THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS FINAL CITY For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War EDITION For the 40-Hour Week Worker DailuKntcred an strnind-«•!»>* mutter the Post York, M. under act of March 3, 1879. at Office at Y.. the mt ' PnblUheri daily except Kondsy by The Comprodnily Pnbllfthing SUBSCRIPTIOI* RATES: In N«w York, by mail. *B.OO per year. Vol. VI., No. 197 Company. Inc.. ’JO-28 IJnfon Square Nrq fork City, N. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929 Ontalde New York, by mall. (0.00 per year. Price 3 Cents WORKERS MASS AT UNION SQUARE TODAY FOR GASTONIA The Miners Revolt in Illinois* Landslide, for National CHAUFFEURS, GAS JORORS TO RENDER VERDICT AT The coal miners of Illinois, of which there remain at least 50,000 LABOR in spite of a drastic introduction of capitalist “rationalization” which tens of tltbusands out of work and sped up the rest to a back- Miner Union in Illinois; FILUERS, GARAGE breaking intensity of labor and in spite of years of systematic betrayal OF by splitting DEMONSTRATION; CANDIDATES {threwthe officials of the United Mine Workers of America, are BIG away from the U.M.W.A. by whole locals and sub-districts and joining Scores UMW Locals Join MEN MEET IONITE the National Miners’ Union, the fighting organization formed last year when it became plain to the rank and file of the U.M.W.A. that the officials of the old organization had sold them out and wrecked the Great Convention Sunday to Organize Split of Irving Plaza Scene of COMMUNIST PARTY WILL BE SPEAKERS strike. 50,000 * The miners of Illinois are about all that is left of the U.M.W.A. Miners From Misleaders’ Control Drive for Industrial They are fighters, with Virden Day and Herrin and many strikes to Union Meeting .Judge Barnhill Caught in Secret Conspiracy With Prosecution Heads; their credit. For twenty years they never permitted a scab to work N. M. U. 8,000 Members; Meetings in the coal fields of Illinois, not until District President Farrington sold Has New Advised Strategic Retreat to Pack Jury; Todd Has MillBoss Son them out to the Lester Strip Mine and even then they rose in armed AllOver State; Defense Groups Expect Fight Want No AFL Fakers might and annihilated the strikebreakers. Farrington was discovered drawing $25,000 a year from the Peabody Coal Co., and was expelled. WEST FRANKFORT, 111., Oct. 23.—Scores of Lesson Philadelphia International Labor Defense Scores Bosses’ Verdict; president, partner Harry jnore local Have Learned His vice and in crime, Fishwick, became dis- unions in the United Mine to Communist Call For Mass Protest trict president, and formed, in 1926, an alliance with John Lewis, In- Workers of America are repudiating of Betrayed Oil Strike Workers Rally Everywhere ternational president, to expel, beat up, and drive out of the state the both the faction headed by International President Lewis, and left wing as each was doing before. that will be the militant separately led by District President Harry Fishwick, are leaving the Irving Plaza Hall The militant workers of New York, aroused by the capitalist class verdict of guilty im- When Lewis and Fishwick had finished the job of treason in the -.U.M.W.A., and joining the National Miners’ Union. scene tonight for a meeting of vital truck posed upon the Gastonia boys, are prepared to mass in Union Square today at 5 o'clock to great strike of 1927 and 1928, they remained in control of the frag- Secreetary-Treasurer Pat Toohey of the N.M.U., reported importance to chauffeurs, oil ments paid organizers, drivers, garage and gas filling sta- hear nationally known speakers tell of the railroading in Charlotte, and to vote resolutions of of the U.M.W.A. Their machine of who never in a speech to 200 miners at Duquin, Sunday, workers under any circumstances organized anything but fake elections to keep who tion attendants, and other workers protest against the mill bosses’ terror, carried oat by courts and plain murderers. power, stayed in an outdoor meeting throughout a driving rain, that industry, upon the officials in their district and sub-district officialdom, who in the determined Prominent among the speakers at this meeting will be candidates of the Communist resorted to any methods however crude to hold office, had in addition the National Miners’ Union had gained 8,000 new members in breaking with the misleadership of Party in the city elections. to whatever was paid by the operators for the defeat of the miner's’ Illinois within the last weeks, and that the former U.M.W.A. the Teamsters’ Union which has strike, another rich source of income. They could not make the miners, locals at Coella, deliberately smashed the strike of Among the speakers are: William W. Weinstone, candidate for mayor; Otto Hall, candi- thoroughly disgusted with them, in any way loyal members of their the oil truck drivers, and crippled date for comptroller, J, Louis Engdahl, for Manhattan borough president; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, they go operators, agree jStaunton, Livingston, and every workers have discre(fcted union, but could and did to the and effort these for Bronx borough president; Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the Independent Shoe Workers’ on contracts at wage re luctions ranging from 25 to 50 per cent, on con- others had .just affiliated with BKLYN, made recently for real gains. !4 GASTON Union, borough president; Richard Moore, for congressman from the 21st Dis- dition that none but “U.M.W.A. members” should be hired, and that the N. M. U. There are dozens j The bulk of the industry is un- for Brooklyn the dues should be paid through the check-off. |of mass meetings being arranged organized, and will welcome a real trict ; Rose Wortis of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, for assemblyman from the In Illinois, the miners voted by a majority of 25,000 not to accept throughout the district in prepara- i industrial union that is to be the Third District, Bronx; M. J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, for assemblyman from the Fourth the Fishwick agreement involving steep wage cuts, and Fishwick simply 1 tion for the convention called by the | ELECTION RALLIES main topic of the meeting. District; Rebecca Grecht, for assemblyman from the Fifth District; Joseph Magliacano, for threw the ballots out of the window and declared the agreements in Illinois District of the N. M. U. to Have Learned Lesson. assemblyman from the Sixth District; Sam Darcy, for alderman from the Eighth District; force. meet Sunday, Monday and Tuesday ; The workers have been called out Gold, secretary of the N.T.W.1.U., for alderman from the 29th District; Henry Buckley It is over the union treasuries and property, and the right to in Liederkranz Hall, Belleville, 111. today, tqmorow Ben [and betrayed, left unorganized and Worker; 1 monopolize the check-off privileges, that Lewis and Fishwick fell out This convention, with representation and Alexander, members of the Labor Jury; Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Edith “rationalized” so much recently that a couple of months ago, began to expel each other, got injunctions and based on N. M. U. locals, U. M. W. the Gastonia case trial; M. Obermeier, organizer they are taking matters into their Saunders Miller, witness for the defense at frauds, graft swindling locals that have repudiated Fishwick | Engdahl, j started in to expose each other’s election and of Weinstone, own hands now and are rallying to for the Food Workers; Irving Potash, of the N.T.W.1.U.; Phil Frankfeld, Young Communist the rank and file miners. j and Lewis, and militant groups in build a real industrial union. All are ! Max Bedacht, of the Secretariat of the Communist Party; Gil Green, Ida Rothstein, was too The miners of Illinois are in revolt, U.M.W.A. locals that have not taken. Wicks to Speak League; But this much. and invited to the meeting tonight at are swinging by thousands out of the U.M.W.A., now openly seen as a (Continued on Page Three) M. Pasternak, and John Williamson. Brookln workers will rally tonight 8 p. m. * * * company Now is the critical time. Eight thousand have just union. an dtomorrow night in four different joined the N.M.U. in Illinois, but there are 50,000 in the district. Every With most of those who will be \ sections of the boro at four mass CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 23.—The fact was accidentally exposed here today .that at possibility exists of a huge and powerful miners’ union emerging, if there, the recent lessons in the oil meetings called in support of the very plain. the beginning of the second Gastonia case trial Judge Barnhill secretly conferred with Solici- the miners of Illinois realize that it is not sufficient just to stop recog- LABOR RIVES strike are An official- JURY program Communist election and to nition of Lewis and Fishwick, as practically all are decided upon, but dom such as that of the teamsters’ tor Carpenter of Gastonia, officially in charge of the prosecution of the strikers and organizers, protest against the railroading of men r ealize also that only a strong national union, linked up with the Trade union, which never notifies the then numbering thirteen, charged with first degree murder. The mill owners’ judge came to ! the seven Gastoniua defendants. progress of the strike, gives Union Unity League, the new fighting trade union center established at of the an agreement with the mill owners’‘prosecutor, Solicitor Carpenter, behind the backs of the VERDICT BY RADIO Tonight a meeting for Boro Park them no say in managing it, refuses Cleveland Sept. 1, and through it joined with the international working defense, “interests of justice” would be best served by reducing the number of peremp- class movement. And also, let us emphasize, provided the new union—- workers will be held at 8.30 in the to sprea dit, and spreads defeatism ’that every use to challenges the and that tljis could done only by reducing the charge the only real union—works with unprecedented energy to gather them Calls Upon Workers to Boro Park Workers’ Center, 1773 E. at opportunity, is no tory allowed defense, be into its ranks, and leads their fights with the bold initiative which the 43rd St. J. Louis Engdahl, candi- these men. They don’t want a weak to second degree murder. This conference between a judge loudly pretending to be “impar- Hally to want a union program has promised. Defense date for president of the Boro of craft union anyway, they tial” and the prosecution was a dead secret from the defense, according to J. Louis Engdahl, becoming militant, resisting Manhattan,' will be the chief speaker. strong industrial union. All over the world labor is more the Thousands of workers heard the national secretary of the International Labor Defense. It was by means of reducing the num- rationalization and wage cutting campaign of the bosses, preparing to j The following three meetings will decision of the Labor Jury in the S’ber of cases from 16 to seven, fight the coming imperialist war. Local revolts will not be enough. be held tomorrow' night (Friday) at Gastonia case over Belleville convention of the Illinois miners which starts its sessions the radio last 8 by reducing the charge The night when Henry Buckley, New o’clock. [and Sunday should result in the major part of these thousands in the coal Williamsburg—Miller’s Grand As- FIIERSTAKE OFF Appeal for 100 Daily Workers ! from first degree to second de- York shoe worker and a member of fields joining this struggle by coming over in a body into the National ¦ I the jury, broadcasted the working- sembly, Grand St. and Havemeyer. : gree murder, that the packing J Miners Union, fighting the employers for the six-hour day, for care class verdict. Speakers: William V. Weinstone, of the jury was accomplished for the men made jobless by rationalization which is eating into the Each Day Norfolk, Virginia J ” Communist candidate for Mayor; in by the prosecution—and industry at an ever more rapid pace, for wage raises and for decent “Our verdict is ‘not guilty,’ he FROM SALT LAKE as Fred Biedenknapp, candidate for I declared, was working-class now seen—by Judge Barnhill working conditions underground. \ the ver- President of the Brooklyn; him- dict. ‘Guilty’ capitalist Boro of self. Under North Carolina law the Organize the Illinois miners into a real, ffighting union—the Na- is the class Joseph Magliacano, candidate Textile, War Industry Center Must Be Adopted decision. The strikers on for Y. Votes first degree charges against 13 de- tional Miners’ Union! were tried Assembly in the Sixth District, and N. Conference Miners! last is your Down with the traitors, their racial, religious and political By Workers’ Groups fendants and second degree against Hite at opportunity! Sam Nesin, candidate for Assembly Airmen 50 Tractors Lewis, Fishwick & Co., agents of the scab bosses! I beliefs. Workers the land over must three more enabled the defense to rally to the defense of these labor in the 14th District. use 168 peremrto; challenges of Join the National Miners’ Union! SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Oct. 23. In the important war industry centers of Portsmouth. Norfolk and leaders, victims of capitaist court Bath Beach—Bath Beach Work- veniremen. Th f: ,t trial Char- —Soviet Russia’s four good will Newport News, Virginia, distributions of the Daily Worker have been in justice and the bosses’ Black Hun- ers’ Club, 48 Bay 28th St. Speakers: lotte demonstrateu that by so doing, 1 fliers left the Salt Lake airnort in frequent of late. | dreds. Workers must support the ( H. M. Wicks, candidate for Presi- ! the defense was able to get a jury their monoplane Land of the Soviets From the cotton mill of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Must Increase Mass Pressure International Labor Defense, the dent of the Board of Aldermen'; Ben sections that had a few workers on it, and shortly before 10 o’clock this morn- North and South Carolina, all the way up thru the South to the port j Workers’ International Relief and Gold, candidate for Alderman in the not many others in the jury ing. continuing their flight to New Virginia, centers shipbuilding, munitions, rayon I box 1 the Trade Union Unity League, Bronx, and Morris Kushinsky, can- cities of of and chemi- jwho went there deliberately intend- to 7 Gastonia Prisoners York via Cheyenne, Chicago and De- cal industries, the name and meaning of the Daily Worker has spread. Save which sent the Labor Jury the didate for Assembly in the 16th As- ing to convict regardless of the to troit. The craft landed here yester- i trial.” sembly District, Brooklyn. Whenever a few copies of the Daily Worker are distributed to the evidence. In the second trial, with day for an overnight stop after a Coney Island Coney Island unorganized workers of these sections of the newly industrialized South, only 28 challenges, the number al- Workers Fighting- for Seven Defendants Fight 1 hop from Oakland, Cal. Workers ’Center, 2901 Mermaid Ave. among workers newly awakened to the class struggle, demands for lowed by the maneuver of prosecu- that the air journey Also for Right to Strike and Defend Selves Speakers: M. J. Olgin, candidate for Possibility more distributions of the Daily Worker are made. tion—and judge—a jury of funda- may east- TAG DAYS WILL Assembly in the Bronx; Hyman Le- from Moscow be carried Thus, a worker of Portsmouth. Virginia, writes: “Comrades, our mentalist, white chauvinist, reac- attempt “Greater mass pressure will save b} the capitalist courts to aid the vine, candidate for Sheriff, Brook- ward from New York in an Daily has done more than opened the eyes of many Norfolk and Ports- tionary farmers and one millionaire a the seven Gastonia strikers sen- mill owners defeat the growing i lyn, and Morris Kushinsky. to span the Atlantic and make mouth workers. was obtained. With this packed complete round-the-worid flight was tenced to long terms” is the keynote drive of the National Textile Work- “For instance to the workers of the Southern Spring Mfg. Co. I jury the evidence did not count, by organization HIT U. S. DRIVE again indicated by Semyon A. Shes- of the call issued to all workers ers’ Union for the of gave out 40 or 50 copies of Daily Worker, to Negro They heard the prosecution tell them takov, chief pilot. the the workers | j the International Labor Defense. all labor, Negro and White, in the that attended a T.U.U.L. shop meeting there last Tuesday. jthat it was their patriotic duty to This organization “The textile industry. It is thus an ef- The fliers stopped here to refuel stamp Communism, declares Mass Collection Sat., ASK AFL WORKERS “The workers in the important war industries here are looking out race cqual- freedom of sixteen of the original fort to cripple and defeat the or- their ship instead of heading straight ity, unionism more and more to the Communist Party and Daily Worker for j and atheism, and they twenty-three defendants was won ganization of the unorganized in for Cheyenne because head winds the tried it Sun. Fight Attack guidance in the fast-growing mass struggle. j to do with their verdict of when the I. L. D. ralied world-wide all industries. (Continued on Page Two l I | guilty. working-class mass pressure.” It is a well-aimed blow directed Mass collection days, October 26 TO TOOL MEETING “Comrades, by all means send me at least 100 copies of the Daily It is also reported toda-' that the against Party, pro- 27, Worker for distribution among the workers that will attend a shop The statement follows: the Communist and in which New York work- foreman of the jury, J. L. Todd, who guilty viding basis outlawing inde- fight meeting next Wednesday evening. Workers! The verdict the for ers will collect funds to the appeared as an "innocent” mail- im- class political action of the Foster’s Toronto Story “I think workers should support the Daily and make it possible to and the long prison sentences pendent growing governmental drive against FOSTER SPEAKS carrier, is the father of a super- on the Gastonia strikers and workers in the newly industrialized workers’ organizations, (Continued on Page posed | has been Interests Them Most Two) intendent of a cotton mill in Gas- by the North Carolina South. The next move is the by Communist Party of Imganizers j called the tonia. Todd, as an employe of the sitting at Charlotte is a chal- enactment of a vicious criminal New York district. ¦court the “It will be seen from the report government, being a mail carrier, lenge the whole working class. syndicalist law, similar to those IN to 1 Today, ten years after the NEW ENGLAND Palmer of the Trade Union Educational . was also subject to the discipline of justice decreed (Continued on Page Two) 1 It is vicious class Red Raids, finds a similar condition League General Secretary, William “Our Only Hope in Working the ruling class. < : j developing in New York and Z. Foster, main speaker at the mass * * * throughout Eighteen [Greeted at Worcester; HEAR WORKERS’ VERDICT ON GASTONIA CONVIC- the country. meeting for all New York workers, At the same time that the Inter- already long prison Class,” Says Gaston workers face Friday, October 25, at 8 P. M., in in Boston Today Prisoner national Labor is appeling TIONS AND REAL ISSUES OF ELECTION CAMPAIGN charged Defense terms with sedition for be- Irving Plaza Hall, “it was stated the case to the higher courts, it will longing to of CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. -the against struggle the Communist Party today at the New York headquar- WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 23. j 22.—1 terror the of appeal to the workers and poor far- MANHATTAN. Chicago. ; “Our only hope of freedom lies in southern for better ters of the TUUL, “that while the I Wiliam Z. Foster, general secretary i [ workers condi- ’ j mers of United States and the world p. the working class,” a Gastonia case We appeal to the workers Sunday afternoon, October 27th, 2 m.. Laurel Garden. 79 East Not only in Illinois, in Pennsyl- main work of the league is the of the Trade Union Unity League, I Jtions. ’ to demonstrate in great masses for 116th St. Engdahl. Richard B. Moore, Albert to defendant declared today from be- . of America, in the name of the ex- Speakers: J. Louis vania, in California, in Nortfy Caro- building of new and militant unions, spoke a hall packed with workers ’ the freedom of the Gastonia strikers, Moreau, Rebecca Grecht, Abraham Markoff. on Tivo) (Continued hind the bars where they will stay ' ploited Southern workers’ struggle (Continucd Page on Page Two) here last night. Great enthusiasm i ' the I. L. D. secretary stated. Tuesday, October 6 p. ni., right after work. Bryant Hall, was for the next twenty years unless the against the stretch-out, starvation 29th. displayed by the workers for the 1 [ “We are getting those protests Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. Speakers: William W. Weinstone, Ben Gold. program labor movement forces the capitalist wages, and child labor, to intensify of the T. U. U. L. . j , from all workers’ organizations re- Wortis, Engdahl, Otto Hall, others. * * * class to release him and his six fel- • their fight against this offensive of Rose .1. Louis and I gardless of their affiliation. low workers. the bosses against workers’ organi- Ameri- Will Expose Socialists Role at BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 23.—A mass can Federation of Labor locals have BROOKLYN. I “We do not ask the workers of zations. This is a fight, Park, meeting under the auspices of the ’ j not so been very active in their Boro Thursday, October 24th, 8 p. m.. Boro Park Workers America to fight for our freedom much for the freedom of seven men sending 1373 48rd St., Trade Union Unity League is sched- i 1 protests,” Engdahl, national secre- Center, Brooklyn, N. Y. 12th Anniversary Rallv, Nov. alone,” said one, “but for the rights ; guilty only of organizing, struggle, 3 uled for Franklin Union Hall to- tary of the I. L. D. said Center, 1373 43rd St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Speakers: J. Louis Engdahl of labor. All the forces of the !: and defending themselves against ’ ; yesterday. night at which Willim Z. Foster will ' pointed and others. ! Southern Capitalist class were be- the attacks of bosses’ thugs, He a number of resolutions ; report on the continued organization J but i 25th, Workers Will Pay Tribute to 5 Year Plan At hinl this plot to lock up, not only every right existence ' i from the following locals: Dayton Brownsville: Friday, October 8 p. m., Hopkinson Mansion, plans of the new trade to as a mili-1 Hopkinson Ave., union center seven union organizers, but with us tant union. Klectrotypers’ Union, particularly 428 Brooklyn, N. Y. Speakers: William W. Wein- Is Also Rally established at the Fred Celebration Which Election Cleveland conven- in prison militant unionism itself, Fight Just Dayton, O.; Mould ers’ Union, Madi- stone, Biedenkapp, Harry M. Wicks, Rachel Ragozin, Alfred tion, the drive to organize Started. Wagenknecht. the south, and the right to organize, strike, “We have only just begun fight son, Wis.; Journeymen Tailors’ The betrayal so- and the wave of workers’ to activities of the ¦ the revolution that overthrew Rus- resistance picket, and defend ourselves. for our leaders capitalist 1 Union, of Johnson City, 111.; Lima Williamsburg: Friday, Oct. 25th, 8 p. m.. Millers Grand Assembly, particularly to in the cialist party and its ef- sian capitalism and established a rationalization and terror spread- “The mass pressure jails,” ! Lodge, No. 200, Brotherhood of Rail- , Grand St. and Havemeyer. Speakers: William W. Weinstone. Fred of the work- Dewey Martin said today, j forts to lure the workers of New workers’ and peasants' government, ing over the country. ing class saved us from the electric road Trainmen, Lima, 0., and from * * “The mill of the South will Biedenkapp, Joseph Magliacano, Samuel Nesin, Otto Hall, and others. York into the camp of the bosses in will also pay • workers j tribute to the great chair, forcing the prosecution to re- stand by their fellow workers until j workers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Bath Beach: Friday, Oct. 25th, 8 p. m., Bath Beach Workers Club, the coming elections will be ex- Five-Year Plan Friday there will be a mass jity of Socialist Con- meet- i ducc the charges against us. We they are free to lead us again ! Canada. The A. F. L. membership 48 Bay 28th St. Speakers: Harry M. Wicks, Ben Gold, Morris posed ing, principal speaker in j in unmistakeable fashion at struction and will demonstrate for with Foster as are confident that the workers, un- our fight against the bosses. |is for the Gastonia boys, even Kushinsky. the big celebration of the 12th an- the defense of the in New York City. After We Soviet Union and that Fos- der the leadership of the Interna- know that the workers in other in- Continued on Page Three) Coney Island: Friday, Oct. 25th, 8 p. m.. Coney Island Workers niversary of the Russian Revolution against the menace of imperialist ter’s tour will extend through West Center, Mermaid tional Labor Defense and the Com-'; dustries all over the country will 2901 Ave. Speakers: Moissayc J. Olgin, Hyman and Communist Election Rally, to be war. It will also be the occasion Virginia, Pennsylvania and Morris Kushinsky. into the munist Party, will go on fighting rally to the support of the I. L. D. YOUTH IN UNIFORMS. Levine. held Sunday afternoon, Nov. 3, in ' when the workers of New York will Great Lakes region. for Brooklyn Heights: Friday, 8 p. 20 our unconditional release and in the demand that Beal. Harrisan, Notice to YCL members: All November Ist, m., Tivoli Hall, Madison Square Garden. demonstrate for the election pro- “The T. U. U. L. is no longer Myrtle Speakers: Harry n forj the defense of workers’ rights, McLaughlin, McGinnis, Hendry:;, League members are to participate Ave. M. Wicks, Otto Hall, Fred Biedenkapp. This is the occasion when New : gram party fights propaganda league, of the that for < Minority it is, j Otherwise, this victory of the mill and Carter shall not rot in prison in the demonstration tonight in York in paying tribute loj| (Continued on (Continued on Page Two) I Page ThfeeJ j|owners will mean another step inii for the best part of their lives.” J Union Square in uniform. . - I jj