The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1927 AT THE CLOAKMAKERS’ DEMONSTRATION Page Two THE LABOR BUREAUCRACY MEETS POLITICAL DISASTER | FEAR FULLER MAY EVADE SACCO-VANZETTI ISSUE; (Continued from Page One) It is hardly an accident that within a period of a few days the capitalist sponsor of the “I 3. and O.” plan and the official machinery of the Watson-Parker law follow the same line— a line which indicates infallibly the imminence of a new drive against the labor movement an Nor is it an accident tha with the increasing internatio d the working cla t these developments coincide nal tension and the threat of new bloody imperialist conflicts. : The 25 per cent drop in the filing of permits in the build- ing industry (one of the impo rtant bases of American pros- perity) the terrific competitive struggle in the automobile industry, the spotty character , point in the same direction, i. r of steel production, etc., all >, that the American working- * class faces a period of new struggles. Our party must prepare to made upon it and to fulfill its meet the demands that will be responsibility to the masses. It must realize to the fullest extent the basic importance of the fact that the concrete evidence already at hand as to the real purpose behind the el employer co-operation scheme: stitutes a major political defez cracy and their socialist allies. aborate campaign for worker- and “e iency unionism” con- at for the trade union bureau- The left wing in the trade unions.must be encouraged and stimulated with renewed organizationally and given pol able it, without any neglect of the ers, to make clear to the mas energy, it must be broadened itical direction which will en- ly struggle of the work- the direct connection between the signs of a new offensive against them and the danger of a new imperialist war. Now is the time to strike telling blows at the reactionary leadership of the labor movemer nt whose advocacy of the work- er-employer co-operation doctrine, drive against militant trade unionism and propaganda and expulsion campaigns against the Communists and the left wing have left the labor move- ment in such a weakened condition that the capitalists, seem- ingly without anxiety as to the outcome, have thrown a chal- lenge to the whole American workingclass and its living stand- ards Anna Shapiro, Ladies’ Garment Worker, being carried off unconscious after she was slugged by right wing also contain an editorial Right wingers standing at the left of the photo gloating | ‘he two defendants. gangsters in front of the old Joint E | over their work, Defense Committee Arranges Biggest | Concert of Season There are only weeks left to pre- |pare for the biggest concert of the }season and New York workers will have the opportunity of participating |in the biggest reunion of the year. The Stadium Concert has been ar- ranged to realize funds for the ar. | vested cloakmakers and furriers, vic- tims of the struggle with the traitors and gangsters ahd to support the Furriers Strike. Borodine’s famous) Igor,” will be produced by ONE MORE WEEK NEWS FROM NEW JERSEY tie internsticnaily known ballet mace, fee ter, Alexis Kosloff with his famous | TO GET IN ON TRIP TO RUSSIA Upon cable instruction from the U. S. S. R. Society for Cultural Re- | lations with Foreign Countries, July ist has been set as the closing date for acceptance of applications for the tour to Soviet Russia which leaves New York July 14th under the man- agement of World Tourists, Inc., of 41 Union Square. After July 1st, it will be impossible to add to the party because the Rus- s committee which is taking ge of all details of the tour while in Leningrad and Moscow will be un- While “te ~aewVinodate more than a prearranged limited number. Best Way To Visit Russia. This is to be the only tour to Rus- sia this season, and because of the fact that World Tourists is guaran- teed visas for the members of this party, the .six weeks’ tour leaving July 14 provide the surest way of reaching the U. 8. S. R. this summer. The opportunity is being grasped | by people of many different occupa- | tions—doctors, teachers, nurses, busi- | ness men and women, and workers | from many trades. It will be an in-| teresting group, all looking forward | Victory Seon For Barbers. NEWARK, N. J., June 26,—Confi- lence that the striking barbers would sive victory before the end of the week was expressed here today by Rosario Rotolo, international or- ganizer of the union. Tentative pro- posals are to be made the union at Mond: at Montgomery representatives of the 2 o'clock Hall, by bosses It is reported that most of the mas- ter barbers have already agreed to a I 0 weekly wage, with commis- sion of 50 per cent on returns above $48 a chair. The workers, however, basic will insist on their demands for a $35} basic wage. * * * Laber Agents Renamed. NEWARK, N. J., dune 26,—Her- man Landow and Albert Hoffman were reelected busingss agents and delegates to the Essex County Trades Council, at the annual election of the painters’ district couneil. 3,000 Workers Laid Off in Ford Plant. KEARNEF, N. J., June 26.—3,000 workers employed in the local Ford plant have been laid off in the past} is is an example of | two weeks. Th the Coolidge prosperity the masses are getting today. In the Washing- ton Pump Works of Harrison hun- dreds of workers are being dis- charged weekly on the pretext that the season is slack, All the large ballet. The New York Symphony Or-} chestra of 100 conducted by Erno {Rapee, will make this also the! greatest concert event of the year. |Get tickets immediately. Do not de-} |lay. The money is needed now to | help the striking furriers. | * * * The Clubs Are In Earnest. At a special Conference of the | Workers Club ‘eld last Sunday, a/ Committee was elected to take care \of the work of raising funds for the| king furriers. Their work is al-| |ready bearing fruit. The first meet-| ling of this Action Committee took | | place Tuesday in the office of Local | 22, Plans to draw other workers’} and social clubs into this conference! and to successfully carry on the work} were formulated. The following) resolutions were adopted. All clubs | }to call mass meetings and arrange | special defense weeks. The members | }not present at the meetings to be | visited at their homes for the purpose of acquainting them with the plans| and the importance of helping the) | striking furriers. All clubs to co- operate in the production of a mon- ster entertainment. . . * East New York. At a meeting of the East New| York Workers Club it was decided | that each member give 50 cents per| week for the period of the strike, The Club has already paid $100 on the $200 pledged at the Conferefice of jthe attempt to crush the furriers’) Board headquarters. 15000 Workers at Union | Square Applaud Lefts’ (Continued from Page One) the “Forward” Who walked up and down the street with policemen look- ing for workers to either beat up or arrest. When the thousands workers got there the “Forward” sent out a hurried call for help and the entire ast side was scoured for the riff; raff to come to its defense against the militant needle workers, One worker was arrested here at the behest of the “Forward” police combine and was held for trial in night court. Adupt Resolutions. Three resolutions were adopted by the meeting. One indorsed the one- hour strike on July 7 for Sacco and Vanzetti. The second was a mes- sage of sympathy for Aaron Gross, recently cut up by right wing gang- sters to a point where he almost died. The» main resolution reads in part as follows: “The right to picket, the right of workers to organize into unions and establish standards of wages and working conditions, is be- ing defended by the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union and 90; per cent of the union membership which supports it in the present strike. | “The shameless actions of the enemies of trade unionism within the ranks of the labor movement have produced emphatic signs of dis- gust and resentment among the rank and file—notably the repudiation of the Woll-Frayne-McGrady Commit- | tee by the New York Central Trades and Labor Council and by other labor bodies in various sections of the country. But this disgust with the effects of the alliance with the bosses | to crush fighting ‘trade unionism is |of not sufficien} to defeat it. To Raise Issue. “We call upon every working man! and woman to raise this issue in his or her union and to demand Support, for the furriers’ strike—the militant | outpost of the struggle to save and} | build the unions into effective wea-| pons of the working class of Amer-} ica. “This | mass demonstration of thousands of workers held in Union| Square on June 26, 1927, denounces | to many novel, and some old familiar | plants in the city and vicinity are sights of the two former capital |laying off factory workers and the cities which now contain so many of | unemployment situation is very seri- the achievements of New Russia. ous in Newark. The workers in the After July ist it will be too late to|gigantic factories are unorganized consider this six weeks’ Russian tour.|and the layoffs always preclude A letter or telephone call immediate-| drives for reduction in wages. The ly to the World Tourists, Inc., 41/usual method is to discharge the Union Square, Room 803, Stuy. 7251,| workers for a week or two, then re- will bring further information and hire them at a lower wage scale. printed matter. The time is short. Sears Act at once. Saeco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! pone --------- =. | CONFERENCE ' ' H To prepare for The DAILY WORKER midsummer carnival and fair, meets at 108 East 14th Street, Wednesday eve- ning, June 29 at'8 P. M. All Units of the Workers Party, all other working class organizations are urged to have their representatives present ready with ful! reports as to what they will contribute. Report all proposals to Bert _ Miller, co DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street. New York City. Orchard 1680. 4th of July week-end Camp Nitgedaiget BEACON, N. Y. Concerts, Balls and Other Entertainments Open for Registration in New York Office: 69 Fifth Avenue Tel, Stuyvesant 6900 ¢ Not registered will not be accommodated. iJ CAMP TELEPHONE: BEACON 731 | Strike and destroy the right to picket | and denounces the arrest and prose-| {cution of workers for union acti ties. the clubs, * ° . Borough Park Fulfills Promise. Brother Broder of the Borough Ask For Support. Park Club brought $200 for the! “We call upon the entire labor | Furriers Relief Committee. The Club} movement to denounce the actions of has few members and little mongy/|the city and state authorities and to |in the treasury, but decided to do its| repudiate the union-smashing policy |duty to the striking furriers. More|of the enemies of labor in official lis promised. | Positions in the trade union move- | ment. “Defend the right to picket! “Support the furriers’ strike, mor- jally and financially! “Defeat the attempts to turn trade unions into company unions! } “Defeat the alliance of the bosses, ' * * * | Down Town Exceeds Quota. The members of the Down Town} Workers Club is in the forefront of the best work for the Defense Com- mittee. They participated most ac- tively in the bazaar, held special de- fense meetings to collect funds and} the reactionary union officials, po- generally carried on a strong cam-|lice and Tammany Hall! \ paign. At every entertainment held | “Demand an investigation of the in their headquarters appeals for the| connection between the murderous Defense were made, notwithstanding | gangsters, the police and the official that the Conference voted that each | leadership of the labor movement! club loan $200 to the Furriers De-| “Build the labor movement!” fense, the Down Town Workers Club| Cut Up Workers Appear. to give $800, Next Tuesday evening, |g, Towards the end of the Union June 26th, the Club will hold a special | Fan Weiss fur ctitkon wha wand | meeting at bed Hast Second Street. | cut up by right wing gangsters last | Other Clubs Follow | Friday Ahi) introduced from the Others should follow the example |e andreas pipe ml hs kde saucy icy ty whe dled a aps ine Jae for rest minutes, | nt © speakers included Ben Gold, | They ck ee bit bay are pine Louis Hyman, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, anizations not in name alone, i ~ : but ‘that they understand the strug-| at pi gy Mer gle, os are So workers they | 2idot Shapiro, A. Zirlin and Charles will not desert theit brothers aati a struggle. They should make tnem-| ae selves a reserve for the fighters. | Labor Organizations Social Clubs, literary clubs, fraternal | organizations and others, not repre- To Form New I. L. D. Branch. A mass meeting to form another | branch of the International Labor De- fense, is being called Tuesday, at the sented at the conference should join| \in the work, The membership of | Mew cooperative house, at 2700 Bronx Park East, at 8 p. m. | these clubs are all workers and must . * * not remain neutral in this critical fight. WASHINGTON, June 26.—W. B,! Important Iron Workers’ Meeting. Robinson, a tax investigator in the| A special meeting of the Inside Tron treasury, was today appointed chief|@nd Bronze Workers’ Union will be prohibition investigator by the new | held tomorrow evening at the Rand commissioner, Dr, J. M. Doran. School, 7 East 15th St. at 8 p. m. Robinson succeeds Philip Hamlin,| A six-months’ report about the who is to be transferred to Boston as| union activities will be given. The! assistont administrator there, second and final nominations for all More Lucrative Job. A reorganization of the investiga-| officers of the union will he made. tion division was ordered by Doran| The presence of every member is very and will be carried out by Robinson. . i Stratton's Church Members Flee From Light of Publicity A casual glance ‘around the half filled auditoriim of Calvary Baptist Church during John Roach Stratton’ sermon yesterday, advertised as “Waiting for the Lord’s Return” showed that a considerable number of the pillars of the church had not returned after the recent schism. The five deacons who resigned in protest against the introduction of “pentacostal” (in plain language “holy roller”) rites have evidently taken them with a goodly section of the dues paying membership of Stratton’s holy opium club, and the financial loss begins to appear. Call For More Cash, In_ his collection speech the lean Baptist exhorted his followers to re- member that there were sources of revenue to the church now cut off, and that “as some are inclined to re- duce, let us increase” the gifts to fundamentalism. « The choir, robed in dingy brown, NEWARK MEETING BROKEN UP (Continued from Page One) governor condemning the intolerance of that state. White has previously jalso expressed his opposit proposed execution of Sacco and Van- zetti. # “Innocent,” s Wells. From Great Britain com statement by the world-known author, H. G. Wells, who together with many other noted authors end men prominent in public, had already urged the release of the two labor fighters, The Wells statement is in the form of a page article in the Sun- day ss of Londo j iwith a culation of mo 000,000, in which he say |world now knows them The columns of the Sur a rew tha “All t May Evade Issue. In the meantime, reports froin Bos- ton indicate that G mor Fuller will soon give his decision on the c¢ which he is now having “inv gated” by a committee, at the head of which stands President Lowell of Harvard University. While i not known what the exact contents of the decision are, it predicted that a cor ion sentence is quite ] Friends of the defendants point out that such a decision would be a cowardly evasion of the issue of the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, and would be-an attempt to throw a sop to the powerful movement that has grown up in their behalf and which is completely convinced of their innocence, for which it demands their freedom. Campaign To Continue. The campaign for the two defend- | ants, especially the obtaining of sig- | natures to petitions throughout the country, is not to be abated for aj| moment, it is urged, for it is only by | the mass protests of workers and | progressives and open-minded people of the entire world that Sacco anu Vanzetti have been able to get as! much attention and consideration from the reactionary authorities as | they Have. A special “Signatures-to-petitions” | campaign is under way now by Inter- | national Labor Defense to reach its | height during the Saceo-Vanzetti | of jen to the, | commissioner riday night the committee was ‘no- tified by Carl Baunwart, superin- tend of the shade tree department, that it was revoked, his exeuse being that “there might baa disturbance.” Budenz and Freeman were both re- leased, the police officials fearing to make a test case. Fascisti Responsible. Local fascists are charged by the Sacco-Vanzetti committee with being at the bottom of the action of the city authorities in breaking up the meet- ting. Hold Meeting Saturday. Budenz declared that the city would be sued for its unlawful action in breaking up the meeting for which claborate plans had been made, and that the Civil Liberties Union will make new plans for another protest meeting for Sacco and Vanzetti in {Military Park next Saturday after- noon. The committee announced that it would call on Charles P. Gillan, of parks and public buildings, demanding that he explain under whose authority the meeting was broken up. Crush Reaction, China Unions Demand (Continued from Page One) by native big business and that the development of the revolution now lies entirely in the hands of the work- ers, peasants and pétty bourgeoisie, he Fourth All-China Trade Union Congress has passed a resolution sug- gesting that the Nationalist govern- ment take steps to check reactionary elements ' operating in Nationalist territory. Demanding the destruction of ban- dits, the abolition of the power of the feudal gentry in rural districts,’ the solution of the land question, the con- solidation of labor organizations, the enactment of legislation protecting la- bor and granting social insurance to workers, the resolution is intended to suggest some of the needs arising as a result of the change in the char- acter of the Chinese revolution. Military Training for Workers. Pointing out that the number of Chinese workers has reached 2,800,- sang sweetly, but the metalic ring of Weck of June 27 to July 4th. Meet-|000, the appeal asks that measures anything larger than dimes was no- ticeably absent from the harmony. Evidently some, ,like your corre- spondent, were there out of curiosity, and the real christians, dismayed by the publicity they are getting, are applying financial pressure. Will Baw! Out Press. Stratton has, announced that he will “spiritually chastise” the erring ; deacons and their friends in a course | summer night’s sermons | A Six Weeks’ Tour to Soviet Russia is leaving July 14 | Here is an unusual opportunity for American workers to see the achievements of their brothers and sisters in the U.S. SLR. After an 8 days’ rest on the motorship “Gripsholm,” the tourists will begin in Leningrad, and then continue in Moscow, a visit to all those new factories, nurseries, schools, workers’ clubs, museums, theatres which are ings, protests and demonstrations of | all kinds will also be arranged. * * * NEWARK, June 26.—A squad of city police today broke up a Sacco- Vanzetti meeting in Military Park attended by nearly 2,000-and arrested | the speakers, Louis F. Budenz of the| Civil Liberties Union and Irving | Freeman of the Federated Press. | A permit to hold the meeting had | been obtained on June 10, but late” be taken for the military training of | workers and for the consolidation of the friendly ties between the work- ingelass and the army. The appeal concludes with a plea to the workingclass of the world to support the Chinese labor movement in its struggle for the liberation of China. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS . the pride of young Russia. 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