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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927 Page Five TAKE BOYS FROM SCHOOL FOR NAVY NY PARENTS TOLD Films Also. Used to Boost Enlistment Strike at Sing Sing Wins Better Food as Men Quit Their Work Sing Sing prisoners showed New York needle trades something in snappy strike action when they pulled a highly effective strike. Sixty-five men were back on the job yesterday with all demands || granted and none the worse save || for “isolation”. for a few hours. Gravel mixed with poorly baked beans brought on the spontaneous Desperate efforts to stimulate en-)| | listment in the army, navy and ma-) rines, even to.the extent of taking || walkout, engineered by officers of | boys from school were indicated yes-|| the “union.” | terday in the publication of a recruit- | Sergeant-at-Arms Fred Horan | ing appeal aimed directly at parents. | and 12 deputies of the Mutual Wel- |} Another, an indirect effort to bol-|} fare League started the strike when ster enlistment through boosting a|] they resigned from the league in Broadway film, was revealed in let-|] a body as a protest on the ters sent from the Board of Educa-|| wretched food served under the tion to. all school teachers in New|} “model” administration of Warden York City. This appeal not only aims|} Lawes. Twelve prison . barbers at enlistment but at the enrichment!| promptly discarded razors and se of the exhibit showing, “Rough|| sors and 40 men in the knitting Riders,” the picture glorifying Theo- |) mill left their machines as_ the dore Ro@sevelt at the time of his ques-|| strike call spread quickly through tioned ride up’San Juan Hill. the prison, “Perhaps YOUR BOY does not want | Warden Lawes has promised to |) to go to school longer than required |] improve the menu. | by law,” reads the leaflet of the re-| cruiting service, located at 39 White- | " | hall St. “He can serve at a military | land.” Such Nicaragua, Panama, recruiters might have added. In Tenement Blaze Harness That Restless Feeling. | “The Army satisfies that restless | which all normal young men 2 ject. Have‘a talk witha recruiting | | sergeant anywhere in the city or call} Following a blaze yesterday in a| Haiti, China and the Phillipines, the ' au" feeling,” the appeal continu “to | amil | sub- | | ut headquarters.” @he Rough Riders advertisement | was sent out on. stationary bearing | the imposing inscription: “Board of Education of the City o: New York, office of the Director of Lectures and Visual Instruction, 500 Park Avenue.” | : 4 0 ; | Dora Lefkowitz, 8, contusions and ‘Ernest L. Cyandall, the director | possible fracture ofthe right shoulder oe he bes ajith toes paar a | and lacerations of the scalp sustained ‘ af rd Pawar se’ words: | 2 & 30-foot fall. line with hip 2 pupils, in the 64 words: Michael. Wizney,..27, lacerations of “Spirit of the Times.” the right foot. “Based on the exploits of President| Sophie Wizney, 14, first degrée Roosevelt at San Juan Hill, The) burns and lacerations of the right eye.| Rough Riders manages to catch the Anna Wizney, 42, mother of Mich- | spirit of the times and to present) ael and Sophie, contusions and abras-| them, in all their historical and edu- | jon¥ of the body and possible fracture ational significance, through the med f the left leg. | ium} of a well-ordered and highly; The first blaze was discovered in| pleasing scenario. There is a love| some rubbish in the basement by al story that holds the attefition, comedy | passerby, who turned in an alarm,| which provokes laughter continuous-} which brought Battalion Chief Levy| ly, pathos, real stirring drama, andj with apparatus. The fire soon was} all the other ingredients of good mo-} extinguished. tion picture entertainment. And for} Another Fire | those interested in education, there} After the departure of the firemen, | is the deeper consideration of the in-| however, tenement house Comnission- | fluence of such a picture on the un-) ey Edward Barzy, who lives in the lerstanding and knowledge of” his-| neighborhood, noticed dense smoke| tory. i pouring out. He turned in an alarm! “Through a_ special arrangement, | which again brought Battalion Chief Mr. H. ©, Hoagland, (Chickering | Leyy with No, 6 Hook-and-Ladder (750), who is in charge of the presen- | Company and No. 17 Engine. tation of The Rough Riders has| With great difficulty the firemen} sgreed to make redutioens in prices | erected ladders in a rear yard and res-| for groups of twelve or more wishing | cyed the tenants. Three ambulances to attend. He will also arrange for | ang the police emergency squad were such groups. to sit in a body in the] cared, theatre. I’ hope you will make an| “After the second blaze had been ex- effort to see the picture.” tinguished, a five-gallon can of gaso-| Nayy Boosts Film, Too. line was found. The walls and floors} Convey, a navy film which lasted, of the building had been liberally} only one week on Broadway, was also! sprinkled with the contents. the subject’ of free advertising, this | ns time by the Navy, Recruiting Station | * * * Proclaimed to be Standard Oil Miller “produced with the cooperation of the | U. S. Navy and officially approved ary Wilbur, Convoy is used | as a vehicle to stimulate much-needed five-story tenement house at 113 Eld-| ridge St. on the East Side, unmistak- | able evidence of the activity of aj f firebug was found. Four persons were | injured and about 30 families were | routed. | The injured are: Won’t Delay Hearings | | Just because a big gun like former | |Governor Nathan L. Miller is going | Pan, ah rf im- organization, the New York lodge will | fetltte oer 8 rhage |to boom for the B.-M. T. in the tran-| now be faced with the question of | than Needed?” roads the Convoy | hearings scheduled for next Mon- | iaking an oath which the parent body ad. “For the United States Navy. day is no Teason for postponing the has recently prescribed for all mem- In Peace Times—just as in War—| Whole affair. So decided Samuel Un-! bers. This oath pledges that the mem- there is Always a Navy On Guafd, | °*™yer, counsel’ for the present 'gov- | ber is a “loyal Italian,” who supports “Ships of the Navy stdias in ‘ell jernors transit commission. 3 | the king and the Italian government, parts of the world, but chiefly along | Miller is now engaged in the highly Every member is required to subscribe the Atlantic and Pacific ‘consta, T¢-is jprodtabte job of defending the Stand- | to this oath, or resign from the lodge. | impossible to Say where a recruit will jard Oil in an Indianapolis case. RTI aye be’ sant” prota pe, jag ce oo OS j The Downtown Branch of the In- | TOKYO, May 18.—Thirty-five|ternational Labor Defense will hold, 4 Ps 4 | minews were buried alive today, and/a festival and May dance Saturday | Benito Decides to Sit |one hundred and fifty others es-|evening at the Downtown Workers’, i ‘ \eaped when fire broke out in a coal|Club, 35 East Second St. Proceeds} As Audience On Naval ‘mine at Kyuuteki, in’ Saga Prefec- | will go towards the branch sustaining tune. The entombed miners are be-/fund and the relief of class war pris-| Experts Grand Pow-wow | =" wn ‘ ar BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY | WASHINGTON, May. 18.—A]) from Italy, requesting that i rmitted to send several naval as observers to the Geneva Yonference, was received by the state department last night. The rote contained no definite outline of how fully Italy may par- ticipate in the conference, if at all. Booth Phones, Dr: Office Phone, Ore Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM Large Halls With Stage for Mee ings, Entertainments, 1 Ww dings and Banque: 66-68 1, 4th St. New York, N. ¥, Smail Meeting Rooms Always Available. 6612, 784 ard $310 cg = ‘| ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO |. 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. | Special Rates for Labor Organiaa- tions, (Established 1887.) Health Food —*, Vegetarian Restaurant } 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5:65, MRS, ROGIN Vegetarian Restaurant 249 BE. 15th St. New York JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOK SHOP Announces its removal to 106 PL. {reProemer feontlont Telephones Btuyyesnnt 6015, For a Rational Combined Vege- tarian Meal Come to Rachil’s Vegetarian Dining Room 216 East Broadway, Ist floor, | jfundamentalism are |have winked at the violation. | . FRIGNDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR Atheist: te Clash | Four Furrier Meetings With Rev. Strat; | SP SB Row Over Uldine " Four building meetings of fur workers will be held this after- noon right after work. The Rev. John Roach Stratton and|| _ The workers from shops in scheduled to|| 7th Ave., will meet in Local clash head-on on May 24 with Charles No. 16 West 21st St. Smith and the American Association|| Shops in 838—T7th Ave. for the Advancement of Atheism, meetin (acal 35, No, 10 F Straton, the rabid anti-evolutionist Rt hi who gets $10,000 a year for his ser- Shops in 150 West 30th St., and vices as pastor of the Calvary Baptist|| 251 West 30th St., will meet at Church, claims Smith pesters him with | the Furriers’ Joint Board, 22 East atheist literature. Smith retorts that || @nd St. the Rev. Straton is another. | Both registered and unregister- The case will be heard in West Side|| ed workers from all these shops court next week. |} are called to these meetings to Straton is in dutch with a faction of || continue the work of mobilization his own church which resents his eag-| erness to attain the headlines. The holy man’s contract to write a series | for preservation of the union. for the evening Hearst paper on the Snyder-Gray case, served hot from the Paper Box Makers court room, was the straw that broke the camel's back. Straton was told Carry on Fight at Meeting Thursday to climb back into his pulpit and stay The Paper Box Makers’ Union will there. meet Thursday at.6 p. m. at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. As the paper box industry has not | o yet recovered from- the 19 weeks’ strike of last winter, the union is still feeling its efects. This mass meeting will st 22nd Loses L'il Uldine And then again, the Calvary medi- cine man has been piqued because such a good box-office attraction as Uldine Utley, the “child” evangelist whose age is estimated variously from 14 to 24, has been lost. Uldine climbed up the golden ladder to fame in Stra-- ton’s pulpit, but lately she has been cashing in under new management. Last Saturday night she evangelized at Carnegie Hall while the Rev. Stra- AR LIN MILD NOTE TO FULLER ON FAMOUS GASE “Expresses No Opinion BOSTON, ton was rubbing its eyes today as it read over a letter from the e cil of the American Federation of La bor on the Sacco-Vanzetti J The lette: liam does not express any opini “innoe Massachuset Attaches regarded the to the ey regarded that the A. F tive council would r mand of a recent conventio: ation of the Italian workers as Dudley P. P. attorney of the most de and Vanzetti, v governor dence with him. on Innocence” May 18,—Off represented at the ial Bos- e House, ecutive coun- igned by President Wil- s Governor Fuller to , but declares that it n on the or guilt” of the victims of ireen, v the ¢ justice. the governor's office letter of little as it had been gen of L. tera’ ims n outrageous misc The official A. . requ they pointed out, is miles behind the appeals sent by the le most prominent tni ing the whole Dedhr chools of the sities condemn- ial as a farce. With Fuller. Foe Confe s of Sacco s closeted. with the yesterday, going over evi- : fs ~| will therefore be-a great event in the Ida M. Tarbell, former progressive ue re elas counter-rally Across fae6 of those conditions. whose whitewashes of Elbert Gary % The organization campaign carried | and other indu alists made her Efforts to pull Uldine down from|on by the union for the past two pet of reaction, nevertheless ad- her perch under the provisions of the} months has been a success with the dressed a letter to the governor de- child labor law have been fruitless 80! slogan, “Bring The Union Back Into nouncing the Dedham trial and declar- Little Uldine has no “working |The Shops” in vogue with paper box ing far. papers” permitting her to play Hookey| makers. The officials of the union from school but the school authorities | with the full assistance of the Execu- ‘tive Board and active members are The last meeting of the board was working towards that goal. on January 9 when the elders strictly! Speakers include: forbade Straton to collect side money A representative of the Interna- the Klan. The next meeting is Tues- ers’ Union, John Conlin, secretary of day. the New York Central Trades Coun- oe ae eGe ROS cil, M. Feinstone, secretary, United Hebrew Trades, Rose e Both Sides “Win” in tyrs Noted Ph cluding the presidents of Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges .and the dean and f. of $30,000 as supreme hokus-pokus of tional Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mak- Uni eview of the cai acco and Vanzetti to be “mar- to their faith.” Philadelphia to Fore. elphia educators, in- culty of the law school of the ity of Pennsylvania have asked . Among the sign- W. Comfort, president of Haver- rman ford College; Marion Edwards Parks, of the Women’s Trade Union League, president of Bryn Mawr College; Wil- William Karlin, prominent attorney, jiam E. Mikell, dean of the law school, Dr. Ch. C. Webber of Church of All Univers ichard H Nations and Norman Thomas. M. Gummers ar- 115 La iv . dent, Farm Journal; Edmund Stirling, oy eee ee 15 undry Drivers editorial staff, 7hiladelp! Public Both factions in the Order of Sons | Before Bronx Judge Ledger’ RE, Lge ore ‘ of Italy in America claimed as a vic- ‘. * . Stephen piscopal Church;. Freder- tory the Supreme Court decision hand-| 1M Strike Hearing jac'n. Grittin ed down in Buffalo an Monday in re- gard to the legal status of the New York Grand Lodge. fe The New York Lodge seceded in 1925 because the parent body had Fifteen members of the Laundry Drivers’ Union will appear before Supreme Court this morning to an- sent greetings to Mussolini. The court | 8°" injunction proceedings served on has ruled that it had no right to se- | them by the North American Laun- cede without affiliating itself with|4t¥, whose workers have been on another fraternal organization of sim- | Sttike since April 25. ; ce ilar aims and purposes. The bosses, unsuccessful in their at- The court also decided that the elec- | tempt to obtain an injunction against tion held by the so-called “loyal” fac- | the union, are now attempting to~re- tion at. the time of this break was|Sttain individual members of the ency. illegal, and a new election by the en- union from. picketing and carrying on tire lodge must be held at once. other legitimate procedure of a ' strike. * of Won't Fall for Fascism. ' While the New York Lodge is not) associated with the anti-facisti forces | in America, it has steadily refused to endorse fascism as the parent body has done. Prominent in this seceding group are Congressman Fioerella ‘La Guardia and Justice Cotillo. Added to the differences which have caused the long factional fight in the | The charge of disorderly conduct against Max Brodie, organizer of the union, was dismissed yesterday morn- ing in magistrate’s court. Sacco-Vanzetti Meet Epstein, Carlo Tresca, Jyliet Stewart Krumbein. Italian Boston over the appearance of two Sacco- ernor. Judge Mullen ‘it the Bronx County | Vanzetti phonograph records. One is entitled “A Hymn Dedicated to Sacco jand Vanzetti” and another ¢ Sacco e Vanzetti.” They w ‘ast down around Hanover Michael Angelo Musmanno, sentative of the supreme council of the Sons of Italy arrived here today from New York to ask executive clem- * BERLIN, Communi y through the main streets of the city, carrying red and black flags and ban- ners demanding the release of Sacco ‘and Vanzetti. | Bronx To Be Held in Bronx | China Open Air Meets International Labor Defense, of} The lower Bro Bronx section, will hold a Sacco-Van- }ers’ (Communist) P: jzetti mass meeting, Friday, May 27, |Sacco-Vanzetti open air meeting to- at the Workers’ Hall, 1847. Boston night, 138th St. and St. Anns Ave. Rodd, the Bronx. The speakers will| Louis A. Baum will speak and P. Bu- be Pat Devine, Richard B, Moore, M.|kenberger will be chairman. Saturday Poyntz, Rebecca Grecht and Charles, China” open air meeting will be held , lat 141st St. and St. Anns Ave. Phonograph Records. was excited today ‘Prot e ta * 18.—Thousands sterday paraded Holds Sacco and subsection, Work- will hold a evening a “Hands Off Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Oftice Hours: 9:30. Daily 2 Cor. Secor Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 Revolutionary Play Tel, Orchard 3783 ‘ Strictly by Appointment DR. LER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET ~ Cor, Bldridge st. Now York Telephone Mott Haven 0506, Dr. Morris Shain SURGEON D. ST 598 Oak Terrace, N.Y, 1éist 8t. and Crimmins Ave, Pationizé Our Advertisers Chinese Instrumental Music Concer te Ball FRIDAY, MAY 20th, 8:00 P. ML. WEBSTER HALL 119 E. 11th Street: Fan Dance Folk Songs Speakers: SCOTT NEARING and JOE FREEMAN DANCING—7-PIECE JAZZ ORCHESTRA Auspices: Chinese Workers’ Alliance, 23 Chatham Square Benefit New China School for. Workers TICKETS ON SALE: Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, Freiheit, and DAILY WORKER. . the freedom of the two men. Famous Heretic Bishop Speaks for Relief of Needle Workers iv Jail DOWN EFFORT 10 KILL 5-DAY WEEK Internation Under the auspices of the ( mittee c@ One Hundred, B William Montgomery Brown i nea Opera Kast 67th ar 3rd on Wedne Cen Street Reject , y evening Plan at Meeting for the relief of imprisc Meith riers, cloakmakers and dressmak- ers In addition to the rebel bishop, ||ing mai Paxton Hibben will be a speaker, || of the d other members of the commit- on the cam- paign for relief fur tion. No return Adiissic will b 5 week and HUI Can eat RR pts ag Ne ata crt aead aC Seek New Trial for SoM irae pein been called to hes Executive Boa sion Sacco and Vanzetti (Continued from Page One) s well as th itioned is who havejdent J that | meeting » thousa for a pardon, ng over the! the propos nd even call-| to work ig. It is| Confers go out-; the Conf they yike| cision an ou represe and if tory be the Plymouth in which Va to the red of the arrest cordage nd | Meet one me} and on ti, | deFision Mean to Fi No early those . 1 case, aud observing t of the ag it | governor in the matter. Governor Fuller began interviewing | oy fe. witnesses in the Sacco- an-! ¢ Chicago and finished in- the strike them- and experts who d e at the trial. e discussion which followed the In his own independent estiga-| speeches of Burke and Coefield was tion into the case, the Govern vith | still i oisy progress as the DAILY his personal , Joseph Wiggin, | \ ; but mem- of Mald tafked with. Wilbur F. d that nothing Turner, arms expert, who test for the defense at the hearing on mo-| the 1 tion for a new trial. 14 Testifies for Sacco Turner’s testimony at that time wa: that the bullets which caused the ‘deaths of Paymaster Frank Parmenter) Ruthenberg Drive for nge their refusal »posal of the and the $14 day are ted by the employers and Guard Alexander Berardelli in| xy... . ea the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company| NeW Party Members in payroll hotdup April, 1920, could) Boston Now in Progress not have been fired from the gun of | ie Rite Nicola Sacco. BOSTON, The Ruthen Profes: Augustus. Gill, of the! berg membe ip ve is now on here Chemistry Department of M. I. T., was| in also ques y Governor Fuller,| at S was ¢ Evans, who! Pa has long been active in the fight for It was officially opened eting held in Workers ers, 62 Chambers St., Ww n attractive program, featured by the pres nm of a banner person) from the ¢ esug-| U. .: ti defense | Communist y the Gov-| ttict orga { made th Indications that with real kno d by the Sa committee will be heard b o=0=——0 01010 NOT BATTLESHIPS but t LARGE STEAMERS (CLEARMONT and ONTARIO) will take 5,000 workers to BEARMOUNTAIN and BACK ON THE HUDSO Saturday, June 4th § The Jewish Daily FREIHEIT EXCURSION —oia0 a0 S16 —o-0=—0=10 ; ' Everybody Will Meet at Battery Park at 1 o'Clock. TICKETS—In advance $1.25. At the dock $1.50. BUY TICKETS in advance—and save time and money, Buy Tickets at the Freiheit, 30 Union Square, New York ss i ‘PLUMBERS TURN Com 6 4 0 0h oe 0 0 00 I0F=1

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