The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1934, Page 1

‘To Win the Strike: Continue FI ( While day-to-day expenses of the Herndon-Seottsboro appeal and defense mount, the half- $15,600 needed with $7,517 cont way mark toward the was passed yesterday ributed to date. Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., N. Y. C. Vol. XI, No. 216 AS —_<——_—___—__——® Today Hails Wyk MANEUVERS 15th Year Workers To Join Party, in Group at Celebra- | ~ tion in Ashland Hall CHICAGO, Sept. 7—The workers | of Chicago were invited today to) he mass meeting in ceie- bration of the 15th Anniversary of | the Communist Party, to be held in 1¢ Ashland Auditorium, Ash- land and Van Buren Sts., tomor-) row evening, in a call committee in charge of the gements. | celebration will express the | of the workers of Chi-| i war, against ainst grow- | dencies at home,” It will dem- diness to follow lead of the Communist Party he fight to protect their living the read cago to fi , and elementary | al rights, which are increas- y threatened by the ‘New | ‘ | ates than a re of mass organizations will zreet the Party at the meeting and from more a large group of workers will be] formally inducted to membership in the Communist Party at tne meet ne. Mass Funeral For Mooney’s Mother Today SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.—The | body of Mrs, Mary Mooney, who a e last week, will be lai at t a public funeral tomor row, the Mooney Molders Defense | Committee announced today. Mrs. | Mooney had been a most energetic} fi up to her very last day for the freedom of her son, Tom, im- oned in San Quentin Peniten- | y on a frame-up since 1916. | thile making every effort to the freedom of Mooney from | n to attend the funeral of ", the Defense body has| all trade unions and | organizations in the} jpate in the funeral. | death march promises to be| a gigantic labor demonstration, as lonz as the great procession of; than a mile that walked ind the bodies of the two long- en killed in the strike in par The Cleaners and ‘Dyers Call Chicago General Strike, (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 7.—A lock- | out called Tuesday end Wednesday in the cleaners and dyers industry was turned into a general strike by the workers. Mass picketing has| forced the closing of all but four shops in the cit The demands of the stri are A 40-hour week, contracts with | the union by all the shops, and $45 to $18 wage range. The rank and} file niso demand abolition of piece- | work and the use of apprentices be- | fore unemployed are absorbed and job control. | I. L. D. Pienie Attacked | by Police in Alabama EIRMINGHAM., Al Sept. 7.— A picnic of the International Labor Defense held outside of the city limits here yevterday, was attacked by county r« ce who threatened the picnicker; with machine guns and arrested two Negro workers, Robert Washington and Henderson. Both are held in jail, although no charges have been placed against hem. : The raid on the picn: 2 refiec- tion of the terror which is now en- veloping the entire state in the effort of mill owners to smash the textile Mae * squads are peing f ~s of the gtete Solicit Subs fer the “Daily” — | \in the South and for bringing out | \necessary steps to set up a com- Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at > « New York, N. ¥., undi ler the Act of March %, 1879. ying Squadrons, Mass Marches! See Campaign Story Yesterday's Receipts Total to Date Press Run Y esterday—47,800 on Page Three § 395.26 2,766.81 = a NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1934 WEATHER: Probably rain (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents EXTILE BATTLE LINES GROW RMAN PLOTS WITH y STATES SPEED MOBILIZATION OF TROOPS AND POLICE Cleveland For Textile Aid Unity Unity Pact Also Urged in New Jersey—Plans | Made in New York | (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 7—| The Communist Party here is pre- Paring two mass meetings to pro- test the killing of textile workers the textile workers in Cleveland. ;The meetings are to be held on Friday at 7:30 p. m. at Sokol Polski Hall, 7146 Broadway, and on Sun-| day at 2 p, m. at Market Square. Lorain and W. 25th St. I. O. Ford, Communist candidate for governor, will speak at both meetings, The following letter was sent by Ford to J. Sommerlette, Socialist Party candidate for governor. Sommeriatie, in a reply, sent by| messenger, agreed to mest with the Communist Party Friday morn- ing at 10 o'clock to discuss the | question. The letter sent to J. Sommerlette, follows: “Dear Mr. Sommeriette: As gubernatorial candidate of the So- cialist Party and Secretary of the Industrial Rayon Local of the United Textile Workers Union, I address this letter to you concern- ing the great national textile strike which affects the lives of 20,000 textile workers and their families |in Cleveland. Although 300,000 men and women already have walked out of the mills from Maine to} Alabama, no effective sieps have yet been taken to involve the workers here. Surely conditions in the industrial rayon and in the other textile mills are no different | from other textile centers. “It is the duty of every working class organization in this city to| muster all its strength in support | of the national textile strike by | drawing in all local mills. To help in organizing the strike here, w propose that the Socialist Party unite with us in a common effort to mobilize the workers around the demands formulated at the United Textile Workers’ convention. | “The main issue at stake now is how speedily to mobilize the tex- | tile workers of Cleveland to join} hands with the rest of the strik- | ing workers. | o C.P. Calls In Brief Gorman, U.T.W. strike head, BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 7.—| calls for federal troops “to pro- |i with the general textile tect” the strike, y ! Wave of government terror- ||Strike practically 100 per ism rising rapidly higher. Full military mobilization in North and South Carclina, New Bedford, Fall River strikers prepare for mass mareh to Lawrence, Mass., despite. or- ders of Gorman, U.T.W. leader, “cancelling” the plan. | ping up. picket lines to ins opening of the mills with strike- breakers. AREA ALL TIED UP Militancy of Workers Broadens the Strike Despite Leaders By Carl They Reev (Special to the Daily Worker) cS ( . 'GORMANS Is Rapidly Nearing Full Tie-up Federal Troops “To Protect Strikers” By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Weshineton Byres) WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. The Winant textile mediati board this cis J. Gorman in tial decree. “Governor Winant asked us come here and give our side. EES BOARD Strike Chief To Ask for! afternoon heard cent effective in New Eng-| U.T.W. strike chairman Fran- jland (outside of Lawrence), | the strikers were today mop- maintained ré against re- the first | Session since its establish- {ment this week by presiden- We | o = ies Gorman Orders No More | Reports Show Walkout Mass Picketing in New England Slain by Police and Troops The list of textile workers ON | murdered by police and state troops seeking to smash the strike in the interests of the em- ployers follows: LEE CRAWFORD, 26, textiie worker at the Chiquola mill in Honea, 8, C. Shot by police as jf he fell to the ground. to| {| R. THOMAS YARBOROUGH, 34, employed at the same mill. U.T.W. officials in several The strike here has reached a new | didn’t have time to go into the | Killed by police bullets, rike. centers form “agreements” || Stage. The U. T. W. leaders are rhatter thoroughly but we ex- | E. M. KNIGHT, 45, a spinner with police not to permit mass ||70W attempting to stop all mass/ plained, in part, our side of the |fat the same mill, Killed by po- picketing. picketing, are failing to take neces- controve Gorman told news- | [lice bullets. Roosevelt Mediation Board ||S4tY Organizational steps, and are| pepermen just after leaving the | begins “study” of the situation with government agents moving through strike area conferring with employers. International Labor Defense offers full resources of national organization to fight terrorism and defend strikers’ rights, Mills continue to close with most important centers 100 per cent shut down. Police attack Fail River meet- ing where Ann Burlak, militant leader of the National Textile Workers Union, was to have spoken. The textile strikers will get no relief froni the government to feed their starving families, it was announced by Secretary of Labor Perkins. Riot Squad I Called to Mill in this policy was | centers. Lowell. headline The most flagrant nearby instance of | o'clock strike march, which would have made the |y have ni New England tie-up one hundred !per cent. “It was definitely decided yes- terday to send pickets in mass to Lawrence this morning,” a local U. T. W. leader said this morning in ports are that the workers “But we got word from Gorman to hold up all such ac- tivity until further notice.” March Had Been Announced The entire New England press late | and chairman Bruere of the N.R.A. jlast night and early this morning Cotion Textile Industrial Relations printed eight-column headlines on | Foard, will confer with Winant and the march of the picket squadrons | the two other board members to- The Boston Globe's morrow. invade Law- rence—flying squadrons from three tates day, ito Lawrence. “Pickets to will try to close mills to- is typical of all New England papers. Reviere, U. T. W. leader, announced last night that i picket marches were to be on he m (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 7.— Tél The riot squad was called out this |% morning to disperse the mass | w, nee city limits of Lawrence at 5:30 this 4 i |morning. It was announced by the are carrying out their con- Lowell U. T. W. leaders that the Lowell pickets would leave for Law- Be in trucks from Kearney | 1Ng, quare at 5 o'clock. The top officials of the U. T. W.| workers ere unable to prevent the strikers “For this purpose. we propose |picket line in front of the Sullivan | from starting the march on Law-! that you, as the leading candidate |min at eth and Dauphin Sts. As/|Trence, the only textile center |New England not shut down by But they did succeed weakening a treacherous agreement with the Lawrence Police Commis- sioner that they would call off pick- | |up, three of them shut this morn- eting in Lawrence. of your Party, help in taking the | mittee to meet together with a| committee of our Party. There we can work out measures ‘to spread | the strike and organize the support of all other workers in this city. “No time is to be lost. Every (Continued on Page 2) HOW THE COMMUNIST PARTY WOULD SETTL HAT terms insist upon before they strike settlement? It is necessary to place, and to answer this question in order to | block one of the maneuvers of people bent | on breaking the textile strike. Mathew Woll, an A. F. of L. vice-president and | leading official of the National Civic Federation, | speaking Thursday in Newark, declared that the | Communists “would try to prevent a satisfactory | settlement (of the textile strike) the settlement if one were reached.” | At the same time the Hearst York Ey g@ Journ couscg would the Party advise the textile workers to urges “a spescy sectiemont” und>r Rooscveit’s three-men arbitration scheme, be- Pickets piled out of a truck, police surrounded them. But ting continued for the | mi usual time. trike officials report | 8,000 workers out, with 26 mills tied st ing. (Continued on page 2) | Communist consider any ary doctrines.” the Communist Pai or acceptance of paper, the New | textile workers the \ The demands for two shifts of 30 hours pzx woek, , would cy postponing Tike. and arch by in the | | The picketing began from New hour is precious if the strike is to| Rose Mill, scene of threatening |Bedford and Fall River around (Continued on Page 2) | AN These statements, both of which lyingly distort rty’s position on the s resent an effort to inject the “red scare” as a means of frightening workers into accepting the textile bosses’ terms. The Communist Party, in order to arm the mili- tant workers against such strikebreaking maneu- vers, restates its position on the strike. We are for the continuation of the strike, and the spreading of the strike to make it 109 per cent effective, until the demands as formulated by the nelyes are won. EDITORIAL “Continuation of the trouble is playing direct- ly into the hands of subversive influences (Hearst's designation for Communists), who would like noth- ing better than to see the whole country plunged into chaos in order to advance their fevolution- e, rep- trying to turn all the attention of| Winder Building, quarters of the! the strikers to Roosevelt's board board. “We're coming back at with A. F. of L tomorrow morning to dis- when the U. T. W.|cuss the situation,” Gorman added. | leaders prevented the striking of! He hurried away the Lawrence Mills this morning by pointment postponing the marches of pickets dent William Green. to Lawrence from i The strongest pressure of the workers was exerted for this to keep an ap- presi- TRA DAVIS, 26, also employed at the Chiquola mill, 10/7 CLAUDE CANNON, 2%, rid- diled by police bullets he was picketing the Chiquola mill. MAXIF. PETERSON, 25, killed at the same mill. Asked about the possibility of JOHN BLACK, jobless worker, calling a general strike. Gorman aiding textile strike picketing at replied: “The general strike is out. Strike. I'm a textile worker.” also declared that there was mention of arbitration during the conference with Winant. Gorman said that “the latest re- | 0 right to talk of a general He} are stil! Dunean mills, Greenville, S. C., killed by six bullets fired by armed deputy after refusing to leave picket line. LEON CARROLL, died from wounds inflicted by police bullets fired at picket lines in no | coming out.” Augusta, Ga.. It is understood that George J. V. BLACKLOCK, Rome, Sloan, President of the Employers’ |[fGa., shot while he was helping Private Cotton Textile Institute, | (ally Wacker Washi-vion Buren) WASHINGTON, Sept. “In spite of the police, t , ployers’ terror, stitutional rights in picket- i Francis of (A. F. of L.) svecial st: committee, declared here after reading J. chairman mill owners’ employers and the government,” added. The latest morning U.T.W. strike Gorman said, “throws total figures. us un to 500.000 workers out.” his formal statement he remorked: (Continued on Page 2) for the proposed minimum wages semi-skilled $18, skilled $22.50, | for the revision of the work load as specified at and for union recognition, the convention, realizable demands. They can The Communist Party warns against posals which would weaken these demands. UST as soon as the employers unconditionally accept these demands, the Commu urge all workers to return to w manner, with mill committees in every mill to en- force these demands. It is a vile slander to say that the Communists want to see the “whole country in order to advance their revolutionary doctrines,” as the equally “Journal” slanderous pose “2 would to have say that catisfacvory cttlement,” a3 charged picket the mill. Military Rule | 7 Now Complete In Carolinas By PAUL CROUCH (Special to the Daily Worker) GREENSBORO, N. C., Sept. 7.— he the National Guard and the em- the workers Gorman, The terror is increasing hourly here, the United Textile ike | today ‘ v the morning press Special guards with rifles and shot- in| accounts of the Honea Path, S. C., | SUNS. the |and other murder activities of the | The National Guard is out with ma- mopping up squads. Chine guns and tanks also. There | “All the violence has ecme from the in evident preparations for an at- tack on the strike pickets. The huge |mills here are surrounded by 400 Ambulances are standing by. is military Carolinas. rule throughout the Mass picketing has been stopped in some places by armed forces. The guardsmen are out in Burlington and Concord. In Danville the terror is intense. | Hundreds of armed thugs surround he In | (Continued on Page 2) (unskilled $13, highly skilled $30), by Woll. Let the bos are | vis2 the t be won. all tlement? Our answer pro- today, and the Daily Worker tomorrow xtile workers to return to the mills. But this is the issue: What is a satisfactory set- Longer Picket Lines Is Answer to Killings Strike Still Spreading in the South, Despite Wide Terrorism By Harry Raymond (Special to the Daily Worker) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 7.- Aroused over the cold-blooded wholesale slaying of six strikers yes- terday and wounding of thirty more by police officers at the Chiquola Textile Mill at Honea Path, South Carolina, textile workers strength- ened their,picket lines. and spread the general strike to additional mills in the Southern area today. It is estimated that 170,000 aze on strike in North Carolina, South | Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennes- see and Mississippi, and more are coming out hourly. Following the arrival of State troops at Kannapolis the strike be- gan spreading to the Cannon Mill, the largest towel mill in the world. | In which employs 8,000 workers. Concord the Gibson mill is being picketed while a company of Na- tional Guardsmen, heavily armed and with fixed bayonets, menacingly pat-ols the area. Pickets Attacked The rayon mills around Burling- ton, N. C. are ‘uck 100 per cent. Although the local press reports that only five mills are closed in Burlington, a careful check up made by your correspondent this morning that 50 mills involving 5,000 rs are closed tight. The final closing of the milis in Burlington came after a brutal attack on the picket line by local authorities using tear gas and a fire hose. Local newspapers have suppressed the news of this attack. The mill owners of North Caro- lina are concentrating mi of their heavy armed forces in the main tex- tile centers around Greensboro, Kannapolis and Danville. In Danville a veritable fascist terror exists. All cars going in and out of the city are stopped and the occupants questioned by local authorities. Police chief Mar- tin, the most notorious red baiter in the South, has issued an edict against picketing. The entire police force is mobilized and _ several private armed guards are stationed azound the mills Newsreel companies are likewise doing their utmost to incite a reign of terror against the striker: Unable to get any shots of fights between strikers and troops, a mo- tion picture company attempted to coax a number of strikers in Kan- napolis to stage a fake disorder. The director of the company asked the wo:kers to rush the guards and then (Continued on Page 2) offer “a satisfactory settlement” would ad- The demands of the textile work- a! ers as formulated by the workers themselves at the U.T. Let the bos: ally, and the satisfactory ork in an o' What Woll means by a is one that will satisfy sort of will most certainly fight As to the charge that the Co plunged into chao mpts at this you believe. It is the Communists . convention. grant these demands uncond Communists tlement. would consider that “sat the rapacious mill owns “settlement” the Commu- mu want to (Continued on Page 2) ChieagoC-P. A, F, of L. LEADERS MEET WITH MEDIATION BOARDE-S QUICKEN TO SMASH WALKOUT STRIKE i ta For Protest Rally Today Teor Also Urges Picket Line at Japanese Consul’s Office A mass demon- NEW YORK stration against Japanese aggres- sion in the Far East and the threat of war against the Soviet Union will be {held this afternoon at 1 o'clock in front of the Japanese Consulate, 500 Fifth Avenue, by the Friends of the Soviet Union, acting jointly with Icor. Calling on all workers, profes- sionals and intellectuals to support the Soviet Union’s peace policy and to defend the right of socialist cons ion to continue without interference from Japanese imperi- alist aggression, the National Com- mittee of the Friends of the Soviet Union stated yesterday that the demonstration would take the form of mass picketing, and urged all friends of the Soviet Union to be on hand promptly at the hour scheduled. Pennsylvania Councils Call Sept. 12 March PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 7.—In a statement issued today by the Unemployment Councils of the Philadelphia, the anthracite and the Western Pennsylvania districts, all working class organizations were called upon to begin immediate mo- bilization for a mass delegation to Harrisburg on Sept. 12, the d: special session of the State Le; ture convenes. The joint call by the Pennsylva- ace nia Councils immediate tion to place before the legislat the demands of the Penn: E jobless for immediate appropr: tions for winter relief, for the px ment of rents and against all evic- tions and sheriff sales, and for jobs urges atu m wages and conditions as opposed to the planned foreed- labor program of work relief now being prepared by strator Eric Biddle. Relief Admini- N. C. Negro Tobacco Workers To Give $1 Weekly to Strikers (Special to the Daily Worker) EENSBORO, N. C., Sept. 7.— though jim-crowed by the lead- United Textile Workers ers work- in the big , have voted to con- heir weekly wages to trikers. help the te This fe has not received one word of notice in any of the loca papers. ‘ARBEITER’ PICNIC TOMORROW NEW YORK—“Der Arbeiter,” the y German anti-fas newspaper in America, will hold its annual picnic tomorrow, in Hoffmann’s Park and Casino, 1118 Havemeyer Ave.. Unionport. N. Y. (Pelham Ba way to Castle Hill Ave. or Lexington Ave. subway to 177th St., then Unionpt car to Have- meyer Ave.). Ad ion is 25 cents. German work cultural organiza tions will participate: refroshments, Picnic starts at 1 o'clock in tho | afternoon, AFFATR FOR ANTI-WAR DELEGATES NEW YORK.—The Committee of the Yo Circie Clubs, affiliated t> the merican League Against War end Fascism, will hold a house at , to raise 2003 E. 7th St. funds for sending cond United Twenty thousand new readers by Sept. Ist means 20,000 addi- | tional reerwits for organized class | st-ugsic. | 1) Earn Expenses Selling “Daily” |