The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1929, Page 3

——— PIS a, mn. x a es Pa |—-AUOCD* SOLLISIONS IN POLAND. "BETWEEN WORKERS AKD POL COMMUNISTS DEFY FASCIST f rod is Despite Socialist Leaders, Workers of Many Districts Fighting Pilsudski Communist Members of Parliament Speaking to Masses in Defiance of Government (Wireless By Imprecorr) WARSAW, Nov. 12.—The virtual solution of the Polish parliament vy Pilsudski fascists, though it be disguised as a “postponement” or-| dered by the president, has stirred | the whole toiling mass of Poland. | In spite of the effort of the soci: t party leaders to quiet the work- ‘vs, bloody collisions between work- and police are taking place in| { The mining districts are flooded | ith police, who are striving to pre- nt Communist meetings. Comm vst members of the Sejm (parlia- nd Rosiak, have held meetings de pite the police in Lodz, V Dombrova Basin and Upper Silesia Lamar ny districts, | sent), comrades Kerusalski, Gavron, | WARSAW, Nov. 12.—The more the Polish socialists try to cover up | their support of the fascist dictator- | ship of Pilsudski, the ze absurd their arguments become. Forced by | the wide increase of mass discon- | tent, the socialists were prepared en days ogo ‘9 introduce a motion criticizing the gove nment on the oudget ,when the Semj (parliament) met. ’* the’ time, \ i filled it fficer. and the Marshal jm, with whom Pilsudski had arranged the comedy, “pro- sested,” and when Pilsudski refused vo remove his officers, called off the session. Ther, when a few di passed with no session, and Pilgudski’s mana who is the figurehead of the gov- | 2mment as “president,” dissolved he parliament for a month under [: lagal term of “postponing” it, n the Sejm met, | he socialist leaders announced it a “great victory” and made the | iculous claim that Pilsudski was | ‘afraid to face parliament.” The rear the socialist leaders made such an absurd claim to “vic- tory” is very simple. Throughout Poland the workers, many of whom still are deluded by the socialist leaders, were angrily demontrating in the str shouting “Down with Pilsudski And to save PiPlsudski from the rising masses the socialists invented the idea of claiming ‘that Pilsudski was “defeated” already, thus to satisfy the workers’ and check their fi HUNGARY MINE STRIKE SHOWS GREAT SPIRIT Unofficial News That Hunger Strike Ends (Wireless by Inprecorr) VIENNA, Nov. 12.—Budapest te- ports that the political prisoners on sles with saber- |@ hunger strike have abandoned it) ‘Out Against Open Shop| because the object is attained of drawing public attention through- out th eworld to the el regime in the Mungarian prisons. This news is not confirmed and the Horthy government is silent, no one knows if the punishment ordered the strikers is being continued. The Hungary miners’’ strike at Salgotaryan is spreading. The min- ers have decided to hold no negotia- tions until their demands are met. The social democrats are sabotag- ing th estrike. The coal operators are trying to frighten the strikers } with stories o fholding great coal | reserves. MILLER ASSAILS LIBERAL JUSTICE (Continued from Page One) summed up as follows: ‘We trust that the conviction of the seven unionists in Gastonia will be oromptly appealed. . . . The main ground of the appeal ought to be the ruling of Judge Barnhili that, . . the testimony of a witness can be impeached if he dges not believe in a personal and punishing God. . Whether or not the defendants vere actually guilty of second de- sree murder, we are, at this june-) ture incompetent to judge.’ Ader- holt was, of course, shot by some: one... . The prosecution utilized | every means fair and foul, to yet the accused regardless of their pos- sible guilt. ... The jury did not! ley sufficient weight on the evi-/ jence which tended to exculpate the | condemned or give them justi sion in the plea of self defense. Yertainly the state was unable to| prove that any of them fired the fatal shot. The trial in many as- pects was a sorry travesty on that ideal of justice which assumes to accord to every suspect his deserts, regardless of his opinions and his | position in life.’ “I have quoted the highlights not | for the purpose of picking isolated sentences, but for the sake of dis- carding the unesscntials in the edi- torial. I am assuming that this editorial is representative of liberal opinion, at least as represented by the New Republic and not a, hur- riedly written paragraph to fill in space. Loubts at This Time! “Let me now take issue with those | views. | “The editorial expresses doubts | vbout our innocence of committing he murder with which we were charged. This comes after the edi- tor had a chance to study all the evidence as well as the background that surround the attack on our headquarters on the night of June 7th. The opinions expressed hy the New Republic does not recognize that the killing of the policeman has saved the lives of many work- ers, women and children, who lived in the tent colony. The facts as shown by the testimony in court revealed clearly that the police and the committee of 100, organized by the Manville-Jenckes Co., against whom we were striking, were de- termined ‘to kill them (us) out,’ as was expressed by Policeman Gilbert, who fired the second shot after his colleague, Roach, who was not even an officer, fired the first shot, The fact that only two hours before the shooting both Gilbert and Roach were drunk and were dis- ¢ armed by police officers in Meck- / (jenburg County after shooting at a an at a sods water stand on che main highwi' was a slight point omitted by t — editor. “Fyven whe. the editor refers to the matter of evidence regarding self-defense, he speaks of. it as only tending to exculpate us. Mr. Edi- tor, why all this hesitation about presenting the fovts of our inno- cence? Why do you speak about ss nossible euilt, when you criti- cize the prosecution, not for ‘get- ting’ us, but for the manner in which they got us? “The reason for this view of the Yew Republic and the ‘liberalism’ sa that it represents is to be found in| the basie social function of ‘Lib- cralism’ and reformism, namely to find sugar-coated means with which | to perp2tuate the present system of exploitation of the workers. The illusions of ‘democracy’ and ‘justice’ are examples par excellence. It is hecause of these inherent contradic- tions in your basie conceptions that you shut your eyes to the class character of ‘justice,’ of which the Gastonia convictions are only one incident. “The case of the freeing of the! murderers of the six union work- ers at Maron and of Ella May, rember of our union in Gastonia, are samples of the same class j tice that sentenced us to the peni- tentiary. It is because these ex- amples of capitalist justice have keen handed out crudely and will tend to disillusion the workers and ieveal the true ciass character of cur present day ‘democracy’ and ‘justice,’ that liberals are alarmed. I am not speaking of intentions, but the actual views expressed by the editor. “The edit» deplores not the fact that seven of us were railroaded to a living death in the penitentiary, but that the trial was a ‘travesty of justice.’ “A real reason for writing this letter 1s to assure you that the case is being appealed by the I. L. D. It is surprising that the editor of the New Republic should not know that the lawyers gave notice of ap- peal the same day that the vicious | sentences were imposed, also that | the I. L. D. is raising $27,000 to be used as hail thereby enabling us to enjoy freedom while the case is pending in the courts. “The hesitancy in expressing con- fidence in our innocence, the lack of recognition of this case as being an attempt to intimidate the work- ers and preventing them from or- genizing their unien, and the wrong information concerning the appeal expressed in the New Republic might hurt our case as it diverts support, financial and otherwise, from the efforts of the International Labor Defense to raise organiza- tion and funds to continue this fight. “Very truly yours, “CLARENCE MILLER.” “P, S.—Would be glad to write an article presenting the facts both cf the background and the facts on which we based our defense.—C. M.” Mexican Workers Are Protesting Gastonia; Sending a Delegation MEXICO CITY, Nov, 12.—Repre- sentatives of the Mexican Section of the International Red Aid (I. L. D,), and of the Caribbean Secretariat of the I. R. A, will attend the Fourth National Conference of the U. S. Section, the International Labor De- fense, to be held at Pittsburgh, Pa. late in December. The national congress of the Mex- ican section will start on January 10, the anniversary of the death, by ination af Tnlio Mella. Cuban An agreement has been arrived of fase socialis the government against the Comm DAILY WORKE. She Gets Her Price, t Hungary and the Hungarian social democre to obtain 24 seats in parlian . NEW YORK, V s at between the Horthy government tic party, the ent in exchange for supporting ts. ‘London Bus Strike on |As 2,000 Workers Wals | LONDON, Nov. 12.—The possibil- ity arose today of a complete tie-up !ef London bus service as the strike | of 2,000 busmen at the Dalston gar- |age spread to other depots. Fifteen ; lines are already affected. The |strike arose over an attempt by the | |London General Omnibus Company }| to break union control by putting | non-unionists to work, | Later:—The union officials, genu- jine stiflers of class struggle, have | jordered the men back to work, “pending negotiations.” START TRIAL OF {Continued from Page One) {railroading proceedings by trying six mill bosses’ deputies for their |part in the October 2nd slaughter of mill strikers, The second trick of the bosses’ j|ecourts is to include Alfred Hoffman, |the United Textile Workers’ Union | official who has proven himself the bosses’ man, emong those to be tried. The obviousness of this movement is made clear when Hoffman’s eagerness to co-operate with the |mill bosses here and in Elizabeth- |ton, Tenn., is remembered. Of the | 119 to be tried, 112 are mill work- | ers, | The charges against the 119 range from assault and murder to |dynamiting and rebellion against |the State of North Carolina. Hoff- man’s case was the first called. Workers Aroused by Evictions, The militancy of the workers of Marion and Clinchfield mills, and their anger against the mill bosses today rose to a great pitch when | Sheriff Oscar F, Adkins, who led | the murder of six Marion Mill Man- | ufacturing strikers on October 6, and was whitewashed for it, evicted several more families from their homes. Evict Mother of Murdered Striker. | What particularly aroused the anger of the workers was the notice of eviction served on Mrs. Dora Rob- erts, a widow, whose 17-year-old | son was one of the strikers mur- | dered by Adkins and his deputies at | the orders of the Marion Manufac- | turing mill bosses October 2. R. G. | Baldwin, head of the Marion mill, | and instigator of the October 2 mas- | sacre, called the families being evicted “undesirable.” Four fami-| lies have thus far been evicted, and 20 more families of strikers face | eviction, The family of Spurgeon Bradley | was yesterday,evicted. Bradley had | been on strike since July. He) worked in the card room and re- ceived an average of $17 a week. Another evicted family was that of |Mrs. Margaret Bradshaw, who has | ‘six small children, Four of these jchildren work in the mills. | About to be evicted is W. R. Min- jish, who was badly wounded when |he was shot behind the ear in the {October 2nd massacre. He is mar- | ried and has four small children. Mrs. Lillie Morris, supporting her girl of 7 and her mother by her slavery in the Marion Manufactur- ing Mill, was also told she was to | be evicted. | Communist, shot by agents of the Cuban government in Mexico. Five | days later, January 15, the confer- ence of the I. R. A. of the Caribbean lands will be held. | Hernan Laborde, of the Mexican | section,, announces that since news of the sentences imposed on the Gas- | tonia workers reached Mexico, an} intensified i! paign has been car- | ried on, and tle protest at Gastonia | is a subject of mass protest in Mex- | ieo. 119 IN MARION: | too must par ‘Even Swiss “Disarm” By Constructing 105 Airplanes for War | GENEVA, No 2.—The little country of Switzerland, where are located the seat of the League of Nations and the headquarters of all sorts of “peace” and “disarmament” | bodies, has shown j how much falsity they all represent, by itself preparing for war. It has appro- priated $5,000,000 to build 105 air- planes for the Swiss army. y planes for bombing and forty-five for observation. Tells of Cal. Terror (Continued from Page One) seized. Arrests were made of the leaders and the adults who had volu-vceered their services to the cooking, washing, and cleaning for | the camp. This took place as a iresult of the secret observation of members of the K. K, K., the Better American Federation and the Amer- ican Legion who found that instead of the teaching of boy scout prin- | ciples the children were being guided jalong the lines of working class | solidarity. Instead of the patriotic | dogmas they were learning about the conditions of the workers and their children and how to better them. | These children were realizing that | Worker. | the struggles of the working class | an‘ ure their struggles and as such they icipate in them. For | these reasons the close of the camp | was forced and prosecution made of those arres' The trial of Jennie Wol Mintz, Sarah Cutler, Isadore Berk- owitz, Hsther Karpiloff, Emma Schneiderman and Yetta Stromberg exemplified the capitalist justice doled out, to class conscious wor kers by the capitalist court. As a result trial all except Sarah Cutler, s visiting at the camp when arrested, were convicted by the su posedly “unprejudiced” jury compos. ed of bankers, retired engineers and ranchers. During the development of the trial the Communist Party was definitely put on trial. Those on trial were not tried and convicted because of their actions or activities at the camp, but because of any radieal thoughts or ideas which they might posse: The actual camp iseue became submerged and Com- | munisr became the predominant | igsue. Fearing uke escape of these | criminals from the clutches of the law, Emma Schneiderman, Jennie Wolfson, Bella Mintz, Esther Karpi- loff and Isadore Berkowitz, found guilty as to th. conspiracy charge, were placed under $4,000 bail while Yetta Stromberg, member cf the Young Communist League, sent out as the camp director and found guilty as to both charges, that of raising the red flag and conspiracy was placcd under $7,500 bail. Atte the verdict of guilty was given, a | nounced by the judge: six months JAY, NUVEMBEK 13, CARMEN FAKERS IN GLEVELAND RAVE AT ‘DAILY’ Stung Right by Men Showing Them Up By a Worker Correspondent. IVELAND (By Mail).—At the meeting of the Street Car- non’s Union on October 22nd, our ion officials were wild over a let- r written to the Daily Worker previously by a progressive of the union and Rhead,, secretary of Di- ision 268, read the contents of the letter to the membership and said there w everal letters being sent h y Worker by one or two that belong to Divis several or most ail letters written the Daily Worker and they wer eall true facts. I remember reading one last spring that warned the Cleveland Street Railway employes to beware of fake promises. We were given the prom- s and thi e not been ful- lled, as the writer predicted, We have a machine of fakers in control of the union and the election of new officers occurs this winter, os we m~" select better leaders, or we are bound to be g more in the future. Schultz, president and business agent, s if these wri do not stop writing to the D. Worker he is going to call them u before the meetin; Some more of his splitting tactiess. short time ago two Gastonia ed for the floor and refused, beieng told that there 0 much other important busi- , but several candidates for dif- w n | ferent offices were allowed the floor. Several of the more outspoken mili- tents mentioned the fact after the meeting and at the following meet-|a were given the flocr {and were given a hearty applause |by the members and solidarity was | shown toward those heroic strikers. | Schultz, Rhea and Co. are getting uneasy of their fine salary and can see that the leftward swing iy gain- | ing the srt |ing and promises will not hold much | longer Bolton Station has the prize board | members for fakery. Arthur Dud- ley tries to make a big show in jfront of the men he is supposed to lrepresent and preaches economy. But he does not advertise the fact that he had a few drinks at the picuic of Division 268 held this sum- mer and lost about a week from work and accepted pay for said lost | days from the local treasury. Let! | Rhea read this letter to his hench- | ‘men. | Keep up the fight in New Orleans. We have taken up one collection for yor and gave « donation and will | do more if you have not received it. | |Let us know through the Daily | Worker for we are with you an!) ite a number of our men reda the Keep your eyes on Green Mahon. But there is no need of my saying that for you are prov- ing it and are showing a fine spirit We are solid with you but several of our boys say we should send the money direct and not through the International.—-Bolton Worker. motion for a new trial was fl denied and an appeal made to car the case to a higher court made the defense council. The last of this mcckery called a trial concluded with the sentence by et a pro- | for those convicted on y charge and one to Yetta Strorhberg con- victed on both charges. Campaign for Release. Isadore Berkowitz, one of the de- | fendants, committed suicide om Tues- day October 22nd as a direct result of illness contracted while serving in the U. S. army during the world war. His physical condition greatly aggravated by the severe jail treat- ment while locked up, finally drove | him to death nal The International Labor Defense is | now planning a state wide campaign | around the case. Every class con- scious work® is to rally around | these slogans which will form the basis of the campaign: i Fight against sitempts to crush | to five yea | workers’ organizations! Fight against the anti picketing ordinances! | Fight for the right to te@ch Com- unism ! Fight for the repeal of the red flag and criminal syndicalism laws! AUTUMN DAYS AT CAMP NITGE- DAIGET ARE WELL REMEMBERED! VvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvYV CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. Telephone BEACON 731. N. N. ¥. GRAND CENTRAL TRAINS LEAVE Y. Telephone Esterbrook 1400 EVERY HOUR, & & ey 4p 4» ty 4 yt te PHB FL ASS ! WORKINGO! CAMP—ENTIRELY 1 EBUILT THE NEW NITGEDAIGET HOTEL or XTY ROOMS WITH AL’ L LATEST IMPROVEMBEN'TS 19Zzy9 IN | S Read This trom a Peasant---and Ad GENTLE WAYS OF Write Him NEW ORLEANS, LA. Dear Cor During altic Ismaile County oscow ), and = provinc ame is Roman mild ei Titovich uzm Allow me to tell flogging at is ik S Se . oll now tne livedieundacl! tha iexae | how the and Militancy Horrifies and how we live under the Soviet € e fre- Carmen Misleaders the Governmer Iam 50 ye ber much » tha ars of age and remem- lf, and also remem- and a Worker Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS (By Maii—A recent, meeting by striking carmen (B father ow under the et Government es of my r, how they lived in the time we are free citizens, We rule our}., bella Barns was attended by of serfdom. country ourselves hout landown-( aut 2,000 strikers, their families I remember well myself how a ers, czars, generals a1 tes a do gemnpathigers: peasant was flogged for non-pa: We build our ¢ Viellon, local vice-president, re- ment of ees nd ay mS told Boy rnoe , a oat ce Gee akg OES winning the “sympathy” of ne how they used’ to treat the peas- He Heats E A we 100» fieg| the “New Orleans States,” which ants in the time of serfdom, how at a d ot 0 100 miles| oi /o5 “free full page notice” to the they were flogged for the smallest apart, and now there is a hospital in \ strikers, and he praises the “States” | veterinary office, | 114 informs the men that the “Item” offense and sometimes for no reason every township whatever. Three miles from our an agron office, in gene ral | and “Tribune”. promised to do like villagé used to live a landowner everything we need to build up our| ti. «states,” Baranov who ordered all newly wed- country | ‘The strikers planned to hold a ued) rides sso; be, Drovent ty, fim EN Os epee Bao placarded-auto parade the next Sat- the first night, an yer intere you os urday at 1:30 p. m. It was easy very cruel to the vill answer your questi ‘| to get a permit from City Hall, says was murdered, and my mother saw is impossible to write abo Fialieat hut Hol) a0 eaey SRORRADAE herself how the murderers sue flog. thi ag om letter signed beiihe Chie’ cf olesihe g ioners who had tiec Vith fraternal greetings, |, Only when they promised to the unfortunate peasants to sleighs. | T. RUSMIN. | rass none of the car barns would That was O. K. \the chief sign it. bail. We would have been out sev-/ With Viellon Gaston 7 in Letter teas | An old bald-head named Larsen, eral wec':s ago were it not for one| eee of our lawyers. who , effort to/2% international official, styled (Continued from Page One) pat “er “Liontamer,” was senilely indignant : : oi - hold up the ILD attached bail funds ; ¢ the Publi lives against enraged gangs of | arounting to $15,000. There is one|@ainst Patterson of the Public capitalist hirelings. thing ..re, that we cannot trust the | Service. F ‘ As you undoubtedly know, we i » on the defense in! . Some of the strikers saw me jot- were at first cha | There were 16 of us.} ‘ged with first de. | ting notes, and introduced me to After all the law- 4 After all the laW- | Viellon with view of having me ad- gree murder. le yer a part f the capitalist But, the huge demonstrations and|°,, Her aivag acbae audio Be dress the meeting. cour id must ne avily be pr * protests organized by the Interna-| tical politicians and often grafters. One man volunteered the informa- (tion that I was from Labor Unity, (and queered me. “Oh, the Com- tional Labor Defense, not only in every large city in the country, but} We were certainly unate th we rested our defense not on the in Ecrope and South America, 1° s1°tehnivalities but on the or-|munists,” said the alesk official. stay an Hele ee -|“No, no, I won’t play with tha exee er, or ¢ Poe oraid late ganized pressure of he workers. /a 9 strict A, F. eee aaat gone as did Sacco and Vanzetti. It There 18 no “mercy’’ or seaeae “We're all workers,” I said, “and conse workers. the pressure of the workers | it hurts us to see so much fighting ganized before the trial that s, the courts, and the 80Y-| spirit going to waste. Before you lives and freed nine others. Of are tools oF the capitans's:| return to the platform, Mr. Viellon, se we do not propose to serve| While we are out on bail, we| jet me say this: There’s only one promise you to do everything in our power to help raise pressure and support for your Beal and Hendryx before they were released asked us to write you assuring you way to win this strike, and that’s | to call a general strike.” “We believe we can get more out of them financially: I don’t care to discuss the matter with you,” says these vicious sentences and so they are being fought. There is an appeal pending in the state supreme court. Meanwhile we | on bond. The bail is lease. are to go out i $27,000. Two of the boys, Beal and|°f their support also. Viellon. Hendryx, are already out on bail,|_ Only the pressure of the organ-| That's what you say!—Del. 248, ‘ye rest of us will be out in|ized workers can open the prison) M, W. L. doors. Here is hoping that our bit will help to open yours at Walla} Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! abcut 2 or 8 days. The International Labor Defense has certainly done a] 1 ; good job. The proof is that we .are | Walla. Yours for freedom, to be released even if it is only on! ©THE GASTONIA PRISONERS. will come because you know That the DAILY WORKER must strike deep roots among the workers in the southern textile industry, among the steel, mine, auto, transportation workers in all industries. Help the Daily Worker give leadership to the masses by aitending the Daily Qs Worker Entertainment and Dance ROCKLAND PALACE West 155th Street, corner Eighth Avenue. Right at Polo Grounds, where you saw the Soviet Rus: Fiyers last Saturday. Saturday Evening November 16 REGISTRATION AT THE DOOR to assure the fulfillment of your -Party task by your attendance. 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