The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1934, Page 1

T are textile strikers have been butchered, mur- dered! Scores are suffering bullet wounds, many jailed, and still more have been clubbed and gassed. The toll of dead and wounded of those of our brothers on strike has been heavy. The employers and capitalist state governments have opened up a the just demands of the the country should answ country should protest no furious and savage reign of terror against the textile workers in an effort to defeat the strike and to beat attack on labor! Textile workers in every part of the workers should wire prote Georgia, South Carolina an workers. Every worker in er this vicious, murderous vigorously protesting this sl and the murderous attack w. All locals of the strking textile workers in a gigantic sts to the governors of d to President Roosevelt ‘aughter of unarmed men, on pickets. The whole working class should come to the support of the protest against this most ————$<$____. WORKERS! ANSWER THE TERROR! SUPPORT YOUR STRIKING BROTHERS! brutal and vicious onslaught on men and women fight- ing for their most elementary rights as human beings and for better living conditions. Protest the fascist terror unleashed against the textile strikers! Work- ers! Raise your voices in support of your striking brothers and against the savage assault of the bosses against the textile strikers! While day-to- day expenses of the Herndon-Scottsboro appeal and defense mount, only $6,919 has been received of the $15,000 need ternational Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th led. Rush funds to In- St., New York City. I, No. 21 Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) EW YORK, FRIDA (, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934 0s se ee Mill Board Is Linked To Bankers Records Show Textile Mediators Back Mill Owners’ Interests NEW YORK —That President | Roosevelt's textile Mediation Board | can serve perfectly as a strike-| breaking apparatus in the interests of the employers is definitely es- tablished by the records of the three men who make up the board. | All of them represent big busi- ness and banking interests, as the following thumb nail biographies show: aymond VY. Ingersoli—Borough President of Brooklyn, who backed | LaGuardia in last year’s elections. | He did not raise his voice against | LaGuardia’s fascist plan to photo- graph and fingerprint trade union | leaders. As a magistrate in 1901 he was responsible for sending union workers to jail. He has been Despi All But Lawrence Shut Tight Throughout New England HOSIERY MILL OUT Down as Thousands Mass To Picket By Carl Reeve (Special to the Daily Worker) LAWRENCE, Mass., Sept. 6.—Mass picket lines brought an arbitrator in the cloak and suit industry in New York since 1924.) Winthrop Aldrich, of the Chase | National Bank, a Rockefeller insti- | tution, with interests in the. textile | dustry, backed Ingersoll for Bor- | h President during the Novem- th.—The son for for- Hope Smith. He is the |, of the Fulton National! Bank of Atlanta, Ga, which is | connected with the big mill owners. | He is also the director of the| Southern Grocery Stores, Inc., and | head of the Hotel Corporation of | Atlanta. He is a Democrat. | John G. Winant.— The Repub- | lican Governor of New Hampshire, | has close connections with the mill owners. He belongs to exclusive clubs and meets the textile mani- | facturers socially. He is called aj philanthropist and is very wealthy. Georgia Lynch Rulers To Be Tried Tonight; | Herndon Will Speak NEW YORK—The Georgia lynch zulers and their courts, which sen- tenced Angelo Herndon to eighteen to twenty years on the chain gang for the “crime” of organizing white and Negro workers, will be put on trial tonight by Negro and white workers of this city at a meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lafayette Street. Berndon, who is put on $15,000 cash bail, pending appeal; Ann Burlak, active in the present tex- tile strike, and Joseph Brodsky, Scottsboro defense attorney, will speak. Reports will be made on the Herndon and Scottsboro caes and the campaign to raise $15,000 to carry the appeals to the U. 8. Supreme Court. The hall can be reached from Manhattan, via the LR.T. subway, getting off at Atlantic Ave. and walking two blocks. Ben Gold To Lestare On Role of Lovestone | | | | In Needle Industry) NEW YORK.—Ben Gold, national secretary-treasurer of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, jJeader of the recent successful strike of 4,000 fur trimmers in New York, will speak on the “Role of the Lovestonites and the Struggle of the Needle Trades Workers,” to- night at 8 o'clock at Irving Plaza all, Fifteenth Street and Irving The lecture is one of a series of educational talks arranged by the Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York. The next two lectures will be on the role of the Lovestonites in the shoe industry and in the textile area. Earl Browder to Speak Jn Paterson Tonight PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 6—Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, will speak here tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at a meeting called by the Com- st Party at Washington Hall, Godwin Street, near Bridge Street. i Moe Brown, Communist candi- date for governor, and Martin Rus- sak, candidate for Congress, will also speak. Many silk strikers and ayers are expected to attend, = thousands on strike in the past 24 hours, shutting down every key textile center of | New England except Law- rence, and making the strike 95 per cent effective in New Eng- land. One huge mill after another struck this morning, only a few hours after manufacturers issued confident statements that the strike did not affect their workers. The woolert and silk industries are now completely tied up in addition to cotton. Thousands of pickets at Lowell concentrated this morning at the giant Lowell Silk Mills (Newmarket Mills), closing them down. At six o'clock this morning thousands of workers choked the streets. Two hours later the mill was dark and silent. completely closed as the workers poured out to join the strike, All Out in Lowell Every textile mill in the Lowell} area is out on strike now. The mills struck in this area include silk, woolen and worsted mills. The American Woolen Company plants outside Lawrence were included in the walkout. Last night in Lowell thousands of strikers swarmed the streets in front of the Newmarket Mills, and the Lawrence Manufacturing Co., closing the latter down yesterday. The Hub Hosiery Company, in | the face of mass picketing, an- jnounced it will abandon attempts ‘to keep open tonight, admitting that the strike is 100 per cent ef- fective there. This is the first hosiery plant in the United States to be closed by the strike. Other key mills closed down by the walkout in the past 24 hours inelude the Goodyear and Firestone Tire Mills at Nashua, N. H., where only yesterday employers boasted that their workers would not strike, 2,200 at the Manville-Jenckes plant at Manville, R. I.; 2,900 at the Berkshire Spinning Mill in Adams, 1,000 in one Dover mill, the Great Assabet plant of the American |Woolen Co., at Maynard, said to jbe the largest woolen mill in the world, where over 2,000 struck; |Grosvernordale, Conn., where 1,000 struck; 2,000 at Farr Alpaca Co., Holyoke, Mass.; 1,400 in American Woolen Cocheco Mill at Dover, N. H. Every mill without exception New Bedford and Pall River is shut down by the strike, At Salem, 2,500 walked out from the famous Pequot Mill. Employers Forced to Close The employers were forced by the effectiveness of the general strike to finally admit defeat as far as the attempt to keep the plants open is concerned, and changed their tactics toward the “investigation” ordered by Roosevelt. After the mass picketing with Scores of thousands on the lines had closed the mills tight, the Na- tional Association of Cotton Man- ufacturers announced they have “decided to close New England cot- ton mills.” They are now olaim- ing that only 10 per cent came (Continued on Page 2) ONE KILLED IN DEMON- STRATION PHOENIX, Ariz. Sept. 6—One Worker was killed, more than 20 lWere injured and 35 were arrested jin-a demonstration of over 4,000 jobless men and women with their children before the F.E.R.A. and County Welfare Department here. aja on ielef ppojectsy Owners Forced To Close | i | continued to work, authorities had The workers were protesting wages i & ® Main Demands| In the Strike A yl | The textile workers, 1,000,000 || strong, from Maine to Ala- || bama, are fighting for the fol- | lowing main demands as adopted by the recent conven- tion of United Textile Work- ers’ Union: (1) Hours: Two shifts of 30 hours per week with no ex- emptions. (2) Differentials: The estab- lishment of four minimum wages: Unskilled, $13 per 30- hour week; semi-skilled, $18 per 30-hour week; skilled, $22.50 per 30-hour week; highly skilled, $30 per 30-hour week. (3) Machine Load: The re- vision of all work loads on the basis of reason and ordinary common sense, (4) Recognition of the Union: Reinstatement of all workers || victimized because of union membership. (NOTE: For detailed statement of wage demands for each category of workers snd machine loads in each department see the Dally Worker of Tuesday, September 4.) ‘Philadelphia | Pickets Held | In $500 Bail (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 6.— Mae Mcknight and Mae Roberts, Pickets, were held in $500 bail for} Grand Jury by Magistrate Costello, | vicious worker-hating politician, this morning. The girls were ar- rested on warrants sworn by scabs at the Rose Mill following a heated | verbal clash yesterday. Charles Krule was arrested as he | headed a mass picket line at the Concordia Silk mill this morning, | but Costello was forced to free him| when the cop who arrested him fail- | ed to press charges. A huge reserve army of police has | been concentrated in a Kensington station house, while increased mo- tor and foot squads patrolled mills throughout Kensington this morn- ing. However, no clashes, no inter- ference with picketing other than the instances cited occurred. 150 Seabs Held Prisoners | Other Pennsylvania textile centers | reported the spreading of the strike and increased militancy. In Con- shohocken a militant picket line held 150 scabs prisoners in the Jones Mill last night, and this morning forced the mill to abandon attempts to operate. In Sunbury, where unorganized workers had || te call owt volunteer police and fire- men against a mass pieket line. In Shamokin, 3,300 workers walk- ed out, shutting down three mills. Marietta Textile Mills were shut up tight by the strike, with six mills tied up in York, where militant picketing stopped transportation of seab goods yesterday. Sayre, Wil- liamsport, McAdoo, Mauch Chunk reported partial tie-ups. Nine Mills Shut in Lebanon In Lebanon nine mills shut down. In Allentown, militant mass picket- ing forced the closing of the Quaker Mill, and brought the total of - up mills to fourteen. Bangor, - umbia, Freeland, Hazelton, Johns- town, Wilkes-Barre, Easton, Beaver Meadow, were affected by the strike, | with militant picketing going on in| Philadelphia. William F. Kelly, in charge of strike activities here, re- ported that the strike is slowly| preading, with 7,500 workers out! | this morning. The joint board of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers Union and U.T.W. Knitgoods Work- | ers Union has issued a call for a huge mass meeting tomorrow night at Kensington Labor Lyceum, See= end and Cambria Sirects, ‘ilton, Silk Fabrics, Edna, Hi- ‘| owt this afternoon, and the second | Paterson workers | lice terror, workers of the Twentieth | not out. Pennsylvania Workers) Associated Bars N TW Enthusiastically Spread | Leader in Paterson Mill Walkout from Strike Board (Special to the Daily Worker) ALLENTOWN, Pa., Sept. 6.—More than 60 per cent of the silk workers are on strike here. Cedar Crest, Maxwell, Pyramid, Tuscan, Lova, Ham- (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 6. | —A mass meeting with | Schweitzer, national secretary | of the American Federation | of Silk held | here today. The speech was | Workers, was grade, and Majestic mills are out 100 per cent. All mills in York Lebanon, Lancaster and Kutz- town are out 100 per cent. The first shift of the Quaker mill, an independent union shop, walked an appeal to manufacturers to sign »n agreement on the basis of na- ional demands. All the speakers ; Were non-strikers with the excep- tion of Locks, who represented the shift is expected to follow. Executive Board. Stimulated by the walkout of the Picketing has not as yet been ony the strike is | Well organized’ "The broad silk | seretlny Oke wiicace Hite Allen. | workers are out, with the exception | n ea, ig hun kf ‘ Ff hesitant workers into the fight)! those in the family shops. The) against the silk bosses. Despite po-| Majority of the jacquard mills are | Throwsters are working | oa and oe mills in Beth-/ and silk workers are demanding enem are out, 0 that the dyers come out, Magis uae che While members of the National to the vicious ruling of Bethlehem | Textile Workers Union are joining Police Chief Trafford that only two the Associated and are active on pickets be allowed to eaoh mili, and | the Picket line, last night Moe tinat members of the Unemployed | FoR panages - bath the hss League be barred, but the Commu-| (1 Beare, Tae eased given nist Party and Unemployed League | Was oh he is a warper and not are preparing to mobilize the work- | 2,7 on the broad silk ‘ ; | Cligible to be ers to smash this strike-breaking eeenuce Board. Brown is one of | edict by organizing mass picket| the most trusted leaders of the lines, textile workers in Paterson. Under | While the United Textile Workers his leadership the dy and silk | | workers of Paterson won increases in the last strike, Arbitration and Bullets| AN EDITORIAL OOSEVELT speaks of “arbitration.” The state authorities in Georgia and South Carolina, supporters of Roosevelt's New Deal, take the | hint and begin to speak through the muzzles of rifles. Ten textile strikers are murdered, and ‘scores wounded. Many more probably will die. Remember the Pacific Coast marine strike! There too Roosevelt began to speak of arbitration, and the shipowners and their govern- ment immediately began to slaughter strikers, | The most savage terror, the most brutal violence against men and women who are fighting for wage increases, for bread to feed their children, against the most bitter speed-up, always accompanies Roose- yelt’s strikebreaking moves by means of his patent arbitration schemes. Roosevelt had hoped the strike would be a failure, that only a few of the workers would come out. When he saw the strike becoming | effective, as did the Southern textile bosses, he acted quickly in an | effort to smash it and defeat the just demands of the strikers. Here is the proof from the New York Times of yesterday, telling why Roose- velt appointed the three-men arbitration board: “It was thought in informed quarters that he (Roesevelt) an- ticipated that only a minority of the workers in the mills would respond to the strike call, and that he had abstained from official participation in the preliminary maneuvers until events should justify his betief.” Roosevelt expected the strike to fail at the start. That is why he did not act at the beginning as he did in the steel and auto strike. | But when the strike moved on to tremendous proportions, to a high | degree of militancy, Roosevelt: stepped in, along with the gunmen and militia, to drive the workers back without granting their demands. What has Gorman to say about this arbitration move? He declared before the strike started he would welcome arbitration. He praised President Roosevelt's present arbitration move. “We have faith in him and we know that whatever move he makes will not be in the direction of putting the least obstacle in the path of justice for the Wage-earners,” said Gorman. | Later, Gorman changed his tune. Telegrams began to flood the Washington U.T.W. office protesting against this arbitration scheme and demanding the strike go on to force negotiations with the bosses, and to win the demands of the strikers. This made Gorman declare | that the strike will go on, despite arbitration or investigation. He said, after pressure from the front line battles of the strike:* “While this board is inquiring, we're going to keep on striking. Messages from the local unions today said clearly they want to stay out until the board makes its report. They’ve trusted boards too many times and their confidence has been shaken.” Textile workers! Remember, all these boards were chosen and | approved by President Roosevelt. Roosevelt is behind every one of their | decisions, which br ht worse misery to you and greater profits | 0 the textile bosses. | Whatever happens in Washington, or in Roosevelt’s summer home in Hyde Park, your demands can be won only on the fighting lines at the mills, on the picket lines, in your mass meetings, in your solidarity, | | organization and militancy. The strike can be won hy spreading it to | (Continued on Page 2) | | | | close down all the mills. The strike can be won by now, at the very | AGontinued on Page 2) i See Campaign Story Yesterday's Receopts Total to Date .... Press Run Yesterday—44,5¢ on Page Three +» $261.21 $2371.55 0 ————————————— WEATHER: Probably rain. (Six Pages) Priee 3 Cents | News of Strike In Brief Ten strikers are dead, scores seriously wounded as police and State troops open fire in one of the bloodiest massacres in Amer- ican labor history. Roosevelt Mediation Board holds first meeting at Washing- ton. Gorman declares “strike goes on” but proposes agreement for “arbitration” leaving wage sched- ules open. New England centers, New Bedford, Fall River, Lowell par- alyzed by 95 per cent walkout. Holyoke, Mass., completely shut down. Rhode Island mills shut down as thousands pour from the mills. Philadelphia dyers and finish: ors strike in sympathy with tex- tile workers. Indianapolis bleachers answer strike call of textile workers, Arrests of pickets spread with quiry two jailed in Pennsyivania and two in Atlanta for distributing leafiets. Communist Party of Cleveland prepares huge demonstration of solidarity with strike and pro- lest against killings. Biggest Mills On Strike in Rhode Island Scores Are Shot as Guardsmen Fire on Workers; Gorman Is Forced to Press the Textile Walkout te Maneuvers With Roosevelt ‘In ’ Board Gorman Begins Attempt | To Sell Arbitration | to the Strikers |WALKOUT GROWING Roosevelt Names Board ; | To ‘Investigate’ | Textile Demands Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. |6.—U.T.W. Strike Chairman Francis J. Gorman today be- gan the A. F. of L. attempt \to sell the picketing workers |:the newly —eppointed~ Roose- velt textile mediation bo: before he had received “ | formation r ling the “Our understandii | board will devote some time to ex- Ploration of the field and that it does not begin with a cut and dried program,” Gormag informed re- porters this afternoon. He said he expects public hearings to begin in Washington next week. Gorman repeated his “have fai is that the in the President” slogan. ‘ been one who believed in Pres dent Roosevelt from the begin- | ning. I believed him when he said he would ‘not permit the rights of the rkers to be whitiled away.’ I belicved him then and I beliey2 him now.” “We're going to organize this in- dustry,” continued Gorman, “wheth- jer George Sloan, president of the ® ith PROVIDENCE, R. I, Sept. 6—All| Cotton Textile Industry, likes it or the bigger mills are rapidly closing |"0t. When we do that there won't | down as thousands of new recruits|¢ any need any more for strikes.” | join the picket lines. Three more | Latest reports from the field, said mills closed today, and many more Gorman, showed “We're getting up| are expected to shut down tomor.| around 475,000 workers out” | tow. The strike gains impetus every) Gorman revealed that members | hour. The Paragon Mill, one of the|of other international unions will | largest, went out late today, | Probably go out in support of the} | textile strike. He declared: “The | situation as it stands at this hour i i t other international unions WARREN, R. I., Sept. 6.— Mass call their me: out in picketing shut the Parker Mills| support of the tex He de- completely today and the Greystone |clared: “The jon as it stands Mills are operating with a skeleton | at this hour is that other inter- force. national unions may call their The total strike number is now! members out in support of our Mills Close in Warren LAIN AS STRIKE SPREADS 10 Killed - | By Troops And Police More Than 100 Hurt as Police and Militia Fire Pickeis NEW YORK.—A rain of bullets from police d te troop guns in North and South Carolina struck seven textile workers down in death yesterday as the employers and the government let loose against the on textile strike one of the bloodiest massacres tory. in American labor his- nore lie dead today ce he d ed in Georgia n dead is now n 100 seriously wounded, many, in all probability, fataily, The press is making every effort to conceal the true extent of the killings and the government respon- sibility by hinting that the blood- shed resulted from cla: ographs and reports from the f the killings 7 Slain by Deputies, Police In Honea, S. C., six and 30 seriously wounded as State | troops in helmets and with bared bayonets charged a picket line ate | tempting to stop scabs from enter- |ing a closed mill. |_ At the Dunean Mill at Greenville, _|South Caroli: a striker, John Black, was dled by six bullets fired by a d deputy thug, Bob Putnam, to be bud, In Geo | dead a at the Trion northwestern part of the State, and the shooting by a police deputy into a crowd of pickets at Augusta. Leon Carroll, 27, died in Augusta today. 600,000 Workers on Strike This grim mobilization of murder and terrorism against the textile strikers comes as the strike con- tinues to sweep forward with tree mendous power, paralyzing mill af- ter mill, with more than 600,000 workers now out, and a complete shutdown of the nation’s textile ine ustry an in mt probability. Despite all provocations by Sloan, ile In- mills to shut down the looms, the flying squadrons of striking pickets estimated at 30,000 for the state,| out of a list ‘of 42,000 employed. | strike, if the atittude of manage- ment and of public officials con- | union officials decle: |\Workers Jers this morning, pledging its sup- Hundreds of workers are leaving the | tinues to be mills every hour, with a 100 per feudal barons.” cent state shutdown already in sight| In discussing Winant, the mil- by tomorrow or the day after, |lionaire clubman, chairman of the |new board. Gorman remarked |Horace Riviere (New |U. T. W._ renresentative) spoke well of ¥V Go n described the mounting casualty list as \ter.”” He declared | wouldn’t be any v that of middle-age | 3,500 Out in Utica UTICA, N. Y¥., Sept. 6—Practi- cally every one of the 3,500 workers | employed in the mills here is out on strike, with a complete shut- down expected by tomorrow. The whole force of the New York Mills Corp., and the Utica Knitting Mills that “slaugh- “there iolence if the em- | ployers and the government didn’t joined the strike today. The Mo- | Work together.” hawk and the Standard Silk work-| Emil Rieve, president of the ers are joining the strike in great | American Federation of Hosiery numbers, Workers (A. F. of L.) announced at strike headquarters here: “There i pabrkedtrens spotty strike situations PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 6—|‘ the hosiery industry. We expect About 1,500 dyers and finishers will ee Cacia eee . eae be on strike tonight in sympathy | oy 4.4. ciustion en, a rile with the striking textile workers,|"- i.) ss . d late today. | oo Philadelphia Dyers to Quit oc : jine out Jobless Aid Picketing | (148 000), INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 6—jcontracts with the emnlove of the Indianapolis | Those under contract. 50,000. have | Bleaching Company walked out on/an agreement providing for a) strike here this morning, in re} lee shop, sponse to the national textile strike | checkoff.” Bob Spink, A. F. of L. chairman | excent those call. More than 600 went out. (Dally Worker Washington Bureau) arbitration and the| moving from mill to mill are being received with tremendous enthusie asm everywhere. The entire New England, New | York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey districts are almost wholly shut down, with the Southern sections rapidly approaching paralysis of Production, Sloan, in a public statement ad- mitted that the milis “are closing too rapidly to be counted now.” State Troeps Mobilized is of strikers have been rested and mass raids on picket lines are continuing throughout the South. More State troops are being mo- bilized in the Carolinas and Georgia as Governor Ehringhaus of North Carolina promised the textile worke ers with “civil war” in his efforts to break the strike. New England police are laying in supplies of tear gas bombs, as immens hut down 100,000 Garment Men May Strike October Ist | NEW YORK—A strike that will |affect more than 100,000 clothing }workers throughout the country ap- of the United Textile Workers| WASHENGTON, D. C., Sept. 6— ‘ peared imminent as the Executive local, issued a statement to the Aided by President Roosevelt, Committee of the International press; instead of attacking the United Textile Workers strike offi- Ladies Garment Workers Union is- bosses, ke attacked the Commu-|cials today began inten efforts ‘sued orders that work wa to stop nists. He declared, “We are going to slacken the tempo of the rapidly fo. keep mo cy of the textile Picket lin TS ing on them to turn The Commu: y of Ind faces from the p’ lines to napolis issued a leaflet to the strik- ark, the Roosevelt family estate. As in the auto, marine and if the emp! do not es- BU Dubinsky, president of the union, port and urging militant mass steel strikes, “faith” in the Presi- | declared. picketing. Workers from other | dent is the anti-strike slogan. | The strike will affect many mid- Francis J. Gorman, U.T.W. (A. F. : sGontinued on Page 2), unions and from the Unemploy- ment Councils are jeining the ling, |western cities and 550 shops, of which 100 are in the Metropolitan lerea, will also be involved,