The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1927, Page 5

— At PARTY ACTIVITIES. NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY Railway Mail Union Avoiding Strikes, Still Dissatisfied i rae apes WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Back “ * from the 28th national convention at Boston, officers of the Railway Mail} Seventh St. and Ave. C. Speakers: Association, the A. F. of L. union|¢, Kk. Miller, William Patterson of the railway postal service, sketch- | and George E. Powe: ed the union’s program for the com- * ing biennium. Primary in the legis- lation to be asked of congress is the Madison Ave. and 106th St. Speak- Kelly postal policy bill providing that |e: Charles Mitchell, the post office department shall be | Philip Frankfeld. conducted for service rather than) Rutgers § profit. Otherwise the department will George Primo: be foreed-into the dilemma of oppres- | Herbet. sive postal-rates on industry or low wages and bad working conditions for | the men in the service. is calling a meeting of functionaries Wages and. conditions of postal | to take up a number of very impor- workers must be based on American | tant problems. The meeting will be standards, the.union argues. Inas-| held tonight at.7 7 p. m, afich08 East much as the organization Was: no Lathe: St. Every ORS eesenk right to ke, its standards must-be | cutive committee mus e present. judged against those of union work: | An ers who do establish the going wage| qistrict 4, rates and brought up to their level |}erq Tuesday the association insists. Other poigts| 14th St. in the legislative program include? + Dual hour and mileage bill for road clerks. A time differential in night workers. A more rigid steel mail car law. Highe@ wages, vacation and sick | leave for substitutes. {44-hour week for terminal, Subsection 3-C Meets Tonight. A meeting of Subsection 3-C will Report of functionaries and Open Air Meetings Tonight. Open Air ‘Mesungs Tomorrow. subsection 2A at 6:30 at 108 East 2F 1 D. Unit 2F, 1D meets tonight, 6:30) of |p. m. at 89 East 10th St. All mem- |bers must attend. * favor Daily Worker Agents Meeting. All Daily Worker Agents must at- trans- | tend and all party units must be rep-} nd office clerks. resented at the Daily Worker con- 200 wvetirement annuity, with| ference next Wednesday, 8 p. m., at provision for payment of 50 percent | 108 East 14th St. of the annuity to the widow. * . * The union demands the end of the Pioneers Meetings. speed up system introduced by Will, ‘The following Pioneer ‘sections will Hays and Harry New, the republican) meet this week. All children who postmaster Thirty days | want to join are invited to'attend the for vacation of 15 also| meeting in the section where they fe sought. live. The convention made no demand! On saturday’ at 2 p. m.: for general wage increases but /in- Bronx, 1347 Boston g oe Upper jorsed the principle of additiona pay | Harlem, 81 E: for long vice. An increase of $100} burgh, at the beginning of the tenth year | 35 Road; t 110th St. 29 Graham Ave.: Dowtown, East 2nd St.; Brownsville. 63. Lib- and $100 additional for each five| erty Ave. year period thereafter was recom-| ¢po_, -operative House, Sunday at 11] nended. a. m.; Lower Bronx, 600 East 140th Additional funds were swoted for or-| s¢,, Friday at 6.30 p. m.; Bath Beach, ion work. Insurance benefits ability due to accidents* were | raised from $21 to $24.50. The as- sociation has paid nearly $250,000. in| weekly benefits to 2,500 members in ast two years and $65,000 to the veneficiaries of 16 members killed on 1940 Benson Ave., Friday at 6.30 p. m. * * ” Dance for Daily Worker. International Costume Bail given by Branch 6, Section 5, W. P., Sat- urday, September 24th at 2700 Bronx junky Park East. Admission 35c. Benefit All national officers were re-clect- of DAILY WORKER. They include President W. M.| . 3 * Jollins, H. W. Strickland, industrial | secretary and editor; Vice-President | J. F. Bennett and Secretary R. E. Ross. Night Workers’ Section. General membership meeting of the Night Workers’ |tomorrow at 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 officers will also take place. Youth Dying From Bullet. Antonio Trucco, 23, is in a critical | -ondition .in Coney Island Hospital ‘rom a bullet wound sustained early his morning. He said he attended a party last night, and that when he was walking to a subway station a shot was fired out of the darkness, the bullet penetrating his chest, just oelow the heart, E | Young Workers League Functionaries Meeting The District Executive Committee is calling a meeting of functionaries to take up a number of very impor- tant problems. The meeting will be held ‘tonight at 7 p. m., at 108 East | 14th Street: Every member of an exe- | cutive committee must be present. AMALGAMATED FOOB WORKDRS Bakers’ Loc, No. 164 Meets ist Saturday in the month at $468 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. ¥. Ask ft Union Label 3 Brend. P WANTED DISHWASHER WANTED at Workers’ Club 150 East 28th Street. E. 84 St., Room 12 Regular meetings every Ist and 3rd Sunday, 10 A. M. { Employment Bureau open every day at 6 Ps M. | ei a = ||| ANYTHING IN eee Advertise your union meetings STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK here. For information write to Patronize Our Friend The DAILY WORKER SPIESS. STUDIO Advertising Dept. 4 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. 3 First St., x Special Rat for Labor Organiza- i edadtisde eR eN Lore ity tons “* Ssetablished 1881.) (frei. Lenten €033. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A, M. 2-8 P.M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere ~where all radicals meet. 302 E. 12th St. New York pete racked poe Silesia eee mi == dl ‘ — 2 ee = Health Food Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L, Hendin | Vegetarian Restaurant Surgeon Dentists 1600 Madison Ave. 1 UNION SQUARE , | | PHONE: UNIVERSITY. 6265. Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119} | ea Renta iae eae | WHERE DO WE MEE'T..TO DRI AND EAT? Af the FOR A FRESH, WHOLESOME VEGETARIAN MBAL ccontipee te. New Sollins. Dining Room Scientific Vegetarian Baad Feed ; nung Company Restaurant Ang, Hour rs bai | BETTER 75 E. 107th Street New York. | : SERVICE t 14th Srteet 216 New York International Costume Ball Given by BRANCH 6, SECTION 5, W. P. ‘ Saturday, September 24 2700 BRONX PARK EAST ADMISSION 235c. BENEFIT DAILY WORKER, bee pels by at 6 p. m., at 100 W. L. Borer and} The District Executive Committee | membér “fan exe-/ important meeting of factory | will be ; Williams- | Ruth Elder, “Flying Flapper,” parently to lead and shame the me that way. whose apparent anxiety to cross the Atlantic comes when the men fliers n to do their “duty” to aviation. "More rm More nia | For Tammany Hirelings, | Wish of Comr. Warren The creation of over 1,000 jobs | |in the New York police departmenf, | | including 146 officers and 970 men | \ia requested by Commissioner Jo-| | | seph A. Warren. In addition, plums | |in the form of salary increases to} the extent of $3,500,000 is also | asked. The pay raises are to go only to | the higher-ups, it is admitted. T spector, seven inspectors, deputy inspectors, 94 captains, 5: lieutenants, 250 “first grade” di | tectives, 962 sergeants, ete. No! | mention is made of raises for no- | | licemen. | | Warren would also like to toss a} $5,000 a year raise to Chief City | Magistrate, William McAdoo who| now gets $12,500. Others on the| favored list include: 48 city mag: | ; Strates from $10,000 to $15,000; dis- | trict attorney of Richmond county, | from $7,500 to $15,000, and large number of other Tammany func- tionaires. ‘Workers in Long Strike; MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., (By Mail). —The upholsterers’ strike, conducted by Local Union No. 61 at Brooks Par- lor Furniture Co. is now over three weeks old. In spite of all shameful tactics em- standing scab and strikers could not be broken. such inducements as $75 per and $100 bonus wall of determined strikers and de- stroy their united fight and courage. Instead of that, the number resents a front of 150 faithful sol- diers of one union. Later the company and Citizens’ Al- liance secured the arrest of five strike | ground, i Families Stand. Behind the strikers are standing their families, who regularly are helping the strikers on the picket line. One often can find wives and children marching back and forth with strik- ers. They realize that when their hus- bands come home from work tired, with the pay check not enough to buy food and clothing for the family, the cause of their troubles they lay at the door of owners of industry with thelr speed-up system. | That Bosses Fear | | and - j EVERY BOOK REVIEWED OR ADVERTISED IN The DAILY WORKER you will find at is | THE JIMMIE HIGGINS { BOOK SHOP 106 University Place NEW YORK. cluded among these are chief in-} | fifteen | | | Conference to Aid Them Section will be held} ployed by this firm with faithful as- sistance of Citizens’ Alliance, the out- strike-breaking agency of our city, the solid front of Even week were not strong enough to penetrate thru the cement of strikers have increased and now rep- leaders and is trying to frame+up these workers. But strikers hold their ‘Workers’ Schoo! to | Open Today; Expect | Hundreds to Enroll The TWenieras Befcol, whieh opens its fifth year on October 10th, is more than a training school for active par- ticipants in the labor movement. It is a part of the labor movement. It supplies speakers for strike meet- ings, organizers for unorganized | workers, its student body and the | school as an institution participated in such campaigns as the fight for acco and Vanzetti, the Hands Off China campaign, the Pas relief, ete. It has stimulated workers’ educa- tion in the trade unions of New York and many other citi It supplied teachers and established classes in Passaic, Elizabeth, Paterson, Newark and Philadelphia, Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx. It sent lecturers as far as Boston, New Haven, Hartford, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washing- ton and sent mimeographed course out- lines to industrial centers all over the United States. It trained teachers °| who are now directing classes in Bal- Minneapolis Upholstery timore, Boston, Akron, Cleveland and other cities. It hopes eventually establish a chain of Workers Schools thruout the country and correspond- ence courses for self-study. All workers, therefore, who wish to serve the labor movement in the double capacity of directly participat- ing in the class struggle and at the same time preparing for more effec- to Workers School. Registration begins on Monday, September 19th. ~ The new catalog of Fall courses has just come out. You can secure a copy 108 East 14th St., LABOR AND FRATERNAL | ORGANIZATIONS | Booth At Bazaar. The Progressive Group, Local 38, appeals to all members. of the local and friends to contribute articles for its booth at the Daily Worker-Frei- heit bazaar, Workers should also get articles from their friends. Send them to L. Lieb, care of Goodman, 1 East 111th St. * Furriers Sewing Room in the Bronx. The Bronx Women’s — Furriers Council has opened a sewing room at 1542 Minford Place, Bronx, -for -pur- pose of making articles for the Na- tional Press Bazaar in Madison Square on October, 7, 8 and 9. Vol- unteers are urged to report there for working any evening. * * * Soccer Club In Bensonhurst. The Red Star Soccer Sport Club is organizing a branch in Bensonhurst. For information see E. Gaddesoff, the Progressive Center, 1940 Benson Ave. Dr, Lieber At Cooperative. The Workers’ Health Conservation Center, B, Lieber, M.D., Dr. P.: H. for children under ten, an appropriate the Co-operative Colony, 2700 Bronx Park East (Lexington Avenue sub- way to 180th St., then shuttle to Al- Jerten Avenue station) is offering free health talks from the working class viewpoint every Sunday morn- ing. At 10 a. m. for chilgren, always in English, on alternating Sundays for those under and those over ten years of age, if weather permits outdoors. At 11 a. m. for adults, in the au-, |ditorium, on alternating Sundays in| Yiddish and English. WESTERVILLE, 0., Sept, 18.—} The office of general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, vacated by the recent death of Wayne B. Wheeler, will be nominally assumed by Dr. Francis Seott McBride, general sup- evintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, until additional appointments are made by the executive board of the organization, according to an an- noucement from league headquarters here today, tive work therein, should attend the ‘ by writing to Bertram D. Wolfe, di-! rector of the Workers School, New York City. are drawing back from the foolhardy task. Several women fliers are cayorting about in the public eye, ap- The state, war and navy departments have refused to stop! the flights, and various air service officials aré insisting that men must die if need be to promote the military value of aviation, to gain experience in ocean air currents so that wars can be fought ie (Pin phic.) IN TEST FLIGHT. | Frances Grayson, Forest Hills real estate operator, who hopes to fly across Atlantic, made test flight in her new amphibian at Curtiss Field, sitting beside her pilot, Wil- mer Stultz. Photo shows Miss Grarson in cockpit of plane. gathered Hindenburg said: “The accusation that Germany was responsible for this greatest of all wars, classes of German people unanimous- ly repudiate itt envy that younger brother, re- turned home after a _ prolonged vacation visit to Canada and were | welcomed with only a minimum of ceremony. immediately . Germany Did Not Cause. World War, Hindenburg Tells Militorist Gang, Sept. sly repudiated the world war. the of the old since army the armistice, we hereby repudiate. Tt was or hate or desi we drew the sword. in yteservation of our existence SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. ; 18—The Prince of Wales and his Prince George, They expected ard a special for London. 18.—Germany, | ism in India and elsewhere. dent Von’ Hindenburg, to- re- largest assembly ever | Von | All not out of e of conquest On the contrary with all the terrible sacri- fices demanded of the whole nation, was the extreme measure resorted to to leave|the one hand keep its troops train | tented” by |“Q@OMETHING of > Bhienaa in the respectal British Hota of Commons the ,other day or y ;read in the “Daily Herald.” T casion for it was a question p' Wilfrid Wellock the new labor » ber for dge. fe asked the secretar r whet brothels filled with -old ¢ had been established by tk military ‘authorities in Nank jthe British and American tr jif the Wom Department of th Kuomintang had protested.” lowed. Membe rose in the might of ask whether it honorable membe le so ¥ An uproa |the tory side to for an serious ¢ ish milita the noise had s | King, for the w |the question: Jor American just anger order | Nanking.” “Jix” Jn Action. “Jix” then rose—our righteous, Communist hat home secretary Seething with that moral indignation | which he has since been ‘using up against the new Prayer Book, he de- manded to be told what power the jhouse had to find out “if there was |any foundation at adl for putting ssertion as ” Loud |tory cheers and disturbances from the | labor benches demand further that the | questioner be compelled to put down his grounds for such a question. The it of commons incident finished at | that point. The speaker intervened jand Wellock announced his intention lof looking further into the question. | Rob the Cradle. | However the sequel occurred only ja few days ago when in conversation | with a journalist lately returned from | Shanghai we learned the truth of the |matter. He said: “The British au- | thorities have established thirteen or fourteen large brothels. They are |filled with little Chinese girls from }12 to 15 years of age. The Women’s Department of the Kuomintang did protest against the outrage.” Our |comrade was able as an eye witness to testify this. But these establishments < |hai and not at Nanking whe | true there are no B: h or A The whole incident It is typical of | perialism and also typical is the seeth- ing moral indignation of “Jix at the “monstrous accusation,” the “ser- jious allegation,” etc, knowing as everyone who has studied history | must, the record of British imr 1 It is im possible to believe that his rage arose ‘om the consciousness of ‘virtue and not from chagrin at the scandalous exposure. Kenworthy the same day in ment pointed out that there have been for many brothels under the British authorities in Hongkong. There are houses of ill fame in Grant Rd. Bombay, of which the Labor Women published |photographs in March of last year, where in iron cages open to the street women of all nationalities, wait for queues of men, all Europeans. These | houses flourish for the profit of Bri jish owners under the protection of |the British police authorities in Bom- bay. parlia- Aftermath of Empire. Brothels, alcoholism, veneral eases follow imperialism and i ies wherever they go. Th inevitable outcome because it must on “con- dis- arm- /pandering to their baser lusts, pre- | These things are wronged | Commander | years licensed ; any means ayailable by | Page Fiv® Will Spread. th Its of rying brothers Amer- letters from tk a t s and chil- , if they wounded i venereal hold of them. to the Chinese » girls of 14 or and every war, the italiat ducing more and more The ien of the world must stop wars. disarmament conferences will do it, but they can by joining with the united front of the ing class. The slogan of all w must be direct action—any act to stop war. U.S.S.R. Experts On Fruit Trading Study in America A delegation of enting Soviet t fruit experts rep- ding organizations which market about 400,000 metric tons of fruit yearly has arrived in this country to make a study of the Amer- ican fruit industry to place orders for fruit canning ng equip- , it w terday by Amtorg Corporation re: the Trading hich handles purchases of machin- ery fi he Soviet Union. According to members of the dele- gation only 25 per cent of the Soviet Union normal fruit crop of 2,000,000 |tons is usually delivered to the prin- cipal consuming centers of the coun- try. This condition is due to insuf- ficient transportation means, as well as to the lack af modern facilities for conserving fruit and vegetables. As much as one half of the fru crop goes to waste. It is with a v |serving the crop for sumption that the S proposes the e ew to cone tie con- >vernment of a num- fruit to be equippe the most modern requi “The United States developed fruit cannir nce with ments. lindustry has been ne for our study of produc We expect also to purchase i country machi for canneries and drying |Mr. M. Zlotin, membe | gation. Other members A. MN. [acheter and_S | Germans Seek Higher BERLIN, Sept. heels of the federal ent’s wage increase to employes, totalling a S approximately four hu ndred million dollars, a wave of wage-demands ig | spreading German indust Wages. 18.—Coming on the co-op. stores are already pose operative stores. 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