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The daily worker., 1929-08-13
THOUSANDS GREET CAST0NIA WOMEN DEFENDANTS
WAVE OF ARRESTS AND
TERROR SWEEPS LAND

L HUNDREDS of Communists and other workers
rested and thrown into Jail in the United States during
the August First demonstrations against mperat and
for the defense of the Soviet Union In spite of this the dem
onsratons, for the most part held in defiance of the
police.
One fact of tremendous significance the working
class of America from the August First demonsra
tons-the force that leads militant struggle for the
right to demonstrate in the streets is the Communist Party
This fact is known hundreds of thousands of workers and
goads the capitalist government its police and its courts
against every attempt of the workers to
strengthen fighting organizations.
Since August First there have been wholesale arrests
On Sunday the T. u E. L. hall in Kansas City raided
because conference held to select delegates to the
Cleveland conference for Trade Union Unity In Ashley
Pennsylvania the T. u E. L. meeting raded and the lead
of the miners in that region thrown in jail In Mime
apos hoodIums from the Citizens Military Training Camp
attacked and disrupted Communist meeting Every day
arrests of workers in New York for holding street
ings In California many workers charged with criminal
syncasm and face long sentences because they
ganzed revolutionary demonstrations Every day workers
shot by police murderousy assaulted by thugs of the
bosses and the right wing
These desperate attacks because the employers
fear the growing mtancy of the working class. They
the rising prestige of the Communist Party, they fear the
convenng of the Trade Union Unity conference Cleveland
the 3st of this month"; because they know there will be
created cOOrdinatng center for the militant the
factory committees and the left elements in the old unions
At such time of sharpening class struggle is essential that
the Daily Worker continue to exist order that workers may
know what happening in the United States and the world
and in order that they be able to benefit from the
guidance of such a revolutionary publication.
But at this time, when the Daily is needed more than
ever can truhuv state that we do not know from dav
to day whether will be able to avoid suspension. This
serious situation is not only danger the whole work
ing class but it makes douby difficult to raise the standard
of the Daily that it actually reflect and furnish
in the struggles of the workers.
Every revolutionary worker every reader of paper
sympathser should rush funds to the Daily
Worker rs Union Square, to aid in this trying period
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
SCHECHTER AND BUSH
SPEAK FOR DEFENDANTS
FACING ELECTROCUTION
Melvin and Delegation to Invade N. C. Fedora
ton Convention Today
To Contrast Militant Program of NTWU With
UTW Collaboration, Betrayals
CALL FOR MASS
DEMONSTRATION

"We don't want mass dem
onstrations at funerals of tex
tile workers! We have too
many martyrs already! We
need mass demonstrations and
support now that will bring
our fellow-workers out of jail
and back into the struggle! We
have no need for splendid
corpses !"
This is the message Amy Schech-
ter and Vera Bush, two of the three
women still indicted for first de-
gree murder, brought from the Gas
ton County Jail, where Is men are
still behind the bars awaiting trial
which the prosecution demands shall
terminate in death for them, and
from the Southern textile fields,
where hundreds of thousands of tex
tile workers are struggling against
the stretch-out, long hours and low
wages.
Thousands of New York City
workers, who jammed the huge
auditorium and balcony of the Cen
trial Opera House, vowed that they
would strain their energies to arouse
mass protests and raise funds for
the defense of the arrested. Their
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
LAB0UR PARTY
|. L.EADS TEXTILE
STRIKE SELLOUT
Macdonald and Bosses
Perfect Plans to
Smash Walkout
Strikers Stand Firm
.Gastonia Workers Hail
British Strike

GASTONIA, n. c., Aug. 12.-
Hailing the determined fight of 500,-
900 British textile strikers against
the mill owners and the trecherous
strikebreaking policies of the Mac
Donald Labor Party government,
The southern textile workers today
sent them the following greetings:
"The Southern textile workers un-
der the leadership of the National
Textile Workers Union, in their
struggle against the attempt to cleo
trOcute 13 of cur members who de-
Tended themselves from the bosses
armed attack and who are fighting
to better their conditions, send greet
ings to the rank and file textile
workers who have voted down the
leaders attempt to put over a wage
reduction and defeat the strike.
''The textile workers." the wire
continues, must intensity their fight
against the combined forces of the
textile bosses, their Macdonald Gov
ernment, and the reformist leader
ship who betrayed the workers in the
general strike
MANCHESTER, England, Aug.
12.-The labor party government
neared its object of smashing the
walkout of 100000 textile workers
when, after a secret conference be-
tween Premier Ramsay Macdonald,
Sir Horace Wilson, permanent sec
retary to the ministry of labor, and
number of leading mill owners at
Edinburgh, it was made known that
an endeavor would be made to open
the mills pending arbitration" /"
Meanwhile private understanding
Continued Oh Page Five)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
To Show Up Plans For
Anti-UniOn Drive at
Building Meet Friday

The sly, anti-labor maneuvers of
the Building Trades bosses, working
in close collaboration with the cor
rupt otficialdom of the Building
Trades Council, will be exposed at
mass meeting of building trades
workers to be held this Friday eve
ming at Irving Plaza, 18th St. and
Irving Place.
Evidence showing that with the
waning Of building activity the boss
es now plan vigorous offensive
against union standards will be
given by speakers at the meeting.
Hundreds of carpenters, bricklay-
ers, electricians, plumbers, painters
and other building trades workers
are expected at the meeting, which
is being called by the Building
Trades Section of the Trade Union
Educational League.
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
PARIS WORKERS
FIGHT FASC|STS
Police Withhold All
Details of Battle

PARIS, Aug. 12.-Following three
struggles between armed workers
and Communists against men who
are described as government-hired
fascists or green's" heavy detach-
ments of police were standing guard
over the Paris catacombs today.
Details of the fighting, which
took place in the pitch darkness of
the catacombs at the point where
subway construction is going on, are
not yet available and the authorities
refuse all information. There is an
unconfirmed report, however, that
the struggle began between Com
munist workers and fascists whom
the government attempted to put on
the job.
Three fierce clashes, in which re-
J volvers, picks and shovels served as
weapons, took place during the day.
Many of the workers and their
opponents are reported to have been
wounded and the police are holding
an unknown number for the out
break. No official information is
being given out.
The first outbreak occurred on
the construction job and continued
until the police attack drove the
workers along the catacombs.
A half hour later second dis
turbance broke out and the police,
who were now stationed in the vicin-
ity in large numbers, poured into
the subway excavation and spread
through the catacombs shooting and
beating the Communist workers.
The third attack was begun by
fascist, who fired point blank with
his revolver at a worker who was
creeping through the catacomb, ap-
parently to escape.
Again the police attacked and
made many arrests.
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
BILL TO DEP0RT
MIL|TANT|N india
WORKERS PASSED
Labor Govt Alarmed
At Mass Unrest

POONA, India, Aug. PA bill
aimed directly at strikers and en-
powering the police to deport all
strike leaders and militant workers
without form of trial was passed
yesterday by the legislative assem-
bly, of the Bombay Presidency
The bill is expressly called the
Times of Emergency Bill, indicating
that it's trainers aimed it at the
leaders of the revolutionary masses.
Moreover, j. Monteath, home men,
ber, who introduced the measure,
stated that its purpose was to drive
out of the Presidency armed workers
whose attacks upon strike breakers
and government spies and police
have recently alarmed the authori-
ties.
The workers are reported to at
tack in small bands from cover, scat
tering as soon as they have accom-
plished their object. This method
has proved highly effective as guer-
lila warfare against the authorities
and their agents.
The working class sections of
Bombay and Poona are seething
with unrest which takes form in
the covert attacks described.
1t is understood that the leaders
of the Labor Party are thoroughly
in accord with the new extraordi-
nary measure.
CALCUTTA, Aug. IL. - Rama
NADIA Chatterjee and Sajin Kantak,
editor and printer of the book, "In-
dia in Bondage" by the American,
D. ]. T. Sutherland, have been SEN
fenced to three months in Jail or a
fine of 1000 rupees for publishing
the book. Chatterjee edits the
Modern Review"
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
MACDONALD Gets
MORGAN ORDERS
]. P. Directs Fight on
Britain at Hague

THE HAGUE, Aug PIT was
learned here today that Premier
Ramsay Macdonald and Thomas w.
Lamont, Morgan partner and Amer
lean delegate to the Young Plan
Conference, acted upon the sugges-
tion of ]. P. Morgan when they met
in England and discussed the situa-
tion at the end of last week.
Macdonald conferred with La
mont, and the governor of the Bank
of England, Montague Norman, last
Saturday and gave as the subject
of their conference the technical as
poets Of establishing the interna-
tional reparations bank of the Young
Plan. 1t is obvious now, however,
that their conference covered much
wider field
Meanwhile persistent rumors that
j. P. Morgan had arrived here sec
reilly and dined last night with the
British treasury expert at the In
ternational Conference here, F. w.
Leith Rose, continued to be en-
phatically denied. Nevertheless, it
is certain that Morgan, who has un-
til recently been shooting grouse in
Scotland, has communicated private
ly to the Hague that it is his de-
sire that two subcommittee be es-
tablished to study separately deliv-
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
SAXON WORKERS
HAIL GASTONIA
Send Protest to u. S.
Embassy

A message of class solidarity for
the brave textile strikers of Gastonia
and copy of a resolution protesting
the murder frame-up in Gastonia
has been received from the East
Saxon, Germany, Anti-War Com
mittees Conference, which was held
recently in Dresden, by the National
Office of the International Labor
Defense.
The Conference, which had for it's
chief purpose the preparation for
International Red Day on August l.,
was attended by 125 delegates from
large factories and mass organiza-
tions in East Saxony. The letter,
forwarded thru the German Rote
Hilfe (I.L.D.) ard which accom-
panied the greetings and copy of
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
SEAMEN ELECTED
FOR CONFERENCE
HERE AUG. 17-1S
Unity M e etin g in
Cleveland to be Held
August 81
Chester Seamen Elect
Miners Preparing for
Cleveland Meet

BALTIMORE. Nd, Aug. 12. -
Ten delegates, dding two Negro
marine workers, were elected to at
tend the Atlantic Coast Conference
at the Baltimore local conference
of the Marine Workers League held
here on Saturday.
The Atlantic Coast Conference
will be held on Saturday and Sun
day, Aug. II and Is at the Interna-
tional Seamen's Club, % South ST.,
New York.
Elect for Cleveland.
Delegates to the Trade Union
Unity Convention will be elected at
the New York conference. Seamen
will thus take an active part in the
formation of the new militant trade
Union center which will be organ
lied in Cleveland, Aug. 31-Sept. 2.
CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 12.-Dele-
gates to the Atlantic Coast Con-
ference to be held at the Interna-
tional Seamen's Club, % South St.,
New York, next Saturday and Sun
day will be selected by the Chester
branch of the Marine Workers
League at a meeting tomorrow
night at the Progressive Workers
Center, 120 West Third st.
Organization Needed.
To-day the mass of the seamen
are unorganized," the call for the
Chester conference says, "and as a
result c nditions are becoming more
miserable every day. The Interna-
tional Seamen's Union, with it's OBJ
Continued on Page TVo)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
SECOND T,U.E.L.
MEET AUGUST 20
Many Delegates to Big
Conference

Thousands of organized and un-
organized workers in New York,
New Jersey and vicinity will be rep
resented. at the Second Metropolitan
Area Conference to be held next
Tuesday, Aug. 20, at Irving Plaza
Hall, 18th st. and Irving Pl.
Delegates at the conference, which
will, in turn, choose representatives
to the Cleveland convention, will
include food, building trades, nee
die trades, printing, metal and other
workers. Workers from basic indus
tries in New Jersey will be repre-
sented and take part in the pro-
gram of the conference.
The conference will discuss the
latest development in the labor
movement in New York, New Jer-
sey and throughout the country. 1t
will be its task to mobilize broad
masses for the struggle against i'm
perialist war preparations, in de-
tense of the Soviet Union, to de-
fend the Gastonia frame-up victims
to organize the unorganized, to
fight against the A. F. of L. bureau
cracy and the Music group of mis-
leaders.
Workers are urged to organize
shop committees and elect delegates
to the conference. The basis of rep.
resentation is as follows: From loca
ones - one delegate and one addi.
tional delegate for every 100 mem.
bers; from local groups of 7. U
E. L. - one delegate for each 2s
members; from shop committees ir
organized and unorganized shops
one delegate each; from Joint
Boards-four delegates.
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
Reveal I.L.G.W. Made Secret
Agreement on Minimum Scale
Shop Chairmen Meet Tomorrow; Jail s Boston
Pickets: Governor Names Strikebreakers

A supplementary agreement" by
which cloak bosses can regularly
pay workers far below the scale,
and made by the Schlesinger gang
in the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, has just been dis
covered.
From authoritative sources it is
learned that by the simple device of
informing the bosses association,
an employer can make an arrange
ment with a worker by which the
so-called scale is given the air.
Further Exposes Fakers.
Concretely, when a worker comes
The daily worker., 1929-08-13

to the Schlesinger "union" with the
complaint that wages below the
minimum scale are paid in a certain
shop, this complaint is first re-
layed to the office of the associa-
tion. Here the records are exam
ined: if it is found that the boss
of the shop complained of reported
the Especial arrangement" at the
time it was made, then, according
to the supplementary agreement,
nothing further is done.
The revelation of the Supple
mentary agreement" has tended to
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
COMMUNIST
PROGRAM IN SHOP
Party Units Meet to
Launch Plans

Political issues Of the election
campaign will be discussed by the
New York District of the Commu-
mist Party at unit meetings this
week, when steps will be taken to
carry the Communist message to
workers in the factories and ma
rine transport and traction indus
tries.
Meanwhile, while Party members
are occupied with the task of ap-
plying correct Communist strategy
in the work of spreading the Par
TVS election program to workers
in strategic industries, hotly-con-
tested race is being fought by Sec
tion One and the Harlem Section
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
BY BILL DUNNE.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. H.
The three-day convention Of the
North Carolina State Federation of
Labor opened in Raleigh today. The
struggle of the workers in the tex
tile industry against the stretchout
the Southern equivalent of the
speed-up-will turn this hitherto
peaceful gathering, whose principal
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
3COMMUNISTSoN
TRIAL AUGUST 10
ARREST Shows Growth
of Party in Harlem"

Trial of Harold Williams, Negro
Director of the New York District
of the Communist Party; Albert
Weisbord and Albert Glosford was
yesterday postponed till next Mon
day by Magistrate Flood, who heard
charges of blocking traffic" in con-
nection with the arrest of the three
at an election rally of the Party at
13Sth st. and Seventh Ave. Satur-
day night. They were held until
Sunday midday before the New
York District of the International
Labor Defense was able to arrange
bail at 500 each. I. L. d. Lawyer
Jacques Buitenkant will defend at
tu Continued on Page Five) /,
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
N. C. Federation of Labor at
Raleigh Shotgun Wedding
Music Group, A. F. of L., Politicians Join in
"Industrialization" Convention, Fight NTWU

function has been to endorse the
democratic party candidates CT the
bosses into a battle-ground of class
forces.
The State Of North Carolina IS
dominated by the Southern Power
Company-the Duke electric light
and power interests and it's subsid-
iaries-which in turn dominates the
textile industry. Andrew Mellon,
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
Barbusse Tells of War, White
Terror in IL Saw It Myself"
Daily Worker to Begin Publishing Remarkable
Class War Document Soon

white terror which will soon begin
their exclusive serial publication in
the Daily" These tales have on
them the flesh of reality. Once
read, they can never be forgotten.
II Saw 1t Myself" is divided into
three parts: "The War;" "The White
Terror" and "The Rest" These
sketches are fact, not fiction. All
are based either on the authors own.
Continued on Page Fiue) "A
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
TRAIN SNOWBOUND.

SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. PA
trans-Andean passenger train which
had been snowbound in the noun
tains near Los Andes for three days
was released today, a message from
Los Andes said and was expected
to arrive at Santiago tonight. 81.
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
Open union LOT
IN KINGS MT.
BY LISTON M. OAK.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 12,-
A delegation of Sophie Melvin, C.
w. Saylor and Dewey Martin left
here this morning for Raleigh, N.
c., to attend the convention of the
State Federation of Labor. They
will demand support for the 23 Gas
tonia defendants and contrast the
program of the National Textile
Workers Union with that of the
reactionary United Textile Workers
leadership.
The delegation, representing
the international Labor De-
fense and the National Textile Work
ers Union, will tell the convention
that the fundamental issues in
volved are the right of workers to
organize, strike and defend them
selves against attacks. The delega-
ton representing the left wing
union will challenge the leadership
of the U. T. W., comparing their
program of class collaboration and
betrayal with the militant class
struggle program of the N. T. w. U.
The convention was characterized
at the N. T. w. U. headquarters as
a rallying center in the ranks of
the working class for the agents of
the mill owners, to initiate a drive
against the left wing unions and
the Communists, and against the
movement of revolt among the
Southern textile workers. The dele
cation will expose the Music Group,
represented by Hoffman, as working
in cooperation with the reactionary
bureaucrats of the A. F. of L.
GASTONIA, N. c., Aug. 12.-An-
nouncement that Sophie Melvin, one
of the three women recently released
on bail and charged with second de-
gree murder and Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, will speak in the new union
lot in Kings Mountain, next Satur-
day evening, was received with stirr-
ing applause.
Over 800 workers attended the
first meeting on the lot and heard
Ben Wells tell of the organization
drive in the textile centers through
out five states, preparing for the
Charlotte Conference, October II
Continued on Page FiUC)
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
4 Saw It Myself"

Such is the laconic title given by
II enri Barbusse, world-famous
French Communist writer, to the re-
markable new book of class-war
sketches based on his personal ex-
periences and Investigations.
And 81 saw it myself" will be the
feeling of the readers of the Daily
Worker when they finish reading
these graphic sketches of war and
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
MOTORCYCLIsT KILLED

SOUTH AMBOY, N. j., Aug. 12.
Howard Krause, 22,~of Brooklyn,
was thrown 100 feet to his death
today when his motorcycle skidded
as he crossed the viaduct over the
Pennsylvania trat near here.
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
Report Chinese Attack.

/ WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 12-
Unconfirmed reports from a Japa-
nese news agency today state that
two Chinese soldiers have been
killed and many wounded and Sc
cretly conveyed to hospitals follow
ing border clash between Chinese
and Red Army patrols. The en-
gagement is said to have taken place
in the neighborhood of Manchuli.
1t is believed that if the report
is correct the engagement resem-
bled the recent attack by white
guardists on Red Army detach-
ment near Tcherniavsk, where two
Red soldiers were killed.
TOXIC, Japan, Aug. 12.-For-
eign Minister Kijuro Shidehara is
today reported to be offering to
mediate" the Japanese seizure of
the Chinese Eastern Railroad. The
Japanese have special interests in
Manchuria, notably the Manchurian
Southern Railroad, and the move is
regarded as another phase of the i'm
perialist attempt to take over the
Chinese Eastern under the guise of
mediation"
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
MASS ARRESTS OF SOVIET WORKERS
ON CHINESE EASTERN RWY. LATEST
NANKINC ATTEMPT TO ANNOY USSR
Two Hundred Thrown Into Chinese Jails on
Charge of Planning General Strike
Report Marking Troops Attack Soviet Border
Patrol; 2 Chinese Killed

HARDIN, Manchuria, Aug 12.-Todays events in the i'm
perst drive against the Soviet Union by the Chinese
Eastern Railroad featured by the arrest of 200 Soviet
workers employed by the railway and the proclamation of
tia law along the line
The Soviet citizens held in JAIL charged with planning
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
4 Are Killed, 4 Hurt
In Train Auto Crash

FRANKFORT, Ind, Aug. IL. =
Four persons were killed and four
others injured, perhaps fatally,
when Nickel Plate passenger train
struck a touring car at crossing
near here today. The victims were
said to have been members of the
same family. View Of the tracks
where the accident occurred is OBJ
scured by a house alongside of the
tracks.
The daily worker., 1929-08-13

to start general strike of
workers on the railroad.
Marking authorities assert
that the proclamation of martial
law is the answer to the derailment
of freight train west of this city
recently and that acts of sabotage
have been frequent on the line.
1t is pointed out, however, that
the derailment is the result of the
general disorganization of the rail
road which followed it's taking over
by the Chinese authorities.
The daily worker., 1929-08-13

COMPROMISE LATHERS STRIKE.
PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD -
Four hundred union lathers struck
here for an increase in wages, but
officials compromised the strike.
The daily worker., 1929-08-13
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For a W0rkers-Farmers Government
To Organize the UnOrsanized
Against Imperiatist War
For the 4O-Hour Week
Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-17
LUTHERAN SERVICES

Lutheran services will be held at the Episcopal church on Friday, October IS, in the evening at 8 o'clock. In extending to all a cor- dial invitation to attend our church services we have no selfish motives. It is with a sincere desire of offer ing you the eternal Veritas of the Word, which represents to every man the lone thing needful," for real abiding peace and happiness, that we extend to you an invitation to worship with us. You will find warm welcome and an atmosphere of cordial fellowship.
 H. KURING.