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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
prosecution" in Trial Bucharin, in "Pravda",
of Marion Murderers Retracts Anti Party
Builds Their Defense Policy; Admits Error

huntsville, N. c., Dec. 15.--
Saturdays session of the white
washing proceedings here for the
eight Marion deputy sherriffs, de-
putized mill owners gunmen, who
helped Sheriff Adkins slaughter 6
unarmed Marion Manufacturing
Textile Co. pickets on October 2 was
featured by unusually open CO.
operation between the prosecuting
attorney and the mill lawyers.
The mill owners defense placed
on the stand one John Snoddy, an
overseer in the mill, who testified
that the first shot was fired by
Tolden Carver, one of the strikers
killed in the Marion massacre.
Snoddy testified he looked out of
mill window, and saw Carver fire
at the deputies from the rear ranks
of the crawd Of pickets. Carver
would have had to shoot through
half dozen pickets to hit any dep
uties, so A. Eall Johnston, one of
the prosecution staff carefully
brought out that Carver must have
fired. ""ver their heads.' After
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Spread the Coal Strike!

The Illinois miners displaying the most magnificent
solidarity,
The efforts of the Lewis Fishwc harrington gang of
socaascists to disrupt the strike and confuse the issues
met by such splendid examples of mtancy as that at
the Peabody Mine Number Nine where workers refused
even to consider returning to work until all troops been
Withdrawn full reinstatement of all strikers guaranteed and
all charges against arrested strikers dismissed.
The strength of the miners tradition of struggle is ap
parent in every action There is still some confusion result
ing from the eacherous campaign waged by the agents of
ne coal barons who operate in the ranks of the miners but
the sharpness OF the struggle itself exposing before
the workers and their influence wanes rapidly.
What is needed the rapid extension of the strike
IN the three seconsWest Frankfort Springfield and the
Beevie region. Welorganized of miners and
their families will spread the strike over wider area and
INK up the various sectors into one battle line
1t also necessary to send organizers into the Kentucky
fed at once and there begin struggle against the
Lewis machine which still exercises magn influence
there The Kentucky miners have voted strike and the
National Miners Union alone guarantees that their struggle
will not be betrayed
The more than 100 arrests of militant workers in the
Illinois coal fields best be answered by the closing of
more mines-by the extension of the struggle
On other sections of the fron-n other industries in
the collection and distribution of relief in the organization
of defenseour Party must be modified the utmost ex
tent OF its The miners the full force of
American Imperialism in this struggle So will all workers
as other struggles develop.
Organization and working class solidarity and mtancy
weapons To the limit of its strength our Party
must furnish eadership-Communs clarity against the
reachey and confusion of class the ranks of the
masses.
Spread the strike
Carry on the widest agitation and organization
Flood all the coal mine with leaflets giving the
fighting program of the National Miners Union.
Build broad rank and file strike committees Build the
actual leadership of the struggle in the struggle itself
Build the National Miners Union!
Spread the strike!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Murder Charge ON Saylors Is
to WhiteWash Chief Lvncheys

In statement issued last week
by the international Labor Defense
southern district, the flat charge is
made that the attempt to frame up
G. d. Saylors is actuated by desire
on the part of the mill owners to
cover up the lynch mob activities of
Gastonia city official and of one
Of the chief attorneys of the Man
ville-Jenckes textile company. The
statement says in part:
"The charge of murder levelled
against G. D. Saylors, organizer of
the LID. and member of the MT.
W.U. is nothing more than an at
tempt to frame up a militant worker
whose activity during the trial for
the defense of the Gastonia union
members and organizers incurred the
enmity of the mill owners and their
pawns. His courage, working class
integrity and zeal caused the desire
for revenge upon the part Of the
capitalist class. They have seized
this flimsy, outrageous and low pre-
text to exact revenge. Another sig
nificant reason for trying to get rid
Of him is to whitewash the unmis-
taxable culpability of Bulwinllc and
Caroenter as leaders Of the mob Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Spread the Strike. "

WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.,, Dec.
16.-"Spread the strike" is the
watchword from now on, the Illinois
district headquarters of the National
Miners Union here announced today.
There are now strikes in all the
more important centers of the Illi-
nois fields except Williamson coun-
ty. There are ten mines, mostly
Peabody Coal Co., on strike in
Christian county, around Taylor
vile, Kincaid and two in Pana.
Benld mine in Macoupin county is
out, Livingston and Collinsville
mines in Madison county, a mine
near Belleville, Buckned and Cecilia
mines in Franklin county and Fasson
mine in Franklin county.
Marching miners from the struck
mines in each Of the strike areas
should proceed to the mines still
working near by and bring all the
men out, the N. M. U. says. Plans
are under way TO extend the strug-
gle into Kentucky and Indiana at
the first opportunity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17

mill thugs who flogged and kidnap-
ped Wells, Saylors and Lell on the
night of September 8, 1929. Saylor's
definite exposure of these tools of
the mill owners was too dangerous
to have suspended over their heads" /"
These murder charges against
Saylors indicate the flaring up of
a more active period of the never
ended attempts of the bosses to ter
rorize the mill workers and prevent
their organization, the LID. states.
The present campaign of the
North Carolina mill press is to get
through criminal syndicalism law.
The papers carry huge streamer
headlines featuring every profession
al patriot, however obscure, if only
he calls for C. S. law. The Gas
tonia Gazette in a recent issue COM
ments with pleasure on the sentenc-
ing of three Communists at st.
Clairsville, Ohio, under C. S..
charge because they proved to the
satisfaction Of . worker audience on
International Red Day that the U.
S. government is an imperialist tool,
and against the workers. The
PAYERS headline says: "Need Same
Law Here"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Woll, Stimson, Manchuria---
International PrOvOcatiOn

The provocation against the Soviet Union continues
In the United States Matthew Wo the Amer
Federation of Labor outdes the Wall
fulsome euogy of the insulting entirely
note to the Soviet Government To strike blow
and peasants the world Wo nduges species
beycrawng Wall department which sets new
record for this social-traitor.
Wo accuses the Soviet Government of trying conquer
churia and
Certainly nothing will be left o authority of
the Kellogg the
of Manchua
While American marines slaughterng
peasants while Wall Street
and carries against the Ncaraguans protest
He is stirred by only the repng
the attacks of czarst emigre generals
Manchua Chinese territory Mongo are
the inhabitants have been
Chinese and Japanese mars The Peoples Party
carries on revolutionary struggle against the invaders
Wo hands with
foreign consuwho Manchuria representing
Britain the United States JAPAN Germany Ostensby
Manchuria to look after the Interests
the of the expedition that of espionage
The United States government the instrument of
Glass; has its Interests" in Manchuria They
those of Japan but essentially
sular agents directed against the Soviet Union
Wo letter endorsing the Smson
of the mperst plot intended strengthen
against the fatherland of the worlds working
Expose and this mperast the Soviet
Union against class enemes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
WOLL WANTS WAR
ON The U. S. S. R.
Begs Stimson to Take
Manchurian r. r.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Mat-
thew Woll, vice-president of the A.
f. of L., who Joined in Hoover's
fascist wage-cut attack against the
American workers, led by such scab
corporation heads as Lamont, Young,
Rosenwald and Barnes, follows up
his attack against the toilers in the
U. S. by approving the Stimson war
threat against the Soviet Union.
Wolls approval of Wall Streets
threat against the Union of Social
ist Soviet Republics is contained in
letter to Stimson in which he
praises the state department ef-
forts to get control of the Man
churian railway in the interest of
U. S. Imperialism.
When Hoover announced his policy
of forming an organization led by
20 leading imperialists, whose main
object would be to attempt to batter
down the wages of the American
workers, Woll was one of the first
to rush in and offer his services as
(Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
HIDE N.Y., WASH.
PROTESTS FROM
HAITI MASSES
f ear Demonstrations
Of u. S. Workers Will
Spur Revolt
Marines Run Elections
Gen. Butler Says Wall
Street Always Wins

PORT AU PRINCE, Dec. 49,
News of the mass protest demon
strations against Wall Streets i'm
perialist rule of Haiti and for the
support of the Haitian masses is not
permitted to be published in the
papers by order of General Russell,
marine high commissioner in Haiti.
Russell fears that the knowledge
of international support by the revo-
lutionary workers organizations
would spur the Haitian workers and
peasants to increased attempts to
overthrow Wall Street domination.
General Russell specifically men
toned the demonstrations in New
York and Washington in his order
of censorship.
PORT AU PRINCE, Dec. 16.-
The Haitian petty-bourgeois polit-
ical leaders have asked Hoover for
marine supervision of the elections
Continued ON Page TWoJ
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Mass Protest
Raised by lid.
SAVED ACcOrsi

Salvatore Accorsi would today be
awaiting the electric chair, is the
opinion of Grace Hutchins, author
of "Silk and Labor" if it was not
for the International Labor De-
fense.
81 attended the trial of the Ches-
wick miner, and | could see that
the troopers were determined to
get Accorsi. If the prosecuting at
torneys could have pulled it over
in the dark-Accorsi would not to-
day be with his wife and three
children. He would be on the same
road that Sacco and Vanzetti
travelled"
The labor writer declared that
the state troopers were determined
to make a victim of Accorsi in re-
venge for the ugly notoriety they
had gained through the John Bar
koski murder, and the Cheswick
riots.
Mass Protest Saves.
"They manufactured evidence,
they got false witnesses, they had
(Coatanued on Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
MINERS NEED
STRIKE RELIEF
w. |. r. A Appe ais for
Funds to Aid
Strikers

A stark, narrowing picture of
starvation and misery in the Illinois
coal fields is told by Ann Clark.
secretary of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief in West Frankfort, Ill.
in a letter to the national office of
the W.I.R., 949 Broadway, New
York City.
She writes:
."Relief is needed in every section
of the Southern Illinois mining field
In the outlying districts of Spring
field whole settlements of unemploy-
ed miners have been living on the
verge of starvation for more than
year. In Taylorville and the Mid
land track the intense strike situa-
tion makes it imperative that we
Immediately establish a relief center
there and rush relief to these
strikers so that we may provide them
with incentive and encouragement
to keep on militant picketing.
Franklin county conditions are
very bad in every town. Saline
county is living under conditions as
bad as in the unorganized fields of
Kentucky and West Virginia, Credit
has already stopped at the company
stores. We can expect the strikers
to be evicted any day. The strikers
report that they have no food One
striker, head of family of seven,
said to the organizer, "We have not
enough food in the house for another
day. The company store has refused
us credit. But | will carry on the
fight will not go back to work
until we win. This is the spirit
throughout the territory. We must
get relief down here to keep this
spirit up. We cannot permit the
operators to starve us out"
The Workers International Relief
appeals to every class-conscious
worker, every organization and
every sympathizer with labor to re.
ply to this letter at once with money
and food. Rush them to the Ma
tional Office of the WIR., $40
Broadway, room 5l2, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
PERIAL|STS IN
SPYING JOURNEY
into MANCHURIA
Say Chinese Red Army
Rules South Hupeh

SHANGHAI, Dec. 16.-Tokio and
Mukden news dispatches indicate a
renewed effort on the part of world
imperialism to provoke further con-
flict with the Soviet Union over the
Manchurian situation. The anxiety"
alleged to be felt for foreigners in
western Manchuria, has served as
an excuse to invade that region with
so-called international train"
bearing representatives of America,
Japan, England, Germany and
France, evidently with the idea of
smelling out new excuses for more
war propaganda and new war
threats against the Soviet Union.
1t is self-evident, that when "rep-
resentatives" of these imperialist
robber powers get together for such
an expedition, that some mischief
is afoot, and that the worlds work
Continued on Page TiOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
"U. S. ORDERED
LOCKOUT" WOOD
Shoe Pickets Mass at
2 Shops; Sc Arrested

When the La Vale injunction
against the Independent Shoe Work
ers Union came up in Superior
Court, Part I, yesterday, Attorney
Buitenkant for the union forced
Commissioner W. c. Woods of the
U. S. department of labor to admit
that his letter to the shoe bosses
some time ago, urging them to break
their contracts with the Independ-
ent Shoe Workers Union because it
was Communist was approved by
his superiors in Washington. He
admitted that news to the contrary
carried by the New York World and
other capitalist papers was false.
The union officials point out that
the capitalist press seems to be try
ing to whitewash the labor depart
ment.
Two successful mass picket
demonstrations took place yesterday
morning, one in Brooklyn and one
Manhattan. In Manhattan the
demonstration started on Bleecker
and Mercer SITS and proceeded to the
La Vale Shoe Co., 632 Broadway.
The employer was furious when he
noticed the procession. The police
man on the beat seeing that he could
not handle the situation himself
called the riot squad for help. In
the meantime the shoe workers were
marching back and forth and sing
ing revolutionary songs while a
large crowd gathered around to look
I on.
10 Thirty-six Arrested.
There was also demonstration in
front of Benjamin & Schwartz Shoe
Co., 1874 Noll st. The ranks were
not broken until SO of the workers
were put in couple Of patrol wa
gons.
At Gates Ave. Court one ~as
charged with assault, third degree,
and is out on 5000 bail, his name is
Salvatore Trapini.
The other So were held on a
charge of disorderly conduct and
were released without bail, trial to
come up ON Thursday, December 19,
at the Gates Ave. Court.
Eight more were arrested late yes
terday, before the Bressler Shoe Co.,
104th st. and Fourth Ave. They
are charged with disorderly conduct
and are held in $500 bail each.
The Workers International Relief
and the United Council of Working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
'"SPREAD STRIKE"
ILLINOIS SLOGAN
Many Mines Closed in
All Centers

TAYLORVILLE, H., Dec. 16.-
Attempts of the operators and the
United Mine Workers of America
to stampede the miners of Christian
county back to work came to an
abrupt halt today. The Peabody
No. 9 mine had been selected as the
starter, and meeting was called
to hear propositions by the opera
tors.
The miners, however, voted over
whelmingly to stay on strike. They
demanded withdrawal of the militia,
release of all those arrested, and
driving of all scabs from the terri
tory. More Peabody mines are COM
ing out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Communists OF
Great Britain
Greet CPUSA

The following greetings sent TO
the Communist Party, U.S.A., from
the British Communist Party, were
adopted by the Eleventh Congress
of the British Communist Party
which recently completed its ses-
sions:
Dear Comrades:
"The Eleventh Congress of the
British Communist Party sends it's
revolutionary greetings to its Amer
lean brother Party and expresses
its great satisfaction at their success
in bringing to an end the devas-
tating factional fight within its
ranks by defeating the Right Liquid
atory Lovestone group.
"Your fight against the right
danger has undoubtedly enabled your
Party to fulfill its great task of
leading the workers in the growing
economic crisis which must newt
ably lead to intensified mass radi-
calization and an ever growing dan
ger of war.
"The rapid sharpening of Anglo
American rivalry calls for closer
collaboration between our Parties.
In particular the Forthcoming Lon
don conference makes clear the
necessity of strong united efforts for
the defense of the Soviet Union, the
workers fatherland.
"Our Congress has shown it's de-
termination to fight the right dan
ger in our midst, which task when
carried through to a successful con-
clusion will enable us to organize
our forces for more ruthless strug-
gle against the social-fascist Mac
Donald government with it's hang
man role in the colonies and its wage
cutting, strike breaking role at home.
eve wholeheartedly accept your
challenge to engage in a broad re-
volutionary competition particularly
in connection with the reorganization
of your Daily Worker and the build
ing up of ours
With Communist greetings,
HARRY POLLITT,
For the Presidium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
By HARRY CANNES.

On January 81 opens the battle
for increased naval armaments be-
tween the United States, Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan.
This conference will mark an enor-
nous increase of armaments by the
two leading imperialist nations
Great Britain and the United States.
While dickering between them
selves for advantages in naval ar
maments, the two leading powers
want to limit France, Japan and
Italy, or to allow them to arm only
insofar as they are assured allies of
one or the other.
The object of Stimson, Of peace"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
ALGERIAN STRIKES WON.
(Wireless By Inprecorr)

PARIS, Dec. 1G.-The workers of
Algeria in French northern Africa
are exhibiting splendid fighting
spirit, Following the example of
the dockers of Philadelphia, the
lockers at Bona struck for higher
wages and won. They have decided
to form a branch Of the revolution
ary union of transport workers.
Also the petroleum workers at
Port de Bouc have won a strike,
getting francs daily wage increase
and securing union recognition and
no victimization of strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
London Naval Conference to Be
Struggle for War Aymaments

pact fame, and Dwight Morrow. act
ing for their brethren in Wall Street
is navy for U. S. Imperialism sec
ond to none. Palm Dutt says:
British and American imperi-
alism are seeking: first, to i'm
pose statutory inferior position
ON all other powers, while making
their own level too high for COM
petition by any others Japan has
already sent in officially a plea
that parity may be fixed at a low
er level, and that within that low
er level she may receive a higher
percentage, 40 per cent; both re-
quests have been refused); second,
Continued on Page Three)f
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(Wireless bu Lnprecorvl J

MOSCOW, Dec. 16.-The organ
Of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, "Pravda," publishes
an article by N. Bucharin, retract-
ing his anti-Party policy and at
tacks on the Party, admitting his
errors, particularly those contained
in his article against the Party's
policy, which article he had pub
lished under the title, "Notes of an
Economist"
The workers in many Soviet fac
tories have decided to work on
Christmas Day, giving their wages
for that day to the industrialization
loan in, order to push further the
attainment Of the Five Year Plan
of socialist construction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
STRIKE IN ARGEN-
TINE

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 16.--Two
hundred students of the Buenos
Aires University declared strike
and barricaded themselves in the
university building.
Their first act after capturing the
building was to declare the dean of
the school discharged. The strike
vas lead by students ebuncil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
international
Wireless
News
ARMED ITALIAN WORKERS
BATTLE Fascist. .

VIENNA, Dec. 16.--The bourgeois
press reports that there have been
bloody collisions between fascists
and workers in Italy. At the village
of Cesenatico armed workers re-
pulsed the fascists, wounding eight
of them. The Communist Donati has
been held on a charge of killing a
fascist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
NEEDLE union IN
CALL TO CONFER
Worker Organizations
to Send Delegates
BULLETIN.

A meeting of active members
in the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union at Webster Hall
last night energetically discussed
organizational me asures an
voted for all to devote at least
days to the union organizational
department, also to participate in
the Workers International Relief
tag day for miners, textile work.
ers and needle workers.
Wednesday in Bryant Hall
there will be an open forum with
Joint Board manager Borucho-
witt speaking on "The Latest
ID e We | opmen in the Cloak
Trade" taking up the tactics of
the militants, and explaining the
present fight of jobbers and con-
tractors.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union has issued a call fol
a special delegate conference of al
workers organizations to meet
Saturday, December 2S, at 2 p. M.
in Irving Plaza, to enlist support ii
the campaign to organize the needle
workers in the Industrial union.
The call, signed by Joseph Boru-
chowitz, general manager, and for
the joint board is in part as fol
lows:
Enemies Unite.
"The present period in the strug-
gle of the workers of this country
is very serious one. All the dark
forces of reaction have united in
an offensive against the workers
Continued on Page TWo)
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1000 Out in Spain.
(WireIess RU IuDyec0rr)

PARIS, France, Dec. 16.--An at
tempt of the employers to victimize
member of the miners revolution
ary union, affiliated to the C.G.T.U.
UNITED General Confederation of
Labor and through that to the Red
international of Labor Unions start
ed strike yesterday of thousand
miners at Piennes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Five Miners Killed in
Two Accidents; Fire,
.Cave-In Destroy Them

Capitalist press reports tell of
two fatal mine accidents, one near
Sudbury, Ontario and the other at
Crosby, MINI:
Four workers in the Levack mine
of the International Nickel Co. Of
Canada at Sudbury were killed in
a fire yesterday. They were trying
to escape up the mine shaft in a
bucket, and part of the headframe
collapsed and fell on them.
At Crosby, in the Croft mine, Gus
Snyder was rescued Thursday after
being pinned under a cave-in for
40 hours. He died yesterday from
internal hemorrhage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
FOR WI.R. TAG DAY.

The Central Executive Committee
of the United Council of Working
Glass Women, issued a statement
last night calling upon its members
to participate in the Tag Day, ar
ranged by the WI.R. for Saturday,
December 81 and %.