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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
ELLA MAY WICClNS FUNERAL MADE MASS PROTEST
The Funeral Over Organize
Workers Defense Committees!

The eyes of the conscious working class of the whole
fixed yesterday upon the graveyard at Bessemer City,
North Carolina where the bulet-to body of working
class sister, Ella May Wggins buried The long pro-
cesson of and children of class who fol-
lowed her body to the accompanied in spirit by
millions of working people in all parts of this country and
all countries of the world The Cause that she died for
the Cause for which csconscous honorable working
and the whole world must be ready his
her life was Ella May Wiggins.
But the working class has time leisure idle
The horror that by the funeral
be allowed itself in sentimental and inactivity Men
and afford to be soft while still remain
the assed ranks the workers marching the funeral yesterday
crystaized the of organization.
did bury with Ella May Virgins
fought and this Cause must be fought for with ten hundred times
energy resourcefune than before
Throughout the Piedmont section spread the call for the
on Workers Defense Committees in MILL shop
factory The struggle for the right be pushed ahead
the entire front. The National Textile Workers Union
made to by tens OF thousands The demand for the dsarmng
the mill bosses fascist bands reound mill The
c murdrers must disarmed the Workers Defense Committees
must be brought to life in every mill.
This is the the workers show that dead
in vain.
But the lessons of the struggles
Carolina mill workers alone oganzaona
New York needle workers. 1t only the week that
Committees Shoe workers of New York and New England You as
well with the elementary
shown in the mill towns of North and South Carolina Organize
Workers Defense Committees!
the workers nght TO- organize common not alone
throughout country but throughout the world With
the capitalist class proving that the Communist International
rect pong out TO the WORKING class IN all countries that IN th
the third period of capitalism the sharpness the struggle
between class and the exploiting class aentuaed
Capitalist naturalization the SYSTEM
merging of ruied industry with the capitalist
preparations mpeast especially against
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics all of these national
international scale with the "oca" lessons of Gaona
Garry the Of Gastona worker factory,
mine, mill and workshop!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
FRANCE DEMANDS
SUPERIOR NAVY
TO One OF ITALY
British Press Anxious
For Abolition of
Submarines
Continent Will Refuse
Dawes-MacDonald Still
Deadlocked on Parity

LONDON, England, Sept. IT,
The fight looms fiercer over sub
marines, as the French and Italian
governments propagandize through
the official and emi-official press
against the reported U. S.-British
agreement to fight for the abolition
of submarines at the Forthcoming
five-power conference.
On the other hand, British papers
enthusiastically approve the aboli-
ton of submarines. England almost
lost the last world war because of
the effectiveness of the German
submarine blockade, and under-sea
craft have been enormously i'm
proved since then.
France, England's "loyal ally" in
the last war, is already more or less
of a potential enemy, with disputes
raging over the distribution of
reparations, French troops occupy
ing German territory evacuated by
British troops, and arguments over
inter- -allied debts.
Discussing this phase of the sit
uation today, the Conservative
Morning Telegraph said: "The total
abolition of submarines would be a
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
ARMED WORKERS
BE- AR ELLA MAY
TO HER CRAVE
Requiem Sung Is Mill
Mothers Song She
Composed
Thugs Hunt Speakers
Grave Between Mill
and Union Hall
By BILL DUNNE.

CHARNOTTE, N. c., Sept. IT,
Ellie May is buried. Her bod1' was
borne to its. resting place in the
red clay soil of CASTOR County
while the gangs of the Manville-
Jenckes gunmen ranged the road
looking for National Textile Work
ers Union organizers who might be
careless enough to travel alone.
Ella May pallbearers were armed
mill workers. Her requiem was the
mill mothers song she had composed,
sung in the ~croning minor key of
the Southern folk melodies.
Ella Mays song echoes through
the rain-soaked laurel leaves as
Ella Mays body went back to the
red earth her blood had dyed deep
er crimson.
This was stern funeral. Misery
and death are commonplace in the
mill villages of the South. Murder
is nothing new, but even the machine
cruelty of Southern industrialization
has not yet made the murder of
women a commonplace.
Gaunt, tight-lipped men ant
Continued on Page TWoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
Pack Meet to Defeat
Lefts at |. L. G. w

Packing Bryant Hall with mem
hers of the union who had no right
to vote, the right wing administra-
tior of Local 38, International La
dies Garment Workers Union last
night by a few votes defeated a
motion to reconsider the expulsion
from the local of V. Abraham, a left
wing worker y
No Meeting Held.
No meeting of the local has been
held for weeks until last night. as
the reactionary machine knew that
the membership would repudiate
their action.
Harry Greenberg, a vice-president
Of the l. L. G. W., who was at tho
meeting to help the rightwingers.
admitted that the voting by the
Ttr'ic- members was illegal, and
AIDED that if the motion to produce
the r..rutes was passed, he would
close the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
Form Negro Defense Corps to
Fight Police and Thug Terror
Communist Party Alone Leads Negro Masses
in Struggle Against Class, Race Enemies

selves from the brutal police forces
who viciously attack the Negroes
in their homes by destroying their
furniture and throwing hundreds
into jail.
During the past four months
there have been several mob and
lynch terrors against the Negro
workers.
In the latter part of May, Joe
Boxley. 19-year-old Negro farm
hand, was brutally lynched in Almo,
Tennessee.
In the latter part Of June, Willie
McDaniels, 22-year-old Negro farm
hand, was lynched near Charlotte
N. c.
In the same month, at NORTH
Platte, Nebraska, over 200 Ne-T9
workers were drirea f.c-, thei.
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
C.C.T.lJ, BLASTS
RIGHT MINORITY
Fifth Congress Lauds
Communist Party
Wireless Bp "Inprecorr") }

N'NND =
PARIS, France, Sept. 1.-THE
second session yesterday of the
fifth congress of the Confederation
Generate de Travaille Unitaire, the
militant national trade union center
Of France, adopted resolution
against capitalist persecution of the
workers in the shops and the con-
tinuous series of arrests of militant
workers.
The right wing minority, under
the leadership of Schumann, Weber
and Hermann, continued their Of
lensive against the C.G.T.U. and the
Communist Party and denied the
rehabilitation of the workers.
A. Majority Demonstration.
4 The majority of the delegates
emonstrated in favor of the Com
munist Party.
The minority arguments were
refuted by two great speeches by
Thiebaud and Neulade who declared
the opposition hindered the fighting
force Of the workers.
The Communist leader Monmous-
seau was arrested and taken to the
Sante prison yesterday, adding to a
considerable list already there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
UNITY Center
Meet SATURDAY
To Act On Plans For
Metropolitan Area

The Metropolitan Area Trade
Union Unity Center will hold a con-
ference Saturday at Irving Plaza,
Irving Place and 18th st. at one
o'clock at which a report of the
Cleveland conference will be given.
Plans for trade union work in the
metropolitan area will be acted
upon, it was announced last night.
The conference will review the
recent struggles of the workers in
New York and vicinity, also the
strikes of the workers in other parts
of the country. A special report
will be given on the present activi-
ties in Gastonia, N. c., and the
heroic struggle of the Southern tex
tile workers who are organizing into
THE National Textile Workers Union
in spite of the fascist activities of
the mill owners and their agents.
The conference, it was also an
nouncea, will be followed by num-
ber of industrial mass meetings of
Trade Union Unity Leagues and
shop committees where plans for
future activities of the workers will
be taken up, especially the organiza-
ton Of the unorganized workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
n1Ze ana
Fight as Ella
Wlgg1ns Mould
Her La st Command
-. to Workers

"Organize and fight" the slogan
Of the class war in thv South, can
be used by the workers fighting to
save the % Gastonia strikers from
the electric chair. or Imprisonment,
and to save the workers of CASTOR
and Mecklenburg Counties from the
present fascist black rule.
Jim Reid, president of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, de-
clared the above today. He said,
"This battle cry of the class war is
rolling across the Southlands. 1t
should be heard all over the United
States where workers are assem-
bling for the Gastonia Defense and
Relief campaign, and for the mass
collection days, Sept. Ii and %.
"Organize and fight" is the simple
language expressing the dying wish
of Ella May Virgins, that deter
mined, undaunted, earnest union
fighter. 1t is obvious that the Man
ville-Jenckes thugs were acting on
instructions when they killed Ella
May in true Southern chivalrous
style.
From the assembled multitude Of
her grave, in the thousands of mills
of the country, from thousands OF
miserable shacks they occupy. will
come in the clarion call of ar
aroused working class, the answer
to Ella May Virgins dying call,
1--WE viii Organize and Fight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
BY HAROLD WILLIAMS

The Negro workers of America
must realize that the time to strug-
gle as never before against the
combined reactionary forces of
American imperialism has now ar
rived. For years, Negro and white
workers have been suffering from
the most brutal oppression at the
hands of a handful of capitalists and
their lackeys, such as the American
Federation of Labor bureaucracy
and the yellow, treacherous socialist
party. The time has come when
we must be prepared to join ihe
ranks of Communism with the
class conscious white workers, and
wage a relentless campaign against
our class enemies, such as the Ku
klux Klan, the American Legion
md the defcatist and reactionary
leadership of the N. A. A. G. F.,
and also be prepared to defend our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
A. F. L. Agent Sent to
Orleans Strike Shocked
BY Increased Militancy

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. IT.
Marking the arrival of ]. B. Law
son, an official sent by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor to arrange
another balloting to jam through
the proposed sell-out, dynamite was
thrown before a scab-manned street
car. 1t missed by several feet.
Windows in neighboring building
were broken by the shock.
Militant picketing and determined
refusal to allow the betrayal which
virtually accepts the blacklist and
open shop is the reply of the New
Orleans strikers to their misleaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
Suspended Sentence Is
Given Minor and Others
Jailed Near Consulate

Robert Minor, editor of the Daily
Worker and four others arrested
Friday noon during a demonstra-
tion at the Mexican consulate, were
convicted and released with suspend
ed sentence when arraigned before
Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky in
jefferson Market Court yesterday
morning. The charges against Il
other workers arrested at the same
time were dismissed while the trial
OF Nick Aconomos was postponed
until Oct. /. Several had been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
I BIC MEETS TO
PROTEST TERROR
Toilers Here to Throng
Demonstrations

Great mass mobilization in eight
meetings for struggle of the New
York workers against the persecu-
tions against the murder of Ella
May Virgins are being organized
by the New York district of the
Communist Party together with the
Joint Defense Committee for Fri
day night throughout New York,
and in Central Opera House.
The meetings will take place at
the following sections of the city:
Manhattan: 10th st. and End Ave,
10th St. and Fifth Ave, Needle
Trades Market at IL noon; Bronx:
Intervale and Wilkins Ave; Brook
lyn: Grand ST. Extension; Queens:
Steinway and Jamaica AYES. All
Continued on Page T1Oo)
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trained for leadership in the
class struggle.
The relatives of Ella May in
Bessemer City members of
the union-have been assured
that the children will be taken
care of.
Many had plodded their way
through the red clay and in the
drenching rain to the cemetery
early IN the day. Others had stood
for hours, huddled together in the
rain in front of the house where
the body had lain since the shooting.
For hours, mill workers who had
come from miles around, waited in
the graveyard, their clothing sod
dened, their grim faces moist.
I Frank Sisk, the undertaken, in
sisted upon calling for the minister
of the First Baptist Church, Rev.
/ c. j. Black, before he sent the
hearse over, and the procession be-
gan. Automobiles ploughed through
the muddy roads AMI great num-
bers followed on foot. One auto
mobile became mired in the clay
near the center of the cemetery.
Textile workers lifted it bodily and
placed it aside.
The workers who left the mills
to protest against the black terror
Of The bosses, and to pay honor to
their martyred sister, heard Wes
Williams, chairman of the N. T. W.
local here, c. D. Saylors and Dewey
Martin, local organizers of the I.
L. D. and N. T. W., tell about the
par that Ella May took in the class
struggle being waged here.
They charged Manville-Jenckes
and the State of North Carolina for
the murder of their dead comrade.
Support Union.
On every hand one sees proof that
popular sentiment is swinging more
and more to the support Of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union and
the |. l.. D. as militant indignation
on the part of the workers mounts
higher. Far from crushing the
growing revolt of the mill workers,
the atrocities of the Manville-
Jenckes fascists who have taken
over control Of the local courts and
police, the determination Of the
masses is steeled to fight harder
than before against the ruthless ex-
ploitation and oppression of the mill
barons.
!. Their task made doubly difficult
by the reign of terror and the hon
slant menace Of murder hanging
...A Continued on Pa0S Tscna -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
Forward from This Grave
to New Struggle: Engdahl
We've Buried Our Dead" He Says, at Funeral
of Ella Wiggins: Must Defeat Class Enemies

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. IL.
We have buried our dead The name
of Ella May Wiggins is inscribed
today on the illustrious roll of world
labor's martyrs.
With these words, J. Louis Eng
dahl, national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense, spoke
today at the grave of Ella May
Virgins. He continued;
The oppressed of all CAPITALIST
lands and liberated labor in the
first workers republic today know
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
Wei / |. S EVIDENCE
Is RU!, Ed out
Barred Since He Does
Not Believe in God"

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. 10
Yesterday when Ben Wells, Ma
tional Textile Workers Union Or
ganizer, who was flogged late Mon
day night last week by hirelin s of
the mill bosses, after being kid
mapped by gang of the same led
BY Solicitor Carpenter of Gastonia,
appeared in court to testify, his evil
dence was ruleL out because he ad-
mitted he did not believe in god.
Wells was just able yesterday to
leave his bed, where he has been
confined since his beating. Four
teen of the Manville-Jencl;es and
other mill bosses henchmen were
identified by the victims as being
in the gang that did the raiding and
kidnapping. Textile mill lawyers
were defending them. After Wells
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18

Of her heroic sacrifice and are in.
spired by her courageous example
to greater efforts for the Liberation
of their class. Workers of the So
Wet Union, of Great Britain and
India, of France and, China, of Ger
many and Mexico, of South America
and Africa, today stood shoulder to
shoulder with the mill workers OF
CASTOR county with all North Caro-
lima and American labor beside the
Il CONTINUED on Pacs TWQl .....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
Austrian GlanzstOff
RayOn Workers Strike
Against the Fascists

VIENNA, (By Mail) In connec-
tion with the collision which oc-
Cured last Sunday between work
ers and Heimwehr fascists in ST.
Poelten on Monday there was a
political strike in the local CLAM
atoff rayon works, the workers de-
nanding the dismissal of two fas-
cists. When this demand was re-
fused they went on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
N,M,U. INVADING
MINCO COUNTY
Into the South" Is
Miners Slogan

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept, IT,
The great drive in the Southern coal
fields, demanded unanimously by
the Miners Conference at the Trade
Union Unity Convention early this
month, is on, the Resident Execu-
tive Board Of the National Miners
Union announced today.
Logan, Mingo and Mcdowell
counties, scenes of intense, bloody
class conflicts, and where no SEM
blance of organization has existed
since. the infamous betrayal by the
Lewis machine of the historical 1921
strike, are already penetrated by
militant left wing organizers sent
by the Board. Sectional meetings,
Continued on Page Threc)
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roughly handled by the police.
Abraham Markoff, Lena Cher
nenko, Walter Burke and L. Let-en
were the others WHO received @ sus.
pended sentence. Jacques Buiten-
kant, of the international Labor De-
fense. represented the 20 workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
Melvin to Speak in 9
Cities: Conference in
New York City TOnite

Sophie Melvin, 19-year-olG vet
Gran of the class war in Gastonia,
n. c., which increases in intensity
daily, will speak in nine cities thru
out the country before she returns
to Charlotte, N. c., to stand trial
with the 16 Gastonia strikers in
danger of the electric chair.
She will speak in New York, Sept.
20; in Boston, Sept. 21 in New Bed
ford, the afternoon of Sept. %; in
Boston, the night of Sept. %; in
Pittsburgh, Sept. 25; in Pbiladel-
phia, Sept. 26; and in Baltimore,
Sept. 27. Tentative meetings will
be held in Buffalo the 10Th snd in
C'"'-"'~~d, the 23rd or oath.
will speak at the Central
Opera House, New York, Friday,
when Bill Dunno, Ben Wells. and
others from the front line of the
class-war in Gastonia will be pres
ent to honor Ella May Wieeine. kill
ed by the Manville-Jenckes gang
sters.
A joint mass meeting of the
Workers international Relief and
the international Labor Defense
will be held in New York at Irving
Plaza, Irving Place and 18th St.,
tonight, when mobilization for the
relief and defense of the workers
and organizers in Gastonia will be
completed.
Preparations are being made
throughout the land for the mass
collection days, Sept. 81 and %.
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18

II want the children to live decener life than what
did," she told Daily Worker reporter weeks ago. I'm
fighting for better conditions for my children want them
get educating and have better chance than
got and want learn them to be good union leaders and
stick to their fellow workers."
The Union, the international Labor Defense and the
Workers international Relief are cooperating and will see
that Ella Mays wishes for her children carried out They
will be the Young Pioneers School where they will be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
BULLETIN.

en and forced hepehm-
o them orders for kidnapping
Gkea HoggngT They reO O m
ormiH;Dw CaretT Tom Carver a L Hh
ngsadHoc nesu erntn o y n
C
Workers n
of
m
AS her bodyr whit O
fellow workers. Barntsa one o
n
and
Ella May of the most impressive demonstrations
mill
of the
Five
a
THERE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
NATIONAL TEXTILE UNION SPEAKERS
DEFYINC GANCSTERS, CHARGE MURDER
TO MANVlLLE- -JENCkES AND The STATE

Wait Hours at Grave Driving Rain While
Others Guard Body; Huge Throng in the Procession
Gangsers Mill Windows Jeer Dead But Dare Not Attack
Union Me@nbers Pledge Renewed Activity Monument
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-18
GAST0N DEFENSE
MEETING TONIGHT
Melvin and Wells Will
Speak Friday

The new reign of terror against
the Gastonia textile workers, the
cold blooded murder of Ella May
Virgins by the millowners commit
tee OF 100 on Saturday afternoon,
will be taken up at the emergency
meeting of the Joint Action Com
mittee of the International Labor
Defense and the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, today at 8 p. m. at
Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 18th
st.
Hundreds Of kilograms have been
sent the delegates and organizations
that attended the last meeting of
the Joint Action Committee urging
them to be present. Other working
class organizations are asked to
have representatives at this meet
ing.
Mass Meet Friday.
Direct from the Gastonia battle
front, Sophie Melvin, one of the de-
PENDANTS in the murder trial that
starts again Sept. 80, Ben Wells,
National Textile Workers Union or
ganizer, flogged by mob of mill
owners agents last week, and Bill
Dunno, Communist Party organizer
in the South, will speak at huge
mass meeting to be held Friday at
8 p. N. at Central Opera House,
67th st. and Third Ave-, under the
auspices of the International Labor
Defense and the Workers Iuterna
tional Relief
Reign of Terror.
The meeting will hear the latest
developments of the reign of terror
against the Carolina textile work
crs from those who have been ac-
tive participants in the struggle.
The meeting will also mark the
opening of two-day tag drive for
the defense of the Gastonia work
ers, which will be held Saturday and
Sunday. It is expected thas thou
sands of New York workers will col
Continued on PAGE Two) u.
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Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class.