The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1928, Page 5

HILLMAN BETRAYS) WORKERS IN NEW UNION-BOSS PACT Workers Denied All;| Satisfies Bosses The officialdom-of the Amalgama- ted Clothing Workers Union-have fi- nally completed their betrayal-of the mens’ clothing workers in the New York market -and -have—signed. an agreement with the employers -asso- ciation which grants them the’ slave- driving system~ of piece work, the calling of a stoppage for the benefit of the bosses ‘association and other points. Complete “Sell-Out In return for all this the “field marshalls of labor strategy,” presi- dent Sydney Hillman and his satel- lites, have blessed the tailors witn an unemployment insurance fund a la Beckerman, which will be contributed to by the employers, and “distribu- ted” by the graft machine in control of the New York Joint Board. Hill- | man also agreed not to ask for the 40-hour five-day week. At a joint meeting of all the exe- eutive boards of New York locals, to- gether with the delegates of the Joint Board, the agreement brought to them by Hillman, who came from the meeting with the bosses, was passed | after not a single word of discussion. The meeting was attended by several scores of Hillman’s functionaries. It was plain to even the staunchest fol- lowers of Hillman that the union leaders had given the bosses every- | thing and had gotten nothing in re-( turn, When a vote was called for, there were several scattered “ayes,” several isolated “‘nayes,” while the great majority remained silent. The officialdom of the once mili- tant but now corrupted Amalgamated are calling. approximately 400 shops ‘out on a stoppage for the benefit of the bosses association, and for the further intrenchment of the union administrative machine. The stop- page affects the shops of the inde- .pendent manufacturers, their con- “tractors, and also those who are termed by the association as their own retalcitrant members, By stop- ping work in the independent shops and their. contractors, the officialdom hopes to force them into membership in the association. By halting pro- “duction in the factories of the -“re- calcitrant”. bosses, the union chiefs intend to whip them into line to com- pel them to pay up their back debts to. the employers organization, which is not strong enough to use pressure ,on its own members. “A Gentlemen’s Agreement The granting of piece work to the employers was accomplished without incorporating it into the agreement _proper. It is an arrangement called “by the bosses and Hillman - bentle- men’s agreement.” “This new--contract opens to the graft ring encircling the union ap- paratus wide vistas of golden oppor- tunities for bribery: Piece work was not granted to the contractors, in general. But the contractors working for members of .the association’ will et piece work. The query heard on every side is, “what can prevent the grafting officials. from giving -piece “work privileges to any contractor?” “All that is necessary is for the offi- cials to declare that this contractor is working for a large manufacturer,” the outraged workers declare in an- swer. "Harlem Restaurant Will Donate to Mine Relief The Health Food Restaurant of 1600 Madison Avenue, Halem, will / donate 85 per cent of its receipts on June 28th and June 29th to the re-| lief of the striking miners and their families. The money will be turned | , over to the Harlem Committee for | * Miners Relief, affiliated with the Na- tional Miners Relief Committee. LENINISM JOSEPH ,STALIN A masterly exposition of “Marxism of the epoch of imperialism and of the proletarian revolu- tion.” $2.50 WORKERS LIBRARY PUB. LISHERS, 39 E. 125th St. i al @ Z Left to right: of Arkansas, and James Eagan, secretary of Tamthany Hall: ity, eraft and brutality which inahe up the politicians of the capitalist parti THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURS Tamman. Grafters in Full Glory at Houston Meet TAMMANY HALL IN Workers’ Calendar $20,000,000 GRAFT Twenty millions of dollars worth of city supplies which may or may not have been purchased but. which in any case the taxpayers ‘directly, and the workers ultimately, paid for and for which no books or reéords | can be found — this is the picture | uncovered by further probing into the $20, 000,000 Tammany, «street clean- ing graft scandal. Testimony before Commissioner of Accounts James A: Higgins who has been doing his best to sidetrack the | *' revelations which seem to ooze forth in spite of him, diselosed that prob- ably $20,000,000 worth of supplies have passed through the Department of Street. Cleaning Warehousé in Brooklyn without any record of the specific goods being kept by the va- rious Tammany officials in charge. Automobiles to brooms, street | cleaning machines to machine oil are the range of articles on the list which covers a period of twelve years. The thief clerk in charge, is Walter £.| Roessler, who draws officially $2,455 a year for this “tremendous” task of accounting. @ | Although records are’ supposed to have been made in the general led- | ger at the main office, this has not been done in ten years, it was shown, 1,500 “VETERANS” JOBLESS IN PHILA PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 27.— Approximately 1,500 men who fought for American imperialism, at present living in this city, are out of work, and miany of them are without food or shelter, it-was learned yesterday. These 1,500 men, only, a smail frac- tion of the unemployed workers of Philadelphia, are the “grand veter- ans”..of the World War, the war with Spain, the Boxer uprising “in China and the rebellion in the cibigal Sac Is- lands. Many of the men tell of bathe thrown out of their homes for being unable to pay thef¥ rent, and others tell. of -being sadly in need “of ‘food palmost'continually, Their service rec- ords; many say, are handicaps to them in obtaining employment. So far, however, nothing has been done to relieve the intensity. of their plight. Many of those who ‘entered applications for jobs are stiil walk- ing the streets of Philadelphia, while waiting for word to come from the jingoist organization. Families are still being evicted from thcir homes for failure to pay rent. And despite the fuct that these men, who. were tricked to the trenches during the war, are skilled workers in various trades, the seriousness of their sina tion remains unremedied? ¢ PLUMBERS WIN RAISE TORONTO, June 27. — Organized plumbers compromised their wage de- mand and will be paid an additional junion workers. All aninioithcements te ter this column must reach The DAILY WORKER sev- eral days before the event in’ question to make the announcement effective. Many announcements arrive at the of- fice too late for publication owing to the additional time needed for the delivery of the paper. . # « Martins Ferry Pienic. MARTINS FERRY, Ohio.—The Young Workers Club of Martins Ferry, Ohio, jhas arganged a picnic and dance to be the, Volt’s Farm here on July | held a 8, from 10 a. m. thruout the day and night. All those wishing to attend) should meet at the Hungarian Hall, Main and Central There will he refreshments, gam Transportation to V * * * L. Excursion. Philadelphia Y. W PHILADELPHIA, F efit of the Young Worker, n of the Young Workers ) Lea of America, na duly 7. pier ety ‘to (Communis take place Sat will leave the Ch a. m, and 2 p. m. ut St. children, °25 cents. Tickets. must b hought in advance from the Young | Worker, at 1214 ring Garden St. Otherwise ‘the proceeds will not go to the Young Worker. . > . Milwaukee Party Picnic. MILWAUKER, Wis. — The. second summer picnic of the Milwaukee | Workers (Communist) Party and Freij- heit Workers’ Club will take place July 8, at the Pleasant Valley Park, Wood- lawn Ave., West Allis, Wisconsin. San Francisco Picnic. “SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—The branch- es of the International Labor Defense of San Franci , Alameda, and Con- tra Costa counties will hold a picnic at East Shore Park, néar Richmond, on July 4. ee 6 lee * Paperhangers of Boston. BOSTON.—The Paperhangers’ Union, local 268, will inaugurate a campaign for new gnembers to extend over a pe- riod of 3 months, June, July and Au- gust. Thé Initiation fee has been ‘re- duced from $100 to $25: The local calls upon all organized paperhangers of the city and vicinity to join the union and help to organize the non- The local union meets at the district council headquarters, corner Washington and Dover Sts., Boston. ay Pittsburgh District Picnic. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The third annual picnic of the Workers (Communist) Party, District 5 has been postponed from July 4 to July 8. It will be held at Nicholson Farm, Swigsvale, Pa. Philadelphia Miner’s Relief. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Philadelphia Miners’ Reliet Conference here has ar- ranged a picnic for July 29 at Maple Grove Park. _ St. tins Pienie. ST. LOUIS. — The Young Workers }- (Communist) League will give a picnic and dance at Triangle Park, 4100 South Broadway, on July.4. Dancing, refresh- ment, games and athletic concerts have been planned. z . * Highland Park, Ul. The Workers Party. of Highland Park, Ill, will hold a picnic for Miners’ Relief on Sunday, July 8, at Zabnle Grove. Refreshments, games, dancing * 4 * Paterson I, L. D. The Paterson Branch of the Inter- national Labor Defense will conduct a lecture by Max Schachtman on “Bleed- ing China,” ‘This lecture will be given at the Associated Hall, 201 Market St. Paterson, N. J., on Friday, June 29th, at-8 p,m, - TRAIN CRASH IN MASS. SOMERVILLE, Mass., dune 27.— Jumping the rails near Union Square this afternoon, two new locomotives of the Boston and Maine Railroad smashed -against a concrete wall, dragged three freight ears with them and blocked: the line. of the Fitchburg Division. Thirty-four freight cars kept the rails. The train crews were bruised when they jumped or were thrown to’ safety? Two hundred feet 5 cents an hour. of rails were ripped up. OOD print ing of ‘all description at a fair price. Let us estimate on your work; FIRST STREET ee oP tes NEW York Telephone ORCHARD. NEW YORK. vo | Workers 's Book Shop ‘Temporaty Headquarte: 26-28 UNION SQUARE Plight up Henle, Pampblets, Magazines, on all. subjects, OPEN DAILY UNTIL 9 P. M. W OPEN An excursion | George WwW. Olwany, feader of Tam many Hall; ‘Senator Kiig; of Utah; Senuitor Robinson, An Unusual Vie Whith Bhows types of aminbil BISCUIT. COMPANY (By «@ Worker Correspondent) With the greatest interest I have read in your paper some articles ex- | Posing the conditions under which the workers of the National Biscuit Com- }pany are employed. I worked there ‘for several years myself, and I can Xe [tel you that every word some of my fellow-workers have written is true. {It’s very consoling to know that we j workers of the National Biscuit Com- | pany have at last begun to think how | we can in some way get some protec- tion against the oppression of our j|palm beach suit bosses and against | "Tickets are 50 cents; |the speed-up system which lays us| | joff. one or two days a week. There jis no doubt that a workers’ organiza- | tion is the only power which can help lus to obtain human working gondi- ‘tions, better wages and more protee- tion for those of us who get sick. If a worker gets sick in the Na- tional Biscuit Co. he very often loses his job. If he stays home two days jhe is sure of losing his job. Two months ago, two workers were dis. charged by the company because they were sick, and I remember that at |the time they were hired—about five |years ago—they were very strong and jhealthy. They gave their health up so that the company might build more plants; at the end of those five years they find themselves out of work be- cause of blood infection! The doctor also told them that their condition was caused by bad blood due to over- fatigue and lack of plenty of food. This is one of many such accurrences, If we had a strong union here which would fight for our rights as workers, these two and ‘many others would not now be out of work. The company would not only not have discharged them, but would have paid them com- pensation during ‘their illness. JAPAN PLANS NEW ~ INTERVENTION .,. SHANGHAI, “Tune, 27. —. Belief that the Japanese government is in- tentionally fostering new anti-Japan- ese disturbances in China in order to have a pretext for intervention gains ground. here. daily as Japanese na- tionals continue to flout the anger of | the Chinese crowds. with every. fresh arrival of troops. The legation guard at Peking has | been increased by 1,500 soldiers which is considered indicative by foreign opinion here, Japanese troop trains of eighteen ears in length are no curiosity in China today and there is every reason fir believing that the Japanese in- tend to extend their conquests beyond Tsinan in.the immediate future, WORKERS SLAVE JUNE 28, 1928 'BROACH SET FOR ELECTION STEAL IN LOCAL THREE Workers Expose. “Little Caesar” Further evidense je! wlibabantiating the jcharge that officials of Electrical | Union 8 are planning an open elec-| tion steal this Saturday when the junion votes on-its officers, was of- fered yesterday in quarters close to the administration of the union. These jsources who for the time, being do not care to be quoted, pointed out that at the union meeting held last Thurs- day at Central Opera House, H. H. Broach, International vice president, openly admitted the plan to steal the local elections. Broach hinted that there is more tions, when at the last’ union meet-| jing he said, “There is more than one | |way of killing a cat.” In addition he | strongly mphasized the fact that if ‘he has anything to do with it there | will be no change in the administra- | tion after the coming elections. ” “By taking this stand on elections, it was declared, “Broach places hims in the class of Major George Berry,| renegade president of the Printing Pressmens’ Union, who has completely | ruled out elections and is using the} junion merely for his own business purposes as a newspaper publisher.” | | “Broach has told the membership that it will require at least three more years to clean up New York. There{ are at least 20,000 unorganized elec-| trical workers. In local 3 there are only 6,000 electrical workers, less| than one-third of the workers em-| ployed in the electrical industry of | \the city. Not a finger has been mov ed nor a word spoken by International Vice-President Broach or the union} officials in relation to the organiza-| tion of the unorganized thousands of | utility and alteration electrical} workers. “At a meeting held some months ago Broach stated that only ‘two Communists and one half baked nut’ were being excluded. At the last meeting these figures suddenly | jumped to 85 members. Such de- ceptive statements by Broach do not erase the fact that more ‘than 300 members are being excluded from | union meetings. And yet our benevo- lent Mr. Broach speaks of cleaning up | |New York and obtaining better work- | ing eonditions for the membership. “At the last meeting of the local a pepikeagy calling for the expenditurc f more than $10,000 for the purchase of new automobiles for the Busines: } | Agents was placed before the mem- bership. This at a time when unem- | ployment and suffering of the workers is great. The purchase of new auto- mobiles for the Business Agents is} given precedence over the institution of relief measures for the unemployed members. What has Broach’s machine in the local done to deserve election?” re- PHILADELPHIA The work we make {s good. Organ- izations’ work—our specialty Spruce Printing Co. 152 N, SEVENTH ST., Bell—Market 6383 Keystone—Main 7040. PHILA, PA, Union Printers. gress of the Party of the discussions. Please include postage Report of the Fifteenth Con- The first report in the Engish language of the most im- portant Soviet Union Party Congress since Lenin’s death. A~500-page volume containing all reports, decisions and 50 Cents WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 EAST 125th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Communist Soviet Union with every cash order. 5s ADMISSION AUSPICES BOSTON DAILY Best Time of the Year! ~ DAILY WORKER PICNIC At CALEDONIAN GROVE West Roxbury Wednesday, July 4 Games — Dancing — Sports — Bruno’s Jazz Orchestra “Take Spring St. Car at Forest Hills Station and Get Off at Grove. BOSTON 50 CENTS, WORKER BUILDERS’ OLUB. {by the Joimt than one way of stealing the elec-|P If | J | tancy Page Five |Anthracite Sub- District iStages Picnic Saturday The first picnic of the year in the Anthracite Subdistrict of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held Jun 30, Saturday, at Avondale Hill, mouth Township. Dancing from noon ’til midnight, good music, games, in one word: a good time for everybody at the pic- nic; the proceeds will go to the Party organization fund. Admissiofi is only 25 cents. Direction: Take W. Nanti- | coke bus at Plymouth, get off at | Avondale mine; ask the committee for further direction. TO DEMAND JULY RAISE AT FUR MEET : A, mass membe pares meeting cailed | Roard of the Furtiers Cnien will be hers teunght at Weoster Hall, 14th St. and Ttisd Ave, ima,~ diziely sfter wert (ade nine of the i open tre report of the ial tr on the questions of the Zlce in the Joint Council, ade sit Prog and ain ona sen to secure *he July wage ur every fur worker in the st seuson,” a leaflet caliag the z de “the right wing t Counc eeded in sel'ing out the fur workers to the bo: wh» | | tech adveriage of this by not only with July ri unin conditions.” year plans must be formulated so that every worscr in the trade will comp». the recognition of the custom our mili- has established, namely, the ranting of the July raises.” RAISE FOR OHIO PAINTERS HAMILTON, Ohio, June 27. — A wage increase of 12% cents an hour | has been won’ by the Painters’ Union. | Ply- | meeting witn a| ive | (CAPMAKERS WILL “HOLD ANTI-PIECE WORK MEETING ToDemonstrate Against | Zaritsky All members of the Capmakers {Union have been called to a mass | meeting tomorrrow evening, to pro \test against the organized and delib-- erate policy of President Max Zarit- | sky to foist the sweat shop: tem of piece work upon the New York membership. The meeting will be held +2 Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Hasb 4th immediately after work. | The meeting will be a demenstra- * ion of protest against Zaritsky’s de- uction of the entire or; ation, by the expulsion and the dissolution locals whose leadership is opposed his policy of granting piece work |to the bosses and the return of the 44-hour ¥ of the presént 40. In a statement issued by the left wing members of the union, it fs | pointed out that it was first neces- jsary for the right ng to get rid of jall militant elements > struggle against Zaritsh continual surren- der to the employers of the workers | gains. First Zaritsky removed the leader ship of the Chicago strik i piece work, and then he this strike in spite of the fact that the season is now beginning. Hold jing out for a short period would hi seen the capitulation of the boss {the desire to avoid the loss of an- other season, the statement says. Za \vitsky therefore tried to bre \struggle by removing the progressive jleaders, and now he calls off the strike outright. ST. PAUL, MINN. Daily Worker PICNIC SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1928, All Day At JOHNSON PARK 36th. Ave. and Johnson St., N. E. Directions—FROM MINNEAPOLIS: Take Bryant-Johnsén car to end of line—-FROM ST. PAUL: Como car to, 4th St. and E. Hennepin, change to Bryant-Johnson car. SIGNS TW FOLLOW THE 0 BLOCKS, UKRAINIAN & FREIHEIT CHORUS—FINNISH ATHLETIC CLUB—GAMES—DANCING—REFRESHMENTS. C. R. HEDLUND, Speaker Parmer-Labor Candidate for Congr 10th District DAILY WORKER COMMITTEE: PROCEEDS TO THE SEATTLE, WASH. Picnic and Dance PEOPLE’S PARK, Renton Juct. SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1928 i—Hours of Dancing—7 Sports--Prominent Speak- ers—Refreshments. Interurban leaves Occidental and Yesler on the hour, Admission: Gentlemen, 50 cents; Ladies, 25 cents. STRIKING MINERS. artists in America, including: FRE» ELLIS WM. GROPPER HUGO GELLERT M. BECKER JACOB BURCK DON BROWN HAY BALES K. 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