The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1925, Page 4

Page Four Organization Meetings Worker (Csommunist) Party THE DAILY WORKER Social Affairs Resolutions WICKS SPEAKS IN PITTSBURGH ON LOCARNO Labor Lyceum Secured | for January 2nd (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 14——-Ar- fangements have been ocmpleted for the lecture of H. M. Wicks on “Locarno, a New Threat Against the Soviet Union,” to be held here on Saturday evening, January 2. | The large hall in the Labor Lyceum | at 35 Miller street has been secured and a good crowd is expected as Com-| rade Wicks has spoken here a num-| ber of times and the Pittsburgh work- | ers know that when they listen to him} they | n something that will enable | them to better fight the battles of the| workers. Young Workers League of Chicago to Hold a} Big Affair Dec. 19th| To raise funds for the Freiheit and the Young Workers’ (Communist) League, the Y. W. L. together with the Freiheit Youth Clubs, are holding a concert and dance, Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd An interesting program has been arranged and all those who come are assured of an enjoyable and instruc- tive evening. In addition to the pro- gram which will consist of solos from the Freiheit Mandolin orchestra and poems and recitations, S. Canin, prom- inent singer, will also aid in entertain- | ing the audience. Thére will also be | recitations and a prominent speaker | will address the audience. The doors will open at 7:30. Ad- mission is 35 cents. Come, have a good time and at the same time aid in supporting the \Freiheit and the Young Workers’ League. Section 3, Executive Committee Meets on Wednesday Evening ~The Section Executive Committee of Seetion Three, Chicago Workers | (Communist) Party will hold its reg- wlar meeting at Vilnis, 3116 South Halsted street, Wednesday, Dec, 16, at} 8 o’clock. All nuclei secretaries must | attend this meeting as many import-' ant matters will be acted upon. | Y. W. ‘@ Working in the Needle Trades | Called to Meeting | | The needle trades fraction of the | | Young Workers (Communist) League will hold a eo ton Saturday after- | noon, Dec. 19, at 2 p. m., at 3118 Roo- sevelt Road. All league members who work in| the needle industry, whether members of unions or not, must attend this | meeting which will take up important | work in connection with the young} workers in the needle trades. Find Druggist Not Guilty. TAYLORVIVLLE, Ill., Dec. 14.—In- dicted on a charge of murder due to the sale two years ago of alleged poison booze, which caused the death of. several Pana residents, Robert A. Smith, Pana druggist, was found not | guilty by a circuit court Jury. | | retaries, Br decision of the political com- mittee, which on November 14th adopted the unity resolution for ending the factional struggle in the party and drawing the party in- to mass work, the resolution was submitted to the members of the Central Executive Committee with the request that they record their vote on the resolution. Under the decision of the fourth national convention of the party the Central Executive Committee now consists of 22 members. The \PARTY’S CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ENDORSES, UNITY RESOLUTION OF THE POLITICAL COMMITTEE committee was elected on a parity basis at the convention with the un- derstanding that if the represent- atives of the Young Workers (Com- munist) LeaSue changed after the Young Workers League convention the parity be maintained. The fact that such a change took place added two members to the Central Ex- ecutive Committee. The Central Executive Commit- tee, thus constituted, has endorsed the resolution of the political com- mittee by a vote! of 17 in favor and five opposed, The resolution of the -political committee thru decision of the Central Executive Committee be- comes the resolution of the Central Executive Committee. The over: whelming majority of votes cast for the resolution shows that the work of unifying the party is developing and gaining Stronger support emong the leadership of the party as it has received in the vote of the member- ship at the various meetings thru- out the country. Central Executive Committee C. E. Ruthenberg,/Gen. Sec’y. EW YORK, Dec. 14 — The mem- bers and District Executive Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party endorsed the resolu- tion of the Central Executive Com- mittée for the ynification of the party and again throwing the party into mass work by a vote of 460 against 233. The meeting at which the deci- sion_was made began at 3 p, m. and lasted until midnight, thus .giving full opportunity for debate on the resolution. Jay Lovestone and James P, Can- non represented the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the party. J. W. Johnstone appeared at the meeting and asked for time to speak in opposition to the unity NEW YORK MEMBERSHIP AND DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ENDORSES THE C. E. C. UNITY RESOLUTION resolution. He was granted the floor by the C, E. C. representatives for an hour for~his attack upon the re- solution, thus giving him the op- portunity to present any argument he could, against the Central Ex- ecutive Committee proposal for uni- fication and development of mass work of the party. Joseph Brahdy, who opposed the unity resolution ane supported Johnstone’s position openly defend- ed Ludwig Lore, an expelled mem- ber of the party on the floor of the membership meeting. The membership meeting in New York was preceded by a meeting of the District Executive Committee which had been elected on a parity basis of 7 to 7 in August, The Dis- trict Executive Committee after long discussion of the “dhity resolu- tion adopted the resoliitién by a vote of 8 to 2, The N, a faenibership vote of 2 to 1 in favér of a cessa- tion of factional struggle and suj- port of the Central Exetutive Com- mittee in its efforts to unify the party and throw the party strength into the stfuggle against the cap- italists and into work among the masses, is another great step for- ward toward achieving the ends which the Central Executive Com- mittee is fighting for,, that is, to draw the party into the, mass strug- gles of the workers,,to throw its strength into these struggles rather than have them go into the faction- al fights inside of the party. ABOUT EXTRA DUES PAYMENTS HE organization department of the Central Executive Committee is advised of the fact that some units | of the party are experiencing difficulty in figuring out the dues payments of those comrades whose earnings are over $100 a month. The constitution of the party (Art. 16, Sec. 2) states: “Each member shall pay 50c. per month dues, which shall be receipt- ed for by dues stamps issued by the Central Executive Committee. Members whose earnings are more than $100 per month shall pay addi- tional dues to the amount of 1% of their earnings above $100.” For the benefit of the financial sec- and for the party members generally, the following scale of dues payments is here given. This should be clipped out and kept, particularly by the financial secretaries, so that no confusion may arise when the matter of dues payments for the comrades making over $100 per month comes up. The Scale is as Follows: Comrades who earn from $100 and up to $125 per month, pay 50c. a month in dues; that is, one regular dues stamp. Comrades who earn from $125 and up to $150 per month, pay 75c. a month in dues; that is, one regular dues stamp, and 1 special .25c. stamp. Comrades. who earn from $150 and up to $175 per month, pay $1 a month in dues; that is, one regular dues stamp, and 1 special 50c. stamp. Comrades who earn from $175 and up to $200 a month, pay $1.25 a month in dues; that is, one regtlar | dues stamp, and 1 special 75c, stamp. Comrades who earn from $200 and up to $225 a month, pay $1.50 a month in dues; that is, one, regular dues stamp, and 1 special $1 stamp. Comrades who earn from $225 and up to $250 a month, pay $1.75 a month in dues; that is, one regular dues stamp, and 1 special $1.25 stamp. Comrades who earn from $250 and up to $275 a month, pay $2.00 a month in dues; that is, one regular dues stamp, and 1 special $1.50 stamp, pi CUE Hn SNE Bi Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. Attention! Chicago Party Membership Meeting PARTY UNITY AND TRADE UNION WORK Tuesday, December 22, 1925, 8 P.M. SCHOENHOFEN HALL, 1224 MILWAUKEE AVENUE (Milwaukee and Ashland Aves.) 4 This meeting, in place of the section meetings, is of the utmost importance. Every party member must be present. Only party mem- bers who are either in a shop nucleus or street nucleus and members of the Y. W. L. can be present. Admission by membership card only. Representatives of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak on the resolution of the C. E. C. for party unity and trade union work, HOLD MEMBERSHIP 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 two vital questions of unfication of t he 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: bership meeting, Dec. 15, at. 1626 Ari PITTSBURGH, PA.—D. E. C, m ch St. eeting, Dec. 16; membership meet- ing, Dec. 17, Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. CLEVELAND—D. E. C. meeting, afternoon of, Dec, 19; membership meeting, évening of Dec. 18, at Gardinia Hall, 6021 St. Clair St. CHICAGO—Membership meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 7:30 p. m., at Schoenhoffen Hall; 1224 Milwaukee Ave, (Milwaukee and Ashland Ave: These meetings are of the utmost importance and the comra the various centers must see to it t! tained. and shops. League. Bundle orders for lea hat the maximum attendance is ob- What Do the Young Communists Want During December, the Economic Trade Union Month? This question answered in an entire page of The DAILY WORKER on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23rd. Special articles will appear on various pha: the young workers in industry and their special activities in the unions of the conditions of The page will be edited by tthe Young Workers (Communist) SEND IN SPECIAL ORDERS FOR THIS ISSUE. and party units 2c per copy. |Specialist Blames Bad Cooks for Urge to Drink Intoxicants LONDON, Dec. 14—Drunkenness is encouraged by poor cooking, accord- ing to Sir William Milligan, well known specialist. Beer minimizes the effect of bad cookery and there would be less drunkenness if wives were better cooks, the specialist said. Democratic Head Asked by Hindenburg to Form New German Govt. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) BPRLIN, Dec, 14.—President Hin- denburg today charged Doctor Erich Koch, leader of the democratic party, with the responsibility of forming a cabinet, based upon a great coalition. Dr. Koch accepted the task. To” Reopen Studio. LOS ANGELES, Dec, 14.—Warner Brothers, motion picture producers, are to greatly enlarge their operations in New York, it was reported here and will reopen the old Vitagraph studio here. Former Premier Dies, MADRID, Dec, 14—Antonio Maura, former premier of Spain, died sud- denly on the estate of his son at Tor- relodones. LP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! WORKERS CHEER GITLOW AT NEW YORK STATION (Continued front page 2.) these men did not adVocate anarchy, which is the absence of all organized government, but a naw, and radically different form of organized govern- ment,” 3 se “Patriot” Fumes at Pardon. NEW YORK, Dec.'44.—In a state- ment issued by Captain George L. Darte, adjutant general of the mili- tary order of the world war, on the pardoning of BenjamigpGitlow, he de- clared that “in liberating a man who deliberately preaches the doctrines of | jrevolution, anarchy and overthrow of| $his government, a man who was just- ly convicted and such decision upheld by the United States. supreme court,” Governor Alfred Smith ,had committed a serious error in hisiijudgment and then in denouncing the pardon he said that it was “a deplorable miscarriage of justice” and would):not meet the approval of “true” Anierican sare e * gy Back Syndicalism Laws. NEW ‘YORK, Dee."14.—A criminal anarchy law modéled after that of the state of New York and designed for incorporation in the laws of other states was presented for the approval of the general board of assistants of the Society of Mayflower Descend- ants, at its annual meeting by Addi- son P. Monroe, governor general of the organization. Introduce Bill in Legislature. Monroe suggested that ‘the recom- mendation be accepted and that State | Societies of Mayflower Descendants | cause it to bo atroduced in their vari- ous state legislatures and endeavor to gecure its .passage. on Swallows ni BOLTON, England, Nec. 14—George ¥, Whittaker has to undergo another operation because he has a passion for swallowing pennies. An x-ray showed four pennies in Geange’s stomach. Only two months aga, he underwent an operation for the removal of seven pennies from his stomach. He says he can’t explain his desire for swal- SUPREME COURT | WHITHEY CASE REOPENS ANITA To Test Validity of Syn- ~ < dicalism Law WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec, 14.—The supreme court has ordered a re-argu- ment before it of the jurisdiction of | the court in connection with the con- viction and prison sentence of Anita Charlotte Whitney for alleged viola- tion of the California anti-syndicalism law. An appeal by Miss Whitney, was dismissed recently by the court on the ground of lack of jurisdiction, Ar- | Suments were then presented by her | counsel attacking the constitutionality of the law and the court granted a re- hearing. Polls Open T, Today for Chicago Amalgamated Joint Board Elections! In the election that is now taking place in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers for the Chicago joint board officials, the lines are drawn very clearly, On one side is the candidate of the left wing, and the progressive | elements in the union, Nathan Green, member of the pantsmakers’ local, who is pledged to a program which stands for progress in the union and against the present slugging and ex-| pulsion policy carried on by the present administration. On the other side is the candidate | of the reactionaries and the die-hards | in the union, Sam Levin, the present manager of the Chicago joint board, under whose leadership many of the active members of the union have been sumeed su and terrorized. Rah-Rah Boys Register O. K. of Wall Street’s World Court Proposition (Special to The Daily Worker) PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 14--A hand picked gang of sons of pluto- cracy selected from various universi- ties meeting here in what they term the “national collegiate world court conference” went on record yester day in favor of the Harding-Coolidge- Hughes proposals by a vote of 244 to 6. President John Greier Hibben, suc- cessor to Woodrow Wilson as presi dent of Princeton university is one of the servants of Wall Street who ad- vocates the world court proposals and is carrying on propaganda in favor of the scheme in colleges and universi- ties, training schools for scabs and strikebreakers. Wireless Operators Declare Strike on British Steamships| LONDON, Dec. 14.— As a protest against a five-dollara-month cut in wages, 5,000 wireless operators em- ployed on British vessels have gone on strike. The wages of the operators range from $40 to $100 a month. Un- less a settlement is reached shipping will be seriously affected. Union Pacific Profits of 1925 to Equal 1924 Union Paciffe earnings so far this | year indicate that profits for 1925 will equal the records set in 1924, when the road earned $14.28 on every share of common stock. BOOKS BY LENIN lowing money. ) our small office force and @ jobs. If you have a little pome, 75 Cents Duroflex “Covers CAN YOU COME OVER? We're busy as blue blazes. reulars, sttimp, address—and a hundred other little of the day—and you want to help The DAILY WORKER—astep over to see us. Can be had from the DAILY WORKER Work is piling up on we need your help to fold time to spare at any time We'll bid you wel- 1, What connection\has the right of private property with the process of the exchange of commodities? 2, Has a commodity a use-value to its owner? 3. Explain the process which pro- duces, from the development of ex- change, the univefsal equivalent. 4, How does money give an extern- al expression to the contrast between use-value and value? 5. Of what consequence'ts it whe ther an article is produced for con Answers to Questions of Lesson Four (Pages 81 to 96, Volume I, Capital) 1. Commodities enter into rela- tions with each other, not as use- values (a pencil has no use-value, re- lation with a cigar), but merely as quantitative expressions of homogene- ous human labor, 2. The enigmatical character of the product of labor arises from its form as a commodity, under which form the social character of labor, the mutual relations between the pro- ducers, expresses itself as a social relation between the products of la- bor. 3. This appearance of a social re- lation between the products of labor creates the illusion that value is a characteristic that resides within the commodity itself. This, however, is only an illusion. The value is an ex- pression of the equality of all sorts of human labor, of the social char- acter of labor. 4. The actual nature of the rela- tionship expressed in the exchange of commodities is a definite social re- lationship between men. 5. Fetishism, in the religious world, is the idea that the products of men’s brains (idols, gods) are independent beings endowed with life, entering in- to relations both with one another and with the human race; the fetishism of commofities, is the idea that the pro- ducts of men’s hands (commodities) have an independent existence when they become commodities, entering into relations both with one another and with their producers, 6. The actual process of exchange is the-means whereby the private in- lividuals or groups, carrying on pro- luction independently of one another, come into social contact with each other in the act of exchange, by means of which their labor asserts cself as a part of the labor of society; this is totally independent of whether the individuals or groups are consci- | ous of this fact or not, and knowledge of the relations so established does not change the basis of exchange, which continues to appear to the pro- ducers in the form of value as a char- acteristic of the products of labor. — BOOKS Questions for Fifth Lesson in Capital. . (Chapter II, pages 96 to 106, Volume I.¥ EARL R. BROWDER, Instructor. sumption, or produced for exchange? 6. What sort of .commodittes are the first to become money? 7. What sort of commodities are best fitted by nature to perform the function of money? Give reasons. 8. Is the value of gold merely a formal, imaginary value? 9. How is it possible to find an ex- pression for the value of gold? 10. Is the problem of analyzing money, of any fundamental difference-~ from the problem of analyzing @ com- modity? 7. It is necessary that the produc- tion of commodities becomes highly developed, and men have accumulated a great deal of experience with the phenomena of exchange, before the scientific conviction can be establish- ed that all the different kinds of priv- ate labor, being carried on independ- ently, are continually being reduced by this system to the quantitative pro- portions in which society requires them, 8. The expression of all commodi- ties in money, which leads to the establishment of their character as values, actually conceals the social character of private labor, because this money form gives the absurdity of one concrete commodity standing as the universal incarnation of ab- stract human labor. This form of thought-has social validity only for a definite, historically determined mode of production, and its mystery vanish- es when it is compared to other forms of production. 9. In feudal society the relations in the performance of labor are based upon personal dependence, and these social relations appear in their true nature as the mutual personal rela- tions of the persons and classes in that society. Under capitalism these mutual relations are disguised in the shape of social relations between the products of labor. 10. 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