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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
Many Militants
Picket Shops
For Let's
Successful Week Cleaning
Out Needle Trade Gangs

Large and militant picket lines
have followed the Joint Boards drive
for picketing scab shops" according
to Louis Hyman, general manager of
the New York Joint Board of the
cloak and dressmakers.
eve called for workers to picket the
shops called on strike for the dis
charge of members who refused to
register with the International; and
shops where employers have refused
to recognize the authority of the Joint
Board" said Hyman. "The result has
been a big demonstration every day
this week in front of the 90 shops on
strike"
Some Arrests.
Bertha Gerst and William Zweibon
were arrested at the picket line at the
Al Dress Shop, 361 West Seth St., on
7s,fs eRy, bat score lGtes released by
Magistrate Smith in Jefferson Market
court when he found there was no
evidence of any disturbance.
This shop was called on strike be-
cause of the discharge of Zweibon, a
presser.
Gangsters On Run.
There were also large demonstra-
lions before the Millare and Mandel
shop and the Ben .Gershel shop. Dem
onstrations have been arranged for
Friday morning, which will close a
week of successful and enthusiastic
picketing," according to Mr.. Lyman.
Firm, strong picket lines have put
the gangsters on the rum" he said.
"On Wednesday morning gangsters
fled upon seeing the large lines and
on Thursday morning they scarcely
dared to appear at all"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04

porting IL, representing 90 per
cent of the membership of the
international Fur Workers
Union.
(3l. The official charges contain not
one single word relative to the bribery
of the police force which President
Matthew Woll and President Green
have featured in the publicity ma
terial given to the capitalist press in
connection with their attack on the
New York Joint Board.
Some charges are constitutional in
their character while others are of a
general nature such as taking in
structions from outside sources" and
holding secret conferences"
The Joint Board holds the expulsion
illegal and pending the issuance of a
detailed reply by the Joint Board,
Gold, manager, issued the following
statement:
Colds Statement.
The international Fur Workers
Union under the direct supervision Of
tn A. r. of L. executive council seeks
the expulsion and dissolution of the
Joint Board and locals by illegal
methods.
Under date of March 8, 1927, the
International Fur Workers Union
sent to the Joint Board. Furriersl
'0nion, notice directing the dlssoiution
of the New York Joint Board Fur
riers' Union, Locals 1, 5, 10 and 10,
decreed the suspensions of the locals
mentioned above, as well as the ex-
pulsion from the union of 81 individ-
ual members, including the officers
of the Joint Board, as well as many
other active workers of the union.
The notice of expulsion and suspen-
sion is the first intimation that the
Joint Board, the locals composing it,
or any of the individuals involved,
have received that charges were pend
ing against them.
The constitution of the Information
al Fur Workers Union, as well as the
American Federation of Labor, has
been flagrantly violated by those who
professed 20 speak in their name.
1t is elementary that persons and
organizations against whom charges
are proposed are entitled to a copy
of the charges, to the names of the
persons making the charges against
them, as well as an opportunity to
produce witnesses and to be heard in
a fair and impartial trial after reas-
enable opportunity to prepare for
same, it is the natural right of all
persons and is guaranteed specifically
by the constitution of the Inter
national Fur Workers Union.
This right has been denied. The
Labor Movement will condemn such
high-handed outrageous methods of
procedure.
The membership stands solidly be-
hind the Joint Board and will refuse
Continued on Page Three
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VOLTS Agent Acts.
AS Police Informer
GcGrady Swears Pic1eting Illegal; Fur Workers
Joint Board Expelled

Three important developments indicating the trend of the
struggle of the wing the needle trades unions from
destruction by and reaOnary OiciadOm took place
yesterday. They
ID The New York Joint of the Furrers' Union has
given pledge of support by shop meeting of workers
employed by Wexsen said to be the largest shop of its kind in
the world.
The right wing gangsers led by Edward McGrady, special
representative of the A. F. of L. had tried to ntmae these
with the aid of the police number of arrests were
made the workers charged with unlawful pcketng and
McGrady appeared a state witness against them.
~ The Joint Board of the Fuers Union received official
notification of its expulsion together with the local unions sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
Detroit Memorial.
All Workers Invited
TO Bronx Mass Meet
On Chinese Situation

Eroax English Branch 1, Workers
Payiy has arranged a mass meeting
~ The Chinese situation. Come and
demonstrate for anti-imperialistic
tactics in China, on Friday, March 4.
az y. l45 ST., $3.50 pm.
Editor Of Chinese Labor paper In
%aw York, and other prominent
aealers will address the meeting.
Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
Fascists Won't
Allow FerrerO
To Leave Italy

PARIS, March 3.-Guglielmo Fer
zero, the famous Italian historian,
has been refused permission to leave
Italy to go to America, according to
the Rome correspondent Of Lesoir,
socialist evening newspaper in a dis
patch this afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
new EXPULSION
DOESN'T HINDER
LEFT WING MEET

A splendid membership Of dress
makers last night showed that the
principal effect Of the right wing ex-
pulsion proceedings is to increase in
terest in union affairs and make the
members more eager to take part in
union activities.
In Webster Hall, more than 1900
dressmakers, members of Local %,
were present to hear the report on
conditions in the international
Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL MEETINGS
IN CHICAGO And MANY OTHER CITIES
(special TO The DAILY, WORKER.

CHICAGO March 3The memorial meeting to be held here
Comrade uhenbeg win take place here Sunday Barch g.
Ashland Auditorium, o'clock. At the memorial
Comrades W. Foster Jay LOveOne Max Bedac Nat
Kapan, James P Cannon and Arne Swabeck will speak
All speakers day by day in direct communication
with Ruthenberg capacity General Secretary of the
Party. They knew him Intimately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
Ford Cans Golf Expert.

DETROIT, March 9.-Because Il
was not a good investment Henry
Ford, the worlds wealthiest man,
has dispensed with the services Of
Davey Robertson, golf pro, at the
Dearborn Country Club located on
the automobile kings estate, it was
learned today. Robertson was
dropped as an economy measure, It
was reported. Another pro, one not
quite so expensive. will be engaged.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04

out-of-the-way places, and scores Of
commuters are crying for relief.
If there were as many decent, liv-
able rooms for rent in New York City
proper as Assemblyman jerks would
have us believe, the railroad compan-
les would lost quite few customers.
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04

To Commemorate First Airplane.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-Presi-
dent Coolidge has signed bill for
erection of a monument at Kitty
Hawk, N. c., to commemorate the
first successful airplane flight by
the Wright brothers in 1908.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
CURRENT EVENTS
By t. ]. o'FLAHERTY

THAT the recent political scuffle
i between the vatican and Musso-
lini was only a dust-raising affair
can be gathered from the eulogy Of
the pope and the fascist leader pub
lished in the Osservatore Romano,
official organ Of the vatican. The
noble pair of hop merchants are
labelled the greatest spiritual leaders
in the world. This skeptical writer
took little stock in tales of enmity
between the intellectual jailer of
millions of catholics and the tenn
poral jailer of millions Of Italian
workers and peasants.
L ORTUNATELY for the world all
x thieves cannot refrain from car
rying their differences to extremes.
The bandit defenders" of Shanghai
are pickering as the nationalist
armies approach. One set Of mill
tarists will not allow another set to
occupy their trenches. Tbs imper-
ialist powers look on, grinding their
teeth while the mighty power Of the
isiiss3 ...-.Gses iJ35eil4g 10iie. e 1l.a'l0
deliver the final kick to the robbers
who have been sucking their life
blood for generations.
THE high cost of REVEALING has
i hit Aimee Mcpherson a blow, but
it is reported that she will recover
with the aid of publicity. The saint
ly siren of the sawdust trail seems
to be enjoying the wickedness Of
New York but mourning the fact
that the denizens of this American
Sodom are too happy in their wicked
ness to wish for the monotony of
salvation or are too far gone to care
for anything. Aimee cast longing
eyes on Tex Richards emporium that
is mainly devoted to the cauliflower
industry, but sad to say two shut
fling pugs will attract more lost
souls to the arena than the voice Of
the scintillating evangelist.
UNEASY rests the heads of many
~ British peers whose coronets
were purchased from political parties
that had as little money in their
treasures as they had honor in their
systems. Lord Roseberry, a peer
whose peerdom is above suspicion
which means that whatever crooked
ness that was connected with its ac-
QUESTION dates back to the middle
ages--is out on the war path swing
ing his lariat at coronets that were
purchased in recent years by money
earned in the whisky business.
Lloyd George made five million dol
lars out of the sale of titles. This
is the swag the lord is swiping at.
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
Ruthenberg's Body to
Be on View Saturday
And Sunday in Chicago

CHICAGO, March 3.-Comrades
and friends can view the body of
Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg at
Ashland Auditorium, in the East
Room, Ashland entrance, Saturday
from ten in the morning to ten in
the evening, and in the main audi
torium, Sunday, at twelve noon.
The memorial meeting starts at one
p. m, Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
BY WILL DE KALB.

The communities in the suburbs of
Westchester, New Jersey and Long
Island are old, but it seems a COM
munity is never too old to learn new
tricks. To a limited extent, the hous-
ing problem has extended to those
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
Grand Rapids to Have
a Ruthenberg Memorial

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March 9.
r. Baker will be the principal
speaker at the Ruthenberg memorial
mass meeting arranged here for Sun
day afternoon at Workmen's Circle
Hall. In this industrial city, Com
rade Ruthenberg's message was es-
pecially needed, and the workers will
meet to hear of his life and what he
had to contribute to the solution Of
workers problems.
Detroit Memorial.
DETROIT, March 3.-On Monday,
March 7, the workers of Detroit will
meet at eight p. m. in the Majestic
Theatre. or Woodward Avenue, near
Willis. to commemorate the life, &C
Invites and death of Comrade Charles
f. Ruthenberg.
The speakers so far announced are
Max Bedacht, Herbert Fam and Scott
Nearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
Housing Problem Acute
In Suburbs; Rents $42
Suburbanites, Who Fled From Noise, Dangers,
Hustle, Slums and Rents of City. Now
Caught In Landlords Net.

This article the Suburban communities of Weschester,
Jersey and Long Island completes the surrey made by Will de
Kob DAILY WORKER Investigator of housing conditions To-
ntorroao he U begin the results of this surrey
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-04
New York Workers Will
Remember Ruthenberg


Many union Headquarters such as
those Of the needle trades workers
Of New York arc draped in black TO-
day in honor Of c. E. Ruthenberg,
the Communist leader who died yes
terday. The headquarters Of the
Workers (Communist) Party at l05
East 18th Street are draped in red
and black.
The Party has issued a call for a
mass meeting at Carnegie Hell next
"Wednesday night IN honor ~ The
memory Of its leader. at which vii
liam 2. Foster, James z. Cannon,
Jay Lovcstonc, I@1iamin Ctlow
William w. Weinstoua and other
members Of the Central Executive
Committee of the Workers Party will
speak.
Ruthonberg'a ashes are being
brought from Chicago, where he is
to be cremated, TO the meeting in
Carnegie Hall and after that they
are to be taken to Moscow, where
they will rest under the Kremlin
wall.
Cleveland Meeting Tuesday.
CLEVELAND, March 3.--Ruthen-
berg memorial meeting is being ar
ranged for here, to take place Tues
day, March s,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
ASK CANCELLATION
Of FBORLANDLEVES
Committee Members Advise
Commissioners to Drop AS
sessments in Two Sections.

Cancellation Of assessments levied
against certain property owners along
Massachusetts avenue extended and
also in the Capitol View section, for
street paving under the Borland law,
was recommended to the Commission
ers today by the special committee
appointed some time ago to consider
the merits of applications for such
cancellation.
The committee found that in these
two instances the property came with
in the classes which the courts have
held should not be taxed under the
Borland law, because of the character
Of the land at the time the assess
ments were made. 1t Is expected the
Commissioners will pass on these two
cases at board meeting tomorrow.
In one case number of owners
along Massachusetts avenue extended
filed a suit in equity in the District
Supreme Court several weeks ago to
recover the assessments, amounting
to more than $3500. The Borland law
committee later considered the case
and found that 1t constituted one of
the situations in which the courts hold
that the Borland law does not apply.
Corporation Counsel Bride concur
red in the committee opinion, pointing
out that the District could not sue.
cessfully defend the assessments in
this case.
In the other case. involving assess
ments amounting to several hundred
dollars in Capitol View, no suit had
been filed in Equity Court, but the
Borland law committee told the Com
missioners that it was identical with
case in which the court had orederd
the assessments Cancelled, and that
therefore similar action should he
taken by the Commissioners in this
case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
Naval Ships and Aircraft Speed
Over Sea to Seek Miss Doran
and Golden Eagle.
HAWAUANS LAVISH HONORS
ON AERIAL DERBY WINNERS
More Than 10000 Cheer as Woolaroc
Lands First i'm Dole Contest.
Aloha Is Second.
BY the Associated Press.


Derovers steamers and apanes today combed the perou
ocean course 240Omle Dole flight Honolulu trace
two panes-one bearing Miss Mildred Doan. fying
teaherwhe Hawaii avihed honors the winners OF
great aerial the monopane Wooaroc and Aloha
More than So hours from the starting point at Oakland
the bpane the monopane Golden asle long
expressed for the safety OF the five
aboard the missing craft while all the modern agencies OF
communication thrown into play in the search
Can't William P Erwin was ready at Oakland take his
nonopane Dallas Spirit zigzag to Oahu IN the
hope OF finding the flyers He planned hop off
time today.
Arthur c. Goebe Holly wood aviator and Lieut. W. v
Davis naval officer of San Diego navigator landed the Woolaroc
first winning the prize of $4,000 Second prize of $1,000
was captured by Jensen Honolulu aviator and Navigator
Paul Schluter of San Francisco in the Aloha
cheering crowd of than 10000 persons greeted the
airmen yesterday afternoon at Wheeler
Field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
CITY HEADS TO ACT
ON MARKET ISSUE
Commissioners to Consider
Reply to Treasury Query
at Meeting Tomorrow.

The District Commissioners will
morrow what answer they will be able
to make at this time TO the query
from the Treasury Department yester
day as to how soon the entire space
occupied by the Farmers Market, be-
tween Tenth, Twelfth, B and Little B
streets, can be vacated to make way
for the new internal revenue build
ing.
1t is not expected the city heads
will be able to reach definite conclu-
sions on the problem at tomorrow s
meeting, but they will begin consider
alton of the Treasury letter. The
communication already has been re.
ferred to Supt. Roberts of the office
OF weights and mea asures, who man.
ages the farmers stands.
II the farmers sheds are to be taken
down about the end of this year or
early In 1928, a considerable time will
elapse before a new Farmers Market
could be made ready, since Congress
has not yet provided the funds for
the site or for construction.
Should the situation take that
course, the question would arise as to
where the farmers would bring their
produce during the interim between
the tearing down of the existing sheds
and the completion of the new stands.
1t was suggested unofficially from
one source at the District Building
today that consideration may have
to be given to some temporary expe-
~ a
where the farmers could bring their
wagons while a new farmers market
is being established.
The District authorities were repre-
sented today as being desirous of be-
ing as reasonable a. possible in con-
the farmers situation and at
the same time complying as far as pos
sible with the wishes of the Govern
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
RUM SMUGGLING EASY.

The first problem that confronts en-
forcement officers in Detroit Is some
think like 25 or 80 miles Of water
front along the Detroit River. with
just a mile of water the only barrier
between distilleries and breweries in
Ontario.
For a long distance even the width
of this stretch OF water is cut by pro.
jecting lighthouses set up on piles.
beneath which rum runners find ready
refuge, pursuit under these being next
to impossible.
There also are wide stretches along
Lake Erie where the rum runners
with clearance papers for their EEK.
port" cargoes may touch, transfer
their loads from speedy motorboats
to speedier automobiles and get into
any of the surrounding territory over
smooth roads.
The State government at Lansing
has recognized the seriousness Of the
situation, and time after time has put
State troopers on the roads. and has
established motorboat patrols. but
with little diminution apparently OF
the supply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
Whitening Plane
Is Reported Adrift
Off Cape Charles

by the Associated Fress.
NORFOLK. Va, August IS
Reported discovery Of a white
winged plane adrifr in the sea 155
miles east of Cape Charles, led to
immediate preparations being made
today for dispatch of a destroyer
10 the scene.
Coast Guard and naval officials,
however, We're awaiting official ad-
vices from Washington, where
coast guard headquarters was said
to have received a message from
steamer Gulfpoint. which reported
having sighted the plane, only one
wing of which was above water.
The only white-winged plane known
to he missing is that of Nunges-
ser-Coli transatlantic expedition
which vanished on a flight from
Paris to New York.
Comdr A. G. Read of trans
atlantic flight fame, however. said
he did not believe the Nungesser
plane could possibly have remained
afioat until now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
YOUTHS DESCRIBE
THEFT AND MURDER
Five Tell of Tying Watchman
to Chair and Firing Shack
After Robbery.

The story of how William Ross
69-year-old watchman, was beaten into
Inconsistencies robbed and trussed
to a chair in his shack which then
was set afre to hide the crime, was
related by headQ uarters detectives to-
day following questioning of five col
ored youths arrested Tuesday night.
The prisoners, detectives say, also
admitted numerous burglaries. hold
ups and automobile thefts, and also
dropped hints that they may know
something of the murder of Leon
Smith, beaten to death when his COM
panion, Mrs. Mary Garvan. was
slashed near the New York Avenue
Bridge the night of July IL. Police
are skeptical of their connection with
the latter case, however.
Three Others Named.
The prisoners were booked as Viii
liam F. Eaglin. 19 years old. sos
Twenty-fourth street: Andrew Robin
son. 20, and William Johnson, IS. both
of 716 Rhode Island avenue: Solomon
Allen, II, 900 V street. and Thomas
W. Campbell. II of 1927 p street.
Members of the homicide squad re-
ported that the five said three others
were with them at the scene of the
murder of Ross. a watchman on con
struction work being done on Wiscon-
sin avenue just across the District
line.
Eaglin, according to detectives,
talked freely of the Ross case, admit
ting, the police say, that he and his
planned to rob the watch
man and then burn the shack to hide
the crime.
Two milk bottles filled with kerosene
were carried to the shack, it was SAID,
and after the watchman was thrown
off his guard by a request for Q
cigarette ne was attacked. beaten, his
pockets rified and, while still alive. tied
to his chair and the building then set
afire with the oil. The eight We're
then said to have divided the loot.
Trapped by Alarm.
Their robbery operations were said
to have covered at least nine stores.
and a robbery that failed when
burglar alarm went off led to their
apprehension.
In one instance, 1t was admitted,
members of the party gave two white
men a lift across Key Bridge, and the
two men, it was asserted. participated
in an attack and robbing of a Pc
destrian.
Further questioning of the prisoners
is being conducted by members of
the homicide squad with a view to
determining definitely the extent of
their operations here and nearby. 1t
is probable that the Montgomery
County authorities will request the
surrender of the prisoners to answer
in that county for the Staying of Ross
and burning the shack.
The arrests were made by Sergt. j.
]. Burke and Policemen n. S. Hodlin-
son, w. NJ. Gilfoyle, j. G. Arendes and
M. B. Moore of the seventh precinct,
and r. B. Carroll of the second pre-
cinct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
FOUR IMPLICATED
IN THREE KILLINGS
Confession of Suspect Is
Announced in West vir-
ginia Staying.


LOGAN, w. Va, August 1s.-The
sheriff's office announced today that
Millard Porter, a suspect held in con-
nection with the Staying of a prohibit
ton officer and two companions by
supposed moonshiners, had made a
confession duplicating three of his
neighbors in the fatal ambush of a
party of ginseng hunters.
Deputy sheriffs and State police, led
by Sheriff Tennis Hatfield, in the
mountains for two days hunting the
slayers narrowed their search to the
wooded hills near the scene of the
shooting as a result of the reported
confession. Discovery of several stills
in the vicinity led officers to believe
moonshiners suspected the motive of
the ginseng hunters in camping near
Chauncey Hollow.
Porter, one of the residents of the
small village at the mouth of
Chauncey Hollow, about 2 miles
from the ambuscade scene, was arrest
ed at his home last night and was re-
ported to have confessed to Sheriff
Hatfield that he had a part in the
shooting and to have named Bert Mel
son. Nit Nelson and 1som Curry, also
residents of the village, as participat-
ing.
Porter was brought to Jail today by
State police after the posse had failed
to find the three other men in Turtle
Hollow, not far from Chauncey Hol-
low, where Porter said the men had
been hiding in rain-soaked brush since
the shooting. The others were be-
lieved to be making their way to Cow
Creek, where they had relatives, and
the search today turned in that direc-
ton.
Sheriff Hatfield remained with his
men in the hills and details OF Porter's
statement to him were not known
here. None of four men who had
been arrested before Porter was found
was implicated in the confession, 1t
was said.