SOVIET UNION WORKERS ARE FOR PEACE, BUT READY TO DEFEND SOCIALIST FATHERLAND

I They, and the Red Army troops, know that the workers of the Red Army troops, roady to defend the Soviet Union, arc shown Second photo, workers taking part in military training. Thes« The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are for peace, but | world will not stand by and allow the imperialists, thru their puppets, [ above. At the left, Red Army troops at Kiev, training dogs for sani- workers have offered their services to defend the U. S. S. R. are ready to defend the workers’ fatherland at any time. • the Chinese war lord!, to attack the U. S. S. R. * tary corps’ relief service. At right, machine gun detachments of the Red Army. »

THE DAILYWORKER FIGHTS FINAL CITY For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized. Against Imperialist War EDITION For the 40-Hour Week

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Pnbliahed daily except Sunday by The Comprodnfly Publiahinß SUBSCRIPTION WATESj In New York, liy mail, *S.OO per year. VoL-VI., No. 116 Company, lnc„ 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1929 Outside Nctt Y'ork, by mail, fO.OO per year. Price 3 Cents AUGUST FIRST WILL BE SOVIET ONION DEFENSE DAY Mill Prosecution Tries to Whitewash Roach and Gilbert COINTERN CALLS FOR A ISSUETHOUSANDS §till Fights Wall St. SIGN YOUR NAME 25,000 WORKERS Also for Wall Street ORLEANS LABOR WORLD PROTEST AGAINST

OF LEAFLETS FOR v '-yW TOGASTON CASE PROTEST ATTACK SHOUTS FOR 1 IMPERIALIST WAR PLOT TEXTILE MEETING PROTEST ROLL! ON SOVIET UNION GENERAL STRIKE; Chinese War Ix>rds, Capitalist Press Follow Stimson Program, Invent Fake “Invasion” - 18,000 Copies of Call, 1,000,000 Signatures to Denounce Imperialist Negro, White Toilers - Defense Bulletins, Be Expected During War Plot in 8 Take Part in Huge to Lay for Military Out in Carolina Barrage of Lies Basis Defense Week Mass Meets Demonstration Attack; First Ones Exposed; More Follow Press Favors U. T. W. Many Conferences Many Join the Party Workers Families Aid j (Wireless P>y “Inpreeorr”) Witnesses Against Socialists, Employers Police Brandish Clubs; Misleader Is Booed Off MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 21.— IThe Com- Roach Hidden Try to Check Drive Attack Pioneer Platform munist International in recognition of the By LISTON OAK The working class of America, To the thunderous roar of work- New Orleans, La., July 21.—Forty growing war danger in the Far East has issued GASTONIA, N. C., July 21. fighting the united resistance of ing class protest against the im- thousand New Orleans workers, as- an appeal to the wprld proletariat in which the Eighteen thousand pieces of litera- the capitalists and the reformists, I perialist drive on the First Work- sembled at the greatest gathering ture. issued by the National Textile : ers’ Republic that is now rising New Orleans has ever seen in following slogans lead: Workers Union and the Internation- such as the mayor of “socialist” from every corner wor'd, pledging solidarity of the the their with the campaign against al Labor Defense, the call for the Reading, Pa., who refused to grant ! voices of 25,000 New York work- striking carmen of this city, raised “Organize a determined defense the wire Southern Textile Workers Confer- a permit for a Gastonia aid tag | ers were added Friday night at their voices for a general strike. j pullers of the counter-revolutionary campaign against the ence at Bessemer City July 28 and day, are prepared to make the great- eight outdoor mass meetings held Demand General Strike. Soviet Union! est mass protest in the history of the second number of the Gastonia simultaneously in widely separated Jose Vasconcelos (above, center), The mass meeting was held at reply I.abor Defender, were distributed the American working class the of “The working masses of China will to the adventure General Augusto sections the city. former minister in tlu% Obregon Claiborne and Canal streets. Both Saturday Sandino, leader week of July 27th to August 3rd. Arranged by organized by the mad generals by consolidating a fraternal and Sunday to the mill the Nicaraguan workers and the New York Dis- cabinet, aims to serve Wall Street white and Negro workers stood to- throughout if A petition of protest to which 1,- i workers Gaston and oeasants fight trict of the Communist Party as as its puppet ruler in Mexico, but gether as workers shouted for a alliance with the proletariat of the Soviet Union. Mecklinburg in their on the Wall 000,000 names of workers will be counties. 'Street imperialist troops and the recruiting allies for the enormous the Gil go'vernment seems to have general strike to back up the strik- j “Forward to the struggle against World Imperialism, for I ; affixed, is being sen. out during the Union Square Hundreds of strikers took part in Wall Street pupet government in demonstration to tak<- gotten the Wall Street O.K. Vas- ing street car workers. | joint Gastonia Defense Week of the place Day, the defense of the Soviet Union! the distribution, and reached the Nicaragua. The above photo was on International /Red concelos ivill oppose the Gil candi- Workers 800 Fakers. | International Labor Defense and the August 1, and distant mills by ten autos. taken in Mexico where Sandino re- for the Anti-Imper- date as the “anti-re-electionist” Among the speakers were Dave “Convert International Red Day, which is the day of world j Workers International Relief. ialist War Day Conference of July The growing attendance at the cently arrived to enlist the active candidate. Marcusy, president of the New Or- struggle against the imperialist war, August into a fighting $50,000 must during this 25, up to it, 1. meetings which are steadily increas- mpport of the Mexican workers and be raised which will lead the leans Central Trades Council; Ed- organizers week. The membership of the I. n.eetings were so enthusiastically demonstration against the of a new bloody massacre. ing in number and size, and the peasants in the fight against the win Peyroux, president of the Car- | L. D. must be increased to reach supported, both numerically and mo- responses to the call are alarming imperialists. The workers and peas- men’s Union, Division 194; Mrs. Ed- “Reply to provocation of a fresh war by revolutionary j the quota of 100,000 by the end of rally, that the wildest expectations 1 the bosses, who now exert unsuc- ants are continuing the struggle JAIL FOR EIGHT ward Pillsbury, a factory inspector; demonstrations of proletarian forces against the imperialist trial; relief must sent to of sponsors were cessfully their greatest pressure to against Wall Street. the still be the put behind. Louisiana Public Service Commis- Gastonia entirely de- war makers! prevent the workers from joining 100 families 5,000 at One Meeting sion, and other local politicians. pendent on the I. R. “Down with the counter-revolutionary Kuomintang! the union. i W. At one meeting place alone, that The attempt to speak made by The I. L. D. announces reports at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, DEMONSTRATORS “Long live the Chinese Revolution! Bosses Like a Tame Union. Dave Marcusy, who recently voted DENOUNCE from every part of the country Harlem, 5,000 workers turned out against the general strike, was “Down with imperialist war makers! The Southern newspapers now MOVE showing that millions of workers to challenge the imperialist act of greeted with boos and cat-calls from “Long live the fraternal alliance of the Chinese and Soviet change their line, and “recognize the ' Chinese, Judge Vicious After are behind the campaign. war in seizing, through toa- the workers present. Marcusy was Union right of the textile workers to or- emergency workers! i An conference will be dies, the Chinese Eastern Railway Anti-Nanking Meet forced to sit down. j ganize.’’ In' the United Textile AGAINST U.S.S.R. Continued on Page Three) (Continuea on Page Five) live the socialist world revolution! Workers, of course, not in the N. | Workers’ Families Aid Strike. “You are the peope who ai-e The meeting unanimously adopted The executive bureau of the Red International of Labor T. W. U. They point to the re- j against any sort of authority and a resolution to to ! Unions issues an appeal to the workers of the world, stating spectability and class collaboration Anti-Imperialists refuse ride in the Are to ‘Down cars, to policies of the U. T. W. who dare shout with Police scab-manned refuse to use among other things: in Defend the Soviet Union! Brutality’ outside the consular of- electric light furnished by the Pub- The papers now Session at Frankfort i “The action of the Chinese militarists is with the obvious unanimously call fices of a foreign government,” lie Service Co., or cook with gas for a “fair trial” and are trying to cooperation of the diplomatic representatives of America, FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, July 21 Magistrate Hyman Bushel sneered by the company. Thus a j cover of furnished up the class significance Things You Must Do! as he passed sentence on nine of strike of the workers and their Lngland, France and Japan. AH these are anxious to distract prisoners Denunciation of imperialist- fam- the case and to convict the the 12 workers arrested at last Fri- against the Chinese workers and peasants of “another planned provocation against the ilies has developed the Pub- from the imperialist ma- Sacco-Vanzetti case.” l 1. Rouse the workers in the factories to the danger con- day’s mass demonstration outside lic Service Corporation. The agents of the prosecution Soviet Union in Manchuria was the chinations. the consular offices of the Nanking , United Marshal Loisel is question little of fronting the Soviet Union. States The R. I. L. U. calls on all affiliated organizations to fight children the strik- high light of the second World Con- government at 13 Astor Place, still in complete charge of operating ers, trying to get information for 2. Organize anti-war committees in the shops. Prepara- energetically against the war instigators gress of the Anti-Imperialist Jail Demonstrators. cars with scabs. Through him the ( and their social im- use against the prisoners. at its second session today. Over 300 tory for the antiwar demonstration August Ist, resolutions Those he tried on disorderly con- (Continued on Page perialist lackeys. All power must be exerted towards making delegates were must be passed in the shops protesting the provocative acts Wife Admits Threats seated. duct charges included William W. the First of August a warning for the wire-pullers of the support agaihst the resolutions I interviewed the wife of Pedro Widespread is already be- Soviet Union and for the defense of Weinstone, organizer of the New Chinese military clique. rallied to defeat the imperialist * Melton, the keeper of the refresh- irft the Soviet Union. York district of the Communist * * intrigue of the Nanking Government, ment stand. He was the man driven 3. Adopt resolutions of protest and support for the Tarty and mayoralty candidate in THREATEN TO into the Catawaba river and shot delegates from workers’ and peas- the municipal elections. He was The concentrated propaganda attack on the l\ S. S. R. in at by Roach. She admitted that ants’ organizations, especially from Soviet Union in all trade unions and in all labor organ- suspended. Seven others took two the press of all capitalist countries continues, and is given east, Melton had been warned that of- the far told the conference. izations. days in*jailrather than pay a ten- substance by the deliberately provocative “peace gestures’’ of Strong delegations from Indian 4. Elect delegates, organ- dollar fine, and Adolph Stern and DEPORT ficers were the way to sub- from three to five, in all labor PIONEER on out the governments of United States, England, France and Japan, poena him, and that he had better groups and from Latin-America em- Nat Kaplan, Party candidate for I phasized the izations, small or large, to attend the mass Anti-War Con- disappear. She refused to admit activities of the League Assembly in the Tnird A. D., Bronx, BULLETIN. acting in unison and after conferences between their diplomats mobilizing ference on July 25, in Irving Plaza, to defend the Soviet I that this warning came from the the oppressed colonial were sent down for five days when Three of those arrested for par- in Washington. peoples against imperialist aggres- Union and to organize the anti-war demonstrations of Au- they pay ticipating prosecution in the Gastonia textile refused to the fine. The in the Pioneer demonstra- The latest lie is an Associated Press dispatch late yestei* workers’ but she not deny sion. gust 1. two released were James Mu, of the tion .against the militaristic world case, did day quoting Chang Hsueh-liang, the Manchurian war lord, as it. Latin-American delegates repre- 5. —Propagate for the slogan of anti-war day on August Alliance for Support of the Chinese scout jamboree last Saturday, Ben | sented sections of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolution, Harper, Murray Silver Sol reporting to the Chiang Kai-shek government at Nanking that The fake prosecution of these All-American First! Join the demonstration at Union Square. and 1 two, Roach and Gilbert, is only an Anti-Imperialist League in Mexico, and Lydia Okin, of the Communist Efron, were haled into Jefferson j ; the “Red Army opened an attack on Chinese at 8 a. m. along attempt to quell the general in- Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Bra- 6. On every occasion, wherever possible, speak at fac- Youth League. Market Court yesterday morning. the Suifenho River, using poison gas." dignation of the workers, and gives zil, and Cuba. Trade unions were tory gate meetings, spread Party leaflets, issue special edi- “We went to demosntrale against The case was adjourned until Thurs- represented Chiang day by Magistrate Before they understood what was required of them, the the prosecution of the 15 in Gas- from Colombia, Cuba, tions of shop bulletins, issue special leaflets to the factories the Kai-shek government, Vitale, who want- (Continued on Page Three) Ecuador and Mexico. hirelings of world imperialism, and ed time in which to drum up per- Chinese militarists had denied the earlier reports of haltleg in your locality raising call the fight against the com- jured Other delegates came from Great the for its provocative attacks against the “witnesses.” with Russian invaders at Manchuli, Blagoveschensk, and I’o ing war! DOWN AUGUST Soviet Union,” Harry Eisman, The Gastonia Textile Britain, Soviet Union, France, Hol- TOOLS FIRST. Weinstone said from the fourth Pioneer granichnaya. Workers’ the 54th St. Court stand. arrested, will be called before the trial starts July 29! Twenty-three land, India, Arabian countries, Ko- 7. Be prepared for the call of the Party for every event The Nanking government has also issued, yesterday, its rea, China and the Philippines. “The signs we carried,” he said Children’s Court today. workers face electrocution or in the present war developments. in answer to Bushel’s inquiry, “read * t * previously announced declaration to the world, in which it re- prison teams! Rally all forces to The above tasks are the concern of every loyal member ‘Stand by the workers and peasants as a militarist organization, de- peats the series of prevarications about provocation ... PARK WORKERS GAIN. “Russian save them. Defense and Relief that feels of the Soviet Union; the hirelings nouncing citizens’ military training, Week July himself a soldier of the world proletarian army; To and officials of the railroad fomenting an insurrection, engag- 27—August 3! Sign BOSTON (By Mail).—Organized of world imperialism are backing and calling for the Defense of the the Protest Roll! municipal park forsake your duty at this moment Is treachery to the work- ing in assassination, etc. Rush funds to employes raised the latest aggressive move against Soviet Union, ih»rehed onto the i International ing Allunit functionaries, all Labor Defense, 80 wages 25 cents a day. Their new class! Party members, redouble the workers’ and peasants’ govern- at the foot of Fourteenth street and The widespread Hearst chain of newspapers in the United East 11th Street, New rate is a day. York. $4.75 your energies; speed up the fight! 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