The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1927, Page 3

LAUNDRY OWNERS ASKED TO RENEW UNION CONTRACT Strike Probable June 1 If Bosses Refuse New York may be in the grip of a city-wide laundry workers’ strike on June 1. This possibility, while deprecated by union officials yesterday, results from a demand for the renewal of the present contract, which expires on that date. Seventeen hundred hand and steam laundries have been noti- fied, according to Secretary Joseph Mackey. Laundry owners will hold a mass meeting Sunday at 2 p. m., at Har- lem Casino, Lenox Ave. and 116th St., to consider the union’s demands. A peaceful settlement hinges on the attitude taken by the bosses at that meeting. Owners of hand laundries were meeting a crisis from another quar- ter with the filing of charges with Attorney General Ottinger that they were operating a monopoly in re- straint of trade, The Manhattan and Bronx Laundry Owners Assn., and the New York Hand Laundrymen’s | Assn., are involved in the charges, filed by a laundryman, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927 Page Thres . . ‘| Offer Sharkey $150,000 | to Throw Decision to ‘| Maloney, Board Told Jack, Sharkey, Boston boxer, told members of the New York State Athletic Commission yesterday aft- ernoon that the report was true that a $160,000 bribe had been of- fered his manager, Johnny Buck- ley, if Sharkey would “throw his fight tonight with Jimmy Maloney. A stranger approached Buckley last night with the proposition, both Sharkey and Buckley told Commissioners William Muldoon and James Farley. The stranger was promptly ejected, they said. Regarding purported _ stories written by Sharkey by newspapers telling of the bribery incident and incidentally commenting facetious- ly on the boxing commission, Shar- || key explained that he had signed |] a blank paper and did not write these stories, himself. He also declared that the bribery attempt had been related “in con- fidence” to a newspaperman and he was greatly surprised when it be- eame public. ‘Smith Using Transit ‘Hearings to Push Race (Continued from Page One) lwas: “Boys, I can do nothing. The Governor is behind it.” Thus was The hand laundries in reality do | little or none of their laundering, fe numme ep cn bd agra eet Nationalist Turkey Breaks Foes’ Iron Ring SCAB'S WORD IS TAKEN AS TRUTH; FURRIER SUFFERS: “Let ‘Em Starve” Jailer | of Nine Told The court of Special Sessions yes- | {terday refused to change the six months’ sentence of Oscar Mileaf who was convicted on a charge of dis-| orderly conduct made by a right wing} |seab who aid he had “threatened | with assault.” i | | The unjust conviction and sen-| tence were upheld, and Mileaf must | serve the balance of the six months. | There was no witness against him | jexcept the man who made the com-| plaint; yet on this flimsy charge he| is held in the workhouse on Welfare | \Island, If it were not for this frame- | up, he would now be released on bail | with the others who left Mineola} Thursday. ‘ | The proprietor of a restaurant at} Mineola who was supplying food to the men in jail ever since their con-| vietion three weeks ago gave the Joint Board yesterday a graphic ex- ample of the attitude of the Inter- Anti Saloon League Joseph Clark Grew, Secretary of State, who is expect- ed to go to Turkey as ambassador, a post which has not had an in- cumbent for ten years. Under national officials toward these active | |union men whom they framed-up. The restaurant keeper had heard | |that the men were to be released on | Wednesday and he did not know, whether or not he should prepare | Demands Control of ‘Notorious Gangster ~ In Court on Charge OF Shooting Picket | “Little Augie,” the gangster so well |known to pickets during the cloak | strike last summer, was brought to court yesterday on a charge of shoot- | 22 jing Samuel Landman in front of | West 26th Street last July. The case is being heard by Judge | Mancuso in General Sessions. In ad- dition to producing 6 witnesses who | declared “Augie”--whose real name lis Jacob Organ (sic)—was at home |at the time he shot Landman, the | gangster also defends himself by de- \claring that he was not a hired agent lof the employers but a respectable | manufacturer, none other than a part- {ner of Klopt & Gold, at the West | 26th Street address. | « Landman, the complainant, testified | that he was shot in the back but did | not see who attacked him, David Wit- | |rack, another strike picket, identified i“Augie” as the gunman, and stated |that he fired with a black-handled | pistol. At Cloak Shops || Give Sinclair Three Months for Contempt, But He May Not Serve WASHINGTON, May 20.—Har- ry F. Sinclair, multi-millionaire oil magnet, was sentenced today to three months imprisonment in fed- era] prison for contempt of the United States Senate. He also was fined $500, Sentence was pronounced by Justice Hitz in District Supreme Court before whom the oil magnate was tried and convicted some weeks ago of refusing to answer questions propounded to him dur- ing the Senate’s investigation of his lease of the Teapot Dome Re- serve, notorious because of charges ale bripery of U. 8S, Cabi- ever, will not begin to serve his sentence, as his at- torneys have appealed the convic- tion to higher courts, and will eventually take it to the Supreme necessary. Court if Liberals Protest | Reign of Terror in TRANSIT OUTFIT BALKY ON PROBE BY SMITH'S MAN \Flying Sparks Expected | in Gov.-Mayor Fight | By WILL DE KALB. Open defiance of the transit com mission, and # distinctly hos t | titude toward the transit inquir ‘he manifested by the interests in con- trol of the B. M. T.. it was indicated in a note made public yesterday by the corporation. When the transit inquiry, which begins on Monday it is understood, off als of the tran- jsit companies on trial will be: in- structed to openly defy Samuel Un- termyer, counsel for the commission, when he calls them to the stand. Untermyer may have to resort to court action sree officials of the transit comp: s to testify at the hearings. Yesterday, the B. M. T. definitely maintained that inasmuch as it is a nd not holding company a trans- portation corporation, i beyond the jurisdiction of the Transit Com mission and the investigation it is about to conduct. This, students of the transit pro- blem point out, may result in the fur- ther the situation, Pilsudski's Poland Polish complication of A -stisring appeal to the the blanketing off the probe, and the presidential bee now bit Al Smith | is claimed, but send the family wash | ree food as usual. He tried to reach the, "pgs . 8: HM Be oe } ‘ strengthening of the hold of the th one at the tate Bip slog laundries |r * spout rae meee union by telephone, and by mistake Prohibition Offices | Workers who want a peg | po nment Sie soup of Herel acels mambemuian: inn, tea rigs ciaee operated by the association. The | 4, seat aauiahees dace of his rely | S38 connected with the scab Inter- ae ae ie * tae irri wads \oalitical ValuAGte AH Spaebotal er The possibility of transit re- little laundries d 1 thi ii ‘. . ie. Ww oan en! ar y n: 4 on Street. "4 he) ~ | Makers on oard nm 30 . 1S an ors i a li k " a r t ’ th : Sy at dapaas tants different light on the whole political AsHinneh Oe ETE. Stren senen, be iS | morning with the pickets of the Metro | rights in this country and begging r ak Wascehhd Giana? Webmin The little’ hand laundries control the association through $100 shares. Recently they subscribed $100 each for the erection of the new Giant Laundry on West 116th St. Plumbers’ Helpers Out, Altho Lockout Ends (Continued from Page One) plumbers locals of greater New York and the united action on the part of all building trade unions will be able to combat this monster alliance cf the bosses and the union bureaucrats. We must demand, on the floors of our local unions, the immediate organiza- tion of a Joint Council of the three plumbers locals of Greater New York. In Manhattan and the Bronk the lockout was officially called off. There is no guarantee, however, that unoffi- cially the bosses will not suspend work by discharging workers here and there, and in this way get around the injunetion. ‘The bosses can be fought only by the.mass power of the work- ers thru strikes and picketing. By going to court the officials of local 463 have given up the power of strike which is the only real power of a trade union, and thereby have given up the opportunity to help the Brook- lyn plumbers by joining them in the fight for the $14-day and 5-day week. Unite the Locals. Such occurrences can be prevented only by. uniting the three ptumbers’ locals of Greater New York. Brothers! The fight in Manhattan and Bronx is not finished. We must demand of the bosses full compénsa- tion of all losses caused to the work- ers by the lockout. We must demand full pay for the time we were out. Action against the Employers’ Asso- ci@tion on this matter must be taken inmediately. Brothers! The fight in Manhattan | and Byonx is not finished so. long ag the Helpers Union is not recognized. The helpers are still on strike. We are union men and will not betray our younger brothers by working with) seab helpers. Brothers! Wake up! Learn the les- son of the present struggle! Resist ull the attacks of the bosses and those who play their hand: Demand: Unity of all three plum- bers locals. Hands off Local One. Full support to the Brooklyn plum- bers. Three weeks back pay to the Manhattan and Bronx plumbers, who were locked out. Union helpers on all jobs. In a letter sent last night from a meeting of the American Association of Plumbers Helpers, held in Ace Wall, 182 Claremont Hall, Brooklyn, thé, master plumbers of New York and traction deal. Al was shrewd) \enough to realize that he would have} |to secure the backing of Wall Street before the traction deal was put over. | Otherwise he might face the prospect | of being “dumped” at the proper mom- asked “shall I send food in to the boys today?” the reply from Inter- . national headquarters was: WASHINGTON, May 20.—Official | "#8 been declared on strike Let Them Starve. announcement of the resignation of | Sult of the activities of the o “No don’t send them any food; let |General Lincoln C, Andrews, assistant | af the International Ladies Garment them starve there. Let them all die | secretary of the treasury, since April; Workers’ Union, in their cells.” |1, 1925, has headed Federal Prohibi-! This firm, some time ago, moved BULLETIN. | Dress shop, 806 West 37th St., which ent even as better and more honest grafters before him had been given | the gate. } But at this turn. in events Wall) Street jumped over the traces com-| pletely! | Citizens of this much besmirched | metropolis will recall, no doubt, now | with clear insight, a series of con- | ferences held between John Delaney, \chairman of Walker’s transportation board and the representatives of the traction interests in which a complete and rosy “unification” plan was worked out and agreed to by both sides. The traction moguls had aban- | |doned Al for the more congenial Jimmie but the course of their new} love was to run no smoother. | .» Al Answers Bosses. | The present transit investigation | {dodge is Al Smith’s answer to the |move on the part of the traction in- terests in eloping with the already discredited Jimmie Walker. It will! be recalled that almost immediately |after Jimmie Walker’s new “unifica- tion” plan was announced last autumn | and had been “accepted” by the trac- tion companies, the New York state transit commission announced its own |plan, vetoed the Walker project and \ began an “investigation” of the whole situation, In the next article will be ex- plained the meaning of the threats | of “stock manipulation disclosures” | which are being held over the heads | of the traction companies, the edi- | torials in the New York World warn- ing Al Smith and Samuel Untermyer, the connections between the traction commissioners and the Smith maneu- ver, the appointment of former Gov-| ernor Nathan Miller, this most un-!| labashed tool of the traction trust to the defence of his bosses in the com- ing hearing. : One thing must here be empha-} sized at all costs: The people of New York must not fall into the illusion of believing that becatse Al Smith and the traction barons are for the moment at odds that therefore the 10e fare steal will be prevented from going over. Peace Will Come. At the right moment their tempor- ary antagonisms will be reconciled. Al Smith will be taken back to the bosom of his masters and the people will most surely be sold out! And this is the gang whom the citizens of New York state unwitt- ingly permit year in, year out to re- junion rules and work on Saturdays; |tion act of Congress, be made virtually |permitted by the agreement recently | tained in a resolution of its executive | 702 Bros. jday morning in Jefferson Market | ‘his is the 4 ot tion enforcement, was made late today | fo new premises and attempted to ak gla a Magda a ak aoe {by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, discharge its workers. The shop was fur market a leaflet, signed by H.| Seymour Lowman, former Lieut. culled on strike and refused all at- Schlissel, manager, denouncing the | Governor of New York, was appoint- | tempts made to settle it. Finally; Joint Board for its “betrayal of the ed/to sueceed Andrew, who has been | when the height of the Season ar~| workers.” The amusing part of this | under fire from the Anti-Saloon, rived, it settled with the Joint Board | “warning to the fur workers,” is that | League, ‘and took back its workers. j the International officials “threaten” | Then the International began ap-| to stop Saturday work. They should; WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20.— | proaching the boss with ier of a rather have said “promise” to stop|The Anti-Salon League today deliv- | new set of workers it they would sign Saturday work for it is they, the | ered 'to President Coolidge and Secre- | with them, and finally on pack dingy right wingers, who have been per-| tary Mellon a demand that the new | the shop locked out its workers this itti ‘ . i . iza-| Past week, and the shop has been mitting their followers to break the | dry regime set up by the reorganiza | called on ateike bp the Joint Board, Picketing is being conducted regular- ly. it is they who have been attempting | an independent arm of the govern- to break down the forty hour week, | ment. gained by, the workers after a long) and bitter struggle. The overtime Snub Distiller Mellon. Caron Bros. Struck. . o ¥, Another shop now-on strike is Ca- The League’s pronouncement, con! 47 West 38th St. where signed se the fur trimming i oing | Sommittee, reminded Mr, Coolidge and | Patt of the shop has registered with ciation al pws overtime only on ive| Mr. Mellon that the act was pased the International. MS oe ene days of the week—not on Saturdays lwith “the unmistakable understand-| boss sent down one girl who oe Nos at any time. ing” that the new commissioner of | registered. The entire shop, inc posi Official Bouncer on Hand. | prohibition “would be entirely free the registered bag ae wilaaey Du ben Announcement was made in the|and unhampered in the performance | #"d went to the International or Pe capitalist press yesterday that “the | of his duties.” peepee A Peper ponicaieterbeee i union” had named delegates fto the} While the prohibition chiefs refused ect preabia glory not only the one dis- | convention at the meetings called in| to amplify their statement, it was de- | harged girl, but 19 others who had the Rand School on Thursday night. |clared to be tantamount to an open | vot csi rhe as must leave the shop. | It is reliably reported that before declaration that the new commissioner fe : this meeting began, a burly individ- | must Be independent of the dictation | 2 S ual came out of the building and an- of Mr. Mellon and Lincoln C. Andrews, | strike and picketing to prevent the in- heer “T am the BE osxin bouncer | supreme dry bureau chief, to satisfy | troduction of scabs. | 0! is meeting. ose who met them. j with the bouncer’s’ O. K. then went | Money For Politics. : ks 7 . - | $450, a year, Me: le said. e mittee give an Nig Sees speech | special campaign will aim to increase a ey iis Bo sgh gstain aun | to $750,000 a year unfll after the 1928 i elections. i held in this same hall on present to hear this novel address. ee Cie Be or is {ead ger ig r4 Poseaiiag | BS 3 4 Ma bd _ |League, meeting behind closed doors | ¥ | vee fur workers arrested “on here, affirmed the main goal of the! Wednesday for defending themselves | organization—to prevent the nomina- | against an attack launched by Inter- | tion of a wet candidate for president, national scabs were arraigned yester-| end to prevent any tinkering with the | dry law in the platforms of the two major parties. / “Look Out Al.” | “This means,” said a formal state- ment from the executive committee, Registered workers, from shops of the Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc., will meet on Monday right after work at Manhattan Lyceum, A meeting of all shop chairmen | Newark Attention! MAY DANCE TONIGHT 8 P. M. Court and held for further examina- tion next Wednesday, May 25. * pale Trimmers Gaining. Sa re- | officials | Last Monday,, the | According to a report published yesterday in Women’s Wear Daily, 8 new firms joined the Fur Trimming Manufacturers’ Association, Inc., at its meeting on Wednesday evening. Three of these were said to be for- mer members of the Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc. the trimming m@n, Maurice L, Stein- ig, refused to announce the names of the firms involved. Four nominees for impartial chair- man have been agreed upon by the The president of | “that a strenuous campaign will be waged against Gov. Al Smith, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Gov. Ritchie ‘and Senator Reed of Missouri, and {any other candidate who does not | stand square on prohibition.” | While the League heads were meet- jing, Senator David I. Walsh (D) of Massachusetts, issued a statement severely arraigning the organization. New Montgomery Hall (Montgomery & Prince St.) ADMISSION. 50c. International Labor . Auspices: Defense, Local Newark. BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY | for their restoration was received yesterday by Jan Ciechanow Po- lish minister to the United States. The revelations are made by a group of Americans including Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Clarence Dar- row, Sherwood Eddy, Felix Frank- furter, Norman Hapgood, David Starr Jordan, William Allen White, Paul U. Kellogg, and 38 others, or- ganized under the name of the Inter- national Committee for Political | Prisoners. Six thousand individials, accord- ing to this committee, are imprison- ed in Poland today for political rea- sons, and wholesale brutality and torture are visited upon them by the authorities. Many detailed cases ar cited. Civil liberties have been vir- tually wiped out under the Polish republic. As evidence it is stated that 267 out of 287 eastern orthodox churches in one province have been suppressed; and that 80 per cent of the issues of some anti-administration newspapers have been suppressed. The forceful abolition of minority parties, labor unions, and political clubs is also found to be of common occur- rence. @ Surprised as he lay asleep in his hotel room, Harry Vislinitzer, 20, was arrested yesterday for the mur- der of Detective Morris Borkin. V linitzer confessed the killing, accord These twenty workers are now on|ing-to Detective Captain John J.! Ryan, Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Houre: 9:30-12 A. M. 3-8 P.M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Bakers’ Loc. No. 164 Meets Ist Saturday in the month at 8468 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. Ask for Union Label Bread, Advertise your union meetings heré. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 33 First St., New York City. situation becomes more complicated, it is said. In a statement to the press, Sam- juel Untermyer denounced the pre- sent attitude of the companies as “in- defensible,” and expressed an inten- tion to continue hammering the B. M. T. and the I. R. T. until he has hung them by the heels. However, it is intimated that Untermyer will not pursue this extreme policy after he has been “talked to” by repre- sentatives of the transit companies. LINDBERGH OFF ON LONE FLIGHT Charles Lindbergh was over the At- lantic last night, headed toward Paris at the rate of 120 miles an hour. He took off in his non-stop flight at 7.61 yesterday morning and headed up the Atlantic coast following the Great Circle, All day long bulletins came in tell- ing of sighting him further and fur- ther to the northeast. “He has passed Boston,” “He has yassed Halifax,” “He has passed Rome Island,” “He has passed Fortune,” the bulletins read. All said he was fly- ing low and traveling fact. Ramea Island and Fortune are in Newfoundland. He passed Fortune at |4.55 o’clock, Atlantic daylight time, just thicty minutes after passing Ramea Island, sixty miles back. Then he headed out toward the At- lantic, where stindown caught him and is still going in the dark. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Booth Phones, Dry Dock 6612, 7846, Office Phone, Orchard 9319. Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM Large Halls With Stage for Meet- ings, Entertainments, Balls, Wed- dings and Banquets; jeteria, 66-68 Ki. 4th St. New York, N. ¥, Small Meeting Rooms Always Available. Large Meeting Rooms and Hall TO HIRE Suitable for Meetings, Lectures and Dances in the Czechoslovak Workers House, Inc. 347 E. 72nd St. New York Rhinelander 5097, Telephone: 1 City\were informed that the helpers Joint Board Furriers’ Union and the FRI.})DS OF ORGANIZED LABOR f ald bai on strike until main in power. This is the Al Smith|Fur Trimming Manufacturers, Inc., Sanaa ands granted, gthink M alla of whom even such blind bat liber-| under their new agreement, go it was ZN Med Ne MRS. ROGIN AMALGAMATED “POWER PLANT AND BUILDING MAINTEN- the Manhattan lock-out is ended or |#!8 a8 sp igones apt arr ieyscmpe Lei Waapitrng aan Paral Come to ° ANCE WORKERS UNION—Local 1, A. P. 8S. W. U. ate ‘ peans of eulogy, extolling him as the/have not been made public, and un-// Scientific Vegetarian Vegetarian Restai SUNDA PN z hope of the workingman. The New |til the men suggested have been con- | urant U Y, MAY 22nd, 1927 Trrespective of the return to work yore World is the paper for which vi Restaurant ‘ i f Il of the New York men, the 4000 help- ers are going to stick. There letter \ says, “Gentlemen: This is to inform jyou that the Plumbers’ Helpers in your employ are on strike and will rontinue to fight for their demands, ‘We are ready now, as at all times, to meet your body or any committee that you may designate for such purpose, to negotiate for our demands. We wish to call your attention to the fact that there is no other organization representing th@ striking plumbers helpers.” (signed) American Association of Plumbers Helpers, C. E. Miller, pres- ident, i The attitude of the, plumbers help- ers in this situation was also teak known to Thomas Burke, secretary of the plumbers’ union, in a communica- tidn sent by the 1700 helpers who at- tended last night’s meeting. Isaac Levy, 65, was found’ yester- in an overflowing bathtub in his lyn home. 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