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The daily worker., 1929-08-30
BUSINESSMEN FOR CHARLOTTE JURY ADMIT PREJUDICE
The Class Character of the
Palestine Revolt and It's Inter-
national Political Significance.
Statement of the Political Committee of the
Communist Party of the U. S. A.
1. THE CHARACTER OF THE REVOLT.

The in Palestine is not is class carried
on by the appropriated Arabian peasants against British imperialism
consider the Palestine revolt between the Jews and Arabs
viewpoint sharply the
Jewish daily the Morning Freh absolute
opporuns and hardly at ALL different from the stand of the Jewish
Nationalist Zionist and the capitalist Communist
between the Jews Arabs The slogans the Frehe and the
editorial August 25th had nothing with the
their imperialism The slogan issued
by the Fhet Protest the British Government which has
permitted people, the expressed
editorial the Fehe of August Is which reads follows
THE British impeaists have Palestine enough soldiers machine
and ipan They have them prepared the
struggles of the tong the would only want
they could easily with the pogromschky klers)
Such the struggle of the Arabs British mpe
rialsm simply Jews dors and bettes its political i'm
Arabian struggle The Fehet depores that the British having
Pogromschiky
Zionist characteristic of the socademo
the Communist Party and all responsible for such articles
published the Freiheit will be taken task by the
The of the revolt of the Arabian be found the
itd h nj through tb = Ie b Dte z
Britain suppression
national liberation for Palestine the
abrogaon political rights peasants
The Palestine integral
carried by the oppressed in the British
against the British Imperialism The revolt of the Arabian
of the oppressed peasants of India Egypt etc It part of the
struggle being wagd the Bombay textile strikers and the
@ % or m h m e bd h M ste
driven off their land by Znm the
of British imperialism.
The Arabs attacked the Jewish coonss whom reaction
overwhelmingly Arabian driving the Arabs off their
thereby this
mandate territory they have also opened British and the
British Palestine The establishment of Jewish
Palestine is the leaf British imperialism its land grab
this Asia And the Zionist
willingly and knowingly lending itself to this mission
q THE ROLE OF zIoNIsM
Palestine mandate territory to Great Britain by the i'm
perast tool the League of Nations important
for world imperialism. 1t is rich chemical and it
through with oil from the oil wells of MOsu
the Mediterranean Palestine is of strategic
the mperat activity regarding the control of Palestine The
Arabian revolt will opportunity to British Imperialism
the labor establish firmly
Britain Palestine thereby building another
state against the Soviet Union.
The majority the population Palestine but Arabs
proportion of to The establish Jewish national
home Palestine reaconay is based the appropriation of
the land titled by the perpetuan the rule of
Britain The colonial policy Great Britain Palestine
the Jewish expropang the land of the
Arabs which fruit plantations
controlled parasitic where Arabian
Jewish workers mercey exploited Therefore, the
Continued Page Five)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
THUGS BEAT UP
FOOD WORKERS
Militants Fight 800
Aides of Lehman a.

More than 300 gangsters and
flunkies Of the right wing Walters
Union, Local l, last night viciously
attacked and beat up a small group
of militant food workers who were
giving out leaflets issued by the
Food Workers Section, Trade Union
Educational League, in front of
Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and
Ninth St., where the union was hold
ing meeting.
After the committee had been giv-
ing out leaflets for a short time. a
gang of more than so thugs headed
by Izzie Strassberg, Sam Schrien,
Joe Kant, Joe Hurwitz and G. Nor
man, came out of the hall and start
ed to attack the workers nearest the
door. When the workers militantly
fought back, knocking some of the
gorillas down, the right wingers sent
a call for help into the hall. More
than 250 thugs rushed on the street
and surrounded the militant workers
who they started to beat without
mercy.
Charles Mercer, one of the prog
ressive workers knocked out several
of the gangsters before he was piled
upon by about so men, who kicked
him in the face after he was out
flat. George Rubis, was severely
cut up by the thugs and escaped
from them by jumping into a passing
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
CAROLINA MILL
WORKERS START
FOR cleveland
Organizer Oehler Tells
of Rising. Militancy

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 29.-
Hugo Oehler, Southern District Or
ganizer of the National Textile
ers Union, announced today that a
group of delegates to the Trade
Union Unity Convention to be held
at Cleveland on Aug. 81, has left
Charlotte. This is the second such
group of delegates, the first having
left several days ago. On their way,
both groups of delegates will do or
ganizational work for the N. T. w.
U. and the l. L. D. They will dis
tribute literature and arrange for
meetings at which they will speak
on their return trip. These meetings
will be held at about fifteen textile
centers in North Carolina and South
Carolina as we'll as Tennessee. In
the second group of delegates are
Dewey Martin, local organizer of the
N. T. W. U. and Ernest Martin and
others. William Murdock, John Rich,
Walter Lloyd and Jim Byers were
in the first delegation.
"While the trial of your fellow
workers and members of our union
Continued on Page TlUo)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
FRANCE YIELDS,
STATE BRITISH
Say England Gets Most
of Reparation Claims

THE HAGUE, Holland, Aug. %.
The British delegation issued a
communique near midnight today,
stating that the creditor powers
were in agreement sin principle" on
the amount to be received by Eng
land as her share of reparations ex-
torted from Germany.
The French-Belgian-Italian allies
had yielded on 78 per cent of the
British demands, the British state
ment says, and method of regu-
lating deliveries in kind has been
worked out.
If the. French government is now
able to make the chamber of depu-
ties accept this surrender, the Young
plan will go into effect.
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
DEFY FascistS,;
Send Help for
CASTOR Defense

Breaking through the chains of
fascism in Italy, where they are
forced to work underground, the
- Italian section of the international
Labor Defense has sent 1000 lire
to America for the defense of the
Gastonia prisoners.
This act of solidarity is especially
stirring as the funds were collected
cent by cent from Italian workers
under fascist regime, at great risk
and sacrifice. The contribution was
sent in the name of the 1900 work.
ing class prisoners of fascism, in the
name Of the workers of Italy who
have not submitted to- fascist re-
action.
The letter which accompanied the
remittance follows:
Dear Comrades:
We have received your appeal for
the defense, of the Gastonia workers
who are being threatened of murder
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
WORKERS
JOIN ARABS IN
WAR ON zIONISM
Conflict Spreads Takes
Forms of Revolt;
1000 Dead
British Burn and Bomb
Hireling Arabian Emir
Fights Countrymen

BEIRUT, Syria, Aug. 29.-Re-
ports from French sources state that
the dead in the Palestinian fighting
number over 1000. The British Of
ficial figures of 96 Jews, 81 Mos
lens and Christians killed, are
laughed to scorn here, as British
propaganda intended to save Brit
ish prestige.
1t is known here that Christian,
Jewish and Moslem peasants united
in the attack upon Zionism, which
exploits them all.
JERUSALEM, Palestine, Aug. 20.
With Palestine full of British
troops and marines, her harbors
choked by England's war fleet, and
Syria still flooded with the huge
army of occupation left there after
the Druse rebellion, news continued
to arrive of widespread Arab upris-
ings, which are assisted by Jewish
Continued on Page TtUo)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
CHEER new YORK
DELEGATES FOR
UNITY CONGRESS-
Over 100 at Midnight
Start to Cleveland

Hundreds of workers gathered
about midnight to cheer the dele
cation of about hundred New
York representatives as they ap-
peared to take busses chartered for
the first leg of their trip to Cleve-
land to participate in the Trade Un-
ion Unity Convention.
AS the Daily Worker went to press
speeches were being made by lead
er of smilitant struggles in New
York and New ersey, and an atmo-
sphere Of confidence and enthusiasm
generally was prevalent,
These delegates, elected by local
unions, shop committees, and Trade
Z Union Educational League groups
cheerfully face an all night ride
through New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and New York, up to Buffalo, where
they will take the boat to Cleveland.
A number of guests, taking the trip
cut of interest in the formation of
the new Industrial union movement
were also waiting to travel with
the regularly elected delegates, who
started last night. The number of
workers represented by the delega-
tion runs into many thousands, ex-
act compilation not being possible,
due to pressure of work in the local
office of the T. U. E. L. 1t will
be announced later.
The delegation from New York
and vicinity consists, the T. U. E.
L. announced last night, of Is needle
trades workers, 9 shoe and leather
goods workers, 2 laundry workers,
metal and airplane workers, 2
traction workers, marine transport
workers, II from the building
trades, 10 food workers, 8 printers,
textile workers, chemical work
er, / window cleaner, 1 barber, l
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

to union and of organizing
the textile workers.
Everybody who showed the
least sympathy for labor unions,
anybody who ever had relative in
a strike, on the side of the strik-
ers, anybody who ever read any la
Dor papers, was excluded, either by
the judge, for cause, or by peremp-
tory challenge by the prosecution
counsel.
Don't Want Workers.
Everybody who had ever worked
in cotton mill, anybody whose rela-
tives ever worked in cotton mill,
anybody who had friend that ever
worked in a cotton mill, was abso-
lutely unacceptable to the state, un-
til, by surprise, they passed cot
ton mill worker this afternoon. He
had been a member of the United
Textile Workers.
When court adjourned for lunch,
five were in the jury box and 105
had been examined to get these five.
One more was added during the af-
ternoon, and the special venire of
200 was exhausted. The defense de-
manded a new venire of 300, and
the Judge ordered it called.
The three added to the Jury in
the morning session were C. W.
Martin, a carpenter, and j. C. Camp
bell, news dealer. In the after
noon. ]. W. Hicks, formerly of the
U. T. W., was passed.
No Fairness to Atheist.
Most of the venire were business
men, and they usually admitted
much prejudice against the defend
ants. One nursery salesman quietly
declared that he couldn't give the
defendants a fair trial because he
was religious man, and he didn't
think they were. "a man without
religion will kill quicker than one
believing in Cod" he alleged as a
reason for his readiness to use the
electric chair on atheists.
Another venireman declared belli-
cosely that he not only couldn't give
union men a fair trial, but that he
wouldn't give them one.
Many of the others were conf.
dent they could give fair trial tc
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The daily worker., 1929-08-30
CAR UNION BOSS
CALLS NEW VOTE
Push Betrayal of N. j.
Street Car Workers

NEWARK, N. j., Aug. 20. = De-
feated in their first attempt to get
the 5000 Public Service workers to
vote on arbitration of their demands
for the eight hour day and the 25
per cent wage increase, officials of
the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway EN-
ployees will hold another ballot next
Tuesday. This was decided on at an
executive meeting called by Local
President William Wepner and at
tended by ten officers of N. J. To-
calls.
Ballot" Will Aid Sell Out.
Wepner will use the result of the
next ballot, regardless of the small
CONTINUED on Page Fhree)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

their heart he carries lump of rot
ten principles.
When a Communist comes down
the street honest people turn their
back on him, the angels in heaven
weep, and the Devil closes the gates
Of hell to keep him out. No man or
woman has any right to be Com
munist as long a. there is a pool of
water deep enough to drown them
or rope ,'ng enough to hang their
dirty carcas with.
Judas Iscariot was a gentleman
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

ton he had the soul of a yellow
dog, the smile Of jackass, the hiss
of q tom-cat, the sense of a billy
goat, and all the slyness that be-
longs to suck-egg dog left over,
And the Devil taken all that and
added lot more filth that stunk
real bad and created Communist
out of it. A Communist is two
legged animal with a cork-screw
soul, A water-sogged brain and
combination backbone made of jelly
and glue. Where other people have
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
JAIL SENTENCE
GIVEN. EDITOR

Patrick Selian, manager of Nor
Ashkharh, Armenian Communist
newspaper, who was arrested Sat-
urday night in the Bronx when col
lecting funds for the defense of the
Gastonia strikers, was sentenced to
10 days in Jail when arraigned in
court Monday. The magistrate also
said he would refer his case to the
department of labor for investiga-
ton.
On Wednesday, when the proba-
tion officer who had been appointed
to investigate the case reported, the
magistrate reconsidered his SEN
tence and gave Selian a suspended
sentence.
When Seiian was arrested he re-
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
Intensity Gastonia Defense
Campaign Over Labor Day
Unions Pledge Funds to Defend the % Workers
On Trial in Charlotte sl

With three big industrial unions
pledging substantial sums to help
save the Gastonia defendants from
the electric chair, the national cam
paign of the Gastonia Joint Defense
and Relief Campaign Committee for
funds, swung into an encouraging
gait today.
Labor Day week end is expected
to witness the appearance on the
streets in hundreds of cities, Of ar
mics of workers raising funds to
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

and prostitutes to try to lynch me
in the place of them leaving like de-
cent people would have done they
hung on till they committed murder
and now stand face to face with the
electric chair.
They was trying to lynch me be-
cause I was telling the truth on them
and having it published in the Gas
tonia Daily Gazette. You may pub
lish this in some of your papers if
you want to but you need not make
any changes in it for | have a copy
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
Executions continue.
UphOlsterers Strike

Although the leadership of the
union is opposing mass picketing,
the strike started Tuesday by the
Upholsters Union, Local rs, has al
ready in one shop settling and more
than 500 workers going on strike, it
was learned yesterday.
The strike was called to organize
the industry and so far has effected
Is shops whose workers have joined
the strike.
The union officials are discourage
ing all militant action on the part
of the workers, telling them to "be
good citizens and obey the law"
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
hILLMAN SELLS
PHILA. TAIL0RS
Speed-up Promised in
Daroff Shop

PHILADELPHIA, ug. % - An
agreement was signed yesterday be-
tween the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America and H. Daroff
& Sons ending the strike" that has
been going on here for the last lew
weeks.
"The firm has been assured" said
Hillman, "that it will have tine full
cooperation of our organization in
the efficient conduct Of its produc-
ton"
Develop Efficiency.
"We have today" said Daroff,
"signed an agreement with the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America which we believe will help
our working organization as to eff
ficiency in operation and general i'm
provement of our product. We be-
lieve that with the help of the Anal
gamated we will be able to manu-
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

compared with a Communist for
after he had betrayed the Lord and
had him lynched he did have man.
hood enough about him to go off
and hang himself and get out of
sight of honest people, And Com
munist has not got any manhood
about them.
Just look at that mob of Commu-
mist buns and old strolops that was
kicked out Of the slums of New
York and come to Gastonia, N. c.
After they melted mob of hobos
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

This letter, indicating the feroc-
ious prejudice which has been
whipped up by the Southern press,
was written by a certain J. A.
Mulwee, whose name appears in the
list of witnesses for the prosecution
of the Gastonia case, now being
tried at Charlotte, N. c.
This is a fair example of the con-
ception of a Communist as fostered
by the Charlotte News, Gastonia
Gazette, and other Southern papers.
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

dreds of Porto Rican workers to
Communist signature campaigners
in the 17th assembly district, Har-
lem.
Over 10000 Porto Ricans, half of
whom are Negroes. live in lower
Harlem, now known as Little Porto
Rico" They slave long hours in
tobacco shops, and as dish washers
and other kitchen help in restau-
rants and hotels for an average
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
Aurust Ii. 1929.

August 16, 1929.
Editor Labor Defender:
1 have been reading right smart
bit of your rotten trash. If you
think you can ram any such damn
able rot down the throats of the
southern people you have another
think coming. There is not a south
ern person that is any account that
will pay any attention to anything
that is published in any of the
bloomin rotten Communist papers.
After God had finished the crea-
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

save the prisoners. The beaches and
working class pleasure resorts will
be secured by workers seeking funds
which are urgently necessary to
meet the high mounting legal ex-
penses since the trial at Charlotte
began.
Tag days, house to house collec-
tions, street collections, will be re-
peated all over the country to make
the campaign itself an indisputable
Continued from Page One)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
POSTPONE TRIAL
OF 8 COMMUNISTS
Jailed in Harlem When
Addressing Negroes

The trial of nine members of the
Communist Party was adjourned un-
til Sept. "a when they appeared yes
terday in Washington Heights Court,
st. Nicholas Ave. and 168th st. They
were arrested when speaking at an
open air meeting 10 days ago ar
ranged by the Party at 1Ssth St.
and Seventh Ave. which was broken
up by the police.
They are J. Louis Engdahl, Albert
Weisbord, Harold Williams, Leonard
Continued on Page FtVe)
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

ATTENTION SECTION 2 AND 3!
Members Of Sections 2 and 3 are
urged to report Immediately after
work today at 1179 Broadway for
Communist Party work.
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
TROUBLE FOR STOOL PIGEON

SHANGHAI (By MaiI). = Kuang
Tze-yuen, professional spy in the
employ of the inner national settle
ment police, has been jailed on the
charge of planting" evidence to
frame robbery case against several
Of his fellow-countrymen.
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

Joint Defense and Relief Campaign
Committee at 80 E. 18th ST., New
York City, which is rallying the
workers to send funds to save the
23 Gastonia textile strikers.
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

of it filed way and if you make
any change in it ! will have it pub
lished in all the papers around here
to show what dirty work you will
do,
If you publish this in your paper
you may send me a copy of it,
Address, J. A. Mulwee
Mount, Holly, N. c.
r. F. D. 2,
The letter was received at the
national offices of the Gastonia
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

Our own nge, the bourgeois nge,
IL distinguished by this--thnt IL
has simpIificd class antagonisms.
More and more, society is splitting
up into two great hostile camps.
into two great and directly contrn-
posed classes bourgeoisie and pro-.
letarint.--Marx. 1
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
PORTO RICANS
SUPPORT PARTY
Harlem Workers Rally
To Communists

Stories of bit
ter exploitation
i n restaurants
and tobacco fac
tories, of fright
full housing con-
ditions and vi
cious race dis
elimination were
told by hun-
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
PROSECUTION THROWS OUT
ALL Who SHOW SYMPATHY
FOR RIGHT TO ORGANIZE
Questions Asked Veniremen Show Bosses Hope
To Destroy Union By ElectrOcutiOn !.
Only Six Jurors in Box at Night, New Venire
Of 300, Demanded by Defense, to be Called j
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

CHARLOTTE N. c.. Aug. 29.-The series of questions
asked the prospective jurors of the first special the
prosecution today showed again most clearly that the mill
of North Carolina whose attorneys the ranks
counsel for the state determined have jury that will
burn these sixteen trial
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
DELEGATES TO HUGE TRADE
UNION UNITY CONVENTION
ALREADY ENTER CLEVELAND
First Group Arrive From Basic Industries;
All Eager to Get United Movement Started
$50 From Mines; 100 From New York; "a From
California; So From Chicago industrial District

CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 29.-Delegates eager to
take part the founding of the trade union of
militant unions and left wing sections in reactonary unonsy
anxious to be started the all important task of organizing
the unorganzed already entering Cleveland by DOZENS
In day so $50 delegates are expected from the min
The daily worker., 1929-08-30
B0MBARD U.S.S.R.
FRONTIER POST
Execution Policy Is to
Terrorize Strikers
(Wireless by Imprecorr.)

I " " 'NbNco V1 AHtPf NNN'fs/
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 29.-
After a few days without incidends,
the Chinese militarist rulers are re-
newing their provocative acts. A
report from Blagovestchensk states
that a Soviet Union frontier post
eleven miles from Manchuli was
bombarder yesterday by Chinese
artillery.
A Soviet Union cutter and steam
ship, the Karl Liebknecht," on the
river Ussuri, was fired on by The
army of the Chinese war lords yes
terday. The firing took place 20
miles from Blagovestchensk and re-
suited in the wounding of the captain
and number of passengers.
Executions continue.
HARDIN, Manchuria, Aug. 29-
The bodies of six beheaded Soviet
Union citizens have been found in
the Sungari River. The German Con-
sui, acting for the U. S. S. R. is
making a strong protest.
1t is the policy of the 'militarist
government of Manchuria to execute
a certain number of Soviet citizens
and Chinese workers on strike
against the seizure of the railway,
ostensibly as spies, really for the
purpose of terrorizing the rest.
The daily worker., 1929-08-30

ing industry. From the South,
from the battle field where tex
tile strikers so recently faced
the guns of the enemy, a strong
delegation is reported on the way.
Delegates are here from rubber,
steel, railroad, from the unorganized
coal fields of Kentucky and Tenn
essee as well as from unionized ter
ritory. They are here from the
ocean and lake steamers and the
docks.
The Trade Union Unity Conven-
ton, at which a minimum Of TOO
delegates are expected, will open
Aug. 81 at 8 a. M, in Slovanian Hall,
6409 st. Clair Ave. At s p. m. there
will be mass meeting in the same
hall, with nationally known labor
leaders as speakers, and with a
musical program.
100 Leave New York. /
Late last night approximately 100
delegates weer assembling in the
Workers Center, New York, prepara-
tory to taking busses for the journey
to Cleveland. Women delegates,
Negro delegates. young worker dele.
gates, were there, representing tex
tile mills in New Jersey, shoe fac
tories in Brooklyn and Manhattan
hotels, restaurants and cafeterias all
over the Greater New York region,
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