The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1924, Page 4

Page Four “RED NIGHTS” MAKE BIG HIT INN. Y. CITY Batteries of Speakers Cover Boroughs The New York Workers Party campaign is working up to a climax with a whirlwind series of Red Nights. These Red Nights consist of a chain of 58 meet- ings throut the principal prole- tarian sections of the city with a big central meeting in each section to wind up the evening. The Red Nights held in Wil- liamsburg and Harlem met with Startling success. The speakers at these meet- ings included Ben Levy, Ludwig Lore, Sam Nessin, J. S. Poyntz, Rose Pastor Stokes, Harry M. Winitzky and Harry M. Wicks. Thousands of workers have rallied to these gatherings. During the com- ing week the Red Nights |will be ar- ranged for the following places: Bronx, Friday, October 17, 138th St., corner St. Anns Ave., 138th St. corner Brook Ave., 136th St. corner Brook Ave., 149th St. corner Bergen Ave., 163rd St. corner Prospect Ave., 163rd St. corner Southern Boulevard, Wash- ington corner Claremont Ave., Mc- Kinley Square, 152nd St. corner Wales Ave., Intervale Ave. corner Wilkins Ave., Jennings corner Wilkins Ave. The Bronx speakers will be H. M. Wicks, J. Padgug, R. Grecht, Louis A. Baum, Rose Pastor Stokes, and H. M. Winitsky. Brownsville Meetings. On Saturday, Oct. 18, the Red Bri- gade will invade Brownsville. Red Night meetings will be held at Doug- las corner Pitkin Ave., St. Marks cor- ner Saratoga, Saratoga corner Sutter Ave., Sheffield corner Sutter Ave., Stone corner Blake Ave., Hinsdale cor- ner Sutter Ave. The speakers for these meetings will be A. Trachten- berg, F. Warshafsky, B. Lifshitz, Rose Pastor Stokes, H. M. Wicks, H. M. Winitsky. A grand wind-up meeting will be held at Stone and Pitkin Ave. Downtown Meetings. On Friday evening, Oct. 24, the field of operations will be the down- town section of Manhattan. Carl Brodsky, Ludwig Lore, Rose Pastor _ Stokes,’ R. Grecht, H. M. Winitzky, and Benjamin Lifshitz will be the principal speakers. Meetings will be held on Hester corner Clinton St., Norfolk corner Rivington St, Grand corner Norfolk St., Clinton corner East.Broadway and at Jefferson cor- ner Madison St., ending in one great gathering at Rutgers’ Square. East Side Meetings. To finish up the series of Red Nights, the Communist Shock Troops of speakers will enter the former so- cialist stronghold—the East Side. The speakers will be Carl Brodsky, L. Lore, R. P. Stokes, R. Grechty H. M. Winitzky and Ben Lifshitz. The fol- lowing corners will be covered: Hous- ton St. corner Second Ave., Second St. corner Second Ave., 7th St. corner Second Ave., 7th St. corner Avenue A, 5th St. corner Avenue B, 7th St. corner A¥enue C, 9th St. corner Ave- nue C, and Houston corner Clinton St. Watch for The Red Night in Your District! Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! Two hundred and fifty major campaign rallies if you'll help finance them. COUPON Good For -50c would RULE, they must COUPON Good For 50c The Central Executive Committee of the-Workers:-Party held a full meet- ing on.ctober 10 and 11 at which the following important decisions were adopted, Unemployment Campaign:—All par; ty units were instructed to take up) energetically and intensify the cam- paign against unemployment and to | proceed with the organization of un- employment councils in those sections of the country where the conditions of employment has grown so serious as to justify the organization of these councils. Reduction of Paid Party Workers: —After considering the financial re- port for the past two or three months, the Central. Executive Committee | adopted a motion to direct the organ- ization committee to make a review of the paid party workers in all de- | partments of the party work with the view of making a material reduction in the number of paid ‘workers em- ployed by the party after the elec- tion campaign. Report’ of the: Fifth Congress of the 4, Communist International. } After hearing the report of Comrades | William F. Dunne and J. Olgin, dele- gates to the Fifth Congress of the Communist International, the Central Executive Committee adopted the fol- lowing resolution: Having heard the reports of our delegates to the Fifth Congress of the C! I. and having acquainted ourselves with the resolutions and decisions of the Fifth Congress, the C.-E. C. of the W. P. declares: We are in, full agreement with the decisions of the congress which mark a determined and successful effort om the part of the‘C, I. to strictly adhere to the principles and tactics of Len- inism. We hail the Fifth Congress as a definite step toward the develop- ment of Communist principles, tac- tics and organization. 1. We welcome the clarification of the slogan of the “Workers’ and Farm- ers’ government” as a synonym of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The misuse of this slogan by the op- portunist right wing of the Commu- nist International which interpreted it as meaning a fitting of the Commu- nist parties into the bourgeois par- liamentary system and as co-operation there with social democracy, has been vigorously repudiated by the congress. 2. We subscribe to the decisions of the Fifth Congress on the United Front tactics as a means of agitation and of mobilizing the masses for the revolutionary class struggle. Experi- ences in America with the United Front tactics fully justify stand tak- en by the Fifth Congress: = United Front from above alone— never; United Front from below—always; United Front from below and aboye —Only under favorable conditions. 3. The slogan of bolshevizing the Communist Parties is especially ap- propriate for the Workers Party and will be carrief out by the C. E. C. of the Workers Party with vigor and de- termination. The comparative youth of the Workers Party and its language composition particularly demand strengthening it ideologically and structurally on the basis of Leninism. The reorganization of the Workers Party on the shop nuclei basis must be relentlessly carried out. The Work- ers Party endorses the demand of the Fifth Congress that Communists should remain in the conservative mass trade unions for the purpose of winning them over to the policy of class strug- gle. The C. E. C. of the W. P. is unanimous with the C. I. in its oppo- sition to desertion of class conscious workers from the ranks of thass un- ions however backward. The deci- sion of the Fifth Congress will strengthen the determination of the American Communists to stay within first READ. THE DAILY WORKER the ultra-reactionary American trade unions where the fight is particularly difficult and trying. 4, The Fifth Congress has shown that the Communist International is fast growing to be one World Commn- nist Party with a vigorous internation- al discipline. The stand of the con- gress toward the anti-disciplinarian tendencies of Souvarine and Hoeglund and others will draw the ranks of Communism together the world over and will strengthen the Communist International as one Communist Par- ty. The C. E. C, of the W. P. declares' that rigid discipline, international and national, is absolutely indispensable for the organized advance guard of the international proletariat. 5. The C. BE. C. of the W. P. accepts the decisions of the Communist In- ternational concerning the American problems and pledges its strongest ef- forts to put these decisions into op- eration. a. The development of the LaFol- lette movement has proven the cor- rectness of the C. I. in its stand against Third Party alliances. The W. P. is carrying on a» relentless struggle against the petty bourgeois LaFollette illusion and for the class struggle of the proletariat. b, The decision of the C. I. con- cerning the right wing Two and a Half International tendencies as manifested by Comrade Lore and those adhering to his point of view will considerably strengthen the efforts of the C. E. C. of the W. P. to conduct an ideological struggle against these tendencies and for the complete bolshevization of the par- ty. The C. E. C. will instruct all party editors, propagandists and other responsible party workers to expose these tendencies and to fight against them wherever they mani- fest themselves. Statement by Comrade Cannon:— In connection with the report of the Fifth Congress and the decision of the C. I. on the American question, the C. E. C. accepted a statement by Comrade Cannon. Resolution on Comrade Cannon’s Statement. It is reported to the C. E. C. by the delegates who participated in the work of the C. I. commission on the American question that the criticism of Comrade Cannon in the statement of the C. I. was based on a report in the DAILY WORKER of a speech made by Comrade Cannon in defense of the March theses of the C. E. C. The C. E. C. accepts the statement of Comrade Cannon that the report in the DAILY WORKER was a garbled version of his speech and gives a dis- torted view of his opinions. The C. E. C. accepts the statement of Com- rade Cannon that a correct statement of his opinion on the point in ques- tion is*contained in the following sec- tion of the March theses of the C. E. C. written by Foster, Cannon and Bit- telman and which constituted the sub- ject of his speech: ~ Our attitude towards the split from the old parties:—The movement for the split of the working and farming classes and the petty bourgeoisie away from the republican and demo- cratic parties, which are dominated and controlled by big capital is creat- ing a fundamental change in Ameri- can politics. It cannot solve any of the problems of the workers and ex- ploited farmers nor bring any relief to them. Nevertheless, this split great- ly accelerates the development of the class struggle and must be support- ed by the Workers Party for the fol- lowing reasons. 1. It represents a revolt of work- ers, farmers and lower layers of the owning class against the political domination of the big capitalists. It breaks the capitalist ranks and. weak- ens their leadership over millions of count his attitude toward the party, SSS BOOK BARGAINS teaming nme nt cuenta een rh A DECISIONS OF WORKERS PARTY CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE workers, farmers and small business and professional elements who have hitherto followed’ them. It makes a suc- cessful united attack upon the work- ers more difficult. 2. Millions of ,workers and poor farmers are following this split move- ment away from the old parties. The split breaks the lethargy of these masses, sets them into motion and renders them highly susceptible to propaganda for a class party. The split of these working and farming masses from the capitalist parties, which they have followed up till now, if properly utilized, can be made the starting point for the development of @ great class farmer-labor party. + 3. It is not a matter of indiffer- ence to the Communists as to who misleads~and . betrays the working masses. The latter are already dis- illusioned about. the old capitalist par- ties but they still look with faith to the third party movement. The be- trayal of their interests by the La- Follette group, because of the greater promises it makes and the higher hopes it inspires, will have the most profound effect on the masses and will eventually force them to turn to a class party of their own and to- ward the leadership of the Commu- nists. 4. This split will shatter the A. F. of L., bureaucracy which stands to- day as the most formidable obstacle to ‘the revolutionary development of the trade unions. The A. F. of L. bu- reaucracy is tied to the capitalist par- ties. The split from the old parties will tear loose great masses of organ- ized workers from their allegiance to the capitalist parties and their own leadérs who are*agents of these par- ties. It will upset the balance of pow- er in the A. F, of L. and open. the door for a general development of the trade unions in all directions. The C. E. ©, and not Comrade Can- non alone, adopted this viewpoint. At no time was the question ever raised in the C. E. C. of a difference of opin- ion on the part of Comrade Cannon from the opinion of the C. E. C. on this point. Wilga Case:—The C. E. C. consi- dered the report of a sub-committee on the case of Feodor Wilga who war expelled from the Workers Party ir June, 1923, and who has asked to re. open this case. The following re- port was adopted by the committee: Report on the Case of Comrade Wilga A special committee of the C. E. C. had conducted_a thoro investigation of the charges against Feodor Wilga upon which he was expelled from the party in June, °1923, and from which he appealed for a re-trial. After hear- ing a large number of witnesses and examining all documents submitted, the special committee came .to the following conclusiohs which have been adopted as the decision of the c. BC. mei 1. Comrade Wilga was animated by a false view of his obligations to the party as a party member and a false view of the relations between the Soviet government, the Techni-|4s manifested in his most recent ac- cal Aid Society and the party. This} tions and on his conduct before the fundamental misconception led Com-| special committee; the C. E.:C. de- rade Wilga to a conflict with the party | cides to reinstate him in the party on in the course of which he committed | probation for the period of six months. repeated and systematic violations of } j¢ during that period he participates party discipline. These violations | actively in the party work, observes were fully established at the hearings | qiscipline and shows the proper at- of the special committee'of the C. E. titude of a party member he is then C., and action of the C. E. C. in ex-}to pe given full rights. pjelling him from the party on this ground was fully jlistified under th’ circumstances. 2. While Comrade Wilga, in the conduct of his office as secretary of the Technical Aid Society committed a number of indiseretions in his rela- tions with representatives of private firms from which inferences of im- proper conduct might be drawn, how- ever, the committee after investiga- tion, found no proof of any dishonest actions on his part. 3. In view of the fact that Com- rade Wilga, as a justified result of his conduct, had been out of the party for more thafi a year, and taking into ac- COUPON Good For 50c “Knowledge is Power” and “He who reads, rules,” are truisms the world over—therefore, we say:\If ha ae Here Is a Book Store for Workers— ’ ‘ i Where the best literature on modern social problems and tendencies can be had—where the entire field of working-class endeavor is represented in philosophy, economics, psychology, history and fiction. 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More than this, it has resulted in a better understanding and development of discipline im our party. A workers’ organization that-can move forward in complete unison on the basis of a decision made by the organization center, constitutes a power which will increase in direct ratio to every such united onslaught that is made against the gold-soaked imperialists, The distribution of three million pieces of literature is not the big- gest task we will ever have to perform. The work ahead of us is so tremendous and significant ‘that a mere distribution of literature falls among the easy thing we must do. However, it is not the performance of the task that needs comment. IT IS THE MOBILIZATION OF EVERY PARTY BRANCH AND EVERY PARTY MEMBER TO PERFORM THE TASK THAT IS THE IMPORTANT POINT, This week will tell how consclous of their membership in a Com- munist party our members are and how conscious of their importance as party officials are our branch secretaries, From Chicago we already have the news that every branch was called upon to meet during the morning of October 12. From New York we have also heard. There the city committee has taken the mobiliza- tion of all branches in hand. All orders for Red Week will be sent thru the city committee to the district office and then forwarded to the na- tional office. Many requests for additional post cards with which to call branch meetings have been received. MANY BRANCHES MEET’THIS WEEK. Branches which for physical reasons could hot meet upon October 12 are to meet this week to take part in the distribution of three million pieces of literature during Red Week, Members who have not been reached by their branch and sympathizers desiring to be part of this nation-wide action for a final literature broadside against the Coolidge and Davis pollution and the LaFollette illusion should send thelr fifty cents to the national office of the Workers Party today. All orders for literature must reach headquarters by Monday, Oct. 20. For branches that are to meet this week we repeat the six points which form the basis of the election literature distribution campaign. 1. Every branch must call a special meeting of all its members before Oct. 20. 2. The only order of business shall be FULL PARTICIPATION IN RED WEEK for the distribution of three million pieces of literature. 3. Every branch member shall give fifty cents to the branch secre- tary for his literature unit. 4. The branch secretary will order as many literature units as have been subscribed for by the branch members and is to place the order with headquarters before Oct. 20. 5. The national office will ship the literature units ordered to des- tinations so that they will reach the branches by Oct. 26. 6. Every party member will take part in the distribution of three million pieces of election campaign literature during the week of Oct. 26 to Nov. 2. The literature unit consists of the following kinds and amounts of printed matter:” 100 Campaign Leaflets 10 2 Campaign Pamphlets AS 25 Campaign Stickers 5 10 DAILY WORKERS . 20 137 Pieces in unit... .. 50 Cents EVERY PARTY MEMBER ON THE JOB. WE WANT NO LAG- GARDS. WE WANT NO HESITATION. WE DESIRE A WILLING AND ANXJOUS SPIRIT IN CARRYING OUT THIS IMMENSE TASK OF DISTRIBUTING THREE MILLION PIECES OF LITERATURE DURING RED WEEK, OCTOBER 26 TO NOVEMBER 2. IT IS ONLY ‘THIS SPIRIT THAT WILL CARRY US TO VICTORY IN THIS STRUGGLE FOR A SUPREME PROLETARIAT. NEW YORK CITY OPEN AIR MEETINGS Thursday, Oct. 16. C. Brodsky, Siegle, in Jewish. Rutgers speaker. «4 The special committee found that all documents considered in the first trial of Comrade Wilga were Benuine and fully authenticated and repudiated any charge or suggestion that the investigating committee of the C, E. C. which conducted the first trial of Wilga resorted to improper methods. M- Work Among Women:—T had: in- tended to call the C. E. C. for a con- siderable time in regard to the ques- tion of policies to be carried out in conducting Work among women. On this question the C. E. C. adopted the following resolution: 1. That the political work among the working class women be carried on and in the name of the Workers Party organization. 2. That the Woman’s Council be transformed into the Woman's Depart- ment of the party. ' 3. That all new campaigns among women be started in the name of the Workers Party after the approval of the respective party units. | 4, That we establish a Woman's Department“in every party unit to) work under the supervision of a spe- cial Woman's Sub-Committee of the 1c: E. Cc, 5: The Woman’s Department shall carry out systematic’ United Front Campaigns with other working class women’s organizations on specific con- crete issues. . Party Press—Tiie C. E. C. adopted as a statement and referred to the political committee a resolution deal- ing with the control of the party press, which declares for energetic ac- tion to establish more definite control over party publications by the C, BE. C. 86 as to prevent non-Communist viewpoints from creeping into party papers both in the news and editori d sing ide of the publication: arty Convention:—The ©. E. C, horized a request to the Commu- nist International for permission ‘to hold an annual convention of the Workers Party sometime during the month of January. Definite decision on the question of the convention will be made at a meeting of the, C. E. C. to be held immediately after elec- Friday, Oct. 17. Oblans and Jewish speak Pitkin and Stone Ay Bro —Janny Warshofsky, Trachtenberg. Saturday, Oct. 18. and Fifth Avenue—Dr. 110th St. Daily. a union basis Typographical Union 17. rooms. more pages on Sunda‘ stock. The vi shops fighter for the middle class. possible to place tori The As_ rev LaFollette, by ferent U: yment— C, EB. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary. Workers Subscribe for “Your D: the DAILY 1118 Washington Blvd. WORKER. rc ct meer SNR RNR nnn PARTY ACTIVITIES Washington and Claremont Parkway— Square—Pollack and Jewish 110th St. and Fifth Ave.—J. S. Poyntz, ywnsville A. Markoff, N. Wilkes and Jewish speaker. Report Union Shop New Orleans NEW ORLEANS.—Reports that a morning daily is to be stagted in New Orleans with its composing room on is interesting to Ten years ago the three daily papers locked out their union printers, and since that time have run open shop composing > It_is said the new publication} will be a 12-page daily, with 36 or employing union men ‘exclusively. Five hundred thousand dollars has been pledged on Stir the Shops! best place to carry on a working class campaign is in the and factories where the workers gather to earn their living. It is there that minds are open to the measures, parties and candidates that stand for concrete solutions of the problems of bread and butter facing the working class. it is in the shops that the workers will see most clearly, for example, the difference between Foster, the union ofganizer and fighter for the workers, and LaFollette, the lawyer and (Editorial Daily Worker.) THE ABOVE “HITS THE NAIL” on’ the head. be added to that. It’s up to you reader, to do everything physically . THESE PAMPHLETS in the hands of the workers you work together with in shops and fac Sell them everywhere. Now is the time. LaFollette Ilusion— in- an Analysis of the Political Role of Senator Jay Lovestone. Single copy. . * A Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign— By Alexander Bittelman. Questions and answers, how the dit. parties view the conditions affecting the working class. It’s a gem. No worker should go to the polls this year without first reading this pamphiet..... ‘Why It Occurs and How to Fight It, by Earl R, Browdor. This — pamphlet deals with the most important issue before the work- LITERATURE DEPARTMENT Workers Party of America Wednesday, October 15, 1924 NEGROW OPEN AIR MEET Communist Hits Back- to- ‘ovement Declaring that the problems and interests” of the “Negro |workers were identical” with |those of the white workers, and that the idea of a Negro pro- mised land .and.sanctuary in Africa .was.-a vicious chimera, “Bob” Minor.received an in- spiring ovation. from a large crowd of colored-workers’ that gathered at the Workers Party open air meeting-at-30th and State Streets. Comrade™Minor brought with him to the meeting a large map of the African continent which he-put to good use in exploding the Garvey panacea of a whole- sale-Negro exodus to Africa. sweat Workers Must Unite. In simple, cogent terms, Minor brot home to his attentive audience the fact that Africa could only be wrested from the hands of the imperialists thru the united action of the world- wide proletariat under the leadership of the Communist International. Minor exposed the Firestone Rub: ber deal by which thousands of Li- berian workers, as well as tremendous natural resources will come under the control of American capital. Roars of approval greeted Minor’s ringing declaration that Negroes must look for happiness neither in Liberia or in heaven, but right here in Ameri- ca. Touching on the race problem in thig country, the speaker pointed out that the capitalists deliberately foment race hatred in order to pit one section of the working class against the other, and thus exploit both the more easily. In dealing with the issues of Jim Crowe schools, segregated living dis- tricts, and the many social and eco- nomic discriminations against the Ne- gro, Comrade Minor was accorded rapt attention and frequent applause. Time and again workers in the crowd shouted agreement and approval. Explain Role of Workers Party.’ At the close of his talk, Comrade Minor dealt with the role of the Workers Party*on® the ‘political and economic field—-particularly its fight on the color line in the unions—and appealed to the assembled workers to join their brothers under the Commu- nist banner in the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the es- tablishment of the Workers’ Republic: In addition to Comrade Minor, Gor- don Owens and Paul Cline spoke. Cline dealt with the problems of un- employment and war and held forth on, the box till 12 o’clock with an audi- ence that remained clear thru to the finish with undiminished interest. A the close of the meeting Comrade Clifle announced the date and place of the next meeting of the South Side branch of the Workers Party and asked those who planned to attend to raise their hands, Approximately two score responded. Distribute the DAILY WORKER. When he had finished, * Comrade Cline was surrounded !by an enthusi- astic group of men who insisted on shaking his hand. Many of them ex: pressed their intention of joining the party. Five hundred copies of the Special Chicago Campaign edition were distributed. = eee 2. Open Air Meetings in Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 15. 32nd and Halsted—Auspices of Lithu- anian branches. Good speakers. Thursday, Oct. 16, 47th and Ashland—Auspices of Polish branch. Speakers: D, HE. Earley and Polish comrade. Roosevelt and Marshfield—Auspices of Y. W. L. ich. - Good speakers, Nothing could 156 y Chicago, 1. |