The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government alo Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ¢ aily OF —> Se) = Nears oF afore > ee ee AMDorker _ Entered as second-class maticr at (he Post Office at Ne w York, N. Ys ander the act of March 3, 1879. : FINAL CITY EDITION ae Gublished daily except Sundsy by The Company. tvc. 26-28 Union Square. Vol. VI., No. 220 New Yor tty, 6. ¥-@>x NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New Yor! ; Pric 3 Cents by mail, 86.00 per year. Capitalist Justice in North YCL to Hail KILLER ADKINS ZUUL Board Carolina The kind of justice that is given to the workers in North Carolina is not strange or unusual—it is only unusually easy to understand. It is the common, typical justice that prevails in the same essential char- acter in every capitalist country. For instance: | To break the strike in the Loray Mill at Gastonia, open armed vio- | lence’ (entirely illegal, but supported by the legal authorities and the | state government), was used against the strikers. The leading strikers , and organizers were attacked with arms and would have been killed if they had not defended themselves. Having defended themselves against openly unlawful violence and having committed no illegal acts them- selves, they are railroaded to living deaths in prison. During the prosecution, not of those who committed the crime, but the workers who resisted the crime at Gastonia, the open illegal vio- lence of the mill owners’ paid agents and the authorities (including Carpenter and Bulwinkle, who conducted the prosecution in court), con- tinued undisturbed against workers. Armed thugs, with the encourage- ment and protection of the legal authorities, openly rampaged through- out the country. Deliberately attacking the unarmed’ workers, they sho tto death a heroic woman leader of the strikers, Ella May Wiggins. “The law” immediately came to the rescue of the murders, secur- ing the release of those who were openly seen and identified as the murderers. Before the sentence to long years of torture of those workers who resisted the attack upon themselves at Gastonia, came the Marion, N. C., affair. Sheriff Adkins, who, as the little fat flunkey of the mill bosses, is a fit symbol of the state government, together with eight heavily armed deputies, deliberately murdered six unarmed workers at the gate of the Marion Mfg. Co. mill. And what happened next is an amazing lesson in capitalist justice, to all of the working class that has not yet had its eyes opened to this sor tof thing: Every device and the entire machinery of the law is put in motion to protect the murderers, every one of whom is publicly known and iden- tified. . And all workers who were at tne mill gate and survived the murderous fire of the mill-agent deputies—are indicted for “rebellion” against the state and for “insurrection” with sticks in their hands. All workers ought to see by this time that there is not the slightest danger of any agent of the mill bosses being punished for anything, no matter what the crime my be. And that any worker who tries to do anything for the working class to secure better conditions or better pay from the bosses—no matter how “legal” and peaceful his conduct may be, will be struck by the heavy hand of the law. That is because the government is what the Communists have already told you it is—a capitalist government, owned by the bankers, mill bosses and other capitalists, and it exists simply for the purpose of suppress- ing the working class for their enslavement to the bosses. And now something more is happening. C. D. Saylors, one of the workers who was kidnapped and flogged by the. mill agents with the help of the authorities, saw the two big lawyers, Bulwinkle and Car- penter, among the mob of criminals organized to terrorize the workers. Saylors identified the two scoundrels under oath. So the whole ma- chinery of the law is set into motion again to protect the two big bullies of the mill owners, Bulwinkle and Carpenter—and the Grand Jury (owned by the mil] owners) has indicted Saylors for “perjury” because he told the truth. Next, the filthy, lying Charlotte Observer, newspaper organ ‘of the mill owners, intimates that one of the attorneys for the Gastonia workers is to be indicted, also, on the ground that he “suborned” Say- Jors to tell the truth which. the law calls “perjury” because anything against the mill owners is “perjury.” This is capitalist justice. This is capitalist government. This is what the Communist Party means when it tells the workers that our class cannot be free as long as the capitalist government exists, There is only one other kind of justice. That is working class jus- tice. But working class justice cannot exist except under a working class government. In only one country in the world have the workers, so far, their own government. That is in Soviet Russia, where the class struggle (such as we see in Gastonia and Marion) reached the high stage where the working class overthrew the capitalist class govern- ment and established their own working class government. Now all of the mills, mines and factories—the whole country and everything in it—belong to the workers. Only under such conditions can there be working class justice. There the former mill owners, thugs, dicks and police went to jail and the working class is building up the greatest democracy ever known— the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Communist Party, in fighting for the workers in every “little” struggle like that of Gastonia, Elizabethton and Marion, and in fighting to save our Gastonia brothers from capitalist prisons, also works day in and day out to make all of our class see that we must put this coun- try and the whole world under the rule of the working cla: New York Official Admits Girls Get No Living Wage Quoting government figures com- , Assemblers + 18 to 15 iled during the week ending Sept. | Packers -Uto 18 4, of this year, Frances Perkins,| Hand sewers : 14 to 18 lew York industrial commissioner, |Pressers 16 to 17 dmitted in a public speech in the lotel Pennsylvania that thousands | f working girls in this city get city of slums and high rents, a room ‘ages below the lowest minimum at jand three meals a day cost a girl thich a healthy life is possible. |$14.69 a week, if she is content with The figures the government fur-|the worst. This amount leaves noth- ished showed the following scale of if for carfare, clothes, laundry, rages paid by leading Manhattan |#™uUsements, newspapers, or any- Sewing machine operators 15 to 30 Perkins admits that in New York, mployers. thing else, And many, of the’ wages , 'paid are not as much as $14.69. ‘Jerks ‘ ++-$12 to $18) Even Perkins had to say: 'ypists . - 14 to 18) “There is something defective in tenographers + 15 to 25/our civilization, something wrong \ssistant bookkeepers ... 18 to 25|with the economic machine, else the “hoto printers ..... 14 , Worker, out of what she produces, could’ buy back at least enough to feed and house herself. drill press operators . ?asters seegeceses 13 Fakers Expel Three | Living Newspaper Militants of Local _ to Feature U.C.W.W. 900, Barbers Union 14 At a packed meeting in which on- y henchmen of the fakers were al- owed to “vote”, the membership | raving been bulldozed into abstain- | ng, S. Weinrib, A. Granditti and I. | Spivack, militant members of Local 100, were expelled from the Journey- | nen Barbers International for dar- | ng to expose the corrupt misleader- thip. A mass meeting of all New York yarbers wil be called in the near ‘uture to denounce the expulsions, thow up the betrayal program of the barber fat boys and map out ylans for future work among tho rank and file of the locals. 1, L. D. Wants Volunteers. Volunteers for clerical work for ‘he Gastonia and anti-terror drive | wre asked by the International La- vor Defense to report daily at the National Office, Room 402, 799 Broadway. CORA SS Aceon Anniversary Friday A living newspaper will be the feature of the sixth anniversary celebration of the United Council of Working Women Friday at 8.30 p. m. at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and Ninth St. | Articles for this living news- | paper, an institution established in | the Soviet Union since the Revolu- {tion are being written by Council |members and will be read by the authors. The articles include in- teresting sketches of the like of the proletarian women, M. J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, will be among the speakers. Other representatives of working class organizations will greet the Council. Victor Pecker will present humor- | our sketches from working class life. | Other entertainers are Ida Tulman, |elocutionist, and A. Gusankin, con- cert violinist. Anniversary YCI Sunday Eastern Celebration at) Workers Center An eastern celebration, including three districts of the Young Commu- nist League, will be held this Sunday evening at Workers Center, 28 Union Square, on the 10th anniversary of the Young Communist International, a section of the Communist Inter- national and the leader of the world working class youth, “The Young Communist Interna- tional was born in the struggles of the working class youth and in the revolutionary wave which spread thruout the European countries after the war,” a statement of the Y. C. L. National Executive Committee says. “For ten years it has conducted an untiring and heroie struggle in the interests of the -working youth of the East and West. “We call upon all Party comrades, young and adult workers, Pioneers and working class children to parti- cipate in this celebration and turn it into a mighty demonstration of international solidarity of the work- ing class under the leadership of the Communist International and Young Communist International.” National leaders of the Communist. Party and Y. C. L. will speak, and moving pictures ‘showing Interna- tional Red Day demonstrations will be shown. PITTSBURGH YL MEMBERS JAILED Hold Demonstratior Against Terror PITTSBURGH, Pa., Noy. 19. — Samuel Herman, District Organizer of the Young Communist League, and Fannie Plotkin, Agitprop Di- rector and Communist candidate for the City Council in the recent elec- tions in Pittsburgh, are ordered to report on Monday, November. 25th, at the county court in Pittsburgh, to begin serving a 30-day sentence in the Allegheny county jail. They were arrested at the huge open air demonstration on August 8 at the corner of Union and Ohio Sts., S., Pittsburgh, where thousands of workers gathered to protest against the vicious breaking up of the Aug- usv 1st international demonstration by mounted and foot policemen. The county court, where the case was brought up on appeal after Magistrate Hough had imposed sen- tence of $10) fine or 30 days in jail on the two militant League mem- bers, upheld the verdict of the lower court. The Young Communist League of Pittsburgh, together with the Com- munist Party, is planning to mobil- ize the widest number of workers against the terror campaign of the capitalist government. T.U.U.L. Leads Strike of Laundry Workers Organized by shop committees led by the Trade Union Unity League, workers of the Real Cleaning and Dyeing Company, Corona, L. I., con- tinued picketing yesterday. They had struck Monday in_ protest against the discharge of a worker who had demanded back wages. Workers applying for jobs in re- sponse to the laundry bosses appea! joined the strikers when they dis- covered they were wanted as scabs. Mock Gastonia Trial Friday by Section 1 A mock trial of the capitalist class, on the Gastonia verdict, will be held by Section 1 of the Commu- nist Party, at Clinton Hall, Clinton St., this Friday, at 7.30 p.m. M. J. Olgin will act as the lawyer for the defense, Sam Darcy as the pre- siding judge, and Robert Minor as prosecutor for the working class. Fred Beal and K. Y. Hendryx will be witnesses for the working class COURT RULES FOR GOVERNOR ALBANY, Nov. 19, — The New| :---: York Court of Appeals today ruled that the governor of the state has wide powers in spending appropri- ations, and thus.ended the deadlock between Roosevelt and the legisia- ture. Roosevelt vetoed many finance bills which specified the mannnr of expenditure and the legislature re- fused to pass many appropriations of a blanket nature demanded by the governor, * LONDON, (By Mail).—Replying to questions on unemployment when parliament reopened, the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas promised that a full day should be allotted for the un- pleasant subject “next week.” t to Plan Tactics TRIES 10 JAIL Big Fights THOSE HE MISSED... Coming Soon Testifies Against ‘the| in Many Industries Marion Strikers Who | A score of weak points in the | . | capit system, where employers | Lived Thru Massacre [fighting for profits during a period | of growing industrial crisis are find- ‘ing increasing resistance from the | workers, will be deeply probed at |the meeting tomorrow night of the Deputies To Be Given | National Executive Board of the Whitewash in Yancey Trade Union Unity League. MARION, N. Nov. 19.— Oscar Adkins, who led the gang of deputized mill owners’ gunmen when they killed six pickets outside the Marion Manufacturing Co.’s gates & Change of Venue sentatives from all the industrial j unions of the T.U.U.L., and of the industrial leagues and departments. It contains within it, therefore, sources of information on which the The Executive Board has repre- | HOOVER CONFERS WITH RR PIRATES IN CRISIS MEET Big Drop in Railway | Activity Basis for Confab | Mellon,LamontPresent 'Fear Big Increase in | Unemployed Ranks Growing unemployment -was the |* |main threat which stalked into the lconference of rail heads called by |Hoover today. This was made plain |by the official statement issued here some weeks ago, today ap- peared on the witness stand to try and swear some more of the strikers into long prison terms. He testified that the strikers called him a skunk and otherwise displayed their knowledge of his ac- tivities when he tried to stop picket- ing. He stated that Alfred Hoff- with four of the strikers, “egged on the crowd” when they picketed the attempted unloading of some cotton cars. Hoffman Restrained Pickets. A prosecution witness, R. K. Davis, testified that Hoffman said (Continued on Page Three) “HUNG JURY” IN GRAHAM CASE Railroad Va. Worker NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 19.—After the Tidewater region open shop bosses and their courts had used every means within their power to railroad to prison Stephen Graham, a member of the. Communist Party and representative of the ‘Trade Union Unity League, the trial of Graham on charges of “inciting to riot” and “attempt to cause a re- volt of the Negro race against the white,” ended with a “hung jury.” The jury was out about three hours, and could come to no agreement on just how to railroad Graham, and N.}on exactly what charges. ~ Graham was arrested at an open air meeting of the Negro and white workers at the plant of the South- ern Spring Manufacturing Co. The trial opened last Thursday in the corporation court. Much ar- gument went on among the prose- cution as to what charges to make in order to railroad Graham. threat of deportation to fascist Jugoslavia was also held over Gra- ham’s head. Finally a charge of “breach of the peace” was made against Gra- ham, and he was fined $250. The case was appealed. One of the prosecuting lawyers was a man em- ployed privately by the Sam Finkel- stein Clothing Co. of Norfolk. Against the lies of police and of stool-pigeons hired by the state, the defense presented six workers as witnesses, two of them Negroes. The prosecuting lawyers attempted to use the Gastonia case to aid in (Continued on Page Three) Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Leaksville Mill The strike of the workers at t a fore-runner of fhe big struggles workers in the near future. board will base detailed campaigns lareae adjournment of the gathering. | for active organization work. “The railway presidents,” said | The meeting tomorrow is a con-|Hoover, “were unanimous in their Big Rallies COMMUNIST GAIM Trecede NT. IN GERMANY IS onvent 10n| | AMONG WORKERS |\Expect 50 Delegates | from South 'In May Day Barricade District 2 to 4 Over Socialists Textile workers in all mill |ters, preparing for great struggles | |against slave conditiong, will take| |part in a series of mass meetings | x : |between now and Thursday, Novem- | Red Vote Sweeps Ruhr |ber 28, which will precede the Na- |tional Convention of the National|Saxony Decreased But Textile Workers Union, to be held akon [November 28 to 30 in Union Hall,| 4 Provinces Gained (Wireless By Imprecorr) {F. -vson, N. J. | The series of pre-convention mass { meetings will end with a huge wind-| BERLIN, Nov. 19—The class up meeting in Paterson, on Wednes-| vote in the Berlin elections is re- day, November 27, the evening be-|vealing the thinness of the claim fore the conference. William Z. Fos- | that the great gain in the Commu- ter will address this meeting, which | nist vote was due solely to the ex- will be held in the Union Hall, 205 | po; grafting b: the socialist cen- | re of man, the U. T. W. organizer on trial | Use Every Means to} ‘A| tinuation of a long session Satur- day, in which among other things, it was brought out by general re- ports of the secretary, organizer and others, that large scale conflicts be- tween labor and capital are particu- larly near in certain industries. The United Mine Workers of America is practically smashed in the bity- | minous fields. In Illinois some 40,- /000 members are held in unwilling bondage to it by means of the check- off, but are extremely rebellious and are breaking with the U.M.W.A. and | joining the National Miners Union. | However, the anthracite fields are | perhaps in an eyen more critical sit- uation. The U. M. W. A. contract expires next year, and 80,000 dues paying members (60,000 less than a year ago) will be forced into a strike, with the discredited U M. W. | A. nominally leading it. This move- | ment must be prepared for, and the | hope of the miners for victory will (Continued on Page Three) Machado Gives 23 Workers to | Wall St., Nanking, and Fascists Co-operate HAVANA, Noy. 19.—Wall Street’s | president of Cuba, Gerardo Machado has signed decrees of deportation for 23 militant Chinese workers, to | be handed over to the Kuomintang \authorities for imprisonment, tor- |ture and probable execution. | Most of the 23 are members of |the Cuban branch of the All-Amer- jican Alliance to Support the Chi- nese Worker-Peasant revolution. No charges were made against the (Continued on Page Twod Senator Moses Works With Sugar Lobbyists to Aid Machado Rule WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Sena- tor Moses was exposed ‘today as working hand in hand with the Cuban sugar interest who are lob- bying for a cut in tariff on Cuban | sugar. i In order to favor his imperialist bosses, Moses handed John H. Car- roll, Washington attorney, who re- ceives $54,000 yearly from Ameri- can bankers controlling the Cuban sugar industry, a copy of a resolu- (Continued on Page Two) Worker Tells Why Strikers Must Have Daily ‘Only Paper We Can Believe, for It Tells the Workers’ Side” he Leaksville, N. C. Woolen Mill is to be waged by the Southern mill Working 11 hours a day on the day shift, and 12 hours night shift, Chang — Terror 60 hours a week, for wages from $12 to $16 a week, the Leaksville . Mill workers welcomed the National Textile Workers Union organizer when he came to their village to tell them of the necessity to organize into a militant union for the fight against slavery. - That N. T. W. organizer happened to be Fred Beal, who came to Leaksville early this year. Beal brought with him copies of the Daily Worker. .The Daily Worker has been looked on by the Leaksville mill workers as their own paper ever since that time. Now when the Leaksville workers are striking—they’re out 100 per cent against intolerable slave conditions, they’re demanding that they receive the Daily Worker—many copies of it—every day. And they look to their fellow workers in the rest of the country to see to it that the Daily Worker is sent to them regularly. Therefore it’s up to a working class organization to adopt Leaks- ville and see to it that the strikers get the Daily Worker each day. Speaking for the 200 strikers of the Leaksville Mill, W. E. Gibson, one of the strikers, tells why the Leaksville workers must have the Daily Worker. “We all came out to a man to fight for better hours and wages and against the speed up. “The Charlotte and Gastonia papers began to attack us right off the reel. “The only paper we'd believe and trust was the Daily Worker, for it was telling us the facts about the strike and the conditions in J (Continued on Page Three) \determination to cooperate in the maintenance of employment and business progress.” No action was taken. The phrases that came out of the conference will be passed on to the American Rail- way Association which is to meet in Chicago next Friday. * ee WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Today Hoover took his first step in an at- tempted effort to stem the growing economic crisis, by conferring with all leading railroad executives who may be in the East. The drop in freight car loadings for October of nearly four per cent, and a drop of 32,292 cars for the week ended November 2, will be the main consideration of the leading railroad bosses in their conference. Commenting on the proposed con- ferences of imperialist experts who will try to put the breath of life into industry, the New York Times says: “Tt is necessary to get rid of panic fears as well as of wild and impos- sible hopes.” The capitalist press is preparing the minds of the workers for a failure of the imperialist econ- omic confabs, and the wage slashing campaigns which will undoubtedly follow. Besides the leading executives of the country’s important railroads, (Continued on Page Three) COURT RULES NO LIMIT TO RENTS Declares $15 a Room Law Unconstitutional The last act in the farcical jug- gling of rent laws, emergency rent laws, city rent laws and state rent laws was played yesterday when New York Supreme Court Justice Nathan Bijur, with Justices Joseph M. Callahan and Richard Lyden con- curring, ruled that there is no limit to the amount of rent a landlord may dem-nd of his tenants. From now on, if the tenan+ wants any relief from the landlord’s extor- tion, it is up to him to organize and battle for it, through his tenants’ leagues, such as the Harlem Ten- ants’ League, which long ago point- ed out the cruel deception in the fake Tammany “Municipal Emer- gency Rent Law,” now declared un- constitutional by the appellate term -* ++ supreme court. The last session of the legislature killed the state rent law, providing that rooms renting for lower than $15 a month could not have the rates ‘raised. The “democratic” New York City government, facing an election campaign, made the ges- ture of passing a city law, to carry on the terms of the defunct state law. But now the election is over— (Continued on Page Two) GASTON 7 SPEAK ATILL.D. MEETS Will Help Campaign to Members Workers of cities near New York are eagerly waiting to hear Fred Beal and other Gastonia defendants at the mass welcomes being arranged | for them under the auspices of the New York District of the Interna-| tional Labor Defense. The meet- ings will be mobilizations for inten- sifying the campaign to free the seven victims of mill owners’ jus- tice and for building the Interna- tional Labor Defense. At 2 p. m. Sunday Beal and W. M. McGinnis, who has just been re- leased on bail, will speak in New- ark at Krueger’s Auditorium, Bel- mont Ave., near Springfield Ave. They will speak in Yonkers Mon- day night at 8 o'clock. Next Tuesday night a meeting will be held in Brownsville at Hop- kinson Mansion, 428 Hopkinson Ave. (Continued on Page Two) Paterson St., Paterson. | | Reports from the southern mill | |centers state that 30 delegates to| the National Convention have al-| ready been elected, and over 50 are | expected from the South. | Ninety delegates a’» expected | from New Bedford. In Paterson, 25 |delegates have already been elected by the textile workers of Paterson. | Delegates will be present from | such mill centers as Fall River, | Easthampton and Lawrence, Mass.; | (Continued on Page Three) | 16 Conferences Mobilize tor Big ILD Meet | thousand _ booklets | summarizing 23 important against workers current today and | 75,000 letters calling upon workers | to hold tremendous demonstrations | and mass meetings of mobilization | for the Gastonia and anti-terror drive of the International Labor De- fense are being sent from the na- tional office. Sixteen conferences to mobilize the workers for the fourth national convention of the International | Labor Defense at Pittsburgh, De- cember 29, 30 and 31, which will intensify the drive for 50,000 new members and $50,000 by January 15, are to be held in the following cities: Philadelphia, Sunday, Nov. 24, 10 | a. m., at Grand Fraternity Hall, 26 | Arch St.; Boston, Sunday, Dec. 1, at 10 a. m., Robert Burns Hall, Caledonian Building, 53 Berkeley | Hall; Anthracite, Sunday, Dec. 1, 508 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton, | Pa.; Detroit, Sunday, Dec. 1, 10 a. | m., New Trade Union Center, 3782 | Woodward Ave.; Chicago, Sunday, | Dec. 8, People’s Auditorium, 2: W. Chicago Ave.; Charlotte, N. C Sunday, Dec. 8, 10 a. m., N. T. W.| U. Hall, Caldwell and Belmont Sts.; | Cleveland, Sunday, Dec. 15, 10 a. m., | Gardina Hall, 6201 St. Clair Ave. Pittsburgh, Sunday, Dec. 15, 10 a. m.; New York, Sunday, Dec. 15, 10) a. m., Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St.; Los Angeles, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 21 and 22,, and the Buffalo section conferences Dec. 1, 8 15 and 25 at 11 different cities. I. EB. D.- Week First Week in Dec. The first week in December will be declared an “I. L. D.” week over the land a most systematic house to house and shop collection will take place in all industrial centers. Seventy-thousand coupon books have been printed. which carry the history of 23 major cases, such as Gastonia, Mineola, Salvatore Ac- corsi, the Los Angeles cases. These will be distributed for mass collec- tions the land over. , Musteites Endorse AFL Drive Against NTW in the South Chairman A. J. Muste, of the “Conference for Progressive Labor Action,” has endorsed the A. F. L. program for a drive} against the National Textile | Workers’ Union in the South. | cases |, ma yor and other socialists. All of the most important proletarian dis. tricts—Wedding, Neukoelln, F: ric n, Mitte, Prenzlauerberg, Kreuzberg, Moabit and Lichtenberg gave the Communist Party votes than given to the soc This proves that the workers behind the Communists. The voting in the main district where barricades were the scene of street fighting on last May Day. owed that the Communists re- ceived two, three and even four times as many votes as the socialists. The Communists suffered’ much persecution in the election campaign. a great part of their posters, leaf- lets and so on being confiscated. But in the three days around election, there were over a thousand new members applied to join the Commu- nist Party. The election also show- ed large fascist gains. The provincial elections showed that the Communists lost ground in Saxony, but gained in Cassel, Wies- baden, Silesia and the Ruhr. At Essen, Bochum and Gelsenkirchen, the Communists won more votes than the sociali: SCAB CLEANERS’ MEETING IS FLOP Strikers at Big Union Rally Hit Betrayers The attemptgof American Federa- tion of Labor and right wing agents of the employers to split the Win- dow Cleaners’ Protective Union, Lo- cal 8, fizzled mis bl esterday. In reply to the betr ’ call for a scab meeting in Bryant Hall, the workers crowded the regular union meeting in Manhattan Lyceum where they enthusiastically expressed their determination to continue the fight for the five-day week and theit other Jemands. Several be who considered the formation of a company union a real oceasion for rejoicing attended Bry- ant Hall. The meeting was run by Alexander Marks, well known A. F, of L. faker, the two fat-boys of the Building Service International, C. F. (Continued on Page Two) TWO MORE SHOE SHOPS LOCK OUT Workers Determined to Carry on to Victory About 100 workers, members of the International Shoe Workers Union of Greater New York were locked out yesterday by two shops in Brooklyn, These are the Barlin Bros. Shoe Co., at 79 Bridge St., and the Kados Shoe Manufacturing Co., of 2401 Pacific St, The whole crew responded en- thusiastically to the call of the union and all are determined to go {through with the fight until the | bosses realize they must carry out | the terms of their agreement. These were organized shops, and |the union had a contract. But the | Metropolitan Shoe Manufacturing Association of New York conducts a consistent policy of breaking agreements with the workers, and has deliberately engaged on the \ present struggle. Adyised By Government, The U. S. Muste, in a statement just issued, says: “The method of campaign de- manded by the southern delegates in no uncertain terms,” he de- clares, has been championed for | months by the Conference for | Progressive Labor Action. We | | insist that no other means will avail and if the A. F. of L. now | fails to use them and respond to the call of the South, miserable and disgraceful failure is in store.” The U .T. W. delegates de- manded expenditure of huge sums of money to establish their or- ganizgtion and keep the textile workers’.real union, the N. T. W. U. out of the field. They are lasking for help from southern textile employers’ associations, jand offer the bosses, arbitration instead of strikes, and. ‘“co-opera- tion to build up the industry and oaks it more efficient.” York bosses suggesting that they break their agreements and try to eliminate the union. campaign followed. There are now ten shops out. There will be a mass meeting Laber Lyceum to. which all workers in organized and unorganized shops. in Brownsville are invited to hear (Continued on Page Two) i nee, Department of Labor ~ recently sent a letter to the New: The lock-out Thursday, 5.30 p. m. in Brownsville —