The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, N y YORK, WE SDAY ,» FEB. 16, 19 INTERNATIONAL TO ASK INJUNCTIONS ; HYMAN CHARGES Two Pickets Beaten As Police Stand By (Continied from Page One) Garment Workers Union was begun by those ofticials more than ten years ago, Since that time many ae- tive workers have been expelled, and at intervals whole executive boards have been suspended or expelled. In June, 1925, the international opened its attack upon Locais 2, 9 and 22 by expelling their executive boards and attempting to seize the lecal buildings by turce-. ‘They: sut- ceeded in capturmg Locals 2 and 9, but Local 22 was held by its mem- bers and from there the tamous cam- paign of the joint action committes against the invernational wag carriea on until Sigman begged for peace mi September of that year. Violates Peace Treaty. The terms of the treaty wnich Sig- man signed at that time he violated before the ink was dry on the paper, and his continued effort to keep cor- trol of the umon in spite of the re- peatedly expressed wishes of the inembership for proportional repre- sentation and a democratic rule by the majority, led him to renew his expulsion policy—which in the peace treaty he swore he would abandon for all time. Protiting by his bitter experience in 1925, Sigman has_ hesitated to come forth with an acknowledgment that be was again expelling the local olficers chosen by the members, He has for weeks been evading the issue and camouflaging behind sueh phras- es as “setting aside”. the officers, or “taking over the affairs” of the lo- cals. Sigman the Faker, Now he comes forth with an open repudiation of his agreement of 1925 in which he stated that there should never again be expulsions of ‘those who differed with the administra- tion. He brands himself by his own acts; and by this prohouncement of the general executive board, he .pre- pares hintself not for a duplication of the defeat administered in 1925, but for total elimination from the union, Sic semper tyrannus! Workingmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund to Stage Big Annual Ball The Workingmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund of the Bronx and ‘Man- hattan have arranged to ive their xrand annual ball on Sunday, Feb. 20, at 382 East 13€th Street. near 3d Avenue, Bronx. Sex Play Cases Laid Over for Another Day Performance of “The Captive,” one of thrée plays .récently raided by {police, was stopped yesterday by } Magistrate Renaud. In granting an | adjournment of the cast’s ease until |this afternoon he fuled against any j attempt at a matinée, atid also stated that this was the last adjournment. | | Members of the cast.of “Sex” also Not Satisfied With | were in court while an attendant 2 ‘ | dvoned through the seript of the play. Pious Declarations WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Assert- | eanwhile in supreme court fu ing that “the people of the world do} hot realize the sériousness of the} limitations the foreign powers have | imposed upon China’s sovereignty,’”| Dy, Alfred Sze, Chinese minister to the United States, declared in an ad-| dress here today that “China will not rést until her independence and terri- torial and administrative integrity | shall become realities.” China will never be satistied “with mere assurances in the form of high-| sounding and pious declarations,” the | | envoy seid in alluding to the. British | memorandum of December 25, the re- } patil cént American policy statements and other declarations made by the pow- |Frunze Shoe Co-op. Will | cts “since the beginning of the cen- | tary.” \Meet This,Saturday Aft. | | A meeting of the “Frunze Shoe| | Workers Co-operative for Soviet Rus- sia” will be held this coming Satur- day, Feb. 19th at 1:30 p. m. sharp at the Central Bureat, 199 Broadway toom 402. ‘ Every member of the co-operative shotild attend this meeting as it is» of great importance, Alsé those who would like to join the co-operative should hot fail to be present——Harry Capéll, See, Yorkville Branch Of. =) LL.D. Meets Thursday CHINA DEMANDS HER INTEGRITY BECOME REALITY} ther héaring on the temporary in-| | junction obtained by the producers of *Sex” and “The Virgin Man” was | also postponed until tomorrow, |Subsection 1-D Will | Meet Next Thursday | A general meeting of the member- | ship of Sub-Séction 1-D. will be held | Mthis Thursday Feb. 17th, at 6:33 p. m. | at 17 East Thitd St: No meeting was | | held for the last two months dué io | the Section membership mieeting and | the district membership sicetiti¢. British Press Rages. LONDON, Feb. 16—The London | préss continues to rage against the | Nationalist Government of China. | Rothermere’s Daily News haughtily |asks the governinent to testore to British subjects in China the “im- | munity and respect that a proper ‘show of firmness will undoubtedly | | secure” Eugene Chen is bitterly as-| | sailed and called an agent of Moscow | | and accused of the deceit and trick-| }ery which “pertidious Albion” hi been notorious for all thra her his-| tery. The left wing of the trade union movement is caerying on # vigorous agitation against war with China but their efforts are hampered by the A meeting of the Yorkville branch | treachery of the right wing socialist | of the International Labor Defense | Jeaders who give lip service to the| is being held in Hungarian Workers) freedom for China but actually sup- Home, 360 East 84th street, on} port the Baldwin government: Thursday, Fébruary 17th, at 8 p.m.| The eruiser Yarmouth sailed today All workers living in the territory | with 450 naval men for relief on the between 84th and 96th streets are) river gunboats in China. urged to attend this meeting’ and join case the branch. Gives Up A, P. Membership. The New York Telegram, which | was purchased last week by the Buy Your DAILY WORKER at the Newsstand { cute airs po rcnces st AL Year of Left Wing Work Under ng Right Wing Opposition membership in the Associated Press had been “relinquished voluntarily”. Reason for this action Was the “cur- tailment which its by-laws seek to im- Pose upon the freedom of action of its members papers”. : | Young Workers Start By D. WISHNEVSKY, (Seetetary Loeal 38, 1. L. €. WD A Booed year of 1926 marks a yeat of | & achievements for-Local 38.If it were | not for the struggle going on between | | the two factions in theslaber move- Membership Drive by Peet On Grand Balle, Oke pate eee Celebrating the membership drive | @8- jon rent bills today, but decided to > An Unceasi Hearing Reveals Bad Housing Conditions boarders used bedrooms day and night | and rents had advanced more than} 100 per cent. ALBANY, Feb. 15.—Defeat for the rent laws is seen as the result of the statement of Assemblyman Edmund B. Jenks, chairman of the Judiciary! Committee, who said today that he would oppose any further extension | of them. Unless other members override him, he will not let any rent extension bill | out of his committee. | eyed, The committeé™had intended to act | postpone action until after receiving a report of the housing commission. Mr. Jenks said that his visit to New York. Saturday cotivinced him that the emergency rent Jaws were no| longer needed. “Go To The Movies.” The tenement dwellers of New York city aten’t so bad off after all. They dress well, go- to the movies and| everything. This is the view of As-| semblyman Forfan E. Whitcomb, a | tural district member from Broome County, who accompanied the legisla- | tive party to New York last Saturday. “To my way of thinking,” he said, “they all dress well, no matter what they pay for rent. They are also, strong for the movies. I noticed long lines of therm at these places of en-| tertainment.” Williamsburg Defense Meets. | A meeting of the Williamsburg | branch of the International Labor De- | fense is being held at the Jewish | Workers’ Club, 29 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn, Wednesday, Fel. 16th at} 8 p. m.. All ifiterested are urged to! attend. Read The Daily Worker Every Day {| (Continued from Page One) — | where it was said, “double shifts” of | |NE AMALGAMATED MEMBERS OF T. U. E. L. WILL ME Hungry, Homeless, Shot | Weeping bitterty, having become white and drawn in fear, Michael Ponkrashow, a blue- yellow-haired boy passed into. the shadow of the elec- tric chair yesterday when he was ar- raigned in the Children’s Court. in Jamaica for the slaying of a Rieh- mond Hill storekeeper Monday night. Will Burn In Chair. If the court, which has adjourned +i Friday, rules he has sufficient intelligence to know right from wrong, he will be charged with mur- cer. If convicted, according to the New York state laws, he ean be sent to the electric chair in spite of his youth, and apparent abnormal condi- tion. Michael had had trouble with his parents, who are Polish immigrants and speak no English, so five days ato hé decided to run away from his home at 8947 Viola Place, Richmond Hill. He took a revolver from his father’s desk, and when his hunger bothered him, he held up schoolmates and stole their linches. Was Hungry. “These lunches didn’t last long; so I made up my mind I'd have to get some money,” Michael said in his confession to the police, in which he admitted everything. “I was hungry and desperate. I went into the store | te pull this hold-up like I'd read about, and the gun went off.” ON THURSDAY IN MANHATTAN LYCEUM An important meeting of the T. f. L. group in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers will be held on Thursdpy evening, Feb. 17, in Manhattan meeting. ally run to the Jewish Daily Forward, succeed in demoralizing you? Of| cottse not! | The executive board went right on} with ifs work, as anion people should, and the result was that instead of | bringing shame upon our local, we were helpful to the furriers in settling | | Lyceum, 66 East 4th street, at 8 p.m. Every member is urgently requested | to be present as matters of great importance will} be discussed at the zation work be done in this important field. But when it comes to do the work—thete’s nobody home. Throughout the entire year that we have been the administration, we were always hindered in doing precisely; this work. A woman organizer was given us his rosy cheeks | 0" of twelve, | the shops of Stein & Blaine, Henry |on the eve of our general strike, They “Breaking Chains” Appeals to Masses ’ YORK proletarians are due for an orthodox treat Sunday, Feb, 20 at the beautiful Waldorf The- atre, when an epic labor motion pic- ture, “Breaking Chains” by name, will be shown on the silver sereen for the second time in this city. Those who have already witnessed it at a private showing for the press are-more than ordinarily enthused over its possibil- ities, both as a cordial screen feat and as A number of lead- er. party have already stamp of approval on it. | And sans hesitation. At this wfiting it has not yet been definitely decided by the International Workers under whose auspices “Breaking Chains” is making its me ropolitan debut, whether or not the picture will have another showing in New York at a future date. “Breaking Chains” was “shot” com: | pletely in U.S. S. R. The cast boasts of éelebrated Continental players. It’s | direction manifests touches of unique splendor, and it has the distinction of being one of the few films released in America that deals exclusively with mass labor and its accompanying |problems, its triumphs and defeats. |It reveals the decline of Russian im- jperialism and moves about with a eelerity that ‘is brutal and inspira- tional in its unfurling. Few who see this picture will gainsay or deny the |niche it justifiably deserves in its own Hall of Fame, No sereen effort in recent years has depicted so intrepidly the tumultuous masses, colleetively and spititually, of Russian people rising against the pow- jers that had held them in bondage for years, as “Breaking Chains.” Jtust as the “Craiser Potemkin” was re- | garded as a work of genius in its spe- jcial medium, so too, this motion pie- ture is looked upon as an opus of sincere greatness. And why not? The epochal memory of Lenin will have a far deeper significance than | What you previously had of him, in | “Breaking Chains.” His spirit per- vades the very atmosphere from the time the initial caption is seen till the words “The End” are flashed before you. Bootleggers’ Sentence Reduced. The sentence of Emil Wormser, convicted of engineering a rum ring in Portchester, N. Y., was reduced from two years to a year atid a day in Atlanta penitentiary by Federal Joase Isaac M. Méekins here y day. Improving, LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15.—For the | firt.time since he was stricken with | blood poisoning in his left arm, Jack | Dempsey, former héavyweight cham- | pion, was up and about today. His }arm is still in a bandage, but he ap-) | parently is fully recovered. | ne By LEON BLUMENFELD.-. | enn + eee Page Five JERSEY BOSSES “GET INJUNCTION ON. ORGANIZERS Teamsters and Building Trade Drive Starts HACKENSACK, N. J. (FP) Building trades and teamsters’ unio! are leading a movement to organize the unorganized in Bergen’ County, actoss the’ Hud3on River from the upper end of ‘New York City. And oper ‘shop employers are countering with a temporary injunction issued br Vice Chancellor Church. Much Building. The fight is the result of the build- ing boom that is turning the com- muting zoné of northern New Jersey into a populous region. It will de- termine whether the growing towns near the Palisades will develop as un- ion or open shop communities. Many New Yorkets are moving into tibrth- ern New Jersey and it is estimated jthat when. the new Hudson River | bridge is opened and new ferry lines are tuning that hundreds of thou- sands of new residents will move into Hackensack, Palisade the trounding region. Issue Injunction. As usual in such cases the restrain- ing order forbids interference with |the plaintiffs’ business by boycotts, sympathetic strikes 2 away of customers. the union representative: ing Jersey business men and a them to have nothing to do with open shop firms. Employers who are party to thé writ are the Tidewater Coal & Supply Co., the Comfort Coal-Lumber Co., the John Wehrle, Jr., Trucking and Rig- and sur- iging Company, Huyssons-Kipp Ce., \dealer in building materials: 0. Weis- gerber & Sons and F Schultz & Sons, truckers. Big Industries Labor fore 560, teamsters; Locals 8 steam arid hoisting en Hoisting and Portable Loeal of northern New | Local 45 of the iron worke officers. The teamsters’ and building trades fight is exciting interest among the workers in the big manufacturing plants of Bergen County, Forstmann & Huffman woolen mille of Garfield, where the United Tex- tile Workers ave holding the line and in the open shop city of Kearney [where Henry Ford has a big assembly | plant. enjoined rs and its AT THE F AND Se BL THE DAIL WORKER + in ‘the The agitation committee of the fund has charge of the ball arrangements. its purpose is to increase the mem- bership. ° The price of tickets when bought in advance is 25 cents, and at the door 78 cents, of February 19th, at Harlem Casino, TY6th St. & Letiox Ave., with the ex- press purpose of doubling its mem- will hold a grand ball and dance at the spacious ball room of the New i ——_—_—_——_- Harlem Casino on that date. 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Goldstelti; Books, i ta ary a the i AS Pink Phew hs i , near Oth Ave, "SAVE THIS VALUABLE PRIZE COUPON Copy of Red Cartoons of 1927, Worth $1.00 for 50 Cents With 50 of These Coupons CUT THIS OUT AND SAVE IT, RED CARTOONS OF 1927 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, Vosé and others, ‘Lach picture is large enoug! and mounted. The book includes in all 64 of the finest cartoons - of the past year, This wonderful volume is not for sale, It is offered only to those who help us to build the Daily Worker, which is to be launched on the eve | bership, the Young Workers’ League | ‘| ageous And it would be nothing to wonder |at. What other administration of this |local has avon such conditions as we have for our. members? | What. other administration has | worked as devotedly and as sineerely | for the welfare- of our members as the present administration has? What other administration has un- | derstood the most important pftoblems |in the way the present administration has? Hindered All Along. This may seem to some to be self- | praise, but thosé who know the work |we have done will, if they are truth- | ful with themselves, admit that the above statement is merely an account ‘of what has taken place and nothing ‘else but that. And yet, there hasn’t been one ad- | ministration that has been hindered in \its work as much as we have been, |Why? The casual observer would | Presume that the only reason for the | obstruction on the part of the opposi- tion is the question of the “rights” and “lefts”, But that would be an error. | ! Plain Union Work. The sabotaging on the part of the Lopposition was aimed, hot, to the sur- rise of the casual observer, at the \“leftism” in the union, btit at the pure trade union policies which the | “lefts” tried to carry out. | _A few instances will prove the truth jof the matter to the reader. Broad- | Way has been, for a long time, the union’s Weak spot, Thete are shops where workers work Saturday after- noone and Sufiday mornings. The writer of these lines made it his busi- {ness to uproot that evil, He caught | sotie of the workers in those shops on Saturdays and Sundays and they were ealled before the local’s grievance board to answer charges made against them. They were fined. Some of them the so-called PB ger ye tried his utmost to de- fend that case. Why? The answer fa: pees a policy of disciplin. jon in the No Seab Fur. When the Langdon led igen cote: atruge' inst -out declared inst ‘te by their em- ployers (who wanted to smash their union, tot to any seab-made fur, whieh {8 an elementary union re- | quest. Who hindered the carrying out of this order of the executive board not to handle scab-made fur trimmings? Again it was the same group. And why did they oppose such a trade union order? The ingest our 8 our ranks, we ofl did this group for fear’ ge gressive ists, who continu. Bendel, Super Fur Co. and Bergdorff and Goodman, Organize Custom Dressmakers. Much has been said about our or- ganization drive among the custom | dressmakers. Much has been’ said | about our recent strike. Of course, | our opponents tried to minimize our | gains both in the organization drive and in the strike. My aim here is not to show the readers that our opponents were wrong ifi théir criticism. Our mem- bérs know the truth. They felt the gains achieved. Especially when the gains achieved weré made at a tivie of genéral aggression by the eapital- igts against the workers throughout the world. The struggle down town was also going on. What I wish to staté is: The ques- tion of organizing the custom dress- makers has always beén considered the most important one for éur union, Every tailor knows that if this tre- mendous 7iéld rémaitis unorganized there is no future for the ladies’ tailors. The work of the ladies’ tailors is being transferred, fet the past few years, to these non-union girls. The standards of the girls are terribly low. There is competition be- tween worker and worker. The one {the tailor) gets $58.00 as the mini- mum seale, timé and a half for over- time and the 40-hour week, together with four legal, paid for holidays. The other, (the dressmaker) has no standard, gets $18 or $20 a week, works forty-four to fifty hours a week and sometimes longer, without union conditions, ete. Jn addition, the styles have changed from well-fitting, tailor-made gar- ments, made of heavy woolen ma- terial, to loose, light, silky gowns, wraps and suits, which can easily be m&de by the women workers. As a result of this, the seasons for the tailors shrink from year to year. Shops are being reorganizéd without the consent of the union. ' Driven to Other Work. We have workers who make but a few weeks each seasen. Some must Ho away to look for almost any other kind of work in order to make @ liv- tng. What, then, should be the policy and program of work for a union that has such peculiar conditions? Shall we just watch the process of disin ion? Wateh tailors starv- ing? orfanize the dres#makers? This i¢ the chief point on which the “rights” and “lefts” divide in Local 88. This is the issue which separates the factions by a profound abyss. Right Wingers Talk. The “right wingers” can make speechs for organization work among the custom dreasmakers, They can these! send resolutions to our International conventions, demanding that organi+ | work at all. times? wanted her to leave the job right after the sttike. Why? | Mist we not carry on organization The answer is: They fear an aggressive policy! They feir a fight with the employers! Their fear was sufficiently demon- | strated before we commenced our or- ganization drive, during the organi-| zation drive and throughovt our re-| cent strike. This is why they hindered our work. This is why they sabotaged even during the strike. Agree With Boss. On this point the ifiterest of those people and fhe interest of the boss is sittilary, Whether it is done eon-, sciously of unéorsciously by these people, the pdlicy is the sanie. hy do any organization work among the custém dredsmakers? This is why I can proudly state that considering the conditions we had ‘ork under we have attained won- In spite of all the efforts of this group to destroy our work in the union, this year, this work has been & g@feat success and has carried the union forward to better conditions and stronger organization. In conefusion, in our year’s work! wo have achieved the following gains for the union: 1—We have increased the number of union ships, near and around Fifth | Avenue and also down town, thereby | raising the prestige of the union. / 2—We have increased our member- | ship by 300 members—about 30 per | cent of our entire membership, there- | by strengthening our union tremend- | ously. 8—We abolished the work on Sat. | urdays and Sundays, thereby raising | the motale of the union and that. of | tke individual member. | 4—We were helpful to the furriers | in their fight as no union of our size | has helped them, notwithstanding the “right wing opposition” and the sabo- taging done by former officers of the | union, 5—-We launched an organization | drive among the custom dressmakers, whieh is something that was never done before in our local—an organi- zation drive that was never even dreamt of by our preceding adminis- trations, in its bigness and effective- ness. And, finally, we won an increase in wages and established the 40-hour week for our members and a decrease of three and four hours per week for the unorganized custom dress- makers. This was done under the un- favorable conditions we had during the reign of our administration, with a strike of only five days. } | | Is this sufficient work? Are all these mentioned facts aceomplish- inents? T presume—however, I would rather Iwave the judgment to our merfbers. ‘ | | : Second. Annual BANQUET and DANCE If YOU want te meet President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, the Prince of Wales and ee Marie of Roumania next Monday night— dori’t come to the banquet and dance of The DAILY WORKER BUILDERS. These celebrities won't be there. Be sides, it’s to be a banquet and dance. not a RIOT! But there are compensations. Conttrib- utors and editors of The DAILY WORKER will be present: J. Louis Engdahl, Scott Nearing, Bertram D. Wolfe, William F. Dunne, Vern Smith, Tom O'Flaherty, Robert W. Dunn, Michael Gold and (illustrious felléw) Others. And there'll be sort of a riot, too—at least it will seem that to us if the dancing is as thoroughly modern as at some of the affairs we've been to lately. 2 Concert music by an excellent orches- tra during the dinner. Dancing after- wards in the beautiful . Yorkville Casino Ballroom. REMEMBER! Reserve Monday night. (Washington’s Birthday Eve) Feb. ruary 21, 1927, for this SECOND : ANNUAL BANQUET AND DANCE of The DAILY WORKER BUILDERS OF NEW YORK, YORKVILLE CA- SINO, 212 EAST 86th STREET, NEAR 3rd AVENUE. Banquet at 7 p. m. Dancing at 9 p. m. TICKETS for the banquet and dance, $1.50; tickets for the dance only, 50c. For reservations, write or phone Local Office THE DAILY WORKER 108 EAST 14th STREET NEW YORK CITY . Telephone: Stuyvesant 6584 (SSS OR SOR ERO OR ETS Se Oe Oe ne 8 ee NER 8 = Fen OE e+ Eee ene senwncooceoenecso<<=. essummertecte a