The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1927, Page 5

ND Sr ._THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1927 ! UNION'S RECORDS SHOW “FORWARD” EXPERT ON WORKERS PARTY SCABBED IN 1919 STRIKE AGAIN ARREST GIRL PICKETS AT BRILL SHOP “Picketing Still Firm,” Announces Hyman Mollie Cooperstein, Rose Midoff and Pearl Kleinman, members of Dressmakers’ Local 22, were ar- rested yesterday morning for the second time in the last ten days for picketing, at the Louis Brill Dress shop, 835 West 38th street. The mili- tant pickets were arraigned in Jef- ferson Market Court before Judge Smith, who adjourned their hearing until Tuesday. The gris were arrested on Febru- ary 20 in front of the same shop, and received two day sentences, dur- ing which they telegraphed to their brothers and sisters of Local 22 that they would be on the picket lines again on Monday. Sam Hyman, a worker in the Style Headgear Shop at 519 Eighth Ave. was arrested by police yesterday morning as he was passing the Mil- lare and Mandell shop at 519 Eighth Ave. on his way to work. He was fined five dollars in the Jefferson Market Court. Picket demonStra- tions have been spirited at this shop during the past week. Three gang- sters were arrested as they~ were beating up pickets in front of this shop last Friday. Louis Hyman manager of the Joint Board, declared today that “pcket- ing demonstrations have been firm and have impressed upon both work- ers and employers the power of the Joint Board. “In spite of the busy season and the long, exhausting strike, the work- ers have responded enthusiastically to the call of the Joint Board for mass picketing,” he said. Local 35 will hold a-membership meeting in Manhattan Lyceum on! < CASE # 886 see 877 i Seorentry, Upon the Appeal Committee's request that Brother Schoenfeld, make a thorough incestigation in the case if Levenson, & Reyer, Brother Scoentsld reports that he hes investighted the booke of the firm, which prove that during the general strike of 1919, the three in question were working, in the shop ‘The records obtained as to the reads as follows ; of Horowitz, 266 Greene St., pay received during the strike May, 6th, 1919, Fradkin received 493.45; Meltzer $34700; Buckstein §28,56; presser Margulin ¢45, Page Five SCAB IS NOW ACE OF REAGTIONARY “FORWARD” GANG Strikebreaker Used to Attack Communists | The Jewish Daily Forward i, lly has been playing up absurd stuff) 8 5 n Bevantes 2 be (aa tienel sage pres Shen ont ed ongrautieie Cyr ang the Workers Party coming lpr Maz agate oe Joseph Levenson. This ane te eee Setveeieane Tuilere’ einien 1 of the be in”, vard’s shelves . Fle riehonih hi a pbb hy all and| In a statement to the unorganized did ‘a ist |Custom tailors of this city the union pee wel uae ha ea jcalls attention to the fact that only Levengon is exposed today by The | P¥ Rijs. be will their conditions | DAILY WORKER as a seab during | tt Lat a Ress Ss Ponlods the cloakmiakers’ strike of 1919-20. “Mane of vairbed aritNge eee etd aaa ates ae ie Joint) ailors in New York cannot be “oF- | Board, published below, tell oe story | panized; Matneiihas ihe uniogcan eo ie Pee fea Pea eaae ere |good. They refer to past defeats; the | Zea: , ses ee : . club to beat a Communist, even | National and race prejudices that are ; ‘ fostered. Remember: All this is though he is a traitor to his union. |hosses propaganda, intended to pre- Levenson managed to maintain Brownsville BUILD UP UNION | Ask Unorganized to Come Into Ranks The campaign to organize the cus- |tom tailers is now in full swing under vent the tailors from organizing. the Tailors in New York can be organized | membership in CUSTOM TAILORS GREENWICH VILLAGER EVEN DENIED START DRIVE TO GAS PLATE AT S70 A ROOM A MONTH “Intelligentsia” Explodes Myth About Artists Paying Fabulous Sums for Tenement Cubbyholes By INTBLLIGENSIA Pity the poor Greenwich Villager! | After he pays $70 a month for one }room in the famous “Twin Peaks,” supposed to be havén for artists, ~-or some other Greenwich Village haunt—he is to be prevented from doing his own cooking. The Bureau of Building and the Tenement House Department’ are be- ginning to investigate with a ven- geance, and they find hundreds of buildings which are violating the laws against. cooking in “non-house- keeping” apartments, Certain houses is allowed in only two apartments. If there are more house-keeping ar- | Tangements than that, the building comes under the tenement house | laws—meaning that it has to have fire escapes readily accessible, and certain other fire-proof measures. are passed by| building inspectors provided cooking | Truth to tel], there are mighty few artists who can afford to live in Greenwich Village nowadays, end they are not living in $70 rooms either. Those who are enfoying these rooms are lured by the idea that artists inhabit these parts, and as usual the landlord makes the most of this legend. Incidentally he saves the expense of making the buildings comply with the regulations for house-keeping buildings, and winks his eye when the tenants violate the law and in- troduce a gas or electric stove. Up in East Side Lofts, Tt won’t be the “poor artist’ who will. suffer in this wave of law en- forcement. He long ago left these parts for a real tenement, or an East Side loft, And it won’t be the landlord who will suffer, even tho he has to re- May 4th, 1919, Reyer received $58.00; pay for this week, nd finisher Glass -§23,85; The above also received. May 20th, 1919, Meltzer recived $22.25; Schneider $18.90; and Mrs, Schneider §20,00; ~ May 21, 1919, Pradkin end Levenson together, received the sum of $143.70; Reyer $31.45; presser received $7.55, - Margulin §35,55; and fin: r Glass May 27thi~ Fradkin and Levenson and Reyer = all CASE {877 and see 686 Louis Reyer, Jos Levenson and Pincus Fradkin appeal against the decision of the Joint Board Grievance Committee, $50.00 each for working in the shop of They were fined with Horowitz, 265 Greene St., during branch of the Communist Party when | mer raids and could not scrutinize its membership as it does today. The | Brownsville branch, however, . was | suspicious and brought charges at the | time to the Joint Board, then under right wing control. The right wing- jers refused to act. Later the Joint Board made a secret investigation. it was recuperating from the Pal-| | A search through the files just com-| pleted by the present left wing Joint| once again; the union is as good as the membership makes it; in all of \the strikes-we also have won some- thing; national difference is ridieu- lous, if it exists, as workers we only have common interests. Bosses ‘finks’ those that get few cents more, ave whispering these sly suspcions in your ear, and many well meaning but simple tailors are spreading this ‘finks’ propaganda, without knowing that they are propagading in the Artists in Village? The strange thing is that the less fire-proofing there is, the higher the rents. Imagine $70 a room in what is supposed to be an artist’s house! The theory still persists that artists | live in Greenwich Village ‘and that Greenwich Viilage could not have anything so inartistic as tenements. ! Thousand Ready for model his “non-housekeeping” build- ing. He will just tack on a bit more to the rent, and they'll be pay- ing $80 instead of seventy for a room next winter. The amazing thing is that lots of people seem to have that much to spend for rent. Where do they get it? Garment Union Sells Saturday afternoon at one o'clock according to Joseph Goretzky, the| manager of the pressers’ local. JIMMY'S UP IN ALBANY TO FIX SUBWAY FENCE: With no promise as to how the money wilt be spent,Mayor Walker went to Albany yesterday to work for the passage, for a second time, of the proposed amendment to the state constitution, allowing New York City to borrow for subway construction $300,000,000 béyond its legal debt! limit. This amendment has already been passed by one legislature, and if it passes this week, it will be submitted to the voters in the fall. Early in the year, it looked as though there might he trouble about this passage because someone—probably just for political reasons—began to question how the money was to be used. Jimmy Anxious. | It was because of this questioning | that Mayor Walker was so desperately | anxious to pass his bus franchise | scheme through the boatd of estim-| ate here, for this would indicate that he had backing for any subway plan he proposed. Incidentally part of his subway plan concerned one of the firms to whom he wanted to give a bus franchise. Mayor Walker has not been able ta settle the bus business; but in spite of this, it is believed he has enough personal pull at Albany to get the amendment passed without questions. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY the general strike, Operator Levenson, Local 11, ledger #1354 states that He re- coives a 4100,00 per week and the firm is trying their utmost to got rid of him. He 4s therefore positive that the designer of that shop, who brought charges against them, made a conspiracy in order to have him out of the shop. He furth claims that during the time of the strike, he as ® very active member of the ," Fourth Russian Branch of the Commnist Party", was #o busy that he hardly hed a spare moment, And as a reault of working hard in different committees of that branch, he tock sick and had to leave the city to improve his health, During the strike, he was al- 80 elected as a delegate from the mentioned to the Detro{t Convention. ; Loute Reyer, Looal #1, Ledger 7232, asserts that during the strike, he had a candy store and was ococupied every day until 1 A, UM, There was therefore no possibility for him to work at night as acoused of, While up in the shop one time, he sax some duplicates, The boss then told him thet his brothor who has a cloak shop gave then to him to be pressed, .P, Fradkin, Local #1, Ledger #1021, absolutely denies the charges, end corroborates the statement of L, Heyer, - Brother Lapedus, Executive Board menhber of Local #11 appears as & witness for Brother Levenson, statéhg that the latter épent almost all of his evenings in his, house, where a committée of this branch met. S, Duboff, Lécel #1, Ledger #10412, also a witness in belalf of Levenson, maintaincs that he and the latter belong to the same branch, and during the strike, Lavenson was so buy that he never had @ chance een to visit the shop, DECISION: As the proceedings of the Grievance Committee could not be obtained, the decision was postponed. And Brother Schoenfeld Jimmie Hiccins Book SHop Did 127 UNIVERSITY PL NEW YORK STUYVESANT 5015 Appears in Book Form March 7th Get Your Copy Your Party's Sreslain Book, Shop Open Daily TH 9 PLM. SAVE THIS VALUABLE A Copy of Red Cartoons of 1927, Worth $1.00 for 50 Cents With'50 of These Coupons CUT THIS OUT AND SAVE IT. m2 RED CARTUONS 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, Hay Bales, Jerger, Seo'y of seid Committee shall made a thorough investigation of this cases three together-received the sum of $72.00 Bucket@in $16.90, June 6th, Fradkin, Levenson & Reyer, the three together received $36.00; dune 17th, Fradkin, Levenson & Reyer $33.60; July 26th, preaser worked by piece receiving 70¢ per Garment ‘hia pay for thia week was $107, 20; During the four w thet Pradkin & Reyer, all together received firm; during the time of the strike he . “When we went down on strike the boss did not money to pay us for all the tickets wo us a pert of the money and asked us to this place was on strike, Levenson, atotal of $316.65; When Reyer vas asked the reason for receiving money from the answered follows:- had, latter theref paid come the next time for the rest,” & How much money do you think was due to all three of you toe gether, after getting paid when you went down on strike? ¥ he No more than a hundred dollere or « hundred and twenty, Brother Levenson is asked the same question, and he states that he does not beleive the figures of the books of the firm , because the latter could very easily have falsefied their DECISION: Appeal rejected, books. Class Opens Tonight at Workers’ School, N. Y. A new course in American history is being offered by the Workers School to begin tonight at 6.45 p. m., with James Cork as the instrue- tor. This makes three courses in various phases of American history being offered by the Workers Sehool, the other two being more advanced and intended for those who have completed the course given by Mr. Cork. The course in “History of the United States,” is a general survey of the development of the social, economic and political institutions of America, its class divisions and class conflicts and a background for understanding the political problems that America presents to- day. The fee for this course ,will be $3.50 for three months, New American History | Dredge Beached Off Staten Island PERTH AMBOY, N. J., March 1 ~-A U.S. government dredge tore rocks in the Kill Von Kull off Sea- waren near here today sand was beached on the mud flats off the Staten Island shore to avoid sink- ing. PRIZE COUPON —_— hole in her bottom on submerged | _ offered only to those who help us to build the Daily Worker. Vose and others. Each picture is large enough to be framed 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 DAILY WORKER New York, N.Y. 4a First Street 4 \ | Middle Class Able to Keep Rents Low (Continued from Page One) rent is proportionately lower here than in other parts of the city, for | the bourgoisie seem to be able to bully the landlords in some manner. Most apartments are leased, s& I suppose the tenants’ lawyers must be respon- sible for the low rents charged. With the average wage at $58, it will be easily seen that the middle class has nothing to kick about; that it is the poor worker who needs the emergency rent laws, In a previous article, I deseribed conditions in Brownsville. Thé samo j might be said for the poorer lovalities in Brooklyn, Of course, some, like Williamsburgh, have slums that ery to the high heavens for eradication, In Newtown, on Marcy Ave. I ‘think it was, I found a row of four-story wooden frame houses that wotl4d in- cinerate scores of people if a fire ever | broke out. * | Brooklyn is full of rows of wooden horses, Some dev a big fire is going to break out, and scores of lives will lost, Then, with much. indigna- ‘on. Isndlords will tear down the ‘ooden firetraps and erect fire-proof | structures, But not before. Even though the wooden houses are firetraps, they have no fire-escapes, Where are the tenement house in- spectors? In some speakeasy, drink- ing up the receipts of a day’s work shaking down tho rent-gougers? T am not going to give an average wage or rental for the entire borough of Brooklyn, for the variations are so, great and irregular, that they result would be worthless. Suffice it to say that if there were over a hundred “Ay ment To Let” signs in the borough, the immigration authorities would let dow# the bars and fill them up. There aren't, I don’t believe, for T spent an entire morning trying to find one. Pucsekwin' Sat awiab Harlem Young Workers To Meet. A_ special meeting of the Hatlem Y. W. L, seétion is called for Thurs- day, March 8d, at 1588 Madison Ave, (between 104th & 105th Strects) at ‘8 p.m. sharp, A district representa- _tive will gpeak on the industrial work Ly the league. bt The percentage of wages spent for} | Board reveals the true facts about, bosses benefit atid harming their own | Levenson as a scab. Yet this is the | case. |man whom Abe Cahan calls an “in-| “Tailors should agitate unionism—| nocent soul”. | because it is the only protection that The first hearing is dated August the workers have against the absolute 26, 1920 and the second on Sept. 2. will and exploitation of the master, | i |--It means shorter hours, better ppc 3 Fs of the hear- |wages and working eonditions, more are rr ; | freedom, happier homes, higher in-! aaa telligence and wholesomer life in gen- “Pygmalion” Is Most ele | Successful of Bernard | Behera nln uaprestiee xu ¥ |workers are nothing; but organized Shaw’s Guild Revivals | they are everything. By LEON BLUMENFELD. “Come in the office and have a chat with us!’ When out of the job consult | + ! Talk unionism! Judging by the attendance it gen- | "% 3 os . eally’ Hebiver: and particularly this eat nha aig a orgies ~ 202) geason, “Pygmalion.” Bernard Shaw's pe Street and is open from brilliant comedy-satire must be one of | his most favorite works. At present it is being revived by the adventur- | ous Theatre Guild, and is agped played at the Guild’s own theatre on | West 52nd Street by a group of play- | ers that practically defy criticism. \Tt has proved not only an artistic, | but a financial suceess as well. The DAILY WORKER has just completed arrangements whereby it will offer to its readers and sympathizers for the entire week of March 21 to 27, in- clusive the play “Pygmalion.” ; all what every tailor should | 10 to 11 a. m., and 5 to 7 p. m Satur- days 12 to 2 p. m. Milk Seandal Inquiry jvestigating alleged health depart- ment graft in “bootleg” milk and cream. Neither the mayor nor any ture of the testimony. According to Performances will be given at the | allegations milk and cream were sold |Guild Theatre and the original cast /that were not properly inspected, It will be retained. Lynn Fontanne, lend-|j, anticipated that the grand jury ing ledy for numerous Guild produe- | wii} complete its inquiry witin’ the tions, and well known in this country | next 48 hours and possibly hand | as an actress, will portray the role down one or more presentments. of Eliza Doolittle. hase | ia Reginald Mason will play note- | weet Helen hype ih ar et _ ‘Downtown LL.D.Branch Mrs. Higgins: Winifi fanley will) A leumtterine Mrs. Hill. The other) To Hold Meeting |niayers comprising Phillis Connard, | eee ‘Charles Cardon, Charles Courtneidge, | (J. W. Austin, Bernard Savage, Leigh | egie” as eer Known Wednesday, March 2,°7:30 p. m., in | Tickets purchased at The DAILY the Ukrainian Hill, 17 East Third | WORKER office at 108 Hast 14th | Street. All workers living in the ter- | Street will be of benefit to the paper, |Titory between 14th Street and the | A list of special renconable nrices will | Battery are urged to attend. prevail for this limited showing, ran- | } f $1 to $3, plus the tax. Read- | ‘ is ah Comrades will have an =| enn ee Meet | portunity of viewing Shaw's noted | | masterpiece as intetpreted by the in- pesca ee, imitable style of thé Theatre Guild.| A general meeting of the A. C. W. In addition, they will prove their loy-/Y. branch of the Trade Union ‘Edu- tlty to @ gerat human cause, a cduse |cational League is to be held on which needs no introductory comment | Thursday, March 8rd, at 8 o'clock here, and which is being advocated |at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th by workers everywhere. street, The dramatle critics on The New| 41] members are urged to be pre- York Sun comments thus on “Pygme-| sent, for there are veep shiportant lion”: “There is delight in every line | ouestions to be diseussed, of it, the tingle of a great comix test, the relisd) of a fine performance. . . It is a priviléye to report that at the clopé there’ were several loud and un- mittakabie ‘bravos’.” ‘The verdict of every drama reviewer | lin New York strikes-a similar note | jin his appreciation of “Pygmalion.” | A special meeting of the Down- town Branch of Labor Defense will be held on ALBANY, N. Y., March 1—A bill reducing the daylight saving period | by six weeks, was a dead issue in the assembly today, It was defeated by a vote of 48 to 86, It was sponsored by Assemblyman Rogers, republican, of Herkimer. House Passes Bill Allowing Mellon to— , Set Up Liquor Trust: i WASHINGTON, March 1.+-The) house today passed, 209 to 151, the Hawley Medical Liquor Bill. Under Bonnaz Embroiderers’ Union 7 HE. ASth St. Tel. Stuy. 4870-3057 Executive Board Moets Every Tucs- day, Membership Meetings—-2nd and it, the treasury may grant licenses | last Thursday of Each Month, to not less\than (wo-or more than six || George Triestmun Z| . Ereedman distilleries to make whiskey. Amendments were adpdted to limit ptofits of the distilleres and retail-) ers, However, as Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, himself a/ big distiller, is given the task of | deciding most matters of dispute | concerned with the new liquor mono-| poly, it “is believed there is a good profit to be made. The bill was bitterly fought in the house, but the minority was too weak to do more than point out ‘the im- | propriety of placing Mellon at the} hoad of it. An amendment beginning, “This act is for the relief of Andrew eles and associates: .. .” was killed by a vote of 86 to 44, Harry Halebsky Secretary-Treasurer, Loenl & Affitivted with the A, F. of 1. 217 FE. Oth St, New York, Meets each 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 7 P.M | |] Window Cleaners, Jota Your Untont nna case nel SE UE aes here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept, 33 First St., New York City. Organize!” —_| yesterday, for helping to win the fur| Left Wing Picketing Bonds In Miami (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) will win control of our unions in spite | Friedman and Finer shop at 270 West of all the forces of reaction.” 89th Street. Joseph Cohen, chairman This meeting marks the first step|of the shop, brought $475 of the in the active uniting of the progres- pledge to the headquarters and an- sive forces in the two unions which) nounced that the rest of the money the A. F. of L. has marked for ex-j will be collected and turned in this pulsion; and starting with this com-| week. mittee the co-ordination will proceed; Heated controversies between until the two union groups have been | “rights” and “lefts” in the Friedman welded into one invincible body for! & Finer shop had been going on for the preservation of the unions and! some time; but finally the workers the protection of the workers. {decided that as good union members Sentence Furriers. pata must settle this matter if union ‘ ‘< ‘ , |conditions were to be maintained. Two more furriers paid the penalty, They held a meeting in Manhatten pe a |Lyeeum several weeks ago and by trike o: ring. j Be . . pas iol en. Judge Cornelius | Y°t# of the majority it was decided Collins sentenced Abraham Weiss to| inet a oan ae support the 4 months in the workhouse, and A. eri wuld and that a thousand dol- Reiter to 2 months. Other strike |'@t8 should be raised for the bonds. the International +. » Announcement | Advertise your union meetings {| cases were postponed until today. * * « Behind Closed Doors) Right after work tonight, the shop | chairmen of the Furriers’ Joint Board | Mayor Janies J. Walker was a wit-| Will meet in Manhattan Lyceum to, ness today before the grand jury in- | diseuss the present situation in the This meeting was followed. by a banquet, and the shop is now pulling together for the preservation of the union. WASHINGTON, March 1.—Mrs. Sue Seipi¢ of Sharon, Pa., is expact- Tomorrow night, Locals 1, 5, Jp and ed here. tomorrow to identify “Jerry | 15 will meet to take up the question | Tarbot. other official Would reveal the na-| levying a tax on the membership. {lost h " world war veteran who has memory. DRESSMAKERS LOCAL 22 MEETS THURSDAY A general membership meeting of the Dressmakers’ Local No. 22 is called for Thursday, March 3rd, at 7 p. m., at Webster Hall, 11th street, between 3rd and 4th avenues. | present. ; The meeting is called for the purpose of discussing the latest develop- ments in the present situation in the union. Every mmber is urged to be £ + z 4 ees + foRbei i etecteeebeedetobeleteebdetnedetnbneleetntolndedntetnefeceleeedetnl ena —extraordinary : —wonderful —stupendous / —marvelous —incredible and all the rest of the words favored by press agents, But we really mean something like that! 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