The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1928, Page 2

4 Fe Page Two Window Clean 0 WORKERS JOIN UNION AS RESULT OF MEMBER DRIVE Many Negroes Among New Applicants More than 40 or n the window cleaning business were visited by union organize’ terday the first cone d move to or ze the entire lustry, accord ing to an announcement made yes by Harry Feinstein, secretary Window rs Protective Ss f this drive, which efully prepared during the past two weeks, more than twen' new members joined the union,} Feinstein said. l » Answers Injunction This intensive organizing drive, Feinstein said, is the union’s answer to the anti-picketing injunction which the bosses have tried tc on the workers union. The injune- tion was secured by the Spanier Window Cleaning Co., 68 Barclay St. an open shop plant 2 which the union is directing a strike Most heartening, the secretary said, is the application of many Negroes for membership in the union. The Negro workers, he said, are beginning to realize that their hope for complete racial, economic and political freedom and equality can only be secured in co-opera' with their white fellow work Many of the smaller bosses, in stein said, who are tercified at the thought of being driven out of busi- ness by a strike have come to the union offices and asked for the union’s terms. The demands of the union are: a 44 hours week; a minimum wage seale of $45, recognition of the union, and no discharging of wor- kers without the consent of the union. Textile Union to Have Benefit Performance of “Singing Jailbirds” A benfit performance of Upton Sinclair’s “Singing Jailbirds” will be given by the New Playwrights group at the Provincetown Playhouse, 133 Macdougal St., on the night of Dee. », for the newly formed National Workers’ Union, Clarina chaelson announced yesterday. The play, which is scheduled to un for one montt. only, has already sold out more than half of the nights so far. “Singing Jailbi tells the story »! the jailing of a strike leader dur- ing the strike of the Marine Trans- Workers in San Pedro, Cali- fornia, in 1923. The play was re- ceived with enthusiastic acclaim by the critics of the German press when it was presented by Piscator in Berlin last spring. It was also pro- duced in London, Prague, Vienna and Pari Tick for the textile benefit per- formance may be obtained at head- euarters of the union, 104 Fifth Ave. ort Daily Worker Agents Postnone Conference Until Friday Evening Because many Daily . Worker agents wanted to be present at the diséussion of the Trotskyist danger in their nuclei, the meeting of agents from the nuclei, sub-sections, and sections of District 2 has been post- poned until Friday, at 6 p. m., at the Workers Center, 26 Union Sq. The Central Executive commit- tee’s statement on the right wing Trotskyist danger in the Party is now being discussed throughout the district, and so many agents called up, stating that they would he un- ble to be present, that the meeting had to be postponed. The fifth anniversary campaign cf the Daily was to have been discussed nd plans mapped out for the con. tuct of the campaign. This will be tone at the meeting Friday evenin; 3rownsville I. L. D. to ‘ear Lecture on USSR Rachel Holtman, prominent in vomen’s work in New York City, will lecture on “The New Life in the USSR,” before Brownsville branch of the International Labor Defense at the Workers Center, 154 Watkins St., Brooklyn. She has just returned from Soviet Russia, where she made a special study of social conditions. An interesting talk will be given, and a large attendance is expected. Minor Leads Discussio” on Trotskyism Tonigt Robert Minor, editor of the Da Worker, will read the Central FE cutive Committee statement on | American Trotsky opposition, lead the discussion on the subject an educational meeting of U 4F, Section 1, of the Workers (Cc munist) Party today. All members of the unit must present at this meeting and p ticipate in the discussion and re ister their votes on this importan westion. 1 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, N 1s: Explore South Pole R - Off to South egion | Photo shows how the 1wo airplanes taken by Sir George Hubert Wilkins on his South Pole exploration travels were transported Wilkins, who was knighted for his faithful services to British im- perialism, recently left Montevideo, Uruguay, for his Deception Island base. TERROR AGAINST SEAMEN'S LIFE PORTER WORKERS, 1S DOG'S LIFE Labor Defense in Struggle and Hardship | Protest | for Slaves of Sea | Continued from Page One serving a term in Leavenworth. on was demanded by the p in the Occaquon jail. ' e find a regular United States! The letter of the Internationai La-|post office. “How come?” The bor Defense signed by its executive | sailors tell me that this godly erew secretayy, Alfred Wagenknecht, is | became so accustomed to opening yeproduced here in full: seamen’s mail, addressed their care I. L. D. Letter. jthat the government had to instal’ | “John S. Hornback, its own office to check the prac. “700-706 Woodward Building, tice. You can go to church here, | “Washington, D. C. “Dear Mr. Hornback: Yontinued from Page O:.e { , hell, who can be comfort. in a police station? bunk only, “The International Labor Defense Vestris Conditions. Nworkere” «—— wastgepeliten and if the dam is built. is in receipt of letters from friends) We find the Vestris crew and talk All-Star Senator Johnson returned to in Washington who have visited the |to them, keeping a’ weather eye out| | __ POSITION | Washington today» to make minor | 22 demonstrators now imprisoned infor finks. “Conditions on the Ves- | 24352, 4, REB pet engineering changes in the bill and the workhouse at Occacuon, Va.|tris?” These Negro workers are|F. Miller L.F'B Rerntson to polish up the machine he relies These letters state that the condi-4S0 used to them it don’t strike them | jj 18S}€8 GHB Nests’ on to shove it through congress, ticns of those in prison are bad. The a8 being remarkable. “Meat kinda | Matty LILB. Jfarris against the opposition of Arizona food is poor and insufficient, a num-|totten, stinks bad. Not healthy | P- Barnak Rr here, ‘capitalists. ber of the prisoners have become il]! grub, no green vegetables” “Sal- )n ¢. Petterson and unable to do the hard labor im-|ads, like in the passengers’ mess?” | el Konofeky 5 : posed on them. They have been|“No, sir, never even heard of em.” “© Babes ,20 Sout St. over a blind pig,’ fs threatened with being chained if “Crowded sleeping quarters. Glory- OPerre! ithe “Limey” Y. M. 'C. A. We they did not perform this hard la-|hole stuff. Clean linen, well, maybe (idaly, dropped in. A stranded British sea- bor, in svite of the fact that they ey ; i if the chief steward Sehwart rman, a mere lad, broke and hungry are too ill to work. don’t forget.” Ft : Yo bi . We ee ‘hat you immediately Hours, four on and eight off for Simennioht ean 1 tin oe Saat c aly bo dn’ . ’ Se y : Goodmundson and Sza: ifTeate. ritish consu wouldn nretest to the authorities in Wash-|the fire room. Only two watches | hot. : touch him. Can’t get a ship with, ington against this brutal treatinent.|for the deck department—the 12-| Twenty-five per cent of the pro out papers, x We insist that an immediate investi-|hour day. Wages, the British ation of these nersecutions shall be | standard, $47.50 for stokers, $45 on made. We call to your attention deck. A steward don’t quite like to the fact that these 22 workers com- tell his wages. Mustn’t be anything mitted no crime. They are all work- to be proud of. ers and representatives of working Under the Jolly Roger! class organizations. They were ar-| We talk of Barbadoes and Trini- because of this. The dad, of the old Spanish Main now | charge against them on which they |the “monopoly of British imperial- are now confined to 30 and 60 days |ism, Sugar plantations on Barba- in the workhouse is a technical does. When I was there the Negro | charge of parade without permit on| workers, men and women, told me covernment property, which ordin- | they got 25 cents a day in the re- ly when actually violated incurr finery we visited. A few got as om the courts only a $5.00 fine high as 40 cents. Everywhere, there The authorities seem to be enraged and in Bridgetown, the capital, beg- at the fact that this demonstration gars swarmed, young, old, men and celled to the attention of workers of women. Girls almost kidnapped ‘his country that American marines tourist men on the main streets at | are still maintaining their bloody | mid-day. Unemployment. rule in Nicaragua, that the Coclidge.| In Trinidad, at the city made fa- Hoover government is preparing a|mous by pirates. Port-of-Spain, the new imperialist war and that the same thing. Plantation wages a bit Communist soldier John Porter is| better in sugar, cocoa, cocoanuts. | ‘eing tortured and beaten in prison’ Many share tenants, got to sell all | ‘ecause he dared to strike for better they raise to the landlords. Nifty | working conditions, scheme—for ‘the landlord. Best Workers Sacrifiee. wages in the oil fields, maybe aj} “These 22 workers who demon. dollar a day. Country full of Hindu | strated at great personal sacrifice, bond-slaves, dare not leave the boss a number of them losing their jobs. till their terms expire. when sentenced to $100 fine or 60} Bubbling Hell. days in jail and 30 days in jail or| Streets lined with women, offer- $50 fine, refused to pay their fines) ing you bracelets, beads, bananas | a protest against this class jus-/ond sex. Anything you want. An © and remained in jail. Tt is not asphalt lake in Trinidad, hot, bub- enough for the government to give bling up “right outa hell.” In fact these workers the maximum sen-|-Tyinidad is hell and Barbadoes an- tence, it is not enough that they | other, were handenffed and taken to the S F minale |. Lhat’s why the Negroes take to workhouse like hardened criminals, | 44) 106 thw nepaeaey BF they must suffer additional persecu- |tion in the workhouse, persecution | Lamport Holt boats. Hell from all |which is not meted out to the or-|P0ints of the compass. inary criminals, because they are Profits for Owners. ne prisoners, because the! Same for the other seamen, | Washington authorities are trying | to Wages a little higher, but hell | }of wor just the same. Profits pile up for ing class organizations. the shipping trust, The Eastern! “Those who took part in the | Steamships Line made $1,315,000 in demonstration represented seven or- | 1925; the Atlantic, Gulf and West | ganizations: The International La- Indies Line made $1,999,182 in ber Defense, the National Textile |1926; the Pacific Steamships Line Workers Union, The All-American | ™ade $858,000 in 1926. Anti-Imperialist League, The Amer-| The Munson Line made $2,414,000 j ican Negro Labor Congress, The|in 1926;.the A. H. Buli Company j Workers (Communist) Party, the! “pays 6 per cent dividends”; the Young Workers League and Young |Grace Line “pays 8 per cent regu-! Pioneers, and 200,000 workers. Harly”; the United Fruit and the U. “The International Labor Defense |S. Steel (Isthmian lines) are com- protests against this brutal treat-|bined in shipping and trading and ment accorded its members by the make no separate report on ship- | Washington authorities) and by the ping profit, but the United Fruit! s means to stifle the v. if you're that foolish, but Protestant | Linesmen: | stops in front of the field. ‘spend their vacation. Union Begins Concerted ‘SOCCER GAMES Games in Astoria | Everything is in readiness for the two hig tri-league soceer games of the Tabor Sports T nici in the Steinway Oval, Steinway and Riker Aves., Astoria. L. 1. Thanksgiving Day, | The first game will start at 1! velock and the second at 8. Charles! Zimmerman, of the National Or-| ganization Committee of the Cloak| Whether the Arizona electrie power and Dressmakers’ Union. will kick off the first ball for the first game, and Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union, will kick off for the second game. The line-up of the first game is: tion but still in office, caught a| as follows: Brooklyn Workers AIL tar Spitzer | Lichtental ‘roc | Veinber “uckerm: tzanto Scheiler Charleston Heller Perren Sessler rar | Bergman * Carro S Subs: O'Farell Gold | Bersndelli Rainer | Bavs Nesbitt | Padrusky | Creisler. | Oterio and Chordas. | Referee i ceeds will go for the defense of the |New Bedford strikers, now being prosecuted by the courts of the mili owners of New Bedford. Directions to the soccer field are: Take the Steinway Ave. street-car at 59th St. and Second Ave.; stay on the car till the last stop; car vce oe made $21,000,000 in 1926, and the U. S. Steel made $199,000,000, | Wages Below 1920. 4 The seamen don’t enjoy any pros- verity. American able seanien in 1920 made $85 a month, now they make $62.50 on Shipping Boar boats and $55 on private lines. Fir | men made $90, now $67.50 on Shi | Ping board boats and $57.50 on pr vate lines. The upward swing o American imperialism has knocked a chunk off the seamen’s wage and put it in the pockets of the ship, owners. ( The American seamen are need ing organization if anyone does { They look at the best organized sea. men in the world, those of the So. viet Union. Hard to make money romparison, because the Russians | have won so many benefits other | than cash that other seamen never | dream of. Conditions Under Red Flag. { All clothes furnished, shoes and all, including fur coats and mittens. Three watches on deck and four be- | low. All overtime paid. lub | reoms on ship, plenty of room an | clean. Libraries, radios, — ship’: paper, in which crew can crack th officers. Only one mess room for lerew and passengers and one kind | ef food for all. Firemen get a month’s vacation with pay yearly. | the deck twe weeks; all get rail- way tickets to where they want tc No buil cfficers, knocking you, about. §) is run by a committee, elected by the seamen. Captain is boss on the bridge, but if he swears at a mar he will be hailed before the shi) committee under charges and may be dismissed if deserved. Unem ployed get relief. If sick, the gov ernment doctors them free ar sends them to rest homes it to from the old Russian capitalists. Here in New York you see t unemployed seamen starving. nolice and demands that these con- litions be immediately remedied, and | their immediate release.” “edacht to Speak on Trotskyism at Sect. 2 The meeting of the unit, sub-see on and section functionaries of ction 2, which Max Bedacht, Na mal Agitprop Director of the orkers (Communist) Party was to ve addressed last night,» was post ied until Friday night, Nov. 30, 6 p.m. he lecture will be on “The Fight inst Trotskyigm and The Right ger,” and will take place at 10) § 27 £t. The postponement war ‘ssitated by three important lle-trades meetings held las‘ 1t, which many of those expecter the Section 2 functionaries mee : had to attend. Organize the unorganized! Or- WILL BE FIVE COMI TITIES ARE URGHI TANUARY 5, 1929 YEARS OF THE : OUT OF THE DAILY WORKER {0 BEGIN MAKING ARRANGE- MENTS FOR CELEBRATIONS NOW. unnize new unions he unorgan- | ined industriest BILL IN SENATE ON THURSDAY) «OF ARIZONA Will Play Tri-League Punch Governor’s Jaw During Boulder Row PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 27.—A free for all fight, in sion to consider the Swing-Johnson Boulder Dam question railed at each other, and slugged right and left, was the feature of today’s chapter of the interminable argument about interests or the California real es- tate boomers shall utilize the Colo- rado River. In the course of the battle, Gov- ernor Hunt, retired at the mst elec- jloose one on the jaw, from the fist | ,of Senator Colter, and reeled back | against the wall. Fight for Water. The Swing-Johnson bill, which will come up before congress at the next session, proposes a dam at Boulder Canyon, and the diversion ‘of the water of the Colorado to|on this momentous “question, southern California for irrigation purposes. The profits would go to the early bird realtors of California who are represented in congress by Senator Hiram Johnson, and who have bought up tracts of the land to hold for the raise in prices when Went to the U. S. immigration authorities and tried to get himself arrested and deported. Here ille- gally, alright. But can’t get pinched unless he’s a “red.” Oh, hell! He went back to the Seamen’s Club at ei coinam 29 8 e vhich_mem- | Jnion that will be bers of the state senaté now in ses- | ms Campaign to Organize All Open Shops TWOBIGLABOR RIOT OVER DAM Collapses Fighting Flames in Brooklyn Fire Pee ements Three fire alarms had to be ‘turned in before firemen finally suc- ceeded in bringing under control a big 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 fire escape of the building, Thomas Gallagher collapsed from iM smoke and would have been burned ik to death, had not his fellow-workers reecued him. Photo shows Gallagher | im being attended by Dr. Katy and am- © bulance driver Barnes. The uut : plant was said to have been a fire |trap, making it difficult for firemen oe to fight the flames. Ve DRESS WORKERS CLARIFY MERGER RALLY TO STRIKE AT FURRIER MEET |Nominate Delegates at|EndorseAmalgamation Webster Hall Meet at Union Rally After a thorough analys:s of the Continued from Page Qne situation in the industry, and a dis-|in order to regain the union condi- jeussion of the general strike and tions lost by the betrayals. and sell- outs of the right wing must rally all their available forces to present a MANY | really formidable front to manufac- hundreds of members of the Dress-| turers. In this respect it was shown |makers’ Union Local 22, showed | that the fur bosses were at this mo- conclusively that they understood; ment in midst of conferences for |that a fight against the bosses and an amalgamation of their own for- \the right wing was necessary be-|ces for a concerted attack against | fore they will gain union conditions | the left wing Joint Board. This was and an organized industry. Nomin-| discussed in the report and sum- ations for delegates to the national| mary of Ben Gold, manager of the convention of cloak and dressmak-| Joint Board. ers were also made. - In arguing against amalgamation, After a report was delivered bY those in disagreement at the begin- Charles S. Zimmerman and Rose ning said that since the union faces Wortis, both officers of the Nation-'. fight with the bosses we should ‘al Organization one. on ae wait till that is settled first. This present situation in the dress indus- very argument was used by the ad- | Fae Gasca agen Le aan oak vocates of the merger of the unions and filers took place. | to point out the illogical stand they Particularly enthusiastic were the | “°re paring, Sush Paes uah, We: fate a K sias la fi SEgge4 members when the forthcoming a fight, they said, we must seek 1 ; allies in the cloak and dressmakers amalgamation of their organization with that of the fur workers, was who face the same problems we do. taken up for discussion. Unguall- | Only thus will be succeed in forcing | the bearing the convention will have | a |—A certified check for $25,000,000 i | | } é } EL. Doheny and E. L. Doheny, Jr., in }} |the properties.” * fied and unanimous approval was given this step taken by their left wing leadership. The discussion brought out that with a strike im- minent, a mighty union of the most ‘mportant needle trades workers has a far greater chance for suc- sess in its campaigns against the hosses than a smaller union has. The shop delegate system was also discussed. 28 South St. where the Marine Workers League is pushing for a real union for all marine workers. Rush Prince of Wales Wales and his brother, the Duke of 5,000 Miles to Be at Glouchester have begun a race of 5,000 miles from 250 miles inland on Bedside of Sick King jy 2 occ Atrican c-ast to London in LONDON, Nov. 27.—Although the | an effort to reach the bedside of the fficial reports early today denied | King before the prince may become that the condition of King George|the figurehead for British imper- he Fifth portended his death, Jater | ialism. 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Nov. 27.—One- fourth of the skilled workers em- | Dloyed in basic U. S. industries have | been replaced by labor saving de- vices. 6 WOMEN IN CONGRESS HH en in Congress now rumber of them being capicalist po! and anti-laber, all jane | | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Wom- | OIL CAPITALIST | DOHENY SELLS 0 ‘PACIFIC WESTERN | |\Suspect Wash Sale to | Hide Bad Reputation | wp. | LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27 today concluded the transaction by | which the Pacific Westeru Oil Com- |Ppany purchased the interests of E. | the Petroleum Securities Company. | The’ statement issued here said that “in addition to the $25,000,000 paid today, a cash payment of $1,- 000,000 was made Nov. 1, making a total of $26,000,000 cash patd for Is Doheny Buying Himself? There is considerable mystery about the ownership of the Pacific | Western Oil Co., the directors of jwhich seem in general to represent |no particular financial interests, | Theories of oil men vary betweet! two extremes, one that Standard Oil capital has organized it to take over Doheny’s properties, against which they began to fight when they had | their men in Washington prosecute Moheny for fraud and revoke his } Elk Hills lease and otherwise dem- | age his business, and another theory | that the Pacific Western Oil Co. is merely Doheny money buying out! the somewhat tarnished Doheny leases, in order to get a change of name. Shoe Workers’ Union | Holds Oven Forum on ‘Shop Delegate System A well-attended open forum was | held by the Independent Shoe Work- ers’ Union of Greater New York and vicinity at 51 E. 10th St. last | night. A discussion on “The Application of the Shop Delegate System as a |Method of Organizing Shoe Work- ers” was held, with B, Magliacano, organizer of the shoe workers, the main speaker. He outlined the shop delegate system and its functions. A long discussion was held from the floor, most of the workers fav- oring the system. Louis Rudomin | was chairman. | eo See As AFGHAN VILLAGE REVOLTS. | KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 27.— A Ghilzai village in the vicinity jof Altimur. Prss has __ revolted. Afghan cavalry and artillery have lan disratched to the village. First Soviet} 1 Costume Ba R at fey | Madison $ ~ Garden — | PARADE OF 104 NATIONALITIES [| COMPRISING THE SOVIET UNION IN NATIVE | COSTUMES SOREN a Bede ADMISSION 1.00 in advance; $1.25 at door. Now on Sale at the Daily Worker Office, 26-28 Union Auspices: Daily Worker and Freiheit | Saturday Evening } | December 15th} Square, N. Y.