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~s NEGRO ST a WIN STRIKE AT HOWARD COLLEGE Will Not Be Punished for Drill Absence WASHINGTON, May 81.—(FP)— Three points have been won by thé students of Howard University who went on strike ‘against pinishment for non-attendance at military training classes, After a week of discussion as to whether faculty or students in the federal government's great col- lege for the Negro race were réspot- sible for the strike, a partial settle ment has been condeded, Students are henceforth not to be suspended for “cutting” military drill and other classes until changes in the rules are made. No student is to be charged with absence or made to bear other penalties for participa tion in the strike, Seven other demands of the stu: dents are stiil under discussion by the faculty. Among these is; the aban- donment of compulsory military train- ing. NEW YORK CiTY Party Activities Boost Library In the Bronx, NEW YORK, May 81.—The Bronx library committee is golmg to arrange a comraderie, get together, sociable and housewarming to celebrate the opening of the Bronx library, The affair will be held the last Saturday in June at the Bronx headquarters, 1347 Boston Road. Admissioon will be absolutely free. Refreshments will be served and good talent arranged for; musio—plenty of good Jazz will be saxaphoned; and indications are that those attending will long after remember the rip-roaring good time that the Bronx library committee fur nished them just to show that it ap- preciates the necessity of fun and frolic—of tripping “the light fantastic toe” as well as reading solemn Milton. Remember the date comrades—the last Saturday in June, and all be there, Come formal, informal, or any other way you please, but come en- masse. And now, don't forget that the Bronx library is on the map—on the Bronx map. Come over to the head- quarters, 1347 Boston Road, and drink deep of the fountain of wisdom and learning; or come 4s a mere spectator and see what's doing. Bring us your old books and pamphlets, and if you have a few dollars to spare, throw them in for good measure. Wednesday, June 8, at 8 p. m., at 1847 Boston Road,-the organization meeting of the Workers’ Sport Alli- ance will take place. All Workers Party and Y. W. L. members and sympathizers interested in upbuildé ing themselves physically as well as building the Communist movement should attend this meeting. Our sports will consist of field and track work, class exercises, calisthenics and swim- ing. The Role ap ange THE DAILY WORKER Spe and Tasks of the Agitation’ and Propaganda W aie rk In the Bolshevization of The National Sectlons of Communist International By BELA KUN. F we understand under the Bolshe- visation that the sections of the QO, L are to be rendered capable, in ideological-political and organizatory respects, of leading and organizing revolutidn (or, to speak more accur- ately, of Jeading and organizing the present period of international tevo- lution, that is, the period in which the majority of the proletariat, and of those decisive social strata forming the reserves of revolution, are to be won over) successfully by the use of those methods which have led the Russian Communist Party to victory, then the role and tasks falling to the Agitprop work as part of Bolsheviza- tion may be easily and definitely as- certained, Leninism made the party of the Bolsheviki capable of recogniz- ing the Russian objective revolution- ary forces, and of making use of the whole of the given factors, thus en- abling it to organize the revolution and lead it to victory, That teaching which has developed the theory and practice of Marxism by Marxian methods, and applied it to the post Marxian period of economic and social development, by means of the experiences gained in three Russ- jan revolutions and in the various forms of revolution passed thru by the international proletariat, and by gen- eralizing these experiences into a theory, renders the party capable, both as regards politics and organiza- tion of winning over the masses for the revolution. This theory serves the masses as guide for practical and successful revolutionary action, Bolshevization Defined. OLSHEVIZATION does not thus the lessons learned from the experi- ences undergone by the Bolshevist Party, nor merely the acceptance of the forms of organization of, this party. The theory of Bolshevism cannot be separated from the experience won. by the Bolshevist Party, or from the forms of organization resulting on the three Russian revoltuions. But on the other hand {it would be equally wrong to separate the methods from the results—as is done by some who call themselves Marxists and even belong to the Communist Party—and entirely wrong to degrade Bolsheviz- ation from a theory which leads rey- olutionary action to a mere aggregate of practical experiences. The real im- port of Bolshevism consists of having the Communist Parties take over Len- inism in its entirety, and apply it in actual political and organizatory prac- tice. It is only within the confines of this theory as a whole, and in their character as its constituent parts, that the differentiated political and ‘organ- {zatory measures applied in the. vari- ous countries, at different times and in different forms, can become a Bol- shevist policy, that is, can become a policy adapted to winning over the masses for the purposes of revolufion- ary action at any given stage of revo: lution: It is only within the limits of this theoretical entirety that we can avoid the two dangers constantly threatening the Communist Parties: 1. The danger of regarding the Com- munist Party as “object in itself,” as a party isolated from the masses, and 2, The danger of taking the “winning over” of the masses to mean that it is not the Communist Party which leads the masses, but that this party gives way to the spontaneous will of the masses, and permits itself to be led by it, During the present period of revolu- tion both these dangers may become very acute, and are already acute in many places. For this reason the fundamental task to be carried out by the propagandist work of the Commu- nist Parties consists of rendering the leading cadres of the party and the masses ideologically capable of lead- ing political organization and agita- tion of a nature competent to main- tain & constant connection with the masses—and not only to maintain this connection, but to penetrate more deeply into the masses and to com- prise them on & broader foundation. ‘The Two Main Spheres of Work of the Agitprop. TARTING from this viewpoint, we see that Bolshevization demands that the work of the Agitprop be con- centrated in two closely connected main lines, both aiming essentially at the same goal: 1. Tae education of the leading cadres of the parties in the spirit of Leninism; Leninist mass propaganda on broad party lines. 2. The extension of the agitative power and influence of the party press | by means of the creation of a Com- merely mean the recognition of | munist mass press—~we must not be afraid of the term: “Communist peo- ple’s press.” Work must be carried on every- where in these two directions. And tho the measures employed for the attainment of these objects may be different in every party, these aims and tasks must form, internationally, the concrete goals aimed at by the concrete Agitprop activity of every Communist Party. * Propaganda for Leninism. Up to the present day, propaganda for Leninism has scarcely got pagt the ‘point of agitation in favor of this propaganda. The reason for this may be approx- imately found in the following cir- cumstances: 1. The majority of our parties have not yet discovered the best way of combining propaganda for Leninism with the actual political questions, struggles, and organizatory work of the party. In other words: the’prop- aganda has been more or less ab- stract. 2. The absence of Lenin’s works among the Leninist literature in the majority of the European languages. 3. The complete lack of organs lead- ing the working propaganda during the period fmmediately following the Fifth Oongress or the existence of such organs in an embryonal state only, both in the ©, I, and in its vari- ous sections. As a fesult of this, propaganda cadres have been lacking in the various parties, or the employ- ment of the existing propagandist forces has been unorganized. HE experience of six months now looked back upon by the Agitprop Department of the ©, I., tho extremely incomplete, suffices to show that these difficulties can be overcome by ener getic effort, tho not within a very short time. The indispensible connec- tions between the propaganda for Len- inism and the struggles and organiza- tory work of the party, in other words: the working ont of the import and methods of propaganda work—at least in the most important and 'crgest sec- tlons—will be rendered possible by the co-operation of the separate sec- tions and the Agiprop organs of the ©. 1. The translation of Lenin's most important works into foreign lang- uages is a much greater technical and financial difficulty, The lack of suit- abie translators and of a book publish- ing apparatus, the political conditions obtaining the various countries—ille- ghiity—greatly delay the publication of Lenin's works, The creation of or- gans leading the propaganda work has also been greatly delayed, chiefly for tho reason that the decisions ar- rived a! by the Fifth Congress on this question have not immediately as- sumed the position of importance due to them in the consciousness and the work of the parties. It will be the task of the Enlarged Wxecutive to make the parties fully conscious of the importance of this theory. Leninist Clubs and Schools. The six months which have passed since the Bolshevization slogan was issued have matured the question of propaganda for Leninism to such an extent that at least the most import- ant and best developed settions of the C. I. have been able to take up the following tasks, and to issue the fol- lowing slogans: 1. The establishment of a Central School of Leninism in’ the course of the year 1925, 2. Short elementary courses of in- struction are to be arranged in every local organization, a Leninist club is to be formed in every large party nu- cleus, and in the individual parties the whole of the members (as in the English Communist Party) can pass thru a certain course of instruction within a certain time, say two or three years, with the aid of these elemen- tary classes, or can.be united in Len- inist clubs. ff Besides this, provision is to be made within this year for a really thoro study of Leninism, if only for a limit- ed few, by means. of the organization of international Leninist courses of instruction (by the German, French and English sections) in Moscow. The Agitprop Section of the En- larged Executive is:faeed by the task of working out all the practical and differentiated activity involved in this FIVE SHOP NUCLEI ORGANIZED BY THE PARTY IN PULLMAN Five shop nuclei were organized in Pullman last week when Comrades Abern, Johnstone, Dunne and Gomez, representatives of the district executive committee, came before a membership meeting of the Pullman city organ- ization. The shop nuclei organized were Shop Nucleus No. 1, Pullman car shops, 17 members; Shop Nucleus No. 2, Wisconsin Steel company, 4 members; Shop Nucleus No. 3, company, 4 members; Shop Nicleus No. 4, Ford Motor works, 11 members, and Shop Nucleus No. 5, Illinois Cen- tral Hospital, 3 members. Comrade Martin Abern, district organizer presented the problem of shop nuclei organization to the mem- bership meeting at which some 40 \members were present. He outlined briefly the historical necessity of shop nuclei organization, the need of cor- rect organization in order to carry out a correct Communist policy. Com- rade Abern then detailed the work of a shop nucleus, the matter of indus- trial activity, the picking up of issues of the shop, trade union work, de- velopment of shop committees, liter- ature distribution, educational work and hundred and one things that will aid in reaching the workers in the shops with a Communist message. Our party members, he pointed out, do not have real contact with the workers in the shops when they are organized in territorial branches. Shop nuclei organization, organization in the shops, of our party members gives us possibilities of really getting mass contact, of being bolsheviks, men of the masses. A number of questions pertaining to the work were asked and then the meeting got down to the business of organizing the shop nuclei, The mem- bers who worked in these various shops were divided at once according to the place of work, then the district executive committee each took a group of the party comrades into a corner of the hall and proceeded to the organization of shop nuclei. Of- ficers were elected, work laid out and plans laid for early meetings of the nuclei. Shop nuclei delegates to the city central committee were also elect- ed. Possibilities for complete re-organ- Illinois Steel + ization of Pullman on the shop nuclei basis are good. About one half of the party membership was present. The district executive committee is calling another membership meeting at an early date. Many of the comrades who were absent work in the shops where the nuclei were organized and these comrades will at once be attack- ed to the shop nuclei, then a drive tor new members will commense. The comrades were enthusiastic about the possibilities of Communist work on the shop nucleus basis, The slogan is complete reorganiza- tion of Pullman party organization on a shop nucleus basis. (Continued from page 1). by a general claim that he won against the leftwinger, Voyzey, The evident defeat of John L. Lewis and of “B, & O.” Bill Johnston, is held up as the most important develop- ments in the trade union movement, as these two reactionaries represent the threacherous type of labor leader, the open and flagrant traitor to the union that Lewis is, and the even more dangerous class collaboration tendency of Johnston, who is responsi- ble for the infamous “¢o-operation” scheme put into effect on the Balti- more and Ohio railroad--a scheme which turns the union into a company union by official sanction. The Successful Maneuver of the Left Wing. The influence of the left wing, which has been gathering strength steadily as the discontent among the rank and file with these treacherous Policies grew, is undoubted. In the Machinists’ Ballot Results Held Secret Ford Employs More Men Than Any Other Auto Manufaéturer (Special to The Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Mich., May 31.— Henry Ford employs more men than any other automobile company, employ- ment figures just made public reveal. The Ford organization employs 161,- 000 persons in its work thruout the United States. Ford has added 14,500 persons to his employment list in Detroit since March 1. The Ford assembling plants are using 44,000 employes. Bosses Given up Wage Cut NEW YORK, May 31.—The Chil- drens’Jacket Contractors Association has given up its demands for a wage reduction following the refusal of the Childrens’ Clothing Workers’ Union, affiliated with the Amalgamated, to consider a cut. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! case of Lewis it sent him to certain defeat in an open struggle between re- action and the revolutionary left wing. In the present case of Johns- ton, the left wing, altho formally elim- inated by the primary election, has maintained an independent force and defeated Johnston by an election alli- ance with the centrist Anderson group, which it has pushed forward to shatter the grip of the Johnston reac- tionary machine. Whatever the announcement of Sec- retary-Treasurer Davison, this maheu- ver has proven eminently successful. Victory for Pennsylvania Carpenters. HAZLETON, Pa., May 31.—The new agreement won by Hazleton ters from the Master Builders ra‘ wages 12% cents an hour to $1.12% for journeymen and $1,37% for fore- men. Get a sub—make another Com- munist! , permanent order of busine: trict. \ “working class quota. i Workers’ Schoo! FOR YOUR SERVICE, Tay DISTRICT NINE GOES ON RECORD Put Your Shoulders to the Wheel TO ALL BRANCHES IN DISTRICT 9, OMRADES:—At a special meeting of the District Executive Com- mittee held yesterday the following instructions were ordered is- sued to every party unit in this distrcit:— DAILY WORKER RESOLUTION 1. The campaign to secure subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER must supercede all other campaigns until June 15. a 2. Systematic campaigns must be inaugurated in every city to mobilize every party member for this work at once. This mobil- ization to continue until the branch quota has been raised. Every party member capable of reading English should * subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. Comrades who cannot read English should subscribe for their children so that they may acquire an understanding of the Communist movement, 4. The matter of building the DAILY WORKER shall be a at all branch meetings in this dis- During this order of business all members should be called upon to state just what they have done for the DAILY WORKER since the last meeting of the branch. 5. Every branch of the party should appoint one comrade as a “Worker Correspondent” to send in all the local news of a jaracter to the DAILY WORKER, 6. The District Office will expect a report from every branch of the party and from eyery C, C. C. on June 15th, giving a detailed report on the number of subscriptions secured by each branch and the steps being planned to secure the balance of the Minneapolis ‘has been given a quota of 200 new subscribers, St. Paul has been given 135, Duluth 75, Superior 60 and EVERY OTHER BRANCH IN THE DISTRICT MUST SECURE 10 NEW SUBSCRIB- ERS. The life of the DAILY WORKER depends on this campaign be- ing made a success. Put your shoulder to the wheel! Fraternally, DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, A. ©, Hathaway, Dist, Organ. Dist. 9, WANTED IN NEW YORK! - Ses adie to give one or more hours regularly every week to the task of building up the Brower Memorial Library of the Much work must be done In sorting and filing magazines, cata- loguing books, marking, cutting, and filing clippings, ete. Come over any day or evening to 108 East 14th street, Room 34, The clipping and research bureau is being organized by the school You must help. propaganda work. The slight initiatives already ob- servable in this sphere of activity— modest but none the less worthy of praise—as for instance the Lénin School ‘and the district instruction courses formed by the French party, the efforts made by the American party for the formation of Marxist clubs, similar endeavors within the German party, and especially the ini- tlative taken by the English party in gaining influence over the whole of the party members by means of ele- mentary courses of instruction at which attendance {s obligatory, show that the definite aims pursued do not reckon with political and organiza- tory circumstances only, but—at least in the case of a part of the sections— with actual possibilities also. The Bolshevist People’s Press. HE other offensive point of Agit- prop work in the sphere Bolshe- vization {s the fundamental reorgan- ization of the Communist press, its transformation into a Bolshevist peo- ple’s press. The propaganda for Leninism does not serve solely for the internal strengthening of the party, but at the same time for the purpose of party expansion and of enabling the party to Bolshevize the masses outside of the party. Tho Bolshevization of the parties with respect to agitation must first find its expression in the press, and in the following manner: (a) The Communist press is to be reorganized in purport and form in such a manner as to be able to fully satisfy the widest interest taken by the broadest working masses for ques- tions of political and social culture. It must form the daily reading matter of not only the party members, but of the broadest masses of the work- ers, and must not only be read by shop and factory workers, but by the members of their families. (b) Distribution must be so organ- ized that the party is enabled, by means of its press, to reach those strata of the working class which it cannot reach by other methods and forms of agitation. (c) The Communist press is to be freed from all professionalism, so that the worker is not merely the reader of the Communist newspaper, but at the same time its contributor and distrib- utor. This raises the question of the Worker Correspondents, a question which inevitably arises with elemen- tary force wherever the Communist press has found a fairly wide circle of readers. The settling of this question is the more imperative as certain sec- tarian tendencies can alréady be ob- served with regard to it, caused by} the limitation of the Workers Coore- spondents to the Communists. ? Importance of Communist Dailies. In connection. with these questions the problem of the internatiopal press may here be mentioned as belonging to our general tasks; our internation- al press may safely make it its aim to double the number of readers of the Communist press. 4 In & great number of Communist parties the creation of a daily news- paper is a burning question. The lack of a Communist daily newspaper is greatly felt in a number of coun- tries, especially in England. Without a daily newspaper the Communist Party cannot form any adequately im-| portant factor in any country. The initiative taken by the American Com- munist Party, by which the publica- tion of a daily Communist paper in the English language has been made pos- sible, shows that the issue of a daily paper is not an impossible taks for a Communist Party which has passed beyond the stage of mere agitation, or approaching the end of this stage. The Organization of Agitprop Work. HE Fifth Congress impressed it up- on every party, as special task, to create special organs for Agitprop work. This task, closely bound up with the prerequisites of successful party work—and in general with the differentiation of party work and of party apparatus—has been carried out to but a very slight degree up to now. Even in the central party apparatus only the first steps are being taken towards the formation of the organs required for Agitprop work. (Ger- many, Fratice, Czecho-Slovakia, and Italy are taking the lead in this direc- tion, and the English party is not re- maining behind.) ‘Where these leading organs are lacking, the organization of Agitprop work is impossible. The party cannot accomplish the task of Bolshevization which is set it if there are no organs for the distribution of Bolshevist ideology. The central organs them- selves are merely suspended in the air, so to speak, if the Communist la- bor organizations do not furnish them with such organs, that is, with organ- izations halding a grasp over the members, and keeping up the connec- tions between the party centers and the periphery. The reorganization of the party on the basis of factory nu- clei remains defictent and inadequate unless we succeed in imparting the spirit of Communism into the work of the factory cells. A not inconsider- able part of this Communist spirit is supplied by the propaganda for Lenin- ism, by the dissemination of the Com- munist press, and by the systematic agitation among the non-party masses. In connection with this the question of the Agitprop organization is raised, that is, the question of the creation and development of that type of party worker whose task consists in organ- izing and leading the ideological work of Bélshevization in the immediate circle ‘of party members, and among the broad masses outside of the party. These organizatory questions await their solution, at least in general, if we are really intent upon realizing, in a manner promising actual success in the near future, the two prerequisites indispensible for the Bolshevization of the Communist Parties, the two most imperative tasks: the propagan- da for Leninism and the creation of a Communist people’s press. Schlossberg for Unity NEW YORK, May 31.—Joseph Schlossberg, general secretary-treas- urer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, is the first national executive of a big American Labor Union to endorse the movement for international trade union unity that is now going on between the Russian and British labor organizations. Schlossberg’s opinions are given in the May 29 issue of Advance, official organ of his union. Patronize our advertisers. Victim of Bosees’ “Law.” I was going to recetve initiation In- to the party, and my application is filed at the Los Angeles Unglish branoh, I wish to state that I feel bet- ter toward becoming a member since I have been incarcerated. I have learned more about class organization than if I had attended many schools. I can’t give you details as you um derstand my position. It’s not allowed, since I am a prisoner. Bought Book—Jalled, The “crime”, comrades, is so atroot ous that I am really afraid to describe it. But being one of you, well, what is shame to us anyway, so let me say it. The book agents were after me to buy a book, and let me name the com pany, Merriams & Co., who sells dio tionaries at $2.00 down and monthly payments. I ordered that book thru the mails with the $1.00 and later, ow- ing to long unemployment, I hadn't paid any, and that book was stolen from my room, so the company in- structed the government’s postmaster to arrest me for “using the mails to defraud.” I thought is was nothing, and the public defendant advised mo to plead guilty so I wouldn’t get-more than sixty days. I thonght then it might be quicker than to plead not guilty, so I pleaded guilty, and the protector of bills, due to the ruling clan, Judge Benjamin Bladsoe of Los Angeles, sentenced me to ten months, ’ This was a trap, as I have been 18 years in the U. S, A. and all that time in California, full citizen and an hon- crable discharge from the army. In my fury I addressed 4 letter to the setretary of labor, demanding the cancellation of my citizenship and an immediate deportation at ‘the expira- tion of my sentence, to which his hon- or advises me that it’s impossible as the crime {is not blg enough to grant me that wish. J] have been working 18 years and have no fare to leave. So this is the crime, exactly that the bills were not paid, and to punish those like me who don’t pay bills, they have revised the old law of debt im- prisonment as “using the mails to de fraud.” Anyway, I am hore, and glad for the great strength it gives me. This in- carceration shows me more of the true face of the system and it cost me ten months without sunlight.—T. K. Pittsburgh Membership Meeting Wednesday, June 3, at Lyceum PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 81—The Pittsburgh membership meeting of the Workers Party will be held on Wed- nesday, June'3, 8 p. m., at the Inter- national Labor Lyceum, 805 James street, N. S., main floor. Arne Swabeck, district organizer, will report on the party conference held in Chicago recently. The second order of business will be the question of Worker Correspondence and the circulation ‘of the DAILY WORKER. All members are urged to attend. Chicago University Fires 17 of Faculty Because of “Old Age” Sixteen men and one woman will be dropped from the faculty of the Uni- versity of Chicago at the end of the present term, it has been announced, because they have reached the 65 year age limit set by the board of trustees. One of those who is being retired is Prof. John M. Coulter, head of the botany department. “ Ihave reached the age of retirement, it was inevi- table,” Cowlter said. He will head the Boyce-Thompson institute for Workers League of America, In the latest issue of the $1.50 a Year | WHO IS BEHIN . WHO IS BEHIND THE CITIZENS’ MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS The YOUNG WORKER, the weekly organ of the Young paign against these camps in every issue. Young Worker. there is a special story exposing ‘these camps which turn out scabs as fast as they turn out cannon-fodder. Endorsed by the A. F. of L. at the El Paso Convention the Citizeng’ Military Training Camps have become a burning issue to every left winger in a trade union. For this action of the El Paso convention not only connects ~ the machinery of the American Federation of Labor up with the War Department, but thru this action the bureau- crats are collaborating with the big open shop employers in supporting this strike-breaking institution. You will want to be well informed about the C. M. T. C.'s. Send bundle orders and subscriptions to ‘ PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT OF THE Young Workers League of America 1113 WwW. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, 850 for 6 months plant research at Yonkers. carries on a strenuous cam- Single Coples 50

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