The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 5

foe 43 First Strike of Brooklyn Clerks Practically GROCERY WORKERS [Workers Party| WAGE SUCCESSFUL HIGHT ON BOSSES Organization Exposes Dual “Union” All but two of the several hundred | stores in all parts of Brooklyn against which a general strike of the Retail Grocery, Fruit, and Dairy Clerks} Union was called have already signed up with the union, This was announced yesterday by the organization from its headquarters at 117 Second Ave. Successful Organization, In addition to the stores which re- newed their agreements when the gen- eral ‘strike went into effect; the union} succeeded in organizing about 100 for- merly non-union stores, it stated. The union appeals to the working- class families of Brownsville to dis- regard the so-called strike being con- ducted against M. Silverstein’s Public Market, 366 New Lots Ave. The union shop and has a signed agree- union declares that this shop is a ment with the only real Grocery| Clerks Union. | Urged to Ignore “Strike.” | A dual “union” established recently by the right wing “Forward” clique | when they tried unsuccessfully to de- | stroy the workers’ organization by | expulsion from the United Hebrew Trades, called a “strike” against this store when the owner settled with the | Retail Grocery Clerks Union, and sent right wing agents to “picket” the] , store. An open-air meeting was held yesterday afternoon in front of the store by the United Council of Work- ing Class Women for the purpose of | acquainting the workers of the neigh- borhood with the issue involved. WHITE TERRORISTS TO ARRWE TODAY Hungarians Here Are to Raise Cash (Continued from Page One) 8p, m., Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., auspices of Anti- Horthy League. . Passaic, March 18, 3 p. m»—Mass meeting at Neubauers’ Hall, auspices of Anti-Horthy League. Hareo,..111, March 15—Workers (Communist) Party. Zeigler, Ill, March 17—Workers (Communist) Party. Orient, Ul, March 18—Workers (Communist) Party. Cleveland, Mass meetings, March 19, 20 and 2i—American Hungarian Freedom League. { Bethlehem, Pa. April 1—Mass meetings by Anti-Horthy League, or- ganized by Hungarian societies | March 11, Detroit, March 17—Workers (Com- munist) Party. Benefit at Playwrights for Jobless Thursday A special benefit performance of Michael Gold “Hoboken Blues” will be given Thursday evening at the New Playwrights Theatre, 40 Com- merce St., under the auspices of the} Workers International Relief, 1 Union Square. The entire proceeds will be devoted | to feeding unemployed workers at the kitchen which the W. I. R. has just opened at 60 St. Marks Place. Tickets for the performance are obtainable at the office of the organization, tele- | phone Algonquin 8048. | Laborer Hurt JERSEY CITY, N. J., Mar. 12.— Martin Burke, 82, a laborer in the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad tubes, received severe injuries in the back while at work in the railroad yards yesterday. Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicale m 302 E. 12th St. Mew York. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865, THE ARCHITECTURAL IRON, BRONZE & STRUCTURAL WORK- ||) ERS UNION meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month, at Rand School, 7 Bast 5th Street, City. Headquarters: 7 Last ié6th||' Street, City. Telephone: Stuyvesant U144, 2194, A Rosenfeld, Secretary. RAG ; Advertise your anion F meetings here. For information write te | SPIESS STUDIO St, New York City, (UUon%: Meshes pita Be THE DAILY WORKER. W YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928 Page Five ———— ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY 3-B 1-F, x Unit 3-E 1-F will meet tonight at . . * 3-E 3-F. Unit 3-E 3-F will meet tonight at 6 0 o'clock, Night Workers Meet Today. — A regular meeting of the Night Workers Branch will take place this | afternoon at 3 o'clock at 60 St. Marks Place. . * * 3-E FD3, Subsection 3-E FD3 will meet to- night at 6:15 o'clock at 101 W, 27th St, * * . Unit 3-E at 6:30 p. m. at 101 W. * meet tomorrow 27th St. Downtown Concert. Unit 3, Section 1, will hold a concert March 17 at 6g St. Marks Place. . . “Instructions To All Unita. The membership drive leaflets and the unemployed leaflets are for sale to Party units at $2 a thousand at 108 E. 14th st. The Ruthenberg leaflets must be dis- tributed from March 7 to 9.. They can be secured free of charge at the dis- trict office. Copies of The DAILY WORKER should be distributed at all traction barns and power houses by all Party units, . Se’ The Queens 5 discussed at a ma at ndal will be ass meeting arranged the Long Isiand Section at Bo- hemian | Hall, Woolsey and_ Second L, I, Priday, Mareh 16, at $:30 p. m. Speakers will be W. W. Weinstone, Bert Miller and H. M. Wicks, eat . Traction Stickers Ready. ction stickers at $2 a thousand for sale at the district ‘office. ty units must come for their t once, raat ee | Young Workers Dance. Young Workers League; Upper X, will hold a Spring Dance. Sat- urday, March 24, at 1347 Boston Road. Paris Commune Celebration. ctions 2 and 3 will celebrate the » Commune 3 ‘tainment and dance, Satu: March i7, at New Harlem Casino, 1iéth St. and Lenox Ave. . . . Scott Nearing Lectures. March 28, at Bryant Hall, Sixth . and 42nd’ St. under the auspices jot Sections.2 and 3. | cate Shecis Branch 4 Meeting. Branch 4, Section 7, will hold a reg~ ular meeting this Wednesday at 1940 | Benson Ave. at 6:30 p. m. | Cie ie a | Speakers’ Conference. | A. district agitprop and speakers’ jconference’ will be held at 108 &. 14th St, Room 43, Saturday at 2 p. m. Will ; Young Workers League, will speak on “Winning the Workers’ Children for the Class Struggle.” All unit, sub- Section, and section agitprop directors should attend, ee . Nearing Lecture. Seott Nearing, who nas just returned from China and the Soviet Union, will lecture Wednesday, March 28, ate8 p.m. at.Jrving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., under the auspices of Section 2. : od Mitchell on “Traction,” Robert Mitcbell will speak on “Trac- tion,” Friday, March 16, at 6 p, m. at t an open forum under the auspices of Section 2. SS 3-E FD 2 Rose Wortis will lead a discussion on the situation in the needle trades at. the meeting of SS 3-E FD 2 to- morrow at 6 P. m, at 101 W, 27th St. * . Branch 5, Section 5. Branch 5, Section 5, will meet to- night at 2075 Clinton Ave. aie iia Workers School Classes. The ‘following courses are scheduled to begin at the Workers School, 108 E. 16th St., this week: Tonight, Advanced English A, E. Rosenberg, instructor, at 7p ..m. (Tues- days and Thursdays.) Saturday, “Modern Imperialism,” Scott Nearing, instructor, at m. vel. Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAIIAM "MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST 9:50-12 A, M, 2-8 P.M, * Friday and Sunday. 249 Bast 115th STREET New York. Sor. Second Ave. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L, Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Reom 803 Phone Algonquin 8183 VBHAA NEYEBHMIA | DR. BROWN Dentistry in AU Its Branches 301 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. OLEN-MILLER OPMCAL COMPANY 1 GOLDIN = OPTOMmE eae = ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK — Patronize Our Friend =) <~ Scott Nearing will lecture Wednes- Hierberg, New York organizer of the | { |tory wage payments have gone down | about $2,000,000 a week. with 2 years ago wage payments have | | Typewriters. Portables, New and Re- OFFICIALS ADMIT JOBLESS CRISIS NY Council Conference| Call for Saturday (Continued from Page One) comes in the spring. Despite the gain this month, total employment re- mained less than it was in December, 1927, and many factory workers who were laid off in the last few months have not been re-employed in manu- facturing industries, 200,000 Displaced. “The reduction in employment,” he says, “has now displaced over 200,000 factory workers since 1923, and about 65,000 during the past year when em- ployment was receding in non-factory industries, It has also gravely af- fected the industrial situation through the influence of factory payrolls on the effective purchasing power of consumers, “Compared with January, 1927, fac- | Compared | fallen about. $3,300,000 a week. There is a decrease of over $3,500,000 in| weekly wage payments compared with | the payrolls for all factories in the/| year. 1923.” Thousands Uncounted, At this rate consumer. purchasing | power in New York state alone would | be cut. $180,000,000 annually. These figures are reduced as low as} possible for the -sake of appearances. | Knowing the policy of the Al Smith} administration and the desires of the organized employers, the commission- | er’s statisticians have shut their eyes | to many thousands of unskilled un-/} employed workers in making their| | tables. | The Bosses’ Strategy. Dispatches and letters show how | employers in many cities, realizing! the seriousness of the unemployment | situation and the temper of the job- less, are circulating stories of pro-| posed road and building construction, | partly to encourage the unemployed | to remain in their districts. Surplus labor enables them to reduce wages and lengthen the working day. Meanwhile an increasing number of | Saturday, “Development of the Amer- ican Empire,” Scott Nearing, instructor, at 4 p. m. The course in “America Today,” Jay Lovestone, instructor, will not be given | tonight. The next session will be Tues- day, March 20, at 8:30 p. m. ? * . Y, W. L .Members, Attention! All members of the Young Workers League must report to the district office today and tomorrow at 10 a..m. for important League work. eas wt Greek Fraction Meeting. The Greek Fraction of the Party will meet Thursday at 8 p, m. at 101 W. 27th St. j Great Assortment of All Makes of | built. All Guaranteed. Moderate Prices. For Sale, Rental and Repairs. Open: 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. International Typewriter Co. | 1643 2nd Avenue. Bet. 85-86th. ; NEW YORK CITY. TO DROP HOUSING LAW | ALTHO CRISIS EXISTS (Special To The D. AILY WORKER.) ALBANY, March 11.—In a report that plainly proves, when analyzed, tunes. to defeat these laws, Gov. Smith, held up the board of housing) report for two weeks. Too Late to Act. | It is too late for the tenants to} take this action now, political observ- probably adjourn this week. All stand} ing committees, with the excepton of the rules committee, went out “of per cent of the vacancies in the city | $8 | are in the rental range below per room per month and that in Man- hattan this rental range forms over 65 per cent of the total i and in the lower portion of Man-! ers say, because the legislature will| hattan, nearly 92 per cent~of the| total. Unfit to Live in. “For a large portion of the popu Won; Organize Nearly Hund ved Store Organizations Labor and Fraternal Rebel Poets Forum Night. will conau Baum Lectures Tomorrow. Louis A We f Baum, | raphi New York C f Foreig at Manhat Dancing sec isers Union, ct a T f .T. FIRES SIX FORE UNION MEN that a drastic housing shortage of reasonably priced apartments eae © 6 o cloek eae Destruction of Union state board of housing recommends that the emergeney rent laws be allowed Foreign Born Affair. ae 2 is jto lapse automatically May 31, this¢———— SPE NAL GIN The New York Council for the Pr Continues year. nued, are included among these vac- Leg ifs the Priai pees At the direction of a powerful real| @t apartments, Bt Manhattan Lyceum, ¢ | (Continued from Page One) estate lobby, which has spent for-| It is also stated that, more than 50 So Sateioe® them by »s and finks. Yeq they do nothing but enter an agreement with Mayor Walker for a correspond- teh. The which the union officials are seeking infantile t if the Interborough be- ressed with the pondence, it will sez idea exstence last Tuesday. aticn the housing problem is. sti p its program More’ than 700,000 persons in-the| very grave,” the report states. “About | —_ n of the union. lowest income groups will be affected | 510,000 families are still occupying the inspiration of by the removal of the rent laws, the apartments old law tenements, 4 MS, of the dis- housing board itself admits. It also states that “the board finds no reason to alter its previous conclu- sions that the dearth of adequate housing at rents which wage earn can pay is the essence of the housing problem.” * The reports states that there is a 86 per cent increase in vacant apart- ments in New York City. Yet later on it makes the astounding declara- | tion that 19,000 old law tenements | in such poor condition that they would have been demolished and taken off the records prior to 1928 had the pre-war rate’ of demolitions conti- unemployed workers are eati: daily at the food kitchen opened last Thurs- day by the Workers International Re- lief, 1 Union Square, at the headquar- ters of the New York Council of the! Unemployed, 60 St. Marks Place. Six | hundred were fed the first day and the | jnumber has now increased to about} 1,000 daily, according to Fred G. many of which were condemned a unfit for habitation as far back a 25 ago. rent laws) does not mean that any permanent relief has been aforded the great number of families in the larger cities who are compelled to live in sub-standard, u nitary, in- adequate dwellings which are in themselves a danger to public health end welfare. It does mean that the confronting them is not temporary and that it does not ar out of the economic adjustment fol- lowing the war.” The present emergency rent laws prevent landlord: from raising the rents of tenants paying $15 per room per month and less in New York City without getting permission from a municipal court justice. The laws also apply to Buffalo, where apart- ments below $7 per month per room are so protected. (the killing of the emergency at Harlem Casino, I Bronx Workers §: r ¢ i instructc day at 8 116th St. city. has been recently p. m,, M. Goldb At present city hospi 1 are under the control of {5 srent departments of the Evidence of inefficiency and abuse of patients in city hospita New Hospital Bill ALBANY, Mar. 12. duced in the state legi A bill i ature {for the placing of the city hospi of New York City under state trol. al; revealed. Condi- intro- Gal s in zed workers zned a letter to s written for Nathan D. Perl- n. The let- ns f move of the match. It is noted sort of pleading and sub- intended to move the In- the workers ‘have now y it than they have ough following nated. which g to the agreement which the Interborough is supposed | 5 e with the mayor on under which the Inter- supposed to have agreed harge union men and which the Interborough is supposed sinee to have violated. On the basis of this on the mayor is “supposed” 2 able to help the workers. malgamated has done its last bit rganizing” and has made its ast step of betrayal of the New York traction workers. Beginning Biedenkapp, national secretary of the with the strike in 1905 which it broke organization. tions in hospitals at present under “We request everybody who can to donate food supplies or money in or- der that we may be abie to go on with this work,” Biedenkapp said. “Workingclass organizations are eel pecially urged to help their fellow- workers by sending immediate contri- butions to the Workers International Relief.” Benefit Show. A performance of Michael Gold’s “Hoboken Blues” for the benefit of the | unemployed has been arranged by the Workers International Relief at the New Playwrights Theatre, 40 Com- merce St., for Thursday evening. MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS at her studto 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6888, Will alse call at student’s hom: No Tip-Union Barber Shop | 77 FIFTH AVE. Bet. 15th and 16th Streets NEW YORK CITY Individual Sanitary Service by Ex- perts. — LADIES’ HAIR BOBBING SPECIALISTS. Patronize a Comradely Barber Shop. 40 Commerce St. Buy tickets at Workers ALL School All Aboard for‘Hoboken bias. 2 Workers School Train This Wednesday Night only (March 14) for HOBOKEN BLUES Starts at THE PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE SEATS RES at 330 P. M. Office, 108 East 14th Street. SRVED. /SPRING BALL (Paris Commun: 116th Street and WITH THIS “AD” Saturday, Eve., March 17th at HARLEM CASINO ADMISSION 75 CENTS AT DOOR. e Celebration) Lenox Avenue. ADMISSION 50c, Auspices Sections 2 and 3 Workers (Communist) Party. SUNDAY March 18th 1928 From 2:30 P. M. Till Midnight Conce WONDERFUL female choruset Finnish songs, recitations, dances, etc. Admission 75¢, TION OF Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4 St. nice Michaelson, classical’ dances, the great pianist. Miss Dee Riemer, interpretive classical Auspices: NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR PROTEC- INTERNATIONAL rt and Dance I3ICAL PROGRAM: Male and all nationalities. Hilja Vilnen, M. Lowy, Hungarian songs. Her- Gizi Bllenbogen, Bugene Berkowitz, dramatic DANUING TILL MIDNIGHT, FOREIGN BORN WORKERS. Rebel Poets Tonight Tonight will be Rebel Poets’ Night at the Poetry Forum of the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St. The forum is conducted by Anton Ro- matka. Among the poets who will read their verses are Henry Reich, Jr., who will act as chairman; Henry Harrison, Joseph T. Shipley, Ralph Cheny, and others. Dies on NEWARK, N. J, derson Barnes, at the Reilly plant. death has not beet state control are little better, if any. Job Mar. ae 68 year-old night watchman of the Reilly Leather Co. here, was found sitting dead chair early this morning by workers in a through the 1916 strike which the same organization frittered away; |through the 1920 strike in Brooklyn which it again broke; through the 1926 strike which it left unaided through the deception already re- ferred to in 1927 and through the present situation of the blackest be- trayal of all, the officials of this The cause of {union have had an unbroken record determined. of betrayal. FREIHEIT 30 UNION SQUARE BENEFIT THE DAILY WORKER ' ENTERTAINMENT NEW YORK EVER WITNESSED 107th St. & Park Ave. DAILY WORKER. 108 E.14 STREET)