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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
WEISB0RD TELLS
OF STRIKE aims
Speaks at Big Meet of
GastOnia Workers

GASTONIA, N. c., (By Mail) -
This strike is the first shot in the
battle that will be heard round the
world" declared Albert Weisbord,
secretary of the National Textile
Workers Union, in stirring ad-
dress to thousands of textile strik-
ers gathered in the vacant lot back
of the strike committee headquar-
ters here. He continued:
"1t will prove as important in
Transforming the social and politi-
cal life of this country as the Civil
War itself. Whereas the Civil War
was between the slave holding men
OF the south who used the people
as cannon fodder and the manufac-
turing men of the north who used
the mill workers of the north as
cannon fodder, the present fight is
against those who exploit you in
this new plantation system of the
south.
"These same yellow aristocrats
have ground you down for CEN
turies. They went out to the farms
and mountains to offer you high
wages and good living conditions,
Continued on Page TWo)
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u. S. Gaze Cash to Form
Pdm-AmeyicQm +. OF [.
AS hmbewahst War Tool
Secret Files Show Gompers Aided Wilson Who
Furnished Treasury Funds

That Samuel Gompers worked di-
rectly with the war-making Presi-
dent Wilson to create the Pan Amer
lean Federation OF Labor, that Will
son advanced money from the
treasury of the United States gov
ernment for this imperialistic tool,
and that the Pan-American Fedora
ton of Labor was created in the
first instance as weapon of the
U. S. militarists, to secure allies
from among the Latin Americans
for the capitalist war on Germany,
are revelations in the book: Labor
and 1nternationalism," by Lewis L.
Lorwin, just published by the Mac
milan Co., of New York, under the
auspices of the Brookings Institute.
Lorwin intimates the story came
from secret files of the A. F. of
L. He says:
War Excited Gompers
with the outbreak of the World
War, the "A. F. of L., urged on by
Gompers, was aroused to take a
new and wider interest in the Pan
American situation" page 1922.
"Gompers pursued his Pan-Amer-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

lean plans. On January 81, 1917,
at a conference held in the offices
of the A. +. of L. in Washington,
a few delegates from the A. F. of
L., Porto Rico and Mexico (Yuca-
tam set up permanent committee
of which John Murray was made
secretary, and drafted manifesto
to all the Latin-American countries.
Used as War Makers.
"A Pan-American labor organiza-
ton, as Gompers saw it, could be
used to ccunteract anti-war and
Germanophile tendencies and to Gre
ate favorable opinion for the cause
of the Allies. With this in mind,
Gompers corresporded with the la
Dor leaders of Mexico and urged
them to push tho Pan-American
plan. .Gompers sent a labor mis-
sion composed of John Murray and
James Lord to talk matters over
with the Mexican leaders. At the
same time he persuaded President
Wilson that Pan-American labor
unity was an important war meas
ure which would help to educate
Continued on Page -Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
armed THUGS TO
take SOL DIERS'
JOB IN STRIK {
National Textile Union
Appeal to Troops
Chills Bosses
Pineville Mill Closes
N. Y. Brokers Think
Strike Will Win

GASTONIA, N. c., April IL
Hired gangsters, called Especial
deputy sheriffs" are being assem-
bled to take the places of Troop
of the 100 Cavalry and Company K
of the 120 Infantry, National Guard
of North Carolina, who are being
demobilized and sent home.
Since the appeal of the National
Textile Workers Union distributed
in leaflet form several days ago
to these soldiers not to shoot their
fellow workers on strike, and the
advice Albert Weisbord, national
secretary of the N. T. w. U. that
the strikers themselves go to the
soldiers and ask them if they want
to kill working women and children
for the bosses, the employers here
feel that the troops are mot reli-
able" for the murderous work they
may have for them.
Three units of the militia, the
Gastonia Howitzer Co. and two COM
panies from Charlotte, are still here.
Carl Reeve, southern representa-
tive of the International Labor De-
fense, stated today that the situa-
tion is very tense, as the sentiment
of the strikers is in favor of re-
sisting the eviction from company
houses which J. c.. Baugh. man
ager of the Loray mills has de-
cided upon.
The strikers live in company
houses, surrounded by American Le-
gion and other anti-labor clements"
said Reeve, "and there is little lib
eral sentiment in the community.
Support and defense for the strik-
ers must come from the working
class. Money for defense and re-
Continued on Page Taoo)
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international Relief, Room 221, 779
Broadway. The four strikers who
arrived from Gastonia, N. c., on
Wednesday, will participate in the
Tag Day drive, which is expected to
be the largest ever known in New
York.
Poor Clothing for Children.
Yesterday evening the Gastonis
strikers spoke at number of meet
ings in connection with the relief
campaign, at which they told of the
speed-up and wage cuts in the Caro-
lima mills. Cecil Burger, age It, de-
clared that many children of South
ern textile workers are unable TO go
to school because they have no suit
able clothing or shoes to wear.
After speaking for the strikers at
a relief meeting held at 16 w. 21st
st. yesterday, Harriet Silverman,
secretary of the w. l. R. declared,
addressing the strikers, eve will
help you give such a Knockout blow
as the textile bosses of the South
have never known before"
Shop Collections Today.
Special shop collections are to be
taken up today while tomorrow and
Sunday will be devoted to house to
house collections. Members of many
trade unions, including the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
and the Iron and Bronze Workers
Union have signified their intention
of participating actively in the tag
day drive. In addition to the centra
office at 79o Broadway, Room 221
branch relief stations are established
in various parts of the city. Tny
collection station for the Knitgood.
Textile Workers will be at 16 w
2lst st. on Saturday and Sunday
". |. R. Statement.
In statement issued yesterday
the w. l. r. stated, "The need OF
raising funds becomes more urgen
hourly"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
BASKY CLIQUE
PLANNED ATTACK
Prepared to Use Cops,
Courts, Press

The Daily Worker has learned
/ that the attack by the, armed gang
sters of Louis Basky, Cannon-Trot-
sky lieutenant, upon militant work.
ers last night, which resulted in the
stabbing of Matthew Holzbauer, and
the arrest on charges of feloneous
assault of James Lustig and Mich
olas Kish, was deliberately planned
for some time before the meeting.
The Basky clique expected that a
number of the workers who would
come to the meeting would protest
against his counter-revolutionary at
tacks upon the Soviet Union and the
Communist movement. He had his
thugs, armed with lead pipes, rubber
hose, ready for the first signs of
protest.
The plan was to lock the doros of
the meeting room as soon as few
Of those known as opposed to their
Continued en- Page Two)
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Great Soviet Novel Cement Will Be Published!

ENCOURAGING results in the Daily Worker Subscription
during this second week make possible the
sera of the famous Soviet novel; pcturng
life in the First Workers Republic IS today.
This novel; therefore, thousands
OF Daily Worker readers the repy
to the malicious flood CAPITALIST
press.
Feodor Vasievich Gadkov the author Cement" also
written THE Gulf THE Wolves" "The Fire." "The
Deadwood all of which have already made impression
the Soviet Union Originally written language
Cement had to be carefully English language
by A. s. Arthur and Charles Ashleigh This big in
itself for the book contains 81 sized
publication made by
Publishers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

1t has not yet been decided day serial pubc
t,cn VIII begn Announcement will be made time
that will be possible new on
our mailing lists of workers who ought
In the meantime the Subscription should be accelerated
in every section of the naon City the newsstand sales
should be increased Encouraging come in
from Chicago and Philadelphia Other sboud
also let know what they doing Daily Worker Subsc
ton Drive forward with the preparations May Day the
Membership Drive of the Communist struggle to bud
the left wing industrial unicns with
the growing for the Unity Conference in
Cleveland Ohio June 1t grows develops out the mass
activities of the whole working class. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
Bosses Spread
Lies About Mil
Strike Leaders

CHARLOTTE, N. C. IRA).-As
the strike of textile workers spreads
through the Carolinas, mill owners
use every possible means, secret as
well as open, to break it. In an eff
fort to create distrust of strike lead
ers among the rank and file work
ers, mill masters employed the
American Vigilant Intelligence Fed
Grafton of Chicago, open-shop infor-
nation bureau for anti-union bosses,
to conduct an investigation" of
Fred E. Beal and George Pershing.
A report on the two labor organ
izers as dangerous reds" was then
wired to the Southern Textile Bull
letin, a journal owned and published
by David Clark. This VIGOROUSLY
bitter spokesman for mill owners
against the federal child labor law
and all other protective legislation
ever proposed in southern states,
was responsible for breaking the
strike of Carolina textile workers
in 1922. Later he formed a fake
organization, called the Farmers
States Rights League, to fight the
child labor movement. The money
for this campaign was contributed
by southern cotton mill owners who
sent out propaganda in the name of
farmers"
Whispering Campaign
The Charlotte News, capitalist
paper, now frankly admits that the
new phase of the fight to break the
strike has its full force directed to-
ward creating distrust of Beal and
Pershing in the minds of the strik-
ers." Calling it "word- f-mouth
propaganda activity, apparently in
spired by the mill management" the
News explains that deliberate
whispering campaign against the
organizers was circulated through
Continued on Page Tivo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
NEEDLE WORKERS
PICKET WITH $500
CAFETERIA men
Bosses, Alarmed as the
Strike Spreads, Call
Police Aid
Jewish Day Aids Bosses
Flight to VIM; 1000
Pack Cafeteria Meet

Over $500 workers, including
more than 500 workers in the needle
trades, took part yesterday at noon
in one of the largest mass demon
strations during the strike of the
cafeteria workers in New York's
garment section.
Knock Picket Unconscious.
Many of the strikers were badly
beaten up by police and bosses
thugs during the day. The most
seriously injured of the victims Of
the police was Albert Rescigne, OF
1851 First Ave-, who was knocked
unconscious by Patrolman Selig Of
the Thirtieth st. station, while
picketing in front Of the Monroe
Cafeteria, on 35th st. Rescigne hao
only just left Bellevue Hospital,
where he had been under treatment
since beating by police while he
was picketing Monday.
Rescigne was dragged across the
street to the hallway near the
finer Food Cafeteria, and there
kicked and knocked into uncon.
sciousness. So badly was the work
er beaten that he required hospital
treatment, and then was removed to
the Thirtieth st. station, and booked
on a charge of disorderly conduct.
He was paroled in custody of
Jacques Buitenkamp, the Cafeteria
Workers Union lawyer, until April
13.
Four new cafeterias were brought
out on strike yesterday. Picketing
continued thruout the day, the noon
hour mass picketing being the high
spot. A riot squad was called out
during this demonstration.
There were nine arrests of pickets
during the day. Four of the pickets
arrested were sentenced to two days.
They are James Alphonse, of "a
Cooper St.; Alex Gagi, of 1415 Bry-
ant Ave., Bronx; Alex Witzner of
96 Avenue st. John, Brooklyn, and
George Taylor, 268 E. oath st. Five
others arrested were discharged.
A.F.L. Misleader, DAY" Aid Bosses.
Stung by the success of the Cafe
terra Workers Union in bringing
out such a large proportion of the
cafeterias in the garment district
and alarmed by the certainty of the
strike spreading thruout the city,
the cafeteria bosses, thru the Res
taurant Owners Association, yes
terday resorted to the use of two of
their chief weapons, the officials of
the reactionary officials of the A.
F. of L. Walters Union, Local /,
and the "Jewish Day." a Yiddish
daily which has been posing as "non-
partisan" in the food workers strike.
Nearly 1000 strikers of the Ho-
tel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Work
ers' Union of the Amalgamated Food
Workers followed the chorus of
Solidarity Forever" as strikers,
just arrived from the picket lines
in the garment section in which the
union is concentrating it's strike, led
the picket line chorus as they march
ed through Irving Plaza Hall, 18th
st. and Irving Pl., last night.
Irving Rosenberg, recently en-
ployed by the Traffic Cafeteria, 38th
st. and Sixth Ave-, and Albert Ro-
signere, bus boy-still suffering
from a nearly fatal attack by strike
breaking thugs, were among the
rank and file members who express
ed the determination of the union to
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
SHOWS TEXTILE \
FAKERS Offer
AID TO BOSSES
A. F. of L. Appeals
Against Relief for
Strikers
Threats Against Beal
Says Left Wing Union
to Fight Till Victory

=
Denouncing the American Fedora
tion of Labor appeal to workers to
starve the Carolina textile strikers
into submission, and the attempt of
the United Textile Workers, an A.
F. L. organization, to assist the em-
ployers there and lynch the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union or
ganizers, the N. T. w. U. yesterday
issued a statement through Albert
Weisbord, national secretary. which
reiterated, the unions intention to
win the strike and organize the 300,-
900 southern textile workers.
The statement refers to the in
spired question of a Committee of
H." supporters of the bosses and of
the A. F. of L., which talks of "run-
ming Beal out of town." Beal is the
N. 7. w. U. organizer in Gastonia.
Weisbords Statement.
Weisbord's statement in full is as
follows:
--latest reports show that the
American Federation of Labor
union, the United Textile Workers
Union of America, is frantically aid
ing the mill owners Of tho South in 3
their efforts to break the textile
strike and to lynch our organizers.
The local newspapers carry the fol-
lowing QUESTIONABLE signed by a
Committee of Twelve:
"(D If we run Beal (organ-
izer of the National Textile Work
ers' Union) and his crowd out of
town, will you give your approval
to local unions Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor?
"'(2) If not, why?
"(3) Are you sincere in your
boost of the American Federation
of Labor.
Bosses Like Questions.
"These questions have been given
the greatest publicity by the local
press, and are greeted with heartiest
approval. We have the added fact
that the American Federation of
Labor has issued an appeal against
anyone contributing for the relief of
the strikers, and the further fact
that the executive committee of the
United Textile Workers has issued
al official stat, n2nt denouncing the
union which has the support of the
workers, the National Textile Work
ers' Union of America.
everywhere in the South the Klu
Klux Klan, the American Legion,
the employers on the one hand
threaten to lynch our organizers,
and on the other hand boost the
United Textile Workers of America,
and it is plain that the American
Federation of Labor has openly
Joined hands with the worst forces
of reaction in order to crash this
movement now growing in the
South.
Union Will Stick.
"The National Textile Workers
Union means to stay in North Caro-
lima and the South. The present sit
uation is only the opening gun in
the fight to organize the 100000
textile slaves in the South. Already
there is some talk of displacing the
60-hour week with 55 hours.
GAS the fight grows sharper the
employers will soon recognize that
the workers know there is such a
thing as an S-hour day and that
even the 40-hour week is not beyond
the reach of immediate realization.
Everywhere the working class is
greeting the southern strikers with
enthusiasm ard will support them to
the end. We shall not betray the
trust which the working class has
placed in US, but will fight on until
victory is ours"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
IMPERIALIsTS LUNCH

PARIS, April 10.-Frank b. Kel-
logg, former secretary of state, had
lunch today with Owen D. Young
and General John J. Pershing. Aft,
erwards Kellogg visited the othe,
American delegates to the repg
tions conference. s.x.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
zARITSKY THUGS
ATTACK PICKETS
19 Millinery Workers
Arrested; $500 Bail

Thugs from the scab Local "a of
the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery
Workers Union yesterday beat up
eighteen strikers belonging to Local
As, Millinery Handworkers Union,
picketing at the shop of S. Morrison,
640 Broadway, chased them into the
nearby hallway of the building in
which are located both the offices
of the scab local and the strikers
Local 43, and when they ran down
the hallway to the Local AZ office
followed them, broke in the office
and beat them up some more there,
then beat up Frieda Fraidias, or
ganizer of Local 43, in her own of
flee.
Arrest Strikers.
After this police arrived and ar
rested all of the Local 43 pickets,
and none of the scabs from Local "a
or their gangsters. The 19 arrested
girls were taken to the Mercer st.
station, where they were all held on
$500 bail, which was furnished. They
will appear in court today.
Max Goodman, organizer of Local
"a, was seen driving away from his
office with one of the policemen.
About IS men took part in the beat
ing of the girl pickets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
Courts Work with Landlords
in Keeping Rents High for
Negro Workers in Harlem
Is Tenants IN One House Raised About
$40 Following a Recent Raise
By SOL AUERBACH

(Th IS the fifth article IN ruanno crclsp,
M the Daily Worker exposing the toeTabe housing conditions in
Hartem Previous articles told of "dube apartnent Sveuh
Avenue tenement and of euato apartments Eighk AVeuue
The present article describes further rcnasng tactics of the
Iandords)
"
WE WON'T do anything to this apartment
raise said the landlord to Mrs Williams who lives in
fve-sory tenement at 72 West 133rd Street.
Mrs Williams has lived there years. the time she
first moved in she has been raised the year and now
pays 42 for the fvercom with another
family,
The raises toned down because Mrs Williams is
1ghter Every time he wanted to her she would
court and tight the raise This court fight is effective
see for yourselves
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
Daily Agents Discuss
May | Campaign Today

Daily Worker agents of Section 3,
Communist Party, will discuss the
May Day Campaign at 6;l5 p. m. to-
day, 101 w. 9th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

The prOletnriaD movement is
the sclf-c Onscf ms. Independent
movement OF the immense major
ity.-Karl Marx Communist Mani
fcsto).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

Of au fie classes that stand face
to fnce with t-,e bOurgC oisie today
the prO-etariat alone is n really revo-
lutfonnry cIass.-Karl Marx tCOm-
munist ManifcstOD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

New York workers will collect funds today tomorrow and Sunday
the 5000 textile workers of North Carolina and South Carolina the
relief drive arranged by the York Local of the Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
TEXTILE RELIEF TAG DAY OPENS TODAY
BULLETIN.

Needle Trades Workers Industrial
yesterday called the shop oelec
today
tanned at union headquarters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
Court and Landlord.

In the first place it expensive. went to court
she had employ lawyer and pay $25 not help The
raise anyhow
That the usual
will to court he will ask for exobant Judge will
usually him little
way the judge makes pretense helping tenant
When the struck if the raise
seems exobant and the landlord In
the judge and will do him good rn
The tenant, of course, is left n the cold.
There getting The the land
lords the legislature petty Harlem poi
ians-both Negro and white-dc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
Birds Of a Feather.

When the raise is granted simply and the worker
living the tenement his
street with his family and all his belongings.
That called dspoession Rent dispossesson go
together Landlords courts legislatures
all go together.
the tenants OF Harlem want fight rent and
then they will have fight the the
landlords.
The way to do this is to together To together
organization will
petty politician organization the voice of the tenants who
are workers is the Harlem Tenants League.
Mrs. Williams knows a fighting member of this
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
Falling Ceiling.

MIS- WILLIAMS which
" repaired since 1924 We will of
ound IN the other have already visited
idea of what this "hgher class" apartment is
Nearly the ceiling falls
ing fell upon Mrs Williams In
herself Once when the landlord
his expense the job badly dcn get
The trouble with the dumbwaiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
Ashes on Kitchen Table.

Its just great when sitting your eating
ashes and all sorts of stuff down shaway
the table you're eating FROM" Mrs Williams
Eight everything
this tenement The sound of bell lucky
to find letters left for him n mabox
And lots of times ALL The water sup
ply is w If the suddenly decides fire
then all just of luck"
There repeating. What tenc-
Continued Page
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize tbe Unorganized
For The 4O-Hour Week
For Labor Party
New Britain herald., 1929-10-18
Brewster Says New England Farm
 Relief Refused As West Prospers

Watervile, Me, Oct. IS P-De- claring that while Uncle Sam is loading a Christmas table with 5000, 0,000,000 for the western farmer New England finds itself denied a seat" former Gov. Ralph o. Brew ster speaking. at the opening forum at Colby college today said, and call ed upon New England to make it's voice "heard in no uncertain tones to demand for this section the re- cognition of the contribution that is rightfully ours.'
 Tt would seem that New England has endured as much of subsidized competition as is it's rightful share, , the former governor said, in refer ring to the confining of government al aid to cooperative marketing or ganizations of farmers of which New England has almost none.
 This policy may be well adapted
New Britain herald., 1929-10-18
Former Depended on Mclean But "Now We Can Handle it Here in Our Ofice,"' Industry Chief Wrote to Agent at Capital.
Very Few Will Ever Know of Splendid Work You Are Doing'- '-Con- necticut Man Chilled by lnquisitors at Lobby h. vestigation Today.

Washington, Oct. IS P= Chairman Caraway of the sen- ate lobby committee said to- day he had no intention of ask ing for prosecution in connect ton with any possible violation of law which might be involved through the employment by Senator Bingham, republican, of an official of the Connecticut ManufaCturers' association, to advise him on tariff matters.
 Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, said he thought there was a question of violation of law involved. He added that without passing judgment he believed this subject would be a matter for committee consid- eration. The committee at an executive meeting considered employment of counsel and in- vestigators but this decision was withheld.