The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1927, Page 5

Page Five | News AND COMMENT LABOR EDUCATION LABOR AND GOVERNMENT TRADE UNION POLITICS SVUU LGA MINES s n Support of Their Stru “Where Do You Stand?” ggle Against Starvation ntinued from Page One) trades, as well as the unorgan- | workers, to a realization,.of .the | danger of remaining passive, ti We want to gather millions of votes in support of the coal miners. ‘fnke the enc.osed. ballot sheet, — and get votes. Then ask every worker DE UNION ACTIVITIES POLICIOS AND PROGRAMS STRIKES —— INJUNCTIONS | THE TRADE UNION PRESS | LABOR AND IMPERIALISM FACING A NEW TRIAL Window Cleaners On Strike Eight Weeks; Open Shop Drive. {who votes to back it up by a con- Victory for the coal operators: will| tribution of a little money.” jmean open ‘shop drives in other in-| Gee ae ne She Oxia are Or “Vef committee is. a very attractive.) jganized. “Victory for the cogfORer-| Viece of literature, is illustrated with | ators will mean additional ‘HRioméntum:| | i Defense Will Lalo | | Hold Its Bazaar in The ballot sheet issued by the re-| 75 Pickets Attacked The window cleaners’ strike is now in its eighth week with all the mod- ern forces of strike-breaking pitted against the workers, according to of- ficials of the Window Cleaners’ Pro- tective Union. They report that! more than 75 sluggings and assaults on pickets have taken place since the beginning of the strike and that | thousands of dollars have been spent for bail fees due to arrests of pickets | and strikers on framed-up charges, | which in nearly all cases have been | dismissed. | in the effort to lower wages gener-| ally, for the unorganized as.well-as* the organized. The cireularization therefore. asks: | shall it be?’ -Whose | de are you on?” The coal.miner: re demanding to know where the? workers stand, and if you stand with" that you prove it. | All Workers Rally. | The letter of appeal ends by’ say~{ m, North African Flood Takes Hears; 250,000 Homeless; pictures of miners, evictions, barracks, and the repeated “How Do You All workers who have received bal- s should st in this campaign to gather votes and money and in this way bring the moral and financial |them, they have the right_to*demand | support, of, all of labor back of the coal miners. Others desiring to help are asked to write for ballots to the Penn: kes 300 Lives London Property Damage Big ylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Com- | All workers must get into ac-|mittee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. | | “Vote?” with argument which appears | }upon it compels attention and action. | ers. |fund for the Chicago, Nec, 9-11 CHICAGO, Noyember 28, 1927. The annual bazaar in December con- ducted by the International Labor De- fense year at a time when the International Labor Defense has many heavy obli- gations. There are the arrested Cloakmakers of Chicago, the frame- up of the Cheswick, Pa. miners, the Grecco-Carillo case which goes on trial on December 5th and of great importance the striking Colorado min- There is further the Christmas Local Chicago oceurs this | venty class-war pris- | | | | | Francesco Caruso killed Dr. C; Pendola when his 6-year-old son died while under the physician's {*- LONDON, Nov. 2 ~Three» hun-, railroad. lines, obliterating smaller Nonees and th fatni The Inter-| care. Convicted of murder, Caruso has just been granted a new trial. Testimony showed the doctor laughed There have been some settlements | dred persons have lost their lives | houses and causing the collapse of | national Labor Defense proposes to| im his face. The accompanying photosraph shows Mrs. Caruso at home with her remaining children (left with individual employers and those ‘and 250,000 are homeless” in de- | larger structures by washing out |<onq additional money-gifts to mace to right), Anna, 4; Salvatore, 3, and Josephine, 7. a who ae work ae palgnisst= vastating floods w!ach swept North } foundatfons. ig [Prisoners and their families at Christ- | ae oa es ee ene nent ee Se ed to pay a week out of their} Africa over the weekend, accord- The Peregaux Dam, 500 yards fio wanibe inl sheath a wages for the support of the strike.| ing to an Exchange Telegraph Dis« | long, 30 yards high and 40 yards ie AR Are doa MODEL MILL VILLAGE MONOTONOUS---WORKERS MOVE L ABOR HERE WILL This amounts to nearly $1,000-a week. | patch from Algiers. | thick at its base, gave way under | 10th and 11th at} tt Donations from sympathetic labor | the tremendous pressure of tor- | Wie on December 9th, riy dé e esti r Park , 2040 West North 3y HARVEY O'CONNOR the places of business, the two A es . Property damage estimated at | i idbset ee Park Hall y HH by : he place f usiness, unions also help to support the strik- |... 4 09,000 franes has been done in | Tential rains and a huge wall of | Avenue (near Robey). CRAMERTON, N. C., (FP) Nov.|churches, the community house, the ing workers and their families. Re- cele pista water plunged through the valley | cs 23 Reareli Fate ea S I Cae he | ‘ . {~the regions around Mostaganem ai Three Days Fun 28.—All over Carolina apologists for |dairy, the farm, the orchard, the t 1 i cent donations , have been received | ani Perseus Renich: wera: kerdest | wiping out towns and villages. The dah nah ee the mill owners implore the skeptic | schoo] and the hospital. He pays the | from Workmens’ Circle branches 112, | hit by the eatnitro a | apparert) weakening of the dam A wide and varied program of en-|to take a look at Gramerton, model |social workers the deputy sheriffs 443, 154, 196, 625 and 813; Bakers’) ™ PY ee ai ! before the break caused warning to |tertainment is planned for each of the mill village of the south. {and the preachers. Being a pious N N TIG Union, Local 8; Union of Technica! | All ers in the devastated re- | be sent broadcast in advance, but {three da There will be dancing,; Stuart Cramer, a devout Christian|man, he does not approve of movies q Men, Local 37; Waterproof Garment | gions have overflowed their banks, | many persons could not be reached Ss, prizes, bargains, stunts andj who regards his mill as second only/and dancing, so his_workers have to | ete Workers’ Union, Local 20; Associated | sweeping away bridges, destroying | in time. merriment each day. On Friday even-|to his two churches in aiding god-|go to Charlotte for amusement. | c : si berger of Greater New York and : ce = ai line there will be a musical program) iness, is the sole owner and pro-| Workers’ Move Out of Cramer's /[RT Working Conditions many others. | e including various singing societies; | prietor of everything in the village | “Heaven.” | ~_ A terete pertormne ot te) Chicago Labor Notes sists ats ‘wil in'chage teopt the indies othis workers |p, ge tte tke cramer’ Described Centuries” by Em Jo Basshe at, the jof the Needle. Tendes;-Saturday-night’:'And because Cramerton 1s an UN-| brand of paternalism? Not if labor | errs y New Playwrights’ Theatre is being ; ey —the Grand Dance, the Freiheit sing-} incorporated village, despite its iturnover is any indication. For mill By ESTHER LOWELL. t giver or iki ri : clean. |. CHICAGO, (FP) Nov. 28.—Wage,I. W. W. official, told of the killings|ers, Italian entertainers; Sunday pulation .of 3000, he e siven for the striking window clean- | issued a call urging all sympathizers j who plan to see this play to do soj on the benefit. night. | Men’s union with the ‘surface’line | companies are being held up by diffi- culty ih selecting neutral arbiters si their wage case. The union asks for next Friday. Union officials have {negotiations of the Chicage Street |at Columbine, drawing a parallel with the Ludlow massacre. “There is no partisanship in this strike,” he said. “All workers should help the Colo- rado miners get justice.” Ida Wins- }an increase of 15 cents an hour, to|berg was chairman and appealed for afternoon —. a- elass-war prisoners’ tableau, the Russian Balalaika Or- chestra and singers, Swedish dancers and Hungarian Singers: and on Sun day evening the Grand Prizes and auction. I practically jowns his workers through his undis- |puted right to eject all undesirable }from mills and homes. Free Flowers, But Don’t Dance! Cramerton is a pretty village, nest- iworkers Keep moving in and out of |Cramerton as fast as they do in other | |mill towns. In fact Cramer makes a} | virtue out of apparent necessity when jhe defends the high moving rate. Cot- |ton mill workers tend to become dead | (Federated Press.) While Interboro Rapid Transit Co. attorneys are putting the final touches on, the briefs they will rve- sent. to the supreme court this week 4 Qn each of the. three..daystling along the banks of the Catawba./|on the job if they stay too long, he in their application for an injunction i Police Connect Noyer jtaise their scale’ to 90 cents. The | funds, the dining room. will be-under.-the/Cramer distributes free flower seed, | plains. A move etry Mines ah a against William Green and the 3,000,- b Slaying With Profits juhion and the companies agreed to aay tice nh.: care .of a different language gronp|'so that workers can relieve the|while relieves the monotony. 000 members of the American Fed- n arbitrate. Union officials are dubious | 5-DAY WEEK. who will prepare their own natioral monotony of their brown-painted cot- jeration of Labor, the trade unions are . . f é : fens ee School Kids Don’t Stay Long. ra: ie Se ois evs 4 of Right Wing Gang: jabout’ an immediate selection of ar-| the Bday work week may sdon‘be- delicacies, |tages. : |: High Jabor ‘mobflity-is reflected in| © izing for more than a court ~ «J biters. “Working conditions are not! ome general in the Chicago building All Invited. Cramer owns the mills, the hou: school figures. Although 220 pupils !&ht- The killing of Jacob A. Noyer, gar- | involved in the alti gee nicaee trades. Several building trades! phe Bazaar C detec miueit | ee ~ {are enrolled in first grade, there are | Labor officials who attended the ment manufacturer and alleged pay- | Street car men now have the.$:! our unions are now negotiating with em- So aznar -Lemmittee. invites - a! |Greco-Car rillo Case only 104 in 4th and 51 in 6th. The | Pittsburgh conference of the A. F. of master for gunmen and gangsters for the right wing in the needle trades, is being linked by detectives with the slaying five Weeks ago of “Little Augie,” alleged recruiter of anti-left day. * * < Honor Murdered Miners, While the workers’ funerel hymn was played softly, 700 Chicago work. ers, representing every kind of labor | § - | ployers for a 5-day work agreement, it is ‘understood. None of the build- |ing trades unions now have this con- | dition. yet. * “ _e workers and sympathizers to contrib- ute to the.success of.the Bazaar. by helping in ‘the collection of articles, | making and securing donations and by | selling tickets. } Called Fascist Plot (Continued from Page One) Italy the faseist regime was estab- 8th grade boa !and all the hig! {a total of 15 of only 19 pw school grades have students. |L. and voted there for a policy of defiance of injunctions in the coal fields are expected to take similar action at home. Joseph P. Ryan, president of the Central Trades and wing gangsters for Morris Sigman,’ r Nurses’ Unions. For Thursday night —- December |lished with the assistance of the | Labor Council, tells the Federated president of the International Ladies’ | £toup, stood erect in honor, of the 5 Chicago now has 2 nurses’ unions| 18, at-8 p. m. — Bazaar workers and | United States ambassador to that Press the New York labor body will Garment Workers’ Union. Noyer was shot and killed on the sidewalk on Broadway near East 11th St.. Satur- day evening. Friends of “Little Augie” are be- lieved. to “know something” about the slaying of Noyer and the slaying on the same night of Michael Weineman, or Weiner. f Noyer was formerly business agent of Local 4 of the Amalgamated Cloth- | striking eoal miners who died at ‘the Columbine mine massacre in’ Colorado, last week. The services were held here at Wicker Park hall, Nov. 25, at: ‘a mass meeting called by the Chicago {Committee for Relief & Defénse of | Striking ‘Colorado Miners. When the llast note of the workers’ dirge died | away speakers took the platform and | pledged aid of their organizations to the strikers and urged all Chicago that are affiliated with the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. The Tuber- culosis Public Health Nurses’ union the American Federation of Labor. Miss Frances. Dunn is president and Mrs. Vittoria Daniels, seeretary. An- other nurses’ union here is Public Health Nurses, No. 16762, affiliated with the Chicago Federation of Labor. Chicago is well organized from a [ie a a charter this ‘month from “boosters” social has been arranged. All articles and donations, lists and names of firms contributing are to be brought in before, or to this meeting. The committee invites all friends will- ing to help — to come, but urges thenfto come LADEN WITH GOODS and with basket-lunches for their own refreshment. The social will be held at the Workers Lyceum—2733 Hirsch | Blvd. country and since then financed by American capitalism. Railroaded to Chair. | M. J. Olgin, editor of the Hammer, | Jewish Communist monthly maga- | zine, said, “Greco and Carrillo are | being railroaded to death by Ameri- jcan capitalism and Benito Mussolini. | “The same American press that’ has |been praising Mussolini has at the plan action at the next executive board meeting. The central body has | already resolved to support the Amal- |gamated Assn. of Street & Electric | Railway Employes in their fight to lorganize the subway and elevated workers. { Unions Will Aid. | Other local unions are expected to |fall in line with the aid offered by ing Workers of America. After aie to contribute amoney.,.and jociede besides the two nurses’| The local office I. L. D. to which aaa? nee oe sae ue Lae j Sn a abit Bae 2 Bh ee | . a . |include beside ‘ aoe 3 a ; lo! ocialist Sovie ‘epublics, e | a : : Noyer became an employer in the} Lucy Parsons, widow of the Chi- unions: Sanitary Lee ae pada a are asked to report is at | continued. “The attempt to murder fight for the right to organize free garment industry the Amalgamated administration is said by rank and file workers to have permitted him to violate union regulations. | j Sante ‘ ; 4 : Telephone Workers’ Union i] Other Speakers, i |application blanks to sign up transit ye | buy milk for their babies. The letter, Tel i G . \| | | workers will probably be followed by f ee te ee tetcord PE told. how the. elephone operators at the Staun- reco-Carrill | Other speakers were Carlo Tresca, | ee ~ 3 NEW YORK COST DOUBLES. | YS? 8 ree a polive “at:|tom, Ill, exchange have won recog- o Defense | editor of Il Martello, and Ettore Fris- | [Sie _suernstionel | Lect ae WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Cost of |tempted to stir up trouble. “We're nition of their union through. threat Meeting in the Bronx ina, Italian organizer for the Inter- | lan acastion F ad “yunning” New York City has doubled of a strike. When the company dis- Rose Baron, | es r i since 1917, the Commerce Depart- ment revealed today. Maintenance and operation of gen- eral departments was $52.98 per per- son in 1926, while in 1917 it was $25.64 the report showed. In total figures, New York spent $313,829,106 to keep its huge muni- cipal machine functioning last year for a population of 5,924,000. |umbine mine in which the women said cago Haymarket martyr, read,a letter from a wife of a striker at the Col- they did not have money enough to not going to let them do it,” the woman wrote. William Henry, national executive secretary of the Socialist party, pledged support of the party»to the strikers. He praised the I. W. W. leadership in Colorado and. recalled campaigns of Debs in that state. Arne Swabeck, Workers Party repre- sentative, pledged support of that group, to the strike. John A. Gahan, a 3 Fight the 4 he coal batons of Pennsylvania sto i andy Ohio, the traction kings of New! York, the coal magnates of Colorado} Injunction Menace st on their right to form their own \Jabor organizations. The, Work+ ers (Communist) Party, most’ ‘¢on- tific Laboratory Workers, Health Of- ficers, Food Inspectors, and City Health Diagnosticians. charged the union president, Martha Leopold, all of the operators threat- ened a walkout unless she ‘vas re- instated. This was done and the com- pany ‘also signed ‘a working agree- ment. 545 Labor Disputes Involve Thousands Of Trade Unionists ) WASHINGTON, (FP) Nov. 28.— Workers to the number of 575,723 were involved in the 545 trade dis- putes in which the conciliation and mediation service of the U. S. Depart- South Lincoln Street (Seeley 3562). Bronx Police Prohibit Bronx police prevented the hold- | ing of an open air meeting for the nato Carrillo, anti-fascists, who go | on trial Dee. 5 charged with kill- ing two fascists last Decoration | Day. | The meeting was scheduled for | Saturday evening at Prospect Ave. | and 163d St., by the International | Labor Defense. When Louis A.| Baum, secretary of the Photo-| graphic Workers’ Union, in charge | of the arrangements, telephoned | the Simpson Street Police Station to notify them of the meeting they | said that it could not be held, ac- | defense of Calogero Greco and Do- | | | North Greco and Carrillo is a move to pre- | |vent anti-fascist activities in this | jcountry.” |national Labor Defense, local secretary of the International | Labor Defense, presided. H A collection of $220.50 was taken. | A resolution adopted with prolong- jed applause charged that the Greco- | {Carrillo case was a “frame-up” | jplanned by the Fascist League of | America, the “American |branch of the fascist military organ- | ization of Italy,” and charged the} league was financed by the Italian fascist party. | Bail Denied. The resolution also cited the “need- less length of time Greco and Carrillo have been in prison.” They have been held without bail in the Bronx Coun- See that smile? Get that look of satis- faction? Notice that air of sure- ness? THAT’S THE FEEL- ING AND THE ATTI- TUDE OF A WORKER WHO KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT! trade unions. The bricklayers’ pro gram of sending out all New York {members armed with Amalgamated f- Wee To aes iT, |will be heard Thursday before Judge |Isadore Wasservogel in the supreme | court. By JOHN THOMPSON. Owing to the importance of the “company union” issue and the fight lof the Amalgamated Association of |Street and Electric Railway Eme |ployes for the establishment and the recognition of the right to organize, most people have lost sight of the. grievances under which the workers in the Interborough labor, | It can be said without exaggera- |tion that no group of railroad worke and the rest of the big employers are scious of this menace to the iabor|Ment of Labor took a hand during] |cording to Baum. No reason was | Pe gai since July 11, 5 jers in the country work as hard and out id destroy root and branch the la- movement, has decided upoh a vigor= the part year according to Secretary| | given for the refusal. iI The two workers are innocent of You know he reads |get so little in return for their labor bor orranizations which we have built. ous and ‘iftensive campaign:te smash:|°f Labor Davis. : “Next week we will arrange an-||the crime with which they are THE DAILY WORKER __ |8% the men and women employed by thru many years of painful struggle; ‘the injunctions. A leaflet, “DOWN In a press statement on this work,| | other meeting for the same cor-||charged, as has been stated and |the Interborough. Boston pays its The owners of industry are out to smash the genuine trade unions and put in their place the fake bosses’ ions and “tounterfeit company lion of these leaflets so that a million 3 Another protest meeting will be | |Bronx authorities give the two “an | bor news! ) The conditions under which the em 9; Toth, er A choco anaidinis. davkihens ol get geersl helo; 24 were pending at the] | held Wetnenday evening at 188th | |equitable trial from which all anti- Raped anal san, © |Ployes work are undoubtedly the {eh This they hope to accomplish thru the message of the Workers (Commu- likted m4 aca year, and 57 were! | st. and St. Anns Ave. labor and fascist elements shall be | SUBSCRIBE! | worst in the United States. The aix 4 injunctions that are being issued Mist) Party and organize to smash the ed as lhopeless of adjustment. as cate @ |rigorously excluded.” x is foul and thick with dust. The stme, i} wholesale by capitalist judges in ev- TIGROMOMA so Fs ree orig om Tin Om ek ee abe signe er —— And why not send in a |tions and cars are dirty. The lava- ery state and city where the workers dare fight even for their most ele- WITH GOVERNMENT BY INJUNC- TION,” is in the printer's hands. We would like to distribute at least a mil- Anti-Injunction Fund. | For this purpose the Workers (Com- | Davis declared that 395 of these cases, plus 41 coming over from the preceding fiscal year, were adjusted, while 69 cases were closed without ner,” Baum said last night, “and | will fight for our right to hold the meeting.” proved in various New York news- papers,” the resolution adds. The resolution demands that the The only sure and ac- curate source of all La- sub for your shop-mate? |subway men from $8 to $10 a week {more besides not handling one-fifth lof the traffic of New York. tories are filthy. Owing to the over. crowding, morning, noon and night injunction application ~ i , 3! mentary rights. Deadly blows ‘are munist) Party asks its members and | RENEW j the men get scarcely a minute te i‘ now being struck against every work- y™pathizers and all workers who | If your sub is expiring. | reathe: There is no relaxation. | ing man and workingclass family asen eerugals ee aay aad | Eyes Are Injures ' thru the whole country by the ed She ee race vey oe 6 a | RATES Hiei als wpeatahy ii an Pa tehin ent tie cnolee is Injunction Fund” so that a million | The constant glare of lights tm } class tyranny operating most brazen- leaflets may be distributed within the | | Per Year $6. 00 | pair vision. A : ly as “Government by Injunction.” ;next few weeks, and other literature Six months 3.50 There is outside of a cement fac } 4 pink oe ‘dealing with this question printed and Three months 2.00 tory no greater breeding place for ; Mobilize Masses. ‘distributed in large quantities. CUT HERE tuberculosis than the New York pail- i “The working “masses must ‘be! aroused to struggle against this in- junction menace. Everywhere masses/out these leaflets, must be mobilized’ to fight the in- Junction, to violate the injunction, and for this fight. WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Comrades, below you will find a blank for contributions for getting Please fill in and’ send to us, giving as much ag possible STEELERS eee a) THE DAILY WORKER 33 First St., New York, N. Y. Enclosed $....... mos, subscription. Poe. ss | Way lines. Most of the red cheekedy | brawny looking men from the coun. try districts and from Ireland, after | few years in the subways show the |effect of these conditions, Hai | The low wages, averaging about” — | $22 a week to all except motormen ot and Brooklyn where traction — : Enclosed you will find $............ as my contribution to the SMASH sil Might engineers, contributes to. thal jamal THE INJUNCTION FUND io help distribute a million leaflets, “DOWN | Street | tour op ‘five chats oan sna any WITH GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.” } ha Ride “CE RAR as AT writer found instaneed i Mad bia Name tit temereeeseegeger ses OF sprog. ler Econ Mrs. Mary Moskan; made a widow rac an to automobile killed her husband: She ‘to right): Jennie, 1 ie eel is left without Barney, 3; Sophie, 10; Stabe cece ceases ployes boarded in houses so cro that ae ‘the beds be