The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1925, Page 5

AUSTRIANS SEND. DELEGATES FRO SHOPS TOL. WA. Map Out Immediate Re- lief Program WM. F, KRUSE. (Special to The Dally Worker) VIENNA, Austria,—(By Matl.)—The conditions of the Austrian working class were described as being the worst in present day Europe in that not only were their real wages the lowest but their social maintainence was the least effective. This was proven by extensive reference to com- parative government statistics in an address delivered by Dr. Schoenhof at the first National Conference of the Austrian International Workers Aid, held at Vienna on October 11 and 12. Wage Struggles Discussed. It was attended by forty Austrian deleagtes and (for obvious reasons) unnamed representatives from Roum- ania and Jugoslavia, That these poor conditions were particularly severe upon the Austrian children and youth was proven by the statistics of the state school medical inspectors. The ‘Bill Green Back; a Bosses Exploit More Than Ever COSHOCTON, Ohio, Nov; “Bill” Been came home from conyen- last week but he didn’t give us rly paid workers, any encourage- ment. He didn’t make any effort. to organize us into a powerful union sq that we could resist wage cuts and fight for better condinions, No... But he joined the rotary club, which is made up of the very men who are cutting our wages! The bosses here are adopting anew policy of wage cutting. They are lay- ing off the higher paid workers and taking on others at from 75 cents to $1.50 less. Wages, ‘im) Coshocton amount to only $3.00 for ight-hour day on the average, y@ty unskilled workers compose 80 per ent of the poptlation. But the bosses are not satisfied with just wage cutting to make; more profits; they are startin dod iteos. up system. In the Art Works shop here, stop watches are used. An “ef- ficiency” expert holds the. watch and if the worker doesn’t combi ap, fotime requirements, he is fired. / Only one group of shop workers are organized—the pottery workers—so the laborer has no protectibi tgainst such methods. He hasn’t even got constant wage struggles in Austria were not merely the outbreak of dis- satisfaction but rathéf ithe desper- ation of a proletarian’ class that more and more realizes its doom under the present system. i Z Most of the delegdtes represented shop committees. The national organ- izations ‘of the carpenters, tobacco workers, cap makers and war veter- ans were represented and seven co- operatives also joined. Dr. Frishauf, a noted liberal physician, was elected chairman; Frau Dr. Adler, social dem- ocratic leader, the vice chairman; and Franz Yabusch, head of the Independ- ent Socialist Working Class Youth, a member of the executive committee. Strikers’ Children Cared For. Toward the end of the gathering an appeal from the Donawitz strikers was answered with an immediate col- lection and plans. for, the transport of the children of the strikers. Further extension of the struggle ‘will be met with additional relief measures. Soviet Scientist in Claim of Discovery - for Cure of Epilepsy MOSCOW, Nov. 2.—Leningrad med- ical circles are interested in a pos- ¢ sible cure for epilepsy discovered in the laboratory of the Professor Pavlof. Pavlot’s assistant, Dr. Speranski, announced yesterday to an assembly of physicians and scientists that as the results of experiments in the ar- tificial freezing of part of the brain substance of dogs, the AL pena: ‘pro voked convulsions and similar to those in epilepsy, and investigation showed there had developed in the animal’s organism a specific toxin, which Dr. Speranski calls altotoxin, and desponsible for the epileptic con- dition. Further experiments, it is said, proved that the injection of this toxin into a healthy animal immunized the latter against epileptic seizure. Dr. Speranski concluded that it similar treatment were applied to human be- ings the problem of a cure for epil- epsy would be solved. physiologist, » Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER. protection against Bill” Green! PURCELL TO BE’ INTRODUCED AT K.C, BY HOWAT U. M. W. of A. Leader to Act as Chairman KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov, 2—The A. A. Purcell meeting that will be held on Noy. 4 at the Labor Temple. Audi- torium with Purcell speaking on “World Trade Union Unity,” will have Alexander Howat, miner, former pres- ident _ of District 14 of the United Mine Workers of America, as chair- man of this meeting. The arrange- ment committee finally decided that Alex Howat, militant miner of Pitts- burgh, Kansas, was the logical chair- man for the A, A. Purcell meeting. The anthracite miners are on strike and the bosses intend to ship coal from Europe just as soon as there is need of such. The need of world trade union unity manifest, anh that the chairmanship should ba Ato one representing this wing of the American Federation of Labor at ¢ time was considered by the co tee as the most appropriate, for miners need the.unity ofall-erganized labor to win this battle. Committees calling on unions giving five minute talks urging *memb: attend the meeting are met with thusiasm everywhere. In one un! our secretary, Barney McCoy afi making a talk and selling ticke' found that he had brot forth some other cards instead of the tickets and sold eight for twenty-five cents ‘each/ It took him some time to find these men after the meeting and give ‘the tickets. Some unions that are meeting on Nov. 4, intend to meet early and ar- journ the meeting in time for the members to attend the meeting. 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Price THE DAILY WORKER CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF FASCIST MARCH Monarchy, Religion and Army, Base of Policy ROME, Noy. 2—Fascism, steeped to the armpits in the gore of thousands of workers, roared and showed its fangs in triumph yesterday at the third anniversary of the fascist march on Rome, Mussolini and his chief aid, Farinacci, secretary general of the fascist party spoke to hoodlum throngs of blackshirts while the working population, not wishing to provoke murderous reprisals, remain- | ed silent. Fascism’s Base. The “policy of fascism,” said Fari- nacei, will continue to be “based on monarchy, religion and the army.” He was quite scornful and exultant over the crushing of the timid petty bour- geois opponents known as the “Aven- title opposition,” whose boycott of par- see Organization Meetings «= Page Five Resolutions Social Affairs WORKERS’ SCHOOL. TEACHERS MEET FOR FIRST TIME Organize’ Council Meet Problems NEW YORK, Nov, 2—On Thursday }evening, October 22, the teachers of the Workers’ School held their first |meeting. The object of the meeting | was to organize 4.permanent council to co-operate with the district agit- prop department in connection with the educational work in this district. Comrade Wolfe was chairman of the | meeting. | Link School With Agitprop. A communication from the nation- al. agitprop department of the party was read, in which the object of the educational work of the party was to liament has been broken up by the “order” to return to their seats in par- liament. Fascism would not be “ferocious,” said Farinacci, “unless the opposition | provokes it.” He added significantly that the fascisti have no intention of ceasing their method of rule by vio- lence. “We refuse all offers of an armistice. If we have been intransi- geant hitherto, we will be even more intransigeant henceforth.” Fascism Starts More Poorhouses. In spite of the 40,000 blackshirted ruffians mobilized for the occasion and the 300 airplanes maneuvering over the city, and all the display of force, the canker at the root of society un- der fascism was shown by the fact that Mussolini’s activities for the day included the dedication of several new poor houses. The socialists remain crushed by the recent order outlawing the reformist unions and all other but fascist unions, The socialists, who had been more than half way allied with the fascists against the Communists in hopes of being permitted to maintain a semb- lance of power in the reformist unions, feel that the Communists now have their arguments of unrelenting oppo- sition to fascism upheld in the minds of the workers. The Aventine opposi- tion, in which the socialists also re- posed part of their faith, is scattered and crushed by fascist violence. Baltimore Workers Busy at Campaign for Soviet Defense By PHILIP CHATZKY, (Worker Correspondent.) . BALTIMORE, Md., Noy. 2.—The na- tion-wide campaign for the defense of Soviet Russia, ending Tuesday, Nov. 10, in a mass celebration of the Russian revolution’s eighth anniver- sary, is meeting with a big response from workers here. Our city has been divided into industrial sections, where thousands of leaflets, “Defend Soviet Russia,” are being distributed. Work- men’s circle branches and fraternal organizations are active in the work. Rose Pastor Stokes of New York, will be the principal speaker at the Tuesday mass meeting at the Brith- Sholom Hall, 1012 East Baltimore street. There will also be speakers in Russian and other languages. Grigori Matusevich of New York, famous concertino player, and: Brick- man’s orchestra are on the program for English and Russian music, Ad- mission is fifty cents, with all pro- ceeds going to The DAILY WORKER rescue fund. Russian Inventor Produces New Type of High-Power Motor MOSCOW — (Tass) — Nov. 2.—A sensational discovery by Prof. Joffe, who constructed a small motor that can be put in a pocket but is strong enuf to put in action a motor-car, has received much publicity in Russia. In an interview with press repre- sentatives, Mr. Joffe said: “Experiments on condensation of electrical energy in minimal size have been carried on by me already for several years and at present they have reached a stage when we can talk of its practical use. New ac- cumulators certainly will lead to a technical revolution, because until now enormous weight of accumulators was their great drawback. The con- struction of accimulators of a new type is based on a physical phenome- non of polarization of certain isolat- ors, I don’t want to give exact fig- ures now, but at any rate, new ac- cumulators will have very weight and size with capacity to store, at the same time, enormous amounts of energy nearly a thousand times more than motors now used. I hope that within a year I shall be able to come to final results of my work in this direction.” Build the DAILY WORKER. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street _.. RITTSBURGH, PAL small | ter. |declared to be the political education jof the party as a whole, linked up with the practical problems of the |Party and of the working class, and which also outlined in general the nethod and conduct of school work n the party this year. The keynote of our ‘educational work should be “What Is Needed. in the Party.” In discussing this communication, Comrade Wolfe laid before the group the party’s new conception of the edu- cational work as a part of and sub- ordinate to the political agitation and propaganda of the party, to be de- signed to definitely serve the party’s needs in its major campaigns. This is the spirit in which we must ap- proach our work:/ We must get away from the old s0cfal-democratic ferms, not only in organization, but also in education, Our education should not be the monopoly of a select few or an abstract academic thing. The agit- prop department, which will central- ize all educational work of the party, is to be a flexible instrument for the major campaigns of the party. All coursés are to be tied up with party campaigns in America. English class- es will have definite political content. The “Marxism” course will not be “timeless and placeless,” but will be “Americanized,” linked up with con- crete American problems. The course in Fundamentals of Communism will not only use Bukharin’s text in A, B. C. of Communism, but will add ma- terial created out of our political needs here and -written.for American workers. These aims will necessarily revolutionize our teaching method. The lecture system must be abandon- ed; teachers must aim for self-activ- ity of students. The question method is advised. Want Stu Representation. General disGussion followed, in which all teackrs present gave their opinions as togthe objects and func- tions of the ted teachers’ coun- cil. Comrade Wolfe brot together most of these ideas in his summary as follows: 1. “The essential problem for the teachers’ council is to bring the teach- ers and students together in close contact with the district agitprop de- partment, (whiclijis the representa- tive of the pl ), we make for the best poséible policy in the agitprop department.” Teachers and students should be repres@nted in an advisory capacity on the agitprop department when it is disifssing school prob- lems. UB 2. The difficulty of getting texts together which are suitable for our needs will make for a compromise be- tween the “teacher as a lecturing text book” and “the teacher as a teach- er.” ESR ati EEE Rea on eR Workers (Com \SCANDINAVIAN SECTION SUPPORTS COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE —— At a meeting of the executive bure: fronting the party was had. Support of the Comintern, and a Scandinavian Federation of the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America declares, in order that all further mis- understanding concerning the result of the latest party convention will be avoided, its full agreement with all the decisions of the convention and binds itself to utilize all of its and the federation’s strength to carry out these. decisions. Importance of Bolshevization. “The executive committee empha- sizes especially the importance of the decisions concerning bolshevization of the party, reorganization, and indus- trial work. Concerning these ques- tions there must be no_ hesitancy among the members; all party organs must immediately mobilize all their energies to put these decisions into effect. “The executive committee declares itself loyal to the new leadership elected unanimously by the last party convention, and promises its unre- served support, especially in the bol- shevization of the party. Thru the Comintern decision, communicated to the convention, party unity on a Com- munistic basis is assured. The Scan- dinavian Federation leadership calls tion to support the Comintern as one man and to work for the realization of its decisions, a upon all the members of the federa- | au of the Scandinavian federation held recently a thoro discussion on the situation in the party and the work con- united party behind the Central Ex- ecutive Committee were stressed at this meeting. The following resolution was adopted by the Scandinavian bureau: “The executive committee of the+ Condemn Factionalism. “The executive committee of the Scandinavian Federation declares fur- ther, its, severest condemnation of all factiopalism.and confirms the aboli- tion-of;,the old factions as such, and will, put forth all of its energy to combat,.the, appearance of new fac- tions, within our party. Factionalism can, under. no circumstances, be tol- erated within a Communist Party. “The fight against the party’s right wing must be waged energetically; both the open and sec followers of Lore must.be combatted. Within the Scandinavian Federation every un- certainty in relation to the Comintern must be eradicated. The same must be said of the federations, its organ- izations, and members’ relation to the Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ica. The federation leadership es- tablishes as binding for all the fed- erations, organs and membership, all of the decisions by the central execu- tive committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America. “Long live our unified Communist |Party of America! “Long live the Communist Interna- ‘tional! “The Executive Committe of the | Scandinavian Federation of the Work- lers (Communist) Party of America. | “N, J. Christensen, Secretary.” . CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, Nov. 2.—A membe: industry was held in Cleveland on Saturday, Oct. 24. appeared. Comrade Israel Amter, district sec/ retary, gave the comrades a talk on the importance of trade union work, on the necessity of every member of ‘the party eligible for membership) in a trade union joining the union .and getting active. He laid down the basis for .the organization of party frac- tions and for the work of the party thru the fractions building up the le wing movement in the Americam la- bor unions. am Reads C. I. Letter. Comrade Amter read the letter of the executive committee of the Com- intern and the executive bureau of the Red International Labor Union to the comrades, which insisted that “disciplinary measures must be em- ployed” to force the comrades to do their workin the labor unions. There was earnest, serious discus- sion of the issues. The comrades pre- sent demonstrated that their interest in the trade union work is sincere INDUSTRIAL WORKERS BELONGING TO THE WORKERS PARTY MEET IN TO DISCUSS UNIONS rship* meeting of comrades working in This meeting was typi- cal of the attitude of the comrades of the party to trade union work. The meeting was advertised in all party papers weeks in advance of the date. All the membership was informed about it, and yet only 45 comrades ne and each one of them deplored the fact that the party membership as a whole both ignored the membership meeting and pays in sufficient atten- tion’ to trade union work. ‘ Half Belong to Unions. A registration. was. taken, and_it was discovered that of the 45 com- |tades present only 23 belong to labor unions, while at least~19 can join. The district executive committee has ‘Parade a decision that the comrades ‘mast join a labor union within two months. The comrades present not belonging to unions will be instructed to. join. A beginning must be made to break down the indifference and lethargy of party members in regard tS trade union work. More meetings "ot' the kind will be hed, till the party membership at last recognizes the im- portance of this “the foremost task of the American party” as the Comin- tern pronounced it. DISTRICT SIX PREPARES WAY FOR PARTY REORGANIZATION CLEVELAND, Nov. 2.—The membership of the district is preparing for the reorganization of the party as the first step in the bolshevization of the party. Membership meetings have been held in Cleveland and Warren. In Sub-committees of the council |the last week Comrade Amter, district secretary of the party, has held mem- will work on mimeographing suitable | bership meetings in Ballaire, Steubenville, B. Liverpool, Youngstown and outlines for students. Out of this| Canton. These meetings were well attended. and the interest shown demon- council can thus come outlines, and,| strates that-the membership will sup-¢—————— later, texts. These outlines, supple- mented by the question method, will be a suitable method. 3. The council’ ‘can cortefate, the different courses. °” sie < 4. It can gather material“that ‘can be used by other gpurees and be kept on permanent tile! . 5. Student reppapentation on coun- cil will give teac! ii anidea of what students are thin! about them and their methods, and vice versa. 6. Council can-perform some ad- ministrative tasks} in classes, collection qfrfees, of teachings, etc.4 .y 7. all party forums. 8. Most imporfitiot ply the political ge educational work. be made to servé'the direct political needs of the party. In all courses, practical problems such party, Loreism,” fense of Soviet Russia, ete., can en- Next Meeting’ Nov. 5, ‘A committee was elected to report |where the workers It can plan foryms and correlate | Trades port the Central Executive Commit- tee wholeheartedly in the reorganiza- tion of the party. The questions asked and the dis- cussion that arose after the questions were answered, show that the mem- bership. is keen to the idea and will do everything possible in carrying on the work. Lays Stress on Union. Comrade Amter © especially laid stress on the trade union work of organization of |the party, and insisted upon the de- supervision | © ision of the Communist International being carried out, viz., that all com- eligible to membership in a trade union must join the union, be- all—it can ap-|0ome active in it and together with of the party to} the other comrades in the union form ery course can |@ party fraction. He pointed out that a great part of our work is done among the organized as labor | masses, or at least should be done ion, de-|there, By the reorganization ot the party we will come into contact with ‘the 24,000,000 unorganized workers in this country, But in the trade unions, have already on the progress of organization of the grasped the concept of organization, , teachers’ meeting. Wolfe, Bosse, Trachtenberg, | work, Eli Jacobson were elected. ‘council body at the next|we will lay the basis for much of our work for building up the party today and for preparing the forces The next meeting of all teachers | for the revolution, will take place on Thursday, Novem- ber 5, 5 p. m. All teachers should attend, Come and; do your reorganization off the educational work of the party,fo suit our new needs. Philadelphigy Notios: Weber Pr Must Join Union. The district executive committee share in| has decided that the comrades must ——$—$—=—_— Am Looking for a Friend of Mine JOSEPH B, DUJMOVICH jot him he was at Nia- Turse. St. E., Can- HAG. 3H join the unions within two months or discipline will be asserted. The dis- trict executive committee takes the trade union work seriously and be- lieves that the decision of the first convention of the Workers Party must at last be realized. Further meetings will be held in Toledo pn Wednesday, Oct. 28; Akron, on Noy. 15, and Conneaut and Fair- port on Nov. 22, At, alk the meetings already held, a resolution was adopted unanimously endorsing,.the decision of the Com- munist International and party con- vention on the question of bolshe- vization and reorganization, hs oe fi meeting to be held at munist) Party {COMMUNISTS IN CITY CAMPAIGN IN NEW HAVEN Many Shop Meetings Held at Noon (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW HAVEN, Nov, 2.—The Work- ers ty is conducting an energetic campaign in the elections of New Haven. Already several noon shop meetings have been held at the larg- est factories The distribution of 10,000 election leaflets is under way, with a well-or- ganized squad of comrades, working under the direction of Campaign Man- ager Ben Marke. No other party in the campaign has printed any plat- form, Other Parties Spill Bunk. Our party. has held two noon meet- ings, at which Comrade Simons pic- tured the conditéoh of the worker in the shops of New Haven, and out- lined our program on injunctions, high cost of living, housing, schools, etc. At both meetings, the workers listen- ed attentively. But the democratic party meeting before the Clock shop, addressed by the leading candidates of that party indulged in the usual plati- tudes, bright aggregation of citizens, honesty-sérvice, born in this ward, ad mauseum. At today’s meeting, the diffierence between our campaign and the democratic campaign was pointed owt. The republican candidate, Mr. Tower, makes his chief issue the as- ssment of property and the local ate of taxation. The democrats stand on their record of building streets and bridges, of “efficient, honest” govern- ment. But not a word about what they have done for the working class of the city. At the Clock Shop meet- ing the chairman of the democratic meeting was the town chairman, Mr. John W. Murphy, also president of the Trades Council of New Haven. But from what he said, no one would have known he had anything to do with labor, He charged that their op- ponents had not shown any examples of inefficiency; referred to some can- didates as having sprung from the “pee-pul;” claimed that the,small tax- payers’ interest should be protected, that the city was doing eight million dollars worth of business, and no scandal had been raised over it. And to sum up, in urging the re-lection of the democratic ticket, he asked plain- tively: “What would happen to the Clock ‘Shop if the superintendent, the president, the foremen and sub-bosses were fired?” What a horrible calam- ity! And he also reminded them that with these office-holders, others might also lose their jobs. Mr. Murphy, if you protected labor a bit more, went out and organized the workers in the huge prison shops of this damnable city, instead & plead- ing for the return to office of a gang of cheap politicians, living off the Attention—Chicago! Important Section Membership Meeting SECTION THREE (CENTRAL MANUFACTURING AREA) All party members belonging to the following party unite: Lithu- anian 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, MUST attend the genera! section membership VILNIS, 3116 South Halsted Street WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1925, 8 P. M. At this meeting all the party members belonging to the above branches will be registered for the purpose of being a: new proper party units in the reorganization of the Workers (Com- munist) Party into shop and street nuclei, EVERY PARTY MEMBER BELONGING TO ANY OF THE ABOVE BRANCHES WHO WANTS TO RETAIN HIS OR HER MEM- BERSHIP IN THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, MUST BE PRESENT AT THIS MEETING AND BE REGISTERED. backs of the workers, things would be a damnsite better. Communists Challenge Socialists, The socialists have not held one street meeting, no shop meetings, in the present campaign. They are dead from the neck up. The only figure they cut is among those to whom the socialist movement is a bit of senti-* ment, old timers who have not moved ahead with the years. The new stream moves with Communism. The Workers Party challenged the socialist party of New Haven to a de- bate on the present city campaign, but the socialists are as silent as a clam. They prefer to go before such bour- geois organizations as the league of women voters to present their views, rather than meet with working class representatives, They evidently are more at home among such an emi- nently respectable gathering, RUSSIANS WILL CELEBRATE EIGHT ANNIVERSARY. A mass meeting and concert in honor of the eighth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution is arranged by the Russian Branch of the Work- ers Party for Sunday, Nov. 8, at 6 p. m., at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division, St. Admission free. Come and bring your friends. Russian speakers, a musical pro- gram. ’ ned to the