The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1929, Page 2

PROTEST ACTION OF OWNERS LAST SATURDAY NIGHT Mass Protest Meeting to Be Called were arres noon while picketing t E. 14th as a protest against that restaurant’s practice of discrimination against Negroes. The demonstration f wed the refusal of the management last Saturday evenin; erve a group of Negro workers I members of the Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress. The demonstration was organized by the Congr of which all three of the arrested Negroes are mem- bers.» Their names are O. J. Golden, presid e Harlem local of the American Negro Labor Congress. Harold Williams and Leonard Pater- son. The two white workers are trade unionists and members of the Trade A bible marathon in Ranger, popular again. One devout religic straight, from Genesis to Revelat vere interested, Union Educational League. (The following is extremely They are Sam Persily, Bertha) portant in view of the elections Bialek and Sol Horow being held today and tomorrow in Carry Placards. the Food Workers’ Union). The arrests were made 15 min-, ag; pay ied FE : te were made 15 min-| «since it is forbidden, according utes after the demonstration had to our constitution, that campaign- pegun. The workers carrying pla- ing for.an office be allowed, this cards denouncing the Jim Crow time the General Executive Board policy of the Tip Toe Inn and call-| yegardless of the constitutional pro- ing for full racial -equality, econ- visions in this respect, has sanc- Be, Political, social, for the Ne-/tioned such action,” declares August &ro, had walked back and forth be-/ Burkhardt, candidate for re-election fore the restaurant several times for general- secretary-treasurer of | without police interference except! ihe Amalgamated Food Wor in the admonition of the officer on the the ‘current issue of the “Free Voice” beat to keep moving and “don’t of the Amlagamated Food Work- bunch or I'll run ya in, “a A Jers. Burkhardt’s statement nccom- j ith this policy, however, the panies the declaration of Michael f Yestaurant management was not! Obermeier, the opposing nominee for satisfied and a hurried call was sent | the office. in to police headquarters, with the result that three additional police- men and three detectives rushed to the scene. As soon a8 jhureaucratie Burkhardt to publish a these, arrived they gave orders to statement against the opposition | the pickets to “getta hell outa here candidate after first ensuring, with | or we'll run ya in.” The pickets re-' the aid of the machine whose exist- fused to be scared away and con- ence he denies, that the opposition tinued their deliberate pacing back submits its election statement fir: and forth before the Jim Crow res-| Thus he smothers Oberme: taurant. The police grabbed the chance to make a counter-statement. pickets and lined them up against| For by the time such a statement the restaurant. A large crowd of would appear in the official organ workers gathered, infuriating the! the elections will have been over. police still more. When Obermeier’s statement was Arrest Negro Editor. first submitted to the Central: Ex- Than effort to prevent publicity ecutive Board delegates opposed a and ‘particularly to muzzle the Ne- | Paragraph relating to Local 6 on gro" press, the police also arrested the grounds that such a paragraph With a background of “a quarter of a century’s” experience in elec- were tion campaigning, it is casy for the yee Briggs, editor of the Negro| Might prove harmful to the general | (+ 1,. iyi pest concerns it ever con- Champion, who was taking photo- | organization. Obermeier in:medi- graphs cf the demonstration, He /#tely stated that he would be glad | was lined up with the~six other |to change the paragraph, if, in the! workers, but was released when the /9Pinion of the delegates, the effect | police van arrived. would be harmful to the food work- - The six pickets were taken to “TS fe Third District Court, where Jacques | ,,1¢ WAS accordingly agreed that Buitenkant, representing the Inter- Obermeier’s rare be ted that | national Labor Defense, appeared to |!" the Free 0168, BEOVE ‘ be defend them. They were all charged |the paragraph in Pa gaa ie te with disorderly conduct, obstructing vised after cons! ea OF s e the sidewalk and refusing to move |“ditor of the paper. When, how- on when told to do so. Magistrate /¢veT) & motion to this effect wis Adolnh Stern adjourned the trial un- |t#ken up, Burkhardt strenuously ob- il Monday and the six workers |sected on the grounds that he al- rer wad in ci & : ready had his answer ready. k~ were released in custody of their at- lant, When in mie aulety to cons ee "New York District of the In- | tinue office, whether for the benefit | ternational Labor Defense last night |‘ the food workers or not, gives one | issved a statement denouncing the | re Proot of his boasted sincerity | and devotion to principles. | F within seven months over 3,500 new members,” Burkhardt almits in his statement. Then he complains that | these new members could not be ineld, | In the first piace, the fact that LABOR SPORTS The schedule of the Metropolitan (- Workers Soccer League for tomor-| row is: Division “ Rob Roy F.C. vs. Fordham F. C,| Argentine S. C. vs. B. B. S.C. | N, Y. Eagle S. C.—Bye. Division “B.’ ‘Harlem Progress. vs. Argentine S; C. Hiungarian. Prospect Unity vs. Scandinavian. Freiheit S. C. vs. Hung. Work. : Division “C." Faleon A. | American Red Star S.C. fo Prejheit S. C. v v R d . Ane Vagabond S. C. vs, Esthonian Workers S. ©. ea ing ‘ etnine jan Work. vs, Cooper- Reading and studying 1¢ ative S. C, j : Harlem Progressive—Bye. pour Sy on Ave 1B GONE coh dition is a pleasure, If, however, they are defective or strained, it ts drudgery. A pair of rest glasses will relieve’ the strain and keep good eyes well. nee OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A, M. 9,9. Goldin. se. Formerly: Polen Miller Optical Cow OPTOMETRISTS = OPTICIANS 1690 Lexington Ave. Corner 106th St, N. Y. c. Cup Game. Spartacus S. OG. vs. Workers S. C. f schedule of the New Jersey Workers Soccer League for tomor- ‘row is: Latin 'S, C. vs, Hakoah, Workers A. C. vs. Muro-Montanez. | - Newark Amateurs vs. Hispano} Cc. | NADA SELLS MORE BOOZE Feb. 1 (UP).—Wine | in Quebec increased 100 per | during the last four years and | sale of spirits mounted 26 per) the seventh annual report of | PIANOS, PLAYER ROLLS, RECORDS, OR ANY ..« MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BUY AT SURMA’S STORE at 103 Avenue “A” 2 ABet.:6-7th Str) ix Negro and White Try to Draw Workers to Religion Burkhardt Flaunts Facts About the Food Workers | bership, this local is not getting sup- action of the police and #he owners |" ° "0, + Fawkes af the Tip Toe Inn. The statement We find that the Hotel Work- alls upon all workers to protest /°"S. Branch at the time he (Ober. |; @mainst white chauvinism by sup-|™eier) took office could boast of a porting the fight of the I. L. D. to |@embership of 3,600, and ducing #8 ive the pickets saleatae year 1923 initiated into their ranks DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, Ss iv TURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1929 Work Bs FOOD WORKERS IN AMALGAMATED IN ELECTION TODAY T.U.EL. Exposes’ Role of Burkhardt Gang (Continued from Page One) hardt machine in control of the Amalgamated Food Workers of America has similarly been unable to take any steps for the organiza- tion of the unorganized and has fol- lowed a narrow, bureaucratic pol which has lead to cut-throat compe: tition among the food workers (par- ticularly the bakers) and has helped to create a situation of chaos among the small section of the organized food workers. The Burkhardt’ Bureaucracy. “The Burkhardt machine has played around with the phrase of y only on the eve of elections, or in meaningless New Year greet- ings to the members. Burkhardt has failed to utilize the favorable conditions to bring into the union the detached workers of the A. F. of L., who are looking for connec- tions with a progressive union in the food industry. More antagon- ism between the food workers exists today than ever before due to the bureaucratic handling of problems. The present leadership is incapable of building up a powerful organ- ization of food workers. “The empty phraseology of the Burkhardt. machine must be un- masked, as in essence it is a policy against the workers’ interests and as bureaucracy of a sithilar stamp as is the A. F. of L, Lore’s Tail-End. “Ludwig Lore attacks the new militant unions, in the mining, tex- tile and needle industries. Lore is defending the betrayals of the Lewises, McMahons and the Sig- mans in the labor movement. Burk- hardt, the tail end of Lore, will fol- Texas, trying to make the bible mist kept on reading for 70 hours Only Sunday school marms ions. 6,900 new members were organized nto the Hotel Workers Br: 1923 indicates that there lack of organizational the union at that time. members were not held, as was activity If these Burk- hardt complains, it was the fault not in of the Hotel Workers Branch but rather of the apathetic Central Ex- ecutive Board, inspired by Burk- hardt and his boasted “quarter of a centu: experience.” Militant members of know that if the A. F. W. had a more centralized, pro; ye con- trol, and if the o al organ of the | union actually voiced the demands of the workers in the industry, every local in the union would hear less about lost members and lost shops and more about increased member- ship and union victories. But how much advice has the union got from the Central Executive Board, and how many times did rank and file the union members of the Union see Burk-| iow in his footsteps. . The clase ¢ol- ardt? laboration and injunction policy of Obermeier was not, as Burkhardt 4 af ; Burkhardt are the outstanding signs on the road taken by Burkhardt which leads to the destruction of the unions. Locals 1 and 164. “Local 1 is deteriorating because the bread factories are taking the shops away. The administration was not able to put up a real fight against the big trusts because it is distrusted by the rank and file and because it is unable and does not know how to put up a real fight against the big trusts. “The conditions of the workers in | Local 164 are going down. While the members and the officials of this local have been fighting for a policy which would lead to an im- provement in their conditions, the general policy of the administration of the Amalgamated has been such as to make the conditions of Local 164 worse. “The Hotel Workers’ Br: lies, “compelled to leave his office as secretary-treasurer.” Obermeier declined to run for that office, but was nominated instead for union or ganizer. And Burkhardt conven- iently refuses to state how many members remained in the unior. dur- ing Obermeier’s term of office. And does he forget that under Ober- meier’s ieadership, with rank and | file support, the union conducted such a successful fight against one trolled, that rather than suffer de- | feat, a $4,000,000 business was ulti- mately compelled to liquidate ? Local 164, Burkhardt points out, gained 175 members within the last year. Local 164 is the only union that showed results against unfa- vorable cireumstances. But is the increased membership due to the eontroi of the Central Executive Board? No! Increased crganiza- | tion is due entirely to the militant | campaigning of the officials and vank and file members of Local 164. Yet, in spile of the increased mem- against the old, lifeless machine of the present administration. What ave the methods Burkhardt proposes to fight the bosses? None. He wants rather to fight Obermeier. He denies that there is a Burkhardt machine in the ranks of the A. F. port frem the Central Office, as f the delegates to the Cen- cutive Board know, Local 6 is increasing its membea- W. “If there were a Burkhardt ma- ship, But what is the administra-|chine in the A. F. W.,” he states, tion doing to keep it? True, the A. “such disrupting tactics which have hows an iner of 300 But these members come from the very locals that clamer for a more militant, progressive policy and a union organ that reflects ac- leurately the struggles and aspira- \tions of the workers in the food in- custry, Michael Obermeier is a cardjgate for general secretary of the Aj F. | |W., not because of personal griev- | tion that will serve the workers in jances, but because he expresses the their struggles, are only the agents |demands of the militant workers of of the bosses, whose ends they the unicn. He voices their revolt jrerve. been fostered on the A. F. W. would sooon be eliminated one way cr an- other.” Thus Burkhardt uses: the threats of the Greenes, the Lewises and the Wolls, They also believe in expell- ing from the union the “disrupting” elements. But the militant workers sre convinced that such “leaders,” far from building up an organiza- COMING! COMING! 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For Sale at— “ Workers Bosk Shop, 26 Union Square, N.Y, C, ers Arrested for Picketing y | different LATIN AMERICAN UNIONS TO MEET AT MONTEVIDE May Congress Call to Get Wide Response MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 1.—The Provisional Committee working for the establishment of the Latin-American Trade Union Con- federation, announces that many 1.a- tional trade union organizations of Latin-American countries have already announced their ad- hesion to the program issued by the preparatory conferences and have elected delegates to attend the con- Feb. | } stituent congress to be held here May 15. The following countries are re- ported to have elected delegat their principal national trade center: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecua- dor, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Para- guay, Bolivia, Brazil, Urug Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Salvador, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. The new confederation will rally trade unions to the struggle against im- perialism, and its servile tool, the Pan-American Federation of Labor. Even in the preparatory stage, the committee organizing the coming congress has done much to unify the labor movement, especially assisting The Fl A militarist has bad luck once in a while.. Martin Jensen, with every intention in the world to set a new endurance flight record ond stimulate interest in aviation, so necessary in preparation for the new world war, got into trouble after only two hours flying, and mude « hasty landing. Photo shows him sadly gazing at his plane, stuck in the sand at Eaton’s Neck Beach, Long Island, ight That Failed Against Race Discrimination STATE AIDS TWO + WHITE KILLERS OF NEGRO WORKER Credence Is Given to ‘Honor Killing’ Gag BINGHAMTON. N, Y.. Feb. 1. The state of New York, through the local district attorney’s office, tively helping two white murderers of a Negro worker, Jasper Dillworth, to evade paying the penalty for their deed. Dillworth, who used to work for Gaylord, a white farmer of the neighboring town of Barker, was re- cently beaten to death with a small axe and a stick of wood. Gaylord and a farm hand, Cornelius, em- ployed by him, were accused of the murder and forced to confess. With the help and connivance of the district attorney’s office they brought in the old gag of “killing the Negro to protect white woman- hood.” Gaylord and Cornelius ere now telling a story of the dead man trying to force his way into the room where Gaylord’s two daughters were sleeping, and giving fight when he was detected. District Attorney Urban C, Lyons has made it known that he will not prosecute the two white men fcr ac- the marine transport strike on the La Plate river, in uniting all port to the striking plantation work- ers of Columbia and. sounding the alarm against the war danger py its \eall to the workers and peasants of Bolivia and Paraguay. | machine! not received the actual support of the organization. The situation among the food workers is such that unless the entire membership and the bosses! the entire organization constantly; “Vote for and elect Michael | support the various branches of the Obermeier as general secretary- industry, progress in 0; zing the treasurer! |unorganized workers will not be “FOOD WORKERS SECTION. made. Brat : TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL| “Local 6, which is keeping up a LEAGUE.” heroic struggle to maintain itself, year Vas has not been given the support it} needs by the administration. Fight For Militant Program. “Fellow workers! It is necessary to put an end to this policy of drift- |ing to the policy of inactivity, to ithe obstruction of the officials, to any real campaign for building up the organization: Every workers in |the Amalgamated must realize the tremendous tasks facing the organ- urer Workers Union: The Volkszeitung seems greatly worried about the Commu- nists, their restaurants, the T,U.E.L. “Support a program of action! “Oust the Burkhardt machine! “Build the left wing! The Skop Council of the Proletcos Cafeteria has issued the following statement urging the food work- to select Michael Obermeier who running against August Burk- hardt for general secretary-treas- of the Amalgamated Food to be ganization and the continuation of] Amalgamated Food Workers as a|murder, but will merely ask indict- their leadership will mean complete loyal, active member, one of the, ment on a charge of manslaughter, destruction of the union, | “Away with the hypocritical and | years ; ; demagogic phrases of the Burkhardt | Hotel Workers’ Branch, A. F. W.,! Obermeier has taken a leading part | founders of the union, for three} ; secretary-treasurer of the| in our minds that Fellow Worker | which under his term in office wac| in establishing union conditions of | “Unite for a real fight against the largest local in the union; dele-|the highest standard. The Prolet« gate to every convention and a/| 0S Cafeteria is organized and oper- member of the General Executive! ated not for profits, but for the in- | Board for three years. | terests of hte workers as a whole. As to Comrade Obermeier being! “SHOP COUNCIL, PROLETCO! a “manager” in the Proletcos cafe-| CAFETERIA, teria we will let the 80 workers em-| “Signed: Robert Long, Organizer; ployed there speak for themselves, M. Striker, Shop Chairman; B. as to what they have to say about! Rosenberg, Secretary; Nick Chy- him, The following resolution was taylo, Shop Chairman; A. Gibbons, | unanimously adopted by the Shop| F. Vincent, F. Petros, M. Cheskis, Council of the Proletcos Cafeteria: John Pelotti, E. H. Zaroff, Members Workers Speak. “We, the workers of the ‘Prolet | cos Cooperative’ Cafeteria, unani | mously testify that Fellow Worke | Michael Obermeier is working wit! {us in full harmony and that h stand taken in all shop question: were always that of a loyal unic man of our trade. Fellow Work | Obermeier has given us valuable < WHEN YOUR BACK SEEMS BREAKING Backaches arising from stooping or reclining often mean kidneys need help. Aid them by avoiding meats, spicy foods, liquor, and take | ization and fight for the launching of the following program for the building up of the union’ and for | the unification of the food worker “J, A real campaign for the o: ganization of the unorganized—o: | ganization of rank and file com-) mittees. | 2. ‘Unity of the food workers against the officials—the A, F. of L, and the Burkhardt machine. | “3. For a common struggle against the bosses. | “4, Against the injunction policy of the Burkhardt machine which di- vides the workers and helps the \ bosses, “Fellow workers! You cannot | maintain your union conditions; you jeannot improve your living stand- ards; you cannot uphold the banner of unity; you cannot organize the| and Michael Obermeier, who is run- ning against Lore’s tool, Burkhardt, for general secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Food Worker: Union, Mr. Lore seems to be much put out by the fact that the workers of New York haye been able, thru the organization of a real workers’! cooperative enterprise, to build a restaurant, the “Proletcos” Cafe- teria, which Lore calls ‘Communist and supported by the T. U. E. L.” Obermeier a Loyal Fellow Worker. However, this is not all that seems to be occupying Mr. Lore’s mind. The Volkszeitung in the brief news item insinuates that | Comrade Obermeier’s only qualifi- cations for general secretary-treas- urer of the A. F, W, is that he is “manager” of the above named res- | sistance in building up a shop con mittee system which was the fir. one organized in our local. ‘Our shop committee has full pow er to settle all grievances that ma arise and settle them to the satis faction of all. There is no doubt Newest WORKERS! | Sental Midyca pales. Theyaleobelpirregults, scanty or burning passages an: gore & hightrisingfrombladderweak- Sgamm®> Genuine bear sig- ness. ., nature of invetien, Cae w~ Nery unorganized—if the Burkhardt ma-! taurant. chine remains in control, Step by step they are breaking down the or-| The news item fails mention that Comrade Obermeier is well known to the, workers of the| to aTYPO« Workers Credit Corporation Pays You On Debenture Eonds 7% Interest. Resources Over A Million Dollars, SLND “ABOUT OUR TEN-YEAR PLAN” — Work While Investigating—Inquire at Our "Office or Send Name and Address for Details Gypo WORKERS CREDIT CORPORATION 175 E. 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