The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1927, Page 5

gS THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927 Page Five /ECEPTION IND BALL JANKER PUT HAND IN CITY'S POCKET OR MILLIONS OF TRANSIT PLUNDER Fe RINE SAAN TOR ENS Here was an additional rake van 0 5 ‘he city in the meantime was allow-| ag the Interborough 6 per cent for} HEARING SHO WS | 4 investment. Through the so-called | referential guaranteed earnings pro-| ision under Contracts Nos, 3 and 4,| he city as a matter of fact paid the | Ring Keeps Control By | ompanies this interest, at the maxi! Shady Stock Voting num percentage. Was this all? Not at all! my The gentlemen who put over the By ROBERT MITCHELL : teal for the traction trust. received). The Transit Commission inv estiga- | heir reward. It has already been re- tion of the traction situation opened | ated how Richard Reid Roger, coun-{ its second hearing at 270 Madison | el for the Interborough received the | Ave. yesterday with its star perform- vonus of $50,000 for his part in the | ers on the first part of the bill. ‘rame-up. Theodore P. Shonts, presi-| . The Monday hearing revealed the lent of the Interborough, received two act that perhaps as much as 98% of | ronuses, one of $125,000 and another | the I. R. T. stock is in the hands of of $25, 000, making be handsome total| V!! Street speculators who use their of $150 000 Timothy S. Williams,|P°Wer to elect their non stock owning hen president of the B. R. fe. dummy directors, These directors use feived a bonus of $100,000. "His their offices merely as means of salary, which before the. eteal had | Plundering the company by selling (Continued from Page One) on company. The Interborough had} aid 5% per cent when it had bor- owed the money from this samé anking house. | Generous City! Paisier Overcome When | Courts Actually Award Him Cash for fajuries Peter Kornreich, 30, a painter and decorator of 2137 Fourth Ave., | Astoria, uttered a sharp ery and fell to the floor of the courtroom in a faint yesterday when he heard the verdict o£ $20,000 awatded him by a jury in Queens County. su- preme court, song Islane City Kornreich brought an action for $50,000 against the Gilbur Co., owners of an office building at 501 Seventh avenue, Manhattan. In January, 1926, he fell five floors down an elevator shaft in the building, and received a° fracture of the right leg, a shattered right wrist and internal injuries, he al- leged, when he was ordered to en- ter the shaft to work, by the su- perintendent of the building... No precautions were ‘taken for his safety, Kornreich alleged. Kornreich recovered in an ante- room before an ambulance sur- geon arrived from St. John’s hos- pital, across the street. . He de- clared his faint @vas due to happi- ness at the verdict, and that he Wwas-not in need of medical atten- veen a paltry $30,000 per year, was shereupon increased to $75,000. Shonts, who previously had been try- ing to make ends meet on a mere $50,000 per annum, was promoted to the Yess trying wage of $100,000 an- nually. Nor was this all! Under the contract, the Interbor- ough was allowed $3,000,000 for the! so-called Steinway Tunnel for which the Interborough had neither exact nehise rights nor legal claim of rt. For this pretty piece of y and outright theft thanks is again due to the same George Mc-, Aneny then chairman of the Board of Estimate. As for the B. M. T., as may be ex-| pected, this company was not left out entirely in the cold. First of all there | was allowed it something like $1,000,- | 000 for land used to connect the sub- way and elevated lines at Fifth Ave. | and 36th St., Brooklyn. In addition there were numbers of other" parcels of land not including the contribution of the bonus to the president of the themselves coal, supplies and other materials at exorbitant figures. | While the Monday hearing disclosed the fact that the present traction ving had no interest in providing | transit service to the people, the pro- ceedings yesterday showed that by means of corrupt and undoubtedly i j legal voting of stock which in most cases these speculators no longer owned, they have perpetuated the plunderbund now operating the tran- sit lines. The second disclosure was a_con- firmation of the fact that interests closely associated with the B. M. T. now control the Interborough. The first witness to be called was Thomas L. Chadbourne, senior mem- ber of the firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield and Levy, attorneys for banks, railroads and the Powers that Be in general. Chadbourne came to testify on his own request thereby implying’ a willingness to furnish in- | formation which was immediately be- jlied by his reiterated refusal to re-| ply to pertinent queries as to when 'the traction ring had acquired control concern, Timothy S, Williams, who received the previously stated $100,- 000° together with the (increase “in! salary. Questioning of Chadbourne, which But even these. royal rake-offs| occupied the major portion of the were as small change to the revenue | Short hearing, revealed the fact that | exacted by the Morgan firm. This | as the personal friend of Gerhard | concern which has its long fingers in| Dahl, chairman of the B. M. T. Board | everyone's pockets was not content| of Directors, he owned some 9,800) with the trick of selling mortgage | shares of stock in the Interborough. | bonds worth 100% at an initial profit| His holdings in the B. M. T. total) of 7% as previously stated; it was not| about 7,200 shares or approximately | of the local lines. Big Stockholders. tion, and left for home to tell his wife the good news. cet a graft as to why he had given away so much dope. “Why didn’t you say, we haven’t got the data?” “I tried to,” replied | the much worn out Fisher, “but he | wouldn’t let me!” The Proxy Game. Yesterday by the inquisitive Untermyer. In the few moments he spent on thé stand, | there was disclosed, however the fact {that at the last annual election of the Interborough directors, held on September 8, 1926, there was voted a block of “proxy” votes many thou- sands in excess of the amount in the possession of the directors. The conclusion seemed to be that in addition to voting stock without the knowledge of the owners, perhaps even against their wishes, the Inter- borough directors voted themselves |into powér by means of a falsified trust. How this was accomplished was not disclosed. Significant in this respect was the testimony that the large block. of stock in the. possession of Hayden Stone & Co,, the largest single broker controlling Interborough stock and a company. in association with the B, M. T. did not vote at the September election. No doubt this circumstance will throw some light on the growing indications of an an- tagonism of some sort between the banking groups holding the bonds of: the companies and the non-stock hold- her was less harassed | BEAT BECKERMAN IN OWN LOCAL IN MASS REBELLION ‘All But One of Gang Are Defeated A smashing defeat. Abraham Beckerman, Mussolini of the needle trades, has just been delivered to him by his own local of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union. At the recent election of cfficials of Tocal 4, in the past a tower of strength for the junior ‘edition of Tl Duce, the Beckerman slate went down to an inglorious defeat. When the votes were counted only one Becker- manite was among those elected. The victors are supporters of Philip Olofsky, manager of the Jocal whose policy is that the local should not help to-ativance the personal ambi-' tions of Beckerman. He believes that ; the lotal should pursue a path that will not involve: it in internal strug- gles in the needte trades in the form of a mathine of Suppression of oppos- ing eleménts. According to many peo+ ple, Olofsky is not much different fun- , damentally than Beckerman, eXcept | that he represents a different point of view. for | Among those to go down to defeat lis Martin Seigel, secretary-treasurer of the local for the last 14 's. He was defeated by A. Machlin, suppor- | ter of Olofsky. Henry M. Karno, Beckermahite was | defeated for president by Herman Friedman, an Olofsky man. Of the business agents elected only one is a supporter of Beckerman, He is Joseph Shay. The other two elected are George Stone and M. Strauss. It is explained that Shay was elected in preference to B. Bush, another Beck- ermanite, who is the president of the joint board. Of the 12 members elected to the executive board, seven are supporters of Olofsky and five are independents. The only Beckerman man elected was Joseph Shay. | Wealthy Idler Goes Way of All Flesh MANHASSET, N. Y., May 2 Payne Whitney, millionaire capital: and sportsman, and brether of Harry Payne Whitney, died suddenly at his home here today following a stroke. Payne Whitney was a director or of- ficer in numerous banking and finan- cial institutions. He aiso was.a dire tor of the Westchester Racing Asso- WEDDING SHOWS RUSSIAN FIND ART AT BEST, SAY ADMIRERS OF SHOWING IN N. Y. The splendid production of the Rus-) vious in a clur r as is done of the) in the usual Amer sian tragedy, “The Legend 1 production. Bear’s Wedding,” is now being pro- ve d chy duced by the Art Cinema League, The story itself is most powerful for the. hetiefit of The DAILY) 2nd moving in its action. Rarely can WORKER, has aroused attention in| oe find an audience which is so emo- Be ee; ihe play | tionally stirred as that which wit- : ca of the the field of dramatic is wondérfully cast including some of | the leading members of the Moscow | Art Theatre. Methods employed in| Tickets for this the production are totally different] sale at the local of rom those utilized by American pro-| WORKER, 108 ducers. Effects are produced by the| prices rang most delicate touches and suggestion | afternoons, instead of attempting to show the ob-! and $1.10 on Saturday and Sunday. Plumbers Helpers Furriers Locals Sign. Contract for Meet Tonight to 5-Day Week, $9 Pay Discuss Strike nessed “The Legend Bear's Wedding.” t 14th street, at cents on weekday cents on week nights The Premo Plumbing and Heating) The coming general strike of the| Company, one of. the largest inde-| Furriers’ Union and t vention to be held soon at W D:°C,, pendent contractors: in Brooklyn, has setfled with the Plumbers Helpers’ % sad Union, consenting to all the terms of | the locals affiliated with the joint will be discusse ngs of the union, M, Mason signing for the company and C. E. Miller, president of the union,’ for the helpers. The terms ‘are recognition of the union, five-day week, doublé time for overtime, $9 for first class helpers, $8 ond class helpers and $7 for third class helpers, This is the second contractor that has settled with the union recently. for s The employers are anxiously scout- ing around among the helper: ng to recruit them to take the place of the striking journeymen plumbers. In spite of the tempting wage promise of $12 a day to the helpers who in the past were getting only $4.00 the helpers’ union was able to keep its members from being misled by. the promises of the employers, C. E. Miller, president of the Amer- iean ociation of Plumbers’ Help- ers, clared: “The effort of the Brooklyn employers to hire helpers as strike breakers for the journeymet plumbers will fail as will also their board tonight at 8 p. m | The order of business | first and nal nomi gates for thé Washing Local 1 will meet at Stuyvesant Casino; Local 5 at Manhattan Ly- ceum; Local 10 at Astoria Hall and Loeal 15 at Webster Hall. All members of the furriers’ union are urged to attend these important | meetings. will include of dele- on convention, Working Women to Help N. Y. Bakers The United Council of Working- class Housewives offered its help yes- terday to the striking bakers. of Mes- singer and Pachter. It is hoped that with the aid of this militant organ- ization of women in the different lo- ealities the strike will be won sooner and with full victories for the bakers’ union, Many of the erent councils are already engaged actively in the strike. The United Council of Workingclass effort to bring in strikebreakers to) Housewives offers its help in cooper- break the strike of the plumbers and ating to help in this struggle to the helpers of Brooklyn. fullest extent. Councils No. 8 and “The helpers will realize that the No. 2 are arranging an open air ~ employers in offering the helpers the meeting Thursday evening in the Bronx. Anti-Faseist Workers From Rumania Form Cultural Club Here wages of the journeymen plumbers will do so only during the period of the strike. As soon as the strike is over and an agreement signed with both the journeymen plumbers and the plumbers’ helpers’ unions, those) misled helpers and strikébreakers will hot remain in the trade. satisfied with withholding the money from the Interborough and charging interest for not passing on this money; it too had to receive a bonus and a percentage. In the first place, Morgan received 5% of all money raised through his firm; secondly the firm received a cold cash bonus of $500,000—a clean half million of dollars! The foregoing is something of the picture as it appears to one who| obtains a sort of bird’s eye view of that period when professional ‘hold up artists joined with the more re- spectible financial bandits to form a Plunderbund of unequaled audacity, That their form of plunder was made | “legal” is but another proof that they are essentially social parasites, The testimony already revealed be- fore the present transit hearings in which it was shown that the ring op- erates the subways+ not for service but for plunder is scarcely astonish- ing in the light of the above facts. The original booty captured by this gang just as is the present toll, was under the “preferential” guaranteed earnings provision in the contracts \ charged up and paid for by the city, swms running into the tens of mil- Hidgns. : i te e next article will reveal how this \gang was perpetuated by the appointments of Governor Miller, how it. 4s maintained its hold to the hone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant HCIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere | where all radicals meet, 302 E. 12th St. New York ‘Tel. Orchard 3783 Strictly by Appointment 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor, Eldridge St. Now York Telephone Mott Hi ‘en 0506, ' Dr. Morris Shain SURGEON DENTIST 592 Oak Terrace, Bronx, N. Y. 14ist St. and Crimmins Ave. S & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY FRIGNDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR rakes ing directors. | 10% he entire issue. | | gor nc proved more than aj} Several much seared and decidedly |“tough customer” on the witness | Youthful office managers of the down stand. All questions intended to re-| town brokerage houses then followed | veal the date or the method of build- 0% another in rapid succession. At jing up the traction ring were “re- this stage there was revealed an in- | spectfully declined through advise of | teresting bit of information as to the | counsel as being a delving into my Wall Street methods of controlling | purely private business.” Nor did this | Stocks not actually in their DPosses- | gentleman budge when the chairman | $!0"- The brokers before a meeting of the Transit Commission, John F.|0f the directors of a particular busi- | Gilehrist, under the request of Un-| Mess concern send in the proxies of Jtermyer, the commission attorney,| the whoie amount of stock on record jinstructed him to answer the ques-|in their offices. — \tions. The answer was the same: “I| Any part of this stock may be and decline to answer.” | often is already out of their posses- Terrible Punishment. | Sion due to the fact that other brok- Untermyer hinted at some steps | @'S may in turn have purchased it for to be taken as a result of the refusal! their own “clients.” The first brok- Perhaps he meant to infer that Chad- | €YS, nevertheless, vote the stock quite bourne would be reported to the Grand | 88 if they were actually in posses- | Jury—perhaps he might even be re-. ston of it. : ‘ ported to J. P. Morgan & Co,, the| Chadbourne, earlier in the morning result will undoubtedly be the same | had emphasised the fact with a de- in either case. | cided flourish of virtue that such Following the testimony of the dis-| PYactice is “unethical” and is so con- tinguished democratic __politician,| Sidered in Wall wera The testi- Chadbourne, who is undoubtedly one | ™Ony, however, revealed the reverse, of the leading powers behind the! S° a Wall Street “ethics” is traction swindle, Horace M. Fisher, | Concerned. : was recalled to the stand. * By such a process as this was the co. le session on Monday spilled | Interborough gang of plundering di- the Te ans which have thus far "ectors elected last September and rolled--from, the carefully guarded | bY such devices has the same gang traction table. maintained its power from the begin- On Monday, Fisher was quite put ning. ‘ ‘ | ciation, Whitney was a director of the First National Bank, whose stocks now sell at over $3,000 per $100 share, and the Northern Paper Co., a vice presi- dent of the Whitney Realty Co., and the Northern Finance Corp., and a trustee of the U. S. Trust Co. “We have already signed with two employers, the first employers in this country to sign with plumbers’ help- pers. We are negotiating with sey- eral other employers and will proba- bly come to an agreement in the near future.” Jaeob Stockinger, président of the Master Plumbers’ Assn. of Queens, beat a hasty retreat yesterday from his stand the previous day that 3,000 scabs would be imported into Brook- Locomotive Engineers May Lose Pay Demand Officials for the locomotive engi- neers may compromise their union de- oe ae act bide tee > mands for a 15 per cent Wage increase mae vvgestterpe na i rien ih EM Newspapers, however, continued on eastern roads, it was indicated yes- | terday as negotiations continued in |the Grand Trunk Terminal building. carrying ads for scabs in the Brook- jlyn strike. Office Phone, Orchard 9819. Patronize MANHATTAN'‘LYCEUM Latge Halls With Stage for Meet- ings, Entertainments, Balls, Wea- of some working conditions was hint- | ed as the final outcome. Bronx I. L. D. Hears = dings and Banquets; Gateteria. z Vanzetti Speakers | Susi Mtlig nuome Aiwass © Available. Bronx branch of the International Labor Defense will hold a Saveo-Van- zetti mass meeting Friday at 1347) Boston Road. Mailach Epstein, Carlo! Tresco, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Rebeces | Grecht, Richard -B. Moote, Pat De- vine, and Charles Krumbein are billed ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Rpevial Rates for Labor Organiaa- tons (Ustablished 1887.) out by the cross questioning. On| -——— leaving the stand at the time he was | asked by one of his colleagues in! Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5365; os | For a Rational Combined Vege- tarian Meal Come to Rachil’s Vegetarian Dining ‘Room 215 East Broadway. [st floor. Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF , BS deeois god DENTIST Office Hours: 9:20-12 A, a 5 Dally Bxcept Friday aad Busaaoe 249 KAST 116th STREMT Cor. Second Ave. New York, Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 ‘Phone Stuyv, 10119 Your union, fraternal organization, left wing group and Workers Party Branch at. Webster Hall, 119 East 11th Street. Principal Speaker BISHOP WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN MRS. ROGIN Vegetarian: Restaurant 249 E. 13th St. New York The New Chevrolet w ‘ Admission 75c. A 7% per cent rise with the sacrifice | "Boom Phones, Dry Dock €012, THib 1 ry | to honor the STAR CASINO 107th Street and Park Avenue worker promptly at 11:30 P. M. LOUIS HYMAN will preside. For shareholders in the car 50c, | Auspices: JOINT DEPENSE & RELIEF COMMITTER. The workers from Fascist Roumania living in New York have organized a cultural club for prole- tarian education. The next meeting will be held Sunday, at 2 p. m. at the Workers’ Educational Center, 100 West 28th S All Roumanian speaking workers are invited to help in the work of educating the workers on the basis of ing Room T. station. hin ad- comtades, » May 29, Address: is BP. Heath, c/o Daily Worker, }] Local Office, 108 KB. 14th Street, “The Chinese Revolution” the four-week lecture course by H. M. WICKS at the WORKERS SCHOOL 108 EB 14th St, New York City Starts Tomorrow MAY 37,8 to 10 P. M., in Room 46 Fee for the course Single adn FRIDAY, | ssion 5c. The course will deal With the fol- lowing: Historical. Background; The Imperialist Invasion; The National- iet Moveingpnt; T Role of the Kuo- mintang; The Character of the Chi- nése Revolution; Class Forces tn China; China, the Imperialist Pow- ers and Soviet Russia; The Tasks of the Chinese C. P, Volunteer Bazaar Workers ill be given to a lucky | W A NTED Furnished Sieep- lyn to break the plumbers’ strike. He/ TO GREET RELEASED PRISONERS Toiorrow Auspices Joint Defense and Relief Committee . ‘LEGEND OF BEAR'S - Star Casino British Plan to Gain Concession in Hankow (Continued from Page One) stigate the sum execution of the Union offici Military vles are ce ig on a campaign to return the ¢ to the milita The examination of the fieials was accompanied bj threats of physical violence \clver was placed against temple in an effort to extort nce” from him. During the ar- ts some of the officials were severely beaten, and some of them have not fully recovered, Morozoff, after brutal beatings, was brought, to the pelice station unconscious * * * Soviet cir constant vi- Chinese Party Convenes. (By Imprecor ail Service.) HANKOW, May 14 (By cable to Vienna and mail).—The congress of the inese Communist Party has ended after a strenuous 14 days’ ses- sion. A new Central Committee of 31 members, including two women; 14 substitute members and a Central Control. Committee constituting 7 members and three substitute mem- bers were elected. Comrade Ro representing the Communist I natior congratu- jated the congress on its work. Tele- grams of greeting were sent to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Communist Interna- tinoal. . . . Peasants’ Unions Grow. HANKOW, May 25.—The member- ship. of the peasant unions of Hupeh has leaped from 800,000 in March of this year to 2,200,000, averaging a Caiiy increase of 24,000 members. In most districts the local govern- ment has practically passed into hands of the peasant unions. Ir tain districts peasant conferences cer- have voiced a demand for the con- fircation of large land holdings. Be- ides the problem of land distribu- tion, the arming of the peasantry and the establishment of credit are the most important local problems. Meetings protesting against the ar- rest of Indian revolutionaries by the in Shanghai (nided by Chiang shek, are being held in Wuhan. M. Roy, Indian Communist N. leader, has sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek stating that Indian Nation- alists are rrying on a struggle against Db h perialism, The telegram says: “The arrest of Hindus in Chinese territory by Chinese sol- diérs and the act of handing them over to the British is a gross viola- tion of the Solidarity of oppressed peoples struggling against amper- |ialisp), The Chinese people will hold responsible for those acts of violence the: venegades and traitors to the eause of liberation, the infamous agents of intperialisns” Read The Daily Worker Every Day = oc mrade. c/o Rea- Daily A BUS RIDE FROM FREIHEIT BUILDING Unity Camp (A Workers’ Co-opera- tive Summer Resort) All conveniences. Boat- ing, Swimming, Hiking, Fishing. Concerts and dan¢ing every evening. Excellent food. Very fine educational program for the entire summer. 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