The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1927, Page 5

DUBINSKY IS EXPOSED ON THE 25th jPiouric Wore ANNIVERSARY OF LOCAL UNION 10, Zs, Osszatin seats | | Meeting This Evening The Statement of the Cutters’ Welfare League on the 25th} A mass meeting for the purpose THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1927 Page Five Post-War Conditions Brot | About Housing Situation;| SWEATSHOPS REEK WITH FILTH IN BROWNSVILLE DISTRICT; BOSSES FLOURISH GUNS AND CLUBS By SAMUEL CAMIEL Non-unionism with low wages and|tary and dangerous conditions for a sweatshop conditions is flourishing in| mere pittance a week. ing all hours and under most unsani- The bosses are also complaining | Anniversary of the Cutters’ Local Union No. 10, International | Ladies’ Garment ( The cutters of the women’s gar- | ment industry are now celebrating the 25th anniversary of the existence of Local 10, In these 25 years the cutters’ local has gone thru many struggles from which much can be ‘leamed for the future. In addition to the so-cailed “his- ‘tory” of Local 10 as given out by the present administration much more can be added to it. Organized in 1901, Local 10 has ‘had various administrations. There were time when Tammany Hall con- trolled the union, However, rotten the Tammany Hall administration of those days was, the rights of the membership were not violated as is being done by the present so-called “socialist” administration. The Du- binsky administration has reached such a state of betrayal and. terror against the memborship, that the for- mer Tammany Hall administrations | in comparison with the present were idealists and good union leaders. Will Praise Themselves. At their present celebration the Abe Cahans and the Sigmans will de- liver beautiful paens to the Dubinsky | operation Dubinsky made. in order to| Might as well hang a person for administration for its empty vic- tories, The main sermon will be de- livered by the second handed “knock- out Dubinsky”. He will tell the cut- ters of his great achievements aecom- plished for the workers during the five or six years in which he was | in office. He will tell them “1001! tales”, but he will not tell the truth. | Will Dubinsky tell: the cutters of Workers’ Union. { The situation created at that time |was such that the dissatisfaction in | the ranks of the cutters almost caus- ed Dubinsky’s resignation. Also af- | ter the successful fight of the Joint | Action Committee when all the locals | decided to pay thirty-five cents dues, | | Dubinsky demanded of the cutters forty cents, which demand they also | rejected. As in the above instance | | Dubinsky succeeded by fraud in put-| | ting thru his proposition. Total Failure. Dubinsky can not belittle | strength of the progressive opposi- | tion, for the official records in the} local will pxove all his attempts at! annihilating this opposition, whic’ h were total failures, His first at-| sive opposition was made upon his | ; return from the Boston convention of | the I. L. G. W, U, He then suspended | for two years the most active mem-| | bers of the local such as Cooper,} | Steinberg and others. for the “crime” | of being part of the progressive | group. Horowich was latter suspend- {ed for a similar “crime”. The final rid himself of the opposition resulted | | in 26 active members being suspended | | from the local, These 26 active mem-| bers were suspended for no other} | crime than that of being staunch! |fighters against his strike-breaking | and betrayal of the cloak and dress makers as well as against the cutters. Progressives Are Powerful. At the present the progressive of beginning an intensive campaign to organize all unorganized photo- graphic workers in New York will | be held tonight at Labor Temple, | Ith St. and Second Ave. | A number of prominent speakers will talk on the general problem of labor organization and on the defi- nite work before the photographers of the city, [Darrow and Dry Chief To Debate April 23 | | | | | | Clarence Darrow, noted Chicago the lawyer, will tell Wayne B, Wheeler, proved by previous articles in thi head of the Anti-Saloon League, just! series, why professional _prohibitionists make him sick, when he appears in debate at Carnegic Hall on April 23 Darrow is going to maintain that | erage liquor traffic is detrimental to| the public welfare,” and Wheeler will attempt to deny it, In commenting on the forthcoming | battle Darrow declared that “the pro- hibitionists are the only bunch of fanaties, I think, who are hell-bent) on poisoning a person for breaking a! law which is only a misdemeanor. | swearing. Darrow Discusses Criminals, Clarence Darrow speaking at the New School of Social Research, on the subject of “Criminal Law and the Criminal” stated that juries were! | very often composed of twelve unin- | classes telligent men who were called upon | | being rehabilitated, so they emigrated {to America, were admitted through iF TenantsEnemiesExposed | “What and who brought about the present housing situa-| tion?” is the question answered iv DAILY WORKER housing investigator. ticles in the series, the proof of th | will be revealed, the danger of the slums to the health and morals ‘of the inhabitants will be described, and the methods by which \the situation is being met will be cited, * By WILL DE KALB. That a crime has heen committed | against the public weal has been) Now the question of para-} nount importance is, “What and who! aused the housing shortage?” After the war, the American expe- ditionary forces were demobilized in |tempt to rid himself of the progres-|‘The National Prohibition of the bev-jand.near New York. This brought many new pro&pective tenants into the! clutches of the landlord. Post-war de- pression made it difficult for people to get jobs elsewhere, so they flocked to New York, “wonder city of the world,” as it has been press-agented. Workers in foreign countries found the rehabilitation period too difficult to live in, since only the wealthy were llis Island, and they settled in New! rk. Conditions became unbearable down on the farm, so many country- folk left their homesteads and came to the big city, All in all, New York became a lodestone that attracted all and races of people, all anxious to work, make a living, and 2 today’s article by Will de Kalb,\ In the subsequent ar- e ewistence of a housing shortage National Association of Real Estate Boards; S. C. Leech, president of the Long Island Real Estate Board; harles Partridge, president of the Rea) Estate Board of Brooklyn, the Real Estate Board of the Bronx, the Real Estate Board of Staten Island, and the Real Estate Owners’ Protec- tive Association, an organization that guarantees to employ legal trickery to enable a landlord to continue his gouging policies. And the tenants have other enemies, | in their own camp. There is former | alderman, Louis Zeltner, a leader in} the East Side Board of Trade, who denies the existence of slums, and op- poses legislation that would do away with them. There is Harry Sehlacht, president of the Downtown Chamber of Commerce, who has opposed legis- | lation to curb the rent-gouging of | landlords in the poorer districts. Vicious Enemies, Most vicious of all, though, are Senator Reiburn and Assemblyman Gavagan, from Manhattan, who were the leading opponents to the emer- to decide whether or not a thirteenth |live good, normal and produetive lives, #&ney rent laws, attacking them as man was worse or better than they the standard of production that he | 8Toup represents a powerful and de-| wore, obtained for them from the bosses— how many of the cutters are getting the three dollar raise—will he also| speak of his betrayal of the last agreement? How many cutters will be deprived of their bread and but- ter? Will he tell of the pogrom that the International in conjunction with }termined opposition whieh put fear) into the hearts of Dubinsky and his! clique. The progressive cutters group | |has for the past four years sunk its | roots deep into the ranks of the cut- | ters receiving great rank and file. All of the above facts will surely Teachers Union To Put Up Fight Over Firing Support from the Of Wagner, Prize Poet Rents were raised. Landlords Reorganize. But the landlords sensed this new) demand for rooms. They knew that| the line of applicants would increase, | instead of diminish. He saw his! chance. He re-organized his dying organizations. He started new ones. | Tenants, who} could not be raised high enough, were | No .repairs were ever to| “class legislation.” They said they | were proposed to benefit one class at | e expense of the other. But the politicians would not grant that the laws are made for the benefit of the | majority of the people. ‘They were | frank and blunt, and admitted that | laws are made for the moneyed class. To make their effrontery more ac- ceptable to their real estate friends, were locked tight. Only after five min- Brownsville ¢foak contracting shops. | This section of the city has become a} ' Thele shops are losing propositions center for small competing contract 5 and many are going out of busi: shops. There are two or three hun- | through eer necessity. The cont dred scattered throughout the district | tor blam the jobber for his plight employing about two thousand work-|These jobbers have large, beautifully ers, most of whom are non-union. | ynished of. and show-rooms and Many of these shops are located in| ge stock: room. They do no ma wooden shacks which long ago were| facturing and employ no clothing condemned as dangerous fire hazards. | workers. Brownsville Cloak Sweatshops These jobbers are the masters of.the Visiting such a shop on East. New! contractors. By having the co ce York Avenue, the writer climbed two | tors compete nst each other, the flights of shaky steps and found no u lds the whip over safety in attempting to hold on a ed of paying a mini- broken banister. A Je gas jet.) mum pr ‘or the garments which he flickering in the lov all was the | needs. on-union help employed only source of illumination. A fire by the contractors, ar the many in this timber-box would undoubtedly »anufaéturers w 2 now going into result in a loss of many workers’ lives. | the jobbing busine to evade the union cause much unemployment among the union workers. Jobbers Indifferent Doors Locked The doors of the contractors factory | utes of persuasion and of assurance A jobber told me: “Let them ruin was I permitted to enter. Here I was | ihemselves if they like. Why should greeted a strange sight. Two!} worry if they cut each other's men held revolvers in their fists and another had a large, lead pipe poised on his shoulders ready to strike any| makes them. In this case the con- anweleome intruders. tractor is the cheapest. He can turr The loft was about sixty feet long! out the work at a cheaper cost to me and forty feet wide. A rank ofor,|ihen can the union workers, And obviously coming from the toilets, | furthermore, I am completely rid of came to my nostrils as soon as I was | (he union nuisance.” permitted to enter the loft. The! This is typical of all the jobbers. It wooden floor was dirty and some of| js they who cause the miserable con- the boards were loose. Four smal! | ditions foun sweat-shops. windows, none open, were the only; A union wo aid to me: “The ible means of ventilation. | union-worker in the ladies’ cloak in- Five Italian women and two men| dustry should be awakened to the were hard at work, never once lifting | facts and make a united effort to see their eyes from the garments they | that all of the worker expioiting shops were making. Later I learned from {are shut down.” one of them that they were non-union workers and that they earned from $25.00 to $45.00 a week for about 55 hours labor. Dangerous Shop Conditions This condition was found to be the same in many other shops that were visited. Men and women were work- throats? If I can get my garments made cheaply I don’t give a damn who Dies From Landry's Disease. FALL RIVER, } March 27. Gill Estrella, vietim of Landry’s disease, over whom a desperate fight had been waged to keep him alive for the last several days, died at 7:40 o'clock tonight. the administration of Local 10 are| not find any place in the speeches condueting against the cloak and/of the Dubinskys and Sigmans and/ dressmakers. Will he mention what 0t in the so-called “history” of Lo- _vesults the pogrom has already|¢al 10 which has been published by | brought to the eutters? Will he point) the administration. ton, Tenn., with the discharge of Charles A. Wagner, a young poet, #raternal greetings were exchang- |evicted, ed Saturday between Brooklyn, N. Y.,|bring a frown to the brow of an and the sleeply little town of Day-|powerful landlord. all-| the assemblyman, with the endorse- were the|Ment of the senator, introduced a legislator and the jurist. All he had/ bill into the house to protect the to do was gather in the coin. | apartments renting at $20 per room, | Then the era of rent-gouging be-|@nd take them outside the sphere of | gan. In the coldest nights of winter,|the emergency rent laws, It was} His from the Berriman Junior High! out the hundreds of shops which are| The —conglomerated underworld | school. . | no more employing cutters and where | heroes and the poisonous elements | Wagner, a recent graduate of the bosses themselves became the| thrown off from the body cutters? All of the above will sure-| ty be forgotten at the jubilee. | His Own Boys. ' What Dubinsky will speak of is:| that the cutters have been always} yal to his majesty, and in regard to the progressiyé group, that they do not exist, It will not be difficult! for him because those who will be) , gathered at the celebration will ac-| ‘cept anything from him as virgin ' truth, The squeelers of Long Island, the decayed element of the cloak- makers’ union and the gangsters of | Beckerman will swallow everything that Dubinsky utters, hook line and | sinker. What are the real facts regarding the loyalty of the cutters to their “beloved” manager? When we look back to 1924 when the International officials forced upon the membership the fifty cent dues we find that Du- binsky on August 18, 1924 with his/| executive, came to the local meeting! with the recommendation for fifty! cent dues. After all his pleadings the membership indignantly rejected the recommendations. 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The cut- ters—rank and file—who lived thru all the struggles and are really in- | terested in the welfare of the union should certainly have a real celebra- tion of the 25th anniversary of their union. A celebration of the cutters and for the cutters. Such a celebration will certainly take place at another occasion in the near future, | The present celebration is the Du-| binsky-Sigman clique’s last one in the \ranks of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Boston City Council, Jingo League, Secret Spies, Trail Pioneers BOSTON, March 27.—Boston’s | city eouncil has started another red | seare by asking Mayor Nichols and District Attorney Foley to hunt for distributors of Communist pamph- lets among school children in two working class districts, The In- dustrial Defense Assn. Inc., a pro- fessional patriotic organization, started Councilman Bbbert Wilson on the hunt. Wilson is also seek- ing Governor Fuller's aid through “the secret service branch of the government.” Two Million Married ~ Women Work in U.S. WASHINGTON, March 27 (FP)— Two million married women in the United States are employed at wages in industry, says Mary Anderson, di- rector of the Women’s Bureau, U. 8. Dept. of Labor. This represents an increase of 41 per cent in the last 10 years in thesnumber of married wo- men employed in mechanicalyand man- ufacturing plants. Over 8,500,000 women, according to 1920 census figures, were working in gainful occupations outside their homes. This represented one-fifth of the total number of wage-earners in the country, Over 4,00,000 of these working women were in the produc- ing and distributive trades. CROWDS SEE “BREAKING CHAINS” BENEFIT FOR DEFENSE OF JAILED CLOAKMAKERS AND FURRIERS Over six thousand workers saw the motion picture “Breaking Chains” which was presented yester- day at New Star Casino for the bene- fit of the Defense Fund for impris- oned cloakmakers and furrlers, Before the final showing of the sien had taken place last night, enry Robbins, chairman of the fense Committee, reported that over $600 had been taken in collections, jand that at every the ‘day ba in April, and donations hall was crowded with hundreds of for this, as well as money contribu- people standing, ions for the workers in jail, can be Large Funds For Defense. “Tt was an overwhelming success”, | Columbia, and winner of the Alfred |Knopf prize for the best volume of |verse in 1925, told the Teachers’ nion that he was fired because “he had dared teach the theory of evolu- tion to his pupils,” in the cause of his work as a geography instructor. He declares that the assertion of the fired for “incompetence” is the usual official alibi in delicate cases of this kind, Meanwhile, Dr. Henry R. Linville, head of the Teachers’ Union, an- nounces that he intends making a public issue of the case. Tong Warfare Ended; Peace Pact Is Signed Permanent peace between the war- | ring tongs of Chinese in the United States was declared in a pact signed at a secret meeting yesterday at/ noon. | The peace pact was.signed in a! room at the Hotel Pennsylvania while | squads of policemen paced the corri-| dors and guarded every entrance. It| was received with a jubilant celebra-| tion. Messengers were even then hurrying to the Chinese headquarters | in the five boroughs and the wires were carrying the word to all parts| of the country, Young Building Trades Workers Meet Tuesday A special fraction meeting of Young Workers’ League members who work in the building trades will be held Tuesday evening, March 29, 7 p.m, at 108 East 14th St., Room 46, American Soldiers Kill Each Other Over Gun SAN FRANCISCO March 2 | Two enlisted men at the Fort Scott barracks got into a quarrel today lover the possession of an tuomatic pistol, The fight became serious, and each shot and killed the other. The |dead: Private Perry Holmes of Indi- ‘ana, and Private William O. Escue, of Lynneville, Tenn. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS |said Robbins, “atid altho we cannot Announce any figures until Monday, lit is evident now that we shall be ‘able to add a good sized amount to our fund for the legal defense of our union brothers and the care of their | families.” ‘pringipal of the school that he was| \to “improve” the flat a little before {families were forced on the streets, with all their possessions, because | |they could not meet an additional | raise. People starved to pay the} jlandlord. As many as a dozen lived, in one room. ‘Two and three families | j occupied @ne three-room apartment, | meant only for one. Boarders were taken in, in addition to the family, | and morals were thrown by the board. | People lived in-a squalor and filth that | almost belied the fact that this is the | twentieth century, H Legislators Revenge. | Then the emergency rent laws, after jmuch agitation, were passed. The | landlords’ organizations had a power- |ful lobby that made days of debate necessary before the bill received a) majority. Many law-makers did not} attend the sessions so that they would| not have to declare themselves. But the public demanded relief. The law-makers knew that their chances for re-election were not worth anything if they did not remedy the; housing situation. The emergency rent laws were passed and the rent- gouging activities of the landlords were curbed. . Laws Curb Gougers. The landlord could gouge almost as much as ever, though. Only, if he raised the rent too high, the tenant could fight him in court, He also had | he could raise beyond the limit fixed by law, And if a judge who had poli- tical aspirations was sitting on the bench, he occasionally turned down the graft offered by the landlords’ organization, and decided against him, So the landlord had to wateh his step. But always his organizations were be- hind him, fighting for him, conniving new ways to beat the tenants, and conferring with legal experts to find ways and means of breaking the law, Who are the men, and organizations | who brought about the housing situa tion? Who are the men responsible) for the high rents paid by the work- | ers even today? Right at the out- set, I would mention Stewart Browne, | president of the United Real Estate wners’ Association, and untiring ighter for the “rights” of the land- lord. For the past ten years, Browne has headed his_organization, and it is freely admitted that there is none who can succeed him. Browne, The Lobbyist. At every session of the legislature, Browne is to be found, lobbying, talk- ing, pleading, conniving, to get laws passed and quashed, all to the fayor| and for the benefit of the landlord, Browne has as his lieutenants Charles W. Eidt and Ernest N. Adler, two of the cleverest realtors inv the city, A diabolical triumvirate, if. one con- siders the tenant’s side of the ques- tion, The “big-moneyed” gang, however, is the Real Estate Board of New York, It is this organization, to which many of the builders are affiliated, which |} brought influence to bear so that only less than one per cent of the new buildings in Manhattan, and two per The committee for the defense of the cloakmakers and furriers who have been imprisoned for their strike activities, is planning to hold a four cent in the Bronx and Brooklyn, rented for less than $12.50 a room. Headed by Lawrence W. Elliman, this organization is next in importance to the United, in the score of machina- || tions against the rent-payer. Other Organizations. sent to Room 71d, 41 Union Square, New York. Other organizations and individuals |plant. This crane is run by electri- fortunate for the tenant that this bill was defeated. } Workers Party Has Plan. These are the enemies of the emergency rent laws. These are the enemies of housing relief. These are the causes that made the emergency | rent laws necessary. What are you! going to do about it? f There is only one course of action | for the honest tenant. The Workers | (Communist) Party has a “housing | program, It is going to back this | next election, The real estate men | haven’t one iota of money enough to buy it off. It is up to you to give © your full support to this program. | Ford Plant Creates Millions But Leaves | Workers Unprotected | } (by Worker” Correspondent) In Green island, N, Y. there is a Ford shop. A year ago a swinging | crane tipped over, nearly killing | three workman in the yard of the} clty, and the cable supplying the cur: | rent is strung along the ground and} is usually bad, especially in wet| yeather, The company is too cheap to buy an overhead crane. | Lost Fingers On March 23rd, about 4 A. M.,| Louis Dodge, a resident of Green Is- land, stumbled over this cable in the | yard and fell, At the same time they! were backing in some railroad cars, | and one of his hands went under a} wheel and mashed his fingers, He has a wife and three little children. About a year ago this same worker | was injured in the back and was laid! up for over two months, while work- ing in the Ford plant, and he was ever paid anything for his loss of He is a tractor operator on the mid- night shift. Free Love Upheld By a Berlin Judge | BERLIN, March 27.—‘“Free lové is} neither indecent, nor dishonorable, for either man or woman in this modern age. / “Allegation that a girl has indulged} ready engaged,” Such is the decision Sieber, i: jenna. eC A girl sued a man for of - Judge libel because he had claimed that he) had been on intimate terms with her, The verdict-—action dismissed. ; SCOTT NEARING on League of Nations Or Soviet Union TUESDAY, MARCH 29th 8:30 P.M. Brownsville Labor Lyceum 219 Sackman_ Street. “ Ansploes Co-operative Educational Assn, include H. H. Decker, president of the | program with its full strength in the | i Build a Revolutionary Monument to Comrade Ruthenberg Comrade Ruthenberg’s ashes are about to be in free love does not constitute libel | | or slander, providing she is not-al-|; transported to Moscow to be laid at the foot of |the famous Kremlin. Wall, alongside the graves of the revolutionary heroes from all parts of the world, We must have a monument for him here. Shall it ‘be a monument of brick and stone? Is this the most lasting form of monument we can \conceive? , To perpetuate the memory of Com- rade Ruthenberg merely in brick and stone is to run contrary to everything which he stood for. He stood for activity. He stood for a constant forward surge of our movement. He typified op- position to passivity and inertia. His monument must Bring this home. What more appropriate monument can we erect to the memory of Comrade Ruthenberg than a stronger and better DAILY WORKER? What greater service can we render to the revo- lutionary movement of which Comrade Ruthen- berg was the leader? What more powerful ‘weapon can we create in order to carry out his appeal to “Fight On”? The Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sustain- ing Fund has been established in order to build a stronger and better DAILY WORKER, a more oa rere") powerful weapon in the class struggle. A strong- er and better DAILY. WORKER will not come _ by wishing for it. It will only come if we work for it, Let's put our shoul- ders to the wheel, every- DAILY WORKER, ‘38 First Street, New York, N. Y. Inclosed is my contribution of .,..+. dollars .... cents to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund for a stronger and better DAILY WORKER. I will pay the same amount regularly every . Name one, Give, what you can _ = | afford. Give, regularly. low workers to do the same, | Attach check or money order,