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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
WOMEN WORKERS
ENDORSE THE C.P.
Conference Prepares
For Local Election

Representatives of many working
class organizations and shop dele
gates attended the working womens
conference last night called by the
Communist Party, New York Dist
rict to mobilize the exploited work
ing class women in support of the
Communist candidates in the coming
elections. 1t was held at the Work
ers Center, 1928 Union Square.
Resolutions weer adopted pledging
the working women to help defend
the Soviet Union from the attacks
of the Chinese war lords and their
imperialist allies, to conduct an en-
ergetic struggle against the three
parties Of capitalism, the democratic
party, republican party and socialist
party; solidarity with the 16 Gas
tonia workers who are now on trial
in Charlotte, N. C. and an endorse
ment of the Trade Union Unity Con-
ference which opens in Cleveland on
Saturday.
ChernenkO Presides.
Lena Chernenko, candidate for
alderman in the 56th district, Brook
lyn, was elected chairman of the con-
ference which was opened by Olga
Gold, secretary of the New York
womens committee of the Party.
The conference was addressed by
j. Louis Engdahl, secretary of the
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
SECOND BILL OF
PARTICULARS IS
WITHOUT DETAIL
Constructive Murder"
Charge on Strikers
BY LISTON OAK.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 81
The two bills of particulars SUBJ
mitted by the state against the Gas
tonia defendants, the second bill
brought in today as the result of
Judge Barnhill's order yesterday to
change the first one, make the real
issue in this historic trial the right
OF workers to organize, to strike, and
to defend themselves.
The death of Chief of Police Ader-
holt of Gastonia during his June 7
raid upon the Gastonia strikers, tent
colony, is made the legal excuse on
which to pin charge of murder.
The language of the latest bill,
accepted by Judge Barnhill today,
in an hours session, after which
court adjourned, is the language of
an injunction issued to prevent
strikes and picketing.
In this respect, this second bill of
particulars raises even more clearly
than the first one the basic class
issue in this case.
Death For Striking.
The strategy of the state is to
send thirteen workers to electrocu-
tion (the prosecution says, at least,
that it will not ask the death penalty
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
AGAINST
U.S.S.R. CONTINUE
Marking Still Invades
Soviet Soil

SHANGHAI, Aug. 27. While
raids of Marking and white guardist
troops into the Soviet Union and
firing on Soviet citizens continue,
dispatches from Marking today re-
port that one of the groups in the
Kuomintang is spreading propa-
ganda to offer new terms to the
Soviet government on the Chinese
Eastern Railroad.
The terms suggest a conference
and would be transmitted thru Mar
shal Chang Hsueh-liang.
According to the plans of the
Kuomintang group, the Chang would
be instructed to meet the Soviet gov
ernment "half way" in the demand
that the Chinese Eastern Railroad
be restored to immediate status quo
ante, and the immediate reinstate-
ment of the Soviet department heads
who were ousted when the Nanking
government, acting for the imperial
ist powers, seized the railroad two
months ago.
The group proposing these meas
ures is said to be actuated in part
by the heavy losses which the Nan
king government is suffering as a
result of the railway tie-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
''Funds!"

uiluS.
The absolute necessity of more
funds to meet the sky-rocketing in
crease in legal expenses since the
trial began at Charlotte, N. c., of
the Gastonia strikers, was pressed
on the workers of America by jim
Reid, president of the National Tex
tile Workers Union today.
"Those who fail to take part in
the ten day Gastonia Joint Defense
and Relief Campaign for funds will
be guilty of a terrible crime against
the American labor movement" he
declared.
The campaign to raise funds has
been carried across the country by
the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re-
lief Campaign Committee which
urges the workers to continue their
efforts increasingly until the Casio
MIA defendants have been released
from prison.
The Importance of shop collections,
of tag days, of house to house, street
and factory gate collections, of
united front campaigns, were stress
ed by Reid. "The ten day drive
will test the sincerity of all work
ers, whether in the textile industry
or not. 1t is the method of fighting
the class battle in practical way"
"We must take from the maws of
the mill barons our 16 comrades.
Financial assistance is imperative at
this stage, for success. Those who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
L0vEST0NE GANG
LEFT TRACES OF
THEIR BURGLARY
Smashed Locks, Went
Through Desks for
Party Documents
Stole Bank Check Book
Knew Exactly Where
to Find Material

In an interview yesterday Comrade
Peter Smith, manager of the Ma
tional Office of the Communist
Party of the United States, de-
scribed the discovery of the burg
larry perpetrated by the Lovestone
gang some time Sunday.
81 was the first one to arrive at
the office" said Comrade Smith.
when l reached the front door l
noticed the lock had been tampered
with. When l entered my room l
found everything in disorder; doc
uments and other material were
scattered over the floor and the
desks. Ny desk had been pillaged
and papers removed
Minutes Were Stolen.
"Soon Comrade Bedacht came in
and told him about someone going
through my desk and about the lock
having been tampered with. He had
also noticed the lock. When he en-
tered his room it looked as though
cyclone had hit it. Books had been
thrown out of the bookcases on to
the floor. The entire contents of
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
TA|LORS OPPOSE
| DAY PAY TAX
Salutsky Admits Union
Aids Bosses

An attempt to force the one days
pay tax on the members of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Union
will be made at the meeting of Local
s, which will be held at o'clock to-
night at Amalgamated Temple,
Arion Pl., Brooklyn.
Opposition TO the tax is growing
in the market, many tailors refusing
to pay it. As soon as the Sidney
Hillman clique is notified, the work
ers are removed from their jobs.
The Amalgamated officialdom
claims that the money collected from
the tax will be used to organize the
Philadelphia market. The answer of
the progressive and militant tailors
is that the organization drive in
Philadelphia is a fake and for proof
quote from the August 20 issue of
The Advance, official organ Of TIE
union edited by J. B. Salutsky, rene
gate Communist.
Referring to a Philadelphia manu-
facturer who recently signed up
with the Amalgamated, it states
editorially:
"The manufacturer announced that
he would not do without the Unions
aid on a basis Of efficiency"
Further: "The success of the cam
paign in Philadelphia is important
to the employers in New York City
and consequently it is bound to
prove Of value to the clothing work
ers in New York City,"
Because the tailors are opposed to
this policy Of class collaboration
they are refusing to pay the tax,
which is being used for the benefit
Of the bosses. They are rallying to
the support Of the Trade Union Ed
ucational League which has called a
shop delegate conference to be held
Saturday, Sept. IA at II a. M. at
Irving Plaza hall. Irving Place and
10th st. N't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
WORKERS REBUFF
SCAB FUR union
Terror Plot Defeated;
Militant Assaulted

The scab International Fur Work
ers Union was defeated yesterday
when it attempted to terrorize the
workers of the Shelberg and Buch-
man shop, 242 W. Both St., who are
members of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union.
A gang of company union gang
sters entered the shop yesterday
and forced the furriers to accom-
pany them to the headquarters of
the scab fur union located at % w.
31st st. On their arrival they were
taken into room where they were
lectured by Business Agent Hemo-
witz of the company union, who said
that the scab outfit would improve
their conditions if they left the In
dustrial Union and Joined the right
wing clique.
Exposes Right Wing.
George Katz, one Of the workers
of the Shelberg and Buchanan shop,
took objection to the remarks of
Hemowitz and stated that the Indus
trial Union fights for the interests
of the workers. He pointed out that
the company union is not interested
in improving the conditions of the
workers while the Industrial Union
has always been in the front ranks
of the fight for the workers.
Realizing that the speech of Katz
had exposed the strike breaking role
of the company uni"n, Willie Yack-
er, notorious right wing thug, as
saulted Katz, who had to be taken
to the New York Hospital for med
ical treatment.
When the workers left the right
wing office they stated they would
not have anything to do with the
scab union and would continue to
fight in the ranks of the Industrial
Union. The Shelberg and Buchanan
shop has an agreement with the N.
T. w. l. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
100 DELEGATES
START AT | Am.
FRIDAY TO meet
New York TUEL Asks
For Names at Once

Over hundred delegates from the
most basic industries in the Greater
New York and New Jersey section
of the country will gather after mid
night, at 1 a. M, before the Work
ers' Center, Friday, to start in a
body for the Cleveland Trade Union
Unity Convention.
The New York office of the Trade
Union EDUCATIONAL League today is
sued an app to all organizations
sending delegates to rush in the
names of their delegates to the To-
cal office of the T. U. E. L., 1928
Union Square, Room 205, so that
Continued on Page FiveJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
z MEETS TO PUSH
RECEPTION PLANS

As the four Soviet fliers who have
resumed their Moscow to New York
flight in new plane are expected
here within a few weeks, the ways
and means committee elected by the
board conference of 1s9 working
class organizations on Aug. 13 to
plan great reception for the Soviet
emissaries of good will is urging all
workers and U. S. S. R. sympathizers
to speed up the collection of funds
for the purchase of the tractors and
trucks which will be presented to
the Land of the Soviets crew.
A conference of trade unions mas
Continued On Page Fivel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
Funds! More Funds! to Save
the GastOnia Defendants
Not to Give Is a ''Heinous Crime Against the
Revolutionary Movement

fail, either through apathy, laziness,
or Just never thought will be gull
ty of the most heinous crime against
the revolutionary movement" he
said. Funds, funds" he said, "is
the crysat this time"
Workers everywhere throughout
the country are now realizing the
absolute necessity for funds. Let
ters arriving daily at the national
office of the Gastonia Joint Defense
and Relief Campaign Committee, at
80 E. 11th St., indicate the growth
of the solidarity of the masses be-
hind the Gastonia strikers.
Rose Wortis, of the executive COM
mittee of the Needle Trades union
and her co-workers on the commit
tee, have pledged themselves to do
their utmost for the campaign for
funds. "We emphasize shop col
lections, to be continued all through
the campaign"
A partial list of funds that came
in or were promised through vari-
Gus sources, as part of the ten day
campaign follow (these exclude the
tag day collections, the returns for
which are not yet tabulated):
Camp Unity - $500, raised by the
W. !. R. committee;
Camp Wocolona - 1929 ($4O from
camp workers.;
Jugo-Slav Workers in Chicago -
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
BRITISH Marines
FIRE ON BO H
JEWS AND ARABS
French Say 900 Dead;
Druse, Trans Jordan
Tribesnen in Revolt
POgrOm To Halt Revolt
Swindled Arabs Misled
Into Attack on Jews
BULLETIN

JERUSALEM, Palestine, Aug. 27.
British marines opened fire with
rifles, machine guns and artillery
today on Jews and Arabs alike when
a fight broke out at Haifa. Many
were killed.
The Druse tribesmen in Syria are
rising, and one detachment, joined
to 1000 Arabs is marching over the
border toward Jerusalem. Arabs
are rising in revolt in Trans Jor-
dania, and it is feared here by Brit
ish officials that even the heavy re-
Inducements, planes and artillery
brought by battleships today will not
be able to stop them.
JAFFA, Palestine, Aug. 27.-The
French colonial administration de-
clared tht the number of Jewish COL
onist and Arabian dead will exceed
eco, and intimates that the British
Palestinian mandate commissioners
are concealing the extent of the up
rising to save their imperial prestige.
Bedomn tribes from the desert are
on the march toward Jerusalem,
Jaffa, Tel-Aviv and Hebron to join
in the fighting. Reports of eye
witnesses state that the attacks dur
ing the last few days were made by
Arabs armed only with clubs and
knives, but with the advent of the
desert tribes, rifle fighting is ex-
pected.
Another thousand British troops
from Egypt left today for this city.
The first of 20 British war ships
Continued on Page Firc)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
MINEEXPL0SI0N;
NUMBER INJURED
STILL UNKNOWN

PITTSTON, Pa, Aug. 27.-An
explosion occurred within the in
terror of No. 9 colliery of the Penn
sylvania Coal Company at Hughes
town, Pa, today where $50 men
were at work.
Rescue squads prepared to 20
into the mine and learn the fate
of the workers.
The explosion was felt on the
surface and shortly afterwards
several miners came up and re-
ported the disaster on the interior.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
AN AGREEMENT TO STRIKE
IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH,
in CHARLOTTE COURTROOM
Judge Accepts Mill Lawyers Amended Bin
Which Centers Main Fire on Beal and Women
Solicitor Carpenter Denies Report He Will Not
Ask for Death; Demands 13 Die in Chair
BY BILL DUNNE

CHARLOTTE, n. c., Aug. 27.-(FrOm the prOsecu
Ons bill of particularly: that the prisoners and
each of them together with other to the solicitor
L-knOwn at various meetings held by them in the union
hall in the city of GasOna at divers times between
the first day of April and the eight day of June, divers
other times and places to the solicitor unknown did unlaw
fully combine cOnspre confederate agree together
prevent hinder and deter by violence threats and nmda
tiOn, the Manvlle Jenckes Co., corporation duly created
and existing under the law and then and there engaged
in operating textile manufacturing plant from retaining
and taking into its employment Clarence Jolly divers
other to the solicitor unknown, then and there
being employed and engaged textile aborers in said
manufacturing plant to the damage of the said Man
vleenckes Co., Clarence Jolly and others then and there
being employed
I'm furtherance of the combinations cOnspiraces and
agreements then and there entered nO and realizing that
it would be necessary to completely rid themselves pO-
lice interference in order to carry out and
ants after their strike headquarters when the
deceased and several other policemen had peacefully en-
tered the lot which the union hall located the
defendants being then and there encouraged by the said
Fred Beal Vera Bush Amy Schecher and Sophie Melvin
to shoot and kill the deceased and others of his subord
mates did forthwith fire vOey of shots from
shot with intent to kill and murder the deceased and
his subOrdnate which resulted in mOraly woundng said
deceased shooting of his subOrdnaes and wound
ing another"
Death in the Shadows.
The electric chair grewsome in its mercess modern eff
ency plainly in sight the Gastona ROOM has been
hidden in the soft shadows of the Charlotte trial chamber
oces OF opposing counsel pleasantly mOduated Judge
5anhl TALL slender and darkslm face slim hands moving
n easy flowing gestures speaks low and slowly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28

L. y. Il. L.. outlines complete
ly organized activity, in which
will be co-ordinated the mill
tant unions already organized and
IN action, with the beginnings of
new unions, and the groups of mill
tants in the organized and reaction
ary unions.
The name proposed for the new
center is "Trade Union Unity
League" 1t will be composed of
National Industrial Unions, and Ma
tional Industrial Leagues.
The National Industrial Union will
he based on the shop delegate sys-
TEN, will have a uniform plan of or
ganizaticn, with local needs and in
itiatlve fo1 their particular needs
and requirements, but along the line
of one union in each industry, shop
delegate system, democratic central
ization, control of strikes in the
hands Of rank and file, election of
officers at broad conventions of
actual workers, and ease of removing
incompetent officers. The majority
OF all leading committees end boards
is to be composed of workers direct
ly from the shops. They are to have
special sections to deal with young
women and Negro workers, low in
itiation fees, officers to get no more
than the average paid in the indus
try, etc.
The national committee or the ma
tional executive board of the T. U.
U. L. will pass on all decisive strikes
and organization campaigns to Sc
cure united action.
The T. U. u. L. National Indus
trial Leagues will be made up of
militants in reactionary unions, To-
cal unions not part of an industrial
union, shop groups, ETC., where there
are no industrial unions affiliated
with the T. U. U. L.
The leading bodies of the T. U.
U. L. are its yearly convention, with
a broad base of representation, from
which is elected a National Commit
tee of Al representing all industries,
to meet twice a year, or oftener if
special meetings are called by men,
bers or officers, and an executive
board to meet monthly.
The bureau of the National Exec
utive Board is composed of the Of
ficers Of the new League, who are
also the officers of the National
Committee. They will be a national
secretary, assistants, organizers, etc.,
who will head the various depart
ments.
Local organization in unIvaa and
lndcs;rial Leagues is provided for
and local general organization to CO.
ordinate the work in each large in
dustrial center.
The whole scheme is a flexible,
but closely co-ordinated organiza-
tion, to fight on two fields within
the reactionary unions, and against
the bosses in the open, with new and
militant unions, each part Of the
organization supporting all other
parts.
The 7. U. U. L., it is proposed,
shall join the Red International of
Labor Unions, the single great in
ternational class struggle organiza-
tion on the industrial field, and the
various unions affiliated with the
T. U. U. L. are to join the respective
propaganda and action departments
of the R. l. L. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
SHOE UNION|STS
TRIAL SEPT. IS
Jailed for Opposing
Anti-Labor Quizz

The trial of Israel Zimmerman, of
the Independent Shoe Workers
Union, who was arrested Saturday
at the Dan Palter shoe factory, 151
w. 26th St., when he advised the
workers not to answer the anti-labor
QUESTIONABLE presented by Tam
many Hall policemen and agents of
the U. S. Labor Department, was
postponed until Sept. 16, when he
was arraigned in jefferson Market
Court yesterday. Jacques Buiten-
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
j, 400 Hartford Workers
Thrown on Street by US.
RubbeyCO. Without Notice
Plant Closed to Move Industry to Detroit; Men
Organize Solid Fight for Compensation
Communist Party Leads Struggle Against
Company, Govt and A. F. L. Reformists

HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 27. -
The United States Rubber Compa-
ny's sudden announcement today
that it was closing its local plant
and moving its industry to Detroit,
thereby throwing 1,400 men and
women on the streets without notice
or compensation has aroused h
workers aggressive action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28

Immediately organizing men from
all departments, the Communist
Party held meetings which were at
tended by several hundred rubber
workers who unanimously support
the Party's demands. These include
three months pay for all discharged;
pension for all over forty; equal dis
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
LAUNDRY DRIVERS
VOTE TOMORROW
Rosen Is Left Wing
Nominee

All militant and progressive men,
bers of Laundry Drivers Union,
Local $40, are urged to vote for S.
Rosen for business agent of the local
at the union meeting which will be
held tomorrow night at For
ward Hall, ITS E. Broadway.
Five candidates were elected for
the office at the last meeting of the
Continued on Page Ftue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
N egrO May Die
After Attack By
White Mob i'm Miss,

JACKSON, Miss. (By MaiD.-
Beaten and robbed, Horace Neil, 81
year-old Negro worker from Vir-
ginia, is not expected to survive in
Juries received at the hands of a
white mob. His condition is so seri-
Gus that he is unable to talk. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28

Sixteen working men and
women are on trial for their
lives, but the opposing lawyers
shake hands.
The court room is filled-whites
below, Negroes in the balcony. Nine
ty per cent of the spectators are
workers. White people are standing
in the court room. A bailiff goes to
the balcony, orders out the Negroes
and white people file in. The Ne
groes must bJ kept in their place
though, and p rhaps because, ruling
class whites are trying to send
working class whites to their death
for their leadership of a revolt.
Would Blur Glass Lines.
The wide shuttered windows fac
ing the east let in a soft light that
cuts the sharp edges even from the
angular features of Attorneys Cans
ler and Hoey, the leaders of the
prosecution staff of cotton mill law
yers. The atmosphere in the court
room is almost cathedral-like. The
sharp class lines so apparent in the
first legal exchanges in Gastonia,
where the defense attorneys were
even threatened in the street, have
been dulled somewhat here.
The defense attorneys show that
the prosecution has felt so sure of
its ability to railroad the Organizers
and members of the Nation;
tile Workers Union that it has not
even taken the trouble to specify
in the indictment and bill of par
ticulars the time, place, methods and
persons involved in an alleged crime
and the conspiracy to commit this
"crime."
Some Charges Abandoned.
Constitutional questions are raised
by the defense attorneys: The at
tempt to deprive the defendants of
life and liberty without due process
of law.
There are snarls from some of the
prosecution. The judge rules that
the section of the Indictment dealing
with the alleged conspiracy to enter
the Loray mill and remove loyal"
workers by force must be dropped
since the prosecution itself claims
that this conspiracy was ended when
the police broke up the picket line
a short time before they made their
armed attack on the union head
quarters and the Workers Interna-
tidnal Relief tent colony, in which
- Continued on Page Fipsl -..a1nx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
CLEANING SHOP
WORKERS READY
Organization Drive is
Awaited

The Dry Cleaning Shop Workers
Section, Trade Union Educational
League, has decided to begin an or
ganization campaign among the
cleaning workers for the organiza-
tion of shop committees and prep
(ConttnH19 on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28
PROPOSE CONSTITUTION FOR
TRADE union UNITY LEAGUE
TO Be FORMED AT CLEVELAND
Flexible Democratic, But Closely Knit Center
Using New Unions, and Winning Old Ones
Majorities Of Actual Workers on All Leading
Committees; Officers Get Only Worker Wage

The Trade Union Educational League which called the Trade
Union Unity Convention meeting Aug 81 in Cleveland has
published through its weekly organ Labor Unity draft
constitution for the labor to be established
at the convention
The draft constitution proposed convention bv the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-28

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a Worksrs-Farmers Government
To Orgsnize the Unorganized
Against Imperialist War
For The 4O-Honr Week