The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1929, Page 2

Cold Weath Page Two MISERY ACUTE Broach Knifes Unorganized DR HERE AS ZERO European Workers Are Hard H Ker it With New York City in the grip of a sudden cold wave, s ng in worki aE: sections h ome acute. Sh in dr: heated rooms, worke and the’ families are falling easy ease, influenza and pneumonia. Ten thousand workers found tem- perary; employment ear- ing the snow which ha len Tues- day night and yesterday morning. Many of these men had been out of jobs for months at the opportunity to earn even the meagre wages paid for this back- breaking work by the Tammany Street Cl ng Departmen’ The thermometer all day day hovered around the freezing point or below. Today is expected to be-even colder. Stockyards Workers ffer. CHICAGO, Feb. — Chicago's stockyards workers have been par- ticularly hard hit by the cold snap of the past few days. Work in the hitter cold of the outdoors or in damp, freezing rooms is bringing re- currences of the numerous ills that afflict these ruthles exploited workers. Relief from the cold wave promised by the weather bureau. * * 2 is Miners Snowbound. DURANGO, Col. Feb. 20.— Miners and their families in Silver- ton and other mining camps, who have been snowbound since Feb. 3, may soon secure relief if plans for transporting provisions from this city go thru. The provisions will be) hauled on sleds by men on snow- shoes, The miners and their families are reported in desperate straits. They have been on short rations for sev-| etal days and their food supplies are now almost exhausted. 11 Homeless Men Asphyxiated. PARIS, Feb. 20—Eleven home- less men were fourd dead from as- phyxiation yesterday morning in a charitable refuge where they had sought shelter from the cold. The accident occurred when the gas pipes of a stove heater burst due to the freezing of water which had collected in them. Most of the vic- tims have not yet been identified. MEET WILL OPEN W. P. CONVENTION Ruthenberg Memorial on March 1 (Continued from Page One) the new mine, needle and textile unions, and workers from steel mills, auto factories, mines, etc. The participation of these worker-dele- gates will be an outstanding feature of the meeting. Part of the Ruthenberg film will show the demonstrations in Germany and Moscow when his ashes arrived therg-and the funeral services were held. This mass meeting will be one of the most important demonstrations against the war danger that the Party has held, and the Ruthenberg second anniversary memorial meet- ing will be closely linked up with. Ruthenberg’s role in the struggle against war will be a dominant note of the meeting. His last admonition to the Party to “Fight On” will find expression at the 6th Convention where the discussion of policies and plans for struggle will inspire the Party membership to follow his example and advice. It is expected that the revolu- tionary workers of New York will mobilize en masse to greet the 6th Convention and to honor the memory of Ruthenberg. The organization department of the Party urges all Party and sym- pathetic organizations not to ar- range any meetings for this date. About eight delegates from mines, mills and ‘tories thruout the country are beginning to arrive in New York City to participate in the Sixth National Convention of the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929 er Brings Suffe Electrical Workers in Back JOSEPH M. TAYLOR ers employed by the New York and Progressive Building Trades Brooklyn Edison Companies, Broach raged and frothed at the mouth, and y prey to dis- , d eagerly snatched Group) Broach, internatio the memt hip that in the future his efforts would be ted. towards the opening of a agai the New York and lephone the Bell Tel But Broach forgot to mention the ture of the campaign, The mem- 50. of k would like to know whether it would be an organization campaign or merely a “campaign” to gain some of the work now being done by | unorganized electrical workers in| 2 employ of these two companies. Contract. These companies employ thou- of electrical workers who in- stal meter equipment and telephone paratus. Broach has done noth- ing to organize them. he former officials of the union, the corrupt. O’Hara group signed a contract with the Edison company pledging themselves not to organize the electrical workers employed by it In compensation the union was to get some of its power work, What has Broach and his local machine done to get out of that contract? Nothing! Keeps Co: | their started a most severe campaign of persecution against the progressive ership of that local. Iw 1 like to ask Mr. Broach a few questions. Mr. Broach, what secret agree- ments have you with the New York Edison Co, and the Brooklyn Edi son Co.? Why do you refuse to organ the electrical utility workers em- ployed by these companies? Why do you viciously persecute members of Local 20 when they try to organize them? Takes Away Work. Should it not be the purpose of all good and true union men to organize fellow workers in the same trade and if it should, why do you rage when these members of Local 20 want to do it? Why did you take away the work of the Hudson Ave. power house from the members of Local 20? Wasn't it for the primary purpose of discouraging these workers and weakening their efforts to organize | the utility men employed by the New York and Brooklyn Edison com- And now our honorable and hys-| terical Mr. Broach speaks of a cam- paign ‘ainst the New York and In spite of all his boasting, Broach and his lackeys in control of Local | 3 continue to work under the O’Hara | agreement, in spite of the fact that the members of the corrupt O’Hara group have been expelled from the local and for two and a half years have had their places filled by the present officials. Brooklyn Edison Companies. What | a joke! | Breaks Union. | Mr. Broach, isn’t it true that when the unorganized alteration and maintenance electrical workers or- ganized the independent Local No. 1 after losing all hope of the A F.} of L. ever organizing them, that, | you sent in your spies and your thugs to break un that organization, Gentlemaniy Betrayal. Evidently Broach and the. clique in control of the union have once |and didn’t you succeed? | more entered into one of their, Broach, in carrying out the wishes | “gentlemen’s agreements” with the|of his masters the building trades} employers. For a consideration cf employers and utility corporations! minor importance, Broach and_his| stands ready now, as ever before, to gang once more stand ready to|prevent the organization of the un-| knife the unorganized workers in| organized building trades workers of | the back. which the electrical workers, doing When the members of Local 20, I.' construction work are a part, and} B. E. W. (a utility local) started to|the unorganized utility electrical | organize the electrical utility work-i workers. | Workers to See Film |Garlin and Magil Will) ‘Krassin’ Tomorrow; Speak at the Workers, Strikers to Benefit Schcol Forum Sunday | “Krassin,” the remarkable film of| The relationship of the working the heroic rescue expedition of the class to literature will be discussed Soviet ice-breaker Krassin, will be by two speakers at the Workers | shown for the first time exclusively School Forum, 26 Union ‘Square, «| for workers at a midnight perform- 8 o’elock this Sunday evening. Sen- ance tomorrow night at 12 o’clock|der Gariin, of the editorial steff of at the Film. Guild Cinema, 52°W. the Daily Worker, will speak on! Eighth St. The performance will be “Some Bourgeois Literary Critics,” | given for the benefit of the strik- and A. B. Magii, also of the Daily ing dressmakers. A second benefit Worker, on “Moaern Revolutionary performance will be given Saturday | Poetry.” \the United Council at midnight. | Both speakers will present the These two performances will be peint of view of the revolutionary | devoid of any such demonstrations | working class ix their treatment of as marred the opening showing of their subjects. Among the critics “Krassin” at Carnegie Hall Tues- who will be discussed by Garlin will day-night, it is announced. by the|be H. L. Mencken, Ludwig Lewisohn, Workers International Relief, which | Upton Sinclair, Heywood Broun, V. is arranging the benefits, On Tues-|F, Calverton, Van Wyck Brooks, day night the introductory speech Harry Hansen and Carl Van Doren. of Vilhjalmur Stefanssen and the} Magil will outline the class ten- picture itself were constantly inter- dencies of the poetry of the past rupted by boos and hisses from/and the beginning of moderr rev- fascists in the audience who were olutionary poetry in the 19th cen- | enraged at any praise of the Soviet tury and will discuss a number of | Union and the heroic members of the outstanding poets of the present the expedition. day, including Carl Sandburg, Ar- Tickets for the benefit perform-;turo Giovannitti, Michael Gold, ances are selling fast and workers |Ralph Chaplin, Joe Hill, Langston are urged to buy theirs at once. They Hughes and the poets of the Soviet can be reserved at the local office| Union. He will also read from the of the W. I. R. by calling Stuy- work of a number of poets. vesant 8881. On Sunday evening, March 3, Pat - Toohey, secretary-treasurer of the | e . ational Miners Union,< will 'talk'on Office Workers Will ihe “Proviems of the New Miners Union” at the Workers School Dance at New Webster foram. * . nate Manor, 8 p. m. Tonight the concert program, and Margaret | Larkin will accompany on the banjo- Elaborate entertainment will be her renditions of cowboy songs. offered at the first annual dance of; ‘Tickets for the event are selling the Office Workers’ Union at the rapidly, and in order not to be dis-_ New Webster Manor, 125 E. 11th! appointed workers are urged to get) St., at 8 p. m. tonight. | tickets as early as possible before. Dorsha and her dancers will head the dance commences. | || THE || PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION JUST OFF THE PRESS! IS SPREADING Socialists Act as Stool Pigeons in Court (Continued from Page One) eral Picket Committee, and I. Ko- retz “iil attend this meeting to as- ist Uc local in forming its Grean- zation Committee into a well-knit body for the conducting of the strike. The strike will be general, that is —even those shops having agree- ments with the union will be struck, | because the agreement now in force will have expired. Thus, agreements with union employers will be re- newed and the open shops will be unionized. The chief demand is a 40-hcur in- stead of a 44-hour week. oe te Strike heallquarters yesterday an- nounced that a special meeting of the executive committee of the Gen- eral Strike Committee will be held tonight in the national office of the union, 16 W. 21st St. A complete report will be made by the heads of all departments of the strike apparatus on the work ac- complished since the strike call was issued down to the present day. Special recommendations on the fur- therance of strike activities and spreading cf shop walkouts will be taken up by this committee. Sn, Enthusiastic mass meetings of {strikers were held yesterday after- noon at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Plaza, and in Stuy- vesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. Extreme gratification was ex- pressed by the assembled thousands over the huge successes recorded by the union in the brilliant struggle. | Over 350 open shops, where the bosses had an absolutely free hand | to squeeze the last drop of blood from tke dressmakers through hor- tible exploitation, had been com- pelled to concede union standards and sign up witn their rank and file | union. Those still on strike reaf- \firmed their determination to stick | it out and spread the strike till all shops were won for unionism. The remarkably high spirit mani- | fested in the halls were further heightened when many members of of Working Glass Women, marched into the strike hall as a pledge of solidarity. which was expressed by that organ- ization’s head, Mother Kate Gitlow. They also declared that they are planning a march on City Hall to protest against the brutality and mass arrests made by the police in an effort to break the strike, This demonstration will take place next Tuesday. « Among the speakers at the meet- ing. most of whom were the leaders of the union, there also appeared D. 2.0% Benjamin, assistant director of the | radeship from over 1,500 students in| ing class movement. | Workers School of New York. Ben-| the schoo! to the heroic needle trades | jamin, who, im the mass picketing | fighters.’ Not only moral assistance | will point out the tasks of the work- | demonstration last Monday had him- | is offered by the school, but puysical | ing class women in the face of the self been arrested. told the werkers | participation in the struggles of the | imperialist war danger. that he brought the pledge of com- ring to Poor Thruout Country HERE TOMORROW Will Elect Delegates to World Congress | Delegates to the World Anti-Fas- |cist Congress, to be held in Berlin in Marek, will be elected at the New York City Conference at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., at 2p. m. tomorrow. A. Markoff, sec- retary of the Provisional Commit- tee; Hugo Gellert, of the Anti-Hor- jthy League; Tom De Fazio, of the scist Alliance, and Roger , of the American Civil Lib- lerties Union, will be among those who will report. The timeliness of the Berlin Inter national Anti-Fascist Congress and of the preliminary American Confer- ence is shown by the increased fas- t activity in two countries this week. In Mexico fascists are on the verge of making an open bid for | power by an armed insurrection, backed by the Catholic Church, in jan attempt to overthrow the present |government. From Vienna comes |the news of an imminent armed \clash between the fascists and the | workers, when they hold their rival parades on Sunday. The Italian Anti-Fascist Confer- jence on Feb. 16 and the Lithuanian Anti-Fascist Conference on Feb. 17, held in Chicago, elected delegates. |The South Slavs are also planning ito send delegates. Chicago wil! hold \a city conference to make all neces- |sary arrangements for the national conference in New York City. The agenda of tomorrow’s confer- jence will be as follows: | 1. Opening by the chairman. 2. Election of the committee. 3. Report on international fas- ism ari the activities of the pro- visional committee by A. Markoff. 4, Fascism and American pro- gressive organizations, by Roger Baldwin. 5. Report of the Anti-Fascist Al- liance (Italian), by Tom De Fazio, acting secretary. 6. Report of the Anti-Horthy |League, by Hugo Gellert. | % Report on Hungarian fascism, by Hugo Gellert. 8. Reports on fascism in various other countries, reporters to be an- |nounced later. 9. Report of the credentials com- mittee. 10. Election of an executive of nine. 11. Election of the secretary. 12. Election of delegates to at- tend the International Congress. 13. Adjournment. | It is not yet too late for labor or- |ganizations to send delegates. Send | |funds and communications to the| |¢ | Provisional Committee, A. Markoff, | secretary, Room 604, No. 1 Union |Square, New York City. | working class, credentials | ESS BOSSES NEWYORK ANTI “‘Avassin’”—Soviet Epic of ADMIT STRIKE FASCISTS MEET By SOL AUERBACH “Krassin — The Rescue Ship, shown at Carnegie Hall Tuesday night, is more than the story of an Arctic rescue. When the Krassin left Leningrad after five days of hectic preparations and made its way into the frozen seas of the north the cap- italist world remained frozen to its |keel.. But, before the Krassin was through, its sturdy bow had also cleaved the ice of a hostile world | and reached tie working class.every- where. The Krassin steamed out of Leningrad as the representative. of | the Soviet Union and showed that proletarian determination and -soli- darity could conquer the Arctic, just as it had conquered éne-sixth of the world’s surface, | | While the Krassin was being shown at Carnegie Halli. one. could ee in the audience the real sig- nificance of the rescue. That his- | toric trip had made so deep en im- pression on the proletarian world, the inefficiency and cowardice of the fascists had awakened such a wave of disgust that the showing | of the actual exploits could awaken | only the greatest enthusiasm in the audience for this example of Soviet | accomplishment. When the actual rescue took place revolutionary |workers throughout the world gave vent to their enthusiasm, for was it | not an exploit of their own class, of their own socialist fatherland, of their own workers’ government? And when you see the Krassin crash- ing through the ice on the screen you feel exactly the same way about \it. At every fresh feat of daring, tat every token of comradely effi ciency and good nature in the face of death, applause shook the hall and | drowned out: the ineffectual hissing jof the fascist gangs who were pres- ent. | The story is a simple one. The Soviet government set a task and a | |small group of seamen and scien- | |tists accomplished it. A Russian radio amateur picked up the clue. |The capitalist world laughed at jit. |The Krassin believed in it, together with the Soviet Union, and its mass | allies throughout the world. And as you board the Perseus and then the | Malygin and finally the successful Se See fae ek eee | |Poyntz Will Discuss | |Struggles of Working | | Women Tomorrow Nite | “The Working Woman and the | | Struggle Against Imperialist War” | will be the subject on which Juliet Stuart Poyntz will speak tomorrow evening at the Harlem Workers Forum, 148 E. 108rd St. } This forum, which is’ run_under | the auspices of the Harlem Section | of the Workers (Communist) Party, | has become an established institu- | tion in Harlem and is well-known to* the workers of that section as providing serious discussion of im- | portant problems facing the work-!| The speech of Comrade Poyntz Questions | |and discussion will follow. READ NEW SERIAL VvvVvvrVvVvYV “BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK” : Miners Ar Snowbound North, Hailed with Cheers SHOE WORKERS ORGANIZE MORE Krassin, together with the Soviet cameramen, you realize that the Krassin could not help but succeed You are with Babushkin as he makes its historie five-day flight through fog and mist over danger- ous ice-packs, You participate in the hurried preparation for the Krassin trip—a feat almost as great #s the rescue itself. You crash ice with the Krassin far into the wastes of the north, ice as chunky as Car- negie. Hall itself, until finally you tuake only a few yards an hour. “The Red Bear,” tri-motored Fok- ker-plane, is lowered to the ice and Chuhknovsky,, the radio man, the mechanie and Bluvstein, the Soviet cameraman, hop off the ice-pack. You. witness: their flight and to- gether with them sight dark specks on the ice that are the Malmgren group, and you finally realize the bravery of the men on the plane when they radio the Krassin the position of the men and tell the icebreaker to go after the group first. You also question, together with | the Soviet film, the disappearance cf Malmgren. When Zappi is shown on the screen the audience breaks out into boos and the fascist gang in the hall tries to cheer but is} drowned out. The same happens when Nobile appears. You follow the Krassin back to ~ PLANTS HERE 6-Hour Strike Forces One Boss to Sign Up Shoe workers here have shaken themselves out of a lethargy that | lasted a number of years caused by \the betrayals of reactionary and now non-existant unions; and are compelling the open shop employers in Brooklyn to sign with the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers’ Union and grant full union recognition and conditions to the men. | The drive for unionization has al- ready resulted in the signing up of many employers never before signed. The latest victory recorded by the union was consummated y |terday when the Elbee Shoe Com- pany, employing about 70, signed the agreement. The stiike lasted only 6 hours. The fnion also announces that Benjamin and Schwartz, a. firm | strike-bound for over two weeks, has called for negotiations with the | union. The Elmore Shoe Company, 1958 | Pitkin Ave., employing 85, was shut |down this morning ‘when the entire crew walked out in answer to a rike call issued by the union. |Stavenger and see it make another | st lrescue. Rescues are on the order | jof the day. The Cervantes is |patched up and piloted back to a |safe haven by a Soviet seaman. And | quarters at 51 East 10th St. and then you see Kollantai, Soviet am- signing up with the union, taking bassador to Norway, bringing the advantage of the special initiation linstruction of the Soviet govern- fee of $2. : | ment—back to the icefloes, back for| An appeal was issued yesterday | Amundsen and the yet missing men | by the union to all workers to send |of the Italia, The Krassin turns its | in contributions to the Organization chubby bow back against the Arctic | Fund, which is being used to con- ice and persists until the Arctic | duct the drive. night forces it back to Leningrad.| Proof that the employers are In Leningrad you cheer with the | frantic as the drive grows can be hundreds of thousands gathered to jeean in the fact that some of them greet the Soviet heroes of the | are advertising for shoe workers to north. come scabbing in New York. “GO SEE MY MASTERS!” As the campaign gains momen- tum, more and more workers are | voluntarily coming to union head- LL.D. Told to Get O. K. of Boss Group SYRACUSE, N. Y., Feb. 20—The| organization given permits for tag- Chamber of Commerce has been|days is the American Legion, but openly admitted to be the real boss| that the permit would be.granted if of the political: flunkeys who consti-|the Chamber of Commerce okayed it. tute the local city administration.| The Chamber of Commerce, co- No less a flunkey than the mayor | operating perfectly with its servants himself has made this admission. |of the mayor’s office, tefused ‘to When the local International La-| grant the permit. The American bor Defense applied at the mayor’s Legion thus retains its monopoly office for a permit to hold a tag- | for which it pays with’ services iday, they were told that the only | rendered. Concert and Dance} given by SUB-SECTION 3-B will be held ‘ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, at 8 P.M. - at AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS HALL 133 WEST 51ST STREET Refreshments, entertainments and dancing until morning.” ADMISSION 50 CENTS. 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