INTO THE STREETS! COLLECT FUNDS FOR GASTONIA DEFENSE OVER LABOR DAY WEEK-END

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<3> ' —K* SPEAKERS READY AT CLEVELAND Beal,Miller Denounce Fail to ARAB TOWNS AND Lovestone Burglary Socialists Halt QUESTIONING OF JURORS TO REPORT TODAY. ON BURNING From Charlotte Jail Collections for Gastonia \ TRIBES JOIN WAR Characterizing tho raid of the Lovestone gang ( ..e National BETRAYS ANXIETYTO KILL Office of the Communist Party j ISSUES BEFORE WORKING CLASS jf the U. S. A. as “similar to the Defense in the Factories OF INDEPENDENCE :apitalist police,” Fred Erwin Seal and Clarence Miller, two of my shop, AND “I made collections in the drive increased LEADERS SMASH UNION Gastonia Reported the strike leaders who the textile for the Labor Jewish Workers Case to Be and Convention against opposition of socialists,” Day week end. Invite bosses now trying to send to are writes A. S. Barabasoff, of Cleve- Indiana Miners Express Solidarity. Off Will Pledge United Defense of Strikers the electric chair in Charlotte, To Assist Throw 1 land, 0., collecting funds in the 10- The miners of Bicknell, Ind., One New Juror Obtained by Night; Workers have sent the following dcnunci- day campaign of the Gastonia Joint write that their state “has held its British Yoke i afion of the right opposition: AllRefuse to Convict, Bosses Refuse to Acquit Well Known Militants Take Up Problems of Defense and Relief Campaign Com- district convention of coal miners “Just heard of the latest out- mittee. “But the socialists know of the National Miners Union and Camps Wage Cuts and Rationalization Drive of Bosses rage of Lovestone opposition,” Soldiers Shell j very little and nobody pays any at- has gone on record to send its greet- _ Charlotte Attorneys Declare Defendants Ought the workers state, “in raiding tention to them,” this worker ings to all Gastonia prisoners.” | The national office of the Trade Union Educational League, Party center in manner similar writes. These miners have been especially Ibn Sand’s Agent Says; To Be Strung Up Whether Guilty or Not to capitalist police. The attack ¦which is calling the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention, Thus in hundreds of factories active in raising funds and protest * of this right opposition, together War Over Land announces that when the huge meeting is called to order today throughout the land, workers are for the Gastonia strikers. BULLETIN. with Cannon-Trotsky group, Mr. holding shop collections to help the Youth Conference for Gastonia CHARLOTTE. N. C., Aug. 30.—Shortly before court adjourned speakers well known to the militant labor movement for lead- Lore and liberals, against the BEIRUT, Syria, Aug. 30.—Sources Gastonia strikers, against opposi- Defense. of news independent of the official for the day the seventh juror was passed. He is A. F. Parker, a 26- ership in strenuous struggles will address them on a series of working class line of our defense not bosses, and of tion only of the but of The provisional committee of the British propaganda declare year-old grocer member a religious sect called "True Light." Gastonia case agency a • the most important problems confronting the workers at this in is strike break- the social-reformists as well. Youth Conference for Gastonia De- a ing helping us. that the movement for Arabian in- « and to electrocute Relief, time. With pledges of support by the fense and created under the dependence is spreading. At Kiryath Bv LISTON OAK “There can be no doubt now young by The fight against wage cuts,; workers of the country, auspices of the International Labor Anavian, the Arabian peasantry CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 30.—That the big guns of the that this same opposition will try the miners and textile workers of Defense and Workers International speed up and for trade union! i to block the progress of the T. brought their children to the Jewish prosecution in the Charlotte trial of the sixteen National Tex- DELEGATES FILL the anthracite district about Wilkes Relief, is drawing into the cam- farm workers as proof that they had unity will be the topic of the| I U. U. C. at Cleveland. Barre, Pa., and increase dactivities paign all youth’s organizations, tile Workers Union members and organizers on murder charges “There is but one manner in : no hostility against the workers, National Secretary of the T. U. E. j in the mine fields of, Bicknell, Ind., (Continued on Page Five) will be directed particularly against Fred Erwin Beal, the which to deal with traitors and and here, as in Tulkerim, and Jenin, L., William Z. Foster. The situa- the Arabian peasantry tribes- ; union’s southern organizer and leader of the Gastonia strike, tion CLEVELAND burglars. The whole Party and and i working youth ' HALL of the will be men invited the Jewish agricultural ! increasingly clear this morning. discussed by Wm. Sroka. Win. F. class conscious workers must i became stand up unitedly against the workers to a united attack on British The reasons of the stream of Dunne is listed as the reporter on imperialism and the landlords who organization unorganized, Lovestone opposition and for the REPORT CHINA VOICE SUPPORT the of the FOR prey upon both Arabs and Jews. poisonous propaganda against CONFERENCE ; Party, building and on strike strategy. Wm. Simons, for the of the the leaders of the Loray ! Red International of Trade Un- In Tulkerim, Jenin, and at Nablus, j PUBLISHER AIDS strike, recently returned from the congress which was especially venemous which in Uruguay organ- ions in this country and for our the Arabian peasantry have declared ! met and From Basic Industries, RULER& YIELD FOR COMMUNISTS against Beal, were seen as one mid- ized the Latin American defense to save our lives from their independence of England. It Confedera- { is said invited dle class venireman after another tion of Labor, will on the Militant and Eager the hands of the executioner. they have the Turkish j report i OF FIGHT ON admitted under the fire of : A. F. L. cross struggle of the colonial peoples “This latest outrage must be government to intervene and protect 1 Said to Agree to Joint Ratification Meets to taking questioning by the defense attor- against American imperialism. Otto j By BARBARA RAND. | the dying gasp of the Lovestone them. Jewish workers are [ part independence neys that he had been convinced by Hall, southern Negro organizer of CLEVELAND, Ohio, August opposition. Control of Railroad Hear Party Nominees in the movement j 30. what he read in the Charlotte Ob- the National Textile Workers Union j—Hundreds of automobiles and “(Signed) Clarence Miller, i in all these centers, and in other ! JERSEY CAR MEN Palestine. server and the News that “Beal is speaks on trade unionism and the busses loaded with delegates the |_ “Fred Erwin Beal.” BULLETIN , William W. Weinstone, Commun- parts of The Dhur tribes I to joined independence responsible because he started all Negro worker. Trade Union Unity Convention have Latest reports of the United ist candidate for mayor; J. L. Fng- have the move- i I ment. the trouble.” “Some of the other arrived at Slovenian Auditorium, Press are to the effect that the j dahl, candidate for president of the ‘No Strike,’ Cries Block The first day’s session will in- Borough union leaders are probably guilty,” evitably situated in thg center of the Cleve- | Soviet Government will re-appoint of Manhattan; Fred Bie- Jews, Arabs Unite. center around the Gastonia i j denkapp, in ‘Eagle’ say these defenders of the Manville- | land metal plants LOVESTONE the former manager of the Chin- candidate for president of Jewish, Arabian and Christian case, and the organization drive of for the prelimin- GANG I the Borough of Brooklyn; H. M. Jenckes Co., and “especially those ary session today. There are Ne- ese Eastern Railway, who was de- population in Syria, where Zionism the National Textile Workers Union Wicks, candidate for of NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 30—Praise from the North.” in the South. report on wage gro lurrfcerj&jks from Seattle, tex- ported from Manchuria when the president has no foothold, are uniting in fur- The the board of aldermen; and Otto for the sensible the of- ! cuts ar.d against rationalization and tile workers from the South, coal railroad was seized, and will in- (Continued on Page Two) advice’’ of No additional jurymen could fee- IN | Hall, Negro candidate for eomptrol- ficialdom of the As- the report on organizing the unor- miners from the anthracite, and bi- struct other employees to return Amalgamated selected this morning because of ler, will speak at county ganized will deal largely with the tuminous regions as far south as NEWJOBBERY to work. j the rati- sociation of Street and Electric Rail- this violent and undisguised preju- ; * * • fication conferences called by the conditions of Southern textile work- West Virginia, iron miners from Section 1 Headquarters way Employees, which is using every dice. Minnesota, stockyards Communist Party, New York dis- ers, who were met with the most workers from A United Press dispatch from j means to get the 8,000 New Jersey Nearly all the veniremen examined Chicago, from Kan- jtrict, to endorse the Communist pro- BANQUETTO HAIL brutal police and mill thugs’ repres- , railroad men Is Looted at this session were merchants, Moscow states that word has been gram and candidates in the munic- street car workers to accept wage sales- sion when they organized, and struck j jsas City, automobile workers from received there that the Chang men, real estate men, etc. There Not content with the laurels gath- j ipal elections. , cuts by “arbitration,” is expressed for living wages and conditions, j Detroit among the early comers. Hseuh-liang government of Man- were very few workers, and almost j of National j The conferences will be held Sun- Strikers had to organize armed re- [ There is tremendous enthusiasm ered in the buvglary the churia has yielded on the question RED CANDIDATES by Paul Block, wealthy newspaper i all of them were frank in stating Office, Jay Lovestone’s gang of ren- j day, Sept. 8 at 2 p. m., at the fol- sistance to the mass mudrer at- | | and eagerness to build the new cen- of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, j owner and publisher of the Newark their belief in the right of the by egades now burglarized the head- (Continued on Page Three) tempts of the bosses. Speakers will ter, manifested the delegates, and agrees to restore the status quo Star-Eagle paper today. strikers to defend themselves, thus quarters of Section One of the Com- j in his point out that the whole working who animatedly support the draft (i. e., return the railroad to joint ! Ratify Communists at automatically eliminating themselves Party on Fourth St. Block’s paper has consistently sup- class has to rally to the defense of constitution and program proposed munist located Soviet and Chinese control) so that j as jurors. Brooklyn Sept. 14 ported the Public Service their the Gastonia strikers now on trial (Continued on Page Five) On Thursday, Aug. 29, between negotiations may start. and One interesting feature of the for their lives in the court house at the hours of 1 a. m. and 6 p. m. the YOUTH A. F. of L. allies since the men first morning’s session was dispatch not say TO MEET the large The does whether A Ratification Banquet to greet Charlotte, as this is the most im- Headquarters began to demand militant (Continued Page Five) Section of Section One the Nanking government is agreed the Communist candidates in the strike ac- j on mediate battle for the right to or- was robbed. After in- j entered and to this. It quotes a dispatch from ! municipal elections has been ar- tion to fight the company demands I ganize. vestigating, we find the following: ¦ ZIONISTS BREAK Harbfn, that the U. S. S. R. has FOR ranged by the Williamsburg Party and enforce a 25 per cent wage gain. Harry M. Wicks will talk on GASTONIA I the named general manager of fight against the war danger and the The robbery .was committed by Jokoff j Section for Sunday, Sept. 14, at the This community will be spared a the railroad. Williamsburg ? the necessity of defense of the Soviet someone who knew where various i Workers Center, 56 costly and disastrous strike and a JAIL 2210. J. material was kept. All records and In the same dispatch it is stated Conference Sept. 15 to Manhattan Ave. tie-up of transportation facilities if j Union. Clarence Hathaway will re- UP AIR MEETING police yesterday raided literature of Section One are kept in that Chang’s Among the speakers will be Wil- the members of the bus and trolley : port on social insurance. Shefotinovsky printing plant at Aid Defense, Relief topics a cabinet which has upper and lower the | liam W. Weinstone, Communist Can- union will follow the sensible advice All of these are at present Harbin, where the language FURRIER STRIKE burning issues in the American la- Communist compartments. The upper compart- Russian Pointing didate for Mayor. Fred Biedenkapp, (Continued on Page Three) Assaulted newspaper, Pravda, was printed, and ! out particularly that ment contains only literature and of candidate for President, Borough of bor movement. By arrested Editor Nechkin and former I most the workers on trial for The T. U. E. L. draft program Jewish Fascists is locked separately. There is no ! their in now are Brooklyn. Joseph Magliacano, Can- is litera- Molva, both of whom are now lives Charlotte Industrial Union Is submitted to the Trade Union Unity way of telling that there Editor ! didate for Assembly in the Sixth A. Jewish fascists broke up an open charged influencing the Soviet young workers, the Provisional and proposed adoption ture in this compartment except af- with D. Roy Mizara, candidate for As- Leading- Struggle Congress for air meeting of the Communist Party employees of the road to continue Youth Conference for Gastonia De- OF SOVIETS ter opening LAND as the program of the new trade the door. The bottom j sense and Relief, recently establish- sembly in the 13th A. D. Samuel Thursday night at Washington Ave. rec- the strike they started when the PATERSON, J., Aug. union and left wing center to be compartment contained various ed, with at 80 E. 11th St., Nesin, candidate for Assembly in N. 30— and Claremont Parkway, the Bronx, of different section Manchurian militarist government offices Twenty-two striking fur created there has a series of prac- ords the de- New York City, has issued the fol- the 14th A. D. Frederick Makel, j rabbit work- and severely beat up Louis A. Baum, partments, as well as that of units. seized the road. The Chang of- ers were arrested yesterday while tical demands for immediate con- jlowing call to young workers every- candidate for Alderman in the 33rd AT VLADIVOSTOK who was speaking. Although out- ficials call the action of the news- : flict to stop the wage cutting and This compartment is also separately Aid. D strict, and Hyman Gordon, | picketing the Brighton Fur Dressing numbered 50 to one, the small group paper “vandalism” and both men are t where: rationalizing campaign of locked. At the time of the discov- ; candidate for Alderman in the 35th Co. plant at River and Warren Sts. the of fought back in danger of execution. “The National Youth Committee bosses. These are Communists bravely ery of the robbery, the top part j Aid. District. Reach A general strike of fur rabbit fac- the demands of and gave a account executions continue in the Gastonia Joint Defense and Soviet Fliers to good of them- was and intact while only Arrests and jof tories of Paterson, Newark, Brook- (Continued on Page Two) locked Relief Committee is organizing a Militant workers organizations in selves. the bottom part had been broken Manchuria. Seattle in Week lyn and other dressing centers is plat- jseries of youth conferences in all Williamsburg are being mobilized to Baum was rushed off the (Continued Page now taking place under the leader- form on Two) large cities, in order to rally the make this banquet a success. Tickets MOSCOW, by a large group of Jewish U. S. S. R., Aug. 30. ship of young workers in defense of the are 75 cents and places should be the Needle Trades Workers’ business men who kicked him after The Land of the Soviets, en route ; Industrial Union, which is imprisoned young workers of Gas- reserved in advance. demand- HOLDFREIHEIT he was on the ground. Before Baum Not only ku the boargrolili from Moscow to New York, will ing an increase in wages for the forged weapon* bring DROWNED IN the that 14 City a was beaten to the ground he tonia. In New York Youth reach the Siberian coast used death to Itaelfi It has alao called at Vladivo- workers. Although the scab Inter- platform exlateace men | Conference i* being called by the morning, the end of the as a club lato the who nre to Tomorrow stok tomorrow where Pi- national Fur Workers’ Union is at- and hit one of the Zionists on the wield thoaa weapon*—the modern Provisional Committee for Sunday, Hold Picnic lot Shestakov and his com- working ¦- proletarians— three tempting to prevent clnaa the ! Sept. the workers PICNIC TODAY (Continued on Page Five) Karl Manifesto). 15. rades will attach pontoons to the Mora ICommnnla, PACKIC CRUSH At Pleasant Bay Park from striking, they are going on the Sept. 13 in New York. • | plane for the transoceanic crossing, picket line determined to win their “We urge you to this discuss A picnic will be held tomorrow at flying next to Kamchatka and ar- struggle. Soccer, Dancing-, Music Company question and elect delegates the Sailors Blame to Pleasant Bay Park, the Bronx, un- riving in Seattle some time next Morris Langer and Julius Weil New York Conference for Gastonia Are on Program MillBosses’ Lawyers Blandly Ship der the joint auspices of Nas Ash- week. were among those arrested in front For Rotten Defense and Relief be held » » to at khar, Armenian Communist news- *, of the Brighton shop. Fraternity Room, Irving Plaza hall, paper Greek Shestakov, The Morning Freiheit picnic will , SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—De- and Empcoss, Com- A. second pilot Philip Park, Claim Represent Only 15-17 Irving Place, New York, Sun- Twenty per cent Bolotov, Fufayev, be held today in Ulmer Brook- State tails of another tragedy almost as munist newspaper. Dmitri mechanic, day, Sept. 15 at 11 a.’m. Kindly of lyn. To reach the picnic ground as the Vestris sinking be- the proceeds will go for the de- and Boris Sterlingov, navigator, left disastrous fill out the enclosed blank and send fense of take the West End B. M. T. subway came known today when it was re- the Gastonia strikers now ; Moscow in the first Land of the So- NEEDLE TRADES : it by return mail to the Provisional on trial in Charlotte, to 25th Ave. station. Known to Be by ported that 74 passengers and many N. C. Admis- viets Aug. 8, being forced down dur- Prosecutors Enriched Textile ; Committee of the Youth Conference sion to the picnic will be cents. An elaborate program has been | of the crew of the coaster San Juan 35 Continued on Page Three) arranged, including two- soccer Companies’ Fees Profess Public Service at 80 E. Uth St., New York City.” were still unaccounted for. The San signed games, a sport tournament, dancing, and ; This call was by members TO AID GASTONIA Juan, owned by the Los Angeles music, i of the Provisional Committee. Youth entertainment and speeches. I By LISTON M. OAK whom they were employed and paid. San Francisco Navigation Company, The soccer games will be: Everybody knows that the huge Every one of them repeated that morning Section, National Textile Workers Sidelights on the Frei-1 collided early this with the Union; Charlotte heit Sport Club 'vs. Arista and the , battery of lawyers “assisting” the they were employed and paid by the Labor Sports Union, Youth Call Shop Conference Standard Oil Tanker S. C. T. Dodd Section, Needle Trades Industrial Freiheit Sport Club vs. the Harlem solicitor, John Carpenter, to railroad city of Gastonia or by Gaston coun- miles south of here in a heavy thirty Union, and the Young Communist Trial of the For Sept. 11 Progressive Sport Club. the sixteen defendants in the Gas- ty. Besides the Gastonia lawyers fog. Gastonia Strikers League. Among the organizations that will tonia case to electrocution or to the the prosecution has employed two The rotten timbers of the ancient A conference of shop delegates attend are the Labor Sports Union, penitentiary are actually the attor- very expensive Charlotte lawyers, E. up craft crumpled helplessly immed- age. age, , and shop committees from all sec- Freiheit Sport Club, Harlem Pro- the Manville-Jenckes and T. Oar own the boargeole Manville-Jenckes Moves to Keep Workers neys of Cansler and Jake Newell. iately the tanker hit her. It sank la aiettngnUhed hr thin—that It | tions of the needle trades to raise gressive Sport Club, well as simplified antagonisms. as other mill owners. In addition to The city of Gastonia has no le- so swiftly that there was not even haa elaaa From the Jury; Told From the Courtroom ! funds for the defense of the Gasto- many branches of the Workmen’s they gal right power More and more, aocletr la splitting whatever get as a fee from the or to aid criminal time to launch the life-boats. np Into two great hostile camps, nia workers will be held Wednes- Circle and the Independent Work- city county, prosecution. beyond two great directly contra- of Gatsonia or Gaston Such action is Blame Company. * Into and BY SENDER Webster hall, Uth i GARLIN , the defendants are not guilty? day, Sfept. 11, at men’s another and corporate posed classes boargeolsle and pro- lof Circle. they undoubtedly get its powers. Categorically accusing the com- letariate—Marx. Mr. E. Cansler, Sr., is A.—Yeh, I think some of them St. near Third Ave., it was an- 40 cents can be T. examin-' Tickets at each, very much larger retainer from the While the prosecution counsel de- pany of responsibility for another ing prospective jurors for the pros- are. nounced yesterday. purchased at the office of the Frei- owners are anxious get nied they are .being paid by for mill who to that disaster because of its anxiety gers and crew was tacitly recog- ecution. Q.—Pass. (The juror is satisfac- Representatives from shops of the heit, 30 Union Square. the union the mill or mills, it is I rid of organizers. Loray other profits rather than for the safety nized by the company, which recent- Q. —Do you read the Labor De- tory to the Manville Jenckes Com- Trades Industrial knowledge Needle Workers Who Are Their Bosses? a matter of common that of its 110 crew and passengers, ly relegated the boat to cut-rate fender? pany, but is challenged by counsel Union, International Ladies Gar- TRY FOR ENDURANCE RECORD When the superior court of Meck- a number of them, in private life, sailors on the Emarcadero St. water- carrier trade between California’s A.—No. for the defense.) (Continued on Page Five) CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Two Chi- j lenburg county opened in special are regularly employed as attor- front beer say that the ship should two principal ports. .Q —Do you read the union paper, * * • ,h cago endurance fliers, seeking to j session Monday, Aug. 26, e de- neys for the Loray and other mills. have been scrapped right after the At the same time, reluctant to the Daily Worker? j “Do you believe in labor orgnn-a- better the 421-hour record of the fense counsel repeated the demand Major Bulwinkle for instance, is spe- was. relinquish means of still further . zations?” Cansler 16 DIE IN BUS CRASH A.—No. . asks. July St. Louis Robin, neared the end of j made at Gastonia on 29, that cial counsel for the Manville-Jen- At that time, she was reported to i profit, the company maintained a Q. —What papers do you read? [ “Excused by the state.” TLEMCEN, Morocco, Aug. 30. I : their first week in the air today j the lawyers for the prosecution re- ckes Company, and George B. Ma- have earned her original cost on passenger service also. It charged A.—The Charlotte Observer and “Do any of your kin work n a Sixteen persons were killed and 13 Judge pros- with the motor of their monoplane ¦ veal their employers. Barn- son, who has been helping the each round trln to Central America. SB, ?9 snd ?10 for the trip between the Charlotte News. cotton mill?” he asks another. others were injured when an auto- “Chicago —We .Will’’ working j hill granted the motion and ordered ecution is another Loray mill legal That the ship was useless and San Francisco and Los Angeles and Q. —Have you formed or ex- j “Excused by the state.” bus crashed down a ravine after a smoothly. J the prosecution lawyers to state by (Continued m Page F'ivc) passen- usually I menaced the safety of its had a capacity olad. , pressed an opinion that all or some 1 (Continued on Page Five) ibjow-out last night. > _