The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1934, Page 1

aan ed | I Only $110 wa te the Fund, bringing New York City. Vol. XI, No. 226 Herndon-Scottsboro s contributed yesterday Defense the total to $8,169. Al- most $7,000 is still needed. Send your contributions immediately to the Inter- national Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at > * New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Killing of Jobless Swelled Dividends C.P. Marks 15th Year Tomorrow NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1934 TIGHTEN LINES AT MILLS Yesterday's Total Receipts to Date Press tun Yesterday. Guardsmen in Nine New York Regiments Call on Armed Forces Not to Attack Textile Strikers Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Needed—$625 a Davy $ 930.09 $6,356.35 9 600 WEATHER: Fair, warmer ix Pages) Price 3 Cents TROOPS KILL fo: PICKET IN NEW ATTACKS BUT STRIKERS General Strike Planned in Paterson and Passaic; Strike-Breaking Drive Seethes in New England; Of Arms Makers McHughThugs | Kidnap Lowell Strike Leader Propaganda for Attacks on the Unemployed Shown at Inquiry By Marguerite Young @aily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19.—| Two business men who supply gas, bombs and guns now being used by police and soldiers against the tex- tile strikers sat blandly by today while the Senate munitions inves- | tigators testified these men suc- te@d in blocking legislation to stop | the use of force “against Commu- nistic or labor demonstrations,” armed the Pennsylvania State police | for unemployed demonstrations and | put bullets into the hands of Ford Police for the Deaborn massacre, | and boasted that, altogether, the) (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 19.—Joseph | | Costello, leader of the Haverhill | | shoe workers, was kidnapped yester- | day in Lowell by the strong-arm | gang of Leo McHugh, official in) the Textile Protective Union. Costello was driven out of town) by several carloads of McHugh’s| strong-arm gang and dumped out- | side the city limits, | This kidnapping is the latest at- tempt of the top leadership in the | ieee | Textile Protective Union to strangle | roula “Geman ae ea Panes °? | the strike by strong-arm methods | i 5 s “| against militant workers. “We should impress upon public | On Saturday Sam Harizigian, officials,” John W. Young, presi-| siriker leader, was attacked by Mc-| dent of Federal Laboratories, Inc.,|tugh’s strong-arm squad in a res- of Pittsburgh, wrote one of his iturant and, but for the intervention agents in March, 1932, “that they | of workers present, would have been | should spend money for the PUr- | seriously hurt. chase of tear gas equipment even McHugh’s wife ts a cousin of| when they cannot afford to Pay| Mayor Bruin of Lowell. McHugh is| salaries.” He-said the march of un-| pov hand in. glovei with the employed upon the Ford plant in ape 8 N. Y. Workers To Rally| In Bronx Coliseum - Two Governors Act To on Anniversary Extend Aid to Mill Owners By Carl Reeve (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 19.—Sev- eral thousand workers mass-picketed the Sayles Finishing Mill at Sayles- ville this morning as National Guard troops with drawn bayonets NEW YORK.—Workers from all over this city will gather at the! iy Bronx Coliseum tomorrow evening to celebrate the Fifteenth Anni- versary of the Communist Party. The hall will be decorated with banners and placards bearing greet- | ings from numerous organizations. | Both the International Workers’ Order Symphony Orchestra and the Workers International Relief Band | Protected the strikebreakers. The will perform. mill remains crippled. National Guard troops from Woonsocket Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will speak on the history of the Communist Party were concentrated at the Sayles- ville mill in the strike-breaking ef- fort. through fifteen years of growth and} 4 concentrated _strike-breaking development. He will describe the |campaign has been launched birth of the Party, the time when | throughout New England under the thousands of workers broke with | slogan of “Protection of the Work- the opportunist policies of the So- | ers’ Right to Work.” The mill own- cialist Party, and trace the illegal,| ers are sending “delegations” of early, formative years, the fight | “workers” to the Governors which against sectarianism and factional- consist of bosses and stool-pigeons | ism, and “petitioning” for the opening Hathaway will also trace the of the mills. The Governors of major campaigns and siruggles led | by the Communist Party, and tell | of the achievements and invaluable | i7eq strike-breaking scheme, then leadership given by the Communist | make statements that they will pro- International, the results of the tect the workers, meaning the pro- Open Letter that orientated the | tection of scabs. % a who are close to the mill owners | and participate in the well-organ- | Rhode Island and Massachusetts, | | Main Demands | Inthe Strike ; The textile workers, | |] strong, from Maine to Ala- || bama, are fighting for the fol- | Dies of Wound in Charlotte | Bayonet, | By Harry Raymond (Daily Steff Corre: 1,000,000 | | Worker dent) | 19.— (Striker, Gouged With | Vigilante Bands Organize to Aid Mill Owners Strike Gains Despite Refusal of Gorman To Issue New Call News of Strike In Brief Gorman, U.T.W. strike head, il 100 allied trades By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Burean) n CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept : sympathy strike, || WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19— || lowing main demands as adopted | |Gouged with a bayonet yesterda though workers declare for T. W. Strike Chairman Francis by the recent convention of | afternoon while doing picket duty | strike. Gorman this afternoon substan- United Textile Workers’ Union: |/in tront of the Knit Products Mill || Members of nine National || tiated reports that he and the A. F. (1) Hours: Two shifts of 30 || at Belmont, N. C., Ernest K. Riley, |] Guard regiments in New York || of L. officialdom plan to stall the hours per week with no exemp- | /40 years old, of Mount Holly, died hour week; semi-skilled, $18 per 30-hour week; skilled, $22.50 per charged the Belmont strikers, 4s in the same Rospital in a serious con- tions. at 5:40 o'clock this morning in the || strike duty. (2) Differentials: The estab- || Presbyterian Hospital here. J. T. Bridgeport National Guard lishment of four minimum || Brown, 34, of Belmont, who was || members visit Communist Party |] wages: Unskilled, $13 per 30- || bayoneted in the back when troops |} offering solidarity with strikers. circulate statement protesting textile strike by a hat he will ke-eager t and rug, 1 next More troops mobilized in strike areas. confer r Perkins if s Detroit served as a “warning” to| ether companies, and since then “there is a general movement for preparing for such attacks.” By “attack” he meant the peaceful demonstration of defenseless work- ers, four of whom were killed with his guns. Federal Laboratories has one di- rector who also heads the Railway Audit and Supply Service, which supplies undercover agents or spies for use in strikes throughout the country. Another Federal director js one of the Weirton Steel barons. Despite the introduction of all this dramatic evidence that the in- ternational munitions racket is part and parcel of the capitalist system, which rests upon the use of force to maintain workers in subjection to the owners of industry, the Sen- ators who are supposedly making a “sweeping” investigation of the munitions business carefully avoid- ed pointing out the connection be- tween the “domestic” munitions business and the “international” side of it. Senator Bone, (Dem. Washington) who introduced the evidence of the strikebreaking activities of the mu- nition makers, in fact took occa- sion to obscure the tie between this ahd war-making by issuing a for- mal statement declaring that the activities of the munitions men alone “may easily become a menace to the peace of nations.” It is the activities of all imperialists fighting for markets that cause war, but some declared that with the com- pleton of this investigation solely of the munitions business “every mother n the world will breathe more easily.” The demagogic statement called upon “The citizens” of South Am- erica to “understand” that the Sen- ate committee takes no pleasure in disclosiing bribery, corruption, etc., of South American officials by North American arms sellers, It was issued just after Bone declared that there “seems to be a grim de- termination in some quarters to stifle this inquiry because it is hurt- ing business.” Thus Bone implied that “the people” of South Ameri- ca are against exposure of the facts —whereas everybody knows that diplomatic pressure is being exerted on behalf, rather, of busness men both in South America and the United States. AFL Delegates to Get Send-Off on Saturday A mass send-off for the rank and file delegates to the 54th Annual Convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor has been arranged py the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance for Sat- urday, Sept. 22 at Irving Plaza. For the first time in many years the Rank and File of New York jocals of the A. F. of L. will have their voice heard at the conven- tion, through their own delegates, who are going to the Convention to fight for militant class struggle unions, rank and file controlled, un- employment insurance, and other yital issues confronting the labor movement teday. The mas send- 5 be: interesting pro- ( som t ‘. speakers active ing Fe of L wWoEb, -m sl (ey erm police against. militant strikers, and Party membership towards | conferred with police in the police | station at the time his strong-arm squad was attempting to kidnap | Carl Reeves, the Daily Worker staff | correspondent. | Only yesterday the police, who are working hand in glove with Mc- Hugh, ordered a Daily Worker dis- tributor deported from town and confiscated his two hundred papers. The police and the corrupt po- litical gang, now attempting to break the Lowell strike by mis- leading the Protective Union, fear to allow the Daily Worker in the | hands of Lowell workers. The Daily to leave town and is continuing to sell the paper. Gains 42 Seats STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 19. —The Communist Party has won 42 seats in the Riksdag, incomplete returns showed yesterday. ‘They had only nine seats in both houses in the previous Riksdag. They had only nine seats in both houses in the previous Riksdag. The Social Democrats made gains but failed to obtain a majority or a bloc sufficient to outvote the re- cently formed coalition of bour- geois parties. The Social Democrats have to con- tinue to depend upon the Agrarians, with whom they cooperated in the past months, to an increasing ex- tent. Their hostility to the Com- munists has increased rather than Worker salesman Burr has refused | In the Riksdag | | Federation of Labor. C.P. in Sweden shops, the results of the Eighth Convention, and the tasks facing the Communist Party, Charles Krumbein, district or- ganizer, will tell of the advances made in New York. Short speeches will be made by I. Amter, Com- munist candidate for governor in the coming elections; Steve King- ston, member of the District Com- mittee; Rose Wortis of the Trade Union Unity Council and John Lit- tlhe of the Young Communist League. Delegates will be sent by forty workers organizations, including local unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, inde- pendent unions and the American Many fra- ternal clubs will be represented. The Communist fractions within a number of mass organizations are | recruiting members from among their most active forces, as a “birth- day gift” to the Communist Party | on its Fifteenth Anniversary. Hathaway Talks Tonight on 54th AFL Convention NEW YORK.— Clarence Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker, will discuss the coming A. F. of L. convention at a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and Fifteenth Street, under the auspices of the Midtown Sec- tion of the Communist Party. Hathaway will review the work of the Communist Party in the tex- tile strike and in the recent San Francisco general strike, and dis- cuss the tasks of Communists in building a mass rank and file moye- ment within the A. F. of L, the Newspapers Play Down Strike | Workers are being terrorized in ‘many cases into signing these so- | |called petitions, which are being | manufactured as a basis for break- |ing the strike with the use of troops | and thousands of armed guards. The newspapers for two days have been | playing down the strike as a part |of this week’s strike-breaking drive. They now have smaller headlines |on the first page or only stories on the inside pages. They are trying to give the workers the impression that the strike is over and to spread |demoralization. The intensified \“Red” scare accompanies this week's strike-breaking drive. | Most New England papers last night and today completely sup- pressed my fifteen-minute state- |ment of the Communist Party’s position, in the delegation to Goy- ernor Ely and quoted only Ely’s statement he would not talk to a Communist. U.T.W. Heads Follow Owners The U.T.W. leaders, by refusing to hold union meetings and by not taking organizational stops to | Strengthen the strike; by making |agreements with city, state and po- |lice officials to limit picketing; by | | Spreading rumors of individual set- | \tlements not based on the national | demands; by relying on Washington maneuvers instead of mass-picket- ing and mass actions—are going along with the strike-breaking moves of the mill owners. The Sayles mill was opened, un- der Governor Green’s protection, with drawn bayonets of troops, with heavy barbed wire entanglements, with machine guns on the roofs of \the mill, vomit gas bombs in stacks near the mill gates, Picket Lines Spread The militancy of the workers was ; manifested today in the mass picket lines not only at the Sayles mill, N. Y. Troops Protest Duty In Strikes NEW YORK. — National Guard members in nine regiments here have drawn up a statement declar- ing their opposition to any kind of -strike duty against pickets and call- ing upon all National Guard troops to refuse strike-breaking duty in the textile strike. The statement, now being dis- tributed in the armories in the form of leaflets, is signed by the Joint Anti-Strikebreaking Committee of the 14th, 71st, 165th and 369th In- fantry; 105th, 258th Field Artillery; 212th, 245th Coast Artillery, 102nd Engineers and 102nd Medical unit, all of the 27th Division, “We did not enlist to become strikebreakers,” the Guardsmen say in their statement. “We call upon all other Guardsmen of New York to follow us and resist being used as strikebreakers. We, the enlisted men of New York Na- tional Guard serve warning to Government and the mill employ- ers that we will refuse to carry out orders to force textile workers back to starvation wages.” The satement points out that Col- onel Howlett, commander of the 101st Cavalry, Brooklyn, is president of the Waterford Mills in Lowell, Mass., and calls upon the guards- men everywhere to fraternize with the strikers on the picket lines. “The strikers are our union brothers, fellow workers, and guard buddies,” the statement says, and calls upon The two wounded strikers were later put into cars and taken to the | to his wound before he was taken to the hospital. Blood poured from } a wound in his leg, where a main ar- A doctor at the Presbyterian Hos-|0f the striking textile workers, pital informed me that if a tourne-| bringing the total dead to 15, as | quet had been applied to the wound- | naked bayonets, bullets and tear- Charlotte Hospital. Riley's life could ‘Terror Rages have been saved, workers report, if Throughout | . > | tery was severed, and no effort was S t rik e Ar ea made to stop the blood flow until} he arrived at the hospital several) d worker’ _ at B ife |8@S bombs were unleashed yester- court Have ee oe enone pipe | day by National Guard troops and Meanwhile two additional com-| Police from Maine to Georgia in a proper first aid had been applied miles away. It was too late nent Death stalked again in the ranks panies of troops were ordered into | 2¢W reign of government terrorism the Belmont-Gastonia area this|®0d murder against the picket morning, but the thousands of pick- | ines. jets were there as usual enraged| A striker, bayonetted in a Na- | over the bloody killing. |tional Guard attack, bled to death r ‘1 i“ mont, N. C. He Form Vigilantes Group yee : | Last night 300 merchants, middle- |Could have been saved if proper class farmers, preachers and local | tai rat ae let he at officials met in Belmont and formed | ore om fe ‘dead ras ee battle the nucleus of a fascist vigilante Bee Cee at : : | organization. Each member pledged | YT? periously ipyounded: Dy <beye- himself to “give active support in| ¥ ‘ . | ; rn | Almost 200 strike pickets, men, defense of the inalienable right of women and youths, are still being bok ag Aewaa ie ou seems (a incommunicado in a military a : | prison camp in Georgia without ute pent eee strength of “me any ae eS oe: Sa: Sheriff Clyde Robinson of Gaston | pat "hey were seized on the picket County, who, is in command of the | National Guard troops are be- scores of deputies who have been|i,~ mobilized to full strength taunting and threatening strikers | throughout the strike area, with since the strike began, was seized by machine guns coming more promi- bad crowd Ol Belmont: Disks late | nently to the fore. and barbed wire yesterday and dragged from his car. | entanglements being built around Guardsmen with cocked rifles took | many mills. the frightened sheriff from the) Even employer sources are forced pickets and he left Belmont under|+, admit that there are now more & heavily, armed escort, strikers out of the mills than at the Plan Martial Law jend of last week Governor J. C. B. Ehrinighaus was | said to be considering the declara- J.—Workers in PATERSON, N. decreased in the face of the bour- geois coalition, Francis J. Gorman, U. T. W. Strike Committee, Washington, D. C, Dear Mr. Gorman: Repeatedly, from the very outset of the national textile strike almost three weeks ago, you have in- dulged in vicious and unfounded attacks on the stand of the Communists in the strike. When it came to the fight against Communists (which was used to include every militant worker in the strike area), you allied yourself with the worst reactionaries, providing company thugs, police, Sheriffs, militia commanders and labor-hating politicians with an excuse for murderous assaults on your own picket lines. Your own bombastic and false declarations against the Communists served to justify the club- bing, gassing and even murder of strikers, . . . OREOVER, Mr. Gorman, you lied about the Com- munist Party’s position. Already in the Daily Worker of Sept. 3 we replied to your charges as follows: “What is the Communist Party’s position on the textile workers’ strike? It can be put very simply: Stcp every spindle and loom; continue to strike, withe~! permitting a single mill to re- — SREP, until al) the demands as formulated by the Join the Red Builders! (Continued on Page 2) AN EDI textile workers themselves are won. “More specifically, so there can be no doubt as to our stand, the Communist Party will fight with all its energy to aid the texitle workers in winning the following demands (the demands as worked out by the U. T. W. convention): “1, Hours: two shifts of thirty hours per week, with no exemptions, “2, Differentials: the establishment of four minimum wages, ‘Unskilled—$13.00 per thirty-hour week. Semi-skilled—$18.00 per thirty-hour week, Skilled—$22.50 per thirty-hour week. Highly skilled—$30 per thirty-hour week. “3. Machine load; the revision of aH work loads on the basis of reason and ordinary com- mon sense. “4, No discrimination against any workers be- longing to the organization; reinstatement of all workers victimized because of union membership; recognition of the union.” Every Communist Party member, from the first day of the strike, has been guided in his work by this one aim: The victory of the textile workers’ strike on the basis of the demands adopted by the workers at the U. T. W. convention, Our members everywhere aided in closing the mills; they joined the mass picket lines; they par- ticipated in the Sying squadrons; they worked to the men in every battery to wire protests to Lehman, TORIAL— overcome the disunity in the textile workers’ ranks; they tried with the other workers to make .the strike 100 per cent effective. Always their objective was and remains: Victory! Even you, Mr. Gorman, cannot deny the good work of the Communists in the strike, because our work, the work of hundreds of Communists, is known to tens of thousands of textile workers from Maine to Alabama. They know that we have worked, despite your slanders and the attacks of the reac- tionary strikebreakers, to hold solid ranks in the strike until the workers’ demands are granted. * . . IOW, because the victory of the strike is in danger, we address this open letter to you as the head of the U.T.W. Strike Committee. We wish to dis- cuss the present position of the strike and the steps which must now be taken to guarantee the victo- rious conclusion of the strike. What is the position of the strike, now in its third week? Most important, the strikers’ ranks are still solid, The cpening up of a small mill here or there does not represent a break in the strikers’ ranks, for with each mill opened another is closed by the | workers’ flying squadrons and mass picket lines. | Moreover, even the few small mills which have re- (Continued on Page 2) OPEN LETTER TO GORMAN ON THE TEXTILE STRIKE | (Continued on Page 2) opened have been reopened by military force and with skeleton crews. And the employers ‘can't make cloth with bayonets and machine guns. . . * EVER has such a large section of the American working class gone through a strike, with such brutal terror directed against it, and still held its strike lines firm, Armed thugs and underworld gangsters have been pressed into service by the mill owners. Local police and sheriffs have clubbed and gassed strikers by the hundreds. National Guardsmen have been called out in practically all textile areas, and with bayonets, rifles and machine guns, they have en- deavored to break the strike. Fifteen strikers, up until today, have been cruelly murdered. Dozens more lie in their beds, hovering between life and death. The toll of dead and wounded gives to this textile strike the char- acter of war. And yet, Mr. Gorman, the strikers’ ranks are still solid. i - ty Bo: how long can the workers hold out in the face of such terror unless they are aided by the remainder of the working class? The wide sweep of the terror yesterday—Waterville, Me.; Little Falls, (Gontinued on Page 2) 30-hour week; highly skilled, $30 | dition. || Bayonets, tear gas, fail to || asks him to, following the com per 30-hour week. The bayonet attack came when || open most important Southern || tion of the Winant port, lends (3) Machine Load: The revi- || Strikers massed at the mill entrance || mills as picket lines remain || credence to the growit that sion of all work loads on the ||in a peaceful picket formation. Sev- || firm. : Roosevelt arbitration is in off- basis of reason and ordinary || eral squads of the 105th Engineers,|| Picket dies of bayonet wounds || ing common sense. |}Co. B, of Morgantown, were or- || in Charlotte, N. C. “If anyone is called out I believe (4) Recognition of the Union: || dered by officers to cepioy and force Mass pickets close more Penn- || jt will not become effective Reinstatement of all workers || the workers off the road. They || sylvania mills despite police at- || Monday,” Gorman told the press, victimized because of union ||charged viciously across the road || tacks. y shortly after the U.T.W. Executive membership, | with fixed bayonets, drove the strik- | Lowell, Mass., officials Jaunch | Council meeting (NOTE:—For detailed statement of || €rs into the houses across from the || wild “Red scare” and terrorize Favors Individual Settlements wage demands for each category of || mill, arrested several persons and || militant workers. workers and machine loads in each |/ left Riley and Brown lying on the || Philadelphia employers go to Gorman informed reporters that department see the Daily Worker of || 100g ih ‘ roe || courts for injunctions against || the Executive Council “had ap- Tuesday, September 4.) with great gaping wounds, vickits | proved the attitude of the No Effort to Stop Blood : | committee and had given the coy mittee discretion to make indivie dual or group mill settlements. George Googe, A. F. of L. repre | sentative in the South, phoned in | from Atlanta during the press con jference. He reported “Eighteen mills opened in Geor- | gia under a heavy guard. All these | Workers are in mills where we had | little or no organization. They are joperating with a small percentage |of workers. Between five and six | thousand workers returned out of |48,000 who were idle. The union |ranks are remaining solid, although |most of the State Council officers have been locked up. B the prevailing martial 1 find them. U unable to ev but the mo: not been trouble which the Gover on the flying squadrons, the undercover agitation of labor detective agencies, I will appeal to the Governor to raid their head~ quarters and drive them out.” Conjectures of observers and newspapermen covering national strike headquarters in the Carpen- ters Building ranged from the view that a deal between the U. T. W., the employers and the corporation- dominated Winant Textile “Inquiry” | Board is in the wind, to the opinion that the U. T. W.-A. F. of L. lead- of the r blamed is due to ership desires to keep the strike ,; Within conciliatory (arsitration) | control (that is, from the feared rank and file picket line control), | until the momentarily expected re- port of the Winant Board should be followed promptly by a summons. to the U. T. W. officials and the employers to repair to Hyde Park. Strikers Send Telegrams News of this situation has evi- | dently grape-vined to the picket lines. Restive over the strike lead- ership’s slow motion tactics, the strikers sent numerous telegrams to (Continued on Page 2) Student Leagues Join To Lead Anti- Fascist Demonstration Today NEW YORK.—The National Stu- dent League and the Student League for Industrial Democracy will join this morning in leading a united front demonstration of groups in connection with ‘al of 300 Italian students schools aboard the Saturnia. The liner’s dock, where the demonstretion is to be held at 9 o'clock, is at 57th and | West Streets. | The demonstration will call on the | Italian students to protest against | Fascist rule in their native country | and urge them to demand the right of workers to organize. The deme | onstration will also demand the ree | lease of Gzaméci, Terracini and all other working class political prise oners held in Italian jails. Other groups which are to take | part in the demonstration are the Labor Sports Union, the Young | Communist League, the Federation | of Italian Workers Clubs and the | youth section of the American | League Against War and Fascism, _ liner »