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siiiiaeieeneadiil aia ci age Four ~~ BUSINESS PICKS | NEW LACKEY 10 REPLACE OSCAR Choic e for Senator Also a Millionaire (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, July 2. — (FP) — Oscar Underwood, big business sena- tor from Alabama, is about to an nounce his retirement from public life, and to designate John H. Bank- head, brother of the congressman and son of the late senator, as the man approved by the conservative indus- trial interests of Alabama as his suc- cessor. There will be no labor or farmer} candidate in the democratic primary | will decide the issue but half a dozen as- pirants for the favor of organized business will be early in the field. The great mass of the people of the | state will have nothing to do with| choosing their next senator. | Is Millionaire. Bankhead, who recently sold a coal mine at a price reputed at $1,000,000, inherits the powerful and corrupt pol- itical machine built up by, his father, and the chief corporate interests in the state, and he is expected to spend some hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, if necessary, to win. His chief rival, former Gov. Kilby, is likewise rich and is expected to be prodigal with campaign funds. Kilby is notorious as the governor who induced the organized coal min- ers, in their heroic strike of 1922, to select him as arbitrator. Once chosen, he delivered a decision whose bitter- ness toward the strikers and their union bore all the earmarks of prep- aration in the operators’ camp long | before he was put in position to be- tray the men’s cause. Chamber of Commerce Gives Orders. Underwood has recently been tour- ing Alabama, speaking before his ro- tary and Kiwanis friends, telling them that he wants to retire, but saying that if the people demand that he continue to carry the héavy burden of public office he will feel bound to consider their opinion. At the same time his friend, Bankhead, has sent to the reactionary press of the state his own campaign material? with por- traits of himself, ready for publica- tion on the day that Underwood an- nounces withdrawal and asks his friends to endorse Bankhead. The old Bankhead machine always supported Underwood in the house and senate. In the background, pulling the wires, is the Associated Industries of Alabama, a close organization of the coal operators, steel trust, and all other big corporations in business there. Its secretary is a former offi- cial of the Southern Railway. The Alabama Power Co. is one of its guid- ing elements. This federation of big business will elect Underwood's suc- cessor. contest which next summer, Gentleman man With Most Appropriate Monicker to Advise the Trib) “This afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, H. G. W. Woodhead, will speak on ‘The Present Situation in China.’”—From the news columns of the Chicago Trib- une, July 1. nae neighbor would like to| issue of the DAILY} Be- neighborly—give Your read this WORKER. it to him! The The Organization of the Apparatus| for Agitprop Work in the Section of the Communist International, Draft Drawn Up By the Agitprop De- partment of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. (a) Central Committee. eee 1 The consistent leadership of the * agitational and propagandist work of the party, in all its forms and expressions, verbal and written, requires that special agitprop depart- | ments be affiliated to the central com- | mitees of all the sections of the Co- mintern, without consideration of the | influence possessed by the party or of the political conditions under which it works. 2. The agitprop, acting under the directions of the C. C. of the party, drafts a complete plan of every branch of agitational and propagandist party work, and controls the carrying out, in every local organization, of every decision made with regard to these questions by the party conference or by the C. C. $. The C. C. of the party appoints one of its members as head of the agitprop department. 4. The head of the agitprop de- partment of the C. C. is assisted by an agitprop commission, consisting of four to eight members appointed by the C. C. of the party with the head of the agitprop department as chair- man. This commission carries out the whole of the preliminary work in general questions of agitation and propaganda, drafts the plan of work for the departments, and distributes the work amongst the members of the commission. The commission should meet regularly, at least once weekly. 5. In order to maintain communi- cation between the work of the agit- prop department of the C. C. and the other departments of the C. C., and with the organizations related to the Communist Party, and to render this work consistent in character, the com- mission will be participated in by rep. resentatives of the organization de partment of the C: C., of the women's secretariat, of the Young Communist League, of the Red Sport Organiza- tions, of the International Red Relief etc. Care should be taken that the members appointed to the commission are comrades familiar with education al work in the trade union and co-op- erative organizations. The head of the agitprop department of the party or- ganization in the capital city is to be called upon to attend the session of the commission. 6. When dividing work into various functions within the agitprop com- mission, the department should ob- serve the following chief forms of agitation and propaganda work, (a) agitation among the masses; (b) work in the sphere of propaganda or party education, and (c) the political peri- odic press. The agitprop commission may form special sub-commission en- suring consistent work in these vari- ous branches. The members and re- sponsible leader of these sub-commis- |sions are appointed by the agitprop commission, subject to the approval of the C. C. of the party. The com- rades forming these sub-commissions need not necessarily be members of the agitprop commission. 7. The organization of the sub-com- | missions mentioned under 6. is by no means compulsory, but must be made to depend upon the real stage of de- | velopment and actual differentiation of the work in hand. In the case of sections in which no great amount of work has been accomplished as yet, it suffices to form a small agitprop department, consisting of three mem- | ary from the party, enabling them to | leader as chairman. bers (including the leader), without any subdivision into sub-commissions. | Organization of. Communist; A press subcommission only becomes necessary where’the party press is al- ready well developed or where good opportunity is offered for our com- rades to participate in the trade union press. The sub-commission for propa- ganda should be formed in every im- portant party. 8. Where the financial position of the section renders it possible, it is desirable to supplement the depart- ment with a small technical appar- atus: one or two secretaries, an as- sistant for clerical work. It is also | desirable that two or three of the leading workers receive a fixed sal- devote themselves exclusively to their work, 9. The whole of the work done by the agitprop department of the C. C. must be based upon the most, careful study of the working experience won in the whole of the local organiza- tions of the party. Should the agit- propt department issue instructions or circulars, it should require the ex- ecution of its instructions with the utmost strictness, and should insist for this purpose of being supplied with all material and full reports from all subordinate organizations. The department must organize the study of all locally compiled material, must be capable of pronouncing a critical judgment on every document and or- ganization belonging to a local organ- ization. The maintenance of active communication with the local organ- izations is the leading task of the department. 10: The C. C. of the party will call enlarged consultations about twice a year for the discussion of general questions pertaining to the agitprop lepartment (or its separate branches) These conferences will be participated n by the agitprop department of the | C. C. and by the leaders of agitprop work in the leading district and local ‘ommittees of the party, and by the witprop organizers from three to five of the most important party factory auclei, The agenda.of these confer- ences, as also the whole of the pre- ‘aratory material, must be decided ipon by the agitprop commission be- ‘orehand, and placed in good time tt the disposal of the local organiza- ions, (b) District Committees. }] In accordance with the decis- "ions of the C. C. of the party, agitprop departmehts will again be iffiliated to the district committees. These departments will be similar in construction to the agitprop depart- ment of the C, C., but on a smaller scale, care being taken to avoid ex- cessive ramification and differentia- tion, or the employment of paid as- sistance. (c) Local Committees. 12 It is, absolutely necessary that "a comrade be selected from the presidium, or from the bureau of th local party committee, as leader o the whole work of agitation and prop aganda in the local organization, an¢ responsible to the party committee for this. work. This must be remem- bered when the party committee and its presidium are being formed, and these bodies must include a comrade thoroly qualified in every respeet, and perfectly firm in principles, capable of undertaking the position of respon- sible.leader of the whole agitprop de- partment of the local organizer. 13. The party committees are as- sited by an agitprop department in the perliminary work referring to all questions of agitation and porpaganda. This department consists of the lead- er of the agitprop work reférred to under point 12, and of a commission of five to seven members with the It is absolutely necessary that one of the comrades | be thoroly { in this commission ena fons of Marxist: | versed in the questio! Leninist theory, who has to lead the | whole work of the local organization in the sphere of propaganda work | (party education). Some of the agit- prop organizers of the largest factory nuclei belonging to the local organiza- tion concerned are also included as members of the commission. Be- sides this, the agitprop organizers of the nuclei are required to report to every session of the commission up- on the agitprop work. in their nucleus, and to take part in the discussion of and decision on the general questions of the commission work. 14, The agitprop commission dis- tributes the various branches of work among its permanent members, and organizes at the same time two sub-| (b) | commissions: (a) for agitation; for propaganda (party education). 15. Decisions made by the agit- prop commission and its sub-commis- sions, if of a general character, are subject to the approval of the presidi- um or of the committee, in accordance with the report given by the respons- ible leader of the agitprop work. Com- munications bearing the character of circulars must be signed by the sec- retary of the committee. 16. In order to establish communi- cation with other departments of the committee, and with related organiza- tions (Young Communist League, Or- ganization Department, Women’s Sec- retariat, etc.), the representatives of these bodies are invariably called up- | on to, take part in the session of the | agitprop commission. 17. The party committee convo- cates meetings of the secretaries and agitprop organizers of the factory nu- clei and residential commitjees at least once in two months, in order tq receive the reports on the work of the agitprop department, and to dis- cuss the principles of the agitprop work. 18. The agitprop department of the local committee must hold, strictly to its duty of forwarding reports of its work in good time to the central agit- prop department of the party; it should forward the whole of its ma- terial to the central committee imme- diately on its receipt, and should send in a short and comprehensive report every month, stating the statistic data referring to the number of agitation meetings called and action carried out by the committee or by the residential committees and nuclei to the number of participators in these actions, the number of pamphlets issued, slogans printed, ete. (d) Residential Committe ] Should the local organization of ‘the party be subdivided into res- idential committees, these should be assisted, in the same manner as the local committee, by ‘similar agitprop ‘lepartments consisting for instance of » commission of three members and hairman, this last one being a mem- ver of the bureau, or of the presidium ‘f the residential committee, and re- ponsible to this last for the whole of he agitprop work. 20. In all organizations to which ‘esidential committees belong, the leaders of the agitprop work in this committee are members of the agit- prop commission of the local commit- tee. The participatiom of the agit- prop organizers of the nuclei in the sessions of this commission remains in force. The convocation of consulta- tions among the nuclei agitprop or- ganizers is the task of the residential committees. The local committee calls enlarged conferences on agit- prop work once in three months, and the residential committees and the leading factory nuclei take part in these conferences. 21. The agitprop department of the THE DAILY, WORKER: - residential committee must organize the closest collaboration with the agit- | prop organizers of the nuclei control- | ling the work on the spot, and re- ceiving the verbal reports of the agit- prop organizers at the sessions of the agitprop commission of the residence. (e) Factory Nuclei, 22 It is extremely necessary, at the "very commencement of work for the organization of factory nuclei, to devote the very greatest attention to Communist agitaion and propaganda among-he working mass in the works or factory, and to ensure proper direc- tion for this work. This applies es- pecially to party educational work among the members of the party, among sympathizers and candidates. It is necessary for this purpose to ap- point a comrade belonging to the bu- reau of the nucleus, commissioned as “agitprop organizer” to include the whole of this work in his field of ac- tivity, to lead the work, and to con- trol the execution of all decisions. 23, The agitprop organizer of a nu- cleus has the following duties: (a) The keeping of a list of the whole of those members of the fac- tory nuclei who are suitable for prop- aganda and agitation work. WASHINGTON, July 2—Chamizal, the Rio Grande river in El Paso which Under the treaty of Guadaloupe w' to the Rio Grande, fixing the middle of the bed of the river as it then ran, as the boundary. The river moved southward, thru} long years of wearing away the south bank, until today the old boundary stands in the American city of El Paso, and the Mexican area, known as the Chemizal, is laid out in streets and railroad yards that are American- owned thru purchase from the orig- inal Mexican owners. An agreement was reached between the two countries in 1910 for arbitra- tion of the Mexican claim for political rule of this territory, and a Canadian was chosen as arbitrator. He decid- ed, in 1911, that’ all lands south of a} certain line which he drew should be Mexican. The Mexican government ac- cepted his ruling, but the Washington! government rejected it, claiming he} had exceeded his powers. 5 Recently this dispute was revived and Secretary Kellogg was under- stood to be negotiating a settlement, by “compromise.” Now the Mexican bluff in securing a better “compro-| mise” for the United States. Mellon Passes Preaching Plate WASHINGTON, —(FP)— Andrew Mellon, head of the aluminum trust and the federal treasury, is announced as treasurer of the college of preach- ers which the National (Episcopal) Cathedral Foundation at Washington, is to establish. This college will train men for “prophetic. freaching to win thousands by a strong appeal to Christ and his religion.” © Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, July 2.—Great Britain | pound sterling, 4.85%; cable 4.86%. France, franc 4.55%; cable 4.56. Bel- gium, franc 4.49%; cable 4.50. Italy, lira, 3.37%; cable 3.38. Sweden, krone | 26.82; cable 26.85. Norway, krone 18.16; cable 18.18. Denmark, krone | 20.48; cable 20.50. Germany, mark no uote; Shanghai, tael 78.50; cable no ‘quote. i papers are suggesting that the attack | on President Calles is to serve as a/ Agitation and Propaganda (b) The organization of circles for the study of questions of party pro- gram and party tactics, (c) The organization of individual agitation among non-party workers, and especially among workers sympa- thizing with the party, (d) The performance of the prep- aration work required by meetings and gatherings held for purposes of agitation, (e) The organization of our appear- ance at gatherings and meetings held |: by trade union and other organiza- tions. ‘(t) The organization of the dissem- ination of party literature, etc, 24, The agitprop organizer may be assisted by a small commission, con- sisting of the most active members of the nucleus; not members of the bu- reau. This commission undertakes the organization of the distribution of our literature, and appoints special comrades for this work. 25. ‘The agitprop organizer and the commission carry on their work in closest collaboration with the nuclei of the Young Communist League, and with the organizer of work among women, where these nuclei and or- ganizations exist. STEAL OF MEXICAN LAND SEEN AS ~ ONE REASON FOR KELLOGG’S NOTE the district on the northern side of is claimed by Mexico, has come under suspicion as being one of the secret reasons for the Kellogg-Coolidge-Shef- field attack on the Mexican government. hich ended the Mexican war with the United States in 1846, Mexico ceded to the United States all of Texas down VAN SWERINGENS SEEK TO BOOST THE FREIGHT RATE ON UNION COAL WASHINGTON, July 2.—The pro- posal of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis railroad, one of the roads involved in the Van Sweringen mer- ger, to cancel the present thru com- modity freight rates on anthracite coal, in carloads, from Erie, Pa., and Buffalo, N. Y., and related points to Sparland, IIl., and to in- crease the rate from $2.96 to $4.10 a long ton, was ordered investigated today by the interstate commerce commission. The Van Sweringens are said to be backed by J. P. Mor- gan. Chicago-New York Night Air Mail Is Successfully Started Chicago's first night airmail from New York, packed in the cockpit of a giant Dehaviland piloted by War- reda B. Williams, zoomed down out of the sky to a perfect landing at the Maywood field at 6:18 o'clock (central standard time) yesterday. The 32 sacks of mail were im- mediately loaded on trucks and started for the loop for the first daily delivery, did So | Arrive Ahead of Schedule. NEW YORK, July 2.—Overnight "New York-Chicago air mail service is a success. The first plane in the new night mail service from Chicago arrived at Hadley Field, N. J.,/at two o'clock this morning, well ahead of schedule. The second plane landed at Hadley Field at 4:35, eastern standard time. Give this copy to your shop-mate. SOVIET UNION TAKES STEPS 10 AID PEASANTS 7 ad Siar, Land, Woods and Goods Available (Special to The Dally Worker.) ™ MOSCOW—At the last convention of the Councils of the Union S, 8. R. the following measures for the im- provement of agriculture were taken among others. 1. Approval of the decision of the government to lower the peasant taxes by 100 million rubles; . Approval of the decision of the government to give 100 million rubles out of the peasant tax for the needs of the local peasant councils, for schools, hospitals, better roads, etc. Give Peasants More Land. 3. To turn over to the poor peasants part of the state lands; 4, To turn over to the peasantry the balance of the forest reserve, ready for their needs; 5. To approve the rules and regula- tions issued by the government con- cerning the terms and conditions of hiring farm hands; 6. To re-establish within five years with the aid of the state the pre-war number of horses and to develop horse breeding; 7. To increase the manufacture of agricultural machinery and imple- ments; oe 8. To introduce on a large scale to the peasants the use of agricultural machinery and especially of tractors; 9. To take steps to secure the pro- duction of better quality seeds; Lower Prices. 10. To continue the lowering of prices of manufactured commodities used by the peasantry; 11. To inaugurate measures for the development by the peasantry of such branches of farming for which there is a large and more profitable demand by foreign markets, 12. To aid in the establishment of factories in which valuable by-prod- ucts can be obtained in the process of — manufacture; 13. To appropriate 77,000,000 rubles to alleviate the conditions prevaiiing in the Southeast of U, S. S. R., which are due to poor crops—the result of periodical droughts; 14. To encourage and aid in the de- velopment of the co-operative move- ment among the peasantry; 15. To extend larger and long-term }farm credits to the peasantry and to lower the cost of the same; 16. To bring up to a higher level ag- ricultural education and to spread in- tensively the promotion of better farming methods. among the peas- antry; 17. 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