The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1927, Page 5

w Rent Tables For Greater City Show Thirty Per Cent Of Wages Go For Rent In the first artiele of the summary of The DAILY WORK- ER’S housing survey, Will de Kalb, investigator for this paper, finds that 30 per cent of the workers’ wages goes for rent. $35 is the average wage; $48 the average rental. Tomorrow he will interpret tables of wages and rentals in the borough of Man- hattan. Tables of Rents in Five Boroughs. The tables for the five boroughs of Greater New York follows: | Boroughs Wages Rents Wy WILL DE KALB Judging by the reports of other in- vestigators of the housing situation, the important pyblem of the mom- | oe pie re ent is the improvement of New Pere $238 846 York’s residental districts: This, and | waned dai $33 $49 I say it with all necessary reserve, | real $33 $88 is a most vitious fallacy. - Total $35 $43 Elimination of the slums and all} its semblances is important, P-admit. But the important problem of the moment is the reduction of rentals, and the curbing of the rent-gougers by legal means. The very condition of the majority of New York's houses makes that reduction impera- tive. Result of Landlord’s Grip. Just how high the rents really ate Concentrate a moment off that last Ine, While the average wage is only $85 a weck, the average rent is $43! Thirty-five dollars a week! Where is the prosperity the Coolidge-Mellon Publicity Bureau talks so much about? Big Difference in Russia. In Soviet Russia, the landlord is |not permitted by law to charge more ‘ ‘ 7 4. |than 10% of the workers’ wage for will be shown very shortly in a series fetit, New Yorkérs, where the class of tables. That these rentals should collaborationists like Walling, La pe reap ett cap a an | hy et al. believe, workers are capi- lobby has on the legislative author- | alists, 30% is charged. Where are ities, | : i ¥ of course, even without this para- Thirty percent of- every month’s| graph is obvious, e wages must be paid to the landlord |the workers better off. The answer, | Reginald Mason | | FOR RUTHENBERG Yorkville Casino Crowd | Expresses Grief | | | | | “| Casino last night to celebrate Inter- national Women’s Day on the birth- | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1927 _ ON WOMEN'S DAY ‘Beckerman Asics CALIFORNIA BUYS EXECUTIVES TO ‘EXPRESS REGARD Cops to Break $7000 BONDS OF BE ELECTED BY | The workers who filled Yorkville | Can’t Keep Shop Working Page Five Kulok Strike © GARMENT UNION NL Y. SECTIONS Work at Sigman Unable to Fool Will Review ‘Amalgamated Reactionaries Western Toilers Conferences As a result of iia sit to coast The election of the new Section cities of Julius Por secretary of Executive Committee and a r w of bond strik " the Union” ali- the work of the past six months will lauy ‘i mbourg, passed a| .“ one hundred percent strike was |1"¢ av’ bh et > 3 i f ws | pay ath ise ee Rs Heaths of | affected again yesterday in the shop |formia ju urded, subscriptions feature the section conference to . | |Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg,|f M. Kulok at 39 Eldridge Street, for bonds to t ount of $7,000, ac rourhout the weck of Mare i | Ree ney vl we * vording to a message received. by tele. ding to a statement isened | |whose ashes, just previous to the | where issue yt! ay ethan Behe ate |graph from Max Levine, who is work hel, district organizer. | for severa ollowi e ate ph from M evine, s work- |); rel, district i opening of the meeting, had been| [ot several aye at Bort ‘of. the ing for the bond issue in the west. Reports by the district committee The resolution states, that | “Whereas, the death of Charles E. brought to New York from Chicago, tempt of the Joint Board of the | Amalgamatéd Clothing Workers to fill the places of. those who struck entative and by the section or- Despite International. f as well as the election of x this latest contribu- In announci Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers | last week. tion from Califorr Weiss, who is utive an hearbepai scheduled | (Communist) Party, has deprived the) Part of the latest set of workers |in charge of the bond issue, said that |* ction agile ee Who plays Henry Higgins in The| Workers of America and the Interna-|in this shop had already come out it had been subscribed by “friends of attention will be given to | DAILY WORKER'S Benefit Show of | tional working class of a great lead- | “Pygmalion,” jer; ‘ * | “And whereas, the working women Pie . |Reginald Mason to Play |tament the loss of one who was 80 i 5 s \active in their behalf, and who was ‘Big Role in Pygmalion; | outstanding in his advocacy of the) Daily Worker Benefit winning of the working class women | ¢og pai | for the class struggle, and the uniting | of the men and women of the working \elass in the common fight for eman- ing. | To see “Pygmalion” will be triple |treat to the readers of The DAILY ti | WORKER who expect to attend this | ¢ipation. ‘ ; | Theatre Guild show during the week | .“Therefore, be it resolved that this jof March 21 to 27, at the Guild’s own | meeting at the Yorkville Casino on \threatre on West 52nd Street. | International Women’s Day expresses as | You may not agree with Bernard | its deep grief at the loss of Comrade | its sympathy to the) |Shaw’s turns of philosophy in his well- | Ruthenberg, c |known comedy-satire, but you will dis- | Workers (Communist) Party in the ‘loss of its leader, and its determina- before yesterday, but at two o'clock | the cloak in the afternoon the balance of the peated efforts of the International to workers jof Amerita have special reason to| Manhattan Lyceum for a shop meet- the workers back. i “Who wants to go to work? Any-|Joint Bo | one who wants to go back to the shop | locals and the publi- factory cation of shop and street bulletins, nk campaigns cers in spite of the re- Comrade prop and disey the section organizer’s report, Stachel announced. Agit- ndustrial activities will be after the presentation of went to/ hinder the campaign. walked out and Thousands To Come. California has contributed a total Call Out Police. of $18,000 for b since the issue of i ana’ ot © th When the news spread to the of-| $250,000 was unced. Of the + in ee es Pe pies ve gee of the Amalgamated, they rush-| Present sum, $5,000 was sent from ferendes are os f0 ed to the city’s industrial squad for San Dieg« 000 from Los An-| °& tH FE. oy te help, and these officers came down | feles, Weis ig nw $s h 30 to Manhattan Lyceum to try to send Bonds Guaranteed. prigagt arP iso wry : p. m., 100 West 28t Section -Thur Dp. m., 100 W h Street. Section 4—Frid: March 18, 8 t 110th Street. The bond issue ° ee hi March presse go on now”, : union. they said. Cops Phone Joint Board. by every New York wage-earner, figures I secured during the survey showed. He earns only $140 a month, or $35 a week. $43 must be paid to the rent-gouging landlord out of the $140 every month. Nothing For Education or Recreation But ‘this is not the most startling |C°Ve? 2 charm of its own. One does fact I found. Toriorrow, and in the | 2° have to be a perfervid admirer of succeeding days, a series of shockers | ‘Pe @rish author to go into ecstacies | tion to intensify its efforts for the | building up of a movement among the | working class women in which Com- ee ee Tuesday, March 15, 8 But no one answered this call, and| and $500; r/ p.m. 1347 Boston Road finally the squad phoned the Joint|cent, and wi Section 6—Wednesd: March 16, Board for help and A. Moscow the| Some organiz 8 and shops have|7 p. m., 20 Graham Avenue, Brook- well-known business agent, and his| bought bonds which they have pre- /lyn, IRK March 14, 8 will be placed upon record, Let us hope Assemblyman Jenks subscribes to The DAILY WORKER. | over some of the humor in “Pygma- {lion.” The skilled Shavian workman- \ship is marked all through the five } acts—it could not otherwise because, {while there is no one exactly whose , famous friend “Frenchy” the gang-| sented to The DAILY V R, thus jrade Ruthenberg took such an active | ster, came and took the shop to ajaiding both cloakmakers and. the part. ...| Meeting at the Joint Board office. | newspaper. x “The working women of America} The strike in the Ku'ok shop was| Section 7—Monday, , 1940 Benson Avenue, Brook- Since thirty percent of his wages alone must go ‘out for rent, and food | CITY T0 BUILD and clothing costs are proportionally | as highy how much does the New| SUBWAY TUNNEL DESPITE B.-M. T. Yorker have left for education, for, betterment of mind or body? H How can he secure any recreation for his family? Millions of dollars are spent yearly on Broadway, in| night-clubs, restaurants and theatres but unless the worker gets a corner on the exploitation of his fellows, he must do without. Appropriation | Despite protests from B. M. T. ' Read The Daily Worker Every Day |magnates, the hoard of estimate | Yoted Monday to appropriate $10,- | 600,000 for the construction of the | D8rd street Queens subway tunnel. } Tools of B. M, T. | The appropriation was attacked by |Henty Curran, representing the City 'Club;’ Stewart Browne, president of | the United Real Estate Owners’ As- | sociation, and E. W. Estes, manag- ing director of the Central ‘Park | West Association. | Exposing the Central Park West jand the Columbus Avenue Associa- | tions as tools of the B. M. T., incor- porated by Travis Whitney, subway magnate, John H. Delaney, chairman }of the board of transportation, in- |timated that the B. M. T, was back |of the opposition to the appropria- | tion. | way tunnel at 59th street. j Need For Tunnel. | Branding as a lie the statement | that the B. M. T. tunnel is operated to a third of its capacity, Delaney pointed out the need for the proposed | tunnel, Moré than 1,000 men and women Don’t Do It! ! It's Awful Dumb ! ! What? Why, to pay three Iron Men For something you can get For $1.50. Do you remember How sore, it made you Last time? And how you vowed Never to do it again? The New Masses’ ‘ Anti-Obscenity Costume Ball Will bust loose On March 18th, 9:30 At Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th Street. Tickets are $1.50 NOW BUT $3.00 at the door. At the last Ball train Monday, when a sltort circuit BILL GROPPER iE ebsine fifty feet from the Hoyt } Said to me, Street station, Brooklyn. “Gosh, every live guy, male or || The subway train had just ieft otherwise - |the Hoyt Street station when a fire I’ve met in the past ten years Is here tonight With his friends.” They’re all coming again to The Anti-Obscenity Ball. | Started. Clouds of smoke filled the | tunnel, badly frightening the passen- | gers. Service between Brooklyn and | Manhattan was interrupted fog fifty | minutes. So come Sees Tet dened * | MEETING HALLS On your Enemies’ ° eee Abalsbaine ‘| Toes. MANHATTAN LYCEUM Larke Halls With Stage for Meet- If you’re out of Friends You'll find plenty at the ball. And if you have no Enemies Step on our toes. We're used to it. ings, Entertainments, d Banquets; Cafeteria. 66-08 BH. 4th St. New York, N. ¥. Smalt ney oo Rooms Always vailable, Balls, Wed- And buy your tickets RIGHT NOW At NEW MASSES 89 Union Square Stuyvesant 4445 < or at Jimmie Higgins Book Store 127 University Place. Tel. Dry Dock $806, 8045, 2591, I. KITZI8, Prop, i THE ASTORIA Palatial Balltooms & Dining Rooms CATERING A SPECIALTY 62-04 K. 4th Sf New York City, "| SAVE THIS VALUABLE PRIZE COUPON Copy of Red Ca#teons of 1927, Worth $1.00 xor 50 Cents With 50 of These Coupons | A wae CUT THIS OUT AND SAVE IT. - } | RED CARTOONS OF 1927 is even a finer collection of the most regent cartoons of the well-known labor artists—Robert _ Minor, Fred Ellis, K, A. Suvanto, Art Young, Hay Bales, Jerger, Vose and others. Each picture is large enough to be framed and mounted. The book includes in all $4 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 WORKER \Traction Kings Fight .| ing actors to see in what respect they | The B. M. T. operates a sub-/| | Were trapped in an I. R. T. express, pointed ways of writing things have convulsed a part. of the world from |time to time. struggle.” Having settled down to see “Pygma- \Gvectia, Remap Sgr Met ieee | , sky, J. lion,” the next thought is that of the | vf | |east. The Theatre Guild picks its men E>. irae) pie 2 eh gear pian and women with great care, and the l¢haitman, |consequence is that the parts are al- | . jways eapably handled. Having the} for into shape, the average patron will) then pick one or more of several lead- merit honors which come to them. | The play does not proceed far be- | |fore one begins to. pay particular at- | | tention to Reginald Mason, wko plays | ‘one of the principal roles—Henry Hig- gins. A renowed, finished actor, and \like all who take their profession seri- ously he strives and succeeds in put- | ting every ounce of his being into the | part. There are no-half way measures | jin what he does. Mr. Mason sets out | i |to acheive a certain effect and he|the Kaufman regime scores brilliantly. THUGS THREATEN | the Have Bad Records in the | Pen-Men Take Notice. jing. There were about 15 of ex-| ALBANY, N. Y., March 8.—Writ- | °°*°"° rien aks 5 , ing a fradulent check would be made bg Pa ere oer & misdemeanor undera bill passed | verat others had. been hit-with lead | | by_the assembly. Under the Present | vines, “Walter,” “Plitt” and Alex! | law the issuance of a fradulent cheek | pried were ‘arrested. In Jefferson | ; with intent: to obtain money ts de-i sees Court they were held under | | fined \as- attempted: Incceny. |$2.500 each on charges of felonious | assault, and their cases will be heard | on March 14th. | Patrolmen Indicted for Graft. Patrolmen Francis J. Graff and Gangsters Known. Arthur Rhodes, hoth attached to the! ‘These gangsters were well known | Richmond Hill police station, today as former members of the right! stand indicted by the Queens County | wing's organization committee which |Grand Jury, Long Island City, on) the progressives drove out of the! ‘charges of accepting bribes. union. “Plitt” is known also as a! | fined $50 by the Joint Board because | Among the speakers who addressed |}, attended a left wing meetin; i# Several others who came out onj Leona Smith acted asj| ‘trike with him were also fined, and Board of the union has ben sending |up one set of workers after another le A ‘ sett peat hae§ ag, 4 with, - fine FUR WORKERS D0 | only to have them come out on strike a |eompany to make the most of ma- | when they learn what had h |terial which he has whipped deftly | | . mnt? 4 there. See Picketing of this: shop will con- P NOT REGISTER 1 | sno every day, and members of the © 5 Amalgamated Ciothing Workers are + urged to help in this fight to pro- tect their fellow-workers. | The Arrested Guerillas Al} | Dentechlana inbound; with 1,060 pas- + sengers on board, went aground in fog which hung over the harbor and | All the old familiar gangsters of | city. r : fur | Power the giant liner was refloated | | workers’ uniop, were out in-full force | and proceeded to her pier undam-j| @, H ichbameababieiatten: ‘in the fur market yesterday morn- | #2 | President Kaufman's well-known slug-;| Tel. Orchard 3783 Cor. Eldridge St. | Tel. Lehigh 6022. D Office Hours: $:30-12 A, M. 2-8 P.M. Daily Except Friday and § Cor. Second Ave. ee Come neta ale tm wacky ano afer M. Lite) MF hae eee eo te ch eee ce eee eb eh eX their cause, and comrade in their|man had been taken off his job anc g. Always Strike. WHAT Is A Copper’s Nark ? The Note Taker (with quick interest)—What is a copper’s natk? The Bystander (inapt at defi- nition )—It’s a—well it’s a cop- per’s nark, as you might say. If You Really Want To Know —and who wouldn’t? Attend The Theatre Guild’s Production of the past two weeks the Joint eebet + td t + Liner | Giant Liner Aground Hamburg American & lower bay today in a thick misty Aided by two tugs and her own | < + Strietly by Appointment DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET New York George Bernard Shaw’s PYGMALION during The DAILY WORKER benefit week, beginning March 21st. See one of the most mirth provoking com- edies of the current season, learn what a copper’s nark is, and help The DAILY WORKER all in the same eve- Rr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST 249 EAST 115th STF a 'seab during the last strike, and Fried | Hold Six Men for 50 Robberies. has a lengthy criminal record not only | Six men are under indictment to-|in New York but | day returned by the Queens County cities. One of the gangsters who es- Grand Jury, Long Island City. They | caped arrest was Moe Passman, whose — are alleged to have confessed to fifty record includes service as a seab | | | robberies in’ Queens and Brooklyn, | agent during the Chicago strike. | With such assistants the breakers begin their campaign. union- They | PRINCETON, N: J., March 8.— | The student suicide wave claimed an- ‘other victim today when Bruce F. : | Wilson, 20, of Louisville, Ky,, sopho- |Surrounding them they try to force | more at Princeton University, killed |them to the new International head- | <$ |himself in his room at Hamilton Hall| Quarters. Guns and lead pipes are | i ‘ i flourished openly; but the workers) Gar arn tiie Hien Sane, are refusing to be terrorized and they | will not register. | The “ten cent union,” as the work- | ers call the right wing office, is filled | with flowers just like a newly opened | business venture. But their success) horseshoes and wreathes have not) brought them any union members. The “Dissolvers.” It was announced yesterday that the Provisional Committee which will have charge of “dissolving” the fur workers’ union consists of Edward | McGardy, Hugh Frayne and Matthew Woll, representing the A. F. of L.; |Oizer Schachtman, Isaac Wohl, and) Moe Harris, representing the Inter- national Fur Workers’ Union; and H. Schlissel, S. Merkin and H. Begoon representing “the rank and file.” This bunch is going to organize a_ | japan pai BOUND BROOK, N. J., March 8.— Leo Merk and Raymond Post, both of Floral Park, N, J. were killed when a Central Railroad of New Jer- sey train struck an automobile in which they were riding on a grade jes there late last night. 1 Bonnaz Embroiderers’ Union 7 UE. 15th St. Tel. Stuy, 4270-2057 Executive Board Meets Every Tues- day. Membership Meetings—2nd and last Thursday of Each Mont || George Triestman 4%, L, Freedman |] > Manatees satenerendent. new Joint Board so they Say. | arr: ale y | geatetary aS Meeting Tomorrow. | As part of the campaign to mobilize the fur workers against this at- tempted terrorism of the gangsters, and to maintain union conditions in the shops, the New York Joint Board has called a meeting in Cooper Union, on Thursday, March 10th, right after work, Window Cleaners’ Protective Union—Local 8 Local & with the AcE, of Ly Oth St, New York, dand 4th Thursday of onth at 7 P, ners, Join Your Union! pe he ch aoe edad eae ao ee ae ob ae abe ob ae of ce a ce Affiliated 217 B. Meets eve eue Window Clea Train Kills Twe ALBANY, N. Y., March 8.—After. passing the Antin bill increasing the salaries of six children’s court judges in New York City from $12,000 to $17,500 a year, the senate today re- considered its vote and restored the Advertise your union meetings | here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept, 33 First Street New York, N. Y. 88 First Bt, New York City. |] pil to the calendar for action next Monday night, ettetetes in other large|| Dr. J. Mindel | Room 803 i ie cure sh st night ant ater REPLEAAALAAAAL LALLA ALAA LAA h abe HH Be ee ee Se oo EB EE Se eH ning. The chances are you won't agree with Shaw, but you'll have an enjoyable evening just the same. Make reservations immediately at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East 14th Street (Stuyvesant 6584). Stand- ard Guild prices. 4 LEE EEE PEER EEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEE Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Phone Stuyv. 10119 LESSEE SESE SESE SEH International Labor Defense ANNUAL BAZAAR To Aid Political Prisoners "priday OPENS =| stene Saturd ibiti sy | TOMORROW | "0, MARCH 10-11-12-13 8 P.M. 4 BIG DAYS Dancing Every Night 4 BIG DAYS STAR CASINO 107th Sirect and Park Avenue TICKETS FOR SALE AT: I. L. D. 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