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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11

Provided With Autos.
Travelling in 105 automo-
biles, the posse invaded the
city of Charlotte and began a
feverish hunt for all active members
of the N. T. w. u, including Vera
Bush, Amy Schechter and Sophie
Melvin, defendants out on bail, and
Caroline Drew of the Workers In
ternational Relief.
A section of the posse in 25 auto
mobiles stormed Walton Hotel in
their search for Hugo Oehler, south
ern organizer for the textile union
and Bill Dunno, shouting, Lynch
them!' Reused to fury because
they were unable to find the two
men, they tore up the hotel register
before leaving.
Hardly had the order of mistrial
in the Gastonia case been made
when the Manville-Jenckes murder
crew, fully organized and prepared
IN advance, swooped down upon the
Gastonia headquarters of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union and
the Workers (. ational Relief,
kidnapped v s. 5rs and Lell.
and then proaecGs4 to Bessemer
City where they demolished the
headquarters of the union there.
Wells, the most severely beaten, is
today under a doctors care, suffer
ing from wounds and decorations on
the head and body.
Wells, Saylor and Lell returned
to Charlotte this morning about six
o'clock.
Thugs Sing Hymn.
The organizers were seized in
the home of Mrs. Helen Lodge in
Gastonia by the posse singing
Praise God from whom all bless
ings flow" as they rushed in. The
Lodge home at 512 Gastonia Ave.
is the headquarters of the southern
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BULLETIN.

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
Attention.!

this moment of approaching the Soviet Union
Party member should read the thesis the E. c. of the CPU
the War Danger and the Tasks of the Communist Party published
in the Daily Worker Aug 1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
A Rear Front" :"

The attacks on the Soviet frontier,
which have increased greatly in
number and seriousness during the
last few days, accompany and form
a part of the series of encirclement
measures going on against the So
Wet Union in the League of Nations
Assembly and by mems of notes
from the U. S. State Department.
Tn ! indicate that military
front is bel = built up against le
u. S. S. R. in the East, while all
prepar are going on among
the impcrial.-t wers of Europe
ard America for attac', in the West.
These preparations include the
Continued on Page T10oJ
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War Danger.

Comrades should also the Eighth
Plenum iay 1920 and of the Sixth World
JADE Lenns instructions
Os22)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
GlJNDlEN LED BY LORAY ATTORNEY and
OFFICIAL HEAD OF The CASTONIA CASE
PROSECUTION; FLOC ORGANIZER WELLS

Colony Kdnap Three Union Leaders Houses
Try to Lynch Defense Lawyers Hugo Oeher and Bill Dunno
Thugs 105 Autos Continue Murder Campaign
While Trial Halts Temporarily Wells Facing DEATH Defiant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
SOVIET union IN
Note Tells OF
IS BORDER RAIDS
Ch in csc Militarists'
/ Attack Part of Big
! Imperialist Drive
Invaders Are Defeated
Reported to be Taking
Retaliatory Action

BERLIN, Germany, Sept. TO-
The press reports note from the
People Commissariat of Foreign
Affairs of the Soviet Union to the
German government, relating details
Of IS separate invasions or bonn
bardments of us S.R. territory, at
tempts to destroy navigation on the
Amur and Ussuri Rivers by setting
mines, and firing on shipping, and
declares that the Sovie govern
ment has had to take "firm retalia-
tory action" to preser- its borders.
The note states:
"The Soviet Government, as previ-
ously, considers that the only way
of avoiding additional serious con-
sequences is by immediate measures
to terminate these new assaults on
Soviet territory"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
Murders Continue.

The note also gave instances of
the terr rism against Soviet work
ers, particularly those formerly en-
ployed on the Oh h'nese E. ;ern Rail
way, including the arrest and mall
treatment of over 1000 of them,
continuous executions as "spies"
and executions without trial or any
excuse O. cred. at all, starvation of
children whose parents have been
arrested, and other similar acts by
the Chinese war lords.
The German foreign office is re-
ported to hav~ answered in a tenn
porizing manner, ng doubt on
the worst atrocity stories, and de-
claring that - German consulates
are doing all that they can to care
for the Soviet workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize the UnOrgamized
Against ImteriaIist War
For tbe 4O-Hour Week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
Provided With Autos.

tack of June 7.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Hold Lenin Memorial
Meet Sat-, Jan. 18th at
Madison So. Gard e n

The Communist Party announced
yesterday that Madison Square Gar
den had been secured for Jan. IS,
Saturday evening at p. m. for the
holding of the Lenin Memorial meet
ing.
A very elaborate program is being
arranged including a revolutionary
pageant in five scenes based on the
current struggles of the working
class.
This coming years memorial
meeting is of special significance in
view of the fact that it comes at a
time when the principles of Lenin-
ism are becoming the concern of ever
larger masses of workers in their
daily struggles. The meeting takes
place only three days before the
opening of the Naval Conference in
London and will be fitting counter
demonstration to this convention of
imperialists who are meeting to de-
wise methods of war against the So
Wet Union.
All militant labor organizations
are asked to arrange for participa-
ton as body in the demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
To Greet AccOrsi at
Mass Meet Thursday

Two famous class war prisoners
will greet another when Fred Beal
and Clarence Miller, two of the Gas
tonia defendants, greet Salvatore
Accorsi, the Italian worker against
whom murder frameup has just
been smashed at big mass welcome
for Accorsi Thursday night at 7.3O
at Central Opera House, 9th st.
and Third Ave.
The welcome is being arranged by
the New York District of the Inter
national Labor Defense. The LID.
defended Accorsi and was respon-
-sible for the mobilization of the
workers of this country that smash
ed the Pennsylvania coal operators
frameup against him.
Accorsi, his wife and three children
will be present at the welcome and
both he and his wife will speak.
Other speakers will include Beal,
Miller, Bill Dunno, of the Trade
Union Unity League; J. Louis, Eng
dahl, national secretary of the I.
L. D.; l. Amter, district organizer
of the Communist Party; Otto Huis-
wood, Of the American Negro Labor
Congress, and Louis Candida, organ
izer of the Italian section of the
LID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Meet to Protest War
Threat on USSR Tues.

Workers of New York will pro-
test against the American interven-
ton in the Soviet China controversy
IN Manchuria at a mass meeting
Tuesday night, at s o'clock, at La
Dor Temple, 242 East 18th st. The
meeting has been called by the
Friends of the Soviet Union, IT'S
Fifth Ave.
A feature of the meeting will be
the first showing in America of the
three-reel film, "The Flight of the
Land of the Soviets,'" showing
the take-off from Moscow, the ar
rival in America and the tremendous
welcome for the fliers at the Polo
Grounds.
James Mo. a Chinese worker, and
K. Radzie, Russian worker, will
speak at the meeting. Other speak
ers will include Robert w. Dunn, of
the Labor Research Association,
and Roger Baldwin, of the American
Civil Liberties Union. Henry Hunt,
former mayor of Cincinnati, will be
chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Imperialists Spies
Go to Manchuria

ers can be prepared for a fresh at
tack on the Soviet Union. In addi-
ton, the fact that interminable de-
lay seems to have fallen upon the
Mukden authorities in carrying out
the protocol signed on December 3,
indicates that such delay is the de-
sire of Japan, which dominates the
Mukden regime.
The speed with which the Soviet
managers were elected last July is
contrasted with the delay and OBJ
struction now blocking their return.
While this is going on the imperial
list representatives on the 'interna-
tional train" are passing into west
ern Manchuria through Villages re-
ported to be torn up by Chinese loot
ers.
Reds Reported in Hupeh.
From Hankow, reports state that
300 Marking soldiers sent from
Hankow to southeastern Hupeh,
have Joined what is known as the
Communist army at the town OF
Tayeh, assisting the Reds in occupy
ing the town. Hupeh has always
been a strong revolutionary center
of the peasant movement and it is
supposed that the agrarian revolu-
ton is now in full swing. The Japa-
nese are expressing great concern
An American gunboat is in the
region at the town of Hwangshih-
kang, where the Marking troops sent
against the Reds went over to them
Reports state that there is no loot
ing under the Reds, and the search
ing parties, probably hunting fol-
counter-revolutionists, went through
all houses in an orderly manner.
Canton dispatches state that
Chang Fa-kwei, leader of the de-
feated "Ironsides" has committed
suicide. There is still trouble with
rebels along the Shanghai-Nanking
railway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Needle, Shoe Strikes
to Come Before TUUL
Met1opole Conference

The needle trades situation, with
Ben Gold reporting; the shoe strike
and organizational work in that in
dustry, with Biedenkapp reporting;
organization of women, with Rose
Wortis reporting; organization Of
Negroes, with Otto Hall reporting
organization of young workers, end
their role in the Trade Union Unity
League, with Klinghoffer report
ing, will all come up at the second
day of the Metropolitan Area T. U.
U. L. conference starting at 1890
a. M, Sunday. The first session
Saturday, Dec. 81, starting at 2:30
p. M, will be given over to the gen.
eral work of the League, in which
Jack tombstone, national organizer
of the T. U. U. L.; Bill Dunno, edi-
tor of Labor Unity, its official or
gan, and others will report on or
ganization problems, Labor Unity,
activities Of the local council, etc.
1t will adjourn in time for the
Trade Union Unity Ball
In the third session, to be held
Sunday night, a full discussion of
reports and the arrangements for
the Metropolitan Area Convention
to be held Jan. %, will be taken up.
Q To conference which has before
it such major problems as this one,
the T. U. U. L. expects a full re-
Spouse from all T. U. U. L. groups,
revolutionary unions and shop COM
mittees, who are urged to send
delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
The FIve-Day Working
Week IN Soviet Union

ously) used to have their day off
on the one and the same day, it
has hitherto been exceptionally diff
flcult to cater on that one day for
the cultural needs Of the whole mass
OF the workers, to provide them with
reasonable recreation and really cul-
tural amusements, and to provide
seats in the theatres, cinemas, etc.
Indeed, it is enough to consider the
seating capacity of all the theatres
in any large town to realize that it
Is almost an impossible feat. Now,
it is the fact that it is precisely on
his day Of rest that the worker
stands most in need of having his
cultural requirements satisfied; and
if he frequently slides into drunken
ness, it is because he has no pos
sibility of nationally spending his
leisure hours to better advantage.
On the continuous week the num-
Der of workers enjoying their day
of rest will be the same through
out the whole week. This means
that the cultural requirements of
the workers can be catered for plan
fully and systematically on each day
of the week. With the existing cul-
tural institutions in hand it will be
possible to do incomparably much
more than hitherto to meet the
needs of the whole working class in
this respect and to provide all forms
of reasonable recreation, to arrange
lectures, and so on. AS a conse-
quence, the continuous week will en-
sure the creation of conditions max
ing for the speeding up of the cul-
tural revolution and enable the
country to raise the working masses
to a higher level Of culture at a
much greater speed than has been
possible up to now.
ITO be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
(Continued.)

The unbroken week will, without
doubt, make a big change in work.
ing class life and after the tradi-
tions guiding the manner in which
the workers live and have their
being. Instead of all the workers
stopping for their rest-day on the
one and the same day, the rest-day
will be the same for only one-fifth
of the workers in production. Fur
thermore, this change will deal a
serious blow at the prejudices bound
up with the old mode of working
class life and at all religious super
stitions. There is no disputing the
fact that since all plants will keep
on working on all Church holidays
as we'll as on Sundays, religion will
lose many of its adherents and the
process of freeing the working
masses from the influence of reli-
gious beliefs will be FASTENED. Now,
from the viewpoint of the working
class this will really represent a
big step forward and cannot be ap-
praised save in the positive sense.
AS things are at the present time,
on Church holidays and on the eve
of religious festivals, drunkenness
is a common feature in working
class life, and, as a result, we have
many of its attendant evils in the
shape of rowdyism, quarrelling and
the like. Under the continuous
week there will be less opportunities
for this sort of thing, and the work
of placing working class life on a
healthier footing will proceed apace
at rate hitherto impossible.
Again, under the old working
week when all the workers Except
those already working in industries
and services carrying on continu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Hide NY, Wash. Meets
from FL a It'll Masses

Continued from Page One)
as a means of thwarting mass revo-
lutionary action.
Undoubtedly the petition is in
spired by General Russell, his ma
rine cohorts, and President Louis
Borno, who is tool of U. S. i'm
perialism.
Declaring that the masses are in
a revolutionary mood and have not
been defeated in spite of "all-quiet-
on-the-front' dispatches, the sign
ers of the petition for marine SUI
pervision of the election in Haiti
say that Haiti is in estate of in
cipient revolt"
The masses remember that the
last, marine-supervised election put
Louis Borno in power against the
wishes of the Haitian masses who
vigorously fought against the ma
rines and Borno. In the Borno
election the marines refused to per-
NIT the peasants to vote against
Borno or American rule in Haiti.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Marine
supervision of election in Haiti, as
exposed by Major General Smedley
Butler, means that "Wall Streets
candidate always wins"
Butler during the course of a
speech in Pittsburgh last week told
the assembled manufacturers that
whenever marines control an cleo
ton, as they did in Nicaragua and
Haiti heretofore, there is no doubt
about which way the election will
go.
Butler is being severely criticized
by the state department as we'll as
the department of the navy for
officially letting the cat out of the
| bag.
While making preparations to run
the Haiti elections in April, 1880,
Butler carelessly revealed that Mon
cada was elected in Nicaragua by
marine bayonets and machine guns.
Henry Stimson, now secretary of
state, went to Nicaragua and prom
ised Moncada that the marines
would see he was elected.
Butler pointed out that the ma
rines kept Stimson's promise. The
same drama, in more brutal form,
is promised for Haiti by marine su-
pervision of the coming election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Metropolitan A r e a
TUUL Dance Dec. FL

The T.U.U.L. Metropolitan Area
will hold ball on December Il,
1929. This ball will be held on the
eve of the T.U.U.L. Metropolitan
Area Conference. We meet to cele-
brate the birth of New Trade
Union Centre.
We will gather together--all the
fighting militant unionists of New
Yor'-. New Jersey, Connecticut, etc.
A delegation of the striking miners
from Southern Illinois will greet
the workers at The ball. Also the
striking subway workers, the fight
ing shoe strikers, the militants of
the industrial unions Of food work
ers, needle trades and textile work
ers. The marine workers who met
the terrific offense Of the capitalist
in New Orleans will join with us.
Come Saturday evening December
81. 1929, to Stuyvesant Casino, 142
Second Ave. Tickets only rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Communist Activities

Party Membership In N. j.
VIII be held in Union City on Tues
day, Dec. II at .. m. at 347 West
ST. There Will be report OH the
Tenth Plenum.
Il
Unit OF, Section 3.
Meeting will be held Tuesday. Dec
tonight at s D. m at the section head
quarters. There will be discussion
on the recruiting drive.
Unit OF, SeatiOn i.
VIII have an Industrial meeting on
Tuesday Dec. II at $40 p. m. at the
headquarters.
Paterson Y.C.L. Forum
Will be held Thursday, Dec. IS at
Union Hall, 205 Paterson ST. Max
Harris will lecture.
Unit .. section 4.
Will have metelng tonight at s
p. IN. at 1916 w. 10th St. This will
be a special melting
Comrade Amtcr to Speak in Coop.
On Thursday. Dec. ~ at the auditor
ium. 2700 Bronx Park East at $50
y, m. on the recent Developments in
the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
MINERS ACTIVE
IN IL. D. MEET
Striker Delegates To
Be at National
Convention

1t will require more than the coal
and iron cops and state cops to
prevent the 125 delegates from the
mining towns of Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and West
Virginia from attending the Fourth
National Convention of the Inter
national Labor Defense in Pitts
burgh, December 20, 80 and 81.
One Of the most important dele
cations will be from the striking
miners of Southern Illinois whose
struggle is one of the most impor-
tant concerns of the LID. through
out tn Gland today. Representatives
Of the defense organization, accom-
panied by their lawyers are already
on the scene and are bailing out
arrested strikers, defending them
in the courts.
Word was received today at the
national office of the LID. that so
delegates from the miners in the
Pittsburgh district, five from the
Anthracite, 10 from Central Penn
sylyania, % from Eastern Ohio, in
Guiding Belmont County, Martins
Ferry, five from W,st Virginia,
five from Indiana and % from Hi
nois would arrive via flivver, foot
ard trolley as delegates to the con-
vention.
Patrick Toohey, secretary Of the
National Miners Union, declared
tbat the victory gained through the
III on behalf of Salvatore Ac-
and the fact that the defense
ation has representatives
the machine guns with the
in the Southern Illinois
strike an dthe splendid efforts of
the LID. in saving the Gastonia
strikers from the electric chair has
won the miners to the LID. 100
per cent strong.
A meeting of the national execu-
tive board of the LID. this coming
Thursday night will make final
preparations for the convention. So
far credentials for delegates have
come from all parts of the continent,
including Seattle, Los Angeles, to
Charlotte, N. c., and from the Car
ribean Red Aid.
A number of committees have al
ready been chosn. They include
the following: On report of the Ma
tional Executive Committee, ]. l..
Engdahl, Cyril Briggs and Robert
Dunn; on resolutions, Dunn, Clarina
Nicholson and Engdahl; on organ
ization and constitution, A. Jakira,
A. Wagenknecht and Edward Royce;
on convention arrangements, Max
Salzman, Pat Devone, Sender Gar
lin, Stanovich and Jenkins; on
nominations, Engdahl, Jakira, Wa
genknecht; on credentials, Briggs,
Jakira, Dunn, and on budget, Jakira,
Royce and Sam Nesson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Working Women
Mobilize Against War
Preparations

The New York District of the
Communist Party has issued call
for a working women's Anti-War
Conference for January 4th, 1880,
Saturday, 2 p. m. at Irving Plaza
Hall, Irving Place and 18th, St.,
New York. Ali working women's
organizations are called upon to
elect delegates in order to mobilize
determined movement against the
active imperialist war preparations.
The call points out that the COM
ing of marines, warships, and air.
planes to slaughter the Haitian
workers in revolt against Wall st.
oppression, the Stimson note in an
attempt to break up the negotia-
tons between Soviet Russia and
China are clear indications that
America is prepared to take the Of
fensive, in a new blood bath for
workers Of the world far worse
than the last world war.
The socialist party, the American
Federation of Labor and all the
bourgeois women's organizations
are hopping on the band wagon of
the Hoover-Stimson war machine.
Working women, organize your
forces in the fight against 'imper-
ialist war. Fight against U. S.
imperialism in Haiti and China. Or
ganize for the defense of the Soviet
Union. Elect delegates to the con-
ference! Come yourself! Speak to
your shopnates! Make this con-
ference gathering of all militant
working women of New York and
vicinity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Mass Protests
Save AccOrsi

CONTINUED from Page One)
high powered attorneys-but they
were defeated. Why? Because the
International Labor Defense had
modified mass protest of the work
ers against this; the I. L. d. pub
licity and agitation had put the
case in the eyes of the world to
see, and the police and their bosses
were afraid of the light.
She described the state cops who
testified as enormous sized men,
with brutal, sadistic faces, the kind
OF degenerates that would enjoy
beating a man to death"
"Accorsi was not cowed by the
frame-up," Hutchins said. "He was
militant, battling with the prose
cutor, challenging him to send him
to the electric chair, if he COULD"
How the sympathy of the work
ers was with Accorsi was evidenced
by the spontaneous cheering and
demonstration of the observers in
the courtroom when the verdict was
given. "The hand of Mellon is felt
in this city," she said, land the
prejudice against labor unions is
strong among the petty bourgeoisie
as well as the bosses. Fortunately
the defense attorneys were able to
challenge and dismiss those jurors
who displayed an open hatred
against unionism."
"The case is an absolute victory
for the !. l.. d." she said. GAS
the I. L. D. was able to snatch the
Gastonia strikers from the chair
so it was able to wholly free Sal
vatore Accorsi. All the workers
should be enrolled in an organiza-
ton capable of doing such good on
behalf of class-war victims"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Beal to Speak in
Woonsocket Despite
Police Interference

WooNSoCKET, R. l., Dec. 10
Police here closed the hall in which
Fred Beal, one of the Gastonia de-
PENDANTS, who is on an organization
tour for the National Textile Work
ers' Union, was scheduled to speak.
They would not permit the meet
ing to be held.
However, another meeting has
been arranged for Thursday when
fight will be put up to hold the
meeting against police interference.
There is Manville mill in this
town, and the police were acting in
behalf of the bosses who fear eff
fective organization work of the
National Textile Workers Union.