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5 vant ch A ER OL: kat ar venbane dinamo a) apse SY COMMUNISTS. oo , e Ss angerous, | hela tonight at o Pp, m, at 101 W. ‘Delay Is Da g ae tor | Says Statement | Enlarged Bxecutive 1-B, The enlarged executive committee of (Continued from Page One) Subsection 1-B will megt tonight at 6 | ized labor. will. stand behind you, |? ™ *¢ 7% Broadway, Po idler | The Central Trades and Labor Coun- il,, representing 700,000 organized vorkers has pledged you its full sup- port. You will have the full sympathy of the millions of passengers whom the traction pirates are now schem- | & ing to rob in’a huge seven cent fare | NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY Secretaries Attention! All announcements for this column must reach The DAILY WORKER of- fice before 6 p, m, on the day before | bublication, * nawhtes ci dacoaxs. | Unit 3, Section 1, will hold a concert | March 17 at 60 St,’Marks Place. Instructions To All Units. membership drive leaflets and The the unemployed leaflets are for sale to Bon st at $2 a thousand at 108 th ASbAberig leaflets must be dis- | tributed thom Maren tee & They can | ul. The labor movement of the|be secured free of charge at the dis- | whole country which recognizes in|{ttict office. Copies of The DAILY | your struggle the challenge of the big interests to its very life, will sup- port you, Do not be dismayed by the man- Subsection 2 ribute 1,000 euvers of silk-bat Jimmie Walker. sane of, (The DAILY WORKER. 'to- } ’ lay nh ho p The police force which he has|to "ios m. t4th ape eae a mobilized is Intended to overawe you. |6 will report to 16 V t St. But they ll, be powerless in. the} eiaueien 3+. face of your united efforts. Nor} ‘rne executive committee of Subsec- should you be impressed by the thou-|tion 3-E will meet Cork ght at 6:18 p. sands of strike-breake: gunmen, |" SSA = 2 TEE See thugs and “Beakies” which Hedley on , Unit 1-F, has herded together in his last des-|, Unit 3-E 1-F will meet tomorrow at Hebets: otfort. 6:10 p,m, at 101 W. 27th St. Police officers, “Beakies,” and gunmen cannot run trains! As for Hedley’s threat that if you go out on strike “no Amalgamated Unit thugs | a Sis SS) unit 3-E 3 Il meet tomorrow at {6:15 Dp. Mm. a 2 th St | ee | | Night Workers Meet Tomorrow, ‘ . . Continuation of the report on the member will remain thereafter in the Etenim, Meltyerat last ay by H. we ad icks, will take place tomorrow employment of the company,” the |arrernoon'at'3 o’clock at 60 St, Marks answer is that he himself. in all|Place. Discussion will follow the << q ‘ity. wil ae on the |Port. A roll call will be taken at th r robability, will ledeas be left on the (petting and membership cards wiil ee job to enforce the order. He made |checked up. the same threat in 1926 but was Que mady Sewage Scandal Discussion. The Queens sewer scandal will be cl forced to take back all the strikers. When h s he will not do so th iit the ata a ed mt be ae sre : : ri al Long Island Section time, he is talking through his hat.'hemian Hall, Woolsey. and $eeona He needs you. He cannot operate the |Ave., Astoria, L, L, Friday, March 16, at 8:30 p. 'm. Speakers will be W. lines between himself, Quackenbush, Keegan, Doyle, the “Beakies’ and his | new. shipment of thugs. Besides when this strike is over he will come to you to beg you to return as union : nstone, Bert Miller and H. M. ks, * . * 7 8-E FD3, 3-E FD3 will meet tomorrow at 6 Pp. m, at 101 W. 27th St. * . . men! " ‘ ecg ‘Traction Stickers Ready. This will be a 100 per cent walk-| ‘traction stickers at §2 a ‘thousand cut! are now for sale at the district office. All Party units must come for their The officials of your union must quota at once. . not be permitted to delay any lon- ser. You must not permit them to continue their parleys with Jimmie Walker and the Tammany Hall poli- ticians. The new “arbitration” plan, said to have been made by Perl- x will accomplish nothing ‘for } u. This republican corporation lawyer who has served, the bosses in the past will not win your strike. You ean win only through your own efforts! Every hour of delay is dangerous. All these present maneuvers in which your union officials are taking. part sre merely to allow the Interborough te mobilize its forces. Do not re- peat the mistake of 1916 by allowing your union officials to waste precious time. Now is the time to act. ly! Without hesitation! Organize your rank and file .com- mittees in every shop barn, terminal and power house. Demand a union meeting of your organization for immediate strike ac- tion. Telephone, write, talk to your union officidls and the members of the executive committee condemning further delay and demanding imme- diate action. Refuse to break in scabs! Refuse to man scab trains! | Demand your trusted and tried leadership which has sacrificed for you in the past. Strike 100 Per Cent. Against the yellow company union! For a union of your own choice! For * 8 2-F 1-D, Unit 2-F 1-D will meet at_ 6:30 o'clock tonight at ba St. Marks Place. * . Organizers Meeting Friday. A meeting of all unit, section and subsection organizers will be held Fri- day at 8 p.m, at 108 EB. 14th St. Unit organizers will report on their exper- iences in the membership drive. * Young Workers Dance: The Young Workers peegee Upper Bronx, will hold a Spring Dance Sat- urday, March 24, at. 1347 Boston Road. * . . Dance For Striking Box Workers. The Downtown Section, ¥. W. L, will hold a dance Saturday night at. 60 St. Marks Place for the benefit of the striking paper box makers. Admis- sion will be free. * * 8 Commune Celebration. Sections 2 and 3 will celebrate the Paris Commune at an entertainment and dance, Saturday evening, March 17, at New Harlem briny 116th St. and Lenox Ave. Paris Decisive- * «© 8 Fretheit Anniversary Celebration. The Freiheit sixth anniversary will! be celebrated Madison Square Gar- | den on. Ma 5 at 2p. m | AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Bakera’ Lee. No. 104 Meets ist Saturday in the month at 3468 Third Avenue, baie N.Y. for Union Lehee Bread. Aavertise your anion meetings | | here. For information write te | The DAILY WORKER | Advertising Dept. 83 First St., New York oe j better conditions for the traction | => | workers! Ba FOR A FRESH, WHOLESOME |) VEGETARIAN MEAL oe : Some te : We're Here Again! Scientific Vegetarian t 1 Restaurant | | New York. 76 E. 107th Street Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DisHES A place with atmosphere where all radicair meet, 302 E, 12th St. New York. Health Food ~ Vegetarian Restaurant - 1600 Madison Ave, UNIVERSITY 5866. The most elaborate and beautiful Artists’ and Writers’ COSTUME BALL ever held in this town will be the NEW MASSES SPRING COSTUME FROLIC at WEBSTER HALL 119 E, 11th St, March 9th, 9 P. M. The best Jazz in town! Bright new costumes! SAVE THE DATE! \ § Drug Store presi’ soa wl White Plains cor. Allerton Ay. BEST SERVICE TO CO-OPERATIVE DWELLERS. [No Tip-Union Barber “Shop | 77 FIFTH AVE, Bet. 15th and 16th Streets NEW YORK CITY Individual Sanitary Servi by Ex- dD. OBBING perts, — LES’ HAIR SPECLALISTS. Patronize u Comradely Barber Shop. Labeaiate red nceane AND CUPTING 218 WAST Teen” StRier Algonquin aii. re ssl bed ath | | and foremen. BISCUIT WORKERS FIRED FROM PLANT |Low Wages, Speed- Up, | Spying Revealed (Continued from Page Ons) ' plained by the fact that it takes two) | weeks to break a worker in and| therefore for the latter two weeks ¢ the first month of employment }a skilled worker is paid the same/ wage as an unskilled worker, and it ls no rarity for a worker to be dis- charged on one ground or another \after the first month of employment. | Spying and Speed-up. Workers are continually under the close supervision of the many bosses | Conversation ‘is pro- j afbited. If a worker is caught con- versing two or more times he is dis-} charged. The fwremen unceasingly drive the workers on to greater! | speed, not considering the poss! se tn-| | jury to the workers rtich mis yt, and} often do, result. Eapectally aeong the oven men do casualties’ occur, the ineeasant ssaiting in severe burns. A conser- vative estimate is that there is one foreman for every ten workers thru- out the various departments. The policy of the company is rather to smploy one foreman, at a salary of fifty or more dollars a week, to drive | the workers to greater efforts, rather | than to keep a sufficient number of | workers employed. The National Biscuit C rapeny’s policy is’ to employ foreign-born vorkers and to oreak their epirit by in¢ inhuman, driving ewviroment of the factories and by ‘he starvation wages and the continual fear of losing heir jobs, thus prevaating uny st- vempts at orgauizarion. Moat of the vorkers are Italians, sume Greeks and Slavs. They «te very much dis- catietied with their eunditions, and wmong themselves, outside the fac- ory where there is ao danger of be- ng overheard by one of the innum- erable company Gankeys, they iis- cuss the aeed for organization. They ere kept from orranizing snly by ignorance of the methods of pursu- ed it and by the fear of losing their jobs. Advocate Organization. The need for srganization is ur- gent. en thousand rurkers ere suf fering exploitation, ing -abjected to an intense speed-up system, many | wf them forced to werk ts poorly ven- | \fiated, unsanitary rooms, continual- ly in abject fear of lesing their jobs and the miserable pittance that are doled out as wages. * * * The DAILY WORKER on March 12 will carry another account of conditions in the National Biscuit Company. — District Literature Conference. A district conference of literature agents and members of the literature | squad will be aan oh a Pane 8) at 108 E. 14th St. Room 4 t 8:15 p. m. The speakers will be William ww. hed as D, Benjamin and A. Gussa- 0} MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS at her studto 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6388, Will alse call at student's home. Co. OPERATIVE Repar Suop 4191 6th Avenue, near 25th St. hoes prewed While U W ait uits Pressed LAW 0. FFICE CHAS. “RECHT For the convenience of workers open unti. 6 P. M, and all day Saturday. 110 WEST 40th ST. Room 1604, Phone: PENN 4060--4061--4076. Announcement, ANITA SHAPIRO Graduate Regame School of Music, Kiev, wiu engage in Piano Instruction Approved method of instruction for beginners at’ moderate rates. 2800 Bronx Park East Apt, F-2 Telephone: Estabrook 1637. IO NEREOONE LTT ' driving of the workers) THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 5. Tee8 ‘City Neglect of Patients Is Assailed The spending of money to enter- tates foreign visitors while the Kings ; County Hospital buildings. in Brook- lyn were in a dilapidated condition jand “a: civic: disgrace” has been, at- tacked by the: February grand: jury. | The report of the jury submitted to Mayor Walker attacked the hous- ling of hundreds of incurable patients {in buildings erected in 1860. These bed-ridden patients must | spend the rest of their lives in the filthy surroundings of the city hos- pitals, while many thousands will be | (spent by the city, for example, to jwelcome. and entertain over 500 | Hungarian faseists being sent here by Horthy to unveil a Kossuth monu- | ment Mareh 15 on Riverside Drive. | Max Pine Buried Max Pine, former secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, and a writer} on the Jewish Daily Forward, a right | wing paper, who died last Friday af- ternoon after a long illness, was bur- fed yesterday in the Mount Carmel} Cemetery in Brooklyn. The funeral | was conducted from the “Forward” building. Pine was one of the founders of | \the Jewish labor movement in Amer- jica, but of late years has been iden- | tified with the extreme right wing | the movement. Toward the close of his career he also became an ardent Zionist and devoted much of his ener- gies in that direction in addition to supporting the “Forward” and the American Federation of Labor in their struggle against the militant leadership of the needle trades and other Jewish labor organizations. Convention Calls Issued By ILGWU and ACW The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the Amalgamat- ed Clothing Workers of America an- nounced that they have slready %- sued official calls for the election of delegates to the national conventions. The convention of the I. L. G. W. U. will take place on the first Mon- day in May tn Boston and the Amal- gamated will meet in Cincinatti, the second Monday in May. “|national Alliance of Theatrical Stage WORKERS HONOR G. E. RUTHENBERG | Delegates “from Unions| to Attend Meeting | Ito snight at 1472 Boston “Road, "Brona/| Representatives of trade unions|‘ and other working class organiza- tions are expected to attend the) Ruthenberg memorial meeting to be held next Sunday, at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., un- der the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, New York dis- trict, The meeting being held at the time ; p: when U. S. marines are invading Nicaragua, the speakers will poi jo8t Ruthenberg’s attitude toward! American imperialism. The speakers will be Bertram D. Wolfe, national agitation-propaganda director of the Party; Wi Z.4 Foster, secretary of the bint Educational League; director, nation partment and W secretary rict |Mass Meet Called to iSave Workmen’s Circle All sienberk oe. ae Workmen’s Civele are called to a mass meeting | March 8 to on Thursday evening, hear a report of activities since the nomination conference in Webster| Mall, on Bebruary 19. The mass meet ing is to be held at the Stuyvesa: Casino, Second Ave. and 9th St. at) 8 o'clock. The reports made public in the Jewish Forward will be exposed by the left wing delegates to that con-|}, ference. The life of the organization depends upon the defeat of the pla: made by the right wing at this con ference, declare the progressive dele- | gates. Theater Men Strike A strike of the moving picture op- erators of the Waco Theatre, 118] Rivington St., and the Avenue Aj| Theatre, Ave. A and 3rd St, has} been called by Moving Picture Oper- ators’ Union Local 306 of the Inter-j| Employes and Moving Picture Ma- chine Operators. The operators are striking for the recognition of the union. | Hall, | Friday, March 9. Page Five Ee | Labor and Fraternal Organizations Saceo-Vansetti Branch L. L. special meeting of the Vanzett! Branch I, L. i The main order of bus will be} preparation for the bazaar. ess w orkiers soltest Classes, The following courses are scbeduled | }to begin this week at the Workers 108 E. 14th St, ‘onight at 6:45 p.m. Speech Im rovement, Beatrice Becker, instruc Sunday at 3:30 p. m., Ame H tory For Pioneers, Tom Fole tr at 3:30 p.m, Fundament outh Movement for. Pioneers tlonaries C ours Talent For I lent Emily R . dD. ar of the Inte’ Bazaar, hold ac 1373 43 Rebel Poets Night. Poets Forum will conduct a Poets Night at the Labor Tem- cond Ave. and 14th St., Tuesday, 13, at 8:15 p. m, The Modern School. Modern School , bazaa dance Friday, March 9, at 8:30 p. m. at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. Fifth St. Proceeds will be used for a new school building at Peekekill, N. Y, |\Left Wing Workers to |Attend New Masses Ball Hundreds of left wing New York workers are expected to be present at the annual Spring Costume Frolic of the “New Masses,” radical maga- zine of arts and letters, at Webster lith St. and Third Ave., next A large number of proletariay writers and artists have already sig nified their intention of being pres ent at the affair. Bic aes ‘GROCERY CLERKS _ TO STRIKE TODAY |Aim to Organize Stores in Brooklyn and Dairy treater New York. The strike upon all clerks in the of Brooklyn, Bri to Second and report 117 primarily for rganizing the non- all clerks n union r rt at the where they will es to visit for the purpose not already on of the union that is be- istributed are: 1 a 9-hour day; 83 union conditions. 1 to Housewives. peal has been sent out n to the United Council ingclass Women to lend support in spreading the strike. latier organization has been ctive in helping the union long drawn out fight a dual union established by e nea onary machine of the Jew- ish Daily Forward, a right wing paper. In spite of over twenty in- junctions taken out against the union week; |by the right wing, the union suc- eeded in eliminating the dual union. Furrier Open Forum to Discuss Big Mass Meet An open forum of registered and unregistered workers will be held at he office of the Joint Board of the n, 22 E. 22d St., today 2 rtant questions, par- ularly the one involving a com- mittee to the Joint Board and the Joint Council regarding one union, will be discussed. WORKERS’ THEATRE PLAYS. mines one-act plays will be put on by the Workers’ Theatre at 2 gle Theatre, Seventh Ave., between 11th and Perry Sts. ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO “OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Or, uti tions. (Establishe fel, Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST —~ Office Hours: 9:30-12 A, M. 2-8 P, M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST ilth STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York, j | | Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Algonquin 8183 3YBHAR TIEVEBHIIA DR. BROWN Dentistry in All Its Branches 201 East 14th St., cor, 2nd Ave. Over the bank. New York. Monument 3519. HARLEM HEALTH CENTER 1800 SEVENTH AVENUE Cor. 110 St. (Unity Co-op, Building) Dr. V. G. Burtan Dr. E. LKreinin Medical Director Dental Director OPEN ALL HOURS. CO-OPERATIVE Dental Clinic 2700 Bronx Park East ' Ap’t.C. LE TEL, ESTABROOK 0568. DR. I. STAMLER Surgeon-Dentist DIRECTOR =-<‘luesday and Thursday fen 10.to $ P. eee: from 2to7 P. i SCHWARTZ \ Barber Shop and Beauty Parlor NOW AT 1679-81 BOSTON ROAD Near 174th | NDIVIDUAL hair and shaving, brushes, combs, cups & towels. 5 EXPERTS. fy Tas tT YOUR SERVICE Courteous and Comradely Attention Lote" anise Re. ERS. tribe hao || Health Examination 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 | ca Tests X-Rays DR. ZINS Specialists--Est. 25. Yrs. 110 East 16th St, N. Y. (Between Irving PL. @ Union Sq.) Daily 9-8 P. M, Sunday, 10-4 | | | i Ne: } | | ere ete 2) epee > vonmene ak) TICKETS ——. 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