The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1928, Page 2

Plumbers Helpe MAKE PLANS FOR DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928 pi VS Decide to Form Fighting Union By Unanimous Vote of Members _ INCOMPETENCE Six ReSents of Bloody British Imperialism pL RRS, aes ORGANIZATIONAL DRIVE AT ONCE To Hold General Mass ing Soon Without a membership of th ciation of Plu Labor Temple adopted pro of an indepen organize the he’ in their strug; Immediately ng voice, the nt union which will ers and lead them wing the read ing of the report by 2 . trie of inspection. ,This “inspec- | aa é demonstration. Max Helfand, wi KIRGIZ T0 DANG Begin Jersey City 50 GIRLS STRIKE .” or lack of it, is under the ad-| ,,, Zhe smiling couple above, Florence Trumbull (left) and John | He was met on the steamer by erous role c English Course for mins poatian | ofabienbertatiooversce:| Coolidge (right) have achieved their place in the sun not by virtue representatives of the fascist am- ; - | of any contributions to human progress, but be they h i ed Associa Work * ‘cently elected president of the date ANON BT ORT ARES ecause they happen to | hassador and the Italian consul gen- Steamfitters and Ga orkers Tomorrow American empire, Jessop brought| 0¢ the children of two faithful yea-men of Big Business, President | oyal, who immediately escorted bim i clared for a stt 15 : \ | ON himself and his opinions over from | C20Udge and Governor Trumbull of Connecticut. The two young para- |to the waiting tug. When he was | Be iy Wik the mivgort-of the a AS course ind fnelish wilsaiee |the closed “investigation” run by| %tes have become formally: engaged. Young Coolidge recently staged | asked by a capitalist newspaper re- q et civil: olusibers; a’ general pune workers of Jersey City an unusual BAY, U. S. Attorney Tuttle to the Com-| % “democracy” stunt by getting a job at $30 a week (plus the fat | yorter whether, if Mussolini died | discussion took place tion. Irving Sp King George, expensive adornment of the British imper struggling with death, has signed away his gun-decorated crown toa co vittee tinue the oppression of the colonial workers and peasants and the frantic war preparations against the They are, from left to right: Edward, Prince of Wales, the heir to the adornment; Queen Mary; the Duke of York; the Rev. Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and the guardian of ious wing of British capitalism; Premier Baldwin, chief executive for the imperialists; and Lord Soviet Union. sham, the chancellor, ists, who is ctill reported to be alive and of six who will con- the Nomadic, Polygamous; The course hs + Unorganized Workers educational opportunit A. B.C. of C m. a refusal to be cheated out of more _ SUNK VESTRIS, Never Knew So Much on a Single Ship It day for taking a crack at its Bri rival by way of the so-called vestigation” of the Vestris’ staged yesterday before U. S, Com- missioner Francis A. O'Neill. | Captain E. P. Jessop represented ; joner’s bungled everything they laid their | SAYS EXPERT was American imperialism’s h ‘in- | sinking, | government, which responsible for the criminal seance, and made a The following schedule of soccer | Offspring of Big Business Flunkies to Wed yl T A LO B ALBO,” | : | checks from the old man) with the New York, New Haven and Mart- Michael Gold,*editor of the New FFASGIST, IN FEAR, ‘LANDS SECRETLY Balbo Rushes Away to Avoid Workers General Italo Balbo, gangster chief of the fascisti, minister of aviation in Mussolini’s cabinet and one of his right-hand men, on his arrival here yesterday left the steamer in a special tug and after landing at 34th St., made immedi- ately for the Pennsylvania Ter- minal, in fear of an anti-fascist the fascist government would fall, aroused such a wave of hatred From the floor the membersh will open tomorrow at 10 a. m., a’ scathing indictment of everybody bah etirond: | Inetsentatig, ha Old thaibaltoloyattrint lereas® est the), | haltankwaced) ind the typical swag- ~ expressed their approval of the sen-- Women Do All Work the Ukre'nian Hall, 160 Mercer St. Fight Wage Cut hut the U. S. Steamboat Inspection | 2°” \gering manner of Mussolini: “No, timents uttered by Helfand and S. Leroy, of - New York Workers| ba Service. Freiheit Sport Club Talk R uti not for two centuries at least.” ] ee aienersent unions Uzbeks, and the rest other nationali- | Uourse will be given every Sume|facturing Company plant, at 10| Jessop said that he “did not think Announceg¢ Its Soccer Literature at Workers the Italian Aerial Association to the i After the discussion the election ties, ‘The Kirgiz are mainly nomads | 1"® Course | ery Sun- Warren St., Brooklyn, cushion mak-|S0 much incompetence could be : leonference of the International H Be orcas was: held. Max/Helferd o: omads, engaged in the (a¥ at 10 a pr» and the last half’ oss, neatly all young girls, are out |loaded aboard one ship” as was Schedule for Sunday Forum, Bronx, Sunday | Aeronautical Congress at. Washing- i was re-elected preside acelam: of goats, sheep, cattle etc. : Sevoted to the) (1 strike today as a result of their |Shown when the Vestris’ office ton, comméncing next week, He has i vice-president. Intrator was chosen The new of the union will consist of Martin ta ed executive board Definite plans were adopt sligion the Kazaks are Mo- nedans, but are rather lax in adherence to this faith. Usu- ally they are guided by the common and thore of their earnings by a scheme whereby the bosses cut the prices paid in their piece-work sys- BUTCHER UNION hands to and left what they should have done undone. sop was making out a case against the tradition that “Britain rules the Evidently Jes- games for this Sunday has been re- leased by the Freiheit Sport Club: | The First Team vs. Red Star A. Masses; Sender Garlin, of the Daily Worker staff, and A. B. Magil, also gangsterism. and of the Daily Worker, will take part | Italy that he was afraid of wasting among the Italian workers by: his terrorization in |tion “was not due to fear of anti- i - Er 51 wrettit | law, which has nothing to do with tem. (oa : jeld, |i & literary symposium, to be held |any time in catching his train, In Chaplar, Ernest Polgar, Joe Martin, te1an;, The family life of these This is the second day the work- | Vaves.” Pa ee Som Awd | Sunday evening at 8 o'lock at the jorder to save his face he announced, James Walsh, Dan Knudler, Juilus nomads is based upon the patri- hese: -shawaeriketore beeanicad: eas The two surviving officers singled Pennsylvania and ivonia Aves., | Isronx Workers’ Forum, 1330 Wil-jeven before it was mentioned, that Ginenthal and Wallace Binn archal system, which gives complete striking. After a walkout that | ove for special mention were Chief Brooklyn, The game will start at kins Ave. |kis hurried trip to the railway sta- carrying on an intc tional campaign. Thousands . lets are to be distributed among: the helpers working on the various buildings. A special leaflet will also be distributed among the plumbers appealing for support of the helpers’ newly formed union. A general mass meeting of all helpers will be held within the next three weeks. Shop chairmen will be established on every job. Demands for recognition and better conditions will be pre- sented to every boss of a strongly organized shop. President Helfand in his speech stressed the vital necessity of every plumbers’ helper joining the union) at once. “The officials of the United A sociation of Plumbers, Steamfitters and Gasfitters, are not interested in organizing the helpers,” Helfand stated. “We have but to look back to our past experience which we had with these officials to find out this is an absolute fact. They never took sive or} power to the head of the family. Women oceupy a subor inate po- sition—they will act accordingly at 1e hall—but th.y enjoy far greater freedom and independence in com- parison with the women of the set- tled population—they will not take advantage of this. All duties in con- nection with the animals and the household work devolve upon them. The men folks are “gentlemen.” Polygamy is in evidence, but as cverywhere else where this system prevails, it depends upon prosperity. It ought to go well in Hocveria, = Pr | The women do not cover their faces | with veils—nor with artificial bloom. In summer the Kirgiz live in a felt tent, in winter, in a clay hut. —A. G. R. Youthful Miners Will Attend School of the Young Worker League lasted till 3:30 in the afternoon of the first day, the boss called the workers in and argued that they were not loosing any money by his scheme, even going so far as to’ in- | crease rates two cents a half dozen cushions. However, the girls walked cut again when they saw that this; would not enable them to earn suf. ; Calls Rally Sunday to Organize Workers Retail butcher store workers are called to a mass meeting this Sun- day afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Li eet ahas peared ficient to live on, and they are still beginning an organization drive in |OUt om Strike. the trade in order to gain union| The struggle arose when a new standards and conditions of work. |*ind of work was given the girls, The meeting wiil be held in the Ir- | ‘different in grade, cheaper in price, | ving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving | but taking just as long to produce. Place. This substitution reduced the wages This union, established recently by a majority of the membership of the right wing butchers union, whom the reactionary officials ex- pelled for being too militant, has grown remarkably in size, while the old union is on its last legs. The |‘ drive the progressive union now bos ib plans is to embrace the whole city, ghey “could go home, where nearly all the stores are non- A committee of two had gone to see the employer to protest against the change of work, but instead of | Reportin; that all would walk out if the two | | Officer Johnson and Chief Engineer Adams, It these officers, at Tuttle’s hearing, tried to unload all their guilt on the crew by claiming that the Negro “Black Gang” would not work the fires. An important phase of the testi- mony stated, what the Daily Wor! weeks ago, that the Vestris was not \sunk by a storm, but just sunk by itself, with the enthusiastic assist- ance of its officers, to use the sea and weather as an of the workers from $8.50 a day to elanenee of the disaster is fool- |was censured far not sending out S OS calls sooner, and for “incom- prehensible incompetence.” Chief Officer Johnson was also a eeing the boss, who, they were told, ' prize bungler, Jessop said, and Chief not in, they were told by minor | Pygineer Adams a criminal liar in es that “if they didn’t like it”’ sending word to the captain that he |fad the water under control when ack to the girls, they were assured | he gid not. will be recalled thet; No Storm. that in which Jessop r said vas 2 aH noon sharp. The Second Team vs, Scandinavian mn Park, Hudson and LeRoy St., New York City, cff at 8 p. m. sharp. Directions to Hudson field: Take I. R. T. Broad- way and Seventh Aye, subway to Walk west to Hudson. ; 8. C.,, at Hu Houston St. Van Cortlandt Park, 242nd St. N. Kick-off at noon sharp. Di- a the \ rections to field: Take Seventh Ave. |“luding his own. subway uptown, get off last stop. | The drama, criticism and poetry drama. “Any attempt | — said Jessop. Captain Carey was,” | gate.” Fine Business. | steamboat inspection Lloyds knowing what her stability | | Captain McConkey, service or the social ‘trends Garlin will discuss several | North of the outstanding American liter- | protest meeting tomorrow at the Third Team vs. Workers 8. C., at | 9°Y critics of today. Magil will talk | Peoples’ House, 7 East 15th St., at on revolutionary poetry and. read |2 p. m. will be the subjects discussed by the three speakers. Kick-|one of the directors of the New cist, gangster Playwrights Theaire, will speak on, which they term an insult to work- Gold, who is in the modern from the works of several poets, in- Soviet Union Co-Op Bank Capital Grows | weakening on the workers’ part. MOSCOW, Dec. 7.—In view of a | Norway and Denmark, British ex- constant growth of operations of | with the Red Inte: pert attending the hearings, tried the All-Union Co-operative Bank | Unions, ave sending financial sup- to defend Britishe shipping against | the People’s Commissariat for Fi- this assault by its American rival, nance of the U.S. S. R. has allowed | but was worsted and took refuge in| it to issue an additional number of “withholding judgment,” probably | Shares for ten million rubles, Thus | until a British board will “investi- |'the joint stock of the All-Union Co- operative Bank has been increased from 30 to 40 million rubles. |fascist demonstrations.” * To protest the presence of the fas- chief in America, the Anti-Fascist League of America will hold a mass ers, | — Ps | HELSINGFORS, Finland, (By | Mail).—The strike of the Finnish ‘transport workers has now rounded | cut five r.onths, with no sign of Militant workers thruout Sweden, affiliated tional of Trade ozt to the Finnish strikers. The program at the Sth Anni- yersnry Celebration of the Daily Worker at Manhattan Opera House consists. of the Isadora Duncan Dancers of Moscow, U. 8. 8. R. im a special program of Revolution- ary Dances. Symphony Orchestra. union, oe aN RE: 3 soe aes 54 ; 5 Pr cxt gae 7 ‘ Pai -—— Speakers. Tickets Sly $1.50 82. coneréte steps towards organizing CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 7.—The| Proof that the old union is rap-| Were fired, All hae then got UP) “The Vestris sailed: from this port ,,The Workers (oomm rie ary | sna’ Workers (Oommiualty Party"te | sE50 how bn anle at Dally Wilke the helpers. When in April of last Young Workers (Communist) |iqly disintegrating is given by an *nd started for the clothing room, |v,ithout either the owners, the | veka ds lene party of the cla zat tr office, All ents reserved, ; Year we succeeded in drawing four thousand helpers into our organiza- tion, we accomplished something which these reactionaries never even made an attempt to do. “There is no doubt that we will League of the Ohio district will con- duct a 2-weeks training school in the coal mining region of Eastern Ohio, beginning next week. A large percentage of young miners is ex- pected to attend. futetionaries of the ri junion, together with the recording but found the door locked, with the key in.the posséssion of the fore- | lady, who refused to let them out. They finally saw the boss and his attempts to trick them into submis- | sion was met with a unanimous | walkout of the entire department. active member of the union, who declares he was approached by some ight wing or- ganization, The chairman of the executive board of the reactionary SOVIET Sat. Eve. ~ RO Rae DNA never gain recogniton as long as| An appeal is being made for fi- | secretary, asked this member to de- i i u these officials rule the plumbers’ nancial aid for the school, since it | mand from his leaders the initiation Eighty-five girls are employed in ; locals. will otherwise be difficult, if not! of a “peace” movement. The details |this plant. Fifty are out. Thirty- ST 3 “Our on! Ivation at the pres-| impossible, to carry it through, Last /of the scheme were, according to | five more still work in the mattress | ent time lies in the formation of a Summer a 5-weeks school was run, |this worker: The left wing member | department. The striking workers strong independent union of the| but most of the young miners who|was asked to attend the meeting |#re scheduled to get together in a helpers. However, this does not had been expected to attend were |sunday, take the floor and demand | meeting today to decide what to do ’ ‘ mean that we will cease fighting thege bureaucrats and exposing them | at every turn.” Cutters Leafue Vote Is Unanimous for Big Strike in Dress Trade The imminent amalgamation of the} two left wing needle trades unigns, the Cloak and Dressma’ Unipn with the Furriers Union, w theichief topic of discussion at a memibership meeting of the Cutters Welfare League on Thursday night at fhe headquarters of the National | ing class. March 1, has been prepared by Rep danger. Ee ect Commit “The League has therefore sent} white of Mai : . 2 —_—_—- i : 7 White of Maine, chairman of the ‘6 oe @ mecting also heard a fullre-| an appeal to all sympathetic or-| heu-s mecchant marine committee. | smith’ “wstnet comueny “alon port of the work done by the Elec- tion’ and Objection Committee, in testing the qualifications of nom- inees for deleg: to the coming conyention, Dec. in New York. After an interesting discussion the report of this important committee unanimous actively engaged in the miners’ strike, and could not be withdrawn. The agitprop department of the district says in connection with the school: he importance of train- ing and developing new forces for the labor movement, forces that ac- tively participate in and lead the struggles of the workers, has long been recognized by the left wing and militant section of the labor movement. But in order that these new elements acquire the full con- fidence and leadership of the work- ers, they must be given a theoreti- cal background to understand the problems that confront the work- ganizations ly, and we ganizatic toward th to support us financial- are sure that these or- ntribute liberally Young Worker League y at 3 p.m. The | and how to make the tieup com- | plete by calling out the remaining girls, that a committee be elected to ne- gotiate with the reactionaries. The officers of the left wing union, as well as the workers ap- | besached wmolat to thle ae sve! of IX DeCE Arrival of | e bankruptey of the bureaucrats, 4 é, Vessel in Distress and, of course, refuse any dealings (By United Press.) with them. The freighter Lena Luckenbach, a of the Luckenbach Steamship Com- A resolution to extend the life of ” i igsi oh | Luckenbach ships are “workhouses' She ead a GRENNSIS vlaoH og in which the crews face constant the law becomes an advisory body Machinery of Radio > COLORLIGHT BALL Madison Square GARDEN 104 NATIONALITIES comprising the Soviet Union will parade in native attire 15 ' was endorsed unanimously. Industry Conferences Arousi the greatest enthusi- 1 | asm however and saline fori we 10 Be Held Today at 3 ae n.ost spirited part tion, was the Th d 1 f | or immediate. vreparations | The two industrial conferences ne a Meera eons | called by the Young Workers (Com: D4 SRY= ¥ industry. The vote nist) League for its members PHILADELPHIA Have already ar- ai v <—S; — ; ig ¥ In discussing the auestion, which was fine by an cverwhel two voting against its immediate application (no one is opposed to it in principle), the workers argued that just because the union needed general strike in the dress trade and a special struggle to regain conditions in all crafts, the need for amalgamation is imperative. An amalgamated union will help us at- tain our ends, it was urged. | ing majo 5 MORE SAILORS DROWN. Panton vil be come more activined PITTSBURGH Are still to be heard DOWN TOWN BRONX BATH BEACH aye motrin Wander wih ry | of the workers in oa gerbe i CLEVELAND fr om. Get on t he onsauaes ‘ins hee Union PoP nce Bol Store, Fi bai teins Book Store, 8603 20th Te are, Gage ta" thn |of tee werhase ok toe Tago cutting | WASHINGTON job immediately! Fiat's” ek Sv" 202 Ra Se gui ; wide storin which swept England [feta sess with the workers I] KANSAS CITY Organize your fifth Rational ev ctetarian Restaurant, Gestalt Book Store, 365 Sutter Demonstrate Your Solidarity! Be NEW HISTORIANS HEAD emane ive bach Peat A SEATTLE Anniversary HARLEM gro hone Qne of the 25,000 that Will Crowd Metis ay uae 2 he Mind fn ag SAN FRANCISCO Celebration Health Food, 1600 Madison Avenue. Max Snow Drug Store, Thirteenth Madison Square Garden rane ; the aking.” has been elected presi- | We, demand any | Unity House, 1800 Seventh Avenue. Avenue and 43d Street. Night, December 15. Don’t Miss! dent of the American Historical As- sociation for 1929, it was announced | yesterday after a meeting of me association’s council, c It will be 2 at the Jewish Workers Univer- ty, at 108 E. 14th St. The Build- g Trades Conference will be held in the Center, 28 Union Square. The industrial conferences of the League will be attended by all League members working in the in- éustries, and will discuss in detail the conditions of the youth there. It is expected that youth programs will be drawn up us a result of these and that the League anged. moval of all trade anion#’ ngninat the member~ ship of Negro workers and equal opportunity for employ wages, hours and working con tions for Negro and white workers, le trades confer- | ranged for celebra- tions of the Fifth Anniversary of the DAILY WORKER NEW YORK CHICAGO DETROIT LOS ANGELES wy BOSTON Etc., Etc. ADMISSION: $1.00 IN ADVANCE and FREIHEIT $1.25 AT THE DOOR Tickets Now on Sale at: