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IVES LIE TO THE VICTORY’ Gl AIMS OF THE FORWARD Furriers Are Ureed to Rally to New Union In a statement, issued yesterday, Needle Trades Workers Indus- Union reveals the real charac- f the agreement signed a few by the scab Joint Council r Trimming Manufac- trial ci- ee- ‘a great ow Jewish Daily ithout any strug- “advance” over the d after the victori- rike led by the left n hailed as the yel nt of the new indus- h is signed by Louis nt, and Ben Gold r, follow y’ for the furriers, so Ided by the Forward, is gest farce and sell-out put the bosses and their stool- pigeons in the company union at the expense of the fur workers. The st “Generous” Bosses. >» “Were it not so tragic, all the fur workers would only laugh at the announcement that the company union has concluded an agreement with the fur bosses; as if an agree- ment is necessary with their own ‘boys.’ t appears that the fur manufac- turers were very generous in volun- iarily granting good union condi- tions to the columns of the Forward. But every fur worker knows that any agreement between the fur man- ufacturers’ associations and the com- pany union is nothing but a scrap of paper and a worthless instrument, and no more than an attempt to camouflage a sell-out and mislead the outsider. | “The Forward anncunces a ‘full’ | 40-hour week for the fur workers d also time and one-half for over- me. But every furrier knows that even when there was a full 40-hour week provision in the agreement, the Associated Fur Manufacturers forced the workers to work any num- ber of hours and have not paid time | and a half for overtime at any time durirg the pest two years. It is well known that even at the time | when the union was able to control every shop and to enforce the terms of the agreement, it required the greatest vigilance and the continu- | cus functioning of a special ma- chinery to compel the manufactur- ers to observe the 40-hour week and to pay time and a half for overtime. Meaningless and Worthless. “Surely such a provision becomes taeaningless and worthless when it is placed in the hands of the com- ~any union, Joint Council officials vho for the past two years have tone nothing but co-operate with the ‘ fa-t-~mars to rob the fur only of the 40-hour time and a half paid “or overtime but of every other union standard wrested from the manufacturers by the fur workers during the victorious 17-week strike of 1926 and since the existence of the union. workers, not “Any one who has had any con- | nection with the fur trade is aware cf the fact that the company union officials, together with the treach- | erous officials of the A. F. of L.,| long age concluded a deal with the heads of the manufacturers’ associa- ions wherein every detail was yorked out whereby the bosses, in alliance with their agents in the company union would be able to perpetuate the prevailing sweatshop conditions in the trade. “Tt is also known that for this stenerous co-operation with the em- yloyers the company union officials are to have the assistance of the -nanufacturers in extorting money from the fur workers for the enrich- _ ment of these officials. e Must Oust Fakers, “Despite this so-called agreement end despite the beautiful conditions generously granted to the fur work- ers in the columns of the Forward, the fur workers’ conditions will con- tinue to be miserable. The agents of the company union and of the A. ¥. of L. did everything in their power during the strike of 1926 to prevent the fur workers from secur- ing the 40-hour week and even went to the extent of signing a secret agreement with the fur manufactur- ers for a 42-hour week. The wolf has not changed by putting cn the skin of the Jamb, What these trait- ors have done in 1926 openly they have now done secretly. There is * no doubt that if the fur workers wil! ~ jot very quickly put an end to the treacherous ‘Activities of the com- pany union, the conditions of the fur workers during the coming sea- » son will be even more miserable than those of the past two years. our weck, time and a half for over- Pa ‘time, pay for lecal holidays and the | other union standords and wages. ; is the Needle Trade Workers trial Union, The fur workers c afeguard their union conditions “and their interests in the shops only railying to their union and by erating with it in a struggle the fur manufacturers to ‘the workers real union condi- a real agreement which ‘Browder Tells of Great #There is only one union that can | 2s ‘restore to the fur workers the 40- to be enforced in every waiu1 WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1929 Living High i on Exploited Chain Store Girls i READY TO STRIKE AGAINST BOSSES Textile Workers Fight : | : President-elect Hoover fattening up on the magnificent estate | Longer Hours of Chain Store Owner Penney, on Belle Isle, while waiting for Cool | oe V9 4 a Wireless By “Inprecorr” | iige to fade out of the White House, ROR A eaeae eiee 200,000 textile workers in England seems imminent as the master spin- ners proceed with plans to extend the working hours of the Lancashire cotton spinners, 60,000 in number, without extra pay for overtime. The employers demand that the spinners clean the machinery after the regu-| {lar work day is done, thus increas- | Appear Before | considerably the present work day % 4 of 48 hours. The Spinners’ Amal- Gover nor gamation (their trade union) an- ie nounces that it has “resolved on de- Preparations are being made by) termined opposition.” : ck |the New York District of the In-| 4 strike of the spinners would ae ae Rae pence ternational Labor Defense to have! rapidly spread thru vat whole in-| Serd: ewEbE oeIRORRIaT ay dppeed Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the! qustry, involving the weaving and| Were. Bwepb. Over poare: aud. drowned | Workers < International. Relief, . 8] other sections | in raging seas at the entrance of| number of witnesses and the I. L. D.| : ee pe sauaiee Saork 69) bes attorney, Jacques Buitenkant, ap-| v2) See epee ee pear for a hearing before Governor reach them. 2 ‘ The cargo boat, which struck tie | Hoonevelt on the Biedenkapp extra- ition case. rocks at the harbor entrance, sank ja few moments later, Four men, Z 5 ‘ clinging to a mast were tossed about |@ hearing, Buitenkant has been in- by mighty waves as their comrades | formed by Irene McKenna, extradi-| hours weekly reducing the wages) were swept under. One of these| tion clerk of Governor Roosevelt’s| corre-pondingly by the ton, so that| four was the Portuguese pilot, Ja- office, that the extradition papers/the workers would get the same) cinto Pinto, have been received from the state of| weekly wage for much harder work. | |. For a few minutes there was hope | Massachusetts and that they will be) The English Midlands iron workers | ithat th igh’ i ; _|held up until the governor returns/ promise financial support. | : Sy soup ee Reres Hy ae to Albany in order to give the de-| |euers who were battling to reach the Deister in a lifeboat, but before the fendant a. hearing. |reseue could be carried out the mast| _Biedenkapp is wanted by the «| ANTLWAR MEET | |was snapped into pieces by the | of Massachusetts, together with Al-} pounding waves and the four men bert Weisbord, secretary of the Na- IN BROOKLYN 95 SEAMEN DIE GRANTHEARINGIN - ON CARGO BOAT BIEDENKAPP CASE Whole Crew Perish in Will | Wreck at Oporto | LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 3 (UP): --Twenty-five sailors and a_ pilot, Tron Workers Strike. | A strike started today in which | 1,500 Scottish iron workers walked out because the employers refused to submit a dispute to the arbitra- } | were lost. | tional Textile Workers’ Union, and The Deister, carrying her crew of | Paul Crouch, secretary of the All- 24 German sailors, one Portuguese |America Anti-Imperialist League, land a pilot, crashed on the rocks at |on trumped-up charges of conspira-| the entrance of Oporto harbor, which |cy to parade without a permit and/ ps ca is formed by the mouth of the | conspiracy to disturb the peace in Bimba, Per shing Are Douro river. |connection with the New Bedford Among Speakers Wall Street’s open and concen-/ PRE Ser ea | textile strike, These absurd charges, UNIONS OF FAR trated preparations for a new world in which 22 other workers are in- the mill barons’ courts to railroad) conflagration resulting in the whole- lures of the strike and to deal a ants will be taken up in detail at crushing blow to three auUtanS mass meeting on February 7, at, volved, are part of the attempt of to long jail terms the leading fig-| sale slaughter of workers and peas- working class organizations. |the Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan) | Funds are needed at once by the! Ave., Brooklyn. The meeting, which | New York I. L. D. to enable Bieden-| will open at 8 p. m., will be under) wake | kapp and the others to go to aes joint auspices of the N. Y. Pan-Pacifie Progress |for the hearing. Funds are also! Branch, All-America Anti-Imperial- |needed for the organization of a/ jst League, United Council of Work-| ‘mass campaign to prevent the ex-|ingclass Women No. 4, and Section tradition of Biedenkapp since the|6 of the Workers (Communist) I, L. D. warns against placing any) Party. faith in the capitalist governor.) The utilization of the Kellogg! Send all contributions to 799 Broad-| peace” pact as a device to conceal | way, Room 422. the government’s war aims, the ar- rogance of the big navy and army (Continued from Page One) East, the P. P. T. U. C. has affili- ated to it the Trade Union Educa- tional League of U. S. and will have strong representation in its meeting in Vladivostok in August from the labor movement of Mex- | Saaoeteee | ‘i ico, tral and South America. iI abo: De: |men and the plunder of United oe of the countries where the | r fense Accepts | States capitalists in Latin America, |p. P. T. U. C. is strongest, are under/ Ad From John’s After |will come in for full consideration | | at the meeting. | imperialist rule, or militarist rule, ‘ “ s14799 | |and not only delegates but all active Apology in the Daily | The speakers will also emphasize) |the danger of warfare between this| workers are in constant danger of) | jexecution or of imprisonment. | In view of the fact that John’s | country and Great Britain as the But in spite of all these and a) Restaurant has apologized in the| consequence of keen struggle for) ‘thousand other obstacles, said| Daily Worker for its discrimination! the possession of world markets. |Browder, the movement in the Far|against Henry Rosemond, a Negro| There will also be an expose of} |East advances. Where five years| worker, the New York District of| the White Terror in the Carribbean| ago, as in China, India, Japan,|the International Labor Defense has/ and Latin American countries under | unionism was unknown, now open or decided to rescind its original de-|the sponsorship of Wall Street im- \secret organization goes on contin-|cision to reject an advertisement of | perialism. Anthony Bimba will pre- lually. The vigor-and power of the! John’s for its bazaar program. \side. The speakers will include: unions is shown by the still observed) As soon as it became known that) George Pershing, field organizer, U. crippling of British imperialist| John’s had refused to allow Rose-|S. section, All-America Anti-Imper- {the course began. MAURICE SCHWARTZ. Director and “Othello,” the newest production chief player in of the Yiddish Art group. The Shakespeare tragedy is the cur- rent bill each week-end at the Yiddish Art Theatre on Fourteenth Street. : Music Notes Arthur Shattuck, pianist, will give a recital at Steinway Hall this eve- ning. The composers will be repre- sented by Buxtehude, Couperin, Lul- li and Purcell. Marcel Grandjany, the French harpist, will be joined by Rene Le Roy, the French flutist, in a pro- In reply to a telegram demanding! tion board. ‘The employers demand! gram of music for harp and flute | an increase of seven and a half|next Sunday evening at the John} Golden Theatre, Harrington Van Hoesen, baritone, | Theatre. will give his song recital Thursday evening at Town Hall. Norma Bleakley, soprano, appears lin recital at Town Hall this Satur-| The tryout engagement of “Har-| day afternoon. Paul Kochanski will appear in violin recital at Carnegie Hall Fri-| day evening. This will be his only New York recital during the season. ‘Olgin Again to Teach ‘Anarchism, Socialism | Communism’ at School) \M. J. Olgin, noted Communist \writer and lecturer, will repeat the| successful course that he gave last term, “Anarchism, Socialism, Com- munism, a Comparative Study,” at the Workers School, 26 Union Sq. on Wednesday at 7 p. m. The course wag extremely popular last year and was so heavily attended that regis- tration had to be closed days before In this course Olgin will trace the development of | the First International, the struggle} of Marx against Proudhon and} Bakunin, will analyze the Second International and the struggle against the Revisionists led by Bernstein and others; the struggle of Lenin against opportunism and will conclude with a study of -th> Third Communist International. In this way the contrast between the Socialist, Anarchist and Communist Movements will be made, on the basis of the theories and actions of these movements in connection with concrete historical problems. All workers are urged to register at once as there is no doubt that the registration for this course will have to be closed before it begins. Arm Broken by Police, Negro, economy in Hong Kong by the strike/ mond on the dance floor last Sun-|ialist League; Ray Ragozin, United | Worker Framed of 18 months in 1926-27, organized /| day evening, the I. L. D. at once de-| Council Workingclass Women and by the Chinese Labor Federation. cided that no organization or busi-| Harriet Silverman, secretary, N. Y. It is shown by the five month|ness concern that practiced white Branch, All-America Anti-Imperial- strike of the Bombay textile work- chauvinism could advertise in the | ist League. ers, absolutely starving tho they! program of the bazaar. | were; it is indicated by the pitched | The annual bazaar of the New| workingclass organizations, as well battles with the government troops | york District of the International | as individual workers, are now busy up the whole northern government ¢.7-8.9.10 in New Star Casino, cess, All the proceeds will go for during the strike which recently tied | Labor Defense will be held March| working to make this bazaar a suc-| BALTIMORE, Md., (By Mail).— | Exhibiting a broken arm, which he charged police broke during a third degree grilling, in an attempt to force him to confess to several burglaries he did not commit, Arm- stead Duncan, a Negro worker, was neyertheless sentenced to a year in railroad system in India. The power|107th St. and Park Ave. of the secret labor organizatior in China is shown by the strike at the same moment, of 65,000 women silk filiature workers a short time ago. The strikers stayed out three weeks, returned to work, and came out for a month longer. It was for the punishment of a policeman wh« killed a worker and was a partial victory. Many | the defense of class-war prisoners. FOR To Be Arranged by All Districts and Many Party Country, the National Office Can Supply the Slogans :— and All Party Units Are Urged to Send in at Together With Remittances Direct to Nafional Office 4. aisle, the House of Correction. RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL (July 9, 1882—March 2, 1927) Anti-War MEETINGS Units All Over the RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL BUTTONS With Comrade Ruthenberg’s Picture on a Red Background and with FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR BUILD THE PARTY The Price of These Buttons will be: 7c per Button on Orders up to 100; 5c on Orders of 100-500, and 4c on Orders Over 500. Once Their Orders WORKERS (Communist) PARTY, 3 E. 125th St., Ne ¥.G, bei i “Hedda Gabler” to Be Given at Civic Repertory Theatre 'VA LE GALLIENNE will appear|ning, Wednesday matinee, Thursday lu “Hedda Gabler,” which will have| evening and Saturday evening. The a single performance on Friday eve-| premiere of “Ghosts” will occur at ning at the Civic Repertory Theatre, | a special matinee to be given tomor- the only performance of the play| row afternoon, and it will be re- to be given until after the premiere| peated on Wednesday and Friday of the season’s sixth and last pro-| evening and at the Saturday matinee. duction, Andreieff’s “Katerina,” late | this month, | is “ | Srothers has ch Louis The rest of the schedule during {sacrament cn fe ne ate the week in Fourteenth Street will | Calhern and Charlotte Granville to be devoted to all five of the new Play leading roles in her own play productions made thus far this sea-|“Let Us Be Gay,” starring Fran- fon “The oop Orchard” will | cine Larrimore, which will be John have two performances, Tuesday eve-| » ‘ ning and Saturday matinee. The Golden's next Wea Needle Trades Industrial Union Exposes Fake F: ur Agreement of Scab Joint Council 200,000 BRITISH f Build New Ships. for Lumber Export From the U.S.S.R. LENINGRAD, (By Mail).—The fourth series of ships to be used for exporting lumber from the Soviet Union is at present under construc- tion at Leningrad, It is expected that the construction of these ships will be completed in one year. The third series of boats was under con- struction for two years while it took nearly three years to build the first few lumber boats constructed <t Leningrad. The history of all hitherto ex- isting society is the history of s struggles.—Karl Marx (Com- | munist M double bill, Tchekhoff’s “On the High Road” and the Quintero comedy, | / “The Lady from Alfaqueque,” will| be presented on Wednesday and Sat- urday evenings. “Peter Pan,” is the! Wednesday matinee play. Molieres “The Would-Be Gentleman” will have | a single performance this evening and Bernard’s “L’Invitation au Voy- | age” will be presented on Thursday | evening. | Miss Le Gallienne has announced | an extra matinee performance for | the following week when “Peter)| | Pan” will be given at the Lincoln’s | | Birthday matinee on Tuesday, Feb-| ruary 12. | Theatre Guild Productions SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD ‘hea. Mats., Wed., Thu: Wings Over Europ By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St. West of 8th Ave Evenings 8:50. — Matinees The Theatre Guild’s production of | Wednesday & Saturday, 2:40 “Wings Over Europe” will move, be- | Seen ete, a pet | ginning with the Wednesday matinee | ‘performance this week, to the Alvin Today and tomorrow night’s performances will be given |at the Martin Beck Theatre, where | | the play opened. | | Beg. Wed. BUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John GOLDEN Thea. bsth . of Biwas EVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 os ARTHUR HOPKINS presents Horiba Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY Thea. W. 45 St. 8. ts, Thurs, & S: a Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra Ethel Barrymore Thea. (7th S' | Eves. 8.50; Mats. Wed, and Sat, | Chick. 9944 44 St. W.ofB' way 30 Mats, Wed |SHUBERT tyy shturaug | WALTER WOOLF | The Red Robe HELEN GILLILAND. | in the Thrilling | Musical Ilit [with lem,” will take place at the Boule- |vard Theatre in Jackson Heights} during the week beginning Febru- ary 11, “Harlem” was written by William Jorden Rapp and Wallace Thurman. With the exception of) | Arthur Hughes, who plays a de- | tective sergeant, the play will have/ an all-colored cast. | Best Film Show In Town 42nd Street A MELODRAMA OF DEADLY Tolstoy’s “Redemption” will onan | Alexander Moisi’s farwell week this evening at the Forrest Theatre and_ will be repeated on Tuesday eve-| | CASINO 33th St. & B'away. Ev. 8.30 | | Mats. Wed. & Sat., 2:30 | with Keith- CAME “LUCRECTA BORGIA” CONRAD VEIDT wirn CAST OF 50,000 Albee Now FEUDS & CRIMSON INTRIGUE and Broadway THE NEW MUSICAL COMEDY HIT) | BOOM BOOM | with Frank McIntyre & Jeanette ‘LAST MacDonald MAXINE ELLIOTT'’S WEEK | Grove St. Thea. THEATRE West 39 St. Fay Bainter Eves. 8:50 in JEALOUSY | =:..8 | with JOHN HALLIDAY l& Sat. 2.30 *1VIC REPERTORY 148t..stnay Eves. 8:30 | 50c; $1.00; $1.50. Mats, Wed.&Sa EVA LE GALLIENNE, Directo 22 GROVE ST.—1 block from Subway Station (Spring 2772) Singing Jailbirds by UPTON SINCLAIR heridan Square—7th Ave. Minutes from Broadway , 4. Don't miss this powerful revolutionary drama of the class Tonight, « ‘The Would-Be Gentleman” struggle in Amerten — This is the last oportunity to see P © Cherry Orchard. the play that has stirred thousands of workers in thix country and in Europe . . . DIRECTED BY EM JO BASSH Matinees Saturday — Performance Sunday Night POPULAR PRICES AIRWAYS, INC, by John Dos Passos will open at the Grove Street Theatre on February ake reservations for house sell-outs now, Call Comra apoll, Watkins 0588, 133 W. 14th Street. LITTLE ( ARNEGIE I PLAYHOUSE | Popular Pri SECOND BIG WEEK “Escaped From Hell” |Drama of Devils Island with JEAN | MURAT and Countess von Esterhazy. Presented by Affiliated Huropean Producers, Inc. ‘|| Now PLayING! | The Soviet Motion Picture | All New York Is Acclaiming! l*TwoDays’ A WUFKU-SOVKINO PRODUCTION The Russian “Last Laugh” A tremendous tragedy of an old man torn in his devotion between the Whites and the Reds—caught in the chang- ing tides of the Soviet Revolution—introducing SAMCHYKOVSKI Russia’s Greatest Screen Actor "A Merited Artist of the Soviet Republic” —and also on the Gala Opening Program “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE SORE OF USHER” pene igas . A ballat of life and love de- A cinema version of Poe's picted exclusively through ea ae famous sadistic story of de- - the medium of the hands.. “THE FROG PRINCESS” cay and doom—directed with An animated burlesque of a technique greater than ww “Coq d’Or,” created by a | ; “Caligari” 5 Russian artist CHARLIE CHAPLIN “Tl AM” His famous picture in which he appears all alone. This remarkable program presented in the radically unique cinema of revolutionary design Direction axee"coun FILM GUILD CINEMA 52-54 West Eighth Street, just West of Fifth Avenue (Reached by crosstown car, bus, Sixth Avenue “L,” subway and on foot) Continuous Performance 12 to 12 daily, Sat. & Sun., Box Office Opens 11:30 a, m. ki Special aD Shows Today and Tomorrow (Sat., Feb. 2, and Sun., Feb. 8). a et