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h N ri Brooklyn Pa HOLD BIG PROTEST | tater and Fraternal TO HALT REMOVAL POINT OUT DANGER Third Meeting Called in Single Week (Continued from Page One) session at Public School 19 but he could not say the same of Public School 50. The transfer of the chil- dren which was to go into effect to- day has, however, been postponed for at least a month, A strike had been planned for today had the parents’ /vemands not been granted but the f vresent indefinite situation excludes the necessity for such action. At a previous protest their way to more distant schools, while the older children of other schools would all be compelled to at- | tend P. S. 50. A committee was elected at that time to visit the mayor. Politicians Interfere. , Last Saturday a second meeting was held at which there was a dis- pute over the election of a parents’ committee to accompany the _politi- cians present to the board of educa- tion to. put their case before them. Parents charge that Tammany Hall politicians attempted to do away with a parents’ committee. Ray Ragozin, of the United Council for Working Class Women, who has been instru- mental in helping the parents in their struggle, was barred from the com- mittee through the efforts of the poli- ticians on the ground that she was not actually one of the parents despite the fact that her slogans were adopt- ed by the parents. It was charged that they attempted to discredit her by calling her a radical. Furriers to Meet at Cooper Union Tonight (Continued from Page One) nered. The police arrived shortly af- terward and took them into custody. Magistrate Rosenbluth in the Jeffer- son Market Court held them on charges of felonious assault, fixing bail at $2,500 each. Samuel Marke- wich, former assistant district attor- ney and counsel of the International Fur Workers’ Union, appeared as their lawyer. They are Harry Reiss, Samuel Maskowitz, Julius Shaffer and Moe Passman, Joint Board Call. The Joint Board’s call for tonight’s mass meeting said in part: “Our mass meeting will give a fit- ting answer to the chief of the union creaking agents and traitors, Mat- thew Woll, and to his Forward col- leagues who are working hand in hand with the manufacturers and contrac- ‘tors to maintain the disorganization in our union and the merciless ex- ploitation by the bosses. The Joint Board calls every fur worker to Coop- er Union to give a mighty answer to all enemies of the union and to mob- ilize our strength, to strike the deci- sive blow to the enemies of the work- ers.” Jobless to March to City Hall Tomorrow (Continued from Page One) Manchester, Mass., a month ago to look for work. He said he fears his wife and six children in Massachu- : setts are also in a destitute condition. Thousands of men _ inadequately clothed applied for jobs in New York as snow shovellers with the tempera- , ture as low as 12 above zero. Among them were many old or disabled workers, evidently just out of hospi- tals or dispensaries, John Johnson, a Negro worker of 24 Beach St., Newark, was found frozen te death in a pile of snow in a vacant lot. meeting, | mothers said the younger children | would have to cross heavy traffic on | SD. rents Assail Transfer of Pupils; Politicians Ra AY, FEB. 1, 1928 YOUNG SOCIALIST RESIGNS FROM S.P. Organizations Jacobson Lectures Tonight. Eli B. Jacobson will lecture on |“Modern Literature as Anti-Revolu- jtionary Force” at the Cooperative Colony, 2700 Bronx Park, E., tonight jat 9p. m. (Continued from Page One) ganization that fights for the inter- jests of the young workers. For four ae {years I worked to build and better Lecture on “Lenin and Youth.” ‘the Yipsels. Hyman Gordon will lecture on! “Having learnt of the existence of “Lenin and the Youth” tonight at! other young workers organizations, {8 p. m. at 46 Ten Eyck St., Brooklyn, | and understanding that at the present under the auspices of the Greenpcint |time the entire labor movement is Section, Y. W. L. ‘under attack, as shown by the. at- i Osh amedtye: jtempts to smash the United Mine Hungarian Needle Trades Workers. | Workers of America; the fact that A meeting of progressive Hun-|the youth of America is being mili- garian needle trades workers will be) tarized; the fact that the young work- held tomorrow at the Hungarian ‘ers are greatly exploited and are un- Workers Home, 350 W. 81st St., at 8 | organized; is strong enough proof of p.m. Samuel Liebowitz, Joint Board |the necessity of all workingclass Furriers’ Union and Emil Gardos, will }youth organizations to fight for and | speak. | defend the immediate interests of Edith Ri i i talk ‘What hee Rss abt Edi ogers will talk on “What I} 5 Inj Saw in the Soviet Union,” at the re- | “T9 ha rai pia Scheel I jopenng of the Harlem Workers’ | “bes ri : made proposals as is supposedly per- Forum, 143 H. 108rd Sty Friday night. | nitted by our constitution, in and * : out of Circle 13, to which I belonged. | Brookwood Labor Dinner. ae 7 The graduates of Brookwood Labor pean fopmber. of he Saas 4 rss College will hold a dinner Friday at 7! eee APReeKen REG, Baked. & ‘ \the privilege of speaking at our. mass pane a the Mecca Temple, 130 W. | meeting for miners relief, I_whole- |heartedly favored granting him the |floor, because he was a. member of \another. workingclass organization. “Charges were then- preferred jagainst four of us for allowing a young Communist to speak. I, to- gether with Comrades _ Shulman, Friedman and Sapkowitz were sus- |pended for three months, for daring |to speak, think, and act differently than. Comrade. Goodman. - I. must \state, that. altho Comrade Goodman |made the charges against us, never- |theless he was on the committee to pass judgment on us, Disillusioned in YPSL. “I am now firmly. convinced as a ‘result of my own experience, that the Young People’s: Socialist League is not a representative of the young workers; and that it does not and cannot fight for the interests of the |working class. Ben Goodman, our city secretary is nothing more than a petty-bourgeois student who likes to act like a bureaucrat. I must there- fore resign from the PYSL, with which I am thoroly disillusioned. ee same holds true for the S.P. ‘i i S e socialist party has not been mak- Anti-Fascist Meeting. jing any progress in the past few G. Pippan will speak at a mass years. In fact the S. P. has bi > - i bike een meeting called by the West Side Sec- igoing backward, so much so that it tion, Anti-Fascist League, tonight at/tas become an instrament. in the 8 p.m, at B80 w. poet St. hands of the reactionaries in the 3 - j American Federation of Labor. It U. C. W. C. W. Theatre Party. jdoes not participate in the immediate The United Council of . Working |struggles of the working class, I ‘Class Women will hold a theatre par-' therefore find it my duty as @ young ty at the Yiddish Art “Theatre on)worker to resign from the ranks. of Feb. 16, Tickets are obtainable at the socialist party, as well as from the council office, 80 E. 11th St./ihe YPSL. Room 533. * 2 eae. Mies, Gomez Lectures Sunday. Manuel Gomez, secretary, . All- America Anti-Imperialist League, will lecture on the “Bankers’ War in Nica- ragua” Sunday at 8:30 p. m. at the East Flatbush Culture Club, 1111 Rut- | land Road, near Sutter Ave., Brook- lyn, BASE Hike Sunday Morning. The Junior Section of the Nature Friends will hike from Hastings to |Ardseley and Scarsdale on Sunday. Meeting place will be 242nd St, and Van Courtlandt Park at 9 a. m. Fare! will be 60 cents. | * H * o* i Newark Concert Sunday. The Joint Defense Committee of ithe Cloak, Dressmakers and Furriers of Newark will hold a concert Sun- jday at 7:30 p. m, at Kruegers Hall, Belmont and Springfield Ave., New-: jark. The funds will be used for the relief of the striking furriers of Local 25, International Fur. Workers’! Union, Newark. + * © “HENRY HOFFMAN.” ——_—_—__ * * = Brooklyn Dance Saturday. The Boro Park Workers’ Club hold a dance Saturday at | Brookiyn. Ree Dance for Colorado Strikers. The Colorado Miners’ Relief Com- mittee will hold a dance next Satur- day night at 118 E. 14th St. * Jewish Culture Club. The Jewish Workers’ Culture Club 1878 48rd St. will hold its first dance at 715 E. '138th St., on Saturday, Feb. 4. | aan eae’ r Freiheit Singing Society. The Freiheit Singing Society will sail aos hold its annual ball Saturday, Feb. 4 Brooklyn Affair Saturday. at Tammany Hall, 14th St. and Third The Brooklyn Junior Co-operators Ave. eM—_—o——SSS——— || WORKERS PARTY | ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY | | Branch 4, Section 7. Seetion .7 will be Brooklyn. Lee ewe Spanish Fraction Meeting. a reorganization meeting, members must attend. and all ik eee unit, subsection and sectiog® must be represented, . ff \« Ny Concert ‘ Greet Students. A concert and mass meeting to greet the students who will attend traction question will be io up, All be held Wednesday, Feb, 8 at 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. The speakers will include Jay Lovestone, William Z. Foster, W. W. Weinstone and Bertram D. Wolfe. Hike Sunday. The Bath Beach Unit, Young Work- ers League, will hold a hike Sunday to Forest Park. The starting point will be 1940 Benson Ave., Brooklyn, at 8 a. m. CGS Newark Trade Unionism Class. The Newark class in trade union- ism meets every Wednesday at 8:30 p. m. at the Slovak Home, 52 West St. ae eae Party Members Attention! No Party members will be allowed to attend. the plenum of the Central Committee which opens in New York on Saturday unless they have a 1928 membership book, according to a statement by William W. Weinstone, district organizer. . ee eet | Yonkers Lenin Memorial The Yonkers Lenin memorial meet- ing. will be held Sunday, Feb: 5, at 252 Warburton Ave. The speaker will be Sam Nesin, FOR A FRESH, WHOLBSOMR © VEGETARIAN MEAL Come to Scientific’ Vegetarian - Restaurant : 15 E. 107th Street New York. 4 a WHERE DO.WE ME TO DR | AND EAT? . At th New Sollins Dining Roont Good Feed Good company Any Hour Any BETTER SERVICE | Kast 14th Srtect New York Day will present a “Gala Day in a Co- — loperative Store” Saturday at 8 p. m. at 764 40th St., Brooklyn. . . # AMALGAMATED | FOOD WORKERS Bakers’ Loc. No. 164 Me lat Saturday in the month 3468 Third Avs Bronx, N. ¥. Ask for Union Label Bread. I. L. D. Bazaar, The annual bazaar of the Interna- tional Labor Defense will be held for ifive days beginning March 7, at New Star Casino, Park Ave. and 107th St. All articles and contributions should be sent to 799 Broadway, Room 422. * * * BUTCHERS’ UNION Local 174, A. M, C, & B. W. of A Office and Headquarters: Labor Temple, 243 E. 84 St., Room 12 Regular meetings every Ist and 3rd Sunday, 10 A. M, Employment Bureau open every day “at 6 P. M. 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 716 E, 138th St., un- der the auspices of the United Coun- cil of Working Class Women, Council 3. Bonnaz Embroiderers’ Union 7 EB. 15th St. Tel. Stuy. 4379-3657 Executive Boaré Meets Every Tues- The Master of the Violin | Toscha will appear AT THE CELEBRATION of “HAM February 12th, 1928 at Mecca Temple Watch for further announcements. day, Membership Meetings—2nd and last Thursday of Each Month. George Triestman %, L, Freedman Manager. resident, Harry Halebsky Secretary-Treasurer. ARBEITER BUND, Manhattan & Bronx; German Workers’ Club. Meets every 4th Thursday in the month at Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th ; New members accepted at regular meetings. German and Wn lish library, Sunday lectures. cial entertainments. AM Germui speaking are Seidel workers welcome. “Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. First St., New York Cit Pants Sale 10,000 PAIR PANTS $3.95 and up Well hand tailored to match every coat and vest. The largest se- lection of Pants in N. Y. City. Also Pants to order from a sclec- tion of 50,000 patterns of imported and do- mestic fabrics, at very reasonable prices. Quality and workm: ship guarantéed, the MER” icey St. bet: Forsyth & Open Sat. & Sunday, Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES | A place with atmosphere | where “all radicals meet. 302 E. 12th St. "iew York. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865. = NYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS. STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Organiza- tions. (Established 1887.) es Eade il MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS at her studio 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6888, Will also call at student's home. Co-operative Repar Suop 41914 6th Avenue, near 25th St. hoes Repaired While UW ait uits Pressed Stenographer-Secretary Wanted. Must be capable. Party member or Y. W. L. member. Write Box 89, Daily Worker, 33 First St., City. |) LAW OFFICE CHAS. “RECHT For the convenience of workers open untti 6 P. M. and all da; Saturday. 1604. 6. 110. WEST 40th ST. Room . Phone: PENN 4060--4061- An industrial meeting of Branch 4,! held -tonight..at 8:80. p.: m, at 1940 Benson: Ave., All members of the Spanish ‘frac- H. Davis will lecture on “My Ex- perience in Soviet Russia” at a meet- ing, of Section 1F, 1B, at 60 St. Marks Place, tomorrow at 6. 0’clock. This is | the National Training Course of the * Workers’ School, 108 E. 14th St., will, Page Five ise “Race Issue” “T Hope They Rot,” Says Mine Employer of Strikers “To Hell with humanity. they rot and freeze.” This was the |such brutality. answer given by Joe Edwards, gen-| “Our funds don’t enable ‘us ‘to give eral manager of the Vesta Coal Com- jour people sufficient to purchase suf- pany of Pennsylvania, when appealed |ficient food,” Dwyer continued. “Last to “in the name of humanity” not to | Sat evict striking coal miners and their No. families before they had sufficient - . The weather was around zero, t re three families” in tion are urged to attend a meeting barracks built. ; {the barracks’ without 4 cramb ‘of tonight at 8:30 p. m. at 143 E,|_ This incident, typical of the brutal/bread. One of the families‘ had’ six 103rd St. A lecture will follow the | determination of the coal companies children, one seven and one five meeting. 7 to starve and freeze striking miners| children. The mother of the’ first ea Se and their wives and children into sub-| group attenipted to smile notwith- Talk on U.S. SR. mission, is related by Lawrence Dwy- standing the tears in her eyes. All er, of the United Mine Workers of America, a striking miner, in a letter! to a friend in New York. Bitter Cold. “The weather has been around zero,” he writes, “and these heartles: coal operators are throwing our people the money I had on me was $2.40: I went to the store and bought that amount of food, and before I left I saw the little tots smiling and en- oying their meagre meal. It is an awful situation.” Typical of Strike Area. ‘, - ' |out of their homes onto the roadside A meeting of speakers and agitprop The conditions described by Dwyer directors will be held Friday at 8 p. ¥. W. Li Dance are typical. of all the ‘coal, strike m, at 108.E. 14th St., Room 42. Robert aya, y Workers: Lee Dis-}areas of Pennsylvani: Ohi i Mitchell- of: The; DAILY. WORKER |. 27° “ule “\orstte eegue, oe 4 Tinthedipte: tag 46 olan. On Ecce te trict 2, will hold a dance, Saturday, | Colorado. Immedi e relief is essen- D speckle eect Feb. 11 at Harlem Casino, Lenox Ave if striking “miners “and their Saar ary Wives and children are'to be prevent. ed from starving and freezing to death, all reports from these regions declare. As pari of the campaign to furnish strike relief, the Workers International Relief has arranged a benefit performance of John Howard Lawson's much discussed play, “The International,” at the New Play- wrights Theatre, 40 Commerce St, tomorrow night. “8 * Liebknecht Memorial Meeting. The Liebknecht Memorial meeting will be held Feb. 3 by the Young Workers League at the Labor Tem- ple, Second Ave. and 14th St. 7 * Astoria Entertainment’ and Dance. Subsection 3 A will hold an enter- tainment and dance Saturday, Feb. 4, at Bohemian Hall, Woolsey and | I hope In all my life I have never witnessed | y morning I went to Vesta} MILITANT. MINE LEADER JAILED \Minerich Arrested on Riot Charge (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | PITTSBURGH, Jan. 31.—Anthony P. Minerich, chairman of the Penn- sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Com- |mittee and member of Local Union |4238, United Mine Workers’ Union, | North Bessemer, was arrested today |by.state troopers while addressing ja meeting in behalf of miners’ re- lief at McDonald. He was taken to Canonsburg police station and book- led on a charge of “inciting to riot.” } Allen Davis of the law firm of Davis and Marshall has been en- gaged by the International Labor De- fense to defend Minerich. | Minerich was arrested when he Js jalleged to have- quoted from th. ate Samuel Gompers anti-injunction |speech. —————— | “Phere is no more. important relief task before us today than that of furnishing all possible aid to the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado,” declared F..G. Biedenkapp, national secretary of the Workers International Relief. Second Ave., Astoria, L. I. To reach the hall take Astoria train to Hoyt /f Ave. station. | ae, eee 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. Dr. N. Schwartz | 124 Bast 8ist Street | | SPECIALIST i | Urology, Blo and Stomach Disorders. X-RAY Examinations for Biotes,( Tumors and Internal disturbances. | Dr. Schwartz will be glad to give} you a free consultation. Charges) for examinations and treatment! is moderate. Special ¥-RAY EXAMINATION $32, | CONCERT ney, Bladder, for d and Skin disease: Auspices—Co-operative Unit ) SESS SSE EES SSS Ssessesssssrrsssts Saturday Eve., February 11 The Auditorium of the Workers Co-op. House 2700 Bronx Park East GOOD MUSICAL PROGRAM MIKE GOLD will speak on—The Effects of the Machine Age on Literature. ADMISSION 50c. ALL, PROCEEDS..TO THE DAILY WORKER. and DANCE Workers (Communist) Party. SESS SESS Sess HOURS:‘Daily: 9 A. M. to 7 P, M: 02 Sunday: 10 A. M. to 12 Noon, Butterfield 8799. ‘Paige, Dr. A. CARR SURGEON DENTIST 22 years uninterrupted practice, Personal attention. Workers’ prices. 188 EAST 84th STREET Lexingtoi Ave. New "York. GALA DAY in-a Cor. beautiful songs, artistic dances, Monument 3619. HARLEM HEALTH CENTER MUSICAL COMEDY will be presented by the BROOKLYN JUNIOR CO-OPERATORS 764 — 40th STREET SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4th, 8 p. m. 1928 Fine program preceding the play. DANCE This is a real, militant co-operative play, sugar coated co-operative propaganda. | DON’T MISS THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY. Cooperative Store full of fighting spirit, captivating music and above all: 1800 SEVENTH AVENUE Cor, 110 St, (Unity Co-op. Building) Dr. V.G.Burtan ‘Dr. E. LKreinin Medical Director Dental Director OPEN ALL HOURS. A . ALIST Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAIIAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A, M. 2-8 P. M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Algonquin 8183 Come The Newest and Most Success- ful Methods in the Treatment of Blood, Nerve, Skin and Stomach Diseases of Men and Women. Consultation Free Charges are Reasonable Blood Tests X-Rays | DR. ZINS Specialists--Est. 25 Yrs. 110 East 16th St, N. Y. (Between Lrving Pl. « Union Sa.) Daily 9-8 P. M. Sunday, 10-4 Health Examination | " LABOR CO-OPERATIVE Dental Clinic. 2700 Bronx Park East Ap't C. L TEL, ESTABROOK 0568, DR. I. STAMLER Surgeon-Dentist DIRECTOR OPEN: — Tuesday and Thursday from 10 to 8 P. M.—Saturday from * 2to7 P.M. Auspices: YOUNG i DEMONSTRATE AGAINST IMPERI- FIGHT THE MILITARIZATION OF THE AMERICAN YOUTH! DEMAND THE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN TROOPS FROM NICA- RAGUA AND CHINA! MEMORIAL Mass Meeting FRIDAY, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. 14th Street and 2nd Avenue PROMINENT SPEAKERS ROTC-PLAY, DANCES MUNIST LEAGUE, DISTRICT No. 2. ee Ta WARS! to the TEMPLE WORKERS COM- J

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