The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1927, Page 4

A sara Page Four 10,000 PASSAIC | STRIKERS CHEER ONE YEAR FIGHT Enthusiasm Over Brave| Struggle | PASSAIC, N. J., Jan. 26 thousand textile worke packed two halls to capacity night to celebrate the first anniver- sary of the biggest textile strike this city has ever had. The same program w both the Belmont Park field, and the Ukr saic, and included leaders and f Over ten nd str Kers mn at all in Gar- inian Hall, in Pas- hes by strike from near cities, with mu numbers by loca and New York ent. Ellen L financial secretary of Local U, W., presided at the Belmont k meeting, with Thomas De o, Italian organizer, in charge at Ukrainian Hall, Gustave Deak, pre: f Local 1603, reminded th how the strike began in any wit the! demand for the return of the wage cut and of the mary dismissal of the committee ng the demand. He told how the workers loyaily fol- lowed the leadership of the United Front Committee and had the big mill completely tied up by the follow-| ing day. referred to the race prejudices, which he said the bosses had fostered among the workers, and of the wiping out-of these prejudices] during the white heat of “a crusade} for better conditic He praised. the splended solidarity of the work- ers which had made ible the four settlements so far ach d. He re- ferred to “those few who had lost courage and gone back to work, only to find themsel the union finally in zrace when forced the mills to settle.” Both Miss Dawson and Thomas De Fazio, in opening their meetings. gave a brief outline of the year of struggle and the purpose of the meet- ings. Referring to the letter of Mr,| Forstmann to Judge Cabell, Deak praised the For nn & Huffmann workers for the spirit they kad in rejecting the Forstmann te: ms. “Foreign Born Can Be Organized” “They say in the texti'e centers, that textile workers.are a lot of ignorant foreigne that they don’t know how to org: ep, kut I as a textile worker, 's: or you all that we appreciate fully the importance of organization, that we stand for union- ism and that we are determined to preserve and protect th> union we! have built and for which we have sacrificed so much during the past! year.” Alfred Wagenknecht, r : man, congratulated the si upon their tenacity, courage and solidar-| ity: | “Today a year ago the strike was called. There are very few stri that have lasted a year. This strike} has persisted, and has won victories, | because you have all stood so solidly} by your union. How Relief Was Organ‘zed. “Many of you knew very little in those early days about the labor ; dates for joint board positions were Rank and File Will Act On Beckerman Meet Saturday To Hear Of Treacheries Abraham Beckerman’s ¢omplete sell-out of the clothing workers union, to the bosses and his unserupulous fixing of the joint board elections held yesterday will be protested by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers ction of the T, U. E. L. in a mass meeting to be held this Saturday at 1 o’clock in Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Avenue. Aroused by the illegal tacties he pursued in yesterday’s elections, in which all the candidates were mem- bers of the Beckerman right wing faction, since members of the left wing were refused positions on the ballot, the progressive members of} the clothing workers union are now prepared to force the issue. | No Regard For Workers. It is charged by the workers that Beckerman has reorganized the shops| according to the wishes of the bosses with no regard for the workers, and that when active worke1s protested,| he had them thrown out of the shops!/ also, Speakers at meetings of the pro- gressive unionists are the most re- cent victims of Beckerman’s sabo- tage, the “Mussolini” of the>clothing trade having threatened that he would do his best to “run them out of the industry”. Prefers Scabs. Beckerman told one of the progres- sives, it is charged, that he would rather give the work to seab shops} than permit members of the T. U,. E. L. to hold jobs in shops over| h he has control. Because they refused to sign state- ments condemning the Trade Union Educational League, left wing candi- refused a place on the ballot, which was submitted to the members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Un- ion yesterday. In order to set on record their disapproval ofthe Beck- erman regime, members of the left wing have refused to take part in the election, and an effort will be made to have the “fixed” results set aside, | Kalpokas Framed. Speakers at Saturday’s meeting will include Sasha Zimmerman, of the Cloak Makers union, Ben Gold, of the Furriers union, and Ben Gitlow, S. Liptzin, L. Nelson, P. Aronberg, A.| Ramulia, of the Amalgamated. Cloth- ing Workers of America. At the meeting, considerable indig- nation will surely appear over the frame-up of Business Agent Kalpo- kas of Local 54, a left-winger. Beck- erman demanded the resignation of alpokas, charging that he had dis- tributed T. U. E. L. circulars in his shop. i Kalpokas Vindicated. A general meeting of Local 54 was called and an election held, and Kal- pokas was vindicated by the rank and| AUDIT WRECKS MORTON'S PLAN TO RETAIN JO Reactionary Secretary Of Carpenters Jailed The arrest yestterday of Richard Mrton, expelled member and former financial secretary of Local 2090 of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, brought to a climax the charges made by the membership of that union, that vast amounts of the union’s funds had been embezzled by the reactionary of- ficialdom. These charges were supported by an investigation of Morton’s private possessions, which, it rgued, he could never have acquired through is salary as financial secretary. It proven that he has quite a sub- wi stantial bank account, and tht he also holds deeds for six houses in this city. Attacks “Reds.” Morton, who at the last election failed to be re-elected as officer in his local union, appealed to Hutche- son, general president of the brother- hood, that he was being ma victim of an ousting c stituted by the “Reds to investigate the election returns. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW: YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1927 WORKWOMEN’S COUNCILS OF PASSAIC STEADILY | ON THE JOB RAISING RELIEF MONEY FIR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN JAILED DURING STRIKE Which is constantly increasing. They} | In that section known as the “East| meet regularly every week and carry! Side” of Passaic, between First and! on a steady. program of work. Like Tenth Streets, and in the little town| the other councils, they: have sup- of Wallington, which lies just across/pcrted the strike by raising money the river, live many Polish, Ukrainian! for relief, by helping in the strikers and Slavic workers. This is the poor-| children’s kitchens run by the United est quarter of the city. Here are| Council of Workingtlass Housewives, | broken down shacks and aged tene-| by visiting scabs and mobilizing for ments with pitch-black halls eo ae picket line, etc. stairs full of holes, Here the work- ey ; | ers live crowded in three little rooms.! eiemeeeeY uesaeks |Families are large, with five, eight} On January 15th the 8th St. Coun- | and ten children. The majority of the) cil held a dance at which they raised) | women living in this, section go out) $160.. Of this they are donating $30 of the home to work. They could! for the textile strike prisoners, $30 never bring up their children on the| for the general relief committee, $25 wages of the men, who are either|for families of the prisoners and $5 textile workers or workers in one of| for the Polish workingclass newspa-} the two large rubber mills in Pas-| per, Tribune Rabotnicza, the rest of |saic,, The women. work in the tex-| the money remaining with the coun-| tile mills and in the handkerchief and/cil. On Saturday, January 29th, this cigar factories, of which there are| council is holding a party for the | several in this district. | children of the neighborhood, at | Te es: ‘aes ‘ \ | which speakers will educate the chil- |. . + Workwomen’s Councils. |dren in the class steuggle.. This will About six months ago some of the) | most active of these Polish and Uk-| rainian women, among them many textile strikers, were organized inte | three workingwomen’s councils, one meeting on 8rd St., one on 8th dt. |and one in Wallington. Like the oth- ‘are affiliated with the United Council {of Workingelass Houswives. Thesc be followed by a dance for the grown- ups. On February 19th they are run- ing another dance. ‘hey are also tiating a “Build the Union” cam- paign, in which council members will tvely help in building up the tex- ile union through this difficult pe- er eight councils in this vicinity, they| riod. This council has recently had several very successful educational meetings wich lectures in Polish, at- This was done wit hthe end in view, | Polish-speaking councils have a mem-) tended by a large number of people, that such official action would sus-| bership jointly of about two hundred,! both men and women. pend the local, expel the progressives, and he would again recapture his former position. Graft Disclosed. Hutcheson appointed Mr. Guerin, a member of the executive board to in- vestigate the charges of embezzle- ment of local 2090, but on hearing that union funds were actually miss- ing, immediately rejected left him to his own fate. The investigatio nof Guerin, deal- ing only with the last ye finances, nevertheless revealed a shortage in the union treasury of $636.61. The result of this finding prompted the membership of local 2090, to imme- diately expel Morton from their or- ganization. More Stealing. It was then decided to employ the help of a public accountant, te go over the total books since the time when Morton had taken office seven years ago. The accountant’s report was rendered on Dec. 7, and stated that a complete audit could t be made since several of the leds are A detailed statement reveals the | fact that from the period of April 1, 1924 to December 31, 1924, the to- ‘al funds missing amount to $1,893.05. Of the items listed as missing are 30 ‘nitiation payments, the weekly in- comes of 14 meeting nights, monthly dues payments of six members; fifty items of payments of the day book were not carried on the ledger. Trial Monday. PAPERBOX UNION CONTINUES FIGHT | | vivir AGAINST BOSSES appeal from the election returns, and! Soiket eh aaee Manufacturers Spurn All Settlement Efforts The Citizens’ Committee on the pa-| perbox makers strike, meet again last night in a public hearing, at 42 West 44th street, to decide upon a possible way of settling the stvike. The com- mittee is headed by Rev. Charles K. | Gilbert, of the Social Service Com- | mission, who has the full assistance | of such men as Bishop Manning, Dr. |Parkes Cadman, Rabbis Goldstein jand Wise, Henry Goddard Leach and | R. Fulton Cutting. | Refuse To Recognize Union. | This was the second®meeting held | by the committee. A representative body had been invited from the union as well as the’ bosses. The union ‘was represented by. its attor-! ney Mr. Karlin,’ and its: manager, Fred Cailoa. A letter was read by | Chairman Bilikoff, sent by the Manu- facturers Association, in which it was stated that the bosses said that they were willing at one time, to give the union a try-out, that however, since BOSS SWINDLES GIRL STRIKERS AT GARFINKEL’S ‘Paints Factory; Orders | Work; Can’t Move PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 26.—- Striking workers from the Garfinkel and Ritter shop who went there to- day to collect for the shortages found in their pay envelopes last Saturday, were informed by the boss that no | money was due them. There had been |no price agreement for the work they | were employed on when they struck, and without informing them, the boss had decided to reduce the rate of pay. Receipt Before See Pay. Because of the system in operation lat this shop, the girls had all re- | ceipted for their pay “in full” before they opened their envelopes. There would have been no ciian @ of collee- ting even if they had not already gone on strike against this and many other intolerable conditions in this | shop, It was learned today that while | the firm was spreading rumors ‘that |it would take its business away from the city and leave the strikers with- On the strength of this report, lo-| then their experience has been such, | Ut jobs, the boss is actually painting cal 2090 asked the district attorney | that they will have nothing further |the whole factory, importng a car- for a warrant for the arrest of Morl ton, with the resut talht he is at | te do with the union. Statement Declared Arrogant. present held in jail. Morton’s brother] ‘This statement was characterized yesterday offered a mortgage bond of | by Norman Thomas as “most ‘arbi- $100,000 for the prisoners’ release. | trarely and arrogant,” he implored | The bond however was not accepted./the committee not to discontinue its since the taxes of the property had | erfort to adjudicate, the difference. file by a vote of 800 to 16. Despite! v t—of the world-wide efforts a7 ythetaeae sce rn | this, Beckerman still insisted on Kal- of workers to organize so that they! _ . could fight effectively against their} jokas resignation. exploiters. Speakers cam2 to you) An interesting sidetight on yester- and ld you day after day of the day’s election is the fact that of the labor movement, and you began to! six candidates for the positions of understand the significance of your| Jewish Business Agents, not one can own struggle. ‘even sign, his name in yiddish, alll “I want to congratulate you upon| being Beckerman gangsters, your courage, your tenacity, your solidarity. 1 do not know cf a strike) ——————————. Workers Schoo! to Have Professor Talk About in which a group of workers. have stood so loyally to an ideal as this: group. The entire labor movement} must place this to ycur credit. | “Today, a full year after the strike) began, you are still continuing your struggle against the mils which have not yet settled. Message of Solidarity. Louis Rifkin, President of Waiters) and Waitresses Union Local No, 1, came from New York City to assure the strikers of the continued pathy of his union with the strike: “Not many unions can ,boast so) proud an accomplishment as yours. I have spoken in two [alls tonight and I did not believe that I would see so) large a crowd in these two hells one} year after the strike had begun. I¢ was here six months, four months) ago, and each time I come here the) crowd seems larger. j Speakers’ Conference | On Defense Question The Agitprop department of Dis- trict 2, New York City, is calling a speakers’ conference for this Thurs- day night, Janua , at 8 p. m, in Room 35 at. 108 East 14 St., to dis- cuss the problem of labor defense and the new attacks upon the left | wing, Communists and other mili-| tant elements in the labor movement, The speakers will discuss the method of presenting this matter at meetings and will then be assigned to cover the important series of sec- tion membership meetings, held specially to consider the defense problem and the Russian question, during the first week in February. Roll in the &~ RES 4 | |Revolution and Letters | New School for Social Research, | ers School this Sunday night, Janu- Professor H, W. L, Dana, of the will lecture at the New York Work- ury 30, on “Revolution and Litera- ture.” Professor Dana has been a pion- cer in the study of the social inter- pretation of literature and has given many courses on various phases of this subject. His lecture is one in a series of Sunday night Forum lectures which have dealt with one or another as- pect of historical materialism as applied to special problems. Last Sunday night, Louis Lozowick ap- plied historical materialism to the field of art in a lecture on “Art and Society.” On the Sunday night following .Professor Dana’s lecture, (February 6) Bernard J. Stern, a lecturer on sociology, will speak on the “Con- tributions of Modern ‘Science to Historical Materialism.” On Sunday night, February 18, M. J. Olgin will speak on “Present Day Russian Literature” in which he will trace the influence of the revolution and the post-revolution- ary period on Russian literature. On February 20, Louis Fischer will speak on “Oil and Imperialism.” Teli vour “'e~4- ‘> ‘ny The naw: we. a } not been paid. His trial has been set for next Monday, on a charge of em- bezzlement. Subsequent to the audit it was found that the trustees of local 2090 have been negligent in their exam- ination of the books. Cloak Shop Chairmen Can Now Obtain Scale At District Office The joint board requests all chair- man of cloak shops to go to the dis- trict. offices to get the new wage) seale on the 42-hour week basis. Thomas stated that it would be a ca- lamity if the bosses are permitted to continue in their tacties to employ the New York cty police for so-called protection, but actually, to club the strikers. He also stated that the employers ure now pitting their financial re- sources against the poverty of the strikers, whos treasury is depleted. | Tt was pointed out that eight attempts have been made by various church and social institutions to have the hosses meet with the strikers and to |diseuss the problem of settlement. | But each time the employers declined. |The committee decided at the end of the meeting to send a ‘delegation .to As a result of the organization) yavoy Walker, and ask for relief campaign being carried on now by) measures. the white goods workers, Rose. Auer) Like Old Times. bach and Trescina Kila of Local 66, I. L. G. W. U., have been sentenced) wATERTOWN, N. Y.—lIt felt like to 30 days in jail, The girls, who are| old times today to Commander Don- both active unionist, were arrested) gi B, MacMillan, Arctic explorer, on the complaint of the Real Em-| with the thermometer registering 22 broidery Company of 361 West 35th! degrees below zero, a drop of 48 de- Street. | grees overnight. load of work and getting ready to re- jopen next week when he thinks the jgirls will be ready to return. They Want Union. Garfinkel and Ritter have already loffered the strikers an inerease in {pay; but they refuse to listen to the cemand for a union. The girls will not go hack to work until their union is recognized as well as an increase of wages granted. Their determination to continue the with which some of the girls face severe hardships for the sake of gain- ing a union. One girl is 21. Her 21- year-old husband is going blind from working in a dye works. They “have a child whose board must be paid regularly. The husband must have an eye specialist to try to save part of his sight. The girl is the sole sup- port of this family, yet she came out on strike and is a strike committee member. True Courage. Another girl is a learner who was earning $5 a week. She has 5 younger brothers the oldest of whom is 11. The father is sick and cannot work and she is the sole’ support of the family. ba Roll in the Subs’ For The DAILY WORKER. PHILADELPHIA LO OE OEE OO PHILADELPHIA LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING PROGRAM Freiheit Singing Society. “STRIKE,” mass revolution play, by the Workers’ Theatre Alliance. Movie, local party activities. Young Pioneers. Elkin Keitses of Y. W. L. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. C. E, RUTHENBERG Chairman J, 0, BENTALL. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28th, 8 P. M., at LABOR INSTITUTE, 8th and Locust Streets Auspices Workers (Communist) Party. The Manager’ s Corner : YOU ARE DOING WELL, COMRADES! I have just received at my desk the report for the last two days from the comrades who are out on the front line trenches, inspecting the newsstands. We have not yet re- Newsdealer s Adds 2 B Adds 38 L Adds 3 C new Starts with -3 D new Starts with 5 CG new Starts with 10 B(2) Adds 5 L Adds 7 WwW Adds 2 D Sold out 25 he is handling the paper, get Keep up the good work. ’ groups. Ask your neighborhood newsdealer whether he is handling the paper. If he is not, convince him to try tt. If ceived any return figures from the news distributing agency, so these figures are the only ones which show how our paper is faring. Here is the report which is most encouraging: Newsdealer e H new Begins with 5 F Adds 3 L(2) Adds 3 W new Starts with 10 H Adds 5 8(2) Adds 5 R Adds 5 H new Starts with 10 P Adds 5 Organize your inspection him to order more of them. Cover your residential and working section. Watch and see if the paper is properly displayed on the stand, Try to get the eealer’s good-will and cooperation. Above‘all report to us, every complaint, or suggested change This is important. in order. You have begun well. It’s up to you to finish the job—BEPT MILLER. Workers Party to Have New Jersey| Conference NEWARK, N. Ji—A_ sub-district conference of all the ‘party shop and street nuclei as: well ‘as representa- tives of all city executives will be held this coming Sunday, Jan. 30th, at 10 a, m., at the Néwark Labor Lyceum, 704-S, 14th St. Representat'ves of shof and street nuclei from the following cities will be represented: Newark, Passaic, Paterson, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Un- ion City, Perth Amboy, Bayonne, New. Brunswick, Linden, jiffside and many smaller cities and)towns. The purpose of this conference is to discuss the work of theyparty in the New Jersey sub-districh to discuss the experiences in the Work of or- ganizing the unorganized, particular- ly in Passaic, Perth Amboy and Eliza- beth, the shop nuclei experiences of the party in the larger plants of New Jersey, the trade union activity of the party, the strengthening of the party organization, ete. District Two, of which the New York sub-district is part, has given greater attention to the work in New Jersey lately than heretofore, in line with the policy of the party. of con- centrating its energies in the larg- er factories in the basic. industries. Comrade Weinstone, the general secretary of District 2, will be at the conference and report on the general situation in the United States and tasks before the party. Comrade Krumbein, the industrial organizer of District 2, will report on the indus- trial program of the party ' Greetings to the DAILY WORKER To It’s Third Birthday fight is illustrated by the courage | — From a British Communist on visit to Philadelphia. L - Greetings to. the DAILY WORKER “in New York May it serve the New York labor movement in its e daily struggle against the brutalities of capitalism, and the corruption of the reactionary labor machine, with even more energy and influence than in the past. ; Tuckers, Hemstitchers, Pleaters and Novelty Workers’ Union Local 41 LL. G. W. U. L. RUBIN, Chairman, Executive Board. A Thrilling Film 2 P, M.; 4.15 P.M. Tickets in Advance T5c “BREAKING CHAINS” ' 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 Higgins Book Siore, Daily Worker Office—Ausp.: Int, Wikers Aid Russia from 1917 to 1923 7P.M.;9 P.M. At the Door 99e