The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1926, Page 4

Meetings THE DAILY WORKER Organization Workers (Communist) Party Socted Affairs Reéolutions The Question of Workers’ Clubs By JAY LOVESTONE. la many sections of the party com- rades have for some time been Proceeding with the organization of workers’ clubs. Our policy has been to concentrate first in the actual re- organization of the party into the new units, into shop and street nuclei, and to go ahead with the actual large Seale organization of workers’ clubs only after having achieved, to a sub- stantial -extent, the reorganization of the party. ‘We have already reached that stage in our reorganization when we should examine the concrete tasks of organ- izing workers’ Clubs on a large scale, What is a Workers’ Club? WORKERS’ CLUB is an associa- tion, society, league or club of| workers. These workers are Com- munists and non-Communist proletar- jians. The Communist members the workers’ club are those working- men who w one or more of the former nguage | branches of a particular nationality in the Workers (Communist) Party membe: The non-Com-| and who are now shop or street nuclei. munist members of the club are work- | Oc- be not ers who are not party members casionally, these workers 1 sympathizers. Often th may even be Communist sympathizers, We must at all times keep in mind | chis character of the composition of | the workers’ clubs. These clubs} should, jf at all po: ble, be developed | into mass organizations; but we should net make. them so big as to prevent their proper functioning. What is the Purpose of the Workers’ Club? | JVHE workers’ club has its own spe- cial activities. It may be an edu- cational, literary, athletic or social club. It may have its own library ahd social or athletic center. club, like all other or- ganizations where non-Communist workers are found, can and should serye as a recruiting field for the Communists, for our party. The party members of the various national | groups should enter these clubs and | participate vigorously and construct-| lively in all the actWities of these | clubs. Thus, our party members will | The worker | numbers of workers for Communism. | functioning, living organizations 60/ that our party will be able to have} a better approach to the masses of try. In working in these clubs our party members must be very careful not to be mechanical. Communists do not win and cannot hold proletarian fol- lowers thru mechanical, artificial means, The Communists should do jeverything to develop a genuine inter- jest on the part of the non pro- lletarians in the club act and must themselves strive to win prest- ige and leadership only thru their con- structive efforts, How to Organize a Workers’ Club, HE steps to be taken in organizing a workers’ club are very simple. These steps follow: * 1. Call a language fraction meet- ing consisting of the members of one or more of the former language }branches of a particular national group; for example, Finnish or South Slavic or Lithuanian, etc. Steps should be taken to visit and speak | with those who were formerly mem- failed failed to remain | joining a shop | Everything should to register to in or street be done to the party thru nucleus, win of|be able to influence and win greater | these comrades back to the party, to register them, to have them come to ere formerly members of | It is our duty to make such clubs real, | these language fraction meetings and thus to rejoin the party. 2. At this language fraction meet- ing, the name of the workers’ club to rs of our|the different nationalities in the coun-| be organized is to considered and act- Jed upon. constitution sent rious party units The model recently to the v: should be considered as a basis for a constitution for the workers’ club. 3. At this language fraction meet- ing set a date on which the organiza- tion meeting of the workers’ club is to | club. |bers of the language branch but who | ers’ late and have | for, jone | tionality, be held. Make all arrangements ne- cessary for securing the proper place for meeting. 4. Every party member should bring with him at least one and if possible many more, sympathizers or non-Communist proletarians to the or- ganization meeting of the workers’ club, 5a, Efforts should be made to an- nounce in the sympathetic language press or thru posted notices in the workers’ national centers or in the clubhouses of such national organiza- |tions in which the masses that may be attracted by the workers’ club usully come. 2 | 6. At the first meetingeof the work- club officers shouldbe provided rules of organization and activi- ties adopted, etc. 7. In the smaller towns and cities workers’ club of ayparticular na- let us say, ay Ukrainian Edu- cational Society, may. he;sufficient. In such larger centers as New York or 2 | Chicago it may be necgssary to push the organization of more than one | workers’ club. The party members. belonging to this newly organized workers’ club must serve as a party fraction in this non-partisan society. ,All the rules jand regulations provided for otlier party fractions shall, be. carried out LENIN WEEK T0 BE FEATURE OF NEW YORK PARTY All Activities Centered Around Leninism NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 13.—An in- tensive campaign to carry the mes- sage of Leninism to the American | workers and to apply his lessons to | the problems of the American work- | ing class has been outlined by the agitprop department for the week of January 24, Beginning with the big mass meet- ings in four of the largest halls of New York City and other mass meet- ings scattered thruout the district and sub-districts, an entire week will be devoted to an intensive propaganda of Leninism—and not a district and general propaganda, but a concrete application of Leninism to everyday struggles and life. Party Fractions Active, In the trade unions, there will be | a sale of the booklet by Lozovsky on | “Lenin and the Trade Unions” thru the medium of the party fractions in the unions. In the party units, there will be held 32 sub-section meetings } at which will be discussed the topic | “Lenin and the American Party.” To facilitate this discussion, the agitprop department will get out a_ bulletin which will be distributed thru the sub- by the party fraction in;the workers’ How Our Nuclei Were Formed R party has already quite some experience in reorganization. We have U 0 also had some practical experience in the functioning of our new party units, the shop and street nuclei, But, so far, we have been unable to get enuf of our party members to write about their own experiences in reorgan- ization and about the progress of the newly organized units. No doubt that if the comrades would tell us more frequently about their own experiences, they would be helpin ganization and the activities of the alr We have repeatedly asked the party membership to do so. stimulate the membership’s response yery instructive article telling of the Party of France. Every party member should study this report. g considerably the completion of reor- eady organized shop and street nuclei. In ofder to to our appeal, we hereby reprint a actual experinces of the Communist The shop and street nuclei members should lose no time in sending us similar stories of their own experiences. * e ose who are not employed in factories, were allotted to fac- tory nuclei. In this way, we hope to secure greater political homogeneity for the party. As results showed, this proved to be a mistake in the majority of cases, for the comrades allotted were a dead weight on their nuclei, and in some instances, proved to be destructive elements, The fact was they were not inter- ested in the inner life of the factory, they could not participate in the in- ner work of the nucleus, and as a rule our nuclei were not strong enuf to al- lot to them work outside the factory. Hence the duties of these comrades were restricted to discussing and criticizing without having been able to control or having carried out any of WICKS” CLASSES TO BE RESUMED FRIDAY EVENING All Students. Should be on Time The class in elements of Commun- ism conducted by H. M. Wicks on Fri- day evenings will be resumed this Fri- day evening at 19 So, Lincoln street and will start at the usual time, 6:15 o’clock. The last class was postponed beCause of the Liebknecht memorial celebration falling on that date and most of the students participated in that celebration. The public speaking class will also be resumed the same evening and will . start as soon as the class in Elements 1s finished, or at 8:15. MASK AND of Amalgamated ' 4 of —ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT. ° ° the practical work of the nucleus. We regret, that with a few exceptions the allocation 6f comrades, not employed in factories did not give better results. HE organization bureau carefully HEY should comprise all those! comrades whom we have already | mentioned, according to their place of} abode. Street nucleus of course, does live in one and the same street. For example, let us take Paris and espec- ially the Rue de Vaugirard by the way crosses several districts) then we see that it would be advisable | to organize all comrades into one nucleus who live in this street. The district bureau in co-operation amine each case on fts merits, and determine the boundaries of each street nucleus. And as far as it is possible the inhabitants of one or sev- tions, will be organized in these. Of course, only comrades who are not employed in factories may belong to street nuclei. Their district commit- tee must pay special attention that all considered this situation and took the matter very energetically in hand. In agreement with the C. I. it was de- cided to form street nuclei, Comrades not employed in factories (housewives, porters, small craftsmen, small business people, commercial agents, those following the free~pro- fessions, etc.) are organized in street nuclei, Those comrades who work in small factories, or in such of the medium or larger sized factories where at present our numbers are not yet strong enuf to form nuclei, will as formerly be allotted to the nucleus most convenient to their place of work, comrades, are organized on this ba- sis. It may chance of course that a street nucleus just as a factory nuc- leus will require a comrade to give it a lead, and if-such be so, then the district committee in conjurfction with the higher authorities may ap- point a comrade for this purpose. What Are the Duties and Rights of Street Nuclei? HE street nuclei have the very same rights and duties as factory nuclei. They must deal with all questions which are raised by the Comintern just like the factory nuclei, and try to carry ouf the decisions of the C, I. not mean just those comrades who} (which | with the higher authorities, will ex-| eral streets, one or several street sec-} | those of the factory “nuclei of the | | to the best of their ability in their circuit of activity. Of course, the greater part of their work takes place outside the factor- ies; but still, the district bureau can give them special tasks to win over certain factories where no nuclei as yet exist. Street nuclei in the same way as factory nuclei must participate in all party campaigns. They must carry out the entire -agitatiotal work, the work of propaganda an recruiting for the party in their ow “sphere of ac- tivity. They must to thé best of their ability, endeavor to increase the influ- ence of the party in’ their district. They must also combiné thru district organizations their ‘Aétivities with section agitprop directors. - All of the classes in the New York central school and the section schools will be directed to tie up their re- spective subjects with the teachings of Lenin upon them. For example. the course in Marxian will take up the topic “Lenin as a Marxist”; the course in party history and problems will deal with the question of “Lenin and the Party”; the course in the his- tory of the American working class will take up “Lenin and the American Workers”; the course in Marxian eco- nomics will take up the specific Len- inist additions to the Marxian analysis of capitalist society; the course in materialistic philosophy will have as its specific topic, “Lenin and: Philoso- phy”; the trade union course will take up “Lenin on the Trade Unions”; the workers’ correspondence course is planning a series of workers’ corre- spondence articles on “Lenin and Shop Life”; the course in public WITH THE. Y CONDUCTED - BY TH, Speakers: Special Feature: WODKEDS UNG. WORKERS LEAGUE N. Y. LIEBKNECHT MASS MEETING Friday, January 15th ° - at The Central Opera House 67th St. and 3rd Ave. W. W. Weinstone, Samuel Darcy, S. Don, Harry Fox and the Young Pioneer, Gudisman. Tableau on Liebknecht’s Life by the Pioneers Against the B. & 0. Plan for Students By NAT KAPLAN. HE students’ mévement. of this country must receive some notice from us. This is important at the present moment because of the inten sification of the harmful pacifist prop aganda in our citadels of “larnin’” and what is more important, because of the recent movement towards the con- solidation of all student bodies na- tionally, with the intention of estab- lishing international connections. This was demonstrated by the re- cent Princeton, N. J., conference at which gathered the representatives of two hundred and fifty colleges from forty states. Here there was formed The National Federation of American Students. According to the president of the newly formed organization, Lewis Fox: “This organization pro- poses, first, to secure an increased in- fluence upon national and internation- al affairs in the colleges and univer- sities of this country; .se¢ond, to achieve a closer unity between the colleges of the United States and to promote sympathy and understanding between the students of this country and those of the rest of the world.” An outstanding characteristic of the entire students’ movement is the lack of understanding of the fundamental features of capitalism, class relations, etc. Thus writes Fox: “One of the predominating characteristics of stu- speaking will have speeches on vari- ous phases of Lenin’s life and activi- ties; and even the English classes will same locality, in order to lend a uni- form character to the entire work of this district. The orgapgzation bureau is convinced that if this procedure is observed, then party work will not be neglected either in or outside the fac- tory. Further, it is cogvinced that all comrades will be anxious to start their work as quickly as possible in order to make up for lost time. the opinion that the real basis of the Communist Party Must remain in factory nucleus. It h@pes that all party members will make the greatest endeavors to develop those factory nuclei already in existence, and to form new ones where rfone exist; the street nucleus seems to us mainly a supplement of the factory .nucleus (Humanite July 22, tie WOMAN'S DAY 10 BE DEVOTED T0 DEFENSE OF WORKERS IN DETROIT DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 13—The De- troit Federation of Working Wo- men’s Organizations will celebrate International Women’s Day on Sun- day, March 7, in the House of the Masses. The afternon will be de- voted to the program and the eve- ning will be given over to a bazaar for the benefit of International La- bor Defense. The bazaar last year netted the defense nearly $900, All party units in Detroit are: ur- gently requested to arrange no ton- éicting affairs on March 7. The en- tire party will help make the ba- zaar a sucess. The I. L. D. work- ers are also urged to collect suit- able articles for the bazaar. These BAKERS’ UNION No. 164 may be delivered to the district of- fice in the House of the Masses. Sms tzu reoe uote cnctaaatvnnesgnessncsgtncnenett ea: IN NEW YORK! CIVIC BALL the Food Workers at EBLINGS CASINO, 156th Street and St, Ann’s Avenue SATURDAY EVE., JANUARY 16, 1926 Tickets 50 Cents a Person Wardrobe 50 Cents ; Dancing at 8 P, M. Folk Dances of Various Nations BELA KUN SAYS ALL HUNGARIAN WORKERS ARE DUTY BOUND TO SUPPORT THE DAILY WORKER Bela Kun, who was the head of the Hungarian Soviet Republic during its brief tenure of power, and who is now at the head of.the agitprop (agitation and propaganda) department of the Communist International, sends a greeting to The DAILY WORKER 48 follows: CALLS FOR A “MIGHTY FORWARDS!” N the occasion of the second anniversary of the sturdy daily Paper. of the American revolutionary proletariat, a mignty “Forwards!” Great and difficult is the task that you must master. But the strength of the proletariat ever grows with its tasks, hence you have been able to overcome all obstacles and to keep high the banner once raised despite all storms, Published in the English lan- guage, The DAILY WORKER is the trumpet not only of the English speaking but of all American proletarians whatever their language. it is the representative of the inte Hungarian workers living in America; they a By no means least is of the therefore Guty bound to support The DAILY WORKER with the same enthusiasm and Joyous spirit of sacrifice with which they stand behind their own Hungarian organ. Long live the united front of all America’s op- pre WORKER! ed and exploited. Long live its fearless champion, DAILY BELA KUN. DAILY WORKER WILL FIGHT ITS: tionary working class pre: to the lie-spreading bourgeois press. WORKER on its second annive TUT MLL LULL LLL. LLLL LEE CCoc oc WAY THRU, SAYS EDITOR OF THE COMMUNIST DAILY OF SWEDEN OMRADES:—We send you our heartiest greetings on the second anniversary of The DAILY WORKER. Your fight has been difficult, the usual fight of a revolutionary workers’ newspaper. It is, neverthe- less, our firm belief that The DAILY WORKER will fight its way thru and become the organ of the whole American working class. The revolu- must enter the homes of the workers and farmers, the world around, and work energetically until the social revolu- tion has been accomplished. Hate and boycott, death and destruction With Communist greetings, K. KILBIRN, Editor, Politiken, Stockholm, Offiical Organ of the Communist Party of Sweden, HE Ukrainian bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party and its official organ, the Ukrainian Dally News, have sent “anniversary greetings to The DAILY WORKER as follows: “Greetings to'The DAILY ry. May it become always, stronger in its fight against capitalist slavery. Long live The DAILY WORKER!” HE organization bureau is also of’ | street, on Sunday, January 17, at 2 devote their discussions and written exercises to one or another phase of Leninism. Big Plans, Special articles will appear in all of the party papers and specia) dis- cussions will be started wherever there are party members and where- ever there is the possibility to start such discussions. There will be an effort to give the widest possible cir- culation to the special editions of the different party papers and also to in- crease the circulation of the press as a whole among the workers. The drive for the expansion of the New York school into a genuine Leninist school will begin during the same week. This intensive week of Leninism will be inaugurated by the four or more big mass meetings mentioned above which take place at the Cen- tral Opera House, 67th street and 3rd avenue; New Star Casino, 107th street and Park avenue; Miller’s Grand As- sembly, 318 Grand street; Brooklyn; and Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th street, Sunday afternoon, Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. From then on, Lenin and Len- inism will-be the order of the day thruout the entire party and where- ever its influence is felt. Cleveland Workers to Hold Lenin Memorial Meeting January 17 CLEVELAND, Jan, 13.—The Lenin memorial meeting which will be held at the Moose Auditorium, 1000 Walnut p. m., will be one of the most im- pressive affairs arranged by the Work- ers (Communist) Party in this city. The speakers will be Comrade Robert Minor, member of the cen- tral executive committee, and Com- rade I, Amter, district secretary of the party. Both comrades have been in Soviet Russia, and have a particular message for the Cleveland workers. In addition thefe will be a fine pro- stam. The Freiheit Gesangsverein and the Hungarian We,ters’ Chorus will be give some choral’ numbers. A chorus of 80 Ukrainian workers’ chil- dren will also sing. The soloist of the program will be Miss Menkel, a brilliant soprano from New York, And finally there will be a pan- tomime entitled “The International,” by Comrade BE. O'Hanlon, given by the Proletcult Club under-the direc- tion of Comrade Sadie Amter, Tickets cost only 35 cents and every worker in sympathy with the movement should attend the memorial, RUSSIAN “LIVING” NEWSPAPER OUT SAT. AT WORKERS’ HOUS The fourth issue of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian living newspaper issued by the Chicago worker correspon- dents of the Novy Mir, will be out this Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Work- ers’ House, 1902 W, Division St. The Prolet-Tribune is very po- Pular among the Russian workers of Chicago and usually draws a crowd, 4 dent life to day is the desire to reach beyond bonds of section, class or creed and UNITE AS STUDENTS.” (Our emphasis.) Here we have a typical example: they will go “behind the bonds of: section,” but will unite in- to A SECTION of the . population known as students. And it is in move- ments such as this that there is the bait held out for the student youth of working class parents, who being born into the working class ranks will re- main there, What Fox really meant was that the students will organize in- to a section and go beyond the bonds of class (i. e. the college children of plumbers: and needle trades workers will pledge themselves to the aspira- tions and views of the college chil- dren of bankers, manufacturers, ete.). This is the B. and O. plan of the rah rah boys. That this is a fact is more clearly expressed in one of the federation’s planks. viz: “Co-operation between the faculty and undergraduates in Am- erican colleges on matters relating to courses of study, student government and the administration of discipline. Fundamentally there is ne antagonism between teacher and student.” Such a policy will give the students first class experiences in how to be- come “labor leaders.” The “co-opera- tion between the faculty and under- graduate process” implies: Lewis sit- ting in conference and arbitrating away the lives of the miners for a pot of porridge. Fundamentally, they tell us, there is no antagonism between the teacher and student. Pray whis- per in our ears, are we not living un- der a capitalist dictatorship cloaked in the sham garb of democracy. Are not the entire forces of the capitalist state, the government, the armed forces, the schools, churches, etc., one vast committee for the maintenance of the present system of wage slavery. Are not the instructors, teachers (ex- cept in such rare cases where they are rebels) hired hands of this execu- five committee of the capitalist olig- archy. Do not the teachers and the higher strata of educational officials stand up as the bulwark of opposition to all movements of the students gen- erating from below for rank and file control. It is because of just such “co-operation ideas’y students are so easily enrolled as demonstrative strike breakers, in many cases, The students, particularly those of the working class parents; those who are leaving school to enter the factor- ies, must ‘take a decided stand against such procedure. They must demand the organization of the students from below for rank and file control. Their orientation must not be towards -co- operation,,with the officials, and with the bourgeoisie, but must enter into fighting alliances with the revolution- ary working youth and peasantry on concrete phases of the class strugle. The alliance of the students with the workers _and peasants struggling against imperialism in the colonial and semi-colonial countries has shown the way to the students of this country. CHILDREN’S POOR EYE- |SIGHT DEMAND BETTER CONDITIONS FOR WORKERS GARY, Ind.—Of the 2,044 babies and young children undergoing tests here, one-third or exactly 36.1 per cent were found by federal investigators to suf- fer from faulty vision. The general rotten conditions un- der which the workers slave in Gary’s hell holes are-in no little way respon- sible for this deplorable condition. It is only by the joint struggle for the bettering of the standard of living of the workers and the proletarian chil- dren in the schools and in the indus- tries that we take steps in the direc- tion of liquidating this situation. Gardner . Liebknecht Meeting January 16th 9% GARDNER, Mass.—To commemor- ate the assassination of the founder of the international revolutionary youth movement, the young workers of Gardner, Mass., are to hold a Lieb- knecht meeting on the 16th of Janu- ary at Casino Hall at 7:30 p. m., with Al Schaap who is touring New Eng- land at the present time, as the main speaker. This meeting is being held not only to commemorate the base assassina- tion of our beloved leader, but is also planned as an organizational meeting. Gardner is a typical New England in- dustrial town, having hundreds of young workers employed in its furni- ture and metal factories, These workers are ripe for the message of the Young Workers League and this meeting should be the starting point for the organization of a real live league in this important industrial town, The Young Workers League calls upon all workers in Gardner both old and young to attend this meeting, hear its message, follow the speaking. Kansas City to Hold Liebknecht Meeting KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan, 13.—The Young Workers’ League of this city will hold. its Liebknecht-Luxemburg meeting on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 Pp. m., January 17, at the Musicians Hall, 1017 Washington St. J. B, Sny- der will talk on “The Youth Move- ment of America.” There will be singing and music, The music will be furnished by the Young Workers Croation String Orchestra and other numbers are being arranged. B, Hugo _ Oehler will act as chairman. The meeting is free and all working and school youth are urged to attend and are welcome to bring their par- ents and as many friends as they like, Boston Current Events Class. BOSTON, Mass.—The members of the Y. W. L, of District No, 1 are re- quested to attend thé class in “Cur- rent Events.” It is held every first and third Sunday of the month at 11 a. at 113 Dudley Street, Boston. ill gain much. Don’t miss it. You