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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-16
Curtis Is Urged
To Wed to End
Social Rank Row
Hundreds of Letters Sent
Kansan on Subject, and
He Chuckles.

| BY the Associated Press.
"P. S.--Why don't you get married."
In the hundreds of letters which
poured into the offlce of Vice President
Curtis during his controversies with the
State Department over the social status
of his. sister and designated hostess, Mrs
Edward Everett Gam, this naive sug-
gestion was found more than once.
The idea always struck the broadly
developed sense Of iumor Of the Vice
President, but his only response was a
chuckle and an occasional reflection
that marriage was one of those things
that was easier said than done.
Now that 1t is all over, and he has
won for his sister equal recognition with
himself at official dinners, which was
rotary Kellogg. the usually quiet Charles
Curtis is realizing that his first declara-
ton as Vice President created real
STIR
Just looking over his increasing stack
OF mail was enough to convince him
that he had said and done something
which at least was attracting atten-
ton. Intent at righting what he con-
sidered a slight to his sister, he had not
counted on public storm, and now he
is amazed at the widespread interest.
The vast majority of his correspondents
supported him.
Friends of the veteran Kansan have
insisted all along that he was actuated
only by loyalty to family and to office
in his public fight for social precedence
for his sister. and he confirms that
view in private conversation. But he Is
now wondering If the publicity will ever
end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-16

Gov. Parnell of Arkansas has signed
bill Ito repeal the act of 1901 forbid
ding fraternities In the University Of
Arkansas"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-16
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
TEXTILE ORGANIZER SAVES LIFE BY FIRING AT THUGS
What Is Happening in Gastonia.

The enemies of the workers are trying to make the
murderraid in Gastonia appear as popular movement
against the strike leaders and against Communism This
clever propaganda for the capitalist but it is lie
There is NOT popular movement against the strike
leaders, On the contrary two big facts stand out to show
that the mill workers and the working class generally In the
sympathetic the labor defendants This is
first by the deep and broad for organization and
struggle against the mill Secondly it proven by the re-
makabe aea fact almost unheard of in the present meshat
unable the regular machinery of their hand
putting the workers leaders the electric chair.
that the capitalist class cannot succeed in
murderng through the of North Carolina
ed in the cantaist nres said 1T would be preferable for the
"endn m e @ @ han % that thew should convicted by an insane
man. showing that the underent his whole thought the case
Identical with that of the mill Ownersthat the trial will not ac-
conducting the trial the of judge and
the entire dozen of jurors of
eaconay under control than that of the
juror who suddenly amuek with the cry GIVE me gun they
taken life and Ill make them confess and kill them
But in the first effort to get jury ubserven to the mill bosses
medieval peudes large proportion
of the jury stood for a verdict of not guilty
turning the wild raids throughout the
where struggle of the mill workers threatens the profits of the
u 70 % Sill, ~ :; +hi % it II II % I Of the besstlv ouitv
of nchng by which the ruling class has
long utilized help rule terrorze and douby exploit the Negro
But to this old phenomenon added something
something of The old classical form of
nehng usually implies nctemen of backward population to
which help the ruling class maintain and continue
poaton of the Negro Cor whe In this case however, the
unable to debauch popular
such position the ruling class of
the Gson Charlotte led and organized by the mill
public officials police organized special legal band
by officials the police and
of the general methods of
errorzation by the murdergang the mill and
conyicng They
Ba and his in the electric chair
Only thing the crimethe of
awakening and activity of the working class IN behalf OF the sixteen
Gaatona
The recognize latest civil episode Gas
call to and bigger actions hundred times more sup
the Gastona defendants hundred times
organization of the National Textile Workers
build the International Labor Defense
emphasizes the absolute
workers defense the Gastona srug
gle workers everywhere to machinery for de-
murder strikers and strike leaders and to impede
by violence organizing militant struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
General War Likely At Any Moment

danger general against the Soviet Union growing
day after day.
capitalist
the Far the stmon proposing international
sovietadmnistered Chinese Eastern Railway still
the policy of American imperialism
delay application order to
with and the latest egaphc dispatches
Toxic indicate that Japanese imperialism is solid with the
czarsts hengs imperialism have been given
the word to attack.
election cry Recognition Mr.
breathing aspirations after for by his
refusal of recognition to the Soviet Government
French bougeois by NJ Brands plan for United States
exactly binding the European capitalist
bloc POSSIBLY under French hegemony which, as was
clear from Brands speech was openly stated BY cor
respondents designed fight Communism and the stronghold OF
Most significant of all is the caous attitude Germany
the consular duties it had assumed not small
incident along whole the
burgeoe the sociademocrac
make Communism and be the willing tool of the greater
mpeast and especially of America shown by Sresse-
mans speech reported yesterday their attempt to crush the Soviet
Union.
speeches. preparations being everywhere intensified and hos
tlies are are coming nearer nearer and nearer o;. x..
preparedness peaceful civil aviation with
Labor searches out the foregbon workers.
faster Rehabilitation of the workers met by ynchng
by the organized treachery that
called the A. F. of and their allies the Muste and the socaed
socialist party
algt frontier Polish officers
caught carrying military spying British troops reported today
from the u S. S. R.
Asc frontier Bagdd center Of the British air force only few
@ ne helping the bor
gs Zionist garrison released order to bomb the workers
and peasants of the Soviet Union.
general may any Communist Party
members be fully prepared the task of mobng the
masses against the war
general slogans of the mobilization
Today the situation demands that the whole Party the alert and
that anti-war tasks be taken up and into force
Defend the Soviet Union which is building Socialism,
Guild antiwar shop committees!
demonstrations ana strikes against the coming @ar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
4 Y. C. L. Girls Fined
For Giving Leaflets
to Negro Guardsmen

The four girl members of the
Young Communist League who were
arrested Sunday afternoon while
distributing leaflets to members Of
the 369th infantry who were on
their way to Camp Smith, Peek5kill,
N. Y, were fined $15 each with an
alternative of Is days in Jail by
Magistrate McQuade in the 166th
St. court yesterday morning. The
international Labor Defense paid
their fines. They had already served
four days. Those fined were Ray
Leventhal, Georgia Kaper, Lillian
Roth and Ray Levine.
Before pronouncing sentence the
magistrate asked the girls if they
would distribute leaflets again.
When they answered that they
would, he gave them the heavy SEN
tence. Previously he had told the
parole officer that the three young
Communists had been punished
enough.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
APPLY SEDITI0N
LAWAT CHICAGO
WORKERS TRIAL
III. Act of 1919 Would
Illegalize Communist
Party Immediately
27 Face Jail Terms
Demonstrated Against
Castor Railroading

CHICAGO, H., Sept. 1.-THE Il
iinois sedition law, passed during
the postwar "Red-baiting" hysteria
in 1919, under which 80 members OF
the Communist Labor Party were in
dictcd in March, 1920, has now been
invoked against 26 workers arrest
ed st a demonstration for the Gas
tonia strikers in Grant Park. June
15
The move of the prosecution was
revealed when the case, first re-
sulting in a mistlial and then post
poned, again came before the notori-
Gus Judge Lyle here. The charge
of sedition was added to original
charges of holding the meeting
without a permit, resisting an Of
ficer, melting to riot and distribut-
ing literature without permit"
Bring in Sedition Laws.
The sedition law is directed
against "anyone advocating re-
formation or overthrow Of govern
ment by violence or any other un-
lawful means, or anyone publishing,
selling, or distributing a book, paper
or document advocating violence as
means of accomplishing the over
throw of constitutional, representa- a
tive from of government, and any
one organizing or becoming a mem
Der of any society or association the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Fg1rriers Rout Right
Wingers in Market;
Thugs are B e q te n

A squad of right wing thugs en-
plored by the scab international Fur
Workers Union were badly beaten
up yesterday morning by the De-
Tense Committee of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
when the gangsters attempted to
telrorize the workers. of the Henry
Fucker fur shop, 235 w. 26th ST.,
which has an agreement with the
Industrial Union.
When the thugs attacked the fur
workers, they Immediately defended
themselves an dreceived aid from
members of the union Defense Com
mittee, who were on the block. The
union has recently organized the De-
fenes Committee to drive the right
wing thugs out of the needle trades
market.
Shoot At Workers.
When the police saw that the scat
union thugs were getting the worst
of the fight they joined in, shooting
point blank at the workers. Six
workers, two of them from the
Fucker shop were arrested. -Four
of the gangstcrs were also arroste;
Continued on Pd9a T0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
METAL STRIKERS
FOLLOW 7. U. U.L
Urge Industrial Union
at Carteret Plant
By n. B. HARDY.

CATARET, N. j., Sept. IL
The keynote struck at last nights
meeting of the $500 strikers of the
United States Smelling and Re-
filming Co. as the need for perfect
ing the shop committees, definitely
organizing a Metal Workers Indus
trial Union, and fighting until every
demand is won. Secretary Over
gaarde of the Metal Industrial
Bureau of the Trade Union Unity
League, and Nat Kaplan, League
member, both spoke after members
of the strike committee invited
them to tell the strikers what the
Trade Union Unity League pro,
poses.
"The verbal statements Of the
company" said Overgaards, "ir
which they say that they are will.
ing to reinstate the men fired, grant
payment every week md the aboli
tionof the bonus will remain empty
talk unless the men organize into {
union of all workers in the plant
and force the bosses to sign al
agreement conceding the demands.
OvergaarCe pointed out that shoI
committees m; : be set up in eacf
department to give a solid basis tt
the union when formed.
"The need for the organization
of the .ers into a union," sait
Overgaarde, "is clearly --"-' by thu
stubborn refusal of the company tt
grant the ten cents increase il
wages, which abolishes the wag'
cut, the need for fighting for time
nd-a-half. for overtime and for tn,
with no decrease in pay"
A brief description of the TUUl
and it's national convention il
Cleveland y-cs given by Overgaarde
Continued on PAGE TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
First Session OF TUUL
Board COnsOHdQtes
Trade Union Center
Fifth Congress of R.IL.U., July Is, Announced
Workers Delegation to U.S.S.R. at Same Time
Affiiation of Unions, Campaign for Building
New Center, Dues System are Highlights

will function temporarily, and I'M
mediately set to work to organize
League sections and groups in the
smaller cities of their territory,
pending the district Trade Union
Unity League conventions, the
Board decided.
A program Of action in prepara-
tion, and at the American Fedora
ton of Labor Convention Oct. 7,
was outlined. The program adopted
at the Cleveland Convention will
form the base about which the fight
will rally.
The headquarters of the Metal
Trades Section of the League will
be established in Pittsburgh, heart
of the steel district. Andrew Over
gard, provisional national secre-
tary of this section, will establish
the office in the very near future
he announced.
Bill Dunno, one Of the most prom
inent journalists and outstanding
organizer of the American labor
movement, was elected editor Of
Labor Unity, the official organ OF
the League.
The International Labor Defense
Conference, which will be held
within the next month was endorsed
by the Board, and affil;ation with
the defense organization was pro-
posed to all allied organizations, A
special resolution on the Gastonla
attack, which appears in another
section of this edition, was adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Hold Trial of Chicago
Youth Demonstrators

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 1.-Two
members of the Young Communist
League will be tried today on charges
arising out of their activities at
International Youth Day demonstra-
tion at Ashland and 47th st.
The two are Sam Reed, district
organizer and Della Fogel. Both
have been kept in Jail since last
Friday, when they were arrested
Immediately after the demonstration
began.
Defeat Police Brutality.
Police had tried to seize Johr
Rijak, organizations secretary OF
the League, when several of the
hundreds of workers present raised
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Red Nights Assert Workers
Right to the City's Streets
Will Defy Attempts of Workers Enemies to
Keep Communist Program from Masses

paign Committee of the New York
District in a statement issued last
night.
The united front Of the enemies of
the working class, the statement de-
clares, extending from trustified
capital of the A. F. of l.. official
dom and the socialist party, is be-
coming more consolidated, as is
shown by the endorsement of Nor
man Thomas, by the big business
committee, known as the Citizens
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12

Consolidation of the new trade
union center was the keynote OF
the first session of the National
Executive Board of the Trade Union
Unity League, which met yester-
day.
Notification of the Fifth Congress
of the Red International of Labor
Unions, set for July Is, 1880, was
presented at he session. The
League Bureau was instructed to
make preparations for sending the
delegation and report to the next
session Of the Board.
Plans to carry out the Conven-
ton decision to send a large work
ers' delegation to the Soviet Union
to see first hand the operation of
the five-year plan were made. Ii
possible, the delegation will reach
Moscow 1t the time o. the R. j. L.
U. Congress, William 2. Foster.
general secretary, announced today.
The outlines of a broad campaign
to build the League through special
meetings of shop committees, min
critics of the reactionary unions, To-
Gals of left-wing unions and League
groups to hear the reports of dele
gates who attended the Cleveland
Convention.
Steps to regulate the affiliation
of unions and details for dues
paying system were devised, baseo
upon the decisions of the Conven.
tion. Thirteen districts, including
Charlotte, N. c., and Seattle, Wash,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12

"Red Nights" for open mass dem
onstratlons at the end of this week,
one on Friday, in Negro Harlem and
the other downtown, on Saturday,
opening the Communist Party cleo
tion campaign in earnest, will serve
to mobilize the working masses of
the city in protest against the police
terrorism and socialist-fascist gang
sterism, and to assert the right Of
the workers and of their revolution
ary Party to the streets, is the an
nouncement Of the Election Cam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Force Speed-Up Upon
Witty Bros. Workers

Again the Sidney Hillman COM
pany union group in control of the
Amalgamated Clothing Union has
joined with employers to force
speed-up conditions on the tailors.
This time it is the workers of Witty
Bros, 81 Eldridge St., who are the
victims.
Ten of the 125 workers there have
been discharged, the lis left being
Continued on Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
WILL HOLD UNION AND LID.
RALLY IN SPITE OF THREATS
OF Mill MURDER CANCSTERS
First Session of TUUL Board Condemns Attack
on Organizers; First Hand Story in Affidavits
Grant of Mistrial is Blow to Defense, Says
Defense Attorneys Fight Must Redouble
BULLETIN.

organizers in Gaonia
by the National Executive Board
the Trade Union Unity League session. declares The mill
bloody methods hope the rapidly
textile the determined ug
Charlotte Southern Textile Workers Confer
defeat the stretchou the low long
h0ursa child labor.
by they hope send the
defendants o DEATH
call all workers rally to the support of the textile
South the combined fire of mill COURTS
misead and redoube their
imprisoned textile workers. and full
financially otherwise the defense of the nerna-
tiona Defense"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Important Work for
Party Members Today

All members of the Communist
Party and Young Communist League
should report at 1880 o'clock tonight
at 154 Watkins St., Brooklyn, for
important Party and League work
by orders of the District Executive
Committee. &
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12

with gun when they came to
| his house, surrounded it, and
after yelling, Come out, you
bastard, and We'll lynch you"
sought to enter the house.
When the mill hirelings yelled
their curses, Fortner shouted back:
Come and get me, you yellow
thugs" and met them with bullets.
The gang broke and fled precipi-
lately. 1t is believed that some of
them were wounded.
Open threats that, eve are going
to lynch every damn one of the
union organizers and smash the
union," are frequently heard as the
Manville-Jenckes Committee of 100,
which has now been extended to in
clude the other mills around, con-
tinue their reign of terror.
Six murderous agents of the mill
owners have been hanging around
the home of Dewey Martin, N.T.W.
organizer, since Monday night, wait
ing for him to come home.
"In spite of the continued threats
of the mill owner crowd that if the
N.T,W.U. holds any more meetings
in Gastonia, they will be lynched,
the meeting scheduled for next Sat-
urday afternoon in South Gastonia
will be held" Hugo Oehler, south
ern organizer for the N.T.W.U. an
nounced today. Workers are COM
ing in from all around to protect the
meeting, and the organization work
and preparation for the Charlotte
Conference goes on rapidly.
Organizer Wells, who was badly
beaten after being kidnapped along
with Organizers Lell and Saylor
Saturday, is anxious to get back
into active union work, and if pos
sible speak at the Gastonia mass
meeting. However, he suffered ter
rible pain all last night, and is
much worse today. He is under the
constant care of Doctor Myers. A
terrific beating over the lower ab-
domen has caused him to vornit con-
stantly.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. IL
The sworn affidavit of C. D. Saylor
and statements of G. M Lell and
Ben Wells, National Textile Work
ers' Union organizers who were kid.
mapped and beaten by a posse
headed by the chief attorneys prose
cutting the Gastonia case, mill bosses
and police, today issued by the In
ternational Labor Defense, follow in
full.
Wells gave this account of the at
tack from his bed where he is un.
der doctors care. With great
pain, he turned over in bed so that
photographers could get pictures Of
his lacerated body.
Il was at Mrs. Lodges house in
Gastonia at 9 o'clock, when about
hundred cars drove up. The lead.
! ers jumped out and broke down the
llOlie dOOLs HSy WSIt SHlk lug
Praise god from whom all bless.
ings flow l stood up and started
to protest. They seized me ant
dragged me outside where there
. were about two hundred more.
'They said kiss this flag and de.
nounce the union l made a speech
stating that | came here to organize
( the workers for a fight against the
t bosses. They pulled me down anc
threw me into an auto. The leaders,
( Thompson and Morehead, superin.
= tendents of the Loray Mill, had q
/ consultation and decided they would
= go to Charlotte and raid the LID
= Continued on Page Thrce)
Build Up the United Front OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
ORLEANS CARMEN
DEFEAT SELL0UT
Tremendous Majority
Against Green Plan

NEW ORLEANS, La. Sept. II
(UP).-New Orleans 69-day street
car strike was prolonged tonight
when a check of the votes of the
1900 striking carmen revealed that
a tentative agreement submitted by
the Pu6lic Service, Inc, and Will
liara c. r---3-'l'c--A - - "--' Fed
Grafton of Labor, had been over
whcl--i--,:ss;;y G2cc2,o1.