The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1927, Page 5

pecklew, rash, ie tng sin, eggs ns _ ess tre thd Q THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TURSDAY, MARCH . 1927 Tenants In Outlying Boros Must Pay High Rents In Spite of Big Fire Peril The perilous quarters workers are forced to live in, and pay high rents for, are discussed today by Will de Kalb, DAILY | WORKER housing investigator. the machinations of those who e be exposed. | By WILL DE KALB. ff rents were to continue their sky- ward climb, maybe you’d be willing to live in constant danger of your | sleep being interrupted by the fren-| zied ery of “Fire!” Hl Maybe you'd be willing to take a(| chance on being carried out of a burn- ing bedroom by a stalwart fireman, déwn an aerial ladder with only a sharpened hook on the ladder’s end and the fireman’s arm between you and an eternal death. , May Burn Tonight. | Maybe, though for most of us it'll | be quite a strain on the imagination, | you might be willing to hazard going | to sleep in spite of the possibility of being burned to charcoal in the event} of a fire. } Perhaps, if conditions forced you to, as they do to those who live in Brook- lyn, Queens and Richmond, you might | acquiesce; but you wouldn’t want to pay forty-two dollars a month for the | privilege. But that is what the ten-| ants of Brooklyn, Queens and Rich- mond must pay, living under the con- ditions sketched above. | Just glance over this table: Table of Wages & Rentals. Section Wage Rental Percent) Brownsville $38 $45 20 % Average for Brooklyn $38 $46 80° Other sections $38 $48 31% | Queetis $38 $42 1% =| Richmond $38 $38 29% | Fortunately, for the tenants as well | at the crooked landlords, there have} been no great fire disasters so far.| As many as six people have perished | in tenement fires, but that is not enough to rouse the public ire. The fact that there has béen no great dis-| aster is no fault of the crooked land- | lords and their political ackeys; it is a result of the work /of the firemen) ond policémen. } Dangerous Life. ‘The figures speak for themselves. | That workers should be forced to live in such perilous quarters is an indict- ment against the ruling class im it- self) but that they must pay sky-high|ous starvation of all other needa of | bled at Manhattan Lyceum on Mon rvieas fér the privilege of endanger-|the people of the city—such as parks, |4@Y, March 21, declare this to be! i ithem, but gave no proof, and again heir lives, is an absolute proof of ae existence af. housing shortage. ly tomorrow's articlé, those who are esponsible for the housing situation | be exposed, and in subsequent ar- és, the various remedies offered by iu bodies and other organizations 1) be diseussed, and the remedy of- t by the Workers (Communist) ‘arty will be treated in full. ap Shot By Brother at Party. A péliediian’s careless handling of As revolver following an all-night party causing an accidental shot. was today believed to have been respon- sible for the death of his brother, Jo- soph Perkins, 29, also a policeman. Roy Perkins, who claims his re- Volver went off accidently, is twenty- ‘our years old and a poli¢entan of oirty days standing. (385 Third Avenue Between 78th and 79th Sts. A complete line of adhe ghd eats and Bedding. UT OF THE ficn RENT DISTRICT. Our pri¢es suit your \ pockets.—Our profit ’ is Ver |—We cater e—Come and be convinced, our opening sale eras Anna Skin Ointment (for PIMPLES, BLACKHEADS, 0 LARGH PORES ps on money back Te Went 48rd St, New York City AE alte inated In the next article in the series, reated the housiny shortage will Cinderella Bride May Now Grace the Employment Agency The dreams of ease and luxury which “Peaches” Heenan Brown- ing cherished and which were to be paid for by her elderly fat and foolish hasband, the wealthy real- for, Edward W. Browning, bléw up | into thin air yesterday. When Justice A. H. F. Seeger, who heard the engaging details of the famous counter-suit for separa- tion handed down his decision it was | found that “Daddy” had won on all points, What this means it that | he will no longer be compelled to pay his wife (whom he acquired thru a paid advertisement) $300 a week as alimony. In a 9-page decision, the judge stated that “Peaches” had failed to back up her charges against the old real estate broker whose fondness for girls whose physical develop- ment outran their mental him some goodly cash in few years. the past City Club Men Would Sweeten Bitter Pill By Slight Increases The conservative City Club yes- terday vigorously denownced the pro- posed construction of the b3d Street- Queens tunnel and the extension of the city’s debt limit by the $300,000,- 000 subway bond amendment. This organization, in attacking ad- ministration moves which they say will lead to an 8-cent fare, neverthe- less went on record as favoring a 6- eent fare, which they declare “ought to be enough.” At the same time the club pointed out in its statement that if the pres- ent plans of the city administration materialize, it will mean “a continu- playgrounds, beaches, schools, waste disposal and many other things— which are not to be tolerated.” Albany Bill to Hinder Petty Graft; Does Not Stop the Big Rake Off ALBANY, March 21.—A campaign to do away. with unofficial graft and bribery in the business and the pro- fessions has been started here with the introduction of the Fearon anti- bribéry bill. : The present bill is made necessary, necording to its sponsor, because of the fact that a previous bill passed several years ago has beconie a dead letter becatise of the strictness of its provisions. As that Inaw row stands both the bribe giver and the bribe taker ate equally guilty, Consequently neither is eager to testify against the other. The present bill is not intended ageinst latge-seale gratfing, it is re ported, but ptimarily against house- hold servants and chauffeurs. It is said that se¢tet commissions and re- bates are given to chauffeurs for uni- forms and motor pccessories for which employers pay full prices. Grand Ball for Worker Housewives, March 26th Plans are now being made for a grand concert and ball by the United Council of Working Class Housewives at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., near 8rd Ave., on Saturday tog Mareh 26. _ An elaborate program of entertain- ment ia being planned on this occa- sion. Prizes will be awarded for ex- céllence in a number of competitions. It is also announced that there will even be exhibitions of the Charleston and the Black Bottom. The éntire proceeds realized from this affair, it is announced, will be devoted toward strengthening work and activities of the organiza- tion, which conducts relief for strik- ers. Head The Daily Worker Every Day en sancienceeieaetiiieette sate wiionaeaannee Tol. Dry Dock 8406, 1. KITZIS, Prop. THE Polatial Ballroome @ Dining Rooms CATERING A SPECIALTY. 02-04 Kh, 4th BY. | New York Giey, Pea yah has cost | NEW INJUNCTION Left. Wing Speakers’ Tell of Treachery (Continued from Page One) Sormenti who was the first sneaker; | and the same enthusiasm was shown | when Joseph Di Mola, the shop chair- man who was nearly killed by right | wing, gangsters two months ago, added his coniments on the treachery | of the International officials who not | only attacked workers physically bat | attacked them with the bosses’ legal weapon, the injunction. Louis Hyman, general manager of | the Cloak and Dyessmakers’ Joint, Board, Rebecca Grecht, and Francesco Coco also spoke on the injunction | taken out by Luigi Antonini against | union members; and at the close of | |the meeting the workers unanimously | | adopted a resolution on this important | matter. A police captain and 6 of- | fiers also attended this meeting, but, it remained orderly and quiet. Anti-Injenetion Resolution. Whereas an injunetion has been | applied fof and obtained by Luigi | Antonini, henehman of Sigman, and mamager of Loeal 89 of the I. L. G. W. U., and ; Whereas this injunction is directed | against the legally elected officers | of the Joint Board and against mem- |bers of Local 89 itself, and Whereas the corrupt International | misleadets have had recourse to an injunction obtained fer the purpose | of fighting the membership although. jail of the labor movement, both con- servative end progressive, has con- demned the use of the injunction in | labor disputes as an iniquitous judi- | ¢ial abuse, and | Whereas, labor is at present en- | gaged in a fight to eiminate the in- |Janction in all labor disputes, and at this present moment the New York labor movement is engaged in a legislative effort at Albany to eli- minate its use, in which effort Local 89 bas cooperated, and | Whereas, Luigi Antonini has him- | self declared in his signed article in the Facisti paper “Il Progresso Italo- Americano”, that part of the purpose of the injunction is to foree members | who dissent from his misrule to form | another organization outside of the | unton, therefore it is resolved That the trade unionists assem-| another of Sigman’s and Antonini’ alliance with the bosses and with the. |dark forces of reaction and corrup-| | tion,-and we further declare that the | {injunction is proof of their union. | | splitting policies, just as Antonini! has intimated in the organ of Fas-| cism for which he writes articles, | and we further | ;Movement to disown this infamous, | action and drive such men, who will| javail themselves of an injunction| against the membership out of the, labor movement. | Reactionary Group Has| Popular Education Plan | For the Country Town, Proposals for radically changing | present-day methods of teaching were announced yesterday by the National | Community Foundation, which has | heen organized to “promote a nation- | wide program of popular education and culturé for towns and country communities,” If this organization has its way the educational process will “follow what people want to know, rather than what others think they should be taught.” Tn spite of the challenging impli- eations contained in the manifesto of | the foundation, hope for any signifi- }eant changes in modern educational | methods is dispelled by the discovery | that the New York committee is com- | posed of the Rev. Dr. 8, Parkes Cad- ;man, Gen. Samuel ‘McRoberts and { | Mrs. Medill McCormick. Sinclair Money Gets _ To Work; Battery of Big Lawyers Appeal | WASHINGTON, March 21.—Chal- | lenging the conviction of Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, on 20 |points of error, attorneys for the |wealthy oil man today filed a peti- tion for new trial before Justice William Hita in the district supreme court, : Sinclair was convicted last Thurs- | day on four counts charging contempt of the senate after a jury in Justice | Hitz’s court had been out more than 8 hours. The triai grew out of Sin- claix’s refusal in March, 1924, to an- swer certain questions of the senate oil investigating committee. Smith Creates More Jobs, ALBANY, N. Y.; March 21,—Gov- ernor Smith yesterday signed the Westall bill, abolishing the state fair commission, and creating in its place an advisory committee of nine mem- mre “smart men in automobiles, _girl was transferred from a private) lor even once a night, but all night (Continued from Page One) tame. He has evidently decided to dis- avow his share in the summoning of the meeting last night, and in spite of the fact that The DAILY WORK- BR yesterday published a facsimile of the call, in which it is clearly stated ever the signatures of Ryan and Coughlin. that Green requested the ineeting, the A. F. of 1. president began by an invasion, “I was invited to be present,” he id, to speak as the chosen representative of millions.” Rarlier in the day, he had stated to |a DAILY WORKER reporter, over the telephone that he did not know what the meeting was for or would do. Not A Good Speech. Green told a rambling story gf the fur workers’ strike in New York, try- ing to say that Ben Gold invited an investigation during the strike, but that the president of the A. F. of L. and its exeentive board would not do this while the strike was on. When the struggle was ended, he thot they should investigate, and knew they would find startling facts, which how- ever, Were even more startling than vould be expected. “1 wish I could tell you what all} these facts were,” said Green, and | thus neatly skipped past another | point. | Fat Boys Were There. The platform at the special meet- | ing was crowded with trade union | bureaucrats. They included, Mat-| thew Woll, Edward McGrady, Hugh Frayne, and John Sullivan. Joseph P. Ryan, president of the council, pre- sided. Ryan spoke briefiy before intro- ducing the first speaker. He said that the American Federation of La- bor has been asked by the Furriers Unien to remove the Communists from their ranks. Capitalist Reporters. The capitalist press was well re-| presented. Before the opening of the meeting Louis Stark, labor editor of the New York Times and J. O'Leary of the World bowed to Presi- | dent Green. The composition of the m was different from that of or- dinary Central Trades meeting. ty per cent of the audience were Jewist, readers of the Forward, while a regu- lar meeting of the council would be ting |conspicious by their absence. $ “Bribery”. Green read off a bewildering list f names, of figures, of police sup- osed to have been bribed and of unionists supposed to have bribed ducked aside: from any definite state- | injunction-issuing judges and all the ment as to whether Tammany Hall’s) honest cops had been bought out by Moscow, or not. Apparently the often reiterated fact that the police were! with the right wing must have struck even Green as a little contradictory | to this part of his charges. ITALIAN WORKERS GREEN AND McGRADY BOAST OF DENOUNCE USE OF POLICE AID AS THEY BEG MONEY May Expel International. The charge of dual unionism was not neglected. Ben Gola, aceording to Green, is leading a “dual union.” That whole union has been officially expelled by its superiors, wit! the blessing. of Green, and therefore it is dual to any new one that may be started under Green’s vuspices. Not only that, mid Green, “Sf the whole International . Furriers Wnion surrenders to the Communists, if it follows Gold, then the whole union must be expelled, and will be a dual organization.” Admires the Injunction. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was congratulated; “the A. F. of L. looks with admiring interest and sympathy on how the I. L. G. W.-W. has cleaned the union of men sympathetic to Communists, tf not Commonists, and established the dominance of the A. F. of L.”-— referring presumably to the Italian local injunctions. “Be assured the A. | F. of L, will stay with them in their fight, to the bitter end; may God speed their work!” Wolt Seex Russian Gold! Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor said in vart: “Soviet Russia is to he seen on the streets trying to overthrow | our government. They have no de- eeney. “Tt is a question of American gov- ernment or Communism. “Communist work is not only being carried on in the needle trades. They are working in every trade union thru the Trade Union Educational League and the nucleus of the Workers Par- ty. “We must rid ourselves from these vermin and so must every worker.” Gold's Statement. “It looks as tho the Special Re- organization Committee of the A. F. of L., and the officials of the Inter- national Fur Workers’ Union had had to issue a eall for help,” said Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ Joint Board, when asked what he thot about this special conference. “Evidently not even the eollabora- tion of the police force, about which MeGrady brags, has been sufficient to dissolve and expel the fur workers. Workers Threatened Daily. vice- market Page Five SIXTY POU The pulp and paper indus: 1926, according to Norman W. rank seventh ia the eountr pounds per capita.” The question is not only duced, and how much the total business amounts to. question is, “What are the workers getting out of it?” ican Paper and Pulp Association, puts our business in the billion-dollars-a-year class. Amual consumption of newsprint now runs nearly - The Manager’s Corner DS PER CAPITA. try established a new record in Wilson, President of the Amer- He said further, “This We now industrie important siaty how much paper is being pro- The “What is being done for the workers with the sixty pounds per capita?” There is no doubt that the very human desire for news, the healthy curiosity whieh the workers show in their search for the reports of the latest events of the day, are being exploited for the sake of deriving millions of dollars of profits for the pulp manufacturers, publishers and adver- | tisers of the paper. Any tra sh is erammed into the paper that the worker is willing to buy, so that he may render his tribute in the form of profits paper field, to these vultures of the ne The DAILY WORKER does not sell this sort of stuff. The DAILY WORKER is the workers’ own organ and weapon in their effort to organize themselves and fight for better con- ditions for themselves and their families. For this reason the movement for the Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sustain- ing Fund should be supported by every intelligent worker. The DAILY WORKER with the aid of the Sustaining Fund will develop and grow. It will be the only guarantee that the workers will receive their share of the “sixty pounds per capita.” ft is the only organ of the workers to ultimately claim the full “s capita” for themselves. which is fighting for the right ty pounds per Support the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund and help to build the newspaper of the workers against the newspaper of the paper manufacturers, the publishers, and the etploiting class —BERT MILLER. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS BEGIN THEIR DRIVE WITH A MEETING AT HOTEL WORKERS HALL The first of a seriés of mass meet- ings for the puypose of getting the organizing campaign of the thous- ands of hotel and restaurant workers under way will be held tomorrow night (Wednesday) at the Hote! Workers’ Hall, 138 West 51st Street at 9 o'clock. P. Paseal Cosgrove, organizing see- retary of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union and H. M. Wieks, labor journalist, will be among the speakers who wil! point out the vital necessity for the im- “Four detectives are accompanying | mediate organization of the thous- sident Winnick thru the fur| ands of workers in the various hotels, each day now, and the of-| restaurants and clubs in New York ficers join in threatening the workers | City. with beatings if they do not proceed to register with the Ingernational at once. The workers are not being ter- rorized, but these reactionary forces are making every attempt to per- secute them.” Others commenting on this confer- ence thot possibly the American Fed- eration of Labor was seeking a little publicity on its red-baiting work so! § that it could make an appeal for funds. It is rumored that cash has | not been rolling in very fast for this | | good cause, Resolve that we call upon the labor ‘Tax Driver Gets Low (Journalism Class Pay; Forced to Serve Same Low Characters | The taxi-driver’s life is a hard one, | pay is bad, and his fares are often very bad, says Sol Auerbach, winner} of the New York Nation’s first prize | for a write-up of American college) student’s summer work. | Tn his article Auerbach wrote about yy: “We were paid on purely commis- | sion basis of 33 1/8 percent. The} cab people had the Sesquicentennial hysteria. There were twice as many Yellow Cabs on the strect as in a normal summer. The average pay was about $20 a week to which can be added $10 in tips. Further: “] ‘played’ regularly, after 1 a. m. the busiest street intersection of West Philadelphia, On the second story of one corner building was a large gambling joint. A few doors along, a saloon. A door or two on the other side, a cafe where drink and women were for sale, Two girls also ‘played’ that. corner regularly. Every night they were there and every night they were ‘picked up,’ sometimes by cops, sometimes by Many a cat on that corner to a cab to be} taken home, Men have stepped into | my cab to go home and have picked) a companion out of the street. I have | had to lift drunks out of niy cab who, were so powerless that they could) not open the door, During the day this corner is the business and trad- ing center for the respectable fami- lies of West Philadelphia. These things do not happen once a week, | parts of tho city. long in all Leaders Seek Cure for Economic Depression in Jewish Land of Promise There are more than 10,000 work- ers unemployed in Palestine, it was disclosed at a bon voyage dinner to Chaim Weizmann, Zionist leader, at the Waldorf-Astoria -vesterday, A number of speakers favored enlisting the financial aid of wealthy Jews who have not yet contributed to the Zion- ist movement. sf ~ Weizmann soon leaves for Palestine at the head of a commission to study ponditions there, Tonight Hearing { Arnold Roller and Eugene Lyons! will lead the labor journalism class at, Workers’ School, 108 East i4th St.,| top floor, at 8 tonight. Lyons will take the class over the news of the week, telling how news-| Ppapermen are eovering the big stories, Rolicr—an expert on Latin-Ameri- can journalism—will tell of the news- paper world of South America. Censors Make Progress | ALBANY, N. Y., Mareh 21-—Re- publican leaders have given their ap-| proval to the Wales bill strengthen-| ing penal law provisions against the! production of indecent plays. The! measure is scheduled for passage in| the final days of the session it devel-| oped today. | The bill makes all persons con- | nected with a production found inde- | cent, guilty of misdemeanors, and/ provides for the closing for one year, of theatres in which such shows are staged. It also makes a single scene or passage in the script of a play suf- ficient for the barring of the whole! production, | Telephone Dry Dock $069. Meet me at the Publie Art Dairy Restaurant and Vegetarian | 75 SECOND AVE. NEW YORK Opposite Public Theatre DENTISTS, Tel, Orchard 3783 Strietly by Appointment R.LK ESSLE R 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor, Eldridge st. New York Tel. Lenigh @e2. Dr. AB AM MARKOFF SURGDON DENTINT ttice Hourk: 0:30-12 A. M, 2-8 P, M. ORS eae #riday and Sunday, 249 BAST 116th stRpet, 'e. Cor. Second Ay: New York. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L, Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 Preliminary organization work has heen going on for some time, accord- ing to Cosgrove, and the prospects for the formation of locals throughout the city is very bright. The working conditions and. wages of the hotel and restaurant workers in this city are worse than that of any other group of workers in New York. In many cases 12 hours is the regular work-day, and wages fiuctu- ate, in the ease of the waiters, from nothing to $10 a week; countermen | and bys boys work for equally miser- | able pay. 'Night Workers Section Of Party to Meet Wed. A general membership meeting of the night workers section of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held tomorrow: afternoon (Wednes- day) at 3 o’clock at 108 East 14th Street. Especially important business will | be taken up at that time, according jto J. Mares, section organizer, and eachiunit organizer will be expected to bring a gomplete list of the mem- bership of various respective units, together with addresses and standing. eet. 5 sak Roller and pat Th I S Week re is The Daily Worker Benefit Week at the Theatre Guild’s Production of George Bernard Shaw’s PY GMALION and call— Have you your reservations? J If not, make for the nearest. telephone STUYVESANT 17770 + Reservations must be made at least three days in ad- vance thru The DAILY WORKER Office, 108 East 14th Street, if we are to benefit. HELP THE DAILY WORKER GROW. SEE THIS PROVOKING COMEDY. BRING YOUR FRIENDS ALONG. —~‘ee ee