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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
Change Of Venue in Mill
Strike Frame-Up Desired

CHARLOTTE, N. c., July a.
"To hold the trial of the Gastonia
cotton mill strikers and organizers
being framed for murder in CASTOR
county would be outrageous" de-
clared Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national
secretary of the International Labor
Defense, today.
"All the machinery of government
in Gastonia is in the hands of the
mill barons," she said.
"Mayor Denny, of Gastonia, is
himself cotton mill lawyer, and a
member of the prosecution counsel.
The local American Legion Post is
commanded by Major Dolley, an
other member Of the prosecutions
group of attorneys.
Police, Gunmen Cooperate
"Thc police force is at the entire
disposal of the mill companies and
the private band of local fascist of
these companies is under orders
from Major Bulwinkle; it is always
ready to aid the police in putting
down strikers or acting against the
workers.
"Major Bulwinkle seems to regard
himself as the uncrowned king of
the town He is the leader of their
band Of Vigilantis, known as the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15

committee of 100, and he can be seen
at any time during the day, patrol
ling up and down the streets of Gas
tonia, near the city hall, presumably
to maintain law and order
Workers Defy Terror.
Sentiment among the people of
Gastonia is all on the side of the
strike. This is true of the thou
sands of workers in dozens of mills
in Gastonia, in spite of the terror.
ism and intimidation that is used to
prevent their showing their SYM
pathy. 1t is also true of the farmers
in the vicinity. 1t is true too OF
small business men of Gastonia who
realize that higher wages and better
conditions and higher standards OF
living for the workers will help
them, too.
"Great hullabaloo was raised by
the city hall crowd, and the Manu.
committee of 100 at beginning OF
this affair with aid of the Gastonia
Gazette attempted to make the i'm
preston that the community was
against the strikers. This bluff has
collapsed mlserably. Every one in
Gastonia realizes today that senti-
ment is overwhelmingly on the side
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15

sentence of the platform, and de-
scribes the scramble of the employ
ers and the bankers for higher and
higher profits, forcing wages down,
lowering living standards of the
workers and increasing exploitation.
This capitalist race for profits and
exploitation cf the workers ap-
proaches war crisis, says the plat
form, and the speakers could point
to yesterdays news of an imperial
ist war plot against the Soviet
Union in China to prove their point
to the hilt.
Anti-War Day.
Against this war menace, certain
to find Wall Street America lead
ing American workers 10 slaughter
if it goes a step further, the Com
munist Party calls workers not only
to vote against the system, but to
down tools August 1, Anti-Imperial-
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
Break Up Spy Clique
Operating In U. S. S. r.
Platinum Organization

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July H.
Moscow papers carry the report of
D. Y. Odintzoff, member of the
board of directors of the Soviet gold
and platinum organization, telling of
the discovery of a ring Of counter
revolutionists who had penetrated
the administration of the platinum
mines and were working with capi-
talists abroad to cause expense to
the state mines.
The plot was headed by the min
ing engineer Palchinsky and was or
ranized in 1922 or 1928. 1t oper
ated by sabotage to cause floods in
the mines, by installing worthless
machinery, by extravaganza, and its
foreign members juggled the mar
ket to make high prices at the be-
ginning of the summer, when the
Soviet work was laid out, and low
prices in the fall, when the platinum
was to be sold. The counter-revolu-
tionary clique was tracked down by
the state political organization and
it's members convicted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15

after the historic Lawrence strike,
and the arrested men were strike
leaders there. Ford and Suhr were
framed after the shooting at the
Wheatland Hop Fields strike meet
ing, 1913; Masonovitch, Georgoro-
witch. Orlanditch, Schmidt, Scarlett
and Tresca went on trial in 1919
for the killing of a deputy during
the Messba range strike. Mooney
and Billings were well-known strike
leaders, and Mooney was arrested
as he was organizing the struggle
Of the San Francisco carmen, 1916.
The Everett massacre, 1916, resulted
in mass indictment, a trial and at
tempted frame-up, in the midst of
cyclone of Wobbly lumber strikes.
The Centralia case was a deliberate
attempt by the lumber trust to
break down the renewed |. w. W.
organization which had in 1916
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
PREPARE FOR BIG
.CL OAK MEETING
TOMORROW NIGHT
Needle Workers Called
to Picket Today

Reputation of the fake agree
ment between the three cloak en-
ployers' associations and their COM
pany union, the international La
dies Garment Workers, is the key
note of the activities of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
as it mobilizes the workers for a
determined resistance against this
new open sell-out of their interests.
Today all cloakmakers and all
other members of the Industrial
Union are being called to the picket
line. They are to report at a.
m. at the union headquarters, 131
w. 2Sth St.
Big Meeting Tomorrow.
Simultaneous with the intensified
tion of picketing activities, prepara-
tions are also being made on a
large scale for the huge mass meet
ing in st. Nicholas Rink Uincoln
Arena) tomorrow night at 6 o'clock,
which has been called by the Rank
and File Action Committee of %.
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
By VERN SMITH.

The frame-up is invariably di-
rected against successful union or
ganizers and strike leaders the
bosses have not been able to buy OF
intimidate. 1t always comes after
a strike or series of strikes in which
the employers have either been de-
feated or have suffered heavy loss.
The Gastonia frame-up is attempted
at the height of a wave of Southern
textile strikes, and flows directly
from the Loray mill strike at Gas
tonia. The Haymarket trial, 1885,
ST, came during the eight. hour day
strike. The Homestead strike, 1892,
resulted in frame-up trial. The
yer-Haywood-P -Pettibone n i a l.,
1907, grew out of a series of metal
mine struggles which welded the
Western Federation of Miners into a
fighting machine. The Ettor-Gio-
vanitti and Caruso trial, 1912, came
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
MASS MEETINGS
RALLY WORKERS
IN GASTONlA
Point Out That Dying
Chief of Police
Admitted Fault
Own Lights at Meeting
Electric Co. Sabotage
Fails at Bessemer

GASTONIA, N. c., July IA
series of great mass meetings con-
tinues to rally the workers of this
vicinity to the defense of their %
fellow workers being framed for
murder and assault, and to the need
of carrying on the National Textile
Workers Union organization and
making it a power not only for OBJ
tanning better wages and conditions,
I but to release the men and women
in Jail.
A huge mass meeting of mill
workers from all over CASTOR Coun-
ty took place in the tent colony just
outside of Gastonia yesterday. Hugo
Oehler, Alfred Wagenknecht, Wal
ter Trumbull, and Dewey Martin
spoke on union organization, and
the need of defense and relief or
ganization. They were we'll ap-
! elauded, and many new members
enlisted in the National Textile
Workers Union, the Workers In
ternational Relief, and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
Over a thousand were in at
tendance at the meeting near Gas
tonia, and came from 25 different
mills. The bosses committee of
one hundred" gangsters came out,
but seeing the size of the crowd,
beat hasty retreat.
| Edgar Garran, a strikers boy,
was run out of town by the police
for selling the Daily Worker and the
Labor Defender. His 500 copies of
each paper were confiscated by the
police.
Hugo Oehler, speaking for the
N. T, W. u, stated:
"Our forces are now rapidly in
creasing in number and strength.
We are here to build a union as the
best defense of the prisoners and
as the only means of effectively
fighting against the stretch-out sys
TEN and for bettering the conditions
of the workers. The work of the
union is going forward at full force"
Gastonia Labor Defender.
At the meeting were distributed
copies of the first issue of the new
weekly publication, the Gastonia
Labor Defender. The leading ar
ticle is entitled, Defend the Or
ganizers and Members of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union Whom
the Manville Co. and It's
Agents Are Trying To Send To The
Electric Chair and To Long Prison
Terms" and makes special point
of the fact that when Chief of Po-
lice Aderholt knew that he was
Continued on Page TW9J
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
WHITE GUARD RUSSIANS,
MANCHU MERCENARIES.
MOBILIZINC ON BORDER
Moscow Government Sends Envoy to Harbin by
Plane Asking Reply to Three-D Day Declaration
Telegraph Agency of USSR Breaks Thru News
Blockade; First Story of Imperialist War Plot

While the capitalist press of the world doing its part
to further the mperast the Soviet UnOn represent
ing suppressing of the pcs the Reds the action of
the Mnchuran of Chang Hsuehiang arrest
ing of Soviet Union officials Chinese Eastern
and talking loudly about Russian attacks China,
tion was kept hidden from the outside world
The Tass Soviet Union Telegraph Agency has just N
broken through this censorship and published the facts h
printed below and which indicate well formulated plan
for invasion Siberia by the troops of the of
Manchura at the nsstence of the mpest powers and the
provocation of if possible which give
concerted attack by all mperaist nations against the
u S. R. After the Tass exposure the of troop
nents in Manchuria confirmed by Toxic dispatches
layed from Harbin.
The actual beginning of imperalst attack Soviet
Union appears to be in sight 1t is apparently planned be
started by the colonial troops of the mperat heng the
Manchurian despot Chang Hsuehang takes place during
smoke of pacst gestures by Secretary of State
Stmson Premier Macdonald and others Against such
like and aggressive actions of the capitalist powers the work.
of the world protesting with demonstrations August
l, "An-War Day"
graph Agency ass has broken through the censorship
thrown around in Manchura by the imperast
ling there Chang Hsuehang with the fact that the
chian army murdeer of thousands of workers.
mobzed along the Siberian frontier and the shock
troops of this army of provocaon and invasion the
made of White Guard (Kochakist emgres) Russians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15

he Tammany machine and the
7arious reform" and republi-
,an officials who get votes be-
.ause they pretend to expose
Tammany, and then serve
;;aithfully shoulder to shoulder
With Tammany against the
workers.
The platform exposes along with
hese "reformers" the reformist So
,ialists, who excuse the system
While socialist officials of right
wing unions send their gangsters to
eat up and terrorize members of
Militant unions, and militant MEM
,ers of their own unions for daring
o struggle for better conditions and
wages.
"The Communist Party of the u.
S. A. enters the New York City
and state elections on a platform
Of class struggle" states the first
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
SOVIET UNION DEMANDS PEACEFUL NEGOTIATIONS AS
CHANG, IMPERIALST PUPPET, ADVANCES ON SIBERIA
Radek, Smllgu
Seek Reeutyv
Mt0C.P.S.U Il.

MOSCOW, July 14.-Karl Radek,
Smilga and Preobrashensky, three
of the leaders of the expelled Trot-
sky opposition, have issued state
ment repudiating Trotskyism and
asking to be readmitted to the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union.
The statement is particularly
sharp in its condemnation of Trot-
Isky's anti-Soviet writings in the
capitalist press of the world. 1t
appeals to all members of the il
legal Trotsky organization to fol-
low their example, abandon Trot-
skyism and apply for readmission
into the ranks of the revolutionary
vanguard of the working class.
Others Abandon Trotskyism.
The declaration of the three
former Trotskyites is accompanied
by kilograms from other leading
members of the underground Trot-
sky group in which they declare
their repudiation of Trotskyism and
adherence to the principles of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union and of the Communist Inter
national.
! The final reputation of Trotsky-
ism by three of its outstanding
leaders is regarded here as one of
the strongest blows dealt the coun-
ter-revolutionary Trotskyist move
ment, marking the beginning of the
final stage of its complete disin-
tegration. During the past few
months large numbers of the best
proletarian elements who were tenn
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
HOLD PRACTICE
FOR NEXT WAR
Sham Battles Reveal
, Anti-Soviet Plans

CAMP DIX, N. j., July 14.-The
largest number of general officers
since the armistice was signed is
now here, directing the operations
of the "Blue" army in it's sham
battles with the "Red" army, an
important part in the intensified
preparations for the coming imper-
ialist war. 1t is significant that the
invaders are always called the "Red"
army, indicating quite Enthusiastically
that it is war against the Soviet
Union that the imperialists are
planning.
Major General Hanson Ely, no.
torious militarist and big army and
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
LABOR MUST ACT QUICK
Article The Frame-Up System

The which the ManueJenekes Co. and other
trying electrocu strikers and and
prison classical American
framp To sho that embodies all the features of
fraup cases. through Ocb the ruling class has de-
voped iegaed murder the of
articles ren The first below emphasizes feature that
through them d the to the Uokers
reag frame-up process and using their might imed
ay Development the frame-up
syem resemblance histor-
ical and the Gastonia frdne-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
E M ERGENCY FU ID

ers toward a new world conflict
with the destruction of the Soviet
Union as the goal of their bloody
ambitions, a conflict which the
workers and farmers will turn into
a civil war against the imperialists
this rank and file worker realizes
that in the next few years "real
working class history will be made" :"
One shadow hovers over the hori-
zon and threatens to darken and
hold back the dawn of the new era
the first CLEANS of which are al
Continued on Page TWo)
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"The only thing worth while, the
Social Revolution, is put within our
reach-let nothing stand in the
way"
This is the trumpet-throated raj
lying call of a Canadian comrade,
l.. Fillmore of Vancouver, who sees
in the growing militancy of the
workers, north and south, the
strengthening of their revolution
ary leader, the Communist Party
in the direction given by the
Comintern Address; and the head
long plunge of the imperialist pow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15

all U. S. S. R. consulates in Man.
churia are occupied and garrisoned
by Chang's troops. The Soviet
Union employees on this road, which
belongs half to the U. S. S. R. and
half to China, and was protected
by solemn treaties with the present
Chinese government, are either still
held in Chang's jails, or are deported
across the Siberian frontier. The
Continued en- Page Tavo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
CALLS FOR DEFENSE OF SOVIET
union, FIGHT ON The WAR DANCER,
DOWN TOOLS ON AUGUST FIRST
Exposes Walkers Strike-Breaking Government
and It's Republican and Social Reformist Allies
Weinstone Nominated for Mayor; Wicls Presi-
dent Board of Aldermen; Hall, Comptroller
COMMUNIST PARTY MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES

COMMUNIST PARTY MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES.
For Mayor William W. Wenstone.
For President of the Board of Aldermen H. Wcks
For City Comptroller: Otto Hall
For President Borough of Manhattan j. Louis Engdah!
For President, Borough of Bronx: Juliet Stuart Poyntz
For President, Borough Brooklyn: Biedenkapp
For President, Borough of Queens: George Powers.
For Congress- 21st District Richard
cial Election.
For Municipal Judicial
S. Zimmerman
The full list of candidates assembly
will appear tomorrow's
War against mperast war; defense of the Soviet Union
stern struggle against the Tammany rule of brutal
Strikes and relentless battle against social reformss rotten
housing conditions in the workers sections graft and union
smashing of organization for workers and militant
lass struggle of the workers against the employers the
ynoes of the all day session yesterday of the Communist
Party District 2 (New York; nominating convention.
list of candidates. headed by w. w. Weinstone for
chosen and after full discussion platform
class struggle adopted.
CALL TO ACTION.
The platform is ringing call to action addressed the
workers of New York oppressed in years successfully by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15

Many of these white guards
are the murderous reaction
aries who ruled in Siberia dur
ing Kolchak's regime, and they
are thirsting for a chance to
return to their exploitation and an
orgy of revenge for their decisive
defeats by the Red Army during the
civil wars.
The Chinese Eastern Railway and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
DEAD IN KANSAS FLOODS

TOPEKA, Kansas, July a.
Floods swept down the valleys of
Central and Southern Kansas today,
claiming heavy property losses and
one life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15

Build shop committees and draw
the more militant members into
the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a WorkerS-Farmers Government
To Organize the Unorganized
Against ImberiaIist War
For the 4O-Honr Week
The Alaskan., 1929-02-08
WE HAND NO BOUQUETS

To the halibut fishermen for effect. We know what they had to contend with before the port of Rupert was opened to them. We know somewhat of the haz- ards they must contend with in their trips. We know also a little of the expense incurred in said operations. Those who live by the sea, go down in the sea. Were they paid double the highest market prices for the fish they bring to market, they still would be no more than earning that money.
The Alaskan., 1929-02-08
RADICALS"

Is the name used as an epi- thet by former governor Scott c. Bone when he spoke of the Progressive Republicans of the Territory. That name should now be applied to Governor Geo. A. Parks. He has recommended an immediate and serious inves- tigatiOn of the fisheries of Alas ka. The destruction of herring, the depletion of the salmon fish cries claimed by residents is be- ing borne out by the admissions of the Governor. Radicals.
The Alaskan., 1929-02-08
THE POWER OF MONEY

The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, using a packed meeting endorsed a three-cent a pound tariff on halibut ship ped into the United States from Prince Rupert. The fishermen of Ketchikan and other vicinities put up such strenuous objec- tions that the Ketchikan Cham Der reversed it's position and stopped all outward propogan- da. Their representative Jack Talbot of Ketchikan who was sent to Washington was in- structed to stop his active par ticipation in the tariff hearings in Washington.
 Money talks!
The Alaskan., 1929-02-08
SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS

A lad lay on his bed sick un- to death. He appealed to his father, and other relatives for help and got none. Passing strangers took pity on him and cared for him and fed him. And when he died, they made pre- paratiOns to bury him.
 The relatives then stepped in ard spent several hundred dol lars burying him.
 A dollars worth of flowers to a man living is worth more to him than a thousand dollars wasted on his dead body.
The Alaskan., 1929-02-08
THE HERRING TRUsTTCUS

in 1928 amounted to nearly $3,- 500,000 The magnitude of the figures makes it evident that the industry is one that ought not to be destroyed or seriously in jrred without the very best of reasons for it.
 The value of the Alaska her ring output was more than double that of the halibut ship ped from Alaska. Of course the shipment of haIibut from Alas ka is not true measure of the halibut industry, for Alaska is also interested in the halibut marketed at Prince Rupert, Se- attle and Vancouver directly from the Alaska banks. But the herring figures indicate that the industry ought not to be de- stroyed just to make halibut bait cheap and easily accessible.
The Alaskan., 1929-02-08
SYCOPHANT SHORT WEIGHT

Scant Eleven Ounce Troy ex- presses his philosophy in a few short Words-"Don't deal harsh ly with the big fellow, but give the little fellow HELL"
 Not any Alaskan wants the herring industry destroyed. Re- gardless of any amount of mon ey invested at this time-the whim of legislators or resident Alaskan is not destruction of the industry, but it's salvation. Today the trend of the stink industry is to the Westward, a virgin country where herring yet remain plentiful. The Chat ham section is virtually ruined while the watchful waiting pol icy of the Democratic party and their federal henchmen seem to be to await thorough investi- gation" by the Bureau of Fish cries, the federal arm of the canning industry.
 We would like to see Short weight Troy go down on the city docks at Juneau and rake up a dozen barrels of herring as was done few years back in one day. (Investigate ! BologneyD
 The herring industry is hell bent for destroying itself. That $3,5O0,000 won't be worth ten cents on the dollar before fif- teen years are passed.
 Any action by the Legislature which will curtail destruction of the industry will be timely and have the support of everyone in Alaska save the sycophants and satellites of the canning industry and their federal henchmen.
The Alaskan., 1929-02-08

The cold storage plants can get herring for bait for the halibut- ters by going out after it, and if the bait should cost little more it would be added to the haibut price and passed along to the consumer.
 The situation is one that war rants Gov. Parks'S request for a thorough investigation by ex- yerJs. Lf too much herring is being taken the catch ought to De curtaiIed, but that ought to be a last resort. A three-and-a- half-miIlion dollar industry ought not to be dealt harshly with in a light mood. Legislat- ors should look into the matter very seriously before doing any thing about it.- Juneau Vamp- Ire.
The Alaskan., 1929-02-08
WITCHCRAFT IN 1929

The above caption is title ot an editorial in the Seward Gate way. Recent news reports o1 Witchcraft murders" In Penn sylvania and Virginia, in which the victims were killed because they were supposed to be ex- erting evil influences upon their neighbors, have again brought to light the unbelievable pre- Valence of superstition in this land of boasted civilization.
 Investigations pursued in con- sequence of these killings have revealed that in certain sec- tions the belief in witchcraft and magic is as common as that which prevailed during the medieval times in Europe, or among African Natives of the present.
 One of the murders recently reported was committed in or der to obtain possession of a magic book" in which was printed: Whoever carries this book is safe from all enemies: cannot die, nor be drowned in any water, nor burn up in any f1re," and so on.
 It is estimated that in the United States not less than 20.- 900 professional priests and priestesses" of voodooism. for tune-telling, and other char lantanry make a living by play