The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1927, Page 4

') DERIVERA RESORTS TO ALL KNOWN ae George E. Powers, organizer of the Paper Box Makers’ Union that has| | been conducting a strike for the past | Ly ; lagaee weeks, was atrested with) CRUELTIES TO CRUSH PROLETARIAN George Bridgeman, a union member, | on the charge of beating up a scab In By JAR named A. Cooperman. (Special to The Daily Worker) George Aschenbeck, MADRID, Spain, (By Mail).—Since the 1923, coup d’etat the “court- martial” is being worked more intensely than ever cially against its most active members. definitely end any rebellious tendency in the Spanish workingelass. _ In Spain the bourgeoisie GUE ORM merrier re er rere (ann tae by William Karlin, attor-| justice ace in ips most eatin! ir eee ae vray Stes ney for the union. manner. The trials come three or, imprisonment, who are real fighters! m four years after committing delin-| for the working class. in A. -atacemieet to’ The DAILY of wd WORKER, Powers stated that the quincy, and frequently the prosecutor demands penalties less than the time has already clapsed in imprisonment. The defendants are forced to confess by all kinds of brutal methods of the “guardia civil” More Condemned Workers, ‘claim of Cooperman was a ers that were summer of 1924 in Castellon de la Puana. This regi-| work ment was to be sent to Morocco to| ses,” said Powers. Some months ago it to the light the innocence of ‘two workers who were 12 years in prison, condemned for murde But “dead” has been found 2 two had confessed to being sins by the terrible abuse of the police was brought ment had to be sent in order to help| attacked Bridgeman. retreat 20,000 Spanish men died. a the Among the soldiers of regi- Against Communists. rather than fight in the war which! Since 1920, when the Spanish Com- munist Party was organized it has mot been possible for the Party to function openly. It has al been considered an _ illegal orga . and all those there were Just the fact that a person prison. The leaders have now been Tuesday. ber of a committee, speaking as a) sentenced to life imprisonment. The Communist in a trade union as- they hated. In order to erganize the rebellion, a hundred soldiers held va- rious meetings about the city. This They were arrested by Patrolman of the Clinton Street Station and brought before Magistrate Weill, in the Essex Mar- A r. Primo de Rivera’s pol-| ket Court, where they were released icy is to carry out the most cruel oppression against the proletariat, espe-| on $500 bail “each. Their case will In this way, he thinks possible to| come up for trial Wachbuday worn: inery is being introduced hundreds |to $18 a week of 52 hours. ing, January 26, when they will be lie. | Recently there took place another «prj ni . we is : war council against numerous Poke teccee front en pee jit jelothing and shelter. soldiers during the! persuade him not to be a strike-| a regiment of! breaker, pogo Beeieie tea ia: about 1,000 young workers toil un-|mad, we rush to our machines, sup- “When we were fight against Abd-el-Krim. The regi-| trying to convince him, he suddenly I tried to sto ,| the Xaouen retreat conducted by Pri-|him but we soon saw it was usel 9 se mo de Rivera himself, and in which! so we started to leave. He then blew |he gets only from $14.00 to $18.00|partment must clean our machines,| (ho class struggle. police whistle and had officer |* Week. Aschenbeck place us under arrest.” | * , An attempt to settle the paper-|hundreds of young workers under-|is done on our time. ment there were some ready to rebel}. makers’ strike will be made at|Paid, they toil eight and three-quar-|period the a joint meeting of the Citizens Com- | yin t mittee of One Hundred, delegates |wage of $16.000 to $18.00 a week.|Such are the conditions also in the |from the Paperbox Makers’ Union, : , and representatives of the manufac- open air assemblage was discovered| turers, to be held at the Bar Associa- | 860.00, sent to| tion Building, 42 West 44th St., next | a 7 The paperbox makers’ strike is now |5,000 workers employed seasonally, | trial was not public, this being one in its seventeenth week, with the |the conditions are unimaginably rot-| _THE DAILY WORKER By I. RIJAK | away the poisonous gases that enter New York, where different|your lungs and make you sick and kinds of light industry are concen-|dizzy.” For this torture, these trated, we find that 4 large percen-|working boys and girls get no more tage of workers are young. We have |than $15.000 or $18.00 a week, |various industries where only young Chases Girls Down. \workers are employed. Especially! In the International Handkerchief in the large shops where new mach-|Co. 800 young workers get only $16 Let’s and thousands of young workers arejlisten to a young girl from this jmiserably underpaid. The majority|shop: “The wages which we work- jof these young workers do not re-lers receive are an insult to us. By |ceive enough pay to live on decent-|means of piece work, they are able jly. They are forced to give up ac-|to drive us at a terrific speed, even |tual necessities of life. They cannot|/robbing us of our lunch time. We secure the necessary food,/are supposed to get 3-4 of an hour }for lunch, but they start the ma- chine at 12:25, just 25 minutes after where|we have started our lunch. Like seven Speed On Pencils In the Eagle Pencil Co., der miserable conditions, where the |posedly to make money, but at the speed-up system is highly developed, | end of the week, we find very little. me worker is forced to work on|When the whistle blows for us to go hree and four machines, for which|home, we girls in the operating de- jand our dresses and hair, as they are In the Freshman Radio Co.,with|full of cotton. And this, of course, During this walks around, girls downstairs.” forman ter hours a day for the starvation| chasing all the At the same time, this company | National Biscuit Co., Sunshine Bis- made last year a profit of $2,580,-|/cuit Co., National Cloak and Suit |Co., Miller Shoe Co., Loft Candy Tricks of Efficiency. |Shops and in hundreds of different |_ In the Fred Isman Radio Co., with |shops’ dnd industries. Easy to Rob Young. Why, are the young workers ex- sembly, or the reading of our organ) of the means used by Primo de Riv-| workers still vigorously fighting the|ten and unsanitary. A young worker |ploited ‘more ‘than the adult work- “La Antorcha’’, is considered a crime} era. and enough for imprisonment. our comrades, Joaquin Maurin, Salas, Victor Colome and others were! years. accused of a “terrible crime”; they| “Ley Fuga”. intended to form a Communist fede-| General Martines Amido, ration, They have been sentenced to! was governor of three years in prison and were not}eq what even allowed to defend themselves. Alberto F. Perez,| steadily and successfully for three| the country unorganized. has been called the “ley| the strikers. | fuga”. This consists.in giving “legal”) The condemned comrades are our| sanction to the murder of the most Party’s most active and capable mem-| important members of the working) City, Workers Party, bers. court was to separate from the work-! police, after committing murder, will) Communism ingclass struggle combatants as de-| publish an. “official communique”, Subsection 6-B, termined as were those comrades. In saying that the prisoner was killed) Wednesdays; 8:30 P. all Spanish j Communists and syn-lis now re-established. Haffer ‘as instructor. Q °) fe. ye) Q Q fe. re. fe. re} —a Meat Market 4303 8th AVENUE Bakery 4301 8th AVENUE Deliveries to your door. | bosses’ attempt to break up the union. !from this shop writes to us the fol-|crs? Publication of any brutal act of) By their planned disruption of the lowing: Some few days ago in Barcelona| the government is not permitted. The| New York union, manufacturers hope " Oscar Perez Louis, military censorship has been working| to keep the paperbox makers all over | bosses. Jacob Bilkoff is coming in from Philadelphia to act as chairman at | the conference, which was demanded when he| when public indignation was aroused Barcelona establish-| by the brutality of the police toward Comrades of Section 6, New York are » notified | The design of the military| class organizations in Barcelona. The that a class in the Fusdamentals of a is hethg organized in It will be held on) , at 29 Gra- ails there are numerous while trying to escape. This method! ham Aye., Brooklyn, with Comrade Why are young workers’ hours “The efficiency schemes in |from 48 to 52 hours per week, while our shop are one of the tricks of the|other workers enjoy a forty or forty- The multiple control system |four hour week? Why are the young {means that each worker is watched |workers of the pencil and handker- over by ten or more foremen, We |chief factories forced to operate two are squeezed into bénch space (on|or three machines for $18.00 a week, the average, ten to fifteen on a/when other workers operate only one bench made for five). Racks are | machine and get from $40 to $50 a piled in back and in front so that|week. There is only one answer, and there is hardly space to breathe in.| that is—the ‘young workers are not | There is no flue system to. carry |organized into trade unions! WORKERS’ SCHOOL STUDENTS NEED DAILY The Students’ Council of the Workers School representing 1200 students welcomes its co-worker for the Labor movement; The DAILY WORKER, to New York City. The student body of the Workers School in New York City are training in order to prepare themselves for better service to the American Working Class and feel that you are a necessary aid to them in that task. We assure you we will use your columns to great advantages for the movement. i STUDENTS’ COUNCIL OF THE WORKERS SCHOOL Per Jack Glass, General Sec’y. 'NEW YORK WORKERS SCHOOL READY WITH 51 GOOD COURSES IN SCIENCES TOILERS NEED; STUDENTS NEARLY ALL FROM LABOR UNIONS The New York Workers School today announced 51 new courses to begin in the months of February and March, for the Spring Term of 1927. This announcement comes after the completion of the most successful teri in the history of the rapidly growing Workers School. Last term, some 50 odd courses were offered and over 1,200 students registered for one or more of these. Between 80 and 90 percent of this registration were members of New York trade unions) mn The Workers School thus becomes |LEMS OF AMERICAN MARXISM an integral part of the New York|—BERTRAM D. WOLFE; and of a Labor Movement and in fact has not | telated nature is JOSEPH BROD- only participated in the educational |SKY’S course in CIVICS and AMER- Difficulties of New Working Youth 5 re) e) re) re) e) re) re) re) re) e. e) © e) e) e) re. © | | e) } re) re. 5 re) e) S e) S fe) 5 re) re) | © e) e) e) 2) O e) e) S 2) O 2) e) 2) ) e) ) OS O © © e' O © e) re. } O O © . } e) O O 8; O re) O O O fe} O O re. S © fe) fe) fe) © e) © 2) O © O O © © fe) 6 O fe) re) e) 2) O O O O e, , O O O Restaurant 806 43rd STREET Finnish Co-operative Trading Ass'n, Inc. 4301 8th AVENUE, BROOKLYN, N. ¥. Tel. Windsor 9052-9092. Billiard Parlor 4303 8th AVENUE CDOCOOOOO0Q0000000000000000G000000000000000000000000000000 ment but also in all of its recent} strikes to which speakers and lec- turers were furnished by the School. \It is by far the largest institution engaged in Workers’ Education in the entire United States. The new bulletin, now ‘ready for distribution, announces courses by SCOTT NEARING, ROBERT W. DUNN, HARVEY O'CONNOR, AR- |THUR W. CALHOUN, THERESA WOLFSON, BENJAMIN GITLOW, WILLIAM H. WEINSTONE, ALEX. ANDER TRACHTENBERG, BER- TRAM D. WOLFE and many others. Seott Nearing offers two short courses on Saturday afternoon in February and March, one dealing with the DECLINE OF THE BRIT- |ISH EMPIRE and the other with |the condition of POST WAR EU- |ROPE. ROBERT W. DUNN is giv- ing a short course in the month of |March entitled: “AMERICAN FOR- |EIGN INVESTMENTS” and dealing with the problem of American Im- jperialism. Harvey O’Connor offers a course in ADVANCED LABOR JOURNALISM as a follow-up for his course in Labor Journalism dur- ing the past term. A notworthy feature of the new iterm is the course in PROBLEMS OF THE NEEDLE TRADES with Benjamin Gitlow as instructor. The demand for courses on American History and problems facing the American Labor Movement is met by a series of courses including the HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES—James Cork; AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HIS- TORY—D. BENJAMIN; PROB- 3rd floor. A Thrilling Film 2P. M.; 4.15 P. M. Tickets in Advance Tbe “BREAKING CHAINS” airs ® work of the New York Labor Move- |ICAN GOVERNMENT. As special courses offered trade unionists, in addition to Gitlow’s Problems of the Needle Trades, are offered THEORY and PRACTICE OF TRADE UNIONISM—JOHN J. BALLAM; Labor Journalism; ELE- MENTARY AND ADVANCED MARXIAN ECONOMICS with RAY RAGOZIN and H. M. WICKS as in- structors; AMERICAN LABOR PROBLEMS, a Symposium Course, and many others. Prob- lems of the Communist Movement are taken up in a course by that name, offered by Willian W. Wein- stone, and in a course in COMMU- NIST PARTY ORGANIZATION with JACK STACHEL as the in- structor. A full catalog of courses can be secured by writing to Bertram D. Wolfe, Director of the Workers School, 108 East 14th St., New York City. Daily Worker Builders To Meet This Monday Every Daily Worker Builder around New York is requested to attend a most important meeting at 108 East 14th Street this Monday, January 24th, at eight o’clock. The special order of business will be the problem of the news stands. Since The Daily Worker is printed here this now be- comes the most important phase of the work. Instead of forty collectors as heretofore, at least two hundred news stand inspectors and district managers are now needed. Attend the meeting to learn the details. Russia from 1917 to 1923 LOVE — HATE — REVOLUTION 4 Showings SUN. FEB. 6, 1927 WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St., East of Broadway Advance Sale of Tickets at the Box Office Waldorf Theatre, Jimmie Higgine Book Store, Dally Worker Office--Ausp.: 7P.M39 P.M. Int, W'kers Aid At the Door 99e ooo’ York | The most important problem be- fore the New York workers is to help organize the ‘Young workers. We, the Young Workers (Communist) jorganization, are leading the young conditions, Into Shops. We issued in our organization a slogan, “Into the Shops!” so that we, the Young Workers League, shall be organically connected with the | youth of New York City by trans- ferring our membership from the small places into the large shops, where they can be more closely in touch with the masses of the youth and help make their struggles against the bosses effective. It is the task of the Y. W. L to give the young workers the right leadership and to teach the correct tactics of | | Issue Shop Papers. We are issuing several shop papers and leaflets. In these papers we are calling upon the young workers for action. On the basis of their concrete conditions in the shops, we are mak- ing concrete analyses and we are putting up concrete demands, for which we are calling upon the work- ers to fight. In various shops, our papers are becoming the expression of the working youth. This we can judge from the many letters we re- ceive, In the handkerchief shop, we issue a paper, “The Youth Champion.” In | the Eagle Pencil,—‘The Workers | Point.” In the Freshman Radio,— “The Workers Broadcaster.” It is true that these are not coming out regularly on account of financial and other difficulties. Young and Old Unite Yes, the Young Workers League will give the young workers of New York the proper leadership, But this jis not sufficient. We must have the |belp of the adult and other skilled | workers, the support of organized la- |bor of New York. We must have unity and a common understanding and brotherly relations between the young and adult. workers. One trade union worker, one skilled worker, can and must help out at least ten unskilled or semi-skilled young workers. Liebknecht Day Meet Denounces Nicaraguan Steal in Resolution More han 500 young workers and students attended the mass meeting called by the Young Workers (Com- munist) League of Dist. 2, at Stuy- vesant Casino, New York. The meet- ing was held to commemorate the 8th anniversary of the death of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxenburg. Comrade Schapp, the chairman of | the meeting, sounded the note for the | entire meeting when in his introduc- | tory remarks said that at this time |and a war was threatened with Mex-| taught us by that valiant fighter against German imperialism and mil- itarism, Liebknecht. Comrade Frankfeld, the first speaker, gave a short review of the life and activities of Karl Liebknecht. Liebknecht was the first to realize the importance of the working class youth in the class struggle, and did ism during the World War but agi- tated among the soldiers and workers against the war. The next speaker was a ‘Pioneer. He was greeted with cheers and vig- orous applause from the pioneers and the audience. He told of the strug- gles of the Pioneers in the schools and that the Pioneers were doing their bit by following in the footsteps of Karl Liebknecht. Comrade Don, the District Organ- izer of the Y. W. L., spoke next. He stressed the necessity of building an organization to fight against mili- tarism, to build the Young Workers League, and to carry the fight into the schools and into the factories. He showed that the young workers who are exploited in the shops and factories have nothing to gain from engaging in the work of the im- perialists who want to exploit the colonial peoples as well. Comrade Zam, who has. just re- turned from Soviet Russia, was the last speaker, . He told of the heroic struggles of the peoples ia Morocco and Syria last year. This year it is the people of Nicaragua, China, and Mexico that are demanding national independence. He told of the activity of the Y. C. L, in France at the time of the Mor- occo conflict and how Comrade Dor- iot flung the challenge of defiance of the young workers and peasants of France into the House of Deputies. At the end of the meeting a reso- lution was read by the chairman and adopted unanimously, It expressed solidarity of the young workers in the meeting with the oppressed peo- ples of Nicaragua, languishing under American marine rule and the people of Mexico, threatened with invasion from the United States. — League, by putting up the fight for| workers in their struggles for better} every-day struggles of the working} ico, that we should learn the lessons} not abandon the principles of Marx-| POLIGE ATTACK SHANGHAI LABOR _ DEMONSTRATION Masses in Anory Mood Against Imperialists HANKOW, Jan. 23.—Foreign po- licemen fired last night on union |motormen and conductors who were | parading in the international settle- ment in celebration of their victory jover the employers following a two | days’ strike. Infuriated by the provocative ac- tion. of the British police, the trade unionists seized available weapons and used them freely on the police. Motor bus employes also struck, tying up local transportation. The street car companies settled with the men, The employers failed to carry out all the provisions of the agree- ment. The imperialists see in the most recent uprising, an advance no- tice of what took place in Hankow when the Chinese kicked out the Brit- ish and took over the foreign conces- sions. With the masses in Shanghai in sympathy with the Cantonese, it is not expected that the imperialists can hold the city against the revolu- tionary armies. | Thieves Cannot Agree. Failure of England, Japan and the United States to reach an agreement on Chinese policy is not contributing to the equanimity of the imperialist agents in China. Japan has relin- quished the policy of force and while the United States is willing to make a warlike demonstration against China, the Washington government is not sufficiently enthusiastic about 1n- tervention to suit Britain, which has more at stake in China than any ether country. It is also known that the Chamber- lain-Baldwin wing of the British eabinet favors a policy of conciliation in China, while the Churchill-Birken- head-Hicks wing is ready to break with Chamberlain and Baldwin on the question of relations with Russia, and a more aggressive policy in China. | Churchill and Mussolini. Winston Curchill is now in Italy conferring with Mussolini. Chinese statesmen are of the opinion that Churchill is trying to form a Euro- pean bloc for a war against Russia }and China simultaneously. British warships continue to arrive jin Chinese waters in increasing numbers, Whether the British aim to recover the lost concession de- |pends to a great extent on whether the Chamberlain-Baldwin group wins out in the British cabinet. British agents express pessimism over the radical policy of the Kou- mintang. They had hoped for a vic- tory for the conservative elements, but the latter have been pushed aside by the revolutionaries. Suspend Kalpokas for | Lese Majesty; Local Desires Investigation By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. Abraham Beckerman and _ his ique have added another notch on their gun by suspending the regular |elected business agent of Local .54, | Amalgamated Clothing Workers of | America. This action was taken because he was not supporting that union- wrecking crew in their fight against the militant and left wing forees in the local labor movement. Recently Re-elected. Business Agent, F. Kalpokas, was recently re-elected hy an over- whelming vote in his local, which did not please “Mussolini” Beckerman. So Kalpokas was brought before the joint board and charged with dis- tributing 2 leaflet denouncing Beck- ermanism. Kalpokas vigorously denies that he gave the leaflet to the right wing spy, or made the alleged statement, that Beckermanism destroys the union, Beckerman then demanded that Kalpokas sign a statement denounc- ing the Workers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League, : While not a member of either or- ganization, he refused to sign that “Yellow Dog” document. Infuriated, Beckerman then had his hand-picked, and gangster controlled joint board suspend Kalpokas from office. When the members of Local 54 were informed of this action, they passed a resolution at their meeting by a vote of 219 to 16, demanding an impartial trial and a complete investigation of the entire question. A committee of three, consisting of J, Buivydas, V. Charnauskis and A. Andrulis, were elected, with in- structions to appear before the next meeting of the joint board, and see that the rights of the membership of Local 54 are upheld. | | |when American marines and war-| | ships had been sent to Nicaragua,| | WASHINGTON, Jan. 23,—-Consid- eration of questions concerning ex- tra-territoriality and other treaty relations with China have temporar- ily been swept into the background by this government in view of the ex- tremely grave situation which has arisen as the result of anti-foreign demonstrations at Hankow, Foochow and other towns in the Yangtse val- ley. \