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The daily worker., 1929-07-30
COMMUNISTS IN
Japan TORTURED
Police Told They Could
Kill Workers
By TAMURA.


The Japanese government is still
applying the weapon of cruel repres-
sion to the revolutionary labor move
ment. Not content with the mass
arrests Of Communists and tie dis
solution of revolutionary working
class organizations in March and
April, 1928, the Japanese authori-
ties once more carried out mass ar
rests Of Communists in April and
May this year. Hundreds of Com
munists have been cast into prison,
where they have to put up with the
most inhumar treatment. Some
idea may be gained of how Com
munists are treated in prison from
the speech of Yamamoto, the work
ing class member of parliament
who was recently murdered by a
fascist thug when speaking before
one Of the parliamentary sub-com-
missions.
"I have in my possession facts
proving that the Communists ar
rested in connection with the Com
munist plot trial are being tor
tured Such detained persons have
been tortured in the prefectures of
Fukuoka, Osaka, Kioto, Hiogo, To-
kio, on the Island of Hokkaido, and
elsewhere. I may cite few cases
in proof of what I say.
Fukutsu, who was arrested in
Hakodate (Hokkaido Island), was
first stripped naked by the police,
thrown on to stone floor and then
beaten with bamboo canes until he
lost consciousness. Sidziu, another
arrested Communist, was also tor
tured till he lost consciousness.
When he returned to consciousness
some hours after he found prepa-
rations being made for his funeral
to avoid any unpleasantness the
police had simply decided to bury
him alive. Other tortures have
been applied as well; sope have
been hung by the feet and left in
that position till they lost their
senses. There have been cases of
Communist prisoners having their
finger nails torn out. Further, all
the arrested persons Tin Osaka, To-
lio and elsewhere) state that on be-
ginning to torture them the police
told them they were prepared to go
as far as killing them, as not they
themselves but their chiefs and
other officials would be held re-
sponsible for the consequences.
Among those arrested in Sapoiro
was a woman, the mother Of fif-
teen-year-old daughter. When this
woman was being interrogated the
police specially brought her daugh-
ter in her presence and in front of
the mothers eyes did such awful
things with the girl that they are
not to be described in black and
white. When the facts were men,
toned in court, the judge himself
had to drop his head in shame. 1
have only given few of the many
facts that could be cited without
end"
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
SAY COMMUNISTS
LEAD revolt
Railroad Workers Win
Victories
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workers, about IL in all, are report
ed to have lost their lives in the bat
tie.
Sunday night the workers of the
town of Libano revolted and fought
the police. Details are lacking but
it is known that bombs were used
during the struggle.
Other clashes between government
lists are reported today from Tolima
troops and the police and revolution
department in which Libano is To-
Gated. The authorities assert that
they have captured thirty of the
workers and are holding them
aboard a gunboat in the Magdalena
river.
The towns of San Vicente and Chu-
churi near La Gomez in Santander
department, are also reported to
have been the scene of bitter armed
fighting.
After nervous conferences between
government officials and Abadia
Mendez, the president, the minister
Of war, Cabal Pombo, issued the US
ual statement that the government
believes it is capable of coping with
the revolt.
Continuation of the fighting in
Santander and Tolima tends to dis
credit this statement.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
MASS ARRESTS
FAIL TO HALT
AUG. 1St PLANS
Police Attack; Troops
are Massed
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due to technical matters, promises to
be a monster gathering Of Central
Pennsylvania ccal miners.
The national headquarters has
been informed that the Illinois local
unions are also mobilizing benin the
August 1st demonstrations, though
the list of such meetings arranged
hes not arrived as yet.
The West Virginia district will
hold number of gatherings, under
the joint auspices of combined local
unions, in the SCOTS Run area Of
Northern West Virginia.
Latin Workers Wire T. U. E. L.
The Trade Union Educational
League national office in New York
yesterday received a cable from the
Pan American Confederation of La
/ Dor, and the Latin American Secre-
tariat of the Red International OF
Labor Unions, stating:
"To commemorate the execution Of
Sacco and Vanzetti, and Anti-Impe.
rialist War Day, the Confederation
Syndicate has decreed a genera
strike against imperialist war, anc
for the freedom of political prison.
ers on August %. We await youl
solidarity"
The T. U. E. L. is cabling an an
swer applauding the decision tc
strike, calling attention to the Gas
tonia case and the Cleveland Trade
Union Unity Convention, Of August
81, and announcing the demonstra-
tions being planned by U. S. work
ers for August l against imperialist
war and for the defense of the So
! Wet Union.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
WORKERS SIGN
GAST0N|A ROLL
Thousands Join to Save
Prisoners
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(COUGtUUGU JTOW Uy6 OUeJ
and of the district offices of the
nationwide organization, for collec-
ton boxes, literature on Gastonia,
petition blanks, and other necessary
paraphernalia.
Workers must not let up one
instant throughout the week" the
I. L. D. stated. "There are specific
and vitally necessary goals to
achieve. A membership of 100000
for the l. L. D. is an absolute neces-
sity for the aid of class-war pris-
oners of today and the future. Fifty
thousand dollars to bring the trial
to a successful conclusion must also
be collected.
"The mass petition of 100000
names is also a major requirement.
Don't forget that the successful
defense of the Gastonia prisoners is
not only an attack against wage-cut
and speed-up, but it is a powerful
arraignment against the bosses
plans to hurl the workers of the
world into another bloody holocaust,
as in 1914.
collect funds! $4,000 must be
secured! Hold house to house col
lections; shop collections; tag days;
contributions direct to national head
quarters of the l. L. D.
collect signatures: One million
names will tell powerful story of
class solidarity.
collect applications to the 1. L. D.
100000 members will effectively
shield the Gastonia class-war pris-
oners and all others in the coming
intensified labor struggles"
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

against the workers who seek to bet
ter their conditions, as in Gastonia
mong the textile workers. They
b, tier down working conditions;
thtv seek to weaken the working
clas, so as to have free hand in
the attack on Soviet Russia. If the
imperl tlists succeed in smashing
the Soviet Union, they will follow
this with the most brutal suppress
sion of the working class organiza-
tions in this country.
We call on the working masses,
poor farmers, and all friends of the
Soviet Union, all anti-imperialists to
"rise as you never rose before, nor
dared before, nor hoped before; and
show as never shown before, the
power that lies in you"
Agitate in the shops, factories,
mines and mills. Explain the situa-
tion to your fellow workers in the
shops, at the bench, during lunch
time. Elect anti-war committees in
the shops and get in touch with US.
Stand by the workers and peas
ants of the Soviet union! Defend
the Soviet Union from imperialist
attack!
Down with American Imperialism!
Down with the Marking hirelings of
the imperialist powers!
Hail the Frankfurt world anti-im-
perialist congress, champion for the
defense of the Soviet Union.
Support the demonstrations of the
Anti-Imperialist League.
Signed: All America Anti-Imperial-
ist League GU. S. Section).
g William Simons, National Sec
retary.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

As far ns I nm concerned, I cnn't
claim to have discovered the ex-
fstence OF classes in modern society
or their strife against one nnother.
Middle-cInss historians long ngO
described the evolution OF the clnss
struggles, and political ecOnOmistS
showed the ecQnOmic physiology of
the classes. I have added rs new
contribution the following PROPOSE
tionss ~ TINT the existence OF
classes In bound MP with certain
phases Of material production, -
TINT the class struggle lends neces-
sariIy to the dictatorship Of the
prolctnrint; ~ TINT this dictatorship
II hut the transition 20 the nbOIi-
ticn Of aI1 classes md to the c-7-
nticn cf n society Of free and ~onal.
MARK
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
Many Milwaukee Meetings.

MILWAUKEE,, Wise, July 90
Many noon day meetings before the
big shops, special issues of six shop
papers, distribution of thousands of
leaflets, will lead up to a huge pa
rade and demonstration August 1st
through the heart of the city and
up to meeting at Second and Wells
Streets. A number of workers
clubs have pledged their attendance,
and active resistance to any police,
gangster and socialist attacks on the
demonstration.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
SPEEDS drive TO
.UNI0NIzE MILLS
227 Delegates Return
as Organizers

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raration of the convention and in the
struggle which it symbolizes and of
which it is part. Special emphasis
is laid on this point and an appeal
is directed to the membership of
the reactionary w. w.
Building Defense.
Side by side with the preparations
for the Charlotte convention will go
the agitational and organizationai
work for the building of a powerful
movement for the freeing of the
organizers and members of the N.
r. w. U. = Fred Beal, Louis Nc
Laughlin, Russell knight, Yer a
Bush, K. 0. Byers, Amy Schechter,
Sophie Melvin, Del Hampton and
others = now facing the electric
chair on a murder charge which
followed the repulse of an armed
raid on the Gastonia headquarters of
the N. T. w. U. on the night of
June Z.
The delegates came from fifty
four different cities and villages.
All day long textile workers from
the neighborhood mill towns crowded
the frame building which houses the
Bessemer City local of the N. T.
w. U. and the big yard in the rear.
Autos, the only means of transpor-
tation, used by the delegates and
visiting workers, were parked
quarter of mile each way from the
headquarters on the highway which
it faces and which is the main street
of this typical mill town. A delega-
ton from the Bemberg and Clans
toff Rayon Mill, in Elizabethon,
Tenn, was present. Conferences of
women and youth were held in the
evening after the adjournment of
the main conference. A remark
able feature of these two gatherings
was the singing of union songs COM
posed by the union members them
selves and set to the grooming airs
of the southern folk music. The
southern class struggle is develop
ing its own battle songs already.
No such publicity has ever been
received by labor conference in
the South. The Charlotte OBJ
server. published in the largest
city of the state, this morning
gives practically its whole first
page to the conference and the
Gastonia trial. 1t has a three
column cut of Foster, a fOur-cOl-
unn cut of section of the con-
ference and a column cut of Bin
ney Green, who spoke at the con-
ference as delegate of the union
from the Loray mills.
Each delegate goes back to the
mills as an organizer of the N. T.
w. u, carrying minimum of 25
four-page folders giving the pro-
gram and demands of the union,
with an application card on the
back page. Ten thousand of these
were distributed throughout the
Southern textile industry today.
The work of the conference was
remarkable demonstration of the
organizational ability developed by
Southern textile workers in the last
few months. All arrangements went
off like clockwork, including the
feeding of 300 delegates and their
wives and families. Food was pro-
vided by the Workers International
Relief and prepared and served by
women folks of the union.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
(Wweless By "Inprccorr")
London Demonstration.

LONDON, England, July 20. -
Battling at times with the police, a
large number of workers, led by
the Communist Party of Great Brit
ain yesterday staged a demonstra-
ton before the Chang Kai-shek
governments consulate in London.
They denounced the use made of
the militarist governments in China
by the imperialist powers.
Earlier in the day, there was a
huge anti-imperialist war meeting in
Trafalgar Square, of 5000 women
workers called by the Communist
Party.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
Baltimore Sets Pace.

BALTIMORE, Md, July 20. -
Richard B. Moore, Negro working
class leader of New York, Dominick
Flaiani, Baltimore secretary of the
Communist Party, and Irving Keith,
Baltimore secretary of the Commu-
mist Youth League, will be the main
speakers at the August demonstra-
tlon, Baltimore and Hopkins Place,
at 7:30 p. m.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

The Gastonia Textile Workers
trial began July 80! Twenty three
workers face electrocutiOn or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 3! Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush funds to
International Labor Defense, so
East 18th Street, New York.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

The Gastonia Textile Workers.
trial began July 80! Twenty-three
workers face electrocution or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-kugust 8! Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush e. to
International Labor Defense, 80
East 18th Street, New York.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
Demand Venue Change.

Demand Venue Change.
The international Labor Defense r
attorneys, counsel for the Gastonia
victims, will present in the after
noon session of court, or as soon as
possible, more than a hundred affi-
davits showing that fair trial is
impossible in CASTOR county, and ar=all
guing for a change of venue. Thesro
prosecution having everything ar to
ranged for an easy conviction with
out regard to evidence in CASTOR II
county, has already indicated it will
bitterly fight any motion for assJ
change of venue. 4 @'C.tsl
History of Case.
The present case grew out Of the
brutalities and attacks made upon
the Loray mill strikers in Gastonia.
Under the leadership of the National
Textile Workers Union, of which
Fred E. Beal was southern organ
izer, these Loray workers struck
against the twelve hour day, ten dol
lar week wage, and uncomfortable
housing conditions. They were then
evicted from the company houses,
and began to live in tents furnished
| by the Workers International Re-
! lief. They were many times slug
ged, bayoneted and arrested on the
picket line.
Early in the strike a mill owners
masked mob raided, destroyed their
headquarters and w. I. R. sta
tion. Constant threats were made
that the new headquarters, relief
station and tent colony would be
similarly wrecked
The strikers posted armed guards,
fired on men trying to poison their
water supply and announced to the
governor and the press that they
would resist further assaults,
Chief Leads Mob.
On the night of June 7, Chief of
Police Aderholt, who had previously
led attacks upon them, came with a
raiding party made up of police, rep
uties, and one mill gangster who
was not any kind of an officer.
The raiders declared they had no
! warrants and needed none when the
strikers guard challenged them, and
proceeded to assault him and fire
into the tents. Aderholt was killed
in the return fire, and his followers
wounded.
Wholesale arrests followed; an at
tempt was made to work up lynch
mob against the prisoners but fall
ed because the working class of the
district was in favor of the strik-
ers; and finally % of the leaders
and most active strikers, relief work
ers, ETC., were held for trial.
The prosecution attorneys are led
by Major Bulwinkle, counsel, for the
Manville-Jenckes Loray mill, and a
fund of at least 100000 has been
raised by mill owners to railroad
these workers to electrocution or
long prison terms.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
New M ass Arrests

HELSINGFORS (By MaiD The
Finnish police has effected numer-
Gus arrests. The excuse offered for
these proceedings is the alleged dis
covering of secret Communist or
ganization purposing to effect rev.
olutioxein Finland.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

The Gastonia Textile Workers
trial began July 20! Twenty three
workers face electrocution or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 8! Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush funds to
International Labor Defense, 80
East 18th Street, New York.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

The Gastonia Textile Workers
trial began July 20! Twenty-three
workers face electrOcution or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 8! Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush funds to
International Labor Defense, 80
East 18th Street, New York.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
New Ycrh Workers Ready.

House to house distribution in
working class sections and innumer-
able street meetings and factory
gate MONDAY meetings between
now and August l, are scattering
hundred of thousands of circulars
calling for a strike at A p. m. in
every industry and huge demon
stration Immediately thereafter in
Union Square, to the multitudes of
New York workers.
After the demonstration there will
be torchlight parade.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
Three Montreal Meetings.

MONTREAL, Canada, July 90
August First will see the distribu-
ton of special leaflets, and three
meetings at $3.50 p. m. at Prince Ar
thur Hail. Finnish Hall, and French
Hall.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
IS INDICTED FOR
MURDER BY GRAND
JURY IN GASTONIA
Clarence Miller Added
to Previous Is

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prospective juror in CASTOR county
and ascertain his stand on the case,
further prejudicing all those ehgi-
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

Build Up the United Front Of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
1000 BAPT|STS
HONOR ELDER
rs. DALTON

ADREw CHAPEL, Va. Nov. i3.
More than q thousand Old School
Baptists gathered Saturday and
Sunday at Bethel Church IN
honor of the sixtieth anniversary
OF the ordination Of Elder 7. 8.
Dalton SO year old leader Of the
sect in part Of Virginia. Church.
men in attendance included dele
cations from Maryland. West
Virginia. the District Of Columbia
and many counties OF Virginia.
Among the visiting elders we're:
j. L. Alderton, Of washington:
Charles Miller. Of Clarendon: r
H. Pittmar, Of Lliray; b. +. Seek.
ford, Of Cherrydaie; A. u. Gar
land, Of Clarendon; J. T. Power
of Martinsbnrg, West Virginia;
and T. w. Elderton, Of Fredricks'
burg.
A substantial purse Of gold was
presented to Elder Dalton as 3
token Of the esteem In which he
is held by his widespread con
gregation. Women Of Andrew
Chapel acted rs noStesses.
Elder Dalton. was born In 1916
in Tennessee. He is o veteran ol
the civil war. having served with
distinction under the famous
cavalry leader, Gen. Nathan Bed
ford Forrest.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
MODERN HOTEL
PLANNED FOR
LURAY, VA.

LuRAY, Va, Nov. i3.-Pians
are ready for . new hotel to be
built in the western part Of
Luray, on the site Of the old
Borst home, known as "Ayentine." !"
The Minis Hotel Company are In
charge Of these plans.
"Ayentine." an old colonial
structure. win be moved west on
adjoining land, bought Of II. H,
Hudson, and making . total oils
acres This building will be re-
stored to its original beauty and
used for recreatfonal purposes.
THE hotel, modern Ia every re-
spect, with q frontage Of 100 feet'
win face Main street, being built
on 3 hill from which q half circle
road viii be made.
The building win be Of white
stone and white brick aIld IN
Colonial style. Minis and Speake
viii be the architects. ]. B. small
and sons, OF washington, are In
charge Of the landscape work,
The Mansion Inn. one OF Minis
Co.'S hotels on Main street, win be
remodeled and r. =. Minis will
have charge OF that, while j. W,
Minis, = brother, viii manage the
new one.
The Minis brothers have been
In the hotel business since, 1901,
and besides their hotels here. have
conducted hotels In Florida, Penn.
sylyai1ia, and in Manassas and
Covlngton, Va. The Ilearness Ia
the National Park and the great
stream Of tourists that visit the
valley and caverns. necessitates
larger hotel accommodation toI
the great flow Of traffic over the
Lee Highway.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
SANTA To VISIT
ORPHANAGE

To most OF us Santa Claus is
3 myth, but to the little boys and
girls in the Jewish Foster Home.
5000 block @ st. N. W., he was all
that means hope and happiness
when he visited them yesterday
with Ilak, perhaps the biggest dog
In the world.
There are 42 youngsters in the
home and the mere mention of
Santa set them clapping their
small hands. When he entered,
with the great dog by his side, the
children hurried to shake hands
sa,. and c,',5, ten him him what theYwanted
Dog Seen Daily 1T Lansburgh's
Santa and Ilak were taken to
the Jewish home by Bill Strother,
Ilak'S business manager, who is
exhibiting the giant dog daily at
Lansburgh'S Department Store.
The visit was arranged by The
Washington Times as q novel way
Of informing the orphans that IL
intends to give q real Christmas
to every poor child in the city.
The first move to raise funds for
this orphans Christmas party
comes Friday night, when the Fox
Washington Theater will give q
special benefit preview Of the
latest william Fix picture, Sunny
Side Up" starting at 1880 p. M.
The doors will be opened at
1915. Every seat in the house
will be 81. despite the fact that
the picture has played in other
cities to 50 audiences.
The pictures features Janet
Gaynor and Charles Farrell, stars
OF Seventh Heaven" and Street
Angel" They will be supported
by Marjorie White, Frank Rich
ardsons El Brendel, Sharon Lynn,
and other well known players.
Turn On the Heat" is one Of
outstanding dance ensembles in
the picture. All of the numbers
were staged by Seymour Felix,
the Ziegfeld dance wizard, who
has signed q long-term contract
with Fox.
But to get back to yesterdays
dog exhibit at the orphanage. All
Of the tiny tots crowded around
Santa and the great dog, and all
were eager to tell Of the toys
they hoped would be waiting
them on Christmas morning.
Strother and Ilak and Santa
will pay a visit at noon today to
st. JoSeph's Orphan Asylum.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13
Is Your
Stomach
A "Gasser"? I?

Excessive gas in stomach and bowels
doesn't necessarily mean that your food
is at fault or that you have chronic
dyspepsia. In most cases X results
nervous condition which disturbb the
functional activity Of the stomach.
Taking medicine to digest the food arti-
flcially 10 a waste Of time. What you
need Is remedy to correct the nervous
trouble and prevent the formation OF
abnormal gas.
Go to your druggist and ask for a pack.
age of Baalmann's Gas Tablets. which
are prepafed especially for this ailEnent,
See how quickly they will relieve pent-
up gas and all its distressing symptoms,
among which are pain about the heart,
palpitahon, anxiety, shortness OF breath,
drowsiness after eating, heartburn and a
peculiar gnawing Feeling In the stomach,
Genuine Baaimann's Gas Tablets can
be obtained at any good drug store.
The Washington times., 1929-11-13

OF the region In THIS county
The, six other counties contrib.
uting lands for the Shenandoah
National Park will have their aged
and infirm residents treated In
the same way, Secretary Wilbur
says.
Fear for three or more years
has obsessed these mountain peo-
pie who have believed that they
would arbitrarily be driven from
their homes as soon as the Federal
Government got possession of
their lands. either by "peacea ole
purchase" or condemnation pro
ceedings.
Secretary Wilbur has also sent
written notices to the mountain
people that family graveyards and
cemetarieS within the proposed
park domain win be looked after
by the Federal Government as
we'll or perhaps better than the
condition in which they are now
kept.