The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1927 Page Five Bosses Threaten Plumbers’ Lockout Next Wednestay A lockout of all plumbers in New York City next Wednesday is the threat of the Master Plumbers’ Asso- ciation, The announcement was made by ©. G. Norman, chairman of the board of governors of the Building Trades Employers’ Association following a meeting in the association headquar- ters, 80 West 33 Street. In addition to the 1,500 plumbers and the 1,300 helpers now on strike in Brooklyn it would effect more than 3,300 plumbers and 1,500 plumbers’ helpers in Manhattan and the Bronx. The Brooklyn plumbers and helpers | have béen on strike since April 1 for an inérease in wages and the forty- hour week. The helpers are organized in the American Association of Plum- bers’ Helpers and are asking for ad- mittance into the plumbers’ ‘union. Will Phone Colored Pictures Very Soon Experiments which are still in their early stages have manifested to the officials of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company that colored pietures can be sent across the con- tinent by telephone and reproduced | with the finest color printing. The principal of transmission, ac-| cording to the telephone officials, is the same as that now emplbyed so) suecessfully in sending black and white photographs by wire, except that a separate transmission must be used for each color used in the print- ing process, “RUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS CONCERT and BALL Arranged by the Uj Elore Jubilee Committee to celebrate the 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE “UJ ELORE” At Central Opera House ‘| Monarchist Plotters In Pay of Foreign Powers | Caught by Soviet Union | MOSCOW, April 21.—The Soviet Union police are today investigat- || ing a plot of mbnarchiste, An important group of monar- chists who are supporters of the Grand Duke Nicholas have been arrested. It has already been es- tablished that these monarchists | were receiving funds from foreign || powers and were acting as spies |] inside the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics. | | | Furriers of Levine's Shop Take Collection | For the Defense Fund | Company have answered the treason |of McGrady, Schachtman and Com- |pany by making a shopxcollection of $25.00, as a start for the defense fund, | At the same time the following resolution was adopted: “We, the } workers of the J. Levine Fur Com- |pany, seeing the treason of the lead- jers of the A, F. of L. together with jthe so-called officers of our Interna- tional in making a united front with |the bosses and their gangsters against us, and seeing Ben Gold and ten other of our most active union workers framed up on a _ grave charge, thru the provocations of these traitors, we express our disgust with them and pledge ourselves to stand solidly with the elected Joint Boards in whom we have the fullest confidence. “As an expression of our devotion | We send $25.00 to the Joint Defense as our first contribution to help de- |fend our leaders. We call upon all |shops to follow our example. Al- | though we were formally nettral, |many of us even being inclined to the |right, we could no longer remain ‘silent seeing the activity of these | traitors, and we hope soon to be able to altogether rid our union of the | traitors and union smashers. i Tabachrlick, Local 15, shop chairman. Shop Resolution Committee, | Last Showing of Russian Film, | The Russian film The workers of the J. Levine Fur} Officer on Ship Brutally Beats a | Youthful Seaman (By A Worker Correspondent.) A young German seaman was bad- ly beaten yesterday aboard the 8. 8. | Weisse Seé, a tramp freighter, from Bremen, lying outside of Pier 8, Staten Island. The chief mate of the ship who was drunk at this time was | responsible for the atrocity. Taken To Hospital. The injuries resulting were so severe as to necessitate the removal {of the young seaman to the hospital. | The chew was greatly incensed at the attack on the part of the officer, who has been responsible for many such brutal assaults upon a number of seamen, has protested the case before |the German consul. As yet, how- | e®er, no action has been forthcoming from this source. The fact that the chief mate is the nephew of the mas- ter of the ship probably has a good deal to do with this. Ship A Disgrace. The ship itself is a disgrace to the marine industry. She is a nine thou- sand ton rebuilt junk pile that has been saved from the scrap heap of the world war. Formerly one of the ‘GOLD TESTIFIES TO BLACKMAIL ATTEMPT BY BASSOFF, CHIEF STOOL PIGEON OF PROSECUTION | (Continued from Page One) jlast night included, besides Hyman, Gitlow, Albert Welsbord, Juliette 8. Poyntz, Lana Chernenko, M. J. Olgin, W. W. Weinstone, and many others. Wait an Hour. More than an hour before Cooper | Union opened thousands of workers were outside waiting for admission. At 5:30.P. M. the doors were opened |and in less than fifteen minutes the {hall was filled to capacity, every seat |being taken, hundreds stending on | the stage or wherever they ould find a bit of room, | The thousands of disappointed workers were then told to go to the pier halls witich were also quickly filled. Into Two Halls. Manhattan Lyceum jammed the workers into their two halls, hundreds having to stand. The same sight could be seen at Webster Hall, Labor Temple, the Church of All Nations, Stuyvesant Hall—ten all told. | At Cooper Union whenever the \name of Gold was mentioned the as- sembled workers arouse as one, and cheered, yelled, and applauded. The same erithusiastic demonstrations tak- ing place in the other nine halls. Refers to Detective. Sam Liebowitz, acting manager of | the Joint Board of the furriers, Ben ter written in Jewish, which had been ‘sent to him by his father,” said Gold. | “In the letter, Basoff's father told him he ought to get some money out of the union for being jailed and beaten by the police. union could not pay him money any more than other workers, He said he was sick and could not work, and I offered to send him to a doetor. 1 urged him to go to work, to forget about prison. I told him Malkin and Franklin had the same e&perience he had; many ether workers had been in jail too. The union would stick by him, and the best thing to do was to work and forget what had happened to him.” “ Blackmail. A few days later Basoff came back again, so Gold related, and this time he made a demand for a specific amount of money. He wanted $60 a week, and Gold told him the union was not supporting anyone. He coulll |not have. any money. “Then he began to threaten, and not wanting to have any scandal in my office, I took him upstair and I took Samuel Zuckerman (labor edi- tor of ‘The Day’) with me.” Willful Misinterpretation. Gold used the word “scandal” mean- jing disturbance or violent argument; {but the district attorney, alway I told him the} | (Signed). by Pitkowitz, Local 1, J.| “Polykushka,” | North German Lloyd cargo boats, time and the strain of the war trade |have knocked her to a wrecked hulk, Today she is absolutely unfit for any | trial. maritime trade, and a floating grave-| defense lawyer he told that he pre- | the Rockville Center case. He gloat- lyard for the exploited seamen that | pared his case against Gold and the ed over this word “scandal” and tried have to sail on her. \other officers of the Furriers Joint! to enrage Gold with insinuations as There is no doubt that as long as| Board in the office of the right wing |to what he had meant by it. the seamen are unorganized they will | controlled International headquarters. | Threatened Gold. |have to sail on rotten ships and also} Ben Gitlow said that’ “you show by! In Zuckerman’s presence, Basoff be the victims of brutal treatment at | your applausé, your demonstration repeated his threats to “get” Gold the hands of their officers. With ajand outpouring tonight at these ten strong organization to protect their large meetings that Gold is the lead- | some money at once; but Gold let jinterests it will be impossible for of-|er of the union.” This was greated | him talk and then called him a black- ficers to treat sailors like dogs. | by tremendous applause, the workers | mailer who could not intimidate him Cospscmrn pre kava | rising from their seats and shouting’ |in any way no matter what he did. | |“We want Gold! We want Gold!” | «qh, lid y. i 2 | r at_ did you do about these ‘Duluth Workers Protest | The speakers told. of the import-| threats?” the district attorney asked ‘American Imperialism Gnce of mass picketing, the workers | during the cross examination later. ‘In China and Elsewhere | Irving Potash who presided at/|looking to misinterpret every. word, Cooper Union referred to Detective | fastened on this as proof that there Greeve’s testimony at the Mineola|was something Gold was trying to at the ten meétings promising to be | “Nothing”, said Gold. on the picket line this morning. Col- | ect Ths tie’ tal fant “Did you take Basoff’s threats areca lections for lefense fund were | seriously? Did y i DULUTH, Minn., April 21—More|taken at every meeting. eee ag id you think he meant than five hundred workers filled) Among the many other speakers “No.” that addressed the ten meetings were: Is A CG ist | Samuel Leibowitz, acting manager of | us tbe ope as ri ~ When cross examination began, the éxico. the Joint Board of the furriers; Al- | district attorney asked: | Camels Hall here at a mass meeting | | to protest against American Imperial- ism in China, Nicaragua and How, ‘when questioned by the | hide in connection with Basoff and} if the union did not come thru with! produced in Russia by the director of “Potemkin,” will have its last New York showing at the International House, 500 Riverside Drive, on Wednesday at 8 o’clock. WANTED: 67th St, near Third Ave. On Saturday, April 23, 1927 8 P.M. EXCELLENT PROGRAM ——DANG- ING COMMENCES AT 10:30 P, M. SHAHP.—JAZZ BAND OF 11 PIECES. TICKET IN ADVANCE $1.00 AT THE BOX OFFICE $1.25 The DAILY WORKER receives 50 percent on all tickets purchased at 108- Hast 14th St. local-office. “March Of Workers.” | We are eager to get for reference {a copy of “March of the Workers,” a pfoletarian song book, published by the Young Workers’ League, Chi- |The speakers were O. E. Thompson | bert Weisbord, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, jand William McEwen of Duluth and | Lena Chernenko, M. J. Olgin, William Ernest Limdeen of Minneapolis.|F, Dunne, Captain Paxton Hibbens, |Eskel Ronn of Superior was chair-| William W. Weinstone. | man. | | It was unanimously decided to or-! | ganize the Duluth citizens on a large scale against American intervention | and for that purpose a committee of 15 was appointed to carry on the | work. | Another anti-imperialist mass Mineola Trial Shere Basoff Acted As Blackmailer Last of the eleven defendants, Ben | “Aare you a Communist?” \Gold answered “Yes.” | Maurice Malkin, one of the defend- ants who also testified yesterday, answered “Yes” to this same ques- tion, Did Not Send Telegram. Gold was next questioned as to whether he knew Harry Kessler who stood up in the court room to be identified. Gold did not know him, cago, and now out of print. V. F. Calverton says Yes! Kelly Miller says No! |Gold, manager of the New York Joint | nor did he recognize a telegram pre- Board of the Furriers’ Union took the | sented by the district attorney which stand late yesterday afternoon in the| purported to call Kessler to a meet- trial béing held in Mineola in connee-| ing at union headquarters on Sunday meeting will be held at the sanie hall, Sunday, May 25, DOES ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY HANDICAP NEGRO PROGRESS? Sunday, April 24th, 1927, at: 2:30 P. M. in COMMUNITY CHURCH TICKETS, 75e and $1.10, For sale at Rand Sehool and Jimmy Higgins. THE MESSENGER FORUM 2511 SEVENTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY. “POLIK USHK A” DOWNTOWN A motion picture, from the monumental work of Leo Tolstoi. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927 LABOR TEMPLE, 14th St. and 2nd Ave. 4:30 P. M, to 11 P. M. Continuous. ADMISSION 50c. CHILDREN 25c. Auspices: Photographic Workers’ Union, Loc. 17830. Hear the Verdict To be rendered by the jury sitting in the case of THE WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATES J RAMSAY MACDONALD betrayer of the British workers, and jointly indicted with i" “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 Ave.; NEW STAR CASINO, 107th Street and Park Avenue; MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 East 4th Street. | He Treats Strikers 4 jcommon, not opposed; that in the | Charleston Contest To ‘Feature Chicago Young Workers League Frolic’ | According to the committee which the Chicago Young Workers’ League tion with an alleged assault com- mitted a year ago in Rockville Cen- ter during the fur strike. In a low, calm voice Gold answered the questions of his attorney, Charles Rockefeller Sermon ‘In Contrast to Way jhe replied to the sarcastic, threaten- jing, provocative questioning of the district attorney. Startling revelations concerning the \blackmailing tactics of the stool | pigeon Bernard Basoft, were given by Gold in a matter-of-fact, business- like manner. Basoff At Office. “Basoff came to my office in the union asking me to translate a let- j (By Federated Press) | NEW YORK, April 21—Western | Maryland R.R. strikers again ask |John D. Rockefeller, Jr.-to practice what he preaches. The request is made through the Brotherhood of Weeks, and in the same calm manner, April 3rd. This was signed with Gold’s name | but he had not sent it, altho he stated \frankly that it might have been sent }out of his office, This was very evidently an effort to discredit the testimony of various witnesses to the effect that the gen- eral picket committee had never had meetings on Sunday, as Basoff had testified. Kessler did not claim to be ja member of the committee, but he did claim— at least the district at- torney’s questioning so included—that he had come to the office in response to this telegram and when he ar- rived there Gold had ordered Samuc! Firemen and Enginemen, whose mem- bers have been locked out for two years by the W. M. management, because they asked for the same basic Wage rate that other roads were paying. Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A, M, 2-8 P, M. Dally Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 116th STREET ew York, Rockefeller’s Sermon. They call attention to a sermon the junior Rockefeller delivered recently | from the pulpit of the Euclid Avenue | | Baptist Church of Cleveland on the} | relations that ought to prevail be-; tween capital and labor. The mag- nate said he was convinced that “em- | ployers and employes are partners, } |not enemies; that their interests are | Cor. Second Ave. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE long run the success of each is de-|| Room 808 Phone Stuyv. 10119 }pendent upon the success of the | other.” The “glaring inconsistency” be- tween Rockefeller’s pulpit policies and the policies pursued by the Western Maryland and management is shown up. Deaf to Appeal. For two years the strikers made appeal after appeal to Rocekefeller, | | then the largest stockholder on the \line, says the brotherhood leader. | They received no satisfaction. Then | they appealed to the Federal Council |of Churches, the National Catholic | Welfare Conference and the Associa- | tion of American Rabbis, whose report |“substantiated every charge made | against the management,” Tel, Orchard 2783 Strictly by Appointment DR. L. 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This has. been the custom all dur- ing this trial; if there is no evidence against the defendant, create a spe- cial prejudice in the minds ef tne jurors, Judge Smith, petulant, bored, at times wrathy and vicious, acts as’ tho any testimony that showed the innocencd of these workers was a waste of the court’s time. Wants Conviction. Repeatedly he interrupts such tes- timon 8 when the district t attorney raises an objection, the judge says in long-suffering tone, “Oh let them.go on.” His. whole attitude shows that he has a firm why conviction these men are guilty; should so much time be taken up proving they are innocent?” At one of Frank P., Walsh’s objections— |which he always overruled, almost before they are expressed—the judge burst into a tirade, and said, “I am running this court. You just remem- ber that.” The defendants Oscar Mileaf, Leo Franklin, Maurice Matkin, and Isadore Shapiro were all called to the stand yesterday to te yin their own be- half, The .wi called yesterday for the defense Mrs. Katherine Men- uscik who corroborted Lenhart’s tes- timony; Dr. P. Marie Lerner, who testified that Mileaf had been in her joffice all da; n April. 19th, 1926; Isadore Corn, manager of the Butch- er’s Union, who verified pait of Katz’ testimony of yesterday; George Syl- vester, one of the union’s attorneys; tan, Lyceum; Morris Kudri ky, a fur worker; Captain Bacon of the | Nassau country police; Miss May-C. Gresser, secrétary to John Coughlan of the central trades and labor coun- cil;. General John J. Phelan of the 165th Regiment who testified in be- half of Shapiro; Maurice H. Cohen, secretary-treasurer of the Joint Board; ham Verber,’ employed in the office of the Joint -Board; Joseph Cohn, former chauffeur of Abraham Goodman; Samuel Okstein a fur dealer; his son Joseph; Morris Lazarus, a fur worker; and. Gordon Steinberg. Prosecutor Sneers at N. Y. Courts. The district attorney in several remarks attacked the integrity of the New York courts yesterday when de- fendants testified that they had never been convicted of any crimes but dis- orderly conduct, and the penalty had been a fine of five or ten dollars, he remarked each time: “Oh yes, the usual five dollars— the usual ten dollars,” ./to disorderly conduct y Was. an arrangement between your Peter Bardkin, manager of Manhat- | To Mileaf he said: “Opves I know; your, sentence, was reduced, from threatened”assault because theré union and the court.” To Franklin he remarked: “Yés I know; by some arrange ment, or influence with certain inier- esta, you managed to have felonious assault changed to disorderly conduct and got @ fine of $2.” Judge Vindietive, The district attorney tried to ae- euse Malkin of being a slacker dur- war; then Attorney Uterhardt showed that Malkin was only 17 when the war ended. Constantly tie attempt to blacken the character of ing tk the defendant. the eyes of the business-men ji o matter by. what means. And every effort of the at- tornies to rule out prejudiced ques- tions was ruled ott by Judge Safen™ with vindictive regularity. Shapiro, Morris Cohen and Verber told of Basoft’s demands for money from the union, and Shapiro told of his threats “to get him.” At six o'clock last night a recess was called, when Ben Gold was still on the stand, and a night session was announeed to begin at 7:15. It is expected that all testimony will be finished today and, possibly the case will go to the jury. Unionist Wins in San Diego. Edward H. Dowell, secretary of the Federated Trades Council of San Diego; was elected to the city couneil by a large majority. Upholsterers For Orga: ition. The Central Labor Couneil of Low Angeles haé referred to its organiza- tion committee for action on a resolu- tion introduced by the Upholsterers’ Union No. 15, calling for an intensive organization campaign among the un- organized workers up to,the conven- ing of the American Federation of Labor Convention in October, in this city. BUY THE DAILY WORKER ANDS AT THE NEWSST 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 whion meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept New York City. | 33 First S A motion picture, Sunday, Apr. 24, Scholem Aleichem Schoo! Auditorium 1875 Clinton Ave., near 180th Street, Bronx, New. York. 2 P. M, to 11 P. M. Continuous, Auspices United Council of Working Class Housewives, Council No. 8, Bronx, N, Y. ADMISSION 50 CHILDREN 25e. 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