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THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week vol. No. 138 DEFENSE MEETING IN RALEIGH, N. ATTENDED BY 70C INCLUDING DELEGATES OF STATE FEDERATION MEET Rank and File Delegates Volunteer to Help Arrange Meetings for Defense in Their Towns Cut in Hours Possible if NTWU Struggle Forced It, Says Reid RALEIGH, N. C-, Aug.

and file delegates to the North Carolina State Federation of Labor and 700 others heard Sophie Melvin, one of the girl textile defendants, speak at the Wake County Court House tonight. Melvin was refused the floor at the convention by the A. F. of L. bureaucrats.

Dewey Martin and S. D. Saylors, National Textile Workers Union organizers, and Ju-j liet Stuart Poyntz, I. L. D.

rep-1 resentative, also spoke. Liston! M. Oak was chairman. Melvin told about the great, widespread struggle in the textile mills which the United Textile Workers Unon has betrayed whenever they gained control in any mill town. She told about the militant struggle which caused the mill owners to determine to uproot the left wing union even if it had to be drowned in blood.

T. A. Wilson, president of the state federation, and William Kelly were present to hear their company unions and bureaucracy exposed as betrayers during the struggle. Melvin scored the A. F.

of L. severely for supporting the mill operators in their attempt to send her fellowdefenders to jail, by officially refusing to support the defense drive and ictually fighting the I. L. D. which conducting the defense.

Many rank and file delegates who had attended the convention which adjourned yesterday pledged their support for the defense and volunteered to help arrange meetings in their towns. A large number of Negroes who attended the meeting joined the whites in pledging support. A branch of the International Labor Defense was organized in Raleigh after the meeting. On their return to Charlotte today, the organizers of the I. L.

D. and the W. will stop at the Henderson mills and arrange a series of meetings. The veritable storm of petitions protestin gthe Gastonia terror which are being received daily at the national office of the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Committee at 80 E. 11th New York City, show hat the Chicago district is surpassing all other sections of the country In activity.

More than 300,000 signatures have already been received. Chicago, with r. quota of 100,000 signatures, has exceeded 50 per cent of its allotment already with 53,000 names. Philadelphia runs a close second with 48,000 names in its quota of 100,000. New York workers were at first in the lead, but have fallen to a poor third in the last few days with 30 per cent of their quota of 250,000, with 75,000.

Detroit, with a quota of 100,000, has sent in a total to date of Pittsburgh, with a quota of 25,000 has sent in Cleveland has secured 20,000 of its 50,000 quota; i (Continued on Page Five) PREPARE FOR BIG SACCO MEMORIAL Prominent Speakers at Union Sq. Meet Elaborate preparations are being jnade by the New York District of he International Labor Defense for Jt Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demonstration that will rival the huge demonstrations of two years ago. Next Thursday, Aug. 22, at 5 p. thousands of New Yorkers will rally in Union Square to commemorate the second anniversary of the execution of the two working class martyrs and to demand the immediate release of the victims of another capitalist murder conspiracy, the 23 Gastonia textile strikers and strike leaders.

Since the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration will be held only four days (Continued on Page Three) SHOOT STRIKERS ATHENS (By Mail). hundred of a great fertilizer factory have struck work. In a clash with the police, two policemen and a striker were severely injured. (COME TO DAILY WORKER CARNIVAL AT PLEASANT BAY PARK, THIS SUNDAY; IS ELECTION RALLY What are you going to do with yourself this Sunday? What about a day in the open at Pleasant Bay Park, out of the heat and crowded quarters of the city, with sports, music, dancing, eats (and what a holiday of real Working class entertainment that PnblUhert dally except Sunday by The Coinprodally Publishing Company, 20-28 Union Square, New York City, N. LABOR TRAITORS CALL OFF BRITISH TEXTILE STRIKE Workers Solid; Fight Bureaucrats MANCHESTER, England, Aug.

conciliation was the keynote of the arbitration proceedings at the Manchester Town Hall today when reformist trade union leaders encouraged by Sir Wilson of the labor government, decided that the 500,000 strikers return to work while the hearing proceeds. The ruling was made in the face of the stirring solidarity of the strikers, who had voted against the per cent wage cut from the outset. Bosses Arrogant. Encouraged by the cringing attitude of the government conciliators and the reformist leaders of the trade union congress, the Master (Continued on Page Five) COURT CONVICTS NEGRO ON LIES Ten Years for Aged Tennessee Worker CENTREVILLE, Aug. 15.

I admission by three women witnesses that they had given false testimony was carefully ignored by a Circuit Court jury when they found Turley Wright, aged Negro, guilty on vague charges brought by a white woman. He was sentenced to ten years. His attor- I ney will in the meantime move for a new trial. In line with the usual policy of I conviction of Negroes on the slight(Continued on Page Five) NEWARK CARMEN EXPECT SELLOUT In spite of the obvious will ol 7,400 Newark street car and bus workers for a strike against the refusal of the Public Service Corporation to meet the demands of the men for wage increases and shorter hours, officials of the Trolley and Union are expected to agree to the suggestion of Matthew Boylan. vice-president of the company, for a board of arbitration.

The Alone Fight for Says Fanny Austin First Negro Woman Candidate Denounces Other Parties for Race Discrimination Communist Party is the only political party which fights consistently for the Negro workers and for their emancipation as a class and a Fanny Austin, Communist Party candidate for the Board of Aldermen in the 21st Aldermanic District, Manhattan, told the Daily JVorker yesterday. all ether parties cither marks, at the same time, the opening of the Communist election campaign in New York City. This Press Carnival is also a demonstration for your working class press, for the proceeds go to the support of the Daily Workers. The Labor Sports Union has arranged a rousing athletic program, Jaailo Hig JUorkrr Communist Campaign Rally at Pleasant Bay Park Picnic on Sunday Many Events Arranged for All-Day Carnival to Aid in Maintaining Party Press Mass Demonstration in Afternoon as Leading Candidates Expound Platform of Class War The first big Communist campaign rally will take place at Pleasant Bay Park this Sunday (Aug. 18), where the Press Picnic and Carnival will be held throughout the whole day- Arrangements have been made to make it a monster working class rally.

All sorts of amusements and games will take place in different parts of both before and after the campaign speeches, which will'be delivered during the afternoon. EXPECT RECORD CROWD It is expected that a big crowd ill attend the picnic and carnival, which, as a yearly event, has attracted ever larger attendance. But this year, with the combined press picnic and election rally, the crowd will be exceptionally large. CLASS DEMONSTRATION The meeting in the afternoon will be a demonstration of the working class against the capitalist political parties and all the agents of capitalism. The role of the strikebreaking city administration will be exposed, the socailist alliance with the bosses and Tammany, with particular attention to the specific acts of the Rev.

Norman Thomas, will be dealt with, while the fake liberal. La Guardia, and his running mates, strikebreakers and scab-herders all, will be pilloried. The war danger, the Gastonia conspiracy, speed-up, rationalization, the housing scandals, the sewer graft, organized gangsterism, will be dealt with from a revolutionary standpoint. LEADING CANDIDATES WILL SPEAK William W. Weinstone, candidate for mayor; H.

M. Wicks, candidate for president of the board of aldermen; J. Louis Engdahl, candidate for president of the Borough of Manhattan; M. J. Olgin.

editor of the Freiheit; Rebecca Grecht and others will speak- MANY SPORTS EVENTS A large number of games and sports events have been arranged and the performances will convey some idea of the development of working class sports organizations within recent years. Food in abundance will be provided and the Armenian comrades will again supply their famous shashlik. Admission is only 35 cents. Busses will meet you at the 177th St. subway station and take you to the park.

Delegates form Ford Plant at Metropolitan Area Meet Confab Opens Tomorrow; Chicago Meet Sunday for Cleveland Convention CHICAGO, 111., Aug. conference called by the Trade Union Educational League will be held Sunday at the Northwest hall, at which delegates from many shops will prepare for the Trade Union Unity Conference to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, beginning Aug. 31. A report of tl.e program of the Trade Union Educational League will be given by C. A.

Hathaway (Continued on Page Two) road is thus opened for a sell-out. Whatever the results of the conciliation conference, Boylan specifies, wage cuts must be expected. At parley with union leaders he repeated the earlier pica of the company that the service has been operated at heavy loss during the past few years. It is widely known, however, that the prof(Continued on Page Five) openly support the policy of the most vicious race discrimination, or like, the socialist party, cowardly evade the issue, the Communist Party shows itself to be the Party of the oppressed Negroes by being the first to nominate a Negro woman for municipal office. I am nroud to be the first to claim that (Continued on Page Five) I including a baseball game between crack teams representing the Party and the Communist Youth League and a soccer game featuring the all: star Freiheit Sport Club.

Then there will be dancing with a I blaring band if you go in for more strenuous sports, and even if do Entered ns matter at the Post Office at Ntn York, It. under the act of March 1879. Delegates representing the workj ers of the Ford plant at Kearney, N. J. will be at the Second Metroj politan Area Trade Union Unity Conference to be held Tuesday, Aug.

1 20 at Irving Plaza, Irving PI. and 15th it was announced yesterday jby the Executive Council of the Trade Union Center. Workers from i many other large industrial plants in New Jersey will also be repre(Continued on Page Five) NJ.W.U. SHOWS UNION VICTORY 5-Hour Cut Result of Gastonia Struggle GASTONIA, N. Aug.

thousand leaflets were distributed by the N.T.W.U. today to the mill workers throughout Gaston County. The leaflet stated that the reduction in hours from 60 to 55 hours per week granted a few days ago by the mill owners of Gaston County is a concession forced from them by the workers. The leaflet reads, in part: reduction in hours is the result of 5 months of strikes, picketing and union organization carried on by the National Textile Workers Union, its organizers, members and sympathizers. comes right after the Bessemer City Conference of the National Textile Workers Union where 227 delegates representing 75,000 workers in 6 states endorsed the demands (Continued on Page Two) The food, alone, which is being served at tlje lowest possible cost by the Amalgamated Food Workers, will be worth the trip to the park.

There will see for yourself when you get there. enough to tell you there will be heaps of Armenian shushlik, without which no Daily Worker festival, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1929 TAMMANY FEARS CHILD KILLED BY! COMMUNIST GAIN IN NEGRO HARLEM Sangs Engdahl, C. P. Boro President Candidate Hits Police Brutality Stands Trial Monday With Six Others is not an accident that the most vicious attacks by the many Hall police should be ed just now against the Communist Party campaign rallies in declared. J.

Louis Engdahl, nist candidate for president of the Borough of Manhattan, in commentj ing on the breaking up of Commu- I nist meetings at 138th St. and Sev: enth and the arrest of Communist speakers. is precisely in Harlem, with its great discontented population of Negro workers, that Tammany Hall fears loss of strength in its efforts to re-elect Mayor Jimmy Walker. It feels that this loss will go to the Communist Party. It fights back with the only weapon it knows, the same police sion that it has been using against workers in recent strikes in the needle, iron and other Engdahl was among those cently arrested when police broke up the Communist Party campaign rally at 13th St.

and Seventh Ave. He will appear with othei-s arrested in the Court of the Twelfth District on Monday to answer to the usual charge of disorderly conduct. charge against us is mere declared Engdahl. is also true of the claim of the police officialdom that meetings must be forbidden on Seventh and Eighth Avenues in order not to interfere with traffic. is only Communist meetings that are broken up.

Religious gatherings have not been interfered with. the police themselves (Continued on Page Five) LAND OF SOVIETS CREW UNHARMED Plane Down at Chita; Flight May Be Off MOSCOW, U. S. S. Aug.

15. Pilot Semyon Shestakof has radioed the Soviet military authorities at Sosnozeresk, 80 miles from China, that its crew of four escaped, unharmed, when the Land of the Soviets, en route from Moscow to New York, made a forced landing in the uninhabited forest region of the trans-Baikal district north of the (Continued on Page Five) GRAF HOPSISSR ON NEXT FLIGHT 1 3 Japanese on Trip to Study Air Bombing BERLIN, Aug. German dirigible Graf Zeppelin, which took i the air at Friedrichshafen on the second stage of its world tour Wednesday at 10:35 (eastern standard time), crossed the Latvian frontilv into Soviet Russia at 1:30 this afternoon, after passing over Danzig, Konigsberg and Lithuania. It was reported proceeding toward Smolensk, a course which would take it considerably to the south of Moscow, indicating that perhaps Eckener, commander of the war bag, had decided not to pass over the Soviet capital. Pleasant Bay Park, Sunday, Aug.

18. CLAY WORKERS STRIKE PRAGL (By Mail). Monday 1,200 clay workers went on strike in Wildstein (West Bohemia). They demand a wage raise of 15 per cent. The fighting spirit is cellent.

Came of baseball, soccer, 1 at the Press Carnival. would be complete. And, after the eats, the beautiful park, with its trees and lawns and paths Jiy the water for comrades to roam in. better not come alone, comrades. The Carnival begins at 10 in the morning and will continue un, iil midnight.

Busses will meet tfie SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall. per year. Outside New York, by mail, SO.OO per year. SCAB FIGHT CONTINUES! New Orleans A.F. ofL.

Attacks Militancy Hits Relief Federal Court Jails Many Workers NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15. The death today of Floyd East, three-year-old boy, under the wheels of a street car run by a scab is the latest crime laid at the door of Public Service, Inc. Mass demonstrations in which tens of thousands par- ticipate against the action of the City Council who are cooperating with the car company by passing strike-breaking ordinances, the federal court which is sending active strikers to jail, and the attempt to run the trolleys by scab labor, are continuing. The city, state and federal police forces were increased once more today, and they are making promiscuous use of night sticks, tear gas bombs and guns throughout the city.

Armed retaliation from the strikers, attacks on scab-run cars and dynamiting of tracks continued all day, according to reports today. Workers Storm Car. After the car struck the hoy, an infuriated crowd surrounded the street car, not allowing Robert Blair, scab motorman, to move the car on. Police attacked the crowd, attempt(ConUnued on Page Two) BUILDING TRADES PROTESTJONIGHT Workers Will Meet in Irving- Plaza A capacity response is expected to the call of the Building Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League for the mass meeting of building trades workers to be held tonight at 7:30 in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place.

Hundreds of carpenters, electricians, painters and other building trades workers will attend the meeting tonight and express their indignation at the recent sell-out of the the form of pending arbitration of differences that arose during the fake promise of the five-day week. Speakers active in the left wing labor movement will point out this arbitration, as is already known, will result in a surrender to the electrical fixture manufacturers, as the union bureaucracy will permit them to import and install nonunion assembled fixtures. As for the other trades, it is pointed out, even more work will be done under non-union conditions instead of on the job than has beep done heretofore. One of the principal reasons for the it is further pointed out, was to give the bosses more time to finish up whatever urgent work they have and towards the end of the year, with growing un-! employment, to launch an attack upon the union, at a time when the. workers are least prepared to re- sist a long fight.

How best to meet this threatened i us.flight on the already low stand- ards of the workers will be told at the meeting tonight. Slander Against Defendants and ILD Denounced by Neal Defense Counsel Declares Press Inflames Jurors Against Strikers The slanderous stories in the southern capitalist sress and reproduced with enthusiasm in the north by liberal as well as capital- ist journals, concerning the International Labor Defense and other organizations helping the Gastonia i strikers, were termed monstrous campaign of by Dr. John Randolph Neal, of the defense counsel. Dr. Neal, who was in New York I workers at the 177th St.

subway tion, taking them directly to Plea- i sant Bay Park. Many of the candidates on the Communist Party ticket are sched- i uled to address the throngs expected i to participate in the opening rally of the city campaign. Among them are William W. Weinstone, candidate GIFTS FOR TANKS, PLANES POURED OUT BY WORKERS TO DEFEND SOVIET UNION Two Thousand Jailed or Driven Out of Country in Last Two Days Communist Youth, Other Groups Volunteer to Join Red Army Against Imperialist Attack I BULLETIN. MOSCOW, Aug.

government tonight issued a warning to all foreign governments, banks and individuals not to recognize i any obligations undertaken by the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria or by Chinese authorities in behalf of the railway since its seizure from Soviet control. Leo Karakhan, acting foreign commissar, issued a statement to the press which described the railroad as facing financial disaster. He alluded to alleged efforts of the Chinese authorities to obtain foreign banking aid. MOSCOW, U. S.

S. Aug. of the Nanking authorities against Soviet citizens is increasing, not only employes of the Chinese Eastern Railroad but also persons having absolutely no connection with the railway are being persecuted. In the last few days over two thousand have been arrested or deported. Two-thirds of the Soviet citizens formerly employed by the Chinese Eastern are suffering great privation because the Nanking authorities have confiscated their personal property.

A number of Soviet citizens are also reported to have been killed. The white guardist Russians are zealously assisting the Nanking authorities in their persecution. Recent reports show a further concentration of troops along the Soviet frontier. Armored trains, ar- I tillery and machine gun companies have been concentrated near the border. Wires are constantly arriving from all parts of the Soviet Union demanding that the government take energetic action against the Nanking generals in order to protect the lives of Soviet citizens in Manchuria and along the Soviet frontier.

Collections are being conducted with tremendous enthusiasm in order to build tanks, airplanes, ett. All large scale industrial works and labor unions are contributing in order to present the Red Army with airplanes and tanks and other military equipment, bearing the names of the donors. The Supreme Military Council and General Blucher, the commander of the Special Far Eastern Red Army, are constantly receiving offers of groups of former Young Communist groups and others to join the Red Army as volunteers. MUKDEN, Manchuria, Aug. 15.

Unconfirmed reports today intimated that Lu Yuan-huang, manager of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, and several minor officials might be made the scapegoats by the Nanking government for its seizure of the road and would be dismissed shortly. Approve Expulsion Lovestone, Removal Bucharin and Gitlow MOSCOW, U. S. S. Aug.

I 15. After lively discussions the Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International ha adopted resolutions particularly approving the expulsion of Lovestone, Spector and Jilek and the removal of Bucharin and Gitlow from the Presidium of the Comintern. for several days to discuss the trial with the International Labor Defense, told reporters in an interview yesterday that the newspapers of Mecklenburg and Gaston counties were seeking to inflame the minds of all prospective jurymen against the defendants. Contrary to the slanders that have appeared in the New Republic, the Nation, the German Volkszeituig (Continued on Page Three) mayor; H. M.

Wicks, for president of the board of aldermen; J. Louis Engdahl, for president of the Borough of Manhattan; Fred Biedenkapp, for president of the Borough of Brooklyn; Rebecca Grecht, for state assembly from thd sth A. Ben Gold, candidate for alderman, 20th A. Rose Wortis, FINAL CITY EDITION MOVE TO MAKE i THE COMMUNIST PARTY ILLEGAL Is Part of Capitalist Drive on Workers Another sinister move of the government to outlaw the Communist Party, and declare it i 3 seen in the appeal taken by the federal authorities against the decision of the New York federal court which freed John Voich, a foreign born worker, living in Prescott, Arizona, who was slated for deportation to Jugo-Slavia where a fascist government would soon put him to death. Federal Judge Thomas D.

Thacher, of United States district court for the southern district of New York, made the ruling three weeks ago, resulting in freedom, that the Communist Party was not a organization. Distributed Literature. Voich, an unnaturalized foreigner, was charged with distributing literature and belonging to a organization the Communist Party. Federal Judge decision was based partly on the fact that the Communist Party had taken part in political campaigns and was therefore a legal party. The federal government, through United States Attorney Charles H.

Tuttle, has filed an appeal on this decision on the grounds that the court erred in declaring the Communist Party His appeal in part states: Court erred in holding that the Com(Continued on Page Five) REFUTE CLAIM ON I.L.G.W. MEMBERS Industrial Union Nails Company Union Lies The claim of the International Ladies Garment Union, the company union of the garment bosses, that more than 28,000 cloakmakers are now enrolled in that organization was yesterday branded as a lie by Joseph Borouchowitz. general mana(Continued on Page Five) DENTAL WORKERS MAY STRIKE SOON The possibility of a general strike called by the Dental Laboratory Workers Union, Sept. 15, when their agreement with the dental laboratory bosses expires, was taken up at a meeting of the union held last night at Irving Plaza hall, Irving PI. and 15th St.

According to Max J. Shalkin, or(Continucd on Page Five) for state assembly from the 3rd A. D. ,1. Olgin, for state assem-1 bly from the 4th A.

and Fannie Austin, candidate for alderman from the 21st A. D. i Weinstone, Gold. Olg'n. Grecht and others will sneak at the Press Carnival.

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