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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02
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LONDON, Oct. 1.-The conference
of the Labor" Party opened at
Brighton yesterday under the chair
manship of the government Minister
of Transport, Merr;san
Morrison's speech was a hymn Of
praise for the governments policy
and successes, including the success
full policy of imperialist blood-let-
ting in Palestine. Referring to the
unemployment problem, the speaker
made vague illusions but avoided
exact information.
Regarding the Labor" promise
to repeal the Anti-Trade Union Law
and to re-introduce the seven-hour
day in the mines, Morrison declared
"these questions are being treated"
Despite precautions taken to pre-
vent the entry of Communists into
the convention hall, Lowell, secretary
of the Red Aid, an Indian, and the
Communist leader. Paine Dutt, sue
ceeded in being admitted and in
shouting protests against the ''la-
Dor" governments treatment of the
trade unionists being tried for trea-
son to the British crown at Meerut,
India.
Indian students and English work
ers together toured the town with
placards and leaflets protesting
against the Indian policy of the ia
Dor" government and demanding the
release of the Meerut and other pri-
soners.
At Tuesdays session j. H. Thorn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02
COMMUNISTS EXPELLED FROM
SWEDEN,

STOCKHOLM by Mail)-The
Crown Council decreed the expulsion
of Albert Schneider, a German sub
ject, from Swedish territory for al
legged Communist activities on Aug.
1. Another German Communist, John
Buchanan, is also to be expelled
from Sweden as he entered the coun-
try without permission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02
100000 PROTEST
AT BERLIN Meet
Rights of Jobless and
Defense, the Issues
(Wireless By Inprecorr)

BERLIN, Oct. 1. - A mass dem
onstration, with 100000 workers
participating, occurred here today
under the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party, against the robbery of
benefits from the unemployed wrok
ers by the socialist-led government.
The Lustgarten was filled to over
flowing.
The workers also demanded the
abolition of the outlaw decree
against the Red Front Fighters
League. In many factories the
workers carried out a one-hour pro-
test strike, which was particularly
complete in the building trades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02
|CASTONIA FOCAL
POINT FOR LABOR
Oehler Cites Struggle
in South as Example

(C0ntaflued from rage OneJ
On the one hand is conscious
movement of the workers in the
current of class struggle in the
South under revolutionary leader
ship, and on the other hand the
terroristic methods of the bosses,
their government, their press, their
black hundreds, trying to smash the
budding movement of the proleta-
riat.
Now Political Struggle.
"The economic struggle of the
ktextile workers in Gastonia against
sManville-Jencke and Co. developed
within a few short weeks from an
industrial conflict to a political
struggle that has laid bare the CAPT.
talist front and has brought to the
fore cross currents: racial, sectional,
economic and political.
1.-THE naturalization and worsen-
ing of conditions in the textile in
dustry was answered by wave Of
strikes in the South in over dozen
mill centers in the spring of the
year. In Gastonia, the cotton spin
ming center of the United States,
the strike, led by the National Tex
tile Workers Union against the
Manville-Jenckes Co. for less hc,'"s,
more pay and the abolition Of the
stretch-out soon developed to the
bitterest struggle of capital and
labor that the country has seen for
some period.
Every Weapon Used.
"The Manville- Jenckes Company
and the textile bosses used every
conceivable method to check the or
ganization of the workers into an
industrial union. They used the gun
ment, the police and the courts.
They used the National Guards. the
state power and the press. They
used the Loray committee of one
hundred" and the black hundreds.
lThey are attempting to use the cleo
Jtric chair against Fred Beal and
twelve others. They tried to out
law the N.T.W.U. by the arrest of
Geo Saul and seven others. charged
with an attempt to overthrow the
government. They use the spy,
hired liars and the officials Of the
U.T.W. They used the black hun
dred to flog our organizers and at
tempted to lynch our organizers.
They murdered Ella May and will
murder more if possible. They have
filled the jails with our leaders.
"But the union marches on and
the class-conscious workers accept
the leadership of the Communist
Party. The American proletariat of
the South have joined hands with
their brothers Of the North and
West who have revolutionary ira
dition. The white workers of the
South must join hands with the
Negro workers and march together
forward to victory.
Attempt at Massacre.
"The struggle in Gastonia is lead
ing the way. AS soon as mass pick
citing was established the National
Guards came in as strikebreakers
and did all possible to defeat the
strike. The headquarters Of the
N.T.W.U. was demolished by mask
thugs, the mill owners mob, while
the militia looked on. Next the
Workers international Relief relief
supplies were destroyed by this mill
owners mob Of bosses and superin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02
PA>KING JURY IN
GASTONIA TRIAL
New Way of Choosing
Is Blow At Defense

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flied them, and the defense had to
resort to peremptory challenges to
keep them out.
This attitude of the Judge is of
course flagrantly unfair. and makes
ridiculous the pretense of impair
TALLY.
Visited BY Boss Agents.
Furthermore, after the defense
had accepted the veniremen as
jurors and until they are finally
accepted by the state, they are per-
mitted to wander around town at
liberty between sessions of court,
and are subject to influence from
the mill owners agents. This gives
the Manville-Jenckes agents every
opportunity to reach these prospect
i've jurors and if they cannot be
"fixed" they will be challenged by
the prosecution.
Class Divisions.
Prejudice against or sympathy
with the defendants is even more
pronounced than at the other trial
here in Charlotte. Very few VEN
iremen claim to be impartial. This
morning there were rs middle class
property owners examined, and all
but two openly admitted prejudice.
There were II farmers, most of
whom own their own farms, and
ten skilled and four unskilled work
ers. Altogether, 26 of these venire-
men said they had such fixed preiu-
dice that they could not be i'm
partial.
Ten of them pretended that de-
spite their prejudice they would be
fair. Nine others were convinced
that the defendants were innocent
and five had not formed any opin-
ion definitely, they said. Two stated
that up to yesterday they thought
the defendants all guilty, but snice
the state released some of them,
the ythought all must be innocent.
Beal Defies the Terror.
Rred Beal, leader of the Gastonia
strike, and Southern organizer of
the National Textile Workers Union
actively functioning until the bosses
started to railroad him through the
courts, defied the mill terror in a
statement yesterday.
"The mill owners" Beal said,
Evil abandon their present tactics
when they find they cannot freight
en- us away. Our organizers are
carrying on, though handicapped by
the necessity of undercover methods,
and we will call a series of textile
strikes after the Southern confer
ence we plan to hold here Oct. IL.
ri cannot and will not accept the
view that we should retreat from the
field now, and leave it to the United
Textile Workers, the A. F. of L. or
ganization. First, I do not believe
they would do much actual organ
ization work among unskilled textile
workers. They never have and /
don't think they ever intend to-"
A. F. of L. Won't Organize.
"There is sharp clash over pol
icy between the Northern and South
ern A. F. of L. groups, as was re-
vealed at their Rockhill IS. c. con-
ference Sunday. 1t already is ap-
parent that the reactionary forces
in control of the A. F. of L. and the
U. T. w. will not permit a wide
spread Southern campaign. Every
federation convention for the last
ten years has passed a resolution to
organize the workers of the South,
but nothing ever has come OF it.
We are going to stick"
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tendents under the watchful eye of
law and order
"On June 7 the law, drunk and
brazen, intended to disarm the tent
colony to enable the Loray commit
tee of one hundred to shoot down
the union organizers and union mem
bers. They were defeated. For the
heroic act of self-defense on the
part Of the strikers, % of our mem
bers are facing the electric chair or
long prison terms. On September 7
hundreds of armed thugs, mill boss
es, ETC., beat up several organizers
in South Carolina and on September
9 the indications of an acquital jury
and the mistrial was a signal for
the bosses of the South to organize
the black hundreds and attempt to
lynch Fred Beal, the other prisoners
and any N.T.W.U. organizers they
could lay hand on. These black hun
Gr-'7 swept through three counties
tc y Wells, Lell and Saylor out
to kill them, destroying property
and threatening members of the
union and the attorneys of the de-
tense.
State Aids Murderers.
"On September IA these same
thugs who were led by Solicitor Car
penter and Major Bulwinkle of Char
lotte prosecution on the 9th, muir
dered Ella May, Gastonia being
thrown open to the bands of the
black hundreds by the county and
city authorities. The Gastonia Ga
zette for days declared open season
on the N.T.W.U. organizers, paving
the way for the murder of Ella
May. This terror continued and ex-
tended to South Carolina with the
attempt to murder Cleo Tesenair
and the invasion of Blacksburg by
Roack and his gang to break up a
meeting and lynch the organizers.
"Other organizers throughout the
Gastonia area encounter these armed
bands nightly. The terror continues
and the united front of the textile
bosses, the state and the press has
reached a higher level of suppress
sion.
"But the union activity continues
also and the unity of the southern
and northern, black and white, has
reached a higher plane of class
consciousness and organizational ac-
tivity. Both forces the textile boss
es and the textile workers are con-
tinuing the class struggle, now in
one form and now in another.
"The main struggle is waged
around the issue of the organization
of the industry into a powerful in
dustrial union. The immediate OBJ
jective of attack on the part of the
bosses and their black hundreds is
to prevent the mobilization Of the
workers for the Charlotte Confer
ence October IL and 10, and the
other workers for the Southern
Trade Union Unity Conference. The
workers of the South are answering
with greater preparations for the
Charlotte Conference and are max
ing definite preparations for gen.
eral struggle throughout the indus
try for our demands: the eight
hour day, the abolition of the
stretchout, increase pay, freedom
for the % prisoners, the right Of
workers to organize. strike and de-
fend themselves from the bosses
armed thugs"
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r. U. u. L. SHOWS WAY IN
PHILADELPHIA.
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page OneJ
working conditions and safety pre-
cautions. Immediately following
this, independent firms not allied
with the Employers Association
signed the agreement.
Only three firms have not signed,
and a vigorous fight is in progress
with daily picket lines.
These victories have centered the
attention Of large masses of ex-
plotted, unorganized workers upon
the new trade union center, the
Trade Union Unity League, and its
militant direction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02
POLISH FREEDOM OF PRESS"

An Ukrainian paper in Cholm,
'Nashe Shitza," had to stop it's pub
LEGATION, as all editors have been,
one after another, arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
Photo by lnterna tIonaI

balance OF the money that Brooks
is said to have described. Accord
ing to the local detectives both the
prisoners say they got the counter
felt money in liquor deals in
Florida
Besides the bill that was passed
in Alexandria, police say one was
passed on a grocery store in the
500 block of Pennsylvania Ave. s. f.
The counterfeit bills, according to
police, are poor limitations, One
side has fairly good work done on
it, they say. but the gold side of the
bill did not pass inspection.
Bayless Wanted, Police Say
Police say that Bayless is wanted
in Knoxville, Tenn, in connection
with the jumping of bond on a
liquor-law indictment. The Depart
ment of Justice also wants him for
questioning in connection with an
alleged violation of the Mann act,
it is said.
Bayless served as a private on
the Washington police force several
years ago. While serving on +he
Third precinct detail in 1920 he
was convicted of grand larceny and
sentenced to serve one year at the
Occoquan workhouse. He escaped
from confinement and was rear
rested In Palm Beach, Fla, in 1925
and returned to the District to
serve his term.
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
ChesavOir Must Serve
Third OffenSe Sentence

Solomon Chesavoir, alleged boot.
logger, must serve a sentence for
third offense violation of the prohi-
bition, although the jury verdict and
indictment did not indicate that the
offense was a third one, according
to court of appeals decision today.
Chesavoir's counsel excepted to the
imposition of sentence upon their
client because the verdict of the jury,
although holding him guilty as in
dicted, did not specify that he was
guilty of third offense transporta-
ton and possession. Chief Justice
Martin wrote the opinion which
failed to agree with the view of de-
fense counsel.
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
GERMANS OFFER
ALLIES new
DEBT PLAN
Ry ROBERT W. TNOMPsON

PARIS. May Z Q.N.Sl.-Ger-
many's condition for acceptance of
the Young plan as the basis of a
solution of the reparation problem
were handed to the allied and
American experts today by DR.
Hjalmar Schacht. president of the
Reichsbank and chief Of the Ger.
man delegation.
The reservations stipulate:
/ Suppression Of the recovery
act.
2. Suppression of outside control
of German finances under the
Dawes plan.
3. Maintenance of the greater
part of the transfer clause for the
protection of German currency.
4. Means to allow Germany to
increase her capacity to pay.
The German conditions, which
were in written form, were taken
under consideration by the other
experts.
owen d. Young, chairman of the
committee of experts, was said to
have told the allied delegates:
Germany can pay, but Is OBJ
stinate."
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
7 Y
WILL Be
PEACOX
PLEA

WHITE PLAINS, May Z
(T.N.S. with a subpoena,
returnable today, issued for
Miss Bertha Kappus, friend of
the slain Dorothy Peacox, po-
lice today continued their ef-
forts to forge a chain of evil
dence tending to show pre-
meditation on the part of Earl
Peacox, torch slayer of his
wife.
Miss Kappus proved recalcitrant
when Capt. Michael Silverstein, of
the Mount Vernon police. sought to
question her. the detective said, and
District Attorney Frank Coyne
promptly issued the subpoena.
Sydney A. Syme, counsel for Pea
cox. in disclosing the possibility of
an insanity defense for the accused
man. charged police with beating
Peacox to obtain his confession.
Syme asserted Peacox killed his
wife in self-defense and said he
would produce witnesses to prove
Mrs. Peacox knew how to shoot
the loaded pistol Peacox claims she
was holding when he struck her.
Despite Syme's contention that
"Peacox is victim of paranoia." 4"
District Attorney Coyne expressed
himself as satisfied that the torch
slayer was sane
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
D. c. POLICE
To GET NO
MORE
MEN

Cold water was thrown on
the hopes of Major Henry G.
Pratt, superintendent of police.
force by Representative Robert
G.. Simmons Of Nebraska,
chairman Of the House sub
committee on District appro-
priations, today.
Simmons said the lack of the
police department is not in numeri.
cal strength but In efficiency. He
pointed out that police heads had
urged the subcommittee to approve
installation of traffic lights on the
ground that 1t would release
large number of men for police
duty.
Sees Support Lacking
Furthermore. Simmons said. there
is no indication that the commits
sioners or the Budget Bureau will
transmit to Congress Pratt's re-
quest for more police.
at have indicated heretofore, in
hearings on the District bill" he
said. that in my opinion Washing
ton needs not so much more police
as 1t does more efficient police.
The fact that seems to be over
looked by citizens of Washington
who are discussing the police situa.
ton is that. while the total number
of police on the District payroll
has not increased in the last two
years. the number of police avail.
able for police duty has increased,
due 70 the installation OF traffic
lights and the release of traffic
police to other duties.
Inefficiency Charged
81 should not, Of course, pass
upon any request for additional
police until it is submitted, and
there is no assurance that it will be
submitted. either by the Commits
sioners or the Budget Bureau"
At the hearings on the .ast Dis.
trict appropriations bill. Simmons
scored police officials for asking
for additional men. He made the
direct charge that the present force
was not being used to its full
capacity.
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
THE JAIL AND THE CELL

AERIAL view (top) of the District Jail where Sim
clair will spend the summer. Cell Qower) in which
oil king will do penance for contempt of Senate.
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
TAKONA VOTERS
HIT PAY PLAN

TAKoMA PARK, Nd. May T.
At the annual election held last
night at the fire house, three mem
bers of the council were elected and
the proposal to pay the mayor a
salary of $1,000 and $500 for each
of the councilmen was rejected.
The candidates for councilmen
were John r. Adams, H. Edison
Rogers, Marion D. Finch, and Mar
tin Iverson. Iverson polled 400 of
the 5S7 votes cast, Rogers. 461:
Adams, 437. and Finch 289. The
compensation measure was defeated
by vote of S61 to 1877.
The council convened Immediately
after the result was announced ard
accepted the report which was
adopted on motion of Adams.
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
STUDIES ZON|NG
!, IN ARLINGTON

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va, May
7.-Declaring that much depends on
the plan of zoning, Allen ]. Saville,
recently appointed coming engineer
for Arlington county, said last night
at a meeting of the coming commits
sion at the courthouse, that a care
full study should be made of coming
ordinances adopted in other sections
to determine whether any would
apply to the county before any eff
fort is made on coming here.
Haste in this work is danger
ous," he said, ''I recommend that
the principle and purpose of Zoning
and the form of a coming ordinance
should first be studied by the COM
mission"
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
|DEN Titled
AS PASSER
FBO(3IJ5
MONEY

A former Washington po-
liceman is in the hands of his
former comrades today be-
cause he is accused of having
passed several $50 bills that
could not stand a strong
scrutiny.
Gather Washington Bayless, 80,
the former D. C. patrolman, is
said to have confessed to passing
three counterfeit bills. according to
En announcement made by police
headquarters. The police say that
he was identified by P. B. Mullen,
q clerk in an Alexandria clothing
store, as the man who gave him a
$50 bill in payment for suit. hat
and shirt. The clerk also identified,
police claim. the suit, hat, and shirt
worn by Bayless at the time of his
arrest as the ones that Bayless had
purchased.
The labels in the garments were
torn out or mutiliated, but the clerk
was positive in his Identification.
Companion Also Held
Bayless was taken into custody
with a companion. Harry Lee
Brooks, 26, who gave his address as
North Olmstead, Ohio, by Detective
Sergeant Frank Alligood. Bayless,
police say, implicated Brooks as
the man from whom he received the
green"
Both Bayless and his companion
were charged today with passing
counterfeit money and turned over
to the Secret Service.
Brooks was questioned far into
the night and is said to have ad-
mitted that he had given the
counterfeit to Bayless and that he
had cache of the worthless paper
hidden in Washington. Detective
Alligood and Department OF Justice
Agent Jack @. Slye who police
called into the case, are investigat-
ing further.
They will endeavor to locate the
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
Cherrydale, Va, Man, 81,
Held on Check Charge

Approximately $3.50 is alleged by
police to have been fraudently OBJ
tained by Henry E. McCabe, 81,
arrested today at his home in
Cherrydale, Va, and returned here.
Five charges OF passing bad
checks were placed against the
man by Ira Keck and B. W. Thomp-
son, headquarters detectives.
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
CHIROPRACTORS MEET

The Washington City Chiroprac-
tors Association will hold special
meeting at the Grover Cleveland
Public School, Eighth and r Streets
Northwest, tonight at o'clock. DIR.
H. U. Bell, president of the organi-
zation, will preside
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
Forty Flee From Fire
In Apartment House

PETERSBURG. Va. May Fire
of undetermined origin yesterday
destroyed a two-story frame apart
ment house at Hopewell, which was
the abode OF some 40 or more men,
women and children, who succeeded
in making their escape.
The exact loss it is believed, will
be in excess of 500
The Washington times., 1929-05-07
N HIM
ILLEGALLY,
SENATE
TOLD
By international News Service

While intent on learning
whether Andrew W. Mellon
has served illegally as Secre-
tary of the Treasury, the
United States Senate itself
was guilty Of authorizing a
violation of law, it was learned
today, when it directed a
clerk to administer the sena-
torial oath Of office to Sena-
tor Henrik Shipstead (F-L)
of Minnesota in a Baltimore
hospital.
The Senate's action acquired con-
siderable Importance since it per-
mitted Shipstead to pair" upon the
export debenture plan of farm re-
lief, which may be adopted or re-
jected by a single vote. AS a re-
suit, the Senate's legal authorities
were deeply concerned and an issue
may be made of Shipstead's oath
before the farm vote is taken.
Provisions Of Law
Under a statute, enacted by the
first Congress-, it was provided that
the senatorial oath should be ad-
ministered by the Vice President or
the presiding officer of the Senate.
Shipstead's oath was administered
by John C. Crockett, Chief Clerk Of
the Senate, who went to Baltimore
for that purpose under a resolution
passed by the Senate while only q
few Senators were present.
1t was the first Congress which
drafted this statute: Oath of Sena
tors: The cath of office shall be
administered by the President Of
the Senate to each Senator who
shall be elected, previous to his tax.
ing his seat"
Under a subsequent paragraph,
the law reads:
THE presiding officer, for the
time being, of the Senate of the
administer all oaths and affirma.
tiOns that are or may be required
by the Constitution, or by law, to
be taken by any Senator"
A further paragraph gave the
Chief Clerk power only to admins
ter oaths to 'tany officer of the
Senate or to any witness produced
before it.''
Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court once ruled, in
a case involving a lower Govern.
ment official, who was required to
take the same oath as Senator'S
take, that ''the act is not complied
with unless the oath be taken be-
fore an officer authorized to ad.
minister oaths by the laws of the
United States"