The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, April 3, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER CHARITIES HEAD LAUDS WORKERS’ HOUSING PROBE Articles Inspire Big Investigation Additional evidence that the vig- orous campaign the DAILY WORK- ER has been carrying on for better housing” conditions in the Negro quarter of the city is brought out in the announcement of the United Charities of Chicago, that, inspired by the DAILY WORKER INVES- TIGATION, they are instituting an investigation of their own, “T have been following the ar- ticles in the DAILY WORKER about Negro housing conattions with great interest,” Edwin Jones, finan- cial secretary of the umited Chari- ties, told the DAILY WORKER re- porter. “I have clipped them all. \They are thoro and I pelieve the statements of the miserable condi- tions of that district are true. I have. started a housing investiga- tion of the Englewood district and we are going to use the. articles from the DAILY WORKER as a basis for our investigation of the southwestern portion of the city. “T shall be glad to give the DAILY WORKER full access to the reports of our investigators.” Mr. Jones then discussed charity activities, saying possibly the Urban League caters so much to the large employers because they have to in order to get enough money to exist. When told that the DAILY WORKER feels that there is some- thing fundamentally wrong with a society which makes necessary such organizations.as the United Charities -—which in a small way cares for the victims of a faulty social system— instead of trying to change the sys- tem as a whole, Mr. Jones replied: “The DAILY WORKER is trying to do socially what we are trying to do with individuals. We are care- fal how we spend our money on the individual—that is, we. try to get him ajob and permanently set him on his feet instead of just giving him a basket of food occasionally. I guess the DAILY WORKER is working on the same principles in the social field—trying to fundamen- tally better the government instead of instituting a few petty reforms.” Thirst for Blood Necessary Quality For Citizenship By LUDWELL DENNY (Staff Correspondent of Federated Press) ‘BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 2.—Tho the legal right of aliens to claim ex- einption from the draft was recog- nized during the war, hundred per cent judges who fought the war from a swivel chair are now taking out their spite on such foreign born resi- dents, applying for U, S. citizenship. Supreme Court Justice Joseph As- pinall here has denied citizenship to 11 applicants on the ground they claimed exemption from military service. Can’t Claim Exemption, Aspinall is not the only judge who is prostituting his position to his pre- judices in this manner, but he is one of the most notorious in the New York district. Federal judges usually have been less guilty than justices of the state court. ‘The 11 victims came up before As- pinall with 200 other applicants for citizenship. Justice of the war- phobia brand was swift. Judge: You claimed exemption in the draft? ~ Victims: Yes. Judge, curtly: Dismissed! . . . Pass out! pass out! Next! Nine applicants who were unlucky enough to have been born in the land of the czar were especially displeas- ing to his honor who sees red when- ever Russia is mentioned. Four were turned down because of draft exemp- tion and five whose reading did not please the embodiment of th + America: De Lux One old ‘ish resident got his re- ward because he bought a liberty bond. When he acknowledged that he could not read English, the judge was stumped, but only for a minute. Judge: Did you buy bonds during the war? Virtuous Patriot: Yeh, fifty dollars’ worth. little more English. I'll let you in because you bought a bond. Two applicants were rejected be- cause in the judge’s opinion they were “not well disposed.” ‘JOIN THE JUNIOR SECTION For Information 1009 N. State St., Rm. 214 Chicago, I UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS Being the continuation of the re- port given by Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, chairman of the Commun- ist International, at the city meet- ing of the Collective Bureaus of the Leningrad Communist Party Organization, * * VIII. Our Party Apparatus, OMRADE TROTZKY brings ‘the whole might of his argumen- tation to beay against our Party apparatus, and writes: “The new course does not by any means sig- nify that the Party apparatus is set the task of decreeing, creating or establishing the regime of ‘democ- racy’ within any definite term.” And we read further, in black: “The Party must subordinate itself to its apparatus.” Then comes an exposi- tion to the effect that a number of “Party workers” should be relieved of their posts and reduced to the ranks, The Party Apparatus. I am by no means an_ uncondi- tidnal worshipper of the apparatus and Party workers at any price, I have never counted myyelf among them, and I have attacked them as often as any one else. I have at- tacked bureaucracy severely, both in our Soviet press and at the, All- Russian Soviet Congress. I know the weak sides of our Party appuratus ‘very well, and know that this must Le renewed and democratiged from below; but. when I have to look on and see that Preo- brazensky, Sapranoy and Raffel cry out against the “Party workers” at every turn, and that they employ 90,000 LESS ARE WORKING INN. Y, THAN LAST YEAR “Full Dinner Pail” Bad Bet Under Capitalism By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) NEW YORK, April 2.—No evi- dence of an upward swing in the job market in New York state sim- ilar to that of a year ago is seen in the February employment report of Industrial Commissioner Shien- tag of the state department of labor. His statement shows that factory employment in the state in- creased about 1 per cent between January and February but that the level is still more than 2% per cent below that of February, 1923, and 5 per cent below the high level of last March. is means there are ati least 50,000 more factory workers out of a job in the state-than a year ago, Metal and Textiles. The important group of metal in- dustries, says Shientag, showed practically no net change this month. Shop making and repairing railway rolling stock continued to reduce forces. Only the automobile industry contributed any forwi movement within the metals group. Employment in the textile indus- try showed considerable improve- ment over January but was less favorable than a year ago, Appar- ently the public is buying less cloth- ing this year. Important reductions compared with a year ago are noted in manufacture of woolens for gar- ments, in cotton goods and in the garment trades, “ In the building supply industries employment made a sharp seasonal drop. Brick yards were closing down and cement mills laying off workers, Furniture factories re- ported a decline. City Better Than State. New York City employment, ac- the term almost as much as an in- vective as the term “Chekist” is used by the Mensheviki, then we step forward and beg the Party to count us among ihe ranks of the unhappy “Party workers.” You may as well know, comrades, that when the term “Party workers” is used, the Central Committees of the Party is meant; ths Central Committee of the Party stamps its mark upon everything. When we turn to statistics,’we see that in the whole of this, our ter- rible apparatus of the Union of Socialist Republics, which comprises one-sixth of the globe, there are 18,000 Party workers, the greater number of which are technical work- ers, including a large number. of retiring and honest worker bees, who work on the spots where , they have been placed by the Party. For indeed tho it be a disgrace. to be an official and a Party worker in the the despicable Menshevist machine, it is no disgrace whatever to be a “Party woiker” in the proletarian apparatus of the Communist Party. Cannot Wholly Condemn Apparatus. Comrade Lenin censured the state apparatus, the whole Soviet ma- chine. He said that it was still in part the old Czarist apparatus, which we had not succeeded in re- modeling, and he censured this ap- paratus so severely that there was no point left uncriticized. And to whom did he appeal? the Party apparatus. He submitted a definite plan for the reorganization of the workers’ ‘and peasants’ contrel, and of the To lour apparatus. Central Control Commission. And if there was anything rotten m the Soviet state, then all eyes always turned to the Party apparatus, for nowhere else was protection from bureaucracy 0 be found. We must renew and reform ous apparatus. Those comrades who maintain that our people remain too long in the apparatus are wrong. It is rather the contrary which is the case. Even in the Centra! Committee, in which the qualified Party workers are gathered together, 90 out of 134 responsible workers have been work- ing for less than a year. Thus the Party workers do not only not re- main too long, but have not even time for the preparation required if they are to work fully into the great apparatus of the present day. We, comrades, are “provincials.” In Petrograd we have just begun with the re-election of the collective bureaus, of the secretaries; we are of the opinion that this is in accord- ance with the spirit of democracy, and that by this means the avpara- tus’ receives the necessary renewal from below, But it is utterly wrong to condemn the apparatus wholesale, Bureaucracy Must Be Abolished. A short time ago we conquered the Far East, and we had to form a new government. It was neces- sary to create a Soviet apparatus, a Party apparatus, and an econemic apparatus, etc, At the beginning we naturally did this by appointing suitable persons thru the medium of And what else could we have done? How coyld we gov- ern the state otherwise We do not want to assert, rades, that ideal conditions obtain amongst us. It goes without saying that we have our faults like every one, else, and our apparatus is no more immune from rust than other machinery; it must be cleaned and polished, re-ciled, some few small parts replaced. But there is no need to throw the baby away with the bath water, And it is here that Comrade Trotzky commits his greatest error, for he is beginning to support people who want to av away with the main.core of the Party appa-|% ratus. What is the meaning of the phrase: “The Party must subordi- |! nate itself to its apparatus?” Has the reverse been the case up to now? Comrade Kalinin was indeed right when he said, during a discussion at Moscow: “A few years ago the Mensheviki called us ‘committee workers,’ and in the mouths of the Mensheviki this was severe invec- tive; and now you are implying with ‘Party workers’ the same as the Mensheviki meant at that time with ‘committee workers’.” Yes, comrades, there igs much in our apparatus which must be im- proved, renewed and purified. Bu- reaucracy mvst be removed. But those who want to depose the appa- ratus wholesale must be yut in their place, for our ‘Party apparatus is the right hand of the Party. (To Be Continued Friday.) coming months. party is trying to do. tarian Dictatorship. The meetings arranged are: Cleveland, Sunday, April 6, Euclid Ave. Pittsburg, Monday, April 7, 8 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Philadelphia, ‘Tuesday, April 8, 8 p. m., Amalgamated Centre, 431 Pine St. New York City, Wednesday, April 9, 8 p. m., Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. Boston, Thursday, April 10. Buffalo, Saturday, April ‘12,. Finnish Hall, 150 Grider St. Detroit, Sunday, April 13, Finnish Hall, 5963 Fourteenth St. Chicago, Tuesday, April 22. Ever: tty member in the cities mentioned should attend these 4 nie party member within reach of these cities should meetings. come to the meetings. The Party must know and understand the policies of the Central Executive Committee. The Party must mobilize all its strength for the campaign which the Party is now entering. ard| Workers’ School Holds Celebration For Its New Home (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 2.—The Workers. School recently held a gala celebration in honor of its re- moval to the more spacious and elaborate quarters at 125 Fourth avenue. E, B. Jacobson, the chairman, stressed the necessity for all mem- bers of the Party and sympathizers to promote the scope) and welfare of the Workers’ School. He urged all Comrades to attend the follow- ing three most essential courses now € iven at the Scho‘ Marxism, cording to Shientag, advanced more aves by Herman Simpecn; History than the rest of the state. In the|o¢ the Three Internationales, by cloak and suit trade additional shops were resuming operations and the reports indicate over 4,000 per- sons added to the pay rolls in the men’s clothing shops while the ‘women’s shops took on, a smaller number. An unusual falling off in employment in the printing trades ‘was reported. Outside New York the only im- -provement noted was_occasioned by the automobile industry and the ago, This report indicates that there are over 30,000 factory workers in New York state than there were in February, 1923, without taking account of the nor- mal increase in -population which would add at least 20,000 more to the labor looking for jobs. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. Ludwig Lore, and History of the gains in that less favorable than a Judge: M’m, Well—Try to learn a| Year more \ unemployed | Trade Union Movement, by Solon de Leon. Charles Krumbein, the District Organizer, praised the New York comrades who started the organ- ization of a School on their direct initiative. He urged that the com- rades “‘boost,the School all the time.” Greetings were alsc presented by Clarence Miller, representing the Young Workers League, and by Jack Jampolsky, representing the Trade Union Educational League. Herman Simpson, the School’s lecturer on Marxism, spoke on Tea- pot Dome. The last speaker was Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who gave a clear ed¢cational con- level of the rank and file to intelli- gent and responsible thinking action oe poutet and industrial lines, she said. Party Membership, Attention! HE PRESENT situation of the Workers Party in the struggle for the formation of a mass, class Farmer-Labor Party will be presented to the membership of the party in a series of membership mass meetings in the principal cities. i ; The development of the Farmer-Labor movement requires the’ mobilization of the entire party for an intensive campaign during the It is essential that every party. member not only give the campaign the Ly lamps nets eee but if * Pr grind i of the pai now exactly canon srry ag the whole pee paths understand the role which the united front movement for the Farmer-Labor Party, plays in the struggle for the Proletarian Revolution, the Soviets and Prole- In order to present the situation to the membership meetings have been strand in the district headquarters city of eight districts, which will be attended by the members in these cities and also by comrades invited from the nearby cities. addressed by C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary of the Party. His subject wili be “The Decisive Stage of our Labor Party Policy”. These meetings will be at 3 p. m. Labor Temple, 2536 $20,000 Raised for Starving Germans By N. Y. Workers NEW YORK, April 2—The New York committee of the Inter- national Workers Aid announces that its fund for German Relief has reached the $20,000 mark. The com- mittee has arranged with the Na- tional Office of the International Workers Aid in Chicago for a good kitchen called “New York,” to be maintained by the local committee. It has been advised by the National Office that such arrangements will be | made possible and that a New York kitchen will be opened in Berlin} which will provide 1,500 meals a week, Ten thousand as the initial fund | for maintaining this food kitchen has already been forwarded to Germany. The committee has planned wides DE LA HUERTA A ‘RED,’ ANNOUNCED HIS PRESS AGENT Thot This Would Please ’ Gompers; Ha! Ha! (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, April 2—No wonder de la Huerta lost out. He had such a dumbbell press agent. This press agent, Jorge Prieto Lau- rens, bid for Sammy Gompers’ sup- port by telling him that de la Huerta Jorge, as Jorge Prieto Laurens is familiarly called, is the ambitious young politician who wrapped de la Huerta around his scheming finger and persuaded him to “run” for presi- dent with Jorge as the king-maker or power behind the throne. When they got their rebellion started, young George, for that’s the English of it,. became publicity man to the rebels. Tried to Win Sammy. With rare tact he set out to per- suade Samuel Gompers that he ought to. support the rebels because they were “reds” and “Communists” and were fighting for Socialism. Just the thing to win over Sammy Gomp- ers! He loves red worse than a bull. “Come and see for yourself,” cabled Jorge to Sammy. “We've established Socialism here and we're gonna confiscate all the big estates of Obregon and Calles, and without compensation.” “I won’t come,” cabled Sammy. Prieto sent the same stuff to Canuté Vargas of the Pan-American Federation. Vargas’ answer was a lecture on Socialism. This is part of it: Just Like Mussolini. “Adolfo de la Huerta a Social- ist?~ It may be? Mussolini was also a Socialist, and not of the parlor variety. . . . Today he drinks with Primo de Rivera a toast to the armies and fleets of Alfonso XIII and Victor Emanuel. “A movement whose supreme general is Guadelupe Sanchez is “socialist” and “libertarian” and already “dividing” lands? Ask the peasants of the State of Vera Cruz, ‘Mr. Prieto Laurens, to which side , “Gen. Sanchez leans. spread activities in New York and New Jersey for the month of, April in order that the fund already col- lected may be doubled, Tammany Hall Ball Friday by T. U. E. L. And Workers School (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 2.—The Work- ers School and the Trade Union Edu- cational League will hold a ball and dance in Tammany hall next Friday evening. Dancers and singers have been en- gaged for the ball and the Clef Club Orchestra will furnish music. The entire radical movement is awaiting the affair. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN “If you are looking for Socialists «+. . look for them in the Casa del Obrero Mundial and in the Mexican Confederation of Labor and you'll find them there in their post. “Before coming to seek the sym- pathy of the workers’ movements of the U. S -it is necessary, indispensable, that you gd to seek the sympathy of the Casa del Obrero Mundial and the Mexican Confederation of Labor....... bi France Wants Her Workers to Breed Kids Like Rabbits PARIS, April 2.—Faced by the fact that France with her 40,000,000 inhabitants and a declining birth rate is living next door to Germany with her 60,000,000 inhabitants and an increasing birthrate, the French gov- ernmént is making frantic effort to encourage large families. Among the measul adopted by way of “en- couragement” are the following: Large families enjoy special cheap rates when traveling; fathets of large families are excused from mili- tary service. A pespeeal is now on foot for giving heads of 1a: fami- lies more than one vote’at elections. The one thing, however, that the government does not do is to solve the ern of where sach a large family is to live, The landlords of Paris and other larger cities are quite as inexorable as in America. They don’t want large families in their houses. he Struggle Within the Russian Party’ com- } 4 Pege Five! Militants Is the revolutionary task of the hour! Making Militants Is the favorite job of THE DAILY WORKER When THE DAILY WORKER makes claim that every new subscriber means a new recruit in the ranks of militant labor, we make no idle boast. Around THE DAILY WORKER are being rallied the militants in America for the revolutionary struggle which is to result in the downfall of capitalism and the rise of a Workers’ Government. How \have YOU made use of THE DAILY WORKER? Have you used it only for your personal education and inspiration? Or have you accepted THE DAILY WORKER for what it was intended, the organizer and educator of the workingclass? To you, is THE DAILY WORKER a duty as well as a privilege? If you are reading THE DAILY WORKER because you are a militant, prove it. Add another militant to the ranks by getting a new subscriber. If you are a militant by reason of your reading THE DAILY WORKER, make “your paper” serve the same purpose for another worker that it served for you. The welfare of THE DAILY WORKER is built upon the foundation of the militant labor movement. The organization of the militant labor movement is being built on THE DAILY WORKER circulation. A new DAILY WORKER subscriber means a new militant! 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