The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1927, Page 5

| | ¢ I} \ THE DALY: WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1927 BLA: Five ‘Attend Union Square Meeting Saturday! Save Sacco and Vanzetti! SPEAKERS: James P. Cannon, Forrest Bailey, William W. Weinstone, Moissaye J. Olgin, Carlo Tresca, Charles Kline, Leonard Abbott, and others. Demonstration By Plumbers’ Helpers For Unionization More than 1,000 plumbers’ helpers, members of the American Associ- ation of Plumbers’ Helpers held a mass demonstratiow yesterday morn- | ing outside. of Lenruth Hall, Brook- lyn, where Plumbers’ Union, One was holding a strike meeting. The demonstration was arranged for the purpose of putting the plumb- ers who have been on sirike since April 1, on record as to their attitude | towards ‘the helpers, who joined them on strike on that date. Haye Banners. Banners were, displayed by the de- | monstrators with slogans such as: “Brother Plumbers, We Are With You.” “Plumbers, Your Helpers Get leaflets calling upon all members of ing $4°a Day. In Other Trades The Helpers Get $9 a Day.” “Does The U. A. Want the Helpers To Beetme Scabs?” “We Don’t Want To Be Scabs. We Want To Be Union Men.” , “Plumbers Are You Going To Work | With Scab Helpers?” Committee of Three. A committee of three, representing | ‘the helpers went inside Lenruth Hal for a conference with the union offi- | ‘Scott Nearing on cials. After the demonstration a meeting of the helpers was held at the Chureh Of All Nations, 9 Second Ave. | At Tuesday nights’ meeting of the helpers held at Ace Hall, Brooklyn, a delegation of seven plumbers rep: senting the Union Plumbers Social Club of Queens County were. present! and said that they would do every- thing within their power to have the helpers become a party of the plumb- ers union. They are members of Lo-| cal 418, Plumbers Union, Queens | county. A representative of the helpers ap- peared at the meeting of Local 418, held last night at 252 Jefferson Ave.) Queens, Read The Daily Worker Every Day | Oe Se | Three Cheers for Four! Years of Pioneer Work | The Bronx section Young Pioneers | are. celebrating their fourth anniver-| sary with a concert and entertain- | ment on Saturday evening April i6th at 8 p, m. at the Workers Hall, 1847 Boston Road. Everyone should come down and/| enjoy a good time. é Admission is only 85 eents and! children 10 cents. NEWSBOYS WANTED To sell The DAILY WORKER at union meetings. Commission paid. Report to the Local Office, 108 East 14th Street. Local | |Ten Furrier Leaders | On Trial In Mineola | (Continued Vik: Page One) from those who seek to destroy it. | Their crime is that they won a} strike and the 40-hour week. While one hand was m Gold wrote in pencil th | message to his comrades of the Fur- | riers’ Joint Board. “Our enemies can bind o in chains, but not our spi ai a Prison chains cannot crush our ideals and convictions. On the contrary our | determination to fight for justice for the oppressed working 33 lis strengthened by such persecution, “Comrades! Hold your forces! Hold | aloft the banner of your sacred strug- | gle. “Close your ranks to overcome your | | enemies. | “We shall meet again soon. “Long live the struggle for working class—BEN GOLD.” Three fur workers were arrested yesterday at noon while distributing the | } the union to refrain from registerin| ‘with the scab union of the Interna- tional and urging loyalty Board. - Charles Mehlsack, Michael Tnuntas taken into custody, but when they were arraigned before Magistrate they were released on a suspended sentence, and H. Kauffman were the workers Gottlieb in Jefferson Market Court | Workers School, when Scott Nearing | | already passed, in most branches of | which exists in any other country of Soviet Union Next Saturday Afternoon A refreshing contrast to the sub- ject matter of the previous lectures in his series on Post War Europe will | be furnished by the final lecture this | Saturday, April 16, at 2 P. M., at the | 1 | speaks on the one country in post war Europe that is definitely and steadily on the upgrade, namely, the | Soviet Union. This series-has pre- sented a picture of Europe ruined by the world war, partially and tem- porarily stabilized in the so-called period of reconstruction, increasingly pariren to the dominance of American |eapitalism, torn by Fascism, white terror and the acutest forms of the class war. His final lecture, dealing with the Sovigt Union, will show a country that has not only solved the| problems created by the destruction wrought by the world war and the revolutionary period, but that has industry, the pre-war economic level and is entering into a period that marks a new level and an increasingly different order of society from that the world. This is the final Saturday after- noon lecture of the series given by Nearing. Admission is 35 cents, \, On May Day, The DAILY - WORKER will print May Day greet- ings of individuals, trade unio: sports clubs, in a SPECIAL MAY Individual names will be printe: Organizations will be allowed t! and $100.00 per pa; ns, fraternal organizations and DAY EDITION dat the rate of $1.00 per name. he special rate of $1.00 per inch THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, NEW YORK. Enclosed $ Attach advertising copy fraction thereof is desired. for the following names to be printed in the special MAY DAY EDITION, to this blank, if a page or pices of Section 7, munist) Party. Bertram D. Wolfe and | Ben Lifshitz will speak. Spring Festival Dance Saturday evening, / Astoria Mansion, It has been arranged by the downtown ! section of the Young Workers League. Mayor Gets Wet As | Thousands Gaze at Spectacular Fire | Itis atiinated that more than $10,- | | 000,000 damage was caused last nigh y the spectacular fire which prac | tieally destroyed the 15-story tower | which top# the 28-story main build-| i ihe of the luxuri6us new Sherry- | Netherland Apartment Hotel at Sth Avenue and 59th Street. Thousands of people, awed by the | brilliant spectacle, watched the fire | from every vantage point. | “Bulldog” editions of the metto- | nolitan morning papers reported the| | blaze ag tho it were an opening night | | at the Metropolitan Cpera House ot | | the Ziegfeld Follies. | | “Fire-parties” were even given. | Some of the more wealthy members| |of New York residents engaged rooms | jin the Hotei Plaza, and by mid-eve- | to the Joint | Ming, according to the hotel manage- | ment, every reom on the Fifth Ave-| nue and 59th Street side had been! reserved for the purpose, Among those present as one of the| unofficial spectators were Mayor “Jimmy” Walker, and his secretary. While the mayor was looking on, it is reported, he was doused by a spurt! of water from a hose connection. He brushed the water from his clothing and sped away in his ear through Central Park. Special Meeting of Russian Members of Local 35 _Tomorrow All Russian-Polish members of the | Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers’| Union, Local 35, are urged to be pres-| nounced that he is a Communist and|fects not only Passaic, but Garfield, ent at a special meeting tomorrow | that he is running with the indorse-| Clifton and Lodi, and steps should night at 8 o’clock at headquarters, | ment of that party for a member of! be taken to help the unemployed in 0 East 22nd Street. The meeting, | which will be held in the large hall | on the second floor, will be addressed | by prominent Russian speakers. Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting Friday. A Ruthenberg memorial meeting will be held Friday evening at 1373! 43d Street, Brooklyn, under the aus- | Workers’ (Com- | xt Saturday. A spring festival dere will be held 23 at the t Fourth St. 62 | end retreating. “Anpiause For Weisbord At Passaic Speech (Continued from Page One) : ‘Passaic Labor Asks | (eee: Whol he det gma the a FOr Help From City; Get Vague Promises and ing of “ stri ke songs com-| nieneed once again. (Special To The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J. April 1! Crowd On Streets. Many workers who were unable to 5 4 unemployment committee sele ord gain admission, crowded the side- alks hoping to hear an occasional vord or two. A similar dem tion took place when Wei ‘teached the Hungarian Home. These successful meetings the conference of labor organizations tank| held in Carpenters Hall, when it ap- |place in spite of the sabotage of the | peared before the city commis lo¢éal hallkeepers and press. The) were told in good old fashioned poli- largest halls being refused while the | tical campaign time language, that newspapers announced that the mect- “they would do What Wey ould to ing would take place in a different 5 aye hall, But in spite of all, the workers improve the situation. responded in a manner that showed; They presented the following pro- their confidence in Weisbord and the | gram to the city commissioners: program he stands for. formation of _an unemployment Exile Ends. bureau, equal division of labor in the Weisbord said that {now that the7mitls, the calling of a citizens’ com- strike is over my exile is finished). A ; mittee to consider the entire ques- }and I come back and help you pick up the fight were we left off. Under| tion and the appointment of a repre- the leadership of the American Fed-| sentative of the United Textile Work- eration of Labor you have been forced | ers’ Union in the poormasters’ office. {to retreat but today is the time to| The city fathers were very polite ‘and promised to | tunity. The bosses do not forget./to division of work, claiming they Their agents are imposing long sen-| have no control over the mills’ ac- itences on the workers who were ac-| tions. tive in the strike. In this campaign Situation Getting Worse. we will have an opportunity to let the | cele | Speaking at the Carpenters Hall bosses know that we’ never’ will for | conference, Gustay Deak, president get the strike.” hick jof the district textile council of Pas- He also called upon the workers to |saie and vicinity, reported the situ- | participate in the political campaign | ation as getting worse daily. | as they did on the picket line, rally-| wppe unemployment situation | ing all the workers who are voters.| not getting better. It’s worse than It was announced that five candi-/i¢ was last week. The mills continue | dates, a full slate, will run. to lay off workers. Less than one third are now at work. “The unemployment situation af- is Speaks As Communist. At the meetings Weisbord an- | those cities, as well.” Workers Not Seeking Charity. \the city commission. | In his speeches Weisbord exposed | |Commissioner of Public Safety Abram | The workers were not seeking | Preskiel, Mayor McGuire and the rest| rarity, Chatenan Sohne ‘oh of the local capitalist politicians. | George Aldhouse of the chamber of “Vote As You Strike.” commerce after the latter had re- Harry M. Wicks, of the editorial| ported having conferred with the staff of The DAILY WORKER, told| state commissioner McBride, and \the workers to “vote as you strike.” been told that the state had used up Emil Gardos, sub-district organizer] all its appropriations, and with Jof the Workers (Communist) Party,|Mayor McGuire who expressed his jpresided at the Ukrainian Hall meet-| usual passive interest in the welfare jing, while A, Panerissi, active tex-|}of the workers. The city officials’ tile leader, was chairman at the Hun-| attitude, Aldhouse told the meeting, garian Hall meeting. was that there were enough chari- BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Four Years of Pioneer Work wil be BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dra. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M, 2-8 P. M. Dally Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th OT EEET, Cor. Second Ave. New York. Dr, J. Mindel Dr, L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10114 Tel. Orchard 3183 Strictly by Appointment DR. L. KESSLER SURGHON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge St. Now York Booth Phones, pet Dock 6612, Office Phone, athe ard ele. MANHATTAN. LY Gt Wek Large Halls With Lge 4 fr ings, Entertainments, Balla, dings oF Banquets; Cafete! 66-68 E. 4th St, New ¥. Small Meeting Rooms Available, i ys Tel. Dry Dock 8206, 8045, 2691, 1, KITZIS, Prop. THE. ASTORIA Palatial Ballrooms & Dining Rooms CATERING A SPECIALTY 62-64 B. 4th st. New York City, Celebrated by the BRONX SECTION | YOUNG PIONEERS with a CONCERT and Entertainment Sat. Eve., April 16, 8 P. M. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 6 at 1347 Boston Road, Bronx Admission, Adults 35c, Children 10c Telephone Dry Dock 9069. Meet me at the Public Art Dairy Restaurant and Vegetarian 15 SECOND AVE. NEW YORK || Opposite Public Theatre neem een em» ‘Union Meetings Phone: Drydock 8580, FRED SPITZ The FLORIST 8 SECOND AVENUE Near Houston, FRESH CUT FLOWERS DAILY Fresh and Artificial Flowers Delivered Anywhere. BAKERS’ LOCAL No, 1. 850 E. 85th St. Office hours from 8 a.m. t@6 p.m. daily. Meeting on announcement of Executive Board. Advertise your union meetings SPECIAL REDUCTION TO LABOR here. For information write to ORGANIZATIONS. The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 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Spring si cctaiide of the JEWISH WORKERS' UNIVERSITY SATURDAY, APRIL 16, Kaster Eve., STAR CASINO, 107th St. and Park Ave. DANCING TILDA SHOCKET AND HER DANCERS i in a special program. at Freiheit, Tickets 75¢ Wes University, “126 East 16th Street. 3 hereby ALL NIGHT, 80 Union Square, and Jewish | be done unde ci fs | Wo! the | A | he was “quite ce fe “do their best” on} The election offers us this oppor-| 91} points except that which refers | Amalgamated Food Wokwat Joint Defense & Relief Committee, ihaelail & Cloakmakers, 41 Union Sq., Room 714° “| Interracial Concert, s| Meeting, Next Sunday ung | ance’ to| What about} c e know there will An interracial mass meeting and ert will be held Sunday, two lock at Harlem Casino, 116th St., earn their di contract wor be wo opened up this summe dd Lenox Ave. It has been arranged There’s no good reason why th y the American Negro Labor Con- work could not be started»at once.| gress. , The city would thus save money in| The concert program will inclyde two ways, saving on contractors, and| Evelyn Preer of the Lulu Belle-Go.; saving on money it would have to} The Perfect Harmony Four; Daniel star of “Earth” and the Frei- wing Society. his work could| Haynes, on of the | heit put out re tl s own bosses, They have enough} Richatd B. Moore of the N, Y, dis- doing nothing but dodging} trict, American Negro Labor Con- other. Why not put them to| gress; Frank R. Crosswaite, organizer, 2 Pullman Porters’ Union; Geo, A. Wes- “The relief given by labor was not/ ton, vice-president, Pioneer Negroes looked upon as ¢ That was|of the World; Wm. Pickens, National labor solidarit e of workers | sciation for the Advancement of aiding those on stri Albert Weisbord, Pas- and Robert W. Dunn, American Civil Liberties Union, wil] Earl Carroll Unconscious. " speak. ° On eipt of a telegram from ml Give of Earl Car-| nowntown I. L. D. Meets Tonight. roll’s collapse and removal to a Hos- A i, t otwanive the. dia pital, his wife, Mrs. Marcel Carrol,|, 4 meeting to reorganize the domn- + ja } . ‘ ’! town branch of the International La~ fainted at th rl Carroll offices : A 1 ; and was atte » Dr. Edgar Wolf, bor Defense will be held tonight at a Radbe-ch’ *, Magar Wolt, Ukrainian Hall, 17 East Third Street. nove ! All workers ‘living downtown are » m. ¢ was still un- urged to attend. hal Hecht late: Carroll did not consciou id BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSS NDS take poison. Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund BOOKS ARE READY DAILY WORKER wthenberg Sustaining Fund] HE Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sus- taining Fund Books are out. They are being sent out to all Party units and to all DAILY WORKER Builders Clubs. The | books provide a simple and easy method whereby The DAILY WORKER may se- cure regular and systematic support from its friends and sympathizers. The funds thus collected will be used to build up our paper, to cover the cost of adding new fea- tures, to attract new writers, and to meet the expenses of the | trial we are facing DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Inclosed is my contribution of end esis dollars .... cents to the aeains > | Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund against the attack for a stronger and better rarious joti DAILY WORKER and for the of various patr lotic defense of our paper. I will pay societies. See your | the same amount regularly local DAILY WORK- | :ver¥ ER Agent. Be sure you have a book. if Join the Ruthenberg | Sustaining Fund. Attach chee! or money order. Se aE ERE gS 2 LE or eee ame raeneenatnereetmmamenenmNe mRe wert CUT OUT THIS CERTIFICATE AND SEND IT OR BRING IT IN_WITH ONE DOLLAR We call upon all Workers to support the 100,000 Dollar Drive of the Joint Defense and Relief Committee, Cloakmakets and Furriers. BEN GOLD, LOUIS HYMAN. (Signed) es” poLtaR ruND % ROLL CALL , Jott Defense and Relief Con:mittee, Cloakenakers and Furriers Room 714, 41 Union Squaze, New Yorke City sontvthute One Bollar w de mond gf honing the sogpeioned’ Ceaheraees ond Fecrins; deferting tess sen viount and cating oak fo Wan CUT OUT THIS CERTIFICATE AND SEND IT OR BRING IT IN WITH ONE DOLLAR: