The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1930, Page 2

WITTNESS TELLS OF HEARING PLOT TO MURDER ELLA MAY Says Mill Owners Deliherniely Hired Killers tol Shoot Woman Striker Gunman Said: “Let’s Get Them Out of Here or) Kill All of Them” CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. 27.— riding. He took the number of the Though evidence rapidly accumu- | two cars, he said, and gave them} lates to show that the mill owners’ | to the solicitor, but personally for- hired murderers deliberately plotted | got them. to kill National Textile Wo Sure He “Checked Up.” Union members last Septemb Solicitor Carpenter then told the did murder in broad daylight one | court the license numbers had been organizer, Ella May, the prosecution | checked and that both cars were announced today that it will ask | found to be from Spindle, N. C., 60! only for manslaughter verdicts ; miles from Gastonia. against the five killers on trial. Carpenter is supposed to be one T. F. Wilson, of York, S. C., was | of the prosecutors in this case, and | in Gastonia on September 14, and |his sincerity can be judged by the | testified in the trial today he ov fact that he has been positively heard occupants of two automobt identified as the leader of one of the say: 7 : A o | Ninete get them out of here or | Manville, Jenckes Co. lynch gangs, | kill all of them,” Wilson said which kidnaped, flogged and threat- | men referred to the textile wor ented to kill N.T.W. organizer Ben on the truck on which Ella May was | Wells Sparta Miners Win All Demands Against ‘Fundamental’ Win Cafeteria Strike; (Continued from Page One) stration called by the Trade Union Unity League Unemployed Councils at City Hall. Mass Meeting Wednesday. + Wednesday night a mass meeting of cafeteria workers is being called in Bryant Hall. Thou- sands of leaflets are being distrpb- uted‘ in the unorganized shops in order to draw the unorganized cafe- teria workers into the drive. Of the six workers who were ar- rested at the Monroe 35th St. cafe- teria, four were discharged and Constas and Christenson were held for special sessions on “Paragraph 600” (violation of injunction). To- day the cases of L. Dimoff, John Pico, Rose Kaplan and Anna Speak- er who are framed on charges of “malicious mischief” are coming up n the Jefferson Market Court. They are all held under $2,500 bail. Continued from Page One) announced that because of new ma- chinery introduced, it would fire all but 80 of the miners. The list sel- ected by the company to keep on working included only six of the Negro miners. The local declared a strike, three weeks ago. Fishwick agents appeared, and ordered the men back to the mine. The miners repudiated Fishwick. Later they also rejected his appeal for them to take part in his convention. They rejected the hwick convention call once more, just before accept- ing the surrender of the operators. Delegates To W. I. R. During the strike, National Min- ’ Union organizers were holding eetings to which most of the strik- ers came, and the Workers Interna- tional Relief representative, Marcel Scherer, reports the Sparta miners elected delegates to the W. I. R. conference to be held in Chicago, March 2 ‘ Class W: ar Prisoners ae “Guests of Honor” at All Shoe Workers Meet . Tonite; Plan Big Drive I.L.D. Bazaar Tonight eee NEW YORK, Feb er New York (Continued from Page One) workers facing many years’ impri against the 40-hour, 5-day week de-| onment for activities on behalf mand. their including such _well- | For the purpose of mobilizing its as Potash and Wit forces on the question of the new agreement, the union is calling a special meeting of all shop delegates, council members and all shop chair- | men to the union headquarters on} Saturday afternoon, March 1, at 1 Needle Trades We jal Union, Schifrin, the Mineola di dants, Zinalavino will be the “guests of honor” at the third night of the annual Interna- | | tional Labor Defense Bazaar at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave, | tonight. i Folk songs and dances of German | jand Hungarian workers will sound | through the bazaar tonight, as the | program is in honor of workers of auditorium at 8 p.m. Saturday. | Tine Newark ‘workers, facing 20 years imprisonment on criminal syn- The women’s department of the |¥ooni jain peepee ks union has arranged a number-of |“C2'!S! Charges, were greete sal bazaar, which will continue until | shop gate meetings in the De Kall Ave. section. The first of these will! y night, is the largest and | take place at noon today. Good colorful in the history of the speakers ave to address this meeting | | which will deal with the importance of militant organization and Inter- ‘onal Women’s Day, March 8. | elebrate World Working. Women Day, (Continued from Page One) nto the Communist Party.” On March 1, a special issue of the “Working Women” will come out for } International Women’s Day. It will contain feature stories and pictures | + ioct in this drive. for the working women in the United Ca es een oe en , States and the Soviet Union, and it Foes tO gece le 8 Die will contrast the difference between | |en’s Day, March 8, at 8 p.m. in of the workers in the capitalist coun- | tries. A drive is now on for 10,000 sub- tions to the “Working Woman, ers’ p. m. sharp. Youth, Women, The Organize department of the ing a social wher ng and music will youth .D. RETURN W.LR. COUPON BOOKS The Workers’ International Relief ! sking all those who have W.I.R. | |coupon books to send them in at| once with funds in order that relief may be provided for the striking | miners in Moundsville, W. Va., and | Powhatan, . Send all coupon books to the Workers’ International Relief, 949 Broadway, Room 512, New| York City. | is and all workers are urged to do their | | Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It | Among Your Fellow Workers! | tried to compromise on 12, {hour of the opening of the trial. \its struggles. One hundred new mem- | | Murdered by Mill Thugs "ADMIT 50,000 JOBLESS IN N.Y, BUILDING TRADES jA. F. of bea Sabotages | Fight for Relief Between 40 and 60 per cent of | the 115,000 building trades workers | in New York City are jobless, ad- | mit the reactionary leaders of the building trades unions of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. This means that nore than 50,000 are faced with long idleness and starvation unless they join the Un- employed Council in the demand for Ella May. A witness in the g on in Gastonia, of hearing of the plot y the y mil b to murder all joyment insurance paid by the the strikers. rurder crew of | capitalist state. the mill expl 3 cannot stop the The New’ York building trades union mi 's support the Green policy of co-operating with bosses in | their wage-cutting campaign, and organization of the Southern mill workers to fight for better ditions. con- O.K. the “no-strike” and “no-wage | Strike Paterson Mill; jincrease” agreement, signed by | Green last November, in a confer- Picket at Allentown | ence with the leading scab bosses of the country. were the hardest hit, as | inigh as 75 per cent of them being | (Continued from Pace One) Roswell Tompkins, secretary of | |in the morning, and brought out/the New York Building Trades} the day shift. Council that the electricians and} This is a small mill with about! painte 30 wo: ers, but is a part of the Saltzer commission, which has 14 | no: 1. However, the misle: similar shops in P: nm, and ‘more | o, s trying to stave off thei elsewhere. The National Textile membership by promising them an Workers calls on the employees in) aijeyiation of the situation in the those shops neta oy too, youd is| future, while the facts point out calling Pe reece two & el that building contracts awarded Oday. saturday there wil %€ @ have dropped during the past three meeting of the workers all of these shops. The boss of the Levine mill has already agreed to reinstate the dis- charged workers, but balks at the other demands. Conditions Horrible. a months on the average of 21 per cent a month below last year, and | the prospects for the future are the blackest for seven years. Shoe Workers Discuss Throughout the silk industry, ‘ long hours, low wages, speed-up, Contract; Mass Meet and bad working conditions, and! foy All Friday, 8 P.M. ' unemployment are making the lives of the workers impossible. At the time of going to press a} The National Textile Workers’ huge mass meeting, Irving Plaza | Union is building a network of shop | Hall being packed, of shoe workers | committees and rank and file strike} was discussing the new agreement} committees to spread the strikes of |to be enforced in union shops, by individual mills into a great indus-|the Independent Shoe Workers’ trial struggle throughout Paterson Union. The question of no piece and throughout the silk industry in| work and of the number of hours other cities, in the near future. was to the front. = * * There will be a very important Rayon Strike Spreads. mass meeting of all shoe workers, ALLENTOWN, Pa., Feb. 27.—| organized and unorganized, held to- Picketing by the more than 400 | morrow at 8 p. m., at Lorrane Hall, workers on strike against the Ar-| 790 Broadway, near Flushing Ave., cadia rayon mills continues. The| Brooklyn, The meeting is called by National Textile Workers’ Union is | the I. 8. W. U. making every effort to spread the| ‘Trial of seven workers from the struggle through all departments Schwartz & Benjamin Shoe Co. shop and to other mills. The strikers de-| Will begin today in special session, mand the eight-hour day, no speed-| 171 Atlantic Ave. for the usual up, and a 20 per cent increase inj “contempt of court,” that is picket- | wages. They were working eight’ ing. | machines, the boss demanded that | each worker Nett: on the job handle W, | Sh taal even oniente Ne"ttend ILD Bazaar e The nine Negro “and white New- ark workers facing 20 years’ im- prisonment on an old New Jersey | ;| sedition law, thousands of New Yorkers tonight | on the second day of the annual | Anna Burlak, N. T. W. organizer | came to lead the strike as soon as she had been freed by acquittal in the state sedition trial in Bessemer, Pa. The strike started the exact Mass meetings are being held, and over a hundred of the strikers have joined the N. T. W. U. 2,000 Milwe aukee . oblessWorkers March (Continued from Page One) bodies for all employed workers to strike on March 6, and join the de- nionstration on International Fight- ing Day Against Unemployment. The Unemployed Council is strongly organized. and the assist- ance in its work given by the Ci raunist Party has given a gro’ prestige to the Par jeader of the we 107th St. and Park Ave. | A large attendance of workers | were not held back by the rain last | |night to open the annual bazaar in | | greeting John Porter. Communist Activities rs, Attention. Worker ofice im Notify the D: mediately the name and address of your Daily Worker representative! jf one has not as yet been elected, | do so at the next 1 meeting! Section Four Rea” Sunday, “| Report. 9. m.; units 2, 4, Bat ig | 143 BH. 103rd § units 1. 3, A, Finnish y as the capable |at 936 Lenox Ave. ing cl in all Lower Bronx Y.C. r meetings fo } ense of | 8 p.m. All} . 138th st. | Lers were gained for the Party last! week, The Unemployed Coun s ac-| Cafeteria Workers ‘T.U.U.L, Fraction. | P neil is ac- | Cafeteria @ pms Ww. sth St. | tively fighting evictions of vnem- <8 ployed who cannot pay rent, and| Notice to an Party, and ¥.C.L. : embers! has made two demonstrations to} on Monday, section membership prevent evictions. meetings will be held. as Sections 1, and Lyceum, 66 E th Sections 4 and 5—Ambassador Hall, List St. and Third Av Sections 6, 7 and 8—26-28 Union Sa. All nuclei meetings are to be called off on Monday night and every anem- ber is instructed to be present. Very WRITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. For the Defense of All Class War Prisoners I.L.D. Annual Bazaar HUNGARIAN and GERMAN FOLK DANCING and 4 SINGING NEW STAR CASINO, 107th St. & International Labor NEW YORK DISTRICT—799 BROADWAY Greet the New York Class-War Prisoners: Potash, Winogradsky, TONIGHT TOMORROW AND SUNDAY Dancing! Restaurant! Music! Exhibitions! Concerts! JOIN AND SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE urgent and important matters are to be taken up. Admittance onty upon presentation of membership card. pet PLS Upper Bronx 1, Y.C., Open Forum. Sunday, 8 p.'m., i400 Boston R jon Unemployment.’ Admissio free. * * | Lower Bronx ¥.C.1. Open Forum. Sunday, 8 p. m., 715 B, 138th St., | Unemployment. \Labor and Fraternal Organizations Workers Organizations! Attention! Order blocks of tickets now for the | Daily Worker costume ball, to be |held’ March 15. Distribute them among your members and their fel- Tickets in advance at the door, 75 cents, . * on low workers, are 50 cents, ‘* Shifrin, Zinalavino and others Womens Connell No. 28 and No. 31. Joint Unemployment Mass Meet, |rriday, 2061 Bryant Ave. Bronx. jLouis A. Baum, speaker. Workers Kaperanto Club. Festival. | March 1, 250 E, 81st St., play. danc- | ing, exposition, Proceeds 1.L.D. para Hae Collection Box Loxt. Number 459, Saturday night at Jew- ish Workers’ Club, on 4th floor, =o [yates Sq. Please turn over to Y.C.L | office. _ 8 * ‘ Harlem Progressive Club. Sunday, 8 np. m., 1492 Madison Ave, | Rudolph Shahen on “The Background [of the London Naval Gara ence and the Religious Issue.” Mase Meeting for Soviet Union jefenne, Tonight, 7.30 p. m., Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl, Arranged by | Central Committee of Jewish Work- | lers Clubs Speakers: J. Mindel, W. | |Weiner, J. Amter, M. Freedman, §. | Hurwitz, | *“ * « ) Bronx Laun Workers Organization Park Av. Defense | phatic “certainly.” | him seriously as the facts point to! | an emphatic “no,” M'DONALD TRIES TO FOOL MASSES BY PACIFIST DOPE. Spreads les’ on Navy Race Meet (Continued from Page One) mons today if an agreement possible at the Fiye-Power MacDonald answered with an meet, em- The only agree- But nobody took | ment which is likely to come out of | the meeting of the imperialist ban- dits is active war preparations st the Soviet Union which B ward Price Bell, London correspon- dent for the Chicago Daily News, admits is the most overwhelming | | question that looms over the confer- ence and the robber present. In the beginning, Stimson, sen: ing the break down of the confe: ence, attempted to get the impe: ialists to agree on some meaning- imperialists | less proposals such as “humaniz- ing” of submarine warfare, and some phrases about “limitation” that would not effect the actual building programs of the imperial- ists. But the war mongers could not come to any near-understanding in order to fool the masses. Karel Capek’s ‘R.U.R.’ Now at Liberty Theatre “R.U.R.,” which has had pacity week at the Martin Beck, is being transferred by the Theatre Guild to the Liberty Theatre. At the conclusion of the Capek engage- ment, both “Marco Millions” “Volpone” will be presented, for one week only, by the same company. “Marco Millions” ment March 3, March 10. The cast includes Sylvia Field, Henry ‘ ney Greenstreet, and Frederick Roland. a ca- and will begin e on and “Volpone NORMA TALMADGE AT P RADISE THEATRE. orma Talmadge has chosen | York Nights” as her first talk- Ne nine ing picture vehicle, and will be seen in it at Loew’s Paradise Theatre | week, beginning Saturaay. w York Nights” is adapted from the stage play, “Tin Pan ‘and has Roland Gilbert, John Wray, | |Lilyan Tashman, Mary Doran and Roscoe Karns as the leading play- se The Paradise will offer the Capi- tok stage show “Pearls,” a revue | with the musical comedy stars, Shaw and Lee; guest master of ceremon- ies, Al Evans; Desha and Sansone; Tito Coral and the Chester Hale ‘Girls. “AMUSEMENTS: und BIG WE iscon, C AME ().* id ST. & BWAY First Time at Popular Prices! Their First TALKING Picture “ACROSS THE WORLD” Mr, and Mrs, MARTIN JOHNSON JOLSONS’ 59th St. & 7th Av. Bys. 8: Mats, ‘Thurs, and Sat. “The Count of Luxembourg” Summary of Thesis of Prvsidium E. C. C. 1 REBOUND (Continued are Page One) tunism, and cleansing oft the right and “left” elements, especially the rights, and also the “lefts” in the ranks. 10, The fundamental tasks are jproletariat and mass Communist Parties, and shift the major attention to m wo! and mass action, mobil peasantry, petty-bourgeoisie, etc., overcoming | to capture the basic masses of the | Eves. actually develoo| Death ft g the! under the hegemony of the proletar- | iat, ensure the Party leadership in| mass actions, directing them in an crganized political struggle, political strikes, leading the working class up to revolutionary struggle for power. These tasks require the consolida- tion of the Communist Party organ- izations, especially the factory nuc- lei, recruiting new ‘members. The thesis points out the insuffi- cient, but extraordinary importance | of membership recruiting for the Communist Parties in Germany and the United States, the necessity of changing the forms of work, and the acute necessity of a real Bolshevist tempo of development of Party work among the masses is stressed, espe- | cially on a factory basis. The necessity for increased work in the reformist unions and revolu- tionary unions. Popularizing the |slogan of the political strike. In- jereased attention to the fight against imperialist war, especially war bining open and closed work. The! class, independent role in colonies. preparation for May aS Wir about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. W. 1. R. CLOTHING STORE $42 BROOK AVENUE Telephone Ludlow 3098 Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing High. Class Work Done Goods Called for and Delivered. All profits go towards strikers and their families. YOUR, SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS: SHOW mass | Tom will be greeted by | against the Soviet Union, and com- | i} LL.D. bazaar in New Star Casino, | The major attention on March 6, and | By FRANZ LEHAR With Roy Cropper, Florenz and Manila’ Powers. Ames, Arthur Hopkins present comedy by Donald Ogden § with HOPE WILLIAMS PLYMOUTH 22. 45¢h St. Ww, of Bway and Sat. Ethel Barrimore Theatre 7th Street, West of Baad way, 8:50, Mats. Wed. 30 Takes a Holiday A comedy ab life. with PHILIP MERIVALE IVIC REPERTORY 141, st ‘ Eves, §:30. Mats, Thur. $1. $1 EVA Le GALIIENNE. cose Tonight—“TH Nis and “Wom poor” HEM WAY") ene | Productions "| Theatre “METEOR” By 5, N. BEHRMAN GUILD. 8% Eva. 8:50 Mts, Thur.&Sa “THE APPLE CART” By Bernard Shaw Eves. 8:30, Mats. and Saturday at NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES Loew’s “Big 2” | PITKIN || PARADISE Pitkin Avenue Grand Concourse Brooklyn Bronx ON BOTH SCREENS NORMA SHEARER “THEIR OWN DESIRE” ALL TALKING Stage Shows—Both Theatres from CAPITOL THEATRE, BROADWAY of the childre: AMAZING! “Contains the ‘ALL QUIET Continuous Performances Daily 9 9A. M. to 5 PLM. D5¢ ‘After Now Playing! TREMENDOUS DOUBLE-FEATURE PROGRAM! “PRISONERS of SOCIETY” (CAUGHT IN THE BE) A powerful dramatic plea for the h —and on the same program— ACTU. —as real as war itself! “FIGHTING for the FATHERLAND” Acme Theatre ‘* RLIN UNDERWORLD) anitarian treatment a8. n of erii ALY AUTHENTIC! punch of horror yon will find, tn ON THE WESTE RONT. * RN. YE Worle. East 14th St, Between Broadway and 4th Ave. UNION SQUARE A. M, to Midnight. Prices: from 5PM. 35¢ Sat. and Sun. 35¢ ‘all day EAST SIDE THEATRES 2nd Ave. 133 SECOND AVENUE, CORNER ay STREET Play house Husnie) st ware & under the auspices League of You ON THE SOVKINO DEPICTING ‘ERENT PARTS on till Midnite. Concituoun $8 Today, Tomorrow and Sunday—Feb, “PETTY SCANDAL” Powerful tragicomedy of modern youth in Soviet EVERYDAY HAPPENINGS 28, March 1 and 2 it play +. in love. Produced of the “Comsonol"—the Communist SAME PROGRAM: JOURNAL N UNION. Prices 25¢ and 35e. OF SOVIET Alley,” | Admission 50c in advance 75¢ at the door. READ and SUPPORT We Meet at the— ‘ommittee, Sunday, 1 p. m,, 1330 Wilkins Ave CAMP WOCOLONA REUNION DANCE and COSTUME BALL TONIGHT PYTHIAN TEMPLE, 135 W. 70th Street Tickets $1.00 in advance at Workers Bookshop; at door—$1.25 Music by VERNON ANDRADE’S ORCHESTRA ( COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty DAILY WORKER COSTUME BALL ROCKLAND PALACE 155TH STREET and EIGHTH AVENUE To reach hall—Gth or 9th Ave. “L” to 155th St. RED DANCERS Other Entertainment Class Struggle Group Costumes VERNON ANDRADE ORCHESTRA THE DAILY WORKER Saturday Eve. March 15th IT FIGHTS FOR YOU! (TUUL Calls Painters: '. Negro, White, to Meet | A meeting, rm ey for unor- | ganized painters, Negro and white, ca’ by the Trade Union Unity | League, tonight, at 8 p. m., at 100 | West 116 St. and Lenox Ave. |. All unorganized painters, regard- less of color or creed should organ- lize into one powerful industrial union under the revolutionary lead~ {ership of the Trade Union Unity | League, that is based on class strug- | gles against the bosses, for the fight against speed-up, long hours and |low wages, and for social insurance |to be paid by the bosses and con- trolled by the workers. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. | | | “For All Kind of Insurance” (CARL BRODSKY 'relephone: Murray Hill S550 |? Kast 42nd Street, New York WORKERS’ CENTER BARBER SHOP Moved to 30 Unton Square FREIHEIT BLDG.——Main Floor | s ER O ¢ | 657 Allerton Avenue Bronx, N. Y. Estabrook 8215 { Comrades Meet at ~ | PARK RESTAURANT 698 Alerton Avenue Corner White Plains Ave: A GOOD PLACE TO EAT Ladies Invited. Open All Night. ®. VEGETARIAN | Dairy RESTAURANT omrades ‘tl Always Bind 11 to Dine at Our Place. ITHERN BLVD., Bronx 174th St. Station) INTERVALB $149. 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G | Phone Chelsen 2374 ||] Business meetings held the first ||| Monday of the month at 8 p, m. ||} ducational meetings—the third ||] Monday of the month. aeays Board anongay, meetings every afternoon at 6 o'clock. One Industry! One Unton! Join and | Fight the Common Knemy! Office upen from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m \ | i =a ROOM with board for | 2, $20.00 1 week for both. 209 E. 14th ESPERANTO AFFAIR Comerades Burope Have ned Esperanto 350 E. All Proceeds to the I, L. D. MARCH Ist BUILD STRONGER BONDS BETWEEN THE REVOLUTIONARY PROLETARIAT By means of Experante at respond with you. 81st St. they want to cor- Come to rective their greetings from the world over, | Dancing: A Play. Exposition of Posters and Correspondence. : : Tickets in Advance 50c; at the door, @0c Tickets on wale now at the Hungarian Cafeteria, 350 E, g Bookshop, 28 Union Sq.; International Labor Defeune, Too Bway, ‘nose pt] Pree bgt > wy nae doce te ea h I 4 x a Se ee a ¢