The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1924, Page 4

FOSTER SPEAKS IN IOWA STATE “THIS WEEK END To Expose Brookhart’s Fake Remedies The workers and exploited farmers of lowa will have an Opportunity to compare the social nostrums advocated by Smith W. Brookhart, alleged progressive senator from that state, with the Communist pro- gram of the Workers Party, when William Z. Foster, Com- munist candidate for president of the United States speaks in Sioux City and Des Moines on the 29th and 30th of this month. The meetings will be held in the following places: Sioux City Labor Lyceum, 508 Jennings Street, Friday, August 29, at 8 P.M. Des Moines—Grotto Hall, 721 Lo- cust Street, Saturday, August 30th, 8 p. m. Mr. Brookhart, republican sena- tor, has long posed as a progressive, but a statement issued by Joseph Manley, William Z. Foster’s campaign Manager, charges Brookhart with confusing the workers and poor farm- ers with his illusory reforms and points out that his progressiveness is so shallow that he refused to speak on the same platform with ‘the genu- ine radical, Alexander Howat. Manley’s statement follows: Smith W. Brookhart, Farmer-Labor senator from lowa, is like many of the so-called Farmer-Laborites. His glib progressive sounding words and schemes,.are calculated to do noth- ing but confuse the workers and poor farmers who are in a mood for real rebellion against capitalism and de- lude them into continuing to follow capitalist business methods and poli- ticians. The panacea of Brookhart for the economic ills of the exploited farm- ers is co-operation. His particular brand of co-operation is similar to that emasculated form that employs modern capitalist business methods and is run by high priced “experts” like Sapiro, who seek to outdo the capitalists in the practice of sharp business acumen and exploitation. His Pet Soheme. Brookhart’s pet scheme is to have Congress appropriate $204,000,000 to be used in starting: “A farmers’ and laborers’ co-operative national re- serve and banking system.” The money is to be drawn from the profits made by the United States Grain Corporation and from the sur- plus of the Federal Reserve banks. “And to give proportionate represent- ation to farmers and laborers on all Federal Reserve Boards.” This kind of bunk peddled by Brookhart has done more to confuse the minds of the poor farmers and workers of his native state Iowa, than all the propaganda of the railroads, ‘trusts and other reactionary infiu- ences. How much of a friend of la- bor Brookhart happens to be, can be Judged by his action on last Labor Day, when he refused to speak at Springfield, Ill, because a genuine radical like Alexander Howat was to appear on the same platform to ad- dress the large gathering of miners and their families. Expose Fake “Co-ops.” William Z. Foster will speak in two cities in Iowa, Des Moines and Sioux City. The Workers Party candidate for president, will expose Brookhart’s fake co-operation an dtell his aud- iences of the real workers and farmer co-operation as practiced in Russia under the Soviet Workers and Farm- ers Government. Both Brookhart and Foster have been in Russia— Foster twice and Brookhart marveled at the tremendu- ous co-operatives of the Russians, but all he learned was to prostitute the name of the co-operative idea to serve the best interests of the capitalist system. Foster returned from Russia, a Communist, a chanipion of the Com- munist International and a real fight- er against capitalism. Foster will tell the workers and farmers of Iowa of the Russian system of co-operation and denounce all such false friends of the working masses—as Brook- hart. FURNISHED ROOMS, APARTMENTS AND BUNGALOWS. REDS COMING TO WASHINGTON, D.C. Furnished Rooms, $10 to $25 a Month. Apartments, $25 to $60 a Month. Bungalows, $48 to $75 a Month. Mrs. Bateler, 32 G Street, S. W. ashington, D. C. Improve Your Property Damaged Bulldings Restored »LOANS TO IMPROVE New Floors, Fronts, Sheiving MID-CITY CARPENTER SHOP $8 & Irving Ave, Besley THE DAILY WORKER A Glance a By C. E. RU FoR some time the National tri st organizers and sent to the ganization by the District Organizers. tion of how efficiently our party is fun resented by reports for the month of duty for several months. trict Organizers who are charged wi National Organization. In connection with the activities of the District Organizers, it is also in- teresting to note a fact which does not appear in the table. Quite a num- ber of District Organizers send their reports to the National Office with- out totalling the number of new mem- bers or the total members on the rolls or the total members who paid dues for the month. In other words, these District Organizers have not suffici- ent interest in learning the facts | about the standing of the membership in their districts to add up a column of figures which will enlighten them on this point and give them material for agitation and work to improve their District Organization. Turning from the Districts to the branches, the efficiency in performing this simple task drops very low in- deed. There are on the records in the National Office some 1200 func- tionioning branches. The reports of the -District Organizers show 910 branches in the Districts reported. Out of these 910 branches, all of which receive report cards from the District Organizers, only 379, or 43 per cent, returned the cards to the District Office. What shall we say about a party organization engaged in a revolution- ary struggle in which only 43 per cent of the secretaries are interested enough in the party work to perform such a slight routine task as to fill out five or six questions on a report card requiring, all told, ten minutes’ time. Certainly we have a long way to go before we can really call ourselves a Communist Party when such lack of discipline exists in our ranks. Leaving the sphere of the Branch Secretaries and turning to the mem- bers of our party, we find just as bad a condition. The 379 branches report- ing stated they had on their rolls a total of 11,039 members. Of these 11,039, there were 6,912 in good stand- ing, or only 62 per cent. One out of every three members in the party had not paid dues for at least one month. The. Total Members on our Rolls. The figures in this table. indicate that there are on the party rolls at | tr the present time between 27,500 and 30,000 members. The fact that only two out of three of these members are paying party dues is also attest- ed by the reports of dues stamps sales and payments for stamps receiv: ed by the National Organization. The highest figure which dues stamps sales have reached for any month has been 19,000 which has left from eight to ten thousand members with dues | s. unpaid, One fact explaining the discrepancy between members on our rolls and those paying dues has been brought to light recently in the practice in some branches of receipting mem- bers’ stamp books in place of past-| w. ing stamps in these books. To root out this practice, the Central Execu- tive Committee has adopted the rule that any member permitting his stamp book to be receipted in any other way than by putting a stamp therein, thereby sacrifices his mem- bership in the party and shall be ex- pelled together with any secretary guilty of this practice. We must improve the conditions shown by this table of reports and dues payments. District Organizers who fail to comply with the elemen- tary duty of learning how their 4883 || ranches are functioning in the mat- Executive Secretary, Workers Party from the branches and district organizations a record of the number of members on the rolls of the party and the percentage of these who are paying dues regularly each month. For this purpose regular monthly report cards have been sent to all branches of the party and these have been tabulated by the dis- The following table is produced {fom the report sent to the National ‘Or- | every branch secretary should carefully study the table in order to find out | where he stands in performing the detail work of the party thru which alone 40) an efficient organization can be built e e 2 5 53 4 a eS 4 ‘ 3 2 mie = 3 B eo 8 Q Pr es F x June 95 2 June 125 4 3 June 58 4 Feb. 44 5 June 115 6 June 56 7 June 44 8 June 124 5 9 June 101 2 10 May 60 $ 12 June 19 13 June 16 14 15 March 40 Agriculrl, June 13 910 37 The first fact which came to the attention in examining this table, is that out of the fourteen District Divisions of the Party, only eleven are rep- ports for that month and some of the Districts, as shown by the month for which last report is indicated in the table have been behind in performing this It is certainly not a very hopeful sign if the Dis- and charged with keeping track of the party members in the District and remedying the defects of the party organization, do not send reports to the t Our Party THENBERG, Office has been trying to secure national organization. It throws a strong light on the ques- ctioning. Every District Organizer and up. This is the table in question: lis reporting , New members Total members Son ro =, Total members paid to date. Es 1,548 & om © Peasy - 2S N26 & +S Bfor month 1 5 bro 62 to 9 345 11,039 6,912 June. Three districts did not send re- th directing the work in the Districts + ter of paying dues and making reports cannot be expected to be efficient in carrying out political policies. Branch- es which do not send in report cards cannot be expected to distribute liter- ature and carry on agitation for mem- bers and readers for our papers. | Members who do not pay their dues are not good Communist workers. Every party worker should take pride in the prompt and efficient per- formance of his part of the party work. It is only when the whole party machinery consists of comrades who take their work earnestly and perform their duties promptly that our party will be able to mobilize its full strength for the work it is en- gaged in. No one can be proud of inefficient work such as these tables show. BRANCH MEETINGS. @ Tuesday, sua 26. Ukrainian No. 1—1532 West Chicago Avenue. N. W. English—2733 Hirsch Blvd. hers Park English—4021 Drake Ave. my Meeting of all District Campaign Man- agers—Room 307, 166 West Washington Street. Wednesday, Aug! 27. Membership Meet! or — Workers Ly- ceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., 8 p. m. Re a August 28. Rolerged Cit: xecutive Committee— Room 307, 166 West Washington Street. Eleventh Ward Italian—2439 South Oakley Blvd. Scandinavian Karl Marx—2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Scandinavian, West Side—Zeich’s Hall, Corner Cicero and Superior. Scandinavian, Lake View—3206 North Wilton Street. August 28. Friday, 5 Scandinavian, South Chicago—641 East sen Street. 8 Workers Lyceum, STREET MEETINGS IN CHICAGO. Membership Meeting— 8 m. Cicero peakers, # 1, J. wards. Girard and Wabansia—Auspices, North West Lithuanian Branch; speakers, G. Maurer, also Lithuanian and Polish: Kedafe and Ogden (or 16th)—Auspices, D. P. gmat 8S. Y. W. L.; speaker, J. MeCart 7A e . BE. Early. 83rd and Halsted Sts.—Auspices, Lithu- anian Branch in 4th Congressional Dis- jpeakers, Sam Hammersmark, V. elt and | Marshfleld—Auspices, Luxemburg Y. W. L.; speakers, Harrison George, B. Garver. DATES OF THE CHICAGO AFFAIRS OF THE WORKERS PARTY. Party units and friendly organizations do not set conflicting dates, Monday, Sept. 1—T. U. E. L. Picnic, Al- tenhein Grove, 7-~International ‘Youth Hall. Sunday, Sept. Day, Northwest, Sugé % Oct. 12—Foster-Gitlow Campaign ee Ashland Auditorium (after- Oct. 18—John Reed Memorial eting. Saturday, Oct, 25—Freiheit Ball, Ashland Auditorium, Friday, Nov. 7—Seventh Anniversary Russian Revolution, Ashiand Audi- orlu Saturday, Nov. 15—Young Workers nenneee Ball. jov. ea phe agg and Labor Defense Council! re ednesday, Dec. 31—T, U. E. L. Dance, End Hali. » Jan. 21— Lenin Memorial Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 28—Red Revel. EDUCATE YOURSELF FOR THE STRUGGLE Class in English (for foreign-born workers) begins September 10; tuiton fee $2.00. Class in Trade Union Tactics be- gins September 11; tuiton tee $1.00. Enroll Now at Local Chicago Of- fice, 166 W. Washington S| (Phone State 7985) CHICAGO PARTY ACTIVITIES WORKERS PARTY OPEN AIR RALLIES ARE SUCCESSFUL Communists Refuse to Get Permits More and more workers in Chicago are being reached every week.with the Communist message at our open air street meetings. Last week twen- ty five meetings of the Workers Party were held and this week the same number is scheduled. Typical are three recent meetings held by speakers Gomez, Early and Shacht- man who report attendances of two to four hundreds. All the reports show the DAILY WORKER and pamphlets being sold. But there is still need for more at- tention to this end of the work and a good assortment of’ literature should always be on hand. At every street meeting there should always be. elec- tion platform leaflets distributed and signatures solicited on the petitions to put our candidates on the ballot. The party program, constitution, the Fos- ter pamphlets (especially the new one on Russia) should always be on sale together with the party and Y, W. L. publications. Speak Without Permits. It has been our policy not to es- tablish the precedent by asking police department for permission to speak. There was no police interference Thursday evening at 62nd and Halsted in spite of previous threats of the Englewood Business Men’s Associa- tion’s manager to have our speakers arrested. In Cicero a large and order- ly meeting was held Thursday at 14th St. and 51st Ave. in spite of the threat of the chief of police that if our meet- ings were not discontinued on his “main street” he would send down a big brass band to play on the opposite corner and drive our crowd away (Some band!) A new case of police persecution came up Friday night when a meeting at Lawrence and Sawyer was broken up after Peter Herd had spoken about an hour. Our comrades were told to get a permit. This is not our policy. Next Friday night a meeting will be held on the same corner and provi- sions will be made to bail out any comrades who are pinched so that we can appeal the case, Comrades of all W. P. and Y. W. L. branches are asked to rally to the support of the street meetings. Communists Halt Dawes Report. BERLIN, August 25.— Communists today again preventéd debate on the Dawes-Morgan reparations plan and the London settlement which Chancel- lor Marx intends to shove down the throats’ of the German workers. Marx spoke but could not be heard because of the Communists. Election Campaign Notes. There will be a meeting of cam- paign managers and candidates of congressional districts, Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 8 p. m., in Room 307, 166 West Washington St. ‘We must have a review of the cam- paign in order to check up on the progress made and the work that re- mains to be done in order to put the Workers Party candidates on the bal- lot. Please bring in all the petitions with signatures on them and be pre- pared to make a thorough report on the work done in your district cover- ing the following. points: 1. Organization of your district. 2. Number of signatures obtained to date. 3. Street meetings. 4. Campaign leaflets. 5. “Sign Here” posters. 6. DAILY WORKER. 7. House to house canvas, Sept. 15th is the final date for all the petitions to be in. We have only three weeks in which to put the Workers Party candidates on the bal- lot. This very important work must take precedence overy anything else. Be sure to attend the meeting Tues- day evening, August 26th—Martin Abern, City Secretary, Local Chicago, Ida McCarthy, Secretary, Campaign Committee. DAILY WORKER. Geta for t Local Chicago MEMBERSHIP MEETING Wednesday, August 27, 8 p, m. at WORKERS LYCEUM, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Review of Elections Campaign, and the Daily Worker and Membership Driv Speakers: Earl R. Browder, Editor “Labor Herald”; Joseph Manley, National Campaign Manager. All Workers Party and Young What are you doing to put the Party candidates on the ballot? Have you gotten a new subscriber to THE DAILY WORKER? Did you bring in another member to the Party? ——_—__— SHOW DOCUMENTS TO PROVE THAT INDIAN PEOPLE OBJECT TO DRUG PEDDLING BY BRITISH EMPIRE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—British propaganda that the people of India do not object to the opium business is officially disproved in documents shown the Federated Press by Taraknath Das. Das suggests that the league of nations assembly which opens in Geneva, Switzerland, in September take up again the opium question. The British successfully squelched action last year when the American pressure had brought up the unpleasant topic. British Lie. “It has been often asserted by the supporters of the British opium monopoly in India,” says Das, “that the people including Gandhi do not complain. In past meet- ings of the league of nations when- ever the opium question was dis- cussed the representatives of British Indian government held that opium- eating by the people of India is legiti- mate because ‘it does not do any harm to them.’ “The people of India regard the Brit- ish Indian government’s opium policy as injurious to the best interest of the people, The All-Indian Congress com- mittee in its recent sitting at Ahme- dabad, in which all important Indian Nationalist leaders participated, adopted a resolution condemning the British government. é Indian Congress Objects. “The resolution stated that in the opinion ef the All-India Congress com- mittee the opium policy of the gov- ernment of India is altogether con- trary to the moral welfare of the peo- ple of India. The Congress commit- tee is further of opinion that the peo- ple of India would welcome the ‘total abolution of the opium traffic for the purpose of revenue and tw also of the opinion that the production of opium is out of all proportion to the medi- cinal requirements of India. Motive Money, as Usual. “India is the largest producer of opium in the world. British India products 1,450 tons of opium out of 3’,000 tons that are the world’s an- nual output. The principal motive of the government monopoly in India in encouraging production is revenue. The people of India object but have no power to stop this crime because they have no final control over the fi- nance of the country.” KLAN ON TRIAL IN TEXAS POLLS LAST SATURDAY Foes of Hooded Order Expected to Win (Special to The Daily Worker) « FORT WORTH, Tex., August 25.— Mrs. Miriam E. Ferguson, woman can- didate for governor of Texas, has won the victory over her Ku Klux Klan opponent in the “run-off” primary last Saturday. In the first primary neither candidate secured a majority of the votes cast, so another contest was staged between the two polling the largest number of votes, Mrs. Ferguson and Judge Felix D. Robert- son, her Klan opponent, both are democrats. The republican party in Texas consists of a letterhead and a “hardy annual” candidate for goy- ernor. ‘To Fumigate Spouse. Mrs. Ferguson entered the contest originally to clear her husband's repu- tation of the stain of impeachment. Her campaign speeches have been con- fined to a simple “Thank you” to the monster crows that come out to see her. Her press statements tell how hard she worked preserving her sum- mer fruit, how hot it was in her kitchen, etc. This went well in Texas. Mr. Ferguson, however, is one of the best spellbinders in the state and does the talking for his wife. In case Mrs. Ferguson is elected her husband will probably continue to do the talking and most of the acting. Birds of a Feather. Things look bad for the Kluxers at the moment, They are pouring thou- sands of dollars into the state. It should not be assumed that the ele- ment opposed to the Kluxers are any more favorable to labor than the Klan leaders. Among the former is the notorious Albert Burleson, former Postmaster General under Woodrow Wilson. He is one of the strongest opponents of the Klan in Texas, Withdraw Injunction for Failing to Sew Clothes in Strike (By The Federated Press) BOSTON, Aug. 25.—The old slogan that “Injunctions Don’t Sew Clothes was shown here when Peavey Bros. company, manufacturers of men's ready madé clothing, at 3 Bennington street, called for the dismissal of their injunction restraining the Amalgamat- ed Clothing Workers Union trom pick- eting the shop. The firm had just signed an agreement with the union in order to get its plant running again. Settling at the same time was the firm of B. R. Smith & Co., which held out @ few days longer than other firms during the week's strike. Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edition, dated Saturday, Aug, 30, + COOLIDGE ENDORSES DAWES? DEFENSE OF THE KU KLUX KLAN (Special to The Daily Worker) PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 25.— The endorsement given to the Ku Klux Klan by Charles Gates Dawes, vice- presidential nominee of the Re- publican party, expresses the stand on the question that is held by’ President Coolidge, according to a spokesman for Silent Cal who made that announcement today. Coolidge was challenged by Davis, Democratic nominee, to declare his position on the Ku Klux Klan ques- tion and the President is letting the impression to go out that Dawes has outlined the Coolidge viewpoint as well as his own. WORKERS SOLVE THEIR PROBLEM OF WHERE TO EAT Own Good Food Shops; Work for Russia By M. A. SKROMNY. About a year ago a group of dis- satisfied boarders at some private houses and patronizers of cheap res- taurants and incidentally all members of the Society for Technical Aid met to discuss the possibility of organ- izing their own food shop where they would at least be out of danger of ptomaine poisoning. A committee was appointed to rent a place and $50 Was the initial payment decided upon for each member of the co- operative, and this money to be paid in partial payments. Thus the First Russian Co-opera- tive Restaurant was organized at 1734 West Division Street, Chicago. The membership was not limited to Russians, nor to members of the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia. Anyone in agreement with the principles of the organization was eligible to membership and the organization grew rapidly. The profits of this restaurant was to go for educational purposes. Tho the prices for food were cheaper than in other restaurants and the food surely fresh and pure profits began to accumulate. Soon the treasury showed a balance of $2,000 clear profit which is being used to good advantage. In addition to starting another restaurant, the Second Russian Co- operative, at 760 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, the co-operative coyered the entire deficit for the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia dur- ing the summer months when the society has practically no income. It also donated $100 to the Federation of Russian Children’s Schools of Chicago. The co-operative is arrang- ing a ball for the benefit of the Rus- sian Children’s School. Half of the proceeds from the ball will go for a library for the co-operative. New York, Attention! ADAYS The First Great Film from Soviet Russia “THE BEAUTY AND THE BOLSHEVIK” Produced by Proletkino (Moscow) In co-operation with the Red Army A Fascinating Romance of a Red Commander and the Daughter » of a Czarist Priest Aug. 22-29, Inclusive At the LENOX THEATRE 111th Street and Lenox Ave. Continuous Performance from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p. m. ADMISSION ~ ~ ~ « = 50c Tuesday, August 26, 1924 SESE U.S, BANKERS TO RUN EUROPE THRU THE DAWES PLAN Herriot Begs Chamber for Co-operation PARIS, Aug. 25,—“The London con- ference was only a beginning, but it is the beginning of real peace in Euorpe,” Premier Herriot declared in the chamber of deputies. “You will observe,” continued the premier, ‘we have given a large part of the work to Americans in our con- trol organization. We have done so intentionally. The regime upon which the Dawes plan depends must en- dure.” Must Accépt Dawes Plan. Premier Herriot appealed to the chamber to ratify the London agree- ment, saying: “If you accept the Dawes plan you cannot refuse to grant the co-opera- tion which the experts declare is in- despensable.” Premier Herriot said the choice was between re-establishment of inter- Allied entente and the maintenance of isolated action. ‘4 have chosen. Now Parliament can chose in its turn,” declared the premier. “When they demand that Germany pay an incontestable debt of which we are the victims, we can only rejoice to see associated with us in carrying out the plan the great American republic that was witness of our suffering and that has the neces- sary authority to supervise execution of the program which was largely due to American initiative. “Introduction of arbitration modi- fies and restrains the inter-Allied reparations commission’s powers. But I have consulted legal experts who said a modification does not impair the Versailles treaty. Otherwise we never would have accepted.” NEW YORK CITY Party Activities OPEN AIR MEETINGS. Time, Place and Speakers. Thursday, August 28, 115th Street and Madison Ave—G. E. Powers. Friday, August 29. Jeffereson and E. Broadway—Harry Hartman. 10th St. and 2nd Ave.—W. W. Wein- stone. 106th St. and Madison Avenue—J. 8. Poyntz, 163rd St. and S. Blvd.—Rebecca Grecht and Simon Felshin. 138th Street and Brook Avenue—John Marshall. Grand and Roebling St., Brooklyn— I. Potash, B. Davidson. Stone and Pitkin—Joe ge, raham and Varet Sts., Brooklyn— Jewish speakers. 5th Ave. and 52nd Sts., Brooklyn— Winitsky, Undjus. 13th Ave. and 42nd St.—S. Darcy, 8. on, 25th St. and Mermaid ‘Ave., Coney Island—L. Landy and others. Saturday, August 30, 148th Street and Wills Ave.—Joe Pad- gug and Edward Martin. Brooklyn—Joe rand St. Extension, Brahdy and Levy. Stone and Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn— Charles Brower and Jack Stachel. HAVE YOU BEEN IN RUSSIA! Why not go there while on your vacation? 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