The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 3

| a _ spoke, urging specifi THE DAILY WORKER, VEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1927 PORTO RICANS IN PLEA FOR HELP TO NIGARAGUANS Call on U.S. Marines to Quit the War (Continued from Page One) in the ranks of the servile unionist and socialist representatives, who are the guardians of imperialist rule in Porto Rieo, But representative Char- riez was met With an ovation from numerous anti-imperialists who wait- ed for him to leave the sessions at ¢losing time; he had a multitude of hands to shake duting that hour. Anti-Imperialist Leaflet. The sailors of the American war fleet are greeted on artival at San Juan with a proclamation from the Anti-Imperialist League which points out to them that the invasion of Nica- raguy is for the purpose of pro- tecting property, and asks “Whose property?” Not the property of the sailors and marines of the fleet, nor of their relatives at home. The mani- festo continues: | According to the unimpeachable | evidence submitted ‘by the senate | committee on foreign relations the landing of American troops in Nica- ragua was ordered by the state de- partment at the direction of the banking houses of J. W. Seligman and Co, of Wall St., Brown Bros. of | Baltimore, ang the industrial and) finance corporation of J. G. White | Co. of New York, American Enemies Too. These are of the same class of usurers who may have foreclosed on yours or your fathers’ farm and homestead! The same bosses and exploiters who have forced you to work in the shops and factories controlled by them, for starvation wages, and when they got all they could or needed out of you, fired you into the street to starve or join their navy. it is the property and “rights” of these usurers and eploiters that you are ordered to protect! ! f Like your forefathers of 1776, we the peoples of Latin America are to- day also determined to liberate our countries from the clutches of a small group of bankers and exploiters who are now infesting, as well as ex- ploiting, your own country. Write home to your friends and relatives urging them to demand: Hands off Mexico and Nicaragua! Your withdrawal from Latin Ameri- can couritries! ‘i The immediate liberation of such countries as »Porto Rico, held as colonies! $ Read The ily Worker Every Day Women Cloakmakers Plan Huge Protest | On Rosalsky, Sigman Women of the dress and cloak makers’ unions plan an impressive protest meeting Friday evening -at| Bakers Hall, 1570 Webster Ave.,| Bronx. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Cloak- makers Women’s Council, the United Council of Working Class Housewives, and the Joint Board Cloak and Dress- makers Union’s women’s committee. The protests will be directed at Judge Otto Rosalsky and his colla- borators, the Sigman machine of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers for the imprisonment of 16 clouk- makers out of charges arising from the recent strike. . Down town women and men from every distritt of the city are ¢ to attend the Bronx meeting. Ukrainian Women to Help Jewish Sisters In Garment Picketing Look for the women of the United Council of Working Class House- wives, the Cloakmakers Women's Committee and the Joint Board Wo- men’s Committee on the picket lines! The decision to help the cloak and dress makers in their picketing was reached at a meeting last night. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. C. Sara Sherman, Rose Wortis. Kate Gitlow and numerous delegates ie action to aid he union in picketing and in freeing members. A Ukrain- imprisoned ‘jan women’s mass delegation pledged unstinted aid to their Jewish sisters. Another will be held ii prom at 'Webvtets Hal Friday ning. A Minor, Fred Ellis, K. A. Suvanto, ' Each picture Coal Barons Prepare to Smash United Mine Workers’ Union The joint conference of the United Mine Workers’ seale com- mittee and the coal operators has been unable to agree. Coal operators are leasing mines in non-union fields. Coal is being stored by all big consumers and coal dealers. ! There is said to be a supply for two months on hand, | Preparations are being made to speed up production in the non-union fields. } The operators have refused to continue the Jacksonville wage-scale after March 31. The stage is being set for a struggle which will mean life or! death for the United Mine Workers—the most important union in the American labor movement. If the miners are defeated the American labor movement will be confronted with a series of attacks from which no uni6n will be exempt. | There are three courses which the union can follow: | (1) Actept the terms of the operators—a cut in wages. (2) Sign up with individual operators on the basis of the! Lewis proposal for efficiency which actually means a wage re-| duction. | (3) Strike, and turn the strike into an organizational drive | in the unorganized fields, bring these miners into the union, de-| feat the operators and force a national agreement for the in-| dustry. . The first two alternatives ‘mean the destruction of the union the first method being immediately disastrous, the second being | a slower but just as destructive a process. The coal barons are banking on the non-union fields to crush| the union under an avalanche of coal.. Starvation of union miners will be the first weapon employed, later, the full force of the state and national governments will be used to drive the miners back to work at the operators’ terms. An organization drive that will add 200,000 more fighters |to the ranks of the United Mine Workers of America is the! weapon with which the resistance of the coal barons will be broken | and the union not only saved but placed upon a firmer foundation | than ever before. p | The coal diggers, by making the program of the “Save the Union” bloe the program of the union in this struggle, with the; organization of the non-union fields the first point on the order | of business, will smash the offensive of the operators. | Little more than a month remains to put the United Mine Workers on a fighting basis—to perfect the strike and organiza tional machinery. The coal barons have to do nothing except close the union mines and launch their publicity campaign against the union—) publicity which well-paid experts have been working on for! months. | In the union the militant rank and file and their leaders have to shoulder the burden of preparation. Outside of the union the rest ot the labor movement must be made to know that the miners are fighting the battle of the whole American working class and that no means to aid them should be overlooked. The united front of the bosses against the miners can be broken by a united front of labor. THOMPSON WINS COMPANY UNION WAR IN CHICAGO BOOSTER QUITS ‘Brownsville, N.Y., Rents ‘Take One-Third of Pay | er month, with rents varying be- (Continued from Page One) AND PEACHES IN tween $35 and $75. This, in spite of the fact that the average apartment| consists of only three rooms; almost} none are larger than four. | These exceptionally high rents for workers’ homes result from but one factot—the aggression of the land- Yords. At every opportunity, rents Suicides, Divorces and SCANDAL GOSSIP TEXAS, CHARLEY — “Mecting Proves Frost (Continued from Page One) up any furriers, except the members | of the Greek Brotherhood, a company | junion, whose memk are said to ‘have received a special invitation, | Postpone “Reorganization.” |. The threatened reorganization pro- | ceedings against the Joint Board did |not start yesterday as expected, but | were delayed, possibly to synchronize | | { | FRENCHY’S GANG SLUGS WORKER | | NOT PICKETING \ Lead Pipe Used: Girl |the rent laws from every minute an-| were raised. Twelve cases, testing gle, were instigated by Brownsville} Murder Are Features Texas Gninan, night club caterer | with the Joint Board mass meeting | which is to be held tonight. Gangsters Active The activities of “Frenchy’s gang,” | how far they could go. | wage, $38 a week! landlords who wanted to know just| to the social elite! Little Billy Gaff-| | ney, 4, still missing two dramatic sui- |cide efforts, murder of an ex-convict, | Charley Chaplin’s swell party and Peaches coming back from Bermuda, tried in the courts, the landlord seek-| were high lights in police, court and ing to gain by law what he could not! scandal records yesterday. sabotage by bluster and trickery. If} 1. Texas beat the cops to it when @ powerful tenants’ organization was| she closed her place at noon, before not formed in Brownsville in 1922,| they arrived with a court order pad+ that community would be paying still| locking the 200 Club, leisure class higher rents today. | hangout. No Repairs Made. 2. And even that organization was un- | Brooklyn varnish plant, according to able to force the landlords to make | one claim, although police suspect he necessary repairs. Of ten apartments | has been drowned. He has been miss- I visited in the district, seven had|ing nearly two weeks. leaking faucets in the kitchens, each| 3. Two Coney Islanders tried sui- hour wasting more of the taxpayers’! cide, one by iodine and one by a re- money. | volver. Both failed. Forty-five dollars per month—$15 Hard on Wives. eee ae ot the myernge 4. Wives of Biumes Law victims, Even then they were not satisfied— hundreds of cases of Brownsville landlord vs. Brownsville tenant were : ‘ Ss e for life, can get) Wages vary considerably in Browns-| S¢t to the pen Yeas ville. Some families had an average|‘ivorces, if an Albany bill goes wage-income of $20, others $80, It through. Women should not be com- |was the latter figure that brought| Pelled to live alone the remainder of the average wage up to $38. But it | their lives”, was the explanation. must be remembered that few of| 5. Edward Fallon, aileged boot- those who earn more than $55 a week, | legger who had resided at Sing Sing are employed all year round. And for some time, was shot down and Billy. Gaffney’s body was in a) This meeting is announced not only as a warning to President Schacht- man and other reactionary officials! | of the union to keep their hands off | the furriers’ union, but it will be a |demonstration of the furriers’ deter- miantion that their members shall not |be sent to jail as the cloakmakers |have been for their strike activities. } Sentence Innocent, Men. |» Yesterday, four innocent workers |who had been convicted on charges | |made by manufacturers during the} | strike a year ago, were sentenced by| | Judge Cornelius Collins in General | | Sessions. Max Gursky, A. Pollack and/| | Panos Sehas received 60 days each; | jand G. Zizis was given a six month | Suspended sentence. The cases of the | | other 36 fur workers who were called | to court, were postponed until next | | Monday. Chaitman Not in Strike. When the meeting was well under | \ way, a furrier named A. Kessler, who |is 75 and has been a member of the junion for 80 years, rose and asked| | Chairman Abe Goldstein: | “Where were you during the strike? | Why do you come and insult us now with your attacks on our union?” four of whom are now out on bail fur- | nished by the International, were ex- | tened on Wednesday to an attack upon a worker who was not picketing. Aaron Wertuns, a presser of the Charles Meisel Dress Shop of 225 | West 36th Street, was standing by the door of his shop waiting for it to open early yestredy morning. The shop is not on strike As he waited, three carloads of gangsters drove up, probably on their way to the B. Gershel dress shop nearby, which was called on strike by the Joint Board last week. Seeing the gangsters approaching im, Wertuns fled up the stairs, but vas overtaken at the fifth floor. At the point of a gun he was forced to the roof, where he was beaten with lead pipe. When he tried ‘to scream for help, the gun was flourished and he was told to “keep auiet or you'll be killed,” according to his statement. He es- eaped from his torturers by running down a fire escape. A physician pro- nouneed him to be suffering from in- ternal injuries, inflicted by blows from the lead pipe. The gangsters were arrested, but many who earn less than $55 a week, Ro are also employed in seasonal indus- killed in Brooklyn by gangsters. | trace of ’em yet. The old man was ordered to sit | down, Goldstein shouting, “you were tries, | 6. Charley Chaplin threw a swell So that while $45 a month must be) party at his Manhattan apartment in paid out for rent all year round, $150) celebration of a divorce settlemént wages are not coming in every month! with Lita, according to Park Ave. all year round. When the outlay ex-| gossip. @haplin admitted the paxty ce ten income, pinching peng |but denied the settlement. ‘hey pinch sometimes in Brownsville. | ‘Teethers Romewsrd Bound 7 | 5 Set Gees Nothing. They tearncd-how Peaches, center of idlers’ atten- . cigert ih gd ie Outen, oe ee * tion at Bermuda, is bound home for In Soviet Russia, laws make it im-| West End Ave., hurdling imprecations sible for gouging landlords to) at Daddy Browning's head. cha more than 10 per cent of the 9 wedrleer" wages for rent. The mini- of a Wall St. attorney, was given $60 mum is 31-2 per cent. Rents average | ® week alimony and counsel’s fees of around 5 and 6 per cent. In America | $1,000 in divorce decree. She called and right here in Brownsville, rents | Blatchford the worst sort of a brute, average 30 per cent. What a dif-|for all his Stock Pxchange connec- ference! | tions, while he alleged intimacy with In spite of this, there are as few other men. be : : , empty apartments as.in the Ghetto. 9. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis denied I walked three miles—I met only | Paris divorce rumor. No rift between seven “Apartment To Let” signs.) her and Babbitt-creator, she says. What, Assemblyman Jenks, no hous-| eeaianena aeons ing shortage? s4..% Jenks In Swell Albany Hotel, Britain Seeks War With Soviet Union I wish Jenks were with me when I walked 4nto 4 real estate office to} write this article. The realtor in| (Continued from Page One) ‘charge showed me a list of available | centrate the principal attack of the apartments. It hardly filled three-| Chinese. quarters of a typewritten page. And| The assistance rendered by the Rus- jthis realtor is known to have the) sian workers and peasants to the largest trade among landlords in the | British miners during the great strike Brownsville section. » {has tankled in the breasts of the Mrs, Martha Blatchford, wife! SAVE THIS VALUABLE PRIZE COUPON A 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 . FOR NOMINATION One Mortally Wounded; ‘Many Slugged | HUFFMAN MILL Disgusted at Failure to Kill Union CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Former Mayor | William Hale Thompson, successful candidate in the race for the repub- lican mayoralty nomination, today be- gan organizing the machine with which he hopes to drive to victory at the April election over Mayor Wil- liam E. Dever, renominated on the democratic ticket to succeed himself. ‘Thompson, twice mayor, and “wet” candidate, opposed to the League of ations, was nominated in yester- day’s blood-and-thunder primary. His majority over Edward R. Litsinger, asked | chief opponent, was slightly in excess of 180,000 votes. The democratic vote was light ow- ing to the fact that Mayor Dever had virtually no opposition. The total republican vote was 506,- 307. A total of 342,279 votes was cast for The democratic ‘than 200,000. Bullets Better Than Ballots. The campaign for the republican nomination was one of the bitterest ever waged in Chicago. Despite un- usual precautions on the part of po- lice and a large force of special depu- ties, shooti: sh , kidnapings and various s of intimidation and fraud were recorded. Police, armed with machine guns, rifles and tear- bombs, patrolled the “danger wards” throughout the day, displaying their munitions as a threat to political gangsters, But even this vigilance failed to stem the tide of "vote totalled less in the | outlawry. One man was killed, sev- eve-| eral were crippled, dozens were beat up or kidnaped. ¥ Art Young, Hay large enough all 64 PASSAIC, N, J., Feb. 23. — A significant victory for the Passaic woolen textile unions was seen today in the resignation of Robert M. Rein- hold, director of public relations of the Forstmann & Huffman: Co. Reinhold was the leader of the com- pany union forces in the Forstmann & Huffman plant which were used in vain to stem the advance of the legitimate textile workers union. He devised a fake “industrial democracy” schemé distinguished mainly by its failure to fool the workers. The textile workers union called off the strike against the mill last week when the management wrote that it would not discriminate against union- ists in employing workers, Reinhold and his wife are going south, presumably to accept employ- ment in a non-union mill. James A. Hare personal secretary to Julius Forstmann, is also a, w. o. 1. No explanation is @tven for his resig- nation. ‘i Sixty Girls Trapped, Drop 20 Feet From Useless Fire Escape Sixty girl workers, trapped by fire ina four-story loft building at 657 Broadway, Brooklyn, reached the street in safety yestredya by climb- ing part way down the fire escape and then dropping itno the arms of police- men, . They were unable to eseape by the stairway because of the flames and dense smoke. They and 20 male em- ployes climbed down the fire escape, but found that it ended 20 feet above the sidewalk. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Lillian Herstein to ' Visit Soviet Russia Lillian Herstein, chairman of? the I aSked janitors, and they told me they had lists of people who wanted to move away from their present lo- cations. She often reteived handsome bonuses from future tenants,.she said, by notifying them immediately when a tenant gave her a moving notice. Waiting lists have been in vogue for the past six years. Brownsville, the community founded by progressive youth, has been lying dormant for the past decade, satis- fied with having grown into ma- turity. But The DAILY WORKER has sounded a call to arms. Pro- gressive workers are massing them- selves against the housing shortage, the creature of trooked politicians, money-mad landlords, and dollar- greedy builders, Brownsville, the product of rebel- lious youth, will rally ore more, and fight for better housing. You «see, that’s just the way it’s built. It’s in the Brownsville blood, And maybe it won't be a fight, eh! It will, if Brownsville can help it. Women Furriers in Own Meeting Plan Action in Industry A reunion gathering of the Fur Working Women’s Educational Club took place last evening at 116 West 28rd St., at the same time the men and some of the women were demon- strating outside of Cooper Union. Fannie Warshafsky acted as chair- man, and there was a general discus- sion of conditions in the trade. Plans were laid for a package party, and other future activities of this groyp which includes non-union as well as union women workers in the fur trade. Lawes Swears He’s Hard on Prisoners At Sing Sing Prison OSSINING, N. Y., Feb. 23.—War- den Lewis E. Lawes has not yet re- ceived any acceptances to the invita- tions he issued to any of his critics to come and serve twenty four hours voluntarily in Sing Sing as inmates to see if prisoners are being “cod- dled.” In teply to a recent statement by Police Commissioner McLaughlin, of New York, to the effect that Peter Heslin, slayer of a policeman, had written “Bum” Rodgers that he had found life pleasant at Sing Sing, Warden Lawes issued a formal state- ‘}ment in which he denied Heslin ever wero) F , and issued his tories. Fear ‘that the success of the |Chinese revolution will be followed |by repercussions in India and Egypt —a well-grounded fear at “that—is responsible for the attack of political nerves that has taken hold of the British government. | That there is a real danger of a |break between the Soviet Union and Great Britain is now generally ad- mitted. Tho the note is considered a triumph for the Churchill-Birken- head faction of the cabinet there is a strong body of opinion even in capi- talist circles that does not wish to gamble on losing. its present com- mereial connections for the hazardous diplomacy of Churchill. Even the tory Daily News admits that “there is no prospect whatever of a collapse of the Soviet govern- ment”, tho it justifies hostile action on the ground that the Soviet gov- ernment will continue to spread work- ingelass propaganda. British labor is decidedly opposed to the provoca- tive policy of the government. NEWS IN BRIEF Echo of Hoffman? BERLIN, Feb. 23.—The foreign re- lations committee of the Reichstag held a secret session today to dis- cuss Russo-German relations, especial- ly those dealing with military ques- tions. Bight Cleries Less. MEXICO GITY, Feb. 23.—Right rebels were killed in a battle with federal forces near Zacatecas today, according to an official communica- tion to the war department. Another Student Bumps Off. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 23.--The sui- cide wave sweeping the nation struck in Braddock, a suburb, today and claimed the life of Nathan P, Weiss- man, 19-year-old university of Pitts- burgh student, the seventeenth victim in reeent weeks. Explosion in Power Tunnels. PROVIDENCE, R, 1. Feb, 23.- ‘Ten persons were reported injured and many had narrow escapes this after- noon when six manhole covers of the Narragansett Electic Light Company exploded with a roar that shook down The explosions and flying manhole stoppage of all electric power in the business district. Trolley cars with halted and all ‘the indus- ‘to his critics. passengers trial plants stopped operating. town office buildings. | covers was instantly followed by the | 1 ev areneeean amine | sent here by the Communists to dis-| rapt this meeting. We will respect | |your age, but if you were at a ‘left | wing’ meeting you would be thrown | out.”. | But Kessler refysed to sit down,| |and refused to be denounced in this | | way. He left the hall and more than 250 workers followed him, in spite of | | protests from the chairman who urged | them not to leave. | At 5.30 Ben Gold, manager of the! | Joint Board, appeared on the Scene. | Immediately the fur workers formed; | into line with Gold in the lead. | | Drive Workers from Hall. | Mounted police rushed up °on the| | sidewalks, driving the workers up| | Fourth Avenue as far as Ninth Street. | Hundreds of books in stalls along the | | street were overturned as the moun- | | ted police rode cossack-like along the | | sidewalks, pushing, shoving and ter-| | vifying men, women and children. | | The workers: reformed their lines| {and marched toward Cooper Union| jagain. Mounted police again drove| | up on the Sidewalks, forcing the work- | fers into St. Marks Place. When they) |reformed their forces there, the po- jlice, not satisfied, continued their charge all the way up to Second Ave- nue. The constant reforming of furriers’ | ranks, the constant attacks by the po- |lice on horseback continued for two hours, The union members were driven as far as Ninth Street and Third Avenue and up Fourth Avenue to Tenth Street. As they marched along, the fur- riers cheered for the Joint Board and booed the infamous right wing alli- ance with bosses and police, The committee of tight wingers at Cooper Union doors who decided who were to be admitted consisted of a carefully picked bunch of «henchmen of various unions, Alex Fried, Willie Rosenfeld and Harry Yurman of the Schatchtman’s International gang were there. Sam Hershkowitz of the Cap and Millinery Union, also scru- tinized those seeking entry, allowing the “boys” of that union to get in. Moscow was there for the amalga- mated and Izzie Dunney for the Sig- man gang. The speakets at the meeting were Morris Sigman, Abraham Beckerman, Max Pine of the Jewish Socialist Ver- band and a speaker representing the seab Greek Brotherhood. |Last Chance to See The exhibit of Soviet Union public health posters at East Hail, Russell Sage Poundation Building, 130 East 22nd Street, will be open to the pub- lie from 10.80 a. m. to 5 p. m. Thuts- day and Friday. Et YOU WILL FOR THE Soviet Health Exhibit, “OH SHAW” WATCH THIS SPACE | were released by the police when | “Frenchy” the leader of the gang, in- terceded for them. Anna Gorach, chairlady of the Sklarew and Kaufman shop at 327 West 36th Street, was scratched by “girl gangsters” who attacked her picket line at that shop yesterday morning. Two other pickets were in- jured also. The shop is on strike to foree recognition of Joint Board busi- | ness ayents by the employers. » Strikes have ben called on the Ar- line Dress Shop, 352 Seventh Avenue, because workers were locked out in the Aywone Dress Shop at 361 West 86th Street, because a cutter was dis- charged for refusing to register, and in the I. Tiser Dress Shop, because an operator was discharged for refusing to register with the International. Workers, picket these shops! Read The Daily Worker Every Day Jewelry Workers Delayed Election to Be Held Tonight Jewelry workers Local 1 will hold a membership meeting to-night in room 625, World Building. The final nominations of officers and executive board members will be the order of business. The elections which should have been held in January, have been needlessly delayed by the administfa- tion of Beardsley, Williams, Smith and |Co. the bunch have been very busy this last month, even postponing a regu- lar membership meeting so as to get all they can to come to support them at this meeting. . News is being spread that Brother Nesin, who has run against Beardsley for organizer for two terms, Will be kept off the ballot this time. Every progressive worker who wahta ‘te build and maintain a real union should be at this meeting. Section 1 Agitprop_ Meet Thursday Eve. All agitprops and organizers of Section I will have a spectal meeting on Thursday eve. Feb. 24 at 6 p. m. sharp at 33 East 8rd St. Comrade Bertram D. Wolfe, dis- trict agitprop director will outline a plan of activity in our settion, All must be there. Paint —Open meeting to- ers night for new mem- bers at special rate, $5.00. Regular fee $25.00. Apply all day. Paint- ers’ Union, 85 E. 116th Street. SAY THAT. 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