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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTE. MBER 12, 1927 Page Five (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. troeution of Sacco and Vanzetti by a Massachusetts court has spread di g 10 feet of the then British workers might expect ;roadway for their safe passage, they| the same fate in England unless they constitute a serious problem. In the| showed at once they were not going opinion of many well informed peo-|to stand for it. That was the feeling ple by next year their number. willjin the mind of the average be increased to about 1,500. unionist when he marched to G trade | T H | faffic Regulation Sub-Section 1AC. WIRES CENSORED. Membetship meeting of $. S. 1AC room 4. The order of business will trust and contempt for courts, as he |e: Report of S. S. Executive Com- uM ae 700 b iolati 1 h * * More than 0 buses are violating | England and through Europe, asserts Rebels Disarm Police tive, local regulations with the knowledge| George Young, London correspondent Unit 2F—Sub-Section. cording to latest figures. }eourts of New England under En; RIGA, Sept. 11.—Altho a censor- | (Section 1) In most cases large and bulky, fre-|lish common law,” he writes, “work- gram service meager reports of a re-| f‘the above unit will be held tonight long and tequ volt in Lithuania have been received|at 7 p. m., at 51 Hast 10th St. All throes of a civil war. | E x if It is stated that the revolt has been Morning International Branch. against the Valdemaras government. | will hold an educational meeting in| 20,000 Passengers Daily. or Place to protest against the execu- Fighting has: been going on for the|Room 34, 108 East 14th street,! It has been estimated that these| tion of two anarchist dagoes 3,000 with considerable success, according | night workers are invited to be pres-|P ngers into the midtown district] “Of late years,” Young continue to information here, in the town of | ent, every day, with every possibility of|“in one decision after another, Brit- Tilsit. Many other towns are under | / jmented when the Holland Vehicular| conscious bias in the minds of a bench the control of the revolutionists. In|} Tunnel under the Hudson is ready for|and bar drawn entirely from one eae : rebels has been to disarm the police | | The immense cars may be found and occupy the police and maar ORGANIZATIONS {parked in the most thickly crowded next town and call upon the populace | s are i st ¢ lat- | to dointhe eau populace | Dy poe URiOn <6. Ss are in most cases the plat-| rs rk seived and discharged. Most of these| ti . |chairmen of Typographical Union badass ‘ hae & See Ge rete ey ie kel Ne. 6 will be held tonight, 6 p. | buses go ere they want without have defeated the rebels, but there is | ™ - . = joften proclaim themselves _ sight- some doubt here as to the claim, as’! West 16th St. All chairmen iad nee buses when, itis said, their| ON IN LITHUANIA : |]} NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY | + will be held tonight at Forsyth St., To Increase Profit | H — biased upper class institutions, in mittee and election of 8. S. Execu- and Soldiers | : of the Tammany administration, ac-/of the Baltimore Sun. “If in the ship has been imposed on the tele-| An important meeting for members| quéntly measuri here, The entire country is in the |members are urged to attend. | started by the opposition parties| The Morning International Branch last two days. The rebels have met | Wednesday, 10:30 a. m. All early| buses bring from 15,000 to 20,000) miles av Taurogen, on the road from Riga to| |this number being substantially aug-|ish courts have shown that the un- every town, the first act of the|| LABOR AND FRATERNAL| traffic late in’ the fall. = —— General Strik barracks... They then march to the | _—| streets for hours at a time. The side-| ener fl e of | BRS oer . mf . {forms where the passengers are re-| The government has rushed troops | A regular meeting of book and job) | at the employment bureau, 24/29Y Schedule to be adhered to. They the censorship is being continued in| attend: business ha: Grips Philadelphia pant VED h aes * * * little if any relation to % pela ae the js cra peen | Furriers Sewing Room in the Bronx, such activit ae | PHILA., Sept. 11—Three hundred ° > : | The Bronx Women’s Furriers} Where Traffic Is Heaviest. \suit case and bag-makers of Phila- With respect to the genuine} sightseeing lines, of which there are |few, they operate almost wholly in tional Press Bazaar in Madison|the heart of the city, where traffic is| Square on October 6, 7, 8 and 9. Vol-| heaviest and crowds thickest, where| unteers are urged to report there|/elbow room at the most favorable for working any evening. hours is at a premium, and where! | * * * accidents are most likely to oceur. | Progressive Upholsterers Meet |The police department signs forbid- Tonight. jding parking at these spots appear Backing Hughes for epi ican C pice A. special meeting of all Progres-|not to apply to them. ne Wetkers lsd Beeg ergmting pre- : | sive, Upholsterers is being held to-| They have been allowed to develop | Yiously under open shop conditions, Andrew Mellon, just returned from | hight right after work at 30 Union| their business not only with apparent }with outrageous hours and low wages Europe, may be behind a Hughes | Square to discuss the question of pre-| disregard of the law but also with |1 Sian bait is ga sub- boom for presidency, if his remarks.| Paring for an upholstery booth at the|apparent sanction of officialdom, | Ject to ee ne and fired a will when interviewed mean anything. National Press Bazaar being held in}One Tammany Hall. administration| by thé bosses. Unemployment per | Council has opened a sewing room at 2 Minford Place, Bronx, for pur- delphia this morning declared a gen- pose of making articles for the N&- ‘eral strike, tying up completely twen- ty-three shops and almost entirely zing the industry. Mellon Apparently The general with them on the demands which they | put forward. Although Mellon claims to have | son Square Garden on October | after the other has allowed them iy ee Aaa Ps ed of worke: bee: vf iti | , 8 and 9, continue. Being in a strategic posi-|out.of work. As a result of the ur een out of touch with ‘polities dur- | * ‘tion th vill not be dislodged with-| disputed sway enjoyed by the bosses, | ing his two-month visit to Europe, | ‘l hi ork vane Bes Rencelledged :withel 0 I hops lout a struggle. j unsanitary conditions in the shop |menaced the health of the work jand no. demands. resulted in any im- provement. Ford Ready t0 Put | After. months of orgagizing work, |the Suit Case and Bag Mbbkers Union |presented the following "iemands to Out New Model Bit |the bosses: a 44 hour wkek, 20 per 5 | cent increase in wages for|week worl ers and 30 per cent for piece workers; he told friends today that he intended | Iron Workers Meet Tomorrow. to take an active interest in the pres-| An important meeting of the Iron idential preliminaries from now on../22d Bronze Workers’ Union wilt be | He denied that he would be a candi-|held tomorrow at the Rand School | date, despite strong backing for hint| building, 7 Fast oth St. 8 p. m. a he} in Pennsylvania and throughout fig. apeanion of rejoining the interna- countes: | tional. will be taken up. Reports | x , about the conditions in the trade, the He expecta shortly to confer here | activities of the union and its finan. with his nephew W. L. Mellon, and | cial standing will be given. Plans for | time and a quarter for oWertime; no other Pennsylvania leaders. \further activities will be proposed | | |and discussed. | 8 tal] ac lf | Giseliar Be of workers without giving Has 79 Votes. The support of Secretary Mellon| There will also be given a short good reason; equal divi of work undoubtedly would be a tremendous talk by a prominent labor leader on lin slack time and the recognition of ; the union. i the “change-over” process for pr: | boon to Hughes, Mellon unques- | the topic: “Unemployment, Its Canses . F | The bosses refused even ‘to consider duction of a new automobile practi- tionably owns the Pennsylvania dele- | si pa oad It a eta th Fast ot Rhee: re fMiou; Whith hea 70 5 A ‘portant that every member shall’ be |these just demands of the workers Se tan neato: SORBED they present at this meeting without fail. aly Be netdyine’ Gonesetonae whereupon the strike call was issued. oday i yi f 7 i 58,000 men'in' its Hiphland Park and Three hundred out of the five hundred nominating convention. Pennsylvania | Th ‘af teal 4 hint is, expected to support Mellon as a, © Ublon 18 also announcing’ tha’ r 1 Z River Rouge plants, according to an workers in the industry aj swered the | official of the company. | very first call, and attend the strike i . : x ae | during its present organization cam- bi r : the open shops may joi i | i eve to. where Pennsylvania’s votes shall SE TE SO UAD RC ERORERY arg company’s plants have been| Meeting. In a very fewPdays every loperating on a five-day schedule|W°tker of any kind in every shop in | aimee dant spring,” he added, “mppis | the city will be out. The spirit of reduced initiation fee. go in a decisive ballot for the nomin- |" ~ oe Ape pees oy ation. ? | if ; a . , t thabiadl 1 have | the workers is enthusiastic. They are 0s sap imine, aeee-cte| DL Diath Of Nowy coven ses iat ab chore tare Cates a re ee a ae Europe, Mellon held conferences with | Tenement. House Bill employed five or six days a week,| tight to organize, and for an improve- Hughes on the approaching presiden- | 2 |while others are on a shorter sched | ment of conditions, With its investigation of wretched | le,” DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 11—With tial situation. Upon arriving in New g more than 30 feet|ers could thus be condemned to death, 2 strike was the answer of the workers | jin the suit case and bag trade to the| pe aay | \SACCO-VANZETTI CASE BLOW TO BOSSES’ COURTS IV aM ciigy Bus Owners Evade AS WORKERS SEE BRUTALITY OF CLASS JUSTICE entirely devoted to that inequities in collisions between the interests of classes or in- compa m between their treatment for similar offenses. “Tf this feeling is so strong in law- abiding England with high stand- d of justice, it will obviously be far ronger in continental countries. nere in fact it would not be. too strong to say that Sacco and Van- are regarded as two of the first alties in an impending struggle between liberty of opinion and an ob- scurantist law. “The probable solution in England will not be such a reconstruction of the legal class and of law courts as has taken place in Russia, so as to them mor ntative and rigid. ‘It will ather in a rele- gation of the existing courts to com- mercial cases and in the establish- and cause repr ment of new procedures and bunals for social and criminal mat- | te: D. of J. to Permit. Leather Workers HugeU.S, Steel, Du Pont, 6. M, Merger |_ WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The |Department of Justice with its | proverbial partiality toward big cor- tually “cleared” the Pont and Steel Corporation in- sts of any attempt to rear a mo- teel industrial colossus of a na- ture which might have “contravened” porations has Du refusal of the bosses to even confer | the anti-trust laws it was learned to- cluded the firs | day. { Although details’ of its investiga- ;tion remain to be completed the de- ‘partment’s belief is that the finan- |cial relationship between the E. I. Du Pont Be Nemours Co., the General otors Co., and the United States teel Corporation affords no bas: for action under the Sherman and | Clayton act. jrelationship as determined to exist at this time, as is customary, the de- partment’s right to investigate or |proceed in the event of future devel- ‘opments is considered to be unpreju- | diced. | Du Pont Writes To D. of J. | The department’s attitude became {known today after Irenee Du Pont | organization, had written to’ Col. William J. Donovan, assistant to At-| torney-General Sargent, outlining the financial and managerial status of/ the three giant concerns. It is un- derstood’ to be founded in part upon assurances given by Du Pont. Department officials refused all | information. | Stagehands Do Not Strike. | Stagehands of Westchester County jdid not go on strike yesterday but \remained at work. Negotiations be- |tween the union and the theatre man- agers are now going on. The West- ‘chester local of the stagehands’ union consists of 110 workers. York, Hughes said he was for the re- nomination of President Coolidge, and expressed the belief that Mr. Coolidge would run if drafted by the party. In his conversations today, Mellon |housing conditions in New York City | Questioned about a report that the jcompleted, the Commission on Revi-| company today had formally inaugu-| |sion of the Tenement House Law is | neved ‘2 ae Ree Lae BA eee sng | Ployes, the official said he had no |beginning to draft a new housing | received notification of such a move. distinctly gave the impression that | Hughes himself would be receptive to a convention call, and from this poli- ticians deducted that Mellon might lead the move to secure the nomina- tion for the former secretary of state. WANTED — MORE READE! ARE YOU GETTING ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO. OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Organiza- uons. (Established 1887 That Bosses Fear and EVERY BOOK REVIEWED OR ADVERTISED IN The DAILY WORKER ; you will find ut THE JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOK SHOP ‘106 University Place NEW YORK. jaw. Conferences with this end in view will start September 25th. That any law materially affecting housing conditions will be passed un- ‘der the Tammany administration is | regarded as extremely doubtful. | Ford is abandoning the very cheap car field because of competition from | General Motors, which has Morgan) j; | and Du Pont backing. (By Federated Press) WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Sept. -~Southern textiles are not only “parasitic” but a “liability and not an asset to the communi so long as they do not pay a living wage to Poverty, Lure of Stage GLEN Sinving wage : | workers, eclaret resident ° 7 Draw 2,000 Girls From Wilson of the North Carolina Federa- Chicago Homes In 1927 |tion of Labor in his labor day mes- j}sage. In a triple attack on low CHICAGO, Sept. 11—Two thou-| Wages, child labor and feudal mill sand girls have left homes in Chi-| Villages, Wilson called for unioniza- |eago and the vicinity since the first | 404 of the industry as the only ef- jof the year, because of poverty and | fective remedy for these evils. the lure of the stage, according to Children Farce ato ee })| Lieut. M. Mills, in charge of the. . “The industrialization of North “missing” bureau of the Chicago po- Carolina does not come up to the lice today. standard of set ied suena lie ficient wage to buy back some o: ie locate ergy eae een | things they: Sey ee eee head tow Too much attention has been -paid to * s -. }industries commonly known as “sec: “Fully 40 per cent of the runaways ondary employers of labor, or that —--- | hope to go on the stage.. The most | type of industry which does not pay common secondary cause for run- | q sufficient wage for the head of the aways is love for some man frowned | family. Therefore the father has to upon by the parents. Then, poverty,’ pring the children in as assistant or home squalor, is a factor.” | breadwinners. : “Also, North Carolina has too ——- | Tel. Lehigh 6022. ||| Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF 1 SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours; 9:30-12 A. M, 2-8 P.M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STRERT Cor. Second Ave. New York. { | Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin ‘Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE . | | Some: 803 © Phone Stuyv. 10119! | ee) Phone Stuyvesant 3816 ’ John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES “A place with atmosphere sr where all radicals. meet, : Fonck May Fly. " “ } { mahy dustties “which” segregate ee we Sh” New rout CURTIS FIELD, L. 1, Sept. 11.— themselves, and thereby caute, the = y Be ei if workers to. liye ‘in company .owne | Whether or not Captain Rene Fonck, howe, hese, work schnnot ae French wartime aviation ace, shall the ‘same freedom, will attempt a flight from New York to) make as good citi: pow and S$ as the workers Health food Vegetarian Restaurant **”* 1600 Madison Ave. (;PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5:65. |-nalism—that pate m* which the | American industries so, greatly. hate when practiced by the government ‘to- | ward: industry. - The worker is com- pelled through circumstances to -sub- j mit.” | Insupport of high wages as a spur war minister of France and the sen- |timent of the French nation. | | BUY THE VAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS FOR A_ FRESH, VEGETARIAN WHOLESOME MBAL Come to Ns, ‘ AMALGAMATED | \to pfosperity, Wilson adduced — the Scientific Vegetarian oe uate Ne dee |testimony of many business leaders, Restaur: Meets ist Saturday ||“Yet it appears,” he added, ‘that 75 BE. 107th _— 9 York. in the month at J) certain sections of the United States, 3468 Third Avenue, | because of the low prevailing wages, | ave parasites on other sections where the wage is more commensurate with service rendered, ca Bronx, N. ¥. WHERE DO WE MENT 'ro DiI Paris rests on the decision of the! who are not controlled by such-pater- | ‘SOUTHERN TEXTILE CONDITIONS FRIGHTFUL AS STARVATION WAGES AND PATERNALISM PREVAIL d excellent prospects for the future. No community with low wages can be prosperous. In fact, spiritual, moral and intellectual rights are be- ing sacrificed for property rights.” The Carolina labor chief called not only for unionization but for active | political work to assure at least eight months’ schooling a year for children, better labor laws, suitable child la- bor legislation andgthe regulation of objectionable hours of labor for women, Complaint of Overtime ‘With No Wages Loses Cambridge Man’s Job | CAMBRIDGE, Mags., Sept. 11. — | When a shipper in Lincoln Stores, | | Cambridge, protested against having to work long hours of overtime for no |pay, he was fired. A fellow-worker | | told the boss what he thought of that | incident and got his pay immediately, | He also was fired. Lincoln Stores, Cambridge, is one of a chain of department stores spread over New England. The Cambridge |Store alone showed a net profit of $50,000 las ar. not share in this ;men work eighty hot salesgirls get $13 $1, above the minim limit. prosperity. The a week; the law um wage German Militarist Maneuvers. | BERLIN, Sept. 11.—More than |200,000 persons this* afternoon | watched 53 German airplanes per- | form hair raising stunts over Tem-) pelhofer Field in celebration of the ‘“first German air day” since the | war, | LONDON, Sept. 11.—While un- favorable ocean weather reports to- ~ | day prevented Charles A. Levine and | | South, | | This conclusion is based upon the , ,owners jfrom the north, southern liberals and, Museum of Revolution At Leningrad Preserves Famous Warning to Tsar | } |. LENINGRAD, (By | interesting document | the Museum of Revol Mail).- received An } {inal w Committee sent to Alexa after his asc | Together | the envelope in whict was sent by r 1 to the try | of war addressed to the former| ; | Grand Duke Michael Nicolaevitch to be handed over to the czar. 1 stamp on the envelope bears the} | | date of March 4th, 1881. | This document was printed in| | the secret printing shop of “Naro-| |dnaia Volia” on March 2nd, 1881, | | jie, second day after execution of | the members ot | | | Women Workers Hold Labor Institute at Sweetbriar College ing conditions and ar that “histc for him as we! justice e: | for everybody. SW BRIAR, Va., Sept. 11: Twenty-five sou all active workers in indus > just con- ummer institute for women in industry ever held in the south. From textile and hosiery mills, tobacco factories @nd other plants they came to hear the message that unionism is the only cure for the long hours, low wages and wretched work- ing conditions that characterize the Plans are already being made |for another institute next summer, , probably in North Carolina. With an appropriation of $3,590 from the |Service (Garland fund) and a like amount raised in southern communi+ ties, the institute rented quarters at Sweetbriar College and engaged the services of Broadus Mitchell, profes- sor of economics at Johns. Hopkins as director. Mitchell, author of the authoritative study of the rise of cot- ton mills in the south, stressed the history of industry and its present day problems in the rapidly develop- ing region from Virginia to Texas. Southern students at the Bryn ; Mawr institute for women in indus- 'try were the nucleus for the Sweet- |briar institute. Because of the antag- ;onism created by southern factory against “outside agitators” junionists had full charge of the |school. Atlanta trade unionists raised ;60 per cent of the funds for two |scholarships and the Virginia Federa- \tion of Labor provided another. Two {other federations and local unions in Richmond, Lynchburg and ‘Norfolk ‘contributed generously. CHICAGO, Sept. 11—Decision on the petition: of B. C. Clements to stop | the Tunney-Dempsey fight here Sept. | 22 will be given Monday morning. | Judge Otto Kerner, before whom the American Fund for Public} Ku Kluvers Sends Threatening Letter toCamp Nitgedaiget Camp Nitgedaige ug workers s | nization to r from the labor. ter: Klan. Beacon, New York: Camp Nitgedaiget Beacon, N. Y good America take rty to v you your propaganda re: the ¢ and we will not az to go any fur- ther ou have monopolized t territory d brought in this vi- cin ks believe terrorizing nd when you on you want American govern- good Ame are puni to overthro ment for you Bolshex the it’s right decision towards You cannot succeed ir ak Soveits in this part of the country and neither in any part of the United States- r this is not the ignorant Ru: ganization pledged itself to root out elements like you t want to de- stroy the I y of this country— therefore we demand that you with- .,draw from this territory or else we |will take severe measures against you and you know the methods and | tactics that we apply. We close with |despise and hatred to you. ra K. %. Be |Levine Postpones His Atlantic Flight For Year; Weather Is Bad LONDON, Sept. 11.—Charles A. | Levine won't fly. He announced tonight that his At- lantic flight is off for*at least a year. j After following the weather closely, | Levine explained, he decided it would be unwise to go ahead with his plans. “IT am always prepared to take a chance,” said the intrepid aeroplane | passenger modestly, “but I am not a |mad cap.” Levine, after flying across the At- lantic with Clarence Chamberlin, has been threatening to return by aero- plane for the past few weeks. He had made arrangements with vari- ous pilots, but they had all deserted him, declaring that his ideas about aviation were fantasti Detroit Sacco-Vanzetti Committee Votes Funds To Mrs. Nicola Sacco DETROIT, Sept. 11.—The balance of funds. collected by the Sacco- Vanzetti Defense Committee here, amounting to $434.79 was voted to Mrs. Rose Sacco and her children last Wednesda} The report of the cci- mittee, submitted by William Reese, was submitted, subject to audit, to the Detroit Federation of Labor. The decision of the committee was The workers do! whieh-is only | " Advertise your. union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER * Advertising Dept. 33 First St., New York City. - AND EAT? At the New Sollins Dining Room Good Feed’ Good © any Any Hour any a BETTDR SERVICE 216 Kast 14th Srtect New York Must Unionize. injunction proceedings were argued! sanctioned by the federation which | today, recessed his court late today |discharged the members of the com- {mittee with a vote of thanks. ; until that time | THIRD BLOCK / COOPERATIVE |—HOUSES—| OPPOSITE BRONX PARK ‘}In the Workers’ Co-operative Colony IS BEING CONSTRUCTED by the United Workers Cooperative Association | { | Now is the best time to obtain light, airy, sunny Apartments of 2-3-4 Spacious Rooms The first block houses is completed and fully oc- cupied; the second block is under construction and rented; the co-opeatiye stores are to be opened soon; plans for the third block houses are completed. ‘ Come now to the office of the United Workers’ Co-operative Ass’n and select the best apartment. 69 FIFTH AVENUE Telephone: Algonquin 6900-6901-6902, OPEN DAILY TILL 7 P. M, All modern equipments and accommodations, cultural as well as so- “North Carolina’s industries have now passed the stage of infancy and should be paying better wages. Many financial statements of these xirms can be had and they show real profits “al Capt. Hincheliffe from hopping off! lin jin the Miss Columbia on their west- his determination to make the trip, in spite of the disasters which have overtaken other expeditions. > ward flight, Levine again announced! SATURDAYS, 2 P. cial institutions, size of rooms as well as rent— is sameas that in the] — second block of houses. | M.4

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