The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1927, Page 3

LONG HOURS AND LOW WAGES BEHIND STRIKE OF NEW JERSEY BUS DRIVERS Hudson county bus drivers, on strike for wage increases and better conditions, explained their case in a statement to The DAILY WORKER today. Listing five demands, they suggest that Hudson county take over the busses under municipal ownership and operation if the bosses refuse to listen to reason. Here is their state- ment: All the statements made in the New Jersey press have come from the rep- resentative of the owners. Moses Greenberg of the South Hudson County Boulevard Bus Owners. We feel he has put the facts in a man- ner which is certainly biased. There are 61 busses licensed to operate on the boulevard North and 67 busses operated by permit‘on the boulevard South. Since the strike was declared the north end has oper- ated only 45 busses and the south end 49 busses. Naturally the efficiency of road service is greatly impaired notwithstanding statements to the| contrary. Heretofore the owner of | the-busses now being operated worked for a period of 10 hours and was then received by ariother driver. In all the bus worked about 20 hours. At the present time the owners of those busses are working in long shifts from 14 to 18 hours, a physical impossibility as time will show. There is an ordinance preventing any per- son frera operating a public vehicle over 1? hours. After a number of accidenvs have occured as they are bouna to, no doubt a just protest of this condition will be made. In normal times with all the busses operating during the rush hours it was yery difficult to take care of the peak and yet we read every day that it is being handled. At Newark avenue we counted 6 busses pass from 40 to 60 people. The conditions are even worse at-points beyond the Paterson. Plankroad and beyond the City Line to Bayonne. It would be | impossible to cite all the conditions | noted by our committee. Now as to the cause leading up to | the strike: The old contract expired | on December 31st, 1926 and was for one year, There are five main clauses which could not be settled hence the strike. The fiyst clause that has to be settled is the demand for an increase in wages from the present wage of | $42.50 per week to $50.00. Now the second clause at issue is the demand that our delegate, Edward Levy be allowed to sit-in at the Gr‘eviance Board Meetings on; the South End. At the present time Levy sits in on 21 other boards thru- out Hudson County and we demand | that he be accorded the same privilege | on the South End. If the public knew how many men were (framed) | and innocently, punished they would; see the reason for our demand. | The third point at issue is the de-| mand that the 8 drivers who were suspended from the busses owned the entire association be replaced. These drivers were suspended with- out trial and we know they were only fired for taking a stand in favor of the re-election of our delegate, Ed- ward Levy. These men were tried before Chief Bus Starter Wm.Whalen and no serious charge could be found against them. The fourth point at issue is the de- | | |ses $60 per day receipts. jfrom $282 per week to $350 it is easy | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1927 Page Three day in the week part of the drivers are compelled to work from 1 to 3 hours overtime. In the past if a driver demanded overtime from the owner he was soon out of a job. The fifth point at issue is the de- mand that extra drivers be paid $1 per hour for trips made between and after the rushes. In the past extra drives have received $1.25 per round trip. It is very amusing to listen to the pitiful tale of poverty frdm the bus owners, many of whom have paid from $15,000 to $25,000 for those busses, We ask if any business man/ can invest $8,000 and receive $3,- 500.00 profit per year and more. At the time we went on strike our com- mittee offered to submit figures and go into debate regarding the profits made in bus operation. The South End Boulevard busses average $47 and the North End bus- Granting that a bus loses 1 day per week and knowing that the weekly receipts vary to arrive at the profits. A bus. cost | about $7600 and has a proven life of 5 years. The following are daily expense figures. Newark Mass Meeting To Learn Facts About Needle Trades Crisis All Newark workers are invited to hear speakers present the truth about the struggle in the needle trades unions, especially the cloak- makers and furriers, at a mass meeting to be held Saturddy, Feb- ruary 19, at 2 p. m., at the large New Montgomery Hall, 103 Mont- gomery Street, Newark, New Jer- sey. There will be speakers from the New York Cloakmakers’ Joint Board and the Fur Workers’ Joint Board. Admission is free. BOSSES. OFFER BUS STRIKERS BOOST IN PAY Drivers Skepical; Owner Flivvered Before Special to The Daily Worker. RIGHT WINGERS | BAIL OUT THUGS BEATING PICKETS Sensational Charge Made at Hearing Bail bonds and attorneys for gang- sters who beat up pickets. are fur- nished not by the bosses but by the right wing officialdom in charge of the machinery of the International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, This startling development was featured in magistrate’s court yester- day at the hearing of four gangsters. These pluguglies were arrested last week and identified as the men who U, S, MARINES TO! RULE NICARAGUA, SAYS COOLIDGE Will Continue to Wield) Big Stick Over Her — | WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The| American government tonight aban-/| doned any hope for peace in Nicara-| gua, and will continue to police the| republic with United States marines, it was officially learned at the state department. | The navy transport Henderson was | ordered to leave Philadelphia and} pick up 800 apprentice seamen at Newport, R. I. stop at Hampton BAKERS UNION “INVESTS. $1,000 IN LLGW. BONDS Workers All Over the unionists who. were opposing the Country Are Helping dispatch of troops for war against | oe the nationalist government of China. | Bakers’ Union Local 166; ofsiiem “If they continue to oppose the |" bakers in the Bronx yesterday steps being taken by his majesty’s invested $1,000 in “Save the Union” governiient to fipchaet British pt be bonds of the Joint Board of cloak and sf Heit erty in China, they will end up and [Gressmaicers unions. Bt Pree sent to the headquarters of the bond I think it is as well that they should | 'Scue ‘0 turn over the money and re- know ethis. tight from the start." ceive the bonds, and to assure the dpe ents rah gedeg cloak and dressmakers that “we are Gite hen ete with you until the fight is won,” ac- s ) s e British Official in | Firing Squad Threat To War Opponents LONDON, Feb. 16.—Sir Mitchell- Thomson, chief civil commissioner during the general strike, now post- master general, threatened to use firing Squads on Communists and left wing socialists and radical trade |Roads for 600 marines and proceed | | for southern waters, The seamen are| 4 . i»,|t0 be dropped at Guantanamo, for| Columbus Circle, as he was leaving | taining ‘with the U. 8. fleet there,| the picket line at Re’ man, Rothman] ang as many more trained sailors and Beav The hearing was held They will before Magistrate Simpson’s court on 54th Street and will be continued} Saturday. | Only one of the gangs said he was a garment wor y Gold- man clainied to be » Samuel|faires prompted this action, it was| shot and wounded Samuel Cohen at 57th Street and Broadway, near ,or marines taken on board. |proceed direct to Nicaragua. The battle at Matagalpa, in which! the Diaz forces were routed and the| Sacasa forces were accused of firing upon the United States charge d’af- H. ales: A JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 16, conference between representatives jman, manager of the Joint Board. Ober said he was a chauffeur and /|jearned, | Max Richter declared he was a loan} | broker. | “It is very strange that the Inter- jnational should be furnishing the |defense for salesmen, chauffeurs, and | loanbrokers”, commented Louis Hy- President Coolidge today expressed |the hope that Dr. Juan Sacasa, lead- er of the rebels and Adolfo Diaz of jthe constitutional government would |come to terms, | | Admiral Julian Latimer, com-| |mander of the American forces in| | Nicaragua, conferred with Dr. Sa- “Evidently the International is not |interested in defendi government was trying to find out the party responsible for publish- ing the leaflets distributed among the troops urging them to refuse to fight against the Chinese. COOLIDGE URGES TO FIX UP NEW MEXICAN TREATY WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The senate foreign relations committee today favorably reported the Borah 1. Owner's wages ..../... $8,00 |o¢ the striking bus drivers, ‘the 2. Drivers Wages ... + 7.00 | | bosses, a committee of’ the Central | 3. 28 gal. gas... 5.60 | Labor Union and the boulevard com- 4. 2 quarts oil . -40 | missioners was held yesterday at the| 5. All insurance . 1.10 | headquarters of the boulevard com- 6, City tax .... “1.50 | mission ‘to try end the strike of the 1. Tires rented 2.00 | 400 bus drivers. After several hours | 8. Garage 90 - | discussion the conference adjourned | 9. Tool expense 1.50 {until tomorrow, 10. Repairs, ete. .. 1.50 At the conference Moses Green-| 11. Misc. overhead . -50 | berg, representing the bus owners, | 12. Depreciation ... 5.00 || offered to raise the workers pay to Total daily expense totals $35 and | $44 a week at once and make it $45 from that figure it can easily be seen weekly within a year. Greenberg |themselves on the picket line, tried to defend since | it withdrew its lawyers and abandon- | ed them to their fate, yet “chauf-| |feurs” and loan brokers” seem to ob- tain its protection. | cloakmakers . who g the cases of} casa early today. It was learned that he left there to make the long} passage through the Panama Canal and back to ‘the west coast to confer with Diaz. No one would say wheth- er his mission proved profitable. idge to ne,sctiate a treaty with Mex- ico extending the life of the general claims commission between / the United States and Mexico. The resolution was sponsored by Senator | resolution requesting President Cool | Borah, so the commission | that a net profit of from $2500 to $5000 is made. It might be suggested that it would be to the benefit of the traveling public if the county would buy and operate the busses in such a case a longer ride and more satisfactory con- ditions could be expected for the same fare. Signed by the following committee: Fred Bremer—Leo Crowley, North E. David MeComb—Wm, Kase, South E. Ray Harris, President Local 461. Edward Levy, Delegate Local 461, Bus Strikers to Confer | With Owners & County; Labor Council Intereste JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 16.—A conference of owners and drivers of | buses operating on Hudson County | Boulevard, from Bayonne to Fairview, | was to be held here today with a view} to ending the strike of drivers which | has been in effect since February 5. The conference ‘was to be attended by) the three members of the Hudson| County Boulevard Commission and by | William Whalen, county supervisor of jitney buses. | It was explained today that Ed- ward Levy, union delegate who has, been conducting negotiations for the striking drivers, had been relieved of | further responsibility in the matter, | promised the workers ‘$45 a week one year ago and then withdrew his of- | fer, leading bus drivers to doubt his new promises, } Will Inform Workers. At a meeting of the strikers to be held Thursday at 11 a. m. ‘at the Orpheum Thegtre, Edward Levy, | strike leader, will notify the workers \of Greenberg offer, That Greenberg should now be | willing to pay the workers $44 a week when last Saturday he had is- }sued a ultimatum demanding the} | workers to return no later than Mon- |day morning at 11 at $40 weekly, is causing quite a little comment among | the workers. | Those present at the conference were five representatives of the | Central Labor Union headed by Presi? | dent Charles Jennings; a committee | of five drivers, four bosses and four | boulevard: commissioners. Policemen Only Scab. It is stated that so far the only scab that the bosses have used is one local policeman who drives a scab bus for about eight hours eyery| evening after finishing his regular tour. Seven Dress Pickets Released by Judge Seven pickets who were arrested on February 9 while they were pick- “As a matter of fact the three all| * have the same profession, that of |}JOKer in 48-Hour hired gangster and thug.” Bill Is Exposed 5 | (Continued from Page One) D F ition referees be appointed for 10 years | by the chief judge court of appeals. | Assemblyman Frederick L, Hacken- | berg gave similar objections to those | of Kovaleski, | Labor endorsement of an exclusive SENATOR COUZENS. ight | the commision. Increase of temporary | total disability pay from $20 to $25 | per week and of total payable in such | cases from $3,500 to $5,000 is recom- | mended. For temporary partial dis- | its liking for prices stamped on aj ability total payment of $4,000 instead | chattering ticket tape, and its pan-| of $3,500 is advised. S | icky fears of “radicalism”, rose up| Fostering industry should be the! today to plague the former partners| *tate’s first consideration, | of Henry Ford, commission comments. The compro- state compensation fund is ignored by | WASHINGTON, Feb. 16,—Wall| Street’s tireless buying and selling, | i ‘ “anti- ” .|¢lash of this view with that of or- surer Ford used to keep bankers and eanied abor~—that the state must firs | brokers at arm’s length, forged down | Protect the health of its citizens, a) the value of Ford Motor Company | majority of whom are workers, | stock, ‘according to Arthur 0, Choate,| Republican lawyers dominated jeu New York banker. |survey commission appointed by the legislature. Former U. S. ambassador | To Get Back Tax. |to Germany James Gerard was ap-| Choate was a witness for the gov-| pointed as the public’s representative.,, ernment in its fight to collect $30,-| —_—_———. : | 000,000 more income taxes. from ae New Boost in Milk | ator James Couzens of Michigan and | other former Ford stockholders. He Prices Due in N. Y. (Continued from Page One) and that the drivers will be repre-|¢ting the Irene Dress Shop at 33 in 1912, and the drastic restrictions | testified that Wall .Street’s alarm| large-scale adulteration of milk were could be used to adjudicate the pres- ent controversies over Mexican oil and land laws. The committee also discussed the Frazier resolution, prohibiting the president from using American wroops in Mexico during the recess of congress, but no action was taken. Living up to his practice of spread- ing misinformation thru the state de-| partment, Secretary Kellogg today informed the senate that 70 per cent of the oil producers in Mexico have refused to subscribe to Mexico's new petroleum law. The secretary had been requested to furnish data from the department bearing on the oil situation, This statement is at variance with the facts given out by reliable the survey | Sources which slow that most of the| not permit his joil producers in Mexico have come| by detectives and he died without These things, thrown into the con-|™ise recommendations come from the |¥der the provisions of the new law. cording to Julius Portnoy, secretary of the bond issue drive. The delega- tion said that more bonds would be bought by the local in the near fu- ture, and that an active campaign is being carried on among the members. The campaign for bonds is being carried into the shops, also, and the workers of the Fashionbuilt. Shop have purchased 5 bonds and raised besides fifty dollars for the defense of their brothers in jail and for the protection of the union. Collections for defense of the prisoners are being made in many shops, Portnoy said. Many workers are turning in shares of the Russian American Industrial Corporation in exchange for the bonds of the Joint Board, according to Portnoy. Shares have been received this week from Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and Rochester and New York. Additional money for the purchase of bonds has been turned in from the Lithuanian Women Workers of Shen- andoah, Pennsylvania, Workmen's Circle Branches 625, of New York, 353 of Duluth, and 592 of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and from workers in the cities of Philadelphia, St. |Louis, Los Angeles, Trenton, and | Chicago. | The bond issue of $250,000 is guar- janteed by the Joint Board and by | Locals 2, 9, 22, and 35—the most pow- jerful in’ the union. They bear in- |terest at six per cent and mature in |two years. They may be purchased in denominations of $25, $50, $100 |and $600. “Buy a bond and help save the union.” Man Dies from Bullet Wounds. Michael Bonti, of 1111 Fighty-sixth | street, Woodhaven, Queens, died in Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica, early yesterday from bullet wounds he re- ceived in the street near his home jlate last night. His condition would being questioned rallying. = Second Annual BANQUET and DANCE If YOU want to meet President Coolidge, sented at the conference this after- noon and in all future investigations by representatives of the Central Labor Council, which includes all mand of $1 per hour overtime. Every trade unions in Hudson County. GROPPER AND GELLERT TO GIVE FAMOUS SKETCHES AT DAILY WORKER BANQUET William Gropper and Hugo Gel- lert, the well-known artists. are nre- paring a series of satirical sketches! for the second annual DAILY WORK-. ER banquet, which is to be held Mon- day evening, Feb. 21, at the York- ville Casino, 212 86th street. The sketches will cover the leading figures and’ the chief events in the political and labor field. Gropper is noted for his startling cartoons, which have appeared in the New Masses, the Liberator and the Freiheit. Hugo Gellert on the other hand has woy a national repute for his por- traits and drawings, The banquet will offer an unusual opportunity to see these artists in action. B. Saxer’s DINEWELL VEGETARIAN and DAIRY RESTAURANT 78 2nd Avenue, Near 4th Street. Real Way to Eat nee Wotan iatorel Way: This is but one of the many at- tractive features which have been ar- ranged by the New York DAILY WORKER Builders’ Committee in charge of the affair. The announce- ment of the committee calls attention to the list of prominent speakers who will be sent, among them being: Mike Gold, Ben Gitlow, M.\J, Olgin, Tom O'Flaherty, Bert Wolfe, Ben Gold, Sascha Zimmerman, William Z. Foster. J, Louis Engdahl, Rose Wor- tis, Bill Dunne, Helen Black, Harbor Allen, Scott Nearing, Eugene Lyons, Vern Smith; William W. Weinstone, J. Yuditch, and many other noted figures in the radical movement. Another feature of the banquet will be a group of Russian songs which will be given by a well-known Russian opera singer. 4) Tickets for the banquet are now on sale at the local office of the DAILY | WORKER, 108 East 14th street. Telephone Stuyvesant 6584, The ban- quet_ will be followed by a dance. The charge for the combination ticket for both affairs, dance and banquet will be $1.50. SAVE THIS VALUABLE PRIZE COUPON A Copy of Red Cartoons of 1927, Worth $1.00 for 50 Cents With 50 CUT THIS OUT AND SAVE IT. of These Coupons 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, Hay Bal les, Jerger, Vose 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. This wonderful volume is not for sale, It is offered only to thosé who help us to build the Daily Worker. 33 First: Street DAILY WORKER New ¥ ork, N. ¥, ) | C. Zimmerman. West 21 street, were free today fol- lowing dismissal of charges by Magi- | strate Renaud in the Jefferson Mar- | ket Court yesterday when he found there was no evidence against them. They. were ‘Anthony Cardi, Mary | Russo, Lena Barbo, Phillip Cagnar, | Clara Silverstein, Solomon Eleson, {and Max Geldberg. This shop was jealled on strike by the Joint Board , when the employers discharged work- | ers for refusing to register at the In- | ternational, | Cardinal Renuzzi Dies, + | LONDON, Feb. 16.—Cardinal Ren- | uzzi De Bianchi died today in Rome, | pany’s stock to “outsiders,” held the} | Smith, a 15-year-old Sodus school boy | over the election of Woodrow Wilson Ford threw about the sale of his com-| exposed by Kenneth F. Dee, director Bas é | of the dairy farm bureau at a hear- eg ae, aose down to $4,000 | ing before Agriculture Commissioner | To a broker buying the stock for| gy cates ciae Enis States Milk| resale to the public the value was de- | and Cream Company with using al pressed still more, to a “perfectly | “homogenizer” for mixing water, con-| ridiculous figure,” Choate said. | densed milk, pure milk and skimmed — |. ‘ milk and turning out what passed Police Investigate Deaths. |for good milk, Dee accused all ‘Of the SODUS, N. Y., Feb. 16.—The au-| company’s up state plants of large-| thorities here were today continuing | scale dulteration. The Middle their investigation into the deaths of | States Milk and Cream Company is J. Roscoe Duffloo, 35, and William | subsidiary of Smith Brothers’ Milk | aud Cream Company, whose license | whose bodies, both with bullet wounds, | was revoked on adulteration charges | were found under an over-turned car. | iast week. | | | Join The Workers (Communist) Party. The business of the “honiogenizer” | is to break up the fat globules of tne A mass meeting of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers, under the auspices of the T. U. E. L., will be held in Cooper Union on Saturday ‘afternoon, Feb, 19, at 1 p. m. sharp, | (as a protest against the Beckerman | | administration, New facts are to be told relative to. the nefarious readjustment program | sponsored by Beckerman, which has thrown hundreds of union men out of work. The meeting will be addressed by the following speakers: Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, J. Boruchowitch, §, Lipzin, L. Nelson, B. Gitlow, Lena | Chernenko, P. Aronberg, A. Rumulgia, Admission is free. All fellow work- men should be informed, as it is nee-| essary to show a united front. Bronx Young Workers Meet Now on Thursdays The regular meetings of the Bronx Section of the Y. W, tc.) L. are now being held on Thursdays {instead of Fridays), | The next meeting will be halon Thursday, Feb. 17, 8 p, m,, at 1347 ad Bon Every ‘aa of the ronx Section must resent, as we will hold election of» Hew execu. tive committee. 4 4 - AMALGAMATED MEETING AT COOPER UNION WILL EXPOSE BECKERMAN'S READJUSTMENT PLANS cordensed milk which is poured into | ic. Shimmed milk and water, which are also poured into the machine, |help to make up the “pure” milk that is retailed to the workers in the | city. XxX EEX AEE E AE XA AXA LEXA TAYE AXA K EAE K EAI AXXEKAKEKXEKK Hands Off China! Workers of New York! DEMONSTRATE AGAINST WAR WITH CHINA Friday, February 18th, at 8.00 p. m. ROYAL PALACE (16 Manhattan Ave., ea) Flushing Ave., Station, SPEAKERS: ; H.. M.. WICKS WM. F. DUNNE and a CHINESE speaker ADMISSION FREE Secretary Kellogg, the Prince of Wales and Queen Marie of Roumania next Monday night— don’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. Contrib- 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 fellow) Others, ‘And there’ll be sort of a riot, too—at least if will seem that to us if the N dancing is as thoroughly modern as at some of the affairs we’ve been to lately. 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- , 212 EAST 86th STREET, AR 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. So For reservations, write or phone Local Office THE DAILY. WORKER 108 EAST 1th STREET: NEW YORK CITy Telephone: Stuyvesant 6584 baat — ~