The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1928, Page 5

> \ SECOND TEXTILE MILL ON STRIKE 30,000 Fall River Work- ers Plan Action FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 25.-The second textile mill in thiS~city to be tied up by a strike is the Sievens Manufacturing Company. Yesterday the weavers of this mill at a meeting decided not to await the action de- cided upon by general meetings of the Textile Council. A strike was declared immediately to be effective this morning. Tuesday morning, the 1,000 work- ers employed in the Awkwright Mills walked out of the factory when the superintendent announced a 10 per cent wage cut. Speed-up Increasing. The workers in the ‘Stevens plant had been notified that in addition to the wage cut they would be expected to operate three looms each instead of two. It was on this issue that the weavers decided to strike independ- ently. They declared that since the quesiion of the wage cut would be taken up by the Textile Council as a whole they would discuss this ques- tion together with the other unions. Just as the Stevens Manufacturing Company declared a wage reduction before the announcement of a general slash was made by the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers’ Association, so the workers in this plant decided to answer their bosses. Information has not yet been re- ceived as to the action decided upon at the meetings of the unions af- filiated with the Textile Council. Ap- proximately 30,000 workers were to gather in various meeting halls late last night to plan action. The sentiment of the workers in general can be well guaged by the response to a strike call in these two plants. Their resentment is in- tensified by, the attitude of the em- ployers, who declared that even if the reduction is accepted they will refuse to guarantee steady employment. | Unién Officials Fight Labor Party Plan (Continued from Page One) presidents, Martin KE. Ryan, Matthew Woll, and James E. O’Connell was ap- pointed to direct the campaign. The council decided to hold another meeting on April 24 at which time a final draft of labor’s political de- mands on both old parties will be made. Thereafter the campaign will be directed. to securing “favorable” delegates to the political conventions ‘as well as favorable action from the conventions as a whole after they have begun their sessions. The council announces specifically that it will not follow the example of its 1924 efforts at which time organ- ized labor deviated from its former policy by supporting the candidate of | a third party, Senator Robert M. La- Follette. Labor officials have since claimed that the experience proved disasterous, but it has been pointed out by others that the reason for this experience was the open sabatoge of independent political action by the labor leaders themselves who in vari- ous localities such as, for instance in New York City, are bound up with the ruling, old party machine in power. Labor ,Party Sentiment Rising Labor in Pennsylvania and es- pecially in Minnesota is committed to the program of a labor party. Re- cently over two hundred delegates of Jabor and farmers’ organizations in Indiana united for common action. Workers in large industrial centers such as New York and Chicago, hard hit by increasing unemployment and lowering wage levels, have in recent months shown strong signs of labor party sentiment. STRIFE AWAITED AT SIGMAN MEET J Sharp conflict which might develop into open battle is anticipated at a meeting to be held tonight immedi- ately after work by members of the right wing cloak operators’ Local 2, controlled by Morris Sigman. The meeting is to be held at Webster Hall, llth St. and Third Ave. It is expected that difficulties will arise when a group among the right wing will use the meeting as a forum from which to advocate peace and unity in the union. A free-forall had actually developed at a previous meeting held at Webster Hall at the installation of the new . executive board. Sigman recently announced that he will fight against anyone who pro- poses to again unite the cloakmakers’ organization. In answer to the grow- ing sentiment among the right wing- ers that their expulsion policy was a failure, Sigman’s majority on the executive board of this local declared that they will reopen registration if ‘the workers will pay $12.85 for a ;“union” book. A statement issued by the Joint ‘Board of the Cloakmakers’ Union de- clares that “the new manifesto of Sigman will be recognized by the workers for the fake that it is. After more than a year’s continuous an- nouncements by the Sigman clique that they have registered all the workers in the trade, a sudden de- -claration of ‘amnesty’ is made by _ them, , WORKERS PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY | Party Conference Sunday, | All Party functionaries, department heads, unit organizers, subsection or- |ganizers, section organizers and agit- | Prop direetors of units, subsection and | ference Sunday at 10:36 a. m. at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. The | £0 | conference is called by W. W. Wein- | Stone, district organizer. oe Harlem Housewarming. M. J. Olgin will lecture on “Ten Red Years” tonight at the housewarming of the Harlem Section, Workers Par- ty at 143 E. 103rd St. * Yorkville Pioneer Meet. The newly organized Pioneer nu- cleus will meet Saturday at 3 p. m. at 350 E. 81st St. * Discusses New Books, Barbara Rand of The DAILY WORKER will lead a discussion on Wm. Z. Foster’s “Misleaders of La- bor” and Stalin’s book, “Questions and Answers” at an educational meet- ing of 1F Subsection 2A tomorrow at 16:30 p. m. at 108 E. 14th St. All workers are invited to attend. * \ Special 1-F 1-D Meeting. ; Due to the sudden death of one of the mémbers of the unit, a special |meeting of 1-F 1-D will be held to. night at 6 p. m. at 60 St. M Place. * * * ee * Liebknecht Memorial Meeting. The Licbknecht Memorial~meeting will be held Keb. 3 $08 ple, Second Ave. and 14th St. * “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. rans? a ae, | | Ice Skating Sunday. |. The Brownsville Young Workers League will hold an ice-skating party Sunday at 2 p. m. Those wishing to participate will meet at 1689 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn. * Astoria Entertainment and Dance. Subsection 3 A will hold an enter- ;tainment and dance Saturday, Feb. INS. Second Ave,, Astoria, L. I. To reach the hall take Astoria train to Hoyt Ave. station, ~ ~ z © alt Section 1, Attention! Section 1 will hold a “Proletarian Banquet” on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7 p. m. at the Downtown Labor Center, 60 St. Marks Place. * * ihe Jersey City Lenin Meeting. The Jersey City Lenin Memorial meeting will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. at 106 Mercer St. The speakers will include Leon Platt, J. O. Bentall and Sam Nesin. * + 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. A WORKERS HURT IN WIND STORM A 175,000 gallon water tank, torn from its supports by a gale sweeping this city today, crashed through the roof of an elevenestory building at Washington and Hubert Streets on | the lower wes: side, and tore through \four stories, landing in a mass of de- bris on the seventh floor. Seven hundred workers were on the upper floors of the building, which is devoted to manufacturing, at the time of the crash, but according to an early check, all but four escaped injury. These four were buried in the debris. Orly heroic efforts of coast guards- men today saved two harbor boats from sinking off the Battery in the most violent land and sea-storm that has struck the city and harbor this year. Several other vessels-were be- lieved to have been sunk. The lower bay was strewn with wreckage. A Jersey Central lighter menaced the lives of hundreds of passengers aboard two ferry-boats it grazed and then, suddenly listed and sank off the Thirty-ninth street ferry slip in the North River.’ Au-horities were en- deavoring to learn if anyone was | aboard the lighter. * Prison Torture Shown CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Torture at the Joliet prison has been criticized in re- lation to the case of Martin Durkin, serving a 35 year term for killing a Secret. Service agent, He was hand- cuffed to the bars above his head for a period of 80 days when a knife was found in his cell, In a protest to the parole board, University of Chicago professors charge that prisoners are made to stand on the ball of the foot for days at a time for petty infrac- tions of the rules. ‘ r |seetions should attend the Party con- |\ by the Young | t Workers League at the Labor Tem-|| 4, at Bohemian Hall, Woolsey and. "5 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1928 Page Five D i ON WORKERS DECLARE STRIKE The Architectural Iron Bronze a tructural Workers’ Union yesterday eclared a strike at the Carman Iron York 9 Davis St. irm had been a union shop r over seven years but recently broke off relations with the Iron Workers’ organization, the union an- nounces. Union men were laid off and an attempt made to employ non- union men at reduced wages. A strike which has resulted in the calling out of all employes followed. Pickets were stationed yesterday be- fore the headquarters of the firm. . * . On its fifteenth anniversary the union has made a bid to its Inter- national for unity with that organi- zation and with other locals in the trade. In a statement issued yesterday, |through A. Rosenfeld, secretary, the union announces that “We believe | that our International will realize the absolute need of bringing our trade | within its ranks and will connect us j withthe rest of the locals in the | rade and with other unions in the | building trades.” | Organization Counts. After recounting the many achieve- ments and ruggles of the union |during the fifteen. years of its exist- ence, the union further announces |that it has is of its 0 between $50 and $60. Hours e been reduced from about 60 a ded in raising the week to 44, T > failure to organize the whole t is pointed out, has been due lack of support from other in the trade and in the building trades generally. The union will celebrate its fif- teenth anniversary with a ball in | Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., Sat- urday night. . FAKE IN MINES | NELSONVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 25— | An attempt at widespread open shop | mining, under the guise of “co-opera- jtive mining” is being attempted by | practically all employers in this vi- cinity, Monday. Mines with a total capacity of 82.500 tons a day, em- ploying normally 10,000 men, will re- epen, and will try to get union min- ers ty desert their fellow workers and come into the modified Morris plan, a co-operative scheme, involv- ing a company union, with represen- tatives of the union on the board of directors controlled by the operators, and wages at $5 a day instead of the union rate of $7.50. There will be a sliding scale by which the wages will be reduced as soon as the price of coal goes down under competition from the southern mines. So far, no union miners have sig- nified any intention of going into the trap. Wife of Mine Striker Relates Heroic Struggle (Continued from Page One) she declared, are most active in bring- ing relief to the strike fields, A conference to make further plans for relief work has been ‘calied for 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, February 5, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, the chairman said. “This will be the greatest mobiliza- | tion of women’s organizations in this | district ever attained,” she declared. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who recently returned from the Pennsylvania strike | fields, told how the relief funds of the union are dwindling to almost noth- ‘ing. The mine communities, she said, jare small and scattered through the |valleys, and the life of the family | depends upon work in the mines, since there are no other industries that they can turn to. The miners haven’t worked for al- most a year. The destitution is ap- palling. Evictions are increasing and more and more families are being driven to the already overcrowded barracks. Disease is spreading, and actual starvation is facing them. Rose Wortis of the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union pointed out that the importance of the miners’ struggle is particularly felt by workers of the needle trades because of the similarity of their problems. The miners, too, must fight enemies on two fronts, reactionary leaders from within and the bosses from without, she said. Urge Immediate Relief. The cooperation of the United Mine Workers bureaucracy in loaning Sig- man $75,000 during the 1925 struggles was cited as an example of coopera- tion among the reactionary leaders fighting the progressives in both unions, she said, i “What can we do to help the miners who are waging a bitter struggle in the coal fields?” asked Marian Emer-. son of the International Labor De- strongly that they will be able to con- tinue their strugglg without fear or suffering.” .@ Informer Dies C. G. Meing, Chinese owner of a Newark restaurant who died Monday, was at one time a United States secret service agent, following his employment as an interpreter in Miami courts, fense. “We can organize the relief il || Labor and Fraternal Organizations Yorkville Workers Forum. | E. Rogers will talk on “What -I m. at the Yorkville Workers Forum, 350 E, 81st St. Questions and dis- cussion will follow. hele Bensonhurst Meeting Tonight. The wives of the striking laundry | drivers of Bensonhurst have called a mass meeting for tonight~at 1940 Benson Ave., Brooklyn at 8 p.m. : s 8 * | {| Un-Ar-Coop Meet. A general membership meeting of | the Un-Ar-Cooperative will be held Monday at 8 p. m. at the Parkview Palace, 110th St. and 5th Ave. A new board of directors will be elected. * * * | Lecture in Lower Bronx. | C. Marmor will lecture on “The Change in Family Relations and the | Role of the Woman in Industry,” Fri- day, Feb. 17, at 715 E. 138th St., un- der the auspices of the United Coun- cil of Working Class Women, Council | * Workers’ School Forum. Herbert Zam will lecture on “When War Comes” at the Workers’ School Forum, 108 E, 14th St., Sunday at 8 p.m. | eh ae | 6 Bronx Open Forum. | Alexander Bittelman will lecture on | “Moscow and Geneva” at the Bronx | Open Forum, 2075 Clinton Ave., Sun- day at 8:30 p, m. a ae . Brownsville Open Forum. Bert Miller will lecture on “The Political Prospects for 1928” at the) Brownsville Open Forum, 1689 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, Sunday at 8:30 p, m.| * eae Lower Bronx Forum. E, Rogers will lecture on “What I Saw in the Soviet Union” at the Low- er Bronx Open Forum, 715 E. 138th, St., Sunday at 8 p. m. | ie a | Dance Saturday. } The Harlem Progressive Youth| Club will hold a ball Saturday even | ing at the Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. * ees Jewish Culture Club. The Jewish Workers’ Culture Club | will hold its first dance at 715 E. 138th St., on Saturday, Feb. 4. RSS Vagabond Sports Club. The Vagabond Sports Club meets the first Sunday of every month at 6 p. m. at 1940 Benson Ave., Brook- lyn. All young workers interested in sports are invited to attend the meet- ings, Ae 3 * Midnight Show Saturday. A midnight show will be held Sat- urday at 11:30 p. m. at the Allerton Theatre, near Allerton subway sta- tion, the Bronx, by the Cooperative Section, Freiheit Singing Society. The program will include songs by the chorus, lead by J, Schafer, eh eee Lecture on Sunday. A speaker from the Young Work- | ers League will address the John| Erown Club on “Lindbergh and Nica-| ragua” at 136 E. 24th St., Sunday | at 3 p. m. Questions and discussion will follow... *. * * Freiheit Singing Society. The Freiheit Singing Society will | hold its annual ball Saturday, Feb. 4 | WOMEN'S GROUPS TO AID IN ,|Saw in Soviet Russia” Friday at 8 p.| |Conference for Miners \suffering women and children of the | hl and Nully, Mooney Write For February Issue Of Labor Defender With a photograph from the bat- tlefield in Nicaragua on the cover, a two-page layout of other photos pic- |turing many phases of the uation, and an article by Manuel Gomez, sec- ‘etary of the All-America Anti-Im- per RELIEF Next > Sunday All working class women’s organ- izations are called upon to help the list League, presenting facts ard the February fender is strike fields of Colorado, Ohio and | ire rebruary Labor Defender is a Pennsylvania by participating in the Women’s Miners’ Relief Conference Sunday afternoon, February 5, at 2 p. m. in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, in an appeal issued yes- terday by the conference organization. Each organization is entitled to one delegate for every 20 members, but if no regular meeting is held be- fore the date of the conference, Ray Ragozin, secretary of the Conference, asks that two officers attend as dele- under Sandino against Wall Street aggression. The Labor Defender is published monthly by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Jim Tully, novelist, has written an impression of Tom Mooney as he \ppears today, after 12 years behind prison bars as a result of a vicious frame-up. Mooney Writes. There is also in this issue a letter gates. Thousands Affected. from Mooney from San Quentin “More than half a million men, Prison. He writes’ in grateful ac- women and children in the coal re- | nowledgment to American workers: gions are suffering cold and hunger |The contribution from the Interna- aaa sesultiof the nine monbhet strike,” | tonal Labor Defense and similar the conference call says. “The miners |S°Urces at this time of the year, com- who are striking for a living wage’ bined with International Labor De- and the right to organize have been fense monthly relief, takes care of blocked by wholesale injunctions |™Y yearly wants in the way of com- against picketing, organizing and even |i8sary and other incidentals.” relief work.” Men and women have| In addition to the features, the gone to jail for attempting to feed|case of the coal miners in Pennsyl- the starving miners and their chil-|vania is presented in many photo- dren, graphs and notes from the field by “Thousands of families have been|T. J. O'Flaherty. ed from company houses and orced to take shelter in rudely con- structed barracks where they suffer from intolerable conditions without water, without light, and without pro- tection from the cold of winter.” Thousands of dollars and tons of clothing have alre een sent by the | committee to Pe: ylvania, Colorado d Ohio, said Ray Ragozin, empha- ig, however, that the need for food is still very great and that much | remains to be done. Socrates Sandino Will Be Guest at Benefit At New Playwrights’ Socrates Sandino, brother of Gen. Augus.o C. Sandino, the Nicaraguan L.beration leader, will be a guest of honor at the performance of John Howard Lawson’s “The Internation Contemporary Literature Course Wil Begin Soon at the Workers School The course in “Modern Literature” to be given by Eli B. Jacobson at the | Workers School, 108 E, 14th St., dur- |wrights Theatre, 36 Commerce St., | Friday evening, Feb. 3. | The occasion will be a special per- |formance for the benefit of the All- |America Anti-Imperialist League (U. |S: sec.ion). All seats for that night have been purchased by the league. | Tickets can be obtained at the league | headquarters, 39 Union Square, or at the Jimmie Higgins Bookshop, 106 University Place. figures on the invasion of Nicaragua, | timely pictorial review of the brave | struggle of the workers and farmers | \al,” to be given at the New Play-} ASKS CHANGE IN | SDAILY” REPORT |Food Workers’ Officer | Makes Correction | The following letter was yesterday | received from headquarters of Amalgamated Food Workers, 799 | troadway: Editor, DAILY WORKER: | | The news item of the convention | of the Amalagamated Food Work- in the ers which was publ | Daily Worker of Tu | was an entire misstat Yy part of the proceedings of the’ con- vention, The maiter in your note was not brought up on the floor of the convention during the entire session. Correction Is Made. The DAILY WORKER on the day mentioned carried the following head- line: nvention Criticizes Bakers for Using the Injunction in Fight.” This headline was a wrong interpreta- tion of the news carried in the-body of the article and was not an inten- tional misstatement. The DAILY WORKER is accordingly glad to make the correction. | The news item itself ran as fol- lows: “Severe criticism is anticipated against the officials of Local 3 of the |Amalgamated Food Workers Union t the convention of that union.... Local 8 had taken out an injunction against the Bakers Local 87 of the A. F. of L., to prevent the latter union from calling strikes in shops junder its control.” | Criticism Justified. The DAILY WORKER is reliably informed that such criticism has been | voiced by the membership and that |such criticism was to have been brot ‘up on the convention floor. Severe leriticism of the union’s failure to carry out its announced program of jamaigama ion is also being voiced. The news item in no way misstated |the fact. Because of space limitations, the news account of the convention is omitted from this issue. As much as possible of the record wiil be carried tomorrow. ing the coming spring term, on Fri- day evenings, will take up the works of Andre Gide, Marcel Proust, Ro- main Rolland, Gerhardt Hauptmann, homas Mann, Franz Werfel, Ernst Toller, John Galsworthy, George Ber- nard Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene O’Neill, Maxim Gor- | Entertainme The course, according to the in- structor, will be a critical survey of the ‘most important literary efforts of post-war Europe and America. The ||| literary reaction to the war and the! Russian Revolution will also be dis- ||) cussed. Dr. N. Schwartz 124 East 81st Street SATURDAY, FEBRUARY | 11th ky and various contemporary Rus- * sian poets. The WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE HOUSE , 2700 Bronx Park East. 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M. at HUNTS POINT PALACE 168rd Street and Southern Boulevard, Bronx. this meeting. ELECTION COMMITTEE, UNITED WORKERS’ CO-OP. ASSN. the January 27 their new membership ecards to