The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1925, Page 4

NEW YORK / NUCLEUS NO. 2 PLANS CAMPAIGN © Start Membership Drive in Shoe Shop By SIDNY JONAS, (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. /8 - Shop nu- eleus No. 2 was organized in a shoe factory wh 70 work were em- ployed. the first meeting of the nucleus when four members were present they elected an organizer secretary and a literature agent The nucleus decided to control of the shop committee, T also decided that every member the nucletis should concentrate Communist propaganda on shop and try of his workers in the to make them Commun- two ists so that they should be able to join the nucleus. The following are a few. examples which illustrate how successfully the nucleus carried on Communist propa ganda in that shop. Raise Slogan in Shops. The first work of the nucleus was to utilize the sentiment of the work- ers not to pay for the shoes that they spoiled. The nucleus introduced the slogan not to y for the shoes and made it a shop issue against the bos- ses and the reaction hop chair- man who believes in class collabora- tion. The result was that ti work-| ers of the shop elected our comrade as shop chairman. Thus the nucleus is actually in control of the shop and all the questions that arise the shop meetings are first considered at the meetings of the shop nucleus, Active in Elections. The nucleus was active in the elge- tion compaign of Comrade Ben Gitlow | the cam-| for mayor. They brought paign literature right into the shop and held four successful open-air meetings near their shop at which Bert Wolfe, candidate for assembly in the district, spoke on campaign problems, The comrades of the nu- eleus made a collection for the party campaign and urged the workers of | the shop to wear Gitlow buttons. The shop nuclev ting subscribers for The DAILY WORKER and the language press. Every member of the nucleus must be a-subscriber. Besides this, the nucleus itself gets five copies of The DAILY WORKER and five “Workers Monthly” which they distribute free to the w ers. This will be continued until these workers become subscri- bers, and then the literature’ will be distributed to other workers. Helps DAILY WORKER. The nucleus was successful in col- lecting $13 in the campaign to save The DAILY WORKKER. This was done in addition to the tax that the party members pay axe does not in- clude collections made for the “Frei- heit.” The nucleus just organized a social ¢lub thru which we will try to at- tract the majority of the workers of the shop. Urges Workers Into Union. * ; 4 | The nucleus is also active in the organization campaign of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union. It distri- Dutes leaflets in the unorganized shops and tries to get the workers into the union. The nucleus together with the club aS arranging an affair, the profit of “yhhich will go to the organization und of the union The: result of this activity, is that the nucleus fficreased its membership from 4 to 7 and having 2 candidates. Youngtown, 0., Notice! YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Dec. 8.—Reor- ganization of the party in Youngs- town, Ohio, will take place on Sun- * day, Dec. 13, at 1 p. m. sharp, at the 4 Hungarian Hall, 338% West Federal street. Every comrade must be present. - is active in get-| Workers (Commun |HOLD MEMBERSHIP two vital questions of unfication of are being arranged. 9 to 13 incl. tained. tip THE DAILY WORKER inist) Party | Resolutions Social Affairs MEETINGS IN THE DISTRICTS FOR UNIFICATION AND PARTY TRADE UNION WORK Meetings of the District Executive Committees of the various dis- tricts as well as membership meetings in the main party centers on the the party behind the Central Execu- tive Committee, and the intensification of'the party’s trade union work, The following are the arrangements for the meetings to be held: NEW YORK—D, E. C. meeting and membership meetings, Dec. PHILADELPHIA—D. E. C. meeting, Dec. 14, at 521 York Ave.; mem- bership meeting, Dec. 15, at 1626 Arch St. PITTSBURGH, PA.—D. E. C, meeting, Dec. 16; ing, Dec. 17, Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. CLEVELAND—D. E. C. meeting, afternoon of Dec. 19; membership meeting, evening of Dec. 18, at Gardinia Hall, 6021 St. Clair St, CHICAGO—Membership meeting, Tuesday, December 22, 8 p. m,, at Schoenhoffen Halli, 1224 Milwaukee Ave. (Milwaukee and Ashland Aves.). These meetings are of the utmost importance and the comrades in the various centers must see to it that the maximum attendance is ob- membership meet- voted unanimously to indorse it. present. ° Committee, In the afternoon a general member- |ship meeting was called to discuss the unity resolution and the party’s trade union policies and activities. | international | Comrade Sullivan, the D. O., presided. | Opening the meeting Lovestone gave a picture of the diffi- culties in which the party found itself |at the close of the last convention. |He outlined the major tasks of the party. “This unity resolution is not an- other scrap of paper in a factional war,” he said. “It is a political docu- ment of major significance and finds its orign in the sincere conviction of the best Communist elements in our ranks that the time has come to unite on the basis of the Comintern line for the party above all groups. This resolution is not a victory for one or the other group but is a victory for the party and the Comintern in the sense that greater numbers of our members are*now solidly lined’ up for the Communist International and will be ready to repel the efforts of the enemies of our party to discredit and destroy our Communist _move- ment,” Lovestone’s address... The main features of the party’: proposal to make the winning’ over of the proletarian masses and not the capture of trade union offices per se as the main objective of our activities in the labor unions were discussed by Comrade Lovestone. “We must build a system of powerful party: trade union fractions and have these frac- tions function as the dynamo, as the steel rod in a broad progressive, a broad left, bloc. We must carry out the Profintern program and the par- ity commission resolutions on trade anion work by deed as well as by word,” was the conclusion reached by Comrade Lovestone. : Comrade Cannon aroused enthusi- asm among his interested listeners when he said: “The last time Com- rade Lovestone and I spoke on the same platform we spoke against each other. We are now here to- gether speaking on the same plat- form, for the same cause, for the line of the Comintern. for the-Communist Inuternational.” The main theme of Comrade Can- non’s report on the unity ' resolution was that the Central Executive Com- mittee was preparing the membership for the next decision of the Comintern. {We are not speaking of old decis- ons. We are speaking of the coming asks. It is our duty to. saye as many members as possible” of the former we have the money. involved. National Office, 23 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. To All Members and Ss Two big ~ases are scheduled to come to trial on November 30th. Zeigler frame-up case of 15 union miners. The lawyers in each of these eases will not proceed with the defense unless was the keynote of cate We have united) BUFFALO DISTRICT MEMBERSHIP IS UNANIMOUS FOR PARTY’S CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND UNITY (Special to The Dally W Worker) BUFFALO, N. Y.-(By Mail.)—The district committee of Buffalo after a thoro discussion of the Central Executive Committee’s unity resolution Eleven members of the committee were There was considerable discussion and many questions were asked. Comrades Lovestone and Cannon represented the i sccneeeinachltipetmleilinclinsindinanileatiintial Central Executive majority from collision with the Com- munist International. We must unite only on the basis of the Communist policies and line. If any one has doubted our proposals or Comrade !has been skeptical about the execut- ing our our unity program let him look at the results of the Finnish convention. The right wing in our party and the enemies of our party outside have, been anxiously awaiting disruptive developments at this con- vention. They all had hoped for a split at this convention. The results achieved here are a distinct disap- pointment to the enemies of our party and a signal for success and hope for our party.” Comrade Cannon declared that the Finnish convention was the beginning of a real campaign of Bolshevization of the Finnish Section which will make this section one of the bulwarks of the party adhering strictly and en- ergetically to the policiesyof the C. I. After questions were answered by the Central Executive Committee representatives a vote was taken on the resolution. The Central Execu- tive Committee resolution was car- ried by a vote of 58 for and none against. Both representatives of the Central Executive Committee empha- sized that the,comrades should vote fhe resolution only if they are genu- ipely and sincerely convinced that it is worthy of their support. , Special stress was laid on the point that the members should not and need not vote for the resolution out of a sense of discipline or loyalty to the Central Fxecutive Committee. This meeting, in place of the importance. Every party member bers who are either in a shop nuc! of the Y. W. L. can be present. party unity and trade union work, | Emergency Cal Friends of a file Intexnational Labor Defense: 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. Contribute all you can and get your friends and neighbors to contribute. Much depends on the outcome of these two trials. Rush Your Collection and Make It as Big as Possible. The entire working class is on trial. , Fraternally you see W ree tnenn Attention! Chicago Party Membership Meeting on PARTY UNITY AND TRADE UNION WORK Tuesday, December 22, 1925, 8 P.M. SCHOENHOFEN HALL, 1224 MILWAUKEE AVENUE (Milwaukee and Ashland Aves.) Admission by membership card only. Representatives of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak on the rgsolution of the G, E. C. for The Pittsburgh raid case of 10workers and the INTERNATIONAL LABOR REFENSE, J. P. CANNON, Executive Segretary. NEW YORK WILL DISCUSS UNITY RESOLUTION SUN., DEC. 13 AT WEBSTER HALL (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—A general membership meeting will be held on Sunday, Dec. 13 at 1 p. m. at Webster Hall—119 E, 11th St, where Comrades Jay Lovestone and James P. Cannon will report for the Cen- tral Executive Committee on the unification of the party and our trade union work, Since the unity rapejution has been printed the YoungjCommunist International has senta cable of ap- proval of the unity resolution call- ing upon all members, of the party and the Young Workera League to stand by the Central Executive Committee and unify the party for the big tasks ahead of it. The membership of ,New York where the resolution, will be dis- cussed for the first time,must come out in full force to this meeting. Only the politically backward ele- ments of the party will stay away from this membership,meeting.. Admission will be my member- ship card only. Jewish Branch w Roxbury Will..Have Supper New Yeat’s Eve. (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Dec. 8, — The Roxbury Jewish Branch promises to outdo them all and on New, Year's Eve they will dance and sing, at New Interna- tional Hall, Roxbury, until midnight, At 1 a. m, Jan, 1, 1926, a’ catered supper will be served to usher in the New Year. It promises to be an all night affair,,and their secretary, Mor- ris Lubin, is on the job working for it success. il Lettish Branch of Boston to Have. Party Saturday, Decémber 19 BOSTON, Dec. 8. — The Boston Lettish Branch has mui da Party on Saturday, Dec, 19, wi ith Lettish folk dances as the big feature. Warren Comrades, Tape Notice! WARREN, 0., Dec. s Reorganiza- tion of the party in-Warren, Ohio, will take place on Sunday, December 13, at 7 p. m, sharp, at. Hippodrome Hall. Every comrade m st. t be present. “Living Newspaper” to Be Out Saturday, Dee. 19. The thrid issue of Prolet-Tribune, the living newspaper issued by the ‘Chicago worker correspondents of |tae Novy Mir, will be Gut Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Workers” House, 1902 |W. Division St. This living newspaper is very popu- lar among the Russian, [workers in Chicago, Admissison will be of cents. ginning at 8 p. m. Be- section meetings, is of the utmost must be present. Only party mem- leus or street nucleus and members 1 al qe on 1» on On] Not merely the 25 workers rs, ‘ ont 480” Rt GERMAN SOCIAL- DEMOCRACY IN A NEW CRISIS Choose Between Masses and Hindenburg BERLIN, Dec, 8.—The German soc- ial-democracy faces a crisis, in which || there seems to be no compromise door thru which to flee to political safety. Unemployment is growing rapidly with the increasing depression of ec- onomic life. Bankruptcies and soup kitchens testify to the failure of the Versailles treaty to save Germany, the failure of the Dawes plan to save the Versailles treaty, and the failure of Locarno pacts to save the Dawes plan or make it work. In this situation, so perplexing to the social democrats, who deliberately turned over the reich to Hindenburg the agent of big capital, in exchange for the presidency only of the Prus- sian landtag, two pressures, like the upper and nether millstones, are weighing upon the gentlemen of the Barmat international. Unite Against the Workers. First, Hindenburg. is forcing suc- cessfully all right and center parties to consider a big coalition, to include everybody from the social democrats to Stresemann’s people’s party. And against whom is this coalition to be directed? What peril faces German capitalism to cause it? What else but the possibility of a new wave of proletarian revolution in a situation ripened by economic de- pression, unemployment and starva- tion while—to the east there lies the example of Soviet Russia, from which labor delegations are coming with tales of security and food under the regime of the Bolsheviks. Communists Offer Fighting Alliance. Second, there is the sudden and un- comfortable pressure being put upon the social democrats by the Commun- ist Party of Germany, taught by ex- perience and the leadership of the Communist International that work among the masses in the trade unions is not a phrase for inner party discus- sion but a profound prerequisite for revolutionary action. The Communist Party of Germany is offering to the socail democrats and their followers in the trade unions, a new alliatice “to fight hunger and unemployment.” The social-democratic leaders are meeting today jn caucus to determine their course. They would undoubted- ly like to lick the spurred boot of Hin- denburg and enter a Weimar coali- tion as he requires. A Dilemma for Socialists. But they know that if they do, the workers in the trade unions and the whole impoverished mass of work- ers and small bankrupt bourgeois, will turn to the Communists to “fight hunger and unemployment” with Bol- shevik weapons. What are the distracted leaders of the German social-democracy going to do? A coalition with the capital- ist parties is a part of their nature. Yet the danger is that they will be un- able to take the social democratic workers along with them, and if these masses desert the social-democracy and go to the Communist Party for seadership the road to revolution is cleared of a great obstacle, Trade Principles for Jobs. Indications are that they will take the risk of losing the masses to the Communists and enter the Weimar coalition if they get a few political jobs and if the people’s party promis- es not to place said jobs in jeopardy by kicking over the coalition soor after it is set up. The motto of th German socialists in all crises wil be followed: “When in doubt, be tray the workers.” Second Wednesi Name of ° 3 Blacksmitite’ District Ccuncil, S. Throop St. 1 Boller Makers, Monsoe and Racine, 10 Carpenters, 12 Garfield Blvd. inters, Western and Lexing- 5443 S. Ashland Ave, 505 S$. Stete St. 1638 N. Halsted st. 9, Rec. Sec’y., 2263 y, Dec. 9, 1925, No. ns Escanaba Ave. 1352 W, Division St. W. Harrison St. 9 W. Adams s hos 328 W. if Way, 426 W. ‘Card st. Sherman. "&@ Main Sts., Me 10 W. Monroe St. Dist. Council, 5448 697 8444 Wentworth 1340 219 iu 73 485 783 2, 175 739 (TT eros ers’ (Meat), 220 S. 769 Te St 13046 Tuck 924 Tunne! Ww. NoteUnii Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to to your fellow worker, °*"" as our Union ineeting | Cham pre pa GO TO YOUR UNION—!with “The Movement for ‘World Trade Union Unity” By TOM BELL. world labor Union Unity The Daily Worker Pub. Co, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, tI. to your local Today the problem of the unity of is the burning issue. Steps toward it have been taken in all important countries of Europe. Labor delegations are visiting Soviet Russia. Eleven million workers are united'in the Anglo-Russian Trade Committee. The American trade unions are hav- ing’to face this problem now. Get this pamphlet—read it—take a few union! | WORKERS’ CLUBS § lea reorganization of the party necessitates that the party find ways and means of carrying on its work. among the workers of divers languages. Workers’ clubs are one of the means whereby this will be ac- complished. These workers’ clubs will be the social and cultural center of the life of the proletarian masses of the cities. These clubs with their dramatic, musical, athletic, education- al and propaganda sections will at- tract large numbers of ‘workers who today find no place to go to but the movies or poolrooms, These workers’ clubs mean a broad- ening of the party work among the workers and take due note of their na- tional characteristics, In these clubs we can also develop children’s sec- tions) which will attract their parents and draw them away from the in- fluence of the bourgeois politicians, who devote considerable attention to their compatriots. The movement for the ~ workers’ clubs is growing in District 6. The district executive committée has paid particular attention to the question of workérs’ clubs. : Cleveland Begins Organizing. lig order to bring about the organiza- tion of workers’ clubs in District 6, the district executive committee call- ed a meeting of the district commit- tees of the federations, adding repre- sentatives of the various other lan- guage groups. Eleven language groups were represented at\a conference on November 29. Reorganization of the party, workers’ clubs'and work of the party in these clubs were discussed. The reports of the comrades on the situation in their branches in Cleve- land and outside in the district showed clearly what the workers’ clubs will signify for the party work. In one of the language groups a club will be formed in the very near future with a membership of 250. The prospects for the growth of: this club are splendid. In the weaker language groups the workers’ club will be a great stimulus to general party work among the workers of this particular language. HE district executive committee of District 6 is well aware that the aware that the comrades will readily and gladly perform the work in the clubs, since it falls in line with the work that some of the former federa- ions have» primarily devoted them- elves to. It is clear that work in re shop nuclei will be difficult for ome of the comrades until they get ccustomed to it and have adapted merce lan New Policy in Anthracite (Special to The HARRISBURG, » Dec, Pinchot today conferred for two hours with a committee of business men from Scranton, Hazelton and Wilkes- Barre, on plans for bringing about a resumption of negotiations between the deadlocked striking anthracite miners and coal operators. No state- ment was issued after the conference except that the meeting would con- tinue later in the day. Senate Approves Settlement. ROME, Dec. 8—The Italian senate approved the Washington agreement in settlement of the Italian debt to the United States, eign {Christ Herman, Columb - By Israel Amter themselves to the new situation and the new form of work. Nevertheless in order that the morale of the party members may not be reduced and that the present work may not be disorganized, the workers’ clubs will be formed without delay, so ag to en- able the effective functioning of our language fractions amongst broader masses. They will -be kept in hand by the district executive committee and given the proper attention. No comrade will be allowed to devote his energies to the building up of the clubs to the detriment of his nucleus work. On the contrary, the workers’ clubs will play the proper role in the work of the party: they are to be auxiliaries from which the party will gain recruits, The present outlook is that District No. 6 will set the pace for the rest of the party. in the formation oi work- ers’ clubs. THREE CORNERS PASSED; FOURTH MUST BE GAINED Only $100 Today, with $10,000 Needed Only three corners of The DAILY WORKER foundation for 1926 have been laid, while the Job on the last corner remains to be finished before Dec. 15, the date set for the end of the campaign. Even the three-quar- ter corner is not completed, as the total reached to, date is only $29,037.63. But $110.75 was aded Monday. Finnish comrades of the Workers Party keep on digging steadily to sav,e the paper, the Duluth, Minn., branch adding its name ¢o the “never say die” ioll-call today with a dona. tion of $90.00, Other “die-hards” on the list are following: Nashwauk, Minn., Finnish Br. W. P. M. Cohen, Peoria, Ill. M. Reed Copeland, Springfield, Mass. .. H. Battle, Orange, Masi Finnish Br., W, Minn, Julius Beach and Urba eis Columbus, 0. .. Hartford, Conn. (Balance fone Soviet meeting) English Br., W. P. Jamestown, N. Y. Nick Olsen-Bull, (collected) .. Chicago, Total today Previously reporte Total jto date ..... 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