The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1927, Page 5

25,000 Homeless in South as Result of The Mississippi Floods ST, LOUIS; April 18.—Twenty- five thousand flood refugees in seven states, driven from their homes by the raging waters of the Mississippi and other streams below here, are being given shel- ter under tents today, according to figures compiled by the Ameri- can Red Cross of this city. Of this number approximately 15,000 are in the states of Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas and about 10,000 in Kentucky, Tennessee, | Mississippi and Louisiana. | Coolidge Balks at Porto Rico Relief; Backs Sugar Trust WASHINGTON, April 18.—(FP) Housewives Council . Active in Work for Defense of. Pickets The United Council of Working class Houseives is engaged 100% in the defense of the imprisonéd cloak- makers and furriers, Mass meetings are boing arranged in all the sections, The first of these was arranged jointly by the six coun- ells of the Bronx, will take place in the Hunts Point Palace on Wednes- day evening, April 27th. Other mass Textile Magnates - Attack Open Shop; Defend Low Wages The protest. of forty-one Southern bishops and ministers against the in- human conditions in southern textile mills was answered by the National THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1927 Trial Shows Dicks Use! Union Against Gold | | (Continued from Page One) | writing,” asked ~ Attorney George! | Levy. | “No,” said the detective, “except) lin the case of Schneider. - I wrote! | out his ‘statement, but he would not sign it.” (This unsigned so-called; }statement was later ruled out as evi-| | dence,) | “Did you make any effort to get} these ‘confessions’? Did Captain) National Meeting and Strike for Vanzetti, Sacco, Commitee Topic A general strike and a national conference of labor will be the || order of business at the spécial meeting of the Emergency Committee to be held Friday evening, 8 o'clock at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St. Sacco-Vanzetti || |The first to. be organized was in |the job collecting on the honor rolls, | neither be based on the principle of Bacon, who was with you, hear the} ‘confessions’ of Mencher and Shap-| l g iro? Did you discuss ‘confessions’ | Attacking the closed shop, the in- lon the way to Mineola?” | Every council is on| dustrial barons said that “wages can) «No, we discussed diet. Captain| Bacon was surprised to Kliow that! {any Jews ate pork.” (General laugh-| ‘ter in the courtroom.) All trade unions, fraternal and other labor organizations must be represented by delegates, as the next move to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti will be acted upon at this meeting. meetings will be announced. | Association of Manufacturers yester- Sewing circles are being organiznd. | day. Council No, *7. on the roll call, collecting articles for| the needs of men or moral require- the bazaar, talking to the women and |} ments.” enrolling new members for the atmy| “The closed union shop,” the Asso- | . bi It developed upon further ques- | of workers. It is expected that the| ciation said, “is a monstrosity whith | ¢:9nj f Attorney Levy that altho! (0 I 00 United Council of Working Class} will never be tolerated in America. | rig. ath ond | Bie ipo (tka ite the detectiv palizes h i rtant | Housewives will go over the top. |'The appeal of the clergymen, though | TER MMama ane cake: te wach Offi . | § President Coolidge will take no action | to telieve the economic misery of the masses of the people in Porto Rico,| it was indicated at the White House after Coolidge had heard the report of Secretary of War Davis, who re- cently visited the island. It was at a banquet by the island legislature| to Davis’ that the terrible condition of | the workers of Porto Rico was de-| scribed in a speech ‘by Sen. Iglesias, Socialist. | Coolidge has decided that Porto Rieans are “friendly toward the rest of the United States,” but that there | is no. reason for giving them special | attention now. He will soon appoint a new governor in place of Governor) Towner, who is ill, but he will not name a Porto Rican for the place.) He does not propose to humor their) demand for the right to elect their own governor. Towner, who was formerly chair-| man of the House committee on in-| sular affairs, has been a tool of the! American corporations in the island which control the sugar, coffee, to-| bacco and fruit industries. Standards | of living atnong plantation workers | have sunk to a level of semi-starva-/| tion, but corporate profits have been | high. | Saceo and Vanzetti Must Not Die!) Celebrate { Worker Drama League * | The preparations for the bazaar Meets Tonight at 8 P.M. |inat will be held on May 12, 18, 14, and 15 at Star Casino, 107th Street }and Park Avenue., are in full swing. |Many working class organizations have arranged for booths of their |oyn. They will supply the entire) merchandise for these booths and) turn the profit over to the defense The pie titans: hr raincoat | tioning. Several times he interrupted proposed company pension schemes,” makers, dressmakers and workers of | *° bi diiecge ices Na de gd ae Daugherty says, “for Jon cab “gat other trades are driving for material | “20: oF. Pepen Hote. With unfailing | better and cheaper Bemean prcrec tet and articles for the bazaar. The regularity Rid oyptenind mt: Mr.| through your own oxgemsation’ and latest style men’s straws, avcicceta |e objections, such as his ob-| you will have the satisfaction of con- and dresses, millinery and other: ar- | J¢*Hon to ponte tape refer-/ trolling it yourself. ; ticles will be on sale at half price, | n°* ta? pen ceneenl Fickat ommit-| | “For example an employe earning . | tee as “the strong arm squad, |$250 a month under the company Straw Hats. } Judge S For Stoolpigeon. Straw hats will be especially cheap. | he Maine at “Ginea = Binet The season of straw hats is just! Basoff as tho he were a beginning. Thousands of workers} need hats. The defense committee} U. 8. Steel Evades Tax i i 1 ‘dered a 1 tity of | By Issuing Millions of treat very low prices in onder to New Stock Dividends | provide all workers with new hats. All workers’ organizations that ex- HOBOKEN, N. J., April 18, — | Pect to have booths at the bazaar are Stockholders of the United States | requested to apply immediately at the Steel Corporation, at the ¢nnual meet- aster of the defense and relief com- {a “confession” is‘in any case, he de | At a conference of Working’ Class | couched in servile terms, called at- iy bao) eo te get SlGiw coituaslons! Women of New Haven, a large num-/ tention to the long hours, and the | trom these fur workers except in ber of the women pledged themselves | meager wages in southern textile | Schneider's ease—and then his al-! ai er tain hl ve all eat |leged statement Schneider would not} H articles for the bazaar. meeting | ee ae sign. He said Lenhardt promised to} om all BNSIONS was arranged for April 22nd with Straw Hats Cheap at|srite out his own statement, but he Ben Gold, (if free), and Louis sagt f B T% B |never found out whether he did or man as speakers. | erense azaar 10 € | not. ek 6 es i ‘| CLEVELAND, April 18 (FP).— ; } | als ross-Examines, When a railroad offers a pensicn Held Beginning May 12) Detective Grebe was the last wit-! schemé it is a good thing i» examine ness on the stand at yesterday's S€S-/ it before swallowing the hook and sion which began with the cross-! sinker. Usually the union gives far questioning of the stool pigeon! more for the same money and gives Basoff by Attorney Frank P. Walsh. | it with greater certainty and less red He brought out more clearly than tape. This at least is the conclusion jever the string of lies which have | reached by 2d Vice Pres. H. P, Daugh- been manufactured by this man ever|erty of the Brotherhood of Locomo- since he turned state’s evidence. ive Engineers. The judge exhibited marked hostil- “My advice to our members is to The elass in workers’ ballet will he held tonight at 8 o’clock at the Work- ers’ Drama League, 64 Washington Sq. South, under the direction of M. Becque. Progress is also being made, accord- | ing to Miss Florence Rauh, secretary | of the league, in numefous other ac- tivities, including the Proletarian Writers Workshop on Monday eve- nings; and the rehearsas + Yoller’s “Machine Wreckers” on +» .sday! and Friday evenings, It is announced that participants in the mass scenes are urgently needed | at this time. turned to| poor, inno- | cent, creature who was being rudely handled by those terrible lawyers. month into the Brotherhood of Loco- “Take your time,” he admonished| motive Engineer Pension Assn. for Basoff who was stumbling over one 40 years and retired at the age of 65, of his lies. “Answer the question the! best you can. Don’t be hurried. = | - Move Mistrial. Mr. Walsh twice during the day} moved that the jurors be dismissed | and this be declared a mistrial, and in refusing the second request, Judge Smith said curtly. “You have asked for this twice; try again.” | This second demand for a new trial | jcame after Basoff had left the Otane | Ck, bardantome and the employ jand taken a seat in the front TOW | will find “that they have been hold- month. If a member paid $11:25 a company proposes to pay.” plans that they usually contain a {draw on 30 days notice. This simply means, he says, that the company is keeping the way open to quit the of the courtroom. He had scarcely \ity to Mr. Walsh ell during his ques- | have notMing to do with any of these | pension racket any time the plan be- | lof preferred stock and 4,047,883 | shares of common stock. After the | distribution of the new shares, the steel corporation will have outstand- ing 7,583,210 shares of $100-par com- mon stock. A Joint Defense Needs Help. |. The Joint Defense Committee must \have help. There is ‘plenty of work |for all who wish to help the defense ing of the corporatién here today, | mittee, 41 Union Square, room 714. approved the proposed increase in ae capitalization by voting to issue 2,-| ; | 033,210 shares of new tax free com- |All Denver Bakeries } mon stock, to be distributed as a 40) . Unionized But One per cent dividend to present share- | no holders. | DENVER—April 18.—(FP)—Only The officials of the corporation | one Denver bakery of any size is non- presented proxies for 2,682,255 shares | union and its business is decreasing | while the unionized bakeries are push- | ibe sales up, Bakers Local 26 reports. ain stores are switching their | bakery orders to the union shops. | Woman Killed By Elephants. NEWARK, N. J., April 18—One woman was killed this afternoon. | when three elephants broke loose a: | Theatre in Market Street, and fled !they were being led into Proctor’s! sat down when the district attorney |tushéd ‘over to him, and thén imme-| | diately annotinéed to the judge. | “Your honor, there are two men! |in back of this man Who are annoy-| jing him.” For The Record. } And without further question the/| ;two men, Max Hamberg and Ben- jamin Lazarus, who have been sub-! poenaed to .testify against Basoff, jing an empty sack.”. In Chicago the employes of Nelson Morris & Co, lost their pensions when Armour & Co. bought up the firm. Armour bought the assets but dumped the pension | liabilities and the Illinois courts de-4 cided that Armour could not be held for the obligations, Lots of strings are tied to the pen- sion plans by the railroad companies, Daugherty further discovers. 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Fetate BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY | were ordered from the court room, | he would get only part of his company Mr, Walsh vigorously objected to|pension until he is 65, for example, this action as being prejudicial to|any any employe who sues the com- these two witnesses and therefore de- pany for personal injury or any other manded the new trial. The judge re- reason thereby forfeits his pension fused, as reported above. | rights. FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR Scab Testifies. Charles Weisenbloom was the | that Weisenbloom told of a former state’s witness called after Basoff,|/ business partnership with Barnett, and his testimony revealed that he and a quarrel over the property; and and relief of the cloakmakers and/|through the business section. furriers, Volunteers should come to | ns | Room 714, 41 Union Square. »\Read The Daily Worker Every Day. Tel. Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Officé Hours: 9:20-12 A. M, 2-8 P, M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 FAST 115th STREET New York. Telephone Dry Dock 9069. | Méet me at the Public Art Dairy Restaurant and Vegetarian 76 SECOND AVE. NEW YORK Opposite Public Theatre | the strike; had worked in the Barnett had attacked Barnett’s Rockville Cen- shop in Rockville Center for a while; | ter shop because of a personal grudge and had finally begun reporting at | against him. one of the strike halls every day,| telling the hall committee that he had identified him last December at the been siek. |time of his arrest, flowing which He alleged that he had accom- he confessed complicity in the alleged |panied all the defendants to Rock- jassault at Rockville Center and turn- | ville Center to point out the Bar-|ed state’s evidence against the pres- nett shop to them; and when that/ent defendants. was done had left town on a train. | Weisenbloom stated that he had Denies His Past. {never been represented by council; This witness heatedly denied the did not know he pled guilty to a fel- details of an affidavit made to the|ony; did not even know what the Cor. Second Ave. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. 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Not only did Weisenbloom try to jimpress the jury with his innocence of crime by his ignorance of the word | “felony”; but he tried to ingratiate |himself by stating that he always had |a hard time getting a job in fur shops | before the strike because he was not |a union man. With Detective Grebe still answer- 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge St. New York |) en Oifice Phone, Orchard sais” te Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM Large Halls With Sta, ings, Entertainments, Balle ‘ \- Satoterla, » Xe dings and Banqu 4th St, freckles, rash, itching skin, eczet % . Bali Meeting Hoos Sivas | or stubborn ‘skin. trouble’ of ang = jing questions about the unrecorded Available. Kind will be banished by use of J. 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W. | _Weinstone, Ben Gitlow, and others. | had been a scab before and during) that he also told that a friend of his| Weisenbloom could not tell who had | Chinese Sneaker At Chicago May Day Celebration CHICAGO, TIL, April .18.—May First means a lot to the rkers of | Chicago. Historically, it is to the fathers of Chicago’s present genera- | tion of wage #laves that world labor |owes its annual international ‘holiday. | During the great working class strug- ja@les of the eighties in this country, | Chicago was the center of the fight for the eight hour day that culmin- ated in the murder of the Haymarket victims, The eight-hour strikes during that | fiery decade were called each year | on May First. The biggest of these | efforts was that of 1886. The work- \ers of Chicago were the standard bearers. A huge strike at the Me- | Cormick Yarvester works called prior | | to May First was fused with the gen- | eral eight-hour movement. On the | second of May a great demonstration |was held at the McCormick plant. |Company gunmen and police opened | fire on the crowd and séveral were | killed. | Haymarket Frameup | The following day a meeting was jealled in the Haymarket as a protest. Tt was at this demonstration that the | dastardly frame-up was perpetrated |that ended in the hanging of the Haymarket martyrs and a reign of terror that crushed the eight-hour movement. | Page Vive Pittsburgh Labor to Hold Sacco-Vanzetti Conference, April 26th PITTSBURGH, April 18,— A call has just been issued for & Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Con- ference to all labor and fraternal organizations of this held at Walton Hall, 2: St., Tuesday, April 26 The call was issued by Vanzetti Defense Committee western Pennsylvania. All secretaries are requested te act upon the call even though their organizations do not meet before the date of the conference. If no delegates are elected, the secretaries themselves should come or should assign someone to at- tend. For further, details, communica- tions should be it to the secre- tary, Caroline Scollen, 807 Me- Geaugh Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15 Workers Join Communist Party At Passaic Meet (Special to the Daily Worker), PASSAIC, N, J., April 18.—Albert Weisbord addressed a meeting of the of For the workers of Chicago the ob-| labor campaign workers last night at |servance of the international holiday | the Workers’ Home, 27 Dayton Ave., |to be held at the Ashland Auditorium | following it by a speech at the Gar- on Sunday, May First in the evening, | den Place, where he spoke from the |same platform as the capitalist can- But aside from its historical signi- | didates. \is of special moment. ficance, May First this year comes at Weisbord was given a reception at |a time when the revolutionary move-| the Workers’ Home last Saturday eve- |ment i6 looking up again.. } jof recent years. | Chinese Speaker |pian would have $11.25 a month de-/the Russian Revolution, the Chinese | Workers xt to| ning by the Passaic branch of the Party. He ducted from his wage for 40 years to| nationalist liberation movement is the| spoke on the role of the party in the be eligible for a pension of $187.50 a/ greatest working class achievement| strike declaring that it was due to the Par’ mpetus given by the Workers that the strike was carried on The meeting being held on May | 80 successful. | First this year thruout the country Emil Garos, local organizer of the we could pay him a pension of $297| under the auspices of the Workers’| party presided. The other speakers a month instead of the $137.50 the Communist Party will put special em-| were Simon Smelkenson and Simon | phasis on thé Chinese revolution and | Bambach, Weisbord’s associate candi- |“Hands off China.” Daugherty notes in studying the| voice the demand that American and | dates in the campaign for city com- most up-to-date company pension|all other imperialist powers keep | missioners; Irving Freiman, Felix C. T. Chi, who! Panerissi and Tom Garai. provision that either party may with-|has just returned from the world| Workers joined the Workers (Com- Fifteén ‘congress against imperialism recent-| munist) Party at the reception. ly concluded in Brussels, Belgium, will be a speaker at the Chicago Night Workers Meeting This After- meeting. Wm. Z. Foster, nationally known trade union leader, will head speaker's list. ‘Cafeteria Workers Hold Organization Meeting, April 20th organize the counter workers two mass fone lunch meetings will be held at Manhattan WORKERS! the the night workers’ noon. The regular monthly meeting of section of The Workers (Communist) Party will take place today*at 108 East 14th St. at 3 p.m. sharp. All organizers of the units attached to the section | are urged to bring a complete list of their membership with the standing and address. Only by doing so will the section be reorganized and func- cafeteria and tion as a unit of the party. PROTEST AGAINST Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., at 2:30| DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTI! |p. m., and 7:30 p. m., on Wednesday April 20th. |. These workers are now toiling from 11 to 14 hours a day under miserable working conditions. All workers in cafeterias, coffee pots and lunch counters are urged to attend either of the two meetings. ‘Food Workers Will Hold May Day Meet At Labor Temple The Amalgamated Food Workers will hold a May Day meeting, Sunday May First, 9 a. m. sharp at the Labor | Temple, 243 East 84th St. All food workers, union members or unorgan- | ized are invited to attend. Admission jis free, | Union Meetings: oe we vieiiiatiti Amalgamated Food Workers BAKERS’ LOCAL No. 1. 350 E. 85th St. Office hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Meeting on announcement of Executive Board. Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER } Advertising Dept. || 33 First St., New York City. CONCERT and BALL Arranged by the Uj Elore Jubilee Committee to celebrate the 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE “UJ ELORE” At Central Opera House 67th St., néar Third Avo, On Saturday, April 23, 1927 s P.M. EXCELLENT PROGRAM.-~DANC- ING COMMENCES AT 10:30 P.M. SHARP.—JAZZ BAND OF j1 PIECES. TICKET IN ADVANCE $1.00 AT THE BOX OFFICE $1.25 The DAILY WORKER receives 50 ercent on all tickets purchased Hs 108 Baet 14th St. Tocat ottie. | | | | | CHINA | NOW 50 CENTS The | | PUBLISHING NEWSBOYS WANTED To sell The DAILY WORKER at union meetings. Commission paid. Report to the Local Office; 108 East 14th Street. IN REVOLT a new pamphlet Including the discussion by outstanding figures in the Communist International on the great revolt in China by STALIN BUCHARIN MANUILSKY TAN PING SHAN 15 On China Read Also } THE AWAKENING OF by Jas. H. Dolsen, A complete history of the awakening of over four hun- dred million people. With photographs, maps and orig- inal documents. 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