The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1928, Page 2

Page Two Tur Dress AKE FUR UNION JFFICIALS AIDED BY BOSS COURTS ry to Break Strike of Fur Dressers J a Making their last stand in a vain tempt to destroy the Fur Dress- s’ Local & ause its member- ip resisted a scheme to dissolve at local, the wing official- | m of the so Ned International wr Workers L ere recently ranted the injunction they had ap- ied for which rest the figt g local ng 1e > injunc ypreme Court von the appli alist” H. Begoc nternational.” Monday will be two full weeks Aeesthe machine fleshers of Local } are conducting a determined tike against the big firm of Gabbe id Son, Starr St., Brooklyn. The rike was declared when the work- $ were locked out for refusing to in the right wing local and 3, th-which the membership of Local | was ordered to merge on pain of ing thrown out of their jobs. Workers United. After two weeks not a single man | 8 broken from the ranks of the tikers and their expressed deter- imation is to stay out till their con- tions are fully conceded by the ibbe firm. The move to dissolve Local 88 was ade by the “International” offi- aldom when the leaders of that lo- CES vs Fight fo THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1yz5 V to the British and American oil in the Soviet Union. The drawing of the Soviet oil industry. Soviet Oil Industry Flourishes The steady growth of the Soviet oil industry has given no joy revolutionary artist, shows a group of oil wells in Baku, the center ‘DEAD MEN DREW PAY, IS CLAIM OF MANIU CABINET Bratianu Brothers Left | Nothing But Debts BUCHAREST, Rumgnia, Nov. 14. —All Rumania is agog at the proof of graft by the recent regime of | the Bratianu brothers ngw supplant- |ed by Maniu, of the National Peas- ants’ Party, who is trying to en- trench himself by exposing his pre- decessors. | When Maniu’s cabinet ministers entered office, they found not a | Single cent in the cash drawers and |a debt of 9,000,000,000 lei (about | $55,000,000) to pay, along with |forthcoming wages to 500,000 gov- ernment employes, they claim. | Dead Men Drew Salary. Then they looked further and |found that many. persons who died long ago and others who were never born have been drawing salaries regularly and giving receipts for their salaries, while many civil ser- vice workers for the government de- partments had been forced to work} without wages. In addition, many} of Bratianu’s friends, who held no} government: office at all, neverthe-| terests or to the other enemies of above by William Gropper, noted ‘Nearing to Speak in ‘Boston on Coming War; | Meeting for “Daily” BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 14.—Scett | Nearing, noted Communist author | YOUNG MILITANT less have been furnished by the gov- ernment with expensive automobiles and plenty of money on which they have lived luxuriously. Newspapers who support the past| regime, for cash, attack the expos- | ures as “improper” and not accord-| ing to the best “traditions” as it has| ‘STEWARD TELLS. OF HELL ABOARD LINER VESTRIS Dirt and Tyranny for the Crew Continued from Page One | not by desire to a low standard of | living, complained at the food and eenditions, | | Work 18 Hours for Parasites, | | “Every other night the nabobs in | first-class, composed of imperialists | of all stripes and sprinkled with | | various lords and ladys of Great | Britain, with American agents of | imperialist oil companies, mining | | concerns and so on, held parties and | dances that kept the stewards work- ing from 6 in the morning to 12 at. night, with no extra pay. But the | lion of the occasion, whose birthday | or other ceremony is observed, gives | a $50 bill to the head steward, while | the workers get nothing. “After getting through waiting | on the passengers the stewards have | to eat standing up, if they can fight | their way into a tiny pantry where there is no place at all to sit down} and battle each other to grab hand- fuls of third-rate food. If lucky, they get what the passengers have refused to eat. “This is the regular thing day after day, the company not allowing the stewards to eat in the dining | room like human beings, although | the place is empty after the pas- sengers are served. and lecturer, will speak in Boston | ganize the great mass of unorgan- | next Monday on the subject of “The | ad in that industry. Not only|!mpending War.” Nearing is aj ave the right wing locals never | close student of American imperial- | ten able to organize the unorgan-} ism, and he will have some import- | ed despite the huge funds squan-|ant and interesting things to say | wed in alleged attempts, but be-|/on the world war which is brewing | wise of betrayals have lost the|in the cauldrons of the great im-| mfidence of the non-union work- | perialist powers. ‘8, while Local 88 had these work-| This meeting has been arranged by ‘8’ confidence. the Workers Press Club, of Boston | 1 showed they were taking steps to RELEASED TODAY I.L.D. Condemns Court of Capitalists Continued from Page One D., was unable to be present be-/| cause he was busy defending work- | ers in other parts of the city. He! postponement of the trial. Such| always been the custom that a new government says nothing about the graft of the past one, Dirt and Tyranny. “The sleeping quarters were, for | r example, in the place where I slept, Incite Pogroms. |terrible. Eight men in the fore- The Bratianu clique that is called|castle not big enough for three, | the Liberal Party, is countering the| With no air and no clean linen, un- | attack on them by sending agents less a regular battle was made with | among the peasantry to incite po-|the chief steward. The ship was | groms against the Jews, hoping to| Supposed to furnish a man to clean |sent a representative to secure | embarrass Maniu’s efforts to get a|the quarters, but they didn’t have foreign loan from: Jewish bankers|any, so we had to clean them out Over seventy per cent of the|for the benefit of the Daily Worker. | P°Stponement is a legal right of/and to bring a conflict between|ourselves, on our own time, what | ‘essing industry is unorganized and | Questions and discussion will be a ocal 88 showed signs of recruiting | part of the program of the meet- membership that would have been jing, which is’ to be held at the n times as big as that of the right | Franklin Union Hall, Appleton and | every defendant and is never denied | Maniu and the peasants, | by the court. But Magistrate Glanz- | taught myer, deterfnined to railroad the young worker at any cost, overrode | ing locals. Fake Order. The erder to dissolve was issued : . Ae: vey Si: iheit of-|@ Writ of habeas corpus and then a/to a sum greatly exceeding th the right wing officials cloaked | office, 88 Causeway St.; Freiheit of- | @ wrt | @ iy eding the sum) Ls ae “amalgamation” order. | fice, 14 Harrison Ave.; New Inter- | certificate of reasonable doubt from | allowed by law, so the government! hat this “amalgamation” is a fake | national Hall, 42 Wenonah St., and the Supreme Court, but both were|cannot borrow more from the bank,|as coal passers and oilers, are| as proven when it was learned that eal 88 is already built on industrial aes, being the organization of all vafts in the single Gabbe plant. his industrial local they wanted to seak up and distribute among the wee right wing locals, Locals 2, 3, ad 4. The machine fleshers of that lo- u, being the key craftsmen of the | Berkeley Sts., on Nov. 19 at 8 p. m.| the law of his own court and sen-/| | | Tickets are on sale at the follow. | *enced Katz to ten days. , ing places in Boston: Daily Worker | Buitenkant at once tried to secure nied and the young worker was compelled to serve his term. On the occasion of Katz’s release | today, the New York Section of the \I. L. D. issued the following state- | | ment thru its secretary, Rose Baron: | | \the Roxbury Labor Lyceum, 453 | Broadway, Chelsea. | BIG RISKS FOR MINERS. | WASHINGTON, (By ofp of indictment of the American coal bosses’ disregard for miners’ lives Hit Capitalist Court. lis contained in a report by the U.S.|_ ‘‘The arbitrary sentencing of | Bureau of Mines on electrical wir-| Joseph Katz without permitting him | ing in coal mines in this country.) the legal right of every defendant who are|there was. | by, their Greek Catholic} In certain ports, like in Brazil, | priests that killing Jews is a holy the chief steward would not let us| act. |ashore, although the port laws al- Maniu’s government. reports that|low the crew to go ashore, We were the advances by the National Bank treated like coolies, without rights to the government have been made|of any kind. Graft on Sailors’ Wages. “Negroes and Hindus, who work In addition, the circulation of paper| grafted upon by the chiefs of the money is greatly beyond the legal|departments, who give them the \limit, causing a falling of the val-|jobs only with the understanding ae |that the workers must make a ene |“present” to the boss, generally a Noted Artists Will | per_cent of the wages. Decorate Masses Ball | understanding with a fellow at| fluences Aires, supposéd to ‘be, sell- | The purser on the boat had an) Hugo Gellert, noted proletarian ing shoes and clothing to the crew, | Existence of Union; Socialists and Bosses Try to Break Strike Dirigible Kept.by U. ke z Ee The Los Angeles, giant dirigible of the U. S. Army, remained | at its hangar in Lakehurst throu, more than 800 of the crew and passengers were trying frantically to save their lives on the sinking Vestris. United States author- ities kept the dirigible, which could have arrived on the scene of the disaster in several hours, from being sent out. Loss of life means nothing to American jingoes when the slightest expense | is involved. In the event of imperialist war, however, there would not be the slightest hesitation action. PLEATERS RALLY “OKAYS. STRIKE Decide to Build Union Thru. Militant Fight A crowded membership meeting of the Tuckers, Pleaters and Hem- stitchers Union, held till late Tues- day night in the headquarters of the Joint Board Cloakmakers Union, 16 West 21st St., unanimously voted to prepare the union for the calling at about the same time the workers in the Gress industry call their strike. ne With the former thorough union- ization of the industry smashed by \the union-wrecking attacks .of the right wing duai union officialdom and bosses, the workers in these trades have seen their union stand- ards driven lower and lower. However, the valiant struggle of the workers who retained member- ship in the union, has kept the em- ployers from completely annihilat- ing the organization. Now the crest of the attacks against the union has en passed and the workers are preparing a counter offensive for the re-establishment of the trade. | W'th S. Rubin as chairman, Mor- ris Taft, manager, delivered a full report of present conditions and the recommendation of the board for strike action. After a long and in- s. Bion Rescue Work ‘RUHR LABOR IN HARD STRUGGLE WITH BOSSES Fighting Both Owners and Bureaucrats (Wireless to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 14—The metal workers locked out in the Rhine and Ruhr districts have, through their Fighting Committee established in defiance of the trade union bureau- crats, decided that the situation | caused by the adverse verdict of the | Duisburg Labor Court demands an intensification of the work, mass picketing, money collections for re- lief and mass meetings to insure solidarity. ‘ It is necessary, according to the Fighting Committee, to rouse the workers and frustrate the treason planned by the reformists. A dele- gation of metal workers is visiting Berlin in support of Communist pro- posals in the reichstag for a govern- ment grant of relief to workers locked out in the Ruhr. | Trade Union Bureaucrats. Brandes, the chairman of the Metal Workers’ Union, a socialist Greek Bakers Strike | Against Governmeht’s | leader, refused to see the delegation Vege | until told that a report on his con- Requisition of Shops duct would be published. Then he | evaded the question of relief. ATHENS, Greece, Noy. 14.—Fol-| | The social democratic reichstag lowing the government’s high- | deputy, Metz, also a leader of the handed action requisitioning all | Metal Workers’ Union, refused any bakeriéa the bakers have today de: |Coopetstion with the unorganized ‘ | workers. (only about 100,000 out of clared a strike here. | the 213,000 are organized), But The government justifies its ac-| Metz had to admit that it is impos- ghout the two days during which to muster the Los Angeles for of a general strike in the industry | tion on the pretext that a supply of bread must be |maintained. |the government’s™action has been |taken to stifle the militancy of the bakers. 9 HURT IN AUTO CRASH. REVERE, Mass., Nov. 14 (U.P).— | Nine persons were injured, one ser- | iously, in an automobile collision | today. Morris Hoffman, 18, received ja fractured skull and severe inter- nal injuries, the remaining occu- ‘pants of the two automobiles suf- The strikers, however, insist that | sible to make an successful struggle without the unorganized. At Duesseldorf the negotiations between the employers and the trade union leaders ¢ontinue. In the Reichstag. At Berlin in the Reichstag, the de- bate on the Ruhr lockout ended with a complete capitulation of the social democracy to the Ruhr capi- talists and a betrayal of the workers, We demand the imm moval of all restrictions in all trade unions against the member- ship of Negro workers and equal opportunity for employment, wages, hours and working condi- tions for Negro and white workers, fering cuts and bruises. | | b Years of the Daily Worker | SS RNP PS teresting discussion the members | i harking | it Wg Apes teen eae unanimously voted endorsement. of | on the side. He will loan $10 to a The wiring system is extremely un-) to have-a lawyer rpresent him shows |@rtist, whose murals in the new Co. | lant as well as of the industry, 3 a safe, causing heavy casualties to the|to what lengths the capitalist operative Cafeteria are attracting | ade their first steps toward gen- ‘will be celebrated in tal organization work by organiz- ig The Machine Fleshers Protective Tub. It was upon the establishment ' this club, that the right wing Micials of the international gave rst signs of an intended attack on ocal 88. This intention material- sed into the fake amalgamation Bs when machine fleshers in any@pen shops joined the club. De- dite th {reign of terror, this club as now grown to tremendous pro- ortions and is already taking steps » change its name to the Fur Tessers Protective Club, because ley are now admitting to member- tip pluckers, floor workers and ther crafts in the non-union plants.| is proven by the fact that even in| the courts any modification of their | the amalgamation order | Locals 2, 3, and 4, the membership | policy of victimization of militant as igsued it was accomplished with | miners, the statement says. | olition of the | landlords against | | We demand the (right of eviction b: wage eurning ten: |the instructions that the club be| | given up. This the workers refused | jand the lockout and strike followed | {in quick succession. | Locals 2, 3 and 4 are the last strongholds of the fast collapsing | | right wing fur international, since | all other locals throughout the coun- | try have seceded and joined forces with the new left wing national fur workers union, That the days of| the scab international are numbered | | is preparing to revolt. courts will go in thefr attack on Widespread attention in art circles, workers. This unprecendented action | Will decorate Webster Hall, 119 E. of Magistrate Glanzmyer was fully | lth St., for the New Masses ball, sustained by Judge Ingraham, of the | Which will be held there Friday, State Supreme Court. Dee. 7, “The New York Section of the In-| Louis Lozowick, modernist artist, ternational Labor Defense condemns Will ‘create unusual scenic effects, this action which is typical of the | which will be one of the many fea- sort of ‘justice’ that workers receive {tures of the ball. at the hands of the boss courts. me) call upon all class-conscious work- ;. ’ x ers to support the fight of the I. L. | — mpd t Aids D. against these constant attacks 1, Tru them by the instruments of the ‘i pen 8 oD st bosses. Only by presenting a fight- SYDNEY (By Mail).—The Aus- ing mass front under the leadership | tralian government is assisting the of the I. L. D. can we wring from | huge open-shop international ship-' ping combine by allowing it to do all government dockyard work at cost plus ten per cent. workers.” | speretce: $ By A. J. The sixth biennial congress of the o-opefative League of the United tates,.at Waukegan, Ill., October 9, 80Zand 31, marked the tenth 2ar the existence of the na- onal ‘consumers’ co-operative or- anization. Although it might be temature to attempt forecasts for | ye future, nevertheless, a general sébtint of the congress can be given aly im the light of the relations atweefi the left and right wing ele- tents if one As to understand what ignifieance the congress and its ork may hold for the future of the cganization. USSR Delegate Present. _ Seventy-nine regular delegates, ur alternates and ten fraternal legates were in attendance. Fra- q greetings to the congress had sent by co-operative organi- from the Soviet Union, Eng- (and, Sweden, Norway, Czechoslo- akia, Finland, Holland, Hungary, elgium, Latvia, Ukraine, Switzer- eed Denmark, France, Scotland ad Spain, In addition, the repre- Pare of the central organization Centrosoyus) of the Soviet con- societies, Sverdloff, wa: cesent and gave a brief address of _eeeting in which he presented a meral description of the develop- ent of the co-operative movement J Saad U. S. S. R. and expressed the lat closer co-operation and i as Ses sists of about 150 constituent so- cieties, with a total individual mem- bership around 77,000. Active dis- trict organizations are SepesOrE | in the eastern, central and north- western states, with prospects for a| Pacific Coast League in the near | future. The largest federated group | in the league is combined in the co- operative central exchange, with |headquarters in Superior, Wis., |whose member societies number 86. |From the business standpoint, the | total turnover of the league societies during the past year amounted to | over $13,000,000, “Neutrality Referendum.” The secretary reported also upon |the “neutrality referendum” taken before the congress, showing that only 44 societies had participated |in the referendum (practically in all |instances through the action of the | boards of directors only) with a vote | of 208 in favor of the so-called neu- |trality (exclusion of “religious polit- \ical and economic views” from the ‘league congresses and publications) jand 45 against. Participating in |the referendum were such organiza- | |tions as the New Era Life insur- jance associatien which during the |referendum enjoyed a voting privi- lege of 64, and the Workmens’, Furniture Fire Insurance society | with a voting power of 99, whereas by action of this congress in amend- ments to the constitution the voting | effect of this referendum. The Sith ee eae Cooperative Congress at Waukegan ance association which during the) forces showing outstanding ability man-|in these questions also. Friction. ner in which the referendum had been conducted was criticized by the left wing delegates, specifically that the question at issue had not been sub- the handling of resolutions prepared | by the progressives on several mat- i \ters. Although refraining from mitted for discussion and action by| pressing for a formal vote on some the membership, although formally of the questions, the left wing exer- published in the League organs, ac-| cised their privilege of ‘criticizing tion being taken only by the boards! sharply the activity of the Board of | of directors. Directors and leading offeers, as in| According to the report of the|the manner of conducting the refer- League treasurer, Miss Arnold, the|endum mentioned above, their at- |however, attended the debates and’ \sailor, but the sailor will get only | $7 or $8, while the loan shark draws the $10 and splits with the purser, | | who has helped him to get the busi- | ness. If the sailor asks the purser | |directly for the $10 he would not | get it. | “Well, this purser is lost with the | Vestris, so he will graft no more, | but there’s a lot more like him left.” | | i | Washington Workers to} 'Celebrate 11th Year of Soviet, Government WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14, Scott Nearing, well-known Com- munist lecturer and speaker, who was in the Soviet Union during the great celebration of thet10th anni- versary of the Russian Revolution, will speak in Washington, D. C., on | Sunday at a mass meeting in cele- bration of the 11th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. : Local workers expect a large at- tendance, since Nearing is very |popular in this city. The meeting | will be held at 808 Eye St., North- west. The proceeds will be for the benefit of the Daily Worker. |—Counsel for Joseph Devon, who the recommendation for a strike. The meeting, in voting strike, also instructed the executive board to call a large mass meeting to which all workers in the trade are invited, union and non-union workers, A committee of two, J. Stone and Celia Langert, were elected as a delega- tion to attend the mass meeting of dressmakers. tonight in Cooper Union. This committee is instructed to inform the dress workers of the | decision of their own union. | The work of this local, as well as the locals of other branches in the garment industry, is being carried | on under the leadership of the Na- tional Organization Committee of the Cloak and Dressmakers Union. APPEAL DEATH SENTENCE CAMDEN, N. J., Nov. 14 (UP). was found guilty last night by a jury of ten women and two men of killing Joseph Cimini, alias Joe Gannon, Philadelphia gangster, to- day planned to appeal the case. | Devon contended the killing was in self-defense. We demand the abolition of all laws which disfranchixe the Ne- Broes. . Ea Ei E League has been able to “pay its own way” during the past year for the first time in its history. In accordance with the constitu- tion of the organization, Mr. J. P. Warbasse, president of the League, | tacks against two of the members | ot the American delegation to the | hmm last congress of the* International | Co-operative Congress, as well as| their hostility in general towards .the left wing group and the work it is First Soviet Costume held the chair. By a vote of 36 1 carrying on in line with worker co- against 32 it was resolved that the joperation pringiples already approved chairman appoint a committee to by the Minneapolis Congress of the nominate the functioning commit-| League in 1926. Similarly the at- tees of the congress. The concession) tacks of the leaders of the I. C. A two out of seven on the committee “neutrality” theory, and the need of | from the left wing group. The vari- demanding recognition of the Sov- | cus committees then nominated and iet government by the United States | elected also reflected the same in order to support in this way also “democratic” suppression of the min- the development of the Soviet ¢0-op- ority despite the fact that the pro- erative movement, were brought to gressive delegates accounted for a little short of one-half of the entire! wing delegates. y congress. Out of eleven members A resolution against imperialist elected to complete the Board of Di-| wars, presented by the left wing rectors (consisting of 17), three were was allowed to pass without opposi- from the left wing. An uncompro-' tion from the floor, although objec- mising stand was taken by the con-| tions had been raised in committee |te the left wing was the naming of against the Soviet co-operatives, | ‘ he floor of the congress by the left | i | MADISON BALL Saturday Eve., Dec. 15th AT ' GARDEN SQUARE ~ _ Manhattan Opera House | | Saturday, January 5th KEEP THIS DAY OPEN! Koop In Step With Thousands of Workers Who Read the The Organ of the Class Struggle Always —FOR the Workers AGAINST the Capitalists Mp to the Minute —Labor News —Labor Features —Labor Cartoons Rates Outside of New York: $6.00 @ year; $3.50 six months; $2.00 three months, SUBSCRIBE! Baily Worker 26-28 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK, i | Servative group against placing any) fcr the reason that it does not con- | ke ‘act be the aim of the co-opera- Strength of these organizations is Soviet Union. George|to equalize their participation in. secretary of the Canadian Iso spoke in behalf of the ion he represented. ve ments of the United Staten | sraduated to 9 and 14 respectively ine, | League affairs, since they are not in| |the same status with their hetero-| genous mass of policy-holder mem-| of the left wing as first alternate. Left Wing Active. On questions concerning matters of immediate practical value ,in con- | ducting co-operative business, such n the report of the League bers as the regular consumers’ so- as the credit question, chain store drie Long it appeared cieties. No intimiation was given by competition, ete., the congress work- League now con-ithe ISague officers as to the finaljed harmoniously, the left wing! |demn all wars, but specifies im- | perialist wars and militaristic pre- parations of the capitalists. e the unorganized! Or- — unions in the unorgan- | ined Indnstriest | The Workers (Communist) Party fights for the orguntn of the | unurganists workers, iI Daily Worker . AUSPICES: Street Frethett