The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1927, Page 5

peer “Sagan ae TRS —_ EE RS NS LT | Mis, Knapp to Tell of State Pay Ralls in Graft Exposure | ALBANY, Oct. 26. — Fear that) forthcoming defense affidavits by} Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp would ex-| pose a greed for graft in both re-| publican and democratic circles was | felt here today. | Mrs. Knapp, republican and former | tion membership meeting tonight at/ New York secretary of state, is/ charged with delivering large chunks | of the 1925 state census appropria- | tion to relatives and “deserving” poli- | ticians. Observers say charges were | brought against her at this time to} lower the prestige of the republican| Will be held Tuesday, Nov. 8, at Irv-| party in the election Nov. 8. Mrs. | Knapp, however, is said to resent be- ee by the Workers (Communist) | ing forced into the role of “sacrificial |Party. Dancing will continue, until lamb” for the republican machine. | In-her affidavits she is expected | to defend herself individually as be- ing at least no more culpable than the other capitalist party job holders at the state capital. In her first af-| f » made public yesterd she denied all personal guilt. At the last session of the Moreland Act hearing of formal charges| against Mrs. Knapp testimony show- ed checks made payable to C. B. Knapp, a-step-son of Mrs. Knapp, were deposited to Mrs. Knapp’s cred- it at the L. W. Edwards and Son De- partment Store at Syracuse. | It Was a Good Job. | Patrick J. Sullivan, manager of the Edwards Store took the stand and] swore that a check for $2,875 bearing the name of C. B. Knapp had been deposited at the Edwards Store in February 1926, to the credit of Mrs. Knapp. Sullivan testified that two other checks made payable to C. B. Knapp and C. H. Smith, one for $208, and the other for $333, were deposited at his store to the credit’ of Mrs. Knapp. Sullivan testified that M Knapp now owes his store $1,885. He said one purchase made by Mrs. Knapp at his store was a fur coat costing $550. 20,000 Insurance Toilers In Union Is Goal Drive (Continued from Page One) which his clerks are sending to Bright. In his last speech over the Debs radio Bright read snatches from some of these letters to the workers listening in. “I wish,” said one Metropolitan letter writer, “someone would force the autocratic Haley Fiske to attempt to live in New York on $12 per week. But no, the exclusive gentleman won’t even ride in the elevators if one of his ‘children’ happens to be in them. I, not knowing the gentleman, and not knowing his commands, once endeavored to ride with him, and was unceremoniously shoved aside with the door slammed in my face.” Said another: “Twenty-five years ago I entered the employ of the Metropolitan at a salary of $8 per week, that being the starting wage for women employes at that time. in 1919, seventeen years later, I was re- ceiving $14 a week. It is now, 1927, $24 a week, a total increase in 25 years of $18. In the work I am doing, I may not, under the present system, receive more salary even if I work for the Metropolitan 25 years more. “The work is very exacting, the de- partments are usually underclerked, the amount of work to be done in- creases rapidly; the ‘high-pressure’ system is employed generally thru- out the home office. It is common among the clerks to refer (confiden- tially, of course) to. the home office as the ‘sweat-shop.’” fHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1LYZT Page Five ORGANIZATIONS Cooperative House I. L. D. An important meeting of the Coop- ive House Bianch of the Interna- tonight in the auditorium at 2700 Bronx Park, East. A speaker from the national office will be pres- ent. Sub-Section 2B Meets Tonight. Sub-Section 2B will hold a sub-sec- 6:30 p. m. at 100 West 28th St. Elec- tions of officers will take place. Dance November. 8th. A dance to celebrate the 10th An- niversary of the Russian Revolution ing Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving dawn. pee Mar, Open Forums Sunday. The Cloak and Dressmakers Joint Board will hold open forum lectures Sunday, 10:30 a. m., one at Hunts Point Palace, 168rd St. and South evard, with Louis Hyman as , and another at Knights of Hall, 2864 West 21st St. ochowitz as speaker. Latest union de- velopments will be discussed at both meetings. * Postpone Olgin Banquet. The jubilee banquet in honor of M. J. Olgin has been postponed to Fri- day, October 28th. It wil! be held at Stuyvesant Casino, Ninth St. and Sec- ond Ave., under the direction of the Soe Shop Chairmen’s Council of the Fur- | riers’ Union. * * * Volunteers for “Icor” Bazaar. Volunteers are needed to assist at the third annual “Icor” bazaar that will be held at the 165th Infantry Armory, Noy. 23 to 26. The funds raised will be used for Jewish coloni- zation in the Soviet Union. The office of “Icor” is at 112 East 19th St., where all volunteers should report. * * . Delegates to the fourth annual con- vention of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League will be guests at a concert and dance at Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., Saturday, Oct. 29. The convention will begin Oct. 30. Cap Worker Attacked By Right Winger Is Arrested By Policeman Morris Roth, militant member of the Cap and Millinery Workers’ Unon, Local 24, was arrested at noon yesterday after being attacked by A. Beck, a right wing member of the union. Roth was distributing union elec- tion leaflets issued by the Trade Union Educational League section of the union at Bleecker and Houston Sts. Beck tore the leaflets from Roth’s hands and threatened to hit him. A patrolman then arrested Roth. Roth was first taken to the third district magistrates court. in the dis- trict of the arrest, and thence to the second district court, where Magis- trate Weil was trying cases. Mrs. Carol Weiss King, Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney, recall- ing severe sentences that Magistrate Weil had meted cut to workers in the past objected to his trying the case. She argued the case was not in Mag-| istrate Weil’s jurisdiction. The hear-| ing was continued. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS R Pz ST RUSSIAN EVOLUTION : @. CAMPAIGN ort DAILY WORKER Get 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, DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, Ne Here is my pledge to read The pledge as my revolutionary greeting Soviet Union on the Tenth Anniversar My newsdealer is . Address .. My name is .. Address .. NEW READER'S PLEDGE—Greet the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution with your pledge to read The DAILY WORKER. w York, N. Y. DAILY WORKER. Please mail this to the workers and peasants of the y of the Russian Revolution, SUB RATES Per year ., 6.00 Six months.. 3.50 Three months 2.00 In New York Per year ....$8.00 Six months... 4.50 Three months 2.50 | | | | nal Labor Defense will be held} ‘LABOR AND FRATERNAL|| PISTOLS, JAZZ, HENRY FORD, KLAN FEATURE SIFTON’S “THE BELT”; By ESTHER LOWEL | At last the speed-up system of American industry has climbed! 00. ‘This quarrel was settled but it| At the New Playwrights’ Theater, | left an ugly scar. | onto the New York stage. | Paul Sifton’s play “The Belt” is of an easily recognized auto factory. Island, with Joseph Bor-| boss comes to honor the man who has served 10 yee PROCEEDS FOR DAILY L (Federated Press). | showing something of the inside In the first act the big s in the plant —almost the only man with that much time behind him on the | job. | Properly attended by the press with |reporters and photographers, two bal- |lyhoo sub-officials to prompt him on |the man’s name and insure respect- ful attention from the worker’s fam- lily, the president himself arrives—to |pin a tin medal on the 10-year man. | When a troupe of old-fashioned danc- jers appears and the boss goes thru the reels with them, there is no doubt of who is being carricatured. | Speed-up Portrayed. Refreshing throughout the play is| the young daughter of 10-year service | Jim. She slangily but refreshingly| faces life, which her parents try to} fill with various shams. She works) in the factory office and comes home dead tired as the mechanics—those| {human machines who stoop over the| belt eternally turning in the same| screw, dabbing paint on the same spot, or whatever their monotonous| task is on the endless line of flivvers. The girl gives the tip of the 10-| | months lay-off when the stool pigeons. summoned by her Ku Kluxey father! |try to “get” her boy friend who sees} |through the speed-up game. | Then the strike breaks out. Work- ers seeing the play, wonder what’s the idea of the jazzy dancing to lure the | men from the belt. The symbolism} seems a sudden intruder because the rest of the play is more realistic, ex- cept for the slightly stylized jold; fashioned dancing of the first act, The boss appears and exhorts the men to return: Shots and Arrests. “You can’t quit. We’ve got to go on. You’re holding up the belt. We’ve got to beat Boston. Mass production —high wages—more purchasing pow- er—higher standard of living,” etc., he mouthes. But when the 10-months lay-off threat is hurled back at him he quails a minute. The workers start throwing the half-finished ma- chines from the belt and then quickly the stool pigeons bring in armed forces. The workers cower back, The young leader is told to accept arrest} on pain of general shooting into the strikers if he refuses. His girl has already been shot in the shoulder shielding him with a quick leap. | The strike leader turns to the) workers, tries in a moment to explain| what they are doing, concludes: And the workers behind him straight- | en up as he reaches out for the hand- euffs to clasp his wrist. This is DAILY WORKER week at the theatre. Tickets are being sold at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East 14th street. Proceeds also from tickets to “The Belt” that are bought through the Joint Defense Committee of the Cloakmakers, Dressmakers and Fur- riers for two weeks beginning Mon- day will be added to the defense fund, the committee announced yesterday. “The Belt” is the first of a series of plays to be given at the New Play- wrights’ Theatre, 40 Commerce St., where a special appeal is being made for a labor audience. “The Belt” is based on a revolt of workers in one of the large automobile plan such as the Ford Motor Co. The New Playwrights’ Theatre is offering a prize of $10 to the best criticism by a worker of “The Belt.” These essays should be not more than 500 words in length and should be mailed to Michael Gold, New Play- wrights’ Theatre, 40 Commerce St. Needle Trade Defense A nine-day, bazaar of the Defe; Committee will start December at the Grand Central Palace. To make the bazaar a success the emtire progressive labor movement must support it. Tickets must be sold and adyertisements secured. A hundred thousand dollars worth of new. merchandise will be sold. Mineola Case Developing. The special Mineola defense cam- paign started by the Joint Commit- tee through issuing special Mineola collection lists is developing. The workers realize the importance of the campaign to raise sufficient funds to carry thru the appeal for the nine victims of the Mineola frame-up. se 23 HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 26.—The deportation of all aliens who have lived here for five years without hav- of Mayflower Descendants. Standing of the Metropolitan Workers’ Soccer League DIVISION “A” ty Bronx Hungarian 4 Hungarian Workers A. C. 4 Scandinavian Workers 4 Red Star A. C. § Spartacus 5 New York Eagle 5 Freiheit S. C. 2 Atlantic A. C. i P. Red Star A. C. 2 | Hungarian Workers 4 New York Eagle 3 Spartacus 4 Freiheit 4 Prague F. C. 04 * Forfeit DIVISION “A” DIVISION “B” W. L. D. Se Ag. Points 3 0 2 ae 2 Ht 2 s ds Saat 5 2 + pte: * 8 5 2 1 0 2 3 4 1 2 2 9 ihe 1 4 0 Bee 14 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 W. L. D. Se. Ag. Points 2 0 0 10 3 4 1 1 2 5 4 4 1 1 1 Wf 2 3 1 2 1 8712" 8 1 3 0 , ae | 2 1 0 0 Od 2* || FILMS TO OPEN AN \E. Ruthenberg memorial film will and the films will run continuously The Ruthenberg funeral process' but a major picture. Anniversary of the Russian Revoluti Workers Party, 108 E. 14th street, a: 106 University Place. They should ES “RED RUSSIA” AND RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL | 15th street and Irving Place, Sunday. The picture will be introduced by Workers (Communist) Party speak-| ers and will mark the opening of the celebration here of the Tenth Tickets may be obtained for 50 cents at the district office of the, NIVERSARY CELEBRATION Red Russia, a film showing conditions in Soviet Russia, and the C.) iI be shown at the Irving Plaza Hall,} The doors will open at 2 p. m.| until 9 p. m. | ion will recall vividly the profundity | jof the loss suffered by the workers of this country when. he died less | | than a year ago and will serve to remind the audience that his militant | activity is being energetically carried on by his comrades, st | “Red Russia” is the most comprehensive film record yet made of life and conditions in Soviet Russia. It is not a mere fragmentary news reel! | ion. nd at the Jimmie Higgins Bookshop, be bought in advance. —-~* |“Auguie” Killed in Feud | |now show that “Little Augie’s” earn- ing become citizens was urged yes-| terday by Addison P, Munroe, gov-| |“Learning to stand on our hind legs.”| ernor-general of the General Society | Over I. L. G. W. Spoils m Page One) (Continued fr cruiter of thugs the left wing | ings as a and gunme of thos world. “Little Augie” Arrogant. “Little Augie” appears to have grown arrogant, over-confident and | greedy for more the spoils of the right-wing strikebreaking that nearly destroyed the workers’ | | solidarity in t needle trades. This | campaign was carried on against the | rank and file by Morris Sigman, | president of the I. L. G. W., his pro-| the furriers’ administra- in i Edward F. McGrady, needle organizer of the Ameri an | ation of Labor. | Finally “Little Augie” is said to} have accepted $50,000 payment from | | unnamed source to break a cer-| Others believed it better | + the strike drag along, | y that smaller payments | ng period would exceed $50,- totypes jon the over al | “Little Augie” Scabbed. | | “Little Augie” still later dispatched one of his lieutenants into a strik zone which a 1 gang recruiter | claimed as his tory. His pockets | bulgi with Sigman daw Oe W.| ration sh, Augie” | becoming “ al” Na- leon in the gu re of the r market. Rivals then decided to| kill him and did so, according to re-} ports yesterday. Jobbers Pay $175,000. | Meanwhile the Cloak and Dress- makers’ Joint Board charges that the Merchants’ Association, the jobbers’ | branch of the indus has agreed to pay 50 per cent of its back dues to the I. L. G. W. unemployment in lance fund. Recent court hearings | | have shown this fund is now controll- jed exclusively by the Sigman admin- | jistration. Joint Board officers said | yesterday they believed a large part | | of this sum_of $175,000 may be spent }in the employment of other “Little | | Augies” for continued gun and black | jack terrorism against the rank and e left wing constituency of the Joint Board. | Sigman Controls Fund. | When Sigman and his henchmen |gained control of the fund through \the resignation of employers’ repre- r- | sentatives from the board. of trus- | tees, $880,000 re on d. Sigman |recently testified in a formal court | hearing on another question that | | $175,000 of that amount was “loaned” | his international office, at a time |when his efforts to destroy the left |wing Joint Board were at their] height. Only $5,000 of the fund was | actually used for unemployment re- lief, Sigman testified. Neckwear Makers Strke. The Neckwear Makers’ Union more than holding its own in strikes in Poughkeepsie and Glen Falls, N. Y., a union representative reported at a membership meeting in Cooper Union. Fourteen girls and two cut- ters also walked out of an open shop in Philadelphia to join the union, he/ reported, GET NEW READEF ——— —=—. \|Phone Stuyvesant 3816 | ’ ||| John’s Restaurant 1 SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radivals meet. 302 E. 12th St. New York ~_ af ee ealth Food ] || Vegetarian Restauran’. 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 626.. We Cater to Students of Health Eatwell Vegetarian Restaurant 78 Second Ave., near 4th St. strictly VEGETARIAN meals No canned foods, or animal All dishes scientifically prepared, Only served. fats used. Yel. Lehigh 4923, DR. ABLLAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST loftice Moure: 9:30-12 A, M. 2-8 Pw | Daiiy Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 11bth STREBT Gor. Second Ave. New York. s Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. 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The banquet DAILY WORKE teers will be he . 4 at the Am- bassador Hall, Third Ave Bronx. The affair was origin: ranged for Oct. 28. Admission to the dance will be 50 cents; banquet and dance $2. those who helped he ill co ar Volunteers. d dance for The REIHEIT volun- y ar- ae eee Automobile Needed. All party members and thizers who have at urged to allow them to eral hours a day for the Communicate with Irwin 108 East 14th + * 8 Settle For Tickets. All comrades are instructed to set- tle for The DAILY WORKER-FREI- | HEIT Bazaar tickets at orce Count Commuters’ Noses. A census of suburban passenger raffic, to be conducted for 24 hours, was begun at midnight yesterday un- der auspices of the port of New York authority and the Suburban Transit Engineering Board. Cards were distributed yesterday to all train riders and ferry patrons passing between Manhattan or Brooklyn and suburban points in Westchester, Long Island and Staten Island. Grayson and Flier Quarrel. OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine, | Strained relations between | Oct. 26.- Mrs. Francis Wilson Grayson and her America to Copenhagen pilot, Wil- mer L, Stultz, this afternoon reached the breaking point. Stultz, it became known, has de- cided to guit the expedition. Miss | Grayson blames him for turning back. | will hold) g¢ k| po the | I COLORADO STRIKE RECALLS LUDLOW MURDERS IN 1914 , Women, Children Burn- ed Alive by Thugs By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press) e be civil war in Col of the coal str was still ),000 miners the big cor ie mines are ifficient armed At least is the lesson of the last great ght out by the miners in tory of that conflict, militia attack on the 2 women tent ¢ childre: nd 11 n were killed and ‘the arrival of federal troops, bears wit- ess to the urage of the present the hills ‘at night characteri leading up the 1913 Organizers who attempted to get into the towns st by the town marshals, em- of the company, and turned overed to have any the United Mine summarily ejected. hen the strike call was issued from 75 per cent to 90 the miners answered. from their homes on the 3-day notice c¢ in their leases they pitched tent colonies near the mines or at the canyon entrances by which strikebreakers must pass. Armed Thugs The operators secured, and armed large numbers of guards who were deputized by the sheriff. Included in these private armies were Baldwin- F detectives fresh from the strike fields of West Virginia and Michigan. Machine guns were purchased from the West Virginia Coal Operators Assn., guns which had made labor history at Paint Creek in 1912. The strikers were furnished with arms by the United Mine Workers. Prior to the strike a union organizer had been jshot by a Baldwin-Felts detective in \the streets of Trinidad. The miners must be prepared to defend them- selves. en evicted Between the beginning of the strike and the arrival of the state militia | Oct. 29, there were numerous battles jin which the casualties were largely jon the union side. In one battle the Joperators brought up armored chine gun an }auto Red Russia in motion pictures and the RUTHENBERG FUNERAL shown for the first time in New York beginning at 1 P. M. SUNDAY, OCT. 30, at IRVING PLAZA, 15th St. & Irving Place ADMISSION 50c. With the Young Workers SATURDAY NIGHT VOoverey come out wit forget your dance for t The Be young, be jcliy. Throw dull care to the winds tonight, h the revolutionary youth. . be gay. _ You can troubles at the welcome he delegates to the 4th National Convention of the Y. W. L. Distric t Committee arranging this affair—has arranged for music that will set your feet adancing. wore HARLEM 116th St. and Lenox Ave. oe CASINO — Admission 50 cents. Saturday October 29