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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
CHARL 0TTE meet
SPURS STRUGGLE:
OF OPPRESSED
Negro Workers Play
Vital Role
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social equality of races among work
ers, and of united struggle against
the common enemy, the employer.
"The Southern press representa-
tives surrounded me in throngs, and
cross examined me on our theories
about the Negroes. They advanced
all the stale old arguments about
natural inferiority of colored races"
the "evils and inefficiency of racial
mixtures" and asked me with hor-
ror, "Do you believe in the amalga-
nation of races ?"
Solidarity of All Workers.
pointed out to them that the
races amalgamate, whether they like
it or not; that as soon as the bar
riers to communication and isolation
Of the races are broken down, there
is a mixture of races. l proved by
examples from their own midst, that
despite the old prejudice against
"squaw men," every man now, and
there are many in the South, who
can prove he has little Indian
blood in him, proceeds to boast about
it. told them We were for solid
arity and social equality of all work
ers.
"The capitalist reporters were so
mad they almost choked.
"The terror against the N. T. w.
is accompanied by a barrage of pro-
paganda against racial equality, and
against Reds But this is the talk
of the capitalists, the employers.
The delegates to these conventions
proved by their actions that they
are not afraid of either of these
things, not anything like as preju-
diced against them a sthe Southern
bosses would like them to be, would
like the world to think they are"
6 Main Facts Established.
The main facts brought out at the
Charlotte conferences, said Foster,
were:
THAT the N. T. w. and the
T. U. U. L. had thereby established
a number of the very best connec-
lions with thousands of mill work
ers and worker sin other industries.
2-The good representation showed
that the N. T. W.T.. U. U. L. drive
in the South has real volume to it,
and marks huge advance over the
situation considered very favorable
then, prevailing at the recent Besse-
mer City conference.
3-The discussion showed that the
conditions in the textile industry
weer not only simply horrible, but
are rapidly growing worse, with new
wage cuts, more speed-up, more ter
ror, and worse living standards.
1.-The delegates showed that the
Southern workers opposition to the
A. F. L. and the United Textile
Workers is very bitter. They do
not for moment forget the treach-
cries practiced on them by the U.
T. W. misleaders in the last strike,
and they are beginning to hear of
the betrayals of labor in Elizabeth
ton and Marion, Ware Shoals and
other scenes of U. T. w. activity.
6-The southern workers pin great
hopes on the new militant unions.
The hysterical shouts of the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
Offers to Adopt Ella
Mays Children Made

(Continued from Page One)
bert. He declares he has been in
greatest sympathy with the textile
strikers of Gastonia and wishes to
show his solidarity by raising one of
the militant martyrs children.
At the mass meeting of the Mil
waukee local, when Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, representing the Interna-
tional Labor Defense spoke, another
offer was made to adopt one of
Ella Mays children by a pair Of
childless workers.
Finnish Workers Active.
One of the most active group of
workers on behalf of the Gastonia
strikers is the Finnish section of
the working class. Almost daily
funds are sent in from Finnish
workers in all parts of the land.
Today $40 was received from the
Finnish Women's Club in Woodland,
Washington and $50 from the Work
ers' Society in East Chicago.
From Atlanta, Ca, a message of
greetings and a contribution of S12
was sent by Workmen's Circle.
Branch No. 462, who congratulated
thu international Labor Defense
upon the splendid fight waged
against the brutal textile CAPITALISTS
of the South"
West Coast Busy.
An l. L. D. branch in Santa Cruz.
California sent $25 today. Much
progress is being made on the West
Coast where Mother Ella Reeve
Bloor is organizing units of the |.
l.. D., and reports many new men,
bers have Joined since the drive for
$4,000 new members was begun.
Workers in the Steinway piano
factory in Astoria, Long Island, do
mated $9.78 to a committee that APP
peared at the gate for the Gastonia
strike defense and relief. These
workers then organized another COL
lection inside their shop and con-
tributed a total of $425. These
workers have previously given lib
orally out of their small wages to
striking coal miners, the New Bed
ford textile strikers and on a num-
Der of occasions to the Gastonia
strikers.
The Century shop workers con-
tributed $22,25 to the New York
branch of the Workers International
Relief for the ONT Gastonia cam
paign.
Native Americans" Assail Gardner,
The following letter was received
today from group of workers in
Chicago, ILL.,: Governor Max Gard
ner! The below, as native born and
of strong American ancestry. pro-
test the brutal treatment of work
ers by mercenary and ignominous
tools of the textile employees. 1t
will be black mark on North Caro-
llna's history if there be even one
conviction. Signed, Norman DENIM
son, Ted Jones, John Trench, Marion
Gates, Allen Bait, Alice Mills, and
Norman Freelick."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18

the Negro and white workers by the
mill owners"
Naturalization.
THhe resolution on naturalization
an dthe war danger points out that
speed-up, stretch-out, unemployment
long hours and low pay are getting
worce. The employers control all
state and national political offices,
and prove by such act sas those in
Gastonia and Marion what state
power is used for The working class,
which produces the wealth, is get
ting increasingly lower wages, lon
ger hours, and worsening conditions.
Less than 100000 of the 100000
workers are organized and most of
thee into conservative, highly skilled
unions.
The resolution halls the Cleveland
convention as showing the way out,
by a program of militant unionism,
based on the unskilled and semi
skilled misses, the factory workers
especially.
War Danger.
The war danger arises from the
conflict of the over-stuffed master
casses i neach country, struggling
for the same markets, sources of
raw material and cheap labor power.
The workers of the world are
called upon to join hands and fight
all these robber groups, and to de-
fend the Soviet Union, menaced by
all of them. 1t ends: "The Trade
Union Unity League is the center
that can direct the struggle of the
working class against speed-up,
stretch-out and the coming war of
the imperialist rulers"
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Glass From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
IA. ]. COOK, fake left" LEADER
Who LED Miners To PLACE ALL
HOPE IN labor, DISCREDlTED
Macdonald Government Openly Violates It's
Prediction Promise to Workers
Defending Interests of Mine Owners, Labor
Regime Sets Up Tricky Joint Council

renegade cleft" leader of the miners
who attacked the Communists for
predicting the present betrayal, will
suffer great discredit by the present
government action.
The labor" government of Mac
Donald thus abandoned it's solemn
promise made during the elections to
restore the work day to seven hours
which the miners lost as result of
their being sold out by the Trade
Union Congress in the 1926 strike.
This present betrayal will add to the
disillusion of the. British workers in
the Labor" Party and it's reform
list promises and pro-capitalist per-
formances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
(WireLess BIZ Imprecorr.)

LONDON, Oct. 17.-At yester-
days session of the government
Coal Commission, the so-called Ga
Dor" government announced its in
tenton of introducing the seven-and-
a-half-hour day fop miners in 1880,
and the formation Of class collab-
orationist national committee of
miners, owners, and consumers" to
control production and regulate
prices.
Further reduction of hours. the
government said, depends on the
progress made with reorganization
of the mining industry. A. J. Cook,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18

about Grace equality" and danger
Gus Reds" don't turn them away.
6-The Negro workers played a
strong role at the conventions
something never seen before in the
South.
There was an atmosphere of
readiness for struggle against the
bosses. A whole concrete program
was laid out for building mill COM
mittees, and local unions of the N.
T. W., also local general leagues and
local industrial leagues of the 7. U.
U. L. in all important industrial cen
tiers, and personnel was canvassed,
and assigned to specific tasks to
bring about this organization.
S-The defense of our imprisoned
fellow workers now on trial in the
Gastonia cas-, and the struggle
against bosses terrorism, against
fascism, permeated the whole of both
conventions.
Program of Action.
In addition to adopting a long
program of action, and declaration
of principles previously summar-
lied in the Daily Worker) the South
ern Textile Workers Conference
adopted resolutions on organization,
on the unionization of Negro work
ers, on the naturalization and speed
up practiced by the bosses in all
industries, and the approaching war
danger.
Referring particularly to the muir
der of Ella May, the Marion Mas
sacre and the black-hundred activi-
ties of the Gastonia mill bosses, the
resolution on organization says;
"The textile bosses offensive
against the textile workers has
reached a new stage. In the past
the mill barons have held our wages
down and our hours up through the
eviction, the blacklist and the power
Of the press. But today, when the
stretch-out is on the increase and we
are producing one hundred to two
hundred per cent more production
than sevearl years ago, the bosses
are attempting to stop our organi-
cation of the industry with gunner,
the police, the electric chair, the
militia and their black hundreds"
1t goes on to point out that this
terror does not stop the workers
from organizing, and refers to the
united front Of the bosses, the press
and their flunkies, Senator Simmons
and Governor Gardner of North
Carolina, "who support the textile
workers like rope supports a
hanged man." and the U. T. w. con-
trolled by little group of highpaid
officials. The U. T. W., it points
out, is a company union.
Textile Program.
The National Textile Workers
Union, however, is a real workers
union, controlled by its rank and
file workers, an dfighting for them.
1t is necessary, in order to carry
out its purpose, recognizing the
class struggle, to put into effect
the following program:
81. The creation of a special fund
to organize every mill in the South.
"2. We have enlisted and are
training a staff of Southern worker
organizers in all principal mills and
textile centers, but must increase
this greatly.
"3. We must establish sub-district
offices within the next few months
in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Ten
nessee and in other parts of North
and South Carolina to strengthen
the work of the organizers already
functioning in these sections.
"a. More organizational activity
will have to be carried on in the
rayon section of the industry.
"5. We must work out a clear pro-
gram for social insurance of all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
WORK ON CASTOR
Jury P REJUDICE
Hoey in Vicious Attack
on "Reds"
Continued from Page Onc)

(CORClnueu from rage OHG)
quence filled with biblical references
and appeal to patriotism and preju-
dices was probably effective.
Two of the jurors were seen wip-
ing tears from their eyes. His
speech was accompanied by the sob
bing of Aderholt's widow and daugh-
ter and other women in the court
room, put there for the dramatic eff
feet.
After he sat down a richly dressed
woman behind the Daily Worker re-
porter said solemnly, "His voice is
the voice of god"
Johnson MacCail then launched
into a thorough analysis of the evil
dence. In his appeal to the jury
for the freedom of the defendants,
he reviewed the long record of afro
cities committed by the police and
mill thugs against the strikers.
Then he called attention to the
fact that Gilbert, Roach, Hord and
other policemen and Loray mercen-
aries had criminal records. He
stated, "How can you blame the
strikers for arming themselves for
self protection against the attacks
of such brutal thugs?"
"The forces of law and order were
literally taken in charge by the Man.
ville-Jenckes Co. and used to break
the strike.
what were they for? To destroy
government and church? No. To
put an end to industrial slavery in
which women and children as well as
men slave their lives away for pit
tance. Have you ever gone into a
cotton mill and seen the pallid white
faces of the little girls and boys
who should be in SCHOOL,"
Mccall told the jury, "The mill
owners are coming their sweat and
blood into shekels, that their profits
may be awelled. Beal organized the
workers to fight against that sort
of thing. When the mill owners or
ganize for the advancement of their
interests it is praised as progress
and patriotism, but when the work
ers organize it is called treason"
The prosecution has quoted Beal
as advocating militancy and a fight
ing union. Fighting for higher
wages does not mean fighting with
ing union. 1t was shown by wit
nesses that Beal did not advocate
shooting as a means of winning the
strike. That was not the kind OF
fighting that Beal advocated in this
strike.
'All life is a struggle from cradle
to grave. AS long as injustice pre-
walls it is necessary to fight against
it. Labor will never escape from
industrial slavery except by fighting
for it's rights.
"The police force of Gastonia was
a collection of blackguards who
brought the law and courts into con-
tempt. Their cowardice and con-
temptible conduct was disgrace.
Gentlemen OF the jury there can
be no doubt that these policemen
went down to union headquarters
with tn deliberate purpose of shoot
ing it up. The strikers couldn't
get protection from the police and
were forced to protect themselves.
Of all the ridiculous theories ever
invented for the purpose of decid-
mig jury this theory Of the prosec-
ution that the defendants conspired
to shoot the police is the most ridicu-
lous and incredible that l ever heard.
And Hoey asks you to believe such
nonsense. The only crime Of the
defendants was to strike for better
conditions. l ask you for their I'M
conditional release"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
Fight 80 Years Pri-
son for Organizing
Southern Workers!

CCUGneTn w OFkeTS.
The bosses of Gastonia,
with the help of their court
and Judge Barnhill, are de-
termined to send the seven
Gastonia strikers to prison
for thirty years.
The International Labor De-
Tense Is Determined to
Stop Them.
The bosses are prejudicing
the jury of farmers by appeal
ing to their religious beliefs,
to sentence the organizers to
thirty years living death for
organizing workers.
If you want to help the
workers you will join the In
ternational Labor Defense,
now conducting a drive for
$4,000 new members by Janu-
airy 1, 1880.
Join at once and help save
the Gastonia strikers,
Thirty years in prison
practically life terms-face
them,
Those l. L. D. members
who want to help the class
war prisoners MUST pay their
dues. An |. l.. d. branch in
West Coast town writes:
eve have 337 MEMBERSHIP
pay dues" Something is
wrong when less than fifty
per cent of the members pay
dues. Pay your dues and help
save workers from capitalist
dungeons.
100000 Four-Page Leaf
let's Telling of the |. L. D.
Have Been Printed.
They answer the question
What is the international
Labor Defensee." They tell
what the |. L. D. means to
workers and why they should
join it.
100000 copies Of these must
be distributed. Order a bundle
for distribution in your union,
fraternal organization, shop,
mine and mill. The price is
$4 thousand.
Fill out the blank below
and forward together with
your check to the National
Office Of the l. L. D.
Enclosed find for. which
"wIiXT is THE i. L. 'G p.!S Is
NAME OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
ADDRESS ...................
% a II ...........s..'.
Send to the
International Labor Defense
50 Il. 11th ST., New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
Italian Paper Slams
Labor" Hypocrisy of
Fake Peace Chatter

ROME, Oct, 17.-Concerning in
vitations to the five-power naval
conference in London next January,
the newspaper Tribuna said that
st orecall the Kellogg treaty, which
excludes war, and then announce that
as a consequence of it the British
and American fleets will have
reached parity development in 1896
is plain contradiction which only
a labor minister (MacDonsld) could
set forth"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
NEW SPANISH BOSS PARTY.

MADRID (By MaiD The Ere
publican Radical Socialist" Party is
the latest Of the Spanish political
groups to enter the field in the SER
vie Of the capitalist class.
The party's aim is to establish a
bourgeois "1berian Republic" to take
in Spain and Portugal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18
FAKER ELECTED"

WASHINGTON (By MaiD.-Wil-
liam J. McSorley, long with a re-
dictionary record as head of the A.
F. of L. building trades department,
has been reelected" president of the
Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers'
Union, by the misleaders of that
union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18

ATTENDANTS WANT UNION.
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind. (By
attendants here de-
mand union onditions, and state they
may strike to get them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18

The working rInss cannot simpls
lay hold of the rcauy-mndc state
m chtnery, md WELD II for ITS own
purpose.. This ne.s C0mBiu tParis
Com munel breaks the modern state
n0Wer.-Mnrx. .....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-18

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-19
Family Is Jailed
AS Hex Staying
Probed By Police

KALAMAZOO, Mich, July 19.-
P)-Eugene Burgess, his vile and
their son and daughter c~c in Jail
here today while officers investi-
gated what they said had all the
appearances a hex" Staying.
The victim was Mrs. Eta L. Fair
childs, rs, occupant of a home for
the aged here, whose mutilated
body was found in cistern Shot
ly before midnight last nigh.
Burgess, officers said, confessed
he had killed IAr5. Fairt lilds with
a lead pipe and hammer because
she had cast Il evil mental in
fluence" ove-- HI family and that
she could kill people through her
mental process.
He charged RS. Fairchilds' in
fIuence . had brought about the
death of his mother two years ago
and that OF her husband some Is
yecrs ago.
Burgess wife also sought to take
responsibility for tie Staying, say
ing she he'd killed Mrs. Fairchilds.
Like her husband, she sc-d the
aged woman had an evil rental
influence or spell over the entire
Burgess family"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-19
DAY HOLDUP
NETS $4,000
Bandits Steal Banks Armor-
ed Car, Throw Guards
Into Street

NEW ORLEANS, July 19.-(P)-
An armored truck of the Hibernia
Bank and Trust company carrying
100000 in cash and checks was
seized by hooded bandits today and
driven off after the bank guards
had been thrown to the street.
The loot contained $21, 800 in cash
and $21,283 in negotiable checks,
but $751; ,720 was represented by can
celled checks of the Illinois Central
railroad of no value to the ban
dts.
The truck was trailed by the ban
dts in a grey sedan until a curve
at DryadeS and Julia street was
reached. Here the bandits began
blowing their horn, and the truck
chauffeur, thinking they wished to
pass, pulled to one side.
Instead, the bandits leaped
aboard the truck, firing two shots,
jerked' the guards to the street,
drove them into a negro restaurant
at the points Of a shotgun and pis-
tolls and escaped up the street in
the truck, leaving the sedan, which
had been stolen. The guards fired
as the truck sped away and the
bandits fired back, but all Of the
bullets went wild.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-19
SYSTEM IDEA.
is DIRECTION.
WITHONE Chief.
Belmont, Disch, Stew
ard, and Whitaker
Suggested For Post;
Decision In Fall

AUSTIN, July 19.-(P)-The Aus
tin Statesman said today sweeping
reorganization of the athletic de-
partment of the University of Tex
as is being considered by five
member faculty committee which
will report its conclusions to the
board Of regents at an unannounced
date in September.
Under a suggested plan a super
director would be placed in charge
of present uncorrelated inter-colle-
giate athletics, physical education,
physical training and women's ath-
leticS.
Names of L. Theodore Belmont,
former director of athletics and now
professor of physical education;
William j. Disch, veteran baseball
coach; E. J Stewart, forer football
coach, and Berry Whitaker, former
head football coach, are being con-
sidered as chief of the new athletic
department, the newspaper said It
had learned.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-19

: the court house rotunda, resulting
in interference by officers.
Jester was charged with having
forged the signature Of Mrs. Smith
to a $50 check received in payment
for allegedly stolen cattle.
Lack of evidence to convict was
the cause given by Justice Cain for
diSmissing the case. Three witnesses
testified for the prosecution.
The defense contended that the
check was made payable to q Mrs.
Smith, and not to specific Mrs.
Smith in response to testimony pre-
sented by Mrs. Anna @. Smith of
San Benito that she never saw the
check, had not endorsed it and had
not authorized Jester to collect it for
her.
The preliminary hearing opened
with tiff between Volney TAYLOR,
special prosecution attorney, and
Yates for the defense. Yates asked
to know what interests had obtained
Taylor's services. Taylor refused to
tell Yates individually who had
hired him but said he had no OBJ
iections to telling the court should
it ask him the question. Yates with
drew his question.
First Witness
The first witness to take the stand
was Romulo E. Garcia, meat dealer
in the Brownsville market. He said
he had purchased cattle from e. w.
Lloyd shortly before the Rio
Hondo mans death. Jester came to
him shortly afterward and told him
that three of the heifers he had pur-
chased belonged to Mrs. Smith and
that unless he paid for them. suits
would be filed against him, Garcia
testified
The meat dealer stated that he
had already paid Lloyd, but that in
the meantime the man had died.
Rather than 90 to court, he paid
Jester total of sos for the heifers,
he said. The first was $55 check
made out to Mrs Smith.
The check was introduced as evi~
dence, showing that it had been
cashed and that it was endorsed by
Mrs. Smith and S. M. Jester. The
defense admitted that Jester had.
signed his name but not the one Of
Mrs. Smith"
Mrs. Anna G. Smith. operator Of a
San Benito boarding house, was
called to the stand. She testified
that she had two head Of cattle in
Lloyd's pasture before his death.
She asked for the cattle several
times but Lloyd gave her evasive an
swers, Mrs. Smith said. LLOYD fin
ally offered to buy her two head Of
cattle and gave her check for S7A,
according to the testimony.
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