montana. The percentage cut by machine is also rising, but the increase in cutting machines is a much older story than the introduction of me- chanical loaders, To the miners it is still important, for the average output per machine is pushing steadily upward. Strip pits are increasing. Their output was doubled in Illinois from 1924 to 1928. This month produc-|coal per man per hour production tion was begun at a new giant strip Gilbert told him at the time, “I'll see you in your grave within three days,” which showed Gilbert’s guilty knowledge the raid was to be made. The trial he characterized briefly as a class trial; the defendants did not expect justice, they were class war prisoners, and the enemy be-| lieved in killing its prisoners. But) Solicitor Carpenter, he reflected bit-| terly,. “is the two-face-est man I ever saw.” Carpenter came around| at election time, gave all the boys} ice cream cones, and told them how} glad he was to do something for Labor. Then when Labor tried to do something for, itself, Carpenter) tried to send the laborers to the elec-| tric chair. | Even the judge, who said he very| much doubted whether Hendryx was guilty of anything, “gave me up to seven years just the same.” | The jury, all the defendants saw, was prejudiced. Southern bosses are sensitive about that. One juror, employed by the Ford company, } output last year was either strip- mined or deep-mined coal mechani- cally loaded. This’ means serious displacement of workers. So in spite of agreements at certain mines for spreadix= the work around part-time among many, in- stead of full-time for few, the num- ber of mineworkers employed has decreased far more than the num- ber of tons produced, Similar drives for mee! anizing and concentrating production have been going on ‘in other states. Nearly 200,000 men have been frozen out of the soft-coal industry since 1928. Ard 85,000 of these were in the one state of Illinois. ‘ Pee hs The Lewis and Fishwick answer to this sit.>’'on was simply to agree to whatever ‘the operators ask, as long as the contract is signed and the check-of fgoes on. Fishwick’s cont=><is call for a wage cut. The National Miners Union, to which the Illinois miners are rally- ing now, proposes to recognize the advent of the machine, and since has increased sharply, to the great \carding room; Chief Engineer Kelly | pit at DuQuoin through which United Electric Coal hopes to in- crease output by a million tons a an incidentaliy to raise its red of the employers, the nis. from the operators, N. M. demands the six hour day, five day week, and unemployment relief administered by thi fight ‘dnion that vill better their condi- i hsiang, creates the opportunity of greater Communist activity. The Kwangsi district is rising and insurgents led by Communists have occupied Kwangsi town. The Hankow government is most uneasy and has sent a gunboat with a regiment of troops in an effort to check the movement. went back to work and boasted of the “good job” he had done on the defendants, and the boss fired him for being :uch a fool as to talk) about it. | A Mill Boss Verdict. Hendryx knows very well who he real prosecutors are: not the law but the mill owners and their state. The very men who came to arrest him the morning of June 8 were: General Night Superintend- ent of the Loray Mill, Jolly; D. C. Goner, overseer in the spinning room, Overseer Rheinhardt, of the of the Loray mill village, and such | persons. While Hendryx was dressing, and thinking he was unobserved, Jolly, sitting on Hendryx’s bed, pulled out a bottle and took a drink. Then he secreted the bottle, and said, “God damn you, I believe you’ve got liquor in here.” Hendryx said, “Yes, God damn you, you brought it in,” and the boss “made a swipe at him with his rifle barrel.” Hen- dryx thought it was a liquor frame- up he was in, He found out it was a murder charge they had in mind. Prisoners Need Bail. After the verdict, the prisoners were worse treated, Hendryx point- ed out, They are no longer allowed to get the Daily Worker, and other newspapers are not brought in to them as before. Their bunks have only thin mattresses over the steel, and no covers. It is cold. Food consists of grits, corn bread and pink beans, and that only twice a day. No one can remain healthy long on this treatment—there is press- ing need of bailing out these men. The bail money raised by the work- ers has been tied up by legal tech- nicalities, and more must be had. Hendryx, and he speaks for the others, is unafraid. “If I am finally freed,” he says, “I will go on organizing, If I have to serve, lof the picket line and features th: killed Ella May, and they know that | their ‘cla: enemies are trying to| railroad seven organizers of the N. T. W. U. to prison for 20 years. The Leaksville strike, under the leadership of the N. T. W. U., com- ing as the Ella May investigation is proceeding, is the first sentence of the workers’ answer to capitalist class justice ni the South. The political character® of this strike, although involving only 200 workers, is appreciated fully by the capitalist press. The Charlotte ob- server this morning carries picture struggle as an event of major im- portance at this time. The Leaks-/ ville Woolen Mill is closed—closed by wrokers struggling against the stretchout and the tyranny of the mill bosses and their state author- | ities and struggling under the lead- ership of the N. . W. U., which! led the Gastonia strike. | ih) HE om ' GASTONIA, N. C., Nov. 5—| Deputy Sheriff M. V. Wiggins re-| ported that while subpoenaing wit- nesses to the Ella May hearing he| had been warned to get out of town! because “we don’t want any Bene- dict Arnolds around here.” | Another witness, L. H. Baumgart- ner, an occupant of the truck, iden- | tified Haney Thompson, one of, those charged, as the man Hp) stopped the vehicle and said: “We! got orders to run you Communists out of town.” Ellis was the first witness to iden- | tify members of the murder gang today. | “T saw the truck coming up the road,” Ellis said during the hearing | before Judge P, A. McElroy. “An automobile ran in front of it and stopped. The truck hit the and then hte shooting began. There | also was some shootnig from another | car nearby. George Fowler was) shooting. i “IT saw Yates Gamble ,another of | those arrested) shoot a man who was | running across a cotton field after) the folks in the truck jumped off. and tered,” Ellis went on, then identified ten others of the men held as present during the shooting. had @ pump gu and Ellis said. | George Lingerfelt, driver of the | truck in which Ella May and 22 others were riding, identified three of those arrested as members of the I only want to be able to know that the organizing of the Southern worke goes right on,—into a gang. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! OLO GROUNDS Saturday, Nov. Page Three THE SHOP DETROIT AUTO PLANTS LAYING THOUSANDS OF IN. Union Fakers Aid Railway Express Pile Up Millions by the officials that it would be ssible to hire all steady men » of the uncertaint of the volume of business over any great (By @ Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO (By Mail).—The worst feature the whole gituation 2 the American Ry. Express Co. -~ r of the fact tit the Union is wholly ale ue ti first —. © put up a t. Sey- hired during Raglens 7 aj Py Fete ee ie cc cages (lew wage pall ludson, Ford Shops gible for union member- | Vented it from These men Throw Many Out ship on nt of being And not over f re GL By a Worker Correspondent) dre union memb.3 ; Ae This) DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail) — The rank and file of the union P was continued until the) wo 1 am writing our good paper realize the seriousness of the situ- company signed a contract with the in Hairy we ai er slaves lation, yet the leaders hang to the|union fo:-idding it. The union rep-| 47) iow what is ¢ I n old’ trade union applesauce——have a/resentatives had sugcested the lim-|Det cit, Work is so bad at. this conference with the company offi-| iting of extras to six hours ‘ing of cials or tell their troubles to pe . company was d jlabor board composed of to agree t> this suggestion. | \ oo Pa Roe politicians. It was just si on the union pro T land Co., out < : tics on the part of the leaders that hour day e By he put the union at the merey of the also was r the v company and surrounded it by bar- APSA . The ‘s that prevent further organi-| Nothing was said by either party 1a. cent ation. The leaders entered into|to the agreement regarding the ~ wey ugh their le the reg- been raised since to 68 cents per Is often b s althe agreements with the officials that completely doomed the union to failure. The first had to do with the hiring cf extre lated to so called y day men.” A brief account of thes: agreements will prove the utter incompetence | respons: for of these leaders if nothing worse. {of the extras At the time the union was or- true the company ganized extra men worked 8 hours them for rai thou day. The uzion protested in extra profits each ins? these extras and were told down. ; the second re- hour. to their get or up a been They h: them from $1 the boss of lave-drive the hours If this is lebted to dollars limitir to four. is i per (To Be Continued delegates er organi \stress was placed by th upon the need for grea ional work. Paterson workers are again on the eve of a general strike. The an- nouncement of Martin Russak, Le- high Valley anizer, that the Al- Jentown workers would immediately strike with the Peterson workers was greeted with tremehdous ap- plause. Russak further stated, in reporting on the Allentown situa- tion, that the worst enémy of the National Textile Workers Union in Allentown is the Socialist Party, which is carrying on a cam against the Union and is doing 2 let our mas and children, ther and go out omen delegates from Paterson and New York showed the growing participation of the women workers | in the silk movement. Al Goldberg, youth delegate from Paterson, called upon the young wor' a decisive factor in the te dustry, to prepare for the Jonference of young textile wo’ s which is to take place at the | tional Convention of the Union in Patorson, Nov. $ for a living The are being not let it go be a bunch of ye up slaves § and nion, join the Av Well, will do all up the slave for our good Dail; its best to prevent the Union from or- ganizing the workers in the Allen- Editor’s note noting For Struggle. town mil a e ;,,| thousands of 1 workers | 38, . The main r ution, unanimously ee A as Situation. Py ‘ waited for work in rain one 5 | adopted by the onference, called for| ao. in Detroit, the eee Other speakers were Anna Bur-|the launching of a systematge or- | {#9 k correspondent comme organizer of the Antracite dis- trict, where the Union is confronted by immediate ke situations, and June Croll, fraternal delegate of the International Labor Defense, who ive in all silk centers ditional Freedom fie ever ee cre talled upon the Conferenca'to build |G&stonia Prisoners.” Resolutions {#0000 2 Ye amass ~ 7. D. in response to the! were also adopted on rationaliza- growing capitalist terror. tion and the war danger, on Gas- | In the gencral discussion almost tonia and the Southern struggles, every delegate spoke. The workers |on the International Labor Defense | showed remarkable fighting spirit,|and the Wor':ers I:* ~2ational Re- and crzcsed "9 ble speed-up lief. and wage cutting in a'l o""- centers| The Conference desided to start that made conditions in the silk immediately raising a strike fund, | mills almost unbearable. Special ,and to take all organizational steps ganization dr’ éo mobi tional ture of Hoover, sm troit in an auto, clipped f Ik s ans of the strike to be slc for to spread the strike into al ters of the. country breaks out in any di National Silk Commi ed with 12 members all of are workers actually emplo the silk mills of Pennsylv |New Jers ment it A new e was elect- whom t. 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