The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1927, Page 5

DUCHEN PICKETS THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1927 FREED BY JUDGE; STRIKE. GAINING All Skilled Workers Are Out Now By SIDNEY HAUER Three strikers who were arrested while peacefully picketing in front of the Duchen Mill at 2402 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, Monday morning on the charge of disorderly conduct were acquitted by Judge haubert of the JOINT ACTION BY CLOAK MAKERS ILGWU GHAIRMEN CHICAGO LABOR AND FURRIERS PLANNED AT MEET PLAN DRIVE FOR BUYING BONDS TO Expulsion of Furriers from Central Council. Other Resolutions at Cooper Union Denounce | DEFENSE FUNDS AID UNIONS HERE Three resolutions adopted by unanimous vote at the furriers’ demonstra- | Cloak, Dressmakers to Financial Aid .Comes tion at Cooper Union yesterday evening outlined in full the policy of the membership in support of the Joint Board, The expulsion of furriers’ dele- gates from the Centra! Trades and Labor Council, the attempted destruc- tion of the union by the right wing bureaucrats and formation of a joint committee of action by the Joint Boards of the ladies’ garment workers and furriers were deal with. . The text of the resolutions is: Joint Defense of Unions. Sees rR Nee aa RWS PRN "2 R The bureaucratic officials of the In-|the New York Joint Board of the ternational Fur Workers’ Union and furriers’ union to mobilize the entire the International Ladies’ Garment | Strength of our locals and of the Joint Hold District Meetings A constructive and comprehensive program to combat disintegration of | the cloak and dressmakers union was | outlined in resolutions adopted at a meeting of shop chairmen of the in- dustry held in Manhattan Lyceum, {86 East 4th Street, after work on | Thursday. The meeting was under Jetsey Avenue Court Wednesday morning. ‘ Upon several occasions the police’) interfered with the picketing of the) strikers issuing an ultimatum to the, effect that no picketing would be al- | Yowed in front of the Duchen Mill. They insisted that the strikers carry no signs or other eyidence of the fact that the Duchen Mill was on strike. The strike was called by Knit Goods Workers’ Local 55 of the United Textile Workers after two Workers’ Union have launched a cam- | paign to destroy both unions by means | of gangsterism, injunctions, frame- ups and terroristic tactics, This organized clique of bureau-) erats, in its desperate fight against the workers, has succeeded in destroy- ing the union conditions which had been won by the workers through many years of suffering and struggle. | The same destructive and treacher-| jous policy which has been practiced | by the Sigman machine in the Inter- |national Ladies’ Garment Workers’! strikers were fired for belonging to Union is now being pursued by the the union, The grievances are dis- crimination and victimization of union members. The union is de- manding of the Duchen mill: 1)Re- cognition of the union. 2) Reinstate- ment of the discharged union men. 3) No discrimination. 4) The forty- four hour week. Endure Police Persecution. In spite of the fact that the work- ers did not go outside the bounds of legal and peaceful picketing they | bureaucratic officials of the Interna- | tional Fur Workers’ Union in their lattempts to destroy the Fur Work- jers’ Union. Be it therefore : | Form Joint Committee. RESOLVED that we, the thousands | |of fur workers of Locals 1. 5, 10 and) | 15, gathered at Cooper on this | | 24th day of February, 1927, hereby | urge and call \von the Joint Board of | |the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union | |and the Joint Board of the furriers’| | | Board, as well as the suppott of the out of town localities of our Interna- tional, to the end of combating these destructive designs against our union, | | Chairmen. The plans call for a series of dis- and to preserve the union standards | trict and general mass meetings in and conditions won by the workers|the residence sections of the cloak jthe auspices of the Council of Shop| jand dressmakers, an active drive for | as a result of months of struggle and sacrifice, . * : EXPULSION OF THE JOINT BOARD DELEGATES FROM THE CENTRAL TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL, At the last meeting of the Central Trades and Labor Council held on Thursday, February 17th, the duly elected delegates from the Locals 1, 5, 10 and 15, and from the New York Joint Board of the International Fur) | Workers’ Union of U. S. and Canada, were expelled in utter disregard to all the rufes and regulations of the con- stitution. Such an arbitrary expul- sion of duly elected delegates without any charges brought and without trial constitutes a fundamental -breach of the principle of democracy and membership representation, and is |defense funds for the imprisoned cloak | makers, and a drive for sale of “Save the Union” bonds. It particularly calls |for an active campaign against the ‘open shop menace which has devel- oped in the industry due to the wea ening of the union by President Sig- | man’s expulsion policy and betraya’ |of the workers to the bosses in his attempt to gain control of the union. Reaffirm Loyalty to Joint Board. Workers who have been forced to register with the International are urged to reaffirm their loyalty to the Joint Board and to pay dues to the Joint Borrd. That there are many such workers, who, fearing to lose their jobs, after the exhaustion of the long strike, yielded to the threats. of |the International and the bosses and | registered, although their sympathy were arrested and force to endure! ynion to form a joint committee for! and loyalty lies with the Joint Board police persecution which ended in their trial before Judge Haubert of the New Jersey Ave. Court. If anything was needed to openly | Justify the cause of the strikers this victory has done so. They have taken heart from it and are taking part on the picket line with more militancy | than ever before. The Duchen Mill is entirely crippl- ed, All of the skilled union members have left the shop and it will not be long before it is closed from base- ment to roof and all operations cease. The remidining workers who are mostly young and extremely exploit- ed girls are rapidly joining the ranks of the union. This strike is of particular signifi- cance to the 20,000 knit-goods work- ers throughout Greater New York. The union is actively engaging in a membership and organizational drive in all departments of the trade, Fs- pecially is this of significance te the Roschel workers in the trade. It is imperative that all members of the trade in New York join the, union now so that the splendid work, of organizing and winning for the workers the right to a union and bet- ter conditions, may more effectively | and powerfully be carried on, the purnose of defending our unions Characteristic of fascism. has been proved to Joint Board lead- ‘and maintaining decent standards of! | work in the shops. * * Us | | MOBILIZATION FOR DEFENSE OF | UNION AND PROTECTION OF! UNION CONDITIONS. | The officers of the International | |Fur Workers’ Union, together with | some of the officers of the American | | Federation of Labor, have for the last |several months been carrying on a jremactes of Tender and malicious provocation. The same bureaucratic { offic have »itemnted to frame mm the Joint Board and its members with | |charges of bribing New York police. | | Finally the bureencratic officials of | | the International Fur Workers’ Union | jem of the American Federation of | | Labor have emerged into the open | with a campaign similar to that pur-} |Sigman intended to destroy , Strongly organized union of the New ‘York fur workers. \ Preserve Union Standards. Be it therefore resolved that we, the thousands of fur workers of Lo- cals 1 5, 10 and 15, members of the New York Joint Bord, assembled in Coover Union this 24th of February, 1927, hereby authorize and instruct Expulsion as a method of fighting and opportunities different from those who temporarily happen to control the affairs of the trade unions has been proven to be a policy leading to the destruction of our yinion. Denounce Expulsion. 4 Be it therefore resolved, that we, ers, according to statements of Louis |labor representatives who have views | Hyman, manager. Many of them have explained the situation to Joint Board leaders, but are loyal and pay their dues’ to the Joint Board in spite of their registration, Hyman declared. To meet this situation, the Shop Chairmen’s Council will carry on an intensive drive to unify all such work- the thousands of fur workers of, ers under the leadership of the Joint Locals 1, 5, 10 and 15, gathered at | Cooper Union this 24th of February, | hereby express our vigorous protest against the unconstitutional and un- just expulsion from the Central Trades and Labor Council of our dele- gates and the delegates from the locals of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. We demand the reinstatement of our delegates and the delegates from these locals at the New York Céntral Trades and Labor Council. We further declare that none other Board. Just as the meeting was closing a group of furriers, headed by Ben | Gold, general manager of the Fur- riers Joint Board, entered the hall | with greetings from the fur workers | who had just been meeting in Cooper | Union. | An enthusiastic demonstration | broke out as soon as Gold appeared, | and continued while he and a small M ‘i i the cloak and dressmakers’ locals as| group of furriers made their way to ee eee cee capaho accredited delegates to represent the platform. More than a hundred other members of the delegation were | unable to enter Manhattan Lyceum | because the hall was so crowded, but |than these delegates are duly au-, they held a demonstration of their thorized to represent the membership | 0W" outside and pledge their support of Lo¢als 1, 5, 10 and 15 of the Inter-| to the Furriers’ Joint Board and the {national Fur Workers’ Union as the| Joint Board of the Cloak and Dress- delegates to the New York Central makers. Trades and Labor Council. | Among the*speakers att he shop chairmen’s meeting were Louis Hy- LS | Furriers in United Front, With Cloakmakers | (Continued from Page One) er at Wednesday’s meeting. “First he was a contractor, then a boss and now he wants to be manager of the Joint Board,” charged Shi Fannie Warshafsky, busin agent of the Furriers’ Union, asked: “Why were all women barred from last night’s meeting? These right wing: ers now want their johs back. These men when they controlled the organi- zation told the workers to vote for republicans and democrats, to support the capitalist government that is op- poséd to the workers interests. “These men have now asked the American Federation of Labor for help in their fight against the left wing. They raise the cry of Com- munism. Let me tell them this, the Communists whom they abuse ask! for the unionization of the workers, The Communists will defeat the right wing in their ~~ i¢ple against the workers interests”! Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, was greeted with thunderous applause. He pointed out how the Jewish | Daily Forward exaggerates. | “Usually when the furriers have ja meeting the Forward claims that }it is packed with closkmakers and | when the cloakmakers have a meet- ing they claim that it is packed with | furtiers.” he asserted. “Tonight they | are lost because while the furriers | are meeting in this hall there is a monster meeting of cloakynakers in Manhattan Lyceum.” Samuel Leibowitz, assistant man-! ager of the Furriers’ Joint Board in| his address told of the right wing’s attempt to recapture Local 25 of New- j ark from the deft wing. He also | pointed out that the mass of the fur- riérs ave unorganized and if they all | belonged to the union there would be 125,000 in the organization. | George Parakotas, a Greek furrier, | declared thet the Schachtman gang have united with the Greek Brother- hood, which he called the “seabhood.” i Pass Unanimously. | | M. H. Cohén, secretary of the Joint | BAKERY PRODUCTS If not, let us know and we'll instruct our §) driver to call at your home. ve Trading Association, ii 4301 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. SAVE THIS VALUABLE PRIZE COUPON A Copy of Red Cartvons of 1927, Worth $1.00 for 50 Cents With 50 ‘Each picture and mounted. The book includes 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, DAILY WORKER . 33 First Street P jman, Joseph Boruchowitz, Joseph Roard, read the resolutions to the|Goretzky, I. Brauner, and five other meeting in English, followed by Chair-| members of the shop chairmen’s man Shapiro, who translated them | council. into Jewish before they were voted) unon. When the ‘all onposed” was asked for, several workers humor- ously shouted: “Sigman and Schacht- man”! Five thousand dollars was raised by the union for the defense fund. | Many workers gave their watches and) were yeceived from Riga other valuables. When Gold was presénted by the chairman, the workers arose, shout- ing greetings for several minutes. “T vemember in Russia,” said Gold, “when people in 1905 were in fear of \daily pogroms, they asked, ‘has it happened?’ Now cloakmakers ask the same question, alluding to the ‘ex- lusions. Four Angles To Attack. “The expected attack on the fur- tiers was to have apheared from four different. angles. The first was to call Gold to Mayor Walker in answer to charges of graft brodght by Green and Woll. é “The second was to be the reorgan- ization of the New York locals, “The third was wednesday’s Cooper Union meeting and the fourth the ‘New War Threats Against Soviet Union (Continued from. Page One) | Pilsudski have at last shaken hands today, | though the fact that secret negotia- tions between them have been under way has been known here for some | time. Lithuania Neded Money. The Lithuanian need of English _eredits played a decisive role in the | negotiations and overcame the Lithu- anian resentment against General | Zeligowski's seizure of Vilna in 1921 | which had converted the whole Baltic | into a smoldering volcano. | Under the agreement Poland ac- | knowledges Lithuanian sovereignty |“when. Bolshevism is no longer dan- |gerous”. In return Lithuania accepts the Polish military occupation of Vilna until the “Bolshevik danger is eliminated.” Reestablishment of (rade relations over Vilna and promises to return it : From All Sections With a check for $700 received yes- |terday, Chicago completed the pur- chase of $2,000 worth of cloakmak- ers’ bonds in one week. This splendid record follows the | arrival of A. Weiss, one of the Joint | Board business agents, in Chicago, |and shows how completely the dress- jmakers and other workers of the windy city understand the present critical situation in the International | Ladies’ Garment * Workers’ Union. | Weiss has been in Chicago only ten {days and the splendid response to |the bond appeal there is giving fresh impetus to other parts of the country. From all sections the R. A. I. C. shares are coming in large numbers. During the past week $920 worth of | bonds have been purchased by Dallas, | Texas. Branch 35 of the Workmen’s Circle has bought $325 worth of bonds; $65 has come from the Los Angeles Young Men's £ | and $25 from the Lithuani, z | Women’s Alliance. The Freiheit Sing- |ing Society has, so far, raised $700 and this group of young workers is | still keeping up its good work. #* Workers Buying «Bonds. Renewed interest in the “Save the Cloakmakers’ Union” bond issue is being displayed in the shops too, and in addition to large contributions from several shops, smaller payments are being made regularly each week for the purchase of bonds. The workers realize that the fund must be kept growing in order to take care of the imprisoned strikers and their families. The majority of the bonds already purchased have now been mailed out and if ayone in New York has not received his bond he should call for it at the office of Local 22, 16 West 21st Street, at once, makers now is “Every Bond Holder a New Bond Purchaser,” and in ad- dition to buying a new bond, each | Subscriber is being urged to sell one | to a friend. In this way the $250,000 ;mark will soon be reached, and the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union will be once for all rescued from those treacherous officials who have tried to destroy it. * om * | |Newark’s Workers | Buty Bonds to Help Cloakmaker Board NEWARK, N. J.—Despite a con- tinuous downfall of snow, rain and sleet, the workers of Newark turned out Saturday to hear the truth about struggles of the Joint Board of the al. They packed New Montgomery | Hall, which is situated in the heart of the working class section of the city. Representatives of the Joint Board of the furriers and the cloakmakers outlined the fight, the forces of re- action lined up against the honest and progressive forces in the New York needle trades. A representative of jthe Furriers’ Local 25 told of their |fight with the International officers jand the injunction issued against the local which has been vacated. The workers gaye all the speakers |an enthusiastic reception and also re- sponded with the buying of bonds cir- culated by the cloakmakers’ Joint |Board. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Jewish Workers’ Progressive Club of Newark, organ- ized to educate the workers to their Position in society so that they can more effectively carry on their strug- gle against their common enemy, the employers. ‘Landlords Thrive on | High Rents in Harlem (Continued from Page One) most persecuted citizen in New York. : Youthful Silk Worker | Sinks Bullet in Brain As Protest on Future GARFIELD, » Feb, 24.—An- other youthful suicide was reported to the police here today. Theodore Tatarah, 19, of 1087 East 24th St., Paterson, shot and killed himself at the grave of his brother, in the cemetery of Saints Peter and Paul here today, according to the police. Young Tatarah was employed in a silk mill at Paterso He left note, written on a small pad, begged forgiveness of his parents, and ex- Pressed a hopelessness toward the future. In a postscript, he wrote: “I never was any good, anyway— wasn't smart or ambitious or a genius.” A second note, apparently direct- ed to the finder of his body, read: “Please don’t think I am insane, be- cause I am as sane as anybody, but it takes a lot of nerve when you are planning your own death, like an architect his building. Freshman Radio Gets Fresh With Workers The Chas, Freshman Co., manu- facturer of radio apparatus, exercised its petty spite on workers who took off Washington’s birthday as a holi- day, without pay. The company wanted them to work right thru on straight time pa: Some of them were late from thr to five minutes getting back to work the next day, and the company made this an excuse for preventing them from working at all that day, also. Cutters of Local 10 Call On Expulsion Policy A meeting of the cutters of Local 10 Ladies’ Garment Workers, has been arranged by the progressive members for Saturday, February 26, at the Stuyvesant Casino, 140 Second Avenue. Louis Hyman, Charles Zim- merman, and prominent members of the local will speak, “Although the cutter’s local is sup» posed to be composed of ‘Dubinsky’s boys’ the active henchmen of Sigman, there is a large and growing group of progressive cutters who see clear- ly the ruin into which Dubinsky is plunging the cutters”. the sponsors of the meeting declare. “Already 18 cutters have been ex- pelled upon faked up charges that they were working without a union eard, in spite of the fact that they had no jobs. This is supposed to be an object lesson to other cutters, and Dubins hopes that the expulsion of these 18 will quiet the ever growing | protest against his methods. We are calling this meeting to point out to all cutters that their union is in dan- ger and they are being led to be- trayal.” Read The Daily Worker Every Day Factory Street Nucleus No. 3 to Meet Feb. 25 The meeting of the Factory Street Nucleus No. 3 will be held on Friday, February 25th, at 108 E. 14th St. at 6 p.m. Many important problems concerning factory activities will be discussed. All members of the unit must attend this meeting without fail. Yeh te da cde cde eee ade de eect dae feeb feo cle de lobe fe obaefe The slogan of the cloak and dress-| cloakmakers against the Internation-| 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, » Vose and others. | court casés.” } Save Workers From Prison. “The union must mobilize its mem- | bers in the fight to keep its workers from being gent away for years in | prison. The union is without funds, | | We make no secret about it.” Referring to the International, Gold) asked, “Why don’t they come and capture the local meetings if they jsay the furriers are with them. Something must be rotten in Denmark when the “Trade Union Grouv have to call a meeting and exclude fur- riers who were invited to speak by the Joint Board at a previous Cooper Union meeting? Why did they not attend our previous meeting instead of calling one of their own last night? Challenge Beckerman To Debate. “At last night’s meeting Abe Beck- erman of the Amalgentated Clothing Workers challenged me to fight. Be- |inw a furrier, I am not afraid of a fight. “But why fight? T challenge Beck- erman to debate with me in any hall, Madison Square Garden if necessary, and diseuss before the membership o! the 12,000 furriers ind the 50,000 members of the Amalgamated, the question of whose policy is right.” “In referring to the expulsion of the fifteen furriers from the Central ant and in Seuney pres ios am guilty of graft, why ex: the locals? Expel me.” my (Union Made) ° of These Coupons Hay Bales, Jerger, is large enough to be framed in all’64 of the finest cartoons New York, N. Y. is expected to follow. And he must pay for it, at the rate Hostile To Germany. of five and ten dollars more than The agreement is hostile to Ger-| anyone else. many and her hopes of getting back Some Contrasts! the Polish corridor and also against| In West Harlem and Harlem proper, the tacit agreement to the Polish-Li-| Where the average salaries are $40| thuanian Union, which virtually |#Nd $35, the average rent is $50. In, means the Polish annexation of Li-|the Black Belt, where the average thuania which has long ben favored| Weekly wage is $30, the average | Well known Russian Con beginning at 8 TICKETS ta ole ohn chaob oe ae ob be ef eb od co os ae oe a obo eb ol abaeble oe RETEEFTEEEEET EHTS ES | INTERNATIONAL LAB ‘INTERNATIONAL ‘ANnNUal DaZaar | i tg aid Political Prisoners | Dancing — Restaurant — Music — Exhibitions — Concerts i . 1 4 BIG DAYS 4 BIG DAYS | Thursday pa | Friday ;: M | Saturday ee ' Sunday bide i Mak a, Eat Drink 1 40-11-12-13 Dance Sher || The Greatest Affair of the Year || STAR CASINO, 107th Street and Park Avenue, N. Y. TICKETS IN D. Office, Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, LL. Vegetarian Restaurant, Daily Worker Office, 33 Fir ' JOIN AND SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE. A A a: ARE YOU COMING? Of course, to the great Italian Affair arranged by Daily Worker and Il Lavoratore MARCH 5th, AT THE LYCEUM 86th Street and 3rd Avenue exceptional :30 p. m. sharp, followed by a Grand Ball One BIG surprise for that night. Come and See. Broadwa + Artists will render an cert EEE ES EPEEE EEE EEE EE EEEEEE EE EEE ESS | LABOR DEFENSE Affair of the 50,000 ARVANCH at Boom 422. 27 University Place. East 107th Street. ‘st Street, PENS ENE ROHN TE RD ND a Om See 888 @ 8 Ff, by Pilsudski. Tt remains to be seen, however, if the Smetona government is strong enough to make his country accept the, agreement, Had Tough Luck. All previous governments that ne» gotiated with Poland have been over- thrown and there are reports that the christian democrats, one of the bi gest parties in the country, is pré paring for a new coup to seize the government, A so-called Baltic league against the Soviet Union, long favored by France, has been taken up by Eng- | land and favored by Poland, Latvia and Esthonia but was always wreck- ed on Lithunian animosity. soos ha A eM TG MRS. ROGIN announces to her friends and patrons that she will open a new Vegetarian Restaurant at 249 E. 13th Street, N.Y. C. ee monthly rent is $55! In East Harlem, ||| where the average wage is $28, the ||| average rent is $37! » 1 ce And still, rooms throughout the en-| iy tire district are at @ premium! Who | jit can account for this fact? Assembly- | man Jenks, who studies the housing | jij shortage from a ninth floor window | 4 in the Hotel Ten Eyck, Albany? «| \ny Yet Harlem is one of the gayest ||) sections of the town. Carefree, living | from ‘day to day, it has transplanted | fy) the merrintent of New Orleans to the /!, north of New York town, and per- | \_) haps in that respect, if in no other, | the section has been improved. But the Harlemite is serious when he walks into the polling place in ||!!!) November, to cast his vote. And may-|| | be the politicians who have created, | 7 and are maintaining the housing | ~ shortage, will find that out. ‘Le wu Sub-Section 6-B to Dance on Saturday Ay entertainment and dance will be | yy given by members of Sub-section 6B Lu, of the Workers’ Party at 29 Graham by i 1 Pi DB v Fo YOU WILL Avenue Saturday evening. LEvery- body is welcome, } “OH SHAW:” WATCH THIS SPACE FOR THE REASON SAY THAT. Soe Ma Demonstration: tS Ss eer WS rege TRIS