The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927 ARGE CROWD MAKES MERRY AT I. L. D. BAZAAR PRISONERS TO BENEFIT FROM THE RECEIPTS (Continued from. Page One) nds to fight for freedom of our ymrades, war prisoners in the bat- e against capitalism; funds to give ha to the needy ones who are left ithout support after the grim ma- aine of capitalist justice has im- risoned their breadwinner, This fact is recognized by all those resent. Gay as the colors of the ssorted goods are which have so enerously been donated by indi- iduals and labor groups, yet the ery way that one is approached by xe large staff of voluntary sales irls speaks only one language. One ars them say: “Comrade please y this or that; you know comrade at we must raise funds, that we ho are on the outside must fight or those on the inside, shut out from } ceedom by iron bars, strong iron ars of much stronger class justice o comrade, please buy.” Has Art Collection, And the comrade buys, He may ot always have need for the article, ut in buying it he helps another omrade who is in prison. Still, many hings may be bought here, at a rea- onable price, that have a rare value | nd are products of art. A beautiful eplica of Lenin’s mausoleum, finish- d in white marble. ketches and paintings by pupils rom the Afroyian School at the Jew- | go for the benefit of the Joint Board. | Wednesday as the: sh Workers University. Articles of | Workers should refuse to purchase} the A-1 Dress Shop, rattle | tickets from him”, he declared. rt and utility from a bab; |to beautiful vases, carpets and paint- | ings. The bazaar, of course, also has a splendid program of entertainment and dance for every night. The grand \final is to be staged on Sunday, | when, as a culmination of the bazaar, |the I. L. D. will also commemorate the Paris Commune, the first his- |torie achievement of a group of workers to gain control over a capi- |talist society, A grand program has |been arranged for this day and every |worker is urged to attend. | ” |“Beware of Fakers” Warns Garment Union The Joint Board of the Interna- | tional Ladies’ Garment Workers has | exposed another faker, Hyman, issued a warning to work- ers today that Rubin Bernstein, for- |merly a business agent of the Joint | Board, who went over to the Inter- | national some time ago, is attempt- | ing to collect money under false pre- tences in the shops. “Bernstein has been going into shops and representing that he is | still with the Joint Board and at- ‘tempting to sell theatre tickets for a supposed benefit for the defense fund, according to the information that has reached me”, he said. “Bern- Wonderful | stein is an agent of the International, | |and any money given to him will not ‘We Want the “lowdown” on this Theatr : boca —Let’s see the ritzy foyer— —Let’s meet the girl with the affected voice —Let’s smoke some of those free cigarettes— Harbor Allen, Dramatic Critic, Writes: Nobody before in the theatre has sold the buncombe of “art” and “European drama” to bourgeois school teachers, clubwomen, culture hounds, and dilletantes | s Almost everything the Guild produces is either | “so artistic,” or “so Russian,” or “so German, or “so French,” that there is nothing you can | Unless, of course, you want | to show how crude you are, how poor your ' The Guild shrewdly knows that above all its dilletante audience and its New York sophisticates shudder at the bogey of “poor From its ritzy foyer to its free ciga- rettes and the girl with the affected voice who ‘ peddles subscriptions during the intermission, the Gulid is working “good taste” overtime. It do but praise it. taste. taste.” brings in the mazuma. After reading that we feel as we do, after hearing an evangelist describe Hell—we want to Here’s a Wonderful Chance ATTEND THE THEATRE GUILD'S PRODUCTION George Bernard Shaw’s PYGMALION during . THE DAILY WORKER. BENEFIT WEEK March 21 to March 27 (inclusive) play may provoke you. purchased at the theatre. . ee rary s Poe bit Lien ’ drive you to tears. You may get mad at Shaw. nay) tear your hair—but anyway, you'll spend a lively g and have something to discuss when you get home. ST IMPORTANT: if you want this benefit week to bring in the mazuma to The DAILY WORKER, and also if you want choice seats, it is absolutely necessary for you to buy your tickets at least three days in advance at The DAILY WORKER of- fice, 108 East 14th Street (Stuyvesant 6584). The DAILY WORKER will not derive one cent benefit from tickets purchased less than three days in advance, or from tickets BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY Guild Daily Worker on such a grand scale. ” oe go there! | The luxury of the theatre You GANGSTERS WHO KNIFED PICKET HELD TO ANSWER | Tried to Break Strike At A-1 Dress Shop Three gangsters were held in high bail and one was refused bail by Mag- istrate Flood in Jefferson Market Court yesterday, and were bound over to the grand jury upon charges of | felonious assault against Tony Burlo and Angelo, pickets who were stab- bed near the A-1 Dress Shop, 361 West 36th Street last Wednesday. Criminal Record. 500 bail, Sam Schechter in $5,000 bail, and Sam Gold in $10,000 and Harry Liss, who is said to have a long criminal record, was refused bail. Two others arrested with them, | Isaac Robbin and Henry Morris, were discharged when attorneys for the | Joint Board said that they would not }press charges against them since | identification was not perfect and the | Joint Board had ho wish to prosecute |men who might possibly prove in- |nocent, although there were several! witnesses. Slash Face, } 5 | Burlo and Vacca were attacked on {on strike by the Joint Board because | of the discharge of a cutter who had | refused to register with the Interna- |tional. Burlo received a face wound requiring thirteen stitehds, Hearing on the injunction obtained | >y officials of Local 89 against the | Joint Board was postponed to March | 21 yesterday. Meeting Called. | The Shop Chairmen's Council, in accordance with its plan for holding | meetings in every section of the city to acquaint all the workers with the {facts in the present dispute within | the garment unions, has called a meet- jing in Brownsville, at Hopkinson | Palace on Sunday afternoon. All | workers are urged to attend. | Read The Daily Worker Every Day ey Booth Phones, Dry Dock 6612, 7845, Office Phone, Orchard -9319.° Patronize LYCEUM age for Meet- Balls, Wed- ; Cafeteris 40 New York, Small Meeting Rooms Always Available. Tel. Dry Déek 8206, 8045, 2591, I. KITZIS, Prop. THE ASTORIA Palatial Ballrooms & Dining Rooms CATERING A SPECIALTY 62-04 E. 4th St. New York City, Morris Golenback was held in $2,-| | MEETING HALLS | Mass Meeting to Defend | | | lmprisoned Cloakmakers And Furriers - Tonight A mass meeting called by the Joint Defense Committee of Cloak- | | | makers and Furriers will be held | at L-o'clock today in Cooper Union. | All workers should come to pro- | test against the sentencing of the | 16 cloakmakers and 7 furriers for | their service during strikes. ‘Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting In Brooklyn | Tomorrow Afternoon Tomorrow afternoon, at two p. m., = Ruthenberg memorial meeting will | be held at The Workers Center, 63 Liberty Ave., Brooklyn. | The speakers will include: Bert | Miller, business manager of The | DAILY WORKER; Ben Lifshitz, sec- {retary of the Jewish Bureau, Workers | Party; Anton Bimba, editor of Laisve, |Lithuanian Communist dail | Ragozin and others. Admis j Read The Daily Worker Every Day | | ° . /Acquit Striker Who Claimed His Innocence | (Continued from Page One) y were picketing | victed and sees in the acquittal of of the members of the committ , Which was called | Regan a good chance for securing a| president of the New York ¢ | reversal of the verdicts in the other | cases. | There are also several hundred }other workers, who were arrested on jone pretext or another during the } strike and are at present out on bail, | whose cases are to come up soon and |who must be defended by the union | and, those organizations helping in the defense of the Passaic strike pris- oners. For this purpose, a large sum of money will be necessary, and a cordingly, the union and its friends j plan to launch a defense drive in the | very near future to acquaint organ- lized labor with the cases of these strikers, many of whom face twenty | years in prison if convicted, in order in the task of defending these textile | workers. Building Co-operative will hold its Membership Meeting MARCH 138, 3 P. M., 143. East ,108rd, Street. All those interested in going to Russia with this group should be present at this meeting 48 there are important reports to be given. | Perse cEnee ees SSS TSS SS SSS 358855 SSS SS SSeS Fellow Workers, Comrades, and Friends: COME IN MASSES and protest against the long term imprisonment of the cloak- makers and furriers for their strike activities. Sep SATURDAY, MARCH 1 COOPER UNION, 8th St. and 3rd Ave. Among the speakers will be etoedony Sam Lipzin. Your voice of protest willbe a warning to Rosalsky and : other enemies of the working Chairman. Hyman, J. Boruchowitz, Sasha Zimmerman, Pat Devine, and ¥ COME ON TIME. JOINT DEFENSE AND RELIEF COMMITTEE CLOAKMAKERS AND FURRIERS 41 Union Sq., Room 714 cy etetetetoete 2, 1 P. Mi. Sharp at the following: Ben Gold, Louis class. teofealectenteeleefonfe efeeielrelnniees sa Setote eet New York City £ 8. BIRO, Secretary. Radios: and Victrolas 1225 FIRST AVENUE ion free. | |to enlist the support of every worker | fren and Wol 52 © WORKERS AND FARMERS THRONG TO 'm Fleht On Yorvers BUTHENBERG MEMORIAL MEETINGS | (Continued from Page One) ;Green could not recollect that any aeatinas & |charges had been made. eee 3 Turning to Woll, he asked. Many sympathizers of the Com- “Matty” Also Forgets. munist Party re ing that the death “Do you remember any charges, of Comrade Ruthenberg is a great |Matty?” And Woll could not remem- blow to the working class movement |ber any charges either. ‘of this country as well as the work In response to further questions, proletariat are joining the Workers (Communist) Party so that in their President Green said that the com- si ied three large halls — Carnegie | ®™all way they can try and fill up | mittee which had visited the Mayor— \including Green, Woll, Edward F.| Hall, Central Opera House and New th ap in the ranks. f edition went to press too early |MeGrady, Huge Frayne, John Sulli-| Star Casino, reports are coming in of . ‘ ;van and Joseph P. Ryan—had merely |Jarge meetings being held thruout |/or reports of the above mention | sukmitted a report of what had been|the country where multitudes of ™éetings, which will appear in next jgiven at the St. Petersburg, Florida,| workers and fatmers who knew Ruth- | ‘“eek’s editions. |meeting in January. |enberg and had participated with him “No charges were submitted”, said|in the working class struggle gather |Green, “inasmuch as we have no evi-|t?_P@y him their final tribute. |dence of any charges. Nothing speci- Thursday, March 10, be large mem- |fic was discussed. We simply talked orial meeting was held in Boston at lover’the report of the Joint Board jcaanbeprgea eoareeta gate | | Narita _| meetings were held in Philadelphia, ea ee pial be apeigde New Haven, and several other cities. | the police.” 7 Tonight thousands of workers will if gather in meetings. in Pittsburgh, If Mr. Green and Mr, Woll’s mem- 1 while tomorrow large gatherings will jorles were not so poor, they might/|he held in Buffalo, Los Angeles and | be able to recollect that in a state-| St, Paul. mong the c hat will | city. ment issued January 14th it was an-| hold me » Wash- - jmounced that the A. F. of L. Investi-| invton, Super-| Read The Dail, grating Committee charged that the jj ; r, V Wiscon- police had bribed by officers of ra Falls the New York Joint Buy your ticket NOW! ers were ob- Tribute to the nory of Comrade ©. E, Ruthenberg, founder and leader of the Communist movement of this country who died last week, is | paid by tens of thousands of work thruout thé country. Following closely after Wednes- day’s memorial meetings in New York, where thousands of workers City to Erect Huge State Office Building The Board of Estimate yesterday voted approval of the governors’ pro- posal to e a monumental $7,000,- 000 state of building on the north side of the new county court house, he grounds for this proposed build- y been acquired by the Worker Every Day 3oard. of other place At all these meetings appeals are one | made to join the Workers (Commun- nd/ist) Party as part of a Ruthenberg Membership Drive. At the New York Ryan Protests. January 15th, Joseph P. Ryar |Trades and Labor Counce | graphed Green protesting th jand in answer to this mes |stated that “the A. F. of L. is a re- |sponsible body and they stand by the | report.” Charges Buried. They went on to state that “t Worker Every Day NTISTS “| Read The Di DE for the NEW MASSES Anti - Ohscenity Costume Ball WEBSTER HALL 119 E. 11th Street Friday, March 18 Tickets $1.50 Now. At the Door $3.00. Tel. etly by DR, L, KESSLER N DENTIST evidence” of this graft was conta’ lin the testimony of fur work 48-50 DELANCEY STREET members of the Joint Board Cor. Eldridge St New York mediately denied that any one of them had made such statements, and jcharged that the report of the in- | vestigating committee had been made | public without ever being submitted | to the Joint Board members for cor- | rection as had been promised. | } “The statement issued today by |Green is absolutely contradictory to the statements of the 14th and 18th jof January,” said Ben Gold, manager tof the Furriers’ Joint Board when in- |formed of the DAILY WORKER'S | linterview yesterday. : | Awful Memory. “It is strange that at this time President Green should turn around | and deny that he made these charges. This proves, more than anything else, that the charge against the Joint | Tel. Lehigh Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Hours: 9:30-12 A. M, 2-8 P. M. xcept Friday and Sunday. 9 AST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. Office Dail Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE + Phone Stuyv. 10119 Room 803 By mail from NEW MASSES, Dept. W. TO OUR MUTUAL INTEREST Board is-false and constitutes a|| ria’ ieee een Gs 39 Union Square frame-up. || TU. e past 10 years, Stuyvesant 4445 “We deny every other charge in the TION FREE. statement which President Green is- | a wach ah wing dhe | sued today. And just as this police : fnion tatd. : " in A . bribe statement is false, so are all D 6 D D s] - Jimmie Higgins Book other statements made against the Pr, . ressier Store members of the Joint Board.” SURGAON DEaseet | Oth St, cor. 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