The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1925, Page 6

{\ Page Six eee , : . THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, DL (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....8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. 4. LOUIS ENGDAHL Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- WILLIAM F. DUNN MORITZ J. LOEB... Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879, <B> 290 Chicago, tlinele wee EGitOre | mene Business Manager | Advertising rates op application Start Intensive Training for Party Workers in New . School of Chicago District By MAX LERNER. Sometime ago the Chicago district committee proposed dhe organization of an intensive training school for com- tades from all-over the district for the purpose of equip- ping these cemrades with the knowledge necessary in doing more effective party work. This plan was endorsed by the central executive committee which recently, at me of its sessions, voted a share of the funds necessary 0 start the school. At its last meeting the district executive committee flecided that the intensive training school should be started March 16, to be held for a period of two weeks. With this action the first extensive steps yet taken in this country towards initiating intensive educational work in this fashion, have been launched. The course to be given during this two-week period, which is outlined in full below, will include economics, short course in Leninism, trade union history and tactics. the history of the Communist Party of this country, public speaking, party organization and structure, and al course in connection with the international movement. Steady Progress. For the past few months educational work has been going on all over the country thru the medium of the district educational circuits, which have been financed | partially by the central executive committee and partially by the districts as in the case of the Chicago inten- sive training school. This work, going on quietly but persistently, has re- sulted in a much larger success than even hoped for at the beginning. The success of the work, altho it has been ushered in without much blowing of trumpets, has proven to. what extent the comrades of the movement feel the work necessary. ‘ Drive Home \ the \, Spike HAT will March 5th mean for the DAILY WORKER? For the Communist International, it means VICTORY! It marks the end of the sixth year dur- ing which the Cémmunist International has struggled, survived and succeeded! Six years of accumulated For a number of years there have been continual dis- cussions as to the educational work to be carried on by the party, but it was not until’ last year that this work was started in earnest in as many districts as possible. | Work Really Started. The organization of the New York school, the organ ization of the classes in Chicago, and the district circuit in the Chicago district, the organization of the circuits in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other sections of the country, are but an indication of the concrete steps taken. This new effort on the part of the Chicago district points to even greater strides forward in the future and to the estab- lishment of educational work in our party on a stable basis. To those comrades who have followed the work of our party since its organization, the final stabilization of our educational work, which is evident in this latest step of the Chicago district, will indicate the prog of our movement. Little by little the party is asserting it- self in each phase of the work and stabilizing it to the point where each activity is given its due place in our general party work Purpose of the School. The inteneive training school, to be held during the latter part of March, is initiated with the idea in mind, primarily, of giving comrades who cannot spare over- much me and who are active in the party movement, especially the younger element of our pa a short in- tensive course which will help them materially in the party work they are doing. The work is by no means to be carried on as educational work in itself, but ‘as an integral part of our general task. If thé school is successful, and we have no doubt at all that it ll be. it will, in my opinion, no doubt lead in the future to an established party school which may run continuously for a period of the year for the continual equipping of an ever greater number of comrades in their task Among the comrades who will teach at the school, will be Comrades Dunne, Bittelman, Abern, Gomez, Be dacht, Lew and Lerne’ These comrades, altho ex- tremely busy in other necessary party work, will devote their attention to gving the comrades selected for thi course, as thoro and excellent a training as possible dur- | ing this time. The Arrangements. The arrangements in connection with this school are as follows: A certain number of comrades have been selected from outside of Chicago in district 8, together with a nuntber of comrades in Chicago. The out-of-town comrades setected will have their fare paid by the dis- trict and lodging.provided for them in Chicago. They will, however, have to provide their own board during | the two-weeks’ stay, but local comrades are expected | to help out in this. A committee of the Chicago students will be immediately elected for the purpose of aiding the others insofar as lodging is concerned and other neces-| sary detdils. When all the students gather they will] elect a committee to take charge of the school in con-| junction with a committee selected from the teachers | and the comrade in charge of the school. In this way the school will be managed in a fashion to bring about the best possible spirit among all We certainly hope and we believe with the rest of the party that this first venture in a concrete way toward established educational work will bring about a better recognition .in the party, as a whole of the ne ity of educational work as integral part of the work of the party All power to the Chicago intensive training school, to the D. E; ©, of district 8 and the C. E. C. for this new stride forward towards stabilized work in every branch of our work, Subjects and Instructors. » 2 entary Marxian Economics—Lerner, one hour a day, six days a week for two weeks. 2. Leninism—Gomez, one hour a day, four days a week for two weeks. $. Trade Union History and Tactics—Dunne, one hour a day, four days a week for two weeks. 4, International Working Class Movement—Bedacht, achievement: this is what March 5th .means for the Comintern. What will it mean for the DAILY WORKER? On that day, the insurance policy campaign will end. Results will be made. public in the special Comintern edition. Will these results spell vic- tory or failure? Will the DAILY WORKER continue, stronger than ever, or will it gradually die out,—the vic- tim of non-activity? To date, not more than $18,000 has been raised to guarantee the papes’s exist- lence for 1925. At least $32,- 000 more is needed,—not a dollar less! Before March 5, Work- ers Party branches and DAILY WORKER readers must DRIVE HOME that $32,000. Thirty-two thous- ind pairs of hands must grasp the sledge hammer and DRIVE DEEP the LAST SPIKES to make the DAILY WORKER firm for 1925! Militant branches, — to the hammer! Backward branches, — to the hammer! Every reader, — to the hammer! In the Comintern edition will be published a complete Communist Roll Call. This will include every active in- dividual and branch: The Communists ‘who have in- sured the DAILY WORKER for 1925. You want your branch to be among the Communists listed. The DAILY WORKER wants you and needs you among them. one hour a day, three days a week for two weeks. 5. Party Organization and Functioning—Abern, hour a day, three days a week for two weeks. 6, The History of the American Communist Move- ment—Bittelman, one hour a day, for four days a week. Public Speaking—Lewis, one hour a day, threo a week. one | once]! The Workers Party sum- 'mons you to action on this Roll Call. Before March 5—act at THE DAILY WORKER America’ $ Comintern Hammer! & Drive Home Spike! : $32,000 Before March 5! © Each Reader His . eahese ~ ae I am with you for insuring the DAILY WORKER TO THE LAST SPIKE. Here is my dollar to HAMMER IT HOME! Street... « Name. mer! AY by day, minute by min- ute, the forces of capital- ism work silently but power- fully to destroy the DAILY WORKER. The hostility of the entire government appara- tus, all of the enemy press; Big Busi- ness and Little Business, the high-up trade union bureaucracy.and most of the petty trade union officialdom; all these combine their..efforts in both outspoken and secretive at- tempts to sweep the DAILY WORKER out of existence. Against these hosts*of the most powerful in America afe|pitted the energy and activity of’#little band of Communists, a few tens of thous- ands. By continous effort, these few have been successful so far.agairist the enemy. For over year, the DAILY WORKER has beenflaunted in the faces of labor's enemies, de- fended by the small but. fighting group of militants. It is a constant struggle; ending only with the victory of the prole- tariat. F Sometimes the day-by-day work —the selling of bundle orders, the securing of subscriptions, suffices to keep our daily alive, to push it ahead. Sometimes a further effort is essential, the little extra push that averts disaster and spells victory. The time for that additional push is NOW, now when the DAILY WORKER faces a particularly dif- ficult period, when funds are par- taculaile low. NOW! Now the combined ef- forts and sacrifices of every friend of the DAILY WORKER.» .Every one! ‘ Concerted effort, every militant acting at one time... .! Every pair of hands to theSledge ammer....! On March 5th we'll greet the Communist International with the reatest possible greeting—a DAILY ORKER safe for the struggle for another year; another year of smash- ing attacks against capitalism, day after day, blow upon blow. : A dollar from every reader! Every party branch its quota by! March 5! Much to our regret, we must swallow our disap- pointment and continue to get money for the sup- port of the DAILY WORKER and the Workers ago that Soviet Russia could well afford to The Tribune Disappoints Us We are indebted to the Chicago Tribune for the news that $340;000:has been appropriated by the Communist International for propaganda work in, the United States. ; We would be.much more cheerful because of this unexpected solution of our serious financial dif- ficulties if the contents of the alleged letter pub- lished by The Tribune, in which the news is con” veyed, did not contain about as complete a contra- diction of the party program as could be written. The “Zinoviev letter,” published by the British imperialist press, was a clumsy forgery,. but the material furnished the Tribune’s Berlin correspon- dent by some police spy is far below even the low standard of forgeries set by this discredited effu- sion. ne In addition to the abygmal ignorance of the pol- icy of the Communist International and the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America displayed* by. almost every sentence, there is one other thing that brands this Tribune story as. part of the world- wide business now being done in futile and silly forgeries of Communist correspondence. This is the use of the name of Stoklitsky as one of those who will handle the appropriation. Stoklitsky has not been connected with the American Communist Party for four years nor has he been in the United States for that length of time. Neither~is he ¢on- nected with the Communist International. (Communist) Party of America from the American workers who see in the Communist program the only method by which the working class can: con- quer capitalism. Fundamental Issues The manner in which the rank and file members of the labor movement in Minneapolis and Seattle are rallying to the support of the Communist and repudiating the action of the petty trade union functionaries, is worrying the labor fakers, but is a source of joy to every worker who has faith in and hope for the working class. It is the rank and file that know the Communists, their program and their work best. What the masses think of us is all-important and in the bitter struggles in the central labor councils as well as in the individual unions where the tools of cap- italism are warring on us, it is a matter of record now that we have met this test. We have shown the fakers that we know how te fight and the rank and file that we know for what to fight. The fact that the workers who support the Com- munist program increase in number daily in spite of all reaction can do, is proof that we are, as John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, admitted in an unguarded moment the other day, fighting on fundamental issues. American Gold Goes to Russia \ In view of the current fabrications of oodles o “Russian Soviet gold” being sent to America to start the truly “periodical” uprising, appearing in our well-known and most reliable capitalist periodicals, we think the quotation below, given verbatim from the pen of a capitalist financial writer, shows how the gold is moving. It says: Not the least puzzling phase of the current gold movement, which is now approaching the $100,000,- 000 total since last Dec. 1, is the amount of purchases by Russia. Some light was thrown on the proposition, how- ever, by a banker who has long been conversant with Russian activities. About three-quarters of the gold shipped to London and marked for reshipment, he said, was destined for Russia, only a quarter of the total going to India, Holland, Sweden or Ger- many. The bulk of the Russian takings have represented little more than the conversion of profits into terms of gold. The new-born Russian textile industry; he said, was one of the phenomena of 1924, Its profits ;were very real, and with no great need at the present for such credits in New York, the Rus- sian textile operators have called for their transfer in gold to Russia. A considerable portion of the gold shipped there. recently, he believed, could be attributed to this operation. ey In case the humor of the situation does not strike you at, first, it, should be noted that the above story of American gold being sent to Soviet Russia, is taken out of the same Chicago capitalist newspaper which published the canard about the Bolsheviks sending $340,000 in gold to American Communists, pk apan’s Jobless Millions _ Dispatches réport 3,400,000 ‘unemployed’ “in Japan. This is almost double the number of regis- tered jobless in Great Britain. If the fighres- are correct,’ something of world-wide significance ’ is going to occur very soon in that little chain of islands in the Pacific that, with Korea, make up the Japanese empire. The source of most of the pressure that forced the. recognition and tirade treaty with Russia is well shown in these figures. We remarked a few give concessions for oil, iron and coal in the lower half of Saghalin. island to the Japanese rulers because of the, knowledge that thes¢ rulers are go ing to be r by. others within a short spai of time as history measures it. ey 8,400,000 unemployed in Japan means that the basis for revolutionyhas been laid. , ie \ ri PO a rn a red » Bb 3 Every day get a “ub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. = - taj ens