The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1925, Page 4

Page Four A Workers LENIN MENORIAL —— SUNDAY, JAN. 24, ed pe. | \ COLISEUM HALL 4 TH (Communist) Party CHICAGO MEMBERSHIP MEETING OVERWHELMINGLY FOR UNITY AND AGAINST FACTIONALISM IN PARTY At the membership meeting in Chicago the unity resolution of the cen- tral executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party was over- whelmingly endorsed after a lengthy discussion in which every side was able to present its viewpoint to the assembled membership. | ing unity in the party and the liquidation of the factional struggle in the The resolution favor- ng ¢7] | party was adopted by the meeting with 253 voting for the resolution and 135 Chicago Workers Will wri: ph sebitinditalit ba Demonstrate To honor the memory of the great- est working class leader, Vladimir Lenin, the great Chicago Coliseum | auditorium will be filled to capacity | at the memorial meeting to be held January 24, 8 p. m., if the plans ot | the committee in charge of arrange: | ments come thru. No efforts are be- | ing spared to fulfill this promise. | Posters showing Lenin pointing the road toward working class emanci- pation have been prepared and will when flashed from Chicago sign-| boards, help bring home the message | that altho Lenin is dead, Leninism still lives. That will be the keynote sounded by speakers of several races at the memorial meeting. Leaflets particularly adaptable for the work- shops have been drafted reciting some of the important slogans of Lenin at the time when his voice still powerfully mobilized millions of work- ers. These leaflets are being pub- lished in many different languages Comrade Jay Lovestone outlined the achievements of the present cen- tral executive committee, showing the advances that the party has made and is now making and the necessity of uniting the ranks to carry out the decisions of the party. He also show- ed the basis for unity in the party and outlined the change in the trade union work of the party. Exposes Character of Opposition. Comrade James P. Cannon, member of the central executive committee, followed Lovestone outlining in de- tail the basis of the unity resolution and the change in the trade union work of the party. He also showed the character of the group that has crystalized itself around the leader-} ship of Comrade Foster. After Cannon finished, Comrade Johnstone spoke in behalf of the op- position, ‘the Foster group. After the talks by the three main speakers, the discussion was opened in which Comrades Steve Rubicki, Niels Kjar and Earl Browder spoke against the unity resolution of the central executive committee and Comrades C, E. Ruthenberg, William and every member of the revolution- ary movement, every sympathizer and every militant worker who can pos- sibly be reached will be rallied to broadcast these slogans thru the Chi- cago factories with invitations to the workers to attend the meeting at the Coliseum. Sub-committees are meeting work- ing out their specific plans. Speakers are being sent to various working class organizations to enlist their membership in honor of the Lenin memorial and in the army following the path of Leninism. The program when presented complete will be one worthy of the occasion, Many Good Speakers on List. The two main speakers will be C. E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the Workers (Communisf) Party and Wm. F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER. In addition Max Shacht- man will speak for the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, Lovett Fort-Whiteman representing the Ne- gro race, and @ Chinese speaker. Other points on the program will be elaborated later. Mark the date of the Chicago Lenin memorial meeting now, Sunday, Jan. 24. F. Dunne and Arne Swabeck spoke in favor. Comrades Lovestone and Cannon summed up the discussion and then the vote was taken resulting in over- whelming support of the C. E. C, Three Organizations Join in New Year’s Eve New York Ball NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—New Year's Eve is the one night in the year in which everybody goes out and balls arranged for that night are always tremendous successes. This New Year’s Eve, three organizations, any one of which is capable of running a successful ball, are joining together to pack the two big halls of Harlem Cas- ino, Letox Ave. corner 116 St., with fun-seekers in the New Year’s Eve Red Mask Costume Ball of the Work- ers School, The DAILY WORKER and the Young Workers League. TicketS ‘in advance on accounts that are liquidated before the night of the ball selbiat only 50 cents whereas tickets atthe door are 75 cents each. Even the» Pioneers have been brot The committee in charge appre- ciates any help which may be extend- ed. Delegates to the committee from any working class organization will be welcome. The committee meets next at The DAILY WORKER office, ment features of the occasion. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Tuesday evening, Dec. 29, 8 o'clock. PULL CCL FLYING OSSIP = STORIES OF NEW RUSSIA = & Eleven short stories writ- = ten since the revolution by the most significant of the new Russian writers—can now be had in a paper edi- tion at only $1.50 (Cloth Bound $2.50) =|rade Wolfe in the Workers School, all in to furnish entertainment. A large squad of volunteers is neces- sary.to sell masks, take charge of the buffet and conduct the numerous prize contests that are one of the entertain- Those wishing to volunteer should report to Comrade Katerfeld in The DAILY WORKER office, Comrade Don in the Young Workers League office or Com- at 108 E. 14th St. In order to avoid crowding of the dancers, both halls will be open to all purchasers of tickets and there will even be two sets of entertainment features. Illinois Wheat Small. SPRINGFIELD, IIl., Dec, 23.—Much wheat is small ‘and there has been some interruption on corn husking operations in Illinois, according to the synopsis of crop and weather condi- tions issued by the weather bureau WORKERS’ SCHOOL WILL OMIT CLASSES DURING HOLIDAYS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Dec. 23—There will be no classes on Christmas Eve, Christmas night, New Year's Eve and New Year’s night in the Work- ers’ School. Several new classes are planned to start early next year as registra- tions continue to come in altho the previously announced classes are al- ready under way. The great num- ber of registrations for elementary English will make it necessary to start a new class in that subject to run one night a week. A con- siderable number of applications have been received for a course in Capital Vol, | with J. Mindel as in- structor. If more applications are made, such a course will open. The course in history of revolutions, pre- viously announced, has four applica- tions. It will start early next year if sufficient additional applications come in to raise the number up to twenty. Two shop nucleus train- ing courses, (Fundamentals of Len- inism) Jack Stachel, instructor, be- gin on. January 8 and January 9 respectively. District and Section Schools, The school is also arranging many classes in the districts and sections. A class in the Fundamentals of Communism is being started in the Bronx with A. Markoff as instruc- tor. Two classes have been arrang- ed in Bronx. Arrangements are also being made in Williamsburg, Har- lem and Lower New York. One course is at present going on in Newark, instructor, V. Mekler, and anowher one is being planned to by Liven on Sundays with Weis- bord as instructor. Classes are about to start in Passaic, Paterson and Union Hill and many courses have begun among the foreign lan- guage workers and clubs. Irving Park Branch Labor Defense Gives Big Social and Dance Combining pleasure with serious purpose, the Irving Park branch of the International Labor * Defense will partake of refreshments, dance and enjoy themselves to raise funds for working class prisoners at a social and dance given on January 16 at 4021 Drake Ave. Admission will be twenty-five cents and all proceeds will go for the de- fense of workers in jail for fighting for the cause of labor—regardless of their political affiliations. Many novelties are planned. Home cooked food will be there to tempt the most particular tummies. And every worker is.invited to meet good working class company and dance un- til morning. ooo Five Firemen Lose Lives. WAYNESBURG, Pa., Dec. 23.—Five firemen were killed and a sixth cri- tically injured when they were caught = Frou =|here. There is now a good cover of|under a falling wall, while fighting 2 = | snow over the north half of the state, |a $700,000 blaze that cut a deep swath = THE DAILY WORKER i the report states. thru the business district here. = PUBLISHING CO. 2 : 2 1113 W. Washington Bivd., = . . . H CHICAGO, ILL. 2|| Cleveland Reorganization Near Completion 2 wit > ‘FruddVOQs000000000000000000000C GEHL T TTT], TRE, Cleveland District (District No. 6) of the Workers (Communist) Mg Party of America has been almost entirely reorganized on the basis of shop ABC OF COMMUNISM By. Bukharin and Preobrazhensky. The authors were commis- sioned by the Russian Com- munist Party to write a complete and simple ex- planation of Communism. The student will find this book a gem of Communist teachings. 50 Cents Supplement to the A B C of Communism. z and street nuclei. The city of Cleveland is entirely reorganized and functioning on the new basis as are Youngstown and Warren. 351 comrades registered and appeared at either one or both of the re- : organization meetings held in the five =| were reorganized in Youngstown, and 56 in Warren. sections of Cleveland. 68 comrades The comrades in these centers are all of the opinion that in spite of the fact that there will be a small loss in membership at the beginning, the reorganization will soon bring in new elements from the shops and factories. A total of 14 shop nuclei has been organized in the city of Cleveland, with the total number of 82 members in them, distributed as follows: 7 shop nuclei were organized in Section No. 1, 3 shop nuclei were organized in Section No. 2, 1 shop nucleus was organized in Section No. 3, 1 shop nucleus was organized in Section No. 4, with 26 members. with 28 members. with 11 members. with 3 members. 2 shop nuclei were organized in Section No. 5, with 14 members. A total of 14 street nuclei were organizéd in Cleveland, with a member- ship of 225, distributed as follows: 2 street nuclei in Section No, 1, with a membership of 39. 8 street nuclei in Section No, 2, 4 street nuclei in Section No. 3, 8 street nuclei in Section No. 4, Questions and notes on the original work for study class use. 5 Cents. DAILY WORKER PUB. Co. 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ; Chicago, III, 2 street nuclei in Section No. 5, In Warren, Ohio, two shop nuclei, street nuclei, with a membership of 38, All the: ization, The work in the mining region of with a membership of 44. with a membership of 62. with a membership of 54. with a membership of 26. with a total membership of 31, and two street nuclei, with a total membership of 24 were organized, In Youngstown, Ohio, two shop nuclei with a membership of 26, and three were organized. units are functioning in much better form than before reorgan- this district was begun Dec, 21, and reorganization will be entirely completed by Jan. 10. _ tm this. district, as well as in all others, the reorganization has instilled new life and vigor into the functidning of the newly reorganized units on the , E DAILY WORKER Fascist Murderess of Macedonian Rebel Released by Austria VIENNA, Austria,“ Dec. 23,—The Austrian fascist justice permitted Mencia Carnicui, murderer of the Macedonian revolutionary, Todor Pan- izza, to return to Bulgaria after having sentenced her to hard labor. This was done with the argument that Carniciu was so ill that she had only a month to live and that she could under no circumstances begin to serve her eight years sentence. She was transported to the Hun- garian frontier and permitted to re- turn to Bulgaria where she was re- ceived as @ national heroine. It is very peculiar that the woman who was to die in a motnh, is now perfectly healthy, traveling from town to town and speaking at mgetings. The last stage of consumption; in which she was alleged to have ‘been, according to the servile statements of the Aus- trian prison physicians, cannot be noticed any more, . oy Iglesias, Head: of Spanish Socialists, af : . Passes Out in Spain a6 LONDON, Dec. 28.Pablo Iglesias, president of the JS8panish socialist party, died in Madrid at the age of 75. i Iglesias was the head of the Typo- graphers’ Union im‘'Spain and was one of the leaders‘of the Second In- ternational. en Tho Iglesias in hisS¥outh was a re- volutionary and orgamize*l the: social- st party in Spain asthe grew old he zrew more sentimenta: and eventual- ly forgot that such a thing as a class struggle existed. : Irish Free State Air Service to Attempt Trans-Atlantic Flight DUBLIN, Dec. 23.— An aeroplane flight from Oranmore, Ireland, to New York, will be attempted next spring by the Irish Free! State air service, it was announced. . , The flight will be made by three seaplanes, fitted with Rolls engines. Call Special Session of Legislature to- Discuss'Coal Strike aiudcts 1 HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 23.—Gov- ernor Gifford Pin¢elot signed the pro- claimation that will’ call together the legislators of the state in an extra ses- sion of the general“assembly Wednes- day afternoon, Ja@huary 13, for the first time in 25 y i The extra will deal with coal legislation growing out of. the present miners’ strike. Indiana Klan' Head Wants Jury Verdict Set Aside by Court INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 24—In addi- tion to the motion for a new trial for D. C. Stephenson, gonvicted slayer of Madge Oberholtzer, another motion to set aside the verdict returned by a jury at Noblesville in his recent trial will be filed,,.according to his attorneys here. é Dope Ring Leaders Must Go to Prison Willie Gilhooley Was given. a total of 47 years and a $10,000 fine and his wife, Kittie, drew 27 years in federal court for violating the Harrison anti- narcotics law. Judge Wilkerson, or- dered that their sentences run concur- rently so GiGlhooley will be called up- on to serve only ten years and his wife ie five. paniiaieeia deta Foreign Xchange. NEW YORK, Det. 23.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterlin, demand 4.84%; cable 4.85. France, ic, demand 3.71; cable 3.71%. Belgium, fran, demand 4.53; cable 4.534%, Italy, lira, 4.03%; cable 4.03%. Sweden, krome, demand 26.83; cable 26.86, Norway, krone, demand 20.31; cable 20.33. Denmark, krone, demand 24.81; cable 24.83. Shanghai, teals, demand 78.00, WICKS WILL SPEAK ON LOGARNO. PEACE _ PACT IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, Dec. 23.—The dis- trict executive epmmittee of the Workers (Communist) irty, has issued a special invitation to all active trade unionists in the city, to attend and participate in a dis- cussion of the Locarno “peace” pact and its significance to the labor movement of this country. Meeting with Albert A. Purcell has stimulated an interest among the more Intelligent workers of this city, in the International problems of labor. Comrade H. M, Wicks, who will be the speaker is well known to many workers in this city and will no doubt to greeted by a large au- dience, The meeting will take place in the Insurance C 1g, 1783 E. 11th St. on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 3rd, at 2 o'clock, All workers are invited to attend this lecture. P ‘ he NEEDLE TRADES LEFF WING TO BE MADE WELCOME AT | T. U. EL, GHRISTMAS BALL NEW YORK, Dec. 23 — An en- thusiastic welcome Is being plan- ned for the left wing of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union delegates at the Christmas dance arranged by the Trade Union | Educational League at Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 East 4th street. The | delegates’after their return from | their long and victorious struggle against the tricks and the treach- ery of Sigman, are mobilizing for the occasion of the affair which | the Trade Union Educational League | has arranged for December 25. As usual the rank and file of the needle trades as well as those of all other important industries thruout the city will be on the job, this time to meet their fellow militants and spend an enjoyable evening with | them. The steady request for tick- ets from every side indicates the deep interests which the comrades are taking in this unusual affair. A spécial feature of the dance will be the fact that the band which has begn engaged consists of left wingers, who are musicians em- ployed in the high class Broadway theaters and who are experts at playing all sorts of dances from the peasant dances of Russia to the jazz of Broadway. On Friday night instead of playing before a bour- geois audience in a capitalist thes ater entertaining the idle class of exploiters they will be playing be- fore a real proletarian audience. It is reported that the Broadway Bolshevik Jazz Band is looking for- ward to the affair as anxiously as are the dancers. Admission to the dance will be fifty cents as long as the tickets remain on sale. Street Nucleus Has Success in Putting Out Party Message “Coolidge’s Challenge to Labor” is being brot to the attention of the workers of Chicago. Some of the comrades of street nucleus No. 22 of the Workers (Communist) Party in Chicago have reported a successful distribution at the gates of the Inter- national Harvester factory on Cly- bourn avenue, of hundreds of leaflets dealing with “Coolidge’s Challenge to Labor.” An indication of the interest displayed by the workers of this fac- tory is that most of them kept the leaflets and probably read them_on their way to their homes. Very few of the workers were disinterested enuf to throw the leaflets away before they were read. Street nucleus No. 22 was encouraged by the manner in which the workers received the léafleis and urges other ynits of the party to send in their orders for “Coolidge’s Chal- lenge to Labor” to the national office, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. The leaflets are sold at $3.50 per thousand. Each street and shop nuc- leus should get several thousand cop- ies for free distaibution at the gates of the factories in its locality. Young Workers League Arranges Month’s Tour in California District LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 23.—Tho national executive committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League is sending Comrade William Schneid- erman, district organizer in Californ- 1a, on an extensive organization tour in January thru the northern part of California. The tour will last one month, and Comrade Schneiderman will visit San Francisco, Oakland, Fort Bragg, Eureka and other nearby cities. The Y. W. L.. branches up there are arranging a series of member- ship meetings and mass meetings at which he will speak, and this will mark the beginning of building up some real activities for the league in that part of the state. “LABOR'S REWARD’ TO BE SHOWN AT WICKER PARK HALL ON MONDAY NIGHT “Labors Reward,” a movie pro- duced by the American Federation of Labor, will be shown at the Wicker Park Hall, 2040 West North Avenue, Monday evening. Tuesday the film will be exhibited: at the Engineer's Hall, 47th and Halsted street. DON'T FORGET THE DANCE Given by ZWOOKY RODINY For the Benefit of Tubercular Child- ren of the U. S, S. R. MASKED BALL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 MIRROR HALL, 1136 N. Western Avenue. Meet the New Year with Us and Help the Children. — | young workers and why? CONOUCTED - BY TH sachets “LESSONS” IN THE C. M. T. C. 7 HIS article is to show what the] | capitalist class is trying to teach the young workers in the ©, M. T. C. In fact to a certain extent it is suc- ceeding in poisoning the minds of the Because of the reaktionary labor officials espe- cially the A. F. of L, officials who en- dorse the actions of the capitalist in making scabs out of the working class children. So the imperialists of this country have found a new way to train the young workers so. that they would fight against their own class. Let us take up some of the things that they teach you in the C. M. T, C. It a fellow was to get up on a street corner and make a speech telling you what is the best way. of killing some other human being and which is the easiest you would think that person is a raving maniac and naturally you would try to put the fellow some place so that he would not do any harm but when young workers and students, working class children, are taken into the C, M. T. C. camps here are some of the things they are taught: ‘First thing they do is to impress upon you that you must obey under all orders. Next they proceed to give you lessons in the latest way and the most mod- ern way of killing your fellow work- ers. Here are some of the things they teach you besides shooting. They teach you how to gouge a fellow’s eyes out if you are without weapons in case you have lost them in the course of the fighting, You must try to get your thumbs in the, other fellow’s eyes and press on them until his eyes come out. Then this is not enuf. “NEVER AGAIN!’ A Product of the C. M. T. C, w They tell you how you must stick a” knife into the other fellow if you are fighting at close quarters. They show you where you can put the knife into a fellow without hitting a bone or where you can put the knife in quickest. Then they must let you know how and where you mist stick the bayonet into the fellow when you are in a bayonet attack. They tell you that you must not stick the bayo- net into a fellow’s stomach because it will be hard to pull out and takes up tod much time in killing one fellow, so you must stick the fellow in the throat so as to save time and kill the fellow quicker. We Communists are not horrified at military methods. What we object to is using such methods on our .own fellow workers. When the red army of work- ers’ Russia marched against the counter-revolutionists we hailed its victories. Anti-mil- itarism for us means the or- ganization of the soldiers- sailors for the struggle. for their immediate demands and for their united efforts with the workers in the struggle against capitalism. —GEORGE PAPCUN. A CASTOR-OIL VACATION As the summer months is the slack season in my trade, I decided to join the C. M. T. C. for the month of Au- gust. After my arrival in camp I was put thru the red tape of physical examin- ation, waiting in tiresome long lines for my uniform, equipment, rifle, etc. By the end of the second day I was finally fully dressed as a regular en- listed soldier of the U. S. army, in a uniform better fitting for a cow than me. Officer’s Pleasant Language. On the third day my company was finally organized in 4 platoons, 4 squads to a platoon. My,company had 186 candidates like myself. It was bulldozed by a captain, 2 first lieuten- ants, 4 second lieutenants, 1 supply sergeant, 3 common sergeants. It was these common sergeants that we were always in contact with. One of them was a red headed son of (——) Memphis, Tenn. His orite expression was: “If you don’t get that right,-I'll keep you. dirty skunks drilling here to midnight.” Rubber Back Hot Dogs. My first disappointment was with the first mea]. It consisted of frank- furters, beans and boiled potatoes. This junk was left over from the month before. The doggies were clothed in some very tough rubber, the beans were black and stinking, so were the boiled spuds. Besides these defects the food was not so bad, but usually there was not enuf of it. On quite a number of occasions I consid- ered bread, apple butter and water a good meal even tho I developed a boarding house reach. Almost every- thing they gave us to eat was very salty, from saltpetre. The object of this was to kill the sexual desires of the boys. Their best meals cannot favorably compare with the garbage which the salvation army dishes out on the Bowery. Doctor Up. By the end of the week more than half of the men in camp Were either taking C. N, pills, castor oil and other internel disinfectants, or were rais the duce about the bum fitting shoes that we were shod with by shoe fit- ting “experts,” Sick call was at 7:16 in the morn- ing. The casualties of the mess room were marched off to the camp doctor and his two or three “halt baked” as- sistants. As we suckers were ‘ch- ed into the tent someone bawled out the number of cups of castor oil to fill, Many a poor fellow who went in for blistered feet was forced to take castor oll and ©, ©, pilla. . <——— nanccatenttntinainenanene. ten aan sii Ms 3 Graft on Tailoring, One of the regulations of the camp was that every C. M. T. C. candidate was to store his civilian clothing with the camp tailor for which we had to pay $1. This was a neat little piece af graft as it amounted to $4,000 to $5,000 (2,300 men in July and 2,300 in August. This rule was compulsory for everyone. There was a breat deal of protest about this. All the men at- tached to Company “A,” August camp, signed a petition for repeal of the rule. I think Company “A” was told that they would get justice in Wash- ington or in “heaven.” Good-by Vacation. Instead of the pleasant vacation I had anticipated I certainly was glad when the terrible month was over. I found it was far more pleasant to stay in the big dirty cities and hunt for a job than to go to the C. M. T> Cc. camp in the heart of the beautiful Adirondack mountains and be bull- dozed by hirelings of capitalism, —A. R. HARFIELD, FACTS FOR YOUNG WORKERS ..., THE WAR BUDGET OF “PEACE- FUL” AMERICA, According to the statistical material given in the Wall Street Journal, the United States of America lavishes military purposes a greater proportion os its total budget than any other na- ion, On the basis of the proposed budget the United States will spend this year for the Departments of War and the Navy no less than $674,581,000 or 21.7 per cent of the total. expenses, This marks a notable increase over the former years, the proportion de- / voted to militarism having mn, 19.6 per cent and 19.3 per cent respective- ly in the years 1923 and 1924, i England squanders 13.1 per cent of its budget for military uses, France 18.1 per cent. Following is q table giving a comparative view of the mil- itary expenses as proposed in the budget for the year 1925-1926: Powers Total exp. Per cent of te b $074,581.00 1% Great Britain, 586,000,000 18.1 France 323,000,000 18,1 Italy . 82,700,000 9.8 Holland 60,000,000 20.2 Belgium . we 86,000,000 9.4 Switzerland der 15,000,000 16,9 From this table it appears that no country of the world spends either as large a sum total or as large a per gent of its budget for military and naval expenses as does the United States of at: -