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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

been extremely active in efforts to
organize the miserably exploited day
workers who are the victims of all
forms of discrimination at the hands
of their white employers.
1.-THE Communist Party" Fanny
Austin said yesterday at the office
of the Communist Election Cam
paign Committee, "is the only party
which ha sa fundamental economic,
political and social program for the
class and is the only party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
1000 WINDOW
WASHERS STRIKE

By an overwhelming majority,
New York window cleaners voted
on strike which began today after
a crowded mass meeting at Manhat-
tan Lyceum, sc E. Fourth St., last
night.
Two thousand men will participate
in the strike, whic his being led by
the Window Cleaners Protective
Union, Is E. Third St.
The striker sare demanding a 40
hour five-day week, wage gains and
adequate safety devices and compen-
sation insurance. Non-union work
e saerr included, and special efforts
ar ebeing made to concentrate on
unorganized shops.
A mass parade from Manhattan
Lyceum to the City Hall opened the
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

political and economic equality for
the Negro, and we mean that in the
fullest sense of the term"
Thus spoke Otto Hall, candidate
for Comptroller on the Communist
Party ticket, who will be one of the
speakers at the election rally to be
held in St. Lukes Hall, 125 w. 130th
St., under the auspices of the Har-
lem section of the Communist Party
this Friday night, Oct. 49,.
The Communist Party, Hall said,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
lid Calls for Workers. Mass
Action for CASTOR Prisoners
Issues Official Statement on Judge BarnhilPs
Rulings

The International Labor Defense
has contended time and again that
the leaders of the Gastonia textile
strike were on trial, not for murder,
but for their attempts to organize
the southen textile workers.
The International Labor Defense
also contended that it is folly on the
part Of the workers t oexpect fair
trial from a capitalist court and
capitalist judge. The latest ruling
of Judge Barnhill, presiding at the
trial of the seven textile leaders in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
FOIL FRAMEUP ON
2 SHOE WORKERS

Another framed charge against
tw omembers of the Independent
Shoe Workers was foiled at the
Gates Ave. court, Brooklyn, yester-
day.
Union organizer S. Lippa and
shop committee chairman Guardia,
held in $1,000 bail when charges
of malicious mischief" were pre-
ferred against them last week by
the Elbee Shoe Company, 449 Trout
man St., Brooklyn, were dismissed
through lack of evidence.
Their arrest followed their fight
against he shop management when,
in violation of the union agreement,
(Ccntlnued on Page TaUo)
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does not hesitate to bring its fight
into the heart of the South, where
race prejudices are most deeply
rooted, and the flame of race
hatred is famed by the capitalist
class. While the democratic and re-
publican parties stand responsible
for lynching, jim -Crowism and race
discrimination, Hall said, and while
the socialist party does not dare to
enter the South on a program of
struggle for the interests of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
BUILD I. u. u. |.
ORGANIZATION
ON FOSTER TOUR
Reports on Charlotte
Conference

Just returned from addressing
400 workers in Baltimore, an en-
thusiastic audience anxious to get
down to practical organization of
the Trade Union Unity League ap-
paratus in that city, and ready to
depart for still larger mass meet
ing today at Boslover Hall in Phila-
delphia, William 2. Foster, general
secretary of the T. U. U. L., yes
terday told the Daily Worker of the
spread of the organization and the
rapid growth of its local general and
industrial leagues.
There were two meetings in Balti-
more, one at the Marine Workers
League Hall, and the main meetinw,
for all workers, uptown. The meet
ings laid the basis for organization
of district machinery, with good
membership to start with, and as
surance of militant action, accord
ing to Foster. The principal Balti-
more meeting has as Chairman
Flaiani, secretary of the local gen.
eral league in Baltimore, mad as a
principal speaker in addition to Fos-
ter, the Negro member, Welch.
Tells of Growth in South.
Fosters speech, aside from the
purely organizational aspects, for
immediate and practical work, dealt
with the Trade Union Unity Con-
vention in Cleveland, and the two
conventions in Charlotte Saturday
and Sunday, the Southern Textile
Workers Conference, where repre-
sentatives of $4,000 mill workers
Continued on Page T,Coj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
Needle Workers Meet
Tomorrow; Plan Fight
on Betrayal Schemes

New York needle trades workers
will challenge Schlesinger agency
schemes to company-unionize the
dress trade at general member
ship meeting called by Joint Board
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union at p. m. tomorrow
at Webster Hall, 18th st. and Third
Ave.
The Joint Board has worked out
policy, which will be explained at
tomorrow's meeting, to meet the
approaching fax estrike in the dress
trade to be called b. the Schlesinger
company union.
"The time is approaching when
the dressmakers will have to give a
decisive answer to the Schlesinger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

in order more easily to oppress and
degrade them both"
Besides Hall the other speakers
will be William W. Weinstone, may
orally candidate, Richard B. Moore,
candidate for Congress in the 21st
District, and Fanny Austin, candi-
date for alderman in the 21st Dis
trict. The latter, who is a day do
mestic worker, is the first Negro
woman to be nominated for public
office in New York City. She has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
Russell Knight Speaks
at WOmens' 'GastOnia'
Meet Tomorrow Night

Russell Knight, one of the re-
leased defendants in the Gastonia
trial, will be a featured speaker at
the New York working women's
rally to support the Communist Par
ty election campaign and which will
voice protest against the attempt to
railroad the seven Gastonia strikers
to living death in prison.
The rally will be held at Irving
Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 10th
St.. tomorrow night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
City Trucks Scab on Oil
Strikers; 5000Gas Station
Workers for Walk-Out
TUUL Holds Strike Meet; 1000 Police Aid Gun
men in Terror: Bosses in Ultimatum
ARREST" Gangsters to Cover City, Underworld
Alliance; Garage Workers to Strike

Notwithstanding unbrided reign of directed by
Tammany and republican politicians the feversh attempts
F. L. fat boys to stem the swelling sentiment for general
strike open scabbery by city officials and nnumerae
to smash their struggle by every at hand the 5000
striking gasoline truck drivers continued in control yesterday
determined to fight for their demands to finish.
More than oneha of the 5000 filling station workers
ployed the five boroughs attended meetings in Man
haitian and BROOKLYN night with the organizing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
Gold, Olgin, Grecht
Will Speak at Bronx
Election Meet Friday

The first indoor rally in the Bronx
since the opening of the Communist
Party campaign will be held this
Friday evening at Rose Garden, 1347
Boston Rd. Speakers will include
Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, and candidate for alderman
in the Goth district, Bronx; Rose
Wortis, candidate for assembly in
the third district; M. j. Olgin, editor
of the Morning Freiheit and candi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
Unions Join GastOnia Fight
Through Workers Pressure
Realize Prisoners ON Trial for Class Activity;
A. F. of l.. Locals Greet LID United Front

Rank and file workers learning
that the Gastonia trial is not a
murder" trial, as the capitalist
press proclaimed, but one in which
the defendants are being tried for
their working class activities, have
forced many unions, some of them
locals of the American Federation
of Labor to join the united front of
the International Labor Defense, on
behalf of the Gastonia prisoners.
Today funds and protests were re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

ceived from the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners, Loca!
275, of Newton, Mass, Plasterers'
local, No. 100, of Scranton, Pa, the
the Journeymen Stone Cutters As
sociation of Cincinnati, the Hod-
carriers local, No. 447, of Reading,
the Excavators Building Laborers
Union, local 1881, with 1900 men,
bers, of New ork.
Many workers are joining the In
ternatinnal Labor Defense, now
Continued on Page Three
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which is truly the defender of the
of the masses of bitterly
exploited Negro workers"
Richard B. Moore, candidate for
Congress in the 21st District, is
known to thousands of workers in
Negro Harlem not only because of
his activities as president of the
American Negro Labor Congress,
but also as president and a leading
spirit in the Harlem Tenants
Continued on Page T1VoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

In the trial Of the seven Gas
onia strikers, the prosecution of the
Mill bosses demanded that the jury
end the defendants to living deaths
prison cells because one of them
'oke on the same platform with
when l was in the South. But
lillian 2. Foster, speaking at the
harlotte conference of the National
extile Workers Union, gave the
Jouthern bosses their answer, once
and for all. we are for full social,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

Negro workers, because it is nothing
but third party of the bosses, the
Communist Party carries on re-
lentless battle for full social, racial
and political equality for black and
white workers.
"The Communist Party" contin-
ued Hall, exposes the capitalist
myth of white superiority and the
bugaboo of Negro domination by
which the employing class seeks to
divide the black and white workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

Charlotte, N. c., proves this conten-
tion of the l. L. D. was fully justi-
fled. Judge Barnhill ruled:
"If the defendant is Communist,
and is making an effort to over
throw the government, when he
comes to trial under the laws Of that
government, he ought not to expect
to be tried as a citizen of that gov
ernment."
This ruling is an attempt to out
law the Communist Party and the
(Continaed on Page Ti0o)
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date for assembly in the 4th district;
and Rebecca Grecht, candidate for
assembly in the fifth district, Bronx.
The meeting is being held under
the auspices Of the Bronx section
of the Communist Party, with the
cooperation of the Campaign Com
mittee of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

challenge" the union leaflet urging
mass attendance at the meeting de-
clares.
"Dressmaking! The Schlesinger
company union is mobilizing to per-
petrate new treachery against you
with the aid of the bosses, the un-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

derworld and all the dark powers of
reaction" the leaflet adds.
"You must answer their treach-
erous plans by organizing and mob
ilizing your own ranks so as to
Illustrate all their conspracies and
build and fortify your union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
Drag in Prejudice.

1T is very apparent" said
Neal, that the motive of the
state is not to impeach the
testimony of this witness, but
to drag into this trial every
thing that is irrelevant to the
question of the guilt or innocence of
the defendants, for the sole purpose
of appealing to prejudice. The ma
jor legal error in the Sacco-Vanzetti
case was the admission of just such
material. 1 appeal to the court to
put stop to such unjust procedure.
Barnhill answered: "The court
has no legal right to exclude ques-
tions regarding the views of the wit
ness, which are competent for i'm
peachment."
BarnhilPs Fair Trial.
By his ruling Judge Barnhill con-
tradicts everything he has said as to
how he would conduct the trial. He
has assured the defense and the
press repeatedly that "this will be a
murder trial and not a heresy trial
and not another Sacco-Vanzetti
case" Also, he has said, "There is
no issue except the question: 'Are
the defendants guilty as charged?'
That issue must not be beclouded by
the introduction of other questions.
The deefndants' convictions upon So
cial, economic, political and relig-
ious matters have no place in
criminal court, and shouldn't be per-
mitted to becloud the issue.
This is what Judge Barnhill said
in his charge to the grand jury that
indicted the defendants. Now he is
doing exactly wha the said he would
not do: he is permitting the prose-
cution to introduce material which
beclouds what he has said is the is
sue, and prejudice the jury.
The International Labor Defense
has all along pointed out that this
is a class case,, that the defendants
are being tried only incidentally for
murder" that their real offense is
that they dared to organize the
Southern mill workers mad fight to
overthrow the tyrannical system of
exploitation practiced by the boss
es. 1t was the prosecution and
Judge Barnhill who hypocritically
stated, while they thought they had
an easy task railroading through a
conviction, that it was purely a mur-
de" trial.
The opinions of the defendants
and witnesses as to the existence
of god who win punish them for
lying" are not relevant to the fund
amental issue in this trial, which is
"were the defendants justified in
defending themselves against at
tack argued the defense counsel.
The udge overruled them, and the
prosecutions appeal to the preju-
dices of the jury goes on.
I While Edith Saunders Miller was
on the stand, the State placed in
evidence copies of the oung Pioneer
distributed by her to the strikers
cAildren in Gastonia. Jake Newell,
of the prosecution counsel, read ex-
tracts from this paper to show the
jury, as he savid, what unpatriotic
scoundrels these Communists are,
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
SELF-DENIAL IN "LABOR'S"
CAT1SE

LONDON (By MaiD Loss of a
100000 pearl necklace was the only
incident which marred tn recently
concluded trip to New York enjoyed
by Mrs. George Spero, wife of the
"labor" M. P. for w. Fulham.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

CHARLOTTE n mill of
Iona case now proceeding in Charlotte succeeds in ratoag militant union leaders
religious and racial questions well as for their activity organizing real
the
this morning appeal to Judge Ba rule
Q p Jury
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into a union, formulating de-
mands for shorter hours and
pay increases and voting on a
walk-out in support of the oil
truckmen. AS the Daily Work
er went to press results of the
meetings had not been announced
but it was known that the men were
almost unanimously for throwing in
ther lot with the strikers and barr
ing another A. F. l.. betrayal, SIM
liar to that which sidetracked the
proposed city-wide trucking strike a
few days ago, they were expected
to come out at once.
City Strike-Breakers.
City street cleaning department
trucks, under police guard, are now
carrying Standard Oil drums of
gasoline. Thus Tammany Hall
brings its strike-breaking program
: 1T into the open, the T. U. U. L.
declares, having failed to break the
spirit of the men with the terror
ism of gangsters and the police,
some 1000 of whom are at present
on duty in the strike zone.
Station Workers Demands.
The filling station workers de-
mands are for a 48-hour week, time
and a half for overtime, 20 per cent
ircreaces for those earning $25 a
week or less, Is per cent for the
S35 men and 10 per cent for those
making $40 or under.
In addition to these, more than
$4,000 garage workers will go on
strike if the demands of the truck
men are not met by Saturday, Her
man Cohen. president of the Garage
Workers Union, stated last night.
Mechanics, auto polishers, service
men and all other garage employees
will be involved.
Pressure of rank and file union
members forced Cohen to make this
announcement following the issuance
of an insular "ultimatum" by Rookie
feller's Standard Oil Co., which cor
ders" the strikers to return to work
by Thursday night, on penalty of
losing their jobs for good. Peter
Prouty, mouth-piece for Standard
Oil, Warner-Quinlan and the other
oil trusts against which the truck
men are struggling, flatly refuses to
recognize the International Brother
hood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs.
The oil barons will deal with the
strikers only as individuals, he said
yesterday, and in refusing offers of
state mediation" declared that
there is nothing to mediate"
Boss Trick Flops.
Juring the day Prouty sent out
agents in cars to tell the strikers
grouped around the struck plants
that the "strike is over" and urge
the men to ego back to work" This
crude bait earned the Standard
henchmen nothing but colorful ridi-
cule. James Dawson, business agent
Of the Gas and Fuel Drivers Local
553 later instructed the strikers not
TO return until they "heard from
Dawson"
The Trade Union Unity League,
commenting on his bureaucratic and
typically A. F. l.. order, states that
it indicates Dawson's intention to
"setle" the srike without submitting
the sell-ou agreement to rank and
file vote. Restlessness and suspicion
of their "leaders" is already infect
ing the truckmen, as not a single
meeting has bee ncalled by the union
takers since the struggle began over
a week ago and no reports on the
Continued on Page TtOo)
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Build Up the United Front OF
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprisesi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16
EDITH SAUNDERS MILLER, HENDRICKS,
CARTER, TELL OF MURDEROUS POLICE
RAID; PROVE STRIKERS DEFENSE RIGHT

Admits All Questions God Attitude Toward Capitalism ana
Use of Troops Arrested for Self Defense Tried for UnOnism
Against Soviet Union for
Effect Fdamentast jury Fail Shake Defense Witnesses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-16

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize the Umorgawized
Against Imperialist War
For The 40-Honr Week
New Britain herald., 1929-11-29
MANUSCRIPT SELL
 FOR UNUSUAL SUM
London Auction Rooms Report
 Record Prices Recently

London, Nov. 29 LP-Books and manuscripts have brought record prices at Sotheby's lately, Sir James Barnic, George Bernard Shaw. Sir William Conan Doyle and II. G. Wells being especially popular.
 Five books by Sir James Barrie that thirty years ago were sold for less than r. ($10) were purchased for a total of f457 ($2.2S5).
 Pays Record Price
 Gabriel Wells, New York col loctor paid a record price of fll0 ($55o) for "A Window in Thrums." which was published in 1889 for six Wells also paid another record fee when he bought Il Burns letter containing the verses. The kirks Alarm" for it.Sl0 (9.05aD.
 A first edition of Shaw's "Widow- CTS Houses also went to Wells for tSo t$4oo). lie had previously picked up the original manuscript of the play at a large price
 The bulk of the correspondence 7bdW anu MT. NcUrcnnc |" ho produced Shaw's plays at the Court and Savoy theaters 25 years lgo also went 10 the New York col cctor, The top price of 40 (S200) brought him Shaws unpublished poem 10 Ellen Terry on her state jubilee:
 "Oh, Ellen, was it kind of fate,
 To make your youth so thrifty,
 That you are young at fifty eight, |
 Whilst we are old at fifty"
 One sale Surprise
 one of the big surprises 10 col | ectors was the sum of I245 G,- | -2JD that went for the manuscript | )f "rhc Adventures of the Speckled . Band generally considered the | ayoritc of the Sherlock Holmes stories. "The Lost World" found a 'cady buyer at flG0 ($S0O).
 II. G. Wells shared in the days . success, a collection of first editions bringing q total of f14G ($730).
New Britain herald., 1929-11-29
Road Conditions In
 State of Connecticut

Otdte or COnneCtlCut Road conditions and detours in the State of Connecticut made ne- cessary by highway department con- struction, repairs and oiling an- nounced by the Connecticut High way Department as of Nov. 27th, 1929.
 Route No.
 Old Lyme Boston Post road. shoulders being oiled for miles. Lyme Boston Post road, shoulders being oiled for miles.
 Route No. 3
 Bolton Willmantic-H Hartford road IS being oiled for F. mile. Danbury NeHtown road. steam shovel grading. Short delays prob able. Recommend that through travel take route through Bethel.
 |. $. Route No. ) Meriden-BToad street is under construction. No delay to traffic.
 Route No. Bolton Manchester, Manchester Nillmantic turnpike is under con struction. One-way traffic, slight delay.
 Route No. s Nlnchestcr-Rowlcy street bridge. approaches are under construction.
 Route No. 10 Cromwell, Hartford Saybrook read, shoulders being oiled for , miles.
 Route No. 12 A section of the Norwich Putnam read is being reconstructed just south of Central Village. Shoulders or this road are being constructed. Traffic can pass.
 Route No. r West Hartford-Avon, Albany ave- 'ae is under construction. but open e traffic. There is q five minute lNIay due to the construction of bridge over the Pennington river.
 Route No. 103 Mansfield PhoeniXvile road is lnder construction. The shoulders )f this road are being built at this ''''@- CpCli lO lIdlLlc. Coventry Bridge over Williman- lc river is under construction. but open to traffic.
 Route No. 13t Cornwall Bridge is under on new location. No | lctours.
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 Route No. 16S Jonathan Trumbull road is under construction from Route No. 3 to he end of the improved road north f Columbia Green and from the end | the improved road south of Co., lmbia Green to. the end Of the i'm roved road at Lebanon. Travellers re warned to use extreme care in assing through.
 Route No. Fl East iaven-Short Beach road is nder construction. No delay 10 iaffic.
 Route No. IF East ampton-Lecsville road IS eing oiled for one mile.
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