The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1925, Page 4

a . ed Page Four ~~ a THE DAILY, WORKER Mecner” | Workers (Communist) Party | .tifxram BELLAIRE MAYOR |*2¥ BANS MEETINGS By W. J. WHITE BELLAIRH, Ohio, Nov. 10.—The viet’s birthday anniversary meeting for Bellaire was stopped by Mayor William Komport and chief of Potice Leo Corbett, They ordered the janitor and owners of the hall to lock it up and under no circumstances to per- mit “then damn Jugo-Slav Bolsheviks” to hold the meeting. This was the re- mark made to Fred Walch and com- mittee by Corbett. The Young Workers League intend- ed putting on a playlet “The Capital- ists Day, Mayor,” they were also going to have recitations, ahd singing. Be- cause of extensive advertising the comrades expected a very large crowd. Under Steel Trust Rule Ku kluxers are strong here. . The Carnegie steel is located here and is a branch of the U. S. Steel, and the Wheeling Steel Co., a large, independ- ent steel company. Many big cor- Porations are deeply interested in the open shop mines. The Bethleham Steel and Carnegie Steel and U. S. Steel are vitally interested in keep- ing the district open shop. The work of the Young Workers League under the direction of Com- rade Marie Suskalo had caused so much comment aad had attracted so much attention by their singing the International and the Red Flag that the children in the Bellaire schools were talking about the play the chil- dren in the Shady Side school were going to put on. One of the Bellaire school teachers had to promise her pupils to go and see the play because her scholars talked so much about their play. The Y. W. L. had also attracted the attention of the children by singing the revolutionary songs of the work- ing class and even some of them had started singing the songs on the streets. Comrade Wicks had trouble here about three years ago at a May Day celebration. The same sinister forces here—the chamber of commerce, board of trade, Kiwanis and Rotarians are the mouth-pieces of big business. The open shop mines of the Wheel- ing Steel Co., is just across the river from Bellaire, where 115 members of of our class were killed in an ex- plosion at this mine about two years ago. The strike of the iron and steel workers against this same company has been going on for the past four years. Their plants are all open shop. The only force here that stands for the rights of the workers are our comrades—hence they are fought. The unions are mostly A. F. of L. and com- pany unions. Many girls work in potteries and glass houses and in the.enamel plant. Mayor Komport was recently defeated for reelection. The Bellaire Leader had a front Page story about the meeting being stopped at the Bohemian Hall. The police patrol was visiting the hall just before the meeting to see that the orders of the mayor and police were obeyed. Fred Walchlj was the Amer- jean comrade who went with our South Slavic comrades to see the Mayor about why the meeting was stopped. The comrades are active in the progressive miners. They are also active among the eolored workers. The Bohemians have instructions not to rent halls to “reds.” If the comrades want to hold any kind of entertainment they must go to St. Clairsville and get permission from the county authorities. This was the statement made to the comrades by the hall owners under the instruc- tions of the police and the mayor. Terrific Storms in Spain PARIS, Nov. 10.—Due to terrific storms that are raging in Spain tele- graph gommunication has been inter- rupted in almost every section of the country and between .Madrid and Paris. which takes in the followin, Russian, Hirsch Blvd. ¢Communist) Party. SECTION SIX (NORTHWEST TERRITORY) Attention! The section membership meeting of Section No. 6 branches: North Side Polish, Northwest Jewish, Marx Scandinavian, Lithuanian No, 3, Lettish, Car Sho Nucleus No. 6, Ukrainian No. 1, Slovak No. 1, Irving Par English, Slovak Jefferson Park, will be held Thursday, November 12, 8 p. m. sharp at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Every member of the Workers Party attached to any one of the above named units, must attend this meeting, tf he or she wishes to retain membership in the Workers Registration of all members will take place here, for reorganization purposes and assignments, as to where the various comrades belong, will be made. It is of the utmost importance to the successful re- organization of the party in the city of Chicago that every member belonging to Section No. 6 attend this meeting. serene ey oe eye YORK WORKERS PARTY ISSUES | STATEMENT ON RECENT ELECTIONS NEW YORK, Nov, 10.—The Workers (Communist) Party has issued a statement on the results of the municipal electoral campaign in the city of New York in which they declare that ftom the standpoint of labor, the most obvious conclusions deductible: from the results of the election are that a single, all inclusive, labor party, separating the workers from the two capital- ist parties, is the most vital necessity of the workers, Their statement attacks the socalist party for “sabotaging such political labor unity.” The statement follows: + “The election campaign just closed demonstrates strikingly the weakness of the workers on the political field. The vote for the successful Tammany candidate, Mr. Walker, was’ about 760,000 the overwhelming bulk of which was the vote of politically un- conscious workers. A couple hundred thousand workers also voted the 're- publican ticket. While we do not know the vote of the Communist can- didates as yet, nor that of the social- ist and socialist labor candidates, it seems probably on the face of the returns that less than 100,000 work- ers voted for the candidates of parties pretending to appeal to the workers as a class. This means that the over- whelming majority of the workers of the city of New York are still tied to the parties of big business, and while fighting the bosses economically are following them politically. The con- tinual rain of injunctions in prevent- ing strikes and picketing, the use of the police to break up picket lines, and the general service rendered by the city to landlords, food profiteers, traction and public utility interests and the employing class generally, have not yet taught the workers that this is a bosses’ government and that their economic struggle is also a poli- tical struggle in which the political power of the master class state ma- chinery is used against them. Thus a striking worker will, on election day, scab on his fellow strikers by voting’ along with his boss for a judge who will issue injunctions against his going on the picket line. The crying need of the workers of the city of New York is an elementary one of understanding the class nature of po- lities and separating themselves from the democratic and republican parties in order to form a single unified, pow- erful labor party of their own. “At the beginning of this campaign, as continually thruout the last three years, the Workers (Communist) Party approached all forces claiming to appeal to the workers as a class and demanded that they unite in put- ting forth a single united labor ticket as a first step toward the formation of a labor party. As usual, the social- ist party rejected: this invitation, thus being responsible for the division of labor’s forces politically during this eampaign. Even up till the last mo- ment, our candidates declared them- selves. ready to -withdraw if the can- didates of the socialist party would do thé same, in the interests of the two parties and other labor organiza- tions getting together to issue a joint GOOD TURNOUT AT SECTION THREE PARTY REORGANIZATION MEETING Sixty-two members were present at the shop nucleus reorganization meet- ing of Section No. 3, Local Chicago, Workers (Communist) Party on Wednes- Two shop nuclei were organized. in this Another member was added to a shop nucléus already organized in this section and two shop nuclei belonging to Section No. 4 were formed. A number of comrades living in this section were found to be working where shop nuclei are organized in other¢———————_________ day, Noy. 4, at 3116 S. Halsted St. section. sections. Shop Nuclei in Packing House. The shop nuclei are: Armour Packing company, four members; In- ternational Harvester Co. nucleus four members; machine shop nucleus previously organized now has five members. Four street nuclei were formed, containing nine, thirteen, ele- ven and twelve members respectively. These nuclei were organized from members belonging to Lithuanian, Czecho-Slovak, Slovak, Ukrainian and English branches. The street and shop nuclei elected provisional offices and provisional section committee to get down to work, The attendance at the meeting was on the whole, quite good and efforts will be made to reach the additional comrades who were not present... -« The classification indicated that Northwest English, Karl call for a conference to unite on a united labor ticket. The;)result of these divisional tactics om the part| of the socialist party was what was to be expected. The workers, confused | and divided into small fractions did not win the more backward of their brothers away from the democratic and republican parties and the total vote for all these orgahizations claim- ing to represent labor was ‘smaller by far than thé vote cast for'the mil- lionaire candidate of big business, Mr. Waterman, not to mention the vote for the victorious servant of big busi- ness, Mr. Walker. “In a statement issued by Mr. Thomas to today’s papers, he says: ‘The rise of a strong labor party in New York is inevitable, but the con- ditions under which such a party will show its strength do not now exist.’ We agree with Mr. Thomas as to the inevitability of the rise of a strong labor party in. New York and we] point out to him that one of the ‘con- ditions that do not now exist’ is the unity of all of labor’s forces. This is the basic ‘condition’ and the social- ist party is directly responsible for its non-existence. A labor party can be successful only if it is based on} the trade unions. While it is true the great bulk of the trade unions in New York city have not yet express- ed themselves in favor of the labor party a large number of trade unions whose membership numbers to 150,- 000 workers have already expressed their readiness for a labor party. If the socialist party would join in a campaign with the Workers (Com- munist) Party against the sham non- partisan policy and against the labor bureaucrats in the unions and fn favor of the labor party ‘in a very short time “the great mass of trade unions in’ New York would be won away from ‘their present disastrous policy and in favor of independent work- ing class«political action. “The Workers (Communist) Party feels satisfied that it has remained true: to ‘the interests of the working class during this campaign by its in- tense agitation for the united labor ticket and for a labor party as well as for world trade union unity and other vital demands of labor. “The Workers (Communist) Party will continue its fight for the build- ing of an all-inclusive labor party based on the trade unions and other; worker's’ organizations of the city and the country until such party is a real- ity. “After election, as before it, this remains our major campaign.” the comrades are very widely scatter- ed in industry and most of them] working either alone or else in small shops. Must Organize Shop Nuclei. This adds many problems to the re- organization and very concerted and energetic efforts will have to be used to develop the existing shop nuclei N. Y. WORKERS’ SCHOOL FILLED WITH SCHOLARS All Classes Crowded as Courses Start ‘ (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 10.— The pressure of heavy registration in Eng- lish continues at the New: York Work- ers’ School and has obliged it to open additional classes for the teaching of English to foreign-born workers. To- night a new class in' higher interme- diate English will begincat 8 p. m. This class will be rum once a week for a period of three months, fee is $2.50, the instructor “will be either Anna Jacobson or Ray Bennett. Another new class in) elementary English is being formed by the divi- sion of the over-crowded) elementary English classes. This mew class will meet Tuesday and Thursday at 8 p. m,, the instructor is Sonia Gins- burg, the fee for this course is $4.00 for three months, The last week in November will see the opening of the shop nucleus train- ing course, the party training course ind all courses in economies, politics, sociology, history, literature, workers’ sorrespondence, and public speaking. Registration are now being taken. Altho high qualifications as to ac- tivity and previous preparation were set for the party training course, and altho there is still a week or two to elapse before it begins, nevertheless, 120 odd active party and trade union workers have ‘registered for this course and passed the preliminary test. These names will be submitted to a committee for final selection as only 50 students can possibly be ad- mitted to the party training course. Those wishing to be considered should hasten to get in their names this week, otherwise they will be too late. Registrations can be made any afternoon or evening at-thé Workers’ School office, Room 34, 108’ Bast 14th street. The names of the accepted party training course. workers will be published shortly. Milwaukee Active in Reorganization Work Local Milwaukee, Workers (Coni- munist) Party, District No. 8, is” pro- ceeding swiftly to the reorganization of the party on the basis Of shop nu- clei. Milwaukee has been’ sub-divid- ed into four sections. Section No. 1 is Gomposed of those comrades living and‘ working north of Minominee Valley ‘to the south of Walnut street and wést to the city limits, east from Minominee river, north to Milwaukee river, including, Chicago, Milwaukee & St® Paul rail- road shops. Ie Section No. 2 includes all comrades from the South Side, St. Frances, Town of Lake, Cudahy, South Milwau- kee and those in the International Harvester company vicinity. Section No. 3 comprises, West Allis, Wauwatosa, Johnson Woods and in- cluding the area aboutithe Allis Chalmers corporation and Pawling Harneschweger. Section No. 4 takes in those com- rades living north of Walnut street, North Milwaukee, East Side and North Milwaukee river. Meetings have been held in each of these sections and reorganization of membership into shop and street j nuclei has taken place. The results have not yet been sent in. The comrades have dealt with the reorganization energetically and good results can be expected. There are 150 members in Milwau- and to organize additional shop nu- clei from the members now belonging to the street nuclei. It will be necessary, altho com- rades were organized into the street nuclei to work toward separating and dividing even more than at’ present the language blocks which tend to- ward consolidation in the street nu- clei. This can be done by impress- ing upon the members in street nu- clei the necessity of making genuine efforts in their shops to organize shop nuclei, Twenty-three members belonging to labor unions were found as follows: Amalgi ted Food Workerg,,1; brick- layer, 15° International) ies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, 2; Amalgamat- ed Clothing Workers; 2; "United Gar- ment Workers, 1; carpenter, 1; mill- men carpenters, 2; cement finishers, 1; building laborer, 1; pres#writer, 1; machinist, 1; typographical 4; mold- er, 1; street and electric railway, 1; office worker, 1; barber, 1; press- man, 1. The smaller sections in Chicago have now been reorganized either in- to shop or street nuclei. Sections Nos, 4 and 6 which constitute the ma- jor membership in Chicago, are yet to be reorganized. ie Section No. 6 membership meeting will be held on Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. When that argument begins at lunch time in your-shop tomor- row—show them what,the DAILY WORKER says’ hit: " kee and Comrade Karl Mikalachky, sub-district organizer, reports that most of the members will be drawn into the reorganized party. Young Workers League to Organize in Pullman Bormer members of the Young Workers League in the Pullman and Dauphin Park sections are being call- ed upon to attend the reorganization meeting that is to be held in Stan- cik’s Hall, 205 E. 115th St., Friday, Nov. 13, at 7 p. m, j!JMax Salzman, present district organizer for District 8, will be present to aid in the reor- ganization. = All former members are invited to attend as well as any other young workers that may interested in joining the league. Wrap your lunchin a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to vour shop-mate, Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Nov, 10.—Great Brit- ain pound sterling, demand 4,84 5-16; cable 4,8411-16, France, franc, de- mand 38.97%; cable 3.98, Belgium, franc, demand 4.53; cable 4.58%. Italy, lira, demand 8.97%; cable 3.98. Sweden, krone, demand 26,73; cable 26.76. Norway, krone, demand 20,23; cable 20.25, DenmarkyAkrone, demand 24.82; cable 24.84, Germany, mark, not quoted, Shang) Is demand 78.76; cable, not quoted. —— MINOR TO SPEAK’AT: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION MEET IN LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10—The workers of Los Angeles will cele- brate the eighth anniversary of the Russian revolution at the Music Arts Hall, 233 South Broadway, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 15, at 2 o’clock with Robert Minor, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, as speaker. This meeting is being arranged un- der the joint auspices of the Los Angeles branch of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League. ts ‘ This meeting is one of-a series of meetings that Robert, Minor is now making in the western s Com- rade Minor has been in Russia a number of times. Every worker is urged to attend these meetings. Comrade Minor will also speak on the bolshevization’ and reorganiza- tion of the party at meetings ar- ranged for that purpose. Tf you want to thoroughly un derstand Communism—study it. Death of Millionaire ' Starts Poison Search Following upon @ Tequest from a brother of Francis Jones, 66 year old millionaire president of the Mel- ba Manufacturing company who died Saturday, an inquiry was ordered by Coroner Oscar Wolf& An autopsy on the body by the coroner's physician, Irving A, Porges, found symptoms of diabetes and of bronchial pneumonia. The dead man’s organs were sent Dr. William D, McNally, coroner’s chem- ist for an analytic search for poisons. Suspicions have. been aroused by the signing of a deathbed will last Sun- day by Mr. Jones. Furniture Finishers | Form Union Tonight Every piano, phonograph and fur- niture finisher regardless of whether he works in a factory or in any of the furniture stores and wants to join the. union,.is requested to attend the meeting, arranged to organize a union in Chicago, at 741 Blue Island avenue, tonight at 7:30 o'clock, by the committee, that is arranging the meeting. TO THE RESCUE ! LL HAIL to The DAILY WORKER rescue party—and all its modifica- tions! In Denver, Colo., it took the form of a banquet and $50.00 was sent to The DAILY WORKER as just part-of the.receipts, with more to come! And in Cambridge, Mass., there is to be not one rescue party, but a series, every Saturday night, given by the Scandinavian branch of the Workers Party of Boston.’ Fifty per cent of the proceeds will go to SAVE THE DAILY WORKER, with $56.00 coming today as the first instalment. With Detroit, Mich., sending in $93.85 from several branches, and $44.00 coming from a good friend in San Francisco, Calif., who has just heard of The-DAILY WORKER'S critical condition,—the total was raised to $17,902.37, not yet one-half of the total amount necessary, however. “The complete list for today is as follows: San Pedro, Calif., English Br., Workers Party 15.00 H, Holm, St, Paul, Minn, 1.00 | Wm. Kirkpatrick & Mrs. es, Denver, Colo. ...... io: Le Collected by Modern Book Store, Mitineapolis, Minn., from the following: Geo. Nickerson, $5; Joe Belanger, $1; W. L. Wright, $1; A. Bowsen, $0.25; A Friend $11; John Goldman §2 ... 20.25 J. Baloff, San Francisco, Calif. thru English Br., W. P. ........ 44.00 Partial receipts, DAILY WORK- ER Rescue Banquet, Denver, Colo. ...... 50.00 H. P. Brucken, Detroit, Mich. 25.00 S. S. Osasto, Marengo, Wis. 30.00 Ferdinand Mandler, Cincinnati, RID. eriscorarenneendeasurs 2.00 Walter, Luhn and Ferdinand Hoeffer, Cincinnati, Ohio 2.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, West Townsend, Mass. ............ 10.00 English branch, Workers Party, Mount Vernon, Wash. 12.00 Russian Branch, Bronx, N. B. Seelen - 10,00 English Douglas Park Branch, W. P., Chicago . 10.00 Mary Astrow, Los ngeles, BUTS» ons. cececsooadaas - 10.00 A. Muhlberg, San Pedro, Calif. 2.55 Russian branch, Workers Party, Detroit, Mich. ..... srieesssoreerays 2700 Helen Schmies, Detroit, Mich (collection) 5.85 Shop Nucleus No. 2, Detroit, Name: Address: City: .. HERE'S MY DONATION TO SAVE ° THE DAILY WORKER: Russian Branch No, 3, Detroit anniversary greetings 5.00 Jos. Hevna ‘and J, Pesch, o' Detroit, Mich. .. 10.00 Lester House, Coshocton, Ohio 1,00 Italian branch, Workers Party, Jersey City, N. J. .. . 10.00 South Slavic Br., Workers Party ‘West Brownsville, Pa. . 9.75 Louis Dunn, Toledo, Ohio 1.00 Jos. ‘Lichter, Mishawaka, Ind. .50 Lena Koskela, New York . 2.00 Lithuanian Br., No. 5, W. P. Chicago, Ill. . 29.00 Downtown Br., New York ... . 19.00 M. Silverman, San Francisco, Calif. 3.00 Karl J. Malmstrom, 2.00 Mrs, R. Halbert, Albany, N. Y., for Eng Br., W. P. . 25.00 Scandinavian Br., W. P., Boston, Mass. (Rescue dance) ........:.. 56.00 Russian Br., No. 3, W. P., Detroit, Mich. tecescenees ier 1000 Lithuanian Br., W. P., Hartford, Conn. 13.00 E, Wilde, Detroit, Mich. 2.00 Charlotte Anita Whitney, Oak- land, Calif. 7.00 John S. Reed, Rochester, Minn. 5.00 Giuseppe Martini, Boston, Mass. 1.50 Ukrainian Br., Lorain, Ohio ...... 18.00 TOTAL $ 543.40 Previously reported. 17,358.97 Grand Total 17,902.37 4 Russian ‘Anniversary Number November Issue of THE ~ WORKERS MONTHLY INCLUDING? . * Hight Years of Proletarian Dictatorship By P, GREEN, The features of the first years of the first workers’ government ——and a call to all workers to its defense, Capitalism Mobdtizes Against the Social Revolution By C. E, RUTHENBERG, An analysis of the world forces that threaten Soviet Rus- sia—and the role of Communist Parties in the present situation. (With Photographs.) Sam Gompers Is Not Dead By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL, An analysis of the A. F, of L. Convention by the Editor of the Daily Worker who was present at the latest conference of the official body of American organ- ized Labor, Why the Anthracite Strike? By BENJAMIN GITLOW. Important information giving details of the forces back of the present struggle of the Pannsyl- vania miners, Class. Divisions in ‘America _ By JAY LOVESTONE Faets and figures are arrayed in this keen article showing the growth end rise of the Ameri- can worknig class. The Maraz-Engles Institute By ALEXANDER TRACHTEN- BERG, ‘The story of a great educa- tional enterprise for workers in Soviet Russia. The Left Wing in the Needle Trades By WM. Z. FOSTER. An account of a great victory in a bitter struggle—and the program on which it was won. U.S. 8. R.—1924-25 “By A. A, HELLER. A comparison of Russia To- day and of four years ago—the fresh impressions of a writer on Russia who has just returned from there. Marx and Engels on the Am- erican Labor Movement By HEINZ NEUMAN (Germany) The first of two remarkable articles on the American situa- tion by the great teachers of the Revolutionary movement. Let- ters written in the 60s, 70s and 80s and applying to the present American conditions. ° The History of the Russian Communist Party By G. ZINOVIEV (Russia). ° Another installment of this Communist classic, .. Book Reviews By JAY LOVESTONE and MAX BEDACHT, Drawings and Cartoons By LYDIA GIBSON — FRED ELLIS — WM. GROPPER. r ; * | 26 CENTS A Copy i} ape tacit SUBSCRIBE!- $2.00 a Year—$1.25 Six Months THE WORKERS MONTHLY ‘1113 W. Washington Boulevard, Chicago, III. Enclosed §.... sub to: afr. NAME... STREET ..... CITY