The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1934, Page 1

Aes Strikers! Fight the Slave Pact of Gorman! An Editorial signe: galling, bitter fruits of | — a Gorman’s infamous back-| Vol. XI, to-work order are now ap- 11th St., New York City. . 232 <2 Probably not less than one- third of the textile workers have been locked out, the mill gates slammed in their faces. Even the U. T. W. officials admit this now. Of course, to | save their faces, they are | “protesting.” They even ins dulge themselves in the | empty “threat” that they “will talk to Roosevelt” about | it. | As if it is not Roosevelt | himself who engineered the | Only $53 was received over the week- | end for the Herndon-Scottsboro Defense Fund, bringing the total to $8,603. Send contributions for the 15,000 fund to the International Labor Defense, 80 E. Entered as second-class matter at the New York, N. ¥., under the Act of RE-STRIKES LOOM ON LOCKO Marine Radio Men Vote to S > Post Office at March 8, 1879. Whole strike-breaking trap! | SEA MEN e H E E R J 0 h nson But the textile workers are beginning to answer Gorman and the employers in their own way! Reports keep com- ing in telling of thousands of workers in every section of the country, especially in the | South, who have refused to break up their picket lines! These workers, real work- | ing-class fighters, whose ac- tions make a Gorman or a William Green, look like the | 100 Bodies: Strike in Philadelphia—Sea- men Join Pickets By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) ‘UNITED FIGHT PLAN OF M.W.LU. es lowest animals on earth, are continuing their militant mass actions in open defiance of Gorman’s slave order. The reports from Chatta- nooga, Easton, Pa., from the South, and from a number of New England mill towns, make it clear that the possi- bility of new strike actions is far from being something re- mote. The spirit of strike, of further mass struggle burns again in the breasts of thou- sands of textile workers whose eyes are being opened by the Gorman betrayals. * * * MHE textile fight is by no 4 means hopelessly lost! If the treacherous Gormans, Greens, Rieves are swept aside, if Rank and File Com- mittees are set up, -if the Communists in the textile areas succeed in organizing | WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 26. |—Officials of the Roosevelt gov- |ernment and of the International Seamen’s Union (A. F. of L.), all agitated over the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union’s call to ac- | tion to spread and make effeotive | the IS.U. strike scheduled for Oct. | |8, were already at work today on| the creation of a National Ship-| | ping Labor Board as suggested in |the proposed N.R.A. shipping code, | to forestall or behead the strike. | This was learned by your corre- | | spondent today from an official | |source, In connection with these | efforts, Victor Olander, secretary- | |treasurer of the I.S.U., resigned | last week from the Labor Advisory | Board of the N.R.A, An official source said he gave as his “omi- | | cial” reason that he had aban- | doned hope. of the promulgation |of an N.R.A. Marine Code; but| | that he has made it clear that he| | | | | hopes this move may galvanize | government officials into action to| ; Secure either the adoption of a! shipping code or the creation of Labor | | the National Shipping | Board in time to stave off the | strike. | Observers also agree that Olan- | der’s resignation was designed also ; to clear his skirts of an official ‘connection with the Government | N.R.A. apparatus which he knows thoroughly discredited in the | is Chicago Delegates From N. Y. Assemble Today at W. 23d St. All delegates to the Second U. 8. Congress Against War and Fascism at Chicago will meet at the West 23rd Street Ferry at 9.30 a. m. sharp today. Among the 500 delegates board- ing the specially chartered train to Chicago will be Kurt Rosen- feld, refugee Prussian Minister of Justice, and Fred Biedenkapp, || secretary of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union and Charles Krumbein, District Or- ganizer of the Communist Party. There is still train room for more delegates and visitors to the Chicago Congress. Tickets may be secured at the train, Rally to Greet First Issue Of N.Y. ‘Daily’ Organizations To Bring Contributions to Oct. 7 Meeting NEW YORK.—As the first issue of the new eight-page New York Daily Worker comes off the press, @ mass meeting of delegatons from | trade unions, mass organizations | rank and file oppositions in| eyes of his own LS.U. rank and the U.T.W. locals, then a new wave of textile struggles is a real possibility. The textile workers can still beat the lockout, defeat discrimination and the black- list. The textile workers can serve notice that every strik- | er be rehired, or else new picket lines will be formed and the mills will again be shut down! The Communist Party urges that the textile work- ers dispel whatever feelings of gloom or pessimism there may be m their ranks, and to begin to take practical steps te reorganize their ranks, combining this with a deter- mined effort te drive the treacherous Gormans, Greens, McMahons, Rieves, and others out of their ranks. Under their own leader- ship, chosen by democratic vote right from the ranks in the mills and im the U.T.W. locals, the textile workers, the Communist Party de- clares, can begin to collect their strength, dissipated by the treachery of Gorman, and march again for real gains in living standards, * * * HE COMMUNIST PARTY urges that meetings be held at once to discuss the lockout situation, that committees be set up to fight any signs of discrimination, that the tex- tile workers keep their unity and inform the employers that all textile workers will immediately strike again if a single worker is discrimi- nated against. Gorman’s “have patience” advice can only mean fur- ther misery for the workers. Gorman has lost all right to give the textile workers any advice. He has shown that he is their enemy, a tool of the employers in the ranks of the textile workers, | file. | | Many indications have appeared | ‘here that both Olander and N.R.A. | officials connected with the year- |old effort to produce a general ‘shipping code are deeply con- cerned over the prospect of a marine strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. So well are they aware that the militant M.W.LU.’s serious strike-preparation prom- ises effective strike action that | they have sent out scouts to gauge | the exact strength and prestige of | this group. Apparently they have | | been satisfied that East Coast ma-| rine workérs are ready to strike, | | and effectively, for since then they | have renewed intensive efforts to secure a code or at least the sug- | gested National Shipping Labor Board. NEW YORK. — The organization of joint strike preparation commit- tees and the preparation for a joint strike of all seamen and longshore- men, as advocated by the Marine Workers Industrial Union, ‘vere further advanced by the decision of the membership of the American Radio Telegraphists of America, at their meeting Tuesday, to take strike action, The proposal of the delegation of | the M.W.I.U. for the setting up of a joint strike preparation commit- tee was adopted by the meeting. (Continued on Page 2) HUDSON ASKS FOR FUNDS NEW YORK. — “The coming marine strike and preparations de- mand the utmost of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, organi- zationally,” stated Roy Hudson, na- tional secretary of the M. W. I. U., yesterday, in appealing for funds. “We have to appeal to our friends and sympathizers to immediately forward funds for the strike com- mitttee to the national office, Room 701, 2 Stone Street, New York City,” Penn. Supreme Court Rejects Appeals of Egan and 4 Others and Communist Party units in| New York City will greet the new| paper Sunday evening, Oct. 7, at! the Central Opera House, 6th St. | and Third Ave. Clarence Hathaway, editor-in- chief of the Daily Worker; James Casey, managing editor, and Charles Krumbein, New York District or- ganizer, will be the speakers. James W. Ford will be chairman. The Workers Laboratory Theatre group will perform. | The meeting, which is part of the plan of the New York Dis-| trict to raise its quota of $30,000 in the $60,000 drive of the Daily | Worker, will be featured by the contributions which the delega- tions will bring for the drive. The | amounts of these contributions are already being determined by the various groups. The New York District of the | party yesterday issued a call for! delegates to be immediately elected and credentials sent to the Dis- | trict Office. The aim and scope of the new Daily Worker, the district further Pointed out, requires that the $60,- 000 quota be quickly secured, and the sum realized at the meeting, it is expected, should put the New York District well on the way to filling its $30,000 total. Hudson Hails ‘Daily’ As Marine Strike Need NEW YORK.—Roy B. Hudson, national secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, has is- sued a call to all seamen’s and longshoremen’s organizations to) send news daily to the Daily Worker, and to spread the paper in strike preparations. “The Daily Worker is the only American daily newspaper to sup- port the seamen’s strike and is the best source of day-to-day news of what is really taking place. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 2%6.— The Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania yesterday handed down a de- cision refusing to grant appeals in the cases of Phil Frankfeld, Jim Egan, and the Ambridge prisoners— Emma Brletic, Dan Benning, and Paul Verskovitch. A petition was immediately filed asking a stay in execution of sen- tences for 30 days to allow the International Labor Defense to pre- pare formal appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court for a review of the cases, on which the State Superior Court is expected to rule within a week. If the stay is refused, pre- liminary petitions will be filed with the Federal Court at once, which will automatically secure a probable two-month stay in execution of the sentences. In the meantime a broad campaign of mass protest is being/ Pa, launched in every working class or- ganization in Western Pennsylvania. Frankfeld faces two to four years in the Allegheny County workhouse in connection with the stopping of a foreclosure sale in Patton town- ship last September; the railroad- ing of Egan to a one to two-year term grew out of a fascist police attack on an Inauguration Day demonstration in front of Pitts- burgh’s City Hall; and the Am- bridge prisoners were sentenced to two years for picketing during the Ambridge strike last October, in which J. & L. thugs murdered Adam Pietrusiski, strike sympathizer. All organizations are urged to send letters and telegrams of pro- test against these brazen frame-ups to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, Out; New Plan Set Direct Control by Wall Street Is Aim of New Set-up WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 26.— \To make way for a new set-up in |the Roosevelt N. R. A. which will turn the N. R. A. over to the direct olists, General Hugh 8. Johnson his resignation as National Recoy- ery Administrator. In place of the present code set- up with Johnson at its head, it is | proposed to create new boards with | direct control by representatives of Wall Street industry who will estab- lish a less cumbersome machinery for increasing profit and Wall Street domination over industry as a whole, Johnson’s resignation means that Wall Street monopoly, having tight- ened its grip on the country’s in- |dus:ry through the N. R. A., now wishes to do away with all political interference and take to itself full | control of the government economic jagencies. Already the capitalist | press talks of “business looking for- | ward to control of its own house,” |meaning further Wall Street mon- | opoly control along the lines of the |N. R.A. program, | The Journal of Commerce, Wall | Street newspaper, yesterday stated that Johnson's resignation was neCes- | sary to “restore the confidence of the general public in the whole movement.” In_an exchange of letters making. | the resignation public, Johnson and support one another’s policies. | Johnson's too open alliance with the shipowners in the ‘Frisco strike, and his crass denunciation of the textile strikers at a time when tion of strikers is scheduled at the | Bryan hosiery mill, “impartial,” lessened Johnson's value to the Roosevelt administra- tion. Also, the Perkins-Richberg group, which was mainly interested in breaking strikes through the “demo- cratic” machinery of the Labor Board instead of through methods which disillusioned the masses too quickly with the government, found Johnson's crudity an obstacle in the way of spreading illusions as to the government’s “impartiality.” He spoke too much, giving the real show away. With Johnson out of the way, Roosevelt hopes to go forward now toward further monopolization, but with less noise, and is already plan- ning a new series of demagogic “so- cial insurance” schemes for the coming elections. Kuomintang Forces Routed by Red Army In Szechuan Province SHANGHAI, Sept. 26—The Red Army advance in Szechuan Proy- ince is approaching the leading in- dustrial city of the province, Chungking, the Nippon Dempo News Agency here reported today. In a battle just outside of Chung- king, the Red Army routed the Kuomintang forces. The German Consul and his staff in Chungking, as well as other imperialists and rich Chinese, are fleeing to Han- kow. Chungking, on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, is an impor- | tant industrial center. The city has many electric light and power en- terprises, flour mills, tanneries, can- neries, cement and brick works, printing and lithographic factories. Permit To Board Ships Demanded by M.W.L.U. NEW YORK.—A delegation of 20 seamen from the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union called on Mr. Fortune, general manager of the Grace S. S. Co., yesterday and de- manded that delegates of the union be allowed to board ships of the line, without interference from the special company detectives. Monday a delegate was attacked by four armed detectives, who pre- vented him from boarding the Santa Clara and confiscated his literature. Mr. Fortune called the police after refusing to answer the de- mands of the delegation. The po- lice, faced by the determined group of men, changed their minds aBout forcibly ousting the delegation and suggested that a warrant be sworn out by the M.W.LU. against the attacking thugs. Seamen in the port are indig- nant over the fact that only Inter- national Seamen’s Union members are given passes by the officials of the Grace line to board ships. The M.W.LU. delegates are being favorably received by Grace line crews, e con‘rol of the Wall Street monop- | Daily .AWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) - NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1934. | GOVERNOR KILLING OF TEXTILE y Total to Date WEATHER—Fair Press Run Yesterday ix Pages) Needed—$1,000 a Day esterday’s Receipts $ 249.08 $9,209.03 50,400 Price 3 Cents trike With ——______. Seamen HRINGHAUS JUSTIFIES STRIKERS; TERROR RAGES AGAINST WORKERS | Hee |Discrimination In Many | New England Mills | Continues By Carl Reeve (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) Relief Conference Tonight To Act for Textile Strikers NEW YORK.—New appeals fo: Strike was betrayed by Francis J. “Southern Workeas Held Back Only by Word of Their Leaders By Harry Raymond (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) yesterday presented Roosevelt with | BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 26.—Dis- |help yesterday by locked-out tex- crimination against returning tex- |tile strikers gave new urgency to |tile strikers continued in some mills |the mass relief conference of dele- jtoday. In Burlington, Vt., the local /gates from working class organiza- union of the Queen City Cotton |tions which will be held tonight in| Company demanded an agreement | Webster Hall, 119 E. llth St. un-| with the company and threatened der the auspices of the Provisional | to continue striking. Committee for Relief of Textile | The union members charged | Strikers. |wholesale discrimination and an at-| Three locals of the United Textile tempt by the company to smash the | Workers which appealed for aid last |local union. In Fall River, where week, Locals 2197, 687 and 2148, are | |workers in the American Print had |still on strike. They are fighting CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 26.— Gorman, the U. T. W. Strik ape Spee W, Strike Com- ne labor situation in. the Beale mittee chairman, Ann Burlay, national secretary of | (O0a¥ resembles a smouldering vol- the National Textile Workers Union, |fan In many sections there is urged last minute action by all or- | 4" SOUS TERUNIE MOM Of the kate ganizations in the city to send del- to win the demands set forth in the egates to tonight's nference i i ponierence defeat the blacklist which has been The Provisional Committee yes- é ' terday received the following letter |2PPlied to thousands of textile mill from Al Busson, secretary- reasurer | WOPKers. of Local 2148 of the United Textile| J. Dooley, union leader at Roane oke Rapids, N. C., announced that Workers Union: i nds: The @ strike vote would be taken in his local unless the mill owners ceased Joint Silk Committee of the broad sil Strike Roosevelt praise one another and) e L label continued striking, the U. T. W.|against the locking out of active and ribbon locals wishes to acknowl- | intimidation and iscrimination leaders sent the workers back after | strikers, edge and thank the W. I. R. for 98ainst union worker & promise of the company to return| Strikers from New England, New|their donation of $10 and also} In High Point, Gastonia, Shelby, | workers to jobs as quickly as pos- ‘sible. The American Printing Works is the Jargest textile mill in Fall River. The U. T. W. leaders made an agreement ending the strike in |the six mills of the Stevens Com- | pany. | At Hills Grove, R. I, 100 workers in the Wolf Mill continued on strike demanding shorter hours. |The company gave the strikers an | ultimatum to return to work in 48 hours. | The national guardsmen at the ;Hampton mill in Easthampton, | Mass., were withdrawn last night but the company is-seeking to re- | tain all strikebreakers. | In Chicopee, Mass., the workers voted to remain out another 24 hours, demanding an agrecment limiting stretchout. A demonstra- | Roosevelt was attempting to appear | big Chicopee Company mills there. | |The wide-spread discrimination is | traceable to the lenient atttude of | U.T.W. leaders, | | “We are willing to be patient | and reasonable,” said Joseph Syl- via, New England U.T.W. head. | “We realize that in re-opening | textile mills it is not possible for | |York and New Jersey will attend|the donation of sandwiches for our tonight's conference to give the del-| strikers. All strikers in our local |egates a first-hand picture of con-!voice their appreciation of your |ditions in their fields since the support.” StrikersClose (Strike Sellout Hosiery Mill | | In Tennessee | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 26.—Determined to picket the mills! here despite the strike-breaking orders of Gorman, hundreds ot (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J.) Sept. 26.— Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, spoke at a Commu- | textile strikers surrounded the nist Party meeting which overflowed | stopped all Carpenters Hall, on “How the Com- cars from entering, resisted all/Munists Would. Have Led the Tex- tile Strikers to Victozy. He an- alyzed the U. T. W. sell-out, and showed how the Communists by presenting a solid front of struggle would have forced the textile mag- \nates to accept the demands of the strikers as formulated by the rank- Police attacks and beat several hired thugs and scabs. Girl pickets flung themselves in front of police cars in order to stop them from approaching the mill. The mill abandoned its efforts to all employees to be put back on | re-open. the job immediately.” Sylvia} More than 2,000 textile work- charged widespread discrimination | ers voted here to continue the | throughout New Engand, especially | strike until the demands are |in small mills, But the haste of| granted in deliberate violation | U.T.W. leaders to end all picket- | of Gorman’s orders, ing and drive the strikers back is| One scab, especially hated by the what has exposed the strikers to/| strikers, was seized from the hands the mercy of the blacklist and dis-|of the police. | crimination, Picket lines have been | maintained around the Wakefield, R. IL, mill and yesterday Judge H. L. Carpenter of Superior Court issued a restraining order to pre- | vent all picketing there on ground | that there is “no strike.” The pick- lating is being maintained there |against wholesale discrimination | | and_ blacklisting. Birmingham Planning Law To Bar Literature Distributions by C. P. (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 26.— Under the headline “City Moves to Curb Reds and Rabid Dogs,” the Conference to Discuss | 2¢wspapers of this city announced |today that Commissioner W. 0. |Far Eastern Problems, | Downs has prepared an ordinance ‘Chinese Freedom Fight | for presentation at next Tuesday’s meeting of the City Commission | making it unlawful to possess more than one copy of any pamphlet or | NEW YORK.—More than 300 or- | ganizations have been invited by | other literature advocating the |the Friends of the Chinese People | “overthrow of the government by to participate in a conference here | violence.” |for discussion of Far Eastern prob- jlems and action for hands off |China. The conference will take Place Sunday, Oct, 28. The conference assumes great im- | portance because of recent develop- ments in the Far East. The Chinese national liberation movement is | ighting Japanese provocation and | Open war moves against the U. S. S. R.; the advancing movement of im- perialist powers for the partitioning of China, the economic and poli- tical bankruptcy of the Nanking Government, the _ terroristic cam- paign of Chiang Kai-shek against the Chinese Soviet Republic and the wave of unsurpassed brutality against striking Chinese workers and peasants harried by famine.) The proposed ordinance is part of |a general drive of fascist terror | directed by the Tennessee Coal and | | Iron Company, which fears the in- | creasing strength of the Commu- |nist Party among miners and steel |workers as the only force capable of preventing the destruction of labor unions and the substitution of company unions in captive mines and steel mills, A protest campaign is under way in many Southern cities, and work- ers and their organizations in all other parts of the country are urged to wire their protests to Commis- sioner W. O. Downs, City Hall, Bir- mingham. and file delegates at the U. T. W. convention. Moe Brown, local textile leader and Communist candidate for Gov- ernor of New Jersey, exposed the methods empoyed by Eli Keller, a renegade from the Party, to keep the rank and file si strikers from carrying out a su cessful struggle. He told of how Keller failed to set up a relief ap- paratus, and of how he prevented the holding of any membership meetings. Hathaway pointed out how the Communist Party mobilized its whole membership to aid all the strikers. He contrasted the efforts made by Communists to achieve unity in the strike, and how these efforts were rejected by Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the U. T. W. Strike Committee. He said that the Communists demonstrated their desire for unity by urging the Communists in the National Textile Workers Union in Paterson to help persuade the local N. T. W. to merge with the A. F. of L. union.,Gorman met this example of unity by ordering the explusion of all Communists. Hathaway pointed to the fact that the stzikers could have won their demands by spreading the strike and closing down the whole industry. He explained how the Communists have no interests out- side the interests of the working class. They fight for all the imme- diate demands of the workers, and thereby train the workers for the great and ultimate task of over- throwing capitalism. Enthusiasm ran high at the meet- ing, and at the close of the meeting, ten workers joined the Communist Party. . The conference will seek to aid this | fight. C. P. Candidate Guest Of Bellingham Firemen. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Sept. 26.— | At the State Civil Service League | CLEVELAND. Ohio, Sept. 26. — banquet, held here recently, George |The Ohio State Election Board, Bradley, Communist candidate for exhausting every legal guest of the firemen. ithe press that the Communist Party | In the fight now being waged in |will have to be placed on the State abolition of the Civil Service, the invalidate the majority of its 35,763 Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, ‘signatures, | of which Bradley is a militant| At the same time, it was an- condemning this proposed move will not be on the ballot, being 5,000. of the City government as an at- short of the required 25,000 signa- | tempt to make Bellingham an open tures. This leaves only three par- | shop town, where no worker, em- ties on ballot: Republican, Demo- ployed or unemployed, will haye the cratic, Communist. The Common- | right to organize, and as an effort wealth Party was previously elim- | to lower wages, and to give jobs to inated. being 11,000 signatures short. more political henchmen, C.P. on Ohio Ballot, S. Communists Ask United Front P. Off; a statement to Socialist workers for a united front against discrimina- loop-hole, |tion and to vote for the Commu-| United States Senator, was the |waied until the last day to admit to /nist canditiates: I. O. Ford, for Gov- | Workers Clubs, with 26 affiliates ernor; Janie Langston for Lieut. Governor; William Patterson for Bellingham against the proposed |ballot in spite of all attempts to State Treasurer; Yetta Land for At-|cent |torney General; W. C. Sandberg for U. S. Senator; Robert Sivert for Secretary of State; Ben Atkins and member, has taken an active part, /nounced that the Socialist Party John Marshall for Congressmen-at-| adopted to lend the utmost mi large. The victory is due to the fact that the Communist Party had more than 10,000 signatures above the | required minimum plus several thou- | sand in reserve, representing real mass support too big for the The Communist Party has issued (election board to ignore. Lyman, and Gree! other points where Timination against the strikers was the sharp- est, workers are demanding that ac- tion be taken immediately against the blacklist, but the top union |leaders—John Peel, R. R. Lawrence land others—are attempting to dis- jcourage any resumption of the |strike. They have advised the workers to be patient and wait un- til the matter of the blacklist ig taken up by the new Roosevelt Tex tile Board. Terror against militant workers and all those who openly advocate resumption.of the strike still. rages in the key mill centers. Sylvia Crouch, district organizer of the Young Communist League, and Belle Weaver, Gastonia (N. C.) ¥, C. L. organizer, were arrested today in Gastonia and are held in jail there. Military officers arrested fourteen workers today at Shannon, Ga., and took them to the Atlanta guard headquarters. Guard officers s2id that the workers were trying to continue the strike. The coroner’s jury at Anderson, S. C, after hearing more than ninety witnesses in the killing of seven pickets at Honea Patch, or- dered the issuance of eleyen-mur- der warrants for the arrest of police officers and alleged deputies whom witnesses pointed out as the men who fired the shots. le, 8 C., and Govenor Justifies Killings (Special to the Daily we RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 26.—The southern section of the National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners, composed of Cary White, former professor of history at Hood College, Ind., indorsed by Richmond Central Labor Union; Sarah Hart- man, former instructor at William and Mary College, Va., and leading Richmond social worker, and Myra Page, Virginian, and author of two books on Southern textiles, today presented the results of their in« vestigation of North Carolina tex- tile areas before Governor Ehring- haus. They strongly urged: First, im- mediate withdrawal of all National Guards from textile areas and dis- continuance of their use in any fus ture strikes; second, the Governor’s pardon for 70-year-old J, W. Cris- well, unemployed worker sentenced to four months’ hard labor in con- nection with picketing activities at Concord Mills; third, that immedi- ate and permanent support be ar= ranged for the widow and eight children of Ernest Riley, unarmed picket brutally stabbed to death by a National Guardsman, and proses cution of his murderer. | The committee presented firste hand evidence of widespread diss |criminations against union mem- | bers in Gastonia, Belmont and | Concord areas, and reported rani |and file sentiment for a re-strike, They asked the Governor if in that event he intended using the Nae | tional Guard, with the possibility |that more tragedies like Ernest Riely will be repeated. The govers nor replied he would, as a means of “preserving law and order.” When (Continued on Page 2) Workers Clubs Give Aid to C. P. Campaign NEW YORK. — The Associated | having a total membership of 2,00¢ | workers went on record at its ree convention endorsing the Communist Party in its 1 state and Congressional electi |campaign. A resolution wa’ | and financial support of the mem+ bers of the affiliated organizations | to the campaign. The New Jersey Cultural Fed- eration, which will merge with thy New York organization, was rep; (resented by two fraternal dele: | gates. recent U. T. W. convention and to>