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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
ELLA WICCINS 4
CLASS FIGHTER
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about conditions in the southern
mills that she did in facing police
brutality in North Carolina.
Upon her return from Washing
ton, Ella May spoke for the union
in Bessemer City, Gastonia, Licking
ton and many other places. She
was an extremely eloquent speaker,
who often moved her audience pro-
foundly by telling the story of her
life as mother Of five children
who had spent most of her life in
the mills, and of her struggles to
keep up home at the same time
that she was working IL hours a
day and of her unsuccessful attempt
to secure an education for her chill
dren, unsuccessful because she did
not have the funds necessary to
dress them decently or to buy books
for them.
In her speeches, Ella May always
stated that in spite of her intense
suffering she would remain with
the union until the final victory and
that regardless of what happened
to her children she would struggle
against the Manville-Jenckes gang
sters because she realized that the
organization of the workers was
the only salvation for them.
In her speeches she always sound
ed a clarion call to all of the mill
workers to join the National Textile
Workers Union and become active in
the work, telling the men that if
she herself, widow with five chill
dren could go out on strike, they
could do it.
There is no doubt that the mill
owners gangsters, deliberately muir
dered Ella May, singled her out for
assassination because of her ire
mendous influence on the workers.
This is not the first attempt on
her life. Her well was poisoned.
She was many times threatened
with death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
German Mill Slaves,
Oklahoma Workers in
GastOnia Protests

From Old Garfield Block, Okla
homa City, to the textile mills OF
Thuringen Wollgurn, in Germany, is
a far cry but the word Gastonia is
common on the lips Of the working
class between those two points.
A long list of cablegrams, tele-
grams and letters of protest against
the Gastonia case have been re-
ceived today at the Gastonia Joint
Defense and Relief Campaign Com
mittee, of 80 East Eleventh Street,
New York City.
The protests include messages
from the textile workers Of Thurin-
gen-W ollgurn, the workers of Okla
homa City, who met every night
last week to aid the strikers, the
miners of Benld, ILL.,, Carlinville, and
Panama, ILL.,, locals SOL, 524 and 544
Of the National Miners Union; the
workers of Newberry, Mich, the
Russian-P Polish branch of the Needle
Trades Industrial Union, Of New
York, the House Wreckers Union,
of the same city, the Madison Park
Singing Society, Of Paterson, N. j.,
print shop workers in the Montague
Lee Print Shop of New York.
Protests from the International
Glass War Prisoners Aid, of London,
England, were also received, telling
of meetings being held throughout
Great Britain and Scotland.
There must be no repetition of
the Sacco-Vanzetti easel" the work.
ers declare in their kilograms. eve
demand the immediate freedom of
these outstanding workers Of Gas
tonia, who are in danger Of the cleo
trio chair because they dared to
fight for better conditions than $40
or SIP week and so hours weekly
toll and because they dared to de-
fend themselves from the brutal at
tAnks of emnloxer controlled police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
Workers Answer the
Zionist Fascists by
Aiding Daily Bazaar

The answer of the militant work
ers against the attacks of the Zion
ist fascist organizations has been
expressed by the militant stand
they took in working for the
bazaar. Many organizations have
already elected bazaar committees
despite the fight put up by the
Zionist fascists. In many organiza-
lions Zionist fascists tried to pass
resolutions condemning the Freiheit
and the answer Of the militant
workers was to defeat these fascist
resolutions and to elect a bazaar
committee to sell tickets AM, col
lect honor roll names and adds.
The City Committee of Irdepen-
dent Workmen's Circle has elected
a bazaar committee and took $1,000
worth of tickets which they have
promised to sell. All branches have
been instructed to collect articles
for the three booths which the In
dependent Workmen's Circle will
have at this bazaar.
All militant workers must an
swer the attack of the enemies of
the working class, the fascist Zion
lists, by having their organizations
buy tickets for the bazaar, send in a
greeting to the Bazaar Journal and
have all workers of their organiza-
lions and shops place their names
on the Red Honor Roll.
Act at once to make this bazaar
@ success.
Come to the office of the Bazaar
Committee, 26 Union Square, Room
603, and get material for the bazaar.
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piled, mo sir, I warn't shot but
someone hit me on the chin"
Breathed Only Few Times.

piled, mo sir, I warn't shot but
someone hit me on the chin"
Breathed Only Few Times.
Charlie Schope, who helped carry
Mrs. Virgins to a nearby house
said, when she hollered we jumped
out and me and Roy Carpenter car
ried her to the porch. She breathed
several times and it was Is of three
when she made the last gasp for
took out my watch to see."
Willard Sellers said he ran from
the shooting scene because bullets
were flying all around"
All testified that a massed at
tack from other cars followed the
shooting.
Eyewitness Account.
One of the unionists on the truck
gave the following account of the
shooting:
when we passed the railroad on
the way to the union headquarters,
/ saw some of the Loray Committee
of 100 on the lookout. They imme-
diately turned and ran to Franklin
St. Before we could get away from
the union headquarters, about 80
cars arrived. The thugs jumped out,
pointed guns at us, and ordered us
to beat it or they would "kill every
god damn union bastard" The
driver started the truck and they
followed us close. We started to
run toward the union place, but
their autos cut in and blocked the
way, covering US with guns all the
time. When we were forced to stop
TO ra red traffic light, some of them
tried to drag the driver off his
seat.
"Then he started again, and shot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
Is Hours Of Slavery at a
Stretch IN PITTSBURGH Steel

have here. If a worker is sick or
something and takes a day off he
goes back to work not knowing
whether he has a job or not and if
ne isn't discharged he gets week
off.
In the Fabric they have what
they call the x. machine, and it has
a crew of nine men. The men work
by twos; first the operator and but
ton pusher whose work isn't as hard
as the other men have to do.
The cutters have to cut this fab
ric as it comes out Of the machines
at the rate of so feet minute and
these young boys have to stand on
these moving sheets and cut them
with cutters.
The wires are about a quarter of
an inch thick and these have to be
cut by hand 10 to 81 wires three
times a minute. 1t makes their
hands and arms sore at times that
they can hardly move them.
The helpers also have very dan
gerous jobs as these workers have
to keep these reels filled up with
wire and sometimes these wires
break and often hit these workers
and blind them. The speed-up is
terrible here as all the workers here
are unorganized and the bosses can
still do what they want with them.
Therefore, steel workers, organ
ize. Fight the steel bosses. Do
away with this speed-up system,
these II and 10 hour days,
A STEEL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
ELECTRIC co.
BOSS REFUSES
TO PAY NE
Job Reduced to Real
Peonage
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
l had to pay So (nearly all the
money l had) to an employment
agency shark on Sixth Avenue to
get the job of machinist at the
Standard Electric Co. shop at 1882
Lafayette St., New York City, only
to find after working there three
weeks that they wouldn't pay the
men who shaved for them.
The Standard Electric Co. is a
concern making machinery for cot
ton picking and for cleaning mat
tresses. The wages they paid me
was $28 week. Most of the
metal workers there were being paid
an average of $22 to $28 a week.
When got the job Il later found
out) some of the men hadn't gotten
any pay for three weeks. I was
paid all right the first week, but
not a cent since then. eve can't
afford to pay you," was what the
boss told US, altho he was buying
material, paying gas, electric and
water bills and rent, and looked
well fed.
If we left, we, were told, we
would never get back pay coming
to US. Therefore the job became a
plain case of peonage we were
forced to keep Shaving there in order
to collect the back pay already COM
ing to us and meanwhile we kept
working for nothing.
We work a 48 hour week-six
days a week--and in order to get
off at p. m. on Saturdays we are
forced to make up for it by work
ing over 8 hours on the week days.
The men are all unorganized. The
whole shop is on the street level,
and the workers have to inhale the
exhaust gases. In spraying paint
on the machinery, poisonous gases
are also inhaled by the workers.
Here is one case where the fact
that the workers were not organized
into strong union which would
fight for them found the workers
helpless against the employer rob-
bling them.
ELECTRIC WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
Racketeers Get $4,000
from Tammany Leader

Because building trades rack
eteers did not use Judgment and
made the contractor who is building
an apartment house at River Ave.
and Mcclellan St., the Bronx, for
William J. Flynn, Public Works
Commissioner of the Bronx, a lead
ing Tammany politician, pay tri-
butte to the extent of $4,000, Dis
trict Attorney Mcclellan is deter
mined to bring the case before the
grand jury. Ordinarily no action is
taken, but as a fellow-Tammany
man is compelled to pay the $4,000
extra for his apartment house, it
is believed that the racketeers may
actually be indicted and possibly
convicted. In most such cases, no
action is taken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16

Oak, Gastonia publicity director of
the I. L. D.; Margaret Oak, his
wife, and another man driving the
car. They were stopped by police,
searched, and the men were arrested
on the charge of carrying concealed
weapons. They are now out on
bail. An attempt was made to kid
nap William F. Dunno and Hugo
Oehler, but this failed.
Workers Aroused.
The textile workers of this vicin-
ity are SO far from being terrified
by the outbreak of murder and vio-
lence Saturday that they are already
planning larger mass meetings
throughout the surrounding country,
determined to make the organization
drive of the National Textile Work
ers Union, and the October Is
Southern Textile Workers Confer
ence in Charlotte such a powerful
reality that the system of starvation
in the mills and slaughter for dar-
ing to strike will come to an end.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
by a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
MONESSET, Pa. (By BsiD.-
We work 19 hours a night and II
hours day here in the Pittsburgh
Steel Company and under the most
rotten conditions possible. There
are many different departments; the
nail mill workers have to work 10
hours on the night turn and II
hours on the day turn in such ter
rible noise that when one goes home
at the end of the day he can't hear
any thing for hours afterwards. The
work is piece-work and a worker
has to stay on his feet all day and
jump around mighty fast to keep
up with the machines. Then we
have the Tune Mill, Wire Mill, Rod
Mill, and also the Fabric Depart
ment.
The Fabric Department is where
the workers make reinforcements
for concrete which is used On the
highways and sidewalks. Here we
have mostly young boys because the
speed-up system here is so terrible
that the older worker could not very
well keep up with the machines.
The Fabric Department works
every day in the summer and in
the winter the workers have to look
elsewhere for employment.
Just few weeks ago the workers
had to work IS hours at one stretch
and any one who didn't want to do
it were told to go to the office and
get their money.
That's the kind of conditions we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
Defends
ARABIAN REVOLT
Anti Imperialists Call
Workers to Assist
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volt of the Arabs against the Zion
lists is in reality a revolt against
the economic and political serfdom
to which they have been reduced by
British imperialism in Palestine.
"It is in virtue of the anti-imper-
ialist character of the struggle that
the Arabs of Palestine are receiv-
ing the moral and material support
of the Arabs of Egypt, Syria and
Transjordania as we'll as of the
masses of the Indian people engaged
in a revolutionary struggle for lib
Grafton from the yoke of British i'm
perialism.
"The Arab population of Palestine
rightly regards the Zionist move
ment as the main instrument of
British imperialist exploitation in
their country. With the help of
Zionist, capitalist and fascist organ
izations, the Arabs are being sys-
tematically appropriated and i'm
poverished, and the landless peas
ants condemned to unemployment
or reduced to the position of Kulis.
There has therefore naturally
arisen sharp economic conflict be-
tween the Arabs and the Zionist
immigrants, leading to bloody riots,
in which the latter are armed by
the British imperialists and receive
their special protection. Imperialist
intrigue has succeeded, as it has
In India, in giving these economic
and anti-imperialist fights the char
acter of religious and cultural riots.
1t has thus placed the leadership of
the movement on both sides in the
hands of reactionaries.
"1n the performance of their
function as the lackeys of imperial
ism, the Zionists have received the
wholehearted support of the social
democratic parties of the Second In
ternational, and more especially of
members of the British Labor Party.
"As a prelude to this annexation,
the present deliberately provoked
conflicts between the Arabs and the
Zionist fascists are being dexter
ously utilized by the British Gov
eminent in order to strengthen the
permanent military and naval gar
rison in Palestine.
"The League Against Imperialism
and for National Independence gives
its wholehearted support to the
workers and peasants of Palestine
as of all other Arabian countries, in
the struggle for the overthrow of
imperialist exploitation and the es-
tablishment of real national indie
pendence.
"The League Against Imperialism
appeals to all it's affiliated and as
ISOLATED organizations to extend
their active help to the masses in
the Arabian countries in their
struggle for freedom and to carry
on an uncompromising fight against
and against Zionist and
social democratic agents of imper-
ialism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
WAGE CUTS ARE
FREQUENT FOR
UNORGANIzED
A. F L. Does No Good
for Skilled Men s9
(Bu q Worker C0rregpondentl

by Worker Correspondent a
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (By
MaiD.-Many thousands of workers
slave here and in GIassmere,
Creighton and Springdale, in the
plate glass industry.
The biggest exploiters around
here in the glass industry are the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass, the Standard
Plate Glass, in Springdale, and the
American Window Glass Co. All
the workers of all the glass manu-
featuring plants in this section are
unorganized, and this fact is what
accounts for the most part, for the
following conditions, which we have.
The workers in the Standard plant
at Springdale are getting an aver
age of 25 cents an hour, and before
long another wage cut 1--WE have had
many in the past. few years) will
bring wages further down.
Wages are little higher, but
conditions are a lot worse, in the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass plant. The,
men work only two to four days a
week; many have been thrown out
of work by new inventions in the
line of machines. ....s,
Speedup Is Fierce Here. 5l
The workers in the American
plant average from 30 to 40 cent&
an hour. After several years they
get 40 cents, but then along comes
a wage cut, and their wages are
back to low level again,
The glass cutters and flatteners
are organized into the A. F. of L.,
into weak unions which do them
absolutely no good, for they do not
call strikes against frequent wage
cuts. Cutters slave 10 hours a day,
making SIS a day. Flatteners get a
few cents more. 81
Chemicals and gaseous fumes
make the glass workers ill in no
time. It's hot as hell in the glass
plants. Coal gas floods the plants.
Safety apparatus is inland the
bosses get away with it, for some
of the big bosses of the plate glass
industry are also leading G. o. P.
politicians in this state.
The glass workers must, organ
ize, into one union for all glass
workers-skilled or. qnskilled. And
the skilled workers :have learned by
now that the A. F.sof- L. can't help
them.
PLATE GLASS. WORKER. ejl
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ahead, going back toward Besseper
City. But the thugs cars caught up
with us again and several cars
passed US. When we got to the
bridge, five cars passed over first
and stopped, two on each side of the
road, and one in the center, just
ahead of US. We were going on top
speed and could not stop.
Our truck smashed into their car,
wrecking both. We were thrown to
the ground and started running
across the field. We were unarmed
and unprepared to protect ourselves
against such a large gang. They
jumped out of their cars and started
shooting at us. There was a vol
ley of shots and Ella May fell dead"
BuIwinkle Aids Murderers.
Liston Oak, locked in the Jail cell
over night, could hear Major Bull
Wrinkle, attorney for the Loray mill
and member of the prosecution in
the Gastonia case of 16 workers
slated for electrocution or long pri-
so nterms, quizzing George Linger-
felt, the driver of the truck. Bull
Wrinkle is defending Fred Morrow,
Loray mill hireling who drove the
car that stopped the truck, so the
numbering could begin. Bulwinkle
Immediately framed an alibi for
Morrow, saying that he was ION
the way to Bridgewater to attend
a weekend party"
Arrest I. L. d. Reporters.
In another automobile, approach
ing the meeting place, was Liston
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
LONDON LIKELY
AS PLACE.; dec.
PROBABLE DATE
Sharp Clash Coming as
Nothing is Settled

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Secre-
tary of State Stimson announced
further details yesterday of the
forthcoming five-power conference
on cruiser strength. This confer
ence now takes the place of the
Dawes-Macdonald conversations as
the chief field of conflict between
British and American Imperialism,
where the preliminary stages of the
forthcoming military conflict take
place, each country moving for the
greatest possible naval strength and
the least for its opponent. There
will also be much difficulty with
the demands of France, Italy and
Japan for more naval power, rela-
tive to that of the other two great
imperialisms.
Keep Up Bluff.
1t is still claimed in Washington
and London that the Dawes-Mac-
Donald preliminary conversations
were nearly successful, and that
Stimson's note establishes practical
agreement. But the admission that
there still remain important points
to discuss, and that the new con-
ference proceeds without regard to
the settlement of the conversations,
Or to MacDonald's visit to America
in October, indicates the impasse.
Britain still claims her 80 cruisers
with approximately 100000 tons
total displacement. The U. S. note
did not agree to this, but accuses
the British admiralty of having
already superior power in cruis-
ers, and insisting that the British
fleet must be reduced. There is
also a dispute over the armament of
American cruisers of the 10000 ton
eaass, the U. S. naval experts de-
manding s-inch guns and the Brit
ish contending that they must not
carry larger than 6-inch. And still
more, there is a dispute over the
method of measuring equality in
cruisers already built.
Submarine Parity.
France and Italy dispute with
each other, Mussolini demanding
submarine parity with France. Both
countries oppose U. S. and Britain
on the question of submarines, the
French press making a big demon
stration for the right to build large
numbers of these as "the chief
weapon of poor countries" &
Japan is with France and Italy on
submarines, while both u. s. and
England wish to strictly limit them.
England particularly, with her in
sular position and still fresh memo
ries of the almost successful Ger
man U-boat blockade during the
world war, is extreme in its state
ments against the unfairness of sub
marine warfare.
Japan Demands More.
Japan also adds fresh source of
controversy by demanding higher
ratio of cruiser strength to that she
had to take on battleships at the
Washington conference. The battle
ship ratio for U. S., England and
Japan is 5-5-3. Japanese naval de-
partment ocials have declared, and
the Japanese press loudly defends,
a 10-10-7 ratio on cruierss.
Stimson yesterday refused to
state whether complete arrange
ments were made for the confer
ence, but intimated that it would
be held in London, and probably in
December of this year. He said that
negotiations among the ambassa-
doris in Washington of all the par
ticipant nations had been going on
for days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16
$500 Leather Workers
in Lower Austria Strike
Wireless By "Inprecorr"

iWretess By "Inprecorr"
VIENNA, Sept. 1.-two thou
sand five hundred leather workers
are striking here and in lower Aus
tria for wage increases. The en-
ployers are threatening an all
Austria leather lockout.
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and gunner"
Mass collection days throughout
the entire land are being prepared
for September 81 and %, the Gas
tonia defense committee stated,
which has received many letters tel
ing OF intense activities in every
part OF the land in the coming two
day drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-16

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
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