The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1927, Page 5

ROUSE MACHINE BUMPED HARD AT. TYPO, MEETING So-called Progressives Meet Opposition The reactionary record of Leon .H. Rouse, president of New York Typo-| graphical Union “Big Six,” has brought the local branch ‘of: the so-} called progressive-party in the Inter- national Typographical Union to the verge of a split. At a caucus meet- ing of the progressive party in. the union at Shield’s Hall in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon the rank and file} members wanted to put ‘through a! resolution’ favoring certain progres-| Workers Party Activities NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY Open Air Meeting Tonight. Seventh St. and Ave. A, Chester W. Bixby, George E. Powers and C. K. Miller, speakers, * * = : Dance For Reyolution, Fo celebrate the 10th anniversary f-the. Russian revolution, the Work- ers (Communist) Party will hold aj dance Tuesday, Nov. 8, at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th St. <8 oe Sender Garlin Talks. Sender Garlin, of The DAILY WORKER, will lead a discussion on “The New York Workers School” at| a meeting of Unit 2F, Sub-section 1D, at 38 First St. tonight at 6:30 o’clock, ee aye Educational Meet of 2F 1D. rey. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1927 TE |SEE “THE BELT,” JOINT DEFENSE COMMITTEE URGES; Youns Workers League XTILE BOSSES ‘PROCEEDS FOR FRAMED UP NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS BOAST OF LONG HOURS IN SOUTH | | | | ances will i Sec. ‘Fight Child Labor Law} at Two Conventions | By ART SHTELDS (Fed. Press.) Health, happiness and living stand-| ards of the textile worker of the | | United States will continue to be |sacrificeed to the struggle between | the South and the North for the pos- | |session of the industry. That was clearly indicated at the sessions of two employers’ Associations this week |-—the National Association of Manu- jfacturers, meeting in Chattanooga, | |Tenn., and the National Association | | Aside from the fact that the militant |is vital and compelling and grips needle: workers in New York will|attention of the audience no one can benefit from these performances an-|deny and the fact that it has aroused other fact to.be remembered is that | $0 much controversy is proof that it the New Playwrights’ Theatre is our/|is not dull. |nearest approach so far to a genuine| V : [32 |¢0-operative-labor theatre in America. to see such saccharine movies as “The |have been quick to seize every oppor-|¢laptrap as “Mr, Pim Pas: jtunity to. raise theatre nights, movie benefits, eve: : d a |thing has been exploited in the drive |¢rs’ defense work. “The Belt,” then, vi to gather funds to combat the reac-|Should receive the enthusiastic sup-/ ® tionary bureaucracy in the needle|Port of all class-conscious workers in trades unions. Page Five ng By. LUDWIG LANDY (Manager, Joint Defense Committee.) | This, however, is indisputable; the During the next. two weeks the) Play isa distinct labor play and is far New Playwrights’ Theatre perform-|ahead of anything in its line which be played exclusively for | has been attempted in America. It the benefit of the Joint Defense Com-|Should receive the support of all m: mittee, Cloakmakers and Furriers, |tant class-conscious workers. That it the Is a Labor Play. In the past our workers have gone In the past, defense organizations Temptress” or such petit bourgeois s By. Broadway|Why? Because the performan ,./were given for the benefit of v funds, “The Belt” benefit, New York. ARGENTINE LABOR «PROTESTS CUBAN WHITE TERRORISM ei. Wied in Convention utinued from Page One pe} Kaplar Young rey tol Militant Workers } by Machado ian unity plan told the revised its sive measures in New York City. The} “An educational meeting of Unit ieee s ein pa New lncwever tetera then a monay- |, The Joint Defense Committee asks forces on the newspapers who are bit-|'syb-séction 1D, will be held Monday| pogo, em «meeting in|ing stunt, “The directors of the New|its supporters to sce “The Belt.”)! In terly opposed to Rouse and the older/at 6:30 p. m. at 33 First St. Le pae d : Playwrights’ Theatre have more than | Tickets may be secured at the of- a. tee officials of the prog machine spon- * * * | iene wages, lower taxes, higher) | financial: fitereat’ in reaching the |fices of the Joint Defense, 41 Union a orae. vestigate sored the resolution, which was final- Banquet for Bazaar Volunteers. | efficiency, and consolidations of com- | militant working masses ‘of New| Square; at the Co-operation Restaur. Si teeere srkere ly killed through parliamentary jug- gling by Willis T. Metcalf, chairman of the local progressive party, The banquet and dance for The DAILY WORKER-FREIHEIT volun- teers will be held Nov. 4 at the Am- peting companies, were some of the} |remedies proposed by the northern| | textile employers to stay the move- York, They are actuated by a sincere |ant, 30 Union Square, and at the We desire to become a vital part of the| operative Shoe Repair Shop, 419% militant labor movement. | Sixth Ave. eis a brutal Workers’ Schoo] Opens jment of the industry to the South. x New Study Courses Big Opposition Vote. ig Opp: the| And southern bosses at the Chatta- So strong is the opposition that in Known To Rebels. bassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave., The playwrights of this dramatic Killed By Machado. spite of the steam roller methods of the machine the election of officers showed almost a fifty-fifty division. Jack Mahar of the New York World composing room, who helped lead the fight against Rouse in the last news-} paper scale controversy, was defeated for Metcalf’s place as president of the local progressive party by but 32) votes—the vote being 262 for Mahar and 294 for Metcalf. But the candi- date for vice-president on the Rouse- Metcalf slate, John T. Casey, was de- feated by Nincent J. Costello, running on the ticket with Mahar, by a vote of 297 to 255. Rouse Afraid of Opposition. That, Rouse, president for fourteen years of “Big Six” and oné “of the) Worst reactionaries in the labor move- ment, fears the opposition was indi- cated by the way he fought te keep the question of a local progressive ticket out of the caucus. plea to the effect that “in view of the situation in the International, the members should stick to the old policy of not running local candidates on a prog € ticket until after the next International election,” at which the ‘so-called progressives, under the re- actionary Charles P, Howard, hope ‘to! inere: the minority of one on the executive council to a majority. At! present the other reactionary political | machine of the International, known as the Wahnetas, have the majority. Towne “Recommended.” William E. Towne, once known as He made a H Bronx. The affair was originally ar- ranged for Oct. 28. Admission to the dance will be 50 cents; banquet and dance $2. For those who helped at the bazaar, the banquet and dance will cost only $1. . * . Automobile Needed. All. party members and sympa- thizers who have automobiles are urged to allow them to be used sev- eral hours a day for the campaign. Communicate with Irwin Franklin, 108 East 14th St. - . * . Dance November 8th. A dance to celebrate the 10th An- niversary of the Russian Revolution will be held Tuesday, Nov. §, at Irv- ing Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, by the Workers (Communist) Party. dawn, ei ¢@ Party Dance Noy. 19.” A dance will be held Saturday, Nov. 19 at Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., by Sections 2 and 3. 2 * . Settle For Tickets. All comrades are instructed to set- tle for The DAILY WORKER-FREI- HEIT Bazaar tickets at once. LABOR AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS Dancing will continue until |nooga meet, exultantly told of the |steady migration of spindles and looms to Dixieland, and boasted of the docile attitude of southern labor and its 55 to 60 hour work week. Bosses for open Shop. Open shop sentiment ruled the | organized labor it was not recorded. jAnd the heads of two determined }open shop companies selected as pre- sidents of the two associations. | | For another year the public will | | have to. put up with the denuncia- | tions that John E. Edgerton hurls as | president of the National Asociation of Manufacturers. No more garrulous | foe of child labor legislation, shorter |hours for women, and trade unions, jexists in America. Strike-Breaking Record. And as head of the New England cotton. assoeiation we find a smooth bankers’ representative: Colonel G. Edward Buxton, of Providence, pre- sident and treasurer of the B. B. & R. Knight Corp.,.. which dominates the cotton industry of the Pawtuxet Valley in Rhode Island, and has a nasty record of strike-breaking. and |gunmen and evictions from company |houses in 1922, The evolution of this ;company is typical of what is hap- | {pening in the industry, it~ having} |heen taken over, through its bond- holders, by a group of New York and | Boston bankers several years age. | In the comnig year another effort experiment are known to all readers of revolutionary literature and drama.| Three of the dramatists, Mike Gold,| John Dos Passos and John Howard! Lawson, were arrested while picket-| candidate for assembly, dencies. on paternalistism as practiced in the} Ford Motor plants in Detroit. when viewed from the point of view | Dunne, |Thousands Hear Party Voice Labor Program (Continued from Page One) 4th district House ; Rebecca Grecht, candidate for alder- ing the Massachusetts State ‘ i i f Sa | ma 4th district, Manhattan, and | two conventions. If there was a yoice | P™OF a ee peeenecn She Saceo St) aren vi the Cloak |raised in fav f ti Hith Vanzetti. Em Jo Basshe, author of|Joseph Boruchowitz, of the Cloa ‘or of cooperating wit! “Earth,” and Francis Edwards Far-|and Dressmakers’ Joint Board. Belle ragoh display marked left labor ten-| Robbins, candidate for alderman, pre- | | sided. “The Belt” is a keen, biting oes Gold Will Speak. Wednesday’s meeting at Manhat- Company open sop| tan Lyceum will be addressed by Tt is true that the | William W. terrae se oitraled Act is i: i a assembly, &th district; Villiam F. play is ineffectual in many instances| "t The DAILY WORKE stil!| Rebecea Grecht; M. J. Olgin, can ‘date for assembly, 5th district, Bronx, and Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Furriers’ Union. Stachel will of effective class war tactics; it’s vivid, moving background of a modern shrieking automobile factory | 5 i gives the play a distinct modern stedide touch. Certainly no attempt is ieee Reasons for the Party’s condi- to mde the emel, strength SBpDINE | onal acceptance of Judge Jacob futy of the speed-up ‘system: cf |p. ken, socialist party cafididate for straight-line production, and the point reelection in the second municipal ms Wee bare Oar re cae GR, will be given at the meeting, the mtaiter ads ead to the detriment | “2 Workers Party campaign com |week by William W. Weinstone to (Continued from Page One) | ae mittee said yesterday. of the wage slaves. | More Red Nights. Calls. Furriers Into |Nérman Thomas, socialist candidate |for alderman in the 8th district, that was made by the scab union and ‘Greek President Shot; the bosses? All these questions will | Assailant Is Caught f the Labor Federa- ntina “denounce ac 14th St., t in “The these are , the secret police of 2 ” Jt eontinues— Ragozin ress or as these elemental the schoi from the Je in order to insure the “re- ction” of the tyrant Machado vhich will result in further guaran- tees for profits for Yankee capitalism and increase hunger and misery for roblems of | thousands of Cuba’s workers,” with D. | Uses Labor Fakers, vill hold its | y at 8 p. m , A,” will be- . Mm. class in “Ta Communist Move 3enjamin as instructor, irst session Wedne “Elementary FE: gin Thursday at | In order to further weaken the | workers’ movement Machado is using a group of well-known traitors of the working class, led by Juan Are- Another c uni entals 1 ‘orate . will I papas valo. Arevalo was a delegate to the | Workers School dividay até boa last conference of the Pan American A eee A Mey * "| Federation held in Washington in with I. Stamler in charge. get fe ae paste it July 1927. | A course on The Russian Revolu- tion, with Moissaye J. Olgin as in- structor will begin Saturday at 2 There Arevalo appeared as a rep- resentative of the recently-formed p.m, “Cuban Federation of Labor” which ms | supports Machado and which is “re- | Rs cognized” by him and the Pan Amer- |Albert Parson’s Widow | ican Federation of Labor. Referring | 4 a to this the protest of the Argentine to Attend Third TI. L. D. | Vorers says: “We ask these were National Conference ers who because of terror have pros- tas trated themselves before the Macha- | The third national conference of | do tatorship, to r to lend |the International Labor Defence, themselves to the di intrigues opening Nov. 12 at Irving Plaza, 15th| which result in organizations hostile St. and Irving Place, will have dele-|to the workers’ best interests, and gat present representing labor or-| which can only serve to strengthome: meeting Tuesday after work at Coop- a progressive, but of late trailing with. the. Howard-Rouse reactionaries, was endorsed .as candidate for inter- Volunteers for “Icor” Bazaar. Volunteers are needed to assist at national secretary-treasurer “without! {he third annual “Icor” hazaar that prejudice” because James McCoy was also endorsed for the same office. Towne is now up on charges: of-hav- ing violated the overtime ‘law ‘by nex glecting to give out his overtime to one of the “subs” who was entitled to it. It is charged that the “pro- g@ressives” are using the same old tac- ties the “Wah” machine was charged will be held at the 165th Infantry | Armory, Nov. 23 to 26. The funds Swill be used for Jewish coloni- m in the Soviet Union. The office of “Icor” is at 112 East-19th. St., where all volunteers should report. * Upholsterers To Meet. Race will be made by the cotton industri- jalists of Massachusetts, the leading | er Union.” |New England cotton goods state, to} The rest of the statement follows: ;vepeal the 48-hour law. With fran-| “What are the results of the reor- jtie gestures the lobby: of the manu-| sanization? Has has the attack on | facturers will prophesy the ruin of | the Furriers’ Union reacted on the |New England and the transfer of!|trade? What is the present condition every place of machinery to the/in the trade? What good has the re- South where no such legislat organization done to the fur workers? exists. And workers will be toid| Why are there so many unemployed? | that unless they take wage cuts their) What is the condition of the union? jobs will go to the Carolinas, Georgia, | What does the Joint Board intend to | Alabama and Texas, ido in order to rescue the workers A challenge to a debate issued last Action; Meeting Near ;among others, will also be discussed. be answered at the monster mass. (Continued from Page One) | newspapers. This action was taken as a result of the charge that the | would-be assassin, Goussios, was a |Communist and agitator. { Not a Communist. The Communists in a public session | this afternoon denied publicly that he | was connected with the party. The |Communists also protested against the government prohibiting the party | {from sending a delegation to Russia | {to take part in the celebration of the ganization and International Labor|the power of the tyrant Machado. Defense branches from points as far tool of Wall Street. — : apart as 0 kland, Calif., Boston, Gal- The pretest en by calling upon veston, Te and Chicago, the Na-| 411 the workers to unite in fighting tional I.S.D. office announced yes-| this attempt to completely destroy | terday. i 5 é . |the workers‘ organizations of Cuba. From Chicago a large delegation | __ jwill be present, representing labor |= {unions and fraternal organizations, ||]Phone Stuyvesant 3816 jand will include Lucy C. Parsons, widow of Albert R. Parsons, who was ||} executed with the other Haymarket martyrs in C 0 40 years ago. | > John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A_place with atmosphere where all radicals meet. with using for years—keeping mem-| Upholstery workers who partici-/ Southern Lahor Less Docile. |from their present misery? What is| anniversary of the revolution. ton the bis es on the ||/302 E. 12th St. New York bers of the union from getting work] pated in the DAILY WORKER-FREI- |the Joint Board planning to do for} In an official communique tonight|~ =< But there is another side te the wee they subscribe to their ma. HIRTE besser oe ae da ie hati picture. The other side is that| He mecmplored and suffering fur sane Be Sanat meeting, the govern Wane Paine Ti HROee | f Health Rood Talk of New Alignment. Freiheit office, 30 Union Square, to- ee Bee ie losin “ see | “What will the future bring? Will “The government, responding to||isruDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK | xa a In face of the record of both poli-| night. held si S$ to what 18! the Joint Board permit such misery|the sentiment of the entire Greek || Patronize Our Friend Vegetarian Restaurant tical cliques in the Typographical Union, which are equally reactionary, there is much talk among the rank and file of creating a new grouping | RED STARS HOLD LEAD. The Red Star “B” soccer team held [happening in the world. | The Dixie workers are gaining new | desires, for a higher standard of liv- jing, as fine cement roads are laid to exist in our trade. Will the Joint Board be indifferent while the fur workers sink deeper and deeper into | people, who are profoundly moved by the criminal attempt against the life jof the president, declares that it has SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Organiza- 1600 Madison Ave, PHONE: UNIVERSITY 626s, : ism? wr wi ii |firmly decided t riate (Est that will go into the next campaign |its lead in the Metropolitan Workers| through vate ae ier au oie Lae bia Ll omar stifle al “rabeardive lL = S== oe ee 2 and challenge both of the machines, Soccer League by defeating the Brel-| pre alana ae ck re of tie trade? Will the Joint Board permit|™ovements directed against the ner Lehigh 7023. : Fa aS & whose enmity is based upon the|heit “B” team 1 to 0 at Jefferson P + wand compul-!the coming year to be worse than | state. pk. ABRAHAM MARKOFF We Cater to Students of Health scramble for office exclusively. Field, Breoklyn, yesterday. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM The Red Star “A” team and the Scandinavian A, C. played a 1-1 to at Parade Grounds, Brooklyn. — wd potent slaves. organized they would be powerful HH, WHOLESOMB S @ 7 CAMPAIGN FOUR KILLED IN AIR CRASH. “AN fur workers—Tuesday to the | enough to prevent the profitable pro- mead bye g& | NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 30.| mass meeting! duction of anti-athiest motion pic- i Scientifie Vegetarian fe] Ail DAI Ly WORKER —Four persons were, instantly killed) “Registered and unregistered work-| tures,” the association’s letter said. te 8 i f ‘ late this morning when ‘a new Fair-| ers, respond to the call of your union! |“We propose to organize them, Restaurant FY child monoplane crashed about a mile —. an —— = _—- — New York. Address « Address. City ss ++ ES NEW READER’S PLEDGE—Greet the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution with your pledge to read The DAILY WORKER. i ORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. DS tne pledge to read The DAILY WORKER. Please mail. this 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, sory education is bringing up a new | generation with the universal ability to read and write, that many of the | older folks lack. | Fined For Union Membership. The writer recently attended a mass meeting of several hundred Henderson workers three weeks after the close of the strike. Workers’ were being fired for belonging to the union, but so many came to the union mect- ing, none the less, that two depart- ments on the night shift had to close. That is the other side of the. picture, that if developed, will change the whole issue of southern competition. this year? Return of Piece Work. “What have we to say about the reduced wages, about the widespread contracting, about piece work and about all other evils that oppress the workers? What methods do we pro- pose for unifying the workers and | rebuilding the union? “The newly elected Joint Board will not stand by while the workers are becoming beggars. The union lives and will bring back control of the trade. The bosses and their agents in the scab union will not suc- ceed in making the fur workers im- Athi est Association Sends Movie Protest. A protest against the production of anti-atheist motion pictures has been sent to Will H. Hays, lord-high-coun- sellor of the motion picture industry, and to Cecil B. DeMille, producer, by the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Athiesm. The protest) |referred to the theme of DeMille’s |forthcoming film dealing. with -high schools and reform schools, “ff all the athiests in America were south of Hadley airport. The dead are Leroy Thomson, the pilot, of Hackensack; Miss Elizabeth MeGowen, of Ridgefield Park, a prac- THREE LARGE for the Colonial Air Transport Com- pany, Inc. The others were his friends, whom he was about to’ take from Hadley field to the field at Teterboro. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Speakers:— HERBERT ZAM M. J. OLGIN The FREIHEIT ‘Cc WILLIAM W. WEINSTON ANGS Party wi JACK STACHEL WM. Z. FOSTER AMALGAMATED Speakers:— FOOD | WORKERS ra’ Loc. No. 164 Meets ist Saturday in the month at The FREIHEIT MANDOL ~ ALEXANDER DRACHTRENBERG, WM. F. DUNNE WM. Z. FOSTER | Aavertise your union meetings Made here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER . Advertising Dept. 33 First St., New York City. udience in Lithu ithuanian Choru: will address the rendered by the to Honor Tenth Anniversary CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE, Third Ave. and 57th St. JULIET STUART POYNTZ secretary of the New York District of the NEW STAR CASINO, Park Ave. and 107th St. SCHACNO EPSTEIN WILLIAM TOURAS, editor of the Laisve, Lithuanian Communist Daily MASS MEETINGS MELACH EPSTEIN WM. Z. FOSTER JAMES P. CANNON VEREIN will provide music, ll preside, REBECCA GRECHT JAMES P. 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