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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
CW union HAS
DELECATESAT
CLEVELAND MEET
Demand Wage Raise
and Recognition

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. AFTER
Is weeks of preparation covering
Philadelphia and surrounding terri
tory, the Hardwood Floor Layers of
Philadelphia have successfully COM
pleted the organization of the whole
trade. A membership meeting at
tended by 500 floor workers was
held last week at BOG Pine Street
and called a strike which begins to-
day.
The membership hailed the Cleve-
land Trade Union Unity Conference.
They were addressed by Herbert
Benjamin and Lee Meldon, of the
Trade Union Educational League.
The hardwood J yers have sent
two delegates to the Cleveland con-
vention. The floor workers, between
500 and 700 strong, comprising fin
ishers, layers, scrappers, nailers,
etc, have called a city-wide strike.
Their demands include the abolition
of piece y ork, minimum wage OF
90 cents and hour, and recognition
Of the union. Due to the speedup
that has been gradually put into
effect by the contractors, the floor
workers are compelled to turn out
double the work they did three
7ears ago for the same wages.
Piece work has made third of the
workers jobless. The new union will
follow out the policy of the TUEL,
of control by the workers, and
militant struggle for their demands.
Beginning Tuesday, the strikers
Ill picket the jobs and have eX-
l;sed their determination to strug-
e until tt bosses are defeated.
rike headquar RS will be main
! ined at TUEL headquarters, HOS
.rch st. A strike committee of 70
has been formed. Vivian is It's
chairman, and Goldman is secretary
ii the u..on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
| ABOR DEFENSE
ANSWERSLATEST
ISLANDER ATTACK
Workers Use LID. for
Many Defense Cases
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workers organizations and to belit-
tie the power of the workers to or
ganize and to defend themselves.
"The Gastonia defense fund has
been raised by workers, and work
ers' organizations. Contributions
have been received rom other sour
ces, such as the American Fund for
Public Service, but the largest part
of the money needed has been gath
cred dollar by dollar by workers
and workers organizations who are
fighting for the freedom of their
fellow workers in Gastonia in the
spirit of working class solidarity
and on the basis of common strug-
gle against the common enemy,
capitalist reaction and the union
smashing terrorism of the bosses.
One of Many Fights.
"The organizations which are
raising the Gastonia Defense Fund
are the same as those which raised
half million dollars for the
Passaic strike, and which have sup
ported the Labor Defense in many
other cases where the fees have
ranged from $4,000 to $4,000.
"The Gastonia defense is only one
of large number of labor defense
cases now being conducted all over
the country by the International La
Dor Defense, among them three su-
preme court appeals.
"The campaign to underestimate
the interest of the International La
Dor Defense and its ability to or
ganize working class defense on an
independent basis is only another
petty effort of the reactionary cap
italist interests to interfere with the
splendid defense which the workers
through the I. L. D. are conducting
for the Gastonia strikers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
AUTO WORKERS,
NEEDLE TOILERS,
IN CASTOR DRIVE
Youth Call Conference
for September Is
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lief Conference, August II and
divided their work in the following
manner:
Protest signature collection
days.
City wide Defense and Relief
Conference, Sunday, September 90,
IL a. m. at 1888 Woodward Ave.
3-Language Conferences to be
called by all language groups, also
special Youth, Women and Negro
Conferences.
4-Movie "Gastonia" and ga =
Visit to the Soviet Union" Satur-
day, September 81 at McCollester
Hall.
5-Open membership meeting of
the LID, Friday, Aug. 80, at 1882
Woodward Avenue.
Workers Organizations Mobilize.
The Gastonia Joint Defense and
Relief Camrai-n poi; out that it
is an absolute necessity to continue
the work of mobilization of the
masses until the Gastonia strikers
are freed. On this basis the Pro-
visional Youth Conference for Gas
tonia Defense and Relief has been
established with offices at so E 18th
Street, Room 402, which will or
ganize the youth organizations,
youth sections of unions, sports,
etc., behind Gastonia defense. A
conference has been called Sunday,
September Is, in New York at Irv-
ing Plaza.
A conference of shop delegates
and shop committees from all sec
tions of the needle trades to raise
funds for the defense of the Gas
tonia strikers will be held Wednes-
day, September II, at Webster Hall,
18th Street near Third Avenue.
Representatives will be present
from the shops of the Needle Trade
Workers Industrial Union, Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union, International Fur Workers
Union, Amalgamated Clot in
Workers, Cap and Millinery Work
ers, and unorganized shops.
Editors to Help Publicity.
At a meeting of editors of the
revolutionary press, it was decided
to not only report on news of the
trial at Charlotte, but also on the
very important activities of the
workers nationally mobilizing, for
the defense of the Gastonia strikers.
National and International move
ments and expressions of solidarity
of the workers for the Gastonia.
strikers will be featured in the news
of the various working class papers
in the different languages.
The editors will call on workers to
continue the work of organizing
the International Labor Defense, in
spreading the organization thru all
sections of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
HARDWOOD PHILADELPHIA Led by T. Ell
PARTY LIFE

glary of the Party office / received
their dirty document. This is proof
enough that they made the job and
now have my name and address"
He further writes:
''It made me laugh to read the
contents, the renegades lay all they
are guilty of at the door of the c.
f. C. Imagine having the nerve to
call the present leadership wreck
ers of the C. L. How any honest,
right-thinking persons can take any
stock in this group and support it
is more than l can understand. Evil
IDENTIFY there are none"
The resolution adopted by the Can
ton, Ohio, unit of the Communist
Party reads in part as follows:
We condemn the renegade counter
revolutionary gang of Lovestone,
Gitlow and company. The outrage
Gus attack on the Communist Party
of the United States of America, in
connection with the Aug. 1 demon
stration, by this minimizing the sig
nificance of the international soli-
darity of the proletarian masses in
defeating the imperialist attacks
planned against the only workers
fatherland, the Soviet Union. This
gang, by their last agent provoca-
teur act in raiding the c. E. C. of
flee and stealing important political
documents of the Party and the C. L,
to be published for the use of Amer
lean and international capitalism
proves that they openly placed them
selves in the service of Chang Kai-
sheks, Hooyers, MacDonalds and
Greens and their agents, the inter
national reformists of the degener-
ated Second international.
with Bolshevik determination we
must defeat Lovestone's attempt to
split the Party. Hands off our Rev.
dictionary Party! The stalwart
leader of the proletarian masses of
the United States of America"
We condemn every Party member
who associates himself with Love-
stone; such comrades have no place
in our Communist ranks. We call
upon the D. E. G. and C. E. C. to
take the most drastic measures
against such members"
From all industrial districts of our
Party resolutions come in condemn
ing our American renegades and
pledging their full support to the
c. E. c. in it's struggle for the Com
intern in America.
Resolution from Nucleus 13, Sec
ton l, Cleveland, Ohio, reads, in
part, as follows:
eve pledge our united support to
the C. E. C. in its continued fight
against all enemies of the Party,
whether in the form. of our open
capitalist enemies or the renegades
from the ranks of the Party. We
will do everything to clean from our
ranks all remnants of opportunism
and factionalism, in order that we
may as a united Communist Party
meet the task of organizing the un,
organized, fight against the war
danger and for the defense of the
Soviet Union, SO that in the struggle
we may lead the working class in
civil war against the capitalist class
and capitalist government and for
the establishment of workers and
farmers government in the United
States of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
To All Party Members!

10 All farIy memDers!
To All Party Organizations!
The Agitprop Department of the
Central Executive Committee and
the Daily Worker, decided to estab-
fish a special "Party Life" column
in all of our Party press. The pur-
pose of this column will be to make
the Daily Worker and our other
Party press reflect, not only the gen.
eral political struggles of the Party
and Of the American working class,
but also to involve the Daily Work
er in the inner struggles of the
Party for the correct. Party line,
against all deviations. from our
present struggle against the right
wing group of Lovestone and against
all negations from the correct Com
munist position that may occur in
any section of the Party.
The Party Life" column in the
Daily Worker will have also as its
task to bring closer to the working
masses the daily life and activities
of our Party. This column will re-
fleet the political and organizational
activities of the Party organizations.
1t will also contain summaries of all
important decisions of National and
District leading bodies for the lower
Party units. This column will, be
widely utilized by the National Agit-
prop and Information Departments,
where answers to immediate impor-
tant Party questions will appear
regularly.
Particularly will the party Life"
column be utilized for the publica-
ton of the important political and
organizational decisions of the Cen
trail Executive Committee as well
as of the District Executive Commit
tees. All Party organizations: Dis
trict Executive Committees, Unit
Executives, shop nuclei, etc., shall
consider the establishment of the
"Party Life" column seriously and
cooperate with the National Agit-
prop Department. to make this col
umn of interest to all Party men,
bers.
The National Agitprop Depart
ment calls upon all Party units,
District and Sections, execute COM
mittees to send copies of all their
important organizational decisions
and of all their important political
resolutions.
Address all material; Party Life
Column, Daily Worker.
Party Units React Sharply Against
the Renegades.
The burglary of the National Of
flee of the Party by the Lovestone
gang has aroused the membership
into the sharpest protests against
these enemies of the Party. A unit
secretary from Canton, Ohio, writes
US: ...... .. p.
"This time Lovestone and his gang.
made a bum job of trying to cover
up that the burglary was done by
the police. 1t made me laugh to read
in the Daily Worker that Lovestone
is denying his act and at the same
time suddenly finding him sending
me his vile circular letter SANDER
ing the present Central Executive
Committee, etc. Although I have
been a supporter of the former ma
jority l have never received any
caucus or anti-Comintern material,
and now a few DAYS after the bur-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
Campaigning For War
Recruits at St. Paul
Jingoist Encampment

ST. PAUL, Sept. 3o.-Two mes
sengers from "imperialist Washing
ton" today told Veterans of Foreign
Wars what the administration is
doing for preparedness" Assistant
Secretary of War Patrick j. Hurley
said "American must be completely
prepared" q.
Every vetern suffering from
service disability will be adequately
cared for" Frank T. Hines, U. S.
Govt. Veterans Bureau director,
said in speech which was thinly
yelled attempt to bride further re-
cruits for the next imperialist war
by telling glowing pictures of what
pensions they get when they would
be manned in conflict.
The veterans" are at their 30th
annual encampment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
Dutch I'm perialists
Arrest Is Militant
Labor Union Leaders

BATAVIA, Java (By MaiD The
Dutch government, following the
lead given by the British govern
ment in India (the arrest of the 33
now being tried at Meerut), has ar
rested rs leaders Of the new Trade
Union Federation in Indonesia, the
"Sarekat Kaoem Boereoh Indonesia."
According to the Telegraph Agency
"Aneta," the main charge against
the accused is that their organiza-
ton has affiliated to the League
Against imperialism,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
CHICAGO DRESS'NECKWEAR SELL
WORKERS STRIKE OUT INDICATED
Union Officials For
Wage Reduction

The possibility of betrayal of
the members of the Neckwear
Makers Union by its leaders, who
favor the acceptance of reduction
of wages by it's 1000 members, was
seen yesterday by progressive men,
bers Of the union.
At meeting of the union, held
Wednesday at Copper Union, a re-
port was given by the conference
board of the union. 1t stated that
the Mems Neckwear Manufacturers
Association demanded that the work
ers accept rs per cent reduction in
wages, but the representative of the
union signified their willingness to
accept a wage cut, but not Of such
large amount.
May Call Strike.
The conference board and the ex-
ecutive board of the union said it
favored making individual settle
ments with members of the associa-
ton if the association would con-
tinue to demand that the workers
accept rs per cent reduction in
wages. 1t also said it favored the
calling of a strike against those
shops who would not sign with the
union.
Militant members of the union
stated yesterday that only by affili-
ating with the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union can the neck
wear workers conduct a victorious
struggle and build a strong union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

committees to be held Saturday,
Sept. IA.
"Come to the conference! Or
ganize and fight for 40-hour, s.
day week; week work; reinstate-
ment of all expelled members; rank
and file control of the labor bu-
reau; real cmalgamation; one I'M
ion in the needle industry; ADOLF
ton of hire and fire and unemploy.
ment insurance to be paid imme-
diately to unemployed and partial
ly unemployed workers."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
N.T.W.I.U.; Fights for
Recognition

CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. L. Forty
milliners struck today in response
to the call of the Chicago Needle
Trade Workers Industrial Union.
The strikers demand recognition
of the union and improved working
conditions.
The Joint Board of the industrial
union is preparing a general drive
in dress and millinery shops. Abeli-
ton of the speed-up and higher
wage rates will be some of the de-
mands for generally improved con-
ditions. =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
148 WARRANTS
AT CLIN C HFIELD
Strikers Defy U.T.W.
Plea and Mass Picket

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and they Immediately began break
ing up the picket line, and patrol
ing the mill grounds with fixed bay
onets.
Rebellion"
Sheriff Adkins swore out las
warrants and arrests started and
are still continuing. All those ar
rested are charged in addition to
the usual rioting and assault, with
rebellion against the state OF
North Carolina"
All strike breakers entering the
mill Saturday were searched by
militiamen, to make sure that no
unionists were slipping in to distri-
butte strike calls or otherwise inter
fere with company profits.
Another troop of cavalry, from
Lincolnton, and a machine gun com
pany from Statesville are ordered
to Marion.
Thomas Pleads.
RALEIGH, N. c., Sept. Gov
ernor Gardner is in receipt of 8
communication from the Rev. Nor
man Thomas, residing now at Brook
wood College, N. Y, which request:
him to withdraw the militia from
Marion, as "the companies and gov
eminent are trying to use the same
tactics on strikers in Marion anc
Clinchfield as were used at Caste
MIA, despite the fact that the Gas
tonia strike was held under the au
spices Of the Communist Party
which regards violence as part o.
the order Of the day, and the strike!
at Marion and Clinchfield are being
held under the auspices of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor which
does not countenance violence"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

ploitation through collaboration pol
icies. They will be industrial in
form and draw in every worker in
the plant, Negro and white, women
and youth. each shop local I'M
ion" is the slogan Foster suggested.
He pointed out the ridiculous situa-
ton in the railroad industry where
16 craft unions exist. Unskilled and
semi-skilled workers must be the
foundation of the new unions.
Capitalism is doomed because of
the deeper and ev,r deeper contra
dictions developing" Foster declar-
ed, land the death blow must be
struck by the workers. The A. F.
of L. is a prop for this system; and
we must knock out that prop"
International Affiliation.
The new union center will be link
ed up with the international labor
movement through its affiliation
with the Red International of La
Dor Unions. "We must join hands
with the Latin American Federation
of Labor and affiliate with the Pan
Pacific Trade Union Secretariat,"
Foster said.
The central task of the new trade
union center will be the organiza-
ton of the unorganized, and intensi-
fled activity must be concentrated
in the South. In addition, district
leagues must be built in every in
dustrial center, large and small, to
lead the struggles of the workers.
The adjournment of the Convention
will not be the end, but the begin
ming of the work.
William F. Dunno, fresh from the
North Carolina class war battle
fields, speaking on the subject: "Or-
ganization of the Unorganized ano
Strike Strategy" told of the new
militancy in the South, and outlined
general plan for unity of action
that would enable all forces to be
thrown into action at definite sec
tions of the front.
Unions Basic !.
| The program of the r. I. L. u.
Comrade Dunno declared, is one q
organizing the workers into revolu-
tionary trade unions, both in the i'm.
perialist and semi-colonial countries
"The R. I. L. U. sees correctly that
trade unions are the basic combat
organizations of the proletariat and
that through their trade unions, the
revolutionary working class car
lead to victorious struggle against
the capitalist class and its govern
ment power, all other exploited Sec
tions of the population.
The main objective of the R. |. L.
u, the overthrow Of capitalism, re-
ouires for its attainment "the or
panization of the workers in disci-
plined battalions around program
which meets the daily needs of the
Masses" Comrade Dunno declared
He referred to the fact that in this
period of intensified class struggle
all serious economic struggles take
on a political character and tend
more and more toward a revolution.
airy political character. Our best
strategy, that of attacking the
weakest link in the imperialist sec
ton of the enemy front, il that EN-
bracing the basic industries will
their millions Of unorganized white
and Negro workers.
Mass Movements.
/ Partial strikes, he said, are some
times necessary, but as means t
an end = that Of sweeping mass
J movements. "A central part of oul
strategy is the raising of ever!
struggle to a higher political level
to increase the class consciousness
- - i------- So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
Workers Asked to
Send Their Gastonia
Petitions in at Once

In order to send the mass pro-
test petition, with the hundreds
of thousands of workers names
attached, to the state authorities
of North Carolina, demanding
the freedom Of the Gastonia
textile workers, all petition lists
are asked to be returned at once
to the national office of the Gas
tonia Joint Defense and Relief
Campaign Committee, at 80 E.
18th st., room 402, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
Negro Vice Chairman.

John Shmies, Detroit auto
worker, and William Boyce, Negro
vice-president of the National Min
ers' Union, were elected chairman
and vice-chairman, respectively, of
Saturdays session.
William 2. Foster, for years an
outstanding leader of the militant
working class struggles, made the
keynote speech, traced the history
of the Trade Union Educational
League (of which he was secretary
since it's inception) and sounded the
revolutionary call to action to
launch determined offensive
against capitalist decentralization,
wage-cuts, frightening of hours.
speed-up and the resultant unem-
ployment.
"All the power of American impe-
rialism will not be able to stop our
League from organizing the Ameri-
can workers." Foster declared. "The
situation is ripe for struggle all al
ong the line. This Convention must
be followed with a period of intense
work. Let US turn this Convention
into the most historical event in
labor history"
The Trade Union Educational
League, Foster recounted, was born
in the struggle against the postwar
offensive of the capitalists; and its
first convention was held in 1922
The fourth convention, now in ses-
sion, occurs in a period of frenzied
production taken literally out of the
lives of workers, in the midst of 6
great naturalization and war drive
Profound changes have taker
place in the League, he pointed out
in it's development from only lief
wing until it now comes forward a
a trade union center and organize
of class struggle unions. The centra
task of the new center will be t
organize struggle against ration
alization through the medium of mi
litant unions which it must build.
Charaeterizing the National Aer
onautical Exposition, which is fill
ing the columns Of the local press
as another manifestation of the pre-
paration for war which is becoming
more acute, Foster called for a mil
litant stand of the CIolnIvIeIn ilo
against imperialist war. The jung
policy of the American Federation
of Labor which accepts war prepa
rations just so long as some of tn
cruisers bear a "union label,
brought much laughter from tn
Convention body.
Exposes Music.
The Music movement bases it
policies upon class collaboration
and any organization that believe
in class collaboration is part ant
parcel of the A. F.. of L.
As a result Of the fierce pressure
intensified exploitation and drive il
every industry with safety regula
lions thrown into the discard, acct
dents mounting and unemployment
on the increase, while wages decline
the workers are becoming rapid.
radicalized.
"The new unions in the coal, tex
tile, shoe, needle trades, food an
marine industries are the chief ex
preston of this new wave of radi
calization and more revolutionar
means of struggle" Foster pointe'
out.
eve cannot ask the workers t
join the corrupt American Fedora
ton of Labor Unions" Foster saic
"The A. F. Of L. does not lead tn
workers in struggle, but to defea
We need new unionism."
The new unionism which the ne'
trade union center will help develo
will be based upon a fighting pol
icy Of "class against class" and nc
an instrument to help capitalist e.