The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1927, Page 2

sem. Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1927 | | WINDY GITY [S IN WHIRLWIND OF EXCITEMENT Red Revel to Greet} New York Visitors CHICAGO, March 14.—Despite the} absence of The DAILY WORKER editorial staff, the Workers (Commu- nist) Party has decided to go ahead with its annual Red Revel, the prin- cipal social event in this city so far as radicals are concerned, . , e On next Saturday evening Mirror avenue | Hall, 1186 North Western will be the scene of this gala event which has broken all records for gaiety in this devastating c! Broke History and Other ings. The Red Revel first broke into his- tory five years ago. Its object was to keep the home fires burning in the district office. In these ancient days our technique was crude and attempts to provide the customers with an unusual spectacle did not al- ways pan out as the cu ers @x- pected they would. For instance: A co: tee of three was appointed to devise a mid- night surprise. It was an intelligent committee composed of Hans Peter- HE This is a photograph of a promin- ent revelier who spent all his money | at the lunch counter and absent- mindedly took a taxi home. When the driver learned that his fare had no money he dropped him in a vacant | lot in the condition you see him in. With the aid of a pair of dumb bells and inspired by 2 mental picture we see the gay citizen Gomez. O'Flaherty was in charge! f the publici Peterson was in arge of the stage and Gomez was commissioned to bring the surprise along. When it came the customers} fled, including Peterson and O’Fla- herty. to the stage with hands on eyes, but like Mark Twain while watching the ‘an-can dancers, most of them lopked hru their fingers. Gomez never got on such a committee again and O'Flaherty, and Peterson had a tough time retrieving their reputa- tions. Nevertheless the Red Revel was made by the incident. Even the Danes and the Finns attended the following Revel. The Exiles May Return. According to Arne Swabeck the following New Yorkers will be in at¢ tendance if they can get away from their duties in the Metropolis: Wil- iam Foster, James P. Cannon and Jay Lovestone. Th ys are getting homesick and would like to have an- other look at Chicago before they William F, Dunne and Louis J. dahl are resigned to their fate editcegs should. As for T. J. O’Fla- herty he will be obliged to enjoy the Red Revel by the exercise of a lively imagination and is looking forward to.the day when the DAILY WORK- ER grows wheels as well as wings If the Red Revel is a financial as well as a social success there is some talk of bringing the arrangements committee to New York to teach the Gothamites a thing or two about staging Revels, Read The Daily Worker Every Day jit simply wanders until it catches o! y, tho the guests retreated face/|s Roving Oyster Unlike Rolling Stone Hangs On To Whatever He Grabs WASHINGTON, March 14,—Still) ni of the treg-climbing fish, sought by former Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, the bureau of fisheries today testified to the success | of eysters grown on birch trees. The latest marvel of science, the bereau reveals, furnishes a solution to one of the most problems of oyster industry—the t on-committal on the generic question | recently troublesome | | Danger in Numbers. | | By ROBERT MITCHELL, The device of making the local meet- | z (To Be Continued). ‘ings as uninteresting as possible may Some of the methods employed by |be illustrated by a rather amusing | | the company union have already been | example from the experience of the! suggested. It is necessary to pre-| Station Department Local. Several) sent the most typical examples in| years ago the men of this local de-| clearer form. | veloped an unexpeeted streak of mili-| | | high infant mortality rate due to the diminishing natural oyster beds. The life of the young oyster is e point of tragedy, for al sets out on its own, carefree t¢ once the to something. Having once made a nm, it still grows, develops a , and thrives. Y PAINTERS ON GRAFT CHARGES New Investigation to be Used to Prosecute By FRED HARPIS. There have be up to the present ‘$ac,. two separate investigations twto the graft charges against Phillip Beusner and Charles Koenig, former officials of the New York District Council of Painters. Both reports stow a shortage of the treasury nds, both admit that robberies have taken place, and yet no legal action can be taken aginst the cul- prits until a third investigation has! been made. This ‘is likely to take about three months but will give the| necessary legal weapon to place into | the hands of the district attorney, who will then be requesetd to prose- cute the grafters in’ court. Report Shows Shortage. It is plain now that it is easier to | catch a grafter than to send him to jail. Especially is this true where the delinguents enjoy the protection of high office holders, and are per- 5 | mitted to obstruct a thoro and legal procedure. The first investigation referred to above was made at the request of local painters union 905 by the ac-| counting firm Falk,’Dvorkin & Co. report of this investigation a deficit of $36,000 and/ incriminates Phillip Zaus- | ner, secretary; Charles Koenig, fin- ancial secretary; William Hartley, treasurer well as the trustees and the official auditor, as being respon- sible for misappropriation of «the | council funds. Report Not Legal. However, this report was made by an t of the councils minutes, since the official books had been con- fiseated by the general executive board and taken with them to In- diana, the headquarters of the broth- erhood. The explanation made for this action was that headquarters was going to make a thoro investi- gation and needed the books. The actual reason for moving the books out of the state, however, was mo- tivated by trying to forestall and prevent an investigation by the in- surgents. Being unable to get the hooks, the investigation was made by the minutes,of the meetings. Since however such an investigation is not recognized by the court as legal evi- dence, this report can therefore not be made used for immediate action. Doyle Shields Grafters. The second investigation made by Mr. Doyle at the request of the gen- eral executive board, is incomplete, | to union affairs, Dan saw a good op- | Rebert W. Dunn, author of the out-| Queens to Times Square was started | The genvral policy of the company tancy, This, naturally, worried the, junion is to maintain a very definite | company not a little, Quite by ac-| hold on the men in order that they cident, however, some of the men in- may be prevented from attempting | troduced the game of “‘crap-shooting” | other forms of real organization, but| a+ one of the meetings. The practice it the same time to conduct the af-| became so diverting that more arid | ‘airs of the company union so as to|mcre of the men began to take part. | | provide the men with the mininium| Grievances were lost sight of in the of organized power. Care is always) fascination of watching the rolling) |taken that the men shall not become! bones, Likewise the new interest be-| too active in their locals. Men, who! gan to pack attendance into the meet- come too regularly to their meetings | ings which before this could hardly | are dangerous to the officials whether | master sufficient men for a quorum., these officials are the owners of a| When the numbers became too large traction corporation or the heads of} fur sofety, the craer was issued pro- some of the typical, reactionary la-|hibiting the game at ‘the meetings. | bor organizations. Ask any of the| The attendance again fell off to the! A. F. of L, right wing bureaucrats! /earfier small numbers but in the | They will testify that wherever| meantime the men had been tenipor- workers come together, there is the |arily at least, diverted from their} place of their power. earlier demands. Dull Meetings the Rule. “ne! H y As a result of this insight the com: aes: Organize the Traction Workers ARTICLE V. THE COMPANY UNION—UNDERHAND METHODS CURRENT EVENTS | (Continued from Page One) | | Jews for the honor of. being the first | to lay the doughty anti-Semite by the | | heel. Sapiro, a millionaire attorney | | of Chicago, was first over the wire. | “Well, you see, Ed., it’s your meet-| Right behind him is Morris Gest, the | ings’ I'm complaining about, your) famous theatrical producer. Those | men are too radical.” | gentlemen are out to protect the dig- | “Radical, Hell! , If they were half! nity and honor of the Hebrew race. | as radical as your conditions are! We-do not care who licks Ford but it | making them, they would have walk-| occurs to us that those defenders of | ed out on you long ago.” Judaism do not display such enviable | “That's a pretty strange way for) devotion to their race when Jewish | delegate to be talking, Ed.” | tailors are getting walloped on the “T'm taking the vart of my men.| head by Tammany Hall, policemen, What's the, business of a delogate,! while striking against Jewish manu- anyway?” | facturers, or when they get sent to Boss Wants Quiet. |Sing Sing by a Jewish judge. “That’s what you don’t seem to} . @ 8 | understand. The business of a aged (ake section of the Irish republican | gate is to quiet his men down, to} movement headed by Eamon De keep them from getting out of con-! Valera may not march on its belly trol.” but it certainly does not travel on its “You're entirely mistaken, 2s far I| brains, Last night divers politicians, am eoncerned, That's what Paddy|lawyers and clergymen gave this | Connolly may understand to be the! gentleman a reception in Carnegie | business of a delegate. But you've| Wall. A group of Irish Workers Re- got me wrong, Mr. Keegan.” publicans indirectly solicited permis- “Well, Ed. a committee of ycur)|sion to sell a pamphlet oalled “Jim | men has complained to me about you| Connolly and Irish Freedom” at the | and we will have to take some ac- | meeting. tion,” \literature would he distributed there, | “That sounds pretty ‘fishy’ to me.|that the De Valeraites would have There are no such men in our local.|noné. Those blind leaders of/ the You had better come clean, Mr. Kee-|dumb are as much afraid of an en-| a |gan, wasn’t the man Paddy Con-| lightened rank and file as was the |, WOMAN'S COLUMN, WOMEN’S DAY T0 BE HELD YEARLY © INST.PAUL,MINN, Auxiliary of Machinists Union So Decides (Srecial to The DAILY WORKER.) ST. PAUL, Minn., Mareh 14.—At the regular monthly business meet- ing of the auxiliary to the Machin-” ists’ Unién, held March 8 at the La- bor Temple, the members went on record in support of International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day will be celebrated by the auxiliary at its meeting on the second Tuesday of March each year, as this day om just before or after the 8th. T! meeting will be open and invitations nre extended to all women in St. They were told that no | p, An effort will be made to have the very best speakers available for this occasion to speak on the significance of International Women’s. Day, with he aim of bringing all women into pary sought to make the company | union meetings as listless and unin- teresting as possible. It was no dif- ficult task to accomplish this mis- sion. The locals have very little besiness to transact beyond listening to dry, meaningless reports of visits made to “sick” brothers by their dele- gates who seek by the reports of such activities to raise themselves in the estimation of their men. Occasionally there are reports of the great successes achieved by the same company tools in securing the cancellation of a suspension imposed upon an offender. The method of using the company union as the agency to “straighten” out all petty difficulties is an old device of the In- terborough, particularly used since the last strike. The mep are, of course, fully aware of the superfi- cial trick. They know, too, that} minor offenses receive usually about} twice the ordinary punishment in or-/| der that the company union may be able to intervene in behalf of the men and secure the cancellation of} a day or’two of the sentence, It is| also well known that the company union is entirely helpless in the case | of more serious offenses and in} those cases there is absolutely no protection for the men against the unfair discrimination of the com- pany. ‘BUSY’ BUSINESS AGENT MAKES A MERE *132 PAY As Unemployed Hunt Jobs, He Loafs While more than 200 members of his local are walking the streets looking for work, Dan Herrick, busi- ness agent of Local 28, Pressmens’ Union, who receives wages of $77 a week from the union, took advantage | of an opportunity of making some) extra money at the expense of some unemployed member of the union. | Two weeks ago the Federal Print-| ing Co., 239 West 39th St., called up| the union office and requested that | they send one man for night work. | As he does not devote much time} No less interesting, even if not so amusing, is an example of how the company works directly to surpress the men by means of its tool, the ; company union, Ta the case of locals in which the men become over militant, steps are always taken to subdue them. The vrit which has always had the great- est reputation for militancy is the Motormen's and Switchmen’s local, the leading group in the recent strike. On one occasion when the situation became dangerous, it was decided to get vid of Ed. Lavin, fighting leader of this local and the plan was de- nolly ?” | | “Well, if you must know, then it} was!” Local Hears Story. Lavin reported the whole matter} to his local at the next meeting. He \did not, howeyer, feel like exposing ; | Paddy Connolly so mercilessly. The; men, nevertheless, suspected Paddy | ‘since they knew very well that there | jhad been no committee from the lo- ‘eal to complain about Ed. Seeing the} sentiment of the men, Paddy Con-j{ nolly denied that he had been mixed | |up in the plot. The men insisted on | seeing the matter through and when! Catholic church in the middle ages, | js th i y t A movement that starves the brains | ‘he trade union movement to help ¢ ite followers is hopelasd, their husbands, children and them- . ; a“ ia jselves toward better living condi- | tions. RESIDENT BORNO of Haiti re- At the previous meeting of this fused permission to Senator King) auxiliary a resolution was passed of Utah to enter the republic on the | and sent to the national office in pro- round that he was “undesirable.” It test against the invasion of Nicara- appens that the senator has on more | gua, the threats against Mexico, and than one occasion exposed the role | intervention in China, Played by the United States in Haiti) ‘The national office of the auxil- and branded Borno as a puppet of iary has outlined an educational pro- the state department, a prototype of | gram for its members, and St. Paul the Nicaraguan Diaz. Haiti is a8 | wil) also participate in this, realizing much part of the American empire |that women must understand her re- as Coney Island. The United States | tations to industry and the trade vised to have a complaint of disloyal- |p, Lavin faced Keegan with his own | Senate has indeed fallen on evil days | union movement before she can help company union through Paddy Con- nolly its president. Ed Lavin was summoned before Mr. George Kee- |gan, the vice-president of the com- pany. ‘ Lavin Speaks Up, |ty registered against him by the’ statement, the great vice-president of | When one of its members ‘ean be re- | the Interborough hedged from his | Position: “That wasn’t quite the way |t said it, Ed.” 1 | ~*~ Workers Not Fooled. | | But the workers were not deceived | \ by such underhand tactics. Every- Almost everyone on the road has one understood what had been at-| by now heard the story which is var-| tempted. iously reported as follows: “Now, Ed.”, began Mr. Keegan, “I| both proved to be cowards and liars |the Pionéers. The only result was that | Keegan and Paddy Connolly were} othe «| in the fight for emancipatio i fused permission to enter part of his | slavery captains. a aaNet, patrimony with the sanction. of his | own government. { FRR Ee |Plan Organization | of New Jersey Workers at ‘Women’s Work at Party Ruthenberg Memorial Conference Wednesday. (Continued from Page One) * | a Plans) for the organization of wo- Five policemen were | men’s work will be mapped out at a have been receiving bad reports and that Connolly was shown up in| present but there was no disturbance: | conference of the housewife-members ‘about you and your men”. “What’s the matter Mr. Keegan, aren’t the trains running alright? “Yes, yes, well, er—” | his true light as a company tool and} betrayer of his men. | | In the next election, Ed. Lavin was} | elected by the largest majority ever! Other Meetings. of the Workers (Communist) Party Yesterday a meeting was held at! at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66, East Utica, N. Y., while tonight hundreds | 4th Street, Wednesday evening. of workers will gather at memorial | Section organizers for women’s “We show up on time, keep to tae received by any delegate in the local, | meetings at Schenectady, N. ¥., Lu- | work will present reports, which will schedule, send in regular reports’ They were afraid this time to steal | zerne, Pa., Superior, Wis. and several | he followed by a discussion of meth- 0, X27" the election from him. | | FURRIER WRITES FROM LOS ANGELES TO SEND TAX ANB CALLS EXPULSION A SHAMEFUL ‘ACT. The ridiculous charges of right wing International Fur Woykers of- ficials that*the twenty-five dollar tax recently voted by all locals was in- flicted by force upon an unwilling membership, is again effectively re- futed by an interesting letter which reached the Joint Board yesterday from the Pacific Coast. Calls It Shameful. 2328 Brooklyn Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal., March 10, 1927. New York Joint Board Furriers Union 22 East 22d Street, New York. Dear Brothers: The expulsion of the Joint Board by the International is a shameful act. I, an old member of Local 5, Ledger No. 5555, who took a transfer to Local 45 (Chicago) in| 1925, and now, on account of my/ health am in Los Angeles, California, | consider myself ideologically still a member of Local 5, New York Joint Board. Sends Tax. Therefore, I enclose $25 per capita tax, which was unanimourly voted for by the last local meetings. Your fight will be a sifecessful one | | because you are fighting for the right cause, Long live the pioneers of the 40-| hour week in the United States! | With brotherly and © comradely | greetings, I remain, Yours, MAX SAFIER. Robert Dunn to Give Lectures on American Foreign Investments but nevertheless finds a shortage of | portunity to make some extra money. | standing work on American Foreign 200. It further demands that the | The wages of a pressman is $55 p/| Investment, will give a course of ancil agree to settle the case out-| week and when you add the $77 that | three lectures at the Workers School side of the court by accepting 50/he obtains from the union you get|on three Wednesday evenings, begin- cents on the dollar for the total sum | $132 a week, which is not bad for aj ning March 16, on the subject dealt |had terminated at Grand Central and ng. This report was rejected | trade unionist! the. council as being incomplete} After working there as a press-| with in his book. The course aims at a survey of and not acceptable as a whole. Can Not Explain Deposit. Doyle’s report stops at the end of August, when he had instrutcions to audit the books up to the date of | at the next meeting of the local, to}abroad at the rate of a billion a year,' of the I, R. Oct. 31, The reason for the sudden |man for one week, Dan was discov- | the new position of the United States |ered and was removed from the job in the role of the great oveditor na- |and suspended from the union. | tion of the world, Dunn will tell | He will be brought up on charges how this country now invests money | be held this Friday evening. |and what it means financially and ‘Times Square to Queens Subway Opens Through subway service from | yesterday with thé opening of the new tg Square Queensboro tube sta- ton. Heretofore Queensboro tube service residents of Queens who wished to get over to the West Side had to utilize the shuttle. The new service will save them much delay. | Mayor Walker, and other city of- | ficials, and Frank Hedley, president T. were the principal other baer Peis Wink lods and plans for the organization beste tage becg ie dag ‘of women. All section organizers The following meetings ill be held and housewives who are party. mem- this ie PS Re a | bers are urged to attend. Schenectady, N. Y., March 15th. | Albany, N. ¥., March 16th, Sons | of Italy Hall, 120 Madison Avenue. | Troy, N. Y., March 17th. Binghamton, N. Y., March 18th. Jamestown, N. Y., March 19th. Ithaca, N. Y.. March 19th. Niagara Falls, N. Y., March 20th> Newark Meeting. New: Friday, March Markoff. Montgomery Hall. Washington Meeting. } Washington, D. C,, Monday, March | 21st. H aes Sa Messages Still Arrive. | Messages on the death of Comrade |f C. E., Ruthenbere are still afriving | at The DAILY WORKER office. | | Ellis Chryssos, Denver, Colo., writes |that he cannot believe that “C. E. is | | dead.” B. Akerson, Little Falls, Minn, | writes that Ruthenberg “gave his life |for the oppressed class.” | | Nucleus 21, of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party, Toledo, Ohio, has | ff adopted a resolution pledging them- | selves to carry out the last words | of Comrade Ruthenbérg, “by closing | our ranks and building a stronger | Communist Party and a larger cir- culation of ur party organ, e DAILY WORKER.” | Mansfield, Ohio, branch of the | Workers (Communist) Party, John 1g, A] SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 2nd, 1927 MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 49th Street & 8th Avenue Dekell, secretary, pledges to carry on. Fired Film Star Sues Boss. Claiming ‘damages of $53,000, Hope Hampton, film star, is scheduled to appear in court here against Charles | speakers at a luncheon yester’ay af- Dillingham and Martin Beck, theatri- _ Freiheit Gesangs Verein accompanied. by. | ston is, that during the month of | September an investigation was al- | ready feared by Zausner, Koenig & | — volitieally, He willl doseribe the ef- | ternoon immediately following the op- Harry Kemp's Divorce. ‘tects of this deluge of dollars upon | eration of the first train to the new \the countries so “favored”. * | Station. 3 ‘ Harry Kemp, Greenwich Village | Co., which promvted them to deposit | bs Oop y »| The role played by banks and cor-| . paghy author, af «Sea iping oly Ate 'porations in these investment trans- | during the month of September the &: 4 sym of $12,000 with the treasury at | Sean pedi tee the totes ctions, the effect of the growth of | the council. } 5 ide ! imperialism upon the American peo-| Headquarters Submit Books. pei einaitay st bobo, b plnitly bis] | ple, 2s well as upon the people of the) ee | . 4 industrially backward countries in| A vigorous demand by the major- which the investments are made, and | + New York Symphony * Orchestra will present the poem of the Russian Revolution po inersg JACOB SCHAFER. eal producers, The suit grew out of | Miss Hampton's dismissal from the . t ees | cast of “Madame Pompadour” in. 1924. ity of local unions for the return of the councils books has now compelled ithe conflicts being created by our ‘bankers and dollar diplomats, which headquarters to comply with the re- | ‘J j ; r a ae . | quest, and will enable not only an Anti Saloon League in jare laying the basis for a new world | Py ry inevestigation of not only the last Further Grab for Power war with the UnNed States playing! M al M eti two years record of the financial, jonni | the central role that Germany played | emorl e p ng manipulation but for the period of; A further attempt of the Anti-Sa- in the last one. | ‘ the last eight years the total of the |loon League to control dry enforce. The course of the lecture on Amer- | i THE PARIS COMMUNE J JACOMO RIMINI and on ‘This booklet (No. tion, \The report of such will then) league demands the appointment of | Actress Saves Bobkowski. ROSA RAIS the Little Red Library) is a brilliant account of that t first t 10 cents ‘Twelve Copies for a Dollar. be sul and itted to,tHe district attorney to .start criminal procedure ough the ‘courts. I is demanded | that the full sum of stolen funds be returned, ov that, in default of such, every ove implicated in the graft be | “a commissioner who believes in the law he is to enforce,” and it an- nounces that it will try to enlist President Coolidge in the fight, which is aimed at Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Assistant Sec- Mme. Olga Petrova, well known ac- tress, today offered to provide em- ployment for Sabina, Josephine and Joseph Bobkowski, to save them from deportation, The trio entered this country last Pruserka and a SPEAKERS: Engdahl, Weinstone, Rebecca Grecht, Ray Ragozin, Jewish speaker. a * By Zausner-Koenig regime ment in the country is evidenced in| ican Foreign Investments was origin- Ms Max Schachtman In order therefore to bring action | the pen fight which begins today for‘ ally scheduled to begin March 2, but | 5 alt 9 y SERGEI RODOMSKY in % i Saveh eheeraihin we into) the prosecution of the guilty | the appointment of Roy A. Haynes|has been postponed to Wednesday ; a special program. ; : aumaemo' fr ythe council has decided to en-|as the new commissioner of prohibi-| March 16. ‘The fee for the course is | 16 M hi tt yt B ad ; working ge) another accountant and tojtion. — | $1.00, | annattan vée., ne roaawa: A leeidhes maie\a complete official investiga-; Altho not naming Haynes, the| —— 4 ar " y ‘The. well-known. popraHe, in a special program. : This will be her first recital in New York within the last 2 years. ALL SEATS RESERVED. |given full punishment, and be sent} retary Andews. | November to enter a dental institute RES EEEFE EES EE EEE ES EEF EE $ + + + H + + + + + + + + x THE DAILY WORKER “ap River Haynes, the candidate of the Anti-| but immfgration officers, after ‘. an H ag ” ‘ Tickets: $1, $1.50 and $2 PUBLISHING CO. BUY. Tun Dae ates Saloon ‘heaps: ‘y a eit Me chief lavbasigatien, peated them tapsctals Lithuanian Chorus, singing, ? 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