The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1926, Page 4

a Page Four © THE DAILY WORKER Organization Meetings | Workers (Communist) Party Social Affairs Resolutions Party’s Central Executive Committee Overwhelmingly Adopts Resolution on Report of Political Committee following resolution on the report of the political adopted by a vote of 18 in favor, committee was and 4 against. A consultative vote of the candidates, alternates to the central executive committee, district. or- ganizers, and leading comrades active in the party work, who were present at the plenum of central executive committee, by invitation, resulted in a vote of 42 in favor of the resolution and eigh' ° 1. The central executive commit- tee, having heard the report of the political committee on the work of the party since the fourth national con- vention, expresses its approval of this report and progress made in develop- ing the activities of the party among the masses and in liquidating faction- alism and unifying the party for mass work. 2. The central executive committee declares that it was a correct policy te raise the banner of the party among the anthracite strikers thru mass meetings, manifestos, etc., at the be- ginning of the strike. It would have been incorrect under the existing con- ditions to continue this policy after the attack on our party and the sup- Pression. of our mass meetings, be- cause our party would have been placed in the position of fighting for its right to hold public meetings in place of appearing before the strikers fm the role of the supporter of their demands. The political committee was right in adopting the tactics of avoiding such a free spech fight. 3. The policy pursued by the po- litical committee in the Furriers’ con- * vention and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ convention was cor- rect, and has resulted in the consoli- dation of the left wing and strength- ening it ideologically. 4. The central executive commit- tee endorses the program outlined for work in the agricultural field. 5. The central executive commit- tee has already expressed its endorse- ment of the unity resolution of the political committee. The progress TO WISH The Daily Worker a Happy ‘BIRTHDAY Come to these PARTIES New York ! Anniversary Concert Sunday, January 10 Commencing Yorkville Casino, 86th and Third Ave. Tickets 50 Cents. In advance TWO for 50 cents. 2 Pp. m. Los Angeles Birthday Party With a Load of Good Fun Wed. Eve., January 13 New Party Headquarters, 138% S. Spring St. Chelsea, Mass. Dance and Social Friday, January 15 Labor Lyceum, 453 Broadway. A joint party of the Jewish branches of Chelsea, Revere, Lynn and Winthrop. Admission 50 Cents. Banquet Good Music—Living Newspaper Sunday, January 17 Workers’ Hall, 226 Valencia St. Oakland Banquet Musical Program—Living News. paper Joint celebration of Oakland and Berkeley Sunday, January 24 Lind Hall, legraph Ave. Se eT San Francisco fl Jenni 229 t opposed, * made in unifying the party on the basis of this resolution has already greatly strengthened the party inthe work of carrying out its campaigns among the masses. The central exe- cutive committee endorses the pro- posal of the political committee for a campaign of comradely dis sion and argument to convince the small opposition which still remains in the party for the necessity of liquidating all factional lines and the mobilizing of the whole party for mass work on the basis of the unity resolu 5-a. The central executive com- mittee asks those comrades who charge that there have ben factional Temovals and persecutions, to submit detailed statements concerning those instances of changes in the party functionaries on which they base these charges. It declares its intention to carefully investigate each instance cited, to rectify the situation where the charge is justified, if there be jsuch. It further states that in those |instances where it disagrees with the charge, it will forward the statement { with its explanation to the Comintern for final adjustment, 6. The central executive commit- tee approves of the proposal for a continuous, energetic campaign against the remnants of Loreism and the growing two and a half interna- tional tendency outside of the party. This danger must be made clear to the party and the workers and every effort made to destroy it. 7. The central committee gives its enthusiastic approval of the work of the. political committee in relation to the Fitinish section of our party. The development of a leadership in full ac- cord with the party and the Commun- ist International, the acceptance of the reorganization and earnest work in support of it, the new spirit in re- lation to the party and the drawing of the Finnish membership closer to the\party, which are the results of the convention are a distinct victory for the party and a blow at Loreism and the two and a half international tendency, 8. The reorganzation campaign has been carried forward with great en- ergy. The work of complete reorgan- ization of the party gives promise of being completed within the next two or three months, thus creating the condition for exertion of the full strength of the party. This is’an achievement of a major character for the party. 9. The central executive commit- tee declares that the mobilization of the party membership in support of The DAILY WORKER showed a fine spirit of Communist loyalty among the membership to the’ party and its central organ. 10. The central executive commit- | tee endorses ‘the proposal of the po- litical committee for a campaign in the party to raise $20,000 to meet the financial crisis from which the party is suffering, this amount to be di- vided, 50 per cent to the national or- ganization, 25 per cent to the districts and 25 per cent to the language prop- aganda bureaus. 11. The central committee declares that the analysis of the situation in the United States, as,;promising a new spirit of struggle by workers and exploited farmers, t! ig, creating fay- orable situation for increased influ- ence of our party anjong the masses and for the building of the party to be correct. It is in full accord with the view of the political’ committee that the need of thé’ Moment is the mobilization of all the*forces of the party for work ani6h® the masses, and calls. upon the ‘party to unite in support of the party! campaigns and thus create the coriflition for’ the strengthening and upbuilding of the party as the revolutiowary leader of the workers and exploited farmers in their struggles agaitibt?the capitalist class and the capitalist! state. 12. rected to prepare a statement to the membership based upoh this resolu- tion which shall incladé the follow- ing’ points: def 1., The work of the party. 2. The achievements of the unity resolution, 3. The method of the opposition as manifested in the membei- ship meetings. 4. Attitude toward the opposition. The need of eliminating all fac- tionalism and necessity of mo- bilizing the party for mass work. By JAY LOVESTONE, N Dec, 29, 1925 the party held its first organization conference . The sessions were devoted strictly to a discussion and a consideration of the various problems arising in the dif- ferent districts in the campaign to re- organize the party on the basis of shop and street nuclei. In addition to the members of the central executive committee attend- ing the full session of the C. EB. C. there were also present all district organizers except those from Seattle and California. The different district organizers placed before the confer- ence their experiences and problems of reorganization in their districts. Boston District Slow. Reporting on the progress of reor- ganization in District 1, Comrade Bal- Yam indicated the difficulties in the Boston district because of the small number of English-speaking members and the character of the industries in which the party membership was em- ployed in his territory. Because of the achievements of the Finnish national convention, the Fin- nish branches of District 1, constitut- ing the overwhelming majority of the membership in this section, are now responding quite well to reorganiza- tion. The city of Boston has been di- vided into seven sections, 375 out of the 425 members in the city have re- gistered for reorganization. Lawrence is already partially reorganized. A big shop nucleus is expected in one ef the textile mills in Maynard. Shop nuclei are being organized in the shoe factories of Peabody and Lynn. In Brockton two shop nuclei are already functioning. Lanesville, West Con- cord and Fitchburg have already been reorganized, New York Does Good Job. Comrade Stachel, reporting for District 2, gave an elaborate and in- | structive report of the substantial pro- gress and good ‘results achieved by the New York district in the reorganiza- tion campaign, 2,800 members were re- gistered in the city of New York alone. Real difficulty has been met in the lo- cal Finnish branches, Scores of com- rades were mobilized for the reorgan- ization campaign after being given specific instructions on how to handle the problems, The language bureaus were drawn into close co-operation. The city has been divided into eleven Sections and 34 sub-sections, At the first sub-section meetings held about 1,700 comrades were pre- sent. This is much better attendance than in the old branches for the same territory. Today thére are 207 shop nuclei with 934 members. There are 61 concentration groups or working area groups with a membership of 720. These are really street nuclei con- sisting of comrades working in certain factory districts in whose places of employment there are not yet three or more party members employed for the formation of a shop nucleus. There are also 36 street nuclei or in- ternational branches with a member- ship of 846, More than half of the membership in the street nuclei consist of com- rades working in the building trades. The shop nuclei are well distributed in the clothing, shoe, metal and other industries, The main difficulty at pre- sent is to secure enough comrades. with capabilities to direct there new party units, The nature and fune- tion of the old territorial branches necessitated a small fraction of the number of party functionaries now re- quired by the reorganized party. Preparations Are afoot to complete Our First Organizational “eorganization in New Jersey and Con- recticut. Philadelphia Progress. In reporting as to the progress of re- organization in District 3, Comrade Tallentire told of the opposition to teorganigation in one of the Lithuan- ian) branches, and the extra difficul- ties incurred because of the anthra- cite-strike. The city of Philadelphia is completely registered and will be functioning on a shop and street na- cleus basis in a week. Buffalo Finishes Registration, Comrade Sullivan reported that But- falo is thru with registration. The Finnish’convention has brought very good’ 'résults in ‘registering the big Finnisii branch of the city. Eight shop nuclet’are being organized in the city of Buffalo, primarily in the steel and automobile industry. Erie, Utica and Syraciise are completely reorganized. Binghamton, Schenectady and Roches- ter ar being reorganized. The Fin- nish ¢éthrades in Schenectady are ob- jecting “to registration. In certain in- stdnces im this district comrades are refusing’ to give their correct names and addresses in their opposition to reorganization. There are several sec- tions of the district which are really company-owned towns and this ac- counts for one source of opposition to reorganizatino, The terrorism of the employers is feared by some of our members, Pittsburgh Practically Reorganized. ] In the Pittsburgh district Comrade Jakira reported practically complete reorganziation, The problem getting the greatest attention now is that of reorganizing the isolated branches. Good shop nuclei have been organized in the steel mills and coal mines, Comrades are meeting with difficulty in working in the shop nuclei without being interefered with by the em- ployers because in this district the in- dustrial spy system is the most vicious and the best developed. The change of employment, such as the transfer from mine to mine, or even the transfer from industry to industry and moving out of the state, have proved a source of interference in the reorganization campaign in this district. In instances where nuclei are com- posed of members of one nationality Comrade Jakira has adopted the cor- rect practice of transferring comrades of another nationality into that nucleus so as to prevent that nucleus from functioning, in any respect at all, as a language group, Cleveland Winding Up, The Cleveland district, according to the report of Comrade Amter, the district organizer, is now completely registered and shop nuclei and street nuclei are being organized, By the tenth of January, the district will be completely reorganized. The city of Cleveland is already completely reor- ganized, Detroit Shop Nuclei Already Functioning, In the Detroit district the problem of reorganization is on the whole simpler than in other districts, Here we have one basic industry, the auto- mobile industry, in which most of the members are employed. There are 16 well-functioning shop nuclei in the city of Detroit. Shop nuclei papers have been issued here and have brought good results. A central tund is being: established for issuing shop nuclei papers, Ten of the best com- rades of the Fignish branch have been mobilized to draw in Finnish .com- rades into the reorganized units. There is some,opposition in the ranks of the Lithaunijan comrades. The Conference South Slavic comradessresponded best to their reorganizations Comrade Owens, the district organizer, told of jthe intense interest being taken by our party members ins problems of unionizing the automobile workers. Chicago First to Complete Reorgan- izations.) Comrade Abern“ mate. a very in- structive report on the experience of the Chicago district which was the first to be completely ,Feorganized on the basis of shop and¢ Street nuclei, District Organizer Aberp told of the complete and accurate pegistration in the district and of. “Proposal, to teach the now Enslign Sepeabere the English language so ag to facilitate their functioning effectively in the new party units. He alsé'touched upon the problem of getting égular reports from the shop nuclei ad of the neces- sity of paying proper attention to the street nuclei in which go large a sec- tion of our membership is found to- day. The new party units have already distinguished _themsélves in The DAILY WORKER campaign. In the city of Chicago there are 28 shop nuclei with 180 members. Ninety of these members beloug to unions. On the whole, reorganization has been takes with enthusiasm fi this district, A new spirit of respong{bility has been developed in the rank: i. There are 40 street nuclei in the city of Chicago. The average membership of the street nuclei is 17. There are now function- ing shop nuclei in department stores, clothing factories, millinery factories, car building corporations, automobile factories, railroad shops, steel mills, city transport lines, and coal mines, Difficulties in Agricultural Section. The Minneapolis district is on the whole not an industrial district. Most of the branches here are isolated. The overwhelming majority of the mem- bership here is Finnish. There are at least 20 farm branches here. Sever- al branches are located in the Iron range. The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have already been reorgan- ized and are now fun tioning on the shop and street nuclei basis, accord- ing to the district or anizer’s report. The West Falls jnto Line. The organization peng has 1@, district ‘organ- a‘ |, San Francisco that registration there is. practically completed. In the of Tacoma, Washington, there ate already func- tioning three shop nuclei and one street nucleus. In Seattle tlrere are being or- ganized eight shop nuclei. The re- mainder of the comrades will be in Street nuclei. Im Sayprancisco there are eight shop and seven street nuclei, In Fort Bragg theréfare three shop The political committee is di- | ATTEND REORGANIZATION | MEETINGS! DISTRICT FOUR OFFICE ADVISES MEMBERS BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 5 — In accordance with Instructions sent to all city central committees and branches, reorganization of- the party units in District Four will take place under the direction of the district organizer who will visit every city in the district in the course of a tour as follows: Schenectady—Thursday, Jan. 7, at 8 p. m, Utica—Friday, Jan, 8, at 8 p. m. Syracuse—Saturday, Jan. 9, at 2p.m, Ithaca—Sunday, Jan. 10, at 10 a.m. Binghamton—Sunday, Jan. 10, at 7:30 p. m, Jamestown—Monday, Jan. 11, at 8 p.m. Erie, Pa.—Tuesday, Jan, 12, at 8 p.m. Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Thursday, dan, 14, Rochester—Final reorganization meeting Sunday, Jan. 17, at 2 p, m. LIEBKNECHT MEET CHICAGO, IlL—To commemorate the work of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, a Liebknecht-Luxemburg memorial meeting will be held Friday, Jan. 8, 1926, 8:00 p. m., at Northwest Hall, corner North and Western Aves., under the auspices of the Young Work- ers League of Chicago, Max Shachtman, Earl R. Browder and Sam Darcy will be the speakers at this meeting. In addition to the speakers an interesting program has been arrariged. Admission will be 25 cents. The young workers will always re- member the fight which Liebknecht and Luxemburg carried on in the in- terest of the working masses. Partic- ularly will the young workers remem- ber Liebknecht who at all times gave aid to the youth in their struggles. His book, “Militarism and Anti-Mili- tarisn.,” pointed out to the young workers the menace of militarism. For writing this book Liebknecht was sen- tenced to prison. The workers will never forget when with the co-operation of the social democrats, the tools of German capi- talism murdered in cold blood Lieb- knecht and Luxemburg. nuclei. In Eureka there are three shop nuclei. The San Francisco district vill be completely reorganized by the 0th of January. Youth Secretary Reports. Comrade Darcy, national secretary ot the Young Workers (Communist) League of America, stressed the neces- sity for closer co-operation between the league and the party. He pointed out the need for the district organ- izers getting to work in the campaign to establish a league unit in every Place where there is a party unit. Another Big Conference Soon. Another organization conference will be held soon. It is now four months since the na- tional convention was held. It appears eretain that the entire party will be reorganized completely in less than the period provided for by the conven- tion. The reorganization has been met with greater enthusiasm and energy than the most optimistic in our ranks have hoped for and our main task at this time is to activize, to energize, the new shop and street nuclei, to make out of these units real living, fighting units of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. DELEGATES MUST ATTEND SECTION CONFERENCES IN LOCAL CHICAGO Election of delegates to the. gec- tion conferences by the shop and street nuclei of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, Local Chicago have in most instance already taken place. The dates and places of the section conferences are as fol- lows: i Section No, 5, ‘Wednesday, Jan. 6, at W. Carmon, 2406 North Clark street. Section No, 6. Thursday, Jan. 7, at Biltmore Theater, 3rd floor, 2046 W. Division street, PHILADELPHIA IS NOW BEING — COMPLETELY REORGANIZEO ON SHOP AND STREET NUCLEI BASIS PHILADELPHIA, Pa.; Jan, The city of Philadelphia is now being /olutionary plays. completely reorganized on the basis of shop and street nuclei, The city has been divided into four sections, which will hold meetings |o'clock there will be supper served during the coming w rades definitely to the various units. Indications are that there will be 25 promising shop nuclei in this city, and 16 street nuclei. Altho at the beginning most of the members will be in |¥! b@ many side attractions includ- the street nuclei, it hoped that with ———————________ the active work of the shop nuclei, many new members grill be gained in- tu the newly reorganized party. The section meetings will take place at the following places, and on|tions should take note and be the following da ‘ } Section 3—Januaty 7, 4035 Girard Ave. POM Peer Section 4—January/12, place to be announced later. The comrades in the various sec: sure to be present at theit wection meet- ing, to be assigned definitysy to their eS ne } FOR CHICAGO}; WITH TE CONDUCTED - BY TH Start Campaign for Admittance New York. The A committee Dear Brothers: Boss: ers are organizing themselves. than anybody else in the building t into unions and you are not. tion has never bothered about you, into the union. is worthy of remaining a slave.” ‘protest, if they will not demand of remaining in the position they are The Plumbers’ Helpers’ Club You can do this only through sent all plubers’ helpers, of the Helpers’ Club of the Bronx. A cli HELPERS. We have Bronx. street Every conscious plumbers’ the Bronx. Tell every helper you to the meeting. sll El acs OTR a Bcd SE A Mtge MUSSOLINI AND CAL T0 RECEIVE KNOCK-OUT At Detroit Liebknecht Meet DETROIT, Mich.—To commemorate the martyrdom. of Comrades. Lieb- knecht and Luxemburg and to dem- and = devo- tion to the cause for which they lived and died the Young Workers League is arranging a mass meeting to take pleae Sunday, Jan. 10, at 2 o'clock in the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin. This meeting will be addressed by nation- ally known speakers and there will also be music, mass singing and rev- After the mass meeting which will last until five ent until eight when the dancing will begin. During the supper hours there ing the AllImperialist Base Ball Team, Come and knock Mussolini and Cal out. Subscribe to or helpers’ club in the Bronx. ganization meeting appears below. “To All Plumbers’ Helpers of the Bronx: You, better than anybody else, know under what cruel conditions the plumbers’ helpers are forced to work. ‘ The plumbers’ helpers are My stars, the plumbers’ help- then that prevents you from making more than the miserable $4.00 you get? What is it, then that makes you subject to treatment worse The only answer to that is that all other workers are organized All other workers fight for better wages “and better conditions of work in an organized manner and you do not. The plumbers’ union does not organize you, the united assocla- has never taken up the question of the plumbers’ helpers. We must organize ourselves in order to force the plumbers’ union to admit us There is a wise ancient saying: ‘will not organize themselves for that purpose, they will be worthy of you to demand and fight in an organized manner for the UNIONIZA- TION OF ALL PLUMBERS’ HELPERS IN THE TRADE. in Brooklyn and others that are being organized will be in a position to accomplish our goal—UNIONIZATION OF THE PLUMBERS’ lected a committee to help organize that club in the The first organizational meeting will be held on Thursday, January 7th, 8 p. m., Bronx Lyceum, at 3693 Third Ave., corner 170th meeting and create a basis for a strong organization of the helpers in Fraternally yours, commiTTEE FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE PLUMBERS’ HELPERS IN THE BRONX Wm. Margulis. PLUMBERS’ HELPERS’ CLUB IS BEING ORGANIZED IN THE BRONX of Plumbers’ Helpers Into Union NEW YORK.—The Plumbers’ Helpers’ Club of Brooklyn is now out to organize similar clubs in all parts of membership realized that if the club is to carry on a succesgful campaign for the admittance of the helpers into the union it cannot confine itself to Brooklyn only. The club realized that it must call upon all plumbers of New York, all over the country if necessary, to unite in a joint struggle for the ad- mittance of the helpers into the union. The strug- gle for better conditions of work for the helpers means at the same time a struggle for raisir~ the living standard of all the workers in the industry. was elected to organize the first The call for this or+ more exploited than any other worker in the building trade. The plumbers’ helper is getting less wages, a maximum of $4. He is treated worse than any other worker in our industry. Did you, brother, ever ask yourself why it is sq? What Is the difference between the plumb- ers’ helper and all other workers in the building trade? Aren’t you working as hard and in many c harder than any other building worker? Don’t you put in as productive a day’s work as any other worker? What Is it rade? , the American Federation of Labor. , “The slave that does not protest If the plumbers’ helpers will not the union to organize them, if they in now. of Brooklyn therefore calls upon a body which will unite and repre- Bronx.’ This body is a Plumbers’ lub like this, together with the one helper is called upon to attend this meet about it and bring him down H. Simon, L. Chirin, NATIONAL SPEAKERS AT PHILADELPHIA » LIEBKNEGHT MEET PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 5—Lieb- knecht Day will be celebrated in Phil- - adelphia by a mass meeting held by the Young Workers League of Philadelphia at Grand Fra- > (Communist) - e- ternity Hall, 1628 Arch St., on Satur. day night, Jan. 9th. Every effort has — raed rire been made to make this the most out- | standing and significant meeting of © the league for the whole year, Na- tionally known speakers have been ob- tained, The speakers will be; Sam Darcy and Jack Stachel of the nation- al excutive committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League, Yusem, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) League, Rud- olph Baker of the Workers (Commun- ,ist) Party, and a speaker from the Junior group. PIONEERS ON PROGRAM . OF W. Y. LIEBKNECHT MEET NEW YORK CITY, — The Young to complete the reorganization and assign the com-|#24 @ general social time for all pres, | Y°U2® Workers (Communist) League of New York, has succeeded in secur+ ing one of the largest halls in the city for the Liebknecht memorial meeting. In addition to the speakers a fitting Program is being arranged with the Young Pioneers participating in full force, The meeting will be held at the Central Opera House, 67th and ord Ave., on Friday, Jan. 15th at 8 p.m, Admission will be 25 cents, Tickéts can be secured at the offices of the Young Workers League,