The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1931, Page 2

Page Two DELEGATES CONDE POLICY OF AFL HOSIERY UNION Tere Goes 1" ay, WEREZEE OE THE SCHOOL, YESTEROAY- A DEmANO ; | |I.PleRPony: | | You Kelow.1e YASMADE for Food. Yeu Mus Love! By DAVID GORDON lom mill of Philadelphia will go out | IN HIS AUTO J.PIEQPOMT woud x YSTEM THAT SYARVES You. Lery PATERSON, Sept. 21—On Satur-]on sympathy strike with North o ON NOTICE Me AKE THE CounTRY Feet day, Sept. 19, a meeting of the ex-|Hampton and another mill. ING To His AND PLAY Wi ecutive board members of various eastern locals of the American Fed- eration of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, including, Paterson, Dover, Brooklyn, Philadel etc., was held to discuss the slashing wage cut agreed to by the officials of this union Delegate after delegate took the floor to speak against the 35 to 50 per cent cut, bitterly condemning the move made by the officials for mak- ing such a smashing blow at their standard of living. After the meeting had been under way for a few hours, Carl Holderman, s instrumental*in aiding the ated-A. F. of .L un- Paterson to, sell-out the gen- e, took the floor in answer following question that was nim were you in favor of fight- wage increases’in the broad favor of a wage cut in question was lower official who tried in r to cover up the s of Holderman is was totally ignor- ing acts, which What was Holder- thrée-four! But in the hos- bosses threaten ages were not cut (he referr ized shops), and because of these circumstances e only way out for the The representatives thoroughly resented sea, m the shops speech by at he spoke up, ed the b lowering of The rest did knew that A fe ng. because they scrimination Id speak their czar Holderman, front of Sue ‘man finished speaking whether the agree- een sgned by the A. F of FF.H.W.'s he did not inutes on non- y ended that the been signed ge-cut into effect by 21 n was then asked what is would do in the event This question he also ng that the officials would first have to meet which means hat the A. F. of L, officials will , Sept. live up to thi ement, and that means they will send in scabs. On Monday, Sept. 21, the McCul- What’s On— WEDNESDAY Workers x-Servicemen’s League will hold an open-air. meeting at 8th Ave. and bers are urged to have a but and put it over bis od ies of ope ot which was I hi 2 . Levin next open 10th St., forum will be held Mooney-Harlan Def. Demonstratio Will be held in Brownsville, tember at 8 p.m. at the folle Points: J ratoza and Pitkin 8 at Herxel and. Pitkin; Hinsdale and Sutter Aves.; Rockaway and Du-| mont Ayes.; Bristol St. and Pitkin Ave.: Stone and Pitkin Aves. The central rally of the night will be Penn. and Sutter Aves. All members of the Bronx Inter- Rational Workers Club are called upon to participate in the Bronx De- edom ronstration of cla s War prisoner: 138th St, and Cy- press Ave,, at 6:30 p.m Friends of the Soviet Union, West Bronx Br. Will hear Pauline Rogers tell of her experiences in the Soviet Union at Paradise, Manor, 11 West Mt. Eden Ave., Bronx, N.Y. All workers invited eles 11 PB, Alfred Levy Br. All _ comrades are asked to attend the Brownsville demonstration at Ave Penn, and Sutter Medical V Will ha ing September 23 in Room 202. League members must at- tend without fa Bring money for Picnic tickets and h books. Other medical worker: THURSDAY TUUL Plumbers will have a very important meet- ine September 24th, & p, m. at 108 East 14th Street. Members must at- tend without fail Workers Laboratory Thentre All workers who have a few mo- ments of spart time are called upon to take part in a pl: “Haywood Broun's Election Reveu” in room 206 at the Workers Center, 35 East 12th Street, at 8 p. m > Laundry Workers! Come to the mass meeting of the L. W. Union September 24th, 8 p. m in Ambass , ard Ave., near | Claremont i Let us build our union, that the bosses will fear! aed * FMIDAY Internstional Labor Defense, Alfred Levy Branch Comrade Engdahl will speak at| the regula npembership meeting to be held at Vermont St, at 8 p.m., under the auspices of the ILD. Workers are invited * . ’ Harlan Prisoners Speak, Jessie London Wakefield, just re- leased from prison in Harlan, Ken- tteky and Bill Duncan, one of the striking miners will speak at 1373- Mirh Street. Brooklyn, September 26, at £:30 p. All workers are invited | to hear the MN W AGE SLASH SAILY WORKER, NEW YOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1931 THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER | \ SCHOOL, WHILE | Several locals have already han- |ded in their charters to separate Pelee RERIY THING |from the fakers who made this new Nhe PuBLic vicious sell-out agreement with the SCHOOl Buy bosses. More locals are taking up the | } Every LITTLE Boy | HAS A j question of separation seriously. | The tasks of the rank and file and of the honest executive board mem- bers who are not paid labor fakers | is to keep the officials out of their committees and take the situation into their own hands. Further, the |organized shops should realize that |they must penetrate the unorganized | shops, establishrank and file depart- ment and shop committees in these, |if their is to be a genuine general strike in the hostery industry, as is |suggested by many members of the | hosiery workers union. The workers of the hosiery indus- TWOULN Do Any, Wow Cnt UNSEEMLY NT ME Ba ON THE Way To SCHOOL, | sav k try must realize that the A. F. of L. er WE HAD AR yar ComroeTaBLé BY SINGH "STAR SPANTGLE y NNER” ? MONSTRAY ION VN FRONT, os CHILDREN ALL OF YOU.ARE NOT SINGING * ; ai ME HEAR THOSE US The Finan Contzic: ib ET EACH STAND Ir Ho DID Norsing} | THE INTERNATIONA Stan BE YY ——————— By RYAN WALKER NHIS PLACE i » SOVIET Human RACE Zs: | officials forced this wage cut on them, | = Be = sa ns jand that the officials of the Ameri- | t |can Federation of Pull Fashioned UPHOLSTERERS IN| |Hosiery Workers worked hand in |hand with them. The hosiery work- Help Party Get on Bal- lot in All Districts ers should remember that it is this | same A. F. of L. that betrayed and | broke the Paterson general strike, | just as through its affiliate, the Unt- | (CALL FOR UNITE DI The Communist Party election campaign is getting into full swing. The broadest campaign must be con- ducted. In several assembly districts ers Union, afiliated to the Trade broken various other strikes, Allen- | town, Elizabethton, Tenn., the Phil-/Show AFofL Officials adelphia hosiery workers’ strike some |~ Aabbasces Lower months ago, ete. More than ever before the A. F. of L. officials are Gan 4 caaing tavidic ie Gad mina) = LAving; otandaxds |the bosses. This vicious sell-out NEW YORK.—Spreading the up-| again brands the A. F. of L. officials | noisterers’ strike, two shops on Wed- fe eoe es ot ee eee nesday, Sept. 16 joined the move- | ment against the bad conditions in| the trade, thirty one upholsterers, he entire force walked out of the Frischman & Son shop, 86 Flushing | Avenue, and 9 workers of the Lewiss | Upholstering shop, 819 Gates St., Brooklyn, joined the struggle. i} Two strikers, Louis Fisher and Sam Colarado were arrested upon the in- | stigation of Leisin of the Leisin and | Warren shop at 99 E. Broadway. | Leisin is trying to frame up the| workers, on assauli charges on aC scab. | ‘The only union that has proved it- | |self to be the leader of all textile | | workers is the National Textile Work- jers Union. In Paterson, Central Falls, Putnam, etc., the National Tex- | tile Workers Union displayed mill-| tant action in order to carry on a| struggle for higher wages, lesser | hours, and all other demands of the | workers. The National Textfle Work- | Union Unity League, the only fight- ing trade union center of the United | States, has shown that it is the only | union fighting for the interest of the Good Mass Meeting. workers, aaginst fake settlements, for} At a mass meeting held Thurs- | of the worketrs against the | day Sept. 17, 200 upholstery and | betraying officials, against wage cuts, | furniture workers decided to wage a speed-up, etc. In the present strug- | Campaign to oust the misleaders of gle of the hosiery workers against | Local 76, Upholsterers of the A. F. of the wage cut put over by the A. F. of |L. An appeal was addressed to the L., A. F. ofF. F, H. W. officials, the | Veit shop strikers, member of Local National Textile Workers Union will|76 and to all A. F. of L. shops to} | again prove that it is the only fight-| unite with the Furniture Workers | ing leader of the textile workers. On- | Industrial Union in the struggle to | ly unity of the rank and file against successfully wipe out open shop con- fake officials, and organization by | ditions in the trade. It was sharply | the organized shops of the unorgan- | Stressed that the officials of local 76 | ized hosiery shops, will mobilize a| Were uniting with the employeds to sufficiently strong movement to win | head off the growing struggle for the back the cut, | unionization and shop control of the | | industry. | iS ’ e ege Forty-one dollars was raised at the Workers’ Activities’ | meeting for strike relief. ‘The Globe in White Plains | Upholstery Co. workers, members of | — | Local 76, contributed $1114.00 for re- | WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥.—A Tom | lief in solidartiy with the strikers. Mooney mass protest meeting will be| The three strikers arrested several held here this Saturday night at 15|days ago are now out on $1,300 bail S. Lexington Avenue, New Rochelle, | cach. | under the auspices of the Interna- | , . M4 tional Labor Defense. The meeting} The business agent, Kunio of Lo- will demand the immediate and un- | Cal 76, Saturday, threatened the Fur- we have not yet reached the full quota of signatures required to put the candidates on the ballot. We appeal to all unemployed work- ers, housewives, sympathizers gen- erally to apply at any one of the following section headquarters any hour of the day in order to be as- signed territory to canvass and to collect signatures. This campaign should be the big- gest that New York has ever put| across and fullest cooperation of the workers should be secured. —Communist Party, District No. 2 —District Secretariat. Bection Lev. .iseesres 142 E. 3rd St. Section 2 ....301 W. 29 St. 3rd fl. Section 4. «237 E, 106 St. Section 7 . 136-15 St., B’klyn | Section 8 ..118 Bristol St., B’klyn| DEMAND FREEDOM. OF CHILE SAILORS Demonstrate Saturday at Consulate NEW YORK.—Calling on all work- ers to demonstratc at the Chilean consulate, Saturday, September 26, to force Yankee imperialism and the Chilean fascists to revoke the death sentence against six sailors, the New York District of the Communist Party has issued the following state- ment: “Ten Chilean sailors have been sentenced to die before a firing squad! What is their crime? “Three weeks ago the world was shaken by the news that the sailors of the Chilean navy had revolted. The sailors demanded a guarantee against wage cuts, immediate work for the unemployed, division of the big estates among the poor. But most conditional release of Mooney and| Billings, the Scottsboro boys, the Herlan miners and all the class war) | significant, they drew up a mani- | festo calling for a social revolution. |This was a working class revolt niture Workers Industrial Union against union activities in the A. F. of L. shops. He approached the or- prisoners. |ganizer of the FWIU to reach a “gentlemen's” agreement not to ex- tend the strike movement but to confine it to the present shops. This the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union could not agree to, as conditions in the A. F. of L. shops are | | A lecture on “Unemployment and | the General Crisis” will be given in| Spanish this Thursday evening at 15| S. Lexington Avenue, New Rochelle. | A Tom Mooney-Harlan-Scottsboro Protest meeting will be held this Sat- | urday night at 22 Church Street, i} Yonkers. MAURICE SCHWARTZ OPENS SEASON TONIGHT WITH “IF I WERE YOU" | Maurice Schwartz will open his sea- son of plays in English tonight with | Sholem Aleichem’s “If I Were You”, at the Ambassador Theatre. The play which was translated by Tamara | | Bercowitz, has been played over 1,000 | times in Yiddish since its first show- ing at Copenhagen in 1914. The sup- | porting cast includes Fernanda Elis- | cu, Harry Morvis, Edward Leiter, Na- talie Browning and George Nash. This play will be followed by “The Seven Who Were Hanged”, by Leo- nid Andreyev, adapted by Herman | Bernstein, and “The Man With the Portfolio”, by Carl Fako, one of the best known Soviet writers. This play was produced in Yiddish last season by Schwartz and proved very popu- lar. | “FIVE-YEAR PLAN” NOW SHOW- ING AT CLINTON THEATRE. An actual photographic record of | the vital changes which are taking | place in the Soviet Union today, a | Subject that is being widely discussed, is now playing at the Clinton Theatre | with the Amkino presentation of |The Five-Year Plan: Russia's Re- | making,” a full-length feature film. Performances are continuous and at | popular prices for the first time on | the East Side. i BUTCHERS’ UNION Loca} 174, A.M 0, ® H.W. of BA Office and Headquarters: Labor Temple, | 243 Kast Xith Street ym Ve Regular meetings every ¢irst and third Sunday, 10 A. M. Employment Bureau open every aay ate P.M. LARGE FURNISHED ROOM—Front, airy, kitchenette, piano, improve- ments, moderate. Fourth floor, 215) Second Ave, Suitable for two, 4 |Srowing worse daily and the work- | ers ready to strike under revolu- | tionary leadership. It was pointed | out that no agreement has been | signed in the A. F. of L. shops and | that piece work, long hours, and cuts in wages are prevalent in the local 716 shops and the A. F. of L. offi- cials aid the bosses maintain these conditions. Again the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union called for unity of the Local 766 workers and the striking | upholsterers in a campaign to wipe out open shop conditions in the trade. | A union meeting will be held on Thursday, September 24, at 5 East 19th Street where membership books and discussion of the strike will be held. | |of New York calls upon every work- er, young and old to rally at the Chilean consulate, Saturday, Septem- ber 26. The consul is at 17 Battery Place at 1 p.m. against the native capitalists and the American imperialists. “We must free them! And we can free them by thundering demonstra- tions in front of the Chilean consul- ates. The Young Communist League AU Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Brons HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 4-061 The WORKERS SCHOOL TRAINING FOR THE CLASS STRUGGLE FALL Speaking—English—Russian and Low Fees, beginning October 11th. Correspondence Courses For complete catalogue a: The WORKERS SCHOOL 35 E. 12th Street, third floor, N-Y.C. Tel. Algonquin 4-1199 Register Now, Courses on Fundamentals of Communism—Political Economy—Or- ganization—Marxism-Leninism—Trade Union Strategy, Public Women, Youth, Negro and Colonial Work—Competent Instructors, REGISTER NOW! Only ten days left for registration—the num- ber of students in each class will be limited. WORKERS FORUM Conducted by the Workers School—To be held every Sunday Night, Watch for further announcements. TERM Dor’t Delay many other special courses for scholarships. nd information refer to MILLINERS WILL PUSH FIGHT IN ALL SHOPS NTWIU Recruits 100 Workers in Struggle in Past 3 Weeks One of the most successful mem- bership meetings of millinery work- | ers held by the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union took place last | week in Bryant Hall. Over a hun- dred new members were taken into the union in the past three weeks, according to the report, everyone of them as a result of organizing an open shop and winning wage in- creases ranging from 25 cents to more than a dollar per dozen hats, which meant from 10 to 33 per cent on the dollar. This is good, but not yet enough. We must organize blockers, operators and cutters and not only trimmers. This was stressed as the most important and immediate task of the report by Comrade Croll. Proot of the fact that proper prep- aration in the shop among the work- ers and selection of the best time to strike could result in swift and com- | plete victories was brought by trim- mers from the Brenner & Mittel- mark shop where they were on strike only 4 hours and won all their de- mands, namely a 44 hour week, prices to be based on $1, for an average | workgs, protection of the job, and/| recogrition of the union. In other shops like the Garden Lane and the | Elegant there was no strike. The bosses granted these same demands | without a strike. The Jas. Duncan | (formerly Cohen & Kaplan) shop | where an 18 hour strike ended suc- cessfully for the workers, was brought up as an outstanding example-of the necessity to have union recognition. Without this recognition although the workers were members of the union they were not able to get prices enabling them to make a liv- ing. The strike won immediate wage increases as high as $1 per dozen hats and union recognition so that the organizer can now help the work- i | | NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX THEATRES Wednesday to Friday JEFFERION xx nase! DAUGHTER | 25" of the DRAGON Warner Oland netgear ey eee Henning and Kileen Mande FRESH VEGETABLES & FRUITS AFTER THEATRE SPECIAL LUNCH 50c DINNER 65¢ ARTISTIC SURROUNDINGS QUALITY FOODS Vrufood EGETARIAN VE STAURANTS 153 West 44th Street t 40th Street ot Broadway) the Key to Health 110 Wes (Bast ‘True Food Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAS1 “Buy m the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” re ren nny SUNNY ROOM—Front, all improve- ments. Siskind, 317 E, 13th St, Phone Tompkins Square 6-9317, ers in making prices. The strikers of the G. J. Engle and H. A. Rosen represented by Francis Schwartz and Fanny Levin were given an enthusiastic welcome. While the Company Union Local 24 had not been able to show its face in the shops already organized, seeing the Industrial Union making such rapid progress among the trimmers at least, they are exerting all their energies to break these two strikes which involve two of the most impor- | tant shops in the trade. The organ- izers, Spector, Medelowitch and Op- penheim, not only terrorize and fool some of the Local 24 trimmers into taking the strikers jobs but actually escort the scabs to work themselves. Far from being discouraged by this evidence of Local 24’s scabbery, the meeting was aroused to the greatest determination to win these two strikes and defeat the bosses to- gether with their agents. Following the appeals of the strik- ers one shop after another pledged $5 and $10 bills as an immediate contribution. ‘The meeting did not confine itself to millinery problems alone. One of the most novel features of this meet- ing was a little play staged by the Workers Laboratory Theatre called “Fighting Starvation” based upon ENGDAHL SPEAKS AT BRKLYN MEET WED. SEPT. 23rd BROOKLYN, N. Y.—A mass dem- onstration to demand the release of Tom Mooney will be held here Wednesday, Sept. 23rd, at 8 p. m, at Grand Street Extension and Haye- meyer St. J. Louis Engdahl, Communist Party candidate for the 7th Congres- sional District, will be the main speaker. This is part of the many demon- strations which are being held all over the city on that evening. In a statement given out by the International Labor Defense office of Brooklyn which is arranging the demonstration, it states: “Only the mass action of the work- ing class will be able. to free Mooney and all the other political prisoners and strike a blow to the very heart of capitalism and its reactionary lackeys, the socialists, A. 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