The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1928, Page 2

Page Two Window OPEN SHOPPERS IN FAKE CHARGE AGAINST UNION Jail Two Workers. in Frame-Up As a res Window Cl local 8, an anti-pick Spanier pen shop in the Supreme Court It charge spired, enti ened and « the that ser employees and induced customers to break cont If the injunction is granted it w workers to restrain from the plant of the open shop As charges of granting of an inj the bosses, union offic framed union members, Louis Berk- owitz and Nicholas Bulik. the charge of battery and assay In commenting on the poss Buance of the injunction, and t! arrest of the workers, Feinstein sai in part: “The charges of violence are only | a pretext to have the injunction| granted. But this trickery will avail | the open-shoppers little. We will| fight the application for the injunc-| tion and the injunction itself with| all the power and energy at our command.” POINCARE TAKES REACTION HELM Agree to| olence make the tion more easy state, have d,| “Socialists” Help PARIS, Nov. 9.—Premier Ray- mond Poincare, in response to de- R. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV. 1 ers’ P. “Burn $200,000 W oteciive More than $200,000 worth of nar- cotics, popularly known as “snow,” were dumped into the New York olice department furnace by federal agents, shown above. The drug traffic which claims thousands of ctims yearly, is only oécasionally disturbed by official raids. These uids, like the raids on speakeasies, are only sensational gestures since politicians have too much at stake in both the booze and drug industries to prosecute them seriously. orth of “Snow” THE DALLY WORKE 0,1 2 nN io) PICK MILITANT TO AID LEADERSHIP OF SILK STRIKE |Workers to Parade; All Labor Invited | Continued from Page One |also made at the meeting of the | leading union committee, wag, also, made public. This was thé an- nouncement of “An 8-Hour Day Parade,” in which all labor unions in |the city would be invited to join, to be held Saturday, Nov. 17. A | permit will be applied for, | Five Shops Go Out. | | Five silk manufacturing plants |were again shut down, when the workers in them, working under one of the fake agreements, heeded the jcall of the pickets outside for a new | strike, and walked out of the plant. |Three of these shops walked out |Olgin Will-Speak at Fifth Anniversary of GREET SHIFRIN |i, jnist lecturer and editor, will speal jon Alexander Blok’s famous revolu-| to |tionary poem, “The Twelve,” at the \literary and musical afternoon to- Morrow afternoon at the Irving Banquet, Meeting, Be Held This Sunday An enthusiastic welcome meeting, wded to the doors, was held last ght by the workers in the retail grocery, delicatessen, butcher, bak- ery and fruit stores, to greet Wil- liam Shifrin, left wing worker who faces a charge of second degree murder for his heroism in defending his life. The meeting will be held in Stuyvesent Casino, Second Ave. and |including numbers by Miss Menkel, Ninth St. | soprano; the Konin Girls, Piano and After a tremendous ovation for |Cello, and a Proletarian Orchestra Shifrin, that continued, despite his |has been prepared. pleadings to desist, the victim of| All workers of the city are invited the socialist frame-up machine told | by the United Council of Working of his fight for life. Shifrin, in |Class Women to attend this celebra- helping the food workers in their | tion tomorrow afternoon. struggles to organize, had been at- | be i IR tacked by a gang of six “se KNITTERS’ UNION The afternoon has been arranged by the United Council of Working Class Women in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the founding of the organization. In addition to this, Ben Gold, mili- tant leader Of the Furriers’ Union, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz will greet the councils. A musical program, or Plaza Hall, Irving Pl. and 15th St.| | when the mass picketing line of over 300 passed by, and the other two, struck again when appealed to by the individual pickets at the shop) gates. The workers now join in the} demand for a guaranteed agree-) ment. The firms are: J. Roff & Son, Max Kalish, Mayer Tannel, | Equity Silk Co., and the Lindy Silk Co, | gives The appointment of Chernenko to of Socialists ‘an organizership in the strike was | |greeted with one of the most en-| Continued from Page One |thusiastic ovations yet manifested ity against the workers. Roosevelt,|at the strikers’ meetings when it} Tammany Hall and the republican|was announced there. After pro- | legislature will take the vote that|longed cheering, attesting to the | they have secured as a mandate for| popularity of the spirited young a more brutal policy against the|leader, she rose to the platform and workers. In the needle trades, the) accepted the appointment. Although | workers can expect that the Schles-| officially appointed only recently, | ingers, the socialist bureaucrats, will] Lena Chernenko has been here in} conduct a policy of fastening more/ the capacity of voluntary organizer | firmly the company unionism’ and|since the strike first begun, many sweatshop system upon the workers. | weeks ago, ‘As a member of the But the rank and file workers in the| new National ‘Textile Workers needle trades have shown that they| Union, to which the Associated is understand that they can expect! not affiliated, she, together with nothing from the socialists, repub-| another member, were sent by the licans and democrats. National Textile Workers Union to sale might Abel Eola, assist the silk strikers in whatever & sipped iter Cache capacity they can serve. yet to learn that they cannot fight : us out their battles against company Rally Behind Left Wing. This action by the national or- unionism, long hours, low wages ganization, as well as their other WEINSTONE SEES RED GAINS HERE Traces Waning Power | mands made by the government/he had mortally wounded one of | party and the “radical left,” which | them. had frustrated the “radical soeial- | Leaders of other left wing unions | ists” in their attempt to form an|in the Jewish labor movement also | opposition bloc, agreed to head a/ spoke, in addition to the heads of mew cabinet. |the food store unions. Sam Lipsin, A meeting of “socialists” adopted | secretary of the Shifrin Defense | a resolution of Pierre Renaudel, one| Committee, in speaking to the as- | of their leaders, this afternoon fav-|semblage, told them that tremen- | oring the party’s participation in ajdous expenses would be met with| national union government. The ad-|in the struggle to save Shifrin from ministrative commission of the party |a possible life term in jail. His ap- will meet Sunday to vote on ap-|peal for funds was contributed to proval of the resolution. | generously and with enthusiasm. The decision was accepted with; The meeting unanimously passed relief by the conservative politicians |a resolution condemning the “social- and businessmen, who had come to| ist” union leaders, who stop at no look upon the stropg leadership of|means to destroy the influence of Poincare as the beSt guarantee of | the left wing. stabilizing capitalism in France. Lipsin also told of the arrange- President Doumergue, waiting un-|ments for numerous affairs being til the Bourse closed to avoid finan-| arranged by sympathetic militant cial excitement, called Poincare and | labor organizations, conferred with him for two hours.| This Sunday evening a welcome Doumergue issued an official an-|home banquet will be given Shifrin nouncement in which he stressed|at the United Workers’ Co-opera- that Poincare would seek to form ajtive Restaurant, 2700 Bronx Park “cabinet of republican concord.” The| East. Shifrin is a member of the phrase means that he would attempt!co-operative' colony of workers’ to consolidate all the parties of re-|homes. The banquet begins at 9 action, including the radical social-| o’clock. ists, into a cabinet of stabilization.) Another mass meeting is to be The radical-socialists’ attempt to| held to greet Shifrin and to aid his form an anti-Poincare bloc failed|fight for freedom. It will be held when the group known as the “rad-|this Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock thugs. In that fight, against over- | whelming odds, Shifrin succeeded in | repulsing his attackers only after | Mill Union Local Holds Shop Parley Tomorrow Albert Weisbord, secretary of the National Textile Workers’ Union, and Louis Hyman, chairman of the | National Organization Committee of | Cloak and Dressmakers, will address \a conference of shop representatives lof knitgoods workers, tomorrow, 1 |p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving | Pl. and 15th St. The meeting is {called by the Knitgoods Local of the National Textile Workers’ Union, |and a large attendance is expected. Sarah -Chernow, organizer for District 4 of the union, with head- quarters in New York City, will also speak. Organizer Chernow is on the National Executive Committee and is on the subcommittee in charge of jwomen’s work. “The knitgoods |workers of New York are ready to | organize,” said Sarah Chernow. “We |know of the immense profits the jbosses made this last season. And | we know that they are planning to jfurther exploit us. Their new ‘machinery and larger plants will mean increased speed-up and misery for the workers. We will build up and general sweatshop conditions merely upon the trade union field. They must support militant trade unioni8m, the new unions that have been formed but they must fight against the bosses—against the bosses political parties—against the government of the city and state of New York in order to win their struggle for emancipation from the poverty and oppression they endure under capitalism.” “They must give support to the Communist Party as the Party that leads the battles of the workers on| the trade union field as well as upon the entire field of the class struggle. They must direct their attention to| all the lackeys in office, to the capi-} talist state that must be overthrown |in order to achieve their emancipa- tion. “The election campaign of the! Communist Party has drawn greater | numbers of workers into the strug-| gle. The Party itself has learned to| conduct a mass campaign, to bring) the message of Communism to the} broad sections of the workers, The) parades, mass meetings, the meeting | in Madison Square Garden, the dis-| tribution of more than a million) pieces of literature in New York City alone shows that the Party has learned to utilize this field of ac- tivity to reach the workers with the! | | offers of substantial help, has made that organization extremely popu- lar with the silk strikers, who are jxallying behind the left wing cam- | paign for affiliation of the Asso- ‘ciated to that organization. | Chernenko’s official capacity in the union will be that of organizer of the winders, quillers and pick- ers, among whom an organization | drive is very necessary. She also fills the important job of women’s organizer. The acceptance speech of the newly-appointed organizer consisted not so much of thanks as of prac-/| tical proposals for immediate work. The three crafts in her charge con- sist mainly of women and young girls. She proposed that a commit- tee be chosen, composed of unionists, to visit the homes of all the wind- ers whose places of abode could be learned. Through personal talks of worker to worker, appeals should be made to get them to join the union. Particular attention must be paid to interesting and holding the in-> terest of young girls in the silk mills, for the union. ~ Through lighter features, such as entertain- | ments and socials, the organizer ex- plained, the girls can be held in the union, An important aspect of the strike, namely, the organization and ical left” passed a resolution calling upon Poincare to form a new cabinet. The four ministers who resigned| from the cabinet, precipitating the resignation of the whole cabinet, were im conference today and it was| thought that they were considering the formation of a new union gov-| ernment headed by Poincare. * The Communist Party, describing the action of the socialists as one| aimed at stabilizing the capitalist state, opposed any “union govern- ment” and declared for the forma- tion of a workers and peasants gov- ernment. CLEVELAND MEAT STRIK CLEVELAND (By Mail-Delayed) --The meat strike which is going on in this city continues with all force. ‘the leadership of the fight against the workers, who have declared a strike, is conducted by the so-called | liberal Rabbi Brickner, who is con- | sidered a “friend of labor.” _ The Jewish Forward, seeing that the policy of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party in organizing the women | ef the Kinsman section to fight against the exorbitant prices that are being charged by the kosher butchers, was correct, decided to in- stitute a fake “arbitration” commit- tee. | Ackerman, vice-president of the International Butchers Union, de- clared that he was responsible for | the appointment of the committee, | but a messenger of the committee, wife of one of the members, told the truth when asked who appointed her husband: “Why, of course, the Forward!” The other members of the com- mittee are Katowsky, business agent of the Ladies Garment Workers Union—a faker; Peppercorn, busi- ness agent of the Amalgamated Clot Workers—another faker; Hau: of the Verband, who tried to get on’ the republican ticket by at 1873 43rd St. Brooklyn, and is|, strong local of knitgoods workers message of Communism. This ex-| arranged under the joint auspices|in New York City to fight against Perience will be brought to bear not of the Workmen's Circle of that sec- | the onslaughts of the bosses.” | enly in the coming election campaign tion and the Jewish Workers’ Club.; The economic demands of the Na-| but in the day to day struggle be- The speakers at this meeting will tional Textile Workers Union have|tween election campaigns. The he Shifrin himself, A. Werner of the snecial appeal to the knitgoods Communist Party in this New York Progressive Butchers’ Union, S.|workers of New York. They are: | district has been the leader of mass | Lipzin of the Defense Committee|(1) Against wage cuts and for struggles. These have been chiefly | and B. Matzkin. \higher wages; (2) against the speed- on the economic field but the Party! jup system in all its forms; (3) for has demonstrated in the | election | BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Nov. 8), 40-hour, 5-day week; (4) against | campaign that the Communist Party | (U,P).—An airplane fell in the cen-| overtime; where overtime is per- is the leader of mass struggles of ter of the city today, killing both mitted, for time and a half pay for the workers upon all fields of battle. occupants and a woman pedestrian. | overtime. Double time for Sundays! Forward to Greater Struggles. The engine buried itself eight feet | and holidays; (5) equal pay for “With the support that we have in the ground. equal work for women and young secured, with the greater conscions- ‘ |workers, Minimum wage of $20; ness of the revolutionary role that |(6) against piece work and the piece; we are playing among the masses, the activization of the wives of the strikers, was then taken up by Cher- nenko. She outlined plans for im- mediate execution, whereby work in that field can be accomplished. United Front to Bosses. In speaking of the disagreements among members of the Strike Com- mittee, the differences being as to whether the strike be conducted in \a fighting manner or whether its j¢hances of success be badly dam- |aged by conservative officials, the | \new organizer declared “criticism is ‘healthy, we must have it, but our \front against the bosses must be Him; “Hoover Likes He Boomed Imperialism HOOVER T0 60 Clarence Chamberlin, one of the trans+A tlantic flyers who ren- dered such good services to American imperialism, has returned to this qpuntry after a tour of Europe. Phot MINERS’ STRIKE IN ANTHRAGITE Bares Misleadership of | McGarry (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSTON, Nov. 9.—Complete exposure of the bankrupt and cow- ardly Frank McGarry leadership in the anthracite is taking place here as a result of his conduct of the strike of the Pennsylvania Coal Company collieries which he called out last Wednesday. As head of the mine grievance | committees, McGarry called for a stoppage in all pits of the company, nominally against the numerous} evils, particularly the contractor system, which infests the anthra- cite, but actually to secure the rec- | cgnition ‘ef the independent anthra- | cite union, which McGarry heads | and which he recently incorporated under the state law. Miners Not Consulted. | Without warning and without prep- aration the miners, nevertheless, re- sponded, due to the vicious condi- | tions under which they work. Six | out of ten collieries atm Beye though the miners wére not even in- formed or consulted about the move. Two collieries struck 100 per cent and four abeut 60 per cent, it is said. s Mayor William Gillespie, — little | dictator for the coal barons, imme- diately issued an order prohibiting meetings. Instead of fighting the vicious order, Garry, in cowardly fashion, sought to hold meetings cut of town in Dupont and Inter- man. These meetings were broken up. | Further displaying his incapacity for leadership, McGarry made no call for mass picketing of the struck mines, but appointed several small committees. When these were at- tacked, beaten up and dispersed by the coal police, McGarry had no rem- edy left. A futile effort to secure “free speech" was made by thi bankrupt misleader in sending f | Arthur Garfield Hayes, attorney for | the Civil Liberties Union. But a meeting called for this afternoon in a vacant lot was again dispersed after the sheriff had revoked a per- mit which he had earlier granted for the meeting. One Union of all Miners. Representatives of the new Na- tional Miners Union have called upon the coal diggers to meet any- | way despite the orders of the mayor. | It urges mass picketing as the only effective weapon and a joining with the National Miners Union in the common fight under 4 militant pro- gram. The miners are fighters and un- derstand that the crly method which can win against the coal barons and their paid politicians and law courts is mass picketing, united action and | having an organization behind him, but was turned down; Spielman, of the district committee of the Work- men’s Circle; Rabbi Brickner, as chairman, and a few ladies, This committee held a meeting, at which the reverend rabbi, who re- cently returned from the Soviet Union, made some radical remarks, owing to the presence of a repre- sentative of the Freiheit. There | was some sham discussion of the question, during which the rabbi did most of the talking. “Do you know what they would do in the Soviet Union in this:case? No you think the Soviet Union government would allow 105 kosher butchers to exist in a city? Of course not. There would be two or three butchers and the government would be able to yegulate prices.” But in Cleveland, there must be debate against the “Dialectitions” at | 105 butchers, organized into a fake union, and they can charge any prices they please. During the past few months the butchers have raised the price of meat ten cents and more. The women rebelled and decided to take action. The Communists helped them organize, and today they are nducting a fine strike under the Keccesip a strike committee of rate system. For ‘week work and | weekly pay, for a standard wage scale; (7) against child labor; (8) jagainst night work especially for women and young workers; (9) for six legal Holidays a year with pay. | The conference tomorrow will start the knitgoods workers’ organi- |zation drive. It is expected that |many workers will sign up as mem- bers of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union, Continuous and in- ‘tensive organization work will be started immediately, focussing on a district convention! to be held in New York City on Sunday, December 23. Negro Club to Debate | “ in Harlem Tomorrow | The Students’ Library Associa- \tion, a Negro club of Harlem, will the St. Mark’s M. E. Church, 188th St. and Edgecomb Ave., tomorrow 1a 4:45 p.m. The subject is: “Re- solved, that Communism is a cure for the present social evils.” The association is the same club which recently debated affirmativeiy on the subject: “Resolved, that Com- munism is thé only salvation for the oppressed and exploited Negro race,” before a large and enthusias- tie audiense of Negto workers. y 4 Communism as Cure”, we will go forward to greater vic-| tories to carry on the mass cam- paigns that we have made, for a struggle against the growing im- | perialist war danger, for the defense of the-Soviet Union, for the organi-| 1 zation of the unorganized, for oust- | ing the reactionary leaders from the | trade unions, for exposing and de- stroying the yellow party of capi- \talism, the socialist party. We will intensify still further our campaign among the Negro workers with the) ‘assurarice that the Negro workers | that are losing faith in the capitalist | parties will follow the leadership of four Party in the struggle for their liberation from oppression under capitalism.” ‘Czech Communists in | Parliament Hail the | Soviet Anniversary | PRAGUE, Nov. 8—In the Czech |parliament today the Communist ‘deputies demonstrated for the elev-) ‘enth anniversary of the birth of | Soviet Russia. The Communist deputy, Stern, {compared the achievement of the the wretched conditions of ‘the | ene and united.” a real struggle. They have become disgusted with McGarry. The But- ler Mine Local last night at a mem- bership meeting voted to oust him and to return te work. The new National Miners Union hes consistently condemned the ad- venturism of the McGarry leader- The Syrian members of the union,|ship. It has urged the anthracite composing a considerable percentage |coal diggers to join with. their of the strikers, are called to a mass | bituminous brothers in the common meeting tomorrow afternoon in| fight, pointing out that only through Turn Hall. The question of militant |a united stand is victory against the strike tactics will be discussed | coal barons possible. there. ‘ Soviet Scientists to Speak Here Tomorrow Professor W. Tan-Bogoraz, head of the enthnological department of F |the University of Leningrad, will de- Scott Nearing, well-known Com- scribe the cultural work of the So- munist lecturer, who was recently in| «ot Union in the Polar region for the Soviet Union, will address an the last “ten years, tomorrow, 1:30 audience Monday evening at th pp. m.. at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 EE, 4th Street. 81st St., at 8:80 o'clock. Vrotessor Tan-Bogoraz entitles The subject of Nearing’s lecture | his lecture “Tiaga and Tundra” and will be “Soviet Russia: Eleven Years | it will be illustrated by slides. He is old.” an internationally known Soviet While five European capitalist | scientist and came to this country a cabinets have fallen within the last | few weeks ago to participate in the week, the Soviet Union continues | :>7~9ss of World Educators and in as thé citadel of the workers of a! ~ “i of Anthropoligists. Irving Rifkin, chairman of the Picket Committee, and Abe Berlin- sky, heading the youth section, were also speakers at the meeting. A meeting of the youth sectien will be held this Monday afternoon at the strike hall. Nearing to Speak on Progress of Soviets | at Meet Monday Eve. Czech workers forced upon them b; Soviet Union for its workers with Crsen exploiters and the g i capitalist \government, urged to attend this lecture. — nations, Workers of all other bor Professor Tan-Bogoraz was also an oughs, as well as of Manhattan, are eet in) | . sevoiutionay ind did his bit in; 0 shows him with his wife Swedish Trade Union Heads Ignore Members and Give Up Struggle STOCKHOLM, Nov. 9—The Na- tional Committee of the Swedish trade unions has resolved, despite the protest of 400,000 members, to surrender to the demand of the gov- ernment and recognize the compul- sory arbitration law by sending dele- gates to the labor court. When the law was before parlia- ment the trads unions bitterly op- posed its passage and the present attitude is one of complete capitula- tion to the capitalist government. Coneurrently with the surrender to the capitalists, the federation committee resolved to take severe measures against “splitters.” This means an attempt to suppress the Communists in the trade unions and is itself a split by the reformists. The Swedish trade union center, which is an affiliate of the Amster- dam International, broke with the Norwegian and Finnish trade unions because the latter were not affili- ated with Amsterdam. Union Fights Against Boss’ Anti-Picket Injunction TO ‘CONQUERED’ LATIN AMERICA | “Monroe” Imperialism | To Be Enforced Continued from Page One influence under the modern imperi- alist version of the Monroe Doctrine. It is expected that this will aid America’s fight against British im- perialism in trade and will promise |a “united western hemisphere” un- | der a strengthened Monroe Doctrine | when war with England is declared. | Both trade and war and war and trade, one a part of the other under imperialism, is also to be aided by the proposed Nicaraguan canal in which Hoover is very deeply inter- ested, | While many of the Latin Ameri- can governments have officially | pledged to give Hoover an official ‘and splendid welcome, according to | reports from Washington, the presi- | dent elect fears meeting a storm of | anti-imperialist demonstrations from | the workers and peasants. | It is understood that the Mexican | government cannot guarantee pop- | ular welcome if he leaves the coastal | ports on a visit to Mexico City. For \this reason it is diplomaticaly yet “undecided” if Hoover will go inland or not. | Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee |and an active campaigner for Hoo- ver, is rumored to have lent his in- fluence in favor of the trip. | Borah stated, at the height of the | campaign, that he was satisfied with |Hoover’s projected Latin-American |policy and indicated he had consul- Ited with Hoover at length concern- jing Latin-America. The nature of |this conference, however, is not known: | ‘The soctalist party endorses the | robber League of Nations, the fake Kellogg peace pact and creates the iMusion that war can be abolished under capitalism. Down with these traitors to the working class! The socialist party Is a party of the petty bourgeoisie. 5 Years of the Daily Worker » will be celebrated in Manhattan Opera House Saturday, January Sth — KEEP THIS VT DAY OPEN! 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