The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1926, Page 4

! Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Organization Meetings Workers (Communist) Party Social Affairs Resolutions Let Us Prove We Are Leninists in Action By SYLVAN A, POLLACK. ‘OW that the party has been re- organized in several districts on a shop nucleus and international branch basis, the problem of making the new units efficiently carry out the work of the party must be met and solved. We must be truthful and honest with ourselves, A real Bolshevik will not, under any circumstances, deceive himself nor attempt to bluff his com- Trades. That is the spirit in which we must face this critical period in our party's life. he problems that we must solve, as well as the entire ad- ministration of the party in the fu- ture, will be diametrically opposite to that ofthe past. In opposition to the old social-de- mocratic apparatus, we now find our- selves equipped with a Bolshevik im- plement to direct us in our Commun- ist work. Luckily for us in America, we can benefit by the experiences that our brother parties in other coun- tries had to face, being able to avoid the mistakes that they did and more quickly begin the actual constructive work of the party. But that alone does not solve the problem. We in America, have our own peculiar prob-| lems to solve, that has never faced our brother parties, and as such, we must find our own solutions for them Question of Language. of The question of mobilizing all the comrades who were in the past active in the old language branches for work in the new units is a serious problem for our party. In many places only those com- rades who have « fair speaking-know- ledge of English are now participat- ing fully in the party life, Many able and efficient comrades, who feel that they cannot express themselves cor- rectly in English are taking a back seat and in some cases not attending the meetings at all. This is a serious problem and must be met) by an ener- getic campaign to make all the com- rades who are not so proficient in speaking English, to realize that they must not let that be a detriment to their party activity and persuade them to get into p work, even on a larger scale than they were in their old language branches, explaining to them that at present there is a larger field for work, Also they-should be encouraged to attend English classes which the agitprop department in the various party centers should im- mediately organize on a large scale. Small Units. An even more difficult problem, es pecially (New York and Chicago) is to make the comrades realize that the new imits are working bodies. During the past few years, the old| language branches, besides being | branches of the Communist Party, also had their social attractions. When a comrade moved from one) part of the city to another, he or she. in most cases continued their 2mbership in their old branches, syen tho it was many miles from where they lived, because they were} used to its environment and enjoyed the companionship of the comrades. Now, that these connections have suddenly been broken and the party members find themselves in ‘small units, with comrades, who in most cases are strangers to them, the desire to attend meetings, and work, is not tackled in the spirit in which it should be. On many sides there can be heard dissatisfaction with attemptipg meet- ings with a few comrades present; not desiring to take the floor to speak, because there is no large audience on hand. Only recently the writer, ex- perienced a very good example: Two international branches, whose terri- tory of activity covers two vastly sep- erated parts of New York City, were meeting in the same hall, with a slid-| in the large party centers,|ing door between them. The attend- ance at each meeting was about ten or twelve, and because neither meet- | ing averaged as many members as the old branches, a suggestion to slide back the door and have a joint meet- ing, thus making one “livelier” meet- ing, was seriously proposed. That is an example of a dangerous tendency that must be vigorously fought. The party members must understand that all of the party units, no matter how small, are important elements in our work. In fact, it is°only by being divided into small units (nuclei) that we can effectively carry on our work, | for the old branche’ iwere not work- ing units, but talking bodies, that could ably “theorize but very seldom do any work, The shop nuclei and international branches are instruments of activity for all party members. They are the means of making comrades work- ers for Communism, They might not have the social and family attractions of the old branches, but they are more effective instruments for our party duties. xi All comrades shonld attend the meetings of their shop nuclei and in- ternational branches and participate in their work. Only ‘in that way we will deserve to be ¢aHed Leninist in action, as well as in name. DISTRICT 8 LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS IN ELEVEN CITIES Following is the list of Lenin me- morial meetings scheduled in dis- trict No, 8 Chicago, Jan. 24, Coliseum, speak- ers, Ruthenberg, Dunne, Max Schact- man, L. F. Whiteman, and a Chi- nese speaker, C. S. Jon. Chairman —Arne Swabeck. Milwaukee, Sunday, Jan. 24, Frie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts., speakers, Earl Browder and Williamson. Gary, Ind., Jan. "95, 7:30 p. mo Turner Hall, 14th St. and Wash- ington, speaker, Tom O'Flaherty. South Bend, Jan. 24, 2 p. my Workers’ Home, 1216 Kolfax Ave. Speaker, Tom Bell. Waukegan, Ill, Jan. 31, 2:30 p. m., Workers’ Hall, 517 Helmholtz Ave. Speaker, John J. Ballam. Springfield, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2 p. m., Carpenter’s Hall, 7th and Ad- ams, speaker, Jack Johnstone. »St. Louis, Jan. 17, 7:30 p. m. Newmeyer’s Hall, 8th and Lafay- ette, speaker, Jack Johnstone. Christopher, Jan. 18, French Club, | speaker, Jack W. Johnstone. Zeigler, Jan. 19, speaker, Jack Johnstone. Place to be announced later. West Frankfort, speaker Jack Johnstone, Jan. 20, 7 p. m., Lithu- anian Hall, saucad E stenined St. GOT A CAR? Anything from a Ford to a Rolls-Royce? If you have— will you drive it yourself for one day for the party? Autos are needed to adver- tise the LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING at the Coliseum on Jan. 24. Call at 19 So. Lincoln St. or call up Seeley 3563. Chicago Organizations | Asked Not to Arrange Dates for March 7 All labor organizations of Chicago | are requested not to arrange any dates | | to conflict with the Polish workers’ | celebration in Chicago on March 7, | 1926, of the second anniversary of their fighting paper, Trybuna Robot- nicza, organ of the Workers (Com- munist) Party in the Polish language. Milwaukee; Wis., Attention! | | | General membership meeting | Workers (Communist) Party Wed- | | | | nesday, Jan. 13, at Miller Hall, 802 | State street, 8 p. m. sharp, | Nuclei organizers are requested | to notify their membership and make sure that all show up. | important matters will At qd Very WITH TIME. Y CONDUCTED - BY TH POLICE STOP PICKETING AT | IMPERIAL GLASS YOUTH STRIKE who endeavor to picket the plant. The government as the tool of the bosses Is graphically illustrated by this event. According to the local press the officials of the Imperial Glass | company were horrified when the¢—— ——— young strikers were actually winning! S°lidarity of the workers can accom: | over to their cause workers who still| Piish. The ofl workers in Mexico | remained in the factory. jafter fighting a strike for many It is estimated on all sides that if| the young strikers continue their mili- tant stand they are bound to win the struggle. The solid front of the] strikers will force the bosses to with-| draw their decree for an approximate 10% reduction in wages for the young workers. The young strikers here must be made aware of a recent occurrance in a Mexican strike to see what the Youth Strike in Bellaire Shows Need for Young Workers’ Conference and Labor Party HAT better example can we have for the living need of a Young Workers’ Conference than the present strike of the young glass workers of the Imperial Glass company of Bell- aire? The conference intends to deal with exactly such live issues. The question of the economic conditions of the young workers will be on the agen- da of this conference. On the basis of the reports a program of fighting demands will be drawn up which will be carried into the trade unions, mines, mills and factories on the ea: ern Ohio section. There has been long a crying need for a political weapon of the working BELLAIRE, Ohio.—Not Gis is the local press belching forth filth oval lies on the heads of the two hundred young strikers of the Imperia' Glass | company, but the local police are stepping in. local capitalism have been ordered to disperse all groups of young strikers | These hired clubmen of ; months not only won the strike but forced thru a resolution in the su- preme court that the Aguila Oil com- pany must pay $1,000,000 wages to | the workers for the time they were on strike. The demands of the young strikers of the Imperial Glass company are: No reduction in wages and the right to organize, Every militant worker must line up in support of these de- mrands. {class which can fight in the workers’ strugles separate and apart from the two old defunct capitalist parties—the republican and democratic parties, Such an instrument can only be the labor party composed of the workers’ organizations. This also will be an important point of discussion at the Young Workers’ Conference, What took place when the young workers of the Imperial Glass com- |pany went on strike? The minute that they tried to picket the plant and win ATTEND REORGANIZATION MEETINGS! DISTRICT FOUR OFFICE ADVISES MEMBERS BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan, 12. — 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: Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Thursday, Jan. 14, Rochester—Final reorganization meeting Sunday, Jan. 17, at 2 p. m. Build the DAILY WORKER. News for Section 5, Chicago On Friday, January 15, an im- portant educational membership meeting will be held at the Hun- garian Workers’ Sports Alliance Hall at 453 North Ave., on the sub- ject of “Lenin and Leninism.” Arne Swabeck, district organizer, will be the speaker, leading a discussion with all members participating. Every member of the party in this section must attend—and all workers are invited. Meeting be- gins at 8 o’clock sharp. Pittsburgh, o, Party School Makes Progress PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 12— The Pittsburgh school, while being some- what late in getting started, will not be outdone by the schools in the larger cities. The enrollment is al- ready around fifty. The first class that was organized is being divided in order that the more advanced may make greater progress, which will also give more opportunity to the elementary students. The ad- vance class will meet,every Monday, at 8:30 p. m., at the Labor Lyceum 35 |Miller street. The elementary class | will continue to méeét at the Interna- |tional Socialist Lyceum, 805 James | street. In addition to these classes will be the class of party’ functionaries, to instruct the comrades in actual party) work, to be held Saturday after- noon beginning Jan. 9 at 3. This class it be conducted by Comrade Jakira, the district organizer, The first class in East Pittsburgh started on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 8 p. m. at the Workers’ Hqme, Electric and North. This clas¥ will take up the course in elements of Communism and will be conducted aby Comrade D. E. Early, who is in chiifge of the educa- tional work in this; district. Efforts are being made ng only to start classes in other places, but also, as fast as the necessary force of teachers can be developed, to earry the educa- tional work into every party unit. Message of Youth Strike Commitigh of Imperial Glass Co., Bellaire, Ohio FORWARD TO VICTORY! To all young workers: ELLOW workers and brothers! We are on strike against the dastardly attempt°of our bosses to lower our wages and we will fight to the end. Everyone of us knows how hard we work for the wages we have been receiving. And what now! The Imperial Glass company is not satisfied in the way they have been grinding our bones for their blood profits. slaves must give us more and more.” cry for less wages for us. They say: “Our wage The interests of the company Our interests are for higher wages. The company has cut our wages without giving as a word or a thought’ We came out on strike, young workers. Young workers! Glass Co. young strikers! local press, FORWARD TO VICTORY! policeman with his still more bulky club, The officials of the company or- dered him to hit on the head any young worker who tried to do his class duty by picketing. This shows us that the government is the tool of the bosses. It is neces- sary to organize politically into a la- bor party and try to ditch the whole gang of crooked governmental ma- chines which support the rule of the bosses, The strike committee of the young glass workers must bring this to the attention of all the young strikers in volved, They must realize that their fight against the reduction and for or- ganization will be a thousand times more effective if the Young Workers’ Conference scheduled for Bellaire on over the other workers to their cause |—the local bosses’ goverfment step- ped in, The representat.%e of ‘this government machine was .$e bulky fe Feb. 28 takes their struggle up and fights not only in this town but all stern Ohio for the interests of the Imperial Glass company worke: We call upon you to recognize the side of the Imperial Glass company and the bosses in general. They do not support us, the workers who are 100% struggle against the company’s wage cut. 200 of our most militant, fighting We will stay out until victory is ours! We demand ow former wages and the right to organize. We call upon all workers, young and old, to line up with us in our struggle. Do not answer the scab ads of thi company. Do not ask for employment there until ti Let there be a solid front of all the young and Bellaire and vicinity behind the fighting demands Imperial Glass strike is over. it workers in the Imperial that the local a Wicpers are on right in our Do not believe this lying It speaks in the name of the “paid ad” and dollar sign subsidies and not in the name of the workers’ interests. STAND SOLID IN THE STRIKE! ) Strike Committ Se eee When the bosses hear that you have allied yourself with such big forces by electing delegates ‘to the Young Work- ers’ Conference they will begin to shiver in their timbers. Then you can truly force them to agcept your de- mands, "Young strike: Line up sol- idly behind the Young Workers’ Con- ference. It is liningewp solidly behind you in your fight, Let us stick to- gether and win! Lenin once wro' the party and of the proletariat!’ life th d (Communist)’ League. | the blocks in order to ascertain the sb The Work of a Factory Nucleus Party of Germany. This report is of the pressing problems which our s) succeed. of this shop nucleus of the German © * * ACTORY nucleus work which was rather neglected lately has again become the most important task of the party. It is certainly quite good for the party that it gives such prominence to this question, but it must be said that there is still far too much dis- cussion and -not enough practical work, Of course, real good work is necessary if officials as well as mem- bers are to be quite clear on this question. In order to approach this work seriously and unitedly, the district executive organized on October 30th an organization conference, which was also attended by a number of nucleus leaders from the existing nuclei. We give below an extract from a report made at this conference by. a comrade who is nucleus leader in a big’ metal factory in the Ruhr basis. i hege factory employs 9,000 workers. The nucleus executive consists of the Pol. Org. trade union leader, the cashier, the reported and the press representative. An important post, that of agitprop leader is not yet fil- led. Owing to victimization which drove some of our most capable com- rades out of the factory, we were, and still are, compelled to work for our further development with the help of comrades who are less capable and experienced. These comrades can only be trusted with some of the less important tasks, which of course, im- pedes the further development of the) nucleus, Much educational work is needed as the political development | of the comrades is making such slow progress. For this reason we were also compelled to change the nucleus executive three times. Lately, the nucleus executive has not held any sessions outside the fac- tory. The members of the executive | meet in the factory itself to discuss} various questions and the work which | is to be done. HEN we were forming the nu- cleus we got into touch with all number of comrades employed in our} factory. With the help of this list we established a filing system. As registration has not yet been fully carried out in all the local groups, it can happen that comrades are employ- ed-in the factory without the fact be- ing known to us. The registration of our nucleus members was done ac- cording to the various departments of the factory (rolling mill, Thomas & Martin works, etc). This was done in order to establish a close connec- tion between the nucleus executive and the factory. On January Ist, 1925, the collection of membership contributions was car- Wage Cut Causes Youth Strike BELLAIRE, Ohio—The strike the Imperial Glass company of at least 200 young workers started when the company tried to force thru an | approximate 10 per cent reduction in | wages. The young militant workers | thought that the company was soak- |ing enough profits out of their sweat | and blood. They decided to resist this | | attempt to lower their standard of liv- | jing. This decision was arrived at in a meeting of the young workers after Dec. 25, when the reduction order was issued. All the young workers including the carrying boys, snappers and vase swingers are affected by the cut. The reduction would work as follows: | Carrying boys from $4 a day to $3.50; snappers from $4.80 a day to $4.30; | vase swingers from $5.50 a day to) $4.90. The young strikers’ committee has | issued a call to all workers to help them in their struggle. More can be done. All militant workers must take this question up in their local unions and in their central trades councils, They must pass reso- lutions of greetings and vows of sol- idarity and send same to the young strikers. The local labor movement must line up in support of the young strikers and utilize the movement for the organization of the unorganized glass workers. There must be a unit ed front between the young and the adult workers; between the organized and unorganized workers; between the skilled and unskilled workers. Today the officials of the Imperial Glass com pany are attacking the living standard of the young workers. Tomorrow they will attack the living standard of all workers. SPECIAL YOUTA STRIKE ISSUE “The Communist press must be the collective propagandist, the collective agitator and the collective organizer of Young workers. Help us put into classic words. This issue of our Young Workers’ Column Specifically with some worker's problem close to your home, Do not throw this paper away after reading it. Pass it along to the young worker next to you, Get him to support the Young Workers NAT KAPLAN, Editor. i lagi following article is a report of another shop nucleus of the Communist very instructive, It deals with some hop nuclei must meet if they are to We recommend that every member of the party, whether he be a mem- ber of a shop nucleus at present or not, should carefully examine the report ommunist Party and try to apply its lessons to our party.—Organization Department, * * ried-out for the first time in the fac- tory. Since then the contributions are always collected in the factory thru the nucleus. When this system was introduced it came to light that during the past illegal period, com- rades were three to four months be- hind with their contributions, This made the collection of contributions rather difficult at first, but today we cannot imagine any better system than the collection of contributions in the factory. Pay day is once a fort- night and collection of membership contributions ditto, Strict control is exercised over this transaction. Thus we are in a position to say that all the comrades have paid in their con- tributions up to the 44th week, which would have been impossible if a col- lection had taken place on a resident- lal basis. The first meetings of the nucleus were badly attended. This made us adopt the method of sending out hand- bills to the comrades. The nucleus has 39 members. Lately the average attendance at the meetings was 25. We have the two shift system in our factory but as only four comrades work in one shift we hold shift meet- ings. In order to give the four com- rades an opportunity to attend also nucleus meetings, we hold them from time to time on Sunday. With respect to the meetings which the four com- rades cannot attend, they are kept in- formed by the other nucleus members of the discussions and decisions of the factory nucleus. At the last three nucleus meetings, questions of no par- ticular importance were discussed. | and at f the other two meetings there was @ lively discussion on the E. C. C, I. letter, All the comrades in our nucleus are unanimously for the B. Cy C. I. letter. E have seven comrades in the factory council. But our Com- |munist factory councillors are not party workers. Altho everything is discussed with them and they are al- ways constited, they do not carry out the decisions of the nucleus. This impedes to a great extent the work of the nucleus, At the time of the no- mination of the comrades for the fac- tory council election, the nucleus had not much influence, as it was not yet on a firm basis. We did good trade union work al- ready before the receipt of the E. C. C. I. letter. For instance, in July, 77 workers who had been quite indifferent, were drawn into the trade unions. With three exceptions the comrades are organized in trade unions. One of these three the trade union refuses to receive as a member. The trade union question is discussed at every meeting. In the factory there is every sign of the formation of a whité nucleus, We have ascertained who its leader is, During the last few days he post- ed sticky-backs in the factories, N° factory workers’ meetings have ‘been held during the last few months, The reformists refuse to have anything to do with such meetings, and declare that they will only hold factory workers’ meetings, to which only organized fellow workers are ad- mitted. Literature is only sold in the fac- tory. Literature sales have improved considerably during the last few days. This is a sign that the comrades are more active. Our literature sales were as fol- lows: February 35 mark, March 14.90 mark, April 15.85 mark, May 43.30 mark, June 24.10 mark, July 25.00 mark, August 19.65 mark, September 46.00 mark, October 39.05 mark, e So Much for the Report, OMRADES, this example, which we will shortly follow up by others, shows clearly that it is pos- sible to form live nuclei everywhere provided the comrades show some in- terest in the party. It behoves all comrades to discuss these practical experiences in their nucleus and to make proper use of them. Altho there are shortcomings in the nucieus and not every: comrade fs probably as active as he should be, it must be acknowledged that the comrades have understood what it is all about and that they are honestly trying to do justice to the tasks. of the party. Above all, our factory coun- cils—altho this does not apply to all of them—should draw from this the lesson that it is their task to give every possible support to the com- rades instead of putting obstacles in their way as this was frequently the case with comrades who are honestly trying to form nuclei. Comrades, show that you can do as much as Nucleus No. 10. Work hard and support the party in its difficult struggle. Correction. In the report of the organization conference by Jay Lovestone there ap- peared, as part of the report on the Philadelphia district, the statement: “Comrade Tallentire told of the op- position to reorganization in one of the Lithuanian branches. .. .” We have received a correction from the district organizer there which we are glad to print, and which clari- fies the situation so that no misunder- standing may arise: “The organization department of the district found opposition to reor- ganization in one of the Lithuanian branches in which @ number of com- rades refused to register, With the help, however, of the leading com- rades of the branch, the opposition was overcome and the branch almost completely registered. The im- portance of this is realized when one considers the fact that a large per- centage of that branch have now been Placed in shop nuclei.”—Organization Department. BOSSES’ PRESS LIES ABOUT YOUTH STRIKE PICKETING of 8/7 hours, TO DISPERSE YGUNG STRIKERS YOUTHS WHO QUIT WORK AT GLASS WORK AT a PLANT ATTEMPT. At FOR LIGHT FACTORY WORK —— Day and Night work alternating weekly. — Wages: Men experienced with working in a glass factory can earn. frdm $3.50 to $4.90 per day, or night, of 814 hours, Be- ginners started at $3.30 per-day or night, ——— The 81 hours are divided into two periods of 4% hours each, with an, hour between. ae Apply for Work at IMPERIAL GLASS COMPANY Bellaire, Ohio