The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1924, Page 4

Page Four ‘ ANNIVERSARY OF MUSSOLINI RULE SEES IT TOTTER 15,000 New Members : . in Communist Party (Special to the Daily Worker) ROME, Oct. 27,—The cele- bration aranged by the Musso- lini government to commemo- | rate the march of the Fascisti| on Rome two years ago has| been boycotted by every labor | body in Italy. | The four-day legal holiday | proclaimed by the Fascisti be- | gan yesterday with furious at-| tacks on the blackshirt govern- ment by workingmen all over| the country. Workers Are Defiant. Italian labor promises to make the anniversary of the march on Rome @ memorable day—for the proletariat. The contrast between the drunken orgy of glee last year and the bitter defiance of the reactionary govern- ment with which the workers greeted the opening day of the celebration this year shows how far the Italian working class has travelled on the goad to revolution. Call Huge Strikes. Instead of Fascist parades, huge strikes have been called in almost every city. Instead of Fascisti dem- onstrations by the militia in the) streets, pitched battles go on between workers and blackshirts. Instead of the Fascist emblem appears the red flag. The crippled veterans of the world ‘war, who have been used by the gov-| ernment to arouse “patriotic senti-| ment,” have this year refused to| participate in any way in the celebra- tion. A last year’s idol of the blackshirts, the blind war veteran Del Croix, has turned furiously against the Mus- solini regime. Del Croix’s Fascist ad- dress at the celebration last year so pleased the government that it or-| dered the speech printed and plas- tered on all public buildings. He Changes His Mind. “I shall make another address this year,” said Del Croix today. “But for what I am going to say this time Mus- solini will order me crucified.” Class Lines Grow Sharper. With the present celebration, the elass lines are being drawn more sharply than ever before. In Naples, ‘the Fascisti opened fire on a group of workers; wounding one, Esposito Raffaele. In Milan, the workers employed¢in the shops where the Caproni aero- plane is manufactured havé finally forced the bosses to grant a substan- tial increase in pay. The steel work- ers in the same city have also forced gains from their employers. Communist Appeal to Students. A manifesto launched by the Com- Munist Party urges students at the universities to group themselves to- gether in order to prepare to fight the Fascisti to the best advantage. Membership figures of the Commun- ist Party offer the most significant proof that working class sentiment in Italy is turning from the socialists as well as from the Fascisti. In two months alone—August and Septem- ber—the party gained 15,000 new members. Building trades group, Trade Union Hducational League, will meet Fri- October 14 and 20. The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party at its sessions October 14 and 20 adopted the follow; ing decisions. Negro Work. To instruct party units wherever possible to have Negro speakers ad- dress the party campaign meetings, | and urging that the party campaign literature be distributed among the Negro population and that whenever Negro speakers address party meet- ings, these meetings be advertised in the Negro papers. Authorizing a special pamphlet on the Negro question to be approved by the C. E. C. Educational Work in New York City. The following resolution was adopt- ed. Resolution on New York Workers’ School. The C. E. C. conceives the New York Workers’ School as a fighting | instrument for the bolshevization of the party. It must not be a neutral academy standing between various tendencies, but a weapon of the party in the struggle against all deviations from the line of the Communist In- ternational. It must consistently pro- mote an understanding of the princi- ples and tactics of the Communist In- ternational and take upon itself the task of permeating the party member- ship with the doctrines and spirit of Leninism. All subjects in its curricu- lum must be dealt with from a clearly defined and intransigent revolutionary standpoint. To this end the C. E. C. considers it necessary that the Educational Com- mittee of the C. E. C. shall exercise a close supervision of the curriculum and teaching personnel of the school |and regularly review all of its activi- ties. For the guidance of the District Educational Committee in carrying out this policy, the following general THE DAILY WORKER DECISIONS OF WORKERS PARTY CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1, The teaching personnel must consist of reliable, active party com- rades, who have demonstrated by their relations to the party and by thefr record of activity’ that they are themselves active and conscious fol- lowers of the Communist Internation- al and capable of imparting the living spirit of Leninism. The C. E. C. considers it undesir- able that the teaching staff should consist of either non-party members or of party members who take a pas- sive or scholastic attitude toward the problems of the party and the Com- munist International since such teach- ers would be incapable of developing and promoting a real, genuine Lenin- ist'ideology among the students. The District Executive Committee in charge of the school should again re- view the teaching staff from this standpoint. In order to bind the school more closely to the general work of the party it is desirable that the District Organizer shall be added to the com- mittee and that he shall actively par- ticipate in all of its administrative work. Yaung Workers’ League Controversy. The C. E. C. considered the contro- versy in the Y. W. L. over. instruc- tions issued by the N. E. C. of the Y. W. L. in connection with the 'Pater- son strike work of the New York Dis- trict of the Y. W. L. and arrived at the following decisions: 1. The N. E. C. was correct in in- sisting upon concrete and economic political demands by the Young Work- ers’ League in the Paterson strike. We must criticize, however, the gare- less wording of the N. E. C. letter to the District Organizer ‘of District No. 2.on the 23rd, specifically the phrase which read “the one on militarism and the Workers’ Republic are merely abstract and economic demands to be used in strikes” which phrase is open to. misinterpretation and misunder- provisions are laid down: standing as can be seen in the letter LaFollette in Action - and later the 110 per cent super- GOOD example of LaFolletteism | patriot himself, none other that Major in action can be found in what|LaGuardia, started to speak. happened at 111th St., and Lexington Comrade Poyntz again shouted a Ave., New York City, Monday evening,| challenge to debate, and received as Oct. 13. an answer, “No, I will not debate In that section of the city, (Hat) with you, You are sailing under false lem) the LaFollette-Socialist didate for congress is Major F. H. La Guardia, the present republican ‘con-) ,,5wer and continued to demand a gressman, who in days gone by was a rabid anti-socialist, pro-war jingo, who was so anxious to fight that he went baek to his home country Italy, long before America entered the war and helped King Victor Emanuel make the world safe for democracy. Today, he is a member of the American Leg- ion and is helping to make America safe for democracy—the LaFollette brand. His opponent, on the Workers Party ticket, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, sent him a challenge to debate by regis- tered mail which he never answered, and when hé was speaking about a week ago and Comrade Poyntz asked him why he does not debate, his private thugs and socialist fascisti tried to mob her. To get back to what I was refer- ing to, viz: LaFolletteism in action. At the above mentioned place and time the Workers Party was holding a open-air meeting at which the writer was the first speaker followed by Comrade Poyntz. After she had day, Oct. 31, 8 p. m. at Workers’ Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave., 2nd floor. Build- ing trades workers! Get there!! spoken a short time a rival meeting was started across the street by the LaFollette-Socialist-LaGuardia group TTT TTT TELL LLL Lo Fourth Congressional District MASS MEETING THURSDAY, OCT. 30th, 8 P. M. MILDA HALL, 3142 South Halsted Street Speakers: JOSEPH PODKULSKI Candidate for Congress in 4th District VICTOR ZOKAITIS and JOHN EDWARDS Recently returned from Soviet Russia COME AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS Workers (Communist) Party ca Ninth Congr SUBJECT: eee ssssssersrsrssesssesss, GORDON W. OWENS Workers (Communist) Party candidate for Congressman from the First Congressional J. W. JOHNSTONE didate for Congressman from the WILL SPEAK THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, AT 8 P. M. Community Center, 3201 S. Wabash Ave. THE NEGRO WORKER AND COMMUNISM Ausploes: Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago Admission Free istrict, and onal District. can-| colors.” The crowd did not like that for an | debate. | The socialist-fascisti got busy and tried to shove Comrade Poyntz off the platform, but she stood her ground and continued to hurl her challenge |supported by the majority of the crowd. At last, seeing that the only {thing he could do was to accept the challenge, LaGuardia said that Com- rade Poyntz should speak first aml that he would follow her. Comrade Poyntz started to speak, utes when several police automobiles would have to stop speaking. mobile on the way to the house with the majority of the crowd applauding and cheering her. house to press the charge. The only comment necessary is, that this is a good example of how the La- Follette gang act when it comes to a showdown. The counter-revolution- ary socialist party of America and the fascists’ methods of the LaGuar- dia followers are a good mixture and fit well together in the LaFollette Wood Turners Matison Men, Variety and back-knife operators, achine hands, Cabinet makers, Finishers and Gilders who are working on lamps. All above mentioned workers attend- ing this mass meeting will be ad- mitted to our union free of initiation 3420 W. Roosevelt Road, 3rd floor. By joining the Wood Workers’ Union of Chicago you are bettering your conditions. Ni and Morning to Might to eras tesla Write for Free “Eye Care” or “Eye Beauty® Book Marine Co., Dept. H. §.,9 B, Ohio St., Chicago from the D. B..C,.to the N. E..C. of September 11. 2, The leaflet issued by the D. B. C. also the Zam note to be‘ criticized on the ground that neither their con- tents nor the demands are sufficiently local in their nature, that they lack specific economic and political de- mands and give a false formulation for our slogans against capitalist mili- tarism. 8. The D. E. C. should be criticized for having continued the. controversy about the N. E. ©. letter of August 23, after the N. EB. ©. has explained the intent of the letter and the real policies of the N. E. C..in the Pater- son strike. Literature Publication. The C. E. C. authorized translation and publication of a collection of the works of Lenin, the pamphlet “Len- | in and Leninism” by Comrade Stahlin | and authorized Comrade M. J. Ol- | RED NIGHT ON RED EAST SIDE MAKES BiG HIT Tremendous Crowds at Each | Meeting By MARY RUBIN. (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—New York's east side witnessed one of the most: stirring series of meetings in the history of that' City. ‘Accompanied by flaming torches, tons of red literature, speeding automobiles, streaming gin to write two books and a pam- banners and squads of party wide-awake part of New York | phiet as follows: “Without a Boss—a|members, the Red Night was Study’ of a Russian Factory,” “The|Ccelebrated in the heart of the Russsian Communist Party—a Work- | former socialist territory. ing Class Organization,” and “The| Carl Brodsky, Ludwig Lore,. Sadi Communist International as the Cen-|Amter, George: Siskind, J. Brahdy, C. ter of the World Revolution.” Mitchell, M.. Hartmann, 8B. Sparer, Hungarian Section Convention. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, J. C. Oblans, N. but had only spoken about three min- with six policeman appeared and go- ing over to Comrade Poyntz said she All of a sudden we hear LaGuar- dia’s voice bellow out, “Arrest that woman!” and before you could count ten, the police had her in an auto- station LaGuardia apparently got cold feet as he did not appear in the station Organization Meeting!) | authorized the Hungarian section of the party to hold its national conven- tion December 4 and 5. Industrial Workers of the World. The C. E. C; authorized the send- ing of a letter to the convention of the | I. W. W. proposing a united front of | the Workers Party and the f. w. W. | for a struggle against criminal syndi- calist laws, for release of all political | and industrial prisoners. Y. W. L. Controversy. | The C. E. C. considered the discip- linary action taken by the N. E. C. of the Y. W. L. in the cases of com- rades who did not carry out certain | decisions of the N. E. C. of the Y. W. L. and approved for carrying into ef. fect in the party the following deci- siol : 1. To suspend for a period of six months, Morris Goldstein. 2. To suspend for a period of one month, Peter Herd. e | 3. ‘To publicly censure, Al Schaap. | +4. To expel Julius Jessmer. | By SYLVAN A.*POLLACK camp. The workers should be told in large numbers how thése “pro- gressives” act when they are caught in a corner. LaGuardia did not want to debate, but was forced to do so by the will of the crowd and by having his op- ponent arrested he had an easy way to crawl out of it. ; What will those workers who are supporting LaFollette have to say to these methods? Against LaFollette and his social- ist-fascist allies there stands the Workers Party with William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow! Against LaGuardia Poyntz the Communist! the fascist, Discuss Cooperative Banking NEW YORK.—Cooperative banking will be the subject one of the ses- sions of the Fourth Cooperative Con- gress to be held in New York Novem- ber 6, 7, and 8 at headquarters of the Cooperative League House, 167 West 12th St, > Vote Communist This Time: JAY STETLER’S RESTAURANT Established 1901 1053 W. Madison St. Chicago Tel. Monroe 2241 |How to Be Healthy For many years people have been from many sicknesses. Many have gone to doctors who 'f you are suffer- ing from any ail- to help jout the jon. DR. TAFT TELEPHONE CANAL 3469 | Juliet Stuart Poyntz The €entral Executive Committee |B. Sparer, M. Kordon and a number of lyear. others spoke at. the eleven meetings. On the 7th Street and Avenue A, the meeting was ¢arried on in Rus- sian with a number of fine Russian speakers. In spite of an attempt by a Russian, white guard reactionary to disturb the stirring ‘account of con- -|ditions in Soviet Russia, the gather-| ing continued and developed the great- est enthusiasm among the workers. On 2nd Street and SecondeAvenue, C. Mitchel gave a most interesting telk on conditions in Soyiet Russia. D. Benjamin showed up the utter futil- ity of placing any faith in the election of either Coolidge, Davis and LaFol- lette and made a stirring appeal for the support of Foster and’ Gitlow. At 7th Street and Second Avenue, shattered the meeting of a young misguided Kast Side lawyer, who from the end of a large expensive moving van, tried to advertise the virtues of Louis D. Gibbs, democratic candidate for sup- reme court judge. Poyntz ridiculed Wednesday, October 29, 1924 Come other odd j —help us out—come over! At any. time during the day or evening if you have an hour to spare—come over and volunteer your help to-enable us to get out a heap of mailing, inserting and obs on the campaign to increase the circu- lation of the DAILY WORKER and the WORKERS MONTHLY. We are very busy and have loads of work Over! combination, who had hygged this corner from four in the afternoon in great fear of térrible Communists. In' spite of the démbdgogic antics of their best and leading headlines, and jin spite of the efforts of the socialist- |LaFollette cliqué; who made stren- |uous efforts to swell the crowd and }made ineffectual efforts at stirring up a semblance of applause—in spite of jall this’ machinery, the Workers Par- ty meeting, slowly but surely drew the crowd to its platform. Ludwig Lore, local candidate for congress spoke oh the rule of capital- ism and the lot of the workers in America. Ford “hé said, paid an in- come tax of $9,000,000 while the work- \ers in his factory, who made the auto- |mobiles, made only about $1,600 a He attacked LaFollette as a misleader of the Workers. | Sadi Amter, just returned from |Soyiet Russia, the First Workers’ Re- public, gave a vivid description of her \experiences and appealed to the work- ers to establish a workers’ and farm- ers’ republic in the United States. Charles Krumbein pointed out the futility of the LaFollette movement and. told of his own experiences in Wisconsin asa Worker in the state of which LaFollette is boss. The in- junction and the state machinery is used against the workers as effective ily in that state as it is elsewhere. The meetings lasted until after mid- night and occasioned much discus- sion at the closé: The response in the sale of literature, collections and enthusiasm devéloped, was far beyond the expectations of even the most op- timistic. The Workers Party is plan- ning a series of méetings for the final wind up the campaign. Thursday, October 30, Hopkinson corner Pitkin Avefhue, and Hopkinson es. 1632 S. ‘Trumbull Ave. Phone Rockwell 5060 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Building 19 S. La Sallo Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 MITCHALL’S INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA Union Music Furnished For All Occassions Write for appointments to M. MITCHALL, (Teacher of Saxophone) 1640 W. Congress St. Chioago, tll, | him effectively, pointing out while |Gibbs and his crowd come before the |jyn, workers only before election day, the | Friday, October 31, 110th Street | Workers Party is working every day'and Fifth Avenue, New Star Casino, jin the year in the interests of the |i07th Street and Park Avenue. {tolling masses. It was not very long Saturday, November 1, McKinley before the Gibbs outfit moved out for Square, Worker Party Hall, 1347 Bos- a better location. - ‘ton Road. . At Tenth street and Second avenue, the Workers Party meeting competed with that of the socialists-LaFollette Mansion, 426 Hopkinson Ave., Brook- ly; Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. The very first issue of the By Gregory Zinoviev OTHER’ CONTRIBUTORS: WM. F. DUNNE HARRISON. GEORGE MOISSAYE J. OLGIN WM. Z. FOSTER MAX BEDACHT MORITZ J. LOEB J. W. JOHNSTONE Editorials International Events Single Copy 25 Cents Subscription: $2,00 a Year To subscribe and be.sure you get. it each month— '_ . Use this blank. THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III, Enclosed $.srscenernnie£OP sues TODths’ Subscription, “The History of the Ruision Communist Party” ALEXANDER BITTELMAN C. E. RUTHENBERG REBECCA GRECHT JAS: P. CANNON Cartoons Buy it on the News Stands! For bundle orders for your news- dealers—your branch—or your union meeting—use this blank. THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Hl. ENGDAHL SPEAKS AT FINAL RALLY IN DETROIT, MICH, Wind Up Campaign at Finnish Hall, Friday (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 28,—The | Workers Party of Detroit will hold its final mass meeting of the election jeampaign Friday evening, Oct. 31 at Finnish Hall, 5963 Fourteenth St. J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and candidate for senator on the Workers Party ticket in Illinois, will be the principal speaker. The recent ruling of the officials of Michigan barring the Workers Party from the ballot was one of the most brazen pieces of Newberryism. The Workers Party and the LaFol- lette forces bpth following identically the same procedure in the holding ot county and state convéntions, select: ing presidential electors and certify: ing them to the secretary of state and the 83 County Board of Election Commissioners. But;while the Work- ers Party was barred from the bal- lot, these same officials ruled that the LaFollette ticket should not be mol- ested. The party brought suit in ¢he cir cuit court of the County of Wayne (Detroit) to place the party candid- ates on the ballot. The Workers’ Party is meeting this political trick by instituting a cam- paign to get the class conscious work- ers and farmers of Michigan to go to the polls on November 4, and write in the names of Foster and Gitlow, the Workers Party (Communist) can- didates for president and vice pre- sident. This tactic will be fully ex- plained at the meeting Friday night. Every effort is being made to bring out a big attendance. Vote Communist This Time! OUT THIS WEEK! WORKERS MONTHLY Combining The Liberator, Labor Herald and Soviet Russia Pictorial. The new leader in the field of Labor journals begins in this issue the first installment of one of the classics of Communist Literature, 4 Photographs $1.26 Six Months