The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1927, Page 3

ORGANIZED LA CONTRADICTIONS OF SIGMAN SHOWN NEWS AND COMMENT LABOR EDUCATION The Police Are Ver 'W YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1927 Page Three CTIVITIES | POLICIES AND PROGRAMS STRIKES —— INJUNCTIONS y Nervous These Days LABOR AND GOVERNMENT TRADE UNION POLITICS | IN UP BY L. HYMAN Exposes His Reply to (paler ABSENT MINDEDGUY WHO LEFT HIS MOTOR RUNNING IN FRONT OF A BANK WHILE HE WENT INTO CASH A CHECK ——-= THE TRADE UNION PRESS LABOR AND IMPERIALISM Grossman BUSINESS MEN ow we “eer | STRIKE OF FUR z ose \ Early this week the president of . ee ght BE \ HIM DEAD | (ee | the cloak mé&nufacturers’ group a) | oR BLE! a ba known as the Industrial Council, I. q \4 DESPERATE / ras : | Grossman, made a statement blaming 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, president of the International, yesterday issued a spirited denial of the facts stated by Grossman and refused to accept responsibility for, or even acknowl- edge the existence of many trade evils. Commenting on this published con- troversy, Louis Hyman, manager of je New York Joint Board of the} Cloak and Dressmakers, said yester- ASSAIL GUNMEN ‘Ask Governor of State ‘to Remove Desperadoes MONONGAHE Pa., Sept. 9 |The non-miners in the communities terrorized by the gunmen imported by the coal companies trying to break the miners’ union in- Pennsylvania ha begun to protest against the e day: brutalities of this’ illegal invading “President Sigmans’ answer to the | army of occupation. 5 statement by I. Grossman, president! The company gunmen have vio- lated=most of the laws of the state wholesale, have created disorder and threatened peaceful citizens with of the Indus 1 Council, concerning present conditions in the.cloak trade 4s filled with contradictions of his ~ GAINS STRENGTH IN. Y. Locals Nomiiate For All Officers The fur rabbit workers of Brook- lyn and New Jersey, who went on strike Wednesday morning to organ- ize the open shops, reported yester- day that two shops have already ex- pressed their willingness to settle with the union. According to Morris Langer, man- ager of Local 25, Newark, the two shops will be signed up by Monday. He also stated that all the workers of the Consolidated Rabbit Dressers’ previous admissions relating to the} evils now rife in the industry. Many Open Shops. “To Mr. Grossman, Sigman indig- nantly denies the spread of non- @Ponion shops; yet his own organ ‘Jus- tice’ this week contains Julius 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 this number has increased since then, yet Hochman has _ previously edged that his organization drive re- 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 manufacturers for) feeding the scab shops and says that | they need not have agreements if they intend to violate them. | “If Sigman and Hochman make | these statements in the union organ, | 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 every sort of weapon, from artillery to tear-gas bombs. One of the latest protests is from a resolution adopted by the local business men of this city and published as an advertise- ment in all the papers that. will ac-. cept it. * It reads as follows: * * * We, the citizens of Monongahela City, Washington County, Pa., beg} to submit the following resolution | |to the Governor, John S. Fisher. GREETING: WHEREAS, for the past two years | the Pittsburg Coal Company and | Bethlehem Mining Corporation, with | many other coal companies, openly repudiated United Mine Workers of America in the Pittsburg District, and WHEREAS, the Pittsburg Coal Company and the Bethlehem Mining Corporation in the Elssworth Branch | have imported men ofall descrip-| tions, of which many are of desperate character. Many of our citizens have been beat up on the public highways by the private guards, and WHEREAS, the inforcement of the | sheriff’s proclamation is unfair, un- just and un-American and being in- forced without any reasonable cause, depriving the law abiding citizens, its agreement with the | grocer; R. W. Byers, druggist; H Goldstein, merchant; David Harris, manager; A. C. Leyda, manager; R. W. Witckney, manager; Charles W. Mallory, Joseph Velsve, merchant; Harry W. Cannon, attorney at law; M. L. Seigle, merchant; C. J. Yohe,} merchant; E. H. Stevens, merchant; | | J. W. Hill, merchant; Stanley Taylor, | | druggist; Tony Christina, butcher; | James Kukumas, confectionery; Tony | Brown, shoemaker; A. Berty, jeweler; | Sigman’s Case Against | Gold; Hyman, Gropper — And Others Postponed The criminal libel case brot against needle trades leaders and} ; members of the staff of the Jew- Sam G. Haddad, merchant; George) |ish Daily Freiheit by Morris Sig- Ladis, merchant; Louis Christina,| | man were postponed until next | butcher; Max Janoff, merchant;! | Friday when heard before Magis- Louis Sepe, baker; James Cancilla,| barber; Santo Canvilla, barber; lio Baciotta, restaurant; A. K. Turri,| | auto dealer; Thomas Ward, justice | of the peace; Nick Ajjiniti, butcher; J. M. Ena, merchant; Nick Namie, |merchant; Joe Mebero barber; Roger| P. Marcetto, auto dealer; Lenof Gat-| loff, butcher; Guilio Pellegrivi, res-| taurant; Patsy Losey, butcher; Nico-| la Pizica, notary public; Antonio | Carso, confectionery; William Gray, | 5 itini |theatre manager; Oppenheim Bros.,| ersey 0 | IC : an Gets Jail Sentenc | trate Jean Norris in the Franklin The defendants include Ben Gold, | Louis Hyman, M. Epstein, R. Saltz- man, Ben Lifshitz and William Gropper. Joseph R. Brodsky was attorney for the left wing work- ers. Samuel Markewitch, lawyer, represented Sigman. furniture; H. Grunway, grocer; D. J. Cohen, merchant; Anthony Inserro,| shoemaker; M. Bleveen, merchant; Philip F. Vaccaro, physician; Frank L. Spallo, merchant; P. J. De Santis, | | Street Court yesterday. 1 | Association are out and will soon be joined by hundreds of other workers. Denounces Statement. Langer denounced the statement ‘made by the Dressers’ Association that “Appeared in Wednesday’s issue ;of The Women’s Wear Daily, a trade |paper, to the effect that the work- |ers would return to the shops any time the bosses requested them to. “That is not true,” asserted Lan- ger. “We are going to stay out un- \til we have organized all of the scab/ |shops. No matter how long it takes, we will stay out until we achieve | victory. | Stop Giving Work. “We demand that the dealers stop giving work to the open shops. Not {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 Mont j1 gomery Hall, 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 of Newark. Moe Harris is business agent of the Brooklyn local, while Langer is head CLOAK AND DRESSMAKERS HOLD BIG GATHERING AT “GARDEN” TODAY Gold, Hyman and Others to Address Workers; Launch Big Organization Drive Thousands of cloak and dressmakers are expected to attend the monster union demonstration at Madison Square Garden to- day, 2 p. m. Called by the New York Joint Board, the meeting will be used as |the starting point of a gigantic or-| Commandmer ganization drive to unionize. the| the 40 hour week aft cloak and dri industry of this _ gle of six months In 1923 the forth this de “Ottoman” Sigman’ put a bitter st: Up to the time that Morri “What has become of the 40 our started his strikebreaking , week? Sigman gave it to the bosses the ladies’ garment workers h as a price for their support. As @ powerful union. It is the intention! result of the pogrom the cloak and s are forced to work 50 to This means slav- er season— ment.” dressm 60 hour ery—this of the workers of the trade to build strong organization. Tomor- v’s meeting will be the first step ir that direction. 1 empl Joint Board Statement. today’s meet- In a statement issued by the Joint e Ben Gold, Louis Hy- Board it is pointed out that for many Broucho Julius years the union fought for the 40| Portnoy, Rose Wortis and a vepre- hour, 5 day 2 y con- of the shop chairmen’s vention,” it Charles B. Zimmerman will resolutions embodying such demands. | preside (Continued Page vasion of France try to drown their sorrows in perpetual ab: he i 4while they try to forget th 3 in a’ perfectly strange land whose language is utt incomprehensible {to them and th people look upon their khaki uniforms with the loath- {ing and contempt which they feel for official murderers. Wonder Why They Came. Most of the Legionnaires wish that from One) d ruthlessly neh work- ing secret- country on Tho ers and their ly deported the framed up charges and in an effort from to still L‘Humanite, the voice of the French working class, its editors have been thrown into the Paris ja’ The secret police have received orders to spare no one and the orders are be- noP ariel he letter. L'Hu- curiosity had never brought them to cece go jr carrying tie {French soil; a few who had been in its fight against the desecration {the country before and came back to see former friends or relatives admit {that they have never seen anything {to equal the horror with which they /are regarded by the French worke and poilus or the boycott which has been declared against the Legion. In an effort to divert the feeling for a stampede back to the United States which is daily growing more insistent among the Legionnaires in | Paris, and which would spell final ca- tastrophe for the Legion junket, the Legion officials with the connivance | of the French and other foreign au-| thorities are planning to send off the |men who are at present lonely and jlost in the French capital to see if which is implied in the arrival of the American Legion on French soil. faced with it by the manufacturers? oth union miners and business men | Clectric Norte eh Homer A. Horne, | H of the New Jersey organization. Pea ata RAK Cae “And in the same way, if Sigman) o} Washington County of their Con-,#¢Welers A. N. Jenkins, alderman; fl {I ery candal pat es tingents are being formed for trips creates committees to stop work on/stitutional rights and protecting W. R. Meredith, “dentist; Charles Unity Committee Meets Today to Brussels and Rome. be Saturdays and Sundays, and all sorts! those who are defying the law to | Evitchard, president F. 0. E.; H. T. : Representatives from every fur i lini Cle ful of hours, how can he expect to be|serve their own selfish motives, ee seed reat in bar-| TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 9.—The| centre in the United States and Can-| Peet Meer aT ERS ico p listened to seriously when he states | therefore be it saber sar abe mer ad | Court of Errors and Appeals here | ada will attend the meeting of the| It is expected that Mussolini will ba sy aaa aor net agetsd ae | pie ren be ius naa oe penny fee Oe map ons atthe Pee oe ne vay ee bare allirlager peace necleas Ss . fe of Monongahela sity, Vashington $ ames . olitho, former rose or; ence Committee 0: ie internationa 5 4 PREM time work is being done, and that! County, ee ae Receby ‘eo ts Yonkers Cotton Mills of Morris County, who was found|Fur Workers’ Union, which will | aires’ whose activities he has ad- at the same time the trade is sloWT Governor Fohn-G Abieher to’ akeist’ Wel Cut Wages After Lon | guilty of malfeasance in office. gather today at the Joint Board mired at long distance and with whose because just this overtime work help hgith powers given “unto him to oust | z Bolitho was convicted following an headquarters, in answer to the call | Officials he will utilize this opportu- We: increase unemployment. lthis lawlessness froff our community | Layoff; to Save $250. 000 | investigation May 4, 1925, by Wilfred |of H. Englander, chairman, and I,|nity to confer. ; “But at the present time the non-|.which is dangerous to the peace and | : e |H. Jayne, prosecutor of Ocean Coun-| Wolliner, secretary of the Unity Con- Italian workers are already being union shop is not the sole problem}sagety of our citizens, and is detri-| \ty, whe acted as a special assistant | ference. compelled to string gaily colored with which we are confronted, €ven mental to the farmers, professional (By Federated Press) attorney general. The delegates meet to consider the lights along the station platforms at Y though | according to Mr. Hochman’s! nq business men of this community,| Returning from % three wee lay-| Bolitho was sentenced to serve two/| trade situation and conditions in the | Genoa and Milan, where the Legion- admission that there are 1,000 of | be it further ‘off, 8,000 employes of Alexander|to three years in state prison on/union. Union conditions in the fur|/naires are coming to see the birth- 4 AT LOOK OF them. To my mind, the greater men-| RESOLVED, that a copy of this}Smith & Sons Carpet Co. were no- each of five counts of an indictment,|shops of New York, the largest fur|place of Columbus, and at Florence | = oe geet rage sac naed ae res Governor Fisher and published in departments. The cut will strike about | es be in iat nen # as e a to) ee 0 | down because of the weakening of along the streets and on the principa! Hi ecework, a the “newspapers. | $25,000 off a $250,000 payroll, it is charges as follows: ree counts|the union as a result of the union-| public building which comes to every all sorts of violations of contract | Respectfully submitted and siened | eStimated. : |on a charge of bribery, two on extor-|smashing policies and tactics of the| While the fury of the Italian work- las Hees orkee pass unchallenged and there are ab- re te Citiz ‘a ay Mc eh = ay su Fy alesandeaes Gat iibe ‘tle .s;,,,_| tion, two on assault and battery, four | International and A. F of L. officials.)ers against the murderers of their CIBSS:_CODRCIORS anaes solnvely: “hor Onion sntangardss males SPSS nEens. Qi SPORORE NSS UE age WeRKaee TREE eee on- malfeasance in office and five on|This has introduced chaotic condi-| countrymen, Sacco and Vanzetti, sur- who is enrolled in the tained. It is well known that in most | "2 it 5 [eset ooneres, Jubb, nOxth c | a charge of conspiracy. tions in the New York market, af-|passes that of the French, they are ranks of the army of of the sub-manufacturing shops they! Dr. H. T. Billick, mayor; Vernon| York City, near the Hudson River. —_—— fecting not only the workers, but the | unabl rotest against the Legi 2 : have no union standards and the only | Hazzard, attorney; Adam S. Vance, The mills are unorganized. They are | industry as a whole. As a menu tate : 2 UA he ae readers of the difference between them and -non- |real estate; D, H. Borland, merchant; | the largest manufacturers of the of this demoralized state of affairs Seeneitt heen he Biase site union shops is that they compel the | C. Puzzutelli, grocer; H. W. and W. | cheaper grades of cotton in the United | a Or i0 ge ea in the trade, the workers of New| pay the slightest complaint against DAILY WORKER workers to register. L. McKinley, hardware; L. W. Piot, | States. | Hiss Moe bain to unemployment | the taseiat: dictakorahipie Wkctecient ‘a res ma satee Tee mR — te ne onths at normally | among the workers in the huge indus- can e yours. ’ you a * és : | Ur es Workers (0 ‘constitute the height of the season, trial Pte at Genoa aoe Milan, ! have to do is to send in “See Russia for Yourself’ A New World Unfolding” jand are receiving unprecedented low| where the Legion will first appear, youn -aubacantloncon ale | . | mee: uid . is at such a fever pitch, however, your e) see. : " Fi ntl | { This condition is caused by the|that the police and fascist battalions blank below. 9 r hemp oymen | wide-spread contracting and corpora- | 54 being everywhere kept in readi- tion shops which are working under ness and the number of spies operat- | | non-union conditions and with the fiw in these works 1s aaa ts have | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — With | absence of any union control—a con- b e ie doubled “4 | unemployment rising to the highest | dition directly traceable to the treach- — Wal y I Onl: Official | | tide since the panicky days of 1921,|/ery of the International and A. F.! Ligaen’ 45 ested = |the American Federationist, official /of L. officials. But the situation in Paris is bea |organ of the A. F. of L. devotes half) Of course, these conditions affect temporarily Spee bye pete |the space of its September issue to bed only upon the union in New Mee cpanel Fs ae Eta EVE futsiae of ¥ é consideration of industry’s gravest|but upon unions in every other lo-| ae aie ; eo aie ken : jevil. The Federationist Dablighes tho, Salty es well. The union in NOW fe een i tie opNmagat i Tareas ma 2. fee addresses delivered before the unem-| York has always been the backbone |Conceal the hostility o Seatie y Tour to witness the |ployment conference called by the|0f the International Fur Workers’, Workers under an array of bunting, BLT RL A Jubilee ; t | Philadelphia Labor College ET a Union and its breakdown endangers | flags and electric signs and lights. THE DAILY WORKER Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution ing the viewpoint of union officials, | the very existence of the entire In-|In an effort to prevent a repetition || lt LI! she eae | economists, engineers and employers. | ternational. ; s of the mournful arrival of the first 33 First Street New York oe Kad | “The conference,” summarizes The executive committee or the{detachments of the Legion on the BS i Eight ee Ss |Spencer Miller, jr. secretary of the | Unity Conference _ Committee will | empty, wet platforms of the Gare St. enloene: Leixs |Woxkers’ Education Bureau, “did not | therefore have as its main object at Lazaire, the Paris terminal from the SRE AME M ER 15 1927 |attempt to selve the problem but it | als special meeting, to consider seri-| west, electric lights are being slung ! OCTOBER 14 TO DECE. B ’ at least made two things clear—first, jously this situation and work out from under the high dark plat-|| Name ...........+seeseveegenee that the problem of unemployment is | PP°posals for remedying it. The ex-|form roofs and into the gloomy cen- || iroot ......seeceesseeteeeeeeee : “ ie {not insoluble, and Second, that si | esingity ox geben aa agi eae dkraty eae Ls are gare P | 8 i i ii | 3 y way the|are being carried ow in e REY Ss es.ne 68 et Se eae London-Helsingfors-Leningrad-Moscow 7 is: station invotees no om etal straps thas eaing te eat are Mesiparmanwe vite | se - loperation of labor and management | ‘°° International. On the contrary, |long lines of flag-poles are LO | na ee u [and the consumer in a common task.”|sie'and bring about unity. of ell ake (rere sone the boulevards and thru || + reap LOOK OF | « all the Blysées, A ic ings are f Li GREAT RECEPTION—BEST ACCOMMODATIONS | _Instancing the. success of the labor | International | locals, Halanine ihe Meg uated All public buildings are FACTION ON THE FACE OF ; movement in winning the strugsle| New York Locals 1, 5, 10 and 16, and| Maseertin Ranabant | YOUR FELLOW WORKER. A REVELATION TO ALL VISITORS [ror the Behour day within 40 years,|the New York Joint Board, which| Meanwhile the terrorism against|| GET HIM TO SUBSCRIBE. | Israel Mufson, secretary of the Phila- | constitutes the backbone of the In-|.. eanwhile e s agains i] 100 TOURISTS ONLY Special privileges to representatives of Organi- zations and Institutions Apply immediately to WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 69 Fifth Avenue New York Algonquin 6900. “An Education to the Visitor” i ) “The Greatest Achievement in History” delphia Labor (Gollege, calls for a \“revival of the old spirit, of labor— that spirit that was darin)t’ enough to {do and always willing J) pay the |price for progress.” He asks the! | Workers Education Bureaugto wage a national battle against unemployment \through similar conferences in other industrial centers. 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. |ternational. The committee believes | that this is the only remedy for the | present deplorable conditions in the trade and the union. Marcus Loew, Movie Owner Buried Marcus Loew, owner of a chain of 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 hotises when the (industry was still in its infancy. the French workers, which was speed- ed up following the demonstrations DETROIT | STOP THE WAR | | A Lecture by PAUL CROUCH Wednesday, September 14, 8 P. M. NEW WORKERS’ HOME, 1343 East Ferry Avenue. | ADMISSION 25c.