The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1931, Page 2

=~] = DAILY WORKE? | THE ADVENTURES OF BILL ToNotar 4 t MUST [ f ‘eB i 5 S*TAND UP Wp "9 : : i q Ng ; SDNESDAY, APRIL 8 1932 > 4 Stand Up! rete , DEATH OF EX-BOOTLEGGER IS EXCUSE FOR FRAMING OF 5 PATERSON WORKERS / at , ae > : ) RAY ow Like Silk Bosses Determined to Murder Lieb, Mil- 4 ; eS) [TAY Coursey By RYAN WALKER WORKER 4 T { Go Back itant Weaver, Who Exposed Nature Were YOU | Came from J of Workmen’s Circle / | PR { . € Wy ALLAN JOHNSON. | daughter, Fannie, who was consider- <<aet / \ { PATERSON, N. J. April 7—Ajed the best student in her class “« ier i drama of the class struggle is being| throughout the eight terms of her - Not MERE Lake | | STA yaTig| (EE eat rapidly unfolded in this city of silk| high school course and who was ¢x- To HAND fon «Membership meetin, and suffering. Its opening “scenes | pected by everyone to win the 5,000 R From have taken place in two buildings on| scholarship awarded to the best pupil OVE act or i, Fair Street; in the home of Benja-|It is more.than three months since NG HEI . 129) min Lieb and in the synagogue which|her class was graduated, but no Bands © ANOTI WAGE Mp, adjoins it | scholarship has yet been awarded. A Ne RURCAUCRAT!© UTS The cast is small as yet, compris- | A statement by a friendly teacher to H VLITARS ing only five militant workers who | the effect that “it is too bad that AND M' Buy are being framed on a murder charge and the district attorney who is pros- ting them at the behest of the "s silk manufacturers. But the will soon number thousands, for n the next week or two it will include the majority of the ‘horribly exploited inhabitants of the city as well as those who exploit and enslave them The f act of the drama covers a period of more than a decade. The leading character is the silk weaver, Benjamin Lieb, a revolutionary in Russia at the age of 14 and a victim of the czar ons. The first scene opens in Pater- nm after the World War with Lieb, still the militant worker fighting to end the enslavement of his class, in the thick of every battle for the im- provement of the conditions of his fellow workers. Lieb Leads 1924 Strike Lieb’s courage, intélligence and fortitude soon carry him to a posi- tion of leadership among his fellow workers. He is the leader in the emorable strike of 1924, when the Paterson silk workers struck against the introduction of the multiple loom system and the lengthening of the working day by two hours. It was during this strike that the silk bosses —the Jewish silk bosses in particular | Paterson determined to “get” Lieb. For Lieb had committed the unvardonable sin: he had exposed the Paterson Workmen's Circle, a “so- cialist® organization, as being a nest of Jewish silk bosses who had utilized every possible method to break the Wrike. The pride, as well as the pocket- §oks, of the Jewish silk manufac- ‘mers were hurt by this exposure. f was more difficult from then on }) pay a Jewish worker a starvation wage on the ground that you were a “friend” of his and a member of the same club. The Jewish bosses joved honor almost but not quite as much as ¢xploiters’ profits, and when Lieb branded them as hypocritical robbers they squirmed uneasily in the front pews of their synagogues they faced the workers in the be. seats. Some of these exploite:s at- tend the synagogue immediately ad- joining Lieb’s home, and their rancor towards him was not dimin- ished in the least by the fact that b, realizing too well that the rnagogue was but another means £ enslaving his fellow workers, never get his foot in the opium factory. —of Lieb Always Hounded by Bosses From that day to the present framed-up charge of murder, Lieb has been houndéd by these silk boss- es. They have tried, usually success- fully, to prevent him from working at his trade. Lieb has been out of work for eight and ten months at a time, and when he did get a job it always ended suddenly when his boss was informed of his record in the working class movement. This per- secution has even extended to mem- bers of his family. Lieb has a What’s On— Pxée. Committee W, E..§ Mo 1. meets regularly at § p. m. at head- quarters, Every present. . 64 ce Womens’ Council No. 3% Holds a party at 8 p, 70th St., Brooklyn. at 2006 Council 11 and 12 Are holding a farewel! party for Comrade Sonia Schecter who is eay- | ing for the Soviet nion as the rep res ine Class Women on the FSU. gation, At 8:30 p.m. at 2’ Park East, E Os ie Office Workers Union Mass Meetin At Labor Temple, 14 St. and tnd Ave. at 6:30 pm. “The Office Worke ers and the Present Crisis.” TRURSDAY Plumbers T.U.U.L. Oreanizational meeting at Stuvve sent Casino, Second Ave. t Street. All plumbers and helpers are urged to come. eer tee Ex-Servicemen Will Form A new branch in Harlem. Organ’ aational meeting for this purpose at Spm. at 126th St and Sth Ave, i . - Harlem Prog. Youth Clob Meets at 1492 Madison Ave. for regular meeting and discussion, ‘Trade Unity Couneit Very imp. meeting of the T. U.UL. at 7:45 p.m, at 16 W, 2ist Bt very delegate myst be present. Alteration Painters of Bronx Meet at 8 Pm. at 400, Boston Ra. FRIDAY. Marnb Alterat Meet mM. at 8 p, fist Street. | Painters at 16 West “8 The Orientel Night Which was to have been hold at the Finnish Workers Hall in Haréem has been called off. Brighton Reach United Front Conf. For May meets at 140 Nep- tune Ave. at 8:30 p.m. All workers orvenizations are urged to send dele- gates. > 6.6 yrae Metal Workers Ind. League .Merte at 16 W, 2ist St. at & p.m, May Day wil) be discussed and plans Tal era en Workers Ex-servicemen's League Street, at § p.m ‘cxservicemen <sé urged to attend. 8 t Jash in Siberian pris- | you have never changed your name” explains why Fannie Lieb has not been awarded the scholarship. Lieb means love in German, but in Pater- son it means hatred for all enemies of the working class. Lieb’s persecution by the silk man- ufacturers of Paterson has increased if anything, his activity in the revo- lutionary working class movement Thirty years of activity have not les- sened his ardor for the emancipa- tion of his suffering fellow workers. Paterson silk workers have been conducting a series of strikes in re- cent months, many of them highly successful, and Lieb has taken a lead- ing part in all of them. He was becoming a thorn in the sides of the Paterson silk manufacturers that they could no longer bear. When Urban, an ex-bootlegger, a leader of the bosses A\ MACH ING Wo suerer Nee fey (yu COURT HELPING FRAME WORKERS 9 Resisting Evictions Held as Burglars NEW YORK.—When a group of Food Workers Union | to Rouse Support for Daily Worker NEW YORK.—Following the de- cision of the last Trade Union Unity Council meeting, which apprepriated $20 for the Daily Worker and called on its affiliated unions to take up the question of support, the Food Workers’ Industrial Union has taken | NEED FUNDS FIGHT JERSEY FRAME-UP Collection Sunday in Newark NEWARK, April 7.—The Interna- | TERM AK JNERRITS| Robt W Dunn to Speak lat Office Workers THOMPSON RULE! Mass Meet Tonite | Robert W. Dunn, director of Labor | Research Assn., will speak on “The Use Demagogy to Win! office Worker and the Present ‘kare’ V 3 | Crisis,” at a mass meeting of the Wor kers’ Votes Office Workers’ Union at Labor Tem- CHICAGO, April 7.—Anton Cer ple, 14th St. and 2nd Ave., tonight | unemployed workers, under the lead- ership of the Downtown Unemployed Council, put back into the house the action. The union’s executive coun- cil voted $10 from the treasury and called on the sections and shop or- tional mak, backed by the leading Chicago exploiters, affiliated to the gangster) ; machines, has won the glection ‘for Labor Defense is mobilizing the workers for a house-to-house col- lection of funds for Sunday, April 12. just as Lieb is a leaGer among his fellow | furniture of a Negro worker whom tative of the Council of Work. | and Ninth | workers, died recently, the silk bosses decided that the five most militant workers in the city should burn for his death, even though all are abso- lutely innocent and two weren't even near the scene of the altercation in which Urban was supposed to have been injured. These five workers are Liéb, Louis Bart, Helen Gershonowitz, Louis Har- tis and Albert Katzenbuch. They are leading actors of this Paterson work- ing class drama that may turn sud- denly into another Sacco-Vanzetti tragedy. The audience is rapidly in- cluding the scores of millions in the enslaved American working class, for whom these five have fought so val- iantly, and the participation of this audience in the drama will determine \ how closely these five victims of a frame-up will approach being mur- dered by the Paterson silk manu- facturers. (Tomorrow's article will continue the description” of the background of the Paterson framé-up). BOSS COURT AIDS CARVEY FRAMEUP "old Two Workers For Grand Jury NEW YORK.—In a court room packed with Negro and white work- ers, demonstrating their solidarity with the defendants, and the flaming protest of the working class against | their frame-up by the Garvey na- | tional reformist, Grant, and his po- lice allies, Arthur Williams and | Charles Campbell, unemployed work- ; lers, came to trial yesterday. | ‘The two unemployed workers were | charged by Grant ‘with assault and | |robbery. They were arrested by po- |lice, under Grant’s direction, on) | Saturday afternoon, following a fight | between Negro unemployed workers and thugs led by Grant. Grant first went with police to the headquarters of the Harlem Unemployed Council at 353 Lenox Ave. where he de- manded the arrest of 24 unemployed | Workers present. He told the police | the unemployed workers had at- | tacked him for telling them not to | join the mass revolutionary struggle | against starvation and not to go against the bosses’ government. or member is to be) give their police watchdogs any | | trouble. When the police refused to | make arrests, he departed, but re- | turned later with another cop and charged Williams and Campbell with | beating him and stealing his watch and money. In spite of the fact that he con- | tradicted himself time and again in | testifying in court yesterday, and the | unemployed workers gave straight- forward testimony as to what had | actually occurred, the court held the two workers in $2,000 bail each for the grand jury. On the stand Grant testified that he had told the cops that the un- | employed workers were a bunch of Reds and should be locked up. Ques- tioned by the I. L. D. lawyer if he had stated in headquarters of the council that Inspector Neal had told him to’beat up any Reds he found in Harlem and he could have them a: rested, Grant hesitated. The magi- strate, taking the hint, objected to the question. When the I. L. D. lawyer protested, the magistrate re- torted: “Well, let him make the statement. It is immaterial.” Grant then admitted that he had made the statement. Wiliams, taking the stand, de- nounced the trial as a dirty frame- up and attack against the working class by the Garvey fakers and the police. When, however, he tried to explain that the attacks were espe- cially directed against Negro work- ers, formerly members of the Garvey movement, who had repudiated the treacherous leadership of the reform- ists, he was stopped by the court. ‘The workers will protest this dirty frame-up in tremendous demonstra- tions on May Day. The I. L, D. will mobiline the masses for defense of ll lil i ta | i} i ! the landlord had evicted for non- payment of rent, nine of them were | arrested and are on trial, charged with disorderly conduct and a threat of burglary. Judge August Dreyer, hearing the case which began today at 2 p. m., announced that he intends to change the charge from one of disorderly conduct to burglary. | The case has attracted much at- tention among the unemployed work- ers of this city, with the result that the court room this morning: was | Packed with members of the Unem- ployed Council the neighborhood. For some time the landlord has been trying to get Seagrave, the tenant who has tived in the same house for the past eight years, to move by using such excuses as repairs on the lighting wires for which the light was cut off for a | Period: of days. Failing in this, he took out the washtub “for repairs,” | which necessitated shutting off the | water for several days. But all of | this did not succeed and so the land- lord finally became despefate and j ordered the tenant evicted. However, | the first eviction did not succeed. The Unemployed Council: put the furniture back in the house. But | the second time, Monday night, the | Police were on hand and when an attempt was made to put the furni- ture back in pe hause nine were | arrested, . The trial will be continued in the court today at 314 W. 54th St. and all unemployed workers are requested to come to the court room to demon- strate solidarity with the Unem- | ployed Council, as well as with the | victim of the eviction. | ‘The New York District, Interna- | tional Labor Defense, through its at- torney, Jacques Bieutenkant, is handling the defense, | | We Invite Workers to the | BLUE BIRD CAFETERIA |00D WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY Yetween 12th and 13th Sts Sy6nan Jleve6unua DR. A. BROWN Dentist 301 EAST TH STREET (Corner Second Svenue) Tel. Algonquin 1248 Phone: L.HHIGH 6382 ‘ . storpstional Barher Shop ‘iM. AV. SALA. Prop. 2016 Second Avenue, New Yor (bet 108rd & 104th Sted Ladies Robs Our Specialty Private Beauty Parlor ganizations to contribute. Bronx! nese funds will be used for the De- | mayor against William Hale Thomp- son by a plurality of over 100,000. No section meeting collected $12.50 and a $10 pledge from one member. Brooklyn section contributed $13.06. Both went on record to take up the question of support to the Daily Worker in each shop. The union executive points out that food workers need their Daily Worker, as well as Labor Unity and fense for the five Paterson Textile | returns are.in yet on the Communist | | candidate for mayor, Otto Wangerin. | workers. ‘ u |The Communist candidates were All members of the LL.D. and sym- | ruled off the ticket by agreement of pathetic organizations are called up-| the Cermak and Thompson forces: on to respond on Sunday morning | but the Communist Party called on at the following stations in their /the workers to write the names of | respective cities of New Jersey: | the Communist candidates in. Newark, 93 Mercer St., 52 West St! Cermak ran on a ticket of the| at 6:30 p.m. This meeting will open the campaign to double the mem- bership of the union in three months. A series of open air meetings have been planned for the purpose of drawing into the union hundreds of office workers who are now working under more intense speed than before, and who at the same timé have suf- fered reductions in salaries. In addi- tion, the Office Workers’ Union is concentrating its energies in organ- izing the unemployed office workers to join in the demands for a mini- and workers from} the Food Worker. All three are needed and make a strong combina-|37 16th Ave., 29 Aleya St. tion. Paterson, 205 Paterson St., 3 Gov- ernor St. Passaic, 39 Monroe St. Elizabeth, 106 E. Jersey St. Perth Amboy, 308 Elm St. New Brunswick, 11 Plum St. Linden, Workers Center at corner Fern and St. George Street. SZOSTAKOWICZ SYMPHONY ON | PHILHARMONIC PROGRAM ‘A number new to the Philharmonic } repertoire will be played by the Phil- | barmonic-Symphony Orchestra, this Wednesday evening, under the direc- tion of Arturo Toscanini. The com- | worst type of demagogy, somewhat in| mum wage scale, social insurance, 7- the order of Mayor Murphy of;De- | hour day, 5-day week. | troit. Cermak’s power is based a |the rum-running and _ bootlegging | | Sives in Chicago; he will inherit the Tuomeca’ whole gangster machine that backed | ~" ”” | Thompson and effectively aided the | | expose of the corrupt police depart- | ment by refusing $50,000 for a grand | | jury examination early this year. | | Cermak made all sorts of lying prom- | assured Cermak would help him put them over. Another supporter of Cermak is the Chicago Tribune, one | Smash the anti-labor laws of the| poser, Dmitri Szostakewicz, is one ef the Leningrad group of contempor- ary Russian composers. The Sym- phony, Opus 10, was published in 1927 when the composer was twenty-two years old. Other numbers on the Carnegie Hall Program are: Overture to “The Bar- tered Bride,” Smetana; “Flirtation in a Chinese Garden,” and “Parade,” by Abram Chasins; Suite from “The Snow Maiden,” Rimsky-Karsakoff; Overture to “The Flying Dutchman,” Wagner. This program will be re- peated on Friday and Sunday after- noons at Carnegie Hall, NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX KO raz JEEFERION Ludwig Satz in Person Frank and Milt Britton & Bang Lydia Barry Prowpecte ist Ann Suter Pop Cameron Gang Bobby Jackson COME TO A MASS MEETING OF OFFICE WORKERS Wednesday, April 8th, 1931 6:20 P.M, LABOR TEMPLE 14th STREET AND SECOND AVENUE RORERT W, DUNN Director, Labor Researeh Association Will be the main speaker ADMISSION FREE OFFICE WORKERS UNION 16 West 21st Street, New York City 29 EAST 4TH NEW YORK STREET Tel. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY ~ AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations —Music by Admission 50 cents in advance and 75 ish Workers Center, 26 West 115th 8 “Vida Obrera” offies, 2336 Third Avenue ae. the Workers Bookshop, 60 Fast 15¢h 799 Broadway; Spani ati FAREWELL RALLY AND, BALL Send-off to the FIRST DELEGATE OF THE LATIN-AMERICAN WORKERS IN USA to the MAY FIRST CELEBRATIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1931—8:30 P. M. at the NEW HARLEM CASINO i (Upper Large Hall) 116TH STREET AND LENOX AVENUE Various Attractions—Latin-American Dances—American Jazz the famous— HAVANA ROYAL ORCHESTRA cents at the door. Tickets now on sale Street; National Office of the I. L. D., ‘treet, at the and It is necessary to have one hun-| ises to the unemployed workers in dred per cent mobilization of all our | order to win the votes of the work- forces in New Jersey in order to raise | ers. the necessary funds to enable us to |~ Behind Cermak is Melvin Traylor, take up the legal defense for the five } president of the First National Bank, textile workers who are behind the | one of the leading imperialist finan- prison bars in Paterson on a frame-| cial institutions in the West. Tray- up charge of murder, lor came out for wage-cuts and was THE STRONG SURVIVE! AMERICAN PREMIERE ‘ Amkino Presents PRODUCED IN THE U. S, S. BR. BY SOYUZKINO Based on the Famous Novel by the Soviet Writer CONSTANTIN FEDIN With the Enmons Russian Actor IVAN TCHUVELEV (of “The End of St. Petersburg”) A GRIPPING. 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For Information Write to ‘| The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New York City pshead and es—$15 per Intern’) Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care of DR, JOSEPBSON 4 NEIGHBORLY PLACE TO EA1 Linel Cafeteria Pure Food—100 per cent Frigidaire Equipment—Luncheonette and Seda Fountain 830: BROADWAY ‘Near 12th Street Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and tresb , vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREE1 37 WES1 32ND STREE! 825 WES! 36TH STREE1 Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAST “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” BROADEN NEEDLE ORGANIZING COMM Open Air Meetings To Start Next Monday NEW YORK.—The meeting of the Executive Council of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union Monday night made some important decisions as to future work. One broadens the organization committee by including whole shops in it for particular drives. Meetings of these shop members will be called, and the program gets under way April 13, Special leaflets on why workers’ should join the N.T.W.LU. are being prepared for next week's distribution. Beginning Monday, open air meetings are to be held in the dress district. A meeting of sympathizers and non-Industrial Union strikers in the dress strike, with unemployed work- ers, will be held April 15; a dress- makers’ shop chairmen’s meeting comes April 16, and a dressmakers’ membership meeting, April 22. Electiogs of the executive council and union officers come May 11, and nominations are to be made at the Shop Delegates Council Meeting, April 13, The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union is planning to take a prominent part in the May First de- monstration. Shop organizations will make shop signs, donations will be taken to provide music, the executive council will elect delegates to the ence, which is to be held April 20, and organizers are instructed to bring to the attention of shop meet- ings that these are also to elect de- legates, For full political and social rights and self-determination for Negroes! Against imperialist war! ‘| WOCOLONA REUNION FILLUSTRATED LECTURE “The 5 Year Plan” by MARCEL. SCHERER Natl. Secretary, W. TR. Just returned from 4 month's tour of the Soviet Union April 9th, at 8 p. m, WEBSTER HALL llth Street and Third Avenue Admission 35c Cooperators’ Patronize SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 8216 BROSK. N. HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone Univernity 9865 Vhone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISRES Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Het. 12th and 13th bte. 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