The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1927, Page 5

Attend Gr THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, A PRIL 12, 1927 eat Demonstration Saturday to Save Sacco and HOLD LEFT WING FURRIERS IN JAIL WITHOUT BAIL WHILE POLICE ESTABLISH MARTIAL LAW, (Continued from Page One) from all the defendants and ordered them to jail. This unprecedented procedure was followed in spite of all objections of Joint Board counsel, which in ad tion to the lawyers named, also in cludes George Medalli and Frank P. Walsh, The judge refused to listen to any argument from the attorneys. The men were sent to jail, and trial Postponed until Wednesday. In the meantime counsel for the workers are seeking a t of habeas corpus to force the judge to release them all on bail. Those in prison are Ben Gotd I. Shapiro, S. Mencher, J, Schneid Otto Lenhardt, Joseph Katz, Martin Rosenberg, Joseph Weiss, Leo Frank- lin and Maurice Malkan. Meiliff In Tombs. Oscar Meiliff, who is alone one of the defendants in this case, is at present in the Tombs having been; sentenced last Friday to a six months term on the frame-up charge of a right wing agent that Meiliff had “threatened to attack him.” A motion for appeal of this case is being made today. The district at- torney at Mineola took particular pains to emphasize the fact that Meiliff was already in jail and there- fore not able to attend the trial. . Assumes Guilt. {the matter were expressed in a state-| |ment issued by §. Liebowitz, acting {manager of the Joint Board, last jnight. “Altho the American Federation of Labor special reorganization com- mittee has consistently refused to of- | fer any proofs of its charges of gang- | sterism made against the fur workers who are loyal to the Joint Board, |these unauthenticated statements are {not only being ysed to influence pub- | lie opinion thru the press, but to be used to prejudice judge and | against Ben Gold and other fur ers in the Mineola case, judging by rk »| what happened in court this morning. A. F. of L, Fears Hearing. “Two weeks ago when Magistrate Louis Brodsky requested both fac- }him to discuss the charges of gang- sterism, a representative of the Fur- riers’ Joint Board was present and | anxious to give Judge Brodsky all the | facts, The A, F, of L. and right wing | officials refused to appear. We have also challenged them to present the facts in this matter to an impartial committee for investigation, and they have refused that too, “Nevertheless, these same irrespon- sible charges were used by the dis- j trict attorney of Nassau county to- y ket yesterday by member tions in our union to appear before | 60-Day Jail Term ~ Given Cloakmaker Active in Strike | James Piasanti, member of cloak- ATTENTION; shop chairmen! Come to Manhattan ~Lyceum Lyeeum right after work today. Protest the jailing of the militant fur workers. The fu t ~Cloak and dress " st be freed. The reactionary forces ot the A. F. of L. must be de- feated in their union-smashing program. Fvery shop chairman come and raise your voice in protest. Today at 5 p. m. Martial Law In New York, What amounts to martjal law was established in the New York fur mar- of the po- lice force and the industrial squad. When workers came to their shaps in the morning, they found an officer posted at every door and if two work- ers stopped on the street they were quickly shoved on and told to keep {moying. This same guard was present at jnoon and at five o’clock, and during the lunch hour. Fan Warshofsky, a@ member of the Mur Joint Board | was arrested for distributing leaflets sannouncing a meeting of the shops in \the building at 150 West 30th Street. | She was released when arraigned in | Jefferson Market Court on a charge of disorderly conduct. | Reactionaries Aid Police. } With this open cooperation of the | police force, the reactionary right wing forces of the A. F. of L. and This same defender of the law |day as the basis for his argument| the International Fur Workers’ Union showed by his every act in the court-|that bail should be revoked. * That|are proceeding with their efforts to room yesterday that he assumed all|this argument was made with the full | force workers to registration. the defendants were guilty—even be- | intentions of prejudicing the case was | When even methods of intimidation fore they have been tried. He rough- | evident from the fact that he spoke | fail, they announce that certain shops ly ordered them to “line up along the | before the whole group of prospective have registered, whether they have or wall there”; and then demanded of each one in a surly tone, “What is your name? Who are you?” Five Rats. He already had in court, evidently ready to be called as witness, five men from the International Fur Workers’ Union. One of these was Charley Zorenberg, who, during the ; Drecpetnge OF tue AY Gt gabbine BS L. against the leaders of the Joint | tigating Committee, swore out vari- ous affidavits against the leaders of the Joint Board, However, even Matthew Woll had to discard these statements when Zorenberg’s disgraceful record in the union was shown to him. Where Is Justice? That they cannot possibly have any connection with this strike case is But in the Mineola courtroom jus-|ance in court today of five adherents | Cohen, assembled at a meeting of our | | jurors. | Judge Prejudiced Bitter, “Judge Smith even denied attor- neys for the furriers any chance to argue on the question of bail. All of this shows a presumption of guilt which is undoubtedly the result of the campaign of malicious slander, | deliberately carried on by the A. F | Board, | “It is apparent from what happen: /ed in the Mineola courtroom today, that there are forces at work behind {the scenes trying to bring about the jconviction and railroading to jail of Ben Gold, Shapiro, Mencher and the other Joint Board members on trial. | There is no doubt from the appear- not. | Repudiate Lies. | On Saturday, the Jewish organ of |the right wing stated that all the workers of the Papert & Cohen shop Of 138 West 25th Street have regis- tered with the “ten cent” union of the | International. Indignant at this lic, the workers f the shop held a meeting last night jand drew up a resolution, pledging | allegiwgce to the Joint Board. | Alth® two or three of the workers in the shop had been registered thru the terrorist tactics of the right’s |htrong arm squad, they as well as jall other workers, signed the resolu- |tion which says: | Withdraw the workers ‘ignatures. “We, of Papert & evident to any unprejudiced observer.| of the A. F. of L. and International |shop on April 11, 1927, hereby pro- tice is conspicuous by its absence.| Fur Workers’ Union, that it is these ’test against being continuaily pester- * “When this case first came to trial, | forces who are at work on this frame-;ed by the firm to register if the with Franklin, Malkan and the stool pigeon, Basoff as defendants, neither the complaining boss nor anyone con- | up. | Klan Dominating Factor. “In a community which is notori- scab ‘union.’ We further protest | against the threats of discharge if we |should fail to register. Some of us nected with the case ever mentioned | ously hostile to labor, and a Ku Klux | have signed, but we withdraw our sig- that Ben Gold, Shapiro, Mencher, Schneider, Lenhardt, Meiliff, Katz, |Klan center, the A. F. | are spreading propaganda aiming to of L. leaders | Patures and pledge our moral and | | financial support to the Joint Board until we shall defeat those who are | makers’ Italian Local 48, was sen-| teneed to sixty days on Monday by Judge Simon, Healy, and Herbert in special sessions on a charge ¢ mali- |cious mischief” pressed inst him during the cloakmakers’ strike by an employer. Evidence Weak. Piasanti wag arrested in front of Wooley Brothers at 406 Second Ave., during the strike and accused by the }employer of haying damaged }his goods. Although the employer | who testified against him was never lable to say that he was certain of | Piasanti’s identity, and probation of- ficers testifed as to his good char- acter, he was given the long sentence | In commenting upon the ease, Lou Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, | noted that “even Judge Rosalsky had | put on probation men accused of this | trivial misdemeanor. Piasanti was an |ing the cloakmake | said to have incu cial j enmity of teemployers on this ‘ac- | count, picket dur- | Girl Pickets Arrested. Anna Liebowitz, Helen Shapiro, |and Esther Rushner, dressmekers | from Local 22 were arrested on Mon- | | day morning as they were picketing | the Al Dress Shop at 361 West 36th | street. Police insisted that they had | no right to picket the building be- {eause of the injunction obtained for the A. W. Dress shop by the associa- | tion of dress manufacture The | two shops are in the same building. | Both shops were called on strike be- cause of the discharge of workers | who refused to register with the In- |ternational, The girls were paroled | until Saturday by Judge Gottlieb of | Jefferson Market Court, until the | status of the two shops under the in- | | Junction could be determined by him. Meeting of Shop Chairmen. The shop chairmen of the cloak and dress industry will meet on Tues- day, right after work in Manhattan Lyceum, to hear the report of the council of shop chairmen on the pre- \sent situation on the struggle of |the workers to save their union, | Speakers will include Isadore Brau- (ner, Louis Hyman, C. S. Zimmerman, land others. * Mail Pilot Dies In Crash. SEATTLE, Wash., April 11—Ray Small, coast air mail pilot was killed } ome of | Dividing the United Mine } (By A Miner) | The United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, once a united fighting powerful | organization which bettered the con- ditions of the mine workers by hard and long struggles, is now being systematically disintegrated. A few years after J. L. Lewis be- }came International President the first great blow in dividing the anthracite from the soft conl union was struck in the 1022 strike settlement. Split In Two. For the anthracite an éleven month and for the soft coal fields a two year agreement ¥ made, dividing one union into two, when it came to strikes each part had to go out alone. A few days before the last anthr: cite strike came to an_ official end, that is, before the ratification eon- vention in Scranton, Feb. 16, 1026, the president of one of the largest coal companies presented a bouquet) of flowers to J. L. Lewis and called | thim the greatest labor leader in the world and a second Lincoln. | The rank and file does not yet know sufficiently the “true greatness of their leader.” It will be a Her- culean task to make the rank and. file acquainted with the aecomplishs ments of J, L. Lewis—for the opera- | tors. The 1919 strike came to an end | because of government intervention, ewis told the miners “we cannot | tight our government.” President Harding’s republican ad- | | ministration (Wall Street's political power) intervened to help the oper- ators break the miners’ union. Lewis himself being ‘a republican and the | operators a part of Wall Street, they | |hed easy sailing. | Lewis did not tell the miners and | labor in general that the operators made use of the government to drive | the first wedge into the miners’ union for further destructive work. He) | therefore is guilty in helping to deal | the first and most destructive blow | to the United Mine Workers of Amer- \iea and he is guilty in letting oppor-/ tunities pass without trying to unite |the unions, | Three Weeks Vacation. As we go on we will see a | matic effort on the part of Lew’ |the coal operators to destroy fighting ability of the United Mine | Workers of America. | Eleven months after the 1922 strike, {in 1928 the “anthracite agreement }eame to an end and a three weeks suspension, a vacation, as the miners called it, took place. The miners called it a vacation be- | jcause after you have worked eleven) |months in the pits shoveling from ! twenty to thirty tons of coal a day,| @ suspension of three weeks dura- the ‘month, him and moved uneasily not liking the dangerous about which Murray spoke. His Purse Was Full. evidently subject Lewis is an actor with a good voice, He told the miners how the Nanti- coke high school students, boys and girls, nted him with pe flowers, | |eation convention. and how they pleaded with him to! carry on a good fight for an agree- |ment which would make it possible for their fathers to give them a real start in life. “Out of the fullness of his heart” he promised those children to everything possible so that they could do get an education and would not have! work as hard as their fathers. We will see later how he kept his prom- ise, Not Truthful. It was some time in January, 1926, when the miners heard Lewis. The Strike dragged on into The situation looked bleak. The miners wanted to hear. their leader’s opinion on the outcome of the strike. From the heginning and all during the strike streams of prop- the fifth) aganda were let loose on the miners—/ they speak, were confused—Lewis must A mass meeting was arranged in} Town Hall in Scranton with Lewis as the main speaker. The hall was jam- med with miners, five thousand or more were present, In his speech he gave himself away without being aware of it. He told the miners that they were now stronger than ever be- fore—what a lie! In 1922 when the anthracite and the soft coal miners went out a hundred thousand unor- ganized miners were stri vith | ‘ i ganized miners were on strike with | onerators filled their pockets. them. They were stronger than in ail the history of the United Mine Workers of America. He double- crossed them twice, first by making Separate agreements and second by not organizing the unorganized min- ers into the U, M. W. of A., leaving | them without an agreement, Those workers could have been brought in-| to the organization with one swing, Poor Excuses, He went on to tell the miners that Workers (Was seated behind Murray, looked at;more production. Into this last agree- ment a co-operation and efficiency clause was also placed at the re Some of the dele- gates made fun of this clause and the officials smiled at it. However the miners know by now that it means more work for them for the same pay. The operators. dg@xz- not need to reduce wages at the pres- ent time and arouse much noise about it; it does not fit inte their union smashing plans. Let Lewis first divide the soft coal miners separate district agree- ments. Onee divided the soft coal union will be practically powerléss and with the non-union mines on’ the inerease the operators will have eddy’ sailing to smash the most powerfwi unit of the U. M. W. of A,, the an- thracite union. Hard Coal Miners Work. The same thing will take pl in the anthracite strike of 1925-26, , only perhaps on a larger scale, The anthvacite workers will work now to pile up plenty of coal while Lewis chains the soft coal union and: then a shutdown in the anthracite will be on the order of business. Nothing can make the operators run thdir mines if they don’t want them to run. They can keep the miners out, until they see fit to let them go back to work. This will take place when the piled up coal is sold you may thik) but— by In 199 ‘6 the anthracite opera- tors did not only sell dirt for anthra- cite at big profits. They also sold soft coal for big money because they also control bituminous mines, While the miners used up their savings the Rank And File Fights. The rank and file in the U. M. W. of A. is of a fighting euality. If a strong minority can be made to see the true position of their union, into which our great leader J. L. Lewis has maneuvered it, then much can be saved of the organization andcne | second Lewis will be able to repeat , such union-wreeking. The rank and |file must learn the truth thru the they would gain more this time than! before; and then, as if excusing him- self, he added that the operators pamphlets, leaflets and press of the Save the Union bloc. From 1922 when the first deliber- wanted to smash the union and that|ate breaking up of the union took they (this he brought out meekly) | place, it could have been repaired in did not want to sign a longer agree-| 1923 with a short anthracite agree- © ment. in. 1922 which would run out | ment; again in 1924 when a short simultaneously with the soft coal|soft coal agreement had been made: T agreement. He must have sensed the |also in the 1925-26 anthracite strike % strong desire for unity of the two|a short agreement could have béen parts of the union. made if the interests of the miners’ The miners went home with some|unien would have been the first con- hope and in better spirits. It was sideration of the International offi- only a few weeks after this meeting |cials. If this policy had been carried Rosenberg or Weiss had any epanads| tion with the affair. Their being drawn into the case is without doubt! the work of those who have repeated- | here of hostility in ly and openly boasted that they) re igh evap & . n | ial of S d Vanzetti. It) would put the Furriers’ Joint Board |p", ‘deliberate attempt in he A. F.| leaders behind prison bars, and thus/ of L, and International Fur Workers’ | complete the destruction of the fur’ Union officials to jail the Joint Board | workers’ union. ~= leaders so that they may seize con- | Liebowitz’ Statement, ; trol of a union where they have al-! That this case is a deliberate} ready been repudiated,”—S, Liebo- | frame-up is the belief of all Joint | witz, Acting Manager. , Board members whose conyictions in; —- cet la mm . uGY THE Daily worker BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY AT THE NEWSSTANDS FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR ‘Now in the Mail diseredit our workers and 80 pre- | | judice the whole trial, The same sort | of provocative tactics were used to/ and Joe Carro!, a passenger, was in-! tion ig welcome. when the present anthracite five year jout the miners would now be united jured in an airplane crash at Sand | The first chance was missed in | arbitration clause, with no closed| when facing the operators. Instead |Point naval air field near here last |1928 after the great 1922 strike for|Shop agreement was made, the U. M. wW. of A. is headed for the | night, a short agreement running out simul- Let Lewis Do It. rocks and it will go a considerable |taneously with the soft coal agree-| Already the anthracite miners fee! | way in that direction before the pro- I, L. D. SECRETARIES: IMPORTANT ment and no effort was made to re-'the pressure of the coal barons for | gressive elements ean turn the tide, All New York branch seeretaries of the International Labor Defense unite the anthracite with the soft ener }coal miners. are urged to call at once at the local office (I. L. D.), 108 E. 14th St., for “Save Sacco and Vanzetti” pamphlets which are ready for immediate Another opportunity was passed by | when in 1924 the soft coal agreement j uGU; Hurt in Tenement — rying to break our union.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS distribution, lcame to an end. At this time again fan agreement could have been made to expire witly the anthracite agree- ment made for two years in Octo-| ber, 192%; Instead the famous Jgck- | sonville, three year agreement was made, apd when in 1925 the anthra- | cite workers went on strike for five | and a half months, they were fight- | ing alone while their brothers in the soit coal fields produced coal for the , Tri Vray- You can prepare yourself to be of greater use to the Labor Movement. There is no excuse Phone: Drydock $880. e FRED SPITZ Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A, M, 2-8 P. M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. Two New Issues of CC. 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A rooming house, 5 stories high, at | 88 West 66th St., just west of Broad. way was the scene of the tragedy. | This part of the city, with most of the {houses of brownstone, was at one time an exclusive residential section for the wealthy of Manhattan. | Fooming house distriet, with mouldy, | decayed dark hallways, where small- | salaried clerks, salesman, and itiner- {ant vaudeville actors make their homes. because th irways were cut off by the flames and smokes. Regarding Fiesta. The DAILY WORKER regrets to announce that it has just received word from the New Playwright's Theatre that the performance of ita” has been postponed until the fall season. Arrangements are now under way whereby The DAILY WORKER hopes to take over the performance of “Spread Eagle,” the now-famous play which exposes the inside machinations of Wall Street in connection with schemes for foreign intervention, All tickets held by DAILY WORKER Agents should be turned in at once. . ‘ 44.—BERT MILLER, Business Mer. | Today it has degenerated into a! |operators with which the anthracite miners were beaten into the present | | five year agreement plus an arbitra-| | tion clause. } | Bad Leadershi | | The anthracite mine workers attri- | | buted their ten per cent increase in| | wages in 1923 to the leadership of |J. L. Lewis, They did not under- | {stand the favorable economic situa- | | tion of this country or in the .world| }as a whole; they did not know that! the disorganized economic condition |of Europe was the cause of prosper- | lity in this country.. Here finances | ‘and industry were in better shape | than in any other part of the world, The operators knew that the wave | of prosperity would slow down in the | ratio, or even faster, as the European | therefore the quick agreement and therefore also the increasing pressure | hes the miners by the operators for ) |more production during the life of | this agreement and that is the why and wherefore of the many petty! strikes in the anthracite during this | period. | When the 1925-26 strike was well under way our great leader’ came to| Nanticoke to address a mass meeting of miners. The international Vice- President, who also spoke at this meeting, devoted a part of his speech to the miners’ unity question. He had in mind the unity which has the same international officials and the consequent financial ease thereof. He said that the anthracite operators want to first divide and then destroy the union. At this point Lewis, who! ’ for not having a workers library. The books listed below are be- ing sold at cost—at a price within the reach of every worker. If you have some of them on hand, use this opportunity for PROPAGANDA purposes. Tell us which books you want and We will send them to any address you give us! Look over this excellent list: 25 CENTS EACH BREAKER WORKERS ERS PARTY GOVERNMENT STRIKE- Lovestous FOURTH CONVENTION MUNISM—-Zinoviey (papet)—J. PARTY vel REMEMBER These special rates are good only until May 1. On all orders under $1.00 be sure to add five cents for postage. THE DAILY WORKER 38 FIRST STREET NEW YORK ( se ec eneteillamenser sxc na I mst me eA giioneonte i : a { WORLD TRADE UNION .| MOVEMENT-~-Losoveky BOLSHEVI8M — Some ues tions Answered-—I. Stalin To com *” (