The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1929, Page 2

Page Two Two Republican Machines Collide in Queens 50 Borough Employees SELECTS FORMER SENATOR 10 BE PATRONAG spi brother of the ed with the could m: busines who Ww any too close} 7@"gion to the law, it is something, at thet.) Cormetius Vanderbilt and his fomily. By thievery of : 2 se became a railroad magnate and now exploits thousands o. To Fire 50 More. , Be ae Aa workers. Harvey announced that about fifty more De Brag henchmen were to follow the stra’ line out the front ty of these ation inspecto In the way you build a ine. Now Harvey will door right aw are also corpo: Queens, that’ political mac! Leading Expleitecs | in Easter Parade Suckers of strutted along Fifth k the ere ue of millions of workers got dressed up and on Easter ks and real criminals of cap DAIL Bs WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AERIL 2 2, 1929 INSIDERS GLEAN | “UP ON FEDERAL RESERVE SCARE Call Money Rate Up to 12% Again The New York stock market broke down again yesterday, on receipt of news that the board of governors of the Reserve Board, that is the heads of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, were in session and were considering the raising of re-discount rates. The rise of call money to 12 per cent again helped accelerate the fall. Insiders Get Theirs. | But the main reason seems to have been a general feeling that every time the Federal Reserve | Board or any part of it goes into action, it does something to smash {the market, always after a delay, | filled with rumors, giving pleniy of time for those who knew what is going on, to make big money. Durant “Revolt.” W. C. Durant, automobile manu- facturer and big stock market rig- ger, today led a revolt against the superior power of the Federal Re- serve. In a telegram to 100 corpor- ation heads he attacked the hoard policy of raising rates, “when the Sunday. Style, titles and kind he railroad Mass. Courts Again Show Enmity for Foreign-Born bank’s resources are as satisfactory {as they are now,” and begs the corp: loration chieftains to tell him “con- |fidentially whether prices of your stocks are too high.” build his. There are a lot of people ® who will be good partisans of ' BOSTON, Maan, April 1.— USE WRECKERS , or anybody who wants HYDE FEARS 10 Massachusetts courts, made famous} t them co: inspectors. by the murder of Sacco and Van- actual g of the zetti in 19 has again proved their ale by Vi y ha ab of borough sec- Andrew J. morning SHINGTON, April 1.—S net was y of Agriculture Arthur M. Hy y, for he fied Chairman McNary of TALK FARR, BILL ‘ Fake Relief Measure Sure to Be Hated Senate Agriculture Cor nt of Queens, | ing Hoover was keeping ie ae George U. Harvey, | paign prom to them. The plan ay from his sen-| would aim also to put banking capi- in prison for his| tal in charge of sales boards that in. $30,000,000 sewer graft dur-| would be able to monopclize the sindait Tacnicg! points Haessier to USS Skop Papers « onight |» i Bc, ; tor Albert R. McAllister called ; ; fi Gertrude Haessier, active in shop ae i Prosecutor John Toolan of Middle-| The wages of barmen is now $1.25 paper work “inthe Communist Yeiou oo ade, ca sem sex county to the stand as the first {7 hour and that of the laborers Barty, and who ha d the fac. | mit arta y De . oF) witness before the McAllister leg-|?"? 87 our ory pa) and German | 8°P. | + oung, " islative investigating committee to- is Leap ee & “Shop Pap ot) the aDeR OBL ctore it. But they all refused, | ah = aA Bt eee aes Militant Labor Unions s pity ne 8 erat ine lague, o ersey City that “poli- . : Basel 8 Union Square, tonight. hk hae Gee in Middlesex is worse than poli. tO Appear at Freiheit | nctionar' Hy . peete 5 im shop papers are especia LOUIS, Mo., April 1 (U.p),—| Hes in Hudson, ‘Anniversary Concert) to attend. ; Secretary of Ag culture Arthur The mayor's accusations were saan! Ae eas Hyde o pak on e poled gi ae titles to ue Cloakmakers, dressmakers, fur- " uation Case committee by Governor A. yiers, butchers, building trades and | States Fight Hoover follov Harry Moore, October 18, 1928, cap and millinery workers will rep- {right tell, Refusal to Permit Boring of Oil Wells DENVER, April 1.—Governors of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah have united in a strong protes® against President Hoover's lease caucella- tion and refusal to grant permits for oil well boring. The, text of the protest will be made gublic as soon as it has had a chaftte to reach the president. Hoover’s er, under the guise of “conserving the oil supply,” is really’ a move to strengthen the Standard Oil monopoly by prevent- ing smaller companies fvom drilling, and will tend to keep the price of oi] at the present high level FITZMAURICE TO COLLECT. The Irish aviator and Free State officer, Col. James Fitzmaurice will arrive in New York today on the German Lloyd liner Dresden. Fitz- maurice was co-pilot with the mon- archist Koehl and Von Huenefeld in sale of farm. products. Though it is known that this is the administration plan, a healthy Investigation Is Not dislike for appearing in public as sponsor for it in detail, has caused the congressmen to press for a clear tre or the cab- ne cabinet to yequest. me detai been epted by the president and myself is the plan that Mr, Hoover outlined during his campaign. The details will be left to congress. I believe that congress is more com-! “Yetent to work out the details than Iam. It has the experts. “I am merely going to answer any questions the committee mem- bers might ask, and give them my general ideas on the subject. “The president’s general plan, it | is known, calls for the establishment | of a farm board with broad powers | and funds sufficient to finance farmer-owned and farmer-controlled commodity — stabilization tions.” Drug Clerks Complet ‘NY Membership Drive | brated the widespread success @ off by the Big Four railway brother- | Over 500 members of the New and file in their unions here’ by York Drug Clerks Association cele- | stating yesterday that they were of | their flight from Europe to Amer- | iea in the airship Bremen, and is) now looking for his checks from) fountain pen and cigarette adver-! tisers who may want him to say he! used their wares on the flight. the recent membership drive at the 3d St, and Broadway. Complete inionization of every pharmaceut- ‘al worker in the city is the goal f the organization. SPECIAL CAR FOR POPE Artists to Ma: to Make Rich Auto tor Pius XI ROME, April i.—A crew of ar-, tnedalion showing St. tists arrived in R semble the luxurious appointments of the fiat automobile to be pre- sented to Pope Pius XI, terior will be upholstered in Vene-| | The money for these lavish ex- tion erimson silk with the papal coat | penditures to house “Christ's vicar bf arms and gold ornameris. The|gn earth” when he goes driving main seat is assigned to Pius | through the miserably poor quarters two seats facing nim for uve! Which surround the vatican and the by companions. “eternal city” on all sides, comes “Dhe driver's and foo f |dut of the pockets ef theze came baal meheGold decorated, |Hoor workcts and poor Catholic bi interiov will also besr Chris e today to as-|the “patron saint of automo The machine is not intended her, for highest state occasions, but will be the pope’s touring automobile when | The in-| he goes “slumming.” id J Workers Shout the world. GO ON STRIKE Help Organize rabid enmity toward the foreign- born. Two separate courts, tho with the same judge presiding at each, werd have convieted two separate men,| Demand Raise on the basis of the same exhibit of | i z rand bullet; of murdesing| DTIVENS a man who was killed by a single shot from a single murderer. Convict, of Course. Cangi Cero, a young Italian was convicted Nov. 1928 of being the sole murderer of Joseph Fantasia | and sentenced to death. Before he could be executed, the courts, al- The entire membership of the House Wreckers’ Union, Local 95 of the Hod Carriers’ and Laborers’ In- ternational, went out on strike yes- terday in answer to the general strike call of their union, _ of | anxious to convict anyone |i? Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th) vin th aa n-born, found Samuel Gallo| St) yesterday showed them as de-| hired as = e vould’ puilty of being the sole murderer | termined to stay out till their de-| the dinty work of pr nting @’ of Fantasia, The latter verdict was | ™ands were won, for “farm relief” that would! oocned on March 22 | The demands of the workers are formerly | perhaps fool the farmers into think- a an increase of 10 cents an hour, for The only way out Massachusetts’ justice can now see, is to try beth men over again, together this time, and let a jury pick on one of them for electrocution, Evidence is weak against both, | bar workers and laborers, and for the right of the truck chauffeurs to organize themselves into a union. The militancy of this wunion’s | membership is especially noteworthy | wage Were ordered by the bosses to re- frain from helping the chauffeurs organize. The wage grant was spurned by the workers who insist- ed on the right to help the drivers form a union of their own. Needed, Toolan Says at Hague Graft Trial TRENTON, N. J., April 1—Sena- Toolan admitted he knew of the jresent only a few of the militant} governor’s charges of graft, cor- unions which will demonstrate their ruption and inefficiency, and said: |loyalty to the Freiheit, Yiddish “These charges were submitted | Communist Daily, at its seventh an- to the Case committee and made |niversary celebration at the New part of its record. They were never} York Coliseum, 177th St. and Bronx forwarded to me by either the gov: | River, next Saturday evening. Other ernor or the committee. J therefote | organizations which have purchased |saw no reason for an investigation | tickets for the event include the by my office.” | Grocery Clerks Union, Bakers Lo- is ‘cals, Workmen’s Circles, Workers’ Cultural Club, and Councils of the Betray R.R. Workers, — tnited Councils of Working Class Brotherhood Fakers i Pectared cucens Geoprea Gai hal Sham 6-Day Fight “A Trip to Soviet Russia,” a U. S, BOSTON, April 1.—While calmly demonstrate the growth of indus- S. R. moving picture which will corpora-|herraying workers on the Texas trialization, collective agricultural | ; \ railroads who voted unanimously to achievements, and a comprehensive strike, and had their strike called | picture of workers’ and peasants’ | |life in the U.S. S, R. A musical program will be of- | fered by Nicholas Karolash, of the | Russian Grand Opera; Anna Sovina, | of the Kieff State Opera, and Ivan |Varikanf. A new version of Abra- committed to a policy of the six- | ham Reisin’s “Kirchen Gloken,” by hour day for railroad mén. fexander f’, Whitney, president | cf the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,‘ and~ Timothy Shea, as- sistant president of the Brother- |hood of Locomotive Firemen and | | Enginemen, told this pretty story to New England Brotherhood’s lodge meetings. Their proposal was only |to ask congress for a six-hour law, | 300 candidates for the New York “however, and railroad workers are | State troopers took examinations at very sceptical of its realization un- | the capitol today. der present unjon leadership. A new troop of state cossacks was authorized by the legislature to pa- trol Long Island and the personnel will be picked from the ranks of the men examined today. Between 70 and 100 men will be added to the force of troopers. Hard times and unemployment in industry resulted in the rush to en- list. Troopers are reputed to have many opportunities for graft. hoods’ grand chiefs and national of- | | ficers, two of these labor bureau- erats sought favor with the rank gram, ‘HardTimes,GoodGraft, Chinese Kept from Parks and Cars in South Africa Cities JOHANNESBURG, §&. Africa, | (By. Mail).—Chinese are prohibited in Johannesburg and other South African cities from travelling in the same public vehicles as white peo- ple, under a regulation here, They have also been prohibited from en- tering publie parks or theatres where there are white people, LYNN SHOE WORKERS STRIKE LYNN, Mass., (By Mail).—Twen- ty-five lasters of the Owens Shoe Factory have gone on strike for a wage inwease, soothes Soret TO PREPARE FOR “GENERAL STRIKE Hotel Workers Ignore Yellow Dog Demands The next step in preparation for a general strike in the cafeterias in the New York garment manufac- turing center will be discussed at a “\mass meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock in Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. and 42nd St. This meeting is ex- of a general strike call. Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union leaders will especially expose the new maneuver of the bosses to Hoover has added a fourth sec- retary to his personal staff to do the speech writing for him. French Strathers, of California, will do n of yellow dog contracts. the “research” and writing for the |° » : Ns Demands already being present- impor ialet peony ed by cafeteria managers, should! {be met by unconditional refusal, the union instructs its members. A ROTHSTEIN CASE MeManus Free, But | Miners’ Relief Meeting Still Jail Scrubwoman | The Needle Trades Workers In- \dustrial Union and the National Textile Workers Union yesterday | notified the Workers International Relief, Local New York, 799 Broad- way, of their representation at the meeting to be held tomorrow at 8 |p. m, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place severe confinement. | and 15th St., to discuss the crit:zal | situation in the coal regions of | Pennsylvania and Ohio. Plans for the New York and 14 will be acted upon. Other organizations to be repre- sented at the meeting include the New Unions Will Send Delegates to W. I. R. The orly principal witness in the Rothstein case still being held has been objecting so strongly to de- tention that today she was moved | to the West 47th Street Police Sta-| tion for more Bridget Farry, a scrub in the Park Central Hotel, Arnold Rothstein met five months ago, ested shortly after the gamblers’ woman where rdeved VAS ar- was IN CAFETERIAS: | pected to demonstrate the timeliness | head off a strike by the enforcement | tag days, April 12, a Are Fired GENERAL MOTORS FORCES WORKERS 10 BUY STOCKS ‘cal it “Opportunity” | for Swindled Men The Gegeral Motors Corporation which has had seyeral unorganized in its Fisher Bodies subsid- 1 other plants, and is famous its grinding “rationalization” poliey of speed-up and wage cut- esterday announced a further m of one of its pet “wel- intended to soothe and quiet rebellious employees. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president, states in the annual report of 1928, announces a conticugtion of the scheme by which workers are forced, he uses the expression, “given op- portunity” to purchase steck in the company, and declares that in 1928, there were distributed as bonuses for extra fast work, 195,570 shares worth about $10 each. The corp- oration’s >t profits last year were $276,468,103 compared with $235,- 104,826 in 1927. A + Dex Foun Representative M. Alfred Michaelson of Uhieago, a “ary” for the sake of politics, but “wet” for the Chicago gangsters, has been jailed for bringing liquor into the | United States. Attempts are being made to cover up the indictment. RALLIES PREPARE FUR STRIKE PLAN Gen’! Executive Board | Forums Held en araS Johnson Joins in | Several new developments of the pre-general strike situation in the! Wiorld Court Fight fux manufacturing industry oc- WASHINGTON, April 1—Sena- ia R openers : tor Hiram Johnson of California At the national headquarters of has added himself to the group of the Needle Trades Workers Indus-| int;-Root plan senatoxs who will trial Union, a meeting of the Gen-| fight the antry of the U. S. into the eral Executive Board was held with world court: on the basis of the pro- the express purpose of considering gram worked out in Geneva by Root, the conditions in the fur trades. Full! tnd it is ‘understood, endorsed by statement of the decisions of the| yforgan andl therefore by Hoover. meeting will be made pzblic today,| Johnson, in his statement today, | according to a union announcement. | takes the line already marked out Call to Jobless. by Senator Borah and others, that oa: Wey 1 iocadr fur the U. S., omce in the court, cannot | call to all unemployed fur | take advantage of the Root provi- | Workers was issued yesterday to! 10) for withdrawing, if a case in | A mass meeting held last night) | when it becomes known that their} bosses were ready to concede the/ inereases they asked, but! ia th and held as a material wit- | ness in $5,000 bail. She could not | furnish the bail and neither could her friends and relatives. One Jail ta Another. Mrs. Farry was taken to the West 47th Street Station from St. Joseph’s Roman Catholie home for women because of her objections to the confinement. Prior to that she had been in Jefferson Market Wo- men’s Prison. There is no charge against Brid- | get Farry, her only offense is that | she was working in the Park Cen- tral Hotel, anl that she had to take care of the room rented by Mec- | Manus, | No Charge. McManus, against whom there is a formal charge of murder is re- | leased on $50,000 bond, which he supplied as soon as it was fixed, | and rode away in his expensive limousine. But Bridget Farry, the working woman, admittedly inno- cent of every wrongdoing, is penal- ized for her poverty, and since it is absolutely impossible for her to + have saved $5,000 out of her wages ‘as a scrub woman, she has already served five months’ imprisonment, | with no prospect of release in the near future, and every protest re- | sults in her being more strictly | treated. It is considered here strongly | probable that she may know some- | |thing that connects the police with | | Rothstein’s protected drug ring jand that this is the reason for her | |continued isolation. If released, she |Washed Gold for 15 Years at Low Wages, Jail for Small Theft PHILADELPHIA, April 1.—For | 15 years, Elijah Pierce, 64, West- | 1aount, N. J., worked in the United States mint ‘amid stacks of money \amounting to millions of dollars, Pierce worked in the $20 gold piece department. He helped wash disks of gold before they were stamped into coins, receiving miserable wages. Debts piled upon Pierce and early in March he is alleged to have \slipped a gold disk into his pocket (daily for 11 days, He was arrested and was reported to have confessed. | Russia has contracted with Platt |focd and clothing to the destitute; BRITISH STIR UP Wirdow Cleaners, Iron and Bronze) come to the New York Joint Board Workers, Grocery Clerks, Progres-| offices of the union, 131 W. 28th sive Poultry and Butchers, and Pro-| gt, gressive Alteration Painters Unions, employed. A large number of job-| Bakers Local 164, and councils of jess furriers have already complied the United Council of Working Class with the union call. Women, | The union hall at.the Joint Board | “The meeting is of major im- was.yesterday overcrowded by un- portance,” a statement issued last employed fur workers who came to night by the N. I. R. reads, “and| an open forum for a discussion of should be attended by the represent- | the coming strike. atives of all working clazs organ- izations of New York. The miners are starving. Plans for rushing} Larger Hall. Because of the heavy overcrowd- ing of the union hall at these open 3 c-mand immediate action.| forums, the announcement was made vill not fail our fellow work-| Yesterday that the next open forum oes will be held in the Webster Hall, wo! We ere,” The conference will bz cpened by Harriet Silverman, secretary, Local New York W. I. R., Albert Weis- ary = : fl bord, secretary-treasurer, National | Charles S. ae eD age = |Pextile Workers Union, will address | Pattment manager will be the main th tk ‘ \ speakers at the meeting. e meeting. eae a afternoon at 1 p. m. Ben Gold, na- tional secretary - treasurer and jishers will be held tomorrow eve- ining at the national union offices, | 16 W. 2ist St., the union stated yes- | | terday. All finishers are called to attend the meeting without fail. ATTACKS ON IRAQ English Use Ise the Desert | Tribes for War JERUSALEM, April 1- from Ivaq state that the Bi tirring up the desert tribes against Traq, with which government Lon- don recently broke off relations. On the south the Wahabis, a fierce desert tribe, are reported to be making frequent inroads. | The Turks, meanwhile, are taking advantage of the unsettled relations between Iraq and the British im- |perialists to concentrate 30,000" troops on the northern frontier. The Turkish government protests that | the troops are for use against the Kurds, who are reported to be on | the verge of an insurrection, | The Iraq authorities are said to | be recruiting Assyrians to send | against the Turks, but the need for | |a far larger force on the south is pressing ,as the Wahabis number several thousands. | BRICKMAKERS’ STRIKE. E, LIVERPOOL, Ohio, (By Mail). | —Brickmakers of the Vitrified Brick Products Co. struck when demands for better working conditions were | refused. -May USSR BUYS MACHINERY. LONDON, April 1 (UP).—Soviet to register themselves as un- | 11th St. and Fourth Ave. Thursday / A special meeting of the fur fin-| Day Edition Daily 3B5 Worker 300,000 COPIES Order your bundle now for the Special May Day Edition of the Daily Worker. This issue will contain special features, which American interests are con- cerned, because that would, under the present plan, dissolye the court, and place U. 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