The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1928, Page 5

a | | | j | * wceording to facts pieced together by THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, ESCH 30. = 8 Insurance- Selling Union President Hands Out Concessions to Boss’ OF NY CAP UNION, ALLOWS SPEEDUP Lays Basis for Piece- Work System Increased standards of production are being instituted in more and more cap and millinery shops, with the| permission of the union officialdom, IARITSKY, CHIEF E ] | | according to the complaints voiced by | S®: the workers in the market. This is veing done according to a mapped out slan of the International Union Pres- dent, Zaritsky, who is trying to use | his as a means of forcing upon the workers the acceptance of the piece work system. While permission to increase the tandard of production is generally secretly granted to individual employ- ors, the boasting of the firm of Klein, | *rankfield, and Aronoff to the work- ors in the shop clearly illustrates this fact. Boss Ignores Union. A. Klain, senior partner in the above lirm, even goes so far as to refuse o deal with Zaritsky’s local officials, ‘laiming that if he wants anything re ean’ get it directly from Zaritsky. "he workers declare that he has “al- ceady gotten plenty.” First he was permitted to increase the standard of production to two more dozen caps in the 40-hours work-week. When the workers brought a complaint to the inion that their employer is demand- mg two dozen above the first increase, » business agent went up to inves- igate. There he was informed that he firm deals directly with Zaritsky, whose permission they had received | betere making the increase. The | workers were told that nothing could | 2 done, Explanation Clear. The explanation is clearly apparent, the workers in the shop. One day he boss, A. Klein, had boasted of ‘the fact that he can get anything out of Zaritsky because he had been a good sustomer of Zaritsky’s wher the In- | ernational president stopped being a | inion official for a short period and} »ecame an insurance agent. “Zarits- | sy had made $250 in commission on | an insurance policy for me alone,” swas the employers’ boast. At the last convention of the Cap and Millinery Urion, when Zaritsky’s re-election was strenuously opposed ty progressive delegate8 on the ground" of his previous business affiliations, Zeritsky declared on the convention Moor that “there is no man living who is able to say that I took a com- mission for policies from’ a manu- facturer.” British Police Kill 11 Solomon Islanders TULAGI, Solomon Island, March 29.—Eleven of the natives who were arrested here in connection with the recent uprising to protest against the beavy poll-tax have died in jail. Crowding and a poor diet are believed to have been responsible for their deaths. 1 ‘vel. 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 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. —————— Dr. J, Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Algonquin 8183 (3YBHAA JIEVEBHVLLA DR. BROWN jat 347 KE. 72nd St. Friday at 8 p, m. Labor ‘and Fraternal Organizations . ° . Concert for Miners’ Rellet. abier Podolier Social Club oncert and dance at their} 1247 Boston Road, this The proceeds will go 8 p.m. to miners’ relief. Dr. Liber to Lecture. | “Working on the belt.” Girls wh candy factories shudder when they he: Girls in their teens are pre d | can’t keep up, out goes the worker.@—— The belt is supreme. Dr. #, Liber will lecture on “Labor } and Health” Sunday at 8 p. m, at 715, The forelady pushes the button| B. 138th St. | which starts it moving between two} . . . Teor Affair, March 30. Moishe Katz of the Moscow Ozet will |to fly between wooden tr on the Jewish colonization in | oviet Union today at. Tam Hall, 54 14th St. under the auspice of Icor. ul program will include sky, opera tenor pione Guidi, first violinist of the York Philharr Symphony Orchestra and Theodore Cella, harpist. <) pers Colorado Relief Dance. | A_ dance for the benefit of the Col- orado miners and theri families will be held tomorrow at 8 p. m, at Ma-! c Hall, 71 W. 28rd St. under the ices of the Colorado Miners’ Re- | lief. Committee. Gold to Lecture. wel Gold will. lecture at the nsville Labor Lyceum, 219 sack man St., Brooklyn, Sunday at 8 p. under the auspices of the C. G. a (Central General Development). ‘The subject will be “The Mechanical Age | and Literature.” * Nearing-Thomas Debate. Scott Nearing and Norman Thomas} will debate on “Communism vs. So- cialism™ at the Community Church, 34th St. and Park Ave., tonight at 8:15. Roger Baldwin will be chairman. “New Masses.” . * . Lecture for Baker Wemen. Bakers Council No. 1 of the United} Workingclass Women will hold an im- portant meeting today at 1387 Wash- ington Ave. Auspices “ peiea seca Brooklyn Lecture. H. Gordon will lecture on the unem- ployment situation today at 184 South St. at 8 p. m. under the auspices of the Friends of Solidarity. italian Branch I. L. D. Nicola Napoli, Ita:ian national secre- | |tary of the Internationai Labor De- } fense will lecture on the Paris Com- mune at the Italian Workers’ Club, | 31 B. 104th St. at 8 p. m. today. Lee ee } Ray Ragozin To Lecture. | Ragozin will lecture at the! Arveiter Cooperative Forum, | tonight at 7:30. Her rkingclass Wom- Ray United 18v0 Seventh Ave., subject will be en's Problem Today CP RS Unemployed Mass Meet. Bush Terminal —workers, attention! A mass meeting of unemployed work- ers will be held Sunday at 1p. m. at 236 ‘Third Ave., corner 24th St. Ray Ragozin Speaks, i Ray Ragozin will speak at the Scan- dinavian Workers’ Club, 267 62nd St, Brooklyn, at Vasa Hall at 8 p. m. Her subject will be “The Problems of the Working Class Woman.”. ; ea ys Baldwin Speaks on U. S. 8. R. Roger Baldwin, who has recently re- turned ‘from the Soviet. Union, will speak at the Workers’ School Forum, 108 EB) 14th St. this Sunday at 8 p, m. on “Civil Liberties in Soviet Rus- sia.” 1. L, D. Mass Meet. A mass meeting of the I. L. D, will be held at 2800 Bronx Park East Mon- day at 8 p. m. Bo EK Ie » Workers Youth Center. The Workers Youth Center, 122 Os- born -8t., Brooklyn, will celebrate its second anniversary with a concert and dance Sunday at 8:30 p, m. Sy Rare Yorkpille I. L. D. The regular monthly meeting of the Yorkville English branch of the In- ternational Labor Defense will be held — SeNTIERTY Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant ing up supplies. ito their seats with sighs of relief Klucka, land relaxation. |4 p. m. the newer girls are rows of workers. Their fingers begin| loaded | with candies and the moving b The belt gains in speed with ever minute. The girls gradually from their seats to keep up with it, Work Long Hours. Occasionally the machinery stops | because the examiner finds too many| mistakes or the boys are late in bring- | The girls sink back} Pushed from “above” for production, the forelady fumes until the switch is thrown again. By | “all in.” During the Christmas rush season, | girl packers work until 9 p. m. The moving belt speeds up produc- | tion and disease. The little paper | cups into which chocolates are pressed {must be separated in the flash of an eye. Spit does it. Fingers fly from |few of the girls are given physical | tests. New York’s health department | knows about the filth of candy facio- ries but pleads lack of an adequate inspection staff. Following a survey of factories by the Consumers’ League, the department finally acted against one small manufacturer, Covered With Dirt. Thick dirt and stale candy encrust- | ed candy-making machines, tables and kettles. Dippers, utensils, shelves \‘and windows were caked with dirt. | Clothing was dirty. Thirty employes | had no medical cards. Girls moved | with difficulty about the floor, their shoes held by sticky slopped over candy. No action has been taken, however’ against the factories owned by the big chain cigar store companies. Condi- tions there, in many cases; are nearly as bad as in the solitary shop raided by the city health department. Attempt to Whitewash Miami Police Chief MIAMI, Fla., March 29.—An at- tempt to whitewash Police Chief H Leslie Quigg, under indictment for the murder of a Negro prisoner two and a half years ago, is indicated | today by the announcement of Judge Atkinson that if Quigg was not “con- structively” present when the mur- der took place he cannot be held. gro prisoner was killed by one of| four policemen who took him to the outskirts of the city “to work him.” Quigg, it was brot out, was not pres- ent. But a former city detective tes- tified that the chief had ordered him and another officer to take the man out and beat him up. It was also brot out that the local ; Klux Klan. 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Only a} State witnesses said that the Ne) | regime was controlled by the Ku} | WORKERS PARTY]| ACTIVITIES | | NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY | LOBBY FAILURE IN NEW ENGLAND s*3.s55"s-r | Downtown Y. W. L. The Downtown Section of the Young paved Night “Work Bill| Workers (Communist) League will be- -) | 0 earn. their $12 to $15 a week in Sa | sar the expression. for the youth- cfonsuiming helt. Spring Dance. “Red Spring” entertainment and vill be given by Branch 4, Saturday, April 14 at 2075 Clin- If she KENOSHA PICKET SLUGGEDBY THUE NEW BEDFORD, Mass., March 29. Brownaville Concert and Dance. —The reactionary union aldom The Brownsville Subsection of the }mitting night work for women re- | . . . | Knitters Cicadas Fight |contly passed by the state senate as| ¥. W. L. Dances. an excuse for maintaining an ex-|, The Young Workers ee gr beet Despite Terrorism pensive lobby in the state capitol in-|Leasue, of Williamsburg will hold an Secon stead of advocating independent polit- ing at & p, m. at 76 Throop Ave Admis on is 50 cents. KENOSHA, Wis, March 29.—Matt |ical action as the only means for the 22; a striker against the Al- | kers to fight such me ures. e The Tower Bro x Young Worker \len-A Company’s attempt to install | At a recent membership meeting of | Le ae hee atmie ish st |the open shop system-here, was: seri- |‘he Loom Fixers’ Union here, the ad-| : lously injured when he was attacked | ministration succeeded in pushing} | by a thug in the company’s employ, | thru a resclution that calls upon the | | who followed him in an automobile, |Textile Council to maintain repre-|lit Section 2 Agitprop Meet. All unit and subsection agitprop and erature agents of Sect 2 must be ens 8 Brownsville ¥. W. L. Dance. The Brownsville Young Workers League will hold a dance for the bene- jfit of the “Young Worker,” Saturday The ease with | April 7, at 8 p. m. at Premier Palace, | Sutter and Hinsdale St, Brooklya. en Open Air Meeting ques An open air meeting will be held tomorrow evening at 79th St. and First Ave. to discuss the traction situation Mec Ce Xie Morning International Branch. The Morning International Branch will meet today at 10:30 a. m. at 103 | be ke \e Every textile council and A. F. of |'® P* t#Ken up L., Central Labor Union is “maintain- | This is the first striker to be seri- | ing” its own agents in the capitol un- jously injured in the bitter 7-week-old | til the bill comes up in the House | strike conducted by the knitters in the several weeks hence. |hosiery mills. Every method of coer-| which the bill passed makes certain | cion employed by the mill owners,|similar action by the House. from one of the most vicious injune- | The bill would also destroy the | tions ever obtained by employers in| women’s 48 hour work week law, since | |labor disputes to the use of armed | after completing a full day’s work in thugs, has failed to break the ranks | one mill, miserable wages will com- jof the strikers. |B pel many women to go to a different Adding to the rage of the strikers | plant and begin several hours of a | He was still unconscious. when taken |to a Kenosha hospital, at this cowardly assault, is the| night shift. Bh TPE a yy “friendly” assistance rendered to the| The slogan raised by the labor Upper Bronx Y. W. L. Forum. |strikers by the Milwaukee Leader, a!bureaucrats in their lobbying ac- The Young Workers League of the [socialist daily paper. The paper in| tivities in Boston is: “The measure |YPPer Bronx will hold an open forum | reporti: th 1 Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at 2075 Clin- jreporting the vicious assault, prints | will break up the home as quickly as|ton Ave. Bronx. Nat Kaplan, editor in the issue of Monday, March 26, the | socialism will.” of the “Young Worker,” will lead the |statement of. the assailant, C. Ferch, | j discussion’ on |to the effect thas the striker had! | jumped to the running board of his | |automobile, and that he had hit him | because he thought him to be a hold- ' “Youth and the Press.” . . . Literature Agents. S00; Incomes Cut: OfE | rerature agoite don scuade are to lreport at Madison Square Garden to- jmorrow afternoon at 4:30 sharp. A movie will be taken of the comrades CHARLE STON, Ill Ill, March 29.— up man, an half of the 1,090 workers |present. és ¢ ; —_— in the Brown Shoe Company’s plant, FD 2 25. | the principal industry in this com-| . | FD 2 2-E will et tonight at 6:30 Lovestone to Open | munity, have been laid off this week lo'ciock at 126 EB. 16th St. |due to the cutting in half of produc- ° bd bd |tion in the factory, The lay-off is to| An, enlarged executive seting of Section 3 will be held a remain effective an indefinite time, |¢:30 o'clock tonight at 101 W. 27th Pioneer Convention committee Jay Lovestone, general secretary of | according to an announcement by the | . . . the Workers (Communist) Party, will|company. It is also expected that | Section 6 Conference. 6 will hold a conference Graham Ave. production will be still further re-| Th | officially open the annual convention | | |duced in the next two weeks. of the Young Pioneers of America, | District 2, New York, on Friday eve-| ning, April 13, at Manhattan Lyceum, | 66 E, 4th St. The convention proper will be held all day Saturday and | |Sunday, April 14 and 15, at the dis- \trict Pioneer headquarters, 108 E. |14th St. LAW OFFICE CHAS. “RECHT For the conyenience of workers open unti. 6 P. M. and all day Saturday. 110 WEST 40th ST. Room 1604. Phone: PENN 4060--4061--4076. at 8 p.m. at must be re Masquerade Ball By the Uj Elére Committee Saturday Night, March 31, 1928 At.CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and Third Avenue. BENEFIT THE UJ EL6RE COMMUNIST DAILY. 77 FIFTH AVE. 15th and ty 3 Streets Bet. The Yorkville, Astoria and the Bronx Uj El6re Dramatic Societies will ap- pear in a mass pageant. Local and NEW YORK CITY Individual Sanitary Service by Ex- perts..—— LADIES’ HAIR BOBBING SPECIALISTs, Patronize a Comradely Barber Shop. out of town organizations and sing- ing and dramatic societies will par- ticipate. MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE —-DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS at her studto 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6888. Will also call at student’s home. Tickets in advance $1.00. ‘At the Box Office $1.25. Tickets for sale at the Uj Eldre office, 33 First Street, and Jimmie Higgins Bookshop, 106 University Place. ve KEEP THIS DATE OPEN APRIL 15th, 2 P. M. ' Miners Varieties 6---BIG VAUDEVILLE ACTS---6 for the Benefit of the Striking Miners CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE stsns* Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Broadway. Tickets: J avin. Sc: ~/ Sec- series of educational and social | at 60 St. Marks Place Sun- Passes Senate The first lecture will be on} asngperd |" an Youth ang War.” resent at a conference t e held to- | Struck from behind Klucka fractured | |sentatives in Boston to “work again |morrow afternoon at 1:30 p.m. at his skull when he fell to the: sidewalk, {the bill until final action is taken.” |101 W. 27th St. Important mat are Page Five SIXTH Freiheit | JUBILEE j Saturday March | 31 8 P.M. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 50th St. and 8th Avenue, New York GREATEST Carnival iMiass- \Pageant ever shown in New York. RED | - YELLOW | BLACK Sergey Radomsky TENOR in selection of new Soviet Songs. Symphony Orchestra ead TICKETS 75c, $1, $1.50, $2 at “Freiheit,” 30 Union Sq.