The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 2

Pare Two | = Local 19, Amalgamated, W Stop Work to ‘ite a Demands Charges of No Confidence in Racketeering, Grafting Officials Made in Meeting Will Come to Vote Wednesday NEW YORK. — The meeting Thursday night of Local 19 (Knee- pants Makers) of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers with 350 mem- be: present voted to stop work Wednesday, May 20, in the middle of the day, at 1 p. m. and hold a special meeting to take up charges of no confidence against the officials and the trade board. They also} voted to take up the rroposals of the Rank and File Con-nittee of the local on the following points in con- nection with the new contract: 1.—Introduction of the 40-hour, 5-day weck with no reduction in pay. 2.—The re-introduction of week work in all shops where piece work has been established. 3.—Guaranteed minimum wage scale of $35 a week for all knee- pantsmaker 4.—To increase the Unemployment Insurance Fund to 5 per cent at the expense of the bosses, this fund to be controlled by a Rank and File Committee of kneepantsmakers, em- ployed and unemployed, elected at a mass meeting. 5.—Equal pay for equal work for women and young workers. 6.—The abolition of the tial” machinery. 7.—All work cut union cutters, to be made York union shops. 8.—No firing, the right te the job, and all other union conditions to take the place of the present sweat shop conditions. The present contract expires June 30. The rank and file committee has issued a leaflet charging that the Amalgamated leadership is making plans to renew the old con- rtact with all its piece work, speed- up and wage-cut conditions. The kneepants makers, who used to get at week work as high as $60 a week, are now making at piece work around three and four dollars a day. The committee presented its pro- “Tmpar- in New York by in New posals at the trade board meeting | May 13, and the. proposition came up again at the local meeting. The manager was forced to admit that What’s On— SATURDAY— Installation and Dance At the Bensonhurst Youth Branch | 409. International Workers Order at $8 Bay 28th St. at 8,30 p.m. Adm. 35c. ge eran Yonkers Branch ILD May Revel will be held at the Workers Cooperative Center, 252 Warburton Ave. at 8 p.m. One act play by the Workers Laboratory Theatre, music and refreshments. ssion 25¢ il of Working Class Women a concert and excellent at. $ p.m. at Stuy- Admission 35c. Re- x-Servicemen’s League Will_heve an’ open air meeting at and Avenue B. Spring Vestival ad Denes en by Communist Party, cton 6 at §.30 p. m. at clubrooms of the Bronx Hun- ship, Westches- Ave. station). ent, well-known Ne- Admission 35c. of Bro the ie 3 8 p. m, at 261 Utica Ave. Motion picture on Life in the USSK. Adm. Be Comcast tina Dance fgiven by the newly organized Mapleton Workers Club, 1684-66th St. Brooklyn, Young Defenders Will hold their class in “DeYense” | at 5 p.m, at La aub’s office, ILD, 799 Bri re welcome. Party Under the ausp of Unit 15, Sec. | 2 will be held at 8.30 p. m. at 151) Second Ave, Apt. 4C, Good time inj} store for all Proceeds to the aDily Worker ss ed Young Defenders erative and vicinity will | Bast at 8p, workers are invited. AA m. All young Proleteult of Brooklyn ‘Will hike to Tibbetts Brook Park Meet at end of 241st Jerome-Wood- lewn Line at 10 a.m, sharp. << Ble Open Forum At the Bronx Workers Club, 1472 Boston Rd. at-8 p.m. Comrade Sd- wards will speakeon Scottsboro. Harlem "Prox. Youth Club . You w Will hike to Pbbetts Brook Park Al members méet-at clubroom, 1492 Madison Ave, at 8 p.m. Bring your lunch. All young workers are in- vited to come along: CUNO Sahel, Mass Protest Meeting Against the Scottsboro frame up will be held at 118 Bristol St., Brook- lyn at 8 p, m. sharp, Hike to Hunters Island By the students of Workers Schoo! Meer at. Pelham Bay_Station at 9,45 a ™ or at school entrance at 9 a.m. Fring ivneh, bathing suit and friends. " ings’ program has been ar- ranged. © Be ees 8 3 A Dance TW. be held at the Spanish Work- rs Center, 26 West 115th St. at 8,30 p. Admission 40c. Yadies free. an comrades are cordially invited to have a good time and dance to good music, Pye Sone Hike to beret Island Meet at 350 E Bist St. at 8.30 a m: or at last slop. P Pelham Bay line at 9.30. All weléonie. Auspices the Youngs Coniisarant: ‘League. HARLEM WORKERS CENTER 2011—3rd Ave, (bet. 110th it. and 111th Sts.) New ‘York, N.Y. “ORE: 35 dn advance) now | Riussan Club, 2700 Bronx i ‘GRAND BALL for the benefit of the ANTI-FASCIST ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA | 29 out of 33 shops are on piece work and another is going to piece work. Member after member took the floor and charged racketeering, graft, and taking of work out of town against the officials and trade board. of the rank and. file committee. VOTE SUPPORT TO FUR STRIKE Needle Shop op Delegates | Meet Monday to Elect NEW YORK.—The membership meeting of the fur department of the |\Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union was very well attended Thurs- | day night. at Manhattan Lyceum. {The workers listened to the report | of the developing activities of the fur department and of the develop- | ments in the company union. The membership responded enthusiastic- | ally to the proposal to begin imme- | diately the drive for organization and for wage increases. 26 workers volunteered to act on the Organization Committee. The meet- ing also decided to endorse the ball ll take place at Webster Hall Saturday, arranged by the rank and ship of the company The members of the Indus- trial Union are called upon to at- tend this ball and in this manner support the rank and file movement against the company union bureau- crats. the Industrial Uion had a member- ship meeting the same night also at Manhattan Lyceum. The workers de- cided to go on with the strike at the S. K. S. firm in Jersey City, against the 20 per cent cut. Election Meeting. Monday there will be a special! shop delegates council meeting at rving Plaza where elections of offi- cials and a new executive council | will take place. The lists of the can- | didates running for these offices were | sent to shops, the shops are discuss- ing these lists and directing the shop delegates how to vote. In this! | election meeting there will be given ® complete report of the union ac- tivities since the last elections. |Soviet News Reel At Bronx Pioneer Affair This Evening NEW YORK—A_ Soviet | Reel, News several musical numbers will be some of the outstanding numbers on | the program of the Pioneer affair that will be held on Saturday, May 16th, at the Bronx Workers Center, 569 Prospect: Ave. This affair will also be a demon- stration of working class children and workers generally to protest against the persecution of those chil- dren who participated in the May First demonstration. All workers and workers’ children | should attend this affair, the pro- ceeds of which goes to strengthen the official organ of the Young | Pioneers of America, the “Pioneer.” | | Scottsboro Defense Mass Meeting, New Brunswick, May 16 NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.—A mass meeting will be held today, Satur- | day, May 16 at 8 p. m. under the | auspices of the ILD and the ISNR at the Workers Home, 11 Plum St., New Brunswick, N. J., to protest against the vicious frame-up of the | nine Negro boys who face execution in Scottsboro and the five militant | textile workers of Paterson. Use your Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker next to you will help save the Dally Worker. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES FAST 8IDE—BRONX | ss | JEEFERION | “aise esvave. —Now— RKO 8 kcrs & bevy ok Datly Bird’ price Be Except Sun., Hi Princess Wah Le‘ka Callahan & Cook Reynolds & White “Edith Griffith Mammy & Picks SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 at $ P.M, to 1 A, M. GOOD JAZZ BAND | At the door 50c They defended the program | For this purpose | The rabbit fur dressing workers of | | 887 East Tenth St. The Daily Work- | along who can be interested to sell a Charlie Chaplin Comedy, | (MASS PICKETING | CLOSES GENERAL | | FABRICS MILL; /Another Mill Crew in Fight On Wage Cut PAWTUCKET, R. I, May 15.—The General Fabrics Mill is closed down tight by continual mass_ picketing. | The strikers are mobilizing their strongest’ picket line for. Monday morning against “any attempt to re- sume work. The National Textile . Workers | Union is calling a general mass meet- ing for Sunday afternoon, at which James P. Reid, chairman of the na- tional committee of the N.T.W.; Martin Russak, district organizer, and local strikers will speak. | Two hundred General Fabrics | strikers have already joined the N | T. W. More are joining. | Last night a large meeting of the | workers of the Weybosset mill of the American Woolen Co, at Providence elected a grievance committee from the entire mill, which this morning | presented demands to the manage- | ment. The workers demand the re- turn of the twelve and a half per cent wage cut, and have other griev- ances. The company thought it wise to grant some of the grievances and agree also to pay the committee the time lost during the conference. There will be a big meeting of the workers of this mill tonight to hear the report of the committee and de- cide on what action to take. The Rhode Island district board of the National Textile Workers Union meets Sunday to mobilize for struggle and rally support for the strike. Del- egates are coming from many mills in Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls and Moonsocket. Red Builders Banquet May 16 to Push the Daily Worker Sales The Red Builders Banquet to which only those will be admitted who have been invited takes place this evening, May 16 at 8 p. m. at er reps of the Sections and Units and Daily Worker Committees are especially invited to attend. Every worker should support this affair of the Red Builders to broaden and strengthen the support for the Daily Worker which fights and organizes for the working class. Comrades are urged to bring an unemployed woi\er the Daily Worker in a new section of the city. Italian Workers to Protest Persecution Against the persecution of the for- eign born and the latest maneuvers of the bosses’ Wall St. government to deport and terrorize militant work- ers, the Italian Proletarian Club will hold a series of open air meetings to expose the political grafters and fas- cist agents of the government lo- cated in the 19th Assembly Dist. and who are active in Spinela’s Demo- cratic Club. The bait held out by these Tammany politicians is to promise the Italian workers of the neighborhood a job. The Italian Proletarian Club will hold its meeting Saturday, tomorrow, May 16th, at Starr St. and Central Ave., Brooklyn. The club is located at 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn. DAIL Y WORKER, NEW fYORK, SATL RDAY, MAY-16, 193 (Open Letter to Universal N Improvement Assn. Membership al Negro hip. | Open letter to the Universal improveme Fellow Wo. Nine Negro boys face legal lynch- ing in Alabama. Only the united] mass. protest of millions of white and | black workers organized for militant | defense will save these boys. They are innocent of any crime saye that | of being black and being workers, For this ,the ruling class is deter- mined to legally lynch them, hoping by. this to terrorize the Negro ma and force them to peacefully accept | their miserable lot. ‘The International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights are mobilizing millions of American workers in defense of these boys. The bosses are mobilizing the Negro reformists and misle to prevent the development of t mass movement. Reports h made that one Rey. Lee, know time sas George Carter, and Wi Grant of the Tiger UN.LA., t | | | | liam Division of the making false charges against egro a Neerae d in organizing this defense and of cc ting fu pos for the defense of the Si boro boys. The parents of these have denied that these men have au- thorized to collect one cent of money in this matter. The International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights call upon you to foree the di: continuance of this vicious activity of nt, hi 1ed police agent and already framed»up four Negro Scotisboro de- fense workers on false rges, Grant has carried on this activity only to help the bosses prevent the develop- ment of a mass defense movement. Help free these framed wo Join the monster parade today th St. and Lenox Ave. at °.30 p.m Struggle against lynching! Join the International Labor Defense and the League of Strug: ‘o Rights! Unite for strug Send your dele- gates to the Joint Scottsboro Defense Conference Sunday, May 17, 11 a. m at Finnish Hall, 15 West 126th St. WOMEN’S CONCERT TO HEAR POYNTZ To Tell Impressions of Soviet Women NEW YORK.—Juliet Stuart Poyntz, recently returned from the Soviet Union, will be the chicf speaker at | the United Council of Working Class | Women’s spring concert, Saturday, May 16, 8:30 p. m., Stuyvesant Ca- sino, Second Ave, and 9th St. Poyntz will speak on the role of the working women in building social- ism in the Soviet Union and will re- late her impressions of the improv- ing lot of the working class women. Mrs. Wright, the mother of iwo of} the nine Scottsboro boys, will also be present. In addition to which a varied pro- gram will include good acting, danc- ing and singing talent. Home cooked refreshments will abound at the buffet. Admission only 3. cen.s. Bring the children. Meeting Today of the White Goods Workers | NEW YORK.—All bathrobe, paja- mas, kimona, beach robe and negligee workers are called to a mass meeting today at 12.30 p. m. at Needle Work- ers Center, 131 W. 28th St. This is an organization meeting called by the rank and file committee of the white goods department of the Needle Trades Workers Indtstrial Union. VOLUNTEERS WANTED IN THE “DAILY” TODAY Eight hundred bulletins must 800 envelopes sealed and stamped. be assembled, folded and inserted; The Daily Workér Circulation Department would appreciate the help of any comrade who has an extra hour to spare today, and who can assist us in getting out this important material in con- nection with the circulation cam~ paign. Take the elevator to the 8th floor, 35 E. 12th St, Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born. AMUSEMENTS AMEO 10 42 nd STREET& AMAZING SEA pehres MONSTERS of the Deep Hunting the Great Devil Fish th Ave & 434 Bt BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORE RICHARD ARLEN IN BKO/ “Con Smoke” ACTS LIONELL ATWILL T HE SILENT WITNESS *™ KAY STROZZI-FORTUNIO BONANOVA MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th, W. of B'way Evgs. 8:50 Matinees Wed. and Sat. 2:39 ‘A new play by ENRY BERNSTEIN With Basil | ‘dna | Farle RATHBONE | BEST |LARIMORE ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE 47th Street West of Broadway Evge. 8:50. Matinves Wel. anu Sat., 2:50 PRESSMEN FIRED BY FASCIST RAG Replace Union Men By Non-Union NEW YORK.—The publisher of the Hungarian fascist daily newspaper, Amerikai Magyar Nepszava, and the Polish fascist daily, Novy Swiat, 9 West 16th St., fired six union press- men and four union stedeotypers, hiring in their place non-union men at heavily cut wages. Farkas, superintendent of these fascist newspapers, himself a member of the A. F. of L. engineered the task of cutting wages and increasing the hours of the new pressmen. The scab pressmen work 10 to 12 hours a day, seven nights a week. On Wednesday they come in at eight in the morning and quit at three the ext morning. Armstrong Says Nothing When the union men were fired and replaced by scabs went to Arm- strong of the Newspaper Pressmen’s Union, Local 2, he just shrugged his shoulders and said, “Let things take their course.” The compositors and mailers who are union men are still on the job and permitted their fellow workers to be fired and wages of the new men cut without a protest. ‘The pretext of firing the pressmen ‘was that their contract ran out and a new style press was being put in. There are 600 unemployed pressmen and an effort is being made to bring them all onto a picket line against the scab fascist print shop. el, ORChard 3783 DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST Strictly by Appointment 48-50 DELANCEY STREET tor. Eldridge St. NEW YORE 3y6naa Jleyebunua DR. A. BROWN Dentist NTWIU ENDORSES NAT'L YOUTH DAY Send Delegates to Con-} ference May 16 NEW YORK.—The executive coun- cil of the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union at its meeting held May 11, decided to endorse the Na- tional Youth Day and to call upon the needle trades workers to send delegates to the United Front “Na- tional Youth Day Conference,” which will take place on May 16th at Irv- ing Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Plaza. ‘The executive council also author- ized the youth section of the union to issue a special call to the young workers in the needle industry. In the call the youth section points out that “The needle trades workers suf- fer the same as all other other wor ers. The yo rkers suffer even more than it do. For 50 to 60 hours they receive $10 to $12 and the speed-up is unbearable. Those who still go t ocontinuation school are not paid for the time spent there. The bosses take advantage of the young workers in every possible way. If any one will try to resist the at- tacks of the bosses, he is immedi- ately fired. The young workers must wake up. Young Workers’ Own Day “The young workers must have their own day, their own holiday to express their solidarity with all the other workers to show the bosses that miserable conditions, that they will not fight in the next war for the bosses, that they demand better working conditions, and the money spent for war preparations to go to the unemployed.” The call is concluded by an ap- peal to all workers to send delegates from their shops to the united front conference and to come in masses to Passaic on National Youth \Day on May 30 and New York on May 31. Gift to Leningrad NEW YORK.—The Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, main office 140 Broad St., New York, has presented the International Seamen's Club of Leningrad with a mimeograph ma- chine and a Victrola with about 100 records. The gift is now on the way across. 2 let 23 mont 2 large, spacious, airy rooms; kitchen facilities, bath- tub, hot and cold water; Union Square vicinity. $20. Daily Worker, 8th floor. 4-7957. Algonquin Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAS1 “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” they are not going to stand for the | Club From MWIU | BEAUTIFULLY furnished apt. sub- See B. M,,) HE DANCE AT NEW MASSES Birthday Party at Webster Hall, Wednesday MAY 20 PROGRAM: (at 8:30) Negro Work Songs by Taylor Gordon, noted concert singer; Margaret Larkin in songs of Gastonia Textile Workers; Michael Gold in a little talk on American writers; New Soviet Songs and a “Mad Ac- cordion”; Hugo Gellert and 6 pioneers in a New Art stunt, and BILL GROPPER and 12 artists ina REVIEW IN CARTOONS DANCING AT 16:30 and until you've got enough Admission $1.00 TICKETS: New Masses, 112 East 19 St., Phone Al 4-4445; Workers |{ Bookshop, 50 E. 12 St., and other |} centers. TO THE INHABIT ALLERTON Buy Your Bakeries In the well-known bakery which is now settled with the Food Workers Industrial Union. You will get the best cakes, rotls and all kinds of breads. Fresh every hour, straight from the oven. G. & G. BAKERY 691 Allerton NTS OF THE SECTION Avenue Bronx, New York Gdeal SCHOOL DAY AND EVENING Commercial—Secretarial Courses Individual Instruction Open the entire year lth St. at 2nd Ave, N.Y.C. TOmpkins Square 6-6584 Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian Food « HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant | 1660 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 6865 SOLLIN’S RESTAURANT 216 EAST 14TH STREET 6-Course Lunch 55 Cents Regular Dinner 65 Cents Gottlieh’s Hardware 119 THIRD AVENUB Near 14tb St. Stuyvesant All kinds of ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Cutlery Our Specialty 6974 Cooperators’ SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N. Intern’] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Ufider Personal Gare of DR, JOSEPHSON Phone: Lehigh 4-1812 Cosmopolitan Hardware Tools, Builders’ Wardware, Factory Supplies 2018 2nd AVENUE CORNER 104TH STREET NEW YORK CITY 29 EAST 14TH STREET NEW Tel. 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