The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1928, Page 2

Page Iwo 0 WORKERS JOIN UNION AS RESULT OF MEMBER DRIVE Many Negroes Among New Applicants More than 40 r n th window cle business were visited by unio anizers yesterday in the first conce move to or. ing to anour nent Feinstein, s terday by Harry of the Window Cleaners Pr Union, Local 8 s a result of t carefully prep: two weeks members Union Answers Injunction This intensive org zing drive, Feinstein said, is the union’s answer to the anti-picketing injunction which the bosses have tried to foist on the wor he injunc- tion was the Spanier Window 68 Barclay’; against ng a strike. ry many the id, secre ation of hip in The Negro workers, he to realize that t racial, ec »m and equali union are beginning hope for complet and political can only be secured in co-operation « with their white fellow workers. Many of the smaller bosses, Fein- stein said, who are tercified at the thought of being « out of busi- ness by a strike hav to the union offices and as for the union’s terms. The A 0 a 44 hours week; 1 of $4 of the and no ¢ of wor- without the consent of the on. Textile Union to Have Benefit Performance of “Singing Jailbirds” ' A benfit performance of Upton Sinclair's “Singing ds” will be given by the New Playwrights group at the Provincetown Playhouse Macdougal St., on the night of Dec. 5, for the r formed National Textile. Wor Union, Clarina Michaelson announced yesterday. The play, which is scheduled to yun for one month only already : sold out more than of the nights so f: “Sing’ ” tells story of the je strike leader dur- ing the s the Marine Tran: port San Pec fornia, The ¢ ceived with thusiastic lai the critics c it press the German by F presented in erlin last spring. It wa: so pro- €uced in London, Prague, Vienna and Paris. Tickets for the textile benefit per- formance may be obtained at head- quarters of the union, 104 Fifth Ave. . Daily Worker Agents Postpone Conference Until Friday Evening Daily Worker agents wanted to be present at the diseussion of the otskyist danger in their nuclei, the me: of agents from the sub-sections, and sections of Distr has been post- poned until Friday, at 6 p. m., at Because many nuclei, the Workers Cent § Union Sq. The Central Executive commit- tee’s statement on the right wir t danger in the Party now being discussed throughout the is istrict, and so many agents called up, stating that they would be un- ble to be present, that the meeting ad to be postponed. The fifth anniversary campaign of ly was to have been discussed ans mapped out for the con- duct of the campaign. This will be done at the meeting Friday evening. Brownsville I, L. D. to Hear Lecture on USSR Rachel Holtman, prominent in vomen’s work in New York City, vill lecture on “The New Life in A before Brownsville anch of the International Labor »fense at the Workers Center, 154 atkins St., Brooklyn. She has just turned from Soviet Russia, where e made a special study of social nditions, An interesting talk will given, and a large attendance is pected. linor Leads Discussion n Trotskyism Tonight Robert Minor, editor of the Daily ‘orker, will read the Central Exe- | itive Committee statement on the merican Trotsky opposition, and ad the discussion on the subject at 1 educational meeting of Unit *, Section 1, of the Workers (Com- unist) Party today. All members of the unit must be resent at this meeting and par- cipate in the discussion and reg- ter their votes on this important nessa, Window Cleaners’ Union Beg. Off to Explore Sou thPoleRevion TWO BIGLABOR RIOT OVER DAM SOCCER GAMES —BILLIN SENATE ON THURSDAY OF ARIZONA Will Play Tri-League Punch Governor’s Jaw During Boulder Row REM Tremp ge Photo shows how the two airp Wilkins South Pole was knighted for ecently left Monter on his expla hi ideo, perialism, base. TERROR AGAINST PORTER WORKERS Labor Defense Is in Protest THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YO RK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEK zs ; Games in Astoria Everything is in readiness for the two big tri-league soecer games of the Labor Sports played in the Steinway Steinway and Riker Aves., L. I, Thanksgiving Day. The first game will start at 1 o'clock and the second at 3. Charles Zimmerman.. of the National Or- lanes taken by Sir George Hubert oration trav transported. 3 faithful s ces to British im- Uruguay, for his Deception Island SEAMEN'S LIFE IS.DO6'S LIFE Struggle and Hardship for Slaves of Sea Oval Astoria, were Furriers’ Union, off for the second game. will kick as follows: Brooklyn Workers All-Star Metropolit: Workers All-Star POSITION PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 27.—A free Union that will be bers of the state senate now in ses- ‘sion to consider the Swing-Johnson Boulder Dam question railed at each other, and slugged right and left, was of the interminable gument about ganization Committee of the Cloak Whether the eee and Dressmakers’ Union, will kiek| imterests or the California real es- off the first ball for the first game, *@te boomers shall utilize the Colo- | | and Ben Gold, manager of the Joint T84° River. | | Board, In the course of the battle, Gov- | | ernor Hunt, retired at the last elec- | The line-up of the first game js|tion but still in office, caught a| loose one on the jaw, from the fist |of Senator Colter, and reeled back against the wall. ns Concerted Campaign to Organize All Open Shops | Collapses Fighting Flames in Brooklyn Fire OIL CAPITALIST BOHENY SELLS T0 PACIFIC WESTERN ‘Suspect Wash Sale to Hide Bad Reputation |. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27 (UP). —A certified check for $25,000,000 today concluded the transaction by which the Pacifie Western Oil Com- |pany purchased the interests of E. |L. Doheny and E. L, Doheny, Jr., in |the Petroleum Securities Company. | The statement issued here said that “in addition to the $25,000,000 paid today, a cath payment of $1,- 000,000 was made Nov. 1, making a total of $26,000,000 cash paid for the properties,” * | Three fire alarms had to be | turned in before firemen finally suc- ceeded in bringing under control. a : | ig fire that broke out in an auto- mobile body plant at Bergen St. and Franklin Ave., Brooklyn, While directing other firemen on the third floor Yire escape of the building, Thomas Gallagher collapsed from smoke and would have bece burned to death, had not his fellow-workers rescued him. Photo shows Gallagher bcing attended by Dr. Katy and am- bulanee -driver Barnes. The auto plant was said to have been a fire trap, making it diffioult for firemen to fight the flames. for all fight, in which mem- DRESS WORKERS CLARIFY MERGER AT FURRIER MEET EndorseAmalgamation | at Union Rally Continued from Page One the feature of today’s chapter Arizona electric power * Is Doheny Buying Himself? There is considerable mystery about the ownership of the Pacific Western Oil Co., the directors of which seem in general to represent no particular financial interests. Nominate Delegates at . Webster Hall Meet After a thorough analysis of the Fight for Water. Continue owe Bape (One Continued from Page One ldberg Ba ‘The Swing-Johnson bill, which situation in the industry, and a dis- in order to regain the union condi-| Theories of oil men vary between rving a term in Leavenworth. His Comforts, hell, who can be comfort. | Hichtental dampers Will cdma: wa Petore congress ab tie reussion of the general strike and| tions lost by the betrayals and sell- | two extremes, one that Standard Oil horahink was demanded by the pris | Shiekh a police pieten? erritere Canatile 4 pAeRi TSeRiONU TPE ORGIES AACA RO/ Cate ention will have | Uts of the right wing must rally all | capital has organized it to take over oners in the Occaquon jail. We find a regular United States R. McKay | Boulder Canyon, and the diversion |e Dearing the cony ‘ "V6! their available forces to present a |Doheny’s properties, against-which / The letter of the International La- post office. “How come?” The| EY Ghaienty, (Of the water of the Colorado tojon this momentous question, many! ,oaiy formidable front to manufac-|they began to fight when they had Defense signed by its executive | seilors tell me that this godly crew a. southern California for irrigation hundreds of members of the Dress-| turers. In this respect it was shown their men in Washington prosecute secretary, Alfred Wagenknecht, is became so accustomed to opening | hos! PS purposes, |makers’ Union Local 22, showed that the fur bosses were at this mo-| Doheny for fraud and revoke his reproduced here in full: seamen’s mail, addressed their care, | Subs : The profits would go to the early conclusively that they understood| ment in midst of conferences for | lk Hills lease and otherwise dem- I. L. D, Letter. that the government had to install | @PSrel bird tealtors of California who are/that g fight against the bosses and| an amalgamation of their own for- |28¢ his business, and another theory hn Ss. Horab its own office to check the prac-| Bavs Nesbitt represented in congress by Senator|the right wing was necessary be-|ces for a concerted attack against | ‘hat the Pacifie Western Oil Co. is 6 Woodward Building, tice. - You can go to church here,! peteree: creisier Padrusky Hiram Johnson, and who have /fore they will gain union conditions| the left wing Joint Board. This was ™éTely Doheny money buying out ‘ashington, DLC if you're that foolish, but Protestant |Linesmens teri and Chordas. bought up tracts of the land to/and an organized industry. Nomin-| discussed in the report and sum-|‘%@ Somewhat tarnished Doheny Mr. Horn| bunk only, jhold for the raise in prices when ations for delegates to the national | j and if the dam is built. Senator Washington today to make minor engineering changes in the bill and | Charles §. Zimmerman and Rose |to polish up the machine he relies Wortis, both officers of the Nation-| on to shove it through congress, al Organization Committee, on the! against the opposition of Arizona | present situation in the dress indus- capitalists. \leases, in order to get a change of mary of Ben Gold, manager of the name convention of cloak and dressmak-| Joint Board. to ers were also made. After a report was delivered by th Johnson returned In arguing against amalgamation, | 2 ’ q ose in disagreement at the begin- Shae Workers Union ning said that since the union faces, Holds nen Forum on a fight with the bosses we should Shop Delegate System wait till that is settled first. This cide | es Semen See Wee Pee the a: | Ale wall atietianl ppen Tomita was held by the Indenendent Shoe Work- | try and on the convention, 20 South St.. over a blind pig, is) he International Labor Defense Vestris Conditions. Workers is. Wane s in receipt of letters from friends; We find the Vestris crew and talk All-Star | in Washington who have visited the to them, keeping a weather eye out |_. POSITION 22 demonstrators now imprisoned in for finks. “Conditions on the Ves- fF t¢evach o, Babal the wor ise at QOccaquon, Va. ’ These Negro workers are Miller Rerntgon se letters state that the condi- |S used to them it don’t strike them | 7; 1B&les oman ns of those in prison are bad, The as being remarkable. “Meat kinda Matty Piel A od is poor and insufficient, a num-|totten, stinks bad, Not healthy Les Alvares ber of the prisoners have become ill/grub, no green vegetables.” “Sal-| 8. Pardom G. * Batterson and unable to do the hard labor im- ad like in the passengers’ mess?” 3 pain, et Konotsky | nosed on them, They have been “No, sir, never even heard of ’em.”| gaps: iveb threatened with being chained if “Crowded sleeping quarters. Glory- ‘the they did not perform this hard la- in spite of the fact that they are too ill to work. “We request that you immediately protest to the authorities in Wash- ainst this brutal treatment. that an immediate investi- n of these versecutions shall be We call to your attention @ fact that the: workers com- mitted no crime. They are all work- ers and representatives of working class orgenizations. They were ar- rested solely because of this. The charge against them on which they are now confined to 39 and 60 days the workhouse is a_ technical charge of parade without permit on government property, which ordin- erily when actually violated incurs from the co’ only a $5,00 fine. The authorities seem to be enraged at the fact that this demonstration eslled to the attention of workers of this country that American marines still maintaining their bloody rule in Nicaragua, that the Coolidge. Hoover government is preparing a yew imnerialist war and that the Communist soldier John Porter heing tortured and beaten in prison e he dared to strike for better bor, is eonditions Workers Sacrifice. These 22 workers who demon- trated at great pe mal sacrifice, a nymber of them losing their jobs. when sentenced to $100 fine or 60 davs in jail and 30 days en in ja‘l or fine, refused to pay their fines don’t forget.” hole stuff. Clean linen, well, maybe once a month if the chief steward | Malonez A. German Referee: Weinberg. Linesmen Hours, four on and eight off for | the fire room. Only two watches | hot. for the deck department—the 12-| Twenty-five per cent of the pro- hour day. Wages, the British | ceeds will go for the defense of the standard, $47.50 for stokers, $45 on| New Bedford strikers, now being deck. A steward don’t quite like to | Prosecuted by tell his wages. Mustn’t be anything |Owners of New Bedford. to be proud of. | Directions to the soccer field are: Under the Jolly Roger! We talk of Barbadoes and Trini- dad, of the old Spanish Main now the monopoly of British imperial- ism, Sugar plantations on Barba- does. When I was there the Negro workers, men and women, told me they got 25 cents a day in the re- finery we visited. A few got as high as 40 cents. Everywhere, there and in Bridgetown, the capital, beg- gars swarmed, young, old, men and women. Girls almost kidnapped tourist men on the main streets at mid-day. Unemployment. In Trinidad, at the city made fa- mous by pirates, Port-of-Spain, the same thing. Plantation wages a bit better in sugar, cocoa, cocoanuts, Many share tenants, got to sell all jat 59th St. and Second Ave.; stay stops in front of the field. - =| made $21,000,000 in 1926, and the! U. S, Steel made $199,000,000, Wages Below 1920. The seamen don’t enjoy any pros- | perity. American able seanien in| | 1920 made $85 a month, now they'| |make $62.50 on Shipping Board boats and $55 on private lines. Fire- | men made $90; now $67.50 on Shi jvate lines, The upward swing of American imperialism has’ knocked |a chunk off the seamen’s wage and put it in the pockets of the ship | they to the landlords. Nifty | owners. | scheme—for the landlord. Best| The American seamen are need- wages in the oil fields, maybe ajing organization if anyone does. dollar a day. Country full of Hindu | They jook at the best organized sea- bond-slaves, dare not leave the boss) men in the world, those of the So- till their terms expire. |viet Union. Hard to make money Bubbling Hell. comparison, because the Russians | Streets lined with women, offer-|have won so many benefits other | ing you bracelets, beads, bananas than cash that other seamen never | & protest against this class jus-/and sex. Anything you want. An| dream of. | fice and remained in jail. Tt is not/ asphalt lake in Trinidad, hot, bub-| Conditions Under Red Flag. | enough for the eovernment to give pling up “right outa hell.” In fact} All clothes furnished, shoes and | these war! i Sen- Trinidad is hell and Barbadoes an- all, including fur coats and mittens. | it is not enongh that they Three watches on deck and four be- were ndeuffed and taken to the workhouse like hardened criminals, they must suffer additional persecu- tion in the workhouse, persecution ich is not meted out to the or- y criminals, because they are nolitical prisoners, because the Washincton authorities are trying to use this means to stifle the voices of working class organizations. “Those who took part in the demonstration represented seven or- ganizations: The International La- ber Defense, the National Textile Workers Union, The All-American Anti-Imperialist League, The Amer- other. That's why the Negroes take to|!ow- All overtime paid, Club- | the sea.’ Live in a purgatory of |'0ms on ship, plenty of room and | Lamport-Holt boats. Hell from all “lean. Libraries, radios, —_ship’s | paper, in which crew can crack the | officers. Only one mess room for | crew and passengers and one kind | of food for all. Firemen get a} month’s vacation with pay yearly, | ‘the deck two weeks; all get rail-| way tickets to where they want to} spend their vacation. No bullying | cfficers, knocking you about. Ship | is run by a committee, elected by | \the seamen. Captain is boss on the | bridge, but if he swears at a man/ he wil! be hailed before the ship points of the compass. Profits for Owners. Same for the other seamen, too. Wages a little higher, but hell | just the same. Profits pile up for the shipping trust. The Eastern Steamships Line made $1,315,000 in 925; the Atlantic, Gulf and West s Line made $1,999,122 in 6; the Pacifie Steamships Line made $853,000 in 1926. The Munson Line made $2,414,000 ican Negro Labor Congress, The ir the A. H. Bull Company |committee under charges and may Workers (Communist) Party, the |‘ per cent dividends"; the|he dismissed if deserved. Unem- Young Workers League and Young Grace Line “pays 8 per cent regu-| ployed get relief. If sick, the gov-| Pioneers, and 200,000 workers. larly”; the United Fruit and the U. ernment doctors them free and “The International Labor Defense &, Steel (Isthmian lines) are com-|sends them to rest homes it took s against this brutal tre accorded its members by the Washirgton author’ y the police and demands that these con- ditions be immediately remedied, and their immediate release.” Redacht to Speak on Trotskyism at Sect. 2 The meeting of the unit, sub-sec- tion and section functionaries of Section 2, which Max Bedacht, Na- tional Agitprop Director of the Workers (Communist) Party was to have addressed last night, was post- poned until Friday night, Nov. 30, at 6 p. m. The lecture will be on “The Fight Against Trotskyism and The Right Danger,” and will take place at 101 West 27 St. The postponement was | necessitated by three important | needle-trades meetings held last | night, which many of those expected at the Section 2 functionaries meet- ing had to attend. ed in shipping and trading and make no separate report on ship- ping profit, but the United Fruit from the old Russian capitalists. Here in New York you see the, unemployed seamen starving. At JANUARY 5, 1929 WILL BE FIVE YEARS OF THE COMING OUT OF THE DAILY WORKER | CITIES ARE URGED TO BEGIN MAKING ARRANGE. MENTS FOR CELEBRATIONS NOW, th ts of the mill |® “Redford, larrested and. deported, gally, alright. But can’t get pinched has a far greater chance for suc- Take the Steinway Ave. is unless he’s a “red.” Oh, hell! Hej|cess in its campaigns against the| Preth BE tad eeet nee went back +o the Seamen's Club at bosses than a smaller union has. | jon the car till the last stop; car | 28 South St,, where the Marine|The shop delegate system was also) ; Workers League is pushing for a/| discussed, jreal union for all marine workers, | Rush Prince of Wales : 5,000 Miles to Be at Glouchester have begun a race of jand anti-labor. Bedside of Sick King LONDON, Nov. 27.—Although the an effort to reach the bedside of the | ‘official reports early today denied | king before the prince may become! |dropped in. A stranded British sea-| amalgamation of their organization | aan, a mere lad, broke and hungry with that of the fur workers, was) e n ‘ and far from home, No birth cer-|taken up for discussion, Unquali- Only thus will be succeed in forcing | Goodmundson and Szan- | tificate, touch him. Can’t get a ship with- given this sten taken by their left/ clared, out papers. Went to the U. S, immigration brought out that with a strike im- uthorities and tried to get himself minent, a mighty union of the most | WASHINGTON, Nov. .| that the condition o: the | ping board boats and $57.50 on pri-|the Fifth portended his death, later ' ialism. | | yes is ; vocates of the merger of the unions jsion participated in by many rank 4 aera . and filers took place. | Spots UL sia Howie: Cane they |ers’ Union of Greater New York Particularly enthusiastic were the| Wre TAKING Jus’ Decause we face | ang vicinity at 51 E. 10th St, last Y. M, C, A. Welmembers when the forthcoming |? fight, they said, we must seek | night. | 3 : allies in the cloak and dressmakers ? z pn A discussion on “The Application of the Shop Delegate System as a who face the same, problems we do. Method of Organizing Shoe Work- ers” was held. with B. Magliacanc, organizer of the shoe workers, the ‘main speaker. He outlined the shop \delegate system and its functions. One-| A long discussion was held from fourth of the skilled wo: em- the floor, most of the workers fav- ployed in basic U. §, induvtries have |oring the system. Louis Rudomin been replaced by labor saving de-| Was chairman. vices, | “Limey” British consul wouldn't] ied and. unanimous approval was|Tecognition of the bosses, they de- | wing leadership, The discussion! MACHINES DISPLACE MEN. 27 Here ille-|important needle trades workers | AFGHAN VILLAGE REVOLTS. 6 WOMEN IN CONGRESS HE, xaput, Afehanistap. Nov. 27— WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Wom-| A Ghilzai village in the vicinity it was admitted that the Prince of|en in Congress now number six, all/of Altimur Pass has revolted. Wales and his brother, the Duke of of them being capitalist politicians| Afghan cavalry and artillery have ‘teen dispatched to the village. 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