The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1927, Page 2

| : Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1927 BATTLEFIELDS OF OLD WONT GET ANY CASH Propose Pay Raise For Governor Smith By ROBERT MITCHELL | | From the very first moment, it be- {came evident that the Interborough | had only agreed to the settlement in offer to gain time for its customary junion smashing preparations, ALBANY March 24, — Politics! | “Yellow-dog,” individual ¢ontraets Jeaders in the legislature here are | Vere immediately distributed among ‘ ae ve old| the men, which the workers were| Siow Sey Aleipang cul daanghteshe |forced to sign on the pain of dismis- battlefields than they are to create | o ny new ones. It seems that New York| #4! Scores were fired for refusing. state has decided that it needed some | Perhaps hundreds were suspended. of the “historic spots” in connection In the meantime the work of gather- with the celebration this summer of |ing strikebreakers began with fever- the sesquicentennial of the Revoli- | ish haste. The men were all for im- tionary War of 1776. Republican poli- | mediate action which would undoubt- ticians who have the say in the leg-|@dly have saved the situation but the islature now-a-days refuse, however, | ingrained “psychology” of the inter- to 0. K. the propdsal for $380,000 national officers towards conciliation, nite instructions to abuse and insult the workers. Thugs, gunmen and spies rode the railroad everywhere. On the Third Avenue “L,” three hundred more men walked out when ordered to “break- in” the strikebreakers. Still Fitzger- ald refused to sanction a strike, In- stead he sent telegram after tele- gram to Mayor Mitchell, who refused to answer, : The Company Union. Leaderless, confused, isolated, the men continued to leave their work in groups during the last days of Aug- ust, In the meantime the Interbor- ough was yet to play another of its trump cards, On the 17th of Aug- ust it circulated a notice of the for- embrgce all the men of thé road. asked for by members of their own | their incapacity for direct and dras- party. } tie action necessary to defeat un-| Must Beg Cash. | scrupulous capital, led to the loss of | With the only alternative now be-|the passing opportunity, pany union of which considerable has already been said. Mr. Ivy Lee, mation of a company brotherhood to} This was the beginning of the com-| ing to pass the hat among sympathetic | friends of past American revolutions, | there is a serious prospect that the | D. Rockefeller, Jr., had been given a |“leave of absence” to work out the plan. Membership in the brother- Right Cause—Wrong Tacties. Fitzgerald permitted the days to {then the private secretary of John | Organize the Traction Workers ARTICLE XI.--THE 1916 STRIKE; DOUBLECROSSED! Unanimous For Strike. That evening the men were called to a mass meeting and voted unani- mously to strike. At the completion |of the vote the thousands assembled at the East 86th Street Lyceum, shouted uninterruptedly for ten min- utes before quiet could be regained. The sentiment for organization and strike was so great that it exceeded jall previous bounds. For the mom- {ent it overcame all the uncertainty and confusion of the past few weeks; it rose above the mistakes of leader- ship and the omissions of policy. But it could not overcome the advantage of that fatal month of preparation which had been given the Interbor- | ough, Fight To Finish. The position of the company was not long in doubt: “We are going to the mat with this thing,” said ‘Rough Stuff’ Quackenbush, “and fight it out even if we have to discharge every |} man in our employ and hire new ones, There are a lot of Columbia college | students who want jobs as ticket! enly official contribution to the cele- | 8° by with mere statements to the bration Will be $19,000 given by Ren-|Papers and charges of “bad faith.” selaer county and a speech by Presi-| The Interborough proceeded to build dent Coolidge at the Bennington ¢ele- | quarters in which to feed its strike-| bration on Angust 16th. | breakers and established recruiting | Eight Baumes ‘Bills Pass. stations in the principal cities, par-| Bight of the 40 bills urged by the | ticularly Binghampton and Chicago. | Baumes Crime Commission have al-| Then another very interesting} yeady gone in defeat. Opponents to-|event took place. Mayor Mitchell| day were continuing the drive against | came in on the picture as a “inter-| the remaining ones, and predicting | ested” party to the dispute, secured that more than half of the entire num-|a promise from Fitzgerald that no ber would never become law. | strike would be called: before he was | At the same time seven recommen- | notified, and left for an extended trip | fons of the commission were ap-| to visit his military friends at Platts-| ai proved by the assembly. The senate | burg! Men Strike Anyway. hood was to be “voluntary” and by| Sellers and choppers.” secret ballot, | On his part, Fitzgerald adopted an Scores were again discharged for | ¢dually firm attitude, now that hos- refusing to join the company. union; | tilities were finally forced upon him: | others were beaten up and stabbed by the paid thugs. In all not over a/into a state of intense confusion to} few hundreds signed either the “yel-|f"ee the black men. Now, if I can low-dog” contract or its step-son, the| fee a whole lot of white men by company union application. The In-| throwing the city of New York into terborough announced, however, that | “0D. 4 o 0 9,800 out of 11,700 men had voted in|, “When they deal with horse thieves favor of the fake “Brotherhood.” | im Arizona, they have a very simple Stil Negotiate |method—they hang them. It is not s jnecessary to h Mr. Even under these conditions, Fitz- ry to hang Mr. Hedley, for a every time he opens his mouth he gerald continued to “negotiate” with | hangs himself.” sf | “In 61 the government was thrown} confusion, then, by God, 1 will do it.”| MEET TO BLUFF THEIR WORKERS Can’t Carry Out Threat To Deport Strikers The Barge and Boat Owners’ Asso- ciation called a meeting of their mem- bers shortly after the Cullen Coal and Fuel Co. began to terrorize its strik- |ing workers back to their jobs with fear of deportation. This Barge and Boat Owners’ Asso- ciation is a strange phenomenon on the labor horizon in so far as it ap- pears and disappears with the coming and passing of all strikes or attempts at organization in the ranks of the severely exploited barge workers and boatmen. The Barge and Boat Own- ers’ Association in short exists only for the purpose of breaking up any effort on the part of the workers to better their working and living ¢ondi- | tions on the floating hell holés in which they are imprisoned during the | period of their sporadic employment. Cowardly Tactics. | The owners of the barges and boats | which take the cargoes of coal and! |similar material between the New |Jersey and New York river and sea |ports are represented by Stevie, the {agent for one of the largest contrac- tors in this part of the country, name- ly. Henry Steers and Co. Now they have come together to discuss ways and means to break up! the spirit of the suffering bargemen| |and their families. | This is the latest move in the most | | cowardly and filthy tactics that the | | corporation heads in the industry have |for the Advance of Sun Yat Senism | JOIN IN RUTHE Ruthenberg memorial meetings held in different sections of the country continue, At all of these gatherings local Ruthenberg Recruit-| ing Drives are started te enroll new) members into the Communist move- ment as part of the task of fulfilling the last words of Comrade Ruthen- berg: “Let’s fight on!” Reports of meetings held at San Francisco, Cal. and Jamestown, N. Y. follow: * * * Play Funeral March, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 24.—Several hundred workers re- sponded to the call for the Ruthen-| berg Memorial. meeting which was}! held at 1212 Market Street. | The mecting opened with the play-! ing of the Red funeral march, during | which time the audience stood in| silence, Representatives from the! Hindustan, Gadar Party (India’s! National Party) the Central Execu-| f | tive Committee of the Kuomintang o: the United States, and the Society in America, made this memorial meeting a truly international one and | emphasized the point that the} struggle against imperialism’ will be} carried on, Edgar Owen and Malcolm Bruce} were the speakers for the Workers | (Communist) Party. The Freiheit| Gesangverein closed the meeting by | singing the International. The Dis-) trict Organizer, Emanual Levin was) chairman of the meeting. Letter Froni Hindus. | The following letter from the Hin- dustan Gadar Party was read at the) BARGE OWNERS — ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COASTS NBERG MEMORIALS N. Y. Pioneers Honor Ruthenberg; to Launch Big Membership Drive Every section of the Young Pioneer League of American, New York dis- triet, will commemorate the death of Charles E. Ruthenberg, Saturday, March 26th. At these meetings the Young Pioneers of New York will pledge themselves to carry on the work for which Comrade Ruthenberg sacrificed his life. The Young Pioneers of America is part of the working class movement and for them Ruthenberg’s last words “Build the Party,” mean also “Build the Pioneers.” This Saturday, com- memorating the death of Comrade Ruthenberg, the hero of workers and their children, the New York district of Young Pioneers of America is of- ficially opening the Ruthenberg En- rollment Drive. The problem that the Pioneers of New York districts have before thom now is to double their membership, to strengthen their organization, to build the Pioneer movement. The Party and the League must help them to carry out their campaign success- fully. Every workers’ child must belong to the Young Pioneer League of America, the only organization of workers’ children! izer of the. Workers (Communist) Party compared Ruthenberg as @ leader of the workers with Powder- ley of the Knights of Labor, De Leon of the socialist labor party and Debs i has passed three of the “anti-crime” | bills and sent three to committee for : amendment, with the understanding | road were beginning to leave their! are tired of being fooled,” he ad- r |the officials of the Interborough in} More Ruthless Than Directors. In the meantime, the men on the| the hope of averting a strike. “We| It is interesting to note the exact| workers in New York harbor thru| | words of Fitzgerald, because it was their foreign birth are susceptible vic- | of the socialist party. showing that Ruthenberg as a former member of the socialist party and late member | las yet tried. The majority of the meeting. ¥ Dear Comrades: i | ; ag H that Gov. Smith would pave the way for their passage during the closing hours of the session with the aid of emergency messages. Cops Measure Beaten. Two bills strongly approved by Po- lice Commissioner McLaughlin of New York were defeated. One would have compelled former prisoners to report to the authorities once a month after being released. The other called upon prison wardens to notify chiefs of police of the release of all crim- inals, | work in scores and hundreds, enraged | mitted, but on’ August 31st, the jat the events which were going on| was still spent in conference. around them. Four hundred mechan-| The early days of September con: |ies quit work at Van Cortland Park! tinued in this fashion, The strike |when ordered to build barracks for| breaking agency of Bergoff Bros. & | the coming finks and strike breakers.| Wadell, notorious throughout the |“I advised against a strike,” reported | country for its criminal activities, es- | Fitzgerald, “because I gave my word| tablished a new headquarters op- |to Mayor Mitchell that we would give | posite the Hotel Continental, the |him an opportunity to return from! quarters of the Amalgamated offi- | Plattsburg before we took action.” | cials; the Interborough fired the men | But the men refused to wait. The| who put on the September union | company tools ‘were doing all in their | buttons; on September 6th the whole | power to provoke a strike among committee of local officers of the bled account of them that the Inter-| | borough in part has been able to se-| jeure the existing injunction against| |the Traction Workers, The board of directors of the Inter- | borough had drafted a tentative wage | | increase which was to have been pre- sented to the men; they voted in fa- vor of arbitration and no strike. But} without consulting them and in ac-| jtual violation of their command, “Rule or Ruin” Hedley together with Quackenbush had precipitated the Assemblyman Goodrich, of West- isolated sections of the men. The chester, led the attack on the bill) strikebreakers were sent in with defi-| which would have compelled prison- | evs to report to police chiefs after | their release, saying “this would lp a duplicate of the old yellow ticket t Russia.” | Smith Wants Raise. capitalism is a success. With all its The voters of New York state will | little faults we should love it still! | have am opportunity at this fall’s| what matter is millions of people are cleetion to decide whether or not they | murdered in periodic wars because of | think Gov. Alfred E. Smith is putting | this-self-interest? Don’t the few live| in too much time for the pay which |i, luxury? And are not the great | he is getting at present. majority stupid anyway? Why bother im Czar union which’ had been meeting with) strike. Hedley was fired in a body. (To Be Continued.) day}on an entirely misleading and gar-| tims to the merciless courts and the | immigration authorities. Bluff Workers. Of course even under the present \corrupt Tammany administration it) would be impossible to deport the | thousands of workers who are natu- rally involved. | But the bosses take advantage of | the fact that the workers, who are forever tied up to their miserable floating graveyards, never had a chance to gain any sort of education, only in rare cases have been fortunate enough to pass the reading and writ- jeral Secretary of the Workers (Com-} We mourn with you the loss of Comrade C, E. Ruthenberg, the Gen- munist) Party of America, He was} the leader of the revolutionary work- ers in the United States. He was also the leader in the struggle against imperialism, particularly against British imperialism. India is under the yoke of British imperial- ism. It is only the revolutionary workers who can really aid the op- pressed nations: Their loss is our loss. The oppressed nations of the world} \ing stage, and cannot see thru this e \look upon the revolutionary workers | blind. | of the world to assist them in freeing |CURRENT EVENTS #23 ortaneen 6 Men judges, proletarian judges, lcoked into whatever extenuating cireumstances existed and commuted the sentence to ‘life’ imprisonment which means ten years under the laws of the Soviet Union. He was a {Noisy Admiral Ruins | Plan To Get Millions | For Spy Organization CHICAGO, (FP)-+Partly because a convivial admiral spilled the beans at | Seared off rich but gentle donors by |its Washington birthday dinner and/| worker who weakened under temp-| A proposal to amend the state con- stitution to increase the governor's alary from $10,000 to $25,000 was favorably reported by the assembly | rules committee. The committee also reported a pro- posed amendment to the constitution to provide for an executive budget. Local Unions Send Protest Notes to Bethlen, Szecheny The following resolution was passed by Local ‘Painters’ Union 499, to be sent to Count Bethlen, Hungarian minister-president and Count Szech- eny, Hungarian ambassador at Wash- ington. A motion also carried to have a copy of this resolution sent to the New York District Council of Painters for its consideration. The resolution reads as follows: Resolution. “We, the members of Local Union 499, of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, in regular meeting assem- bled, voice our protest against the in- with them? ee Ls UR capitalist editors will ignore the Falls, Dohenys and Sinclairs that plundered the naticnal domain, the Fall who scooted away from his graft tryst with Doheny, the Fall who accepted a gift of $100,000 from one oil baron and a $25,000 herd of cattle from another and yet lives the life of a feudal lord on a splendid ranch in| | salubricus New Mexico, so respected that his indignant fellow-republicans | States senate as an act of redemp- tion. - They will also steer clear of Daugherty, Jess Smith, Colonel Mil- }ler and divers other pillars of the | Harding administration who pocketed | over $300,000 out of their tinkering with the Alien Property Custodian- ship. Those lads were not shot. Only ha'f-shot. | ae. ae | HE Soviet Union is not yet free from the virus of corruption. | But corruption is a legacy from the old system which the Soviet Union is trying te replace by Socialism. But |corruption is not indigenous to So- | tation. jall the good things of live while he A worker who was denied toiled under the capitalist system. He was not of the stuff that martyrs are made, but he had a creditable record in the past. He was a good |union man and pulled his pound in the Revolution. His life was saved. NEW morality is being developed growing amidst foul weeds this new in the Soviet Union. Like a lily psychological growth is affected by threaten to return him to the United sp poisonous miasma from the putrid and decadent morality of the capital- ist world. In the new world the urge his belligerency, the American Citi- |eampaign for a $2,000,000 cash foun- announce, while stating that the work | will go on in spite of the crimp put in the begging campaign. So far as independent investigation has revealed, the work has consisted |in good measure of maintaining an active blacklist of liberal, pacifist and labor speakers like Jane Addams and |others. It has in a number of in- stances successfully interfered to pre- vent the liberals from speaking. It is associated more or less closely by interlocking directorates with military jzenship Foundation is giving up its; dation for its work. So its officers | to effort will not be the acquisition of | wealth but the urge to excel in one | or other fields that add richness to | life. When the fear of want is lifted | from the human soul, the generous, | open types will come to the front and the foxy, mean, Rockefeller type will be relegated to the rear and ultimately fade out of the bielogical picture. spy and industrial espionage organi- zations. $ SANDY FIELD, N. Y., March 24. —Official life in this village was in a veritable uproar today, all be- cause Abe Conklin, village truant of- ficer turned over his duties to his wife yesterday when he became ili. U.S, MOVES TOWARD WAR ON CHINA | Recently Dr. Poland of the Marble Collegiate’ Church, after a short sur- vey of the situation in which the barge and boatmen find themselves and their families, returned to his Fifth Ave- nue Cathedral and was moved to an \inspirational outburst, in which he |made the subject of thé boatmen’s | conditions, the theme of his sermon, | drawing an allusion to hell on earth, lete. This same gentleman, however, jalso warned the workers against the | sin of striking for their just demands. He painted the picture so vividly, however, that one of his wellpaunched congregation who happened to have been born with the sum of $20,000,000 to his name, was moved to see the lars a year to educate the heathen savages in Africa and Asia. He came to the conclusion that there were more heathens here. At another time the Rt. Rev. Dr. Murphy came down to see for himself whether the conditions which The DAILY WORKER is depicting in its columns. He also deplored the miserable ex- ‘|istence of the workers on their boats and barges. In conjunction with the honorable Mrs. Barnes of the New York board of education he agreed that tHe wages which the workers to keep the children of the barge mas- ters in school for any length of time. Consequently the New York Board of Education does not discipline the children of the workers on the barges and boats. You can picture for your- this indicates. futility of sending ten thousand dol- | were receiving were hardly sufficient | themselves from their oppressors, the imperialists. In the death of Com- rade Ruthenberg we have lost a great friend who had always taken the side |of the oppressed peoples. | _ Suecessful Conculsion. We know that his work, in the rev- olutionary movement will inspire the |members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and that they will learry on to a successful conclusion the work which: he started. His death calls upon all of us for renewed activity in order to fill the gap caused by his untimely death. Fraternally, (Signed) Munsha Sungh, Hindustan Gadar Party (India’s National Party) * * » Benjamin Among Speakers. JAMESTOWN, N. Y., March 24.— A Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting was held here at Swedish Brotherhood Hall. of the Communist Party was thé true leader of the workers, and the one whose passing will be most deplored. Revolutionary Music. A trio gave a fine program of rev- olutionary and classical music ap- propriate to the occasion. A number of Ruthenberg’s books and pamphlets were sold and a substantial collec- tion taken. One young man signed an application to join the Workers (Communist) Party, <2 8 His Legacy. Workers Party, Yonkers, N. Y.— Words and expressions, are entirely too pale to express our deep and painful feeling on account of the | sudden death of our great leader and teacher, next to Comrade Lenin, Com- rade Charles E. Ruthenberg who de- {parted from us in the prime of his life and glorious achievements in the building of the Workers (Com- |; munist) Party of America. We miss him immensely and hereby unani- mously accept the legacy left to us by him, his will pronounced just be- fore he died. We accept it and swear to fulfill his last words, “LET'S FIGHT ON.” * 8 & Williamsburg Workers. Williamsburg Jewish Workers Club Seeretary.| yy, We, the members of the Williams- burg Jewish Progressive Workers Club, mourn the loss of Comrade C, E. Ruthenberg. We pledge ourselves to devote our energy in following the teachings of Comrade Ruthenberg. Herbert Benjamin, district organ- By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press) Gathering information about the activities of women in the American labor movement, Sushama Tagore, niece of the Hindu poet Rabindranath TAGORE’S NIECE STUDIES WOW TRADE UNION PROGRESS IN INDIA iRead The Daily Worker Every Day | school for workers’ children, is one she hopes to-vee first hand, she told Nellie M. Seeds, executive director, Manumit’s support comes from trade unions and might suggest possibilities of a similar enterprise in EN WORKERS; REPORTS — largely | self what Tagore, is a visitor in this city and India. Union Shows Way. human treatment accorded to fifty |cialism as it is to capitalism. Under Hungarian workingmen and citizens | capitalism the acquisition of wealth of that country, arrested recently by |i: considered the noblest and highest order of the Hungarian government) pursuit, He who concerns himself for their protest against the dicta-| y it} ating something for the use torial regime of the Bethlen govern-| *, ohaageo Megs ne revolutionary army in Nanking, an important city on the Yangtse River which fell to the attackers without the firing of a shot. Early reports had it that the situation was peaceful and that there was no danger facing the foreign residents of the city. ment, “We demand that these men *be protected from the brutal tortures and terrorism of the gendarmery and that they be tried in an open public court instead of the special military court of Admiral Horthy. “We further demand that the work. ing class of Hungary be granted their right as citizens of their country, with the right to organize for their pro- tection and collective bargaining.” Other protest notes have been sent to Szecheny and Bethlen by the Struc- tural Iron Workers’ Union, various needle trade locals, the Sick and Death Benefit Society, the I. L. D. and many others. A mass-demonstration is to be held in front of the Hun- garian embassy in Washington for the purpose to arouse a demand for the liberation of the persecuted Hun- garian workers, Pastor Convicted Of Girl’s Delinquency SOUTH BEND, IND., March 24.— Samuel Milton Beckwith, formerly pastor of the River Park Christian Church, and recently .of Niagara Falls, N, Y., and Boston and points in Maine, today was convicted by jury of contributing to the delinquency of oe a Thomas, 14, and ordered fined $125. of society with no thot of self is re- |garded by the general public as a ‘nut and more often than not he dies |in a shack, alone and forlorn. The acquisitive babbitt with the mentality of a bull frog rolls around in the | Rolls-Royee and smokes cigars on the | veranda of his own home. He is the | man who is out for himself. “Getting his” is his credo. How he gets it does |not matter unless he gets caught, | This is not the case in the Soviet Union. | * * & ERE is a story by way of illustra- | tion: Two dejected individuals \dragged their half-petrified limbs | after them into the waiting room of a | Moscow prison. They were accom- |panied by soldiers with long, naked | |swords. The governor of the prison, ‘a big tawny-haired fellow who lived in Boston for many years and re- turned to fight in the Revolution, in- |terviewed the prisoners in a kindly |manner, What were they here for? |One has committed murder and was sentenced to serve five years with so many concessions for good behaviour that the time would be cut to half. And. then there was always the pos- sibility of a pardon. But his comrade in distress was a Communist who was employed as a cashier in a Govern- ment store and could not account for 15,000 roubles. He was sentenced to death, } It is believed here that the bombardment marks the begin- ning of the interventionist policy which the British and American commanders in Chihese waters have been unofficially threatening for some time. Excuse For Shelling. The excuse for the bombard- ment was that several American and. British foreigners ‘were killed by the Nationalist troops, but it is more likely that north- ern troops were using the Bri- tish and American possessions as bases of operations against the Nationalists and that the latter attempted to dislodge them. There is no attempt to conceal the chagrin of the imperialists over the fall of the cities of Nanking‘and Chin- kiang. Only yesterday the report was spread that the northernerg Had won a big victory and that the National- ists were forced to retreat twenty miles from Nanking with heavy loss- es. / The Nationalists now have virtual control over the entire Yangtse val- ley. oe * * * Claim Nationalists Killed LONDON, March 24. — According to the Daily Mail’s Shanghai corres- pondent the Durhani Battalion 59 Nationalists in an engagement last Tuesday. The number of British cas- ualties was not given. i a * * Deliver Ultimatum WASHINGTON, March 24, — Ad- miral_ Williams commanding the American fieet in Chinese waters cab- |led the navy department today that |the British and United States com- anders at Nanking delivered an ul- cimatum to the Nationalist leaders demanding the protection of all for- eigners, and private. property, that the Nationalist general in eommand report on board the British warship Emerald before 11 P. M. tonight and that all foreigners be escorted to the ig by ten o’cloeck tomorrow morn- ing. Threaten Move West Unless this ultimatum was obeyed Admiral Williams said that Nanking would be considered a military area, which means that the British and the United States naval and military fore- es at Nanking would wage war against the Chinese city. While military action is being taken against the Nationalists by the United States, Kellogg still maintains the fic- tion that this country is neutral in Killed the Chinese efvil war. The Independent Tidewater Boat and Bargemen’s Union advocates the organization of the barge and boat- men into the ranks of the union. In this way they will be able to fight the bosses and their wiles. They will then be able to get a minimum wage scale of $100 a month instead of $80 or $90 a month and while it is true that this is by no means a sufficient wage scale for the barge workers, it would be the first step to the gaining of the proper working and living con- their families, Cossack Leader Is Good Friend of Bootleggers (Continued from Page One) league with the bootleggers and other dispensers of vice. ) The pastors are supporting Capt. of detectives Ben ‘Turner who was associated with Prieskel in clubbing and beating the strikers. Turner is now a candidate for commissioner. When it is a question of being elee- ted to office, they apparently have split and are working on their own, Bootleggers’ Friend. The charges against Preskicl in the form of seven sworn affidavits prepared by a private detective work- ing for the pastors’ association charge Preskiel with leading money to saloonkeepers to buy liquor, also that gambling is openly being conducted and in one of the hotels where the investigator visited he was openly ac- cousted by wonien. ditions for barge and boatmen~and | plans to extend her research work to other parts of the United States. Miss Tagore is particularly inter- ested in educational work, especially for workers and workers’ children, tor she anti her sister are devoting themselves to elementary educational work in India. With friends she dis- cusses the problems of her own land, as she carefully observes what is be- ing done in America. Women Active Unionists. Says Miss Tagore: ‘ “In India these women who are organized in unions are in the same unions with men workers, as in the Workers’ education is still unknown, textile mills, partcularly of Bombay, are best organized. They successfully fought a i2%% wage re in 1925. Women also work in the paddy mills where rice is ground. Miss Tagoro wants to tell thcse Indian women workers about American workers’ activities.” ; Educational! work in the unions particularly interested Miss Tagore. As yet only 1% of the Hindu women (and 8% of the men) are schooled, Workers’ education is still unknown, since the union movement is so new. But Miss Tagore and her sister are striving to increase the elementary education facilities for the millions Industrialization of India is brealte ing down the caste system to a great extent, says Miss Tagore. In the fac- tories men and women of many castes work, together disregarding the old taboos, except in regard to mar- riage. In some instances the caste serves as a rough equivalent to a trade union, she relates. If the laun- dry caste decides to charge more for washing clothes, those who employ these workers find themselves faced with a “closed shop” and must pay. | ‘WEAF Charged With , Censoring Radio Talks WASHINGTON, March tion WEAF of New charged with’ mission by representative’ Celler, democrat of New York, f f HEADS, for PIMPLES, BLA LARGH PORES reckles. rash, tteli in, e026) ff ubborn aint ane ot ane Frade Re ule tit 1.00, Sola on money back gui of workers and small’ farthers of India. They have a girls’ school in Caleutta. Interested in Education, New methods of education especi- interest Miss Tagore. Sho is iat is cas acs ante NEW WAY LABORATORIES 270 Went 43rd St. New York City 24 York establishing a ve ship over radio speeches in/a pro- #, test filed with the federal com-