The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1931, Page 2

Page iwo PATERSON SILK AND DYE BOSSES ARE REAL FORCE BEHIND FRAME- UP OF FIVE ON MURDER CHARGE: Being Victimized B Against Wage-Cuts; i Fate; Rally to ecause They Fought Face Sacco-Vanzetti Their Defense By AL GOLDBERG Article 4. Due to the conditions described in | the preceding articles and with the daily wage-cuts and general worsen- ing of conditions, strikes are con- stantly breaking out. Every day workers, as little as three at a time are out on the streets battling des- perately for a c e to live. It is only National Textile Workers that sjnce its formation in Paterson—November, 1928—was or- ganizing and leading these strikes. The N.T.W.U. in Paterson was born in struggle, during the 1928 strike of the broad silk workers, and in the fight age the fake leaders of the Associated Sjlk Workers, who were SATURDAY Meeting of City of the Internatic Committee Youth Workers Order Dance outh Club at 8:20 Ave. Good jazz Brooklyn. Proletenlt of D: Workers? Spri e at School and and Lecture on Post-War at 3 p, m. at Worker New Members. 7 nist I Admissio ‘L Downtown Workers’ 1 text Meeting « of the five s rs E Paterson, N. J.. under the auspices of the Women’s Councils of Patterson. | Louis A. Baum will speak. workers who urged to’ be Bittleman to Lecture. At Workers Forum, 8 p. m. at School Anditorium, World Crisis, their answers and ours.” Fifth Anniversary Banquet. and entertainment given by the Counci 4 of Working Class Women of Williamsburg at 61 6 at-7:30 p.m. Admission ‘. . * Lectrre on May Day. at Harlem Prog. Vouth Club at 1492 Madison Ave. All weleome. Young Defenders. ets at 4 p. m, at 1400 Boston Road, Cee tee Exhibition Proletarian Art. John Reed Club-Proletpen on Sat- urday, Sunday. Discussion, music lectures. Admission 25 cents. Pro ceeds to Freiheit. eager OE Brownsville Workers Open Foram 105 Thatford Ave., Brooklyn, Lec ture by Smith on “The Revolution ary Meaning of May First” at § p. m, Admission free. All workers in- vited. aly . Proleteult Club. will conduct a hike to the Palisades. Meet at Dyckman St. Ferry at 0 a, m. Bring food, etc, All welcome. . Downtown Branch TWO 1#5. Regular meeting at 7:30 p. m. at 341 E. 7th St. All young workers and- students are invited. Middle Bronx Forum. Tuecture on “May Day.” Admission free. All welcome. 1622 Bathgate Ave. CB . Bronx Workers Forum. meets at § p, m. at 569 Prospect Ave. “May First.” . Brownsville Attention. Come to our housewarming in our néw “Young Workers Center” at 529 — Ave. at 8 p. m. Auspices: Yi Open Forum on..“Revolutionary Meaning of May First” at the Brontivillé Workers’ Center, 105 Thatford Ave. at § p.m. Adm. free. > The Yo ioneers’ of Pasaaic wil] hold an affair for the New Pio- neer Magazine at 2 p.m, at 26 Day- ton Ave. Good program presented. : Council 5, Coney Island invites all work to attend the dinner to be given at 2 p.m. at 2921 'W. 32nd St, i. ee Open Foram fn Brontt Worker#’ Clab at 1472 Boston Rd., lay First, His- torical Day of Strugel 14 “History of May Day” subject of Open Forum at Brighton Beach, 140 Neptune Ave. . Hike Hike! Hike! of the Metal Youth Section, T.U.U.U:; to the Palisades, Meet at 16 W. 2ist St. at 9am, All gett workers are urged to come and bring their shop- mates, Good time assured, Hike to City Island the Worker School Students. et at Pelham Bay Station at 9:45; t School, 12th St. entrance, at 9. join int Bring lunch and sports stuff, . 6 @ Concert and Banguet. Unit 4, Bection t 563 Stone Ave., Brooklyn, ats . ° Arbelterband of Manhattan and Bronx will show a Zille Film, “Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Gluck’ (Mother Krausens Rides Into Happineés) on Saturday and Sunday afternoon and evening at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 E, Fist St. Adm, 30c, ° , always making fake settlements dur- jing the s The on the framed-up charge of murder were in the lead of the fight against | the fake leadership of the Associated Silk Workrs. B. Lib and L. Harris two of these militant workers were on the Strike Committee at that time. Ever since its formation these workers were in the leadership of the union, always ready to fight for the betterment of the conditions of the five workers now being held | Textile Workers. B. Lieb is a mem- | ber of the Natjonal Butro of the | N-T.W.U. and has always been in the forefront of the struggles in Pater- son § e 1913. time he strik ein the Ur- but one of these The were em roke out t fused to give the workers the 44 increase on the yard that he had promised them. Urt the owner of the plant was a bootlegger and had direct connections with the under- world of Paterson. In order to break the solidarity of the strjkers Urban took in his nephew (son of a so- called revolu y worker) in to scab. The str had talked to the nephew time after time not to scab. He had promised not to, but the next day would always go in to work. On the day of the atteck the strikers had gone over to talk to the scab. Urban rau over to the woman work- er, Helon Gershonowitz, and struck her in the face. Immediately gang- sters, wajting across the street, ran over and ck Urban over the head with some sort of an instrument. Whether by accident or design no one knows. Police ran up and ar- rested B. Lieb, who did not even at- tempt to escape. At the police sta- tion the nephew of Urba, or rather his scab, swore out warrants for the arrest of the other four, namely H. Gershonowitz, A. Kutzubuck, L. Bart and L. Harris. They were let out on a high bail. About a month later Urban died and as stated by the “Sunday Eagle,” a local paper which gave the report of the physjcian, said that he died of menengitis, Immediately the textile bosses and the police saw their chance. At three o'clock in the morning detectives came to the houses of the workers, routed them out of bed. notwithstanding that. all | except one‘were fathers and mothers | and threw them into the police sta- | tion. For four days and nights the po- lice kept them jn the lousy, stinking police station, in cells 2x4, question- ing them and trying to break their | spirit. This is a direct violation of | the “law” which says that a prjsoner|new film at the Cameo Theatre. | Committee of the United Front Con- cannot be kept in the police station |‘“Lumpenball” is a film farce by Carl| ference and will be given as a gift | longer than two days. | Judge Joelson, the so-called liberal | judge, refused to have them removed | | to the coenty jail. Incidentally this | “liberal” is the attorney for the Dye | Owners Association. He is doing his| | job very “satisfactory.” | | Even before the jndictment had} | been issued by the grand jury “The | Paterson Evening News,” commonly | known among the workers as the Ellison St. Gutter Sheet,” came out | | with a vicious attack against these | workers, demanding blood, This edi- | torial was head by the caption, ‘‘Vio- | lence Should Be Paid in Kind,” then | jt goes on to say in the beginning, | “If ie authorities are able to prove that Max Urban, Eastside manufac- turer, died as a result of the violent attack upon him by strikers, no ef- fort should be spared to mete out to those responsible, the punishment which such acts merit.” And it ends up with the following: “If those re- sponsible are found guilty, the cause of decency and respect for other peo- ple’s rjghts will be splendidly served if punishment commensurate with the magnitude of the crime is meted ous.” In plain English this yellow sheet which is bought over and paid for by the Silk Bosses demands re- venge, is after blood. The grand jury kept the indict- ment secret a week after jndictment. Their scheme is to keep the work- jers waiting, tire them out, break their spirit, send them to the elec- tric chair and smash the National Textile Workers Union. But the workers in Paterso and all over the country will have something to say about that. The workjng class doesn’t want any more martyrs. It has had plenty. What it wants is real live fighters. The National Tex- tile Workers Union is the central point of attack by the textile bosses. Every worker must come to the de- fense of the Union and these five workers, Silk and dye workers should Join the National Textile Workers Unjon and form defense committees in every shop and factory. All work- ing class organizations should send in funds to the I L. D, Paterson ‘Textile Workers Defense Committee, at 205 Paterson St., Paterson, N. J. Workers! Defeat the Frame-up! Build the National Textile Workers Union. — — “Force is the midwife of every old soclety pregnant with a new one, It THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931 ba A Po! ONEMPLOYED, M VE_ GONE. asterke aaa jel Pp We Wace CUT ComM6 Wel D TAKE Teieig | s a UNEMPLOYED) Facrony fe CONS ‘SETA — Organize and Strike Against Wage-Cuts _ ) Them, Aid tay YY Witt, FIGHT Wid ‘THEM- oT AGains 1] _ STRIKE AND FIGHT AGAINST ALE Wace LOE WORKERS ey RYAN WALKER Soy GUITH THe STRIKERS. / (\ Se" strikers HELP! Te OMMUNIS TS AND bas APOYED 4 we aye tana] P TH6 Boss. “obless Meet at © |Scores of Cities Prepare Mass'?{CKET MONDAY |FEIFER STRIKE Boro Hall, Monday NEW YORK.—The Boro Hall Jnemployed Councils York has issued a meeting to be held at | Boro Hall of Brooklyn on Mon- y at 1l a. m. The council has Sis week de- fended two eviction cases in the Municipal Court. The first, the case do Jiminez, who lives at 194 Pearl St., has been put off until Mon- day. Until that time, the judge has ordered him to go to the mayor's e comiinittee for relief. If he does not get a job from the committee he will be evicted, is the threat of the judge. | The chances of getting a job from them are slim, as Sam Papa, 2 Clin- | ton Ave., found out. The same court sent him to the committee when his | eviction came up. He was ont given | a job, but was told that the city} ould take his seven children away m him and put them in-an in- | stitution. When he came back to | report to the judge, he was told to “get out by the 28th of this month.” The Boro Hall Council went to the house of Jiminez at 192 Pearl St. and immediately organized a tenants’ league, the members of which are vesolved that if Jiminez and his fam- ily are evicted they would put back | the furniture. They demand, through their com- mittee, a reduction of five dollars from the twenty-five they now pay a month for rooms that are dingy and. ill-kept, or there will be a rent strike. | The demands will: be presented Monday by the Tenants’ Committee. “Lumbenball” Opens At Cameo Theatre Lumpenball, or “Vagabond Ball,” a | German all-talking picture, is the} Heinz Wolff. The leading roles are played by the noted German players, | Harry Frank and Kurt Lilien, and) include Irene Ambrus and Anna | Muellerlincke. “Skandal Um Eva,” starring Henny Porten, will be held over another | week at the Eighth Street Playhouse. | This Saturday and Sunday there will be a special showing of Henny Por- ten’s other comedy, “Gretel And Liesel,” in addition to the regular program, BARTHELMESS AT JEFFERSON Richard Barthelmess in “The Finger Points,” is the screen attrac- tion at the Jefferson Theatre begin- ning Saturday. On the stage, Harry Hershfield is the headline feature. Other acts include: McKaye and Ardine; the St. Claire sisters; Bert and Lehman; Madie and Ray; Fro- zini offers “Melodies of Today”; Muriel Kaye, and Goody, Ora and Smith, Wednesday to Friday, “Laugh and | Get Rich” is the screen fare, wish | Dorothy’ Lee, Edna May Oliver and Hugh Herbert. Charles Withers and his “Opry;” Don Galvan; Ross and Bennett; Sue Russell and the Hinky Dinkys; “Four’s A Gang,” featuring Sam Bernard, Jr.; and the Blums, HIPPODROME PRESENTS “CIMARRON” “Cimarron” comes to the Hippo- drome this Saturday, following its four months showing on Broadway. Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle O'Neal head the cast of Edna Ferber’s drama, screened from the novel of the same name. The vaudeville half of the bill in- cludes Ted and Al Waldman; Rin- Tin-Tin, the wonder “dog of the screen with his master, Lee Duncan; Jack Tracy and Lita Vinette; the Liazeed Demnati Troupe of Arabian dazzlers and other features, . Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND *' Restaurant * “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” is itself an economic power.”—Marx: Demonsti ations for May First ee | Preliminary Conferences Lay Plans for One Day Strike’On May Day | May Day demonstrations have been prepared this year through united front conferences in many cities. Into these conferences were drawn many working class organizations to develop the mass gathcrings for a struggle against unemploy- ment, against wage cuts, for the international revolutionary solidarity of the working class, | ~——~~~———— 5 aS RS Welcome and for the defense of the So- Way gay viet Union, ‘The Daily Worker| ¥¥ OL ker 8 has already reported the pians made in scores of cities for Mrs. Patterson NEW YORK.—Hundreds of work- | ers, Negro and white, gave an en- May Day. Following are more de- tails on other cities where big May Day demonstrations are being pre- pared, Saati | thusiastic greeting to Mrs. Claude | Patterson, mother of Haywood Pet- | nt terson, one of the nine Negro youth victims of the Scotts!oro boss court frame-up, when she arrived from Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday at the Pennsylvania Station. Cries of “Down with Newark Workers Plen May First. NEWARK, N. J.—A United Fro Conference was held Sund: April 19, 1931, at the Slovak Hall to make plans for the celebration of May First. The demonstration is to be held last lynching!” at Military Park at 2 p.m. The fol- | “Demand the immediate release of |lowing concrete plan of work was | the nine Negro youths in Scotts- accepted: boro!” rang through the crowded! 1, Every organization to order | Station. Mrs. Patterson was met by leaflets for distribution. a committee of the International La- bor Defense. 2. Organizations to mobilize their members to come down to the dem-|. When the workers reached the foot onstration in a body. {of the stairs in the large waiting 3, Every to get @S|room of the Pennsylvania Station, many trucks and cars as possible, to one worker mounted the steps and the morning. made a short speech. He told about ; 4. Collection lists, Daily Worker | the attempt to legally lynch the nine greeting lists and buttons were given | Negro young workers in Scottsboro out to the delegates. j= the necessity for Negro and omy Z ® white workers to unite to stop this ‘The enthusiasm of all the dele- | attempted lyinching. A plain clothes gates was aroused when one of the | gig tp d ta.sti h daldeute ached tothe vOnitedt ick trie 0, stop the speaker, but he gates presen 0 the Unites fe : was quickly jerked away and the Front Conference a flag that he re-| oa ker ‘oonbinusds: caster insane ceived from the Soviet Union. This | SP : — : other worker spoke for a few min- | SRS all sO: Rep by ste eee te utes. Then the workers marched out | of the railroad station singing “soli- | | darity forever,” and shouting slo-| gans ——‘‘Demonstrate May Day, against lynching!” “White and Negro | workers unite against lynching!” | | organizaiion | be at 121 Springfield Ave., May 1, ia to the organization that will dis- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) a AT EXCELSIOR, Good Prosnects to Win, Orders Piling Up NEW YORK.—The strikers of the} the shop closed down tight. failed. From information received by the and gangster protection. the police tried to plant. bing and arrests. The prospects for winning strike are good since orders are piling up and the boss cannot fill them. All workers are asked to come out on Monday morning to show their soli- darity with the strikers and prevent the opening of the shop. The workers are fighting for the 8-hour day, the 44-hour week, against a 15 per cent wage cut, and recogni- tion of the shop committee, They | are organized into the Trade Union Unity League, Building Trades Sec- tion, DOWN TOOLS MAY FIRST ALL OUT TO MADISON SQUARE | AGAINST BOSSES’ WAR! BERNARD STERN on Class Control of Culture | See | “It’s Funny As Heli” | A one act play SATURDAY EVE., APRIL 25, 8:30 P. M. Workers Laboratory Theatre 131 West 28th Street Hear | | Constance, Bennett is seen at the za Mayfair this week in “Burn To Love,” | written by Ernest Pascal. The cast) includes Joel McCrea, Payl Cavanagh and Frederick Kerr and Anthony Bushell, “——""Theatre Gulld Production™™""% Getting Married By BERNARD SHAW a W. 52nd. B S240 GUILD Mts. Th. & Bay Last Week “Iron Man,” starring Lew Ayres, will be held over for the second week | at the Globe Theatre. The story is by W. R. Burnett, author of “Little Caesar.” i NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX By HANS CHBL' BERG civic REPERTORY '*t2 St. 6th av. Evenings 8:20 Soc, $1, $1.50. Mats. Th. & Sat. 2:50 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director : . “CAMILLE” PETER PAN” A LOCANDIERA” 8 Ko ACTS Doors Open Datly st 05 Ay M. Spec. Early Bird price 25 Except Sun., Hol, Yom. Mat. Tom. Night Town Hall, 115 W. 43rd Street & 29 nd ATORET Gy RY u pi] A MERRY GERMAN FILM “LUMPEN BALL” (VAGABOND BALL) 13 LIONELL ATWILL * HE SILENT WITNESS *#* Akon BONANOVA O THEATRE, 45th, W. " Evgs. 8:50 Matinees Wed. and sacs. 330 Prospect 16190. Bob Murphy Bari Clownettes Ada Brown Packer and Hall Harris & Healy “BROOKLYN THEATRES — Waiman' 2ND AND FINAL WEEK A. H. WOODS Presents F ARTHUR BYRON * IVE STAR FINAL “Five Star Final is electric and alive” —SUN CORT THEATRE, West of 48th Street Evenings 8:50 Mats. Wed. and Sat, 2:30 FIVE COMPLETE DE LUXE SHOWS DAILY EDNA FERBER’S GREAT NOVEL COMES TO LIFE Beginning Saturday May with Richard Dix, Irene Dunne Estelle Taylor, Edna May Oliver RKO-RADIO'S SUPER PRODUCTION and RKO Vaudeville FRANK RICHARDSON CHARLES AHEARN and his millionaires ROBINSON DEWITT REVUE Enacted by an Eminent Cast | MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Miracle at Verdun junces Seats 4 weeks advance at Bor Office and | F. NEWARK—THEATRES LITTLE THEATR The Marvelous Soviet Film “CHINA EXPRESS”. ‘A Realisic Episode of the Revolution in China PRODUCED BY SOVKINO OF MOSCOW ADDED « 99 ATTRACTION ‘LOST GO. EXPLORATION IN ANCIENT CARTHAGE ONLY TWO Twice Daily MORE DAYS |, Bete Open. LAST TIME SUN. NIGHT, APR. 26 Last Week BARNUM & aac’ CIRCUS Presenting for the First Time in N .Y. IRON NERVED ervpe BEATTY Alone in Steel Arena with 40 Ferocious perfor’s Lions and Tigers Orland-Mara Sensation—1000 New Foreign Features—800 Circus Stars—100 Clowns— 1000 Menagerie Animals, Congress of | Freaks. | Admission to all—inel. seats, 81 to $3.50, | inel, tax—Children under 12 Half Price | very Aft, exe. Sat. Tickets now selling Garden, 49th & 50th Sts. Box Offices, Gimbel, Bros. and Agencies. MELO With asi! =| Edna | Farle RATHBONE | BEST |LARIMORE ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE 47th Street West of Broadway vgs. $:50. Matinoes Wot, and Sut. £2 sth Ave. HIPPORROME **.,. BIGGES? SHOW IN NEW YORK _ Sic;) “CIMARRON” bc} A new play by FLENKY BERNSTEIN 30 rea adine: || With RICHARD DIX Waldman and IRENE DUNNE it lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference to protection of foreign born. 562 BROAD STREET NEWARK, N.. J. 2—First Newark Showing of Soviet and Chinese Players A THRILLING EXPEDITION OF STILIL GOES ON The strike at the Feifer Bros. Slip- | per Co,, 41-51 East 11th St., is still jon and the reported settlement yes- |terday was an error. Yesterday the bosses induced ’ one Excelsior Tile and Marble Co., 896 E. | of their strikebreaker agents to swear 141st St., have succeeded in keeping | out a warrant for the arrest of the All the | chairman of the Strike Committee, efforts of the boss to recruit scabs | Morris Schiff, on a framed up charge of assault. The strikebreakers are constantly kers, it is known that the boss | fighting among themselves in the will try to redpen the shop Monday | shop, calling one another scabs and morning with scab help and police|that a number of gangsters wanting | Yesterday | more money decided to have a mix- intimidate the/ up, so they selected a strikebreaker | pickets around the shop stating that | by the name of Meyer Kaufman of | only one picket is allowed at the} Brownsville and gave him a good The strikers refused to be in- | beating—now the bosses blame it on} timidated in spite of threats of club-| the strikers and had Schiff arrested. Schiff wes released on $1,000 fur- the Nished by the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union which is 1 |conducting the strike, |on the picket line immediately. The strike at the Faleck & Seaman |Shop received further support from! @ number of workers who came down | today. The strike is the result of |the discharge of two workers, one of | them the shop chairman, for no other reason than to destroy the spirit of solidarity that was rapidly develop- | ing among the workers, whom the | bosses had been keeping separated by gunning propaganda among the Ital- | jan workers against the Jewish work- \ers and vice versa. EXHIBITION e4 PROLETARIAN ART John Reed Club Proletpen 106 E. 14th St. SATURDAY and SUNDAY April 25th and 26th Discussion—Lectures— Music Adm. 25c — Proceeds to Freiheit and was back | 3ynaa Jlevebunua DR, A. BROWN Dentist 80l EAST 14TH STREEL (Corner Second Avenue) Tel. Algonquin 7248 Jor, Eldridge Bt. Wel. ORChard 3783 DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST Strictly by Appointment 48.50 DELANCEY STREET NEW YuRK Estabrook $215 All Work Done SPECIALTY: where all 302 E. 12th St. SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue BRONX, N. ¥. 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