The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1927, Page 3

aad * THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927 a rh leh Oc ts lh A es LABOR PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA DENOUNCES WOLL Reactionary Scored for Alliance With Boss (Continued from Page One) the present study of the Civic Fed- eration’ warrants the definite con- clusion that the entire undertaking was conceived in iniquity, bias and untruthfulness, “Every one knows Mr. Easley’s all too long record of persistent opposi- tion toward social legislation. It is because of this practical and phara- siatal attitude that the United Mine Workers and several other interna- tional labor organizations now have constitutional prohibitions . against their officers joining the Civic Fed- eration, Many Reactionaries. “The chairman of this particular old age -pension study is Tecumseh | Sherman, an-old reactionary and a man who has consistently written against old age pensions regardless of all facts and truth. Mr, Easley admits that the money for this in- | vestigation has come from the Car- negie Corporation whose past unfair position toward labor in general and unions in particular are of historic record. And to cap it all I have re liable evidence that your local in- vestigators are definitely instructed to obtain only such information as will disprove the facts found by the various state commissions and espe- cially those found by the Pennsyl- vania commission. . ‘ “Since when has the Carnegie Cor- poration become converted to labor unionism and assumed the cham- pionship of labor legislation?” Archibald Stevenson, John Hays liammond, Geo. B. Cortelyou, Elon Hooker, Nicholas E, Brady and E, K. Predict Panic in Orgy | Of Building Profit. ' (Continued from Page One) lated building program. Steady em-| ployment with rising wage scales characteristic of the organized build- | ing workers for the past three years | will come to an abrupt halt if the fi-| nancial spree comes to grief as pre-| dicted by Ottinger. | Ottinger’s statement is aimed at the New York bond houses which | have participated in the building fi-| nance orgy. The billions of dollars of | profits and dividends which have been paniés for profitable investment have proved the bait to real estate mort- gage and hond companies to engage | in the shadiest of deals, the first of the big houses to crash last year, and Ottinger asserts that | is not called. Stagger Business World. “Unless greater safeguards thrown around the investments of the | public in the enterprises promotéd by these concerns, big and little, a series | of financial crashes that will stagger the business world is bound to en- sue,” said Ottinger. He served notice on such concerns that he was prepared to prosecute | them under the Martin Anti-Stock Fraud Law if the regulations affect- | ing realty bond issues are not rigidly | observed in the future, | |. Up to September 26, last, 15 lead- | ing real estate bond houses had sold | $971,000,000 bonds for 1926. In 1925, ‘the same houses sold $291,000,000 ac-| cording to the attorney general. Gambling With Funds. | “Some companies have been guilty of gambling with investor's funds,” | Ottinger said. “Failure to observe the regulations promulgated by the anti- | stock fraud bureau will provoke the exercise of the most drastic provis- lions of the Martin law against these | companies. Such companies which | prove delinquent will be effectually | suppressed by injunction and foreign | are U.S, HUNGARIAN BLOCK MOVE FOR ‘LOAN TO HORTHY Workers Bank in Two Big Organizations Two new organizations of Hun- hurled at Wall Street investment com- | #@tians in the United States—the for the variation is startling. bulk of them workers—have been formed. The Federated Hungarian Societies of America brings together about 200 organizations with a total country, An Anti-Horthy League for Hun- efforts of the Horthy regime to erect a Kossuth monument in New York. sending 50 agents of the Hungarian dictator to America in the hope of drumming up financial and other sup- port for the reactionary government of Hungary. Horthy’s regime has been marked by persecution of, ‘work- ers and their organizations. Need Monument In Budapest. “If the supporters of the Horthy terrorists regime in this country are anxious to erect a monument of Kos- suth,” Hugo Gellert declared, “let them erect one in Budapest. There is no monument to Kossuth in the most important city in Hungary.” The Anti-Horthy League holds _its first big meeting 2 p. m., March 13th, at Central Opera House, New York. Aims of the Hungarian societies federation include: A delegate coun- cil to defend and represent all -Hun- garian-Americars and their institu- tions; school for naturalization of members; co-ordination of sent competing organizations’ wi a forum for free lectures, exhibits, theatricals, ete., to aid Hungarian- American community life; pooling of resources of all Hungarian sick and Hall of the Bell Telephone trust are | corporations guilty of violating this penevolent societies for erection of a named as anti-labor members of the | exeeutive committee Federation. of the Civic Woll Hated In New York. Woll is well known in New York. He injected himself into the struggle hetween the rank and file of the Yur Workers Union and their reac- tionary international officials as an aid of the latter. By means of a fake strike here he accumulated the ba- sis of a “report” denouncing the workers for their victorious struggle. He personally appeared on’ the plat- form at the last mceting of the. New York Trades and Labor Council, and | in an hysterical speech, led the at-| tack on the left wing needle trades members present. YOUNG WOMAN wishes to share ber three-room apartment, beauti- fully furnished, with a congental couple or friends. Call Intervale 2195. Pn t MRS. ROGIN announces ‘to her | friends and patrons that she has {pened a new | Vegetarian Restaurant fat 249 E, 13th Street, N.Y. C.}) Perr er erro secereccccoecooy* ESEAERINSLS TS? CRS Sa | Grand Concert and Dance | will be held Saturday, March 5 ©! 1347 Boston R’d, Bronx, N. Y. Admission 50¢.—Auspices of House MWn'g’m't of Bronx Workers Center, investigation of the furriers’ | code will be excluded from the state. | “The state is a virgin field of op-| ‘eration for these real estate bond | leoncerns. Our investors annually ab- | | sorb upwards of $300,000,000 of these | securities, a fact which calls for the | most energetic enforcement of the | | regulations the attorney general’s of- | | fice has promulgated. | “Observance of the rules the at- | torney general has framed for the | handling of the funds of these enter- | | prises will prevent a repetition of | | the G. L. Miller and Co. failure. Ig- | norance of them will surely percipi- | | tate a panic of fightful proportions.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS \N. Y. Labor Dailies | Cooperate in Unique | Anti-Fascist Affair | i | sanitarium; publication of a federa- tion newspaper; combatting all forms of reaction. Brooklyn Painters Will Demand $14.00 Scale Beginning April First On and after April 1st the Brook- lyn painters, within the jurisdiction of District Council No. 28, will de- mand a wage scale of $14 per day. Preparations are now taken to en- force this demand and in case of re- fusal of the painting contractors to | pay the new scale the union is going to go on strike. District council 28 has asked the endorsement for this ectiod from the painters 4n New York and the Queens, Who upon re- quest have assured full cooperation |to assist the Brooklyn brothers in |vealizing their demand. | This new wage Scale was drawn up High Rents Feature Housing in Bronx (Continued from Page One) waiting tenants should be interesting to them. And if they need to be con-| vinced, they might ask those tenants jhow long they lIlved at their last house, how much they paid, why they moved, and how long they waited for \this opportunity, Before I describe the living condi-| | tions in the various sections, let’s di- gest a few facts and figures first. To/ |give an average wage and rental for| the entire Bronx would be erroneous, | But | the avreage salary of the majority of | wage-earners is $36, Their rent! |amounts to $45. Among the poorer people, the unskilled laborers, the 4 * membership of 200,000. The feder- | average salary is $30—the rent is! in beh ee sg poae eiali ea ated group aims to aid naturalization $38, These figures apply chiefly to bor bankers were deeply involved, was of the million Hungarians in this | East Bronx, Hunts Point and South Pelham. But among the middle class, who earn on an average of $48 a more ‘will follow Miller ifa halt | #2tians has been started to combat | week, the rental is only $52. | __Who bears the burden of the rents? |The same person that bears the bur- | The proposed Horthy move is a blind, |den of taxation—the poor man. says Hugo Gellert, labor artist, for | Jerry Building. It's a trifle hard to describe the | tenements of the Bronx. They aren’t lexactly terrible—they haven't had time to be. But their real danger is not the things that are obvious, but those that fren’t apparentt. The buildings, most of them hous- ing twenty families or more, were slapped up in a hurry. Cheap stucco was put on the outsides; this has been knocked down by snow and ice. But} |that’s the landlord’s worry. What! concerns the tenant and therefore us is the fact that because of the hurry, |the houses were improperly built, in- | ternally. “Walk Up” Apartments. The rcoms are exceptionally small, crowding everybody, entirely elim- inating privacy. The beautiful sun- light, which the Bronx has in magni- | ficent abundance, can only be enjoyed by half the tenants, and then only in jone room, either the kitchen or the {parlor. The avartment houses are tall, seven or eight stories high, but few of them have elevators. The tired mother must climb all those flights of |stairs after a hard day's work. |. Why landlords are not forced to! | build fire escapes for each and every house, I do not know. The law re-| quires it, Yet, throughout east Bronx and as far north as Pelham, I found houses with no fire escapes, veritable \firetraps. | Wash lines, to improve the appear- | ance of the houses, I suppose, have been placefl on the roof. The poor | tired mother has to lug her wet wash five and six flights, then, with wind |howling all around her, she hangs up her clothes with icy fingers. a Landlord Rarely Loses. | But if you have money to invest, | and you don’t mind how tainted your inemoe is. take a tip and invest in the Bronx. The Bronx landlord, accord- | ing to the dockets, is forever in court, jand he rarely loses. He is given levery opportunity to raise the rent,| and in the summary of one case, I} |found that the judge had given him \instruction in how to worm through a loophole in the emergency rent law! and thus be able to raise the rents! | Spaghetti, music, radicals,-and to-| in view of the fact that the building | a little more. |baeco smoke will mingle at the Anti Fascist entertainment which will be held at the Yorkville Casino, 86th St. and 3rd Ave., on) | March Sth. | | The dance will be held under the auspices of Il Lavoratore, the Italian! | working class daily, and The DAILY | WORKER. ‘Bankers Sent Over Road for Thievery Three officers of the Broadway | |General Bank were each sentenced, yesterday to prison for from four and a half to nine yeas at hard labor for speculations .of $476,188 of the TONIGHT! : TONIGHT! CIVIC Spefetet Soegeofoa Admission resaeoteete XXX XXXXA AEE KIKI IXY Fada-Neutrodyne of the MODERN SUNDAY SCHOOLS’ CAMP ASSOCIATION Saturday, February 26th, 1927, 8 P. M. At LABOR TEMPLE, 247 East 84th Strect, New York City. Proceeds go to improvement of Summer Camp for Workers’ Children. Announcement o Comrades! Charles Selikson Radios and Victrolas CORN. 66TH STREET CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS— Stromberg-Curlson Radios Radiola Super-Heterodyne iS Freed-Eisemann Freshman Masterpiece, Etc. No Interest Charged EVERYTHING GUARANTEED — OPEN EVENINGS Lid at Gate T5c. CXXXMXXEAKK EAA XEAAAAXKKIIE 1225 First Ave. Atwater Kent Installed Free program for the coming season is one and dance of the biggest of the previous years | and will give employment to every painter available. It is stated also that the present rate of speed re- quired at the job fully justifies a} wage increase, especially so since the painting trade is seasonal compelling a painter to be idle for 4 and 5. | months during the winter. ‘Tailors Local 1 to | Open Drive for Union | If you've got to be a gouger, do it legally. But don’t do it like the blood- | ‘suckers in east Bronx, who, taking advantage of the ignorance of the Italian tenants, shake a sheriff's war- rant in their faces, and tell them with a straight face they'll be locked up if they don’t pay an increase. This was done in countless cases, a local law- yer proved to me. Be Low—But Within Law. If you've got to be low, be low. | That’s quite in conformity with the ideology of the New York landlord. | But don’t be illegal. Three landlords | Journeyman Tailors Local 1,: is were fined for doing that up in the opening an organization campaign to Bronx. And that’s against ethics, as unionize the custom tailors of New| the Bronx Ward of the United Real <{¢ York, The first step in that direction | is the appointment of two organizers | to assist the business agent in reach- | ing the workers and explaining te | them the importance of joining the union. 4 t The next meeting of the local will | he held Monday. at 8 p. m., at the! Bohemian Hall, 321 East 73d Street. | All tailors, union members and those | who want to join, should be present. | Dressmakers T.U.E.L, | To Meet on Monday _A meeting of the dressmakers sec- | tion of the Trade Union Educational | League, will be held on Monday at) 16 East 3rd Street, Room 3, at 7.30 pm. | Important questions will be taken | up. The presence of every member is necessary. Admittance by member- ship book only. Seb We Are Giving the t First and Best Ball ° +. 3 Brownsville $ in the <| WORKERS CENTER HALL : 63 Liberty Ave. TONIGHT Feb, 26,8 P.M. | Meet Your Comrades of the Former Branches of the Party and League. % ete Estate Owners’ Association will tell! you. Gumpertz Speaks on Germany, Sunday at | The Workers’ Schoo! | Julian Gumperz, an eye-witness of | the German revolution, will speak at) tomorrow night’s open forum of the | Workers’ School, 108 East 14th Street | on “Problems of the German Revolu- | tion.” : | Give Dance Benefit For Sunday Schoo! A dance will be given tonight at the Labor Temple. 247 East 84th Street, by the Modern Sunday School Association to raise funds to improve | their camp at Lincoln Park, N. J. i | | Section 6-B Dance An, entertainment and dance will be held tonight at the Workers’ Cen- | ter, 29 Graham Avenue, (corner Cook) Brooklyn, arranged by Sub: || ection 6-B of the Workers’ Party, All| welcome, Workers Youth Dance A dance will be*held tonight at 43. | Liberty Avenue, Brooklyn, jointly by the Workers’ Youth Center Club.and the Neutral Club of Brownsville. All young workers are welcome to at- tend. Correction The advertisement in yesterday's DAILY WORKER in regard to a meeting of the Painters’ Union should have read “International Progressive Alteration Pai bf Union” insead ‘of “Pelnters” Union LL.D. Office Sends | Out Last Call For ‘Ads, Honor Rolls Collectors for the International Labor Defense Bazaar to be held at the New Star Casino, 107 St. and Park Ave., must immediately bring into the office all Red Honor Rolls and Bazaar program con- tracts. The program is going to the printer at the end of the week. Advertisements must _ positively come in at once. Do not fail. Seamen Meeting to Save Three Watch System on U.S. Boats A mass meeting has been arranged for tonight at 7:30 by the Interna- tional Seamen’s Club at: 26 South St., to discuss and formulate plans for the maintenance of the present three watch, eight hours a day system, and to defeat the move made by the American shipowners to re-introduce the former two watchérs, twelve hours a day system, It is important that all active sea- men should be present. Good speak- ers have been provided for, with an open forum discussion to follow the regular program. Pupil Bosses Okeh Move to Let Minors Out of Day Schools Local school officials are attempt- ing to knock the continuation school law on the head by an amendment permitting night schooling to be sub- stituted. The law now requires minors under 17 to attend school at least four hours a week. Seek Licenses for Milk Plant Bosses | ‘ turer. Superintendents and managers of milk plants would be licensed by the state, after an examination, under a bill introduced in the legislature to- day. Heads of such plants would be under the supervision of the depart- ment of agriculture. ed at adulteration widely practiced in New York City. Italian Press Guarded. ROME, Feb. 25.—While the Italian press is guarded in commenting upon the British protest to Russia against the spread of anti-British propaganda, it is apparent. that Italy is fearful of an armed clash between Britain and Russia unless, according to Lavoro D'Italia, London, effects a pact with the Cantonese based on the pound sterling and renews its alliance with | Japan. The bill is aim-| The M lanager’s Corner ADVERTISING BRINGS THE SHEKELS. You remember the old story of the farmer who com- plained because he was unable to walk thru the forest with a long ladder, which he carried horizontally. So it is with many comrades who try to do things in the hardest possible way, when there is a simple, easy way to do the same thing more effectively. This is as true about helping The DAILY WORKER as it is about other things. Many comrades do not realize what a substantial source of income there is for The DAILY WORKER in advertising. There are many advertisers who would be glad to advert in The DAILY WORKER, as the National Labor Daily. It is simply a cose of failure to approach these people. Advertisements can easily be obtained from restaurants patronized by our readers, doctors, dentists, lawyers and other professional men, who want. to reach a radical crowd, or who are sympathetic with our paper. Every affair which is arranged by a labor, co-operative or fraternal organization, by a social elub or group of work- ers should make arrangements whereby a certain sum is set aside for advertising in The DAILY WORKER. One important facet, however, must be kept in mind, and that is the question of payment. We can get a paper full of ads, if we don’t ask for money. Radicals especially, are very law on this point. As far as possible payment should be made in advance, unless the customer is a very responsible party, with established financial credit. We are running a special line of professional, restaurant ads at $15.00 a month and $1.50 per inch for a single insert, Out-of-town ads receive @ special reduced rate of $10.00 a month, and $1.00 per inch. Here is a practical way to help The DAILY WORKER. Why not try it?—BERT MILLER. Young Workers Hold |{7 7-7" Williamsburg Forum | Keep Your Eye : On This Column The Williamsbugh section of the Young Workers’ (Communist) League will hold an open forum on Sunday, 8 p. m., at 29 Graham Avenue, Brook- lyn. The subject to be discussed is | Bi 4) “Youth and Imperialism,” by Carl|! Beginning today and for Weissberg, well known league lec- the next two weeks we are All young workers and older workers are urged to attend and hear this important subject. Questions and discussions will follow from the floor. Bert Wolfe Speaks On Mexico in Bronx i Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the | 4 Workers’ School will lecture at the | § Bronx Open Forum, 1347 Boston Koad, tomorrow evening on the sub- ject: “What’s the Matter with Mexi-| co?” ———— i H. M. Wicks to Speak i On “Whither China” ! A lively discussion on the present | | Chinese situation will be held Sunday | j afternoon at 3.30 p. m., at the Utopia ; Neighborhood Hoseu, 170 West 130th | | Street, by H. M. Wicks who speaks on “Whither China?” going to give books away practically for nothing. Valuable collection of books now made available to everyone. ' ' ' i ' Today’s Big Offer 3 BOOKS SS 1, | Industrial Revival of Soviet Russia, by A. A. Heller. Beautiful cloth bound vol- ume, 241 pps, regularly sold for. $1.00, now given y cents a copy. a esitchtia epiptinn ye beets tect detect ta cle ade eee etna cde eee ta ele ee cbech 26 ARE YOU COMING? 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