The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1928 Bricklayers’ Officials Charged With Grafting in Scheme for a Dual Union aires ‘URGE SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN FOR DAILY IN NEW BEDFORD|WOMEN'S GROUPS MAY 19 MEETING Pleas for a stronger drive for sub- scriptions"to, The DAILY. WORKER| Oe ee ee aS tribution aloné is not sufficient it is|'‘them in their struggle. rest upon the shoulders of the Massa-| tnitcated , b; chubetid: snaiibaks indicated. The situation is exceptionally fa- lin the attikitie textile center of New striking textile workers is urgent, re- of the. {WoFkers| ace ig, Cer sale te fans Oath eta Regular distribution of The DAILY} in an intensive way. Thousands of urged that every resource be mobil+ s | York City. press to the 30,000,000 textile strik-|WORKER among the textile workers| textile workers are eager to subscribe| ized to make the campaign a success | , r i | A | Gill, Bricklayer Head, ey As Street Cleaning Revelations Expose st |Housewives, Workers, } | " “Ts Named Socialist Gets POLICE GRAFT IN ef Ee ee To Attend oF te Svidence of corruption in eonnec- A call hi ne out to trade Bore of Hox ar alae rata Honors from | CAB CREDENTIALS aanee oven wanente organiza- tion with the r ing against, union m ated with the American Federation of Labor in favor of workers belon; to a dual union was disclosed } ster- | day as a result of information that} laborers of locals 116 and 749 of the} Hod Carriers have been removed from | a number of jobs the orders of the Bricklayers’ Executive Committee of which John J. Gill is the chairman. Employers, it was disclosed, paying for the privilege of employ-| ing members of the dual United Build- | ing and Common Labor Union at; a scale in many cases per day lower than the regular union rate} and that the rakeoff is being divided between members of the Bricklayers’ | Executive Committee and those at} the head of the dual union, | Information obtained from a num- ber of workers employed at the jobs affected disclosed that about fifteen laborer members of locals 116 and 749 of the International Hod Carriers | Building and Common Laborers Union | affiliated with the A. F. of L. were| last week forced from jobs at 225th St:, west of Broadway, operated by the Tavalacci and Callano Construc- | tion Company and from jobs at 166th St. and Morris Ave., operated by the Castle Construction Company. The order forcing these workers from their jobs was served on the bosses by Peter Humphreys, the workers stated. are } Humpherys, who represents local 37 of the Bricklayers, accord- ing to information confirmed by both workers still employed at the jobs and those who were forced out, came to Callano the employer, at 225th St. and informed him that he would have to discharge those of his employes where were members of the regular A. F. of L. union and employ only those of the United Building and Common Laborers Union, the dual union. At the head of this dual union, ac-) -ording to details disclosed previously | by The DAILY WORKER is one D.} &. Dioguardi, who has served a jail; sentence after being convicted for | graft and extortion at the time of the/ Lockwood Building Investigation. ! |No charge was filed. Legion Thugs AHA, Neb., May sire e Ameri socialists for popularity and prestige was at least partly fulfilled today when the American Legion named Dr. Harold Gifford, a local eye spe- cialist, Omaha’s “first citizen.” ‘ord, in addition to being a socialist is also a militant pacifist, and is a highly respected citizen of the community. Outstanding among his civie achievements is the “Frontenelle Forest Reserve” and Camp Gifford, a Boy Scout camp. MINE POLICE BEAT MINERICH Arrest Civil Liberties Officers (Continued fram page 1) another rode over him. Many others were beaten. Woltman approached the officer in charge of the troopers to speak to him only to be met with a clubbing. Becomes Company Stool George Ulery, coal and iron police- man, who, pickets declared, openly became a Pittsburgh Coal Company employee after they refused to re- elect him constable, returned fifteen minutes later and transferred to the state police car. They were then taken to Greensburg County Jail. Paul McCor- mack, an attorney is arranging bail) 9.—The de- for a hearing tonight. Although many pickets were badly beaten, none were arrested. Numerous eviction notices have already been! served upon these non-union coal dig- | gers who are determined to baitle| on until they win their way into the ranks of organized labor, Tents for evicted mine families is | Boulevard _ 1S NOW EXPOSED :Criminals Obtain Cards | From Hack Bureau » Further disclosures of graft b; members of the police departmer who furnish hack licenses to crim- inals is expected soon, if was learned last night. According to the informa- tion obtained yesterday, patrolmen connected with the Simpson St. police station, the Bronx are involved in the 'wholesale graft plot that involves thousands of dollars, At least $10 graft is charged for each license | given to the criminal elements by the |members of the police force, it is j said. Committed Suicide. The latest revelations follow sensa- tional disclosures in Brooklyn where Patrolman Ike McLaughlin of the Empire Boulevard Station committed suicide on April 13 a week after the investigation of irregular licenses had been started by Inspector Valen- tine of Brooklyn. Passed the Buck. Taxi drivers pointed out yesterday |that while Deputy Police Commis- sioner Nelson Ruttenberg, in charge of the Hack Bureau has been ac- cusing taxicab drivers of selling their credentials to criminals, it has been members of the police force who are guilty of tha’ charge. On the basis of Ruttenberg’s claim that the drivers sell their licenses, he is re- fusing to issue duplicate credentials to those drivers who happen to lose them. No Investigation. The investigation in the Empire Station disclosed that Patrolman McLaughlin and the other grafting policemen had direct connec- tions with the hack headquarters that enabled them to issue licenses without any investigation as required Altho Me- vom right to left, the puture Lougheed is the ex-stable foreman whose conf: Dioguardi was then forced out of the @ crying need here. Food means life labor movement but has since been for miners’ babies. The call for help set up as the head of the dual union 8°€S out to the labor movement to by Gill, the head of the bricklayers 4° its duty while the miners fight on executive committee. the picket line. The practice of forcing out union men in favor of the dual organiza- tion sponsored by Gill has been going on for several years. The graft and When Piane Crashes “rake off’? from the practice, it is ee charged, is divided between the mem-| HASBROUCK H..IGHTS, N. J. bers of the executive of the bricklay-/May 9.—Lieut Royal V. Thomas, ers and those at the head of the dual U. S. Army Reserve, and Caughn union. The union scale is $9 whereas Weatherly, an engineer employed by the members of the dual union are| the Wright Aeronautical Corp., of forced to accept in most cases as low! Paterson, N. J., were killed today as $6. It is generally understood that when the Bellanca monoplane, the employers pay handsomely for the; Reliance, in which Thomas recently “privilege.” |set an unofficial solo record for en- Two Aviators Killed Complaints and appeals to the|durance flying, crashed to the American Federation of Labor and to 8tounds of the Teterboro Gold Club William Green, president of the Fed- near here. eration, have been systematically neglected and sidetracked, it was dis- closed during similar exposures last, winter, \ Students Go Out on Strike for Teacher WHEELING, W, Va., May 9.—The entire student body of Union High School at Benwood, near here yester- day walked out of their class room when they learned that the school board had refused the application of their principal, Chris Sanders, for re- appointment next year. “Let’s strike for Sanders,” Chamber of Commerce’ Man Boosts Injunctions WASHINGTON, May 9.—Injune- tions against labor unions found a new defender in the person of one Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, who at the an- nual convention of the United States Chamber of Commerce today upheld ; was! by the police regulations. laughlin is dead the irregular is- suance of credentials is continuing. Japan Rushes Troops For Shantung Grab (Continued from Page One) | The Japanese troops are proceeding |to clear all Kuomintang troops from the zone along tho Tsingtao-Tsinan |railway and to strengthen their posi- ition. The Japanese outposts have been doubled and plans are being made for the occupation of all principal \railway lines in the province of Shan- tung. Fear of a workey-peasant uprising \is voiced in a manifesto issued by Marshal Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian war lord, who ordered the temporary cessation of fighting between the Kuomintang and northern forces. Chang’s manifesto declares that while the civil war was being waged, the “forces of Communism” were gaining strength. The differences between Chang Tso-lin and Japan have been gaining in strength. SHANGHAI, May 9.—A Japanese flotilla of four destroyers will arrive here tomorrow to reinforce the war fleet in Chinese waters. | KILLED IN “BOSSY’S” GARAGE. NEWBURYPORT, Mass., May 9 the right of the courts “to extend a protecting arm” against “irresponsible mobs.” written on a blackboard by a student/ Victor A. Richardson was found dead jat the opening of classes yesterday! in the garage operated by Mayor An- jmorning. Without disorder all of the| drew J. (Bossy) Gillis, this morning, |nearly 350 students left the building.| a vietim of carbon monoxide. ; EXPOSE MINNESOTA STEEL SPIES Legislators and Union Officials Are Placed ete, Minn., May 9 (FP).— Secret service headquarters of the steel trust in Room 507, Ly- ceum Bldg., Duluth, are on the hunt for an inside “agent” while | organized labor and Farmer-Labor | circles are after their own betray- | ers as a result of indisputable evi- dence offered in Spies in Steel, an expose of industrial war, written by Frank L. Palmer. Palmer went over the Minnesota iron range and its port of Duluth, watched the undercover men in unions, co-ops and labor parties operating, talked to them, got speci- mens of their handwriting and compared them with the reports they were regularly sending in to the Oliver Mining Co., the steel trust subsidiary. How Palmer got hold of the se- eret reports is what is worrying -the steel spy system. He has them from way back down to the pres- ent,month and he has the number ‘of each spy. An inside job is sus- f s pected. He has the reports salted away somewhere in Colorado and | is writing more pamphlets about the gigantic industrial espionage struc- ture that attempts to sap or de- stroy every honest active labor man or radical in northern Minnesota. Among the spies revealed is Chauncey Peterson, Farmer-Labor member of the state legislature and specially trusted by Electrical Workers’ No. 81. Peterson reports to. the steel trust who joins the union and how the members stand on political and economic issues. Another unsuspected spy is Cle- tus L, McMillan, who as recording secretary of Machinists’ Lodge No. 274 in 1924 reported to the Minne- sota Steel Co. a trust unit, the names of new members joining his union. Though a foreman he is still a union man. Also a spy for steel is Vergilio Bertone, president of the Chisholm Musicians’ Union. His spy code number is 10 and he draws $125 a month for espionage. There there is barber A, J. Val- ley at Carson Lake, former union metal miner and union chauffeur, and there are spies in the I.-W. W. camps. A letter carrier is paid by the trust for reporting the names on his route of new subscribers to labor and radical papers, from the American Federationist to The DAILY WORKER. The Hibbing Hotel clerk, Luke Healy, reports not only on his labor guests but on the mail they receive, their call- ers and what they talk about among themselves. Every detail of the lives of men suspected of belonging to the union is reported to the Lyceum Bldg. in Duluth. For giving a little money to the Sacco-Vanzetti defense, for helping along some struggling little labor paper, for saying that labor needs a new deal, a worker fin®; himself enrolled on the steel trust’s blacklist. ‘ on Traitor List snows wal am J. Lougiieed, his wife Gud vy b4, Sackin, his attorney. sion has revealed. graft to the amount of at least $45,000,000 in the city street cleaning department. The picture at the left shows Tammany’s commissioner of accounts, James A. Higgins, who is “looking into” the scandal, according to a statement of Mayor Walker as he left the , Green Room revel at the George M. Cohan Theatre, FURRIERS DEMAND MCGRADY GET OUT A. F. of L. Agent Tried To Wreck Greek Local Edward F, McGrady, special agent of the A. F. of L., sent in to or- ganize the campaign of destruction against the Furriers’ Joint Board, and A. Sotiropolis, his right hand man among the Greek fur workers, have been told by the membership of the Greek Workers Local 70, to get out of the organization bag and oaggage, and thereby permit the workers to rebuild the union. | This decision was made by the} membership at a recent meeting des-| pite the fact that the local is com- pletely controlled by the right wing.) The meeting was called aiter those | in control of the local could no longer | resist the mass demand for a mem-; bership meeting. The most import- ant action taken at the meeting,) however, was voted unanimously ai- ter the workers had listened to the wrangling of the two groups in con- trol of the local for over four hours. The committee proposed by the progressive workers was elected to investigate the finances of the union and attend to other important phases of union work, and also to bring back to a membership meeting to be held in a few days a set of recommania- tions to remedy the open shop condi- tions in the industry. _ 3 The committee was also instructed to work out plans to rebuild the shat- tured organization. The committee of five elected were all rank and file members. of the local, and were unan- imously elected with full powers des- pite the strenuous opposition of the McGrady machine, COMMUNISTS TO MEET IN 5 STATES That the National Nominating Con- vention of the Workers (Communist) Party for president of the United States will prove to be a bigger event than at first expected can already be seen from reports reaching the Na- |tional Office of the Party, 43 E. 125th St. New York City State headquarters of the Party at} ! Milwaukee, Wisconsin, report that | practically all Party units have al- | ready elected delegates to the State | Convention to be held at Milwaukee. Sunday, May 20, at 9.304%. m. Quite a number of local labor unions are expected to send fraternal delegates. Illinois sends word that a call for a state convention to be held in Northwest Hall at Chicago next Sun- day has been issued. Several miners local unions have already elected fraternal delegates. Delegates are also expected from the International Harvester Factory and several of the packing houses. Ohio has issued a call for a state convention to be held at Cleveland Sunday, May 20, from 10 a. m. to inate a full slate of state candidates as well as delegates to the National Nominating Convention. All orga- nizations of workers are being invited to send fraternal delegates. Other states so far reported as preparing to hold state conventions are West Virginia at Wheeling on the 19th and Colorado at Denver on the 20th. Both states are preparing to nominate state tickets. FOUR SAILORS LOST. NORFOLK, Va., May 9.—The fate of three men who yesterday put off from the steamship Bethore in a shipmate who had been washed | extended 2 p.m. This convention will nom- | small boat about three miles off Vir. H ginia Beach in an effort to rescue a’) Anti-Imperialists to Hold National Meet Here This Afternoon The national executive committee of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League will meet at 1 p. m. today. at the Civie Club, 18 E. 10th St., it was announced last night. Manuel Gomez, secretary of the United States section of the league will render a report of the activities conducted during the past six months which will be followed by a general discussion by the committee mem- bers. RIDERS TO PAY TEN CENTS FARE Transit Bosses Force Pirate Legislation By THOMAS O'CONNOR. BOSTON, (FP) May 9.—Boston elevated and subway transit riders must pay 10 cent fares and be denied transportation facilities, urgently needed, because the state legislature defeated, 113 to 74, a plan of public ownership and operation. Under public’ ownership, experts computed that the lines would save $5,000,000 a year, enough to reduce fares and build more subways. But legislators listened to A commission headed by Henry I. Harriman, power magnate active in New England Powed Co. and extended the present act under which stockholders get 4 to 8 per cent dividends. Metropolitan Boston’s $125,000,000 transit system is managed by trustees appointed by the governor under an act passed in 1918 when the elevated was bankrupt and came to the state house on its knees for help. The 1918 act provided that state and city could take over the lines at any time i suming company liabilities. state could get for $105,000,000. a xoad valued at $118,000,000 to $129,- 600,000, :! For. $52,000,000 in bonds, interest rates range from 4 to 7 per cent and on an equal amount of stock, divi- dends run from 6 to 8 per cent. Urider public ownership, wiping out high dividend stocks with low interest pub- lie bonds, eliminating taxes making other savings, the riders could be benefitted by $5,000,000 a $40,000,000 is required in im- mediate extensions of rapid transit, but the elevated is unable to raise capital for extensions or equipment because of high fixed charges of $8,- ween ee. Workers. ashore was unknown today, and} by reimbursing stockholders and as-| Thus the, Banat other absolute necessities are provid- 100,000 Miners on Strike 30,000 Textile Workers on Strike To Save the Union; For a Victorious Strike; For the Miners’ Control of Their Union; Against the Wage Cut; Against the Speed-up; Against Longer Hours: Thousands of requests are being made in every mail for The DAILY WORKER from the Striking Miners. Hundreds of requests are already coming in from the striking Textile All expired subscriptions of strikers are still being sent even tho the strikers can not afford to renew their subscriptions. Every day we are sending 4,000 papers to the mine strike area FREE OF CHARGE, We have begun to send The DAILY WORKER into the Textile strike area FREE OF CHARGE. Our Resources Are Limited—We Cannot Afford It Any Longer Help us keep up the work—Help us to increase the circulation Help the Striking Miners—Help the Striking Textile Workers , Send to the Daily Worker a free subscription to the strikers. Send The DAILY WORKER into the.strike areas. Thousands more WANT The DAILY WORKER. Thousands more LIKE The DAILY WORKER. Thousands more NEED The DAILY WORKER. Send a subseription to the Strikers. OUSTER OF MILLS COMMITTEE FAILS Militants Enforce Grant Bosses Fear : (Continued from Page One) the workers were gathering in head- quarters to begin an organized march to the picket line around the mills on, the South End. It was the South End Hall, on Patomska and South First St. that the police squadron attempted to close. ig Not relying on the possible decision of the license department to renew the permit, the officers of the Textile Mill Committees immediately went out and obtained the use of a large meeting would be held. When the meeting took place later, it was at- tended by more than 1,500 strikers, whose: ‘enthusiasm, instead of being lowered by possible loss of headquar- ters, was greatly increased ‘by the evidence that their picket demonstra- tions were making the bosses “hot under the collar.” Appeal for Aid to Strikers. In state cents issued by the Work- ers’ International Relief, nation-wide appeal is sent out to the whole labor movement, to provide the strikers with bread and other bare necessities When the enthusiasm, and high spirit of the thousands out on strike is, ob- served it is readily admitted by even those not acquainted with labor struggles that the strike will win if the workers are given food. The intense exploitation existing in the mills here, where the average wage of an adult worker was about $16 a week, was the reason for the workers not having anything in re- serve to assist them in holding out. The extremely low standard of living caused by these low wages, have made it certain, however, that if bread and ed by the other workers, the strikers will keep their ranks as solid as on the day when their 100 per cent walk- out shut the gates of 58 textile manu- facting mills. Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? 000,000 a year. Only public owner- ship can relieve the Boston trans- tions, tenant and parents’ leagues, 1other’s clubs and other ‘working romen’s groups to attend the New ‘ork Working Women’s Federation ‘onference to be held Saturday af- ernoon, May 19, at Irving Plaza, rving Place and 15th Street at 2 p. m. The New York Working Yomen’s Federation is the first link 1 what is to be a national move- rent to unite the forces of all work- 1g {women in the United Statas, ousewives as well as industrial wo- nen, Wortis, Schechter To Speak The biggest industrial struggle of working women in New York will e discussed at the conference by Rose Wortis on the condition of women in the needle trades; Gladys Schechter and Sylvia Bleecker on the millinery workers situation which af- fects 4,000 women in the industry. Albert Weisbord will talk on the New Bedford textile strike now involving 80,000 workers. “The United States is the only highly developed country of the world without a centralized organiza- tion of working women to defend their interests on the industrial and political field,” declared Juliet Stu- art Poyntz, of the United Council of Workingclass Women yesterday in commenting on the forthcoming conference, “The New York Federation of Working Women, united on a pro- gram for clear cut action, will fight against capital exploitation in all its forms, and the graft and corruption which it represents. About nine mil- lion women in American industries are without this directing, organiz- ing, militant organization. They are at the mercy of the most powerfully organized corporations and trusts of the world. The call has gone out to working women to federate. The open.lot, and announced to the strik-} policy of the Federation will be to ers evicted “from the hall that a massimake its main drive for women in j industry. Women in the shops are responding now by sending in the names of their delegates. Working women in shops do not have to elect delegates, but should send delegates particularly if the shop is unorgan- ized. All working women in shops, mills, factories, stores, offices, in- dustrial women and housewives are urged to send delegates to the ‘con- ference and participate in starting the New York Working Women’s Federation.” SIXTY FINNISH MILITANTS JAILED MOSCOW, May 9.—-Sixty left wing workers mave been arrested in Fin- land. The Social Democrats are helping the persecution and are employing force in an attempt to gain control of or split the union federation. Finnish capitalism is gloomy. A reduction in lumber and paper ment expenses are growing and means are insufficient.. The munici- pal economy is weak. Hupli and Ryti are seeking loans abroad for Helsingfors. — TWO KILLED IN PLANE BUFFALO, N. Y., May 9.—Wreck- age of the airplane which plunged into Lake Erie near here Friday afternoon was brought to the surface today and the bodies of two flyers production looms while the govern- . portation tie-up and give the im-}who went to their deaths in the plane tion service it needs, transit experts}Lapey, Buffalo, and John Rosecrans, mense metropolitan district the trac-|wer identified as those of James M. - agree. qi you City Enclosed find $. striking areas for .. $1.00°.. Name Address of Milwaukee. i THE DAILY WORKER 83 FIRST STREET New York City . to help send the Daily Worker to the +++» Months, RATES $6.00 .. $3.50 42.00 $1.50 +. 12 months 6 months 3 months 2 months 1 month AN eee been ee ene ee nese eesene