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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-24
Save the Victims of the
Gastonia Conspiracy!

organizers of the union was not hanged and
riddled with bullets or burned at the stake
by the frenZied mobS that were organized
Immediately after the battle at GastOnia.
These native-bOrn white workers who were
herded into the mills to become slaves of the
new industrialization the terrific speed-up
and all the devastating effects of rationaIiza-
ton, have shown in their first struggles a
degree of class consciousness that threatens
to explode the myth that the South is the
place where cheap, supine labor can be OBJ
tanned at the lowest wages in the whole coun-
try.
In this conspiracy against the leaders of
the union and the striking workers of Gas
tonia the American Federation of Labor
bureaucracy plays its customary role of agent
of the capitalist class and police informer
In this connection it is also necessary to de-
nOunce the BrOOkwOod labor college graduate
and supporter of the Music progressive
outfit, Hoffman, for his depraved role as a
strikebreaker.
In GastOnia the struggle of the American
working class against the capitalist despoil-
ers has entered new phase. The workers
will no longer submit to determination by
murder without defending themselves Lud-
low, Calumet, the savage torture and murder
of Frank Little recede into the past. The
glorious defense of the workers hall at Cen
traia Washington, on Armistice Day, 1919,
was the prelude to- the defense of the tent
colony at Gastonia, and the masses of WORK
ers in this country must stand as one man in
defense of these victims of this latest frame
up. We must insist upon the right of the
workers to defend themselves against the
hired assassns of the capitalist class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-24
Continued from Page One)

tile workers is an isolated, local question:
question only of North Carolina, or of the
South. The issue is basic-and behind the
Gastonia frame-up stands the whole bour-
geoisie of this country. A part of the So
called textile industry of this country, the
artificial silk, or rayOn industry, is a part
Of the chemical industry. The rayon plants
can be turned into plants for production of
chemicals for warfare within few hours. 1t
is in reality war industry and it is to be
expected that the union that attempts to or
ganize the workers in that industry will meet
with the fiercest resistance.
The fact that the GastOnia mills are not
part of the rayOn industry does not in any
way refute the statement that the present
attack upon the National Textile Union is in
separable from the preparations being made
for the next world war. It is this union that
has exposed the betrayal of the American
Federation of Labor in the rayOn mills at
ElizabethtOn, Tenn, and that is mobilizing
the rayon workers for continuation of the
struggle against naturalization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
PARLEY TO AID
DRESS STRIKE
T,U.E.L. Issues Appeal
to N. Y. Labor

The Trade Union Educational
League, New York Local, yesterday
issued a call to conference of all
labor organizations for the purpose
of rallying support for the brilliant
struggle the dressmakers are car
rying on for a real union and real
union conditions.
Letters to all working class or
CARNATIONS were sent out yesterday
md the coll. printed in circular form
is being distributed in the thousands
in all New York industrial centers
today. The conference is called for
next Saturday afternoon, February
%, at o'clock in the Irving Plaza
Hall, 18th st. and Irving Place.
The call follows:
TO ALL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
Brothers and Sisters, Fellow Work
ers:
Thousands of dressmakers have
come out on strike in New York City
against inhuman sweatshop condi-
Continued on Page TgCo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
BRITISH DEPORT
JACK TOMBSTONE
FRO M CALCUTTA
Indian Labor Congress
Protests; Joins Anti
Imperialist League
Fascists Help British
Affiliation Scheme of
I.F.T.U. Tabled

BERLIN, Feb. 14.-Jack john
stone, widely known in America as
a labor leader, who was arrested by
British imperialist police after
speaking before the All-India Trade
Union Congress, has been deported
under arrest by British and Italian
fascist police from India through
Italy to the German border, and has
arrived safely in Berlin.
The congress opened at Jheriah,
in the province of Bihar near Cal
cutta, on December 18. Johnstone,
sent as a fraternal delegate from
the League Against Imperialism and
For Colonial Peoples, attended the
first session and addressed the con-
gress in behalf lof the struggle
against imperialism and its allies in
the yellow social reformist Amster-
dam international of trade unions.
When he left the congress hall,
police who were waiting for him at
once arrested him. Under de-
portation order of Bengal govern
Continued on page ta0o.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
|NT'L TAILOR CO.
IN BIG WAGE CUT
Slices Ten Percent of
Workers Wages
(By q Worker Correspondent

tDY u w ofh6f CoifeoPOttWeft/
Seventy workers without jobs
don't mean anything to the Interna-
tional Tailoring Co.-when there is
no profit to make out of them. If
you don't think so, ask the seventy
tailors on the sixth floor. The COM
pany said it didn't pay to run the
floor, so it decided to let them go.
The workers appealed to the union,
and the union sent its business agent
Beckerman, to look into the matter.
He did his job so we'll (for the boss
esq that he got the firm to keep the
floor with a 10 per cent wage-cut
for the tailors.
The company couldn't have asked
for anything better. Instead of
fighting to improve the conditions of
the workers, the Amalgamated help
ed the bosses to pull off a wage cut
on them.
And this is in line with all the
actions of the Amalgamated since
it sold out the strike in 1924 when
they made secret settlement and
the bosses got the privilege of hir-
ing and firing as they pleased, with
the right to employ union OF nom
union workers. Such a policy only
made company union out of the
Amalgamated, so that today tailor
can put in a hard days work and
not make more than $25 week even
with overtime.
The girls work for as low as S13
week, since the work is so divided
'ap and the company figures each
,,iece even to a fraction of a cent.
That doesn't worry the bosses nor
the union bureaucrats who always
.ook out for their own interests. AS
for us. we've got to have a union
that will fight to improve our con-
ditions, against the bosses and their
agents in the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
LMCv Parsons
Tells About
Bill Haywood

The Daily Worker is proud to
print herewith a letter from Lucy
E. Parsons of Chicago, telling of
her impressions of big Bill" Hay
wood, whose life was so profoundly
influenced by the martyrdom to la
boris cause of her husband, Albert
Parsons, who died on the gallows in
the Cook County Jail at Chicago,
November II, 1887, as a victim of
capitalism during the great strike
movement of the middle eighties
for the eight-hour day.
Meet Haywood in 1905.
The letter of Lucy E. Parsons
reads as follows:
'It was in 1905 that l first met
Haywood. I was delegate to the
convention in Chicago that organ
lied the I. w. W. Haywood was
elected chairman of the convention.
l met him often after this, and the
long, ear:east conversations l had
with him are the most pleasant of
my memories in my long connection
with the radical movement.
again, there was the inspiring
occasion at the great demonstration
held in Chicago upon his acquittal
in Idaho. | was one of commit
tee who had arranged great DEM
onstration, to protest if he were
convicted, but in case he was ac-
quilted it was to be grand recep-
tion and jollification meeting.
The Great Demonstration.
"When the wires flashed the
news of his acquittal, we tele-
graphed him to come on to Chicago
to speak. He had just time enough
to arrive here on the morning, g
Sunday, of the demonstration. Anc
such demonstrations as we could ar
range in those days! Nothing like
them now.
"Well, there was a crowd, con
servatively estimated at arounc
10000, who met him in Luna Park
When Haywood appeared on the
speakers stand to deliver that won.
derful speech, the yell of welcome
that went up fairly shook the leaves
off the trees!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
TRY TO MURDER
SOVIET CONSUL.
White Guard Assassin
Fooled at Hardin

SHANGHAI, Feb. 14.-Manchur-
ian dispatches state that the Soviet
Consul General at Hardin, was the
object of an attempt to assassinate
him by a white guard Russian mon
archist.
The Consul-General, M. Melnikov,
was fired at twice by man who
gave his name as Monakav, the at
tack being made in the consulate of
the Soviet Union at Harbin. Both
shots missed the intended victim.
The consul and his associates
themselves overcame the would-be
assassin, and turned him over to
the Hardin authorities, with a pro-
test at the obvious lack of prol4c-
tion being given by the Chinese au-
thorities to the safety of Soviet of
ficials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15

eight Woodlawn, Pa, steel workers
ON "sedition" charges. Shifrin and
two of the steel workers, Peter Mu-
selin and M Reshetar, were sche-
duled to speak.
Earlier in the evening Police In
spector Hoy, who led the attack OF
police and United Mine Workers
thugs on the convention of the Ma
tional Miners Union last Septem-
ber, appeared at the Labor Lyceum
and declared that the meeting would
not be permitted. No reason was
given. The |. L. D. decided to go
through with the meeting despite the
police ban.
The meeting opened with Pat
Cush, a steel worker and member
Of the Central Trades and Labor
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
BALI. TONIGHT TO
AID DRFHe STRIKE
Olgin Shows Necessity
of Workers. Relief

"The needle trades strike benefit
ball tonight at Pythian Temple,
Broadway and 10th St., which is
being held under the auspices of
local New York, Workers Interna-
tional Relief, to help the militant
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union to victory, should be tre-
mendous demonstration of working
class solidarity" according to a
statement just issued by Moissaye
Olgin, who is one Of the principal
speakers at the affair.
According to Olgin, "the sharpen
ing Of the class struggle in the
United States, the deep-growing in
dignatior of the working masses
against American imperialism. the
prospects of Hoover administra-
ton which is nothing but tighten
ing of the efficiency" of the con-
troll Of big business over the ma
chinery Of the state from top to bot
tom. all this augurs for new and eX
tended struggle between the masses
of workers and the American cap
iJalists.
every struggle is always accom-
panied by the necessity Tor Red Aid.
The Workers International Relief,
of which local New York is a sec
ton, is an organization that tries
it's utmost to bring aid to the work
ers in the class struggle"
"Workers should turn out in mass
at the solidarity ball tonight and to
have their organizations repre-
sented."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
200 Shoe Workers in
Member Meet Pledge
to Intensity Campaign

Over 200 shoe workers last night
attended general membership
meeting of the Independent Shoe
Workers Union, 81 E. 10th ST., and
pledged to intensity the fight
against wage-cuts and speed-up in
the industry.
Reports by Joseph Magliacano, or
ganizer, and H. Levine, business
agent, showed that the crews Ct
three big shoe factories had joined
the union.
The speakers last night again
stressed the fact that to carry on
the struggle more funds must be
Forthcoming Immediately, both from
the membership and other class-con-
scious workers. All donations should
be sent to the office of the Inde-
pendent Shoe Workers Union, 81 E.
10th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
30 JAILINGS AS
POLICE FIGHT
STRIKE GROWTH
ButBossesNowConfess
That Industry Is
Strike-BOund
Wall at Lack of Scabs
Strike Rallies Today to
Vote on Pact

Outstanding in the days events IN
the big dress strike here, led by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. was the intensified police
terror resulting in 70 arrests which
coincided with the Extend the
Strike" slogan issued by the union,
and the unions announcement of a
general membership meeting of all
dressmakers, for next Monday.
Mass meetings of the strikers in all
four halls will also be held this
afternoon for the purpose of discus
sion and ratification of the agree
ment with the Dress Manufacturers
Protective Association, an employers
organization representing a section
of the industry.
Despite the 70 arrests made at
the picket demonstrations yester-
day morning and afternoon, the
police failed to halt the picketing
and as result many more dress
makers came down to register in the
halls and Joined the strike.
The general membership meeting
of all dressmakers to be held this
Monday evening Immediately after
work in Webster Hall, 18th st. and
Third Ave, is called for the purpose
Of putting into practice the plans
for bringing out on strike still more
non-union shops. Dressmakers
working in settled shops as we'll as
those on strike are called to the
meeting.
Meanwhile intensive mobilization
of all strikers, and members of the
union in all other crafts is going on
for the big picket demonstration to
be held this Monday. Strike lead
ers claim this one will be as big and
imposing as the one last Monday.
! Just how directly tied up with
( the suppressiye activities Of the po-
lice is the Schlesinger company
union, was again shown yesterday
when Morris Reiss of the law offices
of S. Markewitz, right wing lawyer,
appeared in a Brooklyn court yes
terday and stood at the elbow of
the district attorney instructing him
how to frame up five workers ar
rested in Coney Island.
Alex Hartenstein, Meyer Fineman,
Max Novick, Sam Marcus and Harry
Eisman, were arrested while on their
way to Coney Island last night.
Booked at the police station on
felony charges, this charge was
changed when they came up in the
8th Magistrates Court before Magis
trate Stears, when it developed that
the Concealed weapons" police had
charged them with carrying turned
out to be the handle of the jack for
the automobile they were riding in.
Despite a change in charges, the
bail for Fineman and Hartenstein
was put at $4,000 each while for
the other three at $1,000 each. This
was done by the judge when the
Right wing lawyer got the floor and
charged the workers with being
gangsters. For Hartenstein, the
Continued on Page Fiye)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
TRY TO DOUBLE
NAVAL BUDGETS
Want S24,000,0 900 for
Starting Cruisers

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Con-
gress is busy doubling the first bud
get estimate for building new cruis-
ers under the recently signed Fif-
teen Cruiser Bill.
President Coolidge submitted for
immediate construction work the fol-
lowing figures
For construction work and ma
chinery, $5,S00,000.
For armament, armor and ammu-
milton, s6,000,000.
For improvement of navy yards
in order that half the ships may be
constructed by the government
$4,000.
For Next Year Too.
Congressional leaders had wanted
twice as much money as Mr.. Cool.
idge and his budget director, General
Lord, are now seeking to authorize
They wanted at least S12,000,000 for
next year. There was much discus
sion about appropriating the money
without the sanction of the presi.
dent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
WOMEN UN|TE.FOR
BIC DRESS STRIKE
Mass Meet in Irving
Plaza Tomorrow

The tremendous role that women
workers have played in the strug
giles of the needle trades workers,
their great significance in, the dress
makers strike and the building of
the new Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, will be told at the
mass meeting tomorrow at p. m.,
at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th ST. and
Irving Pl., called to mobilize the
working women of this city in sup
port of the strike. The meeting
will be held under the auspices of
the Women's Committee of District
2, Workers (Communist) Party,
which has come forward as leader
in the efforts to unite the masses
of women workers in New York for
a program of militant class action
against the bosses offensive and
against the danger of war.
Among the organizations cooper
ating in the meeting are the Trade
Union Educational League, the New
York Working Women's Federation,
the United Council of Working Wo-
men, sections of the new needle
workers and textile workers unions,
etc.
Leading Communist fighters in the
labor movement and active workers
in the strike will speak, including
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Rose Wortis,
Rebecca Grecht, Ray Ragozin, Kate
Gitlow, Pearl Halpern, Gertrude
Welsh and others.
Women workers in the shops,
striking dressmakers, working class
housewives and mothers are called
to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
2 JAILED FOR
QUEENS BRIBE
Indict Underlings Only,
Higher-Ups Immune

Evidently George U. Harvey,
president of Queens did not tell so
much. The net result of his story
of bribes offered and virtuously re-
fused is the indictment and arrest
of two underlings, none of the men
higher up. No sewer contractors or
big political leaders.
Frank H. Berg, Jr., the second of
two men indicted for the alleged
attempt to bribe Queens borough
president George U. Harvey, was in
the hands of the police this after
noon. He is a private detective. Har-
vey says Berg handed him $4,000
to go in with the grating ring which
Continued on Page Tqco)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
POLICE ATTACK
PROTEST meet

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 14.-Police
last night, needing the tip of the
Steel Trust, broke up meeting Of
Pittsburgh workers, held at the La
bor Lyceum, 35 Miller Gt5., in defi-
ence Of a previous police ban.
The meeting was called by the To-
cal International Labor Defense to
protest against the frame-up OF Will
liam Shifrin, militant fur worker,
and the attempt of the Steel Trust
to railroad to long prison terms
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
Boston Sewer Blast
Puts 35 i'm Hospital

BOSTON, Feb. 14.-Thirty-five
persons were taken to hospitals to-
night, suffering from bruises and
cuts, after three sewer explosions in
the downtown districts of Boston.
Boston's sewer system is a product
of local graft.
The entire Summer street area
felt the explosions in the three man
holes. Windows were broken and
glass strewn over the streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
EMERGENCY FUND
Workers Contribute to S0ve the DAILY

lem, 81; Rabboy, 81; J.
Solomon SO; R. Rosenstein,
50; G. Torian, 81; d. Kan
tor, SO; Rabinowitz, So; j.
Porteney, $5; S. Vast, SO;
N. Berkman, IS; P. Strier,
81; Cooperative Consumers
League, $100. ........ ~. 176.I
Collected by F. Fierstein, Los
Angeles, Calf, from ac-
tive comrades .......... 94.I
by Sarah Victor,
Detroit, Mich.-Shop Nuc-
leus, No. 3.--S. Victor, s.;
e. Kindstrand, SIS; j. Koz-
low, S5; F. Buda, SIS; A.
Blink, $5; X, Zarotzewich,
SIS; F. Wesley, SIS. Shop
No. --Fedor, S5; 0. Ova-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
Section 2 Members
Rally in Tag Days

All members of Section 2 of the
Workers (COmmunisD Party must
report at the section headquarters,
101 w. 9th ST., tomorrow and Sat-
urday, for participation in the
Daily Worker Red Tag Days. No
members will be excused.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
COLL ECTIONS IN SHOPS TO REACH
CLIMAX TODAY IN "DA|LY" DRIVE

Today the workers of New York City will intensity their
work the factories and shops in carrying to successful
climax the first part of the Red Tag Days to the Daily
Worker Not factory in the city will be overlooked Organ
ng, spreading the of the Daily Worker while they
Continued ca Page Tco)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
United Council Of Working

United Council Of Working
Woman, N. Y.sC. $780,
Collected by Frank Spector,
Los Angeles, Calif.--N.
Henkin, S.; J. Ageshian,
$5; T. Rudick, 81; II. AL
pert, 81; Edith Berkman,
SO; B. Siminow, 81; S.
Woolis, 81; M. Goldstein,
SO; Gussie Reed 81; Albert
Shanks, 81; Valerino, ST.;
Peter Pan, SO; J. Rubin,
So; L. Siminow, $3.50;
Minnie Fradkin, 81; Clara
Oswald, 81; w. Wallace,
81; Musjoia, So; W. Ru-
dick, 81; A. Feinbcrg, S5;
s. and r. Glembot. SIS;
Victor Cutler, ST; Willem
81; S. Lippman, 81; Shu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
Local T.U.E.L. Issues
Call for Dress Meets

Local New York, Trade Union Ed
ucational League is arranging for
meetings of all the Leagues to mob
ilize them for support Of the dress
makers strike.
The Food Workers Section meet
ing is called for today at 6 p. m. at
the Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square, fourth floor.
The Building Trades Section meet
ing will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m.
at the Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square, fourth floor.
The Needle Trades Section meet
ing will be held tomorrow at 1870
p. m. at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
Irving Place, main hall.
All members of the Trade Union
Educational League of the above
mentioned sections are instructed to
be at their meetings to receive re-
ports from a representative Of the
T. U. E. l.. and the strike commit
tee and to mobilize for the neces-
sary assistance in the strike.
TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL
LEAGUE, LOCAL NEW YORK.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Feb. IA
(UP).--Grover Green. pilot. was
killed and Robert Sappingtoi, u pas
senger. was injured when their air
plane crashed here today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
NEW DETAILS OF
coal. IRON COPS
MURDER OF MINER
Lieutenant of Police
Tortured Prisoner
for Six Hours
Bent Iron Poker OnMan
Stamped All His Ribs
Into His Lungs

SANTIAGO, Pa, Feb. 14,-Fur
ther details in the murder of John
Bercoveskie, farmer and part
time coal miner here, by Lieutenant
w. J. Lyster, a coal and iron police
officer hired by the Pittsburgh Coal
Co., show that the crime was one
of revolving brutality. The COVER
nor a few days ago declared that
he would investigate the case and
threatened the police lieutenant and
an aid with the hideous punishment
of being removed from the force
if evidence showed they really did
the murder.
Eye Witness.
Since then the governor has an
nounced that the killing was not JUS
titled and has declared the two po-
lice removed from the force.
John Higgens, himself former
coal and iron policeman, has testi-
fled that he saw Lieutenant Lyster
beat and stamp his helpless victim
into pulp, the torture lasting six
hours before the police finally got
him killed.
Higgins charged that after Coal
and Iron Policemen H. P. Watts
and Frank Slapkis had beaten Ber-
coveskie unconscious and delivered
him, still insensible, to the Imperial
barracks of the coal company, Lieu
tenant Lyster finished the killing as
Continued on Page FiUe1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
UNIT If. SUBSECTION "a

Unit If, Subsection "a will hold
a special mobilization meeting for
the Daily Worker Tag. Days and
the needle trades strike tonight at
6:30 at 26 Union Square. 9Th floor.
All members Of the unit must at
tend.