The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1928, Page 5

, ident of the 1700 Union House Wreckers Tie Up Demolition Work ARREST PICKETS IN BIC BUILDING TRADES STRIKE, Salvation - Avnty Sends Jobless to Scab A strike of over 1,700 housewreck- ers, members of Local 95 of the Housewreckers’ union, has resulted in rractically tving up demolition work in New York City. The strike began Monday, when after the bosses had refused to rescind their demand that the workers accept a wage slash of -25 to $1.15 an hour for bar- id from 95 cents to 85 cents zw hour for laborers. Negotiations for an adjustment of the wage ques- tion between Local 95 and the bosses were brusquely broken off Monday by the latter. The members of local 95 were then called out, responding to a man, Scabs are being obtained by the wrecking hosses thru the agency of the so-called “eharity” missions, which have sent unemployed workers seek- ing relicf on the missix breadlines to scab on the strikers. Union officiais specifically chargei the Salvation Army with sending scabs from its Bowery Mission breadline at 225 Bowery., The usval police terrorism has been | a made use of by the wrecking bosses in an attempt to cow the members of leeal 95 into submission, but these tactics have resulted in the strength- ening of the strikers’ spirit, the pres- local ‘said. Since the strike was called; 14 pickets have been arrested. All of them except one, J. I , of 116 E, 4th St., are out on bail. Lesiuk was held in the Tombs on a trumped-up charge of felonious assault, following an attack made on him and another picket by scabs on Volk Co. job at Fifth Ave. and 54th Street. Ten _ independent housewrecker hosses have signed up with the union, aéeording to the union officials. The Housewreckers’ Association, a league ef the bosses, has prevailed on the Brickhandlers‘ Association, owners of the brick trucks, to stop deliveries to ihe bosses who kave signed up, the tnion officials charged. FRUIT CLERKS TO WOTE ON STRIKE oO Gain Many New Union Members in Drive Possibilities of a general strike of fruit, grocery and dairy clerks thru- out New York City were seen with the announcement yesterday by the Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union that a strike vote on a general strike will be taken at a mass meet- ing Sunday .afternoon, April 6, at Bronx Lyceum, 3690 Third Ave., near 170th St. If voted, the strike wiil take immediate effect, union officials said. Fruit and vegetable clerks thruout the city are rapidly joining up with the organization, the union spokes- man declared. He gave as the reason for this the fact that in the first struggle of the organization, one of the largest owners of fruit stores, having 5 stores thruout the city had capitulated to the union after a strike lasting several hours, The clerks at present are working up to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. The agreement reached with the big firm referred to calls for a 10 hour and a 6-day week at $40 per week. Two -Democrats Going Southward for Votes ALBANY, April 5.—In an attempt to bresl: down the remaining resist-’ ance to his nomination for przsident by the democratic convention, mani- festing itself in the south, Gov. Smith will leave for a visit to Asheville, N. C. early next week. * * * Mayor Walker will leave New York for Atlanta, Ga., Sunday morning to deliver an address at the unveiling of the Stone Mountain. Memorial Mon- day. MAY FREE BOOTLEG KING. COLUMBUS, 0., April 5.—The Ohio supreme court this afternoon set next Tuesday morning as the date for hearing of oral argument relative to the application for release, on bail, of George Remus, now confined in the State Hospital at Lima, Ohio. — m Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with aiinosphere where all radicals meet. 302 E. 12H St. New York. LAW OFFICE CHAS, “RECHT Lays rey Teh kad ta fe workers open d all day Saturday, 110. ‘WEST 40th ST. 1 om Phone; PENN 4060--4061--4076. Hiecture in a ' 5 THE DAILY WORKER. RKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1928 Page Five in Fight on Pay Cut || WORKERS PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY Bronx Package Party and Dance. Branch 3, Section 5 will hold a pack- age party and dance tomorrow at 2075 Clinton Ave., the Bronx. Cone em Spring Dance. A “Red Spring” entertainment and dance will be given by Branch 4, Sec- tion 6, Saturday, April 14 at 2076 Clin- ton Ave. . . . Brownsville Y. W. L. Dance. The Brownsville Young Workers League will hold a dance for the bene- fit of the “Young Worker,” tomor- row at 8 p.‘m. at Premier Palace, Sutter and Hinsdale St, Brooklyn. Branch 6, Section 5. Branch 6, Section 5 will hold an af- fair tomorrow at the - Coopera- tive Colony, 2700 Bronx Park. East. The program will include a talk by Comrade Holtman on “Youth Educa- tion in the Soviet Union,” Russian and Yiddish folk-songs by Rose Cohen, so- prano, and numbers by a three piece band, * . Section 7B4 Affair. Section 7B4 will hold a concert and dance for The DAILY WORKER to- morrow at 1940 Benson Ave, Brook- lyn. s 0 ee Downtown Y. W. L. Lecture. The Downtown section of the Young Workers League will hear the second ries of educational and Social evenings, at 60 St. Marks Place Sunday. The ‘subject Will be “Un- employment and Its Significance to Youth,” poe eee | Open Air Meetings, Today—110th St. and Fifth Ave. Tomorrow—First Ave. and 79th St, "i Morning B: ich Meet. A secial meeting Morning tn- ternational Branch will take © place today at 103 t 14th Street at 10:30 m. All members are urged to be ent as important matters will be taken up. * * * 1F 1D Meet. | Unit UF 1D will meet Monday at| 6:30 p. m. at 60 § arks Pla A} discussion wlil be held on “The Elec- tion Campaign of 1928." . Be Branch 3, Section 5 Dance. Not to be outdone by the other A Red Spring Festival and Dance will be g! by Branch 3, Section 5, ‘ é at 2075 Clinton Ave., tomorrow eve- naval and air power, Pictures show ning. ‘The Silver City Band will play. Admission is 25 cents. place; lower photo shows the five gov Germany Builds Huge Dirigible for War capitalist powers in the mad race for equipment for the next imperialist war, Germany is building up its » a giant dirigible being constructed at Freiderichshafen. Top photo shows a motor gondola being fitted into ndolas. COMPANY UNION FOR WAGE CUT Textile Workers Urged to Speed Production MANCHESTER, N. H:; April 5— By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Provs). The threat of chron: unemploy- ment grows more serious. Govern- ment statistics prove it in spite of 2 the emphasis of the U. S. department A typical example of how employers|o¢ jabor on February employment utilize company unions to .smother gains. The’significant facts for Feb- and gloss over any dissatisfaction ruary, as shown by the departments among their employes was demon-|,¢ commerce and labor, are that strated by the results of a meeting of | while factory production was only the “Workers’ Congress” of the}io behind February 1927 and 734% Amoskeag Textile Manufacturing above the 1923 average, factory em- Company held here yesterday. ployment was down 6% from Feb- Boss-picked “representatives” of ‘ruary a year ago and 14%4% below the 11,000 workers employed by this|the average for 1923. company met and decided to table Gain Insignificant, the question of the 10 per cent wage} Such facts far outweigh the small | eut recently enforced, and instead) gain of 14% in factory employment voted for a resolution which calls| between January and February. upon the bosses, and the chambers} What’s more, figures for the preced- of commerce to convince mezchants|ing years show that this is no more and landlords to reduce the cost of|than the usual seasonal gain which living. has never interrupted the steady Have Speeded Up Work. downward course of employment re- “We, the employes, have cooper-|Sulting from power machinery and ated cheerfully, and to the fullest ex:| other mass production methods., tent in increasing production, by do- The average factory employe in ing more work, thereby materially February produced about 5% more reducing the cost of manufacturing,”|than in February 1927 and fully the resolution reads, ending with the| 26% more. than the average for statement that it would be to the best; 1923. This extraordinary 4-year gain interests of la«dlords and others to|in productivity is forcing men and} cut the eost of living. women out of jobs by tens and hun- The co.npany union util now was| dreds of thousands. proclaimed by the mi!l owners as Auto Sales Lower. having an “agreement” on the anes-|° The decline of 6% in employment | Yon of werking conditions, “Now. the past year is far more serious| tewever, the employers do not see the than that of 1.6% from 1926 to 1927 necessity of giving their instrument| This year every one of the 12 major a bona-fide trade union complexion.| gtoups of industry shows a falling off The question of renewing the agree-|compared with the previous year ment was therefore also tabled. oe 42 of the 54 separate indus- The workers in the mills are not/tries report fewer ssiployes. Tho| paying the s]ightest attention to the| Situation would be even worse if the mass meeting of the “congress,” s‘nce | #utomobile industry had not employed delegates to that meeting were not|64% more workers this year than| chosen by them, being mostly fore-|in February 1927. men or straw bosses. That the auto industry is not likely a A to keep the present pace for many Marshal and District months is suggested by federal re- t . «_ serve board figures which show that At y. Named In Quiz. atthough auto production is running ahead of last year, sules are lower and stocks on dealers’ hands higher than a year ago. Automobile manu- facturers are simply preparing for the cutthroat competition which will’ develop as Ford production returns to | jnormal. An assistant district attorney of the Bronx and a city marshal have been accused of illegalities by a wit- ness appearing before Chief Magis-| trate McAdoo, who is conducting the loan shark investigation. JOB SHORTAGE GROWS; MILLIONS ARE NOW IDLE pean and wage totals compared with a year ago were: Year’s decline from Feb. 1927 employ- ment and payrolls Employ- ment Pay rolls Building materials & equipment Brick & tile — 92% 14.9% Castiron pipe —14.6 —16.9 Cement — 70 — 7.2 Glass — 81 — 6.9 Hardware — 713 — 71 Lumber prod. — 7.5 — 72 Steam fit., ete. —12.5 —12.8 Stoves —10.6 —12.6 Struc. iron — 49 — 3.2 Industrial équip. and raw materials Electric appar. — 7.3 — 6.7 Fdry. & mach. —11.1 —13.1 Tron & steel — 69 — 49 Machine tools — 9.4 — 56 R.R car bldg. —11.2 —12.4 —28.9 —29.2 Shipbuilding Pageant to Feature Pioneers’ Convention, A “living mewedapert with several | | hundred. children participating will be the feature of the Welecome-Conven- | tion meeting of the Young Pioneers of America, District 2 cor ntion, which is to be held Friday. Saturday and Sunday, April 13, 14 and 15. This preliminary social meeting, which will take place next. Friday evening at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., will be attended by the parents and friends of Pioneers as ‘vell as the | Pioneers themselves. Souvenir pro- grams with many greetings will be distributed. Street Cleaner Killed James Ward, 32 years old, of 152-33 | 118th Ave., J ica, Queens, an em- ployee of the Department of Street cleaning is dead as the result of fali- ing off a street cleaning truck at Ber- | gen Landing Road and Old South Road, Jamaica. His skull was frac- tured. The assistant district attorney is| William G, Kier-and the city marshal is Bernard Rosenfeld. i Jay Green, the witness, told h0W |p —___r | Rosenfeld had charged him $25 for, All Comrades Meet at his services as a city marshal whereas | BRONSTEIN’S the 1 t | the legal fee should not excec VEGETARIAN HEALTH RESTAURANT 558 Claremont P’kway Bronx. © eermmemrsr names remem mae mes rmecmmnner rT Decreases by Industry. _ Significant decreases in empley-| Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865. el Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAIIAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: -12 A, M. 2-8 P, M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. 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, Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists: 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Algonquin 8183 Pam a TN A RO OR (3VBHAA JIEYEBHMUA DR. 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Sunday, 10-4 6 MORE KENOSHA| STRIKERS TO FACE | Child Picketing Follows | Mass Arrests KENOSHA, Wis., April Palos ty-six more strikers against the open shop plant of the Allen-A Hosiery | | Company here have been served with | charges of contempt of court for vio- | | lating a vicious anti-picketing injunc-| | tion. | The contempt papers those served to appear in Milwaukee | Court today jcharges brought by the mill owners. | |The attorneys for the union will prob- | ably ask for a trial by jury, as was | command Federal to answer the| | done in the cases of the 19 leaders of | the strike, who will come up for t | shortly. Organized Terror. | Nearly all the leading participants in this bitter struggle against poli and legal terror are now under som¢ The workers, however, are} holding out to a man, in spite of the importation of armed thugs by the | mill owners, | eat te KENOSHA, Wis., April 5 (FP).— |Following the arrest of half a hun-! dred pickets in front of the Allen-A Co. open-shop hosiery plant in Ken- osha a demonstration by children of the locked out workers and their) ; playmates materialized. Several hun-| | dred kids took part. Import Armed Scabs. charges. Leaders of the American Federa- tion of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Work- ers, which against the speed-up and open-shop, | are protesting to the Wisconsin at- | torney-general against the company’s importation of professional strike-! breakers and gunmen from Pennsyl-j| vania. The company is pushing pros- | ecution of 19 of the leaders for con- | tempt of a federal injunction. This} \is a conspiracy to deprive the work- ers of their nee ay the union replies. WARE. TO SPEAK AT FORUM SUNDAY Harold Ware, head of the Russian {Reconstruction Farms, Inc., noted } American agricultural expert, who has been taking an active part in the building up of agriculture in the Sov- iet Union for the past few years, will | be the speaker at the Workers School | Forum, 108 E. 14th St., Sunday, at! 8 p. m. on the subjec “Inipressions | jot an American Farmer in the Soviet | ; Union.” Ware will discuss agricultural ex- ‘periments, model farms, formation of , |agriculturak communes, introduction jof machinery, socialization of agricul- |ture, policies of the Soviet Union to- ward agriculture and toward the peasantry, the attitude of the pea- | santry toward the Soviet Union. i On the following Sunday, April 15, William W. Weinstone, New York district organizer of the Workers Party, will speak on “The New Tam- | |many Hall.” British Naval Junkers GIBRALTAR, wen 5.—Canpt. Ken- neth G. B. Dewar, former commander of the battleship R Oak and one |of the principals in the so-called |“jazz mutiny” on board that warship, \today was found guilty by a court martial of committing an act sub- versive of naval discipline. | He is the second British naval of- ficer to be found guilty of similar charges by the same court, the for- | mer being Commander H. L. Daniel. SELLING OUT a full line of MEN’S, YOUNG MEN’S and BOYS’ CLOTHING at a BIG saving. 93 Avenue A, corner 6th St. NEW YORK. ‘Y ermeemcer: ancnenremeranancad a! | A Bie Reduction THIS MONTH 4 at AARON KLEIN i Men’s, Teung Men’ s and Boys’ Clothing SUITS MADE TO ORDER A SPECIALTY. Don’t miss this opportunity. STEP IN TO OUR STORE. \4 95 AVE. A. Corner 6th St. NEW YORK. CONTEMPT CHARGE . Beethoven Hall, is conducting the fight? Spike Mutinous Officer | Labor and Fraternal | Organizations JOINT BOARD 10 FORM CONVENTION > PLANS AT MEETING To Lecture in Yonkers. “What and ture e given of the usp Workers Interna- tional I und the proceeds will go | ante eh Right Wing ‘Split Grows lief Meet | Bronx TI of th will hola In Cloak : Union }Asehop) delegates |be held in the ne 8 p. ie, Ware at Workers’ Forum. : fe Harold n|the coming cor n of the Inter- 5 teconstru the ‘ La Garment Workers’ ry which will be held in Boston * ne for Mutual Aid. — for Mutual Aid will hold d at achige . Bit ae p chairmen 1 months ago. * * * whe tee | Joint Board Maps Plans jot Nature While the date for School | has T |has not been believed and the fares will amount to 40 that it will take to the re RY re ean elections which th ng Joint orkers’ Schoo Ce ned aes yee The Student Council of the Workers’ |Board will hold on 7 for dele- ; hike |gates to the conv commit- esiring to join of 50 m 4 ening ould meet at 108 B, 14th St ee ee ay ae ans to ak . . . ; Dunn Course Postponed ed by the The final s e 7 Present Tactics of of the Inter- the scene of a day, April 11, th Workers School, 108 I vain Street. * * wing led t Labor Unity Ont. e other r All literature and Labor Unity agents should call 101 BE. 14th b f the April issue of these also settle for th t the dele- i. é unity in the union, Unity Arbeiter Cooperative Forum ng has decided to send a . mie , ssion at the |f tion to the convention, nity Ar e Forum, ” ws ‘oht for t } Pies eh ‘S:30 ‘p.m, |Where they will fight for the right ee be nd the ‘Trade |to take their seats as the t repre- nions.” An entertainment will fol- | gentativ: f the ars! ew ie lecture | sentatives of the membership. is * Split in Right Wing Grows. Wolfe Course at Workers School. Although the fight between the ertram D. Wolfe's course in “ - i Schlesi ‘ t and Leninism’ will pense |Schlesinger and the § an forces for it the Workers School, 107 &.|the presidency and control of the In- > at 8s ie Be | ternational becoming more intensi- ems! Helpers eae neeting of the Plumbers’ n will be held on April 12 attan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. poe Aes sae | fied than was generally expected and {they are both expected to be bitter in |their opposition to a united and jstrong union. LABOR 5 e senti George Powers will lecture on “The |_, he Sentiment among the member- Crisis in the American Labor Move- |ship in New York and other markets ment" at 252 Warburton Ave., Sunday jof the International is such, however, |that the reactionary groupings and jcliques in the right wing machine will * |not find it at all easy to refuse to {consider the question of unity on the a St. |convention floor, it is poi 8 will be donated to min- | e noe ae eee ce at 8p. m Workingelass Ho The United Cc | Housewives, C hold a 14, oe 3 T ers’ re ‘let. * * * Bessarabian Branch I. L. D. eting of the Bessarabian IL. L, D, | ch will be held tonight at 8 p. m., | at 60 St. Marks Place. j | * . Brovineviile Jobless Meet, An open air mass meeting for the Brownsville unemployed workers will be held tomorrow at 8 p. m. at Pitkin and Bristol Sts., Brooklyn. Speakers | will be M. Taft, L. Baum, H. Blum, C. Sklar and L. Reis. Alex Stechko, a member of the | Window Cleaners Union, was arrest- , ed yesterday morning while.picketing front of the Mutual Building, at |Nassau Street. The Mutual Building is one of the large office buildiiae tres have a contract with the Beaver Window Cleaning Co. which employs non-union men. Stechko was taken to the First Magistrates court where A, Markoff will lec at 8p. m. at 715 EB ject will be chism,.” Pittsburgh “Daily” Agents to Meet Sunday. The special May Day edition of The |he was later dismissed. DAILY WORKER, the drive for free subscriptions for the miners and other | important matters will he discussed at a meeting of all DAILY WORKER gents and active members of District Lower Beanie Forum. “Communism and Anar- TO HEAR -KLAN LEADER. INDIANAPOL April 5.—The In- diana Supreme Court today set April Workers (Communist) Par! s the date for oral arguments on held in Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon |the appeal of D. enson, im- at the Labor Lyceum, °5 Miller St. PF : Tagon of the John Kaspar, DAILY WORK Lae UNTEIGEETa Seen Te agent of District 5, and A. Js bie ion at Noblesville, Ind., Oct. 27, district organizer, will be the chief of the murder of Miss Maude | Speakers. SHENANDOAH, Iowa, April 5.— Telephone poles were blown down, farm buildings demolished and some) livestock killed late yesterday when a| small cyclone swept a 50-foot swath | r here. Silver Lunch Com- pany Employes Locked Out! iNo Tip-Union Barber Shop All labor friends and sympa- 77 FIFTH AVE. thizers are asked gt-to patron- Bet. ize any of the cafeterias or W YORK ¢ Individual Sanitary ervice by Ex- perts. — LADI Re Sees BOBBING 8 Patronize a companaly Barber Shop. a Y 15th and ges Streets . o NE’ ub g bakeries of the Silver Lunch Co. BAKERS’ LOCAL NO. 1 Amalgamated Food Workers. $28, 000,000 ® made on or before the THIRD the month will draw interest rom the FIRST of cach month, Last Quarterly Dividend paid 1 on all amounts -from $5.00 2 (@) to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. king by Mail ¥ Accounts Actoyten ‘We Sell A, B. A. Travelers Certified Checks XCEED G BAKERY PRODUCTS (Union Made) If not, let us know and we'll instruct our driver to call at your home. Finnisi. Co-operative Trading Association, Inc. Tel. Windsor 9052. 4301 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.