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

VAUSE CASE EXPOSES BIG GRAFT OF JUDGES WHOSENTENCEJOBLESS ° $250,000 Bribe, $400,000 Swindle of Foreign Born Workers Show Character of Judiciary ELECTRICIANS U.U.L. Has Program of Real Demands OAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1930 ROACH ORDERS CO!MUNST PIOwC I SHIPLAGOFF IN \GESLASHFOR JOBLESS CONGRESS CITY) CHICAGO, June 26.—The Com- Party pienic, open to =| mun MOVE TO RETURN worl , will be held this year at| Elm Tree Grove, 6541 Irving Park| Fancy LeatherWorkers Bou rd, on July 6, a day after) the National Unemployment Con-| Face Corrupt Clique vention. The convention will bring| ‘ thousands of unemployed workers) NEW YORK.—The Trade Union from all parts of the country to| Unity League Fancy Leather Goods | Chicago. It is the purpose of the| Section issued a call yesterday to |Press Admits Soldiers, terday reported that < | ment exists against French rule in Indo-China Annamites and Tonkinese are de- | }manding a reckoning” for the mis- | | rule of “20,564 Frenchmen who have been managing their affairs.” ee ee | EVERY WORKER! EVERY PARTY MEMBER! EVERY Y. C. L. MEMBER! VOLUNTEER NDO CHINA IN WIDE REVOLTS Peasants Rising dispatches ate of f Capitalist pre and that “19,578,218 | The reporter’s opinion is that the 7] } “ v By JACK TAYLOR. Communist Party in this pienie to/ all the fancy leather goods work- Evidence He Told Assistant, I Know How £0) on tee ee es fe workers together s0-| ers to defeat the fakers of the s0- Maneuver Books, I Have a Pull members of Local No, 8 Interna-| ialy and at the same time to use| clalist, party and the United He tional Brotherhood of Electrical | ‘tis opportunity to tell these masses | brew Trades who are planning to Workois’ are: constantiy, cacoming about the program and work of the| take direct control of the pocket- i 4 Nifage | book workers’ union and turn it into A small part of the rotten polit-| The Columbia Finance Corpora-| Worse. Out of a membership of a conipany thion. ical machinery which runs York City has become visible y. Bernard Vause, cian, Tammany Ha until June 9, co’ N. Y il fraud, perjury charged and grand larceny. Vause takes his place with Vi-| tale and a long list of “Your Hon- ors” on the New York bench, as a man who got caught. There are plenty more who are not caught yet. Slaves to the employers who have bought their serv 5a to exposure if they cross business interests in the slightest degree, the unspeakably rotten New York judges have the nerve (and are compelled by their bosses) to mete out savage sentences for assault on food, needle, shoe and other worker pickets whom the po- lice first beat up and then charge | with “assault.” They spurt ven- omed words and three-year sen- tences on the leaders of the unem- ployed, who are brought into their clutehes by police czars. | | tion, which recently failed, was and directed by Judge Vause. It has robbed workers and their families of $400,000. Some of these workers the judge plun- dered could neither read nor write. Most of them spoke English poorly. They were reached by circulars pub- lished in foreign languages and urged to invest the savings which | 2y had slaved a lifetime to earn poorly-clothed workers testified that their life-savings had been lost. One of Vause’s “high-pressure” salesmen induced Esther Steinholtz to invest all she had in the Colum- bia Finance Corporation. The lost the family savings of $5,000. When on the stand she said: “I see people laughing. I don’t see anything to laugh about. It was money from formed 7,500, 8,500 are unemployed. Con- ditions on the job are unbearable. | * Business agents refuse to enforce union rules. Speed-up is forced upon ‘the workers to the limit. Groups of workers are fired from their jobs daily. Building trades workers of other | crafts, carpenters, painters, brick-| layers, plumbers, etc., suffer from the same conditions that confront | the electrical workers. Due to the A. F, of L. policy of | “the industry first and not the | union” which means “the bo: | first and not the workers” and 0 as a result of the close collabora- tion between the officials of Local | 3 and the bosses, speed-up and low- er wages are forced upon the workers, rs. Broach For Less Wages. H. H. Broach, “Little Caesar” of | ‘the Regun Theatre in protest of the > will be games of all types, ate menu, and numerous well as entertaining Tickets sell for 35 cents | nce and for 50 cents at the} hey are on sale at the Party rters, 1413 West 18th St., FIGHT SLANDER OF THE LATINS NEW YORK. — The Spanish Workers’ Club held an open air meeting Tuesday, June 24, before exhibition of the “Under A Texas Moon,” a film which discriminates The corrupt practices of the Shiplacoff administration in the Pocketbook Workers’ Union brought forth such hatred from the mem- bership that the whole clique was forced to withdraw in the last elec- tion. Shiplacoff himself was forced to resign as manager of the union a few months later. The member- ship holds Shiplacoff, and the cor- rupt individuals whom he shielded, responsible for the shortage of | $265,000 from the union treasury | and for the entire situation in ei trade. The new administration, many of whom were part and parcel of the old clique, came into leadership of the Pocketbook Workers’ Union through a promise that they would bring the guilty corruptionists to re- sponsibility: That promise was never carried out, as was predicted my sweat and blood they took.” \ the buildi ee ie The following extracts from court | tro “eae ena eae Comes to testimony in the Vause case should] schemes to fool the workers. The be of interest to the millions of job- | bp ik Dei of job-| following is from an article by less workers who, in the midst of| Broach in the June issue of the Plenty, are starving to death in @| Journal of Electrical Workers and| Ss? A Slimy Trail. In 1924, shortly after receiving his appointment to the bench, Judge Vause commenced a series of crooked negotiations to obtain for | the United American Lines a ten- year lease on two North River fier: which are city owned. Such a lease can only be grante: through the Sinking Fund Com sion, which is composed of the mayor and other “high” officials. For this reason the United Ameri can Lines found in Vause, who had represented them in 1923 and be- cause of his Tammany Hall influ- ence and political pull, the ideal lackey to serve as a connecting link between their pier-leasing ambi- tions and the civic group necessary to turn the deal. It Took $250,000. A slush fund of $250,000 must have been necessary to swing the transaction, for that was the amount which made its way from the hands of the American United Lines to the pocketbook of W. Bernard Vause. In 1926 the pier lease was granted the United American Lines, and Vause, becatise he had served | the big boss well, received the addi- tional lolly-pop consideration of a trip to Europe. Although it was against the state constitution for | him to accept “free passage” the | judge nevertheless enjoyed himself abroad, When the investigation com-| menced to take legal form and thi serious charges were placed against | Jndge Vause, he was allowed to walk about under a small bail of $5,000. This happened in the cor- rupt Minor, Raymond and Amter for representing the class-demands of 110,000 unemployed workers and their sympathizers; they were at first denied bail, later admitted to $12,500 bail and now, during ap- peal, are altogether denied bail | again. TAUSNER GANG ISSUES UKASE NEW YORK.—With utter disre- gard of the expressed wishes of the | membership, the Zausner machine | in the Painters’ Union, through its | general executive board, has arbi- trarily decided on affiliation to the | Building Trades Council of the fas- cist Brindell. Coming at this time it is part of the furious drive the Zausner gang is making upon the painters, 75 per cent of whom are looking for work, while the rest suffer from intense speed-up and disguised mwage-cuts. Feeling that closer con- tact with Brindell will help him in suppressing the rising revolt of the painters, Zausner made little ef- fort to show his purpose in affilia- tion to the Building Trades Council. Obedient to the ukase of the gen- eral executive board, the district council docilely voted to accept the order for affiliation. The ferment among the painters has already given rise to action committees for fight against the general executive board and the Zausnert clique. The latest locals electing committees of action of this land where, in order to keep prices | Operator |4p, food is dumped overboard and| «ach time the construction wage | organizers and working-class rep-| | resentatives are, for voicing the de- | mands of a rising proletariat, ser- ving long jail terms, facing elec- | ric chairs and denied the right of | fair trials. “We'll Make Big Money.” | Cruso, Vause’s right-hand man, | testified that the judge promised his associates protection from the | state banking department. He was | told also by Vause (Cruso’s tes scale advances justly it is likely to mean less work for your members | on operating, maintenance, shop and repair work in finished build- ings, plants, etc. Not only do you | lose this work—which means steady jobs—but you get little of the al-| teration and construction work that follows. This is the result, because this work is harder to control.” And further in the same article, Broach asks the electrical worker mony): “Get some spunk into you; don’t be a coward; we'll make big money and get rich.” In answer to a doubt Cruso expressed: “That will not be necessary. You just | start it. I know ways and means to maneuver books in such a man- |mer that everything will be ail right.” Aga’ “There is no need to fear anything from that source. I have a pull there. . .. Don’t worry: Don’t be afraid... . I want to show you how to make big money.” | When people who bad their money | at stake would grow skeptical of the organization or seek informa- tion pertaining to it, Judge Vause, | elying upon his ability to impress them with his integrity, would sa; “Safe as the bank of England new branches opening all the| time,” “the company will be one} of the biggest in the world,” or) “the officers are fine men.” The workers swindled by Vause, an honorable judge of New York,| and the petty-bourgeois reduced to | | proletarian status by his acts, now have a chance to fight in an or- ganized manner to release the vic- police, to demand, through the Un- | employed Councils movement and “But what are you to do about it? You know it’s useless to demand your top wage for this type of work.” (My emphasis.—J. T.) Refuse To Organize. For many years the electrical workers employed in operating, maintenance,’shop and repair work in finished buildings, plants, etc.,; have been answered “No” when| they applied to the officials of| Local 3 for organization. For years the 15,000 alteration — electrical workers of Greater New York were refused organization by the leader-}| ship of International Brotherhood | of Electrical Workers. Now “Br ther” Broach tells us “this work hard to control.” With the sharp economic crisis in the building trades industry, new construction work offers less em- ployment to building trades work- ers this year than at any other | time in the history of the Bde Unity’ Coriell eottiposad. ef dalé-t trades. Broach and the officials of Local 3 are aware of this fact. workers into believing that altera- tion work in finished buildings and city which jailed Foster,| tims of the New York judges and plants can give employment to the! thousands of unemployed members of Local 3. Broach and the ma- | More than 1,000 Latin American against Latin American workers, and especially pictures Mexican women as being prostitutes. The meeting was one of the series of open air meetings which are being held by Latin American workers protesting against racial discrimin- etion under which they suffer. by the left wing: Instead, we find the old clique raising its head again, showing in every way that they mean to force themselves back into office. Socialists Support Grafters. The statement of the left wing further points out that the new ad- ministration in their maneuver with the so-called impartial com- workers gathered around the plat-| se | struggle for “Work or Wages.” | | The T.U.U.L. is at present con-) Some- | thing must be done to fool the! form cheering the speakers. The police tried at first to break the meeting. But before the mass | of workers who resisted the at- tempts of the police to throw the speakers off the platform more re- s and detectives were called. The police began swinging their sticks. This aroused the workers who repeatedly applauded the speakers. well as the officials of Local 3 and the A. F. of L, officials generally, | « will not and can not lead the work- | ers into struggle for higher wages and better conditions. That only | the Trade Union Unity League, the new revolutionary trade union cen- ter, can and does lead the workers into struggle for higher wages and better conditions. Organize Jobless! 1 The T. U. U. L. organizes the/| unemployed workers into Unem-, ployed Councils and together with the employed workers leads the) ducting a drive for 50,000 new members, and is organizing in every large industrial city, a coor-| dinating center, a Trade Union} gates direct from the shops and factories. The thousands of unorganized electrical workers who for many years were refused organization by the A. F. L. fascist officials now | correctly realize that the A. F, L. | will not and can not organize the unorganized workers and that it is mittee of the labor movement, Nor- man Thomas, Panken, Vladik, etc. who are supposed to investigate the } record of the old clique, has proved that it is no more interested in a) real investigation than the old) clique was. | | Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. PHILADELPHIA ‘ CAPITAL BEVERAGE CO.’ frilt_take care of your entertainments an “"B ptr R $ { SODA WATER and B) ‘ 2434 West York Street { Telephone: COLUMBIA 6255. ‘ PITTSBURGH Remember DR. RASNICK When You Need a Dentist Have Your Eyes Examined by DR. W. STRANTZ DRUGLESS EYE CLINIC 6023 Penn Ave., Room 202 Rring this ad with you and get a 25% discount GLENSIDE UPHOLSTFPY All Repairs Done at Reasonable Prices JOBLESS MEET IN the National, Unemployment Con-| chine in the union know perfectly vention in Chicago, work or wages | well that the same economic factors for themselves and the release of | responsible for the unemployment their leaders serving three years | of thousands of electrical workers in New York: Foster, Minor, Am- doing new construction work, are ter and Raymond. also responsible for the unemploy- ment of thousands of alteration | electrical workers. Broach also knows that while 3,500 out of the locals membership of 7,500 walk the | streets, that 10,000 out of 15,000 al- | teration electrical workers, who | previously did shop and repair as HAMTRAMCK, FRI ROBERTS BLOCK, No. 1 \ Glenside, Pa. | Telephone Ogontz 3166 | impossible to transform the present | company union, Local No. 8, into |@ trade union of the workers, as an | instrument of struggle against the | bosses. Look To T. U. U. L. These workers now look to the Building Trades and Construction | | Workers’ Industrial League to or- | ganize and lead them into struggle | for higher wages and better condi- tions. The Building and Construe- tion Workers’ Industrial League PHILADELPHIA Workers International Relief SCOUT DETROIT, Mich., June 26.—On the subject of growing unemploy- ment, made acute here by wide- spread lay-off of automobile work ers, there will be a mass meeting in Hamtramck Friday, June 27 at 7.39 p. m. at Yeamans Hall, 3014 Yea-| mans St. It is called by the Com. munist Party and the Young Com- munist League , The unemployed workers are de manding the release by the city wel-| fare department of 7 children held prisoner after they were chased from the building where they lived The Hamtramck workers and jobless | protest the au‘o bosses’ police terror in connection with the mass meet-| ings held in solidarity with the rebe) | workers and peasants of China and India. While the jobless starve, the Ham tramck city commission refunds $2,- 000,000 in taxes to the Chrysler- Dodge corporations, and raised the general tax rate. More banks have failed. Hamtramck jobless have formed Councils of the Unemployed, and a delegation’ will go to the National Unemployment Convention in Chi- kind are 490, 848 and 892, WORKERS nanos Chicago Party plenie will jommunist held on Sunday, July 6 at Bim Tree] D; Grove, 6641 Irving Park Blvd. welcome. va, * Attention Chicnco Comrades! All Party members are to bring tn their tag day boxes to the unit meet. ings this week. Bring no empty boxes. ' cago, July 4 and 5. CALENDAR |___ MASSACHUSETTS __| Boston, Itetnational dance for building the aily’ Worker will be held Friday. June 27 at 8 B m. at Dudley St. Opera Housé¢, 113 Dudley St. Boston, Ad- mission 50 cents, 1} well as alteration work in finished | b uildings, plants, ete, walk the streets side by side with them. Workers See Trick. Broach takes too much for grant- ed, The members of Local No. 3 will not be fooled into believing that they can obtained employment workers walk the streets. They do, however, understand what Caesar” means when he tells them that—“it’s useless to demand your top wage for this type of work—” and that the union must “furnish competent men for this work at wage rates to fit the conditions— not your desires.” They know that this agent of the working class is telling the work- ers to work below the union scale on all classes of work. They know that this labor faker is telling them to give up all of the conditions that these workers gained through years of bitter struggle. The members of Local No. 3, I. B. E. W., as well as the membership of the International Brotherhood are now fully convinced that Broach d the International machine, as Philadelnhia! “SEEDS OF will be shown Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs’ in finished buildings, plants, etc.,! while 10,000 alteration electrical | “Little | bosses within the ranks of the) also carries on the struggle against the fascist leaders within the com- pany union to win the honest rank and file workers for the new center in the building and construction in- dustry. The local office of the Building and Construction Workers’ Indus- trial League, 13 West 17th St. New York City, has been receiving let- ters from discontented workers, members of Local No. 3, L.B.E.W. The following are the demands of the T. U. U. L. for the building CAMP Opens June 29, 1930 at Lumberville, Pa. Rates: $6.00 and up per worker’s child. REGISTER NOW! 89 NORTH TENTH STREET Walnut 6614 tradés workers: 1—T-hour 5-day week. 2.—The election of shop and job committees. 3.—Abolition of the right of the boss and foreman to hire and fire. | 4—Prohibition of all overtime. 5.—One union in the building in- | dustry. 6.—Against wage cuts and speed- up. 7.—For mass violation of injune- tions. 8.—For mass picketing, 9.—For social insurance against | unemployment, disability, to be paid | for by the bosses and the govern- | ment and supervised by the workers. Camden! BANNED IN PENNSYLVANIA! FREEDOM” FAMOUS RUSSIAN FILM two days only! STAR THEATRE BROADWAY AND VIOLA, CAMDEN Tonight, June 27, at 7 and 9 P. M. Tomorrow, June 28, Continuous 1 to 11 P.M. ADMISSION 50c——CHILDPREN 2he Auspices: ARGUS FILMS, }ment is in the masses of returned | soldiers, drafted by the French gov- |taken to the battlefields of Europe, |taught the use of weapons and then |best they could in their native land. | Already |armed insurrections in several cen- | Drive Conference of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense in Philadel- | phia, Sunday, June 29th, at 995 N. | bth St, | ence is to organize a struggle of lall the working class organizations | against the infamous Flynn Sedi- | tion Law, and for the release of the }ers facing death in | will be at the conference. She has | just been released on bail obtained | by the I. L. D. basis of the revolutionary move- ernment during the world war, thrown back to make their way as there have been open ters of the French colony, PHILA. ANTI-TERROR CONFERENCE JUNE 29 PHILADELPHIA, June 26.— Over one hundred delegates are ex- pected to be at the Anti-Terror The purpose of the confer- victims of this law. Anna Burlak, one of the six work- Atlanta, Ga., PHILADELPHIA LITTLE THEATRE 2222 MARKET STREET Beginning Thursday JUNE 26 AMKINO PRESENTS The World Famous Film _ “ARSENAL” A WUFKU Production. Directed and written by ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO Symbolie representation of the Ukrainian Revolution. Photo- graphy beautiful and dramatic! Pantomime and tableaux superb. PRILADELPHIA The work we make is good. Or- ganizations’ work—our specialty. Spruce Printing Co. 152 N. SEVENTH ST. PHILA.. PA Bell—Market 6383 Union Keystone—Main 1040, Printers PHILADELPHIA CRYSTAL LUNCH Fresh Food FRIENDLY SERVICE N. &. Corner 1ith and Spring Garden Sts. PHILADELPHIA DAILY WORKER Philadelphia Offices 1124 SPRING GARDEN ST. M. SILVER, Representative Poplar 3849 PHILADELPHIA WOLKOWITZ BROS. Proprietors GRAND HALL 410 WHARTON 87. Lombara 5288 GIRARD MANOR 911 GIRARD AVE. 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