The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1928, Page 5

( in Energetic Fight Despite Sellout of Their Strike YING TO FRAME UP IRON WORKER 20,. 1928 Makers’ Union Paper Box RKERS PARTY AMALGAMATION IS |WorxeRs rai CALLING MEETINGS NEW YORK CIRCUIT Labor and Fraternal ‘TR Organizations Would Build Self-Glory from Jobless Misery i | | | } | ‘or Negro funds fo: itor To rai Industr ‘GLASSES START — 'Workers Party Teaches |* na on Tour Night Workers Meet Tomorrow. A regular meeting will be held this ernoon at 3 o'clock at 60 St. Marks lace, Important matters to be taken up at this meeting. f a ” Strike Was Called in Self-Defense * Lovestone Course. ‘Traction Stickers Rendy. eaS 4 | Traction stickers at #2 a thousand | Ssh lA feces eb embershin ds Growing |457 tov, for sale at the district otto: | SCHENECTADY, N. Y., March 19. | Will be given op neice acta quota at once, |D. E, Early, traveling circuit teacher |°°"°°” 4 an Ironworks, at 59 Da Says Statement Phase wernes wikia: jof the Workers (Communist) Party, | id C in its se a The Young Workers League, Upper Bronx, will hold a Spring Dance this Saturday at 1347 Boston Road. ° . . e Garman shop ed to the frame-up tempt to break the | started an eight-week tour of eastern New York state here is evening. {Classes will be held in six different The Paper Box Makers’ Union, 640 Broadway, in a statement issued last night, vigorously denied that the Apr ° Unemployment Meet. |¢ities, one session being held every Mine |strikers’ soli , by having organ- morale of the membership had be pean unemployment mass meeting: will 45 : i gridic $k ened city : Norte eam er Powers of the Architectural " ES etrated| be held under the auspices of the Up- ivi 3 “own i Rey 3: ”, | E i ss i} | Tow Ome of Seen Oe Sune oe some | Def Bronx section of the Young Work- | Oblivion. has grown it nee 5. Coney, who | Every Monday the class here is held Local T. U. Iron Workers a . ers League at 2075 Clinton Ave., Bronx, F: Bite P 7 i y Serene 202 Winde a | he ch ge of felonious a: tec castaice Gx The’ dustry, The pesean sees a new chance for publicity by repeating the march on at Lithuanian Hall, 708 Windsor Ave. | 4 e of felonious e of t this Wednesday at Ince § - . Section 1 Meeting. An important membersnip meeting of Section 1 will be held this Thurs- a4 at 6 p. m. sharp at 60 St. Marks Place. Washington stunt of bygone years. Organization of the job- less into unemployment councils, which make demands and have the power to back them up is the only-solution. Comey is shown above with James E. Howe, (center), so-called Tuesday at 7.30 p. m. an Endicott |class is held at the Russian-Ukrainian | Hall. On Wednesday at 7.30 p. m. a|j; | Binghampton class is held in the Meth- | odist Church, Holland and Clinton Sts. box makers were in the second week| of a strike that promised success when the Paresi gang by an outlaw agreement made with the employers who were members of the Independent n will obtained a bain all knowledge. 2,500 bail at Court for grand . * * ton Height: ‘attr pe SLY, 1F 8c. millionaire hobo, who plays at being jobless while millions The Syracuse class is held ever n on March 30. Box Makers Association, and employ: dwaC Wit meetat © oclock tnteht Lot a Ch - rete. Paleien ‘ yracuse cla: 'y ers’ organizations betrayed them, at 101 W. 27th St. starve, an arles Kruse of Baltimore. Thu Bakery “The membership of the union, however, is holding firm and waiting only for the opportune moment to F a fresh claim on their rights,” lhe statement says. Bribed By Bosses. “The outlaw agreement leaves the drivers in some respects worse off than they were before the strike. Hours have been lengthened by an hour a day on week days and two hours and a half on Saturdays. “Tt has been noted that the peculiar terms of the agreement between Par- esi and the bosses make it seem high- ly probable that the outlaw leader’s work is inspired and paid for by mem- bers of the manufacturers’ associa- tion. Only members of the associa- tion are included in the agreement; drivers for other firms have been pulled off their wagons. This is a palpable attempt to force independent firms into the notoriously anti-labor box manufacturers association,” said the union, ¢ The round box workers will meet iat the union headquarters tomorrow ifrening to discuss ways and means of hnereasing the present membership in their branch of the trade. Meeting Called. Cutters and setters held a meet- ing last night at union headquarters. An executive board meeting to dis- cuss future tactics will be held to- night. In the statement issued yesterday by the union, gratitude was expressed to the Workers’ International Relief, 1 Union Square, which advanced funds to take care of relief work dur- ing the two week strike just ended. DISTRICT 9 JOINS | BIG MINE FIGHT = eng - a tne poem Conference Endorses Progressive Drive (Continued from Page One) for the murder of one of the Cappelini gunmen. When the Golden police broke in they wanted to know where Brophy end Toohey could be found and began 40 search for them among the dele- gates present. Not succeeding they began searching for Hangood and Papeun. Jchr Brophy and Pat Toohey are leaders of the National Save-the- Union movement. George Papcun, one of the leaders of the Pittston anthracite district of the progressive miners, and the rep- resertative of the Tri-District Save- the-Unicn Committee was out at the moment and thus saved himself from arrest. ; Meet Again. {The conference udjourred and re- assembled in the afternoon at another hall after eating lunch prepared by the wives: of the lccal miners. Police did not interfere with the afternoon meeting. A Save-the-Union Jommittee for the distiict was formed. The Golden forces were com- pletely taken back at the strength of the conference. Eyen the progressive mincrs themselves were surprised at the size of the turnout. * The conference instructed the newly elected committee to begin immediate preparations for sending delegates to the Pittsburgh conference April 1. Several local unions, it was reported. had already elected delegates to the conference. cS, Hon Golden and Police Work Together. — SHENANDOAH, March 19,—Po- lice officials here today admitted that they had acted on the instructions from the Chris Golden machine and directly upon the orders of board member Starmbo, when they sought to prevert the progressive mine con- ference of District 9. The conference was one of the most successful and | signifiennt in. recent years. The pro- gram of the Tri-District and the Na- tional Save-the-Union Committee was enthusiastically endorsed. The dele- gates decided to call another and larger conference in the near future. ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Organiza- tions. (Bstablished 1837.) a ab, | day. Party Functionaries Meet. A meeting of all Party functionaries will be held Friday at 8 p. m. at 108 | B. 14th St. All other Party meetings which interfere are to be postponed. * * 3E Fp3. Subsection 3E FD3 will meet to- night at 6:15 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St. . * ° TF 1Ac. 7F 1AC\ meets tomorrow at 6 p. m. at 60 St. Marks Place. * * 1F 1Ac, 1F 1AC will meet tomorrow at 6 p. m,. at 60 St. Marks Place. . * . . Branch 5, Section 5. Branch 5, Section 6, will educational meeting tonight at Clinton Ave. hold an 2075 * . * { Traction Meeting Tomorrow. The traction question will be dis- cussed at a mass meeting Friday night at 744 Allerton Ave. called by Branch 6, Section 5. The speakers will be John L., Sherman and Juliet Stuart | Poyntz. * * Harlem Unemployed. All unemployed. Party members in Harlem should report at 143 BE. 103rd | St. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon every- | day. | * . . Section 4 Meeting. Section 4 will discuss the traction situation Thursday at 8 p. m. at 143 ©. 108rd St. Unit A will decide on their new headquarters. Lana ea Brownsville Concert and Dance. The Brownsville Subsection of the Party will hold a concert and enter- tainment Saturday, March 31, at 1689 Pitkin Ave. * * . Bath Beach Affatr. 10,000 SEA . (By Federa: Thousands of seamen tramping a! on one conclusion: “This is the worst Unemployed seafarers crowd ever waterfront of New York. sand in this city and as many more! in other Atlantic seaboard cities ar: | vainly hunting jobs that don’t exist | The number is far in excess of no: mal winter unemployment caused by slack shipping. Along the lower end of Manhattan where great buildings cast their) shadows out over the docks and the| thousand-foot ships, narrow stairways lead up to little shipping offices. All} day long these evil-smelling rooms} | are crowded with seamen waiting pa-| tiently for the jobs to come in from| the ships, Lines Form Early. | The telephone rings. The crowd} surges around he wicket, milling until) the job is given out, Then the patient} {wait for the next call. These job lines begin to form be-. fore 9 inthe morning and hold till the Bath Beach unit of the Young Workers League will hold an enter- tainment and dance this Saturday at 1373 43 rd St., Brooklyn, to welcome the graduates ‘from the Pionéérs. arlene : Nearing Lectare. | Scott Nearing, who has just returned from China and the Soviet Union, will | lecture Wednesday, March 28, at 8’ p. m. | atdrving Plaza, irving Place and 15th | St, under the auspices of ion 2 and 3. The subject will be “Europe To- Milk Bootleggers Are Still Operating in N. Y. Protesting against delay in the vial of Harry M. Danziger, indicted 1 1920 on milk-grafi charges, Magis- rate David Hirshfield declared in a ‘etter today to district Attorney {ewcombe of Queens that an organi- ation similar to that of which Dan- ziger was charged with being the agad is now operating in the milk ousiness in New York City. the offices close at night. In some j}of the job rooms there are seats for five or six men; more often there jare no seats at all and the men shift from one foot to the other through the weary hours. Early in the season nearly all the men onthe beach wore suits and over- ‘coats. Most of the suits have since been pawned and the overcoats, too Dungarees and work coats are tho shore garb now, even though the mod- jern sailor picues himself on having good clothes for ashore. . Shipping Board No Better. Your Uncle Sam’s shipping board presents as bad a spectacle of unem- ployment as any of the private agen- cies. The few seats that line the wall of the. large employment room are occupied by men who long since gave up hope of getting pobs. Those who want any job they can get crowd up to the high rail that separates the | men from the shipping master as he As commissioner of accounts in the Tylan administration Hirshfield con- ucted the investiga ion that led to the Danziger indictment. _In his letter the magistrate says: “Why special favors should be shown the man who organized the milk yootleg combination, and was the head, front and back of the bootleg ailk and grafting ring, and levied lackmail against honest milk deal- rs, and enabled dishonest dealers to owing impure milk and cream into the ‘ity. I don’t understand.” comes out to call the jobs. This rail keeps clear a space threo} feet. wide the entire length of the; room. At one end sailors, at the other the “black gang” or engine room workers knot themselves, for those closest the rail have the best chance of getting jobs. Like a Subway Ruch. As the shipping master comes ou’ | with a job ticket in his hand, there} is a subway rush toward him, mer} thrusting out their discharge and 3 rd and Block th Cooperative Houses Opposite Bronx Park are being built in the Cooperative ‘Workers’ Colony bY, United Weelidis Cooperative Ass'n. Come right now and select an apartment of | 2-3-4 AIRY, SUNNY, SPACIOUS ROOMS Educational facilities as in the Bae | Office: 69 — 5th Aven TEL, ALGONQUIN 6900. Open daily until 7 P. M, the first. and second block houses. ue, corner 14th Street. Saturday until 2 P, M. Ten thou ¢ MEN TRAMP MANHATTAN’S “BEACH” ted Press.) Jong Manhattan’s “beach” are agreed year 1921.” ry possible place of refuge along the A. B. papers as credentials. At times the rush and clamor to get to the shipping master are so great that men try to climb over each others’ backs and fights break out over jobs paying $62.50 a month. JOBLESS,STRIKERS AND COAL MINERS ‘Send Funds for Relief too W..4 L, Though’ they were themselves on strike only a short time ago, the members of Local 9, Shoe Workers Protective Union of Haverhill, Mass., have ‘eontributed $50 through the Workers International Relief, 1 Union Square, New York, for the relict of striking miners and*their families’ ix Pennsylvania and Ohio, it was'ledrned yesterday. The contribution camé in answer to an appeal sent out by the W.'T-R., ; pointing out the desperate plight o: thousands of “mb4é,-womien’ atid’ chi!- dren-in’ the -toal regions. ‘Donitions aré’also béing received from workers hroughout the country, many ~ of whom ‘are making personal sacrifices in 6rdéer"té hélp their starving com- rades. Two workers in Lawre.7o, Mass., that they ‘are at present unemployed. | Another contribution came from far- away Alaska from a ‘worker namec Fred Kiel. He sent two 25-cent pieces carefully sewed in cardboard, with a} note saying he wished he could afford to give more. | i first anniversary of the start of the | strike, the Workers International Re- | lief intensifying its “nation-wide i |campaign to provide food, shelter and elo hing for striking miners and their families, el Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAIIAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A, M. 2-8 P.M, Daily Except Friday and Sunday, 249 EAST 116th STREET Cor.’ Second Ave. New York Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Algonquin 8182 “3YBHA‘ JIEYEBRULIA DR. BROWN Dentistry in All 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. L.Kreinin Lodical Director Dental Director { OPEN ALL HOURS. | Phone Stuyvesant 3816 9, John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN. DISHES A_ piace with atmosphere where all radicalr meet. 802 BH. 12th St. Tiew. York. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: ‘UNIVERSI?Y 5865, recently sent $1 each, despite the ‘fact | With the ‘approach of Api 1, the || Action was deferred on the attempt Cirele Hall, Jackson ae Friday | “ |by the Garman firm in Kings County ja ca class is conducted tne |ness of impc Ricco, z t 2 in- home of J. J. Bouzan, 802 Third Ave.|meeting and court today to make a temporary in |and on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock | ‘eRdance is requ dipstion Aes ee | * ny n f _ —— nent. The 25 Garman workers ‘a class is held in Tro jand Third St. |Workers Pay 200 to 1000 Percent Interest Rate Loan sharks are having their day in a federal and local courts where hearings are being conducted for their suppression. It is esiimated that hey collected more than $20,000,000 in unlawful interest here last year at jrates ranging from 200 to 1,000 per | cent. Chief Magistrate McAdoo instituted the local investigation yesterday un- der the recently passed Anti-Loan Shark Law, with Arthur A. Raphael, a special deputy state attorney gen- eral, conducting the prosecution. The federal grand jury is taking testi- mony on the illegal use of the mails by loan sharks. y at Broadway | | | ~ on strike on Jan. 25, when the Nora Bayes, actress, died yesterday | Garman shop began to fire union in the Jewish hospital following an|Workers, replacing them with non- operation performed a week ago. At|Union men at wages from $8 to $10 her bedside was her husband, Ben-|@ week lower than the union men jamin Friedland, garage owner. were getting. NORA BAYES DEAD. Daily Worker Agents MEET TONIGHT. A very important meeting to dis- cuss recent developments and plans for the Daily Worker will be held TONIGHT, March 20th, at 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place. Speaker -- W. W. Weinstone | No Tip--Union Barber Shop| 77 FIFTH AVE. Bet. 15th and 16th Streets NEW YORK CITY Individual Sanitary Service by Ex- perts, — LAL Ss’ H R BOBBING SPECIALISTS. Patronize a Comradely Barber Sh. MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY IANO. LESSONS at her studto 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6888. Will alse call at student's home. == DON’T MISS the Big DEBATE SCOTT NEARING NORMAN THOMAS SUBJECT: COMMUNISM vs. SOCIALISM IN AMERICA Friday Evening, March 30, at 8:15 COMMUNITY CHURCH, 34th Street and Park Avenue. Viekets: $1.00, $1.50; a few at $2.09, For Sale: Community Church; Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 106 University Place; New Masses, 89 Union Square. BUY YOUR TICKET NOW! ‘Furnished Room for One Separate hall entrance; in com- rade’s home. $7 week. Call eve- Inings. Stuyvesant section. 336 E. 17th Street. —_—_——————eaea=—_a—amaey~~—eae————Tl—_~asa—_—_—_eeeeeeeeee FREIHEIT orm JUBILEE RED, YELLOW and BLACK LABOR MASS PLAY of the Development of the Working Class Movement in Recent Years. Sunday 25 March 2 P. M. Madison Square Garden A BIG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SERGEY RADOMSKY WILL SING NEW SOVIET SONGS, Prices 75ce-$1-$1,50-$2. All seats reserved. Get yours now Organizations: Buy $100 worth of tickets for $80.