The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1934, Page 1

Guardsmen it in 1 New York Regiment Demand Removal of Troops it in Southern Textile Area See Campaign Story on Page Three Yesterday's Receipts ... shasen MA Oe Total to Date . fase . $4,033.04 Press Run Yesterday Z 49,500 While day-to-day expenses of the Hernden-Scottsboro appeal and defense mount, the half-way mark toward the $15,000 needed has been passed with 37,517 contributed to date. Rush funds to International Laber Defense, 8 E. 11th St.. New York City. CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934 New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Vol. XI, Ne. 221 >>, (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents WEATHER: Showers. ARMY GETS ORDERS TO AID MILL OWNERS: PICKETS HOLD LINES UNDER SHARP GUNFIRE n [Profit Pact To Speed War Bared Investigators Soft-Pedal In Questioning of News of nS duPont Brothers WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Tes- timeny showing that DuPont re- presentatives personally visit high — Act|Scores Wounded in Raging Battle in Rhode Island District; eae Gov. Green Orders Arrest of All Communists in State; South Carolina Calls More Militiamen in Textile Strike Marine Union Eleets| Commission—Opens > Hearing Monday Roosevelt Telephones Green On Action Of Troops o MICHIGAN TROOPS | REPORTED ON WAY Governor Green Leads Terror to Break Sirike Guardsmen In N. Y. Ask End of Attacks Against the Strikers Owners’ NEW YORK.—As Federal author- ities and the officials of the Ward Ship Line continue their efforts to In Brief | | | | whitewash the shipowners through | | By Seymour Waldman PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Pederal’ teas) = _|| Army, Navy and other govern- ‘“ ys : . : 4 ps mobilize as ti * Pileesiot fake rumors of “radical activities,” NEW YORK—A group of (Daily, Worker Washington Bureau) Sept. 13.—Gov. Green, at the ex- Maauavel vises RhGde olan ment officers and “call their at and through attempts to discredit || members in the 212th Anti-Air- treordinary session of the Gen- tention” to legislation and inter- WASHINGTON, 13.—Nu- | Sept. merous reports in the Capital that promises of more military aid to the story of George I. Alagna, first Soruah strike” eral Assembly which he cailed for | radio assistant, a group of 300 sea- this afternoon, asked for a special national disarmament plans which craft Regiment, New York Na- the private he pri TO STRIKE AREAS disaster. pear.” C. P, Holds Meeting cago, Ill. be examined for poison. with Alagna’s fight for negligence of ship’s officers worthy os belief. NEW YORK local speak. Communist candidates bers of the crew of the Morro Casile will testify, the committee anncunced. All are invited to at- tend. The following telegram was sent by the Marine Workers Industrial place the blame upon the crew and} Communists for the Morro Castle | We have elected an in-| quiry commission of seamen to in- vestigate and bring forth the real facts concerning the Morro Castle at an open public mass trial to be held Sept. 17th. Representatives of | your company are notified to ap-| The Committee calls on all or- ganizations to send telegrams and letters of protest to the Ward Line| against attempts to blame the crew | and Communists for the disaster. The M. W. I. U. announces that an open hearing on the case will be held next week by them jointly | with the Communist Party in Chi-|nist candidate for Secretary of In- This is for the purpose of strengthening the impression that the alleged dispute between him and Alagna, together better | wages, makes his testimony of the un- Hathaway Will Sonik At Banquet Tonight The Clarence Hathaway Election Banquet will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave- nue, Brooklyn. Hathaway and other Enthusiastic response from trade unions and mass organizations has necessitated the hiring of two large halls. The banquet committee an- nounced yesterday that there will be enough room now to accommo- date all organizations and indivi- National Guard in the textile strike as strike-breakers, have sent the following telegram to Governor Blackwood of South Carolina: “Protest use of National Union to the Ward Line: “We 300 Guard as strike-breakers; de- seamen gathered at a meeting|| mand instant demoval. condemn the attempts made to) “(Signed) “ANTI-STRIKEBREAKING GROUP IN 212 A.A. REGI- MENT, N. G. N. ¥. lWorkers Close Mills in Emaus After CP Rally (Special to the Daily Worker) ALLENTOWN, Pa., Sept. 13.— Following upon the ‘Communist Party mass meeting in Emaus last night, where Dan Slinger, Commu- |ternal Affairs, and Charles Spencer Yesterday's Federal investigation! spoke to the silk workers, urging continued on the same line as pre-/| them to come out on strike. Trem- viously, with Attorney General | blau plant workers came out on Conboy ordering the remains of | strike this morning spurred on by Captain Willmot, ships master, to|/the appearance at the mill of the silk workers from Allentown. The rest of the workers in the mill in Emaus followed suit. The Emaus police posted “No parking” and “All outside pickets prohibited” signs in front of all mills, but the |pickets tore these off the posts. When the police arrested one ‘worker, a whole group of strikers marched up to the court and forced his release. The strike terror is still raging in Bethlehem, and U.T.W. leaders are bowing completely to the authority of the “Reverend” Trafford, Chief of Police there. Three workers today were given six months in jail for disorderly conduct. The Communist Party in @ special Allentown strikers bul- jletin, issued today, called upon the strikers here to bring pressure on U.T.W. leaders to force them to call a conference of all labor organiza- tions in preparation for a general strike here. A mass meeting has been called by the Party, at Center Square, for | troop development, War Depart- ment officials declared that they had “no information on that. Any- thing on that must come from the | White House.” Everything points |to Roosevelt granting United Tex- tile Workers’ Strike Chairman Gor- | man’s plea to send in Federal troops “to protect our strikers.” Expect to Shut Rayon, Carpet Strike headquarters here declared |that “strike line is in magnificent condition,” and that hosiery mills are being struck throughout the textile centers. Strike Committee Chairman Francis J. Gorman an- nounced that “the chances are that try will be shut down next week.” In view of the failure of the em- ployer-dominated Winant board to effect arbitration between the va- rious owner “institutes” and Gor- man, the author of the arbitration proposal, it is expected here that | Rosevelt will take the helm of the Government anti-strike apparatus in San Francisco fashion, Gover- nor Green, banker, lawyer and real estate operator, is aping California’s reactionary Governor Merriam and the Fascist Industrial Association of Marine strike infamy by recruiting and mobilizing 1,000 World War In addition he has convened the Rhode Island Legislature in special $100,000 for 500 additinal state Police. He also is launching the nist agitators” to further the plan of eliminating some of the most ac- tive forces on the picket lines. “Folded Arm Policy” Gorman's message to more than 500,000 picket-minded textile work- ers “to make no resort to violence” —just a few hours after the arrival of dispatches telling of the brutal murder of another striker—signifies the U.T.W.-A. F. of L. “folded arm” policy not only of retreat before the fascist attacks of the government and the employers, but also the re- fusal to continue mass marches, mass picketing and the effective fly- ing squadrons, Instead of directing an attack on the use of troops, State or Federal, by the government and the employ- ers against the strikers, Gorman in- the whole rayon and carpet indus- | 3,000 Strikers’ Cheer Burlak veterans for strikebreaking activity. | session for the purpose of voting | usual Fascist round-up of “Commu- | wounded scores, Several of the men in the ranks| | admitted that they had relatives in the strike, and that they looked for- ward to strike duty with the great- on edge as they await the orders to | Shoot down picket lines in which may be their own kin. | (Special to the Daily Worker) | DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 13. — A ontingent of 450 Michigan National Guardsmen is reported to have been sent out of the State, with another In Bedford | (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 13. —More than 3,000 strikers came to Ashley Park last night to hear Ann | | Burlak. She was cheered when she | appealed for rank and file unity and broad strike committees to |prevent an “arbitration” sell-out and to win the strikers’ demands, This meeting was bigger than any | U. T. W. meeting in the South End. | Along the main streets of this | strike-torn city, one can see many groups of workers gathering around corners and empty lots discussing the latest developments in the |strike as reported in the Daily | Worker, which is sold and dis- tributed throughout the city. The workers are very much con- cerned over the danger of a sellout. Many have no use for the U. T. W. leaders who, they fear, will betray the strike if the rank and file do not gain control. At 6:30 this morning your corre- spondent saw hundreds of workers coming out to picket the Nonquit | Pajama Mill, where twenty-five | scabs were said to be working, ac- picketed militantly by men and women who came out when they heard these rumors, without wait- est repugnance, They are terribly | cording to rumors. The mill was |they were going, but he believes it was either to Massachusetts or North | Carolina. He seemed decidedly gloomy about the prospect. If true, this unprecedented action {can have only one meaning: The | mobilization of increased armed |strikebreaking force to smash the textile strike. Since National Guards |are under State jurisdiction, they |can be moved out of the State only |at the orders of the Federal gov- | ernment. | It was said in some quarters that | textile strike area. Mass Pickets Defy Troops In Carolinas By Harry Raymond (Special to the Daily Worker) GASTONIA, N. C., Sept. 13. Tremendous mass picketing through- out Gaston County, hub of the North Carolina textile industry, was | the answer given by the workers to- day to the mobilization of three companies of National Guards at | the gates of the Manville-Jencks | Spinning and Weaving Mills. More than a_ thousand pickets were massed on the road this morn- ing in Belmont, a few miles out of Gastonia, where there are nineteen mills, every one of which is struck 100 per cent. | The local press, the Gastonia | Gazette, reports that the mills are opening, but the mill operations | that one can see in this area are |so insignificant that it can be cor- | reetly said that the strike is stronger | today than on the first day of the | walkout, Only Ten at Loray Mill | Only 100 workers reported to work this morning at the Loray Mill, which, normally employs 2,100, and out of these ninety walkrd out. stating that they would not work the gates. the men may be on their way to the | |as long as troops were stationed at | The three Hanover Mills, which | (Special to the Daily Worker) | BOSTON, Mass. Sept. 13— | Hysterical shouts against the Com- |munists by Rhode Island State au- thorities, mill owners and the press have followed the murder of strikers by National Guardsmen in Sayles- |ville and Woonsocket. Textile workers who were picketing the {Woonsocket Rayon Company when shot down are now branded by Rhode Island State Government | |and the press as hoodlums, thieves, | looters and rioters. To cover up| the brutal killings of unarmed} strikers a howl has gone up against | Communists, | Governor Green of Rhode Island | only two days ago was demagog- ically condemning the shooting of | Strikers at Saylesville on Monday |by deputies. Today his troops fired with rifles into unarmed pickets, and four are in the hospital at Saylesville in a dying condition. Now Green is leading the mill own- ers’ terror in an attempt to open the mills and break the strike. Order to Jail Communists In order to cover up the National Guard slaughter, Gov. Green wired all his police chiefs to “Arrest and hold for examination every known Communist for possible connection with riots and disorders in State.” I was in Saylesville and Central Falls last night. I have been there four times and have witnessed hours of fighting. Last night there was no looting or thievery in Central Falls observed by me. | Lists Troop Victims There is a young textile worker, | Judge Courtemanche. of Burnside | Ave., Woonsocket, lying dead from |a@ National Guard bullet. There is \in the hospital Leon Rouette of Maple St., Woonsocket, dying from |@ trooper’s bullet shot through the |abdomen. Also lying in the hos- pital are Wilfred Method of Gaulin Ave., shot in the leg by guardsmen; |John Fafard, seriously wounded by jan exploding gas bomb; Edgar Bruneau, shot in the leg and groin; and Stanley Eljarz, his head smashed in by a policeman’s night stick, In_ Woonsocket other victims of the National Guards and police are Leo Gagne, shot in the left thigh; | | Mrs. Dora Bliss, gassed and tram- pled in a police and National Guard against strikers, Emil Rieve, Socialist textile leader, orders 15,000 Philadelphia hosiery workers back to work. He said the strike is a “mistake.” Jack Stachel will speak at Oakley Hall, Market St., Pater- son, N, J., at 8 o'clock tonight: C. A. Hathaway will speak at the Russian Hall, 159 Fourth St., Passaic, N. J., at 8 o'clock sharp tonight. 10,000 Hosiery Men Protest | End of Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.— More than 10,000 hosiery workers, assembled in the Kensington Labor Lyceum this morning, booed the American Federation of Hosi- ery Workers national officials. Smith and McKeown, and hiss every mention of President Emile Rieve’s name, in protest against the calling off of their strike in sympathy with the textile workers and for a 30 hour week and 334 per cent wage increase, About 12,000 hosiery workers in Philadelphia had struck for 24 hours in response to a nation-wide call that brought 70,000 workers of the union out on strike. The workers at this morning’s mass meeting in Kensington demanded that the strike continue until their demands are granted. They elected five rank and file delegates who, together with five textile strikers, will visit Rieve and Francis J. Gorman, general textile strike leader, in Washington, to de- mand that all hosiery workers be called out on strike until demands are won. So militant are the workers that if Rieve and Gorman do not call them out on strike, there-is a strong possibility they will walk out then aes under rank and file leader- ship. Hosiery workers standing outside the Kensington Labor Lyceum where { | tional Guard, yesterday : Federal Ss vill be rushed | en ; 7 i might adversely affect ory men yesterday set up a special Sea-|| sored the Daily Worker and eae Rigaeinaos ne ate me : Nie appropriation of $200,000 to enroll One cca tigen profit-making munitions indus- men's Investigating Committee |} tne young Worker that they || New England textile strike districts een 1,000 World War veterans as || many woun y_, National |/ try, was heard late today. The get at the truth of the Morro Castle || 151. sont a telegram to Gov- || where they Nee eta cnay oars abe NEW YORK.—Federal troops with full equipment of| special strike police. He ienre | bara ice ary pesioacdiag icv DuPont's answer was, in part, ais disaster. a 2 ape 4 A # the attacks by troops on strikers | - sei i . stay in this business (certain part: This action was taken at the union | sipadacepel Re eae th ee are and orem the machine guns, bayonets and gas bombs, stand ready at} jast night “a Communist upris- || Police to “arrest all Communists || of their munitions domain) stad Resco score ae na el National Guard in that State gibg i ectiglees se the National) Governor's Island here for orders that will take them to| ing bo Peed Abia! State faces || cause the government askes us 4 roa i a} } : . | . } is xov. G s at we roduce in ca ¢ He pba steer seek ‘are being ap-|| 28ainst striking textile workers. |/Guard of Rhode Island and other | the strike area of Rhode Island. Baad pestoahi gid oN gy || Gastonia pickets defy troop pee wat te proached to join this Committee, || The letter follows eee prea erer betaah By Three battalions of the 16th Infantry under the com-| tiona! Guard to reinforce the || terrorism by increased mass - The Committee, composed of O.|] “To the Daily Worker, President Roosevelt's _ telephone | y Guardsmen who have been at- || Pickcting. Carolina governor By Marguerite Young Blackwell, D. Drummond, G. Am-|| “To the Young Worker, conversation with Governor Theo- | mand ‘of Colonel ay 5) nWilinins ate | tacking strikers at the Woon- orders more troops out. 1S certs brosio, G. Silas, J. O’day, G. Olsen |] “Dear Editors: dore Francis Green of Rhodc|ready to act on Saale ee contingent scheduled to le: today.! stucket mills. The Sayles Fi | Reports show bloody attacks (Daily Worker ¥ 2! i J. Ove : t hat an| ai 3 ; Island, in whose state several un-| that he will use U. S. troops “ t aay! a tabs Aeaville. 6 on pickets carefully prepared in - The a Rati Sas Mon- ‘We, a group of National || armed’ workers have been murdered |crush the violence” in the textile) ake ere a geese er tr aa aM ve ie ies advance by National Guard com- today indinated any Sept. i7th, at 8:30 p, m,, in|| Guardsmen in the 212th Anti- || for exercising their legal rights of |strike centers, especially in Rhode | ¥ i+) nN Naionsl Guardsman cere is ist Strate Guen |] manders. loped — the the’ Tvibe Plaza Hall, 15th St, and|| Aircraft Regiment, N. G., * ne striking and picketing. Island, where National Guard troops | J riong those due to leave today. ee \| ‘Officials attempt to mobilize 1-Potit ramaiaene Irving Place, Passengers and mem- who are against the use of the When queried on the Federal|killed a picket yesterday and Rahat ho One knew ouuctiy. Wheel Scsisid Reeve || Americax: Legion vets for service | the profits from 000,000 World War e of products vie films and autos, and with int ments parceling out z arms- makers the lands in wh each takes the profits from the exploita- tion of workers. ar Three brothers duPont and their cousin Felix, heads of the giar I, duPont de Nemours, pos: |so much wealth y can hardly count it, y turned to their aides morn= ing’s testimo: also had trouble keeping k of the duPont millions; in one calculation they lost sight of 157,000,000 duPont dollars Committee Soft-Pedals Spectators freely asked other whether the com | some of its members w pedaling when Senator Goo! Georgia (Dem.) g} 3 many opp facts and lications of their war- made fo In his appar that the duPont usiness is not especially blameworthy, however, George actually developed evidence that the root of the war threat is in the system of monopoly ca; 1 rather than in the munitions busi- nes At one point George assured the duPonts, “there is no difference between your business and any other business of character and reputa= tion.” “This rema sation that lil committee pri porters that th George's line of would correct it later. The liberals are concerned solely with’ the “evils” of the munitions racket and their conclusions will give the false impression that by “cleaning up” this, the war threat can be greatly reduced. | Linked to British Firm Exhibits showing how the du Ponts effected agreements with Im-= perial Chemical Industries, Ltd. British giant in the same field, by which, as formal agreement jread, “it is decided to divide the sales areas” of South America, Eu- rope, Asia, and virtually all the rest nt effort to show ‘k caused such a sen- eral members of the informed rTe= didn’t like questioning and the duals who have not. yet sent in re- servations. T.U.U.C. Holds Meeting | Tost «ie 8) AROQUSE MASSES AGAINST THE MURDER OF STRIKERS! Friday night, at 7:30, with Israel Amter at one of the main speakers. of the world except British and United States territorial limits. This pact, covered the sales by these {| British and American imperialists of war explosives. They had others providing for the exchange of pro= | duction processes, some going back ing for instructions from their lead- ers. (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) | to 1907. Senator George allowed ene e Ayccsermaey Trade ee the duPonts to minimize the effect nity Council yesterday urged dele- of this by diverting attention to gates and all union functionaries AN EDITORIAL ee such facts as that the agreements i “military” products were separate from those for none to attend tonight's meeting at Irv- ing Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl., where Irving Potash will report on IHEODORE F. GREEN, Governor of | by quickly-rallied, mass protest movement. Workers everywhere should immediately de- the workers bought have been pushed skyward. to take on more and more fhe character of the Now, when conditions become unbearable and fascist-capitalist dictatorship of Hitler, of Mussolini. purposes. the settlement of the furriers’ strike Rhode Island, yesterday ordered the mand that a halt be-called to the reign of terror when the workers’ . * * | George asked whether most of and Edith Berkman on the textile} police and guardsmen to “arrest imme- | which the Governor intends to let loose as an | ticns, Roosevelt and Governor Green, and the |the plants under consideration strike situation. A report on a number of other questions will be made by the | 'T.U.U.C. secretariat. The meeting will begin at 8 o'clock. ANY workers until now, influenced by Francis J. rman, William sates and their ilk, have be- lieved that Rooseve: “friond of labor.” They have been made ve even in this strike by sked Roosevelt to call out Federal id come to the aid of ‘he work- | aren't convertible from a peace to | ® wer production basis — and al- |lowed the duPonts to cover up on | this point by saying that this was | true of only unimportant branches | of their domain. | aftermath to the unwarranted and cruel attacks of his police and militia on the workers yesterday. diately and hold for examination every known Communist for possible connection with riots and disorders.” Under this order Governor Green and the reactionary, strike-breaking forces whom he represents are preparing to follow up yesterday’s murder and wounding of strikers with wholesale Republican and Democratic governors of the other textile states, call out troops to murder and maim strikers, They try now by terror to compel them to accept conditions which until now they have persuaded them to accept by means of false and misleading promises, | They even resort to terror in open violation of | their own promises. Rooseyelt on inumerable oc- | i} strike to change these condi- | | | * | T the same time, and with still greater vigor the masses should demand that President Roosevelt keep out the Federal troops. His threat to call out the regular army (probably for the first time on strike duty since 1893) is a further CLOTHING WORKERS TO MEET NEW YORK-—A general fraction meeting of all members of the In- Sompanies Divide Spoils Naturally George did not point This is nonsense, and the workers must now that the two corporations really ternational Ladies Garment Work- ei it. Every act of Roosevelt, his “New Deal” | e a “gentleman's agreement” as ers Union and the Amalgamated| tests. Every militant striker will be labelled | strikebreaking step designed to intimidate the | casions has told workers that they had a right to tt standing, has been against the in- to who shall take how much (it " Clothing Workers will be held to- “Communist” and thrown into jail. A drive will workers. join unions of t own choice, to strike and to of ite workers. The only ones who den | a 50-50 vropesition) of the be made against the Communist Party which is in the forefront of the struggle, arousing the work- wealth produced by werkers on neat= r wages. This will be shown and morrow at 1 p.m. at the Workers Roosevelt, with his “New Deal” policies, has al- | Center, 50 East 13th Street, second ready done enough against the workers, partic- | picket. The promises apparently held good as long as the workers did not ex these rights. from his policies are the big ba ve made floor. The meeting will be attended | ers for struggle. ularly the textile workers. He demagogically But now when the a | waile the miscry of the | Ancrican: Clea by leading members of the district Having failed by provocation and terror to break | promised them improved conditions when the N. | when they st when they picket, the F | eRe sm which, ae 4 and national office of the Commu-|. the strikers’ ranks, the mill owners, for whom | R. A. textile code was put over. Minimum wages | sounding prom of Roosevelt d into ef ihe troops Swan © sheers ecu ' nist ven Governor Green acts, hope in this manner to be- | were set at $12 for the South and $13 in the North. | thin air. In their place we see the mailed fist of | Iubping of sirik a cablesram inserted in ‘the roeord i] Join the Red Builders! head the strike of its militant leadership. They have since been Gisregarded, part-time work | the capitalist government, sing its own kind, | —these acts merely cap off a career | showed, because the British con« it pESaaRR This drive against the heroic Saylesville strik- Get Daily Worker Subscribers! ers, Communist and non-Communist, must be met with part-time wages and a terrific speed-up hav- ing been introduced, while the prices of everything the capitalist mill owners. | oe The capitalist dictatorship of Roosevelt begins | (Continued on Page 6) \ (Continued on Page 6) 1