The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1931, Page 2

Page Two ! at Shop Mill illon TH | ners Win Demands; Kneepants Fake Strike | Called By Co Rank and File Committ Make Strike A Real Walkout With Genuine Strike Demands NEW YORK.—The worke: Hat 104 Wes' lon a@ wage cut of $1.00 a dozen hand for on of the committee, and put a wage i Industrial Union, yrice 50c raise on a dozen was granted The In Union was recognized. A shop ¢ n and committee were | elected to r ent the workers. The wo in other millinery shops are organizing to t igiht against wage cut and speed-up under the leaders f the N.T.W. LU. | Kneepkants Makers Stoppage. | On Mon February 16, at 11 a. m., the Hillman agents ordered the bosses to stop work and to send their workers to Stuyvesant Casino to a} meeting. There they were told by their officials that they are out on strike of all kneepants that they are striking to get better conditions and for for- cing the bosses to give “security The stoppage in the kneepants trade is one of the annual fake kes that the Hillman agents pull off for the purpose of forcing the workers to pay up dues and taxes be- fore » go back to the shops and to force some of the bosses to join the bosses’ association. At the meeting they announced that all committees to conduct the so-called strike were appointed by| the trade board and that no elec-| tions of no sort will take place. The attempt of the rank and file mem- bers to demand a strike committee and to put forth real demands to make the strike real was suppressed by the burocrats. The meeting was adjourned be any member had a chance to speak. The statement of the rank and 1 committee follows: Kneepants-Makers, Make the Strike Real! Demand the Election of a Mass Rank and File Strike Committee! Let Us Put Forth Demands! Sisters and Brothers: On Monday, February 16, at 11 a. m., we were stopped from work and told that we are out on a “general) strike of all kneepantsmakers” and | that we are striking for better con- | ditions and for forcing the bosses to give “security.” There is no doubt in any kneep- antsmakers mind that a strike in our trade is necessary. Our conditions have been continuously growing worse, wage cuts have become a daily ac- curance, the slave driving system of piece work has been introduced in| many shops, work out in New York is made out of town. The speed-up has become brital, hundreds of knee- | pantsmakers are unemployed walking the streets and starving. Especially | have our conditions worsened after | the last so-called “strike”, The strike, instead of being in our interests, it resulted in the bosses or- ganizing more powerfully, to still more worsen our conditions, We kneepantsmakers need a strike, | but a real genuine strike for condi- tions. Our demands must be: 1. To enforce week work in every shop. | 2. To get back all wage cuts and al substantial increase in wages. 3. All work cut in New York to be | made in New York. | 4. The enforcement of a 40-hour, 5-day week o nthe basis of week work, with no reduction in wages. | 5. No discharge. No overtime. | 6. Unemployment insurance to be controlled by the workers and not by | the officials. In order to make a strike real and | effectfull we must elect a mass fank/ | WEDNESDAY— | Cacco-Vanzetti-Branch, I. L. D. A general meeting takes place 8 pm at 1472 Boston Rd. Lecture Workers’ Defense in Courts.” Lecture at the Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil, 27 B. 4th St. on “Unemployment at 2 p.m. his is the second in a series of fou: r lectures, raga rieah } Alfred Levy Branch, LD. Membership meeting at 524 Vermont St, at 8pm. Presence of members urgent, Last Meeting before Ba- gaar THURSDAY Drug Clerks Special meeting takes place at 8 p,m. at Stuyvesant Casino, 8th St, and 2nd Ave, Called by the Medical’ Workers syetatrial Union affiliated with the Stalin Br. F Ss U meets at 7.80 p. m. at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 © 4th St, A. . BMagil will talk on the Soviet Union from which he has just returned. Lecture fol- lowed by Soviet Film “Living Corp- se” Admission 25 cents, Sports Section Meeting of the |Harlem Progressive Youth Club, 1492 Madison Ave, takes place a p.m. Blections will be held. FRIDAY— Symposium at the Harlem Progressive Club,.1492 Madison Ave., at, 8.30 p.m, on’ “The Unemployment Situation”. "All wel- come Red Sparks Athletic Club Lecture at 8.30 p, m,. at the club- rooms, 133 Second Ave. “Charity vs. Unemployment Insurance.” New Brunswick The I, L. D, has called a mass meet to take place at 8 p. m. at 11 Plum | Only through a real strike can we mpany Union Heads, ee Call On Workers gs and file strike committee of knee- . pantsmakers with delegations from | every shop. The present leadership is incapable | and-unwilling to lead us in a real struggle for better conditions. You know this from your own experience. | You remember the “strikes” last year and two years ago. After these} strikes our conditions worsened, be- cause these were strikes without de-| mands and with no rank and file adership. The pre strike” will result into the same as the recent one “strike” if we do not in time put forth de- mands and take the leadership of the strike in the hands of the Rank and File. | We demand a meeting of all strik- | ers immediately. We demand a real strike for the) above demands under the leadership of a broad rank and file strike com- mittee. | Kneepantsmakers, rally to, and sup- port our demands and proposals. | win better conditions. our leadership can we make strike real and effectfull! Kneepantsmakers Rank and File Committee | COUNCIL HOLDS OPEN AIR MEET )0 Workers Gather Around Speakers Only under the! BC NEW YORK.*-The Downtown Un- employed Council held an outdoor meeting in front of the new head- quarters of the fake city employment agency. A crowd of about 500 work- ers gathered around the speakers. Forty copies of Labor Unity were sold, in spite of the protests of Ry- bicki and the other grafters in the! employment agency. The Unemployed Council will con- | 1. L. G. W. (eompany- union). -sheps-| tinue to hold meetings at Leonard and Church Sts. and calls upon all| workers every day at 10 o'clock in the morn- ing, to fight against the attempt of the grafters.to put the council speak- ers off the corner. ‘The council will also hold a meet- Lafayette Sts. against the railroading of Lealess, Nesin and Stone at 9:30 where they will again demonstrate | against the railroading. The workers will then march over to Leonard and Church Sts, tend the out-door meet at the cor- | portant. | than a mile away. ADVENTL DAILY WORKER, NEW Y ORK, WEDN: SDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1931 JRES OF BILL WORKER ‘726,0 MASS PICKETING EXTENDS STRIKE, Seores of I. L.G. W. U. | tem, where Negro dressmakers, super-| Two women dressmakers, Lillian | exploited as they are, have never} Russo, 20,-and Pearl Kleinman, 28, Shops Join Walkout OM PAGE ONE) (CONTINUED | At Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and} 16th St., strikers occupied every seat, | sat on tables, stood in little groups | and even sat on the floor. Similar | conditions prevailed in Manhattan | Lyceum, and groups of five and ten | continued to pour in late in the aft- | |ermoon. No estimate of the crowds in the seven halls in the Bronx, Har- | lem and Brooklyn had been made at | press time. Enthusiasm in the three Manhat- j tan halls was nothing less than re- markable. As one shop after another marched into the halls in a body, those who had already arrived greeted them with cheers, whistling and handclapping. Veterans of pre- | vious struggles with the parasitic | needle trades bosses were amazed at | this show of solidarity. Although picketing will hot take place until 8 a. m.. today, scores: of {have walked out already. An index to the spirit of the strik- to attend these meetings | ers occured early yesterday morning, | when 80 dressmakers in the Jerry | Dress Co. shop, 500 Seventh: Ave.; bev gan to don their overcoats after tell- ing their boss that they were striking {for the demands put forth by the ing at the corners of Leonard and|N. T. W. I. U. ‘The boss of the shop, a traditional “open-shopper,” immediately called this morning. From there the work- | the police and locked all the doors. | ers will march to the court house,| ‘The dressmakers broke the locks and | were in the hallway when the cops come rushing in. The cops threat- ened to arrest every striker who re- fused to return to work, but not a On Thursday all workers must at-| single dressmaker showed the white | feather. The cops then arrested five ners of Leonard and Church Sts.| dressmakers, but were forced to re- | | ‘This is a preliminary Feb, 25 demon- | lease them after a short scuffle with | stration and is therefore very im-| the strikers, every one of whom then | marched to strike headquarters. an The Needle Trades Industria! Union in Boston wired that they had voted a tax of $5 per member for the | benefit of the strikers in New York and Philadelphia, ‘The strike extended through Brook- | lyn, the Bronx and Harlem, In Har- | been organized, four shops struck in quick succession. Five more struck} in the Bronx. In the Marcuso and| Ptralio shop, 1888 Third Ave., 60} dressmakers walked out, most of| them Negroes. When they walked out they took another shop in the same building out with them. Spanish and Italian dressmakers, | also unorganized previously, were following the lead of their fellow- | workers in mid-Manhattan. Shortly after the above-mentioned shops | walked out, 58 dressmakers in the Maniola shop, 107 W. 116th St., and in the Fantenell shop, 107 W. 16t? St., also struck, | Aside from the~eno —™™® Whe most notable feature of the meet- ings in the various halls was the new faces. Workers who had never be- fore been seen at meetings of the) |W. 'T. W. L U. and workers who had | Jeng been known as I. L. G. W. sup- porters, mingled in a comradely fashion with veteran “left-wingers.” This:strike of the Industrial Union is drawing them together as nothing has before. It is being realized every- | where that the “International” is ut- terly bankrupt as a working-class or- ganization, | ‘The capitalist. press ts trying to| | cripple.the strike by raising the cry | jot “red’.bogy. Louis Hyman, chair- | man ofthe rank and file strike com- mittee, has ben quoted as saying that “the strike has the approval of Soviet Russia.” The reported who quoted Hyman actually never saw him and} wouldn't recognize him if he tripped | | over him. The surprising thing about | | the capitalist press, however, is not} | that they are writing imaginary “in- | | terviews” with strike leaders, but that | | delphia is in full swing. | ready contributed the following sums | headquarters of the Needle Trades they are reporting the strike at all.! The rank and file strike committee nas issued a call to all workers in New York to aid the dressmakers in their heroic struggle for an improved living standard, by joining the ranks of the picketers, who will take their posts beginning at 8 a, m. today, were arrested for distributing the strike declaration and were released in court. ‘The finance committee of the N, T. W I. U. has issued the following an- nouncement: “The strike of tens of thousands of dressmakers in New York and Phila- ‘These dress- makers are striking against sweat- shop conditions, against long hours, | against race discrimination, against the insatiable appetites of the bosses and against the I. L. G. W., the com- pany union. “This struggle must be given the utmost support of the workers in all other industries. A strike fund must be raised immediately. Every worker and every workers’ organization should contribute to the dressmakers’ strike. Send in your contribution to- day. Collect for the strike fund in the meetings of your organization and in your shops. “Help the dressmakers in their struggle. Do your share! “Do it today! “The following branches of the In- ternational Workers’ Order have al- to the dress strike fund, either to the Workers’ Industrial Union or to the City Committee of the I. W. 0.: “Branch 25, $5; 91, $21; 112, $7.70; 7, $25; 150, $12; 9, $34; 146, $30; 53, $61; 74, $25; 11, $21.50; 64, $5; 20, $16; 19, $5; 64, $5 25, 49, $5.10; 20, $10; 45, $11.41; 132, $5; 75, $5; 6, 5; Hay- wood, $5; 15, $5; Grodner Krinker, $5; 4, $5; 12, $5; 12, $5; 20, $25; 27, $10; 116, $5; 8, $5; 133, $3; John Reed, $5; 53, $5; 122, $11. “What about those of you who have | AMUSEMENTS ith Avenue Subway Comrade Lina Goldin, wife of Comrade I. Goldin of Section 4, Unit 2, who died suddenly at age 50 on Monday, Feb. 16, 1931. The funeral will take place on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1931 at 11 A. M. from Comrade Goldin’s house, 82 WASHINGTON PLACE, NEW YORK CITY to Sheridan Square LABOR ington Delegation, the next steps Also important information of Bundle orders of 1,000 or more LABOR ANN INTERNATIONAL BAZ FEBRUARY 19, at STAR THURSDAY FRIDAY .... SATURDAY SUNDAY ..... . 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RKO ACTS Loretta Young Lew Brice Stone & Leo Fields & Bell Roy Cumming ‘Trip to Holland David Manners WUFKU’S GREATEST FILM OF THE REVOLUTION “TWO DAYS" TOMORROW “IN OLD SIBERIA” RONX PLAYHOUSE 1350 S, BLVD—DAyton 9-2296 FREEMAN STREET SUBWAY STA, 1 pm. to 5 pam, 150—After 5 p.m. 25¢ 6th Ave. & 434 Bt. Hipp SHOW IN NEW YORK Wddie Leonard—Ben Blue on the screen s ‘The Seas Beneath’ aged with GEO. O'BRIEN YOU DESIRE ME A By LUIGI PIRANDELLO with JUDITH ANDERSON MAXINE ELLIOT’S E. of By Hives, 6:50 Matinees — Theatre Guild Preductions =| Green Grow the Lilacs GUILD”: 62nd. Eves. Mts. Th. & Sat. Extra Mat, Monday Feb. 23d. Elizabeth the Queen Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lunt Morris Carnovsky, Joanna Roop and others pies) ‘st, Martin Beck "Ww ot Hue, 8:40. Mta Th. Sa Extra Mat. Monday Fel IVIC REPERTORY 14th 8t.. sth av. Evenings 8:30 Soc, $1, $1.50. Mats. Th. & Sat, 2:50 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight “THE MASTER BUILDER” Q .... “CAMILLE” ASON’S HOUSE” is adv. at Bor Office and Il, 113 W. 43 Street WOONH Presenter F * "ARTHUR BYRON © IVE STAR FINAL “Hive Star Final’ is electrio and ative —SUN. ELEVATOR Iv 00 FARM FAMILIE! TN _CO- OPERATIVES bev POLICE SADISTS | BEAT UP NEGRO Catch Williams Alone} At Night and Slug NEW YORK.—Henry Williams, a Negro worker, was set on and brutally beaten early yesterday by two de- tectives formerly attached to Precinct 1, but now probably on the Radical Squad. These men and three other dicks | have been tagging along after Wil- liams for months, singling him out at | meetings for insults, and making threats. Yesterday they followed him to 106 | St. and Third Avenue where he got | off the elevated alone. They followed |him then to near 102nd street, where | jone, a big husky with a livid birth mark under his chin suddenly began | cursing Williams and slugged him from behind. Williams put up a fight, and was holding his own against one of the detectives when the other clubbed him down from behind, and they both beat him up badly while he was in the gutter. At Bellevue hospital Williams was informed that his lower teeth were all loosened from the beating. The attack took place about 3 a. m. not yet contributed to this fund? What about those of you who have not yet made good your pledges?” The Strike Committee announces that meetings of strikers will be held in Bryant Hall, Irving Plaza and Manhattan Lyceum and the seven halls in Brooklyn, Bronx and Har- Jem at 2 p. m. today. Strike leaders and representatives of various work- ing-class organizations will address the meetings. Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 37 WEST 32ND STREET 225 WEST 36TH STREET Phone: LEHIGH 6883 ‘nternotional Barber Shor mM W SALA. Prop. 2016 Second Avenne, New Yor! (det 103r6 & 104th Star Ladies Robe Our Specialty Private Beauty Parlor We invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD CAFETERIA GOOD WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY — The Pioneers Learn A Lesson — LARGEST Cea 17 (3S GREAT To BE THE STATE Wi NOLAND LOROS OR ORTEAGES To, ROB You} Jotun Hen’ ANY Youn! PIONEER KiduLD KNOW WHICH - FARM Is THE LLD.BAZAAR OPENS THURSDAY 18 Nationalities Partic- ipating NE WYORK.—Twenty nationalities | are participating in the big annual bazaar of the New York District of the International Labor Defense, which open this Thursday, February | 19, at 8 p.m. at Star Casino, 107 St and Park Avenue. These national groups, representing thousands of workers in New York City and vici-| nity, will have their own booths at the bazaar, thus making it a real de- monstration of international working class solidarity. | The opening night of the bazaar has been designated as Finnish night and as interesting program of enter- tainment is being prepared by various Finnish organizations of workers. The | second night will be Hungarian and |} German night, the program being in charge of workers of these national- ities. Saturday afternoon, February 21, will be especially devoted to work- ing class children and a stirring pro- gram will be presented by the Junior Defenders. Saturday evening a great Russian costume ball will be held'with prizes given for the best costurhes; and Sunday evening will be Trade Union night. The bazaar will provide funds for the defense of the many ‘militant workers who are now facing trial in the capitalist courts, for the~fight against deportations and other per- secutions of the working class. It will be open all day. ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND ?ELIEF! A NEIGHBORLY PLACE TO EA1 Linel Cafeteria SHOES are urgently needed by the Unem- ployed Delegation marching against hunger from New York to the state capitol at Albany, COMRADES: Send at once to the Workers In- ternational Relief, 131 W. 28th St. all the pairs of shoes, you can col- lect in your home, from your neighbors, and your fellow work- ers! Tag Days for funds for the March to Albany are continued every day until further notice. Get lists and boxes from the W. I. R. office! Thousands of dollars must be raised this week, the marchers cannot start off until they are as- sured sufficient food, shelter, and medical care. Collect! Shoes and money at once. Send it to the W. I, BR, 131 W. 28th St. Sf Eyes! 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