The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1928, Page 5

LF OSE science ® } f Sra Sa cme WABYERA WU UTR Cy, J ABBIT EMPLOYERS MEET Workers Demand Unity Against Bosses Ahother conference will take place omorrow morning at the Hotel Mc- \Ipin between the Rabbit Dressers ioeals of the International Fur Work Union and the Consolidated Rab- | bit Dressers’ Association, the emp! loy- ed that wages be reduced per cent. This conference was decided upon when. the union’s refusal to consider | ¢ a conference held | n+ decrease ended last Friday. Cannot Reduce Pay. This meeting is to decide whether the whole question is to be given over for arbitration to an impartial chair- | man. According to the present agree- | ment the arbitrator has no power to veduce wages below the minimum seale set forth in the agreement ex- isting before the present one, which $1.60 for 100 skins. The employers mand that the wage be $1.50 per foo. Employers Aided. The excuse offered by the employ- ers in asking for a reduction is that open shops which pay less wages are competing with them. A persistent belief exists among the membership of the locals involved that Moe Harris, manager of Local 58, and Milton Corbett, former head of Local 25, suggested to the bosses that they advance this anti-union | argument. The workers meanwhile | oint to scores of thousands of dol- spent on organization work. Graft Charges. + More than rumors are responsible for the deeply ‘rooted belief of the membership that on the one hand raft was taken from the bosses for ilure to organize the open shops hile on the other hand these shops were used as an excuse for further large expenditures for “organization work.” In the present conflict with the bosses when Morris Langer, the pres- ént left wing manager of Local 25, of Newark, proposed to Harris that the membership of Locals 25 and 58 unite to fight the bosses, Harris re- fused. He gave as a reason that Langer and his executive board had been suspended by the International officials, in spite of the fact that Langer still participates in all con- ferences with the employers. Undermines Resistance. While speaking against a reduc- tion in’ wages, Harris is undermining the resistance of the workers, the pee declare. He refuses to agree ‘a joint meeting of the two locals w to allow leaders of the left wing 8 attend a membership meeting of is own local in Brooklyn. « Continued graft rumors, however, «prevented Harris from excluding Lan- ger from a joint membership meeting last Thursday, An __ enthusiastic demonstration by the membership took place when Langer proposed united action, N.J, LABOR LAWS ARE CONSIDERED NEWARK, N. J., Jan.\8.—Dele- gates from several scores of local unions and central bodies throughout ‘New Jersey met today at the Newark Labor Lyceum, 708 S. 14th St., in a conference to work out a legislative program for union labor of the state. The conference, under the call of ihe New Jersey Federation of Labor, was summoned as a result of a reso- lution carried at the last Camden! convention of the State Federation which stated that of the many labor proposals offered to the state legis- ee none had even been brought up l by the representatives of the old par- les. Originally the conference was called to consider the following four demands: jnnetions in labor disputes, increases in the maximum compensation from $17 to $20, amendments to the exist- ing wage law and changes in the ex- isting laws to enable workers to col-| lect unpaid earnings. Early in the conference the officials of the state labor movement raised the slogan, “Go slowly; don’t ask for too much.” About 300 delegates attended the ‘meeting. Delegates close to the ae and file carried on a strong agitation for legis- lative} plans designed to reduce or eliminate convict labor in the state, } which was reported spreading in a!) sections. But the officialdom in at- ‘tendance succeeded in preventing ac- ion by the conference. Hugh Frayne, of New York, Amer- ican Federation of Labor organizer, and Spencer Miller, Jr., secretary of the Workers Education Bureau, were ,among the officials in attendance. TO REORGANIZE CAVALRY. _ An inspection of National Guard organizations up-state will start to- day when Major General William N. ‘Haskell, commander, leaves to reor- ganize cavalry units in Buffalo, Roch- sester, Geneseo, Syracuse and Utica, ‘ar authorized by the war department. rs Harris and Corbett say they! limitation of the nse of in- | | | ers’ organization which has demand- | | } | | Naval Chiefs Hit Witness Against Them BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 8.—Hardly had John S. Baylis, commander of the |coast guard ship Paulding which ram- med and sank the submarine S-4, pointed out to the naval court of in- ui ting here that there were no e warning flags out, than the court interrupted him to rule that from now on he was a defendant in the and not merely a witness. The navy officialdom is determined igher officers, who could ed that the submarine be npanied by a tender showing lags, sha!l not be censured with im- punity. * * * “Whitewash” Charged. SHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.— use of representatives yester- day passed without rolleall the But- ler re ution for a congressional in- vestigation of the S-4 disaster, in WA The spite of denunciation by a minority | tative Black that the permits the inquiry ion to be controlled by inter- ested ranking naval officers would merely result in laying the blame on led by Repre: |dead subordinates and whitewash Sec- retary of Navy Wilbur and the swivel chair admirals who created the dan- gerous conditions. Black demanded that Coolidge ask for Wilbur’s resig- nation. Coolidge is back of the Butler motion. Furriers’ Forum Will Meet for Discussion An open forum of the fur workers | will be held today at the headquarters of the New York Joint Board of the Furriers Union, 22 East 22d St., at 2 p.m. During the last two weeks three open forums have been held at the Joint Board office. Ben Gold, manager of the union has led previ- ous discussions and will lead today’s forum also. All fur workers, whether registered or not, are urged to come and parti- cipate in the discussions. Police Assault 3 Charges of police brutality have been brought by Charles Dono, Al- fred Wenzel and Alfred Scheiler | against William Bencke, Frederick | Ott, and James Marron, three detec- | tives who, after beating them into} insensibility, caused .their indictment by the grand jury for assault, The three detectives were drinking in a speakeasy at the time of the assault. 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The Machinists Branch of the Typo | Union 6 will hold its fifteenth annual ball Wednesday, January 25, at} Trommers Hall, Bushwick and Con- | way Sts., Brooklyn. * * . | Iron Workers Meet Tomorrow. A special meeting of the Archi- tectural Iron, Bronze and Structural | Workers’ Union will be held tomor- | row at 8 p. m. at 7 E. 15th St. to formulate demands to be presented to the employers. Ukrainian Labor Here) Protest Polish Action } More than 500 Ukrainian workers ssembled in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., yesterday afternoon at the call of the Ukrainian Toilers Organization of America to protest | against the action of the Polish gov- ernment in prohibiting the Peasants and Workers Relief Committee of Lemberg from continuing its work. A resolution adopted at the meet- ing was sent to the Polish ministry of the interior. The meeting was addressed by Michael Nastasiwsky and M. Knia- |zewich. N. Tarnowsky presided. The Labor Movement William F. 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Lengthy discussion and then flowed, first in the south then in the! action. Picketing broke out in Fre- north, back and forth where the strug- | mont County, followed by El Paso gle was.intense. If a county was-out|County, and parts of the north. Be- a hundred per cent the strikers ee the police had time to cope with form a caravan and move to the sec-|the situation the south, Walsenburg, | tion of the struggle where aid was | storm center of half of the C. F. and needed. This assistance was needed |I. holdings came into action with thc mainly in the south field where the| Spani sh and English speaking miners Rockefeller, C. F. and L stronghold| united in mass picketing. is located. Picketing, the most power- Picketing and relief are g at this stage of the mines, stopped production and put | Miners facing starvation force ettion| fear of the wor! in the coal opera~|from those who object and mass pic- tors and the state. {keting will force down coal Pedal The State Begins Clubbing | tion. | A counter move following Ae | | picketing was inaugurated | state with the greats af pagel ee ° Middle Village ve orkers ‘Open New School In L.I. | |police and finally the National | Guards. Beating workers, clubbing | the women, eviction of strikers, ents.’ arrest and murder at the Columbine] A new school ‘for work carried the class struggle to a boiling has been org: fiddle | point for the strikers. Jailing of ac-| Village, L. I. Fannie Jacobs, a well- | tive strikers, mass arrest of leaders|known woman worker of the city, is and picketers brought a change in| director and one of the instructors. The opening session will be held} this evening at the oo] regular meeting place, Pulaski and Fulton| | tactics, a new leadership. Sts.. Middle Village, at 8 o’clock. All| The first time the strikers re- workers and those sympathetic to the | linquished this weapon in the south field it was put into action and revived workers’ movement are invited to at- | tend. three days later. The second quiet spell followed the Columbine affair and the mass arrest and imprison- ment of such workers as Svanum,/Em-| It is nlanned among other courses to offer sessions in English in the “A BC of Communism.” | looming ” educa- | bree and Seidler. Picketing is one thing as a weapon, its correct application is another. For days no picketing could be noticed, no mass. picketing, and for “days the operators gained by inches. The In-| figure as candidate for the democrat’s | dustrial Commission, the strikers and iene! for U. S. senator. 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Florence Hellar will lead a di sion on S' talk with the ican trade u n delegation at the meeting of 2F 1D, to be held tongiht at 6:30 p. m. at 60 St. Marks Place, that the missing r, who could have ng of the Continental e for the Teapot Dome e, has returned to uise, as a member of crew of an oil tanker docking at Nightworkers’ Meeting. Nightworkers’ tomorrow at 3 p. Branch 1 will meet m. at 60 St. Marks Place. New Orleans, to escape possible ex- Sie ltradition from France where he has el dag | been liv ing to avoid subpoena. Y. W. L. Dance, is tigation of his ircome tax being made to find, if s for an application The Young Workers League, Dis- | trict 2, will hold a dance Saturday, | Jan. 14, 1928. Caisecadent and DANCE GIV EN BY YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE—Dist. Saturday, January 14th 7:30 P. M. 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