The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1926, Page 4

Two Big Issues of The Daily Worker COMING! BIRTHDAY Issue JANUARY 9 The second anniversary of The Daily Worker brings to our readers the new and im- proved fighting daily—with | a record of glorious past | achievements and filled with || features that will stand as a | promise of the future better | Daily Worker, LB N LON Memorial Issue JANUARY 16 International revolutionary leaders—the best American writers and artists of mili- tant labor—all will join with original articles and special art work to make this num-. ber of The Daily Worker— in honor of our great leader —an outstanding one of the year. IN BOTH ISSUES JANUARY 9 and JANUARY 16 The New Magazine Section Edited by Robert Minor Appearing Every Saturday in The Daily Worker. Will Contain 12 Pages Double the ordinary size---the New Magazine supplement of our new daily will begin in the issue of January 9 A NEW NOVEL HENRI BARBUSSE The great French writer, author of “Under Fire,”” “‘Chains,”’ etc. A dis- tinct achievement by one of the great- est living writers today---an outstand- ing figure of the literary world. THE FIRST AMERICAN PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES | IN EACH ISSUE LENIN POEMS by some of the leading proletarian poets will be features of - CARTOONS by Robert Minor, Fred Ellis, Maurice Becker, Lydia Gibson sand other leading working class artists. AShort Story by MICHAEL GOLD An American writer whose brilliant work will become a regular feature of The Daily Worker. DO BOTH! Subscribe! Get a Bundle! TES In ae | Outside 3Y Cents a copy Chicago: eco per Year | $6.99 per year 794.50 6 months $3.50 6 months f hi $2.50 3 months |$2.00 3 months or each issue. THE DAILY WORKER 11138 W. WASHINGTON BLVD., CHICAGO, ILL. Enclosed § . mos. Enclosed §.... for | subscription to The Daily Worker. f ... copies Birthday issue (Jan. 9) Name: copies Lenin issue (Jan, 16) Name: Street: City: w.. State: ... REORGANIZATION IS COMPLETED IN NEW YORK CITY i2,700 Members Regis- NEW. YORK, Dec, 30—New York |has now completed the task of reor- |ganizing registration at which 2,700 |members were present, and has organ- ized 11 sections and 32 sub-sections, Two meetings have been held and the general average attendance shows that the membership has taken en- thusiastically to the work of reorgan- ization, At the first two sub-section meet- lings the officers were elected and the |formation of the basic units, the shop nuclei and _ international have well begun. Many of the shop nuclei, because of language difficulties have not yet or- ganized themselves, but the sub-sec- tion commitees and the district office are making special efforts to organ- ize these units within the next two weeks, The new sections have been organ- ized covering the following ‘territory lin industries: Section 1—From Battery to Hous- | ton street, clothing. | Section 2—From Houston to 14ta | street, men’s clothing. ~ Section 3—From 14th to 23rd street, women’s wear. Section 4—From 23rd to 34th street, needle trades, women’s wear, furriers, etc. Section 5—From 34th to 42nd street, | women’s wear. | Section 6—From 42nd to 59th street, | includes Long Island section, women’s | wear and leather. Section 7—From 59th street, tobacco and wood residential sections, Section® 8—From 129th to 149th street, wood and metal. Section 9—From 149th up, residen- | tial areas, | Section 10—Brownsville, women’s wear and leather. Section 11—From Williamsburg, leather goods and women’s wear. Section 12—Borough Park, residen- tial area and waterfront. On the question of the formation of shop nuclei, the district committee has formed street nuclei in the resi- branches to 129th industry, includes tered; Form 11 Sections’ | to act as concentration , THE DAILY WORKER NEW YORK WILL HOLD DAILY WORKER SECOND ANNIVERSARY BALL NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The be- ginning of the third year of The DAILY WORKER'S existence is to be celebrated In New York on Sun- day afternoon, January 10, with a grand concert at Yorkville Casino, 86th St. and Third Ave. Details of the program will be announced within a few days. In the meantime all readers and friends of The DAILY WORKER in New York are requested to keep this date open. ss rr dential .territories, vin, addition to street nuclei in the factory districts, with the understanding that they are ups and to take up as their first,task that wher- ever there is\one member in the shop a nucleus is to be formed. These nuclei in the factory districts can be of great service if they will only undertake energetically the task of shop nuclei in order to transform themselves into regular. shop. nuclel. On the question of «formation of shop nuclei, the digtrict executive committee is paying attention to the big shops. The district has advised against the formation of shop nuclei indiscriminately and as.a general pro- cedure members are, to form shop nuclei on the basis of,one party com- rade to six non-members in the shop. The district will soon undertake the problem of giving. attention, as soon as the units are stabilized and functioning, of transferring attention to the big industries in the city, so as to increase the influence and organiza- tion of the party in the big factories. Women’s* Work Conference to Be Held in New York NEW YORK, Dec. 30—A meeting of sub-section organizers for women's work are to meet at the first confer- ence to take up the program of acti- vity of the district executive com- mittee on Monday, Jan, °4. Every organizer m at, be present in order to begin at*'once the full program in reference to housing and other conditions, and the organiza- tion of circles. pe (Continued from page 1) become a long drawn out battle were only too anxious to go back to sleep in the arms of the adminitration which has the trick of making votes disappear when they are for the op- position. Their rank and file following con- sisted of members over whom they had job control and other backward elements which did not clearly under- stand the division between the two groups. The blame for the big rank and file support that the reactionary group has received, can be placed to a great ex- tent on the failure of the progressives to come before.the membership with a detailed platform of criticism of the past coupled with a definite construc- tive program for the future, Issues in Election. Insofar as issues are concerned there were two of them brot into the campaign: the conflict between John- ston and Anderson and the lack of or- ganizational activity. There can be no doubt that if the progressives would have broadened the issues by going behind personali- ties into the principal differences be- tween the two groups, such as, amal- gamation, class collaboration, expuls- ions of opposition elements, they would have drawn the line ~ much closer and gained a bigger following? The arguments presented to the membership by the two groups can be summed up as follows: The progressives claimed that this is an Anderson district and should suppoft Andersonites for district lead- ership, On the question of organiza- tion it criticized the office for its utter lack of activity. KnoWing that the dis- | trict has, time and again, indorsed the fight against the corrupt national ad- ministration, the reactionaries have made desperate attempts to seperate the national conflict from the district elections. Their main argument be- ing: what difference does it make whom a man is supporting as long as he is a good business agent? Their argument fell flit because when it came to organization that “good, busi- ness agent” has come forward with a record of activity the sum total of which was zero. Progressives Win. The result of the election was that the candidates indorsed by the pro- gressives have been elected with the exception of the district recording secretary and a few minor positions. The total vote cast amounted to 2,100, the majority for J. Daily the pro- gressive candidate for business agent over his opponent Bearick being 76 votes, The tWo groups have centered the campaign around these two men and the vote that they have received can be taken as the barometer of strength of the respective groups that they rep- resent, The vote that the two groups |have received is so élose that unless the progressives unite all the active oils 10% WICKS WILL SPEAK ON LOGARNO'PACT IN CLEVELAND SUNDAY CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 30.—H. M. Wicks, well known lecturer and labor journalist, will deliver a lec. ture on “World Peace and the Lo- carno Pact,” on Sunday afternoon, dan, 3, at 2 o'clock at the Insurance Center Blidg., 1783 E. 11th St. The capitalist press has been hail- ing the Locarno pact as the solution of the world’s problems, They real- ize that they must settle their dif- ferences if they are to successfully combat the workers. War Vet Fears Wives. NEW YORK, Dec, 30.—Arrested for having married five times without pausing once for a divorce, Michael Donelan, decorated war hero, pleaded with police to send him to jail quickly so that he be spared the necessity of Elks in Hard Luck, SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Dec. 30.— Springfield Elks are faced with a re- ceivership for their imposing new building or with refinancing the struc- ture. Interest on the building bonds is due Friday and the club has insuf- ficient funds to meet the payment, club officials have told members. PITTSBURGH WILL HAVE BANQUET ON FRIDAY AND LECTURE ON SATURDAY PITTSBURG, Dec. 30.—All Pitts- burgh workers are invited to attend the two big affairs arranged for Fri- day and Saturady, January 1 and 2 at 8 p. m. at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller Street. The affair on Friday is a banquet and celebration of the Fourth anni- versary of the Workers (Communist) Party. Plenty of refreshments, speak- ers, recitals and songs will make the banquet onee of the most interesting affairs ever held in Pittsburgh. Ad- mission is only 50 cents. On Saturday night Comrade H. M. Wicks, editorial writer of The DAILY WORKER, will speak on the Locarno “peace pact In the large Auditorium of the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller Street. A small admission of 25 cents will be charged. militant elements in the union and win over the misled-rank and filers who are still supporting the reaction- aries there is the danger of hearing a different story told 4¥ the elections next year, All these* ments must be united on a commoh program of ac- tivity for the good of workers. .There are a few things to learn from this campaign and the progres- sives will do well to take note of them. The main issue that carried the elec- tion for the progressivéé was organiza- tion of the unorganizei, and this in spite of the fact that; they only criticized negatively not presenting a definite program of organization of their own. This means that the mem- bership of the union is so anxious to see some organization work done at last that it has signed a blank check and the responsibility rests now on the progressives to prove to the rank and file that they have placed their trust in the right hands. Organize Unorganized. The line between the two groups must be made more clear, to the mem- bership. In the fight against the cor- ruption of the Johnston machine the cardinal issues dividing the two groups have been neglected. Amalga- mation, the fight against class collab- bration, against politiéal discriminna- tions must be brot tothe forefront. Not in an abstract ner but inti- mately connecting ie illustrating them in connection with the everyday needs of the workers, ' The development of‘hin intensive or-| ganization campaign And giving it a mass character by dfawing the bulk of the membership into it is the im- mediate and most important problem. A few thousand members in a district where at least 40,000 Workers are elig- ible to the I. A. of M? certainly offers a broad field of ‘acti¥ity for such a campaign. But a radical departure must be made from the methods of the past to achieve dhy results what soever. First of all the cathpaign must be made at the shops and not exclusively ‘in the homes of prospective members as has been done during the past year. Home visiting as a major pro- gram of organizing is not alone suffici- ent, Last year has also illustrated that the staff of officers and small commit- tees cannot accomplish anything un- less they succeed in drawing in.the mass of membership into a well or- ganized and systematic campaign, To achieve this it will be necessary to wake up the membership thru edu- cational work at the meetings to the realization of the fact that they can- not better their conditions unless they get into the union the tens of thous- ands of workers who are at present unorganized, | Question of “Specialists.” The most importaiit thing that will have to be accomplished and which will be the deciding factor in the suc- cess or failure of organization campaign is the c of attitude to Election in the Machinist Union the semi-skilled and unskilled, the so- called “specialists.” ization behind the tool makers and highly skilled machinists to the ne- glect of all others in the trade is a relic of the times when this group was the bulk of the trade. Only the blind can fail to see that the last decade and especially the war have revolu- tionized the industry to the effect that the former dominant group is only a small minority now and that the mass employed in the industry at present is composed of semi-skilled and un- skilled. , In spite of this fact these great numbers of mey are ignored and even worse than that contracts are signed with employers for the few skilled men in the shop, at the same time having a so-called “gentlemen's agree- ment” that. no attempt will be made to organize the rest of the men, thereby leaving to the employer's mercy very often as high as 75 per cent of the workers in the plant. Such practices are not only a be- trayal of the interests of the mass of orkers but at the same time injures the welfare of the few men who are supposed to benefit by this contract. Whenever the employers feel like breaking the agreement the men are powerless to fight. The strategic po- sition that the skill of these men is supposed to give them is worth noth- ing unless it is united with the men employed in production’. Struggle Instead of Diplomacy. Any employer can prepare himself for a strike with sets of dies and tools to a sufficient degree to starve out the few skilled men on strike while he is carrying on his production and piling up his profits which are made by the semi-skilled and unskilled in the pro- duction department. Another important problem is the thousands of women that have been brot into the trade and are at present used by the employers as an addition- al weapon for reducing wages. It is issues of this kind that will L The practice of placing the organ- MI THE Y CONDUCTED - BY TH Many American youths having heard wonderful fairy tales about the C. M. T. C, in the schools, in the press and in the shops, enlisted for a month in order to enjoy the much advertised benefits offered them free of charge. “a month’s free vacation,” “beautiful- ly located camps,” “bulld your body,” lete., was some of the catchy slogans used in this campaign. . The result was camps filled to capacity two months before opening time. And so with beautiful illusions some thirty-five thousand young workers and students proceeded to camp to en- joy the lovely surroundings, to deyel- op their bodies, to receive lessons in good citizenship—and—to learn to fight for American capitalism. Yes, Plattsburg was certainly well situated in the thickly pined sections of the Adirondaks, near Lake Champ- lain, But,our very first meal made us forget about the pine trees and the rest of it, and to think more of simple things, food being one of them. The greater part of the, twenty-five hun- dred boys that came to Plattsburg in August of this year received a shock develop a real progressive group and will mobilize the membership for ac- tivity thereby making of the I. A. of M. a fighting organization that can make demands and win them, The idea that is so prevalent in the heads of the officials that clever diplomacy is the way of gaining de- mands off employers is only an ad- junct of the class collaboration psych- ology. It is only a power that can stop the profits of the employers that ever gained anything for the workers and this power is a 100 per cent strike which stops production. The future of the pro sive group depends on the way they solve these problems. If they come before the membership at the end of the year with accomplishment in organization work and with a program of action based on the class struggle there is no question that the, reactionary group will find very lit! support among the membership, WAR AGAINST WAR—ACTION NOT PRAYER PORRIDGE PLUS PILLS AT C.M.T. C. of their young lives when they found out thru the medium of their first meal that all was not going to be a bed of roses. And that their much ex alted Uncle Sam was sometimes cap- able of telling untruths. As time went on, the quality of the food ‘improved a bit. I suppose it was not the fault of the camp authorities that this was so. Many were taken ill, ;all suffered at one time or at an other attacks of constipation, and there were long lines of sick to an- swer sick call every morning, and they were amply supplied with C. C. pills (C. M. T. C. pills is what they came to be known as). I could understand ‘the poor. quality of the food, when the government appropriated approxim- ately seventy cents a day for food for a person. I once heard the top sar- geant of our company tell a group who was discussing the problem that the food in the regular army was much better, although the allotment was only thirty cents a day for food for each regular army man. It looked like somebody was reeking of graft. . Diek Ovenden.in "Labor Call" (MELBOURME,AUSTRALIA) EXPLOIT YOUNG WORKERS IN DEPT, STORE BASEMENT By Young Worker Correspondent. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—I worked ,in a department store basement for al- most three years; a breakdown, be- cause of bad conditions, forced me to leave my position as stock girl, sales girl, errand girl,- etc.—all for twelve dollars a week!!! If you ever visited ‘a “Bargain Base- ment,” you need very little imagina- tion to picture what it is like to work in one. First of all, you are in con- stant terror of the “Big Cheeses,” for, if caught sitting down, you're “in for it.” Also, you go thru a process of roasting in summer and freezing in winter. There is a general idea that electric fans are installed to help relieve the heat for the employees;— try and stand in front of one of the FEW “relievers” and you will be told to stop loafing and get to work. In the second place, you constantly in- hale the same air you exhale, because there aré no air exhausts in most basements, n i The Jayoratory is a few feet from where most of the girls work all day. No proper care is taken of this place, which causes unhealthy odors. I re- member at one time we waded in three inches of water for ‘several hours before they finally thought of sending for a plumber. There are a few stores that I could mention wi one maid is hired to take care a four story building. The dusty mer- chandise, fowl odors, close air, per- spiration of people in an unventilated room, is certainly invigorating. Every Friday morning there is’ an employee's: meeting; the Superinten- dent offers the munificent sum of three dollars for the highest sales book on Bargain Day. .The girls work like “Hell” for a small pittance and the boss reaps more profit out of their special efforts. The wages are from nine dollars to fourteen dollars; your salary ig raised on an average of one dollar “every year and a half, if you are fortunate enough to be one of the lucky few, It seems very natural to be “docked” every time you are a few minutes late and not to receive a sandwich when working “two or three hours overtime. , Stock boys of sixteen or seventeen are always working under illusions, especially in the Shoe Department. They are promised wonderful post- tions if they work hard enough, so they work early and late-—from eight in the morning to all hours of the night. After two or three years of this, they find out, to their dismay, the humbug of this promise. Just as soon as they ask for a raise, they are fired, and new victims are acquired. One of the many signs in the superintendent's office reads like this: All employee's working ten years for this establishment are entitled to two weeks vacation—one in summer and one in winter. By the end of ten years you'd need @ permanent vacation, so they have no fear of carrying out their promise. —JEAN COHEN. The Workers’ Children By BERNARD S. PALATNIK Dorchester, Mass. We work all day For little pay, While the -bosses’ children Shirk and play. They call us lazy, f They think us crazy, Not to enjoy the work! We do the mining— They do the dining! All THEY can do is shirk! _In the near future We too will play! And not work for bosses all day! FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED. 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