The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1927, Page 3

- GARMENT UNION Joint Board to Enforce | New Agreement | | (Continued from Page One) es recognize the Joint Board as reir representatives in all matters.” Seven Arrested. OF “RAIC” SHARE | Seven pickets were ‘arrested while | U jvicketing the Irene Frock Shop at} Wegt 21st strect early Tuesday | | morning. They were Solomon Eleson, | | Anth$ny Sardti, Philip Cagnan, Max | |Goldberg, Mary’ Russ, | Workers Turn Them Over Ten Babar | | | « op jund Gladys Silverstein, They were For “Save Union Bonds | ieta in #100 bail which was furnished. other man. arrested ‘at the same The first call by the Joint Board | ‘ime, said to have had a gun in his of the cloak and dress makers for) “resence, is unknown to the Joint | the exchange of Russian American | Board, Industrial Corporation shares for the| Louis’ Hyman, manager of the Joint | “Save the Union” bond issue of the | Board, spoke at a dinner arranged by Joint Board, resulted in the exchang-| 2 number of prominent writers ing of 25 shares for bonds in the first day of the call, Julius Portnoy, man- ager of the bond issue, announced yesterday. “Many workers have written us ex- pressing their approval of this plan by which workers who hold these shares may turn them over to the Joint Board at their face value as if ut the Cafe Boulevard, 41st street and Buoadway, Tuesday evening, Ben) Gold and other left wing leaders also spoke, | Cohen. Recovering. His wounded right leg quickly heal- | ing from the laceration caused by | a.bullet from a right-wing gangsters’ they were cash, and receive the in- | 2Utomatic last Monday, Samuel Cohen, terest bearing bonds,” he said. “This | 38 left wing executive board mem- gives workers who have not any | Pe? of Local 35, International Ladies cash to invest, a chance to partici. | Garment Workers’ Union, spent yes- pate in the bond issue by simply terday afternoon in his apartment at turning in these shares, The receipt | 1427 Madison avenue entertaining of $250 worth of shares on the, first, °llers. day proves that the plan will be aj popular one,” | Glad to Use. | “I am glad to put my shares to this good use,” wrote B. Levine, a worker of Jamaica Plains, Mass., in a letter to Portnoy in which he asked to trade the shares for the bonds that will “save the union from the | traitors.” Philadelphia has taken first rank among the cities as being most ef- ficient in organization for the sale | of the bonds, according to Mr. Port- noy., That city, in charge of Anna Litvakoff, is sending in money at the rate of $150 a day, he said. Several large mass meetings have been ar- ranged there. More Finances, Large additional sums for the pur- chase of bonds have been received from Miami, Toledo, St. Louis, Cleve- land and Rochester. In the latter city the Jewish Workers’ Club sent $100 with the assurance “we are in the fight to the end. Keep it up until you succeed in defeating the traitors in the workers’ movement.” The compositors of the Freiheit of New York have raised an initial sum of $200 among themselves and will subseribe further. The Workmen’s Circles are continuing io contribute heavily. Branch 886 has sent $100 from its treasury and $100 from its Mutual Loan Association, Branch 234 sent $50 and Branch 693 sent $26 re- cently, Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. Because he thought he might be able to hobble around he mentioned, in the interview, that he would do his best to be on the picket line tomor- row. It took the combined protests of friends and visitors to dissuade | this loyal, militant garment worker from carrying out his plans. Police No Help. A detective from police headquar- ters visited him, asking for a descrip- | tion of his assailants. When this was | given, the detective remarked that it | would be difficult to trace the gun- | men, but suavely assured Cohen that “he would do his best,” and quickly departed. It was said at headquarters yes- terday in response to a query by news- papermen that no trace of the gun- men could be found, although the gangster squad was “working on a clue.” Detectives frankly intimated a belief that the thugs stood little chance of being brought to justice. International President Sigman continued to reiterate to newspaper- men his denial that the gangsters were employed by the right wing. Louis Hyman, manager of the New York Joint Board, however, said that the gangsters have been recognized as having participated in terroriza- tions in other sections of the garment dispute. After “Naughty” Magazines. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Seventy magazines were named as “under mining the moral fibre of the natior,} with their filthy stories and filthy pictures,” by Rep. T. Webber Wilson (D) of Mississippi, in the house to-! day. tte ia Daily Worker Saturday Evening, February 12, 1927, THE NEW WORKERS’ HOME, 1343 East Ferry i Music and ‘Refreshments. WD iiboiiiciaveptchibesgliheda For the Withdrawal SCOTT NEARING Costume Ball t Admission Fifty Cents. LA | | 6@ 009000000000000000060000 ®@ eeescecoee NO WAR ON CHINA DEMONSTRATE For the Withdrawal of Our Navy From Chinese Waters; of the Marines From Against Oil War With Mexico; . ; For the Recognition of the Canton National Government. HANDS OFF CHINA, NICARAGUA, AND MEXICO at COOPER UNION) 8th Street and 3rd Avenue Thursday, February 10th at 7:30 P. M. SPEAKERS JAY LOVESTONE |. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1927 TELL LEFT WING SIDE OF GARMENT FIGHT AT DINNER’: Hyman “ ‘iene | Address Liberals from Page One) makers and dr maker’ do not want them as offic and do want the Joint Board and the “Until such a vote is taken and un- (Continued local offi n : 40! | i] some system of proportional rep-| calling off the general strike, Cook| artists on “Democracy inf the Union,” | resentation is established in our un-| Ws not repudiated by the rank and ion there is no chance for peace.” Scott Wood For Us. Charles Erskine Scott Wood, fa-| mous poet and lawyer who was sup-| | posed to speak, but was unable to at-| the New York papers carry reports/ |tend, sent a letter to the dinner in| Of a big mass meeting in Albert Hall,) : Phan sige yf: | his own name and in his wife’s, Sara | Bardsfield, also a poet, in which he |™2? of the Independent Labor Party,| said in part: | “Any one engaged anywhere at any time in a battle for democracy is not on a bed of roses, It has and always | will mean fight, courageous fight; but | this language because of the op-| the more it can be separated from personality and bitterness the more it will appeal to outsiders. “For Democracy.” “Our own sympathy is decidedly with the left wing, first, because it seeks to overcome autocracy with! democracy. “Second, because it advocates the| growing political consciousness of | popular represention. | “Third, many of us who feel our own cause and that of our ghildren is wrapped up in the cause, were disap- pointed at the attitude of labor dur- ing the war. U. S. Union Worst. “Tt Is true labor fell down every- where except in Russia and became as patriotic and nationalistic as no- bility or capitalists but in the United States it seems to us that Jabor was especially the tool and agent of the government.” Referring to the American Federa- tion of Labor, Wood stated: For Class Union. “It does not now represent labor as a class—common labor—all with- out regard to skill, color, race, creed or sex. “We are in sympathy with the left wing struggle because it is against this. Among those on the arrangement committee were: Henry Wadsworth! Longfellow Dana, Floyd Dell, Helen Black, Ernestine Evans, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Michael-Gold, William Gropper, Boardman Robinson, Rex | Stout and Cederie Long. Down Town Branch of LL. D. Meets Thurs. A meeting of the Down Town | Branch of the International Labor | Defense is being held in the Ukrain- ian Home, 17 East 3rd Street, on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 P» M. All workers living in the territory between 14th Street and the Bat- tery are urged to attend this meet- ing and join the Branch. Victimization and persecution is becoming more and more the pen- ulty of honesty and class conscious- ness in the unions. Tyrannical em- ploying class attacks must be met hy a solid, unified working class defense. | Build up the Down Town Branch! | Halt the attacks against the work- | ing class! The International La- hor Defense is your champion. | | Nicaragua; CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) abroad were not considered satisfac POWDERMEN ASK tory by foreign commercial houses. The gold was a guarantee that Rus- ’s bill in England would be paid, ‘ow the Se Union’s eredit is so high that there is no longer any need for this gold to lie stored away in It can be used on is that a trade union conven UNION; SAY CITY VOIDS CONTRACTS | Speculations Page Three Zionists Speculate In Real Estate and ‘BRITISH POLICY OF Palestine Goes Broke | FORGE IN ATTACK ON CHINA STANDS The American Zion Commonw is on the verge of going bro cording to its own conf New Palestine of I in land alth ion in the in the bet of hilt . where economic depress for building more factories in Russia ‘ the failure of the Zionist or more houses for the workingclass.| Blasters Break Union | are sesponsible for the fin King’s Speech A 5 th ee ’ ov for the King’s Speech Approves the eek | Pact, Also Charged _ ticulties of the Commonw oe Ms Another fable conceived by Mr. x peti Pointing out that the or Mail d th t . Chi eae ys teade union canven’| . Exasperated by the failure of-the/has lost a great deal of the Hane V1St in Unina tion voted four to one to repudiate] Cook and all general strikes and| revolutionary movements, The vote) was two to one in support of the a tion of the right wing leaders in file. He is still secretary of a union| with a membership of over one mil- lion. And on the very day this rub-| appears in the Evening Post, all) London, where James Maxtin, chair-| and a moderate socialist called on the} workers to refuse to manufacture| munitions for the war again’t China,| Maxton was forced to come out with} position of the working millions to the war. * * This does not look as if the “reds” were being scorned as Mr, Casson would have us believe. He claims that England is prosperous but does | not explain the existence of an un- employed army of 2,000,000, Pros- perity and unemployment do not make agreeable bed-mates. that the mass of the people were never better fed, better clothed or as well housed. This he finds mysteri- ous “considering the financial position of England as a whole.” Yes, it is mysterious to those who do not know | that British prosperity is a myth and that Casson and his kind are danined He says| American Federation of Labor to or- ganize the thousands of powder watchman and powder carriers in the | metropolitan district despite the con- stant appeals and unanimous prom hour day. They would have to work longer, being unorganized, Wallace | said, only the blasters, without whom they cannot work, are organized, and receive $15 for an eight hour day. Because they have a union, the blasters get double pay for overtime, while the watehmen and the carriers must be satisfied with straight pay if the timekeeper does not swindle them of that. The incapacity of union officials in | by the Cantonese is not futile. | surrender their | somewhat nettled BEN GITLOW tt WILLIAM F, DUNNE WILLIAM W, WEINSTONE BERTRAM D, WOLFE Representative of the Koumintang Party ADMISSION 25 CENTS. Auspices: WORKERS COMMUNIST PARTY, NEW YORK DISTRICT. 020000 09COO99000COTOCEEHOOOS* 29080002 the construction industry was brought to light by the powdermen's appeal, in which it is revealed that the union blasters are working with the non-union carriers and watchmen, without making any attempt to or- ganize them, and even going so far as to turn a deaf ear to their appeals for unionization, Men Wish Organization, The importance of non-union pipe- liars. ee R. Arthur Ponsonby, member of the British Labor Party deliver- ed a pacifist lecture here last Sun-) day. He declared that all wars were} futile, which is so much bunk. The| revolutionary war now being waged Neith- er was the war that smashed the power of the ruling classes in Russia} and defeated the intervention of the| fitters, hoisters, and steam-shovel imperialists. Ponsonby’s program is| Workers from New Jersey for work futile. It lulls the workingclass into| 0” the city’s new subway system now a false sleep, while the enemy is per-| U"der construction, is another charge petually forging new chains for them made against municipal employers in War is terrible and horrible but since| Wallace's statement. For some time, we are bound to have wars as long he said, even they have been clamour- as capitalism exists and it is a cer-| ing for a union to better the condi- tainty that the capitalists will not| tions in the construction industry. power without a} An attempt will be made by the struggle, there is no alternative to a| Workers to force the officials of the battle betweetrthe exploited and the; American Federation of Labor to or- exploiters. If there is we await] ganize them, it was said, and if this proof. is unsuccessful, an independent union <disiliiphiegiiicsineatiammsindniningadiailidagum | Wi te formed sinée the desire. for, Nick Butler's Speech | | ‘ested by ail the exploited workers. Got “Cal's” Nanny But Goat Refused to Bleat By this means, they hope to force the A. F. of L. to grant them a char- ter. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Presi- dent Coolidge today declined to comment upon Dr. Nicholas Mur- ray Butler’s prediction that he would not be a candidate for an- other term in the Wite House. Numerous questions bearing on Dr. Butler’s assertion that “that president has served two terms who has twice taken the oath of office” were propounded to Mr. Coolidge to- day in the bi-weekly press confer- ence, but he ignored them all. The president was reported to be by the Butler Janssen’s Hofbrau Raided NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Janssen’s Hofbrau, on Broadway at Thirteenth street, was raided today by federal prohibition agents of the staff of Major Chester P. Mills, but their search throughout the building failed to reveal any liquor. The raid was made, the agents said, after one of them had purchased alleged whiskey at the restaurant on two different occasions. CHICAGO, Feb. 8 — Mr. John Oberta, who has quite a reputation in gangland circles, is having difficulty in keeping out of jail long enough at a time to make his campaign for alderman of the thirteenth ward, speech. Subscribe for The DAILY WORKER. | BIG LEAGUE DANCE TO OPEN MEMBERSHIP DRIVE | The Young Workers (Communist) League, Dist. 2, will launch’ its membership drive to double the league membership, with a) grand ball and dance to be held Saturday, Feb. 19th, at the Harlem Casino. All Party and League comrades are urged to be present at. this affair and te bring along their friends and shopmates. A. snappy band will jazz things up and a good time will be had by all. After working ail week long every worker will welcome this op-. portunity to meet his friends, and dance and enjoy himself all Saturday evening. | Every League member should bring down every acquaintance. of his, his fellow workers and let this campaign to double the, League membership receive a real response and impetus. | WEINSTONE LECTURES ON RUSSIAN PARTY SITUATION Comrade Weinstone, who gives his class in the Workers’ | School on the “History of the Three Internationals,” will give a) lecture in his course on Wednesday, 8:15 p. m., on the Russian’ Party situation based on theoretical analysis. 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ADDRESS .., that it collected from the Jews af country in land speculation, ment declares that the “er' continues and, as a result; the mar} for the sale of land in Palestin< LONDON, 8.—King George pared speech to parlia- t chiefly with the internal affairs has situation, ises of support offered by the work- Completely dried up.” invesion of the British film fers in those trades, Joseph Wallace, Unemployment Too. American mov The 1160 Bleecker St, yesterday made an Conf that unemployment i s the cabinet’s policy. | appeal to The DAILY WORKER, to rife in F ne, the statement gc t will main- support their campaign for union |0n to say t the natural rest ion n-interference ization. of credit: it the Commonwealth’s | in th of China” the City Breaks Contract. land invsetments. re aid with typi- A startling violation of contract, The land purchases, intended fc al British h This is the made by municipal authorities was the settlement of Polish Jews. rovernment tha the opium revealed in Wallace’s statement to a also effectd by the economic ¢ on the Chinese people and stole reporter of this newspaper. He said Poland and the consequent de important territorie m them. that despite the fact that a clause in| tion of Polish currency, which left | MacDonald’s Weak Reply. the city’s new subway construction) Many parcels of land only partially Ramsay MacDonald made a weak calls for an eight hour day, powder) Paid for. speec pposition to the dispatch watchmen are forced to work twelve of troops China and warned the hours, which they must do for all Gangster Killed in Gun Battle. government were endanger> other employers. OLD FORG ‘Aig 1- jing the sa 2 by this Their hazardous occupation is sadly ter “Whitey 1 policy underpaid, the statement continues,| Slayer -einpmeseanis since they receive only $4 a day, Son in a yid- | Subseribe for The DAILY WORKER, working 12 hours. Powder carriers) Up on Jan. ‘ today | I aaa receive the same wage for an eight| while resisting arrest in a gun |} tle with Detective Thomas Martin. 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