The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1928 A. F.OF L. NEGLECT FAILS TO BREAK PLUMBER HELPERS’ FIGHTING SPIRIT; UNION IS GROWING (By a Worker Corr In spite of the constant attempt of the who have endeavored to keep the plu for the past number of years, the heartbroken when they saw Association of Plumbers’ the organization of Helpers arise. espondent) labor bureaucracy mbers’ helpers disorganized officials found themselves the American of Plumbers’ Union. The consolidation of the American Federation of Labor re- fusing to organize the Plumbers’ Helpers caused great many helpers to break away from their union and register with the company union that has recently been established by the leaders But sure enough, the he! Ipers that left the vail among the helpers. Plumbers’ Helpers who are walking the streets with empty stom- true organization soon returned, for the simple reason that they did not gain anything by signing up with them. Of course we helpers know of the rotten conditions that pre- And on the Bowery you will notige many achs for the simple reason that the fakers refused to help us get a charter at the time we sent a delegation to Chicago. But nevertheless we are going to stick together even if we have to go to jail for what we intend to do the fakers when we meet them in the street. —JOHN BURTON. Vote Strike!,” Weaver Pag Urges New Bedford Textile Workers on LEADERS,” HE WARNS; “NOTE BALLOT PROVISO” — Walkout on All England Seale Sees , (By M ociation cut 10 per wage s the Cotton } has annc ranging fr cent for Taunton. There here, of highly skilled a America Fede is city and workers e more are whom organized 0} aa: Operatives. This the le ders of which stole t vote, which was cast in F ome weeks f their work- ago, will take a t i ging from ers on Thu the the spirit of which workers are the showing, it seems certain ike will be declared. In Hay New England on a much manufacturers will witness a wider scale than the bargain for. New Bedford can be the center of revolt inst the inhuman condi- tion existing in the indu In spite of the fact that Salvation Batty, who sm the dyehouse workers’ strike | year in the Pacific Mills of Lawrence, is preparing to follow in the footsteps of police com- oner and union president Tan- say of Fall River, the militant action of the small group of workers in the New Bedford silk mills indicates that th@ union will vote to strike. Preparations for the steal have been made in the provision that four out ef seven locals in the New Bedford Council! must have a two- thirds majority for strike before ac- tien can be taken. The feats among them Samuel Ross, commissioner of M state labor board, are talking very loudly and very militantly of a strike. But a glance at the ballot- ting conditions and a remembrance of what happened at Fall River will teach us to “watch our leaders.” Every man who is in the American Federation of Textile Operatives in New Bedford t vote strike at Thursday nigh’ meeting. The tion of the New Bedford silk workers much be taken as a hat the ring. Every member of the American Federation of Textile Operatives must support the workers who have thrown down the challenge to the bosses and the union leaders. —JOHN MACDONALD, Weaver. their thrown into | ‘Where the Linesmen i es in army of linesmen are mai to keep up the power, States. falls from heights. Doing the terly in winter. heaviest Find Je Work in | Winter, intained by the electrical companies telegraph and telephone lines thruout the United These workers face death daily from the high tension lines and manual labor, they suffer bit- GERMAN SEAMEN TIED UP PORT ON MAY DAT (By a Worker n work I am a Germ, celebrated in PITTSBURG DANCE FOR MINE RELIEF Affair for » Strikers t Be Held Friday EAST PITTSBURGH, A concert and dance to ra 12. fund. April se z miners will be held for the stri {tomorrow at Turner’s | Hall, East Pit All. proceeds twill go to ie miners thru the |Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief. |Committee, 614 Penn Ave. Pitts- burgh. Five local organizations, Singer Hall, Turner Hall, Hungarian Hall, Hall, have prepared a good program. Each organization will sing in its respec- {Swiss and Croation Workers tive language and play its own or- chestra. concert will begin at 780 p. nish by 10 p. m., ition the dancing will begin. The affair, for which thirty cents admission will be charged, is under the general supervision of the East | Pittsburgh Valley Miners’ Relief Committee. The m. ar “Defenders af” THE DAILY WORKER New York City. K. Kaufman H. Price Bloomfiel« Anna Terneberg Altman B. Lipshi eb Thomas Ropman 1.00 wm, Forbes .....-.-. - 1.00 Joseph Frrechlich 1.00 o— Kenosha Scabs Slash Hosiery Mill Strikers (By a Worker Correspondent.) KENOSHA, W (By Mail). I am sending you this clipping in the hope that you ¢ it. It is from ihe Kenosha Hosi Worker published by The American Fede- ration of Full Fashioned Hosiery ! Workers locked out of the All mill here. It shows what we to go thru. | ALLEN A | a ae L Por several weels we have been stating publicly that the strike breakers in tie Allen-A Mill are armed to the teeth. We have said that they have shot- | gans, rifles and revolvers. On the Wight of April 2, Walter Duffin, a union man, was murderously assaulted hy Charles Gerhardt, a strikebreaker at the mill. Duffin was out for a ride with his wife | and approached Gerhardt to ask | him to join the union. Gerhardt drew his knife and slashed the face of Duffin in a frightful manner. The thugs inside the mill have brought several of our | men to the point of death. H 5|E. Nebrich PLUMB Oy asakals Sts ise Glaiclete’s CACC 1.00 5|F. Kea . L. Haelbeck ... | I. Jewaeck Jack Albert John Rfnigall . N. M. M. N ev Hi. Schulm L. Mursauik Hermbuche Zurnbu C. Zaegler C. Iche = H. Danstan Iv inicht Paperman Freda end Riech 3 Gal Jos Thectcor | H. Bydarian ; Anton Caihany .. Karl Denog Rose Weiss Ick Bross T theodore Pakoluk Katt Andrew 8. Zimmnick |G. Perer A. Winter jd. Perel ; Frank Lapez iGuryman... Charles Borgo G. B. S. Variaco “D. Bobbo | Goymet R. Carritto | Dante Fanchini |Shuill .. 25 | Marfon 1.00 | G. Noegero Jose Julio 1.00 anjuije one EK. Caleache ‘ and I am surprised how different May D: America than in Germany. Co ypondent ) Day is | I want to tell you a story of a May Day I saw in Hamburg in 1907. Tie Up Port. The complete tie-up of the port of Hee on the First of May in 1907) ows how the German workers will | a if their holiday is. threatened. Ships which came in on April 30 de- manded stevedores for unloading as} ie for the following day. The hiring of port workers in Ham- | eae was done entirely through the union, The union considered May | First as a day of no-work and pro- | ceeded accordingly. No stevedores were furnished. The Marcus Cohn und Sohn is a big shipping company at Hamburg. One of their ships came in on April 30, and the company decided that May | Day was all humbug; unloading must go on as usual. They demanded 200 stevedores for the next day from the union, threatening to import them if the union refused. The union refused. The German workers must have their | “Maifeier.” | Seabs. | On May First two barges came in- to port with about 100 laborers, ready to unload the ship. They had been recruited by the company at Altona, a town near Hamburg. As soon as the union workers realized what the barge contained, stones and rotten | vegetables and everything lying | around the port which they could lay | their hands on, went flying through | the air into the barges. The men never landed. Four of the scabs were hurt. A clerk of the company came down to the wharf to get onto the ship. “You intend boarding that ship?” a worker asked. “You work on May First?” asked several others. There | was no time to answer, for a good} kick had landed the white collar slave in the water. Come to Union. The next day the company again came to the union for workers. The union obliged and the ship was un- loaded. This ship was only one of the many that waited in vain for workers on | May First. The German workers are | jealous of their May First tradition | of no work, They will fight any ef- fort on the part of the employers to encroach on their holiday, and in re- cent years they came to many bloody clashes in various German cities. I see that in New York we are go- ing to celebrate May First in Madison Square Garden this year. That is fine, Every worker should refuse to work on May First and come at 3 o’clock to the eee —K. E. Rederation Elects ALEXANDRIA, La. (FP) Apri! 12.—After a three day session the State Federation closed with the elec- tion of: Charles W. Swallow, Shreve- port, president; Robert Perigoni, New Orleans, vice-president; Frank Mann- ing, New Orleans, second vice-presi- dent; president; Ernest H. Zwally, Shreve- port, secretary-treasurer; Charles W. Swallow, delegate to the Fed in November. Monroe, La., nual convention. 9 Hurt in Crash Nine persons were injured yester- day when a track collided head on injured, his left fractured in two places. The motor- ..25 |man of the car was only slightly hurt | 'egislative 50 ‘as were seven passengers in the car.j Reading’s conduct while in office. jin The DAILY WORKE D. J. Green, Monroe, fifth vice: | American | ration convention in New Orleans | was) selected as the city fer the next an-| SAVE ELECTRIGAL UNION; BROACH MUST 60, IS PLEA Men, Agreement “Sells” to Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) I being one of the electrical work- ers not allowed in the meeting of | Local 8 of the International Brother- | ‘hood of Electrical Workers, and not) having a chance to speak out my mind | on the ways and means of making 2 living, hope that you will print this which, I think, is the only militant union paper in J Good Men Ousted. Why am I kept out of the meeting together with hundreds of others. —__________—— Simply for trying to be a good union | company of clas man and not sitting in the meeting ‘hall like a dummy and not talking. | All of us that are kept out have paid) up é¢ards. Anyone who gets up at a| meeting now is kept out and has to | stay out. This is a one man union now under | |the .misleadership of ‘Mussolini | Broach.” All the officials are mere {puppets and pay-rollers. Members | can be out of work for three months jand still have to pay their dues just) the same. Treacherous. Agreement. The officials get from $100 to $125 | per week and are elected for one year The agreement between the contri tors and the local is the greatest piece | of treachery, cowardice and “no-guts’ }on the part of the officials. There is }no word with which to describe this |sham, fake and fraud piece of work. One of. the. articles says in. black jand white: “The employer shall be {the judge of the competency of the employe, and he shall be at liberty to| employ and discharge whomsoever he } {sees iit.” And this goes under the aame of a union. Graft Job. There is a job in this city, the New York Life Building, a big structure. The superintendent, who does the hiring for this job, has the nerve to ask eVeryone who applies for a job: “Have you a letter?” A letter is or Republican leader of a distri and not everyone can get a letter. The officials allow this to go on, altho it has been called to their attention. There are thousands of men out of work. Yet they allow men who are fortunate to be working on some jobs where they allow overtime. Why are all these ills in our union? |I will try to state why in a few | words: 1. Men Like Broach are more dangerous in their effort to destroy the trade union movement than a Major Berry of the Pressmens’ Union. For Broach has the gift of gab and is well read and so can de- ceive the ignorant. 2. Men in the union are too sus- picious of one another, because they are brought up in that way, and they are teo apathetic. . The militants of this union ought to adopt a “Save-the-Union” pro- gram. After ail this is our very existence, the, Union. —FRANK Police, Morgue Officials Aid Ambulance Chasers Police officers, hospital authori employes in the medical examiner’s office and morgue attendants have been assisting ambulance chasers in getting names of victims, according | to Abraham Gatner, an experienced runner for over twenty years. Cer- |‘ain lawyers have “control” of vari-/| vus police stations where they have access to all police records and can ‘ind all the information they desire |’n order to sap their prospective cli- sts to the utmost, it was brought out in the. testimony, at the inquiry efore Suprerme Cuurt Justice Was- servogel. Gatner ‘and many accident victims | | | sniployers, Levy & Becker. Witness Says State BOSTON, April 12,—Arthur Reading, attorney general and repre- sentative of his office in the Sacco- Vanzetti case, the Decimo Club June 8, last, and on ‘he next’day gave out a statement to the press saying that he had “in- vestigated the activities of the Deci- with a Hudson line trolley car at} mo Club and found no violation of ouy 5, Newark Ave. and 2nd St., Jersey City. ” Russell Coleman, a Negro, driver of | Herbert L. the truck, was the most seriously | ey. leg having been| ‘he check for Reading. laws,” according to the testimony of Barrett, a Boston attor- Barrett said that he had cashed Barrett was a witness before the committee investigating ;| production which the usually from this or that Democratic} were testifying against his former | Attorney Got $25,000. received $2,000 from | | Plans are eine made for a massive dance festival to be held here some- time in October, in memory of Isadora} Duncan, |ment sent out by S: Hurok, manager of famous dancer. Several of her pupils sia and in Europe as the United States will partici- pate in the event, which is to mulate terest in a pro- |posed memorial to vuneaa, | series of performan is planned, |with Irma Duncan as der of ic dancers. testim 1, which will run f | days will probably take place i son Square Garden. Isadora Duncan according to an announce- from elsewher ais Isadora Duncan adi- spent a good deal of her last years in Soviet Ru con- ducting special dancing groups, and |for a time, was in complete charge of lclass dancing, teaching the younger | | sroups. | NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE TO STAGE ‘ISRAEL’ AT MANHATTAN | OPERA HOUSE IN MAY J. Blake Scott, who stepped into the emiergency created when Olin Howland left the cast of “L’Historie }du Soldat” recently, will play im- | portant roles in the three parts of the Neighborhood Playhouse in conjunction wi-h the Cleveland Orchestra, will make at the | |Manhattan Opera House, May 4th, 5th, and 6th. He will have an im-| portant part in the dramatic expres- | sion of Bioch’s symphony, “Israel,” | of Debussy’ s “Nuages” and “Fetes” |and in “Borodin’s “On the Steppes of | Central Asia.” Mr. Scott has been associated with | \the Neighborhood Playhouse in vari- |ous productions ever since he left the ,| Ziegfeld Follies because he wanted to | act rather than -dance. He appeared in the Neighborhood Playhouse pro- duc ion of “The Player Queen,” “The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet” and jin various editions of the Grand reet Follies. He is also identified h Eva Le Gallienne’s Civic Reper- |toire Theatre, where he is at present teaching fencing and dancing to the junior group. No Wages for Rubin Cafe’s 30 Waiters (By a Worker Correspondent) January 25, a friend of mine got a |job for $3 from the Clarendon Em-| |ployment Agency as a waiter at |Rubin’s Restaurant, with a promise j 5rorn the agency that the job was | worth $100 a week. Reporting at the job the next day, jhe was accepted and started to work. At the end of the week he inquired {about wages and to -his surprise he was informed that at Rubin’s Restau- rant no waiter receives wages. Not satisfied with paying no wages, the manager, a man named Cracca, made it compulsory, under the penalty of discharge, for each waiter to pay jevery week day sixty cents, every | Saturday seventy-five cents and every Sunday one dollar, out of his tips, for ithe services of a bus boy. Out of this | money collected from the waiters, the jManagement paid the bus boys’ wag- ‘es. The average money the waiters earned in tips did not amount to more | jthan $28 or $82. Join Union. As time passed the ‘Amalgamated | Food: Workers’ Union came to help } and advise us. We told. them about the unsanitary condition of the wait- ers’ locker room and the unbearable treatment we got from the manager. |Our élothes were kept in a little hole jnext a butcher-shop which smelled like the butcher shop. | Our hours were never less than 12 ‘a day. So we signed up with the Amalgamated Food Workers. Some- how a yellow rat signed up also with the vest of the boys. So Mr. Cracoa jcalled all the help to his office to the coming strike. All those who re- |fused to give him satisfactory infor- ;mation were fired the next day. hear there’s a union meeting today,” | they told us, “You'd better go up and ‘don’t come back.” Only one was kept on, the rat. because I am sure that no other pa- per will print it. I am doing this so that you may all realize the necessity (for a union. Join the Food Workers’ Union and better your own and your fellow workers’ conditions. formeT| RUs- | |question everyone individually about | K. “1 | Fellow workers, I am sending this | information to The DAILY WORKER | =D RAMA———+ DANCE FETE IS TRIBUTE 70 ISADORA DUNCAN former | the! hundred | s well] designed | In=} the | The huge | six | { { | |the gains, building trades union were | uno’ ‘OFFER QUAKER CITY JOBLESS ~ SILLY SCHEME Ki \THERINE AL EX: ANDER. Has “Nice” Plan | (By a Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA, Pa, (By Mail). |—-Altho the kept press of this city }continues to prate about “prosper- ity” the liberal, semi-liberal, social- list and ex-socialist bourgeoisie rec- jognize that this so-called “prosper- ity” is a figment of the imagination. | “Safe and | An organization made up chiefly of liberals and social democrats, all | perfectly “safe and sane,” and call- | self the Women’s Trade Union League, has issued thousands of leaf- \lets reading as follows: “The allies With Roland Young in “The Queen’s | f the Women’s Trade. Union League Husband Robert 8: Sherwood’s | of Philadelphia ask you to join in g clever ‘satire at the: Playhouse. {ei ity-wide effort of wise housekeepers : |to decrease unemployment in Phila- |delphia, . | “Many thousands of men and wo- Wage Cuts Heavier |men are unemployed and without the [necessaries of life for their families. 59| Workers in factories, offices and | stores are being laid off. Do what you can and do it now. Household | jobs, window cleaning, curtain wash- jing. gardening. Repairs: house, fur- reported cuts. By far a larger num-/piture, clothes, books, music, clocks. ber were effected by cuts than by| Renewal: linen, pots and _ pans, increases. Strongly unionized print-| dishes, stationary.” ing trades workers won nearly half Union Not Considered. Any worker reading this leaflet can second and transportation trades, also|easily see that the Window Cleaners’ | organized, were third. Ten of the 14] Union is not taken into considera- | wage reductions were suffered. by the) tion at all, despite the fact that these nized New England textile | people call themselves the Women’s workers, three by building employes | Trade Union League, {and one by city employes. Sane.” Organized workers registered | wage increases in February, accord ing to Labor Bureau’s April survey. | But 14 groups, mostly unorganized, | —C. wa Can She pda __ Steere a : |~——- The Theatre Guild presents —, W. 44 St. Evs. 8:30 mieeee /BRLANGER Mats, Wed. & Sat. 2:30 O'Neill's H GEO. M. COHAN (HIMSELF) ! Play, Strange rrp | Mi Hs | maNeniiee Oo; y at 6: lie | ‘Theatre, West 44th Street, BUDSON fyensig0, Mate Weae Sat THE ABSOLUTE HIT of the TOWN WHISPERING FRIENDS By GEORGE M. COHAN. ALL THIS WEEK | VOLPONE | Guild 7b W. 52d st. vs. 33 3 Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 Week of Apr. 16: “Marco Millions” 49 & 50 Sts, Madison Sa. Garden aa at sth Ave.| ATS. EVGS. SSH'e AS LING (except Sun.) 2 and 8 | pnurs.,Fri,Sat. & Sun., Apr. 12-13-14-15 Ralph Whitehead & Co., Herbert Faye & Co—Other Acts Richard Barthelmess in “The Noose.” BROTHERS AN CIRCUS Among 10,000 Marvels GOLIATH. 1 AMR 13} * monster si i pre dO TO ALL $1 ae ee HARRY eat and War Tax). Children under 15 ‘AME LANGDON | Wiaiee. on “THE CHASER” halt y e at all Aft. Perform: e cept Saturday, ei vats in his newest comedy , Whentre, 41 #¢. w. of B National ysai5u. mie We eee ea “The Tial of Mary ig “HARRIS B'way. Mats. Wed. & Sat. y Bayard con 60 A ree LN de LADY is with _Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson, 30th WEEK GSE Te ACU Actors are veers Gotham courts | decided in a test case brought under Bway, 46 St. Evs. 8.30 | , ‘a FULTON the Workmen’s Compensation Ac Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.30 ‘ -fiv tre ‘k- “Blithely Blood-curdlin, Twenty-five thousand theatre wor' ~-Herald- ‘ers are affected. Thea. 424, Ww. Evs. of Actors Are Workers ‘ibune. VISIT SOVIET RussiA : THIS SUMMER All tours include a 10-day stayover in MOSCOW. and LENINGRAD where places of historical and educa- tional interest will be visited. INDIVIDUAL VISAS. GRANTED 2 (Privileging one to travel all over the U. 8. S. R.) 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