The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1929, Page 2

ame. THREE MILES OF Millinery Local 43 Appeals t PRLADES HOUSE U5: Workers to Aid Tis Fight AS THOUSAND RICH Park ‘Avenue Is Street *\ of ‘Two Classes (Nontinxed jn m Page One) that ren up to $35)900 a year, and im cooperative; apartments that sell from $40,800 $200,000 In this stweteh o > miles there live 2}000\ m Five thousand \fay ‘faynilies live in this row. of palac ni rtune of these The aggregate Jf Park Avenue pain 2s is said to amount to $5,000,0410,000. The Family’ Budget. In 1927 the que spent $286, 000,000 for necessities and lu: In 1929: the avenue; will spend $420,- 000,000, an averagy> of $84,000 per family. Of s amount $185,000,- 000 will be spent, for food, shelter and clothing; $90,000,000 will be spent for amusemiznt; $145,000,000 will be spent for perfumes, flowers, liquor and other odds and ends of that sort. Of this amount $15,000,- 000 will go to the booaleggers for un- adulterated liquors. For the rick the tra\ks of the New York Central on Park Avenue are hidden underground. No busses/are allowed to disturbed the parasites in their slumbers and in!their ammse- ments. When the Tracks Emerge. They live-in palaces, have ‘their own artists to decorate their apart- ments in Chinese, Bohemian or Greenland fashion. For them it is nothing to spend $0,000 dollams for an engagement party for one of their daughters. But where the tracks of the, New York Central emerge from the ground at 96th St., 5,000 workers and their families live in one or’ two city bloc It is because the exploiters can make hundreds of thousands of work- ers live in three miles of tenements that 5,000 exploiters can live in their three miles. How Possible? That is the status that Park Ave. has achieved. Its 1,000 millionaires and multi-millionaires own the tene- ments of New York City, own the industries in which the workers are} exploited. Only in a capitalist system of so- ciety, where one-third of one per cent of the total population can live in the luxury of mythical gods, can there be such a street as Park/ Avenue. wr ay What Would Happen. “WHAT would happen if Park Avenue, together with its resi- were sudenly wiped out? “What would happen if the city, the country, the world, were sud- causes and the effects, the Mental denly denied the influences, the Energy, which radiate from it?” One-Class Street. These are the questions which the organ of Park Avenue, the Social Review, very seriously prints in bold capital letters. ‘What will happen Park Avenue takes lower Park Avenue? The most vicious band of robbers when upper possession of and murderers in history will be wiped out. Park Avenue will become the street of but one class, the working class. oe he Consumptive Money. E greatest fortunes ever amassed in history have been dragged from the millions of workingclass tenants in New York City. These fortunes have been built on the bodies of dead infants, consumptives, fire victims of the tenements; on the misery of workers crowded into vile homes, debauched, choked and robbed. The Astor family achieved its “status” by investing its profits, which the original Astor accumulated at the point of a gun from Indian fur traders, in property in New York City. The Astor Robbers. The history of the accumulation of this fortune is also the history of the “citizens” of Park Avenue. There are variations, of course—variations | in the field of exploitation chosen. Just as it does now, the Tammany machine from the very inception of the administration of New York! City, oiled its cog wheels of corrup-! tion and graft to turn out more pfofits for the exploiters. The first Astor induced it to give him large) grants of land along the Hudson! River, land whieh was termed use- less because it was partially under water. In this way he procured land along the Hudson from 12th St. north to 57th St. as well as in the Bronx and in Harlem. He made the! city government improve the land for him out of the pockets of the! taxpayers. Later the notorious! Tweed ring, which during its reign| of terror is estimated to have stolen | between $45,000,000 and $200,000,- 000, helped the Astors acquire more | land aiong the river. | Owner of “Hell Kitchen.” | When William B. Astor died in) 1875 he owned 700 buildings and left a fortune estimated to be $100,000,- 000. The tenement district on the west side, formerly owned by the! rs, is known as “Hell’s Kitchen.” | ese tenements were in such a dilapidated and unsanitary state that the state legislature was forced to) hold a fake investigation on hous-| When a committee was appointed | the New York City administration q 387 to investigate tenement con< (Continued from Page One) to assure Zaritsky of the approval shook off their responsibilities to- of his policies. In reply to our de- wards our local and instead began mands the Internatio:.sl officials to prepare to break up the local en- have instituted a reign of terror and s Speak for Themselves. Within a period of two years our and file committee accomplish- 1 far better results than were ever recorded by the International . of- ficials. What the entire paid staff of the International of: not accomplish in sixteen y rank and file committees suc in accomplishing in a comparatively short time. In the few years of left wing leadership our local became the second largest local of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery International Union and the largest local of or- ganized women workers in the Uni- ted States. Our membership in- could 's, our eded - creased to nearly four thousand. The working hours were reduced from 50 to 44, The wages were increased and the general working conditions were greatly improved. We created a collective spirit among the trim- mers and have succeeded in enlisting gangsterism. Our International of- ficials openly combine themselves with the bosses and the underworld. With the assistance of the police and courts began their persecution, intimidation and terrorization of our members who fighting against the fasc itsky and Co. Our members remained loyal to the local and the union which they have built. Hundreds of workers wer2 own off their jobs by the bosses at the demand of the International of- ficials. Many of our members were brutally assaulted by the gangsters hired by the right wing officials. Many members were clubbed by the police and imprisoned upon the in- stigation of the right wing provo- cateurs, yi Moreover, wherever our local car- ries on strikes for the enforcement and protection of the workers’ eco- nomic conditions, the right wing of- ficials provide scabs for these firms the active participation of the rank) ayq grant concessions at the ~~pense and file in the organization of the! o¢ the workers. rganized. We have raised the/ The treacherous union-smashing ological leyel of our membership | , otivities employed by the right for militant unionism and the class | struggle. We established an educa- | tional institution consisting of lec-| tures, courses, shop educational con-| ferences dealing with the specific | problems of the women workers in| our industry and the problems of| the working class generally. Our outlook was bright. Our membership continued to grow and were on the road to became the largest local in} our International. Our organization drives aginst the open shops were} vi successful, The numerous | strikes and stoppages conducted by us during the past tz years re-| sulted in unionizing hundreds of! open shops, enforcing union condi- tions therein, and improving the gen- eral condition of our members, There | was no doubt but that the energetic organization activities of our class- conscious and sincere leaders as well | as our rank and file committees! would have resulted in eyen greater | achievements. } Right Wingers Destroy Union. About May 1927, the International officialdom began an attack against | our locai and the crucifixion of our members. In violation of the con- stitution, in defiance of the explicit | instructions of our last convention | and against the interest of the Cap and millinery workers, our Interna- tional officials, in a most dictatorial manner, issued a decree ordering our | local to dissolve and our members| to submit to the fascist rule of the| corrupt socialist clique which dom- | inates the millinery local 24. What made our International officials is- sue such an order to our local? What constituted our guilt? No charges w preferred against us. No trial was given us. Our Interna- tional officials violated the funda- mental principles of the constitu- tion, cynically laughed at the pro-} tests of our members and proceeded | with their union-smashing activitie: Right Wing Officials Lead Attac! Against Workers. | In the interest of all the cap and millinery workers, our local demand- | ed at ail conventions that all locals | of the Millinery Union be amaiga-| mated. When we failed in this, Lo- cal 43 demanded from the 1927 con-| vention the establishment of a Joint | Board of all millinery locals in New| | Zax wing officials against our local are also used against other locals of the International, The charter of the Boston Women’s Local was revoked by ritsky’s clique. The Boston Lo- a Capmakers has been turned into a company union by Zaritsky. The lockout of the Chicago Cap- makers which was maneuvered by Zaritsky for the reestablishment of piece work, met with a stubborn struggle on the part of the workers and the strike was later betrayed | by the International officials. The local has been destroyed, thus re- establishing Chicago as an open cen- ter, President Zaritsky and his lieuten- ants who act as agents of the bosses are determined to force upon the workers the forty-four hour week in- stead of the established forty hour week in the cap trade and the piece work system, instead of the prevail- ing week work system in the cap and millinery trade. They have actually given up the unemployment fund. They are seeking to establish a col- lective agreement in the millinery trade. Zaritsky is determined to smash ail the militant locals which oppose his betrayals and which stand for the maintenance of the union conditions. True to his policy of class-collaboration, Zaritsky is des- perately trying to eliminate from the union all progressive and mili- tant workers who distinguished themselves in organizing thousands of unorganized workers. Instead of combatting the open shop danger, in- stead of utilizing the unified strength of the union for organizing the thousands of unorganized work- instead of protecting the in- s of the workers, Zaritsky is pursuing his treacherous policy of ividing the workers’ ranks and splitting and smashing locals, thus |helping the employers to defeat the workers and destroy the union. Fellow Workers; We ask you to assist us in every possible way to safeguard our union. We appeal to you to help us com- bat the unholy alliance of the right wing officialdom, the bosses, the gangsters and the police. We appeal to you to help us main- tain the forty-nour week in the cap DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1929 NATIONAL MILL UNION IN NEW OFFICE IN SOUTH Expose Gazette ‘Relief’ as Aid to Seabs Only (Continued from Page One) and the threat of terms in prison, the mill owners and their agents are now using now weapons to fight the striking workers, They have estab- lished through their paper, the Gazette, a fake relief agency, which will feed only those who go back to work. “Mass eviction of the strikers from the company-owned houses is | taking place. The strikers and their families are being thrown on the streets, the scanty furnishings being smashed by the flunkies of the Man- ville-Jencke Co. The mill owners hope that this will discourage the strikers and bring them to terms. But they are calculating wrongly. After more than a month of strug- gle on the picket line, the workers will not be terrorized, will not give | up their struggles for more wages, less hours and the recognition of the militant National Textile Workers Union. A Lesson to Workers. “They haye learned during the last few weeks, more about the class struggle than they have in the en- tire period prior to the calling of the strike. They have seen the legal authorities of the state, all the way | An idea of u [many states and } like so many matchbox By MARTIN RUSSAK, ! There has been brought to my attention an article by Mr. Patrick Quinlan which appears in the New Leader under the title of “Textile |Unionism in Paterson.” This curious piece of literature is After Tornado Fury Swept |fom Governor Max Gardener, to an irresponsible defamation not only | Mayor Rankin as open agents of the of the Paterson locals of the Na- {mill barens, Likewise they have tional Textile Workers Union, but of |seen the federal government also | the 30,000 exploited and oppressed York as a preliminary step towards | trade, to establish the forty-hour come out against the workers, when textile workers in Paterson, Commissioner Woods, of the United States Labor Department issued statements denouncing the striking workers, Yes, the striking workers have learned a great deal during the last fsw weeks and have become mili- tant fighters in the working class struggle, | “Realizing that relief is one of the most important phases of striking | activity, going hand in hand with strong picket lines, the |mill men haye started to confuse the strikers in relation to this question. Broke Up Store. “The Workers International Re- | lief, which has always come to the assistance of striking workers has been furnishing food to the strikers from its relief store since the be-| ginning of the strike. The flunkies of the mill barons broke into the relief store and destroyed the food. That meant that for 24 hours the} strikers, |their wives and children went hungry, The store was re- | opened the next day and has since then been distributing food to the striking workers. “The enemies of the workers have now adopted new tactics in their fight against the striking workers, | Unable to browbeat the workers they have decided to use more polished, yet sinister methods. Gazette Fakery. “The Gastonia (N.C.) Gazette, an | organ of the mill owners, which has | been assailing the striking textile workers since the beginning of the | strike, suddenly changes its attitude somewhat. That is, while it con- tinues to attack the National Textile | Workers Union, it superficially changes its attitude towadrs the strikers. Front page appeals be- | ginning May 1 appear in the Gazette, | Record Known. | Paterson workers know very well the traitorous role that Quinlan has played in the labor movement since | his jail sentence for activity in the 1918 strike. This ex-member of the I, W. W. who is now, appropriately, a “socialist,” and who last October came out for the election of Hoover, has at last been rewarded for his | work. A month ago he became or- Pains of a little Paterson union known as the Associated Silk Work- ers. No more reactionary foe of militant unionism could have been} found by the strikebreaking Asso- ciated officials. The capitalist news- papers in Paterson hailed the ap- pointment of Quinlan with great satisfaction. The reactionary “Eve- | ning News” gave this “labor leader” a headline and ran a full length pic- {ture of him on the front page. In the New Leader, Quinlan at- | tempts to blame the present terrible exploitation of the Paterson textile | workers on the radio and the auto, ; | With the logic of a cork-screw, Quin- lan explains that the destruction of the 8-hour day and the drastic low- ering of conditions are a direct re- sult of the greed of the workers for, radios and tin lizzies. - 1 | A Phoney Theory. | The great mass of Paterson silk and dye workers, who do not own | automobiles or any of the expensive | luxuries that Quinla. and his fellow | | bureaucrats of the Associated en- | joy, have learned with bitter com-| 'pleteness that what Quinlan calls| “workers decline and demoraliza- tion” is a direct result of the class- |collaborating tactics of the Asso- | ciated in the face of capitalist speed- vp and rationalization, Founded by a group of ribbon | complete amalgamation. The con- vention so decided and explicitly in- structed the General Executive Board to establish a Joint Board. Instead of carrying out the decision | of the convention, which Local 43| | ditions in the city, William Waldorf | Astor, the owner of miles of tene- ments, was an outstanding member of the committee. Fortune Doubled The fortune of the Astor family in 1875 was doubled by 1892. This for- tune was doubled almost exclusively by what is termed the increased “value of the land.” The growth of the Astor fortune depended mainly on the rise in land values—values which are created by no one else than by the workers themselves. As the land value rose, because of docks put up by workers, or office-buildings put up by work- ers, or dwellings put up by workers, or subways and elevators constructed by workers, the workers had to pay in the form of higher rents for what they themselves had produced. Having made millions out of the lives of workers on this side of the Atlantic, the Astors went to Eng- land, took titles unto themselves,’ posed as reformers for a time, and now Lady Astor is a conservative M. P., fighting strongly for British imperialism. She is a large absentee landlord and her family still has much money invested in tenements in New York City. That is the way Park: Avenue is made possible, persistently demanded, the General Executive Board expelled Local 43 and ordered our members to trans- fer themselves into Local 24, They used the term “amalgamation” as a smoke screen for our expulsion. According to our constitution of the International Union the General Executive Board has no right to dis- solve any local. We appealed against their action and demanded a stay of the execution of this or- der. We are demanding of the con- vention that is being held in New York at present to reject the expul- sion of our local. The expulsion of locals was carried out with the ex- press purpose of preventing a con- vention which would represent the interests of the workers. This 1929 convention was hand picked in order | week in the millinery trade and to maintain the week work system and all other union conditions, gained thru hard struggle and sacrifice by the workers. We appeal to you to help us rid | which state that the Workers Inter-) weavers ,the Associated at first re-| jnational Relief is not able to feed! fused to take in broad-silk workers | the striking workers, and therefore | nq Jater refused to organize the dye they will do so. That was all that) workers, For the better part of a was said in the first statement in| decade the leaders of the Associated = at the farmers of many southern states went thru in the recent tornado sweeping lling many farmers, can be gotten from the above photo showing an auto which was picked up by the wind and blown 100 yards, in Weaversville, Farm houses were lifted up by the wind Ove Vs LITVINOY SCORES: FAKE ARMS MEET ATFINAL SESSION Says Conference Took Step Backward (Continued from Page One) day ruled out the question of limit- ing war stocks, The U.S.S.R. and China voted against the decision and | Germany abstained. Following the vote Count Von Bernstorff declared that the Ger- man delegation refused to accept any responsibility for the conven- tion which will be drafted based on the decisions made during the past few days. Litvinov, for the U. S. 8. R., had already in a previous dec- laration denounced the conference s as a whole for its refusai to take jany measures that would actually limit armaments. Following declarations \ the Soviet delegation presented a pro- LIES OF A RENEGADE POLLCE BREAK UP Associated has control, the bosses | are cutting wages and introducing a 9 and 10 hour day. The Associated | officials openly declare that they are | helpless to defend the silk workers. | This is only part of the truth. They | are giving every assistance, some- times tacit, sometimes outspoken, to the campaign for wage cuts and ‘longer hours. Wherever the work- | ers take up a fight egainst the | bosses they find that they must! fight the Associated as well. Dreve Out Workers, As one of its first official acts | after the 1928 strike, the Associated | decided to drive from all Paterson} shops those workers who for years | have been most outstanding in the | struggle for organization and bet- | ter conditions, Persecution is no longer a privilege of the bosses, The Associated has joined hands with the | bosses in an attempt to crush any! spirit of militancy that exists among the textile workers. Now the Asso- ciated officials have begun a cam-| paign of poisonous slander with the | purpose of shaking the confidence | of the workers in their militant lead- ers. | Tt is a well-known fact that the Associated called the strikes of 1924 and 1928 only because of mass pres- | sure from the workers, and that both strikes were led by Communists and betrayed by the Associated officials, Whatever these discredited officials may say today will not eradicate! from the minds of Paterson work- ers the memory of Harry Wicks, | Lena Chernenko, and Gertrude Muel- | ler, In Summit. | The criminal misdeeds of the As-| sociated officials in Summit is the | latest addition to the long records of betrayal. These officials called the Summit workers out on strike with the Paterson workers in October of| 1928, left them abandoned and iso- lated to struggle alone for five months, and then broke up the strike by making a fake settlement in one of the Summit mills, Dis- gusted with these tactics, the Sum- mit strikers sent a committee with an appeal for help to the National | Textile Workers Union in Paterson and New York, and the Summit workers joined the National Union by a unanimous vote at a subsequent | mass meeting in Summit. Now the Associated is suing the Summit workers for return of relief money the May 1 issue of the mill owners | ni ver’ ourselves of the A. F. of L. leader- ewenioee They May 2 issue of the Uatsa opponed’ a4. ERO ~ ENG ship who have consistently hindered | Gazette exposes the entire plan. the organization of the unorganized| “It says, in refering to the dis- workers and destroyed the organized | tribution of the food: ‘The distribu- labor movement, and who has given | tion of this fund has been placed in full support to the leadership of| the hands of the City Welfare De- Zaritsky in his work of destruction | partment, head by Miss Mabel Potts, and betrayal. | who will be assisted by Joe S. Wray, which was previously given to them by the Associated. In a desperate attempt to calumniate the N. T. W, | struggle and every organizational lendeavor of the silk workers. The |character of the Associated did not) U., Quinlan, in his New Leader ar- |change in tl strike of 1928. It was’ ticle, deliberately accuses the N. T. precisely because the character of/ W, U. of appropriating this relief the Associated did not change in the | money that was given to the Sum- last general strike that all the class-| mit strikers before the N. T. W. U, conscious silk workers discarded this | ever came to Summit! The accom- We appeal to you to help us rid ourselves of the corrupt right wing) officialdom which is serving the in- terests of the bosses. Help us unite all needle trade workers into one powerful union to protect the workers against their enemies. Help us unite all the cap and mil- linery workers with the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union whose aim is to organize the thou- sands of needle trade workers. We welcome the establishment of a Trade Union Center to be organ- ized at the Trade Union Unity Con- vention to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, June 1 and for the purpose of unifying the ranks, organize the un- organized, and improve the condi- tions of the workers on the basis of the class struggle. We appeal to the sense of soli- darity and class consciousness of the working class and all militant work- ing class organizations to help us in our struggles against the treacheries of the right wing in our interna- tional and for our earnest effort to organize women workers in our in- dustry, —Millinery Hand Workers’ Union, Local 43. MINER BURNED. WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (By Mail). —Thomas Evans, a mine laborer, re- ceived brush burns about the head and body when caught between a car and timber at the Hudson Coal Co. Loree No. 8 Colliery. No Wavering, no Hesitancy, no Deviation From the Policy Laid Down by the Red International of Labor Unions, Which Will Lead the Workers in the Coming Class Straggles, Will Lead Them to Vic- tory! secretary of the Chamber of Com- conjunction with her in carrying out this important mission. “Miss Potts and Mr. Wray will immediately investigate thoroughly any cases presented to them, In each instance where the family seek- ing aid manifests an honest spirit of co-operation and the proper desire to get work and thus get back on their feet, assistance will be given. None of this money will be used, however, to feed or help in any way people who continue to remain idle from choice or who continue to have part in disturbances of any kind. The Gazette wishes that fact thoroughly understood at the out- set. “If there was ever an open state- ment of strike breaking, the above quoted lines are. Only those strik- ers who are willing to go back to the mill and scab will be given food. | The others can starve in so far as the Gazette is concerned. The Ga- zette is playing the game of the mill cwners and will not fool any of the striking workers, who will continue on strike until their demands are met. They will ignore the strike- breaking relief agency of the Ga- zette and continue to obtain food from the Workers International Re- lief station. “The W. I. R. store must not be- come empty! It must be able to feed the strikers every day of the week! “The mill bosses and the Gazette wiil not succeed in break- ing the strike, provided the W. I. R. station is able to function effec- tively. All workers and friends of the labor movement must do their share! Send a contribution at once to the Workers International Relief, Room 604, 1 Union Square, New York City." -- * vente crak merce, who has consented to act in| rotten shell of a union, The Bureaucracy. | | The officials of the Associated | have always had bureaucratic inter-| ests of their own which were sep-| arate from the interests of the} workers. Between 1924 and 1928 the | officials and leaders of the Associ- ated built up their union as a de- fense of their own interests against | the opposing interests of the work-| ers, In 1928 the Associated learler- ship deliberately prevented a gen- eral walkout, sabotaged the strike, and kept the workers from a de- cisive struggle with the bosses, Such a struggle would at the same time have destroyed those bureaucratic officials. They could not prevent the strike altogether. But they had to) liquidate the strike in order to main- tain ,themselves.. This they did, shamelessly. They sent the workers back to the mills with over 150 fake settlements. The answer of the workers is by this time historical— the affiliation with the National Textile Workers Union and the opening of a new era of rising class struggle. Joined With Bosses. Since the strike the Associated leaders have allied themselves with the bosses. Led by the worst trai- tors and renegades that have ever fastened themselves upon the Pat- erson labor movement, furnished with contributions from manufac- turers’ societies and from former labor organizations that are now controlled by bosses, the Associated is advancing to the attack of all workers who dare to fight for the intrests of the working class. The traitors of the Associated are co-operating with the bosses to wipe out whatever union conditions can still be found in the silk mills. In panying lie that the N. T. W. U, or- ganizer went to a mill owner with an offer of men who would work 10 hours at reduced wages, could have originated only in the corrupt im- agination of a renegade. A Weaver's Record. One lie in Quinlan’s article has created a good deal of amusement. According to Quinlan, the N. T. W. U. organizer who was called to Sum- mit by the workers there is the son of a silk manufacturer in anothev part of the state, and went to Sum- mit with the express purpose of damaging his father’s business ri- vals. It is known to all that the ‘Communist leader” in question is a Paterson weaver and a former) member of the Associated. His grandfather was a Paterson weaver who was active in many strikes, His father is a Paterson weaver whose 25 years of activity in the Pater- son labor movement speaks for it- self. He was one of the first broad- silk weavers to be admitted into the Associated, and his leading role in the founding of the N. T. W. U, in Paterson brought upon him, with 22 other left wing members of the As- sociated, expulsion by the yellow leaders, and several slanderous re- marks, of which this one by Quinlan is not the first. Quinlan his shown himself to be a stupid liar. His attempts to throw mud have made him so dirty that he will never be able to clean him- self, The best union elements in Paterson have already come into the National Textile Workers. Union. The result of Quinlan’s work is only further exposure of the Associated. Long Live the Revolutionary ({ Jone shop after snother where the nial Peoples ® sn ane |posal to check the “feverish activity now displayed in the sphere of war- |like inventions,” and to limit the powers to the use of those inven- tions which already exist. The proposal to do aw with those that exist was out of order jon the basis of an earlier decision |that only “limiting” of future de- veloprhents are on the agenda. | The U, 8, S. R. delegation argued | that humanity would not be the suf- ferer if the energies of the scien- tists were diverted to constructive rather than destructive ends. The powers, all of whom have secret inventions for war purposes jand are making decisions to limit cnly those armaments for which YONKERS MEET May Day Permit Re- voked at Last Moment YONKERS, May 6.—The May Day meeting held by the Communist Party Saturday afternoon was broken up by the police as soon as it had started, and the speakers and organizers arrested. The meeting, which was held at Manor House| they already have more effective in- Square, at 5:30 p. m., had been per-| ventions, rejected the motion, It is mitted by the Mayor a couple of | significant that Germany also voted weeks ago, but at the last moment |for rejection with the other powers, the permit was revoked, and when|and undoubtedly for the same rea- the speakers went ahead regardless | sons. of the revocation, the arrests were a So made, ti ih The speakers arrested were Max} PRISONED OL Shalkin, who also acted as chairman, Henrietta Cooper, Edward Wright, and Mary Adams. After the chair-| BARON AT LARGE man had spoken for a few minutes, | and had introduced Wright, the next | speaker, a police sergeant and de-} bestia. teatlve, whe ‘pad taken away from | Sinclair “Serves” First em the original permit, and vainly | Day Comfortably ordered them to disperse, arrested | them and took them to the police WASHINGTON, May 6.—Harry |Sinelair, millionaire oil promoter, station. | The International Labor Defense oe : furnished a lawyer, Inving E, Klein, | 894 euiet figure LePage die tai t 1 f | Swindle, was a r-at-large Who obtained tha selpaze of, those ar \the District of Columbia tonight, | Technically, he started serving a 90- rested. When they left the station | house, the workers of the Otis Eleva- déy ‘sentence’ for ‘contempt olf this Senate this afternoon when Asso- tor plant, which is across the street, | Ree eee eerie denen ciate Justice Hitz, of the District as having distributed thousands of |S¥Preme Court, issued an pd May Day leaflets at the plant, where | immediately effective, for Sinclair’ b there is a Communist Party nucleus Enlai 2 jail. h ey and a shop bulletin published, which | “FACHC8 '¥> Dow even oe eas, s : <, Bind free man, whose whereabouts. tha eres Tuer Ve: Se As could not Le learned. According to * *. |rumors, he was simultaneously “in bed Tae at oe at the | New York,” “enroute to Washing- Bae eid |ton” and “in Washington.” - - | No jail sentence on a man with ore ae we Fascist Hire- |. “hundred million dollars can be TREE OF SSDIG! anything but a joke, and the attor- "| y " neys for the defense, the wardens. CHILD KILLED BY LION at ‘the jail, and the U. S. marshall’s BHAGGADO, Argentina, May 6. office partook of the festivities by (UP).—Maria Estelle Perez, sjugi- sending reporters on wild goose ter of a workman on a plemfation | chases to find Sinclair. near here, met a tragic death today| It is known that Sinclair has when she approached too near the | rented a luxurious house in Wash- cage of an enraged lioness at the |ington, and that when rich men go owner's private zoo, and was |to jail, their health frequently re- dragged into the cage and killed. (quires that the warden give them permission to leave the premises for visits to doctors, dentists, ete. Sinclair will not be given any dirty, and Toilers of India Struggliag {dusty work, nor any work at all Against the Yoke of International | unless he asks for it for the exer- and Native Capital! icise. Books eee FOR WORKERSameem JUST OFF THE PRESS! 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