The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1925, Page 4

wey ’ yl | t ; memes. GITLOW REFUTES GREEN’S SLANDER OF UNION LABOR Says Rank and File for Unity (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Ben Gitlow, candidate for mayor on the Workers Party ticket, issued an absolute re- futation of the statement made by William Green before the American Federation of Labor to the effect that the rank and file of labor were op- posed absolutely to the proposal ot. unity with the Russian workers, ina statement made at the party head- quarters today. “Green does not speak for the Hank and file of American labor,” sald Gitlow, “if he cared to put the question to a referendum of the 150,000 organized needle trade workers of New York, he would dis- cover that fully 90 per cent of them would vote in favor. If he would even go to his own organization, the United Mine Workers of Ameri- ca, he would discover that there, where the candidate in favor of recognition of Russia recently re- ceived 66,000 votes against the Lewis machine, that 90 per cent of the members were for international trade union unity and recognition of Russia. Cites Reinstatements. “Only yesterday the needle work- ers in the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers reinstated the officials expelled for expression of these views. “We-have offered, before the cam- paign began and since, to unite with all other labor tickets in forming a single, labor ticket. The socialist party refused. We offer them one more chance. A conference is called for Sunday afternoon at the Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th street, to form such a labor ticket.” Gitlow offered to withdraw his candidacy if such a united labor tick- et can be formed. SE Beench at Berkeley Donates $21 to Daily Worker OAKLAND, Cal., Oct. 14.—The East Bay City Lithuanian branch of the Workers Party at its last regular business meeting held at Finnish Hall, Berkeley, donated $21 to the DAILY WORKER, $20 to the International Labor Defense, $2 to the local Y. W. L. $1 for the leaflets entitled: Strike.” There were ten members at the branch meeting and one applicant was taken into the branch. Manufactue of Movie Apparatus. LENINGRAD, YS. S. R., Oct. 14—} The manufacture of moving picture theater outfits has been established at Leningrad. During the year 1925-26 it is proposed to turn out 1,000 outfits. tm . THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ISSUES STATEMENT ON DISCIPLINING OF A. CAPRARO AND LEO PRUSEKA The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued the following statements re; garding the disciplining of A. Capraro and Leo Pruseka whose cases were carefully and thoroly gone into: A. Capraro Expelled This decision to expel A. Capraro from the ‘party is based upon the fol- lowing circumstances: 1. At the time of the presidential elections of 1924, Capraro wrote an article in the Italian organ of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers stat- ing his position in relation to the elec- tion campaign. Altho the Workers Party had nominated candidates and was carrying\on a campaign in sup- port of these candidates, Capraro de- clared himself as a neutral and that he was withdrawing ‘for the political | field for the time being. because he | was unable to choose betwéen La- Follette and the Workers Party can- didate. 2. In the Bridgeport strike of the Amalgamated Clothing, Workers, which took place in May of this year, Capraro acted contrary to Commun- ist policy. The district executive com- mittee of the party in the Connecticut district establishes the following facts in reference to Capraro’s activities: (a) He urged the discontinuance of a strike to regain a previous wage cut, and forced the workers back. (b) He told the strikers that they were going back on a 100% victory, whereas it was a demoralizing defeat. {c) He was a party to fooling the strikers, since the scabs returned to work, 3 days after the settlement, whereas the agreement called for the firing of the scabs, (d) He preached schemes of class collaboration, promising the workers that he would see that Hillman would meet with the bankers and creditors of Wolf and Abrahams, and see that they reorganized their shop, and then the workers would be able to get a wage increase. (e) He made himself personally responsible to the strikers for the carrying out of the terms of the agree- ment. ha (tf) He supported at a meeting of the executive board of the Bridgeport local union, the proposition 6f Levine, the scab, that he, Levine, select his own investigating committee from the executive board to try him for scab- bing. This charge is made by Cem- rade Feldman after reports from mem- pated eae bers of the executive board. a These charges were brought to the attention of Capraro by the C. EB. C. of the party and he was invited to make a reply thereto but has refused up to this: date to make any state- ment to the Central Executive Com- mittee in defense of himself. The Central Executive Committee, on the basis of these charges, expels him from the party and decides he is unworthy to be a member of a Com- | munist Party. Fraternally yours, Cc. E. Ruthenberg, ‘Gen. Sec’y. oe ® |Decision of C. E. C. Regarding Duties of Party Members who Are Edi- | tors of Non-Party Papers. Leo Pruseka:—The Central Execut- ive Committee of the party has con- sidered your letter of Sept. 24, in re- ference to the statement of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers against the left wing which appeared in the Dar- bas of which you are editor. In con- | nection therewith, it has also consider- Jed the statement of the bureau of the Lithuanian section of the party to the effect that they had taken action on the publication of this article in the Darbas. : After considering all the facts in regard to the matter, the Central ex- ecutive Committee has come to the following conclusions: 1. To endorse the action of the Lithuanian bureau in censuring you for publication of the article without at the same time writing an editorial or article in defense of the left wing and criticizing the statement against the left, wing. . 2. That it is the duty of all editors of non-party to make use of these papers in the interests of the party. 3. Where such party members who are editors of non-party, papers, are compelled to print material inimical to the interests of the Communists, they must at the same time state their, own views in separate articles and editorials, and attack such material. A copy, of this letter is being sent to the Lithuanian bureau. Fraternally yours, C. E. Ruthenberg, Gen. Sec’y. ' RESOLUTION ON LIQUIDATION | OF LOREISM ADOPTED BY THE BUREAU OF LETTISH SECTION BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 14.—The bureau of the Lettish section of thc Workers Communist Party, after consideration of the recent developments since the expulsion of Lore by the Fourth National Convention, declares: 1. That we approve and endorse the action of our last convention in expelling Lore from the party and in removing Comrade Askeli from the editorial board of the Tyomies as an evidence of the determination of our Trade Union Delegation Goes to Japan PEKING, Oct. 14—(Tass)—The de- legation of Soviet trade unions which visited Peking, Shanghai and Canton invited by Japanese trade uffons par- ticularly by the labor council of Osaka, and Koke, to visit Japan for the purpose of getting acquainted with conditions of trade union movement and contributing to a closer raproach- ment between Japanese labor organ- izations and those of the Union Social- ists of Soviet Republics. DISTRICT 6 TO HOLD MEETINGS IN BELLAIRE, STEUBENVILLE AND E, LIVERPOOL ON BOLSHEVIZATION There will be a membership meeting in Bellaire for the comrades of | Bellaire, Dilles Bottom, Dillonvale, Yorkville and Neffs, on Saturday evening, | October 17, at 7:30, at Bohemian Hall, 41st and Harrison streets, There will be a membership meeting Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Steubenville, and Wednesday, Oct. 21, in East Liverpool, These membership meetings are very important. Comrade |. Amter,| things, the elimination of all tenden- the district secretary, will speak on Bolshevization and reorganization of the cies to question the judgment and re- party. The-problem of reorganization stands before the party as its im- mediate task which must be performed in the near future. Every party com- rade must attend these meetings, Jazz and Classic Orchestra Help Free the Political Prisoners! Grand Costume Balt + given by the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE at THE LYCEUM, 86th Street and Third Avenue NEW YORK CITY Saturday Evening, October 17th Special Entertainment Features Tickets of Admission 75 Cents For sale at Freiheit office, Novy Mir, Jimmie Higgins Book Store, 799 Broadway, Room 422, and 108,B.44th St. Costume Prizes party to no longer*tolerate within our ranks the 6pponents of the principles and policies of the Communist Inter- national. We endorse the action of the convention as an indication of the development of our party on the road toward its complete Bolsheviza- tion. | 2. The Lettish bureau considers it especially necessary at this time to call upon the Lettish members to be on their guard against all tendencies which work toward undermining the | Prestige of the Communist Interna- tional, particularly now when the so- cial-democrat Lore openly works to discredit the Comintern and its deci- sions, with the aim to destroy the pos- sibility of building up a powerful seg- tion of the Comintern in America. 3. We declare that the Comintern is the only reliable guide for the Com- | munist revolutionary organization of | the entire world and that the process | of Bolshevization and the elimination |of Loreism includes among other sponsibility of the decisions of the Communist International. { 4. We declare that -the . present propaganda of Lore and its suppdrt- ers to the effect that the Comintern acts upon misinformation regarding American conditions, is a direct blow struck against Me idea of a single vorld party of Communism, and is in anti-Bolshevik tendency, and an xpression of Loreism which must be -elentlessly rooted out of the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America. Bureau of the Lettish Section, Robert Zelms, Secretary. Darcy to Report on Y. W: L National. Convention in Cleveland and Pittsburgh CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 14.—The first of a series of member- ship meetings at which N, E, C, representatives will report on the work of the third national convention of the Young Workers Le: will be held in Cleveland at the district headquarters, 5927 Euclid Ave., on Friday, October 16, 1925, at 8 p. m. x The second meeting will be held on Sunday evening at eight o’clock in Pittsburgh at/the Labor Comrade Darcy will represent the N. E. C. at both meetings and wlil report on the present situation in the league. All comrades are instructed to be present at bothy meetings be- cause matters of great importance to the future work gMthe organiza- tion will be cdinsidered, *|Going on in Ching, \fndia etc. No T Two More § ) Nuclei in Needle! Industry Organized in Chicago Shop nuclei 8 and 9 have recently been organized in Chicago. A clothing workers’ shop nucleus of four mem- bers, all of whom are members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, make up the membership of Nucleus No, 8. This has been in the process of organization for sometime and the comrades have finally come together. There is ‘every prospect of successful developnient, Nucleus No, 9, which ‘at present has three members, is located in a mil- linery shop. The members belong. to Cap and Millinery® Workers’ Union. | Other members ofthe party are said to be working heré’ and they will be found in the coming Yeorganization of the party and united With the other members in this nucleus, * 8 Organization of Party Fractions. The organization of party fractions in the trade unions has become a major task of the party. To push tits work, District 8 is organizing a series of membership meetings to be ad- dressed by Comrades Arne Swabeck, Jack Johnstone, Martin Abern and others. In this drive to get party members o join the unions and then to organize ‘ommunist,.fractions in each local inion, central body, ete., every party init in the district will be covered. Special letters on this question ‘ave been sent and dates of meetings | outlined which will be published later. N. Y. Reorganization - Meetings Sunday and Monday; Very Important NEW YORK, Oct. .14.—The begin- ning of reorganization work, with the functionaries meetings called in ac- cordance with the plan of the C. E. C, will take place as follows: October 18th: Downtown, 108 BE. 14th St., 10 a. m. Harlem, 64 E, 104th St., 10 a. m. Williamsburg, 56 Manhattan avenue, 3 p. m. Brownsville, 1844 Pitkin Aye., 3 p. m. October 19th: Bronx, 1347 Boston Road, 8 p. m. Boro Park, Bath Beach, Coney Island, 764—40th St. 8 p. m. All branch organizers, industrial or- zanizers and ;financial secretaries nust appear at these meetings, Any one of these officers of the branches in the sections listed are to iotify the other officers of these meet: ‘ngs, so as to be sure that every one attends without fail. Special,representatives of the dis- srict office willcdver these meetings o explain at length the actual stages | — HE DAILY WORKER COURSES FOR COMING TERM OF WORKERS’.SCHOOL ARE OUTLINED ~ BY N. Y. AGITPROP HEAD, WOLFE ization of the Workers (Communist) trict of the Workers (Communist) Party and head of the Workers School stated in outlining the most important present activities of the agitprop de- partment. Courses will be given in every shop nucleus gn the elements of Leninism, and the“duties of members of a Com- munist Party, These courses will be directed by one comrade in each nucleus to be elected by his fellow nucleus members. The directors of the courses in the shop nuclei will attend a céntral train- ing course. The second group of courses soon to be started by the school will instruct leading comrades, including party functionaries and active members of trade-unions, in the carrying on of their Communist activities. Main Course In Nucleus. Other activities of the agitprop de- partment in this district are to con- sist of classes in the English language to aid in the reorganization of the party, a group of elective courses which include the “History of the Am- erican Workingclass,” “Economic and Political. History,” and a group of more “popular” courses designed to attract non-party members. “We feel that the principal course, and the principal educational aim in view of the fact that we are reorganiz- ing our party is to have every mem- ber of every shop nucleus go thru a course in the A. B. C. of Leninism,” said Comrade Wolfe, “A course so constructed that it might have as a title, ‘How to be a Member of a Com- munist Party.’ We plan to give this course simultaneously in every shop nucleus, It should include such ele- mentary topics as: What Is A Party; The Role of the Communist Party; Its Structure and Organization; Class Division; Class Differences and’ Class Struggle; Bolshevization; Work in the Trade Unions; Communist Elec- toral Campaign and .Parliamentarism; Theory and Practice of the United Front; Loreism, and other pressing party problems. This is of course, not an outline but a series of topics which suggest the general nature of the courses to be given. The courses will be outlined shortly.” Will Insure Political Development. The courses given in the shop nuclei will insure the immediate fune- tioning of the shop nuclei along po- litical lines and not merely as centers for discussion of shop conditions, ‘By KARL REEVE , (Staff Correspondent, DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—The courses prepared for the opening of the new term of the Workers’ School have been arranged so as to aid in the reorgan- \ Party on the basis. of the shop nuclei and at the same time to instruct active party members how to carry on their work most effectively, especially in the trade unions, and to raise the gen- eal theoretical level of the party, Comrade Bert Wolfe, director of the agit- prop department of the New York dis @———————____——————— Bertram D. Wolfe, Director, New York Workers’ School, avenue. has become famous—if not notorious. cartoon or drawing to be sold. He will tell choice tid-bits of the personal during the evening sessions of the congress, classical dancing, singing, instrument playing—all these forms of talent will be welcomed by the arrangements committee. Any worker desiring to assist in this work will please get in touch with A. Andrew ‘Torrence, chairman of the arrangements committee, at the American Negro Labor Congress headquarters, 3456 South Indiana (and inner) life of the artists. He Comrade Wolfe stated. will expose the virtues of the artists o£ reorganization:, -All functionaries lesignated must be present at these | neetings. Failure to do so means cut- | ing off the branches from the work of reorganization. | Max Bedacht Speaks on Loreism Friday Night at Cleveland CLEVELAND, Oct. 14.—Comrade | Max Bedacht, member of the Central | Executive Committee, will be in| Cleveland on Friday, Oct. 16, He will! speak at the Geselligkeitvertein Frei- heit Club, 4808 ° Franklin Ave., on! “Loreism and the Workers Party.” | This is a subject of great import: | ance for the party. It is not the fact) that Lore has begun the organization | of the so-called \“International Work- men’s Association,” which gives the | meeting’ such importance, but the fact that Comrade Bedacht will go into the whgle matter of Loreism and its rela- tionship to the Party. Comrade Bedacht will speak in Ger- man. ¥ ; Every member and:worker of Cleve- land who can understand German should not fail to attend the meeting. Get all friends andysympathizers to attend. + we a I. L. D. Mass Meeting in Brooklyn Friday Nite NEW YORK, Oct, 13.—Mass meet» ing and reunion will be held by Inter- national Labor Defense Williamsburg branch No. 36 in [..B. U. Hall, 56 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn; Friday night October 46, at 8 o’tlock, Lectures: The Problems American Labor. Have to Face in Future; La- bor Movement in Europe; What is charge for admission, Lyceum, 35 Miller st. a4 "45 The comrades who attend the cen- tral course will receive an outline of instruction on how to conduct the nucleus class, and will be given ma- terial for the next lesson of the class. Two such centrol courses will be giv- enbeginning on alternating weeks, so and leave them naked to the public (the virtues, not the artists). He will describe all angles of art and artists in a manner of the true auctioneer who best serves the interests of the American God of Blah, that all shop nucleus instructors may attend. Every shop nucleus must have its discussion every other week, the trained discussion director taking up the same subject that he heard at the central course the preceding week. Course For Active Members. “Next in importance to the shop nucleus training course will be a training course for leading comrades in the unions, party functionaries, and leading members generally,” Comrade Wolfe continued. “I have outlined a Program of three courses of which each comrade should take two.” These courses will be given one night each week for six months. They will consist of a course in Marxism and Leninism, and of either “Party History, Structure and Problems,” or a course in “Communist Work in the Trade Unions,” to be given during a three months period. The instructor “Marxism and Leninism” will be Comrade Wolfe, in “Party History, Structure and Prob- lems,” Comrade William Weinstone, district organizer of the New York district, and in “Communist Work in the Trade Unions,” Comrades Miller, Gitlow and Zack, with Comrade Miller responsible. Counse For Needle Trades Workers. si One of the cours®s in the third, elective,” group will be “The His- tory and Problems of the Needle Trades Industry.” Comrade Wolfe Says of this course, “It is of vital im- Portance to the party. Our deserved victory in the International Ladies Garment Workers fight has brot us face to face with the question of the assumption of leadership in the needle trades industry. Our comrades in that industry mifst be worthy of such re- Sponsibilities and must have a thoro knowledge; statistically, _ politically, and historically, of the industry and its problems, We plan to select twen- ty five of the most active needle trade workers to take this course,” The agitprop department of District Two further plang to develop research work as an aid to those taking the courses, and a special committee has been appointed to co-ordinate the various research ‘groups that are now at work oii special problems, Take this copy of the DALLY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. Sansa natant Preparations are being made for this “stupenjous” feature. The Fin- nish orchestra is arranging a special introductory musical number. The stage has been swept. Sawdust has been sprinkled—the final touches to the debut of this great “shpeeler” are being completed. t How lucky the North Side branch was to secure the services of the noted auctioneer you will be able to judge for yourself on Sunday at- the Rescue Party--where it will cost you only fifty cents to get in. ENGDAHL SPEAKS .. SATURDAY NIGHT © \ AT PITTSBURGH eo Great Treat in Store for Workers eer, (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 14.—The workers of Pittsburgh will certainly get a treat when they turn out to the | Labor Lyceum, Miller street, Satur- day night, Oct. 17th at 8 o’clock ahd hear the analysis that J. Louis Eng- dahl, editor of the, DAILY WORKER, will make of the American Federation of Labor convention at Atlantic City. The sham scrap ‘put up by the over- grown president of the Typographical Union, James M.'Lynch, and the arch- reactionary Matthew Woll of ‘the Photo-Engravers’ Union against Green ( on a “safe and sane” issue does not fool the workers of Pittsburgh. Russ Soviet Teachers Attend Brussels Meet (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW—(By Mail)—The Soviet delegates to the International Educa- tional Congress- at Brussels, con- sisting of Korostelev, Dolinko and Apletin, left Moscow August 21.” Negro Labor Congress Asks for Artistic Talent; The American Negro Labor Congress, which will open at Pythian Hall, 207 East 35th St., Chicago, on Sunday, Oct. 25, has issued an appeal to all colored and white workers to participate in the evening programs which will occupy every evening during the week of October 25 to 31. Every white and colored worker is called upon to aid in the arranging of the programs to be given at.the large mass meetings to be held Recitations, monologues, NOTED AUCTIONEER SECURED FOR ART SALE AT NORTHSIDE ENGLISH BRANCH “RESCUE PARTY” To secure the best prices for the drawings of the leading artists to be sold at auction at the Rescue Party on Sunday at Imperial Hall, the North Side branch has been fortunate in securing the services of a man whose ready wit, deep appreciation of art and keen knowledge of the values in life Here’s Your Chance. “ This auctioneer has really never before placed his’ real capabilities at the services of the party. He will give a professional's criticism of each { Labor Defense Asks Sympathetic Bodies to Avoid These Dates The International Labor Defense asks that all sympathetic organiza- tions do not arrange affairs on the fol- lowing dates in Chicago: ia Saturday evening, Oct. 24, as there will be a Labor Defense Dance at the Temple Hall, Van Buren and Marsh- field Ave, The week of December 10 to the 13 (inclusive) as the Labor Defense Ba- zaar will take place at Northwest ‘| Hall, North and Western Aves. Wrap your lynch in a copy of the DAILY W@BKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate. ACALLTO ACTION Every member of the Workers Party, every lover and supporter of the | first workers’ republic, Soviet Rusia, has been appealed to to join in the the big drive for the defense of the Soviet Union and to arouse the American workers to the new dangers confronting the Soviet Union and make them understand that the fight for the Soviet Union is a fight for themselves. A leafiet, “DEFEND THE WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ GOVERN. MENT OF RUSSIA” will do that. This leaflet must be distributed, a million at than 1,000,000 wil] not do. others places wher Workers Party, National Office, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. e. Enclosed please find $.....000« Name.. 100,000 15,000 New York City San Francisco Bellaire, Ohio 600 Oakland, Cal. . 1,000 West Frankfort, tl, 12,000 Philadelphia, Pa. ..,, 30,000 Waukegan, Ill. 2,000 Tacoma, Wash, 1,000 3,000 3,000 leaflets, “DEFEND THE WORKER RUSSIA” to the following name and address: oe ME 4 The following orders have been received up to this date: 3,000| Detroit, Mich, i: So far we have received orders for 255,500, That is not enough. Has your branchiordered their quota? Have you, reader of the DAILY WORKER, ordered: ‘our ‘supply? Let us cover eyery shop and factory and ere the working class is employed with the distribution of this leaflet. Send your order to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Price in lots of 10,000 or more, $1.50, lots less than that, $2.00 per thousand. Order at once, —— ba be J —— USE THIS ORDER BLANK pes \ fers frets ($3.00 per oie for which send Vv NT OF SOVIET Address... State... Pittsburgh, Pa. Albany, N. Y., English Daisytown, Pa., Finns Cleveland, Ohio .. Diamondville, Wyo. Springfield, M Washington, D) °C, . 5 Total ...