The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1928, Page 5

. Commissioner Higgins who is . that he feared to turn over the rec-|June ‘of the situation. * the sewer situation. — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1928 Graft $200, 000,000 in Street Cleaning Department —» Labor and Fraternal Organizations SCANDALS SPREADS TO ALL BOROUGHS OF GREATER N. Y. Entertainment for Miners’ Reliet. he Uthman Saengerchor is giving a ‘Solidarity Entertainment and Dance’ for the benefit of the striking miners tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the New York Labor Temple, 243 Pad 84th St. batitows 1. Le D. The annual entertainment and dance | of the Downtown International Labor Walker Seeks to Hide as eee Grech, gorner Reoond Corruption PR ne 5 GRIN iehnar Dr Group wiil (Continued from page one) | pr play and di e for miners! shoulder ‘full responsiblity. 1 don’t|Telief tomorrow at ia ae nike the Ukrainian Theatre, see how the head of any department) st. The is going to dodge that résponsibil-) the Youth Committee for ity.” et Bh vert ie Controller Berry, chief tool of the Miners’ Rellef Dance. fa and personal friend of another Mor- Stay 26, at 8 p. m., at rine suepices to be carrying out the orders of the Relief, 799 aKa wees big bankers and their immediate if ie mouthpiece A] Smith in a pre-elec- tion attempt to fumigate the most vile smelling spots on the messy _ Tammany Hall map. Mayor Jimmie Walker connected organization recently Miners Ieor Concert. Friends of Jewish colonization in the Soviet Union will attend the Icor con- cert at Carnegie Hall tomorrow night. Miners’ Relief Ball. A yetcherinka and ball for, miners’ i relief will be given by the Jugoslav with the “old guard” of Tammany] Workers’ Educational and Dramatic i ir “ Club tomorrow evening at the Czecho- Hall and fighting for their “honest| tvax workers’ House, 247 B. 72nd graft” sought to protect his imme-|st, Music will be by the Tamburitza diate henchmen. “I am not a thief| Orchestra. myself,” he declared yesterday, “Tay- lor is also an honest man, he rose from the ranks and is able.” shes “The men who certified the dummy |: payrolls, carrying the names of fic- titious employes, should be sent to jail,” declared Controller Berry whose iL. b. Hike. Members of Sacco-Vanzetti branch , department has, however, refused to|o¢ the 1. L. D, and their friends and | give up certain records in the posses- sates wil hey at 1472 Hoe Roads Sunday, May at 9a. m., to hike to} sion of Deputy Prial who is conduct-|Tiinter's Tsiand, ing an investigation for the Comp- * 24 . troller. The reason given by Prial] .... BAe tak School Hike. for refusing to give up the records|held next Sunda was that to do so might hind@ér the|Deer Ridge, Yon till tipati the school’ are expected to attend. comptfoller’s investigation. Students will meet at the Workers While denying that there had been Se at 8 a, m., and Van Cortland any friction between himself, Macc ee . * “inves- To Aid Min tigating” the graft for the mayor, m3 Ae Comal of ia omen of the Uni.ed Work Deputy Comptroller Prial indicated! oi rative will hoid a midnight. show, at 11.30 p. m., Burke's White Plains Ave. and Burke aon ive eat been seck~JAave.. the Bronx, The Proceeds will go ior ’miners relief, orders of Mayor Walker. Further evidence that the inquiry ane ae Final Nearing Lectures. Scott Nearing will give the final lec- s in his two courses at the Work- School, 108 E. lith St., tomorrow. odern Imperialism” will be given at 2p. m. and “The Development of the American Empire” at 4 p. m, May 20th, to Thirty ers. All students of Theat + Labor Sports Meet. A national tr: and field meet will by Higgins is merely a “white-wash-|be held Suna May 27, at 10 a m, ing” expedient came in the form of|at College mt, under the: direction of the Finnish Sports Club, “Vesa,” 15 a letter written to Walker by the|W. 126th St, which has ‘invited all Citizens Union, attacking the secret aports clubs connected th the Labor | or ni hearings being conducted by the com-|iMes must be made, belore May WZ, missioner of accounts. The Citizens Union is a one-man organization! _Bianners lepers aay M e American ssociation 0: umb- _ controlled by Attorney Wallstein who] ers: 'freipers will hike to Thirty Deer | is seeking to make political capital] Ridge on Sunday, May 20. The meet- “An investigation |!M8, Point will be ‘at 136 E. 24th St, Seat, . a. ™m, your commissioner either open * 2 * secret,” the letter charged, “must Friends of Nature Hike. The Junior Section of the Friends ecessity be inadequate, beeause|or Nature will hike Sunday, May 20, is entirely lacking in to bene eae ae pea he soteene with at Dyckman Street ferry at 8 authority to conduct criminal pro-|mesy, “i.ayeaman treet, ferry at, & ceedings.” It suggests that the in-|Fares wili apnea y to twenty cents. vestigation should be conducted by o oe oo a number of judges, republican and pee: tinted “v.88. wee democratic. It is noted, however, that the Tammany judges mentioned are all immediate followers of Al Smith, M. Holtman, turned from the Soviet Union, will lec- d sla and America” at a meeting of such as Justice Wasservogel. Bronx Women's Council 8, today, at 8:30 p. m., ut 1387 Washington Ave., Revelations of graft in Brooklyn |ironx. “Everybody is welcome. disclosed that out of 5000 names on . . . the payroll at least 3000 were ficti- Downtown I. L. D. Dance. tious. Investigaticns here would dis-| ‘The annual entertainment and danco “om mpi illions, it |0f the Downtown Branch of. the In- close met rynuing=into ‘millions; by ean atiohal Labor Defense will ee hand is believed, tomorrow at 8 p. m. at 35 E. 2nd St, at Second Ave. ‘The proceeds will go to aid the political prisoners in the United States. Queens Sewer Graft Ry Hearings Continue Williamsburg Council Lecture. Gertrude Owen will lecture on “Com- HELD IN BROOKLYN: Anti-Imperialist League | Raps Wall Street Rule| Socrates Sandino, brother of the Nicaraguan rebel leader, Robert Dunn and Manuel Gomez were the} principal speakers at a mass meeting | held last night at Royal Palace Hall, | Brooklyn. Paul Crouch, Communist} soldier, who announced to | speak, was detained by urgent work) in South Carolina and could not at-) tond. —_— “The meeting, which was held under} the auspices of the All-America An ti-| Imperialist Léague, was unusually well attended. Gomez, in his intro- duction, referred to the court deci- sion against the use of the anti- imperialist stickers against Amer- jean intervention in Nicaragua, and who has recently re-, ture on “The Working Woman in Rus- | said that the fight dgainst Nicaragua! “was not a singlé-handed offensive! on Coolidge’s party but a well-planned all-inclusive battl¢ carried on by the jentire capitalist jrov ernment, acting| as a unit with tHe press.” Injunct} m Denied. | The injunction sought by the An. | America Anti-Imperialist Leagisl: nied Wednesday by Federal Judge Thomas Thatcher. Postal authorities had previously declared letters bear- ¢@8¢ was to go to the jury. ing the anti-imperialist stamps as un- mailable. Manuel Gomez, U. S. sec- ~ retary of the Anti-Imperialist League’ contended that the postal department exceeded its authority in barring the stamps, inasmuch as the stamps were neither obscene nor in any way in vio- lation of post office laws. “The decision says that there are no marines in Nicaragua,” stated Gomez last night. “This is another step in the Nicaragua hypocricy. This ‘decision also says that we cannot say ‘that there are marines in Nicaragua. !This action of the postal authorities jand the courts shows that all branches ‘of the Coolidge government are doing leverything in their power to support ithe slaughter of Nicaraguan work- ers. We will ‘continue to fight the Wall. Street war on Nicaragua in‘ every way.” | munism |Williamsbure branch of the United |Council of Workingelass Housewives, on Tuesday, May 22, at 8:30 p. m. at 29 Graham ‘Ave., Brooklyn. | Young Workers To Hike. | Young Workers Social Culture Club and the Browns Youth Center will} go on a hike headquarters at s | |Bristol St. respectively, at 8:20 a. m. | x nr ea : R: zin To Lecture, | Ray Rag of the United Council of Women, will j lecture on Women in the U. § at 8 o’cloc merica and ;Council of Workingclass Women. * ® * on Monday | evening 075 Clinton | \Ave. The lecture will‘ be given under }the auspices of Coun 12, United |, SINDMNO, DUNN Workers ave PROLETCOS PLANS SPEAK ATMEETING 2! | pointed out that “we are working School hike will be against federal interference with mail! cross-examination for the lawyer of | the restaurant on a coop bearing the Sandino stamps was de- the right wing, the latter made his |924 has i firing questions at the w a fur striker. ive Youth Dance. ve Youth Club will Saturday at 8:30 p, m, h St. Important witnesses were to testi- fy yesterday when the Queens Coun- ty grand jury met again to hear fur- ther evidence on the sewer graft. . Their testimony was to touch upon the political history of the borough under Maurice Connolly’s regime .as president, with special reference to New angles.are also expected to be brought out on the relations of John Phillips, alleged leader of the Queens sewer ring, with various contractors. Connolly recent- ly igned under charges. WE ALL MEET at the NEW WAY CAFETERIA 101 ‘WEST 27th STREET ‘EW 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, Women Join Union An agreement has been signed be- MESSINGER’S tween the Binder” Women’s Union, DAIRY and VEGETARIAN Local 43 and the Bookbinders’ Trade RESTAURANT Association which brings 2,500 work-| 11763 Southern Blvd. Bronx, N. ¥. ers into the union, according to Mary Murphy, president of the local. The union at present has a membership of 1,000. é alte lacie Branches: “HIRD AVENUE at 149th STREET. 1000 LONGWOOD AVENU i GUARD YOUR HEALTH ~-MRS. RASKIN of 1707 Boston Road Near 174th St. Sub. Station APT. 4 Offers a limited number of Individually Cooked Meals Telephone Dayton 3200, “Give Everybody a Chance to Read Mel” —The Daily Worker. De. Stagg 6356. Dr, J. C. HOFFER Surgeon Dentist 287 South 5th St., near Marcy Ave. | Brooklyn, N. ¥. Proletarian prices for proletarians. | Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restanrant’ SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radical meet. 302 E. 12th St. New York. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865. All Comrades Meet ae Ls BRONSTEIN’S Ali Comrades and Friends Meet at GEORGE’S LITTLE HUNGARIAN DELICATESSEN STORE 1552 First Avenue, New York Patronize the ITALIAN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT ANTONIO SCHIAVO, Prop. 86 East 4th Street ~_ Cor, 2nd Ave, | NW YORK. 'ARIAN HEALTH TAURANT mi Tel. uehigh 6023. SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A, M. 2-8 P. M. 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Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Isp ‘WORKERS PARTY |) ACTIVITIES NEW YORK—NEW JERSEY |WEISBORD SPEAKS “ITO MILL WORKERS uy MASS MEETING Thousands: of of Strikers lly Time, ays Calvin THOUSANDS of. coal miners, steel, work- vating the ENLARGEMENT. IN <= WORKERS CENTER. [Re estaurant t Will Treble | onvent! bog ers yesterday learned fo: time that they are ¢ artistic spirit in their work a y “If we could surround ourselves | in Size Hear Leader with forms and of beauty,” Calvin | ie rat : Pace nye Coolidge, prgsident of the Un | The Proletcos, the “organization |? (Continued from page one) ates said in a speech yest running the Cooperative Réstaurant |< been asking the leaders of the Tex- American eit Build- tile Mill Committees for an oppor- at 30 Union Square (Frei jing) has announced its pl jenl r Weisbord. It was not ago, however, that able to come to New Museums and the Federation of Art, “the evil things of life would tend to disappear and | ns for the | nent and the remodeling of ¢ enter), tom our moral standards would be |the restaurant » urged to bring | Bedford. raised.” | The Cooperative Restaurant, serv- to participate in the” Takes Workers Back. At the same time Coolidge |ing 3,000 daily, became a favorite eat- As was expected, the other silk mill, New Bedford « Mill, that had to participate in the wage cut ed by the cotton mills, hut down by a agreed to take the t campaign ling place from the moment it opened A out the ideal under which every |jts doors and has from the beginning | Pion one will realize that they are ar- | : Aes tists, in their employment, in their eae pking tived ansied is “ldth St n “Inter- ke of the workers, reereation, in their relations one >. with another.” being turned into a Workers Center | regecape ee the workers back at the old wage After boasting of “high wages | this improvement has been made pos- of the Work.| tates. The first silk mill, capitulating and reasonable hours of labor,” |ile- t morning | yesterday, on the same terms, was the ; aedtos> [ene urant will be more than |“ | Old Col Silk Mill. Coolie gencomnced that: “Duslea- "| coasted It will extend to the Section 1 Unit 0 | ‘ : thropy has given the people access |'t¢bled in size, It will extend to it Qrwanizers. sta|., Lhe settlements were made after to all that is the most beautiful jentire ground floor of the adjoining | enete ante tet the bosses conferred with the officials | Work rs Center Building, 26. 28 | Union its seating ca tity to than three times, from 940 to 300, allowing ample room per of the United Textile Workers’ local council. Progressive union members are greatly dissatisfied with the re- sults of the negotiations, however, be- in form and pee FREE THUGS WHO _ ATTACKED GROSS (Continued | from page one) seat. It will be equipped with Party Picnic will be e the union heads refuse to make latest m ry for preparing, cook- |» ny Sune 28th, at see public the agreement reached with ing, washing and cleaning. The well RENAUD sere! papery st Hugo ert will do omTRER cea” Seam | While the agreement calls for a ing of the rebuilt place. (“Somebody Else Needs Me!” { withdrawal of the wage cut order, oletari 544 uae finance the reb was not unconditional. es 25 and $100, t rom the day th he day they are turn "2 pose. B |6 per cent lare bought to ¢ motion for dismissal just before the Bulldoze Witn This cross-examinati on or before the 3rd th will draw interest t day of the month, a lend ieee Yy, nts from $5.00 1, y/ 0.00, at the rate of Z (9) ing them that they are not comp to answer, and before they hz chance to do so, declaring that *. refusal to answer showed the weg ees eas ness of their case. Aaron Gross, J. Teitlebaum, H. Goldenberg, and A.) Rothman were the witnesses. The === last two were passers by at the time | i A WwW 0 F F I C E of. CHAS. RECHT of the assault, while Teitlebaum was | For the convenience of workers open unt 6 P. M. and all day Saturday. 110 WEST 40th ST. Room 1604. sis h petal of r ount of m til 7 P.M ounts Accepted Gross was ambushed by the a thugs while he was walking on 29th St. June 9, 1927, during the strike. | His assailants leaped at him and crashed two large bottles on his head. For a long time it was feared Gross would die. Gross is a yery frail man, slight of stature, thus jeasily belying-; the statement made by the thugs’ at- | torney that Gross had attacked the gangsters. | | Ij ARE YOU GETTING CO-OPERATIVE Bakery Products (Union Made) N. SCHWARTZ. nt Eee tall ae aD Barber Shop | Co-operative Trading Association, Inc. Wome yt ead i Writh St. EP ot, Windsor 9052. 4301 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. CUSTOM SERVICE 5401 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. for No Tip~Union Barber Shop : | ES AND MEN ae here Age, ||. PADIS 4 Bet. 15th and 16th Streets COURTEOUS. conneDE ae NEW YORK Cit f cxON. 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