The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1928, Page 2

face Two Fate of 5c Fa ve Is Up for Decision Today ALOGAL 41 ISSUES Worker Correspondence Class LUCKLESS NIGKLE BILITANT APPEAL *T0 ALL WORKERS Exposes Labor Fakers; Will Orga M. E. nize TAFT ars of its ex- Hem- Novelt; has passed through experiences. The ndustry at first had kers, and ur a charter a hard struggle to ¢ from the International. Finally, when th rter had geen granted, he national could not afford a ager for the Local. Imost every other anager would op- ion until finally there a limb or tissue left to erate on the u More than once during this pe- riod the International attempted to revoke our charter altogether. But, thanks t6 the efforts of Brother Myman, then manager of the Joint B leader of the left wing, the International was not successful in revok charter. The o nd methods of manag- ing Loca by and Halpern resulted in demoraliza- on tion and almost complete ruin of the Local. The constant demand of the left wing group for a permanent manager and more attention to the Local resulted in the utter abandon- ment of the union by the Interna- tional gang. Finally, in a group of pro- gressive members succeeded in tak- ing over the leadership of the Lo- 1925 cal. Their first act was to initiate an organization campaign in the trade. The employers. chose this particular time to institute a wage- cut drive, in the conviction that with the union weakened as a result of the nolicy of the International their effort would be successful. The chief among the employers | was the Star Pleating Company, whose owner was at the time the preside f the association (and by the w this association of the roduct of Mr. J. Hal- who was part manager at times of the Local and vice-presi- f the International) Left Wing Wins Victory. The left wing administration, un- der the leadership of Pauline Mor¢ ganstein, had taken up the struggle egainst the association, while the union, as has been said, was in a weakened and very critical condi- tion. With the aid of the locals in fhe Joirt Board, however, our union sheld out againsi; police brutalities, Hinjunctions and starvation for fully six months. At the end of this time a generai strike was declared, which forced the employers of the asso- fciation finally to recognize our or- ganization. Throughout this struggle the In- ternational not only failed to assist Zour Local but y abandoned it fand did everything to create dis- gsention among the members and dis- st of the left wing leadership. At the time of the organization sof Local 41 the International had sent us a set of books and some old urniture scraped together from her offices. For this they had icharged us $2,900. We shall see in ta momerit how they used this charge to fight us. When the International began its attack on the left wing and initiated its expulsion campaign, Local 41 Stood solidly with the rank and file ‘end the policies of the left wing. Naturally the International officials did not like this stand and were looking for a chance to launch an attack on the union. Gang Steals Funds. So, in January, 1927, in the man- ner of sneak-thieves, these officials 3 took over $4,500, then held on de-| Srosit by the Local at the Interna- «tional Union Bank, without as much {as informing us of the fact. When the officers and the executive board fof our union discovered the theft # of our funds, a special meeting was called to consider action. It was @ @ecided, however, that in view of the Tfact thet the money was a security “fund put up by the employers, and sin view of the further fact that we were ir the midst of negotiations Pwith the employers over a new Sagreement, it would be bad policy # to announce the theft at that time. & Instead, we began an intensive feampaign to collect a tax previously GMevied in order to replenish our jireasury. ) We also called our members to a Dgenernl meeting and told them of S the dirty job of the International. VAL this meeting a resolution was Beranimdusty adopted that in the fu- S ture all funds of the union be de- 2% ited in another bank and in the | 4 1 pened in 'now again calling you to rebuild| “name of three trustees elected for ) that purpose. Within a short time | we raised a new fund of almost ~ $6,000. When our eecountant made ) his report and the International dis- * govered that we had this money, ‘which it then needed badly for WY i “opt - strikebreaking activities, the gang le an unsuccessful attempt to ob- {ain the money. Thanks to the ef- forts of the financial socretary of ‘the left wing Joint Board, Brother noy, this attempt was frus- Begin Frame-Up. International clique was wild, once instituted # frame-up such as Lefkowitz | Will Open Soon An entirely new course, Worker Correspondence, will be given at the! Workers School, 26-28 Union Square, during the fall term, Under direction of Whittaker Chambers and Sender Garlin, both of the Daily Worker staff, the course is partly the result of the increased interest and activity of Worker Correspondents thruout the country and of the publication of factory newspapers in various shops and factories of New York. Class-Trained Writers. The course, which will be given Wednesday evenings, 8:30 to 9:50 Pp. m., aims primarily at training workers to report day to day news of the class"struggle from the shop and factory, in a simple, clear, in- teresting and concise manner. This course should not only result in the development of many Worker Cor- respondents for the Daily Worker and other labor publications, thus making these papers a better re- flection of the workers’ lives, needs and problems, but should also re- sult in making the studuents class-trained writers for the Shop Newspapers, that must be issued in ever increasing numbers in the fac-| TO GET REPRIEVE UNTIL ELECTION tories of this country. The course will be so conducted | that the different problems facing | |these engaged in factory newspaper | work will be taken up and organ-| ically made part of the class room| work. Arrangements have been| made with the Worker Correspon- | dence editor and the city editor of| the Daily Worker to have the bet-| ter articles submitted by the stu- when the members of the United dents published regularly. Members) giates Sunr-~-« Court assemble at of Communist Shop Nuclei that are Washington ‘o decide its future—| issuing factory newspapers or that! }yt only for a moment, for a new| have a possibility of doing the same | tease of life is assured the fast- | in the future are especially urged | fading five-cent fare-—that is, until | to take this class. A knowledge of| after election, when its decapitation | elementary English is necessary for) wil] be quite safe for the Tammany the course politicians who have already he- | Special Feature Writing. trayed their bosom companion. | Part of-the course will consist of| Jimmie Walker, cake-eater mayor | instruction in generalhews and fea+|o¢ New York, himself will be on the ture writing, and students will be! job to “defend” the nickel. He wil! given specific assignments for the|gurely be no more than two hours | Daily Worker. Hate when court opens to decide on | Those desiring more information |the Interborough claims that any- | concerning courses to be given at) thing less than seven cents is “con- | the Workers School this year can/fiseatory” and in violation of the | |write for a free copy of the cata-|constitution. It is no more than| jlog, or come to the office of the' poetic justice that Walker should | Workers School. Registration is|lead the “defense” of the five-cent | now going on. fare! Didn’t he sit in a secret con- | Heroic Jimmie Walker | Leads “Defenders” | The fate of the New York nickel | fare will hang in the balance today against the officers and the execu- tive board of our Local. The vile character of the frame- up worked out is best illustrated by the fact that A. Baroff, treasurer of the International, having read the |rainutes of our Local for an entire | year, admitted to me in the presence |of Brother N. Standard that there |was nothing in the minutes which |could incriminate our union. | On these frame-up charges we |were called to a committee, and | what were the charges? The refusal to pay $2,900 for the old furniture and the set of office books, depositing of the union funds in the name of union members, duly | elected for that {of a $500 loan through Local 9, ex- |pelled from the International. Later, at a general executive board meeting of the International, Greenberg, the traitor, was ap- ointed supervisor of our Local. He }at once issued an order that we }must hold our meetings in the In- |ternational building, which we re- lfused. A previous experience, a | meeting in one of their halls, was very unpleasant for one cf our mem- bers, who had been beaten up by \the gorillas of the International for |daring to ask a question. Go After Funds. The second order of Greenberg ras to deposit the money of the Lo- cal in the name of the International; | this our membership at a well-at- |tended meeting of about 600 unani- |mously refused to do. We pleaded | with the International again to let |this matter rest until we had signed an agreement with the association jand that afterwards we would be | willing to submit to a vote or to an/| | election. | But our pleading was in vain. | They could not get the money and decided to break the Local, regard- \less of what might result to the |conditions and standards of our | workers, who had so bitterly fought for those conditions. The clique then signed an agree- |ment with the association of the | boss pleaters without the knowledge jof the rank and file and forced the workers to register with Green- berg’s scab agency. When workers in our trade refused to register, the clique united with the bosses to lock out these workers and prom- ised to send them others whom the International tried to cet by adver- ‘tising in the “World.” Greenberg and his little assistant worked hard at the time of the lock-out in point- | wil] be affiliated with the central/Y. C.—V. Smith, Suskin, Gozigian, ing out, to the police our pickets for| Nefense Committee at 26-28 Union B, Gussaky. arrest. Secure Injunction. Finally the International, with the aid of the bosses, secured an in- junction against Taft and the’ ex- lecutive board. Failing in that they |sent gorillas and gangsters to beat up the workers and to force them to register. After that ten months passed by and our trade, which had operated under union ndards of hours and wages, was ruined by the Interna- tional. Already the International had sold out one of the largest shops in the trade to the bosses by allowing them to throw out a large number of workers who had worked in that shop for years, to reduce wages and to work overtime for time and a | quarter. | The bosses now feel that they can do anything they please with the workers. How long will the work- ers of our trade tolerate such con- ditions? Your Local 41, Tuckers, Hem- stitchers, Pleater and Novelty Workers Union, at 6 W. 21st St., is jyour union. | Duty Is to Fight. | Your duty to yourself and other | workers in our trade is again to or- | ganize your union, | We have now affiliated with the National Organization Committee, which is ready to give us all the necessary help in rebuilding our | union. | Come to’ our office, where your junion, the union of the workers, is located, 6 West 2ist St. See your | manager, Brother Taft, for more gang at 8 West 16th St. e They purpose; payment | ference with Al Smith, George Ol- | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1928 Tinurs V spon Stop paying dues to | 1 vany, leader of Tammany Hall, and | officials of the traction interests at | which it was decided to put over an increased fare at the proper time? Another “Friend.” T0 SAVE SHIFRIN The legal chief of defense for the city at today’s proceedings will be coe former city controller, Charles L. | a - . Craig, counsel for the Eighth and | 7 pill sconiag Ninth Avenue Railroads and chief | mover several years ago in a scheme P edge upport to sell these and the Fourth Avenue Continued from Page One Railroad to the city for about ten | greetings from Shifrin himself,| millions more than their estimated whom he had visited the day before. | Value—the sum at, which the lines | “Shifrin’s first words to me when I Were offered to the city by Craig | saw him,” Rappaport said, were: | Was seven tillions—the three mil- | “T've made Communists ot of ten|lions difference being .the approxi- prisoners.’ His entite thought was|!@ate cost which would be entailed not for himself, but for the rest of/to tear up the old lines from the | the working class. When I told him| | that we may succeed in securing his release on bail, he said: ‘Why, should I get out? Why am I better than Mooney and Billings, than| Saceo and Vanzetti, than the thou- |sands of other victims of capitalist | | justice? Don’t worry about me. Tell! |the workers to build our unions, to| |Stand solidly against our enemies| {and to tear our unions from the jelutches of the Forward gang.’” . $1,000 Contributed. | | | ; of the delegates. A total of $1,000) was contributed by the delegates and/ | $800 was pledged. In addition there} | Were many contributions from visit-| jing workers, one giving $400. A contribution of $9 was made by 38 member of the socialist party, S. | Wechsler, who in making the contri-| bution, declared that his eyes were} jat last opened and that he would |sever all relations with the betray-| ers and provocateurs of the right) wing. An unemployed worker gave| ‘a $20 gold piece, practically all the| |money he had. Adopt Resolution. A resolution was adopted denounc-| ing the machinations of the Forward! ‘clique and pledging the support of, all the organizations in the defense} of Shifrin. A committee of 200 vol- unteers was formed to conduct the) work in various parts of the city) and a board of directors of 25) elected. The conference voted to arrange a huge mass meeting in one of the largest halls in the city to voice the protest of thousands of workers at} the conspiracy against Shifrin. A! ‘call will also be issued to workers} ithruout the United States to form) Shifrin Defense Committees which} Square. | |Farina, Negro Actor of | |Our Gang’ Meets Race | (Discrimination Here When Al Roach’s troupe, “Our | | Gang,” which is at present appear- | jing on the New York, theatrical | stages, applied at the Roosevelt Ho- | tel, Madison Ave. and 45th St., for | rooms, the hotel management re- fused to house them because of the presence in the group of Alan “Fa- | rina” Hoskins, child Negro come- |dian; his mother, Mrs. F. Hoskins, | and his personal manager, L. B.! | Mathonican, Prior to the arrival of the troupe, accommodations were arranged for them at the Roosevelt Hotei, but | |upon appearing at the hotel the | |management stated that under no | \cireumstances could they accommo- | (date the three Negro members of | |the group, | The Gang was, however, admitted |at the Park Central Hotel, and there |\“Farina” can now ponder the | strange question of race discrimina- |tion, which even his high attain- | ments in the artistic world could not |save him from. are your enemies! Refuse to let them into the shops! | Don’t recognize their fake repre- sentatives. Become a member of the real union of the workers, for the workers and by the workers. Down with the scabs and their gangsters. Long live Local 41, af- filiated with the National Organiza- ition Committee, Speeches were also made by many Would maintain your five-cent fare | called off on account of general streets and repave the same. Samuel Untermeyer. special coun- sel for the Transit Commission, is reported ill, and on this plea, every- body agrees, the case will be post- poned-—until after election, of course. The case may be heard on October 15. No decision is possible before election. Only one decision is pos+ sible after election. Better Act Quick. Workers of New York! If you after election a little action is the | thing: Bestir yourselves before the | fatal day of the ballot into organized mass activity—let the rulers of the wigwam tremble for fear of a po- litieal thrashing. You have only the Tammany grafters to lose and a nickel fare to maintain! WORKERS PARTY OPEN-AIR MEETS Five Arranged Today and Tomorrow The Workers Communist Party | has arranged the following open-air | meetings in New York City for to- day and tomorrow: Today. Rutgers Square—Sumner, Baum, Wattenberg, Silber, B. Halpern, Ac- kerman. First Ave. and 49th St.—DeLeon, Spiro, D. Burke, Donaldson. Lexington Ave and 28th St., N. Grand St. Extension and Have- myer, Brooklyn—-Bimba, William Frank, J. Cohen, S. Freeman. Tuesday. Eagle Pencil Co. (Noon)—Bert | Miller, P. Frankfeld. ae iene All Tuesday night meetings are Opera House. | membership meeting at Central | | All other open-air meetings for | | this week will be announced in Tuesday's issue of the Daily Worker. | 9 Workers Entombed When Railroad Tunnel Collapses in Spain. SARAGOSSA, Spain, Sept. 30) (UP).—Nine workmen were be- lieved to have been entombed in the collapse of a railway tunnel at) Camineral, near Cimortada. Rescue | workers were guided by cries of the men buried in the debris gince the | collapse Saturday. | An effort has been made to keep | the victims of the cave-in alive by | injecting air into the tunnel through | tubes. | PUPPETS GREET GENERAL. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Gen-| etal Pershing has been honored by the Peruvian government officials, | for the “cordial understanding” that! } *| | |he has brought about between the|_ United States and the South Amer-| ican country. The Peruvian ambas- sador is réady to present him with the Grand Cross of the Order of the! Sun, just a8 soon as he is willing to| accept) MICHIO [TO FAMOUS JAPANESE DANCER e FANTASTIC DANCE SPECT ACLE- MONARCHY AND REVOLUTION- AT DAILY WORKER- FREIHEIT BAZAAR 1,000,000 Articles 4 BIG NIGHTS EVERYTHING FROM A THREAD TO A SET OF FURNITURE at ¥ Price Daily Worker FREIHEIT BAZAAR Madison Square Garden FRIDAY 5TH BIG DAYS BIG NIGHTS SATURDAY 6TH SUNDAY 7TH DO NOT BUY NOW, WAIT TILL THE BAZAAR BIG DAYS