The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1927, Page 5

a ae a atthe g Se ; oa THE DAILY WORKER, NF W YORK, FRIDAY, Westchester County Stage Hands Strike For Boost In Wages MOUNT VERNON, N.°¥., Sept. 8. —Unless the deadlock in the negotia- tions now going on is broken before then, stage hands of Westchester county will go on strike just before midnight, Sunday, according to* an announcement made today by John J. Kiely, president of the Westchester Local No. 6 of the Theatrical Stage Hands. The men seek an increase of $7 a week for the three senior stagehands in each theatre and an increase of $4 for the fourth man wherever em- ployed. At present the men- receive salaries ranging from $52 to $55 a week. There are about 110 members in| the local. They are employed” in Loew’s and Proctor’s houses in Mount | Vernon, Yonkers, and New Rochelle, the Strand and the PI Plains and the Embas: itol in Portchester. Kiely declared that the Westchester trade unions have agreed to suspend work on new theatres under construc- tion, two in Yonkers and one in White Plains, To Assist Military Forces, Wit. Green Rides In Airplane WASHINGTON, | Sept. 8.—Desir- and the Cap- ing a first hand acquaintance with | the nation’s military forces, President William Green, of the American Fed- eration of Labor, and a group of other labor leaders took a flight over the city in army planes today. President Green took his first air ride in a plane piloted by Lieutenant Albert F. Hegenberger. An inspec- tion of the army air corps post at Bolling Field followed. Others in the group included Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation, Daniel J. Robin, treasurer, and Vice Presidents Duffy, Rickert, Fischer, Ryan, Wilson, Noonan and Woll. Girl Dies in Dentist Chair. As gas was being administered to her as an anaesthetic, while undergo- ing treatment today in the Brook- lyn offiee of a dentist here, Miss Celia Sirkus, 21, of Brooklyn, sud- denly died in the dentist’s chair. When the young woman did. not revive readily an ambulance was called, ‘Tei. Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Houre; 9:30-12 A, M. 3-8 P, M, Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. = {industry was still in its infancy. Dr. L, Hendin Dr. J. Mindel | Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE | Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119! : Seen ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patfonize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cgr. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Organiza- “aons (Established 1887.) [Prone Stuyvesant 3816 | | John’s Restaurant |) SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals bs [302 E, 12th St. New York ———— in“ White | New Rochelle, one in ew | { ee cic atone _— || PARTY ACTIVITIES | NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY ., Open Air Meetings Tonight. | Grant St. Ext—Speakers: Joseph | Brahdy, Julius Codkind, John Me- Donald and I. Pota: Pitkin and Hopkinson Speakers: P. Cosgrove, AL K. Miller and J. Cohen | Newark, Mili Par : Pat Devine and William L. Patter son. Needle Trades Meeting Tonight. All party members who belong to |meedie trades unions must attend a special meeting right after work in the Vi Room of the \Irying Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. * Saturday Meetings iw New. Jers * Perth Amboy, South and Elm —Speaker Miller, West New York, Bergenline 14ttr-Sts.—Speaker: M. Hartieb. and Youth Day Meeting in Newark. An International Youth Day. dem- onstration will be held in- Newark, Sunday, 2 p. m., under the auspices of the Young Workers’ League, It will take place at 37 16th Ave., near Bergen St. LABOR AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS In Late Slaughter; Now First “Sees” Paris , Sept. 8.—One of the few | gionnaires in Paris is the, oldier, Arthur Sewell of He is led thru the cap- jital of France by'a salvationarmy| | Ployers, 15 Park Row, it was freely |f t |“altraist” and is hardly aware of} | admitted that the strike was at least | Pennsylvania and the Long Island Y | railroads as a result of the strike. the general hostility or the silent! | ontempt with which the Amer-| | Legion ®s where being red by the French working Sewell is tol@ nothing of 2 French attitude: “I could not see things better if I had my own | eyes,” he says with unconscious | and pathetic irony. | | The blind ex-soldier lost his ight in an American training) }camp learning to fight the impe-/ | st war of 1917 and, like most} f his companions in the American on, has never been in France jersey Politician Gets Jail Sentence |n Bribery Scandal | SEPTEMBER 9, 1927 Legnme Lot Se |N, Y, POLICE SHOOT AT TEAMSTER PIGKETS: TWENTY FIRMS SETTLE. | (Continued from Page One) test. jjailed on charges of “assault” and Railroads Announce Embargoes. i“ineiting to riot.” | In the meantime embargoes were At the headquarters of the em-! placed ye: afternoon on two 90 per cent effective. Two compnissioners from the De-! partment ov Labor e arrived in the city in an effort to arrive at an arbitration program. Replying to their suggestions, Isaz dberg, president of thé empl ssoc tion declared his willingness to trate” providing the st ng team- sters ‘would first return to work on | the old term t the same time the ‘large cotipanies have ounced that \they plan to run t trucks with | strikebreakers protected by police to- day. As a. result the union despatched a large number: of stri to picket’ at various garages along the water front. To Call On Warren. Bitter indignation against the lice tactics prevailed in the headquarters of the union, street. The men were res from forming an impromptu de tion to call upon Police Commissioner Warren only upon the promise of union leaders to communicate with po- ned | a- TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 8—The officials of the New York Central . =/| Court of Errors and Appeals here | Trades and Labor Council, requesting U. C. W. C. H, Attention? today affirmed the conviction of!them to put an immed top to the ing. teamsters , ght stations in the city by the Labor College Head Urees Workers to Ficht Unemployment WASHINGTON, unemployment ri 8, — With ing to the highest since the panicky days of 1921, the American Federationist, official organ of the A. F. of L. devotes half the space of its September issue to a cons tion of industry’s gravest evil. The Federationist publishes the addresses delivered before the unem- ployment conference called by the Philadelphia Labor College represent- ing the v point of union officia economi engineers and employe: “The conference, summatr Spencer Miller, jr., secretary of the Workers’ Education Bureau, “did not attempt to solve the problem but it at least made two things clear—first, Sept. All councils of the United Council James H. Bolitho, former prosecutor brutal strikebreaking activities of the that the problem of unemployment is of Working Class Housewives are in- structed to elect delegates to The DAILY WORKER conference to be held tonight at the Irving Plaza, 15th | St. and Irving Place. If it is too late |to select delegates, the secretary | should be present. * * * Engdahl Speaks Sunday. The Scandinavian Workers’ Clubs will hold a picnic next Sunday at |the headquarters of the International Order of Good Templers, 704 Willow- ‘brook Road. THe program includes a speech by J. Louis Engdahl, editor jof The DAILY WORKER, also sports and dancing. Directions: From St. | George, go to Meyer’s corner and jtake Lionoluimville bus to, Willow- brook Road. Typo Union 6. The next regular meeting of book and job chairmen of Typographical Union 6 will be held Monday, 6 p.| the explosion of a ‘boiler on which | >Y m., at the employment bureau, 24 | West 16th St. attend. ‘Marcus Loew, . Movie ele . Owner Buried Marcus Loew, owner of a chain of Ce; 2 |movie and theatrical houses thruout \the United States, was buried yes-! |terday in Cypress Hills cemetery. | Loew's first business enterprises included several penny-arcades. He later acquired interest in a number ;of moving picture houses when the All chairmen should | of Mor County, who was found guilty of malfeasance in office. Bolitho was convicted following an investigatién May 4, 1925, by Wilfred H. Jayne, prosecutor of Ocean Coun- | ty, who acted as a special assistant jattorney general. Bolitho was sentenced to serve two to three years in ,state prison on each of five counts of an indictment, the sentences to run concurrently. The indictment listed a total of 18 charges as follows: Three counts on a charge of bribery, two on extor- | tion, two on assault and battery, four |on malfeasance in office and five on |a charge of conspiracy. | See Eee ‘Boiler Explosion Kills Worker: 2 Others Hurt One was killed and two others are |in a critical condition in St. Mary’s | Hospital. Hoboken, resulting from |they were working. The boiler was | States liner President Harding due to | sail for Cherbourg today with many | Legionnair | George Walker was killed. He was {caught by the full force of 280 |pounds of escaping steam. George | Watterson and Oscar Muhlfidel were |the injured men. Mrs. n No Better. The condition of Mrs. Jane Gibson, {famous figure of the Hall-Mills mur- |der trial, remained the same yester- {da yat the Jersey City Hospital. She | has been seriously ill for several months. ——————— I ~Completel : BEACON, N. Y. Renew your physical energy by spending your vacation here. Week-enders must register before leaving for camp. Campfire, Ball and Games, Concerts, Hikes, Excursions, etc. NEW YORK OFFICE: 69 5th AVE. Phone: Algonquin 6900 (Camp Nitged aiget y Renewed Camp Phone: Beacon 731 Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave.. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5:66. Spend’ Your Vacation at y > ae A Workers’ Co-operative SUMMER RESORT in White Rock Mts. WINGDALE, N.Y, All conveniences; all ports; hiking; fishing; rowing; swiin- ming; dancing; amusements, FOR REGIS! TION AND IN- FORMATION etheit” Office 2 | to 8 P. M Lexington. A¥é, Unity Hou d fariem Co-op: erative II 1783 Lexington Avenue, New. York City, “No-¥s BUSSES leave Couperative House, Lexington Ave, cor, LIth aturday at 1:30 and Fridays o P.M. . rf UNITY Be, ——_—__—_ 7 ‘S Help the Cloakmakers’ f COME FREIHEIT SIN for PEAT SIGMAN FOLLIES Produced by Freiheit: Sing- ing Society. % '2—Concerl of Singing Society. 3—Dances—All day and eve- | ning. TICKBTS in advance 40c. station, SUNDAY, SEPEMBER 11, From 10 A.M. PLEASANT “BAY PARK, BRONX. ee sw DIRECTIONS: Take Kast 180th Street Subway to 177th Street ‘There take Unionport car to end of life. Busses will také you direct to picnic grounds. | H and Furriers’ Defense TO THE Great Defense Picnic Last pienie this season arranged by GING SOCIETY this URES | 4-ALEX FOX Famous Giant, will demon- strate his strength. 5—ATHLETIC GAMES. 6—Other plays and entertain- ments. At the entrance 50c, | From there | one of the battery on the United | police. It is expected that a delegation will |meet the Tammany officials some- time this morning to make their pro- Machinist Journal ‘Says Watson-Parker Act Is Detrimental WASHINGTON, (FP). Admis- sion that the Parker-Watson railroad |labor act is a “dead letter” is made | jby Fred Hewitt, editor of the Ma-!| \chinists Journal in the September is- sue of the official organ of the in- |fluential International Association of | Machinists. Devised two y ago | leaders of the transportation unions and the railway presidents, the Parker-Watson act was hailed then as inaugurating a new era of peace and good will on the railroads. Opponents of the law in the unions strikes and took away from labor its strongest weapon. “So far'from proving beneficial to | any class of railroad employees, ex- cept the transportation men (train and engine service) Hewitt explains, “the railway labor act is a dead let- ter. The railroads have not observed |nor is it apparent that they intend i to observe its provisions.” “No Relief.” The shop unions headed by the Ma- chinists, he asserts, have been “un- able to obtain any relief whatever | through boards of adjustment. pro- vided in the act for the very good reason ‘that railroad. executives de- cline to meet with representatives of the shopmen for the purpose of creat- ing such boards. Trackmen Fare Badly. “The Maintenance of. Way Em- ployees have fared no’ better than shopmen, because they have exhaust- ed every effort in their endeavor to | get..joint conferences with the rail- | way chief executives in the various | regions without success. Although |the chief executives of the railroads | | joined with the representatives of the | organized railroad employees to se- , cure passage of the railw labor | act, it was apparently a meaningless | gesture on their part» They evident- | \ly do not intend to “observe its pro- | visions unless compelled fi.” | | As long as company unions exist | \in railroad shops, little hope is ex- | ; pected from the Parker-Watson act, | the Machinists Journal contends. | | Workers enrolled in company unions | {ean expect little relief from low! | wages and bad conditions, no matter | |what law is on the statute books, it | is argued. Until shop workers are back in regular unions, the rail ex- ecutives will “stand pat and e no move to carry out either the spirit or. intent of the law unless compelled to do so by the courts.” Seven Hurt in Brooklyn. | | Seven people were injured ania | day morning in a@ collision of two trolley cars at Broadway and Arion! Place, Brooklyn. An ambulance sur- | geon gave them treatmem; for their | cuts and bruises. The in,lured are! all Brooklyn residents. If not, let us driver AV Tel. Windsor 9052. not insoluble, and second, that any far-reaching solution involves not on- ly advance planning but also the co- operation of labor and management and the consumer in a common task.” Instancing the success of the labor movement in winning the struggle for the 8-hour day within 40 years, Israel Mufson, secretary of the Phila- delphia Labor College, calls for a “revival of the old spirit of labor— that spirit that was daring enough to co and always willing to pay the price for progre He asks the Workers Education Bureau to wage a national battle against unemployment through similar conferences in other industrial centers. Johnson and Stribling Jailed for Fake Fight OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 8—Young Stribling, Atlanta light heavyweight; Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, and Leo Die- bel, Oklahoma City boxer, went on trial in municipal court here today. Stribling and Diebel are charged with participating in a faked fight, declared the act in effect outlawed | Johnson with being an accessory to penalty under the charge is 90 days in jail the fight. The maximum and a fine of $50. The trio was arrested scheduled 10-round fight Stribling and the Oklahoman was stopped in the sixth round and Stib- ling was charged with stalling. Polish Jews Only Got 60°. of Money Raised In the United States Denying that he had used the word “stolen” ject, Max D. Steuer yesterday re- iterated his charges that only 60 per cent of the money raised in the United States for relief work among the Jews of Poland reached its proper destination up to two years ago. “The exchanges were so manipu- lated on the other side that at least 40 per cent of the money was con- sumed before a single dollar was distributed to any person for whom it was intended,” he declared. Steuer explained that Dr. Greene- baum of the Polish Parliament told him that even the money reaching Poland “was not used according to the best and most approved methods, but that it was used to give relief that was entirely temporary in its nature.” Replying to Louis Marshall of the fund’s distributing committee, who criticized him for making the charges, Steuer said he had no apol- ogy to make to anyone. when the 7 Hurt In Brooklyn Trolley Line Crash Seven persons were injured yester- day morning when two trolley cars collided at; Broadway and Arion Place, Brooklyn. The injured weré Minnie Den- goutch of 217 Madison street; Fer- dinand Gobeck of 2941 Fulton ‘street; between, in connection with the sub® Page Five |Sigman’s Case Against | Gold, Hyman, Gropper And Others Postponed libel es leaders taff of the | The criminal | against needle t } members of the brot and ay ish Daily Freiheit by Morris Sig-| were postponed until xt y when heard before Magis |trate Jean Norris in the Franklin | Street Court yesterday The defendants include Ben Gold, | Louis Hyman, M. Epstein, R. Saltz- | |man, Ben hitz and Will Gropper, Joseph R. Brodsky | attorney for the left wing work auel Markewitch, ‘ sented Sigman. Strike of Fur Rabbit Workers Gains Strength (Continued from Page Onc) til we have organized all of the s No matter how long it t will stay out until we vietory. b eve Stop Giving Work. “We demand that the dealers stop!‘ giving work to the open shops. until we are sure that will be the procedure in the future will we end the struggle.” Local 25 will hold a special meet- ing tomorrow at Montgomery Hall, 1 p. m. when the latest develop- ments of the stoppage will be dis- cussed. The fight against the open shop is being conducted jointly by a com- mittee of 10 representing the two locals. They are Local 58 of Brook- lyn and Local 25 of Newark. Moe Harris is business agent of the Brooklyn local, while Langer is head of the New Jersey organization. « * * Unity Committee Meets Tomorrow, Representatives from every fur centre in the United States and Can- ada will attend the meeting of the ecutive Board and Unity Confer- ence Committee of the International Fur Workers’ Union, which will gather tomorrow at the joint board headquarters, in answer to the call of H, Englander, chairman, and I. Wolliner, secretary of the Unity Con- ference. The delegates meet to consider the trade situation and conditions in the union. Union conditions in the fur shops of New York, the largest fur centre in the country, have broken down because of the weakening of the union as a result of the union- smashing policies and tactics of the International and A. F of L. officials. This has introduced chaotic condi- tions in the New York market, af- fecting not only the workers, but the industry as a whole. As a result of this demoralized state of affairs in the trade, the workers of New York are subjected to unemployment during the months that normally {constitute the height of the season, and are receiving unprecedented low | Wages. Caused by Contracting. This condition is caused by the wide-spread contracting and corpora- tion shops which are working under non-union conditions and with the absence of any union control—a con- dition directly traceable to the treach- ery of the International and A. F. of 1. officials. Of course, these conditions effect not only upon the union in New York, but upon unions in every other lo- eality as well. The union in New York has always been the backbone of the International Fur Workers’ Union and its breakdown endangers the very existence of the entire In- ternational. ° To Consider Remedy. The executive committee of the Unity Conference Committee will therefore have as its main object at this special meeting, to consider seri- ously this situation and work out proposals for remedying it. The ex- ecutive committee does not aim to intensify or prolong in any’ way the internal struggle that is going on in the International. On the contrary, it seeks to put an-end to this strug- gle and bring about unity of all the International’ locals, including the New York Loeals 1, 5, 10 and 15, and the New York Joint Board, which constitutes the backbone of the In- ternational. The committee believes that this is the only remedy for the present deplorable conditions in the |trade and the union. | Delegates at tomorrow’s confer- jence are *to congregate at the joint |board office at 10 a. m. and from | there go to.9 meeting hall for their deliberations. H. Englander of To- ronto will preside. * * * Nominate for All Officers. Nominations for all paid and un- | paid officers of the Furriers’ Joint Mrs. J. Young, of 59 Moore street,| Board were held last night at four * ace is the shop where they Are You Getting FINCO Co-operative BAKERY PRODUCTS Finnish Co-operative Trading Association, Inc. 4301 Tyghth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. and her daughter, Gwendelyn; Tessie | Well attended meetings. The officers and John Cargien of 143 Heyward ‘t® be filled are manager of the joint street, and Rudolph Schuber, of 47 board, delegates to the joint board, Throop avenue, |local executive board members, of- ficers of the locals and business | agents. | Local 1 met at Stuyvesant Casino, } Local 5 at Irving Plaza, Local 10 at Irving Plaza and Local 15 af Stuy- vesant Casino. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU TTING THEM? ‘Workers Buy “Daily” ‘for Sacco-Vanzetti Facts |} LOS ANGELES, Cal.- (Union Made) know and we'll instruct our to call at your home. All the WORKER supplies yesterday (Sept. 8rd), The workers are getting in- terested in the facts of the Sacco- Vanzetti case at last, it seems—and the facts are to be found in the organ of the Workers’ (Communist) Party. A READER, |news stands sold out their DAILY | CONTRADICTIONS OF SIGMAN SHOWN UP BY L. HYMAN Exposes His Reply to Grossman arly this week the president of the cloak manufacturers’ group own as the Industrial Council, I Grossman, made a statement blamir the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union for the conditions in the industry and especially for the prevalence of non-union shops. In reply, Morris Sigman, pr of the Internationa a spirited denial by Grossman and refused to accept responsibility for, or even acknowl- edge the existence of many trade evil Commenting or trove Louis the Cloak and Dress “President Sigmans’ statement I. Gros: wer, to the of the Industrial Council, conce present conditions in the cloak trade, is filled with contradictions of- his previous missions relating to the evils now r in the industry. . Many Open Shops “To Mr. Grossman, Sigman indig- nantly den the spread of non- union shops; yet his own organ ‘Ju tice’ this week contains Juli Hoch- mans’ report to a group of shop chairmen stating that when he took over the Joint Board there were about 1,000 non-union shops in the industry. It is well known that th number has increased since then, y: Hochman has _previou acknowl }edged that his organization drive r sulted in settling only 50 or 60 of this whole group. “In this same issue of ‘Justice’ it is reported that Sigman told Im- partial Chairman Ingersoll that the problem of the non-union shop had reached an alarming stage, and he condemns the manufacture: for feeding the scab shops and says that they need not have agreements if they intend to violate them. Contradicts Himself. “If Sigman and Hochman make these statements in the union orgd:, how can they expect to deny the facts when issuing statements to the outside press. If ‘Justice’ is talking of the open shop menace week after week, how can Sigman pretend there is no open shop problem when he is faced with it by the manufacturers? | “And in the same way; if § 1 creates committees to stop work on Saturdays and Sundays, and all sorts of hours, how can he expect to be |listened to seriously when he states that no such overtime work is going on? He knows well that this over- time work is being done, and that at the same time the trade is slow because just this overtime work helps to inerease unemployment. “But at the present time the non- union shop is not the sole problem with*which we are confronted, even though according to Mr. Hochman’s ; admission that there are 1,000 of them. To my mind, the greater men- union agreement, yet so bad that piecework, all sorts of violations pass unchallenged solutely no tained. It vell known that in most of the sub-manufacturing shops they have no union standards and the only difference between them and non- union shops is that they compel the workers to register. conditions are overtime and of contract and there are ab- union sta i “All the cooperation that the manufacturers may give to Sigman, and all the organization drives he may carry on do no good be- cause the workers do not trust him and have no confidence in him, All |the methods used by the manufac- turers to force recognition of Sigman only create more ch Not until the employers take their hands off and let the workers choose their own leaders and run their own union will there be a condition that will perinit union standards in the industry.” Round World Fliers Hop Off for Bangkok RANGOON, Burmah, Sept. 8,— The Pride of Detroit, in which Wil- liam Brock and Edward F, Schlee {are. striving for a new round-the- | world record, hopped off from here jat 6:10 this morning for Bangkok, |Siam. The fliers announced that as this leg of the flight was only a dis- tance of 375 miles, if conditions were favorable on reaching Siam they would continue to Hanoi, French Ind China, a further distance of 6 miles. The American fliers continue to re- |ceive ovations wherever they stop | While here thy announced they may {stop at Manila after leaving Hong fone Actré=s Sues for Million. Valeska Suratt, swage star, yester- day filed suit in supreme court | against Cecil B. De Mille, motion pic- |ture producer, and others, asking | $1,000,000 damages and an injunction restraining them from producing the |picture “The King of Kings.” New Manila Trade Commissioner. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—-Appoint- ment of George C. Howard, of Mont- clair, N. J., to be Ameryican trade commissioner at Mayila, P. L, was announced by the department of com- merce Ypday, : } t