The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1925, Page 4

i i Page Four ws = THE DAILY WORKER Faviined by he DATLY WORKER PUBLISHING 00, 1118 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.00 per year $8.50...6 months — $2.00....8 months By mall Chicago. only): $8.00 per year $4.50....8 months $2.60....8 months A@dress ali mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER #218 W. Washington Bivd. 3, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB...... Chicago, Hlinole {nnn FALLOT .Business Manager —_——$—$—$—$—$<— << — Mntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <p 290 The Monroe Doctrine at Work “The Monroe Doctrine of labor,” voiced by Mat- thew Woll at El Paso, is already going into action in Mexico with the proposed expulsion of Com- munists. The Communist Party of Mexico has an influence among the Mexican workers far out of proportion to its membership. The Communists were the first to arm against the reactionary de la Huerta and dozens of them gave their lives for the Mexican re- public. They organized the workers and peasants for resistance to the landlord and oil magnate financed uprising. Among their dead are many members of the Young Communist League. The Mexican Federation of Labor has been captured by the officialdom of the American Fed- eration of Labor. It is part of the machinery of the imperialist domination of Mexico and it fol- lows therefore the same anti-Communist policy that the American Federation of Labor adopted by or- ders from the House of Morgan. The foreign-born Communists in Mexico are few in number. The party is a native party. It has grown out of the struggles of the Mexican workers and peasants. It is a part of the Third Interna- tional as are all Communist parties. It has no in- terests apart from those of the masses of Mexican workers and altho the few foreign-born members of the party may be deported, Communism will re- main and so will the party. The complete surrender of the Calles govern- ment to American imperialism is shown in this latest announcement and its meaning for the Mexican masses will be understood by them. What better proof do we need that the Com- munist slogan of a united front of workers and peasants against imperialist robbers is the thing that modern capitalism fears most of all? Unity from below against oppression from above the answer of the parties of the Communist Inter- national to the murderous game that imperialism plays with the lives of millions as its toys. Unity of the American and Mexican workers against imperialism and its “labor” lackeys is the answer of the American and Mexican parties to the latest outburst of reaction. Advertising rates on application Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Dangerous Comedy The French Minister of Finance Clementel re- plies to the protest aroused in American financial circles by the elimination of the war debts from the budget by a request for a Dawes plan for France. The Dawes plan, being based theoretically on the ability of Germany to pay certain specified amounts, the French minister declares that this same principle—the ability to pay—be applied to France and all other nations owing money to the House of Morgan. He is careful to state, however, that the system of control installed in Germany, is not included in his Dawes scheme for France, be- cause, he says, “France is not a refractory debtor.” Caught in the act of repudiation it seems to us that the French capitalists are just about as re- fractory a class of debtors as has come within our ken. It happens tho that they were on the winning side in the world war, that they are assiduous hunters of the Bolshevik and are never backward in reminding our native babbittry of the debt they owe to Lafayette. For any or all of these reasons they have not been subjected to the pres- sure put upon the German businessbund nor have they had war waged upon~them as has the Soviet government of Russia which openly repudiated the debts incurred by the late czar, for which the lives of the workers and peasants of Russia were se- curity. The exchange of notes now going on between the American government of the House of Morgan— which wants money—and the French government —which want to keep it—is one of the high comedy features of international diplomacy. It is comedy, however, with more than a spice of danger. Were it not for the tremendously com- plicated and shaky condition of capitalism the world over the threat of war in this debate, which has all the high moral tone of collection agency literature, would be too grave to be laughed at, As it is, the controverty with France is merely one of the many factors indicating that the House’ of Morgan, with its far-flung financial lines, will soner or later find war necessary to whip its debtors into line. Against that time, ont far off because of the in- tensive expansion of American imperialism, the Workers (Communist) Party of America urges the working class of America to prepare. Bw Child Labor and Commanism A new plot of the Communists has been un- earthed and every organ of reaction in the nation is clamoring for the defeat of the child labor amendment. The Communists are the staunchest fighters in the struggle to free the child slaves, ergo, it is a Communist plot to break up the home—by depriving parents of the power to exploit the labor of their children or to sell their labor power to more efficient exploiters, The Insurance Field, a publication devoted to the interests of the insurance companies, in a recent issue, publishes the following editorial com- ment: If the United States Is to be made a Communist republic this twentieth amendment is a forward step toward It. Government as father and mother to children instead of their natural parents would be exchanging bonds of human love for political slavery. With government control come govern- ment schools and government employment, | The largest number of children under the age of 18 need practical education in self-support more than book education of which they were usually in- capable. Let the government keep out of the family as well as out of business. When a people are not capable of family responsibility they are not de- serving of existence. No Communism! The above editorial is proof that in certain in- stances the interests of a capitalist class as a whole triumph over those of its respective sections. The prevention of child labor would redound to the profit of insurance companies by lessening the risks of life as well as property, but the desire for unlicensed exploitation by the whole capitalist class is stronger than the group interest. The demand for full government maintenance of school children put forward by the Workers (Communist) Party of America as the only method under capitalism of overcoming the pressure of poverty that drives children of workers into in- dustry is responsible for, the new outbirsts of rage in the capitalist press like that quoted above. The Communists, with their customary disregard of niceties of ethics displayed by the labor fakers and liberal sentimentalists in their class collabora- tion schemes, have put some punch into the agi- tation for abolition of child labor. They have forced a lot of slobbering “saviors” of children to either get behind a genuine slogan or to get out of the campaign altogether and acknowledge that they were against child labor because it was good advertising. Whoever is against full government maintenance of the children of workers and farmers while they are of school age is against the abolition-of child labor and on the side of the child robbers for whom the poverty of working class parents is a source of joy and profit. Oil and Art A writer who styles himself a revolutionist wrote | an article recently under a fictitious 100 per cent American cognomen, in which he paid a tribute to the death of a bourgeois art collector. This hare- brained radical justified his eulogy on the theory that “all lovers of art are friends.” John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is a lover of ari. He proves it by giving one million dollars to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gift was in oil stock and the yearly income from the gift will approximate $32,000. J. P. Morgan is an art collector and a generous donor to art museums. The same is true of most of the millionaires who grind their slaves under the iron heel in order to wring more profits out of their toil, so that the exploiters can enjoy all the luxuries they and their wives and affinities crave for and still have plenty left over to gratify their desires to pose in public as benefactors and sup- porters of the arts and sciences. ; The workers are art lovers, or if not could be, provided they had the necessary knowledge to ap- preciate true art. But those of them who have the knowledge have not the leisure to enjoy art. They have more than enough to do trying to sustain life. Art is not for the working class under the capitalist system. Only when the workers become the ruling class and begin the task of abolishing all classes. by abolishing capitalism will those who carry the burdens of the world on their back be able to enjoy the work of artists which is now the luxury of the parasitical class. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Are Facts Doomed? A British scientist is responsible for the remark- able statement that in the near future the world will come to a realization of the fact that there is no such thing as a fact. He says: “Belief in de- finite facts has been a hindrance to the development and realization that there are no facts. Thru this understanding we will be led to more rapid pro- gress in wireless, radio science and atomic knowl- edge.” The Briton made other statements, but none so interesting as the above. Until the arrival of the cross word puzzle the most puzzling problem in life was to distinguish between a fact and an al- leged fact. Figures and facts were the playthings of liars and the masses were obliged to take what they got or live in a vacuum. But in the event of the British scientist's pre- diction being fulfilled, the world can breathe easier and the millions of people who live by collecting facts of doubtful parentage may stop breathing. Join the Workers Party and subscribe to the | DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER Thesis on Reorganization of Party on Basis of Shop Nuclei , Adopted Unanimously by the Centra! Executive Committee, Workers Party. The Fifth Congress of the Com * munist International declared that one of the conditions for Bolshev ization of the existing Communist par- ties in every country, thus making it Possible to become and to function as mass Communist parties, was their reorganization on the basis of shop nuclei. All parties of the Comintern were instructed to begin the work of reorganization on that basis so that as soon as possible the shop nuclei or shop nuclei branch may become the basic party unit. 2. The Third National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party endorsed the proposal for reorganiza- tion to make the shop nucleus the basis of our organization and in- structed the central executive commit tee to develop detailed plans for car- rying out this decision at the earliest possible time. While the convention of our party decided that-for the im. mediate future, dues should be con- tinued thru the branch, the Commun ist International stated that dues must be paid thru the shop nuclei, and these instructions are therefore being carried out. Steps have already been taken, in a few instances, as experi ments, in actual organization of shop nuclei, and these have worked out in actual practice quite well to demon- strate the superiority of the shop nuclei over the present branch form of organization. 8. The central\executive committee of the party realizes, however, that the reorganization of the party on the shop nuclei basis in its entirity, is of such a nature that it has to progress carefully in order not to break up pre- maturely or endanger the existing party structure to such an extent as to make it incapable to carry on the necessary work of the party. The party recognizes that our membership is made up of workers speaking differ- ent languages, not all of them also speaking the common. language, Eng- lsh, well. The reorganization will be started first in the most favorable in- dustries where the workers, to some extent, exercise shop control, as in the coal mining, needle trades and a few other industries, and on the basis of experience gained in these industries proceed to the others. WHY WE MUST ORGANIZE ON THE BASIS OF SHOP NUCLEI. A Communist party must have its * roots deep among the masses of the workers and particularly among hose workers who because of their ‘elation to capitalism and their ex- veriences under the capitalist system will be the first to revolt against cap. italism. These are the workers em- ployed in the basic industries, in the shops, mines, mills and factories, Thru the shop nuclei as the basic party unit, the party is always in the closest contact with the workers. 2, It is the workers in the shops who must be moved into action against capitalism under the leader- ship of the Communist Party. Thru the organization of shop -nuclei, we create the conscious feelers which en- able us day by day to reach and have contact with those workers whom we must bring to the support of our move- ment, 8. The shop nuclei will also serve as a medium to draw new members to the party from the ranks of industria] workers who must be the backbone of a Communist party. 4. Thru the shop nuclei form of or ganization our party will be more se- cure against the attack of our enem- ies. Shop nuclei branches cannot eas. ily be destroyed and driven apart. The members meet day by day in the shops and factories, they can con- tinue their work and retain their or- ganization as long as they work in the shop and be in a very strong po- sition to frustrate all efforts to de stroy the Communist movement. When the shop nuclei form of organ- ization is fully established, our party will become a manifold stronger fac tor in the labor movement, than un- der the present territorial organiza. tion form, which is an inhertance from the social-democratic parties. HOW TO PROCEED TO ORGANIZE SHOP NUCLEI, District. organizations, city cen- * tral. committees and branches, shall take up the question of the or- ganization of shop nuclei. Where city central committees exist, the work must be under the guidance and direc- tion of the city central committees which should create special commit- tees to direct this work. 2. The industrial registration of the party, which is just being com- pleted will serve as the foundation for the work of organizing shop nuclei. Committees in charge of the work must make a survey of the industrial registration for its territory for shop nuclei possibilities. No exact number has been fixed for the organization of shop nuclei; three or more members working together in a shop can or. ganize into a shop nucleus. WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH, YOUNG WORKERS DEMONSTRATE ON WORKERS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL LIEBKNECHT DAY Commemoration meetings and demonstrations will be held in every city and town thruout the country on International Liebknecht Day, Sunday, Jan. 11, under the auspices of the Young Workers League. Elaborate advertising has been conducted by the league and it is expected that the meetings this year will far exceed those of previous years. The following are only a few of the many meetings that have been arranged. Future Items will give a complete list of meetings: CHICAGO, ILL.—Northwest Hall, Jan. 11,8 p.m. Speakers: Max Shacht- man, Alexander Bittelman and Peter Herd. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Eagle Temple, Broad and Spring Garden, Jan. 10, 8 p.m. Speakers: Oliver Carlson, H. M. Wicks and Ludwig Lore. DETROIT, MICH.—Jan. 11, 8 p. m. Speaker: John Williamson. CLEVELAND, O,—Jan. 11, 8 p. m. Speakers: Nat Kaplan and Oliver , Carlson. NEW YORK, N. Y¥—Star Casino, MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Jan. 11. Speal PITTSBURG, PA—Jan. 11. Speaker: Jan, 11, 2 p. m. : John Edwards. ° Max Salzman and others. SOUTH BEND, IND.—Jan. 11, 2:30 p. m., Workers’ Hall, 1216 W. Colfax Ave. Speaker: Harry Gannes. a GARDNER, MASS.—Jan. 11. Speakers: Sid. Bloomfield and others. ROCHESTER, N. Y., AND ERIE, PA., RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING “DAILY” TO THE LIMIT (Special to the DAILY WORKER) The meetings in Rochester, N. Y., and Hrie, Pa., addressed by Alfred Wagenknecht, insurance campaign director for the DAILY WORKER, took on added interest becausé the membership present clearly understood that WORKER circulation in these cities ing and branch members promised to carry the message left with them by the speaker back to.their branches. Secondly, the members present want ed to know what methods were the surest in getting new subscribers for the daily. And then also, interest was displayed in securing the more active support of the local members in all tasks of the party. The discussion ‘eventually resulted in a full realization that an alive Ic cal, an active membership, increas! in members, is to a very great extent based upon firstly, having a powerful well edited English daily, and sec ondly, in securing a wide cireulation for it, That supporting the DAILY WORKER with finances at once, and then making a conscientious effort to secure at least 500 subscribers in Erie was an immediate and most im- the building of the party, especially the English speaking membership of the party, depended to.a very large extent upon the building of a large DAILY In Erie the comrades were interested, firstly in completing their quota in the drive to make, the daily safe for 1925. Policies were sold at the meet- ee portant task of the Erie comrades was agreed upon, In Rochester the situation is very similar to that in ‘Erie. The Roches: ter local accepted the selling of in- surance policies for the DAILY WORKER and the increase of circu: lation for the city, as an immediate and necessary task. Insurance poli cies were sold at the meeting and a report’ of the branch members pres ent showed that the Russian, Lithu- anijan, Ukrainian and English branches ‘had already sold about $100 worth of DAILY WORKER insurance. Here the membership and the speaker also engaged in a short discussion upon the question of increasing the activity of the local comrades, And as in Erie, building the DAILY WORKER was pointed out as one of the best antidotes for inactivity. 8. When the committee in charge of shop nuclei organization finds that there are three or more members working in the same shop or factory @ meeting of these members shall be called and measures taken for organ. ization of shop nucleus. It does not matter if those members belong to dif: ferent language branches. If they work in the same shop and conditions make it possible, they will be organ- ized into a shop nucleus. The com- mittee in charge will determing pos- sibilities for shop nuclei organization. 4. At all times, comrades working in the shops should organize or make arrangements to carry on propaganda in the shop and prepare themselves to be able to function as a regular shop nucleus in the future. DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE SHOP NUCLEUS. 1 The shop nucleus, when organiz. * ed and functioning satisfactorily for two months becomes the basic unit of the party with all the powers of the present party branches and shall receive a charter from the na- tloonal organization. During this period, the nuclei members shall have the right of voice and vote in the branch, having the same status as ex empt members. But the shop nuclei members shall, from the inception of the shop nucleus, including the inter- mediary period, pay their dues to the shop nucleus financial secretary and receive stamps from him. 2. Shop nuclei organized of work- ers not members of any territoria’ branch may be chartered at once as the basic party unit, with full party powers, 8. Where there are city central committees, the shop nuclei send dele- gates direct to the city central com- mittees. When the shop nucleus is chartered as a regular party unit, such delegate shall be seated with the same rights as other delegates. Dur- ing the intermediate stage of its or. ganization, such delegates shall have @ voice but no vote. 4. When the shop nucleus has been chartered, its members have the right of voting on the party questions in their shop nucleus in the ‘same manner as formerly in the party branches. They then of course no longer have powers in the branch ex- cept as mentioned. 5. The shop nucleus makes the shop in which it is organized the field of its agitation and propaganda, distributes and sells literature, circulates sub- scription lists for funds, carries on the trade union, industrial and politi- cal work of the party, and in all other ways supports the party work. LANGUAGE BRANCH MEMEBRS AND THE SHOP NUCLEUS. 1 The language branch members * who are transfered to member. ship in the shop nucleus, retain, at the same time, their membership and rights jin their present language branches insofar as the questions of their language sections are concerned. They have the right to vote on all questions affecting the language sec- tions in their language branch. Since. however, they vote on party questions in the shop nucleus, they. have no vote on party questions in their language branch, 2, A record shall be kept of lan- Saturday, January 3, 1925 guage branch members transferred to shop nuclef and paying their dues thru the shop nuclei and shall be reported thru the regular party units to the national office on report systems pro- vided therefor. The national office shall at the end of each month report to the respective language section bu- reaus the amount of dues received from such members and pay the share of dues collected to the respective language section bureaus. 8. At a later stage of development of the shop nuclei organization, when a sufficient number of shop nuclei are organized and functioning in the shops and factories in a ‘certain district, these shop nuclei shall be combined into a shop nuclei branch, This shop nuclei branch will consist of all the members of the shop nucléi within a designated territory and of isoloted members employed in that particular territory. When such shop nuclei branches are formed, they become the unit which sends delegates to the city central committee. The Fourth National Convention’ of the Workers (Communist) Party ‘of America adopts the above plan of or- ganization of shop nuclei and instructs the incoming central executive com- mittee and all other subordinate party units to carry on an extensive propa ganda and education among the party membership so that they will become acquainted with this plan of organiza- tion and understand why the reorgan. ization of the party on the shop nuclei basis is necessary, and thus make it possible that it becomes an accomp- lished fact on the largest possible scale in the near future. The central executive committee shall, however, exercise good judgement and caution in proceeding with the reorganization plan so that the party units and the party as a whole will not suffer but benefit from the reorganization of tile shop nuclei basis. ‘i WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, William Z. Foster, Chairman, C. E. Ruthenberg, Exec. Sec’y. Just Off the Press! The January issue of The Workers Monthly Edited by Earl R. Browder Containing 10 ARTICLES On many phases of Labor's problems. 10 PHOTOGRAHPHS From all over the world. 10 CARTOONS By Labor’s very" bést” a _ 8 POEMS Of real value and beauty. A SHORT STORY You will give others to read. INTERNATIONAL NOTES A world Labor review in brief. EDITORIALS 48 pages with a cover repro- duction of the most famous revo- lutionary painting in Russia. LELAND OLDS Famous Labor Statistician Will Expose “The Men Who Own America” Sunday, Jan. 4th, 8 P. M. at the WORKERS PARTY OPEN FORUM ASHLAND AUDITORIUM and Van Lodge Room), Ashland Avenue uren Streets Take Metropolitan “L” to Marshfield Sta., or surface lines on Van Buren QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION . Single admission 25¢ Tickets good for any three admissions, 50c For Red Branches Your branch is RED, of course. But, from time to time, | proof must be forthcoming so that there may be no doubt, | ; THE MILITANT PAGE Will Be a Page of Red Party Branches Upon this page of the BIG RED SPECIAL BIRTHDAY EDITION of the DAILY WORKER, to be issued Januar’ 13, the names of all branches that have remitted for sale of INSURANCE POLICIES will be printed. ’ Will Your Branch Show Up Red Upon the Big Red Page of the i Red Birthday Edition of the DAILY WORKER? A REMITTANCE FOR INSURANCE POLICIES SOLD MADE | WILL PUT THE NAME OF YOUR BRANCH WHERE IT WILL PU J ‘ “BELONGS. JANUARY 8