The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1925, Page 4

Page Four oan Organization Meetings ee THE DAILY WORKER HOLD MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS IN THE DISTRICTS FOR UNIFICATION _ AND PARTY TRADE UNION WORK Attention, Chicas Daily Worker and Literature Agents! Meetings of the District Executive Committees of the various dis- tricts as well as membership meetings in the main party centers on the two vital questions of unfication of the party behind the Central Execu- tive Committee, and the intensification of the party’s trade union work, are being arranged. The following are the arrangements for the meetings to be held: NEW YORK—Membership meetings, Sunday, Dec, 13, at 1:30 p, m., Webster Hall, 11th St. and 3rd Ave. 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 Hall, 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- tained. membership meet- MINING CENTERS UNANIMOUS FOR UNITY RESOLUTION OF THE C. E. C. Unanimous endorsement of the unity resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party was given by membership meetings held in all of the important mining centers of District No. 8. Max Shachtman, who represented the dis- trict executive committee of the party in a short tour of a number of cities in the southern part of the state, pointed out to the members the neces- sity of liquidating the fractional strug- gle, uniting the membership behind Nthe Central Executive Committee and the line of the Comintern so that a united struggle against the right wing and for the bolshevization of the par- ty might be carried on. In Spring- field, Johnson City, Christopher, and West Frankfort the comrades unan- imously endorsed the unity resolution. In each of these towns, the comrades turned their words into deeds by or- ganizing their work ‘for the building up of a mass left wing movement in the United Mine Workers of America, the building up of The DAILY WORK- ER, International Labor Defense, pre- paring to circulate the Progressive Miner in big quantities, enrolling com- rades for the proposed. educational circuit, and making arrangements for the holding of big Lenin memorial meetings next January, weeks, The majority of the comrades expressed themselves strongly in favor of the work for unifying the party. Nearly one hundred comrades partici- pated in the which were held. Southern Illinois is behind the Cen- tral Executive Committee in its work for unity and has unmistakably ex- pressed itself. Glassport Youth to Have Mass Meeting and Dance Saturday | GLASSPORT, Pa., Dec. 9—A mass meeting will be held in Glassport, Pa., at the Finnish Hall on Saturday, Dec. 19, at 8 p.m. Comrade George Pap- cun, district organizer of Young Work- ers League, is going to speak on “Why All Working Class Children’ Should Join the Young Workers League.” All workers should see that they. attend this meeting so that the Young Work- ers League Branch will bé able to get more encouragement and.grow and spread its propaganda among other young workers which is badly needed in this steel district. After the meet- ing there will be a dance and enter- tainment. All workers are“intited to attend to make this a success! In St. Louis, due to the extremely short time in which the meeting was arranged, only a small pereentage of the membership was present and it was decided to postpone aetion on the resolution until a membership meeting to be held inside of two The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist honor roll. Is'your name,on it? Dance and Enjoy Yourself at the DAILY WORKER RESCUE PARTIES TRENTON Saturday, December 12 Paddretz Hall, cor. Beatty Whitman Streets. | and: NEW YORK Saturday, December 19 Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Len- nox Ave. SAN FRANCISCO Saturday, December 19 Russian Night—given by the Rus- sian (W. P.) branch, at 225 Va- lencia St. Admission. 35 cents. Sunday, December 20 Music, dancing, at 225 Valencia) St., at 8 p.m. SEES ess: 49th Street and Eighth Avenue. DANCE OF 25,000 The Largest Workers Party Affair Ev Workers League Offices, 108 East 14th Street; Offices of Lo ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union; Furriers’ Joint yeom #'* "19 membership ‘meetings, | FIRST BALL NEW MADISON SQUARE GARDEN FREIHEIT MASK BA Saturday Evening, December 12 $1,500 in Prizes for Most Interesting Masques One of the Largest Bands Ever Heard. Admission 50c, Hat Check 50c Advance Sale of Tickets at: Freiheit Office, 30 Union Squai : ; AW cia! bine | ‘Workers.(Communist) Party | “Rctin. Every Shop and Street Nucleus should be represented by a Daily Worker and Literature Agent at a special meeting SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, Lincoln ‘NEW YORK WORKERS (COMMUNIST ) 3 pom. Street. L989. | . PARTY MEMBERSHIP WILL DISCUSS C. E. C. UNITY RESOLUTION SUNDAY — COURSES OF STUDY || OFFERED BY WORKERS’ | SCHOOL IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Dec. 10—The follow- | ingcourses are now being given at the New York Workers’ School, 108 East | 15th street: | Monday night—Elementary English by Ella G. Wolfe; Workers’ Corre- |spondence by Jos Freeman; History of tH American Working Class by | Anton Bimba and Russian Language | by A. Chramoff. Tuesgay night— Intermediate Eng- |lisli by Sonia Ginsburg; Marxism-Len- |inism by Bert Wolfe and Party His- |toyr and Problems by W. Weinstone. | Wednesday night—Advanced Eng- \lish by Eli Jacobson; Inte mediate |English by Pauline Rogers; Marxism- |Leninism by Bert Wolfe; Marxism- Leninism by D. Benjamin and Trade Union Work by Bert Miller. | Thursday night—Elementary Eng- |lish by Ella G. Wolfe; Fundamentals jof Communism by Geo. Siskind; | Marxian Economics by J. Mindel and |Shop Nucleus Training Cou se (Fun- jdamentals of Leninism)—to start next | week) by Jack Stachel. | Friday night—Public Speaking by |Carl Brodsky; Modern Literature by |Eli Jacobson; Materialistic Philos- ophy of Life by D. Kvitko and Shop Nucleus Training Course (Fundamen- tals of -Leninism)—to. start next week—by Jack Stachel. Saturday afternoon—Research by A. Trachtenberg. Young Workers League to Hold Mass Meeting in Uniontown Sunday Uniontown, Pa. Dec. 9—A mass meeting will be held in Uniontown, Pa., Sunday Dec. 13, at 3 p..m., at the Croation Hall Franklin St., where com- rade Géorge Papcun District Oranizer of the Young Workers League will speak on “Why the Workers Should Join the Unions.” Admission is free and all workers are requested to come to hear and dis- cuss this subject which is of utmost importance to the miners of the coke region. The meeting is held under the aus- pices of the Young Workers League. N. Y.. Young Workers League Is Holding Reorganization Meet NEW YORK, Dec. 10~—There wiil be a membership meeting of the Young Workers League for the pur- pose of reorganization on Friday, Dec. $11, at 6:45 p. m. sharp. SSS er Undertaken Workers hoy ¥ ae Young cals 2, 9, 22 and 35 of the In- Board Office, 22 East 22nd St. NEW YORK, Det. 10.—Jay Love- stone, organization ‘skcretary of the | Workers (Communist) Party and} James P. Cannon will be the repre-| sentatives of the Central Executive Committee at the party membership meeting that will be held at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th ‘street to discuss the unity resolution adopted by the political committee’df the Central Executive Committee and also to dis- cuss the trade union work of the party. This is one of the most important meetings ever held by the party and requires that every party member at- tend this meeting. Such meetings are being held in all districts at the pre- sent time. The party is now facing a period of great struggles of the American | working class and more than ever is | the need for unity of*the party today. The adoption of the! unity resolution is therefore an event of great and his- toric importance to~the Communist Party as well as 5 te Communist International. f Every party memivef must attend the membership meeting this Sunday, Dec, 13, at 1:30 p. o AI The membership come in full force and give its expression on the unity resolution of th® Central Exe- cutive Committee, so“‘that the party uay go forward moresnnited than ever | LATIN-AMERICA | WILL PROTEST MELLA ARREST Caban Communist on Hunger-Strike By MANUEL GOMEZ, Secretary. All-American Anti-Imperialist League, Acting Immediately upon a cable message received yesterday from its Cuban section regarding. the Wall Street-insipired arrest of Julio An- tonio Mella and his twelve comrades, the All-American = Anti-imperialist League has cabled organizations in all parts of _Latin-America, calling upon them to protest. The league has also cabled a strong protest to President Machado of Cuba, whose subservience to Ambasador Crowder recalls the similar subservience of President Chiari of Panama. On Hunger-Strike. Mella has been on a hunger-strike in his cell for the last six days. The campaign for his release will be test of the rapidly developing solidarity of anti-imperialist forces thruout the Americas. The prisoners are charged with set- tng off bombs in front of a Havana factory. Opinion is universal, how- ever, that this is a frame-up of the sort that has become commion in Cuba since it was announced that the gov- ernment would tolerate no criticism c: American imperialism. It is gen- erally understood that Mella’s arrest ~-the second within a few weeks— was to put an end to his revolution- ary activities, particularly with re- gard to American interests on the island. Leads Students’ Movement. Mella is the oustanding figure of the recently-formed Communist Party of Cuba. He is also a leader of the s‘udent’s federation and has been ac t've in uniting the students behind the ¢omand for the repeal of the Plati zemendment giving the United States government virtual overlordship of (aba. He became very much inter- ested in the work of the All-America 4 nti-Imperialist- League and helped t> organize the Cuban _ section, of which he was made general secretary. When he supported the exploited “colonos” who refused to cut sugar or the great tasks ,akeed of it and|®@Me under the conditions laid dow: or the complete reorganization of the |PY the big Americanowned compan- varty. |ies, the ire of the imperialists reached , de Grand Rapids Holds . Membership.Meeting on Sunday Evening GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec, 10—A general membership meeting, of local Grand Rapids Workers (Communist) Party has been called for Sunday, Dec. 13, 7 p. m., at the new local down- town headquarters, Room 209, Com- monwealth building, 211 Monroe Ave. Comrade Edgar Owens, district or- ganizer, will report on the Detroit con- ference with the two Central Exe- cutive Committee , representatives, Comrades Cannon and Lovestone. The nature of this meeting, concerning it- self with the greatest tasks of our party at present, make the attendance of every party member imperative. Party Reorganized * : in Steel Region PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 10.—The reorganization of the party on shop nuclei basis is now completed in Pitts- burgh, McKeesport @nd Verona, Pa. In Pittsburgh eightishop nuclei and two street nuclei were formed and the old branches were dissolved. In McKeesport six shop nuclei were formed and in Verona one street nucleus and one’ well.functioning mine nucleus were organized. In the last two cities the old branches will meet once more to liquidate their affairs and to disband as territorial branches, Dates for the reorganization of the party in the other tewns of District 5 were set, 80 that the reorganization of the entire distrief may be com- pleted before the year is over. DETROIT NOTES The Young Workers’ Sport Alliance of Detroit is giving, its first annual mask ball on Saturday, Dec. 12 in the House of the Masses, 2646 St, Aubin. This organizations the only one of its kind in Detroit. It has a well de- fined program of educational work, holds gym classes im North Hastern High School on Gramdy Ave.,has a baseball, basket ball and soccer ball teams, arranges hikes, and in many other ways offer advantages to the working class youth that is winning an enviable place for workers’ sports. On Sunday, Dec, 18, the Hungarian Workers’ Sports Club will play soc- cer against the Alliance team at Lodge Park, Van Dyke and Georgia, The game will be called at 3:00 p. m. The funds raised in Saturday's mask ball will be used to.extend the fleld of activity of the Sport Alliance and all who are interested in workers’ sports are urged to attend, Admission is 60 conte, ¢ nye , its height. first arrest. ‘ i Protest to President Machodo. Following is the cablegram of pro- test sent by the All-America Anti-Im- perialist League last night to Presi- dent Machodo of Cuba. President of Republic of Cuba. Havana, Cuba. The All-America Anti-Imperial- ist League, with sections in five countries of Latin-Americh and the United States, emphatically protests arrest of secretary of.its Cuban sec- tion, Julio Antonio Mella, and twelve companions. We denounce arests as betrayal to American im- perialism and demand immediate re- leat Shortly after came his Manuel Gomez, Secretary. Campaign for Bella Release. Campaign for the relase of Mella and his associates will be taken up in all countries oppressed by American imperialism. The nationalist parties in Porto Rico, the Philippines, etc., are expected to take part, as well as American labor organizations opposed to imperialism. Daily Worker to Sell Candy at Freiheit Ball NEW YORK, Dec, 10.—The DAILY WORKER has arranged for the candy concession at the Freiheit Ball to be held in New Madison Square Garden, Saturday, Dec. 12, Only the very best of candy, made by Park and Tilford, will be sold. The proceeds will go to The DAILY WORKER, Readers of the paper who have a sweet tooth will do themselves a favor, and at the same time help The DAILY WORKER, by purchasing boxes of candy from The DAILY WORKER Candy Girl, at the Fretheit Ball in Madison Square Garden, se 8 Girls willing to volunteer to help this work should report at the New York DAILY WORKER agency at 108 East 14th Street, or at The DAILY WORKER table in Madison Square Garden Saturday night. Farm Bureau Federation Opens War on Coolidge (Continued from page 1) a prepared speech designed to befog the issues confronting the farmers. The bankers and others comprising the federation have no effective rem- edy, but their rebuke to Coolidge proves that even they cannot stomach the brazen imppdence of the presi- dent talking about a fake prosperity instead of proposing relief for the stricken agricultural regions, Wrap your lunch in a copy of (Continued from page 1) by the prison officials and said to be edited by prisoners. "The department of justice’ secured. an appropriation of $200,000 from congress to put up the building and an equal amopnt to finance the manyfacture of shoes. Some compensation will be given to the prisoners who turn out the foot- wear but how much is conveniently kept a dark secret, a) A NOEES article entitled “Convict Labor” comes out strongly in de- fense of the prisoners’ right.to be a producer, Taking a'slam at the unions who oppose prison contract Iabor the writer says: “We hold'to the belief that prisoners are entitled to the right to work. We contend that no organization has the right, moral or legal, to stop the mind of the prison- er from functioning, Man (and the prisoner belongs to that class) is a thinking and a working animal. He thrives best when his whole being is constantly put to the test in the pro- duction of things which make for the betterment of the race. To stop his natural bent of producing is nothing short of criminal in itself. The work given him to do im prison regardless f its nature, stimulates his brain and vermits him to funetion as a human being.” eee HIS defense of the prisoner is overwhelming, Somebody, whe- ther he be prisonef or turnkey has tapped the wells of our emotion, We always knew there was something noble in wardens, beedles and church deacons, but that it was awfully hard to bring it out. We agree with the writer, that prisoners have the right to work. In fact we go farther and say that even those who are not in prison have a right to work. And as a matter of fact, there are many now in American prisons because they have insisted that all workers have the right to work and not only that but a right to what they produce, 6,9 38 10 have a prison guard-admit that a prisoner is.a human being is a novelty that cannot pass unnoticed in The DAILY WORKER. And if a suman being cannot be kept working, how can his mind function? Does idleness account for the mental paralysis, that wardens of prisons and -hose who hand out such jobs suffer ‘rom? Any Leavenworth graduate can -ell you how generously the prison ficials supply ‘the prisoners with aeans of stimplation including mas- age treatment, with machinery never seen in a rejuvenation parlor. aifs B® HIS is the most novel defense of ‘the “prisonér’ that TI’ have ever read. The author of it should be Len Small’s press"‘agent and explain how Mr. Small,‘ while: state treasurer of Illinois managedito place state funds in a bank whichiconvéniently got hit by a cyclone’ when the inspectors went looking for it. He could prove that the million dollars Len managed to retain after the cyclone passed away was found in a cow's belly, and did not come from interest on state funds lent by Small to the packers. A man who can-make such a good argument in fayor of granting a pris- oner the right to do something he is compelled to do, with a prison guard’s gun in his ribs, and for. nothing, is wasting his time in prison even tho he be @ confidence man. In which cial institution, or a real estate sales- man in either Florida or Los Angeles. sae HE steam was taken out of the bombing combine exposure ‘here last week, when it developed that most of the master minds were heads of business associations with a few reactionary labor fakers thrown fn. Anyhow, the police were grateful to run into something that would atot for the miserable fiasco they made of the Durkin case, Those bovine ment- alities could not think their way thru a problem that would be easy for a child of six years. Afraid to face Durkin’s pistol, a squad of those art- ful dodgers raided a meeting of the International Labor Defense last week and searched every man-in the au- dience for guns. The captain in charge of the “frisking” no doubt preferea the» job to raiding the haunts of the bootleggers ‘in his district. Or per- haps, it was not “payoff night.” Leaders of Fight for Filipino Liberation in Chicago Tonight Chicago will have an opportunity to hear the leaders of the Filipino libera- tion movement tonight. Sergio Osme- na, vice-president of the Filipino sen- ate, and the other members of Filip ino independence mission to the United States will be the guests of honor at a banquet to be given on the ninth floor of the Anditorium hotel, at 6:30 p. m. All speeches will be broadcasted, so that even those who cannot attend the banquet will be able to get Senator Osmena’s mes- sage. Senator Osmena fs due to arrive from Washington at 9:30 this morn- ing, He will be met at Union Station by members of the Filipino sssocia- tion of Chicago and by a delegation from the Chicago sub-section of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. Those who have been invited to speak at the banquet tonight. inelude Senator Osmena, Jane Addams, John. Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and fianuel Go- mez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist Leagte. Cirilo Manat, chairman of the Filipino independ- ence committee of Chicago, will be toastmaster. League of Nations: Member Says United GENEVA, Dec. 10,—After reading the address of Coolidge to congress, a prominent member ‘of the league of nations remarked: “The United.States cannot expect to try to force us to make over the world court. If the U.S. adheres, she must join like all other nations without any special privileges or dispensations.” The British and French have framed up an alleged “complete agreement” on plans for a new fake disarmament conference after Monday’s split on the question. A ‘compromise on _ four points is now before the committee handling the question. The disclosure of British espionage systems working on a great scale in France inclines all realistic observers to regard this “complete agreement” with smiles, case he should be heard of a finan-' HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! _ eee English Br., W. P., Oalland, Cal..$12.00 Today's Honey Roll: Astoria, Ore., Finnish Br.,, W. P. 35.00|Rescue party, Philadelphia, Pa... 73.00 Workers Party Kansas City, Mo. 10.85 | Street Nucleus 21, Chicago, ML, St. Paul, Minn. (stamps collected by Skandera) D. L. Detroit, Mic! Esthonian Br., Philadelphia, Pa. South ‘Slavic Br., W. P., Newton, 1.00 Falls, 0, ... . $00 “Delnik,” donation from Detroit, Mich 9.00 Russian Br., W. P. W. Va. 3. 6.50 |. Ukrainian Br., W. P., Rochester, tributed to save The DAILY aes eaeenn. the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to vour shop-mate \ 5.00 | Peter Fireman, Trenton, N. J. _|Z. Haberle, Chicago, Ill. (stamp W. 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