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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Postoffice Clerks to
Fight for 44-hr Week
DenOunce Speeding Up

The National Federation of Post
Office Clerks whose national con-
vention ended Saturday at the Hotel
Commodore went on record in favor
of the 44-hour week and denounced
the speed-up forced on the clerks
by the government officials.
BY majority vote the delegates
made the f, for the 44-hour week
"the paramount issue" of the organ
ization for the next two years. How
ever, instc. of formulating a mill
tant policy to reduce the working
hours, the convention passed a re-
solution praising Congressman La
Guardia, republican candidate for
mayor of New York City.
Among other resolutions was one
demanding flat increase of $500
year in salaries of post office
:'srls and 20 rer cent bonus for
-'oht work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
150 LOST when
finn ship SINKS
25 Danish Sailor s
Drown in Baltic

HELSINGFORS, Finland, Sept. 8.
AT least $50 persons perished
when the Finnish steamer Kuru
sank in heavy storm yesterday.
Some 200 passengers-many of
them children bound home to spend
the week end-were on board when
the disaster occurred. The made
quate equipment of the ship pre-
vented most of them from getting
to the top decks when the fore part
of the ship suddenly dipped.
FREE CITY OF DANZIG, Sept.
8.-All 25 hanGs are believed to
have drowned when the Danish coal
steamer Dan sunk in the Baltic to-
day.
Belief was expressed that the ship
had struck a floating mine, left un-
discovered since the close of the last
world war. No trace of the steamer
was found by search expeditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Torture 2 GdstOnlQ
Defendants to Wiring
Statements from Them
Carter and Mclaughlin Slugged in Gastonia
City Hall; Beaten All the Way to Shelby
Eve Heard Scuffling Banging, Mclaughlin
Pleading, Aw, Quit!," Say Schechter, Bush

attempted to place in evidence
statements alleged to have been
made by both Carter and McLaugh-
lin.
Called to testify by the defense,
Mclaughlin, slight, black-haired
twenty-three year old youth, popular
with his ellow-defendants related
on the witness stand how he was
nearly beaten to death by Gastonia
police. During this testimony the
jury was sent away from the court
room.
"They beat me in a room in the
City Hall in Gatsonia, with their
fists and blackjacks, and they kept
on shouting: Did you shoot Ader-
holt? Who gave you the guns p"
Hear Cries.
Vera Bush and Sophie Melvin,
two of the women defendants, testi-
fled that from an adjoining room
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
EvICTIONS IN
MARION FOUGHT
Charge Guardsmen Are
Highway Robbers

MARION, N. c., Sept. S.-Pre-
paratory to the wholesale eviction
of strikers from company houses
scheduled for tomorrow which the
rank and file committee of mill
tants announce they will fight, ma
tional guardsmen are paroling the
highways and searching all visitors
to the strike zone.
While this is generally under
stood as move to keep away Ma
tional Textile Workers Union or
ganizers who have already exposed
the sell-out policies of the United
Textile Workers and discredited
Alfred Hoffman, Music man and
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
STATES WITNESS
SEES THRU WALL
Defense Brings Out the
Masked Mob Raid
By SENDER GARLIN.

CHARLOTTE, n. c., Sept.
8.-The star witnesses of the
mill bosses prosecution failed
to shine even dimly in the trial
of 16 Gastonia defendants in
the Superior Court here yes
terday.
In its third day of evidence the
state continued its feverish efforts
to prove that the workers formed a
conspiracy to attack the police, but
it merely succeeded in exposing
further it's collection of bought-up
witnesses.
At the same time, the defense
counsel, by cross-examination, re-
vealed in open court the brutal reign
of terror unleashed upon the mill
workers during the Gastonia strike,
the destruction of the first union
headquarters and relief store, and
the need felt by the strikers to pro-
tect at all costs their new headquar-
ters, which they had built with their
own hands.
Can't Agree on Words.
Herbert C. Jackson, the first wit
ness, who came to the union head
quarters after Beal and the other
strikers were attacked with rocks
and rotten eggs by Loray mill
"bossmen" and thugs of the Com
mittee of 100," testified that he
heard Beal say in a speech to the
strikers: go to the mill, go into
the mill, and if anybody bothers
you, shoot and shoot to kill" This
is approximately the sixth variation
of this statement as testified to by
state witnesses, and reveals the con-
and periured character of
the testimony of the prosecution
witnesses.
Under cross-eXamination, Jackson
admitted he had done electrical
work for the Manville-Jenckes COM
pany at the Loray mill prior to be-
coming a deputy sheriff. Jackson
was placed in a state of consider
able confusion when defense coun-
sci asked if he reported BeaPs state
ment to the chief of police. In
reply he stated that he "did not
have time" to do so, and was then
confronted with his testimony be-
Continued en- Pd0e T1Oo)
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crew. The utter bankruptcy of
the Cannon group was evi-
denced by complete silence
from that quarter. Both received
only the two votes cast by those who
proposed them. Two resolutions on
the same subject, introduced by the
resolutions committee, were adopted,
however.
"The National Convention of the
T. U. E. L." the rejected resolution
said, takes note of the splendid
spirit of struggle shown by the tex
tile workers in Gastonia. The
Southern capitalists are now trying
to burn the lives OF these workers
just because they have been fighting
for the most vital, the most funda-
mental interests of all workers in
the whole country" the rejected
resolution, declared, completely dis
guising the elementary issues of the
right of workers to self-defense, the
right to organize for self-defense in
struggles growing out of union cam
paigns.
This convention condemns the
capitalist frame-up of these textile
workers as an attempt to drown in
blood the growing resistance of the
workers to exploitation and oppres-
sion by the bosses and their strike
breaking government" it continues.
eve pledge ourselves to do every
thing in our power to save the lives
of these workers and free them from
the clutches of the capitalist jailors.
This is our duty to our class. We
will defend these heroic workers to
the finish. This convention halls the
heroism of the Gastonia workers in
resisting the textile barons' on
slaught on the tent colony, trade
union and relief headquarters and
calls upon the workers of the whole
fCon'inued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Prosecution Witnesses in Gastonia Case Tangle
Themselves in Own Net of Proven Falsehoods
ORGANIZERS co
ON TO NEW MEET
SecondGatheringA
By Defense Corps
BY LISTON OAK.

GASTONIA, N. c., Sept. 8.
Another attack by the tex
tile mill hirelings, led by the
Manville Jenckes Committee
of 100," took place in South
Gastonia yesterday. 1t was
similar to the June 7 raid against
the. strikers tent colony which re-
suited in the strikers fighting in
self defense and the attempt now
going on to murder 16 of them
through process of law in the Char
lotte court room.
The attack was made on organ
izers of the National Textile Work.
ers' Union, going to q previously
advertised mass meeting. Fatalities
were narrowly averted.
The International Labor Defense
points out that yesterdays vicious
attack is proof of its contention,
and the National Textile Workers
Union, that workers must protect
themselves against such murderous
actions, and that there was a reign
of terror in Gastonia prior to June
7, also. The Committee of 100"
threatened to attack another meet
ing held the same night at Nc
Adenville, but feared to do so be-
cause there strong workers de-
fense corps had been organized.
Organizers Beat Up.
Hugo Oehler, Southern Organizer
of the N. T. W. u, Dewey Martin,
Mike Harris, James Robinson, 81
Gerson and Walter Passmore were
all injured by mob of 200 led by
superintendants, overseers, thugs
and hangers-on of the Loray mills
when they were stopped near the
union meeting place in South Gas
tonia. They were on their way to
speak at meeting of Pinckney mill
workers. The union car broke down.
They took taxi Within a short
distance of the meeting place, the
mob of mill owners men stopped the
taxi at the point of gun.
"Get the hell out of here, you
sons-of- bitches, before we lynch
you," Tom Carver and Will Goff,
leaders of the Committee of 100
shouted.
Oehler demanded to know, "Who
are you?" and was told, st don't
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
CHINA WAR LORD
INVAlES U.S,S.R,
Chang,'s Troops Cross
Border in 3 Raids

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. s.
The Tass news agency reports
that troops of the Chang Hsueh-
lang militarist government of Man
churiaF invaded Soviet Union terri
tory in several places yesterday, es-
pecially in the Pogranichnaya, Ha-
barovsk and Blagovestchensk reg
ions. They also Unexpectedly opened
fire on Soviet territory with rifles
and artillery at Poltavskaya.
Workers and peasants, in their
resolutions passed at village and
factory meetings demand the pun
ishment of the perpetrators of SIM
liar outrages last week, and of the
Manchurian government which has
been executing and torturing hun
dreds of jailed Soviet workers for
merly employed on the Chinese
Eastern Railway.
The Soviet Union workers realize
fully that the Chinese war lords are
not acting alone, but are the agents
of imperialist powers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
!, |, c, ". BETRAYS'
HEMSTITCHERS.
Ends Strike; Will
Form Fake Board

The "strike" of embroidery work
ers, pleaters, hemstitchers and tuck
ers, conducted by the scab Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers
Union has ended.
According to the agreement of the
company union and the employers
an impartial chairman similar to
that in the cloak trade will be ap-
pointed who will see to it that the
workers wages are reduced, their
hours heightened and their work
speeded up.
1t was also announced that the
scab union and the manufacturers
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Renew PARITY
WAR BET WEEk
u. 5. BRITAIN
Hired Propagandist's S
Suit Worries Hoover

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-State
department officials revealed here
To-day that the United States is
not in accord with the British labor
party cabinets Interpretation of
cruiser parity and will submit a
counter proposal. The state depart
ment is working in close collabora-
tion with war and navy depart
ments, to see that the American
imperialist idea of parity" of the
navies is adopteI, or none.
Both governments interpret equal
ity in cruiser strength in way to
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
zARITSKy THUGS
ATTACK PICKETs
3 Beat en- Up; One
Severely Cut

CHICAGO, Sept. 8.-Three pick
cts of the Rich and Mayer millinery
shop were viciously attacked yester-
day by gangsters of the right wing
Cap and Millinery Union. One of
the strikers, Izidore Gentner, was
severely cut and had to have three
stitches taken in his wound.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union which is leading the
strike, issued a statement today de-
nouncing the attack on the workers.
1t points out that the gangsters
were hired by supporters of Max
Zaritsky, head of the company
union, and adds that in the future
the militant workers will defend
themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Vaccarelli Is Exposed as
Paul Kelly, Noted Gangster
lis Buddy of Edward F.McGrady; Former Owner
Of BrOthels; Racketeer, Aid of Brindel

Paul A. Vaccarelli, president of
the Loyal Labor Legion, who on
Labor Day presented Edward F.
McGrady r:cdal for being "the
most outstanding labor leader of
1929 was revealed yesterday as
Paul Kelly, notorious gangster and
racketeer of a decade ago, who then
We'd with the well-known gunman,
Monk Eastman.
Vaccarelli or Kelly, at one time,
it was learned, was the owner of
the largest number of brothels in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
FOulest Textile Boss Slander
Says LID Wants Convictions
Stream of Lying Propaganda Reaches High
Mark in Charlotte Observer Editorial

level of venomous slander.
This latest piece of viciousness
of the Charlotte Observer is on
par with the worst lie that the or
gan of the Manville-Jenckes Com
pany, the Gastonia Gazette, was
ever able to manufacture against
the N. T. w. u, the l. L. D., the
W. |. R. and the Loray strikers and
leaders.
The stream Of poisonous propa-
oanda against the sixteen strikers
Continued on Page Tw9J
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Priest Blesses SellOut
of New Orleans
Street Carmen Strike

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. s.
Great qualification is expressed
here at the sell-out of the car strike
which took months of combined ac-
tivity of the City Council, courts,
Public Service, Inc, and the A. F.
of l.. to bring about, by those who
engineered it.
The final rites were consummated
with help Of clergy. John O'Grady,
a priest, connected with the Cathol-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Grafters Laud Thomas.
Socialist Candidate

Because che would bring dignity
and character to the mayors office
the Rev. Norman Thomas, socialist
party candidate, has gained the
praise of the Citizens Alliance.
The kind words for Thomas were
voiced officially by the league in
its organ, The Searchlight, yester-
day! The league had been created
largely by the Hylan rivals to Tam
many Hall, who TO, I'D in Tammany
corruption a useful excuse to plead
for their election to office and thus
obtain the keys Of the city graft.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Office Workers Dance
This Saturday Night

The Office Workers Union will
express it's solidarity with the 16
Gastonia textile strikers on trial in
Charlotte, N. c., by donating 10 per
cent of the proceeds of the Fall
Roof Garden Dance to be held on
the top of the Heckscher Founda-
tion, 104th st. and 5th Ave-, Satur-
day at 8 p. m.
This dance is part of the organ
ization campaign carried on by the
union through the summer. John C.
Smiths Negro Jazz Orchestra will
furnish the music. Refreshments
will be served
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
200 Dead, Thousands
Starving, Result of
Philippine TyphoOn


MANILA, P. l., Sept. S.-Two
hundred are dead in Southern Luzon
today, with thousands homeless and
starving, as result of a typhoon
yesterday. The Filipino peasants
are kept so poor under the amer
ican regime of high taxes and low
prices for produce that there are
no stores of food to fall back upon
in the stricken area.
The only relief measure under
taken so far by the U. S. imperial
ist governors is to send the de-
stroyer Edsall to the east coast, and
to survey the damaged territory
with army planes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
BY LISTON M. OAK.

Of all the malicious lies printed
against the defendants and their
union and the International Labor
Defense the most vile is contained
in the Charlotte Observer of Sept
4th. This editorial makes the base
less charge that the l. L. D. "would
be sorely disappointed if all the de-
PENDANTS should be acquitted-be-
cauSe such an end of the Gastonia
case wcr'd leave them without
nartvr.' and more OIL the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
SOCIALISTS FAIL
TO ATTACK TWO
c. P. DAlLIES
Workers Rush to Guard
"Daily" and Jewish
Morning Freiheit
Chicago Office Raided
Police Aid Zionists in
Cleveland

When they saw the strong Work
ers Guard in front of the Daily
Worker, % Union Square and the
Morning Freiheit, 80 Union Square,
small group of socialists and
Zionists who intended to attack the
offices of the two newspapers
quickly melted away last night.
They were part of those who at
tended mass meeting held at
Cooper Union, arranged by the
United Hebrew Trades.
Towards the end of the meeting
it was announced from the platform
that demonstration in favor of
Zionism and British imperialism
would be held in front of tae two
Communist newspapers, all those
present being urged to participate.
However, only a few professional
right wing gangsters appeared and
when they saw that the workers
were ready to resist them skunk into
the adjoining streets.
Ready To Defend.
When news of the possible attack
on the two working class news
papers reached the working class
sections of the city, hundreds of
workers hurried to Union Square,
from the Bronx, Brownsville and
other places to help defend them.
At the meeting a communication
was read from William Green, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, IN which he stated that he
fully supports the Zionists in their
imperialistic policies.
Blames Communists.
A. |. Shiplacoff, manager of the
Pocketbook Makers Union, who pre-
sided at the meeting, devoted a
large portion of his speech to de-
nouncing the Communist Party. He
said that the Communist Party has
melted the Arabs against the Jews
in Palestine and is responsible for
the fighting there for the last two
weeks.
CHICAGO, Sept. 8.-With the
American Legion as their ally, the
Zionist-fascists ard soci~ lists of
Chicago attacked the Chicago of
fices Of the Freiheit, Jewish Com
munist daily, at ; a. m. Saturday
morning, wrecking it. The attack
ers brutally assaulted several work
Crs. The connection of the Amer
ican Legion with the Zionist fas-
cisti was seen in the fact that the
Legion had inserted two large ad-
vertiselnents in the Chicago edition
Of the socialist Forward limiting at
an attack.
As part of the Zionist-fascist-so
siali-t campaign against the Com
Dlurict Party for it's stand against
the British imperialists and their
lackeys, the Zionists, against whom
the oppressed Arabs are in revolt,
a campaign of intimidation is being
waged Besides intimidating news
dealers into refusing to handle the.
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09

New York and before he reformed"
and changed his name to Vaccarelli
was the outstanding gangster of his
period.
During the war Vaccarelli, in as
sociation with Brindell, building
trades union racketeer, who served
term in Sing Sing for taking
bribes from building trades con-
tractors, published a patriotic ma
gazine called Uncle Sam, to which
the $4,000 members of the New
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Four Staten Island
Bus Strikers Jailed

Police out in full force to protect
scabs and the arrest of four strik-
ers were the highlights in the
Staten Island bus strike yesterday.
The four strikers arrested on
charges of stoning a bus driven by
a strikebreaker were Jack Perrine,
N. Piantilla, Andrew Vandedetti and
Joseph Tamotti.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
arty Press Conference

A conference of all editors of
Communist Party newspapers and
secretaries of language bureaus will
be held tomorrow at s p. m. at the
National Office, 43 East 125th ST.,
to take up the Gastonia trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09

ic University of Washington, is
credited with the final touch in
cheating carmen who put up a cour-
ageous, militant fight for decent
wages and better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
CANADA WIREMEN GAIN.

MONTREAL (By MaiD .-Elec-
trical workers here have gained the
z4-hour week and wage increases.
Rates will gradually be increased
to 81 an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
OHIO TYPOS GAIN

CINCINNATI by MaiD-News-
paper printers gained an increase
of So week in wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
Unanimous 'No!' Is Reply.
to Resolutions of Gitlow
at Cleveland Convention.
Rejected Resolution Disguises Basic Issues of
Right to Organize for Self-Defense in Struggle
Gitlow Labor Party Theory Based on Wrong
Policy of United Front from Above

CLEVELAND, O.. Sept. 8-Al resolutions presented to
the Trade Union Unity Convention unanimously adopted
with the exceptions of the resolution the labor party
sened by Benjamin Gow and the Gastona trial which
introduced by Frank Vraac These two practically the
only representatives the Convention the Jaw Lovesone
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09

Build Up the United Front o.
the Working Class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09
MOROCCANS HIT
BRITISH TERROR
Demand Rebuilding of
Arabians' Houses

FEZ, Morocco, Sept. 8.-Berbers
and Arabs in this recently con-
quered French and Spanish colony
are growing very restless over the
news of the Arabian revolution
against England in Palestine and
the movement of the Druses and
Arabs in Syria against both French
and English Imperialism.
A huge mass meeting in Fez to-
day adopted a series of resolutions
protesting the attacks on Arabs by
the Zionists, and demanding that
the British rebuild Arabian prop
erty destroyed by Zionist raiders or
burned or blasted during lombard
ments by the British troops.
Fighting Continues.
JERUSALEM, Palestine, Sept. 8.
Sudden skirmishes continue to de-
velop throughout the country, in
spite of the huge numbers of Brit
ish troops, equipped with artillery,
planes, tanks and plenty OF machine
guns. Last night in the old city
section of Jerusalem fighting took
place ir the street, with one Arab
and one Zionist wounded. On the
Jaffa road British patrol fired in
discriminatory into group of Arab
peasants and Jewish colonists' who
We're arguing about the situation,
Two were wounded, enc of vh0u
YVES an Arab.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-09

TIE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a W0rkers-Farmers Government
To Organize the Unorganized
Against ImberiaIist War
For the 4O-Hour Week
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-07

Entries for the first annual Indianapolis
Times classified singles sweepstakes CON
tinue OF come in, each mail getting
heavier The ideas of this meet are to
give the bowlers of Indianapolis and VI
cinity a real prize list at the least posi-
BILE cost. Merchants of the city are glad
to help attain this desire, by donating
valuable merchandise prizes. Clip the
coupon today and mail it in with your
entry.
Good scores again featured the Indian
apolis Leagues play at the Prttchett Rec
reation alleys. Silver Flash Gas team
copied high single and three-game honorS
with scores of 943, 1887 and 1,052, total
of 3,032, which gave them a two-out-of-
three victory over the American Contra!
boys. Meridian Garage. Hukle Special and
Marotts also won two each from the Coca
Cola, 3-F Coffee and Falls City Lager as
the observation-disclosures ard Hare CHEVROLET
each took three from the Halgren,s Peoria
among the individuals with a score of $50.
Karls had 653; McNew. 619; Bowen. 653;
Pritchett, $751; Goodwin, 6G4 Haislup, $50 {,
j. o. Grady 645; Hukle, sos. and Cobler,
SIS. Haislup's 266 was the high single
game score.
The Guards were the only team able to
win three in the Grotto League games at
the Illinois alleys, the Tails being their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-07
BY DICK MILLER

VXTHEN Tim Campbell, Techni-
wv cal high school net coach,
sends his proteges on the floor at
Anderson Saturday afternoon to
bal lie Lebanon in the first regional
tournament game, the local team
will be backed by more moral sup
port than any indianapolis team
ever has been accorded III a region
al tourney.
Fred German, athletic director at
the east side school, stated today
that he expected $500 students to
make the trip. These will be aug
nented by large number OF IN