The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1927, Page 5

X THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927 “Brussels Conference” | Subject of Talk at the JEWELRY UNION Richard B. Moore, a prominent | member of the American Negro | Labor Congress, and who has just | ¢ returned from the Brussels World | His | Conference against Imperialism, | | of which he was a délegate will be the speaker at the open forum of the Workers School, 108 E. 14th St.. next Sunday night. “The World Struggle Against Im- perialism” will be the subject of his lecture, it is announced by Bert Wolfe, director of the school. Ques- tions and discussion will follow the talk. Beardsley Expels Opponent for Office The depths to which the Beards- ley clique in the Jewelry Workers’ | union will descend in their attempt to stifle the will of the membership is seen in its latest move, that of expelling from the union, Sam Nesin | one of the leading progressives and candidate against Beardsley for or- ganizer in the coming election. i Nesin has addressed a letter to the/ members of the local in which he pre-| sents his case. He points out that/{ the reason given for his expulsion | does not hold water. It reads in part as follows: | *“Having been a member before} and worked at the bench first as an engraver and then at setting and pow as jewelry clerk, which is still under the jurisdiction of the I. J. W. U,, I felt that I was at least entitled to be| a member as well as brother Beards- | ley who was not a member of the! local previous to his becoming or- ganizer nor did he work at the bench at the time of his admittance. The same applies to Joseph D, Cannon. There is also Ruben Schwartz our delegate to the United Hebrew Trades who was re-admitted into the local while not working at the bench in the following article, and the |are presented, all drawn from | which may be questioned. | By WILL DE KALB | * * * | | There is one point around which | |the entire housing controversy re-| — —<-| volves, that might as well be settled | your own admission that you have | right now. That is, is there a housing | worked as a salesman for the past shortage? Of course, the facts re-| ten years. | vealed in The DAILY WORKER’s! I remain, very truly yours, housing survey should be conclusive, | S. E. Beardsley, | but to clinch the matter, this writer | Org. Secy.| will quote recognized authorities to | By order of the Executive Board. | prove the claim. | Afraid of Election. |__A survey made by the United States | It is now March. Elections accord-| Bureau of Health made public recent- ing to the constitution are to be held| ly states that there are 26,219,100| during the month of January. Many | dwellings in the entire country. One | hasty and illegai actions have been fifth of these, the report shows, are | taken by the administration. It is/in and about the state of New York. | clear to me .that the action taken | According to the statisticians, no- | in declaring my membership “null; where in the United States is there | and void” at this time is not because | such a density of dwellings as there | of any misrepresentation but an ef-|is in the vicinity of Greater New! fort by the present administration to | York. | interfere seriously’ with a true ex-| Dwelling Survey. | pression of the membership in an| As a matter of record, here are| honest election. It is fear of defeat|some of the figures. | that makes them frantic. New York & Vicinity. . I appeal to you brothers for an op-| New England | 1,815,000 4 arty Star y ip| South ...... 3,219,800 and who is at present not working | portunity to defend my membership of . ® at any branch of the jewelry trade. |as against the autocratic action of | Elsewhere 15,708,800 In spite of all these precedents I| the Executive Board, The Executive, United States ++ 26,219,100 | Board had no right to act.in viola-| The figures show that the metro- received the following letter of Feb, | Sth, 1927: Dear Sir and Brother: tion of my constitutional’ rights in | Politan area has more dwellings than ‘declaring my membership “null and | @ty other section of the country. It You are hereby summoned to ap-| void.” The regular procedure of pre- | #8 five times the number command- pear before the Executive Board of/ferring charges and the member-|¢¢ by New England, double those in Local No, 1, I. J. W. U., on Tuesday, | ship electing a committee to inves-| the south, and one third the number Feb, 8th, 1927, at 6 P. M., in Room|tigate these chatges was never com-|°f dwellings in the rest of the coun- 07a World Building, New York City. | plied with, and I request the right to | ‘TY, giving it one fifth the number in Fraternally yours, ‘appear before you to state my case| the entire United States. H No Building Here. (Signed) S. E. Beardsley, Mothers Ask Housing Workers School Sméay! | Relief; Surveys Prove | Shortage Exists Here SHOP STRIKERS The existence of the housing shortage is proved conclusively | WORKER’s housing investigator. 5,476,000 | test to the New. York Page Five UNION MUST BE WON, STATE HAT Bolivian Co. Workers Stand Fast subsequent one, by The DAILY Surveys, facts and figures, (By Werke Cotrespontent) authoritative sources, none of| The strike of the 54 workers em- | ployed at the Bolivian Pandina Hat {Co., 653 Broadway, has just entered jits second week, Determined to stay out until the demand for recognition of the union is met with, the stri ers, the majority of whom ave g are picketing the shop each day. | The strike was initated by the 14 beys between the ages of 17 and 19, who were working in the factory, and | whose wages averaged between $15} jand $17 a week. According to the ‘strikers, the workers were expected to! work 10 and 11 hours a day, besides | cleaning and sweeping the factory in| addition. There is some scabbing be- |ing done by inexperienced girls, it is said, but very little work is being produced. The Hands Off China Committee Will Hold Mass Meeting April 8 The Hands Off China Committee that recently held a local conference attended by 135 delegates from labor organizations will hold a mass meeting Friday evening, April 8th at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. to protest against the barbaric and brutal ac- tion of the American warships in shelling Nanking where thousands of defenseless Chinese workers were killed, and against the entire policy of suppressing the Chinese Nationflist revolution that is being | displayed by the American govern- | ment. The names of the speakers will be announced later. Young Worker to Make | Merry on 4th Birthday | With Mammoth Affair The Young Worker, the fighting | paper of working class youth, will | celebrate its fourth anniversary with a mammoth ball and entertainment | on April 9th at the Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lexington avenue. In the four years of its life the Young Worker has constantly fought the battles of working class youth in jthis country. Resistance to the at- tempt to foist militarism upon the | youth of this country and a campaign | “ r |for better working conditions are homes to live in, where they will not some of the campaigns which the | have to pay so much for rent that { . Bein Me sel y : |magazine has waged. they have very little ineome left for | Tickets for the ball may be pur- | other necessities. We implore you, we | chased for 60 cents at 108 East 14th legislature, | appealing for assistance to curb the | activities of rent-gouging landlords, | In writing to former Senator James | W. Wadsworth, who lost out in the | last election when’ his open affiliation with the moneyed interests were ex- | Posed. Mrs. Mildred ©. Schroder, | president of the league, said: | “The greatest need and wish of the | mothers of this city is to have better i f the ee i / ome a ane a It is,more significant to note that Org. Secy., Local f. Executive Board. I responded to this summons and Fraternally sire 5 asked if there were any charges Samuel Nesin. against me, No Charges. Brother Williams informed me! there were no charges but that the | Meet Next Monday Eve Executive Committee had a right to | call a member and question him. A very After a great deal of questioning | niture they asked me to leave and I later | al U received the following letter: April 4, at 8 P. M. sharp, at regula: To Samuel Nesin: headquarters, 90 Clinton Street. D Sir: T ecutive Board. of this local at their | mittee of the Allied Trades. The b; meeting held on Tuesday Feb, 15th, | laws adopted by that committee will 1927, in Room 307a, World Building, | also be voted upon at that time. N. Y. C., by a unanimous vote de. | clared your membership in local 1,/%e taken up for discussion. eS hay id the | 1, J. W. U., null and void on the} BUY THE DAILY WORKER ground of misrepresentation in mak- | ing application for membership and| AT THE NEWSSTANDS i full oe avorasitantior Furniture Varnishers to | important meeting of Fur- | arnishers and Finishers Lo-} ion 697, will be held Monday, The purpose of this meeting will is is to notify you that the Ex-/| be to listen to a report of the com-| The question of initiation fees vill |the figures for New York have ichanged very little in the past fi years, while the population has in- | creased tremendously. This has placed | the rent-payer in the clutches of the |unserupulous landlord. And has the , | rental figures in this newspaper's | Survey showed, the landlord has taken |advantage of every opportunity. | Another survey, undertaken by the | Department of Labor, showed that 7 | outside the New York area, one half |the dwellings in the United States, | 43,426,400 to be exact, are owned by | persons whose income is less than $2,000 a year, Thus, workers in the rest of the country, solve the housing | problems by buying their own houses. | City Workers Handicapped. In the cities, and the densely popu- |lated area, however, this is impos- ‘| sible. Plot of land, 40x100, that would be covered by a one-family house in other areas, must here sup- port a house sheltering twenty and thirty families. So the workers in the | beseech you, to aid us in improving jthe terrible conditions in which so many of the women of New York live }and work.” Despite the fact that the league endorsed and fought for each |new housing bill, the improvement |they hoped for was not forthcoming. The landlords, you know, have a |lobby like all other vested interests. | So the records run. In the next ar- | ticle, this discussion will be continued. | One of the /most important proofs of jthe existence of a housing shortage, jin New York, is found in the report jof A. F, Hinrichs, of the New York | State Bureau of Housing and Regional | Planning, to the Brooklyn Chamber jthe following article. Bronze Workers Strike ‘Continues Strong After Nine Weeks of Struggle and of the terrible living conditions | | of Commerce. This will be printed in | street; tickets at the door will cost | 75 cents. Lower Downtown I. L. | Thursday. A meeting of the Lower Downtown branch of the International Labor | Defense, meets on Thursday, March |8ist, in the Ukrainian Hall, 17 East |8rd_ street, at 8 p. m. Come and/ swell the ranks of labor's defense jarmy. D. Meets Agitprop Meeting Section I. A meeting of all agitprop directors of Section One will be held on Friday |evening April 1st, 6 p. m. at 33 East | First street. Order of business: (1) The Chinese Situation; (2) The Ruthenberg Mem- | bership Drive and reports of unit di- rectors, Calverton in Debate. | V. F, Calverton, editor of “The! congested areas must look elsewhere for a solution. That the 5,000,006 dwellings in the metropolitan area, which includes New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania of people who live there is proved by | countless surveys, petitions, and reso- lutions, made by independent and in- terested organizations. > d9 1 Mothers Protest, 1e@S oN Not long ago the League of Moth- ‘ers’ Clubs of the United States Neigh- | borhood Houses made a stirring pro- ' DENTISTS a play by : Tel. Lehigh 6022. : } Comrade Michael Gold Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURG N DENTIST Office Hou A. M. 2-8 P.M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday, 249 BAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. Arrangements have been made with the NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE for a DAILY WORKER BENEFIT WEEK —April 11 to April 16—at Comrade Michael Gold’s Mexican play “FIESTA”. After the enthusiasm which attended our benefit week at the Guild’s produc- tion of “Pygmalion,” we don’t know what will happen now that we have an- nounced a benefit week at this play that is written by a comrade and is so much closer to the hearts and lives of the working class. ‘ We predict, however, that for one solid veek there will not be a single vacant eat at the NEW PLAYWRIGHTS EATRE, Telephone Stuyvesant 6584 immediately and make your reservations, or call at The DAILY WORKER Office, 108 East 14th Street. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L, Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 Tel. Orchard 3783 n Strictly by Appointment DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge st. New York Read The Daily Worker Every Day Booth Phones, Dry Dock 6612, 7846, Office Phone, Orchard 9319, Patronizo MANHATTAN LYCEUM Large Halls With Stage for Meet. ings, Hntertainments, dings and Banquets; C 66-65, +4 St ork, N. ¥, Sma Meeting Rooms Always Available. by , Tel. Dry Dock 8306, 8045, 2591, l. KITZIS, Prop. THE ASTORIA Palatial Ballrooms & Dining Rooms CATERING A SPECIALTY 62-04 Ei, 4th St, = New York City, Telephone Dry Dock 9069, Meet me at the Public Art Dairy Restaurant and Vegetarian 75 SECOND AVE. NEW YORK Opposite Public Theatre are inadequate to house the millions | | Modern Quarterly,” and Prof. Kelly | The Iren and Bronze Workers’ Union | Miller, of Howard University, Wash- has been condiicting a strike at the| ington, will debate on the subject Royal Brass Co. for the last nine | “Does Orthodox Christianity Handieap weeks. / | Negro Progress,” at the Community | | The cause of the strike is the break-|Chureh, 34th St, and Park Ave., on Sunday afternoon, April 24, at 2:30. | j | |ing of theagreement by the Royal | Brass, which wes signed with the | union six months ago, It was agreed | at that time that the working hours per week should be 44, That a cer- | |tain minimum scale of wages should} | prevail and several other union condi- | tions would be inaugurated. The | agreement was made for a years time. | But the Royal Brass became tired of | the union conditions in the shop and | is trying to break the agreement, | The Royal Brass wants to go back | to ‘the 48 hour week and all other} “good things” he had six months ago. | And although the bosses claim that} he never dealt with the union, yet he | knows all the tricks and schemes of | fighting the strikers. Gangsters, po- | |liee and detectives are not strange to| ji |him. But the strikers do not mind \them, They are carrying on the pick. | i Meeting of the National Committee of the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. will be held Friday evening, April 1, 1927, at 3p. m. sharp at 108 East 14th street, N. ¥. C, ALL MEMBERS OF THE COM- MITTEE MUST BE PRESENT. SCOTT NEARIN eting duty without fear. ron phteonsd On inced that the R rass | o Iwill } wil tae ele in to te gains \H Wheres Civilization of the union. | Going? |Agitprop Of Section | TONIGHT, MARCH sis Brownsville Labor Lyceum 219 Sackman Street. Aunpices Co-operative Educational Assn, One Meets Friday To) Discuss China = Crisis! The Chinese situation and the Ruth- |} enberg Memorial drive are two of the important questions that will be tak- en up at a meeting of all sub-section and nuclei agit-prop directors Friday, 6 P.M. at 33 East Ist street. All agit-prop difectors belonging to Sec» | Ff tion 1 are urged to attend, Read The Daily Worker Every ‘Day | : “FORUM Clarence Miller Speaks || This Sunday Afternoon || '] Clarence Miller, youth cewuitinn | and participant in the recent Passaic textile strike will lecture on “Youth | |f and Child Labor’ this Sunday, at 2 | Pp. m. at the Downtown Open Forum, |} lacated at the Downtown Workers’ Club, 35 East Second street. 1 Questions and discussions will fol- low the lecture. ' MEMORIAL FORUM St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerle, tnd Ave. and 10th st, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 8 P. DON SEITZ the “Outlook,” formerly of the “World” “CAN A PEOPLE BE FREE UNDER PROHIBITION” (The 18th Amendment) Dincussion, Open to All, of IMPORTANT NOTICE T0 ALL DAILY WORKERS BUILDERS | . Volunteers and active workers are wanted for the Aig Bebrinaty Jubilee | at Madison Square Garden to sell The DAILY WORKER, Saturday erecting; | April 2, Comrades should ask at the door for The DAILY WORKER agent. | Volunteers should report not later than seven o'clock. } \ Gold and Hyman To Ask Conviction of A. F. L. Crooks at Mock Trial Much interest has been aroused in the forthcoming. “mock trial” against the officers of the reaction- ary International Fur Workers’ Union and the officials of the A. F. L., to be conducted by the Shop Chairmen Council of the furriers’ union at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. Sunday after- noon at 1.30, Ben Gold, Manager of thé Joint Board of the furriers’ union, and Louis Hyman, Manager of the Joint Board of the cloak and dressmakers’ union, will serve as “prosecuters” | in the trial. Why Race Discrimination? Why are there thousands and thou- sands of Ne ally treated in the United States as well n Cuba, Mexico, ete? Why are there discr inations against Negroes in the u and why are no Negroes allowed to Join the working class organizations which ate organized for the purpose of fighting their class enen . capitalists? What are the reasons the various riots which took place recently in Coffeyville, Ky, in St. Louis, in New Jersey and in other cities? Why is it the Negroes are the most exploited workers in the United States? How is he, the Negro, to fight against the various obstacles on the field of organizing themselves in- to unions as well as against the vari- ous riots. Answers to all these ques- tions will be given at the mass meet- he for ing which will take place this Friday, April 1st, in the Mother Zion: Com- munity House, 151 W. h St., at & P. M. and which is arranged under the auspices of the Youth section ¢ the American Negro Labor Congresg. It is the duty of every class couscious worker to come to this meeting and to learn how to fight against those discriminations. Worker Asphyxiated In Furnished Room YONKERS, N. Y., March 30.— Theodore Lucas, 40, a machinist, was found dead in bed today in the home of George Buckman, at 150 Wood- worth avenue, where he roomed. A gas heater in the room had gone out during the night, and Lucas had been asphyxiated. Freiheit ROSA The greatest Opera MADISO together By ALEXA All Seats Downtown Lidsky’s Book Store—202 Furriers’ Joint Board—22 FIFTH a a ed JACOMO RIMINI Baritone of the Chicago Opera Company SERGEI RODOMSKY Tenor of the Leningrad Opera Company WILL APPEAR IN N SQUARE GARDEN 49th Street & 8th Avenue’ Saturday Evening, April 2 Freiheit Gesangs Ferein ‘New York Symphony Orchestra In the poem of the Russian Revolution TWELVE vDER ‘BLOCK Music’ and conducted by JACOB SCHAFER Tickets $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 Tickets will be sold at the following stations: | Freiheit—30 Union Square. United Workers’ Co-operative—69 Fifth Avenue. | Local 22—16 West 21st St. Salins Restaurant—222 East ith St. } Sazers Restavrant—2nd Ave., & 4th St. BRUTAL TACTICS. OF N. Y. POLICE CITED IN COURT CAMBRIDGE, March 30. — The brutal third-degree methods of the New Y« lice in for a fierce atte ay at the hands of Attorney George A. Douglas, in his forma! ar- guments to the jury in the trial of Peter McLaughlin, charged with the the murder of James Ferneau in famous Wal . Capt. Art politan homicide | au was singled out by Do in his bitter accu the “confessiona when McLaughlin ns was first “Capt. known the world C over for his third degree methods,” said Douglas. “The look of ferocity on his count nce and his brutal me thods ven him an international on,” repu the attorney declared. I.W.W. Hold Meeting to Organize Food Workers A meeting to orgar the food work i Food Stuff Industrial Union 460 of the Industrial Workers’ of the World was held yesterday af \ternoon at their headquarters, 113 East 14th St. John Walsh, secretary of the Marine Transport Workers’ Union, I. U. 510 of the I. W. W., spoke on the need of organization. The organizer of the local branch of the I. 0 told of the empl ment agencies in this cit, ecially referring to those along h ave- nue where the workers are muleted John Kozemy presided. I.,U. 460 of the I. W. W. is one of three rival unions organizing workers in this industry. A move to amalgamate them into one union for the entire industry is contemplated by left wing elements. “Centralia,” will be the subject of a talk by Peo Monoldi, executive board member, I. W. W. at the Har- lem branch of the International La- bor Defense, 81 East 110th St., to- night (Thursday). BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Jubilee RAISA Singer in the world with the Reserved East Broadway. | Fast 22nd St. | \