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Page Four HERRIN BOMBERS WRECK STORE OF ENEMY OF KLAN Klan Had Threatened to Take His Life HERRIN, Ill., April 12.—Following ‘within 48 hours after 100 indictments had been returned in connection with a similar attack several weeks ago, mother Herrin store was partly wrecked by an incendiary dynamiting today. The latest attack was directed on the establishment owned by Clarence and Marshall McCormack, the latter a former klansman who has since de- serted the klan faction to become a mayorality candidate on the anti-klan ticket. Car Speeds Away. No one was injured and a fire fol- lowing the blast was quenched by Neighbors when the Herrin fire de- partment was delayed in their arrival the chief explaining they had chased &n automobile out of town. The early hour and the appearance of the speed fug automobile immediately after he had heard of the explosion, led the chief to follow the car which soon out- distanced his truck, he said. McCormack said he had only recent- ly received a telephone call threaten- ing his life if he continued his candi. @acy for mayor. It was the second attempt to wreck his store. Lald To Klan. No arrests had been made thus far in this latest renewal of hostilities al- tho four men are reclining in jail for the bombing of the Fowler grocery several woeks ago. The attack was thot to have been made by klansmen. International Ball Given by Cleveland Comrades Best Ever CLEVELAND, 0., April 12—Mem- bers and friends of local Cleveland Workers Party packed Grdina’s Hall at the International entertainment, bazaar and costume ball making it the Most successful affair held by the lo- cal. organization. At the many colorful booths were represented the Hungarian East and West Side branches, English West and East Side and Jewish. The women of the Hungarian branches served a fine supper of Hungarian goulash Prizes were awarded to the Ukrain jams for the best group of costumes. Stella Kaufman as a Russian boy and Mary Mulgrew in Irish costume re- ceived prizes for best individual cos-| tume. Lillian Krestan gave two ex- cellent ballet dances in the evening. The program included singing by the German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Finnish and Ukrainian choruses; the Russian Balaleika orchestra with bal- let dancer; the Finnish Women’s Gym. nastic Team; Recitation by Haufman, member of the Branch Young Workers’ League; Vio- lin solo by M. Pehrman, accompanied by Elmer Malm and a talk by Carl Weisberg of the Young Workers’ League on the White Terror in Po-| ti jand. North Side Class : to Meet Tonight The growing study North Side English principles of Communism will meet again tonight at 2406 N. Clark St. as usual at 8 o'clock. All members of the North Side branch and friends are requested to be sure to attend this session if at all possible. class of the Settle for Tickets. Settle at once with the local office Workers Party, 19 S. Lincoln St., for the following: Unity demonstration tickets Beauty and Bolshevik tickets. Red Revel tickets. Lenin Memorial tickets. All these accounts are past Settle at once! due. Remember May 23! The John Reed Junior group is ar- fanging a surprise party and dance Saturday, May 23, at 1902 W. Division St. All friendly organizations are re- quésted not to arrange other affairs on that date. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! Stella | loyalty and discipline. Jewish |of the branch on the | Dear comrades: portant questions before the section. vention. sions of that convention with enthu- siasm, a group of these former bureau members has mailed thruout the coun- try a circular, containing vile and slanderous attacks against the bureau and against the central executive com- mittee of the party. This circular called for a split in the Italian section, and was signed by A. Di Giaconio, Basilio Florio, J. Di Gregorio, Gaeta- no Baldassare and C. Baiocco, as a “Provisional Committee for the Italian Communist Workers of America.” Because the C, E. C. believed that some of these were good comrades who had merely been misled by the slanders and lies which had» been thrown about in the controversy, it hesitated to expel them:at once, altho such expulsion was called for by the criminal action of the five signers of the document. The C. EB. C. instead called upon them to come to the na- tional office and receive the instruc tions of the party. Instead of appear- ing, they sent a threatening and de- flant letter. Still the C. E. C. did not expel them, but set another date for them to appear. On April 10, the five signers of the document appeared, and again defied the central executive committee of the party and stated their intention of continuing their ef- forts at disruption. Patience has ceased to be a virtue in the face of these continued assaults upon the integrity of the party. The C. E. C. has therefore ordered the ex- pulsion of Di Giacomo, Florio, Di Gre- goria, Baldassare and Baiocco from the Workers (Communist) Party of America. The central executive commifttee now calls upon every Italian Commun- ist worker in America to completely liquidate the last traces of the former differences, to rally their local units and every sympathizing Italian work- er to the great task of reestablish- ng Il Lavoratore as a daily paper in New York City, and in building up the Italian section of the Workers (Communist)’ Party as one, of its largest, most active, and most im- portant sections. Comrades, the Workers (Commun- list) Party and the Communist Inter- | national, engaged in the bitter strug- ‘gles of the working class against cap- italism, and furnishing the working |class with its most necessary organ- ization and leadership, demand your unconditional support and unswerving As a section iron-disciplined battalions of the Comintern we will together rally the American working class for the | final struggle. For™ strong and united Italian sec- ion of the Workers Party! For a daily Il Lavoratore! For unity and struggle under the banner of the Communist Interna tional! Central Executive Committe Workers (Communist) Party of America A For the member of your union and your shop mates, send. in a sub. PITTSBURGH WORKERS TO HEAR RECORDS OF LENIN SPEECHES PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 10.—A revolutionary party in honor of the Russian Communist daily, Novy Mir, will be given in Pittsburgh, Pa., Wednesday, April 15, at 1522 Fifth Ave. There will be a musical program, dancing and free refresh- ments. Among the speakers will be Comrade Arne Swabeck, district or- ganizer of the Workers Party In English, and Comrade Alexander Chramoff, organizer of the Ruselan section, W. P., in Russian. Talks will also be made by Comrades Len- in, Lunacharsky and others (from =phonograph records). Come and listen to the voice of Lenin! Admission 50 cents. Beginning at 8 p.m ON MAY FIRST: STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUTS! “Workers must defend their wages! very lives. They must unite every Upon their wages depend their worker in the shop or mine, every union of every trade, every worker's organization, industrial or political, to fight back the attack upon their wages! “The capitalist cla is tricky. _ Glass does not concern itself with _ workers, the capitalists will fhere must be unity among the workers. It will cut wages in one shop or one industry at a time, and if the whole industry and the whole working the attack upon a section of their beat us down one group at a time. Unity and struggle against the common enemy. Down tools on May May!” Be not indifferent! them around—everywhere. Don't walt! ad by the American workers, Order a supply of May Day leaflets and have $1.00 will buy 360. Pass them Do it now! Order from National Otic, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicage, lil. STATEMENT ON SITUATION.IN THE ITALIAN SECTION, WORKERS PARTY To the members of the Italian Section, Workers Party of America. The recent convention of the Italian Section, held in Philadelphia, February 21, was unanimous in its decisions on the most im- It elected a new bureau which has the support of the overwhelming majority of the membership. Under the direction of the new bureau the Italian section is restoring itself to active work and preparing for the establishment of the daily Il Laboratore. There are still, however, a few persons, formerly members of the bureau, who refuse to accept the decisions of the membership expressed in the con- Five weeks after the Philadelphia convention, Italian section had accepted the deci- ¢—————________________- after the entire IMPORTANT BRONX MEMBERSHIP MEETING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 NEW YORK, April 12%-A_ very important membership meeting of the Bronx section of the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ League will be held on Wednesday, April 15, 1925 at 8 p. m. at the party headquarters, 1347 Boston Road. Every member must attend and bring ‘party or Y. W. L. membership cards. The meeting is called for the purpose of organizing the party and league members who work in the shops and factories into shop nuclel. Comrade Ben Gitlow will speak, PHILA, JUNIORS: TO GWE PLAY AND CONCERT Will Depict Work of Young Communists PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April 12.— The Junior Young orkers League of this city are busy~preparing for the play and concert to be given on Friday April 24, at 8:00 p,m. at Progressive Library, 4035 Girard Ave. An excellent musical program has been arranged for the, occasion and the play “Our Juniors in Action” is precisely what its name implies—full of action portraying the youth of the Communist movement engaged in the struggles against the ravag- es of the capitalist system. Much interest is manifested in this forthcoming event and although many of the party members and sympathi- zers failed to avail themselves of the opportunity to attend the first affair of the juniors, they now realize that they missed a pleasant and instruct- ive evening and are not going to miss this performance. Join the Workers Party! MORE THAN THOUSAND WORKERS PACK HALL TO HEAR TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF ABRAMOVICH (Special to The Daily Worker) * LOS ANGELES, April 12.—While story before an audience of hired th Abramovich was telling his venomous ugs, policemen and réal estate agents (socialists), who drove up to the meeting place at the Labor Temple in their limousines, in another part of the ci thousand people crammed every aisle the trial and sentence of the traitor away because of the overflow. ity, at the Co-operative Hall, over one and corner of the auditorium to hear Abramovich while mahy were turned The trial was held under the auspices of the Workers Party of Los Angeles, and in the true fashion of a revolutionary tribunal’of the working class, the large audience which acted also as the jury took their oath by singing the International at the open~ ing. Story of Betrayals ) The long story of the betrayals of workers at the hands of Abramovich and his fellow lackeys in the Second International was vividly told by the prosecution and in convincing fashion, whii- the defense claimed that Abra- movitch’s treason was explainable by the fact that he never was a real re- yolutionist. Strange to say, Abramo- vich did not present himself to hear his damning indictment, and when the audience had listened to the long list of his crimes, and the judge asked the audience to deal out revolutionary justice, there was a thunderous res- ponse“from the uadience: “Guilty.” A resolution was passed condemn- ing and denouncing Abramovich for his treason to the revolution, and the resolution was absolutely unanimous, without one dissenting voice, and amidst great enthusiasm from the au- dience, which concluded the meeting by once more singing the Interna- tional. A large part of the crowd had al- ready seen Abramovich last Thursday night, when many of Soviet Rus- sia’s sympathizers were refused ad- mittance, dozens thrown out and _beat- en up for protesting against ni? lies, and ten of our comrades arrested by the police at the command of the yellow socialists. This audience was now fully con- vinced, after the trial, why all honest workingmen have so strenuously ob- jected to allowing Abrafnovich to spew his venom in America. Hiss and Boo Disrupter A remarkable thing happened on the same night at a large meeting of the Civil Liberties Union. An anar- chist gbtained the floor and introduced a-resolution condemning and denoun- cing the Communists for their tactics at the Abramovich meeting last Thurs- day nite, and he was not only booed and hissed off the floor by the major- ity of the people present (very few of whom could have been Communists), as all our people were at our mock trial of Abramovich, but two other anarchists who attempted to get the floor were handled pretty roughly by members of the audience and ejected from the hall, before order was, res- tored. So much for the workers’ an- swer to Abramovich. Marxist Message of Workers Party to Be Given Clinton, lowa CLINTON, Iowa, April 12—J. E. Snyder and Tom Matthews will give an exposition of Marxian science at the Clinton Memorial Bemple, 613 So. 2nd St. on Sunday afternoon, April 19th at 2:30 p, m, The trade unionists of Clinton will be especially interested in this lec- ture, as they have had a good share of experience with “labor political action.” In explaining the science of Marxism, these speakers will show the difference between real working class political action and the mere election of “good men” to office. No admission will be charged at this lecture. + - PRESENT GLASS WAR DRAMA AT: INDIAKA HARBOR, IND, APRIL 1 A performance, co! nd da will be given by the Workers Party, Local Indiana Harbor, Ind. Sunday, April 19, at Turner's Hall, 3800 Main St., Indiana Harbor, Ind. A drama of the class struggle “The Striker” by L. Rinehold will be staged. A good time is promised to all. Comrade Peter Hert of the Young Workers’ League of America will speak. Dance starts at 5 p. m., per- formance at 7 p. m. Admission 50 cents. Q Workers Party—Local Chicago Activities rt and dance Monday, April 13. W. Roosevelt Road. Lithuanian No. 3, Wicker ParkHall, 2040 W. North Ave. Italian Cicero, 1402 S. 5th Ct., Ci- cero, 3 Northwest Jewish, 2642 Le Moyne Ave. Lithuanian No. 77, 2242 W. 23rd Pl. Hungarian Branch, 1500 N. Sedg- wich St. German Branch, 1665 Bissel St, 19th Ward, Italian, 921 8. Loomis St. Tuesday, April 14. Czecho-Slovak Cicero Wowen's T. G. Masaryk Schooly 57th and 22nd Place. Irving Park English, 4021 Drake avenue, , Northwest Eng! 2733 = Hirsch Blvd. Rumanian Branch, 2250 Clybourn Ave, i Ukrainian No. 1, 632 W. Chicago Ave. Italian 31st Ward,.511 N. Sangamon St. YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ACTIVITIES, LOCAL CHICAGO, Tuesday, April 14, Meeting of all ¥)"W. L. members working in Mail Order Houses and Department Stores, 19 South Lincoln street. Plans for furthering our Mail Order House campaign will be dis- cussed: 1— getting into the union, 2—Taking up new problems in the in- dustry. 3—Further organizational tagks in the campaign. MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION. To be held at Kanter’s Auditorium, 259 Monroe St., under the auspices of the Workers Party, 1 Passaic, N. J., Friday, May 1, it 7:30 p.m. Speakers in all . es. Bring your friends with Admission 10 cents. Ade Talk it up—youwshopmate will subscribe! ‘ Douglas Park English Branch, 3118 : AAA mm IAA A ON THIS- IMPORTANT MATTER Once More We Quote Wm. Z. Foster: “Here, in the building up of the circulation of the DAILY WORKER, lies a field for the development of Communist organ- izers, which is open to every member of our party. In the per- formance of the systematic work necessary to the effective sale of DAILY WORKER subscriptions, and for that matter the sale of any of our party press subscriptions, there is called into play the qualities which go to make real organizers and pro- pagandists. “In building the DAILY WORKER circulation we approach non-party workers, workers who are not class conscious. We tell them about the DAILY WORKER and ask them to subscribe. We must explain to them at least the main essentials of the class struggle. We must overcome objections, prove the ad, vantages and necessity of organization, of working class mili- tancy, of struggle against the boss and his pliant tools, the trade union bureaucrats. We must exploit the growing revolt of these workers. We must connect up our paper and our party... with these workers by making the DAILY WORKER the spokes- man and champion of their grievances. All this must be done upon the most far-reaching scale and in ‘the most systematic manner possible. “Such work is getting down to fundamentals. It means real contact with the masses. By carrying it on aggressively and persistently we build up our self-confidence and our ability to give expression to Communist principles. In other words, we develop ourselves into organizers.” From the article “The DAILY WORKER—a Communist Builder” by Wm. Z. Foster in Jan. 13 issue of the DAILY WORKER, And While You Build the Labor Movement— For every $6.00 worth of subs ($8.00 worth in Chicago) we will gladly send you a leather binder with patent clasp making all sheets detachable; with pocket for receipts and note paper for your use— containing a fall descriptive catalogue of all Communist books and publications—an efficient tool for the Communist Builder. THE DAILY WORKER | ' 1113 W: Washington Blvd. Goo a year 6 3.50-6 montis $2.00 3 montis 02 Bere se ayear F450 6 montis § 250, I months NEW. 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