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a CONDEMN UNION OFFICIALS FOR I. R. T. SUPPORT Will Urge United Labor Organization Drive (Continued from Page One) urday, William B. Fitzgerald, vice president of the International, ex- tended the “olive branch of friend- ship” to the company. “We are will- ing to let bygones be bygones,” he said. It is felt that the “tip” about the deal was given out by officials of the Interborough themselves at the elev- P. enth hour in order to discredit the | move for recognition of the union. In other words, the open-shop Morgan | ; interests which have charge of trac- tion in the city have never intended to fulfill their part of the bargain with the Tammany Hall labor offi- cials. They have been double-crossed but the Interborough will of course deny that it has been responsible and will through its “diplomatic” third parties be able to continue the deal. Workers Will Fight. The fare steal which the Interbor- ough, together with its loyal Tam- many politicians and labor officials is seeking to put over, has met with the city-wide resistance of the whole working class. Demonstrations and even riots have already been staged against the move even though it is now only in the stage of preparation. That it will result in the greatest kind of opposition and will, if put thru, * lead to the defeat of any city admin- istration supporting it and to the fatal injury of any union which spon- sors it, is most certain. It is equally certain that the trac- tion workers have nothing to gain from permitting their officials to go along with such a move. The trac- tion companies, as. has already been indicated, will not recognize the union as their payment for the support of the union officials. These companies will find some way to defeat the! workers and will in the end turn the tables against the labor officials who have betrayed the workers. The workers can win recognition of their union only by fighting for this right. They must not be deceived by the notion that they have anything to gain by refusing to join in the fight against the fare steal. The move to increase the fare will operate against them as much as against the rest of the workers because their fight for organization, it is now clear, cannot be won without the support of the whole labor movement, The traction | workers should not permit their of- ficials to lead them into any trap which will lose for them the support of these other workers. This is the move of the traction companies and which the officials of the union are willing to even though it is fatal to the interests of the traction workers. The workers at this critical mo- ‘ment should come in large numbers to the union meeting tonight. They should demand of their officials that they begin a real drive for the or- ganization of the traction workers. They should demand that the mass support of the labor movement be mustered as the first necessity of this drive. They should notify their of- ficials that they will fight to the last against the fare steal which is a move against the interest of the whole working class and therefore against themselves. Middle Village Will Aid Miners Tonight The story of the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado will be told at a benefit performance tonight at the Arion Theatre, Middle Village, Long Island. The program will include motion pictures, dancing and singing. John Marshall of the Pennsylvania-Ohio- Colorado Miners Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, will talk. The performance is arranged by the Middle Village Miners’ Relief Committee. Poems of Henry Reich, Jr., Will Be Broadcast The poems of Henry Reich, Jr., will be broadcasted from Station WEVD tonight at 10:20 by his wife, Molka Reich, as part of the weekly | “Rebel Poets’ Night” program. Reich is a frequent contributor to The DAILY WORKER. His poems have recently been collected in a volume, “Minor Music.” Concert for “Daily” A concert and dance to be held at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 E. 81st St., Saturday, evenng at 8 o'clock, is being arranger by Sub- section 3-B of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. Mike Gold, co-direct- or of the New Plavwrichts Theatre will speak. Proceeds will go to The DAILY WORKER. %- | WORKERS PAKTY | ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY Seeretaries Attention! All announcements for. this column | must reach re The 6 p. DAILY WORKER of | on the day before m. Affair For Daily Worker. Section 1 hold a concert ball Saturd and | March 3, at 2075 Clinton | eds will go to The DAILY * * * To Report on Plenum. Reports on the recent plenum of the rty will be given this week at spe- sections meetings at whieh.1hem- Central P: of the Committee will 1 104. W. 27th at 8 p.m. at 1 tontant at m. Graham lyn. Ha arlem Classes. The Harlem class “Fundamentals of Com- and the English class Branch 5, Section 5. Branch 5, Section 5, will meet tomor- row at 2075 Clinton Ave. * * it 3-E 1F. Unit 3-E 1 will meet tomorrow at 6:15 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St Bronx Mect Called Off. Branch 1, Section 5, will not meet tonight due’ to the section membership Section 2 Functionarics Meet. A meeting of the functionaries of | Section 2 will be hala Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at 101 W. 27th St. All unit and subsection organi must be present. . Y. W. L. Hike. The Young Workers League of Bath | Beach will hike to Silver Lake on Feb. Downtown Dance. Workers League will hold a dance to welcome the 20 Pioneers who were graduated from the Pioneers to the League on Saturday, Feb, 25, at 60 St. Marks Place. CLEANERS, DYERS FORCE STOPPAGE ‘Competition, N Not Wages Cause of “Strike” A stoppage affecting nearly all the cleaning and dyeing establishments in New York City and northenm New |Jersey is now in effect. It began Monday morning. The stoppage, which was called by the Allied Coun- cil of Cleaners and Dyers, is initiated in order to “reorganize” the industry rather than to improve the wages and union officials. The council, which is composed of | three separate unions, has called the | strike for the benefit of ‘the largest “union” of the three, whose-member- | ship consists entirely of the owners | of the small retail cleaning and dye- | ing shops. These small shops were losing more and more trade to a new developing chain of “dollar-cleaners.” Altho the militants {n the remain- ed that the union put out demands on the wages and hours question, their protests have gone entirely unheeded. | The A. F. of L. officiafdom, who’ is | maintaining control of the Allied Council, even went so far as to expel | four workers from the executive board, and three members of the con- sive. ment with several large cleaning and dyeing plants which do work for the retail cleaners. The agreement pro- hibits the workers’ organizations in the Allied Council from signing con- tracts with the large cleaning plants | that cater to the trade of the “dollar” |eleaning stores. Workers in the trade point out that the plants handling chain store work are very easily or- ganizable but because of the fact that the retail owners’ “union” is in con- \trol of the Allied Council, the union officials refuse to sign up with these plants because of the strong competi- | tion they offer. Longer Hours, Less Pay. Due to the refusal to organize the “dollar” chain dyeing houses, these firms are compelling their workers to work longers hours at less pay. The membership of the bonatile: “work- ers’ unions, however, all intend to re- irae out till the stoppage is declared. olf. Hugh Frayne, for the A. F. of L., in- sisted on the granting of a charter affiliating them with the Allied Coun-. cil thus giving them control over the | workers’ union, Of 22,000 claimed to| be out on the stoppage, it is definitely , known that it about wea are wage workers, | APPEAL SENTENCE ; ; |day, 2, |the 23-year-old member of the hjof Empros, Greek Communist daily ; ;to 30 days in the workhouse for dem- | The Downtown Section of the Young | hours. of the workers, according to the) THE DAILY WORKER, NEW SOR TUESDAY, SEBRUABY 21, sles SM Traction Workers at Meeti Page Five ng Will Demand Real Union Drive; No Fare Steal LOCAL 1. L. D, WILL era Organizations AN announcements for this’ column la j must reach The DAILY WORKER. of- |fice before 6 D. m. on the day before | Publics ation. | Will Raise’ 1] Funds at’ Ragozin Lectures Tonight. publication. | 2 Ray “Rawgozin. will lecture tonight Night Workers Meet Today. | Annual Bazaar Day" at 29 Gre sham Ave. under the aus- this afternoon-at-3-o'elock | The four workers, Emil Makvarta; | Class ‘(gunbir ee ee greek es Important busi- | Thomas Thorsen; N. Knith and Eric | I. L, D. Bazaar, |Heinonen, who in the Special Sessions| ‘rhe annual bazaar of the Internation- | Court fast Thursday were found guil-|a! Iabor Defense will neld for five ; ae beginning March New Star |ty of disorderly conduct for distribut- 4 aoa By vata 107th st All Aver Proc jing anti-injunction leaflets at the | ar contributions should be MORE ER, ee {Morse Dry Dock Co., Brooklyn, onj® > Room 422, 3-E FD 3. | Dee. 6th, and who are now out on $500 Stugess. Dikeo. Subsection 3-D, FD3 will meet to-|bail each, will be sentenced on Fri>| Preiheit Singing night at 6 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St. ere Mate atin hate |day, at which time the International iy eb, $6 at Rone Garden, 104% Labor Defense, through its attorne; ‘aston Road, | will make an appeal for a new trial. | . . . Appeal Workhouse Sentence. Fe Sse Vidas dak d 4 pee 1 The decision han down Satur-| tomorrow at 85 E. Second St, sentencing Konstantjn Pilliris, | m. taft 1 th onstrating against Greek fascism, will | g¢°s p. m. also be appealed by the International eric Bronx Open’ Forum, of. the New York section. a “These appeals against the vicious . * bd Isentences of the capitalist courts, to- Pee rieenc meeting: ited Council of me huahor ; scohal P Freeman Lectures Sunda Ave i 7 will | Labor Defense, according to an an-|{ eph Freeman will le Lg meet tonight at 765 40th St, Brooklyn. ;nouncement by Rose Baron, secretary Theatre,” Sunde | The ged ger UTsday at 7p. m. at 148 | gether with the defense of the editors | (4255 women will hold a membership Berl f adits eee of The DAILY WORKER, who are|mecting Thursday at pum. at Irving | Coney Island Meeting. |facing federal indictment on a trump-| Plaza, Irving Place and 15 The Coney Island Branch 5 will meet |eq-up charge,” declared Miss Baron, | tl ete OR APN Wednseaay OLB Miruva nel ey y} Leon ‘Samson ‘will lecture on “Ar | 8:30 - fo ee | ‘will involve thousands of dollars, We|the Ancient World” next Friday eve- ee . . |ning, Feb. 24, at the International Cen- will be unable to fight these working | ter, 149 B. 2rd st, class battles successfully unless all . militant workers and working class | Workers! Schoo! Classen, organizations rally to the support of | with Ray Ragozin, instructor, starts Urge Bazaar Support. Wednesday, at 7 p.m. ['meeting. : a . “Our daily faces possible extinction. Ronee ge op Remplbyers, wat S$ 3-E FD2. Workers in this city and in other Waednesing: at 8:30 p. m. ? SS 8-D_FD2 will meet tomorrow at | parts of the country are in danger of 4 oer English Oi] eee 6:15 p.m. at 101 W. 2 St. i i italist jai ays an ednesdays), Kenya Ryder, oD. : W. 27th St being thrown, into the capitalist jails, starts on Wednesday 't 8:30--p. mmunism, arts ‘Thursda establishing precedents that will be | used against the working class in the | } % hs future, Time is short. The bazaar,|"“JPic of the United States,” Jim which is our chief source of income, { Cork, instructor, starts, Thursday ‘at p.m. must be supported in every possible | piatlanntr tae kavot Atnectcae dia - way if we are to continue with the) por," David J. Saposs, instructor, work of saving our comrades from! starts Friday at 7 p. m.. “Fundamentals of Wolte, instructor, Bronx Concert and Ball. A meeting of section, sub-section! » tne International Labor Defense’ of | and unit DAILY WORKER agents | the Bu x will give a concert and ball, was held last night at Manhattan Ly-| Hf jee: 2 26). Washington's Working | The following classes are beginning | at the Workers’ School, 108 B. 14th | our annual bazaar, which will be held | st., this week: -8-9-10- ‘ ; Sas-| , "Public. Speaking,” tonight at 8 jc March 7-8-9-10-11, at New Star Cas-| |. Pepe aieie. instructor ino, 107th St. and Park Ave. imlementh of et | | | 26. Starting pc 1b - iso Ave RIOR eo Pen jall-and our. fighting daily from being Sb rowhaviite: Workers? <ichent: . . . completely crushed.’ The Brownsville and E New York sectarit Commune Celebration, CEO on Branch’ of ‘the Workers", School, 1844 | ections 2 and 3 will celebrate the Pitkin Ave., conducting Paris Commune at an entertainment i | classes in and dance: aturdey venience iy | Dally - Worker Agents: _ | ¢isseq, in, Haglieh. slementary.and in: at New Star Casino, 116th St. and R rt Ach States ahd’ s tundbhiehtals “bf Com> | Lenox Ave, 0 epo’ on ctivities | munism. Br oye | | REPORT MERGER OF LAUNDRIES Wall Street Takes Over the Industry A huge laundry merger is reported to be in formation in the financial district, following the election of seven bankers to the board of the Consolidated Laundries Corporation, which itself is the result of a merger. A $500,000,000 merger may take place on Wall Street, it is reported. Laundry drivers in Brooklyn are still on strike for a living wage and union recognition. Laundry workers, women, are an and “most exploited Wages as low as $i nd the maximum 5. The majority of the laundry work- s are not protected by labor or- anizations, most of ong the lowe in oer the cou e paid the gi is usually about NEW MASSES SPRING BALL. The New Artists and | Writers’ Spring Frolic” ‘will be held at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., Friday night, March 9, it has st been announced. at the Rose Garden, 1347 Bos- ; ton Road. . e e Coney Island Concert. The Coney Island Sectio Freiheit Singing Society, will hold a concert and | at 2864 W. Lower Bronx Concert. The United Council of Working 8 Women, Council 3, will hold a neert and package part turday, eb. 25 at 542 EB. 145th to raise | unds for the striking miners’ children. | We ae * For Miners’ Relief. | A benefit performance of Michael | Gold's “Hoboken Blues” will be held at | the New Playwrights’ Theatre on! Washington's birthday, Feb. nee under the Conference ausp| for Miner of t Relie Dancing Partner Wanted | Female danctie 7 Sastaee wanted for stage dancing. Write to Daily Worker, Box 101. — OKINS NS Drug Stor Store|| White Plains cor. Allerton Av. BEST SERVICE ceum, 66 E. Fourth St., at which the | latest steps in the campaign to se-| cure 10,000 new readers and 5,000 new | members for the Workers (Commun-' ist) Party was taken up. { A detailed report was given by Har- | ry Fox, local agent. fel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Offiee Hours: 9:30-12 A, M. 2-8 P. M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York, TO CO-OPERATIVE DWELLERS. See’ \No Tip-Union Barber Shop | 77 FIFTH AVE, Bet. eee and 16th ad W YORK. cIT f : figs | cme er Phone Stuyvesant 3816 t ted Mindel Dr. L. 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Two policemen, evidently sent for | |by the owners of the State Employ- | ment Agency on 26th St., entered t ALBANY, 20. Bailes ings on a agency when about 100 workers were | dwellings Ye “wll rt hace tomor- waiting for jobs Monday at 8:30 a.lrow, A det ed fight to defeat it m. and began to shove the jobless workers out of the agency with their will be conducted by head of the United Re clu The workers had begun to | ers represents gather about 8 a.m. When the crowd in the out- became large police were called. One York City. of the workers’ told the DAILY d by the large WORKER that a police officer spoke of its staunchest fo the man in charge of the agency |s ing Bing and Bing, who sefore clearing the office. recently locked out the workers in one The Inter 1 Seamen’s Club | of its Ave, apartments. will hold a meeting i| ss Prapenticee, today at 2 o'clock at The p: sed law would supplant Tomorrow a meeting will be held |the tenement house law of 1901. Some at 60 St. Ma: meeting: Place at 2 p. m. Both arranged by the New York Council of the U ineuiioyed: Workers. Party Women A general membership meeting of all women members of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held Sa urday at 1:30 p. m. at Irving Plaza, | jIrving Place and i5th St. Arrange-|ants from being charged excessively ments for the celebration of Inter-|for any improvements the landlords ional Women’s Day on March 4) would be compelled to make. be taken up, | en —___ | LEWISTOWN, Pa., Feb. 20.—Three Two Chicago tire companies have | of the four Pennsylvania Railroad it main line tracks were blocked when | Rubber Workers’ Union, an A. F. of}a fast freight left the tracks at Den- 'L. federal organization. holm, near here, early today. of its f s limit walkout apart- ments to f ngthens fire prevention; and place the building and control of one-family and two-family dwellings under the Tenement House Commi n. It would also give the commission more power in compell- ing immediate repairs in unsanitary | apartments. The bill would not protect the ten- NEW YORK DISTRICT COMMITTEE calling Special Section Meetings to take up Plenum Decisions SECTION ONE will meet Tuesday, Feb. 21st, at 7 P. M., at 60 St. Marks Place. SECTION TWO will meet Tuesday, Feb. Zist, 7-P. ee at 101 West 27th Street. SECTION THREE will meet Thursday, Feb. P. M., at 101 West 27th Street. SECTION FOUR will meet Thursday, Feb. 23rd, at 8 P. M., at'143 East 103rd Street. SECTION FIVE will meet Tuesday, Feb. 21st, at 8 P. M., at 2075 Clinton Aveée.; Bronx. SECTION SIX will meet Tuesday, Feb. at 29 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn. 28rd, at 7 21st, at 8 P. M., Section Seven will meet Tuesday, Feb. at 764 — 40th Street, Brooklyn. 2l1st, at 8 P. M, A MEMBER OF THE C. E, C. WILL REPORT - ON THE PLENUM, "INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE ANN UAL BAZAAR To Aid Political Prisoners DANCING REST AURANT EXHIBITIONS Five Big Days MARCH MUSIC CONCERTS Five Big Days EAT 4191) 6th Avenue, near 25th St. hoes Repaired While U Wait | | Fuits Pressed MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS at her studio 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6883. Will also call at student's home, 7-8-9-10-11 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY at STAR CASINO 107th Street and Park Avenue, N. Y DRINK DANCE ENJOY Continuous Spectacle 22; Jimmie 2, 30 Union niece SUNDAY 26 2 P.M. CENTRAL Opera House Tickets 50c. House Warming Second Block Houses of the United Workers Cooperative Ass’n Spectacular Strike Scene Machine Dance Mass Declamations Mass Demonstration Mass Singing Coop. Section of the Freiheit Singing Society Coop. Section of the Freiheit Dramatic Studio under the direction of Jacob Schaefer and Jacob Mestel