The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1930, Page 2

| i; e eed the * day by Charles Katovis, a food has addressed a statement to all _ workers, saying: masses of New York City for Tues- Page Two ‘ DAILY MAE tN NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930 MASS FUNERAL OF KATOVIS, 11 A. ML, UNION SQ. Communist Party Calls All to Attend ym Page One) from Whalen, Tammany’s police commissioner, leader ned thugs who killed and brutally assault- nds of workers. who ne City Hall, protested of worke (Continued threats cossack of the unifo Steve Katovi thor Saturday at t went 0 th: tes strongly he v send his club wielders to attack the funeral. The International La- | bor Defense formally notified the police department of the line of march. | Funeral At 11 A. M. The Di Office of t Party announce all worke will gi th o'clock at U two platform: re ganizations of New York will their respects to their her rade, Katovis, pay com- brutally murdered by } the police while he was on picket vie duty in the Bronx. At the conclu- | of the meeting the body will be | Center and | march up Broad- sion taken fro the procession way to 2ist cross-town on 21st | St. to 7th A then north on 7th} Ave. to 40th St. From there’ all! ll proceed. From 40th St. work- ers who do not have other transpor- tation facilities provided for them ean take the B-M. I. at Times Square, transfer at ae Square | for the 14th St. Canarsie line and} get off at Grand St. station. There} take Roosevelt Ave., Corona Heights | or Maspeth, L. L, trolley to the Mt. | Olivet Cemetery. | All Leave Work! In an appeal issued by I. Amter, district. organizer of the Communist Party, all workers were called upon} to take off from work during the} time of the burial so as to partici-} pate in the meeting and procession. | Young Communist League membe: | nm to come in their uniforms. itant and revolution- | ary labor organizations are urged to send delegations with banners. guard of honor as announced at the | office of the district organizer yes- terday is as follows: I. Amter, H.} Benjamin, S. Darcy, A. Edwards, H. | Feinstein. Olga Gold, Gilbert Green, | G. Hynes, Otto Hall, A. Ivanoff,| Charles Katovis, I. Moore, Sam Nes-| sin, N. Obermeier, I. Potash, Rivera, H. Sazer, S. Siskind, George | Siskind; Jack Schneider. i The meeting in Union Square will | be conducted from two platforms | which will be under the chairman-| ship of Comrades Sam Darcy and Herbert Benjamin. The speakers will be as follows: M. Adams, I. Amter, Fred Biedenkapp, J. Louis Engdahl, Gilbert Green, Robert Min- or, S. Nessin, George Siskind, Ben! Wells, Sam Weissman and Rose Wortis. e The statement of the Communist Party reads in part as follows: “The | complicity of the socialist party in| the murder of Comrade Katovis is) becoming daily more clear. First it became known that Charles Solo- mon, socialist attorney and candi- date for comptroller of the socialist | party in the last municipal election, obtained the injunction against! picketing under the authority of which the police murdered Steve | Katovis. Now Norman Thomas in a cheap imitation of a disgustirigly | cheap statement made by Herbert | Hoover, attempts to “pass off” the | murder of Comrade Katovis and the} demonstration of the thousands of workers against this murder as ‘a mania for martyrdom on the part of the Communists.’ Only a low, cow- ardly ‘socialist’ preacher typical of the political scavengers allied with the bosses and the rotten New York Tammany machine could treat the murder of workers so cynically. The many thousands of workers who will participate in the demonstration to- day will fittingly answer the at- tempt of Normaa Thomas and his crew to make their ghoulish dance at the grave of one of our dead comrades.” “J will avenge the death of my brother by joining the ranks and fighting with the militant workers for whom he gave his life.” This statement was made yester- worker in Jersey City, who came to the New York district of the Inter- national Labor Defense and signed with the defense organization. is a brother of Steve Katovis, whose body lies in the Workers’ Center, awaiting burial to-day. Part of Terror Program The International Labor Defense “The International Labor Defense ‘on all its members and sym) zers to help mobilize the toiling funeral of the murdered worker, Steve Katovis, developing into a giant demonstration rainst the police brutality that the life of our martyred com- that tried to hide its own es through the attempted sup- jon of Saturday’s City Hall It that clubs and jails work- on the picket line fighting for t living conditions, and that the headquarters and tries to the organization ¢f-the In- sndent Shoe Workers’ Union and , the plans | pathetic labor’ organizations are in- *| workers will meet in the office ot jerday. One of these shops is Rubin larity at) Katovis demonstration us by An illustration of workers’ so ing off comrade beaten unconsci their injured fellow-workers. INSTALL NEEDLE SHOP DELEGATES ° |All Invited 1 Thursday:| 3 | All At Funer’ al Today | Thew oe ce y There will be an installation of|T the newly elected Delega Council of the Needl s Work- ers’ Industrial Union Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7.80 p. m., in Manhattan L; ceum, 66 East Fourth St event will mark the re-organi of the Industrial Union on the’l f the shop delegate system, police clubs. Our Answer , Steve Katovi: he They ae worker s, ‘militants, of workers e as you, g as you to gay With life itself To free the toili Our Clase mass, hich will place complete and more direct control of the union and all union! Fror and rough Sym |affairs in the hands of the rank |file workers in the shops |their Shop Delegate Connell, Yes, Katovis, ; We have heard your message, This TERROR shall not find us| Cowed and meek— | They shall be answered! —F. S. vited to send representatives to, be present. The unemployed dressmakers, cloakmakers, furriers and millinery | January 24, 1930. | the union, 131 West 28th St., Wednesday and Thursday, Jan, 25 | and 30, during the day to elect del-| ‘MILLINERS RALLY j egates to represent the unemployed | | workers on the Shop Delegate | | a ‘FOR UNION TODAY The Industrial Union calls on all its members to participate in the | funeral to Comrade Steve Katoves. | | Five More Strikes \Beginning 2 of Struggle; ; ; | Five more dress strikes were de-| ‘ clared by the Industrial Union yes- | Unor ganized Tnvited meeting of all millinery organized and unorganized, trimmers, blockers and operators, is called by Local 43 of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, to | meet in Bryant Hall, 725 Sixth Ave. .) today, right after work. Among the | speakers will be Rose Wortis and) Ben Gold, of the N.T.W.1.U. j & Littman, employing a large num- of ber of workers who are paid as lit- |S tle as $14 and $15 per week. The Negro women workers in this shop were particularly exploited. Work- ers of the shop responded to the strike call enthusiastically. The workers of the fur shop, Mor- gan & Miller of 150 West 28th St.,| went on strike yesterday at the call} Leaftets issued by Local 43 state: of the Industrial Union. When they! “This meeting must be the begin- jasked the boss for an increase he | ning of a campaign for the organ- | started negotiations with the right | jzation of the unorganized through wing union. united struggle of all the wo-kers. The organization drive is being | This mass meeting must express the extended on a wider scale. Workers | will and determination of the mil- lof open shops are called upon to/|linery workers to fight for their bring their complaints to the office | union conditions. | of the Industrial Union, to organize) «ppo Industrial Union has now shop committees, not to wait for | been reorganized on the basis of the | committees of the union to come up| shop delegate system to establish | to their shops, but to come down a5 | rank and file control of the union. | organized groups to strike for union | 41] workers of union and non-union | conditions. Active workers are called | shops are called upon to elect dele-| LES i eo she pttike of the | gates to the Shop Delegates Council. | union in the mornings at 7.30 &. m.)” «Behind the ‘innocent’ talk of the | to help picket the striking shops 7aritsky machine about peace and| and force the employers to sign UP welfare of the industry is hidden the with the Industrial Union, granting shameful conspiracy to betray and lunion conditions to the workers. | <¢]) out the millinery workers just In an effort to interfere with the 45 the Schlesinger gang has sold organization campaign of the In- and betrayed the other needle dustrial Union the company-union | trades workers.” has made an effort to-day to bring | to trial the Organizer of the Indus- | Feb. 4. The. Industrial Union is The case came up at) a frame-up. Part 9, before General Sessions, Tecteaihe np: Feeding the Strik will struggle to the utmost in sup- port of workers resisting the mur- der regime of the employing class that gives every possible endorse- ment and aid to its assassins that it mobilizes against the working class.” | | The I. L. D, statement -connects the murder of Katovis with that of Ella May, with the hundreds of ar- rests, and says, “These are part of the general scheme of the Wall Street government to crush, as it hopes, the growing spirit of work- | ing class resistance to its war prep- | arations...and smash the daily mounting discontent as new masses of workers are thrown ito the na- tion’s ‘growing jobless army.” The Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, the Food Clerks’ Union, the Building Maintenance Workers’ Union, theNeedle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, the Labor Sports Union, the Young Pioneers, the Young Communist League, and many other militant unions and workérs’ organizations have called on their members to stop work to- lief, at 208 Yori: rook. Se: every day. There ave five more su class struggle trade unions. e International Labor Defense day and be at the funeral of Steve, Hatoys, of the strike. The Working Men's food, Dimandieation at City Hall. Workers carry- Workers themselves rendered first aid to WOODS AND BOSS ORDER SHOE RAID IStiikcora Honor Katovis! Will Be At Funeral he police raids on strike head: ters of the Independent Shoe Workers Union were a result of a} | meeting last week between Commis- sioner Woods, of the United States | Department of Labor, the officials lof the Metropolitan Association of| shoe manufacturers, representatives | of the po department, and the! scab agents, J. Cronins and Mike Moore. The bosses complained that their lockout in 22 shops on Woods orders was failing. Woods then told them that the police should smash all the strike headquarters. Police continued their efforts to close the headquarters yesterday. A police sergeant and squad drove alt! strikers of the Diana Shoe Co, from their headquarters at 70 White Oak | Ave. Brooklyn, about 2:30 in the afternoon. The police had been try- ing to intimidate them for days. Another Police Burglary. Saturday afternoon police tried to break into the headquarters at 163 | North St., Brooklyn, where Schwartz & Benjamin workers meet. They! came: after all had left and forced | the landlady to open the door. They | searched the place. About 70 workers most of them | | arrested when the Septum & Bress- |ler strikers’ headquarters were |vaided Friday, were tried yesterday in Williamsburg court. The case was continued after cross-examina- tion by the defense had proved that the Bressler shop has only a tem- | porary injunction. Fifteen arrested for picketing came up yesterday in Coney Island court and were dismissed. Today there will be a trial in Gates Ave. court of several charged with dis-|a orderly conduct at Schw: & Benjamin, and the Colonial, Four workers were arrested yes-| 7 terday at the Leo shop, where the workers have repudiated the “Boot and Shoe Workers,” the cor heny. union. Honor Katovis. A large and enthusiastic meeting jof 600 strikers all from Manhattan shops was held yesterday afternoon at Irving Plaza. When Organizer | Calabrini, opening the meeting spoke of Steve Katovis, all rose and hon- ored him with two minutes’ silence. All shoe workers there promised to be at the funeral today. President Steve Alexanderson re- ported to the meeting that the union struck yesterday at Pace Bros. shop, ! 24 Bauman St., Brooklyn, and that | after half a day the boss desired to trial Union, Irving Potash, through Judge Nott, and was postponed to | confer with the union. Rose Tamarin of the Women’s preparing to make a fight to expose Department of the union called on all to further organization work ing Shoe Workers ° veral huccred striiers are fed here ich kitchens in the various sections Councils ave collaborating to collect FIGHTING FOOD CLERKS 10 MEET AT 11 A.M, Quit Work and Come to; Funeral of Katovis All food elerks stop work and assemble at 11:30 today at union| | headquarters, 16. West 21st St., to | attend the funeral of Steve Katovis, | murdered in the strike at Millers Market,” a statement issued by the strike committee of the Food Clerks’ Union of the Amalgamated | Food Workers. | A resolution adopted by the union states in part: “The struggle to better the con- of the food clerks in New is being met with the vicious eae police | ditior | Yor | opposition “of the bos’ | and their agents, the soc t party | land the American Federation of Labor. - | | “The workers of New York called lhy the Trade Union Unity League | to protest against this terror and against the of — injunctions against the workers, were met by j still more § The police cos- \s Shitiugl at the assembled workers ‘and the result was that they killed | Steve Katovis. | “We pledge that we will replace Comrade Katovis with hundreds of working class fighters in his p! to carry on the struggle to v ‘ictor use ANTI-SOVIET SPIES GET GER- | MAN COURT PROTECTION (Wireless By lnprecorr) ae BERLIN, Jan. 27—The arti-So- viet forgers tria] was held in secret | ay, while evidence was being | cn concerning the prisoner Bell’s 2s a spy. When the court | vas again open, the director of the} Datiat Bank testified, saying that (in effect) the accused could not be counterfeiters because ‘Soviet chervonetz is not currency because it, is not quoted internationally on mo exvhanges.” He was forced to admit, however, that his own |Danat Bank, always held supplies of chervenetz. Labor and Fraternal | Organizations Loser of Purse in Lenin Meeting. Call and claim at Shoe Workers cist St tod ne! Union, 16 W. Dawntown UD. sday, January 29, Center. "8 p.m, at We Worker * | Mass eiitend Meeti Against police brutality ing 01 Katov' | January | St Centra 1.L.D. ‘Willia 66 Section 1. | | . r + oe | Communist . Activities * District Agitprop, Discussion—Outlines Leninism and war danger ready, Section 1. All organizers of Monday Wednesday Units must repott to sec. tion head&quarters at 5:30 before the of ‘fuesday units gs for Wednesday or and} must Thurs : Factory District, Nucl 1. Bronx. Tuesday, 6 p. m., as usual, Go from ship meeting. m., Wednesday, anhattan Lyceum, ational ary 29, at st Fourth St. * ies Borie, Every Thursday, 10 a.m, at Am- bassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave., near Claremont Parkway, of vital interest for all workers, Auspices, Section 5 Communist Party and Left Wing in A. F. of Le local. : . Educational Meeting. Unit. R2, Section 1, wil have an educational meeting this Wednesday, 8p. m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 3, Fourth’St, + ee Sh 2 ae Branch 1, Section 8 Recanse of District membership 7p. m., at 105 Thadfor Ave. Member. hip meet 8 p.m, among women of shoe workers’ ‘families, and to elect delegates to a conference of women workers to be held in union headquarters, 16 West 21st St., on February 3. J. Magliacano, Italian organizer, reported that the police in ‘their drive to close the strike headquar- ‘ters in Brooklyn, were in many cases closing all the strike relief kitchens, which were in the same headquar- ters. Most of the speakers were rank and filers, all expressing their de- termination to fight ‘on to victory, The meeting closed with enthusiasm high for a determined fight to a successful end. Rehearsal Tonight, 8 W. I. R. BRASS BAND at 106 East 14th Street NEW MEMBERS WANTED! PLLLOL OLIN OSE OL LL O LPO C LOCOCO OL OS LPOLPOOPOOO LOL ODODE DL OIOOOEIIONE Opening for Three Children Ages 14 to 36 months at Our Nursery School 338 EAST 19TH ST. * (near Stuyvesant Park) Group training for children from ga. m. to 5 p.m, freeing mothers for work or activity in the movement. |geant in the Czar’s army shoc ‘Ethel Barrimore Theatre BRONX THEATRE GUILD Interested, parents slo person, Hor \“A Fragment ot An Empire” Fine Soviet film at Cameo In another fine product of Soviet! motion picture art, the Rip Van Winkle theme has been revived in a new and realistic form, in the only country where it would have any meaning at present. Capitalism changes only.in detail—it is always exploitation. But something hap- pened in Russia in 1917 that changed the whole face of society there, and of which the end is not ECOND AVEN JE PLAYHOUSE “A Fragment of an Empire,” now at the Cameo, directed by Frederick Ermler, scenario by K. Vinogradsky, | photography by Eney, shows a s into amnesia by shells fired at him by both Russian and German artil- | lery while he was fraternizing with a German soldier, Fedor Nikitin | ™ has the part of the sergeant, Fili- Ivan Mosjoukine and Jenny leading players in “L Avertue Playhouse. Jugo, es of Casa- ” now showing at the Second saved by Filiminoy in a mechanical ay, while stifl dazed. The scenes in which this rescue was shown are poignant and practically indescrib- able, | The young soldier explains to Fil- liminov something of what has taken place: the meaning of the Lenin statues, the common dining room, ets., and he eventually finds out i“Who is Master.” He finds his old wife, too, fight- ng with her new husband, a hypo- ritical intellectual, and finally eaves them both in disgust—"Just wo fragments of empire.” The photography, always one of he best features of the Amkino re- is up to the usual standard, —V. 8: me in History of | he Work ers e, Italy, con- under special legislation. rike on Shanghai-Nanking demned monov, The mental clouds clear up | s a 7 when Filiminoy accidentally sees in|ment has risen on the site of th a passing train window his wife, | slum. who has given him up and married The old factory owner neart, again? Without any realization of |faints when his former employ the fact tlt a revolution has taken place, he beats his way in American |ging his job back. At th nfigratory worker style on a cattle|he goes looking for “M facto comes bowing and scraping and beg- ie 1918—German , bread and y proclaimed, y fia = tone sg Write About Yo: Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Y Worker Correspondent. “For All Kind of Insurance” om.” train to what he still calls “St.|The chairman of the tory com- Petersburg,” and tries to find his| mittee turns out to be a former Red old home: A big workers’ apart- Army soldier (Yacov Goodkin), *AMUSEMENTS- CAMEO #9, AMKINO PRE! The American Premiere . “A Fragment of an Empire” PRODUCED BY SOVKINO OF MOSCOW The Rebirth of a Shell-Shocked Man TREMENDOUS, MIGHTY, CONSTRUCTIVE ‘Theatre Guild Productions h AY “METEOR” loves. $329. Mats. srhur, sat. Bde, 1. 0 By 8S. N. BEHRMAN EVA Le GALLI Director GUILD W. 9% eva. 8:60 iKht—"THE LIVING COR Mats, Th.&Sat. 2:40 WOMEN HAY LAST WEEK! “RED RUST” By Kirchon & Ow usky MARTIN BECK 45th street Eves. §:40. Mats. and Saturday | | Loew”s ‘Big 2” | PITKIN || PARADISE Pitkin Avenue Brooklyn Bronx 47th Street, West of Broadwe: Eves. 8:50. Mats. Wed. & Sat. “Death Takes a Holiday” with PHILIP MERIVALE A comedy about life. JOLSON’S yin St ine A ae Se ‘The Chocolate Soldier’ OSCAR STRAUS OPERETTA Charles Purcell, Alice MacKenzie VIVIAN HART, ROY CROPPER ON BOTH SUREPNS 25 STARS—CHORUS OF 200 “HOLLYWOOD REVUE” ALL TALKING SINGING AND ANCING x M -M Picture CAPITOL THEATRE, BROADWAY WORKING WOMEN HELP MINERS. The Ukrainian Working Women’ Sidney Stav Tremont Theatre. “THE KILLER” A PLAY ON A SOCIAL PROBLEM Educational Society of Hamtrame! Eves, 8:26; Mats. Wed. & Sat. 5685. Tel. Tremont inst the capitalists.” EAST SIDE THEATRES ___ 133 SECOND AVENUE, CORNER Js STREET Continuous Noon to Midnight. Popular Prices. JANUARY 27 — 28 — with IVAN MOSJONKINE » Q SHIPS* A SOVKINO NEWS VAMPIRES Celebration of the 12th Anniversir; OF THE SEA of the Russian Revolution MIDWINTER CARNIVAL Arranged by Section 5, Communist Party ROCKLAND PALACE, 155th St.-8th Ave. SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15 Program: . FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA in new selections, + .ANNA SAVINA from the Moscow Opera SMITH’S NEGRO BAND CONCERT AND BALL. : Tickets 75 ‘Cents IVIC ‘REPERTOR Ce 2280 eS NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES Grand Concourse Stage Shows—Both Theatres from Mich., has sent in a check of $50 to} the International Labor Defense to| “help the miners win their strike | 2nd Ave. Play house. “LOVES OF CASANOVA” Hrelephone ((ARL BRODSKY Murray Hill 5550 fh Kast 42nd Street. New York Cooperators! Patronize S-a OF CHEMIST 657 Allerton Estabrook 3215 Avenue Bronx, N.Y, BARBER SHOP Moved (0 PREIMEIT 30 Union BLUG.—» Square in Floor Done De livered Work and Class Goods Ci Yor Ll: WORKERS’ CENTER F sHOW | RATIONAL ie Ver i RESTAURANT 199 OND. AVE 2th and 13th § ERALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT 1660 MADISON AVE Phone: UNIversity 5865 t paneer E Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES sce with atmosphere al a aes Phone: s Kk, All Comrades Meet at + BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant Parkway, Bronx | 558° Clerement (DR. J. MINDEL| SURCEON DENTIST 1 UNION SQUARE oom 803~hone: Algonquin @:8% Not connected unth any other office Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF ON DENTIST BAST 113th STREET . Second Ave. New York DAILY EXCEPT FRIDAY Vlease telephone for appointment Telephone: Lehigh 6022 Advertise your Union Meetings here. For mformation write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 26-28 Union Sq., New York City Hotel & Restaurant Workers Branch of the Amalgam: Workers, ithe Ne Phone Chelsea 2274 Business meetings held the first Monday of the month at 8 p, idueational afternoon One Industry! One Union! Jo Fight the ‘Enemy! Office upen rie vEr a.m. to 6 pm ARBEITER BUND, Manhattan & Bronx: German Workers’ Club. Meets every 4th Thursday in the month Lnbor ‘Tem; 243 Sth st. New members accepted at regular pentinaay | areas: and English library. Sunday lectures, Social. entertainments,’ Alt Ger man spenking workers are wel- come. farian | |