The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1927, Page 5

HEARING OF MILK GRAFT EVIDENCE MONDAY MORNING: Bring Charges Against Few Higher-Ups The evidence gathered in the Kelby | report against the small fry involved in the giant milk fraud that has boosted sky-high the price of milk for New York workers is~being pre- | pared by District Attorney Banton. That even small fry will be indicted is regarded as- doubtful by persons who have closely followed the milk situation. The higher-ups’ escaped censure in the Kelby report. The John Doe hearings which will take place before Supreme Court Jus- tice Tompkins next Monday morning, | 1 Babe Ruth. in milk, butter, cream and cheese. Favor By Producers. | A number of officials have already been convicted for having accepted bribes for the importation of milk and cream, below the department of Police Wouldn't Act record of the Health Department dur- ing the Hylan administration, Hylan; Babe Ruth, baseball’s mest popular issued counter-charges against the idol was present administration asserting that charged with it was excluding milk that came from cripple. producers other than a few favored; Bernard Neimeyer recently out of will -cover charges of graft in the! Health Department, including es Charge Bahe Ruth | ' Walloped Cripple; 5 health standards. The investigation will cover the by the administration. , !a hospital where he was treated for a fracture of. his spine, cowardly hitting hit him in the eye. demanded that a traffic cop arrest brot to court yesterday | yincigl Control Commission refers to a THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927 ‘ALL-UNION PARTY -EXPELS FIVE OF -OPPOSING GROUP | MOSCOW, Sept. 12. Several jexeluded f. | munist Pe f the Cen- and the Control Com- istence ies and ended the discredited and repudia | They were eliminated from the Party necause they are cor red degener- ated elements vw factionalism labove every 0 deration. | Pravda, in pub! jof the Control C | part: lar to Dashk ns, refers in who sent to platform tion. The “Dashk | Central ( |to abandon his jtherefore he has on refused -Leninis xcluded from jthe Party degenerated element, ! absolutely stile to the proletarian |party.” | Four More Expelled. The decision of the Leningrad Pro- on members who carried ional work in Leningrad and stematically met in secret meetings told | Which organizationally formed illegal | ‘ oe | Magistrate Stern in the West Side{¢lubs and groups, each such group [Court that on July 4th the ‘bambino {consisting of eight to ten members | When Neimeyer| Who engaged in circulating various | jopposition documents. These opposi- members of the opposition have been | he All-Union Com-,) platfcrm of fifteen.” |* hing the ‘decisions | views, | Steuer Again Charges | Mayor Jimmy Walker Jewish Relief Funds | Pn | Weak “Evidence” j In | Bomb Frame-up May scasoe ss | Repeating his charges that large i | !sums of money mulcted from Jews| H jin this country for Jewish relief in | e ay ll IC men Eastern Europe had been lost thru |the manipulation of exchange in Poland, Max Steuer, New York | The scarcity of evidence against the | lawyer, issued a new statement hit- six young Latin-Americans whom the |ting at members of the committee police department are frantically try- | for criticism of his previous charges. | ing to connect with the bomb explosion | Louis Marshall’s statement, Steuer i near the Brooklyn court house last | Said, failed to “constitute a denial of | Monday morning has resulted again | the charges”. | in a decision on the part of District | Gan eae eae aia Attorney Dodd to postpone his request ourthey® £ Mlight | ae ey eae - CORUNA, Spain, Sept. 12. Dodd had announced that he would | Captain Frank T. Courtney coment as | |ask the grand: jury for the indict-|@mnounced definitely that he ments this morning, but has decided | #bandoned his project for a tra to wait until Wednesday or Thursday. | See fiiaee ee oF en At the same time he declared that a : Encl nee oe se a “all the evidence was in,” with the |?@°* f° “ngla y ver execption of the reporty of the chem- | | ists oh some “white liquid” found in| | i favorable to the prosecution, it wa not made public. Only two of the defendants, Jesus | | explosives,” carrying “concealed wea- | The effort to foist compulsory mili- | pons,” ete. | tary training upon the young work- | jers of the country will be one of the ing will mark the beginning of the fall organization drive of the Young Workers League, under whose auspices the rooms of one of the men. Young Workers Mass This report was said to have been| ready last week, but due to the fact | Mi ti ‘ F id { de Silva and Julian de Hoyas are di-| rectly charged with the explosion, The | ta j 7 problems discussed at a mass meeting Workers Organizations | of young workers at 63 Liberty Ave., Discuss Press Bazaar | the meeting will be held. | The refusal of the American Fed- | that it is reported to have been un-| Protest Militarism jothers are charged with “possessing | fpponiya, Friday evening. The meet- At Irving Plaza Rally) | eration of Labor officialdom and the SESS | Fifty organizations met in Irving New York’s chief magistrate is now) Plaza recently and discussed the hobnobbing with the Pope and Mus~| question of the National Press Bazaar | solini and various other reactionaries| being held in Madison Square Gar- | the | publican NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY | PARTY ACTIVITIES | NEN | Open Air Meeting Tonight.” Rutgers Square. Speakers: A. Markoff; A. Gusakoff; Charles Mit- chell, Open Air Meeting Tomorrow Night. Irving Place and 14th Street. Speakers: Ida Dailes; Nat Kaplan; Ed Royce; and Louis Sisselman. C. W. Bixhy; J. Brahdy; | |the ball player, he refused on recog- | tion elements pursued these methods ‘nizing him. teven after the close of the recent Neimeyeh said that he was looking | joint sessions of the Central Execu- into a window of a» restaurant at tive Committee and the Central Con- Broadway and 74th street; when two | trol Commission. young women passed him. Ruth, followed a few steps behind them. j “Did this guy insult you”, the} ' cripple said the Babe asked one ~ Convention of New them. | + | “Why no,” he quoted one of them vs gop . Jersey Federation in Europe. The conversation with|den on October 6, 7, 8, and 9. joo were to see us ihe or Mussolini caused Tammany Hall’s| Women’s Councils from New York pean ee oe ne ie ee na ie | if S |the United States will also be dis- song writer and mayor to issue ajand New Jersey reported that Sew- sparkling appreciation of the Black-| ing Circles had been formed and that |shirt chief, in which Mussolini's ad-|many fine useful articles will be |miration for Tammany Hall | gratefully recognized. ‘Start Offensive to | Defeat I.L.G.W. Rights : | | Capmakers, Millinery, Raincoatmak (Continued: from Page One) |ers, Jewellers, Shirt Makers, etc., all | Square Garden meeting has been the|declared that booths were being ar- | ing arranged by their general body. | Horticulturists will be pleased to {know that a regular Horticultural | Booth is being arranged by Leo Kling jot Section No. 1. was/ready for the wonderful booths be- | |eussed at the meeting. | Herbert Zam, H. Ehrlich, Sam Don, | all of the Young Workers League, |and Anthony Bimba, representing the | Workers (Communist) Party will be | | the speakers. R. Spector will act as | chairman. Wreck of Old Glory said, Ruth swung on his heel an ‘a = - hit him in the eye. Morning International Branch. The Morning International Braneh | “and at first I didn’t recognize who will hold an educational meeting in had struck me. I recovered enough Room 34, 108 East 14th street, to run’ to the traffic cop on the Wednesday, 10:30 a. m. All early |corner, He walked over with me but “Iwas stunned,” said Neimeyer, | Without another word, Neimeyer CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 12.—Sup- one absorbing ‘topic of conversation| ranged by their respective trades. |among the cloak and dressmakers, Workmen Circle delegates reported | Foolish Statement. jon the distribution of Red Honor A gréat deal of merriment has been/ Rolls. Much has been done and prob- jcaused by Sigman’s statement which| ably a few booths will be arranged. | appeared in the press on Sunday, in| It was reported that Unity House which he claimed that the Joint|had set aside a substantial sum of -{s Found Near Spat , us , ' Page Five FARMER -LABORITE CONFERENCE WILL MEET XMAS. WEEK To Discuss 1928 Ticket; National Meeting Later ST. PAUL, Sept. the Christmas holidays St. Paul or 2 rom states with f izations will la a national Farmer-Labor run against the republican and democratic tickets in the 1928 presidential campaign. The conference is called by the Minnesota ‘mer-Labor Assn. which met in St. 1 to discuss the te and national cf delegates abor organ- plans for National Convention In Spring. Invitations -will go only to such states in the n h est and southwest wn farmer or labor ngth in recent 4 tern es, whose third party ng has been neglig will not be invited to the December conference. But it i a call will then be i vention on a national basis to meet in the spring which will formally place presidential Farmer-Labor ticket in the field, No candidates loom as likely timber at the present moment though there is some talk of U. S. Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska, nominally a re- but aetually active an agrarian and foe of the y ate hydro- electric monopoly. Minnesota farmer-labor problems occupied most of the time of the meet- ing. Henrik Shipstead, the only Farmer-Laborite in the U. S. senate, who is rumored in hostile quarters to be flirting with the republican party as }in connection with the 1928 senatorial campaign, was unable to attend but sent his greetings. A resolution, was | passed requiring candidates for office to file as Farmer-Laborites if they wish Farmer-Labor indorsement, Can- didates must also state Farmer-Labor affiliation in their campaign litera- ture or the indorsement, if already given, will be withdrawn. Would Tax Industry. The conference declared in favor of a state income tax, increased state tax on iron ore to make the steel trust bear its share of public burdens, muni- cipal home rule, lower prices to farm- night workers are invited to be pres- When he saw the Babe he told me he peor Oh a inneponed Reena See ent. \had no time to make an arrest and | * * * F, D, 2—SS. 2-A. Factory district 2, Subsection 2-A will hold an important meeting to- morrow night at 108 East 14th St., 6. 30 p. m. Matters concerning seven members will be taken up. * * * | advised me to get a summons.” Federal Rum Prober zoning laws and opposition to the proposed law creating a four year term for the governor were urged to- {day by Arthur A. Quinn, of Sewaren, |N, J., president of the New Jersey | State Federation of Lakor, in his ad- {dress at the opening session of the 49th annual convention, at the Walt ing municipalities the right to enact | 35414 had filled the Garden by bring-| money for supplies of a comprehen- ing people from New Jersey and| Connecticut. . The workers realize | {that -only’ a desperate man could} |make such @ ridiculous statement. | | The workers are expressing grati- | {fication over the fact that the Joint} | Board has begun this present offen-| . | Where She Vanished ers on state prison products like bind- a er twine and guaranty of bank de- sive booth carrying full lines of all! The wreck of the monoplane “Old | posits. On national issues it demand- the season’s best garments, etc. Glory” was found late yesterday af-|ed repeal of the federal reserve act, Workers’ Clubs from various dis-|ternoon in the north Atlantic. passage of the McNary-Haugen farm tricts declared their intention to have! The following radio message was Telief bill, repeal of the guarantee to booths worthy of a National Bazaar.| received here from the S. S. Kyle,|?ailroad investors in the transporta- The fact that only four more weeks /Canadian government steamer which | tion act and an end to the govern- are left till the Bazaar was stressed | was chartered by the Daily Mirror to | ™ent’s use of force to further the in- terests of American investor's in for- \ . ‘Faces Suit: Char g | ty | sive, and great masses of them are|by many delegates and an urgent ap-| search for the missing plane: e 5 ‘Whitman Hotel. ‘ |coming to the Joint Board offices and | peal made for intensive activity from, “Located wreck of Old Glory, | eign lands. | The convention will last three erst Unit F 1—SS 3-E. paying \their dues so that the Joint| now on until then. Bazaar Commit-/ latitude 51:17, north; longitude 39:23) Unit F 1—SS/3-E will hold an im- portant meetingstonight, 6 p. m., at 100 West 28th St. * * * Night Workers’ Section. General membership meeting of the Night Workers’ Section will be held next Tuesday, 3 p. m., at 108 East 14th St. Jack Stachel, head of the organization department will report on the Fifth National Convention of the Party. Election of officer€ will also take place. (LABOR AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS Furriers Sewing Room in the Bronx. ; The. Bronx Women’s Furriers Council has opened a sewing room at With Cruel Torture Augustus Heise, former assistant, here. federal prohibition administrator, is charged with torturing one of ‘his subordinates. Arthur Briggs, former federal agent, yesterday started suit for | $190,000 in the supreme court against Heise. He claims that Heise gave him the third degree in an effort to make him confess certain matters. Briggs, who last year was ac- quitted of bribery charges says that! ‘Heise, who at that time was attached | |to the staff of Major Chester P.| | Mills, took him on the night of De-| cember 13, 1926, to prohibition head- | quarters, 1 Park Ave., and kept them |a prisoner until eight the next morn- jing. He said that at Heise’s order jand is attended by 500 delegates |from every labor union and trade in) |the state. It is the first time in 20) years that the meeting has been held | After reading his report for the year, President Quinn made the ‘address, touching on legislation, med- | lical testimony concerning injured} workers, the Passaic strike, vocation- | al training, and the extension of ¢he| use of the union label. | Approves Zoning. | Board will not be lacking in funds. | The Joint Board is continuing its) propaganda campaign along the same| lines'fs last week. A leaflet was dis-| | tributed in the market yesterday call- | aar, putting it on its feet. ing for the election of shop commit- | tees, and reminding the workers that the best way of protecting their in- terests in the shops is that there should be unity in their own ranks. The leaflet calls upon the workers to continue not to pay dues to Sig- | tees are formed in every organization | west, at 4:20 p.m. But no sign of and those organizations not at the|crew. Particulars follow.” Muste Elected Head ‘ | of Peace Fellowship Bazaar are urged to follow suit. 2 is - Labor's press depends upon the Baz-| Muir, is Douglas Muir, St. Johns, | Sana Newfoundland newspaper man who is| ASBURY PARK, N. J., Sept. 12.— aboard the S. S. Kyle as a repre-| A. J. Muste, dean of the Brookwood sentative of the Daily Mirror, the| Labor School at Katonah, N. Y., is {newspaper of which Philip Payne,! president of the fellowship of recon- who was aboard the ill fated “Old|ciliation for another year. He was Glory,” was managing editor. re-elected at the close of the order’s The Tocation given in the dispatch) annual convention at the Ocean Hotel is in the vicinity from where the S.| Mere. Celebrate Olgin's | Federation,” ito 4 years, and the members of the urday and Sunday at the headquar- “The executive board of the State} man and his agents, but to pay dues” Quinn said, “approved|to the Joint Board so that the the amendment which will permit | pogrom can be finished before an- municipalities. to enact zoning ordi- | other season passes. mances and it is worthy of your sup-/ * * port. The fourth amendment will, if | To Issue Detailed Statement. adopted, extend the term of the gov-| The Unity Conference Committee ernor and the state senators from 3|of the Furriers’ Union that met Sat-/ assembly from one to two years. On | ters of the New York Joint Board, 22) the face of it the amendment is|East 22nd St., will issue a detailed| Twenty-five Years jn Labor Movement « The celebration of the niversary of M. J. Olgin’s revolu- tionary and literary activities will take place this coming Saturday evening at Carnegie Hall. For the fi time, the Freiheit 25th an- |0. S. from Old Glory was received), Other officers elected were James {when she vanished more than a week Workers Drama League | Chooses Casts Friday A membership meeting of the} Workers’ Drama League will be held at 64 Washington Square, south, P. Boyd, of New York, vice president and William C. Biddle, of New York, treasurer, Find Mrs. Snyder Sane. OSSINING, N. Y., Sept. 12.—Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray have been re-examined by the State Lunacy Comm: n the death house in Sing Sir son and have been found sane, according to infor- 1542 Minford Place, Bronx, for pur-|he was tied to a chair and a towel pose of making articles for the Na-| wrapped around his face, and that tional Press Bazaar in Madison | then they began twisting the towel. ‘Square on October 6, 7, 8 and 9. Vol-. unteers are urged to report there for working any evening. | Plenty of Booze in Capital. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. —| * * * The nation’s capital city measures Iron Workers Meet Tonight. |up as wet or wetter in comparison An important meeting of the Iron with other big municipalities, ace} ‘and Bronze Workers’ Union will He | cording to annual police reports to- | held tonight at the Rand School 44Y- | building, 7 East 15th St., 8 p. m. The Say ekiena eS question of rejoining the interna-| Will Continue Detroit Labor Forum. tional will be taken up. Reports) DETROIT, Sept. 12 (FP). — The about the conditions in the trade, the) Detroit Labor Forum, a Sunday af- setivities of the union and its finan- ternoon educational institution under | further activities will be proposed and ‘discussed. cial standing will be given. Plans for Detroit Federation of Labor auspices, | will resume its work this fall. } harml but I would like ‘to call! your attention to the fact that it will | remove the elected law-making of- ficers further from the people. “We should bear in mind the never ending conflict between those who} govern and the governed. I am con- | vinced that the best interests of the working people of New Jersey would be served by voting against the) amendment as its enactment means! that it will be harder to gain legis-) lation protecting and maintaining the | rights of workers.” Dr. John M. Bassett, of Essex | County, made an address dealing with rehabilitation work in the state and urged that more attention be paid to details of adjustments between in- There will also be given ‘a short! Keep Up the Sustaining Fund jured workers and their employers. talk by a prominent labor leader on | the topic: “Unemployment, Its Causes | and Its Solutions.”} It is very im- portant that every member shall be The union is also announcing that during its present organization cam- paign, iron and bronze workers from the open shops may join the union at feduced initiation fee. ~|Sixty-Girls In Nal COAL BARONS SPREAD ANTI-UNION PROPAGANDA present at this meeting without al IN ANTHRACITE; MINE WORKERS FACE HUNGER | SHENANDOAH, Pa., Sept, 12.—, |Anthracite operators plotting the }gradual disintegration of the United} Mine Workers of the anthracite/ have begun a different set of tactics. | | Their colliery superintendents are) spreading slanders among the miners Biscuit Company Quit ati gangways and, breasts about the Jobs After Wage Cut Sixty girls slaving in the Na- tional Biscuit Company factory at | 16th street and 10th avenue have gone out on strike. The girls who suffered severe .|wage slashes several months ago spontaneously quit their jobs. The National Biscuit Company has sys- tematically smashed the attempts of its.workers to organize. | mine-committee men, who, aecording |to these rumors, accept bribes, show | | partialities, and under certain cir- cunstances, “lay down on the job.” The superintendents floating these vivigus reports usually size up their) the street.can be heard as some mon, before talking. As a rule they pick out men who. seldom attend union meetings, and express more concern for their button than for the union, These men fall easy dupes, to false stories, causing the innocent committemen much trouble, and mak- ing local union sessions frequently stormy as accusations fly back and forth, Slack time still hangs like a pall over the anthracite region. Money is tight, and long days give men plenty | of time to reflect on empty purses, ‘and hungry families. The strain cre- ates a psychology that is ideal for the dark purposes of the operator whose greatest enemy is the miners’ | union. Familiar whistles keep silent on idle days. But the squeak of boots men pass on their way to work. These men have been issued permits by the eommitteemen, granting them the right to perform emergency work. By emergency work is understood such work as, if delayed, might prevent the coliery from starting up when such orders come in. unity program later in the week. | At the conference delegates were} present from Toronto, Montreal, ; Philadelphia, New York, Newark and Brooklyn. Communications were re-| ceived from Chicago, Boston and} Winnepig. ‘ | The delegates discussed at great | detail the conditions in the union.| Those representing the out of town | unions said that the fight here has its | reaction in the fur markets all over | the country. | - Makes Work Difficult. | It was pointed out that where lo- cals support thegleft wing the Inter-| Singing Society and the Freiheit| Friday evening. imation given out by prison attend- Mandolin Orchestra will appear in a| Casts for the three one-act plays ants. ‘ united program. | to be produced shortly by the League The well-known Jewish artists of | Will be selected. All workers who the Jewish stage, Maurice Schwartz,|Wish to take part in the plays are Jacob Ben-Ami, Bertha Kalish, will] Uged to attend. participate in the program. Nina | FARE aioe Wolf, violinist will play. Leaders of | the American labor movement will) greet Olgin. Probe Mineola Gambling. MINEOLA, N. Y., Sept. 12. trict Attorney in N. Edwards to- day started to present to the Septem- ber grand jury evidence against the operators of alleged gambling wheels ton the boardwalk at Long Beach. Upholsterers to Meet to Make Bazaar. Plans Upholsterers are urged by the Boss Printers Meet. Wife and 3 Children |Bazaar Committee to attend an im-; The forty-first convention of the |portant meeting at 108 East 14th| United Typothetae of America open- Starving, Unemployed | street Thursday at 6:30 p. m. ed at the Commodore last night and Worker Steals $2.95 | Plans for the giant Daily Worker will continue through Thursday. jand Freiheit Bazaar at Madison national office starts a campaign to make their work difficult. As an! His wife and three children facing example, it was shown that the tac-| starvation and eviction from his base- ;Square Garden October 6-7-8-9 will |be discussed. promptly from the progressive locals. ties of the right wing is to demand | ment room, Arthur Sandoval, 24, un-| iy hake LSE " Anti-Fascisti Holding payment of dues and taxes more;employed dishwasher snatched al | purse from Anna Howard Sunday af- ° A North Bergen Picnic ternoon. Sandoval, who lives with his wife and undernourished children at | Prohibition Agent and NORTH BERGEN, N, J., Sept. 12. —Walter J. Knight, a federal prohi- bition agent and his wife, both of them mile chase. bilé z and sent two motorcyele policemen in. pursuit. They are being charged with disorderly conduct. | Their speeding; automo- “4 Five Hurt In Crash. MEDINA, N. Y., Sept. 12.—Five persons were in the hospital here. to- day following a crash between a mo- toreycle and an automobile on the state highway near Oak Orchard. Capmakers Meet Tonight. The Capmakers’ Section of the T. U. E. L. Will meet tonight, right after work at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Kast Peurth St. |\Wife Jailed as Drunks. drunk, were arrested today after a two | zagged in Hudson Boulevard | 229 West 238d St., faces a charge of | grand larceny. | The purse taken by Sandoval con- tained only $2.95, but he faces a long }jail term if convicted. The unem- | ployed worker told the police that his rent was overdue | forced to extreme measures. and that he was NORTH BERGEN, N. J. — On September 18 the Anti Fascisti Alli- ance of North America will hold a} picnic at Alzeman’s Park, North) | Bergen, for the benefit of the fami- lies of the Italian political prison-| ers. There will be songs, dancing! {and music... The admission price is BUY THE DAILY WORKER ——S Tel. Lehigh €023. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours; $:30-12 A, M. 2-8 P.M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STREET ibs Second Ave. New York. urgeon Dentists | | Dr. L. 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