The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1933, Page 3

be | | A | | enh DAIL ¥ WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY APRIL 24, 1933 a a ee Three Election Methods, Purposes, i in n Needle tidiisasat Union in Contrast With Reformist Needle Union — | T.W.LU. Preparing for Election Points to Differences; Reformist Election for Control of Self-Seeking Clique; Industrial Election on Achievements and Confidence in Leaders Elections for trade boards, executive council members and paid trade and general officers will be carried through by the various departments of the Needle Trades Industrial Union at the end of April. In the right wing unions, election campaigns are not based on any program dealing with the interests of the workers, but the sole purpose is for personal or clique control. The elections in the Industrial Union bear an entirely different character. Here the question of control for the purpose of self-interest is entirely absent. Cnr elections are an opport unity for ue workers to consider tne activities carried on by MAY 1 BVENING SYSTEMATIC GRAFT, SHOOTING AND MASS MEETS“ CORRUPTION BY ELECTRIC UNION abcieh YORK. - he Commu , New York District, has ca meetings for the evening of be held in the Bronx Coli havles Alexander of the Pr ty and Carl Winter, ctary of the Unem- ers, an and the « lyn at Arcad | near Broadway away, York ef the Communist ence Hath- organizer Pa: the union under the leaders of the outgoing administration to our achievements | and shortcomings, *to examine | he ivities of indiyidual leade to down the perspectives 22 ie the entire left wing | ‘inte for the executive was elected and to stimulate the members of the! International in fighting to get their | | local and membership to join in the} preparations for one united strike. In the fur trade our immediate| task is to prepare the workers for a struggle to gain complete control over | the siops of the Associated. In the! custom tailors trade, our union has already. started an organization drive | | which has got prospects of develop-| ing on a broad scale. In the knit- goods trade we are beginning actiy- ities amongst the knitted underwear employing tens of thousands of werk- discuss ‘or | struggle during the coming year. On | the bi of these perspectives the | ers elect | able to realize | ‘$ are eligible to | aie and to run for office. How Our Elections Are Conducted, Contrary to the préeédure in local} 22 and all other right-wing unions where the administration is afraid} to account to the members for its! ers” most of them young workers’ York, ‘cur union holds membership| Fhoge conditions have feached. 8 pee 3 yeti various Hepariments} point where the workers are going | out in spontaneous strike movements. | In order to fulfil these tasks, it will | be necessary for the members of our union to elect as their leaders the| | most Joyal, devoted and class-consci-! | ous workers who understand the tasks | The leaders of our.ynion bring re- before the workers, inviting | broadest iticism on the part! Following the mem- ings, the.nominees are the of the work 0 ed not oniyt-through the| at the present moment and will exert | press but through Jeaflets. The} every possible effort to mobilize the names of the nominees who have! members fn order to fulfil these tasks. | accepted for the various offices are Si RENOIR being sent to the shops and discussed at shop meetings. Atrangements ar PLA NS FOR a being made for a series of open for ums in every department, where every | worker can free his opinion | oot MAY DAY g the past! on the activiti conducted the union dw year and the qualifieations of the j candidates that are running for the; NEW YORK:—The Daily Worker is various offices. Section ameetings are} yeprinting the final plans for the also being arranged by the various| May 1 demonstration as issued last | depa: hts so as to reach out to the| week by the United Front May Day broadest masses of members, | Committee. | Defin'té Gains Recorded. ; ; During the past year, almost all the| Mobilize 10 a.ni; Form im Columns Four Abreast departments have ca through , i struggies volving thousands of} First Division (around Bryant workers B gained. increases in| Park) Inside. the park on the left: wages, shorter hours, and in some| Needle Trades. Inside the park on the ade, have estab- | right: unemployment Other Unions. On 40th St. be- | insurance | tween Fifth and Sixth Aves.: 1.W.O. | \and Workmen's Circle Branches. On 4 by our union | 3¢th St. between Fifth and Sixth ear involved 29,290 | Aves.: Youth Organizations and Cul- reases gained in| tural, Greups..On 38th St. between mounted to tens of thousafids | Fifth. and Sixth Aves.: International | _ £937. were collected | Labor Defense, Friends of the Soviet ar in back pay for! Union, Workers International Relief 2d more than 9,000 | and all unassigned. Antes Secend Division—Form on South sures deal only with the | St., om building side of street at South de | Ferry. | Ferry. Whitehall St.: Marine workers. Moore St.: Anti-Imperialist League. Broad and Conties Slip: Unemployed Councils. Cuyler’s Alley and Old Slip: ; Workers’ Ex-servicemen’s » League, overniers, Jones Lane, Wall St.: anguage Organizations. Pine and Depeyster Sts.: Women’s Councils. aiden Lane Fletcher St. and John | St.: AM Clubs, Bott -diyistons start ‘te’ march “ai | 12 noon. First Division reaches Union | | Sq. at 2 pm. The parade continues | nto Union Sq. The meeting will be | held in Union Sq. until 6 p.m. during workers the 2 BR ea eta oY uty ‘ape oe ookemond ‘ UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL APPEATS TO PARENTS TO FIGHT FORCED LABOR To All Families Registered! Mothers and Fathers! sections of beert unorganized the fur dyers, ‘We have orga- nt: custom tail- Your sons between the ages. of 18 and 25 are being drafted-into military camps by the Home Relief Bureau. They are being driven to do forced labor in training for a new war. Far from home, in the western forests, under military task masters, our boys will be made to work for a dollar a day. Out of their earnings they will receive only a few dollars each month, hardly enough with which to even buy cigarettes or other things they may heed. ‘The rest ot their wages will be taken by the relief bureau to pay reiief. Your sons’ earnings will be used as an excuse to cut down your relief! } Your lack of 2 job, the hunger and need ih your family, is being used | as a weapon against you and your son. f Route of Parade | Don’t surrender your rights! Reject forced labor! | First Division: relief! Start marching at 12 o'clock —West | | 1. You cannot be forced to send your son away! ‘on 41st St. to Seventh Ave., south to 2. Your family is entitled to help from the Relief and Welfare ot carried | $ on nee i Insist upon full The asks Abead, tasks- confronting | “who ll get the confi-| }4th St. cast on 14th St. to Fourth | Agencies, work in the coming| Ave; north to 17th St. and into 3. The Relief Bureaus are obliged to pay rent, gas and light bills is to consolidate the gains; Union Sq. each month. the past. year, If your son has gone to camp, insist upon his right to come nd frecly without military supervision! Insist upon his right to his own earnings. Insist upon your right to full relief for the fa: Second Division: Start marching at 12 o'clock up Whitehall St., to Broadway, north to ‘Worth St., turn east to Chatham Sq., various phases of ¢ will have to un- tional work {o Oliver St to Henry St. tum to Get together with the families in yeur neighbe ig those work Jefferson to’ E. Broadway, turn to | Form Block Committees to fight against being cut ott relief. joiner our Report to the nearest Unemployed Council any attempt to iniwniac families on relief, or any complaint of boys in camps. Unite against forced labor. Organize for adequate cash relief. Demand Unempleyment Insurance from the government. East Broadway into Canal St. to! Alien St., turn north to Houston St., these turn west to Second Ave., turn north | to 14th St., turn west to Fourth Ave., | turn north to 17th St., turn west into Union Sq. URGE MILLINERY RANK AND FILE bitin of ee TO LEAD STRIKE. nass movement for ‘a* united fror NEW YORK—A strike of all mid- By for Week-work. = ay the dress|town aud downtown millinery work- | Tade, our union has decided to be-, ers was called by the Cloth Hat Cap! to intensity our ope amongst | > Negro workers anid win by conerete: ‘struggles anding” tasks at the the ‘situation in For information write to: trades. Be- | Unemployed Councils of Greater N. Y., US.A., 10 E. 17th St., Tel., Alg. 4-5280 N.Y. Unemployed Councils, 799 Broadway, Unio to mobilize to fight: against the | establishment of the piece work sys- jing $12,000 and ‘tated | ARREST PAPER WORKER PIC KETS } NEW YORK.—-For the “crime” of picketing against wage cuts, t |workers Adolph Abromoviiz and An- }geleno Stafeno were ight at the Equitable Paper Bag strike, 314 School St., Brooklyn and released under $500 bail charged with disorderly conduct. They wili be April 25 in Bridge Plaza Magistrate | | Court. The trike invoiving 160 workers Is against a series of wage cuts total- ing 55 per cent. Morris Rosenfeld the president at the company left off | to return for a few days to put over another wage cut. In January the| bosses put up a new building ecst- | installed 20 new) machines, the strike, after tl promised when he cut wage OL uid be fi i noon the str’ 1 of the last 5 p ““T'strike is being i on Unity League. eadquarters of 197 Humboldt asked to show t the picket the strike is and work. solidarity by “The Chicago Mooney © April 20 to May 2, will be a big toward my freedom.’—Tom Mooney Pes’, siep zn: preperations for a general strike.| and Millinery Workers of the A. F, of Such a general strike Gan be effective) L. Wednesday involving over 1,000 ot ee & strike on a scale | Workers, i ny ie Various outlying sec~! The decision to strike came follow- ‘ons and the members of the Inter-|ing a mobilization meeting on Mon- nanan ane oe of the incoming day night. istration will be.to strengthen} The workers are called w to the united front that is taking deep| turn the strike into 2 real struggle ae amongst the dressmakers as in-| for higher wages, a real 40-hour cated by the recenié elections in week, against piece work, NEW YORK.—The following letter from Leon Bium, framed secretary of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union was received bythe Daily Worker yesterday: “Will you allow me through your dence In me in record ever did anything that was not in agreement with the policy of the union and the interest of the work- ers. Because of this, because of the spite of my past Paper to expose one of the rankest frame-ups put over by the laundry bosses and the New York State Pa- role Commission, “Twelve years ago, when I was still in my teens, I was sent to state prison. piain of the methods used by the police and prosecution. That is a thing of the past. I served my time and was freed on parole since 1927) and which extends to 1936, There | was never any question as to my con- | duct until I became active in the labor movement. “In 1931, a movement to organize @ union began among laundry work- ers in the Bronx. As a laundry worker I fell in with other workers. In the beginning this movement was headed by racketeers under the notorious Larry Fay. When we found out that the racketeers were selling us out to the bosses, we kicked them out and reorganized into a rank and file union. The Laundry Workers Industrial Union is now af- filiated with the Trade Union Unity | League. It is in the struggle against | the racketeers and the Bosses’ Asso~ WORKERS! Demonstrate Your Power on MAY GREET THE DAILY WORKER ~ ON WORKERS SOLIDARITY DAY “[ GREET THE DAILY WORKER” 3T Name .. BROTEOB iis Hee Cee as SSAA 8 vs . Amount § | nally elected as Secretary of the L. W.t. U. “The laundry workers had confi- I am not here going to com- | | ciation, that T became active and was | strikes and struggles conducted by the union and because I would not accept the dirty money offered on various occasions by the association, I became a man marked and hated by the bosses. In 1932 they tried to | frame me up on a charge of feloni- ous assault of which I knew nothing | | They also informed the Parole Com- | mission when they found out about | my record. The charge failed and | the vigorous protests from the laun- | ; ary workers and the T.U.U. Council | | saved me from being sent back to | prison then, although I was kept 7 | weeks in jail, | “at present there is a strike in the | Pretty Laundry, Bropx, and again | the bosses got busy with their frame up methods. Many strikers were ar- rested and held on framed up charges. But the Parole Commission obliged | the Association and locked me (Gen. Secretary of the Union) up for Pa- | role violation without any proof | against me. The others will at least have the advantage of being tried | although in a prejudiced court. But | I do not even. get the benetit of « trial. The meze complaint of the | bosses is sufficient. “When I was called to the office of the Parole Commission I was ques- | union and my ‘connection with the | Communist Party “A second time I was confronted | ang no one can say that I{with 4 affidavits from strike break- | n ers, that I threatened them. Unde! cross-examination, 2 admitted th ‘| the statements made in the affidavits | were false. The other 2 were too | clever to be caught. “In spite of the fact that the New York officials of the Parole Ecard | know that the same lawyer and the | same Association tried to frame me up last summer, they allow and help | them to frame me up now. Does the | Parole Board ask them to prove the | | charges against me? No! Does the | Parole Board take action againsi the tioned about the affiliation of 2 who confessed that they pe-jured WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS! = et |sembly Dist. ‘guaranteed the Broach regime in control of local | 9; moved to Newark from Passaic. sted Friday | OFFICIALS Local Union No, 3 of the TAMMANY AND POLICE International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers presents the | most outstanding spectacle of systematic graft and corruption organized jointly by New York police officials, Tammany Hall | proximate membership of 7,000 electrical workers. politicians, and A.F.L. Union officials. Local No. 3 has an ap- s. These workers are subject to high dues payments and high assessments. Until March of this year the EEG: dues amounted to |$27 per quarter. The militant¢ struggles of the members has forced the dues down to the still enormously high total of $19 per quarter. Such high dues and assess- ments, coming from 17,000 members, | accumulates millions of dollars with-| in a period of one year and presents fertile field for the organization and oper graft, col Money for Po! In Ma 1932, Howell H. Broach, | and the mem of the local ad- ménistration were unable to account tor $7,500,000 of Union funds since 1926. Members who sought an ac- {counting were beaten, barred from |Union meetings. discharged from | jobs, fined large sums, or suspended from the Union. | “Jake” Solomon, former secretary \of the organizing committee of local was proven to veily destroyed vouchers and records of expenditures close to $1,-| 500,000 between 1926 and 1930. James E. Smith, former Assistant District Attorney, and councel for local No. 3, has been proven to be “contact” man | between the Union officials and the} | Tammany Hall politicians. This same | Smith has received from Solomon, |former secretary of the organizing |committee of local No. 3—$541,732, {much of which was turned over to/the other Union officials, without the / |former Sheriffs Thomas A. Farley, |Charles W. Culkin, and James Hines, | heads of the |Tammany politicians. James Hines is Tammany leader for the 11th As- The money thus turn- Tammany politicians | ‘political protection” to ed over to the: No. 3. The “political protection” obtained, guaranteed favorable court decisions Broach regime in instances of physical violence of the Broach henchmen against the members, ex- pulsion of member: s ste ing of Union Newark L eather Coat | Workers Strike for Better Conditions NEWARK, N. J. —A spontaneous wall occurred here when the e orkers of the United Sheepsl Coat fa@tory struck in pro- jerable working con- The shop which is located and Frances St., recently A picket line has been established. WHAT'S ON \ rs “Women and Children tn the At ed 1 or without acting experience—tor the production of the play “1931.” Rehearsals f 6 p.m.—131 W. 2st St. TUR REVOLUTIONARY Theory and the Artist.” At Reet Club School of Art, 450 Sixth Ave. 2:30 p.m Markoff, Director of the Work- LABOR Ul VION MEETINGS. CLOAK MEMBERSHIP MEETING WILL DISCU: A membersh the I CLOAK OPEN FORUM TUESDAY 1 P.M. AT BRYANT HALL An Open Letter from a Framed. Laundry ‘Worker| “Only the Voice of the Workers Can. Save Me from Prison”, Leon Blum, Secretary of Laundry Union Writes themselves to frame me up? Again The officials act as prosecutors ast me and cover up the frame up. “According to the Parole Commis- | sion it ts a crime to be. active in a] “| duction |funds, and other Jused to terro: members of the In terrorizi Union officials uniformed and plain recent ti with volt of the | officials, uniformed « cops actually preside meetings. This “police protection” is |supplied to the Union officials by paid Tammany Hall politicians h, International Pr es boasted at open that he mous influence in politics in the City {of New York. He said the politician methods and means; held and swindle the on April 7, Edward Hoffman, a militant member, was arrested on a framed-up charge of disorderly con- duct. Hoffman was ready to prove to the members that a wage reduc- tion received by the members of local No, 38, of Cieveland, had resulted in the wrecking of that local as a Labor Union. He was further prepared to show that a wage reduction for mem- bers of local No. 3, New York, would in a further deepening of their ady great misery, misery which due to widespread and lengthy un- employment, To prevent this ex- posure, the Union officials, with the UDF of Tammany police, arrested Hoffman. The arrest of Edward Hoff- man, the barring of Joe Kronberger and Joe Black, as well as many other members, from entering the Ml, together with the use mbers to the use ot In |and that all “fixing” can be obtain if paid for. Broach and the loc administration have since proven t! 50 uniformed and plain correctness of the above assertions. s° 2 = : ae ts cops inside and outside the Officials Attempt To Murder Members’ Gnion hall, enabled the administra- In recent times, and as a result|tion to finally succeed in forcing a of the organized and growing activi-| wage reduction upon the members of | ties of the members against the pre-| iocal Union No. 3 sent powers in control of local No. On Thursday, April 13, at a regu- |3, the organized terror of the r P thecting of the local, Altted are Tammany politicians, und local No. 3/y a militant member of the unien, |Union officiels is greater than ever aassuilted Be ithe, Aaniioeaere before. At a meeting of the loc: 1 members, severely beaten, and ar- |held on February 3, 1933, William vera aie ! Sorenson, a member of the Union, ed on 9: framed-tp charge at ae: |dared to expose the RKO ‘Theatre ly conduct. At this meeting, Terry had protested against the ap- |sell-out in the form of a drastic wage| (007 oat Pipiecith S@o kan oy |reduction put over by Broach and | Point t 3 Broach as the chairman for local union No. 3. Terry pointed out that the procedure of appointment was not to the best interests of the meme sanction and over and above the/| bers. Sorenson re- | ceived the careful attention of all \fenk and’ file ‘members present in| bers, and that the selection of & new |spite of the many attempts of the| Chairman when the old chairman re- gns, should be done through spe- cial election. This protest on the part of Terry resulted in his arrest by the police present and upon the com- plaint of the corrupt union officials. The arrest and severe beating of | Union officials and t hired thugs | to prevent this exposure. On the day following the exposure | \of the sell-out tactics of the Broach |machine, Feb. 24, Sorenson was shot | down and severely wounded by Harry | |Van Arsdale, Jr., business agent, and | Alfred Terry and other militant mem- |Max Rosenberg, an adi tration | bers, the presence of numerous po- “strong arm” thug. Frank Dooner, e at the union meetings and the ancther member of the local, w: mplete absence of their own “le- likewise shot down and _ severely ity” enabled the union officials |wounded by the above named in-/to force through a two-wage scale ‘dividuals. The shooting occured at! and to withdraw all “relief” from Union headquarters, 130° E. 25th St.| While Sorenson and Dooner were in serious condition at Bellevue hospital, ! the Union officials s} it thousands of from the treasury in to defend killers respon- | sible for the shc the members of Local No. 3. Members Organize and Continue Struggle | In spite of the existing terror and gang rule the fighting members of local No. 3 are continuing their mili- Unio the Prepares Sell Out tant str against the grafting protection” bous! inion officials, and their friends, the h regime in control of| police and Tammany Hall politi- the close | clans. Hundreds of members have or- t Attorn Dist. Attorn his power m of ed and are continuing their, for the following demands: Weekly uhemployment relief. 2.50 per cent reduction of local dues. (As a result of the organized and militant struggle this demand has been gained.) 3. Rotation ‘system of distribution of work. 4. Reduction of officers’ salaries to the average earnings of the mem- bers. |e” of Thomas C. T. Crai: Crain’ is doing a | prevent, the prosecut to} 1. those} | responsible for the shooting of Sore’ son and Dooner. Crain and sistants, are bull-dozing, inti | and ane the statements of wit- (delbert Leischer, a star witness in | the shooting of Sorenson and Do: had a quart of acid thrown in_his face. Letscher is at St. V: pital in a very serious condition. aan lose the si in spite of all thi: r jthe local are continuing their com- | mendable struggle for the ous the present Jocal admin: all that it represents tablist of 1 To maintain the present wage ale. 6. Dues exemption for members empl oyed less than four weeks in any nm quarter. a GARMI MENT DISTRICT Patronize avarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE { i] Corner 28th St. "put Over Wage have succeeded in ¥ in wages for The U: of one year. Daorlatnn were ccdenedstiy the alae: PATRONIZE L ee to break 8 E Vv E R N 9 s | OR. JULIUS. LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street | (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) Bikiyn | PHONE: DICKENS 2-301¢ i | Offiee Monrs: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 Pm. | | MENTION THE DAILY WORKER DENIS ALE AND RETAIL FLOBISTH* . 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