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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

to rent it, having been intimidated
by the police.
Wilkes Barre Workers Organizations
Helping!
A conference at which 81 workers
organizations were represented, de-
manded the immediate and uncondi-
tional release of the % workers of
Gastonia.
This conference organized tag
days, mass meetings of protest in
the Anthracite, elected an executive
of nine members to be in charge of
carrying out the Gastonia campaign,
and decided to popularize the La
Dor Defender.
st. Paul, MINI. Active.
A general membership meeting of
all I. L. D. members and sympathiz-
ers was held Wednesday evening,
Aug. %, at 435 Rice St., in Com
monwealth hall, when the workers
were modified for increased Caste
MIA activities.
Conferences in Pittsburgh District.
The various activities of the Pitts
burgh district, Johnstown, East
Pittsburgh, ETC., are holding confer
ences, mobilizing workers to hold
many activities to raise funds for
Gastonia house to house collections,
shop and factory gate collections
are being held throughout the en-
tire steel and bituminous mine sec
ton here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
DELEGATES FILL
cleveland HALL
FOR CONFERENCE
From Basic Industries,
Militant and Eager

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for the new organization by the
Trade Union Educational League.
The automobile workers and the
southern workers are especially urg-
ing intensified work in their dis
tricts as the first job of the rev
trade union center.
eve are here to learn how to
run our Charlotte conference" the
father of X. o. Byers, one Of the
Gastonia defendants, said.
eve haven't had much experience
in unions like lots of other dele
gates" Byers continued, land so I
expect we are going to learn twice
as much here"
Another hall has been chartered
to care for the big overflow ex-
pected at the mass meeting tonight,
where Foster, tombstone, and ru-
merous other delegates will speak.
Delegates in the convention hall
crowd the main floor of the huge
auditorium and the balcony is I'M
able to hold all the visitors who
crowd the corridors and the streets
outside.
Credentials registered so far in
dictate that the great majority Of
delegates come from the basic In
dustries and are sent by shop COM
mittees or unorganized workers.
With this as basis for the con-
veEtion all are extremely optimistic
about the future struggle in Amer
lea under the militant leadership of
the new trade union center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
PROSECUTION IN
SPECIAL D RIVE
TO KILL LEADERS
Questions Show Aim Is
to Crush Unionism
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
number of veniremen excused by the
state because they said they do not
believe sixteen men should be sent
to the electric chair on circum-
stantial evidence.
In fact, the prosecution used this
to save their limited number of per-
emptory challenges, asking every
venireman whether he believes in
capital punishment on circumstantial
evidence. Almost every farmer and
worker answered mo"
S. J. Crane, textile manufacturer,
declared, 81 am positive that Beal
is guilty, but / will disabuse my
mind of this prejudice and give him
and the others a fair trial. Many
business men are frank in admitting
their prejudice because they want to
avoid being locked up in the jury
for a trial which may last for a
month and would interfere with
their business.
Two prominent men of the local
bar who have been sitting in the
court room were heard to remark
today, "All of the damned Reds arc
surely guilty, but whether they are
guilty or not, they ought to be hung
up by their toes and their lawyers
with them"
Second Nenire Present.
The entire venire of 200 mer
drawn for the jury service was ex-
hausted today, with only six jurors
selected, and 900 additional venire-
men reported this afternoon for ex-
animation. The jurors picked so far
are C. W. Martin, j. C. Campbell
J. w. Hicks, S. L. Caldwell Zet
Morris and ]. D. McCay.
BY noon today, IA admitted they
thought one or more of the defend
ants are not guilty and fifty said
they had not made up their minds
Out of these so, only the six men
toned above were acceptable to both
defense and prosecution for jury
service to render a verdict on the
three charges of murder, conspiracy
and "secret assault with deadly
weapons with intent to commit MUIR
der" against the 16 members of the
National Textile Workers Union
whose crime was leading the Loray
mill workers in a struggle against
the stretch-out (speed-up) system
and starvation wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

lotte News and Observer. Cues
lions by defense:
Q.-Would you be prejudiced
against the defendants if it was
brought in the evidence that some
of them came from New York State :?
Al guess not.
Q.-Have you formed or expressed
an opinion as to the guilt or limo
cence Of any or all of these defend
ants?
A.-Why, yes, some of them.
Which?
A.--The leader, Beal.
The court clerk sings out before
juror is accepted by the defense.
Juror look upon the prisoners;
prisoners look upon the juror. Do
you like him?" Except on three
occasions, Johnson D. Mccall, for
the defense, replied; "No!"
When court closed at $50 on
Wednesday three jurors had been
chosen out of over 80 examined
These were; S. L. Caldwell, former,
Huntersville; J. L. Mccoy, steel
worker, of Charlotte; Eb. Morris,
,Ir., farmer, near Matthews.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
zI0NISTS BREAK
Up AIR Meeting
Communist Assaulted
By Jewish FascistS

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head. However, the odds were too
great and Baum was forced to the
ground where he was kicked and
stepped upon by the Jewish fascists.
Mob Was Organized.
AS soon as A. Shapiro, who was
chairman of the meeting started to
speak the well organized group of
fascists started to shout and yell,
stating that no Communist meeting
would be allowed on that corner.
They denounced the Daily Worker
and the Jewish Daily Freiheit.
When Baum started to speak, the
mob became more menacing. They
said that if the meeting was not
ended at once, they would break it
up. When Baum replied that the
Communist Party had no intention
Of taking orders from Zionists, one
Of the fascists stated that he was
a property owner in that section and
would see to it that no meetings
would be held. Most of the mob
consisted of business men ard sup
porters of the socialist party.
Another Meeting Thursday.
1t was announced that another
meeting will be held at the same
corner next Thursday night at which
workers guard will be on hand to
protect the speakers from the Jew
ish fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

The prisoners now on trial at
Charlotte have been transferred
from the CASTOR County Jail to
the Mecklinburg County Jail, Char
l0tter, n. c. They are anxious to
receive letters from their friends
at this new address, where they
will be held for what may be
very lengthy trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
by the state"

GAcuSeu Dy Ine SLaIe.
L. B. Hubbard, a farmer, is
called. Brother in a cotton mill
and son in a wooden mill. "Is your
nephew Tom Hubbard, the one that
was in the car strike about six
years ago or thereabouts? Yes.
Excused by the state"
W. G. Stiegal, an aged farmer.
thinks that fellow Beal is guilty.
Major Bulwinkle wants this man
on the jury Challenged by the de-
tense.
C. G. Long works for the Stand
ard Oil Company; a credit clerk.
"Are you prejudiced against labor
unions" asks defense council. Eyes,
against the more radical kind, like
the one that came down here and
caused all the trouble"
J. C. Reiss is an old, gaunt, work
ridden farmer, with thin, straggly
black moustache. Read nothing
about the case. Didn't know the
chief was killed. No prejudice
against labor unions. Loray law
yers don't want this man.
Oscar L. Mcclellan is constant
reader" of the Charlotte News and
the Charlotte Observer. Gentle,
home-loving married man who is a
claim agent for the Model c. Laun-
dry. Been there six years, good
loyal worker. "Yea, some of 'em
air guilty" Challenged by defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Spanish workers Art Exposition.

The Spanish Workers Center is
holding an exhibition of Porto Rican,
Mexican and Central American pro-
letarian art, in the form of pictures,
cartoons. etc, at its club rooms. 26
w. 115th ST., all this week. On the
final evening of the exposition, Sat
urday, Aug. 81, group of Porto
music festival. All workers welcome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
NFraternal Organizations


The Scandinavian Workers Clubs
of Brooklyn and New York are ar
ranging an outing by bus to the big
summer festival in Bridgeport, Conn,
which the scandinavian Workers
Club there is holding on sunday
Sept. /. Every worker who wishes
to go along should send his name and
address to Bert Carlson, LEI E. 99th
St, New York. All welcome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

The Union City international
Branch will give it's annual picnic
for the benefit of the Daily Worker
and II Lavoratore tomorrow, Sept. ],
at Zeman's Park. Hackensack Plank
Road, North Bergen, n ]. Admis
sion So cents. Directions: Hudson
Tube to Journal Square, then bus
to 3Sth St; or 42nd st, ferry to Wee
hawken, then Union City car to 3Sth
Street
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Call For Volunteers
To Aid in Office
Of Workers School

Workers who have free time,
either during the day or in the
evening, are requested to volunteer
at the office of the Workers School,
Room /, 9Th floor, 26 Union Square,
for office work in connection with
registration, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

John w. Fox is a prosperous
looking business man. Head of the
trust department in the American
Trust Company in Charlotte. Very
eager to serve on this jury. Has
read all the mill owners propaganda
against the defendants, but has enc
opinion about it," Challenged by
the defense.
Manville-Jenckes' high priced law
yers didn't want T. C. Marghew, for
he has been a textile worker for Ia
years and thought that workers had
right not only to organize into
unions, but to shoot in self defense
when company thugs invade the tent
| colony of strikers.
The Estate" thought they'd take
chance on w. P. Sloan, president
of the Sloan Building Supply Co
Small individual, black suit and eel
luloid collar. "Some of 'em are gull
ty," he thought. "I'm sure ! can
give 'em a fair trial accordin' to
the evidence, your honor" Chal-
lenged by defense.
"They won't take this one," says
my neighbor, barber in Charlotte
Looks too much like the defen-
dants." The prospective juror was
farmer in North Charlotte "Dc
you own your own land?" No, he
doesn't. No, the state doesn't want
this man. They want the defen-
dants to get a "fair" trial.
Here's for a jury of your peers
alright. F. H. Kimball has been g
merchant in Charlotte for the past
27 years. Sure he can listen to the
evidence without prejudice. Chal
lenged by the defense.
A cabinet worker is unsafe OF
the jury, Manville-Jenckes lawyer.
feel. F. c. Stewart works for War
rem and Co. Its fifteen years now
Challenged by the state.
Have you formed or expressed
an opinion as to the innocence OF
these defendants ?" J. T. Nevins, a
textile machinist, is asked. eyes
| think they're not guilty" Major
Bulwinkle scowls. Excused by the
state"
The defense takes no chances on
insurance agents, but neither does
the prosecution, for that matter
H. B. Mason is an agent for the
Prudential Life Insurance Co.-for
the past II years now. He is ques-
toned by the state:
Q.-Do you deal with ordinary
life insurance-or, also industrial
insurance
A.-Both.
Q.-Are any of your customers
policyholders-workers in the mills
A.-Both, sir.
Q.-Have you formed or expressed
any opinion as to the guilt of these
defendants, or any of them?
Ayes, some of them must be
guilty.
Thus the defense is forced to use
up another of its 1913 peremptory
challenges.
E. B. rLatta would give Fred Beal
and the other workers a fair trial,
that's a cinch. Son of former own
er of Charlotte street railway sys-
tenn. The lad, now about 40, is in
the real estate business.
Q.-Are you prejudiced against
labor organ-a-Zations?
A.-Not as a whole; l am against
some of them, though.
Mr.. Latta's services are dispensed
with by the lawyers for the de-
tense.
The state smiles pleasantly upon
the person of j. C. Blake, travel
ing salesman. Frail, dark, horn.
trimmed glasses. Has read the Char
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Office workers Dance

The office Workers Union win give
its first Fall dance on Saturday eve
ming, Sept. IA, at the Hecksher Foun-
dalton Roof Garden, 1 E, 104th St
Admission so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Shoe Workers PICNIC.

The Independent Shoe Workers I'm
ion has arranged picnic for Sunday,
Sept. /, at Harmony Park, Grasmere,
S I. Good program; well known
speakers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

The annual picnic of the Freiheit
Singing Society will be held on Sun
day, Sept. 8, at Pleasant Bay Park,
Bronx. The Freiheit chorus, ed by
Jacob Schaefer, will appear in new
program of songs and instrumental
music. John c. Smiths Negro jazz
| band Will provide music for dancing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

All members and sympathisers can
ton campaign, Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, (Aug. 81, Sept. l and y at
1874 Watkins St, Brooklyn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Newark Gastonin Meet Tonight.

The Gastonia Strike Defense Con-
ference and the L L. D. of Newark
call upon all workers to attend a
mass meeting tonight, 500 p. m, at
Military Park to protest against the
Gastonia frameup. Speakers: Albert
Weisbord, Gastonia strikers. Chair
man, Frank Fischer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

The w. I. r. store. 41S Brook Ave.
needs volunteer help, including a
chauffeur, at once. Workers unem-
ployed. on vacation or with spare
time should phone Louis Baum. man
ager, Mott Haven 1854 between S. a.
m. and I p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
SIDELICHTS ON
n The TRIAL OF
MILL WORKERS
Bankers, Brokers and
Clerks Want to Convict

Continued from Page One)
"Do any of your kin work in
manufacturing plant?" he asks
third.
"EYc11sad NV tho c+a+a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-07
SCHOOL OFFICIALS
HEARD ON BUDGET
Appear Before Subcommittee
on D. c. Appropriations
of House.

Headed by DR.. Charles F.. Carusi,
president Of the Board of Education,
and DR.. Frank W. Ballou, superintend-
ent, District school officials went to the
Capitol this morning to appear in the
hearings on the 1880 school budget
before the subcommittee on District
appropriations of the House.
The school officials will seek the
appropriation of $11,593,580, which the
Bureau of the Budget allowed to be sent
original estimates of $l3,972,049
executive session to discuss the 1880
budget, the members Of Congress may
question the school officials on their
second five-year school building
program, in which they are seeking
authorization for appropriations totaling
$5,750,000 over the next five years for
buildings and grounds. With the I'M
finished portion of the first five-year
program, the proposed bill will constitute
virtually a second building program of
$10,750, 900.
Beside DR.. Carusi and DR.. Ballou, the
school officials who are attending the
hearings today are: Stephen E. Kramer,
first assistant superintendent in charge
of high schools of divisions 1-9; Robert
L. Haycock, assistant superintendent in
charge of elementary schools; G. c.
Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent
in charge of divisions 1913, and Mai.
r. O. Wilmarth, assistant Superintend-
ent in charge of business affairs. The
hearings probably will continue for
three days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-07
MRS. D. S. GORDON
CALLED BY DEATH
Wife of Gen. Gordon, Retired,
Was Relative of Presi-
dent Lincoln.

Mrs. Bell Vedder Gordon, wife of
Brig. Gen David 8. Gordon, retired,
and mother of Robert v. Fleming,
president OF Riggs National Bank, died
at her home. 1408 Massachusetts
avenue, last night after an illness of
several months. She had resided at
the Massachusetts avenue address for
the past % years.
Mrs. Gordon, who would have been
70 years old January II, was for many
years prominent in social circles in the
District, and had long been active in
plilanthropic and church work. She
came to this city when young child
with her father, Col Nicholas Vedder.
paymc ster OF the Federal Army, under
Gen. Sherman on the march through
Georgia.
She was first married to the late
Col. Robert I. Fleming, for many years
prominent real estate operator here.
Col. Fleming served in the Confederate
Army under Gems. LongStreet and
Pickett, rising from the grade of
private to brevet major and serving in IS
major engagements, including the
Battle Of Gettysburg.
Mrs. Gordon was married to Gen.
Gordon in January, 1912, following the
death Of her first husband.
She was born on Hanks Farm.
near Springfield, Ill. Her mother
was Mrs. Indiana Hanks We'd
der, a cousin of Nancy Hanks, mother
of Abraham Lincoln She also was a
cousin Of Elihu Vedder, world-famous
artist.
Besides her husband, Gen. Gordon,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-07

electrical industry, in spite of the ex-
trene difficulty with which it can be
shaped or machined. 1t is composed of
tine mica particles and lead borate, the
latter acting as bond for the mica.
Ordinary tool materials are worn away
at once on mycalex, SO quickly that it
would be difficult to give cumulative
data on their performance. The effect
and noise produced bring to ones mind
picture Of an attempt to machine a
grinding wheel. Carboloy tools, on the
other hand, are capable of machining
mycalex commercially, and we have
observed tools cutting over 1000 feet
linearly before losing their edge.
Rubber DuIIs Steel Edge.
Materials like bakelite and hard
rubber are very abrasive when ma
operators showed me that, even though
he had made his steel tool as hard as
fire and water could make it, the cut
ting edge was rounded off very soon on
hard rubber. Carboloy tools keep their
edge very well on hard rubber.
"Bakelite offers somewhat similar
problems and, on account of the neces-
sity of machining bakelite at high
speed, diamonds have been commonly
used. This was the only TOOL material
which had been found to stand up at
the speeds used, but the diamonds pos
seSsed one disadvantage, which was
overcome by substituting carboloy. If
the part machined contained a metal
insert, a special operation was required
to recess this part below the cut Of the
diamond, for If the diamond hits the
metal at top speed it breaks off at once.
Here the carboloy tool necessitates no
such special operation, for it cuts both
bakelite and the metal insert.
1.-THE ingredients of carboloy and the
process of making it are expensive, so
that we may safely say that carboloy
will cost more than high-speed steel;
but we have found by an extended
study Of many fields that the improved
performance of carboloy tools more
than offsets the great cost Of the ma
terial"
An increase up to 800 per cent in the
speed of working brass is claimed for
the new alloy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-07
FAMILY FOUND DEAD.
Parents, Two Children and One
Other Believed Gas Victims.

FRESNO. Calf, January z LR.-
Mr.. and Mrs. William Brooks, their two
small children and Marvin Westover,
brother of Mrs. Brooks, were found
dead in the Brooks home here late
yesterday, where they died some time
Saturday night, evidently victims of
escaping gas from a heating stove
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-07
ONLY DRY" HEADS
FORD. c. ARE URGED
More Stringent Enforcement
Law Here Also Asked at
Mass Meeting.

Advocating stringent enforcement Of
the prohibition law, friends OF the
eighteenth amendment held a mass
meeting yesterday afternoon IN the
auditorium of the First Congregational
Church, under auspices of the National
United Committee for Law Enforce
ment, and urged President-elect Her
bert Hoover Ito appoint only known
dry men as District Commissioners, who
will direct the police administration of
the Capital City"
In resolutions adopted by the meet
ing, which was attended by about 500
persons, Congress was asked for "a
more stringent enforcement law for the
District of Columbia, and its strict en-
focement, that Washington, under Fed
eral authority, may become q beacon
light to the Nation" A prohibition
March was promised
Dry Celebration Planned.
An invitation was issued to Washing
ton to unite next Sunday with the dry
forces in celebration of the ninth ami
verSary of the eighteenth amendment.
This mass melting, to be held at the
Masonic Temple Auditorium, will be adj
dressed by Clifford Pinchot, former Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, who will discuss
the Mills prize enforcement plan.
Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, N.
Y, chairman of the National United
Committee for Law Enforcement. in
announcing that yesterdays meeting
inaugurates the Washington campaign
for law enforcement that will continue
until the Inauguration, told the assem-
bly,:
1--WE are not asking for transfer Of
the Prohibition Bureau from one de-
partment to another; we are not die
tating or advising appointments to Fed
eral departments: we seek no favors, We
have no candidates, we want no emolu-
ments Of office, we make no claims to
which the Constitution does not entitle
us, but, fondly do we hope and fervent-
~ do we pray that this scourge of liquor
lawlessness shall pass away in the early
months of the incoming administration,
beginning at Washington as Jesus told
His disciples to begin at Jerusalem.
Looking back over the eight years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-07
D. c. LOSES APPEAL
|NLAMONT ST. TILT
Robb Declares Municipality
Should Repay Owners
Assessment.

The plea Of the statute Of limitations,
interposed by the District of Columbia
to defeat the repayment Of $14,201.26
to property owners in the vicinity OF
Nineteenth and Lamont streets, which
had been paid in 1913 as special
assessment for extension Of Lamont
street west from Nineteenth street,
proved unavailing today when the Dis
trict Court of Appeals, in an opinion
by Justice Charles H. Robb, affirmed
the action of the Municipal Court in
granting a judgment against the mu-
nicipality. While the case at bar was
for only 5000, which had been assessed
against the property of Georgiana
Thompson, the decision is expected to
benefit all other owners affected, who
shall bring suit before January %.
The court, in its opinion, found that
it was not until January 20, 1925, that
the District made its first definite state
ment of its purpose not to open the
street, although it had collected the
assessments in 1913. This statement
was contained in letter from the Dis
trict auditor to the plaintiff, who has
asked for refund. The three-year
term of the statute does not expire
until January %. 1929.
The responsibility of the District Is
not different from that of a private
citizen, and if it has collected money
for opening the street, the court points
out, and has not opened the street
within a reasonable time, it is under a
legal obligation to make restitution.
The court cites with approval de-
cision against the city of st. Paul fol-
lowing the abandonment Of street
There, were the court said: 'The city
stands in the position Of holding In its
treasury money collected which it has
no right in equity. good conscience and
common honesty to retain, because the
purpose for which it was collected has
been abandoned. In such circum-
stances no statute is required to impose
upon the city legal obligation to make
restitution. An action lies as at COM
mon law for money had and received"