The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1928, Page 5

McGRADY OUSTS “BLOG” LEADERS OF FUR WORKERS 4 Thugs Who Attacked Militant Released (Continued from Page One) ity, and will insist upon their right to hold their offices. * * * Four Thugs Released. Four of the six thugs employed by the right wing Joint. Council, who were on trial in General Sessions, Part 6, for knifing- Meyer -Fineman; a fur worker, had the charges against them quashed by Judge Collms~before the case went to the jai The trial of “Big Alex” Fried, urglar and A. F. of L. agent in t e destructive attacks against the furriers’ union, and Harry Plitt,Fried’s assistant in assaults on workers, is to be continued today. Fried spent a few uncomfortable moments on the witness stand yester- day, when he was compelled to admit under cross-examination that he had served three years and six months in prison for burglarizing a jewelry store in Boston. Otherwise he came well provided with witnesses as to his “good character.” Harry Weckstein and M. Bader of Bader and Eisenberg, fur manufacturers, obligingly testi- fied to that. Two cloak manufactur- ers came to testify that the eye-wit- nesses of Fried’s brutal assault were “mistaken.” They said that Fried was in their shop at the time, making a “loan” of $100. SPORT PROGRAM AT RED PICNIC Communist Event To Be Held Sunday (Continued from Page One) Other participants in the tournament will be the famous girl teams, Rosa Luxemberg “B” and Rosa Luxemberg “A” These teams have gained a nationwide reputation for their prowess. The Armenian*Workers Educational Clubs report that all arrangements have been perfected for an excellent program of Caucasian folk songs, rendered on Persian instruments of unique make. The club will also give a number of vocal selections. The district office of the Workers Party reports considerable difficulty in handling the rush for tickets, but arrangements are being made to ex- tend the facilities at the park to ac- commodate the enormous crowd which is expected. 95 EDUCATORS TO LEAVE FOR USSR Dr. Scott Assertion Is ‘Branded “Nonsense” Twenty-fiva’ American educators will sail this Saturday for the Soviet Union where they will spend the suni- mer studying its educational insti- tutions and methods... They will go to Gothenburg, Sweden, and then pro- ceed to Leningrad by rail. Prof. John Dewey of Columbia University is chairman of the delegation which is making the visit under the auspices of the American Society for Cultural Relations with the U. S. 8. R. The society last night, thru its secretary Lucy G. Branham, char- acterized “as “utter nonsense” the statement by Dr. Walter Dill. Scott, president of Northwestern University, that he declined to join the delegation » because he felt he would be expected to praise the Soviet Union. Racing across ihe Atlantic by perialist flying. across the ocean. Photo shows the finishing touches being .put on the German dirigible LZ-127, which will race with a rival British dirigible ir is the latest stunt to boom im- TAILORS LOCKED OUT, BETRAYED Hillman Is Jeered at Local Meeting (Continued from Page. One). make a general reduction in. wages. This, they said, was due them because the union officials had allowed wage cuts in all other crafts of thé industry. “Piece Work For Contractors” The representatives of the New York -Clothing Manufacturers’ - Ex- change yesterday made a demand at the conferences for a new agreement —that Hillman and the other leaders of the corrupted Amalgamated, grant the contractors of the large manu- facturers the privileges of introducing the sWeat-shop system of piece-work. The union officials had voluntarily granted this hated system of produc- | tion to the larger bosses despite the vehemént opposition of the entire membership. As a result of the lockout another section of. the. membership, of, the Amalgamated, according tothe senti- ment bitterly expressed by many tailors, yesterday, now have the op- portunity to enjoy the fruits. of the policy of the graft system’s leaders, in allowing bosses, individually and collectively to put over wage “cuts and other such privileges — for a “consideration.” Jeer Hillman. This, and far franker sentiments Were expressed at a meeting of the locked-out_ workers held Tuesday night, and which also went on record as having greeted the entrance of their. President HillmanQwith jeers and ‘catcalls, At this meeting, rank and filers openly declared that not onlywas it the bosses who were re- sponsible for the lockout, but also the machine in control of the union here, which has granted boss after boss permission to reduce the work- ers’ wages. ¢ Where is was too difficult to put over a wage cut, or too obviously a sell-out, the graft ring, members charge, would see to it that a lock- out was made. In this manner the ; officials would receive less blame for capitulating te the bosses’ demand for a wage reduction. Know of Graft. As to the demand of the employers’ agents at the negotiations for a new contract, workers in discussions sec themselves “between the davil and the deep sea.” Even if Hillman will not grant the bosses demand for piece work in the contractors’ shops, they argue, they’ will get that per- mission individually. In support of his, they refer to the statements (MINERS? RELIEF WEEK JUNE 30 All Labor to Take Part in Big Drive New Yort; workers are mobiliz- ing their forces for the most intense drive for funds conducted by the Na- tional Miners’ Relief Committee,—to wind up with.mass collection days on June 30 and July. 1. In answer to a brief and urgent telegram from the Pittsburgh strike area, the National Miners . Relief Committee of 799 Broadway is spur- ring its activities for the National Miners Relief Week of June 25th to July 1st. Special literature is being printed for circularization among shop workers, calling on them to or- ganize shop committees for miners’ relief to take wekly collectiong the shop. On Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and July 1, thousands of workers in | New York will finecomb the city with collection boxes and solicit money for miners’ relief and for the defense fund of the Mineola prisoners, under the ‘auspices of the National Miners’ Relief Committee and the Joint De- fense Committee. The proceeds of the two-day special drive will be di- vided between the two committees— 76 percent to the Miners’ Relief and 25 percent to the Joint Defense. POSTPONE CASES OF TWO STUDENTS Both Are Members of Young Workérs League The cases of Jonas Schiffman, 18 years old, of 84 East 137th St., and Nathan R. Adler, 19 years old, of 1204 Moynton Ave., the Bronx, both of whom are members of the Young Workers (Communist) League, were postponed yesterday by Magistrate Stern, of the Morrisania Court. They ewer’ arrested last Friday in a demon- stration held on the campus of the College of the City of New York to protest against the expulsion of Simon W. Gerson, member of the Young Workers (Communist) League, presi- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY,J jtract. with» the. city Ul iE 21, 1928 CONTRACT OFF nee Wied «} tiara atoy “Inves to cov 90,8.00: thing depends 3 upon the real iS the contract would re tion “in the near future. Tammany Breaks Ranks. The contract was opposed by dermanic President McKee w came before the Board of last spring and for reasons of hi he has sought to separate himself from the several miilions of graft which the Tammany politicians. are said to have put over in this instance. Controller Berry, who has been holding up $300,000 of payments due the company in the terms of the con- yesterday an- nouneed that the amounts had been paid and that he had become satis- fied with the terms of the contract. Just what brought about this unusual expression of confidence at this mo- ment was not indicated. Under the terms of the contract, which became operative on April 1, the Brooklyn Ash Removal Company Al- cost of $1,000,000. These will be sub- ject to recapture by the city on ex- piration of the five-year contract and payment by the city of seventy-five per cent of the original cost—that is, if by that time legal action does not prevent. When it was developed through evidence taken at Commissioner of Accounts Higgins’ open hearings that work on these disposal plants had not been begun, Comptroller Ber- ry held up payment of $260,000 due on Jast year’s contract and approxi- mately $40,000 due for work per- n| formed this year. TWO MORE CLOAK SHOPS ON STRIKE Cloak Picket® Arrested: = .Held in $500 Bail ~The newly inaugurated offensive of the ‘cloak and dressmakers for the re- establishment of a union over the heads of the Sigman !crew gathers momentum daily, as more shops are declared on strike by the left wing Joint Board Cloakmakers’ Union. In addition to the two already tied up by. strikes, the Classy Cloak Company, 653 Eighth Ave., and the Coat Craft Company, 247 W. 37th St., were also declared on strike. At the buildings where all these shops are located, large picket lines marched back and forth despite the concentration of police who have made many arrests. The other two shops are Shapiro and Sons, 1333 Broadway, and Dressler and Freed- man, 104 W. 27th St. J. Benkal, a cloakmaker, was ar- rested while picketing the latter shop. He was later freed on $500 bail pend- ing trial in the Jefferson Market Court later. The Classy Cloak Co, had locked out its entire shop of 40 workers, in an effort to escape Joint Board con- trol. The Coat Craft Co, had dis- dent of the Social Problems Club of “the college, and leader for several years in the fight against military) training in the college. Magistrate Stern said that the court decision! concerning their guilt, had not yet! been “arrived at.” The youths are} both former students of the college. | The actual reason for their arrests was that both of them were members charged eight workers for refusal to register in the Sigman scab union. The Joint Board appeals to all workers, realizing the necessity for struggle in order to regain the union \standards destroyed by the right \wing and the employers, to join in the picketing of the shops this morn- ing. “bars is to build three incinerators at a|%' Section 1, Attention; — ull agitprop directors be held th nin will speak on the | Volunte Unit 1 ¥. W. Young V (downt and ent m, at kers (Com- ) wilh hold nent to- iam. 60 St \ * * . Section 7 Meeting. here will be a meeting of the Cam- e meeting will be e plans for the ipation in the e * a Coney Island Branch, 2 party will be! d Branch Satur- 01 Mermaid Ave. gi 3 day, June 30, a Y. Ww. Le An open air cert will be given by the Young Work- ers League of Harlem on Satur June 23, at 8 p, m, * Fete. Coney Island Meet. The Coney Island Branch meet ‘to- day at 2901 Mermaid Ave. at 8:30 p. m. . . * Workers Party Picnic. Tickets for the Red Picnic to be held June 24 at Pleasant Bay Park under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party are now ready. ons and organizations are asked ll for them at the Workers Cen- 26-28 Union Square. ° . . Bayonne unit, members will meet to- at 8 p. m. at 197 Ave. E., corner E. 19th St. LABOR . . . Open Air Meetings. Republican convention, ‘SHOE WORKERS TO HOLD UNITY MEET A general membership meeting of all organizations that participated in the shoe workers’ unity conference, will be held tomorrow at 8 p. m. at |Lorraine Hall, 790-792 Broadway, Brooklyn. The unity conference, which con- sists of many shoe organizations and groups, including the Shoe Workers Protectiva Union, locals 53 and 64; Associated Shoe and Slipper Work- ers ef Greater New York; Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union; Children’s Shoe Workers’ Union; Lasters and Woodheelers’ Group; and the Unity Committee, which is made up of a shop crew, has successfully completed its organizational preparations. Topic: its ee All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S VEGETARIAN HEALTH RESTAURANT 658 Claremont P’kway Bronx. Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVE. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865 ————————E | Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVE. Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian Food. Sa A RN NNR NN mE WE ALL MEET at the NEW WAY CAFETERIA 101 WEST 27th STREET NEW YORK Marks | tion's | ection campaign. | arden festival and con- | at 143 EB. 103rd st.’ |2 TAMMANY BODSES' Wcrkers Party Activities| SPEAKING TOUR GRAFT platform and candidates. "OF ALEX BAIL 70 COVER 3 STATES Other Organizers poeple! | Been Placed in Field (Continued from Page 0+ Foster and Benjami Poday Ballam, Gusa- Hack, Silber. Baum, cobson. Astoria, Harfield, J. Mar- Bronx, Sumner, Kor- ve. Di Santo. and Mer Levy, 2 iam Z. | Workers (Communist) af 4 da’ or president and v egakind, Pad- rely Ow tha tate ticket h Theinert for gover | Reid for senator. Will Visit Many Cities | The following is a list of | which: Bail will. visit on his tour |party members have been asked |attend the meetings in their | call has been issued advising all w jers who wv to join the party in a jof the cit nentioned below, to get jin touch immediately with the d 242 5. ith St, I m. todayy | Labor and Fraternal | Organizations | Women’s Conference. ates from shops, unions, fra- organizations Fretheit Pienic. |. Saturday, July 28 Freiheit Picnic will | |be held at Ulme' , foot of 25th | \Ave., Brooklyn, Organizations may or- | der 500 ti for $20 with the organ- ization’s name on the tickets. 8, Council i | Quincy | Mine Relief Carnival. 0 The National Miners’ Relief Commit- tee will hold an international fair aad | lon Sunday, August 5, at Pleas- | y Park, Brenx. Organizations | jare requested fo keep this date open. ai SARS Sunday | | Welcome To Kate Gitlow. |W orker Pic “ 4 F oston, Council Kate Gitlow is back from Russia, | |To greet her, the United Councils : |Working Class Women will held al banquet her honor, on Saturday, | jJune 28rd, at 6 p. m., at the Manhat- | |tan Lyceum, 66 t' 4th St. Admis- iy Fi sion will be 76 cents. y' ll, Wilton and M Surin Bronx I. L, D. Festival. | est Concord zetti Branch of |N._1 for the benefit ot | oners now in jail in low * * July 17, Fitchberg and Asi LL, D. Outing. t An outing will be held ‘on Saturday, | » at 12 noon, at ‘Pleasant Bay Bronx, under the auspices of the Section, International Labor y July 18, Maynard, a Defense. Take Bronx Park Subway | Advertise your union meetings or “L” to 177th St., then take Union-| here. For information write tc port car to end of line. Free busses f 7 ae to park, 4 | The DAILY WORKER * . Advertising Dept 26-28 Union Sq. New York City Friends of Nature. _The Junior Section of the Friends of will hike to Hunters’ Island , June 24, with Anton Keppel The hikers will meet at the | @ ERS’ 1 LOCAL 2090 Meets every Thursday, 8 Labor Temple, 243 Office and headquarters are Labor Temple. m Bay CARP) Park station f the Inter- | y at 8 a. m.'sharp. S } Will be an opportunity for swin those who wish to do so will| y remember their bathing suits. | Abbreviated suits will not be censored | due to the recent lifting of the ban} on the same. \ I. STERNBERG Optometrist Byes Examined—Glasses Fitted 916 Prospect Ave. Cor. E. 162 St. BRONX, N. Y. Telephone—Kilpatrick 8448. i | |] SATURDAY, JULY 28 Telephone Stagg 5356. Dr. J. C. HOFFER Surgeon Dentist 287 South 5th St., near Marcy Ave. Brooklyn, N. ¥ ULMER PARK Brooklyn Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M., 2-8 P.M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. Party Units, Sub- New York||| Sections, Workmen’ | Branches, Women’s Councils o —————— Trade ion Educational PYCCKHM 3YBHOM BPAY ) {|} Leasues, Workers’ Clubs, ete. DR. JOSEPH B. WEXLER Surgeon Dentist 25 years in practice, Moderate prices. 228 SECOND AVE. NEW YORK Temple Courts Bldg. 500 Tickets for $20 with the Namé of Your Or- | ganization on Your Tickets. Send your Check, Money 0: der, or bring Dr. J. Dr. L. Hendin x to Surgeon Dentists } 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone, Algonquin $183 your cash the Mindel ‘NREIHEIT’ 80 Union Square, N. Y RO CLAIM THOMPSON IRON WORKERS WIN STRIKE. BOSTON (BP) .—Structural iron made public yesterday that Hillman|of the Young Workers (Communist) knowa of the fact that there are|League and carried placards during WORKERS CO-OPERATIVE TOOK CITY MONEY CHICAGO, June 20.—Mayor -Wil- liam “Big Bill” Thompson, ardent patriot and leader! of the Chicago swindling gang that for all the years of his administration has been rob- bing. the workers of Chicago, was’ yesterday ordered, together. with twe ‘of his gang associates, George F. ‘Harding, city treasurer, Michael J. Flaherty, and other lesser gangsters, to return to the city the sum of $1,- 132,279.28, swindled from the city during the Thompsor administration. _ It is charged that this sum was paid in fees to real estate “experts” ‘under the first Thompson adminis- tion... Brooklyn Mine Relief” Conference Monday ' Many organizations of Brighton each, Coney Island and other sec- of South Brooklyn will hold a t poncerence to decide on activities re ane miners’ relief, Mon- it 1873 ord St., ‘at 80'p w vork Alem ets CONVICT WEALTHY BROKER IN FRAUD: Perey Jay Fuller, wealthy stock .broker,.and promoter of schemes) to place Grand Duke Cyril on “his right- ful throne in Russia” and of making /gasoline from garbage, is-reported to have been taken to the Bellevue hospital last night in a “serious con- dition,” a few hours after he had en convicted by a j in federal ‘court on all four counts of an indict- lient charging the use of the mails to defraud, His. private physicians announced ‘that he was “suffering from gastritis and convulsions.” Doubt, however, was expressed by several of his vic- tim8, who hale become rather skep- tical of these sudden paiuecee F that in- variably. attack wealthy c: ‘they have been: neonate, agents\of the graft ring already on|the protest meeting calling upon the the payroll of the bosses’ associations | students to fight the teaching of im-|for $1.37/4 an hour after a short and individual firms who want piece Perialism in, the schools. |partin' and the fact that they took rt + a Fanny, Stayveasnt.$100,. The “offi- cial” charge against them, as made by Professor Frederick Skene, one of | the most persistent jingoes of the | City College Faculty, is disorderly) the demonstration on the cam~- pus when they were not enrolled as: students in the school. i Hunt Lawyer in Probe: In Ambulance Chasing Efforts were being mae yester- day to learn the whereabouts of Frank Rosenblum, a lawyer, whose office is at 6 Beekman St., revealed as the attorney to whom a number of doctors have been referring neg- iigence cases in the ambulance-chas- ing inquiry. He is wanted for exami- nation in the inquiry conducted by supreme court Justica Warservogel. FOR SALE OR RENT Comfortable “homey” furniture, suitable for two-room ~ ora apartment for sale. May be One month’s concession i lek workers are signing a new agreement strike: Unity Co-operators Patronize SAM LESSER Ladies’ and Gents’ Tailor’ 1818— 7th Ave. New York Between 110th and 111th Sts. Next to Unity Co-operative Hous No Tip--Center Barber Shop ~ NEW WORKERS CENTER. 26-28 Union Sq. 1 Flight Up NEW YORK CITY Individual Sanitary Service by Ex- DIES’ HAIR BOBBING ‘SPECIALISTS. Patronize a Comradely Barber Shop. MARY WOLFE | STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS Moved to 2420 BRONX PARK EAST Near coro perare, Colony. aS Telehone ESTABROOK 2 Special rates to students from ans Co-operative House. _ j Patronize the ITALIAN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT ANTONIO SCHIAVO, Prop. 86 Kast 4th Street Cor. 2nd Ave. NEW YORK. Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals mpet 302 E, 12th ST, NEW YORK “For Any Kind of Insurance” CARL BRODSKY 7 E. 42d St. New York City Telephone Murray Hill 5550. Patronize LERMAN BROS. Stationers & Printers t9 BAST 14th STREET N.Y. Corner Union Square Tel. Algonquin 8356, 8843. CAMP ITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. Mass Plays—Mass Singing—Sport Activities and Other Recreations Every Day of the Entire Summer Season. RATES, $17 PER WEEK. 69 — 5th AVE. ‘Tel. Algonquin 6900. or in the COLONY, 2700 BRONX PARK E. Trains leave to Beacon from Grand Central every hour. Boat leaves to New@urgh 9 o'clock in the morning. $1.50 ROUND TRIP.