The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1928, Page 5

- os BUSINESS GROUP RIDIGULES WOLL Reply Made on U. S. Trade With Russia | Replying to a letter from Matthew | Woll, acting president of the National | Civic Federation and vice president of the American Federation of La- bor, the American- Russian Chamber of Commerce ridi- cules the idea ad- vanced by Woll that by trading with the Soviet Union it is helping to foster Commu- nist propaganda in America. A suggestion is made to Woll that if he is seeking to fill the roll of informer—he report to the government any “evidence of sub- versive propaganda by the Soviet gov- ernment.” Trade With Russia Growing. After pointing out that trade be- tween the Soviet Union and Amer- ican business firms is growing in spite of the failure of the U. S. govern- ment to recognize Soviet Russia, the reply to Woll goes on to say: “As a matter of fact the department of commerce of the United States in- eludes in its current publications deal- ing with world trade opportunities, information about Russia.” The letter says in another section: “The chamber does not share your be- lief that trade with Russia endanger: in any way the stability of Amer- ican institutions.” Matthew Woll Labor Imperialist A Labor Imperialist. The American Federation of Labor in recent years has consistently fol- lowed the lead of the U. S. state de-| 5 partment in foreign policy. Woll ha been the chief spokesman for gov- ernment policy within the labor move- ment. The present policy of the United States towards the Soviet Union is in the process of change. WORKERS PARTY ACTIVITIES YORK—NEW JERSEY NEW Night Workers Meet Today. Don’t fail to come to this important meeting and at the same time benefit the last chance of registration. Meet- ing will be held at 60 St. Marks Place at 3 p. m. ‘ 3 * * 3-E 1-F Anthony Gombach will lecture on “The War Danger, Disarmament and Social Democracy” at tonight’s meeting of 3-E 1-F at 6:30 p. m., at 101 W. 27th St. * Branch 1, Section 5. Branch 1, Section 5, will meet to- night, 8:30, at 715 E. 138th St. Af- ter the business meeting a prominent speaker will address the meeting on “New Combinations in American In- dustry.” * * = * * 8. S. 3-E, F. D. 3, Subsection 8-E FD 3 will meet tonight-at 6 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St. St. * Lecture on Soviet Union, Harriet Davis will lecture on her impressions of the Soviet Union to- night at 6 p. m., at the meeting of Subsection 1-B, 60 St. Marks Place, * Discuss War Danger. “The War Danger, Disarmament and Social Democracy,” will be dis- cussed at the meeting of 3 E 1-F, tonight, at 6:30 p. m., at 101 W. 27th St. - * * s . Lecture on U. S. S. R. Tonight. M. Garwitt, recently returned from the Soviet Union, will lecture on “Russia, an Inspiration” at tonight’s meeting of Branch 3, Section at 8:30 o’clock at 207 Clinton Ave. Party members from other units are in- vited. . *. * Lecture on Traction Question. Sonia Bloom will lecture on the traction question and injunctions at tonight’s meeting of 1-F, 3-C at 101 W. 27th St., at 6 o’clock. New branch officials will be elected. + * & Liebknecht Memorial Mecting. The Liebknecht Memorial meeting will be held Feb. 8 by the Young Workers League at the Labor Tem- ple, Second Ave. and 14th St. eee Turn in Cards and Badges. All Party members who have mem- bership application cards that were filled out at the Madison Square Gar- den meeting or committee badges should turn them into the district of- fice at once, 108 E, 14th St. No Party members are permitted to keep the badges. Pa Gs Minor to Speak at Workers School. Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER, will visit the journalism class at the Workers’ School, 108 E. 14th St. conducted by Art Shields tomorrow at 6:45 p. m. He will speak on The DAILY WORKER scholarship and discuss worker correspondence. will be the subject of a “Russian E Theatre, Science and Industry,” which HAZARDS CAUSED BY SPECULATORS Speed-up of workers by ignorant and greedy speculative builders is largely responsible for the increase of accidents in the ‘construction in- lustry, New York state Labor Com- ioner James A. Hamilton told the | Building Congress. “In the building business one un- fortunate and regretable situation arises from the fact that many em- ployers are in it when they know absolutely nothing about it,” said Hamilton. “Having made money in some other line of business, they sud- denly make up their minds to go into speculative building. They go into it with the avowed purpose of produc- ing something with the least possible money. Their ignorance and greed are appalling.” Building trades accidents are in- creasing and gaining seriousness. Fatalities are much more frequent on construction jobs than in factories, and have been increasing faster than the increase of employment in the building trades. Dynamiter of Strikers, Boss, Thief, Suicide BOSTON, (FP) Jan. 23.—Willia: M. Wood, former president of Ameri- an Woolen Co., who committed sui- le (wo years ago, cost the company 2,500,000 in frauds committed while was its chief officer, say attorneys for the company in reply to a suit by the executors of his estate. Af‘er the, 1 Lawrence strike Wood was i ted on a charge of planting dyna-| mite among the strikers, Worker Dies of Shock i i WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jan. 23.— A shock received last September | when he placed his hands on a high tension wire in the Westchester and/ Boston Railroad yards was responsi. ble for the death yesterday of Clar- ence Grisso, of 1180 Lebanon St., the Bronx. Grisso, who had been em- |ployed as a yardman by the railroad. |died in the White.Plains Hospital af- ter.fighting for life for four:months. \ Medical Examiner Dr. Amos Squire has ruled that the railroad was blame- less, to prevent the dead worker’s family from bringing suit. More Police Urged PATCHOGUE, L. I, Jan. 23.—An epidemic of robberies in Sayville and Bayport has led residents of these towns to demand more police and deputy’ sheriffs. These towns are in- habited for the most part by wealthy business men who commute to New York, CLERGYMEN RESENT OVERTIME Because Sunday is a crowded day for ministers, protestant clergymen of the North Shore of Queens, after a conference yesterday in the Queens- boro Chamber of Commerce rooms in Long Island City, adopted a resolu- tion intended to prevent funeral ser- vices on Sundays. The resolution states: “That no funeral services be held on a Sunday because of the necessary labor involved.” ACCIDENTALLY KILLS SISTER. HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan, 23.—In a pillow fight with his 16-year-old sis- ter Anna, Chester Fallon, 14, got his father’s revolver to scare her. The gun was accidentally discharged, kill- ing the girl instantly. Newark Y. W. L. Dance. The Young Workers League of Newark will hold its fifth annual dance Saturday, Jan. 28, at New Montgomery Hall, Prince and Mont- gomery Sts, * * * Markoff Lectures Tomorrow, A. Markoff will lecture on the in- ternational situation and the problem before the Party tomorrow at 9 p. m. jat 2901 Mermaid Ave., Coney Island. * * * Subsection 3-E. Subsection 3-E will meet tonight at First USSR Exhibit in N. Y. Will Include Theatre, Music The development of cultural life in Russia under the rule of the Soviets fHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JAN UARY 24, 1928 Page Five TRACTION BAR xposition of Education, Handicrafts, will be opened at 119 W. 57th St., New York City, Jan. 30, to continue for three weeks. It is the first ex-| position of its kind in the 10 years of | Soviet rule and is described as purely educational and artistic in character. Daily programs will include lec- tures by American authorities who have visited the Soviet Union recent- ly, musice by well known Russian art- | |Glorify “Yellow Dog” Contract (Continued from Page One) secrecy and concealment adopted by the Amalgamated Association.” In reply, Senator Robert F. Wag- ner, arguing the case for the 4 1 gamated, maintained that Quacken- ists, and the exhibition of hundreds of |; suggesting that the Amalgamate examples of peasant . Sranniet aan, weovel handicrafts, | would ever call a strike. “We wist neatre mi y OoKS, and posters | -, clear! der: Bij aie r P t arly understood,” said Wagner, sent to New York by the Russian So- |“that our Association is opposed. to ciety for Cultural Relations. strikes and that no such idea is even Wide Program. in the minds of its offi ne sy Ps The senator then ad d him-| The exhibits are divided into groups | .o1¢ to an eloquent elaboration of the showing the development under the Soviet government, of public health, agriculture, Y+/ hated term to which Quakenbush had transportation, commerce, and fi-|-arjier alluded with almosi a shudder. nance, end the arts of the theatre, /The provisions of the company union ballet, and opera, wood-working, | constitution were likewise exposed in metal working, textiles, printing, and | a1] their evil details. “It is a sham,” architecture, |shouted the senator, with a broad One of the most important parts of | flourish of his arms, as he turned to the exposition is the Theatre Exhibi- |face the several hundred people who tion, which includes 25 models of | were crowded into the court room. stage sets from all of the great thea- All Good Tammany Men. tres of Russia and from Workers’| The judge, a good Tammany disci- Theatres, and many pictures and post- | ple, listened most respectfully to both ers of other productions. |sides, no less attentively to Robert } unjust provisions of the “yellow dog” education, | contract. He even used this much industry, SEEK INJUNCTION | bush had spoken beyond his province | Modern Theatre. Every modern tendency in the thea- tre, as well as the classical traditions of the Russian stage, are illustrated in the models, since the Russian pro- ducers have been among the most ar- dent experimentalists in the world. The Theatre Exhibition has been ar- ranged by a committee of New York F, Wagner, perhaps the second most | distinguished son of the local dem-j ocracy, than to the representative of the traction interests who are known to have more than one finger in the Tammany pie. Considerable good feeling was manifest on the part of both sides| |immediately after the first inevitable gh sounding verbal attacks had! ONS Miner’s Wife to Tell of Strike at Bronx Meeting > WORKER Rachel Getto, wife of a P ers at Hunts Point Palace, 163rd S a Other speakers at the » Women’s Committee for? ief, will be Juliet in | Wortis, and mn |Emerson, of Worker: \Relief. Ray Ragozin, of t Union, will be c Tells of “My grandfather and father were| jminers and my brothers and husband re strikers now, fighting for a |chance to earn a decent livir rs. | Getto, the 24-year-old militant fighter | in the ranks of the Bentleyville M ers Women’s Auxiliary, said in an in terview here last night, “The women and children have to | pick coal out of the slate pile while |the men work in the mines to make enough to buy food for them all. My mother and her sisters and brothers | used to sell this coal for ten cents a bushel to get enough to eat, and’con- {ditions aren’t any better now. That’s | why we’re on the picket line, too!” : Arrest Workers. Mrs. Getto told how the company police. or the “yellow» dogs” as they are called in the strike fields, arrested | ing them $2.50 a piece asked them to promise that not more than seven} would picket at a time. | “But we showed those yellow dogs they couldn’t boss us. The women’s | auxiliary took the children and we all | went on the picket line the next day!” Killed in Steel Mill. Not only are things hard for min srs, Rachel Getto said, but conditions | in the mills are even worse. When a” miner, Sabotich, tried his luck in a steel mill in Woodlawn he was killed | two men for picketing and after fin- | : directors and artists, including Lee|bcen launched. Then there occur Simonson, Kenneth Macgowan, Oliver |from time to time various forms of {the first day he worked there, and! his wife and ten children, rangi ia miner, will be one of the and Southern Boulevard, Bror ng, being held under th qa \ CRUZ BURN SLUMS MEXICO CITY, (By Mail). — The Tenants League of Vera Cruz has or- dered the workers in the nolish: their houses, and has furn. shed them tents in which to live This step was taken as a drastic e against the landlords who empted to force rent from the workers. Members of the Tenants League have r landlords to make necessary repairs. In 1922 the tenants strike movement spread throughout Mexico. In Mexi- co City, Puebla and other places the movement was suppressed and its leaders shot, but in Vera Cruz it has nained well organized. Since the climate of Vera Cruz is tropical the workers will be able to live comfortably in their tents, which are more sanitary than the shacks they have demolished, WORKERS OUT OF DANGER. Five workers overcome by smoke in a tenement house fire at Ninth Ave. nd 42nd St. late Sunday night, were pronounced out of danger yesterday. | They wete unconscious when carried down extension ladders by firemen. slums to} used to pay rent since 1921] ; : 3 ; |in protest against the failure of the|'8m and public speaking. Registration S$ SCHOOL ne ie Spring Term To Enroll spring term of , 108 E. 14th St., elementary in- ced English, as n speech im- apartment of the Work School for the coming Spring term that | opens the week of Monday, Jan. 30, The Engli department in two |years has extended its curriculum {from two elasses of English to 12, as |well as adding from term to term such special courses as labor journal- |for the English classes the past term was so large that three additional classes were formed in the middle of the term. | Over 400 workers attended the |English classes of the workers’ | School during the past term. Includ- ling labor journalism and the litera- ture course, the registration in the |English department was approxi-~ jmately 550. BROKER CUTS OFF MAN’S ARM, Max Sklarin, a taxi chauffeur of 819 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, was | awarded $25,264 damages for the loss of his arm. Sklarin sued George !Unger, a stockbroker of 57 Wall Street, for $100,000. Unger’s limou- sine hit his taxi he charged, thus causing the injury. Saylor, Irene Lewisohn, Leo Bulgakov, Eugene Schoen, and Boardman Robin- son. iLos Angeles Jobless Number Thousands; Police Drive Them Out LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 23.— The state of California, pariicularly in the building trades, is especially hard hit by the wave of unemploy- ment felt thruout the United Stat San Francisco shows a steadily in- reasing number of unemployed work- ers each month over the previous month. According to the estimates by the Chamber of Commerce, there are 60,- 000 unemployed workers in Los Angeles alone. This is a very con- | servative estimate, as would be ex- pected from the business boosters. A leading Mexican daily newspaper pub- lished in Los Angeles reports that there are at least 100,000 unemployed workers here. Every week the news- papers report that dozens of workers are arrested for “vagrancy” and told to get work or get out of town, other- wise they would go to jail. Labor and Fraternal Organizations Yorkville Workers Forum. E. Rogers will talk on “What I Saw in Soviet Russia” Friday at 8 p. m. at the Yorkville Workers Forum, 850 E, 81st St. Questions and dis- cussion will follow. ae Williamsburg I. L. D. The Williamsburg branch of the In- * > tomorrow at 8 p. m. at 29 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, * * * Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra. The Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra of the Bronx will hold a concert and dance Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Rose Gardens, 1347 Boston Road. * * * For Relief of Fur Workers. Fur Council 1, United Council of Working Class Women, will hold a concert and dance to raise funds for the appeal of the Mineola cases at 2075 Clinton Ave. on Saturday, Jan. 28. ! OLEN-MILLER _OPTICAL COMPANY 1tGOLOIN OPTOMETR 6 o'clock. which will in Labo All organized workers must come to the Protest Meeting Against Non-Union Conditions in Labor Bank TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1928 (6 P. M.—right after work) IRVING PLAZA, Irving Place and 15th St. ‘ PROMINANT SPEAKERS—ADMISSION FREE Arranged by the Committee to Protest Non-Union Conditions take place r Banks \ ./enbush with a friendly smile. ternational Labor Defense will meet | not altogether concealed “joshing” between the “opposing” counsels, a bit of railery in which even the judge | took an unbending part. | More Than a Joker. In rebuttal, Quackenbush sought to commit the legal stafi- and officials of the Amalgamated to the proposa! of an increased fare as a condition of increased pay for the men. “Did I understand that you are advocating wage increases, which, as you know are/available through only one source, an/ increased fare?” inquired Quack- The Tammany representative merely smil- ed in return. The judge was stern The “public” did not quite under- stand. The main position taken by Quack- enbush in his final argument was somewhat of a modification of his original stand. No longer asking for the ‘e dozen demands in the ap- lication, he stressed only the request for an order restraining a strike. Former. Congressman Nathan D. Perlman, for the Amalgamated, in- quired if the company would agree not to fire men for organizing. The wily Interborough attorney would not say anything to this “indelicate” sug- gestion before the public. The judge took the case “nnder advisement.” The decision is expected within two or three weeks. Incident- ally, the fate of the organized labor movement is said to be involved. An- other thing: the “arrangement” prob- jably provides for an injunction pre- |venting a strike but permitting “or- ;Zanization” and those other things which the Interborough will. be abic to fire its men for attempting to carry out. from four months to 14 years, are 1] ing on the little the Miners’ Relief can spare. Most of the miners and their families have only one meal a day, she said. Meeting In Brooklyn. Another mass meeting will be held | at New Columbia Hall, 350 Blake | iam Ave., Brooklyn, Friday at 8:30 o'clock. Karl Conference Feb. 5. | A conference of al] women’s organ- | izations for miners’ relief will be held Feb. 5 at 2 p. m, at Irving Plaza, Irv- ing Place and 15th St. Organizations | will be represented by one delegate | cs for every 20 members. ELLIOTT AGAIN PULLS SWITCH. | BELLEFONTE, Pa., Jan. 23.—Rob- | ert Elliott, the executioner of Sacco and Vanzetti, Ruth Snyder and Hen- ry Judd Gray, sent another con- demned man to his doom in the Rock- view penitentiary, near here, today. Mass Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet, 302 E. 12th St. New York. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865. LABOR TEMP: | Dr. N. 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A Rosenfeld, Se Aavertise your union. meetings here. For information write to ’ The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. Come to Miners’ Relief Mecting, Workirg Women! Housewives! HEAR the story of the women’s part in the life and death struggle of 650,000 striking men, women and children in Penn Colorado against sweeping injunctions, wholesale ev ;conditions in the flimsy barracks, where disease takes {ts Rachel Getto, @ striking miner’s wife from Western Penna, Great Assortment of All Makes of | . Typewriters. Portables, New and Re- Marian Emerson : : built. All Guaranteed. Secretary of Penn-Ohio-Colorado Miners’ Relief Miners Relief Mass Meeting HUNTS POINT PALACE WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25 | Held under the ousnices of WOMEN’S MINERS’ RELIEF COMMITTED Jnited Councils of Working Class Womem BROWNSVILLE and EAST NEW YORK Working Women 350 Blake Avenue, Brownsville, FRIDAY, January 27th, 8:30 P. SAME PROGRAM OF SPEAKERS! ania, Ohio and ons, armed thugs n, Women and children—told by Ray Ragozin Rose Wortis will preside, thern Boulevard, Bronx ’ P.M. to be held at New Columbia