The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1927, Page 1

\ Ny « STOP THE T THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 109. Current Events By T. J, O’FLanerry. a Janie are people who are of the | opinion that this column is ap- pearing under false pretences, or in simpler terms that it is not what the *name implies, since, when the captain of its soul is in good humor super-/ induced by a hot meal, a victory for | the Hankow government, the bank-| ruptey of a prominent Kiwanian or! the death of a British duke, the/ column is optimistic and good mental | breakfast food. But when he has not) the price of an order of spaghetti, | or Chang-Tso-Lin succeeds in raising anew loan, or Marshall Pilsudski of | Poland gets in a fresh carload of | garlic, this department of The DAILY | WORKER is as gloomy as Clarence Darrow, when he is not engaged de- fending a murderer or a gang of| bootleggers. | * * * | 1 sum up, the critics of “Current | THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. wader the act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. COOLIDGE SUPPORTERS PROFIT FROM FLOOD FEARS OF MISSISSIPPI LEVEE GRAFT EXPOSURE PREVENT PRESIDENT AND NINE FREED ON CERTIFICATES BY BROOKLYN JUDGE of Long Strike NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORK PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥ 20, 1927 Traction Plunderbund Using Transit Hearings to THRUST UP AS PaveWay for10-CentFare| piperst issue i'The Game Is to Defend System of Graft While Thousands Suffer (By Washington Staff Correspondent of The DAILY WORKER.) Events” claim that as a general] Three hours of waiting only served | a year. rule’ the column has as little currency} to increase the enthusiasm of the | I hesitate to| thousands of fur workers who jammed | in it as our treasury. ask our readers for an opinion, lest, I! might be accused of wishing to get) headquarters last night to welcome | x \the fur workers who were released | world’s most corrupt and powerful railway combine. _Never-|from Mineola on “certificate of rea-| will continue this week and next. theless, being a peaceful individual | sonable doubt” after being tried and | * * and wishing to retain the friendship | convicted in Nassau County for an | of the followers of this column, if/ alleged raid on a Rockville Center fur | too intimate with them or starting an illegitimate correspondence. Never- anybody can suggest a more appro- priate name they are welcome to} shoot it in. j E are told” that cleanliness is next to godliness and it is generally | admitted that a good shine improves | the looks of a person’s footwear be- sides furnishing prima facie evidence | that the wearer is not a poet, at) least not an unsuccessful one. But | the Lord’s Day Alliance, trembling} for the safety of our souls has de- | East 22nd St. outside of Joint Board shop during the 1926 strike. No sooner had the: autos carrying the men turned into 22nd St. from | Broadway, than the cry rose “Here! | they come” and there was a mad rush | for the corner—in spite of policemen jand every other attempted obstruc- tion. The cars were stopped, the men grabbed and carried down the block on the shoulders of devoted fellow- workers, There were shouts, and embraces, cided that it is sinful to shine shoes | hand-shakings and tears, and the re- on Sunday. Should the shineless|!eased prisoners had scarcely a chance Suiday follow in the wake of the|to greet. their patient wives, and beerless Saturday the stage will be | mothers and sisters and sweethearts, set for a drive against hilarity in| before they were ‘carried to the win- ‘Beneral, and a person caught smiling |dows of the building to’be cheered | 2 ‘stich of a chance with his liberty |€tS Who could not manage to squeeze as the author of a readable novel. |e the building. * * * Mourn Missing Comrade. ILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, was, “We never expected such a wel- returned to City. Hall in: Chicago |come,” each man protested. And there York city may soon be taking |.2nd.saluted by a vast groiyd of work} * By ROBERT MITCHELL The Traction Plunderbund is in- |corporated! Organized, enfranchised, | chartered by the city and state. | Among its directors are the highest | officials in New York City and in the State Capital at Albany. There is beginning a set of so-called open hearings which has to do with | the preparation of a plan for the | future operation of the city transit | service. This dummy hearing, this cam- ouflaged and grotesque comedy about |to be staged, marks the final scenes in a play of plunder, which for its brazen piracy, its unashamed corrup- | tion, is one of the most disgraceful proceedings in the records of Ameri- can life, Nor is this all. These hearings*which the New York State Transit Commission are about to open, are the culminating acts of a colossal conspiracy to pick the poc- kets of the masses who daily in the Thousands Greet Released Furriers ,Inc.lFIVE-DAY WEEK ” Monday the curtain raises, on the last act of the New York Big Welcome for Heroes) Traction Swindle. Monday the Transit Commission begins the | “hearings” which are to pave the way for the 10-cent fare, exaet- |ing a toll from workers which will mount to dizzy totals within The DAILY WORKER starts today a slashing expose of the | whole mess in metropolitan traction, written by a transit expert who has spent years patiently following the building up of the The series Who'll Shelter Young Go-Getters as Y.M.C.A. Drive Falls Far Short The tremendous effort of the lo- cal bourgeoisie to collect $6,500,- 000 to house stray bank clerks and aspiring climbers after success and vice presidential desks went awry, the Y. M. C. A. panhandling committee announced sorrowfully yesterday. Despite snappy ads and he-man appeals to shake down the busi- ness gentry, the Y. M. C. A. fell far short of the quota for new buildings, but will continue to pass _the hat until al), $6,500,000 or. its equivalent in pledges has been col- lected. The total, .including non-cash pledges, came to little over $4,- 000,000, The high-pressure sales- HOOVER CALLING | Floods Could Be Plumbers’ Action Turns Situation Overnight WASHINGTON, May 19.— . | Overnight the five day week has} | York building trades. | When Plumber’s Local 1, of Brook- | Rrgap ete. lyn, defied the entire international) Waters of the Mississippi. Inst national President John Coeficld and| * re | Secretary Thomas Burke Wednesday | Waters in river channels unable evening on the issue of arbitrating| ways so they could be diverted t {the five day week demand, the 1,700/ striking members put new life into Nes ms lan issue close to the heart of every|@dministrations whose supporters | building trades worker. ab ge thereby have steadfastly re- | “Go back to Chicago,” was the | fused to adopt the scientific method. | meaningful advice given International | Yet the yery first thing that Hoover | officials when a rank and file re-| 2d his associates did when New Or- | bellion against bureaucracy shoved| leans was endangered by the flood jover board the nice little deal that | Was to blow up the levee at Pondryas the executive board had framed with | in order to provide the river with an- |the Building Trades Employers’ As-| other outlet. | sociation. Unsuccessful in the Mon-| Admit Fallacy in Actfon. | day night meeting in forcing Local 1! After fifty years of closing such }to abandon the five day week, the} outlets and damming the river be- {International tried again Wednesday | tween earthen walls, the very first ) evening-—and failed. |thing these “levees only” leaders did }up to the bosses—and the Interna-/| to destroy the walls and let the water | tional. While the Employers’ Asso-| out. These simple and obvious facts |ciation held a hurried conference yes-| have impressed themselves upon the /eerday at “11a. m. to “consider the| minds of the’{Southerners, if not upon | situation brought about by the unex-| those of Hoover and his colleagues. | pected fighting spirit in Local 1, the) Hoover in a formal statement | International was swinging the use-| solemnly and gravely proclaimed: |ful old club of suspension over the! “The present flood, which probably heads of the Brooklyn plumbers, on; exceeds in volume any on record, | Today the next step is very plainly; when the flood became serious was/ | FINAL CITY } EDITION ER Price 3 Cents SPECIAL SESSION Prevented by Using Methods Approved for Centuries For years statesmen involved in | become the burning issue in the, New|the levee graft have been insisting that the “levees only” system was the only one that could be effective in curbing the torrential ead of learning lessons from the executive board together with Inter-| history of the world that the only effective way to handle rising to hold them is to construct spill- o other channels, those who prof- \ited through the Mississippi graft or who were defenders of USSR THREATENS TO LEAVE GENEVA CONFAB, IS RUMOR GENEVA, May 19—Officials at the World Economie Conference have stated to the press that the Soviet Union delegation has threatened to | withdraw. No confirmation of this | statement has yet been received from |the Soviet Union delegates. | The delegates, it is said, have jasked President Theunis of the con- | ference for assurances that the even- |tual resolutions adopted by the con- |ference will recognize openly the pos- on the platform of war to the death | “4S only a disappointing note—the against’ England and Englishmen. | One would imigine from reading this | gentleman’s campaign speeches that | the redcoats were in possession of the | Fish Fan’s Club, that tony, floating | speakeasy in which Thompson’s| closest friends drowned their sorrow after William E. Dever captured city hall. . “Big Bill” let the world know that he was not afraid of the British empire and threatened to “bust King George on the nose” if he inserted that organ into the domestic affairs of Chicago. - * * 5 iy Irish were ready to make Thompson honorary president of the Irish Free State, and the Germans did not care who won the war or whether the Kaiser stayed in Holland .or not. “Big Bill” hated the English to the satisfaction of all who like their hates at a safe distance. He charged mayor Dever with nurturing agents of King George in ‘the public school system, chief of them being superintendent McAndrew, who de- bauched the school books and in- sisted that John Hancock was a boot- legger of taxless tea. - oe * COMPSON won the war against England, but it appears that im- mediately after the armistice “Big Hearted Bill” was ready to relent. muel Insull, & cursed Saxon, who Hiwiled from the tight little isle and now. ..wns almost everything in Chi- cago but the soiled underwear of its fnhabitamts, purchased “Big Bill's” _ friend, nator-elect but unseated, Frank L.\ Smith, It is reported that he dropped a big wad of dough into Thompson’s campaign kitty before he went on a visit to his native land. how on the day following Thomp- n’s triumphal entry into city hall, ll visited the mayor and traction ‘s started to climb.heavenwards. ull owns almost everything on in Chicago except the baby papeerienes. . * . GENTLEMAN by the name of Blair, an American and a friend _ of Dever’s is head of the surface lines, But Insull owns the power that runs street and elevated lines. Thompson turned down thumbs on the American Blair but took the Eng- hn Insull unto his bosom. Which / another sad story of a_ patriot " politically shirtless tho it is probable that not more than Chicago voter out of a thousand voted for “Big Bill” will see ru the sham. * LEE K. FRANKEL, second vice- sident of the Metropolitan In- ‘Company is on his way to 2 on Pace Two). * * | Martin | to» their comrades, {ment came from each man. fact that Oscar Mileaf was not with the others because after the trial he had been taken to Welfare Island to serve out a six months sentence given him on a disorderly conduct charge framed-up by the right wing. The workers released yesterday | were Maurice Malkin, Leo Franklin, Samuel Mencher, Philip Otto Lenhart, Rosenberg, Joseph Katz, George Weiss and Jack Schneider. When they had been carried into Gold’s office at the Joint Board they stood at the open window and talked The same senti- “We are back on the job,” fellow- workers. We are glad to be released sc that we can go on with the fight to preserve our union. We are ready to go back to the picket lines and join with all of you in driving the right wing traitors out of our union for- ever.” Judge Questions Trial. In ruling for the appeal of these fur workers, Justice Mitchell May said: “That an atmosphere could easily have been created at the trial to in- fluence the minds of the jury against these defendants is readily apparen upon the most cursory examination of the records. “Having in mind this situation and that the proof offered by the people was far from impressive, the conduct of the District Attorney in his open- (Continued on Page Five) millions ride the subways, the eleva- 2 \] men back of the drive complain ted and surface lines of the city. that 27 other drives for funds | strike since April 1. | Threats of the revocation of Local | shows that the levee heights, hereto-| sibility of the co-existence of the ‘ore tentatively adopted by the Mis-| Soviet and capitalist economic sys- They are the disguised preliminaries of a gigantic fare steal! The forces behind this plunderbund have long before this already been set in motion. Only some minor de- tails now await solution before the final act will be revealed in all its naked ugliness. Over six millions of riders daily pay their fares into the coffers of the Traction Barons. Every rider, year in, year out, pays between $1.00 and $1.50 weekly in toll to these feudal lords. If the ten cent fare now planned should be successfully executed, you who are reading these words, will be compelled to contribute at least $50.00 yearly in additional tax. This means no less than one more dollar out of your pocket each week. You will then be paying to the Traction’ Trust a levy of over two dollars weekly and you will have no means of escape from this hold-up try as you may! When you begin to consider the necessity of deducting this amount which in many cases will be as much as $2.50 and even $3.00 weekly from your pay envelope for the outlay of fares alone, the real significance of the traction steal will become ap- parent to you. Is there no one to protect the peo- ple against this gigantic swindle? Who is responsible for permitting (Continued on Page Three) Fake Bakery Union Issues Phony Label to Deceive Buyers Jewish bakers continuing their strike against Pechter’s and Messing’s bakeries in the Bronx found a new énemy when the _ strike-bteakers were organized into a fake “union” by the bosses, 4 A fake, union label, stuck on loaves baked in these noh-union shops, is confusing many housewives who do not examine the sticker closely. The strikers ask that purchasers make sure that the Bakers’ union label is affixed to all bread they buy. Leaflets warning friends of the union of the deception being attempt- ed by the two shops, which have been struck for several weeks, were passed out yesterday by union mentbers, Strikes Dynamite; Hurt. Sam Previno, of Mt. Morris, N. Y., was in a serious condition in the hos- pital today, from injurjes received when his spade struck a stick of dynamite while he was dig: in, his garden, The explosion which followed hurled him into the air. Tony Gamblers Flee City as Grand Jury Probes Big Jamboree Tony, upper class gamblers who were found disporting themselves in a $100,000 club in the Biarfield Hotel Sunday night fled the city yesterday for Atlantic City and other idlers’ re- sorts to escape a hearing before the grand jury. The couples still found in the city testified yesterday, But the others, including two vice presidents of large corporations and others living in “pre- entious residences and employing but- lers, chauffeurs and mai@s,” according to Inspector Valentine of the Police Commissioner’s confidential squad, had left forwarding addresses. One of them claimed he had lost $25,000 in three nights at the club, but did not seem particularly worried thereover. Seven clubs employees are held for indictment. Stale Earthquake in Portugal. LISBON, Portugal, May 19,—This city and suburbs were shaken by juake shocks early today. |] were under way at the same time. PLAN STRIKE IN ASSOCIATED FUR SHOPS, GOLD SAYS As a warning to those manufac- in the rest of the city outside Brook- | 1’s charter were so current that mem- | bers believed there must be fire where | there is so much smoke. So far as | was “no announcement for the press |now.” Nevertheless President Coe- | field was in conference for most of | the afternoon. Bronx Backs Brooklyn, | action was that in Local 463, repre- charging workers who are not regis-| imous vote expressed its admiration has expelled two well-known mem- sentiment. bers, B, Labenbaum and Reicher &| Sentiment in the Bronx meeting | Raubvogel. Gost ‘ | ran swiftly against the Internaitonal | _ This is the first outward sign of | officials for their willingness to agree the inner revolt which has been seeth-| with the bosses that the strike must ing in the agsociation ever since its | be called off first before negotiations board of directors arbitrarily com-| begin. The formal bargain presented manded the members to discharge all| to Local 1, that the strike be called workers who refused to register. A’ off and the demands arbitrated was large percentage of association firms| regarded as the virtual death of the have utterly disregarded this ruling, | five day week, if accepted. and apparently the directyes think) With the bitter experience in mind that such a threat as this expulsion| of Seattle building trades workers of two important firms will serve as | last week who arbitrated the five day an example to the others and bring | week demand and lost it entirely, the fear to their hearts, | Brooklyn plumbers have determined Many authoritative observers be-\to stick it out until the Building lieve the effect will be just the op-| Trades Employers’ Association is posite, and the expulsion order may | willing to talk reason over that and lead a wide-spread move of resigna-| the $14 scale. tion from the assicated on the part! Local 463 staged an insurrection of of manufacturers who are interested | jts own Wednesday night over the in- |in continuing uninterrupted produc-| junction obtained by union officials | tion and do not wish to interfere in| against the bosses. Members wert turers who refuse to participate ‘in| lyn’ strike, were bringing pressure to | S the fractional union fight by dis- | end the strike, Local 463 by a unan-| about levees, however,” he declared,| Where high tariffs are necessary for sippi River Commission, must be | revised upward. Bank protection by | revetment and groins will also have | banks.” | The Lies of Hoover. | And then as if this observation was | insufficient to prove either his stag- | gering incompetence or his outright | say that it is not true that levees senting plumbers in the Bronx. Spik-| raise the bed of the river and thereby | | ing rumors—and reports published in| necessitate the continual raising of | PToposed that the recommendations he capitalist press—that plumbers| the levees, no, that is not true Mr.|for a lower tariff adopted by the | Hoover says. “The most widespread fallacy “is the assertion that they raise the tered with the International, the! in the splendid fight of Local 1. Not| bed of the river, so that in the Iong| Associated Fur Manufacturers Inc.,| one official dared oppose the mass|/run they will merely result in the | formation of an elevated trough. The | (Continued on Page Two) WORKERS UNITED IN DEMAND FOR ‘Shower Resolutions on | Governor Fuller eral thousand workers braved a steady downpour of rain to partici- |pate in a demonstration arranged - SACCO RELEASE BUFFALO, N. Y., May 19.—Sov-| matters that concern the union only. Planning General Strike. In a letter sent yesterday to all Independent fur shops manufactur- ers, Ben Gold, manager of the Fur- Joint Board is now planning a gen- eral strike in the Associated shops. This is why the leaders of the As- sociated are making every effort to “lure” new members inio their or- |ganization—on the priaciple that misery loves company, says Gold. Gold adds, “the Joint Board sug- gests that you can go.on conducting’ your business and production nor- mally if you will keep out of the As- sociated and continue yout peaceful contractual relations with the Joint Board and its Locals 1, 5, 10 and 15. “The Joint Boaid takes the liberty to suggest to you to keep out of the general strike by refraining from in- terference in the internal union strug- gle. If you keep out of the Asso- ciated, you will keep out of the trouble.” indignant that officials would seek | here by the Sacco-Vanzetti Emerg- to use. the ancient anti-union club in| ¢2¢Y Committee of Buffalo as part of | their own behalf. “A stain of 463," | the campaign to secure “Life and riers’ Joint Board, stated that the | declared one enemy of the injunction, | whether used against labor or for The present injunction, obtaine | from the Bronx court to restrain the bosses from continuing their lock- jout, has been in effect a week with- out one plumber being taken back to! work. Seventy members of the union were instructed yesterday morning to present themselves to as many bosses with copies of the in- | junction, * | The bosses just laughed and told} them to come back Friday, Saturday | or Monday. Of the 45 plumbers who reported back to the union hall, not one had gotten a job out of the in- junction. The slow paralysis of New York's building industry as a result of the plumbing tie-up is becoming appar- | Freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti.” | James Campbell, Secretary of Local 4 of the Molders’ Union and leader jin the local Central Labor Council, | acte@ as chairman of the meeting and} introduced a resolution calling on Governor Fuller to release uncondi-| tionally Sacco and Vanzetti. The resolution which also pledged contin- ued support for this campaign until its purpose its accomplished, was adopted by lusty and prolonged cheer- | ing of the assembled workers, Benjamin Among Speakers Rev. H. J. Hahn, Secretary of the local Sacco-Vanzetti Commission, Herbert Benjamin, Distriet Organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party; Wm. Shainack,, organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Un- ion; David Tullman of the New York ent this week as thousands of car- penters, plasterers and other workers (Continued on Page Five) aa TARA School of Social Research; Eustace tems. The delegations threatened to with- draw unless such assurances were |the International is concerned, there|/to be extended to prevent caving | given. | The Soviet Union's resolution call- jing for the tariff sovereignty for all nations were quashed by Chairman Coljin of the Commerce Commission. |The resolutions had special reference Nearly as dramatic as Local 1’s/dishonesty, Mr. Hoover goes on .to| to China, whose tariff is regulated by | the powers. The Soviet Union delegation alse | Commission be amended so as not to apply to Eastern Colonial peoples, industrial development. Passaic A. F of L, to Hold “Labor Week” PASSAIC, N. J., May 19.—A Labor Week with meetings every day and }evening to further labor’s cause in | this textile city is planned by the Central Trades and Labor Council. | Paul W. Fuller, head of the labor |council’s education program, will be j}in charge. He was formerly educa- tional director in District 2, United |Mine Workers, under John Brophy. he Labor Week, with rallies, mov- jies, entertainment and educational |features, will be held in July. | a ee ' General Motors Gamblers | Clean Up 315 Per Cent Profit in Thirty Months price of $200 a share was paid 1 Motors stock on the k Stock Exchange yester- This is the “goal” set for the about a month ago by the Wail Street pools and “boesters” of a stock which has had a remark- able career as a speculative leader since the early part of 1925. In that year General Motors rose from 55 to 69 and early in 1926, The stock rose to 149, but declined to 110 in the “Big Smesh” in March. After its recovery to around 190 a stock dividend of 50 per cent was declared, and the equivalent market price was around 135, from which valuation the current ad- vance to 200 was put in motion in the latter part of 1926, Including the cash extra divi- dends, therefore, the current valua- tion of General Motors, on the 1925 basis, is approximately $315 a Reynolds, a local attorney; Martin Sperling of the I. W. W. and Italian (Continued on Page Three) share, in advance of 260 points in two and a half yea: Pe i mc See =