The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1929, Page 1

——e — THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week the Yost Ollice ay Yew York SY. ander the act of March 3, 1879. Worker FINAL CITY EDITION ° Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily: Publishing Company. toc. 26-28 Union Square. New York City, N. ¥. “E™2 Vol. VI., 230 SUBSCRIPT NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1929 _ ees Outside New ES: ip New York by mall 68.00 ver rear York. by mall 86.00 per year Price 3 Cents: Workers Led by Commu- Easy on UTW nist Party Will Smash Class Chief; Others and Race Slavery --- South and North! Next Thursday in Norfolk, Virginia, will begin a criminal trial which ought to stir the masses of Negro and white workers of the mtire country into action. A working man will appear in the prisoner's MARION, N. C., Dec. 1—The jury in the case of Alfred Hoffman, United Textile Workers Union organ- izer; Lawrence Hogan, Del Lewis and Wes Fowler brought in a ver- in Chain Gang ‘SUBWAY DIGGERS Continue Raids CONGRESS TAKES DEFY OFFICIALS; in New Orleans, § E | 1 F CONTROL Each time that members of the Marine Workers League re-open <—— their branch office in New Orleans, Thugs Smash Meet of it is raidec by police and the oc-| Hoover’s Crisis Group cupants arrested, a telegram re- ce.ved from the southern seaport de- | Local 63; Members Meets Dee. 5; to on MMW. Office BACK SEAT FOR FASCIST COUNCIL PETE MUSOLIN HOOVER WANTS WAR AGAINST SOVIET UNION Is Stimson’s Opinion That “Inaction Is fock charged with the felony of holding a public mecting of mixed Negro and white workers. Under the laws of Virginia, the holding of 3 meeting in which Negroes associate with white persons is a erime Ee by five to ten years of imprisonment. The charge accuses ie young worker of causing the assembling of 150 Negro workers and & half-dozen white workers together in a Norfolk meeting hall. This, ander the law as stated in the charges, is called “conspiracy to incite the colored population to insurrection against the white population.” Stephen Graham, the worker who called the meeting for the pur- ose of launching the organization drive of the Trade Union Unity ‘ague, was performing an elementary duty to his class, to the labor novement and to the Communist Party of the United States, of which ae is a member. His activities have been toward the organization of ihe workers, black and white, in powerful, cl: conscious industrial anions. For this there is hardly any doubt that the courts of Virginia will sentence the young worker to from five to ten years in a penitentiary. In his first trial, which resulted in a hung jury, Graham asserted he position of the Communist Party in favor of unqualified racial, poli- jical and social equality of Negroes with whites and of all races. The ruling class—and certainly the southern ruling class—does not ‘orgive any interference with the present-day institution of slavery, shat is, wage-slavery of all workers and a special category of doubly- mslaved Negro workers even more brutally exploited than the white wage-slaves. We see this fundamental fact demonstrated in the bitter dass warfare in North Carolina, and Tennessee where seven cold- olooded murders openly committed by the authorities together with she private agents of the textile mills, added to systematic armed ter- ror by fascist bands, are receiving the full sanction of the courts which have supported the murderers in every case and have sent to 20-year terms in prison those workers who resisted the crimes. Knowing capitalist courts by experience, we can only count it as a foregone conclusion that the young worker who dared to attempt to organize the wage-slaves of Norfolk, Virgin will be railroaded to prison for a number of years unless the working class is heard from outside of the court room. The greedy ruling class of that state is feverishly active in trying to pile up riches on exactly the basis of “cheap labor, balmy climate and sea transportation.” Negro workers are being exploited at a level of wages far below that of the white workers, who are living at the starvation point. To prevent organiza- tion of these workers, the most rigid application of the savage laws inherited from the time of chattel slavery are applied—such as that which prohibits any meeting of the two races together, which is called, as in this case, “conspiracy to incite the colored population to insur- rection against the white population.” _This case becomes ont of great significance to the entire working class because it forecasts and embodies the tremendous struggle that is opening up in the South in which the challenging of the anti-Negro laws is the first necessary act. If the Negro and white workers sub- mit to and allow the enforcement of such laws, they surrender the whole struggle for emancipation. The southern capitalists know this very well. They know that the successful preservation of the division of the working class into black and white categories by means of the barbaric laws inherited from pre-civil war days would mean the preservation of peonage and starva- tion wage standards and living conditions and’ the paralyzing of the movement for organizing their workers for struggle against these capitalists. For this reason they intend to see to it that the young Communist worker, Graham, is convicted. The courts will do as ordered by the capitalists, of course, as they do in North Carolina and elsewhere. For the same reason the large empl: rs in the same Virginia tide- water section are now calling upon subservient Negro preachers to come and talk to the Negro workers against organization and against the Communists who are the only instigators of organization, the only de- fenders of equality for the Negroes. Also for the same reason the employers are flirting with professional s ebreakers of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. When skinflint scab bosses call upon the A. F, of L, to come in to help them keep wages down and to prevent organization of unions, and at the same time throw the organizers of the new revolutionary trade unions and representatives of the Com- munist Party into prison—the wage slaves of the South have an ex- cellent opportunity to do some thinking. Our Communist Party will consider the vicious attempts to railroad this comrade to prison as another signal for going ahead at redoubled energy and speed—to organize the South! Prison will not keep Com- munists out of Norfolk, Va., any more than the bullets of the gunmen kept Communists out of North Carolina. Immediately every energy that can be summoned to the task must be thrown into the organizing of the Negro and white workers in exactly such places as these where the ruling class hits at the workers’ right to organize. The bosses of the South throw down the challenge on the race issue. We accept the challenge. We hold up to the contempt of the entire working class, Negro and white, the Virginia law prohibiting Negroes to meet in the same hall with white workers. We call upon the workers, and Negro workers first of all, to come to the support of the Communist Party! Smash the slave laws of the South! Organize the Negro and white workers together in the same revo- dict of guilty yesterday and Judge Fowler sentenced Hoffman to pay a $1,000 fine, and serve one month in j He sentenced the three strikers to three months each on the man killing chain gangs of North Carolina. An appeal is taken; if it goes against the defendants, Hoff- man’s fine will be paid out of the dues collected from the Elizabethton and other betrayed workers by the U.T.W., and he may serve some jin jail. The others will be driven junder the lash to build roads for |the state. ; Saving the U The whole Marion case fairly reeks with the treachery of the U. T. W. and, in spite of divided coun- cils among the bosses, with an effort |to wipe out the strike, without in- |jurmg the U.T.W. | The Marion Manufacturing Co. workers went out in the early sum- mer under the leadership of the U. T. W. The nearby Clinchfield mill strikers also came out, against the advice of Hoffman. Hoffman made numerous speeches, demanding tha \the strikers “picket with bibles and |hymn books, not with weapons,” and urging pacifism in the face of brutal jattacks by deputies and militia. Nevertheless, the Clinchfield strikers jon one occasion threw a scab’s fur- jniture out of his house, and picketed to prevent the deputies putting it back. For this and other picketing, W. clared today. Victor Aaronson and William J. Davis, who, were arrested and re- leased on\ $500 bail, charged wit! distributiiig “seditious literature” r turned to the office and several hours Assemble Again Elect Strike Committee Will Spread Struggle; : afterward were re-arrested Mass Meeting Today Friday night, dinteapiond John Si Morgan and Leonard Brown, Negro organizers hav sentenced to 20 days and $ been and The subway construction workers have taken control of their own branch of the American Legion Com- mander Bodenhamer, have “united to lof such workers in Bronx, Lower | Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island and other parts of New York Ci all in defiance of the officials of the | meai Compressed Air, Subway and Tunnel | ization, Workers’ Union who have been sell-|__In public addresses and in the ing out the strike of 500 at Bronx |Press of the city, they declare that Concourse for the last two weeks. | they “will not allow Bolshevism to The subway construction workers |flourish in our city.” Bodenhamer, of New York are all anxious to put |Commenting on a speech the mayor up a struggle for better conditions |had made declared it to be a “pugi- and more wages. The officials have |listie” speech, and a challenge for |been pretending to agree with the (Continued on Page Three) | demands of the men that the present trike of 500 be extended, that relief machinery be established, ete. But the officialdom has been collaborat- | ing with the employers and postpon- ing action. Force A Show-down, A strike committee of 7 elected | by the strikers met in Harlem Ter- | Pres Wants race Friday and formulated a policy ioe : of militant action. They came to the meaning the marine workers organ- WORROW IN WASH, ts His Help in Capitalist Crisis stamp out the menace of the Reds,” | WALL ST, WANTS some 70 were arrested and 54, in-| meeting called by the officials of |cluding Hoffman, held for trial. The | tocal 63 at Royal Hall, 2 p. m. y |U.T.W. invited in the representa-|torday, The offic (Continued on Page Three) | MILLER BAILED; AT LEAKSVILLE i Carpenter, Bulwinkle, Scherer, of the strike committee, got | in Gang, He Repeats | the floor to report their plan to im- | mediately spread the strike, to start CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 1.—|Monday morning and have the ‘Clarence Miller, Gastonia defendant | strikers go to all other sections and |sentenced to twenty years, was re-} pull out the workers. As soon as |leased on bail Saturday after the |they saw the rank and file were solid jInternational Labor defense posted | for this program, the officers gave jbonds of $5.000 for him. This leaves} the signal. Joe Moran, an official, ‘only George Carter of the seven con- | struck one of the committeemen, and | s paid no atten- tion to the desire of the men. Dan MacPartlan, secretary of the local, \veported for the executive board, | saying not a word about the strike, | but only that, “in a few months con- ditions will be better.” Other officials also followed this line. They made long and_ vicious attacks on Communism—they didn’t talk about winning the strike. Pasquale Georgio and Marcel | ATLANTIC CITY. —Dwight W. *, imperialist ambassador to Mexico, now on his way to the struggle for more naval armaments, known as the London Naval Conference, will be appointed United States Senator from New Jersey when he returns from his . J, Dec, 1. duties in behali of imperialist war | preparations. Morrow’s job in Mexico having been completed satisfactorily to Wall Street, he is being put into service in the present crisis in the capacity of United States senator. Hoover is having difficulties with |the capitalist “democratic” state be- {cause of the conflicting interests of the rich farmers and industrial land financial capitalists over the |question of tarrif, etc. | The organization of the new fas. cist economic council to take over | Attack Workers |Party Leads Struggle 5-Year Plan in S. U. Victory of Workers i Dec. r Hoover's | WASHINGTOD | plans are made i} r ° |standard of living of the Americ | workers, With the leadership of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, the “so- cialist” party, and the so-called “left” labor elements united with the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in planning to save capitalist economy from the swamp of the severe con- tradictions into which it has fallen the task of rallying the resistance of the masses of worl to wage- Jeut drives and union-smashing cam- paigns becomes the main struggle of the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the Trade Union Unity League. In this situati n, With the ecapi- talist. “democrat: machine being ditched for st-developing form of fascist dictatorship, the situation offers the Communist Party splen- | did opportunities to become a mass party. The growing working ma! discontent of the and their resistance to the capitalist offensive, simultan- | eously with the open tr acts of the Greens, Wolls, Must Hillquits, Fitzpatricks Olanders, Cannons and Lovestones, present |favorable opportunities for the or- industrial unions and the general One of three Pennsylvania work- | ers who must serve five years in Blownox penitentiary fer defying the steel barons and helping to strike, elected a rank and file strike |have begun serving their terms. [economic council to meet in Wash-| ie a he exploite wor! er committee, given it full powers to}. At the same time, the mayor of |ington on Dev. 5, and attempt to| Se ei pede aa “Andrew spread the strike among the 16,000 the city ahd the head of the Jocal | direct smashing blows against the| ‘/@llom, Stecl and Sedition.”) ECONOMIC SLUMP Unjustified” Bolstering Soviet Pre Nanking’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. — The American government is doing its best to press the dis- credited “demands” of Nank- ing for a war of the imperialist powers upon the Soviet Union. Despite the exposure of Nank- Nanking Hatsaae Patrons ving’s maneuvering “demands” FACES CONGRESS |Capitalists Rely More ; on Fasiest Council WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Con- gress opens today, with the main |problems facing the capitalist gov- | ernment being those growing out of | the ever-intensifying crisis. President Hoover’s message wili deal particularly with the growing contradictions with which United |States imperialism is faced. her reductions of taxes to the big capitalists are contemplated. Re- |newed fights on the tariff question | will come up. | is in American capitalism | ady created a crisis in the governing political party of Amer- ican imperialism, the republican party. The present struggle in the |senate around the tariff question | between the so-called “young guard” | ‘closely manif the-- fact that-+} on the Soviet which hostilely threatened “further measures,” it was announced here that Hoover and Stimson were very much concerned over the situa- tion and had held a long confer- ence, together with separate in- terviews with representatives of other imperialist powers, in- cluding Japan, England, France, Germany and Italy. A definite threat of war, inde- pendently of what the attitude of the other imperialist powers might do, was the essential tone of Stim- son’s remarks after conferring with Hoover. Stimson said, for example and in flat contradiction to the statement made by Ambassador Debuchi of Japan, that no unfavor- able replies had been given by gov- ernments approached with Stimson’s proposal for “joint action” —of course disguised as meant “to main- tain peace.” American finds imperialism it tion of the unorganized into| and the loyal republican. senators, | rather difficult to press its program im the face of the negotiations going building up of the Trade Union| American imperialism finds jt dif- on between the Mukden government Unity League. | Mass | mitted ad- press. unemployment is now by the capitalist (Continued on Page Three) THINK BYERS IN government functions will create vieted, still in the Mecklinburg Coun- |ty Jail, Carter has frequently ex- |pressed the wish to be the last of |his comrades to be released until the [appeals come up January 15. | will probably be bailed out within \a couple of days. | Miller spoke tonight to the Leaks iville strikers’ meeting. He compli- {mented the strikers on their heroic struggle, on their stern mass pick- eting, which will win the strike for jthem, and their refusal to be terri- | ified by the attacks through courts and by means of the organized lynch- ing gangs of the bosses, The three Gastonia boys last re- He | j about 50 hired “gorrillas” started to | fresh difficulties for ‘Wall Street beat up Georgio and others, and and Hoover in Congress, and Mor- drove all the workers from the hall. | row is being drawn in as a valuable Meet Across Street. tool in the present depression. To the number of over 200 these| Dwight Morrcw’s task in Mexico then assembled in Manhattan Ly-!was accomplished when he won over ceum across the street, elected a the petty-burgecis Mexican ele- | strike committee of 15, and voted! ments to the unqualified support | them full power to continue the lead-| of United States Imperialism. ership and spreading of the strike. | Now that Callies and Rubio Ortiz, At this meeting Scherer reported the leaders of the «Mexican ruling | for the committee of seven, stating class, are coming to the United that they had found the officials he- States for their instructions in | traying the strii d | have paid out $1,500 within the last ver regards it as more necessary {week to ten men supposed to be or- | at this time to have the Wall Street | ganizing and spreading the struggle, | Morgan banker at his side to come The officials fighting the Mexican masses, Hoo- | jleased, Joseph Harrison, who was | None of these ten have been on the|to the aid of the new fascist de- |wiled Friday; Miller and Carter, | picket line and none of them have Yelopment which grows out of the |will speak at a number of mass meet-/ attended strike meetings. They are deep-going nature of the present jings in the textile regions of Georgia | just getting graft. , crisis. |and the Carolinas, and will be at the “ Phe union. treasury has about | I” appointing Morrow as senator {International Labor Defense south- | g195,.990, but when the committee {rom New Jersey, Gov. Larson re- \ern conference, to be held in Char-| approached the executive board Sat-|Veals the reason for this step. In | ¥ | ished i capitalis ilotte, Dec. 8. | urday for strike relief, only $20 was |® letter published in the capitalist | Saylors Bailed Out ess he says: | given, and no arrangements were | Pre | Sa hawe' te | ©, D. Saylors, who was recently | made for regular daily relief. ‘The reasons which have led me | arrested on a framed up charge of| The committee went to the Work- ‘perjury because he identified Gas- | ers International Relief, which im- accept appointment are clear. The to secure Mr. Morrow’s consent to | MACDONALD JAN More Gastonia Strikers Try to Enter England The whereabout of K. O. Byers, Gastonia striker enroute to .Great Britain has not been discovered the International Labor Def y which has sought his location since British daily papers announced last : Wednesday that he would be barred from England. It is believed here that By has been arrested. Cablegrams sent to London, from the national office lof the I. L. D. concerning Byers’ ‘whereabouts, did not result in the location of the Gastonia striker. That he was enroute to Gr ' Britain from Moscow, where he at- ‘tended the twelfth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, was an ‘nounced in Wednesday’s editions 0 the Daily Mail and the Express in London. Was to Speak. These papers called him a “Gas. tonia rioter” for whom a “strict | ficult to solve its developing con- tradictions, Amendments to the Federal Re- serve Act, growing out of the crisis in the credit situation, will be of- fered. Because of the inability of capi- talism to utilize their existing state machinery rapidly enough in the present crisis, Hoover will give the fascist economic council more power. He is openly advocating handing over the main government functions in the present depression to the 200 | big capitalists organized by the U js Chamber of Commerce. ‘WINDOW-TOILERS ASK LABOR AID /Conference Friday to Launch New Union While going ahead with plans for ithe launching of a new industrial building service workers union, the | Window Cleaners Protective Union, | Local 8, yesterday issued an appeal \to the entire militant labor move- ment to contribute funds for the relief of the striking window clean- The appeal, signed by Harry nstein, secretary of the union, | ; States: and the Soviet Union, and in the teeth of Japanese opposition, but that the danger of American armed intervention is very much alive, is seen in the press summary of the ambiguous position of the Hoover government, which summary re marks that Stimson still regards the situation as “dangerous” and that in his opinion “inaction is not j tified.” Which put frankly cl means that “action is justified.” Nanking Oozes Lies. SHANGHAI, Dec. 1.—Officially, the Nanking government denies that any negotiations between the Muk- den government and the Soviet Union are going on, but unofficially, members of the Nanking govern- ment admit it. They claim that Mukden keeps Nanking informed of the course of negotiations, but this exposes Nanking as carrying on un- paralleled hypocritical maneuvers, since it has directly made other de- mands on Moscow quite different in terms than those being carried on through Mukden. Mukden accepted Soviet terms for return of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the restor- ation of the deported railway man- agers and release of Soviet civilian citizens imprisoned in Manchuria. Nanking, through Germany, had ignored these terms and demanded in hostile tones that the Red Army (Continued on Page Three) Jutionary unions, and in the Communist Party! jsituation at Washington calls for | jookout” w in progress at the} | “Wor nearly seven weeks the strik-/ Negro Workers! Fight Let the miserable slave-drivers of the South scream all they will. But as sure as history moves, the tinie will come when Virginia and the entire United States will be ruled by the working class through workers’ councils composed of Negro workers and white workers, build- ing a Socialist society free from capitalist and landlord parasites. ;much for their armed support of 6 ; H i Socialists Thank | their imperialist allies, the zionists, British Bosses for iin drowning ip blood the revolt of Killing Arab Masses ‘"’ Palestine peasants. Cahan {lauded the armed Jewish fascists ale . | Who are cooperating with the Bri- eee tf eae | i) forces in keeping the names in declared at the sixth annual conven- | SUPjection. tion of the Jewish “socialist” fed- The yellow, social-fascist editor eration, in Forward Hall, that the | steed with the New York conven- “socialist” party is becoming | tion of the “socialist” party in not “Americanized.” changing its name at this time as Cahan referred to the increase in “the name is meeting with the ap- votes from the petty-bourgeois and proval of more college professors.” capitalist elements that Thomas re- | rORERTESCHTS ceived in the last mayoralty elec- | ir Killed in “Old Ben” tion, and the growing fascistization 2 of this third capitalist party with | Mine, West Frankfort WEST FRANKFORT, Pa., Dee. 1, appr’ *l and an example of what he meant by “Americanization.” Referring to “his majesty’s ‘labor’, —An explosion in Old Ben Mine No. party,” Cahan said that the imper-!8, her, killed seven men and en- ialist British “labor” party was | dangered the lives of 14 more early “socialism pure and simple.” | today. The 22 were tearing up tracks When MacDonald visited the in a low level, a mile and a half United States in behalf of his im-| from the main shaft when a terrific perialist masters in their race for explosion tore into them. armaments, Cahan claims that the, Workers in Mine 14 of the Old visit of the yellow “labor” premier Ben Co, at Buckner, recently met, aided the American “socialist” party. defied their U.M.W. officials, and Cahan is particularly thankful to demanded that the company stop MacDonald’s suppression of the re- wage cuts and grant other demands volting Arab masses. He could not of the National Miners Union, in- thank the British capitalists toocluding adequate safety provisions. tonia City Solicitor Carpenter and | mediately agreed to set up a kitchen, the Manville Jenckes attorney, Major |and help in collecting funds for ithe best thought of our wisest men, acting under the inspiring leader- ship of President Hoover. We are having to assume a large part in ‘problems affecting world develop- ment. We must shortly help to carry through the practical details Bulwinkle, leading a lynch gang that relief. \kidnapped him, N. T. W. organizers | |Ben Wells and Lell, was released on Pasquale Georgio spoke, and told $500 bond Saturday. His trial will how he had assured himself the be Ae peacaeee be bend was fur- | union officialdom was working with nished by the I. L. D. | the contractors to prevent a general 56 wid Saylors immediately on his release | tie up of subway consiyi este He, Ue aia sla teal tes Ae (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Twe) evened) ° <Busitiesa’ conditions: have Chicago Labor Misleaders _ Form American Legion Pos | ee Furniture Toilers Win CHICAGO, IIL, Dec. 1—A couple | the Chicago Federation of Labor; Qt of dozen of the most reactionary and | Jerry Horan, president of the Build. Strike Led by T.U.U.L. treacherous of the labor misleaders | ing Service Employes" International; Against Discharge of 2 in Chicago, together with several! William Rooney, of the Sheet Metal " res business men and professional men! Workers; Patrick F. Sullivan, Build- Thirty-five furniture workers, close to the labor racketeers are | ing Trades Council; Arthur Wallace, Striking under the leadership of the uniting in the obvious next step in| Painters; Michael J. Kelly, Cook Tde Union Unity League have won the militarization and fascistization | County Wage Earners’ League; Jack their strike against the Progressive of the A. F’ of L.—the formation of Stretch, Bricklayers, and many Table Co, of Brooklyn. “union labor posts” of the American | others. The strike lasted three days. Jt Legion. | dames A, Murphy, of the Journey started when two workers ve dis- Among those giving their alle-; man Plumbers, is the official organ- charged because of their membership giance thus to the strikebreaking| izer of this fascist “post.” Asso- 1% the T.U.U.L. The firm has now gang of gunmen that killed Wesley | ciated prominently with him are; ®8?eed to reinstate the two, recog- Everest, that is even today cooper-| “Chick” O'Brien, of the Sheet Metal "2° the shop committee, and divide ating with the open shop mayor of | Workers, and “Big Jack” Zimmer. |e Wore Ll Be New Orleans to jail marine workers’ man, of the Hoisting Engineers. "NOTICE TO UNIT ORGANIZERS | organizers, that has offered its bay-| The new fascist union post will All organizers of the Communist onets and pistol experts to the mur- | stage a big celebration at Memorial | Party units meeting tonight. are to derous bosses of Gastonia and Mar- Day, and get its “colors,” probably | call at the district office before ion, are the heads of the A. F. Le | with some prominent open shopper | their meeting fer a very brief time nacre il Chicago. They in-| or injunction judge as master of|on important !arty matters. elude John Fitzpatrick, president of | ceremonies. | 1, Amter, District Organizer. T.U.U.L. Was Right. ministration has already taken no- table measures to minimize the ef- fects of this, calling for the most intelligent cooperation by both t business men and legislators.” British por They declared that ‘he “was a guest of the International | Class War Prisoners’ Aid and that he was scheduled to speak at a huge jmass meeting for Gastonia on Tra- falgar Square.” | The same papers said it “ most likely that the Gastonia ers’ would be banned from entering (Continued on Page Two) recently received a shock. The ad-: ‘Negro Workers s| jot- jing window cleaners have conducted {a struggle for the improvement of | their conditions against the bosses, | |their strikebreaking police and \thugs. Two weeks ago the diffi- | (Continned on Page Two) Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! in Virginia Kally to Graham Detense NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 1,— The Negro workers of Norfolk, Va., are rallying to the defense of Stephen Graham, a young worker who goes on trial Dee. 5 before the Corpora- ,tion Court Grand Jury, charged with | “willful and unjustifiable disturb- ing of the public peace and con- spiracy to incite the colored popula- ‘tion to insurrection against the white | population.” | Graham has endeared himself to |the Negro workers of Norfolk be- cause at a meeting Oct. 15, he ad- voeated on behalf of the Communist Part y and the Trade Union Unity League, full racial equality, and ; Signed a number of the workers up for the International Labor Defense and the T. U. U. L. | Under Virginia law he faces a sentence ranging from five to ten years in prison, ! Graham has already been fined 50 in magistrate court. He ap- pealed the latter case and at a hear- ling before the grand jury, the ju- rors failed to come to an agreement, three being for acquittal and two for conviction. Graham, in his own words, tells the following story‘ ‘:Norfolk, with \fifteen shipyards and many indus- \tries, has a big Negro population jthat is miserably explotied, I made |a speech before the Negro and white workers alike on Oct. 16, a which | detectives and agents of the indus- trialists were present, in which I advocated unionizing under the | Trade Union Unity League and join- _ing the International Labor Defense, | Which advocate full racial equality for the Negro, “After the meeting I was arrested, (Continued on Page Three) Needle Trade Fakers, ‘Urges H. Rosemond “The International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Union has conducted policy of boycotting the Negro wv s and discriminating against them in the sheps they control,” said Henry Rosewood, vice presi- dent of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, today. “Now ‘that they feel that the Negroes are (becoming a factor in this industry,” he continued, “they intend to use them as tools in the coming ‘strike,’ which will be simply a strike against ‘the class-conscious workers organ- ized under the leadership of the left wing moverrent, the only one ‘in America fighting for the full | social, economie and political equal- ity of the Negroes in the U. S. A. “The Negro weyers are aware of this through bitter experience and {will answer with a real struggle the appeal of this fake company |union, who are getting the support of the petty-burgeois Negro asso- jeiations in this city. The fact re- jmains that the Negro workers are | becoming daily more conscious of |their class role and are fighting against the Negro politicians and jcapitalists with the same spirit as ‘they fight the white politician and jcapitalist. They will, therefore, re- jfuse to join with any organization | controlled by these politicians and fakers, but will join the struggle of the N. T. W. LU. begin ors iconditions in the shops.”