The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1927, Page 5

) \ THY DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WE ESDAY, NOV. 16, 1927 Page rive - CARPENTERS’ STEWARD FINED FOR UNIONISM: | ~ PROGRESSIVE CARPENTERS’ APPEAL CHARGES | }| Tammany Hall Plan Behind Sirovich Talk (Continued from Page One) ee giving the impression that the demo- | A story of the fining of a carpen- ters’ union steward by the carpen- ters’ union district council for insist- ing on union conditions in his shop is told in an appeal now being cir-| culated by the progressive carpenters of New York. Locals 1164 and 2090 are reported . to have demanded a new trial for the carpenter in question. Halkett, presi- dent of the New York Building Trades Council, was chairman of the carpenters’ district council trial board. The main points of the ap- peal follow: Non-union Men Hired. “The carpenters of New York should acquaint themselves with the union-smashing tactics of the New York District Council of Carpenters. “Brother Ivan Elchibegoff, mem- ber of Carpenters’ Local Union 1164, wor working in the Forest Trim Mills, Oakland St. and Newton Creek, Brooklyn. This shop was signed up with the district council and was sup- posed to have union conditions. In reality the big majority of the car- penters were non-union and many of the union men were paid below the scale. “Brother Elchibegoff was shop steward and he tried his best to unionize the place. When the boss heard of this, he threw Brother Elchi- begoff and his tools out of the shop and then fired seven union men who dared to protest. “The district council was notfied. Business agent Stephen Schmeister of Local Union 1164 came to inves- tigate. An agreement was reached with the boss whereby all who were discharged would be taken back to work and whereby Brother Elchibe- goff ould be remeved as shop steward and another appointed who was ac- ceptale to Mr. Mandel, the boss. The jeratic party is a friend of labor. carpenters of the shop protested as| The cloakmakers said they remem: |they considered the new shop stew-/bered very well that it was Gov. ard a stool pigeon, since he was a/Smith’s commission that lined up non-union man who had only recent-|against them in their last strike and ly joined the union. No attention was/|that it was Mayor Walker’s police paid to the protest. Brother Elchibe-/| force that beat them brutally on the goff again complained in his local | picket line. union whereupon he was put on | “The workers, must be careful -of charges in the district council by | speeches such as the one delivered by Business Agent Schmeiser for spread- | Congressman Sirovich Monday ing false and slanderous statements |night,” a dressmaker said. “It was regarding working conditions in that/Tammany Hall political propaganda, shop. * | Criticize Shelley. Trial Held. | In the market yesterday much cri- “At the trial held Sept. 30, 1927, | ticism was levelled against Samuel an affidavit was presented to the trial | Shelley, chairman of the Committee committee signed by the foreman of |°f 50, for allowing Meyer Perlstein, that shop stating: That there are |former international vice _ president, | non-union men working in the shop, | that the men who recently joined the | union from that shop are getting | from 31 to 34 dollars per week and | that the machine or mill work depart- | ment is working completely with non-| union men. But instead of being com- | mended for his action, Elchibegoff re- ceived a notice under date of Oct. 26, | 1927, that he was fined $200 by the | district council. If this is not paid | within 80 days he will be expelled from the brotherhood, | “Somebody’s pockets are being heavily lined for allowing such condi- tions to exist. The officials of the dis- | trict council want to terrorize the| membership. They want to silence all who dare to raise their voice. “Brothers: union conditions everywhere. We | must have democracy in our union. | We must stand solidly béhind Brother | Ivan Elchibegoff of Local 1164.” | Rebel Artists * Workers’ Play * Come and * Hoof Your * Cares Away * * Put Some Passion * 4 And a Sash On! a * * * Let Loose In True * Rekellious Fashion! at the NEW MASSES Anniversary Workers’ Peasants’ Costume Ball Friday Evening, December 2, 9 o'clock Webster Hall 119 East 11th Street Tickets: $1.50 in Advance : $3.00 at the Door for sale at Jimmie Higgins Book Shoy 106 University Place Rand School, 7 East 15th St. or by Mail from New Masses 39 Union Square Algonquin 4445. Vernon Andrade Rennais and Orchestr * , ee We members of the Young Workers League of Youngs- town, O. extend our revolu- tionary greetings to the Daily on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the ussian Revolution. \L, Sirotnik, Secretary. Youngstown, Ohio. Greetings to The DAILY WORKER on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Lizetto Weiman Julius Klarin Atlanta, Ga. Greetings from Workers Party, ' Dist. 8, Branch 92 Chicago Heights, Ill. Bosses and Detectives | Fail to Break Strike | Of Theatrical Workers | —_—— / MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 15.—A six} weeks theatrical strike and lockout | in St. Paul and Minneapolis has end- | ed in victory for the workers. The | strike was marked by disorders which | the managers attempted to fasten | upon the stage employes, but which actually were staged by private de- | tectives. | The gains of the workers include jan increase of $2 a week the first year of the agreement, $3 increase the second year, and an additional | $2 increase the third year, for stage | employes, and a 2% per cent in-| |erease for motion picture operators. | — | BOMBAY, India, Nov. 15.—One hundred and thirty-five persons are | | believed to have been drowned when ; | the coastal launch Tukaram founder-} |ed sixty miles from here. { | to speak. It was pointed out that Perlstein was one of those who ori- ginated. the wholesale expulsion cam- paign against militant workers While the workers present did not agree with many of the remarks: of Shelley and Sirovich they adopted a resolution calling upon the American Federation of Labor to meet a com- | mittee of 50 cloak and dressmakers The resolution as originally present- ed by Shelley contained vague at- tacks on the Workers (Communist) Party but the audience compelled Shelley to eliminate this attack- be- fore a vote was taken. Part of Resolution. The resolution adopted was in ‘part as follows: “We appeal to the American Fed- Good union men are eration of Labor, the highest author- | puls: walking the streets in thousands, | ity in the American labor movement, |in C. C. N. Y. We do not seck the while union carpenters who are ac-/to receive a delegation of our com-|advice of experts, but we want stu- | cepting less than the union wage| mittee of 50 and give us a hearing. | scale and non-union men are work-| At this hearing we are ready to lay | “The faculty is not sincere in its | ing. We must protest! The rank and|before the American Federation of | tacit. agreement with the student file must answer. We must demand | Labor all the facts about the present | body concerning this situation in the union and in the shops to the end that the Federa- tion may take a stand in the ques- tion and take it out of the hands of the usurpers.” * Remove Local 35 Furniture. Right wingers and a group of thugs supported by Deputy Sheriff Plunkett and seven patrolmen. raided the office of Local 35, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, 10 E. 22nd St., yesterday noon, broke down the door and confiscated all the furniture on the premises. When Elias Kudrinedsky, acting minutes later he was at first refused admittance to his own office. Only on the insistance of Jacques Buiten- tant, attorney for the union, was he admitted. Workers Are Barred. When the news of the spread thru the needl trades market scores of pressers who belong to Local 35 hurried to the union office. They were barred from entering by the po- lice, though a number of right wing sluggers were admitted. The right wing group was headed by Izzy New- man and Frank Ginsberg. Both of | OOD print- ing of all description | i | at a fair price. Let us estimate on your work, ar cor ($$ FIRST STREET eAcCTIVE PRESS P OCR AT BOD NEW YORK Telephone ORCHARD | invasion | ‘Suspension of CCNY) Rathenberg Pamphlets. Students for Anti- Indignation against the indefinite liege of the City of New York, becaus | they sharply criticized military train- lig: at the college at a symposium campus yesterday. This is the first time since the jundergraduate campaign started two years ago that the college authorities jhave taken such a drastic | } itary course. the college, said yesterday that ac- tion on the suspended students would be taken at a meeting of the board |of trustees Thursday. Until then they are indefinitely suspended, he | said. The remarks said to be responsible for this move on the part of the col- lege administration, as reported by “The Campus”, the undergraduate | hewspaper, follows: “As. long-as we are here, agitation with. regard to milita | go on im the college; should strive to instill this spirit of agitation into the lower class men so that they may lcarry on the protest against the com- y feature of military training dent opinion on this matter. issue.” | The Campus continues to say that “he. (Lifshitz) pointed out that. the jcivilian drill. somewhat defeats the tween the Faculty and student body.” Rothenberg is alleged to have said that civilian drill also is obno § | training, in addition to emphasizing |the fact that students choosing this course must pay $7 for uniforms | Agitation against the compu |feature of the army course |started two years ago Armistice Day |by Felix §. Cohen, then editor of | the Campus, in an editorial. A refer- |endum at the time showed the student ;manager of the local, arrived several |body to be overwhelmingly against |the course. The vote was 2,093 to | 345, pied SS era eevee ne | hens have in the past been arrested | for slugging progressive cloak and | dressmakers, An Empty Victory. “This is the way the right wing | attempts to secure victories,” Kudrin- edsky said after the furniture was |removed. “Altho they remove our tained this morning and the union af- | fairs continued as in the past. Several months ago similar raiding parties under legal pretexts descend- ed on Locals 2, 9, 22 and on the Work- ers’. Cooperative House in the Bronx where union furniture was stored. | |||ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY | STUDIC OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave. cer. 3rd St. Rates for Labor Organiza- * (Bstablished 1887.) PATRONIZE | Sis Pressed " ‘ | mH hoes Repaired While U Wait 25% Reduction to Striking Workers, Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet. 302 E. 12th St. New York The Beauty and the Bolshevik (Romance) Russia in Overalls (Scenes of Reconstruction) Under auspices Joint Defen: RUSSIA ON THE SCREEN A Review of Russian Films at IRVING PLAZA HALL 9 Irving Place and 15th Street Committee Cloakmakers & Furriers 41 Union Square, Room 714 Tickets in advance 50c. At the door 75 cents. For the Freeing of the Mineola Victims! | of Soldier Ivan (Comedy) se C> Relief Sunday : Nov. 20 | from 2 P. M. till midnight ° | Health Food | || Vegetarian Restauran’: -- 1600 Madison Ave, PHONE: CNIVERSITY 5:6. We Cater to Students of Health Eatwell Vegetarian Restaurant 78 Second Ave., near 4th St. Only strictly. VEGETARIAN: meals served. No carined ruods, ‘ fats used. Ali dishes s prepared, cientifically: ROSELYN’S HEALTH FOOD Natural and Vegetarian Foods Sundried Fruits Unsulphured. Whote Gratn “Cereals. Als6 Diabetic Foods, 1222 SOUTHERN BLVD. Near Freentan St. Sta. Bronx, N. Y, ~) 8 Rel. Dayton 8459, A HSH, WHOLESOME VEGETARIAN MEAL . i Come to . Scientific Vegetarian Restaurant 16 E. 107th Street New York. ‘FOR WHERE_DO WH MEET TO DRI "AND EAT? At the » OF animak| “It } | Drill Acts Opposed Hast Thursday was heard on the move | | against students who oppose the mil-| Frederick B. Robinson, president of | science will | |terms of the tacit agreement be- | tion to arrive at a decision on |furniiture they cannot take our mem- | | bers away from us.” The union head | adde@ that new furniture would be ob- | |Co-operativE Repam Suor Gascasodices rans |4191, 6th Avenue, near 25th St, ¢ i kel. Lehigh 1023. ve. ABKAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M 2-8 Pw |! Are Planned By Party; | Material Is Requested The Workers (Communist) Par- ty is planning a number of pamph- lets dealing ‘with the life and work | of the late C. E. Ruthenberg, na- suspension of Alexander Lifshitz and | | tional secretary of the Party, who |Leo Rothenberg, students at the Col- | | died last March 2, Much of this | material is on hand, while there is still a great deal of matérial deal- ing with his writings, speeches and general activity in the possession of Party members and sympathiz- ers thruout the country, according | | to the national Party office, Any- | | thing relating to his life and work jcan be used in these publications, | he office said in an appeal yester- and all Party members and mpathizers who are in posses- | !sion of such information or ma- |terial are asked to communicate with Jay Lovestone, national Par- secretary, 43 E. 125th St., New (LABOR AND FRATERNAL |___ ORGANIZATIONS Housewives Dance. Working Class Housewives Bre (No. 2 will give a concert and dar | nex! |ton St. | prisoners. | * Fruit Ker-mess Dance. The worker co-operative branch of the International Labor Defense’ will give a Fruit mess dance next Saturday night ir the Bronx Co-operative Colony, 2700 Bronx Park East. Mohegan School. hool Associa- the Mohegan Modern bond problems will be held Thursda at 8.30 p. m., at the Civic Club, 18 East 10th St. a2 Perth Amboy Lectures. The Perth Amboy (N. J.) Open Forum will begin Sund at 2 p. m., at Workers Hall, 308 » with a lecture by Juliet Stuart Poyntz on “The World Situation.” * 38> * Volunteers for “Icor” Bazaar. Volunteers are needed to assist at the third annual “Icor” bazaar that | will be held at the 165th Infantry Armory, Nov. 23 to 26. The funds raised will be used for Jewish coloni- zation in the Soviet Union. The office of “Ieor” is at 112 East 1$th St., where all volunteers should report. ® * s of a meeting at the Civic Club, 18 E. !10th St. tonight at 8:30 p. m. The ‘speakers will be Louis Francis Bu- denz, editor of Labor Age; John W.} Edelman, of the Pennsylvania Fed- | eration of Labor, and Gustave Geiges, | president of the American Federation being | of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers. | MILLS WANT LOWER TAX. NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (FP).— Over 20 cotton textile mills of New | Bedford are renewing their fight for |tax reductions. Mayor Ashley ex- | pres: surprise, since the city au- thorities have already reduced the rates. Butler Mills, owned by Na- tional Republican Party Chairman William M. Butler, are in the fight, | as well as Fisk Tire Fabric Co. Fal Sy ag MODERN BOOK -SHOP seeeeeenesoesees 354 East 81st Street NEW YORK In the Heart of Yorkville We carry a full line of Hungarian Literature seeveveccceeeees Advertising Agency for The Daily Worker, Uj Elére, and Volkezeitung. Freiheit Dai Except Friday and Sunday. 449 EAST 115th STREKT Cer. Becond Ave. New York. : es = Dr. J, Mindei Dr. L. 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It a bundle of | place cant th By JOHN THOMPSON } Shall labor control bad as they may be, or s talists control the trade ndle the finances attracted also the age old b il the courts the courts from organ unions y If the th cases, | heroism on the |toilers, They the ome A e or compro- e also brough crude as Saturday at 8 p. m. at 1347 Bos- | The proceeds will aid labor he gymnasium of 4 general membership meeting of “Silk Stockings” will be the topic | ») some consummate other industry has the poli fakir thrived so richly at th of the workers than in the egio: f Pennsylvania and Illinois. 'o be a secretary president of a miners’ union or president or secr mining dis rded scoundre expense coal mine or in Wlinois Jent Lewis olican ma- idge the s a friend « notor Mr. Lewis has two broth- ers well placed, at the public trough, not because of their real or i in- ary abili , but for no other reason than that they are brothers of John L, Lewis. Will the prese > of rep . strike figure in the coming presidential elections? It does look that way. The wires from Pittsburgh, P tell us that Gov. state conference |tions in the ford Pinchot, thing for free rights of st the condi- Gif- le he was gov- or of the steel trust state, although progressive and a libe has been invited to tell what he can do and per- {haps what he does not know. Publicity Stunt? Why politicians should be invited to take part in a discu moon a purely economic and industrial ques- tion is hard to explain, except a | publicity stunt, considering the innate y and the slave mind that has characteristic of it since ship been foundation. in the heads of these omewhere an idea ome form of state ownership of the mines. If that is so then we can well pardon the Green- led green-goods brigade now making a noise in Pittsburgh. For it’ will | show they are on the right road. Whether honest or dishonest or grop- ing for new light and better meas- ures to pull the coal strikers out of the megs they are in, the United | Mine Workers’ Union leadership with a few exceptions is now only reaping what it has sown. Green’s Value Doubtful. |ing economic conditions that Presi- {dent Green will be able seriously to improve matters or prevent the in- augeration of regional agreements and contracts. To the workers of Greater New | York and indeed of the rest of the country and from a class struggle | point of view, the conference of the A. F. of L. executive council and high officers of the different big in- | ternational unions on the’ injunction applied for by the New York and Brooklyn traction companies is far more important than whatever delib- | erations the leaders may take part in, | or the conclusions they may arrive at, | appertaining to the coal strike. For | progress is not achieved in decaying jor out-of-date industries. National Issue In N. Y. | The traction situation is different. | Local and municipal though it is, | between the Amalgamated and the traction interests of Brooklyn and | Manhattan great national principles. AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Bakers’ Loc. No. 164 Meets 1st Saturday in the month at 3468 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. Ask for Uniom Label Bread. Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 33 First St., New York City. Union Bonnaz Embroiderers Manager Harry Halebaky Secret ARBEITER BUND, Manhattan & Bronx; German Workers’ Chub. ‘y.. 4th. Th in. the bor EB. Sath ccepted at gular meetings. German and Eng- sh Jibrary, Sunday lectures... So- jal entertainments. All, German- spenking workers ‘are Welcome, = ||BUTCHERS’ UNIO 1174, A. M. ©, & BR. W. of N. A. | Office and Headquarters: ||| Labor Temple, 243 EB, 84 St, Room 12 ||] Resular-mestings every 1st and 3rd Sunday, Employment Bureau open every day at 6 P. M. “the special | of the A. F. of L. Teader- | its | It is doubtful in view of the chang- | “| An educational | there are incorporated in the contest | > on the ve justified it is too soon and compromises, t has only just begun. Plan N. Y. Fight. e in Pittsburgh will an for the New York ements and mmend a campaign to carry on the legal w up a program of ning session of cons it does, beyond the s and recommenda- tions, the plan'as regards New York will ha swed and licked into shape here to fit the special cir- mstances and conditions. The law- re bound to have theiv d will surely try to keep the galistic affair as much as h the ey of Senator t Wagner on the coming state and national elections, Wagner being advisory counsel to the union, Mahon Is Pleased. President Mahon and his the Amalgamated are very pleased with their progress. They {have delayed the injunction hearing involved the entire Amer- Federation of Labor in their to be c ‘ar iean battle with the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. have done better g “company union- ” a national issue with the legal powers of the country drawn into it. Without their knowing it they have | started a revolution in our legal sys- |tem. The corporation bosses who be- |gan the company union crusade may regret they did not leave well enough alone. Among the important unions rep. resented at the conference are the | Carpenters, the Teamsters and the |Miners. The second grade of unions on attendance are the Electricians, the Marble Cutters and the Photo-en- gravers. The miners headed by Pres | dent Lewis have the largest delega- {tion on hand. So far as the person- nel is concerned I am not at all im- pressed, for there are too many old jeraft union birds perched on the beams. Men like Duncan and Fisher ean do nothing and would do nothing if they could. I am hoping the mountain will not \labor and bring forth a mouse | Workers Party Activities NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY S.S. 6C Meets Tonight. Sub-section 6C will meet tonight at 8 p. m., at 1689 Pitkin Ave., Brook- \lyn. Hereafter the sub-section wi |meét on the third Wednesday of each month. * ‘ * S.S. 2A Meets Monday. A general membership meeting of .S. 2A will be held Monday at @ p. m. * S.S. 2A Meets Tomorrow. meeting of Sub- section 2A will be held tomorrow at |6 p. m, at 108 E. 14th St. | * * * aa Section 1 Meets Thursday. All agitprop directors of Section 1 will meet Thursday at 6 p. m. at 108 E. 14th St., Room * * * Yonkers Celebration Sunday. The 10th anniversary of the Rus. sian revolution will be celebrated Sunday at 8 p. m. at Labor Lyceum, 20 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, N. Y, Devine will be the principal peaker. Evening. » Secti and 3 will give a ball Saturday at Harlem Casino, 116th Se and Lenox Ave. Dance Saturday 2 International Branch S.S. 6C. The International Branch of 8.8. 6C will mect tomorrow night. ae er Inter-racial Dance. An inter-racial dance is being p'an- ned by the Harlem Street Nu the Young Wor (Cc mur ’ + League for Dec. 10 in the Iinpevia; Spanish Members Meet. All-Spanish-speaking members are }urged to attend a fraction meeting jsonight at 8 p. m. at 81 E. 110tk St. t Daily Worker Ball At “Garden.” The DAILY WORKER and Freihet will hold a ball at Madison Squart Garden Dee, 17. * | WANTED — MORE READERS! | ARE YOU GETTING THEM? ’ rs ;