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The daily worker., 1929-10-19
II. LIMOS MINERS
IN Great RALLY
Largest Locals Burn
UMWA Charters
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administration of District IL of the
U.M.W.A. Gllinois) against Inter
national President Lewis and his
group, is goin gto show a lot of
graft, corruption. and swindling and
sell-out of the miners, say the dis
trict officials of the National Min
ers' Union. Lewis bases his claim
to the district on the graft COM
mitte1 in it by Fishwick's men, and
Fishwick declares he will peacefully
resign if auditors do not show that
Lewis stole more than Fishwick did.
The National Miners Union is
admitted now by the press and all
reactionaries to be in very strong
position, and both the Fishwick and
Lewis gangs are worried. The
charges long ago proved against
both Fishwick and Lewis by the N.
NJ. u, these worthless are now prov
ing against each other.
At the recent Staunton mass
meetings, 4,OOO miners commemor-
ated the Virden Day heroes, who in
1898 beat off with rifle fire a train
load of scabs and armed scab herd
ers, and ended scabbing pretty gen
orally in Illinois until Lewis and
Fishwick sold out the last strike.
This meeting was under the aus
pices of the NM.U. and at a special
conference there, the militant de-
mands now sweeping the coal fields
of Illinois were first published.
These demands are:
Stop payment of dues by CIV
ing the coal companies orders to
stop the checking o. of dues, either
for Lewis or Fishwic,.. Smash the
check-off.
2.-Destroy the charters of the
U. M. w. A. Demand recognition
of the National Miners Union.
3.-Capture the U.M.W.A. local
unions for the membership, and let
them join the N. NJ. U. in body.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
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speed-up and wage-cut program
whic hthe capitalists have brought
on for greater profits.
Police have corralled $50 workers
in Chicago, including Clarence Hath
away and other leaders of the Com
munist Party. Indications are that
the state will combine the cases into
one great sedition trial with the la
gality of the Communist Party as
the issue.
In California, seven workers have
been found guilty of sedition and are
in danger of ten-year terms because
thew flew banner with a hammer
and sickle inscribed upon it at a
children's camp near Los Angeles.
Sixty workers face trial for a
number of charges in Pittsburgh.
Many Sedition Charges.
In Philadelphia three workers are
being tried for sedition.
In New York the Mineola cases
are due up for trial again and Sal
vatore Accorsi, Staten Island la
borer, has been delivered to the
Pennsylvania authorities to stand
trial on framed charges of murder.
In Charlotte, N. c., seven workers
may go to prison for thirty-year
terms for organizing the bitterly ex-
plotted southern textile workers.
The trial has wound up in approved
Red batting fashion, with the prose
cution showering a barrage of pre-
judicing questions, and caused the
impeachment of witnesses on ac-
count of their religious faith and
economic beliefs.
Drive Nationwide.
Because the onslaught is nation
wide, observers suspect the Federal
authorities are making a drive to
illegalize the Communist Party, to
destroy various organizations of the
foreign-born workers, to make theil
exploitation under present conditions
easier.
The International Labor Defense,
which defends these working class
prisoners, is now holding a drive for
$4,000 and $4,000 new members by
Jan. 1, 1880. Workers, recognizing
the danger they are in, are forming
locals throughout the land in order
to be able to fight back this present
wave of terrorism against their or
ganizations.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
.UNORCANIzED,
BAYONNE CABLE
Men HELPLESS
Safety Plant Workers
Pay Is Low
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker COTespOndent)
BAYONNE, N. J. (By MaiD -
I am writing about conditions in the
Safety Gable Co. plant in Bayonne.
They tell a man when he starts
that he will bet As cents an hour
for the first three months, and then
you will get a raise. If you don't
get laid off before that time, they
make you go to the boss about 100
times before they give you an in
crease, and all you get is a raise
of two cents an hour.
No matter how long you work
there, if you don't get a machine
you never get any more, and if the
workers kicks, the boss tells him
there are plenty of men at the gate
looking for the job and if you hap
pen to be a married man with a
family you just shut up.
Some of the men have worked here
for more than eight years, and get
only So cents an hour. "If you
don't like it, you know what you can
do" he is told if he asked for
raise.
What else can happen when the
men are unorganized? If all the
men were in the union which we are
trying to form, then the bosses
would have to come down a lot.
SAFETY CABLE WORKER.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19

charges have been nolle pressed
with leave.
Following Cansler, Tom Unison
gave a stirring and powerful outline
of the case for the defense. With
biting sarcasm, he exposed the ap-
peals of the state to the prejudice
of the jurors and pleaded with them
not to be influenced by the dema-
gogy of the prosecution.
Boss from North Too. :
! Referring to the oft-repeated at
tack upon northern agitators,
Jimison said: "It is all right for
Manville-Jenckes to come down here
from Rhode Island to North Carolina
where they could get cheaper labor
an dto grind the faces of the poor
to pile up profits which are taken
outside of the state, but when Bea
and Miller came down to organize
the workers it is called treason"
Jimison spoke of the states wit
nesses who testified to the good
character of Gilbert, Roach and
! Hord.
'Hoey said in referring to the af-
fidavits which the defense produced
testifying to the good character OF
Carter that we could get character
witnesses for the devil.'
eyes, Mr.. Hoey, and you have
proved it by getting character wit
nesses for these drunken ho. dlums
with long criminal records who hid
behind the uniform and baoge OF
an officer to do the dirty wo' k OF
Manville-Jenckes.
"Roach and Gilbert, with Their
blackjacks and pistols, are the de.
tenders of the faith, the protectors
of god and his church and of the
interests of the mill barons."
Jimison declared that from the
evidence it is impossible to deter.
mine who shot Aderholt.
"It is my opinion that Aderholt
was shot by Hord, who run around
the house with his riot gun, shot at
Harrison and Carter and his chief.
"The crime for which the state is
asking you to send these boys to the
penitentiary for thirty years is the
crime Of organizing workers.
"The mill owners think they car
lock up the organized labor move.
ment and keep their mill workers ir
industrial slavery working for star.
walton wages, but they can't do it.
II ask you to free these sever
men so that they can go on with
their splendid struggle for better
conditions for the exploited mil
workers"
Frank Flowers spoke next for the
defense, with clear and forceful
appeal for the freedom Of the de-
PENDANTS. Then Carpenter gave the
last plea for capitalist Justice"
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
British Complete
Largest Airship

LONDON, Oct. 18.-The worlds
largest airship, the R-101, has been
completed and taken from its han
gar. It's trial flight will be made
today or Tuesday.
The R-101 is considerably larger
than the Graf Zeppelin, formerly the
worlds largest airship. 1t is the
first of huge airships by means of
which Great Britain plans to estab-
lish supremacy.
While officially the R-101 and the
even larger ships being constructed
and planned, they can be converted
quickly for military use against the
Soviet Union or imperialist rivals.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
THEY'LL WELCOME HIM.
eASTON Defense
HITS LORAY BOSS
Prosecution Claims the
Strikers Should Die

} NSN't'ttttNV J Wv WV Wv
the Manville-Jenckes company PAID
him he earned with his plea that
capitalist justice be done, in ltwc
hours of impassioned oratory this
morning. Every states lawyer has
appealed to the basest prejudices OF
the jury, but Cansler did so more
cleverly and viciously than any OF
them.
His attack upon the defendants
was couched in terms well calculated
to stir hatred of Communists, ath-
eists, northerners, as advocating doc
trines of class war, Negro equality,
destruction of church and state, and
Russian Revolution"
Denied Right of Defense.
This was Cansler's thesis, though
not put so crudely as this.
He denied the right of the strikers
to self defense and defended the
murderous police as heroes protect
ing home and fireside, defenders of
the faith, peaceful men doing their
sacred duty.
He attacked not only the defend
ants but their lawyers with vituper-
alton and invective.
"Taking their cue from Beal and
Miller" he shouted, adams and
Mccall have stopped to an infamous
attack upon our best citizens, the
mill owners, public officials and Of
ficers of the law.
"They called them mill thugs, tin
star deputies, exploiters of labor
coming shekels from bowels of bab-
les and the virtue Of women"
"The defense has tried to appeal
to the sympathy of the jury by in
cendiary speeches against the mill
owners of the Piedmont region, the
source of our progress and pros
perity."
Cansler launched into an inflam-
matory denunciation of all the de-
fense witnesses as elders, riffraff,
hoboes, malcontents, supported and
paid for by the /. l.. D. to testify
against the honest citizens.
"These strikes were foisted on ig-
norant mill workers by Communist
agitators. They want to close down
the mills and bring about ruin and
destruction. They thrive on muir
de rand bloodshed and hate.
''Beal tried to dictate to the mill
owners how the mills should be run.
The influence Of Beal, Miller and the
|. l.. d. is the most insidious, damn
able and destructive ever loosed in
the state of North Carolina.
"They would assasinate the char
acter of every good citizen in the
state, including Carpenter and Bull
winkle. If We allow the /. l.. d. to
flourish, no mans property will be
safe"
Wants Nine Others Tried.
Ca1sler ended by declaring that
i ia the duty of Solicitor Carpenter
10 put on trial al the rest of the
niEe defendants against whom th'
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
Socialist Speaks in
Aid of French Hopes
for Pan-EurOpe Rule

BERLIN, Oct. 18.-Edouard Her
riot, French radical-socialist leader
in a speech today celebrating or
Premier ..ristide Brands Pan
Europa thesis, said Europe must
remedy present anarchical conditions
to meet successfully the competition
of better-organized sections of the
world.
Recalling objections that Brands
scheme is aimed at America, Rus
sia and England, Herriot said it was
not directed at the United States.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19

members of the A. F. of L., fighting
for the everyday demands of the
workers, for the right to organize,
for the right of workers to organize
and arm for self defense against the
fascist terror, to turn the struggles
of the workers against rationaliza-
tion, mechanization of industry,
speed-up, etc, into a conscious
struggle against war and for the
defense of the Soviet Union, to link
up the everyday struggles of the
workers with the final struggle for
the overthrow of capitalism and the
establishment of a workers and far
mers government, this is the role
and task of the T.U.U.L.--the pri-
mary task being one of organizing
the unorganized.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
STRIKE MOVEMENT GROWING ALL
over EUROPE AS CLASS FIGHT
SKARPENS over WAGE BATTLES
British Wool Workers Learn from Cotton Mill
Betrayal to Oppose Officials
Strike Wave in Czecho-Slovakia Spreads as
Miners Collide with Police

! BRUG@ELS, Oct. 1.-two thou
sand strikers in DorinaG, district
struck yesterday; demanding ten per
cent increase, rejecting teh mixed"
commissions offer of from three to
six per ce I. The reformists are
striving to secure acceptance and
stop the strike.
LONDON (By MaiD-The textile
workers of Cathine, Ayresshire, have
returned an overwhelming majority
against accepting a reduction in
wages threatened by the employers.
The bosses seek to put through a
61s per cent cut generally, with 25
per cent reduced for ring spinners.
The bosses have threatened to lock
out nearly 1000 workers if they re-
sist the cut.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
COMMUNIST EDITOR JAILED.

BERLIN, Oct. 18.-The German
Supreme Court has sentenced Erich
Birkenhauer, editor of the Commu-
mist journal, "The Ruhr Echo" to
years Imprisonment in a fortress
and one hundred marks fine for ar
ticles about the Berlin bloodbath of
May 1st.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
EsTHONIAN PROSECUTIONS.

REVEL, Oct. 18.-The Esthonian
Communist Piarn, arrested in 1922
with Victor Kingisepp, the latter
being shot by the white terrorists
while Piarn received eight years
hard labor, is now re-sentenced to
fifteen years in the penitentiary. AS
Piarn's release approached at the
end of the first eight years, the
authorities commenced new proceed
ings, accusing him of having been
the chairman of the revolutionary
tribunal at Valki during the civil
war, although Piarn was never in
that place in his life.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
STRIKING MI.NERs ATTACKED.
UNION BOSS SCABS.

NELSON, Lancashire, (By MaiD
One hundred weavers walked out
on lightning strike when employ
ers refused to deal with repeated
complaints of bad weft.
Marching in a body to the Off
GERS of the Weavers' Association
they were informed the strike was
unofficial" The only blackleg was
a union official who remained at
the loom.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
Workers Groups Answer Call
to Rush Daily Worker South
Adopt Mill Village; Miner Gives S. in Answer
to Mill Hands Appeals

Working class organizations and have allowed the
pea the mill workers the South for the Daily Worker
answered.
Section New City, with its pledge of
they will receive 25 Daily Workers daily.
The Finnish Working Women's Club City
possible for the workers of southern mill town to receive bundle
of 60 Daily Workers for one week S was this groups contribution
Daily South thus sending 20 copies of the Daily Worker southern
groups are all located in New
York City.
Is the working groups outside New
York the appeals the southern workers for the Daily Worker?
What the matter with the workers and the
san Francisco, in Cleveland other cities?
They the demands for the Daily Worker
by the southern mill workers by adopting mill villages
Show workers that they a
their aid in their struggle against ntolerabe exploitation
their fight the mill bosses reign struggle led by the Ma
Every dollar from working class will send 10 copies of the
Individual workers must Immediately The call their
fellow workers in the South
who $40 that the southern mill workers have the Daily
Worker.
Steve Morasky. miner Caldwell Ohio
the southern % for the Daily was to rush s. " the
What is your answer?
2s Union Square New York City
the southern mill workers by aiding to obtain circulation
for the "Drive to Rush the Daily Worker South"
Address
City ................... State ....................
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
We
Name of Organzaton)
City
wish to adopt southern mill village
supplied comics of the Daily Worker
day for. weeks. We ncose
Kindly the
fog we wish to communicate with the
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
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reactionary Union League Club. The
endorsement given by Corliss La
mont is open evidence that Wall
Street has decided to make greater
use of the Socialist party than for
merly and confirms the statement
made in the Daily Worker few
days ago regarding the role of
Thomas and the Socialists.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
YANCTzE RIVER
PORT F ALL S TO
CHINA REBELS
F'eng ARREST" May Be
Onl a Maneuver

LONDON, Oct. 18 (UP).-Twelve
thousand Chinese troops have re-
volted at Wuhu, China, seized the
city and looted it, Shanghai dis
patch to the Daily Telegraph said
today. Foreign residents took refuge
on the British gunboat Cricket with
the exception of three American
missionaries who refused to leave.
Reports at noon said 'he situation
was quiet with the rebels still in
control of the city. A Japanese
landing party surrounded the Jap
arese consulate. An additional Bri-
tish gunboat ami a Jap9ncse gun
boat were en- route to Wuhu, where
two Japanese shios were already
stationed, in addition to the cricket.
PEKING, China, Oct. 18. - AL
though Marking officials of Chang
Kai-shek seem confident enough of
Feng Yu-hsiang's reported "deten-
ton" by Yen Hsi-shan to stop un-
loading Marking bonds on the
Shanghai stock exchange, reports
here indicate that Feng is "under
protection" of Yen in Shansi, rather
than being under arrest.
In any event, Feng's arrest does
not appear to have stopped the drive
southwark of his subordinate gen.
erals with 100000 troops, and Feng's
representative in Shanghai is re-
ported to be strangely confident. Re
ports here are that Yen, and. in ad-
dition, Chang Hsueh- -liang of Man
churia, are neutral" although
Marking states that Yeng Hsi-shan
when wiring Marking that he was
"detaining" Feng, added that Yen's
army of 100000 was "at the dis
posaP of Marking.
Editorial Note:-The veracity of
China's warlords is traditionally way
below par. Feng himself has been
silent for months. But his subor-
dinate generals, after his supposed
retirement" came struggling into
Nanking, pledging loyalty to Chang
Kai-shek in one breath and asking
funds for their soldiers back wages
the next. Having extracted an esti-
mated $20,0O0,O0O from Marking,
they declared war on Chang Kai-
shek, charging him with wasting
money. One guess is as good as an
other on whether Yen Hsi-shan is
not pulling the same trick, placing
his army "at the disposal" of Nank-
ing, which means that Nanking is
expected to finance it, but with the
possibility that it may move, not
against Feng's subordinates, but
against Marking.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19

The working class cannot simply
lay hold of the rendy-made state
machinery, and WELD 10 for its own
purpOs-.. This ne'S Commune tparis
COmmuBe) breaks the modern state
pOMer.-MarX.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19

PRAGUE by MaiD The oper-
atives of the glass factory "Invald"
in Prague laid down work by de-
cision of the general meeting of the
workers as a demonstration in
favor of the immediate release of
comrade Harus and hsi fellow
workers. The strike lasted fifteen
minutes. A delegation of workers
marched to the Ministry of Justice
and demanded the release of all the
persons arrested. The factory was
Immediately surrounded by a whole
army of policemen and gendarmes.
The workers of the Invalid factory
also appealed to the workers of
other factories to take common ac-
tion to secure the release of the
workers arrested on August1 and
still held in custody.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
CZECH WORKERS HUNGER
STRIKE.

PRAGUE (By MaiD. - The 50
comrades arrested in connection
with the International Red Day in
Carpatho-Russia were in part SEN
fenced to various shorter terms of
imprisonment, but many of them
are still in custody on remand! Nine
comrades therefore went on hunger
harike in Berehovo prison as a sign
of protest against their unlawful
detension. They demand immediate
release.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
SCOTTISH STEEL STRIKE.

GLASGOW Scotland (By MaiD.
-Four hundred steel workers are on
strike against bad working condi-
tions at the Brady Steel Rolling
Mills. Rank and file strike commit
tees are opposing local trade union
reformist mandarins who want the
men to go back to work and "dis-
cuss" afterwards.
PRAGUE, Oct. 18.-The miners
strike is extending md now en-
braces eight thousa-3 workers.
+ 4
THEY'LL WELCOME HIM.
LONDON, (By MaiD Another
successful liberal candidate, Victor
Duval, has joined the labor party.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19

LONDON, Oct. 18.-The ballot of
the wool workers regarding the en-
ployers' demand for a reduction of
8.3 per cent has resulted in a vote
of seven to one by the workers
against acceptance of the reduction.
The trade union leaders, as in the
Lancashire cotton strike, are follow
ing "labor" part policy and sabot-
aging the strike, only carrying out
the ballot in order to put pressure
on the employers. A Minority Move
ment conference is being held at
Bradford to organize resistance to
the wage c. and take strike action.
BRADFORD, England, Oct. 49,
Reformist leaders of the textile
workers union here have gladly
agreed to a reduction of four shil-
lings on the wages of the workers
whose dues they collect.
They expressed their approval of
the labor governments campaign of
wage-cutting through arbitration at
a meeting with the Wool Textile
Industrial Council.
The mill-owners were so gratified
at the concession that they imme-
diately slapped another ID cents on
the original cut volunteered by their
trade union friends.
BERLIN BUILDERS MILITANT.
BERLIN, Oct. 18.-The plumbers
strike continues. Through efforts
jointly of the reformists and en-
ployers number of scabs were OBJ
tanned, but refusal of other building
workers to work with them led to
small strikes and lockouts. A gem
eral strike meeting Tuesday decided
overwhelmingly to hold out.
STRIKING MI!NERS ATTACKED.
PRAGUE, Oct. 18.-The miners
strike continues, with serious collis-
ions between miners and police in
Komotau. Armed police prevented
miners from demonstration at the
Andreas pithead, many miners were
wounded and others hunted through
the surrounding fields.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19

ARREST RED FRONT FIGHTER.
BERLIN, Oct. 18.-The police to-
day arrested Karl Olbrich, former
Berlin district leader of the Red
Front Fighters. l,sss. q A. a, ,,,yA..
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
WORKER BEATEN TO DEATH.

BELGRADE (By MaiD D.-Ac-
cording to report received from
Zagreb a youthful worker by the
name of Pavel Morganovich who
hal been arrested on the eve of May
l died in the prison of that city.
Morganovich had been badly mauled
by the police. The post-mortem ex-
animation held on his body showed
the cause of his death to be in heavy
inner injuries as a consequence of
the brutal treatment received.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
WHAT IS YOUR
VERDICT

Are you with the Interna-
tional Labor Defense in its
fight against railroading the
Gastonia strikers to thirty
years prison?
Are you with the workers?
Then you must help build the
|. L. D. which defends all
workers, into a powerful mass
movement.
What is your answer?
The /. L. ID. seeks $4,000
new members by January /,
1890. Have you joined yet?
Has your organization affili-
ated yet?
Ella Reeve Bloor, organizer
for the l. L. D. on the West
Coast, reports that Executive
Board of the International
Shingle Weavers Union has
decided to affiliate locally as
well as nationally.
She reports the following
FIVE locals of the union have
already affiliated locally:
Grays Harbor, Kalama, Gen.
tralia, Willipaw and Everett.
Have you gotten your union
to affiliate?
Bloor also reports the affili-
alton of the Woman's Finnish
Club and the Lithuanian Work
ers Club in Seattle, Wash.
What Can You Report
of Your City?
You must help the l. l.. D.
gain $4,000 new members by
the time of its national con-
ference in Pittsburgh, at the
close of this year, December
20, 30 and 81.
100000 FOur-Page Leaf
lets Telling of the |. l.. ID.
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
S4 a thousand.
Fill out the blank below
and forward together with
your check to the National
Office of the /. L. D.
Enclosed find s...for which
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