The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1928, Page 5

d- / / Silk Workers of MILL EMPLOYES COMBINE TO FIGHT BOSSES’ ATTACKS Slave 11-Hour Day for Sarvation Wages PATERSON, N. J., April 2.—The | silk workers of Paterson and vicinity are preparing plans to fight the in- creasing attempts of employers to lengthen the working hours in the silk mills, According to an annowhce- ment by the leaders of the Associated Silk Workers of America, the union will méet. the bosses’ attacks on the workers’ standards by a counter de- mand for incréased Wages and im- proved conditions generally. The large number of open shops, working 10 and 11 hours a day will bé tackled by the workers in an at- tempt at organization, The wnion also announces that a special organ- izer will be appointed to direct the campaign. Conferences are now under way to secure the cooperation of ‘all craft organizations of the silk workers. The Horizontal Warpers’ Benevolent Association. has already signified. its.) f: intention to back up a movemient to | prevent the loss of the 8-hour day. A similar statement is expected daily) the Loomfixers’ and Twisters’ Association. from by organ- vill lead The sentiment expressed on of a movet to a general strike in the try, which is only partly org: e most powerful feeling sincé the heral strike of 1913 for a general ve against the silk manufacturers clearly in evidence among the un- organized as well as the organized workers. d MEN MURDERED IN KLAN TERROR Stevenson, Ex-Kleagle, Tells Horrors in Cell ‘ MICHIGAN CITY, ind., April 2— Men were flogged, lynched and burned at the stake for opposing the Ku Klux Klan, while those higher placed: were ruined socially and politically when the organization could not bend them to its will, D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana klan dragon revealed in jail today. Riots were incited and poli- ical officials bent to corrupt ways hrough orders of the klan chiefs. Parts of Stephenson’s deposition, deal- ing with murders and political crimes charged to the klan, are withheld nding court action on the depdsi- tion, Naked Women. “Women,” # Stephenson — declared, “were the chief and most effective means of destroying kian opponents. In several cases one of these women was photographed while scantily clad and then, by skilled photographic manipulation of the picttires, the klan’s enemies would be combined in the same view.” He told how the klan bought judges by pledging them etiough votes to eléct them, how legislators were put in office to vote for bills suitable to the society. He revealed existence of the “black mask” worn by members of lynching 1 whippitig parties. It was the of- uniform used in acts of mob née. Hé mentioned also the “bat- talion of death,” a purpled tobed group of killers in Philadelphia and other communities. Membership. Stephenson said that at the peak of its. prosperity in 1922 the klan. had 315,000 members in Indiana, 350,000 in Ohio, 360,000 in Pennsylvania, 60,- 000 in New Jersey, and 300,000 in all the New England states. Illinois was slightly below Indiana, the witness said, while Michigan was about the same as Indiana. Wisconsin had 66,- 000. The organization took in between fifty and sixty million dollars during the time in which he held office, Stephenson said. i Stephenson’s deposition will be tsed in a suit, to be heard April 6, in which’ five former Klansmen ate seeking to have the klan barred from Pennsyl- vania. New York Loan Sharks Prey on Negro Worker More light was cast on the activ- ities of loan sharks, who prey on workers, when Edward Dowell, 4 Negro, 171 W, 182nd St., testified yes- terday concerning his experiences with the David D. Deutsch Corp. Dowell borrowed $1,100 from the corporation, agreeing to pay $40 a month until the entire sum was paid up. The paymerts were stiddenly raised to $60 and when Dowell: fell ja arrears an automobile belonging to him was seized and sold. v the WO RKERS PARTY |” ACTIVITIES ||NEW YORK—NEW JBRSBEY {; | A spec Night afternoc | Place. come Marks requested to an important ques- tion to be decided upon eae Nara at 3 0) All membe as thera is S are this Saturday at | he Bronx. 3-E 1-F. i-F will Unit 6:30 p. m. at 101 W. 27th 3-E meet St. today at $- 3-F. a totay at Unit 3-F 3-F will méet 6:15 p.m. at 101 W. 27th Sty =F Unit 328 2-F w at 6:15 p. m. at 16 | il] meets tomorrow W. pith St: | | Spring Dance. LATIN-AMERICA | RALLIES TO AID SANDINO TROOPS Guatemalans Send Call To Aid Sandino Guatemalans are enlisting in Gen. Sandino’s army to resist the Ameriean invasion of Nicaragua, according to information received at the United States headquarters of the Anti-Ini- |perialist. League-in New York City. |Men and money ate to be rushed across the frontier to reinforce the Nicaraguan patriot. A “Red Spring” entertainment |dancg will be give by Branch 4, tion 5, Saturday, April 14 at 2075 ton Ave. and Brownsville ¥. W. The Brownsville L. Dance. Young Workérs |fit of the “Young Worke jurday at 8 p. m. at mt Sutter | and Hinsdale St., Brooklyn. | Lane ae | Section 1 Daily W. ' | An important meeti | Worker agents of Se held today at 8 p. m | Place. er Agents. of the Daily tion lL will be at 60 St. Marks os Upper Bronx Menibership Meet. A general Section membership meet- ling of Uppet Bronx will be held to- ght at $:30 at 2075 Clinton Ave. . The ilization of workers tot the May Day celebration will be plantied. hae * * Branch 6, Section 5. neh 6, Section 5 will hold an af- Saturday at the Coopéra- 2700 Bronx will include a talk by “Youth E R |? progres Comrade Holtman on |tion in'thé Sov: Yiddish folls-sort Cohen, a three piece prano, a | bana 2 of Datly Will be held a Piace today Very matters will be taken up, . ° Work impor- ta. Oh TR4 Affair, 4 will hol concert and The DAILY WORKER this at 1940 Benson Ave., Brook- | | \é |: lyn, Ce Bratch 1, Section | Phere will } {Branch i, sec * 5 Meet Off. no meeting tonight of { on 6. Instead, the com- j rade re d to report,to the sec- jtion membership meeting at. 2075 {Clinton Ave., yz 8:30 p. . ‘ Dowiitown Y. W. L. Lecture: {_ ‘The Downtown s - tion of the Young | Worke 1 hear the second | lecttire ucational dnd social eve Marks Place this will be “Un- and emplo: ts Signifiéance to Youth. i j * * . eae Uniti 4, fon 7. | Unit 4, Section 7, Will meet tomor- row at 8 p. m. at 1940 Benson Ave.; { Brooklyn. | . * Coney Isiand Meet Postponed. i Thete willbe. mo meeting of the Coney Island branch tomorrow because of the Joint Defense Ball. | PROTEST GAG ON UNION CANDIDATE Food Workers Score Ac- ition of Executive Board | Members of the Hotel and Res- jtaurant Workers Branch of the! |Amalgamated Food Workers, -at a |meeting yesterday at 133 W. 5ist: St. |protested the action of the General Exetutive Board of the dnion, domi- nated by August Burkhardt, general |Secretary-treasurer of the union, in prohibiting Carl Gerpig, who is op- posing Burkhardt for general secre- tary-téeasurer, from expressing his views before the general membership of the union. A resolution was adopt- ed by the restaurant workers calling jupon the executive board to allow Gerpig, who is 4 member of Local 164, his rights as a member of the | union. 3 Hurt on Scaffold Three workers were badly injured | yesterday when a seaffold fell 14 feet | while being. rigged up from the | ground floor of the International | Telephone Building under construe- tion at 63 Broad St. Samuel Dugan, 38, of 1180 Ander- son avenue, the Bronx, and Oswald Hansen, 20, of 914 Sixty-feurth St., Brooklyh, who féll with the scaffold, suffered possible fracture of the ribs, Frank Hauska, 34, of 355 Fast Sev- entysthird st. struck by the falling seaffold, received a possible fracture of the ribs and lacerations~ of the chest and right arm. All were tak- en to the Broad St. Hospital. ; ITT Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A_place with atmosphere where all radicals meet. 3802 B. 12th St. New York. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865 All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S VEGETARIAN HEALTH RESTAURANT 558 Claremont P’kway Bronx. Extension of the campaign against > the invading forces is regarded by the league as “uninistakable evidence that Latin America looks on Gen. Sandino as the representative of com- mon Latin American resistance against Wall Street.” For the Defense. A call signed by prominent Guate- malans, as reported to the league, reads in part: “Degenerate sons of Walker (an early American freebooter in Central America) sent by a foreign power, have again invaded the soil of the old fatherland of Central America, This is the first step of the imperial- ist policy of the United States look- ing toward the conquest of all Latin American peoples. Medical Supplies Sert. “In order to defend ourselves while defending Nicaragua and in order to recapture thé sovereignty of the na- tions’ of Central America .. . we in- vite all conscientious men without re- gard to parties to form an organiza- tién which will work throughout Guatemala to raise finds and to as- ist the recruiting of volunteers to combat the invaders.” The United States section of the Anti-Imperialist League, headed by Manuel Gomez, is taising funds to }] send medical supplies sorely needed by Sandino’s army. DEPORT JOBLESS IN LOS ANGELES Men Are Jailed, Run Out in Box Cars LOS ANGELES, April 2—Unem- ployed workers in this city are being arrested, held in*jail overnight and then herded into box cars and run out of the city. The police regularly seize men sit- s ting on park benches in Pershing Square, the center of the city, and erder them to show their hands. If the hands do not show signs of re- cent eallouses the men are arrested as vagrants arid subjected to the “de- portation” proceeding. Workers on line in employment agencies ate also arrested as va-j grants. Jobless women workers have not been spared by the police. ‘Pants Gang” Leaders Given Death Sentences Three members of the “pants gang,” youthful hold-up men, the youngest being only 17 years old. were sentehced to death yesterday ri fot the murder of Patrolman William E. Kelly on January 81. The fourth member of the ging, Samuel Krass. ner, 23, who ttirned state’s evidenc reevived a sentence of from 10 to 20 years in Sing Sing. f t 21, of 48 Rutgers St. Manhattan; Isidore Helfafit, 19, of 1985 Bérgen St., Brooklyn, and Ed- ward Fisher, 17, known as “the Balti- more Kid,” of No. 1037 North Front St., Baltimore. rel. Lehigh 6032. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF = * SURG Office Hours: 9 Daily Except 249 EAST 115th STROET Cor. Second Ave. New York. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 808 Phone Algonquin 8183 pane = 3YBHAA JIEYEBHULIA DR. BROWN Dentistry in All Its Branches 301 East 14th St., cor. 2nd Ave. Over the bank. New York, Monument 8519. EARLEM MEALTH CEyTER 1800 SEVENTH AVENUE (nity eee Sulldian) Or. V.G.Burtan Dr. E. L.Kreinin Medical Directof — Dental Di OPEN ALL HOURS, Prepare for an Intensive Organization Page Five Campaign on thei? actual hardships. ircus for the Circus Workers | = fh 8 The above picture shows the arrival of Barnum and Bailey’s circus on 11th Ave., New York City. The circus is only another working day for the “rubés,” however. These workers, whose “big, top,” or tent, and get it down again whenever the show breaks camp are one of the hardest working and worst exploited body of men in the world. Only the tinsel glamor of the circus business partially. conceals ob it is to sling up the being reported to the SCAB LABOR FOR BRITICH EMBASSY Washington Labor Be-| gins Boyeott on Goods WASHINGTO (FP) April The Building Trades Defe: sociation, attached to the D Columbia Building has started a wz goods and British country, becausé tha h bai in Washington @ non-union contractor. insu This cotitractor sublet the excava ftion work to a union firm, but upor his refusal to do like-wise with th construction features, the boycott plan has been made effective. Resolu.ion denouncing the action of the Britis! government in attac:ing trade unior Uabor Union. Organizations Harlem ob. D. * « Nearing To Leeture in Yonkers, * e given under | Interna eds will go , and the proc | for minefs’ fellef. | Pee ord | Camp Association Meet. | A mee of the Modern Sunday | School np ciation, Ine. will be held at the Temple tome | at 8 p. mh. A report on the Spr Festival will be taken up. Yorkville 1. B.D. | meeting of the | The regu Yorkville Hn national 5 | today m, at in the arranged a_ hike All those i hould meet at 108 E. a. m. i * | School has 14th St. ages 5 | Bishop Jones Lectures, | Bishop Paul Jones of the Fellowship | f Reconciliation will be the Road to! ‘reedoin lecturer at the Center, 149 | |B. 28rd St. tomorrow. His” subject | Perarcrarerare MARY WOLFE |PsTubDENT oF ‘THE DAMR | CONSERVATORY | | | PIANG LESSONS at her studto 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6888, Will alse cail at student's home, SCH |Great Assortment of All Makes of Typewriters. Portables, New and Re- 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. 85-8éth. NEW YORK CITY. ee 4) SELLING OUT a full line of MEN’S, YOUNG MEN’S and BOYS’ CLOTHING ata BIG saving. ‘ -93 Avenue A, corner 6th St. NEW YORK. ——= rae Ko Tip-Union Barber Shoa| 77 FIFTH AVE. Bet. 15th and 16th Streets Ber LAbties aha Ie BowniNs SPECIALIST: Patronize a Comradely Barber Shop. NOVEL METHODS USED FOR MINERS’ RELIEF Novel methods for raising funds for the striking miners are continually Pennsylvania-Ohio Broadway. According to Fannie Rudd, secretary of the New York com- 5 " in rwaniehaeae, >mittee, a man came into the commit-| 1Tickery and sharp practises marked] mer school for young w tee’s offices yesterday and put a ten| dollar bill on the table. jfused to give his name, jman. | ceipt?” jman said. union, and e the committee. 1347 Boston Road, és dance Sunday night and turned over | “°™ its entite proceeds to the relief com- | mittee yesterday. jident, in giving the jretary of the committee, | Labor and Fraternal || LABOR BILL HAS HARD SAILING TRENTON, N. J., (FP) April 2.— Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 the checkered career of the bill in- creasing the max works: compensation from to $20 a: “Why?” asked the secretary. New fi his tne cepialadive Suh of “T don’t want it known?” said the}, ‘ ry ? he senate originally passed the strenuously by trade sntatives as labor The house proce maximum fro: A 5 in the last hours Ty evening we hav ik a The man re- “How shall I make out the re- | me “Oh, never mind the receipt,” the | “You see I belong to eth inochle IT don’t want my wife that I’m playing ecards at| peac night f A dummy measure: was substituted k up he passed the hat and col-|i" thé@Whouse for the egitim : sted $18 which was turned over to | measure and would have been adopted Wiese Thy ei had no Serutinized it. he trickery was ex- and the official bill sent to the s desk. The Bessarabian and Pedollier Club, | Bronx, held a} am Cherkes, s- | . money to the see. Remus Stays in Asylum 1, “We} Jare not a politieal club. W e just; COLUMBUS, 0., Apr. 2.—Indef- and we could not sce our inite retention of George Remus, starving in Pennsylvania Cincinnati wife-slayer and former Ohio without doing something it. es iy! millionaire bootlegger, in the state « $112 in cash out hospital for the criminal insane at A special meetiig of the Harlem pocket Lima, 0., was assured today when branch of the D, will weld ya “ : : today at 143° HT St.lat 30; p.f;will be “Educating the Ohio supreme court issued a stay m. Imoftant matters will be talcen up. | Peace.” * * Bronx Miners’ Relief Meet Put Off. The | of execution of the sentence, announc- ; pire Bronx Branch of. the Miners’ Scott Nearing will lective dn “What Relief Committee has ostponed. its pellate court, declaring Remus sane d6 Babpenins, Today fp Ching ee utive meeting to Wednesday, April : ‘, coabeild rele Sige gag pee: hentia at 8 p. m. : and ordering his release. erative Center, 262 Warburton Ave on Friday, April 20, at & p. | Somat ae Bie out ed Friday by the Allen county ap-| NEW MEMBERS JOIN WORKERS | PARTY IN WEST | Seattle School Draws From Northwest SEATTLE, April 2.—Thirty new }members have joined the Workers (Communist) Party in Seattle within the past three weeks. A class in \“Fundamentals of the Class Strug- } ele” will tonight for these new members, The Party is keeping in lclose touch with developments in the | anadian movement. C. Carlson re- | cently addressed meetings in Victoria, |B. C., and in Vancouver at which 800 | present. C. Moriarty, District zer of Vancouver, spoke before n orga’ the workers in Seattle on April 1st m on Canada’s part in the British-American War. | School to Open. Plans are now under way for a sum- rs to be held under the auspices of the Young Workers (Communist) League of Seattle. The school will be held’in | Woodland, Washingtorf, and will open June 17 a six weeks’ course. The students will be given courses on the \fundamentals of the class struggle, rade union problems and particular nph will be placed on economic icial conditions of the North- coming Forty Apply. That the school will be a success ideneed by the fact that more 40 applications have been re- 1 and students are expected from arts of the Northwest. Vi Young Workers veral students and also be repre- \Shachtman to Speak on “Bleeding China” | A series of illustrated lectures en- | titled “Bleeding China,” will be given by Max Shachtman, editor of the La- ‘\bor Defender, under the auspices of the New York Section of the Inter= nal Labor Defense, 799 Broad- |way. On April 11 at 8 p. m. he will |talk before the Harlem and Czecho Slovak branches of the I. L. D. at |Czecho Slovak Workers’ House, 347 E. 72nd St. | The other lectures will be given in |East Bronx, West Bronx, Downtown, | Williamsburg and Brownsville, Shachtman will discuss recent jevents in China and point out the |general trend of the Chinese revolu- jtion. The lectures will be illustrated |with pictures which have never be- fore been shown in this country. 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