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

Page Four INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE BACKS STRIKERS Backs Hillcrest Silk Mill Workers WEST NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—The International Labor Defense has im- mediately come to the aid of the Hill- crest Silk Mill strikers who were’ ar- rested for peacefully strolling up and down before the mill at half past four in the morning. The policeman in- sisted that this was no time to pick- et altho he knew that the scabs were being brot in at that time. When the strikers insisted on walking two of them were arrested and fined by the police magistrate for “disorderly con- duct.” The court expressed the opin- jon that the strikers were not al lowed to induce others to leave em- ployment or to tell. others of the strike. Arrest Picket. On Wednesday Albert Weisbord, or- ganizer for the strikers and secretary of the Central Bureau of the United Front Committees of Textile Work- ers was also arrested for “disorderly conduct.” His disorder consisted in that he went up to a worker at a very considerable distance from the mill and asked her if she was working} | filiations, as follows: this a policeman came along and us-| in that mill which was on strike. At ing his hands freely made Weisbord move on and then arrested him for disorderly conduct. At the hearing magistrate of the police court, Weis- bord pointed out that the police had threatened to put several strikers in the hospital, that they had actually seized several strikers and frisked them, feeling them all over ostensibly for revolvers or arms but as Weis- bord pointed out it may very well be such revolvers on the strikers. The strikers are all residents of the town for many ye*rs and are most of them married and for the first time on strike. This handling by the police has infuriated them as they have never been accustomed to_such treat- ment before. The answer of the court to all of these charges was the out- rageous statement that the police have a right to search without a war- rant anyéne whom they may fancy has arms at any time. Also the strik- ers have no right to approach any- one, ask them if they work in the mill, no matter how politely the ques- tion may be put. Weisbord was fined ten dollars. 1. L. D. Backs Strikers. The International Labor’ Defense has furnished money for the fines and means to push these cases to the lim- it. The case of the Hillcrest Silk Mill strikers is the fight of thousands of weavers of Hudson county, Naw Jersey, Astoria Long Island, New York City and Brooklyn and must not be lost. A big dance, mass meetings and other means of raising funds and pub- licity for the strikers are being plan- ned by the United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Hudson coun- ty with headquarters at 393 Broad- way, Union City, New Jersey. Leonid Krassin Lies in Moscow Hospital MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 22.— Leonid Krassin, commissar for foreign trade of the Union of Soviet Repub-| lies has been removed to a hospital, | suffering from a serious case of anae- mia and a heart attack, Get After Klan Heads. that they were trying to plant} | | EAST /ST. LOUIS, IL, Nov. 22 jury in the federal court found Sam- | uel Childers and Abe Hicks, both of Herrin, Ill., guilty of conspiracy impersonate federal officers Williamson county liquor raids led by the late S. Glenn Young who had also been indicted VERSA ASTANA ST ee eT ee tet Tet Fally Tales for Workers’ C hildren By Herminia Zur Miihlen, Translation by Ida Dailes. Illustrated with black and white drawings from fhe original German edition and four color plates and cover designs by Lydia Gibson. A book that children will treasure and one that will instill in their minds a pride of being in the ranks of the working class. For your chil’—and the child- ren of other workers get this book! 75 Cents Duroflex Covers: $1.25 Cloth Bound SSS ESSE ees eee ssa 1 \ably not necessary, THE DAILY WORKER Chicago Now Completely On Shop and Street Nuclei Basis ' By MARTIN ABERN. HOP nuclei in printing,. clothing, harvestef, railroad, and electric plants were organized at the Section Four reorganization meeting of Local Chicago, Workers (Communist) Party on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1925 at Roose- velt Hall. Three hundred members registered at this meeting, a number slightly larger than at the Section Six} meeting, the week previous. The total number of shop nuclei in Section Four is nine: three in cloth- ing shops, with 5, 4, and 6 members respectively; 16 in The DAILY WORKER printing nucleus; three in each two other large printing estab- lishments; 12 in a harvester concern; 14 in an electri¢ plant; ‘four in a rail- road freight house. Twelve street nuclei with a total membership at present of 187 mem bers were also organized. ‘‘About 75 members living or working im ‘order sections are being attached to units in other sections. Of those present, 126 had union af- Teamsters—1; carpenters—4; Amalgamated Clothing Workers—22; International Ladies’ Garment Workéfs—4; Track repair- |ers—1; Hod Carriers—6; Food Work- before the night} ers—5; Office Workers—10; Typo- | graphical—15; Newspaper drivers—1; Sign painters—1; Journeymen Tailors —1; Barbers—4; Cabinet makers—2; Electrical workers—4; Wood Turners —2; Cleaners & Dyers—1; Butchers— 1; Blacksmiths—1; Leather workers— 1; Metal Workers—1; Shoe Workers —1; Miners—2; Chauffeurs—1; Laun- dry Workers—1; Coopers—1. A-com- pilation of the entire city will be made shortly, Section Six Secretaries Meet Tonight. Temporary secretaries of the street and shop nuclei organized at the Section Four meeting have been appointed. These secretaries will hold a meeting to organize a provis- ional section comimttee, on Monday, Nov. 23, 1925 at 6 p. m. at the Dis- trict Office, 19 South Lincoln street. All secretaries have been instructed to attend. All other sections now have tempor- ary section committee organizations and are proceeding to the work of getting the shop and street nycleito function. It must be emphasized that all offic- ers in the shop and street nuclei and the section committees are only tem- porary. These were either appointed or elected at the section meeting to start the functioning of the newly organized. units. Regular elections will be held later in the nuclei for nuclei officers and also to elect dele- gates to a section’ conference which will elect a permanent section com- mittee. Comrades Being Transferred to Shop Nuclei. Further, itswill be necessary to transfer many active comrades who are not in shop nuclei, to shop nuclei organizations to aid in their work, No comrade is permanetly in a shop | nucleus but is subject to transfer at any time. There are many potential shop nuclei to which comrades will be attached. During the period of the section reorganization meetings, such transfers were not made; all com- rades were placed in party units as they belonged according to the regis- tration. With all section meetings over, transfers can now be made with the best possibilities for good results, 900 Comrades in Shop and Street Nuclei. Nearly 900 comrades have regis- tered thus fat in Chicago or approxi- mately 80 per cent of the, member- ship. Additional registration cards are coming in daily and the percent- age of those who are coming into the reorganized party will be materially increased. All the nuclei are on the job reaching the comrades who failed to register at the section meetings. The, party now has the task of de- veloping the street and shop nuclei in existence, to organize live sections, sub-section and nuclei executive com- mittees and to draw in the entire membership into work in the shops and‘factories. A better organizational base ‘for work has been laid. It has been’ demonstrated, even to the most skeptical, that the membership would respond, to the reorganization. Arti- cles_reviewing the complete reorgan- ization of the party in Chicago, the tradé Uiion composition, character of the, nude, ete., will be written. How to Strenghten Our Press “ ARTICLE TWO (b) Factory Nucleus Newspapers. UCLEUS newspapers make an in- dividual appeal to the workers of a special enterprise. Therefore, they make a stronger impression than the dailies, which in the first instance are dearer and which, moreover, approach the workers as a whole. The circula- tion of factory nucleus mewspapers creates the basis for the mass circu- lation of the Communist daily press. ; The shortcomings which were hith- erto noticeable in connection,,with the publication of nucleus newspaper, are as follows: (a) Only some of the factory nuclei publish nucleus newspapers, (b) The publication of such papers is not regular. (c) In most cases, there is not enuf life in nucleus newspapers. They fail to connect factory questions with the general political questions.. They do not give enuf illustrations. Their Al technical make-up is frequently unin; teresting. (d) Many nuclei in enterprises to| Where we are in a majority do not th “1993 | Publish nucleus newspapers, as they are of the opinion that this is presum- In such cases, it is. generally the Communist factory councils which endeavor to prevent | the publication of nucleus newspapers, International Press Day should be used for the encouragement of the: publication and development of fac~ tory nucleus newspapers. The follow- ing measures will be necessary: 1. Factory nucleus newpapers should be published for all big and medium sized enterprises. Where- ever no nuclei exists, the leading organ should instruct factory or street nuclei to collect suitable material and to make up a factory newspaper for the respective enterprise to be sold out- side the latter. 2, The leading organs of the party control factory nuclei and ascertain the reasons for the non-publication of factory nucleus newspapers, or find out why they are not published. Agit- prop departments attached to the leading party organs are under the obligation to support the comrades in connection with making up nucleus newspapers. In big enterprises, where we are as yet weak, the upper leading organs of the party should also pro- vide financial support to make the regular publication of a nucleus news- alee possible. 3. In order to improve the contents of nucleus newspapers, the agitprop departments should give the agitprop organizers of the nuclei definite polit- ied? instructions and should also draw their attention to drawings, carica- tures, etc, contaimed in some pe- riodicals, which could be easily re- drawn for nucleus newspapers, The ngitprop departments of the upper “4 leading.organs of the party should criticize the contents and_ technical makeup of nucleus newspapers . and express. their opinion in writing to the factory nuclei. 4,, Model factory newspapers should be published in the illustrated news- paper of the party. In those sections of the Comintern, where the publica- tion of factory newspapers is in its initial stage, it would be useful to re- produce in the newspaper a full sized nucleus newspaper and to publish, pic- tures of necleus newspapers from other sections of the C. I. on a re- duced scale. 5. The party bookshops and liter- ature secretaries are to be. informed where they can obtain technical ma- terial for the makeup of nucleus newspapers, at a cheap rate (for in- stance, the necessary material for the hectograph, duplicator, ete). 6. The technical makeup of the fac- tory newspaper should be reproduced at conferences of nuclens leadirg of- | ficials. For this purpose, the respective leading organ of the party should prepare in conjunction with thé lead- ing organ of the nucleus of the text | tor a nucleus newspaper. During the conference, the text is written down and duplicated in order to let the com- tades see all the manipulations. 7. tion should be mobilized and com- rades capable of making up nucleus newspapers or headings for such pa- bers in the printing works where they are employed should be brought into touch with the leading organs of the nuclei in the msot important indus- trial enterprises. 8. The leading organs of nuclei should be induced to give reports on the history of their nucleus news- papers, on the methods of circulation and the success achieved. These re- ports should be published in the daily press, BUFFALO NOTES. BUFFALO, N, Y., Nov. 22.—At ah emergency membership meeting of all the party branches in Buffalo, the sum of $125 was raised to help save The DAILY WORKER, and the party printing plant. A DAILY WORKER Rescue Squad was also elected; it consists of members from each of the Buffalo branches, and is setting to work to devise ways and means of immediately raising money for the daily on a larger scale, New York Hike Postponed, * New York, Noy. 22—Thé date for The DAILY WORKER hike had to be postponed, again, this time until Dec. 6, on aggount of the Juniors’ con- vention, |, The Communist printers’ frac-| HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKE ) tomorrow, |Muskegon Reorganized Into Three Shop Nuclei By AL SCHAAP, MUSKEGON, Mich., -Nov, 22,—Lo- cal Muskegon of the Workers (Com- munist) Party in District Seven, has completed its reorganization on the basis of shop nuclei, A 100 per cent registration was taken at a general membership meet- ing that was held by the branches in this city. This registration brot out the tact that sufficient comrades to organize three Shop nuclei were employed in the larger factories in the city. Five other comrades, none. of them em- ployed in the same/ factory were at- tached to the shop puglei, thereby li- quidating the problem, of a street nu- cleus. The three shop nuclei organized are in a radio manufacturing concern employing several'f thousand; in a foundry employing bver 500 workers and in an automobile concern em- ploying several thousand. Another general membership meet- ing is being called where speakers in foreign languages a8 well as Eng- lish will talk on the functions of the shop nuclei, planned, to have the initial meetings of the’ shop nuclei, where organiza- tion secretaries, agitprop directors and delegates to the city committee; @ will be elected. Plans will also be laid for the distributfott of The DAILY WORKER, other party papers and shop papers whieh the nuclei will publish shortly. The comrades in Muskegon are un- dertaking the work on the shop nu- clei basis very enthusiastically, altho there are quite a number of foreigm speaking elements among the mem- bership. Novel Affair Thursday In addition to educational oppor- tunities the District,;8. school offers Chicago workers , “Hard Times Party” that promises’ much to give thanks for on Thanksgiving night, Thursday, No. 26, at’ Imperial Hall, corner Halsted and Fullerton Aves, In these days of “pfosperity” (read Coolidge’s; speech) thé party will be a “Hard Times Party” with prizes for the most poverty stricken costumes and “fines for finery,” A Finnish orchestrajwill furnish tan- talizing tunes—and other features are being kept secret for. surprises. Ad- mission for the party, and dance will be 50 cents. 68] DAILY WORKER RESGUE ARTY IN WILLVAMSBURG "ON THANKSGIVING EVE NEW YORK, Noy. 22—On the evening before Thanksgiving, Wed- nesday, Nov. 25th, a DAILY WORK- ER Rescue Party % scheduled for Royal Palace Half, 16 Manhattan avenue (near Broadway), Brooklyn. Readérs of They DAILY WORKER from all over New York and Brook- lyn should attend this affair, as the evening before Thanksgiving is just © as good a night for dancing as a Saturday night and no one needs to work Thanksgiving day. So, at the Royal Palace in Williamsburg there will be music and dancing until the early hours of the morning at The DAILY WORKER Rescue Party. \Everything Done Double at New Years’ Eve Ball , NEW YORK, Noy, 22.—The New York Workers’ School, the Young Workers League, and The DAILY WORKER, are pooling their forces to make the biggest New Year Ball “that ever was” to ringsout-the old year on December 31, The two big halls,in Harlem Casino, Lexington Ave, a 116th St., have been engaged for the occasion and two bands, and two sets of enter- tainers are expectéd to provide the merriment. The prodeeds of this triple affair will be divided between The DAILY WORKER, the Young Workers League, and the Warkers’ School. Tickets are 50c, jf purchased in ad- vance of New Yeay’s Eve, but those people, waiting till the night of the affair will have to pay 7c. at the door, Tickets maybe procured trom any of the three’ @rganizations men- tioned, at 108 Eastl44th Street. Australia to'Deport ' Reds of Red Unions. (Continued from pags £: compulsory voting law was enforced. All voters who failed to vote were fined $10. However, the labor unions are not likely to take the deportation of Walsh and Joanneson without a fight and observers declare that a general strike is not impossible. Places Orders for Dyes. LENINGRAD, Noy, 22—The . Dye Trust has placed ‘orders in Germany for various equipment for the Lenin- grad dye factoriew for the sum of 260,000 rouble: oe ee opy of the DAILY Take this c WORKER with you to the shop At this ‘meeting it is) NEWS OF EXPLOSION AT FORD'S PLANTS ur GAREFULLY WITHHELD DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 22—Ford’s River Rouge Plant again took its deadly toll of human life and mang- led bodies, when an explosion of shellac and gasoline occurred in the motor assembly building. Three were killed outright and seventeen wounded, some of whom are not expected to recover. Not a word of this disaster has appeared in the local capitalist press and details are very difficult to secure, Hardly a day goes by but what the’ Ford plant takes its toll of human life. Each department has its own emergency hospital and a line is always waiting for attention to minor and major wounds re- ceived in the Ford productive pro- ef A. F. OF L. CHIEFS FOR ADHERENCE TO WORLD COURT Where Morgan Goes They Also Go (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—The exe- cutive council of the American Fed- eration of Labor reaffirmed its adher- ence to the world court of interna- tional justice and advocated participa- tion in the court by the . United States. In every manner possible the fed- eration voices the desires of the House of Morgan. The officialdom of the labor movement never makes a | move until the trail has been blazed Chicago School to Hold | by the agents of Wall Street. Then the féderation lines up-its forces be- hind the procession. It is conceded even by Borah sup- porters that a sufficient number of members of both houses of congress, are pledged to the adherence to the world court to secure favorable ac- tion. Then the A. F. of L. will prob- ably acclaim Morgan's victory as vin- dication of their policy of “reward- ing friends and punishing enemies?” Shoe Workers’ Union . in New York City in Organization Drive » » (Continued from page 1) 2 1! reached in the Protective where! the wages are the highest in the industry, running up to $75 and over per week. “We Want not only good wages, by bat more sanitary conditions, and Dov all more even er, loyment. We a also going to force the employers’ to furnish all the machinery, so that the lasters and others will not have’to carry their own heavy tools as they have to do now. And we are Not: gO: ing to ask the masters what the|W agreement shall be, but we will make the agreement ourselves and tell the owners to sign on the dotted line: This we can do if we are organized.” Get Power. - The next speaker was J. O, Bentall of The DAILY WORKER. He pietured the necessity of the workers getting together, showing first how the cap- italist class is organized. “Your bosses are organized one hundred per cent. They pull together and protect them- selves against any demand made by the workers, They have the police, the courts, the legislatures, the gov- ernors, the congress, the president, the army, the navy, the jails, the peni- tentiaries and everything else that they need in the process of making profit out of the workers. Out of the 300 shoe shops in Greater New York you have about sixty organized. I want to come back and speak to you when you have 300 shops va ae 100 per cent. “Get power—power in the indus- trial field. Also get power in the po- litical field. You should be in control of the police, the courts, the legis- latures or whatever form of power you may adopt. Get a workers’ gov- ernment that is adapted to the condi- tions of the workers. Organize your own labor party and get into the fight | H for your class. Join the workers of all countries in their plans for interna- tional trade union unity and become a part of the militant world proletariat that is destined to own. and rule the whole earth,” Enroll Many Members. A. Sormenti spoke in Italian and A. Petri in the Hungarian language, mak- ing clear the object of the drive to the different language groups in the industry. L. Landy spoke in Jewish. J. D, Nolan, general president of the Shoe workers’ Protective Union, came to the meeting quite unexpectedly and was received, with enthusiasm when introduced. “There is nothing in this world that the workers cannot have if they use their intelligence and or- ganize. \There is only one. place for the wo¥kers in an industry,” he con- tinued, “and that is in the organiza- tion of the workers which will func tion for the workers,” * Many were enrolled at the close of the meeting. The union is keeping up the drive and will have another meet- ‘ing in the near futur Village Libraries Increase. MOSCOW, Nov. 22.— The number of village Mbraries has’ increased #o 18,771 and there are 11,148 librarians, 4 oo By EARL R. BROWDER. The second meeting of the class in Capital, which meets Monday night at 19 So. Lincoln St., will discuss the questions printed in The DAILY WORKER last Monday, and the pa- pers turned in by the students on these questions, Following are the answers to last week’s questions (Capital, Vol. I, pages 41-48): 1. “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of pro- duction prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commo- dities’, its unit being a single commo- dity.” 2. A commodity is an object that satisfies some human want, which is produced for the purpose of exchange, and not for the consumption of the producer, 3. The two fundamental factors of a commodity are use-value and value; the former being the substance of all wealth, whatever may be its social form and as varied in nature as there are kinds of commodities; the latter being the common unsubStantial re- ality in each commodity, a congela- tion of homogenuous labor power, of labor -power expended without regard to the mode of its expenditure, 4. Use-value is the particular qua- lity contained in each separate com- modity to satisfy a particular want; exchange value is the form in which the value (the quantity of homogenu- |’ ous labor power embodied) of a com- modity is expressed. 5. Commodities of such different qualities as corn and iron may be placed in relation of equality (a cer- tain amount of one equalling a cer- tain’ amount of the other) by estab- lishing the measures of each (bushels and hundredweights) of each which contain an equal amount of the com- mon “something” which is value. 6. Use-value plays no part whatever in exchange, except that a commo- dity must have use-value of some sort; if it is useless then so is the labor contained in it; but the use- value plays no part in determining the relations of exchange. 7. The only common property of all Class in “Capital” Meets Tonight ‘of labor. 8. Exchange-value is the only form in which value, the congelation of homogeneous human labor power, can manifest itself or be expressed. 9, The value of a commodity varies directly as to the quantity, and in- versely as to the productiveness, of the labor incorporated in it. 10, Every use-value does not nec- essarily, have an exchange-value, for not. all use-values are products of la- bor (air, etc.); but every exchange- value must also have a yse-value, for if the commodity becomes entirely useless than the ldbor expended upon it becomes useless also, and the ar- ticle loses its value, Questions for Second Lession. (Vol. I, pages 48 to 63.) 1, What is fhe two-fold character of the labor embodied in commodi- ties? 2. Why must the useful labor em- bodied in a commodity be of a differ- ent quality from the useful labor em- bodied in another commodity? 3, What are the elements which combine to make use-values? Give an example. 4. If we establish that the value of a coat is equal to the value’ of 20 yeards of linen, does this establish that the two commodities contain equal use-values? 5. Is it possible to establish an equation between things which are qualitatively different? 6. If an equation can exist ‘only be- tween items of the same character, what is the common element in the quation: “One coat equals 20 yards of linen?” 7. If the product of the labor of a tailor (the coat) can be equated to the product of the labor of a weaver (the linen), does this prove that be- hind the different use-values of the two kinds of labor there lies some- thing which is common to both? How and why? 8. How is it possible for there to be an increase in material wealth without an.increase in values? 9. What are the two poles of the expression of value? 10. Explain the importance of and the quantitative determination of the commodities is that all are products relative form of value. WORKERS STRIKE HEAVY BLOWS TO SUPPORT COMMUNIST PRESS America's working class stands steadfastly behind The DAILY WORKER in its struggle to win the long, hard fight against its capitalist debtors. On, Saturday, to the fund that is to preserve the world’s Of this, $398.85 came from Los Anj re comrades of the WORKERS PARTY have mobilized ist aealy newspaper. * Cal., whe! $1,081.54 was added irst English Commun- les, every effort to save labor's press. From Oakland, Cal., too, came a large donation, sent by the Lettish branch, while Ohio sent almost $200.00, including $79.00 from the Lithuanian party branch of Cleveland and $64.00 from Youngstown. The item- ized list is as follows: WF. Miller, Chicago .. 500 John ‘Wild; Chica 200 Trenton, (Soviet seiebration) 17 00 Me Geastn, Hasan, Mi 1600 Mass, Mich., Finnish Br., W. P. 1260 A. Johnson, Trenton, N. J 200 Lithuanian’ Br, W.'P., 79 00 Finnish Br., Canonsburg, 975 R. Si York .. 1.00 750 $1.8D S, Keller, Chicago 50: N. Dewey, Edgewa 300 Harry Olewiler, 200 Chisholm, Minn ¥. 2000 500 ship meeting Milwaukee, W. Glassman wed ing collection: Frank Bebel, $1000; Jos. R. Kovach, $100; Freed ee Leg Geo. Martz, $1 00; % G 18 John Lincoin, Brooklyn, 3 Brockton, Mass juclei «1 and LW. 13 “4 9 ., Eng Br., W. 1 Bickmore, W V: 1 i New York. $ 5 sou 4100 16 00 20 00 300 it Nucleus 5 500 eko, Ma: cy, 1 O. (aalieets ) 1200 P, fanning, Minneapoll de 100 0. Bridy andeenkin Ry. 180 r, “ Polish "er w. "Bo aw 625 STRIKE 8888588 88 Sam Far ngcestela, So 8 alveston, . H. and Mary Ri Springfield, Mass. Wilmington, Del., (Soviet celebra tion) . 1119 Frank rson, Stratford, Conn... 200 John Schedel, Fort Wayne, Ind... 100 Herman Kuebbler, Toledo, 200 Youngstown, | John 'L 7 $5.00; A. Doago, $200; H. Lubet sky, $2.00; Ghavkin, $19.00; as Kauffman, $200; J, Pin- ik, $700; Paul Lubetsky, tH kK : Repar, 50c;_ (collected Vausakovic, $100; Di ro, ‘$100; Was Schwartz, $100; Con- dric, $1 00; Cc $500; M. aul jefarthy, Duluth, Minn. Nick Artonovich, Jere, WwW. Va (collected) Marko — Vr (collected) leron, Dowell Monessen, "Ba. (Soviet ci bration’ Me Petrus, Chica: H., City South’ Siavie Le No.3, "Seiki Ba 8 wessssssdne SW aook ® Pe 8 888 8 ssssussexss § S$ 8888 i * 3, / Previously reported oes $22/217.50 pone weenie $23,299.04 DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Name: .... Address: HERE'S MY DONATION: — 1113 W. Washington Bivd.,.Chicago, Mh