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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

Carolinas with it's textile mills. To.
day it extends up into Virginia
where the battle ragged about the
efforts of Stephen Graham to or
ganize the Negro and white workers
under the banners of the Trade
Union Unity League, resulting in
the famous trial at Norfolk, "for
melting Negroes to rebellion" Into
Tennessee, into Georgia, into Ala
bama, into New Orleans, Louisiana,
where raids upon the headquarters
of the T.U.U.L. and the Information
al Labor Defense have only served
to strengthen these organizations
and their activities in the ranks of
the working class.
Instead of driving the class strug-
gle organizations of labor out of the
South, the. Communist Party, the
Young Communist League, the
Union, the LID, are today in the
South more firmly than ever. There
is only this difference. One year
ago the struggle was centered about
Gastonia, in North Carolina. Today
the struggle goes forward in prac-
tically every southern state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

the workers that has been going on
for many months on such a large
scale, the lengthening of hours OF
work, and wage cutting has forced
the Southern workers into the front
lines of struggle. The Southern
workers, from the position of being
"dociIe Americans" have now grown
into real militant fighters. Far from
being source of reaction" the
Southern workers are militant
force and an inspiration to the whole
American labor movement.
The fake drive of the A. F. of l..
is the latest weapon used by the
bosses in order to counterfeit the ris-
ing militancy of the workers and the
growing success of the revolutionary
trade union movement. This drive
of the A. F. of L. represents real
danger against which we must
guard. The A. F. of L. can be sue
cessful only to the extent that the
T.U.U.L. and the N.T.W.U. will fall
down in it's tasks of organizing the
workers. For a short time following
the trial and conviction of the Gas
tonia defendants there was slack
ening in our activities. The fact
that the Communist Party was not
being built at pace to keep with
the growing mass movement faced
us with shortage of leadership
and forces in the South. But in
the last couple Of months these
shortcomings are being overcome
and we can already note consider
able progress.
Winning Negro Masses
The biggest progress we can note
in the last months is growing
masses Of Negro workers coming
into our movement. The militancy Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
GASTONIA POINTS WAY
TO NEGRO, WHITE UNITY
Fight Boss Terror in South to Organize All
Workers

ruary 26, and Joined the unemployed
march to City Hall, in Chattanooga,
Tenn, on March 6, while all of the
organizers were in Jail; Negro and
white workers held a mass meeting
in a Negro hall.
Attend in Large Numbers.
At all of the meetings called by
the TUUL and Party the Negro
workers have attended in large
numbers, responded enthusiastically
to the program and in most cases
linked themselves up with the or
ganization. In Chattanooga, Tenn,
two Negro workers and two white
workers were arrested with the or
ganizers, one of the Negro workers
being sent to the chain gang along
with the Negro organizer. He came
off the chain gang with a fiercer
determination than ever to fight the
bosses. The other Negro worker was
released by the judge in the morn
ing and appeared at a mass meet
ing in the afternoon and spoke for
the TUUL.
Fight Boss Terror.
The capitalist terror against the
workers and their organizations that
was so brutally carried on in Gas
tonia, has not been absent in other
parts Of the South. In Atlanta three
organizers were jailed and are fac
ing heavy sentences for attempting
to organize the Negro and white
workers together, meetings have
been smashed and efforts made to
drive organizers out of town. In
Winston-Salem reign Of terror has
been unleashed and organizers jailed
on trumped up charges. In Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, organizers have been
arrested for holding street meetings
and railroaded to the chain gang.
Charges of lunacy being placed
against one because she had the
courage to defy the police terror and
dare to organize the starving Negro
and white slaves.
The terror continues and so does
the work of organizing the unor-
ganized. For every organizer Jaile'
a hundred workers are being draw
into the revolutionary struggle. Tru-
| " has Gastonia pointed the way.
The workers Of the South are pre-
pared for struggle. Especially are
the Negro workers ready and eager
! for the struggle. For theirs is 9
double oppression. They suffer botf
as Negroes and as workers, a sys.
TEN of segregation. jim-crowism
and lynching being practiced against
them.
They know that this can end only
with the ending of the capitalist sys
tenn. Therefore, they are prepared
to fight to this end.
4 Gastonia points the way!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

teen organized in New Orleans and
Charleston.
The Marine Workers League has
made Roadway in number of South
ern ports. The Metal Workers Lea
que, in preparation for their national
convention, are extending their or
ganization. The same is true of the
miners who are now leading a strike
in Kentucky.
The growth of the revolutionary
trade movement, the building of the
Communist Party as the leader of
the Southern workers, the develop
ment Of number of Southern active
workers, especially amongst the Ne
gro workers, is guaranty that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

sand workers,
the movement
has spread until
now it involves
most of t h e
Southern states,
The crisis that
is developing in
the U n i t e d
States had its
effects, e s p e.
cially in the
S o u t h. The
speeding up, the
ctratch ont of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
APRIL l, 1929--APRIL |, 1890
Growing Masses of Negro Workers Join
Movement
Workers Join
Movement

the Negro masses and their response
to the program of the revolutionary
movement clearly shows the gain
we are making. Although we can
not say that the race problem in the
South amongst the working masses
has broken down, nevertheless, for
the first time do we see a growing
mass movement in the South where
the color line has been broken down
to a great extent.
The conviction of the Gastonia de-
PENDANTS, the murder of Ella May
and of the six Marion strikers, the
kidnapping and fascist methods Of
the ruling class, has done its share
to raise the class consciousness
amongst the Southern working
masses. The Anglo Saxons who are
additionally, even if only formally,
obeyers of the claw" are now being
inspired by the achievements of the
the Five-Ye Plan of building So
cialism in the Soviet Union and join
ing the Communist Party that fights
for the establishment of Workers
and Farmers government.
Insufficient Agricultural Work
The large number of agricultural
workers and tenant farmers repre-
sent a real problem to our move
ment. So far we have failed to make
any real Roadway in this important
field of activity. The agricultural
crisis, with accompanying starvation
of these masses, offers US with a
real problem. Although we have
many contacts and considerable in
fIuence amongst these classes we
have not yet seriously undertaken
the task of winning them for our
program.
The Trade Union Unity League
has made considerable progress and
now we are faced with the tasks of
consolidating, extending our influ-
ence in the South. On May IL the
Trade Union Unity League has
called a Southern conference in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, to accomplish these
tasks.
N.T.W.U. Progress
The National Iextlie Workers
Union has also extended it's work. A
number of new local unions have
been organized in recent months and
we were forced to organize new dis
tricts SOFAS to consolidate our work.
We now have districts in Danville,
Va; Winston Salem; Charlotte, N.
G.; Greenville, S. c.; Atlanta, Ca;
Chattanooga, Tenn, and Birming-
ham, Ala. A number Of locals have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
MILL BOSSES
IN SOU 7 H
HAVEFAILED.
Class Struggle Labor
on Job and Growing
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL

The textile mill owners, their gov
eminent, their poison press, their
churches, their Chambers of Com
merce, their Ku Klux Klan, their
lynch mob known as "The Commit
tee of 100," declared that the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union would
be driven out of the South,
1t is one year after "Gastonia. :"
One year has passed since the tex
tile slaves at the Manville-Jenckes
plant rebelled.
Greater Progress to Come
The National Textile Workers
Union is still in the South. 1t is in
North Carolina. The mill barons
have failed to carry out their threat.
The dawn of the second year gives
big promise of greater setbacks for
the enemies of the workers below
the Mason and Dixon Line; greater
victories for the working class.
There is no chapter in all Ameri-
can labor history that blazons so
many brilliant pages of glorious
deeds, heroic sacrifices, seeming de-
feats turned into hard earned vic
tories, as this chapter that tells of
one year after the beginning of the
strike at Gastonia, April 1, 1929.
Here is clearly shown the progress
that comes to the banners of class
struggle labor when it knows how
and dares to battle.
The strike from the beginning
faced the stone wall of capitalist
class resistance in every form. The
state militia turned bayonets upon
the strike pickets. Race and relig-
ious prejudices were famed against
the strike organizers from the North,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
By CLARENCE MILLER.

"Organize the South" has became
a reality. From strike in a mill in
Gastonia, employing over two thou
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

movement will grow and will be able
to cope with the growing militancy
Of the workers.
On this first anniversary of the
first Southern textile strike, led by
the National Textile Workers Union
we can proudly say that we have
broken through the Mason-Dixon
Line and laid firm foundation for
the revolutionary movement. But,
above all, we must estimate the
weaknesses of the movement and
take all steps necessary to remove
the obstacles in our way.
Our slogan now must be: More
work for winning the Southern
workers for the revolutionary move
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

attacked as "the agents of Moscow"
threatened with lynching because
they spoke from the same platform
with Negro worker. The mill own
crs' mob destroyed the union head
quarters, in the night, while the state
militia, the Gastonia police force
under the notorious Aderholt and
the sheriff's army of heavily armed
deputies stood knowingly by and
approved of the destruction wrought
by the terrorists drawn from the
American Legion, the Klan and the
mill bosses and superintendent.
The strikers built again and then
put guns into their own hands to
protect the new headquarters they
had built.
Mighty millions of the proletariat
of the world have raised their voices
twice within recent years in support
Of American labor's struggles. They
modified in the effort to save the
lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. When
the battle took place at the Gastonia
tent colony, on the night of June Z,
1929, ending with the chief of police,
Aderholt, dead, the shots fired were
actually heard around the world.
This second time the electric
chair was cheated of its prey.
American imperialism, with its Hoo
yer government at Washington, did
not dare go through with the legal
lynching of the sixteen Gastonia
prisoners, for whom death was
planned in the electric chair. One
bolt upon this year, however, is the
guilty verdict that paved the way
for III prison years inflicted upon
the seven strikers and organizers,
Beal, Miller, Mclaughlin, Harrison,
Hendricks, Carter and McGinnis
finally brought to trial. That bolt
must be wiped out.
Rises After Every Struggle.
Even while the trial was on the
court calendar the mill owners mobs
ragged through the countryside, kid
mapping, flogging, threatening death
to all union enthusiastically
carrying out their threat in the
murder of Ella May. While the trial
itself was in progress at Charlotte,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04

READ. THE FULL STORY
Pages of color describe it in this weeks
Saturday Evening Post and Collier's-a
glowing story of radio triumph that will
absorb you. Floyd Gibbons tells of Gen
eral Electric's part in the development Of
Radio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04

wednesday night. and Kelley. police
charge, hailed him:
Want a glass Of beer"
The stranger tsrried while Kelley
produced a stein Of flaming brew,
officers say.
That will be a quarter" Kelley
demanded.
The stranger showed a police
badge.
After police c~onfiscated ia quarts
of alleged beer they arrested Kelley
on blind tiger charges. Kirkham,
who was not at home, later vas held
on similar charges.
I'm not the owner of the place."
Kelley walled. II just wanted TO
help Kirkham out while he was
away"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04
TEE TIMEs

Pennsylvania streets. The driver Of
the car fled. Kiefer. was unhurt.
: Mrs. Mary Williams. IS, Of 1920
Brookside avenue, was injured by an
auto Wednesday night at Massachu-
sets and Commerce avnues. Carl
Tevis, %, of 27 South Holmes ave
nue., driver, was not held.
Other injured we're: Mrs. William
Avery. 81, of 2241 Central avenue,
cuts and bruises; Mrs. Lottie Collins,
"a, of 1888 South Belmont avenue,
head cuts; Carl Davidson, 8, of 1906
West Minnesota street, cuts and
bruises; Clifton Phelps, 8, Negro,
1908 East Morris street, bruises, and
Gale Cobb, 26, Negro, SAT Douglass
street. cuts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04
SIX HURT BY AUTOS
Police Seek Hit-and- Run
Driver After Crash.

Six persons were injured in auto
accidents in Indianapolis Wednes-
day night and early today.
Police are seeking a hit-and-run
driver who fled after crashing into
a vegetable wagon.
Major Kiefer, 81. of Al Mclean
place, was thrown from his wagon,
struck by an auto at Tenth and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04
FARMER GOES INSANE;
KILLS TWO, ENDS LIFE

Drought Drives Tennessee Man
Mad; Wounds His Nephew.
BIZ United Iress
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 4.
When his corn crops shriveled, his
wells dried up, his cattle became
weak and still no rain appeared to
break the drought. Wesley Steven
son went insane Wednesday. killed
two of his neighbors, wounded a
third and then committed suicide.
Stevenson. 81, prominent farmer,
ran down the road, shouting de-
mentedly about the lack of water.
A. I. Norman and George Petty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04

neighbors. strolled out to see who
vas making all the noise. Steven
son killed them both.
His nephew, r. S. Stevenson, re-
monstrated. The demented farmer
wounded him critically and then
shot himself to death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04

L. S Ayres & Co.
Baldwin Piano Company
William H. Block Company
Broad Ripple Supply Shop
Crouch Electric Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04
LANDS IN JAIL
BY KINDLY ACT
Sfls Friends Beer to
Wrong Stranasr. say Cops.

Whab Thomas kelley ss North
Lynn strset maln us Ns merely
a kindly act landed n n city
prison today
A strange e te ncIe OF
John Kirkha 52 tetchan e-reet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04
PACE

diana university school Of dentistry
here. is announced BY the schools
trustees He will Join the faculty
Of Georgetown university. Since
1892 he has been a member Of In
diana's faculty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04
RESIGNS AT INDIANA U.

DR.. L. S. Davis. Chemistry Professor,
win Join Georgetown Faculty.
Resignation OF Dr. Louis Sher=
man Davis. chemistry professor. In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04

Feeney Furniture Co.
Fisher Brothers
Francis F. Hamilton Co.
Indianapolis Music Shoppe,
Inc. :
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-04

Metalized wall paper. a thin
sheet of aluminium backed with
paper, has come into use recently.
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Jackson Radio Sales
penn-ridge radio and cleo
trical corp.
SanbOrn Electric Company
B. +. SIMMONS Radio Sales
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10
RADIO SERMON BLAMED
FOR BREAKING UP HOME
Enraged Husband Strikes Mother
in-law, Throws Goldfish Bowl
Down and Flees House.

LOS ANGELES (N.ANA.).-"while
my elderly, religious mother was lis
tening to a preacher broadcasting over
the radio, my husband became enraged,
struck my mother tore out the radio,
and threw 1t out of the window, and
then smashed the goldfish bowl on the
floor. stranding my pet goldfish.
When / screamed he ran out into
the street in his underwear. carrying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10
Modern Laundry
System ExceIs
Home Methods
Manhattan Expert Explains
Net Bag System
ACTUALLY SAVES MONEY
BY SAVING CLOTHES
Makes Them Look Better
And Wear Longer

Present-day laundry methods, which
preserve clothes as well as clean them,
are far superior to the old home method
of rubbing and scrubbing, according to
Mr.. e. f. Wesley, chief of the Research
Department of Manhattan Laundry.
Mr.. Wesley attributes large part of
the Manhattan Laundry's success to
their Net Bag System of washing.
Manhattan Laundry, long n pioneer
in developing better laundering meth
DDS, adopted the Net Bag for washing
clothes six years ago. Clothes, they
agreed, could be washed just as clean
in net bags and would wear longer if
rubbing and scrubbing were eliminated.
Today, Manhattan still features the
Net Bag System, and the activities of
the Laundry's Research Department
are constantly directed toward the per-
lection Of cleaner and safer methods Of
washing clothes. Manhattan Laundry
justly deserves the slogan: "We Save
You Money by Saving Your Clothes"
Manhattan famous Net Bag System
washing, as described by Mr.. Wesley,
follows: First, the clothes are assorted
according to their color and material
into individual net bags which bear
the customers name and contain only
that customers articles. Safe in the
nets and protected from all metal or
other hard surfaces, the clothes go into
the washers. Here they are subject to
the gentle cleansing action of swirling
hot suds which penetrates every single
thread of each garment and loosens
every particle Of dirt. Only the purest
of Palm Oil soaps and soft, filtered
water are used in washing, after first
having been inspected and tested by the
Research Department. Many rinsings
of fresh, clear water follow, removing
every speck of dirt from the clothes and
leaving the fabrics refreshed and clean.
They are then dried, starched where
necessary and ironed by the most
modern methods.
That clothes wear longer and look
better when washed in Net Bags has
been proven by test after test. For in
stance, two shirts, exactly the same,
are washed fifty times each, one in
net bag, the other by hand. At the end
of the test the net-bag washed shirt
showed absolutely no signs of wear,
while the hand-washed shirt had be-
come sad combination of rough edges,
torn seams and broken buttons. Other
ests on all sorts of wearing apparel are
being carried on regularly and in every
case show the Net Bag System to be
far superior in preserving the original
sheen of the cloth. At Manhattan the
Nets Get the Wear and the Clothes
Get the Wash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10
A SERVICE TO FIT EVERY
PURSE
They Save You Money By
Saving Your Clothes

Manhattan offers the housewife a
wide selection of economical services
from Complete Finished Family to in
dividual piece work. There is a service
to fit every need and purse, and they all
save you money by saving your clothes.
Damp Wash is the most inexpensive
service Of all. 1t costs only cents
pound. and as small as an S0-cent bum
die can be sent. Clothes are returned
damp, ready for the line. THRIFT
is another inexpensive service. Flat
pieces are all ironed, but the wearing
apparelNs returned damp. Only 8 cents
a pound NTH minimum bundle of 81.
In the Rough Dry all the fat pieces
are ironed, Wearing apparel comes back
ready to be ikoned at home. Minimum
bundle, - cent? only 10 cents pound.
Everything machine .roned, fiat work
ready for use. MEMS shirts, 10 cents
each additional. Few other articles may
need retouching. Minimum, $1.25, only
L. cents a pound.
An Ironed Ready TO Use. This covers
all classes of Family Finished Laundry
Service. These ReadyAto- Wear services
are reasonably priced according to the
degrees of niceties required. Our tele-
phone operators will be glad to give
any information regarding them.
There are many other Manhattan
services to serve the housewives every
need. Shirts and Collars, Table and Bed
Linens, Blankets, Rugs, Curtains and
Dry Cleaning and Dyeing. They are all
economical. They Save You Money By
Saving Your Clothes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10

the four-cornered symposium. admits
that no college has even suggested
adding extra letters to his name. He
studied law under justice of the peace
and began practice before timer"
he adds. At the University Of Michigan
he took one year Of law and dropped
out for lack of funds. But he passed
his bar examination at 20, and launched
into legal career that has brought him
worldwide prominence.
Quin O'Brien, another Chicago lawyer,
representative of Catholicism at the
forum, was graduated from Des Moines
College and Chicago Kent Law School,
where he later was an instructor.
Rabbi Abram Simon, speaker for
Judaism, was graduated from Cincin-
natl University and Hebrew Union Col
lege. The latter institution later granted
him the degree of doctor of Hebrew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10

literature. In 1917 George washington
University honored him with the doctor
Of philosophy degree.
DR.. Jason Noble Pierce, youngest OF
the forum group and spokesman for
Professionalism, was granted o bachelor
OF arts degree by Amherst College In
1902 and doctor Of divinity degree by
the same institution IN 1922-two years
after coming to washington as minister
of First Congregational Church. He
previously had been granted bachelor
of divinity degree (19069 by the Yale
Divinity School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10
Broadcast for Free State.

A high-power broadcasting transmit
ter which viii serve the entire country
is to be- erected by the Irish Free State.
1t is expected that the new station viii
be in operation by next Fall. The new
transmitter, which will embody the lat
est reflnementS of broadcasting tech
nique, will have an aerial energy Of so
kilowatts, making 1t one of the most
powerful in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10
THREE-DAY COLLECTION
DELIVERY
Manhattan Renders This Add.
tional Service With No
Extra Charge

Quite another Manhattan feature
which has found great favor with
Washington housewives is their 3-Day
Collection and Delivery Service. In this
highly developed system your clothes
are collected one day, Numbered to your
order the next and delivered to you
promptly the afternoon of the third
day. For instance, if your clothes are
collected Monday morning they are dc,
livered Wednesday afternoon called
for Tuesday, back home Thursday. and
so on. No delay. No worry. You know
when you'll get your clothes when Man
haitian has them. And there is no addi-
ional charge for this extra service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10
FORUM SPEAKERS
VARlOUSLY HONORED
barrow Alone Without College De-
gree Among Four to Be Heard
November Is.

While three of the four speakers who
win take part in q religious forum at
washington Auditorium. November 10,
hold total of nine college degrees, the
fourth participant merely boasts of
having been around Bit"
Clarence Darrow, agnostic speaker at