The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1929 ) i The greatest picketing demon. ~ ie P — stration yet held in the strike of the New York cafeteria workers, who are fighting for a living wage ae ATEST DEMONSTRAT 5 aad YET ION BY CAFETERIA STRIKERS Thousc BUILDING COURT Jailed Food Pickets Write BATTLE ON TODAY Expect Shadow Boxing at Hearing Today (Continued from Page One) Electrical Workers Union, is expect- ed to begin in the afternoon. | Following the announcement of a “survey” into the lockout situation | with a view to a general investiga- tion into the building trades by the State Housing Commission, George Gove, secretary of the commission yesterday saw C. G. Norman of the Building Trades Employers’ Associa- tion, and today will see H. H. Broach, the “Little Caesar” of the Electrical | Workers Union. Boss “Survey.” That the proposed “survey” was actually inspired by the building | bosses with a view to getting favor- able publicity for their campaign to destroy unionism in the building | trades is evident from the announce- | ment that the “survey” follows a preliminary meeting of “archifects, investment builders and other fac-| tors in the industry.” Would Aim at Unionism. An “investigation” at this time | would be extremely serviceable to | the bosses as an opening gun in their drive to bring about 100 per | cent open shop conditions in the in-| dustry. That this will be attempted in the very near future is seen in the declaration by the building bosses, following the agreement of the electrical workers to call off! their strikes, that “other conces-| sions must be made before peace | will prevail in the industry.” | Militant building trades workers, and especially electricians, declared that corruption is rampant in the building trades unions, but pointed out that an “investigation” by the Housing Commission or any other | tool of thé bosses would lead only to an attack against trade unionism thruout the industry, and against the whole labor movement. Urge Bldg. Committees. | Militants called for the immedi- ate formation of building commit- tees and a Workers Council, which would not only expose the corrup-| tion of the reactionary officialdom of the union, but would push a cam- | paign for the organization of the, thousands of unorganized workers, and for a finish fight against the “job trust” which prevails at pres- nt. 00D WORKERS PLEDGE FIGHT | and haunane hours under the leadership of the Hotel, Restaurant and | was held Monday, in the garment area. ds of needle trad 8 | Cafeteria Workers’ branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union, joined in thts demonstration ofyeolidapity om the svorker! ! jand right hand in the air, sworn|scouts and enrolling them in the allegiance to the Tammany-con- | Fioneers trolled Central Trades Council. | At this pre vention The Council adjourned its busi-}Young Pioneers are going to to Comrades trom Prison (Continued from Page One) about, It tells you how to organize in order to make’a decent living and Ils you what your other fellow workers are doing. I wish I had more paper te tell you what T found out thru the “Daily Worker.” was one thing of the greatest im- portance to all workers that I learned and that was that the workers of Soviet Russia control the govern- ment, About 12 years ago they or- ganized and put the bosses to work and many in jail. Now they work seven hours a day and are continu- ing to build the country in order to better their conditions more and more. If they got this with organi- zation we certainly at present can get cur 8-hour day. Keep the picket line and we will win. —A STRIKER. * * * From Tony Odell No. 97582 Welfare Island, New York Correc.ion Hospital. Fellow Workers: Just a few lines to let you know that I am feeling fine and was very glad to hear your regards. I will be very glad to be with you again May 18th, when I will be able to leave this hospital. I was slugged so badly that I can’t move but any- way when I get out on the picket line I'll fight harder than ever. I hope that everybody else is in good EXPOSE BLUSTER OF FUR BOSSES (Continued from Page One) is a good indication of the temper of the workers in the Associated shops, and is but one more proof that the manufacturers are well aware of the fact that the workers of the Associated shops as well as all other fur workers will go out on strike for union conditions at the call of the Industrial Union. The loyalty shown by the Asso- ciated to their allies, the company union, by the instructions to its members to make sure that every worker is in possession of a book from the Joint Council, will be of no avail to them. The workers, after two years of bitter experience, know that an organization which is backed by the bosses and exists at | their merey cannot and will not fight for the workers’ interests. Rompapas Manager. “The statement of Mr. Rompapas, manager of the Greek Association, ‘shows a similar trend and similar fears. The Greek workers are solid- ly lined up with the Industrial Union and have been amongst the There health, and working hard to win the | strike. Don’t forget, picketing will win the strike, so keep the line, Best regards to all the fellow workers and comrades. | TONY ODELL, | Sighs ee P.S.—Fight hard boys. Tombs Prison | Centre Street, New York y: Dear Comrades: | Just a few lines to let you know that we can’t rest until our time is up so that we can again be back on the picket line. Tell our comrades | not to be afraid to come to jail as it | is swell here, “ha, ha.” I guess most of them have been here and are | willing to come again, not because it is so swell, but because they are continuing to picket. We thank the union for the money | | they sent us and now we have cigar- ettes and a few other things. | How many shops have settled? We don’t get the Daily Worker here; so besides the information you give us, we can get no other truthful infor- | mation, Tell the comrades to stay on the picket line and we will be out next week, picketing with them, It won’t be long now! | —From Comrades in Tombs ! Prison, N. Y. C. 1500 More Iron Workers, Join Iron Strike Here (Continued from Page One) vorize the strikers, arresting A. | Katz, a picket, at the Tremont Iron Works, on Tremont Ave., Bronx. He was sentenced to a day in prison. A mass meeting of the strikers |will be held Saturday afternoon at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St.) \Speakers prominent in the labor mevement will address the strik- | ers. | ‘Labor and Fraternal | Organizations | | 7 TEROORT! | | Council 17, U. C. W. W- | “From the Cradle to the College” | will be discussed by J. Medem in a)! |lecture at 227 Brighton Beach Ave. |today, 8:30 p. m, | ene | Toussaint L'Ouverture. A Toussaint L’Quverture memorial {will be held at the dance and con-| cert at the Workers Center, 154 Wat-| kins St. under the auspices of the} Brooklyn Branch of the American| | Negro Labor Congress, tomorrow. Mu- sic by Carl Brown's Modern Colony | Orchestra. | * . Council 10, Bath Bench, An entertainment in aid of the Shifrin and Mineola defense will be | given at the Workers Center, 48 Bay) | Labor, its locals, officials and acts.” | this Ting ness session at an eafly hour to lis-!a new district executive committee A ten to a learned discourse on “The|that wil! lead the Pioneers in the || Conservation of Vision” by Dr. B.|coming year, This convention will Franklin Royer, medical director of the National Society for the Preven- tion of Blindnes Stab Workers Fighting Boss Injunctions ey ee tion from the food strikers asking for financial assistance. | mics, TQ. OPEN TODAY “Might I inquire,” he asked pomp- | ously of the secretary, “Brother”! Quinn, of the Hatters’ Union, who ‘ = | Teale fike a pecsperous building con-|oLG. Annual Convention | tractor, “Might I inquire if this Marks Big Gain communication bears the seal of the | s jalso go on record to organize the {thousands of Negro children in the |schools. And we are going to in augurate a campaign to send a chil- dren’s delegation to the Union in the early part of the sum- We are going to send this jdelegation to Soviet Russia as an \ answer to the bosses who are pre- |paring for a war on Russia. We are sending this delegation to Sov- jiet Russia as an answer to the |seout international jamboree, that will be held in England this sum |mer, In sending this delegation jare going to raise the following slo | j mer. American Federation of Labor.” By HARRY EISMAN gans: Defend the Soviet Union! The delegate remarked that it Fs < Down with Child Labor Fight the was important to find this out be- (A Young Pioncer) |Boy Scouts! Into the School S cause the cafeteria strikers’ organi-, The Young Pioneers of District 2/gle! zation and the “Textile Council” will hold its third annual conven- | (meaning, apparently, the National |tion today, tomorzow and Sunday. ! Textile Workers Union) “were | This convention is being held at a} flooding the city with appeals for time when the bosses are organizing assistance,” the workers’ children for their com- Lehman's Ques ing war by forming junior naval Quinn shuffled some papers and|¥eserves, boy seouts and various discovered that the communication |“ther organizations, where the chil- | did not bear that holy seal. “But |/@ten are being trained to fight the | perhaps,” suggested Brother Quinn, |Workers. To counteract all this | “Brother Lehman of the Waiters there is in existence a working class | Union can give us more information |hildren’s organization that fights on the malject” all these militarist organizations, Lehman took the cue and said his |the Young Pioneers of Ame piece. Lehman solemnly reported that he é made an investigation of the sub-| At the second convention of the ject and.found “that the so-called |Pioneers last year it was decided Strike of the food workers was being | that we all enter the school struggle conducted only for the purpose of |and organize more and more chil- aiding the Communists and of at-{dren’s groups in the schools. Many tacking the American Federation of | Victories have been accomplished in > by the living proof that The brother wound up by con- | today we have in existence over 26 gratulating the delegates for their|®chool groups in New York City. apprehension on the subject and for The number of school groups grew not aiding financially “these peo- over the number of last year, which ple.” wasn’t even half as many, due to persecuiions of Pioneers in the A sordid bit of irony cropped up|Schools. We have the example of during the proceedings when the |the suspension of Harry Eisman in secretary, in reading the minutes of |November, the demotion of Bernard the last "meeting of the Executive |aplan in November, the demotion Committee, reported that the com-|0f Lebe Taft and Janette Rubin in mittee congratulated the Building January and the suspension of Dora Trades Council “for being victorious | Saltzman and Nathan Singer early in their fight for the five-day week.” |this term. All these persecutions This was written in the wake of t00K place in Junior High Schol 61. the treacherous surrender of the| Then we have the case of Nathan Building Trades officialdom before | Shapiro, who was suspended from the bosses, the consequent repudia-|P. S, 89 and transferred to J. H. S. tion by them of the “promised” five- 45 at the beginning of this term. day week, and the beginning of a|These persecutions have strength- savage offensive to break down|cned the Pioneer movement. because union standards in the building in-;we were prepared for it. The school dustry. authorities had in view the breaking ‘A communication was received |up of the Pioneers, but our Pioneers from Samuel Beardsely, a member have taken up this challenge and) of the socialist party, who, with his are issuing more and more school right wing lieutenants, rules in the papers and_ leaflets. During the Jewelry Workers Union. Beardsely | year, from May, 1928, to May. 1929, complained that situation has|we have issued 12 school bulletir arisen in his organization where the|six different school groups, while Communists are advocating dual before May, 1928, we only issued policies.” The gang as a result in- three school bulletins. vited Beardsley to join the Central Giiac Achievements: Growth During Past Year. “Five Day Week!” ligt Bronx Laundry Drivers Strike for Union and Pay Increase Continues Picketing continuing in the sirike of the In drivers of the Cha 9 _ Communist Activities f the Party clocted Aa Park, open. h St. tonight. D ary Keep Ju elections executives today at t the Wor Cente Square, R ! * neer Conyen mat ble tion E 1X Open Air Meetings Planned This Week Com Frances Pilat ers Union strike is : ve P Saturda a jnow on against the Fairview Lawn) 555.4 ang] oe MIDWIFE 1882 Crotona Ave. where the Peete, es eee Ne 351 E. 7/th St., N York, N. otona Ave. where the ...: Auerbach and Williams pial easoth workers are fighting for an agree- ment preventing the bo from arbitra firing w . ht Laundry, 207 n Ave., where the bosses locked out the workers because of union effilia- tion, and the Jerome Laundry, 1690 Jerome Ave., where the workers are fighting for a $5 weekly wage in- crease and a reduction of how: The workers in the latter place york 50 and 55 hours a week for Sent developing for a spread of the strike to the inside workers, who are even more miser ably exploited, and for a solid fron st the bosses. rikers meet every Boston Rd. TENEMENTS t day at 1301 GALE A mile a minute gale {ternocn glass dows, tore up trees and did damage DAMAGES rday win- broke plate to the poorer, working class tene- ments Queens. Three airplanes were at Roosevelt Field. Two others barely landed in time to escape dis in Brooklyn and wrecked Yel. Rhinelander 3916 gro Question. ALMA RUEBENS INSANE. COMRADES ME LOS ANGELES, May 16—Alma|| (gs? : fadbetas one ob ike aight apnea | MUUSELS Spaghetti House ladies of the screen until she began || 5 course Ly to take too much dope became in- || ue “Ms oth ee sane today and attacked her nurse | S-course Dinner 75e—5 to 9 She has been committed to the city | 4 LA CARTE ALL DA¥ psychopathic ward. | 49 West 16th Street SEEK RAISE. R, Col. (By Mail).—Or- os workers of Denver increase ER Meet your Friends a GREENBERG’S Bakery & Restaurant E. 174th St., C ght off 174th s Station, Hoe Ave. t Subway R For Any Kind of Insurance” ‘ East 42nd Street, New York All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S VEGETARIAN HEALTH TAURANT 558 Claremont Parkway, Bronx Cooperators! PATRONIZE BERGMAN BROS. Your Nearest Stationery Store Cigars, Cigarettes, Candy, Toys 649 Allerton Ave. BRONX, N.Y. Olinville 9681-2—9791-2 Comrades Will Always Find tr/ Pleasant to Dine at Our Place.) 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx! Telephon tas FROM FACTORY TO YOU! HIGH-GRADE MEN'S and YOUNG MENS SUITS From $12.50 to $25.00 PHONE: (near 174th — ID DR. J. MINDEL| SURGECN DENTIST 1 UNION SQUARE Reom 803—Phone: Algonquin 8183 Not connected with any other office MEET YOUR FRIENDS at} Messinger’s Vegetarian ¢ most active participants in all strik y (Continued from Page One) preparations, In the coming gen-|* Meena Trades Council “so that this body) What else have we accomplished | PARK CLOTHING STORE | !—== d Dairy R eral strike of 1929 the Greek work-| Bath Beael nist Youth |can better cooperate with him in';, other lines? During the last Na-|] 93 ave. a, Cor, ai ae SCE. = an aury estaurant | mand to the strikers to surrender. | Mass Picketing. | There will be a mass picketing demonstration in the garment sec-| tion today at noon. The union has appealed to all labor organizations 1763 Southern Blyd., 7 onx, N.Y. Right off 174th St. Subway Station Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York Office hours: Mon., Wed., Sat., 9,30 a.m. to 6PM. Tues., Thurs., 9.30 a, m, to 12; 4 to 8 p, m. 10 a. m. to 1 p.m, e for appointment. : Lehigh 6022 ers under the leadership of the In-| A one-act play will be presented the fight against the Communists.” |tigngl Election Campaign of the dustrial Union will once and for an} et ihe May éa te atthe. League, at| The ‘dual policies” referred to by Communist Party the Pioneers did wipe out company unionism and|is'péy Bath Seno” VO™NS™® Center| Beardsely refer to the recent action some splendid work, such as organ- | build a powerful branch of the| * of the Dental Mechanics, who are jiving “Vote Communist Clubs” and Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | associated with the jewelry workers, suing leaflets telling the workers’ | to participate in this demonstration,| Union to include every Greek fur) in voting moral and financial SUP-| children about our candidates. to join in the fight against the most| worker. | port to the cafeteria strikers. | In answer to the campaign of the sweeping, drastic injunction ever “Before long the most convincing Swear in Thug. lbosses in organizing the workers’ | granted in New York, pointing out/ of all answers will be given by the! Heller, right wing thug chieftain children for the coming war our! of the Grocery Clerks Union andj Pioneers have issued many leaflets | COOPERATORS! PATRONIZE M. FORMAN Allerton Carriage, Bicycle and Toy Shop - 736 ALLERTON AVENUE (Near_Allerton Theatre, Bronx) Phone, Olinville 3 For a Real Oriental Cooked Meni VISIT THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRESSIVE CENTER 101 WEST 28TH STREET (Corner 6th Ave.) | * Bronx Youth Club, Starting point for the hike Sunday ill be 1472 Boston Road. ee re | Millinery Handworkers’ Union. oy every worker is concerned in| workers to the manufacturers by the) rhe social fd. educational gun, of he outcome. complete shut-down of the fur indus-| {2 Upion w old & dance Pridey, | side. f 7 ial- | exposi juni val 1 RESTAURANT, CAFET! ‘ ‘ May 24."8p. m,_at_ New Webster | aide-de-campe of the corrupt social-|exposing the junior naval reserves = . T, CAFETERIA The Haynes Cafeteria at 411) try at the general strike call of the Manor, yith St. ind ‘Third ‘Ave, : ist United Hebrew Trades was of-|and the boy scouts. As a result of | focperatora! Patronize Open URI eis m. | oe Saree ficially inducted into the Council these leaflets we have succeeded in|] Advertise your Union Mectings S E R O Y nici Broadway, and the Natural, at 21| Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Broadway, signed the agreement) Union. eA with the union today. | The Needle Workérs Industrial | | Seven strikers picketing the Ar-|Union is planning a series of open ene Cafeteria at 35th St. and 8th| forums in the residential sections of ve. yesterday were forced into hall-| the cloak, dressmakers and furriers, Harlem Progressive Club. i 4 i here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 26-28 Union Sq., New York City | after he had, left hand on his heart getting many children out of the A hike to City Island will be held Sunday. Meet at clubrooms, 1492 | Madison Ave., 8:30 a. + * CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 Bronx, N. Y. HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT | English Section, Die Naturefreunde. A hike to the Hudson River will be| Welcome ! ays by policemen, when they re- in connection with the strike mob- |Borry, Beas me Ce al | used to stop picketing after being ilization. The following three meet- Seainert ieanga Verein | 1600 MADISON AVE. | Phone: UNIversity 5865 —————— Hotel and Restaurant Workers Branch of the Amalgamated hown copies of the injunction of|ings have already been arranged for he United Restaurant Owners’ As-|this coming Sunday morning at 11 ociation. In the hallways, where o'clock: At the Workers Club, 1472 he sympathetic needle trades work- Boston Road—Speakers B. Kaplai rs participating in the demonstra-|H. Schiler and S. Bisoff, chairman; jon could ret interfere, the strik-|at the Brownsville Workers Club, The sixth jubilee concert will be) held at the Carnegie Hall, tomorrow, 8:30 p,m. “The Twelve,” by Blok, | Food Workers THE THIRD YOUNG aneviaga sete vitge toner weet {| Pioneer Convention, Dist. 2 |=». 2%. ray te A Toussaint L'Ouverture mass eld on the first Monday of the Patronize | No-Tip Barber Shops') 26-28 UNION SQUARE | (1 flight up) Phone: Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES memorial meeting wil L be held at § rs were slugged by the cops, One| 154 Watkins St., A. Lolow, L. Co-|Huke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St. at 6: ; , ‘month at # p.m, 2700 BRONX PAK EAST | triker broke away and refused to|hen, speakers, and H, Cotler, chair- nbinee. HarsIa William u Ong t at 8 0) C 0C: | J One Industry—One » Unfon—Join | (corner Allerton Ave.) | A place, with. atmosphere 0 into the Lallway. When the po-| man; at the Coney Island Workers c. H. Hathaway, editor, Labor Unit sd | Fight the Common Enemy! | 20 where all radicals meet i ean’ GL ‘ | | r ice started to beat him, the sym-|Club, 2901 Mermaid Ave, I. Kneden- | nian: ‘albert Moreau, Anti-Imperials | Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th Street, N. Y. C. CORT aESC™ RET 2E.12th St. New York athetie workers standing around/etsky, Sisselman, speakers, and A. re Ld re a A alec pe fie le | me naa iterfered and took the striker away. Land, chairman. Youth ‘League: Richard’ B, Moore, | Speakers—Tableaux—Dramatics Unity Co-operators Patronize FRED SPITZ, Ine. Rati 1 FLORIST ArIONe Harlem Tenants League and Robert Minor, acting secretary, Communist Party. SAM LESSER Ladies’ and Gents’ Tailor 1818 - 7th Ave, New York Between 110th and 111th Sts. Next to Unity Co-operative House EXCELLENT PROGRAM Admission Adults 35c. Tickets on Sale at Young Pioneers of America, 26-28 Union Square. Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVE! UE Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetariun Food NOW AT 31 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 1st & 2nd Sts.) Flowers for All Occasions BELFAST SHIPYARD STRIKE. LONDON, (By Mail),—In a col- BELFAST, (By Mail).—Carpen- lision between the motor schgoner rs and joiners in the Belfast ship- | Hawarend Castle and the steamer Recruit members for the Com- lards are on strike for a wage in-|Dunkirk, near Gravesend, several |, munist Party at factory ease of three shillings a week, ‘seamen were injured. HIN ial sac nct a Children 1c. 16% % REDUCTION TO READERS or THE DAILY WORKER