The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1927, Page 5

| i ] | | ) 4 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY » Ne KCH 4 1927 Page Vive THINESE-GAELIC DIALOGUE DISLOCATES DAILY | WORKER TELEPHONE AS EAST AND WEST ARRANGE FOR ANTI-BRITISH IV SHOE WORKERS ON ae IPERIALISM MASS MEETING Pingendtingacing ‘weat the teleé- phone in the Daily Worker editorial |room. “Call for O'Flahetty” came LONE WOLF SOLON tousine Protem Acute | in Suburbs; Rent $45 BARKS SENATORS (Continued from Page One) But the average commuter knows that , su INTO | N SOM N | A lapartments are at a pérmium every- | where in the greater city, so he plugs | slong, ¢atchinig the 5.15 in the morn- BOHM, SMARTIN FROM PUBLICITY ATTACKS WORKER ( (28 BOOTHS ARRANGED FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR + DEFENSE BAZAAR; LABOR UNIONS PARTICIPATING Preparator; he International Labor Defense to be held in Star Casino, 107th Street and Park 3 a special delegate meeting was of to the annual baz STRIKE THE SHOP Avenue on March I¢ {rom the City Editot’s chair, O’Flah- | irig, and the 6.16 at night. erty put the phone to his left ear and the following dialogue took plaeé: “This is Samuel Sha of the Chi- nese Nationalist Daily talking.” “Samuel who?” “Samuel Sha. I want to know about the Irish meetin: “Oh, yes. Now I get you. How are you today? Sure, anything you want to know. A Superfluous Question “Will the meeting be anti-British?” “Ha, Ha, Haw, Haw, (telephone STRIKE AGAINST THE OPEN SHOP Demand Agreement Be- fore Returning to Work A strike has been called bys the Shoe Workers’ ‘Protectiv ict { ; jagainst the i a. anes noe goes out of order. When the repair- |441 Blake Street, Brook because |™Man gets thru O'Flaherty and Sha are still laughing. When they re- cover sufficiently to make coherent speech they exchange compliments on the humorous proclivitigs of the Chi- nese and the Irish). “By the way said ithe compahy refused to sign an agrec- jae with the uhion, The eighty. em- ployes of that shop, all union men, have eome out on strike and are |maintaining a solid pieket line, No | s have yet come near the estab- lishinent and the men are certain of j their victory. | Some time ago the bosses stated O'Flaherty, to make things look kind of dreary for John Bull.” 400,000,000 Chinese should be able| | they would be ng to sign agree- | ments, but postponed action thereon. In the meantime a speed-up system | was adopted to finish up all the con- tracts on hand so that a strike would not hurt them. When the union on Mareh 1, demanded action the bosses stated that the workers were not do- ing their work in the proper manner and that the wages were too high. Yet when the threat for a strike was made the bosses promised to continue the union scale of wage, but that they would not sign agreements, The workers knew that this meant eventual wage reductions, and dis- missal of all active union men, and therefore to forestall any stich dis- crimination an appeal was made to “T have no doubt,” replied Mr. Sha in a soft musi¢al voice,” that John will feel rather uncomfortable by the timé We get thru wth him with the assistance of four million Irishmen, who have had considerable eéxperi- ence in sticking pins in his shift. But when?” Meeting Tonight “Tonight at 8 P. M. in Bryant Hall, 42nd street and 6th avenue with your- self as one of the principal speak- ers, in addition to William F. Dunne, of the Daily Worker, Butte, Montana, and Kansas, T. J. O'Flaherty as chair- man and let us hope a goodly audi- ence.” “Til be there,” said Sha as he hung where willl this meeting be held and) the district council to call a strike. | up. The union eae is for a 44-hour! By the way “Sha” is Irish for “yes.” week, the closed shop, union wages,| It looks like g real united front this | employment through the uhion and| time between the Irish and Chinese. the agreentent to expire in the month | Here is where East meets West with | of March, which is the busy besten a wallop—at John Bull and world im- perialism. es in the shoe industry. ANNUAL BALL So under auspices of the LEITRIM TRISH REPUBLICAN CLUB New Harlem Casino, 116th Street and Lenox Avenue On SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH 6th, 1927 yes F. O'Kelly, Pres. cutive Committ Treas.; Brian Gilgunn; Sse'y, James J. Connoily, Bernard . H. MeGuire, The Most a Ceftral Ballroom in New York. IRISH AND AMERICAN MUSIC BY YOUR FAVORITE, Tickets 50 Cents, i he ecclesia eee es ae ele a oe oe 3 HELP PASSAIC ORGANIZE! ¢ i os | | | he ete ee wie. % You Can Do This by Seeing the ‘Passaic Textile Strike’ A,MOTION PICTURE + + + + +e WALDORF THEATRE, West 50th St, near 6th Ave, es | i | Westchester Wages At $29 ror ao pi he ein Even in the slums of Westchester, | there ate no rooms for less than $8. ee nae |'The average rent in Westchester is WASHINGTON, D. C., Merch 3.—| high, $70; but Westchester, as a whole A single sénator—Cole L, Blease, a/ is not a working class cou Taking \demoerat of South Carolina, was re- st the figures of working | sponsible for the second all-night ses-|rents, the aver is $42. B | sion within a week of the venerable | average wage is | U. S. Senate. The dignified senators | districts. Perhaps the ac’ | are getting messed up and losing their! age for rentals is too hig |rekular sleep because Senator “Jim”! rate, according to most r | Reed, democrat, of Missouri, insists | specialists I interviewed, it v: |that that body continue its investiga- tween that figure and § tions into “slush funds” during the! I spite of this high rental, the summer months. worker must pay a goodly poftion of In an effort to block consideration -his wages to the railroad company of this move, the “filibusters” used | for commutation. Of course, except jthe time-honored technique of object-| for the slum district of Westchester, {ing to all motions to proceed with the the surroundings are many times more | business, before the senate. pleasant than they are é | Day and Half Left. Thera is room for the kiddies to play. With 18 hours left to the présent sessidh of congress, David Reed, of | Fennsylvania, a distant relative of the Missouri politician, was leading those who aré eager to avoid the em- | Long Island Shortage Acute. barrassinent of further legislative in-| Lotig Island is replete with work- vestigiaion into the manner in which |ing class communities. Jamaica is millions of dollars were disposed in| ne. Flushing is another. Mineola electing men like Frank Smith of | must be included. Yet many of these Illinois to the senate. jare almost self-sifficient; they have Big Bills Dying. enough jobs to keep th workers The ptesént feud) which has its|off the trains. So that their housing origins in private quarrels of the| problem is strictly local, and in most various senators, has the senate hog-| cases, due to the landlords monopoly, tied while measures hich kre con-| 88 acute as in greater New York. sidered of vital importaieé to various | jinterests were skidding to a quiet identh. A quorum—mbre than half of | to bé $30, and in Flushing $52. The |theanguet body remained on hand | averare rental is $44, and in Flushing throughout the night, debating sav-|548. These are figures that will need ofely on the floof, dozing iti chairs, 2 lot of legislative seasoning before | sleeping exhausted on couthes in full they ¢an be stomached by Mr. Average | view of crowded galléries, and pacing | Citizen. the floor in a brave sénatorial at-! tempt to fight away sleep. rirls that commute, I believe, the avet- Just Won't Be Exaiiined. age wage is only $27, while the aver- Tt looks tery muéh a3 though the | age rental is $39. These figures are |senate will adjour, after being ex- | corroborated by a railroad company’s | hausted by the continous technicalities | survey. And in Jersey, it must be | at the disposal of the members of the remembered, except for a few in- i body. When it does theré will be | stances, the living conditions rival ‘much weeping by vargus interests; those of New York’s cheaper dis- tind groups who have axes to grind, | tricts. and have already paid their deposits! Suburban New Yorker Hard Hit. |on, aeeount. | The surburban New Yorker is get- | So eager are many of the virtuous/ting a dirty deel. He spends much |senators to kill the further investiga-|of his time traveling to avoid the | tions of the committee examining the | noise, dangers, hustle and bustle, liv- | sums: spent to putéhase a seat in the | ing standards, and rentals of the big » house of congtess, that much | city. And the surburban landlord is legislation déair to the hearts of many |tryin#, without much organizational of the Jeaders of the body, will be | backing, to frame him up with these of fhe frimly spend half their lives on thé trains, traveling from one point to another. | sacrificed as a result, undesirables. i Seer The housing.problem, it will be Carpenter Volunteers leasily s is not merely plaguing | greater New Yorkl*The suburbs are for the Bazaar jin for a few headaches, too. | Needed | The International Labor Defensé is | oak J calling for volutiteers, cAtpenters in| MADRID,” Spain, “March 8.—All | to build Boothe for the aveilable vessels and aeroplanes be held in two | were ofdered: but today by the Span- Uruguayan Pliers Lost. | particular, bazaar which is to ‘weeks: Volunteers should call ready | ish eévernmeht to search the waters |for work at the ‘Star Casino, 107th | between the African coast and the/ es | \(Canary Islands for Major Larre-Bor- i Street and Park Avenue, 6n Saturday M ges and Kis companions, Urnguayan (and Sunday, Marth 5 and 6. ‘ yesterd: | Read The, Daily Wotker Every aad £ » Announcement Passaic Textile Workers Still * :. ABOR# Need You! Hundreds of fam- i ilies need relief. A year’s strike extraordinary : LISTENe has caused much destitution. Thousands are unemployed. If —wonderful é we are to build a union we must aid until they secure em- amazin $ ~—_ Alse—Hundreds of strikers are rad be _— ae & - on trial. Many have been in jail for months. Defense a z must be provided. Their families must be supported. This stupendous $ aid given now will assist in organizing thousands into a —marvelous : union. You will help in this organization campaign by : ‘ f secing the motion picture of the Hig Passaic Textile Strike —incredible i lo be shown at : z and all the rest of the words favored by press agents. But we really mean something like that! sofostects xe | tral Isewhere. But usually the employed members * In most of the Long Island com-| munities, I found the average wage | Tm Jersey, due to the number of | ‘fliers. Who have been missing since in the Ukrainian Hall, at which forty ‘ 4 B labor organizations were repre Raves Over Communist} sented. Very satisfactory results i 1 nt] |have been obtained up to date to Press at Labor Council ye en eet huge success, ais It reported that twenty-eight (28) booths have been taken by the following Miline: Work L. G. W. Smarting under the lash of publi- city, est Bohm, manager of the Bookkeepers’ and Stenographers’ Union, rose on the floor of the Cen- i Trades and Labor Council last) Working Women's Council night and tried to explain away the; Unity House; Hungarian Women’s charge made by The DAILY WORK-) Council Group; Workers (Commu- SR that gangsters were present at t) Tarty and DAILY WORKER. the expulsion of 21 militant members f. L. D. Branche: organizations: - ; Capmakers; of his union at the meeting last Mon-| Checho- Bronx; Ge day. booths; ic; Greek; Brownsvill Says Daily Worker Lied. Oriental; P ; Lithuanian; Rus- Bohm’s defense was that those Sian; Armenian; Staten Island; , gangsters and all, evidently,| Branch 12 and New York District. s in his union. He said that! Bishop Brown is having a special was lying. booth for which Mrs. Brown has cond attack in the C.) made some splendid articles. . C, on The DAILY WORKER by! Other booths -will have beautiful was two weeks ago, when MattheW|the rage. Dainty importations from Woll delivered a spread-eagle spéech| Russia; a valuable collection of against it, on the occasion of the ex- drawings and paintings from re- pulsion from the council of some of| nowned American artists including its best members. Woll Was Exposed. Woll was shortly thereafter caught, and publically castigated by James)... ‘ " Maurer, head of the Federation of! %y',contupute greatly to the suecess Labor of Pennsylvania for co-operat- | : riba mais ling with the bosses to defeat old age| pension laws. { At the beginning of the meeting |John Coughlin, secretary of the body,| “The members of Subsection 4-B of announced that he had received two|the Workers (Communist) Party communications. One from Oizer| learned with a great shock the death Schachtman, president of Internation-| of the leader of the American revo- al Furriers’ Union, and the other from | lutionary forces of this country, an organization “that has no standing | Comrade Ruthenberg. It was decided with this body.” No direct reference} unanimously thet we are going to was made to the resolution sent the) multiply our work in the struggle in council from the furriers’ Cooper) which Union meeting. and died.” A motion was passed to refer both! —~ of them to the executive board, in- structing that body to co-operate with the special red-hunting committee of | the A. F. of L. appointed by Presi-| dent Green, consisting of Matthew Gropper and Gellert will be featured. Rare vases with the seasons flowers will give a pleasant fragrance and 4-B to Multiply Work. Woll, Edward McGrady and Hugh eat Frayne. Frayne and McGrady were + zs crowd, s * oie both present at the meeting. + you want to meet the Italian anti- Delegates Help Passaic. # fascists, John Marshall, representing the United Textile Workers of Passaic,| was given the floor to sell tickets for! the motion picture of the Passaic strike being shown at the Waldorf Theatre this coming Sunday, The + couneil bought $15 worth of tickets | and many members who were pres- a em ee ent bought additional ones. + | Joseph Ryan, Jerome Keating and |J. W. Costello were appointed as a| $# the hearing on injunctions to be held) ++ committee to represent the council at £ | th GRAND + (0 te + + + + + + at Albany next Tuesday. Librarians Start Discussion. Miss Malone, representing the Li- brarians’ Union, asked for assistance | in their struggle against the politi-| cians of Queens who have discharged two members of the union for appear- | ing before a hearing at Albany that! was taking up the question of wage increases. After a lengthy discussion in which many delegates participated a motion| was passed to refer: the entire mat-/ ter to the executive council for con-| sideration. This motion was intto-| duced by Abraham Lefkowitz of the} Teachers’ Union. A tendency not to press the ques- tion too far was noticeable. Secretary | Coughlin admitted that peliticians | were riding roughshed in Queens in: |relation to the libraries but opposed ‘appealing to the mayor “because it)! jinight have a poor effect on future | {questions that we will take up with | | them. The Daily Worker + Amongst the features: You'll like it! LEEEEh Eee eho etionary labor officials. The first| handpainted shawls which are now! Subsection 4-B, New York City.—| Comrade Ruthenberg fought, * Saatchi you want to enjoy a good Concert, you want to be with an interesting you want to hear good music, you want to dance, you are tired of conventional affairs, you want to see how radicals can have a good time, you want.to see the red s COME CONCERT and BALL arranged by MISS FRANCES GOLDENTHAL, Violin Soloist MISS CELIA SCHACHTMAN, Russian Singer Come to the LYCEUM, 86th Street and 3rd Aye. Saturday, March 5th, at 8:30 p.m. sharp TICKETS 50¢. » WHEN BECKERMAN FINES A WORKER Amalgamated Terrorist Sternly Rebuffed severe blow to Abraham Becker st rule in the Amalga- Workers’ Union, was 1 workers in {1 Eldridge ke in pro- A man’s ter riven yesterd | Street, out test the one of the workers f: | the impos d severe op. Beckerman Fined Him. Because he had attended a “left wing” meeting several weeks ago, M. Littman was taken off the job by Beckerman and was also fined fifty dollars, A number of members of his shop came out.on strike last week in protest, and on Monday, five of them | were brought before a committee of the union and were fined $25 apiece. Whole Shop Struck. | Yesterday the entire shop stoppeli work, and defying Beckerman and all his gangsters, refused to go back to their jobs and to continue the strike until Littman is reinstated. This is the workers’ answer |Beckerman’s attempts to erush all | progressive thought in their union. His rule by force must be ended, and the strike of the Kulok shop is gn important blow for freedom. m his job, and of heavy fines on -him other members of the to BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS eode decd ee deote ater and |i Lavoratore 1 You won't forget this event FEEFEEEEEEEEEFEPE EE EEE EEE EP EEE FERS Encouraging Report (Continued from Page One) | The fact that the reactionary of-| \ficials had just expelled them all § | over again on Wednesday night was | 6 not_even seriously considered by the | 8 | workers. They discussed only the | work of the union, and what must ‘be done to protect the workers | against the attacks of the reaction- 1500 Dressmakers. Hear B# 444444444444 44444444944 BAKERY PRODUCTS If not, let us know and we'll instruct. our driver to call at your home. 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Right Wing Fails. | It was a meeting full of enthusiasm and determination, and a dramatic contrast to a meet which the right wing attempted to call “for nomin- ation of officers” last week, where it is reported that 992 people ap- peared, and even in that number there were only a haadful of dress- makers, The chairman of last night's meet- INTERNATIONAL Annual A mass meeting of protest against COMMENCES IN the deportation of political refugees is being held in the Workers Center, 63 Liberty Avenue, Brooklyn, Friday, March 4th at 8 p. m. to aid Political Prisoners STAR CASINO, 107th Street and Park Avenue, N. Y. TICKETS ON BALE AT: I. L. D, Offices, 799 Rroadway, Room 422..+ LABOR DEFENSE Bazaar ‘ONE WEEK Prominent speakers will be present. All worker’ ore invited to attend. Protect your fighters. Demand the ‘right of asylum. 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