Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928 “VELPERS’ UNION Former Mayor Says Teachers \,R,T, MEN RESENT “FIGHTS WAGE CUT Are Cheated of Pay Increases WwriipaTiON The new salary schedule for teachers of New York City’s elementary . Fs . schools is characterized as “another downright insult to the underpaid men ; Ofticers of ‘the America’ Assopia- and women of the teaching force” by former mayor, John F. Hylan. tion of Plumbers’ Helpers, whose is members are involved in the wage Page Five Labor and Fraternal Organizations IN PENN, MILLS ‘From Soviet Children More Cuts Demanded in New England | | | | Melich Epstein to Lecture. Melich Epstein, editor of “The Freiheit,” will lecture on “The Pres- | ent Situation in the Movement | and its Problems,” F) yat 8 p. m.} | Clara Zetkin, writing in the} “Reminis¢ences of Lenin” tells of | a talk she held with Lenin in 1922, | and how at that time Lenin re-| ferred to a letter he received’ from ‘Workers on Subway Mayor Walker and the city admini j}tration are strongly critic for PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18.—A gan- eral wage cut of 10 per cent has been made effective in eight mills manu- facturing Wilton carpets in this city. This wage reduction follows a similar | cut made last week in three New Jer- sey mills making the same product. Over 3,000 workers are employed in the eight mills. Joseph R, White, spokesman for the United Textile Workers of America in this city, announced that an offi- cial answer would be forthcoming when the workers had made their de- cision at mass meetings he was ar- ranging. * * * Unions Call Meetings. FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 18—In keeping with the policy of wage cuts that is now effecting all of New Eng- land’s textile centers, the Cotton Man- ufacturers’ Association is to demand a general wage slash often per cent in a conference this week with the Fall River Textile Council. An announcement to this effect was made immediately following the post- ing of wage cut notices in the large mills of the American Printing Com- pany, The Stevens Manufacturing Company, and The Arkwright Mills. The reductions in these mills became effective Monday. Meetings of all the unions affiliat- ed with the Textile Council will be held this week. The resentment ex- pressed by the workers shows that a sharp struggle against the cuts is in- evitable. Attack Frame-up of 5 Latin-American Toilers (Continued from Page One) bombs. The defendants insist they were engaged in the manufacture of toys after their regular work every day. Cage * Defense Needs Funds. “The All-American Anti-Imperialist League is girculating all Latin- American or®anizations in this coun- try asking for support for the de- fense in this case which, as already indicated by the judge, will result in conviction unless widespread support for®the accused workers can be de- veloped at once,” the United States section of the league said in a state- Clara Zetkin writes as follows: | | “Lenin said: ““& few days ago I received a} letter from an out-of-the-way little | village. About 100 children in a} home wrote to me: | \ Text of Letter. | “Dear Grandfather Lenin: We want to tell you that we have be- come very good children. We are studying hard. We are already able to read and write and are do- ing many good things.’ We wash | |ourselves well every morning and wash our hands when we eat. We want to make our teacher pleased with us; he does not love us when we are dirty.” “You see, dear Clara,’ contin- ued Lenin, ‘we are making suc- cesses in all fields, serious suc- cesses. We are learning culture, we are even washing ourselves every day! See, even the children in the villages are participating in the building up of Soviet Russia. And in such conditions should we be afraid that victory will be on our side?’ “And here Lenin laughed, laugh- ed with his former joyful laughter in which so much goodness and assurance in victory rang.” A Lenin memorial meeting will be held at Madison Square Garden Saturday evening. © Dual Union Graft of Officials Is Exposed (Continued from Page One) ened to “get” him, it is reported, Thereafter, a number of the workers on the job were induced to swear that they had paid graft to Hartman. Hartman has denied these charges. Among those making the charges was O'Donnell. He later repudiated them, and the $50 fine followed. tional Hod Carriers’, Building and Common Laborers’ Union, were dis- charged from the New York Life In- surance job. dual union replaced them. Gill has Bricklayers for the dual union. the International Hod Carriers’ Union, a group of children. | >| John Forster, president of the Troy 4 Bricklayers’ helpers of the Interna- | Members of Griffin’s | signed an agreement with the Master | It | repudiates an original agreement with | the bona fide American Federation of | at the Young. Workgrs Social Cul- ture Club, 123 Riverdale Ave., Brook- lyn. cut made Monday by the pliimbing jfirm of Lipsky & Rosenthal of Brooklyn, announced yesterday that | | they are planning definite action to} Hotel and Restaurant Workers. pprerece their men. | An educational and organization | “This wage reduction handed to meeting of the hotel and restaurant about twenty of our members in| workers’ branch of the Amalgamated Brooklyn is merely the beginning, in Food Workers’ Union will be held the ranks of the weaker sections of tonight at 2:30 p. m. at the union the building trades workers, of a gen- theadquarters, 133 W. 5ist St. eral attack on the standards of all the | . ae ae building union trades,” the announce- } ment stated. “The journeymen plumbers on this job are already | |working below union standards. We | consider it significant that Lipsky, the senior member of 'the firm, is the | president of the Independent Master |Plumbers’ Association. This is no ordinary wage reduction. The time | has come for the building trades workers to act“if they would prevent the greatest attack on their union standards since before the war.” Committee. A meeting of the helpers employed | by the Brooklyn firm will be held shortly, the helpers’ union announced, at which action will be taken. | ee ae | Jacobson Lectures Sunday. Eli B. Jacobson will speak on “Modern Literature as an Anti-Revo- 8 p. m Pose Chinese Peasant Carnival. | A Chinese Peasant Carnival will be ‘held Friday, Jan. 27, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., under the * * * Hungarian Workers’ Club. Carl Weisberg will speak on “When War Comes,” Friday at 8 p. m., at the Hungarian Workers’ Club, 708 Jackson Ave. * Organization Lags ‘4 ss ~ Finnish Workers’ Club. TROY, N. Y., Jan. 17—Due to the inactivity of the United Garment | Workers, who have several times an- nounced a program of unionization for the collar workers in this city, WORKER, will speak at a Lenin memorial meeting Sunday at 8 p. m. at the Finnish Workers’ Club, 15 W. 126th St. * * Federation of Labor, announced that the Central Federation of this city would either comnel immediate action or itself to organize a union. Brownsville Open Forum. John Williamson will lecture “The Youth Movement in America” at |the Brownsville Open Forum, 1689 |Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, Sunday at 8 | poe ons aes | FIND WORKER’S BODY. p.m. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 18.— |The body of a laborer believed to be |Patrick O'Hara, 55, was found in a jbunk at the Lehigh Valley railroad camp at the foot of Chapel street yesterday. — ~ | Dr. N. Schwartz 124 East 81st Street | SPECIALIST for Kidney, Bladder, Urology, Blood and Skin diseases and Stomach Disorders. X-RAY Examinations for Stones, Tumors and Internal disturbances. Dr. Schwartz will be glad to give you @ free consultation. Charges, for examinations and treatment! *- * * Bath Beach Forum. |__S. Davis will lecture on “The Soviet Union Today” at the Bath Beach Open |Forum, 1940 Benson Ave., Sunday at {2 p. m, ae * * 2 To Discuss Nicaragua. E. 138th Street will open their open | forum lectures Sunday at 8 p. m. with |a discussion on the Niearaguan situa- | tion. Cpeakers will be Manuel Gomez, | secretary All-America Anti-Imperial- list league; Carl Weisberg, Liberal Club, City College and Louis A. Baum, secretary, Photographic Work- | ers’ Union. | * * * j}ple going to stand for received only an increase of lutionary Force” at the Bronx Open | Forum, 2075 Clinton Ave., Sunday at | | would never have dared to use th their failure to support the lowest paid teachers.® “How long are the deserving pe injustic Hylan asks in a letter to Dr. John Ferguson, commissioner of the board of education. “Instead of the au thorit using the money for the S purpose intended by the le, me of the poorly d teac! 2 a week | out of the $14,000,000 allowed to take | care of the underpaid teaching force, | while some. of the higher paid of-| ficials have been increased as much | as $5,000 more a ye: Hylan Ought To Know. Hylan says the board of education’! money to enrich the already well-| paid officials to the extent of thou- | Rabbit Dressing Shops Paralyzed by Workers| 2 and Only shops in’ Brooklyn none in Newark is the total num of Consolidated Rabbit Dres sociation shops now announcement was made yesterday by the union to show the results ob- tained by the employers’ association who declared that they intended to reopen their shops under 26 per cent wage reduction. One of these shops is run by the manager of the bosses’ organization with the help of two scabs, and the other shop operates with only the i owners working. The union is picket- | < ‘ ped “f | been taken, union members state. ing these shops continually. After a joint membership meeting:} of both locals affected, 25 and 58, | {pointed as |the legislative intent of the law.” Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY | on | The Lower Bronx Labor Center, 715 sands a year if “Mayor Walker and|which had decided not to accept arbi- auspices of the Hands Off China |the city administration had insisted | tration of the bosses’ demand for a ip | | {on the lower paid teachers being | reduction, the employers broke off ne- treated fairly and in accordance with | gotiations. They had hoped that the | workers would agree to remain in the The teachers were underpaid when |factories at a reduced wage. The Hylan was mayor. And he is now|workers, however, immediately left a disgruntled politician with little |the shops and an almost complete tie- influence. up resulted. Favor Strike Considerable resentment has been among New York traction workers as a result of information disclosed yesterday that the Inter- borovgh has been intimidating Will- iam Thompson, a motorman who is a member of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Street and Electric Railway Union. Thompson, | aroused who was recently ap- acting chairman of the union by Amalgamated officials, is jonly one of several score of employes who have been persecuted and dis- charged, the workers report. Dozens of cases have been reported to of- ficials of the union, but no action has Workers Ready To Act. Sentiment among the traction workers for a number of months was favorable to a strike as a means of protecting themselves against these attacks from the I. R. T., but the of- ficials of the Amalgamated in the jmeantime made an agreement in court to hold off any action pending jthe decision on the injunction pro- ‘ceeding to be heard on next Monday. Phone Stuyvesant 3816 Restaurant .) pera ' i 02 E. 12th St. Health Food | Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5835 FINNISH HALL, 764 Come yourself! | Entertainment and Dance Given by SECTION 7 JANUARY 22nd, at 8 P. M. at the — 40th St., Brooklyn Bring your friends! neritic cnsena cia Great Assortment of All Makes of | Typewriters. Portables, New and Re- | built. All Guaranteed. Moderate Prices. For Sale, Rental | and Repairs. Open: 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. | Friday, January International Typewriter Co. Annual Membership Meeting of the United Workers Cooperative Association 20, at 8:30 sharp at HUNTS POINT PALACE is moderate. Special X-RAY EXAMINATION 92. HOURS: Daily: 9 A. M. to 7 P. M. Labor union. The A. F. of L, has thus far refused to intervene. | 1643 2nd Avenue. Bet. 85-86th. NEW YORK CITY. ment last night. “The campaign is being carried on | Watch, Clockmakers Meet Tonight. | | 163rd and Southern Blyd., Bronx | A mass meeting of watch and | == nee SE eee by telegrams. . the final test as to whether or not » foreign-born workers in America are ‘0 be subjected to any arbitrary pun- ishment that American big business | may decide to inflict upon them be- cause of their convictions. We call attention to the fact that forty-seven of the strikers in Colorado are Mex- ieans and that the most brutal treat- ment is being meted out to them by the same military machine which pro- tects big business in Latin America against the interests of the Latin American people.” The statement is signed by Manuel Gomez, secretary. Mellon, Senators Stop Probing of Coal Police (Continued from Page One) American workers who are fortunate enough to have food, clothing for' themselves and their dependents to lend every possible aid and lend it quickly. The miners can expect noth- ing good from the Coolidge adminis- tration. It is the creature of the . coal operators. It is bossed by Mellon, one of the biggest operators in the world. It will help to crush the min- ers; it will not help them to win. It is up to the workers, men and women of the working class, to rally to the support of their brothers and sisters in the embattled strike re- gions of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The need is urgent. Contribute and get others to contribute. Send all dona- tions to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Min- ers’ Relief Committee, 6i1 Penn Ave., Room 307, Lyceum Building, Pitts- burgh, Pa. WANTS BUNK IN BOOKS. Biographies which turn the spot light on the “heroes” of America and show them in their true light were assailed in a talk by John S. Sumner, head of the New York Committee for the Suppression of Vice. “It is good for the children of this country to have George Washington and other heroes painted as something more than ordmary men,” said the’ vice- hunter. . AIRPLANE LANDINGS. A plan by certain railroads to con- struct airplane landing fields above the tracks, similar to landing plat-| forms on battleships, was endorsed by | Postmaster New, speaking at a ban- quet of the Managers’ and Owners’ _. Association at Hotel Commodore. He “also urged aviation fields in the hearts of all large cities. ‘COURT REORGANIZATION. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 18.—Com- plete reorganization of the Municipal Court of New York City is called for in three bills introduced in the state _ senate by Senators Fearon of Syra- - euse and Hofstadter of New York City, republicans. This case represents > Newark ¥. W. L. Dance. The Young Workers League of Newark will hold its fifth annual dance Saturday, Montgomery St, Affair for The DAILY WORKER. | Subsection 3B will hold an affair for The DAILY WORKER Feb. 25 at the Hungarian Workers Home, 350 E. 81st St. } * i Final Rehearsal Saturday. Final rehearsal for the pageant of the Lenin Memorial meeting will be held Saturday at 1 p. m. at Madison \ Square Garden, 49th St. near 8th Ave., employees’ entrance. * 8 Coes * One thousand are needed for mass | scenes. No experience necessary. Bring Russian costumes if possible. | Splendid opportunity to participate in this tremendous dramatic spectacle under the direction of Edward Mas- sey, of the New Playwrights’ Theatre. * * * | Pioneers, Attention! | All members of the Young Pioneers | are to participate in the Lenin mem- orial pageant on Saturday. They should report direet to the “Garden” at 1 p. m. or report to their section headquarters. All Pioneers are urged to bring along their lunch. * * * Lecture on Nicaragua, Eve Dorf will lecture on the Nica- raguan situation tonight at 6 o’clock at the meeting of Subsection 2-D, 101 West 27th St. \ * * * Yonkers Meet Tonight. The Yonkers Branch of the Party | will meet tonight at 8 o’clock at the | Workers Cooperative Center, 252) Warburton Ave. Bert Miller, organ- ization secretary, will speak. co * * Meeting For Miners, A meeting for miners’ relief will be held Friday at 8 p. m. at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., by the Downtown Seetion, Young Work- ers League. The spéakers will repre- sent the League and other youth or- ganizations, * * * Y. W. L. Membership Meet. A general membership meeting of the Young Workers League will be held Sunday at 133 Second Ave., at |, 1p. m. The agenda will be: 1. Re- port of district committee on activi- | lties and organizational status of Y. W. L. 2. The Young Worker Sub Drive. 8. The Liebknecht Day mem- ‘orial meeting. Jan. 28, at New, | Dr. J. Mindel ‘clockmakers will be held tonight at 6 p. m. at the headquarters of the International Jewelry Workers’ Union, 112 W. 44th St. The meet- ing is arranged by Local 21 of the | union. 7 ag £ __ Sunday; 10 A. M. to 12 Neon. rel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M. 2-8 P. M. [I Daily Except Friday and Sunday. | 249 BAST 115th STREET Cor, Second Ave. New York. Jersey I. L. D. Meet. Ettore Frisina, secretary of the Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Algonquin 8182 when an Italian I. L. D. branch will be organized. * * he Yonkers Co-op. Meeting. The Workers’ Cooperative Center of Yonkers will hold a general mem- Butterfield 8799. (rsdn) Dr. A. CARR SURGEON DENTIST 22 years uninterrupted practice, Personal attention. Workers’ prices. 133 EAST 84th STREET Lexington Ave. New York at 252 Warburton Ave. New mem- bers will be accepted at the meeting. Vagabond Sport Club. sonhurt, organized to develop sports among young workers, is planning to ers Soecer League. Workers who wish to join should communieate with Cor. | HARLEM HEALTH CENTER 1800 SEVENTH AVENUE ; Brooklyn. STATE FUNDS DISAPPEAR. BAYONNE, N. J., Jan. money bag containing $5,800, part of it state funds, placed im the night Cor. 110 St. depository of the Hudson County Na- | (Unity Co-op. Building) |tional Bank here, has mysteriously Dr. V.G.Burtan ‘Dr. E. LKreinin $| disappeared, and two weeks’ investi- | Medical Director Dental Director OPEN ALL HOURS. | FSS SS ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK , Patronize Our Friend ! || SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. pecial Rates for Labor Organiza- tons, (Bstablished 1887.) POLEN-MILLER Co-operative Reps Suop |419% 6th Avenue, near 25th St. (SNS Pressed While U Wait 14th Anniversary Ball GIVEN BY THE EMPROS BUILDERS CLUB for the, benefit of the “EMPROS” Greek Labor Daily THE DRAMATIC LEAGUE OF THE EMPROS CLUB Will present the famous d-act play “THE RED MAY DAY” Also the comedy “HELP WANTED” SUNDAY, JAN. 22nd, 8:30 P. M. at NEW PALM GARDEN, 306 West 52nd Street DANCEHOTILL MORNING HOURS. TICKETS 50e, sold at the Workers’ School, 108 E, 14th St.; Freiheit Office, 30 Union Sq.} Jimmie Higgin'’s Book Shop, 106 University Pl; Empros Office, 401 Lafayette St.; Daily Worker Office, 33 First St.; Co-operative Restaurant, 30 Union Square. ORDER OF BUSINESS: 1. Report of the Board of Directors. Italian branch of the International | Labor Defense, will address a meet- | ing of the Jersey City Anti-Fascist | League tonight at 160 Mercer St.,| bership meeting Sunday at 1:30 p. m.,| The Vagabond Sport Club of Ben- | affiliate with the Metropolitan Work- ' I. Gratz, secretary, 209 Bay 34th St., | 18.—A | \gation by police have failed to find it. | 2. Financial report. 3. Report of the Control Committee. 4, Amendments to the Constitution. 5. Election of an Election Committee. (Elections for the Board of Directors to proceed at the next meeting, Friday, January 27, in the same hall.) BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNITED WORK. COOP. ASS'N. MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS at her studio 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6883. also cail at student's home. wil You Still Have a Chance to Transfer Your Money to a Cooperative Institution, Without Any Loss of Dividends Dividends Are Being Paid From the First of January. 6% by the eeporanyE Subsidiary of the United Workers Cooperative Association 69 FIFTH AVE., Cor. 14th St. NEW. YORK, N. Y. TELEPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 250.000.-22 Gold Bonds SECURED BY THE SECOND MORTGAGE ON THIS Guaranteed dividends are being paid from the first day of deposit. Office: Second Block of Dwellings of the Cooperative Workers Colony. (Bronx Park East, at Allerton Avenue Sta, Bronx, N. Y.) $1,000 $500 $360 $100 Gold Bonds are being sold on installments and the smallest amount draws 6% dividends from the first day of deposit.