The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1926, Page 11

By JAY LOVESTONE. we are finishing the reorganization Y of our Party. We are now wind- ‘ing up our campaign to build our Party - organization on a Bolshevik basis. ‘This is a most important period in our ‘Party life. No Communist in our midst will -~-challenge the fact that it was abso- lutely necessary for us to reorganize ‘the Party on the basis of shop and (street nuclei, In our reorganization ofthe Party we have not only set up a Party apparatus enabling us more ‘effectively to cope with the tasks of ‘winning the leadership of the work- ‘ing class, but we have also struck »staggering blows at the very taproots ,of Party strife, , If anybody has ever doubted the | ‘absolute necessity of the Party’s hav- | ing the Daily Worker serve as an ef: fective guarantor of its existence, his: doubts have certainly been dispelled | ‘by the role played by the Daily Work- er in the reorganization campaign. The Daily Worker and Reorganization- ET’S enumerate brieflythe ‘serv- dered by the Day Worker in nelle the Baers ahize it- self. si 1. The Daily. Worker has rendered considerable service beside the tech- nical one of giving information as to arrangements, meetings, instructions, and conferences involving the exe- cution’ of our reorganization plans. 2. In order to succeed in our reor- ganization campaign it is absolutely necessary to have a strong ideological campaign in advance,—to deal sledge- hammer blows to the apathy and op- position here and there manifesting itslef in our ranks to reorganization. Only 4 Communist daily could fulfill this task, If it were not-for the Daily Worker's contribution. to the success of our ideological campaign, the Party could never have “proceeded as. vigor- ously as it did in, acty nal reorganiza- ion. The most hope imist in ur ranks cannot paint a dark enough ‘picture of the condition which our Party would have found itself today if we had not moved forward with the speed and energy with which we did in the reorganization .campaign. 8. One of the essential pre-requi- sites to the success of reorganization is to create a condition whereby the “ actual field experences, the actual day-by-day experiences and progress of reorganizatién.are brought home to all comrades. “This | task. was ful- ' S utttssn is By LILLIAN L. BORGESON. ie day thru factory gates and workshop doors, millions of work- ing women are crowding, hurrying to take their places in the industrial ma- chine. Over eight and a half million women in the United States are to- day toiling in the factories and shops, in the fields and on the farms for low wages doled out to them by their And it is still believed by many that these working women represent a con- stantly changing and temporary force in industry; that this eight and a half million, for the most part includes young girls who work for that short ie time that elapses between the time they leave school and the time they get married, But a study of the figures of the con- ditions of the working women in this country will reveal that nothing could be farther from the truth. Ne “Nell Brinkley” Dreams for Working Girl. Five million working women are over twenty-four years of age. And many of the others will continue in industry long after they have reached that age, Marriage does not spell release to the average working woman. Rather it means greater responsibilities and filled by the Daily Worker admirably. The Daily Worker—Party Organizer. B are now pretty well on the road towards completing the reorgani- zation. Our main remaining reorgan- ization task at this moment is to re- organize the isolated branches, Our next drive must be to make these new- ly organzed units—the shop and street nuclei—living, well-functioning units. ‘1. The Organization, Department may work out the best plans for pro- moting activity among these units. ‘The Party niay have the best organ- izers in the fleld. Yet, unless we have a eonstant medium: of effective con- tact-.with the entire. membership of these. units,” we are lost, The Daily Workér fythe best medium for. this purpose, We have no othér “means today at, our disposal’ which ; enable the party center to coordinate and direet, ‘all’ party. Sites ‘all “party | life. *. : 2; “Phére is tremendou our ‘membership in, bein to the Daily Worker: ing the general inst ; ing down the policy . deve oping the Party organization. The record of the progress, the experiences, the trials and the successes of the shop and street nuclei, must be an open book which will inspire our Party to drive further in the task of becoming the leader of the workers. This sort of news is the greatest invigorator of our new Party units. In this fashion the Daily Worker promotes the con- fidence of the party membership in itself and increase the initiative of our rank andgfile in the Party work. The activities of one shop nucleus prove to other shop nuclei that pro- gress is actually being made. This enchances the initiative and desire to work in the ranks of inereasing num- bers of our Party: 3. Thru the development of a sys- tem of effective “Daily’-Werker cor- respondents, our Daily. is welding a bere few in the chain of our grow- ing; ‘Party appa so oe of such an appa being able to win the masses to com- munism. ~Every.. Communist Daily ‘Worker correspondent is a veritable party dynamo in the centers where the proletarian masses are congre- gated. : 4. Above ‘all, the Daily Worker serves to politicalize the Party units. It serves to broaden the concept of our, shop nuclei, members from cen- tering their viewpoint. on mere shop heavier burdens. In a recent study of the family status of wage-earning women, the United States department of labor used as a basis four cities representative of the different indus- trial sections of the country, The con- ditions and averages they found, can be taken as representative of the con- ditions of the five million older women who are in industry. They found in the cities studied a total of 40,000 wage-earning women. Of these over 55% were married. Only 2% of those who were married and working were childless. 53% had children to. care for, Moreover 40% of the working mothers had babies five years of age ‘or under. Lock Babies In; Go Work for Boss. These married women-workers had really two jobs, if not three. Four- fifths of the married women-workers maintained homes, and did all the housework, including laundry, in ad- dition to caring for the children and working outside the home. Many man- aged to get work at night, locked their children in, and went off to the fac- tory. Others worked outside the home during the day, leaving the children in charge of neighbors or “older” chil- dren and tried to keep house at night. And over two-thirds of these women workers, it musf be noted, had an- other wage-earner in the family—the husband, whose paltry wages were an gia indispensable pre-requisite for our The Daily Worker--Builder of the Party issues and to help develop these issues into class issues. For the street nuclei, as well, the Daily Worker is an educator and leader. What Must the Party Do for the Daily Worker? yt is axiomatic that the Party Hfe and~growth are to a great extent tied up with the life and growth of the Daily Worker. But what must the Party do to make the existence of the Daily Worker possible? In the United States, we have the greatest need for a fighting working Class daily to counteract the influence of the most powerful bourgeois press in the world. It is in this condition that.we also find the reason for our having such great difficulties in. main- taining our Communist English daily. The financial, and organzational dif- ‘ficulties are sOevast that they appear id the weak-kneed as the non-Communist proletarian mas- ses. Therefore, the distribution of the Daily Worker must, under no cir- cumstances, be regarded as menial work. The distribution of the Daily Worker is one of the basis, one of our fundamental Party tasks. The literature agent is not one of the sec- ondary officers but is one of the main Party functionaries, upon whose suc- cess depends the progress of many of our efforts. In every trade union the Party members have a field for pushing and putting over the Daily Worker. 4. The distribution of Party litera- ture, particularly the distribution of the Daily Worker, should be a per- manent feature of the regular order of business of all Party unit meetings. 5. The Daily Worker is the official organ of every member of our Party. Every member of our Party should write to it, should write for it. Every Party member should tell the Daily Worker his or her shop experiences, his or her strike experiences, This is one of the best means to make the Daily Worker a living: paper, a paper breathing the fighting spirit of the class struggle. Every Party member can do a great deal to make the Daily Worker a, genuine lightning-rod amongst the non-Communist prole- tarians. y can overcome these PES. | e Party can do almost everyt! ng,=it it has the spirit, the determination and the correct policy for achievements. Our membership has already shown that we have enough spirit, revolutionary determi- nation, and communist outlook to put over an English daily and to keep it going two years under the most try- ing circumstances. The question be- fore us is: Can our membership now rally to take those steps which will give a firm, an unshakable, granite foundation for the Daily Worker? The answer to this question, hinges around the answer to the question of how big an army ‘of Daily Worker sub- scribers we can build. Let’s put the case concretely. What can be done by our Party to give us an army of fifty thousand bona fide regular subscribers to the Daily Work- er? We answer: 1,. Every Party member must be a subscriber to the Daily Worker. This must not be an empty wish nor a pious hope. No Party member can in good standing unless he is a Daily Worker subscriber. No matter what other Party organs he may read or subscribe to, no Party member is doing his full duty to the Party unless he subscribes to the central unifying Party organ. 2. Every Party member must get at least one new subscriber for the Daily Worker. This is a minimum task which no one in our ranks should shirk or turn down. 3. The Daily Worker is one the most powerful links of the Party with Let’s Move Forward. HE last two years—rather the first two years—have been years of up- hill struggle for the mere existence of the Daily Worker. It is now our duty to devote our energies for the development and the improvement of our Daily fighter—The Daily Worker, —~as an invincible champion of the working class interests. “The first guarantee for our being able to concentrate all our effgrts on improving the Daily Worker is the insurance of the existence of the. Dai- ly Worker. The first guarantee for the eistence of: the Daily Worker, for its continuity, is a substantial, a permanent, a loyal army of rib- ers. To build such an army for the Daily Worker—that’s the outstanding task we now face. The realization of this task is of paramount significance for the future of our Party. On the eve of the third year of the Daily Worker, the Party can be proud of its having measured up in the past to much more difficult tasks. We cer- tainly will measure up to this task. This immediate - party goal will be reached with many. laps to spare. Girls “Marry and Quit”? ‘ No, They Get Married But Continue Slaving for Boss, Says Lillian L. Borgeson. not sufficient even to feed the family. }bered, vary according to the section It’s Easy—for the Fat Boss! ot the country. As for example, in Of course, these eight and a half} the middle Atlantic states where ma- million women who are forced into in- | afacturing is the main industry, man- dustry, appear to the capitalists as | ufacturing employs more women than @ group which can be easily exploited. | does “domestic” service, The domestic They are, for the most part, unskilled. | service rate is high because it occurs I in the agricultural and small town Sphy. one Stteatnat thneacaeg egy districts—the “hired girl” territories, where many duties not usually under- stood as “domestic” are included. Personal service, too, contributes a large number to this seemingly non- industrial group. “Home wark” which still flourishes in all industrial cen- ized in trade unions, Their occupa- tions vary, according to the section of the country in which they live and | the industries which require the ser- vices of the unskilled. But the low wages and the long hours of the wo- men in all sections of the country are common to them all. ° For the nation the average of oc- cupations in which the working wo- men are employed are as follows:* Domestic & Personal Service 2,186,924 Manufacturing & Mechanical 1,930,341 Clerical ... . 1,426,116 Agriculture ... . 1,084,128 Professional Service . 1,016,498 included in domestic service—work done in the home, Within the easily exploited group of working women, we find groups which are suffering more than others. The Negro woman, the foreign-born woman, each has her specific prob- lems, a little different from the others. But the problems of all the work- PIER jclerdesccbopsn 667,792 | ing woman of America are essenti- Meeting Aicteg . pf eet ally the same. And her problems of ba service . ’ low wages and long hours, of the Extraction of mine 2,864 double job of factory. and home, of » her pitiful attempt to make both ends Total 8,549,511} meet and willy-nilly help feed and clothe her family, will never be solved until she joins with the working man and over-throws the system which is grinding them both for its own miser- able ends, r These figures, it must be remem- * Table of United States census 1920, tres and is.such a flagrant evil, ie” a