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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
GASTONIA (By MaiD.-I am q
young striker of the Loray mill
(Manville-Jenckes Coz of Gastonia
We came out on strike April 1 and
comrades, we were forced to strike
on account of the rotten conditions
of the mill.
We worked from IL to Ia hours
day in the plant, with all the win
dows and doors closed, with the dust
and lint so thick that you could
hardly breathe.
From a. m. to p. m. we shaved
like dogs; that wasn't all, either;
we were speeded up until we would
have to run to keep the bosses from
cussing and firing us; we were do
ing twice as much work as before
the speed-up. Worst Of all, our
wages were cut in half.
The second day we were out the
international Labor Defense had to
go to taking US out of Jail and also
had to begin feeding US. The bosses
tried to bar us off the streets, but
they didn't have enough force, so
the Manville-Jenckes Co. sent the
mill-owning governor, Max o. Gard
ner, word telling him that they had
to have some help, and the governor
sent out the state troopers, his ma
tional guards, to help break our
strike.
While the guards were there the
company thugs came down to our
union hall and destroyed it. The
darn thugs also smashed our relief
stores and destroyed about $500
worth of relief which the W. l. R.
had there for US. Then we decided
to build hall and tent colony, as
we were thrown out on the streets
out of the company houses.
We passed out leaflet calling or
the national guards to lay down
their guns and not treat their fel.
low-workers like they had been do
ing. So that evening when we went
to the picket lines the guards re
fused to carry out the bosses or
ders as they had been doing. The
Manville-Jenckes Co. sent the gov
ernor word to take his guards away
as they were about to go on strike
with the rest of the workers.
On June 7 the scabs in the mil
sent word that if we picketed thu
mill that evening that they woult
come out and join our strike. Th'
bosses heard of that and they SEN
bunch of their thugs down t.
break up our meeting SO we couldn'
picket the mill. They fired shots
and threw rotten eggs and rocks
but we strikers ran the thugs off
When the melting was over we
formed our picket line and started
toward the mill, but the thugs, with
the help of the city police, succeeded
in breaking our picket line after
beating up ten or twelve strikers
Then the strikers went back tt
the tent colony and went to bed
All at once the tents began falling
in and the ropes were cut and bal
lets flying through the union hal
and tents, the women and children
screaming.
In the struggle one of the strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
FIND AIRMAN'S SKELETON.

SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. g.
Travellers in the Cuchipuy Noun
tains reported today that they had
found the remains of an airplane
and a human skeleton believed to
have been there more than Is years.
The skeleton which was found in
Colchagua province is thought to
be the remains of Alexandra Bello, q
military aviator, who was lost on q
flight in 1914.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Heat Wave Makes
Los Angeles Sizzle

LOS ANGELES, Sept. mo re-
lief from the heat wave which sent
thousands Of persons to the beaches
and the mountains over the week
end was seen today.
After reaching sizzling SO
Saturday, which placed August 81
on record as the hottest day of the
hottest month Los Angeles has
known in So years, the mercury
weakened yesterday and could do
no better than 90
Yesterday was the Goth success
sive day to show temperature of
above so degrees. No fatalities were
reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Will Form Industrial
Food Union in Chicago
After Unity Convention

CHICAGO, Sept. 2. = The base
militant industrial union Of food
workers will be planned at a con-
ference of the Chicago Progressive
Food Workers to be called here as
soon as delegates return from the
August 81 Trade Union Unity Con-
vention in Cleveland.
The conference will be attended by
cafeteria workers, walters, wait
resses, cooks, pantrymen, yardmen,
bus boys-all workers employed in
handling, serving or the preparation
of food.
The exact date and place of the
meeting will be announced later, the
Progressive Food Workers report.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Potato Sacks Are the OnW
Clothes of Marques Workers

We conclude the letter from a
worker correspondent in Louren-
co Marques, the Portuguese Col
ony in East Africa. He tells of
the forced slavery there.
The men of Lourenco Marques,
living on their small farms in the
woods, are captured by the Portu-
guese government and sent to the
city where they slave for meagre
wages. In the city the men are
forced to work for wages varying
from two to five shillings a day or
from so cents to SIPS day.
The government collects five shil-
lings for every head, this money be-
ing paid by the companies who man,
slave the men. Thus we see the
Portuguese government selling hui
man beings on the market just like
any commodities.
If the worker dares to complain to
the government he will be thrown
into the terrible jails for at least
six days as punishment.
Potato Sacks For Clothes
The only clothes on the backs OF
these poor workers ar, potato bags
with holes on the bottoms and one
hole in each side of the bag as
sleeves for the arms. This is sc
that the thing that is called "civ-
ilized lady" does not have to see
tn workers skin.
Longshoremen Slave all Hours.
The longshoremen work from sew
en- in the morning until five, six
eight and even ten at night. Their
starvation wage is two to four shil-
lings day $50 cents to dollar)
From this meagre wage they must
pay three shillings every year for a
licence for them to come to the city
and work.
If the workers are caught in the
city without this licence they are
arrested and jailed for six months
The Portuguese government said il
was going to "civilize" the workers
of Lourenco Marques, so therefore
it is building up a new prison with
about 1000 cells, for that purpose
Church Aids in Enslaving.
Then, to help in the enslaving Of
the people of Lourenco Marques
there are the Roman Catholic
church and the protestants with
their missionaries trying to save
the souls" of those who slave from
six in the morning to all hours o.
night for two meals Of cornflour
and one shilling. But some of the
inhabitants believe that they are be-
ing taught only prostitution by the
church. Many of them cannot be-
lieve the missionaries any more.
The workers here see with theil
own eyes that all these missionaries
are not doing what they said they
were going to do. The missionaries
tell the people of Lourenco Marques
not to have any connection with
young girls! But the workers here
do not see the missionaries them
selves obeying the rule they so n.y.
pocritically make.
The catholics and the protestants
are charging two shillings month
for every Negro worker or member
of his family to go to church.
Comrades and fellow workers of
!, the United States, l hope l have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
2OShipwrecked Seamen
AflOat in Open Boats
3 Weeks Before Rescue

ST. PAUL ISLAND, Boring Sea,
Sept. 2.-The crew of the fishing
schooner Elisif, beached on the nor
thern Siberian coast Aug. 10, has
been picked up on Little Domino Is
land in Boring Straits by the U. S.
coast guard cutter Northland, which
wirelessed yesterday that it was
taking the 20 Arctic castaways to
Nome. At the end of their $40 mile
trip in small boats, the seamen had
only two gallons of drinking water
and few provisions left. They
started out in four boats but had
only two launches and the clothes
on their backs when finally rescued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03

given you an idea of how the Portu-
guese imperialist government has
civilized" the people of Lourenco
Marques, whom the Portuguese
came here to enslave. l close with
my best regards to the American
workers and sign myself, yours for
world Communism,
Ga Portuguese worker who for
merly shaved in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
ELEPHANTS GO WILD.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. 2.
Three elephants went "Berserk"
and terrorized thousands of holiday
pleasure seekers here while they
were being taken by trainers from
a performance on a pier to their
stables.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
9 Killed, 10 Injured
In Apartment Fire

WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. mime
persons were killed and ten others
were injured when fire swept thru
Midway Court, three-story apart
ment building.
The flames broke out suddenly be-
fore daybreak and gained such head
way before firemen arrived that
most of those killed were burned to
death in blazing inferno that en-
quilted them so rapidly they had no
chance to escape.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By WORKER CoffeSpOndentJ
HIGH SHOALS, N. C. (By Mai)
In the mill owners press l notice
that Mr.. Vally writes against the
mill workers. The article is full of
lies, and High Shoals mill workers
answer these lies through the Daily
Worker.
It states that !, Sam Costner, am
not a worker in the Manville-Jen-
ckes Co. High Shoals mill. Well,
| was worker in the High Shoals
mill up to the time that / organized
the committee of a hundred and fif-
il cen workers, declaring our support
~ the Gastonia strikers, the work
9 whom the mill bosses are trying
to electrocute, and the National Tex
tile Workers Union.
now live in Gastonia, but /
'sed to live in High Shoals. ! wish
10 state that the High Shoals work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
3 Of Crew on Yacht
of Parasite Burned

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Sept. 2.
members of the crew of a
45-foot cabin cruiser, owned by L..
d. Cleveland, of Stamford, were
burned today when the gasoline tank
aboard the boat exploded in the
lower harbor.
JOHN 0. Ellison, of Stamford, was
the most seriously injured. He was
confined to the Morris Hospital here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
TRAIN DERAILED.

FONDA, N. Y, Sept. 2.-Derail-
ment of four freight cars early to-
day caused tieup of two hours on
the main line Of the New York Gen.
trail Railroad. Trains, carrying La
Dor Day crowds, were detoured to
the West Shore Line by way Of
Schenectady.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Workers Asked to
Send Their GastOnia
Petitions in at Once

In order to send the mass pro-
test petition, with the hundreds
of thousands of workers names
attached, to the state authorities
of North Carolina, demanding
the freedom of the Gastonia
textile workers. all petition lists
are asked to be returned at once
to the national office of the Gas
tonia Joint Defense and Relief
Campaign Committee, at 80 E.
18th ST., room 402, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Forced To Reinstate Meu.

Due to mass pressure by the
workers, E. T. Wilson, the person
mel director of both companies, who
was brought to town at the end of
the strike, was forced to re-instate
the workers who are now under
charges that grew out of the strike.
Only about 1000 out of the $500
workers belong to the U. 7. w.
This proves that the bulk of the
workers have no faith in the U,
T. w.
Paul Fuller, of the Workers Edu-
cational Bureau, is teaching the
workers of Elizabethon the A. F. OF
l.. brand of trade unionism.
j. A. R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
By a Worker Correspondent

freCCy gOOu 1Or one SuDQlSCrlcC.
Men working April, May and June,
10,499.
Practically three-fourths of these
men worked only a few days each
month; just about enough to miss
exoneration. We note that these
subdistrict officials expense ac-
counts would suggest that they were
going day and night the entire three
months, handling cases, although
every miner knows that there were
very few cases handled at this time.
How many were there at your mine
to handle cases? Ask your local
president or pit committee how
many times the subdistrict officials
were there.
Don't you think it about time to
stop this robbery? The miners will
settle their own cases at the rhine
under the National Miners Union.
Did you say that this could not be
done? Well, we did this think for
years in the U. M. w. of A. Of
course this can not be done in the
U. M. W. A. now that the operators
have complete control of every off
cial from the subdistrict up to the
international office. Wake up,
brother and rub your eyes. Look
around you.
I'LL. MIllER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Anti-ZiOnist Meeting
in Detroit, Thursday

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. IA
mass meeting will be held here
Sept. 5, at Labor Lyceum, in the
evening. Maloch Epstein, the
speaker, will tell Of the use Of the
Zionist movement as an agent of
British imper alism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
New Schemes To Fool Workers.

The fake employee representa-
ton" scheme having failed, new
scheme to fool the workers is being
tried. A magazine is published by
the company and is being circulated
among the rayon workers. In the
latest issue the plant officials state
that if there should be any labor
trouble in the future, the concern
will cause its $52,000,O00 building
programme to be cancelled. This is
also designed to make sheep out of
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
ELECTRICIAN KILLED.

CHATTANOOGA (By MaiD.-
Ernest Pickel, an electrician was
burnt to death when an oil breaker
circuit exploded. He was Ten
nessee Power Co. line. man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Takers Want Him.

The United Textile Workers fax
ers would gladly take him in the
Union. However, the anger of the
rayon workers has held the appli-
cation up, although the takers are
strongly considering it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
NOT ONE FIFTH
OF RkYON SLAVES
IN SCAB U MON
Misleaders Want Com
pany Man in
(Bu a Worker Correspondent

(BB q worker CorrespondentJ
ELIZABETHON, Tenn, (By
MaiD The bosses agents of the
Glanzstoff and Bamberg Corpora
tions have come to the realization
that after all the American Fedora
ton of Labor and the United Tex
tile Workers Union are not their
enemies. Quite the opposite; they
(the A. F. of L. and U. T. W. are
the bosses friends.
Scab Leader May Join U. T. W.
DR.. S. C. Rea, who was the chief
of the Loyal Workers League" the
scab outfit during the strike of the
$500 rayon workers, has applied for
membership in the United Textile
Workers Union. Rea is a chemist
in the Bemberg plant. During the
strike he was bag and baggage for
the yellow dog contract which the
company forced on the workers of
the Elizabethon and Johnson City
plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Gastonia- Evicted Strikers

Gastoni ia, High
Shoals and Elizabeth
ton, Tenn, te1tile
Worker correspondents
1Orite on this page to-
day. Above, eUicted
textile striker and her
children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
PROTEST RAIDS
ON USSR TODAY
Honor Shanghai Labor
at Mass Meeting

A mass meeting to commemorate
the fourth anniversary of the Shang-
hal Massacre of May 80, 1925, which
was the beginning of not only the
Chinese anti-imperialist revolution
but also of an historical wave of
workers and peasants movements
in the Far East, and at the same
time to protest against the covert
and outrageous raid on the Soviet
consulates in Manchuria by the
tools .of the British and japanese
imperialists, is called for this after
noon by the All-America Anti-Im-
perialist League, together with all
Far Eastern organizations of Chi
nese, Korean, japanese and East In
dians in this city.
The meeting will be held this
afternoon, l p. M, at the Chinese
Theatre, As Bowery, and all revolu-
tionary workers as we'll as all op-
ponents of imperialism are urged to
come.
The raid on the Soviet consulates,
in the opinion of the Far Eastern
organizations, is the commencement
Of a new anti-Soviet campaign,
scheduled to complete the encircle-
ment of the Soviet Union and start
the imperialist war against that
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
N.T.W. union TO
LEAD PICKETINC;
RELIEF To HELP
Boss Assaults Worker;
Others Quit to Show
Solidarity
Working IS Hour Week
Loray Scabs Get Their
Wages Reduced

GASTONIA, N. c., May 29.-The
Gastonia strike has spread to an
other mill. The workers of the
Dixon mill went on strike yesterday
demanding the reinstatement of all
workers discharged for protesting
against the speed-up conditions in
the mill, also demanding the re-
moval of Second Hand Brady Wilson,
demanding shorter hours, increase
in wages ar abolition of the speed
up. The strike comn:ittee of seven,
including two women, elected by the
workers of the mill will present their
demands to the superintendent at
a. m. to-.
The strike is a result of the ac-
tion of Brady Wilson, who has been
the most severe slave driver in the
plant. He has constantly been at
tempting to terrorize the workers.,
firing whomever he so desired. This
time his victim was w. F. Smith,
who has worked i the ilill for the
last three years without any fault
being found with his work. Wilson
Continued cn Page TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
MASS MEETING TO
EXPOSE KILLMAN
Anti-Labor Policies to
Be Barred Saturday

A new phase of the struggle
against the corrupt Hillman machine
in the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America will be opened at
the mass meeting called by the
Amalgamated Pressers Club at
Cooper Union for Saturday at l
o'clock.
Pointing to the increasing rank
and file sentiment against the Hill
man gang in the Amalgamated,
sponsors of the meeting have an
nounced that they expect record
response to the call for the meeting.
"The intense exploitation in the
shops, the wage cuts, reorganiza-
tions, and speed-up that the work
ers have to suffer because of the
holy alliance between the bosses and
the Amalgamated leadership must
come to an end," declares a call is
sued last night. "This is the cry of
the tens of thousands of clothing
workers. The policy of expulsions
of militant workers and discrimina-
ton against the rank and file by
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
TRIES TO SPEAK,
DRAGGED FROM
The COURT ROOM
Frame-up Artists Fear
Demonstrations by /
the Workers
ViciOusly Unfair Trial
Jailed Worker Scores
Fuller, the Murderer

BOSTON, May ga year at
hard labor at Deer Island, the prison
with the most severe conditions in
the state, was the sentence given
Harry j. Canter, militant Boston
printing trades worker, by Judge
Robert Raymond, in Suffolk Su-
perior Court this afternoon.
Canter, when brought up for sem
tence, began making his statement
On the case, pointing out the class
character of the trial and verdict,
and exposing Governor Fuller as
the agent of capitalism and the ac-
tual murderer of Sacco and Van
zetti.
AS soon as he started speaking
he was interrupted by the court and
snatched out of the room by the
sheriffs who dragged him physically
to the door, from which he was
rushed to Deer Island.
Fear Workers Demonstrations.
The defense charges that Canter
was sent so hurriedly to this prison
to prevent him from obtaining bail
for release during appeal, which is
being made Immediately by the In
ternational Labor Defense, and for
fear of workers demonstrations
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
MORE RAIDS ON
SOVIET CONSULS
BY YIMPERIAL|STS
Aim at Selling Chinese
Eastern Railway
(WireleSs by Inprecorr.)

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 20
Fravda, commenting on the strug-
giles in China, declares that the
fight against the Kwangsi group is
the fight of the bourgeoisie repre-
sented by Chang Kai-shek and the
landowners. The militarist, Feng
Yu-hsiang, is now utilizing the dis
content of the petty bourgeois wing
of the Kuomintang.
Chang executed the orders of the
American imperialists, while the
Kwangsi group and Feng are the
tools of the Japanese-British imper-
ialism, states Pravda.
Recent happenings in China, it
says, represent the intensification CT
antagonisms and the col
lapse of the reactionary united front
that accompanied and followed the
of the Commune of
Canton Established for a few days
during the insurrection of the work
ers under the leadership of the Chi
nese Communist Party year and
a half ago).
At the same time, Pravda points
cut, the workers and peasants
is strengthening and the
revolution is on the upgrade.
HARDIN, Manchuria, May 29.-
The raids on the Soviet consulates
in northern Manchuria, ordered by
Chang Kai-shek who in turn gets
his orders from the predatory Yam
kee imperialists who are attempting
to provoke war against the Soviet
Union, are still continuing. The
North Manchurian war lord had raid
ed the Soviet consulates at Tstsihar,
Manchouli and Suifenho, all in
Manchuria, besides the con-
sulate at Harbin, it was learned to-
day.
Raids Premeditated.
The Marking regime had ordered
the raids, which were carried out by
the officials of Chang Hseuh-liang,
dictator of Manchuria. That these
raids had been contemplated for
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Workers Relief tn Campaign
for Workers Children CQ,mbs

The Workers International Relief,
One Union Square, New York City,
is opening a national campaign to
raise funds for the establishment Of
camps for workers children thruout
the United States.
The drive is being conducted by
the Department of Camps for Work.
ers' Children, w. I. R., Rose Pastor
Stokes, director. An appeal to work.
ing class organizations throughout
the country has been issued by the
w. I. R., appealing for funds for the
establishment Of the camps.
"The summer is coming" reads
the appeal. "School will soon be
over. The capitalist state, which
spends billions on preparing for i'm
perialist war, leaves our children to
The heat, the dirt and the crowded
ity streets.
1--WE are building w. /. +. Camps
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
POISON KILLED
FERRARI, limited
AT BANK INQUIRY
Fascist CRATER Used
Dummy Corporation

Was the peculiarly sudden death
of Francisco NJ. Ferrari, grand scale
swindler and president of the de-
funct City Trust Company, due to
natural causes? Was he poisoned
either by his own hand or by others
who considered his incriminating ac-
tivities in the huge swindle as men
acing to their safety?
Thievery and More Thievery.
These are questions asked at the
offices at 302 Broadway yesterday,
where the bank probe reveals even
mora damning evidence against the
Tammany-fascist alliance which
aided in the looting of the bank, in
the failure of which thousands of
poor depositors were ruined. Ex-
State Banking Superintendent Frank
H. Warder, central figure in the
hearing, pocketed at least $4,000
before hurriedly resigning from of
flee when an incriminating network
of evidence closed in on him a few
days after the death of his fascist
friend, Ferrari.
Although Ferrari's doctor had
tried to testify before Moses that
death was due to burst appendix
end general septicoemia, reliable
medical opinion scouts the story,
pointing out that sudden deaths
in such cases are exceptional. Four
or five days is the usual limit be-
fore death from a ruptured appen-
dix, it was repeated at the scene of
the probe yesterday. Yet Ferrari,
considered physically fit, died within
48 hours.
Now a Tradition.
Sudden deaths in graft cases are
now established features. The start
ling death of Warder's wife, who
Continued on PAGE Fiue)