The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, ]GRATH LOSES —BARGEMEN, BULLDOZED BY GULLEN, »Y% Wie » sc FIRST FIGHT FOR LIVE UNDER HORRIBLE CONDITIONS. 10:00: How many times after seeing one | that you could write a printable cri-| HUNTERS AMEND BAUMES LAW'S The Manager's Corner SNAP JUDGMENTS. Two scientists recently mistook an elephant’s knee bone for the skull of a primitive human being and made the sensa- tional announcement that they had found a second and per- roadway’s products have you felt . , Has Eye Knocked Out Admits Aided Boss The left eye of Michael McGrath, president of the Queens County Plumbers’) Union, was ‘removed at Bellevue Hospital yesterday because of injuries received earlier in the day in a fight at the union meeting at 252 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City. McGrath, it is said, picked a fight with Bernard Scantiapieco after de- fying a decision of a majority of the members on the question of continu- ing the existence of a “legislative committee” whose duties were to see that the regulations. of the Sanitary Code were lived up to. Bosses Hated Committee. This committee had uncovered num- erous cases where these regulations were ignored, and consequently aroused the bitter antagonism of the plumber bosses. Various ettempts were made to “kill” this committee, ineluding pleas for court injunctions which were dismissed. At this meeting a communication was read from the Master Plumbers Association, demanding that this eom- mittee be abolished. President Me- Grath after the reading of the let- ter insisted that the desires of the bosses be complied with, “fer the good | of the union.” Vote to Keep Committee. A vote on the motion to discharge the committee resulted in about 50 in favor and approximately 800 mem- hers who wanted the committee con- tinued. Notwithstanding the The blustering attempt of Jim Cul- | $100 a month instead of $80-—Cullen, BOSS PLUMBERS: len, Tammany heeler, to stop a strike among barge workers of the Cullen | Fuel Co., by threatening them with deportation, has focused attention on | the unsanitary conditions under which | they live, | All Live On Boats. | The bargemen and their entire fam- lilies live on the boats, very seldom touching shore. The children have lit- tle opportunity to attend school or an influential New York politieian | threatened to use his: connection with the local Tammany controlled admin- | istration in the city, hall as well as | \tism of it? That you have observed minutely the construction of the play and its hearing on society, objecively and subjectively? The DAILY his pull with the police department WORKER offers you this very oppor- and higher bodies, to have the men| tunity of expressing your opinions deported, Only Mini Wa | Shaw’s popular comedy-satire, “Pyg- miy Minimum re. {malion”, played this week at the Cullen has a eontract to furnish | Guild Theatre for its benefit. coal to many city institutions, includ-| Tell‘us what you think of Shaw as from a proletarian angle of Bernard | “PISTOL BILL” Judges Lobby to Retain Probationary Vower ALBANY, March 20.—Relatively | unimportant amendments were being made by the Baumes Crime Commis- sion to the 41 measures now hefore feet skull of the Java man, according te Dr. A. Hrdlicka of the National Museum at Washington. Such exaggerations are mild in comparison with the usual run of so-called “news” in the capitalist press. One excellent example lies before me. “Mecican Spirit of Revolt Grows; Millions Alienated by Cler- and Red Laws,” proclaims the New York Times in heavy black letters across its front page. This is characteristic of capitalist news reports whether it.be a strike, or a story from Nicaragua, China or Soviet Russia, vote, | |to enjoy any of the usual pleasures ing the police department. | of childhood, Whole families use commodes in such bad condition that they menace the health. Police Would Deport. When, three weeks ago, these work- ers decided to ask for a raise in their miserably low wages—they wanted Italy Ready to Declare | War on Jugo Slavia | (Continued from Page One) 'Q) | night, it is understood, made the fol- SENT FOR BALLOT batched charges against Judgo-Slavia: | . The Jugosiavs are calling up) reserve officers for special raining: BOXES MUTINIES 2. Special sidings for debarkation | 5 4 Even i? they raised their wages to $100 a month they would only be receiving the minimum union rate. The barge men employed by Burns same line, get $105 to $110 monthly. These firms do not have the big juicy contracts that Jim Cullen has. | { } | of troops are being built along the! railways on the Serbian side of the| sa gy ee ve Cortacien Grow in Reed I. P e-! railways rom 2 2 ; Investigation of Vare the interior to the frontier are being | double-tracked by the Jugo-Slavs. 4, Special roads to facilitate mili-|_ WASHINGTON, March 20.—The |tary movements are being built in| Reed senatorial committee investigat- | Jugo-Slavia, jing graft in federal elections is mov- 5. Surplus credits of the different | "8 ahead against heavy obstacles to departments of the Jugo-Slavian gov. | set a look at the ballots in Pennsyl- ernment are being transferred to the | Vania. war di ti i .| Senator Vare, the apparent winner era ent Hoe: PaUesy exe | of the election for U. S. senator from Bros., and Tracey-Derby, also in the! SENATE OFFICIAL MeGrath declared the committee abol- | I In memorandum also cites the! ished. | specific concentrations of troops in| the steel trust state, has announced | that “the Reed Committee is dead.” At this point Scannapieco asked the vresident. whether he was interested “in the union or the bosses.” To which McGrath replied, “the bosses, now.” The fight then resulted. Bitterness between the progressive members of the union and the of- ficials came to a head recently with the expose of 18 non-union men found working on a job for Harry Human- ski, Brooklyn contractor. MeGrath had defended this situation, after first denying that the men were not mem- bers of the union RSON CITY, Nevada, March 20. -Nevada’s “easy divorce” law became easier today when Governor Freder- ick Balzar signed a measure passed ‘ e dying hours of the state leg- ture cutting the perind of resi- tomea required for divorce from six vonths to three. Jubilee Various members of the committee | seem to think so too. Senator Keyes | of the senate audit and control com- | mittee, takes the same view, dnd re- certain areas. | * * | France Protests, | PARIS, March 20.—France today | . 7 instructed her ambassador at Reel sail gard Matiny | to protest ta Mussolini against the " rd eaten | accusations of the fascist press David S. Barry, sergeant of arms| against France in connection with|0! the senate, has defied the direct) jthe renewed tension between Italy | der of the Reed Committee, that he | land Jugo-Slavia. | Proceed with a fhousand dollars se-| | While the French office warns the | °Ured elsewhere, to Pennsylvania and \a playwright, as a mirror of society, jand as a humorist. Criticisms should not exceed 600 words, be written. legi- \bly, or typewritten if possible, and mailed to The DAILY WORKER not later than April 2, For the two best reveiws a newly published highly in- teresting book by Huntley Carter en- titled “The New Theatre and Cinema of Soviet Russia” will be given as {prizes, This volume contains 68 half | tone illustrations and 17 woodcuts by celebrated artists, consuming 300 |Pages of print between covers. All those interested in the competi- tion will be able to see Mr. Shaw's brain child any evening of this week jor Saturday matinee at the Guild | Theatre on 62 street west of Broad-' }way. Tickets must be purchased at least three days in advance at the of- fice of The DAILY WORKER located at 108 East 14th in order that the paper might benefjt from the sale. | Tickets obtained elsewhere will not help it. The more interesting of the letters will be published periodically. Con- |testants must abide by the decision |of the judges, Harbor Allen arid Leon Blumenfeld, and their choice shall be final. Manuscripts should be ad- dressed to DAILY WORKER Contest Editor, 83 First street, All readers are urged to partici- pate. KITGHENETTES IS REALTORS MOVE the legislature as a yesult of objec- tions raised by various interests thru- out the state. While the bill intended to “tighten ithe presumption of innocence on the part of a defendant,” and other meas- calculated to make the dispen- sation of justice even more rare than it is at the present time, much hlood was being spilled by Rod and Gun Clubs, and other sport societies, in| an effort to fight one of the amend- | ments which~ would interfere with | their recreations. | Gun Clubs Lobby. This is the “pistol bill” which | caused so much commotion. The or- | iginal bill would make it difficult for | members of these organizations to} purchase firearms. | Another “concession” was made to New York City judges who objected to the amendment to the Baumes Law which provided for the appointment of a city probation officer by the mayor. The bill in its corapromised form continues control of probation offices by the judges. Housing Causes Crime. Enthusiasts for the brutal Baumes Law got a severe jolt Saturday when the report covering a year’s study of the causes of crime was made pub- lie by the New York State Crime Commission. The investigations are being made on the basis of “crime areas,” and the scene of operations of the com- arin mittee was laid in what is known as Moves To Liquidate. ues the Red Hook section of Brook!yn,| In a motion before Justice Chis- where it found that wretehed housing, | holm in the supreme court the Na-| poor home life, lurid motion pictures, | tional Trust Company of Toronto, in and lack of ‘supervited recreation had | its capacity as receiver and manager given one out of every 20 boys living | of the Dominion Iron and Steel Com- lin the section a eriminal record be-|Pany, asks for the winding up of the fore he reached the age of 16. | British Empire Steel Corporation A study of the lower East Side in| and the Dominion Steel Corporation, | this policy is us the truth ina sometimes uv the most insidiovs character. It is for the purpose of bi DAILY WORKER which is ganda of this sort, that the R END AFFAIRS OF HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 20,| —Besco”, the British Empire Steel | Corporation, which with the aid of | President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, brutally broke a strike of its coal and steel miners a short time ago, is going thru a stock jobbing transformation. When the policy of sensationalism is used merely to arouse curiosity it may not be so harmful socially. But when 1 to wilfully misrepresent facts, and distort ituation involving the lives of thousands and lions of workers, then it becomes a menace of yilding up and expanding The fighting against insidious propa- uthenberg DAILY WORKER Sustaining Fund has been éstablished. Comrade Ruthenberg was a foremost consistent fighter against the dangerous propaganda spread by the capitalist class. During the World War he was imprisoned for his part in fighting this poison. Why not enlist in the struggle which Comrade Ruthenberg so nobly led, to establish owr paper on a broader aad firmer basis, by enrolling and contributing toward the Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sustaining Fund.—BERT MILLER. BANK ASKS COURT FOR ORDER TO BLOODY “BESCO” ing company of the Dominion Coal ‘company and the Dominion Iron and Steel Company. The British Empire Steel Corpora- tion involves practically all coal min- ing and steel making plants in Novia Scotia, located in Cape Breton mainly and the eastern mainland of Nova Seotia. Squeezing Little Fellows. Rumors of high finance, of mis- management by some of the man- agers most responsible for bringing in the troops at the time of the strike, and of a “United States style” raid on the smaller stockholders, to crush them to the wall and take over bhi ; ‘ | take over the ballot boxes. public against exaggeration of the! * : ri ‘alarmist rumors of war as a result | The committee i#- onsfimously: de- Manhattan is now being made by! largest constituent of the British their property, are not absent from the committee, which includes social Empire Steel Corporation and hold- the deal. lef ¢ 3, -. cided to send its special attorney, | Ze gi tae tiag Apc ines | Jerry C. South, for the boxes, but this i Ms . ie tHe TevoNy JON | cives the Pennsylvania authorities a ory... preparakons. alone. the JUgo-| technical exeuse to refuse to turn Slavian frontier, the French news-| A |them over, without court action apers are pactical / saiee ‘ or pactically unanimous that The committee advised Barry that the situation is so delicate, that the | | $1,000 was available for its enses a Oy eer of ones pow-|§! once and requested a walttas an- break in the Halkans an open’ swer from the sergeaft-at-arms at 5 The welerity of the y |o’clock yesterday stating whether he majority of the newspapers re-) would carry. out the. instructions. sent the accusation of the Italian) poyry’s answer was to refuse, Seats aghieat tale inspiring Jugo- | The source of the money available . | Radical newspapers charge Eng. | °F the expenses of Barry and his land with supporting Italian @BBre8- | mittee’s communication, which in- | deputies was not indicated in the com-! New Builders Want No \Cooking in Old Houses ALBANY, March 20.—The recent court decision forbidding cooking in the kitchenettes of wealthy apartment hotels may result in a general re- | vision of the Tenement House Law. | Senator Benjamin Antin of the Bronx jate a temporary commission to in- vestigate the working of the Jaw and | Present recommendations io the next | Session of the legislature. on Saturday introduced '& bill to cre- | TAMMANY EDICT RAISES BAN ON CLUB GAMBLING ‘Ward Leaders to Rake workers, lawyers and teachers. Fortified Bank. “Crime-wave” hysteria is resulting in ingenious invenfions. Yesterday, tin Elizabeth, New Jersey, police of- ficials of the town and all the presi- dents of all the banks relaxed in com- fort and serenity after a new device vas found to be effective against hold-ups. An armored turret in the Elizabeth- |port Bank, from which a guard with la rifle can cover every corner of the bank, proved its oullet-proof qualities when six men, representing bandits, fired 50 or more bullets at it from sive policy in the Balkans. | BUY THR DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Realtors Battle. i sisted that the ballots in Delaware, During the past week several bills Lackawana, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties be impounded for a recount in connection with the contest entered by William B. Wilson over the sena- torial election in Pennsylvania last November. “ gress was made because real estate Have The Authority. |interests are not all united whole- | In commanding Barry to proceed to | heartedly behind them. The rub comes | the execution of its mandate, the com-|in because some of the realtors have to exempt modern fireproof apart- ments from the section of the Tene- ment House Law on which the court decisions were based, but little pro- Telephone Dry Dock 9069. Meet me at the Publite Art Dairy Restaurant and Vegetarian were introduced in the legislature | military rifles and other fire-arms. The test was made after benking | ‘hours in order to let the tellers and | bookkeepers view the spectacle. | TAMMANY SPLITS In Coin Undisturbed Gambling in republican and demo-} cratic clubhouses will continue undis- turbed. This is the gist of the patch- ed-up peace between democratic dis-| trict leaders and Police Commisioner | McLaughlin, following rads on three | democratic clubhouses in Brooklyn last week. Tammany politicians were flus-| tered by the last week’s gambling 75 SECOND AVE, x seer ; ; IND AY NEW YORK | mittee’s communication cited as its|already spent. much money in con- Manager, Your old Comrade MISHA, |/SUthority one of the resolutions es-| structing buildings complying with |tablishing the committee which spe- | cifically directed “that the sergeant- jat-arms of the senate and his depu- | | | Opposite Public Theatre | jties” shall attend the committee and| | “execute its directions,” | Members of the. committee present SATURDAY EVENING SCOTT NEARING P / Rise of The Crumb- Torey Chairman Reed were Senators \ italis i ii |Goff of West Virginia, and McNary, A RIL 2nd, 1927 — el j g brsiv sh, |Ore., both republicans. The other in | peri ampire members of the committee King (D), | Tuesday Thursday | Utah, and LaFollette (R), Wisconsin, MADISON SQUARE ]| “is'e'st’ Nash sith | ae te som Washingt : Rise i inlaae | Among those appearing before the Brownsville Labor Lyceum 219 Sackman Street Auspices: CO-OPBRATIVE BDUCA- TIONAL ASSOCIATION. committee yesterday were Barty and Vance McCormick, former chairman) of the democratie national committee, and a Pennsylvania publisher, who sponrored William B. Wilson’s sena- torial candidacy in Pennsylvania. The nature of his examination was closely guarded by the committee. | Young Workers in Metal Trades Meet Monday A. special ing of our com-| rades working in the metal trades to take up the membership drive initia-| jted by the Young Workers’ League | in N. Y., will be held on Monday, |March 21, at 7 P. M. sharp at the, district office. It is of utmost im- portance that every League member working at the trade should come to. this meeting. GARDEN 49th Street & 8th Averue Freiheit Gesangs Verein accompanied by | New York Symphony Orchestra will present the poem of the Russian Revolution DENTISTS Tel. Orchard 3783 Strietly by Appointment DE, koe EER 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge st. Now Yorte || } { Tel. Lebigh 6023. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M, 2-8 P, M. Daily Bxoopt Fridey and Sunday, 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York, Read The Daily Worker Every Day | To Plant More Corn, |. WASHINGTON March 20,--Ptant- 'ing intentions of farmers indicate a two percent increase in corn acreage this year, the crop reporting board |announced today. A slight decrease is probable for the central corn belt states but this, will be offset by a large increase in corn acreage in the cotton belt where farmers are planning to diversify crops. “Music and JACOB SCHAFER, —— JACOMO RIMINI and written by Alexander Block. Conducted by Dr. J. Mindel Dr, L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 4 SE'RGEI RODOMSKY in 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. Tickets: $1, $1.50 and $2 at Freiheit, 30 Union Square. Read The Daily Worker Every Day TO OUR MUTUAL INTOREST lave your teeth cared for by a fe wf n Fed a mae. of I. Os 8 GM WAG ee ‘ EXAMINATION. FRDE. : Special cons A ec) minaret io ‘on abating, Dr. D. Dressler i SURGEON DENTIST he a My f pustee t iherveess we Tel. Orchard 4689. Visit Mrs. Stoble. FREEHOLD, N. J., March 20.— Dejected, their heads bowed in utter ir, the family of Mrs. Christine si visited her in Monmouth Coun- ty jail this afternoon, while the grand boned deliberated their testimony in rs. Stoble’s slaying of her sixteen- year-old daughter. Rosa. i the recent interpretations of the law. |Thus a return to the more libe: law would be considered “discrimina- tion” egainst these landlords, $25,000 To Spend. Under Antin’s hill four republicans and three democrats would be chosen, with $25,000 to spend, on a general investigation not only of the larger apartments, but all the problems raised by the changing methods of construetion and the conversion of private dwelling houses into tenement | houses, Lenin’ and ‘Michael Strogof?’ In Church of All Nations Saturday, March 26 “Michael Strogoff” and “Lenin” will be the two program pictures at the Church of All Nations, Second avenue | and First street, next Saturda; March 26. The original picture was written by Jules Verne, the noted French author. Jacob P. Adler, known to every Jew, portrays the title role, while “Lenin” concerns career of Vladimir Lenin during the ya tage days of the Russian revolu- tion, A popular Russian balalaika orches- tra of five players and a 2-reel com- edy will be two other features on the bill. The showings will be continu- ous, commencing at 1:30 and ending at 11 p.m. Admission ia 50 cents for the afternoon and 40 cents for the evening. | Tickets can be purchased in advance at the following places: Church of All Nations box-office, Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 Uni- versity Place, and the International Music Store, 218 East 6th St. Y. W. L. Spring Dance Saturday. A spring dance and entertainment will be given by the Bronx section of the Young Workers’ League Saturday evening, March 26th. Admission is fifty cents, : BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS MILLION IN CITY raids which temporarily halted the lucrative business which ward leaders ‘have been carryng on. 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A grand concert and ball will be iven by the United Council of Work- ing Class Housewives at the Manhat- tan Lyeeum, 66 East 4th Street, Sai- urday evening; March 26th, Ukrainian folk song sung by the the | PAY ROLL RAISES At least 300 Tammy lieutenants of varying grades and distincton will |be made happier just as soon as the |board of estimate officially approves fat increases in their salaries just re- commended by the Tammany director | jof the budget. About 20 of the Tammany braves will be awarded pay increases as high as $2,500 a year. Among the fortu- nate ones in this group is a brother- | {in-law of Governor Al. Smith,— |Christopher J. Dunn, first deputy | commissioner of public welfare. Dunn lis now getting $6,500, and when the \fatter pay envelopes come through, ‘he will be getting $7,000 for the ser-| | vices he renders the city and his par- ty. How To Divide? All of these increases, totaling | $1,000,000, were scheduled for ap-' |proval last week, but were held up | for some reason by Joseph V. McKee, president of the board of aldermen. There is apparently s6me dispute as 'to whether most of the money should jgo to the petty routineers of Tam- |many Hall or to the high-salaried district leaders and their henchmen | who ride to and from their office in the city’s luxurious high-powered limousines. } Five Ruthenberg memoris] meet- ings were held during the week end. Thousands of workers gathered in Brooklyn, N. Y., Niagera Falls, N. Y. and Jamestown, N. Y. in Warren, Ohio, and Ithaca, N. Y. Tonight a meeting will be held in Washington, D. C. at the Typographical Temple. The Brooklyn, N. Y. meetifig, held at the Royal Palace was addressed leally explaned yeterday that district | ‘with unconscious humor, denie: | houses; (gamble in peace MEETINGS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY it i did | Ukrainian chorus in full costume wil! ay aig i ptr te porrnggoticen | one of the interesting features of ing to evidence found in his safe. the atteir.. Tickets for the geen bi Fears Tammany Rift oh re hyp ig aed FZ . C. W. H. in its struggle to e Scoring Police Commissioner Me- the condifions of working class wo- Laughlin for interfering with what men. they regard as their legitimate busi- | ness, district politicians declare that “McLaughlin will regret his action.”| Commissioner McLaughlin apologeti-; Unit 3B-1F expresses its deep sorrow inspectors. were responsible upon the death of raids. Fearing a rift in the Tammany Hall | democratic leaders headed, it is be-| lieved, by Mayor Walker, have patch- ed up a hasty peace between the; —— warring factions. Ward bosses have, | in| the first place that there is any m- | bling in political clubhouse, and pro- | mised, in the second place, to eli-} minate gambling from political club- | while Police Commissioner | MeLaughlin has promised to refrain! from gambling raids. Large-Scale Gambling. It is an open secret that large-| seale gambling is carried on in poli- | tieal clubs thoughout the five bor- oughs. Many of them have even ac- quired elaborate wires for race re- ports. The understanding between Commissioner McLaughiin and Tam- many paliticians will permit them to for the | Comrade C, E. Ruthenberg. GRAND OPENING RUBIN’S Furniture House {385 Third Avenue Between 78th and 79th Sts. A eomplete line of Furniture, Beds and Bedding. OUT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT. Our prices suit your pockets.—Our profit is very nominal.—We cater to the working class.— We treat the workers square.—Come and be convinced. Come to our opening sale and be convinced. by J, Louis Engdahl, editor of The | DAILY WORKER and L. Pauseika. Ray Ragozin presided. The Lithuan- ian Chorus sang. The Ruthenborg membership drive wes started at the gathering which is the beginning of & move to enroll scores of new mem- bers in the Workers (Communist) Party in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn.