The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 19 || AVELL LEADERS REJECT FURRIERS BID Sty Strike taoms, FOR PEACE, DECLARES JOINT BOARD The Joint Board Furriers Union yesterday issued an official state- ment regarding responsibility for the break in peace negotiations which were inaugurated last week with the A. F, of L. Reorganization Committee under the auspices of Magistrate Joseph Rosenbluth. The statement says: “The Joint Board Furriers Union desires to make clear to the fur work- ers the entire matter relating to the peace negotiations between the A. F. of L, Committee and the Joint Board. “The brave and aggressive struggle of resistance now carried on in the cloak and dressmakers and furriers unions against the bosses, the For- ward clique and the chiefs of the A. F. of L. who are attempting to con- vert the needle trades unions into company unions, has forced the Mat- thew Wolls and McGradys to begin peace negotiations with the leaders of the expelled unions. Woll and the Police. “The chaos and demoralizatoin now prevailing in the cloak, dress and fur trades; the unbearable conditions of the workers, who are subject to wide-| Spread unemployment and are suffer- ing from the jobbing and contracting and speed-up systems; standards of production; wages that have been re- duced to the point of starvation; are the direct results of the criminal at- tack launched by the politicians of the A. F. of L. on the needle trades unions. “An unprecedented -campaign of terrorism; hiring of gangsters; police persecution; long terms of imprison- ment; mass arrests of peaceful pick- ets—these are the methods employed by the Forward clique, the Matthew Wolls, Greens against the workers with the aim of forcing their dis- credited leadership on the unions. The unbearable conditions that haye been brought about in the needle trades unions by these disrupters of the labor movement, thru a policy of expulsion and reorganization, of unions against the will of the work- ers, has opened the eyes not only of the thousands of organized workers of all trades to the treacherous role that the Matthew Wolls and Greens— posing as workers’ representatives—| are playing in the labor movement; but has also called “forth bitter re- sentment from the New York Central Tyades and Labor Council, a bonafide part of the A. F. of L. which has openly exposed and ‘rejected the strikebreaking methods of the chief traitor and open agent of American capitalism—Mr. Matthew Woll. Un- der this pressure from ‘the ‘general labor movement, the representatives of the A. F. of L. were forced to! carry on negotiations for peace with the représentatives. of the furriers and cloakmakers unions. “The representatives of both unions made clear their positions at the peace conference—that the lefts with- in the unions do not carry on the struggle that has,been forced upon them for the sake of satisfying their gains and ambitions, but in the in- terests of the mass of the workers, This was once more clearly estab- lished by the peace program offered as a base for negotiations. We did not deny that we are interested in peace and unity in our International -Unions, but at the same time, we demanded that the unions should be instruments of struggle to defend the interests of the workers and not to enable the bosses and their agents to exploit the workers. We therefore de- manded that: Eliminate A, F. of L. Sluggers. (1) “The A. F. of L. officials should eliminate their hired sluggers from their dual union. (2) “Reinstatement of the expelled locals and individual members. (3) “That the A. F. of L. should nullify their secret supplementary agreement with the bosses and should récognize the agreement which was signed by the Joint Board and Asso- ciation representatives on June, 1926, Cra ae er ee after the victorious general strike, 1. e. a guarantee af the 40-hour week and the other recent gains of the workers, AMALGAMATE,| FOOD WORKERS Bakers’ Loc. No. 164 Meets ist, Saturday in month at 3468 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. Ask for Union Label Bread. Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 33 First St., New York City, se cs ES he AEE AY St Bonnaz Embroiderers’ Union 7 E. 15th St. Tel. Stuy. 4879-3657 Hxecutive Board Meets Every Tues- day. Membership Meetings—2nd and last. Thursday of Bach Month. George Triestman 7%, L, Freedman Manager. “President, Harry lebsk: Secretary-Treasu: ARBEITER BUND, Manhattan & Bronx; German Workers’ Club. Meets every 4th Thursday in the month at Papal Temple, 243 Li. S4th Street. Néw members accepted at regular meetings. German and Eng- lish library, Sunday lectures. ae welcome, cial entertainments, Al Get speaking workers are tors of the A. F. of L. be eliminated and elections be held. In order to} |insure an honest election, an impar-| tial committee agreed to by poth | sides to be selected to supervise the | elections. “The above were our peace terms. | “Fime and again we assured the| spokesmen of Green and Woll that we are not seeking paid offices inj} the union and are not conducting the} struggle to insure our further con-}| tinuance as paid officers. To prove our sincer Comrades Gold and Shapiro were ready to decline to run} for office in this election, altho it is their constitutional right to do so. We unquestonably established at the peace conference that the interests} |and welfare of the workers are above | all other considerations. Woll Fights Union Principles. “However, it is evident that Green and Matthew Woll feared to agree to jour peace terms, which are based upon fundamental democratic princi- ples of the trade union movement—to which the members are entitled even in accordance with the constitution of the A. F. of L. | “It is evident that President Green| ‘and Matthew Woll cannot, and have no désire to, eliminate their hired sluggers. They are opposed to the} 40-hour week. They are opposed to our recent gains achieved thru our} struggles. They are opposed to hon-} est elections conducted by an impar-} tial committee and they are opposed! to the reinstatement of the expelled locals and members. They are op-| posed to a united and strong union. | Therefore they refused to accept our! peace terms. | “Is more proof necessary to estab-| lish the fact that they are enemies | of organized labor and ‘are serving the bosses? Is more proof necesssary‘| | to show that the ‘rights’ are out to|* sell out the workers, to deprive them | of their rights as union members and | to convert the unions into company unions. The very fact that the A. F.| ;of L. officials broke off the peace} negotiations and refused to accept our peace demands, throw a clear| light upon the entire situation and| demonstrates clearly the suspicious | aims of Green, Woll, Forward & Co.| “This does not weaken the fight, | but on the contrary, their action | opens the minds of the workers and offers sufficient proof to the rank \and file that our fight is carried on to protect the interests of the work- | ers and against the bosses and thet! right wing agents. | “The Unity Committee, which has initiated the movement for unity in the International Unions, has a two- fold purpose: (1) “To mobilize all loeal unions} thruout the country for the unity | movement. | (2) “To eliminate the traitors the labor movement. | “It is the duty of every honest| union worker to support the Unity | Committee financially and morally in| its activities. The victory of the| Joint Boards of the Cloak and Dress- makers and Furriers Unions means) the victory of the entire labor move- of | (Continued from Page One) the workers for an immediate strike, Shea declared, “there is an ever-in- creasing tendency among, the men to engage in a life-and-death struggle with the I. R T. on the question of successful unionization. More and more each day’ we have men call on us and ask us to lock horns with the I. R. T. gang on the question of a workers’ union. Centra] Trades To Discuss. The grievances of the I. R. T. work- ers will be brought before the Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council of New York Thursday evening Shea said. Prominent officials of the American Federation of Labor are address the meeting, The New York Industrial Survey Commission has repudiated all rumors that it is interested in the negotia> ing of the presnet struggle, Shea de- clared. Open Shop Spear-Head. The attempt of the I. R. T. to foist a company union on its workers is the spear-head of a national open- shop movement, according to Coleman. The I. R. T. in trying to establish a closed shop organ is in reality lead- ing the fight for the elimination of unionism, he declared. = * * No Chicago Strike. CHICAGO, July 19.—The strike of | the 15,000 Chieago traction workers! that has been threatened for the last! few weeks was averted yesterday when officials of the traction company and the union came to an agreement | to submit the wage dispute to a board of three arbitrators. One arbitrator will be named by the union, one by the traction corporation and they to- gether will make a third today. PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY H. M. Wicks Speaks Tonight. All members of International Branch 1 should attend the sub-section meeting this evening at 108 Kast 14th Street. Comrade Wicks will address the meeting. * * * Educational Meeting Tonight. Subsection 2-B will hold an educa- tional meeting this evening, 8:30 p. m. at 100 West 28th Street. E. Dorf will lecture on “The Importance of Participation in Election Cam- paigns.” Open Air Meetings Thursday. Second Ave. and 10th St. Speak- ers: Cowl, Paterson, Garnett, Powers, Goldberg, Raiss and B. Rubin. St. Anns Ave. and 138th St. Speak- ers: Baum, Glazin, Evans and Me- Donald. Mermaid Ave. and West 25th St., Coney Island. Speakers: Bimba, Ehr- lich and Powers. Bronx Y. W. L. Meet Thursday. The Bronx Section of the Young Workers League meets every Thurs- day, 8:30 p. m. at 1347 Boston Road. * * * Important Notice. ALL MATERIAL FOR THE GePected to! DAILY WORKER CARNIVAL MUST) |BE DELIVERED TO ROOM 35, 108) EAST 14TH STREET, NOT LATER, THAN FRIDAY NIGHT. * * * ment.” \Chemical Blast Injures | Two on Staten Island George Krim, Attention! | George Krim will please get in| Thousands of persons were awak- {touch with The DAILY WORKER, ened, windows in buildings for a mile | 108 East 14th St., at once. in every direction were shattered, and | = by is two men were slightly hurt when! chemicals stored in a government | quarantine building at Clifton, S. L., exploded early yesterday. The building was used for storing Educational Meeting Tonight. Three units of Section 3 will hold | a joint educational meeting tonight, | 6:30 p. m, at 100 West 28th St.) Juliet Stuart Poyntz will lecture on} the “Lessons of the American Reyolu-| Page Five BUILDERS START lps Wingers Force SCAB AGENCY IN “prin send FIGHT ON UNION Four hundre king capmakers were forced to swallow a bitter pill Back Ousted Officials of Electricians when the right wing a tra- tion leader, Pry I announced that they h 40-hour week at the expe cepting standerds of pr a 5 The announcement was at a r Operating thru discredited “labor hen ; ae held ‘i i: Hee leaders,” the Electrical Board of|} y, rue oe a Ha afternoon. Trade, headed by the rious open The had previous shopper Charles Fidlitz, is attempt-|] ) 4 Layers hon h the Electrical Uni clared that they were w g to Pai meds Woe: Hlectrical Union. grant their workers a 40-hour week In addition to backing and support- be } J M ; 3 providing that the union spted ing Richard L. O’Hara, ousted presi- the. manufacthvere’ ray of dent: of Local 3, in his attempt to production, and the final agreement take the union funds m the pre- sat forthe right wine sent officials of the-local, Hidlitz is 4 Py encouraging a “union” calling itself ion of the right wing “The Alteration and Maintenance ret WIN the; dleappaotel eeeieal Workers: of Greater New|! ofthe rank and file of workers who ork, eae 5 ¥ attended the meeting The organization of the dual union is intended as a scab agency, it is | said. A number of workers have joined the scab tinion because of the failure of Local 3 to take them into the union. Unless Local 3 lets down its bars completely and takes energetic mea jures to admit many electrical wor ers of the various crafts into the . union, the dual union, intended as “iN Y Housin Probe scab agency, will be a constant men- 8 8 i ace, according to persons in close z - touch’ with the siftation. | After studying the extremely hazar- Evidence that the o i s|dous and’ congested tenement house of Loeal 3 of the Elect distri in Queens Tuesday, members | Union carried on a campaign of ¢ enement Law Rev and corrugtion, while in office w submitted ig court yesterday by fo mer Asgigfant District Attorney James E. Smith, coun for H. H. Broach, international vice-president. The ousted officials, backed by 2 Charles Eidlitz; open-shop chairman | of houses might mean, \of the Electrical Board of Trade, has|Antin, a member of the {applied’sto Supreme Court Justice |after inspecting outlying 0 William H. Black for a receiver to| Brooklyn and Queens. msy in handle the funds of the local, construction, they already have begun The ousted president Richard L,|to deteriorate. They’ undoubtedly {O'Hara and former . Secretary | constitute one of the great fire haz- |O’Toole forced a contractor working | atds of the city.” ; ; |on a power plant for the Edison Com.| If a fire were to start in certain pany to pay them $200 a month,|Section of Queens, the — great Smith charged. Chicago fire would look like a cigaret | The drive to organize repairmen lighter in comparison, declared Har- ; and men on contract jobs that is be-| °!d Riegelman, counsel for the com- | ing conducted by the present officials | ™ission. of the union is responsible for Eid- 7 Re |lita’s drive on the union, H. H. Broach | TUEL Groups of Needle harged in an interview with a rep- Trades to Hear Reports On Tuesday Conference Tenement Revision Cemmittee Winds Ue |hattan slums. ‘We don’t realize what a tragedy 2 starting in one of these rows | resentative of The DAILY WORKER. ‘Ex-Judge in New Jersey | Jailed on Fraud Charge | |Cap and Millinery Wo Avil meet Former District Judge Francis H. = el 5 Thi treet; | McCaulley was required to furnish ay ce ue ne G. W. U. wi [eee ae og ee N. J., when hej meet Thursday at 10 Bast Twenty- | Chorcine aa pesterday on a warrant! second street; Local 22 of the I. | charging him with fraudulently ob-\ Ga + cgct 3 5 Was ir | taiag 4,000 i opel h G, W. U. will meet at 15 East Third | ne, £41000 in Liberty Bonds from| street, Monday, while locgls 38, 41, peticaa hee ? and 91 will meet in Room 32 of the 1® a 3 tuyvesant Casino. A meeting place | |for locals 5, 8 and 48 of the Amalga- Volunteers Wanted | |mated Clothing Workers and for locals To help with some important, |1, 10 and 15 of the furriers, all of y 4 7 Wy c_| | Which will meet Monday evening will work Bf ane DAILY WOR: |be announced later. ER office, 33 First Street. || All of the meetings will take place ———————_—_——— immediately after work. The following meetings will be held: Local 2 of the I. L. G. W. U. and NOTICE FOR THE DAILY WORKER CARNIVAL & FAIR All material must be delivered at 108 East 14th Street not later than Friday, July Volunteers will be needed all day Saturday. Report at the park. ——= = Let Your Money Build Workers’ Co-operatives for You i L. (4) “That all the appointed dicta- ‘disinfectants used in fumigating in- coming vessels, It burned to the water’s edge and threatened a build- |ing nearby containing custom house | records. tion.” Have Paid Your Contribution to| the Ruthenberg Sustaining F Fund? 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Local 76 of k, the laxges local in the ur over 1, members, has duced resolution: demanding “Har f China” 3g recognition of th ment of that c nition of the favor of a labor tion to the Citize Camps Tt for the r Union and o in oppos vention it is 83 locals and 11.0 Among those that ad delegates were John dent of the New York at the unior izer of the New York F | For the Benefit of The DAILY WORKER Enjoy Yourself A day of Sport, Amusement and Rollicking Good Fun FEATURIN Tug-of-War between the strik- ing Furriers and the Cloakmak- ers. * Baseball game between the Pas- saic Textile Workers and the New York Furriers. Sports and Games, Prizes. Mass singing. International Soccer Gaine be- tween the All Scotch Soccer Team and the Red Star Sports Club, Flower Dance. Mardi Gras. Fireworks. Torchlight Parade: Splendid Jazz: Shop, and thr Carnival and Fair will be ) Military Training in has 00 to over $20, Side Shows-—Rifle Shooting—See-Saws—Games and Prizes of All Kinds—Bargains in Novelties and Sporting Goods. PRIZES NOW ON SALE at 108 Hast 14th Stree zh ‘your ADMISSION 50 CENTS PLEASANT BAY PARK DIRECTIONS: Take the Bronx Subway or “1” then take Unionport Car to the end of Mne. Broadway Subway to 18st Street, then crosstown car to Unionport, As a courtesy to the Joint Defense Committee the DAILY WORKER held on Sunday, July 24 ONLY. who Governor Sir American Only Committee Members Will Be Admitted Into the Stadium Early Saturday Nobody will be admitted to the Island Stadium before the r opening of the doors at 745 p. m. Saturday, July Ss a spectal cred er of the committ ee men and unl ntial as a All com- gatemen of the elman committees S zet a credential registering again at the Defense ention at n Bank, how ‘om $500,- very com- in need you out to organize ” continued Brady, “i When rt Ul in the local ss men and place them on the rd of directors, so th expert ad- nagement.” finished speaking, sident of the union, come president of the United States, is our wish to help him be elected.” Green Couldn't Come. Letters were read from William dent, and Frank Moeri- on, of the American Fed- ration of Labor stating that they ould not be able to address the con- ntion due to the fact that they are nding the sessions of the Pan- Federation of Labor now ting in Washington. TEN BIG VAUDEVILLE ACTS including: Florence Stern, the famous con- cert violinist; Dorsha, the well known inter- pretative dancer; George Krin, the lyric tenor; Fred Ellis and William Gropper, labor cartoonists; Scottish Highland Fling Dane- ers, Irish Jig Dancers, A Hair Raising Gyninastic Troupe; Workers’ Ballet, by the Work- ers’ Drama League; Jessie Weinstone, contralto; Sam Nessin, in a side-splitting monologue, and many others. Jimmie Higgins DAILY WORKER Agent to 177th Street station, Brom West Side take