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The Washington times., 1930-10-10
CHAMBER LISTS
129 MEMBERS
IN DRIVE
EWaIdSen Team Leads as Gas
Light Company Head Lauds
5.Year Forward Movement

With the team captained by
A. Ewaldsen, Of the washington
Gas Light COMPANY. still leading
in the number Of members OBJ
tanned, the intensive membership
campaign Of the washington
Chamber Of Commerce today
entered the third day, with l29
new members on the rolls.
The first day Of the campaign.
Wednesday, netted Is applica-
tions for membership, while yes
terday's total was 81. OF these,
part were obtained by the mem
bership teams under the .direc-
ton of Thomas p. Littlepage,
while others were the result OF
efforts of the plural membership
committee, headed by Martin A.
LeeSe.
Reports at Luncheon
Reports for today's campaign
were to be made at luncheon
meeting at the Washington Hotel
at 1915 D. m. President Charles
w, Darr opened the meeting.
over which Rudolph Jose, chair
man of the five-year expansion
program committee, presided un-
| til time for the team reports
when the gavel was turned over
to Edward Goring Bliss, lieu
tenant colonel in active charge Of
the membership drive.
Ewaldsen's "All Gas Company
team took highest honors both
DAYS. They are followed in order
by the teams. captained reSpec
lively by Harry T. Peters. Mrs
Ada M. Payne, Fenton M. Fadley
and Martin j. Mcnamara.
Typical Of the flood OF indorse'
ments Of the five-year expansion
program pouring into the office
of the chamber is one received
today from George A. @. Wood,
president of the gas company
Wood said:
WASHINGTON has wonderful
opportunities ahead of it. The
next few years will reward
those cities and individuals
who make q conscious effort to
move forward.
| Must Meet Competition
"The Washington forward
movement, as sponsored by the
Washington Chamber Of Com
merce, is q fine thing. Citi.
zens Of the District should band
together to support their city.
Many things will arise within
the next few years that the
people of Washington will want
to take advantage Of.
''The Washington forward
movement Is an attempt to
plan ahead for these things and
to promote the best interests
of the Nations Capital. Cities
as well as commercial Organiza-
tiOnS have competition and
should take the necessary steps
to meet it. I heartily approve
Of the Washington forward
movement"
Another talk in explanation o.
the expansion program, Of which
the membership drive is an initia
step, will be given tonight at 8;4!
by Thomas P. Littlepage ovel
radio Station WMAL. Littlepag'
will speak again Saturday ovel
WRC at 6:39 p. m.
Charles w. Darr, president o.
the chamber, will speak at 6:4I
p. m. Saturday over Station
WMAL, telling of the coming in
dustrial exposition and calling at
tention to the expansion program
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
News of the Skyways
staff Photo

Watson returned to Hampton
Roads with the p. M. Com
mander Mitche r arrived from
Valley Stream with a Corsair.
.Lieutenants Rodd and Pal
mer, each carrying passenger
and flying Voughts, landed from
Dayton, Ohio.
Daily more business houses
are joining the movement Of ad-
vancement in aviation. the
latest local concern to enlist un-
der this banner is LanSburgh &
Brother, who have started to
organize the American Air
Cadets for the District Of Co
lumbia. the principles and
aims Of this organization far
outshadows any personal ambi-
tion on the part of its sporl-
sors-being based on a sincere
desire to provide the youth Of
America with the wherewith to
learn shout and take part in the
most epoch-making event in
Misrepresentation. this is a
very laudable enterprise and
Lansburgh & Brother are to be
commended on their progressive
spirit and receive the utmost
cooperation from everyone in
terested. in this movement. ..
full particulars can be obtained
from S. Melnicove, who will be
in charge of this work, at Lans-
burgh 81 Brothers store.
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
TALKS ON "MONEY"

Money" will be the subject Of
an address by Theodore T. Col.
den at a meeting of the Wash
ington Practical Psychology Club
next Monday night at the Play.
house, 1914 N st. N. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
"Our" Investments in Cuba

Latin America said Dr. Max Winer Sat
speaking the Institute Relations IN session
jacksonville total of $572235OOO
day. columns of the u S. the garbled
meaning this mpest investment sign
m Latin told cables from Cuba where
Yankee imperialism has $1,505,O00,000 invested.
The Cuban poeara imperial robbery with the
aid ckey existence of starvation
misery its bosom the sacred fire OF
proletarian work and parazed industry
Nav Day but to give
struggle the
fascist lackey including the bourgeois Nation
ast" fake Opposition" to Machado.
thousands proetarat the streets and
additionally known "Lenns Tree And not
deed the murderous police with the illegal
slogan Union and in the spirit of the
speakers declared
revolutionary of the Cuban working class overthrow their
exploiters and oppressors the Russian workers did
police troopMachado the butcher taxes the workers
maintain the speakers and the
policeman and two workers
dead arrested and Cuba that
death.
More the cables certain labor aders"hose who
are the creatures the Federation
of Butcher" Machado to this
supported him against the Communists
against the revolutionary
unions which on March had 100000 general strike.
When Wnkler, the mpeaist speaks of
America he speaksnot for you
who daily
Investments but have class
is YOUR fight spilled Havana May Day
the blood held Cuban prisons
heroic fight against enemythe Amer
capitalist class!
be heard protest. Come to the de-
fenseo of class comrades of Cuba
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
LEADERS OF J0BLESS HELD IN PRISON; BAIL DENIED
uamd the Release Powers Gastoma Deteudom This Week
GastOnia and Atlanta

Today n of begins the
charge of ncg Instruction for which the has
he will the death penalty the Criminal act the
publication distribution a such have been distributed
million throughout United States 1880 And during
the week. the decision of the North Carolina Supreme Court
the the defendants the Gasonia
These Gastonia Atlanta combine within themselves
all the elements of the of the rising working class of the
South for relief from the starvation conditions
which they they combine ALSO all the methods of of
the southern ruling They the class They
battles between the working class the United States and the ruling
capitalist class
whether shall be allowed
defend themselves attacked by the hired of the mill
The said
defend himself and should do then he and all his
associates shall be for 20 The conviction is before
the Supreme Court appeal.
The working class allow that conviction to stand must
be overthrow The Gasona must be released Their
the condemnation of all southern workers slavery
call meeting 1t attempting apply the of uda and fa
states Japan Italy, Balkans China of the Kuo
wishes crush all beginnings the awakening and
ganization of the working class.
bosses attacks will fail
They working class win the right
organize strike The working fight the battles of Gas
until they These battles will be
finished until they by the workers
fight already The fight has been for
than year Hundreds already
battle
mobilize hundred, of thousands and millions
struggle. Every worker the moment he under
himself and his
day fighter for the comrades of Gasona and Atlanta
Organized by the working this the
defeat the fascsts of the South.
Organization the the trade unions this is the
for the further against semfeuda capitalism
Forward to the organization of the South!
the Gastona prisoners
and Carr!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06

mittee. The other leaders of the
jobless, VIM. z. Foster, Robert
Minor, Israel Amter and Harry Ray
mond, are serving three year prison
terms in the same prison.
Lesion was supposed to have been
released on April 80, since every
prisoner is allowed five days out
OF the thirty for good behavior"
But in view of the fact that he
would have thus been able to take
part in the May First demonstration,
he was held over until May 5.
On May /, however, Lesion to-
gether with eleven other prisoners,
including two Negro workers, called
a strike and refused to work. AS
result, they were stuck in the
"bing" and kept without food dur
ing the day. Many of the prisoners
are in Jail because of "vagrancy,"
having been unable to find work.
Now he will continue the work of
Organizing the unemployed and pre-
pairing for the July 4th unemploy-
ment convention in Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
u N | 7 Y COUNCIL
MEETS THURSDAY
To Build Organization
Center for New Unions

All unions, industrial leagues,
shop committees and Trade Union
Unity League groups in reformist
unions are urgently requested to
have their delegates attend the first
organization meeting of the Local
Trade Union Unity Council The
meeting will be held on Thursday,
May 8, at 7:45 p. M, at Astoria
Hall, 62 +. Fourth st.
This meeting of the Council is
of the greatest importance to the
campaign to build real center of
class struggle unionism in Greater
New York, which will coordinate
the activities and struggles of the
7. U. u. l.. unions and leagues and
establish an apparatus which will
meet the growing possibilities for
building the T. U. U, l.. into mass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
ROME WORKERS PROTECT SPEAKERS
May Day Meeting Held in Defiance of Police, Thues

issuing warrants for H. Jackson,
Trade Union Unity League district
organizer, and for Mary Dalton,
National Textile Workers Union or
ganizer, but though of making a
preliminary canvass Of the workers
homes first to feel out sentiment
about that. The answers they got
to their questions were so hot that
no warrants were issued.
Bets were offered by the thugs
that no meeting would take place,
and many threats were made gainst
speakers and organizers or demon
strators, bu5 the meeting was held
anyway.
II. Jackson spoke on the signifi-
canoe of May Bay, the role of the
A. f. of L. in the South and the
need of the Southern workers for
organization. Az...4....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
Win SOUTH, SAYS
UNITY LEAGUE
Answer Boss Terror
With Organization

The Trade Union Unity League
national office has issued the fol-
lowing statement, calling for in
creased struggle in the South by
workers, against exploitation and
for the release of their arrested
leaders.
ga little over a year ago, the
Trade Union Unity League entered
the South, with a program for or
ganizing its greatly exploited work
ers for struggle against the stretch
out, low wages, and the most miser-
able living conditions of the South
ern workers, both Negro and white.
Bosses Answer Is Terror.
Ever since the southern workers
have begun to organize under the
militant leadership of the T.U.UL.
the bosses, with their hired thugs,
police, courts and government, have
used every kind of legal and lynch
law violence in an attempt to stop
them and to drive out and murder
the leaders. They have raided the
union halls, the strike relief stores,
and beaten and bayoneted workers
on the picket line, sent organizers
and union members to long chain
gang sentences, and tried to rail
road them to the electric chair; and
shot them down in cold blood.
"The first great struggle of the
southern workers conferred around
the textile region of Gastonia. Here
the workers under the leadership of
the National Textile Workers Union,
affiliated to the T.U.U.L., went on
strike against starvation wages and
miserable conditions, and besides
carried on a campaign for the or
ganization Of Negro and white work
ers together for struggle.
"For this, the bosses evicted the
families of the workers from their
company owned shacks, raided their
temporary tents and quarters, and
fired upon the workers. During the
struggle for he defense of them
selves and their families and the
right to organize, the Chief of Pol
ice of Gastonia was killed, and sew
eral other police agents of the bos-
ses were wounded. For this fight
to defend themselves, seven leaders
Continued on Page Three.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06

ROME, Ga. (By MaiD Tive hun
dred workers and unemployed gath
cred around the speakers stand
here in the first May Day demon
stration ever held in this city. They
were prepared to defend themselves
and their speakers and did rescue
one of them from the police.
Thousands of leaflets were dis
tributed among the mill, stove foun-
dry and railroad workers, giving the
demands of the unemployed and
calling for fight on capitalism
and for the defense of the Soviet
Union.
Thugs with shotguns threatened
to shoot down the workers distrib-
uting the leaflets, but did not dare
to do so.
Block Arrests.
The police and sheriff discussed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
WHALEN'S MASTERS FEED
Him AT AST0R TONIGHT

Grover Whalen, watch dog of big
business in New York will be given
his dinner tonight and sent to bed.
All of his immediate bosses will be
at Hotel Aston, $500 business men
will be there tonight, to verbally pat
him on the head for clubbing down
and threatening to shoot workers.
With grand swell feed, they will
celebrate the hero of the blackjacks
and the breadlines, and while the
starving jobless go on starving, they
will swell rich viands, and Whalen
will get drunk on the oratory
The dinner was originally intended
to celebrate Whalen's retirement
from the office of Police Commits
sioner, Now, they say, he will try
to stay on for a while.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06

nectlOnS exist between the So
Wet trade organizations in
America and the Communist
movement.
The "Izvestia" notes that
the serious American press
treats the forgeries with great
scepticism, and assumes that
Sir Henry Deterding, Royal
Dutch Shell oil imperialist of
Great Britain, has a hand in
the game to damage Soviet
American trade, thus killing
two birds with one stone: the
hated Soviet Union and the
dreaded American competitor
AS everywhere, says 'Izves-
tia," so in America, the anti
Soviet provocations damage
chiefly the interests of the
country where they occur.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
CANDHI Jailed
BY CT. BRITAIN
His Pacifism Only for
Oppressed Indians
BULLETIN,

Proving the statement given
only i'll the Daily Worker. that
the labor" government of British
imperialism was secretly sending
troops to India, the press Monday
night featured the fact that armed
forces sent by Great Britain were
being sent into action as strikes
swept every great city of India
following the arrest of Gandhi.
The strikers are not following
Gandhi's foolery of pacifism, how
ever. That is why there are
troops.
Ghandi has been arrested by thu
British, according to Indian dis
patches, which incidentally show
that the arrest was carried out be
c;use there was a decline in the re-
volutionary disturbances" - hu S
again proving that pacifism on the
part of the masses is always seized
upon by imperialism to sharpen re-
preston.
Last weekend was in the nature
of a test" say dispatches. "The
disturbances were inconsequential,
and in the lull that followed action
was taken" Police from Bombay al
last gave Ghandi the ride he was
hoping for, by arriving by train at
Surat station, gathering him in at
his bungalow before his "staff"
knew it and taking him to the Poona
Jail.
Ghandi's arrest may give a tenn
porary help to his pacifist move
ment and therefore to British i'm
perialism, but tAe principal leader
ship of the Indian masses is in the
hands of the proletariat.
The life history of Gandhi has
been one long story of support to
British Imperialism, in spite of his
pretended Opposition" When he
was in South Africa during the Boer
war he aided the British Loyalty,
selling war bonds, agitating for en-.
listment and organizing an Indian
Red Cross service which he led and
was cited for heroism by the British.
Likewise in the World Imperialist
War he kept India "loyal" to i'm
perialist Britain so actively that the
British government gave him a
medal. His present pacifist prop
uganda is fully as worthy of medal
from British imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
Fight to Save Speakers.

Mary Dalton spoke in defiance of
threats to get" her if she did so.
Company thugs began to throw
eggs and brickbats at her, with the
benevolent neutrality of the police
standing all around. Trey were not
able to stop the speaker.
The police delegated the company
thugs to arrest Jackson. He was
seized and crowded into a police car
for "a ride" but the workers de-
tense corps swarmed around, pre-
vented the kidnapping and forced
the police to admit that they had
no grounds for his arrest.
The meeting then continued to a
successful conclusion, the workers
forming a voluntary guard around
the organizers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
NEEDLE TRADE FRACTION
MEET TONIGHT.

An important Needle Trad e S
Fraction meeting will be held to-
night, May 6 at p. m. in Manhat-
tan Lyceum. Comrades whose units
meet tonight must arrange to at
tend their units and conclude its
business at 8.45 so that they can
be present at the fraction meeting
on time,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
LEsTEN out, But
after May DAY
Will Continue Work of
Organizing Jobless

Joseph Lesion who was convicted
b, the capitalist court as member
of the New York Unemployed Dele
CATION of March 6, was released
from the Work House or Correction
Hospital today.
Lesion, who is young worker,
was given one month by the Tam
many court, on the alleged ground
that he was only a "tool" Of the
others. He reaffirmed his full agree
ment with everything that was said
and done by the rest Of the COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-06
BOSSES DEMAND
DEATH Sentence
In GEORGIA TRIAL
Carolina Court to Give
Gastonia Case Deci-
sion Soon
Call M a S S Protest
Only Militant Toilers
Can Save Them
Call M a S S Protest

tice, operating through Geor-
gia and North Carolina courts
has the fate, the freedom, the
very lives of nine militant or
ganizers of the working class
in it's hands today. 1t will try
and kill two of them, and send
seven more to the penitentiary
for sentences up to 20 years.
| NJ. H. Powers, Communist
district organizer, and Joe
Carr, Young Com m un s t
League organizer, go on trial
today in an undoubtedly biased
court at Atlanta, Georgia, accused
of 'finciting to Instruction." and
circulating insurrectionary papers"
because they issued leaflets giving
the Communist Party program of
uniting Negro and white workers in
a common fight against oppression
Fand exploitation, and stating the
I demands of the unemployed for
work or wages.
At Unemployment Meeting.
Powers and Carr were arrested
for holding an unemployment meet
/ ing at Atlanta, March 8. Police at
tackled the meeting with tear gas,
seized the two speakers, released
them, then when they returned to
the meeting, arrested them again.
They were first held on $1,000 bail
for throwing the tear gas into their
own meeting, then when this charge
began to look too ridiculous, they
were held for disorderly conduct.
While they were still on bail, this
charge was changed to "inciting in
surrection." They travelled over
four states to be present to an
swer it, but were held without bail.
Their trial was scheduled for April
81, but was postponed by the prose-
cution to May because it wanted
to try and pry loose from the de-
Tense the transcript of evidence of
the first hearing, which the prose-
cutor had neglected to obtain at the
time.
To defend Powers and Carr and
arouse national support for their re-
lease, funds ere needed Immediately.
Send to the International Labor De-
Tense, Room 430, so East Eleventh
St., New York City.
To Rule on Gastonia.
The protest of the militant work.
ers throughout the world saved the
Gastonia strike leaders from the
electric chair. They must now mob
ilize to prevent them from spending
the next twenty years in prison.
The North Carolina Supreme
Court will give its decision on the
appeal for new trial any day now.
If the decision is against the de-
tense it will mean that the seven
IlIllIdllG btAIlle IGu
Beal, Clarence Miller, Louis
Mclaughlin, George Carter, X. Y.
Hendricks, William McGinnis and
Joseph Harrison, will be cut off
from the labor movement for two
decades, unless the workers by mass
pressure save them, 1t will mean
that the employers will feel con-
fident that they can stem all mill
tant labove activity by placing the
leaders in Jail, in that way terror
izing the hundreds of thousands of
Negro and white workers who can
be organized in militant unions.
The Gastonia strike, which start.
ed on April /, 1929, was real sur
prise for the mill barons, as was the
way the workers defended them
selves against the murder crew of
the bosses, an indication of the fu-
Continued on Page Three
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organization OF Lne unemployed
workers here, to jail for as
long a time as possible their
elected leaders and representa-
tives.
Appeal proceedings were started
as soon as the committee of the
March demonstrators against hun
ger were convicted, April II. When
they reach a certain stage, prob
ably during the course of this
month, another demand for bail can
be made.
Special Treatment.
In every ordinary case, the su-
preme court grants a writ of prob
able error in the course of things,
and the defendant is released on
bail. But this is not an ordinary
case. This is the case of 10000
unemployed and striking workers
who refused to be submissive, who
insisted on making demands. Eos
ter, Minor, Lesten, Raymond and
Amter speak in the name of mil
lions of hungry, jobless men and
women. And the capitalist courts,
the Tammany judges of New York
know it. They hope by unexampled
severity to suppress this movement.
The unemployment movement is go
ing on, with a national convention
July 4 in Chicago.
List of Outrages.
When the committee sought to
present the demands for work or
wages and unemployment relief,
seven hour day and five day week,
to the city government, they were
arrested and charged with unlaw-
full assembly, and with assaulting a
policeman. They were denied bail
by the chief magistrate. Only a
higher court order, backed by the
masses of aroused workers got them
admitted to high bail, $4,000 each
They were tried without a jury, be-
fore three judges. No evidence of
police brutality was admitted. The
defense was not allowed to show
pictures of the events on Union
Square. They were railroaded. They
were then confined ten days before
sentence. At the time of sentenc-
ing each made ringing speeches,
condemning the fake trial, exposing
capitalist justice, and defending the
right of the unemployed to march
to the city hall and present de-
mands. Each spoke of the then
coming May Day demonstration.
Minor said, at the time, "You are
sentencing us not only for March
6, but for the greater demonstration
May First"
Gavegan's Threat.
Judge Gavegan, when argument
was presented for bail, admitted in
a brazen statement from the bench
that he would take May First dem
onstrations into consideration in
rendering his decision. This was
interpreted at the time that there
would be no bail, to keep the ar
rested leaders in Jail until after
May 1.
Another Trial May II.
The felony case, "assaulting a po-
liceman" often postponed, is now
set for May IA. In this case jury
trial must be allowed, and the courts
are not in so much of a hurry to
try it.
Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond were sentenced up to three
years each-they could be released
after six months, but it is safe to
say that if the courts have their
way they will serve the limit. Jo-
seph Lesten, another member of the
committee, was given 80 days, and
was released yesterday.