The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1927, Page 2

rage 1wo \D i | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927 { Bureau of Labor Admits | Its Figures on Favorable | Labor Conditions False AND ASSOCIATES rN, DRIVEN FROM JOB \Brotherhood Convention ‘Finds Bank Mismanaged 30.—Though WASHINGTON, June 30 (FP). —Cost of living ures compiled monthly by the Bureau of Labor nd widely used in non- to determine wage liable, admits. the figures ago when stan ireau to obte shed 10 y | CLEVELAND, |nominal secrecy still prevails in the dards were much below the 1927 || Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin- level. eers’ Convention it has become gen- The figures ar erally known that the four principal | anced grand officers of the brotherhood are , facing forced resignation and disgrace, and that the convention has voted a $5 monthly assessment for 24 months to pull through the brother- |hood’s financial enterprises without outside help. Unanimous Verdict. The grand officers whose resigna- tions were demanded are, it is re- ROCHESTER, N. Y., June |liably though not officially reported, Ten persons were injured, four seri-| Pres, W. B. Prenter, 1st Vv. Pres, ously, when a Rochester-bound pas-|L. G. Griffing, 2d V. Pres, H. P. senger train of ‘the w York Cen-| Daugherty and Gen. Secy. C. E. Lind- tral Railroad struck the caboose of alqu st. Grand Chief Al Johnston, in} work train two miles east of Lock-|charge of the labor side of the broth- port, according to word reaching |erhood, is not included. The demand here this afternoon. was made unanimously by the com- Several cars were derailed but the | mittee of 10, selected by the conven- crew escaped injury by jumping be-|tion soon after the opening session fore the cr: cording to the re-|June 6 to investigate the troubled port which gave no further details.|state of the brotherhood’s $100,000,- - = 000 banking and more or less loosely connected investment enterprises. While no statement has been issued favor of intimates, but been used ste effect, wages where unions h not been able to kick the cost of living theory into the wastebasket. Finale 10 Hurt in Train Wreck. OF 1927 $1 Postpaid Red Cartoons Of 1926 Now 50 CENTS imittee report on Prenter and his ociates, it is known that the com- rittee found the quartet “guilty of such carelessness, laxity and indiffer- ein the performance of their of- al duties that they are not, nor | have they been for a long time past, jfit persons to hold office of any kind jin your organization. It is therefore jst ongly recommended by unanimous | vote of your committee of 10 that the jconvention in executive session de- imand and accept the immediate res- }ignations of Brothers Prenter, Grif- | fing, Daugherty and Lindq | Bond Sak «man Official. The convention however gave the icers a brief hearing and instruc- the committee to prepare formal ABronzeStatue of KARL MARX A beautiful work, inches high, is now ready. ict? six jted Selling at $5.00 each. |the $48,000-a-year executive president of the brotherhood’s costly ventures into labor capitalism is SEND FOR ONE TODAY | | scheduled for swift treamsit to the jeinder dump. He is a former bond THE DAILY WORKER | salesman. 33 First Street, New York. | Class Collaboration. The brotherhood’s program of la- {bor banking, which all progressives ENGINEER'S HEAD to the press containing the text of the | Police a iy, | | } ] When the cloakmakers paraded ers and gangsters, aided by police. up a left winger who has got ahead of the parade. The rights eventually thing they couldn’t stop and ran back into their hall. nd. Gangsters Attack Cloakmakers’ Demonstration past their old joint board headquarters they were attacked by right wing- The photo shows a group of right wingers watching two policemen beat ‘Sherman Outfit tn New Tacticks Work | to Cut Labor Wage By HARVEY O’CONNOR. WASHINGTON, June 23. (FP).—} | Evolving from crude, stiff-arm tactics jin defeating the workers to the more polished form of selling “labor en- gineering” services to the employers, | \the Sherman Corporation; Hngineers, | is still effectively on the job of fight-| ing unionism and opposing its legit- imate aspirations. Nor are the southern textile mill) operators, flourishing to the south of Washington in the Carolinas andj Georgia, slow to take advantage of} Sherman’s services. The latest con- tribution from this corporation, whose first appearance on the industrial) \field was in the form of a labor sp} jagency, is advice to mill owners on |how to speed up their spinners and | |weavers without paying them wages | for their added productivity. discovered they had started some- Needle Trade Defense **4N« F. We are certain that fine weather will prevailon Saturday July 16. The (Continued from Page One) moon will shine, the stars will) of organized civil law, both in execu- sparkle, the Weatherman will not) tion and administration. dare send rain on that night. He will; 2 What began as an industrial simply be overwhelmed by the great! dispute, marked by the ordinary dif- gathering of workers who will’ be| ficulties therein inherent, has degen- there to express their protest against|erated into a state of organized the Right Wing clique and at the|crime which in recent days includes same time to enjoy the best concert |numberless cases of criminal as- and spectacle of the season. |saults, attempted assassinations, acts However, if the Weatherman finally |of mayhem, outrageous treatment of decides to side with the Sigmanites, | citizens, men and women, and count- the Forward and the rest of the Black less other felonies and misdemeanors. Hundred and sends rain, the Com-| 8. Scores of victims have been and mittee has made all the necessary|#¥¢ confined in hospit nd homes WALSH DENOUNCES POLICE BRUTALITY IN. NEW YORK NEEDLE TRADES STRIKE charges, it is reported. George Webb, | vice- | arrangements to postpone the Con-| cert to the following day, Sunday July 17. And if it rains on Sunday, July 17th the Concert will be held Sun- |day July. 24th. So buy your tickets without further delay and make sure jthat you will be there, for there is |only a couple of weeks left. Come | to the office of the Joint Defense and} get tickets. | * * i Mass Supporti The workers of Pearlman's Bakery | collected $12.00 and forwarded it to} the Furriers Relief Committee. The following contributed: Binger, $1; Wolkover $2; M. Lemid $2; Parker 1$5; Henry Jacobs $2. They pledged | themselves to give full support to the |furriers in their struggle and called upon all other bakers to do likewise. in the cities with injuries ranging from contusions and bruises to frac- tured skulls, broken bones and in- juries which will render them, in some instances, helpless for life and charges “upon their friends or the community. 4, The crimes, almost without ex- ception, have been committed by no- torious criminals and _ professional assassins whose criminal histories are matters of public record, and whose} personalities are familiar to man; police officials in the district. Police officers have committed brutal assaults upon innocent and j|law-abiding men and women before | at prices so low as to arouse talk of | and after arrests. 6. In a shameful number of in- stances these crimes have been com- | mitted in the presence of police of- icers, sworn to,uphold the law, who Special Summer Subscription Offer 2 MONTHS This offer is especially suited to those who wish to become acquainted with our paper. Ask your friends and fellow work- ers to try The DAILY WORKER. for $1.00 RATES have branded as merely a means of lass collaboration, placing money de- {|rived from the dues-paying member- | ship at the use of all manner of shady business men, and concentrating the || means of defense of the union in case lof a strike in the hands of enemies }to labor, seems to be in peril. Cer- || tainly some of the more obnoxious ex- |} tensions of the laba@ banking, such as || the fifteen million dollar speculation jin Florida real estate, and the Coal | River Colleries, run non-union, have || disgusted the rank and file, and forced |the delegates at this convention to | undertake real action. | To withdraw from the mess into {which the grand officers of the brotherhood have entrapped its mem- |bers is not easy, except by the heroic jmethod of disorganizing the banks, jin which the members have placed to money on deposit. Therefore one group among the | delegates is in favor of preserving at }least for some time the banking side of the brotherhood’s manifold business | ventures, and has secured the special assessment for that purpose. All con- | Potag, | cerned agree, however, that the graft- ers actually discovered must be de- | prived of control of the enterprise. "Anti-War Mass Meeting In Cleveland Tomorrow CLEVELAND, June 20.—An anti- war demonstration will be held at the Public Square tomorrow under the auspices of the Workers (Commun- ‘\ist) Party and the Young Workers’ | League. | prominent speakers will discuss the || international situation and point out how the militarists of all capitalist || countries are making plans for plung- | ing the world into a war more violent ||than the one just ended. 8 months Three months The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street New York Enclosed $ mos. sub to: Name Street Dity «++ State . te the June issue: PERSPECTIVES FOR OUR PARTY Jay Lovestone PRESENT TREND IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT Max Bedacht THE CRUSADE AGAINST THE REDS Ben Gitlow LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS V. F. Calverton MILITARY STRATEGY OF THE CIVIL WAR Frederick Engels CHINA: A Factual Study. NEWS OF THE MONTH, | EDITORIALS, REVIEWS. The COMMUNIST 1113 W. Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, ILL. Editorale. Statistical Material Truth about Soviet Russia The workers of Leopold Haus, 9 East 48th Street, collected $9 for the Defense. The following contributed: ig, _L. Solomon, Rose Shuster, | tive cooperation to the extent which pe Boa ee at reanelaantiae cite ee make them accomplices under tric s, Elsie ‘ a | the law. Lueas. The workers of the Kreinich | 7. Criminals captured in the com- Dress Shop collected $12. The) mission of these crimes have been workers of the Sam Dick Dress Shop! freed by police officers against the collected $8. $8.50 was collected earnest protest of the citizens pres- among the workers of Safern and | ent, Brodinsky Shoe Shop. Kipnis of ba all 8. A thousand citizens or more Pe wie sn a a nee eek fae have been arrested without warrant ie workers oi e Nationa’ P-| and absolutely innocent of any of- Lea Piao es | ig paired Se against the laws of the state warded $ roug! rother Bern-! oy ordinances of the city. stein. Sadie “Halbern of the Kurtz-| "9, False pee) ticles and rock Dress Shop ‘*oligcted $30 among! malicious prosecutions, oppressions the workers: of t shop. The! of law-abiding citizens and gross workers of Slantzr s Clothes Sho | abuses of police authority are being Sam | perpetrated daily. forwarded $3 for the Defense. 10. The declared policy of the police not only failed to interfere with their perpetration but have oftimes openly Lipzin collected $17 at the Workers Party Picnic. A few members of the| department, i. e., the indiscriminate Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra were jand concurrent arrests of hundreds of was ps pol esr eee citizens, men and women, constitutes y a crowd =) . | Pe ‘ es : <|in itself a vast machine of cruelty and rp oes. of she aud collected $19.17). Vicious assault upon the legal rights aaa: Sad seeds and persons of our citizens. The ar- * < \rests include vast numbers of inno- of M. Garwit at the Harlem Work- | householders of the neighborhood, in! ers Center last Saturday. A collec-|no way connected with the industrial | tion of $27 was made for the De-|dispute. It renders it impossible for, fense by Sam Lipzin. An appeal for|the Magistrates to accord the defend- | sanctioned the offenses or given ac-| How to Get More. W. T. Birdsall, who bears the fancy | title of consulting engineer for Sher- | man, in an address before the Fall River, Mass., mill treasurers and ex- ecutives, reprinted in Textile World,! jtells them how to get more out of \their workers. Birdsall contends that, |if spinners will be forced to attend to! . * jdouble the number of spindles cus-) ‘Mail Nation Developed \tomary in twice the time usually al-| EAS Hlotted for a round of visits | | WASHINGTON, June 30. — The/| frames, that ee aie wel be ea | Western leg of the trans-continental| duced from to 144 cents a pound. | jair mail service between Chicago and| ‘he mill girl would tend 2,000 spin- San Francisco will be turned over to/dles, instead of half that number or the Boeing Airplane Company at mid-|less, and save for her employer in| {night tonight, Postmaster General|wages far more than he will lose New announced today, and converted 'through waste and lower production} also into a passenger service. |per spindle caused through the lower- | The postoffice department will con-/ed attendance. Plotting a wage of tinue to operate the eastern division, |/$14 a week, or 80 cents an hour, which Chicago to New York, until August|he considers very fair, “forgetting | 1, when it will be given to the Na- tradition, union restrictions and other | tional. Air Transport Company. jfactors,” the engineer finds that labor | The Boeing Company will inaugu-| costs can be depressed to 1% cents a} jrate air passenger service to the Pa-|pound against 13 cents for fixed | cific coast with its fleet of 21 planes,|charges. Labor costs would then be! all of sufficient size to carry two pas-|but 10 per cent of the total produc- sengers and the mail cargo, officials |tion costs in spinning. said. | Fourteen looms to a weaver is; Virtually the entire air mail per-|Birdsall’s ideal against the 8-12 al-; jsonnel of the western division, in-|lotted now, leaving another 1% cent| |cluding pilots and mechanics, will be\@ Pound saving for the mill owner to} taken over by the new contractor. ‘add to his profits. Weavers should be} The government’s planes were sold !lowed to run as many looms as they} an, he contends. The 85 per cent ef- \ficient group of weavers should be al-| lowed to operate 24 looms, with addi- , ° | tional piece rate pay, despite the pos-) industry, and a regular member of |sible harm to the worker’s health and | the organization. his probable early retirement to the. Walker Responsible. oe beet oe I am moved to make this appeal on Birdsall ends by piously quoting | account of your immediate responsi- | President Green of the American Fed-| bility as Chief Magistrate, for the |eration of Labor to the effect that, correction of such intolerable condi-|“the improvement of the worker is’ tions. I therefore respectfully ask the |tied in with co-operation toward | opportunity of formally presenting | greater productivity.” Naturally he| the matter to you in a specific and | did not add that Green postulated co-| detailed manner, with confidence that | operation with the trade union of the | you will promptly exercise your offi-| industry, in this case the United Tex- | cial power to check the abuses, there-| tile Workers, | by vindicating the constitutional | rights of our citizens and reestablish-| Three Men Probably | Killed in Gas Blast | ing the orderly processes of Govern-| ment in the community. The gravity of the situation, in-| “ | volving daily peril to life and ‘limb PITTSBURGH, June _30.—Three | inevitably follow such a gross per- | men were reported missing and it version of law urge me most respect- wae feared they wore GUTEd under fully to ask for a reply to this com- debris following a gasoline explosion munication at the earliest possible oe wrecked the engine room of homens, the new Pittsburgh Press building | With assurances of my continued | Be“¢ late this afternoon. Firemen are high respect and esteem, I am | searching for possible victims. Gaso- Bincavely, \line being unloaded from a tank-truck , : joxplodad in a manner as yet unes- (signed) FRANK P. WALSH. _' tablished. ‘ \Now Possible to Obtain Private Profit from Air an investigation for graft. { Boycotts and Strikes Worry Imperialists (Continued from Page One) seamen on all British vessels engaged in Chinese trade. The walkout oc- curred at midnight as the result of a ten per cent wage slash. More than 150,000 tons of shipping have already een tied up by the strike. Brigadier General Smedley Butler, commanding the American marines in China, left for Tientsin today with the third battalion of the provistonal regiment of American marines yes- terday aboard the transport Hender-. son. American troops in Tientsin now, number 4,700, while 500 marines are stationed at Peking. * * * Revolt Against Right Wing. SHANGHAI, June 30.—Sporadie revolts against the right wing ad- ministration are breaking out thru- out Kwantung and Fukien provinces, according to reports fron. Canton. Canton police have adopted repres- ve measures to prevent anti-im- perialist strikes and boycotts. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS — Economic Theory of the Leisure Glass by Nikolai Bukharin Fy é be ie Bukharin, president besides" of the Nikolai being the Communist International, is the leading Marxian theoreti- nin the werld today. He done a great deal of scien- tific work in the field of so- ciology and economics, and has published a number of outstanding contributions in these fields. The “Beonomic Theory of the Leisure Class” is one of nost important theoretical writings to be translated for the first time Into English, Just as Marx has studied the theoretical systems of the classical economists (Smith, Ricardo, Mii, etc.) Bukharin tackles the dominant bour- weois political economy known as the Austrian School, (Men- ger, Boehm-Bawerk, Vieser, Walras, Clark, e In a brilliant style and with lucid Marxian reasoning, he anal- yses the theories of Marginal Utility, Value and Profit of the leading bourgeois econo- nists, showing that the Aus- trian School is governed by the vulgar psychology of the rentier, the coupon-clipper. octavo, $3.50 Another Important Book by Bukharin While “Economic Theory of the Leisure Class” is a study in the field of political econ- omy, “Histori¢al Materialism” by the same au- thor is an appli- cation of Marx- ism to the field of sociology. This book has already become the standard text book and {8 con- sidered one of the outstanding Marxian classics. In fact, ic. is the only book avaliable where the materialist method has been applfed to an analy- sis of the various social phe- nomena. octavo, $3.25 Both books to be obtained from THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First St., New York A farewell party was held in honor cent business people, employees and| ~ mencunee are the Defense was made at a banquet of the Non-Partisan Workers School} in Middle Village and $33.50 was col-} lected. Brother Zuckerman made an) appeal for the Furriers at the instal-j lation meeting. of the Newark Frei-| heit Gesangs Ferein. A collection of | $58.50 was made and $85.00 worth of bonds were sold. United Council No. 1 of Working Class Housewives of} Newark bought a $100 bond. At a banquet of the United Council of Working Class Housewives, the striking furriers were not forgotten! and a collection of $62 was made. The following Councils contribute: No. 5, $5; No. 11, $10; No. 12, $5;/ No. 4, $5; No. 8, $5; Nos. 2, 7, 6 and| 8, $5 each. Council No. 1, $10, and} lan individual contribution of $2.! | Freiheit Branch No. 272 W. C. for- warded $30. New York Women’s Council No. 1, forwarded $50. This| makes a total of $100 the Council! contributed to the Defense, mn one| | week. Independent Workmen's Circle) Branch of Trenton forwarded $100 to! the Defense. This is the third One, | Hundred Dollar contribution that the | Branch forwarded to the Defense in | answer to the treason of the Sigman) clique. Down Town Workers Club collected $21 at a rehearsal of the Freiheit Ge- sangs Ferein. | baleful influence upon the well-being | state. | + assurances that I am bringing this Rose Reese member of the| been committed against the persons | Joe Steg of Rock} ants the deliberate and impartial, hearing to which the humblest citi-| zen is entitled before being deprived of his liberty or his property. Violation of Constitution. These repeated violations of the, sacred constitutional rights of a great | section of our citizenship, I respect- fully submit, constitute a serious men- | ace to organized society, which, if | not speedily corrected, must have a and reputation of our community and I hope you will accept my sincere shocking condition to your attention primarily as a citizen of New York, jealous of its good name and anxious that the useless tragedy and suffer- ing entailed by these conditions may be speedily ended. I might add that it has been a part * of my professional duty, as counsel for the Joint Boards of Furriers, . Cloak and Dressmakers’ Unions, to conduct an investigation into many | lof the occurrences herein set forth. | These crimes, in the main, hav of the official representatives and jmembers of these unions. Likewise, an intensive investiga- PARTY LIMITED. let’s go! JULY 14th tor A SIX WEEKS’ TOUR including every expense for steamship and railroad fares, rooms, meals, sight-seeing trips, theatres and concerts. Island, Ill, forwarded $21—$10 dona-}tion has been made of the charge ted by Branch No. 395 W. C. and $11 |that these organizations have resorted collected at a birthday party. Heli, the use of hired thugs and gun. also sends information that the guests | rahe present at the birthday party decided to arrange a special entertainment for the furriers relief. The W. C. Ladies Auxiliary of St. Paul, Minn., sent $30 to the Defense. The Women’s Culture League of Ba#imore » Canada, Chicago, and Foreign countries, $2.50 a year. Sample copies on request, free. | forwarded an additional $51. This | makes a total of $323 within a month \und they promise more. We are prepared € prove, I be- Nieve to Your Honor’s satisfaction, that their picketing is entirely within the law, as expressed by the highest courts of the State and Nation, and that in no instance has any individ- ual been used as a picket or for any other purpose, who is not a law-abid-| ing citizen, a long time worker in the) Room 803 Write immediately to 41 Union Square Phone Stuyvesant 7251. SOVIET RUSSIA The time is short, but if you step lively, you can still get your pass- port, pack your bag and he ready to hop off with the rest of the party on the 14th, bound for Leningrad and Moscow. You Need Only $575 BOOKING CLOSES JULY 9, WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. New York City