The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1927, Page 5

— | t THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1927 Page Five TRACTION STRIKE | itary Maneuvers on | WA WEEK OR 0)“ SAYS UNION HEAD Workers Refuse to Sign | Yellow Dog Contract That the city will see a subway | strike of the first magnitude within | the next. few weeks seems to be a/ foregone conclusion. This is the opin- | ion of J. H. Coleman, organizer for | the Amalgamated Association of | Street and Electric Railway Workers. Hedley is reported to have said that if the company recognized the Amal- i MOSCOW, July 18.—The cul- minating point of Defence Week }| Was an enormous mass demonstra- |) tion of labor on October Field, at |} which an experiment in mass mili- mobilization and maneuvers successfully carried out tary was amidst the cheers of hundreds of thousands of spectators, All this took place with great enthusiasm, in spite of the bad weather. The |) speakers. were Yenukidze, Voro- }/ shiloff and Bukharin. 8 Workers Asphyxiated gamated ninety-five per cent of its| Under River While at employes would. strike in protest. In sy 48 pets to this Coleman said that no| Work Building Tunnel one is his right senses would believe | so ridiculous a statement, not even Hedley himself. The new yellow dog contract which the I. R.gf. is circulating among its | workers for signatures is not meeting with success. Most of the men are showing a fighting spirit and the Brotherhood workers are having a hard time getting names. A canvass among the militant sub- way workers reveals the truth of the statement that the men want to be} organized and they wilb go thru a strike to attain their own union. LONG ISLAND CITY, July 18.— |Fumes from a donkey engine em- | ployed for hoisting at the bottom of a fifty foot shaft at the foot of Nott avenut, part of the construction of the new Fifty-third street subway, to- {day asphyxiated eight workers, mem-} |bers of a gang working in the shaft and in the preliminary tunnel under the river. A number of other work- ers were affected. Four of the men were taken to St. John City, suffering from carbon mon- {oxide gas poisoning. They were Car- | mine Tinallio, Harold Moslem, Edward Whitney and James Holcomb, all of | | Manhattan. Mn BOston| (26 ee ‘Strike of Tie Workers (Continued from Page One) American Civil Liberties Union should | Is Possible August. 31 be represented; (3) following this When Contract Expires | election, a convention of the Interna-| | tional to which delegates should be) 4 strike by the 5,000 tie workers | elected on the basis of local union! o¢ this city is possible August 31| membership; (4) abolition of gang-| hen the union’s contract with the sters; (5) an agreement to begin im-; bosses expires. mediately the enforcement of the con-| Jy a statement issued by the union tract signed with the Joint Board at) it is pointed out that the home work! the close of the strike last year. lon ties is endangering the welfare | “Mr, Markewich stated at the con-| o¢ organized workers. “The ties ference that the A. F. of L. would) sewed at home,” the statement con-| agree to peace if it could save its face| tinues, “are being sold in the market | in any way; so in the interests of| a: the most expensive ties. Mean- peace and unity both Mr. Shapiro and} while compensation for work on these I agreed not to run for any paid of-| ties is far below the wages paid those fice at the coming election. This Mr.| who work in the factories and sew Markewich interprets, in a statement | the ties by machine.” | made yesterday, to mean that the) L | ‘leaders of the Joint Board are inter- lin all directions, the thugs divided | ested in personal prestige and are themselves into small committees to | fighting for selfish motives’—which| hunt for militant workers to beat up. | | Left Wing Furriers Win seems to me queer reasoning. While this right wing reign of ter- | PARTY ACTIVITIES | NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY | Open Air Meetings Tonight. Rutgers Square. Speakers: Bimba, H, Gordon, Lillienstein and Bert Mil-| ler. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Mail).— : One of the largest gatherings ever a nk atts ¥ 34 sembled at the call of the Workers Unit 4-24 Meets Today. (Communist) Party here joined in the Factory District 4 of Subsection 2A jqamonstration in the Public Square meets today 6:15 p.m. at 108 East | against “The War Danger.” 14th St., Room 41. * ; | speakers were J. Louis Engdahl, edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER, and Coney Island Meeting Tonight. | Israel Amter, district organizer of the An educational meeting of Inter-| party, national Branch 5, Coney. Island, will} ae in Publis Ss ‘ be held tonight, 8:30 p. m. at 2901) a bap #8 age ng es ginny: the " +, (central spot in Cleveland, that C. E. West 29th St. Comrade Katz Will Ruthenberg, in 1917, call 1 preat lead a diseussion on the fundamentals | 7. 7°” fe alere et oe np Hage =~ of Communism. After the discussion | ™@5°s °!. % pp a rae cena the final arrangements for The! DAILY WORKER booth will be taken up. The time is short so all members must be present. * * |For this he was sentenced to a year’s | imprisonment. * | It was in this Public Square, that |boasts a free speech n.onument dedi- {cated to Tom Johnson, former liberal mayor of the ¢ that armored tanks jand tear gas were fist used to break up a May Day tration in this Educational Meeting Tonight. An educational meeting of Section 5 will be held this evening, 8:30 p. m. at 1347 Boston Road. D. Ben- jamin will lecture on “To Whom Does the American Revolution Belong?” jcountry. This occurred cn May 1, * * * 1919. Engdahl outlined in his talk the Bronx Class Starts Tonight. The Bronx Section of the Y. W. L.| will give a five week course for those ri ‘sa young comrades who desire to receive | the Soviet Walon, an elementary political education. The | Engdahl show ed that the class will be held at 1847 Boston Road jegainst the Soviet Union in 1919-20 every Tuesday evening beginning to- re ap ah ae parade bad tail K et ed, e elfort at capitalist economic ede Admission BES penetration of the Soviet Union had Educational Meeting Tonight. failed, the financial : blockade had An educational meeting will be hela failed, ind now the vicious circle of today by F. D. 2, S. S. 2 A at 6:30 | the capitalist onslaught had returned p.m. Topic: The American Revolu-|*° a new military attack. tion. All welcome. | velop, by all possible means, their careful development by the imperi ist powers of “The New War” against “The workers of America must de- * 5 * od 5 ce strerigth to resist this new war,” said H. M. Wicks Speaks Wednesday. ie fan Z -* All members of International Engdahl, “for an attack on the First Workers’ Republic is equally an at- tack on the American working class.” Branch 1 should attend the sub-section | meeting Wednesday evening at 108 East Mth St. Comrade Wicks will address the meeting. * * * THE DAILY CATES. WORKER CERTIFI- Educational Meeting Wednesday. Subsection 2-B will hold an educa- tional meeting Wednesday evening, 6.30 p. m. at 100 West 28th St. E.j Dorf will lecture on “The Importance of Participation in Election Cam- paigns,” ’ . George Krim, Attention! George Krim will please get in touch with The DAILY WORKER, 108 East 14th St., at once. ® = Party Units, Attention! All notices of party affairs, meet- * * * | Open Air Meetings Thursday. | Second Ave. and 10th St. Speak- | ings and other activities for publica- | ers: Cowl, Paterson, Garnett, Powers, | tion in The DAILY WORKER should | Goldberg, Raiss and B. Rubin. | be addressed to the Party News Edi-| St. Anns Ave. and’138th St. Speak- |", DAILY WORKER. | ers: Baum, Glazin, Evans and Mc-! Donald. Passaic Bus Ride. The| jscripted for the imperialist war that] |the United States entered in that year. | war | “Perfectly Ridiculous.” “Mr. Markewich also says that I ment was conspicuous by its absence. ror was going on, the police depart-| Mermaid Ave. and West 25th St., |Coney Island. Speakers: Bimba, Ehr- The Young Workers League of Pas- | saic will hold their second annual bus | sought reinstatement in the union be-) cause I plan to go to Russia and want | mittee of gangsters mser, who was walking with sey-} to be a member of the A. F. of L, in} good standing. duet of his imagination and is per- feetly ridiculous. “I will take no trips to Russia, or any place else. I will continue with the fur workers in their fight until they win democracy in their union and a guarantee of union conditions. “The rejection of the Joint Board’s terms of peace revealed more than This too is a pro-| eral other workers. A little over an hour later, a com- spied Morris right wing scouts who was attached to the committee in the position of guide, pointed him out to his col- ‘leagues, they started to chase him. Use Lead Pipes. After running for three blocks Nem- |ser was overtaken by the right wing henchmen who felled him with a lead | pipe. While he was helpless on the When one of the} | | lich and Powers, 3 ” oe \g1. Busses leave 27 Dayton Ave., at) }7 a.m, sharp. Tickets. $1.50. * * * * * Bronx Y. W. L. Meet Thursday. The Bronx Section of the Young pee was Workers League meets every Thurs-| Notice To All Units. day, 8:30 p, m, at 1847 Boston Road.| Back numbers of The DAILY © * * WORKER for free distribution may Mass Meeting July 27. jbe had by party units on Thursdays/ A mass meeting for the defense of and Fridays of each week for use at! the Soviet Union will be held Wednes-/ open air meetings. day, July 27, 7p. m. at Bryant Hall, ' Pa aac Sixth Ave. near 42nd St. Speakers) Second Week End at Carnival. will be J. Louis Engdahl, Joseph Free-| Section organizers are urged to ride to Far Rockaway on Sunday, July | H ever before that the A. F. of L. lead-' sidewalk the guerrilas kicked him in| ers feat an honest election and that’ the ribs, | they seek to deprive the fur workers) When taken to Mount Sinai Hospi-| of the right to choose their own rep-|tal, three stitches were necessary to resentatives.” sew Nemser’s head. It was also dis- Frenchy's Gang In Action. covered that he was suffering from Morris Nemser, active member of) broken ribs. He is now confined to the Workers (Communist) Party, was, bed in his home in the Bronx. brutally beaten up by members of, When workers went to the 106th St. Frenchy’s gang Friday evening when/ police station to notify them of the they broke up an open air meeting at | assaults, the police refused to give | 110th St. and Fifth Ave., being con-|any attention to the workers’ com- | ducted by the Unity Committee of the| plaints. The workers were told that furriers, cloak and dressmakers. ‘as far as the police department was When H. Schiller, who was the first | concerned, there had been no trouble speaker had been addressing the | and they would not make any attempt | meeting for several minutes a man into arrest those responsible. When in- | the crowd who was carrying a small|formed of this, many workers com-/ boy, started to interrupt him. When| pared this point of view with the way members of the committee requested | the police act when they arrest work- him to keep quiet he gave a signal, ers wholesale in the fur market, when and over 60 gangsters who were rec- | they conduct peaceful picketing. ognized as members of Frenchy’s or- Big Picket Demonstration. , ganization, rushed into the crowd hit-, A large picketing demonstration ting in all directions. No one was|Wwas held in the fur market yesterday spared. as the black jacks and lead | morning. There were no arrests, al- pipes were brot down upon the heads|tho the police department was well of the workers, Among those who| represented by mounted men, patrol- were more severely beaten up was|men and the industrial squad, who Frank Brownstein, a member of the| were eagerly waiting for an oppor- Furriers’ Union. | tunity to get into action against the When the workers had been chased | striking workers. BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY FRIENDS OF ORGANIZED LABOR ‘ei, Lebigh br. ABRAHAM MARKOFF iN SURGHON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M. 3-8 P. M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 FAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York, Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison. Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5565._ Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet, 302 E. 12th St. New York Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 th Phones, Dr; T846, Ba t Dock 6 Office Phone, Orchard 9319. Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM v Halls With Stage for Meet- ie Entertainments, “Bali Wed- dings Banquets, teria. “Small Meeting Koome Always eetin oms Always Available. Orchard 3783 Strictly by Appoiftment DR, L. KESSLER || 'GEON DENTIST ‘48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge St. New York Tel. _DR. JOS. LEVIN SURGEON DENTIST X-Ray Diagnosis 1215 BRONX RIVER AVENUE Cor, Westchester Ave., Bronx, N. ¥, _ Phone, Underhill 2738. ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend Sen ar ek pee Rates for veri man and M. J. Olgin. Auspices of Section 2. + * * Hammer Affair October 1. “The Hammer,” Jewish Communist monthly, will hold a ball Saturday, October Ist at the Star Casino. Al range any affair for that night. nae = Important Notice. ALL MATERIAL FOR THE DAILY WORKER CARNIVAL MUST BE DELIVERED TO ROOM 36, 103 EAST 14TH STREET, NOT LATER THAN FRIDAY NIGHT. * * * Help Wanted! Volunteers wanted for The DAILY WORKER to fold letters and seal en- velopes. Report during the day at 33 | make arrangements for automobile| parties to and from. the DAILY} WORKER Carnival at Pleasant Bay | Park on July 23rd and 24th. Yonkers | Section has already arranged to have charge of 50 cents. This is a splendid} | organizations are requested not to ar- | way of giving the affair the real holi-| day aspect. Everybody wants a holi- | day week end at the carnival. Come | {with your packs prepared to remain | lovernight, All the necessary arrange- |ments’are being made and those avail-| jing themselves of this opportunity are} FLoee je yh ony Wee ore jassured a glorious week end. | antee, | * * * | Three units of Section 3 will holaj| NEW WAY LABORATORIES ja joint educational meeting Wednes- day, 6.30 p. m, at 100 West 28th St. Juliet Stuart“Poyntz will lecture on the “Lessons of the American Revolu- | | First Street or evening at 108 East tion.” i machines bring all supporters at a/ — CALL FOR WAR AGAINST NEW WAR Amalgamated T. UE. L. | Holds Important Meeting This Evening at 8 0’clock An. important ing of the Amalgamated Section Trade Union Educational League will be held |} tonight at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 || East Fourth street, at 8 o’clock. All Amalgamated. members, in- eluding shirtmakers, should attend this meeting as questions of. vital | intetest will be taken up. There was an inspiring response to the plea of Organizer Amter that | workers join in the Ruthenberg Dri now being conducted by the Worke (Communist) Pz to win new mem- bers for the Party and an increasing |support for the Party press. Recently a big demonstration against the legalized murder of Sacco and Vanzetti was held in the Public| * .| Square here. Labor Organizations Lecture Course by Freeman Begins. Tonight. Joe Freeman will conduct a coursé of 10 lectures on “Imperialism and Race” under the auspices of the In- stitute for Social Study at 170 West 130th street. The ¢ will meet every Tuesday night at eight o'clock. | The first session will be held tonight. ! While the topic has peculiar signi- \fieance for the colored population of | Harlem, it is also of vital importance to others. who’ wish to know the true \trend of world affairs. A syllabus of |the entire course and ‘any further in- (formation may be had by writing to |the director, Richard B. Moore, at 211 W. 140th street. For Freiheit Bazaar. At the last meeting of the Central Body of the United Council of Work- ingclass Housewives, it was decided that the UCWH have one large booth at the Freheit Bazaar in October at the Madison Square Garden. All coun- cils are asked to cooperate with the executive office and not to make any \individual arrangements. > ee ee DAILY WORKER Carnival. Tt was decided at the last meeting of the Central Body of the W. C. W. C. . to have one large booth at The DAILY WORKER Carnival, July 23rd and 24th, by all councils jointly. There is only one week left. All energies must be bent to make this undertak- ing a suceess. Comrades are urged to do all in their power to immediate- | ly begin working. For further details inquire at the executive office, 80 East 11th street, Room 237. |work at The DAILY WORK- 'ER office, 33 First Street. Flora Anna Skin Ointment for PIMPLES, BLACKHEADS, LARGE PORES freckles, rash, itching skin, eczema or stubborn ‘skin trouble of any kind will be banished by use of 276 West 48rd St. New York City 25% of all sales are donated to The DAILY WORKER. Always mention The DAILY WORKER on your order, ! Coney Island Stadium Concert WEST 6th STREET & SURF AVE. BENEFIT FURRIERS’ STRIK FUND CONEY ISLAND, N. Y. Symphony Orchestra ERNO RAPEE conducting a special Wagner, Tchaikow- sky, Borodine, Berlioz, Rim- sky-Korsakoff program. POSTPONED ON ACCOUNT OF RAIN TO AUSPICES JOINT DEFENSE AND RELIEF COMMITTEE, FURRIERS AND CLOAKMAKERS, 41 UNION SQUARE Tickets on sale at 108 Enst 14th Street, Room 35, and 41 Union Square, Room 714, RESERVED SEATS $2. THE ENTIRE PROGRAM WILL BE BROADCAST FROM STATION WCGU. ERNO RAPEE. Les Dances Polovtsienne Du Prince Igor with ALEXIS KOSLOFF of the Metropolitan Opera House in person and his famous ballet. Also Ballet Internationale and Divertissements. ]_] ] ]=]_=—=S==== SATURDAY EVE, J ULY 23, AT 8 P.M, ona se sen . GENERAL ADMISSION $1, ===20=0 = 0 00106 CHANGE MADE The DAILY TO AID JOINT DEFENSE CONCERT WORKE Seottish 5 the Dancer: paper. For ni WORKER as a \ months preparir val troupe, » and y other Efforts being made line Royce to lead the g and. games The begin at 10 A, M, on Sunda accommodate the full program. are The DAILY WORK federal SS Workers Menaced R, the n of the - ponement of the wor concert and ballet for the benefit of the cloakmakers 2 furriers, it was de- cided that thing must be done y aie uses by The DAILY WORKER in order to insure the su s of the Joint De- a nothing must done that would in any if way interfere with The DAILY WORKER Ma Committee Z = turday compl free for the| Streets of Queens and that ani sin Joint Defense concert. / king |£© become the som ieee class : ce DAILY WORK. York were estigated yesterday by GR is y Un this & 2 jenator James L. Whitley and his in the interests of ‘the needl \. | #8sociates who have been invesigating one | housing conditions in the city. The investigation is being conducted in ranged | connecton with the proposed revision S|of the tenement house law. will! The lives of thousands of workers he program | that the nu which were planned for be crowded in on Sund s to|/are in constant danger because of make it a program me in the|the fire hazard. “There is no doubt,” radical movement of } York. The|said Henry Wright, architect and Flower Dance will be held on Sunday} housing expert, “that if a fire broke afternoon, and the Moonlight Chauv} out in the southern part of Queens Souris and All deville will! and in the neighborhood of Rockaway be held on Sunday evening The | Boulevard on some night whene thera vaudeville program includes: Florence| was a strong wind blowing from the Stern, the noted concert violinist,} seal it would take in the entire sec tion.” Dosha, the famous interpretiva dan- o10==10r—10 101010 Saturday, July 30 is PICNIC DAY MORE THAN 15,000 WORKERS will gather at the Freiheit Picnic (includ. 50 Workers’ Organizations) 5 Workers Party Branches, 18 Workmen’s Circle Branches, 19 Workers Clubs, 6 T. U. E. L. Sections, 2 Women’s Councils ULMER PARK 25th AVENUE, BROOKLYN Dancing Refreshments Workers’ Sports Soccer Games GENERAL MERRY-MAKING eet OR 0 Raed © Ee 6 Ed ORS Organizations can still buy 500 tickets Value $125.00 for $20.00. Profit of $105.00, B. M. T.—West End Line to 25th Ave. Station. o=0=10=0=——10m1050 e200 10 —0——0=10 ll The Outing of the Season Directions: L104 0 ro EE <a raed So ae 5S LA AALS IMI EM ; Prizes. Sunda ¥. Contests Dancing Vaudeville Athletics JU iE ' Exhibitions oe 24 MIDSUMMER Carnival and Fair For the Benefit of The DAILY WORKER PLEASANT BAY PARK As a courtesy to the Joint Defense Committee the Carnival and Fair will run for one day only. ADMISSION TICKETS O} ALE at 108 East 14th Strect, 33 First Street, Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, Flower Dance Open Air Vaudeville eeuasaeemnerneat Ua nach ae canto RNR 6.1016 FI E06 ‘