The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER G0 CUTTERS DENOUNCE DUBINSKY PLEDGE EFFORTS TO SAVE UNION =e Condemn Expulsion of Joint Board and Call for Renewed Fight for Democracy in J, L, G. W. U. The opening gun of the campaign to rid Local 10, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union of Dubin- ‘Barge Sinks; Leayes Crew to Cold Exposure Two Seamen Die Later NEWPOT, R. L., Feb, 27.—Two sea- |men died from exposure and three j other men were in serious condition at Newport Hospital goday following the sinking in the harbo the Barge | Hooper of Wilmington, Del., Captain W. S. Goslee, during a roaring gale. Dragging her anchors at the dock |of the Newport Coal Company, the Progressive Cutters THOUSAND MEMBE NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927 Page Fiye RS OF PLUMBERS’ HELPERS ASK ADMISSION TO. UNION Will Seek Charter From men’s Reactionary to Bar | The campaign for tye organization | A, F. of L. if Journey- Officials Continue Them | tuve and also write. letter to the Boost Fake Union in Subway Sun’s Reward; Use Bum Yiddish, Too In a phoney effort to make its “company union” appear as a go- ing concern, the I. R. T., in the latest issue of “The Subway Sun,” is offering a reward of $5,500 to the person giving information whieh will lead to the arrest and convic- DUBINSKY BOYS - HELD AGAIN FOR ASSAULTING MAN Arrested Twice in Two Days for Gangsterism’ Fae i ‘ Hooper, heavily laden with coal, and affiliati f the plumbers’ help-| Plumbers’ locals’ in Manhattan, Bronx) |; tae ; § skyism was fired Saturday afternoon * parr p 4 and affiliation of the plumbers’ help n tion of the man #ho shot aud killed is ; f when 600 piv caihered at Stuy.| To Protest Expulsion drifted helpless into the harhor. Jers with the American Federation Be hna Long Island. Our executive om-| '--.. realy “an elevated guard, on Three gangsters, said to be right vesant Casino at the call of the Wal-| a 4 Lah RRR eRe Labor is being successfully continued | mittee is preparing a letter that we FP ey ae hand men of David Dubinsky, ezar fare League of Local 10 and after! By Dubinsky Faction Define Bootlegger. by the American Association of | intend to send to she netonal: head- this sum, $500 is offered in®|°f the cutters’ local of the I. L. G, listening to many speakers the cut-| | 'WASHINGTON, Feb. 27,— One| Plumbers’ Helpers, organized two and|(arters of the Plumbers’ Union in’ 110 tame of the “Brotherhead of . U., were re-arrested on Saturday ters adopted a resolution that after) A meeting will he held this after- | ™®", plus twelve quarts of liquor, a half months ago. The union al-| Chicago applying for admittance to Subway and Elevated Employees,” charged with assaulting Aaron Wor- reciting the activities of the right) noon by the progressives in Cutters’ } equals one bootlegger. | ready has 1,000 members. that erate av the official paner organization | ‘uns, a presse r in the Charles Melee! wing in the past, formulates the pro-| Local 10 at the Stuyvesant Casino, So ruled the treasury department/ Their aim is to organize themselves parerring to the situation in Brook. *N@WR among the Interborough | Shop at 224 West 36th St., and were gram for future action. | 140 Second Ave., to protést against ‘today in making ready its dragnet! and then anply for admittance to the iva Walste ated that, “We are not men as the “yellow dow outfit.” It held under bail of $1,000. Harry Berlin, of the meeting, re-| the expulsion of 18 members from for rum smugglers when the motor Plumbers’ Union and if not successful ee a union, We cannot understand, 3% generally known that the fi- Sam Greehberg, Max Blum, and cently suspended with 17 other mem- spirit of the assembled workers pen | he said that the purpose of the Wel- fare League is “to save the, union and to preserve it as an instrument | to be used for the advancement of the | workers.” | Secret Pact With Bosses. | Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint | Board, greeted with heartlysapplause, | referred to Dubinsky and his clique. “How dare Dubinsky say that a man/ such as Harry Berlin is not fit to be a member .of the union?” he| asked. i | Speaking about the drawing up of | the Cutters’ local. | tour season opens on the Canadian border. high handed expulsion of other members 8 L U MS FILLED to who are also being victimized. of BY RATS, BUGS, progressives resist’ the ers are being daily tnrown off their jobs, and Neéeds To ‘Destructfon. 6. Whereas, the methods and tac- tics of the International in eonjunc- tion with the administration of Lo- cal 10 has adopted and are being daily pursued, leads to a total des- struction of our union, and 7. Whereas, this program that) Sigman, Dubinsky and Co. are cary-) \He Defends - Landlords Just the Same SAVANT ADMITS. to apply for a charter from the execu- |bring this letter before its member- |ship. At the &ame time they pro- posed to the bosses that the new \agreement to be signed on April 1 should include a clause that instead of one helver to every plumber as at | present, there should be one helner to eyery two plumbers. This was suggested by the renctionary officials |to counterbalance the two dollar a |day raise that they are demanding | for the plumbers. | Walsh Tel | In an exclusive w with The| | DAILY . WORKER, organizer of the} | group | overtime. why the plumbers, especially those in strike we will join them. “The plumbers’ helpers are the only of helpers in the building trades that is.not organized in the American Federation of Labor. The helners for the teamfitters, electrical workers and bricklayers are all or- \ nized. Ask $9.50 a Day. “At the present time the plumbers’ helpers are paid anywhere from $3 to $5 a day according to the whim of the boss, and straight times for Our demands include $9.50 a dav and time and a half for over- time.” nances of the company union are Incidentally, “The Subway Sun” announcement is translated in Ital- ian and Yiddish. The Yiddish trans- lation has been badly bungled by Ivy Lee and his assistants, who do the publicity for the Interborough. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Labor Journalism Classes Open Today At Workers School Aspiring labor newspaper writers Harry Cohen well known to garment é bers of the local on the flimsy charge| © Many prominent speakers, includ- | Ment 208,000 Amaricsp | tive’ counell of the A. F. of 1, Brooklyn, who ake on the eve of a| in # pretty low state, and it is clear | workers as “strong arm men! Of af not ebtatking «working eat. in} ing Louis Hymen and Chartes, | oe Will crons the Bondet: ile tr | syn Loeal 1, of the Plumbers’ Union, | tzik®, 4erore-our appeals. Are they| het ite ‘uclasion in the reward of- | Local 10, attacked and brutally, a spite of the fact that they were not| Zimmerman, will tell of the be- yn iy Midctaa ts’ Union, | wing to force us into the position of £¢F is a shrewd attempt to play up |sautted Wor on February 23 as working at that time, indieated the} trayal of the reactionary faction i | i lag St eatig one gay an potential scabs? However, if they! the “Rrotherhoos |e was standing near the door of his by Dubinsky, and urge upon all | 3 s i shop waiting for it to open. The shop is not on strike. Wortuns reported the attack to the Joint Board and ar- rangements were made for him to identify the gangsters and file a complaint against them. On Friday morning, Wortuns and union officials were on the lookout for these thugs, who are usually to be found attempting to terrorige picket lines every morning. When the three came along they, again at- tacked him, declaring that. they would now “finish the job.” He es- eaped and police arrested the three, the wage scales recently, Hyman | * : 4 a ay Chasina.G Shaw,| association, told of the plans of the’ ‘The assoviation held a mass meet-| Will meet Monday evening for the|who were released on bail of $500 pointed * oe Dudley, after read bees on dag sage eer age PER 2 tha National” Housing | organization, the present situation in| ing’ recently at Brownsville Labor first sessions of two classes in labor jeach to appear March 4 in Jefferson contract had been signed with the | Standard , % : bosses association by the Joint Board, | got in touch with them and arranged a secret agreement for a raising of | the standard of production of work- ers in exchange for a $3 a week in-| crease. This was done without the | contest of the members of the local. | Other speakers were Charles S. Zimmerman, manager of the dress de-| partment, and the following mem-| bers of Local 10; Iving Horowitz, Falk Cooper, Henry Robbins, and | Max Cooperman. | The resolution adopted follows: 1. Whereas; the I: L. G. W. U. with the aid of the administration of Local 10 has illegally expelled the duly elected cloak and dress-makers | together with the workers of the|$5 a room. The survey revealed that | Joint Board, and No Election Held. 2. Whereas, the International flat- ly refused to hold a general election for the yarious officers of the Joint Board whereby the membership could _choose the officers that are in their opinion most fit to represent them, and | which we, cutters, have fought so/ ee ; | Committee, revealed his affiliation stroying the ‘hard won gains for with the landlords’ trust in a state- A : ment issued vesterday in which he heralesily Lage gt ta Poca | set forth a claim that the extension 10, therefore, be ue * jof the emergency rent laws eannot That we cutters of Local 10 as+) cone with the situation in the slums. sembled at Stugvesant Casino Feb-| 1, on endeavor to aid the landlords runry 26, 1927, emphatically condemn jj, “climbing but from under.” Prof. the Internatiénal for illegally expell- | Shaw asserted that thoes who ate ing the Joint Board and for the vici- | toread to live in the sordid quarters ous attacks upon the membership, be! of the slums are not “gouged by the it further resolved. y jlandlord helf as much as they are ‘That we condemn the International! gnawed by the eonditions” under and the administration of Local 10! which they must live. | for its tactics and policies of destroy-| A recent survey conducted by this | ing our union and thereby bring back | newspaper gives the lie to the pro- ‘the open shop system, be it further | fessor’s statement that the slum land- | resolved: jlords do not gouge their tenants, and | . That we pledge ourselves to stand | that rooms are procurable for $4 and jother crafts and with renewed} rooms cost $9 and $10, even in the | strength and fighting spirit earry on| most disrenutable districts. the struggle for a real democratic | Filled With Vermin. union, a union which will defend and} A significant portion fight for the interest of the workers. | Shaw’s statement depicts conditions On with the fight for a labor union | in the slums that prove the accuracy controlled by the workers and for the of The DATLY WORKER survey: workers! ; all sorts of vermin and rodents, he of Prof.) relation to the Brooklyn local of the wlumbers and what is contemplated! for the future. “The plumbers’ helpers’ association | was organized ten weeks ago by eight young workers in Brooklyn,” he said. !“Sinee that time we have obtained | 1,000 members and are still growing. | “Recently we wrote a letter to the} Brooklyn local of the plumbers stat- | |ing our case but I have been told that | the letter was never even presented | |toe the membership. We will write them ahother letter in “the near fu- old villages. Yorkville became a forei new, seemed like palaces to them. Re: Ther a new generation grew up. | Yorkville became a native community, | |and the melting pot was gone. York- | ville sensed a. demand for apartments. | |'Then it became the stronghold of the} QUEENS BECOMES SLUM TERRIT Lyceum. It will be followed by a meeting Friday, March 4, at the Church ¢f All Nations, 9 2nd Ave, Arrangements are also being made ‘for a Bronx meeting. ~ The officers are as follows: C. E. Miller, president; H. Rose, first vice- president; M. Patrick, second vice- president; J. Jartzen, third vice-presi- dent; J. O. Farrel, recording secre- tary; A. Spreiregen,* financial secre- tarv; M, Jacobs, treasurer. The office of the association is lo- eated at 15 East Third St. There they re-established their The tenements, fairly (Continued from Page One) emigrated to Yorkville in the late eighties. gn settlement. nts were low. of big busi were hard hit. No Watey Even. No attempt was made to renovate s. And the workers journalism at the Workers School, ; 108 East 14th Street. The elementary class will deal largely with workers’ correspondence, the reporting of factory news, the founding of shop papers and coopera- tion between the shop and The DAILY WORKER. The course is open to all, The advanced class will be com- posed of students who completed the telementary course in the first semes- ter and others with an equivalent training in writing. The cooperation of a dozen local newspaper men work- ing on capitalist and labor papers, have been obtained. Each session will be devoted to a specifie subject, such jas the tabloids, the regular morning | papers, types of A. F. of L. papers, strike publicity and the foreign la- ber press. | strike by the Joint Board Market Court. On Saturday, Wortuns brought charges against them for the attack of February 23 and they were re- arrested and held on a charge of felonious assault, Wortuns is known to be loyal to the Joint Board and has picketed shops near his which were called on because workers were discharged by the In- | ternational. Throughout the course, the creation of a distinctive style of writing suit- able for workers’ papers will be aimed at. Fresh, erisp, clear English, free from the cheap sensationalism of the | tabloids and the dul! blowsiness of the Times, will be fostered. News as- Bail for both charges against the three gangsters was furnished by the International. Taxi Combine Wants to Run Independents Out; Drivers to Plan Defense The taxi combinations are plan- ning to run the independent taxi drivers out of business. The Ken- | é: | Says, combine with lack of revair to | * "© ; ¢ - ich idst all this | S'@"™ments, by which students will be) nedy bill at Albany, which raises 3. Whereas, the International has | Probe Liquor Landing. | make the living conditions of the poor| United Bagels ee Owners Ageoslt: | Mest Saga pets it ola a jibe coy i ap nie the labor hbo | insurance rates so high that only a the ative ander world; potioy “andl pee ARE N- J, Seb. $1-Mavar| Nerye extension of the vont laws,7| Webds of the Heal Eetate Trost were bented. unpainted, the, rooms de-| Chat Cost clas, Competent stores | ‘elmed st the independenta, aseemie nt = a GUY. we Keke nd) Thomas L. Raymond today ordered | * 4 | consolidated.! The rent gougers were creased in value as the rents in-/) 2 dents will t blished in The | ; t lemma courts, beating up and sending work-| acting Chief of Police John F. Har-| Shaw continues, “has its value, but | veri ings, lereased. Then a water shortage >¥ Students will he published in The | ing to three local drivers’ associa- ers for long terms to jail, and 4. Whereas, the administration of Local 10 with Dubinsky at the head is playing the chief part in this at- tack upon our union, using the entire | treasury of our local for hiring gang- | sters, thugs and gunrwen, ard 5. Whereas, Sigman, Dubinsky and Co. have turned into open be- treyers and are cooperating with the employers against the interest of the| new home will be “distinctly Ameri- | workers and as a result of this work- | ris to investigate a story that 10,000 | February 13 last. Plan New Opera House. Benjamin Wister Morris and Joseph | Urban will be architects for the new Metropolitan Opera House in West | 57th St., to be completed in 1929. The can.” LEE E eee heehee hb hhhhhy eases of whiskey had been landed at a municipal dock in Port Newark eannot relieve the situation which de-| |mands suitable building laws.” “Municipal housing,” he _ said,| |“along with other: municipal enter- | | prises, seems to be the only adequate | measure to contend with such a vast) {and deep situation. The city could go into the housing business with the| prospect of substantial earning power, | and. would be assured that honsing| was not a bad business venture after | ” i all. redtga Workers Will Get Raw) Boom Starts There. | They were) And they! to realize its existence. the first to prepare for it. were the first to profit from it. Early in 1919, the executive com-/ mittee of the U. R. E. O. A. started an organization campaign among the landlords of Yorkville. The mem-| bership was increased from 20 ver) cent to over 60 per cent. Here they | had 2 strong majority. The real work) was begun. raused more inconvenience. running water. And the fandlords did not bother their lobby in an en- deavor to corrétt this condition, Naturally, the melting pot, due to this intense heat. simmered over, Tenants, tired of being imposed upon, emigrated to Queens. Apartment houses sprang up one after another in the borough across the bridge in an attempt to meet the boom. As/ }quickly as they were erected, they) Low, The real estate boom started in| pressure due to a drought left all) Yorkville. Its landlords were the first | apartments above the second without | | DAILY WORKER. Mexican Wreck Exaggerated. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 27, — The casualty list of the Tampico railroad wreck of Thursday has been reduced considerably by the oficial statement issued by the railroads. This state- ment declares that there are but six | dead and six seriously injured, Early reports fixed the d@ad at forty, tions, which will meet tonight at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., to plan defense. The Yellow Taxi and the Fifth Ave. Corporation are ameng the companies backing the Kennedy bill, the independents claim. The Amalgamated Taxi Association, the Broad St. Taxi Association and the Independent Taxicar Owners’ Asso- ciations -have called the meeting. a > 4s | Rents started to climb. The best| were filled. ie, \ : -. End, Prediction flats east of Lexington Ave. prior! In time, they became exact replicas ‘= } F | R § T A * ears. |to that were rented for less than $25 of the tenements in Yorkville. Their) + nnot l I Cel ] 1e1 } | + sal The State Housing Commission met |. month. Today, they cost $50 and rents, only slightly above the rea- x By pr the-Flatiron Building yesterday | $60 a month, with the average, $45, a sonable amount. at the beginning of | i | afternoon, but refused to ‘make public | ery conservative estimate furnished|the boom, took jump after jump. % m | | its decisions. It is ptedicted that it! me by the landlords. And the aver-|Soon, they approached Yorkville’s| 4 —extraordinary ! voratore | will oppose the extension of the rent| ac. weekly wage is only $34. This high-water mark, with the average |= a y if emergency laws which expire June 1./\ 45 the result of the concrete organ-| rental at $42 and the average wage 3 —wonderful The fclgab eng te ahs see ization of the landlords. ‘at $33. But this is n conservative | ¢ " gency law will leave New York work- | If You Don't Like It, Move! estimate. It would perhaps be more cy Well known Russian Artists will render an ers to the tender mercies of their | Repairing of avartments ceased. accurate to state that it is impossible | —amazing on DANCERS’ BAZAAR SATURDAY, & + *% + + % + + a + + + + + + % + + + + + + + + + Minor, Fred Ellis, K. A. Suvanto, Vose and others. Each picture and mounted. The book iacludes 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 us to build the Daily Worker. | DAILY 33 First Street exceptional landlords, since the law regulates) 41] sorts of conditions in flats went Brilliant, thrilling, enthusiastic, enjoyable, character- istic, revolutionary, at THE LYCEUM, 86th St. and 8rd Ave. TICKETS 50c. EEEEEEEEEEEEEPEEEEEEGES GS “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 apartments where the rents are $20 per room or less. If the commission recommends the extension of the emergency statutes, which is regarded as improbable, it will* recommend their application to flats renting at $10 a room per month or less. Most workers in New York are compelled to pay more than $10. cert DANCE SURPRISES * * * Realtors Block Relief. ALBANY, Feb, 27.—Realtors, lob- bying here, are determined to oppose any measure providirg for housing re- lief or for the investigation of hous- ing conditions in New York City. A bill intoroduced by Assemblyman Samuel Hofstadter, which would study housing conditions in New York City has met with the opposition of real- MARCH 5th . EEEEEEREEEE EEE EEE EEE FEL EEE S violating the present housing laws, it is believed, Garment Employers, Shut Down to Avoid Paying _for Holiday Thousands of needle trades work- ers, estimated by some at 10,000, are out of work this week due to the eupidity of their bosses, ing advantage of shops where the union is weak to Sigman ma- chindtions, the bosses closed down work in x to avoid payment for b Leaalaets atlas The union agreement is for payment on cer- tain legal holidays. 4 . re epee. comes in the midst a busy season, presaging plent: of overtime work next pn a ny Art Young, Hay Bales, Jerger, is large enough to be framed WORKER New York, N, Y, tors. Many New York tenements are | |withoyt attention. When tenants |complained, they were told to move if they didn’t like it. When officials of the tenement house department) filed complaints against the landlords, ja snecial legal committee of their or- ganization was formed, and the eases | fought. The lendlord was ready for ‘an orgy of profiteering. | pealized the necessity for joint action, ‘if the tenant was to be trimmed.) | Stewart Browne, the president, at- jtended every meeting gf the local ward, when he was not In Albany di- ‘veeting the activities of the powerful | real estate lobby that had been _ereated. \ An Expert Lobby. Browne, in reporting to his mem- \bership, was enite frank about this Nobby. He told how they killed bills. | How they assisted legislators in fram- ing excuses by means of which they might betray their constituents, and; ‘get their votes. \ ' At one meeting a year ago, he re- ‘lated in detail how he conducted a two weeks’ campaign that resulted in the defeat of the Tenement House Fire-proofing bill, which provided for the fire-proofing of all wooden stair- ways in tenements, the erection of) efficient fire-ercaves, the furnishing | of fire extinguishers throughout the buildings, and many other safety mensures, This is the work that whae Rrowne indisnensible to the U. R. E. 0. A. He has held his job for wore than a decade, * Yorkville’s big banks co-operate with the landlords. Members of the banks’ staffs are elected honorary thembers of the landlords’ association, The landiords were recognized mem- to procure a comfortable apartment in Queens for less than $50. Slums grew in Astoria. Elmhurst and Corona beeame crowded. Work- ers ,were restricted from Jackson Heights, where the bourgeoise settled, amidst fine gardens and ¢laborate houses. Houses in Queens are comparatively as high, in spite of the poor trans- portation facilities, the negligence of | the street cleaning department, and other deficiencies, In spite of these conditions, rooms are at a premium in the two sec- tions. Yorkville gave birth to the “waiting list’ idea, In Queens, the venting agents are organized into the Queens Borough Chamber of Com- merce, Certainly, if rooms are in demand despite the abominable con- ditions that are prevalent, even As- semblyman Jenks must admit that | there is a housing shortage. Read The Daily Worker Every Day tee $ Daily Worker Joins With IlLavoratore For Affair March 5. Do not make any other appoint. ments for March 6. Postpone your dates or make them there at the Lyceum, 86th St. and Third Ave., | where the Il Layoratore-Daily Work- er affair will take place, | You and your friends will see’ something different. Variety, an ex-, ceptional musie program, character. istic atmosphere, ete., etc., are some bers. militant members. in the ranks tainment. ‘ of the features of this real at eee sebebeee fe focheston ee) Sit ete and go fast. ee $1.10 $1.65 —stupendous —marvelous —incredible and all the rest of the words favored by press agents. REFRESHMENTS Fither of the decisions of *he State! Meetings of the entire membership | fin Ds yet they look todav as But we really mean something. like that! | Housing Commission will theretore| of the association were held twice a ae pale fre “AN AFFAIR WITHOUT PRECEDENTS” leave the mass of New Yogk workers|month, Almost every member at-|4esdues them, But rents are almost . without protection. ~ |tended. 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