The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1927, Page 3

STUDENTS OF JOURNALISM MUST WR! TE FOR WORKER;| HOUSING STORIES WANTED Workers may join The DAILY | WORKER staff it The in the Bronx Ls L, D. Branch Meets Monday N Advanced Labor Joutnalism course at | the Workers’ School, 108 Hast 14th St. | pak Every mer of the class must| , * meeting of International Labor | write for The DAILY WORKER.|nofense, Bronx English Branch, will News stories will be assigned to each | |be held Monday, March 7, 1927, at member of the class every week. The} a9 pany ae "1347 Boston Road, assignments will be prepared with the | | Bronx. Final arrangements will be | aid of the editors of The DAILY | WORKER and the stories will be pub- | lished in the paper. Want Housing Stories. |made for the Bronx booth at the In- | |ternational Labor Defense Bazaar to | ight | LY WORKER, NEW YORK, snd Lites MARCH 5, 1927 (Owners and Lawmakers Both Responsible for Rents, Shortage Methods By Which Housing Problem Has Been Maintained, 4a and Solution of Situation, Given Next Week. Today's article begins the summary of the housing sur vey \be held March 10, i1, 12 and 13. All| undertaken by Will de Kalb, DAILY WORKER investigat comrades having donations or con-| The summary will be continued next week, and also special ar- Housing stories are a news feature | tributions, or wishing to participate | ticles ex eposing the landlords’ lobby at Albany, and the responst- | now and the class next Monday will | in the work will come to this meeting. be, assigned to write stories on the} housing situation wnless later news developments cause changes, Eugene Lyons will be the special lecturer at next Monday's class. Calverton to Speak At Workers’ School ACTIVELY FU joining kit 1ED large and bat for couple, Inter- | V. BE. Calverton, editor of the Mo-| dern Quarterly, speak at the | | Workers School Forum this Sunday | night at 8 p. m. on the subject “The New Negfo”. The speaker hag stu- | died the position of the Negro in the | American life,-and is preparing the publication of a book dealing with} the subject. On Sunday night fol- lowing, Luis Fisher will speak on Oil and Imperialism. |Plan Oriental Booth NEW MASSES Anti-Obscenily Costume Ball Friday Evening, March 18, 9:30. Webster, Hall, 119 E. 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Hundreds of fam- LISTENe has caused much destitution. . ‘Thousands are unemployed. If ployment. Also—Hundreds of strikers are to be placed on trial. Many have been in jail for months. Defense aid given now will assist in organizing thousands into a union. You will help in this organization campaign by to be shown at WALDORF THEATRE, West 50th St, near 6th Ave. ee nen ere a me ae Ae ma SUNDAY, MARCH 6—Showings at 2 and 7:30 P. M. ADMISSION 50c. ilies need relief. A year’s strike we are to build a union we must aid until they secure em- must be provided. Their families must be supported. This seeing the motion picture of the Big Passaic Textile Strike ee eemmnemmeed Strike Songs and Picket Line by Textile Strikers’ Children. 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Bazaar Here | The orient will Slay a big part in| ments mention The DAILY W | } | it Tir i ceasskcscersetassesicoebes New York Cloakmakers Meeting Today to Hear Prominent Lefts Talk Locals 2 and 35 will hold mem- bership meetings this afternoon to discuss conditions in the Cloak- makers’ Union. The pressers of Local meet in Manhattan Lyceum, East 4th Street at 1 o'clock. The Operators’ Local 2, will meet at one in Webster Hall, 11th Street near 3rd Avenue. Prominent trade union leaders will address both meetings. 35 will 66 When replying to these advertise-| Settle for Counons Immediately Thousands of Children of the Passaic Textile Strikers Are HUNGRY AND DESTITUTE HELP US FEED THEM Help Build a Strong Union! Take Some More To Sell Office open from 9 a: m. to 7 p. m. daily General Relief Committee 799 BROADWAY ROOM 225 NEW YORK CITY Stuyvesant 2343 bility for the housing shortage. | By WILL DE KALB. After a short summary of: the evi. dence procured in the housing survey jand a further presentation of ‘docu- | ments of record and evidence found in | public files, the prosecution, which is yours truly, will rest the case. One thing is. certain at this time, however. The facts so far presented prove the existence of a housing short- age. Rooms everywhere cost more money than the average worker can/| comfortably pay. And they are hard to find. And if found, they are in such a condition, they are not fit) quarters for a human being to live in. Whose Fault? Someone is ponsible, It can’t be the tenant. It is either the rent- jgouging, landlord, or the crooked legislator who is at fault. But ac- cording to the facts so far obtained, and further evidence that will be re- vealed in next week’s articles, both | the landlord and the legislator are at/ | fault. According to a certain assembly |man, undoubtedly (and maybe later | will be able to procure documentary | Jevidence of this fact) in the pay of | |the real estate lobby at Albany, the | housing shortage, which necessitated | i the passage of an emergency rent | ‘law in 1922, no longer exists. | Awful Lies. | statement ? jhousing survey proves conclusivelyy |that there isn’t a particle. The sur- | vey showed that rents nowhere have| | gone down, and in most cases they | | have continued on the increase even | ‘after the passage and operation of | |the law. A table, showing the pro- | | gress of the rents, will be part of the evidence presented next week. If there were no housing shortage, would these rents continue at a rate | in most cases 100 per cent higher | than what they were in 1918? And| would people be willing to live in the slums, amidst dirt and filth unde- \scribable, without any of the con- veniences of the modern home, if other rooms were procurable? How »was this housing chortage| maintained? The activities of the) !yeal estate lobby in Albany will be! adequately exposed. The methods by | | which rents were kept sky-high, in| hovels not even worthy of the name | \of tenement, will also be held under | | the publicity spotlight. | Diseuss Methods. | And finally, the methods by which | |the housing problem can be solved | will be listed and discussed. | Someone is going to be indicted by| | |the court of fublic . opinion for re- | sponsibility for the existence of a) |housing shortage. It is expected that | as a result, the rent-gouging activities | | lof the landlords will be curbed, and | {the back-scratching crookedness of | some politicians will lose for them a} ‘good many votes. Next week we'll | | have several Pus Mi aye a. court. ‘Two New York Police a1 Arrested for Graft | Two wéllaassen attached to the | | Richmond Hill Queens precinct, were | | placed under arrest at the station | house yesterday on charges of ex-| \tortion. They are patrolmen Frances | |J. G. Graff and Arthur G. Rhodes. The two were arrested, charged | with having extorted $150 from Mrs. | |} Anna Bisontis, of Richmond Hill, | mother of Albert Bisontis, 20 years | old, who was recently sentenced to ‘serve from five to ten years in Sing Sing prison for holding up a Rich- mond Hill lunchroom owner. The) two policemen are alleged to have ex- | |torted the $150 from Mrs. Bisontis | \before her son’s trial on the promise | | that they would not testify. against | | him. | Read The Daily Worker Every Day CX XXXXX XXX KAEEAEKE EEX) Announcement to Comrades! 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York Port Authority would be author-| ized to construct a tunnel under the Hudson River from points between | | West 34th and West 47th Street, Man- | |hattan, and points opposite in Hud. | son county, New Jersey, under a bill | introduced in the legislative today by | Assemblyman Phelps, New York City republican. The measure carries an/ appropration of $50,000 for prelim- inary work. CORRECTION: In the article “Im-| portance of Anti-Militarist Work,” in place of “American investments | |ubroad total 25 billions of dollars,” | the sentence should read: American investments and war-time loans brid 25 billions of dollar Hungarian Earthquake. BUDAPEST, March 4.—Two earth- jquake shocks were reported fifty riles from Budapest today. A church nd several houses were damaged at | Vappalota and more than sixty chim- neys were shaken down. Several more houses collapsed at the second ope eh Catch Opium Smuggler. NAPLKS, March 4.—Fifty boxes a | opium. which were intended for ex-| How much truth is there in this| | portation to America were found to- | Charles Meisel shop at 225 West 36th | The DAILY WORKER! day when the customs officials seized | St., who was severely beaten by gang- the consignment of cases which had | been labelled “preserved fruit.” They were sent by a man named Wasachi | who was arrested. U. S. Buys Trinity Bldg. | WASHINGTON, March 4.—Secre- | tary of the Treasury Mellon was au-| | thorized to make a contract for pur-| chase of the Trinity Corporation| Building in New York upon its com-| pletion, by an act signed by President Coolidge today. If purchased, the building. would .be the headquarters | for customs and other national gov-|leges that Wortuns attacked him in ernment; activities in New York. | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Fifth | Freiheit | Jubilee SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 2nd, 1927 MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 49th Street & 8th Avenue Freiheit Gesangs Verein | accompanied by New York Symphony Orchestra will present the poem of the Russian Revolution TWELVE { written by Alexander Block. | Music and Conducted by | JACOB SCHAFER. JACOMO RIMINI and jf SERGEI RODOMSKY in a special program, The well-known soprano ROSA RAISA ‘ | in.a special program. This will be her first recital in New York within the last 2 years. ALL SEATS RESERVED. Page ‘Three a OE EE a W € “itizens? “Chinn Favors oman’s Inquiry of Milk And Day Celebration*To Be| Food Graft Scandal Next Tuesday, March 8} | continued agitation for public in- eesti quiry into the milk and food graf! The International Women’s Day scandal is part of the program of the will be celebrated on Tuesday, Citizens’ Committee, acordin to March 8th, the birthday of Rosa | William J. Schieffelin, president, Luxemburg, in all principle cities in the country. In New York the Central Opera House at 205 East 5ith St. has been engaged for this day and an elaborate program has been selected to give due credit to the women’s movement. In Philadelphia the celebration will take place at the Grand Fra- ternity Hall, 1626 Arch street, on the same day at 8 p.m. The pro- gram which has been arranged in- who is detremined to buck Governor Smith on the issue. Last Wednesday grand under the influence dvised the unior the of Governor Smi against such a course. “Undoubtedly the governor desires much that the grand itewashing presentment shall be | permitted to close the record in this business of the health department ’ president Schief- » continued pro~ jury’s graft and grafte fe n declared. cludes many prominent women of th@ citizens’ union speakers, including Rebecea Grecht sidetracking the health de- of this city. Progressive and liberal | partment graft investigation will organizations, including the Wo- man’s ‘Trade Union League and the Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedom, will also be present, The youth of the city will be rep- resented by members of the Young Pioneers, an organization of work- ing class children, pledged to sup- port their mothers and fathers in their fight for strong unions and against imperialist wars. Arrangements are being made for an overflow turn-out and the work- ers of New York and Philadelphia are urged to come early to these celebrations. keep the issue prominent until all-the crooks—and the biggest of them— | are caught. LYCEUM ge for M Balls, W fe Smali Meetih Ava Tel. Dry Dock 06, 804 CHARGE PRESSER WITH FIGHT HE COULDNT BE AT 4 Aaron Sortank, a presser from the I, KITZIS, Prop. nl THE ASTORIA Palatial Ballrooms & Dining Room SATERING A SPECIALTY 62-64 EB. ith St. New York City. sters of “Frenchy’s” gang on Feb- ruary 23, was arrested on a framed- up charge of felonious assault late! Thursday. He was held under $5,000 bail in the 59th street court. Says Sick Man Hit Him. That the charges are a frame-up in- tended to cripple the prosecution of the gangsters who assaulted Wortuns , is evident from the fact that the case against the gangsters had been set for yesterday in Jefferson Market court, and that the complaint against Wortuns, signed by Morris Katz, al- April 9 KEEP THAT DATE OPEN Watch for further announcements. ig Altair Arranged by the Young Workers League. the Bronx on February 24, although Wortuns was under a doctor’s care that entire week from the injuries he received at the hands of the gangsters on February 23rd. Freda Rebanto, Yetta Greenblatt, and L: Hyman (not the manager of |the Joint Board) were arrested on the | picket line at the Arline Dress Shop, 353 Seventh Ave., this morning after the boss had put in a call for the riot squad to prevent their peaceful pick- eting. They were dismissed by Magistrate Smith in Jefferson Market court. Picket lines on Friday morning! were unusually large. 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