The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1929, Page 1

Heroic Illinois Miners Face the State’s FINAL CITY - EDITION Machine Guns and John L, Lewis’ Scabs! All Support to Heroic Illinois Miners! Daily orker Woterea 149 the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 8. 1878. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York. by mall. $8.00 per year. 96.00 per yenr. . 929 . WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1 Published a: Company. ly exceps Sunday by Phe Comprodaily Pablishing tne. Vol. VI, No. 238 Price 3 Cents. HAITIREVOLT MINERS? MASS PICKETING BLOCKS ROAD NEW Mellon Gang Wants To| Militant Traditions, Militant’), $, WAR FLEET ; Mobilization and Militant janine CHINA. Make Her Widow Struggle in the Miner’s Strike The militant program and action of the National Miners’ Union in lilinois, where 600 national guardsmen already have been sent into the field equipped with the most modern weapons for making war on strik- ing workers, has revived one of the finest traditions of the American labor moyement—a tradition especially strong among the coal and metal miners, a tradition which all the berayals and corruption of Charles Moyer and John L. Lewis have been unable to kill. No work while the troops are in! This is the mine workers’ tradition; and the Peabody Coal Com- pany and the state author: smugly satisfied with the results of the work of their agents such as Farrington, Fishwick and Lewis in destroy- ing the once powerful and militant United Mine Workers of America, now find the young National Miners’ Union the bearer of its best tra- ditions, When a thousand miners, as in Taylorsville, Ill., who are not mem- bers of the N. M. U., refuse to work when militia men are sent to “protect the Peabody properties” it means much more for the working class than the mere numbers of workers involved in this striking act of class solidarity. This one act gives the lie diréct to the miserable whinings of the Lovestone renegades and especially does it answer with proletarian bluntness the lie that American workers remain pas- sive and inert under the increasing burdens of the speed-up, mass un- employment, wage cuts and war preparations. The extensive military mobilization carried out by the bosses’ gov- ernment on the first day of the Illinois strike is sufficient proof that the coal barons and their capitalist kindred understand the temper of the coal miners if the renegades Lovestone, Wolfe, Gitlow, Lore and Cannon do not. No other strike in Illinois ever saw such speedy and extensive military mobilization since the American Railway Strike under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs in 1894, an mean noth- ing else than that the coal barons and their government know that the miners have thrown off the class peace yoke of Lewis and Fish- wick, that this section of the labor bureaw can no longer prevent. the miners going into battle with the bosses and their state and that open measures of forcible suppression are to be used in a desperate effort to smash the strike, to crush out militant unionism among the miners. This tactic of the bosses has and will have the support of the Lewises and Fishw , of the American F\ ion of Labor, of the socialist party bureaucracy and the whole social-fascist crew. It will put great obstacles in the way of the National Miners’ Union but it will not succeed in destroying it. Neither will the N. M, U. be driven from the Illinois field. The miners are on the march. Mass picketing is going on. Men, women and children are on the picket lines. The miners and their families are fighting against unemployment and starvation, for the five-hour day and the six-day week. Illinois is the new sector of the class struggle. It is a battle ground and in this struggle there is not any “no man’s land.” Those who are not with the fighting miners are against them and against their militant union— the National Miners’ Union. In the class struggle there can be no neutrality—the lines are too tightly drawn. On one side the coal barons, their fellow capitalists, their govern- ment, and their agents in the ranks .of the working class—the social traitors of all shades—the armed fot troops, police and thugs. On the other side, the National Miners’ Union, its leadership and mem-~ bership, their wives and families, the Trade Union Unity League, its militant unions, the working class and its party—the Communist Party. This is the line of battle—the historic alignment of class forces. The forces of our class must be organized to deliver smashing blows on every front: in the strike itself, in the field of agitation and propa- ganda, for relief and defense. Mobilize our class to win this struggle! Capitalist Law Comes to the Rescue of Mur- derers By Indicting a Witness C. D. Saylors, North Carolina textile worker, has just been indicted for “murder.” He was one of those kidnapped on Sept. 9. Everybody knows that Saylors did not commit any crime. Nor was he even a participant in the “battle of Gastonia” in which the heroic textile work- ers of that town defended themselves from an attack by armed thugs led by Sheriff Aderholt in which Aderholt was killed—an action in which no “murder” was committed, but as a result of which seven of the heroic textile union men are now under long prison sentences by capitalist justice. Saylors was not present when some of the workers i fiably fired in self-defense. But Saylors is indicted now, months after the affair. Why? Because just at this time eight gunmen of the Marion Mfg. Co. deputy sheriffs, are being put up to be given a fake trial (with ac- quittal arranged in advance by the prosecutor and judge) for the cold- blooded murder of six textile workers at Marion, N. C., last October. The fixed “trial” of the known murderers of the Marion textile workers opened yesterday. Saylors, the Gastonia textile worker, was indicted just before the Marion case opened—in order to turn the at- tention of the working masses away from the case in which the law will deliberately white-wash the company gunmen. The indictment of Saylors is also a further offensive of the cotton mill barons against the National Textile Workers Union, of which he is a member, and against the terribly exploited textile workers it organizes and leads. This is capitalist justice. Jt is capitalist government in action. Innocent textile workers are given 20 years in prison for “murder,” and bloody-handed mur- derers who killed textile workers for the benefit of the bosses are liberated—because the government and the courts are only instruments of the mill owners, bankers and other capitalists. Every worker in this country must show his contempt and hatred of the criminal capitalist class and its government, and his loyaity to his own class, by defending Saylors and by upsetting the verdict of Gastonia! But more than that. Build the Communist Party, the revolutionary workers’ Party under whose leadership the working class will upset the whole dirty capitalist system. The Daily Worker and the Frei- ILGW AFRAID 0 heit exposed a little trick by Hill- 5 quit through which his friends HILL QUIT § SUIT ‘among the reactionary company- unionized officials of the I. L. G..W. : and other unions stole thousands of dollars from the International | Union Bank stock, funds which were provided by the needle workers of New York. | Fears Publicity. }the Communists an opportunity for propaganda.” Attack on the ‘Daily’ Exposes Misleaders CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 10.—_ Pe: " The company-union bureaucrats of | BAllaUte lew, Anam Brent FERS) PANY: and brought charges of libel, taking the so-called International Ladies’ care, however, by co-operation of Garment Workers’ Union showed the grand jury, prosecutor, police today their fears of the reopening and courts to arrange it so that of the exposure of Morris Hill- | there was no preliminary hearing on guit’s dirty stock juggling, laid | the ease, which would have served bare some months ago by The Daily |to bring out more details of the Worker and the Freiheit. A resolu- | swindle. tion was adopted in the I. L. G. W. = The case is still in the courts, convention here yesterday asking. with Hillquit needing some excuse Hlilquit to call off the prosecution of the editors of The Daily Work and the Freiheit, because it “gives | r it, Schlesinger, who person- (Continued on Page Iwo) not rushing into more publicity | FOR IMPERIALISM | Hypocrites Who Sent | Threat to Soviet Menace Chinese \Nanking Beseiged Canton Near Fall as Generals Quarrel | SHANGHAI, Dec. 10.—With an | American fleet of seven warships | speeding here from Manila to be at | the “center of trouble” in order |to “protect American interests,” ac- cording to Rear Admiral Charles B. MeVay, and a swarm of Brit French and other warships either already arrived or on the way to | Chi see just what these imperialist pow- ers’ signatures were worth to the infamous “Kellogg Pact note” sent by the United States just a week ago to the Soviet Union threatening War because the Soviet Union de- fended its frontier against attack by Chinese militarist agents of these ne imperialists. Thus must be recalled the lines of the Soviet reply only four da |which reminded Secretary Stimson | that: “The actions of the Red Army had due consideration of self defense and were in no wise violations of any obligations of the Paris '(Kel- logg) Pact. That much cannot be | said of armed forces in Chinese ter- jritory and Chinese ports of those powers who have applied today to |the Soviet Union with identical } declarations,” Although there are war vessels of |the Red Fleet at Vladivostok, there | are no Soviet war vessels rushing to | (Continued on Page Three) ‘ANOTHER GASTON ‘MURDER CHARGE | Want to Burn Saylors; | Carter Out on Bail | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. |The very day that George C: 10.— ‘arter, the last of the seven Gastonia strikers sentenced to 20 years was freed from Mecklenburg County Prison, on bail pending appeal, the mill bosses of the South issued a warrant for C. D. Saylors, organ- izer for the International Labor De- fense, charging him with murder. The warrant came after the splendid Southern conference of the i D., held Charlotte, and marked an intensified reign of ter- ror instituted by the bosses, At the same time that Saylors is | charged with conspiracy and murder in connection with the death of {Chief O. D, Aderholt, the Charlotte | textile mill owners’ controlled pre: inaugurated a new campaign to in- \cite the Black Hundreds to attack the headquarters of the I. L. D., | stating that “the radical headquar- ters in Charlotte, on East Fourth St., were stocked with guns, and that armed guards are on duty there with orders to shoot if any body | bothers around.” |! Saylors is singled out to be buried alive in Southern dungeons because | he swore to a statement that in the |Black Hundred rob which flogged |Ben Wells were Solicitor John G. | Carpenter and Major A. L, Bul- |winkle. Saylors is now under per- jury charge for his true statement in |Mecklenburg County Court. | Robert Allen, former defendant | whose case was nol prossed through |the efforts of the I. L. D., has turned traitor to the workers and jhas been bought up to frame lies against them. The Charlotte News says that “new evidence against Saylors came up in an affidavit made Saturday in Gastonia by Robert Allen, former defendant, | whose case was nol prossed.” The ; News also writes that Allen gave ithe story about guns in the I. L. D. office, | Hoover’s Lawyer On Tariff Payroll Of Cuban Sugar Barons WASHINGTON, Dee. 10,—Edwin |P.° Shattuck, President Hoover's personal attorney, was revealed to be on the payroll of the Cuban sugar interests. Shattuck was purposely employed because of his close con- nections with the imperialist chief, and was expected to get inside aid in helping the sugar barons, The Cuban sugar trusts, headed by the National City Bank, have been spending hundreds of thou- ands of dollars in devious channels to get Hoover to do the right thing {by them in the taviff, Undoubted- a's inner river ports, one can| MARINES SENT \111-Armed Peasants Attack Marine | Barracks ‘Borno Thanks Marines French ~~ Capitalists Score Stimson BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. —In an effort to*head off criticism at his sending of more marines into Haiti, while at the same time to actually haye them handy, Hoover today diverted the airplane carrier “Wright” from Port-au-Prince to the U. S. naval base at Guan- ' tanamo Bay, Cuba. This is only 150 miles from Haiti, and while the State Depart- Wife and children of Salvatore} Accorsi who is threatened with be-| ing burned alive by the Mellon coal and iron courts. orsi is accused | |with having killed Trooper Downey | |who met his rightful doom when he attacked a Sacco-Vanzetti demon- |stration of Cheswick, Pa. workers. |At the time, Accorsi was 4 mile Jaway at home. Mrs. Accorsi has| suffered with her husband during the long strikes in the mines. Join) ment “forgets” to mention it, \the protest against the frame-up of : “Wrieht” |Salvatore Accorsi. Workers, save| Planes from the “Wright” Or | could drop bombs in Haiti | FRAME AGCORS! rines could be in Haiti with- in 24 hours. Z = jmunist Party of the Soviet Coal Co. Henchmen |Union, in editorial comment Contradict Each Other |upon the actions of Hoover ‘sending more U.S. marines to Ac raver en | (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Dec. 10.— The PITTSBURGH, Dee. 10.—District Attorney Langfitt outlined the case | for the State at the opening se today of the Accorsi trial; and indi- | vention in Haiti with the inso- cated that the state would demand |Jent and hypocritical U. S. in- the death sentence. The majority | i . . A of the witnesses for the state are|’ervention in the Chinese- county detectives and state troopers.-| S®Viet conflict. The latter were forced to admit, un- eur meee der cross-examination, the incredible | PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. brutality they used at the Cheswick | 10.—Large detachments of marines i | las to the supposed “disorderly” |other points where the Haitian character of the meeting was lim-|™asses have revolted against United | GROWS; MORE “Pravda,” organ of the Com-| |make war on the Haitian peo-! ion ple, compares the U. S. inter-; TO PITS; ILLINOIS GOVERNOR ORDERS OUT TROOPS; STRIKE SPREADS RAPIDLY 4,000 Quit in Taylorville Section; 1,000 Refuse to Work While Soldiers } Present; Women Arm, Demonstrate, March on Other Mines . | Another UMWA Local Joins National Miners Union; J ail Thompson for Leading Pickets; Union Protests Sending Militia | | | BULLETIN. TAYLORVILLE, Ill., Dec. 10.—The last of the four big mines in this field went out on strike 100 per cent today. It is Tovey Mine } 8. The miners there are joining the N.M.U. «A caravan of 100 ! automobiles loaded with striking miners is moving on Springfield. .Andy Keirs, president of the Kincaid | local of the United Mine Workers, was kicked out of their union hall when he tried to persuade a meeting of 1,000 miners to stay with the U.M.W.A. Strikers are preparing to march on Peabody Mine No. 10 in the | Nokomis field. Orin, 8 WEST FRANKFORT, IIl., Dec. 10.—Thousands of miners are out on strike today, the econd day of the state-wide strike in Ilinois, led by the National Miners’ Union. Miners and their families are on the picket lines in both the northern and southern fields, and clashes have already taken place between the sheriff's posses, made up of business men and com- pany henchmen, U. M. W. A. gunmen, ete., and the militant strikers. The governor of the state on the first day of the strike called out the militia and sent them to the Taylorville district, where nearly 4,000 miners are blocking the roads to the ;mines, and turning back all who try to come to work. Marching miners are moving on the |rest of the field, and the strike is spreading in spite of all the forces of state, companies, and | ( discovered The Communist Party, N. Y. Dis- |trict, has issued the-following scath- | United Mine Workers misleaders like District President Fishwick and International President | picket line there with bayonets, RALLY A | 0 FQ |but failed to disperse the| RA Did COMBINE pickets, who divided in smaller | R is Ti roups, listened to speeches by their | FOR W A R | | E Freeman Thompson, old time! ae fighter from Springfield, now or- — Denounce Wall Street zanizer for the National Miners’! Morgan Bankers Want |Union, led hundreds of strikers in ; Monopoly to Fight Co. the concern which in 1926 was| ; to be bribing Frank! WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—Owen | Farrington, district president then p. Young, one of the leaders in for the U. M. W. A., with Hoover’s “grand fascist council,” urges the further monopolization of | Unable to bear any longer the Meet Feet merciless oppression and robbery by | ROIPine him lead the U-M.W.A. at- | American capitalists, the masses of |‘ fe s strike. | Young, who is head of the Radio \Haiti have risen in revolt. These | Thompson was arrested today at| Corporation, and General Electric | |meeting. The witnesses’ “evidence” |@™¢ concentrating at Jacmel and | ited to the statement that there were cheers for Sacco and Vanzetti and “booing” and jeers for the troopers. | The troopers admitted throwing | “nine or ten tear-gas bombs,” and |to beating men and women with | \ clubs. { | The county sheriff admitted that ; |previous meetings were orderly. It is clear there was a deliberate plot lof county authorities and state troopers to drown the meeting in blood. The troopers tried to paint la picture of their “politeness and delicacy” in “requesting” the meet- ing be dispersed before resorting to | vilence. Both Witnesses Brown and |Coplan charge that the slayer fired five shots in a period of about a |minute, but describe minutely the \color of his suit, hat, shoes, shirt, | moustache, etc. All Prosecution witnesses parrot | the remark that they heard from a | man in the crowd “Kill the son of | a bitch!” This compares with the testimony fixed up against Beal in| Gastonia. Coplan a star witness, told an in- jeredible tale of seeing shooting | from a store window, at a distance of about 25 feet. He says he re- mained in the store from 10 in the morning till 3 in the afternoon, when he heard the presence of | troopers at the meeting. The witnesses are unimpressive, | ‘confused and contradictive. They | cause derisive laughter even among | jthe hard-boiled capitalist reporters, | but the danger of conviction is great. | A United Mine Worker official | | of the Harnerville local took the stand to help the electrocution of this militant miner, Accorsi. He denounced the Cheswick meeting. | ee: PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec, 10.—{ Contradictory testimony by the} state’s perjurers featured the first | day’s* testimony in the frame-up trial of Salvatore Accorsi today. The jury was secured yesterday, the first day of the trial. The state of Penn- \sylvania, owned by the Mellon coal land steel interests is trying to elec- trocute this militant miner, arrested Trooper Downey was shot dead while trying to kill some miners at | a Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting, | held at Cheswick, Pa., August 22, / 1927. State Trooper Brown, looking every inch a killer, but talking with | a soft voice, today swore that he saw Accorsi “for less than a minute during the excitement of the raid on the meeting,” and now indenti- (Continued on Page Three) ly Hoover knew that his close friend | jand attorney tuck, was receiv- ing huge fees from the sugar in- | terests, t *Lewis. leaders, and stopped all an Murder of Haitian [a march on the Kincaid mines, | Britain jing statement against Wall Street | 5°\car Farrington ig now back in the radio and telegraph system of |heroic people who have for centuries NY COMM NI T | The militia at Kincaid, i YOUNG WANTS é | |nois, today attacked the mass] ‘ ing the pits. Workers which belong to the Peabody Coal | loppression of the Haitian masses: | {,20'ion ‘ichwich's right hand man | jthe United States. (Continued on Page Two) States imperialist domination. De- | spite. capitalist press reports that ‘all is quiet on the front,’ sporadic fighting is going on against the | marines in several places. | Revolting Haitian peasants, armed with machetes (crude harvesting knives) stormed the marine barracks at Saint Michel in the Gonaives dis- trict. Lieutenant Bertin, a renegade | 7 (Continued on Page Three) LAUREL, Del. (By Mail)—The entire working force of the Laurel Lumber Co., largest fruit and truck carrier manufacturer on Delmarva hundred workers are affected. NOTICE TO ALL PARTY MEM- BERS IN DISTRICT “LABOR” PARTY LABOR. (Wireless by Inprecorr) LONDON, Dec, 10.—The “labor” government has brought charges against 123 miners and their wi for picketing, as forbidden by the infamous Anti-Trade Union Law passed during the rule of the Con- | AGN All members must receive di- rections from Section and Unit organizers on the demonstration which takes place Saturday at 1:15 p. m., at the Federal Build- ing, Park Row and Broadway. Every member of the party instructed to drop wirk if neces in this sary and participate ervative Party, a law which the) demonstration. Labor” Party promised during the | Organization Department, Dis- elections to repeal. The charges ; I trict 2. concern the Garve miners’ strike, tte The Communist Party Is in Need of Funds! Yesterday the recruiting drive started with its objective of 5,000 new members for the Communist Party and 15,000 new readers for the Daily Worker, central organ of the Com- munist Party. The general strike of the miners of Illinois at the call of the National Miners’ Union, under the revolutionary Trade Union Unity League, has gotten under way successfully only because of the strong backbone of leadership given to these workers by the Communist Party. Accorsi went to trial Monday, threatened with being burned alive by the Mellon courts. The successful mobiliza- tion of the working class in support of the International Labor Defense, to save this victim of capitalist class ven- geance, is possible only because of the determined leadership in the movement by the Communist Party. The attack on the working class and the militant resis- tance of the workers led by the Communist Party proceeds all along the line. in New York 18 months after State | But our work must increase its tempo. Lack of funds should not choke the most elementary needs of our revolu- tionary Party apparatus itself. We cannot halt our activities for one minute just be- cause of lack of money. It is up to every class conscious worker, Party member and sympathizer, to DONATE IM- MEDIATELY so that the effectiveness of our smashing blows against capitalism will not be lessened, Prompt response from those who realize the importance of the present struggles that the Party is waging is a vital necessity. Send your donation today to the Emergency Fund of the Communist Party. Send it to: Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New York City, eh v TTT veneer nr rrr we nTnTTEsrnnrsnverrTvNCTT=TSTONNISNT ONIN SIN TN TTS et the orders of W. O, Argus, superin- jtendent of the Peabody mine, who charged that the pickets stopped a car in which he was riding with a \Co., has a big interest in combining \the communication system in the {United States under the control of | Penninsula, has been laid off. Three | the Morgan bankers, |. Besides further consolidation help- jing American capitalism in its struggle for w markets, Young declared that it would be a valuable |war measure. He said: “T beg of you not to put the com- | munication services of the United | States, which are essential to the de- |velopment and extension of our business in times of peace, and al- ways essential to the national de- fense, in a position where others may dictate to us here and we are powerless to protect ourselves,” he said. The trustification that Young recommends, would be a profitable women beat on dishpans, and in venture to the American Telegraph many cases had brought along the and Telephone Co., General Electric family butcher knife to defend them-| (Co, and the Radio Corporation of selves with against attacks by oper-| America. It would be a direct slap jators’ or United Mine Workers’ / at the consolidated British eommu- \thugs. All automobiles with miners | nications system, and would intensi- intending’ to work in these mines |fy world competition in this field. were turned back, or stopped at the Young wants a mild sort of gov- (Continued on Page Three) —_| ernment control. He wants all the ge BELA NE | resources of the imperialist govern- ) | ment behind the Morgan bankers in | guard of five miliatiamen. | The unon has denounced the use of troops. Pickets Block Roads. Mass picketing by the striking miners in the Taylorville section |blocked roads leading to Peabody Coal Co. Mines No. 9 at Langley- jville, No. 58 in Taylorville, No. 11 at Taylorville, and the same com- pany’s mines at Kincaid. Yester- day 300 miners at No. 9 and 150 at No. 11 walked out in response to the strike call. Picket lines were jimmediately formed and included jnot only men but the women and |children of miners families. The |their competition with the British | imperialists. | Directly referring and linking up 5 the struggle for more cruisers with |the competition with British radio ‘ |and telegraph companies, Young — blurted out: “Parity, gentlemen, is 138, Meet in Jail, Vote important to the United States in |more fields than warships: in none to Carry On |more so than communications.” | —- | A hundred striking shoe workers | [picketed in front of the Diana Shoe) Whitewashing Trial of Co. in Ridgewood yesterday morn- | i ling, and refused to disperse when Marion Deputies Now \the policeman pulled his gun and Starts in Burnsville | threatened to shoot. H seatdieel When other police came they were! BURNSVILLE, N. C., Dec, 10.— assisted by the thugs in the shop to| The whitewashing of the eight dep- arrest 38 pickets. One of those jail-| uties who admitted firing shots into ed was Organizer Lippa, of the In-, the picket line at the Marion Manu- dependent Shoe Workers Union, and | facturing Co. mill when six workers he addressed a meeting held in jail,| were killed and over 20 wounded got | | | speaking in Italian and in English on the value of such demonstrations as this. Revolutionary songs were sung also on the way to jail, and jat the meeting a collection of $12 | was taken up for the strike, though | (Continued on Page Two) | TEN DIE IN FIRE, NO PROTEC- TION EQUIPMENT. Ten men and girls were burned to death in a fire which broke out in \the Manhattan Studios, Inc., Park | Ave, and 184th St., Tuesday morn- ‘ing. Nineteen were severely injured. The fire was due to poor equipment and bad management of the studio. | No sprinklers had been installed in the studio which uses thousands of {feet of inflammable film. under way here yesterday, The trial takes place here because of a change of venue granted from , McDowell to Yancy County. The murderous attack was led by Sheriff Adkins of Marion, but he was not leven placed on trial by the bosses’ courts, though many strikers told of seeing him shooting at them. The comparatively unknown deputies who will be tried now are: Robert Ward, |B. L. Robbins, Taylor Greene, | Charles Tate, W. A. Fender, Jim Owens, Dave Jarrett and William | Twiggs. | A venire of 100 mountain farmers | was called yesterday _ Build Up the United Front ef the Working Class From the Bot- {tom Up—at the Enterprisest as.