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

Page Two D&A AIL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1928 tarlem Tenants Will Protest Abominable Exploitation of Workers by Landlords FOOD WORKERS TO NV. Y. Working Women Meet ENDING OF RENT WUGHES MAKES | ‘WAR FOR OIL ON PARAGUAY Wall St. Bankers Own j Bolivia ae nom Page One will not permit ment of Bolivia puppet govern- agree to a thing with the Latin Ame an nations. : Memory Collapses. “What abo’ } Commission | States banker: | esked> “It is not true that if these bankers don’t w war, war will not Bolivia to make | ne made | “T don’t know a thing about that,” | raid Kellogg, “if there are any s they are p ate loans I know nothing about them.’ “Now, Mr. Kellogg, there are re- ports made that tne Gran Chaco re- gion contains oi! deposits, and that oil is mixed up in the Bolivian--Par- aguayan dispute. What about that?” “Oil? Never Heard of It.” “Nev heard oil mentioned. I don’t know anything about oil being } there.” And he went into a talk | about the wildness of the country | and tried to get out of a tight hole by saying that he was “very busy.” | | publie lands committee, to his appointment West wife and tion” im progress. tor Reed Smoot and Otis Glenn. “sold” | Senate “Investigates” Power Trust To st Tool: ident Coolidge’s appointment to the secretaryship of the interior of Roy O. West, whose close association with the Insull power interests is notorious, been forced to take some formal action to appease West admitted being connected with the Insull inter all his stock to make everytiting look kosher, ister still retain a goodly number of Insull shar Left to right, Senator Know Any More Jokes? has unloosed such a stink that the senate has In his testimony before the senate since 1897. Just prior | t he admitted that his | Photo shows the so-called “investiga- etary West, Senator Gerald P. Nye, Sena~ “public opinio G. P. MeLean, Se WIR PLEDGES AID TO FRUIT STRIKE To Start Nation-Wide HemstitchersNominate Convention Delegates at Membership Meet The hypoc iy of the fake peace plan offered by Benjamin Schles- inger, president of the compa union in the cloak and dress indus- SCHLESINGER IN | FAKE DRESS PACT Tries to Head Off the |For EXPOSE PRIVATE ‘JOB AGENCY GAME Working women representing all the leading industries of New York met aaeay evening at the Labor Temple at an industrial conference called by the New York Working Aonbere Control] | Women’s Federation to discuss the organization of unorganized women. of Bureau |This conference, which is the first — of several delegate conferences to The Executive Council of the |be held very soon for the purpose Culinary Trades for the Abolition of | of organizing working women, Private Employment Agencies has |Showed the interest, ‘enthusiasm and called a mass protest meeting to keen desire on the part of women workers for organization, jbe held at Bryant Hall, 6th Ave./they may be in a far better posi- and 4ist St, Tuesday afternoon, |tion to fight the battles of the en- Dec. 18, at 2:30 p. m. The com-|tire working class. mittee will report to the meeting} About fifteen rank and file on the proceedings of the State In-| women workers, many of whom had dustrial Commission rivate Never spoken in public before, re- agencies. ¥ ported the conditions in the shops ih nd factories of their various in- Ten Amalgamated Food Workers |Gustries: Many others could not re- {and A. F. of L. local unions, and a! port for lack of time. The delegates jnumber of fraternal organizations |from the milliners’ union, the food | in the culinary trades are working Workers, the Amalgamated, the | jointly in this committee shirt workers, white goods workers, The Hotel and Restaurant Work. |Gressmakers, knitgoods workers, um- ers’ Union of the A. F. W., i brella makers, cap makers, told 0! announcing the mass meeting, | the exploitation of women and chil- states, “Men and women in the food |e and showed how women work- industry, we must impress upon ‘YS Slave longer hours and get lower | you that you cannot expect any|W@ges than men for the same work. changes or improvements from the| The miserable and inhuman condi- city officials. There is only one | tions in department stores of New| way to improve our conditions and} York were also described. on }making industry. lraidst of a life and death struggle | with the bosses, the right wing lead- | for Organization of Unions New York urged the working women of the Federation to rally to the support of their sisters in the dress- “They are inthe ership and Tammany courts, and they are on the eve of a strike. Working women must help in estab- lishing a strong, powerful organ- ization of women, which will lead in the organization of women | workers,” Wortis said. so that | “A victory for the dressmakers,” jshe continued, “will mean a victory |for all working women.” Others who participated the in LAWS OCCASION FOR RENT RAISES | Hundreds of Families Face Eviction A monster tenants’ mass meeting, to be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock at the New York Public | Library auditorium at 103 W. 135th St., has been called by the Harlem + Tenants League. discussion were Vera Bush, Kate | Gitlow, Rebecea Grecht and Pauline | women workers thi Rogers, all of whom have been very | jactive in the building of the Fed- eration, Ray Ragozin, secretary of | Federation, closed by saying that | | the conference was the first step to- | ward the organization of the unor- ganized women, Future conferences would be arranged, some of which would be held in the sections, and of separate industrial groups She | urged the delegates to take the mes- |sage of the conference back to the | shops, and in this way help to broaden our conferences and lay th fective force of the class struggle the | | Among the sneakers at the meet- | Florence Ricks, [basis for real mast movement of and Richard 3 Moore, to the meeting will be free. In the announcement of the meet- ing, the Harlem Tenants League is- sued a cireular which called on the | tenants of Harlem to unite. “The emergency.” it said. “of which we warned is here! Land- lords are taking advantage of the jexpiration of the rent laws and are sing rents from $60 to $100. Hun- dreds of families have been served dispossesses! The tenement house bill is being killed, too! Learn what you can and must do to save | your homes and families!” The call ends in an appeal to all Harlem workers to attend the mass meeting, e jing will be Arthur C, Holden, Mrs, Juliet Stuart Poyntz Admission All ex- try, is exposed by incidents oecur- | get rid of the agencies, and that is} Some of the most vital reports | ring in every branch of the union “So there is nothing in the files | ane H i by joining and helping to build one | were those of the Negro delegates, |of the workers. of the state department to indicate Strike Sentiment | ploited workers and tenants of Har- |lem are urged to attend en masse. Campaign why this ‘great wilderness’ has sud- The scab dual union operated by} iN os beg gi powerful union of all culinary) who showed how Negro women have aig denly hecome so attractive?” | ‘The National Office of the Work-|him in the tucking and. pleating Continued from Rage One workers.” jactually heen forced out of indus-| Analysis of A. F. of L. “Well, there might be. Yes, the |¢'S International Relief, 1 Union trade yesterday ordered a worker Wholly open shop industry since the] It goes on to show how the graft-|try because they are exploited even department has information, but I could not indicate it. It is a large territory, and the nature of the he 30,000 workers who are on’ union, while the Schlesinger mani-|+,, unionization of their trade,|ff0m one so-called job to anothery|in5 New York Working Women's} “An Analysis of the Last Amer- try I don’t know. Mr. Scott strike on the banana plantations) festo calla for peace in the indus-| © ; | paying ten per cent of their WaBeS | Trederati lead the discussion on/ ican Federation of Labor Conven- i a eS peti Ae ees t's | owned by the United Fruit Co. try. This occurred in the shop of Schlesinger wants to conclude a 6-| 5.) jobs lasting only a week or i eration, hee " ae Ste ae | Went WI Ge Whe aetdaee ae cock While agen. a © i wire at a a Be ccs nae) ie The cable reads as follows: J. Eisenzweig, 325 W. 37th St. months agreement in order to give! two, tt cornea 0, oe SS invatas liars Rig Sahn as Balen, iiiuateial builaing at eu Bauereees oes taore than I do. I haven't time to|, “We Pledge support to 20,000) a. iest wing Tuckers’, Pleaters’|the impression that his company} The first mass mecting.in connec: | hich comes from wage cuts, the| organizer of the New York district |tween S}th and ZiNth Sis, 0 look up those things. But I never | banana workers striking against 14 temstitchers’ Union yesterday | union will then take radical mea-|tion with this campaign was held| (ci up system, the lengthening of |of the Workers (Communist) Par- |“ : understand heard of oil. there. there are Indians the Strong on Indians—Weak on Oil. Mr. Scott: “Yes, there are In- Gians th It is very sparsely populated.” “Has not the region been pros- pected for oil?” “Yes, there have been borings. They have looked for oil. I don’t think they found it.” It being apparently impossible to find anyone in the state depart- ment of the mightiest nation on earth who knows, or will say he knows, anything of consequence, we took our hat and our departure. Carefully Selected. But we wish to remark: Isn't it strange that Kellogg knows nothing of Wall Street control of the Boli- vian government and loans given it \. “pr arming, while he has put pres- ure, for imperialist purposes, on ‘European nations with statements that loans should be discouraged until they stop arming? And isn’t it strange that Kellogg “never heard a word of oil” in Bolivia or in the Gran Chaco, while his department is deeply interested Square, last night sent a cablegram fired from his job for refusal to to Colombia, pledging support to grop membership in the left wing United Fruit Co., which is controlled by Wall Street. Relief funds for strikers and dependents being raised in nation-wide appeal. American workers will support your struggle for better conditions and urge you continue until victorious.” The cable is signed by Fred G. Biedenkapp, executive secretary of the W. I. R. A communication was yesterday sent to the secretaries of the Work- ers International Relief branches throughout the country instructing them to immediately open a drive in their territory for the strikers and their families. Biedenkapp stated that further activities will be announced shortly. 5 HURT IN AUTO MISHAP. Five passengers were injured, two Winthrop seriously, yesterday when two taxi-| master corps, to be assistant to the cabs collided at 149th St. and Wal-| quartermaster general with rank of ton Ave., the Bronx, access to its better ports further Hughes aang that, after all, inter- south, but the Bolivians want the whole Chaco region clear down to Asuncion, Paraguay’s capital. He don’t understand why, It is a | announced that their election | objection committee had passed on in the headquarters of the Joint union was broken, employs work- ers who are anxious to strike for | sures to organize the trade. The excuse he gives is that he wants this fake agreement with a few ir- responsible racketeers, who call | themselves an “employers’ associa- tion” to expire at the same time as his fake agreements with the cloak | manufacturers, Provin;; that it is an open fake, | that Schlesinger’s only purpose in| signing this fake pact is to stem} and the candidacy of the six members nominated for delegates to the con- vention, These delegates were chosen at a membership meeting Thursday night Board, 16 W. 2ist St. The six nominated, who are to be voted on by the membership at official elections some time in the near future, are Morris Taft, man- ager, A. Olinger, L. Stone, S. Ru- bin, Molly Schechter and P. Philbin. A the strike sentiment, the columns of | the employers’ journal, the “Wom-; en’s Wear,” declares: “Both sides following the conference seemed | not to fear the possibility of much | trouble at the conclusion of the contract.” The announcement of an agree- ment -in the dress industry, how- ever, is also intended as an addi tion to the hypocritical “trade pro- | gram and peace plan” which the| workers in the industry are ridiculing. proposed that all workers register | MILITARIST GETS JOB. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (U.P).— President Coolidge sent to the sen- ate today the nomination of Col. Samuel Wood, quarter- poeenee general. national law could and should be! months’ dues. war, neutral countries must be com- | adopted unanimously for the aboli- | tion of private employment agen- “VIVA SANDING” The Police Ri Ride Down. , still government officials In this “program” he | Scheduled to take place tonight. | | WINTER CLEARANCE SALE \in his company on payment of nine | Were united in unadulterated praise _The most important | |of ender was a proposal that “union | congratulating the government on | ing scab agencies charge for non- existent jobs, how the workers go more than white women. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, chairman of in October, and a resolution was hours, unemployment and a drive of the bosses to smash trade union izations. “Worki en must cies, and for a labor bureau under | OSanizations. “Working wom: vg Comer OE Sie: oR lagainst the war danger side by side jwith their sisters and brothers in other countries, and especially with ore women and men of Soviet Ri Rose Wortis, militant leader in the struggles of the needle trades of GREETS HOOVER «== Demonstrators | _ Continued from Page One all the facilities for grain export! and splendid opportunities for busi- ess, previous to his conversations with president Irigoyen and other which are Not even all the bourgeois papers the imperialist envoy. The | British-owned “Evening Standard,” Worker, Name Hidden Convention at Forum Killed by live Wire ty, tomorrow at 8:30 p. m. at the; Lower Bronx Open Forum, 715 E. [138th St. join in the labor struggle and fight | RIVAL SHIP PARLEY FAILS Edison Company, his employers, re- fused to divulge, died following a shock from a 42,000-volt current of electricity. The industyial victim, who jeaves BREMEN, Germany, Dec. 14 (UP) |a wife and six children to be pro- -—Negotiations between the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amer- iea Lines for closer co-operation, especially in the North Atlantic, were broken off today. vided for, was taken to the hospital by ambulances from the Mt. Vernon and Bellevue Hospitals, but doctors reported that his death was instan- taneous. 5% PRICES REDUCED e Rasy ano u y | certificates” be given scab contrac- the “precautions that have been | in protecting every U. S. oil tanker | Bolivian “caprice pelled to permit transit of muni-) tors’ who do work for jobbers, Thru | taken for Hoover's safety,” launches | afloat and every oil tank of Rocke- A 7,500,000 Acre Reason. tions thru its territory to “land- beautiful possibility of a graft|into an attack against the United Late Season Demands Early ‘ | feller in Central China? We show him the terms of the locked nations.” machine, Schlesinger proposed to|States. under the vell of a dulf \ Fi So we go to see the charge d’af-| contract between the Bolivian gov- Mask War Move as “Peace.” | identify sweat shops that are al-|column of humor. It mentions no | t there. Senor Ramirez even dis- Senores Ayala and Rameriz agree nounced that “at last we have one th. Thi due to bad conditions ‘ Be ee Britten ate erite in the Western Hemisphere, | My 4 _|the side of the Argentine exporters month. is year, due to ba | } 3 : , ; " ts in th i men, criticising the United States aan if | 1 wea route. _,vians may, for the sake of argu- workers and peasants in the wild cach other When uh eaeint “se \tariff policy as directed against Ar- our loss earlier in the year. MMP hic, a tiny piece of Eolivia|lon-Read, bankers of New York,|°! ® “whole for any war arising PRE liane aiognstuke we ta tmnune alanis Z ' fairs of Paraguay, Juan Vicente Rameriz, and later, Senor Ayala, ex-president of Paraguay and its delegate here to the Pan-American Conference on “Conciliation and Arbitration.” Oily Caprice. Both these gentlemen are appar- j ently quite mystified to why Bolivia is so aggressive, Senor Ayala calls it a Bolivian “caprice.” We point to the likelihood that Bolivians were possibly as capri- cious ten years ago as now, and ‘ask why the sudden eruption of “ca- Price” in the direction of oil. Alas, they know nothing of oil in the Gran Chaco. Not even as much as Mr. Scott of the state department, who admitted borings were made fronts on the Paraguay river and a branch stream. Bolivia has a port there, Port Suarez, but it is far from the sea on a shallow river. So ernment and Wall Street bankers. We point out to him and Senor Rameriz that the bankers have ab- solute power over the Bolivian gov- ernment. We draw attention to the fact that, even if there be no oil in the Chaco, there is lots of it just over the line in Bolivia, where the Standard. Oil owns 7,500,000 acres. We also use the map. It is im- possible or impossibly expensive, for Standard Oil to get petroleum from southeast Bolivia over the Andes Mountains to the Peruvian coast. But if Bolivia held the Chaco, pipe-lines can cut across it anywhere, and especially down the Pileomayo river, by water grade to good ports near Asuncion, thence to the Atlantic, can veto any war of Bolivia, and must have a hand in the present conflict. Hughes’ Hand Appears, and Since Bolivia is the only land-| ready eae FURRIERS LAUNCH SSDUES CAMPAIGN proposal, Bolivia surely did not ex-| pect to attack Peru expecting to| get arms thru Paraguay, and it Hughes, attorney for Standard Oil] (Continued from Page One and . delegate, led the fight for| season, The five-dollar plan is Bolivia’s war step, supported by | | principally a mobilization slogan for gentina and Chile. Hau: A ‘ ‘i ghter. tinged with bitterness. Hughes, Standard Oil lawyer, the] With great glee the leaflet an- most brass-faced imperialist hypo-| “anion houses.” clear as day that Boliv er was a war move (at a peace con- | ference) against Paraguay. Upon that significant. proposal, | Peru and all the native satraps who| the coming struggle. betray their peoples in Central! ‘The jeaflet distributed by the America and the Antilles. Against | soa) union officials in the fur dis- the proposal were Paraguay, Ar-|tyiot yesterday provoked much | of South America, and will be re- | of it. British imperialism is also inter- | ested in oil and in Latin America, and a step is made, toward a new It is characteristic of the company | union chiefs to cpnsider an alliance | of the bosses as their own victory, | \the workers declared, names, but its meaning is clear as an attack upon Yankee imperialism by British imperialism. The newspaper “La Prensa” said today in an editorial that “Pan- Americanism could never prosper as long as those who should foment its spirit virtually undermine its basis ’ ir mutual cooperation.” “Adhesion to the interventionist tnelley of the United States by the heads of certain American states, especially in the case of the state which has been the object of the latest intervention, cannot justify such abuse, still less pacify the dis, contest aroused thereby,” La Prenza said. At the same time “La Prensa” does not lose the opportunity to take Holtman to Speak on Soviet Trade Unions at the Center Today Reductions SUITS, TUXEDOS OVERCOATS Now—in December—before Christmas, we offer our merchandise at the lowest prices. These prices hold good only this Let Our Loss Be Your Gain! he tells us that Bolivia wants a| Senor Ramirez recalls the actions Wo" imperialist War. Only the| tained many other silly pe di is that B ants Senor rez rei i ity loited toilers of | Containe: y pedis | ~- 5 grades .75 grades ehunk of Chaco to the south big of Charles Evan Hughes at the| yu) Tai te ca “righting |Ments, such as that the Joint Board| f. Holtman, who recently re- All $37.50 grades All $31.75 a, AN Sere & spgnough to give them a port at Bahia | Havana Conference. Hughes had| front’ with the peoples of Latte | sllowed union conditions to deterior- | turned from a long stay in the NOW NOW 82 NOW 56 Ne because they think it is a| begun with a categoric insistence America oppressed by Yankee im-|8t¢ in the shops of the Fur Trim-| goviet Union, will lecture, at the . ig . better port. But the Bolivians are that the conference could not perialism, can defeat war and de-|™ing bosses. If that were so, the General Amalgamated Forum today fooBkb, says Rameriz, as Bahia change international law. It was|ltrqy imperialism | point out, how does thejat 12 o'clock on “How the Trade is just as bad as Port fixed. It was inviolable, It was| ' ik __|scab Council explain the fact that | Unions Are Organized in the Soviet Suarez. sacred and holy. It must not be| — bt i these same trimm‘ng bosses »efuse | Union.” Greatest selection in the best styles and models of the year! to give Bolivia the Bahia port, but it wants more. y offers more. It will eive! Wonder If There A i vg ee touched. But, when Bolivia proposed a change in international law, which put Bolivia in position to make war ith Lats. on PERE IRY, re Any Tickets Left?” The young worker in the above picture was found standing in his new winter coat outside the Wor’: rs Gangwayexcusemydust to renew the agreement with the left | id * = ying enion and grant it to the A.) I’minahelluvahurry K. of L. Council? | * * The Forum will be held at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Sq. 4th floor. 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