The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1925, Page 2

Page Two NEGROES PETITION FEDERATION SHOP WORKERS OF LABOR TO ABOLISH COLOR ‘LINE AMONG FREIGHT HANDLERS COMMITTEES FOR ‘W.P. CANDIDATES. Brownsville Shoe Shops| on the Job (Special to The Daily Werker) NEW ‘YORK, Oct. 9.—The organiz- ed workers of the city of New York | are manifesting great interest in the | Workers Party mayoralty campaign. | One after another of the big left! wing untons of the city have indorsed the Workers Party candidates and their fight for the united labor ticket and are sending delegates to the big conference of organized labor to be Sunday, Oct. 11, at 2 p. m., 4 p ttan Lyceum, 66 Hast 4th 8t., | New York City. | Locals 1,5, 10, and 15, of the Fur | riers’ Union; Lasters’ Local 53, and Fitters’ Local 54, of the Shoe Work- ers’ Protective Union; the Furriers’ Joint Trade; Shoe Workers’ District Council No, 2, and the militant locals of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers ave among the latest to en-| dorae. the Workers Party candidates and to elect two delegates each to the meeting of Oct, 11, Great Enthusiasm. Another interesting development, which shows the enthusiesm which is being awakened among the workers ef the city of New York, for the Workers Party campaign, is the fact ‘hat in many shops the workers are spontaneously forming Workers Party campaign committees. During the last few days, news hes come tm from all of the important shoe factories of the Brownsville district that they have formed committees, are col- leeting funds and have alresdy elect- ed their delegates to the conference on Oct. 11. These shop organizations represent a new feature tn Commun- ist campaigning and show that even in the question of political campaigns for which the old social-democratic form of organization is supposed to be peculiarly adapted, the shop nu- cleus basis is more desirable for a truly proletarian party. Campaign in Shops. The unanimity with which the Brownsville shops have organized themselves to back the Workers Party municipal campaign is, with- out doubt due to the fact that live shop nuclei have been functioning for some time in the Brownsville factories. This demonstrates that ‘the reorganization of the party will bring the campaign into the shops. One of the tasks of the Oct. 11 meeting is precisely this task of dtinging this campaign of the Work- ers Party into the shops, and after Oct. 11, the New York industrial dis, trict will witness a veritable fever of. organization within the shops, the circulating of lists of shop collec- tions, of formation of shop campaign committees, noon-hour meetings at Gitlow Speaks Sunday. Benjamin Gitlow, the Workers Party candidate for mayor, himself ® member of the Amaigamated Oloth- ing Workers, will make the principle © MOBOOW, Oct. 9—By decision of the people's commissariat for home a all Russian re-emigrants from arriving in order to en- 4n agriculture or industry are ‘be ‘considered as Soviet citizens. This rule does not apply to natives the border states such as Poland, Esthonia, Letvia and Fin- which seceded from the Union “Socialist Soviet Russia by peace fpentios. \ If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue ofall Com. munist literature. ' ii By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Four Negro freight handlers, delegates to the 15th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, have a serious ‘problem for the federation’s attention. Their local unions, 4 out of 39 in a similar predicament, are chartered directly by the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Bxpress and Station Employes’ agree- ments with employers. Union Maintains Color Ban. The Bortherhood’s constitution ex- pressly states that all white persons employed in the lines of work under their jurisdiction are eligble to mem- bershp in the union, Negro workers are not admitted, altho they pay 50c to the Brotherhood jn addition to the 25c per capita to the American Feder- ation of Labor. Negroes are not per- mitted to participate in Brotherhood meetings or share in insurance and other Brotherhood benefits aside from equal conditions for white and colored freight handlers. Negroes are not al- lowed to become clerks, Couldn't Get Audience, Ben Oglesby, president Local No, 17769, and Albert C. Campbell, presi- dent Local No, 17776, both of Kansas City, Mo,, two of the Negro delegates in Atlantic City, say they attempted to get an audience at the last con- vention of the Brotherhood but could not get beyond the door and found no delegate to present their resolution asking for removal of the color line in the Brotherhood constitution William MoGibney, president Local No, 16900, Greensboro, N. C., and Samuel Blockman of Cleveland, Ohio, are the two other delegates from col- ored freight handlers’ local unions to the American Federation of Labor convention, All four Negro delegates signed the resolution presented to the conven- tion, calling for the American Federa- tion of Labor to approve their pro- posal that President Green and who- ever else he choses from the Ameri- can Federation of Labor officials ne- gotiate with the Grand Lodge of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks “for the full admission to membership for all classes under thelr jurisdiction as granted by the American Federation of Labor.” In the event negotiations should fail, the Negro freight handlers call upon the the American Federa- tion of Labor to “take the necessary action to properly protect the welfare of ‘that class of railway employes.” Only two Negro delegates attended the El Paso convention last year and bone the American Federation of La- bor Portland convention in 1923. No other Negro unionists are represented at the Aflantic City convention, The four Negro freight handlers are staying in the pleasure city’s north side, the district away from the ocean- side. which has long been claimed by whites. Negro workers are plentiful in Atlantic City, along the boardwalk, in hotels and restaurants, and colored nursemaids ride in the ever-present | boardwalk wheel chair with their white.wards and sometimes with their white mistresses. But when a white girl stops the colored delegates to the American Federation of Labor con- vention for an interview on the board- walk the idle white population sitting on the piers or passing by, gape at the sight, Build the DAILY WORKER, Increasing Classes Speeds Up Teachers Like Ford Factory By exacting an increase of output from its teachers the Chicago board of education expects to save $300,000 this year in running its education plant. By increasing the average num- ber-of children in a class room from 48 to 50, the board gets more teach- ing per teacher for the same pay, just as Ford speeds up the production of automobiles by pushing more per hour thru his plant, Superintendent McAndrews also s ‘a neat trim uniform” for teachers, t Speeding-up is undermining the health of teachers to such an extent that group sickness and accident in- surance is being advocated by the American Federation of Teachers as @ protection to teacher welfare. “De- spite the low pay,” says F, G, Stecker, “the average city allows a maximum of only two weeks’ pay on sick leave. The St. Paul Federation of Men Teach- ers has successfully worked its group insurance plan for four years, Teach- ers under 59 years are eligible with- out physical examination.” ATTENTION, CHICAGO NEEDLE WORKERS! A special meeting of the Needle Trades Group of the T. U. EB. L. will be held SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, at 10 a. m. sharp. Comrade Ida Rothstein, national organizer of the Needle Trades T. U. BE. L., is coming to this meeting to take up some very important matters with us and she will also report on the conditions of the needle trades ,» in other cities. Cancel eyery other appointment that you may have and come to this very important meeting. THE MEETING WILL BE HELD.AT THE FREIHEIT OFFICE, 3118 West Rooselevt Road. TRADE NEEDLE. TRADES GROUP, UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, FURRIERS’ UNION PLEDGE SUPPORT TO MINE STRIKE To Give Financial and Moral Aid {Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct, 9,--At the last meeting of the joint board of the Furriers’ Union in New York City, delegates representing Locals 1, 6, 10 and 15, unanimously adopted the following resolution giving their moral and financial support to the strike of the anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvanta: “WHEREAS, 150,000 anthracite coal miners have been forced to strike in order to resist the efforts of the mine owners to reduce their wages and to lower their standard of life, therefore be it “RESOLVED, That we, the New York Joint Board Furriers’ Union, re- presenting Locals 1, 5, 10 and 15, pledge our moral and financial sup- port to the miners in their present struggle and urge gli organized labor to rally to the support of the mine workers and help them ‘carry their struggle to a successful conclusion, be it further “RESOLVED, That we urge the or- ganized labor movement of the United States to cooperate with every effort to bring about unity of all labor, in- ternationally, to resist the united ef- forts of the internationally organized capitalist class to force down the standard of life of all workers.” Workers Standard of Living Rises Rapidly in Bolshevik Russia The Rugefan periodical Labor Sta- tistics pubjishes the results of an en- quiry held for the purpose of ascer- taining the amount of the revenue and expenditure of the Russia workers. The result of the enquiry showed that because of increased wages, expendi- ture had increased thruout in No- yember, 1924, (the date of the en- quiry) as! compared with November, 1928, Theiincrease amounts to 12-14 per cent in: Kharkov and in the Don district, up t6040 per cent in Mos- cow, Leningrad and Vladimir. The expenditure on foods, forms about 45% of the total expenditure in a working class household, Taking in- to consideration increased food prices there is an increase of 10-40% as com- pared with last year with respect to the quantity of food,.As to the various food stuffs, a qualitative improvement in nourishment ig noticeable. Whilst less bread and potatoes are consumed, the consumption of meat, fat and su- gar goes up. The demand for clothes is from 20-25 per cent higher than last year, which is also a sign of the general improvement in the workers’ living conditions. As’ far as Moscow“is concerned, the average revenue of a workers’ family is about 100 gold rubles, and the aver- age expenditure about 97 rubles. Polish Terror Tortures Young Bielsk Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. 8, R. Oct. 9—The International Red Aid has received a telegram relating new crimes of the Polish “Defensive Organization.” Mass arrests of workers and peas- ants have taken place in the White Russian districts of Bielsk and Vol- kovisk. Up to the present over a thousand workers and peasants have been placed under arrest. Amongst them are thirteen-year-old children. Lack Jails Im Bielsk the arrested are quartered in schools, hospitals ete., in conse- quence of the lack of room in the prisons. Hundreds of the arrested have been subjected to inhuman tortures, Hands and feet are tied and the bare soles beaten with sticks. Wlectric current is run into the ear, Hot urine with salt is poured into mouths. Lighted cigarettes are thrust against lps, ete, Populace Terrorized The population of the town is ter- rorized by the shrieks of the prison- ers and is leaving the town in masses, The police are foreing the prisoners with these tortures to make false oaths, The international proletariat must raise {ts vole energetically against ‘the new crimes of the “de- fensive.” Soviet Museum Backs Expedition. MOSCOW, Oct, 9,—An archeologi- cal expedition of the Academy of His- tory of Material Culture, headed by Professor Miller, has left for Krasno- day, to carry out excavations on the site of hogy «neg Settlements which had once ished on the river Ku- ban and itg tributaries, THE DAILY'WORKER es : ae + Sa SHIPPING BOARD Whole Struggle to Be Aired in Congress (Special to The Datiy Worker) WASHINGTON; D, C., October 9.— President Coolldge ‘is floundering around in @ maxe‘of bewliderment re- Garding the crisis predipitated by the shipping board Which openly defied him in the discharge of Admiral Leigh Palmer president of the Eme ey Fleet corporation. Totally Incapable of formulating a personal opinion on anything involving brain power he awaits the “advice” of the watch-dogs of imperialism that act in Washington as ‘his “close friends.” Unofficial sources are responsibility for the statement that the whole ques- tion will be presented to congress when it convenes in December in the form of a recommendation embodied in the president's address. Hesitates to Act. The issue is whether a commission created by congress may flout the wishes of the president as to govern- mental activities that are held wo be within the executive power. Mem- bers of the shipping board contend that operation of the merchant marine is their exclusive jurisdiction and not within the power of the executive. Coolidge hesitates to act on the case because the legal status is in dispute in @ similar case;now before the United States supreme court involv- ing the authority of the executive to discharge a postmaster without the consent of the senater Possibly Coolidge’s advisers believe that no action toward removing members of the shipping board should be taken until after the decision of the su- preme court is handed down. That preparations to take the con- troversy before congress is under way is indicated by the announcement that H, G, Dalton, of Cleveland, select- ed by the president to investigate the matter will return to Washington next week. His recommendations will be the b of the recommendations to congress. Board Still Defiant In a notice sent to Elmer HE. Crow- ley, the new pregident of the leet corporation, the shipping board em- phasized the fact that Crowley is solely responsible to. the board and no other department of government. This defiant attitude, presages a con- gressional fight that ‘Will reveal the whole history of the inner workings of this branch of the government, even to the extent of investigating the financial juggling that is an open secret in Washington, Leningrad Soviet Opens New Library (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 9.—A new library has been opened at Leningrad, con- taining 200,000 volumes, to be known as the Universal Library, The lbrary contains all the latest || as well as the old fiction, and scien- tific books in all branches of know!l- edge. The foreign lteratute section con- tains 60,000 volumes. Lenin Institute Has Second Full Edition Lenin’s Works Printed MOSCOW, Oct. 9—The Lenin In- stitute is preparing a second com- plete edition of Lenin's works, as the first edition has been completely sold out. In the Lenin archives were, found numerous rare photographs, docu- ments and other materials which will be utilized for the new edition, RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY HAS ELECTIONS IN YATCHEYKAS FOR ~ COMING NOVEMBER CONVENTION MOSCOW, U. 8, 8. R., Oct. 9.—Blections are being held all over Russia with a view to the coming Russian Commutist Party convention to be held in November. The Communist Party of Ru has upwards of three- quarters of a million members, including the “Lenin levy” of 200,000 mem- bers taken in since the death of Vladimir Nyich Lenin. The Yatcheyka. The Russian Communist Party is composed of units known as the yat- cheyka (cell) or nuclei group as they would be called.in America, consist- ing of all party members in one factory, village, regiment, state or business administration. Its numbers run from about seven or eight in a villake up to 100 or more in the cities, In fac tories or elsewhere, where there aré several hundred party members, there are several yacheykas, accord- ing to departments or employments, to prevent unwieldy sise. Twice yearly each yacheykas elects a aecret- ary and “buro” or committee. Elect De tos During the elections previous to the R, C. P. convention, they simul- taneously elect delegates to a large group of conferences preliminary to the annual party convention. Thus in the olties there are‘ first the yache- yka units, then the sectional confer- ence, then the city conference above that. The Village Yacheyka In the country there are village yacheyka and county conference, a larger group county conference, then a provincial conference and a larger group provincial conference-—-Ural te- gion—or Caucasian conference-—cor- responding to the conference in large cities ike Moscow, Leningrad and Od \. Free Discussion The difference between the larger conferences and the unit or yache- ykas is towfold—first, the yacheykas meet all the year around, and secret- aries and committees are elected for six months only. The higher confer- ences meet once a year and elect secretaries and committees for the next twelve months. The election is by show of hands for a majority vote. The election is preceded by a wide discussion, during which complete freedom of speech and criticism is allowed, resolutions passed, But after the decisions of the con- vention, have been made all of the members must buckle down to work to do the tasks decided upon, Bank Clerks Attem to Organize nion An attempt will soon be made by the Bank Clerks’ Union to organize the bank clerks in Chicago. At present the delegate of the Bank Clerks’ Union is in Atlantic City in an attempt to have the American Fe- deration of Labor go on record for organizing the bank clerks and place an organizer in the field. Another re- solution to be introduced. will call upon all union officials to demand that the clerks in the banks where union funds are deposited belong to the union, : the State Federation of Labor meeting at Champaign, Illinois, a re- solution was passed demanding that every union official bank only in those banks that employ union clerks, TALLENTIRE SPEAKS AT REORGANIZATION MEET IN BALTIMORE SUNDAY BALTIMORE, Md,, Oct. 9——-Norman Tallentire, district organizer, will speak at the party reorganization meeting to be held in Baltimore on Sunday, Oct, 11, at 2 p. m. at the Crecho-Slovakian Hall, Madison and Rose St. Evéry party member must attend without fall. Anita Whitney Case of California Comes Before Supreme Court By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press Service) WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—At the very hour when President Coolidge’s Omaha speech~demanding tolerance for minoritly opinion in this coun- try was appearing on the streets of the national capital, the federal su- preme court was listening to argu~ ment on the appeal of Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney from the sentence im- posed on her by a California court for the crime of belonging to the minor- ity group known in 1919 as the Com- munist Labor Party, “ Her actual crime was her activity in raising and administering defense funds for the I. W. W. who were be- ing sent to prison by hundreds ypon mere proof of membership in that organization, Official. Terrorist Argues Case. Argument for the accused was made by Walter H. Pollak of New York, and for the state of California by a deputy for U. S. Webb, attorney general of the state, who has had charge of the official terror against the “Wobblies” for ten years past. The state dug up the old accusa- tions against the I. W. W.—that. by confession of members they stood convicted of burning crops, poisoning livestock, setting fire to forests and putting lime in the shoes of strike- breakers, Stool Pigeon Testimony. He did not mention the fact that these “confessions” were made by criminals of the Harry Orchard type who were used as profesional wit- nesses for the state in large num- bers of cases, and whose membership in the I. W. W. was denied by the responsible officers of that body. No case involving conviction of an I, W. W. member on the testimony of the red card in his pocket has yet come to the final tribunal in Wash- ington, International Labor Defense Ball The New York section of the International Labor Defense is ar- ranging a grand costume ball on Saturday, October 17, at the Lyceum, 86th St, and Third Ave., in order to riase funde for defense. The need of funds for the defense of the class war prisoners is growing daily. The International Labor Defense protects all victims of the class struggle, who are sent to the capitalist prisons, The organization has a large number of cases on hand-—the number is st'll growing. Hence, in addition to enjoying one of the finest balls that have ever been arranged—and there will be dancing and refreshments— every comrade will be doing a great service to the working class move- ment. For further information apply to the itary of the International Labor Defense, N€w York Section, Rose Baron, 799 Broadway, Room , 422, New York City. BERTRAM WOLFE Director, Workers’ School, WORKERS’ SCHOOL OPENS ENGLISH CLASSES INN. Y, To Aid. Foreign-Born in Party (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—-The Hnglish courses that the Workers’ School’ of- fers this year assume special politica! importance because of the reorgan- ization of the party. Party re-organ- ization means that every party mem- ber must be able to speak, read and write Bnglish. The abolition of the foreign speaking comrades in shop nu- clei and international branches where English will be the official language and where Russian, Lithuanian, Jew- ish, Scandinavian, Italian and other foreign speaking members will find themselves together with American workers who speak only English, means that the entire party must Jeatn English or great numbers of its members will be lost to the party and to the class struggle in America. To meet this need, the Workers’ School has prepared to offer any num- ber of English courses on any and all nights of the week in order to accom- odate all those who should and must be studying English during the next three months. To Aid Comrades. There will be courses in elementary, intermediate and advanced English as well as courses in composition and workers correspondence. The le- mentary English will be two nights a week and other courses will be-one night a week, But to specially accom- odate the active, leading workers of the foreign federations who are so occupied with party work, that ‘they cannot spare more than one night a week and yet need improvement in English, there will be one night a week of our elementary English course with a distince political tone to its vocabulary, exercises, dictation, etc., that is to say, that the subject matter treated in this course will be the subject matter which is necessary for party life to be conducted in the English language. A group of courses will begin the week of Oct. 19, includ- tng elementary, intermediate and ad- vanced English. A staff of twenty teachers has been prepared and as many courses will be started as the registration warrants. The fee for these courses, where they are given one night a week will be $2.50 for a three months course and where two night a week $3.50 for a three months course. Registration is now going on in Room 34 of the Workers’ Sehool at 108 East 14th St., N. Y. City. Further information can be secured by writing to Bert Wolfe, director of the Work- ers’ Schoot at the above address, Every foreign-born worker who takes seriously the Bolshevization and re-organization of the party, must im- prove his knowledge of English. Now is the Aime to begin before re-organ- , ization has been completed, HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! | Stave hideded tte fr annerHetiy