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 -™ • • Entered am second-ulus* n.:itu>i at the Post Office nt Men York, N, Y., under the net of March 3, 1579. 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.