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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-14
NEEDLE WORKERS
HOLD 5 ON $4,000
FOR SELF DEFENSE
Terror Against Chicago
Needle Workers;
Jail Five

CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-The right
wing clique of the international La
dies Garment Workers Union in
Chicago, in its despair and rage
against the militant dressmakers
who defended themselves against
attack by right wing sluggers while
distributing circulars, caused the ar
rest of five of the militants on Fri
day, and are aiding in the attempt
to railroad these workers to the
penitentiary.
Bail of $4,000 for the five was
fixed by the vicious labor-baiting
Judge, under the influence of the /.
l.. G. w. U. reactionaries. The In
ternational Labor Defense, working
with the Needle Trades Industrial
Union put up the bonds.
The workers will have a jury trial.
The entire left wing movement in
the needle trades here has mobilized
behind the Needle Trades Industrial
Union. The militant workers state
that they are determined to continue
defending themselves and to crush
the terror of the right wing.
CHICAGO, (By MaiD.-The Nee
die Trades Industrial Union is max
ing itself felt as a force among the
needle trades. workers in Chicago, it
is shown, by the attacks of the
right wing union misleaders, using
gangs of thugs, on the girls dis
tributing leaflets for the militant
union.
Last Wednesday,, Oct. 9, militant
workers distributing leaflets in the
needle trades center on Jackson, be-
tween Market and Franklin were
met by thugs hired by the right
wing.
At previous distributions the
thugs had threatened physical injury
to the girls should the latter attempt
to give out the leaflets again. This
time the girls were accompanied by
the men of the N.T.I.U., and many
sympathetic workers as well. When
the thugs attacked they met with
fierce resistance, and were beaten.
The police later came to the aid
of the bosses, misleaders and thugs
by pouncing on the members of the
industrial union.
Terrorizing the girls at the head
Continued on Page Three)
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i. M. ". 4, GANG
EXPOSING CRAFT
Split Widens; Fishwick
Shows Up Vote Frauds

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct. 13.-The
split widens between the two U. M.
w. A. cliques which are both fight
ing for the right to sell out the min
ers in Illinois, the largest U. M. w.
A. district, which has about half
the union membership, such as it is.
While the National Miners Union
draws in the miners, John Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ers of America ,and Harry Fishwick,
who now has the CRATER, Frank
harrington back in the union to as
sist him battle for control of the Illi-
nois union treasury and the right to
levy check-off, are hurling anathe-
mas at each other.
Discover" Frauds.
When the Save-T.. c-Union Move
ment gained majority of the votes
in the 1926 elections, Fishwick and
Continued on Page TWo)
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The Daily or the Mill Bosses
Press for Southern Workers?
Workers Must Decide; Two More Units Adopt
Mill Villages

Two units of the Communist New York
southern mill towns.
With its contribution Unit
workers N. of
GO Daily Workers every day for a week.
And Unit 2F, Section has contributed 1925 which
mill workers of Belmont n c. that 33 copies of the Daily Worker will
come to them daily for week.
These units must follow their contributions that
the mill workers of Kings
the Daily Worker steadily
All Communist Party units workngcass groups
southern mill village
the Daily Worker that these workers left wilderness
during their coming struggles under the leadership of the Ma
Workers
by the mill BOSSES
Individual
the Rush the Daily South" Drive
While mill workers in hundreds mill in North South
Carolina Georgia. Alabama Virginia themselves
without the Daiyhe union papeas Carolina mill workers know
While calls the the National Textile Workers
in from these mill villages and towns and viegs-
to the Charlotte conference plan for the coming sug
gle against the mill BOSSES
priced lawyers the
the National
Textile Workers Union
While things mill delayed with
the the which denouce the NWU the Charlotte
Continued on Page TWo)
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CASTONIh MEET
HERE TUESDAY
Defense Conference to
Be at Irving Plaza

Plans for broadening the joint
Gastonia defense and relief cam
paign will be discussed at a mass
conference Tuesday night at 7
o'clock at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
Irving Place. The conference has
been called by the New York district
of the international Labor Defense
and the New York local of the
Workers International Relief.
A call has been sent out to trade
unions, shops, workers. clubs and
other working class organizations
pointing out the necessity of inten-
styling the campaign to defeat the
conspiracy of the mill barons' courts
and to strengthen the heroic fight
of the Gastonia textile workers. All
working class organizations are
urged to send delegates to this mass
conference.
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100000 Soviet
Wheat Acres to
Combat FamlneS
Mean Flour for Govt
Bakeries in 5-Yr. Plan

MOSCOW, Oct. 13.-The entire
Soviet Union will participate tomor-
row in a day of "collectivization" for
the purpose of convincing peasants
of the necessity of merging their
land into large-scale Communized
farms, capitalist news service re-
ported last night.
The rapid growth of such farms
is an outstanding factor in the
Soviet economic situation. On May
1, 1928, there were only $4,000 such
farms. The figure in 1929 will ex-
ceed 100000, covering 38,000,000
acres and embracing more than g.
100000 peasant households.
By January 1 there will be 120
government "bread factories" backed
by 100000 acres of grain-growing
land. During the present year
about 20 per cent of all marketable
grain has come from these govern
ment and Communized farms. 1t is
hoped to simplify the Soviet bread
problem by raising this percentage
to as in 1880.
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Workers and Peasants
of Mexico Rally to Aid
of Gastonia Defendants
Three More Witnesses Tell of Police Statement
Before Raid They Would Slay Unionists
Lets Go Down and Kill That Whole Bunch, Z"
Said Gilbert After Beating Up Old Woman

CHARLOTTE N c.. Oct 13.-The trial of seven Gastonia
strikers and organizers the mill and their govern
ment trying to railroad to thirty year sentences prison
because chief of police killed June while he
ing murderous raid the Loray mill strikers colony
ard headquarters will tomorrow morning. and all
week. with of witnesses tesfng to the premedtated
and murderous character of the raid and the that
shooting was started by the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-14
SOVIET GOVERNMENT IN
new PROTEST AGAINST
0UTRAGES OF NANKING

MOSCOW, Oct. 13.-A capitalist
news agency last night reported
that the Soviet government has pro-
tested to China against new attacks
along the Manchurian border grow
ing out of disputed possession of
the Chinese Eastern Railway. )
The latest protest said Soviet
gunboats escOrting merchant ships
along the Amur River at the mouth
of the Sungari river were obliged
TO take decisive measures against an
unprovoked Chinese machine gun at
tack at dawn on Saturday.
There were casualties among the
crews and serious damage to the
ships, the protest said. 1t also ac-
cused the Chinese of floating mines
in the Amur River to destroy Soviet
shipping.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-14
CHARLOTTE Meet
OUTLINES FIGHT
ON TEXTILE BOSS
Manifesto of Southern
Textile Conference
Is Adopted
Gives List of Demands
Battle Along Economic
and Political Lines

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Oct. ia
manifesto unanimously adopted by
the Southern Textile Workers today,
and endorsed by the Trade Union
Unity League Southern Convention,
also meeting today, outlines the
struggle in the South. 1t was pro-
posed to the conference by James
P. Reid, national president of the
National Textile Workers Union,
and seconded in a vigorous speech
by Bill Dunno. 1t states that the
conditions under which the southern
textile workers live and toll are
worse than in any other section of
America.
The only comparison" says the
manifesto, "is to be found in the
conditions in India and China.
Wages and living standard of the
southern mill workers approach
closely those of the so-calld 'coolie'
labor in colonial countries, of work
ers who suffer from both class and
racial oppression while their i'm
perialist masters prepare for new
wars to decide which group of i'm
perialists shall get the loot.
'The industrial situation of the
South is carried through at the ex-
pense of masses of the newest re-
cruits to the ranks of the industrial
workers upon whose backs is built
what is called Southern prosperity.
"This prosperity is class prosper
ity. The masses of the workers suf-
(C0nt1nued on Page TWo)
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Davis, REE NAN
SPEAK FOR BOSS
At 4. F. |. Meet
Delegates Take EX-
penSiVe Vacation

TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 13.-
With only 100000 to pay for rent
of the imposing hall of the Royal
York Hotel here, 100000 that would
save the Gastonia defendants, or
win the New Orleans strike, or the
Elizabethton strike, or feed the still
closer Hamilton car workers. the
A. F. L. convention delegates treat
ed themselves to two more glorious
days Of vacation. There are thou
sands of dollars to meet their hotel
and junketing expenses in the A. F.
L. treasury, so why worry about
starving strikers, says the mislead-
er. S ono sessions on Saturday or
Sunday.
Davis Speaks.
On Friday, the main business
consisted in hearing that usual
yearly cheering report from Secre-
tary of Labor Davis TO the U. S. A.
Davis told them the same old list
of funny" stories, and then as
sured them that unemployment
would be solved.
He didn't worry them auy more
about the resistless march of the
labor displacing machine, or excite
them about speed-up, etc. He just
told them, "Our country is content
ed. Worker and employer are in
terlocked in a goodwill which neith-
eli cares to break"
Of course he was talking of the
Scll-out in New Orleans and at
Elizabethton, not the volley of
shots at Marion.
Peter Heenan, Canadian Minister
Of Labor, told of social insurance
in Canada, including old age pen
sions. This was in answer to Davis
whose only social plans were pic
lures of the possible short hour age
of the future, with cooperative
housing developed-and no prop
osals for bringing it about.
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women TO send
BANNER TO USSR
Working Women Elec-
ton Rally on Oct. II

The United Council of Working
Women is cooperating with the
Woman's Department of the Com
munist Party to make the Working
Women's Election Rally to be held
at 8 p. m. Oct. II at Irving Plaza,
Irving Pl. and 18th St., a success.
The council has issued special leaf
let on the meeting.
At the mass rally banner will
be given to the women Of the work
ers' delegation to the Soviet Union
to be presented to the women of the
USSR.
In its leaflet the council warns
the working women against the pro-
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is now conducting a drive for $4,000
new members by January 1, 1880.
The workers of Duluth, Minnesota,
crowded Campbell Hall and pledged
a Tag Day, to take place on Oct.
10. In Minneapolis and Milwaukee,
large groups heard Poyntz who re-
lated the events in Gastonia from
the time of the Loray Mill strike
until the trial now taking place in
Charlotte.
In Chicago, workers filling Ukran-
Continued en- Page Three)
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from their purpose of forcing
the bosses to abolish the
stretch-out system, child labor,
low pay, long work day, and all
the other conditions which
have gone with the Industrial
ization and naturalization of
the South.
Foster, Knight, Melvin Speak.
At this opening meeting, William
z. Foster, general secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League; Russell
Knight, of the National Textile
Workers Union; James Reid, presi-
dent of the N.T.W.U.; Sophie Mel
win, released Gastonia defendant;
Hugo Oehler, southern organizer of
the N.T.W.U.; George Maurer, Of
the LID; ]. Louis Engdahl, ma
tional secretary of the LID; Solo
mon Harper, Negro member of the
workers jury in the Gastonia case;
Elbert Tetherow, of the NT.W.U.;
Elmer Mcdonald, young worker
from Gastonia, recently in the U.
S. S. R. children's delegation, and
organizer Byers, spoke.
They outlined the development of
the class struggle in the new South
and pointed out that the time is
rapidly approaching for widespread
strike movements to enforce the de-
mands of the southern textile
workers.
Foster told fthe role of the T. U.
U. L. in the American labor move
ment and the necessity of a revo-
lutionary trade union center.
ELMER Mcdonald, who has just
spoken to you," he said, "has re-
turned from the only country where
the workers and farmers have taken
the last step towards emancipation.
Exposes U. t. w.
you southern workers are Just
taking the first step, which is or
ganization into militant trade unions.
The idea spread by the U. 7. w. la
Dor takers that by appeal to bosses
and their government the workers
can get better conditions is an il
lusion that must be combatted. Class
collaboration is ten policy of treach-
cry and surrender. All that you can
get is just what you force the bosses
to grant by organized strength.
The U. T. w. is an auxiliary to
the bosses, 5hile the N. T. w. U.
is the enemy of the bosses The
U. T. w. with its advocacy of eff
cheney schemes to increase produc-
tion helps the boc-as to maintain the
stretch-out system. The U. T. w.
has deserted the Marion strikers.
At Danville, Asheville and other tex
tile centers, the bosses have encour-
aged their workers to join the U. T.
W., as they realize its usefulness
to them as a means of curbing the
militancy of the workers and quell-
ing revolt"
Foster was interview by capitalist
pres sreporters after the meeting.
They wanted to Cure the main
issues in the truggle and concentrate
on the racial question as a means
of creating prejudice.
! They refused to use what Foster
said about intolerable conditions and
Continued on Page Three)
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National Movement to Aid
CASTOR Prisoners Swelling
Negroes Active in Toledo; Hear POyntz; 250
Organizations to Confer in Cleveland

Fifty Negroes of Toledo, Ohio,
were among those militant workers
who attended a meeting yesterday
addressed by Juliet Stuart Poyntz,
touring for the Gastonia Joint De-
tense and Relief Campaign in behalf
of the seven workers now on trial
Charlotte, N. C.
Negro and white workers pledged
themselves to fight shoulder to
shoulder to free their comrades from
the danger of 80 years in prison.
Many are Joining the /. L. D., which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-14
SENTENCE MUTINEERS.

PARIS, (By MaiD.-A court
martial was held on board the gun
boat "Remiremont" on the mutineers
of the French vessel "Gethary."
The sentence has not been published.
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CHARLOTTE. N. c.. Oct. 13.-

Convent
Of
in
outs
nIuionIe
The Southern
the Bessme n of
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paganda of the bourgeois women's
organizations which have been mo-
bilized for the election campaign
pointing out that the Communist
Party is the only Party of the work
ing class,
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'for the economic demands they there formulated.
These delegates directly from IT'S mills in IS textile
ceners of five southern states AS after another of the
delegates took the floor for their reports evident that
their mood definitely for struggle against the ntoerabe
ditions prevailing in the mills
At the meeting which opened this epocha conference
Saturday afternoon the old barnke auditorium crowded
the doors with enthusiastic and militant southern mill
determined that the reign of shall prevent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-14
CITY 0fBread'
Begins TODAY
on Page -Four

"The City of Bread" the fine
novel by the Soviet writer Alexander
Neweroff, begins today on page
four of the Daily Worker.
Workers will be fascinated in ac-
companying Mishka, the 12-year-old
poor peasant lad, on his far journey
to Tashkent in search of bread for
his family.
With Mishka, on the journey to
Tashkent, the worker will meet the
Continued on Page TaOo)
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OVER 300 DELEGATES FROM us Mills
LAUNCH UNITED ATTACK ON SPEED-UP,
Low PAY, FASCIST TERROR, LONG DAY
Unity Southern Convention Meeting Same Ime
Lays Basis for Militant Organization in All Industries

Foster Reid Harper Mcdonald Point to U. S. R. AS Example
Call for Negro and White Workers Against Bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-14

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a Workers. Farmers Government
To Organize the Umorgamized
Against ImperiaIist War
For The 40-H0ur Week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-24

tainment, was the big thought that
created program pictures to the form
of great music. The Beethoven varia-
tionS stood notably for this, each clean
cut phrase flowing. In lovely moving
forms, like released impulse of the very
notes. A Bach prelude" opened the
program, an exquisite Bach "Chorale, p"
with the music hummed, closed it. and
in the latter huge lighted candles in
the hands of a mystic seven showed to
what heights of spirit this beautiful
art expression may attain.
Art music alone may interpret such
program. It was to the fine dramatic
content Of the program as played by
Mildred Kolb Schulze that much of
force of the incidents was due. Felian
Garzia, as guest artist, gave several of
the selections, making the recital of
music quite as important a thing as
this innovation in what, for better
name. we call rhythmic dancing. A
children'S program is given this after
noon. Saturday evening the program of
last evening will be repeated. j. Mach.
UNIVERSITY CLUB PROGRAM.
The entertainment committee of the
University Club presented Marjorie
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reading OF music, in notes, in pitch,
dynamics, tempo, melody and phrasing,
is the departure that Mrs. Kane has
made in using the bodies as instruments
in interpreting the moods of o COM
poser.
Two OF the most striking illustrations
were dramatic portrayals of the entire
Brahms Sonata, F minor" and in some
dozen of the variations from Beetho-
ven's 80 variations. Here was struc--
tural idea brought into stunning fluid
sculpture, one might say, except that
vivid or subtle colors form the pictures
in fllmy costumes of the rhythmic
dance
For idea. the Brahms mass of perhaps
Is dancers, emerged like some torment
ed souls doomed to earth-bound limita-
tons, while out of the mass a central
form like light, reckoning to freedom,
tried to release them by leading to
higher visions. and between--to enrich
the three-fold dramatic themeS--were
two figures who were the guides to this
turbulent mass whose forms were amaz-
ing in their billowy movement OF emo
tional expression. So true was each
movement, each mood. to the muSic's
bidding. that it revealed more in its con-
tent than one might read into 1t un-
aided by the eye. Stage work, this, OF
more than beauty.
Technique, for many moods, some OF
light, airy waltzeS, an enchanting
"Soiree de Vienne" of Schubert or his
"Valse Sentimental, showed some
buoyant youth in charming excerpts.
SchumannS Soaring floated upon
multi-colored wings. now gay. now full
of fear, dropping with heaviness, while
never in the dancers movements did one
lose the elements of correct note values
to the dramatic story. Palmgren's
Sea" was turbulent green and foamy
white tossed in vital sweep of silk that
painter might long to capture on
canvas, while Debussy's wells" gave
different in the use of flow
ing chiffon. There was Guilt" in
pantomime.
But foremost, above individual at
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Lowe, soprano. and Nation Boyce,
pianist last night in the second of
a series of evenings of music"
Miss Lowe, charming Renoir like
figure. has great deal of personality
and temperament. Her voice is very
light and lacks resonance and power.
Consequently she is at her best in those
songs which depend on Interpretation
for their effect rather than vocal color.
Her program seemed to be chosen with
this In view. She was delightful in
Damon" by STANCE; the two French
songs, "Minuet dEXaudet" of Weckerlin
and "Crepuscule" of MaSsenet. and also
in the group of English songs. Her
training with Mime. Grieg enabled her
to sing the Norwegian songs with under
standing, but the Rosary" sung in
Danish, had an oddly unfamiliar famil-
iarity. With Mr.. Boyce as a sympa-
thetic accompanist. Miss Lowe achieved
a really magical effect in Three Fairy
Songs" by Besly, which she gave as an
encore.
Mr.. Boyce played a number of well
known compositions in an enjoyable
manner. He has fine sense of dynamic
contrast, which is the essential thing
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Nj u S &c
ANNE MIDDLETON DANCES.

The musical feature of the special
celebration at the Congressional Coun-
try Club last night was a series of three
groups of dances presented by Anne
Middleton, a dancer who is new to
Washington. Miss Middleton was ably
accompanied at the piano by Kurt
HetZel. There was a large audience.
Miss Middleton became established in
an artistic career first as a pianist,
studying with Nine. Fannie Bloomfield
ZeiSler, Jeanette Durno and Carl
Friedberg. She had harmony and analy-
sis under Louis Bobyn and Adolf
Weidig. Her dancing was studied with
Alys Bentley of New York, formerly of
Washington Later she had year of
training in the Dalcroze eurythmics
under M. Paul Boepple, also in New
York.
Miss Middleton last night did not
follow completely either the Greek
barefoot type of dancing or had she any
consistent suggestion of other defined
styles of dancing. She wore ballet Slip
pers with a costume that suggested the
old Greek in its lines. She moves
rhythmically, but with gestures pre-
dominating that are of Oriental quail
1ty. When she gestures with her hands
there is no aliveness in her fingers, but
her hands are used as solid units. Here
and. there, particularly in interpreting
the Beethoven music. there were sug-
gestions of the modern symbolical mo-
tons to indicate mood, especially tragic
mood. Her Chopin waltzes were given
very simple Interpretation. In her first
group Debussy En- Bateu" won partic-
ular applause
1t is possible thai Miss Middleton has
more individual dances than those done
to such familiar interpretative dance
music as was used last night. 30 one
who recently saw the Moscow group of
the Duncan Dancers and what Miss
Lewisohn.s dancers are doing at the
Neighborhood performances Of New
York, the work last night lacked color,
originality and dramatic power.
-H.F.
A KANE DANCE RECITAL.
Ethel Hoffman Kane presented her
adult class in an impressive program of
motor Observation-Disclosures in her studio
on G. street last evening. The actual
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In making a recital interesting. His
tendency to exaggerate time values.
noticeable mainly in the Rachmaninoff
prelude" and the Spinning Song" of
Mendelssohn (Which Mr.. Boyce names
The Bees Wings'D Is little disturb
ing. One sometimes wishes for a freer
use of the pedal to bring out the effects
of his bravura passages or to soften
an occasional harsh accent If Liszt's
'Liebestraum" and "Campanella" are
extremely familiar, at least they were
beautifully played. H. w. G..
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As firemen of Birmingham, England
are not permitted to go out of sound
of the fire bell, except on their weekly
day of duty, room has been provided
at central station where the fire fighters
NAV entertain their Sweethearts.