The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1931, Page 2

* DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931 RIGGERS STRIKE SOLD OUT; MEMBERS NEVER AGREED; VERY ANGRY Business Agent With Record of Treachery In) Box Makers Strike Puts It Over Bosses Given All They to Fight Discrimination Against Strikers! NEW YORK.—The Riggers and Safe Movers, of whom some 300 were locked out Feb. 10 because the em- ployers’ association, wanted to cut the} wages, have been sold out through | the trickery of one Franke Lamby, | the business agent of the local. | As soon as this fellow, who was) one of the enemies of the box strik: ers in 1927, heard that the workers on strike were beginning to listen to | the militant program of the Trade/ Union Unity League, he began his intrigue with the employers. He conferred with them Friday and F: day night, succeeding at times in Grawing in and fooling members of the executive of the local. Misleader In Action. Through Lamby scheming a gen-} eral meeting was called fo turday | morning, at which the employers were present, and Lamby made him- self an errand boy for them. The bosses were demanding an open shop, the 10-hour day, $8.50 a day for| chauffeurs and $6.50 for helpers. About 60 of those present finally voted, 27 for and 19 against, to com- promise on a 9-hour day and $9 a| day for chauffeurs, and 8'2 hours, | $7.50 a day for helpers. The original agreement signed four weeks ago was} for thé 8-hour day, $10 a day for chauffeurs and $8.50 for helpers. Bosses’ Terms. When the meeting adjourned, | Frankie and others of the executive committee went to the employers, and Frankie took charge of the matter, | though he was one of those too drunk to report back to the evening meet- ing. He seems to have fooled those | who were not drunk, because two of them came back with a signed con- tract for 10 hours for chauffeurs and | 2 for helpers, the wage scale the bosses demanded; two. who were ac- tive on the picket lines to be fired, the boss to have the right to hire | men. |ing, and they cannot be expected to Could Ask; Be Ready and fire as he pleases, and all he hires to get cards in the union, Not a word about discrimination. One of the large companies ts changing 15 trucks from hard tires to pneuntfatic tires. They make this an excuse for demanding the right to fire the chauffeurs and hire new The meeting where these, terms were read were small, only about 60 there, and no yote was taken. The “agreement” has not been agreed to by the men, they don't like it, it violates all their demands voted on at the Saturday morning meet- respect it. They will look to the T. U. U. L. to give leadership in the struggle which is sure to develop | when the employers begin to discrim- | inate against the militants in the strike. Wherever cases of such dis- crimination appear they should be} reported at once to the Transport | Workers’ Industrial League of the T. }U. U. L. at 16 W. 21st St Expose Treachery. The Daily Worker will have before | long a more detailed exposure of this | Frankie Lamby and his activities in | the boxmakers’ strike. Another treacherous character seems to be the one named Smeltly. THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER WHERE You CAME From —Hooey Hoover — AS Finny th Sratton! CAPITALIST Editor SUCH NICE MORDER Stories! CAPITALIST: EDUCATOR 3,000 STRIKEIN {New England Conference | LAWRENCE; MASS PICKETING ON Delegates Plan Spread) of Strike LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 23.—To- | Aids Lawrence Strikers |\60 Delegates, From 18 Mills, and Others Plan to Spread Strike, Collect Relief, Form United Front Committees BOSTON, Mass. Feb. 23The Lawrence strike took precedence at eht New England textile conference, It was he maneuvered to have a com- | Morrow is a key day in the strike of held here yesterday at the call of mittee of seven appointed to work | the Lawrence textile workers in the | the National Textile Workers’ Union. out the strike demands in such a/|American Woolen Compdny millshere.| This conference was called three way that even the president of the |The company declares it will try to] months ago, to develop a strike local and many of the best rank and | file elements were excluded. All were | excluded who had not been in this | line of work for five years. The Transportation Workers’ In- dustrial League of the T. U. U. &. calls upon the men to show solidar- ity. If one man is taken off a job) all should walk out. Stick together. | ‘The league will give full support and | sistance in a fight fos return of | union conditions. MUST HAVE RELIEF T0 KEEP UP STRIKE SPIRIT IN HARLE™ Sa Bosses Try to Bribe Workers to Come Back to Work Under Slave Low Must Have Relief to Strike NEW YORK.—The situation of the needle trades workers on strike in Harlem is very serious. These work- ers, the worst paid in the industry, | Cuban, Porto Rican, Negro, Italian) and Spanish, are already facing hun- ger, the first days of the strike. In an, effort to break the strike, the bosses are approaching the most militant workers with bribes of a $5 or $10 weekly increase in wages, urg- ing them to use their influence with the other strikers, to induce them to return to work at the old rate. Relief is the key to the situation. A joint relief committee of the Work- ers International Relief and the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has been formed. The Workers International Relief, will open today a kitchen for the picketers, in strike headquarters in Harlem, at 2011 Third Avenue. Conditions; Pay So { Plans are being made to feed the} strikers’ children, whose plight is the | reason for the wavering of some of the strikers. On their meagre wages, many of) the women workers were supporting | three or four children. One striker, | among the most militant, is the mother of four. ‘How could you ex- pect us to keep on at $13 a week?” she said. “We worked like pigs—and| when the union called us to strike, I thought my people is my people, | and I'm going to~fight in this strike | with them!” Threatening this mili- tancy, is the bosses’ tactics and hun- ger. Food must be supplied every day of the strike. The strikers’ children must be fed. Send food and cash immediately to the Workers Interna- tional Relief, 131 West 28th Street, New York City. RALLY ALL TO UNION SQUARE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the dress strikers. After their dem- onstration, and joined by the job- | less fram the vicinity, they will) start marching at 4 p. m. down 4th Ave. to Union Square. There will be a demonstration at 2:30 at Rutgers Square. Here will mobilize: Sections 1, 6, 7 and 8 of the Communist Party. Part of the! Down Town Council of the Unem- ployed will gather here too, along with all the jobless of that vicinity. The unemployed councils of Willi- amsburg, South Brooklyn and Boro Hall section, Brownsville and East New York will meet at Rutgers Sq. ‘They will start marching at 3:30, go west on Canal to Forsyth, north on Forsyth to Delancey, west on Delan- eey to Christie, along Christie and Second Ave. to 17th St. and west on 17th St. to Union Square. The Down Town Council of the ‘Unemployed will hold its usual noon day meeting on Leonard St. before the Tammany fake employment agency, and when the meeting is over, will march down Lafayette and Third Ave. to Cooper Square. Here it will be joined by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union and the Marine Workers Unemployed Coun- cil. The marine workers will arrive from a mass meeting before’ the Sea- men's Institute, which will take place at noon. From Cooper Square, this combined TUESDAY— Initiation M Bore. Park “isin demonstration will march along Fourth Avenue to Union Square. Assemble In Bronx Communist Party Sections 4 and 5, and the Unemployéd Councils of Harlem and the Bronx will hold an outdoor mass meeting at 134 Street and Lenox Ave., at 2 p.m. They will march down Lenox to 116th Streét, where the demonstrators will go by subway to 14th Street and Seventh Avenue. They will then march east on 14th St. to Union Square. ‘The Labor Sports Union, the work- ers’ youth organizations, including the Young Communist League, will mob- ilize on West 28 Street, near Eighth Ave. and march south on Eithth Ave., to 14th St., and east to Union Square. At the main demonstration, in Union Square, which starts at 4:30 p.m., there will be speakers represent- ing the unemployed councils, the Trade Union Unity Council, and the unions of the T.U.U.L., the Commun- ist Party, the League of Struggle for Rights, and the Youth and loneer orgaiizations, Attention! ' Women Council Members! Council members are called upon to report at the strike halls of their sections to help with the following work: To distribute the strike bul- letin, to visit the homes of strikers, ete., to help with investigating shops. On Monday afternoon all council members with their children should come to Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. This means Feb. 23, at 2pm On Tuesday morning council mem- bers are to report at the headquar- ters of the needle trades union, 121) W. 28th St., at 9 a.m, to heyy the distribution in the garment. cen- ter of special leaflets, etc. ORGANIZE TO END | National Textile Union district organ- , merciless exploitation of the parasites reopen. The mill officials (agents they | are caMed here) say that “at first”| they will rely on the city police to prevent picketing. A hugé mass meeting addressed by Edith Berkman, | izer ‘here declared that there would{ be mass picketing, and made all pre- | parations. The strike started a week ago with a walkout in the Wood mili of the American Woolen Go. amotig™ the combers, one of the smaller depart- er The National Textile Work- had been quietly organizing | . and the workers were ih inst a demand from thé ém- | they work nine combs in+ stead of five. The movement spread rapidly; 2,500 in the Wood, Ayre and Washington (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PICKET TODAY; ~ OPEN KITCHEN. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) been arresting on the average of 25 | picketers a day since the strike began, | and yesterday broke up a parade of} striking dressmakers aiid their chil- dren, arresting two of the latter and two dressmakers. | The dressmakers were attacked | while they were marching from the needle trades. market to their strike headquarters. A police station was in the line of march, arld when the paraders grew abreast of it, the cops streamed out and launched a typic- ally brutal assault against the strikers and their children. Two hours later the same dress- makers staged a demonstration in the market. They will hold another one today on the same place. Because of the slowing up of strike activity here yesterday, only 6 pick- eters were arrested. They were de- fended by Jacques Buitenkampt. The attitude of the striking dress- makers both here and in Philadelphia toward the police is well exemplified by the refrain which is‘sung so often by the Harlem strikers, It runs like this: “The cops are having a hell of a time trying to chase us off the Picket line.” Strikers’ Children Crowd Meeting hall The militancy of these valiant strikers’ has been communicated to their children, who, after all, suffer 2s much as their parents from the who fun the industry. The Union held a meeting for the. strikers’ children yesterday in Irving Plaza which was so crowded that even standing room in the balcony was at a premium. The Program included addresses by labor leaders, mass singing, and a puppet show by that excellent puppet-player, Yosel Cutler. The children in the audience con- tributed $70 to the Dress Strike Fund and pledged $50 more. ‘Two mass meetings will be held to- morrow, one at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave., near 42 Street, and the other at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15 St. Strikers will be addressed by strike- leaders, John Reed Club artists will draw on the stage, a New Masses poet will recite revolutionary poetry and a singer will present revolution- ary songs. Both meetings will start at 2 p.m. The Workers International Relief has announced that it will open two food kitchens today for the benefit of the striking dressmakers, one in the Harlem headquarters, 2011 Third Ave., and the other in Brooklyn at 799 “Flushing Ave. A further list of contributors to the $16,000 Dress Strike Fund follows: Bronx Workers School 1.W.0., $3; Bronx School No. 3, $2; Workers School No. 1, $5; Bronx No. 3 LW.O., $5; Harlem School I.W.0. of th y" Br, ig Baht SG piss Ode tel| STARVATION; DEMAND lig Snio td iW. 1 BU | ILD.” Admis- CLEVE ATTN ; Ww. Glen tree, anpeiedtenre sah a lak ae \ioed Branch 127, $10; Branch 16, wh movement in New England against the wage cuts and speed-up. The Lawrence strike, starting before the delegates could assemble, was a con- erete evidence of the need for the conference, ~ ‘There were 60 delegates, including organizers. Forty-one accredited del- «yates came from groups in mills, and one from a United Textile Work- ers’ Union local of loom fixers. The cities represented were: Lawrence, New Bedford, Pawtucket, Providence, Maynard (Mass.), Webster (Mass.), Fall River and* Endover. Thifteen mills, with a total of working force of 22,000 had representatives. Be- tween 6,000 and 7,000 organized work- | @fs were represented. $3 a Week The conference bore the character of real preparation for struggle. Con- ditions reported were such as these: Webster, with 14,000 population, has 4000 unemployed, and weavers get $3 to $4 a weck. The city welfare commission offered relief, and gave | 100 workers in the American Woolen the jobless to the mills instead— naturally replacing those who would otherwise work there. Women workers get $4 and $5 a week in Royal Weaving, Rhode Island. The eniployers tried to in- troduce the six loom system in silk weaving, and announced a one-third cut in wages. When the workers or- ganized into the National Textile Workers’ Union and showed fight, the cut and six loom system were withdrawn. There are a dozen cases in New England where mere organ- ization into the NTW stopped wage | cuts. The conférence decided to mob- ilize all textile workers to give finan- cial support to the strike and to| spread it. Spreading the strike is/| more than a phrase, as is proven by | Co. mill at Maynard joining the N. T. W. The workers also now openly accept and read leaflets of the N. T W. before the eyes of the bosses | and come to the union meetings openly and fearlessly. The conference decided to build a united front committee, a “New-Eng- jand Organize-For-Strike -Commit- tee,” drawing into it the rank and file representatives of the U. T. W., (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BOSSES GRATEFUL TO LABOR FAKERS By WALTER WILSON. NEW YORK:—How the bosses are beginning to acknowledge their grati- tude to the leaders of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers for helping force through wage cuts on the rahk and file is shown in an article of particular interest to union members in the Daily News Record, textile trade paper, for February 9, 1931, written by one George J. Hexter. The Daily News Record said: “Revision of rates is... if not exactly a pleasant process for union Officials, at least a practicable one. + ++ It has been the union which has taken the initiative and encour- aged firms... to rescale rates so as to put direct labor costs on a basis .comfortable to the new selling price.” The article goes on to say that the process of rescaling “always invol\ some diminution of work, which is say of earnings fo rsome workers... . Either their operations are entirely eliminated . . . or else théir work + + » is curtailed. . . . Which, means «+.» The weekly earnings suffer by diminution and the worker feels ag- grieved and vents his grievance on his officials.” * ‘ “This leaves out of account the likewise very frequent cases where the new rate fails to yield equiva- lent hourly earnings which greatly intensify the workers’ dissatisfac- tion.” 7 LW.O., $5; G. Krinker Branch I.W.0., $5; Branch 4 1.W.O.,, $5; Branch 12 LW.O., $5; Branch 20 1.W.0., $25; Branch 277 1.W.0O., $10; Branch 116 LW.O., $5; Tafner Branch 8, $5; Branch 133 I.W.O., $3; John Reed Branch 1.W.0., $5; Branch $3 I.W.O., $5; Dress Strike Collection, $18.81; School 13 I.W.O., $10; Women’s Coun- cil No. 12, $15; Joe Fissano, $3; Egidis Consoli, $6.75; E. Royce, $10; Bessie Siegel, $2; Helen Eisenstein, $1.80; Bertha Letachy, $1.35; Esther Klein, $3.50; Harlem School & Cloakmakers Council, $5; Sylvia Grenzer, $3.20; Joseph Levy, $1. Entertainment and Ball Given by the . DAILY WORKER and ANTI-FASCIST ALLIANCE OF NORTH A. To Ro Hold At MANHATTAN LYCEUM 66 BAST. FOURTH STREET - Saturday Evening, ‘TICKETS:—50 CENTS oN JOHN REED CLUB : COSTUME. BALL of writers and artists who organized the John Reed Club about a year and @ half ago and are working in con- junction with the revolutionary labor movement on the cultural front and are extending to the dressmakers the | support of of the organization in their present strike will give their first an- nual costume ball in Teutonia Hall, 16th Street and 3rd Avenue on Fri- day evening, February 27. In giving this first annaul ball, the John Reed Club, reminds all workers that being a costume affair which will attract many outside sympathetic elements “it would be appropriate to | come in costumes expressing various shadés of our struggles heré that will, bring home to these new eleménts the ideology of our whole movement.” The John Reed Club attracts to most of its affairs not the mili- tant section of the wor! class, but being an organization of cultural workers, many writers and artists sympathetic to the working class struggle attend the club affairs. It is expected that Theodore Dreiser will be one of the many outstanding fig- ures in the literary world who will be present. ‘Tickets for the costume ball can be had at various places throughout the city including the Workers Book 4 Shop, 50 East 13th Street. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES BRONX LAST TWO DAYS! LATEST SOVIET FILM “AL YEMEN” Sovkino Newsreel RED OLYMPIAD FIRST ZEPPELIN IN USSR RONX PLAYHOUSE 1350 8. BLVD—DAyton 9-298 FREEMAN STREET SUBWAY STA, PRICES: 4 ¢6 spm—ise Atter~a80 the February 28, 1931 At 8:00 P.M ZAUSNER READY 500 Parade in Phila. Needle TO EXPEL THREE Angered by Exposure of His Sell-Outs NEW YORK.—Philip Zausner, the secretary of Painters’ Union District Council No. 9, is framing three pain~ ters for expulsion as part of ‘his campaign to ruthlessly wpe out all honest elements from the’ union. Zausner was once driven from of- fice in the union for atrocious graft scandals. He muscled his way back, using a gangster chief imported from Chicago. Sells Paint and Painters. Zausner’s present victims are Max Rosen and S. Bogorad, both of Local Union 905, and S. Rosenthal of Local Union 1011. The real reason for their attempted expulsion is that on the| floor of local meetings they exposed Zausner’s sellout of Zausner has ben secretly for some time a ‘part owner of a paint manu- facturing company. Employers to whom Zausner sells paint can sef up the worst possile beonditions, pay under the scale, do anything they | like and the Zausner gang prevents any action by the workers. The charges against the three} workers are based on clauses in the constitution; slander, etc. Rosenthal is charged with acting as chairman at an open forum arranged by the Trade Union Unity League. Zausner himself makes the charge: against Rosen and Bogorad, which is an unusual circumstance, All progressive painters come to all their union meetings aha organize protests and resistance there to the Zausner campaign of expul- sions, ‘ Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born. the workers-7 should | Strike; Mass Picketing Tues. | PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23, — Five hundred rstkiing dressinakers par- aded through the gatihent centér here, to the strike headquarters. Many of the strikers’ children marched | with them. When the parade passed a police station, the cops attacked the march, dispersed the children, ar- | resting two. Four strikers were joil- jed. At 2:00 p. m. a mass open air | meeting of strikers Was held where plans were laid down for future strike activity. There will be @ large | open air meeting Tuesday. Tuesday morning there will be a | mass picketing to extend the enthus- ship of the Needlé Trades Workers now going on ‘here under the leader- jastic needle trades striké that is Industrial Union. The Philadelphia |meedle workers are carrying on a h fight. The very fact that the pres- ent strike has already succeeded GERMAN JOBLESS RALLY 10 FIGHT Prepare for Union Square Demonstration | splendid battle against sweat-shop conditions, horrible speedup and wage cuts. They are forging @ strong | union through fight. Several victories have already been gained, a few shops having signed | up with the industrial union. Open air demonstrations and mass meet- | ings have been held every day. The | NEW ¥ the Ger- man speaking workets and joblets for workers are expected to turn out on| the mass struggle for unemployment the mass picket lines Tuesday. The| insurance, @ mass meeting will be strike committee has issued the fol-| held Tuesday, February 24, at the lowing call for mass picketing! te ‘Yorke re Temple, 263 Bast “Dressmakers, join the strike! as chief pret omeag ‘with Max Bedacht | A mass meeting in Brooklyn was rer held last evening, where Fred Bieden- Attention! kapp spoke, — Th a leaflet issued to Geren Return at once collection boxes | speaking unemployed by the Unem- for the Hunger March! ployed Councils the heed for greater Men’s shoes are urgently heeded | struggle against hunger, wage reduc- for the six-day march to Albany! |tions and murderous speed-up Collect shoes in your neighbor- | stressed. hood, from your shopmates, from | The meeting tonight will serve repair shops! Send at once! International Relief, 131 W. 28th St, N. ¥. 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