The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1928, Page 2

é ~ dustrial engineers’ sociéty are being 4 a Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928 UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS IN N. Y, Sentral Bodies Acting on Wage Cuts By ESTHER LOWELL (Fed. Press). Unemployment and wage cuts are the two bi confronting @astern la the Interboro Organized labo these twin mer istence of t * even lenge to ence are tual ex- Greater une than De- eember 1921, the w evere de- pression, is reported for New York state. Employment dropped 20,000 in| factories alone ¢ December, | 1927, a 2 percent drop over Novem- | ber as compared with 1 percent for the country as a whole. Central Bodies Act. | While New York unions are not yet | acting on unemployment, neighboring tentral bodies of Pa: N. J., and Boston, Ma: re going ad with conferenc By checking the total waiting list at the federal em- ployment office with reports of busi- mess agents from local unions, Paul Fuller, director of Workers Educa- tion for Passaic, estimated nearly 22,000 workers jobless in his district. Though most exiile workers, one of the three carpenters’ locals has only 200 of its 1400 members work- ing. Fuller expects secretary of labor James J. Davis, representatives of business, banking and manufacturing at his conference Feb. 4-5. The Workers’ Education Bureau, Passaic Section, under F’ sponsored the conference, which endorsed by the} central body .and WBiilding trades council. Conferences Called. | Boston’s idle total 50,000, the cen- tral labor union estimates. Navy yard workers, metal workers, build- img tradesmen, shoe makers .and others are seriously affected. Boston’s unemployment conference, March 4, 7s under supervision of the Trade Union College with the central body’s cooperation. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, representatives of the chamber of commerce, welfare agencies and in- invited. Unemployment and wage cuts are sure to receive attention at the Philadelphia Labor College’s confers ence Feb. 28-29 on “How to Organize the Unorganized.” Committees from the United Textile Workers local Unions are conferring now with em- Ployers at 10 Wilton carpet mills which announced 10 per cent wage cuts this week. Strikers Out 7 Weeks. In Fall River; Mass., cotton textile workers are expecting a general 10 per cent wage slash, following ac- «ceptance—under protest—of such a seut by 4,300 workers at the American Printing Co. Most of the organized workers are in the independent American Federation of Textile Operatives, which is opposed to gen- eral strikes in the industry. First strikers against New England textile wage cuts, the 100 Ipswich mill workers at Gloucester, Mass., are to have special financial help from the American Federation of Full Fashioned H Workers, part of the United xtile Workers. The hosiery strikers have been out 7 weeks. STONECUTTER IS DEAD AFTER FALL +: Joseph Zubler of 6 Grand Ave., As- toria, was instantly killed when he dost his footing and fell from the Pifth floor of a building at Jamaica Ave. and Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, Where he was working as a stone- cutter. Ha = Zubler fell upon a platform erected | “to keep debris from falling upon pass- | ing pedestrians, and was dead long| ‘before the ambulance surgeon ar-| » Yived. Although hooks are supplied | by straps for protection, the hooks | Which stonecutters attach themseives ‘by straps for proteriion; the hooks are frequently badly attached and in- _ adequate, and the stonecutters’ job very hazardous. Party Fundamental : Classes Draw Over 200 Two hundred registrations are ex- - pected for the Fundamentals of Com- munism classes that will be given in the Workers School during the spring term that begins Monday, Jan. 30. In the fall term, over 200 workers sttended the six classes in this stb- eee two of which had to be added after the term began, The school is repared to add more of such Classes | the spring term if the registration ‘ ires, S nong the instructors will be Ella G. Wolfe, Eve Dorf and Emil Gardos. SURPASSES 1921 Organized Labor in the East Takes Note of the Shadow of Depression Experts Say This Monoplane Will Establish New Endurance Record Aviation experts say this new Fairchild monoplane, equipped with a collapsible wing, will set a new record for remaining in the style pl. air. Meanwhile air mail pilots continue to lose their lives flying in old es which the government will use because of its contracts, Lenin Memorial Meeting to be U., S. Labor’s Greatest (Continued from Page One) Soviet Union in 1917. It will be ac- cepted as a symbolic gift in the name of the Workers Party. by Jay Love- stone, executive secretary. Speakers at the meeting will be Lovestone, J. P. Lau, William Z. Fos- ter, Robert Minor, M. J. Olgin and John Williamson. William W. Wein- stone will act as chairman. The commander of the S. Rankin Drew Post of the American Legion earlier this week began plans look- ing toward the deportation of un- named Communists and the stoppage ef tonight’s meeting. A later letter to The DAILY WORKER from the ) office of the post, however, indicated | that the plans had been abandoned. | Nearly 2,000 members of the Unit- ed Council of Workingclass Women will march on the Garden carrying banners and slogans. Many unions will go to the hall in a body. Calls have been issued by the Furriers Un- ion, the International Labor Defense and other organizations urging their members to take a mass part in this demonstration. The Garden doors will open at 6 P. M. Twenty-six ticket stations scatter- ed throughout the city report that the demand for tickets continues to pour in. COSGRAVE JEERED BY IRISH REBELS (Continued from Page One) for the Free State and its rulers. Five minutes later Cosgrave was taken to Grand Central station for lunch abord the special car which left with him for Chicago at 2:45 p- m. Largest in History. , Yesterday’s police ayrangement to peotect' the Free Stat¢é head is the largest ever made, with the possible exception of the occasion when I. H Thomas visited the U.S. Many more patrolmen were used than when Queen Marie, Charles Lindbergh or Trudy were welcomed by the city officials. Cosgrave is the first visitor to New York to ride in a closed car on his way to an official reception, it is said. Affair For ‘Empros’ The dramatic league of the Empros Builders’ Club will give two plays and dance tomorrow at 8:30 p. m. at the New Palm Garden, 306 W. 52nd St. Proceeds for the Empros, Greek daily. The plays are “Help Wanted” and “Red May Day.” The Greek Workers Branch of the Joint Board of the Furriers Union issued a call asking the Greek and all other workers to support the “Empros,” the Greek daily Commun- ist newspaper, by attending the af- fair. Ben Gold, manager of the Fur riers’ Joint Board, is to be the main speaker. The Greek furriers in as! |ing for support, point to the service | |} rendered to them by the “Empros” in helping to unionize the Greek fur- riers. Coughlin Dead Coughlin, John secretary of the died yesterday at his home at Hemp- stead, L. I. He had been secretary of the council for three years. Asked to Break Strike Governor Vic Donahey has been asked to send troops to the coal fields of Ohio to smash the strike. “ANTI-IMPERIALIST ATTACK ONJAILING (Continued from Page One) Cuban government is a Coolidge agent in the conspiracy to smother the true voice of Latin-American pro- test regarding Haiti, Nicaragua, etc. “We are cabling all of our sections in Latin America for united action against the Pan-American fraud which is revealed as an instrument of American imperialism.” A copy of the cable was sent to AF. L. INJUNCTION MEET FEBRUARY 7 MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 20. — A con- ference to fight against the use of injunctions to break strikes was called’ yesterday by the American Federation of Labor for February 7, to be held in Washington. Representatives of all unions affili- ated with the A. F. of L. have been invited to participate in the move to obtain legislative action against granting of injunctions hitting labor. Bills dealing with this subject will have their first Congressional hear- ing on the day the conference will open, Enjoin Official from Paying Huge Salaries An injunction restraining Control- ler Berry from paying the huge sal- ary increases to non-teaching officials of the New York City schools at the expense of the meagerly paid teach- ing force, was yesterday hailed as the first, yigtory of the teachers’ organiza- tions who have been fighting the new salary schedule since its true provi- sions were learned. SHOE WORKERS ON, STRIKE; TIE UP HAVERHILL SHOPS 6,000. Out to Protest Arbiters’ Wage Cut | HAVERHILL, Mass., Jan. 20—!} Thirty-seven shoe factories are com- | pletely closed down and industry in) general here is paralyzed as a result | of a strike, which began yesterday | when over 6,000 workers remained away from work. The men at the meetings of their local unions had voted not to accept the recent decision of an arbitration board that their wages be reduced from 10 to 85 per cent. The agreement between the Manu- facturers’ Association and the General Council of the Shoe Workers’ Protec- tive Union provided that wages be fixed by the arbitration board sup- ported by both. In calling the strike the local unions had gone over the heads of their national officials whose sanction had to be obtained before a strike call is issued. Man Seeks Job as Penn. Executioner HARRISBURG, Pa. Jan. 20.— Stating that he is an expert electri- Fe caus n and citing his two years of service in the army during the war as appropriate experi- mee, a resident of Pennsylvania applied wifor Robert Elliott’s job of executioner there, jJaccording to Governor Fisher. The applicant’s name was not dis- Executioner Elliott, closed. ' The job of executioner is one of the best paid public jobs to be had, it was learned. The rate for each person | electrocuted is $200. When more} than one job is done a day, however, only ‘$150 is paid for additional exe- cutions. Elliott is hired by three states for work of this type, New York, Massachusetts and Pennsyl- vania. the U. S. State Department. * * * HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 20.—Any at- tempt to criticize the Latin-Amer- ican policy of the United States ap- peared today to be pretty well squelched. Yesman diplomatic work has been accomplished by the Amer- ican delegation since its arrival in Havana io deal with the sixth Pan- American conference. As a result of this work, the conference swung into the committee stage today with only feeble opposition elements squelched. The militant opponents of United States policy have been barred from the conference. * * * Protests Exclusion. Dr. Pierre Hundecourt, Haitian jur- ist, who was barred from the Pan- American Conference, has sent the following cablegram to friends in New York: Went to Cuba attend Pan American Conference behalf many Haitian or- ganizations and papers was arrested in hotel Venus at Santiago on pre- tense lack passport while having let- ter from Cuban Jegation Haiti stat- ing passport unnecessary to enter Cuba -was detailed quarantine and deported protest against such viola- tion international law and violence by government o uba request press of New Yori ¢: appressed Haitians help to show such violation and viol- ence as iilusiration means employed by big powers to overwhelm feeble nations. | Central Trades and Labor Council, | * e - | | Revolution Spreads, The spread of the revolutionary ope ons against American marines lin Nicaragua is forecast in the baitle at La Sance, near Leon, yesterday. The engagement occurred between a | Nationalist patrol and a column of marines. One Nationalist was killed jin the action. | Leon is in western Nicaragua and |the district is said to be seething with Nationalist feeling. ® * * * Proceed Cautiously. MANAGUA, Jan, 20.—United | States marines are proceeding with |the uimost caution in moving for- | ward in the El Chipote region, be- | lieving that the withdrawal of Gen- }eral Sandino’s forces and reports of | his death constitute a maneuver to ‘lead the marines into a_ position | where they may be annihilated. They |think that Sandino has mined the region heavily and retired. While it is apparent that there has been a withdrawal, marine headquar- ters is cognizant of the dangerous situation, Police Going to School. A course in sociology will be given at Fordham University soon for polige officers, the university has announced. Instziction in social ser- vice will also be given. say for the International Labor Defense, in.roduced sharp issues of fundamen- tal interest to the labor movement in- to an inquiry into injunctions. “A class war exists in society,” Brodsky testified after several others had been called. “The courts, judges, commissions, bodies of investiga.ion, exist and function only as supporting agencies of the dominant capitalists now in control. No Illusions. “In supporting this bill to limit the use of injunctions in labor disputes we are under no illusions tha: the workers can secure permanent relief or justice in capitalist courts. Nor do we intend to convey the impression that we believe that the bill, even if passed, will have the effect claimed for it. Bui because the bill, weak and mild as it is, still makes some gesture at fighting the injunction, we must take a positive stand on it.” The hearing was called at the in- stance of the New York Scate Fed- eration of Labor. ‘The Industrial Survey Commission was formed to in- vestigate conditions in industry. Representing the State Federation at yesterday’s hearing were John Sullivan, president, and John M. O’Hanlan, secre.ary. This group was the first to testify. Employers’ Man Speaks. “We know very well that a bill seeking to eliminate the use of in- pass. Frank X. Sullivan, attorney for the Federation, said of a bill be- fore the state legislature. “So we have drawn up the only kind of a bill which we thought had any chance of getting through the legislature.” The bill in question was introduced at Albany by Sen. Byrne. Merwin K. Hart, speaking for the Associated In- dustries of the sta.e, an employers’ combine, sought to discredit Sullivan’s claim that injunctions were doing an injury to the workers, He was sup- ported by Senator Truman, chairman of the Commission, and Judge James W. Gerard, representative of the “public.” Attorney for Both Sides, Morris L. Ernst, an attorney who said he was a member of the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union, said in reply to a question by Henry D. Sayre, executive secretary for the commis- sion, that he had represented both labor and capital in injunction pro- ceedings. | “Both at the same time?” prompted Sayre. “Yes, I admit it,” Ernst answered. Walter Nelles, representing the American Civil Liberties Union, while qualifying his support of the propos- Exposes Class Agencies at Injunction Hearing The nature of the capitalist courts and what th@ workers may expect from them was the subject yesterday of the most stirring hearing yet held by the Industrial Survey Commission. Joseph R. Brodsky, attorney, appearing junctions in labor disputes would not | ed bill with the statement that he op- posed all injunctions, urged the adop- tion of the measure. Brodsky Takes Stand. O’Hanlan interposed again to make it clear that no-one but he and Sul- livan were there to speak for the official A. F. of L. position. It was in this atmosphere that Brodsky arose to speak as the rep- resentative of the International Labor Defense, a working class organization which was the chief defender of Sacco and Vanzetti and which was instru- mental in freeing Greco and Carrillo, more recent frame-up victims, “I ask that the witness be sworn,” one of the members of the commission said after Brodsky had begun to tes- tify. Although several other witnesses had not been sworn, members of the commission insisted that Brodsky be put under oath. “I ask to be affirmed i i Brodsky said. igs This was granted. Communism »Enters. “Are you a Communist?” Hart of | the Commission, asked Brodsky. : “Is | that your philosophy ?” “Tf this is the time to discuss the principles of Communism, I am ee fectly willing to do so,” Brodsky re- | plied smilingly, : He was not urged to proceed, tho several smiled. | Brodsky then went on to cite exam- | ples of the injury being done to work- | jers and their unions by the use of | | injunctions, In one instance, he point- ed out, employers in Brooklyn suc- ;ceeded in restraining a union from |taking action against its own mem- | bers guilty of violating union rules, Impresses Enemies, 1 Brodsky’s Speech made a visible ‘impression upon the unwilling listen- i ers. To offset this effect Judge | | Gerard, so-called representative of the , “public,” at the conclusion asked: | “Are you willing, Mr, Brodsky, to ie ae to the Commission the records vende tel to which you have re- Brodsky agreed. ‘Mr. Brodsky, your remarks here have been predicated on the existence of a class war, whereas we do not know of any such class war,” Judge Gerard continued angrily. ry Facts Are Offered, If the commission so desires,” Brodsky replied, “I shall be only tou’ glad to submit data on this subject as well for its information.” At this point loud ‘comment in all parts of the room caused a suspension of the session. ico, | “when in 1911, my brother was still Advises Farmers’ March Jacob S, Coxey, who led an army of unemployed in a march on Washington in 1894, told an Oklahoma convention of farmers that a march of 100,000 tillers of the soil on Washington would foree farm relief. DEVINE FINDS GROWING LABOR PARTY FEELING Unemployment Very Bad in Middle West HAMMOND, Iil., Jan. 20. — Pat Devine, National Field Organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party is now touring the district of Illinois, in- cluding the States of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, Comrade Devine reports that every- where he visited when he spoke about the labor party prospects or at least a united labor ticket in the 1928 elec- tions, he was heard perigee Particularly does Devine say that in Hammond and South Bend the work-| ers are very enthusiastic about the labor party and the membership of | the Workers (Communist) Party there was mobilized for real activity | in connection with the Labor Party) campaign. Comrade Devine also reports a great deal of unemployment in this district and that party members are taking steps to organise real unem- ployment activity. Comrade Devine has already visited the cities of Hammand, Peoria, South Bend, LaPorte, East Chicago, ete. Comrade Devine will visit the south- | ern Illinois district on the following | dates: January 19—So. Illinois subdistrict. January 20-21—St. Louis. January 22.—West Frankfort. January 28, 29, 30—Springfield. SANDINO FIRED FOR WAR VIEWS Brother of General Ex- posed Imperialism (Continued from Page One) men and the questions and replies were interpreted by a friend. Not With Villa. Yesterday Sandino gave the lie to the printed reports in American news- | papers that his brother, Augusto, had | |been with the army of Villa in Mex- “How can that be?” he asked, a boy in school. That is the same} kind of absurd and malicious gossip | that describes my brother as a bandit and an outlaw.” His brother, Sandino said, had al- ways an intense interest in the poli- tical destiny of his country. “Even when he was a student in what re- sembles your American high school, he was extremely interested in poli- tics and economics, He was also very fond of philosophy, spending long periods in this study,” Sandino said. Represents People. The young Nicaraguan said, in an- swer to a question, that his brother is being attacked in the American capitalist press because he represents the Nicaraguan people against the American investors in his country. “His deeds are the reverse of the qualities pictured by the press,” he said. “The Pan-American Conference?” Sandino said cynically, “even if there were discussions on the subject of Nicaragua, the financial and military power of the United States would refuse to loosen its hold on my coun- try.” Sandino said that he was confident that his brother is alive, and did not believe the rumors that he had been killed by U. S. marines. In reply to another question, he said that he did not think that his brother would evac- uate El Chipote, inasmuch as that re- gion is mountainous and provides an excellent cover for the military opera- tions of his army. MINERS RECEIVE - FUNDS FOR RELIEF $1,600 Check Sent. by I, W. R. Organization The International Workers’ Relief, which is cooperating with the Penn- sylvania-Ohio-Colorado miners Relief Committee, has sent another check to aid the miners in their struggle. This check was for $1,600. From*Canada the I. W. R. has: re- ceived a $100 check together with a letter signed: “A Canadian Woman” which reads in part as follows: “Many people who gave their dol- lars or less are denying themselves more than I did. A few years ago I was myself collecting for some starving children. In response to a newspaper appeal we received a let- ter enclosing 1 apologizing for its being so little. But the writer said she was a farm laborer’s wife with five children. You probably have many such gifts.” “Evéry donation, whether $1 or secretary of the I, W. R., said yester- day at the organization’s headquar- ters, 1 Union Square, Room 604, Newark Raises Funds. Detailed plans of the Newark (N.J.) Committee for Miners Relief, include | calling a mass. meeting on January 29 and a tag day. The executive com- mittee has opened headquarters at 194 Prince St., the home of the Furriers” ; Union. Four members of that com- mittee are engaged every morning in visiting organizations in Newark for the purpose of mobilizing for the tag day and soliciting funds and clothing | for the striking miners, according to | the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Min- | ers Relief Committee. A. Pilat, of the Hungarian Com- mittee for Miners Relief, raised $60 at a party given by him at, 330 E, 79th St. The Hungarian Relief Com- mittee, 850 E. 81st St. has collected (Continued on Page Five) COLORADO BOSSES FEAR -UNIONIZING Terrorized Over Possible Organization Spread (Special to The Daily Worker.) By FRANK PALMER. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 20. — Un- able to terrorize strikers in the coal industry, bosses, militia and sheriffs have themselves become terror-strick- en over the possibility of organization also spreading to sugar and steel, the state’s other two great industries. *> Militia Head for Sugar Bosses Colonel Newlon, adjutant general of the militia, made a_ sensational speech before the sheriffs Thursday, in which he pictured a catastrophe lurking in efforts of the I. W. W. to organize the sugar workers. The Great Western Sugar Company. boss- es admit they fear the same thing, in newspaper in.erviews. This company jhas been exploiting Mexican work- ers for twenty years, through the low prices they are paying farmer beet growers, and paying dividends aver- aging 50 per cent per year on all money ever invested in the company since the formation of the corpora- tion. Organization Progresses. Newlon and the bosses admit that the organization of these workers, many of whom go to the coal mines during the winter, has made progress, and that such an organization would have the bosses at its mercy because the beet work has to be done at the exact time needed or the crops would be ruined. Huge Profits. While Newlon and the others claim to be protecting the farmer, the fact is that profits of about ten millions a year are at stake for local and. Wall Street capitalists. Many workers de- mand fifty per cent increases. The present pay is frightful. Factory Workers Organizing. The Federated Press makes public the fact that workers in the sugar factories are also organizing in the I, W. W. which is even a more strate- gic point because the sugar mills must work every hour or the whole process would be ruined. After the Longmont raid where the militia arrested ten, it is reported that 100 joined the I. W. W., mos: of them workers in the sugar factory there, ‘ Steel Mills Not Immune. The Pueblo sheriff added “horror” to the situation by reporting that the I. W. W. are organizing the steel works. Coal, sugar and sieel have been open shop, company union, low wage paying, slave driving industries, with the usual Rockefeller ruthless- ness in the coal, and steel industries and similar policies in the sugar in- dustry. States Attorney Defends Murders. District Attorney Hawlye attacked the verdict of ihe coroner’s jury, hold- ing that the state police are guilty of the killings in Walsenburg and the attack is final proof that the murder- ers will not be brought to justice, Rockefeller still ru pene $1,000, is welcome,” Fred Biedenkapp, * potas aN RN ORS MMI a time {