The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1927, Page 4

AG aS | Page Four “Workers ? (Communist Party WORKERS SCHOOL OF NEW YORK OFFERS COURSE “IN PROBLEMS OF NEEDLE TRADES UNIONS FOR SPECIAL BENEFIT OF NEW LEFT WING GROUPS: One of the most impor the Workers 2 Needle Trad ant new courses offered for the first time by st 14 is a course in the “Problems of the rjamin Gitlow as instructor, This course is of timely interest use the needle trades unions have been going through u crisis. during ast couple years. Some of these problems are of a general nature, such as shifts in the industry, unemployment, unemploy- ment insurance, trade agreements, speed up, standards of production, or- zation of the ur zed workers in the needle trades industry, amal- gamation, i vA Others are of more direct importance to leading elements in the needle trades unions for the ¢ x out of their technical duties. The needle trades unions have been greatly weakened by the incompetent leadership of the right wing elements and the rank and file have in many cases re- moved these incompetent officials and put in their place men with a greater fighting spirit and more determination to defend the interests of the Ameri- can workers. The new leadership does not depend, as did the old, on gangsters to and mai n their leadership, but depend upon rank ion and pa’ pation in the activities of the union and mass picketing and k and file committees for the organization of the unorganized. ns that a great number of new elements have been drawn into active direction of the affairs of the unions and the course will be of great value to them in giving them a technical training in the specific problems that they are facing. Benjamin G has for years been a leading figure in the needle trades movemc ted in the giving of the course by such elements as Benjamin Gold, s Zimmerman and other needle trades leaders who will be invited to take up special subjects at some of the class sessions. This cour s open only to active needle trades workers who must get a recommendation from their union or from some progressive group in the union. The fee for the course is $3.50 for three months. It will run on Mon- day nights at 8 p. m. beginning the last week in February. Registrations are now being taken for this and 50 other courses offered by the Workers’ School for the spring term. SECTION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS TO DISCUSS THE RUSSIAN PARTY OPPOSITION dominate the union and file co-ope . at 6 P. M.—100 W. 28th St.—Speaker, Weinstone. 3, at 6 P. M.—100 W. 28th St.—Speaker, Wolfe. at 8 P. M.—81 E. 110th St——Speaker, Weinstone. 347 Boston Road—Speaker, Olgin. 2 meetings— (a) W’msb’g—Tues., Feb. 1, at 6 P. M—29 Graham Ave.—Weinstone. (b) B’sville—Wed., Feb. 2, at 8, P. M—63 Liberty St.—Markoff. y eb, 2 P. M.—1940 Benson Ave.—Speaker, John Ballam. / ssion by membership card only. Comrades, who for some reason are disconnected from the Party should come to these meetings. There will be someone who will see that they are properly assigned to a Party nucleus. NEW JERSEY LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS, Friday, Jan. 28—8 P. M.—Newark—Ukrainian Hall, 57 Beacon Street. Speaker, JOHN J. BALLAM. Sunday, Jan. 30.—7 P. M.—Elizabeth—517 Court Street. Speaker, CHAS, KRUMBEIN. Friday, Feb. 4—8 P. M.—Paterson—8 P. M.—Carpenters’ Hall. ems Speakers, H. M. WICKS and BERT WOLFE. 5 Also ? Yonkers—Friday, Feb. 4th—8 P. M.—20 Warbartun Avenue. LENIN MEMORIAL IN PHILADELPHIA The | Lenin| Seloge to hear him. J. O. Banta Fhiaiepes | District Organizer, will act as chair- PHILADELPHIA. — Memorial meeting in this year promises to be the bigges' and best since our great leader died. | ™#"- ; It will take place Friday evening, at| We have arranged with the man- Albert Weisbord Speaks at Five Big Colorado Meetings (By a Worker Correspondent.) SNVER, Colo.—Albert Weisbord, Passaic strike leader, is giving a series of five lectures under the di- rection of the Workers Party of Den- ver. Jan. 26th, he spoke in Pueblo at a meeting arranged by prominent lead- ers of: the labor movement of that city. The day following he spoke at an entertainment arranged by the Young Workers League of Globe- ville, a‘suburb of Denver. Friday evening he speaks on “The Youth Movement” to the Y. W. L. and its friends who will be present by special invitation. Saturday evening he will address a dinner given by members of the Work- ers Party, and many prominent and active leaders of the labor movement who have been especially invited. Sunday afternoon he will lecture on “The Passaic Strike” at the Open Ferum in Grace Church, The Workers Party has arranged a Lenin memorial meeting at the New speakers will give short talks on| Lenin. But the principal address will | be that of Weisbord who will speak | on “Lenin and the Communist Move- ment of the World.” | The Co-operative Book Shop of | Denver has arranged for the pres- ence of all its members at all of the meetings at which Weisbord speaks | to sell literature. To Organize Workers’ Forum in Frewsburg (By WINNIE A. LITTLE) FREWSBURG, N. Y., Jan. 27.— Comrade G. Siskind of New York ad- dressed the Lenin memorial meeting held here Saturday night. Besides | speaking on Lenin’s life and teach- |ings, he also took up in detail the economie and political situation in China, Nicaragua and Mexico, telling why there are U. S. battleships in the waters adjacent to these countries.| He touches also” upon the danger of new imperialistic wars with Japan, Mexico, or Nicaragua. ¥ | At the close of the meeting, a sup-| ply of Lenin literature, buttons and calendars were sold, and a collection amounting to $10.30,was taken. During the discussion which fol- lowed the lecture, a resolution was taken to organize a Workers’ Forum. A committee of five volunteered to arrange for the details. “Federationist” Is Ready to Accept Open Shop Cash Continued from Page 1 Denver Lyceum, A number of local | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1927 CINCINNATI GETS TASTE OF OHIO FLOOD, Capitalism builds its cities for profit, not use. The poorer sections espe- cially have to be where their inhabitants can most easily rush to the mills and other workplaces for their daily toil. Communist Party of Great Britain Scores James R. MacDonald LONDON, Jan. 27.—The British Communist party issued a state- ment attacking the policy of the government _in China, demanding the immediate recognition of the Nationalist government, the with- of extra-territorial rights. The statement urges British labor not to stop at words but to take what- ever action is most effective in stop- ping the transport. of troops and ammunition to China. The statement. criticises Ramsay MacDonald, right wing leader of the parliamentary Jabor party, whose statements on the aggres- sion in China, the Communist party brands as an apology for the tory government’s action. CURRENT EVENTS that the General Electric Company has a company union and last year T made a talk in Schenectady on the (Continued from page 1) filling his promise unlike other drawal of troops and the surrender | 8 o'clock sharp at Labor Institute,/ agement of the Labor Institute to 8th and Lucust Streets. |let us have the lower hall for the The rich program provided con-{overflow. The large hall will be tains numbers by the Freiheit Sing- ing Society, the International Or- chestra, a play, “Strike,” by Mike Gold, which is a m recitation put on by our local theatrical group, and promises a sensational surprise, dra- matie and artis movie made up of local scenes of an exciting nature. The Pioneers will be on deck with their songs and their young speaker. The Young Work- ers League has a speaker from New York who will represent the youth | c. E. Ruthenberg inspires and en- at’the memorial. always instructs, Then there is a} | filled first. Those who come early will get the best seats. The same | speakers will address both meetings. | Bring your friends and come to |this great meeting. Admission is enly 25 cents. At this memorial meeting protest | will be made against the imperialist | attacks on Mexico and Nicaragua as | well as against the war-mongers who are preparing to declare war on China. It will be an international meeting of workers who are getting veady to meet the challenge of the ‘ever increasing brutal capitalism. Split Bus Patronage : Between Walker and \Furriers Attention! Davis Says N. Y. Cops subject, “The superiority of the Trade! British trade union leaders who made which was broadcast through sta-j| capitalism, under the influence of the tion WGY.” This is the General | balmy climate of ‘the’ Crimea, prom- Electric broadcast station. jises that were quickly dissipated in Friendly Enemies. | the chilly atmosphere of London or An official of General Electric) drowned in the sparkling Burgundy boasted at the League for Democracy| of His Majesty’s wine cellars. summer conference that the firm had} . generously allowed Green the privi-| CCORDING to the Sunday Work- lege of speaking over its radio. er, the brightest and best edited ‘The mere fact that the General! je¢t wing organ in the English lan- Electric Company advertises in the| puage, A. J. Cook has challenged the Federationist” Green’s letter contin-|Trade Union Congress leaders on ues, “does not mean that we are | their yersion of why the General not just as quick to point out the| strike was called off when the British shortcomings of company unions: or| government was faced with the ques- their industrial relations policy as we} tion of civil war or surrender. The would be of a company not advertis-| General Council refused to allow. the ing. delegates to the last congress es Takes The Cash, | the question, but called ‘a conference Green does not state to the cor-|of labor executives which has just respondent how much money the A.|met in London, -Cook demanded a Union Over the Company Union,”{ glowing promises of fighting British} TELEPHONE GIRLS ALL VICTIMS OF SPY ACTIVITIES Members of Union Have Wires Tapped | BOSTON. (FP). Sensational | charges that the New England Tele- ; phone & Telegraph Co. has listened | in on active union girls are scheduled | for answer by company directors at | the Boston city council’s unemploy- ment committee meeting. Councilman Joseph McGrath preferred the com- plaint against the phone company in connection with the council’s unem- pie-~ent investigation. McGrath said that the union girls would submit to dismissal upon the company’s trumped up charges of im- ‘for the investigation of some of our Connecticut. This work is distributing agency in the not go to a newsdealer unless dealers do not yet know the value and standing of The DAILY WORKER. Some stands that have been overlooked. This is where we come in. * In every section of the city where there are party mem- bers and sympathizers there must be organized at onee an efficient squad of ‘“‘Proletarian Newsstand Inspectors.” Ar- rangements should be made whereby every newsstand in the section is covered. These stands should be inspected daily. Inspectors should see to it that the paper is on sale, that a sufficient number is handled, and that workers ask for the etc., should be made at once WORKER at 33 First Street. It is necessary that this matter be taken up at once by all units of the Party and by all those who are anxious for the success of The DAILY WORKER.—BERT MILLER. 4 The Manager’ s Corner PROLETARIAN INSPECTORS. The DAILY WORKER is now being distributed to news~" stands in all parts of the cities of New York, Boston and Philadelphia, and the states of New Jersey and being done by the largest city. But the paper does he asks_for it. Some news- would handle the paper may that it is properly displayed paper. Reports, complaints, to the office of The DAILY LANDIS CLAMPS LID ON SCANDAL ONLY TO HAVE IT BLOW OFF AGAIN; BASEBALL IS BUSINESS THEREFORE FULL OF The attempt of “Czar” Landis to clamp the lid on the baseball scan- dals with the help of his 3,000-word whitewash decision, vindicating the 28 players on the White Sox and Detroit teams of the charges made by Risberg and Gandil, seems to have ended in failure. With less than a week having passed since the “Judge’s” decision, the lid has already been blown off as a result of the broadside fired at the commissioner by Ban Johnson, president of the American League. Why So Long Ago? Significant in the statement issued by Johnson is the question: “Mr. Landis seems extremely anxious to investigate charges of fixed games back in 1917.: I wonder why he doesn’t show the same enthusiasm recent world series. The American League . . .is still using all the re- sources in its power to unearth the facts about that peculiar series played in 1922 .. -which the Giants won in five games. . .” | Suppressed Byidence. | Another fact exposed to the thou-| sands of baseball fans who have been learning so much lately about “sportsmanship” in the professional game, was the practice of the ball magnates to suppress the evidence in many scandals, some of which were mentioned by Johnson. He admitted in his statement that only part of the facts in the Cobb-Speaker case morality rather than take the unfair publicity. of a fight. He asserted he had his information from highly au- | thentic sources. The company has | maintained three different listening- in tooms—one at the offices of its counsel. Conversations of union phone girls, of lawyers having cases against the company, and of politi- ) ians unfriendly to the firm were | tapped. The claims department of the company is accused of maintaining this service. i The Boston council committee has been hearing various witnesses in connection with generous discharges by the phone concern. William H. O’Brien, chief of the firm’s public utilities department, told of increas- ing numbers of high salaried officials accompanying the decrease of wage workers. In 1922 there were 37 of- ficials being paid over $6,000 apiece annually, their total toll from the company payroll being $354,441. In 1923 there were 42, getting an ag- gregate. of $453,552; and in 1924 there were 52, taking $512,760, O’Brien cited, {ized baseball, which were left untold. had been let out, and intimated that there were many other stories which would not help the name of organ- Higher-Ups, The failure of the Landis decision GRAFT; SHOULD BE SPORT responsible for the evils of profes- sional baseball is the power which may force a shew-down. System Wrong. The fans know that the rules pro- posed by Landis which have to do for the most part with restricting the players from betting, etc., will never reform the game, as the $6),- 000 a year employe of the ball mag- nates claims. As long as baseball continues as a professional sport and more and more money is involved in its games, the buying of games and players will increase. Not more rules restricting the con- duct of the players, but rules re- stricting the magnates in their ef- forts to completely transform base- ball from a sport to a business—will be necessary before baseball will be freed from the corruption which is the companion of all professional sports. Landis Gives Verdict.., That Keeps Suspected Fixers Playing Game CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 27.—As ex- pected, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, ezar of baseball, yesterday found Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker not guilty of the charge of crookedness, Commissioner Landis ruled thatthe dismissed managers of the Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians did not fix a ball game in 1919 for a betting group, as charged by “Dutch” Leonard, former Tiger pitcher. Landis has placed Cobb and Speak- er on the reserve lists of their clubs, making them eligible to play base- ball again if they so desire, and everything is done to keep the sport to clear up the question of Speaker a@ paying proposition. and Cobb, in addition to the dissatis- faction of the fans with the verdict of the White Sox-Detroit series, is indirectly the cause of the latest out- burst. The temper of the fans who are not ready to see two more players sacrificed for those higher-ups more Harold Bing Speaks, Here Harold Bing, the organizing secre- tary of the British Federation of Youth,. will speak at the Community Church, 34th St. and Park Ave, Tuesday evening, March 1. “BREAKING CHAINS” A Thrilling Film Russia from 1917 to 1923 LOVE — HATE — REVOLUTION 2P.M.; 4.15 P.M. 4 Showings 7P.M.;9 P.M. SUN. FEB. 6, 1927 Won't Club Strikers 7, ’ . INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27.—Jeff Three of Mayor Walker’s “pet” Davis, King of Hobees, has a good bus corporations won contracts in the | sory to tell New York’s furriers. He division of the spoils that took place} toiq it to the miners’ convention here. as 2 compromise measure at the board; New York’s cops, way back in 1919, of estimate hearing yesterday. © | promised Jeff with tears in their eyes The board unanimously voted t) to beat up another striker. Lynch Forces in Board | never authorize the board of transportation That was because the Hobo King had te prepare contracts for the award of helped them get a raise in pay and biis_ franchises to seven companies Three of these were Walker's pets, two were backed by the Smith- Byrne faction, and the ether two by Borough President Lynch of Rich-| mond. increase the widows’ pension fund. Jeff didn’t bring the story down to date. TULSA, Okla., Jan. 27.—-Two peo- | ple were killed and a third person is F. of L. magazine makes ‘from its anti-labor advertisers. Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers union affiliated with the A. F. of L., once remarked that his union’s organ, The Textile Work- er, makes several hundred dollars a month on its anti-labor advertisers. The Textile Worker carries, for in- stance, ads from Forstmann-Huff- mann and United Piece Dye Works— Passaic firms which have fought the strikers for a year and refuse to recognize McMahon's union. Open Shop Money. The American Federationist carries ‘conference with delegates élected di- rectly by the rank and file. Yet, de- | spite the official character of the con- |ference over one million delegate votes were cast against the T. U. C. resolution which was a slanderous at- tack on the leaders of the miners’ union, showing the growing power of the Left Wing. i *_* * HE result of the right wing at- tack on Cook is to convince him [that those leaders have defifiitely passed over into the enemy camp and can no longer be trusted with the des- Company unions are kept up by the New England Telephone & Telegraph Ca, since the war-time strike of the Tickets in Advance Td WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St., East of Broadway Advance Sale of Tickets at the Box Office Waldorf Theatre, Jimmie Higgins Book Score, Daily Worker Office—Ausp.: Int. W'kers Aid At the Door 99¢ operators for a real union. Besides the girls’ branch, the building trades section of the electrical workers’union has a dispute with the phone com- pany over installation of wires in new buildings. The New England company is part of the Bell system The entire DAILY WORKER force tinies of the British labor movement. The unanimity seems to have re-|in a serious condition as the result sulted from an agreement the day }of a crash between a north-bound before in executive session giving all’ passenger train and a bus in which the members of the board the right} several school children were riding to to back their favori s le = & 2 8 3 is = 2 SAVE A Copy of Red Cartoons of 1927, Worth $1.00 for 50 Cenis With 50 of These Coupons CUT THIS OUT ‘RED CARTOONS OF 1927 tlasses, COUPON AND SAVE IT. is even a finer collection of the most. recent cartoons of the well-known labor. artists—Robert Minor, Fred Ellis, K, A. Suvanto, Art Young, Hay Bales, Jerger, Vore and others. Each picture is large enough to be framed and mounted. The book includes in all 64 of the finest cartoons of the past year. offered only to those who help DAILY 33 First Street This wonderful volume is not for sale. It is us to build the Daily Worker. WORKER New York, ‘ ads from the following big corpora- tions besides General Electric: Stand- ard Oil companies; Natl. Lead Co.—} close to Standard Oil; Sinclair Refin-| ing Co.—Teapot Dome Harry Sin- clair’ oil company; Empire Refineries —subsidiary of Cities Service Co., a great holding company of public utilities stocks; Dupont Rayon Co.; American Brown Boveri Corp.; Cen- tral Aguirre Sugar Co.—supporter of U. S. Caribbean imperialism; Peabody | Coal Co., which put Frank Farring- ton on its payroll while he was presi- dent of the Illinois district United Mine Workers, and which operates many non-union southern mines; Bo- tany Mills (which advertised before recognizing the United Textile Work- ers in Passaic); United Piece Dye Works (still fighting the union in New Jersey); and so on. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 27,—A bill imposing a state tax of $1,000 a year on each seat on the New York stock exchange was introduced in the leg- Cook and honest leaders of his type are driven to the eonvietion that the solution of the problems confronting the working class today can only be solved when the masses who are feel- ing the pinch of exploitation car be organized for the overthrow of the capitalist system, The right wing leaders stand in the way of this pur- pose. Therefore they must go. Schenectady, Will See Passaic Picture (By a Worker Correspondent) SCHENECTADY, N. Y. — Five delegates selected as a committee by the Schenectady Trades Assembly are cooperating in the movement arrang- ing for the showing of the Passaic motion picture in Redmen’s Hall on Friday, Feb, 18, at 8 o’clock. The Lenin memorial meeting here was a marked success, Comrade Ben- jamin making it.clear that workers islature today. should turn to Lenin. owned by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.—a national monopoly. just arrived from Chicago, Honey Guaranteed by the Bee-Farmer. Delivered in New York City at following prices: 2 Lbs. 75e. 3 Lbs. $1.00 5 Lbs. $1.50 Goes to Daily , Worker, Order by Mail. _ J. A. FEURER 3656 Park Ave. N.Y. C. * Agents Wan\ 10% A will attend the “er |? CONCERT and DANCE Pioneer Camp Committee and ‘New York Daily Worker Builders Club for THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 HARLEM 116th Street and) Lenox Avenue. . ADMISSION 50 CENTS. CASINO. TICKETS on sale at Room 32, 108 East 14th Street.