The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1928, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1928 Amalgamated Convention Talks Boss “Welfare” As Old Sweat Shop Looms 4QHR. WK. IGNORED Workers Party Activities’ HOLD 2 ARRESTED Night Workers Meet Today. special meeting to discuss the election campaign will be held by International Night Workers} this afternoon at 2:30, at} Marks Place, A , BY HILLMAN GANG, “Help Bosses” Is Slogan, at Biennial (Continued from Page One} | | ation at the | convention. | What the: general: board's report, Coney iain Branch Meet. does contain in. the Way of new pro-| The Coney Island Branch will meet | posals is “increased cooperation with ee gee ee earn employers. ”- In face of the growing) misery and unemployment among the! union membership the report of the) .¢“. font will be held, Thursday at Hillman. administration recounts in|}i p. m./at 60 St. Marks Place, oan pai of ba il hebabinig Aachen: Koto uetuating price levels, the nee All literature agents in the future for installation of new ‘machinery,| will secure their literature from the chain store competition, the trouble) Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Sq. fone flight up.” entailed by needed reorganization. of working forces, the general indus- trial depression and many other ‘ills of the bosses~are related in the re- port. As remedies the following pol- icies are’ offered in: addition to the} general one of cooperation: Develop-| ment of union. leaders skilled in| natiouet nominating convention:of the problems, so that advice can be of-| once for their quota. No charge will fered the bosses “for the good of the | be.made. : industry;” a further extension of the! Praction hentieta. policy of lending thousands from the | The new leaflets on the seven..cent Amalgamated treasury in order to line dletrict office’ on Wednesday.” Ail ide units should call for ‘their quota. difficult periods. This policy was re- . eorded as having been successful in preventing “disaster” for at--least | three manufacturers. Other propos- als, such as suggesting new lines for | Jebwikke: ieand, manufacture, are outlined by~ the fh A membership meeting in Newark “gnion leaders.” |will be“held this evening at 93 Mercer A Good Time For All. 1a Somtade Ravitch will ‘represent The other manifold “activities” of | Da Meee ee the 300 “delegates who invited 700 to} accompany them as “guests” on spe- | cial trains at union expense are part- ; ly related by announeements issued | yesterday. The general executive board members were entertained Sat- urday night at a banquet in the North Bend Inn. The convention, at its open- | ing yesterday, enjoyed.an “extended” | ‘musical program. “Delegates and ‘guests’ are to partake of the first éntertainment, after which they will | ors a steamship ride up the Ohio! | Anti- Imperialist Meet eds Thursday More plans for entertainments in- | clude: two receptions fox Monday | lithe Branch 60 St. Elect Delegates to Convention. élection of delegates to: the na-| ul nominating convention of the} Workers (Communist) Party will take | uce Friday at 8 p. m, at 108 KE. 14 at a meeting of all. Party fun peace-of-a-graveyard) tionaries. All. unit functionaries mu jattend the pect cits . * . Section 1 Agitprep Directors. A meeting of all Agitprop directors * FDL 2c, FD1 2C, formerly 2E, | will: meet tomerraw at 6:30 p. m. at-136 E i6th « . . Leaflets Are Ready. Leatlets and throwaways advértising the muss meeting that willsoyeh.the Netkers bey Picate: The Workers Party Picnic will be held on Sunday, June 24th, at Pleas- ant Bay Park. FD3, 3E. Unit FD3, Subsection 3E will meet today at 101 W. 27th sp, at 6:15 p.m, ‘MILLINERS FIGHT ANDINO night, the expense to be borne by two |: Cincinnati locals; two other locals to! pay for two receptions on Tuesday | night; a sightseeing tour and dinner- | dance for Wednesday afternoon and night; a large reception Thursday | night; a special entertainment to be j given at the expense of the local Joint Board for the women “guests” of the | delegates.. A grand dance for every- body on Friday night on the roof of the Hotel Gibson will conclude the convention of the ynion officials and their “guests.” 18 Pp. m, at the Royal Palace, 16 Man- Paul Crouch, who has just returned from the Soyiet Union, and Socrates Sandino, brother of the Nicaraguan rebel leader, will be the leading speak- ers at a rally of the New York branch of the All-Ameri League this Thursday, May 17, at hattan Ave. near Broadway. Other speakers will be Manuel Gomez, U. S. Secretary of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League, and V. Touras, editor of Laisve, Lithuanian.Commu- nist weekly. Astoria Concert, | The intetnational branch of Long Is- | land will give a concert for Miners | Reliéf Saturday and Sunday at Bohe- mian Hall, Woolsey Ave., Astoria, Long | Island, > . . Collect Over $8,000 For’ Strike Relief | | 38 IF. ‘Unit SB iP “will meet today at 6: Dp. m., at 101 W. 27th St. A roll will be taken. | (Continued from page one) | National. Miners’ Relief Committee} according to an announcement made yesterday by the committee from its headquarters, 799 Broadway. Full re- ports have not yet been checked up but.as soon as these can be tabulated, complete returns will be announcod. national aspect, the army of collec- International Event. Interantional Branch Meeting. Comrade Darin will discuss the min- | ers’ situation at an-educational meet- ing of 1D iI (International Branch) | tomorrow evening at 7:30 at 60 St. Marks Place, |for the benefit of the striking min fon Saturday, lof the Downtown International L |day evening, May 19, at 35 B. Labor and Fraternal News Relief. Entertainment for Miners’ The Uthman Saengerchor is a ‘Solidarity Entertainment and Da May 19, at 8 p,m, at the New York Labor Temple, 243 B. 84th FY . * Downtown I. L. D. The annual entertainment and da Defense Branch will be held on Street, corner Second Avenue. oe . To Ald Miners. The Drohichner Dramatic Group wi present a play and dane: relief Saturday, May 19 the Ukrainian Theatre, h The organization recently joined Youth Committee for Miners’ Re- St th lief. . . Miners’ Relief Dance. The tag days took on a true inter- | tors including Jugoslavs, Czecho- slovs, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Fin Spanish, Polish workers and Russian. It is estimated that in all two thou- sand six hundred volunteers worked TO SAVE UNION Shop Strikes Reply To Disruption Scheme (Continued from page one) they ordered the milliners to register. Twenty girls, -working for the Quintet Hat Company were told to go to the union office by the employers. They were led to the office of Local 24. where they were tricked into sur- rendering their membership books of Local 43. After learning that they had been duped they went to the office of Local 43, and held a shop meeting where a resolution of protest against the action of the officiaidom| of Local 24 was unanimously passed. They then took out new union books and pledged their wholeheartd sup- port of theirs union. Workers Fighting. In many cases the men workers belonging to Local 24 asked to be called out on strike, since they know that the bosses help can be obtained ‘only by concessions worsening the conditions of all workers. The threat of the Quaker Hat Co. tee the Herman Frank Shop that all {those not registering would be im- mediately discharged, was met by the immediate walkout of all the girls {employed in the plants. Enthusiastic picket lines are being conducted be- fore all shops locking out their work- ers, 0 MINE UNIONS CALL CONVENTION (Continued from page one) original to the arrangements commit- tees before May 21. The credentials and all resolutions should be sent to Robert Matusek, 4591 Harrison St. Bellaire, Ohio. hundred young workers. An active part was also taken by Negroes, working under the Negro Committee for Miners’ Relief. Determination to put the drive across with a bang characterized the efforts of the collectors. One of the children arrested, Isidore Melnick, kept asking his police escort to con- tribute for the striking miners, ex- plaining the cause. This was done also by a young worker who was ar- rested in Bath Beach, with the re- warning. Well Organized. Section committees ‘including the Bronx and Harlem committees, the Downtown Committee, the Williams: | burg Committee, all did very well, due | to the systematic way in which they | had organized for the drive. Many | new organizations were drawn in and made a fine showing. The most ac- tive of the Youth Conference 'sta- tions so far.reported, were. the Brownsville Young Workers.’ Social and Culture Club of 118 Bristol St., an organization which for the first time participated in_relief work, the Young..Workers League ~ - Bath Beach, Downtown _Manhattan;.: the Jewish Workers University, the Har- lem youth workers. The largest; sta- tions have not yet-béen heard from. The Children’s Committee for Min- | ers’ Relief reported that among the | children most active were those of the Pioneers, the Jewish Non-Partisan Workers Schools, the Lithuanian Children’s School, the Czechoslovakian School and the Sholem Alechem School. KILLED BY TRAIN. during these two days to save the | miners’ union: one thousand adults, | et one thousand school children and six | sult that the policeman not only con- | tributed, but turned him loose with a | BARRINGTON, N. J., May 14.— George W. Genskar, 68, was killed today when his truck was hit by a Reading Railway train at a grade} National Abor ‘Sports | Atheist Leader Tried On Meet to Be Held Here | _ Straton’s Charges A national track and field meet-will Charged with sending ‘atheist <let- he held Sunday, May: 27, at.10 a, mz ters:to Dr. John Roach Straton;*fun- College Point, under the direction] damentalist preacher, Charles. Smith, at of the Finnish Sports Club, “Vesa,”| president of the American Society for | 15 W. 126th St., which has invited all | the Advancement of Atheism, was on sports clubs connected with the Labor Sports Union to: participate: The program will include a 200 metre run, 400 metre fence run, 1,500 metre run, 4,200 metre run, 1,500 metre walk, broad and high jump contests, shot put (16 pound), ham- mer (36 pounds) and javelin throw. The contests will be governed by the rules of the Labor Sports Union. All’ entries miust- be made” before May 24. trial in special sessions court yes- terday. = Straton took the stand as the first witness for the prosecution and was cross-examined by Smith, who is a lawyer.’ When Smith asked’ why Straton had waited six months before he decided to bring legal action only after_learning that Smith was~-send- ing similar atheist articles to chil- dren, Straton also told of a conferériée’ at his home, between himself and Smith, . last. October. Texas Federation of “At the end of the conference,” he Labor’ Meets May 21 | said, “1 formally demanded-that Mr. Leaders of Sub-District. crossing near his home. The Arrangements Committee '|members who sign the call are presi- dents of thirteen of the largest locals {in the’ sub-district. These are: W. E. | Hines, ‘president of L. U. 2138; Flush- ing; R. U. Wallace, president of L. U. |2262, Dilles Bottom; Joseph Cantor, | president of L. U. 2591, Flushing; |Jamse Vall, president of i U. 2059, Dillonvale; Jack Bell, president of L. U. 971, Yorkville; Frank Butter, pres- ident of L. U. 170, Lansing; Joe Ven- eri, president of L. U. 5714, Pow- hatan; Robert Matusek, president of L, U. 1840, Shady Side; Frank Se- pich, president of L. U. 3562, Neffs. Cop Pleads Guilty Stephen J. Keiper, Staten Island, a thounted policeman attached. to the New Dorp Station, now under suspen- sion, pleaded guilty to one reduced \charge of petit larceny in the Rich- mond County Court, St. George, Staten Island, yesterday, when ar- raigned on four indictments, each | Cooperators — Patronize COOPER’S PAINT STORE 759 ‘Allerton Ave., Bronx WE ALL MEET at the NEW WAY CAFETERIA. 101 WEST 27th STREET NEW YORK All Comrades meet at Eatwell Vegetarian Restaurant 78—2nd Ave., near 5th St. N. Y. We serve fresh vegetables only. No animal fats used here. MESSINGER’S DAIRY: and VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT | Smith stop sending me this literature. He sort of sneéred and. ‘the letters | SAN ANTONIO, 1 Tex., May 14.— kept on coming.” The Texas State Federation ot Labor 1763 Southern Blvd. Bronx, N. Y. Branches: jcharging burglary in the third de- \gree. He was remanded to jail for dsentence on May 18. THIRD AVE will hold its annual convention ‘here | beginning May 21. The Texas Labor Federation- is completely ‘under the domination of a réactionary clique, which favors non-admission of Negro workers into unions and staunchly Supports the democratic party: Texas” workers are among the lowest paid in the country. | Church Head, Murderer ' PITTSBURGH, May 14.—Rred Tyr- LABOR MICHAEL GOLD JOSEPH FREEMAN JAMES RORTY ROBERT WOLF ADOLF. WOLFF j ' rell, superintendent of the Sunday. School of the First Christian Church in Munhall, a suburb, was arrested. today for the murder of | Phillip, FB Clark, attorney.” Phone Stuyvesant 3816 | John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere f where all radicale meet. 302 E. 12th St. Mew York. ; Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5866. All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S 4 . VEGETARIAN HEALTH RESTAURANT 558 Claremont P’kway Bronx. | 2nd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL _ RED POETS’ NIGHT Thursday, May 24th at 8 PL M, at the 14th St. and 2nd Ave. \ Revolutionary Poets writing in various languages, including: GENEVIEVE TAGGARD M, J. ‘OLGIN; ‘Chairman ' For Benefit of Daily Worker and Workers Center. TICKETS 60 CENTS, Jomrades: Patronize Your Proletarian Stationare LERMAN BROS, Stationers & Printers 29 EAST 14th STREET Corner Union Square Tel Algonquin 3256, 8843, No. Tet Barber Shop. 77 cIFTH AVE, 4 EW YORK CITy Individual Ape Service by Ex- CLA N. perts. — LA Foie. BOBBING TEMPLE | MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE aie tite CONSERVATOR PIANO LESSONS Moved to 2420 BRONX PARK EAST Near Co-operative Colony. Apt. 5H. HENRY REICH, JR.’ A. B. MAGIL Telehone ESTABROOK 2459. ABRAHAM RAISIN Special rates to students from the H, LEIVICK Cc LAJOS EGRI, ete. » ARON KURTZ SAM LESSER ' CLEANING and DYEING 1818—7TH AVE. Next door to Unity Cooperatiye 10% Discount to- members of Cooperative An entertainment and dance for min- ers’ relief will be given on May 26, Rose Gardens, 1347 Bos r the auspices of the Yo for Miners’ Relief, h 799 | Plumbers Helpers Hike. The American Association of rand: , des In- Helpers will hike to Palis te Park on Sunday, May sting point will be at 136 E. | Street. ree rege Workers Schoo! Hike. The Workers ool hike will be held next Sunday, May 20th, to Thirty Deer Ridge, Yonkers, All students of |the school are expected to attend. |Students will’ meet at the Workers }School at 8 a. m., and Van Cortland |Park, 9 a. m. L. Yorkvitle D. The Yorkville Er branch of the International Labor Defense will hold an open air meeting on 7th St. and First Ave. tonight. . ~ . To Aid Miners. The United Council of Workingclass Women of the 30: | June 2, at 11.30 p, m, at Burke's Epa White Plains Ave. and Gurke the Bronx. The Proceeds will = ter miners relief. | R. R. CLERKS TO MEET. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 14.—The! \thirteenth regular convention of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steam- ship Clerks opened today. The office} of the Brotherhood has been moved from Cincinnati for the convention. Among the important, issues before | the membership are a_ proposed! amendment to revise the constitution to change the apportionment of the grand lodge per capital tax. Tel. Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A.M. 2-8 P. ML Daily Except Friday and Sundas” 249 EAST 116th STRENT Cor. Second Ave. New York. B3YBHAA JIEYEBHULA DR. BROWN Dentistry in All Its Branches, $01 East 14th St., cor. 2nd Ave, Over the bank. New York, Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 |Pelephone Stagg 5356. Dr. J. C. HOFFER Surgeon Dentist 287 South 5th St., near Marcy Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. *‘roletarian prices for proletarians. DR. MORRIS LEVITT Surgeon Dentist 1919 So. Blvd., near pesunas Ave. BRONX, N) Lower Prices for W chery Tremont 1253. Prospect Optical Institute | || Byes Examined. Glasses Fitted. Oculist’s Prescriptions Filled, I. STERNBERG 916 Prospect Ave. Optometrist» “Sew ¥orn S* Telephone Kilpatrick 8448, Grand For at 8:30 Herold Kravitt Great Opera Basso N. Y. PHILHARMONIC Ticket Stations at NEW YORK! Rest., 216 E. 14th St. Book erate, 1310 Southern Blvd. BORO PARK: . 20th Ave. STATEN ISLAND: 10 e for miners’ | t | ‘land Irving Place. as to representation, and a proposal | EXTEND WIND-UP " OF CENTER DRIVE Lecture on U, S. 8. R. Working Women has M. Holtman, who recently re turned from the Soviet Union, wiil lens he Working Woman in Rus- rien” at a meeting ap Award Banner at n's Council 8, rid 30 p. m., at 1887 Washi , ronx. Everybody is we | Affair June Be: . ” ty (Continued from Page One) Downtown I. L, D. Dance. are given an opportunity to raise | them in full. ota | The final wind-up of the drive will ke place at a concert and dance | that will be. given the Workers Center Saturday even , June 2, On this occasion the revolutionary ban- yer now on display at the Center will be awarded to the unit making the highest totals in the drive. Up till now the competition among the units has been so intense that it has been impossible to determine the winner. CANNON TALKS ON The +t few weeks, with the ex- tended opportunity of collecting all To Dikerss .X Number of pledges and securing new contribu- Famous Cases tions, will decide the winner of the banner. | The concert and dance will also be | The Saceo-Vanzetti case, the frame- the occasion for final contributions to jup of Mooney and Billings and other the campaign. All units and work- famous frame-ups will be di ed ers’ organizations are urged to make by James P. Cannon, national secre- their contributions as high as pos- tary of the International Labor De- sible at this affair. For this it will fense, who will lecture on the Ameri- be necessary to sell all the “bricks” can frame-up system Friday evening on the new Workers Center collection at 8 o’clock at Irving Plaza, 15th St. lists. Tickets for the concert and The lecture will be, dance are 75 cents and can be secured given under the auspices of the New at the Center. York Section of the I. L. D., 799 ‘The art exhibition now being con- yroenre ducted on the sixth floor of the Cen- Cannon, who has made a special toy jg attracting increasing numbers study of the frame-up ‘system, has of workers, The work of many paint- just returned from a lecture tour ers and sculptors, some of them of thruout the country, during which he | international fame, is on view from 4 isited many class war prisoners. His to 9 p, m. daily. lecture is of particular interest at the present time in view of the fact that GUARD YOUR HEALTH MRS. RASKIN | that the International Labor Defense of jhas started a nation-wide mass move- 1707 Boston Road > annual ente: D aid. the political prisoners 2 United States, at |ment to free Mooney and Billings. All those attending the lecture will ,Teceive a free three-months’ subscrip- \tion to the Labor Defender, organ of the International Labor Defense. Socks and Belts at 735 Allerton Bronx, Avenue Prices reasonable. Pants to order match coats. | | | | | to Cooperators, Workers Near 174th St. Sub. Station M. SUROFF eee Invites you to) visit Offers a limited number of the store of ca : MEN'S, LADIES' Individually Cooked Meals | and BOYS’ : Pants, Telephone Dayton 3200. Sport Knickers, Sweaters, All Comrades and Frienés Meet at GEORGE’S LITTLE HUNGARIAN DELICATESSEN STORE 1552 First Avenue, New York \ | WELCOME. _ Phone Algonquin 8183 GREATEST CLASSICAL CONCERT OF THE S SAT. EVE, MAY 19 Soviet Moving Picture Showing the Life of the Jewish Colonists in Soviet Russia, HARLEM: M. Snow (Drug Store), 48rd St. & DAVE GORDON | who was just released from the reformatory | | Wednesday Evening May 16th at 8 P. M.,, at the | WORKERS CENTER 26-28 Union Square. SPEAKERS: | ROBERT MINOR, Editor of The Daily Worker ALEXANDER BITTELMAN BERT WOLFE W. W. WEINSTONE H. ZAM PHIL FRANKFELD | | Also DAVE GORDON will tell of his experiences im the reformatory. iI || Hil SON “Icor” Concert Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia CARNEGIE HALL Sith Street and 7th Avenue Benjamin Zemach Dancer of the Moscow Habina Viola Philo Dramatic Soprano Metropolitan Opera House ORCHESTRA SEXTETTE IN A CLASSICAL PROGRAM. ‘Admission 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. “Icor” office, 799 Broadway; Eatwell Veg. Rest., Taten's Vinegarten Rest. 26 KB. 109th St, , cor. Wilkins, BROWNSVILLE: Goldstein's Book Store, 365 Sutter Aye, 18th Ave. BATH BEACH: Mallerman’s Book ane soos 78 Second Ave.; Soll: BRONX: homey & Kotler 60 Castleton Ave.