The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1928, Page 5

\ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928 Page Five Report The COMPANIES WILL OBTAIN MILLIONS. IN LATEST RAID Application To Be Made to Transit Board By ROBERT MITCHELL, A fare increase will be applied for shortly by the Brooklyn-Manhattan Rapid Transit Co., which has already prepared the draft of its application | to be sent to the Transit Commission, | according to information disclosed | yesterday by sources close to the com- pany. This information, which is of un- questioned reliability, further indi- cates that the B.-M, T. will follow the lead of the Interborough in whatever steps it will take. The increased fare problem thus becomes city wide, in- asmuch as the surface lines will un- doubtedly follow the lead of the other, lines. | Huge Hold-up. If this fare increase is put through as now seems most likely unless mass opposition on the part of the sub- way riders develops of sufficient pow- er to prevent it the transit riders of the city will be held up for a total of approximately fifty millions of dollars yearly. Yesterday was productive of an- other set of shadowy conferences of city hall and transit commission of- ficials. Deliberate efforts are being made to shroud these conferences in a veil of secrecy in order to make it appear that the city officials are car- rying on activities of the greatest moment to save the five cent fare. At one of these meetings of the three members of the Transit Com- mission, action was taken postponing decision on the Interborough request to institute the 7-cent fare. Earlier in the day Mayor Jimmie Walker had requested — practically demanded — that the commission decide imme- diately on the question, This demand is being played up by the local press favorable to the fare increase as an evidence of the fight which the mayor is putting up to save the five cent fare. The commission’s decision, the mayor has stated privately and pub- licly, will pave the way for his own “secret” plan by which he will save the elusive nickel. Plays the Traction Game. _ The move, however, is quite plain: As long as the Transit Commission holds up its decision, the Interborough cannot go ahead with its court ac- tion, injunction proceedings or other- wise, to enforce its fare increase. Tammany Jimmie, playing the game of the traction companies, has merely | sought to remove this first obstacle from their path. It is known that the commission will refuse the request but until it does the Interborough, naturally, cannot proceed with its plan. Chairman John F.: Gilchrist, for yveasons not yet clean, yesterday re- fused to vote for the immediate de- cision in the matter and forced post- ponement. Leon G. Godley, and Chas. C. Lockwood, the other two commis- sioners were favorable to the mayor’s proposal, Labor and Fraternal Organizations Secretaries Attention! Beginning next Monday announce- ments for this column must reach The DAILY WORKER office before 6 p. m, on the day before publication. Present Miners’ Case. A mass meeting for miners’ relief will be held Monday at 715 E. 138th St. at 8 p. m. under the auspices of the Lower Bronx Labor Center. The speak- ers will be Fred Beidenkamp, national secretary, Workers International Re- lief, and Louis A. Baum, secretary, Photographic Workers’ Union, Shachno Epstein, editor “The Frei- heit,” will lecture on “Art and the Class Struggle” at the Flatbush Work- ers Culture Club, 1111 Rutland Road, near Sutter Ave, Sunday night at 8 o'clock, Miners Re! The city conference for mine! ‘Hef will be held Saturday, Fe! the Labor Temple, 244 E. 14th St., un- der the auspices of the Pennsylvania~ Ohio-Colorado Miners’ Relief Commit- tee, 799 Broadway, Room 233. All labor, fraternal and benevolent org: lsations are invited to send delegates. Lecture Tonight on Women’s Day. Rachal Hotman will lecture on “In- ternational Women’s Day” tonight at 8 o'clock at 194 Bénson Ave., Brooklyn, under the auspices of Council 10, United Council of Working Class ‘Women, . 8 6 Brooklym Dance Saturday. The newly formed Council of the United Council of Working Class Women will hold a dance Saturday at 867 Hopkinson Ave, Brooklyn. Interracial Dance Sunday. An interracial dance will be held Sunday at 6 p. m, at 29 Graham Ave., Brooklyn. paae| Hike day Morning. The Junior jon of the Frionds of Nature will hike Sunda; Sleepy Hol- low. The hikers will meet at 242na St, and Van Courtland Park at 9 a. m, Fares will amount to 80 cents, U, ©, W. O, W. Theatre Part; wine United Gouneil of Worle Ginee emen wi 10! a ea tri ar it the Yiddish Art Theatre on treo 16, Tickets ate obtainable at the councii office, 8 B, 11th St, Room 683, I, 1. D. Bassa. The annual bazaar of the Internation- al Labor Defense will be held for tive ys beginning Ma: ei 10, \e gent to 799 Broadway, oom 4} Lecture in Bronx. , Marmor will lecture on "The Chreee in Family Relations and the F. at B.M.T. Will Follow the Interboro ugh Move for Fare Increase Third Term Question Debated in Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The ques- tion of presidential third terms and the drive to “draft” President Coolidge for another term was sharply debated in the senate this afternoon during discussion of the LaFollette anti - third term resolution. The resolution, spon- sored by Senater La- Follette (R) of Wiscon- sin, would place the in dad’s‘ahoes Senate on record as favoring the two-term tradition es- tablished by George Washington, and urge President Coolidge to. “observ- ance of this precedent.” A. F. L TALK FEST NEGLECTS ACTION Injunction “Battle” Staged in Congress a, LaFollette,Jr. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Nearly one hundred labor officials from the American Federation of Labor and the railroad brotherhoods met here yesterday and talked at length of methods to “fight” the nation-wide injunction menace. Mass meetings to be called “in each of the 2800 cities FUR CHAIRMEN 10 YOLD MEET TODAY All shop chairmen who were mem- bers of the Shop Chairmen’s Council } during 1926 or 1927 are being called toa meeting tonight at 5 o'clock at} the headquarters of the Joint Board| Furriers’ Union, 22 E. 22nd St. At} this meeting Ben Gold, manager of | the union, will give a report on the current union problems. Stressing the importance of the meeting, a statement issued by the Joint Board says in part as follows: “The Joint Board is glad to an- nounce that the time has come at last for the shop chairmen of 1926 and 1927 to concern themselves with the important responsible task of rebuild- ing the union, “The storm of the union breakers and henchmen of the ‘Forward’ has passed away. The fur workers have finally awakened and are turning to the Joint Board for help, The time has finally come to rebuild the union. First of all, however, we must rebuild the shop chairmen’s body, so that it can lead the workers again as it did in the victorious 1926 general strike.” Suspend 6 Progressives From Cleaners’ Union Because they advocated progres- sive policies in the Cleaners and Dy- ers Union, six members of the organ- ization have been suspended from the union for six months and removed in which local unions are to be found,” was the final decision. “In its fight on the injunction,” de- clared Matthew Woll, acting president of the open shop National Civic Fede- ration and vice president of the A, F. of L., “the unions have decided that the first move will be té have a de- finition of property by an act of con- gress so that judges may be guided in their issuance of injunctions.” The various speakers who addressed the labor representatives, all agreed that no attack on the injunction iiself was being contemplated. Only the “bad” use of injunctions was being attacked. Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen’s Union, in ac- cordance with the obviously prear- ranged plan, moved that the A. F. of L. executive council be instructed to launch the campaign against the in- junction menace and to carry on mass meetings.. Details of another bill jintended to offset the effects of the Bedford from their jobs in the shops, it was learned yesterday. The action was taken by the exec- utive board at its last meeting. When the union held its regular member- ship meeting Tuesday evening at 151 Clinton St., the right wing leaders of the organization refused to allow a vote to be taken on the question. Strong-arm supporters of the admin- istration also prevented the six work- ers from entering the hall. WORKERS PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY Secretaries Attention! After Monday all announcements for this column must reach The DAILY WORKER office before 6 p. m. on the day before publication. ee Discuss Negro Activity, Douglas Walker, director, National Negro Department of the Party will talk on drawing Negro workers in the Stone case decision by the Supreme Court. were.made . public. ... This bill, it was stated, will also be “urged” on Congress, PASS AL SMITHS SEWER GRAFT BILL $29,500,000 Involved in Queens Steal ALBANY, N, Y.,,Feb, 8.—In. an ef- fort to overcome the legal obstacles erected by Max D. Steuer, high priced lawyer for Maurice Connolly, presi- dent of the borough of Queens, the state senate today passed a bill which would give Justice Scudder full au- thority in the investigation of the $29,500,000 sewer graft in Queens. Speedy Passage, It was passed at record speed by the assembly Monday. Inasmuch as the bill is the result, of an emergency recommendation by Gov. Smith, its signature by him is a foregone con- clusion. The only opposition to the bill came from those who objected to one of the provisions calling for the Queens borough to foot the bill of the inves- tigation, Up-state support came from legislators who have been as- sured that the state would not pay | the expense of the graft probe, The present bill will be patterned after the Moreland law. It will per- ¢ |mit as wide an inquiry into local sit- uations as the latter laws permits in state situations. Questions are being asked as to Gov. Smith’s intent regarding the huge swindle in Queens. The new law will give Gov. Smith a freer hand either to prosecute Con- nolly or let the investigation die as best suits his campaign for the demo- cratic nomination for president. Connolly is a Tammany Hall and Al. Smith democrat. Role of the Woman in Industry,” Fri- day, Feb. 17, at 715 B, 138th St., under the auspices of the United» Council of Working Class Women, Council 3, Frethelt Singers’ Dance. The Bronx Section, Freiheit Singin; Society, will hold’ a concert and ball Satu Feb. 25 at Rose Boston Road. Buea Poyntz Will Lecture Friday, Juliet Stuart Poyntz will lecture on “World Problems Today” at the Har- lem Workers Forum, 143 E, 103 St. on Friday Evening. MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS at her studio 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE rden, 1347 |" organization at the meeting of Unit Congress Report Exposes | | Hovels Soldiers Live in The broken down condition of the soldiers’ quarters at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, is revealed in a report by a congressional committee headed by Representative Loring M. Black, Jr. It comes simultaneously with an ex- o£ 1 —@iensive campaign for new army re- ; Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinoi Lowden Now Says Openly He Will Run GALESBURG, I]l., Feb. 8.—Form« SCHOOL TRANSFER OFF FOR PRESENT Parent: Protest Results is a formal ca date for pre: in his own state, it ws announced c ALL BOX WORKERS T0 MEET TONIGHT While an army leaflet aimed to ap- Paper box makers of all crafts are called to a mass meeting to be held today at Webster Hall, 119 E, 11th St. at 6 P.M. The meeting is called | by the Paper Box Makers’ Union, Lo- cal 17926, of the A. F. of L., and is} to be the beginning of an organiza- tion drive in the industry. Evils Described. After recounting the severe exploi-| tation the workers in the paper box factories are compelled to endure, the widespread unemployment in the trade, the wage cuts of from 25 to 50 per cent and other evils in the. indus- | try, a circular issued by the union in calling the meeting appeals to every type of worker in the trade to come to the meeting and begin the work of organizing the shops more completely. Irving Freeman, manager of the union, and William Karlin will speak. The meeting will map out plans to obtain a living wage, an eight-hour day, regulation of employment, guar- antee of the job and recognition of the union. DENVER STRIKERS ARE BLACKJACKED Men Are Beaten Up While Handcuffed (Continued from Page One) jacked and kicked at the whim of the state police. Three pickets held since last October in the Trinidad jail on charges of “inciting to riot’ were released yes- terday. Habeas corpus proceedings will be filed in federal court tomor- row. for the release of four Greeley strikers held in Greeley jail after the district and state supreme courts had refused jurisdiction. 1. Office to 5 Men, A, Section 4, tonight at 8 . m. at 143 B. 108rd St. zi " ase es Discuss Injunctions. I. Jerome will lead a discussion on “Labor Injunctions” at the meeting of Sub-section 3E tonight at 6:15 p. m., at 101 W. 27th St. | Women Meet Saturday. A meeting of women work organ- izers of all Party units will be held aia § at 1:30 p. m. at 108 BE. 14th Preparations for the Women's Day demonstration to be held March 8 is one of the most important tasks of the Party at the present time. A drive to bring non-party women into the labor movement and the Party must be conducted. BAL ee ie ¥. W. L. Meet Called oft. The functionaries’ meeting of the Young Workers League scheduled for Monday, Feb. 13, has been called off until further notice, rane Ne Subsection 2-A, All members of Subsection 2-A should report Monday at 12 Pp. m, to either 16 W. 21st St. or 108 E, 14th St. for participation in the special dis- tribution of The DAILY WORKER. nc wis Zam Lectures Sunday. Herbert Zam, executive secretary, Young Workers League will lecture on “Youth and the Coming War,” Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the Young’ Workers League open forum, 715 E. 138th St. ‘A mecthtction 2 Attention, eeting of unemployed will be held Wednesday, Feb. 15, 101 W. 27th St. ies pk daar B isgta lg : I. L. D. Week. | The week of 13 to. 19 will be I. L. D. week in Section 2, All articles collected for the I. L. D. Bazaar, Sec. tion 2 booth, should be brought to 101 W. 27th St.’ Honor roll lists can be obtained at’ the same address, DENVER, Colo., Feb. 8.—Twenty officers are employed to direct 111 |Tebuilt in order to provide livable eruits in which the army is promising \fine living conditions for soldiers. Fort Hancock is one of the most im- portant coast artillery posts in the country, peal to the unemployed states that an army man’s wages are always paid and that a soldier always has a roof over his head, the committee report states that many of the soldiers’ quarters are broken-down shacks built for ‘temporary use’ during the war! time. ; While these must be immediately | quarters, there are also many brick | buildings which require repaired | roofs, proper heating, new plumbing, | and better sanitary equipment, to pre- | vent them from absolutely going to ruin, | There is a soldiers’ theatre on the grounds which was built during the | war and is still being used, It is a plain wooden shack, heated by smok coal stoves, a veritable firetrap. This is the sole recreational center of the | fort, the report point out, and, tho it has a seating capacity of 200, there | are often over 300 people, including } women and children, squeezed into | the place to see a movie. A fire here | would cause a great loss of life. | Altogether there are 1,000 living at | |the fort, 600 of whom are soldiers. | The rest are women and children. Shakespeare Memorial Fund Is Investigated | The International Shakespeare As- | sociation Inc. which Mayor Walker | aided to the extent of becoming Hon- | |orary president, is at present under | jinvestigation by the State Attorney | General’s office, after collecting some | $1,500 in cash and pledges for $220,000. Mayor Walker recently withdrew | from the body after rumors of irregularities had become widespread. Since then many others have with- drawn and the line of the investiga-| tion is to establish the fact that W. E. Dentinger, director general and| founder of the association has no| right to the title of “Dr.” which he is | using. No sharp action is forseen against the organization. WASHINGTON, (FP) Feb. 8— With minor amendments, the Zihlman child labor bill for the District of here today by his campaign manager, Omer Custer, for- mer state treas urer, Lowden, it was announced by Cus- ter, has mailed his petitions to Secre- tary of State Loui: Emerson and they will be filed a: soon as Emerson i released from tech- Frank Lowden lures farmers jnicalities of the primary tangle by supreme court decree. Emerson can- not make public any filings at this time. SENATE ADJOURNS OIL CRAFT HEARING (Continued from Page One) about the Continental’s Liberty Bond fund. Walsh first wrote Rockefeller on January 16, asking him to help the committee. Walsh again wrote Rockefeller on January 28, telling him the committee | expected Stewart “to come forward | and tell the whole story of the trans- action by which the Continental Trad- ing Company cleaned up more than two million dollars on a single day’s business without the investment of a penny.” Stewart Still Silent. On January 24 Rockefeller wrote Stewart urging him to “tell all” to the committee. When Stewart persisted in his re- fusal to tell what he knew his arrest was ordered but he was at once re- leased on a habeas corpus writ. Earl W. Sinclair, a brother of Har- ry F. Sinclair and president of the Sinclair Consolidated, named James E. O’Neil as the member who nego- tiated sale of the Continental Com- pany’s profjtable contract with A. E. Humphreys, Texas oil man, to the $3,000,000 | in Withdrawing’ Order Action was again postponed ye ,day on the question of the transfer of the pupils of Public Schools 19 and 50 of Brooklyn. The transfer was to have gone into at 2 rday but was s because of th Tues- vening, at a protest meeting, for an imme school strike soon as the transfer was announced. The parents will remain organjzed, however, and in the event | that the board does order the transfer they will be prepared to call a strike at once, by vote of a parents’ meet ing Tuesday night. Concert of Russian Music at Exposition “Russian Songs of Today,” a con- jcert of modern Russian music, was |presented last ‘night by Sergei Ra- jdamsky, Ru n tenor, at the Rus- |sian exposition, 119 West 57th St. Radamsky ently returned from Russia where he sang in the Great | Academic Theatre of Moscow. It was during his visit to Russia that he col- |leeted the modern songs he sang last night. The Radamsky concert was the sev- enth in a series of ten concerts being given as part of the daily programs of the Russian Cultural Exposition, j which will continue until Feb. 15. Ears Across the Sea An exchange of radio programs be- tween the United States and England will be made possible soon, according to Dr. A. N, Goldsmith, of the Radio Corporation of America. English listeners will be able to hear jazz bands and imperialist programs from this country. while American listeners will hear the English variety of jazz and propaganda in return. SS Sinclair Crude Oil and Prairie Com- panies. Although the Continental made a $3,080,000 profit on the con- tract in a year, it was sold to its two customers for $480,000. men in the local division of the na-/Columbia has been reported to the tional guard, an organization which} house after being lost for months in has used guns, blackjacks and war-|committee. It seeks to bring up to rants against the striking Colorado| modern standards the child labor law miners, it was disclosed in an inves-| for the District which was enacted 20 Concert and Dance tigation carried on by a Denver pa- per. More than $18,000 is spent to keep Col. Paul P. Newlon’s pets on milk and honey diets, and some of the officers are paid as much as $550 a month, according to the findings of the investigators. The payroll of the 20 officers total about one-third of the pay and allotments for all the privates, according to the report. 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