The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1925, Page 4

Fage: For: THE DAILY WORKER Organization Department Plans: Mobilization for the Daily Worker Drive HE biggest thing before* the nly now is the mobilization of our com- ttades, sympathizers, an@ other work- ers for a successful DAILY WORKER drive. Towards this end the entire party apparatus is being brought into action. The organization department of the ©. E..C, has just issued a detailed Plan to all district organizers, in- dicating lines of activity,and the pro- gram of action in this drive to save the DAILY WORKER. The danger confronting the DAILY WORKER is pot an ordinary one. The difficulties ‘Wwe are now experiencing are much more serious than the ordinary hard- ships we have been face to face with for some time. Unless prompt and sufficient relief is given to the DAILY WORKER, we will be forced to dis- continue publication. This ig not an empty warning. This is an absolute fact. The following is a copy of the ap- peal and the instructions sent out by the organization. department, on the DAELY WORKER campaign, to all the district. organizers of the Workers Party. Every comrade should give the most energetic and whole hearted support to this campaign, wipe te EAR Comrades: The threat to the life of the DAILY WORKER is a reality. We are anxiously apr the job and WORKER, We must raise a minimum of $15,- 000 during the remaining days of Oc- tober, or else there will be no more DAILY WORKER, We must especially raise a fund of $40,000 in order to insure the con- tinuation of the DAILY WORKER. | We have the fullest confidence in| our party members. We feel certain that our comrades can realize these goals. of WOR lem; we paign to our comrad a much of our p WORK DP ng to you to get on SAVE THE DAILY course, the life of the DAILY is more than a party prob- are sure that in this cam- ve the*DAILY WORKER} can and must appeal to| wider mass than the ranks ty membership. The DAH.Yj is not only an organ.of our} DAILY WORKER is also} The spokesman of the whole working In order to insure the success of our party in this campaign to raise the minimum necessary funds speci- fied above, the organization depart- ment submits the following instruc- ns for mobilizing our party and sympathizers: Every branch, city and district of * our party must immediately set up special SAVE THE DAILY WORK- ER COMMITTEES. These commit- tees must consist of the most ener- 2 :, hard working, and most capable ‘ades that the respective party n find for this work. 2. visable, thére should be added non- party individuals, members of labor unions, and other working class or- ganizations to these SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COMMITTEES. \1 Wherever at all possible and ad-| comrades already organized in the: existing shop nuclei of our party. THE SHOP NUCLEI .MUST SET THE PACE IN THIS MOST IM- PORTANT PARTY ACTIVITY. These SAVE THE DAILY WORK- * ER COMMITTEES should make every effort to approach individual sympathizers who can afford to con- tribute fair-sized sums to the DAILY WORKER. In every city and district there can be found such radical sym- pathizers, fm Arrange affairs and take other * Tecessary steps to insure the pay- ment of the money due from your dis, trict, or various sub-units of your dis4 trict, to the DAILY WORKER. If necessary, make loans in your district to pay promptly the debt long over- due to the DAILY WORKER, You should arrange, thru the vari- * ous SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COMMITTEES to visit personally all subscribers of the DAILY WORKER in yoyr territory in order to solicit contributions from them. The various SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. COMMITTEES should arrange to send speakers to labor unions and other working ‘class or- ganizations in their territory to appeal for the necessary funds. 8 Immediately make an accurate * survey of the branches in your territory and find out which of them have not yet responded to the assess ment levied on them for the DAILY WORKER. Do not delay in taking steps to see to it that such assess- ments are immediately collected and rushed to the DAILY WORKER, This SAVE THE DAILY WORK- ER CAMPAIGN is now the major party activity. All of our energy and resources: must be mobilized for this | campaign in order to conclude it suc- | cessfully and quickly. The harder you work, the quicker we get the ! necessary results. 1 Make it your business to draw *, into this campaign.as nearly as possible the entire party membership. |The greater the number of members participating in this campaign, the bigger will be the results. Please keep the organization de- partment fully and regularly informed as to all the organizational steps you are taking. Send us your suggestions and recommendations for improving our efforts and getting te- sults in this campaign. Your recom- mendations may prove very helpful to other districts. Besides, there can be no real national campaign of the party for the DAILY WORKER unless we have good publicity. The best pub- licity for it is the broadest spreading of information about the actual ex- periences of and the concrete results attained by our comrades in the vari- ous sections of the party. iO WORK, COMRADES! MAKE THIS A REAL CAMPAIGN! NO MORE THAN YOUR SHARE! SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! SAVE THE ONLY ENGLISH COMMUNIST DAILY IN THE WORLD! THE ONLY ENGLISH DAILY ORGAN OF THE To the extent that we succeed in thus broadening the composition of our! SAVE THE DAILY WORKER COM- MITTEES, to that extent will we suc- | ceed in our efforts to appeal to a much | broader mass than our party members. | and | shop collections 3 Special * drives to sell.the HELP THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL! Fraternally yours, JAY LOVESTONE, Organization Dept. Pays For Air With Life. NEWYORK, Oct, 13.—In an effort |to obtain fresh air, Mrs. Elsie Nieve, DAILY WORKER stamps should be taged thirty-one, leaned too far from organized in the shops, mines, and fac- tories. You should make particular | efforts to mobilize for this task the \a fifth story window at her home in Bronx, fell into the courtyard below and was instantly killed, . New , SOCKS ~ WORKERS HISTORICAL MATERIAL OLOGY by NIKOLAI BU materialist viewpoint. METT. A complete eleme: There is a glossary of 700 and valuable addenda and WHITHER ENGLAND? by economic supremacy, and the United States. Christian Church, from ant. 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A bril- a shattering prophecy of $1.75 the materialist viewpoint, $4.00 By JAY LOVESTONE, T the membership meetings in New York, Philadelphia, and Bos- ton which I addressed on party Bol- shevization and reorganization, there was manifested a vigorous interest in the functioning of the party on the basis of shop nuclei. Many questions were asked of the speaker about the party’s reorganization program and its application. We herewith subniit to the general party membership the most import- ant questions asked and answers to these questions so that the comrades of every district may bé helped in the reorganization of their. own dis- tricts. QUESTION 1:—What will the party do, after its reorganization on the basis of shop nuclei, with those com- rades who are professionals? How will we organize those comrades in our party who are not working in a shop? ANSWER.—First of all, it must be emphasized and clearly understood that qne 6f the primary objectives of the reorganization of our party on thé basis of shop nuclei is to pro- letarianize our party more and more. The more our party consists of the ‘roletariat employed in the basic in- lustries of the country, the nearer vill our party be to becoming a mass, vorking class revolutionary political varty. The Workers (Communist) Party appeals to the proletariat and © no other class or social group in society. In cases where certain in- dividual professionals indicate their acceptance of the full Communist pro- gram in all its implications, they are, upon special consideration of each specific case to be admitted into our party. Those professionals who are al- ready in our party and who seek to remain in our party after its reor- ganization will, in the main bé at- tached to street nuclei. Special care will be taken to diffuse these ele- ments into as great a number of street nuclei as possible in order’ to avoid their concentration in any par- ticular street nucleus. In some spe- cial instances such comrades, if they have considerable party experience may be attached even to a shop nu- cleus, so that these more experienc- ed comrades will be able to help the less experienced proletarian com- rades organized in the shop nucleus. Of course, such. direct. contact with the proletariat and his immediate and other problems will also broaden the viewpoint of the professional ele- ments in our party and make them better party members. In general, the same procedure will be followed with other party mem- bers not working in the shops, such as housewives, domestic help, and others. QUESTION 2. — How will party members who are carpenters or wh are employed in the building trades be attached to party units after the reorganization of the party? Such comrades may be attached to party units in any of the three fol- lowing ways: (a) If three or more of these com- rades are employed in one place or on one job for any length of time, they will be organized into a shop nucleus. In cases where three or more of these comrades.are employed by one contractor, they may be or- ganized into a special shop nucleus. (b) In other instances party mem- bers who are carpenters or who are employed in the building trades will be attached to other shop nuclei in the industrial section in which they work or sometimes in which they live. 5 (c) Such comrades may also be attached to street nuclei. QUESTION 3.—In cases where there are party members and Y. W. L. members employed in the same shop, will we organize party or Y. W. L, shop nuclei? ANSWER.—If, let us assume, that in a certain shoe factory there are employed two party members anc one Young Workers’ League mem ber, then we will proceed to dray che young Communist into the part: and organize a party shop nucleu without delay. The Young Workers League member can then very well utilize his membership in the party nucleus in his shop to strive to win over, some non-Communist young workers to the Communist point of view. As soon as there are three more youth workers in this shop fol- lowing the Communist program, steps will be taken to organize a Young Workers’ League shop nucleus in the particular plant. After some time the party shop nu- cleus will undoubtedly increase its membership, There will then be a party and a Young, Workers’ League shop nucleus functioning side by side and in the closegt, co-operation, to the advantage of both,.in the same fac- tory. Needless to, emphasize, the ex- change of help to_, organize a shop nucleus or to help . it function after it is organized,.js to be reciprocal for the party and the league. QUESTION 4,—Will comrades be- longing to shop nuclei have anything to do with the treet nuclei? ANSWER.—Mdst' assuredly, com- rades belonging to, shop nuclei will have lots to do with the street nu- clei. A street nucleus is also a basic unit of the party. Our party is td be closely knit and firmly welded. In the general political campaigns of the party all comrades, whether they belong to shop or Street nuclei, will work together more closely than ever before. We must not forget that with greater democratic centralization of our party, the membership of our party will work more uniformly and unitedly. Besides, on certain occasions, a: the need arises, comrades belonging to some shop nuclei will be assigned special work in particular residentia’ areas. Th such instances, the co-op eration between the party members of shop nuclei and the comrades be- longing to the street nuclei of the spe cific residential section will be espe- cially noticeable, , QUESTION 5,—Will the C. E.C. permit the organization of building shop nuclei? ANSWER.—It is necessary, first of all, to define this term “building shop nuclei.” The constitution of our party provides that, under certain conditions, where less than three comrades are employed in a factory, shop nuclei maybe ‘organized to con- sist of comrades working in different factories in the ‘same industrial sec- tion. These nuclet are organized in order to help the comrades working in separate plants pool their organiza- tional resources to the end of hasten- ing their success!in winning adher- ents to the Communist program among the workers in their respec- tive places of employment. Such a shop nucleus sér¥és to speed the or- ganization of other shop nuclei in the plants hitherto not having enough party members for such organization. Sometimes, we will:find that sever- 1 shops are located in one building. In.each of these shops, or in some of these shops two or less party mem- bers are employed ‘at a certain time. Under these conditions, all of these comrades working in different shops in the same building may be.brot to- gether and organized into one shop nucleus. This is what the term “building shop nucleus” means. Such a shop nucleus can prove of tremen- dous help to the comrades working in the various shops in the» same building in their Communist activities among the workers in the different plants. Thus the organization of such a shop nucleus in the building is only the forerunner of and the stimulant to the organization of a shop nucleus in the other shops lo- cated in this building. QUESTION 6.—How will we organ- ize our party members in cases where there is more than one shift in their place of employment? ANSWER.—Our party members or- ganize themselves into shop nuclei in order to mobilize for effective action against the bourgeoisie and their gov- ornment, in ordgr to win over to the Communist Party the. proletariat. It ‘ollows, that if’ there are three or more party members working, let us ay on the first shift, in a particular actory, they should organize them- elves into a ‘shop nucleus to carry vn their daily party activities among HEAR! “THE A. F. OF L. NEW YORK FRIDAY, OCT. 16° PITTSBURGH SATURDAY, OCT. 17 CLEVELAND SUNDAY, OCT. 18 J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Editor of the DAILY WORKER With First Hand Reports on the Di of the Official Body of Américan Labor— Speak on AND THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST MOVEMENT” MANHATTAN LYCEUM, (HALL TO BE ANNOUNCED INSURANCE EXCHANGE, Hall, 11th and Walnut Street pt ALL MEETINGS AT 8 P. M. SHARP! CONVENTION 66 East 4th Street LATER) . ile area lens: » More Questions Answered the workers with whom they are em- ployed together, with whom they work side by side. If enough party members are found to be working on either of the other shifts, they should without delay proceed to organize a shop nucleus for each of. the shifts to enable these comrades to win over to the party the workers employed side by side with them on the particu- lar shift. Where the numbers allow, it is per- missible to organize a shop nucleus for each shift in the factory in ques- tion. This enables the comrades to work more effectively among the pro- letarians who are not yet Commun- ists. If, however, the number of party members working during a shift in a factory is less’ than three, then, steps should be taken to organize all of the party members working on the different shifts in the plant into one shop nucleus. In such a situation ex- tra care will have to be taken to ar- range the shop nucleus meeting so as to enable the comrades working on the various shifts to attend and participate. Experience will surely show that as the comrades, combin- ed into one shop nucleus, tho work- ing on different shifts, go ahead with their party activities amongst the non-Communists with whom they are working, it will be possible to organ- ize special shop nuclei for each shift We should strive for this? Armour Pleased at Jardine Whitewash of Packer Merger WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Secretary. of Agriculture Jardine, entrusted with enforcement of the packers and stock- yards control law, is now warrantor of the commercial and legal purity of the Chicago meat packing combine, as evidenced by a circular entitled, “What the Secretary of Agriculture Found About Competition in the Pack- ing Industry,” issued to Washington press correspondents by F,.Edson White, president of Armour & Co. It starts off with: the astonishing claim: “The most complete investiga- tion ever made of competitive condi- tions in the packing industry has just been brought to a close by the secre-) tary of agriculture.” This investiga- tion dealth primarily with the swal Pati lowing of Morris & Co, by the Armour concern. Jardine’s official opinion, in which he approved the merger as be- ing legal and beneficial to the pub- lic, is then quoted. “Naturally,” White concludes, “At- mour & Co. are pleased with the out~ come of this investigation.” Armour & Co. were not pleased with the investigation conducted by. the federal trade commission ‘some years ago, which led to a recom- mendation that the heads of the five big packing firms be indicted for criminal conspiracy. Metal Worker Finds Way to Convert Soft Iron to Hardest Steel MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—Nikolai Tolmat- chev, a metal worker, has invented a cementing powder which he called “berezol.” It takes 15 lbs of berezol to convert 1 pood of soft iron into the hardest steel. The invention has been purchased by the war industries board, who have established a little plant for the manu- facture of berezol. The powder is derived from tar refuse of gas-works, which used to be dumped on the dust- heap. . Expedition Leaves to Study Unknown Tungaz Tribesmer MOSCOW, Oct, 13.—An ethnograph- ical expedition is leaving for th: Far East to study the unknown Tur gaz tribes inhabiting the left bank c the lower stream of tae smur and ¢ the rivers Gorin and Kiru. The basins of the rivers were neve, athnographically explored since the secupation of the region by jhe Rus sian authorities, There exists’ only neager and casual information ga- -hered some 70 years ago. Teachers’ Delegation in Russia Impressed by Soviet Progress LENINGRAD, Oct. 13:—The delega- tion of foreign féachers now touring Soviet Russia applauded the remark fof Madame Lilina, superintehdent of the Leningrad schools, that children are not punished in the schools of the Soviet Union and that the teacher who scolds her pupils is prosecuted by the people’s court. The delegates were also impressed by~the schools for national minorities, The chairman of the teachers’ del- egation in thanking the superintend- ont of the Leningrad schools for the opportunity and assistance given the delegation in studying the school sys- fem of Leningrad, said that when they turn to their respective lands they will blast the tissue of lies spread in the press about the backwardness ot the Russian Soviet schools, Build the DAILY WORKER These meetings will begin October 18 with the meeting,of the function- aries of the downtown section which will be held at 10 a. m. at 108 Hast 14th street. The functionaries of the Astoria section will also meet with the downtown section. On Ostober 18, the Harlem section will meet at 10 a. m. at 64 East 104th street. In the afternoon, October 18, the Williamsburg section will meet at 3 p. m. at 56 Manhattan avenue.’ The Brownsville functionaries will meet on October 18 at 3 p. m. at 1844 Pitkin" avenue. On Monday, October 19 at 8 p. m. the Bronx functionaries will meet at 1347° Boston Road, On October 19 the functionaries of Borough Park and Bath Beath and Coney Island will meet at the Fin- nish headquarters—764 40th street at 8 pm The next set of meetings will con: sist of branches beginning October 23 to November 7. At this meeting the functionaries will report onthe reorganization work tobe done and all preparations be made for getting out the entire membership to the sec- tion membership meetings. Members of the reorganization com- mission of the district are to attend the meetings, of the branches and ex- plain in detail the work of the reor- ganization. These meetings will be followed by section membership meetings begin- ning with November 9, The facts and the time of meeting will be an- nounced later, During the period of reorganization alb executive committees of branches, sections and all officers are to remai as before and are to continue func- tioning in all the work that is as- signed to them. New élections of offi- eerswill be held after the reorgan- izatjon is carried thru in accordance the specific instructions of the aistrict executive committee. ' Pho the reorganization is beginning in the month in which the election campaign is to be held all branches, sections and members must arrange that the campaign committees func- tion, and that all members perform their work in the election campaign. No one must fail in the election cam- paign work while the reorganization is going on. ‘The task of reorganization will con- sist in getting out the entire member- ship’ so that every member becomes a member of a shop nucleus or an in- ternational branch, In order to ac- eomplish this the branches must suc- ceed in getting every member to at- tend, the meetings. Not a single member must be lost to the party in the reorganization and this can be ‘done if the branches co-operate with the district committee to the fullest extent in drawing the entire’ member- ship into this task. All branches are to meet every week hereafter in order tg keep up with every: stage of the reorganiza- tion. WILLIAM WEINSTONE, Dist. No. 2 Secretary. The meeting of ail branch and tionaries, Local Chicago, Workers ( ters, but are here again reminded IN NEW Party! AGAINST WAGE CUTS, AGAINST ERS’ “GOVERNMENT! tee, 108 E. 14th St., New York City. Worke 108 E, 14th St., New York City, - Comrades: Enclosed you will fi ay ‘Send id receipt to .. York. Chicago Reorganization Meeting. question of shop nuclei organization, will be held Wednesday, October 14, 1925, 8 p. m., at Northwest Hall, functionaries have been notified to be present thru individual let- Representatives of the C. E. C, reorganization commission in the Chicago district will be present to outline the immediate tasks for shop nuclei organization, prior to the holding of the section member- ship meetings, at which actual reorganization will start, Functionaries, be on hand Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Northwest Hall. WORKERS! .RALLY TO SUPPORT OF YOUR FIGHTING PARTY ° Support the election campaign fund of the Workers (Communist) Help carry on the fight FOR A UNITED LABOR TICKET, ‘FOR A LABOR PARTY, FOR RECOGNITION OF SOVIET RUSSIA, . The Workers (Communist) Party is the only party of the work » ers. SUPPORT THE ELECTION: CAMPAIGN FUND and on election day register your class solidarity by voting for BENJAMIN GITLOW. for mayor, WM. W. WEINSTONE for comptroller, and CHAS, KRUM- BEIN for president of the board of aldermen. Send your contributions to the Workers Party Carhpatgh Commit- to the campaign fund of the Workers (Communist) Party. NEW: YORK PARTY hla IONARIES ) MEETINGS GANIZATION NEW YORK, Oct, 18.—The District Hxécutivé Committee in accordance with the plans of the Central Executive Committee has made plans for im- mediate reorganization during the month of October. The meetings of functionaries consisting of branch and shop nuclei or- ganizers, industrial organizers and financial secretaries are to be the first set of meetings in the reorganization.+~ Prof. George D. Herron Former U. S. Socialist Dies in Germany MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 13—Prof. George D. Herron, former ‘socialist leader of’ the United States, and later rabid defender of the policies enunci- ated by the imperialist lackey of Morgan, President Woodrow Wilson, died here Saturday of heart disease. * * George D. Herron gained notoriety some years ago when he left a posi- tion as pastor of a congregational church at Grinnell, Iowa, and desert- ing his wife and children, eloped with an heiress, Carrie Rand, whom he af- terward married in New York City. The ceremony was performed by an- other “socialist” who entered the ranks of that party from the pulpit, William Thurston Bown, and was stig- matized by the capitalist press as a “socialist wedding.” Herron was one of the first of that freaks that entered the socialist party and played a leading role, including the Rev, J. Stitt Wilson, the Rev, Carl D. Thompson, the Rev. Fred Guy Strickland and others of that calibre. For a time Herron was the leading public orator of that party, his twad- dle inevitably hinging around the reconciliation of socialism and relig- ion. He finally left for Italy where he lved in luxury as the kept man of his wife. Before leaving for Italy his wife established the Rand school in New She died a few years ago in Florence, Italy. ‘When the war broke out Herron be- camie a violent Anglophile and ae | up his caréer, as ‘so many of tha stripe do, as the flunkey of igi ism, Armenian Workers Make Great Progress Since Revolution MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—Since the es- tablishment of Soviet rule in Armenia there were great achievenfents made in the domain of popular education not only among the predominant Ar- menian population, but also among the national minorities. For the Kurds were opened seven schools for children and one for il- literate adults; for the Turkomen, 105 schools and 42 for illiterate adults. There were also organized training courses for teachers, a kin- dergarten, an infants’ home, and: a Turkomen labor college. Schools for children and adults have been opened also for the Asyrian inhabitants of five villages. There are also four sthools for Greeks and 25 schools for Russians. The Armenian Institute of Science and Art has been opened this year. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. shop nuclei, city and district func- Communist) Party, to take up the North and Western Aves. All to make certain of attendance. YORK ELECTIONS INJUNCTIONS, FOR A WORK- a ind my contribution of $.