The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1927, Page 5

Daily Workers to Have Furriers Resist Bosses’ ‘Mr, Pim Passes By’ for| Attack on Union Week Beginning May 16 (Continued from Paye’ One) The DAILY WORKER has taken that this is not the first time he has ae Uhhe te = made attempts to force upon the fur over “Mr. Pim Passes By” far the | workers a leadership to his particuls week of May 16 to 21. =f ane The revival liking. During the strike, Mr. Samuels of “A. A, Milne’s delightful and | issued several statements calling upon whimsical comedy” revives memories|the fur workers to repudiate their of the fine performances given by/| chosen strike leaders. Mr. Samuels the original cast which presented this |}ad also made several attempts to con- play several years ago at the little|clude secret agreements with the I Garrick Theatre, In the case at that} ternational and A. F. of L. offic time were Laura Hope Crews, Dudley | over the heads of the real represen- Digges, Helen Westley and Erskine tatives of the fur workers. In view Sanford, of these facts, what value can anyone attach to his present protestations of innocence and piety? “It took seventeen weeks of strike Present Revival. When the Theatre Guild found that it had these same actors under con- tract and who were appearing in var-|to convince Mr. Samuels that the ious of the Guild's. plays, it decided | chosen representatives of the fur to present a revival of this comedy| workers, the present officers of the to alternate weekly with other plays.|Joint Board, and not any self-con- By slight. changes in the casts of | stituted body of irresp ble politic one or two of these plays it was pos-|ans could speak in the name of the sible to present “Mr, Pim Passes | 12,000 fur workers and be responsible By” with the four principals who fig-| for the collective agreement, Mr, ured so prominently in its first pre-| Samuels has evidently forgotten that sentation seven years ago. lesson and is therefore entering upon In the letters from the Guild’s|new adventures along the same lines. subseribers, requesting revival of | He failed during the strike and he is such and such a play, “Mr. Prim | sure to fail now. Passes By” was always the leader.| Bosses Made Seeret Agreements. It seems that this play which intro-| “As to his statement that the col- duced the Milne vogue to America| jective agreement is first of all with was the favorite of the Guild’s sub-| the International, we wish to call to scribers. the attention of Mr. Samuels several Tickets are on sale at 108 East! vital facts. Subsequent to Mr. Sam- 14th Street, The DAILY WORKER | uels’ failure to get the workers back jocal office. As the theatre capacity | into their shops with the secret agree- is small, tickets will haye to be pur-| ment he concluded ‘with the irrespon- chased well in advance. Popular’ sible people of the A. F. of L. and prices of $1.65 and $2.00 will prevail.) the International, he participated in Tickets purchased for Fiesta will be | several formal and informal confer- exchanged for the new show. ences where, in the absence of any Sere 2 International officials, he negotiated “Peaches” Is Discharged | the present collective agreement with CHICAGO, April 20.—“Peaches”| the officers of the Joint Board. Did Heenan Browning was discharged| Mr. Samuels at that time also believe that the agreement is first of all with |the International? “Moreover, Mr. Samuels will surely | recall the fact that at the final con- ference leading to the consummation of the present agreement, the Inter- national officers who were present for formality merely, declared that they would not sign the agreement. Were not Mr. Samuels and the other | members of the associated conference leommittee ready to sign the agree- | ment. and ignore the International | officers because they knew that only /the Joint Board representatives had spoken in the name of the 12,000 fur workers. Now, just as then, the only body that can be responsible for the | peaceful relations between the work- ers and the fur manufacturers on the |basis of the colleetive agreement 1s the Joint Board and its officers. Interfering In Union. “No number of pious expressions | emanating from Mr. Samuels can when she appeared in. Town Hall court today on a disorderly conduct charge preferred by motorcycle police who ar- rested Al Mann, her escort, for driv- ing 41 miles an hour. NOW SOLD AT REDUCED PRICES ‘Books which should be included in every worker’s library At 50 Cents Each THE AWAKENING interfering in the internal affairs of the union, and are violating the OF CHINA terms of the collective agreement by Jos. H. Dolsen. lwhich they pledged honorably to maintain and to which they attached their signatures. Responsibility for the present friction between the fur workers and the fur manufacturers rests on Mr. Samuels and the board of director: When all China is ablaze with revolution —t‘o day articularly this be read by every T ON THE ROAD TO INSURRECTION by Lenin. \ book by Lénin is enough recommendation as to its valup, This is the first | | i | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS inglish publication. THE AFTERMATH OF NON CO-OPERATION (indian Nationalist and Labor Polities) by N. Roy. Not only China but the whole Hast is awakening. This book records the forces at work in India. RED CARTOONS (1926) Perhaps you do not own this gay satirical collection 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. near Third Ave. On Saturday, April 23, 1927 of the bipe work of Amer- | 8 P. M. ican artists. Get it now at | — % ric: H ELLE PROGRAM.—DANC- the reduced price. WB ROGRAS BNC | SHARP, — JA E D OF it PIECES. TICKET IN ADVANCE $1.00 AT THE BOX OFFICE $1.25 The DAILY WORKER receives 50 percent on all tickets purchased at 108 East 14th St. local office. SEND $2.00 FOR | ALL FOUR BOOKS | GOLD'S MESSAGE FROM BEHIND THE PRISON BARS TO THE FUR WORKERS! “Our enemies can bind our bodies in chains, but not our spirit. . .. Prison walls cannot crush our ideals and convictions. On the con- trary, our determination to fight for justice for the oppressed work- ing class is strengthened by such persecution, COMRADES! KEEP YOUR RANKS ITED! HOLD ALOFT THE BANNER OF OUR SACRED RUGGL CL YOUR RANKS AGAIN! YOUR EMIES. WE SHALL MEET AGAIN 4 . Se LONG LIVE THE STRUGGL OR THE WORKING CLA (Signed) Ben Gold, Sam Menscher, Isidore Shapiro, Jack Joe Kats, George Weiss, Oscar Milcof, Morris Malkin, Rosenberg, Leo Franklin, Otto Lenhard. eider, Martin \. The Joint Defense and Relief Committee has arranged a PROTEST DEMONSTRATION Against the Imprisonment of Our Comrades TONIGHT, APRIL 2st, 1927, 5:30 p. m. at the following halls: Cooper Union, 3rd Ave. & 8 St.; Webster Hall, 3rd Ave. & 11 St. Astoftia Hall, 62 East 4th St.; Stuyvesdnt Casino, 142—2nd Avenue, nhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street, and many other halls. t this protest demonstration be a warning to the traitors of movement that we are on gui and will not rest until their vile ave been smashed and our loyal and devoted workers are restored to our ranks, COME IN GREAT MASSES. OCR COMRADES CALL 'TO You. SPBAKERS: Stachel Boruchowitz Krumbein Weinstone Portnoy Gross Wolfe Gitlow Dunne Cohn 9 Miller Wicks Zimmerman a M. J. Olgin Winogradsky Hyman Grecht Sisselman JOINT DEFENSE COMMITTEE, jalter the obyious fact that Mr. Sam-| uels andthe board of directors are} THE DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, ' RSDAY, APRIL 21, 1927 Page Five , Anna sister-in who is a fur worker; and M Chaluka, Mrs. Lenhardt’s law. ‘Mineola Trial May End Soon; Defense Witnesses Heard Objects To Judge’s Action. Judge Prosecutes. Attorney Frank P. Walsh severa Judge Lewis J, Smith turned as-| times entered objections to the judge sistant prosecutor several times yes- | questioning of witnesses and defend- |terday at the Mineola trial of Ben | ants, because the questions seemed Gold, Mencher, I. Shapiro and the|esigned to create prejudice rather |8 other fur workers who are charged | than to seek information. In each in- 1 with assault in connection with an| Stance the attorney was overruled | ther, falleged raid at Rockville Center in| #Nd filed an exeeption. At one point | April 19, 1926, | during the morning, the jury was ex- |attorney had finishéd cross examin- | #reued over a point of law. ation of the witness, Peter Bartkin, | legal quibble also marked the close o manager of Manhattan Lyceum, the | the session yesterday, and there were judge undertook to question his mem-| frequent objections filed by the at- |ory in eonneetion with testimony. |torneys during the day's proceedings, Bartkin had stated that he clearly Schneider Proves Innocence. remembered the shop chafrman meet-| Jack Schneider, the first of the jing at Manhattan Lyceum on April | fur workers to be called to the wit- {19th because the furriers had over- | ness stand yesterday, showed that | stayed their time, had prevented the | never until he reached the couyt room |incoming meeting from getting the |for the trial had-he known that he |hall and the renters had to this day| Was charged with being at Rockville |refused to pay for it. Center during the alleged raid, Deny- | Good Answer. ing all of the charges of Basoff, and | “Where were you on the 19th of | the unsigned alleged confession which May, 1926,” Judge Smith asked, Detective Greeve was said to nave rather sarcastically. The implication’ gotten from him, Schneider told otf was that Bartkin had too good a} his movements on Monday, April | p memory; but Bartkin replied that if! 19th, and stated that he had bee |he could refer to his hall records,| @vard on the stairway all afternoon as he had done in connection with the | during the shop chairmen’s meeting. | April date, he would recollect clearly. | This was eorroboated by several of | Bartkin was one of 12 witnesses | the defense witnesses. called by the defense yesterday; and Not Arrested Then. 5 of the defendants were algo ealled An interesting fact revealed both |to* testify—Jack Schneider, Martin| by Schneider, and later by Phillip |Rosenberg, George Weiss, Phillip) Lenhardt, was. that on*the day of | Otto Lenhardt, and Joseph Katz. their arrest March 15, 1927 they | Other Witnesses. passed Basoff and the Nassau coun- | The witnesses, in addition to Peter | ty detectives twice in the fur market | Bartkin, were Israel Horn, a member | @bout noon, but in spite of the fact lof the committee of ten who was that the detectives were supposedly | present at the April 19th shop chair-| looking for them tiey were wot men meeting; M. Herskovitz, another Tested. It was not until abo a |member of this committee who has/that night, after the detectiy vad been a union member for 28 years; | Visited the Gr . M. Leibowitz, Max Lang, Hayim | International, that Schneider en and Paul Skolnick also mem-| Lenhardt were taken into c of the committee; Samuel Zuck-| the Joint Board neadquarters van, labor reporter for The Day! Greeve Wanted Graft. during the fur strike; Max Mencher, When they-reached Mineol on the |nephew of Samuel Mencher and aj night of that arrast—Schneider was reporter for the New York Times; | searched, so he testified jand when | Charles H. Green, labor reporter of| Detective Greeve found his union Women’s Wear; Mrs. Phillip Len-. book, he said, hardt; her friend Karla Gadjusek,! “Say, Basoff, this man ‘s a mem- ar- iB bers |BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY | FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR | ‘Tel. Lehigh 60: |; DR. 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RAMSAY MACDONALD betrayer of the British workers, and jointly indicted with “THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD,” his spokesman—charged with treason to the working class, in the first degree. | Sunday, April 24 At 2 P. M. CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE, 67th St. and Third. Aye.; NEW STAR CASINO, 107th Street and Park Avenug; MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 East 4th Street. Witnessed to be called by the prosecution: M. J. OLGIN; 8S. EPSTEIN, ROSE WORTIS, LOUIS HYMAN, S. ZIMMERMAN, A. TRACHTENBERG, A. MINDEL, W. F, DUNNE, BERT WOLFE, W. W. WEINSTONE, BEN GITLOW, and others, |Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die! s| and they would not give me a ¢ i i reused while Mr. Walsh and the judge | * | In one instance, after the district anne the Joint Board, has been suspended f by the International and the Ameri- n 8/ the defendants was regularly bar Kk vnion and the scab 1 | | ber of the International, “Oh, never mind,’ said “they owe $50,009 tu the tional and they won't pa thousands of dollar ;the Shop Chairmens meeting on April 19th, and Zuckerman remembered be- ing introdueed to Mencher’s neph Max Mencher, altho he could not swear to the exact time, Max Mencher testified that he re- members this occasion because it was the only shop chairmen’s meeting he ever attended. He had been with his uncle for most of the day, and 1e- membered meeting both Mr. Zucker- man and Mr, Green. Lenhardt Good Witness. Phillip Otto Lenhardt, one of the defendants, made a particularly im- > pressive witness. After denying all can Federation of Labor? } A tats While Schneider stated that he had | *#¢ stateemtns of Basoff and stating that he had never been in Rockville never seen the state’s witness Charies Cent papplled Mes drug) phox hh sry eahtl Weisenbloom until he saw him in| °n'r at any time, Menhand tor court, Martin Rosenberg the second that he had been at the Joint Board defendant to tale the stand vester- office during the morning of April ‘ " ie 9, 1927, b ven mie fo $ ay, declared he had seen him for rth oll ace hi y i rs oh ate the first time when he was lodged in| 82° Spent the rest of the day there the Mineola jail after his at I ring for his wife’s birthday par During Rosenberg’s testimony, and ty oe the e ae vide eee on several other occasions, the judge’ Mrs. Lenhardt, Miss Karla Gadju- refused to allow the peace sek and Mrs. Anna Chaluka corrobor- alaned Pid WVililawn, <Geeat ated this testimony in detail, but Frayne, acecoding the Goth Regiment |1#dge Smith refused to let Attorney Anois meeting, to be placed in evi- Henry Uterhardt file in evidenée Mrs, dence. Any mention of Green oie ~sitdarie ps bee are rayni having been assoc f ee er oe oe Lies e Passport Office a month before the “alleged raid on April 19th. Basoff, Interna- paid For The Right Wiag. In cross examination, Dist torney Edwards began with he used on one fur worker after an- “Are you a member of the Interna- Furriers’ Union? Are you Is it not true that your union, tional sure? Consistently Attack Lefts. s’ affidavit as to her The work of discrediting these mili- | gyn age adds nothing to the testi. tant members of the Furriers’ Joint mony,” gaid Judge Smith, in spite of Board is a consistent policy of the | the fact that the sludi prosecution, as well as of the renc-| on March 93, 1996, leaders of the Internatione of L, who testified that he tionary and the A George W. Lenahrat in telling that the ff and had never in his life been in Rock- had not a ville Center, asked whether he at night, stated that he had seen three was a Communist. of MeGrady’s agents point him out in "| I am a democrat. the fur market. “Ww you ever in Coney Island “Who is McGrady with some of the other defendants' «4, leader of the A. F. of L.” king a fur shop?” 'No, I have only been in Coney Is- and bathing, during the summer time." “Who are McGrady’s agents,” asked the district attorney. “Gangsters,” said Lenhardt. “Do you know their names?” “T know their nicknames. He Knew. mind then, Trying Prejudice. In a further effort to prejudice the the district attorney asked iv “Never How do you ss. ‘ know McGrady employs them? Did id you not attack a place in St. you ever see a contract between the Nichols Ayenue?. -Did you not gangsters and the American Federa- tion of Labor? Just because you saw him with them can you draw the inference that they are McGrady’s agents?” ‘ “T know,” said Lenhardt. Slanderous Questions. “You have quite a grudge against Always the effort to prove that the McGrady, haven’t you?” defendants are vicious characters, de-! “Yes, I have.” stroyers of property, accustomed to Joseph Katz, one of the defendants, attacking innocent people. ‘who was the last witness on the stand Samuel Zuckeman of “The Day.” | vesterday, denied Basoff’s charges and Charles Green of “Women’s that he had been at Rockville Center Wear” both testified to recollecting on April 927, and stated that during the whole ‘ternoon of that a icketing his shop, visit Jaffe’s shop to destroy it, but Basoff (the gentle-hearted stool pig- eon) asked you not to do it because the boss had always been good to him?” Celebrate Fractions of Needle Trades Meet Saturday A meeting of the secretaries of the needle trades fractions will take place | this coming Saturday afternoon, | April 28rd, at one o’clock sharp, at i08 East 14th Street. DAY tance to the fractions will be con- sideted as well as the steps to be tioning basis. All secretaries should see to it that they are present, theimer at 251 West | 30th street. | | The trial adjourned yesterday at| 5 o'clock and will be resumed this } oa at 10 acm: Matters of the most vital impor- taken to put the fractions on a fune- | Decay of “Forward” To Be Described At 3 Meetings Sunday The degeneration of “The Jewish Forward” from its postion the cultural representative of Jewish workers in America to that of a sen- sational, penny-grabbing sheet will be related side by side with the story of its consistent chery to the in- tere of the working class at the publie trial to be held next Sunday afternoon. Speakers In 3 Halls. In three t New Casino, 107th . and the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 t 4th St.,—a large number of in- dividuals, e in the labor move- ment will bmit evidence proving that the “Forward” has openly and brazenly allied itself with all the agents of capitalism labor fakers, po- lice and thugs in its effort to crush left wing trade unionism, Trying To Jail Workers. The part that the “Forward” ix now playing in the attempt to rail- road Ben Gold and 10 other leaders 4 fur workers’ union to jail 2 with 40 cloakmakers will ne exposed at the meetings Sun- day afternoon. Among the speakers will be M. J. Olgin, edi of “The Hammer”; achno EF n, editor of “The Frei- ”, BP. Yudich, labor editor” of “The Freiheit”; Louis Hyman, man- ager of the Joint Board of the cloak and dressmakers; S. Zimmerman, J. Boruchowi Rose Wortis, W. F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORK- ER, Ben Gold, (if released), Bert Wolfe, William W. Weinstone, Alex- ander Trachtenberg, and many others. , CENSORSHIP AND « SMOKE-SCREENS” Speaker THEODORE SCHROEDER re sychologist and h Lawyer. TOMORROW, 8 P. M. Percy Stickney Grant MEMORIAL FORUM St. Marks in-the-Bouwerie Second Ave. and Tenth St DISCUSSION: Questions three-minute speeches a TT Union Meetings 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. With a bundle of the SPECIAL of the DAILY WORKER On-May Day a Special Issue of The DAILY WORKER will be issued. ORDER A BUNDLE There will be special articles on the world labor; special | cartoons and photographs. | ORDER A BUNDLE A whole section will be de- ~, | voted to greetings to the | world of labor from individ- | ual workers and from work: | ng class organizations. 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