The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 4

weit = M E executive sub-committee of the Finnish reorganization commission eld its first session on October 19. Detailed plans for fully acquainting the entire membership of the Finnish Section with the problem of reorgan- jzation and hastening the reorganiza- ion of the Finnish units of our party, was agreed upon. Comrades Puro, Burman, Sulkanen and _ Lovestone were present at this meeting. DA In essence, the plan is as follows: Serre 1. Nearly one hundred of the most er inmportant Finnish branches in the tionsParty have been selected for being appe@ddressed by a representative of the Da lowi#innish reorganization commission. Damhese branches are to call special als wieetings at fixed dates. At these agaimeetings, the only order of business ing will be reorganization of the party Handa the basis of shop nuclei. isfy 2. Special articles on specific phas- es of the reorganizatjon problems will 'be written in the Finnish press, by selected comrades. hear g. A section of all our Finnish larefjgilies will be set aside for di MOSGion, and answers about organization latelproblems. Comrade Puro, who is di- tweGecting the agitation and propaganda natiwork of reorganization, in the Finnish the section, will take charge of this col- Famn. held Wherever possible, immediately, striphop nuclei organization steps are to ter be taken in order to show organiza- spittional examples to the Finnish com- surrades. There are several industrial lery2enters where many Finnish workers, gunmembers of the party, are found, and actibis can be applied. plar 5. The Finnish reorganization com- porission, in co-operation with the Fin- qaish district executive committees, gind the district executive commttees des?! the party, as well as the C. E. C. Fre line S- ie Party’s Finnish Section Reorganization Commission Is Planning Big Drive j organization department, will keep the entire press fully informed of the progress of the work. 6. Speakers have been selected to address the branches of the federation on the question of shop nucleus. 7. Each of these speakers is be- ing given special material in the Fin- nish language dealing with the prob- lems of reorganization. 8, Representatives of the D. E. C.’s of the party and. the reorganization commission of the Finnish section will be present at all district confer- ences of the Finnish section which are to be held soon in preparation for the national conference of the Finnish section. Amongst the comrades who will write special articles on the reorganiz- ation of the Finnish federation, will be the following: C. E. Ruthenberg, Jay Lovestone, J. P. Cannon, H. Puro, B. Sulkanen, Harl Heino, R. Pesola, Taavi Heino, Aaro el Ohrn, E, Parras, K, A. , S. Kankaanpaa, K. B. Heik- kinen, F. Burman. Among the branches that will be visited by speakers of the Finnish re- organization commission ar ethe fol- lowing: Massachusetts: Abington, Ashburn- ham, Ashby, Boston, Chester, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Hingham, Lanes- ville, Maynard, Norwood, Peabody, Quincy, Townsend, Worcester, Keene, Lebanon, Milford, Newport, W. Con- cord, Wilton. Speakers: Kalle Heino, on regular tour; D, Heino, R. Pesola, Olga Oike- mus, Aaro Hyrske, Wm. Marttila, New York: Jersey City, Newark, Brooklyn, Jamaica, Inwood, New Ro- chelle, New York, Port Chester, Stat- island, Baltimore, Philadelphia, ewfield, Rochester, Scotia, en «| HOW TO ORGANIZE A SHOP NUCLEUS ties By T. G., Member Shop Nucleus No. 3, Detroit, Mich. Moi HIS is the problem which is now|great effect on our fellow workers, for This is much better than the meet- before every member of our party fors+ the present time. Most every one wilt our comrades knows that this is MOhe most important issue before our enharty~ Therefore, I will try to give W4) little information how we organized t shop nucleus. The first thing we did was that we talalled a meeting of some comrades infye knew were working in one shop. dative came together and the first order f business was how to come in con- 19tact with the workers working in the (Sactory where we were employed. We Mid this because we very well knew 19'hat the shop nuclei are organized for re\he purpose of getting in close con- naact with the workers employed in the cBactories. of What did we discuss? We weredis- sussing the working conditions in the | actory, how the workers are working, Frnat they are talking about, and what would interest them mostly. Finally ve came to the conclusion that we vill issue a shop newspaper in which ve will line out the things the work- ws are confronted with. = of the comrades may say that he it was easy for us to issue a news- Fyaper, because we know the language Orery well, but I wish to state that iBur nucleus is today still composed of Stomrades who have all been born in hZurope and not one of them knows he language well. We simply elected » Committee to make a draft of some- Ching like a leaflet and then gave it Po a comrade “who knows how to do Pe” for correction. The party organ- Gration department helped us along m this, and today we have got out the Tirst issue of our Workingmens’ Shop News. (This is the name of our pa- Ser). The chief slogans in our paper re “Join the union,” “United front for labor party,” “Let's better our work- ag condition: Those are the things very worker will understand and we y@ of the opinion that it will have a ings of the territorial branches where most of the time is wasted in reading | yard long communications, or how many “hot dogs” are we going to buy| for our next entertainment, whether | our singing choir shall be the first or second number on the program> etc. IHE long communications, entertain- ments, singing choirs, dramatic} clubs, etc., will in the future be the work of the auxiliary and language | clubs and not the work of the Com- munsit Party. The work of the Com-| munist Party is to lead the workers) in the everyday struggle against the! capitalist system. With this I do not| want to say that from now on we are/| going to have any entertainments or| singing and dramatic clubs. We will have all this only on a more broad | basis, with our sympathizers who are} not yet ready to join the party, but/ who are willing to work for the} party, Springfield Comrades Determined to Make Good on Rescue Party SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 22—As|{ soon as our Comrade Bloom received the telegram from the DAILY WORKER telling of the serious finan- cial condition the paper is in, she called a meeting phoning the com- rades and going out in a pourning rain to call on comrades to get them out | that very same day. In the same spirit at the meeting that night the assembled comrades immediately took up a_ collection which netted $40. After that discus- sion on what to do at once to help The DAILY WORKER followed and it was decided that we run our rescue party’on Friday evening, Uct. 23. Ours rie, Collinsville, New Ha-; Speakers: E. Parras, Job Wiirres. | unions. ven. Speakers: Martin Hendrickson, on regular tour; Hj Sjoman, Theo. Maki. Ohio and Pa.: Canonsburg, Daisy town, Glassport, Monessen, New Castle, Pittsburgh, Clarksburg, Ash- tabula, Cleveland, Conneaut, Fairport, Warren, Detroit, Grand Rapids. Speakers: Sulkanen, on regular tour; Puro, Finberg, Karhu, Juvonen, Kainu, Poytsia, Ahola. Mlinois: Chicago, Rock Island, Waukegan, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ra- cine. Speakers: mant Upper district: Sulkanen, Puro, Bur- Michigan: Copper Island Ahmeek, Bessemer, Eben Junction, Green, Hancock, Herman, lronwood, Ishpeming, Marquette, Mass, Negaunee, Newberry, No. Iron- wood, Paynesville, Ramsay, Rock Sault Ste. Marie, So, Range. Speakers: Oscar Gorgan, Maissi Heikinen, A. F. Heiskanen. Minnesota and Wisconsin. Bovey, Brainerd, Chisholm, Cloquet, Crom- well, Duluth, Ely, Florenton, Gilbert, Hibbing, Markham, Minneapolis, Nashwauk, Orr, Virginia, Brantwood, Oulu, Owen, Red Granite. Speakers: Maissi Hekkinen, K. E. Heikkinen, Matti Tenhunen, John Mil- ler, Axel Ohrn, V. Boman, Rocke Mountain: Diamondville, Hanna, Rock Springs. Speaker: Leonard Luoto. California: Eureka, Cotati, Fort Bragg, Reedley, San Francisco, W. Berkeley. Speakers: Sjolund. Oregon and Washington. Astoria Marshfield, Portland, Svenson, Aber- deen, Hoquiam, Ilwaco, Juanita, Kala- ma, Raymond, Seattle, Wilkeson, Win- lock, Woodland. Julius Hyrskymurto, J. New York League Meet | on Trade Union Activity NEW YORK CITY—Comrade Sam Don, District Organizer of the Young Workers League in District 2 an-/ nounces the calling of a Trade Union Conference of all members of the | League for the purpose of discussing | the tasks of the Communists if the | The conference will be held Monday evening, October 26th, at 5 Pp. m., at 105 Eldridge Street. Comrade Benjamin Gitlow, member | of the Central Committee of the Workers Party, will lead the discus- sion. All, League members and par- the trade unions have been urged to come. 2 This conference will strike a blow {address of the’““Rescue Party” which lis ticularly those who,are members of | WORKER New York Office, 108 East Lie Street, New York.” T Jewish Bakers Strike in Springfield, Mass.; Union Scabs on Jobs By B, LEVINE SPRINGFIELD Mass., October 22— Eleven bakers in the employ of the Jacobs Baking Co. ‘at’ Springfield, Mass., are out on strike! The firm has broker its agreement with Local 404 I, B, & C, Workers’ Union by hiring non-union/labor and by forcing the union men to sign in- dividual agreements with a security of five hundred dollars each. Jobs Costs $500.00 The play of the firm was to fire a baker—let him go idle a few weeks and then forcing’ him ‘to sign the agreement and put up'the security in order to get back the job. It took the employes some time to get wise to the tricks of the firm, and now they are conducting a vigorous campaign to unionize the shop, * Co-operative Géts ‘Trade Springfield, Mass. has only two Jew ish bakeries, the other one is the Jewish Women’s Cooperative Bakery doing the largest amount of business of any cooperative bakery in the coun- try, according to statistics furnished by the bureau of labor ‘statics. The cooperative is lending. ‘all possible financial and moral ajd to the strike. A conference of eleven Jewish labor organizations endorsed the strike and pledged the support of all its 800 mem- bers to the strike, The owner of the Jacobs Baking Co. is Mr. Magazine who is vice-president of the Specialty Retail Bakery Own- ers’ Association, an association of Jewish bakers to help break strikes and fight the union. This association has supplied the firm with scabs from an independent union in New York. Open air meetings are held daily and the Communists are taking active part in bringing the strike to a victor- ious end. Williamsburg Branch Changes Its, Former Hall for Big Affair NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 22.—The being arranged by, the Jewish/| Williamsburg Branch’ of. New York for the benefit of the DAILY WORK-| ER and the Freiheit was erroneously | given as Barbers’ Union Hall, 56 Man- hattan Ave., Brooklyn.’ This_has been changed to a larger hall. This “Rescue Party” will be held at the Educational Alliance, 76 Throop | avenue, Brooklyn, Saturday evening, October 31, There will be splendid entertain- ment and dance. Admission is 50 cents. Tickets may bé ‘had at DAILY | less this is done there is grave danger, HE DAILY WORKER | a ene nt nn teresa By WM. F. KRUSE. UCH has been written about the new forms under which our party will function after the reorganization, and the general acquiescence and agreement upon these new forms has made the task of reorganization much easier than was expected. Comrades from whom ideological if not organ- izational opposition might have been looked for have taken in the main a thoroly Bolshevik attitude, few and far between, and isolated almost en- tirely in the German and Finnish federations, are the voices that raise themselves against this far-reaching change in our basic organizational form, But there is more than a change of form involved in our party reor- ganization. Form is of basic import- ance, but only as a means toward an end. This is no derogation, that the means be correct and adequate is the first requirement toward ever reach- ing the goal. But in providing the means we must not lose sight for a moment of the immediate end, in this case an energetic unending campaign of Bolshevik mass activity in which our party shall use the full ability and energy of every member in the | penetration of the masses, and their mobilization for struggle under our leadership. T is clear that the old: territorial form of organization is the heritage of the social-democracy, that its polit- ical basis is one of exclusive reliance upon the bourgeois democratic pro- cesses as the limit of working class actiyity. But we must also consider the direct result of this form of or- ganization in the stultifying of the everyday activity of any working masses so organized—the tendency toward ingrown sectarianism, to con- | centration upon the most petty details of club activity as a substitute for revolutionary action among the masses. i The general agreement upon the need to change to the new forms should be utilized to lay out immedi- ately some of the new tasks, new functions and new methods of the new basic organizational units. Un- especially among the more institution- alized elements of our party, that an attempt will be made to continue the sterile clubroom gymnastics that now take up so much of our time. Under menshevik control the Soviets and the duma remained dual debating societ- Prototypes, continued “business as usual.” Such is not to be the role of the nucleus; we are changing at thé’ journalistic conception of be- coming a mass organization. It will point ott that the Young Workers League must assume the leadership of the struggles of the young workers by actually participating in their daily struggles. In order to frustrate any tendency which may manifest itself to ‘\leave or refuse to join the reformist trade unions, it will point out that the trade unions are the mass organiza- tions of the working class and it is essential to work within them and to revolutionize them. The question of the greater exploit- ation of the young workers, the lack of attention on this score by the trade unions, the organization of the unor- ganized young workers into the trade unions with lower initiaton fees and dues will be discussed and acted upon. “2ague will proceed with the further | organization of Communist youth frac- tions, so that the struggle on behalf of the young workers in the unions and the Trade Union Educational League will be organized and effec- tive. Polish Police Rap 17-Year-Old Communis’ Suspect in Lemberg LEMBERG, Poland, Oct. 22.—(Ira) —According to news received by the executive committee of the Interna- tional Red Aid the Lemberg “Defen- sive” (political police): arrested a 17- year-old girl R. K, The girl had been arrested because she was suspected of being a member of the Young Communist League. She was raped by the police agents. Her lawyer Doctor Stustinki made explanatory statements »about this fact to the authorities. A medical examination perpetrators verified the rape, yet the are not punished, Six Mills of Lumber Trust Closed by Big Strike for a Raise ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 22.—Six Grays Harbor plants are now closed Your neighbor will appreciate} by the saw mill strike, which has will be a dance and package party and| the favor—give him this copy of| been in progress three weeks for a cost of admission will be 25 cents. Vote for the Workers (Commu BENJAMIN GITLOW FOR MAYOR 1 1 1 FOR MANHATTAN: ZDWARD M. MARTIN \RTHUR S. LEEDS. *RANK J. VAN PRAET. 20SE PASTOR STOKEG........ i ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG..... REBECCA GRECHT.. MOISSAYE J. OLGIN 2ARL BRODSKY... JULIUS CODKIND. 17th Assembly 8th Aldermanic sored 7th Aldermanic the DAILY WORKER. 50-cent raise to $3.75 a day. basic unit in order to effect a change’ ” our work, our methods and our chievements, There will be, theré lust be, new activity under the new orm, and we cannot allow it to New Activity Und ies while the tzarist state administrat: |+ ors, reinforced by their democrati¢ | our), filitration of every social grouping of the workers of the shop, not’ only the union but the social and benevolent clubs and in their absence even the ephermeral social, athletic and other “ganging” that expresses the work- ers’ gregarious instinct despite the capitalists disorganizing — efforts. Methods of getting out and distribut- ing legal and illegal shop bulletins must be taught. There is great pes- simism in many comrades’ minds now on “getting caught.” To brand this as cowardice is absolutely wrong, we don’t want our members to get caught, we don’t want them fired, be- cause outside the shop they are as helpless as outside the union, ‘there- fore we must tell them in detail not only what to do but how to. do it, ‘id we must learn from their actual experiences the best ways and means for carrying on this Avork. HIS pessimism expresses itself also in the form of the assump- tion that we must.lose the major part of our membership in the process of reorganization. That we will lose some js undeniable, and also un- avoidable. Elements, weak, unassi- milatéd. and unassimilable, will drop out, But by far the largest part of our proletarian elements will, not only remain but will be heartened by the change to increase’ their strength, It would be a mistake to judge the problem of reorganization solely from the view point of Man- hattan or Chicago. The metropolis is important, in times of stress, its con- trol is vital, but American industry is not confined there, nor is the Amer- ican proletariat. And precisely in the “sticks” where some prefess the greatest pessimism on reorganization, the change will come far less as a matter of form, and far more as the matter of activity. Let us consider district nine, the stronghold of the very Finnish com- rades among whom the most skepti- cism is expressed regarding reorgan- ization. In that district of the sixty- odd towns in which we have any or- ganization, in over fifty there are only a single branch (Finnish or South Slavic) hence the immediate problem of reorganizing into an in- ternational branch does not exist. Furthermore, the overwhelming mass of these towns contain each but a Single industry, chiefly mining or farming, and often but a single estab- lishment, so that the problem of the shop, nucleus reorganization is less one of new forms than of new ac- tivity. A capable reorganizer in this Desire to Learn Is “Only Requirement for he Courses in English NEW YORK, Oct, 22—Inquiries . | have'teached the office of the New evelop entirely instinctively and un: ided.. Our organization corps must xe ever alert to guide ‘our firing line n the shop, mine, and mill in its veryday work in the everyday truggle. Particularly at the be- sinning must every experience be wnalyzed and its fruits made available 0 all, especially myst the first falter- ng steps be set in the right direction so that our members will develop that confidence and enthusiasm for h the new forms that are essential to our party’s growth in numbers and influence, fhe and space prevent any detail- ed consideration of new methods of work at this time, no doubt many articles will follow on this. subject, Almost the only concrete instruction on work heretofore issued to nuclei has been that regarding fact or shop newspapers: bulletins. York. Workers’ School requesting in- formation with regard to the English courses to be given at the school be- sinning this week. It has been asked: (1) What are the qualifications de- manded from anyone’ wishing to take the courses? (2) How many evenings a week will English be given? (8) On what feature will the chief emphasis be laid? These and other similar questions ave been communicated by mail and telephone to the office of the Work- ers’ School, ‘The Workers’ School takes this op- portunity to answer these and other questions that may arise later. (1) In the first place, any com- rade desiring English instruction is requested merely to register his name our | and pay the tuition fee $3.50 (or $2.50) ory|for three months and he will be as- —“wall papers” or| signed to a suitable class in accord- An excellent measure, but|ance with his relative command of much less an activity in itself than an] English. The Only qualification re- evidence of other activity on the|quired is that he be serious in his bart of the nucleus and its members. | efforts and willing to take the courses The participation in every current of labor unrest, ances and exploitation of them offered and that he should realize the discovery of griev-|that the Workers Party will be a to}really powerful factor only when its sharpen the mettle of the workers and| membership will speak the language increase Communist prestige, the in- | of this country. WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE LEO HOFBAUER BELLE ROBBINS. ABE EPSTEIN... NOAH LONDON . JOSEPH MANLEY ELIAS MARKS ....... .. Sheriff District CHARLES ZIMMERMAN District SAM DARCY ........... bach Dist JOSEPH BORUCHOWITZ. District AARON GROSG....... FOUR MORE RED NIGHTS “or a Labor Party Against Injunctions ‘or Lower Rents and Living Costs For Municipal Ownership and Workers Control of All Pub! Recognition of So Utilities FOR COMPTROLLER FOR THE BRONX 25th .29th FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23rd— Ath Assembly District 5th Assembly District oe sone Sheriff .District Attorne County Cler' seer REQIStEF -Borough President SAMUE r BERTR th Assembly District Aldermanic District Aldermanic District BORIS BROWNSVILLE, Stone Ave., cor. Pitkin Avenue. SATURDAY, y i) Avenue. = On each’ of these nights we will hold from twelve to fifteen meeting in the respective. sections, all ad, or Fit Schools — For a United Labor Ticket inst Child Labor TOBER 24th— ? UPPER BRONX, Longwood Ave., corner Prospect» t nitdginné for Workers’ Children ~~ JOHN D. MASSO. FOR BROOKLYN: MORRIS ROSEN ......... MARGARET UNDJUS ...044..:. EDWARD LINDGREN ....e..ccs8 L NESIN AM D. WOLFE LIPHSHITZ . er New Form district should lose but few and materially increase the activity and improve the politicalgconsciousness of ~ this membership. At the last convention this discus- sion of “backward elements” was made a rather bitter jest, but that such elements do exist, and often through little fault of their own, is undeniable, It was brought out in the district nine convention that*most of the small branches of the Iron Range had not seen an English speaking or- ganizer, teacher or” lecturer for a year, two years, or even three years. And the plea of the Finnish comrades that the district office, or at least an effective sub-district office be moved to the center of 90% of the district membership, rather than to that of 10% in the metropolis two hundred miles away, fell on deaf ears. If the reorganization brings into this district able, tactful, conscientious reorgan- J izers it will do more to build our party in this vital section than years of vegetation under the old system. The reorganization will broaden these local units beyond language lines, the old form and .its resultant activity would never have done. In a town with even a good Finnish local a fine lone rebel Slav or German or Amer- ican. remains unorganized—the new form will end this. Furthermore at- tention will finally be given to these units in farming sections and thus be- gif for the first time Communist agricultural activity by American Communist farmers. A few months more will see our party re-formed. For these new forms, the fruit of world-wide revolutionary experience, we must immediately map out the new activities that will definitely line up our party with the other powerful Communist sections to whom this work is bread and blood of very existence. No pessi- thism on loss of old members should be tolerated. Whom will we lose? Those elements that would be Com-- munists anywhere save at the place of industry? They are no material for our revolution which must come from the workshop. Those who “be- long” for reasons of social or lingual gregariousness? Our “worker clubs” will give this, perhaps better than now, under Communist leadership, and no longer possible for non-Com- munists’ decision of our party affairs. Party membership is no cheap thing, it is the accolade of the revolutionist. Ours ‘shall be reorganized in new form, it shall fight with new weapons and go forward to new achievements. (2) Elementary instruction will be given twice a week (four hours). In- termediate and advanced instruction will be. given once a week (two hours). ‘ (8) The chief stress will be laid on oral expression. At present the international branches and shop nu- clei will be unable to function well, unless the comrades are able to ex- nist) Party! CHARLES KRUMBEIN FOR PRESIDENT BOARD OF ALDERMEN press themselves in English. Conse- quently oral English will be given primary importance. It should be understood that com- rades who will register late or join the classes late will not be in the same favorable situation as those comrades who will start work at once. It tS therefore urged that all registra- tion be completed at the earliest pos- sible time. Further details can be ob- tained’at 108 E, 14th St., Room 34. Russ Handicraft Wins Popularity in Paris MOSCOW, Oct. 22.—(Tass.)—Mr. I. I, Potapoy, the agent of the celebrated handicraft organizations of Sergievy in the province of Moscow, has returned from Paris, where he was in charge of the Russian handicraft section at the Paris exhibtiion of , decoration arts. Mr. Potapot reported with sat- isfaction on the success of the Rus- sian exhibits. Millions of visitors showed interest in the new products of Russian peasant handicraft display- ing the new, Soviet life. There were large sales, and big orders were book- ed on these products. ~ Register Borough President 14th Assembly District ...23rd Assembly District 35th Aldermanic District 50th Aldermanic District sage" FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30th—' WILLIAMSBURG, Grand Street Extension. SATURDAY, OCTOBER DOWN TOWN, Tenth Street, corner Second Avenue, journing at 10:30/p. m., to the Grand Wind-Up Meetings noted above. ——————_—_______ 31st— For World Trade Union Unity For a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government For Communism — 4