The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1929, Page 1

i ay =< SS RECEPTION, CONCERT FOR | For a Workers-Farmers Government: To Organize the Unorganized - Against Imperialist War = For the 40-Hour Week ): (THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: N.Y. WORKERS OUT To MA aily Batered aa second-class matter at the Vout Office at New York, N. ¥,, under the act of March 8, 187% Wol, VL, No. 210 Sotpinst ‘ues aie’ Suet” sare’ “Gea Ew cent, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929 Elections. : The election of James J. Walker as mayor of the leading capitalist city of America was already a foregone conclusion from the day of his nomination by Tammany Hall. Walker was the chief candidate of Wall Street in the municipal ¢lections. Ruthlessly employing terror against the working class to break trikes, practically establishing martial law against every attempt of ie workers to improve their conditions, at the same time developing political police, a secret spy system, and combining with gangsters, » F, of L., and socialist bureaucrats in violent attacks against the working class and particularly the militant workers and the most ex- ploited sections—the Negroes and Latin American, Walker’s regime has meant the strengthening of the powers of repression against the toiling masses, for greater rationalization, and fer preparations for imperialist war. The capitalist class mobilized its fokces, cunningly using its press and money bags in order to maintain an office and to further consoli- date reaction in government, to increase democratic terror and to bring in the underworld for more effective use against the workers. Through the election of Walker, terror against the workers and suppression of militant revolutionary organizations will be intensified as the capitalist class endeavors to meet the growing crisis by wage cuts, speed-up, and imperialist. war. The increased vote for Thomas, despite the hypocritical declara- tions of the bourgeois press that the large vote was a “surprise,” was not at all unexpected. The capitalist class, through its big city dailies, its Citizens’ Union, through its ministers and other agencies, consciously threw a portion of its support to the candidacy of Norman Thomas for the purpose of cutting the LaGuardia vote to the minimum in order to elect Walker by a large plurality and thereby creating the illusion of political stability to cover up the concoming econ$mic crisis and, at the same time, to build up the socialist party and prepare it as a reserve force against the growing militant working class to strengthen the reformist influence, And to stem the radicalising trertl among the work- ers, . The greatest section of the increase in votes of Norman Thomas came from the petty bourgeoisie, which constitutes:a large section of New York City, and who saw in the personality of Thomas, his proggam and appeal, an instrument with which te carry on the fight for,petty bourgeois reformism, to modify the more open forms of violence against the working class, to strengthen capitalism, and to perpetuate the cap- italist system. Thomas likewise drew’ votes from workers who are ecoming radicalized and to whom the two old parties are the agencies f open and violent reaction. These workers who voted for Thomas, tho posed as a liberal opposition to the two open capitalist parties showed that in moving to the left they still possess strong reformist illusions. Despite these reformist illusions, which will be destroyed in the further course of the developing struggle and in the developing crisis, such votes nevertheless indicate the tendency of the workers to move to the left. * The glection campaign brought out clearly the changed pgture of the socialist party. The large vote for Thomas as against the wote for the rest of the ticket for the socialist party showed that the socialist party is becoming a typical petty-bourgeois party which spreads illu- sions that a change in the present conditions can be brought about by the change of the man in office, the selection of an honest representa- tive, and whose reform proposals are directed towatd perpetuating and strengthening the capitalist system. An examination of the Thomas vote. indicate that. in working class districts he secured a smaller in- crease proportionately as against the vote of the last mayoralty cam- paign while a larger increase was registered in petty bourgeois districts. Thsi only means the hastening of the process of making the social- ist party a third bourgeois party, of bringing the socialist party directly into the state apparatus, as is already indicated in the editorial in.the New York Tribune, which makes the proposal for drawing Thomas into the state apparatus by asking, “Is there no way to make use of such a man in the public service? Are there no commissions on which his talents could be put to use in the intervals between his perennial candi- cies?” The process of what is happening ifternationally with social mocracy in becoming part of the state apparatus is likewise mani- sting itself in the United States. The vote for Thomas brings out the characterization of the third period, of the general crisis of post-war capitalism. and of the increased menace of social reformism which has been pointed out by the Com- munist International and by the Communist Party of the United States. The need for intensifying all around the struggle against social reform- ism is very clearly brought out by the whole course of the election struggle. The bourgeoisie will aim to utilize the socialist party and social reformism more and more in its attempt to isolate the leadership of the Communist Party from the growing militant struggle of the workers. The Communist Party in the election campaign was the only working class force carrying on its work against rationalization, and imperialist war, for full racial, social and political equality for the Negro masses, and which fought against social reformism in its strug- gle for strengthening the working class and overthrowing capitalism. It appeared in the election campaign for the first time directly on the ballot as. “Communist,” as against the designation “Workers” in former campaigns. Its vote as compared to the last mayoralty cam- paign has increased but the Party failed to register the volume 6f radicalization due to the fact that large sections of the most exploited workers, the foreig-born and youth, are denied the right to vote due to the campaign of suppression, terror, and intimidation before and luting the election campaign in the working class districts and parti- cularly in the Negro sections. The fact that the Party is only now in the very midst of the cam paign itself, organizing its forces for establishing its independent lead- etship and its revolutionary Bolshevik policy which alone can overcome the gap, between the strength of the Party and its growing prestige among the masses in the economic struggles and the strength which it registers in its election campaign, was an obstacle in the full mobiliza- tion of the support of the radicalizing masses. The fact that the Party is only now overcoming the right wing line and the destructive factional struggle which prevented it from conducting a merciless struggle against reformism and showing to the workers that it is the only force at stands for a real revolutionary struggle against the enemies of e workers, further contributed to its failure to express in the election the radicalization process which is taking place among the workers. Only by the completion of the process of cleansing its ranks of social reformist ideology, by intensifying a hundred-fold in its practical Jaily activities its fight against social reformism of all shades, can the Party rally the radicalizing workers to its banner and develop the econ- omie struggles into mass political conflicts against the capitalist ex- ploitation and oppression. The bourgeoisie conducts its terror campaign against the Commu- nist Party while it plays up social reformism ,because it realizes the iepth of the crisis in which it is involved and that the masses under the oressure of exploitation, the growing burdens of rationalization, and oy the exposure of the social reformists as tools of the bourgeoisie, ba in over greater numbers to the leadership of the Communist ‘arty. . The crisis of capitalism in the United States deepens.- The exploi- sation and the oppression of the workers intensfies. Greater wage cuts, | treater unemployment, intensified speed-up, imperialist war, faces the working class as an immediate menace. The foundations of capitalism yecome ever more shake. Under the leadership of the Communist Party ind the ever more determined and energtic application of th line of the Comintern ,the power of the working class becomes stronger, the move- ments of the masses wider, leading toward gigantic battles and to festruction of the capitalist system. “a -jenounce Imperialist ‘War on Armistice Day |Ten big mass meetings are ar- \mged by the Communist Party in jew York for 8 o'clock, Monday ext, Armistice Day, to protest the te denounce imperialist war and the employers’ plan for an attack on the Soviet Union. The meetings will be at Tenth St. and Second Ave.; 110th St. and ifth Ave.; 187th St. and Eeventh Ave.; Intervale and Wilkins; 149th St. and between Pith “Aves: Brockiyny Grand Se ve, Brooklyn; Gra je of the anniversary of the end- | Extension, , lyn; Stene and of the last great world slaughter | PPiPtPkPin, Brocklyn; Columbus USSR Hail the 12 Anniversary MOSCOW, Noy. 7.—Workmen’s |and peasants’ delegations from ‘every part ofthe Soviet Union pre- sented trginloads of iron, steel, grain, coal, potatoes and textiles as gifts to their government today as unnumbered hundreds of thousands of teilers from the factories and fields of the Soviet Union took part in huge celebrations of the triumph- of the Union of, Soviet Socialist Re- publics and the great onward strides of the five-year plan of Socialist construction. Scores of thousands of workers of. Moscow marched in solidarity with thousands of workmen and peasants from every section of the Soviet Union, and with them marched additional thousands of members of the Red Army and Navy. Delegates from every na tion of the world shared in the great celebrations of the triuriph of So- cialist upbuilding. A twelve-mile parade, lasting eight hours, was held through red- banner-bedecked Moscow. Similar celebrations, some on an almost equal scale,»were being held simul- taneously throughout the Soviet Union, . Determination to bring results which will far exdved even the great undertakings of the five-year plan, and to do so long before the origi- nally-planned five ye@rs, was the keynote of resolutions adopted by millions of workers thruout the U.S. S. R. today. To speed the flood of grain ship- mente was the announced determin- speaking fer seores of millions of Soviet Unien veasanjs. “By the spring of 1980 we will have 60,000 tractors and in another year from then 100,000, and in 1932 (Continued on Page Two) MEET IN SOUTH FOR ANNIVERSARY Series of Celebrations for Bolshevik Revolt CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 7. — This week-end will. see a whole series of celebrations of the Twelfth Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution held in many of the principal. industrial cities of the South. This is the first time such a thing has been possible in this territory. Many Speakers. There will be a meeting Saturday, November 9, in Danvile, Va., Owls Hall, with Ben Wells and Joe Carr as speakers. A series of meetings are arranged for Sunday, November 10. George Maurer, southern repre- sentative of the International Labor Defense, and Albert Teth- erow of Gastonia will speak in Charlotte, at the New Union Hall. Caldwell and Belmont. At the Union Hall, Bessemer City, N.C., are George Saul and Joe Carr. At Atlanta, Ga., Hugo Oghler, southern organizer of the N. T. W. U.; Sy Gerson, Elmer MacDonald, recently returned from the chil- dren’s delegation to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and Al- bert Carrol wil! speak. In Asheville, N. C., two of the Gastonia defendants will speak. They are Amy Schechter and Del- mar Hampton. On Sunday, November 10, will be held in Greenville, S. C., an all-day ergional textile conference with Jim Reid, national president of the N. T. W. U., presiding. There will be a mass meeting for all workers with Reid and Sophie Melvin, another of the original Gastonia defendants, as speakers. Baltimore Celebrates 12th Anniv. Today —_ BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 7.—Bal- timore workers will celebrate bord Twelfth Anniversary of the October Revolution Friday night, at 8 p. m, at Schanze Hall, North and Penn- sylvania, Speakers will include Harry M. Wicks, Rothschild Fran- cis, and George Padmore. ATTENTION EVERYONE! Every Daily Worker Agent, every Party member, every Daily Worker reader, every worker this reaches: If you have not yet secured tickets for the Daily Worker Dance and Entertainment to be held November 16, at Rockland| Palace, then call at once: at the Daily Office, 28 Union Square,| New York City. ant completion of the twelfth year | atign of the Soviet peasant bodies | ATUNION SQUARE DEMONSTRATION “You Greet the Union, | Not, Just Me,” Strike | Leader Tells Crowd Fight Release Five Cheei Tall, Hendryx, A: They Join | Just released from the millown- \ ers’ jail by $5,000 furnished by the Internationa! Labor Defense, Fred Beal was welcomed by thousands of New York workers who carried him on their shoulders from Pennsyl- vania terminal to Union Square last night. “Fellow -vorkers, it’s a wonderful demonstration you're giving me,” Beal said at the Co-operative Cafe- teria, where he began his speech, “but I know you’re not just wel- coming me—you’re greeting the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union and the five comrades still waiting for you to bail them out down in Char- lotte. The union’s a fighting union and I’m proud to belong to it. “Tm happy to see you fellow workers, who brought me here so I could join Red Hendryx and ask you to go on fighting till the rest of the boys are out. “Later on we'll be able to tell you about that rotten, dirty millown- ers’ system down in the Charlotte mills,” Beal said later from the win- dow of the Workers’ Center. ‘The great crowds which packed the cafeteria had forced the demonstra- tion inte the Square. “But the workers are waking up down there. They’re rising and we're -getting our Negro fellow- workers into the fight. The bosses \down there think and try to fool jthe workers that the Negroes are terrible people, but the workrs in the National Textile Workers Union Knows that’s justlies. Why, we’re jthe only union organizing the Ne- groes—we have Otto Hall, who was nearly lynched down there too, — with us in our fight.. He’s here with us now.” Prolonged cheers echoed through Union Square as the strike leader drew Otto Hall on the stand. Hen- Class Forces in the New York Millions in the WELCOME BEAL |USSR Flyers Thank Toilers for Welcome | What delighted the four cour- jageous fliers of the “Land of the |Soviets” most of all on their long hop from Moscow to New York were |the greaf welcomes they re from workers in the various cities jin which they stopped off after they reached the United States. Two of the fliers, Philip Bolotov and Semyon Shestakov, interviewed at Curtis Field yesterday by a |Daily Worker reporter, stated that |they thought the welcomes they re- jeeived in San Francisco, Seattle, |Chicago and Detroit, at the hands of workers were “wonderful.” | “We thought the welcomes by the | {workers in the cities we landed at | here were great, and we wish to| |thank those who came to greet us,”} |said Bolotov, who sneaks and unde: jstands English, though with diffi- culty. ‘ Shestakov, the chief pilot of the| “Land of the Soviets,” smiled as| the question was put to him in Rus- | sian. Both of the fliers turned to! the sides of the big silver plane, on} which were scrawled the names of thousands of workers from hun-} dreds of~industrial centers of the{ country, who came. hundreds of; miles to the various cities in which | the “Land of the Soviets” had landed. Just at present the flyers are | eager for a flight across the Atlan-| tic... The “Land of the Soviets” | could be prepared for a flight from New York to London in a very short time, said Bolotoy, but the fliers are awaiting a decision from the “Oso- aviakhim” (Soviety for the Prgmo- tion of Aviation of the Soviet Union), as to the trans-Atlantic flight. «| The trans-Atlantic flight, if it is carried out, will be made before the year is over, according to the fliers. While the mechanic Fufaev, a red-cheeked lad who doesn’t seem lover 25, puttered about the plane Jadusting and tuning its three 600- horsepower motors, interlarding his Russian. conversation with “make it | snappy” andy “O.K.,” the plane it- self attested to the heartiness of (Continued on Page Two) WINDOW CLEANER FINAL CITY EDITION ———— Price 3 Cents MILL THUG SHOTS Mec? to Save 3 NEW LOCALS AT LEAKSVILLE FAIL 10 SCARE Mass Picketing Goes on in Strike of NTW Union Members Grand Juror, Murderer, | Was Seen in Gang That!" Killed Ella May CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. Furious intimidation by the hench- men of the Leaksville Woolen Mill m omestead, a suburb of Charlotte, | has failed to break the strike or| atter the picket lines. The 200 striking workers, members of the National Textile Workers’ Union, maintain solid midnight and day- time picket lines, and between pick- eting, post sentries to call out the mass pickets whenever the occasion requires. Thugs Shoot. Last night mill thugs came out to abuse the pickets and fired into the air, hgping to scare them. This attack failed. Collections for strike relief are being made at the gates of the other mills around. Leaflets are being distributed to the workers of | ether mills and in other citi ing them of the Leaksville and asking them to stay away from the strike area. The Leaksville strike, coming in the midst of the fake investigation of the Ella May murder, is accepted | here as the workers’ first answer to | the attempts of the mill bosses to, shoot the N. T. W. U. out of the) South. 1 rates ae GASTONIA, N. C., Nov. 7.—In spite of the half-hearted prosecu-| tion, National Textile Union mem- | bers testifying in the hearings into the murder of Elia May continue to pile-up evidence of the crime of the mills an dof the state. Charles | Shope, member of the Ne T. W. U. from Bessemer City, who was in the truck with Ella May when mill gangsters killed her, testified to- | day that he could identify as one | of the murderers a member of the | | charged with sedition. dryx had already joined them. “Yes, the workers are rising in the south, there’s no doubt about that, and the resistance of the work- (Continued on Page Two) THINKS U.S, MUST RECOGNIZE USSR Chain Paper Man Says Pressure Is Growing Prophesy of the recognition of the Union of Socialist Soviet’ Rep- ublics by the United States is con- tained in a special article for the Scripps Howard Syndicate of news- papers. It is written by the syn- dicate’s foreign editor, William Phil- lip;Simms. The writter points out that up until now there has been no particular pressure upon the Washington administration to ex- tend recognition, because of cer- tain factors which are now either changed or in the process of chang- ing. These factors are: inability of U.S. S. R. to secure certain goods anywhere else but in U. S. The constant possibility of U. S. recog- nition; lack of effective European competition until recently for Soviet, trade. The uncertain status in Eng- land. ’ Now, Simms says, Europe can supply in quantity, and at compe- titive prices whatever the U. S. S. R. requires; the British recognition is granted; and unless U. S. indicates a willingness to be reasonable, her by the Soviet goveinment buy- ing agencies, my 12th Anniv. Starts Cleveland Y' CL. Drive CLEVELAND, Nov. 7—The Cleve- land Young Communist League is starting its “Build the League Cam- paign” by the celebration of the Twelfth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution at a dance to be held November 9 at 7:30 at the Gardina Hall, 6021 St. Clair Ave. A fine program has been arranged, which includes dancing, athletic exhibition, refreshment, and many other attrac- tions. Admission {s free, TO ALL N. Y. COMMUNISTS All Party members are to report at the Workers Center, 6th floor, today, at 11:00 a.m. for important Party work. —District Executive Committee |ticket at the New York elections, ' Mendez, N, 'T, W. organizer, refused i\Conference Pressed By Right Wing Treachery Negotiations between the Window |Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, land the Manhattan Window Clean- ling Employers’ Protective Associi ition ended in a deadlock yesterday | | when representatives of the employ- lers’ body refused to grant practical- ly all the demands of the union. The negotiations, which sought to end |the strike of more than 2,000 win-| \dow cleaners that is now in its) [fourth week, were held in the Hotel McAlpin. \ The employers refused categori- cally to grant the five-day, 40-hour week, which is’ one of the union’s chief demands, instead of the present five and a half day, 44-hour week. The employers also insisted that any agreement signed with the union should be for two years instead of one year, and offered instead of the $4.50 minimum wage increase de- manded by the union, a $2 increase the first year and an additional $1 the second year. At present the minimum wage is $45 a week. The union’s demand that a com- mittee of lunion representatives be permitted to inspect all safety de- vices and to remove men from ‘he job if these devices were found *o be improper, was countered with 2 proposal that this committee be ¢<.1- posed of an equal number of u and employers’ representatives v ith the State Department of Labor as = j out the man. identifid killers. | Summons Jury. | Judge McElroy was forced to or- | der the grand jury to appear in court tomorrow morning to permit | Shope to look them over and pick | | grand jury which refused to: bring | STRIKE NOT OVER | in indictments of the nine previously | Shope testified that immediately after he appeared before the grand jury he told Sheriff Wiggins of | this. The sheriff did nothing. The | grand jury refused to indict any- | body. The whole endeavor of those con- ducting this second “probe” di rected toward hiding the fact al-| veady apparent that the whole ate machinery. here is the bosses’ agent, and that the investigations e all for the purpose of white- washing the murderers, or at least of picking out a scapegoat for light punishment. Hear Hendryx, George| Speak New York’s working class youth will demonstrate its solidarity with the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union with a huge Tdelfth Anniversary celebration tonight at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The youth celebration will serve to mobilize the young workers for the defense of the Soviet Union. K. Y. Hendryx, one of the Gas- tonia strikers facing long prison terms at the hands of the mill boss- es, will tell of the struggle against slavery and terror in the South, and the need to rush funds at once to 3 on Sedition Charge in Pa. ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 7.—A fight against the sedition law, most harsh in the domain of Charles Schwab and his steel barons in| Pennsylvania, has been started in a! call for a conference in the Lehigh Valley to save three worke Anna Burlack, William Murdock and ; 1 Brown, charged with sedi- tion, from ten-year sentences. | The conference, called by the Le- high Valley section of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense, will be held | | December 1, at 2 p. m. at 411] Hamitlon St., Allentown, Pa | Anna, an li-year-old vigorous ighter for the working class; Mur-| textile struggles, now in the Leaks- | ville woolen mill strikes in North Carolina, and Brown, an active unionist in the Bethlehem, were ar- rested May Day. | Were Protesting War. ' ‘They were taken in custody with | nine otner workers who had as-| sembled to celebrate International Labor Day and to protest against imperialist war. The barony*of Schwab, which fat- tens on war and prospects of war, could not permit such a “seditious” proceeding and raided the hall. Nine of the twelve workers were released, only the members of the | Communist Party were held and The con- ference will also mobilize the work- ers for defense of the Gastonia, strikers, the Chicago and the gen- eral white terror sweeping the land. Pt ee) oa Raised Surprise Donation. CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 7.—At a sur- rise party given J. Wishner by the Olgin branch of the Independent Workmen’s Circle, those present ‘aised $15 for the defense of the six miiltant workers held in Cook County jail on sedition charges, and for C. F. Hathaway, Communist | Party district organizer out on $15,- 000 bonds for the same charge. | MILL BOSS LAUDS SLAVERY SCHEME To Make Mills Safe! For Scab Wages BOSTON, Nov. 7. — Scientific | methods to keep labor unions out of| cotton mills, to speed up workers with the least possible friction, and to “smooth out!’ small disputes, oc- | cupied the attention of the opening} session of the Boston convention of | the National Association of Cotton| 5 Manufacturers, The textile revolt in the South, for activities in which the seven Gastonia leaders face 20 years in jail, and New England’s continued (Continued on Page Five) FOR NATIONAL MINERS UNION Injunction Won't Halt Conference in Sub 4 Districts Sunday, £ Watt Calls in UMWA Tries to Pack Staunton Meet With Fakers Ill, Nov. new locat Min WEST FRANKFORT, 7--There are three unions of the National |dock, veteran of the New Bedford | Union ready to enter the battle for the stx-hour day, and union condi- tions in the coal mines. Organizer reeman Thompson has wired for charters for these three new locals in Springfield sub-district, the eapi- tal city of the Fishwick-Farrington clique now running the Tllinois dis- trict of the United Mine Workers company union, and the home town cf John Lewis, international presi- dent of the U. M. W, A. An important sub-district eonfer- ence will be held in Springfield Sun- day to mobilize forces te carry out the decisions ef the district con- vention called by the National Min- ers’ Union and held Oct. 26 and 27 |in Belleville. It appears now that one of the very best ef the proposed sub-dis trict conferences will be that ir Harrisburg, Saline County, in the southern part of Illinois, The min ers there are ralying in force to the militant ‘N. M. U., in spite of every obstacle the coal @perators, the can. italist courts, and the U. M. W. A conthrow in their way. The enemy has even gone so far as to secure an injunction prohibiting R. 0 Rice, organizer for the N. M. U. from walking the streets of certair parts of Wasson, the company towr here he lives. Plans are complete for a good eqnfeyence in Staunton sub-district [at Staunton. This is an important coal enter, and the sub-district con. ‘erence will be particularly impor- tant because Staunton local has the only following of Watt, the nationa president now rejected overwhelm- ingly by the rank and file of the N. M. U., on account of his anti- worker policies Next door to Staunton is Living- ston, one of the largest locals, which kas entirely repudiated Watt, and will not even permit him to speak at its meetings The Staunton sub- district ill have a complete National Miners’ Union conference, under the leadership of the grievance commit- tee . Watt Calls U. M. W. A. - Watt is issuing his own confer- ce call, proposing to pack it with ick delegates. His call from Staunton states: “Representation shall be five delegates for each one iundred members, who shall be | elected at regular or special meet- ings called for this purpose. A spe- cial invitation is sent to all local unions of the U. M. W. A., which |have not broken over to the Na- STOCK CRASH IN | tional Miners’ Union, to send dele- gates to this conference on the same FOREIGN CITIES New York Banks Peg Up Market Slightly Heavy buying by the Morgan banking consortium resulted ni some of the stock prices rising on the New York exchange toward the end of a day of trading that ended at 1 p. m. yesterday. In spite of the khown intention of the bankers to try and block the steep decline of the prices, the ex- change opened with orders from America and abroad to sell in large quantities. The selling was by the basis of representation.” The National Miners’ Union in- vites delegates from U. M. W. A. locals, but only from such as “have taken ion to repudiate the U. M. W. A. fakers, stop paying them dues, etc., but have not as yet !transformed themselves into N. M. | U. locals.” (From the call of the Districct Grievance Board of the N. M. U., Mlinois district.) Watt claims that his instructions for U. M. W. A. delegates were is- sued “in accordance with instruc- tions sert out by District Griev- | ance Board of the National Miners’ Union,” but a comparison of the two calls will show that this is not So. These conferences are for Sunday, | November 10, and another is ar- the final arbiter. The union re- free the five Gastoni: fused to yield this point. Roc ernand largest holders, in amounts of 70,000 | ranged for the same date in Belle- and 80,000 shares in many cases. | ville, the place the district conven- trade may be switched away from | Right Wing Treachery. | The right wing in the union pre-| faced its entry into negotiations by giving a story to the capitalist press, ‘exulting over the opening of the jtalk, and claiming that everything iwas all right now because the bosses would not have to deal with Peter Darck, left winger. They allowed the president of the employers’ as- sociation to speak for them, and say: “The action was taken to open (Continued on Page Two) Paterson Workers in 12th Anniv. Tonight PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 7.—P: erson workers will show their soli arity with the Soviet workers at a 12th Anniversary celebration, to- morrow night (Friday), at Union Hall, 205 Paterson St. The main speaker will be William W. Wein- stone, who headed the Communist, union organizers still in prison. Harrison George will also speak, He and members fo the National Ex- ecutive Committee of the Young Communist League will tell of the accomplishments towards socialist construction in the U. S. S. R. under the five year plan, A play given by mmebers of the Y. C. L., revolutionary songs by Youfig Pioneers, and mass. recita- tions and dancing will also feature. 10 Days Jail for Two | Militant Mill Union Girls in New Bedford NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 7. —Arrested at the Wamsutta Mill gates here on October 24, where she was distributing to workers leaflets announcing a national Tex- tile Workers Union meeting that night, Lydia Oken, 19, of 27 Cleve- land St., was on Monday sentenced to 10 days, after she and Eulalie Stock sales at noon amounted to 5,- 386,200 shares. News arrived of similar scenes in Chicago, on the Pacific Coast, in Canada, London, Paris and Berlin, he American sto¢k crash is rapidly becoming a world crisis. The buying orders were placed on certain stocks, like steel, which re- vived 5% points late in the day; General Electric, which went up 18 points; Radio, which went up five, etc. Whether they keep up today is another 4uestion. Thére will be no session of the Stock Exchange Saturday. Build Up the United Front of | the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! to pay fines of $5 each, which were assessed against them last Friday, Mendez was fined as a result of her arrest at an open air meeting tober 28, at Wi |tion was held. The conference originally intend- ed to be held Nov. 10 in West Frankfort, seat of the district of- fices of the National Miners’ Union, which will make the conference |there much more important then | was supposed. ra | Says Fishwiek Stole. | SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov. 7.—A | charge that President Fishwick of the Illinois District of the United | Mine Workers of America stole $28,202.10 of union funds was the | most important part of the answer of International President Lewis of the U. M, W. A. to the Fishwick request in Sangamon county court yesterday that the temporary in- junction agai... Lewis’ replacing (Continued on Page Two), ATTENTION! “= of textile workers on Monday, Oc- TURN TO PAGE 4 OF. Acushnet Ave, ,