The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1927, Page 5

} t THE DAILY WORKER. 'W YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1927 Page Fivé JULY RAISES BIG QUESTION FOR ALL FUR WORKERS NOW Lefts Will Fight For Agreement Terms The importance of July increases for fur workers is now coming to the fore and the scab work are .begin- ning to realize that this demand, which was one of those for which the Joint Board workers went out on strike, will not be granted unless the strike is won. According to the agreement signe with the union at the end of the last. strike the fur workers were to obtain a raise in wages on July 1. In most eases due to right wing pressure this did not materialize. In view of the failure of the right wing and A. F. of L. leadérs to help the workers in any way in this prob- lem many right wing fur shops are now openly admitting the Joint Board representatives to deal with the bosses. Daily there is increasing evi dence that the Joint Board was’ righ’ in raising this issue, and there is re. peated proof that fhe scab union is going to do nothing about it. No Raises. Sy The Jewish Daily Forward has been} yeyolution has set in to the accom- talking loudly about July increases, but the workers are asking “Where are they?” They have not seen them; and in many instances where the| been changed, print the most violent workers have come to the A. F. of L.| articles union asking for help in getting in-! Party. creases, they find the next day that the spokesman of the shop is dis- charged. This happened at the shop of A. Spiegel where 18 workers were dis.| tator ef the government demands | and Earl R. Doak. charged on the day after they had gone to the right wing asking for the July increase. There are rumors that the bosses are now doing what they did in 1920 before the strike, dis- charging workers and then re-employ- ing them at lower wages—and longer hours if they can induce them. Want Protection. During the past few days, large groups of discharged registered work- ers have gathered in the office of the scab union demanding to know why they had been discharged, and also demanding the union’s protection. The answer of the A. F. of L. offi- cials in several instances was to call on the police to disburse these work- ers; and several of them were beaten by the police and by the strong arm squad which fills the right wing head- quarters. No wonder there is a growing move- ment among the hundreds of regis- tered workers, who now realize that they were mislead by the right wing officials, to rejoin the Joint Board and ask for pardon. Tomorrow’s Meeting. The subject of July raises is to be one of the important matters taken up tomorrow night at the membership meetings of the four Joint Board locals. Local 1 will meet in Royal Hall; Local 5 in Stuyvesant Casino; Local 10 in Stuyvesant Casino; and Local 15 in Astoria Hall. The meet- ings will begin at 8 p. m. In addition to the question of July raises, the workers will again take up the suggestion of reduction of the 10 per cent strike assessment and will hear a report on the recent peace ne- gotiations. Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! | | | fighting heroically against attempts |tialled by Police Commissioner War-| MEETING TONIGHT The District Council of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union has called a membership meeting to- night at 8 o'clock at the Amalga- mated Temple, 21 Arion Place, to place before the members the facts egarding the expulsio: f Locals 53, 55 and 68, and the revocation of the charter of the District Coun- (Continued from Page One) | While the Mayor has assured us that | }no man will be discharged for mem- be discharged for infraction of the | rules.” cil by the Fitzgerald-Nolan ma- Colemans’ statement that men chi'(.. All members of the Shoe |) would not be d rged for mem-! be-| declaration Workers’ Protective Union are urged to attend and learn the fact WUHAN REACTION bership in the Amalgamated v lied by Quackenbush’s that the I, R. T. poligy toward the | Amalgamated has not changed. It is also evident that the “infraction of the rules” clause will be invoked | to dismiss menswho are active in a| genuine drive for the organization jof the tratcion men. Fired For “Insubordination.” | bec ause they had ed to break in seab motormen; six others lost their jobs for joining the Amalgamated. The workers who refused to instruct Communists Victims of | Suppression the stri s in the operation of pubes the subw: ins’ will not be rein- HANKOW, -July 26—The cam- | Stated, ording to Frank Hedley, president and general manager of the} Interborough. Although Vice-President Shea of the Amalgamated repeatedly declared that a strike would immediately fol- low the dismissal of any man for at- tending a union meeting no action was taken by the union officials. J. H.} |Coleman, general organizer for the Amalgamated declared upon learning bout the dismissal of the men, “We want to prevent an immediate walk- jout. But we’ll vote to strike tonight.” 7 EPR The men who lost,their jobs for at- Peasant Unions Still Fight. |tending a union meeting are: George General Ho-Chen who effected | H. Williams, Felix Beggs, John Beggs, coup in Wuhan and now acts as dic-|Christopher H. Rumph, William Sta’ Motormen Will- | that Communists be removed from|iams, Ritter, Thompson, Meehan, De- leadership of the workers and pea-|/yery and McEnerney were fired for sant organizations and important|refusing to instruct strikebreakers. state offices and expelled from the! Twenty other men were called to the | territory controlled by the Wuhan | offices of the Interborough earlier in| government. |the day and were given a severe third | The peasant unions are still exist- | degree, J. H. Coleman stated. | ing in environs of Wuhan and are| Ten thousand policemen were mar-| | paign against the Communist i tinuing here and assuming ever more | malignant forms as the attack | | spreads to include the whole labor | and peasant movement. Counter- con- | paniment of frightfulness. The local | papers, whose editorial staffs have against the Communist to disperse them. The agents of the|ren in preparation for the threatened | reaction in Wuhan are carrying on | strike. { a vicious repressive policy designed |, . | to devastate the peasant unions Strike Is Urged By Ed everywhere in order to reduce the | Lavin In Plea to Men peasant masses to the condition of | (Continued from Page One) * defenseless slaves. The leaders of the revolutionary oughby Ave. Secondly, stand ready | to act at our call when it comes to-' organizations are in a very depressed night. Come to this meeting. You} state and take the attitude that they do not dare venture to resist the| have nothing to fear. You will be agents of reaction. The ater protected. A trike vote will be/| council of the trade unions decide |taken. Vote for’ immediate action | to protest. against the occupation of | #77 a definite time. ,Thia.is' the only.| the trade union premises .by troops, |way you can protect your job and but fear that such ® protest, may ae | defeat the Companies and their sult in dispersing of general council strikebreakeris. | itself., wo members of the right) “owe caliimpon you +0 follow your | wing of the Kuomintang have been | j.aders under the banner of the! appointed to the posts of ministers Amalgamated Association. We prom-| ise that we will always remain faith- ful to your interests. Wall in line| 7 behind us! This ti ict + | j ehind us! is time victory is as-| From Mails for Sacco- | area, y is as-| Vanzetti Freedom Plea | Pe aaet our meeting! Stand by | “Fraternally yours, Edward P. Lavin. For publishing an article demand- | ing the immediate unconditional re- lease of Sacco and Vanzetti, Il Lavora- Auer AiR oe ae tore, Italian Communist weekly news: | mated Ass'n of Street & Electric | paper, had its July 23rd issue barred from the mails. No other réason would be gfven by the postal authori- ties. | Railway Employees of America, af-| |filiated with the American Fed. of | | Labor.” Hylan Supports Strike | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Move of Workers | $100 ——— 6% DAILY DIVIDENDS ! Secured by a SECOND MORTGAGE Ol THIS SQUARE BLOCK. of the First Workers Cooperative Colony Bronx Park East and Allerton Avo. Consumers Finance Corporation SUBSIDIARY OF THE UNITED WORKERS COOPERATIVE 69 Fifth Avenue, Cor. 14th St{ GOLD | Telephone Algonquin 6900 | Let Your Money Build Workers’ Co-operatives for You (Continued from Page One) jeity in the world, I think-it is out-/| |rageous that 15,000 workers on the |city’s lines should work under condi- tions and for wages which at best are | mere pittancés. To their wives and | families I extend my most heart-felt | sympathy and hope that this struggle will end in a complete victory of right | over might. { | “Mr. Untermeyer’s suggestion, a few hours before the strike, that, the! | best way out was for the Amalga- | mated Assocjation to withdraw its de- |mand for the recognition of the men’s | union, is typical of this so-called spe- cial counsel who thinks only in terms |which will benefit his Wall Street | clients. “Some of the more popular news-| | papers, I see, refer to Mr, Hedley as! | ‘hard-boiled’. If cold-blooded antagon- | ism to the public welfare and callous disregard for thé living conditions of | | his thousands of conscientious employ-| ees may be characterized as ‘hard-| boiled’—then the characterization is) correct, | | $300 ee ee For Fare Raise, | “T ask the millions of people who | | are the cash customers of Messrs. | Hedley and Menden and who in the | last analysis are the tax-payers of | | this great city to exercise great care | |to see that these profitable traction | corporations are not successful in us- ing this strike as a scheme to dyna-| | mite a carfare increase, “I warn Mayor Walker and his ap- pointee Police Commisstoner Warren that the people of Now York will not tolerate any police ylolenee towards tho striking subway workers, It is bad enough to be compelled to strike for a living wage, but to have the po- lice, acting under orders from War- ren, brutally clubbing peaceful strik- ova, is 4 condition that tha people of Now York will not tolerate, “I ask the fair-minded puablie of this city to stand by and let the workers vealizg thelr just demands, “All charges of ineonvenience must be laid where it ly belong—at the door of the Smith-Walker admin- \ | and the B. M. T. Wor worms |UNION LEADERS BETRAY STRIKE OF TRACTION WORKERS; TO BOOST FARE istration. “Recognition, by Mr. Hedley, of an | honest labor union would have averted bership in the union, you may still| the strike. * Earlier Statement. In a statement issued e terday afternoon, Hylan said: “The investigation now being ducted by the Transit Comm through its counsel is window dress ing to create the appe: of pub- lie service and the divert the minds of the p from the they are devising to increase fares. Whe two groups of bankers, one behind the I. R. T. and the other behind the B. M. T. believe that-this well-thought out scheme called ‘uni- fication’ intended to increase carfares can be put through by these power- ful public officials and their scare- p | crow counsel, Samuel Untermeyer. Fill Up Pockets. “The scheme through grabbing in Wall Street, dreds of millions of dollars into tWe pockets of those who control the transit system. While the I. R. T. and their banking interests are today fighting for tran- sit control the people can, depend upon it that they will unite as one man against them. “The Knight-Adler bill under which Mr. Untermeyer is conducting these hearings provides that the any or all transit lines may be vested in the city in return for a lease. Untermeyer For I. R. T. “When attention is called to the fact that under the guise of a suit to prevent the city entering into the dual subway contracts, Samuel Un- termeyer’s law firm was actually act- ing in the interests of the I. R. T. and was paid $25,318.72 by this de- fendant, the public has a right to stock suspect that Samuel Untermeyer is | |again resorting to his old tricks and while talking seemingly in the pub- lic’s interests is actually working for the railroad corporations. “This, in addition to the fact that Governor Smith’s Public | Commission has just put over in-/| creased carfares in several up-state cities, points clearly to the fact that this is an attempt to do the same thing here under anothtr form.” PARTY ACTIVITIES — | | NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY Open Air Meetings Tomorrow Night. | Second Ave. and Tenth St. Speak- ers: Bentall, Navarez, Siselman, O’Flaherty, Glazin, Pollack. St. Anns Ave. and 138th St. Speak- ers: McDonald,, Raise, Thomas, Balla, Baum, Powers. * * * Carnival Tickets Must Be Returned. Carnival tickets must be turned in at once to cover payment of bills in connection with the affair. Send money to 108 East 14th St. * * * Labor Organizations Nomination Friday. Nominations for: officers of the American Association of Plumbers’ Helpers will be held Friday 8 P. M. | at the Church of All Nations. AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Bakers’ Loc. No. 164 Meets ist Saturday in the month at 3468 ThirdsAvenue, Bronx, N. ¥. Ask for Union Label Bread. Window Cleaners’ Protective Union—Local 8 Affiliated with the A. F. 217 1. 6th St. New York, . Meets each 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 7 P. M. Window Cleaners, Join Your Union! of L. REVS Ce meen ORS EEE ee eee Bonnaz Embroiderers’ Union 7H. 15th St. Tel. Stuy. 4379-3657 Executive Board Meets Every Tues- day, Membership Meetings—ind and last Thursday of Each Month. George Triestman Z. L, Freedman Manager. President. Harry Halebsky Secretary-Treasurer. ARBEITER BUND, Manhattan & Bronx; German Workers’ Club, Meets every 4th Thursday in the month at Labor Temple, 243 KE. 84th Street, Now mémbers accepted at regular meetings, German and Eng- tinh library, Sunday lectyres, So- clal entertainments, All German- speaking workers are welcome. Booth Phones, aa Dook 6612, 7845, Office Phone, Orchard #19, yi Patronize a MANHATTAN LYCEUM Large Halle With Sta, ing#y Mntertainmen dings and Banquots; ¢ " 06-68 1, 4th 81. New York, N.Y, Small Meeting Rooms Always Available, Advertise your here, Tho DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept, union meetings For {nformation write to 83 Firat Bt, New York City, ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY BTUDIO OR OUTSIDH WORK Patronisg Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Bocond Ave., cor, Srd St, Or; Bpeciai Rates fo; tions Labo put hun-| title of | Service | ‘William F. Dunne Will Speak at Big Anti-War Mass Meet Tomorrow William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, will speak at to- morrow night’s mass meeting at | Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42d St., called to rally the workers against the attack on the Soviet Union. The other speakers will be J. Louis Engdahl, M. J. Olgin, and Joseph Freeman. Alexander Tranchtenberg will preside. 7 meeting is arranged by Sec- tions 2 and 3 of the Workers’ Party. All workers are invited to attend. HOCHMAN DRIVE IS BRANDED AS FAKE BY HYMAN Dues Collecting More, Says. N. Y. Manager The organization drive in cloak and dress shops announced by Julius Hochman of the International i Garment Workers’ Union is b as a fake by Louis Hyman, manager of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Joint Board. |. “This talk of an organization drive is bunk,” says Hyman. “Hochman and the right wing cannot do any or- ganizing for they have not the men or the means. Actually they have no intention or organizing, but plan simply a dues-collecting drive. “They are anxious to force the un-| registered workers to pay them dues and taxes; and if they cannot do it any other way they will try to take |them. off their jobs. On the list of |shops in which the ‘rights’ have al- ready called strikes are well-known that they still employ workers who | will not register with the Interna-| | tional. “Sigman is now bringing into New York the notorious conditions that | have for a long time existed in out- | of-town shops under his control. Workers have complained that the union made agreements with shops out-of-town and permitted them to continue piece work and the payment of wages far below the union scale. They simply handed a non-union shop a union label. To Collect Dues. “Just as such non-union unioniza- tion was merely a dues-collection af- \fair, so is the present alleged cam- paign of organization. The right wing has no intention of trying to drive out the non-union shop; they jcould not do it even if they tried. | Incidentally, they will have a hard | time collecting any dues either, for |even the workers whom they terror- ized into registering do not recognize them or support them.” { New Heavyweight. Jack Delaney, world’s light heavy- weight champion relinquished his title today in order to enter the heavy- weight division. Tel, Orchard 3783 | Strictly by Appointment | | DR. L. KESSLER | SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge St. New York | DR. JOS. LEVIN SURGEON DENTIST | X-Ray Diagnosis 1215 BRONX RIVER AVENUE Cor. Westchester Ave., Bronx, N. Y, i} Phone, Underhill 2738. Lehigh 6022. br. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours; 9:30-12 A, M, 2-8 P.M. Dally Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 116th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. + a —- Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin | Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 i FOR A FRESH, WHOLESOME VEGETARIAN MBAL Come to Scientific Vegetarian Restaurant 75 E, 107th Street New York. = Sollins Dining Room be closed | in || savURDAY"and SUNDAY | on account of moving to a new place of business at 216 E, 14th St. Bet, 2 & 3 Aves, Three doors west of old place, Phone Atuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant BPRCIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphorg where all radicals meet, York 802 E. 12th St. New Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave, PHONE: UNIVMRSITY 5065, union shops whose only offense is| Yd ——=———=s0=10——10—105——0 1 | STALIN BRANDS NEW YORK AMERICAN ARTICLE AS PRODUCT OF SWINDLERS AND BLACKMAILERS IN CABLEGRAM On June 12 the special feature section of the New York Amer- ican carried an article alleged to have been written | Stalin wherein it was made to appear that he assailed Bor Russian adviser to the Hankow Nationalist Government. ticle was so preposterous that The DAILY WORKER end to obtain information from the editorial writers of the New York American as to where and how they obtained the article that they claim was written by Stalin and edited by a certain Cecil Win- chester. None of the editors of the “American” could or would explain the source of this obviously fake article. We let the mat- ter drop, considering it merely one more example of the base and unprincipled journalism of the sewer-rags published by Hearst. Yesterday we received a cablegram from Comrade Stalin as Ww sureau sent me a clipping from a York American, containing an in- terview which I am supposed to have given to a certain Cecil Winchester. I her declare that I have never seen Cecil Winchester and never gave him nor anyone else any inter- views and I have absolutely nothing to do with the New York American. If the Argus Clipping Bureau is not a bureau of swindlers it may be surmised that it was misled by swindlers and blackmailers connected with the New York American. Signed: Stalin.” The utter unreliability of “news” carried in the capitalist press about affairs in the Soviet Union and for that matter in the rest of the world is again emphasized by the exposure of th@ Stalin interview forgery. It is even questionable if such a person as Cecil Winchester exists. The name itself is probably an inven- tion of some hop-headed pen prostitute connected with the Hearst sheets. This repudiation of the alleged intreview by Comrade “The Argus Clipping June 12 issue of the New ry Stalin is one more reason why workers who want to be informed on facts in the interest of the workers should rely solely upon the columns of The DAILY WORKER, which alone of all English | dailies in America has means of obtaining correct information and the honesty to publish it. | OOD print- ing of all Telephone ORCHARD description at a fair price. Let us estimate on your work. eACTIVE PRESS NEW YORK 33 FIRST STREET Big Mass Meeting | Moissaye J. Olgin J. Louis Engdahl Joseph Freeman on THE ATTACK ON SOVIET RUSSIA WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 7 P. M. BRYANT HALL, 6th Avenue, near 42nd Street. Auspices Sections 2 and 3 W. P. Bring friends and sympathizers, e100 10-010 Saturday, July 30isPICNICDAY 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 Organizations ‘can still buy 500 tickets Value $125.00 for $20.00. Profit of $105.00, Directions: B. M, T.~—-West End Line to 25th Ave. Station. : | | et EAD THE DAILY WORKER EVERY DAY