The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1927, Page 5

{ j THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WE NESDAY, MARCH 16, 1927 JOIN THE Ci For the Benefi TICKETS TH GANGSTERS FAIL; $0 GIRL PICKETS TAKEN TO COURT Joint Board Announces More Successes Ten girls were arrested on the} picket line at the A. I. Dress Shop, 361 West 36th St. yesterday morning and were later released with payment of $1 fines. They were accused of shouting “scab” at workers going into the A. I. Dress Shop, where workers. were} discharged for refusing to register th the International. The pickets errested were Sarah Green, Lena | Goodman, Sarah Begoon, Mary Fein-| gold, Dora Barbo, Ida Lipsky, Mary Allene, Sally Shore, Rebecca Atlams, and Mary Russo. Picket lines were large and the gangsters who have been terrorizing the district did not dare to appear, according to the ‘girls arrested. Bond Issue Going Good. The continued success of the Save The Union Bond Issue was announced today. Julius Portnoy, treasurer of the bond issue said that an addi- tional $300 had been received from Chicago, $150 more from Baltimore, $100 from Boston, $100 from New Haven, $148 from Newark, $30 from Schenectady, $25 from the Women’s Auxiliary to the Workmen's Circle in Minneapolis, $25 from the Workmen’s Circle Branch of Hamilton, Canada, and $25 from the Philadelphia branch, $25 from the branch at Petrecover, Russia; $81.05 from the Workmen’s Club of Coney Islend, $115 from the progressive groups of the shoe} workers. Third Or Fourth Gift. “Most of these cities have already contributed to the bond issue and are making their third or fourth contri- bution.” Mr. Portnoy said, “Chicago has given more than $3,000 before this last contribytion was received, with more to come.” Collectiuns in shops have been large during the past few days ac- A 7 vara OWD! All Next t of The DAILY WORKER. BUY YOUR Page Five Weeki SHAW'S PYGMALION ROUGH THE DAILY WORKER. Local Office, 108 East 14th Street, Telephon The Bronx Rents Range From $35.00 to $60.00— Wages, $30.00 to $55.00 The Wage and Rental Table of the Bronw is surveyed and in- | terpreted in today’s article by Will de Kalb, DAILY WORKER housing investigator. The next article in the series will be con- cerned with Brooklyn and other sections of the city. {rents equal those of all the othe By WILL DE KALB. boroughs, How the Bronx workers make ends re meet is one of the unanswerable prob- * Long Ways To Work. lems of sociology, paying as they do| The average Bronx apartment costs $44 a month for rent, and receiving |@* much as the average Manhattan an average wage of only $38 a week. | #P@rtment. On the whole, the Bronx Of course, except in the slum sections, | 18 4 better, lighter and more airy bor- they receive more for that $44 than | ough to live in. But workers who live the average New York tenant. But there must spend an hour, on the the rooms are smaller and fewer. | transit lines to get anywhere and they It would accomplish little, as far|™Ust suffer inhumah crowding. as we are concerned, to compile a Rooms in the Bronx are much tabulation of the various sections of | Smaller than those anywhere in the the Bronx. A small table, like the jelty except in the new buildings eree- one that follows, will not only serve | ted in Queens. Apartments are small- the purpose, but bring home the fact | ¢ @veraging three rooms, The build- that the Bronx tenant is being sadly | ings are taller, making walk-ups an- exploited. other drain on the tenant’s energies. Wage And Rental Table. Only one, if any, of the rooms are Per || light and airy. And clothes lines are Section Wage Rental Cent | on the roof, a dread to all housewives. Slums $30 $35 29| Rents in the Bronx have mounted Poor Sections, $36 $45 91 | Steadily since 1919. Even before that Average Sections $45 $52 99 | time they were on the increase, but Fine Sections $55 $60 27} in 1919 the boosts became phenom- Total—Bronx $38 $44 39 | enal in the history of real estate. The average Bronx apartment con-|Many Manhattan realtors sold their sists of only three rooms, in all sec-| Property and built new houses in the tions. Where then, are the rooms at| Bronx, Their investments have al- $4 and $5 the State Housing Board | ready been covered by their incomes; is talking about? Fifteen dollars a/théir capital is now free to be in- LATER REPORTS SHOW MORE HURT (Continued from Page One) | \100 Delegates Organize 'Sam Don Lectures On| For “Hands of China”’|American Imperialism Fight In New York/At the Workers Club Sam Don, district organizer of the | representative, Edward Levinson, who| Young Workers League, will give a | brought in a minority the deliberations of the Credentials | Committee. The IN “LY WRECK Twenty-six, Latest Lis | Wooden Cars, Cause | . ’ 100, arpenters’ Union Local 2163; | ; Architectural | \ers’ Union Local 1782 | Sixth Avenue “L” train crashed into| fective Union I the rear of another preceding it on| Metal Workers, o ‘the lower level at the Sixty-sixth|Penters’ Union Local 2726; Amalga- | street and Columbus avenue station| ated Food Workers’ Local 1; Jewel- | has reached 26, one of them very|ty Workers’ Local 1; Amalgamated | | serious. | Clothing Workers’ Local 10; Union of | Amos Hartley, a Negro, is now in| Technical Workers Local 57; Chinese | a critical condition at the Knicker-|Seamen Association; Venezuela Labor bocker Hospital with a ‘fractured| Union; socialist party, delegates Kar- |skull, and the other injured passen-|!in and Bromberg; Armenian Work- gers have been treated for cuts and| ets’ Club; Workmen’s Circle, Branches | bruises, 224, 408, 639, 612, 329, 330, 695, 20, | Hail Cats A_Danger. 545, 564; Wotkmen’s Sick snd Death | ‘The passengers were riding in| Benefit Society, Local 91 and 183;/ | wooden cars of the I. R. T. at the time Japanese Workers . | lof the accident. In spite of the fre-|bom Congress; C! ers’ Al-| | quent occurrence of accidents of this liance; Marine Transport Workers; kind, the antiquated and dangerous Industrfal Distriet Council of greater | cars are still being used to a large|New York; Butchers’ Union Local extent by the Interborough. 660; Kuo Ming Tang; Workers Par- Nearly all of the injured were in| *Y: delegates Wolfe and Dunn; Harlem | |the first car of the second train and | Educational Center. ‘the rear car of the first which col- Majority For Furriers. \lided with a crash that was heard for! The majority report presented by |the noise of shattered glass caused) H. Chernow of Branch 330, Work- blocks. The screams of women and | men’s Circle stated there were 61 or- great excitement in the neighborhood, | ganizations represented; but a min-| |but half a block from Broadway, andj orjty report, introduced by Mr. Levin- jdrew a large Suan !son, objected to seating the delegate “slippery rails. Mayor judgment on Bean arr jes i hag sbi |the part of the motorman,” and the iathat care a tind ontienes ta other regulation excuses of inspectors | hin # 1 Meigs LANDLORDS GO room is more like it- When the Bronx worker moved to that borough, they left their former communities because rents had jumped to ten dollars a room. But the crafty Bronx landlords did no scabbing on their fellow ex- ploiters. Rents jumped. Now Bronx vested in new fields for exploitation. That is the adding machine picture of the Bronx. Housing commissioners insist that there are rooms to be had for $4 and $5. They may be, but not in New York, and especially not in the Bronx. “ON WITH FIGHT FOR MORE RENT cording to Portnoy. He announced another $150 from the Freedman and Finer shop, $75 more from the Mer- skin and Louis shop, $75 from the P. Isen shop, $26.18 from the Schneider and Caspin shop, $18 from the Arge dress shop, $50 from the Goodman and Fiovitch shop, and $25 from the Har- lem Progressive Youth Club. Arrange Mass Meetings. Mass meetings are being arranged in Hartford, Massachusetts, where A. Black will speak, at the Labor Lyceum, and throughout Massachu- setts where I. Weisberg of the Joint Board will diseuss the situation in the needle trades. “All Liberty Loving Italians.” “All Liberty loving Italians” have been called to a meeting in Webster Hall, Monday, March 21, to “protest against the use of injunctions against | the workers,” and especially against the securing of injunctions by the of- ficers of Italian dressmakers’ Local 89 which’ attempted to restrain the leaders of the Joint Board from en- listing them in the struggle of the workers against the domination of! Sigmanism. Got Two Injunctions. Luigi Antonini, manager of Local 89, has recently taken out two sets of injunctions against officers of the) Joint Board and against the chair- ladies of the largest shops, with the object of restraining them from is- suing leaflets, books, calls to meet- | ings, holding meetings, collecting | dues, or in any way assisting the workers of the local in their fight. Leaders who will discuss the tn-| junctions at the protest meeting, speaking in English or Italian, will be| Louis Hyman, Ben Gold, Ben Gitlow, Robert W. Dunn, Carlo Tresca, E.) Sornienti, Francesco Coco, P. Allegra, | E. Fresina and N. Capraro. The chairman will be A. Ragmulia. All Italian and other workers are urged | to come to hear the truth about the, present situation. _ The Unista Club, a social organiza- tion of Brownsville, has arranged a gala ball at 529 Hopkinson Ave., Brooklyn, to be held Saturday eve- ning for the defense of imprisoned | cloakmakers and furriers and the re- jef of their families. Admission will thirty-five cents, Hoksewives Will Hold ing Wednesday A _geheral membership meeting of the Unitled Council of Working Class Housewives will be held Wednesday evening ‘at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Kast 4% Street. Final arrangements for the house- wives’ ball and @ report on the or- | said that this would probably be the | Not Content with Board Cutting Down Relief ALBANY, March 15.—In spite of the victory which they gained in the adoption of the recommendations of Governor Smith’s Housing Commis- sion, representatives of real estate hoards of New York City are contin- uing their fight against any possible relief measures which might be en- acted during the present session of the legislature. Landlords Fight On. The landlords have announced. that they will battle to the closing day of the session. If they are not successful in preventing the enactment of those recommendations which offer partial relief to the tenants, they will find séme cheer in the report itself which | last year for “relief” rent laws. Casual Treatment. Numerous tenants’ organizations, trade unions and public health of- fielals are expressing their amaze- ment at’ the superficial manner in which the whole problem has heen treated by the housing boatd and also | by Governor Smith, who has expressed | his approval of its recommendations. | The governor's commission has rec- ommended that the Emergency Rent | Laws be continued until June, 1928. | At the same time it advocated that | the law shall apply to all apartments | renting for $15 or less a room in) New York City, instead of $20 or, under as at present, Less Relief. The result has been that the paltry “vyelief” assured by the emergency laws has’ been lessened, and thousands of workers will again be at the merey of the New York landlords. Meanwhile, both the landlords and |few minutes of the play. REGINALD MASON Porirays the role of Henry Higgins, the note taker in “Pygmalion,” which begins ‘a benefit showing for The DAILY WORKER commencing next Monday evening, ending Saturday. Je Michiner Bingleys Trick! ‘In His Settings of ‘Pygmalion’ Altho one might never suspect it, the stage sets of the Theatre Guild’s production of “Pygmalion” were de- signed and exécuted by Jo Mielziner with the idea of proving one of his pet theories. That the theory, un- usual enough in a man whose living is made by his stage ‘designing, is that the scenery should be as obtru- sive as possible. In support of his contention, Mielziner has worked out a trick to prove that audiences do not look at scenery aftér the first Theit at- tention, he claims, is “(or should be) riveted on the play and not tHe scen- ery. a ae The second act setting of “Pgy- malion,” which is ‘an ‘intériéy, has on its back wall the light showing through a window, the’ whole light reactionary lawmakers are scoffing at warnings from health authorities being projected’ by a. deVice in the wings. The effect of sunshine is in the employ of the Interborough were offered in explanation of the | accident, the wooden-car aspect being lentirely forgotten by the company. | ‘No Limit to Censors’ \Desires; Bar Decameron | ‘Catalog from U.S. Mail | | Charles & Albert Boni, publishers, | have been notified by Postmaster | concerned. It is an enemy of the la- bor movement.” | A lengthy discussion followed, Lev- inson continuing to object that be-| cause this local had been expelled ‘by | the A. F."of L. it should not have a part in this conference. A rising vote | was then called for by Chairman Pickens, and the minority polled three | votes, the report being adopted by a majority of over a hundred. Karlin Tries Disruption. Further discussion a: when Wii- John J. Kiely that catalogs offering liam Karlin, one of the socialist dele- |for sale copies of an edition of the | gates, refused a position on the ways i*Decameron” of Baccoccio could not |and means committee. His remarks F be permitted to be distributed by mail. | provoked comments from several dele- He said that the book had been ad-| gates, as well as the chairman, and judged “obscene,” and therefore can-| one representative finally asked) |not be offered for sale. whether they had come to help China| | This action was taken by the of-! | ficial in .spite of the fact that the | | book has been “expurgated,” and is | or union politics. The socialists then subsided for a while. Chairman Pickens ‘in his opening and social workers that New York is |thus achieved in a room which dis- ganization’s paper will be among the important niattery taken up, All mem- bers are.urged oy eevee Women’s Work, Workers Party The meeting for party members, housewives and sub-section organizers for Women’s Work will not be held today. many parts of the city continues. ft quietly “stolen” off, so that after the curtain has been up for about ten Special Meeting of trick, however, this proving the con- tention of Mielziner’s that the first A special meeting of the Lower jesting as “Pygmalion.” Downtown Branch of the Interna-| Readers of The DAILY WORKER 8rd St., at 8 ofclock. All workers |March 21 to 27, for the benefit of living downtown are urged to attend, | the paper, will have ample opportun- aectliatineniie ing effects and general stage set- ROOM WANTED _sitings. Tickets can be purchased at OFFICE WORKER rants latte Watch paper for later announce- ment. 4 in a real danger of an epidemic if the | plays no windows at all, but more present dangerous overcrowding in |important than this, the ‘sunshine is minutes the sun shines no more. Very few in the audience note this Lower Downtown ILD At Ukrainian Halll |ettect of the scenery. does not last particularly if the play is as inter- tional Labor Defenae will be held to-|who will see “Pygmalion” at the night at the Ukrainian Hall, 17 Hast | Guild Theatre during the week of plait Sahai ity of putting, or failing to put, their Read The Daily Worker Every Day | attention upon Mr. Mielziner's light- The DAILY WORKER office, 108 ith all ten [80 na ang Sitamie Hig room wi! all conveni a ‘nion are, at ie - flat Roe aC : Keahas. gins’ Book Shop. = | considered one of the classics, | address told how, when he was in -S ey | Russia recently, he had met 25 of | the Chinese generals who were fired with indignation as they told him of the fight of China against its foreign exploiters. Reads Message From China. M. Pomn, member of the Kuoming- Pa aaa tang, who was one of the speakers Williamsburgh Y, W. L. Meets. ‘read a message from Eugene Chen, | A. meeting of the Williamsburgh |foreign minister of the Cantonese | | seetion of the Young Workers League | government, saying: will be held this Thursday at 7 p. m., “Tt is absolutely untrue that prop- lat 29 Graham Avenue. jerty has been destroyed belonging to | | Daughter Slayer Collapses. |_ FREEHOLD. N. J., March 15 —| | Mrs. Christine Stoble, held for slaying ‘her deughter when she give birth to} a nameless child, collapsed in her cell in the county jai) here today. NEW YORK WORKERS PARTY MEMBERS 70 HOLD | SECTION CONFERENCES AND ELECT EXECUTIVE The District Executive Committee | 1.—Every shop nucleus {s to receive | has decided that section conferences |one delegate and every nucleus of 10! be held during the week of March 14 or more members is to have two dele- for the purpose of reviewing the work | gates. of the past six months and the elec-| 2. Wvery factory district nucleus, | tion of a New Section Executive Com-| and every street nucleus is to have mittee. lone delegate for every 10 members | The order of business at all section |oy major fraction, The basis is the | conferences will be: _, \registered membership. 1.—-Réport by the District Commit-| 3.411 members of section comimit- | bony Representative. i tees are fraternal delegates. | 2.—Report of the Section Organizer } for the Section Committee. Dates and Places. } $—General discussion on both re-| SECTION 8—Thursday, March 17th | ports, at 6.30 p. m., at 100 West 28th Street.! | 4.—Blection of a Section Executive| SECTION 4—Friday, March 18th at Committee. |S p. m,, at 51 East 110th Street. At all section conferences the fol-| SECTION 6---Wednesday, March lowing shall be the basis for the clec-|16th at 7 p. m., at 29 Graham Ave-| tion of delegates: {nue, Brooklyn. | AUTO WORKERS, ORGANIZE! MASS MEETING THURSDAY, MARCH 17th, at 8 o’Clock at LABOR TEMPLE, 243 East 84th Street. * PAINTERS TRIMMERS WOODWORKERS METAL WORKERS BLACKSMITHS and OTHER TRADES COME AND HEAR OUR SPEAKERS A. CLAESSENS WM. GREENBERG MISS SILVERMAN (Local Organizer) (Of the Workers Health Bureau) ARTHUR ROHAN : £ (Gen, Executive See.) LOCAL 49, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT AND VEHICLE WORKERS OF AMERICA. | represented: Carmakers’ Union Local | ©? report from | lecture on “American Imperialism and | the | March 20, 2 following organizations were | Workers’ sung Workeg,” this Sunday, at the Down Town East 2nd_ street, rner 2nd avenue. | Questions and discussion will fol- Furriers’ Union Local 5; Photograph- | low the lecture. The number of passengers injured | Iron and Bronze Workers; Millinery | members of the foreign settlement. | Monday afternoon when a northbound| Workers Local 43; Shoe Workers’ Pro- | It is-also untrue that China is hostile by 60; Amalgamated} to foreigners, strict Council; Car-| are only fighting for freedom.” The Chinese’ people Kuomingtang Greetings. As representative of the Kuoming- tang, Pomn, extended greeting of appreciation to the delegates who had gathered to help China in her struggles. conference were V Among the other speakers at the Niam F, Dunne and Bertram D. Wolfe. A | | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS il | KEEP THAT | DATE OPEN Watch for further announcements. igAttair Arranged by the Young Workers League. Brotherhood Bank Official Appeals To Mercy of Court PITTSBURGH, March Charles E. Knapp, central figure in the $320,000 Brotherhood Savings and Trust Company failure, today threw himself on the merey of the court when he appeared before Judge H. H. Rowland in criminal court and was sentenced to serve one and a half to three years in prison and to pay a fine of $500. Edward Goodfellow, alleged as- sociate of Knapp in the deal, also pleaded no defense. Sentence will be passed later. b— Union Meetings eeting: a » Month, Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising 83 First St., Dept New York City. Where’s Everybody yoing? To the NEW MASSES Anti - Obscenity Costume Ball WEBSTER HALL ‘119 E, 11th Street Friday, March 18 at 9:30 Orchard 3 Strictly by Appointment DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor, Eldridge St. New York Tel. Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:3 3 Daily Except Fri 49 EAST 11 jecond Ave. Cor. § Tickets $1.50 Now. At the Door $3.00. By mail from NEW MASSES, Dept. W. 59 Union Square Stuyvesant 4445 or at Jimmie Higgins Book Store 127 University Place. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. 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