The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1925, Page 4

rage Foi 3 STOVE COMPANY TRIES TO SCARE STRIKERS’ WIVES Threaten to Revoke Insurance The Cribben and Sexton Co., North Sacramento Blvd. and West Chicago Avenue, manufacturers of Universal stoves and ranges, finding Itself un- able to coerce the strikers back to work, has begun to propagandize the wives and sistera of the strikers, The company thinks by scaring the wives, they can break the strike. As was mentioned in a previous is- sue of the DAILY WORKER, the com- pany issues an insurance policy to each one of its workers after he has beén in the employ of the plant three months, The men’s sisters and wives are now being sent letters by the com- pany’s general manager telling them that if the striking husband or brother does not return to work by a certain date, the insurance policy will be rfeited ‘plant to the wife of one of the men: “Dear Madam: You are the bene- ficiary and hold an insurance policy of $1,500.00, which policy this com- pany took out and pays for your husband as long as he is in our em- ploy. “Your husband having left our em- ploy on September 16, it is necessary )for us to take some action on this insurance, and unless your husband ‘reports to work in our shop on or be- fore Monday morning, September 28. \2we will be obliged to cancel this in- purance. } © «6“In that case, it will not be neces- ry for you to return the policy as we will notify the insurance company fo cancel the policy and it will be ‘worthless, “Yours very truly, “Cribben & Sexton Company, Me “W. A, Smith, Vice-President and General Manager.” The strikers are now more de- termined than ever to refuse to go back under the old conditions. Their demand for recognition of their union and the recognition of the shop com- mittee will have to be met by the bosses before they will allow the lathes and wheels to turn. The company is arranging for police protection and undoubtedly they in- tend to “rough house” the picketers. The flivver squad tried to chase the men away from the shop after they had been inside the main office. Later the pickets noticed a plainclothes man and a uniformed policeman go into the office and come out two or three hours later. It seems as tho plans are be- ing made to break up the effective picket lines with police force. Burman, who is superintendent of the plant is determined to bring the spy system and speed-up system as practiced in the Western Electric and Edison Appliance Co, plants into the Cribben and Sexton Co. shop. He has had years of training in the two plants mentioned and intends to use it. . eee Walkout Still On. The walkout that was called at the Chicago Plating Works, formerly known as the Co-operative Co., 351 West Superior St., is still on. The union was only successful in bringing out half the men employed, but pro- duction is so small and help has been made so hard to get that the com- pany will not be able to produce much of the struck work they have been re- ceiving from the Cribben plant. Months HIS is the list of ly. Such an ticles on The Workers Monthly negessity worker. : which a certain number of- Commun- : ists are members. } This is one of the letters sent by if. ithe general superintendent of the ‘The ‘language fractions do not dit - a FOR. a offer to enlarge the Workers Month- Take advantage of it: for yourself—to extend your sub—or to subscribe for an- other worker. magazine—with ar- vital events in the|’ world of Labor—the work of Labor's best artists—and features by outstanding revolutionary ers—is not only a pleasure, but a real “tHE DAILY What Is a Language Fraction?) By ELLIS PETERSON. Tee question of party fractions, in trade unions, etc., is not clear in our party. Many comrades confuse the party fraction with the fundamen- tal party unit, the shop nucleus, and do not understand that the fraction is an auxiliary party instrument work- ing within non-party organizations. In the party constitution the frac- tion is defined as follows: “The frac- tions are organs of the party within non-party organizations. They are not independent, fully authorized or- ganizations but are subordinate to the competent local party committees.” Not only are the fractions subor- dinate to their respective local party. committee, but they can also be sub- ordinate to other Communist fractions in the higher committee of the same non-party organization of which they form a Communist fraction. HIS means that there can be no fraction (trade union, language, etc.) organized without the existence of some non-party organization in fer from other Communist fractions as far as organizational methods are concerned; their leading committees, however, are organized by the party in a different way. The language fractions are organized precisely on the same principle as are the other Communist fractions. A language’ fraction can never be organized as an independent party or- ganization in a section or a sub-sec- tion of the party. Neither can there be organized a language fraction in a shop nucleus or in a street nucleus (international branch) of the party. Before we can have a language frac- tion, there must be a non-party or- ganization in which this language fraction can be organized. If there are already Communists in this non- party organizatjon, then the building up of the Communist fraction there- in is an easy task. If not, then the party, thru its organs, has to see to it that party members will enter the organization and form a fraction in it. During the transition period, it may be necessary to organize working- men’s clubs where no party branches exist at present. In these instances, the first step to be taken is the or- ganization of the party language frac- tions and around them the Commun- ists have to organize workingmen’s clubs. HERE are various kinds of ongan- izations in which Communist lan- guage fractions can be formed. In fact, the party ought to have language fractions in every mass organization of foreign speaking nationalities, .pro- vided the members of these organiza- |FULL INFORMATION REGARDING MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS BEING HELD IN REORGANIZATION DRIVEY Workers (Communist) Party’s reorganization campaign with the following dates: Party sabaimabania meetings arranged in the the*speakers assigned to be held on BUFFALO, N. Y.—Sunday, Oct. 4, 2 p. m., at Finnish Hall; 159 Grider St. J. J. Ballam and R, T. Sullivan, CHICAGO, ILL.—Wednesday, | Ruthenberg and Martin Abern. NEW HAVEN, CONN.—Sunday, St. J. J. Ballam and William Simons. Oct. 214 at the Northwest Hall: C. E. Oct. 11, 2. p m., Labor Lyeeury ss Howe An organization tour of the western districts is being slatted by the Central Executive ‘Committee Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other party centers ‘of the west will arrange mass member: ship meetings to be addressed by a representative of the Centraj Executive Committee. Reports on last Sunday’s membership meetings will be published as soon as domplied, guage fractions, one in each working- men’s club, provided that these clubs have been able to develop to some ex- tent into an organization of workers, in which there are non-Communist members. And if these workingmen’s clubs can be transformed into real mass organizations with hundreds of members and with meetings of a popu- lar character attended by many more workers than the actual membership, then the party work in these clubs will be a very important task for the Communists. On the other hand, if these work- ingmen’s clubs cannot be developed into mass organizations, then a num- ber of the small workingmen’s clubs of the same language can be amalga- mated into one big ,club. UT, the party members have al- ways to remember that their most important work is the work in the shop and street nucleus. And the fractional work of every party mem- ber must be so organized that the language .work, will be carried out truly on a mass scale so that the party members will not lose time and energy in work which will be of little or no use to the party because it ig done in organizations having in- significant membership. From the aforesaid it will be under- stood that a language fraction is an auxiliary organ of the Communist Party in a non-party language organ- ization, The language fraction con- sists of all party methbers, who be- long to a certain non-party organiza- tion of workers, with the aim to pro- pagate and organize*the workers of that organization for the revolution- ary class struggle under the leader- ship of the party. tions are workers. It is the duty of the Communists to do work among the masses, wherever the masses are found, and there are plenty of \such working class mass organization, i. e. South Slavic national organizations, Lithuanian, Italian, Finnish, etc. Among the Scandinavian workers we find thousands belonging to temper- ance societies and the Communists have done no systematic propaganda work in these organizations. Among the Finns we have co-operative so- cieties, and the organized work of the Finnish comrades among the workers belonging to these co-operatives has been very profitable indeed. After the party reorganization we will have our workingmen’s clubs (the present language branches) in which the party members, i. e. all the pres- ent members who do not drop out of the party but remain in the party thru membership in’a shop or street nucleus, organize themselves as lan- = Dollar ] a special reader 10 important the most lead- 1113 an W. Washington for every | Chicago, Il. LORE DEFEATED IN NEW YORK BRANCHES AS THEY VOTE TO TAKE STAND WITH THE WORKERS PARTY By WILLIAM HE efforts of Lore: to split the German branches away from the party in New York and surrounding vicinities has been completely defeated by the The overwhelming number of members and branches have stood firmly with the party and Lore remains isolated with his official Volkszeitung family. The German bureau of the party sent out a corps of speakers and after a thorogoing discussion the following results were achieved. party. The Yorkville branch, the largest for the party and 11 for Lore. When members of such,.a language | organization wish to join the party the _ members of the Communist fraction have to see to it fhat such workers join the party thru the shop uucleus where they work or, if that cannot be thru the street nucleus organ- ized where they live. They cannot join the party thru the language frac- tion. OW can tne activities of the lan- guage fractions be controlled and led? Thru commissions of the various languages, Italian, Russian, Scandinavian, Lithuanian, etc. Every important party committee has an agitprop department. Working in the closest contact wiht this agitprop de- partment, are language commisgsions. If there are Jewish, Russian and Ger- man comrades in a certain town, the a Russian, Jewish and Gérman lan- will now be composed by the respec- tive federation committees and bu- reaus, but later they will be elected or appointed. by the respective party committees from among the most ac- tive and ablest comrades pf the re- spective language groups. These com- missions have tg control, and lead "the party work of all the. language fractions in their territory, they are subordinate to the local party com- mittee and also to the respective lan- guage commission of the next higher party unit. The agitprop of the C. E. C. has at its command a language commission for every language group. Under the guidance of the agitprop and the C, BE. C. these commissions lead the party work amongithe foreign | speaking workers in this country. WEINSTONE, and most influential branch, voted 57 Those eleven made up part of the 37 that_had already gotten together with Lore in the Lore organization—the International Workmen's Association. the party. had for a long time been under Lore’s influence, voted 5 for the party and 3 against. North Hudson voted 4 for the party and has now been united with the Hoboken branch. The com- bined branch has already increased its members to 16. Newark, 3 stood for the party and 2 for Lore. Ridge- wood branch for the party by over- whelming majority. Only one voted for Lore. Passaic, 5 for the party and 2 for Lore. The branches totalled 90 for the party and 22 for Lore. Outside of the New York districts, Lore was defeated, In Philadelphia, 7 to 3. The latter three declared they would. stay with the party. The Rochester branch which has been out- side of party life and still regarded itself as an “Arbeiter Verein,” part of the-old Lore “‘Arbeiter Bildings- verein” of 1921 and the branch in New Haven have joined. Lore’s forces, These are the results to date, They show’ that in spite of the fact that Uore has had the Volkszeitung as his organ and has suppressed reports and p dnerd that truly exposed his activi. ties, the branches have proven loyal to “the party. ‘Those who have left with Lore had been a source of fric- tion within the party and never acted as party members, and the party is sounder for their leaving. Among these members are some of the old time bureaucrats who have been stumbling blocks to the proper func- tioning of the party members in the unions, and who have resisted party influence in the unions, The first task in the defeat of Lore has thus been accomplished. The next task consists in building up the coordinated and systematic activity of the party members in the German workmen's organizations. There Lore- ism has for a long time flourished. These organizations are dominated by the social-democratic bureaucrats who have kept these workers organizations outside of the militant class struggle. The Nightworkers branch; 16 votes unanimously for Buswick branch which+- cone —— Hoe WORKERS PARTY OPEN AIR MEETINGS HELD INN. Y, THIS. WEEK NEW YORK, Sept, 28—In New York Workers Party open air meet- ings are being held thruout'the city every night during the “week of Sept. 28 to Oct, 3 in the municipal mayoralty campaign now pro- gress. THURSDAY, ona 110th St. and 5th Ave..Bentall, Jampolsky, Brahdy, Bert Miller, Sis kind, FRIDAY, OCT. 2 10th St. and 2nd Avee-Grecht, Trachtenberg, Bentall, Poyntz. 110th St. and Sth Avite=—Wein- stone, Krumbein, Markoff, bs aging Shapiro. Intervale and Wilkine—Krumbein, Pollack, Royce, Pasterfack. x Grand and Havenmeyer—Nesin, Primoff, Poyntz, Rosen. ‘| SATURDAY, OCT. 7th St, and Ave. A—Pollack and Russian speakers. 8th Ave, and 38th St—Clarence Miller and Greek Speake 149th St. and 3rd Av McDonald, ntall, Powers. Grand and Roebling—Primoff, Ne- sin, Siskind, Hartman, Stone and Pitkin—Wolf, Lifshitz, Chernenco, Mitnik, Bieri =! The party members have now a free hand to accomplish in these organiza- tions the work of liquidating the so- cial-democratic ideology and getting these important bodies into the pol- itical struggle. This work will re- vitdlize the organizations and over- © the stagnation and social-demo- cratic inactivity which the Loreist guage commission working in‘its agit- f prop department. 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