The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1928, Page 2

Page Two Tammany DAILY WORKER, NEW ‘YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1923 Forward’ Socialist Co. Un Letter Promising Aid to Socialist Scab Union ion Official Exposed in ‘Police Letter | Official NOTE DISCLOSES PAN-AMERICAN POLICE ALLIANCE POLICE DEPARTMENT “HYPOGRISY IN _ NEW MANEUVER WITH SCAB UNION = | Police Promise Sealed in Workers’ Blood A document of decided interest to wkers everywhere is reprinted herewith. It a letter sent by ex- Comm oner of Police Warren to the manager of the soc it com- Pany union in the cloak and dress industry, Julius Hochman. “You'll Never Regret It.” The letter, wh scab it to the union officials that official for and very sign : “upon my, retir not regret having con The i were sent at t appointed to ntly tells you will lated me.” Hochman of 2 time Lending s: se, the Saturday, Dec. sue of yellow Jewish “Forwa commenting edi- tion of the police head Warren, ; out that Warren’s appointm by an‘ “awakening the world.” The editorial then charges that the only reason for Warren’s nt of appointment was be se he was a ‘Tammany man. “Tammany had said that Warren was all right!” the socialist “Forward” indignantly Says, after charging that the reason for his resignation was that Tam- many Hall wanted to cover up the Scandalous disclosures being made thru the Rothstein murder case. Also the Forward Gang. Right here the ‘was it only Tammany that Warren was all right? No! It is seen that the creation of the “Forward”—the scab union of Schlesinger-Hochman and Co.,— also officially said that Warren was all right! And “good wishes” were sent to boot! What business relations did the Scab union leader Mr. Hochman have with the Tammany police com- missioner? What were the trans- actions of Mr. Hochman, who is a member of the socialist party and a member of the Forward Association, with the chief of the Tammany police, to earn so “satisfactory” a reply as this: “you will not regret having congratulated me?” It Speaks for Itself. The letter is self explanatory when the recent history of the needle trades workers struggles are re- examined. Warren did “conduct the ‘office of the Comm mer of Police” to the satisfaction =ofsthe Hochman-Schlesinger-ForWard scab union. ‘The police did remain faith- ful to his side of the bargain the scab agents, and did mighty well in helping the company union in its fight with the rank and file cloak and dressmakers. question arises, Tall that said ,1. R. in the distribution of the pack- | ith | Warren was was marked } under- | April 14, 1927. | Mr. Julius Hochman, Manager, Joint Board Cloak and Dressmakers Unions, 150 East 25th Street, N.Y.C. Dear Mr. Hochman: . Thanks for your good wishes, I shall endeavor so to conduct, the office of Commissioner of Police that upon my retirement you will not regret having congratulated me. Sincerely yours, Headquarters Moved Back to Geneva (Continued from Page One the proposed settlement and to de- cide “who should be selected” on a mediation board. Of the general commissions of the conference, the one on arbitration in general is, through its reporter, the Colombian delegate, working out a permanent arbitration scheme which will appear harmless, but will guarantee the United States control of all disputes, Exception to a New Exception. In the Havana conference, which gave birth to the present one, ar- bitration was not made compulsory on matters touching “national sov- ercignity, independence and honor.” Now it is proposed to put in an tion,” but which leaves Latin Amer- ican countries at extreme legal dis- advantages should their céurts de- cide ageinst Yankee land and indus- trial concessionaries. ke we League Back {1 Geneva, & PARIS, Dec. 20,—Aristide Briand, president of the League of Nations +e Council, today ordered the League < Joseph A. Warren Secretariat to return to Geneva from Paris, where it had been moved suddenly upon the sharpening of the |Benjamin Will Lecture W, l, R, WILL FEED vat Lower Bronx Open F Sunday E NEEDY WORKERS oon coc wenn co | Backward?” This is the subject on which D. Benjamin, assistant direc- tor of the Workers School, will {speak at the Lower Bronx Open Forum, 715 E. 138th St., this Sun- | day at 8:30 p. m. Benjamin will analyse the his- torical forces in this country which have influenced the development of Issues Call for Funds to Push Relief Food packages for the children of the destitute coal miners and tex- tile workers are on their way to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts s y the working class movement. Ad- where they will be distributed by| mission to the F : : the Workers International Retief, | mistion to the Forum is free, Every A ?/ one is invited, Fred G. Biedenkapp, executive sec-) retary of that organization, an GET MACHINERY a the National Textile Worker: Union are cooperating with the W. 10 Cracking Units Are Ordered Thru Amtorg Ten cracking units valued at $2,- ages. The union in the respective| districts “will determine which fam- ilies-are in most need and see.that. they obtain the food. The central} distribution points are Pittsburgh,| Pa., and New Bedford, Mass. From | these two cities, the leaders of the} union and the secretary of the local | 000,000, the first ever purchased in) Bolivia-Paraguayan dispute, The “Echo de Paris” states that “The United States won a point when, through the medium of Brazil, the differences between Bolivia and Paraguay were brought before the Pan-American Conference.” Although everything was suppos- edly “settled” yesterday, Briand continued conversations with repre- Bazaar to Begin at the tentatives of Latin American na- Workers Center Today tions all day yesterday, summoning |te him and Sir Erie Drummond not ‘wing labor movement: Benjamin| only those from Venezuela, Cuba Gitlow, of the Workers (Commu-|#nd Chile, but also the ambassadors | nist) Party; Alfred Wagenknecht,|0f Spain and Japan, and only in the | national secretary of the Interna-|¢vening after all these conversa- j tional Labor Defense; Louis Hyman|tions had been disposed of did of the Cloakmakers’ Union; Irving} Drummond send a telegram to all Potash of the Furriers’ Union; §,| council members informing them of- Milgrom, secretary of the Jewish | ficially of what was termed the | section of the International Labor | “happy solution” reached. | Defense; and Sam -Liptzin, secre-| It is stated that no answer has |tary of the Shifrin Defense Com-|been received to the League's com- | mittee, Hundreds of delegates are! munication to Washington of all its |expected to attend this important actions, but, “this is not interpreted | conference, representing various la-| here as showing any unwillingness | bor organizations of New York City] on the part of the United States not | and vicinity, |to profit by what the League has | done.” SHIFRIN DEFENSE | In order to raise funds for the | defense, the Shifrin Defense Com- mittee, in conjunction with the Jew- ish section of the International La- bor Defense, is arranging a minia- * * * Paraguay Stops Mobilizing. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 20,—-Re- ports from Paraguay state that which is to get “the exact scope” of | W. I, R. will send the packages to the homes in their vicinity. this country for the, Soviet oi! in- | dustry, have been ordered by the ture bazaar at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, that will last mobilization, ordered earlier in the | week, has been stopped and an or- Grover Whalen was sworn re-| cently in as chief of police to dis place Warren who had made to many “mistakes” for Tammany’s | comfort. Whalen will now do his| best to v up the corruption and fraud of Tammany—and if he does not, someone else will take his place, | \to Read at 3rd Annual \Int’l Red Poets’ Night Michael Gold, editor of the “New| Masses,” will be one of the poets! who will participate in the third an-| The council has evidence that many , | nual International Red Poets’ Night, | to be held Friday evening, Dec, 28,| at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E, 4th St. |_ Gold, who made a great hit at the} last two Red Poets’ Nights with his| two long poems, “Story of a | Strange Funeral” and “A Great | Deed Was Needed,” will read a num- ber of his poems never before read | in public, | Other poets who will read at this| unysual affair will be Joseph Free- man, formerly an editor of the! “New Masses” and the “Liberator,” | Robert Wolf, James Rorty, Lang- ston Hughes, A. B, Magil, Henry Reich, Jr. Edwin Rolfe, Adolf | Wolff, Herman Spector, Lola Ridge, Arturo Giovannitti, Martin Russak, | David Gordon, Moishe Nadir, H.| | Leivick, Aron Kurtz, H. T. Tsiang,| J. Sigzorich and others. Red Poets Night will also include a Dance Bacchanal after the read- ings. And it'll be some dance! Snappy jazz music will be furnished by John C. Smith's Negro Synco- pators. Tickets for the affair are| Jon sale at the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square. ‘Package Party in the LowerBronxTomorrow Branch 1, Section 5, of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, in the | Lower Bronx, will hold a package | party at 715 E. 138th St. tomorrow | |night. A good program has been |prepared and all workers in the Lower Bronx are invited to attend. | statement. Do Scab, Swindling Work Is Charge (By Federated Press) War on the criminal actio of private job sharks is declared by the executive council of the culinary trades for the abolition of private | employment agencies. Hearings before the New York State Industrial Survey Commission | in October on employment agency | abuses are quoted in the council’s It was shown then that | some managers of large concerns plit the fee which the jobless man ays, believing, that he will get a good job, Evidence was brought in to prove that employment agencies took the last cent from hundreds of workers for jobs which did not exist, and when the workers came back to the agencies to get their additional clause called an “excep: Gold, Freeman, Others | fees refunded, they found that the private employment agents had dis- appeared and robbed them of their fees, Within a year’s time, 2047 work- ers submitted complaints to the state and city license department. more workers did not complain to the authorities for fear they would be blacklisted. Thousands of other jobless workers who haye com- plaints do not render them because they are not able to speak English easily enough, The council demands that private employment agencies be immediate- ly closed if they have sent workers to jobs where there are no vacan- cies and where the old worker is still on the job; where workers are on strike and the jobless are sent there as_ strikebreakers; where workers are sent to jobs where the seven-day working week prevails (which is against the state law); where workers are discharged with- out cause; where workers are cong- pelled to work longer than eight hours per day, or where laws con- cerning sanitation are violated: “Singing Jailbirds” to Be Given in Brussels Upton Sinclair’s “Singing Jail- | birds,” which is now being received with enthusiasnf by New Play- wrights Theatre audiences at the Provincetown Blayhouse, will be pro- duced shortly by the Proletarian Theatre of Brussels. Production is planned for Janu- ary, according to information re- ceiyed from Belgium today. 4 ‘The Communint Party Ix the par- ty of the liberation of the Negro race from all white oppre: wars. Herbert C. Hoover, President-elect of the United States, chairman of the executive committee of Wall Street, new head of the, mightiest imperialism on earth, ae tee Look him over; “Efficiency” Hoover, efficient for Big Biz, the guy who so efficiently helped to crush the Hungarian Revolution, the revolution in Bavaria, and tried, but failed, to do the same for the Russian Revolution; the guy who helped swindle farmers “ and enslave Negrocs in the Mississippi flood, who now is battleshipping thru The police terror against the) In Pennsylvania, the food will be 4iDiy. “mane” G, i for five days, beginning today and | der to demobilize given. In both P & 3 rd ‘orporation of ‘ - St +‘ eloak and dressmakers during the given to the children in the coal York ing to an an-|eMding next Tuesday, Christmas| Paraguay and Bolivia, however, con- time of this letter is well.remem- towns throughout the state. In| New. Yous ncronding 19 mM aul night. Eats, drinks and dancing| tributions and volunteers for’ war WORKERS LIBRARY PAMPHLETS qq ouncement made yesterday by Saul G. Bron, chairman of the board of directors of the Amtorg. | Massachusetts they will be divide between children in New Bedford and Fall River. In both Pennsyl-| vania and Massachusetts industrial | centers, widespread poverty is found, as a result of the sell-out) of the workers this year by the of- are being prepared by the commit-| service still continu from what is tee in charge. All workers are|yeported as popular fervor. “The cracking units will be in- urged to attend this important af-| U..S. Tries to Prove stalled at Batum and Tuapse on the| fait, and that way help to save | UngerOwnsDopeCache Black Sea, the terminals of the two, William Shifrin from capitalist jus- new $30,000,000 pipe lines, and at) “ce ; Defense Organized Sept. 12, | Hates to Probe Deeper The Shifrin Defense Committee| may A | Yaroslavl on the Volga River,” ficialdom of the American Federa-| stateq Bron, “Several additional was organized Sept. 12, for the pur-| Investigation into the $4,000,000 | pose of* mobilizing the class con-| worth of narcotics taken from the bered. Plenty of blood of garment “workers and furrfers was spilt in the strikes a few months after the date of the letter. The underworld thugs paid for by the Forward, though openly admitting to police ) that they were paid by the scab union, were freed by obliging judges, )) and with the allicnce of bosses, so- cialists; and Tammany police the mighty unions of the needle trades workers were wrecked. Workers have 'onz ago recognized » the int of forces they are Order from Workers Library Publishers 35 East 125th Street, New York City * * Every worker should have all of ‘these pamphlets in his library for reference: Leninism vs. Trotskyism—Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin ..... American Negro Problems—John Peppe?.peom10€ America Prepares the Next War—Jay Lovestone 10¢ Platform of the Class Struggle. Bolshevism—Stalin. .... Building Up Socialism—N, Bukiitri -Wrecking the’Labor Banks—William Z. Foste fighting. The police, the bosses, the Forward, Tammany Hall and the seab company union of the Schles- ingers and Hochmans and McGradys. It is well known that Schlesinger endorses the candidacy of the Tam- wramynjan Untermeyer and the can- didacy pf Col. Lehman, banker who Stearate ti Nl Look him over; fonsct Paton ,,| cracking units and pipe stills will| “While, the food — packages,”| be purchased in this country in the Biedenkapp pointed out, “will be) near future. The order for ten cee ! greatly appreciated by the workers’| units was placed on long. term | scious workers of this city to defend| French steamer Rochambeau re- children, it is only a drop in the! credit basis with the Graver Cor- | William Shifrin who dared to defend) vealed yesterday that Joseph | A. bucket. As a result of their mili-| poration of” East’ Chicago, Indiana. Ais life when attacked with knives| Unger was not the mysterious tant strike activity thousands of the| In the past two years the Amtorg | by a group of right wing gangsters. | “Klein” to which the narcotics were workers are blacklisted and unable| has purchased equipment for the| William Shifrin is now out on/ shipped. “Klein” is some respectable to obtain work, Unless they are| Soviet oil fields to a total value of $15,000 bail, charged with second-|New Yorker who has the best of provided for, they will starve dur-' $8,900,000.” | degree murder and facing a life | connections with the police here. ing the winter months. It is the) Professor Sakhanov and Mr, Frad-| Sentence if the frame-up instigated! This was established in the court duty of all progressive thinking! kin, engineers of the Grozneft Oil against him succeeds, |voom, where Unger went on trial | workers to prevent this, | Trust; have just arrived in the | —L. I. D. |for narcotics law violation which “The Workers International Re-| United States, to represent,their os came about through seizure of | $2,000,000 in opium and morphine the smile that wins, *Jent” the scab union $50,000. This lief will provide food for these| ganization in connection with the| | Have you bought your ticket for ; 3 : exposuie merely piles further proof | workers, but to do so it must have purchases of the units. | eg Memene Saree ABE raRe 6| Sb Are cao Central Terminal two Lenin, the Great Strategist—Losovsky. f the éneness of the socialists with | the active assistance of all Lisanti | Opera Bouse = January 5! Tick. | Weeks ago. A A adil ” ibu- : | etx are + $1.50, $2, 82.50, All Raa Agnes Bi Ayhe enepies of the workers. of the working class. Contribu-| i Dug! | 3 " “i ¥ — tions from working men and women| ETO@Tessive Center to. ror reverted. Hay yom tickets | rentue naper, | dnkeat (the WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS throughout the United States should be sent to us at once and we will | the of an organized yolutionary party in Russia. The nily Worker will he the rallying formation Be Reopened Tomorrow | a { Jorkers to | eee ore Worke |by New Mana&ement the immediate ab: dt v1 Latin-America, telling the world that Wall Street rules, “Se ee Home-run Hoover, batting 1000 in the World . Imperialists League. esp a Millions of workers i and peasants f hate that | smiled | | point for Mussolini in the United States will be held by the Anti-Fascist Alli- ance of North America and the In- ternational Labor Defense at 8 p. m., Jan, 3, at the Irving Plaza Hall, 5th St. and Irving Place. : The Bpeakers at the meeting will be William W. Weinstone, New York district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party; Thom- as De Fazio, vice-secretary of the ‘Anti-Fascist Alliance; Norman Tal- lentire, assistant secretary of the I. “11 Lavoratore.” The immediate purpose of the Balbo, Musso agent at the Washington air ¢ rticipated in the murder of Ital- a Se okcers, in the persecution of Duncan perform ogram of Revolu- ft the Fifth Anni~ y Worker. Chief Open Shoppers agement with an excellent Ameri- | ‘ean and Oriental kitchen, cafeteria, | |restaurant and recreation rooms. | Tombrrow will witness the formal | in Committee Against L. D.; Carlo Tresca, of the Alliance, | ~ and Valli Montana, of the Italian) _ Communist paper, meeting is to protest against Biasance and intrigues here of Italo, onference, who 1as | not only superintended, but directly | the labor movement in Italy, and in| ing or jailing of tens of | of revolutionary workers | the Albany Printers Leading enemies of organized la- bor and retainers of industrial in- terests comprise the new open hop | of the week from 10 a. m. to 12 p. committee of the American News- |i. with music and dancing every paper Publishers’ Assn., now carty- | Saturday night, ing on a war against the printers recently locked out of four Albany, N. Y. newspapers. Charles A. Webb of the Asheville Citizen, in the low wage, anti-union Piedmont district of the Carolinas, heads the commit- | tee. j ba Ninacheaed Other members are Harry Chand-| CHICAGO, Dec. 20. ler, Los Angeles Times; H. H. Con-| Frank R. Wharton was appointed land, Hartford, jopening, with music and dancing continuing from 6 p. m., until 1 a. m. The Center will be open every day, Receiver Proposes New Big Merger of q. Har Richmond, Ind, Palla-| son today to be receiver for the Al- K. Nicholson, New Or- | lied Packers, Inc. The company has | lean. Times-Piczqune; J. S. Pariss,!meat packing plants in Buffalo, Wt, Smith, Ark, ston, W. Va. Gazette; Rowe |Ga., and Chicago. Stewart, Philadelphia Record, and ord-Herald, ‘The sociniiit party endorses thi robber Lengue of Nationa, the fi Kellowe pence Muston that war under capitalism. traitors to the working clasel ‘assets were $20,000,000 even. ec e** | the stockholders frcm losses. ——, the Meat Packers” (UP).— Conn., Courant; E. | by Federal Judge Hames H. Wilker- | Southwest American |New York, Wheeling, W. Va., Tope- and Times-Record; Robert L. Smith, |ka, Kansas, Richmond, Va., Macon, | Here are a few: |] Michael Gold, \I] Joseph Freeman, Robert Wolf, | James Rorty, Henry Reich, Jr. Langston Hughes, famous Negro Poet, A, B. Magil, Herman Spector, William Weinberg, Adolf Wolff, \} Martin Russak, Edwin Rolfe, David Gordon, Lola Ridge, Arturo Giovannitti, Moishe Nadir, H, Leivick, H. T. Tsiang, and many others. x Which means that the t poet: Wharton told the judge the liabil- | . J. L, Sturtevant, Wausau, Wis. Ree- | ities of the company amounted to_ more than $20,0C0,000 and that bi e said a merger wtih the Hy-Grade : | Food Products Co., of New York had been proposed and would save | read work. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE AT THE BUSINESS OFFIC E OF THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 UNION SQUARE, N. Des, dey gainst do the rest, All checks and money | a mass Party in the | erotest Against the orders should be mailed to the/ ; | United States. ‘Fascist Terror Jan. 3 | Workers International Relief, 1) The alterations of the Interna- i a: baer Union Square, New York City.” tional Progressive at 101 W. 28th pee + A hass meeting in protest | St. have been completed, and the | | against. the fascist intrigues of | building ve-opened under new man- Wipe it off his face by building a strony Daily Worker. Give him a taste of a different kind of flood— a flood of birthday greetings to the 1 oe paper that's fighting c him and his masters. bs Five years old on January Fifth. Let’s Go!