The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1928, Page 2

= Four Page Two . VIOLATES LAW; USES $2,000,000 FOR PATRONAGE Workers Organize Fight Grafters to Tammany Hall n has deliberately legal provisi to var employes ed have through the inve: of a committee ap pointed by District 2 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, it was an-| noun erday N yal civil service inspectors have been found to be one of the chief fferers, according to a details of which ar Evidence ifn ) disclosed. fa obtained indicates that ae Tam pol ave delibe ately e-tracked the demands ee the rank and file of the city em- ployes. Such increases as have been given have been made exclusively fn the case of officials higher up Who are a part of the Tammany mac In addition, between one and two millions ¢ ollars which i in the pres to pro held t any machine and will be used to distribute “pa-| tronage” during the coming year among the favorites of the machine, Evidence further disclosed indicates that a rising sentiment is develop- ing among the rank and file of city employes which may take the form of org: ed protest. NEEDLE WORKERS RALLY TOMORROW Red Demonstrations Thruout City Continued Guitt, erman. Meets Throughout City. Harlem—One Hundred and Tenth from Page One Cahan, Shiplakoff and Beck- St. and Fifth Ave—L. Rosenthal, chairman Spee akers: Napoli, H. | , I. Potash, I. ed Demonstration— | Speakers: Zimmerman, S$. Lei-| bowitz, I. Winograds Solomon, | Ben Gold, W. Zweiban, Rebecca | ort, A. Weiss, H. Sazer, Gladys hter, Rose Wortis. The meet- place at Washington mont Parkway, 163rd | St. and Prospect Ave., Intervale and | Wilkins, and will terminate in a huge demonstration at Longwood Ave. ard 163rd St Coney Island—Twenty-fifth St. end Mermaid Ave.—H. Lerner, chair- | man. r ania Perlman, M. E. . Cohen, I. Silkovitz, M. Ze: East New York—Williams and Sutter A ves.—Gc chairman, Speaker: Shiller, Mussen, H. Bleeker, Philip Good- Bristol and Pitkin chairman. Speak- Lena Cher- IN FIRE. Manitoba, Oct. lost in a fire of 4 DIE BRANDON, were Wilson. their son, Mer- farm of Alexander of Wilson, his wife, lin, and Wilson’s sister were found. | Suckers In Long Wait for THE DAIL Y WORKER, N ‘Tammany Kills Raise for City Workers Vorld’s Series Tickets Unable to pay the high prices manage somehow (perhaps the b good share of all tickets, the many discomforts to wait nearly the female sucker. TO START DRESS. DRIVE IN PHILA. Workers R Rally to New Union | Continued from Page One ation Committee. Most of them |Sigman scab union and joined vith the new union. “The new Executive Board, elected the recent conference of shop up at representatives has already under- taken concrete steps to organize shop nuclei of union members as the first step in preparation for an ac- tive organization drive. As a result of these activities there are prospects for the organi- zation of a good number of large size dress shops. The defunct Sig- man machine is totally demoralized and is gradually being eliminated as a factor in the trade. Finding them- selves on the verge of bankruptcy the Sigman clique sent out an SOS eall and the flying Dutchman, Hoch- man, came to their rescue, but seemingly without results. This Brookwood specimen in vain tried to boost up a mass meeting of dress- |makers where plans for an “organi- |zation” drive were to be proposed. But unfortunately for the fakers less than 50 workers showed up and even these were actually pulled in by force. The workers know very well that those who are responsible |for the destruction of their once |powerful union cannot build it up | and are therefore rallying to the sup- | port of the National Organization | | Committee. | eee \s “Freight Hoist for You Slaves,” Says Boss Continued from Page One her up a few flights, but after he found out that she was a worker, he took her back downstairs and jshe was forced to go through the filthy and drafty elevator in the back. The workers are very angry at this discriminating act against them. They begin to realize that while they |are good to be slaves, in the shops, at the same time they are not to be considered as human beings and |placed on the same level with gar- |bage and freight. Here where the class distinction is seen for every |worker in spite of his ignorance. above bun who asked by ticket 8 magnates kr culators, all ow) to garner underwent steboards. Note a of 24 hours ‘LABORITES PLEA. FOR CLASS PEACE Assure Businessmen of Plenty ‘AM, England, “Those engaged in honest BIRMINGE Oct. trade 4. ga being | have severed all connections with the |and industry need not fear the la- bor party’s financial policy,” Phil- lip Snowden, M. P., former chan- cellor of the exchequer in the Mac- Donald government, declared at to- day’s session of the British labor party While the financial program pro- vides for increased taxation, and is supposed to garnish revenues from millionaire incomes, business inter- ests were reassured when Snowden, in his address, declared that he doubted the possibility of getting much additional revenue from~ in- come taxation. Today’s session was surrounded by the halo of MacDonald’s speech, delivered at yesterday’s late session, which carried the spirit of class col- laboration and optimism for the business men. Industrial peace was MacDonald’s point, would depend upon cooperation between capital and labor in management and fi- nances of industry. Pointing out that industry is steadily passing into the hands of financiers, he called upon both the employer and the producer to unite and save Bri- tish industry. MacDonald immediately followed this declaration by a more optimistic nod to the financiers, assuring them that if the labor party got into power, they would not have incom- petent politicians at the head of the Bank of England. insist,” he continued, “that banks consider national interests as a whole and not the interests of financiers,” Workers Party Will Distribute 1,000,000 Speakers’ Cenferenke Campaign Leaflets The Workers (Communist) Party is on the ballot in 31 states, and is confident of being on in 35 for the presidential election. the campaign fund of $100,000 has been raised, Twelve speakers are already on nation-wide tours and| “But we must tures for children of all ages. our ; other About half of | several more will be sent out soon. | Over 100,000 signatures in the! of the weekly 2W YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928 WOMAN WRITERIS PROVEN TO BE IN PAY OF UTILITIES Received $600 Monthly for Articles Oct. 4 (UP).— Magazine articles written by Mrs. John B. Sherman, former president of the General Federation of Wom- en’s Clu for which she received $600 a month from the National Electrie Light Association, were put n evidence tod in tne Federal ade Commi power inves- | ion | WASHINGTO ion’s Most of the articles appeared in publications and dealt with squipment for the farm | . Sherman urged farmers’ | purchase modern equip- | | to wives ment. Payments to Mrs. Sherman ag- gregated $14,000 since October, 1926. George F. Oxley, publicity director of the N. E. L. A, testified that | the arrangement with Mrs, Sher- | man is still effective and she re- cently completed eleven articles to be published soon. Some of Mrs, Sherman’s articles were rewritten by Oxley, reprinted in utility literature without her sig- nature and frequently printed in newspapers in their news columns after utility agents sent them to the editors, he said. There was no indi- cation that the articles were paid for by utility groups, Oxley admitted. “DAILY” BAZAAR OPENS WITH BANG Thousands Attend Big Garden Affair Continued from Page One dance recital was adapted from Stravinsky’s “Fire-Bird” and the | “Military March.” The playing of the International during the third part of the dance was received with bursts of applause. Buying was brisk all evening. One of the most popular booths proved to be the Japanese rice cake bakery, conducted by the New York Branch of the Japanese Workers’ Associa- tion. Y. Nishimura is in charge of this. Tonight this booth will sell, in addition to rice cakes, chop suey sandwiches. The great bazaar will continue to- day, tomorrow and Sunday. To- morrow Children’s Day will be held from 12 to 5 p. m., with special fea- Many features have also been ar- ranged for the other days. Hundreds of workingclass organi- zations thruout the country have co- operated in the Bazaar and 1,000,- 000 articles are on sale at half price. Postponed One Week | Due to a special Election Cam- paign Conference of all section or- ganizers and section election cam- paign directors, called for tomor- row at 3 p. m., Rebecca Grecht will | be unable to address the speakers’ | conference as originally scheduled. | This necessitates the postponement | speakers’ conference. | Another scheme involved in this |thirty states were obtained in the| 411 open-air speakers and agitprop matter is by having the workers use | drive to get on the ballot, including | only the freight elevator, a strict |a large percentage of Negro voters. | this. unknown origin that destroyed the|check-up can be put on the workers|The Communists are now a Bodies|to be used against them in case {force in the elections as well as in of a strike. The workers will fight) against this class discrimination. OCTOBER NEW MASSES REACHES HIGH PLANE The October number of the New Masses has arrived on the news- stands in a real proletarian dress, a photo by Tina Modetti of a ham- mer sickle crossed over the wide rim of a Mexican peasants hat. The inside pages, measuring up to the expectations aroused by sight of the cover, contain many ar- ticles, stories and poems that con- tinue the New Masses’ policy of printing poems and prose by work- ers. Leading all the rest Michael Gold’s “Did God Make Bedbugs— including another chapter from his book of east side memoirs, which, rumor has it, will soon be published in book form. Ed Falkowski, young mine militant, contributes a story depicting the misery of life in the coal mines called “Coal Miners’ Children “The Right To Death,” by Miriam Allen DeFord, is a strong | attack on present social and s0- called “humanitarian” values, Nadja Pavlov’s “A Young Soviet Writer,” which takes up the works of Babel, is a real contribution to the fields of foreign literary criti- cism. Many Excellent Articles. Other articles and stories include “Are Musicians Workers?” by Val- entine Konin; a ‘Confession’ Editor,” by Margaret Larkin; “Soldier of Christ,” sub- titled “Notes For a War Novel,” by Charles Yale Harrison; “Midnight and) “The Confessions of | Mission,” by Joseph Kalar; “Broth- erhood,” by Clarendon Ross; “Gom- ez: The Great Living Criminal,” by Guillermo Meir; “Old Iron Sides,” by Ed Myers, a miner; “T. B. Work- ” by Irving Kr and jouth African Labor,” Hart- ley Grattan. Perhaps one of the best articles in the magazine is the appeal called “Awake Negro Poets!” by William Patterson, in which the writer urges young Negro writers to con- tinue their militancy, and disregard the examples of Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and the other Ne- gro poets who began with revolt in their work, but ended with accep- tance of the capitalist system and its methods of literary prostitution. Poems by Workers. Poems included in the issue are by Helen Koppel, Herman Spector, Augustin Habaru, H. H. Lewis, Truett, Vinson, Joseph Keglar, Toney Ferro, Helene Margaret, Walter Snow, S. Peters, Briggs and Leon Nasof. The enumerated stories and poems, together with the features, letters “From Our Friends and Foes,” and several fine drawings and woodcuts by Saul Yalkert, J. L. Wells, Louis Lozowick, Justine Fer- |nandez, Louis Ribak, Dorothy Owen and William Siegel, brings this issue up to its usual standard of excel- | lence. ' Harold | “Letters From Workers,” | real | the labor movement. The next step towards intensify- ing the campaign, taken yesterday by the National Campaign Commit- tee, is to print 1,000,000 leaflets on six issues considered by the com- mittee as the most important in this campaign. They are: Unem- ployment, the Plight of the Farm- ers, the Approaching War, Why Working Women Should Vote Com- Continued on Page Three directors are urged to take note of | The next speakers’ confer- | ence will, therefore, be held Satur- | day, Oct. 13, at 2 p. m., when Rose Wortis will speak on the needle | trades struggle in connection with | the election campaign. The speakers’ bulletin on “Smith and New Tammany and Wall Street” is on hand for distribution at the office of the District Agitprop De- partment, 26-28 Union Square, fifth floor. Speakers should immediately get a copy of this outline, while unit | agitprop directors should make use of it in unit discussions. 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