The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1930, Page 2

Pag ge Two _Ds AILY WORKER, NEW 1s THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1930 na Ni&sGRO ORGANIZER IS | PICKED UP FOR INTER-RACE UNITY AND JAILED I. L. D. Secured Release of Herbert Newton After Being Held 4 Days in Jail American Negro Labor Congress and I. L. D. Will Hold Protest Meet STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 26 .—The rankest case of ri hatred in ye Herbert Newton, organ American Negro Labo was picked up by a policeman while walking to a meeting with a white woman, and held incommunicado for four days. The policeman asked his addre his busin and when Newton refused to submit to such high-handed treatment, took him and his companion to prison. The International Labor Defe’ demanded instant hearing and New- ton was finally released after being held for four days and n The charge placed against was “breach of the »” for “not an- zer of the Congress, his name, jSwering the officer's Sol Auerbach, ton yesterday at the hearing, and | the authorities were hard put to de- fend their charge. They then pos poned the case until lay of this week, The s strong in this city, and will hold a protest meeting, j h the , at 49 Pa- ford, Conn. D. pointed out well as the South bosses, a: n, use up a whenever they race dis! mination and w lynching spirit, she Negro and white workers uniting | in protest against the increasing ex- | ploitation. POLICE ATTACK PORTER MEETING Young Wor orkers Resis Battle Cossacks an {Continued fi m Page One) past the Seamen’s Church Institute, | a holy flop house for seamen, and then turned north and headed for | Wall Street. The marched up Wall Porter. Police Start to Club. the demonstration came in t of J. P. Morgan’s hangout, Tammany police started their usual tactics, clubbing right and left n an attempt to break the ranks of the Young Communists, but met ith a strong resistance. was torn from the shoul- of his comrades, but immedi- ya ring of young workers en- cireled him to protect him from the clubs of the Tammany gunmen. The demonstration was broken up d reformed again on Wall Street ner Broadway. Here the Tam- many viciousness broke forth anew. | The Police again broke heads left and right. Police Arrest Workers. After arresting David Persilly, a, Pioneer, Officer Schlup clubbed him then beat him with his fists hen he tried to rise. Officer Ma- hon was seen punching two girls in the face when they protested his beating the young Pioneer. From the windows of the office buildings office workers shouted to the police to let the marchers alone. Gladstein, a Young Communist, was knocked unconscious by a po- liceman’s club and was carried from the gutter by several workers. demonstratien Street cheering As co Porter Speaks. the parade and then ¢ Communi Center, 26. Po spoke After the battle, marched up Broadway persed. The Young went to the Workers Union Square, wher on his maltreatment prison. He bore many scars of the beatings he had in jail. In one case an officer had beaten him with a club, because he was too sick to work. A statement issued by the New York Young Communist League says, in part, that the attack of the police was just part of the regular attack of the police was just part of the regular attack of the capital- ist class upon the: workers. “John Porter leaves jail to join the strug- gles of the workers against the bos: spite of all attacks of the | police. Greater struggles approach. The reply to the brutality of the police is further determination to International Wireless News ZOERGIEBEL USING SPIES. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb —The paper “Welt am Abend” reveals today that the “socialist” police ‘chief, | Zoergiebel, has ordered secret sur- veillance kept upon a whole num- ber of Communist leaders, including members of the German Reichstag. * * * DEMONSTRATION BARRACKS. (Wireless By Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Czecho-slovakia, Feb. —The secretary of the Prague trict of the Young Communist League, Comrade Loewy, was sen- tenced to three months imprison- ment yesterday, on a charge of “re- sisting the police in the execution of their duties,” during an illegal demonstration before the Karolinen- tal army barracks. Loewy was only recently released from prison after serving four years. ILGW Thugs Threat to Club Unemployed (Conig from Page One) workers: belong to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, and also to slug and maim private AT members of the I.L.G.W. who may| not like the wage cuts and rotten conditions put over on them by the recent fake strike and settlement. The meeting of unemployed work- ers was called by the T.U.U.L. for 12.30 yesterday. About 60, many of them food and needle workers, all of them out of work, had arrived, when the LL.G.W. chieftains went to the hall owner, and told him that they would beat up the jobless work- if they were not taken out of there. ©.U; U. i. Convention Will Rally Aid to USSR | (Continued from Page One) various industrial groups. The con- vention aims to co-ordinate all the economic struggles of the workers n the Metropolitan Area under the leadership of the T.U.U.L., and in addition to rallying the wor defense of the Soviet Union, it will mobilize them for the huge unem- ployment demonstrations on March 6. Defense Is Needed. The new attacks on the Soviet | Union as a result of the severe eco- questions.” representative of the | |LL.D., appeared in court with New-| The I. L. | that the northern} see | 's in} Chain 1 Used ie yak Old Negro W orking. Woman GENERAL STRIKE | IN SPAIN TOWN | MAY SPREAD : Valencia ‘Workers Aid| With Food VALENCIA, Spain, Feb. 26. The general strike at’ Sagunto, 25 | | Ws 4 = Mrs. Laura Woods, a 65: Negro tenant farmer was lynched bu a@ gana of white in Salisbury, N. C., on Feb. | Laura Woods was found hanging from a tree by the plow chain | forming the letters “USA” in the photo. A quarrel with the wife of neighboring white landlord was the cause of the beastial lynching. The Negro toilers are realizing more and more the need for otganiz~ ing together to stop these lynchings. | year-old chawvinis | Today i in History of |} || __ the Workers o- ——_—_-_—¢ Pebruaty 7, 1846—Franz Meh- ring, German socialist and later a| Communist leader, born at Schlawe. 1900—First conference of English | Labor Representation Committee, | later the imperialist Labor Party, | held. 1917—Unrest in Russia under | conditions of imperialist war, for- mation of workers’ and_ soldiers’ | councils begun. 1923—60,000 metal vorkers struck in Budapest, Hun-) gary. 1926—Argentina Federation | of Labor founded. 1927—Arthur McManus, one of founders of Bri- tish Communist Party, died. \Food Cleks Winning | Despite Boss’ Forces (Continued from Page One) lawyer Charles Solomon, got the in- | junction under which Katovis was | murdered; the United Hebrew Trades, which provides the scabs, | {the Tammany judges, who sentence dozens of strikers for daring to | picket, and the gangsters of the un- |derworld, who obey the boss and |the scab union and with police help assault the strikers. A_ practi martial law prevails, pickets are at tacked anywhere near the ay the! Solomon injunction although illegal, is still being used—but i Food Clerks’ Industrial Union goes right on picketing and is determined to win the strike. Two pickets were Jobless Meet Today arrested Tue: 4 The F. ©. I, U. has won a whole Before City Hall (Continucd from Page One) | 1 series of shop settlements within the last few days. Some of them | Fruit Market, 771 Burke Aves 8 mite that 40 per cent of all the dr ganized building trades workers are The situation in most York butcher shop at 693 Allerton Ave., Margolis’ butcher shop at 767 Aller- ton Ave., all in the Bronx. Settle- ments have also been won at the butcher shops at 2413 Sixty-fifth St., 3407 Church Ave., 913 Rostrand Ave., and the butcher shop of Mat- rick, 899 Saratoga Ave., all these in Brooklyn. The butcher shop at 967 Aldus Ave. is still on strike and the men out of a job. of the industries in New the same, if not worse. The Communist Party, District New York, calls on the unemployed workers to assemble at City Hall in order that they may voice their de- mands before the city administra- tion. As far as we have been in- formed a delegation of leaders of | working there are strikebreakers. the militant industrial unions and | In the trial today of five pickets the unemployed will see Mayor | arrested in the Millers Market| Walker, who has just returned ftom | strike, the judge was forced to re-|4 “well earned” rest after the hard lease two, and held three for special |labors of his vicious cossacks who sessions on high bail. Organizer |have beaten up the workers in this | Cohen was one of them. \eity, who are fighting for decent) Three members of the union, Max | Conditions. | Block, Jack Kerschenbaum and Sam | All the workers of New York, Kosopolsky came to trial in Sneider | white and Negro, that are working | Ave. Court, Brooklyn, and here the|or out of a job, should heed the| frame-up broke down and the judge | call of the T. U. U. L. and make} was forced to release the workers, | their demands effective for work or | However, Max Block is being held| wages, no eviction of unemployed | on two new frame-up charges,| workers, food and clothing for chil-| $1,000 bail on each. The frame-ups dren of the unemployed, 7-hour day, | were managed by the injunction | 5-day week, no dope see socialists. — ns canine Oe ne Protest on March 16! is injunction socialists’ seabbery is the placing of “union shop” signs on two new| Against Imperialists ores opened on 65th St. and on SREY ae 23rd Ave., Brooklyn. This section (Continued from Page One) has all the other butcher shops set- a Metropolitan Con- tled with the Food Clerks’ Indus- York City on March is also calling sae | ference in New trial Union. The employees of these| 13 three days before the protest shops, one getting $22 and one get-| meeting. ‘The conference will be ting $20 a week were not even con-| held at 7 p. m. in Manhattan Ly- sulted by the butcher section of the | coum, 66 B. Fourth St. It will make United Hebrew Trades before the | plans for the March 16 meeting and | so-called “union shop” signs were| seek to strengthen the organization | put up, and are getting the same/in Greater New York am! New| low wages. The Food Clerks’ In-| Jersey, dustrial Union will proceed to win here, too. Communist | Activities Unit Organizers, Attention. Notify the Daily Worker ofice im- mediately the name and address of your Dally Worker representative! if one has not as yet been elected, do so at the next meeting! vention will make plans for winning | over especially the workers in the | |basic and war industries in the | Metropolitan Area to resist the war preparations of the American capi- talists, |children into their own homes to/ ‘tain existing strength.” 1 miles from here, is gtowing more militant, with almost daily clashes | between the pickets and the poliée. | A drastic censorship on the news| papers prevents them from giving! any details. | The workers of Valencia aré| pressing for a general strike here | too, but the conservative union lead- | | ors have been t ig to prevent it on| the grounds that it will enable ari di Rivera supporters to make trouble| for the new military dictator. Meanwhile the Valencia workers are supplying food to the Sagunto| strikers, and are taking the strikers’ | fess them cerieaatten te the struggle. | BOSTON STRIKE STILL SPREADS: Criminal B Brother of | etd Faker Led Thugs BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 26.—Strik-| |ing needle workers packed Paine| | Memorial Hall last night and with splendid spirit vowed to carry on the | strike to a victory. The Needle! | Trades Workers Industrial Union is) leading the struggle for the 40-1 hour | jweek and better conditions. The! | strike is now in its second Week. This morning again the pickets | fought with great determination! against an attack of International Ladies Garment Workers thugs. The | gangsters were led by the brother of Max Kraemer, business agent of the LL.G.W. company union, This! Kraemer was arrested because of the large number of witnesses to| his atrocious assault on girl strikers, | but is held on the ridiculously low, bail of $25. He has a criminal (Continued on Page Three) Open the Toppling Naval Race Meet! (Continued from Page One) creey, to discuss their rivalries and | differences. However, they an-| nounced through an official commu- | | nication that whatever they did was | meaningless, as all that passed would be “subject to an agreement | \with the French delegation.” | Outside of the conference the| British imperialists are demanding ‘an open fight with American im- | perialism on the question of “par- ity.” At a meeting of the Navy League today a resolution was) passed opposing any reduction of | the British naval forces and urging | “an adequate provision for laying down the vessels necessary to main- } It is evident that the meetings of | the conference are but empty maneuvers that will not effect the war preparations progtams of the imperialist powers. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! |the auspices of the Comsomol, i (OLSONS’ | Eves. 8:50. Ave. Playhouse “Petty Scandal” is a tragi-comedy of modern youth in| day, Saturday and Sunday, : lary 27, 28, March 1 and 2 Soviet Union at wrk, at play, and other feature will be “Sovkino N + in love. Director Perestiany | tho first news reel depicting eve introduces to us a remarkable col-|day happenings in the different lection of types, who are now to be|parts of the Soviet Union. seen in all the cities of the Sovict | Union. It is the product of the new regime. He answers through his| film a socialogical problem: How the | modern youth. of Russia is carrying | on. “The Petty Scandal” under the Communist Youth League, will be shown at the Second Avenue Play-! powerful |howse for four days—Thursday, F Febru- | An- FOUR FILIPINOS ARRESTED. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. Melreio Andrion, Willy P. Da; Narcisco B, Mariano and Estab ¢ | Dasalla, all Filipinos, were haled to [night court the other day for pick- eting the Red Mill dance hall, Theatre Guild Productions “METEOR” By 8S. N. 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In this work the Unemployed | {!* 40. 7 em Teeth Sty NIGHT SHOW arranged ‘The Daily Werker is the Party's |rise in defense of their proletarian | Councils organized by the T.U.U.L.|7 p.m. check-up. Gee idkttincdt “to take conthets | datheriuhd rob the ieitaahlnta date Lwil pihy kn ullnupertant WENN | eleveun Wveubatne: peuctiens| || CY he Coe eeAnEND umong the masses of workers, to)ger of an armed attack, the T. U.|the convention will seek to estab-| Friday, 8 p.m. 1 Sth St. COLONY IN THE BRONX build a mass Communist Party. |U. L. points out. The T.U.U.L, con-!lish them on a firmer basis. iJ oe Labor and Fraternal] || st ALERTON THEATRE. Organizations STARTS AT 12:18 A. M. Cleaners and dry Wrokers. | Get leaflets at 18 W. 17th St.; mem- |bership meeting, Thursday, 8 p. ms ut 13 West 17th St Steve Katovin Branch W.LR. Thursday, $ p. m., 68 Whipple St. Brooklyn. ewly orgainzed, all in- vited Workers Organtentions! Attention! Order blocks of tickets now for the Daily Worker costume ball, to be held March 15. Distribute them among your members and their fel- low workers. ‘Tickets in advance are 50 cents, at the door, 76 cents. For the Defense of All Class War Prisoners I.L.D. Annual Bazaar GREET THE 9 NEWARK Brighton Reach Workers Clu Friday, Feb. 28, 8:30. p. .m, 227 Brighton’ Beach Ave. M Olgin on “Nation and Clase, ¥ WORKERS Facing 20 Years Prison— TONIGHT TOMORROW, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NEW STAR CASINO, 107th St. & Park Av. Dancing! Restaurant!" Music! Exhibitions! Concerts! International Labor Defense NEW YORK DISTRICT—799 BROADWAY JOIN ‘AND SUPE OR: THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE Womens Councit No. 28 and No. 31. Joint Unemployment Mass _ Meet, 2061 Bryant Ave, | Prominent speakers, Bronx. Womens (€ Tonnell Central Rody. ‘Thursday, 8.30 p, m., 26 Union Sa. All central body delegates, organ- livers secretaries must come, Mein- | bers welcome, . * | Workers Esperanto € | March 1, 350 B, 81st ing, exposition. Festival. play, danc- Pr rocendi LL.D. | Bronx Unseplores sans Meeting. Today, 8.30 p.m, at Prospect Work- ora Club, 830 Westchester Ave, room 17. * UM, Tontght, 8 pm, 2 Union sa. . Admission 50c in advance T5c at the door. oh Workers School seeretarien. Tonight, 8.30 p,m. at school. term secretaries Invited. Fall READ and SUPPORT lection Box Loxt. 9, Saturday night at Tew. « Club, on 4th floor, 20 Preane turn over to ¥.C.L Number ish Work | Union 8a. office, DAILY WORKER COSTUME BALL ROCKLAND PALACE 155TH STREET and EIGHTH AVENUE To reach hall—@th or 9th Ave. “L” to 155th St. THE DAILY WORKE COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty CAMP WOCOLONA REUNION DANCE and COSTUME BALL Friday Evening, February 28 PYTHIAN TEMPLE, 135 W. 70th Street ‘Tickets $1.00 in advance at Workers Bookshops at door—$1.25 Music by VERNON ANDRADE'S ORCHESTRA Saturday Eve. ‘March 15th RED DANCERS Other Entertainment Class Struggle Group Costumes VERNON ANDRADE ORCHESTRA IT FIGHTS FOR YOU! { | The DAILY WORKER : 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 Bron, N. ¥. W. 1. R. CLOTHING STORE 542 BROOK AVENUR Telephone Ludlow 3098 Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing High Class Work Done Goods Called for and Delivered All profits go towards strikers and their families. 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