The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1925, Page 3

SCHEME TO GET ~USAINTO TALK ’ ‘ON WAR DEBTS Finds Favor at London Anglo-French Meeting (Continued from page 1) to this point of view is accepted with- out question, It has had a tendency to throw the whole dsicussions here into a circle— whether France should settle with England before Caillaux approaches the United States or whether the United States should first disclose her own terms of settlement to France. To get out of this circle, therefore, it is but natural that Churchill and Caillaux should ask each other whether a way cannot be found to widen the discussions so as to in- elude the counsels of the United States, At the conclusion of his conference with Churchill, Caillaux hurried away in a waiting automobile to keep his Tuncheon agreement at the French em- bassy. He said merely that he would Tesume his conversations with the chancellor of the British exchequer after the luncheon, Get Houghton to Lunch, Always there is the important part which the social amenities play in these gatherings of the political lead- ‘rs of the nations. And the luncheon gt the French embassy today at which the ambassador, M. De Fleuriau had as his guests not only Caillaux an Churchill, but American Ambassador Houghton as well. One only needs to recall the im- portance which MHoughton’s mere presence at a similar official luncheon assumed a fortnight ago when the Briand-Chamberlain conversation over the German security pact were in pro- gress, to understand the opportunity which today’s gathering will afford for the sounding out of Houghton by Churchill and Caillaux, British Are Willing. At the foreign office it was said Britain would welcome a three power debt conference along the lines which British and French leaders are dis- cussing here altho doubt was frankly expressed whether the United States would come into such negotiations. Before Churchill and Caillaux re- sumed their conversations today Cail- Jaux had a conference at the French embassy with Montago Norman, gov- ernor of the Bank of England. There for twenty minutes the French finan- cial wizard and the head of Britain's. great banking institution discussed the possibility of extending English credit for the stabilization of the French franc. This was in reality, the dis- cussion in more definite terms, of a subject talked about last night when Caillaux and Norman sat side by side at dinner in the French embassy. Caillaux Confers With McKenna French Finance Minister Caillaux went to the financial district this after- noon where he had a conference with Reginald McKenna, former chancellor of the exchequer, and chairman of the Midland bank, the biggest banking combination in England. He also con- ferred again with Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England and other banks, broaching to both finan- ciers the desiarbility of a tri-partite debt conference which would include the United States. While Downing street is in favor of such a conference, the foreign office has let it be known that Britain would desire that the initiative be taken by either Paris or Washington. Thinks Meeting Significant, The London Star commenting on the presence of the American am- bassador at the luncheon at the French embassy along with Caillaux and Chamberlain, the British minister, said this evening: “It is impossible to avoid the significance in this associa- tion of the three greatest powers in the world gathering around the luncheon table at the height of crit- ical international negotiations.” When the Franco-English negotia- tions started yesterday it was under- stood Churchill would ask Caillaux to Pay 20,000,000 pounds a year; and Cail laux was prepared to counter with an offer of 10,000,000 pounds annually, British For Concessions. Today it was reported that Churchill was willing to scale down the British demands to 15,000,000 pounds, and that Cailleaux would meet this pro- posal with an offer of 12,000,000 pounds. As a basis of compromise seeme possible on the total of annual pay: ments on the French debt to Britat be satisfied out of France’s share ot (Continued from page 1) certain districts will not say that I am doing this for factional reasons. I will try to be just as impartial as pos- sible. Holding Up Good News. One of the most interesting proofs of the Jack of understanding of the role of the Communist press and its relation to the party was disclosed in a very important struggle on the Pa- cific coast, a struggle important not 80 much because of the number of our comrades that were involved or in the numbers of non-party workers in- volved, but because it was an instance of the correct application of Commun- ist tactics in the trade unions and was @ continuation in the Pacific coast labor movement of the struggles that we have been waging in much larger and more important industrial centers, I refer to the expulsion of our com- rades from the Seattle Central) Labor Council on the grounds that they were members of our party and to their successful fight for reinstatement. It was a week or ten days after the attack had been made on our. party by the trade uniop bureaucracy in this impor- tant city on the Pacific coast before the DAILY WORKER received ‘one word or one line about the struggle from the comrades involved and» it Was Necessary for the editors of. the DAILY WORKER to send a number of urgent telegrams before we could get our own comrades to tell us what was happening. We carried the news, of course, as well as we could, but we were compelled to rewrite the news of this clear-cut Communist struggle Was not then the realization that these struggles are not local ones and cau- not be localized but that it is just as important and sometimes more impor- tant that we carry the news of these local struggles to the hundreds of thousands of workérs in other centers: And only thru the Communist press can the correct stories and interpreta- tion of these struggles be had. Another instance: In the city of New York—and I speak now of the Present, not only of the past, and J can only hope that I am not describ- ing the future. It is almost impos- sible to secure from the New York comrades stories of the struggles of the workers in New York. It appears to me that the New York party looks upon the Communist press, our official organ, at least as something having but little connection with the strug- les of the workers outside of our party and particularly neglect to re- port to us the struggles of workers in which our comrades are not taking part. We get plenty of reports from New York of mass meetings about-to be held and what the speakers said at these mass meetings, and speaking for, I think voicing the unanimous opinion of the editorial staff of the DAILY WORKER, it is impossible to tell from these stories whether the speakers spoke to themselves or to several hundred workers. In the strug- gle of the needle trades a short time ago, in the millinery trades I believe it was, or of the waist makers, from 20,000 to 25,000 workers being in- volved, it was five days before we could get any news except what we rewrote from the New York Times. The same thing has been true of doz- ens of other happenings, and so far as the ordinary routine daily events of the lives of the workers in the shops and factories is concerned, there is no evidence in our press that the New York comrades understand that it is out of these struggles that are welded the broad class struggle. These small struggles for jobs, conditions, wage in- creases, etc., these struggles develop into the armed struggle for power. Circulation Weakness. In Boston the party was conducting, or attempting to conduct, a campaign against wage cuts in the textile indus- try. It also had a shoe campaign on, a campaign in the shoe industry. Com- rade Minor was sent into the textile field and he sent to the DAILY WORKER a number of very well writ- ten stories describing in detail the conditions of the workers in the in- dustry, the assaults made upon them by the textile bosses, the attitude of the state authorities in the struggle, etc., just the kind of stories calculated to interest workers facing a slash in their wages and confronted with the need for a struggle against them. But, comrades, I am inclined to believe that the only workers in the textile} industry who know that the DAILY WORKER carried these stories are those to whom Comrade Minor talked in a few mass meetings. It was im- possible, even after repeated effort, to get the Boston comrades to take a number of issues of the DAILY WORKER or a special edition built around the struggles in the textile in- dustry for distribution in their dis- trict, and so far as benefit to our party was concerned received thru the DAILY WORKER the trip of Comrade Minor and the trouble the DAILY WORKER went to to chronicle the struggles of the textile workers was absolutely wasted due to the fact, of course, that the Boston comrades did not understand the role of the part; press, its relation to the party, an their relation towards it. i Now, the record everywhere is ndt as bad as this, however. In these same districts and ix other districts there have been specia’ distributions of the DAILY WORKER, special ed! tions based on some issue the workin; class was interested in, some struggle in which they were engaged. In Detroit, for instance, the com- rades made a number of distributions, one of them reaching the total of! 20,000 in the automobile industry, but these special campaigns, this concen: tration of effort for a few days on one particular issue, while it helped our press, while it stimulates the interest of the workers in our press and gives our comrades experience in distribu- ting and using our press, nevertheless is not the kind of work or the method by which a real mass press is built. The building of a Communist press is a year-around task, a task for every day and for every Communist, and I think one of the weaknesses of the circulation of our press is exactly that criticized in .the thesis on the Bolshevization of our press, that there is too much spe- cialization or a tendency that way, that once an agent of the DAILY WORKER is appointed in a certain city the other comrades are only too ‘willing that he should have all the work of distributing, circulating, build- ing the Communist press in that dis- trict. Reasons for Small Circulation. We should try, I think, to inculcate in our party the fixed idea that the Communist press is the care of every comrade and that no communist will go to any kind of a working class meeting unless he is supplied with copies of the official organ of the party. But the small circulation of our press, its lack of influence in the labor movement, the general mass movement of the American working class, cannot be ascribed to mechani- cal weaknesses in circulation or even to the lack of understanding of the role of our press by many of the com- rades. Our press itself has certain weaknesses, altho I think that in the last year some of these weaknesses have been corrected somewhat. Never- theless, there are some of them re- maining to constitute an obstacle be- THE DAL, erate Convention Hears Report on Daily lace, I think that our press has the| tfy are very badly infected with the ‘ect in many inptances of frightening | virus of capitalist journalism. It is way many workers who might other-| @xtremely disappointing at times to} ise be intersted) 1 think that the| get contributions bearing all the ear-| accel acelin, ue mall Dumerical strength of our party, he desperate struggle it is making wf & position of power in the Ameri- an working class movement, has the effect Of making our press too flam- bouyant, too hysterical, at times too ‘insistent, too loud and screaming. I believe, secondly, that the traditions ot “yellow journalism” in America }have not yet been. entirely overcome | in ouf press. I think there is too| Much Of a tendéncy towards sensa-| tionalism, toward ‘the picking out of issues that canndt be described accu- rately as working ¢lass issues. Third, I think there is too much tendency on the part of the comrades who con- tribute to our press to exaggerate, to fail in accuracy ih recording the strug- | gle of the workers, and that this more than anything else’ tends to discredit pur press, to make workers doubtful ot the statements, to weaken its influ- ence, Workers Are Critical. And what is the process by whith this is brot about? It is idle to say that workens are not critical in their reading. Tt is true that’ they may not} be very critical of the capitalist press, but a8 goon as a worker discovers that the Comiunist press is challenging the capitalist system he begins to read it very carefully. I want to.tell you as the result of concrete experiences that @ lack of accuracy in news stories of arks of being bona fide expressions Blom workers, to find them dealing | With things and questions that a Com- Munist’ press cannot possibly deal With. | And so we must organize our work: | ir correspondents, instruct them, Ping them as close to the party as possible. We have tried to do this by three methods: by personal corre- | spondence, the selection of contribu-| tors, casual contributors, who showed | Dromise, and also by the appointment | of members of the party. Second, by getting out a pamphlet containing in-| structions, and a short analysis of the Fole of the Communist press, its rela- tion to the party and to the struggles of the workers. Third, by personal contact, lectures,’ instructions, etc. Staff Close to Party. As to the question of departmental- fzation. Most of the papers of the other Communist parties have been Severely criticized by the Agitprop department because of too much de- partmentalization, bringing with it a tendency to pull these departments away from the party and the party life, to set up artificial distinctions and divisions between departments of the press. I think it is only fair to bay that our press does not suffer to jany great extent from this evil. I jispeak now of the English language yPress. I think the staff of the DAILY the struggles of the workers, exagger- ation, wild statements, drive workers away tro’ than any other one thing. ;WORKER is probably more closely do more tofconnected with the party and the m our press} party departments and the party life than any other stage of Communist Suppose, for instance, that we are] journalists of the Comintern with the chronicling a strike and we say that| exception of the Russian Party itself. there are twice as many workers strik-| The reasons for this of course are not ing as are actually involved, and sup-] voluntary ones. It just happens that pose We say that they are asking for] way to a large extent. The staff is a dollar when they are asking for aj small, our party is small, it requires fifty-cent increase, and suppose we say| the aid of every able and willing com- Communist | 1 that the bosses are using gunmen when the bosses are not, for some! Teason or other. Suppose we build al story in which the only accurate state- ment is that a group of workers~are on strike. At-doean’t™ make any dif- ference how much you pledge your ers do not give a damn~ for~ your Pledges. They.look for facts. If these are not correct, they will doubt every- thing you say, and this, comrades, is recognized by the C. I. It has pointed out this error time and time again, and I hope that those conitades who feel moved from time to time to contribute rade, and the Communist journalists are therefore forced to take part in the activity of the party just as the other comrades! do. They find it im- possible to separate themselves from the party life. And I say very em- phatically, I think that our official or- gan cannot be criticized on this point. This close connection of our press with the party life must be continued and strengthened. A few ‘words now on the connection between the editorial department and the circulation of our press. I have already pointed out how the press can to our press will bear this in mind. One other reason why our press is small, that it fs not a workers’ press in the best sense of the word. Becanse the workers’ press not only must be read by the workers, it must be largely written by workers. By this I do not mean, professional jour- nalists. The Communist International has spoken on this question as well and in all the parties of the C, I. those responsible’ for the press are as rap- idly as possible developing groups and chains of workers’ correspondents. At the present time we have some 75 or 85 worker correspondents locat- ed in all the principal centers of the United States, about a third of whom are non-party workers. Within the next year we should try to quadruple this number. At present 50 per cent, Derhaps two-thirds, of shop and job news and struggles of the workers is sent in by the workers themselves. We must make it a 100 per cent work- ers’ paper. It is not sufficient that these news stories and this corre- spondence just be written by workers. There is no particular magic in hay- ing workers write for the press unless tween us and ‘the masses. What are they write things that our press wants some of these difficulties? In the first| to record. The workers in this coun- WORKERS PARTY CONVENTION HEARS REPORTS ON (Continued from page 1) Superior Finnish branch, he said that the branch would speak for itself, he was not authorized and rouge speak for anyone or any organ but only for himself. ‘Report Upon Daily Worker, The presentation of the subjects upon the agenda then opened, by Com- rade Dunne reporting for the ¢ fal department of the DAILY ER. Comrade Dunne’s speech is printed elsewhere in this publication. Gom- rade Loeb reported upon the 88 management of the DAILY WORKER Publishing company. Literature sales were increasing and nm made of an American Communist terature with the popular “Little ed Library.” Plans were made for he publication of the Lenin Library, f which six volumes, about one-thir ee foreign language press is a means of combatting the nationalist influences of the immigrant bourgeois groups among the workers coming from the same country. It is therefore partic- ularly important that the party take steps towards the Bolshevization of THE PARTY PRESS os the U. M. W, of A. as ordinary news. The DAILY WORKER, at that time es hould increase more, A beginning has | | convention then adjourned until the just born, had taken a commanding position in the struggle at the con- vention. So also in other struggles, all of them. The Chicago pressmen, for in- stance, had shown now hungry the masses are for Communist publica- tions. Foreign writers were needed, which financial shortage had so far precluded. Better structural facilities were needed to take care that the adreaders we gained in various cam- igns were not lost to the DAILY ORKER after the campaign, the e must teach the workers them- ‘ives to write of their conditions, and he building up of a host of worker correspondents would be the building up of the DAILY WORKER. The the foreign Janguage press, Many of the shortcomings of the bress are due to lack of intelligent Communist forces, to lack of means and to difficulties ‘of translating ma- terial into anothér language. How- ever, many defects are a common oc- currence in the foreign language press. Too mucli® ‘stress is being laid on the probléms of one particu- lar nationality, more than is justified by the requirements of class strug- gle propaganda, not enough atten- tion is paid to the political life of q the U. 8.; c) struggle against impe- rialism does not occupy its proper Place in our paperj;d) the papers oft- keep within the confines of one jon, not enough participating in the broad life of the party as a be used in special campaigns of the party and where failures have been made in this respect, and I have said . ‘these special campaigns ar 200d; but the day-to-day work is what builds our press. I am convinced that with the increase in the number and the activity of our worker correspondents with the closer linking of our party with the lives and struggles of the masses thru the reorganization of our party on the shop nuclei basis, with munist press are not written to satisfy the ego of the writer but to acquaint workers with what is going on and the Communist interpretation of these struggles, our press will begin to de- velop very rapidly into a real mass press, Reach Foreign-Born Workers. The foreign language press is an im- portant part of our party activity not only because of the language groups in our party, but because it is thru these language groups that we reach the foreign language speaking workers of America, If our foreign language press was developed only for the mem- bers of the party in this country, there is not a single one of the foreign lan- guage papers that should be kept in existence 24 hours longer. We strive to make our English language organ tact with the editors and under party supervision, To remedy these evils, not all of which, of course, occur in the same paper and not all at the same time, and which are due to the federation structure of our party, this being an inheritance of the S. P., more cen- tralization is necessary in manage- ment of the foreign language press by the C. B.C. Comrade Olgin lowing measures: 1. A better news service. 2. A board of controls for the for- eign language press under the direct supervision of the C. BE, C, These measures, however, in the opinion of the reporter, are insuffi- cient in that the papers do not suf- fer from a lack of news as much as from a lack of Bolshevist editorial policy, and in that a board of control would only be able to correct errors after they were committed. Comrade Olgin therefore, particular- ly stresses: proposes the ‘fo}- whole; e) the problem of reorganiz- 3. An editorial board for the lan. the realization that stories in the Com-| 0 NPN Sis Weingetiaiag einer | Worker speak for our party all thru its strug- gles in every one of its departments and language gections. I know that altho the foreign lan- guage press has been drawn closer to the party the last year and a half than ever before, that it carries more purely party material than ever be- | fore, that the foreign language press still suffers from a lack of centraliza- tion. And this lack of centralization is due partly to a lack of understand- ing of the role of the federations and partly to very severe mecnanical obsta- cles. What we need, I think, from the editorial end, is a party press service | that takes every day the best material | in the DAILY WORKER and our other English language organs, collects oth- er material, and sends it systematical- ly and regularly to the foreign lan- guage press. At the present time our party press service is more or less | spasmodic. There is no particular sys- tem. Sometimes good articles are sent out; sometimes bad ones. Sometimes there is one r on for sending out a certain article; sometimes there is an- other. What we need first of all is a centralized press bureau that will make, thru the connection of the for- eign language press directly with our official organ, that organ the spokes- man for every section of the party. Then there must be set up as a sec- tion of the Agitpop department, an editorial board or bureau that will follow closer the political lines of the foreign language press as well as that of our official organ, correct any devi- ation as soon as it appears and not allow these right tendencies, these de- viations from the straight line of the Comintern, to become running sores in our party. Aid in Our Campaigns. In conclusion, the Communist press) is the medium thru which our party) speaks to its own members and to the working class and without a Commun- ist press the voice of the party cannot be heard unless it be in a very feeble || way. I think that it would have been impossible for our party to have car- ried on successfully any one of its major campaigns: anti-imperialism, the election campaigns, anti-Abramo- vitch campaign, against wage cuts, etc., if the DAILY WORKER had not taken the lead in these campaigns and in the resulting struggles. And I am certain that unless our English lan- guage organ grows just as rapidly in circulation as our party grows in nu- merical strength and influence, the party will find in spite of all its efforts in other fields—fields of education, re- organization—-it- will not be: able to crystallize organizationally the tre- mendous energy the party put into every campaign to strengthen its posi- tion in the American working class movement, to make itself the leader of the American proletariat. Without revolutionary theory a revolutionary party cannot be born—cannot main- tain itself. Without a Comunist press, voicing the correct Communist theory and linking that theory up with every problem of the working class life, a Communist party can do little except to stir up the mud in the foul pool of capitalism. Comrade! When you go back to your districts, try to keep in mind that the press comes first of all; that it not only leads but it interprets and organizes—it builds—it stimulates and inspires the whole party and the whole working class. Without a Communist press—a mass press—a mass party is impossible, and without a mass Com- munist Party. the proletarian dictator- ship is impossible. We make mistakes, but we are surely building, by follow- ing the lead of the Comintern, the press that prepares the way for work- ing class victory. tical life here and abroad. This ma- terial, issued by the editorial board in a readable and lucid style and re- printed by the various editors as their own material, will unify the language press, will make it difficult for the in- dividual editor to run articles con- trary to those issued by the editorial board, and printed in his paper and wt! relieve the editors of a part of their present work, which is often ex- cessive, Other measures proposed by the re- porter: 4. Periodical conferences of edi- tors. 5. Organizing workers’ correspond- ents, 6. Exchange of news of the acti /i- ties of the various language papers. 7. To make it obligatory for edi- tors and writers of party papers to ac- tively participate in party lite. Lifshitz Speaks. Comrade Lifshitz added to the re- port upon the language press cover- Cuba, aichhbbsan. Page Three FRENGH POLICE AT SHANGHAI ARREST MUNITION SALESMAN SHANGHAI, August 25.— The French police this afternoon arrest- —~ ed four forelgners including Charles A. Krauech, an American, and seiz- ed arms and ammunition valued at $46 The arrested men were about to | sell the arms and ammunition, ac- | cording to the French police, te an unidentified Chinese general. perialist work by Comrade Gomez. Gomez gave @ general outline of the growth and development of American imperialism m all sections of the world—Europe, Asia, and particularly Latin America, sustains Leads to War. Imperialism leads to military com petition and directly to war. Militar | ism results from concentration uf fin« ancial and industrial power. Sketching over the points of work done, Comrade Gomez accented the need, not of sim- ple argument to prove the existence of imperialism, but to set masses into motion against it. The work of the party had been but beginning, yet a good beginning. ‘he first real connection with the | eoples oppressed by United States imperialism. The fight had begun upon the corruption of labor by impe- rialism by the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor. Connection had been made with Philippine elements by |Comrade Wagenknecht resulting in | five delegates to the Canton confer- | ence of marine workers. \ Much Work Done. Much work had been done in Latin America, Mexico, Cuba, the demon- | strations in Costa Rica, Uruguay, | Mexico and Chile. The re- sources and time had been little, but the field is great. We propose a con- gress of anti-imperialism to be held in Argentina. The New Orleans marine / conference was also a step in tha course of this work, The work in carrying out a m- paign to oppose American imperialism in China and the far east. Thruout the country demonstrations had been j held, wide distribution of leaflets had been carried on and contact of the | highest degree of importance estab- lished with Chinese elements of the Kuomintang national revolutionary | party. Not Interested in War Game. «+ Comrade Wolfe, reporting for the minority, criticized the attitude of Comrade Gomez toward the work of the Mexican secretariat and several. actions in which conflict had The headquarters of the Anti-Impe- jalist League should be in Latin merica. Campaigns’ had been pro- josed for Latin America, such as a ~ campaign of protest against the send- ing of the American fleet to the Pa- cific, in which Latin Americans were not interested. Criticizing the compo- sition of the majority as a backward element. It could not formulate or carry out effective campaigns in this or in other fields. The speaker pro- posed certain measures to correct the errors he had charged. JOHNSTON IS CONDEMNEDFOR \ OUSTER ORDER District Eight Makes Strong Protest District Council No. 8 (Chicago) of the International Association of Ma chinists, at a meeting held last Mon- day night protested against a decision of the grand lodge that all members of the |. A. M. who are also mem- bers of the Workers (Communist) Party, the Trades Union Educational League or the Young Workers League should sever their connections with those organizations within sixty days or suffer expulsion from the interna- tional union. The only member of the internation- al board who voted agaihst the deci- sion is Vice President Hannon, who was elected on the Anderson slate, Hannon was the only opponent of “B. & O. Bill” that the machine was not able to count out. Denounced Decision. Several speakers denounced the de- cision as another attempt on the part of Johnston to disrupt the union. The Communists were praised as good union men. One speaker said that it was not the Communists who were T ation of the party receive only scant |9Uage press to be appointed by the | Much the same ground as Com- receipts from Germany under th evening session, Dawes plan. Caillaux was said to have suggested that two-thirds of the annual pay- ments come from the Dawes receipts, while Churchill was not willing to ac- cept more than one-third. This situa- tion, however, was generally expected to be solved by a “fifty-fifty” com- promise. The most knotty problem, however, is expected to develop over Caillaux’s reported request for a moratorium of ten years, dating from the signing of ‘the Anglo-American funding agree- ment. ‘Build, the DAILY Wo with subs. ie machinery for printing is ours, and we ask a capacity task be given it, Financial and techinacl problems were dealt with at length and recom- mendations made for practical steps to increasé the circulation of all sorts of Communist literature Engdah! Speaks, Comrade Engdahl, reporting upon the editorial phase of the DAILY WORKER, streased the building and Bolshevization of the press. We em- phasize the class struggle, the social- ists and other so-called labor papers obscure and minimize it. We stand oe as, oth spokesman of the real in- workers. The 8, P. press convention of Olgin Reports Language Press. Comrade Olgin then reported upon the foreign language press as fol- lows: Comrade Olgin’s Report on Foreign Language Press. It is unfortunate that the members of the Workers Party speak seven- teen languages. The reorganization of the party, while bringing the com- rades of the various languages into closer contact and while unifying the party as a whole, will not do away with the differences of language, The foreign language press will remain a potent mei Mi ing the work- ers of the States and building the Wo ) Party. : attention; f) while concentrating on|. E. C. and to work under its direct thos tions of the labor movement | supervision. where one particular language group It will be the duty of the editorial of workers is occupied, the papers | board to supply the foreign language often fail sufficiently to reflect and in-| Press with a short article comment- ter the labor Movement as a| ing on every important event, these whole; g) campal| for the DAILY | articles to be in the nature of edi- WORKER are not'Vigorously conduct: | torials and their reprinting in every od; h) the pap mn live on clip-| foreign language paper obligatory; pings, and due todryn are little }>) with short and concise revues of rade Olgin, following which the floor was opened to five-minute discussions from Comrades Bimbo, Krumbein, Boich, Johnstone, Dozenberg, Bell, Wicks, Owens, Minor, Hayes and Zam. The C. E. C. reporters then summed up. Loeb, Olgin and Dunne speaking, whereupon the resolution of the -press, as adopted by the parity commission was carried without a dis- attractive to the Worker who is not |the party life, thelr reprinting also ; S¢Hting vote, @ party member;''4) fiction is often | to be obligatory; ¢) with an abbreviat- The convention then adjourned to printed indiscrimfhately, without a|ed version of all important party and | "Convene the following day at 11 a.m. choice of material which would be|C. I. ddcuments giving the gist of closer to the prolétariat and without |them, as the reprinting of the authen- & Marxian interpretation of literature | tic texts is eee Tuesday's opening session began, often, impossible in a| ®fter an inspiring appeal from Com- in the articles on'Mterature; k) work-| Small daily or weekly; d) with ar-|?ade Poyntz and a few communica ers’ correspondents are only seldom | fi &@ group in-constant con- ‘ of a more géneral nature in-| tons of minor importance, with the economic, s6clal and poli.] Presentation of the report on anti-im- breaking up the union, but William H, Johnston, The delegates to the council were decidedly in favor of living up to the laws of the union which guarantee to every member the right to hold any Political belief he sees fit, District No. 8 of the International Association of Machinists is the larg I est in the country. It is strongly for — Anderson and aguinst Johnston, ; Schoo! Buildings Not Safe. Three out of every four school build ; ings in the country fail to measure up_ to the thinimum requirements of 1a’ for safety and sanitation, says Ye ¥. G. Stecker, American Fed