The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1925, Page 4

re — Tn, Me . Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party NEW YORK TO START CAMPAIGN FOR FOUR COURSES T0 START THURSDAY AT N.Y. SCHOOL NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Owing to the interruption of the thanksgiving holiday, the courses scheduled to be given on Thursday night at the New York Workers School will begin on Thursday, Dec. 3. Many important courses are beginning that night in- cluding a course in Marxian econo- mics, instructor Mindel; Fundamen- tals of Communism, instructor Sis- kind; Social Interpretation of Modern Literature, instructor Jacobson; Shop Nucleus Training Course, instructor Jack Stachel, The course in Marxian economics | will treat all the fundamental prob-| Jems of Marxian economics and there will be a comparative study of rival systems of economics. The course in the Fundamentals of Communism is troductory theoret understanding of all of the basic problems of Com- munism—econoimic, political, tactical and organizational. The course in Modern Literature will take up the most important writers in the field of the novel, the drama, etc., of recent times of vorious European count and the United States, and will at- tempt a social interpretation of their productions, The most important of the cBurse beginning on Thursday Shop Nucleus Training Course, known as the fundamentals of Leninism. 8 PITTSBURGH NOTES Party School Begins. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov, 30.—Study classes in the ABC of Communism and International Current Events will ibe started on Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Pp. m, at the party headquarters 805 ames St. It is planned to start an extensive educational campaign in the Workers Party of this city to train als of Communism. The classes which egin on December 9 and which will be held regulary every Wednesday evening will serve as the beginning for the party school in Pittsburgh. The national office will supply an experienced instructor to conduct the classes. In addition local teachers will be used. All party shop and street nuclei of Pittsburgh and vicinity were instructed to ‘send gtudents of their nucleus to partici- @te in the classes. Comrade Careathers who is* well known in Pittsburgh has agreed to deliver three lectures on the colonial question. ee Resolution on Tom Ray. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 30. — At the last meeting of the district execu- tive committee of the Workers Party of District 5, tion concerning Tom Ray was adopted unanimously: Having heard the rade Jakira on the Tom Ray case, the district executive committee of the Workers Party of District 5 fully ap-| proves the action of the district or-| zer in helping to make a quick and rigid in igation of the c The district committee expresses indignation against the attempt of the enemies of the working ss to frame up Comrade Ray who is a mil- itant fighter in the U. M. W. A. and expresses full confidence in,Comrate Ray. Questions for Imperialism Cjass Tonight. 1. What was the economic soil out of which grew the policy of conquest *of Ancient Rome? 2. Describe three periods in the deVelopment of European foreign policy from the 15th century to the present time. intended to give an in-} es | night is the | | | | | iy CLC., ss the party members in the fundament- | foremen, etc. 6:¢..000 shonid: be able | organization of the unorganized in all the following resolu- | report of Com-| ORGANIZATION OF NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—The activi Workers Party in attempting to organiz branches of industry has awakened in t THE UNORGANIZED ty of the New York district of the e the unorganized workers in various he party an acute sense of the unpre- paredness of its speakers and organizers for the handling of such work. Particularly has the leadership furnish driven home this lesson. ed by the party in the textile strike The party has been sending organizers among the unorganized textile workers to explain to them the advantages, necessities and methods of or- ganization and for the mo&t part these + speakers have proved unprepared to handle the specific type of problem and audience in the most effective manner. The industrial department and the agitprop department of the district are jointly planning to develop the necessary type of speaker for this work in the organization of the unorganized, Our speakers at the present time fall into two main groups and suffer from two different types. of defects although a few of the. most effective escape the defects of both categories. There is one type of speaker that tends to talk too much in abstract general for- mulas and does not successfully link up these general political notions with the elementary everyday needs of the workers in the industry to be or- ganized. There is another type of speaker who very readily gets down to the level of its undeveloped and back- ward audience but does not succeed in ever leaving that level and leading his audience with him from their concrete problems to the fundamental meaning of them. Such speakers ap- peal to entirely un-Communist mo- tives, over emphasize the importance of the vague, spontaneous resentment of these workers against their bosses but fail to give direction and perma- nent crystallization to this resent- ment, What is necessary is a combination of both these types into a single whole, By such combination, a speaker | should be able to start at the level of | this backward group of unorganized workers; begin with their elementary problems of their particular shops— working conditions, wages, tyrannical to lead the workers, step by step from these elementary problems to a com- prehension of their larger political meanings and broaden their con- sciousness from factory and wage consciousness to class consciousness. In order to accomplih this, the in- dustrial department and the agitprop department together with the most active field workers in the organ- izing of the unorganized, are planning to hold a series of joint conferences in order to build that type of speaker for the type of campaign which the party has long advocated in theory but is now beginning to put into practice, namely, a campaign for the the small industrial towns near the city of New York. DETROIT NOTES DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 30.—The Workers Party of Detroit and the De- troit Federation of Working Women’s Organizations will give a joint Pack- age Party and Dance on Sunday, Dec. 6th beginning at 7:00 p. m. sharp in} the House of the Masses, 2646 St.| Aubin. The Greek and Armenian comrades will serve lunch and refreshments | during the evening. They promise to| maintain their reputations as hosts on this occasion. Many packages have already been | received and a lot of fun may be look- | ed forward to when they are auction- ed. An excellent orchestra has been engaged to furnish the music for the dance. Admission is 35 cents, LONDON, Nov. 30—One sailor was instantly killed and five were seri- ously injured when a gun on the Brit- ish warship Harebell exploded today in Bristol channel. WORKERS’ SCHOOL AT CHICAGO HOLDS MANY CLASSES DURING WEEK The following classes are being held now every night at 19 South Lincoln St., unless otherwise noted. They are as follows: Monday, 8 p. m. Capital, Volume 1, instructor, Earl Browder. Tuesday, 8 p. m., Imperialism, in- structor, Manuel Gomez, Tuesday, 8 p, m., Elements of Communism, instructor, Oliver Carl- son, Tuesday, 8 p. m., English, 2644 Le Moyne St. Wednesday, 8 p. m., American So- cial and Labor History, instructor, Wm. F. Dunne, > Wednesday, 8 p. m., Aims and Purpose of the Y. W. L., instructor, Max Shachtman (at 1902 W. Divi- sion St.) Thursday, 8 p. m. Elements of Communism, instructor, Max Be- dacht., Thursday, 8 p. m., Worker Corre- spondence, Editorial Room, Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Instructors: J. Louis Engdahl, Wil- liam F. Dunne and Oliver Carlson. Friday, 6 p. m., Elements of Com- munism, instructor, H. M. Wicks. Friday, 8:30 p. m., Public Speak- ing, instructor, H. M. Wicks. Friday, 8 p. m., English, 2644 Le Moyne St. Ida Dailes. NEW YORK NOTES Keep December 19 Open. NEW YORK, Nov. 30:—Organiza- tions friendly to The DAILY WORK- ER are asked to leave December 19 open’ for the next DAILY WORKER Reseue Party. It will be held at Har- lem Casino, 116th street and Lenox Ave., under the auspices of Harlem branches, and the co-operation of branches thruout New York -as well as’ sympathetic organizations is ré- quested so as to make a tremendous success of this final DAILY WORKER Rescue Party to be held in New York. Readers of The DAILY WORKER who are willing to help with the ticket sale for this affair should apply at once to The DAILY WORKER New York office, 108‘East 14th street. Red Mask Ball Promises Unforgettable Evening NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—The “Red Mask Ball” that will fill Harlem Casino's two large halls on New Year's Eve is expected to be the “biggest ever” because of the co-operation of three organizations in making it a The DAILY WORKER, the School, and the Young s’ League are holding the New Year’s Eve Ball jointly and will share jointly in its proceeds. The machin- ery of the party, of the league, of The DAILY WORKER builders and of the school supporters will all be mobilized to make the advance sale of tickets and arrangements a success. .Tickets are procurable in advance from the New York office of The! DAILY WORKER, from the Young Workers League, from the Workers’ School or party branches at 50 cents ‘each. Tickets at the gate will be 75c. each. “An evening you will not re- gret” is the motto of the arrange- metits committee, To All Members and Friends of. International Labor Defense: AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) bedtime, story ‘books for something like this and you will pot find it. 2 88 HE anthracite miners have been accustomed to winning wage in- creases during recent years. This was Lewis’ trump card at the last international convention. A labor leader who continues to secure wage increases for the members of his union is going to stay put even if he were guilty of every crime in the so- cial calendar from eating garlic to getting in to his office at 11:30 in the morning. But he is a fathead leader if he honestly beffeves there is no limit to his ability to suce@ed indefinitely Jin securing wage increakes, OSSES are no moré’ Willing—as a general rule—to grant wage in- creases because the, Ynion — officials whom they deal with 9 reactionary than if they were mia There may be exceptional cases when fear of a radical development in las union may compel the employers adopt such a course, as 2 choice between two évils, Whoever takes,money out of the boss's pocket is his enemy. The fact is that the reactionary officials are less capable of forcing wage in- creases than the radicals. This was demonstrated by the British miners. Only when circumstaiieés are ex- tremely favorable do ‘the crawling methods of the reactionaries succeed. It is quite evident ‘fhat John L. Lewis has made an awful méss of the anthracite strike, but thé’ miners, not he will suffer. E Coolidge orgatiizition in the house. of representatives must se- cure a new chairman for its commit- tee on public buildings. The gentle- |man appointed by Alice Roosevelt's husband—that’s his business—Nich- olas Longworth by name gave the job to a Kentucky solon whose lung ‘power was _ to compensate for his mental vacuity. A loud voice is half |the battle in politics—capitalist poli- tics of course—brains are a decided handicap. The appointee, like most capitalist politicians was not averse to making a little money on the side, so he leased whisky for bootlegging purposes. The story does not say whether he leased it “from one of | Andrew Mellon's distliferies. | Con- gressman Langley—that’s ‘his name— may have to think it over \in Atlanta for two years. And, then, he may not. Nee labor leaders ‘ate conducting a campaign to organize the Pull- man porters. The company comes forth thru various channels and tells the world that the poor porters are as happy as a movie actress—on the screen—walking towards the setting sun, with the once, pogr hero—now rich of course—driving away the mos! quitoes with his Mont just now, declares the Pullman com- pany, is the embryonic ynion. Strange to say however the porters are join- ing the new union, despite their al- leged happiness. 4 yeas Negro workers nega the help of the trade union moyement badly. Tho the prejudice against them, at least in the northern | part of the country, is somewhat exaggerated in our opinion, it is un doubtedly true that the reactionary. ‘labor leaders have neglected them. It is @ hopeful sign of the times that young Negro workers are now coming forward to perform so essential a task. The present effort to organize the porters shows what a dominating part is played by class division among tlre Negroes. Ww find Negto lackeys of the capi- talist parties and hired flunkeys of the Pullman company, leading the fight against the union. This is a de- |velopment which cannot |sharpen the class consciousness of the Negro workers and gradually con- |vince them that even tho they are discriminated against because of their color and their comparative recent |status as chattel slaves, the main rea- }son for this attitude taward them is |their lack of organization. When they are in a position.to fight their real foe—the capitaligst—side by side with their white brothérs, change will take placgy, a quick Two big cases are ggheduled to come to trial on November 30th. The Pittsburgh raid case of 10 workers and the Zeigler frame-up case of 15 union miners. The lawyers in each of these eases will not proceed with the detenee unless we have the money. FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS MUST BE RAISED BEFORE DECEMBER 15TH We call upon all members of the I. L. D. to rise to the test and raise this sum, friends and neighbors to contribute. Much depends on the outcome of these two trials. involved. The entire working class is on trial. Contribute all you can and get your Not merely the 25 workers Rush Your Collection and Make It as Big as Possible. National Office, 23 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. EIR ptatentniendidinacunenssonimnunituitincet = Fraternally yours, INTERNATIONAL LABOR ‘J. PE CANNON, Executive DEFENSE, etary. > hat. The | 4 only bug in the porters hammock, | FRANCE READY FOR NEW DEBT PARLEY IN U.S Cabinet Can not Last Very Long (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Nov. 30.—France is ready to open new debt negotiations with the United States, on the basis suggested by the United States, ac- cording to the semi-official newspaper Temps, in an obviously inspired article today. “The Briand government recognizes its debts to the allies,” said the Temps. “We believe that an equitable settlement can be speedily made. The government is ready immediately to open the suspended negotiations, first- ly, with Great Britain on the basis of the Churchill-Caillaux agreement, and secondly with the United States on the basis of a five year ‘provisional settlement. ‘ Briand Friend of England. Aristide Briand is known to be a friend of Britain, who wants to create alliances with that power; as he be- lieves that the fate of France is close- ly allied with that of Britain, which is in direct conflict with the former fi- nance minister, Caiflaux, who leaned toward Germany, because of. his close connections with banks having heavy investments acquired in Germany be- fore the war, It is noteworthy that the Temps mentions » Britain’s claims first and puts ‘the question of tlie debt to the United States in a,secondary category. Loucheur States Pidns. Louis Loucheur, one of the wealth- iest bankers in France and the new finance minister, states that he dos not desire a moratorium on debts‘ow- ing other countries and that he isnot in favor of a special levy, but that the raising of money will be_so ad- justed that the burden will spread over all classes; This proposition is, of course, simply a means of imposing the burden upon the workers and thus reducing their standard of living in order to strive to stabilize French cur- rency. At the cabinet meeting yesterday the new Briand cabinet discussed its entire program, which included four main points: ratification of the franc had the debt settlements. The growing crisis has not abated and it is not thought the Briand cab- inet can long hold a majority with such violent differences existing as pervade the chamber, of deputies. Cleveland Workers Will Hear Pat Toohey Tonite CLEVELAND, Nov. 30.—Tuesday night Pat Toohey, the militant young miner, who was arrested for his ac- tivities in the anthracite miners’ strike now going on in Pennsylvania, will be in-Cleveland to tell the story of the miners’ strike. Pat Toohey has just come out of jail and will -have mich to tell the workers of Cleve- land about the anthracite strike and about the activities of John. L. Lewis and his confabs with Governor Pin- chot. . a Pat Toohey will speak at the In- surance Center Building, 1783, East llth, corner of Walnut, Room 601. | No worker of Cleveland should fail to help but | hear this splendid young fighter and orator, Remember the date, Tuesday, December 1. .Come and bring your shop-mates and fellow-trade unionists along. Capmakers’ President Resigns Office and Leaves New York City ‘ ies NEW YORK-—Max Zaritsky, presi- dent of the Cloth, Hat, Cap and Millin- ery Workers’ International Union has resigned and will leave the city im- mediately. His duties, till the next convention can elect a successor, will be filled by Max Zuckerman, secre- tary-treasurer, and a managing com- mittee of three consisting of J. Rob- ers, N, Spector and J, M. Budish. TRADES: (Continued from page 1). the workers do everything and own nothing, urged democratic control of industry and workers’ share in man- agement. He said that he had been many times asked to recommend workers for state positions, but found it difficult because so few of them were capable of handling jobs. In this connection he congratulated the Big Demonstration for Left Wing I, L. G. W. U. for satrting an educa, tional department. Maurer declared there were forty thousand hotel and restaurant workers in Philadelphia, but that only 700 of them were organized, He urged dele- gates in town to help organize them and also urged affiliation to central and state labor bodies to bring pres- sure-on lawmakers to fayprable legis- lation for workers, Sigman Attempt Fails, When'»President Morris Sigman took the: gavel an attempted demon- stration fell flat, the scattered- ap- Plause; jasting but a few seconds. ..At a despairing signal from one: of«the Sigman machine supporters. the.,or: chestra»struck up a Russian Jewish revolutionary song, but again, the at- tempted denionstration fell ‘flat. Fran- tic efforts) to artificially stimulate a demonstration met with a, dismal fail- ure andsin an obviously embarrased manner Sigman began his talk which was notably dry and stereotyped. He dealt with the history of the or- ganization, its early sttuggles and its growth and made a plea for unity of the organization. This was clearly much against the grain, but his recent defeat in’ New York and the atmo- sphere ‘of the convention hall showed clearly that he has reached the end of his rope in his efforts to terrorize the membership of the organization. The convention will meet again to- morrow morning at Lulu Temple, on Spring Garden street, where the re- mainder of the sessions will be held. A fight is @xpected on the report™of the, credentials committee and the actual representation is a question, but there is no question about the power of the left wing in the union, which is more than 80 per cent of the membership. ‘Two Welcome Signs. In the Jewish district near'5th and Pine street there are two signs that attract a great deal of attention. One of them i8 on the reactionary Jewish Daily Forward office that reads “Wel- come delegates”, while the other is on the Freiheit office across the street, reading “Welcome, Progressive Dele- gates.”” President Wm. Green, of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor is expected to speak tomorrem, and will probibly try to’aid Sigmian in his predicament EARL R. BROWDER at itd Best hoa Mussolini Extends Session of Fascist Puppet Parliament ROME, Nov. 3&—Premier Mussoli- ni has decided to extend the sitting of the fascist marionette, the chamber of deputies, from Dec. 5 to Dee. 12, in order that the Locarno security part and the Washington debt settlement agreement and other repressive. legis- lation. planned may be “ratified.” Starving Horse Stirs Up Society Parasites Mrs. A, C. Ferlicke, owner of a coal company, satisfied her sadistic tend- encies by inflicting extreme suffering upon her horse which she kept more than three months in a barn foodless. Fashionably gowned society women who coddle themselves in luxurious surroundings while human babies die of hunger, satisfied their perverted maternal instinct by rushing out in a snow storm to the dingy court room of Judge Samuel Trude to report Mrs. Ferlicke’s ill treatment of her horse. The horse, the judge was told, had eaten wooden supports and the walls of the pakn to appeage its hunger. In a state of complete emaciation he was shot by a policeman. Tonight ‘Northwest Branch |. L. D. An important meeting of’ the North West Branch of the I. L. D., will be held, on Muesday, Dec. Ist at 8 p. m. at the ‘Workers Lyceum, 2788 Hirsh Bivd., r entrance. at Put copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go t6 your union meeting. a will speak on “WORLD UNITY OF THE UNIONS” at the regular monthly meeting of the Trade ak ah Bee iigge League GRAVE DIGGERS STRIKE; DEMAND EIGHT-HOUR DAY Cemetery Workers Insist on Union Recognition Two hundred and fifty caretakers and gravediggers, members of the Cemetery Employes’ Union, are on strike at the Mount Olivet, Holy Se- pulchre, Mount Carmel, All Saints and Calvary cemeteries demanding recog- nitiot of their union and an increase in wages. Want 8-Hour Day. ° The ‘burying grounds are under a single management and the cemetery workers who are on strike have re- ceived anywhere from $3 to $5 for a day of from nine to nine and ‘half hours, ‘The men are now demanding that these cemeteries pay them $6 for an eight-hour day. The Cemetery Employes’ Union ‘is making a drive for the recognition of thé union in Chicago cemeteries and has over 3,000 members in the union. These five cemeteries are to be a test of strength of the union and if suc- cessful, the other employers will be forced to accept the union terms. Chauffeurs Support Strikers. The cemetery workers are support- ed ‘in their demands by the Chicago Undertakers’ Association and the Liv- ery Chauffeurs’ Union, When the gravediggers and care- takers went on strike yesterday morn- ing, many funerals were halted, The hearse drivers upon learning that a strike existed, immediately turned their carriages away from the ceme- teries. Board of Health Aids Bosses. The Chicago board of health rushed in to the aid of the cemetery employ- ers, by ruling that the bodies can be stored in vaults until the strike is set- ~ tled if the cemeteries are not able to find workers to dig graves, LABOR REPORT IS SHOWN TISSUE OF CYNICAL LIES Claim to ‘Hays Helped Settle Strikes WASHINGTON, Noy. 30—Following» the lead of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, whose report was a tissue of studied perversion and falsification of facts, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, and one of the survivors of the. Harding-Hughes-Daugherty-Denby-Fall- Coolidge teapot dome oil cabinet, sub- mitted & falsified report on labor con- ditions in this country. The report is’ released for publication in Tuesday morning papers and contains the most astonishing and brazen exaggerations. Every strike settled by a union, where a representative of the depart: ment of labor tried to function, was attributed to the influence of that body. It is known that in many 6f strikes which.the labor department claims credit of settling the govern- ment representatives were showed a- side without ceremony and in general treated with contempt. Same Old Twaddle. Just as Hoover talked of content- ment of labor, so Davis sings the !~ same song. Facts are completely ignored and rosy pictures of a fantom ' rosperity are painted, none of them in conformity.with facts. Most of the government department reports of late have read like the A. F, of L, reports on the wisdom of increasing efficiency and class collaboration in general, and are of no use to the working class except insofar as thair fallacies are exposed and the govern- ment revealed as an apologist of every form of exploitation of labor. Instruction in English Foreigners and others wish- ing’to improve. Georgiana . Bonita, 1843 Lincoln Ave. Tel,” Diversey 6089. The Labor Defender An attractive, popular month. ,maga- zine, published by International. 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