The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1927, Page 5

i | eS EA NEERING TR IN STN tT Tt THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL May Day Meeting In Boston To Be Used For Sacco - Vanzetti (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | BOSTON, April 24.—Freedom for) Sacco and Vanzetti will be the chief | slogan at this year’s May Day meet- | ing which may be held on the Com- mons. It was also decided by the.ar- | rangement committee to bring for-| ward the question of the withdrawal of American troops from China, Nic- | aragua and Mexico as an important | point at the demoristration. | The committee in charge was-ap- | pointed ata meeting where represen- | tatives of the Workers (Communist) | Party, the socialist party, trade unions and labor fraternal organizations were | present, } The next meeting of the’ United) May Day conference will be held Wed- | nesday, April 27 at the Upholsterers union headquarters, 92 Leverett St. | All organizations desiring to partici- pate in the demonstration should communicate with Carl Appel of the Upholsters union. * * * The Industrial Workers of the World, District Council of New York has adopted a resolution urging a world wide: strike to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. The resolution reads: WHEREAS: Sacco and Van- zetti have been conclusively proven innocent; and WHEREAS: The highest court of State of Massachusetts has re- fused to review their case; and WHEREAS: Recourse of bringing istice to bear in this case has failed n the legal field; THEREFORE, be it resolved, That ve, the Industrial Distriet Council of he Industrial Workers of the World, representing the Industrial Unions in Greater New York, go on record to all upon the workers of the United s and the world, to call*a gen- | strike, world wide in scoop to ree Sacco and Vanzetti. Our motto is: “Sacco and Vanzetti aust be freed!” * * * DAISYTOWN, Pa., April 24.—At a mass meeting called by the Inter-| national Labor Defense Committee | at the Hungarian Hall, Walkertown, | Pa., and attended to by several hun- | dred king miners a resolution was | dopted demanding the immediate re- lease of Sacco and Vanzetti. Another resolution was adopted to| to the Hungarian government | nding the immediate release of | Szanto Zoltan and thirty other work- ; whose life was being threatened the’ Morthy government. Take Collection. Brother Kamenovich acted as chair- | thi Stat man of Local Union No. 2399} od Mine Workers spoke in Eng- | There were also speakers in n, and Slovak. A collection er 50 dollars was taken for the f of political prisoners. The wire to Governor Fuller of \ husetts follows:—“We several hi d miners representing various labor and fraternal organizations of , Walkertown and vicinity in mass meeting assembled in Hungarian Hall | Wakkértown Penna, on Wednesday April Twentieth protest against the severe injustice done to Sacco and Vanzetti as we are all firmly con-| vinced of their innocence. We de-| mand that you as governor have them immediately and unconditionally re- leased.—V. Kamenovich, chairman.” WHITHER RUSSIA— Toward Capitalism or Socialism "Leon Trotsky An extraordinarily timely dis- cussion of the tendencies in Rus- ‘sia’s internal and _ international policy as affecting its economic development. Trotsky, in his well- known brilliant and incisive style, analyzes a question that has been he outstanding problem before the <oviet government. i“ Cloth bound—$1.50 mY FLIGHT FROM SIBERIA— By Leon Trotsky sa new edition of the famous story. Attractively board-bound—$ ,25 | EDUCATION IN SOVIET RUSSIA Scott Nearing A first-hand account of aims and methods of education in the Soviet republics. Cloth bound—$1.50 Paper— 50 DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First Street New York Spread of the Mississippi Flood Is Being Fought By Hundreds of People NEW ORLEANS, La., April 24, —One of the greatest peace time armies in the history of the world! is now engaged in deadly combat with the greatest flood this Mis- sissippi Valley has ever known, The father of waters, ever ready toburst the bounds that holds his angry flood within earthen em- bankments Ras gotten by the army} in several states and wreaked havoe with towns, villages and plantations, and all along the great river from New Orleans, La., the army has been massed. Armed guards patrol the levees night and day. These guards are watching the levees to see that no one breaks them, They are aided by the United States qaurterboats which are all] equipped with big searchlights. Protest Sabotage of Sacco-Vanzetti Meet (Continued from Page One) years carried on intensive propagan- da work for their release. We therefore state categorically, that the whole labor movement of Philadelphia must ‘stand uhited one man in the defense of. Sacco and Vanzetti. We, as part of the con- ference, will continue in our efforts for Sacco and Vanzetti as tirelessly as ever. A number of organizations were not seated at the last conference, such as branches of the Independent Workmen’s Circle, Workers Clubs, Young Workers League, ete., etc. We believe that a wrong impression will be left in the minds of the member- ship that these delegates represented Former Socialist Heads Speakers On | George R. Lunn, a few years ago }one of the bright and shining lights lof the socialist party, former preacher, |later a Tamman lieutenant-gov- jernor of New York and after his de- |feat for that office appointed by Al| lent in New York's housing situation. State Hous Reports on ing Expert Degrading -,_ Americanization Housing Conditions | The report made by A. F. Hinrichs, of the New York State | Commission of Housing and Regional Planning, to the Brooklyn | Chamber of Commerce, discloses the shocking conditions preva- Commissioner Hinrichs | Smith as public service commissioner, | not only makes it plain that the activities of the rent-gouger must is one of the list of patriotic speakers |who will address “Americanization” | meetings the coming week. The week | is devoted by the political lackeys of | Wall Street to an endeavor to arouse | patriotic frenzy among the youth of | the state in order that Morgan may be curbed, that the slums must be removed, but also that the | average workman is not in a position to build or purchase a home of his own, one of the miiny lies * 8 4 | By WILL DE KALB | “Sinee 1835, reports of public offi-| circulated by the bourgeois press. “There is absolutely no new con- struction available in Brooklyn for a person earning less than $45 per week. |have willing dupes to furnish cannon | cials and commissions have described! The law of supply and demand will fodder for his various imperialist ven-| the degrading conditions that have|not reduce but will rather increase | tures, especially in China at the pres-| characterized the shelter of wage- | the cost of shelter in dwellings now jent time. Among others who will engage in | this drive with the former socialist | are Brig. General George A. Wingate, | Major General James McRae, Col. | William A. Dawkins and Capt. Walter \I. Joyce: From beginning to end the }eampaign will be a glorification of \imperialist wars and the usual pa- | triotic perversion of history. | ES TSENG | An Appeal to the Workers! | One hundred fifty Bronx shoe sales- | their affiliation with the union. They |have been striking now for seven | weeks and are determined to fight the | bosses to a finish. |. Send your contributions to Bronx | Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Union, care of Franklin Casino, 162nd Street and Prospect Avenue, Bronx, N. Y., so peay can continue their strike. Custom Tailors Meet Tonight. | An opening meeting of the Journey- ‘man Tailors’ Union will be held to- | earners in the city.” That is the open- ling gun in the barrage fired by A. |. Hinrichs,.of the New York State] Fureau of Housing and Regional Plan- |ning, when he presented a report to | the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. | Even the attempt of the chamber to | protect its realtor-members failed to | hush up the furore that the report | aroused, “The present housing sta’ inaccurate,” M “Some s are Hinrichs houses still | grossly | went on. the public hall; hundreds of thousands | of apartments have toilets in the | yards or public halls, and thousands of houses built 50 years ago, are |} without any direct light or ventila- tion for the two inner rooms of a three room apartment. There are | thousands of rear tenements ap- | proached from the street through the hallway of the building fronting the | street. | Many Bad Sections. * “All of the lower east side of Man- that their efforts in behalf of Sacco|night, eight p. m. sharp at Bohemian | hattan, and most of the upper east and Vanzetti are not wanted. would be unfortunate. This |Hall, 321 East 73d Street, A dis- | side of Third Avenue, hold such struc- We there-|cussion of the present problem of the | tures, besides similar areas surround- fore propose that the International] custom tailors will take place. Gen-| ing Greenwich Village, the west side Labor Defense attract these organi-|eral Secretary Gust. Soderberg and | from Eighth to Tenth avenues, as far zations around itself and have them | other speakers will address the meet-|as the Sixties. There are also sec- work in coordination with the deci- sions and policies of the general con- ference. We believe that in this. manner all organizations willing to help will be drawn into this move- ment. As far as we are concerned, we shall work with the conference, be guided by its decisions and do all in our power to intensify the move- ment to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. BE SURE 10 GET THE SPECIAL ISSUE, MAY FIRST | ing. Brownsville I. L. D. Meets Tonight. A special meeting of the Browns- ville Branch of the International La- |bor Defense will be held tonight at the Workers’ Center, 63 Liberty Ave., | Brooklyn, 8.20 p. m. A speaker from the Joint Defense Committee of Fur- riers and Cloakmakers will be pres- ent and address the meeting. BALTIMORE, Md., April 24.—The Northeastern Branch of the Workers (Communist) Party has collected $15.50 for the Sustaining Fund of The DAILY WORKER, which has been sent to New York. n ‘and Brother Harry Wadsworth,| BUISINESS. & PROFESSIONAL FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR Tel. LeMigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Houre: 9 A.M, 2-8 P.M: Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 116th STREET Cor. Second’ Ave. New York. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 2. Orchard» 3783 Strictly by Appointment DR, L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge St. New York Tel. Dr. Jacob Levenson SURGEON DENTIST 54 East 109th Street Corner Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 78 Booth Phones, Dry Dock Office Phone, Orchard 93 Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM Large Halls With Stage for Meet- ings, Entertainments, Balls, Wed- dings and Banquets; Cafeteria, 66-68 bi. 4th St. New York, N. ¥. Small Meeting Rooms Always Available. 6612, 7845, 19. DIRECTORY For A Home-Cooked Vegetarian Meal served in a home-like atmosphere come to ESTHER’S DINING ROOM 26 East 109th Street. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIV SITY 5865, Telephone Dry Dock 9069, Meet me at the Pablic Art Dairy Restaurant and Vegetarian 75 SECOND AVE. NEW YORK Opposite Public Theatre Where do we meet to drink and eat? at Sollins’ Dining Room Good Feed! Good Company! Any Hour! Any Day! REAL HOME COOKING 222 E. 14th St. Bet. 2 & 3 Aves. Phone: Stuyvesant 7661. FOR A FRESH, WHOLESOME VEGETARIAN MEAL Come to Scientific Vegetarian Restaurant 75 E. 107th Street New York. Containing the political so necessary for every worker. and economic knowledge Be sure to read —and to re-read often the ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL EDUCATION ' By A, BREDNIKOV and A. SVETLOV $1,00 Paper THE DAILY WORKER $1.50 Cloth 33 FIRST ST. N.Y. |tions-in Brooklyn as bad as any of these. | “The conditions pointed out are not | violations of the Tenement House |Law, Thes¢ houses will not be re- | moved in the course of normal pro- gress. | “The president of the Brooklyn | Real Estate Board has suggested that the city condemn such buildings and | sell them for high-priced uses. As a bulk they have only one use, to serve as dwelling places for wage-earners. There are millions of people living under these conditions. There are not enough families of higher incomes to |Teplace them, even if it were desir-' | able to do so, There are now houses | standing and océupied that were con- | |demned as unfit for habitation in| | 1885, | | Breed Disease, Crime. | | “The effect of these conditions on | health and morals cannot be overes- | timated. The houses are dark within, 'and with no recreational ground other than the streets. They are breeding | |places of disease and crime. “Private enterprise does not build at rents which families living in such places can afford to pay. In 1924, only 2.6 percent of the construction in the city rented for less than $12.50 a room monthly. In Brooklyn only |18 percent of the construction rented | for less than $15 a room monthly. Workers Cannot Build. “A committee of the Brooklyn} Chamber of Commerce reported in | Dec. 1922 that on the basis of a per- | son being able to devote 28% of his! |income (as a maximum) toward the | purchase of a house—18“% being al- | \lowed for covering the carrying charg- | es and 10% being allowed for paying off the mortgage (where an initial | payment of ten percent has been | | made) we find that a person must | have an income of over 351 a week; | which is $20 a week more than the } average income of the person covered by“the survey. It is therefore, very | evident that the construction does not | come within the range of the average | | worker. } stand | is 48 men have been locked out because of |in which the only water supply is in occupied by the factory worker, Explains Metropolitan Plan. “Studies of present conditions by the Commission of Housing and Re- gional Planning show that another, equally careful survey by the cham- ber would result in a similar report. Concerning the plan of the Metropol- itan Life Insurance Co. in housing wage-earners, the first essential to low-cost housing is a low rate of in- st. The normal building enterprise is carried at an average of about 9% for 1st and 2nd mortgages, and equity. The Metropolitan has carried the project at 6%. Every percent saving in the rate of interest lowers the costs more than $1 "per month. Erection is Burden. Tax exemption of the improvement when more families are brot to an area—as in building on vacant land or total tax exemption in the present congested areas—impose some burden on the rest of the community. How- ever, a $20,000,000. operation, would increase the tax rate less than 0.2 of one pt. This negligible burden is well worth assuming for a limited period in order to achieve @heaper housing. “If the exemption were for ten years after the building is completed, it would be possible to duplicate the experience of the Metropolitan of writing down the book value enough later to absorb the taxes without any rent increases. “Finally the operation must be con- ducted on a large scale and with the utmost efficiency. There is no reason to suppose the efficiency of an opera- tion on the same scale would be great- er under the proposed bill than under the ordinary private management. But the scale of operation will be larger, the unit being at least a four block operation. Without the power of condemnation to aid in assembling a large continyous tract, such large seale operations are not possible in congested, areas.” 3 And mind you, this report was writ- ten by an impartial inv stigator. It needs, no comment. There is no better proof necessary of the existence of a housing shortage, and its accom- panying evi Royce On China. Edward Royce will speak on China ‘in Revolt at the educational meeting of subsection 8-C at 100° West 28th St. Monday, 6 p. m. ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Orga tions (Established 1887.) Phone: Drydock 8880. FRED SPITZ The FLORIST 3 SECOND AVENUE Near Houston. FRESH CUT FLOWERS DAILY Fresh and Artificial Flowers Delivered Anywhere. SPECIAL REDUCTION TO LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. Demonstrate Against War. Demand Freedom for TWO LARGE M Central Opera House 67th Street & Third Avenue SPEAKERS: WM. W. WEINSTONE BERTRAM D. WOLFE CHARLES KRUMBEIN JULIET S. POYNTZ RICHARD B. MOORE JOHN J, BALLAM Also representative of Young Workers’ League and the Young Pioneers. Also Chinese speaker, Chairman: JACK STACHEL, Freiheit Gesangs Verein. ADMISSION May DayCelebration SUNDAY, MAY 1, at 1 P. M. Auspices: Workers (Communist) Party, District New York. : Doors Open 12 M. Demand Hands Off China. Sacco and Vanzetti. ASS MEETINGS Hunts Point Palace 163rd St. & So. Blvd., Bronx SPEAKERS: M. J. OLGIN WM. W. WEINSTONE WM. F. DUNNE HARRY M. WICKS REBECCA GRECHT ROSE WORTIS FANNY WARSHAWSKY Young Workers’ League speaker, Young Pioneer speaker. Chinese speaker. Chairman: A. TRACHTENBERG Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra eS 50 CENTS. Jewish Labor Party of, Poland Says It Favors Amnesty for Workers April 24—The Cen-| nittee of the Jewish Labor 3und” has addressed itself to Interparty Amnesty Committee | with the proposal for joint action in| order to bring about an amnesty for| the poli 1 prisoners in Poland.} hardly be a better proof of the raging white terror in Polan than this proposal of the Jev Bund, which did not want to da any-} thing with the revolutionary move-| ment, but feels compelled now to| prove its right of existence. It was} natural that the Interparty Com-/ mittee answered the proposal of the | Bund by stating that the Committee had always been in favor of joint action of the working for amnesty in Poland. class Hundred Per Centers Yelp About “Spread- Eagle”; Author Laughs The Veterans of Foreign Wars, feeling that the melodrama “Spread- Eagle” playing at*the Martin Beck Theater, “un-American and un- wholesome for the American youth,” has requested District Attorney Ban- ton to investigate it. By a strange c®incidence the radio presentation of the play scheduled for tonight was cancelled by station WEAF, “Spread-Eagle,” which portrays a Mexican revolution inspired in Wall Street and intervention by the United States similarly ins; has aroused a great deal of interest that has not been confined to the professional “pa- triotic societies. When told of the action Veterans, George S. Brooks, ex of the play, laughed. is the thor Special Bazaar Number of is expected to have a tre- circulation. Many workers’ organizations are sending greetings to the imprisoned cloakmakers and fur- riers by taking space in this number of “Unity All.copy for this number must be received at the office before May 5th. NEWSBOYS WANTED To sell The DAILY WORKER at union meetings. Commission paid. Report to the Local Office, 108 East 14th Street. aa Union Meetings Amalgamated Food Workers BAKERS’ LOCAL No. 1. 350 E. 85th St. Office hours from 8 a.m. to.6 p.m. dai Meeting on announcement of Executive Board. Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Adve & Dept 33 First St., New York City. before quitting the job. Foree Dall Makers To Sign Contracts Not to Join the Union CLARINA MICHELSON, on the dotted line, or you're R e 5,000 doll makers in Ne City are being given “contracts” by their be s, and told to get out, if they don’t sign up. The bosses know their stuff. They call one or. two workers at a time into the office, hand them the pledges, and tell them if they don’t want their jobs, they know they can » them. In signing, the workers ; 1.—Never to join a union. 2.—Never to go on strik 3.—To give the boss 30 days notice, (The boss to give the worker a 5 day notice). 4.—To let the boss take 5 per cent off his weekly pay, to be returned later as a “bonus.” Four hundred doll makers in the last few weeks have refused! to sign. Nine shops are now locked out. The bosses are organized. The workers are not. The doll making industry is. new. Before the war Germany provided the dolls and toys for American children. But now there are probably 50,000 toy makers—unorganized—in . New York Ci Of these about 5,000 are doll makers, half of them women who earn at the most $16 and $17 a week. They start at 712 and $13. They make the dresses and hats for the dolls, put on the hair, and pack them in boxes. The men average $35 a week, a few getting as high as $60. They make the composition, paint the dolls, cut the bodies and dresses, and set the eyes. The work is almost entirely piece work. Most of the shops employ from 50 or 60 up to 200 workers. The large ority are in the downtown district. Louis Amberg, with a factory at 153 Spring Street, ‘is president of the Manufacturers’ Association. BE SURE 10 GET THE SPECIAL ISSUE, MAY FIRST “NATURAL FOODS” Sundried Fruits, Honey, Nuts, Brown Rice, Whole Wheat, Mac- aroni, Spaghetti, Noodles, Nut Butters, Swedish Bread, Maple Syrup, Tea and Coffee Substi tutes, Innerclean, Kneipp Teas. Books on Health. VITALITY FOOD & VIGOR FOOD HEALTH SHOPPE 73 Greenwich Ave., New York (7th Ave. and ith St.) Open Evenings. Mail Orders Filled. Phone, EMERSON S800, Auto Tops ( Seat ¢ rs k Radiator Side ( Body " 8 c ushion Work ass Windows Union County Auto Top Co. ALL WORK GUARANTEED 252 Union St. Near Westfield Ave. ELIZABETH, N. J. THE DAILY WORKER BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE THEATER GUILD Presents a delightful entertainment for its NEW YORK READERS MR. PIM PASSES BY A Comedy In Three Acts with LAURA HOPE CREWS MAY 16 TO 21 Buy your tickets now at the Local Office, 108 E. 14th PRICES (Fiesta tickets will be exchanged.) St. SPECIAL READERS, NOTE: FOR DAILY WORKER |