The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1928, Page 5

ea ESET I CORE ET SECA —_ LABORATORY MEN DEMAND 44-HR. WK. Fight for Wage Raise, ° Union Recognition More than 1,000 dental mechanics of Greater New York have come’ out on strike. Of the 1,500 workers in this in- dustry in New York City and vicinity, 85 per cent have answered the strike call of the Dental Laboratory Work- ers’ Union, issued at mass meetings in the Labor Temple, Second Avenue and‘E. 14th St., yesterday and Tues- day, according t6“*uhion officials: © < The workers demand a 44-hour weet; time-and-a-half for overtime work, the adoption of a definite mini- mum wage scale, and recognition of |” the union. George E. Powers, of the Tron. Workers’ Union, P. Pascal Cos- grove, and John De Santo, of the New York Council of the Unemployed, addressed the mass meetings. Many laboratories are being pic- keted. | The conditions in the trade, the workers charge, are intolerable. mechanics must have at least three years experience before being quali- fied in the industry. Before a work- er can be considered a full-fledged mechanic, he must have spent from 8 to 10 years in the trade. During this unusually long apprenticeship, the dental mechanic must live on a wage insufficient to pay for neces- sities. Some workers in the trade veceive as little as $18 a week. Even after a worker has become a full- tledged mechanic, he is often forced to work for a starvation wage, doing overtime work for as many as 15 hours a week and being payed nothing” 4 at all for it. This excessive overtime is one of the most powerful factors in the unemployment situation in the trade. There are 1,500 dental mechanics in New York City at the present time who work for the most part in unsanitary, poorly-ventilated shops. There will be another meeting at the Labor Temple today at 10 a, m. to spread the strike and discuss tactics. TEACHERS WIN IN FIGHT ON ALTMAN Publie Quiz % Ordered on Medical Abuse The Teachers’ Union has. scored a vietory-in its fight against the third degree methods of Chief Medical Examiner Dr, Emil Altman when the board of education voted to concede the union’s demand for a public hear- ing. This is to be held in two weeks by the board’s law committee. The union refused to lend itself to star chamber proceedings which would have given officials the chance to blacklist teachers and comniit other acts of reprisal and has demanded the removal of Dr. William J. O’Shea, superintendent of schools, from the committee that is to examine the charges, on the grounds that: hevis biased. One teacher examined by tities physicians, who certified she was suf- fering from extreme~ nervousness, stated that Dr. Altman had accused her of bluffing and tried to intimi- date her into accepting one of three choices, either to retire, stating she was physically and mentally unfit, to take a year’s leave of absence with- out pay, or consent to stand trial on charges for negleet of duty. The Teachers’ jUnion in exposing the treatment of sick teachers by Dr. Altman is fighting in the interests of all teachers in the system, Question of Fics Raised in Atheist Trial Charles Lee Smith, president of the American Association for the Ad. vancemant of Atheism, will appeal his case when he appears next Monday in the Court of Special Sessions to re- ceive sentence for sending propaganda literature and letters to Dr. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist preacher, Justice James Mclrnerny, Ellsworth Healy and Daniel Direnzo have ruled | this a misdemeanor under Sections’ 5651 of the Pemal Code which applies to the sending of threatening com- munications. In the prosecution John S, Sumner, bpaprchie retary of the New York Society for the Suppres- sion of Vice, aided the preacher. The law now applied to sending atheistic literature has heretofore, been con- fined to mailing malicious, or threat ening comunications, according | ‘incent Mannino, ad 3 Allenton Ave. Alljia Tahoe and Fraternal | | Organizations Intertainment for Miners’ Relief. - Uthman Saengerchor is giving |a ‘Solidarity Entertainment and Dance’ | |for.the. benefit of the striking miners| on Saturday, May 19, at 8 p.m, at th New York Labor ‘Temple, 243 E. sith St. . . * Downtown I. L. D. The annual entertainment, and dance | of the Downtown International Labor tur- cond Defense Branch will be held on day evening, May 19, at 36 KE. Street, corner ,Beoona Ayenue, : me Ala Miers, The Drohichner Dramatic Group will present a play and danve for miners’ relief Saturday, May 19 at 8 p. m. at the Ukrainian ‘Theatre, 217 BE. Sixth St. The organization recently joined the Youth Committee for Miners’ Re- liet. aang gt Miners’ Relief Dance. An entertainment and dance for min- ers’ relief will be given on May 26, at p. m., at Rose Gardens, 1347 Boston Road, under the auspices of the Youth Conférence for Miners’ Rellef, 799 Broadway. * . . Ieor Concert. Friends of Jewish colonization in the t Union will attend the Icor con- at Carnegie Hall Saturday night, Rae hae Miners’ Relief Ball. A vetcherinka and ball for miners relief will be given by the Jugoslay Workers’ Educational and Dramatic Club. on, Saturday evening; May 19, at the Czechoslovak Workers" House, 347 B. 72nd St, Music willybeby—the ‘Tamburitza Orehestra, Final Scott Nearing w' tures, inmhis two Nearing Lectures. the final lec- urses thé Work- School, 108 14th St, Saturds 19, at 2 p.m. “Modern. Imper * will be given at 2p. m, and Development of the American Empire’: at 4 p. m. Re eele . LL, D. Hike, Members of Sacco-Vangetti branch of the I. L. D. and their friends and fami Sunda Hunter's Island. s will meet at 1472 Boston Road, sages Workers School Hike. * The Workers School hike wilt 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 Sehool at 8 a. m. and Van Cortland Park, 9 a. * . * 0 Aid Miners. The United Council of Workingclass Women of the ived Workers Co- operative will hold a midnight. show, June 2, at 11.30) p..m., at Burke's Theatre, White Plains Ave. and Burke Ave, the Bronx. The Proceeds will 60 Ter miners relief, * “2 Labor Sports Meet. d field meet will m. A national tract be held Sunday, 27, at 10 at College Point, under the direc of the Finnish Sports Club, “Vesa,” 15 W. 126th St., which has inyited all sports clubs connected with the Labor Sperts.Union to participate. “All. en- tries must be made before May 24. . * Plumbers’ Helpers Hike. The American Association of Plumb- ers’ Helpers will hike to Thirty Deer [rie on Sunday, May 20. The meet- ing point will. be at 136 Bo -24th st; at, 8:30 a m. Manon a ee ' Eriends of Nature Hike. The Junior Section of the Friends of Nature wili hike Sunday, May 20, to Buttermilk Falls. he hikers will meet at Dyckman Street ferry at 8 a.m. Karl Lore will lead the hike. Fares will amount to twenty cents. ich oye Lecture on U. S. R. Working Women. M. Holtman, who has recently re= turned from the Soviet Union, wiil lec- ture on “The Working Woman in Rus- sia and America” at a meeting of Bronx. Women's Council 8, tomorrow, at $:30 p, m., at 1387 Washington: Aye., Bronx- ere meeey. is welcome: «ae Dewataws i. L. D. Danee. The annual entertainment and dance ot the Downtown Branch of the In- ternational Labor Defense will be held Saturday, May 19 at 8 p.m. at 35 E. ing ae at Second Aye The proceeds 0 to a e political in the United ed’ states apo ‘SUGGEST BILL T0 Al) UNEMPLOYED N. Y. Council E Holds Meet! in Union Square The draft of a national unempjoy- ment insurance bill that willbe pro- posed to congress for adoption is now being drawn up by the New York Council of Unemployed, it was -An- nounced yesterday afternoon by John Di Santo, secretary of the Council, at a mass meeting in Union Square, The Council will meet at 10). E. 14th St., at 8 o’clock tonight, to consider the draft. In addition to Di Santo, other akers at yesterday’s mass. meet- thg were: Sylvan A. Pollack of the Daily Worker and M. B. Taft, man- ager, Local 41, International Ladies Garment Workers Union. . George eistle presided. More than a score of jobless workers signed applica- tion blanks for membership in the Council. Cooperators,; Workers M. SUROFF = idobseay 3 you to visit he storé of fia. LADIES’ and BOYS’ Pants, Sport Knickers, Sweaters, - Socks ‘and. Belts r : 735 Allerton; Avenue ’ Bronx, = = Prices reasonable, Pants to order “match coats,” Cooperators — Patronize COOPER’S PAINT STORE Bronx May 20, at 9 a. m., to hike to} TRACTION BARONS ‘BACK COV. SMITH | Admit Contributions to's | Slush Fund | (Continued: Pal page one). sands of shares of Third Ave. Rail- way stock, admitted that besides the | would be willing to give as much more as will be needed to elect Smith. my ability to play.” All this he in- sisted was out of “love and affection for Governor Smith.” Herbert H. Lehman, a banker, who has already contributed $12,000 to the Smith fund, likewise admitted that he would contribute much more. “I expect to give-a lot more,” he said, “after Smith is nominated. Lehman is a director in a number of banks, trust companies and motor corpora-| tions under the control of the Mor- }gan interests. The senate committee, whose ob- vious purpose is to make respectable |these methods of purchasing the pres- idency by Smith and Hoover, both of whom are equally acceptable to the ‘big banking interests, smiled amiably Jat the ‘almost passionate’ “friendship” disclosed by the bankers -and traction magnates in Al Smith. They ap- {peared only a bit taken back that ithe contribution’ had béen made’ in cash: “Do you New Yorkers carry around $6,000 in your pockets?” one |of them asked with what appeared to be something more than impersoral interest. Call Mass Protests. Mass meetings organized by the Workers (Communist) Party to fight against the fare steal and the pro- posed unification plan by which the |Morgan interests are seeking to put over a billion dollar deal are rally- ing the workers throughout the city. Reports from a half dozen meetings held last night indicate the greatest jinterest in the question. Open air meetings will continue throughout the week as follows: Thursday, May 17, 8 p. m., corner of 138th St. and St. Annes Ave. Speakers: L. Baum, G. Padmore, M. Kagan. Friday, May 18, 8 p. mi, cor- {mer 6th Ave. and 110th. St. Speakers: C. Bixby, M. Hartlieb; A. Moreau. Corner 7th Ave. and 138th St.; E. Stanley, J. Padgug, O. Huiswood, 8. Levy. Bristol and .Pitkin’ Ave., Brooklyn; P. Cosgrove, Ch. Raiss, Jul, Cohen, E. Zenbert. JERSEY PRIMARY TRENTON, N. J, May 16— Charges of fraud in the republican and democratic parties are flying thruout the state following the re- sults of the republican primary. Judge Robert Carey, who was re- ported as defeated by Morgan F- Larson in the race for governor by at jleast 35,000 votes, charged that* May- or Hague in Jersey City ordered’ 30,- 000 democrats to cast ballots in the republican primary to assure his de- feat. Sixty Missing in Storm BELGRADE, May 16. — Sixty fishermen were missing today follow- ing a violent storm which swept. the Dalmatian coast. Scores of fishing craft were lost in the storm: and sev- | eral houses were destroyed at Ragusa, Ttaly. Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEO: DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M. 2-8 P. M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday, 249 EAST libth STRERT Cor; Second Ave. | 3YBHAA TIEYEBHMLA DR. BROWN entistry in All Its Branches 801 East 14th St. cor, 2nd Ave... ver the bank, New York, r. J, Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE... Room 803 Phone Algonquin: ‘e1es ‘elephone Stage 5356, Dr. J. C. HOFFER © Surgeon Dentist 287 South. 5th. 8t. Dear hs bed Ave. Sroletarian pric ie eae el DR. MORRIS LEVITT- Surgeon Dentist _ 919. So: Blvd,, ger, Tremont. Ave. BRO Y. Lower Olde: ‘tor Workers, Tremont 1253. ‘ Prospect Optical Institute \ ‘Eyes Examined. Glasses Fitted. }, Ocwlist's Prescriptions Filled, I, STERNBERG me Seated urine Optometrist Sone York Telephone Kilpatrick 8448. Many ‘Noted Writers at Red Poets Night May 24 Poets of many nationalities will | take: part in’ the second annual inté?- national Red Poets’ Night, which will | be held Thursday evening, May 24, at 8p. m. at the Labor Temple, Sec- ond Ave, and*i4th St: The~event, whichgis unique ‘of its kind, will be fentuwd by the reading of revolution- ary poetry in various languages. Many well known poets ‘will “be among those-who-will read from their | \Gcnetieve ~ Taggard, CHARGE FRAUD IN Egri. _M. J. Olgin. will.be chgirman. Tickéts for Red Poets’ Night Bre! 50 cents, all thé: procéads: “to: The DAILY WORKER and the Work- ers gol z ee CAMP To Hold Conference on Workers’ children of New York will again have a camp conducted exclusively foi them, .it Was an- nounced ‘yesterday by the Workers International Relief, which will be in charge of the camp. A conference of workingclass. organizations to plan the camp will be held on May 28, at Irying Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. All workingelass © organizations and parents asked to send delegates. One of the purposes of the new venture, it is announced is to enable workers’ children to: avoid attending Boy and Girl Scout camps and organ- izations maintained by “charitable” societies, ‘ The W. I. R. appeals to all New York ‘workers ‘to aid it in establish- ing the new ee Dry Agents Indicted BUFFALO, .N. ar Np Mays 16,—A former prohibition administrator, his former. assistant and a former chief of the Buffalo enforcement staff were indicted in the district court yesterday on charges of conspiracy %o violate the prohibition law. ‘ SIX YEAR OLD BOY DROWNS. Raymond Roberts, six, of Stapleton, S. 1, was drowned when he tripped 1 fell in the river near Pier 13, Street. Phone Stuyvesant 3316 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES * A. pia. with atmosphere whore all radicals meet. 302 E. 12th St. New York. Health Food. .-- Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. eee UNIVERSITY 581 “Al Garvin tan Meet at -.: «.-BRONSTEIN’S VEGETARIAN HEALTH. REST AURANT ©) 658 Claremont Pkway Bronx. Bronx. WE ALL MEET ~ at the , NEW WAY CAFETERIA 101 WEST 27th STREET NEW. YORK All Comrades, meet at Eatwell Vegetarian Restaurant 78—2nd Aye., near 5th St. N.Y. We serve fresh vegetables only. No animal fats used here. MESSINGER’S DAIRY and VEGETARIAN wren RESTAURANT... 1763 agate ere Bronx, N. Y. nches THIRD AVENUE. at 149th Ce alae 1000 LONGWOOD. AVENUE. GUARD YOUR HEALTH MRS. RASKIN of 1707 Boston Road Be ivont 174th St. Sub, Station APT. 4 nears a limited number of Individually Cooked Meals Telephone Dayton 3200. All Comrades and Friends Meet at GEORGE’S LITTLE HUNGARIAN DELICATESSEN STORE 1562 Fiyst Avenue, New York ANTONIO ‘SCHIAVO, Prop, _ 86 East 4th Street © Cor, 2nd Aye. END INDICTMENTS | || WORKERS . PARTY | ACI TIVITIES IN STREET gna Cela f 'Sovialist Lawyer Is De-|\'> fending Lougheed With two members of the Brook- ‘lyn division of the Street Cleaning made retently that the Hall political machine before the officials who are posed. All those Tammany Hall. Much comment is ‘also being dis- lown work. Some of these are Michael | Department suspended for $70,000 he has already contributed, he \Gold; Joseph: Freeman, James Rorty, jleged part in the huge graft sv “Robert” - Wolf, |i2 that departmerft, the Bronx Henry. Reich, Jr., A. B.cMagil, “Adolf jury has decided not ‘to turn in “I gave that money and I will give | Wolff, Edwin Rolfe, Abraham Raisin, |more indictments for the time beir more,” he testified, “limited only by lH. Leivick, Aron Kurtz and Lajos |it was learned yesterday. |. This is bearing out the predictions | Tammany is doing its utmost to. squash, the entire question leading Tammany « Hall involved and» ex- who yhave: been} either indicted of suspendedfrom the Street Cledning Department up to.the present time. aré active members of | played on. the socialist part: tion with the scandal. first one to admit h the graft ring. Sackin, pointed out, has held i than a score of f things being a candic n office on that party’s ticket every year. Workers Defrauded en How wo! cident, are defre brought out in the ing investigation before servogel and Judge C of the Supreme Co: yesterday. The law heim and Helfant, 885 Brook the Bronx, and Samuel Seligsoh: Broadway, were under fire. Th nesses accused the lawyers; of sol ing their cases on all 1: mises and charging them fat the @ I. M. Sackin; a leading member of the socialist party is the counsel for William H.*Loug- heed, Bronx foreman, who. wa connection it-has } the Section 1 Agitprop Directors. 1 ) direc today at tors To Elect Del * * * Workers Party Piente. The. Works Party -Piente » will be held June 24th, at Pleas- ant Strikers (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOV ay 16.—The miners of AA WA 10] phd E |$600,000 uninised for Increases Held Back The Union of Technical Men has tion at its passed m on or no action is June 1 in vefore that ition, to which the union pur- 400,009 signatures of volved, was case date, A pe mbers. It that the ly half the months’ delay since It “urges warranted s are distri- a flat per- increase for | ce | | | | a} the Soviet on -have sent more to aid the. st = cxeRREKSS. NATIONAL SECRETARY of th + At =z Domrades: Patronize Your Proletarian S LERMAN BROS, Stationers & Print 29 EAST idth STR Corner Union Tel. 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PHILHARMONIC: ORCHESTRA Si Soviet Moving Picture Showing the Life of the Wee ish Colonists in Soviet Russia, ow (Drug Store), s AEN ISLAND: YORI | MICHAEL GOLD | ROBERT WOLF. ADOLF. WOLFF GREATEST b CLASSICAL CONCERT OF THE SEASON Grand ccleow?” Convert For Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia SAT. EVE, MAY 19 57th Viola Philo Dramatie Soprano Metropolitun Opera House ‘Admi ssion office, s Vine 75e, Teor” 799 By VI yk ve. ay : 1060 Castleton Ave. A LECTURE, by JAMES P. 14th St. and 2nd Ave. of | Revolutionary Poets writing in various languages, i including: M, J. OLGIN, C CARNEGIE HALL <TETTE IN A CLASSICAL PROGRAM, 36. BATH BEACH: Mallerman's ‘Book Store, 8603 EE ‘RICAN P SYSTEM ip Cc NNON TIONAL LABOR DEFENSE Adméssion 25c. udes a rip- Labor ubs the TEMPLE Street and 7th Avenue Benjamin Zemach Dancer ; of the oe scow Habina ie 3 otler ‘Sutter Aye. G8 Second Aves aN.