The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1925, Page 4

a Page Four ~ THE DAILY WORKER ees TEMPORARY SUBDIVISION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO PROPOSED BY C. E. C. DIST. REORGANIZATION COMMISSION The district reorganization Commission, consisting of Comrades Abern, Minor and Lovestone, have worked out the following basis of temporary) sub-division of the city of Chicago for reorganization purposes: Section |. Loop—South Territory. * Lake Michigan and Chicago River northwest to Canal; then south to Wentworth, along State street to 67th street south. Party units to be included In this section: South Side English, South Side Scandinavian, Englewood Eng- lish, clothing shop nuclei No. No. 8 and No. 4, Time and place of section member. ship meeting at which registration of membership will take place for reor-! ganization into shop and street nuc- lei: ‘Wednesday, Oct. 21, 8 p, m., at Community Center, 3201 South Wa- bash Ave. Industries: Loop Commerce and trade—Newspapers’ and publishers, Tailroad terminals, warehouses, freight and express docks, light manufactur- ing center, and*the southeast residen- tial section shall be attached thereto. Political Divisions: First congres- »8ional—1, 3, 5, senatorial 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, § wards, ‘ Section Il. Pullman and Vicinity. South of 67th street,,and all of Pull-} 26 Yan, inclusive of Hegewisch, Chicago Heights, South Chicago, Grand Cross: ing, Burnside, Roseland, Dauphin Park, etc. Party units to be included in this section: Italian Dauphin Park, Ital- fan Grand Crossing, Ukrainian branch No. 2; Polish branch, Russian branch, South Slavic branch, Ukrain- ian No. 7. Ford . nucleus, Pullman nucleus, Illinois Steel, Wisconsin Steel. Chicago Lithuanian, Time and place of section member- ship meeting at which registration of mentbership will take place for reor- ganization into shop and street nuc- lei: “Stancik’s Hall, 205 E. 115th St., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1925, 8 p, m. Industries: Heavy industry section, steel, cars, foundries, etc. Political Divisions: Second and 3rd congressional; 7, 11, 13 senatorial 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19th wards, SECTION III, tg Central Manufacturing ,Area. 22nd street and Canal, then south along Wentworth-State Sts. to 67th street south; then west to city limits, and north along city limits and Mllinois- Michigan Canal to 22nd street. Party units to be included in this section: Lithuanian No. 5, Lithuanian No, 41, Lithuanian No. 93. Ukrainian South Side, No. 5, Polish South Side No. 23, Czecho-Slovak, Town of Lake, Slovak Town of Lake, Time and Place of section member- | LAST LECTURE ON RUSS POETRY.BY MAYAKOVSKY GIVEN TUESDAY; OGT. 20 Tickets for. the second and last lecture of the famous Russian poet Vladimir’ Mayakovsky, are for sale at the office of the DAILY WORK- ER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., the Workers’ House, 1902 W, Division St. the Freiheit office, 3418 Roose- velt Rd,, the, Russian co-operative restaurants and by worker cor respondents of the Novy Mir. Viadimir Mayakovsky will speak here Tuesday, Oct,\20, at Schoen- hofen Hall, corner Ashland and Mil- waukee Aves. Grant Works, Western, etc, Political divisions: Fifth and 6th congressional, 2, 15, 17, 19, 21st sena- 20, 23,,. 24, °26, 29, 30. cand 31st wards. SECTION Vv. North Side. Lake Michingan and Chicago River (on north), north to city limits, west along city limits to North Shore chan- nel, south along North Shore chan- nel—Chicago River north branclr to Robey, south along Robey to Hoyne and corner Division St. Party units to be included in this section: North Side English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Roumanian, Ital- ian Terra Cotta, Lakeview Scandinay- ian. Time and place of section member- ship meeting at which registration of membership will take place for reor- ganization into shop and street nuclei; Thursday, October 29, 1925, 8 p. m., Imperial Haft, 2409 No. Halsted. Industries: Includes the Goose Is- land Industrial section and the light manufacturing and residential sec- tions of the northwest. Political divisions: Eighth and 9th congressional; 27, 29, 31 senatorial, 33, 42, 43, 44, 46th wards, SECTION VI. Northwest. Washington Blvd. and Robey north to Chicago River—North Shore chan- nel to city limits; west along city lim- its and south along city limits to Madi- son; then east to Laramie, north to Kinzie, east to Kenton, then north to North Ave. and east to Crawferd, then south to Washington Blvd. and | Map of the City of Chicago Indicat dustrial Sections aNARRAGANSET N. HARLEM lw. NORTH AVE AUSTIN BLVD. N, S. RLEM ©. Si then east to.Robey. Washington Bivd. Party units to be included In this ship meeting at which registration of membership will take place for reor- ganization into shop and street nuc- lei: Wednesday, Nov. 4, 8 p. m., at Vilnis, 3116 S. Halsted St. Industries: Stockyards and central manufacturing section. Political divisions: Fourth congres* section: North Side Polish, Russian, Northwest Jewish, Northwest Eng- lish, Karl Marx Scandinavian, Lithu- anian No, 3, Lettish, Car shop nucle- us No. 6, Ukrainian No. 1, Slovak No. 1, Irving Park English, Slovak Jet- ferson Park, Time and place of section member- sional; 4 and 9 senatorial, 11, 12, 13, 44, 16, 16, 17 waras. ship meeting at which registration of SECTION IV. Mid City Industrial membership will take place for reor- Section: ganizaticn into shop and streat nuciei. Thursday, Nov. 12, 1925, 8 p. m., at Begin Chicago River (near Kinzie) Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. north to Division, west to Ashland, south to Washington Blvd, west. to| (Tentative). Crawford, north to North Ave., west} !ndustries: Railroad shops, clear- to city limits, inclusive of Cicero and | /2& industrial district, clothing, etc. south along city limits to 22nd street,| Political divisions: Seventh congres- then east to Drainage Canal and 22nd | Sional—23, 25 senatorial, 28 32, 34, street: 35, 36, 37, 38, 40 and 41st wards. Party units to be included in this section: Greek, Armenian*(Fed) Mid- City English, DAILY WORKER nuc- leus, Bulgarian, Douglas Park Jewish, Douglas Park English, Armenian Inde- pendent, Spanish, Czech No. 3. Cic-|~ ero: Lithuanian No. 74, English, Czech men and women’s, Italian, Czecho-Slo- vak No. 1, Brookfield, North Berwyn, 8. Slavic No, 1, Lithuanian No. 2, Lithuanian No, 77, Italian 31st. Here there should be at py four sub-sec- tions, Shop nucleus No, 7, Italian 11th, Italian 19th, * Time ,and place of section member- ship meeting at which registration of membership will take place for reor- ganization into shop and street nuclei: Wednesday, Nov. 18, Roosevelt Hall, 8437 W. Roosevelt Road. Industries: Clothing Manufacturing sections. . A good book on Communism will make you a better Com- munist. chelp! sa and light Cicero and! To Save THE DAILY WORKER MASS MEETING THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 8 P. M. at NORTH-WEST HALL, ~~ *» CORNER NORTH AND WESTERN ae a ** 9% SPEAKER: * J. Louis Engdahl, Editor of Daily \ Worker Subject: The A. F. of L. Convention, and the Left Wing Movement. ‘ Everybody Welcome——Admission Free Auspices of the Trade Union Educational League, Local Chicago vtipniie NORTH AVE. ALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA fing Temporary Division into In- 7 -Reorganization 24 the c E. C. Chicago District ReorganizationPrepared by the Organization Department and Commission. -_ What the Party Gains Thru Reorganization By EARL R. BROWDER. When confronted by the difficult tasks of reorganizing the party into shop nuclei, many members put the question “What will the party gain thru reorganization?” Such a question must be met fairly and squarely, and definite answers given, for only thus can each member be made a convinc- ed and enthusiastic worker for re- organization. The most important gains to the party thru reorganization are: 1, Establishment of real central- ization, which makes possible united action, in place of the present merely formal centralization which masks an actual autonomy of language groups that has paralyzed the party. 2. Mobilization of the membership to active participation in the political life of the party, and the systematic allotment of specific work to each and every member, 3. Organized contact with the mass- es of non-party workers in the shops and factories, placing the center of gravity of party life there, where the working class is most acutely made aware of its problems. A Real Centralization, The present formal centralization of our party exists only on paper. Actually the C, E. C. has had only such power as the leaders of the language groups were willing to allow, or which the C. FE. C, could trick them of. What a farce is centraliza- tion, for example, When language bureaus can carry on political cam- paigns against the Central Committee for purely factional reasons. Centralized leadership is impossible so dong as there are 17 different “bureaus,” each carrying out party directions or ignoring them, at its discretion; so long as the 28 different publications of our movement are not firmly bart ae ob pc e center; 80 long as thé deration” jea- lousies and peanut politics are not swept clear out of the general life of the party. putting aside the language groups to their proper positions as ‘Workers’ Clubs,” by centralizing all member- ship thru uniform and all-embracing nucleus, sub-section, city and district organizations, by making all payments flow thru a commpn channel, is a long and important step toward real cen- tralization—which means toward a real Bolshevik Party. - An Active Membership. Reorganization will /draw larger numbers into active party life. This will be accomplished by abolishing the idea that’ the present ‘Workers’ Clubs” that call themselves branches are really political bodies; by killing the idea that dramatic presentations will excuse a party unit from taking part in a political demonstrations; by destroying once and for all the idea that “federation” intrigue is more “Communist” than attending trade union meetings to fight for a Com- munist program. But reorganization means ‘an active membership NOW, not only when it is completed. For the reorganization will be a dismal failure if it should be considered bureaucratically, mech- anically, as something imposed from above. No, the party, reorganization process must itself be made the occa- sion for the responsible mobilzation of all the most active proletarian elements in our party, who will them- selves (and they are the only ones who CAN) put into effeet the life- giving organizational principles of the shop nuclei, More important than all else, is the Nuclei Two, Three and Four, SECTION MEMBERSHIP MEETING FOR. SHOP NUCLEI ORGAN- IZATION OF LOCAL CHICAGO, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, SECTION NUMBER ONE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 21, 1925, 8 P. M. 47 At COMMUNITY CENTER, 3201 Soutt. Wabash Ave. All members of the following Party units must attend: wood English, Seuth Side English, South Side Scandinavian, Shop Admission by membership ecard only. fact that shop nuclei put the party into organized contact with the masses of industrial workers. The form of organization is of primary importance beeause it automatically places certain questions “on the order of the day.” And the shop nucleus form makes “the first order of busi- ness always the question, “How can we win over more of our comrades jin this shop?” Every member of the party becomes thus an active propagandist and re- cruiting agent for our party, among just the most important elements, not the shop-keepers near where he lives, but the fellow-workers in the shops. And these aré the masses from which we must build our mass Communist Party. Isn't It Worth Fighting For? And so we do not ask the mem- bers of the Workers Party if they will accept reorganization. We ask: “Isn’t this something which we can fight for, can work for, can buil over all obstacles?” We think it and all members who think likewise will establish a working and fighting. cooperation to realize these ends, Northside English Meets Tonight. The Northside English branch will meet tonight at Imperial Hall, 2409 North Halsted street, at which the question of reorganization and final branch settlements will be attended to, ‘Every member must be present. “Let’s make this a rousing farewell to the North Side and a welcome to the new organization,” says our sec- retary, Wm. Kuperman. Engle- AAMAS senate ARCA rhe FINNISH FEDERATION OHIO . DISTRICT ENDORSES REMOVAL OF ASKELI FROM TYOMIES WARREN, Ohio, Oct. 18—At the enlarged executive committee meet- ing of the Ohio District Finnish Federation of the Workers Party, at Which active propagandists (agitprop workers) were also present,’ the following statement wag unanimously accepted endorsing the Central Executive Com- mittee for it action in insisting on the removal of Askeli from the editorship thes “The editorial staff of the Finnish daily Tyomies, gave out its. statement about the declaration of the trustees of Tyomies, which was published in No. 226 of Tyomies. We, the mem- bers of the Ohio District Enlarged Executive Committee and speakers on the speakers’ roll of the Ohio district, meeting in joint convention in War- ren, Ohio, Sept. 27, deem it necessary to make mention of it and draw the attention of the membership to it. “In the first place, the editorial staff of Tyomies claims that the declara- tion of the trustees on the removal of Askeli from the editorial staff came to them (editorial staff and readers) as a surprise. So far as the readers (especially party members) are con- cerned, we are sure that the declara- tion of the trustees did not come to the readers as a surprise. They cer- ainly expected a more thoro explan- ation than was received from Tyomies on why the party convention decided to discharge Askeli from Tyomies. By the convention reports which Askeli sent to Tyomies, one could get the idea that he was discharged from the editorial staff by a whim due to ma- lice or at least, by a misunderstand- ing. “At last the declaration of the trustees’ gave a different color to the case, altho even that was too nar- row and evasive. “As two weeks had elapsed between the party convention and the date when the declaration of the trustees was published, and the editors had not up to that time informed the read- ers and party members on the reason which caused the party. convention to make its decision on why Askeli was discharged. from the editorial staff; it would seem to us that this has been entirely a wilfull neglect. The claim that the declaration of the trustees came to the editors as a surprise can be understood as a surprise only in the case that the editors have gone to the defense of the Loreist deviation in the party which Comrade Askeli was found to represent and for which he wasdischarged from the Tyomies. By PHILIP of the Tyomies: + “The editorial staff informed the readers it has appealed the case to the Central Executive Committee of the party. This action proves the at- titude the editors of the Tyomies’ would take if they were the dominant factor fulfilling the decision of the party convention. Hag the Central Executive Committee any authority to annul the decisions of the party convention? Most certainly not! But the editors of Tyomies seem to have their own opinion about the party juvisdiction. The editors of Tyomies must learn to see things in a similar light with other party units, if they are at all willing to help us centralise and unify the party. They must learn to understand that the Central Exe- cutive Committee of the party is elected to fulfill the decisions of the party convention ahd not to annul them. The party convention is the supreme organ of the party, so it will show by its decisions that it is will- ing to obey and_carry out the will of the Comintern, — “The trustees in their statement prove that Comrade Askeli’s submis- sion to the decision of the convention is only a pretense and that Comrade Askeli is carrying on propaganda in consequence of his discharge to weak- en the value of the decisions of the party convention. Now the whole edi- torial staff of the Tyomies has joined in that intrigue. If this continues, we do not need to mention the harm that it will do the work we are now engaged in to Bolshevize and reor- ganize the party. The Finnish Fed- eration reorganization is a more diffi- cult task .to perform than any other part of the party for many rea- sons. Therefore, we warn the edi- torial staff of Tyomies or any other unit of the party not to throw ob- stacles in our way by their intrigue. We are not satisfied with lip serv- ice, when the acts of the comrades are against the Comintern. We de- mand that the decision of the party convention must be obeyed. “Finnish Federation Ohio District Committee, Warren, Ohio.” BALTIMORE MEMBERSHIP MEET UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSES NEW CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHATSKY. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 18.—The most interesting and important mem- bership meeting in Baltimore was held on Sunday, Oct. 11, to discuss the present situation in our party and the future tasks of bolshevization and re- organization. Comrade Tallentire, the newly elected organizer of District = )}ance and when we look back to all "| was the main speaker. Reviews Party’s Struggles. In his speech he analyzed the stages of developments of our party until the present period. “Whenever our party was a crisis,” he said, “the C. I. came to our assist- those decisions, we must admit that the C. I. was then, as it is now, cor- rect-and those who opposed the ©. I. were not.” Quoting parts of Comrade Cannon’ speech delivered at the Y. W. L. con- vention he pointed out the danger existing in our party from the new regrouping of forces: on the one hand all those who accept the C, I. decision wholeheartedly and carry them out, and on the other those who while ‘accepting the decision formally, in reality are working against the C. I. After introducing a (orelution to en- dorse our new C. E."C. and all the resolutions passed by the convention, he appealed to all present, to vote for this resolution, ands to realize that a new era is beginning in our move- ment, and the active support of all members must™be mobilized. A discussion, in which the comrades of various branches participated, de- monstrated clearly, that the rank and file of our party, are all for the C, I, and all its decisions, ready to begin on reorganization. The resolution was carried unani- Help the Cl International Saturday, | At Door 60¢ © s-War Prisoners and Defendants Chicago Workers: Come to the DANCE ~ TEMPLE HALL Marshfield and Van Buren 'y if Special Features—Including Tableau. Good Orchestra—Refreshments | Tickets—Including Wardrobe 50c— a oO mously, with one abstaining from voting. os 6 BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 15—The Y. W. L., invites you all for a good time. The Lenin branch, Y. W. L. local Bal- timore, is giving a package party and dance Saturday Oct. 31, 8 p. m. at the Labor Lyceum Ausquith and Lex- ington Sts. All are invited to come. A good time is assured to everyone. Labor Defense Asks Sympathetic Bodies to Avoid These Dates The International Labor Defense asks that all sympathetic organjza- tions do not arrange affairs on the fol- lowing dates in Chicago: 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. Build the DAILY WORKER. Labor Defense \ Oct. 24 > Auspices 4 Chicago Local, 1. L, D. utes J