The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1928, Page 5

/ | WILL CONTINUE FIGHT ON PIECE WORK, ANSWER Right Wing Aids Lies} = of Bosses (Conttnued from Page One) Industrial Council had declared that he would permit piece work and over time at single time in his effort to destroy the Sigman scab union. The rest of the statement is taken up with a declaration that, due to the open shop condition in the industry it can- not be expected that the members of the Industrial Council will bear the burden of the 40 hour week. They therefore appeal to the Impartial chairman to call a conference of the bosses and Sigman. Discussed the statement as a whole Hyman later branded it as “another manoeuyver to serve as a prop for the rotting Sigman structure.” Referring to the” mention of himself, Hymar declared that the only time he was ever in the shop of I. Grossman was when he called to stop the employer | from locking out his workers for rb- fusing to register in the right wing union. Hyman said that if he had been prepared to allow the destruction of union conditions, there would not have been any desire on the part of the bosses to break their agreement with the Joint Board and sign a fake one with Sigman’s “Union.” Even the call upon the impartial chairman for a conference and hear- ing, with which the statement ends, is‘a fake, Hyman said. “The impar- tial chairman will no doubt grant this hearing and rule that the bosses must | abide by the 40-hour week point inj the agreement. Thus giving another | fake victory to Sigman in his attempt to decieve the workers. He added that none of the bosses intend to observe the fourty hour week, whether it is on paper or not.” “yen ‘Gross- man, who is president of the Indus- trial Council, makes as many wage cuts as he desires, having only re- cently enforced a 20 per cent reduc- tion in wages,” he said. “The association bosses will con- tinue to enforce the existing 60 and 70 hour week,” Hyman concluded. “ORM PERMANENT. CLOAK COUNCIL 1,000 Delegates at Shop Meeting (Continued from page one) thru the members of the Council for participation in the work of organiz- ing the trade. 3. The executive Committee of the Council shall constitute the local sec- tion of the National Organization Committee. 4. The Joint Board functions shall be settlements with bosses; the call- ing of shop meetings, attending to complaints, and work of a similar nature. 5. For. co-ordination of the work the executive committee of the Coun- cil will have representation on the Board of Directors of the Joint Board. This body meets once a week. Organization Work. The detailed provisions of the reso- lution on organization work unani- mously adopted at the conference are as follows: 1. The incoming local section of the National Organization Committee stands instructed to prepare the launching of an organization cam- paign in the industry. 2. A rank and file organization committee of 500 shall be built up. A calb is therefore. to be issued to the workers in the | industry asking them to contribute to the erection of this committee by! sending one member of each shop to} join its work. 3. An immediate reg- istration of all open shops shall be begun. Shop committees shall be or- ganized in as many open shops as . possible. 4. A call shall be issued to W the workers in the open shops to bring’ ‘ complaints to the union headquarters, and in order to obtain help to build these committees, which will prepare the workers to rally to the call of he Organization Committee when they. open the drive. Support Tax. A resolution endorsing the decision for the Boston conference to levy a voluntary $10 tax, was also unani- mously carried. The tax is to fur- nish funds for the carryying on of the organization campaign. The resolu- tion also stipulated that a call be issued to the cloak and dress makers to form committees in the shops for the collection of this tax. Despite the organized obstructions made by a self styled group of “anar- chists,” who lined up with the Sigman- ites a membership meeting of the Russian Polish Branch of the Cloak- makers’ Union held last Friday night, decided by an overwhelming majority to affiliate with the National Organi- zation Committee in their fight to rebuild the union, After a talk delivered by Joseph retsky, manager of the Pressers Tea 35, a new chairman ae San: |the union men that they were simply THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1928 Hyman, Leader of the Cloakmakers, Refutes Mistatements of Manufacturers Potasad Call This a Workers’ Playground This shows a section of Coney Island last week-end when hundreds of thousands of workers and their families left their tenements for a breath of air. Coney Island is maintained not for the masses of men, women and children who spend their dimes there but for. the business | men who make huge profits from the commercialized amusements. | BUTLER, COOLIDGE MAN, FIGHTING MILL STRIKERS NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 4.— William M, Butler, chief strategist in the cotton mill owners’ war on the living standards of 28,000 of their workers, forced to strike to defend themselves against a 10 per cent wage reduction is still playing the role of strikebreaker-in-chief, master of la- bor spies and bitter foe of trade un- ionists that he assumed in 1918-1921? The wealth of the chairman of the national republican party is_ still based on his vast holdings in New} Bedford cotton mills. His anti-labor HOLD LEFT WING policies have become intensified. His reactionary sympathies are far more | MEET IN CHICAGO. and said the workers of New Bedford would be glad to work. for nothing before he got through with them. | Q. Did you know how much the Manufacturers Assn, paid the Sher- jman Agency for industrial work in New Bedford? A. $250,000, my own estimate of it, which I was in a po- sition to figure to a penny because I knew how many men were working at all times and the length of the job. notorious now, that he is a principal adviser to President Coolidge, than they were in 1918. Butler’s record in those years has been bared by A. M, Donahue, hired by Sherman Service, expert labor es- pionage concern, to head a crew of union wreckers to operate in New Bedford at: the behest of the Manu- facturers Assn. just organized by Butler. Donahue years later told Fred Moore the whole story. Moore was chief counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti and the man who made their case a world-wide labor issue. “We were paid,” Donahue related, “to discourage those who were mem- bers of the union, so they would not join, and to breed into the minds of Will Report On World Congress, Cloak Union CHICAGO, June 4.—The returned delegates for the world congress of the Red Trade Union International will give a report at a meeting called) by the Chicago local of the Trade| Union Educational League. The meet-| i will be held this Thursday even- ing in Mirror Hall, Western Ave., and Division St. A report will also be given by the delegates to the recent Boston con- vention of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union. They will report in detail on their exclusion from the fake convention of Sigman- Schlesinger and their satellites, and their participation in the conferences work and those who were not striking | o? the locked out delegates and of the to stay in.” subsequent formation of the National Q. As I understand, you.continued| Organization Committee for the re- to see Butler approximately. once -a| building of a union in the ladies in- being imposed upon by a bunch of professional labor organizers who were getting a good living out of their hard labor in the mills. At times of strike we were to encourage those who were striking to return to month during the course of the years) dustry. 1918-212 A. Yes. pe ete te Q. Those meetings with Butler Show Tammany Police were either at the Wamsutta Club in New Bedford or at Butler’s office, 77 Franklin St., Boston? A. Yes. Mr. Moore, of the Sher- man office, saw Butler more frequent- ly than I did. He invariably repeated the conversations he had with Butler to me so that I was always advised as to Butler’s position in regard to the operation. Q. Can you outline the essential subject matter of your conversations with Butler? A. He was anxious to learn who active union leaders were, who the radical element were and the extent of their activity and the senti- ment at large in the city regarding wage reduction, Q. At that time how many men did you have there? A. 25. Q. Do you have any specific conversations with Butler relative to wage reduc- tion? A, Yes. At one time I ob- jected to a 20 per cent wage reduc- tion because I felt from the reports of the men that it would bring about a strike. Already there had “beén“tw6 In Mire of Graft (Continued from page one) wald, street cleaning officials, brought out that only one honest street clean- ing officer has been on the city pay- roll during thirty years. This admission was made by Wil- liam J. Lougheed, self confessed, grafter who is acting as states wit- ness at the Bronx County trial of McGee and Oswald. In all these years Lougheed declared he had known many honest drivers and sweepers but only one honest official. When the list of fictitious names on the pay- roll appeared~ to: be «getting stale; Lougheed testified, Oswald! and Mc- Gee would order him to substitute new names. Lougheed would then order Charles Stoeber ts’ obtain new names. Stoeber would pass along in the Italian se and copy off names from letter boxes and door bells. | organizer \cial significance to the large masses jof Negro workers, many thousands of jcriminated against, can find a remedy |S > Page Five HARLEM MASS...'Workers Party Activities) Night Workers To Hlect Fanctionaries. 1 meeting of the be held this afternoon at is ion of 1 ary and will take place. Ww. or ge cate MEET FOR MINERS °* Hawkins Will Tell of | ° Subsection 3E. 3 IF. Struggle b noday a medina: et Unit am 17 — will be held at 6:15 p. m. at 101 W. Isaiah Hawki militant Negro |?7*h St ey. mine leader of Fredericktown, Pa.,! 2 who has been in the thick of the mine). Unit 4 Sar war for over a year, will tell the story” ™ “* * * of the reaction and corruptoin of the officials of District 5 of the United Mine Workers at the united mass demonstration in support of the strik- { in gminers to be held at St. James Presbyterian. Church, St. i Avenue and 141st st., on Frid: 8th at 8 p.m. Other speakers will be Harold Williams and Grace Campbell, and chairman, respect of the Negro Committee for s Relief, Robert Minor, Editor of The DAILY WORKER and Reverend Wil- ing miners to be held at St. James * Presbyterian Church. Richard Moore, of the American Negro Labor Con-| gress, will preside. {4 F The struggle of the miners’ union n against. reactionary officialdom, now /7°4 4° entering its fifteenth month of starva- tion, exposure and disease, is of spe-! 3i y, June 6th, a meeting of will be held at 6:15 p, m 27th St at 101 W Subsection 3C A special s will hav at 101 We on Meeting. tion of the at 14 sharp. an i Party at 8 il be followed by 30 p.m me eresti of Section 7 8 p.m. at A membe will be held tc 1940 Benson Ave. Subsection all unit. ¢ Lin ) will hold a conference ers, financial and ies tonight at 101 6:30 p.m. them unorganized. The militant lead- ership given the striking miners by their Save-the-Union Committee on which the two Negroes Charles W. Fulp and Isaac Munsey represent the . / thoysands of striking Negro miners, is)? organizing the unorganized miners of | me a, Western Pennsylvania, among which! Bring lunches. are many Negroes. le Negro Com- mittee for Miners Relfef has called on the masses of Negro workers in this city, unorganized and organized, to support the striking miners in their | S* attempt to save their union. The Negro committee points out that Negro workers, who are being dis- Lower rns Aiieution: branch will hike on and | will a, m. sympa hee 138th St., Open Air Meetings. onight—Union Square ack, G. Primoff, I Po. Markoff. i s only.in organization along militant |. lines, and emphasizes the fact that |) |should the miners’ strike be lost the | ock, whole American labor movement will | 3a suffer, and organization for the vast army of unorganized Negro workers. Hinsdale’ Aves., Brookly1 will be much more difficult to achieve. | . and St. Levy, P. nd Sth Av Annes An excellent. program of speakers has been arranged and admission will be free of-charge. Although smaller meetings for miners. relief have been held, throughout the Negro section of Night | Ta or-|J, €|announces tha * | Links. *| Admission free. * “| Howser will he the lecturer. CARNIVAL, JUNE 9 . Cohen, Lillienstein, H. Blake, Cork, and Graham Aves., gug, A. Bimba, P. , Intrator. th Ave. and 52nd St., 3. Pollack, J. Har lliams, Russak Ave 110th St.—J. Sherman, 2. Zent ert, Re Hartliony, Lovett Fort- Brooklyn— J, Marshal, |Geo, Padm Labor and Fraternal | | | 3 : | Organizations W. I. R. Children’s Camp The Workers’ International its office, at 1 Union )4, is open for those who er for the children’ e camp itself, which occupie ground of Unity Cam N. ¥., will open on July Shing to phone for jtions should call Algonquin 8 re, Room Yorkville I, L. D. ecting of the neh of the Inter- will be held Fone at th Club, held 0 p.m, Street. 18 EH. 10th Workingelass Women. Council 8 will hold a lecture on Fri- 8th, at 8 p. m., Subject, rom th > Colieg \¢ Lecturer, Dr. G S . * * |, Co 10 will hold a lecture on | Thur June 7th, at 8 p. m., at 1940 Benson Brooklyn, N. Y bject, |“Birth Control.” Lecturer, Dr. Helen Movshovitz. . Council 10 will also have an open air entertainment on Sunday, June 10, afternoon and evening, at the Golf Take 86th St. car to the links, . . Council 1 of Roselle & Linden of y Jersey will have a concert and k for miners’ relief, on Sun: », June Council 4 of the United Council of Working Class Women will hold a lec t on “America ham Ave., Brooklyn. ftarign Festival, Harlem branch of the Interna- e: se.will hold a Concert on East 103rd ar meeting. invited | to attend, Jugoslav 1. Jugoslav b L. Dv. Opiag: neh of Internatoinal La- Harlem,.the united... dernenapers bor Defense is holding on Outing ilunot Pdaay Gught, wilihe tha fises June 10, al nwald. “If it rains,: the pier alti for miners relief among Sunaase higeat Pee nn eee the Negro population of this city, ‘ Fs la at Sports Events, Ballet,) rorsw “Levine Lirn.” Will Feature Soccer, track and field events, DETROIT, Mich,, June 4—Workers|SWimming events and other sport of Détroit are raising money for the| events by labor sports clubs will be relief of striking miners and getting | among the features of the Joint De- their entries into: the contest for the|fense Athletic Meet, Carnival and workers’ delegation to visit the ‘strike area, September 1, 2 and 3. Thru an error the contest was an- nounced as ending July 21st, when it should have been August 2ist, which gives Detroit workers just one more month to gather funds and work toj send a large delegation to the mining| fields. All organizations should select can- didates and hold affairs during the summer months to raise money. Workers Delegation to| Visit Strike Regions 9, for the benefit of the 9 imprisoned Mineola furriers and the 18 leaders of the Joint Board of the Cloakmakers Union, who face prison terms. The Hungarian Workers Symphony Or- chestra, composed of 50 musicians, and led by Alfred Kugel, will render a classical program. Mass calisthen- ics will also be a feature of the pro- ‘| gram, as well as a parade by athletes, Appeals Court Quits;} young Pioneers and children of the No Sinclair Decision Nonpartisian Workers School. The latter will also perform in a ballet. WASHINGTON, June 4.—The Dis-|~ Tei. uehigh 6022. trict Court of Appeals recessed for Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF the summer today without giving an : SOHGEON DENTIST opinion of the appeal of Harry F.} oftice Hours: 9:80-12 A. M. 2-8 P.M. Sinclair, setnenced to three months| Daily Except Friday and Sunday. imprisonment for his refusal to an- 249 HAST liétn STREET swer questions before the Senate Tea] Cor Second Ave. New York. Pot Dome Investigating Committee Phone Stuyvesant 3816 3YBHAA ii if DR. BROW John’s Restaurant Dentistry in All Its Branches ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicalr meet. 302 E.12th St. Mew York. 301 East 14th St. cor. 2nd Ave, Over the bank. New York, Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin or three reductions varying from 10 to 12!4 per cent and another 20 per cent on top of it would be too much. When I objected to it, Butler laughed | 2 Workers Killed; ‘Train Leaps Embankment MOUNT CARMEL, Pa., June 4.— Two were killed and seven other per- sons injured when a Lehigh Valley passenger train bound from New York to Mount Carmel was wrecked two miles east of this place. The engine and tender went over a| perts. — L. 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Shapiro, L. Brooklyn, N. | at_715 East | TRYING TO PASS FOR “COLORED” Girl Fights ‘to Live Among Her People Bq WILLIAM PICKE VS lly sie white! ng to “pa people, for white.” iW is the case of a colored | girl who is fighting hard to pass for colored and to avoid the embarass- |ment of being forced to be “white.” | The case is not unprecedented, but the person in question is so well own to so many colored people of and her predicament in the so peculiar, that it is inter- esting. All the colored people of Bal- timore, Maryland, know Maude Lane, her mother and her sister and her broth Many of the colored people of Washington, and many others al- so know the Lane family, and know that they are all “colored,” as colored people go in the United States. Even many white people of Baltimore and Washington know this family, and one of them would find it difficult to pass for anything else, as he is al most brown, It is also well-known to thousands jof people in the East that Maude Lane married E. L. Booker, a young colored man of the American expe- ditionary forces, who is brown, and who, after the war, studied dentist- ry and lived and worked for a while in Yakima, Washington, and now lives and works in Portiand, Oregon. Fights To Be Colored. Well, in Portland, Ore., where the Lane family not known, Maude Lane Booker, wife of the colored den- tist, has been fighting an almost los- ing battle to be and be understood as a colored person. Among the hardest | nuts she is having to crack are some | of the colored people themselves. | Cannot you hear them now, taking advantage of her husband’s occupa- tion as a dentist? “I wouldn’t go up there to that Negro dentist: he’s married to an old white woman!” And when Mrs. Booker is :|at a club, and the discussi about the common interests and struggles of colored people, and she endeavors to contribute an item from her experience can not you a colored person— them tran eloquent eyes. “What do you know about ght have you to be in- terested in colored people’s troubles? Only this colored man has interested you! What do you want here any- way?” it? What Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? gress of the Party of the discussions. Please include postage Tre first report in the Engish language of the most im- portant Soviet Union Pdrty Congress since Lenin’s death. 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