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WORKERS! DEMONSTRATE ARMISTICE NIGHT AGAINST WAR DANGER, IN DEFENSE OF U. S. S. R.:
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For„« Workers-Farmgrs Government
To Organize the Unorganized
Agaimt Imperialist War
For the 40-Hour Week
Vol. VI., No. 208
The Market Quotation on
Labor Fakers-A Record Low
“How pleasant it is to have money; hey, ho! How pleasant it is to
have money!”
So wrote some poet (whose name we do not recollect) on the in
ward satisfaction capitalists get in picking teeth after a nice dinner
and watching jobless workers scouting in the garbage cans for crusts
Ito quiet the pangs of hunger. So might have written anyone on the
| self-satisfied state of mind of the A. B’. of L. bureaucrats and their
' allies, the petty-bourgeois “socialists,” only a couple of w*eks ago.
Today, however, the crash in the stock market has set some of these
bankers and insurance company managers to wondering just what
struck them. From Chicago comes the sad, sad tale of the inglorious
end of the City State Bank, whose vice president and trust officer is
none other than Seymour Stedman, leading light in the socialist party
and its candidate for governor in 1916 and for vice president of the
U. S. in 1920. Mr. Stedman, who forgot—if he ever knew—what Marx
said as to capitalist economic laws, a capitalist lawyer himself, rattltd
in the vaults the $3,500,000 of the bank (which, it turns out, is a
venture in which this “socialsit” joined with his supposed political
enemy, the republican governor Len Small) and, ruling the frothy
■waves of prosperity propaganda, gaily hummed: “How pleasant it is
to have money!”
This is the same Seymour Stedman who, while 70(1 Detroit work
ers were imprisoned in the infamous Palmer raids, on January 12, 1920,
went before the capitalist courts in Michigan and offered to prove that
these men “advocated the use of direct or mass action as the primary
and principal means of securing a change or destroying the ‘capi
talist system’ and the present form of government of the United
States.” Also, that the socialist party, to which he asked that the capi
talist court give some property, then held by these “defendants . . .
known as Communists,” “commits its (socialist party) members to the
use of the ballot ... as the primary means and method of changing
or modifying our present political and industrial conditions ...”
But why change conditions when the Seymour Stedmans can play
with millions in company with the Len Smalls? No wonder the so
cialist party abjures even the word revolution and tosses the term
“class struggle” into the discard for the stock ticker and a gentlemanly
understanding with finance capital for a shai'c in the robbery of the
working class. Even if ballots could bring a change—and they cannot
—the Stedmans and the Thomases w’ould be against such change, and
only use that illusory phrase at present to attract the masses to vote
for them in order that they imr- establish their position as a third
party of the capitalist class.
As for the A. F. of L. bureaucrats with their salaries of SIO,OOO
and $12,000 a year providing them with pin money, while the velvet of
bribery by cash is often accompanied with “stock tips” from their
cronies among bankers (and many of them, too, are bankers), the Fed
erated Press correspondent in Washington informs the world that these
worthies in many instances have been bucking the Wall Street market
with union funds, and are now, if we guess aright, laying awake nights
figuring out how to charge it up to "expenses.” It is just downright
too bad, but we exhausted our stock of sympathy for such cases long
ago, warning the members of the A. F. of L. against allowing their of
ficials to go into the banking business, land gambles and insurance
ventures.
These gentlemen, wvhose chief role has been to attack the Com
munists for daring to organize the working class to overthrow capi
talism, these pot-bellied parasites fattening on a share of the bitter
exploitation of the unorganized, unskilled workers speeded to death in
the factories when jobs offered and starving in the slums when un
employed, have made it their particular business to be the most blatant
boosters of “prosperity,” to harass and expel every worker in their
unions who questioned the policy of class collaboration, and to act as
police informers against Communist workers who held that there is a
class struggle the end of which is the revolutionary overthrow of the
■ capitalist class by the working class. No capitalist has been more
vicious against the Soviet Union and all it means to labor than these
same scoundrels now sweating at the thought of the collapse of the
Wall Street speculation bubble on the stream of surplus value wrung
from labor, now suddenly receding before their eyes.
Let us rub in a little salt in their wounds. The Soviet proletariat
has just over-subscribed by $75,000,000 the $300,000,000 Third Indus
trial Loan (which the workers themselves demanded be issued to ad
vance the Five Year Plan of industrialization). A letter from a Moscow
worker, G. Kaplan, 26 Pavlovskaya Street, lies before us, telling us
how the success of the loan “shows the strength of Soviet Russia and
the increasing faith of the workers in their government.” And he
adds, “Do not forget that you can help us with your money to finance
our industrialization. Instead of buying various bonds and stocks of
the capitalists, thereby strengthening capitalism and exploitation, you
should buy our bonds, thereby assuring victory of the workers, the vic
victory of socialism. Do not forget that you do not lose anything be
cause our bonds carry a high rate of interest.” He also calls attention
to the fact that of the twenty or so loans issued by the Soviet gov
ernment, “many have been already paid.”
Without wasting a solitary sob lor the labor bureaucrats and “so
cialist” bankers caught in the stock collapse, we nevertheless must draw
the lesson for workers who are affected by the crash, the ensuing de
pression and oncoming capitalist attack on labor conditions. There is
ho escape from insecurity under capitalism, no peaceful solution for
the class struggle between the robbers and the robbed. There is only
the necessity for organization of the workers to resist worsening con
ditions and to overthrow capitalist. And only when capitalism is over
thrown and a Workers’ Government, a Soviet Government rules, can
the workers feel iecure in investing their every energy in building up !
industry, in constructing socialism.
BIG FIRM FAILS
1 111 STOCK CRASH
The New York stock market was
closed yesterday, election day, and
will be open only until one o’clock
today. The usual well trained cho
rus of captains of industry, and
finance, is screeching about the end
of the collapse, and the beginning
of a bull market, but the voices are
noticeably more uncertain than over
the week end. The expected rally
Monday turned out to be very short
lived, and Monday’s prices fell
worse than ever.
Many failures and near failures
are reported, among them being
that of the Bankers Capital Corpo
ration of 44 Wall Street, one of the
largest investment trusts, which pe
titioned for a receiver yesterday,
admitting $750,000 deficit.
The effects of the market have
U.ruined business men and labor union
treasurers who have been gambling
•with the union funds, and thrown
workers wholesale into unemploy
ment. Some of the victims commit
suicide and others resort to direct
action to recoup their losses. •
Monday, Oscar L. Triester, a rent
collector, after plying his trade at
i 0,400 Carpenter, the Bronx, met on
I the roof of the building a hold-up
■ man of c illegal coloring, who
KBok the .'1,300 Triester had just
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Try Communist Girls
Tomorrow; Distributed
Leaflets to Soldiers
Arrested for distributing “The
Rebel Guard” to soldiers at the
112th Post Artillery Armory at
68th St. and Columbus Circle, Rita
and Rose Shur, of the Young Com
munist League, face trial tomorrow
morning at 58th St. court, Manhat
tan. The charge is disorderly con
duct.
Machinery, Rationalization
Cause Unemployment in 111.
Lewis and Fishwick Want Only Check-off; New
Miners Union Fights for Six-Hour Day
By ANNA ROCHESTER.
Unemployment and breakdown of
wage standards in Illinois coal mines
are directly related to the develop
ment of non-union southern coal
fields. When the United Mine work
ers accepted defeat in the fight for
union in West Virginia and Ken
tucky, they betrayed the interests
of northern miners and prepared the ,
disaster which has overtaken the
miners in Illinois.
Blame cannot be shifted to any i
JOailu HH RWker
WALKER, CHIEF
CANDIDATE FOR
WALL ST„ WINS
Bourgeoisie Shows
Faith in Thomas;
Builds His Vote
No C. P. Returns Yet
Vote Shows Hangover
of Reformist Mirage
James J. Walker, Wall Street’s
! chief candidate for mayor, got the
I expected triumphs at the polls yes
j terday, but the substantial vote for
| the socialist Thomas provided one
i indication of the growing faith
! placed in Thomas by the bourgeoisie
which steadily built his vote for
weeks prior to the election.
As this edition of th Daily Worker
went to press, the voting stood with
Walker, at 757,146, La Guardia
315,945, Thomas 138,569.
The Communist vote is not yet re
turned.
Weinstone, the Communist Party
nominee, got 359 votes in the Co
operative Colony at 2700-2800 Bronx
Park East, and Otto Hall, Negro
candidate for comptroller, gained
365. Thomas got 83.
Fraud and Violence.
There were many cases, particu
larly on the East Side, of violence
and intimidation practiced upon the
oppositic i to Tammany Hall. Dis
trict Attorney John F. McGeehan
was in —Ived in a tussle in Bronx,
in which an Italian foreign born
voter got his skull cracked. Work
er’s were preveted from voting at
211 E» 20th St., Public School 160,
at Rivington and Suffolk Sts., and
at Public School 174. A watcher
named Squilante was beaten up
outside of Public School 32, Bronx.
In many machines, metal slugs
i were inserted to prevent the re
! cording of opposition votes. The
i number of Communist votes so lost
J will be a matter of investigation in
the New York district iff the party,
it was said yesterday.
Throughout the day rival snatch
ers o fthe working class vote squab
bled bitterly, especially in the Bronx
and lower East Side. At least four
were kidnapped, many were beaten,
and several arrests were made.
The vote for Thomas proved again
justified the main fire of the Com
munist Party, which was directed
largely against the socialist nominee
as the coming executive of the hour- j
geoisie especially in the period of!
sharpening class struggles.
ADVANCE TUIIL IN
BUILDING TRADES
Organization of a powerful sec
tion of the Trade Union Unity
League in the building trades will
be advanced at a mass meeting of
building trades workers called by
the Building and Construction Sec- i
tion of the Trade Union Unity
League next Saturday at Irving
j Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving PI.
Plans will be discussed following
a report on the Cleveland conven
tion and the building trades con
ference held there by Jack John
stone, League national organizer.
Charles Frank, Negro member of
the Labor Jury which brought in
a verdict of not guilty for the seven
Gastonia slrike leaders sentenced to
20 years’ jail, will speak for the
defense of the seven.
“Conditions of the building and
construction workers are ...ing from
bad to worse,” the League declared
in its call to the meeting.
“Introduction of new machinery
and speed-up is throwing hundreds |
and thousands of building trades
workers permanently out of employ- |
ment.”
failing demand for coal. It is true
that less coal is being mined in the
United States today than during the
war boom. Far fewer mines are in
operation now than in 1920 or in
1923. Tho final collapse of the boom
ni 1923-24 immediately drove out of
the industry two-thirds of the 130,-
000 extra workers that had been
drawn in to coal mining during the
war-time and pose-war expansion.
I'hcse men vtcre dropped in every
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Entered a* second -r In n* winner at ibe l*o»t Office nt New York, N. under the net oI March 3, 1879.
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1929
Georgia Mill
Workers Rally
to New Union
Boss “Pimp” Sent to
Hound Organizers
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. s.—The
bosses of Georgia are growing fran
tic, at the speedy development of the
National Textile Workers’ Union in
that state, according to reports by
organizers of the National Textile
Workers’ Union now there. Espe
cially ai’e the owners of the Bibb
Manufacturing Company, which has
a large mill in Macon, furious at
the way the workers of Bibb Mill
No. 2 are taking to the fighting in
dustrial union of the textile work
ers.
Last Sunday there was a leaflet
distribution in Macon by organizers
of the N. T. W. U. and members
from nearby mill towns, among the
workers in the mill village of the
Bibb No. 2. Six hours after the dis
tribution the bosses instructed one
of their office stool pigeons (called
“pimps” by the workers here) to
drive 26 miles thru a driving rain
to Forsythe to try to find either the
organizers themselves or infoi’ma
tion about them. The stool pigeon
could get no information from the
Forsythe workers.
Workers Distribute Leaflets.
N. T. W. U. leaflets and Daily
Workers were distributed in Macon,’
Forsythe and Thomaston, Georgia. '
In all these places the workers were j
anxious to have meetings with the j
N. T. W. U. organizers and wanted!
more copies of the Daily Workers.
Especially in Thomaston, where the
sell-out experts of the U. T. W. had
operated a while, were the workers
glad to hear from a fighting indus
trial union with a policy of strug
gle against the bosses. The work
ers themselves are distributing leaf
lets and literature and have elected
in each locality their own organ
izers who are taking care of the
many applicants to the N. T. W. U.
Mass meetings will be held in a
number of mill towns in Georgia, the
N. T. W. U. Georgia headquarters
announces. Election of delegates
from the mills %f Georgia to the
Georgia conference is going on. This
Georgia conference, to be held later
ip the month, is to carry out the
organization plans an dthe “Call to
Action” adopted by the Charlotte
Conference, held October 12th and
13th in Charlotte, N. C.
ANTI FASCISM
MEETING NOV, 16
Alliance Fights Return
of Victims to Duce
The workers of New York will
gather at an International Protest
meeting against fascism, Sunday,
Nov. 10, at 2:30 at Webster Hail,
119 East 11th St. The meeting is
called by the Anti-Fascist Federa
tion, and will be addressed by Secre
tary Markoff of the Federation, by
Gino di Bartolo, and by J. Louis
Engdahl, national secretary of the
International Labor Defense.
A statement, issued thvough Di
Bartolo, secretary of the alliance, de
clares:
“The plot against the life of the
heir of the Savoy House, Prince
Hunbert, has an important meaning.
It shows clearly how all forces
strictly related to fascism are
doomed to be crushed under the pow
erful blows of the revolution and
how none of them will be saved in
the day of red reckoning.
“We do not believe in the efficacy
of individual acts of terror as meth
ods of struggle to overthrow the
capitalistic system. But we certain
[ly will not condemn the young and
courageous Fernando De Rosa, nor
will we aid the capitalist law in tak
ing vengeance against him as the
social-democrats have recently done
in Nice.
We, who know the sorrows and
suffering of those who have escaped
the fascist stiletto, we, who know
with how many difficulties and
sacrifices the anti-fascisti revolu
tionists have met in the various
capitalist countries of Europe and
America, can understand and also
appreciate the causes which moved
Fernando De Rosa to attempt the
life of one of those who are respon
sible for the terror, misery and
slavery of the working people in
Italy. We therefore deem it our
duty to defend him and to prevent
B’ernando De Rosa being delivered
to the ‘Special Tribunal,” we feel it
our duty to fight with all our forces
to prevent the horrible crime that
Belgian capitalism will surely want
to commit against De Rosa as a
tribute of solidarty wth Italian F’as
cismo.
The fascists of Rome and the re
actionary governments of B’rance,
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'Conference of
Silk Workers
Plans a Fight
Allentown Workers to
Strike with Paterson
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 6.
The National C nference of Silk
Workers, called by the National
Textile Workers Union, was held
Sunday in Allentown amidst great
enthusiasm and determination for
struggle. Thirty-two delegates
were present from the dye works,
throwing pi nts, and ” , mills of
Scranton, / llent wn, Paterson, and
New York. Many delegates elected
from the r,.Jh of other cities were
unable to attend because of the
storm that prevailed all day. Mem
bers of the Musteite Associated Silk
Workers and of the U. T. W. as
well as unorganized workers were
present, and over one third of the
delegates were young workers.
. Martin Russak, reporting for the
National Silk Cc mittee on the Silk
Campaign of the N. T. W. U.,
showed the great progress that had
been made in establishing the
Union in the unorganized centers of
Pennsylvania, the intense speed-up
and wage-cutting drives of the silk
| (Continued on Page Three)
S MASS RALLIES
ARMISTICE NIGHT
Demonstrate Against
War Danger
On the night of Armistice Day,
Monday, November 11th, at 8 p. m.,
the Communist Party is organizing
nine mass demonstrations against
the danger of a new imperialist war
and in defense of the Soviet Union
at the following places:
Manhattan: 10th St. and 2nd Ave.,
137th St. and 7th Ave., Columbus
Circle, Whitehall and South Ferry,
110th St. and sth Ave.; Brooklyn:
Stone and Pitkins, Grand Street Ex
tension; Bronx: Intervale and Wil
kins, 149th St. between 3rd and
Bergen.
The imperialists are organizing
demonstrations in preparation for
war and for the development of
jingo spirit. In the schools and
throughout the city against those
demonstrations of the bourgeoisie
and their servants, the working class
in tens of thousands must gather in
counter-demonstration against war
preparations and in defense of the
Socialist Fatherland of the workers
of the World, the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics.
In a statement issued last night
by W. W. Weinstone, District 2 or
ganizer of the Communist Party, he
said, “The Communist Party must
utilize the anniversary of the sign
ing of the Armistice which was the
beginning of a period of concen
trated effort of the imperalists to
strengthen their strangle hold on the
weaker countries which they are ex
ploiting. Now on the occasion of
the 11th anniversary of the signing
of the Armistice, the working class
has a powerful leader, the Soviet
Union, to lead it in a struggle
(Continued from Page One)
against the shameful conditions im
posed by imperialism on the masses
of workers and peasants. The ene
mies of the working class through
out the world are attacking the So
viet Union. Armistice Day must
therefore also mark a tremendous
(Continued on Page Two)
Scab ILGWU Cries for
‘lmpartial Machinery’;
Says It Will “Strike”
“Creation of impartial machinery,
similar to that established in the
cloak industry,” is politely requested
of dress manufacturers by the scab
International Ladies Garment Work
ers Union which has been loudly an
nouncing its plans for a “strike” of
childrens dressmakers Dec. 31.
The harmless nature of the plans
was reiterated yesterday when I. L.
G. W. U. rulers officially blessed
local unions’ preparations.
Meanwhile, members of the mili
tant Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, which systematically
agitates for the one hundred per
cent strike to enforce union condi
tions instead of “impartial ma
chinery” to break them, are expos
ing the call of the rgiht wing organ
izatiop and they call on workers to
fight for militant industrial union
ism instead.
Workers’ Relief Asks
Campaign Volunteers
Volunteer addressers for Workers
International Relief Campaign work
are asked to report daily f at 949
Broadway, room 512. , ;
SUBSCRIPTION RATKSi In New York, by Mali. *S.OO per rear.
Outride New York, by mall. 56.00 per year.
MURDER FRAMEUP
ON
NEEDLE PICKET
155 Fined for Defending
I Selves Against Thugs;
One Held on Bonds
Jail Another Worker
Gaston Demonstrators
in London Fined
PHILADELPHIA, Pa..’Nov. 4.
Seventy-five Needle Trades Indus
trial Union members and strikers
at the Raab Dress factory were ar
rested charged with “assault nad
battery and obstructing the high
way,” as a result of their militant
self defense against imported thugs,
and Irving Keither and Dave Sand
ler were not only brutally beaten
and cut in the fight, but were later
arrested in the union office and
charged with participation in an al
leged shooting that took place yes
terday mornnig.
Over a hundred mass pickets were
ir front of the Raab shop yesterday.
Men and women pickets were carry
ing banners. The police wabons and I
the gangsters approached at the
same time. The gangsters were em- j
ployed by the right wing union, and
the bosses. After the fight was
well under way, the police arrested
all the pickets they could.
Court Ejects I. L. I).
In court Magistrate Fitzgerald re- j
fused to listen to attorneys provided j
by the International Labor Defense, j
fnied 55 of the pickets $8.50 each, j
and held one on $2,500 bonds. The
judge rodered Jennie Cooper, local
secretary of the I. L. D. to be thrown
out of the court room.
The gunmen were led by Gadillia
Reuben, a notorious New York gang
ster. In court the gangsters openly
boasted that they had police pro
tection, and would break the Raab
strike. Their lawyer denounced the
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FLIERS EAGER TO
HOP ATLANTIC
The four U. S. S. R. fliers an
nounced yesterday that they have
cabled to the headquarters of
O-oaviakhim in Moscow for permis
sion to return across the Atlantic,
thus making a complete round-the
world flight. If their projected
plans are carried through, the
fliers will fly to Newfoundland,
span the Atlantic to England and
cross into the U. S. S. R. from
F ranee.
Although the present range of the
plane is about miles, altera
tions could readily J)e made which
would give the Soviet-built ship a
cruising area of 2,000 miles, Semyon
Shestakov, chief pilot, said in an
interview yesterday. On behalf of
his comrades, Bolotov, Sterlingov
and B"ufaev, Shestakov declared that
the fliers will be ready to take off j
as soon as the working class cele-1
brations being arranged for them
here and in surrounding cities are
over, and the required alterations
have been completed.
The cable sent to Osoaviakhim, the
Soviet aviation society whose 3,500,-
000 mmebers sponsored the Moscow
to New York flight, reads as fol
lows: “The crew has rested and j
asks your permission to fly over the j
Atlantic.”
|
Keller, Speaking at
‘Weavers’ Show Says
Meed Organization Now
Eli Keller, secretary of the Na
tional Textile’ Workers Union spoke
yesterday to about 900 workers
gathered in Manhattan Lyceum, at
the special showing of the film ver-'
Hendryx, Gastonia Defendant,
Tells How 7 Were Railroaded
“If I Have to Serve, All I Want to Know Is
That Organization Work Goes On”
“They arrested me at home at
four o’clock in the morning after
Aderholt’s raid. A gang of mill
bosses just jabbed down the door
with their rifles and came in while
I was getting out of bed to open
it,” said K. Y. Hendryx, first to be
bailed oupt of the Gastonia defend
ants.
Hendryx was giving an interview
to the Daily Worker, after telling
12,000 New York workers at Madi
son Square Garden to support the
southern organization campaign of
Red Hendrix Does a
Little “Crowin” in
Front of Loray Mill
Here’s a fine thing about Redj
Hendrix.
As soon as he was released hej
went right down to the Loray
mill grounds and spoke to work
ers flocked around him.
Then he went to where that
woman witness said he crowed
like a rooster and he crowed like
a rooster.
“I didn’t crow like a rooster
before,” he said, “but by god, I
crowed like one now.”
“The bosses said I’d never set
foot alive on the Loray grounds
again, he said, “but I did.”
When policeman Gilbert saw
Red and saw the workers he
walked away in the opposite di
rection. The mill workers have
said they’ll protect Hendr ix from
the mill owners’ killers.
ILLINOIS MINERS
SHOUT HEADf
Watt’s Race Prejudice
Repudiated by Local
I HARRISBURG, 111., Nov. 5.
j “We’re ready, only waiting word,”
jis the response of the Harrisburgh
sub-district to National Miners’
Union Organizer Dan Slinger’s re
port on decisions of the Belleville
convention and the plans for strug
gle adopted there.
The introduction of the coal-cut
ting and loading machines through
out this section has brought extreme
poverty and unemployment in its
wake. The miners are militant and
r*ady for a scrap. In Wasson and
Harco, the only company towns
around here, the miners are living
in squalor like the worst sections
of the unorganized fields of Penn
sylvania and Kentucky, but like
them, are knitting firmly together
their own organization, the N. M.
U., and are eager for a struggle
to change the conditions.
Women, wives, sisters, mothers;
and daughters of miners, are also
organizing into the women’s auxil
iary of the National Miners Union,
in preparation to assist in the ter
rific struggle all see near at hand.
The whole district is humming like
a beehive with activity.
* * *
Watt Repudiated.
STAUNTON, 111., Nov. s.—Liv
ingston local of the National Miners
Union barred the renegade national
president, John Watt, from speak
ing at its meeting, and when Watt,
called a mass meeting there, only
a few of his henchmen from his
lone local at Staunton came, and his :
meeting fell through. Livingston i
local, in formally refusing the floor [
to Watt, characterized him as the
enemy of the miners because of his
attempts to split their union, and
his curious theory that the union j
should not regard the bosses as a 1
principal enemy.
So completely has Watt degener
ated that he adds to his anti-Red
drive among the miners, a white
chauvinist appeal. When Vice-Pres
ident Boyce of thi National Miners
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BERLIN, Nov. s.—lt is now clear
that the fascist plebiscite registra
tion of voters, started by Hugenberg
against the Young Plan, is a failure.
The needed ten per cent of signa
tures has not been reached.
sion of Hauptman’s Weavers. Kel
ler stressed the need of organization
and pointed out that the struggle
|of textile workers near the begin
ning of last century, faced with
! the introduction of labor displacing
machinery, which is the theme of
The Weavers, is also a problem in
: the form of the improved machinery,
| and stretch-out of the workers now.
The picture was shown under the
auspices of the New York branch
of the Workers International Re
lief, for the benefit of Gastonia case
defense.
the National Textile Workers Union
and to raise funds for bail and con
tinued defense of the six Gastonia
defendants still lying in jail in
Charlotte.
Hendry: is a clean cut fellow,
speaking with a soft Southern ac
cent, worn and haggard from his
hard life in jail, and the years of
exploitation in Carolina cotton mills
that preceded that.
He told of those mills. He worked
at Sehoolfield. Va., Canapolis, N. C' j
Continued on haeo Throe)
FINAL CITY
EDITION
Price 3 Cents
TEXTILE WORKERS
CHEER BEAL AS
! HE LEAVES CELL
!
Bailed Gastonia Victim
Hails Leaksville Mill
Strike in Speech
Whitewashing- Slayers
Killers of Ella May Are
Identifed; Boss Men
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ Nov 5.
Two hundred workers from a dozen
different mills, including a delega
tion from the Leaksville strikers,
waited two hours this morning to
greet Fred Beal on his release on
| $5,000 bail. Beal was southern or
ganizer of the National Textile
| Workers’ Union when arrested in
j the Gastonia case, and was made a
! principal objective of the railroad
ing schemes of the mill bosses and
their state.
The workers cheered when Beal
appeared. He spoke from the court
house steps and was interrupted
constantly by applause and cheers.
When he said, addressing himself to
the Leaksville delegation, “They
will try to do the same to you as
they did to your fellow workers in
Gastonia,” a half dozen voices
shouted, “They better not!”
“Said You’d Never Speak.”
A mill worker stood up and said,
“The Loray mill crowd told us we
would never hear you speak again,
but we hear you now.”
Once more the crowd cheered.
Beal’s appearance was dramatic.
| Men and women rushed to hug him.
| Then they embraced one another.
As he spoke from the courthouse
steps in his New England drawl,
quite evidently under great emo
tional strain, his slow speech
seemed to fit in perfectly with the
soft southern voices murmuring ap
proval after every sentence.
Here To Stay.
Beal said: “The National Textile
Workers’ Union is in the South to
stay. It makes no difference if
they jail me for 20 years and jail
six others of our fellow worker ;
who fought for obr union and whose
only crime was to fight for and de
fend our union against the Man
ville-Jenckes thugs. They can jail
organizers and members of our
union but they cannot jail our
union. Our union is growing in the
South, it is leading the fight against
the stretch-out, for the right to
workers’ self defense, and the
whole straggle of the southern
workers, especially in the textile in
! dustry against all attempts to con
tinue the present system of indus
! trial slavery. Our fight is the fight
of the whole working class. I am
at the disposal of the National Tex
j tile Workers’ Union. I shall go
I wherever they send me. Our first
task while continuing our drive for
militant industrial unionism in the
textile industry is to build, together
with the International Labor De
fense, through whose efforts and the
protest of the workers they have
| mobilized I am free, a powerful
movement to liberate our fellow
[workers and to smash the scheme of
| legal and extra-legal terror against
our union an dthe whole working
j class in the South, the terror that is
I typified in the persons of Solicitor
Carpenter and Major Buhvinkle.”
Many Interviews.
As far South as Atlanta and
Georgia, newspapers and newspaper
associations have called Beal on
long distance "'>r interviews. Beal
will go directly to New York, where
he will be greeted by a workers’
demonstration and will appear be
fore thousands of workers at a
meeting B’riday, Nov. 15. He will
tour the country for the Interna
tional Labor Defense for a short
time, speaking to rally workers in
protest against the terror, an,d to
gain the freedom of his six fel
low workers in the Gastonia case.
B'ake Hearings.
Today’s progress of the “investi
gation” into the murder of Ella
May, K. T. W. U. organizer killed
while in a truck with other work
ers of Bessemer who had tried to
attend a union meeting in South
Gastonia, serves only to confirm
previous estimates that it is a white
wash proceeding. Not by any offi
cial procedure but by the logic of
events beyond control of the county
j authorities the outstanding fact is
disclosed that all the members ot
the black hundred band, including
I those for whom warrants are issued,
1 are superintendents, foremen, over
| seers, clerical workers, and hangers
lon of the Manville-Jenckes Loray
mill.
j No cruder farce under the cam
; ouflage of law-enforcement was
ever staged. Solicitor Carpenter ol
Gastonia, himself one of the gang
leaders, appears as "prosecutor,”
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