The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1928, Page 5

CHARGE TAMMANY. MAN PROTECTING ACCUSED IN GRAFT “Investigation” Is Put Off by Official Deliberate stalling for time in order to permit those chiefly responsible for | the $200,000,000 street cleaning graft either to escape or to prepare their alibis was yesterday charged against Commissioner of Accounts Higgins, who is conducting the so-called in- vestigation. Shield Tammanyites. Postponement of the investigation | which was to have begun yesterday was ordered by Higgins, who is be- l'wved to be trying to shield the guilty henchmen on the ground that two ma- terial witnesses who had been sub- poenaed to the hearing did not ap- pear. One of them, Frank C, Gan- non, suspended superintendent of the Brooklyn department, has been miss- ing since Monday. Gannon, whose department con- tained at least 3,000 fictitious names with a probability that the graft there totaled many millions yearly, telephoned to Higgins that he would appear this morning, according to a statement by Higgins. Some doubt | was expressed of the identity of the person who had phoned, by those who earlier had charged that Hig- | gins, one of the old Tammany guard, was shielding his cronies. The second who failed to appear is Gannon’s brother-in-law, Edward Yunker, an employe in a department store who is said to have been com- plicated. Higgins admitted that he had ex- amined both witnesses previously but would not state what he had learned. Revelations thus far have indicated that millions of dollars yearly have gone in graft to Tammany henchmen and that many officials “higher-up” have shared in ‘the loot. Recently Mayor Jimmie Walker denied that he has profited from it by declaring: “I am not a thief.” \ j i) “how “Mechanics of Brain”, Sovkino Film Prof. John B. Watson, leader of | che behaviorist school of modern psy- chologists, lectured last night at own Hall, at the showing of a motion pic- ture directed by himself, which dealt with the cause and cure of fear in children. The film illustrated several of the radical principles which Wat- son incoroporated in his recently pub- tished book on the psychological care of children. Another feature of the program. which was arranged by the Anierican Society for Cultural Relations with Russia, was a showing of the Russian film, “Mechanie¢s of the Brain,” which was made in the laboratories of Prof. ivan Pavlov, world-famous psycholo- gist. Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST { Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M. 2-8 P. M Daily Except Friday and Sunday. | 449 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave, New York. 3YBHAA JIEYEBHULIA DR. BROWN Dentistry in All Its Branches 301 East 14th St. cor. 2nd Ave, Over the bank. New York, Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Algonquin 8183 { Telephone 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 Tremont Ave. BRONX, N. ¥. Lower Prices for Workers. Tremont 1253, /PYCCKHM 3YBHOM BPA DR. JOSEPH B. WEXLER © Surgeon Dentist 25 years in practice. Moderate prices, 2283 SECOND AVE. NEW YORK Temple Courts Bldg. Prospect Optical Institute Eyes Examined. Glasses Fitted, Oculist’s Prescriptions Filled. I. STERNBERG $16 Prospegt Ave, Optometrist ge York fy Telephone Kilpatrick 8448, Patronize the ITALIAN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT ANTONIO SCHIAVO, Prop. 86 East 4th Street NE THE DAILY WORK ER, NEW YORK, THURSD Time in Street Cleaning “Probe” AY, MAY 24, 1928 ao ener bt RARE Rush Repairs on Ship as Profits Stop is driving the owners frantic. The Holland-American line is driving men day and night to rush repairs on the transatlantic liner Veendam, which sank after a crash in @ fog on New York Bay recently. The interruption in the flow of profits Workers Party Activities Leaflets Are Ready. | Leaflets and throwaways advertising the mass meeting that will open the/ national nominating convention of the | Party are now obtainable at the dis- trict office. All units should call at| ence to be held on tomorrow at 7:30! Pp. m., at 60 St, Marks Place, Workers Party Picnic, Tue Workers Party Picnic will be! held on Sunday, June 24th, at Pleas- ant Bay Park. * . . Accommodations Wanted. Accommodations are wanted for delegates to the National Nominating Convention. Please notify the Dis- trict Office at 108 HE. 14th St., giving name, address and also the sex of the delegate to be accommodated. Children’s Camp Conference, A conference for the children’s cainp will be held by the Workers’ Inter- national Relief tonight, at -Irv- ing Plaza, Irving Place and loth St. P sine, at Attention Sign Painters. All sign painters who are Party members are instructed to report to the District Office, 108 E, 14th St. after working hours today and tomor- row for some yery important work. Unemployed comrades are also urged to call any time they can. RCE fie Lower Bronx ¥. W. L. Hike. The Lower Bronx Y, W. L. will hike to Tibetts Park § The hikers will meet at_ 8:3 3, St. All members of the League in New York are invited and members of other organizations, Open Air Traction Meetings. Tonicht at 8 o’clock. 188th St, and St. Annes Ave. G. Powers, L. Baum, Gussakoff, Padmore, * * Notice? Due to the Workers Party nominat- ing convention on May 25, alk open air meetings a alled off for that night. * * and 7F Meet, There will ‘be a joint educational meeting of Unit 3F and Unit 7F of FARM WORKERS TO MEET ELLSWORTH Kan., (FP) May 23. —Agricultural workers preparing to follow the harvest will meet in Ells- worth June 15. * Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant: . SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet. 302 E. 12th St. New York. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 6865. All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S af VEGETARIAN HEALTH RESTAURANT 658 Claremont P’kway -=Bronx. WE ALL MEET at the NEW WAY CAFETERIA 101 WEST 27th STREET NEW YORK All Comrades and Friends Meet at ‘GEORGE’S LITTLE HUNGARIAN DELICATESSEN STORE 1552 First Avenue, 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 1763 Southern Blvd. Bronx, N. Yel Branches: | THIRD AVENUE at 149th STREET. 1000 LONGWOOD AVENUE. . Cooperators, Workers M. SUROFF Invites you to visit the store of ‘ MEN’; LADIES! and BOYS’ Pants, 4 Sport Knickers, | Sweaters, | Socks and Belts. 735 Aversa Avenui Bronx, Prices reasonable. 8, id SECOND TRIAL OF MRS.KNAPP OPENS | i Subsection 2A, at 101 West 27th St. at 6 o'clock tonight. | ALBANY, N. Y.—The second tria! of Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, former secretary of state, who is charged with stealing thcusands of dollars in census funds, began here this morn- ing. For more than two hours Prosecutor George Z. Medalie told a story of pad- ded. payrolls and fake checks, while Mrs. Knapp, seen:ingly broken in spir- it, listened in silence. Medalie char- acterized Mrs. Knapp, who will take the stand ih her own -lefense later in the week, as a “cheat, a thief, a liar and a crook.” Women Unionists Move CHICAGO, May 23 (FP).—A social and educational center for working women is in operation with the open- ing of the new quarters of the Chi- cago Women’s Trade Union League at 630 S. Ashland, the so-called Bolshe- vik Boulevard on which the Amalga- mated, the streetcar men, the machin- ists, the railroad workers and other WORKERS DEMAND KENOSHA PICKETS’ RELEASE AT JAIL | Prison Surrounded. by Hundreds KENOSHA, W May 23,—Hun- dreds of workers surrounded the po- lice station here Tuesday night in a demonstration, and demanded the re- lease of the eight strikers arrested for picketing the plant of the Allen-A Hosiery Company in violation of a vicious injunction. The knitters here have been conducting a bitter strike! against a lockout for the past 15 weeks. Three women were let: out of jail at} midnight, but the remaining five men were confined overnight, and held for } trial. on disorderly conduct charges. A Citizens’ Committee of 1,000 has. |been organized at mass meetings called here to protest against the im- portation of armed strikebreakers by |the open-shop mill owners. The com- mittee made a demand on City Man- ager Osborn, that the imported ‘strike- |breakers and thugs be ordered’ out of jtown. It is generally believed, how- lever, that the city authorities will issue no such orders because they are almost completely controlled by the labor-hating Nash Motor Company. whose factories are situated here. Despite the fact that the district attorney is known to have aroused the hatred of a bootlegging gang by prosecuting several of its number, the capitalist newspapers are saying: “It is believed that strikers at the hosiery} mills may have instigated the at-| tack.” : While the boss controlled police may attempt to engineer a frame-up of strikers, such an attempt will prob- ably be unsuccessful, it is believed due to the fact that nearly the whole population of the city is sympathetic to the strikers. Denver Mailers Strike When Three Are Fired three mailers suspected of having joined the union were fired this labor organizations own their organi- zatio. morning, all remaining mailers of the Denver Post walked out. “Big Bill” Haywood Friday Evening, June ist, at 8 P. M. Fighter and Revolutionist CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th St. an Prominent AUSPICES: WORKERS Admission id 8rd Ave. Speakers. (COMMUNIST) PARTY, DIST. 2 25 Cents. WORKERS CO-OPERATIVE CA MIP Nitgedaiget BEACON, N. Y. __ Ready for the opening of the ~ Sixth Summer Season Opening celebration Decoration Day MAY 30th (Unofficially the entire camp will be opened May the 25th.) NEW YORK OFFICE: nee Pants to order to | mateh conti. J 5th AVE. Tel. Algonquin 6900. CAMP TELEPHONE: BEACON 781. DENVER, Colo, May 23.—When | |hold a vetcherinka for miners’ ‘Labor and F aternal News ing at 8 p. m,, at ch Ave., Brooklyn, on the Development of ‘Women nce Miners’ Relief Dance. An entertainment and dance for min- ers’ relief will be given’ on Saturde May 26, at, 8 p. m. at Rose Garde’ 1347 Bostoh Road, under the auspic of the Youth Conference for Miners Relief, 799 Broadway. Se subject, in Indust the Colonial Days.” is the lecturer. * - neil 8 of lower Bronx will ’ meeting on Monday P m., at sky To Aid Miners. 138th St R Ragozin, Pauli The United Council of Workingclass | Rogers and G. Gordon will addre Women of the United Workers Co-|the meeting operative will hold a midnight show, | * * June 2, at 11.30 p, m., at Burke's | Marxism-Leninism Course. ‘Theatre, White Plains Ave. and Burke] There will > session. in “Mar Ave, the Bronx. The Proceeds will|ism and Lenin ,’ Bertram D, Wol go tor miners relief, instructor, tonight at ee * |School, 108 E. 14th St. Labor Sports Meet. \sion will be on next Thursday, May A national track and field meet will |3 be held Sunday, May 27, at 10 a. m. | at College Point, under the direction | of the Finnish Sports Club, “Vesa,” 15 | W. 126th St, which has invited | OF MINE DEATHS tries must be made before May 24. . * . Operators Violate All Safety Rules (Continued from page one) {been caused by the discharge of coal |dust took place after the day shift of 600 men had left and 75 of the 1, at 8:30 p. m. Mine Relief Dance. | ‘Women's Council 8 of the Bronx will | relief on Saturday, May 26, at 1387 Washing- ton Ave., Bronx. * « Plumbers’ Helpers’ Move. The office of the American Associa- tion of Plumbers’ Helpers will be lo- cated hereafter at 7 East 15th St. All communications should be sent to that address, T. U. BE. L, of I. L, G. W. U. Meets. A general membership meeting of the Trade Union Educational League of the International Ladies’ Garment international ‘ /night shift had entered the mine. The | ere ee rn nt Tea nates field today \death toll may be even greater than B. 4th St, |the company officials are willing to jadmit. The operators are open shop }and union-hating. * 8 ee Children’s Camp Conference. A conference for the children's camp Will be held by the Workers’ Inte national Relief tonieht at, ing Plaza, Irving Place and 15 All sympathizers are invited to pie “eine * * MATHER, Pa., May 23.—Bodies of Sth St. attend. /176 victims have already been. re- Friends of Nature. The Junior Section of the Friends of Nature will hike Sunday, May 2 Sleepy HoHow, Anton Keppel le The hikers will meet at Van landt Park, 242nd St. at 7:30 Fares will amount to eighty cents. Members of the Junior are invited to attend a lecture entitled Trees of New York” to be held to- morrow evening at Prospect Hall. Prospect and Fifth Aves.. Brooklyn. Workingelass Housewives. A lecture will be given at a meet- | ing of the Bakers’ Council No. 1 on | Friday evening, May 25th, at 8 p. m., | at 1387 Washington Ave., Bronx. The | Speaker will be Dr. Movshovitz, | > Colliery in which over 200 miners are known to have died as a result of an jexplosion Saturday morning. The _|whole district is in mourning. ‘To Test Efficiency of Aircraft For Next War COLUMBUS, 0., May 23.—Comple- tion of the plans for the second trans- continental air derby from New York to Los Angeles, with the plane classi- fications and stop-over points have been announced by Kline Roberts. | | | | | | | A lecture will be given at a meeting ‘CHICAGO ACTIVE IN moved from the open shop Mather | NEW CAMPAIGN FOR “DAILY” SUBS /Use Novel Plan to Give |. Paper to Miners ‘Subscription work in Chicago. is proceeding at a rapid rate, declared |S. T. Hammersmark, DAILY WORKER Chicago agent, who arrived jin New York yesterday to attend the | National Nominating Convention’ of the Workers (Communist) Party. Hammersmark brought with him 18 new subscriptions to The DAILY ! WORKER. Hammersmark also brought with | him bundle orders for the distribution | of the Daily among the miners in the | various sub-districts of Illinois. This | will be an important feature of the campaign to spread the influence of |The DAILY WORKER, Hammers- |mark said. One hundred thousand Il- |linois miners are on strike under the |direction of the Save-the-Union Com- jmittee, and it is of the greatest im- portance to them that they receive The DAILY WORKER regularly to aid them in their great struggle. Another interesting feature of sub- |seription work in Chicago is the | method of securing subscriptions for {striking miners. Each Workers Party {unit is given a collection box and each member puts three cents into this box at every meeting. In this way }enough money is collected to secure la number of ‘free subscriptions for | miners every week. Other cities thruout the country are also showing renewed energy and the | DAILY WORKER subscription drive jis reaching workers who had never | known of the paper before. | SECTION 3 EXECUTIVE MEETS. The enlarged executive of Section 3 will meet Thursday, at 6.30 p. m., at 101 West 27th St. All sub section organizers must be present. | | | Sf SGP Aepainda 2a, “Bi osS¥SPiNE |” Starting September 5, itis expected £0. mo. The Speaker will be Comrade | that the race will take up the better a or ae 9 - | part of five days. Workingclass Housewives, | = —- = ——— _ Council 17 Will hear a lecture to- | “For Any Kind of Insurance” CARL BRODSKY 7 E. 42d St. New York City Telephone Murray Hill 5550. Patronize LERMAN BROS. Stationers & Printers 29 EAST l4th STREET x =& Corner Union Square Fel. Algonquin 3256, 3843, in Honor of the MARY WOLFE of STUDENT OF THE DAMEOSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS Moved to 242) BRONX PARK EAST Near Co-operative Colony. ‘Telehone ESTABEOOK 225, °°" Special sttcs to students from the Co-operative House, No Tip-Union Barber Shop 77 rIFTH AVE. Bet. 16th and 16th Streets NEW YORK city Individual Sanitary Service by Bx- perts. — LADIES’ HAIR BOBBING SPECIALISTS, Patronize » Comradely Barber Shop. at are $1.50 per plate, and j RED WELCOME FEST Arranged by the Party Members of District 2 Reservations must be made in advance. Delegates to the National Nominating Convention the Workers (Communist) Party of America to be held on SATURDAY, MAY 26, at 8 P. M,, the WORKERS CENTER, 26-28 Union Square Tickets are on sale at 108 East 14th Street and 26-28 Union Square. of the Workers (Communist) Party ® WELCOME. DEMONSTRATION GREET THE DELEGATES . National Nominating Convention For President of the United States of America SPEAKERS BEN GITLOW BEN GOLD WILLIAM Z. FOSTER B. H. LAUDERDALE, Texas SEN. CHAS. E. TAYLOR, Mont. SCOTT NEARING, New Jersey L. FORT-WHITEMAN, Alabama WM. W. WD:NSTONE STANLEY CLARK, Oklahoma JAY LOVESTONE, Chairman. JAMES P. CANNON WM. F. PATTON, Iowa TOM AUenTON Michigan | SCOTT WILKINS, Ohio | Calif. FRIDAY EVENING Musie by Hungarian Workers Symphony Society. _.. MECCA TEMPLE, 133 West 55th St., New Yo MAY 25th rk Admission 50 cents,