The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1927, Page 5

|) 1 eee srs PLAN GREAT BAZAAR FOR HEARING TODAY FOR ARRESTED KULOK PIGKETS Labor Defense Appears Preparations are now being made | |for the Joint Defense Bazaar to be | held at the Star Casino on May 12, 18, 14 and 15, A call has been sent out to thei jmany friends of the defense request: | ling donations of articles for the af- fair. The committee is especially in-| terested in shoes, dresses, caps, rain- In ° Strike Cases coats, hats, suitcases, bags, all sorts ron jof men’s and women's wear, camping | The International Labor Defense of New York was called. upon for | efits, sweaters and hammocks, we SOR FaNR, 28 BRN 2 | upon to’ organize committees to man- | > me 1 Po’ lufacture merchandise for the Bazaar. | M, Kulok at 89 Eldridge street, were | Get Your Clothes Were. | erevetad ne Ey pedbaag era It is planned to make this affair! 5 i i» la gteat merchandising event. The! lige station, hall will resemble a department store | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO CLOAKMAKERS’ DEFENSE; OUT OF TOWN CAMPAIGN OPENS | Nothing must be left undone to| make the Great Defense Bazaar such a tremendous success that in itself it will prove a gigantic protest against the union smashing bureaucracy. Boston workers will be represented at the bazaar, it is reported, and/ other cities are asked to follow their | } lexample and arrange to have a booth, | Hold Meetings Tonight Join hands with the defense. Help| is needed now. Write or come to the i ‘ | office at 41 Union Square, Room 71M, | ers strike is increasing in importance, | Workers in the shops are called) and find out what you can do to help.| and either thru strike or lockout may Drive Starts. | A mass meeting of over 1,500 work- | ers opened the out-of-town campaign | for the New York Cloakmakers and Furriers Defense Fund on Wednesday ‘DAY, APRIL 4, 1927 TQ NU M p F RS | N | To protest against the gunboat polity of the United States towards PLUMBER STR IKE the Chinese Nationalist revolution, a |mass meeting will be held Friday Employers and Workers evening, April 8, at the Central Opera House under the auspices of the Hands Off China Committee, a delegated hody representing trade unions, na- |tionalist societies, labor fraternal or- ganizations, political parties; ete. All over the United States indigna- tion against the attempt of the Amer- 1 iean government to suppress the Chi- become general thruout Greater New ay gy ila stage : York by tomorrow. In Philadelphia, Boston and else- |i The 8,600 plumbers and helpers | where parades and monster demon- who are out in Brooklyn will be join- /strations have already been held where 2 ed soon by other thousands of men jn no uncertain terms the sympathy i aster Plumbers’ | of the American masses for thei The pluthbers end plumbers help- 'SHELLING OF NANKING WILL BE PROTESTED — AT A MASS MEETING FRIDAY, APRIL EIGHTH \Rosalsky Plays With sick working in the shop of Meyer Haus- e week, the judge said, “Aha, ‘Thos, arvantad. were: Ui. Levinson, | ather than a bazaar. The doors will ange Moe Me aga Prony aL M4 opened daily at 1 P.M. to those | Kulok shop which came out on strike ; Wishing to price merchandise, The | several weeks ago when several j ladies dress department will be situ- | workers were fined, and one was ated in the rest room behind the! taken off the job by the reactionary | balcony. There will be a men’s straw | leaders of the Amalgamated Cloth-| hat department to open the season, | ing Workers’ Union, for attending a} ete, ete. ; | meeting of left wing needle trades| _ Every worker must plunge into the | workers. defense work to raise money for the Continue Striking. | defense and relief of the families of One set of workers after another | the prisoners, e has struck in this shop because of| Green, Woll, McGrady and Sigman this discrimination against their fel-| are also appealing for money. They low workers, and the right wing! must have it for injunctions, to hire forces of the Amalgamated have/ bands of gangsters to make war on filled the shop with scab workers. the workers in the markets, and to The three workers arrested on Sat-|pay for tge persecutions thru which urday, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon,! workers are thrown into jail. were released on $500 bail each, for} To Fight Black Hundreds hearing this morning. | The Black Hundreds are making |night, when Louis Hyman, general |in the trade if the M manager of the New York Joint! Association at its mectin Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers, | the headguart of t and Ben Gold, general manager of | Masters’ Association, 8 the New York Joint Board Furriers |@grees to a general lock-out. Union were the principal speakers.! According to Jacob Stoc More than five hundred dollars was | head of the Queens Masters’ received in the collection at the meet- ation, the plumbe ing, and the workers present pledged | locked out, and evins Sts for collections in shops and factories, | morning, This Defense Fund is caring for the A meeting of the striking plumbers families of those in jail, and is em-{ Will be held tonight at Lenruth Hall ploying legal aid to work for the re-|157 Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, while lease of those fur workers and cloak-/| the helpers will hold a session at the makers who have been penalized for | Church of All Nations, 9 Second Ave, their loyalty to the union during | Break In Bosses Ranks. strikes. 3 vis Thirty of the 100 members of the Stage Fiesta, Master Plumbers’ Association, of On the appeal of the Defense Com- | Byookl : Pratap yn, employers of members of ‘mittee to various organizations, 4/ Local Union 1, Plumbers’ Union, in- tonight at | struggling brothere and sisters in Chi- Case of Antonofsky (Continued from Page One) he was attacked, Wortuns was in bed and Antonofsky was 1, 55 West 17th street. Judge Wouldn't Listen. When Antonofsky reported as usual to Judge Rosalsky early last you have een getting into trouble again; well yack you go to jail,” Without listen- ng to a word of explanation, Judge sent him to the Tombs, He ed in court for a hearing on and with him came his boss, Hauser, and several workers shop ready to testify that An- KARL MARX Brooklyn |na was expressed. world, se: inger Jr.,| those responsible for the brutal mur- Associ- | der of over 7,000 Chinese, men, women | of Queens are 8nd children in @ manner that matches | vill not be allowed | any | themselves to start an energetic drive | to start work when: they report this) manufacturd in 1917 against Ger- working masses is planned. who are today in the shadow of the gunboats of our imperialists at Shan- tonof had been at work at the time Katz says he was attacked. | Hauser even has a time card to prove his statement. Postpones Case. But Judge Rosalsky, knowing that ithe boss and the workers had come | especially to help release Antonofsky, |did not hear the case and postponed jit again until April 8th. For a whole week longer Antonofsky is doomed to | sit in the Tombs awaiting the plea- sure of this notorious anti-Semitic, | ‘anti-labor judge. The workers can- not keep on losing a day’s work com- ing to court to testify; the boss will not repeatedly appear and waste his whole day trying to help Antonofsky. | Judge Rosalsky knows this, and per- haps it accounts for his postpone- In New York, largest city of the t of Wall Sti, where rule tale of Hun horrors that was many, a mighty protest from the The meeting that will be held Fri- day, April 8 must speak in such a loud voice that the Chinese workers ghai will know that those are not representatives of American *work- ers that their murdering of the Chi- nose masses is opposed by the Ameri- can working class. All workers must and FRIEDRICHENGELS A Life-Time Collaboration By RIAZANOV Dd. bh and their e style, the au- sents the ori- Defend Rose Pesnick, | their last effort to break the unions |and suppress every independent ex- |group of members of Branch 35 of | dicated yesterday their desire to set. be present and join in the demonstra-| On Saturday morning, the Inter- pression, They wil] get help from the national Labor Defense appeared in bosses and other enemies of the work- the West 8th street court, Coney Is- land, to defend Rose Pesnick who | ers. was arrested while picketing one of} Once for all we must teach the the Monticello Dairy stores against! blackehirts a lesson that they will whieh 600 clerks are on strike in| never forget. They are a danger to Brooklyn. ithe labor movement that’ must be Wanted 57-Hour Week. wiped out. A strong defense protect- After considerable effort on ‘the| ing the workers when in need, is the part of the prosecution to send Rose! rock on which the ship of the enemy | Pesnick to the workhouse for her| will be wrecked. |the Workmen's Circle have decided to | tie differences with the plumbers, i help in the defense work. | became known at union headguarters, They have engaged the New Play-|Lenruth Hall, Waverly and Myrtle wrights Theatre at 52nd Street & 8th} avenues, Brooklyn, y rday. | Ave. for a showing on April 8th, of! Thomas G. Oates, president of the | Michael Gold’s new play “Fiesta.” | union, declared that the plumbers are |The income of this performance will|not ready to make any agreement |go for the defense and relief of im-| with these men, until all the master | prisoned cloakmakers and furriers.| plumbers consent to the $14 a day < other organizations to follow wage seale which the plumbers are | mple. {now striking for an increase of $2 = a day. The union is also asking a “erime” of picketing, she was finally | given a fine of $10, { She and her fellow-strikers are! fighting for recognition of their | union, and for a 67-hour week in place of the 80 to 100-hour week which most -of them now work. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY, Another “Honorable Member” of ithe gang which supports the right | wing reactionary officials of the In- ternational Fur Workers Union and the Special Reorganization Commit- \tee of the A. F. of L., was exposed \to the fur workers on Saturday in a \|\eireular distributed in the fur mar- ket. FOR A FRESH, WHOLESOME VEGETARIAN MEAL Come to Scientific Vegetarian Restaurant 76 E. 107th Street New York. What Strike Aid. The chairman. of the “Furriers Re- organization Committee,” H. Schlis- |sel, is the subject of the leaflet which jasks the question: What did “Brother” Schlissel do during the 1920 strike”? “Brother” Schlissel has undertaken to “save the fur workers from the Communist dic- tatorship.” This man, “Brother” Sehlissel, with Big Alex Fried, is another chief of the Long Island International scab “union.” Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865, Where do we meet to drink and eat? at Sollins’ Dining Room Good Feed! Good Company! Any Hour! Any Day! HEAL HOME COOKING PROGRESSIVE FUR WORKERS SHOW UP ANOTHER REACTIONARY CHIEF | 40 hours a week, or five days a week jinstead of the 44 hour week, now in | vogue. Fight To The Finish. “We will fight to the finish,” Oates declared yesterday. It was said at union headquarters | that the master plumbers of Greater| New York, are planning a general | | lockout of all union men employed by} them throughout the five boroughs, | Such action would throw 15,000) plumbers and helpers out of work,| and would practically bring to standstill all building operations in| the five boroughs. At the offices in| 'Workers’ Delegation | at Hankow Denounces Imperialist Attack | (Continued from Page One) | National army and the Kuomintang) Party in southern and central China and has everywhere been received, | with the greatest enthusiasm. The sociation, 8 Nevins street, no official would discuss that. tion of protest. , ment system, Sigman Behind Rosalsky. It is reliably reported that this ac- Brooklyn of the Master Plumbers’ AS*| tor High School, Brooklyn, last wee List of Speakers. The following speakers will address the meeting: Samuel Sha, The Kon- | mintang; 8S. N. Ghose, India Freedom Foundation; Richard B. Moore, Amer-; ican Negro Labor Congress; William F. Dunne, Workers (Communist) Party; Carl Weisberg, Liberal Club, C. GC. N. Y.; Robert W. Dunn will pre- side. Others will be announced later. RAPS DISMISSAL ict iaec OF N. Y. TEACHER tion of the judge is contrary to the recommendation of the probation of- ficer who wants Antonofsky given a) hearing and released. Judge Rosal- sky is evidently determined to try to break down the morale of this inno- cent worker. Perhaps Morris Sig- man, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union has his eye on him because he has re- fused to make one of those frame-up confessions against the Joint Board leaders. y Da: A demand that the Board of Edu- Buy your ation make an immediate investiga- ti ion into the actual reasons for | Tickets dismissal of Charles A. Wagner, who | Now for lost his position at the Berriman Jun-| \ because he taught evolution to his| Comrade ‘class, was made yesterday by the DAILY WORKER PUB. 33 First Street, New York. This new leader of the in-/ Chinese people, of whom we have di- | rectly met and spoken with hundreds | of thousands, fight heorically for their national liberation and seek effective | alliance with the working class of the | world. | Our delegation considers it its im- | perative duty to denounce the crimes | committed by imperialism against the , Chinese people and tw ery warning of | dangers imminently menacing. We | urgently request you to mobilize all 222 E. 14th St. Bet. 2 & 3 Aves, Phone: Stuyvesant 7661. famous Kaufman Old Guard pro- your forces and the entire proletariat claims himself the New Messiah of | t® Prevent the shameful crime which the Furriers Union. the imperialists are about to commit, Telephone Dry Dock 9069, Meet me at the Public Art Dairy Restaurant and Vegetarian 75 SECOND AVE, NEW YORK Opposite Public Theatre (ee ooth Phones, Dry Dock 6612, 7846, Bfrive Phone, Orchard 9319, Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM « Large Halls With Stage for Meet- ings, dings Small Entertainments, Balls, Wed- and Banquets; Cafeteria, ith St. New York, N. ¥. eeting Rooms Always Available. Read The Daily Worker Every Day | “Brother” Sehlissel do while the fur! the death of Chas. E. Ruthenberg, Tel, Dry Dock 92806, 8645, 2591, I, KITZIS, Prop. THE ASTORIA Palatial Ballrooms & Dining Rooms CATERING A SPECIALTY §3-64 FB. 4th St, New York City, DENTISTS Tel, Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF sURGHON DENTIST 16th STREET New York, ‘249 BAST 1 Cor, Becond Aye, Dr. J. Mindel Dr, L, Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 BNION SQUARE Room 808 Phone Stuyv. 10119 ‘Tel, Orchard 3783 Strictly by Appointment DE, LARUE 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor, Eldridge Bt. New York Dr. Jacob Levenson SURGEON DENTIST 54 East 109th Street PHONE: UNIVERSITY 7825, 2 - | (Signed) International Workers’ del- Where has this Saint Schlissel been | egation; Tom Mann, England; Earl | |for the last ten years? He has not ale aay 4 leaaeead ah tan’ aun he: tak nee Drowder, America; J,.Doriot, France. paid any dues. ° ‘ rae Where was “Brother” Schlissel | Capitalist Politicians In- ‘during the 1920 strike? Why doesn’t é * | “Brother” Sehlissel tell the fur work- | cite to Violence (Continued from Page One) ‘ers that he did a little scabbing dur-| jing a great part of the strike, under, groes leaving Dixieland for Chicago. Teachers’ Union. Defense Shows Sigman | In a letter to the board, Dr. Henry | Sabotage of Prisoners R. Linville, president of the union,| | rs jasserted that “after a preliminary | H (Continued from Page One) jstudy of the case of Mr. Wagner we} ormous expense and trouble of fizht-| find that full and fair consideration | ing out the case which was now 50! scems not to have been given to the| badly prejudiced against them, they | protection of his rights.” | | determined, under the circumstances,| pr, Linville, while admitting the! that the best way to settle the matter technical validity of the right of al would be to plead guilty. The story| principal to diseharge a substitute | of how they were double-crossed and’ teacher at will, nevertheless asserted given heavy sentences is now too well | that it was “unfair to make the pub- known to' be repeated. lic statements reflecting on the cap- : “The whole incident served to pre=|acity of a teacher which will have | judice the cases of all the other de-|the affect of making impossible his fendants, which resulted in the whole- | further employment.” jsale jailings of men of a type which| Ip his letter to the board of eduea- jevery community seeks to attract to| tion, Dr. Linville quoted statements ithe excuse of being a foreman for the | Phoeiwian: Gee! ae | § | p picted as the en- |firm where he scabbed? | gineer. It carried the caption, “Big | Did Schlissel have a union shop) Bill's Express, it will start for Chi- |when he wes in business? ‘ eago April 6 unless you stop it April | Where was “Brother” Schlissel | 5.” I \during our recent 1926 strike, when Workers’ Party Active. \the fur workers had bled and hung-| The Workers (Communist) Party, ered for seventeen weeks? What did altho deprived of its candidate thru were responsible for the heavy sen-| younger they are when they are ac- tences dealt out to the workers, By! quainted with it the better, if they | werkern were striking and suffering? | placed on the ballot by a campaign | Scabs, jailbirds, underworld heroes, | °! Petitions, has taken an active part |these are the representatives of the | i? Pointing out the general corruption jnew seab union of Schachtman, Win- °%!sting in both capitalist party |nick, Matthew Woll, MeGrady and, °4™Ps, and the anti-labor tinge, of the | Green. vace-war champion, Dever, and the | 3 ae labor prosecuting state attorney, | What a pretty face. this. outfit of | o..., 4 p , so called labor leaders has in the Crowe, who Ines up with Thompson. i} | compan of their “Honorable” asso-) 7p ANY, ‘April 8,~-Governor | lates! | smith today approved the Lipowicz | These are the people who speak to/ bill extending the emergency rent \the fur workers gn the name of the! jaws, in modified form, to New York |hest traditions the American Fed- | City and Buffalo, for another year, ‘eration of Labor—honesty, purity, Under the measure, only apart- jand law and order. These are the) ments renting for less than $15 per | People who call upon the fur work-| room per month in New York and §7 |ers to register with their penning: in Buffalo,will be affected. | crew, | WHAT HAVE THE FUR WORK-| P ERS To say To THIS apgc.-| New York Socialists TACLE? Ask “Hands Off China” i Joint Board Furriers Union, ee B. Gold, Manager. | Banquet For Released. In honor of the three fur workers who were released yesterday after piles Med days following their ar- rest conviction for their strike activities, a banquet was given by the. fur workers in New Star Casino last night and several hundred workers were present to celebrate. The workers who spent the past two months on Rikers Island are Max py Bnd Pollack and A. Saches, and were enthusiastical- ay by those who attended the ban- q Withdrawal of American troops and ships from China, and the ces- sation of firing upon Chinese cities jwas demanded in a resolution adopted on Saturday at a New York City convention of the si The meeting also pa tion condemning the arrest and trial by court martial of sixty socialists in Lithuania, who according to cable dispatches are facing the death pen- alty for their political. activities. Ferdinand Reports Contradictory LONDON, April 8—King Ferdin- and’s health is showing a slight im- provement according to all dispatches reaching London tonight from Buch- arest. While Berlin dispatches state that his life is slowly ebbing. BUY THE DAILY WORKEK .AT THE NEWSSTANDS y ) | release. | these tactics he hoped to ergate con-| get the idea. Children from ten to jfusion in the ranks of the left, twelve should have no trouble with | Desperate Acts. it.” , |. “The Committee realizes that these, In commenting on the case Prof. (are acts of desperation carried out by | Beard deelares: “If it is the business | a mos unscrupulous-man. of the public schools to prepare the | “In his controversy with the group | pupils for a life of intelligence among jof prominent gentlemen of the Civil | intelligent people, then how can they | | Committee of One Hundred, formed | for the purpose of affecting the re- lease of the imprisoned cloakmaker: |and furriers and giving relief to their |families, Mr, Sigman did not hesi-| | tate in an early statement to tell the! {gentlemen to “keep their hands off,” ‘as the imprisoned workers were mem- passionate manner a doctrine whic! is so widely believed and SCOTT NEARING by The Transition Man Under | pve a me pga seal state To the New ‘The New of its own; while shortly there-| gocia} after he isgued another statement Order Mocial Order |that these men had pleaded guilty Tuesday Thursday ‘and nothing coujd be done for them, Apt i nee” } Save The Innoeent, | “The Joint Boards of the Furriers, | and the Cloak and Dressmakers, well able to take care of themselves ‘in the struggle to save the union, In | this aris the faneceat must not be permitted to suffer, We demand their We ask for help in carvy- Bead The ing on the legal struggle to over- throw the brutal prison sentences that have been meted out. We ask for help to furnish relief to the fam- iltes of the victims of the conspiracy hatched by Sigman, Woll, Green, Me- Grady and Company.” Money is needed. Send contribu- tions and donations to the Joint De- fense and Relief Committee, Cloak- makers and Furriers, 41 one Square, Room 714. , Brownsville Labor Lyceum 219 Sackman Street Augpices! CO-OPBRATIVE hpuca- TIONAL ABBOCIATION, Phone, HMERSON 8800, uto Tops Jushion Work eat ote LJ it f Onn ete ihe Curtaian my ait aor Body Trimmings 2 Windows Auto Top Co. * Union ion County Auto To iD 252 Union St, Neat Westfield Ave. ELIZABETH, N. J. | Michael Gold’s Play | Liberties Union who had joined the | refuse to explain in gricntific and ai | Daily Worker Every Day | er rae from prominent educators, including —_——_ fe next step for Sigman was to! Prof. John Dewey, of Columbia and {make capital out of the situation. ‘To| Charles A. Beard of the New School A drama of im it was of no importance that! for Social Research, who declared that | i em: workers aps int mle dl bie doctrine of evolution is now ac- Mexicoand ‘or the support of families. He de-| cepted by the leading scientists who * | luded himself into the belief that he| have devoted their lives to the study Revolu jsaw in the situation created by him| of biology. tion— | + 4 " ———CoCoOoOoOoOoOOOO_—_ |® new opportunity to smash the) In his statement, Dewey says: H wee. ee ae | “From experience, 1 know that. young | Premier |, “By shouting loud and long he|chlidren have no difficulty in erasp- + | hoped to create the impression that! ing the general idea of life deveiop: | Production the chosen leaders of the worlers | ment. It is so important that the/ _————__—_—__—_- Here’s a chance to help The DAILY | WORKER and have a good time doing it. | From April 11 to April 16 is DAILY | WORKER Benefit Week at The New Playwrights Theatre. Remember! 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