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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
us. S. r. Airnuen ESCAPE
Mishab IN Aleutlam Hop
Gale Strikes Plane After Landing at Unalaska;
Coast Guards Tow Craft to Safety
Fliers Battle Bad Atmospheric Conditions Con-
stantly on Moscow to New York Flight

DUTCH HARBOR, Unalaska,
Sept. 25.-Braving adverse weather
conditions to make the 752-mile
flight across the mountainous Aleu-
tian Islands, the crew of the Land
of the Soviets barely escaped dis
aster yesterday when a severe
southeast gale struck the mono
plane Immediately after it had ar
rived here from Attu at PIP p. m.
(S.12 p. m. Eastern Standard Time) 4.
Amtorg Trading Corporation yes
terday announced the receipt of ad-
vices from Unalaska stating that
the U. S. coast guard cutters Chelan
and Haida at Dutch Harbor sent
motor launches to the aid of the
Land of the Soviets, which was en-
dangered by a sudden gale after
landing. Lengthy maneuvers were
required before the Soviet craft
could be t1wed away from the lee
shore to an anchoring buoy.
First Pilot Semyon Shestakov,
Second Pilot Philip Bolotov, Navi-
gator Boris Sterlingov and Mechanic
Dmitry Fufaev, who are manning
the Land of the Soviets on its Mos
COW to New York flight, have been
forced to battle constan,..- against
difficult atmospheric conditions since
taking off from the Moscow air
drome on Aug. 8.
Impenetrable fog earlier caused
the crash of their plane near Chita,
Siberia, and interrupted the 12,500-
mile journey, which was resumed in
another monoplane on Aug. %.
While on the first leg trip, the new
Land of the Soviets encountered
head winds which reduced its speed
to 40 kilometers per hour, although
for the balance of their hop it at
tanned a speed of from las to as
high as IT'S KIN.
Run Into Gale.
Flying from Irkutsk to Verkhneu-
dinsk, across Lake Baikal, the Soviet
airmen ran into a violent gale which
pitched their craft about like an
autumn leaf. A forced landing in
this rocky territory would have
meant certain disaster. Before leav-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26

The strike of the New York sand
hogs is continuing. More than 1000
workers have already gone out, and
more are expected to join the strike
today. Strong picket committees
were formed yesterday of Negro
and white strikers, after Harold
Williams, of the American Negro
Labor Congress and Solomon Har-
per, of the Crusader News Service,
spoke at the strike meeting at Man
haitian Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth ST.,
and urged united struggle of the
Negro and white workers. The
strikers are about half Negro and
half white workers. The white
strikers are mostly Irish with few
Italian.
The speakers pointed out that the
Negro workers should demand their
union membership books and con-
duct militant struggle within the
union.
Work Against Strikers.
The American Federation of La
Dor, with which the union is af-
filiated, and the Tammany Hall city
administration are working together
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
FOSTER WILL
SPEAK OCT |.
To Report at T.U.U.L.
Conference Here

William z. Foster, General Sec
retary of the Trade Union Unity
League, will report on the Cleveland
Trade Union Unity Conference
Tuesday, Oct. /, Irving Plaza, 1rv-
ing Place and Is st. at the confer
ence of the Metropolitan Area
Trade Union Unity League.
Delegates representing thousands
Of unorganized workers are ex-
pected to attend and hear Foster
report on the achievements of this
historic labor gathering which was
attended by 500 delegates from all
sections of the country and all in
dustries. Reports will also be given
on the tasks of the women workers,
youth workers and Negro workers
in the light of the Cleveland con-
ference.
One of the main questions on the
agenda will be Gastonia. The latest
developments there will be taken
up and discussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
CLOAKMAKERS TO
FIGHT RIGHTS
Compan yUnion Has
Betrayed Workers

An appeal to all cloakmakers to
rally under the banner of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
for struggle for better living con-
ditions, was issued last night by
the Joint Board of the union.
n The statement points out that
when the sab International Ladies
Garment Workers Union recently
signed their fake agreement with
the employers they said that the
conditions of the cloakmakers would
improve.
"You permitted yourselves to be
fooled the statement continues.
"Wha: are the results today, two
months as'ter the settlement? Do
yoq nI~ see to what deplorable
state your conditions have sunk?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26

the lessons of the struggles for
which Harry Canter, John Porter
and others have been imprisoned
viii, be dealt with.
Thousands of workers now in the
Communist Party are not acquaint-
ed with the early history of the
Party; the struggle for the right
to illegal" existence, the fight for
a mass Party and against sectarian-
ism. the experiences of early mass
struggles, the errors committed and
achievements Of the Party in seek
ing new and effective methods of
struggle. The knowledge of these
is of vital Importance for every
militant worker for an understand
ing of the present position of the
organized vanguard of the working
class.
The celebration Of this Joyous oc-
casion will be aided by the entire
chorus of the Freiheit Singing So
ciety and proletarian brass band.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
WITNESS TELLS
HOW BARKOSKI
WAS TORTURED
Wife Identifies Blood
Stained Clothes
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

Especial to the DAILY Worker.)
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25.-John
F. Higgins, today sat in the witness
box and told the court and jury of
being an involuntary witness while
the bosses thugs beat and kicked
John Barkoski until life had all but
left his body.
He told how he and Barkoski had
tried peacefully to settle a quarrel
between drink-maddened Watts, a
coal and iron policeman and one of
the defendants and a young boy,
himself being beaten into uncon-
sciousness by Watts, and seeing
Barkoski slump to the ground, try
ing vainly to protect his head from
the rain of blows delivered by Watts
with the butt of his heavy revolver
He related how Lycester and Watts
had kicked the helpless and uncon-
scious Barkoski around the ROOM
Lycester doffing his undershirt and
saying: He'll like a good work
out" while beating Barkoski with
an iron fire poker until the poker
was bent, then Strengthening the
poker and continuing the beating
Asked what Barkoski was doing
while Watts kicked him, Higgins
replied laconically: Lying there
helpless"
Widow Identifies Clothes.
Jury and spectators had a shock
when Sophie Barkoski, widow of the
murdered miner, took the stand, clao
in black and with eyes red with
weeping. She identified the blood
stained garments. Asked if she saw
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
SHEARER CLAIMS
BIG NEWSPAPERS
OBEYED ORDERS
Letters Involve n. Y
Times and Chicago
Tribune
Naval Bases the Issue
Dictated Policies From
Geneva Parley

While agitation for a full inves-
tigation of lobbies was being re
vived in congress, the senate COM
mittee investigating the Shearer
propaganda activities yesterday
heard Henry c. Hunter, New York
attorney, tell how American ship
builders had employed William B.
Shearer, naval expert.
A succession of developments out
side the committee room indicated
the senate soon would be called upon
to delve int othe tariff, prohibition
and other lobbies, like its naval sub
committee now is doing with the
merchant marine and disarmament
lobby.
Directed lingo Campaign.
According to Shearer's testimony
yesterday, he directed the publicity
campaign in the American capitalist
press in S. 4 a manner that the
pacifist pretenses of the Wall Street
government could be utilized for the
big navy program.
This avowed agent of three big
shipbuilding corporations, and spec
ial propagandist for the big navy
gang, claimed he dictated from
Geneva the editorial policies of the
New York Times, the Chicago
Tribune and other metropolitan
papers. According to his testimony,
he was not only the ship and NUM-
tions trusts watchdog over the
CONTINUED on Page TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
'LOvESTONE GETS
ONLY 52 V0 tx S
AT N. Y. M EE 7
1879 Communist Party
Members Endorse
His Expulsion
Zimmerman His Agent
decisive D efea 1t For
Right Wingers

BY vote of 1879 to So, the mem
bership meeting of the New York
District of the Communist Party,
held Tuesday night at Webster Hall,
supported the political line of the
Communist International and en-
dorsed the expulsion of Jay Love
stone and the other right wing rene
gades from the Party. Three mem
GERS abstained from voting.
/ The voting took place upon two
resolutions, one presented by the
District Executive Committee of the
Party, that favored the expulsion Of
the Lovestoneites and endorsed the
correctness of the resolutions and
theses adopted by the Sixth World
Congress of the Communist Inter
national and the Tenth Plenum Of
the Executive Committee Of the
Comintern. The other resolution
was presented by Charles B. Zim-
norman, who was the Loyo one
j caucus leader at the meet. 1t
was full of attacks on the Cc--4nu-
mist international and the Commu-
mist Party of the United States, and
showed to what extent the Love
stone group has already gone in its
anti-Party activities.
Discussion From Floor.
After William w. Weinstone, who
reported for the District Executive
Committee, finished his one hour
and a half talk, the floor was
thrown open for discussion. Among
those who spoke in defense of the
Party line were Louis Sisselman,
Otto Huiswood, Rebecca Grecht,
John Schmies, Gilbert Green and
Sidney Bloomfield.
The complete text of the resolu-
tion adopted will appear in future
issue of the Daily Worker.
In his report, Weinstone referred
to the increased violence on the part
of the police against workers thru
out the United States. Pointing to
Gastonia, he said the recent actions
there have proven that the workers
have moved forward by organizing
workers defense corps to defend the
workers rights against the fascism
of the mill owners. "This," he
added, "is another indication of the
rehabilitation of the working class"
Increased Militancy.
"On International Red Day." he
said, eve found increased militancy
on the part of the workers. Pro-
testing against naturalization, work
crs who never before participated in
militant working class activities
came to our demonstrations, and
when attempts were made by the
police to break them up, fought
against the police
In New Orleans, Weinstone said.
an economic struggle was turned
into a political struggle in spite of
the tear gas bombs and general ter
ror of the police. The workers
fought back courageously, which is
further proof that they are in a
mood for struggle.
Lonesome at Cleveland.
Speaking about the Trade Union
Unity League Conference, recently
held in Cleveland. Weinstone re-
minded the Party members that
Lovestone had promised to fight
he Party at that conference. How
2ver, Lovestone was decisively de-
eated, as the mass of unskilled
(Conttnned on Page Twot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26

working class, particularly the
Communist Party whom the
class conscious workers are
recognizing more and more as
their leader.
The formation of the company
union, the statement declared, is
seen by the mill owners as the "best
solution of the present labor diff
culties in that industry" James F.
Barrett, formerly the president Of
the North Carolina Federation Of
Labor, and now as editor of the
Brevard News in which the an
nouncement was first made yester-
day, an unconcealed mill owners
man, is the mouthpiece.
FoI .er Denounces Move.
Word was received here today
from New York that VIM. 2. Foster,
general secretary of the Trade Union
Unity League, pointed out today
that the announcement made by the
former president of the North
Carolina Federation of Labor on
the formation of company union
is simply another project of the
employers to defeat the workers.
"Barrett's plan is but another ex-
ample of the extreme degree to
which the misleaders will 90 as
agents of the bosses," the head of
the new trade union center declared.
"They are not only company union
izing the old unions and turning
them into mere auxiliaries of the
capitalists, but they are also willing
to become the organizers of open
company unions when the employers
decide that such is the most eff
fective way to demoralize the
workers.
Workers Smash Scheme.
"But the Southern workers, driven
to extremes by the pressure of cap
italist naturalization, will smash
this latest scheme of the employers
and their agents, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor bureaucrats. They
will insist upon real union, the
National Textile Workers Union, af-
filiated with the Trade Union Unity
| League"
Following the conference, Gov
ernor Gardner issued statement to
the press, in which he denounced the
leaders of the National Textile
Workers Union. A special session
of the legislature may be called, it
was stated, to legalize the intensi-
fled attacks upon the union and the
Communists. 1t is obvious that an
other attack Of the bosses black
hundreds upon union organizers and
active members will be construed as
sufficient excuse to take such ac-
ton, while the blame for this vio-
lence is laid upon the Communists.
Thus open encouragement is given
the fascists by Gardner.
Favorite Trick.
Manville Jenckes has always been
one of the worst slave drivers in
the industry and one of the cleverest
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
SECTION & UNIT INDUSTRIAL
ORGANIZERS MEETING

A very important meeting Of the
section and unit organizers will
take place tonight at 5 p. m, ut
1928 Union Square.
Important matters relating to
our trade union work will be dis
cussed.
William W. Weiustone. district
organizer of the Communist Party.
last night instructed all industrial
organizers to call off ottheer meet
ings for tonighht.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26

ing Irkutsk, Semyon Shestakov and
his three comrades has been held up
for two days by cyclone.
Again on the stretch from Petro-
pavlovsk, Kamchatka, to its first
landing point on American soil, the
Island of Attu, the Land of the
Soviets had to plow through heavy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
Negroes Rallying to Aid of
the 13 GastOnia Defendants
Newspapers Tell of Boss Conspiracy; Union
Organizes Black and White Workers

The National Textile Workers
Union that came South to or
ganize the most exployted section
of workers in America, the white
and Negro textile workers, found
the most brutal opposition on the
part of the mill-owners, the mill
owners government and courts.
. But the National Textile Work
ers' Union, aided by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense finds its
work has not been in vain.
Throughout America the toiling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26

Negro masses, numbering 10000,
900 of the most exployted work
ers, are evidencing tremendous in
terest in the case of the 16 Gasto-
MIA strikers who go on trial Sept.
30 at Charlotte, in danger of the
electric chair.
The Gastonia Joint Defense and
Relief Campaign, of 80 E. 18th ST.,
New York City, Room 402, finds
the case taking greater and greater
space in the columns of Negro
"a Continued on Page Ttoo) ,s.s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26

up from Ichang, and has laid down
strict regulations for river traffic.
The entire revolt is a military
maneuver on the part of ambitious
generals who may be taking Brit
ish or japanese money to start
trouble for Chaiang because he has
lately been following too much an
American imperialist leadership.
The revolving generals certainly
feel the intense dissatisfaction of
workers, peasants and hired SOL
diers for the bloody Chang Kai-
shek despotism, and are trying to
capitalize it for their own ends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
sANDHOC STRIKE. REVOLT SPREADS
is SPREADING AGAINST CHANG
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
The United Press states from
Moscow that the Soviet govern
ment has sent a new note to the
Nanking government through the
German embassy listing % separ-
ate attempts since Sept. 10 of
white guard Russian and Chinese
mercenary soldiers to invade the
territory of the U. S. S. r.
The raids included attacks on
shipping and U. S. S. R. villages.
1t paints a picture of intense
guerilla war along a 1.000-mile
frontier, and severely warns the
Chinese war lords that this must
Stop.
Reports from Shanghai, sent out
by capitalist newspaper correspon-
dents, indicate that Chang Kai-shek
is still lying unblushingly about the
extent of the revolt against him by
sections of the army nominally ad-
herring to the Marking government,
but that the facts are refuting him
badly.
The defeat of the Marking gov
ernment's expedition against Chang
Fa-kwei, during which a river battle
was fought a few days ago below
Ichang, was much more severe than
at first admitted. Five troopships
of the Marking forces tried to run
past Chang Fa-kwei's batteries, and
four of them were captured after
several hundred of Chang Kai-
shek's men had been killed and
wounded.
Five thousand men were captured
either in this battle or in another
fought about the same time, anc
about which details lack.
One ship was sent back to Han
kow, badly damaged.
Feng Embarrasses.
Yesterday it was reported that
emissaries from Feng Yu-hsiang
were closeted with Chang, appa-
rently demanding heavy bribe as
the price of remaining out of the
revolt, with no assurance that Chi
ang's empty treasury could raise
the money, or that Feng would stay
bought if he was bought. Mean.
while, it is certain that Feng's So
called "Kuominchun" (national peo-
ple's army is moving against the
orders of Marking slowly down the
Peking- Hankow railway line, as
though to assist Chang Fa-kwei
whose Ichang position is about 2
hundred miles up the river from
Hankow. Hankow is still held by
Chang Kai-shek forces. Chang
Fa-kwei controls most of the river
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
COMMUNISTS ESCAPE

Tsinah, Shantung, (By MaiD -
A number of Communist prisoners
have escaped from the Jail here.
A police officer and several others
were shot in the malee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
GENERAL COMPANY UNION
FOR SOUTHERN TEXTILE
WORKERS, IS BOSS PLAN
World Organization of W.LR. Sends Prominent
European Attorneys to GastOnia
Trade Union Unity League, Thru Foster, Says
Workers Will Defy Bosses; Rally to N.T.W.
BULLETIN.

following kilograms solidarity
changed yesterday: .-
"Gasonia Defense andR Relief Committee .
so East 18th st, New York City.
We negotiating with prominent European attorneys with
their participating the Gastonia trial Establish definitely
whether authorities will allow them participate.
Workers International Relief.
workers International Relief,
Berlin, Germany.
will be valuable
pacity Charlotte within
Trial reopens September 80.
Gastona Joint Defense andR Relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26

GASTONIA, N. c. Sept 25-The mill bosses of the South
attempting to organize union of all southern
textile workers. it announced today Whether this decision
outgroWth of the conference between the mill
owning Governor o. Max Gardner and the largest mill barons
the state disclosed stated that the next
step will be intensified offensive against the National Tex
tile Workers Union and all workers. organizations include
declaration of martial law other legal weapons fail to wipe
all organizations whose only interests those
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26
Widow Identifies Clothes.
SENTENCE WORKERS IN TOUR

PARIS, (By MaiD. - Comrade
Jeanneau and Benoit, arrested on
the eve of August l for the disrti-
button of leaflets have been sent
enced to one and two months i'm
prisonment respectively.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-26

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-10
BUY GAS SATURDAY,
PASTORS ARE URGED
Or. SChearrer Urges Use of
Autos to Avoid travelling
by Rail on Sunday.

To avoid encouraging travel by rail
on Sunday, requiring Sunday work by
railway employees, Washington clergymen
were advised Ito buy gas on Saturday
and travel by automobile at the Decem-
Der meeting of the Presbytery of Wash
ington City in the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church yesterday.
Such advice was given by DR.. r. Paul
Schearrer, pastor of the Takoma Park
PRESBYTERIAN Church, when disapproval
of Sunday travel was expressed by Dr..
wallace Radcliffe, pastor emeritus OF the
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
DR.. Schearrer was reporting as chair
man of the religious education commit
tee and had proposed that washington
ministers exchange pulpltS WIN BaiLl-
more Presbyterian ministers on Sun
day, February %, when DR.. Radcliffe
asked if the exchange would mean
travelling by rail on Sunday, adding: Il
never travel by rail on Sunday" DIT.
Schearrer's report, including the pro-
posed exchange of pulpitS, was approved
as also apparently was his suggestion 10
buy gas on Saturday and make the trip
to Baltimore by automobile.
Plan to Ask $4,000 of Board.
The presbytery adopted a resolution
urging its extension society and ma
tionsl mission committee to send COM
nlittee to request an appropriation OF
$4,000 from the Board of National Mis-
sions to carry on extension work IN
washington. The organization also
adopted a resolution approving the pro-
posed sale to the District government
of the First Presbyterian Church on
John Marshall place at price of $125,-
600. It lies in the new municipal CEN
ter area.
The church has not decided where
It will rebuild. but this and other de-
tails will be presented before the Pres
bytery later.
Reports on Celebration.
The Presbytery also adopted a reso-
luton to appoint a committee OF six
persons to make a study of work car
ried on among the Jews. Rev. DR..
man of the committee.
Rev. DR.. D. Hobart Evans, pastor Of
the Hyattsville Presbyterian Church,
reported on the celebration at his
church yesterday to mark the 225th
anniversary of its founding.
An address on the aims and pur-
poses of the washington Community
Chest was delivered by Elwood Street,
director of the chest. Rev. Bernard
Braskamp, pastor of the Gunton-
Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church
and moderator of the Presbytery of
Washington city, presided. The Pres
bytery is composed of ministers and
elders of Presbyterian churches through
out the city and in nearby Maryland
and Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-10
TRIAL OF D. C. REALTY MEN
AT ROCKVILLE HALTED
Gases of Operators Accused of Fail
ing to Procure Business Licenses
Indefinitely Postponed.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Nd, December TO-
The cases against two Washington real
estate operators, who were scheduled to
appear in the Police Court here this
morning to answer charges of failing to
obtain licenses to sell real estate in
Montgomery County, were is~:efinitely
postponed yesterday and Thomas A.
Gilleece, State license inspector, who
preferred the charges, announced that
amicable adjustments are under way
and that the cases would probably not
be pushed.
Gilleece holds that persons or firms
selling real estate in the county, no
matter where the headquarters from
which they operate are located, are re-
quired to take out licenses the 1st of
each May.
The law provides a penalty of $40 a
month after the first month and renders
the delinquents liable to indictment
and prosecution. The annual license
fee is SIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-10
Queen Ends Vacation.

PARIS, December 10 (P.-The Queen
OF Spain, accompanied by her two
daughters, left Sunday morning for
Madrid, after a few weeks vacation in
England and France.