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

| will Hydraulic Engineer Says Levee System Won't Stop Floods’ . COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 12.—The/| 1927 flood of the Mississippi River} be repeated, and even larger | floods may be expected in the future. The only method of preventing dis-| | astrous consequences in future years| | Jefferson Market Court. | is to provide the means for handling | the water in excess of the | capacity at New Orleans by providing | either additional channels to the gulf, | definitely set aside for that purp' | of sufficient lateral-storage ¢; | to detain the extess “until. i | gineer, be discharged through regular channels. | This was the keynote of an address | delivered here this afternoon by Na- than: ©. Groyer, chief hydraulic en- U. S. Geological. Survey,. of. Washington, before the convention of the “American Society of Civil En- | gineers: Hydratlic engineers have repeat- edly im the past, even-before the dis- astrous floods of this year, pointed out. that-the--impounding: and: spill- way plan is the only feasible one for thes Mississippi river. It is used suc- cessfully in the: Nile valley. But contracts let by. the gover ment to levee builders, such contracts always being in the nature of polit- ical “pork,” and the prestige of the ngineering Department, U. S. ar a deyotee of the levee system pr vented any change. Neither is any contemplated by .the government now. Now: Fascists “Attack ‘Workers With Guns (Continued from Page One) present hurried to the tube and fer- ries for Hoboken, Beat A Retreat. Apparently the fascists: were in- formed re-enforcements were coming from New-York. When the New York workers reached the headquarters. of the Fascist League on Willow St. near Newark Ave., the building was found guarded. by motorcycle police. Sev- eval hundred Italian workers waited impatiently ross the street for the d. last evening when the Italian workers of this city reached home .af- ter their days’ work they hurried to Newark and Willow St. to join their fellow workers. The black-shirts. re- mained in hiding with their hall under guard. Pa trolmen Left Out In Cold As Officers .Get Big Increases in Wages : (By Federated Press). Rank and file patrolmen and ser- ants—the stiaw bosses on the force | ~#ire left out in the cold in the salary ilereases that Mayor Walker and the | Board of Estimate have promised to! E around. Lieutenants are raise 0, to $3500; captains $500 to $4500; inspectors $500 to $5400. Rank and file fire fighters are‘also passed up, their bosses getting some- what lesser increases than those ac- corded the higher-ups on the police force. More satisfactory is the action in hehalf of street cleaners, whose mini- mum will be raised to $1,750. It is now 500 to $1,600. The city’s A ie men, who have a local acct {filiated with the American Federa- | [Released After Serving channel | to leave the building, but none} en- | me 50° Days for Giving Out Sacco-Vanzetti Leaflets Harold Wood, was released ;from Records Island Tuesday, where he served fifty days for, \distributing leaflets during a Sac- | |eo-Vanzetti demonstration here | | {August 20, | | Wood was given a_ sixty-day. isentence by In im- posing the sentence on Wood, Ewald said: “There is too much| of this going on in New Yor There is no room for you re am only sorry that I can’t give you more time; but I undeistand that the workhouse is very crowd-| ed.” Wood was arrested diring the! New York demonstrations for the | release of Sacco and. Vanzetti|} which were brutally broken up by] jthe police. “Red Nights” Will Begin on Saturday 1| (Continued from Page One) ham St. There they will be assigned corners Arrange Indoor Meets. In addition to the “Red” Nights many large indcor meetings will be held prior to Nov. 8. A rally will be held in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 43d St., Wednesday, Oct. 26th, at which all the Party can- didates in the New York district will speak. Two meetings will be held Sunday, Oct. 30. In the Bronx Pa: supporters will rally at Hunts Point Palace, 163d St. ad Southern Boule- vard. In Harlem a demonstration will jhe held in the Finnish Labor Temple, 15 West 12€th St. Other indoor meet- ings will be announced later. Tonight's Rally. “Tonight three open air meetings will be held by the Party. They will be at Rivington ‘and Eldridge Sts., with Moreau, Dassa, Nehama and C. K. Miller peakers; at 10th St. and Second with William W. Wein- stone, and Charles Mit- chell Ave. Bert Miller peakers and at 138th St.‘and St. Anns Ave. with Solon de Leon, Pat Devine and William L. Patterson as speakers. - * * * GARFIELD, N. J., Oct. 12. — The so-called Taxpayers’ and Citizens’ As- sociation of Garfield, a political or- {ganization under the influence of a | group of local “socialists,” is openly opposing the United Labor Ticket there. . With such candidates as Gus Deak, Felix ’Panerski and John Di Santo, who made records as loyal workers in’ the great textile strike in this dis- trict, the United Labor Ticket fore- casts the formation of a Labor Party. | United Labor Ticket campaign speak- jers are pointing out in part that more |than 30 per cent of the residents of the working class neighborhoods of | Garfield are facing the loss of ‘their ) next two years due to| homes in the the taxation program of the Present | Burke administration. The Taxpayers’ and Citizens’ Asso- |ciation also are opposing the Burke j administration, in part on the grounds | of wastefulness. But it is urging the | election for mayor of Anthony Per- rapatto, who is one of the Burke crowd. Its speakers, including a Mr. | Greenstein, its most active politician, ‘recently attempted to vidicule~ the j United Labor Ss meeting. Garfield workers who recently | gani ized industrially are. now prepared | tfeh of Labor, are infomally promised | to erganize politically. increases, the sums not yet named. Seven hundred new cops will be added tothe foree. + Register today. If you do not register you cannot vote. ee ea. we we #4 reer DAILY WORKER, 23 First, Stree Here is my pledge to read Phe pledge as my revolutionary greetin MMy newsdealer is . Soviet Union on the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION B. CAMPAIGN © DAI ay WORKER WW Sah RN Oe at GR LA Sas Make That Pledge Now Along with the new readers you secure YOUR NAME will appear in the halls of the Kremlin during the, celebrations. of the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. NEW READER'S PLEDGE—Greet the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution vith your pledge to read ‘The DAILY WORKER. New, Y ark, DAILY’ WORKER. Please mail this to the workers amd peasants of the SUB Lope rh Per year... Hy rH Six months Three months Hi 30 In New York Per-year . HSix months Justice Ewald at the| | Ticket plotfarm at a} THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 3, 1927 Striking “Movie” Operators Warn of Scab Fire Perils ARI rs SHIEL DS. (Federated Press.) BALTIMORE, Oct. 12—There is a }movie strike in Baltimore and Harry Cluster, scab theatre owners, is the | chief strikebreaker among the bosse: By As a member of the state board he! has for months been interested in re- ,eruiting a supply of prospective scabs. These scabs do not appear to know their business, for in the last month two fires occurred, due to | |carelessness on the part of the oper- Aided by a company union and an injunction the employers have suc- ceeded in keeping about 47 outlying bor is making a counter move by no- tifying the public of the fire ha: ds in the scab theatres and adver 4 the two fire scares that hav ready occurred since unskilled men were put to work, Henry F. Baltimore‘ Federation of Labor, been busy mobilizing the city’s labor forces, visiting three and four logals eveny evening, and a featuring strike in the columns of the more Federationist which he edits. PARTY ACTIVITIES | NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY Open Air Meetings Tonight. Rivington and Eldridge St. Speak- | thru the smoke-filled halls, ers: K. Miller. Second Ave. and 10th St. Spea ers: William W. Weinstone, Bert Mil-| ler and Charles Mitchell. ers: Solon de Leon, Pat Devine, Will- iam L, Patterson, * * * Open Air Meetings Tomorrow. Seventh St. and Ave. A. Speak-| ers: C. K. Miller, P. P. Cosgrove and M. Pasternack. 25th St. and 8th Ave. Speakers:! Jack Stachel, I. Potash, A. H. Har- field, B, Meyers. Fifth Ave. and 110th St. Speakers: J. 8S. Poyntz, Max Schachtman, Julius! Codkind and J. Goldman. Madison Ave. and 116th St. Speak-} ers: John J. Ballam, John McDonald,' P. Shapiro. Pitkin and Hopkinson .Ave. Speak- © ers: Bert Wolfe, Ben Lifshitz, H. Ehrlich, J, M. Cohen. Section 2 Executive Meeting. meeting of Section 2 will be held Fri- day, 6:30 p. m. at 100 West 28th St. All sub section organizers must bi present, 5 aes, cae Passaic Campaign Opens Sunday. Wm. W. Weinstone, secretary Dis- Broening, president of the filled has} resulted in the di the | four. Moreau, Dassa, Nehana and C:! marked that the St. Anns Ave. and 138th St. Speak Aide Bosses in Arrest | intimidate our men. We must. take!| i i ests, not only agitation but experience iene to aroteet cit : Late last night one liner, “The Re-| —————— OT ERE IS ARTEL " Pele takes. th St. and liane,” had sighted the Stinson-De- 3d § troiter monoplane “American Girl” An enlarged executive committee} Nicholas Slobodianuk, e felonious assault Tuesday. jtriet 2, and Emil Gardos, organizer) N. J. sub district will be the main) speakers at the ratification rally of | | the Passaic County Workers (Com- | munist) Party candidates for state | senator and assemblymen. | will be held this Sunday, 3 p. m. at |the Workers Home, 27 Dayton Ave.|2¢xt Sunday: |Besides the ratification of the six) |Communist candidates from Passaie, | |Paterson and Clifton, the meeting! will also serve to state the position jof the party on the Garfield Labor Ticket. No admission is charged at this meeting, which must be attended by every worker from Passaic aenns) lty and Garfield. % Daily ice: Agents Meeting. A DAILY WORKER Agents’ con-| ternational Labe lem will be held next Wednesday, 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza, Irving Place vend 15th St. Night Workers” Meet Tuesday. A general membership mecting of ithe Night Workers Section will take |place Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 3 p. m, at 108 East 14th St. All members must attend. 7 a i Settle For Tickets. | | All comrades are instructed to set- * . jtle for The DAILY WORKER-FREI-| HEIT Bazaar tickets at orce. Attacks Baumes Law. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 12.—For the | | second time in two days the Baumes | \anti-crime laws were attacked in the) ‘court of appeals today. | Assemblyman Frederick L. Hack- ‘enburg, counsel for Peter A. Seiler, }/22 years old, New York, attacked the provision of the Baumes laws which compels counsel for the defendant in a murder case to outline the defense ito the jury before any evidence is taken. A vote for the Workers Party is. a \vote against war. If you do not regis- ter you cannot yote, Register today. | The rally | | | strikes. | WILLIAM GROPPER /° a é : Vanzetti’s Father and Brothers Weep; Luigia Pao - Vanzetti Reaches Home vestice 0! ai el |openly. suppo Page One) TURIN, IT. AL Y, Oct. 12.—The | | father and brothers of Bartolomeo ; Vanzetti wept and embraced his | sister, Luigia Vanzetti, when she | arrived at their home in Villa Fal-! | worke | letto. | Vanzetti’s ashes, which| | the needle | have been detained at Modane,| jist party is the | will be sent to Villa Fallette as} | quickly possible for interment (in the family plot. ent th been he now he Workers Party Sta Gomez Hides in U. S.| What is the Oil Lands, Says Report) sate yan cialist party a. camnai; (Continued from Page One) information from our I had from the knowledge of the ¢ doubt I might and it propose a | bilize the workers working class poli secret service, | beginning a- full} piracy and any had linger’ in Y by mind was dispelled by G al|erganize the wo: Pheaires open. But te big ewe Serrano himself, ss 0, out of his wits, Party. Upon s : | |houses Have settled with the A. F. of} went so far as to ask me, previous to! Ticket the econ. ane “ateude. of: thecunion the opening of the Congress, to con-| Party would stand for candidat gee inne ae, Seamenanda, inv-theses descend to an attempt to overthrow are loyal to the : Bie big houses helped to bring the man-| Brilliant radical artist leaves soon| the legislative power in its session.” | ers, Such a United Lat sts agers to terms with the operators.)for year’s stay’ in Soviet Union. W ill hecide mimics ee ee ee fon pe se tate tie ef ‘onpesiied 'e*| Opera House sirayesbale night. counter-revolution before it had taken |ed by i Cluster heads the company union, jthe form of a mil ampaign, | tacked by . polic known as Oprators’ and. \ Moseesta| akly aan pret to oral TAC savin alin in every strike The sociali Maryland charter seven years 42 Ss: s E de pens nt wo Fi Relying on an_ injunction pes us :f eiueey red Serrano |tion, does e v ; 3 PAksutes We habeas to GBS Tenement fied from his fool jworlers and subordinates the inter. strike, now five weeks’ old. But la-| ment contin ove |ests of the wo class to those of the opening o: a | the capitalist iB: through the Mexican and stand of the Workers press definite statements the full confidence in the ary munist) Party towards Panker that all} candidacy? This candidate of the {cialist pariy. like E S$ itself, is petty bour to that estime tion by fhe rumors of | terested in appear |treason concerning certain military | getting himself 3 Trapped Children Fire is. He is in- 2 respectable, in xecepted in bourgeo’ owded te the ths of in an ove with work thr dren, Rose Ortez, six, her sister Car-|™ rumors to which newspaper men, | circles as a trustworthy judge. H melina, two, and their brother Carlo, | then interviewing me, referred. |record for the period in which he has The children were asleep in an Didn't Remove Reactionaries. been in office has been one which Balti-| apartment on the top floor when) “I added, in order to establish self|makes him entirely harmless to the| smoke fromthe flames whic feeding upon the the old and dirt; pour thru the dumbw children, who had been loc room during the absence of parents were suffo: ad. by the help arrived. Other families; who. were routed. by.| the.-fire, escaped over the roof or were | confi idence among commanders who | capita might have been considering rebeling | are cnemi jand those who might fee! unsafe be-| cause they * their conscience, was accusing | chout capitalist lemocracy” . that I, as president of Mexico their daily acts " had bound myself as the guarantor | the capit talist of all army commanders, even ls cel like his party, orking class be- read dangerous illusions em. offended with public suspicion. | yy, pene eee hot il. the tritis 0 s a further demonstration of my | the workers, that only thru militant It is re- Purpose to safeguard the military de- jaction by the labor movement can la- re occurred on the |Corum of those presently leading ‘the |i)... break the injunetions. However, | second day of fire prevention week. | revolt which has failed I did not take | the following situation exists in the —— | steps to oes ot ols authority |second municipal court district: pledetets WHE Canina e then were : There are candidates for municipal s ‘ , judge for the republican, democratic. * \and soctalist. parties. The Workers | (Communist) Party has not placed aj — From| candidate of its own into the field time ho Charge Company Union | : ae Mexican Reactionaries ie Texas. of Picketing Strikers'| Peo See lectin ining A result of the arrest of two| |s00 to 500 Mexican are a be-| because in this special instance it strike pickets of the Window Clean-| lieved to have been armed on the| ight have resulted in such a distri-| lers’ Protective Union,. Local 8,.Peter| American side of the border, are pid- | bution of votes as to ensure the elec-/ | Darck, secretary, renewed his charges | ing in the lower border region, waiting | {tion of a most reactionary Tammany | | yesterday against officials of the com- | for an opportunity to cross into Mex- | Hall judge. pany union and employers in the jn-|ico and join the counter-revolution,| Fundamentally dustry. “Officials of our union will testify that the men who were arrested had | the policy of the opposed to the policy of Tammany Hall. Both help to maintain the cap- Mexican ranchmen. been working for the union on strike) BUY THE DAILY WORKER | italist system, and to uphold the clerical duty for the past three days.”|. AT THE NEWSSTANDS | ™&chinery of the capitalist govern- Darck said. “They had been in strike tins ment. We know this. But there are | headquarters all the time and had not | leff the hall, This is,the latest at-|Only One Ship Sights i To convince these workers. that :tempt “on the ‘part of the employer’ gel only representatives of the Commun-} association and the company union to Ruth Elder’ 8 Plane ist Party will fight for their inter-! yets which left with Ruth Elder and Capt. | | George Haldeman sharing the pilot’s! | seat. So far she has been favored by the! | weather, but it was expected that) { | Sometime during the night the storm) |barrier would be reached. A vote for the Workers Party is a! vote against police interference in| 4 i Register today so that you! Soccer Games Sunday. can vote. The Metropolitan Workers Soccer| | League will play the following games | union pickets, were iepested in the union headquarters and charged with | (LaBor AND FRATERNAL || ORGANIZATIONS — | es Health Food Di AY sion H, W. A. C. v8. 8. W. A. ||| Vegetarian Restauran® |j| vs. Freiheit. ih Fy Y. Bagle. | 1600 Madison Ave, i ion “BY. | PHONE: UNIVERSITY &74. { A. C. vs. Spartacus. H Sy Eagle vs. cae = SSS SS * || Phone Stuyvesant 3816 Freiheit. Mandolin Plans for the I. L. D. costume ball} 5 | Oct. 2f will be made at a meeting of! |} John Ss Restaurant : ee ithe city central committee of the In-||] SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES | Cartoonists—Movies, Defense’ at the} A place with atmosphere 1 where all radicain meat, 66 E. 4th St. to- i392 EB. 12th St. All delegates are) | Manhattan Lyceum, night at 8 p. m. asked to attend. . = New York * ” The dowtown branch of the I. L. D. will meet Friday at 8'p. m. at 35 East | Second St., in the Kessler Theater Building: Prominent speaker. Bring | | membership card and friends. { pa Yel. Lehigh 6023. br. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Oftice Hours: 9:80-12 A, M. 3-8 P, mw |) Daily Except Friday and Sunday. j 249 EAST ilsth STREET | Cer. Second Ave. New York. Dr. J: Mindel Dr. L. Hendin ‘Surgeon Dentists i » 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone ne 10119} AND CAFETER fanyxurne IN PHOTOGRAPHY | STUDIO. OR OUTSIDE WORK NO TIPS. ‘Patronixe Our Friend SPIESS. STU DIO — 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St,. Special. mates Leone as > leaders of the n and by | st in perpetuating | | according to reports brought here by/ Socialist party and Panken are. not! many workers who do not know this! COME TO FAREWELL SEND-OFF GROPPER AT CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th St. and 3rd Ave. Friday Eve. Oct. 14, 1927 SPECIAL PROGRAM OF COOPERATIVE RESTAURANT at 30 Union Square Will be opened for business tomorrow Friday, October 14 MEAT, DAIRY and VEGETARIAN FOOD at the counter. Combination Lunch and Regular Supper Served. WORKERS PARTY ANSWERS PANKEN th workers ke of serv will le hostile to Panken. Needle Trade Defense need has man clique the Joint De- Dollar check came in f a shop. ey were fo clique they felt it their to the call of the e of the Joint Boards, the actual trades Registered Workers Join Defense. These examples that come in clearly the who we: with th t and 1 the Sigman nd agai clique. The Dollar Tax campaign must be I concluded in a fe r and sympat paid his tax must Every who has not so im ately. The initiated in order to r:! funds to de- fend the nine f who were sen- tenced to 5 years in prison and whose appeal is soon coming up. It must be a 100 per cent success! Collections and Donations. The workers of the Landau and Nadel shop, 335 West 35th St., sent n $10 for the Dollar Tax. At a party in‘honor of the 3-year jubilee of the wedding of Ethel and Louis Yollin Oct. 6, an appeal for the Cloakmakers end Furriers by Abe Sokoloff brought denations totalling $ 5. Workers of the S. & B. Dress Co. sent 50 collected by Anna Apper and Harry Zucker. Are You A Member? A strong Workers’ Self Defense will be able to defend the vie of the Sigman clique and support their fam- ities. Every worker must become a member and help carry on the fight to final victory. Anyone who has not |yet joined should mail an application to the office of the Joint Defense, 41 | Union Square, Room 714. Storm Hits Poor Villagers BLYTHEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 12.— | Five dead and 18 injured was the toll |of life taken early today by a severe | storm which whipped through the vil- lage of Bell, eight miles from here. {One of the dead is an unidentified boy; most of those injured are poor. Keep Up the Sustaining Fund Orchestra—aArtists ete. 1A ake