The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1927, Page 3

a ne a LEED Ra __ tt NEW YORK LABOR RALLIES TO FIGHT INJUNCTION EVIL Assemble In Albany On| March the 8th | statutes, in the face of persecutions, | | Gilbert, executive secretary of the | sacres the trade unions proved by! A publie joint hearing will be given | before the Senate General Laws Com- | mittee and Assembly Judiciary Com- mittee on Tuesday, March 8, at 2 p.| m., on the Lipwicz-Hackenburg bill | (S. print 528, A print 308) to regulate the issuing of injunctions in industrial disputes, Union representatives com- ing here for the hearing will assemble | at the Albany Labor Temple at 12:30 noon on March 8 for a conference be- | fore going to the hearing at 2 p. m.,| which will be held in either the sen- | ate or assembly chamber. | President John Sullivan of this | ogy, is a civil writ issued by a judge, | : Pte ih ta | “The union is still intact, altho | State Federation and William Collins | of the American Federation of Labor | have addressed largely attended mass | meetings of wage earners in behalf) of the bill to regulate issuing of in- junctions in three of the largest coun- | ties of this state. Officers of the local central labor body presided at each of these meetings, which at- | tracted audiences from all sections of | the counties, and the local sneakers | included Vice-Presidents A. W. Sher- man of Syracuse, E. Koveleski of Rochester, 1 ¢. F. Conroy of Buf- falo. At eac’ of the meetings reso- | lutions were*adopted as follows: “Resolved, that this mass meeting )€ wage earners under call of the} New York State Federation of Labor and the Central Trades and Labor} Council, hereby urges the senators and members of assembly from this county to support and vote for the enactment of the Lipwicz-Hacken- burg bill herein described; and that copies of this resolution be forwarded to those mentioned members of our state legislature, signed by the of- ficers of this mass meeting, as the unanimous request of the wage-work- ing citizens of this county and vicinity.” The Lipwicz-Hackenburg bill goes into effect at once if passed and pro- vides as’ follows: ~ No contract, agreement or combina- tion between two or more persons or groups of persons or between employ- ers and employees concerning the terms or conditions of employment or the assumption, creatj Suspension, or termination of a elton be- tween employer and employee or con- | cerning any act or thing with refer- | ence to or involved in or growing out | of a trade or labor dispute or any contemplation or furtherance of a| trade or labor dispute between em-| ployer and employee whether or not | any of the parties stand in the proxi- | mate relation to the origino! relation | of employer and employee, or con-/ cerning any effort to recommend, ad- vise, induce or persuade any person to work or abstain from work or to become members of a labor union whether such other is under cofitract with relation thereto or not concern- ing any effort to induce any person to withhold his patronage from any person, firm or corporation against whom they have a claim or grievance, and° nothing done or not done by any} such person or groups of persons in| pursuance of such contract, agree. | ment or combination shall constitute or be deemed to constitute a conspir- acy of any criminal offense or be pun- ished or prosecuted as such unless the act or thing agreed to be done or! not to be done constitutes acts of physical violence or threats of physi- eal violence in order to show such contract, agreement or combination and any and all actions and things hereinbefore set forth do consider or hold unlawful; in order to show any restraining order or injunction be is- sued with relation thereto orgor any cause arising therefrom, Nothing in this section shall exempt from pun- ishment, otherwise than as herein ac- cepted, any person guilty of conspira- ey for which punishment is now pro- vided by law, but any such law, shall, as to the agreements, contracts and combinations and acts or things here- inbefore referred to, be considered as if this section were therein contained. | Orchard 3783 Strietly by Appointment DR, L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge St. Tel. New York Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M, 2-8 P. M, Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 BAST 115th STREET Cor, Second Ave. New York. SAVE THIS VALUABLE | over the destiny of the workers, lof jusvice they dispense. By I. JEROME. d . Wyviaaupacialge injunctions, in one form or another, rose into being | | with the dawn of labor’s class-con- sciousness. The law of the proper- tied few sought to stem the tide of revolt of the propertyless masses. In! the beginning the ban. fell on the right of the workers to organize. But when in the face of all repressive imprisonments, beheadings, and mas- their power that they had come to stay, their legal status became defi- nitely established. Then property, defeated in the first engagement, fell back on another, an astuter line of defence: The strike, labor’s princi- |pal mode of. warfare, must be out-| |1awed! Labor’s mighty weapon must | be rendered yseless! Thus came j#bout the injunction as we know it| today. What an “Injunction” Is, An injunction, in legal terminol- restraining a person or group of per- sons from doing or not doing a pay. tie? thing, the doing or not doing c ch would cause ipreparable “ to another. With one stroke . «=. pen a judge can annul all the stuns are pleased to distinguish them- selves from barbarians In labor dis- putes, especially, the injunction is| turned into a sword, with the hilt in the hand of capital gnd the edge drawn against the workers. By their power to issue restraining orders in times of strikes the courts hold sway An insignificant judge, guided by his personal discretion, and by his class and personal interests, can set him- seli up as the captain of the work- ers’ fate. By his fiat, the private property rights of a single individual | are upheld against the elementary right to live of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of workers. What “Judges” Are, When we consider who the gentle- men are that sit in judgment over us, we do not wonder at the brand The. judge are the hirelings of entrenched capi- tal. They are chosen, not by the peo- |ple, but by the Bar Association. And the Bar Association is but an abbre- viated term for the association for the protection of high finance. Who then, but the judges, should be inter- ested in breaking strikes? In America injunctions have fallen upon fertile soil. Not daring to an- tagonize the workers by open legis- lation against trade unions, the besseg have resorted to an insidious back-door law-making against la- bor’s rights ‘hey have depended for support upon the usurped power of the supreme court, a power that is maintained by virtue of an uncon- | Platform. By endorsing the Balti-| stitutional seizure of the right of judi eal veview. They have brought to their aid the judicial tyranny grown out of the unchecked, ventury-long encroachments of judgecraft upon the rights of the American working class. With the courts as arbiters, the bosses are assured of an unfail- ing ally in their attacks upon the workers. For where the laws are anti-labor the judges, claiming to be merely administrators of the law, ad- minister against labor; and where, as a result of the workers’ struggles, a statute reads to favor labor, the judges, being reviewers of the law, review against labor. ‘fhe Strike Weapon. The strike is the worker’s formid- able weapon. All his gains have come to him through strikes or through the capitalists’ fear of his power to strike. Not a single pro- gressive statute, not a single allevi- ation, not a single concession was ever granted to the workers hrough the generosity of the bosses or their law-givers. in every gain of labor, all through history, final analysis proves this. The driving power hind labor’s every gain has always been the power o fthe workers to wrest that gain from their exploiters. The strike is the indispensable tac- tie of organized labor. It is the life- force of workers in union, To limit strikes is to castrate labor! What Has Been Done? What have the American workers done to combat injunctions? Speci- fically, what has the American Fed- eration of Labor done to combat in- junctions? The answer is to be found in the philosophy underlying the general poliey of the American Fed- eration of Labor. For deéades the A. F. of L. leadership has installed into the workers a fatalistic accept- ance of the present social order. It has taught that the course of the American working class is set into an eternal rotation within the ines- capable orbit of capitalism. 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Yh Fike Street New. vor" My ¥ Liberals Will Meet ~ To Plan Assistance For Paper Box Union Over fifty workers who took part In the recent paper box strike have been blacklisted, Charles K. | social service commission of the diocese of New York, states in a letter sent to liberals who were in- | terested in the recent paper box | strike. | Mr. Gilbert has arranged for a | discussion of this situation at the Civie Club to-morrow night, where representatives of various social and religious organizations have been invited to be present. “Thruout the whole controversy”, | says Mr. Gilbert, “the attitude of | the employers has been harsh and unreasonable, secerely strained circumstances, | «a plucky fight is being made to | maintain the organization.” \hence, no struggle. For the class- |war the leaders of the A. F. of L, operation. Labor's generals have |spiked the gyns of labor’s army! | No Open Struggle. This anti-working class, suicidal | doctrine is reflected as a matter of {of course in the attitude of the A, F. of L. to injunctions. Where the class | struggle is denied the strike loses its |potency, and the resistence to anti- strike injunctions is shorn of strength and zeal. Despite the high- sounding resolutions adopted at its conventions, the A. F, of L. has a weak and ineffective front its policy against ever, in and governed by capitalist ideas the {A. F. of L. leaders do not stir the workers to open resentment against | their enemies. They do not call upon |them to resist with their united strength the encroachments of the | judicial ectopus. No, that would be unrespectable, revolutionary. In- stead, these leaders indulge in sénti- |mez.tal appeals to the eapitalist iaw- jmakers and judges in the name of equality. They stress the claim of “our rights as American citizens”, and say not a word about our rights as producers of America’s wealth. A cringing, taken the place of militant proletar- ian resistance. | Recent Surrenders. | In recent years, especially, the A. \P. of L. leadership has affirmed by class-eollaborationist and anti-strike |more and Ohio plan it has openly |put its sanction on “Company Unions”. By acclaiming the enact- mennt of the Watson-Parker law, jwhich outlaws strikes on the rai jroads, it has accepted the principle |of compulsory arbitration, In pro- moting labor banking, labor insur- ance, and similar enterprises it has sought to set up a trade-union capi talism with the vain hope to deprol tarianize. And in recommending at its recent convention the re-election of Governor Smith, the man who only a few weeks before, in the strike of the New York Cloakmakers, had |tion Al”, the A. F. of L., in effect, put its seal of: approval on injunc- tions, What Must Be Done. Workers must grasp the strike ag | their indispensable, their most effec- tive weapon. Their immediate pro- |gram must be to fight for the re- |peal of existing anti-strike legisla- railway law whose continued exis- tence threatens to spread comulsory must fight for the curbing of the | equity powers of the courts. They ‘must fight for legislation eliminat- ing injunctions, police, and soldiery from. strike situations. . | But reliance on legislation is not jenough. Experience has taught the | workers that they must rely, first nd foremost, upon their organiza- tional strength. Two sections of the Clayton Act definitely exempt labor Anti-Trust Law. Yet in many in- stances labor has been subjected to repressive court decisions in flagrant violation of this exemption. Trial by jury granted by the Clayton Act has repeatedly been denied to labor. In direct contradiction to the letter and spirit of the Clayton Act state and federal judges have declared Jabor to be property, have prohibited picketing, have out-lawed sympathy strikes and, in the case of the Arizona model law have vetoed legislation which is iden- the Clayton act. Smash Injunctions. The laws favoring labor can be upheld only by the organizational strength of labor. The legal status of the strike will be achieved by the same means that gave the trade- unionists their legal status—the in- domitable will of labor. Mass- colia- tion of injunctions will break \injunc- tions. Howatt’s miners, Passaic, the New York furriers, the New York vloakmakers, have proved it. © The workers broke the legal ban on trade unions by ignoring the legal ban. The workers will break the injunctions against strikes by striking against the injunctions. Read The Daily Worker Every Day eed halt) Worke: Byery shown, and shows today more than) injunctions. | Being anti-pyoletarian to the core| knee-bending policy has! a series of very definite actions its | |earned for himself the title, “Injunc- | tion, especially, the Watson-Parker | arbitration to other industries. They | from the restriction of the Sherman tical with the pro-labor sections in| a 7 iy SOVIET UKRAINE “GIVES JEWS ON ~ LAND A COUNTY \Have Their Own Local Government | MOSCOW, March 7.—The first | self-governing Jewish community ever established in Rus was de- | creed today by the Ukrainian govern- ment. | The Presidium of Central Executive Committee an- | nounced that it has created a sepa- rate Jewish county in Kherson Pro- the Ukrainian {can money administered through the }Jewish Joint Distribution Commit- |tee, more than 2,000 Jewish families | have been settled upon the land. Own Official Language. The total population of the new Jewish county is 18,000, of which eighty-seven per cent is Jew Its capital will be the town of Bol- shaya Seideminucha. The local ‘self- government will be exercised through powers as all other Soviet counties. If the county so wis the Jewis language will be use 7 The Jews of the Soviet Union gree | the establishment of tae county e thusiastically, seeing in it the firsi step towards carrying out Kalinin’s promise—the creation of an autono- mous Jewish republic. ‘Armed Gangster Slashes Picket (Continued from Page One) officials of the International Ladies’ Garment. Workers’ Union yesterday that Julius Hochman, one ‘of the vice- | presidents, had been elected manager of the new International Joint Board | of New York. Hochman is said to have been elected last Friday night at a meet- ing “of delegates to the board.” These “delegates” were unnamed. | Another vice-president, Jacob Hal- perin, was elected manager of the job- bing department and Samuel Perl- mutter was elected manager of the independent department and the American department. | Await Ratification. Other positions were filledgby Basili Desti and Isadore Nagler, al- though the International states that all these elections are “subject to ratification by the members of the Joint Board locals,” and the officers have not yet assumed office. | If they are waiting for the actual ratification of the locals, tliey have a long wait ahead of them. Fire in Local 35. At ten o’clock yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the headquarters of Pressers’ Local 35, of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment’ Workers’ ‘Union, 10 East 22nd street, and sev- eral hundred dollars worth of dam- ‘age was done to the front part of the building. When the fir® was discovered, the building was quickly emptied and aside from damage to the building only some of th eunion’s office sup- plies were destroyed. Union business is being conducted as usual, and the building can be com- pletely repaired within a few days. | Sunday Forums. | Two meetings of needle trades | workers were held Sunday, one at |Hunt’s Point Palace in the the other at the Jewish Workers Club |in Boro Park, and both drew crowds of union members and their sympa- thizers. : The subject of discussion was the left and right fight in the labor |movement, with special reference to | the needle trades. The speakers at the Boro Park meeting were Joseph Goretzky, man- ager of Local 35 of the I. L. G. W. U., and Fanny Warshofsky, of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union. Cloakmakers in Bronx. At the Bronx meeting, Isadore Brauner, chairman of the Shop Chair- imen’s Council, Joseph Boruchowitz, |manager of Local 2, and Elias Marks jof the cloak and dressmakers’ Joint | Board, were the speakers. | of the New York Joint Boards of the furriers and the cloalsmakers, and all workers were urged to keep their due books up to date, MEETING HALLS | Booth Phones, Dey Dock 6612, 7845. Office Phone, Orchard 9319, Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM karee alls. With Stage for Meet- nes, Entertainments, Balls, -Wed- dings and Banquets; Cafeteria, 66-08 bi, 4th St, New York, N. ¥. Small Meeting Rooms Always Available. Tel. Dry Dock 8306, 8045, 2591, I. KITZIS, Prop. THE ASTORIA Palatial Ballrooms & Dining Rooms GATERING A SPECIALTY 62-64 E. 4th St. New York City, Dr, J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 2 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10149 vince where, with the help of Ameri-| Bronx, | Resolutions were passed in support) Page Three SHO PICKET, ARE BADLY TROUNCED (Shoe Workers to Meet Thursday Evening In an attempt to jgle of the shoe wor! ; }cuts and sweat shop conditions, five !vangsters in the employ of the and W. shoe factory, 441 Blake Avenue, } n, attacked and severély in- |}jured B. Hosenblatt, a picket, Satur- |day afternoon. Armed With K | | sh the strug- Hosen was* picke lof the , when the th |with k jhim. Outra There are more than eighty workers jon strike at the E, and W. shoe fac- |tory. They are determined to fight the euts that they haye | suffered recentl, Protest Wage Cut. A protest mecting against sweat hon conditions and wage cuts will be eld by the Shoe Workers’ Protective ‘Inion Saturday at the Brooklyn La- vor Lyceum, 949 Willoughby Avenue. Thursday e D. Dolan, president of the union, H, W. Wicks, general organizer, District 2 and Franceseo Coco will be among the speaker: The wretched working conditions in | | District 2 and suggestions for the im- | provement will be some of the ques- |tions discussed at the meeting. All | shoe workers are invited to attend. | | Admission is free. | Pleads for Municipal Meking a ptea tor municipal hous- ing, Norman Thomas. director of the | League for Industrial Democracy, in a letter to M blames Walker for the delav in the solution of the housine problems. “Private capital which could not or would not provide housing for the| poor under restricted profits refuses to do so on limited dividends,” he de-| clared in an attack on the new state housing la Housing conditions are worse in } York than in European cities, he | When replying to these adyertise- ments mention The DAILY WORKER. ‘ oe Fift Freiheit Jubilee SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 2nd, 1927 in | | | | | | | | { | | { | { | MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 49th Street & Sth Avenue Freiheit Gesangs Verein accompanied by | i} { | New York Symphony Orchestra will present the poem of the Russian Revolution TWELVE written by Alexander Block. Musie and Conducted by JACOB SCHAFER, JACOMO RIMINI. and SERGE! 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. ning at 8 o’clock, John| Housing; Flays Mayor | : Walker yesterday, | ‘LADIES WILL BE SOLD AT | Thousands of hats were destroyed| | the other day by a $50,000 blaze.| Some of the cone: h |damage were the |Martley Hat Company a | Ladies’ Hat Company. It is re that spring hats, wil as a result of the fire. The capmakers and m |nected with the Internat Defense will have a wide ra union le caps and hats at booths that should en: tend the bazaar at Sta nd Park Ave. i| | be very scarce iners con- their avoid upon the big fire by headgear at the bazaar securing their Union Card at New Playwright Theater to Give 15% nd fifty labor lead ers, left wing writers, and left wing One hundred artists have been invited by the New! Playwrights Theatre to see the per- formance of John Howard Lawson's | | political satire “Loud Speaker” at the 52nd Street Theatre tonight. Michael Gold, John Howard Lawson, Marion Gehring of Maeierhold’s Theatre in Moscow, and Alfred Kreymborg will talk on constructivism and the new type of drama. The audience will then be invited to join in a free-for- {all discussion. A ount of 15 per cent to buyers of tickets who show union cards at| the box office is announced RETAIL GROCERY AND Discount |: HATS OF THE LATEST AND FINEST STYLE DEFENSE BAZAAR Beckerman Will Attend Dinner Given by Boss; Talk on Collaboration The clothing m ‘acturers will have a dinner on March 23rd. A call w to all manufacturers “who to further the movement of col- gaining” with labor and the ial machinery” to Among the ad- the evening will y branch of labor the Church, the zation, and with mated Clothing ) braham Becker- on hand to induce the to combine against the » clothing industry. ave our leaders to be ¢ pow-wow of our ene- treme hunger was always i in the idea of a dog seek- ng food in an enemy camp. Of course, the meal will be a good one in this ease because the price is $7.50 per plate, and we feel sure that our lead- ers will not leave the table hungry. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Volunteers! Please report at Carnegie Hall Wednesday evening at five o’clock and at Central Opera House at seven- thirty to help ‘at Ruthenberg memorial meetings! 150 volunteers needed. labor disput speaker On the eve of our General Strike in Brooklyn we stand | with heads bowed in sorrow at the untimely passing of our Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg. DAIRY CLERKS’ UNION OF GREATER NEW YORK. 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