The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1927, Page 3

Protest U.S. Intervention in China--Central O SMITH ORDERED HYLAN KNIFED TO CLEAR WAY FOR HIGHER FARES Governor’s Man McAvoy Whitewashes Transit Commission in Fake Hearings RAND ti Macvaels ated By ROBERT MITCHELL. Nothing so clearly proves A’ 1, Smith’s sell out to the traction trust as the method by which he “dumped” former Mayor John F. Hylan and cleared the decks for the increased fare steal. When| on” offered to give several weeks’ Hylan broke with the ingrained grafters of Tammany Hall, re-| instruction and then assure the stu- fusing for reasons of his own to take further orders from the traction czars, it became the prime duty of Al. Smith to devise a way to remove the obstacle in their path. In 1924, the year when Al. Smith again ran for governor, he} entered into a secret agreement with the traction ring to oust the blatant Hylan and thereafter to do the strict bidding of his masters. On their part the traction barons played both ends} THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927 Charge Trade School Deceived Workers in Promises for Jobs Irving de Bique, a Negro lather, filed charges yesterday against the Union Trade School, 34 West 22d St., charging that he was defrauded out of $35, paid for alleged instruction and a job. Charles Schwartz, 2700 | Bronx Park East, George Benko, 436 \E.' 16th St., and, Moses Wagner, 436 W. 52d St. have also filed charges. All allege that the Union Trade | School, cashing in on the word “uni- {dents jobs. But the jobs never mate- rialized, although the students gave away two weeks’ time to contractors las part of their apprenticeship. The cases will be heard next Tues- day. President Joseph T. Gillen of Bricklayers Local 1 is interested in Page Three NEAR AS LOCALS INDORSE ACTION All Shops to Join Big Demonstration The threatened strike in all shops of the Associated Fur Manufacturers, Ine. was considered yesterday to be not very far off, in view of the unan- imous decision at the Thursday night to respond to the Joint Board’s strike call whenever it is issued. The Furriers’ Joint Board an- the case. nounced a week ago, in a letter sent) jto Independent Manufacturers, that | ‘Golf for Tired Workers | \s Shoe King’s Cure for | Unrest Among Workers | | BINGHAMTON, N. Y., May 27.—| |George F, Johnston, who faces @ re-| peas among his workers in the John-| son-Endicott shoe factories here, has |found a new way to attempt to slave | them. | Golf for tired workers, is his new | slogan. Accordingly Johnson has |bought a strip of land on the edge of jtown and will equip a complete |course, Golf weapons will be sold at jcost to the workers, | The other day the shoe ezar handed | |down a ukase to his employes invit- like things around the factory. A $30 jbonus last Christmas in place of the | usual } $200 slice, poor wages and|take other legal steps against the| petty officiousness have combined to produce a wave of unrest among the thousands of workers he employs. pera House-June J. Queens Lockout on SHIRT MAKERS IN Plumbers Failing as Bosses Open Jobs While Plumbers’ Local 1 yesterday reported no seab jobs in operation and picketing in full swing to meet the threat of Brooklyn ‘bosses, the Queens local declared that the lockout in ef- feet one month was collapsing with hundreds of workers back on the job. Efforts of Queens’ Local 418 to get an injunction compelling the bosses when Judge Mitéhell May denied the application. Officials threatened to | Building Trades Employers’ Associa- tion. REVOLT AS A.C, PERMITS PAY CUT Beckerman Trick Ends in Lower Wages Members of Shirtmakers’ Local | 248, Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union are up in arms against the re- duction in wages that the bosses are meetings of Locals 1, 5, 10, and 15, ine them to “resign” if they didn’t) call off the lockout were fruitless | putting into effect with the assistance of officials of the Amalgamated. The shop chairmen of the local will meet next week when the question of fighting against the wage cut will be taken up. A meeting of the local will ” 4 7 ‘ P Camas ei i it was planning to call a strike of all! “Most of the men in Queens have | elso be held next week to act on the against the middle, lending nominal support to Miller, running . lshops ofthe Association ‘where -the| —_——— gone back to their old jobs within! matter. for re-election on the republican ticket, but at the same time as- 6 Per Cent Is Bait | workers have heen forced to register | the past few days,” declared Presi-! Resignation of the three business | with the reactionary right wing of the | dent Michael J. McGrath. “The big-| agents of the local who are working suring their power by getting behind Al. Smith in his success- ful race against the “Great Gov In 1925, in order to knife Hylan, a fund estimated at some seven or eight ernor”’, Miller. fe had to be done. Accordingly Al. For Moneybags to millions was contributed by Wall|Smith instituted an “investigation.” | junion. The sentiment at the local | meetings this week was strongly in| |favor of such direct action against) |the employers who have interfered in| Gloakmakers Fight For $600,000 Held in gest plumbing concerns in Queens are taking the men back to complete work on buildings in course of construc- | | tion,” in favor of the reduction of wages was demanded by the utive board at ts meeting held V y evening. It is pointed out any people r | | | uni ffairs. They pledged them- Local 418 charges that the bosses |that Alex Cohen, gen: organizer of Street for the purpose. The way Al.|At the head, he placed Judge John! B ild l t {amon ‘strain J ‘ hen, er 0 lV. roy, Si 7 | selves to give full support to the| broke the contract, running until} the Amalgamated, whose duty it is /Smith played the game, though less|V, McAvoy. Al, Smith knew very | ll enemen $ tid whedc Aes <lnekela ee Galae Bia 7 age 6 eta direct, is even more interesting. Agitate Fare Increase. | well that would be the outcome when |he manipulated the forces in this deal. The appointment of McAvoy strike whenever the Joint Board op ready to call it. | Show Solidarity. Unemployment Fund Queens plumbers. The bosses retali- ate that the Queens plumbers should outside of the ier road. He is attempting to bring is taking the eas- Miller in 19: r ‘ | af | The rush of millionaires, bearing ‘ | sep . ir striking broth- . be Neate te a pera potty sd bo everywhere acclaimed. The} untold sums of money to be invested BI dia! ely ye ap ge Legal action is being contemplated oN Aceh Regt dst Ps fi’ Se: wakes ot a ey ue eee j i i y, " ’ y \- 2 “haale Axa 7 | ers yn, 3 ¢ 0 low leve! ~of- tools as members of the newly judge had attained prominence! gt ¢ per cent—to tear dewn New today by the Cloak and Dresmakers' \the terms of the pgreement. created New York State Transit Com- mission. These servants of the com- panies had hardly taken office before they began to carry out the purposes of their masters, Their fixst step was to draw up a so-called “unifica- tion” plan, an important part of which was an estimation of the valua- tion of the traction lines at a figure} so exaggerated that the companies) themselves have since, through their} counsel, Miller, stated that they would not insist on it. The second step of the members of the Transit Commis- sion, sworn to defend the interests of the people, was to begin agitation for an increased fare! The most active exponent of such agitation was Leon T. Harkness, sec-} ond member of the commission and, as previously disclosed, the associate of Abel Blackmar, a director of the Interborough. As early as August, 1921, Harkness began his agitation in behalf of the traction trust. He did not limit himself to New York City in spreading the propaganda. At a meeting of the American Bar Associa- tion held in Cincinnati he read an article before the public utilities sec- tion of that body in which he said: “The question naturally occurs, if most of the cities of the United States have relieved their traction situation by increases in fare, why hasn’t New York done so? Thosé who have ex- amined the situation even superficial- ly have found a sufficient answer in the hostility of the city administra- § hei i factions of Tammany are dstand- . 7, * | career, , Bntertai ts, Ball: > 4 tion. The city has been vigorously |{nei® Pooled revenue to provide. for factions of Tammany are grandstand-|terday by the New York Joint Board Cal] Carpenters to IAS tng, enteralomese. ae | ae and bitterly opposed to an increased| i, PPoPer maintenance of the lines,| img to the oppressed tenement dwel-| in 9 circular distributed to the work-| - 66-68 KE, 4th St. New York, N. ¥, ie py 'Y Opp |Judge McAvoy stated that “the pre-|lers as saviors—at 6 per cent. But a8| ors, “Our turn is coming very soon,” | |Read The Daily Worker Every Day Small Meeting Rooms Always . He failed; however, to point out that in no city in-the country does | tions in 1921, in which the corrupt | Brindell had been brought to “justice” | by the able prosecution of Samuel | Untermyer. (Strange how so many |of these individuals again figure in | one connection or another in the pres~ ent so-called open transit hearings!) He’s Traction Man. But it was not mentioned that this |counsels for the Third Avenue and other railroads. This was the man whom Al. Smith appointed to under- take the impartial investigation! been expected. ) To the charge that the traction trust by means of re-organization schemes and stock selling had robbed the Transit Commission’s tion.” (Page 34.) Yet this same commission was empowered by law to “alter, vary or modify the existing ers. Defends Companies. | charge that the Transit Commission- jers had filed in their duty under the law of compelling the traction companies to deduct 12 per cent from | provisions is in dispute”; through having sat in the famous|York’s slums, failed to materialize Lockwood Building Trades investiga-| | yesterday. | This despite the courageous act fone board of estimate in passi empting limited dividend houst | depicted by the radical cartoonist same Judge McAvoy had for years| sitting on money bags marked $$$$— | been associated with the firm of| lurked in the background, only too |Hoadley, Lauterbach and Johnson, | willing to rush forward at his word to contribute a few hundred millions to the noble work. | But down in the financial distri {philanthropy than |moneybags into housing corporation mortgages. jlions are tied up in 31g jecent money. | Walker hopes that his tax exemp- contracts” with the traction plunder-|tion bill, when passed, will permit: | the tearing down of large sections the east side for model tenements. In awarding his decision to the |The corporations would have to work with the State Housing Board, Al Smith’s form of appeal to the east! | side, | Thus both the Smith and Walker | o¢ cise meaning of the language of these| yet the entire benefit of the new (Page 35.) | legislation has accrued to certain mid- Mayor Jimmie Walker's pet bill ex- corporations from taxation. But the best dressed mayor hinted darkly that | figures—the sorts of persons usually | possessing a huge “corporation” and | the sharp boys who watch the ticker The results were as might have | tape speculated that there was less good _ business sense in the reported rush of the limited dividend For the public of millions, Commissioner |6 per cent, the amount usually set in McAvoy calmly answered that these| the limited dividend housing, is a} “svere not matters which fell within | rattling good return on Wall ‘St. now- jurisdic-|adays for idle money. In fact, bil- and 4 per | page in both the Independent and the| | Fur Trimming Manufacturers’ Shops, | of | 8° that the entire trade should be at | a standstill for 24 hours in demonstra- NE |tion of the Joint Board’s solid back-| ling by the workers. | | ‘Instructions to the Joint Board to | call such a stoppage were made unan- | imous by the local members, for they | wanted to have some such public showing of solidarity, and of united opposition to the forces in the Inter- national and the A. F, of L. who are} trying to smash the unfon. | Such a stoppage, however, will be} merely a demonstration so far as the Independent and Fur Trimming shops are concerned, and the workers will return immediately on the day after} it is called. A strike will then follow only in those shops which have vio- lated the agreement signed with the | Joint Board and have forced registra- tion with the International. Elect Delegates. At Thursday night’s meeting dele- gates were nominated for the conven-| tion called by the International—or by whoever it is that runs the Interna- tional nowadays—to be held in the headquarters of the American Feder- | ation of Labor in Washington on of June 13. An Elections and Objections | Committee has been named and fol- | lowing elections next week the names | of all who accepted nomination will be announced. The general strike of the members| Newark Local 25 was greeted yes-| ing as et, | says the leaflet. “The New York fur workers will in the very near future | Joint Board to recover the $600, unemployment insurance fund. This money rightfully belongs to the workers and is now in the hands of Morris Sigman. This the result of a motion passed at the shop chairmen’s meet- ing Thursday evening at Cooper Union authorizing the officials of the joint board “to take any step or ac-} tion which they may deem necessary for the purpose of safeguarding, col- lecting and insuring our rights to the funds due us.” Toll Bridge is Plan to Connect Boroughs That America is slipping back into the 19th century so far as bridge con- struction is concerned was admitted in the board of estimate yesterday fol- lowing the appropriation of $150,000 to investigate the tri-borough bridge project. The new bridge would connect the Hudson vehicular tunnel. City officials declare the bridge is issues. Brownsville Meeting ‘The carpenters and Machine Work- | Justice May sided completely with {the employers in his decision on the injunction, holding that they were en- titled to lock out plumnbers in other | boroughs while the Brooklyn strike | for $14 day and the five-day week is lon. The Brooklyn local has compro- | mised its $14 demand to $13.20, but | stands firm on the five-day week. | —$ ‘Roosevelt and Bryan | Radicals Like Sacco | Berger Tells Fuller | BOSTON, May 27.—Congressman | Victor Berger, of Wisconsin, only so- \cialist member of congress, today {called upon Governor Alvan T. Fuller and urged him to free Nicola Sacco ;and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who are | awaiting execution for murder. | Congressman Berger told Gover- nor Fuller that he had an opportun- ity in this case to render as famous | decision as did Governor John P. Alt- | gold, of Illinois, who pardoned num- | Bronx, Manhattan and Queens, butjerous radicals implicated in a bomb | would be paid for by tolls on all users, | throwing which occurred in Chicago, |as at Bear Mountain, the Staten Is-|in 1896. |land-New Jersey structure and the} | Congressman Berger said he be- | lieved that the two men were “fram- | |ed” and that they were absolutely in- | ~ | badly needed, but that the debt lim- | nocent. They were convicted, he said, | it has nearly been reached for bond | because they were radicals. Roosevelt was a “radical” in 1912, Berger said, as was Bryan at times during his FOOD WORKERS {town workers instead of fighting to raise the wage level in the rest of the |country to that of New York before |the recent reductions were started. 2,000 Suffer Cuts. | Of the 6,000 shirt makers who be- |long to the local, 2,000 already had {had their wages reduced to prevent |the other 4,000 following suit, the | present revolt against Cohen’s policy jis manifesting itself among the workers, Cohen was expelled from the Amal- gamated three years ago, charged | with misappropriating $10,000 of the | union’s funds on charges brot against |him by Joseph Scholessberg. Two {years ago he was reinstated in the ~. union and given the position of gen- eral organizer of the shirt division. Bring Back Piece Work. Twenty-two men’s clothing shops are now running on the piece work system in this city as a result of the policies of the Amalgamated. Only jlast week 14 workers employed by Solomon and Goldstein, Pitkin Ave- nue, Brooklyn, were discharged be- cause, according to the boss, “they were too old,” and unable to work at the speed that the union-boss past | requires, Booth Phones, Dry Dock 6612, 7846, Office Phone, Orchard 9819. Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM Large Halls With Stage for eet- Availabie, : ov n dispu fo 35.) | exis as acerusd to « chyean } AMALGAMATED ie companies had permitted their | dle class and well salaried people out) gojjow the le of thei | equipment to deteriorate to a condi-|in the Sunnyside district of Long Is- | in Navatk, Bo ready: New Sie oe | tion endangering the lives of the pub- | land. | workers!” i lic. As an example the B.-M.T. ele-| OO | vated lines in some places had »e- Laborer Engulfe d in come so unsafe that they were a the public bear the major portion of the burden of traction operation; nor did he point out that no city is to be compared for huge traffic volume with New York. His business, it is clear, was not to be fair or accurate | Bakers’ Loc. No. 164 | Meets Ist Saturday in the month at | 3468 Third Avenue, }) Y. ‘s Club will hold a metting Sunday | afternoon at 1 p. m. at Brownsville | PEG | Labor Lyceum, 219 Saekman street, | “Denies” Bribes. |to discuss the wretched conditions of | The Consolidated Rabbit Dressing | the trade. Long hours and wretched | | Corp. whose president tried to bribe | | Airy, Large ida A Bronx, N. Ask for Union Label Bread. Meeting Rooms and Hall TO HIRE | menace. | pay are causing a crisis, the sponsors | but-merely to carry on the agitation for an increase. In fact, a wreck resulting tin the loss of life was pointed out in |the charges. Here is Judge McAvoy’s Sewer Excavation leaders of the Newark local, and who | was overheard in this transaction by | | declare. || Suitable for Meetings, Lectures | and Dances in the i In order to carry out further the) ).5).. Anthony Bach, 28, of 380 West 12th | Several merbers of the locals, yester- | ! 1 Advertise your union meetings || . | ends of Ris masters and to defeat | Wit’ is oroneous to say that the| St» Manhattan, a laborer, was buried day gave out an “unqualified denial” tae ten here. For information write to Czechoslovak only: his unprincipled political cun-|#% Was intended in a whitewash for | nined by the rains. | Come to is M ja Your union, fraternal organization, left M | ning, but his utter disregard for the| the Transit Commission. By this Scientific Vegetarian ||’ Sat. Eve. May 28th m wing group and Workers Party Branch } . public welfare which he had sworn to|™eans did the obedient Al Smith car-|(Tione stuyvesant 9816 | at iti s Pp r uphold. ry out the orders of the traction trust. Restaurant | CARNEGIE HALL |). SES \ Hylan, this faker in 1925 together with his colleagues in graft on the Transit Commission, issued a public statement on January 14, 1925, en- dorsing the 5 cent fare! Smith Uncovers Hand. The struggle between the traction ring and the stubborn city adminis- tration came to a climax in the Me- Avoy investigation of 1924-1925. It was here that Al. Smith revealed not Hylan had brought charges against fakers ‘on the Transit Commis- . Among other things, these tools ¢ traction ring had failed to com- he companies to put on, added s provided by law; they had i the equipment and struc- remain in unsafe condition; failed to compel the com- make proper deductions from thei earnings for maintenance, ete, To meet the situation something structure of any of the elevated rail- roads in Brooklyn was found . .:. to be ‘unsafe.’ The converse is the fact. It would indeed be surprising if struc- tures which have born their burden for so many years had been found to be unsafe for use,” (Page 31.) Can you beat it! 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There will be presented “T W.aeL VE" Words by A. Bloch.—Music and conducted by Jacob Shaffer With the accompaniment of the New York Symphony Orchestra The soloists that will take part in “Twelve,” and other solos Bt SERGI RADOMSKY—Tenor of the Russian Opera, I. GOLLANT-—Baritone of the Moscow “HABIMA.” RED POETS’ NITE will be celebrated ENING, JUNE 9 the present will be , il Langston Hughes Countee Cullen Benefit of The DAILY WORKER, Th eae rer cere menteeeyee ttt cateuneesners Street and 2nd Avenue) | | The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 83 First St., New York City. Workers House, Inc, 347 E. 72nd St. New York Telephone: Rhinelander 5097. BGO@Se Ss i Gee & @ i UNIONPORT, Music by Plumbers’ Game Proceeds for the Striking and Subway Bronx Train to 177th St., DONT LET YOUR ORGANIZATION FORGET The DAILY WORKER CONFERENCE on Friday Evening, June 3rd, at 8 P. M., at Webster Hall, 119 East llth Street. | Principal Speaker BISHOP WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN Help the Plumbers’ Helpers Win Their Strike GRAND PICNIC SUNDAY, JULY 10th, 1927, from 10 A. M, to 12 P. M. At PLEASANT BAY PARK Sports and Games for Young and Old,—Added Attraction: Baseball Featuring Plumbers’ Helpers Team. Auspices; AMERICAN, ASSOCIATION OF PLUMBERS’ HELPERS. seth Gt. Crosstown Car to Unionport. BRONX, N. Y. Helpers Jazz Band. Locked-out Plumbers’ Helpers. Bast Side—Tuke Lexington Ave, then 180th Crosstown to, Unionport,