The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1928, Page 5

“oe re % S} THE DAILY WORKER, W YOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 19zs Page Five N. Y. Police Terrorize Arrest Fi Page O The S from unemployed. (Continued York’s Army also has plied with this tac The four new di from exposure in th spell brings the total d in New York from th More than 60 wo: United States hav to dc ath through lack of funds or facilities to protect themselves from the zero} weather. H Wednesday night saw the cold! wave in New York somewhat ed | but still severe. More than 600 job- less and destitute men, women and children were waiting to be assign to quarters at the Muni House. Suddenly two police cars were driven up to the Though guilty only of unem the line of applicants became “sus. pects” before three police office and a “committee.” Police and “Committee.” This “committee” included Edward E. McMahon, superintendent. of the; Municipal Lodging House. Other members were Deputy Commissioner James W. Kelly, of the New York De- | partment of Welfare, and James J.| McArdle, secretary to Borough Presi- dent Byrne, of Brooklyn. The shiver- ing line of men, women and children | extended from the lodging house, near the East River, to First Ave. and 24th St. Sentenced To Jail. Superintendent McMahon acted as “spotter” for the police. Each ap- plicant for shelter was closely ques- | tioned. Frightened by the presence of the police, many applicants fled. The patrol cars were finally filled | with unemployed workers, all charged with the crime of walking the side- walks of New York looking for work | in vain. Fourteen of them were found “guilty” by Magistrate Smith in} night court and sentenced to 14 days each in the workhouse. To Hide Conditions, The deputy commissioner of the de- partment of welfare sat on the bench beside the magistrate while the sen- tences were imposed. He said the raid on the lodging house marked the opening of a campaign to drive un- employed workers out of the district. The 14 defendants were formally charged with vagrancy. Information was obtained at the Salvation Army headquarters on E. 14th St. yesterday that an effort is being made to conceal the widespread | and growing unemployment by ban- | ishing evidence of it by the use of for@e and wholesale arrests. “If the police didn’t act in this way it would be impossible to accommo- date all who applied for shelter,” an officer of the Salvation Army said. Follows Conference. The raid Wednesday night was | made only a few hours after Col. | Edward Underwood, of the Salvation | Army, had called on Commissioner Bird S. Coler, of the department of welfare, to discuss ways and means with him. A statement made public at the time of the conference said Underwood merely urged Commis- sioner Coler to enlarge the capacity | Lodging House, | of the Municipal where 800 men, 23 women and three children are reported to have slept | Coler, however, is | night before last. said to have remained silent on this subject, whereas he assigned — his deputy commission to organize a po- lice raid against the victims of wn-! employment, for whose benefit the lodging house and the department of | welfare supposedly were established. “If you want any information you'd | ‘better go to Commissioner Coler,” McMahon said. “I might tell you one thing and he might turn around and | at least tacitly com- curb. | yment, Unemployed Workers; More reports that fur- plated. In aa om was y time more since When ed why he took part in the Wedr ay night raid, McMahon refused to reply. “Army” Co-operates. The Salvation Army is “co-operat- | in every way possible i in the city’s the situation,” ” according | ion Army officer. to die of exposure in were Theodore Simon, 60 | old, 158 E. 26th St., found dead | areaway; Charles Reinig, 65, | found frozen in his one-room shack | 212 W, 9th St., Broad Channel, | | Queens, and Richard Mennihan, of | Johnstown and an unidentified work- | jer, both of whom were found dead in ja freight car. Their death was direct- |ly due to monoxide gas poisoning | from a charcoal fire with which they | j had aon’ to heat the car. A third man found unconscious and | Lae dying with them is believed | at Staten Island Hospital to be J. C. |Harrigan, of Johnstown, | ‘Fur Rabbit Workers to \Meet Employers Today The final conference between the | | Rabbit Dressing locals of the Inter- pct al Fur W forkers’ Union and the | C lidated Rabbit Dressers’ Asso- | ation will be held at 11 o’clock this morning in the Hotel McAlpin. The employers’ association has de- | |manded a wage reduction of 25 per | cent, thinking they ean take advan- | | tage of the weakening of the union by \the destruc reorganizing” tactics |of the International officials of the | | union. | This is the sixth of a series of con- ferences held in the last few months, all of which were broken off when it was shown to be impossible for the union to concede the bosses’ demands, A general strike will probably be voted by the membership if the bosses insist on a wage reduction, Readers ofthe Daily Worker | If you want to be well dressed we can recommend you to a well estab- lished firm where you can purchase the bes. up-to-date clothing. The clothing firm of Joseph M. | Klein at 118 Stanton Street is. now |conducting a large clothing sale. | Klein’s Clothing is known by thous- | ands of customers to be the best that |ean be purchased in the cicy, The |prices are not higher than. those charged for cheaper clothing. 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I. ee cigs mad information which comes to |Li ells the following Hip Meigs that lasted for many months wi ill not The DAILY WORKER from reliable |§ Il be™ held be lightly surrendered by the cloak. |°°%™ i that the com-1 ° “Viadimir. Hyitel at the H e himself exceed-|his room on the night of D e E. Sist § Louis Hy-| ingly unpopular with the cab men, |and was kept in jail for several d eet A | man, manager of fhe. Nee Mark Joint | their friends and sympathiz due to|with about 40 other people who Dither To Lectake | Board, upon learning the results of |the extreme penalties w' he has been arrested. All thése were sub- seers rinhepestr ca: |thé conference, contains in part the|™cted out at the hack bures ials. |sequently deported from Kazan. Dr. Liber will lecture om A further cause is the periodic police y ‘ te , fol. | Life i the W this ever followi E ae . s of the fol- W | “How m Biers and how ofte which have er i from the conversation which Lenin had ° "Pro pase. Po Sigman PBS bureau < and wh been con- the police inspector who led him ve _ = oe |that they have < tinued in recent days’ in the Bronx |g. fter his arre: for the relief of the Colorado miners. |the cloak and dr and elsewhere. |! they have gained control shops in the industry? “Why do you m ble, young man?’ spector, ‘It is no all this trou- in- trying to smash over DARK STREE All Tammany Fears Election. ETS LIGHT. The reported elimination of Rutten- of the . long famous as one | Workers Don’t Register. berg is in line with the Tammany your head against a stone wall.’ mo 1 dism licy of “cleaning house” in order to “*The wall is rotten and crumbling,’ — ; {po ; : wall and crumbling, ee eae ume iand again pe inted prepare a clean bill for itself when replied Vladimir Nyitch in an uncon- bes Baie: RORS n&°! Al Smith is to be nominated for presi- |cerned tone.” | with the exception of those who h | been forced with the aid of the bos: nd the underworld, the vast major- | lity of the workers refuse to regis |and refuse to recognize the Sign | dent. An attempt will be made to prevent |s Jommissioner Ruttenberg from car- ying out his recent order raising ee of the taxi drivers’ medalion “At the be; rom PONG a nee cea 1$5 to $10. Hugo Werber, manager of Sigman Sells Out Union. |the Broad Street Taxi Asso m has Lenin emorial announced that his organi is prepared to carry the fight in the urts and for this purpose a test {case has been arranged. | Jeprive Cabmen of Livelihood. Commissioner Ruttenberg and Bie! missioner Daly before him have been instrumental in depriving hundreds of taxi drivers of their licenses for vial causes or no reason at all. Pro- | § s have from time to time been! & made without avail. “Taxi drivers are i i id ‘ f ginning of our struggle, | when the employers became the or. | ganiz rs for the Sigman elk arged workers for | register, we had pointed out that they were not doing this for love, but that the Sigman bunch has promised the employers concessions in return; and body sees what a big price the workers paid. There are abso- | lutely no union standards in any of the shops that haye registered with the International. Conditions are ad- mitied by everybody to be worse even than before 1910 when there was nc union at all. “The only hope for SahiRas January 21 MADISON SQ. GARDEN now convinced that only trade union organization will be able to solve their ‘problems. Drivers in other cities like jc hicago are organized. | Mass the workers |today is to unite solidly with the| ey | = {Joint Board, driv gman and his| BUY THE DAILY WORKER SS clique from the union, and thus save] AT THE NEWSSTAND e r aa I the forty-hour week.” & Help to Fight the Window Cleaners’ Struggle GRAND BALL , Given by the WINDOW CLEANERS’ PROTECTIVE UNION Local 8, B. S. E. I. U. Affiliated with the A. F. of L. For the Relief of the Imprisoned and Striking Window Cleaners SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 7, 1928 at WEBSTER MANOR, 119 East 11th Street. Admission $1.00 Pageant | woeerry Ballet of 100 Workers in the Cast of the Pageant--Mass Orchestra and Band of 75--Startling Scenic and Color Effects : Including Hat-Check EXCELLENT MUSIC e _tbbttdbbtttebbbteeeeeeeeeretebehibberehbbbenee seeds 4M" ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION a ee EEE ++ “DAILY WORKER” Mecca Temple 55th ST. and SEVENTH AVE. i | i Fri. Eve., Jan. 13 — 815 P.M. 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