The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1927 Page Five ky High Rent Boosts Due | ‘Workers Tell Own Stories | Albany politicians baeked by landlords, real estate sharks and the viious forces of private greed, are determined to let the rent iaws die June 1, Although the'law is pitifully inadequate in pro- tecting New York workers against gouging landlords, even this shred of protection is to be denied. te i “No emergency exists,” say the landlords, echoed by their bought-and-paid-for legislators. | there is a crisis. In interviews with DAILY WORKER reports| and in letters they are telling their own, personal experiences. Here are three more, to be followed by other letters from DAILY WORKER readers. Send in yours now, detailing your own strug- gle for a bit of air and roof for your little ones. | Office Girl Baffled by |Worker Tells Boosts Search for a Room’ In Rent for Tenement) By AN OFFICE GIRL. } By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. od T am an office worker. Each| ~ That the housing situation is still Saturday I find $25 in my pay enve- | serious can be testified by what a lop, and so I'm a good deal better | housedweller in the Bronx told The | off than most girls in factories and} nAILY WORKER today. shops. F ._| “Ten years ago I moved to my pre: | But that doesn’t mean that New | sent place of residence, an apartment | York’s housing saree . is ‘ all | consisting of ave weg se weer peaches and cream to me. I’ve been! paid $33 a month,” he said. “Within room hunting now for two weeks and | a short time my rent was rajsed to| still I can’t find a decent room to fit | $48 monthly, One raise followed an-| my pocketbook. " other until it reached $60 a month, | T ren in Ge he Sr the | almost twice bs a as what I was lookout for a small room and some! paying when I moved in. * | sort of kitchenette. On Barrow St.|" “]¢ was only by the state legisla-| a wizened old landlady showed me} ture passing the rent laws that the| an “elegant” room at $50 a month.| landlord was prevented from continu-} But New York workers know|| Irene Dress Shop, 33 West 21st s Nedell and Graver, 575 Eighth a Qualifine Dress Shop, 132 West 8. and E. Dress Shop, 132 West Langer and Whittman, 22 West De Lasal Dress Shop, 151 West Halpern and Richmond, 140 Wes' Gilt Dress Shop, 159 West 25th B. Gershel, 498 Seventh avenue. Garment Workers Rally To Left Wing | CALL GARMENT WORKERS TO REPORT AFTER PICKETING AT OFFICE OF LOCAL 22 All active members of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’! Union are urged to report to the of-) fice of Local 22, 16 W. 21st St., at 7} a. m, this morning, after picketing. WORKERS, PICKET THESE SHOPS! Reisman, Rothman, and Bieber, 521 West 57th street. S. and K. Dress Shop, 306 West 37th street. 4 Brill Dress Shop, 335 West 38th street. Quiet Dress Shop, 151 West 26th street. Haber and Seifert, 236 West 26th street. Sklaren and Kaufman, 327 West 36th street. 5| Program Is To Expel Furriers This Week" ‘treet. (Continued from Page One) in the course of -his denunciation of | | left wing fur workers: “An investigation into the internal affairs of the local organization of fur workers, made by a committee | coprea ra rae the American Federation jot Labor, revealed a most shocking | it 23rd street. land deplorable state of athaike. ae street. | “A strike unnecessarily prolonged | Was carried on, and the membership myolved in the strike undergo great suffering, p | sacrifice,” Green Prolonged Strike, The fact that it was the employers, and Green himself by his attempted | intervention, who prolonged _ this | strike unnecessarily, is not mentioned. President Green refused to state | what the procedure would be in the continuation of the attack upon the! Furriers’ Union; he refused also, to tell what the recommendations of the investigating committee had been. He ,| merely announced that: “Ab @ result of information and! It is expected that many dress facts developed by the investigating | shops will be stopped this coming | Committee, appointed by the American week as a protest against the agree-| Federation of Labor, the eommittee ment that Sigman signed in the name| Made certain recommendations . . of the dressmakers. some of which provided for the elim- venue. 22nd street, 22nd street. 27th street. 26th street. forced. to tion and Sigman’s Victims Won’t Be Cowed “Sisters and brothers, we can’t be with you tonight, but will be with you Monday morning on the picket line, eal unions chartered by the Interna- tional Union of Fur Workers.” SEE ination of Communistic control of lo- Progressives of Locals 89 and 48 Stand Loyal |_1t is plain from the whole of|Read The Daily Wor! | Green’s statement, and from the ac-/| The progressive Italian workers of | tions of the Ameriacn Federation of Local 48 and 89, Cloak and Dressmak-| /#bor officials in their attack on left | Bring on the Next Fight; Everybody Won Last One Except Boys in Gallery | (By a Worker Correspondent.) I VER, Colo, Feb, 20.—Rus- sia is the only country in the world that making an elfort to solve the labor and race problems, ac- cording to Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of The Crisis, who ad- dressed 1,200 people at the Central Presbyterian Church recently. Passing from Russia recognition of the equality of races, Dr. Du- Bois denounced the loeal attempt to segregate the black and yellow races. While other nati their people of “backward coun- tries” enslaved, Russia is aiding them in their fight for freedom, Dr. DuBois declared, ms are keeping The meeting was held under the auspices of the Federated Church Council and the National Associ tion for the Advancement of Col- ored people. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS Young Workers’ Club | Organized in Middle Village, Long Island By } AX. FRUMKIN, (Young Worker Correspondent.) We have in Middle Village, L. L., a club called the “Young Workers’ Club,” This club exists only one | month 1 we already have twenty membe Our sim is to help better \the conditions of the young workers, and fj gainst American imperié ivy This is the main problem in our club now, We have bought one bond to help board of the International the joint arment Workers’ Union to inst Sigman Company, and ll help more when our club in- ses financially and in member We had an opening for our club that took place last Feb. 5, There {were about 100 young people and |}some older workers present. Middle | Village ers of The DAILY | WORKER and outsiders—join the “Young Workers’ Club,” that fights |for better conditions for the young | worker and students. We meet every Sunday, 2 p. m,, at |L Fulton ave., Middle Village. Watch The DAILY WORKER for ker Every Day: further articles about our club. WORKING WOMEN ORGANIZE TO HELP FREE THE “Where's the kitchenette?”, I asked. “Here it is”, she answers, lifting a piece of gingham hanging over a dirty little gasplate. Maybe the Village is too “arty” and high-priced, I thought as I shift- ed over to Second Ave. A dirty lit- tie hole in the wall with an unob- structed view of a back alley was “only $40.” Jp to 18th St, across Seeond Ave. y bucks”, smirked the landlord over a reom with a dirty little bath. “And two months in advance because V’ve gotta have a lease.” “Good night”, I shot back as 1} tripped down the stairs to give the! once over to W. 17th St. near the) ii) also raise their rents to as high| Hudson River. Five flights walkup} and there was an evil-smelling little | cubical hole with a small window un- washed since Hector was a pup. “$40.” Rack to the Times’ ads. A “beauti- | ful room overlooking East River” for | only $35 a month, I was up there in | two seconds. Walkup, toilet used by | three families, second floor with the | view mostly of dock roofs. The| beauty of the rom was adduced by | the undoubted fact that the little cur- tain had just been washed. A newcomer in New York, without | relatives to “gang up” with, I feel | pretty small and hopeless tonight. | Can DAILY WORKER readers tell | unions by non-union workers in this| me what to do? ' jing to raise my rent. Ip fact, only | signed Mollie Cooperstein, Pearl | four days before the laws were pass- | Klineman and Rose Midoff.” led I had received a notice from him} This message from three girls who ‘that beginning the first of the next) were arrested on Saturday while they | month my rent would be $70. jwere picketing the Brill Dress Shop | “]¢ the staté legislature does not | at 335 West 38th street, was received | continue the reat laws when they ex-|by telegraph from Jefferson Market ;pive on June Ist, it means that my | jail, where the girls were serving two ‘rent as well as every one else’s in | day sentences. my house will be raised skyhigh. In Mass Picketing. | fact, I have been informed that every _The three joined a large mass of house in the block will face the same |Pickets Monday morning who went to situation, | picket the fifteen shops now on strike “If this comes to pass, I hardly . re ar vis the ane Hodes. pities i ' J » every | for the discharge of workers who re- | say wim, Wa te. cess te fused to register with the Interna-| other landlord in the city taking ad- vantage of the defeat of the rent laws a figure as possible. | “My wages will not permit me to | pay anymore for rent than I am pay- jing at present. I suppose I will have to go up to White Plains and live in a tent until some sort of a solution is reached. Is Your House Union Made? LYNN, Mass. (FP).—Every trades unionist living in Lynn is to be visit: ed by a committee from the building , trades council and urged to live in a union-made house. The organized building workers are determined to fight off the undermining of the district. Saul Steiglitz Has His Name Cleared | Steiglitz, 427 Osborn Street, yn has written The DAILY ORKER that he is not one of the agiegates seated in the Central Trades and Labor Council last Thursday night after the left wing delegation of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ and Furriers’ Unions were ex- yelled on the command of William Green, president of the A. F. of L. The DAILY WORKER is glad of | the opportunity of clearing Steiglitz’ ame. It was attached to the official : of seated right wing delegates n to the press by Secretary John ‘ouchlin. 1 ‘ BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS phony Orchestras to Honor Damrosch The Philharmonic Society of New York and the Symphony Society of ' New York will combine in giving a concert in honor of Walter Damrosch at the Metropolitan Opera House Tuesday evening, March 15. The en- tire personnel of both orchestras, to- taling 200 musicians, will participate. * - * The evening’s program will be shared by three conductors of the two orchestras—Fritz Busch, who will then be here as guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; tional, or because employers have re: | fused to admit business agents of the Joint Board to the shops. ers’ Union, I. L. G. W, U. joined in a} lively meeting on Friday and reaf- firmed théir membership in those lo- | cals and their loyalty to the Joint} Board as the “Central body of. our organization in New York.” Charges! of “dual unionism” that have been flung at them during the past week | hy President Sigman were made in |bad faith, according to the sentiment | of the meeting which approved the ection of the Joint Board in changing |taa helpless group of workers entirely jat their mercy, they do not think it wing members of the Internatione! Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, that oll pretense of legality or constitu- tionslity hes been thrown to the! winds. This right wing gang is out to grab! the Furriers’ Union and the Clouk and| Dressmakers’ Union by hook or by! crook, They do not care how. And heving heen accustomed for so long INNOCENT CLOAKMAKERS A Second Protest Mass Meeting will be held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., between 2nd and 3rd Aves., Wednesday, February 23, at 8 p. m. Throughout the nation working women have organized in mass protest to defend the cloakmakers who have been jailed and beaten and are now rotting in jail for long terms as a result of the Beckerman gangsterism and Sigman reactionary machine, and to protest. against the unjust and severe sentences of Judge Otto Rosalsky. Ma You must come in mass and join the army of women to help free book of members of these locals at ™étters how. th ’ i r t & : ¢ cloakmakers and others and to br viv the regular period. Sigman had at-| Knowing this, the furriers are fully || children. ee eee tempted to create confusion in the lo-| Prepared. culs by‘declaring that the ning of | new books to Italian workers consti- tuted “dual unionism.” Speakers at the meeting included The International is resorting to 1. Muscillo and J. Milaggo, shop chair-| every means to discourage picketing |men, and S. Amico, A. Ramuglia and the picket leaders. Not only do scabs,|0- Grassi, of the Joint Board. They and break these strikes, according to |Pointed out that “the officers of lo- furnished by the International receive | | the protection of gangsters but |women provacateurs are being | brought to the picket lines cach morn- ing to pick a fight with the girls. cal 48 never dare to call a member- | ship meeting, but in spite of the ac- | tions of the officers the Italian work- | ers are determined to play a bigger and bigger part in the fight.” DON'T RECOGNIZE |Philharmonic and sym- FAKE ‘EXPULSION’ Four garment workers’ Locals,: 2, 9, 22 and 35 which heve heen_“ex- pelled” by the reactionary right wing crowd temporarily in charge of the International made publie today their letter refusing to recognize the ex- pulsion. Here is their letter: The letter to the International sent by the secretaries of the four locals | Says: “Replying to yours of February 14, | 1927, we wish to register our most |emphatic protest against your high- handed and utterly illegal proceed- ings and at the same time to expose your utter bad faith in the matter: | “1.—In the first place, as far back GARMENT UNIONS WORKERS PARTY Wilhelm Furtwaengier, conductor of | #° December 14th, you have appointed the Philharmonic Orchestra, and Wal-| a committee, as you claimed, to take | ter Damrosch. At the request of|crer the affairs of this local and/| | Damrosch the proceeds of the concert | thereupon proceeded to announce to | will be contributed to the National cur membership that we had been | suspended and not to pay any fur- _|ther dues or assessments to our duly | FUR WORKERS, ATTENTION! = Tuesday, Feb. 22 is No Fur Worker shall work on that day. legal holiday. Signed, JOINT BOARD, B. Gold, Mgr. SAVE THIS VALUABLE PRIZE COUPON A Copy of Red Cartoons of 1927, Worth $1.00 5) for 50 Cents With 50 of These Coupons ironical constituted officers or at our regular | office, but instead to pay the same |te your so-called committee at your own office, No. 3 West 16th Street. If your own subsequent statements lin the press be credited, you must |have collected from our members much more than you would be en- | titled to receive from us in per capita. | There cannot possibly be anything due you from us on account of per capita. “2,—-But even if there were actually moneys due you from us on account of per capita, your action in revoking cur charter and proceeding to or- ganize a new local, would clearly be oe Washington’s Birth- | WORKER says: | HITS EXPULSION ~OF LEFT WINGERS: Sec. Weinstone Foresees | Failure for Green | Branding the expulsion of twenty- three progressive delegates from the New York Central Trades and Labor | Council as “an outrageous act against | the interests of the labor movement,” | William W. Weinstone, general secre- tary ©f District 2 of the Workers’ | (Communist) Party, prophesies that President Green and Matthew Woli will be defeated in their attempts at | inan is now being defeated. A.statement issued to The DAILY trade unionists from the Central Trades and Labor Council Thursday | another outrageous act against the | interests of the labor movement. | Unprecedented Action. | “The expulsion of the furriers’ dele- | gates without any charges of trial is! unheard of in the labor movement. | The unions are affiliated with their Internationals and are part of the A.) for this arbitrary and high-handed | expulsion is a fake reason. The real | reason is to be found in the fact that the furriers have been fighting for the organization of the unorganized | and for militent trade union policies, and were victors in the recent strike, “The expulsion of the International delegates is the crowning act in the series of unconstitutional acts com- contrary to the provisions of our con- stitution and therefore utterly illegal and yoid. The illegality is so self evident that you could not possibly be acting in good faith, We must therefore attribute your last act to the same malice and desire to ruin the union that you cannot rule arbi- trarily that was shown in your ac- tjon of that date, and we have no doubts that the membership will com- pel you to repudiate your latest out- rage as well. No G. E. B. Meeting. “3.—-We also desire to call your attention, as well as the attention 4 FURRIERS UNION CUT THIS OUT AND SAVE IT. uv Pee members of pe to sp < that t RED CARTOONS OF 1927 is even a-finer collection of the }|*i"ine Cerveal Executive Bosra’ helt most recent cartoons of the well-known labor artists—Robert . Minor, Fred Ellis, K. A. Suvanto, Art Young, Hay Bales, 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 those who help DAILY ” 83 First Street since December 13, 1926, and that your claim to have held such a meet: | ing on Monday, February 14th, 1927, is in itself a fraud. We are ready to prove to the workers of our union, as well as to the public at large and in any court of justice, that no legally us to build the Daily Worker. aonisinted. wesucia’ oh wole Generel Executive. Board’ has been held on deep gs tO a y. pom February 14th, 1927, as ail \ a mitted by the A. F. of L. against the local unions. These locals have like- wise been carrying forward the ban- ner for militant struggles against the employers, and have shown in the course of the last year that the policy of militancy means strength to the unions Class-collaborative policies of Mr. Green and Sigman mean disrup- tion of the unions. These expulsions of Mr. Green are part of the whole compaign of disrupting the needle trades unions. «Stay With the Fight. “There is only one answer—the con- tinuation of the fight, more vigorously than ever before. The rank and file of labor will only condemn these fac- tors of disruption. The workers will not long tolerate these crushing poli- cies. Mr. Green will be defeated as Mr. Sigman is being defeated.” (Signed) William W. Weinstone, General Secretary, District, No. 2. District Executive Committee, Workers’ (Communist) Party. union-smashing just as Morris Sig- | J, TONIGHT is the one night in the year WHEN— friends, contributors and editors of The DAILY WORKER all get together just for the fun of it and stage a rebel party with enough life and zip in it to make the usual affair seem like a quilting bee of The Ladies’ Aid Society by comparison. . Surely you'll be there. We promise you a won- derful evening. First the banquet with concert music by a fine orchestra while the dinner is being served. Then there’ll be some talk about a subject pretty close to our hearts—-The DAILY WORKER. J. Louis Engdahl, Scott Nearing, Ben Gold, Ber- tram D. Wolfe, William F. Dunne, Verne Smith, “The expulsion or the progressive | night by order of President Green is|{, F. of L. The charge of “Communism” |}; Tom O’Flaherty, Robert W. Dunn, Helen Black, Harbor Allen and Mike Gold will contribute more or less to this feature. Hugo Gellert and William Gropper will then fur- nish some lively comment on leading figures and trends of our time by drawing satirical sketches. This feature will be followed by song, rendered by a Russian singer. Afterwards will come dancing in th : Yorkville Casino Ballroom. g in the beautiful The Second Annual BANQUET « DANCE of the New York Daily Worker Builders TONIGHT YORKVILLE CASINO, 212 EAST 86th STREET near 3rd Avenue. Banquet at 7 p. m. TICKETS Dancing at 9 p. m. Banquet and Dance, $1.50—Dance only, 50. Make reservations immediately by telephoning the local office of THE DAILY WORKER 108 East 14th Street New York City Telephone: Stuyvesant 6584. When replying to these advertise. | aents mention The DAILY WORKER.