The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1929, Page 2

Commun PROVE HILLQUIT © WAS BRAINS OF MORRIS HILLQUIT $150,000 SWINDLE Socialist Boss, Umhey, TELEPHONE VANSERDILT 9013 ists in Reic DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUA RY 27, 1929 1® WEST hstag Move to Overthrow How Much Is Hillquit’s Personal Promise Worth? ‘SEEK TO PLACE DUTY ON IMPORTS FROM PHILIPPINES 447° STREET NEW YORK German oe Cruiser Police Jail Workers’ Children Pickets whlch 4 Cabinet REACTIONARIES ~ ADMIT “BRAVE GOV'T oRIsis” : August 9, 1926 Declare Islands Are| Threaten Dictatorship Plotted Fraud Part of U:'S: to Fight Opposition (Continued f WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The who was the “brain: Mr. Louis Hyman, General Manager, Ways and Meats Committee of the | BERLIN, Feb. A Communist 4 ine ; >—thakkay i motion of misconfidence in the ¢ Schlesinger pogrom on the cloak Joint Board of Cloak Makers Unions, House of Representatives is hearing inet and in Minister of Defense Wil- and d also the 25th Street & Lexington Avenue, arguments for and against limiting | sic ; : eo: ah Hatin. Grobuer? was inader in’ ‘the Mirains’ awintle as| 2 sell some and taxing other imports from Monday morning police, as usual acting for the bosses aw he ei a today in, débaté. on Bee mest oes New York ‘City. the Philippine Islands, at present| *%b-international of Schlesinger, arrested over 100 pickets and at- re ee ce : dressmakers have lost about $150,-| 5 duty-free. tempted to break up the mase picket line in the dress section. Picture Sud av oe ae Mach ceusiiuay towns 000 and’ ite now in danger of also| The chairman of the committee,| 0 Leonard Levann and Harr; singing as they were being | o.4° published in a magazine losing which they a My dear ir. Hyman: Hawley of Oregon, sthted tat. the led to the patrol wagon. They are being held for a hearing before | sannacy, in eddies edanar. Orreat- qu strugel purpose of the committee was to the board of education, ‘ened to resign if the proposed 10,- aoe bylid gs a Aes pine exsried | get an answer to three questions: |" era 000-ton cruiser is not constructed. by a@ priv k which still bears , r hare Threatens Dictator. the name, International Union| Referring to the stock of the International Bei a eel Tuckers Answer Call to | ‘The political situation in the ey ee ie Bea Union Bank held by the Joint Board and the various locals ippines and, if so, should it ex- : : . » Jag | REenRCE ee Surin Glasonnes by 3 t 0) wad sate Fy - ad Porei Minister Gustav Strese- Garment Workers’ Union affiliated with it and also t) the stock of the different o power? : Join wn Big Needle Strik etree ded pean as congress the to} i i ‘ is now real astate or building corporations likewise held by the Joint Board and its affiliated. Unions, all of which Joint Board and to the said Local Unions by the Internat- ional Union Bank, with Mr. Prederick I. Umhey, my assoc- power limit the volume of duty-free in economic grounds?” Cocoanuts Versus Cows. Por the first time since the be- ginning of the dress 's’. strike, | merman and Yacker, at 312 Seventh Avenue. The strike in the two shops is pre- 'a group of Volks-party deputies ports. form. the islands. atid; if a0, (Continued from Page One) | shop and who led an attack on pic- | that Germany is in a grave crisis of is to be deposited as collateral security for the repay- should it do so? ing of police brutality ana the tes- | kets a few days ago, is in the fur Leth ela ulin ete: ? ¢ a 1s: imself wit 5 Zim- | tinues, may 2 : ment of a certain loan or certain’ loans to be mada to the “3, Should a duty be levied on| ‘ration of the right to pi business himself with a shop, Zim-|tinues, may alism. : Stresemann characterized the par- ties’ conception of the situation as a ends, the A « + Charles W. Holman, lobb: three weeks ago, there were no ar-. liminary to the general strike in the | “caricature,” but declared that res- capitalist cou an effort to iate, as presnety it a wt igregabr a ee porg ie ee o the National Cooperative Milk Pro. | vests on the picket lines yesterday |fur trade to be called at the\be- | ignation of the cabinet of Chan- cripple the working such stock will be returne ° e Join IAT n ducers Association, an’ organization, Morning, although the strikers were | ginning of the season, the union an-|cellor Hermann Mueler, socialist, class orga affiliated Locals respectively, upon the payment of of capitalist farmers, demanded that| on duty as usual. | ounces. bi Ree irgprh on pleased tie pee Siisict att the said loan regardless of any claims which the Internat-" 4 teriff be Isid on-imports from the) 4, Thee. girl strikers, Jesse Silver, ere BR he dati gird he manage to se * ilippines of cocoanut oil and) Shirley Glass and ja Roden, who . if . ij ‘ dictmen ional Ladies Garment Workers Unicn or anybody else in its copra (dried cocoanut), With cocoa Were arrested at 6:30 p. m, Monday Working) Women Hold |who are representing the nation at Ordinarily a trial for criminal behalf may make to such stock. Please accept that as a nut oil from the island free af duty,| While picketing the Banner Dress | yg Meet 7 |the reparations’ conferences at Paris libel mest first come up in a magis- | personal assurance on my part. and with Philippine production by} Shop, 462 Seventh Ave., came.up |MASS MCL FOMOTTOW | must not lose the support of the Reste's couct aud the meaiditale de] 1930. estimated to be 1,000,000,000| for trial yesterday in Jefferson Mar- | ent jWavernronnt St Tie: Romany, nes cides whether to turn the case over pounds yearly, he complained that ket Court. The three strikers had A mass meeting has been called they are called upon to decide the to the grand jury. Only in cases of competition with cotton seed oil and| #!ready served a three-day seritence | by the United Councils of Working | future of many generations to murder or other serious crimes can American farm butter-fat would | When previously arrested last week. | Women for tomorrow in order to|come.” ie ® grand jury ictment behind | Very truly yours, ruin the latter. The witnesses against them were protest against the wholesale ar- | “Party Fhe rheatithl een closed do where the defendant | Newton W. Gilbert of New Yor | ¥rank Haupt, manager of the shop, | rests ‘and police brutality in the | Stresemann said it would be bes cannot appear, be secured. And it | ‘ spoke for the Philippine-American| and two scabs, but when the scabs | dressmakers’ strike. The meeting | to extend the coalition to include all is this sort of secret, unprecedented | ‘ Chamber of Commeree for continu-|T9X¢ down on the witness stand | starts at 12 o’clock noon at Irving parties, but he pointed out, how- indictment that Morris Hillquit has ‘ lance of free entry into U. §. of | 27d admitted that the pickets had | Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. ever, it would be “impossible” to in- secured in a case involving merely MH: Gu gre : Filipino products, declaring that ‘fo | heen orderly, Magistrate Weill was > Joe ea ore urged to mh |e the Bes aR ape represen- rimi i Hiquit, the “social 7 Raab 3) i | compe ismiss the ca vith | tend en this demonstrati | tative i inet. criminal libel! Hillquit, the ‘social- | {30 years we have led the Filipino compelled to dismiss the case with nd en masse lemonstration of tative in the cabit solidarity with the striking workers. {Many members of the council are among those who have come in ac- Not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those wenpons—the modern working’ elass—the proletarians. Karl Marx (Communist Manifes ist,” is aceorded special privileges by the. capitaii: Not for | nothing does h ‘ capitalist class Why did Hillquit do everything in his power to prevent the case from | a sharp reprimand for the manager. agar ogee, 5 jpeople to }elieve that we are going to help them attain economic devel- | Continue Fur Strike. jopment. This talk about restoring| . The strike being conducted by the! tual contact with the police brutal- duties and restrictions already. has| furriers’ division of the Industrial ity, “and these will describe the jmade capital, American and native,| Union against the shops of Bernard events in the strike. ! in the island, hesitant.” | Reinemann, 104 W. 28th St., and I. General McIntyre of the Philip-|Blumgarden, 153 W. 27th St., con- |pine Trade Commissioner, holding|tinues unabated despite the efforts for free trade, declared that the su-|of the company union, the Joint | Union or anybody else in its behalf| against the rank and file. He and preme court recently ruled that the| Council, to break the strike by gang- Violated Promise. may make.” |his fake trustee, Umhey, played the Philippines “still is in the United! ster terror and frame-ups. It was The leaders of the Joint Board| Did Hillquit keep his promise? jrole of deliberate swindlers. The States” and pointed out that con-|learned that the notorious Willie| and the left wing locals were, how-| The right wing locals got their | Y@710US tricks and evasions that | gress “has more power over ‘those|/Yacker, a professional gangster, | ever, averse to turning over all the| property back again. Even Locals|UMhey resorted to, the fake cor-| islands than over an American state.” | who is “protecting” the Reinemann | } : union property to the bank which!19 and 48 got back their shares | PoTations that he organized, giving |He quoted a beet-sugar magnate as magistrate’s court would hardly be|yas controlled by the right wing |which they had given as security | the names of the girls who were |saying that domestic beet-sugar pro- Children Hear Youth { . | i Strike Leader Speak | Photogtatie copy of a letter sent by Morris Hillyuit in 1926 to Louis Hyman, then manager of the Joint Board,-Cloak and Dressmakers Union and now president of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, promising the return of stack of the International Union Bank belonging to the Joint Board. This promise was never kept and the union was swindled out of about $150,000. For more complete de- receiving a public hearing? | tails see story on Page 1. | Because Hiliquit knows that at a — public hearing, where he would have merely gave their bank shares as|national Ladies’ Garment Workers’) real “brains” of the Sigman pogrom to submit to the grilling of the de- security). fense atiorney, he would make g/} rather sorry showing. And though | Jillquit has never been adverse to publicity, the sort of publicity he would get from a hearing in a bag ye ya . blll, a — | aN Q Our glasses are fitted by expert mechanics to insure comfortable wear and neat appearance. (Formerly Polen Miller Opiical Co.) OPTOMETRISTS — OPTICIANS 1690 LEXINGTON AVENUE., Corner 106th St. OPEN DAILY I from 9 a, 11-9 p.m. Ui to his liking. |International clique. Hillquit, who! when the money for the strike was| Working in Hillquit’s office as the duction could not be economically | But why, if he is innocent. as he | Board, advised them to let the man-|Jocals had taken part in the strike | With himself as “president” —these | fF s0 piousiy protests, is “Hillqiit ‘so |agerof his office, Frederick M. Um-| together with the rest of the cloak-|ttifices and chicaneries of Hillquit) Diy agian Violinist Will |, ©n¢ bendred workers’ children at But) makers. | i ; | coming out in the open? -He should this was not sufficient guarantee/" “ht the Joint Board and the left ‘h® manipulation of the shares,i|Be Soloist at Concert «rs Center under the auspices of | place these two worthies on the, |the Young Pioncers to aid the dress- know what terrible people the Com-/| demanded that Hillquit give them 9.1 cated, which was sold and frit-| munists are! |his personal promise that the shares {2.04 away without even letting | i pay gh ki Mariash, one of the leaders of t ‘ Fears Publie Trial. |was also the attorney for the Joint | porrawed, tho the workers of these | “directors” of the union buildings | increased. much. wnxious to prevent the. case from | hey, act as impartial trustee. |and his man Friday, culminating in| tended a mass meeting at the Wor eres te let the whole: world fer the left wing leaders. and they | wing locals had all their property | ame level with professional swind- |Of Conductorless Group | makers’ strike, and listened to M The truth is that Hillquit is afraid | @d the stock of the buildings would | of a public trial! Hillguit really swindled the Joint Board even before he engineered the stock swindle. We print in this is- sue a photostatic copy of a letter sent by Hillquit on Aug. 9, 1926, to Louis Hyman, then -nanager of the Joint Board, Cloak and Dress- makers’ Union and now president of the new Needle’ Trades Workers Industrial Union. On Tuly 1, 1926, the strike of the New York cloakmakers began, after the cloakmakers had decisively. re- jected the findings of the governor's commission. This strike was con- siucted under the leadership of the left wing, Joint Board, which had heen elected in 1925. In order to finance the strike the Joint Board |be returned to the Joint Board andj} ‘the locals. Hillquit agreed and wrote the letter to Louis Hyman re-| | produced on this page. In the let-| {ter he guarantees that the union |property will be returned “regard-| \less of any claims which the Inter-! them know what was being done} with their shares and buildings. And where was our pious “so- cialist,” Morris Hillquit?. Where was his “word of honor?” | Not only did Hillquit completely | ignore his pledge, but he became the; The Conductorless Symphony Or- (Tomorrow the Daily Worker will | publish the details of the trial be-| fore Judge Townley at which the Hillquit swindle was first uncovered. Quotations from the actual court records will be given, Don't miss the second article of this expose.) chestra, with Naoum Blinder, noted violinist as soloist. will present a program of Handel, Tchaikovsky. Debussy and Wagner tomorrow eve- ning, beginning at 8:45,.at Carnegie Hall, corner 57th St. and 7th Ave. Blinder has played with the Moscow Story by Silk Worker ‘One of Many Features ‘in March New Masses | | “Weavers of Silk,” a story of proletarian life by Martin Russak, now organizer among the silk work- | ers of Paterson, is one of the fea- | tures of the new March issue of the ‘New Masses. HILLMAN GANG IN NEW TERROR Militant Deprived of Her Job Symphony Orchestra, and recently | was one of the quartet which in- troduced to America the works of Schindler, young Leningrad com- poser. | |" ‘The next concert of the Condue- torless Orchestra will be given on} Thursday evening, April 18. Many Nationalities to Have Booths at Labor Defense Bazaar Mar. 6 The many nationalities that are cooperating in the annual bazaar of | the New York District of the Inter-| national Labor Defense are giving Forum on War Thurs. | this big event a truly international | character, e Youth Section of the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union, address them on the role of children in the | strike. organizers. A mobilization for the picketing demonstration the following day Other speakers were Martha |} Stone and Edith Slaff, both Pioneer | took place, and discussion of the various aspects of the strike was participated in by many children from the floor. Masses Ball Tickets on ‘Sale at Meeting Friday, | Section Two Will Hold | tickets tor the New Masses | Spring Carnival this Friday night | at Webster Hall will be sold at the mass meeting on Friday night at | NEW MASSE SPRING CA THIS FRIDAY | RNIVA March 1s | Webster Hall, 119 E,11S APPPOIOON | “Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!” one act; Continued from Page One The bazaar will be held} An open forum on “The Workers}the advance rate of $1.50 for. the | Sensational Attraction { Bore F200.000 Sfrumn “tbe yas | from a proletarian play on the trans-\away, She refused to leave. Where- March 6-7-8-9-10 in New Star/and the Coming War,” with I. ‘Zim- | benefit of the convention delegates. | The Savoy Wild Cats | erty of the Internationaly Ladies’ | {ent Worker By Paul Peters: “The upon the union brought pressure tq Casino, 107th St, and Park Ave. | merman as prigcipal speaker, will) The New Masses ball will continue, | The Pride of Lenox Ave. | ” tak e| cli ‘. . % te | Garment Workers’ Union. As. se- | Hopes, Of tandora”’ by Michael Goldi lbear on the boss, who cooperated | Among the nationalities that wili| Ce, 7eld Thursday “afternoon at 1/ after the meeting, until 3:30 a, m. | curity the Joint Board turned over the shares of the bank that it owned “and also the stock of its buildings, the Joint Board building at Lexing- ton Ave. and 25th St., and the head- ‘quarters of Locals 2, 9, 22 and B89. An agreement was made which was signed by Louis Hyman, man- ager of the Joint Board, the man- a Russian Train” by Hallie | Flanagan and articles and poems by | Art Shields; H. H. Lewis and others are among the literary features of | this new issue,” : | The March number includes. also @ greater variety of art features with drawings and cartoons by Louis Lozowick, Wm. Gropper, Otto Soglow, Gan Kolski, William Siegel | |sentative, made any secret of the agers of the locals, Boruchovich,) Zirlin, Portnoy and Goretsky, and) the managers of the right wing lo-| cals. The agreement stated that if the Joint Board fails to pay the money it borrowed, the bank has/ and the Soviet artist Kravchenko, tn *iaborer so far at an ia -the exploitation of by the manufacturer, that he receives t ie bg the right to confiscate the shares and the buildings (Locals 10 and 48 his w tnon hy the k the pawabrok eeper, OF, Mars (Communiat Manifesto). More than 100,000 persons visited the Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia, now at the Grand Central Palace, during ine first three weeks, officizis of the exposi- | tion state. It will remain open until ‘March 1 The exposition was brought to | country by the Amtorg Trading ition, an American corpora- 3 for export and import with It contains a large exhibi- ‘ { e . e LSth Sts Negro Champion, . Worker Correspondence Page in 4 ie of peasant handicrafts, ex- ‘illustrated and designed many of! “But the membership will speak Edition. lm ld m 190 We SRRre ANE Ort: of silverware, china, poree-| the new books for children, will despite yor she flung back at him. the © haere chant hook. st Bur cine ‘ a 3 ‘and textiles from the new fae- |speak through a translator. e 1 “Wonsen's Day Edition” 52 W. EIGHTH ST. (bet. Sth & 6th Aves.) OOOO000O0 Paintings and sculpture are| Other events announced for the|Trade U: “ sent In eare of the Daily Continuous Performances. Popular Prices. ibited. ‘inal week of the exposition featured by an exhibition of art book and magazine il- PHONE: SPRING 5095 TORETB tion, wood cuts, water colors |lentinova. soprana, and Charles|Fox. The appeal points out that junion betrayers and restore union meil drawings. This is under |Premac, tenor. a, Whe fight for the reinstatement of | conditions, i dh f i 4 2 100,000 AT USSR EXHIBIT Will Close with Revolutionary Art Show| |the direction of Alexei Kravchenko, Russian painter who transferred his talent to the graphic arts after the vevolution. The hundred and fifty graphics have been hung for this special exhibition. A discussion of the new children’s books of Russia will take place at the exposition on Wednesday after- noon. Librarians, teachers and pub- lishers will speak. A talk will be given by Ernestine Evans, writer and critic, and Kravchenko, who has week include free concerts and pro- grams each evening. The Monday evening concert will be given by Miochyslaw Volk,-pianist; Valia Va- admirably and told he she could no longer work in his shop. Admit Reason for Discharge. When Anna Fox came to the Joint Board office neither Rissman nor Blumberg, Hillman’s special repre- reason for depriving her of her bread and butter. With cynical frankness they told her that her ac- tivity in the conference at which 380 delegates from 266 shops, represent- ing 8,000 workers, launched a fight against the corrupt union machi made her “undesirable” in their eyes. They made it clear that they had full intentions of using every form of oppression and terror in an ef- fort to stem this rising tide of rank and file protest that was threaten- ing the very foundations of their class-collaboration regime. “Isn’t it true,” the union bureau- crats asked her, “that the confer- ence passed a resolution favoring affiliation with the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union?” “Yes,” she replied, “and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers as far back as 1922 went on record for amalgamation.” Union “Democracy.” Anna Fox protested at this sum- mary dismissal from her job and demanded that the membership be allowed to vote on the question. “TI act,” Rissman told her. “The membership has no say in the mat- ter.” which called Saturday’s eonference, last night issued an appeal to all members of Local 5 to demand the immediate reinstatement of Anna o'clock at 101 W. 27th St, | This forum, held every Thursday, | is under the ausnices of section 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party. have booths will be Polish workers, Jugo-Slav, German, Finnish, Hun- garian, Jewish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Japanese, The Workers Bookshop, at 26 Union Square, will also be open un- til 11 p, m, selling tickets. for ‘the carnival, Czecho-Slovak, Lithuanian and Greek. Workers of all these na- tionalities gre now busy collecting articles for their booths in order to| make this year’s I. L. D. bazaar the most successful ever held. In addition to. these national | groups, workers of various trades | are also arranging booths. There will be a total of about 30 booths which will make this the largest bazaar the I. L, D, has ever held. An interesting program of enter- tainment is being arranged for each of the five nights of the bazaar. The | program for each night is in charge of a different language group, Send Material for the Women’s Day Daily Worker Immediately — In sreparation for the Women's Day Edition of the Daily Worker, which will appear during the first week in March, request has been made that material for this edi- tion be sent in immediately. Ar- ticles fram women workers in the shops are especially asked for, Worker correspondence from women workers in all industries in also wanted for the special The Undying Example of Proletarian Heroism! Actual! WHICH A Sovkino Production: Worker, 26 Union Square. this militant worker is an integral | part of the fight to oust the corrupt Direction | SYMON GOULD THE SENSATIONAL POLAR DRAMA THE OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURB. OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH SAVED THE NOBILE CREW “A DAY WITH TOLSTOY” AN ACTUAL FILM RECORD OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN Daily (incl. Sat, & Sun.) from 12 to 12, SPECIAL . FOR WEEK DAYS: Now Playing! Authentic! SHOOK THE WORLD ! An Amkino Release 12 to 2 p. m,, .35¢ George Ganoway & Bertha Vanderbilt in a dance se- lection “Scrambled Feet” and GEORGE SNOWDEN and PAULINE MORSE in their interpretation of the Har- lem Stomp. VERNON ANDRADE Renaissance Orchestra DANCING TILL 3 A. M PPPIPIDPDA For the convenience of delegates and workers who will attend the Mass Meei- ing at Star Casino, Tickets will be sold there, Everybody Is Urged to Come to the Carnival After the Meeting PIPIPPDAG Phone reservations at New Maases Office until 8 p. m, Remember! Tickets at the Door Are $2.50! BUY OR RESERVE IN ADVANCE A? $1.50 On sale at: New Mi 0 Unlon Sq. (phone orders accepted — ALG. 4445); ‘WorkersBookshop, 28 Union Sq.1 Rand Hook Store, 7 E. THE WORKERS BOOK- SHOP WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 11 P. M, TO SELL Se a re ee