The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1925, Page 4

Page Four aetna Workers (Communist) Party PHILADELPHIA ~ ONRECORD FOR PARTY UNITY Factional "Efforts Are! (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16,— The | Philadelphia organization, which was | a hotbed of factionalism during the | Pre-convention period, has swung into line for unification of the party and the throwing of the party organization Into mass work. This decision was registered at a District Executive Committee meeting held on Monday and a membership meeting held on Tuesday. The District Executive Committee, after a six-hour debate on the unity resolution of the Central Eecutive Committee voted nine to seven for the resolution, % The membership meeting, held on y night, voted 134 for the unity ion and 74 against, with seven- teen abstaining from voting. | The small opposition in the party | which is endeavoring to continue a factional struggle made every effort to mobilize its forces against the unity resolution in Philadelphia. False rumors in regard to the party situa- tion and underground documents were widely circulated in an effort to give the membership a wrong impression of the situation. Try to Befog Issue. These efforts even went so far as to endeavor to discredit the greatest re- cent achievement of the. party in securing the unanimous support of the | Finnish, section convention for-the re- organization of the party, unification and mass work. After the Finnish convention discussed the par tion and reorganization, which was a big issue among the Finnish com- rades, for three days, they, with the representatives of Central Executive Committee arrived at an unanim- ous decision for the party and against | all elements which were trying to draw. the Finnish workers out of the party, the opposition to party unity in Philadelphia raised the issue that this "great victory for the party was. se~} cured thru terrorism or mechanical means, These factional rumors are cir ed at a time when the press of the Finnish section is filled with reso- lution and letters from the branches d members expressing their joy at esults of the Finnish section con- | vention and the whole leadership of | the Finnish section is working to draw all the members of that section into the party as members of shop} nuclei and street nuclei. The Philadelphia membership repu- diated these efforts to stir new fac- tional struggle in the party_and took their st for the liquidation of the strug: within the party and for throwing the whole party energy into the work among the masses. Lettish Branch Has Big are being arranged. tained. 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 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: PITTSBURGH, PA.—D. E. C. meeting, Dec. 16; membership meet- 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, Dec. 22, 7:30 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- Ave., at 8 o'clock, FRIDAY evening. CLEVELAND MEMBERSHIP MEETING WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY NIGHT The Cleveland membership meeting will be held on Friday night and not on Thursday as the headline in the notice in yesterday's DAILY WORKER stated. The membership meeting will be held at Grdina’s Hall, 6021 St. Clair WORKERS’ SCHOOL AT _ CHICAGO HOLDS MANY GLASSES 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. 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 Bivd. Instructors: J, Louis Engdahl, Wil- lian F, Dunne. Friday, 6 p. m., Elements of Com- munism, instructor, MH. Mi. wIcKs, Friday, 8:30 p. m.. Public Speak- ing, instructor, H. M. Wicks. Friday, 8 p. m., English, 2644 Le Moyne St. Ida Dailes. Sunday, 10:30 a. m. History of International Youth Movement, in- structor, John Williamson. Lenin Memorial Meeting Arranged in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec, 16.—The Lenin memorial meeting here will be held Sunday afternoon, Jan. 24 at 2 p. mi, at the International Socialist Lyceum, 805 James St. N. S. Pro- minent speakers will address the meet- ing. Watch this paper for further annoaucements. Program for the Daily Worker Party Saturday | £3 — | BOSTON, Ma Dec. 16.—The | Boston Lettish Branch is having its | own DAILY WORKER Rescue Party | next Saturday ev Dec. 19, at Dudley St. Ope House. Musical | program. Chorus singing. Good so-| Joists. “The Meaning of Our Daily | pres ch by Comrade R. Zelms, | Folk dances. Articles for’ sale and good time for everybody. All proceeds to'The DALY WORKER. H. M. WICKS WILL SPEAK TO PITTSBURGH WORKERS ON LOCARNO PEACE PACT PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 16.—The Locarno pact will be discussed by Comrade H. M. Wicks of The DAILY WORKER at a meeting ar- ranged here at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Saturday Jan. 2, Ad- mission 25 cents. Attention! Chicago Party Membership Meeting PARTY UNITY AND TRADE UNION WORK Tuesday, December 22, 1925, 7 P. M. SCHOENHOFEN HALL, 1224 MILWAUKEE AVENUE (Milwaukee and This meeting, in place of the importance. Every party member Ashland Aves.) sectior® meetings, is of the utmost 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 party unity and trade union work, s y the resolution of the C. E. C, for |i co-operative WICKS TO SPEAK ON LOCARNO IN GRAND RAPIDS ON SUNDAY (Special to The Daily Worker) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 16. Tickets are being sold for the lecture of H. M. Wicks next Sunday at 8:00 o’clock on “Locarno.” The meeting will be held in Workers’ Hall, 211 Monroe Northwest, and a good crowd is expected. It is almost ten years since Com- rade Wicks lectured in this city, tnough at that time he used to be here frequently and many workers express delight that he is to return for a lecture here on the present tour. The admission charge is 25 cents. Cleveland Jewish Branch to Celebrate Fourth Anniversary CLEVELAND, Dec. .16-—The . Jew- ish branch of this city will celebrate its fourth anniversary on Saturday VOC LI; at War poMLW! S rian, seo wast 55th street. The speakers of the evening will be Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, gen- eral secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, and Mossaye Olgin, member of the Jewish National Lan- guage Bureau. The Fretheit Gesangs- Verein will sing some of its choicest songs. Altho the anniversary of the Jew- ish branch, all comrafes and sympa- thizers of all languages are invited. Admission will be 50 cents. Pittsburgh Will Hold Fourth Anniversary Celebration, January 1 PITTSBURGH, Pa: Dec. 16,—A banquet to celebrate the fourth anniv- ersary of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held in this city Friday Jan. 1, 8 p. m. at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Admission 50 cents. There will be speeches, songs, recit- als and refreshments. All workers of Pittsburgh and vicinity are re- quested to attend. Tickets on Sale for 1905 Revolt Celebration Tickets for the revolutionary cele- bration of the 20th anniversary of the 1905 revolution are for sale at the of- fice of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., at the office of the International Labor De- fense, 23 So. Lincoln St., at the Rus- restaurants and members of the Russian labor organi: zations. The celebration will be held Sun- day, Dec. 20, at Schoenhofen Hall, corner Milwaukee and Ashland Ave. Beginning at 2 p. m, sharp. Admission 25, cents. Proceeds to the Interna- Scotland Yard Red Baiter Arrested for Raping Young Girl (Continued from page 1) services at Scotland Yard and his frame-ups of active leaders in the British trade union movement, Sir Basil was born in 1861, and is the son of the late archbishop of York, He was educated at Eton and Oxford. He has served as governor of Dart- moor prison and also of Wormwood Scrubs, It is a curious coincidence that Eng- lish society was shocked some two- years ago when Sir Almeric Fitzroy, an official of the privy éouncil, was j}arrested in Hyde Park, also charged with an offense against 4 woman. He was later acquitted: The conditions which prevail in Hyde Park at night ha¥e long been a matter of protest in dome London newspapers, which state that it is not safe for decent peoplé to enter the park after nightfall. The attitude of the police in Hyde Patk has several times been bitterly criticized by the newspapers. Ms QA PAUL DOUMER |S BRIAND'S NEW FINANGE HEAD Loucheur Resigns to Save Cabinet _. (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Dee, 16.—Senator Paul Doumer tonight accepted the in- vitation of Premier Briand to become finance minister, replacing Louis Loucheur who was forced to resign yesterday, because of his inability to draft a financial program suitable to. the chamber of deputies, Loucheur and the big capitalists as well as the Briand cabinet are known {to be in a conspiracy te ruin thefranc| in order to wipe out the internal debt so that outside capitaliwill invest in the country’s industrieg,; On the other hand the capital levy proposed by the Herriot group will work to the ad- vantage of the big capitalists by im- posing such tax burdens upon the small fry that they wilh be ruined. Fascist Threat. Both groups try to force the work- ers to shoulder the tax; burden, with the result that discontent is increas- ing at a rate that alarms the capital- ists and not a few of the nationalist papers’ are openly speaking of-a fas- Cohn dictatorship, AS. P80 'ts ‘chit Abe the capitalist government itself and try to arouse the workers to a strug- gle for its destruction and the estab- lishment of a workers’ government in its placex aicibel ae Reaction in I. L:G. W. U. Violates N. Y. Peace Pact (Continued from, page 1) manites that they had gone far enough jand would be allowed to travel no \further in the direction of minority dictatorship. Earlier in,the session an- other blow at the majority of the mem- | bership was struck by, the machine when it increased the per capita tax from 10 to 15 cents. Dubinsky Official Terrorist. The resolution calling for general elections of business agents was also defeated. The role of Dubinsky as the official terrorist for Sigman was dis- closed during the debate and while Dubinsky was in the chair. Delegate Horwit stated to the convention that Dubinsky had told her that unless she voted for the expulsions her local would get no aid from the interna- tional. * It is by such methods that the out of town locals are whipped into line by the machine. They just either line up or be broken up. a» The conventions will, probably ad- journ sine die tonight unless the debate on the referendym election of officers is prolonged. ,+, maki Coast Guard Stations to Be Open All Winter ue WASHINGTON, Deg, 16.— Confi- dential reports indicating a big mob- ilization of rum smugglers along the Canadian border, ledyto issuance of an order that all coast guard sta- tions on the Great Lakes remain open thruout the winter, tional Labor Defense. Committee was unanimously adopted. MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS C. E. C. UNITY RESOLUTION MUSKEGON, Mich., Dec. 16.—At_a joint meeting of all Workefs (Com- .| munist) Party branches here, the unity resolution of the Central Executive 4 Buyliment + THE DAILY WORKER. ppearing Every Saturday of the reasons you should subscribe! © | Cuanee of exon In oma ete || $8.00 ‘A Year ; ‘ VHB shat re ¢ anna, 1193 W4 % THE DAILY WORKER ™ Ui dS Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. THE DAILY WQRKER ~ oo SIGMAN MACHINE "DENOUNCED 0 N MEETING FLOOR Members Will Reject Fake “Majority” (Continued from page 1) Ithat he“was trying to play upon the sympathies of the delegates; added to this was a vituperative onslaught on Hyman and a denunciation of the Communists and their official organ. He told of his early affiliation with the I. W. W. and apologized for it by implying that he was an ignorant immigrant boy at the time. Blames Membership. He blamed the membership for the bad conditions in the industry and proved that he reads The DAILY WORKER and Freiheit by quoting liberally from their editorials. Boro- covich opened the debate for the left wing following Shelley, an ‘“impar- tial” delegate whose request for the floor was greeted by a storm of laugh- ccnp en! WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH, START THE CAM YOUNG MINERS’ CONFERENCE | HE conditions of the young mine: a strong section of the miners’ for the’ young miners to meet and ter aroused by a delegate quoting from Zimmerman’s earlier speech in which he said that impartial people were found only in the cemetery. Borocovich quoted from Justice and proved that while the left wing joint board was fighting to save the union in New York after election by the largest majorities ever polled, Yanof- sky as editor and spokesman of the machine, had carried on an unscrupu- lous campaign against the rank and file officials. Expose Machine. Hyman’s speech was the most com- plete exposure @ the crooked prac- tices of the machine in New York that had been heard at the convention. None of his statements were denied nor was Sigman able to answer a single one of his arguments or accu- sations when he closed debate. Fine- berg had mentioned an article deal- ing with Perlstein in the Freiheit and Hyman stated that if there was one thing in the Freiheit in which he had been in full accord it was this par- ticular article. He told how the ma- chine had planned to ha¥e the strike committee raise tlie dues, disband and leave the membership unable to lodge a complaint against any permanent body. He told how Perlstein had’been both for and against a raise in dues in order to confuse and divide the membership and how the left wing had found the unions bankrupt when it came into power. He stated and proved that the-machine had attached up so~thac “thy ‘coula wot even“ pay tuberculosis benefits as they fell due. He cited the case of the worker who is dying a slow and painful death as a result of injuries received from ma- chine gangsters and the case of the six guninen hired by the Sigman ma- chine who beat up the workers in the Solomon shop. Flays Sigman. Hyman sketched with bold strokes the background of corruption, gang- sterism and irresponsibilities which forced the revolt of the New York membership and told the Sigmanites that it would do.them littlé good to raise the Communist bugaboo. “You claim a victory in this convention,” he said, “and that men like Yanof- sky is responsible for your victory. Give us more Yanofskys. You dele- gates who are afraid to face your membership come to New York when I give my report on this convention and see what they think of your vic- tory. You have slandered us until you have discredited yourselves— when you slandered us our people say ‘Well, they must be honest. men.’” Many admissions made by Sigman in his effort to overcome the effects of Hyman’s speech are most interesting. Among them were. the approving statements that “most of our member- ship voted for Governor Smith,” that it was the other officers who employed gangsters, that he had no objection to. Communist opinions but only to their actions, that is their fight against union reactionaries, his ridi- cule of the membership aroused by the teceipt of a telegram demanding his resignation from a mass meeting 0! garment workers in New York last night called to discuss the use of po- lice in the convention Saturday. Left Proposition Wins, Following the close vote on the New York situation the convention en- dorsed the proposition of the left wing that no raises in dues or assessments be made without the consent of the membership, approved the merger of three New York locals and the peace agreement which reinstated the ex- pelled left wingers. The convention rose for one second in memory of Gomners and after arranving fer the nomination of gfficers at two o'clock Wednesday adjourned, The minority report on the officers’ | report read by Zimmerman in the name of the progressive bloc this morning has created a sensation among the delegates to’ whom mimeo- graphed copies were distributed. It is a complete indictment of the Sig- man machine and a History of the re- cent struggles together with the left wing program and argument for it. The minority statement put the machine on the defensive and instead of the aggressive attack on the left wing which it had intended to make it found itself forced to make some sort of an effort, but an tinsiécessful one, to refute the detailed’ charges bul- warked by facts andfigtires in the minority report, * bP * ‘ ‘ affect the trippers, trappers\and other for the end of February. miners of the district. This must * ° School Strike in New York, NEW YORK CITY—The strike movement under way in public school 148, Brooklyn, N. Y., against the transferring of 500 children to distant schools is being energetical- ly supported by the Young Pio- neers League. From the begin- ning of the affair the Young Work- ers (Communist) League. has had its representative working with the fJ amen! parents and helping the organization Young Workers Young Workers United Front. LONDON—(By -Mail.)—The execu- ti¥es of the Young Communist League and the I. L. P. Guild of Youth had the question of “trade union organ- ization of the working class youth.” The Sunday Worker has the follow- ing to say on this important develop- ment: “We wish our young comrades success and fraternal co-operation. In that wish we are confident that we are voicing the hopes of thousands of young miners, engineers, transport workers, thruout the country, and no less, the sentiments of every active trade unionist who has ever fought to defend his class.” eee Return of Austrian Youth D@legation. VIENNA, Austria —- The Austrian young workers’ delegation on their return to Austria from an extensive visit thruout the Union of Socialist Soviet Russia issued a’ manifesto to the entire working class youth of Austria, in which they declared: “The pathjof the young workers of the other as yet capitalist countries is the path of unity with the Russian proletariat, the path of political and trade union unity.” > Against Revision Apprentice Law. Danish Youth League is carrying on a cussing a united front compaign ony COPENHAGEN, Denmark. — The} Williamson will WORKERS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE . PAIGN FOR THE rs in eastern Ohio and vicinity, who form movement, are such that it is necessary discuss the situation and formulate im- mediate demands. Many of these young workers are employed at Jobs which require speed and dexterity. The bosses take advantage of the young miners and have introduced a speed-up system which ‘Yequires the young miners to haul from a greater number of miners, with ne other consideration. The desire on the part of the bosses to increase their profits leads them to ‘neglect the necessary maintainance work of the mine, with a consequent large number of accidents, many of which young Workers around the mine. The young miners must strengthen themselves and discuss their. im- mediate situation, formulating the necessary immediate demands to meet the situation. For this purpose a conference of young miners is being called receive the support of all the young \ carrying front page stories on the strike and printing pictures of the parents marching with placards bear- ing the slogans of the strike. “* 2 Favor National Sports Movement. NEW YORK CITY—The provisional executive committee of the Workers’ Sports Alliance; at its last session, went on record favoring the creation of a national sports movement which shall be centrally located. This again Puts to the fore the problem of com- bining the workers’ sport clubs and leagues in the various cities of this country. e sie If you want to thoroughly un- of their actions. The newspapers are! deistand Communism—-study it. of Other Lands It has issuad a manifesto against the proposed revision directed mainly against. the proposal to compel ap- prentices during strikes to continue SRT WU - C8 wre ene TT a campaign for the discussion of this question in the Danish reichstag. se © _Krupskaya on Children’s Bureau. “MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—An enlarged bureau for the International Commun- ist Children’s Movement has been established by the B. C. of the Y. C. I. Besides representatives of various Young Communist Leagues, Comrades Krupskaya and Hornle have been added.* eee League in Brazil. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—According to the latest news a Young Communist League has been established in Brazil, South America, which considers itself a section of the Young Communist In- ternational. Chicago Functionary Meeting. Eery comrade in the Chicago league who is a secretary of a concentration group or nucleus must be present at _ the meeting that is being held Thurs-“ day at 1902 W. Division St., at 7:30 Pp. m. At this- meeting Comrade John explain the func- tions of the nucleus and concentra- campaign ‘against the apprentice law, which is just now undergoing revision. and shops. , The page will be edited by League. © Come Ahead Into the Young Workers League! . 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 phases of the conditions of the young workers in industry and their special activities in the unions SEND IN SPECIAL ORDERS FOR THIS ISSUE, Bundle ordérs for league and party units 2c per copy. The Mavemenk for World. Trade Union tion group and also the functions of the section committee. - tthe Young Workers (Communist) UNITY By TOM BELL. No pamphlet more timely and important has been issued. The question of trade union unity— the facts presented in this pam- phlet and the history of the | steps already taken—make this. | an ideal book for every workers’ “| your trade union. to your next meeting.