The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1929, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRID. AY, MARCH : 1929 N_Y. Fa $1,000,000 OF BANK’S ASSETS RANK FORGERIES $100,000 Forg red Note Just Before Crash Press from organizations of the depositors in the City Trust , closed recently by ommissioners because forced the € e to make t it is investi- ed yesterday that rs reveal that the dis- y already has evidence t $1,000,000 of the deficit ased on the discount of palpably ly forged securities. One ted by the bank only fore it collapsed, was Stole Money For Fascists. The ¢ s of the bank, deposi- te ed loans on forged se- nd discounted forged der to support with the} ands of dollars} only private deals | ge fascist news- papers in New York. Italo Falbo, editor of Il Progresso Italo Americano, the most prominent | of these papers, admits receiving | heavy loans, on no more security than his deposit of part of the} amount loaned in the City Company. Forced Workers To Deposit. The bank encouraged the deposits of many Ita ploy depo: parently in order money without their cor any case t in this “trust” company, ent for fas- cist propaganda, and to pay good salaries to Mussolini’s agents in America. At present the New York state banking department is still assuring the depositors that somebody or 90 cents on the dollar for their deposits. But it was learned yes- terday that the banking department} Aillquit Is Piliful Figure on the Witness Stand as He Is Cross-Examined on Stea was counting some of these big forged notes in the assets of the bank in order to make out this case| for the directors of the defunct con-| ¢e The greatest leniency is being| shown the officials of the bank by| the state banking department and the district attorney's office. Not one of them has been arrested so far. HARVEY WRECKS GRAFT PROBING My steriously ly Abandons $1,000,000 Graft Queens Borough Pr U. Harvey, after charging publicly that hundreds of thousands of dol- lars had been stolen in the Queens street cleaning department, has seen something new, or been seen. He suddenly dropped all of the charges yesterday, after a conference with District Attorney Newcomb, a written statement to the press, and refused to answer any questions. Harvey's statement disregards al- together the mysterious murder of| Raymond Clark, chauffeur of the street cleaning department officials. just before he was to testify against them, and says nothing about the discharge on the day: of Clark’s ‘death, of the superintendent of the department, Sullivan. Harvey’s statement is as follows: “Despite the most thorough inves- tigation by Commissioner of Ac- counts James A. Higgins and his assistants for a period of more than five months, and diligent search by Commissioner Fritz Brieger into ir- regularities in the Queens Bureau of Street Cleaning, we are able to pre- sent to District Attorney Newcombe only evidence that will fix the re- sponsibility for minor thefts. “Although we know that thou- sands of gallons of gasoline and other’ supplies are unaccounted for in the books of the Street Cleaning Department, I am of the opinion after most careful investigation that it is humanly impossible to fix the responsibility for its loss. “District Attorney Newcombe has given us the fullest cooperation in this matter and I am satisfied that no evidence can be adduced except that involving petty thefts.” Send. Material for the Women’s Day Daily Worker Immediately In preparation 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 from women workers in the shops are especially asked for. Worker correspondence from women workers in all industries ix also wanted for the special Worker Correspondence Page in the Women’s Day Edition. | All such material should be ad- ‘dressed “Wonien’s Day Edition” land sent in care of the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square. iscist 1 Papers S Trust | rs, their em-) forced them to| ap-| to utilize their} will! buy the bank, and they will get 80} ihn ee THE NEW “HAND” Che Now Bork Simes “All the News That's Fit to Print,” | By Grover NEEDLE TRADES SHOP DELEGATES UnionDressShopsWork Saturday for Strike | (Continued from Page One) department of the NTWIU, |that the strike agaizst two shops, | Reineman and Blumgarden, is con- tinuing and all workers are out. He called attention to the character of | the scabs who are | shops. None other than socialists | such as Glassman, Ritman, Richman, | Kramer and Brown, as well as the | Willie Yacker gangsters, are scab- bing openly against the striking workers, | On Saturday afternoon the New | Playwrights Theatre will give a per- | formance of John Dos Passos’ new play, “Airways, Inc.,” which will be | free to the shop chairmen and mem- | bers of the general strike commit- | tee, at the Grove Street Theatre. | The trial of John De Santos, ar- j rested while seated in the courtroom | yesterday, on complaint of S. Spit- zer, an employer, who charged that De Santos assaulted him two weeks | ago on the picket lines, was post- | poned, this morning to March 8th. |} Sam Markowitz was in. Jefferson | Market Court as attorney for the} |complainant. He is the attorney for the ILGWU and has appeared court nearly every day to act as in- former, provocateur, |for the employers. | ployer to sign the complaint which |he failed to do yesterday. |to the efforts of Markowitz, 24 | others who were taken in Monday’s rned to March 8th. The trial of jo | Feb. 23rd’ when they repulsed the adjourned to March 5th. Won’t Dismiss Rosemond. (Continued from Page One) |Hillquit and Company had offi- \hey, was being tied into knots, cially been brought up in court as | rushed to his rescue, took the stand Joseph Boruchowitz versus the 15 [ent declared: st 25th Street Corporation. Hillquit: So there will be no mis- ‘ening hat they knew Boruchowitz earn may I say for the Hillquit and his’ well-coached ‘tools lrecord that the defendant concedes | !0ped that the whole case would fall |that the stock of the 130 East 25th through. Street Corporation is held by Fred-| The testimony of Caplowitz on erick F. Umhey solely as trustee and this point is particularly interesting. | subject to the terms of the agree-|Here it is: By | The complainant against Henry |Rosemond, Negro furrier who was of the strike, failed for the third of assault against Rosemond and postponed the case to March 8th. He doesn’t seem to know who! The trial of the four strikers ar-| igned the checks and notes of Lo-| rested Feb. 25th, who according to} cal No, 2. | the union attorney, were obviously | Hillquit pulled the strings and | framed up by the right wing, was! roarionette Caplowitz did the rest. After finishing with Caplowitz, | | adjourned to March 8th. in the courtroom on the complaint of | 'Lawyer Boudin again called to the Louis Reiff, chairman of Local 35) jwitness stand Frederick Umhey, | of the right wing ILGWU and mem- Hillquit’s office manager. |wanted to get. information from him | threatened him as he was waiting to |concerning the sale of the bank | | testify against Sonia Chaiken who | ACT ON STRIKES stated) working in the! in| and attorney} In this case} Markowitz* prevailed upon the. em-} The bail| | was raised from $160 to $250, due} wholesale arrests, had their cases ad-| Irving Potash, picket captain, George’ Leakos, and Ben Goldberg, arrested} attack of right wing gangsters, was) | | beaten up on Feb, 6th, the first day) time to appear this morning. Judge! ' Farrell refused to dismiss the charge | Arrested | Boudin | ber of the socialist party, that they| Seamen Suffer in | | | Record Cold Snell i] 3 ; | j Above, ships froz one of the most severe cold spell years. Below, the passengers we @ ladder, while the seamen were en in the canal at Holtenau, Germany, during s workers have known in takn off a trans-oceanic liner by forced to remain aboard the ship. In some cities the temperature fell to 49 degrees below zero, killing | Vaundreds of unemployed worke Ohe hundred ninety-five dollars a share, B: What? | _U: One hundred ninety-five a share for the entire balance, 900 shares. B: To whom was that sold? U:. That was sold to the Joint » Board-of Cloakmakers’ Union, | B: You mean that? | U:Ido. B: How did the Joint Board pay for it, if you know? : How-do you mean how they pay for it? B::You know the Joint Board owes the bank all this money and is practically bankrupt and ‘they | still owe $100,000 to the bank? U: That is right. B: How did it pay for it; where did they get the money to pay for it U: Where they got the money? B: Yes. I don’t know. B: Well, you are a director of the bank, or you were at that time? | U: Yes, B: Did they get it from the | bank? U: My recollection is a small part of it; yes, B: You don’t know the rest? (Court Minutes, pages 114, 115, 116.) Hillquit Takes the Stand. | Umbhey was unable to answer. He! | had. reached the end of his squirm-| ing and he was “stumped.” Here | and poor peasants. ‘Wall St. Undecided on Labor Post in Hoover Cabinet; May Be Davis WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — The latest rumors on the Hoover cabinet indicate that Vice President Doak of the Railway Trainmen may not get the promised position of secretary of labor after all, and that James J. Davis, the present incumbent, may remain, Doak is an efficient mis- (leader of labor, but Davis has done | nothing to cause his ousting, from | the employers’ point of view. | Thomas D. Campbell, of Montana, | the largest grain land owner in the | United States, and recently back from Europe, will probably head the usual “fake” tion board. Such a board is made necessary by the republican prom-! \ises during the election, but under) landlord leadership, the “dirt farm-! ers” will be merely “kidded by ex-| perts.” | USSR GLASS OUTPUT. VOLOGDA, U.S.S.R., (By Mail). |—The “Zarya” glass factory in Vol- ogda increased its production to 1,- (000 cases of glasswaré during Janu- | ary. Production in previous months | {has never exceeded 800 cases per) |month, The amount of breakage | |has been reduced from 20 to 11 per cent, farm relief investiga-| upported by Now Defunct City Trust Co. Thru Forged Notes REPORT SANDINO "WHIPS MARINES ~NEW BATTLE US. Invades ] Honduras But Meets Defeat TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Feb. \28—In their murderous hunt to suppress the stubborn struggle of Sandino’s army of Nicaraguan in- |dependence, the U. S. marines have invaded the territory of Honduras but, aecording to reports here, have been soundly whipped by Sandino’s troops at the Honduran town of Las Manos. The marines burned the Honduran village of Santa Maria when forced to retreat by Sandino’s troops, ac- cording to reports. No account of casualties are given in the reports. | CYRILL NEW “WHITE HOPE.” PARIS, Feb. 28 (UP).—F ‘ince Nikita, Russian exile in Paris who | recently was chosen by the “white army” of exiled monarchists as pre- tender to the lost throne of the \ezars, has retired in favor of Grand Duke Cyrill, it was learned tonight. 6AAAAMAAAAMAAA Your Chance to See SOVIET RUSSIA Lowest Rates The Soviet government welcomes its friends and will put all facilities at your disposal to see everything— go everywhere — form your own opinion of the greatest social experi- _ ment in the History of Mankind at first hand. World Tourists Inc. offer you a choice of tours which will ex- actly fit your desires and purse. Don’t dream of going to Russia— make it a reality ! Write immediately to WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 175-5th Avenue, New York, N. Y. Tel. ALGonquin 6656 DAAAAAAAAAAAL | sident George | issued | |ment, dated July, 1926, | Boudin: And all the parties to it |therein mentioned? H: | ment. As provided in said agree- (Court Minutes, Page 109). Here Boudin began calling off the parties to the agreement, men-) tioning each local separately, local 2, local 9, local 22 and so on. E quit, however, objected to h: jeach local mentioned separate!. e, | The} \judge asked Hillquit why he objected and he said that if all the debts are paid and the shares of a right wing jlocal, local 10, for example, remain |untouched, the local would then get jits property back. (This is what ac- | tually happened.) On this the judge made the follow- ing comment: “The Court: That would be} rather unfortunate in a way, if| these other locals’ property had been used by the trustee, all that they| had put in, and the particular local then got its property back and got| off. scot free.” . (Court Minutes,! Page 112), Evidently even the capitalist judge| had to express disapproval of the manipulations of Hillquit and Com- pany. Hillquit had, however, been com- pelled to admit that the buildings still belonged to their original own- ers, The “socialist” corporation lawyer, in the course of the trial, suffered some remarkable lapses of memory. He, for example, forgot who Joseph Boruchowitz is. This was a pretty scene in the trial. Lawyer Boudin put Hillquit, Umhey and Caplowitz, of the International Union Bank on| the stand one after the other, and) none of them knew what office Boruchowitz held! | Boudin grilled Hillquit as follows: | Boudin: Well, was he (i. e. | Boruchowitz—-Ed.) an officer of that organization? Hillquit: I have no personal knowledge of that fact. B: Did you know that he was an officer of that organization? | H: I knew him as some repre- sentative or officer of local No. 2. B: That is what I asked you, whether you knew him as an offi- cer of local No, 2? H: I assumed he was some offi- cer of Local No. 2, (Court | Minutes, page 66), The Reason Why. Why did Hillquit deny that he knew just who Boruchowitz was? Tfad not Boruchowitz been to see him many times concerning union | matters when Hillquit was still at- | torney for the Joint Board? Hadn’t | Boruchowitz signed the agreement | Hillquit nientioned on the witness | stand in his (Hiliquit’s) office? But the Joint Board case against Boudin—You say that you left the membership of Local No. 2 some time in 1926? Cap -That is right. n 1925 you were still u know who was the in 19257 really could not fix the vas of the secretaries. ‘When the bank was organ- Mr. Caplowitz, you took e of it as cashier? u have occasion, Mr. to find out who ks for Local No. and 1926? JI eculdn’t remember off- hand every officer of an organiza- tion or a corporation that we may have in the bank. B.—You don't know that ‘Str. Boruchowitz used to‘ sign checks, do you? C.—1 could not say. B.—Did you ever make loans to Local No. 2 for the bank? C.—Yes, we made one or two loans. B.—Did you know who signed these notes for the loans when you made those loans in 1925 or 19267 C.--There were two signatures required. As to who signed them T cannot remember exactly. B.—Don’t you know that Bo- ruchowitz was one of them? C.—He was one of the signers, yes. (Court minutes, pages, 73, 74 and 75.) Some Memory! What was the aim of Caplowitz’s idiotic answers? What cloakmaker doesn’t I:now that in 1925 and 1926 Boruchowitz was manager and sec- retary of Local 2? Both are mem- orable years—1925, the joint action struggle, and 1926, the big cloak strike. Every member of Local No. 2 most certainly knew what office Boruchowitz held, And Caplowitz, the bank cashier, seems to have had memory equally as bad as Caplo- witz the member of Local No. 2. 2 in \shares belonging to the Joint Board | ond the left wing locals, but Umhey |found it remarkably difficult to give |direct answers. | Boudin: Now, will you say that | j you remember having the stock | | transfer book of the Cloak Opera- tors Lyceum, Inc., in December, } 1926? | Umhey: I recall having a stock—| had been arrested on his complaint, | they charged that they are known to} Reiff as militant left wingers and he is trying to frame up a case against | ; them. Jack Shine’s case was postponed) to March 11th. All of these strikers were, as usual, charged with disor-| derly conduct. B: Answer the question yes or no. | U: I recall having a stock trans- | | fer book in my office in 1926, yes | sir, B: That is no answer. You know there are lots of. transfer | stock books im your -office probably, I asked you a specific question. - (Court Minutes, Page 81). Umhey had “a” stock transfer | book, but he tried to squirm out of admitting that he had a specific! | Stock transfer book in his possession. | However, he did not escape so jeasily. Boudin finally succeeded in |making him talk concerning the sale jof the shares, Boudin: To whom did you sell this stock? Umhey: I sold in the first in- stance 375 shares as one group. B: When did you sell that first | item? | U: That I think was in May | 1927. B: To whom did you sell that? | U: I sold that to a group of | the directors of the bank. { B: And what are their names? | U: Mr. Solomon Fillene and Mr. A. Berkman. B: Berkman? U: Berkman, Mr. Philip— B: What does the “A” stand for? pore nahh Louis Gartner NOTARY PUBLIC 2365 BROADWAY, New York City (Entrance N. W. Cor. 86th Street) | — First Floor — ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Deposits mar of the m ym the Ini Last Quarterly Dividend paid om aitamoais fom oe l/ Of Open Mondays (a! forts until 7 P.M, lety Accounts Rae A. B. A. Travelers Certified Checks Banking by Mall abies Wy ial pN°l THIRD AVE. € or before the 3rd will draw interest the month, or U: Alexander, I believe. Hillquit: Aaron. Umhey (continues): Mr, Philip Rodriguez and Mr. Morris Hill- quit. Boudin: How much did you get | for that? e U: Two hundred dollars a share, B: And what was the next sale made by you? U: The next sale was the en- tire balance, 900 shares. B: When was that sold and to whom? U: That was sold in about No- vember 1927. B: And how much did you sell that for? The .Undying Example of Proletarian Heroism! Actual! Direction SYMON GOULD |the cat out of the bag. | will print the verbatim testimony | of Hillquit, telling how the shares |. were sold and the cloak and dress- THE SENSATIONAL POLAR DRAMA WEICH SHOOK A Sovkino Production—An Amkino Release THH OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURE OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH SAVED THE NOBILE CREW — and on the same program — “A DAY WITH TOLSTOY»” AN ACTUAL FILM RECORD OF .THE GREAT RUSSIAN B filmguild cinema Continuous Performances. Popular Prices. Daily (inel. Sat, & Sun.) from 12 to 12, SPECIAL FOR WEEK DAYS: —PHONE: SPRING 5095 Boudin turned to the judge and said: | “I ask permission to suspend with this witness and ask Mr. ng to take the stand.” (Court Minutes, | | page 116.) And Morris Hilquit, corporation lawyer, shareholder of the opens | shop Burns Coal Company and so- | cialist party leader, took the stand. And Hillquit was compelled to let * (Tomorrow the Daily Worker ** makers were swindled out of $150,000. 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Tickets at ‘the Door Are $2.50! BUY OR RESERVE IN ADVANCE AT $1.50 On sale at: New Masnen, 39 Union Sq. (phone orders — ALG. 4445); kshop, 28 Union 15th St.) Negro Ohi 169 W. 138rd Street. R THE WORKERS BOOK- SHOP WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 11 P. M. TO SELL TICKETS t | ! )