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* Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity Conference Elects 25 Delegates to Cleveland NO CHANGE OF VENUE FOR 7 WORKERS Vienna Workers Resist DELEGATES FROM BRITAIN MAKES RED ARMY REPULSES BOLD ON INTENT TO KILL CHARGE; TO ENLIST SECRET Attacks of Fascists; UNORGANIZED IN MOVE OF NANKING TROOPS POSTPONE GASTON TRIAL TO OCT. 15 10 Killed, Many Hurt LARGEST NUMBER AID OF GERMANY DRIVE State Troops Surround Mill to Guard Scabs Socialist Leaders Call Off General Strike of Great Gain Over First Would Wipe Out All MILES INSIDE U.S.S.R. LINE While Marion Picket Militantly Protest Against Heimwehr’s Action Basic Reparations Strikers Conference; Soviet Troops Industries Lead Payments Withdraw After Pursuing Nan- New NTWU Office in Greenville, S. C„ Opens; Special Edition of Rote Fahne Confiscated by king Invaders Into Manchuria Adams Added to I. L. D. Defense Counsel Police; Bourgeoisie Nervous Report oil Cleveland Withdraw From Rhine U.S.S.R. Government Warns Warlords They (Wireless By Inprecorr) prominent fascists. The police only Representatives Defeat International Stop Attacks, VIENNA, Aug. 20.—Indignant interfered when the fight ended. 47 5 Must Disarm White Guardists HOFFMAN, workers resisted the provocative acts The news of bloody fascist provo- From 170 Bodies Bank Proposal T SCORN TRIAL TO FOLLOW MOSCOW, L . S. S. R., Aug. 20.—What is described in dispatches of the fascists who on Sunday at- cation caused tremendous indigna- tacked a demonstration of workers tion among workers. In many towns, The Second Metropolitan Area ! THE HAGUE, Aug. 20.—After from Vladivostok as perhaps the most serious engagement which has in which 10 were killed and many including Knittelsfeld, Graz and Vi- Trade Union Unity Conference, its days of deadlock new developments yet occurred in the recent border raids by Nanking and white guard- CONTINUE FIGHT CHARLOTTE MEET wounded. enna, all fascists that could be found delegation representing far more un- are now evident that changes the ist forces was fought yesterday several miles inside the Soviet fron- The socialists had organized a were beaten up by furious workers. organized shops, mills, ships and complexion of the Hague conference tier. on the Young Plan. Phillip Snowden The Chinese invaders penetrated to a military post on route MARION, C., Aug. 20. GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 20. demonstration of the Republican The fascist leader, Arbesser, was docks, and a greater number of in- the N. Defense Leag«e in Lorenzen on badly dustries centering in and around to the important junction town of Nikolsk-Unsurinsk, but were driven long St. mauled. After conferences between —Trial of the seven Gastonia Sunday. The Heimweher, the Aus- Fascists Beaten Up. New York, was held in Irving Plaza back after a determined struggle. ... Alfred Hoffman, United Tex- textile workers, charged with trian fascists, threatened to prevent Many fascists returning Sunday last night. tile Workers’ organizer, who the demonstration and announced a evening from their field maneuvers The hall scheduled for the confer- HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 20— Red Army detachments secret assault with deadly wea- was hooted down by strikers counter demonstration. The authori- were beaten up by Graz workers. ence proved to be far too small for continued to drive invader Nanking forces through the zone the huge delegation, and visitors when he urged re- pons with intent to kill, was ties negotiated with both organiza- Monday spontaneous strikes took along the Manchurian Siberian frontier today, engaging them, yesterday tions and were about to prohibit both place everywhere, particularly in crowded the lobbies. At the last treat, and Judge N. A. Townsend, postponed to Oct. 15 when the with casualities, several demonstrations when the fascists un- Vienna, where engineering shops moment, the meeting was trans- at points. The numbers of dead and of the governor, who | representative defendants appeared yesterday morn- | expectedly withdrew the plans for were brought to a The ferred to a larger hall with a balcony wounded on either side are still a matter of conjecture. to mills were standstill. came here see that the ing in the Gaston County Court. their demonstration. The socialists socialist leaders finally succeeded in to seat the visiting workers. Ap- One battle is reported to have taken place at Dan, opened “peaceably,” 384 scabs, be- norfh venue not ! announced this as a triumph. In persuading the workers to end the proximately 445 delegates were reg- I tween lines of state troopers, were Change of was granted "of Manchuli, the Nanking au- reality, however, the fascist with- strike. The workers of many fac- istered when the Daily Worker went marched into the Clinchfield mill to the seven men held under this thorities giving four dead and charge, and they will be forced to drawal was only a maneuver. tories drove the fascists from the to press. yesterday. ! twenty-five as their appear before a court which even Occupied Meeting Place. shops. Enthusiasm ran high. When the BIG wounded The strikers contihued to disre- On Sunday the Heimweher occu- The Communist Party issued a shop committee of the Eagle Pencil ANTIFASCIST^i official figure. This, however, has Judge Barnhill acceded be hos- I 1 pick- to gard Hoffman’s counsel, and tile enough to warrant a change of pied the meeting place before the so- special number of the Rote Fahne, Company that had been discharged not been confirmed. eted the mill in tremendous lines. arrived, whereupon so- appealing a general venue. Trial of the 16 charged with cialists the for strike and because it adopted a resolution hail- North of Dalainor, tanks are said Only the protection of police saved a arming ing a new MEET cialists held demonstration in the of the workers. The authori- the formation of , militant THIS FRIDAY murder will open in Charlotte Aug. , to Hoffman’s 300-pound bulk from the r 1 have been brought into action by 26. : market place. The fascists attacked ties confiscated the edition, but only trade union center in Cleveland, Au- i 1 covering flank tssault of the infuriated strikers the Red Army, the The seven for whom the Manville- the unarmed workers with spades, after a great distribution took place. gust 31, and elected delegates to the I during the crossing of the river un- yesterday after he ordered capitula- ‘ daggers, bourgeoisie very Metropolitan NY Workers to Protest! 1 Jenckes’ attorneys will demand long revolvers and machine The is nervous and Area Convention to- der Nanking fire. tion before the strikebreakers. The guns. Ten were are penitentiary terms include Ernest workers killed, the workers seething with dis- night, it was given a rousing wel- Fascist “Pilgrimage” reply of the strikers was made clear | many including many As soon as the Nanking invaders Martin, Lloyd, wounded, content. ] come. to the millmen when the workers Walter Clarence had been repulsed, the Red Army Townsend, D. E. MacDonald, Rob- The arrival of Hindu workers At a conference called by the Anti- j aid siege to the mill, and all at- forces were withdrawn from all ad- ert Litoff, C. M. Lell R. Pitt- from dye plants Paterson fascist Alliance of North America 1 to resume operation were and J. the of vance points, Manchuria, empts brought another ovation. Ihrough- in it ,bandoned until the state troopers man. Since their release on $750 Monday nigST delegates admitted today. bail each, all seven have been ac- 2 NEW TAMMANYREMOVE LAUNDRY -1 out the hall, delegates were talking trrived with their gas bombs, guns J. P. MORGAN ing 17 working class organizations, tively participating in the campaign about the Sunday arrest of ten Hin- Raids by Nanking and white md bayonets. Then, after further at of dus who are being held in Ellis Is- who, to meeting 108 E. 14th St., voted guardist forces to re- inferences with Hoffman today, the the International Labor Defense, i yesterday, seemed be playing continue be arousing public sentiment sup- | land from where immigration offi- a lone the agent unanimously to support the great portedj from all sections of the fron- mill was reopened. in DAILIES OUT SOON BETRAYER hand as of British ONION ; tier port of the defense, touring the cers hope to deport them to India imperialism, has made a deal with anti-fascist demonstration which 1 where the Red Army has not “I have not collected my thoughts actively North, addressing mass meetings of to face British imperialist agents Germany that, if carried out. would ; Friday, Aug. taken the field to repulse jfter deadlock,” Hoff- will be held this 23, at ' the morning’s workers and raising funds every- whom they fought before they came have serious consequences for Amer- and pursue the Chinese troops. man quoted in the local papers Swope, Fake Liberal, to Organizer Sold Out 8 p. m., in the Amalgamated Food was to this * * where to help defray legal expenses. country. ican imperialism and for the French * I as saying, after the strikers’ fury Workers’ Hall, 133 W. 51st St., to Until their trial opens, several of Edit Tabloid Five Strikes An encouragingly large percent- imperialists. ' was turned upon him full blast yes- | protest against the sailing of 1,000 Fire on Civilians. the bailed defendants will remain in I age of the delegates came from Aware of the fact that the Young j terday. “I have advised strikers capitalist daily news- betraying “pilgrimage” TOKIO, Aug. 20. Nanking gov- (Continued on Page Five) Two new Charged with five shops where hundreds and thou- Flan was partly for the pur- Sons of Italy on a to against violence and advised them papers are scheduled pub- devised the land ernment troops, supported by white to start strikes of laundry drivers recently i sands of unorganized workers were pose of swinging Germany into the j of fascismo. to carry hymn books and bibles in- within the (Continued on Page Five) lication in New York next conducted in the S. Ro- employed, and where shop commit- orbit of American imperialist influ- Speakers revealed the purpose of ! stead of blackjacks and guns.” months, it was learned by the Bronx, I two sensweig, business agent of are already formed as a basis ence against its rival, British im- ; the “pilgrimage” as an attempt to T. A. Wilson, president of the Daily Worker yesterday. Herbert Local jtees 810, Laundry Drivers’ Union, was for unionization. The Stanley Pat- perialism, by making great conces- create in Italy the illusion that the j State Federation of Labor, reiter- shoeTtrikers Bayard Swope, for many years edi- I removed from office a meeting terson Machine Works, Ford plant sions on reparations, the representa- millions of Italian-born workers here j ated that the militant stand which tor of the New York World, will at of the union held at Forward Hall, of Kearney, N. J., Berkshire Under- tives of England have launched a are sympathetic to the bloody fas- j• ELECT ENGDAHL broke the attempt to run the mill start publishing a new tabloid to 175 East Broadway. Similar charges wear, Singer Sewing Machine, air- counter-blast that has stunned the cist government and prophesied that I • open-shop, was “contrary to our be called Today in New York, about upon DEFY INJUNCTION against A. Schechter, secretary- plane, elevator factories, traction French diplomats and American ob- the return of the delegation counsel and against our orders.” Sept. 1, while the Sunday Enquirer ¦ treasurer of the union, will be acted workers of New Jersey, are a few servers. an effort would be made to pene- j The strikers declare their determi- will start publishing daily editions trate and gain HEAP OF I. L. 0. upon the meeting of those already listed at the cre- Reparations. control of the to fight through beginning 1. at next of the Would Cancel Mu-! nation it until the Judge Orders Workers Oct. union, to be held Thursday, Aug. dential table. tual Aid Societies of the United operators accede to their demands. Both newspapers will be staunch 29, Since the policy of “payments in in the same hall. The 170 organizations and shops States, in order to transform them * * * To End Picketing supporters of the democratic party kind” furnishes Germany a guar- N. E. C. Report sent delegates, Credentials into so many fascist agencies work- j' Hears and will aid Tammany Hall and The executive committee of the 465 the anteed market for her products, Can’t Kill N. T. W. reported. ing among the Italo-Americans. Gastonia A temporary injunction prohibit- Mayor Walker in his campaign for local, which brought the charges Committee which will seriously injure British ! on Drive ATLANTIC CITY, J., Aug. 20. A delegation of 25 to the Cleve- , The conference pledged N. ing picketing was yesterday granted reelection this against Rosensweig, brought out industry by throwing enormous \ itself to! The rapid growth of the National fall. land convention was elected. The mobilize the workers York, Juliet Stuart Poyntz resigned as to the Bernard Shoe Co., 200 Dillay It is said that Swope’s tabloid will | that during the strike he urged some quantities of German industrial ; of New Textile Workers Union was deplored fight to save 23 textile leaders from for the demonstration the national secretary of the St., Brooklyn, against the Independ- not have the same amount of sex j workers to return to work, telling i products upon the world market, j Friday, Interna- by William Green, president of the or long terms on Sons tional Labor yesterday ent Shoe Workers Union which has sensationalism found in the other others to look for work elsewhere. death penitentiary Snowden has expressed the opinion date which the of Italy, an Defense at A. of L. at the summer session was a central feature of the confer- organization composed chiefly meeting of the national executive F. been conducting the strike for the New York and will attempt It was also charged that he prom- that the German reparations debt be ofMthe of the executive council, which clos- tabloids ence. A delegation from the south- rabid leaves on committee of the organization, and last seven weeks. A hearing will to fool the workers into supporting ised the laundry bosses that the promptly decreased and, if possible, | black-shirts, the J ' ed today in this fashionable seaside ern fields appealed sup- S. S. J. Louis Engdahl, of the Daily be held Friday morning to act on Tammany by more dignified means, strike would be conducted “in a textile for i cancelled. With that demand as a Vulcania. Work- resort. The U. T. W., which is rap- port and the conference denounced er was selected unanimously by the the motion to make the injunction using a cloak of “liberalism.” The peaceful manner.” Rosensweig, it starting point he proposes the side- Two outdoor mass meetings have j (Continiied on Page Five) from National Committee as permanent. Jacques Buitenkant is Enquirer will continue its policy of was pointed out, spent a great deal this attack the mill operators tracking of the Young Plan, which been arranged by the Alliance for' Executive and their courts and poLice, pledging her successor. attorney for the Union. cheap sensationalism that now of time bathing in Coney Island, (Continued on Page Two) this week preliminary to the Friday \ BANKS CONTROL INDUSTRY char- solidarity The union issued a statement last acterizes its Sunday editions. while the strikers were conducting with the arrested leaders demonstration. Tonight at 8 o’clock! Engdahl w»as also chosen editor LONDON (By Mail).—Banks are night stating that in spite of the the struggle against the five laun- and with the textile workers of the there will be a meeting at 187th St. of the Labor Defender, monthly or- increasing their control of industry, injunction picketing of the shoe shop dries, the Commodore, Bronx Home, south in their struggle for better and Arthur Ave., and tomorrow gan of the International Labor De- returns for the first half year show. will continue. The workers demand Fairview, Jerome and Starlight. conditions. night one at Bleeker and MacDougal ; sense to succeed Karl Reeve, who About $4,500 was advanced to in- recognition of William Z. Foster, secretary-treas- CELEBRATE ILGW to the union, a 44-hour Sts. Over 5,000 copies of the call resigned become editor of Labor “DEPLORES" Fake Arrest. urer of the Trade Union dustry (Continued on Page Five) AFL Unity, to the end of June. Educational to the demonstration have been is- the central organ of the Trad# <4, Members of the executive com- League was given a great ovation sued. j Union Educational League. (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) Special Eight - Page BETRAYAL TODAY Poyntz is now working for the | STRIKE VIOLENCE Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief j Sacco-Gastonia Issue Committee in the Southern textile NEGRO WORKERS “Socialists,” Tammany of “Daily”Tomorrow ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 20. I. L. D. Mobilizes Workers to WOMENWORKERS area. Pious hopes for a “satisfactory in Love Fest Maurer Elected Assistant Secretary. settlement” o fthe New Orleans car Among the other organizational Tomorrow’s Daily Worker will CONFEH AUG. changes that place il were took was the be a special Sacco-Vanzetti strike expressed by the A. F. Answer I “Socialist” leaders of the Interna- i Me- Anti-Gastonia Drive TO MEET resignation of Carl Hacker, as as- of L. Executive Council in precon- ] tional Ladies Garment Workers Un- SOON morial-Gastonia Defense and Re- vention session today while its (Continued on Page Five) lief edition. It will contain many To Support j ion and Tammany Hall politicians Communist agents New Orleans continue to unusual features—articles, poems, in Must Fight United Front of J will celebrate the recent sell-out of sabotage against the Enemies of Conference to Assist speeches—devoted to the heroic Election Platform militant action to | the cloakmakers by the company un- SELLING THE SEAMEN. get the strike demands. Militant Labor, life and death of labor's great Instructions State ion at a luncheon to be held today Communist Campaign LONDON (By Mail).—Organizers To rally Negro workers “People of New Orleans,” a declar- I martyrs and to the new con- behind the at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in honor of the Marine Section of the Na- Communist program a conference ation stated, “deploring the The spiracy of the capitalist of violence thousands of members of the “Every ounce of energy must be S of Raymond V. Ingersoll, chairman The women workers of this city tional Transport and General Work- class Negro organizations and of that marks strikes should assist the against 23 militant workers in labor International Labor Defense thru- thrown into the work of the Gasto- j of the Cloak and Suit Industry Com- ! are rallying enthusiastically to the ers Union have been discharged unions of which Negroes are mem- striking car men in every reasonable out America were mobilized yester- nia call Gastonia. Joint Defense and Relief Com- J mission, the new strike breaking for a working women’s delegate , since the organization merged with bers will be held under the auspices and honorable way.” day the at- conference, to on Don’t miss to utmost to meet the mittee with the trial less than a ; agency in the industry, ¦ be held Tuesday, ' the National Seamens’ Union, led tomorrow’s edition. of the New York District of the tacks of the capitalist “liberals” off,” 27, And spread the week the I. L. D. branches were j Alfred E. Smith, Tammany leader, Aug. at the Workers’ Center, by the notoriously reactionary word among your Communist Party at the Workers Build Up the United Front of and reformists in their plans to dis- Sq., friends and shopmates. instructed. who appointed Ingersoll on his cloak I 26-28 Union for the purpose of Havelock Wilson. Thus the Trans- Center, 28 Union Square, Tuesday, the Working Class from the Bot- rupt the mass campaign to save the The national office of the J. L. D., jcommission in 1924, will he among 1 supporting the Communist platform port Union is hnnd’ng ; ts s'-agoing (Continued on Page Five) tom Up—at the Enterprises! Gastonia strikers. (Continued Page (Continued on Ttvo) 1 on Page Fi: ) 1 (Continued on Page Five) I1 members over to reaction. WORKERS RALLY TODAY AT 12 MEETS; - DEMONSTRATION, , SACCO-GASTONIA , SQ • UNION 7 TOMORROW thousands of New York : honor the memory of the two great today the lies and demonstration to- St, and Ave. B at 8 p. m., speakers, Wilkins Ave., 8 p. m., speakers, and Hart Sts., Washington and ing Party, Square workers will rally at mobilization working class martyrs by the Communist Trade Un- | demonstration will be Robert i bending morrow. Sam Don, S. Lewis and Radwansky; Glassford and George Powers; Stone Claremont Parkway, St. meetings in 12 different of energies saving 140th and ion Educational League, National Minor, William Z. Foster, William (Today sections all their towards the The mobilization rallies today are 1 Grand St. Extension at 8 p. m., and Pitkin p. speakers, Ave., S m., the city in preparation for the huge Seventh Ave. and E. Seventh St. and Textile Workers Union. Needle W. Weinstone, Alfred Wagenknecht, i 23 Gastonia strikers and strike lcad- as follows: : speakers, Sidney Bloomfield and Henry Bloom, Tom De and Brighton Beach Ave., Brighton Sacco • Vanzetti - Fazio Trade Workers Industrial Union. H. M. Wicks, Rebecca Grecht, M. J. Gastonia Defense ! ers who go on trial in Churlotto 118th St. and Pleasant Ave. at 12 Sam Nesin; Christie and Stanton Grace 138th St. and 7th Ave., and Relief Monday, Lamb; Beach. Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria j Olgin, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Max demonstration in Union i victims of another con- noon (Washburn Wire Factory), Sts., 8 p. m., speakers, 8 p. m., speakers, George Square 5 p. Aug. Gussakoff S. Harper, The New Yo’’k meetings are part Workers Union, Independent Shoe Bedacht, Jack Staehel, Fred Bicdcn- at m. tomorrow, spiracy of the master class against speakers, S. Brody and C. Persily; ; and S. Pollack; Maurer, Primoff, 22, the 10th St. and Second Pasternak, H. of the nation-wide joint Sacco-Van Workers Union, Worker* kapp, George Maurer, J. Louis Eng- second anniversary of the 1 militant workers. The New York 14th St. and Ave. C (Eagle Pencil Ave., 8 p. m., speakers, Marine legal F'red Eddis, Silverman and Harold Williams. zelti and Gastonia Defense and Re- League, United Council of Working George Pershing, Wil- murder of the two heroic District of the International Labor Co.) at 12 noon, speaker, Carl Magliacano clahl, Harold Hack- and Ida Rothstein; 149th In addition to the main demonstra- lief demonstrations being arranged Women, Young Communist League, liams, Karl Reeve, Sidney Bloom- Italian workers. Defense and the New York Local er; 110th St. and Fifth Ave., at 8 : St. between Third and Bergen Ave., tion in Union Square tomorrow four by the I. L. D. and W. I. R. They Young Pioneers, Labor Sports Union field, Rose r ortis, Ben The workers of New York will be of the Workers International Relief p. m., J. 8 f W Sam Darcy, speakers, Codkind, D. Mor- i at p. m., speakers, J. Louis Eng- Section meetings will be held at 8 are being supported by a large num- ULon today - —- and others. Gold, If. Sazar. Burke and •ailed and tomorrow u. arranging tha ok**”” al- can and Juliet S. Povntz: Seventh i I W'alter dahl and A. Rubin: Intervale and p. 111. These will be at Tomukins ber of militant nrarnnr/jitinnii includ- i Amon or th« pf the Union Harriet Silvermaa.