The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1925, Page 5

a: THE DAILY WORKER Page Five ! Workers BAKU BUILDING WORKERS SOLVE CULTURE NEEDS | | | | | Educational Activities Conducted on the Job By BENDERSTEV. | (Worker Correspondent) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. (By Mail)— ‘This year the building season has been conducted much more energet- igally than last year. There has been fan increase in the influx of new build- ‘ng workers from the villages, who ) had taken up agricultural work dur- | ing the time of the poor development ot industry in the industrial centers | and during the civil war. The union is commencing to draw. this mass of i hezomers into participation in*trade union cultural work, and educating them into the proletarian family. The building workers, in general, by | the very nature of their work are con- sidered as part-time workers and de- spite all desires it is impossible to at- tach them to an enterprise as can be done with factory workers. There- fore it is considerably more difficult to conduct cultural-educational work, among seasonal workers in view of the scattered nature of their work, than among the workers of factory and workshop enterprises, who work in groups in one place for several years at a stretch. They Find a Way. The Azerbaidjan Builders’ Union, taking into consideration the present position of the workers, has transfer- red all cultural-educational work from club premises to the place where the work is being carried on where it is conducted in the open air and on plat- forms quickly put together by the workers themselves. Performances and cinema shows are given connect- ed with the workers’ productive life. A lecture is given before each cinenia performance. The lectures are read in the Armenian, Turcic and Russian languages and in the Turcic study cir- cles the Turco women also take part. On the Azebaidjan-Ture holidays. the clubs have in some places been overcrowded with Azerbaidjans and fleir wives, who, prior to the Soviet gime wore chadrachs and did not ¢ pear in public places. We may see’ how popular suth per- formances are becoming among ‘work- ers from the following cases. For fi- stance, workers and their families come to the settlement Banagody from the Baladjeri station which is three versts distant. At a cement works, three versts away from Baku, work- ers come from the town on the days of the performance and at the Sten- karezin settlement belonging to As- neft, near Sabunch, where 1.200 work- ers are engaged in constructing the workers’ settlement, the workers come from Sabunch and Baku districts which are six versts away. Here up to 2,000 workers assemble. The ad- ministration, observing the develop- ment of cultural-educational work among the workers at a place of work, has fitted up a club. Study Circles. Recently the organization of circles dt the place of work has increased. The workers have formed their own study circles so as to be able to ar- range performances more frequently. In the days of preparation for the study circle work the workers are so interested in their studies that very often they go straight frém their work to the study circles without having had any dinner. In all buildings under construction wall-newspapers afe issued, and dram- atic and sport circles formed; (Azneft prgsented several bicycles for the sport circle) chess circles and “down with illiteracy” societies, whose mem- hers teach the illiterates to read and write. Lectures are given on trade union, productive and scientific themes in the various languages. Ex- cursions are undertaken to factories, rest homes, and country resorts, etc. - That is the kind of work that is } and J. L. Taylor company | fallacy of the compromi ; must be said that the demands were ‘the Wor FRUITS OF VICTORY IN A. C. W. STRIKE NOT ALTOGETHER SWEET; OFFICIALS KEEP PEACE POLICY | By BEN GORDON. (Worker Correspondent) The results of the recent strike the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Chicago and New York waged against the International Tailoring company of Chicago and New York, proves conclusively the peace policy of the A, C. W. offici and that real victory in any struggle between the union and employers can only be won thru a fighting policy. The forces that carried on this struggle against the A, C, W. in these 19 weeks of strike were the most powerful combinations of employers with the avowed’ purpose to annihiliate the A.+ C. W. This fully justifies the claim that a militant policy must be the policy} of the A. C. W. It is true that when the strike actually came, preparations were made to rally the workers in mass support, but the conditions upon which ,the, strike was settled, though forestalling annihilation by the em- ployers, yet were by no means that of a victory. Did We Strike for This? The conditions in the shop of the two companies are actually worse than before the strike. In the tailor shops wages were cut in some sections about 7 per cent. The cutting rooms in-| creased their speed-up system. Pro- duction has increased about 7 per cent} with’ no increase in wages. And we} find’ some workers who are employed weeks ago. policy would keep on. The leadership of the A. C..W. is to ment betwen the union and the em- Ployers, but because such agreements were based upon a policy of that “truce” and were at the expense of the ! workers and not of the bosses. To permit employers to choose the time for giving battle to the workers, to approve of wage cuts, readjustments, ete., is by too big a price for any organi ion to pay for any “truce,” even if peace between classes ig possible. The Result of a Policy of Peace This strike is but another example ofthe officials peface-policy. Without by those firms which are not mem-| question this was one of the most sig- bers of the A. C. W. | nificant strikes that the A. C. W. ever This “victory” does not in any way| encountered. The loss of this strug- compare with the demands of the| gle would have meant the shaking, or workers before the strike. And it probably the breakdown of the very foundation of the Chicago organiza- modest and somewhat as follows: | tion. It would have meant that the 1—The renewal of the old agreement) United Garment Workers (Rickert’s and all its shop conditions therein. scab organization) would again try 2—No wage cuts. | its hand in the men’s clothing indus- 8—No_ readjustments. [try. The International Tailoring com- 4—No increase in production unless | pany and J. L. Taylor, the most pow- wages are simultaneously increased. | erful corporation in the men’s clothing 5—-No worker to work in the shop| industry, was chosen by the manufac- All this was done in the | | hope that their peace and compromise | be condemned not for arranging agree- | being .carried.on among the building workers in the Azerbaidjan sh! Republic. s Angeles Babbits unless he or she is a member of the} A.C, W. In Chicago no strike has taken place for the last six years. So sure and so willing were our officials to concede and to compromise with the employers on all differences that arise occasion-| ally between the employers and the! union, that they permitted the Inter? | national and J. L, Taylor to finish the} busy season and operate for six weeks after the old agreement expired, thus, giving the International Tailoring and J. L. Taylor company ample time prepare for this 19 weeks struggle that has just come to an end about two turers to lead the struggle against the union. The lavish victory celebration and the. congratulating telegrams from other union officials could not and did not cover up the actual results of this 19-weeks struggle. At any banquet or victory celebration meeting, the work- ‘rs ‘may have for a moment forgotten themselves. But to them when they got back to their bench, finding a wage cut and the increase in produc- tion, as well as facing some strike bai whom they so bitterly fought ‘uring the strike, who are today work- ing-the shop. The latter is no easy Freed by.the Bolshevik Revolution It is with much pleasure that we print the following letter received from D. Lazarini, a woman worker correspondent in Russia. We are sure that all who read it will feel keenly what the revolution has ac- complished for all workers. To bring such a healthy and inspiring viewpoint towards life to the op- pressed peoples for whom there seemed to be nothing but endless drudgery and darkness is indeed an achievement worth striving for. We hope it will inspire some of our women worker correspondents to reply to her so that she may learn something of the life of women workers in this country for which she expresses such eagerness.—Ed. Note. ef EAR COMRADES: Having @ strong desire to know something about your life I want at the same time to tell you something of my own life, as my experiences will show you how the women of the oppressed na- tionalities lived in the old Russia and how théy are developing now. I am of Greek nationality arid was born in an out-of-the-way village in Turkey. As the country is very backward, cul- turally as well as economically, the workers and peasants there have a very hard time of it. The men mostly go to Russia to earn their livelihood and the women have to bear the bur- den of keeping the family. From early childhood) women are tied to hard physical labor, and this is their fate thrugut life. They are not taught to read and write. A literate girl is treated with contempt and has no op- portunity to get married, which is looked upon as a terrible disgrace for her and’ hér relations. At the age of Refuse to Face Facts) 1# girts are considered grown up and By A Worker Correspondent can marry. They are, of course, not consulted but are looked upon as chat- LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9, — In spite |tels at the disposial of their fathers of all the faith cures of the Los An-|at first and subsequently of their hus- geles Babbits that city is hard hit. | bands. ‘Women are so backward and People “in the know” assert that there | intimidated that only very few of them ig vacant housing accommmodation | understand the full horror of their here for 200,000 people without using | position. the apartment houses at all. Other I began to work at the age of 7 and towns are proportionately hard hit.|up to the age of 11 I was over-burden- Long Beach has accommodations for}ed with hard physical labor, probably more than 85,000, Our family consisted of 6 people—our The ofl field, in which I am .em-|father, our mother who was paralyzed ployed, is dead. Drilling has practical-|and three dayghters. The eldest of ly come to an end, and only a few of/us three girls was 17 years old. us are still hanging on by their eye-| Father went to Russia to seek work, lds and expecting them to slip every |the eldest sister was abducted as our day and yet, as hinted above, the local |father had refused to let her marry Babbitry here using christian science |the man who wanted her. She was or faith cures will tell you. “Yes, |takem away forcibly at night and had business is good.” to go thru the marriage ceremony. Once she was married she become the property of her husband. My sister's abduction affected my mother’s health, which was already shaken, and she died“soom after. Thus we young girls Take this copy of the DAILY '(ORKER with you to the shop ‘were left to our own devices. In 1909 &t the time of the Turkish revolution the sultan, who had been deprived of ftis throne ordered the Cestruction of ail the Greeks as he considered them his enemies. But there was no time to carry out this order as Russia in- tervened and saved the Greeks. There- fore, Russia appeared to me as some- thing bright and beautiful, as a country where there is no oppression. When in 1912, during the Balkan war, life became unberable for the Greeks we fled to our father in Rus- sia. Great was my disappointment when I[ gradually began to realize what life the workers among whom I found myself were leading. I was par- ticularly struck by the conditions of life of domestic servants, who apart from very hard work had to submit to the insulting advances of their masters and for the least offense were thrown into the street, doomed into, starvation or prostitution. In 1915 T began to work in the Red Cross sis- terhood of mercy and experienced on myself the bullying of the bourgeois lady-patronesses which I as a for- eigner felt more than others, particu- larly as I did not know Russian very well, But the October, (November, 1917) revolution freed us from this oppres- sion. During my' employment in So- viet institutions I have had, like all manual and office workers, an oppor- tunity t study and to develop, I began to take part in social work and took an interest in trade union work, ote. I was elected a delegate to the women’s section. The working wo- men’s section of the Russian Com- munist Party has a panel of women delegates. They are women elected in the enterprises by the working wo- men, and under the guidance of the working women’s sections they are drawn into social work. Apart trom regular general meetings, where vari- ous questions concerning Soviet con- struction and the women's movement are discussed, the women delegates are attached to children’s institutions, hospitals, co-operatives, and public dining halls where they see to it that work is carried on properly and at the same time learn themselves. Hav- ing worked as a delegate a whole year I awakened politically, I realized that only the Communist Party can bring freedom and equality to the oppressed Bastern women. Therefore, I joined the party in order to help together with it the working class populations of the oppressed nationalities to come out of their backwardness and acquire knowledge just as I have been able to do,—D, LAZARINI. Order a bundle of The DAILY WORKER for every meeting of your union, kers’? Life WORKER CORRESPONDENCE ROUSES THE INTEREST OF LABOR IN THE SHOPS In the following little report made by a comrade to his street nucleus is a concrete example of the in- terest the worker correspondents’ department in The DAILY WORK- ER is arousing among workers in the factories and;shops: “In our shop we have about 300 workers. Since the reorganization of the party | have been instructed to organize an |, L. D. group in our shop, | must.work cautiously be- cause the bosses’ informants have their ears wide open. Yet, even with my careful and wery slow handling of the work, | am getting splendid results. And The DAILY WORKER Correspondents’ section is a great help to me. Formerly when | left my DAILY WORKER on top of my locker | found, jt.there just as | had left it. But now, when lunch time comes, | must, make the rounds of the 17 members, we have in the |. L. D. group before | can locate my paper. Invariably every one of them has tried to get ‘a look at the paper and made a da&h for it seeking out the Worker Correspondents’ sec- tion. Usually five or six have to be asked before | can get my paper.” This little story tells better than anything we can say how important and worthwhile are the contribu- tions you can send in. Keep The DAILY WORKER be- fore the workers in the shops and the factories and the mills. Send in your story! thing to swallow. No striker can tol- erate a scab after a 19 weeks fight. Have Learned Nothing Thus far we find that has not changed the view of the of- ficials towards the employers the least bit. They are still ready to proceed with the same methods of compromise in the dfsputes, arising. Such a policy| will undermine :the very things that had been won ‘for:the organization at the price-of painful struggle. The militant?*Wworkers recognize that an end must be put to such a| policy, that a fight must be made in an organized manner at local and sho meetings, as Well as in the shops against such aj mated membershigf éver hope to attain union conditions in the men’s cloth- ing industry. te TOMGHT'S BEASS-T0 TELL HOW PRAVGA DEVELOPED ITS OWN CORRESPONDENTS Geos Worker Cor- el meets in the edi- Tonight the respondents’ torial room of The DAILY WORK- ER, 1113 West Washington Bivd. There will be qyiscussion on how The Pravda, the Russian Commun- ist daily,sdeveloped its Worker Cor- respondents and reading and critic- ism of contributions by the students. Every worker desiring to join the class should take advantage of the Opportunity to join tonight. You will be able to catch up with the work, you will get this interesting background and pitch right in for constructive work. Whether you have ever written a line or not does not matter at all. Worker Corres- pondents are different. Come and learn how they are different. Come to the class tonight and find out! The Movement for World Trade Union UNITY By TOM BELL. a The most. vital problem of labor isthe subject of this timely.pamphlet. The facts are her A Reasons fdr unity; steps already takén; the basis for unity~every essen- tial point for the infor- mation of a worker in or out of the, trade union movement. Read it—take it to your local union—give one to your fellow-worker. 15 Cents Sain PUBUSHING CQ Source of Al Communist Licevature’ IS WCWASHINGION BlYD_CHICAGQ IU To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK __[Duroflex Covers DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. | fashion | ing to constructivist principles this strike | | taught to read and write. icy, if the Amalga-| Workers’ Dramati¢; League Will Stage Gold’s Play, ‘Money’ NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—On) Friday night, Jan, 8th, the Workers Dramatic League will introduce itself to party comrades and friends by presenting the play “Money”, by Michael Gold and by a dramatization of several re volutionary poems. Imbued with the splendid vigor of | the modern will produce t KISHENEYV, district between Bessarabla, Dée. 9- the Tatarbounar and rose against the clals. According to the rer ernment in its struggle aga Russian stage, play in the most radica The settings of symbolica significance, will be designed we jand subje maltre not only the populati but alsc s which had nothing of mer ville of vil accord | Of the concerned, giving in 10 the the vith the revolt addition actors the opportunity to use width and depth height of various levels on the for the portrayal of their emotion Challenge Bourgeoisie. Challeng c with Thruout sarabia an d stage hed ehaved as tho ir rT} sands thrown into Late its ¢ nm untruthful psychology on and cor vative ways of producing pt and cess started the Workers Dramatic League intends | against them The trial started the to enter the field. Our first produc-| end of August, after the peasants, tion will have much that y and|many of them innocent, had spent will be criticized, but something new] over a in prison and after a and virile will not fail to be noticed great n of them had died from Starting under the most difficult] the tort ndicaps, we intend to build unde Government's Purpose. » direction of Dr. Arkatov, the Ru The gove 1t of Bratianu did fan proleculturist, and with the’co | its best to make the peasants appear peration and help of party comrade Bolshevik ¢ pirators” during the ind sympathizers, develop this work nev trial, The peasants were ac ‘rs theatre until it becomes a power ed of having been in contact with ful propaganda weapon, ready for our| Russia and it was said that the peas- we ct ants had revolted not because of the Collectivist Art. __,. [unbearable Rumanian bayonet regime ane work is peinaTy collectivist.in Bessarabia, but because of bribes o play on our sta oes ces- standing, the actor or performer ac me prove iy alee aap ,|Serabian peasants party, which had the faculty, thru intelligent ing, to play upon his body, to use his body as an instrument, In order to acquire this faculty we found it necessary to organize primarily as a school, where the necessary subjects are collectively taught. The Workers Dramatic League must become self-supporting. Help us by coming to our first production, Friday night, January 8, at Tammany Hall, 14th Street, near 3rd Ave. Help us build the Proletarian Theatre. Tickets can be had at the district office, the Freiheit, the Novy Mir, and the Jim- mie Higgins Book Shop. According to the Lupta “there are Seid d2 many accused who have been brot be- Liquidation of Illiteracy, fore the court for the only reason that they have spoken once in their lives Keno no connection with the accused peas: ants, was bribed by Russia In this way the government wanted to estab- lish ‘a reason for the suppression of the peasants’ party. Together with these two aims the government had still a third purpose, that of intimidating the peasants and the workers of the country and thus strangle every possible effort of insur- rection. The government showed its whole brutal force in the trial. The accused had no right of self defense and were treated like animals. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 9—The |“ suai : Down with Mlliteracy Society has with the main accused, Betitcheft. opened 32,052 classes thruout the Despite the strict suppression of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, |"!@ht of free speech of the accused, terrible brutalities of the Roumanian soldiers in Bessarabia population an- nihilated without consideration of sex and age, those who manage to remain alive had to pay high war contribu- tions and hundreds of peasants could only save their lives by giving over ul their property to the officers as a bribe. All the statements of the wit- HAA THE Gl which embrace over a million people, 900,000 of whom have already been Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features. every week. This is a good issue to give to your’ fellow worker. terror and the oppression exercised by the In some districts the officials w ed to terrible tortures and on} ness ; the actions of | the trial brot forth no mat [TATARBOUNAR PEASANTS’ TRIAL In the southern part of Bessarabia, in Nikolayevska, last year the peasant Roumanian off ere driven away, but during the whole nsurrection only two or three persons were killed rts of the bourgeoisie press the Roumanian gov inst the insurrection killed almost 5,000 peasants even those of the prosecutior le accusations against the regime of the boyar govern were t terror ment. Orders Quick Ending d should be unan Torres, a French lav ticipated a defender in j part of the trial, was forc don the I fense as the fir ed to aban his defense of asants b the « gone, th accused tre more h the were lly and tc trial not or ward who liberty be nder the j ten the z were a 100 n favor cused that had been circulated Kichinev. The last sessions place day and nig tion in the cold at a | the accused were only dressed The whole proceeding w | inhuman torture for the rial agair the accused, the Prime Minister ianu made a public stateme he acused the peasants’ party of anarchy and dema the sentences be as sible. part severe Witness Spills Beans. In the Kishinev trial the witnéss for the prosecution, Michail Cusmin, sta ed that according to his knowledg of the 25 peasants arrested in his com- munity, not a single one had an to do with the insurrection. He that Lieutenant Lungu had forcec accused peasants by means of ter tortures to admit that they belonged to a “secret revolutionary commit tee.” “I know, however,” the witness tes: tified, “that of all this not a word is true.” The witness furthermore stated tha Lieatenant Lungu had received from the wives of the accused 20,000 le and more so that their husbands should not be killed in the examina- tion, HN FT For the Workers’ Little Boy and Girl (We Will Ship to Any Address Postpaid) 75 Cents Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY | 13 W. ‘WASHINGTON BLVD. © Chicago — By Herminia Zur Miihlen. $1.25 “4 Cloth Bound