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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
BLOODY CHESWICK-SOURCE
OF ACCORSI FRAME-UP
BY Fred Ellis

you killed Downey" they said to the man who
had not even been at the Cheswick meeting.
Accorsi had been at his home in Russetown,
four miles away, fixing his flivver that after
noon of Aug. %, 1927.
They took Accors from his wife and three
kids and extradited him to Pittsburgh, Pa.
grand jury-it's easy to find a grand jury
of shopkeepers and bosses in Melons part
of Observation-Disclosures him in a few NOM
ents for murder
You see, the State Police and the coal and
iron cops are in extra bad odor since the
Bareoski murderers were freed several weeks
ago. This most fiendish murder of miner
aroused the workers of Western Pennsylvania
more than any brutality so common since the
iron and coal cops and State Police began to
ride through their towns.
The murderers of Barcoski had got off scot
free Something had to be done to quell this
feeling of rebellion and smouldering resent
ment. So the State Police went out "to get
their man." Any man so long as the man
be a worker.
And they got Salvatore Accorsi. Accorsi
will surely be murdered in the electric chair
by the same executioner who pulled the switch
on Sacco and Vanzetti unless the workers of
America will rouse themselves to free him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Berlin Elections Feature in
International Press.

"The elections in Berlin signalize the inten-
sificaton of the crisis and the approach of
revolutionary situation" says Paul Langner,
Analysing the victory of the Communist Party
in the Berlin elections in No. 65 of the Inter
national Press Correspondence. "On the eve
of the election day $4,000 workers assembled
before the Karl Liebknecht House, headquarters
of the c. p On Sunday and Monday over
thousand workers joined the Communist Party"
J. Berlioz Paris) writes an interesting poll
teal review of the new Tardieu government in
France. "The Tardieu- BRAND Cabinet" he
says, sis composed of representatives of the most
various bourgeois parties of the center and of
the right"
An editorial from Prayda discusses the "re-
sumption of relations between Great Britain
and the Soviet Union" which scores the inn
perialist policy of Henderson and Macdonald.
Of immediate importance is the article on
"The Military Situation in China" which is
an up-to-date key to an understanding of the
present situation in China.
d. Manuilsky (Moscow) writes on "The Oc-
tober Revolution and the Soviet Union as the
Source of Fighting Experience for the World
Proletariat."
Other interesting articles on the revolution
AIRY struggles in all parts of the world will be
found in this issue of Inprecorr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Meeting Of Revolutionary
European Miners

PARIS (By MaiD.-Th annual Congress
of the Revolutionary Miners Federation of
France took place from the 7th to the 18th
of October in Lens. in the North of France
Following this congress- a discussion took
place between French, Belgian German, Saar
and British miners. In this discussion, the
representatives of the revolutionary miners of
the countries mentioned dealt with the present
mining situation and with the efforts of the
reformist bureaucrats and of the mine owners
to bring about a so-called coal agreement
1t was unanimously agreed that no agree
ment upon systematic production was pos
sbe under capitalism. That which the reform
lists and the mine owners are aiming at under
the cover of an agreement is nothing but the
formation Of syndicate and thus the forma-
ton of an international monopoly for the Brit
ish French and German capitalists against a
number of lesser coal producng countries and
in particular the Soviet Union. The formation
of such monopolist syndicate depends upon
the conclusion of political agreement of the
capitalist powers in question for military
alliance against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
LORE DEFENDS LOVESTONE

the Jewish territory of Hester St, or, to suit
Mr.. Lore we might have put it into Yorkville.
The location could not change anything 1t is
the type that we are concerned with. And in
the type we are interested only from class
standpoint. Worker or bourgeois-revolution-
list or shopkeeper, that is the question, con-
sidering Gitlow, Lovestone and Wolfe from
this point of view we point to the facts which
prove conclusively that they shopkeepers
and not revolutionists.
Lovestone, Gitlow and Wolfe try to do
business under the firm name of the Com
munist International when their whole object
is to fight agains the Comintern. In old es
tablshed fire sale fashion, they advertise their
wares as Leninsm- Communism when they
known that they are in violent conflict with
the theories of Communism and in reality, try
to peddle cheap economics of bourgeois profess
sors. Their bankrupt stock sale advertises
their conscious distortions of Comintern deci-
sions as the real article. Mr.. Lore can suit
himself He can give Lovestone an Irish,
German, Italian or any other face he wants
to; but behind whatever face he may give
him there is and will be the small brains of
the petty shopkeeper who hopes to maintain
his existence politically or physically by per-
petrating perpetual petty larceny on an UNI
suspecting clientele.
After Mr.. Lore is through with changing
the face of Messrs. LovestOne, Gitlow and
Wolfe, may invite the gentlemen to his
house to receive from them the congratulations
due him for his quick action in their Gefense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Polish Masses Increase
Struggles.

WARSAW by MaiD There is growing
crisis of the Polish fascist dictatorship. "In
the coal mining Districts writes G. Henry
kovsky, "there is rapid growth in the dscon-
tent of the workers. Both the miners
and the metallurgical workers declare their
readiness to fight"
SIN the country, the resentment among the
masses Of poor peasants has reached its limits.
Conflicts reported between the police and
the peasantry more and more frequently.
"The symptoms of an approaching revou-
tionary phase and of a growing influence of
the Communist Party of Poland are more and
more apparent.
"In this acute situation, the friction among
the individual groups of interests within the
possessing classes is interestingly marked. Con-
trary to the opportunist assertions Of our
right wing, however, these differences in no
way impair the united front of the bourgeosie
under the lead Of the fascist government for
the fight against the revolutionary movement
and for preparation of the imperialist campaign
against the Soviet Union.
"The comedy of resistance played on the
parliamentary stage on the part of the social
fascists and their national democratic allies
under the leadership Of that old traitor Das-
zynski, serves but one purpose, that of defect
ing the fight of the masses against fascism
into the channels of a defence of menaced de-
mocracy' of bunting the revolutionary point
of the mass movement and of disorganizing
and demoralzing the masses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Statement on the Expulsion of
VIM. STREET.

The District Executive Committee of District
Three has expelled VIM. STREET as a renegade
and traitor to the Party and the workers in
the Window Cleaners Protective Union Of
Philadelphia.
VIM. STREET was leading member IN the
Window Cleaners Union which was built by
the r. u. U. L. The Party District Committee
frequently criticized his Right tendencies which
manifested themselves in an attitude of con-
tempt for the rank and file members of the
union and more especially for the Negro work.
ers who constitute about so per cent of the
union membership.
He secretly entered into negotiations with
the A. F. of L. and without consulting the
members of the union affiliated the union to
the A. F. of L. With the help of socialist
faker Salpeter, who according to his own adj
mission came into the union an agent of
the bosses and with the help of the police who
were stationed at the entrance to the union
meeting hall and instructed not to let members
of the TUUL enter, the membership was forced
to ratify affilation to the A. F. of L.
By his action, STREET proved himself a most
despicable fascist BLACKBOARD.
All workers are warned against this indi-
vidual and the members of the Window Clean
ers' Union are especially warned against him,
and his like
DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
DISTRICT 3, COMMUNIST PARTY. U.S.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Getting New Members On
West Coast

San Francisco, Calf, reports as follows:
Functionaries meetings to be held in all i'm
portant cities in the district to work out con-
crete plans for the drive. District to issue
a special weekly drive bulletin during the time
of the drive, that they strengthen and revive
shop nuclei in Frisco, Pittsburgh, Richmond,
Oakland, and for agricultural work we con-
centrate on Castroville, Salina, and Sacramento.
Mimeographed leaflets be made announcing
in advance factory gate meetings, that the
following industries be concentrated upon, ma
rine, railroad, auto ship building, agriculture,
lumber, steel.
That in the spirit of Revolutionary Rivalry
Kansas City, Seattle and Connecticut be chal-
lenged to bring in more members during the
drive. We secure list of the Party Press read
ers for the drive. Also 5000 pamphlets or
dered 'Why Every Worker Should join the
Communist Party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Buffalo Youth Gain Ten New
Members

The Young Communist League of District
has already fulfilled one third of its quota
although the drive has not started yet. How
ever. so as not to give the Boston District
which we are challenging chance to yell that
we started ahead of time although our quota
in members for the district is 30 we have set
ourselves the task of getting in so, the only
reply which the Boston district sent US was
that it compared us to mouse while they
classified their district as lion. Well if their
district is such lion why are they afraid to
accept our challenge instead of talking of send
ing us an official letter with the district seal
on it accepting our challenge.
Our answer to the Boston districts effort
TO slip away from our challenge will be more
concrete mobilization of our forces and fur
ther intensfication Of our efforts
We already have one of our organizers on
the field touring the district and already have
fulfilled one-third of our quota at the last
meeting Of the Erie unit and took in new
members, while the same week the Syracuse
unit took in new members making a total Of
ten. which means one-third of our quota set
by the National Office. However we have set
ourselves the quota of 80 new members and we
say to Boston that if you are willing to make
us run away with the victory from the begin
ming you are hell of district
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12

UDWIG LORE, editor of the New York
Volkszeitung, is shocked by the impoliteness
displayed in a recent article in the Daily
Worker In this article the lying pretentions
of Lovestone, Wolfe and Gitlow were charac-
terized 1t was pointed out that these pre-
tentions are the outgrowth of petty-bourgeois
shopkeepers conception on the part of these
gentlemen 1t was shown that the tactics Of
Gitlow, Lovestone and Wolfe were the tactics
of the type of storekeepers that subordinate
everything to the chance of selling their article.
They advertise shoddy for wool and gleefully
rub their hands, in a self-satisfied contention
that they put one over" on their poor Gus
toner
Lore feels sorry for Lovestone and comes
to his defense. He even smells anti-Semitism
in the term Hester Street Concern of Love
stone, Wolfe and Gitlow."
This protest of Lore will unquestionably
elate Lovestone. But it is doubtful whether
it will have any effect on the intended VIC
tins of the sales method of the concern of
Gitlow, Lovestone and Wolfe. The workers
know better They know first of all that
when one shopkeeper who sells his goods under
false pretenses is defended by another, it is
reasonable to assume that the defender also
INDUCES in the same practice But, and most
important, they know that when revolution
ist speaks of petty shopkeepers PSYCHOLOGY
he refers to class and not to religion or
nationality We may have located the concern
of Lovestone Gitlow, Wolfe and Co. in the
Irish territory of Hel's Kitchen instead of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Party Recruiting" Reorganization Is the
Only Weapon of An Oppressed Class"

petty bourgeois and intellectuals is to bring in
workers and this means systematic recruiting.
The membership campaign must show results
in workers who have actually joined our Party.
1t must not be just another campaign of state
ments and instructions by the Central Com
mittee and promises of fulfillment by district
organizers and other Party workers.
More than this: The membership campaign
must be made the method of correcting the
present inability of our Party to carry year
around recruiting Our Party is the leader of
revolutionary struggle but workers are not led
unless they are organized The Party as
whole must set an example in organization
work to our class. Recruiting new members is
least of all professional" or 'functionary'
task 1t is especially the task of those men,
bers of our Party who are the closest to the
workers in basic industry. To these members
of our Party every possible assistance must be
given during the membership campaign and
real beginning made in starting permanent
flow of workers from industry into the ranks
of our Party.
The rising tide of struggle, the actual be-
ginning of counter offensives on the part of
workers, must be reflected in our Party by the
entry of new battalons from metal, mining
transport, textile-Negro and white.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
COTTON MILLS
AND LABOR

money to invest fastened to buy cotton mill
stock.
From this period to the present time, the
expansion of the Southern textile industry has
been consistently rapid
In 1927, the southern cotton states had near
ly one-half of the installed spndles in United
States mills, and over per cent of the cotton
looms. The number of active spindles was
more than half Of the country's total. Nearly
one-half of the cotton mill operatives were at
work in southern mills. North and South
Carolinas hold first and second place respee-
lively in the southern branch of the textile in
dustry, and from a national standpoint they
hold second and third place. Georgia has many
mills, while Tennessee and Virginia are less
important textile states. With the rapid trend
of the textile industry southwark, this region
promises to play even more predominant
role in the economic and social development in
textile. Consequently, social conditions in
southern mill villages have wide significance.
The method of developing southern cotton
mill, with it's satellite village was usually as
follows: Having put up his rather modest mill,
surrounded by few frame shacks, the mill
owner would send solicitors among the impov-
erished tenant-farmers of the lowlands and
mountains. 1t was not difficult to get thou
sands of Poor Whites to leave the farm for
the cotton MILL for the picture given of mill
village life was rosy one, and life on the land
was desperately hard. The newly freed Ne
groes We're also eager for work at the mills,
but the mill owners employed only a few of
them for manual and unskilled jobs around the
mill. AS profits swelled and the market ex-
banded, mill-owners sent their solicitors out to
bring in more Poor Whites from the hills and
lowlands
Thousands of these new recruits returned,
disillusioned, to farming. Conditions in these
early villages were of the worst, similar to
those existing in the first period of the indus
trial revolution in England. In both instances,
manufacturing interests took advantage of the
necessity of unorganized workers and exploited
them to the limit. There were no restrictions
on hours in the first decades of southern in
dustry's development wages were mere pit
lance, and child labor was common. Children
as young as eight and ten years worked for as
little as ten cents day In some cases a
small child paid twenty-five cents for
weeks labor. The Negro workers were segre-
gated into the most unsantary of shacks and
paid the least of all.
While many returned to the land other thou
and bequeath to their children and their chill
dren's children the heritage of being mill
hands," Today there are nearly 100000 cotton
mill workers living, with their dependents, in
hundreds of company -owned villages through
out the South-Atlantc and South Central re-
gions. Of these all but few thousand are
Poor Whites, the others being colored workers.
ITO be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Organize a Collective Farm
On the VOlga.

A collective farm, called the Land of So
viets,' is being organized on the lower Volga
region and will be under the patronage of the
Friends Of the Soviet Union, U. S. A. section.
This is in harmony with the Five-Year Plan
of the workers and peasants of the Soviet
Union. The tractors and trucks that have been
purchased by the money contributed to the
F. S. U. tractor and truck campaign will go
to build up this collective farm. The peasants
Of this village have themselves voted through
their Soviet to organize this farm, thus being
drawn into the task of helping to build and
carry out the Five-Year Plan. Through the
solidarity and friendship of the American work
ers they will be able to begin next spring to
pillow and sow with the most modern of trac-
tors and tools provided them through the
f. S. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
By MYRA PAGE.
Continued
Chapter ii.
ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH
ERN COTTON MILLS.

QOUTHERN mill hills, with their thousands
like Tom Marg Sam, and Mrs. Rhoads,
first developed in the period following the
Civil War, when the industrial life of the
South, centering around textiles, born.
While as early as 1910 the cotton mill industry
had appeared in the South, and by 1860 had
reached the extent of 165 mills with approx
mately $4,000 spindes ard an annual product
worth $l0,000,000, the Souths economic life
in this period was still predominantly agricul-
tural. Then came the Civil War, when south
ern slave holders fought to regain control of
the federal government from Northern indus
trialists. Southern cotton mills worked to ca
pacity during the war, and following the con-
flict, it this developing industry which
was largely responsible for the South's slow
but certain economic recovery. The older econ
omic order, founded upon slavery and the plan
tation system of agriculture, had now been
destroyed by the machine age, and the slave
owners vanquished by Northern industrialists.
This defeated ruling class of the South now
set about recapturing their former economic
and political advantages How was this to be
done? Postwar agriculture offered little OPP
portunity, for equipment was depleted and
agriculture generally demoralized. Further
more these Southern arstocrats had learned
the lesson of the war, well. They recognized
that political power and wealth in modern
capitalstic society was based on ownership of
factories, mines and railroads and exploitation
of wage-earners. Also they We're finding it
more profitable to work poor whites at the
machines than on the land SO the surplus
Southern landowner were able to squeeze out
of their colored and white tenants and farm
laborers, they invested primarily not in agr-
culture, but in cotton mills
The mill owners profits accumulated rapid
ly. Labor was plentiful and to be had for al
most nothing. There were also advantages of
cheap and accessible raw materials water
power, low rents, AMI ready markets. No Won
der that cotton mills sprang up like mush-
rooms. Merchants and all others who had any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Burn 1000 Ik0ns

GORLOVKA, U.S.S.R., Dec 11.-A throng
of $4,000 workers today participated in the
burning of 1000 ikons, symbols of religion
the opium of the people," The ikons were
handed in by local miners after joining the
Society of the Militant Atheists. The ikons
were piled in heap in the square and set
on fire. simultaneously the only church is
this mining town in the Donetz district was
closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
'olice had been given their orders,
! heswick. Sheriff Brvnn of AL
THE PA. COSSACKS.

Somebody in the crowd, now grown restless,
shouted he was taxpayer and had a right to
meet. Another miner yelled out ''We fought
in the We have right to meet"
This was unlawful assembly. This was in
citing to riot and resisting an officer. This
was plenty of excuse for the order charge
the ponies" and the following bloodshed.
"The crowd refused to move, so we moved
them' testified Sergeant Downing, of the State
Police, later. And this is how the State Police
moved" the men, women and children,
The "ponies,' iron-hoofed and spirited, urged
by their more brutal riders rode down on the
crowd. Tear gas bombs exploded. Clubs de-
scended. Workers heads cracked under maces.
Some of the miners fleeing from the over
whelming blows were snagged on barbed wire
fences, blinded by tear gas bombs and beaten
into insensibility.
The cops grabbed babies by the hair and
threw them to the ground. Mothers running
with children at their sides were trampled to
the ground.
Tony DeBernardini, beaten till his skull was
fractured, his arm paralyzed, bleeding from
his nose and ears-a cripple for the rest of his
life Thrown unconscious in truck and held
on $1,000 bail in Pittsburgh until the cops let
him loose, fearing he would die on their hands
Mrs. William Mitchell, mother of four
children, frantically trying to help on old wo-
man from the scene of violence, fell under
the biudgeonings and lay unconscious until
removed long after the attack.
More than 300 men, women and children
were badly beaten. The cops, dispensing the
crowd, laughlingly washed their bloody clubs
in the tubs of water which had held the pop
sold on the picnic grounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
French Steel Workers Strike.

PARIS (By MaiD Two important strikes
have broken out simultaneously in the steel in
dustry. 5000 steel workers are on strike near
Valenciennes and further 1000 are striking
in the Loire works in Nantes. The former are
organized workers under revolutionary leader
ship, whilst the latter strike is being led by the
revolutionary union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Athens Gas and Tramway
Workers Strike.

ATHENS, Greece, Dec S.--The tramway
and gas strike is being militantly fought by the
workers. The government is using sailors to
scab on the tram and gas workers and the
strikers are resisting. Twenty-Five were ar
rested. The tramway workers in Solonika have
gone on a sympathetic strike to support the
demands of their fellow workers in Athens.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Building Work Goes Down

Building contracts in New York City drop
ped $40, 100000 for the week ended Dec. 6,
below the figure OF last year, according to
reports made by the r. w. Dodge Corporation
Hoover's talk about increased building is
worse than the bunk. Building construction
has been dropping for over year and will
continue to go down The decrease is not re-
stricted To New York but is nation wide.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-12
Sears-R0ebuck Increases Labor
Time By 13-MOnth Calendar

CHICAGO.-Sears-Ro ebuck and Co., which
employs thousands of young workers at the
lowest wages in the city, has adopted 13-
month calendar in order to squeeze more prof
its out of its already speeded-up workers
Whereas in Russia calendar reforms rebound
to the benefit Of the workers government and
the toilers on the job capitalism, by every hook
and crook, seeks TO lengthen hours of labor,