The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 1

' ‘THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Daily Sol eet ae ae Worker FINAL CITY EDITION For the 40-Hour Weck ae, = oO aa For a Labor Party Tlwomnens{ oF TENOR Dome > meses Entered as second-class muticr at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3. 1871 p= Mi Nov O80 |! Siac eee, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1928 _ eons hry? emerr Price 3 Colum CONGRESS MOVES TO START CANAL THRU NICARAGUA Cashing In Wall Street Conquest; Making Navy Stronger Dry Law Fund Fight! Hoover Is Disaster [ws on a. joint resolution for a Bruce Says Election of WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Early survey of the proposed Nicaraguan Canal and for data on feasibility of enlarging the Panama Canal was| urged upon the senate today by States government. Photo shows Christmas Season Means Greater Slavery for Postal Workers The Christmas season means bigger profits for businessmen and greater drudgery for the workers. Among those who pay dearly for the Yuletide “good cheer” of the parasite class are the postal workers, | who are forced to handle huge stacks of Christmas mail at the miserable wages given them by the United | scene in the Brooklyn post office. “VIVA SANDINO” SHOUTS URUGUAY’ LABOR AT HOOVER Crowds Denounce Visit of Imperialist When He Appears in Park ‘Workers Expose Trip 'Placard City; Hold Big | Mass Meetings | | MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec 17.—President Hoover spent the day jin his heavily-guarded rooms at the —|Farque Hotel, amusing himself by watching the government firework Bolivia Says It Wars for U.S. Imperialism By HARRISON GEORGE (Special to the Daily Worker) |of any American, waved the matter WASHINGTON, D, C., Dec. 17.—| aside, and only once, while speaking While Charles Evans Hughes, Stand- | of certain national resources of Bo- ard Oil lawyer in i = -q.| livia, did he express a desire not to ard Oil lawyer in its war on Para-}1,. “quoted. Why he selected that guay, together with the imperial- | subject to speak confidentially upon, ist-packeds commission supposed to| : .'0| while freely speaking of more in- stop that war, was hiding behind | teresting subjects, the writer knows closed doors from reporters at the/1o¢ but such was the case Pan-American building here on last) We informed Senor Medina that Thursday, the writer, having fixed the Paraguayans had said that Bo- up a list of questions, handed them |jivia’ though having 3,000,000 popu- to a special writer for the Hearst press and asked: lation, was not internally as strong é ¥ us Paraguay, as most of the Boli- “What do you think of these ques- eet | tions to spring on the Bolivians?” vians are Indians, and, being bit- | terly oppressed and exploited, were He looked them over and granted: |; .4y : “J dare you to. ask ’em.” hardly enthusiastic about dying for We Take the Dare. the Bolivian government. He coun- We took the dare, and the next = ter-remarked that in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, the people wore no shoes BRITISH-U. S, WAR LOOMS IN BOLIVIA CLASH League May Interfere in Latin-American Affairs This May | Bring War League May Confliet With Monroe Doctrine BULLETIN SNEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 47 (UP).—Bolivian sources here said teday that the Bolivian-Paraguan border dispute is another phase of USSR HAS MEMORIAL S\day, after making an appointment by phone, we were shown into the | presence of Senor Don Eduardo Diez on the bay. He desired to remain quiet and secure, members of his party said,| What About. Oi. the world-wide fight for control of Senator Edge, republican, New Jer- We asked if he knew whether |Pctroleum, showing sey. The resolution has been re- ported favorably by the Inter-Ocean due to tests GARMENT UNION Canals Committee and has a place on the senate calendar. The con- gress thus begins to exploit the lat- est Wall Street conquest, and gives the navy more mobility. The movement of senate demo- erats ‘to boost prohibition enforce- ment funds up to $270,000,000 a year, instead of the $13,500,000 originally listed, came to naught in the senate today, when the confer- ence report of the treasury and post office appropriation bills was adopt- ed 38 to 35. The conference report liminated a $257,000,000 increase oroposed by Senator Bruce, wet, lemocrat, Maryland. Elements of unconscious humor developed during the debate. Sen- ator Sheppard, dry democrat, Tex- as, said he was willing to vote for a large prohibition enforcement ap- propriation but “considered prohibi- tion a success now!” Senator Barkley, Dem., Ky., re- fused support of the Bruce amend- (Continued on Page Five) FUR CONVENTION Two Locals Met; Two More Meet Today Two New York locals of the left wing Joint Board Furriers Union yesterday held very successful meet- ings of the Finishers’ Local 15 and Nailers Local 10, where, after manimously endorsing the general ike decision of the recent Cooper | Union membership meeting, nomina- tions for delegates to the national union convention took place. Before opening the discussion on the question of the new amalga- ted needle trades union, to be formed MEET FOR AMUNDSEN NOMINATE FOR by the needle trades workers, and the | \structural form of the new organ- ization, both local meetings gave \their attention to the action of the MILL WORKERS HIT TROTSKYISM Fall River Calls for Support of C. E. C. FALL RIVER, Mass., Dec. i7.— The local organization of the Work- srs (Communist) Party which re- cently led the rebellion of thousands of textile workers against wage cuts, met to ¢onsider the problems now before the Party. After an ex- haustive consideration of the, ques- tions, the Party adopvted unani- mously the following resolution: “We endorse the expulsion of all the Trotskyites from our party by the Central Executive Committee and we pledge our whole hearted support to it and to the Communist International in its .fight against the enemies of our Party, the Right danger and the counter revolutionists —tTrotskyites. Trotskyism is op- portunism covered with Left phrases and the worse enemy of our Party and of the Communist International. No tolerance can be permitted—all the real Communists must rally around the Central Executive Com- mittee without any “reservations” for the struggle against all these counter-revolutionary social demo- crats. We endorse both statements by the Central Executive Committee \Fur Trimming Manufacturers’ As- sociation in announcing that it will sing a fake pact with the A. F. of L. scab union, This action of the trimming sec- tion of the bosses was met by a mass demonstration of the furriers, who voted unanimously to begin prepara- tions for a general strike when the time is ripe. Enthusiastic discussion of the shop delegate system of union or- 'yanization, which will be the struc- | ture of the new needle workers’ or- Continued on Page Two Wright, Curtis Stock Rises as Conference Encourages Air War Orville Wright, head of the Wright Airplane Works, was today honored by speeches and the unveiling of a statue at the scene of his first flight, by President, Coolidge’s big militaristic aeronautics conference, called to boost aviation in U. S. Wright professed himself much satisfied at the report from New York that the conference, emphasiz- ing the probable large purchases of airplanes for the next war, had re- sulted in the stock of the Wright Company rising rapidly on the New York stock exchange, first to 218, KITTY HAWK, N. C., Dec. 17.—| (Wireless to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Dee. 17.—A} memorial meeting was held here yes- terday to honor Roald Amundsen, famous Arctic explorer who sacri- \ficed his life searching for the mem- jbers of the ill-fated Nobile expedi- |tion. | Kameneva, representing the So- ciety for Cultural Relations with | Abroad, was chairman of the meet- ling. The speakers included Roth- ‘stein, for the Commissariat of |Foreign Affairs, Baranov for the lair force, and Prof. Verobyev for | Aero-Aretic Society, and Tchuchnov- \sky, the Soviet flier with the Kras- |sin crew who first sighted three of \the Italia crew on an ice floe. | The meeting decided to send tele-| |grams to Oslo University and to |Professor Nansen suggesting that jthe best way to perpetuate Amund- |sen’s memory was to organize a |polar expedition in 1930 under Nan- sen. The Leningrad scientific organiza- tions have already founded Amund- |sen funds for the polar expedition. SHOE UNION MEET. BEGINS CAMPAIGN Organization Rally in Brooklyn Tonight A final call to a mass meeting | jheld for the purpose of beginning | |an intense organization drive among |New York’s thousands of unorgan- jized shoe workers, wgs issued ,by the Independent Shoe, Workers’ | Union of Greater New York. The | meeting is to be held tonight in Lor- raine Hall, 799 Broadway, Brook- | lyn, at 8 o'clock. | Suffering under a_ terrific .ex- | ploitation, and betrayed many times | by the two fake unions in the field, the workers in this trade give many | signs that they are ready to begin} !a campaign for unionization. The union call says in part: “We, the Independent Shoe Work- ers’ Union, which is the only mili- tant organization fighting for the) interests of the shoe workers in} Greater New York and vicinity, call jupon all ladies and men’s shoe; workers,, stitch down and slipper workers, to come to the mass meet-} ing on Tuesday, December 18, at! Lorraine Hall, 790 Broadway,| | | }to recover from the shock of the |large crowds of workers who | greeted his first appearance in the |park with shouts of “Viva Sandino,” “Down With American Imperial- ism” and “Down With the Gringo.” HOLDS ELECTION Seven: Locals to Choose Convention Delegates | .___ Support Mexi “Gringo” is a Mexican slang Elections for delegates to the con- Word, first used contemptuously of vention of the left wing cloak and|United States army invaders of dressmakers’ union will be held by| Mexico during the U. S.Mexican all New York locals tomorrow. Mem-| War and during the invasion of Mex- bers of Locals 2, 3, 9, 10, 22, 35 and ico by the U. S. navy at Vera Cruz 41 will cast ballots at three halls|under Wilson’s administration and for the delegations which will get|by General Pershing while Carranza together Dec. 29 in New York City, was president of Mexico. Its use and establish the National Cloak-|by other Latin Americans indicates | makers’ Union which will merge|that they identify themselves with with the new national left wing Fur-|Mexico and other nations which riers’ Union to form an amalga-|have suffered from U. S. aggres- mated needle trades workers’ or-| sion. ganization. | The mounted police of Montevideo, The elections. will be held in the acting under strict orders from the Joint Board Building, 16 W. 21st| government, dispersed the crowd St., at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and and escorted Hoover to his palatial 42nd St. and at the Joint Board! rooms. polls in the garment center district, 37th St. and Seventh Ave., for mem-| After a mass meeting of Commu- bers of Local 41. [nists and left wing labor organiza- The conventions of the two needle tions, Saturday night, the city was trades unions will be held simul-| piacarded with anti-imperialist post- taneously and ‘will both adjourn to ers, pointing out that Hoover came reconvene in a joint convention, through South America as advance Commuuist Posters. }de Medina, minister of Bolivia at jthe court of Yankee imperialism in | |the Bolivian legation on Q St. Senor Medina speaks English with difficulty, so it was decided to |dispense with his interpreter, and | talk Spanish, and we began by in- |forming him that, in order to write | authoritatively of things concerning |Company have large holdings there the Bolivian-Paraguayan war, is ia, we came to the source of |in Bolivia, 7,500,000 acres, I under- 'shown by the decision to concentrate Boli official information, the Bolivian minister, who is also Bolivia’s dele- | gate to the Monroe Doctrine confer- | ence here that sails under the guise of “conciliation and arbitration.” Unexpected Reception. The writer took care to inform Senor Medina that as some ques-| tions might touch so-®alled “deli- |eate subjects,” it was his privilege, \if he so desired, to decline to an-| |swer. Senor Medina, seeing before | him an, American and apparently | feeling that Bolivia's position was! | there was any oil in the Chaco |#Teat petroleum fields underlying He never heard of any. | the Chaco district. LUGANO, Switzerland, Dec. 17—= Indications the gravity with which the League of Nations, im which England dominates, regards — region. | “But,” we asked, “there is oil in Bo- livia, is there not, between the Chaco and the Andes mountains?” “Oh, yes,” answered Senor Me- dina. “And does not the Standard Oil stand?” ‘ “Yes, yes,” replied Senor Medina, “and there are other large Ameri- can interests in Bolivia.” “Are the Standard Oil holdings there producing oil at present?” The Root of War. “No, but there is much to be pro- duced.” “Tf it were produced,” we asked, “would it not be easier to transport by water grade pipe-lines through the Chaco region to the ports on the Continued on Page Two STRIKE IS LIKELY ARRESTS ANGER IN RHODE ISLAND PHILA. WORKERS where the unions will be merged. Schlesinger Swindle to Be Discussed Louis. Hymar, chairman. of, the National Organization Committee of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union will lead a discussion tomorrow af- ternoon at the weekly open forum held by unemployed cloak and dress- makers at Bryant Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Ave., at 2 o’clock. The workers at iis meeting will | discuss the latest swindle manifesto issued recently by Benjamin Schles- inger, chief official of the socialist company union in the industry. * Fake Unity Call. In this manifesto, issued by the right wing in order to halt the grow- ing numbers that are joining the left wing union, Schlesinger called on all workers, left wing as well as any other, to rejoin his scab union on payment of 9 months’ dues. For this Schlesinger’s “manifesto” would then permit all to run for office, provided they sign a yellow-dog contract renouncing their right to criticize the sell-out policies of the right wing. King George Worse; Has to Lay Off Dope But Enjoys Trumpets « LONDON, Dec. 17. — King} George’s condition was worse to- night, according to an official bul- | guard for Wall Street conquest and calling for demonstrations against a and his policy. | The corridors of Hoover’s hotel |are swarming with uniformed police, |the hotel lobby is full of secret ser- |vice men and mounted police .en- | tirely surround the building. | Hoover leaves late today on the battleship Utah for Rio de Janeiro and is said to intend making this his last port of cail in Latin Amer- ica. Hoover Visit Flop. | Herbert Hoover was the guest of | President Juan Campisteguy of | Uruguay at a forrfal dinner tonight | before the American president-elect | started on his final swing toward home. | In summing up results of the Hoover trip, which Latin Americans see well enough is only one move in the conflict between British and American imperialism for control of South and Central America, hostile eritics are scornful, and even friend- ly publicity departments very enthusiastic. ican United Press here writes only: “Although officials are not in- | clined to exaggerate the diplomatic correspondent |that the multiplicity of friendly contacts has had some effect.” are not! Thus the. Amer-| | significance of the mission, they feel | Mill Workers Demand 43 Anti-Imperialist ment Fight on Hours PAWTUCKET, R. I, Dec. 17.— The movement for a general strike in Rhode Island textile factories is fast being crystalized by the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union here, | which is calling for a fight against the general wage reduction recent- ly enforced as well as for a fight against the 54 hour week. With attempts to dampen the tre- mendous sentiment for a strike de- feated, the reactionary United Tex- tile Workers’ Union now fears to come out openly against a struggle, but is instead trying to give the im- pression that they are at the head of the anti-wage cut movement. Officials Soft-Pedal. The U. T. W. attempts to quiet the strike sentiment took the form of telling the workers to accept the wage cut, but “protest” against it. More than that, in a mill where the J. T. W. has a local, the workers, recently ordered to a 54-hour week from one of 48, were told by the officialdom not to strike but to stop} work each Saturday. This scheme would have been a severe blow to the bosses, but would have given them an opportunity to weed out. the most active militants, would | have meant a reduction in their pay | |and, most important, demoralize the Pickets Held PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 17.—Wide- spread” indignation is being ex- pressed by the workers of this city at the high-handed manner in which 40 of the 43 workers arrested Sat- urday at a demonstration agdinst the United Fruit Company have been jailed. The cynical manner in which the laws of her own courts were violated by the woman magistrate, Fahnestock, is opening the eyes of many workers to the true function of the capitalist legal machinery. Magistrate Fahnestock violated legal procedure in the following ways: she denied the workers trial by jury; she refused to allow them to see a lawyer; and she refused to give bail to 40 of those arrested. She also refused to allow the ar- vested workers to testify and added a charge of contempt of court when they insisted on telling their stories. Magistrate Fahnestock character- ized the demonstrators as “a bunch of foreigners” and said contemptti- ously: “You're mostly all Russians; I don’t believe there’s a citizen in the crowd.” Three of those arrestedgwere re- leased on $600 bail, while the 40 others were sentenced to 30 days in Moyamensing Prison, one of the most notorious dungeons in the country. They were handcuffed and * * of in Paris, for a time at least, the two chief organs of the League, the the Presideney Secretariat and Council. This decision was taken just be | fore Briand took the train to Paris, after a long telephone conversation with Sir Eric Drummond who is now in Geneva, and following the dig- patch at midnight of a new message ~ to Bolivia and Paraguay, in which) it is stated: a “I must once more call your at- tention to the suggestions made to you by the Council after the solemn ~ assurances given by your govern- ment to respect your obligations un= der the League Covenant.” 2 Briand also conferred ¥yith Stresemann of Germany. ; It was stated through the press that: “While the American "govern- has seen nothing in the Coun- cil’s action to date with which lcould take exception, mer certain that Washington’ would not;be so complacent in face of actual League intervention: Briand. will confer with League members at Paris. Drummond Was visited at Geneva by Alberto Core tadellas, who was sent from Rome by the Bolivian government to con= 7 (Continued on Page Five) SILK MILL YOUTH WITH LEFT WIN Deny Young Socialis League Slur (Special to the Daily Worker}ae PATERSON, N. J., Dee. 17.— than Liff, chairman of the You Section, which was formerly part the Associated Silk Workers Uni yesterday denounced the New You socialist weekly, “The New Leader, when informed that a news item peared in that periodical giving # impression that the Youth Secti on the question of the Right danger | and later in the day to 284 1-2. Cur- endorsed the strikebreaking leaders, ‘then big sentiment for a strike. taken to jail immediately after be- fs Trotskyism, and its analysis in statement of November 16th that Trotskyism is the most compre- | hensively developed system of oppor- Continued on Page Five Culinary Workers to Organize Fight Today Against Job Agencies | The mass meeting in protest | against private employment. agen-| cies called for today at 2:30 p. m.! at Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. and 41st | St., by the culinary unions of New York City, will be addressed by Al- bert Weisbord, secretary of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union; A. Burkhardt, secretary of the Amal- tis plane stock also went up. Comintern Greets Polish Party on 10th Anniversary (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 17.— The Executive Gommittee of the Communist International sent aglet- ter to the Communist Party of Po- land today congratulating it, on its that the Party occupied an impor- tant position on the international proletarian front, The letter expressed the convic- that the Party would brave the tenth anniversary and declaring} Brooklyn, N. Y., at 8 p. m., where Jetin which was more plain spoken | we will discuss the present condi- than any report issued at Bucking-| | tions in our industry, and lay the} ham Palace during the last few) plans for a mass organizational | gays, ; campaign to stop these condjtions.”| Jmmediately on hearing of the, “Come to this mass meeting and king’s worsened condition, Ramsay | |help us build our union!” | MeDonald rushed to the palace to | Tenew his offer of sympathy and to| New Machine Throws _§2%:"re the new council of state that COLOMBIA SELLS OUT TO U.S. OIL “i | the right wing British labor leaders Thousands of Railway lare thoroughly in favor of the con-| Workers From Jobs tinuance of the monarchy. The king has been “moaning soft- a eres ly” ever since his weakened condi- BOSTON, (By Mail)—The Bos- tion made it advisable to discontinue jton and Maine R, R. has perfected his regular shot of dope, euphemis- lits freight-handling machine, which tically described in the bulletins as will juggle,a million freight cars a “sedatives,” but is consoled by the 4 ‘$a sound of cavalry trumpets during year without a brakeman riding on guard-mount outside, which remin the cars and with no switchman op- him that he is commander of what switches, of Exploitation | BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 17.—In further capitulation to the Yankee imperialists the Colombia regime of ment with the Tropical Oil Com-| LAKE SEAME | pany, subsidiary of Standard Oil, | granting freedom in the exploitation of oil fields in return for cash pay- ments to the government. The Tropical will attempt avoid- Standard Wins Right) | Mendez Abadia has signed an agree-| The National Textile Workers’ Union, on the other hand, has been extremely active in rousing the workers to disregard the sell-out instructions of the U. T. W., and \fight against the unbearable work- ing on them. To this end many | meetings are being held. | The N. T, W. U., however, is compelled to contend with a most | vicious terror against their activi ties conducted by the police ma-| suppress all criticism of the murder- S- L. heve ever done in the Pater= chinery of the Massachusetts mill’ ous role of American imperialism in $0” silk strike,” the Youth Section | interests. ing standards the bosses were forc-| ing sentenced. Incidentally, the was practically boycotted by the capitalist press. | The International Labor Defense is attempting to secure their release on bail. The I. L. D., ina statement, declares that the arrest of the de- monstrators is another evidence of the increasing fascist character of the United States government and f the terror that is being used to Latin America. N JOBLESS . U demonstration ship of the Associated Silk Worke’ week’ announcing that branches of Young People’s Socialist Les would be formed: “after the strike’ and wrote this item with reference” to the Youth Section, which for merly was part of the union. Yipsels Back Fakers. “All that members of the Y. By head declared, “was to give support: to the reactionary leadership of the” union and their expulsion and unions — wrecking tactic As proof of this, Liff pointed to ~ Continued on Page Five gamated Food Workers; Gund, edi- | fascist terror and lead the workers tor of “The Free Voice,” organ of in the struggle against the war the A. F. W. A.; Christman, mem-| being prepared by Poland with the ber of the executive board of the| support of France and Britain erating Thousands of | js still the most notorious imperial- these railway workers will be swept jst army. into the streets by this apparatus, to be operated by one man in a tower. ina pap the 10 per cont oil tax Denounce N. Y.Fake Charity Institutions by pushing its cage into the supreme | | court and obtain a ruling that the 600 Tailors Attend Left Wing Forum, (By Federated Press) | pigeons move freely among the sea- In the gray light at 7 a. m., un-| men a‘, the institute, it is charged, | tax is not applicable to crude cils. Hotel Workers Branch, A. F. W.; and S. Kramberg, secretary of the vame branch, Kramberg will act as hairman of the meeting. * The purpose of the meeting is, according to the Executive Council of the Culinary Trades For the Abolition of Private “Shark” Em-_ ployment Agencies, which is ar- ranging the meeting, to discuss the report of the governor’s commission of private scab agencies. Section 2 “Daily” Agents Meet Today An important meeting of Daily Worker agents of Section 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party will be | against the Soviet Union. © ‘Whalen, Exploiter of SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Dec, 17.—‘Charles Warner,” for sixty years a painter and paper- hanger, aged eighty-two and impov- erished after a lifetime of toil, was taken to the county hospital yes- terday and discovered to be a woman. She réfused to give her name, but spoke very frankly, even bitterly, about the conditions that had forced held today at 101 W. 27th St. All unit and @ubsection agents must at- tend, \ her to masquerade as a man. Tho able to do any skilled labor that a Women Workers, Now, Pclice Commissioner | WOMAN WORKS AS MAN | The growing influence of Wall| employed seamen gather along the to rer {+t to the shipowners any at- Sti Grover Aloysius Whalen, general) labor activities. ‘As American oil, or manager of the Wanamaker Depart-' influence grew in Colombia its gov-| workers see the small savings from to Hides Sex 60 Years to Get Equal Pay continually discriminated against merely because she was a woman. Employers took advantage of, this ment Stores, where hundreds of girl| ernment came across with a series clerks are exploited under his direc-| of anti-labor and anti-Communist tion, and silk-hatted host to visit- ing clerics and generals who see him as head of the Mayor’s Com- mission of Welcome to Distin- man could do in her trade, she Was| pay check, as men worliers, fact to pay her lower wages for the same kind of work, as in many other modern industries. Her method of defeating them was to disguise her- self. No one with whom or for whom she has worked in all these years accused her of not keeping up to the regular standards of skill or guished Visitors, yesterday accepted the position of police commissioner of New York City and will be sworn in today. He is a graduate of a military school, a professional politician, and while commissioner of plant and structures under Mayor Hylan, \legislation. The complete subjuga- | tion of the Latin-American govern- ment to Wall Street is evident in the war waged by Colombia against the strikers on the plantations of the United Fruit Company. POPE, CARDINALS PLOT ON MEXICO. reet in Colombia has finally led to | beach by the steamship docks, Back temp imperialist control and the accom-| from the Great Lakes, with no jobs| Sa panying suppression of all radical in sight for the next three months on ¢ more? thousands of marine, a summer’s work used up in a few) weeks. Many, knowing it is use- less to hunt jobs, would like to sleep later in the morning, but are| the U. S, Shipping Board, which has Square. turned out of the Seamen’s Church Institute and the houses promptly at 7 o'clock. Gathering in the International Seamen’s club for a cup of coffee | steward to cheat on the food and) Workers’ Union leader, joined with a ham and egg sandwich, the, men talk freely against the Church) “ROME, Dec. 17.—Pope Pius XI} Institute next door, calling it the| held a_ secret consistory which was attended by all of the marine workers. » organize the men. yater men, back from work \vean liners or South Amer- ors, state that pay is $55 month. On the Great ican § Flay Hillman Ga One of the most successful o forum mectings by the left organization in the Amalgamat Clothing Workers’ Union since t Lakes <amen’s pay is more—us-| became an institution many we ually 3100 a month. Food is sup- ago, was held yesterday atterno posedly standardized on all boats of in the Workers Center, 28 Un io lately allowed 60 cents worth of Bowery flop-| food a day per man, but is now re- | all unemployed, came to crowd | ducing the allowance to 58 cents a large hall there, and after hearil day. Plenty of chance for the pocket the the charge. Looking forward to the middle or difference, men today | prostitute, its usual name among jend of March when the shipping the workers by the reactionary | Although a char-| season opens again, seamen say that ficials of the A. C. W. accomplishment prevailing in the | gained fame for discharging five members of the College of Car-| ity concern, it charges as mueh as of course they would take other girl stcnographers who objecicd to) industry, and she drew the same | overtime without pay. dinals in Rome. It is belioved the Mexican situation was taken up, | any flophouse—05 cents an’ ‘a bed, 60 cents for a room, Stool | t for, jobs for the winter, but jobs ‘are the workers in the industry, the not to be had, Over 600 men’s clothing worl Albert Weisbord, National Texti discussion of the conditions in | shops. Many workers took the to testify to the rank sell-out Despite active opposition by “ have forced the sweats