The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1928, Page 5

| Confederate of Pres — /gas, MIKE GAIN, A. F. L. OFFICIAL GETTING THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928 Page Five Labor and Fraternal Organizations | Coney Island Concert, The Coney I d Section, Freihelt Singing Societ: Il hold'a concert and dance Saturd ch at Puthian Coney Island, Hall, 2864 W. } Fundamentals Class in Spanish. CASH FROM TRUST re 000 a Year for Aid| to Corporation (Continued from Page One) nounced that he was to do its “eduea- tional” work, The company is seeking a new fran- chise, a raise in rates of from 49 cents to 65 cents and permission to use “mixed” instead of straight natural The local gas company is part of the national power trust which recent- ly was able through its control over U. S. senators and support by the A. F. of L. to defeat the Walsh resolu- tion to investigate its activities. The power trust lobby was supported by the American Federation of Labor. Green, president of the Federation, signed the telegram which was used by Senator Jim Walsh in the closing hours of the recent debate on Walsh’s resolution in the senate. The telegram sent Jan, 20 from the meeting of the A. F. of L. executive council at Miami, Florida, announced that the federation desired that the investigation of the power trust should be made not by anybody under the influence of “partisan polities,” and advocated that it should be “made by competent experts.” This charge of partisan polities was the method employed by the supporters of the power trust in their successful at- tempt to have the “investigation” killed by referring it to the Federal Trade Commission. In this plan the advocates of the power trust used Green’s support to the greatest ad- vantage. To the question which indignant trade unionists everywhere have been asking as to what. the A. F. of L. leaders were getting for this support of the power companies, a sufficient answer appears to have been found in the disclosures in connection with the “educational” work of Mike Cain. Tt has been suggested that the net value to the power trust of Green’s efforts will amount to millions, A hundred thousand dollars would there- fore be considered a small sum for the power trust to have paid for the value received, Green's Pal. Mike Cain is not alone the friend and supporter of Green, Ohio is Green’s own state and he has been president’ of the Ohio subdistrict of the United Mine Workers. In addi- tion Green has been a member of the Ohio senate with headquarters at Co- lumbus where his connections with Gain have been intimate and direct. It is believed that Cain’s activities have been known and acquiesced in by both Green and Lewis, the presi- dent of the United Mine Workers. The connections of the power trust ure not, however, limited to Green and Cain. In a letter to some power trust senators dated Feb. 10, G. M.|&, Bugniazet, International secretary of the Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers, the support of the combine was likewise urged. He indicated that his International had agreed to cooper- ate with the A. F, of L. in its sup- port of the lobby. Also “Umbrella Mike.” On the general executive beard of the Electrical Workers is ‘Umbrella Mike” Boyle of Chicago, who is the yight-hand tool and henchman of Sam- uel Insull, power magnate of the mid- dle west, whose activities have been aired on the senate floor. Some of Insull’s employes have been organized in Boyle’s union, under an arrange- ment satisfactory to Insull. Boyle is one of the most corrupt labor offi- cials in the A. F, of L. In New York City, H. H,.Broach, International vice president of the Electrical Workers has openly admit- ted his plan to work together with the large power companies as against the small fellows, “the carpet bag- gers” as he called them, Amalgamated Also. In addition, the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street and Electrical Railway Employes is known to have fallen behind the power trust, At the time that the lobby was being enforced at Washington, Wm, D. Ma- hon, president of the organization, sent down James H. Coleman, who is now working hand in hand in New York City with the Tammany Hall traction-controlled labor officials to put over a fare steal. Coleman ap- peared at the senate chambers to lob- by for the power trusts. This is the man who is making a gesture to, or- ganize the New York traction work- |}, ers, Matthew Woll, Green, Lewis, ana! the others mentioned are also known to be behind the power trust’s plan to kill the Norris bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals while the Boulder Canyon Bill sponsored by Senator Johnson is to be killed on the ground that it is being opposed by or- ganized labor. (ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend * SPIESS STUDIO | Rebel Poets Ni The Workers’ School is starting a class in “Fundamentals of Commun- ism” to be conducted in the Spanish language, The course will start March 6 and wiil continue every Tuesday for 12 weeks. The class will be conducted by Alberto Moreau at 143 B, 108rd St. yippee aeaNe Workers’ Schoo’ Classes. The following courses are beginning at the Workers! School, 108 H. 14th St., this week: i ‘ Elementary English A, tonight at 8:30 p.m, (Tuesdays and Thursdays). > Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting, A Ruthenberg memorial meeting will be held tonight at 8 p.m, at the Finnish Progressive Club, 15 W. 126th St. Ray Ragozin will speak. . . ‘ Lecture on Russian Opposition. A. Markoff will speak on “The Op- position in the Communist Union” at the Women’s Council, 1940 Benson Ave., Brooklyn, tonight at 8:30 p, m. . . * i. L, D, Basaar, ‘The annual bazaar of the Internation- ul Labor Defense will be held for five days beginning March 7, at New Star Casino, Park Ave. and 107th St. All articles and contributions should be sent to 799 Broadway, Room 423, ° Workers’ School Club Concert. The Workers’ School Club has ar- ranged a recital for next Sunday at 8:30 p. m, at the Davenport ‘Theatre, Lexington Ave. and 27th St, The pro- gram will include Evan and group in local solos M, Sasanoss, form the Metropolitan Opera Company and a piano recital by R. Davidson, formerly of the New York and Philadelhia Sym- phony orchestras. . Boro Park Concert, The Workers’ Club of Boro Park will hold a concert and package party at 1373 43rd St., Saturday, March 10. * ’ . Hike On Sunday. The Junior Section of the Friends of Nature will hike this Sunday together th the Senior Section of the N: Friends to Franklin Lake. A. Loy will lead, rRNen Paks Rebel Poets Night. Poets Forum will conduct a ht at the Labor Tem- and 14th St., Tuesday, 15 p,m. | The ple, Second A March 13, at Brooklyn Lecture Friday. E. Wattenberg wiil lecture on “Labor and the Law" at the Young Workers’ Sootal Club, 128 Riverdale Ave., near Amboy St, Brooklyn, Friday at 8 p. m. Miners' Tag Day. Tag Day for miners’ relief will be held in Harlem on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Volunteers should report at 143 E. 108rd St., Room 1 c Mies: Gees Classes In Naturalization, The New York Council for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born Workers will conduct classes in American govern- ment and naturalization at any trade union, workers’ club or cooperative at a low nominal charge. Inquire at 39 Union Square. ‘ * cease Brownaville Miners’ Relief Drive. The Brownsville Miners’ Relief Com- mittee will hold special collection mae on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Clubs and individuals are asked to register immediately at 1844 Pitkin Ave. . Pe Theatre Party for Unemployed, The Workers’ International Relief will have a benefit performance of “Hoboken Blues” by Michael Gold at the New Playwrights’ Theatre, 40 Com- merce St. on March 15, to raise funds for the unemployed workers of New York. ie ee ae Bronx Affair Saturday. The Cooperative Branch of _ the Workers’ School will hold an affair Saturday evening at 2700 Bronx Park ast, ° * . Lecture on Colorado. George Saul will speak on “The Col- grado Struggle” Friday at 8 p, m, at $50 BE. Sist st. © eee Mohegan Modern School. The Mohegan Modern School. will hold its fifth annug! concert, bazaar and dance. Friday, March 4, at 8:30 p. m, at Beethoven Hall, 210 B, Fifth st. Proceeds will be used for a new school building at Peekskill, N. Y. . * Upper Harlem Forum, Richard B Moore will speak at the Upper Harlem night. Open Forum Friday vee Anti-Fascist Meeting. An anti-fascist meeting will be held Friday at 8 p. m. at 715 4, under the auspices of the Lower Bronx Labor Center, The speakers will in- clude Louis & Baum, and M. E. Taft. ’ George Saul will speak on “The Struggie in Colorado" Sunday at 8 p. m. at the Bronx Open Forum, 2075 Clinton Ave., the Bronx, * Lectures This Week, Friday at 8 p. m., at Harlem Forum, 143 East 108rd’St., Richard Moore will speak on "The Negro Problem in Amer- Friday at 8 p. m., at Bronx Hun- garian Wovkers’ Ciub, 108 Jackson Ave., M. Goodman will speak on ‘Phe Foreign Born Worker in America.” Sunday at 8 p. m., at the Lower iain Bae hy HE, 188th St, Robert itchell speaks on “Will the. Seven Cent Fare Steal Go Thru?” bide unday at 2 p.m. at the Downtown Forum, 60 St. Marks Place, Bert Miller will speak on “The 1928 Presiden, ial BULLS : nie sunday al . m., at the Browns- ville Forum, 1889 Pitkin Ave,, lyn, J, O, Bentall will City Workers and the Sunday at 8 p.m, at whe iY burg » 29 Graham Ave. Brook- lyn, Tom Fleming will speak ‘on "“Re- Beat Tre is In the British Labor Move- Sunday at 8 p. m., at the Yonke: Forum, 262 Warourton pei AL rhe cent oft will speak on “Leni, id Ry ff NHI apeake on “Lenin aid ita Bronx Jobless Tonight An unemployed meeting will be held at 8 o’clock tonight at 715 EB, 138th St. The speakers will be Louis A. ic Work- Baum, secretary, Photo; ers’ Union; George E, Powers, Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union, Herbert Paley, an ex-serviee man and others,. “Daily” Meet Tonight Section 2, Workers (Communist) Party will hold a conference tonight, at 6 o’dlock at 101 W, 27th’ St. to rie ever ridge) 3rd St. tones Set fC attabitaned Vast take up the question of supporting The DAILY WORKER and the Ruth. enberg membership drive, é} 188th St, | TRACTION MEN | STILL FIGHTING Organize Shop Groups | for Defense (Continued from Page One) quarter of a century, This is the net result of the great} “confidence” which the Amalgamated | offe' ° sted that they had! *” mayor of our city. | In response to a request of the Mayor that Hedley meet with him, the president of the company wrote | that he would come at 2 p. m. yes- terday provided a committee of the} company union might go along. This | was, of course, agreeable to the may- | or. Did Quackenbush go along? He certainly did! At the end of the conference the mayor made the following statement: Mayor Insults Workers “With regard to the suspended men. JI am told that these men were | suspended in keeping with the Brotherhood contract with the Inter- horough. They are also ¢harged with insulting brotherhood men by calling them vile names and epithets. The men insulted believed their lives ™m jleovardy. | “The Interborough will refer these eases to its law denartment to be] examined and investirated. “Tf the I. R. T finds any injustice |done, or any injury inflicted, the I. |T. T, will repair this injustice and linfury. The brotherhood says that} {if anv injustice is discovered. it will | give its supnort toward rightine the | | wrone. The law denartment’ will look | linto the snecific eases and renort ta! |the I. R. T. executives and they will | | bring tho recults. tothe brotharhood.” Same Thing In other words, Quackenbush will} decide the matter and talk it. over| with the company union which Quackenbush! Officials of the Amaleamated who are being held responsible. for this delay and betrayal of the workers’ interests by consenting to give the matter into the hands of the.Tam- many Hall mavor refused yesterday to state what their position would he, The workers who have been taucht te expect nothing from these offi- cials are more determined now than hefore tq organize the traction lines into one unicn under their own con- trol. Indications. coming from various parts of the lines confirm the in- formatior that committees and shop groups have been quietly forming to take over the situation when the time for action arrives. The workers un- derstand that organization must. pro- ceed and that they will be able to epunt on the help of many thousands of organized workers in the New York trade unions when the time to strike comes as it will have to come before these workers can finally win. /There will be a meeting of the ex- ecutive committee of the Amalga- mated today. TRUCKMEN STRIKE FOR ORGANIZATION Twelve hundred employees of the American Railway Express Company quit work yesterday at that firm’s Harold Avenue terminal, Long Island City, when their demands for shorter hours and more pay was turned down by the company officials. Sev- enty-five truck and warehouse wsrk- \ers of the Manhattan Coffee and Su- jgar Company of Long Island City, lalso struck yesterday and issued the} same demands. | Upon seeing the result of the ef- fective picketing carried on by the! strikers at the express company’s| | {erminal, in which the company was | prevented from hiring strikebreakers, the company officials put in a police | call, The police however did not suc- | ceed in preventing the picketing. | N.J. WORKERS ASK COMPENSATION is bills seeking to increase the amount of workmen’s compensation will come up in the state legislature on Mon- day. The present compensation laws of New Jersey do not permit more than $17 a week to be awarded an injured worker. The bills aim to bring the compensation up to the level of New York State. Another bill which will come up is one which would force’ eaptains of ocean liners to take out inland water licenses for ports their }j ships entered. t No Tip--Union Barber Shop 77 FIFTH AVE.. Bet, 15th and 16th Streets NEW YORK CITY © Individual Sanitary Service by Ex- perts, — Teer, HAIR BOBBING SPAHCIALISTS, Patronize a Convener Barber Shop. ing the Amalgamated for nearly a}? TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 29,—Two|: '$ Medical Director WORKERS PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY Secretaries Attention! All announcements for this column must reach The DAILY WORKER of- fice hefore 6 p, m. on the day before publication, . . . Parix Commane Celebration, 2 and 3 will celebrate the an Casino, 116 St. and Lenox Ave, * * . Jersey City ¥. W. L. The aims and purposes of the Na- tional. Training School will be dis cussed at a meeting of the Jersey City, Y. W, L. Friday at 8 p, m, at 160 Mer- cer St. - ¥ id Volunteers: Wanted! All unemployed workers are urged to devote several hours a week to the unemploymnt campaign of the Party. | Report to 108 BE, 14th St. . * * Fretheit Anniversary Celebration. The Freiheit sixth anniversary will be celebrated in Madison Square Gar- den on March 26 at 2 p. . . . etion 2 Conference, A conference of all functionaries of Section 2 will be’ held tonight at 101 W. 27th St at 6 Dm. P| Downtown Open Forum, Bert Miller will speak on the 1928 elections at the Section 1 Open Forum, 60 St. Marks Place, Sunday at-2:80 p! m, * * . Negro Conference Tharsday. All Party units must be represented at the conference on Negro work to be held tonight at 8 p. m. at 108 BH, 14th St. . . * Unit A, Section 4. A business meeting of Unit A, Sec- tion 4, will be held tonight. All members of the unit must part ate in the miners’ drive on Saturday and Sunday, . ’ . Y. W. L. Youth Fractions, A-meeting ef all ¥. W. L. youth frac- tions will be held on Friday at 6:30 p.m, at 108 14th St. * * Women's Meeting Saturday. A meeting of organizers of women workers and others inte ed in that activity will be held Saturday at 1:30 D. mgt 108 B, 14th St. to make ar rangements for the International Women's Day meeting. . : . IF Max Kagan w on at the meeting of 1 Frida. t 6:80 p.m. at 108 EB, 14th Room 42. hose Lok : Downtown Concert, Unit 3, Section 1, will hold a concert March 17 at 60 St. Marks Place, Morning International Branch, The Morning International Branch will meet today at 10:30 a, m. at 60 St. Marks Piace. A report on the plenum will be rendered by a repre- sentative of the C. B. ©, Sear Poti | Greek Fraction Meeting, ‘ All Greek-speaking members of the Party should attend a fraction meet- ing tonight at 8 p. m. at 101 W, 27th St. BARBERS MAY 60 Fourteen hundred barbers, members of the International Journeymen Bar- bers’ Union, Local 913 of Brooklyn and Queens, may go out on strike as a result of a wage cut of.$5 per week which the members of the employers’ association put into effect three weeks ago, This action of the bosses, union leaders state, is a violation of the agreement which expires April 1. A mass ..eeting, to be held at the of a committee on the action to be end of the week, is to hear a report taken in face of the wage reduction. Williamsburg, East Brownsville, and Greenpoint will be affected if the strike is called. OKINS Drug Store White Plains cor. Allerton Ay. BEST SERVICE TO CO-OPERATIVE DWELLERS. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. 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LKreinin Den Director OPEN ALL HOURS. entertainment | evening, March 17, | New York, | UNITY DEMANDED ‘Red Revue’ To AT BiG FuR MEET 2° G%_ Satire | | Permeated with the it of New | | a, the Workers ‘Theatre wil! | Workers Demand Peace present a group of novel satirical |spits at the Red Revue” ts be -per- |formed for the benefit of The DAI- . |LY WORKER, Friday, March 16, at Calling upon the “Joint Conneil,” a| the New Star Casino, 107th St. and |dual organization established by the|Park Ave. American Federation of Labor as an instrument with which to smash the \left wing controlled Joint Board Fur- riers’ Union, to end their struggle jagainst the unity of the fur workers, {2,000 furriers who are registered in the A. F. of L, organization at a meet- ing in Webster Hall yesterday after- noon, threatened to organize them- selves openly as a body behind the left wing Joint Board and fight the \*Council” to a finish. Speaker after speaker took the |floor at the meeting which was ar- ranged by a rank and file committee of registered workers, and declared that they were unwilling longer to en- dure the exploitation in the shops, due to the destruction of their once pow- erful union, Demand Action. The demand raised by all the speak- ers was to begin action that will re- sult in again obtaining a united and strong organization, The sentiment of the meeting was expressed in a resolution unanimously |passed which called upon the Joint |Council to put an end to the fight in |the union. While the resolution de- lclared that the left wing Joint Board lbe asked to restate its position on the question of unity, it clearly point- jed out that the Joint Board has al- {ways favored an end to the struggle, jand that it was the Joint Council who ‘has been the cause of the destruction of union conditions in the shop. The resolution further states that an answer to the demand for unity be received by the Executive Council of Registered Workers, the body which had arranged the meeting, within one week, If an answer is not received from the Joint Council those present will organize them- selves as an agitation and organiza- tion committee to carry thru the fol- | lowing plans; (1) That all shop chair- | men shall allow all workers, whether registered or not, to work in the shops jof the employers’ association; (2) The Council’s business agents shall be re- | ‘fused recognition by the workers in, the association shops; (3) That no-/ body go to the shop meetings called | by the Council, and that no dues be} paid to the Council. The meeting | also pledged itself to agitate for pay- | ‘ment of dues to the Joint Board by | jregistered workers in the event that | |the Council refuses to reply. | When inquiries were made at the | |Joint Board later, it was learned that | jthe Board will make an official state- | ment in a few days. “However,” said | |Ben Gold, manager, “the resolution | passed shows clearly that the work- ers, who were forced to register thru | the economic pressure of the bosses, | know that our position has always been for unity, and we will take all steps that will lead to a united and genuine organization of the workers.” from Joint Council matic group two years ago, they nave put on several unusually in sting performances, but never ir their career have they presented vue,” sponsors of the forthcomin production assert. What is promised is an American- ized version of the Russian “Blue Blouses.” Institutions dear to the hearts of radicals, liberals and con- servatives will come in for playful satire when the “Red Revue?’ is put on, ARE RESTRAINED Four Brooklyn wet wash laundries were granted an injunction yester. day which is to be used in’an at- tempt to break the strike of the Laundry Drivers’ and Helpers’ Union. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Cal- jlahan issued the injunction. Workers Locked Out. The strike was called when the em- |ployers locked out the union drive and _helpe union answered with a call for unionization to all the inside workers as well, who are pa 3 to $15 a w have succeeded in geiting the y of the inside workers out 1 strike, The DANCING EXHIBITIONS Wednesday Thursday Friday AT Phone Stuyvesant 3816 , ° John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet. 302 E. 12th St. Diew York. { TICKETS ON SALE AT: I. L, i 422; Jimmie Higgins Book | | Health Food ‘| Vegetarian Restaurant New York. Since the organization of the dra-! anything so interesting as “Red Re-| LAUNDRY DRIVERS) 3 |mittee elected, with . William Green Revealed as Hireling of Power Combine JOBLESS YOUTH TO MEET TODAY |'To Form Council Among Young Workers kers of the New Yor will hold their irst mecting at 2 P. M. today at the rch of All Nati Nine Second The meeting, called by the ned youth section of the Council of the Unem- h headquarters at 60 St. , has for its purpose the tion of the unemployed workers, who are among the atest sufferers from the present Unem | young crisis. John Di Santo, secretary of the New York Council, and other speakers will address the meeting. Among them will be Minnie Lurie, jan officer, a child worker. Phil | Frankfeld will preside. Meeting This Evening A meeting of unemployed workers jwill also be held this evening at 8 |p. m. at 715 E, 138th St. | An open-air meeting will be held |tomorrow at 2 p. m. in Rutgers Sq. This is the second in the series of open-air meetings that have been ar- ranged by the New York Council in ion for the huge mass meet~- he held in Union Square, Sat- , March 10. we s section of the New York Co of the Unemployed has heen formed and an executive com- rion Emerson as chairman, A meeting of the ex- ecutive committee will be held Mon- day at 6 p. m. in the office of the Workers International Relief, 1 Union So. Women’s labor and fraternal or- ganizations have been asked to send delegates. prep Annual Bazaar To Aid Political Prisoners Five Big Days REST AURANT MUSIC CONCERTS EE THE GREATEST EVENT of the YEAR March 7, 8, 9,10,11 AFFAIR OF THE 50,000 STAR CASINO 107th Street and Park Avenue. Saturday and Sunday D. 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NEW YORK CITY, REGINA MEDIM ROBERT MINOR, Editor, International Women’sDay MASS MEETING AND DEMONSTRATION at CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and 38rd Avenue Sunday, March 4, at 2 p.m. CONCERT—FANNY LEVINE, Violinist DANCES BY DORSHA ELLEN KENNAN will read Speakers: ROSE WORTIS, Cloak and Dressmakers Union ELLEN DAWSON, Passaic Textile Workers Union MARION EMERSON, International Workers’ Aid RAY RAGOZIN, Women’s Conference for Miners’ Relief ROSE NEVIN, United Council of Working Women JULIET STUART POYNTZ, Chairman Working Women! to the ration poetess, will recite f the Great Steel Strike Daily Worker