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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
3 Defendants
to Describe Big
.Gast0nla Trial

Out of that ale of terror, brutal
ity, frame-up and heroic struggle
that has grown up around the word
Gastonia emerge the names of three
women, three women of the working
class who have been singled out, to-
gether with 20 men, by the North
Carolina mill owners for victimiza-
tion because they dared to lead the
revolt of the textile slaves of the
Manville-Jenckes Company against
exploitation and oppression so bru-
tai, so merciless that one wonders
how human beings could have ex-
listed under such conditions.
These three women, Vera Bush,
Amy Schechter and Sophie Melvin,
who, after spending more than seven
weeks in Jail, have now been released
on $4,000 bail each, are coming to
New York to tell the workers of this
city all the narrowing details of the
Gastonia strike, the Gastonia trial
and what must be done to save the
% workers from the electric chair or
long prison terms. And on Monday
night at o'clock in Central Opera
House, 9th st. and Third Ave, the
workers of New York are planning
to give a fitting welcome to these
three brave fighters for their class.
This great Gastonia defense and re-
lief mass meeting, at which the
three defendants will speak, has
been arranged by the New York Dis
trict of the International Labor De-
fense, the Workers international Re-
lief and the National Textile Work
ers Union.
Among the speakers at the meet
ing will be William z. Foster, ma
tional secretary of the Trade Union
Educational League; Jim Reid, presi-
dent of the National Textile Work
ers Union; j. Louis Engdahl, ma
tional secretary of the |. L. D.; AL
fred Wagenknecht, national secre-
tary of the w. I. R.; Charles. Alex
ander, Negro director of the Young
Communist League; Louis Lyman
president of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, and a
Pioneer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
FIVE MORE JUTE
WORKERS KILLED
IN INDIA STRIKE
Walk-out Reported to
Be Spreading Despite
Police Brutality
Govt May Send Troops
so Strikers Jailed in
Terror

BOMBAY, India, Aug. 8. - Re-
ports from Calcutta state that five
more jute strikers have been killed
and at least thirty more wounded in
struggle between the police and the
workers today.
Fifty strikers are reported to
have been jailed during raids by
the police in the mill district yes
terday but there is no indication
that the terror is in any way halt
ing the walk out movement which
is said to be rapidly spreading"
AS in the Bauria jute strike the
workers are showing the greatest
determination in the face of police
brutality and deliberate acts of pro-
vocation, beating of pickets, riding
down men and women strikers, etc.
Police guards were reinforced to-
day and permanent patrols have
been stationed in the vicinity of the
mills.
At the same time there have been
rumors that JOSH, reactionary
trade union leader, notorious for
his services to the government in
number of other strikes, may in
tervene in the present situation.
The rumors have not been con-
firmed, however.
Other reports state that the gov
ernment is planning to send troops
to the Calcutta district to put down
the strike by force and reopen the
mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
FAKERS 'DEPLORE'
MILL CONDITIONS
Only w ork ers Can
Save Gastonia Victims

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
GASTONIA, N. c., Aug. 8.-The
liberals and American Federation of
Labor takers, forced to "deplore"
conditions of the southern textile re-
gions, are now mouthing the facts
brought to international prominence
by the splendid fight of the National
Textile Workers Union, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Work
ers international Relief in Gastonia.
The bourgeois college men and
bureaucrats are meeting in solemn
conclavc at the Institute of Public
Conditions at the University Of Vir-
ginia and spending the main part of
the day "deploring" conditions,
which they pretend not to have
known hitherto.
When their sessions of sympathy
for the southern workers are com
pleted, they will go back to their
comfortable homes and colleges sat
isfied with having done their duty
for the pellagra-ridden, starving
southern workers.
The Reason Why.
The International Labor Defense
points out it is no marvel that the
southern workers are eager to band
themselves with the National Tex
tile Workers Union, of which 23
members are in danger of electrocu-
tion on long terms in prison. This
is the organization that fights with
deeds, not with words, for the mill
workers.
The New York Times stated, "De-
nunciations of the southern labor
situation marked the sessions of the
second day of the Institute of Pub
lie Affairs at the University of Vir-
ginia."
But, the militant workers Of the
land are not deluded by these ex-
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
CALL FOR UNITED
TENANTS FIGHT
Harlem Mass Meeting
Plans Wide Activity

Amid the enthusiasm of hundreds
of Negro and white tenants the con-
ference on housing, called by the
Harlem Tenants League, came to a
close last night with mass meet
ing at st. Luke's Hall, 125 w. 130th
St., which established the basis for
creating working class tenants
leagues throughout the city.
To Organize More Leagues.
To concretize the purposes of the
conference and assure the completion
of it's main aims as summarized in a
resolution unanimously passed at the
meeting last night a committee was
appointed to confer with other work
ing class organizations throughout
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
MEXICO PUPPETS
DEPORT SANDING
TO BR. HONDURAS
Anti i-Imperialists Hit
Portes Gil Govt.

MERIDA, Yucatan, Aug. S-Tak-
ing the hint from its Wall Street
masters, the Portes Gil government
of Mexico, has decided to get rid of
Gen. Augustine Sandino, head of the
Nicaraguan Army of Independence,
who has been residing in Mexico for
the past few months. Sandino and
his aides have been sent from this
city of Valladolid, from where they
are scheduled to be deported to Be
lie, British Honduras, for intern
ment.
Sandino, from the moment of his
arrival in Mexico, has made it clear
that he has made no compromise
with Yankee imperialism. Enthusi-
astic crowds of workers in several
cities warmly cheered his denuncia-
tions of the Wall Street oppressors
of his native land and his declara-
tions that he would continue un-
swervingly the fight to liberate Mic
aragua.
The Mexican government origin
ally granted Sandino and his COM
panions the right of political asylum
but this appears now to have been
a trap. What the Portes Gil syco-
plants of U. S.. imperialism intended
was that Sandino should give up his
activities against the Wall Street
government,
1t is also reported that Socrates
Sandino, brother Of General Sandino,
who was formerly worker in New
York, has left for Vera Cruz aboard
the American steamer Mexico.
Commenting on Sandino's depor-
tation at the offices of the ALL
America Anti-Imperialist League,
799 Broadway, today, Alberto Mo-
reau, secretary of the Latin Ameri-
can section of the League, stated
that it completely justifies the cri-
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Chester, Pa, Seameni to Pick
Delegates to Big Conference
Atlantic Coast Meet Aug. 17-18; Worcester
Conference Friday; Auto Workers Active

CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 8.-A Wig
orous local section Of the Marine
Workers League will be formed
here following a conference of ma
rine transport workers to be held
here Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Pro-
gressive Center, 120 w. Third St.
Preliminary organizational work to
this end has been going on here
for many months, and the confer
ence is expected to show the re-
suits of this activity.
AT this conference delegates will
be selected for the Atlantic Coast
Conference Of the Marine Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

League to be held Aug. II and 18
at the International Seamen's club,
% South st.
Distribute Call.
The Atlantic Coast Conference
will, in turn, send delegates to the
Trade Union Unity Convention to
be held in Cleveland, Aug. 31-Sept.
2. This historic conference will
form a new, militant trade union
center in the United States.
Hundreds Of Copies of the official
call for the larger conference will
be distributed here in the next few
Continued on Page Fire)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Striking Hackmen Applaud
Demand for Real Struggle
Meeting Shows Men LO sing Faith in the Three
Racketeers; Hackm en- Bitterly Exploited

A growing realization that they
were being utilized in scheme to
form a company union and a racket
for the personal profit of their
leaders," was seen in a meeting of
striking taxi drivers held last night
in New Harlem Casino, 10th st.
and Lenox Ave.
About $50 hackmen attended the
meeting which was addressed by
Jules Martin and Jess Donnela,
sponsors of the organization which
calls itself the Union of Taxicab
and Bus Drivers of Greater New
York. No reports of the progress
of the strike was made, Martin linn
iting himself to the declaration that
"only three men have the right to
discuss the demands" referring
apparently to himself, Donnela and
Joseph Murphy, the third partner
in the racket.
Cheer Real Demands.
Both conversation with the men
and the ovation which followed the
remarks of A. Rabin, taxi driver,
who sharply attacked the "strike"
leadership and urged concrete de-
mands, revealed the fact that many
of the hackmen sincerely felt that
they were engaged in real fight.
Rabin pointed out that he de-
mand for the 45 per cent commits
sion instead of the present 40 per
cent rate is not worth fighting for,
and listed the demands of thesTaxi
Chauffeurs Union of Greater New
York, principally the orgars@ftion
of garage committees, tn, &eht-
hour day. compensation. etc,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

Following Rabin's talk motion
was made from the floor that these
demands be taken up at once. 1t
was at this time that Martin, who
acted as chairman, curtly made the
declaration that only the three lead
ing racketeers could discuss de-
mands at this time.
The present movement, which was
initiated by Ma! =, Donnela and
Murphy, is apparently petering out,
and this was clearly revealed at
last nights meeting.
Rcp Association"
The men were especially bitter
against the "Hackmen's Protective
and Benevolent Association" which
yesterday distributed thousands of
leaflets declaring that it was not
associated with the strike. Hack
men charged that this association"
enrolls members at the rate of $12
a year in return for political pull"
in soft pedalling violations of traf-
fic laws.
Leaders" of the Strike.
Donella and Martin, the Headers"
of the present strike have been clos
er to the taxi bosses than to the
taxi drivers for many years. Even
before they entered on their most
recent financial adventure the
white Horse" cut-rate taxi fleet,
they were engaged in business ac-
tivities.
Here's DOnella's record:
For q short time driver for the
Black and White Taxi Company.
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
HEARING FOR 20
WORKERS TODAY
Youth Jailed Red Day;
Bronx Protest Meet

The IS young workers who were
jailed following a raid by Tammany
police on the Bronx section head
quarters of the Young Communist
League, 1472 Boston Rd., the night
of International Red Day, will be
brought up before the magistrate
of the 161st st. and st. AIMS Ave.
Court today on charges of "disor-
derly conduct" and "inciting to riot"
They were in the huge crowd of
workers demonstrating against i'm
perialist war and for the defense of
Continued on Page Five) ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
TRY new TRICK
IN CAR STRIKE
Seek to Break Walkout
by Running Buses

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. S.-A
plan to break the street car strike
in progress here by operating busses
and tricking the strikers into OPP
Grating the busses, was announced
by the New Orleans City Commits
sion today. They declared that the
plans are Tentatively accepted"
The New Orleans Public Service Cor
poration, which owns the street car
line, also controls the bus lines. The
rank and file declare they will fight
this maneuver, although the A. F. of
Continued OF Page Five)
Let's sail on the half moon with
the full moon yonder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
Many Delegates at
Big Shoe Conference
Saturday and Sunday

Several hundred delegates will be
present at the Shoe and Leather Con-
ference, to be held this Saturday and
Sunday at Irving Plaza Hall, the
Independent Shoe Workers an
nounced last night.
The conference will form the basis
ror a national Industrial union and
will also select delegates to the Trade
Union Unity Convention in Cleve-
land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
PITTSBURGH IN
PROTEST RALLY
Take Police Notes For
Possible Frame-Up

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 8.-Two
thousand workers whom the police
had kept moving, surged about a
hurriedly erected platform at a
street meeting here yesterday, and
enthusiastically cheered Communist
speakers who declared their deter
mination to carry on the meeting re-
gardless of the police interference.
The protest demonstration de-
nounced the authorities for break
ing up the International Red Day
demonstration, where % were ar
rested. Court stenographers took
voluminous notes of the various
speeches, probably with the purpose
of framing up a sedition charge.
Throughout the day police made
show of preparation to repeat the
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
BUCH AND SCHECHTER LEAVE FOR
WASHINGTON MASS MEETING; TO
SPEAK 81 I'm. Y. MONDAY evening
Visit Marion Strikers Urge UTW Rank and
File to Participate in Charlotte Conference
NTWU Youth Section to Send Delegation to
N. Y. Labor Sports Union Convention

GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. S.-Vera Bush and Amy Schech
ter two of the three strike leaders recently released
bail pending their trial murder charges which grew out Of
the raid the tent colony early June left here tonight for
the first meeting of their tour scheduled for tomorrow
night in Washington D. G. Sophie Melvin will remain in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
NANKINC TO TRY THIRTY
nine SOVIET CITIZENS
SEIZED IN HARDIN RAID
Report U.S.S.R. Invaded Unconfirmed, but
Japan Orders Citizens to Evacuate
Red Army Paper Denounces Imperialst
Attempt to Grab Chinese Eastern RR.

Further provocaton of the Soviet Union by the imperas
powers using the Marking bandit government their insru
ment begun yesterday with the Indictment of thry-nn
Soviet citizens seized in the illegal raid the consulate
Harbn May 27 The thrty-nne prisoners formally
charged with Communist plotting the blanket charge that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

Only few tickets left for the
Moonlite Cruise. Get yours in ad-
vance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
DenOunce Imperialist Attack.

DeHOunce lmperldnSL AtJacR.
MOSCOW, u. S. S. R., Aug. s.
Under the heading "Fox Tail and
VOLTS Teeth" the Red Star, organ
of the Red Army, today publishes a
scathing attack on the campaign of
the foreign imperialists for the saiz-
ure of the Chinese Eastern Railroad.
1t says:
''The Soviet Union cannot allow
the seizure of the Chinese Eastern
by Kuomintang bandits or its seizure
by imperialist robbers. We shall
struggle against one as against the
other"
There is intense and growing in
dignation against the imperialist at
tempts to capture the prize, the Chi
nese Eastern Railroad, at the same
time concentrating their forces
against the Siberian frontier of the
U. S. S. R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

usually made by the Marking
government in carrying out the
behests of the imperialists.
They have all been committed to
trial.
The announcement of the indict-
ment comes simultaneously with un-
confirmed reports that Chinese
troops have violated Soviet terri
tory and are engaging Red Army
patrols thirty miles beyond Pogra-
nichnaya on the road to Vladivo-
stok.
Heavy concentration of troops
continues on the Manchurian fronts,
west and north.
At the same time the Japanese
government is reported to have or
dered all its nationals to leave the
Manchurian sector, in view of i'm
pending military operations. The
action of the Japanese government,
one of the imperialist powers, mass
ing against the Soviet Union, is con-
sidered extremely significant as in
dicating how imminent the imperial
ist attack is believed to be by the
aggressors themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

Do not forget our date-tOnite-
on the Hudson. At the Costume
Ball.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

south TO aid IN the OrganlZa-
tional work for the Charlotte
Conference, Oct. II and 13, and
help the International Labor De
fense raise funds for the defense OF
the % arrested textile leaders, OF
whom she is one.
Both Schechter and Bush will
speak in New York City Monday
night at huge welcome rally in the
Central Opera House, 9th st. anc
Third Ave.
Joe Harrison's mother, two bro
theirs and cousin arrived from Pas.
sale, N. j., yesterday, to visit hin
in the CASTOR County Jail. They ex.
pect to return tonight. Harrison
was wounded in the attack on the
tent colony.
Mass meetings continue daily
throughout the South, in preparation
for the Charlotte Conference, which
will inaugurate great drive fol
better conditions and wages in the
mills. Tonight Clarina Michaelsor
will be the principal speaker at the
meeting of the Ozark mill workers
Martin at the Rex mill and Gersor
in Charlotte. Hugo Oehler anc
Wells will also speak at the Char.
lotte meeting. y
The youth section of the Loray
local of the N. T. w. U. hold daily
classes on organization in the tent
colony in Arlington, with Gerson as
instructor. The youth section de-
cided at its meeting yesterday tt
send delegates to the Labor Sports
Union convention and and athletic
meet in New York on Aug. 81. Al
athletic meet and dance is planned
for Aug. II in Bessemer City, tc
precede the departure of the dele.
cation.
Visit Marion Strikers.
MARION, N. c., Aug. Street..
ings to the textile strikers here anc
wishes for the success of their strike
were brought by National Textile
Workers Union organizers yesterday
as they passed through on their or
ganizing tour to mobilize the tex
tile workers for the Charlotte Con.
ference, Oct. IL and 13.
The N. T. W. U. organizers
warned the strikers against the sell
/ Continued on PAGE Fiuel
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-12-12

of course; there probably is, =
agreed Davenport. IL only said there
was apparently none. II must be very
slight-for. as | say, | have used this
battery TO drive my car eleven hun.
dred miles without any wear can de.
termine by looking ut It,"
'What metals do you use?"
Pardon" returned the young man
"but there. of course you're asking my
secret. will say this. however
They are alloys of metals easily pro.
durable. The alloy must be exact
and the distance between the plates
must be exact. have Il mcrometer
screw to adjust my plates"
"You say the metals are easily pro
durable How much do you estimate
II cost you to build such battery?"
milne up to now have been expert.
mental and built piecemeal by expert.
ment." Davenport pointed out. But
In quantity they could be bult-of that
size-for somewhere between fifty and
a hundred and fifty dollars. II isn't
the materials; It's the accuracy. and
don't know just what workmen of
the necessary skill would cost"
Grimstead's poker face was still do
Ing business. but his cigar butt was
chewed to fragile.
"You say that battery there will run
a brake test Of forty horsepower" he
asked
"About that"
"Will larger battery develop more
horsepower In proportion7 What are
the limits In capacity7"
Il haven't the slightest idea.
never built but two. and they are OF
the same size do know they will
work tandem though, for | drove
some Of the machinery of little saw
mill with them for day or two. Az
far as know there Is no reason why
you shouldn't put hundred OF them
In row. There's no limit apparent
~ to the amount o. static you can
take by means Of dynamos; why
should there be any more limit to
what you can take by other meansf
OF course. | don't know I'm lust be
ginning to fry II ont"
well you ma, have something
though II sounds pretty radical.
vawned Grimstead Irapping prone as
though the subject had ceased to In
terest him. AS get II. we all 70
to work tomorrow morning and get
the afternoon off Is that it?'
That's It." replied Davenport
Ito be continued)
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-12-12

However, thanks to Secretary Mel
Ion, President Coolidge and President
Hoover, the amount that we are go
ing to spend next year Is a great deal
less than we have been spending.
The income tax will be cut $780,
100000, if plans go through.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-12-12
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Town Built to Order

Gary Is town In Lake county, Ind,
located on the extreme southern end
of Lake Michigan, Is miles southeast
of the heart Of Chicago It was found.
ed in April, 1906. by the United States
Steel corporation and was named aft
er Ebert H. Gary. an officer of the
corporation. 1t might well be said
that 1t was built TO order.
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