The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1927, Page 2

REVOKE CHARTER \ND'7_soupnex OF SHOE UNION: WHO AMI? I hit the pipe and hell. PETITIONSMITH TO TAKE ACTION siccz 2 clined to hug Mor- pheus when my party ON MASS ARRESTS is in danger. | I am famous for sleeping one minute seemed polit \Delegates of 50,000,000 'Co-operators to Meet in Stockholm Thru August (Federated Press) Cooperators from 86 countries and | representing organizations with a | total membership of about 50,000,- |000 will meet in Stockholm, a. in mid-August. The Cooperafwe | League tells of this International Co- | operative Alliance meeting in its cur-| |rent issue of the magazine Coopera- tion. | There will soon be established a| | central international office for co-| | operative wholesaling, the League SEIZES MORE POWER What 5000 New Readers General Council Tries! to Smash Opponents The charter of the New York Dis-| trict Council of the Shoe Workers’ | Protective Union has been revoked | a year | ian who be attor- [ Similar-Letters Will Bet Sent Mayor : over a“plan Thousands of w« name on fetitions ‘that Governor Alfre¢ give up, , | predicts. Later there will be inter- tp take step dumb as by the reactionary general council of | | national cooperative banking and in- peaceful pielke worker who vote that organization. | surance. International Alliance | mittees are working on the deta’ preliminary to the promotion of these new enterprises. | “The widely heralded League of This action was taken last Monday | evening at a joint meeting of both the local and ‘national councils, at which | the chairman of the general council | cision of our not unlawfully A similar lett prepared for M a capitalist can- ayor. W . Lipner, a left workers are urged to distr n Harris counted | Usurped the chair and then proceeded | | Nations fathered by Woodrow Wilson widely. Copies may be nd,Charles Weiss, a non- | t® Tevoke the charter of the local or- | might well look with envy at this} the offiee of -the F ate for whom 28 votes | £anization. Delegates of five of the} non-political international cooperative | six locals affiliated with the council For himself, Harris : ° vines pies then walked out in protest, as no need. Board, and at Lc G. W.U. These federation,” states the League, “for | |not only does it include many of the} home to the authc eT, a progressive, was elect- charges had been filed against the | | peoples who have refused to enter the of the fur strikers, 2 and he was not opposed | New York unions. | League of Nations, but it is also} all worker’ are: deter th John Peterson, a non- The Real Tasue. | functioning in an atmosphere of har- all not : This is only the surface of the | mony and mutual good. will which is right of peaceful picketing ididate, was elected treas: be taken away’ from them. Letter to Governor. The: petition reads a 71, the undersigned ¢ i in New. York: City, call upon you as Goveynor'to make an investigation of conditions inthe fur workers strike of our city: *“T urge‘that you take ps to see that the right of peaceful picketin, guaranteed’ by decision of our State | Supreme Court, is,not unlawfully de- nied, nor workers arrested by hun- dreds,.as they have been, for exer ing this rjght; that you see that st: ke ing workers are protected from the attacks of gangsters, and from the brutalities. of police officers; and that you: initiate an investigation into the heavy fines and jail sentences being given to piekets-by our magistrates r, one of the Harris ] 1 seeretary. Raise Objection. Immediately after the result of the 8 \ elections v announced, several worker the objection that there v e count, that the whole election for busir agent was a bee trayal of the workers, and they de- |manded that a new election be held n place of this fraudulent one. But | Harris was all prepared for this ob- | jection, just as he was to steal the jeleetion, He at once led on to ‘the |floor a squad of his strong arm hire- lings and a fight followed. Many workers were badly beaten, especially a member of Local 58, M. Galoshing, | who was severely injured, | In the course of the fray, several jof Harris’ gangsters were beaten by story. The real issue is that the gen- eral council was acting against the | best interests of the New York or- ganization for quite some time in the past. | The fight really started at the time | that the American Shoe Workers’ | Union decided to affiliate with the| New York organization of the pro-| tective, and the general council sus- | pected that the votes of these addi- tional members would be cast against them in the then coming elections. They obstructed by all means this amalgamation and nothing came of it. The local district council endorsed one of its organizers, Pascal Cosgrove, against the general president. Ever since then {the general organization has with- |drawn all financial support from the present incumbent for} Scene as Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, north China dictator assumed political control, also, at an elaborate ceremony recently in the presidential palace in Peking. (Continued from Page One) has burned down. Troops, armed with machine-guns |and under orders to fire on the work- lers have taken up strategic posts in| the center of the city. | The workers have erected barricades in some quarters and automobiles and} GENERAL STRIKE, CIVIL WAR, SHAKE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT WHICH FREED FASCIST MURDERERS Socialist leaders are among the dem- onstrators striving to. quiet the mob! leaders, but Communists are reported | actively endeavoring to extend the, struggle against the government. Police headquarters announced this afternoon that three policemen are known to be dead and the civilian! deaths are not known, 'Denounce Wuhan Ruler | quite unknown to the political as- semblies at Geneva.” * As Anti-Labor | (Continued from Page One) | the every day struggle of the work- ers must be taken by the Commun- ists. . Unleash Agrarian Revolution. The agrarian revolution that is now rising throughout many prov- inces in China must be broadened and deepened. The struggle for achieving the bourgeois democratic revolution in “plebian’” manner, namely, the revolutionary offensive of the bloc of workers, peasants and urban poor under the hegemony of Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker is the goal we have set for August 30. Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker means the him when they tried to hold him back | N- Y- council. jtrucks have been drawn up to afford the proletariat must be continued. enlistment of five courts whose systematic conviction of innacent strikers would seem to in- dicate a. yielding to the pressure of interests hostile to the workers. ‘{ respectfully petition that your action ‘in this matter be taken as | quiekly,as possible.” * * * Right Wing Tactics. The gangster tactics of the right) wing of the International were intro- duced at an election in Local 58, Brooklyn Thursday night, and the re- sult. was’ that the meeting broke up in disorder and several active work- ers were badly beaten by thugs. The meeting, held at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, was called to elect a business agent and local officers. The notorious Moe Harris, who had charge of counting ballots, was one of those uunrring for office and of course he from his slugging work. The workers | |are now considering further steps to} | bring about a new and legal election in the local. The seven gangsters caught on June 24 after they had assaulted James | Metaxis, Frank Weiss, Stephen Sergi- jades and Harry Steinhardt, were ar- raigned in Jefferson. Market Court yesterday morning but their attorney Leonard A. Snitkin pleaded that the case was not ready, so it was post- |poned by Magistrate Brodsky until {July 20. S. Kushner, a worker who was ar- |rested last week on complaint of some right wing workers, was dismissed in Jefferson Market Court yesterday. A large. picketing demonstration was held in the market yesterday morning. Arrangements are now be- jing made to picket on a large scale was the one elected. There ‘were. two |Moanday morning. Attractive Offers ‘tor New Readers of the Daily Worker eng nn ee. Came to a Head. The controversy came to a head re- bosses were making against the junion to impose wage reduction. The | {local organization fought very stub- | bornly on every one of the shops in- | volved but due to the very bad situa- |tion in the New York shoe jndustry | could not fully defeat the émployers jand in the case of the B, & S. Shoe | Co. decided to leave the matter to the | workers employed in the shop. The workers decided to compromise on the demand of the boss for a 15 per cent | |wage reduction by accepting 5 per| |cent. The administration of the cut- |ters’ local ordered the seven cutters | |employed in the shop not to accept |the reduction, although’ in all other | cases previous to that the cutters were |the most compromising. | In another case the Unity Shoe Cot 22 workers were arbitrarily discharged jby the firm. The union in this case |confronted the wholesale discharge, | decided to strike the shop. The gen- j eral president however, told the cut- | ters to stay on the job, while in the | case of the 5 per cent compromise he told the cutters to strike as against the rest of the shop. It was evident jto all that the general officials were |playing a game to destroy the local | cently due to the attack that the | | them protection. | Many officials, judges and attaches of the ministry of justice, were rough-| lly handled. Parliament has suspended its meet- ings and the parliament building, ich is serving as a temporary hos- pital, is crowded with injured. “We Take Justice.” Posters displayed by the workers said: i “We protest against the shameful sentence. We take justice in our own hands.” The University of Vienna stormed. Valuable documents (to the landlords and profiteers) including | many real estate titles, deeds, were! lost ‘when the ministry of justice burned. Several persons were injured when | workers tore down the scaffolding of a new building near the parliament} building, to use the lumber to rein- force their barricades. The scaffold- ing collapsed and buried several po- licemen and a score of civilians be-| neath it. | was | Kill Soldier Who Went to Visit Sick Mother Without Army Permit) SYRACUSE, July 15.—Robert | Watson ws shot and killed last night when he attempted to escape from the military guardhouse at Oswego. Watson was imprisoned following courtmartial for visiting his sick mother at Syracuse without leave. He was denied a furlough when he had requested it.» Watson was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. Keep Up the Sustaining Fund Wm. Green Attempts to End War Between Two} Building Trade Unions) —- | An attempt to settle the jurisdic- | tional dispute between the Bricklay- ers’ and Plasterers’ Unions is now} being made by William Gréen, presi- | dent of the American Federation of | Labor. ‘ Green has already held a confer- ence with Walter B. Price, vice-presi- dent and John Gill, chairman of the executive committee of the Bricklay- ers’ Union. He intends to hold a sim-| iliar meeting with the Plasterers’ | | Union officials before he leaves the | the opportunist blunders of the Cen- | all Party members to start a de The workers and peasants must be} systematically armed and the re- actionary elements must be disarmed and crushed. The reply to repres- sions and executions of Communists and revolutionary workers fighting under the leadership of the Commu- nists must be met by the setting up of a militant, underground party ap- paratus to direct the revolution. Must Rectify Blunders. Measures must also be immedi- ately taken toward rectification of tral Committee of the Communist Party of China and toward creating a“politically sound leadership of the Party. | The Executive Committee of the Communist International considers the question of Party policy gener- ally and the leadership of the Party in particular as assuming the most important role. The Executive of the Comintern therefore appeals to ive struggle against all opportunist devi- ations of Community Party leader- ship. Lauds Young Communists. The Executive of the Communist | International also records satisfac-| tion because of the correct policy} thousand new fighters in the Daily Worker Red Army. It means that Five Thousand additional soldiers on the battlefront of the class struggle will be securing daily the latest news of the struggle. BE It means that they will be fully informed from day to day as to the strategy and general plan of our attack against the enemy. | city. | pursued by the Young Communist | About 20,000 men are involved in|! League in China and the heroic the controversy in this city, with | struggle of the Party masses and | | 130,000 all over the country. -\ firmly believes that the Party in ate ea eS Seies | China will find enough energy to change its own leadership and to dis- |organization as they could not util- | ize it to sustain them in office by forc- | | ing the union. into fights with the em- | |ployers that were unwarranted and | which the general council refused to Ella Reeve Bloor Route In Daily Worker Tour These valuable premiums, worth $2.50 each, can be secured FREE With Every Annual Subscription to The DAILY WORKER or 50 with 20 Coupons clipped from the Newsstand Edition on 20 different days, } through: payment of only $ | The following is the route being | Offer GOODWIN No. 2 (Ansco) {No.1 CAMERA a Regular Price $2.50 Takes an Standard Roll Fipn, Pictures 24x3%, ‘This médel,is fir ished and complete in y i Has two finders for'Vertical or Horjzon Picture Adapted for or Sr ehot exposures. 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P, J, Lodge 398, | the officers of this lodge attended to {convince the membership’ of this [lodge . with manufactured lies it should withdraw support from the Brownsville council for Protection | of Foreign Born Workers. ville, Pa., secretary of this lodge, | supported by President Toma Bara- |nac and Tre: part. In spite of their attacks on the council, the membership voted | cnenutonely to continue to support | the Brownsville Council for Protec- | tion of Foreign Born Workers mor- ally and financially. | | The membership knows that Jakob | Yaksekovich is a professional strike- breaker, during the miners’ strike of 1922. He was scabbing in one of the | mines near Brownsville, Pa. And || now the membership is protesting against members of this lodge that |might scab in the present ‘strike. They demand expulsion of a member \ that takes the union miner’s place. Fraternally yours, A .RODRIGUEZ. Smith In Hawaii. HONOLULU, T. H., July 15.—Er- nest Smith, intrepid pilot, and his navigator, Emory Bronte may sly to | Wheeler Field, the destination of their plane City of Oakland from the Is- land of Molokai where they made a dramatic landing today after being Jakob Yaksekovich of So, Browns-| urer Ivan Skudar took) |taken by Ella Reeve Bloor, who is touring for the DAILY WORKER: St. Louis, July 15th to 18th. Indianapolis, July 19th to 20th. Dayton, Ohio, July 21st to 26th. Lima, Ohio, July 27th. Fort Wayne, July 28th. South Bend, July 29th to 30th. Chicago, August 1st. | Keep Up 7 Counts for “Boston Billy.” | MINEOLA, N. Y., July 15.—Seven | indictments containing 17 counts were returned by the Nassau County Grand Jury today against James F. Mono- han, alias “Boston Billy” Williams, in connection with the series of robber- ies of wealthy homes on Long Island, in which it is charged Monohan par- ticipated. The indictments were handed up to County Judge Lewis J. Smith. the Sustaining Fund Don’t Forget the Sustaining Fund! Teachers Charge “Gyp Game” In Appointment Of Board Secretary « The Teachers’ Retirement Board will be “putting across the greatest. gyp game ever put on the teachers” if it retains Irving Crane as secre- tary according to Leonard M. Wall- steim, counsel for the teacher-mem- bers of the Board who are fighting Crane’s appointment. Because Crane is not a_ teacher and has no eonception 0f teachers’ | problems, members of tl!kt board who are teachers themseliis declare, |Crane’s reappointment is being fought, That the machine will suc- ceed in reappointing Crane as secre- tary of the retirement board is the opinion of persons in close touch with | the situation. Ohio Miners Kill Plot) To Break Ranks (Continued fron Page One) of Mr. James Kunik and we, the Sub- | District Executive Board and Scale | | Committee, desiring to act toward the | best interest of the men we represent, | were duty bound to remove Mr. James Kunik and declare his seat vacant as la member of the Scale Committee representing the miners of Sub-Dis- trict 5 of District 6.” Organize Miner Relief; Thirty-four | Locals in Appeal to Labor Groups. | PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 15.—The| Miners Relief Conference, office in| Pittsburgh is in action and is sending | out an appeal to all unions, fraternal | societies and friendly organizations calling attention to the menace to the working class of the present drive | against the miners’ standards of living and asking for support for the 150,000 locked out miners, Their appeal, mailed from their headquarters, 807 McGeah Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., says: “We, the coal miners, are going in- to the fourth month of our strike with a large number of local unions with no money in their treasuries. Local union after local union asks for relief and not a week passes without such requests coming in. In some camps large numbers of families are without food. In a great number of camps families are forced to leave the coal mining industry, never to come back ‘again. This leaves the loyal, fighting, | | militant union men to carry on the fight to the bitter end against the coal | | operators. | “Brothers, we cannot ask the coal! operators and the steel magnates to) |help us win the strike, therefore, we | are forced to ask your assistance in this life and death struggle against the coal bosses. We have one of the| best weapons in our hands, if you | Relief will! |united front with elements after) | their actions had proved them trait-j| ;ence in the Party and within the avow those cowardly leaders who | violated the international discipline | of the Comintern by maintaining a! ors to the revolution and enemies of the workers and peasants. Leaders Steeled in Struggle. The new Party leaders must be largely composed of worker and peasant elements who have gone through the fire of civil war, have been steeled in the actual struggle. They must get the controling influ- Central Committee. These workers from the rank and file will be able to maintain close contact with whole Party mass and will in that manner overcome opportunism. Victory Is Assured. The Executive Committee “of the Communist International holds that the trend of the great Chinese revo- lution has aroused such broad masses of workers and peasants to political action that no power in the world can crush the movement. Under proper leadership the vic- tory of the Chinese workers and peasants is assured and it is the Communist Party alone that can fur- nish this leadership. Complaints Against L. I. R. R. 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Relief will feed our starving babies and families. |lost_ on the broad stretches of the | Pacific on their flight from Califor- | \f|nia to Hawaii, according to wireless SCREW-CAP TYPB Design New Junker Plane. $1.25 BERLIN, July 15.—A new plane, Sent by Insured Mail for $1.50 | advices from Molokai late today. designed for a trans-Atlantic plane, Relief will give On! Reesiae oF: y \ shown in the ast. | These Offers Are Good Only | The raid said Smith was refueling | has been completed in the Junker fac-|us courage to continue the fight to i a ea if ak: oy h ll Dp >. CHL aii dahipadncoveane te Until August 31, 1927. ‘his plane at Molokai and would try to| tory. The plane is now being tested. |its bitter end.” Jimmie Higgins Book Shop we shall 106 University Place New York City In Lots of 5 or more $1.25 each, No Charge for Postage. 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