The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1929, Page 2

Page Two = = ~ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSD MARCH 14, 1929 Harvey Expos “HE TOOK THE $10,000." SAYS BERG ON STAND Says Harvey Promised Job to Rival Who Quit Frank Berg, told a few If, yes terday, when testifying in his own defense against the charge of at- tempted bribery former em-| ployer is t r him. He said H ed the $10,000 ie to buy up evidence it, and told Berg nto i campaign, also that Har member of the K. Harvey accuses Berg of bringing m™ nd K. K. him a $10,000 bill as the first in- stallment of a $200,000 bribe from the sewer contractors who operated with the former Borough President Connolly, now cconvicted for graft- ing. Harvey implicated Albert Levine as a witness in the bribery. Both are on trial. $10,000 To Buy Klan Berg yesterday explained the $10,- 000 as a campaign contribution from Angelo Paino, a sewer contractor, and said that Harvey not only ac- cepted it but told Berg to use it all if necessary to buy back evidence that Berg had joined the American Krusaders, a camouflaged Ku Klux Klan organization. \ Berg swears Harvey told him: “As alderman I was put over by the Klan. But when I run for mayor, there will be too many cath-| olics, Jews and Negroes to make the Klan of any value to me.” Harvey wanted Berg to get hold of or destroy his anplication for membership in the K, K. K,, said Berg. Blackjacking Sewermen } Berg told of big contributions’ so- \licited from the sewer ring by Harvey, testifying: “On October 15, in’ Libby’s Res- taurant, Mr, Paulson made out a check for $500—made it out to me and told me it was for George Har- vey’s campaign fund. Mr. Paulson had originally planned to give Mr. Harvey $5,000, but only gave $500. “I took the $500 check to Mr. Harvey and showed it to him. He told me to deposit it in my bank, which I did. “A few days after the corver- sation on Octeber 15, 1 met Mr. Harvey in his office. He told me that we needed funds for Election Day—that I should go out and blackjack the contractors. I saw | Mr. Paino. He gave me a $10,000 bill as a contribution to Mr. Har- yey’s campaign fund.” “What did you do with the bill?” the attorney asked. “I went to Mr. Harvey’s home on November 3, at 7:30 p. m., I told him that I had received a $10,000 bill from M. Paino. Mr. Harvey said: ‘Good. Hold it for Election Day; we may need it.” Berg told of promising a rival candidate for mayor, Police Captain ) Patterson, that he would be “taken Rises of” if he withdrew and gave Harvey a clear road. Then, accord- ing to Berg’s testimony, Harvey told Ythe captain he would be made com- fiaissioner of public works, and the feaptain withdrew. Berg said he ‘ouarreled with Harvey because he pbroke his promise to Patterson. Another witness, Harry H. Kuhl, ‘former head of the K. K. K. organ- zation in Queens, testified that he knew Harvey as a Klansman and saw him at several Klan mectings, ‘or “members only.” Would be Governor. ambitions as follows: “I met him (Harvey) at the New York state republican head- "quarters in Manhattan. He told me he wanted to be the governor «f New York state. He claimed that ke had done great things for _ the people of New York. “He said he had done better than the Boston police strike set- ‘tlement by Mr. Coolidge. I told him I thought he was going to be the candidate for Borough Presi- dent of Queens, but he said he would rather run for governor.” 40LD SPIRITED | MILLINER MEET mbership meeting, notable rge attendance and remark- its enthusiasm, was held evening by the Hand Trim- 43, thus proving def- this militant organiza- successfully withstood the g assaults made on it tsky machine of the In- ‘and by the bosses, who ed with the union fakers to destroy Local 43. . chairmanship of Or- Blecker, a full report 's activities in fighting | attacks of the bosses officers was made Berg told of Harvey’s political | u Fleet Owners Stage Anti-Gas Tax Demonstration — TO MEET TONIGHT | FOR HIGHER WAGE Send Out Preliminary, Statement The Union of technical men is| holding a mass meeting to get bet-| ter wages for the Grade C. tech- nical men in the city board of trans-| | portation, at the Labor Temple,) six o'clock. A preliminary statement sent out} from the union offices at 15 Park) | Row states: Discrimination | “The engineers and draftsmen) working in the borough president’s| offices of all the boroughs and other} New York taxicab owners, executir f bus concerns, pri 8s and one-cab operators departments including buildings, | | left for Albany to protest the proposed tax on gasoline. While many of the one-cab owners will be | highways, sewers, public works, etc.,| | affected by this tax, by far the greater majority of cabdrivers, who work for the fleet owners and {have been paid at the new rate of| large cab concerns, still have to slave and suffer the persecution of police, Whalen and the hack | $3120. | bureau no matter what the price. For them the only thing to do is to join the one really militant “In addition the board of water cabdrivers union, the Hackmen’s and Chauffeurs’ Union of Greater New York. |supply is paying its engineers and JENKS ‘DRY’ BILL Roosevelt Offers Power | | Plan That Aids Trust | | (Continued from Page One) sum appropriations, of which $30,- 000,000 was for the support of state institutions. $18,000,000 for construction of new buildings and improvements and alterations on state-owned pro- Perties. $2,700,000 for the department of labor, | $852,000 for personal service in attorney general's office. $244,000 for personal service in the division of standards of pur- jchase. The governor’s demand that unit appropriations from the lump sums jmade available for the various de- |partments, provoked a bitter contro- versy in the legislature a little more \than a week ago when the appropri- ation bills were up for discussion. The republican majority in the |legislature looks with considerable disrespect upon Governor Roose- velt’s plan for a commission of five to manage a state waterpower pro- jJect at Niagara Falls. | The plan is not, however, a seri- jous attack on private interests as jit provides for all power to be trans- |mitted over privately owned lines, | at rates to be arrived at by bargain and contract between the power | commissioners and the private pow- ler companies, with plenty of reason for bribing the commissioners. The | |state public service commission is |to have nothing to do with the con- | tracts. 1 ILD Bazaar Success; Ask All Outstanding Money Be Turned In | | Tabulations of the results of the| annual bazaar of the New York dis-| |trict of the International Labor De- jfense, which closed Sunday night, | show that, considering the unfavor- able conditions, the bazaar was a success, it was announced yesterday | iby Rose Baron, secretary. Widespread unemployment,. the needle trades strike and the many | other activities in which workers were engaged cut into the receipts, she said, but despite this fact con- | siderable funds were raised for the| defense of class-war prisoners. A large number of organizations, representing many trades and na- tionalities, cooperated in the bazaar. Among the most active were the var- jious councils of the United Council | of Working Women and the 45 IL.| |D. branches. The I, L. D. expresses | its appreciation to all these organi- zations for the work they did in be-! jhalf of the victims of the capitalist | courts. Considerable money is still out- | standing for tickets, advertisements, | (ete. The New York I. L, D. asks all/ |those who have such funds in their! {possession to bring them at once jto its office, 799 Broadway, Room| 422. In. bourgevin society, is but n means to inc: Inted labor, | | | living labor | promote ine | orermnKarl | Manifesto). —— The high point in the meeting oc- curred during a talk delivered by | Ella Reeve (“Mother”) Bloor, when! she mentioned the name of the ab taag Trades Workers Industrial | Jnion. another called soon where a full delegation tional Convention. That a letter de- tailing all they be asked to demand the uncon- ditional reinstatement of the Mil- linery Local, Another decision called for the fullest and most energetic prosecution of the strikes the union is conducting on W, 86th St. ASSEMBLY KILLS Pavty’s New - HILLMAN TRIES tional nist Party of the United States of America, section of the Communist of the American Party, from a pro- draftsmen $3120. The board of education voted to pay its engineers and draftsmen $3120 minimum for the year 1928 and to increase the minimum of these men to $3360 for the year! 1929. The money has been appro- priated, the resolutions necessary have been adopted and the payrolls Name Shows Its Growth By a decision of the Sixth Na- Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party, the name of the Party has been changed to Commu- TO BREAK STRIKE Army of Thugs, Police | Fail to Crush Spirit Big ‘Construction | “The board of transportation com- The terror machine of the Hillman | wissioners, headed by Commissioner| gang in control of the Amalgamated | Delaney have up to date failed to| Clothing Workers Union was set into| ta46 the necessary steps to give) Bohan aes serach the “out, | their engineers and draftsmen the | esperate attempt to crus: le “out- ay. This law” strike of the workers formerly |S#me_ treatment and pay. pared for distribution this month. International. This decision signifies more than | meeting will be a mobilization meet- employed in the shop of Stelofsky! ; 5 ; r rae iy & Ying for united action to get $3120 a mere change of name. It marks and Hyman. : ton all of the grade 0 tashilesl aed an important step in the development, Actually scores of professional i r ‘tation. thugs, on the payroll of the Amal-| "the board of transpor gamated, in addition to a full detail Gives Comprehensive Data WASHINGTON, D. C., March 13.} —The Soviet Union Information Bu- reau will issue this week a volume of 288 pages, “The Soviet Union: Facts — Descriptions — Statistics,” giving a comprehensive outline of economic, cultural and administra- tive development in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The vol-| ume is the first complete reference book about the Soviet Union to be published in the United States though Allen and Unwin, the London | publishers, have issued a similar vol-| for British consumption. Economic Development | A large part of the vplume is de- | voted to a detailed study, with sta-| fore the war. tistical tables, of the progress of Soviet agriculture and industry. Ac- cording to the figures the agricul- tural output is now about equal to that before the war, having doubled since the low figure of 1921. The industrial output last year was 25 per cent above the pre-war pro- duction in volume, having increased! nearly eight-fold since 1921. Be- tween $775,000,000 and $850,000,000 is being spent on industrial expan-)| sion this year. The large state in-| dustries have been yielding an an-| nual net profit of over $300,000,000. | The principal economic projects} now in progress in the Soviet Union| include the following: Development| of large State grain-growing areas to reach 15,000,000 acres by 1933. Development of the 800,000 horse- power hydroelectric plant on the Dneiper River, to cost $113,500,000 construction of which is well under way. Construction of the Siberian- Turkestan railway, 950 miles, to bring cheap Siberian grain and tim- ber to the Soviet cotton belt in Central Asia, one-third of the track-| age having been completed by. Jan-! uary 1, | General Advance After summarizing the economic Second Ave. and 14th St., tonight at| ume annually for several years past,| situation, the introduction to the volume touches on progress in other lines. It says: “There are 50 per| cent more children in school than be- | The pre-war death) rate has been reduced by one-third. The rate of recovery and advance has been impeded by the depletion of basic capital during the World| War and the civil conflicts. On the other hand the rehabilitation has been effected without the aid of foreign loans. The merely recon- structive phase is now definitely past. New economic projects on a) scale unknown to pre-war Russia | are in process of development.” | The section on the rise of the co- operative movement gives some striking figures and comparisons. The Soviet cooperative organizations have nearly 35,000,000 members and their business turnover in 1928 was close to $11,000,000,000. They con- for back pay are now being pre- of 75,000 to 100,000 acres each, with| duct nearly two-thirds of the retail mechanized farming, the total area| trade of the country. SILK STRIKERS’ TRIAL LAID OFF Prosecutor Insists on) 30-Day Terms Aged Worker Dies in Effort to Avoid Death by Freezing A man of 45, evidently a worker without money and trying to avoid freezing because he had no place to sleep, was found dead yesterday morning, lying on top of the boiler which heats the water in the Car- ed by Campaign Manager as K.K.K,, “Blackjacking” Sewer Contractors | TECHNICAL MEN New Book on Soviet Union NEEDLE RALLY APPLAUDS BIC DRESS VICTORY Prepare Way for Fur Strike Soon (Continued from Page One) achovich, Joint Board manager, and I. Koretz, also dwelt on the union’s intention to wipe out every sweat shop from the needle trades indus- try. Zimmerman acted as chairman. Union Drive. It was then shown that despite the intensive preparations now under way for the prosecution of the gen- eral strike in the fur industry, the strike in the dress industry had not really ended; it merely passed out of its general strike period. Individual shops would be called out and union- ized throughout the duration of the season. For this purpose general enlargement of the Organization De- partment was being carried out. An interesting feature that was |a demonstration of the spirit of soli- darity that permeated this meeting, was the pledge of support rendered to a representative of the exploited cafeteria workers. Organizer Obermeyer, of the Res- taurant and Hotel Workers’ Union had come to ask these needle work- ers to support his union in a con- templated organization drive of cafe- terias in the garment district. |Show Movies at ‘Daily’ Food Carnival Sunday Movies of the dressmakers’ strike and the presidential election parade conducted by the Communist Party of the U. S. A. last year will be shown at the food carnival and the U.S.A., and the Downtown Sec- paganda organization to a frankly revolutionary mass Party of the working class, fighting under the leadership of the Communist Inter- national for the overthrow of Amer- ican capitalism. | The name Workers Party was adopted in 1921 for the legal organi- zation that was founded in that year as an auxiliary to the illegal Com- munist Party. At that time only the Communist Patry was a section of the Communist International. At the beginning of 1923 the Com- munist Party and the Workers Party were merged and the Workers \(Communist) Party became the |American section of the Comintern. This remained the name of the Party until the decision of the historic Sixth National Convention which closed Sunday. The Communist Party has now rid itself of all reformist “hang-|Shop Delegates Conference, and or-) over,” of all Trotskyist elements and has taken its place as the real leader jof the struggles of the American \workers and the only Party fight- of members of the bomb and in- dustrial squads, came to the Bleeker Street building where the shop is loeated and where the workers were picketing, and thru sheer physical force compelled some of the workers to go up to work. The entire crew in this shop had gone out on strike because a left winger in the shop, one of the | staunchest defenders of the union standards, had been dismissed from work. The dismissal was ordered by the officialdom of the Amalga- mated. One woman striker and a strike isympathizer was slugged by the thugs right before the adaptable jeyes of the alleged enforcers of jae, and order.” | The strikers, however, are by no | means discouraged by this show of brute f Under the leadership of the iJxecutive Committee of the ganized left wing movement, they lare reorganizing their forces and calling on sympathizers to picket the shop, so that the workers who were “The action of the board of aie | mate on the tri-borough bridge and the Narrows vehicular tunnel will give the board of transportation engineers and draftsmen some very | extensive engineering work in ad- | dition to their work on the subways. |The board of transportation is to| ELIZABETH, N. J., March 13.— George Hanway and Jack Glass, two strikers sentenced to serve 30 days for picketing in the strike, failed to win their appeal because the prosecuting attorney in- | ‘4 <1, warm boiler, Sammy bad fumes from the canvass overcoat, socks and no hat. mine Street Baths, 85 Carmine St. The worker had evidently crawled |thru a grating to stretch out on the and perished from furnace. He had a khaki overalls, thin sisted that the sentence of the lower | rt be sustained. ; | Brooklyn to Richmond, This pro-|°C™ 1 So ie after listen Soviet Gov’t Buys Big | ject will entail construction to the! . pears ae okie an ted rt theil ; y’ iz | extent of about $50,000,000. | ing to the evidence presented by | Electric Plant in U. Ss. | prosecutor and the appeal of the) | While the engineers and drafts-| eptelcieae S | The Russian Government has : |defendant’s attorney, provided by} | men in the department of plant and/ the International Labor Defense,| structures will get a minimum of .oomed to be on the verge of freeing| bought the world’s largest high-| | $3120, the engineers in the board of/ the workers, when the proseeutor| voltage rectifier, now nearing com-| | transportation who will work on the| j,sisted that the sentence be sus-|Pletion in the laboratories of the same job, take the same responsibil-| ¢2ined, ‘General Electric Company in Sche-| | ities and are in every way as cap- ‘Phe reason given by the district nectady, the Radio Corporation of | able—this\ group will get salaries attorney was that picketing was America announced yesterday. | take care of the new tunnel from| tion 1 of the Communist Party of the U. S A., and the Downton Sec- tion of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League at the Workers Cen- ter, 26 Union Sq, at 8 p. m. next Sunday. Proceeds of the event, jwhich will include a number of or- iginal entertainment features, will be donated to the Daily Worker. Advertiser wants connection with up-state workers who sell low-priced land for developing new colony. Must be in farming district or thereabout. Describe surroundings in first letter. T. FABER, 280 Bowery, N. Y. C. as low as $2400, making a difference | “loitering.” Thus, the workers may| a . - nos of over $700 for the same work. | ¢5 to jail for 30 days. (i qa | AMT | The employers in the Summit silk’ hl strike are bending all efforts toward | ite r «ys. |framing the strikers. The Na-| stil of Dutch Imperialism tional Textile Workers Union is now Resisted in Indonesia | leading the strike, and is determined | jt fight until victorious. i | ‘Administrative Terror | mechanics wear and EXPLOITER LEFT A MILLION. Ai? Our glasses are fitted by expert ing the approaching imperialist war. forced up into the shop, shall not “Bintang Timoer” reports in a recent issue that the Dutch author-| jities in Indonesia are increasing the | compelled to go up again. Industrialization of | Detectives in Pen Are | USSR to Be Shown in | Nuisance to Warden 4 3 * a Soviet Film Tonight | ATLANTA, March 13.—Warden tional revolutionary movement is ‘John Snook admitted today that he sufficient to cause instant dismissal. had threatened to resign if the de-| “The Pati of Grisee on the island partment of justice continues to of Java (a Pati is a high native place detectives in his prison under official) dared to attend a public guise of prisoners, without telling | meeting of the Indonesian Nation- him who they are. Attorney Gen-|alist Party (Partei Nasional Indo-| eral Mitchell says the secret agents|nesia), He went further, for he was jwere put there to observe prisoners, | seen to applaud the remarks of the not the warden. \chief speaker Sockarno. Shortly af- Atlanta prison has been the scene |tey this he was dismissed from his of numerous scandals, most of which post by the Dutch authorities. reflects on the warden, and the lat- The Dutch colonial press is un- opment, The ‘wil ahinw the “i ape? vee ses pipet: animous in declaring that the na-| onstri £ new buildi Eric eet tes P i tional revolutionary movement in, constru n of new buildings at in- |p 24, 5 ew 4 4 eep out of the warden’s office, say prude “e today than| dustrial centers like Kharkov, the \i,. oth js Indonesia is stronger today | i her prisoners. Some of them bef “De Indische Courant” contrast between peasant methods |; on¢ t what they are not ex-|Cver, Pefore: e Indische © } pan neater ahi padres declares that the situation in Indo-' and newly introduced modern meth- |. | ; ods of agriculture, including the use ele Gale nesia today is more serious than be-' of tractors and road machines, auto-| Anarchism wax often a kind of fore the revolt of 1926, Even Albert mobiles and aeroplanes. Views of ore ee orurkinn cle wneeumracs| See who was able to be a the Russian museums, Tolstoy’s | Anarchixm and opportunism are two; good even in Italy. was orce! to} home, the Kremlin and old Tartar | deformities, one complementary to | admit that the situation in Indonesia | ; 2, the other—V. L Lenin (“Left” Com- r ruins and Greek monasteries in the | munism). was serious. Crimea and Caucasus are shown. | The social side of Russian life is also emphasized, particularly the | rest home of the workers in the ‘rimea, government nurseries for children and methods for the re-edv- | cation of the homeless children. A program of contemporary Rus- | P 1 sian music has been prepared to ac- | company the film by Clara Lerner, inist, and Samuel Jospe, pianist. | on the Barricades Last 2 Days @ “Ten Thousand Miles Through Russia With a Camera” is the sub- ct of a travel film to be shown to- night at the Engineering Audi- torium, -29 W. 39th St. at 8:30 o'clock, under the auspices of the American Society for Cultural Re- lattions with Russi; . 8. S. R.). The film sho’ in detail | scenes of the Baku oil fields at the| Dnieper-stroy, where engineers are working on the hydro-electric devel- ! A Powerful Drama of War Prisoners In Siberiat Homecoming Produced by ERICH POMMER, who created “The Last Laugh”; | — #Calige: “Variety” The decisions arrived at by the | meeting include the folowing: That membership meeting be be elected to attend the Interna- the union’s struggles against annihilation by the Zaritsky gang and his boss and police allies be sent to all locals of the Interna- tional Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union, and that therein Be asa film guild cinema || 52 W. Sth St, (bet. 5th & 6th Aves.) ‘| Dir, Symon Goula—! De m.s Sat, & Com. Shortly: MOSCOW TODAY: ‘A remarkable film of the Red Capital af work and play Louis Gartner NOTARY PUBLIC 2365 BROADWAY, New York City ¢ (Entrance N. W. Cor. 86th Street) — First Floor — NOW in the time to have your Federal nnd State ib Ee Tax Re-~ turns prepared and filed :.A full supply of forms — An prok 43 EAST GEORGE SPIRO with an Introduction by M. J. 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