The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1928, Page 2

a By JOHN J NEW YORK UNIONS SEND DELEGATES TO ATTEND MEET Shop Committees to Be Represented BALLAM. Working Youth Conference 2 will be held Sept. 29 and 30 at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Secord Ave., will mark a tremend- ous step forward in the general work of organizing the unorganized which is now the central task of the Trade Union Educational League. In New York particularly, the young workers make up a large per- centage of the wo g class. There are over 200,000 office workers, of which 65 per cent are between the ages of 16 and 25 years, Devart- merts stores and shops employ large numbers of youth. Candy factories, radio assembly plants, telephone, telegraph, food, textile and needle trades, etc., employ large numbers of young workers. New York is a city of diversified and light indus- try in which young men and women are mercilessly speeded up and ex- ploited, working under unsanitary conditions at starvation wages. This Conference of the Working Youth will be the first big step for- ward toward organifing the thou- sands of young workers in this city. The general attitude of the average trade union official is to ignore this tremendous problem. The young workers should constitute a source of strength to the organized labor movement. Their enthusiasm, cour- age and vitality would infuse new life into the American labor move- ment. The rationalization of industry makes it possible to supplant adult la- bor with youth and woman labor due to the increasing division of labor, the simplification of the processes |* of production the increasing use of Machinery replacing hand produc- tion, the introduction of efficiency sé¢hemes and the speed up, all this throws the adult skilled worker upon the scrap heap. The Working Youth Conference will discuss the problems of the working youth. Many trade unions aré’ sending delegates. Young work-! ers delegates will attend from or- famrized and unorganized shops from many industries. The T. U. E. L. greets these youth delegates as the advance guard of the left wing and pro-| gressive labor movement. All forward locking labor organi-- zations should help these young warkers morally and financially in their determination to organize themselves to resist exploitation and; fo¥ the emancipation of the work-| af class. These young workers will soon be- come the back-bone of the labor Bt Blind French War THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, Officer Used As Militarist Propaganda 3 WORKERS PARTY | | OPEN AIR MEETS Speakers “Will | Cover | Entire City | | Thursday, Sept. 27. One Hundred and Thirty-eighth St. and St. Ann’s Ave., Bronx— | Powers, Spiro, Suskin, Jessie Taft. Fortieth St. and Eighth Ave., N Y. C.—Bydarian, Cibulsky, Kagan. Steinway and Jamaica Ave., As- toria, L. I—Wright, Chernenko, McDonald,’ Burke, Heder. | Major Georges Scapini, (above with Tammany Mayor Walker), now member of the, French Friday, Sept. 28. Chamber of Deputies, was one of the not over many officers maimed in the imperialist world war. National Biscuit Co. (noon)— For every one officer injuried, many thousand rank and file soldiers were sacrificed to imperialism. Bert, Miller, P. Frankfeld. Scapini is a jingoist, and is being used by the French government as an instrument of militarist Bristol and Pitkin, Brooklyn— propaganda. He has come to the United States to attend the coming American Legion convention Ragozin, Lipzin, Aronberg, Julius in San Antonio, where these fascist tools of the open shop bosses will use him for American militar- Colien, ist purposes. Meanwhile thousand: BARE FRAME-UP UPON SCHIFFRIN Right Wing Witnesses Tell Conflicting Tales Continued from Page One g drew his pocket-knife and backed against the wall, at the same time trying to ward off his sailants with his foot. I saw Iver and Rurus close in, one from the front and one from the side. I saw Sil- his arm with the knife in Schiffrin also raised his arm. struck downward at the same it. Both time.” This was the graphic descrip- tion of Schiffrin’s struggle for life, Jensen saw it. The courtroom was tensély silent. The reporter from the right wing Jewish Daily Forward and its lawyer, Samuel as movement in America—they will be|man Shop Committee; the shock troons of the proletariat in its struggle to overthrow the capi- talist system. The T. U. E. L. pledges its hearty support to the Youth Conference | and urges all left wingers to give substantial aid to these young workers. ie ee The Working Youth Conference which will be held Saturday and Sunday promises to be a tremend- ous success. Already a number of Unions and Shop Committees have| endorsed and elected delegates to the conference, among whom are the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dress- makers’ Union; Furriers’ Joint Board; Window Cleaners Union; Sports Club of Local 43, Millinery Workers’ Union; Local 41 Tuckers and Memstitchers’ Union; Wasser- of maimed rank and file war veterans, unemployed, starve Fifth Ave. and 110th St. N. Y. | G.—Haliam, Codkind, Gillgreen, Mo- reau. $50,000 PAID TO SEWER PIPE KING Tammany Graft Ring Markewitch, grew pale. The dis- trict attorney’s face showed frank hopelessness, The judge looked un- easy. Varet and Graham Ave.. Brook- lyn—Rei Wm. Frank, Lillienstein. Fiftieth St. and Fifth Ave., Brooklyn—Markoff, DeLeon, Cha- lupski, Valentine (chairman) Market Plaza, Newark, N. J.—M. Taft, C) Martins Seventh St. and Ave. A, N. Y— Markewiteh Butts In. The right wing lawyer, Marke- itch, tried interfere with the to proceedings of the trial by asking permission for a speech in a last desperate effort to hurt the impres- nt Sumner, Pasternack, Ackerman, sion made by the witneakeHemade| © Lrtal Under Way Goliger (chairman). his speech and yet did not dispel the Bliss Factory (noon)—B. Lif Continued from Page One ness men chosen specifically for the purpose in mind, was sworn in prac- | tically without objection on the part of the defense and within record time. completely changed atmosphere. The next witness then clinched Jensen’s testimony. He was William Wabbenhorst, Detective 75, of the Twentieth Precinct. He stated that after Schiffrin was arrested, Schif- frin volunteered to sign a statement that he had wounded Silver. He em- phasized that the statement was made by Schiffrin of his own free will, and when the statement which the detective brought with him in court was read it was found to match in every slightest detail with the testimony rendered by the gas repairman, 'schitz, H. Gordon. Saturday, Sept. 29. First Ave. and 79th St.—Baum, Yusem, Ed. Welsh. West New York, N. J. (14th St. and Bergen Line Ave.)—Ben Lif- shitz, Pearlman. Paterson, N. J. (808 Elm St.)— McDonald, R. Duke, Honig, Cava- tez. Elizabeth, N. J.—Padgug, Frei- man, A. Markoff. Bryant Ave. and 174th St., Bronx Jacobson, Castrell, Spiro, Gozi- gian, Williamsburg, Red Night (report at 46 Ten Eyck St.)—Weinstone, Renjamin, Bimba, Grecht, Bieden- kapp, Nessin, Primoff, LeRoy, Wright, Vera Bush, Frankfeld (Y. WwW. L.), Among those on the jury is an employe of J. P. Morgan & Co.. a large corporation secretary, and a wire chief. Numerous indications have been apparent of the cooperation between Max Steuer, head counsel for Con- nolly, and Emory R. Buckner, as- | sistant attorney general and prose- jcutor of the indicted grafters, At the trial yesterday, Steuer waved the usual opening address for his} client, and other signs are indicative of the intention to rush the case through as quickly as possible. Gang Worked Under Cover. In his opening remarks, Buckner disclosed that Connolly and Phillips studiously avoided being seen to- gether but “they worked” together quite effectively just the same. “We? will show,” Buckner declared, “that in 1917 John M. Phillips received 50 per cent of the profits of a certain contract awarded to Joseph L. Si- gretto, although Phillips did no work. “W will show that when Phillips didn’t want a man to get a sewer job he would simply name a ridicu- Philip Jones Shop Committee; International Handkerchief Shop Committee and others. This conference will be a demon- tration of the readyness for, organi- zation on the part of the large mass of young workers in New York. This can be judged by the response to, the various leaflets and bulletins put out by the Conference and the number of delegates already elected by the shops, trade unions and Youth Clubs. A number of prominent Labor Leaders will speak at this confer- ence. Arrangements have been made to have a fraternal delegate from the strike fields of New Bedford where Workers at Farm Give $7 for Mill Strikers A group of friends and sympathi- |zers at a farm near Camp Nitgedai- get turned in $7 for the New Bed- ford strikers through J. Mittenberg, | 1468 Seabury Place, Bronx. Due |this contribution in, behalf of the \textile strikers. by the Workers In- 1928 OPEN SHOPPERS © Bi; WILLHOLD MANY FETE TAXI CZAR RUTTENBERG —— |Strikebreaker Brown Is | Chairman | Continued on Page Three | the little taxi “czar,” Ruttenberg! himself, who in the year he has held office has carried on a reign jJof persecution against the workers that has driven thousands of cab drivers from the industry. This is in keeping with the -boss program of “rationalizing” the industry and| |eliminating as many drivers as pos-| sible. Kill Keep It Up. | Ruttenberg, who, besides his po- lice activities, is also a high mucka- |muck in Zionist circles, referred with pride to this regime which he described as “public service,” and |declared that he would continue this |policy with even greater vigor in |the future. | Ruttenberg further declared him- self in favor of higher taxi rates jand of the concentration of the in- dustry in the hands of the large |corporations. Both these proposals jwere loudly applauded. No profit) |could be made, he said, on the pres- ent 15-5 minimum but no one pre- tended that any increase would be passed on to the drivers. “We in the Hack License Bureau,” he said, “have tried consistently to eliminate the difficulties of the cab operators. We want to help, not to hurt the industry.” Ruttenberg referred only casually to the current agitation to compel all drivers to wear uniforms, part of the general program of regimen- |more completely in subjection. Ruttenberg’s speech was preceded Taste of “Freedom” Poverty forced Yee Sing, @ Chinese laundry worker, to work seven days a week to make a meager living. He received a taste of the famous brand of freedom allowed the workers in America under capitalism, when police ar- rested him for violating an ob- solete and little known law against ironing shirts on Sunday. Charges that police have been demanding “shake-downs” from these Chinese workers for Sunday work have been often made. Gold, Grecht to Speak at Banquet in Brighton Ben Gold and Rebecca Grecht will speak at the Red Banquet to be given by the Workers’ Club Oct. 13, 9 p. m. at 227 Brighton Beach Ave. for the benefit of the Workers (Communist) Party election cam- paign fund. Besides the banquet, interesting concert has been prepared. All workers are urged to attend the Red Banquet and thus aid the Workers (Communist) Party in its election drive. | tizing the taxi drivers to keep them jit is believed, to the fact that he is rrying favor on all sides to secure a job as “dictator” over the indus- ||Sunday, Sept. 30, by addresses by a number of taxi try, his present chief ambition in chiefs, consisting largely of paeans life, of praise to the great man. One of Big Open Shoppers. ‘them referred to the commissioner’s Among the companies represented heart as being “lined with platinum at the luncheon were the Standard gold.” Oil Company, the Auto Cab Mu- More Speed-Up. tual Insurance Co., the Cahco Agen- There was also talk of “improv-|cy Corporation, the Firestone Tire ing the efficiency” of taxi drivers/and Rubber Company, the Pitts- who already slave from 12 to 16 burgh Taximeter Company, the Gen- hours a day in all sorts of weather eral Tire and Rubber Co., the Para- in order to earn from $28 to $35 a| mount Cab Manufacturing Com¢iny week. One of the speakers objected to the fact that taxi drivers are joften “not as clean and as cour-| |teous as they should be,” and sug- gested that taxi companies employ |a teacher to more effectively disci- 'pline the drivers. The companies ;securing increased rates, he said. | | Chairman Brown refrained from! and other open shop concems. The Yellow Taxi Corporation was “un- officially” present and is understood to have been one of the chief mov-| ers in the luncheon to Czar Rutten- berg. The recently formed Taxi Chauf- ‘credit is herewith acknowledged for Would be repaid for this expense by|feurs’ Union is conducting a vigor- ous campaign for organization of the drivers to fight all the evils in ternational Relief, 1 Union Square. making any extended remarks, due,| the industry. Re PE Calls Upon All Labor Organizations to Support the Youth Conference SECTIONS 2, 3 IN LAST ELECTION DRIVEREDSUNDAY |Red Squads Mobilize in 2 Boros can 4 | The final mobilization of the Red | Squads of Sections 2 and 3, known jas the backbone of the signature jdrive in this city, will te held on The squads will be divided into three batches and | will work in Williamsrurg, Browns- ville and in the upper Bronx, in the co-operative houses section, Throughout the week units of Sections 2 and 2 are being visited by the campaign directors of the sections and the members urged to |report at 46 Tei Eyck St. the Wil- jliamsburg headquarters; 154 Wat- kins St., in Brownsville, and 2700 Bronx Park East. The fine record made by the Red Squads both in the Bronx and Harlem will be sur- passed, according to B. Gussakoff and J. Cohen, campaign directors. Must Continue Work. In a statement issued to members of Sections 2 and 3, Rebecca Grecht, campaign manager of the district, stressed the fact that next Sunday is the final mobilization drive of the signature campaign, and urged all workers to participate. “The good | work of our Party members in the | drive thus far,” the statement reads lin part, “must not be made to suf- fer by a slowing up on the last day. The final mobilization is in many respects more important than pre- vious ones, as it is the decisive one.” The squads will be divided numer- ically, according to the requirements of the sections where they are as- signed, and all Red campaigners of sections 2 and 8 are urged to re port at the headquarters to which they are assigned. Williamsburg Important. “Williamsburg is the most im- portant center for mobilization next Sunday,” the statement concludes. “The bulk of the Red Squads must concentrate at 46 Ten Eyck St. It is up to sections 2 and 3 whether or not the Thirteenth Williamsburg Assembly District will have a-Com- \Inunist candidate on the ballot.” Urge Workers Children to Attend Red Rally In a statement issued yesterday by the Young Workers (Commu- nist) League and the Young. Pion- veers, all New York workers’ children are urged to attend the Red Rally to be held Friday evening at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and _Third Ave, the Young Workers are playing a leading role under the leadership of the New Textile Workers’ Union. lous price for his pipe. “Ninety per cent of all the sewers built in Queens were built of precast NEW BEDFORD MI Fugitive Slave Laws in 1 By FRED BIEDENKAPP (National Secretary Workers’ In- ternational Relief) At the corner of William and Purchase streets in the city of New Bedford stands the imposing build- ing of the Merchant’s National Bank. It is an imposing affair built of huge blocks of New England granite and fronted with enormous alabaster- white marble pillars. It is a monu ment to those in New Bedford who were not compelled to slave in the mills of the north and ‘south ends Of the city. For those who are liv- tng by the exploitation of the miser- ably tinderpaid mill workers it is a Solid and cooling sanctuary, whose well-fed officials look askance at the passing march of strikers and pickets. New Bedford’s history, however was not always one wherein the vic- tims of economic or political in- justice were fired upon by the de- fenders of “law and order.” In 1851, and even for years be- fore, this New England town was the haven for fugitive slaves from the South. It was one of the centers of the abolitionist movment for the liberation of southern slaves. A bronze tablet affixed to the bank building now carried this leg- end: “News of the passage of the Fu- gitive Slave Laws was brought from Boston (to New Bedford) in 1861 by an express messenger who rode all night and the bell on the old hall Was rung to give warning to fugi- tive slaves that U. S. marshals were coming. “The bell was melted in the fire of 1854 and a fragment is inserted in this tablet.” There was “lawlessness” with a comes from militant and class-con-| one after that and our comrades wil! ting with Local New York, Workers’ vengeance. Aiding and abetting “lawbreakers.” “. . .to give warn- ing to fugitive slaves that U. S. marshals were coming.” Of course, the ruling class in 1851 was feeling the competition of southern slave labor, but there is no doubt that there were thousands of liberty-lov- ing New Englanders who loathed and abhorred the cruelties of chat- tel-slavery. Where are there “humanitarians” today? The middle and upper *tlasses in New Bedford, descendants, tically tolled the warning bell on the old hall, now look complacently on the thousands of hungry strikers, who have withstood the mill owners for the past 24 weeks. One stands on the broad steps of |the Merchants’ National Bank and watches depositors going in. Lardy business men, prim stockholders in \the textile industry, many and sun- dry of the middle and upper classes. | Do they toll bells to warn that some of Samuel D. McLeod’s gunmen in police uniform are about to assault and fire upon a 60-year-old textile striker? They do not. When the | National Guard whip their saw- edged bayonets out of their seab- bords and march on the massed |pickets in the south end do they run frantically down the street to warn the victims of the ruthlessness of capitalist “justice”? If so one has not heard of it. For 24 weeks the Workers’ In- ternational Relief has been strug- gling to keep the 30,000 heroic strik- ers going while they fight against 10 per cent wage cut. Everybody in New Bedford knows what: the Workers’ International Relief is. The thousands of workers that eat at our soup kitchens know of our work. The merchants and bankers know of our work. Do these wealthy parasites offer aid to the striking |slaves of the New Bedford mills. | No, it is easy to be sympathetic to- wards a victim of a competitor as was the case in 1851. Now these | smooth-jowelled business look. with a calm and cool eye on the in- |describable suffering of the striking textile slaves, y Yes, for 24 weeks the W. I. R., |has been giving relief. Where does this relief money come from? It scious workers from all parts of the country. It comes from textile workers, from miners, from shoe workers, from clothing workers, but always from workers. It comes from workers because only work- ers enn realize the suffering of workei's in revolt. It comes from those who know that the master | class waits patiently for Hunger jand Winter to break all revolts against its power. The depositors of the Merchants’ ational Bank are sleek and warm ft doubt, of those who enthusias*|*ut the strikers on the picket line, 49 Wiliam St., New Bedford, Mass. | City. | if af LITANT TRADITION 851 and Textile Struggle of 1928 pipe and 100 per cent of all the pre- cast pipe used was Phillips’ lock- joint pipe. | Got Huge Rake-off. “We will show that Phillips sold | BIG NIGHTS his pipe for two times, three times, }five times its value. “How could he get’ away with this? Through the power that Con- nolly had in awarding the con-| tracts.” 2 Buckner added that the specifica- tions on precast pipe were copied word for word from the catalog of | the lock-joint pipe company. “Other pipe companies could not are many of them without shoes. The executive offices in the granite bank are snug and warm, but now that the autumn nights are windy the workers’ homes are cold. The eyes of the depositors in the bank are self-satisfied and complacent but the strikers look with harried eyes to approaching fall and winter. meet these specifications. That’s No one knows of the courage of| another way Phillips, Connolly and/| the New Bedford and Fall River! Seeley got and kept their power.” strikers better than the workers of the Workers’ International Relief. They have braved the bayonets of! the National Guard, they have stood against the revolvers of Chief of Police McLeod’s' thugs; for 24) weeks they have lived on short ra-| tions, for nearly six months they) A special conference of all unit have tightened their belt8 and “car-|agitprop directors of the Young ried on” valiantly. Workers (Communist) League and But winter is coming. They can-| of the district agitprop committee not fight against hunger and cold. has been called for Saturday at 1:20 They will fight on if the workers of | p. m. at 26-28 Union Square, fifth American can feed and clothe them. floor, to take up the question of So far food was all that was needed. the Workers School and the task Now comes insistent cries for shoes before the agitprop directors of the and clothing. At six in the morning | League during the next period, all hands are needed on the picket 1). Benjamin, New York district line; but at six in the morning when | agitprop director of the Workers the chill winds blow in from the! (Communist) Party, and Hyman New Bedford harbor coats and stout! Gordon, New York district agitprop shoes are sorely needed. director of the Young Workers! Words seem so inadequate to de-/ (Communist) League, will address | seribe the many needs of the New the conference, after which there | Bedford strikers. One feels like will be a periodifor questions and | rushing out ‘into the streets and! general discussion, | shouting and pointing to heart-| It is important that all agitprop rending letters and pictures of hun-| directors attend. | .ty kids and cold print seems, a fu- i Restaurant to Donate | Special Conference of Agitpron Directors to} Be Held This Saturday tile medium with which to convey a to Mill Relief Fund — | the New Bedford and Fall River ARETE | burning call for help. Workers of America! You must not allow cold and hunger to break 2 ‘ Z . The scientific vegetarian restaur- § 6. ty is . The strik- | ysl ih PY beyond description, Mt, 1606 Madison Avenue, between One more week, another and maybe | 107th and’ 108th Streets, is coopera ‘compel the mill gates to swing open, International Relief, and a group of If you are working and have just | Comrades, to contribute 10 per cent enough to eat you must give these °f its income for three days, to- ‘ loyal fighters succor. Give what you Morrow, Friday, and Saturday, for Baily EVERYTHING FROM A THREAD TO A SET OF FURNITURE at ¥% Price = es -—Tv ig CALE st FREIHEIT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY O can; but give. Give money; give the benefit of the textile strikers of percre shoes, give clothing, but give some- New Bedford and Fal! River, thing. Do not wait for collectors to, Workers are urged to check up in. come around and wheedle a dime or their units and sections the matter) a dollar out of you. Give now. I of raising relief for the strikers. The | appeal to every worker who has the|need is urgent, many clothes and| cause of striking workers at heart) shoes must be collected, These | to send his contribution directly to, must be turned in promptly to Local | the Workers’ International Relief New York, Workers’ International | (fon, Square, New York City or Relief, 1 Union Square, New York| BIG DAYS * — vig ~— 1,000,000 Articles BAZAAR Madison Square Garden CTOBE 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH DO NOT BUY NOW, WAIT . 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