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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23

BEAUMONT, Texas, Oct. %. -
Wherever extreme muscular effort is
required in southeast Texas you
are pretty sure to see Negro on
the job.
"Ten to IS hours a day in tina.
heat, and every day, it takes Mig
gers to do it," said the superintend-
ent of the cotton COMPRISING plant
on the Beaumont docks where bales
are squeezed to half their former
bulk for Convenience In shipping.
The expenditure Of physical
energy is enormous on those cotton
compress jobs. Here under the roof
of long low building a dozen Ne
groes, stripped to the waist, toss
500-pound bales about in the intense
heat of the escaping steam. A white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
FOSTER TOUR IN
Ohio CENTERS
Organization Work Is
Prepared by TUUL

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 22.-Or-
ganization work in preparation for
William 2. Fosters tour of the Ohio
District of the Trade Union Unity
League, is already in full blast, ac-
cording to Tom Johnson, District
Secretary of the T. U. U. l..
A new District Office of the T..
U. U. L. has been opened at 1925
West 3rd St., Room 80, Cleveland,
and meetings of shop committees,
local unions and industrial leagues
of the T. U. U. L., are being held
there almost every night, in prep
arations for Fosters mass meetings
in the Ohio District.
Foster is to speak at three meet
ings in Ohio early in November. His
first meeting will be an organiza-
tional conference with all active
members of the local T. U. U. l..
present, at the T.. U. U. L. office in
Cleveland, on Tuesday, Nov. 9Th. The
next night Foster will 60 to Youngs-
town, in the heart of the steel mill
belt, where he will speak at mass
meeting. Youngstown steel workers
know Foster well from the great
1919 steel strike and a big turn out
is expected at this meeting.
Tuesday, Nov. 7th, Foster will adj
dress big mass meeting at Moose
Hall, 1908 Walnut St., Cleveland. 1t
is expected that over a thousand
workers from the big auto, steel
and textile plants will be at the hall
to hear Fosters report of the Trade
Union Unity League Convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
Mill BOSS is
FOR TAME ALL.
union OF TAKERS
Witnesses of Marion
Massacre Driven Out

If union of textile workers in
the South is unavoidable, then it
should be a union reasonable in
what it asks" and (which will not
lead the workers into radicalisr1,"
according to statement by one of
the largest mill owners of the South
to the United Press yesterday.
The statement follows, in part:
"We are not anxious to have our en-
ployees unionized. That, perhaps, is
entirely natural. But if unioniza-
ton is to come, and it probably is
on it's way, it ought to be done in
an orderly manner. If the employee
is to be a union member he should
belong to union upon which he
can depend and which will not lead
him into radicalism. And if the
employer must deal with union he
wants it to be one qualified to speak
with authority, to be reasonable in
what it asks. :"
Drive Out Witnesses.
Officials of the Marion, N. c..
mills expressed determination tc
force strikers to leave the mill vii
lagos by any means. In an effort
to remove the most militant of the
strikers, who are incidentally wit
nesses in connection with the shoot
ing of unarmed strikers by the sher-
Tiff and his deputies, the mill Off
Gals propose to pay moving ex-
pense sand give "a few dollars" to
each family if they will Ego away
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
NEGROES SLAVE in Burning Heat
on Texas Cotton Compress Jobs

foreman operates the controls of the
steam compress and Negroes truck
the cotton and bale it.
Twice a minute on the average Of
quarter-ton bale is rolled on and
off the stell table that rises and
flattens the cotton against an upper
plate by steam pressure. Each man
has his task, and it is rush work,
continued 10 to Is hours day dur
ing the three months Of the COM
pressing season.
The black men in the compress
gang are all nearly young men.
They have to be. One who might
have been in his forties seemed old
in comparison, perhaps prematurely
old from the strain.
1t is terrific pace. They didn't
work so fast in chattel slave times,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
More Labor Unions Join in
Drive for the Gast0nla Seuen

lars and send it along Success to
your defense work." writes teacher
from Los Angeles, whose name shall
be withheld because she would lost
her job if known.
Two more teachers in Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y. send five dollars stating
Were both socialists" but they de-
cided to send the money "to tho
worthy cause of defending the Cas-
onia strikers"
Growing Front Among Unions.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers and Joiners of America, local
2T5, of Newton, Mass, today sent
$50 and the Plasterers' local No.
100, of Scrantont, Pa, comprising
la members, also sent funds.
The Journeymen Stone Cutters
Association of Cincinnati, o., sent
SIS, and the Astoria, Ore. branch
of the I. L. D. $7,23 today. Cloth
Cap and Milliners Local No. rs sent
SIS and workers in the Bernus Cloak
shop, in New York, with right wing
affiliations, gave $40,
Youth Active.
Many meetings by Youth organ
izations are being held throughout
the land. Mike Harris, organizer
for the Youth division of the Gas
tonia Defense and Relief Campaign
Committee, will speak in Buffalo
the 10th; Scranton. the 1Sh. Meet.
ings of youth organizations are
scheduled in Detroit and Cleveland
the 18th; in Cleveland, the 21st; ir
San Francisco and Boston, and Su'
perior, the 22nd, in Detroit, the 9th
and in Chicago, Nov. 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
Call Free State Force
British Govt Maneuver

DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Oct.
22.-Police were busy tearing down
copies of proclamation purportedly
issued by the Irish Republican Coun-
ell and posted throughout Dublin
last night denouncing the projected
establishment of a volunteer free
State force.
The proclamation describes the
move as a British maneuver to
create British-controlled military
force useable to suppress efforts to
win sovereignty for the Free State.
Instead of joining such a reserve
force, the proclamation says, 1T is
the duty of young Irishmen OF mill
tary age to join the republican
army, which is determined to break
the imperial connection and reassert
Irelands unalienable rights as a
sovereign nation"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23

Labor unions, many of the locals
of the American Federation of La
Dor, responding to pressure OF rank
and file workers are joining the
united front activities of the Inter
national Labor Defense on behalf
Of the Castonia prisoners, and today
funds came from the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners,
local 2T5, in Newton; Mass. and
Plasterers local, No. 100 of Scran-
ton, Pa, and the Journeymen Stone
Cutters Association of Cincinnati.
The front has grown to include in
tellectual workers and letters re-
ceived by the International Labor
Defense from teachers declare that
school teachers are ashamed to
teach civics, in light of the Gastonia
fascist outrages."
Not only teachers, but even some
shurch societies are represented in
the growing united front. Although
workers are of course, by far pre-
dominant in the aid sent for Gas
tonia, an increasing number of in
tellectual workers, shocked by the
bare-faced capitalistic violence in
the South, have entered their pro-
tests and are joining in the cam
paign for $4,000 new members being
conducted by the I. L. D.
GAS high school teacher of civics
it is difficult to talk to young people
about the first amendment 1.-THE
amendment purporting to give civil
rights to the people, and at the
same time call their attention to
current events such as the Gastonia
affair. I'm glad to borrow five dol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
Music Notes
PHILHARMONIC.

Scipione Guidi and Alfred Wal
lenstein, coneertmaster and first
cellist of the Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra will be the soloists in the
Brahms Concerto for Violin and
cello in A minor at the Thursday
evening, Friday afternoon, and Sun
day afternoon concerts this coming
week at Carnegie Hall. Arturo Tos-
canini will also conduct Mozart's
Adagio and Fugue, Stravinsky's
eFireworks" and Debussys la
Mer."
y At tomorrow afternoons concert
at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music
the following is the program: Over
ture to I'll Sargino," Paer; Sym
phony Nos, Beethoven; Les Eolides,
Frenck; Feste Romano, Respighi.
Basile Kibalchich, conductor OF
the Russian Symphonic Choir, APP
pearing at Town Hall on Sunday
afternoon, will give a program, that
will be comprised Of Russian, CLASH
cal, modern and folk music.
The Stringwood Ensemble will
open their season at Town Hall on
wednesday evening. The program
includes: Mozart's Trio for clarinet,
viola and piano. Variations on a
Russian folk song, and Gabriel Du-
points "Poeme" for piano and string
quartet.
The second concert Of the Junior
Orchestral series will take place
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23

turn. He has been the skilled right
hand of the battery of Manville-
Jenckes' lawyers and at every oppor-
tunity he has dealt hard blow be-
meath the belt against the defense
without dropping his hypocritical role
as an impartial referee, except when
the fight was going against the
state. When the defense had shown
tina THE evidence in the case proved
the defendants not guilty, Barnhill
let down the gates for the prosecu-
ton to inflame the prejudices Of the
jury and insure convictions.
Fascist reaction is in the saddle
in North Carolina. Militant workers
organizations are outlawed. The
black hundreds of the bosses may
beat strikers and union organizers,
kidnap them flog them and murder
them, as they murdered Ella May
and the Marion strikers with abso-
lutte impunity. But workers who
fight for their righs who defend
themselves against these murderous
attacks Of the bosses fascist gangs
are jailed-practically for life.
Press Plays Part.
The minds of the jurors had been
preiudiced by the capitalist press
for months and this prejudice was
inflamed by the prosecution and the
Judge. The verdict was a foregone
conclusion. This trial has become a
glazing example of class vengeance,
The masses of textile workers
stand amazed and Mortified at this
verdict, convinced that the workers
on trial exercised the elementary
right of self defense, thousands of
Southern workers have been conf
dent of acquittal. Southern capital
ism by is monstrous verdict and SEN
fences has destroyed all illusions as
to the impartiality of its courts. The
sardistic assailants Of Saylors' Lell,
and Wells 60 free. Beal, McLaugh-
lin, and five other workers, the lead
ers of union men and women who
fought armed assassins of the Man
ville-Jenckes Co. 60 to prison for
life, for their heroic defense of their
lives, the lives Of the wives and
children Of union members and their
union headquarters. aSsa SSEtx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
MILL PROSECUTOR
DEMAND REVENGE
ON GASTONIA I
Says Gastonia Strikers
ISLANDER Bosses"

when you put the testimony Of
the states witnesses together-as
much of their contradictory evidence
as will go together, you will find
there is not evidence of conspiracy.
81 have never seen a man placed
on trial in all my experience as a
lawyer with so little evidence
against him as there. is against
these defendants. The father of the
conspiracy charge is the desire of
the Manville-Jenckes company to
convict them for organizing their
workers. When that tragedy oc-
Cured on the union lot, Manville-
Jenckes said gleefully: Now we'll
get Beal and smash. his union by a
charge of conspiracy against him
and all his followers
Referring to Canslers statement
that 'Beal is unworthy of belief be-
cause he said his salary was SIS a
week. Flowers declared: "That is
Cansler's standard of truth and ex-
cellence. But / take off my hat to
the man who is giving his life to
the cause of his class despite the
danger to his person.
Witnesses Blacklisted.
"The prosecution tried to discredit
the defense witnesses because they
are poor working people who can't
get jobs. They can't get jobs be-
cause they are blacklisted for union
activities.
eff Gilbert and Roach had not
gone down to union headquarters
tanked up on bootleg liquor there
would have been no trouble. And if
conditions in the Leray Mill were SO
fine and ideal as the state contends
Beal would never have been able to
call the strike there.
"The state would have you believe
that Beal came down from Massa-
chusetts and disrupted the whole
South. This is ridiculous. When
Governor Gardner received the
strikers letter, why didn't he inves-
tigate?
maybe he did investigate and
found that the letter was true and
didn't care enough about troubles
of the workers to take any action.
The lawyers representing the state
in this case know why the state did
not protect the strikers in Gastenia.
The prosecution asks you to discredit
the defense witnesses because of
their racial, religious and political
beliefs. And they ask you to believe
rather the drunken policemen and
mill mercenaries who testified for
the state.
Il would prefer thousand times
to believe Edith Saunders Miller,
whatever her religious beliefs,
rather than Roach, who said in this
courtroom that the defendants ought
to be shot for their beliefs.
Remember t he animus of all of
the states witnesses against the de-
PENDANTS and their union"
Flowers closed with a moving APP
peal to the jury to disregard pre-
JUDGE and render a verdict of not
guilty.
Carpenter Repeats ISLANDERS.
Solicitor Carpenter, in making the
closing plea for convictions, repeated
al 1.-The slanderous accusations that
the prosecutor depends to influence
the judgment of the jury in the abb
senee of evidence against the de-
PENDANTS.
He constantly referred to the
forces of the N.T,W. and the LID.
as "the forces of hell itself" except
when he said these "incluences came
to our fair southland from Soviet
Russia. Satan must have danced
turn. He has been the skilled right
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
FISHWICK SAYS
JOHN |. Lewis is
out IN u. M. ". A.
Implies Graft, States
Constitution Smashed

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct. %. -
The Fishwick- Lewis dog fight over
who shall have the Illinois Miners
Union treasury and the monopoly
on the check-off and sell-out priv
ileges in those coal fields has re-
suited in the Lewis administration
in District IL of the U. M. w. A.
(Illinois) exposing to some extent
the collapse of the old union and
the enormous field for the militant
National Miners Union.
! Fishwick's organ, The Illinois
Miner, publishes table showing
IU. M. w. A. losses during the last
few years as follows: Figures in
the first column show dues paying
members in the various districts in
1921 when Lewis took office, and
those in the last show what is left
after Lewis and Farrington's and
Fishwick's betrayals):
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23

next Saturday morning at Carnegie
Hall under the direction of Ernest
Schelling. The program, based on
music of Germanic composers, will
include Weber's Overture to sober
on" ]. C. Bach's Sinfonia in B flat,
Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No.
8, Wagner's Ride of the Walkure,
and the List Concerto in Z flat,
with Yolanda Nero as soloist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23
Detroit Workers to
Welcome Soviet World
Flyers at Mass Meet

DETROIT, Oct. 22.-Five work
ers of Detroit will leave soon for
the Soviet Union, to take part in the
celebration of the anniversary Of the
twenfth anniversary of the Revolu-
ton. Detroit workers are also pre-
pairing for the reception of the So
Wet world flyers, who will stop off
at Detroit. A mass reception of the
flyers is planned, at which Jeanette
Pearl will speak.
Build Up the United Front Of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23

Our own age, the bourgesis age.
IL distinguished By this--that II
has simplificd class autngonisms.
More and more. society II splitting
up into two great hostile canps.
into two great and directly CONTRA
nosed cIassesi ScuSgeoisis and pro-
letariat.-MsPx, M sats
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Build Up the United Front Of
the Working Class From the Bot.
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
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We HAVE SEVEN
MORE GASTONIA |
STRIKERS TO SAVEs

The International Labor
Defense rallied the masses
of workers the world over
to save the % Gastonia
strikers. We forced the
bosses to release sixteen
workers! Our job is far
from done. The bosses
think they will be able to
send the seven Gastonia
strikers to Jail for practi-
cally life sentences-slow
torture to these militant
workers.
Fight the bosses!
Build the workers or
CARNATIONS fighting them!
Build the International
Labor Defense!
The I. l.. D. seeks 5000
new members by January
!, 1880. A powerful /. L.
D. will mean a powerful
appeal in the higher courts
for the Gastonia strikers.
Add your strength to save
the strikers!
Branches of the I. l.. D.
are springing up every
where, from Miami, Flo
rida, to Seattle, Wash.
Every Worker Must Be a
Member.
Tomorrow the bosses
will try to give you Gas
tonia Justice" The I. l..
D. will be there to fight
them.
For the protection of your
self, of the working class
build the /. l.. d. into a
powerful mass movement.
Join the /. l.. d. at once!
Fill out the following blank
and send IL at once to the Ma
tionai Office of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, 80 East
Eleventh street, New York City.
1 want to Join the Internal
tioual Labor Defense. Enclosed
find IS cents for initiation fee.
NAME .................
ADDRESS ....,..,........
CITY .................
|" STATE ...................
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Marion Wounded Held
Continued from Page One)
they raised about $4,000.
Held for Ransom,

Now in their time of trouble the
hospital turns against them with
exorbitant fees. hose who died es-
capped, but those less seriously
wounded were held for ransom. One
man had his shoes locked up till he
came across with $26. He was shot
in the elbow; his wound had been
dressed only once in five days. You
can get excellent board and room
in Marion for 81 a week. Had he
spent five days in Marion's best
hotel and taken full meals the bill
would have been only SIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-23

Not only has the bourgeeists
forged the weapons that BRING
death to .itselfi IL has also called
tnto existence the men who are 70
led those wenpons--the modern
working cIass--the proletaFtans.---
Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto).
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Build Up the United Front OF
the Working Class.
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The second concert of the Junior
Orchestral series will take place
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-07-24

High school, class of 1928. She was
a good stuuenC anu liked by teach
ers and classmates. Shortly after
graduation she entered the Union
hospital at New Ulm for the purpose
of taking training for nursing, in
tending to follow that work and con-
tinued it until taken sick.
Funeral services were held Friday
at the home of her uncle, Edward
Amundson, in Highwater at 1880 and
at Sharon Lutheran church of Lam
berton at $50, Rev. C. M. Tollifson
officiating. Interment was made at
the old Westbrook cemetery. The
family of the deceased are, her moth
er, Mrs. Anna Burreson, her brother,
Basel, and sister, Aida, who are at
home and a sister, Mrs. Arthur En-
gen, of Highwater. The relatives OF
the departed have the sympathy OF
the entire community.
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Mrs. Michael Skow spent last week
end at Pipestone with her sister, Mrs.
P. O. Peterson, who is patient in
the hospital at that place.
Ole H. Graft and sons, Christ and
Albert and daughter Anna returned
home after a weeks trip in northern
Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. N. Show were
guests of relatives near Milroy, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Tonak autoed
to New Ulm Thursday where the
former is seeking medical aid at the
Fritche clinic
Wilbur Evans attended to business
matters at Sleepy Eye Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Johnson and
children spent the weekend at Tyler,
where they were the guests of the
formers niece.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Jahr and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Carrie Jensen and Mrs.
Mary Nelson motored to Lake Ben
ton, Sunday. Merlyn Jahr of Fargo,
who visited here two weeks, left from
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Vesta

Mrs. VIM. Brisbane went to Mason
City, Iowa, Thursday of last week,
where she is visiting at the home of
her sister.
Rev. and Mrs. A. Sauer and daugh-
ter, Althea were visitors at the JUL
ius Morotzke and Otto Kreft homes
last Friday afternoon.
Misses Edna and Goldie Harris
went on the bus to Minneapolis Sun
day, where they will visit at the home
of their sister, Mrs. L. Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lieske, ST., and
Mrs. Anton Woehler and son Ray
mond of Gaylord visited Thursday at
the L. Lieske home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Geahl and
children went to Sioux Falls, S. D.,
Thursday where they were present
at the wedding of near relative.
They returned home the same day.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Montgomery
and daughter, Margaret Alice, left
for Minneapolis Monday, where they
will visit for several days and will
also motor to Duluth to spend several
days.
Miss Leone Wagner and Miss Beat
rice Bann, both of Montevideo, stop
ped at the j. Schroeder home Sat
urday, while on their way to Manka-
to.
Miss Della Bendix took her group
of Camp Fire girls on an outing
Tuesday. They spent the day at Bean
Lake, swimming.
Miss Sophie Werner, who works at
Mankato, is spending several days
visiting at the home of her parents
Mr. and Mrs. F. Werner.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Johnson anG
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus. Hacker motored tt
Mankato Sunday and spent the day
at the Jack Zeng home.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. McElrath expect
to go to Mortified and Randolph
Mimi, to visit with relatives anc
friends for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mattison and little
daughter attended the wedding OF
Mr.. Mattison's brother at Alexandra;
last week.
Mrs. E. Sell spent last week visit
ing at the home of her father, c
Hendrickson of Walnut Grove.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wagner ant
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children and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Redetzke and children of Echo were
Sunday guests at the F. Bendix home.
Mrs. A. Rucks and Miss Martha
Bullert of Arlington, who have been
visiting at the D. Gertjejansen for
the past week returned to their home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Barber of Sioux
Falls, S. D., are spending several days
at the home of Mr.. BARRIERS parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Barber.