The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1927, Page 5

a a MACHADO BENDS. KNEE AT MORGAN WALL ST. SHRINE Guest of T. W. Lamont| at Bankers Luncheon Guarded by heavy detachments of | motoreyele poliéemen, _plainclothes | men and special operatives, President Machado of Cuba paid homage to the veal capital of Cuba yesterday when | he toured Wall Street, visited the of-|ers had been fired for not buying the} fices of J. P. Morgan & Co. and had | company’s caps should be reinstated. | iameh as the guest of Thomas W. Tamont, Morgan partner. ‘he lead-| ing financial and industrial kings of | the country attended the luncheon. | Earlier he had assured 700 busi-| nees men at the Astor Hotel that} American capital had “made” Cuba | Workers now being conducted in Hud-| and that it would be guarded to the! last drop of the last Cuban’s blovd. The’ president, who has the murder of 200 trade unionists to his credit| the Hudson County Bux and Taxi) in the eyes of Wall Street, visited | yesterday morning the Sugar Ex-! change as the guest of Leopold Bache. It was for the Sugar Ex-| change and allied interests that niost | of the 200 were killed. Morgan Firm There. | At the Lamont luncheon were: | Frederic W. Allen of Lee, Higginson | & Co, Hernand Behn of the Inter- national Telephone & Telegraph Com- pany, Sosthenes Behn of the Interna- tional Telephone & Telegraph Com-| pany, Edward J. Berwind of the Ber-| wind White Coal Mine Company, | James Brown of Brown Brothers & Co., J. Herbert Case of the Federal} Reserve Bank, Thomas Cochran of | J. P. Morgan & Co., William T.| Dewart, president of The Sun; Martin Egan of J. P. Morgan & Co. Elbert H. Gary of the U. S. Steel Corporativyn, Charles Hayden of Hay- den, Stone & Co. N. Dean Jay of Morgan & Co,, Russel C. Leffingwell of J. P, Morgan & Co., A. W. Loasby | of the Equitable Trust Company, Gates W. McGarrah of the Federal | Reserve Bank, Charles E. Mitchell of | the National City Bank, S. Z. Mitchell | of the Electric Bond & Share Com- | pany, Vernon Munroe of J. P. Mor-| gan & Co. Alexander D. Noyes,| financial editor of the New York Times. Frank L, Polk of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed; Jackson E. Reynolds of the First National} Bank, Manuel Rionda of the Czarm- kow-Rionda Company, Charles H. Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Com: pany, Charles S, Sargent of Kidder, | Peabody & Co., Mortimer L: Schiff} of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Lloyd W.| Smith of Harris, Forbes & Co., Fred-| erick T. Snare of Frederick Snare! Pe sea James Speyer of Speyer] 0. Albert Strauss of J. & W. Selig- man & Co., Gerard Swope of the General Electrie Company, Herbert B. | Swope, executive editor of the World, Albert A. Tilney of the Bankers | Trust Company, Oswald Garrison Vil- lard, editor of the Nation; George Whitney of J. P. Morgan & Co., Al- bert H. Wiggin of the Chase National Bank, William H. Woodin of the | American Car and Foundry Company, | and William Woodward of the Han-| over National Bank, PASSAIC TORIES SCARED BY BIG WEISBORD FIGHT PASSAIC, N. J., April 28,—The| political campaign here is gaining | strength as it goes down the stretch for the final two weeks. A large campaign rally at Ukrain- ian Hall at 7:30 p. m. will be ad- dressed by Albert Weisbord; Bert Miller, business manager of The DAILY WORKER; Sylvan A, Pol- lack of The DAILY WORKER staff and Emil Gardos, Politicans Terrified. That the old time politicans are becoming terrified at the support that the labor candidates are obtaining | among the working class here ean be seen in the desperate methods they | are adopting to kill its effectiveness, | All of the large halls are barred to the labor group. 1 No Publicity. Another significant point is that ¢ local capitalist press is now com- pletely ignoring the labor campaign. N& news of the meetings where Weis- bord or the other labor candidates speak can be found in the Passaic Daily‘ News or the Passaic Daily Herald. 4 Gaining Strength. The) entire radical and left wing movement is gaining strength as a It of the present campaign. ‘ednesday evening the International Labor Defense held a large plly for Sacco and Vanzetti at Castle Park, Garfield, which was addressed by Pat Devine, organizer of the International THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Short Taxi Strike In Hoboken is Won; Levy Freed on Bail HOBOKEN, N. April 28. — Technical Men in _ Subways to Strike _— [fustice is Denied The Union of Technical Men, trans- Thirty taxi drivers employed by the! portation department, are just about Hudson Taxi Co., here have gone |back to work after a short and suc-| cessful strike. Bernard McFeeley, director of pub- lic safety, arbitrator in the dispute ruled that the men who had gone on strike after nine of their fellow-work- The men fired given an extra day which to get the caps, the workers will be paid $4.14 each for last Mon- day night when they went on strike. The strike was a result of the gen- eral organization drive among taxi son county. WEST NEW YORK, N. J., April Edward Levy, business agent of Drivers’ Union who was arrested charged with conspiracy in the recent | death of George Ewans, a scab driv- er, has been released on $500 bail. Stock Gambler Pays $190,000 for His Seat Another record price for New York | was} \established yesterday when a seat | stock exchange membership was sold to Charles Sincere for} $190,000. The previous price was | $180,000. | Special May Day Issue For delight. of all workers READY the interest and The Special Anniversary Number of the NEW MASSES MAY, DAY ISSUE Full of interesting articles, stories, reviews, poems, by Seott Nearing Joseph Freeman Floyd Dell Paxton Hibben V. F. Calverton Louis Untermeyer Genevieve Taggart and others This Anniversary Number IN TWO COLORS Cartoons and Drawings by William Gropper Hugo Gellert Covarrubias Klein Soglow and others On All Newsstands NOW Subscription Rates = $2.00 A YEAR THE NEW MASSES 89 Union Square New York Enclosed $..... for ..... mos, sub. PO ier viese ey GARY Nie Street .. State through being polite. {@rievances, the members met last night at the 14th Street Labor Tem- ple and decided that if the city does not give favorable reply to their de- mands, a strike is possible. A waik- out would completely tie up all con- struction work the Eighth Av subway line. Officers read the adverse report of Thomas C, Murray, examiner of the civil service commission and urged that the board of transportation be given one more chance before the May 12 meetings, which will decide on | drastic action, if need be. stantial increase over their $2,402 Bandied about for months on their | St. Nicholas Ave.-Washingion Heights | 1927 ! | | | Coolidge Hearty Praise For His Foreign Policy Unqualified praise of President Coolidge’s foreign policies, as ex. pressed in his speech last Monday, was given yesterday by New York’s democratic senator, Royal S. Copeland, when he made a per- sonal call, upon the president at the White House, We should have gone into Nic- aragua to protect.the Monroe Doc- trine; we ought to help China, and “we ought to help all nations to help themselves,” so the senator believes. “The president is exact- ly right.” | ‘Call New York Bakers 'To May Day Meeting to ‘Denounce Imperialism |speeches on Yankee imperialism and New York Bake Shop Workers are The subway engineers want a sub | called to a big protest meeting to hear | kowitch yesterday while on trial be- workers; Page Five Tew Tork Seaior Goes] Savage Sentence FURRIERS SHOW JOINT BOARD LOYALTY For Young Worker IN THREE BIG RALLIES; GOLD CHEERED To Be Appealed me savageness was shown 2y morning in the 57th Street when he sentenced Hyman Mosko- | witch, a member of the Young Work- ers League to six months in jail on the trumped up charge of disorderly con- duct. | Moskowitch with Morris Kushner | whose case comes up this morning, were arrested Wednesday at Union Square and 16th Street, where they leaflets. After being brutally beaten by the police they were taken to jail where Moskowitch was released on | $100 bail. Bail was refused in the jcase of Kushner. | No Witnesses. No witness appeared against Mos- |fore Judge Weil. The only evidence year average wage and seek a mini-/%? ®opt resolutions to save Sacco | offered was the “Hands Off China mum rate of $2,160 instead of $1,560. They are the only city employes de- nied sick leave. The field men, who do the survey- ing above ground, have had an addi- tional hour put on to their working day without any increase in pay. They want either the seven hour day or more money. The union, only a year old, is amply strong enough already to protect its members’ interests. Starting with 12 members, it now has nearly 1,400. Next Week. | Several large meetings are ar- }ranged for next week, Saturday} |afternoon the Young Pioneers will} |hold a May Day celebration at the | Workers’ Home, 27 Dayton Ave. at |which Albert Weisbord and others | will speak, The Young Workers League is ar- ranging a youth meeting for next Tuesday evening. Special May Day Issue and Vanzetti. They will also hear speakers discuss the terror in Hun- gary, and the bad conditions and low pay in New, York. : The meeting is under the auspices of the Amalgamated Food Workers, 243 East 84th St. Admission is free, Flood and Japanese | Panic Hurt Market Industrial and southern railroad stocks, disturbed by the extensive | Mississippi flood and the black finan- at 9 a.m. sharp, at the Labor Temple, | | leaflet, ate’s Court by Judge Weil, | Beeded to prove that Gold was |eeived with the utmost enthusiasm, | |S was every mention of defying the! i} | | | ficials do not understand the Jewish | °° |at the mouth and without further ado | | dealt out his inhuman sentence. Kush- | ner’s “trial” will take place this morn- | ing in the same court, When informed of the sentence, Rose Barron, secretary of the Inter- national Labor Defense, which is de- | fending the two young workers, said that “the sentence given to Mosko- witch is outrageous. There was no evid testified as to any violation of any law. Only when Judge Weil read the jJeaflet did he come to the conclusion |union conditions may be | peace unless (Continued from Page One) internal union dispute, and to make plans for meeting the lockout of workers who refused to register. But no pledges or resolutions were right in saying. “There are 2,000 locked out work- ers who would rather lose their jobs than register with the scab union of the International.” This was re- bosses, the disrupting forces of the A. F, of L. and the reactionary lead- | were distributing “Hands Off China” |¢"$ of the International. The work- ers pledged themselves to a “fight to the finish,” Gold told the workers that it is certain that dissention had arisen within the ranks of the Reorganiza- tion Committee. The A. F. of L. of- they cannot understand their devotion to the Joint Board. “There is no doubt we want peace, said Gold. “We want peace so that When the judge read it he frothed |UT, members may have a chance to work without interference; so that enforced in But we will not have the traitors are cleared out of our union and it is freed from the shops. jall outside interference and left to the workers to run for themselves. Bosses Want Sorkin, Louis Hynian, manager of the Five Day Week | Bothers Bosses Plute Press Because the 75,000 union printers lof the United States and Canada rée- | fuse to agtee to the employers’ type \of arbitration machinery, the Amer- jican Newspaper Publishers’ Assocta- | tion has empowered its board of di- |rectors to name a new committee to |deal with the Interriational Typo- graphical Union. Negotiations will -be ntinued. The union’s demand for the fiver | day week is bothering the publishers, | Their objection is not so much to the shorter work week as to the incréased pay necessary to fill out the weék’s wages. | Open shop sirens, led by Charles A. | Webb of the Asheville, N. C., Citizen, |chairman of the open shop commit- tee, H. W. Flagg, manager of the open shop department of the a#so- ciation, Col. Robert Ewing of the New | Orleans states and Leonard K. Nichol- son of the New Orlean Times-Paca- |yune attempted to show bigger pro- |Cloak and Dressmakers’ Joint Board, | fits and less difficulty with workers ce against him and no witnesses | who was one of the speakers, brought @ laugh from the crowd by saying that the bosses, who are forcing |through kicking out the union. Publishers as a whole, however, showed no intention of courting a | workers to register with the Interna-| fight with the printing trades unions. cial prospects in Japan, weakened | of giving such an extreme sentence as’tional, are becoming such good union yesterday on the Stock Exchange. |six months. In many cases of a ‘ser-|men that “we do not need a union.” Coney Island Girls Hurt. | roads in the flood country suffered | heavy losses under a deluge of sell- ing orders. United States Steel and General Motors moved down 2 points as the | big interests behind the exchange hammered down the market. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS | that is given. | * Refusal of Bail. | “Another thing. The refusal to Speculators who were short in’ the! ious’ character 10 days is the most} grant bail to Kushner is another vio- | | lationof the most elementary rights | of a defendant. 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Young Pioneer speaker. @hinese speabzer. Chairman: A. TRACHTENBERG Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra ADMISSION 50 CENTS. Auspices: Workers (Communist) Party, District New York. Doors Open 12 M. tutes, Innerclean, Kneipp Teas. |) ‘Woman Shoe Worker | Killed by Fumes in | Bay State Hell Hole | EVERETT, Mass. April 28.— Eleven blood transfusions failed to |save the life of Edna McCumber, 20, Chelsea Shoe Factory worker who was infected by a deadly poison from |breathing shoe cement fumes. She |was buried this afternoon. |two sisters and eight other men and | women gave their blood in an unsuc- |cessful effort to save the stricken |worker at Massachusetts | Hospital. |Buy ' The Daily Worker 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. New York City. 33 First St. . ASK YOUR | » NSWSDEALER for the Big May Day Special AN UNUSUALLY FINE NUMBER OF THE DAILY WORKER. With special articles by leading proletarian writ- ers and cartoons by noted artists, YOU MUST NOT MISS This SPECIAL NUMBER Ask Your News- dealer for It. 4 | | | agains’ |had also taken part in the attack, and | |two weeks later he had Antonofsky | | “But they are afraid that with Gold Two girls were injured, one per- they will not get July raises, so they! haps fatally, today by the explosion want Sorkin.” (One of the vice pres- idents.) Henry Uterhardt, the union’s law- yer, said he had never seen such an! enthusiastic meeting; and in his brief speech he asserted: “T have rarely had a case that has touched me like the one of the boys at Mineola. with men sincere, who believed in what they said and were read® to lay down their life and liberty for their comrades. We are going to leave no stone unturned until justice has been done to all of them.” Other speakers included I. Shapiro, I. Potash, S. Liebowitz, S. Biro. . . . Hearings Adjourned. It was because I dealt | of a hot water boiler in the cellar of ta bungalow at 176 Arnold Court, | Coney Island. Miss Shirley Harris, 17 was hurled 12 feet. Her left leg was cut off } below the knee by a fragment of iron Rita land she was injured internally. Wasserman, 15, Beach Ave., was severely injured i ternally. Both are in the Coney Island hospital. 'Frame Up Workers In African Gold Rush JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, April 28.—It is now definitely proven that the recent “gold rush” was a The hearings concerning alleged| fake backed by the government tor bribery of the police during the fur | the purpose of getting the unemploy strike last year, which have been go-| ¢d workers out of the big cities 1or « ing on before Magistrate Corrigan in | Her. sweetheart, Daniel Ricci, her the Criminal Courts Building, were yesterday adjourned to be resumed next Tuesday, May 3rd. Assistant District Attorney Broth- General \¢t8 stated that he had certain mat- ters to investigate further before pro- ceeding with the hearings. - oe The trial of A. Antonofsky, M. Rosenberg and A. Wortuns which ended yesterday with their acquittal in the Bronx County Court, was en- livened by a description of the duties of a union’s executive council, as given by Morris Katz, the stool pigeon accused the workers of as- sault, Katz has been appointed a mem- ber of the Executive Council of Sig- man’s new Local 35, but the only ac- count he could give the Joint Board’s lawyer as to the duties of a member of the Executive Council was “that one went to meetings and one came away.” Katz’ Record. Katz is a worker in the Reisman, | Rothman and Bieber shop where An- tonofsky and Rosenberg were also employed. Workers were discharged from this shop for not registering, and the shop was declared on strike. During the month of February, Katz claimed that he had been attacked, and he accused Aaron Wortuns, a cloakmaker who had made a charge two right wing gangsters, Kaiz stated that two other men and Rosenberg arrested. He had worked with them for six months and it is inconceivable that he would not have recognized them immediately if they had taken any part in assaulting him. It was on Katz’ charge of assault that all three men were freed by a jury yesterday. Third of Million for Dempsey in Fight Here With $300,000 as his share of the gate ‘receipts, Jack Dempsey, former champion pugilist, will swap a few punches with Paulino Uzcudun at the Yankee Stadium on the night of July 1. Dempsey held out for several days for his price. y | 12 to 16. shert Tak their scant belongings with them they traveled on a wild goose chase and now are returning under- standing that they were victims of a coarse frame-up. May Day Dance In Harlem. May Day will be celebrated Satur- day evening by a dance at the Harlen: Workers Center, 81 East 110th &t. There will be plenty to eat for all. Admission is twenty-four cents, Jimmy Walker Says Tammany to Protect Nickel Fare Forever The perennial political farce en- acted by Tammany Hall on the theme | of the transit situation assumed high comic aspects yesterday with Mayor Jimmy Walker and Samuel Unter. myer, special transit counsel, both solemnly backing the five cent fare. Inasmuch as Tammany would fa | political suicide if it did not back t | jitney fare, the announcement came las no surprise. Claims that Unter- | myer’s report will save the strap- hangers $40,000,000 were a surprise | however. | The special counse for the transit | commission, after a five month study |of the problem, announced that the | subways can be operated at a profit jon a five-cent fare. He made no recommendation for increased wages for the traction workers. Walker, Untermyer and members of the transit commission and the | board of estimate heard Untermyer’s | report in @ special closed session. ROMER mt oe May Dav Issue Volunteers Wanted Articles Wanted For The DAILY WORKER Booth at the Joint Defense Bazaar, May Art objects of all kinds | especially antiques, pictures, stat- ues, vases, enrios, ete. Report at once to the Local Office of The || DAILY WORKER, 108 East 14th | Street, New York City. Bertram D. Wolfe and Tickets at 50 and The Frethelt, 30Un FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 13th (Ausploes of The Bronx Free Fellowship) at THE COMMUNITY CHURCH, 34th St. and Park Ave. Workers Party and Workers School, 108 Hast 14th Street RET Jimmie Higgine Book Shop, 106 Unlterdity Place. “The Russian vs. The American System of Government” Will be debated by Aurthur Garfield Hays 75 cents on sal ear