The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1928, Page 5

M00 JOIN STRIK OF FRUIT CLERKS ON FIRST DAY Large Firms Yield; Pickets Arrested The first day of the general strike fo the unorganized retail fruit store clerks, called at a mass meeting yes- terday sponsored by the Retail Gro- cery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union, ended with about 400 clerks joining the strike;.the arrest of 10 strikers; and with applications of 10 per cent of the employers for settlements. 400 Clerks Join Strike, . Early yesterday morning union clerks formed themselves into com- mittees and were assigned to visit every fruit and vegetable store in a given district. The committees were supplied with the strike handbills calling upon those receiving them to immediately join the committee and go to strike headquarters. dred responded to the call. ‘The 10 strikers arrested were serv- ing on these committees. In prepara- tion for the strike call several store owners in the neighborhood of Jen- nings St. and Wilkins Ave., Bronx, called in the police. When commit- tees appeared and were joined by the workers the 10 were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Magistrate Smith in the Magistrate’s Court on 161st St. and Third Ave., dismissed the charges. Large Firms Yield. Many store owners have already applied for settlements. Several firms acknowledged to be among the largest in the Bronx have signed up. Two of them are A. Cohen, on Bath- gate Ave., and B. Dittle, also on Bathgate Ave., Bronx. The union has issued an appeal to all working class families not to pa- | tronize the stores of fruit and vege- | table dealers not displaying signs of | settlement with the workers’ organ- | ization, The clerks in the fruit stores are the most exploited of all retail store | workers, their hours being up to 14, day for 7 days a week. The speedy victories attained in a similar strike of the grocery clerks in spite of in- junction of the United Hebrew Trades, and the bosses, the fruit clerks that this fight will be of short duration, HOLD LITERATURE MEET THURSDAY The immediate steps in the mem- ip drive of the Workers (Com- st) Party will be taken up at a meeting Thursday at 8 p. m. of all literature agents.and members of lit-- erature squads, at the Progressive Labor Center, 103 E. 14th St. Wil- liam W. Weinstone, secretary of Dis- t 2, Workers Party, will address literature workers on “The Rela- tion of Agitation to the Party’s Everyday Work.” All literature and members of literature ads. are urged to att ing. Deugherty’s Pal Must Serve Jail Sentence WASHINGTON, April 9.—Thomas W. Miller, former alien property cus- todian, who was tried with former Attorney General Harry B. Daugh- erty for conspiracy to defraud the government in the handling of seized German property, today lost his ap- peal to the supreme court. Miller must serve a sentence of 18 months in prison and pay a $5,000 fine. end the meet- Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? Four hun- | convinced | || WORKERS PARTY} | + ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY Spring Dance. A “Red Spring” entertainment and dance will be given by Branch 4, Sec- tion 5, this Saturday, April 14, at 2075 Clinton Ave, * * * 1D Meeting today. 2F and 3F of iD will meet today at 6 p. m. at 60 St. Marks Place. fo . Section 2 Organizers Meet. A meeting of all subsection-and unit organizers of Section 2 will be held this Thursday, Aprii 12, at 6 p. m. at |101 W. 27th St. All organizers must be present. Cer . The International Branch, Unit 11, Section 1D, will meet tomorrow at 7:30 p. m, at 60 St. Marks Place. Night Workers Meet Today. The Night Workers Branch will hold special meeting this afternoon at 60 St. Marks Place. A @iscussion on unemployment will be led by our agitprop director. | > Literature Agents Meet Thursday. William W. Weinstone will talk at |the district ‘conference of Mterature agents and members of the literature squad, Thursday at 8 p. m, at 103 EL 14th St. SS 3E FE. Harry Freeman will lead a discus- sion on “Nicaragua” at an educational meeting of SS 3H F2 tomorrow at 6 p. m. at 301 W. 27th St. * * * Unit 3E 1F. Unit 3H 1F will hold its regular meeting today at 6:15 p. m, at 101 W. 27th St. . * . Unit 3B 3F. Unit 3E 8F will meet this Thursday at 6:15 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St. * * * Section 5. neh 5, Sec+ at 8:30 p. m. resent. | Branch 5, will be held today y member must be p H Class in Lower Bronx. | The A BC of Communism class in Lower Bronx will start tonight at o'clock at 715 B. 138th St. | 8:30 Mass Meeting on Traction. um will talk on the trac- at 149th St. and Third night, Fs. meet today at 7th St. * | Subsection 3E F3 y 6:30 p.m. at 101 W. Course for New Members, A course for new y members is given at the Workers 14th St. on Wednesd new .member of the tend this course. Party should at- Meeting For $80,000 Drive. All units, sections and subsections are to call special membership meet- ings this week to take up plans for sing 000 for the new Workers Ceuter in Union Square. . . * May Day Tickets. Tickets for the May Day celebration at Madison Square Garden are now ready at the district office for dis- and can also be obtained ction organizers. Comrades jwho can dispose of tickets are urged }to get them at once. ‘Borah Questioned on Roosevelt Oil Salary WASHINGTON, Apr. 9 (FP). — Rep. John J. O’Connor of the 16th {New York district in an open letter to Sen. Borah says: “For sometime T have followed with a great deal of interest your efforts to raise a fund to reimburse Sinclair for the $160,000 he gave the republican party. I note that Theodore Roosevelt, jr., is num- bered among the few contributors. It joccurs to me to inquire if you have made any effort to persuade the Roosevelt family to return to Sinclair \the fabulous ‘salary’ Sinclair paid to |Archie Roosevelt while Archie's |brother, the little colonel, was as- |sistant secretary of the navy, acting }as messenger boy carrying the Tea- pot Dome papers.” Wave Rocks Leviathan According to Commoder Cunning- ham, of the Leviathan, the world’s largest steamship, an 85-foot wave which struck the vessel two days out of Southampton wrecked a. search- light on the foremast eighty-five feet above the water, bent upright steel stanchions supporting the foredeck, causing the deck to sink fourteen inches; “damaged four lifeboats; flooded the third-class cabin forward, causing a momentary panic among about twenty passengers drenched in their beds; drenched the quarters of the deck crew; smashed an electric |ventilator and caused it to take in |water, flooding the fore part of the Iship. No passengers were injured. a 4.0 GSE THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUES Disarmament; First Large U. S. Cruiser Built Since Arms Meet RUAN we 4 Y, APRIL 10, 1928 The skeleton of the U.S. S. Pensacola, above, a new 10,000-ton cruiser ig near- ing completion at the Brooklyn navy yard. This is the first of the large cruis- ers to be built by the United States since the disarmament conference, SEEK TO ENJOIN WINDOW WASHERS Last Resort of Bosses to Crush Strike An injunction to restrain the Win- dow Cleaners’ Protective Union, Lo- cal 8, its officers and certain promi- nent members of its strike com tees from carrying on union activ’ has been applied for by the Beaver Window Cleaning Company, one of jnow carrying on a strike. Failing to prevent the successful waging of the union campaign, Ste- phen Turash and John Turash, co- partners doing business as the Beaver Window Cleaning Company, have re- sorted to the traditional tool of the bosses—the injunction. Case up Friday. | The case is to be argued Friday be- fore Supreme Court Justice John Ford who issued the preliminary summons. The application for the in- junction would restrain the union, “John Ratonburg, Sam _ Feinstein, Joseph Shewchuck, Michael Maycheck and Stephen Lofkow” and “their agents, servants, employes, attorneys and any and all persons acting in aid of or in conjunction with them” from carrying on any form of strike or union activity such as “picketing, carrying signs, banners or in any other way declaring, publishing, or proclaiming in any manner that the plaintiff’s employes are on strike, or jwords of similar import....” Officers of the union declared yes- terday that they would not permit the stoppage of union activities and intimated that the company would be forced to come to terms with the union shortly, “Icor” Week in New York Starts May 19 National “Icor” Week in New York | will open with a concert at Carnegie Hall May 19th. Artists are being engaged for this concert whose pro- gram will be shortly announced in the press. May 25th, 26th, 27th, tag days will be held throughout greater | New York. Sewage Disposal Plans for city wide control of sew- age disposal and the collection and disposal of garbage and other refuse by a sanitary bureau to be appointed by the mayor is now under consider- ation by the city administration: Workingclass sections of the city are the worst sufferers from the back- wardness of the Tammany methods. Piles of refuse accumulate in the streets and menace the health of thousands of workers and their famil- les. MINERS’ VARIETIES Jueles Bledsoe Negro Baritone. Star of ‘Emperor Jones,’’ "Deep River,” “In Abra- ham’s Bosom.” “Miners Trio’ Original Presenta- tion of Miners’ Songs and Dances. : TICKETS: SUNDAY APRIL 15th 2:30 P.M. CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE Dorsha Interpretative Danc- ing. Elroy Helmar ' Boy Prodigy, Soloist with Havana Phil- harmonic Orchestra. “Aftermath’’- One Act Play of Negro Life — pre- sented by the Work- ers Theatre. 50 Cents In Advance; 75 Cents at Door PENN-OHIO MINERS RELIEF COMMITTEE 799 BROADWAY (Stuyvesant 8881) |the firms against whom the union is Left Wing Leaders at | Farewell to Epstein Leaders of the Jewish revolutionary | movement and well known left wing| writers -will be among the speakers | atthe farewell evening that will be} given tomorrow night at Cooper| Union in honor of Shachno Epstein, | associate edit f Treiheit, Yid- dish Communist daily, Epstein, who } cen in the: rey- olutionary mouvement for more than two decades and was one of the founders of the Freiheit, is leaving | for an extended trip. His new book, “In the Land of Social Revolution,” will also appear on the occasion of the farewell. Moissaye J. editor of The Hammer, Yiddish Com- munist monthly, will be chairman of Olgin, | * PRESENT MINERS CONCERT SUNDAY Bledsoe, Negro Singer, Features Program The singing of Jules Bledsoe, who has made a wide reputation as a sing- er of Negro work songs, will be a |feature of the “Miners’ Varieties,” to | |be presented at the Central Hi Opera ouse, Third Ave. and 67th St., this Sunday. Bledsoe has also earned a eputation as a talented actor, hav- s ing taken leading parts in “Abra-| ham’s Bosom,” and the “Emperor Jones.” The Miners’ Varieties will be given Page Five Labor and Fraternal Organizations Nearing To Lecture in Yonkers. Scott Nearing will lecture on “What Is Happening Today in China and Soviet Russia,” at the Workers Coop- erative Center, 252 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, on Friday, April 20, at 8 p. m. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Workers Interna- tional Relief, and the proceeds will go for miners’ relief. 5 - Bronx Miners’ Relief Meet Put Off. | The Bronx Branch of the Miners Relief Committee will hold its execu- tive meeting tomorrow at 8 p. m. . . League for Mutual Aid. The Leapue for Mutual Ald will hold a Spring Revel, this Friday, April 13, at Beethoven Hall, 210 EB. Fifth St. * * * Dunn Course Postponed. REMOVE PATIENTS FROM FIRETRAP KINGS HOSPITAL Ignore Mistreatment of Worker Patients Removal of patients from at least a portion of the firetrap K County Hospital was at last ordered by the city yesterday, when plans were made for the evacuation of the The final session in the course in} Women’s Chronic Division wing of Present Tactics of Employers, given by |the hospital. The order came from Robert. W. Dunn will be held’ tomor- | th hospital. The or 1 row at 8:80 p. at the Workers|the committee of the whole of the m. Ss School, 108 E Plumbers’ Helpers Masa Meet. A mass meeting of the Plumbers’ Helers’ Union will be held on Thurs- day at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 EB. 4th St. . Workingclass Housewives’ . . Ball, Board of Estimate, following a re- port by Fire Commissioner Dorman The action came after Kings County and practically every other city hospital in New York had been de- scribed as firetraps for many years The United Council of Workingclass |@nd after many threatening blazes Housewives, Councils 1, 2 and £. will |had broken out in the antiquated pub- hold a concert and ball this Friday, |yi. inetitytic at 3692 Ave., near 103ra_ St. | Hic institutions, : The proceeds will be donated to min-| No mention of the other city hos ers’ relief. z ‘ 2 pitals, equally hazardous to the Unemployed Rally Wednesday. patients, v made in the report Heh Ne one Council of cues ia which ignored charges of mistreat- | ployed will hold a mass meeti . tients 0 pith St., this Suni Dance For Miners § Lower St. te St. t ise funds strikin miners for the re China Lecture by Shachtman. “Bleeding an illustrated lec- | ture by Max of the Labor Defender, w given at the echoslovak Workers’ Home, 347 72nd St., tomorrow at 8 p. m. The ture will be illu ed with the} latest pictures from China shown for the first time and is to be held under! the auspcie of the Harlem and jthe superintendent of the |who has since resigned, defended the food served in the city hospitals. ee Charges of brutality in the treat. gion and Hea ment of patients in Kings County ka uild Hall, Steinw: were made over a y ago, as an outgrowth of the ha Jewish interns, ng of several It was alleged that hospital, internes who had committed the haw ing. , April 9—The Pennsylvania Railroad today asked the Interstate Commerce Commissi for authority to issue $62,403,250 of capital stock. the evening. | under the auspices of the Pennsyl- | vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee. | Bledsoe has proffered his services [for the miners’ reljef concert free of Czechoslovak branches of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. . Workingclass Housewives’ Ball. On April 14th, Councils 1, 2 and 8, A Big Reduction of the United Council Vorkinge Women of the Bronx, will give MEET TOMORROW charge. Another feature will be the Miners’ Trio, from the Illinois mine Third A |region, who will give a program of miners’ songs. The Workers Theatre The New York Council of Unem-|will present “Aftermath,” a one-act ployed will hold a mass meeting | play of Negro life in the south, Dor- Thursday at 2 p. m. at 101 W. 27th|sha, the famous interpretive dancer, St. will give her services free of charge. An open air meeting will be held} Tickets may be obtained tn advance Wednosday at 8 p. m. at 138th St.jat 50 cents from the Pennsylvania- and Anns Ave. The speakers at the |Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee at 799 econd meeting will be John Di Santo,| Broadway. The admission charge at | ecretary of the council and Louis|the door will be 75 cents. A. Baum, secretary of the Photo- graphic Workers Union, Baby Abandoned; Two Parents Unemployed OFFICERS LOOT BANK. | | GRETNA, La., April 9.—Joseph W. Stinson, president, and Godfrey Owen, assistant cashier, of the Union Trust | jand Savings Bank here were arrested |last night charged with embezzling | Stanley J. Rose, an unemployed | $48,000. The bank has been closed. linotype operator and his wife May, | were arraigned in court yesterday charged with abandoning their six| months’ old baby. | “When asked the reason for leaving | the baby in a vestibule of a post of-| fice, Rose answered bitterly, “She was’ too much of a luxury for us.” The answer of Mayor Walker’s Police | was jail. MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS + at her studto 49 WADSWORTH TERRACE Telephone Lorraine 6888. WH alse enil at student’ poo cer ae Rea te ama Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5866. 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