The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 2

The Big Day Arrived {nd hundreds of Vorkers, jumping Jut of bed with “he same sun that Awakened others Chroughout New York lity, hurriedly dressed {nd ate and rushed fo their section tations, immediately yrabbed collection 3oxes, and set out fo make the Red Cag Days to save the Jaily Worker a success! * Ine entered the Tall of a workers Mub that was meeting Chat day, * Another an to a.dance where dundreds had Jongregated: A Chird etitéyed the Nearest. Subway, a Pourth near Tlevated' train, while | dundreds of-others | Cook “ip *their stands; Pt, the 3usiest street~ corners Df thescityeach Iquipped? with \ collettion box, A red-band and Tundreds.of little Red tags ‘to idecorate Chose whe ! JID THEIR BIT fo save thé Jaily Worker. Chey-kept ‘this up Che entire’ day and When the next day Jame they»just UP JID 1D: ALL OVER AGAEN Sion AND * Sometimes ‘cops tried | fo stop them, some- Times fat restaurant JIwners objected, but NOTHING could put The skids on the Works. And at tne and of the week-end Zvery section station Nas a beehive teeming With workers anxious To find out just AOW MUCH had been Jone to save the Daily Worker! Ba d£ course, fellow- Worker, this you <now is not an idle imagined story. t is a description If the events of TODAY and TOMORROW Based on the SOMMUNIST dialectic, on an sis of what happened in the in crises when ie Daily Worker has in danger and + will and MUST PEN AGAIN! % Get out‘ihd do YOUR E of the work in thé Two Red Tag Jays TODAY and TOMORROW and prove That this is a Ueninist analysis; Prove that no matter how ird enemies try to k it, destroy it, YOU, WORKERS, will p it alive, ting your battles ou march in the Paper Play Tonite oletarian theatre organized German-speaking workers mt a play depicting the |denee that jap half a million dollars | liquor. | phy, hop papers in the class might at the New York ple, 243 E. 84th St, Max ional agitprop director (Communist) Par- ainsi LOTS OF BOOZE AND NAMES FOR DISTRIBUTION Sheriff Hides in Big Florida Resorts sheriff of New nd one of the three $ d As- crat here, Monroe Lamp & FE which raiding prohi charged yesterday a giant bootleg ring. he accusation is that liquor and of t Co. ition offi- names of prominent patrons of the | re found in } e of the sherifi’s company. Culkin is not at hand, e left two weeks ago for e e vacation in the high tide res of rich men n Flor vootleg distributors w y Robert for the charge ag leader. Si ollowed From Brooklyn, A raid was made yesterday on the ofiice of the International Postal Supply Co., of 634 Prospect Place, | Erooklyn. A large quantity of ille- Bal liquor was found, and also evi- firm was pur Monroe Lamp » of 314 West Firs James M, dent of the Brooklyn company and secretary of the Monroe Lamp & | Equipment Co. The two offices together yielded rth of | The company of which Cul- tveasurer had on its prem- kin is jises, it is charged, 1,500 sacks of | |gin and whiskey and 1,000 gallons of aleoho! to be made into synthetic booze. Cul n’s lawyer, says Culkin® bought his way into the Morrce company in 1922 | with $25,000 and has been treasurer ever since, ihough “not active” It said that his contribution was really official protection, which is |failed yesterday through intrigues cf his enemies and partly by acci- Gent. MASS PICKETING IN DRESS STRIKE Huge Demonstration for Monday Morning pila 9 (Continued from Page One) |in Bellevue hospital with a frac-| tured jaw as a result of an argu- | ment with an employer, A. Rosen- berg, the police and scabs at a shop at 519 Eighth Ave. A. Thomp- kins was arrested with Paul, and| has been bailed out at $500 by the} union attorneys. Seven others were | arrested on the picket line and charged with disorderly conduct. They are out on $500 bail, to ap- pear in Jefferson Market Court to- morrow morning. Of the 41 arrest- ed this morning, 14 were fined $3 each, 15 chose to spend a day in jail rather than pay a $1 fine, and 14 more are out on $500 bail, The rest were dismissed. The arrests today were mostly of the women dressmakers organized yesterday into “women’s battalions” under the chairmanship of Virginia | Allen, a Negro dressmaker. One strikers, The purpose of these bat- talions of militant strikers is to bring more shops out on strike, A letter to all workers’ organiza- tions, issued by the Trade Union Educational League, affiliated with the Red International of Trade Unions, was distributed in leaflet form to thousands of workers at factory gates today. It called upon} all organizations to send delegates to a conference to be held Saturday, Feb. 23, at Irving Plaza, to protest against “police terrorism” and to make plans for spreading the strike. Another, call was issued by the New York Federation of Working Women and the United Councii of Working Women to a conference at Irving Plaza tomorrow (Saturday) “mobilize all working women to sup- port the struggle of the dressmak- | ers against the sweat shop.” Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Ray Ragozin, Kate Gitlow, and Rebecca Grecht, offi- cials of these organizations, will speak. The International Labor De- fense has also endorsed the strike and will hold a meeting Monday eve- ning at Irving Plaza. At the strike meeting: yesterday, workers spent several interesting hours being entertained by artists) sympathetic to the revolutionary | and left wing trade union movement. The popular Jewish humorist and artist, Joseph Cotler and his col- league in fun, A. Maud, yesterday presented their Modacot Marion- ettes, who performed seyeral hu- morous sketches to the intense de- light of their audience. May Serr, singer and Leon E. Malamut, who played the concertina, also proyided keen enjoyment to their striker hearers. The last two were sent by the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra and the Freiheit Singing Society. 8 8 Hemstitchers To Strike. pee the call for the bgt rs strike meeting such a brilliant juipment | is a mask - ging » Setacn was presi- | J. Edward Mur- | to}. _DAILY WORKER, } NEW. YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929 md Office of Culkin, Sheriff of New York, Is Mask for Giant Bootlegging Ring He Gets the Donations TRY TERROR TO HENRI BARBUSSE Zhe Nightmare Voyage; the YJ, §, FIRM BUYS ii | 4 * <q | Edward J. Higg nasbetatve “General” of the alvation by enemies of the present incumbent, Bramwell Booth. If he the legal battle, he will control millions of dollars worth of property, the re- sult of tamborrine and drum tactics by uniformed “Salvation beg- from the poor in every} the eum: om the werd’, wins slum GROCERY UNION PLANNING STRIKE Call Meet ' Tuesday for B’klyn Union Drive | This Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock | the membership of the Retaii Gro- Jeery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union {are to hold the first meeting for the vurpose of considering the plans for } the coming organization strike | which the union is planning to call in the borough of Brooklyn, With the whole strength of the organization focused on its struggle against the union-wrecking gang of the United Hebrew Trades, tried to destroy their organization , by a vicious fight in Manhattan and | the Bronx, in which they went to the extent of frame-ups and scab- bing, the union was compelled to use |all its efforts in winning their fight for control of the indust in New York. Now that the socialist seabs are beaten in their own strongholds, | the union can turn its attention to or- | a ganizing the entire trade. A general strike of all grocery, | fruit and dairy clarks may be re- quired to organize Brooklyn, which jincludes Borough Park, Queens, Ja- jmaica and all other sections of | Brooklyn. | Part of the preparatory steps in |this drive is the theatre benefit at |the Yiddish Art Theatre, out of | |which the union expects to realize | |funds for campaign purposes. The | affair is to be held next Wednes- day in that theatre at 14th St, and \Irving Place. The union has taken jever the entire house for the eve- ning. 'Redacht to Teach Two) Spring Term Courses Max Bedacht, head of the Na- tional Agitprop Department of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, will teach two classes this term at the Workers School, 26-28 U nion Square, one in “Marxism-Len- inism” and the other in “History all Class Struggles.” These classes, which were sched- uled for the fall term, but which had | avoidable absence of the instructor, will start from the beginning and will be held regularly throughout the spring term. The class in“ Leninism” will take place on Thurs- days at 8:30 p. m., and the course “History of Class Struggles” on ia | Saturdays at 2 p. m. response, the workers in the pleat- ing, tucking and hemstitching trades, land work auxiliary to dressmaking, | are preparing to go on strike under the leadership of Local 41, affilicted | | with the Industrial Union's New York Joint Board. active members held last night in Joint Board headquarters, 131 W. | 28th St., the local’s forces were | mobilized for the struggle. This is the last meeting before the general | membership meeting of the union | Monday night, where the strike vote | will be put. The demands of the workers are for a renewal of the agreement from the employers. TELEGRAPH MESSENGERS All telegraph messengers who be- long either to the Young Workers (Communist) League or the Young Pioneers, and others who are sym- pathizers, ave urged to be present ‘at a meeting in the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, Room 207, Tues- day evening at 8 o'clock. GUSTAVE EISNER (Anthouieed Steamship icket Agent) Po aise PR fee Cor. 36th Room 719 Telephone: @helsen 2202, 1582. NEW YORK | STEAMSHIP TICK LINES AND ALi BOOKING 1 oie PARTS or THE WORLD. MONKEY TRANSMISSION. , ROUND TRIP TICKETS AT REDUCED RATES, who | |to be discontinued because of the un- | such battalion is organized for each! of the four meeting halls of the| ‘arxism- | At a membership meeting of the| | ‘orner 106th UNION IILITANTS Prog essives es Fight On, Correspondent Says | | (By a Worker Correspondent) — | The class collaboration schemes of the Clea the boss and Dyers’ Union and c° that trade entered in |more than a year ago by calling a| | “strike” to organize the bosses’ as- | sociation and to form a closed mar- | | ket for the bo » have finally re- sulted in open company unionism and terrorism in the shops. As an example of this we can take | Army” | the story of a worker who has lately | Fascism, | been fired from the Colonial Dye Works on suspicion of being a sym- pathizer of the Progressive Group. In order to silence the protests of | the workers against their policies | of friendship for the bosses, the | FASCIST TERROR Leen tee mation The Anti-Fascist World Congress, which will be held in Berlin in the middle of March to organize and faunch an international campaign against the growing fascist men- ace, has as its chief initiator and backer the famous French writer and active worker in the labor movement, Henri Barbusse. Over ‘his own signature as chairman of the International Committee against which is sponsoring the world congress, Barbusse has sent jout a letter calling upon the labor | cireles to cooperate in this work. | The letter is dated Paris, Jan., 192! and reads as follows: “Dear Comrades: A committe: », SILENCE DYERS’ URGES FIGHT on “22%” S” (By a Seaman Correspondent) The “Invermark” was a square- rigged coffin of 1334 register tons, and carried a crew of 24 men all jtold. On Jan. 15, 1915, the writer, !a sailor, shipped in the said vessel at Liverpool, bound for Freemantle, of Local Committees Australia, where we arrived after a long and boisterous passage of [147 days of violent gales, dead- calms and head winds. A nightmare | voyage — starvation, mutiny and | death. I happened to be the only man| who left the ship at Freemantle be- | fore her sailing from that port— |never to be heard of again. Missing. Bound for Iquique, Chile, and six months overdue, “Lloyds” had her registered as missing, and conse- quently paid the insurance, if the owners carried any. The Inver Line fleet of sailing vessels were all rotten hulks, some | being so unseaworthy and old that even “The Insurance”—gamblers as union officials expelled all Known ander my chairmanship is taking |they are, was reluetant in taking | progre ives from the union in spite the jnitiative in calling an Interna-|@ Chance on these hulks. Yet the of the protest of the yooae al tional Congress of all opponents of | British Board of Trade, knowing And the bosses helped them throwing these workers out of aa shops. The bosses of the Colonial! Dye Works, 501 E. 22nd St., who | also own a shop in Brooklyn, the} Sunshine Cleaning and Dyeing, 38) | Broadway, Brooklyn, were the first) |to throw the left wingers out of| their she Group did not cease after this. We) still managed to get our leaflets to| the workers in that shop as well as | in other shops. Lately the bosses | of the Colonial and the officials of | the union were exasperated by find- ing that the shop was literally plas- |tered with our leaflets every time} |they appeared. Of course, they | understood that this was an inside) | job, but they could not discover the | source. After Saturday, January 12,; | when our leaflets were found in the |shop, the bosses questioned about ten workers on whom suspicion fell. In their desperation they finally dis- charged one worker who was known to be acquainted with one of our! sympathizers, Sol Kalowsky. The) shop chairman, one Oberlander, a henchman of the union clique, was the first to aecuse the worker of | | this heinous crime. The shop chair- | man, together with the business man- ager of the union, came to the shop on Monday, Jan. 14, when the shop | ‘chairmen was not working, to in- | stigate the bosses against the work- | |ers who might have distributed the | \leaflets in the shop. The fact that} this worker, Samuel Blum, was) | questioned January 16 and was not) | discharged until February 8 shows | plainly that they have no. definite | levidence against this worker, but |that this is a final act of despera-| |tion, because of failure to find the source of our activity in this shop.! We hope that the worker who was fired by the boss and union of-! ficials will now see the necessity | of having a really strong union that | affords protection for all workers,) ‘and that he will be with the Pro- gressive Group in the fight for such a union, This should also serve as _a lesson to all workers, who are yet working, not to wait until they are themselves discriminated against, but, in an organized manner, to) fight the attacks of the bosses and| the corrupt officials, Protect the others and help them, for tomor- row it may be your turn and you many need help. | »smoN KALOS. | ‘Children Meet Today to Aid Dress Strike, A mass meeting for the purpose bf forming a children’s auxiliary of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union will be held at 15 W. 2lst St. today at 2 p.m. A leader of the militant union will be the | principal sney No soouc: is the exploitation of the Inborer by the manufacturer, so far at an , that he rereives reeoisie, the landiord, the shop- keeper, the pawnbroker, ete—Karl Marx (Comm Manifesto), Reading | Reading and studying if jj your eyes are in good con- dition 1s a pleasure. if, however, they are defective | or strained, it Is drudgery. |} A pair of rest gla will fi relieve the strain and keep good eyes well. OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A. M. TO9 P.M. 9.9. Goldin, Formerly Polen Miller Optical Co. OPTOMETRISTS — OPTICIANS 1690 Lexim, on Ave But the work of the Progressive |” fascism. congress are given in the enclosed | manifesto. “The plans for the calling of this | congress were enthusiastically greet- | led in ail the anti-fascist circles of | Europe and America and every-} |where preparations are already | der way. “Organized labor, the chief pillar | of the fight against fascism, must | make a tremendous demonstration | of this congress and make it the | | beginning of a systematic interna- | tional struggle against fascism. The organizing of mass demonstrations | of workers, explaining to them the significance of this congress and that the necessity of the fight against fascism is urgently neces- | sary. See‘to it that your organiza- |tions join the local anti-fascist com- mittees which are being formed | everywhere, “With proletarian greetings, “(Signed) Henri Barbusse.” The International Congress Com- jmittee has instructed the work of} |launching the campaign in America | to the Provisional Committee for the congress, which is composed cf vep-| resentatives of the International la- |boe Defense, the Anti-Fascis: Alli- ance, and the Workers’ International Relief. ‘Bronx Section to Hol Banquet Sunday Night | A banquet will follow the installa- |tion of the new executive committee jof Section 5 of 13 BE a (Com- | munist) Party, 6 . tomorrow, at | Ave., Bronx. Films of the mine strike and a musical act by a section member will | be featured on the entertainment! program. Sender Garlin, of the edi- torial staff of the Daily Worker, wil ibe toastmaster. Long Island Workers An entertainment and dance has been arranged by Section 9, Long Hall, on the corner of Steinwey and Woolsey Aves., Astoria, L. I MARKET FLUCTUATES Directors of the New York Fed- | eral Reserve Bank yesterday voted. | after a session lasting nearly four hours, to retain the 5 per cent re- discount rate at this center. Wide movements occurred on the stock exchange. | | Outward bound The aims and tasks of this | this, allowed them to sail—hence |the outcome. The ship that neyer returned,.. they never come home; from Liverpool town...hurrah my boys were outward bound. We are bound for the Southward, where strong winds do blow, She’s a bloomin’ old hooker, oh Lord, let her go To the Devil we've signed away our souls, So the sharks can tickle the soles of our feet... So the seamen sang. We were sixteen men before the mast in the old barque rigged ‘“Invermark,” that in a few days was to sail for Freemantle, Western Australia. Standing in line before the drunken, leering ‘“capitano” who was giving us the once oyer, and the equally drunken, sneering Board of Trade official we affixed our signature in the “articles” in a clumsy, awkward style, spilling and upsetting ink upon “His Majesty’s” coat of arms. We were sad, sullen, menacing, having sold ourselves for another 18 months’ hardship and slavery. “She,” the old coffin, was loading cement at Ellesmere Port, a few miles up the Mersey River. Closely | guarded by a couple of shipping t | the station. Section Peatnuavaes 1330 Wilkins [ng | | ies the strain and sang }laughs and smiles, Hold Dance Tonight | | Island, of the Workers (Communist) | Party for tonight at Fessler’s Dance | lerimps, we were taken to the train |and sent to join the ship. The crew was a fine looking, strapping bunch of men, mostly Scandinavians; sentimentally they ept on singing their mournful melodies as the train pulled out of One tall, good look- Norwegian played something on small mouth organ. Once in awhile he would stop playing and burst forth in a strong, melodious voice, “Around Cape Horn and home again.” Soon we were all taking with great usto, A big, burly Australian with a squat face and small up- turned nose, like a button, was all He was talk- KIDNEYS FLASH WARNING PAINS | Itisoftena sign that your kidneys are callin, ling for relief. An appropriate treatment wit! | Santal Midy capsules and a sensible diet per directions will bring relief. If serious, Fer Docien ifeot, try genuine ntal Midy capsules, bearing signature of Dr. L. Midy, noted French + phy siiany rus ses cell & e | | New York, N. Y. IF YOU INTEND TO BUY RADIOS, PIANOS, PLAYER- PIANOS, PLAYER ROLLS, RECORDS, OR ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BUY AT “SURMA’S STORE at 103 Avenue “A” (Bet. 6-7th Str.) Florist REMOVED TO Brooklyn F DON’T FORGET! Tel.: DRYDOCK 8880. Fred Spitz 31 Second Ave. (Between Ist & 2nd Streets) Not connected with any other store in New York or OR more than 15 years we have been serving the people with fresh-cut, and artificial flowers for weddings, parties, banquets, and openings. — Flowers delivered all over the world by telegraph, FRED SPITZ Florist 31 SECOND AVENUE (Between 1st & 2nd Streets) 15 Percent Reduction to Daily Worker Readers ip that Never Returned BRITISH POWER TRUST CONTROL Imperialist I Raids on English Monopoly LONDON, Feb. 15.—Britisi eap- ital is uneasy at the sudden raid in- to its home territories made by the Utilities Light and Power Corpora- tion, representing American imper- ialism, The American concern has just bought up all the capital stock of the London and Counties Trust, Ltd., which controls seven of the largest British power companies and important interests in cthers. Gets Control. The new merger will have almost a monopoly of electric service in South England and is extending into Scotland. It will be the. most im- portant link in the super power sys- tem provided for by a bill for a single control of electric power now | before parliament. The acquisition of this interest in Eritish publie utilities will make the gross carnings of the American com- pany’s system about $43,000,000, ,ing to all—and everybody. He was happy. For ten solid years he had been roaming around the world. At [last he had shipped on a vessel to jtake him home again, to Freeman- tle, his birthplace, “I am supposed | to be dead,” he would say. Mother thinks I’m dead, for she’s not heard from me for seven years.” And smiling, he would throw out his big burly, hairy chest, as if to say, “Do I look it?” “Gee, this is the finest bunch of men that I have taken down to a ship for a long time,” said one of the “guarding angels” to another as | we neared the dock where the old “hooker” was still loading cement. The “Inyermark,” like a society prostitute from a distance or in the paper, seemed to be a fine ship, but fone on nearing her one could easily see under the fresh coat of red and | white paints that she was an old! hulk with battered rusty sides. She | had old rigging and sails. —R. J. PETERSON, | (To Be Continued) PROLAB THEATRE. The Prolab Theatre, a woikers’ dramatic organization, will present two plays tonight for the benefit of the Daily Worker Emergency Fund, at its theatre, 231 W. Ninth|Thke Utilities Power and Light Cor- |St. The two plays, both one-acters, | poration will be a $400,000,000 in- jare “The Cripples,” by David Pinski, | dustry from the standpoint of as- | | | {and “The Pest,” by Max Geltman. sets. Offer Negro, White Needle Workers Free Scholarships The Workers School in a letter that it addressed to the Strike Com- mittee of the Dressmakers Strike this past week offered free scholar- The Workers School takes this op- ships to all Negro workers on strike | portunity to call to the attention of and 25 additional free scholarships | the workers the importance of their for strikers to be chosen by the/ training themselves as better fight- Strike Committee. These free/| ers for the working class thru study- scholarships will entitle those se-|ing at the Workers School, while lected to take two courses during) they are carrying on their concrete the present Spring term. The Ne-/ activities on behalf of their fellow gro strikers are expected to take| workers in the shop, in the union as one of the two free courses the| and for the working class as a class in “History and Problems of| whole. the American Negro.” The Workers | eiaraieacs Mecanaitec igen School in this way wishes to express} Anna Louise Strong to Talk on USSR Tonight its solidarity with the striking dress- makers and help them in their pres- “Soviet Russia Today” will be the subject of a lecture by Anna Louise ent struggle and in their struggles to come. The Workers School has| Strong, author of “China’s Millions.” and ‘The First Time In History,” at sent its instructors to the strike) | the Labor Temple forum, 8:30 p. m, meetings to address the workers; and is calling upon all of these in- tomorrow night, Second Ave, and | 14th St. Many of the most active workers in the strike have been and are students at he Workers School. structors to go on the picket line} during the mass picketing demon- strations. Patronize Our Advertisers! Save ... 302 The greatest sacrifice a clothier has ever made. The finest styles of the season, made of the best domestic and imported materials. Beautiful workmanship — just like made to order — at prices which will really surprise you. OVERCOATS SUITS TUXEDOS > overcoats, $34.75 | | fine suits, i || tuwedos, were This sale closes our stock of blue Chinchilla full-silk-lined overcoats, and our silk-lined suits. 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