The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1925, Page 4

SHOP NUCLEUS No. 1 IN NEW YORK CITY SHOWS WHAT CAN BE DONE IN STRUGGLE FOR WORKERS By ANTHONY CHRISTMAN (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 22.—Our shop nucleus is the first one organized in| Greater New York in a shop were 150 workers are employed, Our task as members of the first nucleus of the party was to demonstrate. to the rest of the party members the advantages to be derived from the organization of our party on the shop nucleus basis. We fully realized our responsibility and as Communists we went to our task and this is*what we have done. As soon as we were organized we initiated and carried on a campaign against the long working hours and forced the bogs; to give in to our de- mands in spite of an existing agree-+ ment between the union and the boss MH 9 sf for over six y This mace the | Cicero Cops Can t | workers in the shop look to us tor| Cop Communist Cash; leadership. They realized we are ° a A | fighting in their interest and we gain Next Round in Courts their confidence and they came to us | bon ManoetaRt Hote at theswell eas Pee A Oe ee attended international frolic and dance | e8. 2 ; A ‘ last Saturday night, given by the ee ce cock: aeniniteys Workers Party of Cicero, Ill, was the Our next step was.an tiers bs Ache | presence of two big uniformed police- the shop committee controlled by a men, occasionally reinforced by a plain group of reactionaries working in the | ciothes man ‘and another uniformed interest of the boss and forced them | |cop. No one knew just what they to resign. A shop meeting was called |were there for until the end, when for the election of a shop committee | they came to the committee and asked and we put up a full slate of comrades | or “theirs,” They announced that no and. sympathizers headed by the nu-| dance could be held in Cicero without cleus organizer running for shop |the presence of police, and their fee chairman. All were elected by a vote | for sitting in a corner of the hall was of 97 to 12. | $12.00. | The secretary of the entertainment |committee, Comrade Danta, replied |that the cops had been neither re- |quested nor needed, and exhibited the It is worth mentioning that this is | one of the union shops controlled en- tirely by the reactionaries previous to our nucleus. The workers know us ag Communist |hall license which permitted the run- All this a: tion was carried on by |ning of dances and said nothing of type and hand-written leaflets posted | hiring police. The need of making a in the different parts of the shop/test case had been clear for a long where workers could read them, tak-/|time and this was the time to do it. ing care to link up every shop issue |So the “wagon” was called and Danta | with the class struggle and the Com- | munist movement. As a result we have today full control in the shop and we are in position to mobilize the workers in our shop whenever Com- munist work has to be done. was taken away, with Charley Erick- son and Wililam F. Kruse driving al- |most on the patrol flivver’s tail light |to bail him out. At the station thé ‘sergeant was hard-boiled. “Are you ‘going to pay Membership Is Increasing us or aintcher?” When Danta stood Our membership in the meantime | put he was booked on a Gharge of “re- has been increased from three mem-}fusal to pay for police service.” When bers to fifteen and at our last meet-|Kryse, on behalf of the’ Labor De- ing We adopted the slogan of doubling | fense Council, suggested that Danta, the membership by ist. We made | a resident and citizen of Cicerd, should it compulsory for every member of | be released on his own, recognizance, our nucleus to read the party press.|the heavy-weight sergeant. almost Beginning with our next issue our | managed to rise from. his,chair. shop bulletin will be semi-monthly. “Wotter yuh buttin.in,for? Think Is.the shop nucleus superior to the | we don’t know how to run,this police territorial branch? We say it is. }department? When yuh come inter a police station yuh keep.your mouth Meeti Chi TUELE {shut. See?” ectees. se i pe fn 4. xecu) “So cash bail of $25 was put up and pe T Neneaa: Mare | Danta will appear for trial Monday A meeting of the Local Executive,| morning. T. U. E. L. of Chicago will be held Tuesday, March 24, at 8 p. m. at 19! MOSCOW—The export‘/of manga §. Lincoin St. All members are urged! nese ore to Germany's rapidly in to be present as important matters) creasing, the chief exporter being the are to be taken up. ! South Ores Trust. May Day Committee Meets Tuesday A meeting of the May Day Committee will be held , Tuesday, March 24, at 18¢ W. Washington St. All branch delegates must attend.—MARTIN ABERN, Secretary, Workers Party, Local Chicago, —_—_—_— — tet. | Prizes to Be Awarded at N. Y. ‘‘Wetcherinka’”’ on Sunday, March 29 NEW YORK, March 22.—The win- ning branches in the subscription con- test for the Press Pageant at Madison | Square Garden are: Largest number of subscriptions paid for by March 15th. 1st. Harlem Jewish Branch. Ao FOR BIC FIGHT Miners’ Chieftain IsTak- in the Lead (Continued from Page 1) Herald. On one side are Cook, Smith, Purcell, Bromley, Bramley and their supporters and followers while on the 2nd. Ukrainian Downtown Branch. }other are Frank Hodges, J. H. Thom- Largest number, in proportion to membership: 1st. Oriental Branch, 2rd. English Astoria Branch, The individual. prize winners can not yet be, announced, since the bran- ches have not yet.reported the records of their members.in selling subscrip- tions, All party and Young Workers League branches must immediately report the mames of their members selling the subscription tickets and how many each one sold, so that the entire record may be complete before the distribution of the prizes. The individual winners will be announced;- and the prizes will be distributed at a “Vetcherinka” to be held at the Work- ers Party headquarters, 108 East 14th St., New York on Sunday, March 29th. There will be music and dancing, and an admission charge of twenty-five cents. Every member who has not yet settled for subscription tickets he has sold is instructed to pay for them at onee, either to his branch, or at the District Office, 108 Hast 14th Street, so that the accounts may be closed and the proceeds distributed to the respective papers. Olgin to Lecture on Russian Books at Workers’ School > NEW YORK, March 22.—Moissaye J. Olgin will lecture on “The New Era ‘in Russian Literature” at the Workers’ School, 108 East 14th street, on Tuesday, March 24th,.8 p.m, ™ This lecture continues the series on the Russian revolution conducted by Comrade Olgin at the’ Workers’ School, in which he analyzes the ef- fects of the revolution on all phases of the life in Russia. In discussing Russian literature, as, Philip Snowden and their yellow socialist backers. -'The socialists are offering co-operation with the capital- ists as a solution of the economic question while the Cook forces are urging the organization of the work- ers for the overthrow of capitalism. The following statements by A. J. Cook are taken from the London Daily Herald, a conservative organ which is exasperatingly respectable: “The sufferings of our men, the call of the women and the cry of the children bid us go forward. If there is war and strife this year, it will be the ruling classes that will pro- voke it.” A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, made this declaration in a speech at Barnsley. “The most significant sign of the times in connection with the present disputes in the industries of this coun- try,” Cook went on, “is the great desire of the workers to join hands in the struggle. “ The invitation of the Miners’ Fed- eration to the other unions to join to fight the ‘employers has been re- sponded to beyond our expectations. Perturbed Tories. “This action seems to have created a stir in the dovecotes of the tory camp, as the speeches delivered by Lord Birkenhead and the prime min- ister prove. “The frenzied appeal to the trade unionists: and their leaders to act cautiously and prevent further trouble and conflict, especially Lord Birken- head’s desire to protect the rights of the trade unions and his attitude on the question of the political levy, form another proof of the fears the proposed joint action of the miners with the other unions have instilled. “Opportunities will be presented to the tory government,” he proceeded, Comrade Olgin will first deal with the literature of the pre-revolutionary per- iod, and then will show how the revo- lution marked a turning point in liter- ary conceptions and production. He will also analyze and explain the new Russian literature of today, taking up various writers and their works. The literature and art developed by the revolution have been a proof of its tremendous creative power. And in this literature and art we see the development of a new proletarian culture that expresses the struggles, hopes, achievement—the revolution- ary ideology—of the workers and peasants in Soviet Russia. Remember the date of the lecture— Tuesday, March 24th, 8 p. m., at 108 East 14th street, Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! and ~ movement in “Class By Is a study of struggle with 10 Twelv “Trade Unions in America” By Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P. Cannon Is a brief statement on the trade union development of the Left Wing with an ex- planation of the structure and program of the Trade Union. Educational League, Collaboration” , eracy to divert the workers from militant Insurance schemes and worke No. 1 Earl R. Browder. America and. a history of the No. 2 Struggle vs. Class” Earl R. Brewatis all the methods of labor bureau- the & O. plan, labor banks, education, CENTS A COPY e copies for a dollar. This little pocket size propaganda giant is destined to become the great- est feature of working class publica- tions ever issued in this country. Get these first two splendid numbers of the little library which you are sure to carry in your pocket always. \ Get a dozen 1113 W. Wash DAILY WORKER agent:or The Daily Worker Literature Department for your shop from your local ington Bivd. “Chicago, II. “to insure peace for a period in the industry by accepting our minimum wage bill. “Will the prime minister declare that a miner is not worth 125 a day? Let him do so. it will be at the peril of the tory party. “The action of the: tory govern- ment in rejecting our compensation bill is evidence conclusive to us of their ‘sympathy’ towards the miner. “There will .soon he no left and right wing, but one united movement industrially and politically, that will seriously organize for: the overthrow of the capitalist system. The Immediate Struggle. “Our present struggle is one of wages. That is the. immediate de- mand, but the interests of peace and the desire for same compels us to usher in a system of society that will make that possible. “Therefore we are preparing our nationalization bill to gplace before the country to prevent a recurrence of eternal war in the mining industry. “We are fast learning to recognize,” Mr. Cook added, amid cheers, “that there is a class war, and .we shall organize definitely to carry forward our policy with an idea of eliminating class privileges and positions in this country, fe @ In addition to the railway >and transport workers’ unions, which have been approached by the Miners’ Federation regarding the scheme for an alliatice, steps are being taken to enlist the support of other bodies, in- cluding engineering and shipyard un- ions. “Our intention sentatives of all the unions in this country, either separately or jointly land then to go finally to the general | council of the Trades Union /Con- gress,” declared A. J.,Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation. “It is the definite, policy of the Miners’ Federation,” he said, “to make arrangements for mutual aid in regard to disputes, and to set up some machinery immediately, so that we can act together, either when we have been attacked, or in defense. From the replies I have received, and the interest taken in this suggestion from the miners, I am confident that arrangements will be made for all the unions to act together, co-ordinated by the general council of the ‘Trades Union Congress. “It will be an alliance for action and the suggestions er the Miners’ Federation is that all programs should be submitted to this body and e: ined in order to secure united port before any struggle is decided upon. The alliance is a counterblast to the Federation of British Indus- tries.” War Fleet to Australia, NEW YORK, Mareh 22.—The Amer- ican fleet, which i#! maneuvering in Pacific waters to impress Japan and England with its fighting capacities will arrive in Aust¥alia in July na August. Prime Miri PEOUSESEEOSESESOS EES ES OSE: Australia, speaking fer the capitate, tp said ina opeheaee | he h oe ee sdb ik WORKER is to meet repre-| BUILDERS AT WORK ‘BORING IN’ IN BOISE, IDAHO. ¥ PAS Pal Where They Expect a Shower of Beer Every Saturday. Comrade Theodore Pierce is a BUILDER—one of those kind ef builders whom difficulties simply won't stop. We sent him bundles of the DAILY WORKER to get subs in the campaign and to build up the clrculation in this notoriously reactionary district. They tried to keep him from selling the DAILY WORKER in the streets and then they tried to stop him from giving them away. But our bullder continues his work and we have received from him his first remittance to cover some sales made. His letter which we print here, will help to give you a picture of the conditions in the state that some years ago restrained Comrade “Bill” Dunne, now editor of “our dally,” by court order from even entering the boundaries of the state. Dear Comrades: | have been doing all in my power to spread the good words printed in the DAILY WORKER but have failed to get another sub for the paper. Yet, several promised that when they are able to subscribe they will. 1 have been selling three or four each evening and am ing you $1.50 to help pay the cost of printing. | will take sub | can later, 1 have been asked by a number if | had been pinched yet for selling radical literature. | tell you, this Is one of the most damnable states in the union, filled With Catholics, Mormons, Penticostals, Holy Rollers and the like. They all looked for Jesus the 6th of February but he didn’t come so they are now looking for old John Slemp to come back, who died fifteen years ago. He was Bolse’s Brewery man and they say he will cause a shower of beer every Saturday. Superstition is all the go here so you see | have a hard bunch to work with. It will take time to do much yet and | am getting ery day to r the DAILY WORKER and hope to get some subs soon so pi e continue sending the five daily and | will sell and give free copies to the poor workers that are on starvation. Fraternally yours, THEODORE PIERCE. s * wo BUILDERS who have sent in NEW subs for others in the last days of last week: BOSTON, MASS.—Elsie Pultur. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Fritz Lundvall. PORTLAND, ORE.—Harry Stoinick (2). DENVER, COLO.—Frank Krasick (2). CLEVELAND, OHIO—J. A. Hamilton. PITTSBURGH, PA.—F. H. Merrick. CHICAGO, ILL.—Ruth Fern. PORT VULE, PA.—S. Marhefka. _ PHILADELPHIA, PA.—4J. Spolarich. MILWAUKBE, WIS.—Gus Shklar * * * * First Week’s Results of the Second Annual Sub Campaign. This is the modest start made on the campaign for ,15,000 NEW subs by June 15. In this list are counted ONLY the NEW SUBS turned in not for the senders them- selves but for OTHER WORKERS. See that your local leads the next week's list. MILWAUKEE LEADS! Local Milwaukee takes the lead with 22 subs in the first week of the campaign. it is only right that a Communist campaign should succeed in the stronghold of “socialists.” More power to these comrad dhe local DAILY WORKER committee headed by Comrade Gus Shklar! nd- ery Subs Sent in. Local Quota. DISTRICT No. 1—Revere, Mas: 1 30 Boston, Mass. 3 200 DISTRICT No. 2—New York City 2 1,500 DISTRICT No. 3—Philadelphia, Pa. 9 250 DISTRICT No. 4—Buffalo, N. Y. 1 100 DISTRICT No. 5—Pittsburgh, P. 1 250 DISTRICT No., 6—Alliance, Ohio . 1 10 DISTRICT No. 7—Pontiac, Mich. .. 1 25 DISTRICT No. 8—Milwaukee,. Wis. 2 125 be Allis, Wis. 3 30 Chicago, Il. .. 8 1,500 DISTRICT No. 9—Chisholm, Minn. 1 10 DISTRICT No. 12—Portiand, Ore. 2 60 DISTRICT No. 13—Los Angeles, Cal. 1 150 DISTRICT No. 15—West Concord, N. 1 3 10 UNORGANIZED TERRITORY—Pocatello, Idaho ..... ea | 10 Miami, Fla. ..<. 1 10 Sistersville, W. Va. 1 10 Kansas City, Kan. Ly 30 Pittsburgh, Kan. 1 10 New Orleans, La. 2 10 Denver, Colo. .. 2 50 Port Vule, Pa 1 10 ~TSLUMP IN WHEAT SHOWS COOLIDGE FOOLED FARMERS Stocks of Wheat Shown to Be Still High By LELAND OLDS, Will the recent break of 28% cents a bushel in the price of wheat in 3 days and the steady decline to a level 55 cents below the middle of January wake the farmers up to the |fact that they were duped by a ficti- tious price situation into electing Coolidgé? According to Griswold in the Chicago Journal of Commerce, “the oldest trader on the exchange has no recollection of a situation that is comparable to this.” “Ina normal market,” says Gris- wold, “no exaggeration of opinion, na distortion of market news could drtve a single wheat option close to the prewar level and then_chop 55 cents off the price” before the option ex- pires. Of course this wasn’t a normal market but one which had been arti- fically inflated to take the wind out of the political sails of the farmer-la bor combination. Foreign Demand Exaggerated. A month ago the Journal of Com merce reported a growing suspicion in board of trade circles that the much talked of foreign demand for U. S. wheat had been exaggerated. About the same time the New York Times pointed out that the term world shortage of wheat had been somewhat loosely used. It said that, excluding Russia, pro- duction would be about 3,100,000,000 bushels which compares very well with 3,142,000,000 in 1922 and 3,106,- 000,000 in 1921. The estimated yield never reached 3,000,000,000,000 in any other post-war year. The department of agriculture {« now letting people down gently. Its latest says that there is enuf wheat on hand in the country “to meet do mestic requirements for feed, seed and flour, allow for exports equal to those from March 1 to June 30 last year and leave a carry-over of about 751,000,000 bushels.” It points out that in the first ‘eight weeks, of 1925 Australia and Argen- tine furnished te world market 50 - per cent more wheat than a year ago and that the world’s commercial . stocks Feb. 1 were 375,000,000 bushels, the largest since the war except 1924 and only 5,000,000 under that year.) Also 3 per cent more acreage has been sown to winter wheat than tn 1924, Clearly, as pointed out in February {by a large grain exporter, it is time the grain interests were asking how will this country dispose of its grain, not how high will the price go. Farmer Out of “Boom.” The high prices around election did not go to the farmer. He delivered his wheat between July 1 and Feb. 1 at an average of $1.24 a bushel, most of it having been sold far in advance - of the boom. And according to the Annalist “There is no available evi- dence of the continued increase in the wealth of the farmer collectively; on the contrary the most reliable infor- mation from the middle west goes to show that altho most farmers’ expen- ditures since last summer have been on old debts, farm indebtedness is not yet on a normal basis.” Wheat at over $2 was only an elec- tion promise. It fooled many into believing that it would hold until the next crop altho all the real friends of the farmer pointed out that it was ar- tificial. But that hope gave Coolidge the west. It is now fading. Where do the farmers get off? Crime Grows Children Toil. NEW ORLEANS—Statisti¢s glean: ed from the New Orleans juvenile court show that crime since 1924 has increased 15 per cent in both sexes under 18 years over 1923. Various reasons have been given by those in authority, but the most potent has been ignored. The employment of ‘boys and girls of tender age when they should be in school has in- creased owing to the fact that wages in general are materially lower. SPEAK IN KANSAS DEFENSE FUNDS NEEDED AT ONCE re The three young Communists who were arrested Jast Friday in connec- The application of “ KANSAS crry, wg Mo., March 22.— Caroline Lowe Alexander Howat and will speak here Si at Musi 8 Hall, o Class War Priso: On Monday, Mare be a debate at W: subject— “RESOLVED, That the Soviet form of government is the only hope for the American work- J. E. Snyder of the Workers Party will take the affirmative and John Jones of the Liberal Club the negative. India Cold to WASHING7ON, D, CITY ON GLASS WAR R tion with the Paris Commune Pageant, and were released Wednesday must be properly defended. The Labor Defense Council, New York division, in- tends to fight their cases thru the United States courts—for the comrades face deportation. “These people ought to be shipped out of the country,” said the judge. The comrades will not be shipped out of this country, unless the government shuts off every avenue of appeal that the workers of thi: country thru the Labor Defense Council will utilize. To carry on a proper fight, funds are needed. Thousands of dollars vyill be required—and the workers of this country must furnish it, All comradies and sympathizers with the Communist and revolutionary movement must do their share, Take up the matter in your trade unions and fraternal organizations. Get them to pledge their support and make donations. No time dare be lost, for the hearing begins on March 30. Collect funds on the subscription lists of the Labor Defense Council, New York division, and forward to them to the local office, 108 East 14th St., New York City, GRAND BAZAAR given by the Czecho-Slovak Section of the Workers PREM a) the ‘ benefit of “DELNIK”, at the BOHEMIAN ARBs AN” mes 1438 W, 18th . Street.