The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1925, Page 4

5 Page Four Organization Meetings THE DAILY Workers (Communist) Party | iersien NvY, WORKERS. SCHOOL OFFERS MANY CLASSES No More Than 25 Pupils to One Class NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—The genetal opening of the courses in politics, ece- nomics, socialogy, history, ete,, at the New York Workers’ School, takes place the last week in November. On Monday, November 23, will be- gin: Workers’ Correspondence, in- structor, Joseph Freeman; Marxian Economics, instructor, J. Mindel; His- tory of the American Working Class, instructor, Anton Bimba; History of Revolutions, instructor, Paul Keller; A. Course in Elementary English, in- structor.to be announced; A Course in Composition, instructor to be an- nounced. A course in composiiton is intended @s a preparatory course for the work- ers’ correspondence course and will also deal with the problems of union men, party secretaries, etc., who have to write minutes, communications, simple publicity, and the like. On Tuesday, November 24, will be- gin: Modern Literature, instructor, Eli Jacobson; Marxism-Leninism, in- structor, Bert Wolfe; Party History and Problems, instructor, William W. Weinstone; Intermediate English, in- structor, Sonia Ginsburg; Contempor- ary Drama, instructor to be an- nounced. On Wednesday, November 25, will ‘begin: Two Courses in Trade Union Work, instructor, Bert Miller; an ;ad- ditional course in Marxism-Leninism, instructor, Bert Wolfe; The Funda- mentals of Communism, instructor, D. Benjamin; Intermediate English, in- structor, Pauline Rogers; Advanced English, instructor, Eli Jacobson. (Note: The Wednesday courses in Communism, Trade Unionism and Marxism-Leninism, are part of two party training courses.) On Thursday, November 26, will be- gin: American Economic and Poli- tical History, instructor, Alex. Tracht- enberg; The Fundamentals of Lenin- ism (shop nucleus training course), instructor, Jack Stachel; Fundamen- tals of Communism, instructor, Geo. Siskind, Russian Language, instructor, Chramoff. On Friday, November 27, will begin: Public Speaking, instructor, Carl Brodsky; The Living Revolution, (the reflection of the Russian revolution in Russian literature), instructor, M. J. Olgin; The Fundamentals of Leninism (shop nucleus training course), in- structor, Jack Stachel; Materialistic Philosophy of Life, instructor, D. Kwitko. On Saturday, November 28, Re- search Course, instructor, Alexander. Trachtenberg. Various. additional courses. will be given if registration warrants. Those who find that a course they wish to take is given on a night when they eannot take it, should communicate at once wit hthe school as various reg- istrations have been received for these same courses for other nights of the week and if sufficient registra- tions are received before opening day additional courses will be started to accomodate those who desire to be given on other nights. The fee for the party training courses and elementary English is $4.00 for three months. The fee for all other courses is $2.50 for threé months. As many of these courses are likely to be overcrowded and as registration will be limited to 25 for each class, those desiring to take the courses should register at once. A CORRECTION. By mistake, the WORKER CORRE- |- SPONDENT news story this week about conditions in.the Raklios and Thompsor restaurants was eredited to Jean Perrides instead -of ‘to §. Keller, who sent in the article. A good book on Communism will make you a better Com- munist. partr | ORGANIZATION — With livtvoduidtion by JAY LOVESTONE. on the composition of the American Communist movement containing: The letter of the Commun- ist International on re- organization; the shop nuc- | lei; the constitution—in- dexed and with charts. | | | A most valuable pamphlet H i | } A Communist should not i be without it. 15 Cents. The Daily Worker Pub. Co. 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, —=— | by the District Executive Commit! CHICAGO, ILL. y ne iy ¥ cP ti cen raf (Continued from page 1) minst International, and their united struggle for the party and the Communist International. ee, ae THE PARTY'S IMMEDIATE TASKS. HE basis for the unification of the party is a common energetic struggle to carry out the following main tasks of the party: A ENERGETIC support of the bolshevization of. the * party thru (1) carrying thru the reorganization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei and street nuclei (interna- tional branches) in the shortest possible time, (2) the or- ganization and mobilization of the membership for work in the trade unions thru a campaign to have all the members of the party become members of the trade unions and the systematic organization of active trade union’ fractions (3) an energetic struggle against the right wing and opportunis- tic deviations and as part of this struggle, the development of a systematic Marxist-Leninist education to raise the theo- retical level of the party, (4) the Central Executive Commit- tee will subject its policies and actions in all fields to con- stant review and criticism. This prerequisite to bolsheviza- tion has not been practiced by the party up till now. OUR TRADE UNION ACTIVITIES. The trade union policy of the party must be funda- mentally revised and our work in this field reorientated accordingly to the line laid down by the Communist Inter- national and the Profintern. Vacillating tactics which oscil- late between opportunism and leftism must be replaced by sure and confident Leninist tactics which combine firm prin- ciple with the greatest flexibility and adaptibility to concrete probate. The trade, union work of the’party must be uni- ied with the generalpolitical work of the party. ‘We must make the aim of our. trade union work the revolutionizing of the trade unions and the drawing of the organized work- ers into, the Struggle against the capitalists as a class. The building of a firm and centralized structure of party trade union fractions must be carried on with greater energy and a clear distinction must be made between the party fractions and the general left wing movement. The party must assist the organization of the left wing in the trade unions on a broad basis and aim to combine all the progressive and op- position elements into a bloc. The official name of such a bloc is of secondary importance. The party must not hesi- tate at the measures necessary to prevent the narrowing. down of the organized left wing movement to the Commun- ists and their close sympathizers. THE LABOR PARTY CAMPAIGN. The struggle for a labor party must be again brought to the forefront of the party work and for this pur- pose the party must develop a program for 1926 election which will again mobilize the whole party for a systematic campaign to achieve this purpose. The campaign for the defense of the Soviet Union against imperialism, among the Negro workers, work among the women, must be con- nected with the campaign for a labor party and must serve to create the sentiment for an aid in the actual establish- ment of a labor party. " WORK AMONG THE MASSES. D The great task before the Workers (Communist) * Party at the present time is to unite the party and mobilize all its forces for work in the class struggle. The energy of the party members must be thrown into mass work in all fields. Activity among the masses as a prere- quisite to bolshevization must be drilled into the conscious- ness of every party member. The party must fight with all its power and with every necessary strategy against the attempt to isolate it and throw its energy back upon itself. The party must also conduct a resolute struggle against the tendency to construe “party work” only in the sense of in- ner party work as well as against the tendency to make an artificial separation between mass work and inner party work. 4 The policy of the Central Executive Committee is to * draw sthe entire party into the work of carrying out the decisions of the national convention and to give every member of the party the opportunity to work for the party, make it a real Tiree among the masses, to draw the whole party into constructive work for the upbuilding of the party and wipe out all factional lines. All comrades who accept this platform must be given full and complete opportunity to participate in party work and responsibility, according to their ability and without any discrimination. 5 The Central Executive Committee welcomes the stand * in favor of unity and the progress already made by the Young Workers’ (Communist) League towards the liquida- tion of factionalism and the unification of forces. The Na- tional Executive Committee of the league now joins in the adoption of the resolution of the Central Executive Commit- tee of the party as the basis for the continued work and for the complete unification of the league. c : 6 The Central Executive Committee calls upon all units of * the party and the Young Workers’ League to seriously study and consider this resolution and to adopt it as their platform. The adoption of this resolution on the party situ- ation by the Central Executive Committee, the District Exe- cutive Committee, City Central Committee, and in the shop nuclei and branches should be the signal for the wiping out of all factional lines and united work of all supporters of the Communist International for the upbuilding of the party. (SIGNED) Max Bedacht, dames P. Cannon, William F. Dunne, Jay Lovestone, C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary, | ‘ Workers (Communist) Party, National Executive Committee, Young Workers (Communist) League, CONNECTICUT DISTRICT ARRANGES FOR REORGANIZATION MEETINGS The following meetings have been arranged in the Connecticut district UNITE IN SUPPORT OF THIS PROGRAM. NAUGATUCK, R. |—Thursday, November 19. WATERBURY, CONN.=Friday, November 20. TORRINGTON, CONN Saturday, November 21, °*! HARTRORS, CONNisWednesday, November 25. PRINGFIELD, MASS.—Thursday, November 26, am Binghamton Celebrates Eighth Anniversary of Soviet Revolution BINGHAMPTON, N, Y., Nov. 15.— Hundreds of workers gathered at the Lithuanian Hall .to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the Russian revolution. \ Comrade Schapp of Chicago, was the main speaker. He pointed out the preparations of the capitalists for a new offensive against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the necessity of the workers to show a greater international solidarity in or- der to fight for the ‘defense of the Union of Soeialist Soviet Republics. The Red Army Funeral Song was sung by the Ukraine’ Children’s Chor- us of Binghampton in honor of Com- rade Mikhail Frunze; Soviet Russia’s war minister, who recently died. Other revolutionary songs rendered by the ‘Lithuanian Ukrainian chorus. A collection amounting to $45, was taken for The DAILY WORKER. e wis Hartford Celebrates for Russia. (By Worker Correspodnent) HARTFORD, Conn;,;Nov. 15—With Bertram Wolfe, headof the New York Workers School, as the principal speaker, and wiht Sam Darcy speak- ing for the Young Workers League of America, workers of Hartford filled the hall of the Labor Lyceum this week in celebration of the eighth an- niversary of the Russian revolution. Discussion centered around the Dawes plan ,and the. Locarno Pact followed by a unanimous resolution demanding the recognition of Soviet Russia—to be sent to Washington, D. Cc. were and Street Nucleus Two in Section Three, Chicago, Makes Excellent Start Street Nucleus No. 2, Section 3, Chicago, held its first meeting last Tuesday. This nucleus has made a good beginning already. The secretary, Comrade Verna Ga- sunas, reported on the section 3 com- mittee meeting. After a short discus- sion on dues, International Labor De- fense, work in unions, workers’ school the question of The DAILY WORK- ER was taken up, Altho every mem- ber had already, contributed to The DAILY WORKER before, some more than once, the comrades donated at this reeeting, and also pledged contri- butions: A collectiow of $5.00 was taken up. ‘ ome TE Od Prdcledd” has “chosen a corres- pondent, who is/to write up the ac- tivities of the nucleus, as well as other news, fot The DAILY WORK- ER. One new member joined the nu- cleus at this meeting. ~ The much feared language diffi- culties proved to be no handicap at all. Even at the first meeting, Com- rades discussed many questions in- telligently. + One new member and $5. to The DAILY WORKER at its first meeting, is a good start for ouf nucleus. Minneapolis Busy with Reorganizing MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 15.—Seven street nuclei and one shop nucleus will be formed immediately in Min- neapolis as the result of the recent re-organization meeting for the Work- ers Party. What it is hoped to accom- plish by the new nuclei was explained by H. Skoglund, while Matt Tenhunen of Superior, Wis., was present to translate his message to Finnish members. . : Moscow Textile Union ° Pledge Assistance to . . Reichenberg Strikers MOSCOW, Nov. 15.—The central committee of the .Textile Workers’ Union has sent a telegram to the Red Union of Textile Workers in Reichen- berg expressing solidarity and sympa- thy with the strike in north Bohemia. The Reichenberg union sent a similar telegram of greetings to the confer- ence of the textile. workers which took place Moscow, 'N the Workers’ S¢hool class in Cap- ) ital, which begins Monday night, November 16, 8 p. ti., at 19 So Lincoln St., the method of study will be as fol- lows: ‘ Previous to each meeting of the class (which is every Monday night), a definite portion of Marx's first vol- ume will be assigned the students for special study. On the basis of the sec- tions assigned, a list of questions will be presented. Mach student must pre- sent to the class a paper, written in his own words, answering these ques- tions, The class will then spend its sessions discussing the papers, and preparing for the next lession. The first lesson, consists of Chapter 1, Section 1, of ghe first volume of “Capital,” pages 41 to 48. The ques- tions to be ans are: 1,. What is théiform of wealth in Class in Capital Begins Tonight ORKER SECTION SIX (CHICAGO) SHOP. NUCLEI REORGANIZATION MEETING IS -ATTENDED BY NEARLY 300 COMRADES By MARTIN ABERN. ; Nearly 300 party members from the Northwest English, Irving Park Eng- lish, Northwest Jewish, Karl Marx Scandinavian, Russian, Lettish, Ukrainian No. 1, Jefferson Park Slovak and Polish N. S., assembled at the Section 6, Local Chicago, Workers (Communist) Party, reorganization meeting on Thrus- day, November 12, 1925, dt the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. This was a magnificent turnout and was more than all the previous four section meetings combined, both in numbers and percentage of members rep- resented in the old branches. The¢————————___+_____. percentage was approximately 80 be! | Railroad Clerks, 1; Patternmakers, 1; cent and there is-every indication] oot and Shoe Workers, 1; Moldres, that many absent comrades will come}1. Bakers, 1; Sheet Metal ‘Workers, into the shop and street nuclei very Barbers, 5; Janitors, 2; Painters, soon, The both English, Jewish and Bricklayers, 1; Laborers, 1; Cement Russian branches did especially well Workers, 1; Newspaper Drivers, 1; in attendance, International Pressmen, 1; Butchers, In Section 6 a number of shop nU-!}. pectrical Workers, 1; Watchmak- clei were organized as follows: ers, 1; Bank Employes, 1; Cigarmak- Co-operative Restaurant, 3 mem-| oy., 1; Metal Polishers, 1; Teachers’ bers; potential shop nucleus in a0-| Pegeration, 1. other restaurant; in the ......... f00d! Qniy one more section, number four, nuciéus, 8 members; in the . -- | remains to be reorganized in the party clothing shop, potential nucleus; the | ji, Chicago, and then the process of clothing factory, 3 members; | integrating the nuclei, sub and section Chicag6, Northwestern railroad shops} oyganizations will be. hastened. The (previously organized, 2 added, now 8/.ection four meeting, the Mid-City In- members. dustrial Area, is expected to bring From the character of the shops] yt the membership as well as the at factories where shop and poten-| section six meeting. It will be held on tial shop nuclei were formed, there! Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1925, 7 p. m., is no doubt. that other members are] 4+ Roosevelt Hall, 3437 West Roose- working there. The Section 4 reor- velt road. ganization meeting will reveal those. Shop Nuclei in other-~Sections Formed A number of potential and actual shop nuclei were found at Thursday’s meeting to belong to other sections. These are as follows: In Section 1, in Hat Co., potential nu- Rail Unions Figure 1926 Elections Will Aid Them This Year cleus; in .. Clothing Co. 4 mem-} CLEVELAND—(FP)—Railway la- bers; in the -. department store,| hor chiefs, meeting here, decided to 3 members. push the battle for the Howell-Barkley food indus-} rail labor bill in the December session In Section 4, the try, potential nucleus; the of congress. Success appears possible Clothing Co. potential as the coming session will consider Clothing Co., potential nu-| all measures solely with an eye to the cleus; the ........... Machine Co., poten- tial nucleus; shop nucleus, made up of group of comrades working close together, 5 members; the .. . ae yay Clothing Co., potential nucleus; the St. Louis Building cue picture frame company, poten- Trades Council Gets Locals Affiliation tial nucleus; Electric Co., 7 members; the Clothing Co., ST. LOUIS—(FP)—Large numbers of building trades unions are reaffili- 1926 elections. Railway labor’s million votes loom large. potential nucleus; /Nucleus No. 8, Clothing Co., added one, now 4 mem- » Section Four | Mid-City Industrial Area) ‘Attention! “THe! section membership meet- ing of Section No. 4, which takes in ‘the following branch Ar- menian, Armenian Independent, Greek, Douglas Park English, Doug- las Park Jewish, Spanish, Shop Nu- cleus No. 7, Shop Nucleus No. 8, Shop Nucleus No, 5 (Daily Work er), Czecho-Slovak Branches No, 1, No. 3, Brookfield, North Berwyn, Czecho-Slovak Cicero Men and Wo- men, Italian branches: 11th Ward, 19th Ward, 3ist Ward and Terra Cotta (now in the 31st Ward, ian Cicero, Cicero English, Cicero Lithuanian No, 74, Lithuanian No. 77 and No. 2, South Slav No. 1, Bul- gafian, will be held Wednesday, November 18, 7:30 p. m., at ROOS- EVELT HALL, 3437 West Roose velt Road. Every member of the Workers (Communist) , Party; attached to any one of the above-named units, in the Workers (Communist) Party. must attend this meeting, if he or she wishes to retain membership Registration of all members will take place there. Comrades will be assigned either to shop or street nuclei. , It is of the utmost importance to the successful reorganization of the party in the city of Chicago that every member belonging to Section No, 4 attend this meeting. Comrades! Be on time at the meeting. Even Jail Guards in Union Drive in Colo. DENVER — (FP) — Organization among Denver workers is taking a leap forward with new activity among the shoe repairers, teachers and jail guards, The Yellow Front shops are now 100% union with the formation of a Denver local of shoe repairers, The jail guards have joined the City Employes union and a teachers local is under’ way with the staff of the Denyer Labor college as the nucleus from which to penetrate the public bers. ‘th Section 5, the Studio Co.,| ating with the building trades council. 4 members. ; Several unions withdrew a year ago. If another member is found to be working at the shops of the poten- tial shop nuclei, as is likely, these | will make up the regular shop nu- clei; otherwise comrades will be at- ached to function with these units. Ten street nuclei having a total of 70 members were formed. Fifty aembers, either working-by them- elves in other sections or living in other sections, will be transfered to shop or street nuclei ‘in other ‘sec- tions. It is interesting and significant to note that the vast majority of our should be present on time. sharp. charge of the school. shops and factories, but large num- bers are in factories employing thou- sands of.workers. The smallness of our party no doubt accounts in part for the above situation. A task be- fore our Communists working alone in factories will be to develop and carry on agitation which will result jin drawing in new members in the | Shops into the party and thus into |the shop nuclei. versary celebration meetings. there are less than two weeks left to ai And it mean | end of the year to insure publication f quota of $40,000 has been reached. Nuclei Secretaries Meet Monday to Organize Section, The attendance at the meeting was list of militant helpers: ‘excellent; similar was the enthusiasm \and interest displayed in the organiza- N. S. Reichenthal, Los Angeles vege tion, It was not possbile on Thurs-| V- Lilndquist, Gary, Ind... 150 |day to complete all the technical de- Ukrainian Br. W. P., Buffalo, |tails of shop and street nuclei organ-| NY, veeccresne eeeeceseneenee 10.00 lization, These wil be completed at a{ Paul Boddeutsch, Detroit, Mich. 1.00 | special meeting of the temporarily ap-| Collection in‘ DAILY WORKER pointed secretaries of the shop nuclei| building, Chicago, Ill 17.65 and street nuclei of section six. Spe-| Hungarian Br., W. P., Martins cial letters have been sent to the|_ Ferry, O. we, 800 |provisional secretaries to attend the|J@¢k Jancson, Martins Ferry, 0. 3.00 provisional section six committee | 54 Damimick, Niagara Falls, Bes 3 to be held tonight, Monday,) Lib Sie a ae November 16, 1925, 6.p. m., at the dis-| Ukrainian Br., W. Boston, eee party office, 19 S, Lincoln St.| Mass. ww 14.00 Secretaries are urged to come to the| English Br., W. P., Drak office immediately from work in or-| Dak. in 4.00 ae Ny reg dea may be opened|y]. H. Rasnick, New York 1000 al . 4 Of the comrades who were pre- Peaks mech b> Mucangl $2 15.35 sent 117 were members of labor ba * unions, as follows: Amalgamated Marvin Marks, Albany, Ind 2.50 Clothing Workers, 21; International) International Br. W. P., Ni- Ladies’ Garment Workers, 14; Cap-| agara Falls, N, Y. . ere 11.95 makers, 1; Food Industry, 7; 1. W. W.,| Johnston City, IIL, South —; Window Washers, 1; United WaH| Br., W. P. 7.25 Paper Trades, 1; News Writers, 1;|pr, Neff, Philadelphia, P: 25.00 Machinists, 14;\ Office Workers, 5:1 qnomas “Davies, Philadelphia, ~~ Pa, 5.00 capitalist society? 2. What is a commodity? 3. What are the two factors of a commodity? —_—_—_— 4. Distingiush between use-value and exchange value, 5. How can quantities of such dif- ferent commodities as corn and iron be placed in a relation of equality? 6. What part does use-value play in the exchange of commodities? 7. , What is the common character- istic or property of all commodities? 8. What is the substance that.finds its expression in the exchange rela- tions of commodities? 9, In what manner is the value of a commodity related to the labor-pow- er used in its production? City: 10, Has every use-value also an ex- iM change value?’'And has every ex- 3” change-value algo’ @ use-value DAILY WORKER HERE'S MY Name: Address: Important for Milwaukee, Wis. Next Thursday, November 19, the party school will begin at Miller’s Hall, 802 State Street, 3rd floor. All the comrades who are willing to attend the school sat ie system, School will start at 8 p. m. Comrade Oliver Carlson, from Chicago, will be in Every comrade that signed the application should be present. mills and. factories by themselves. | SAFELY PACE FOR LABOR PRESS Many are in comparatively small SET BY ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS; THIS AMOUNT MUST COME DAILY! To meet The DAILY WORKER'S difficult financial emergency, just $1,000 came in Saturday, most of which represented proceeds from Soviet anni- If $9,000 more can be raised with similar speed, the paper’s immediate safety is assured. This means, however, that ecomplish the tremendous task. well that an additional $10,000 is necessary before the for 1926. To date, not quite half of the $19,965.36: this is the sum total to date, with the following as Saturday's Dr. Meyerson, Philadelphia, (collected) -- 7.00 Armenian and Greek banquet, Street Nucleus 1, District 5, Boston, Mass, .. 40.00 Chicago ..... 10.00 Boston, Mass, (Soviet celebra- tion) . 28.25 Muskegon, Mich. bration) .. (Soviet cele- Roxbury, Mass. Jewish Br. y Richmond, W. Va. Workers Party ... ee a Chisholm, Minn,, Finnish Br, Wie eae 18.80 ‘(Soviet celebra- Baltimore, Md. | fOM). ose... | Washington, D, C. and Hartford, | Conn., meetings .. i. Cleveland, O. (additional pay: ment from meeting New York (partial payment, (Soviet celebration) ... “ Today's Total .. Previously reported ... . $1,076.82 $18,888.54 $19,965.36 PUBLISHING CO. . Total to date ... 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. DONATION: sini SAtNtemeaniate mE nner