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4 4 | 4 : a FF 1 Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Ce a eerste areca ree enna Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress ali mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 9113 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE weer Etre MORITZ J. LOEB.......000« mee Business Manager Chicago, iHinele @ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <B> 200 The Paris Pact—A Storm Center Senator Johnson of California is one of the most despicable figures in American politics, but he has raised an issue in the senate that overshadows in importance all other political questions at this time. The signing of the Paris agreement and the open support of the United States government given to the allied imperialists as against Germany in the collection of reparations places the United States right in the center of the European mess. Even in international politics there are no privileges without corresponding duties and the acceptance by emissaries of the United States government of a percentage of the German pay- ments unquestionably obligates it to take part, perhaps a leading part, in the disciplining of all violations of the agreement on the part of Ger- many. Such discipline can mean only the use of military force in this day and age. The real meaning of the Paris agreement is that the United States government has been forced by the House of Morgan to begin the enforcement of the Dawes plan with_all that this implies. The period of unofficial and semi-official negotiations and commitments is oyer. We enter now the period of payment and, if necessary, of coercion of debtors. The banker backers of Coolidge are now demand- ing and receiving the price of their support, mili- tary preparations show increasel activity and American imperialism prepares to establish con- trol over western Europe no matter what the cost to the American working class. There is little doubt that this one issue will divide the forces in the house and senate, the divi- sion taking place somewhat along the lines drawn in the last election—the lower sections of the mid- dle class against the Paris pact, the big capitalists and their spokesmen for it. ‘ The economic interests that lie underneath the struggle now just beginning in Washington are apparent when we remember that Senator Johnson is in favor of, the fullest preparedness against Japan, that California, his state, is a leader in the anti-oriental agitation and that LaFollette, Wheeler, Ladd, Frazier and Shipstead all repre- sent the wealthier farmers and lower middle class. There are also signs in the form of confused editorials in a portion of the labor press that re- sentment against the imperialist plans of the Amer- ican ruling class is taking shape, but the ignorance and treachery of the trade union officialdom seriously hampers its development. The burden of acquainting the American work- ers with the full meaning of the Paris pact and outlining a program for reSistance to the mur- derous schemes of American imperialism falls upon the Workers (Communist) Party of America. From the middle-class insurgents and reactionary labor officials can come nothing but confusion and be- trayal when the final decision for relentless strug- gle must be made. Steel Trust Pension Bank The steel trust distributed $1,683,920 in pensions last year. Much has been said and written by rotary and kiwanis club speakers and subsidized publicists about the philanthropic pension scheme of the steel trust, but the cold figures give little grounds for any display of enthusiasm on the part of workers. The sum mentioned was divided between 4,478 pensioners—an approximate average of $375 per pensioner per year. This is certainly no princely sum on which to depend for a livelihood while awaiting death for a body wrecked in the hellholes of the steel mills where the ten and twelve-hour day absorbed every ounce of surplus energy. A dollar a day, in this era of high prices, does not go very far in securing the poorest food and shelter, but this is what the steel trust considers generous for the average ex-employe, altho many of them receive far less than that. The figures show that like all schemes, the pen- sion plan of the steel trust is a cruel frand’pe trated on the workers and that its chief value is the advertising that this labor hating corporation secures from it. An ounce of union organization is worth several tons of pensions. From Coal to Steel Shutdowns in the Indiana coal fields is to be used to further the steel trust’s quest for workers whom unemployment has made willing to accept its terms, according to the plan broached by. the industrial director of that state. 17,000 miners are said to be without jobs in this district and thru an arrangement with the Illinois Steel company they will be sent into the Lake ¢ounty (Illinois) mills as the demand for labor there warrants. Many of the miners’ families are poxerty stricken and it is interesting to note that Advertising rates on application the heads of the familiés willfill jobs for which the steel trust had planned ‘to ‘fmport Mexicans, This will probably be hailed as a triumph of native over foreign-born workers by the capitalist press, but the workers can be, certain that their wages will approximate the amount which the steel trust had planned to pay the, Mexicans. In the present unorganized condition of the steel industry the workers are absolutely at the mercy of the cor- poration. When we say “unorganized” we refer to the workers and not to the capitalists, because this new scheme for utilizing unemployment in another basic but unionized industry for the benefit of the steel trust show$ a high degree of capitalist organ- ization. There is one favorable fact. in. connection with this shifting of labor power from one basic in- dustry to another. It is that the miners who are to become steel workers haye;had union experience and if any considerable. number of them. are recruited by the steel industry, they may form a nucleus around which organization can be built. We can take for granted, however, that the labor. experts of the steel ‘trust have weighed. this pos- sibility and concluded that long continued un- employment has sapped the morale of the miners to such an extent that the steel trust spy system will be able to intimidate them for a considerable period of time. Nevertheless, the influx of thousands of coal miners into the unorganized steel industry | is an important development and one which the} left wing movement will be able to utilize in its organization campaigns. Of great importance to the revolutionary and labor movement also is this latest concrete evidence of the intention of the capitalists to use to the fullest extent the permanent army of unemployed which highly developed industry has created—to use it for its own purposes by throwing the unem- ployed from one industry to another and thus establishing the keenest possible competition among the workers even in those industries that are working nearly to capacity. Enemies of Child Workers A sample-of the intelligence of the 100 per cent American legislator is*given in the recent remarks of Representative Heinri¢h of the Nevada state legislature in opposition to the child labor amend- ment. This intellectual giant said: “They have taken our'women away from us by constitutional amendments; they have taken our liquor away from us and now they want to take our. children.” The dispatch from which we cull this gem of oratory further states that» Heinrich is the father of five children. i Our sympathies are’with'the offspring of this Nevada statesman andvhis wife also, if she has survived a few years of marital association with such a tripe-brained: individual. i It should not be forgdtten that most of our statutes are the product of mentalities such as is exposed above, mentalities held in leading strings by the blackest forces:of American capitalism— individuals ignorant, . debauched, bribed and coerced by powerful capitalist interests so brutal, greedy and arrogant that-they refuse to surrender even the right to throw little children of the work- ers into the maw of the industrial machine. Real Communist Activity Young Comrade Olenberg, working in the Mil- dred Shoe company’s works, Brooklyn, New York, had to lick the foreman, was arrested and placed under ‘$200 bail, all because as a member of the Young Workers League he did his Communist duty and tried to organize his fellow shoe workers into the union. This kind of activity will do more to win the young workers in this shop for the Y. W. L. and the adult workers for the Workers (Communist) Party than several tons of literature, altho written pro- paganda has its important place. Comrade Olen- berg is to be congratulated for his militancy and when such incidents are happening by the score im dozens of shops and factories the workers will gladly follow the Workers (Communist) Party in the United States. It is in such activities as those of Comrade Olen- berg’s that the history of the Communist movement is written and in such manner are Communist parties built. ‘ The DAILY WORKER can always find space for’ stories of this kind and it looks forward to the day when its columns will be filled with them. / Frontier Heroism The story of the 1,000-mile dog sled race against death to bing anti-toxin to disease stricken Nome is a tale of heroism that challenges the admira- tion. The scene of the struggle, against the forces of nature at her worst, against ice and snow, deadly cold and raging storm, is the last frontier of the American continent—the frontier where pioneer traditions and pioneer stamina still count for something. The dog sled drivers risked their lives without thought of material reward and by their courage and sacrifice give the lie to the apologists of eap- italism and their nauseous, yeiterations that’ ma- terial reward ‘must be forthc¢oming—that pay is the only incentive of achievement. Such dogged econrage and,self-sacrifice as that displayed by the saviors of Nome exists in spite of the debauching tendencies, of capitalism—it is found only on the fron’ of capitalism and on the revolutionary frontier whére the working class and its vangaard alse battlé“Without hope of re- ward, j i , ‘ By A, G, Bosse. 'HE inexperienge, of our party _in the matter of shop nuclei organiza- tion, the fact thatywe are just begin- ning to reorganize our party on this | basis and are encountering many dif- | ficulties due to special conditions that do not need to be. mentioned in this article, makes of prime importance the study of experiences of other parties from which we can learn much. I should like to tell. some of the ex- periences of one of dtir sister parties, and its wonderful staft along this line. In France six moths’ ago the party was completely ofgdnized along the | territorial lines which you find in our |party. Today, Parts is 100 per cent |organized on the shop nucleus basis. And while doing thé job, our Parisian comrades managed ‘to double their membership, and “now have 15,000 members, 3,000 of Whom were gained in the last two months. The French pi ty increased its |numbers from 53,0! 07 (May, 1924) to |76,000 (today). Reorganizing on the |new basis in the industrial centers, jarfd at the same time gaining 20,000 members is,a real.achievement. And it is evidence of the effectiveness of the new type of. organization. Its lesson for us is, “Go,thou and do like- wise,” and damned soon. af How France Reorganized. Just before I goon to show how this was done, I must mention a few other facts of achievement. The French party in the same period raised one million franes ($55,000) as a party subscription, and an addition- al 800,000 francs: ($45,000) for a spe- cial party loan. The circulation of L’Humanite increased 11,000, and is now 200,000. Party training- schools have been set up, one of which (Cen- tral Leninist School in a proletarian suburb of Paris) was raided by Her- riot in December. During the Jaures tion of the C. P. and the C. G. T. U. (Left Wing Trade Union Congress), Was able to mobilize on the streets 200,000 + workers ufider Communist leadership, because of shop nuclei z —se A Worker Travels Thru W. Virginia and Kentucky To the DAILY WORKER:—The un- dersigned, a membéy of Harlem branch, Workers » Party; New York, finds it necessary in connection with his work to travel “Parts of the south. 1 eee Kentucky Miners ‘@norganized In the parts of We#t Virginia and Kentucky where the!imining of soft coal predominates, ad'far as I have been able to discover;"the organiza- tions of miners are-far from what they should be. Around the Clinchco mine near Elkhom , Ky., I talked with some miners found that most of the mines for many miles thru that section are entirely unorganized, and that as a result, the Wages are much below the union raté!” "The workers are absolutely in thé"power of the greedy mine owners. pe An incident which déeurred today in Hazard, Ky. serves to illustrate more strikingly than’ Statistics, the form of organization..\ Now as to the methods. ‘A certain shop in Paris with 150-workers had only one Communist, who was in a neighboring shop nucleus. When the. campaign for reorganization began, his group sent speakers to his shop dur- ing the noon hour, and others: to sell literature during the speech. It dis- cussed his shop with him and planned and suggested his procedure. Three months later this comrade had a group of eighteen comrades in his -shap, all propagandized during this time, and they have their own nucleus now. The first shop nucleus started in Paris tried to work in the-open, and in a short time its seven.members were fired. Many combades were frightened at this, till they realized they did not necessarily have to work openly. According to the Third Con- gress thesis before quoted, “Whether a Communist nucleus is to come out in the open, as far as its own sur- roundings are concerned, will depend on the sepcial conditions of the case after a serious study of the dangers and the advantages thereof.” There- after this Paris nuclei worked more cautiously, with the basic idea that the workers in the factory were to know that a Communist’ group was at work among them, but were not to know just who were in the group. The effectiveness of this change is shown in the fact that when a large number of workers were laid off in one of the biggest auto factories in the world, known Communists would have been the first to have been laid off. In another nucleus, where they had also set up a shop committee, the | nucleus secretary, a known Commun- list, because hé was also secretary of | |the party local, was fired. The shop |committee demanded his reinstate- jment and secured it from the boss, | This shows that a strong nucleus and memorial parade thé’conimittee of ac-| shop committee not only need not en-| danger a comrade’s job, but may often safeguard it. It is easily understood why there is now great enthusiasm for the new type of party organiza- tion in France. ‘ Views: of Our Readers on Ma DAILY WORKER'S Mission.:::-s To the DAILY WORKER: Contrade, Greetings: My subscription expites and I am hereby enclosing $6.00 for another one-year subscription, iz 1, as a Communist realize the value of, prop- agenda and a real working class pa- r. Iam glad to say I have suy 4 ed and am part of it from the time, Paper was a weekly organ. I’ alsc realize the importance of the DAILY WORKER in the field as a bat ie ram against the lies of the plindér: bund of capital and its pen prostitutes, also the slimy reactionary tactics of the leadership of the A. F. of I.” their betrayal of the cause of the working class for better conditions in their daily struggle with capital. The DAILY WORKER must not be allowed to die for the want of the sin- ews of war against our common en- emy, capitalism, we need the DAILY WORKER more now than ever. The lickspittles and lackeys of capitalism unfortunate plight ofthese unorgan- ized workers, “oe _ 1 was doing a job on the Main St. of the town, when along come four miners carrying a stretcher, upon which rested the body of a man cover- ed with a blanket. Nobody on the street paid more than casual attention. When I asked one of the store-keepers about the apparently injured miner, he told me to “wait a minute” and looked down the street. In a moment, he turned to me and said, “He's dead.” “How do you know?” I inquired, “Well,” said he, “it's this way; the spital is around er and the undertaker's is si ahead, and they're going right down the line.” “Oh, yes,” he continued, “it’s a com- mon thing here, falling slate or some- thing like that, yon know. Almost every day the si goes down the street and we can always tell when it gets to they whether a feller has been killed or not. I guess those fellers earn their money all- right.” psd Said one of the bystanders, “Heard Jim was laid up, anything dangerous?” “No,” was the 'dhswer,” only a broken arm or 1ég,° something like that.” ephy Mines Opened ¢n ‘Recent Years These mines havd"been opened only in recent years, Thé'towns which owe their growth and ifsome cases their very existence to tits fact seem to be doing a very good: business, so much so, that hundreds ‘Of traveling sales- men flock thru this section weekly, realizing that the sales opportunities in these mountains are growing with the growing mining operations. j Where Are The Union Organizers? If the United Mine Workers were doing business for the workers the prospects for organizing these mihes wouid indeed be much brightor. As it now stands, there ig @ real opportunity for a labor union hy Sine up” the men and remove a sow present misery to thousands and the well-being of United States. think by jailing our militant leaders that they can crush the revolutionary tide which is advancirlg against the citadel of world capitalism. But his. tory will prove that no matter what persecution, despotism, and tyranny is used against the advancing hosts of labor, with the constant loyalty and true devotion to the upbuilding of a real Communist daily with a million subscribers, we shall so mobilize the masses for that which we are destined by history to accomplish that all the power at the hands of the capitalist oligarchy shall not be able to with stand the onslaught of the organized workers, once we are united political ly, and industrially as a class under the banner of the Communist Interna tional, backed by virile Communist dailies thruout the world, showing fearlessly to the workers the hypoc- risy of capitalist justice. Yours for a million subscribers tc the first English Communist daily of America, ; ; Vincent Brown, Seattle, Wash. Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. ii Bf ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. The piano playing of Alfred Cortot, | soloist with the Chicago Sfmp! “Shall I . smash the imitation ivory keyboard that you may) pluck with bare fingers. on tl strings?” For this short and’ ¢@lectric French- He seems actually to transmute self thru the vibrat : located in Paris, only three out of a very large nucleus were fired. All| Reorganization—Some Experiences ‘Committee in: Action. One-more instatice. In-the “Galeries: Lafayette,” the great Paris department store, which has‘ a!* large London branch, the secretary ‘reports the work of the nucleus as follows: A temporary committee is very impor- (tant duting the’ organization of the mucleus. It ‘must meet very often, daily or every ‘other day for fifteen minutes, ‘ff possible, to maintain con- tact, and so that the committee will be ‘able to’ sanction» whatever the sec- retary does. This com: uittee has a sec- retary and an ia secretary a treasurer, and fens delegates, one in charge'of general propaganda, one for the shop newspaper;"one ‘for educa- tion and one fo! ade union propa- ganda. eee The: secretary | in’ Charge of po- litical and the, assistant secretary of administrative} k,, The comrade in charge of the newspaper is also cor- respondent for, the T’Humanite, con- tributing to the “Party Life” column, trade union news, etc,’ This commit- tee ‘was still temperary, but a skeleton of it should’ Be set up as soon as possible, In a couple ‘of months the nucleus had grown to fifty comrades, propagandized from ‘among the work- ers in the store.The nucleus meets three times. monthly, two - ordinary meetings, and one a@ full meeting on Saturday or Stinday, when ali must be present, 2 Some who failed to come were dis- ciplined. When the nucleus reached fifty, it’ decided to set a personnel budget for another fifty, so that after a total of two months work it might reach one hundred members. They | are eSpecially going after transport | workers, mechanfes, ete., since they now havé mainly saléspeople. A Y. /W. L. group is being set up, a work- ers’ deferise unit (which the secretary would not discuss publicly in the+ press) and they are working on a shop committee. A shop newspaper is published by’ the nucleus, Red Calico, which ig distributed by com- rades who do not actually work in the Galeries Lafayette. Three hundred copies were ‘printed at first for the 8,000 employes, and the number in- Schoals in Shadyside, Ohio. To the DAILY WORKER:—Several days ago in this vicinity the school children brought home voting cards, so, their parents could vote for thi church they want attends i. 5) ke Loy We know that-no matter what they go to they all preach the their children to same. AE 7 -We knowthat the minds of young children are’. poisoned enough in Schools, yet ‘they. (the capitalists) want to reinforce their poison with the aid-of-their churches: © So that the children Won't have a chance to think for themselves and for the interest of ‘the working’ class. You, the parents of your children have a right to raise your voice in protest against this attempt of_the bourgeoisie. Don’t let them poison the minds of your children. You! The parents of young chil- dren, must teach them how to fight for the interests of the working class and not for the interests of the capi- talist class. ps } If you don’t teach them, then you are giving the capitalists a chance to teach them how to fight against you during strikes and war. ‘ So make it your duty to have them join the Young Workers League, the only organization where the children get such an education to fight against strikebreakers, and against capitalist wars and for a workers’ and farmers’ government. A Worker. A Lesson For Young Workers To*the DAILY WORKER: My sub- scription expires before this reaches you. I feel deeply the loss of my DAILY WORKER, but try as I will I can only get scanty food for the house hardly able to stamps to write,.as I am seventy (70) years old; the capitalist employer looks and says to himself, “I cant ‘use him, he is too old; he, ought to be dead and out of the way.” But this neighborhood is all to the bad—no crops, on account of draught last year, no rain yet, mort- gages coming due, T have circ DAILY WORK- ER as far as able but have not been TERN ; oe Ab areSagieh 2 inages tgs curtoaity “as yet,iwas: given Chicago” performance by the Symph- ony Orchéstra.’ It is'a symphony by » The three movement is very bad and the a and third very good.. In these last wo sections there "is much depth of | thoughat and of inspiration, They are rather Brahmsian’ movements, with creased as its circulation grew. This was, the second most important form of propaganda, the first being personal propaganda talks,’ carefully planned and systematically followed up by nucleus members. » Propagandizing methods are dis- cussed in the full meeting, and the educational end is a full discussion of party questions and problems, such as international trade union unity, the Dawes plan, the International, Trots- kyism; ete, In the unions they are advocating industrial unionism—the union in” éne organization of sales- people, engineers, chauffeurs, and all others working in the storé or vitally connected with it. The nucleus ig at- tached to the 13th “rayon” or district. I have gone into some detail here be- cause it gives us a, picture of a.fully developed, living nucleus at: -work, We can approximate this in this coun- try in certain sections of the needle trades, mining industry, and others; Besides the 500 nuclei in Paris, or- ganized into nearly 50 districts with 200 factory newspapets, the northern industrial seetion of France is rapid- ly. being. reorganized. In the great coal fields and textile’ (Lille) centers in the north, despite the fact that this region is still the stronghold of the socialist party, 196 nuclei have beén set up, half in the mines, and’ half in thé textile mills, organized into 41 districts, and issuing 20 shop papers: The local party weekly, L’Enchaine du Nord, has increased from 14,000 to 18,000. The entire party has been ré- organized into regions corresponding to the industrial and economic char- acteristics of the country. It was the shop nuclei which insisted on the éx- pulsion of the right wing opportun- ists, Monatte, Rosmer and Delagarde, who, tho on the central executive com- mittee, “fell for” MacDonald, Trotsky and Souvarine, " It would be very much worth while if comrades who know something of the experiences of our German party in its reorganization on the shop nuclei basis would tell us in the DAILY WORKER about it. That is the chief task before us, and we can- not know too much about it. ny Subjects able to get one subscriptiom yet. 1 hope Mr. Bailey of Hemet will sent his subscription in. There are several poor devils who are begging me for | more copies, and my paper goes out as soon as I have read it. I hope the seed sown will bring fruit in the near future. If I did not receive an allow- ance from the county of $12, we would starve. Yet they uphold the. present system, a good many old workers go to the poor house and wait for the black bottle. My spirit is not yet broken, I will fight to the end. Long live the Workers Party! Long live the Soviet republic! : Fraternally yours, Thorijus Rinden, Agnanga, Calif. It Hit Home. To the DAILY WORKER: Your Paper of yesterday published an ar- ticle under the caption of “Dawes’ Plan Blows Begin to Hit Home”. This is in column 1, page 2. This article is certainly a meaty one and deserves an immense circulation. I wish we could afford to print it in large type and make it to take up the whole of one issue. Feed us more of this, We certainly need it. I wish we could get it into the hands heads of the un- employed today. It might be useful to find out what Ford is doing in China. This placed side by side with what he is doing in the United States would help some. * Give us a little more about the in- ternationalism of the textile industry and the patriotism of the American capitalists. Your recent article on “Textile Industry in China” was fine, You have got to smash our crazy hopes before you can make us Com- munists. We don’t begin to know yet that anything is rotten in the state of Denmark. More power to your pen, Yours fraternally,;© =~. +’ John B, Price, — Lansing, Mich, FOR RENT vitae || Sleeping room; private family; modern red. Rowe ne ccswer men pre ae Oye La ve. Phone” Albany 4498. . “s i a" its’ first] writes what may be termed American music. But the New England school, Chadwick, Parker, Paine, and Mason's that is in imitation of the British im- Altho he comes by direct descent from this New England school, Dan- jel Gregory Mason, in this new symphony stands head and shoulder above all the rest of the group, the single exception of Gorge ; ‘