The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1926, Page 4

Page Four Organization Meetings THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party i/ How the Agitprop Apparatus is ORE than the other departments of the party does the agitprop department depend for its effective- ness upon a closely-knit, active, and energetic apparatus thruout the entire organization. For upon the agitprop department falls the whole burden of planning, systematizing, and direct- ing the entire agitation and propa- ganda work of the party upon a uni-| form basis—a task that compells it to reach into all departments and into} The very every corner of our party. first steps in our agitprop work are bound up with our success in build-| ing up a functioning apparatus pene- trating the entire party from top to/ bottom and extending to its very roots, the nuclei. The following are some of the main points involved in building up such an agitprop appara- tus thruout the party. 1. District and City Agitprop Di- rectors and Committees. Every city and district organization of the party has its agitprop director and its small agitprop committee. The functions of this committee are to apply and to carry out the instruc- tions of the national agitprop de- partment on a local scale and, upon its own initiative, to meet and solve the problems of agitation and pro- paganda in its own territory, Upon ' | the city and district agitprop com- | mittee depends to a great extent | the success of the entire agitprop work, 2. Section and Sub-Section Di- rectors and Committees. The agit- prop apparatus, however, does not end with the district and city organ- izations, Wherever there exist sec- tions and sub-sections there should be established section and sub-sec- tion agitprop committees under the leadership of section and sub-sec- tion agitprop directors. The closest supervision and direction of these lower organizations on the part. of the district and city agitprop depart- ments is absolutely necessary if | these committees are not to remain from the very first organs without work. 3. Nucleus Agitprop Committee and Director. In order for our in- ternal propaganda to penetrate our ranks and for our agitation to reach the, wide masses of the workers the agitprop apparatus must root itself firmly in the very basis of our party —in the nuclei. Each nucleus. has its agitprop director and the larger nuclei their agitprop committees as well., Upon the nuclei directors falls most of the real everyday work of transforming into life the agitation and propaganda tasks of the party. N. Y. LANGUAGE FRACTIONS WILL FORM NEXT WEEK Dates Given for the Various Groups NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—The forma- tion of fraction executive committees | as a continuation of the process of re- organization of the party will take place here during the week of Jan. 18. The following meetings are to be held: Tuesday, Jan. 19—S. Slavic meeting, 301 W. 29th St. at 8 p, m. Wednesday, Jan. 20 — Esthonian meeting, 1718 ist Ave. Wednesday, Jan. meeting, 350 E. Sist St. Wednesday Jan. 20—Czecho-Slovak meeting, Sokola Hall, 8 p. m. Thursday Jan. 21—Armenian meet- ing, Armenian Hall, 407 4th Ave. On Jan. 29 at 8 p. m. the Italian 20—Hungarian .. traction will be formed at a meeting at 108 B. 14th St. The other languages are making arrangements for the meeting of their fraction. TT OTT TTT) An original story in its first TTL LALLA LLL nL AN ARTICLE BY and articles about by the well-known LEO KAMENEV of Russia RUBBER! Saturday Lenin tssue JANUARY 16 SECOND INSTALMENT OF “THE BEYOND” great French writer HENRI BARBUSSE Author of “Under Fire,” “Chains,” Etc. The executive committee of. the Scandinavian branch will take up the proposition of forming the city exec- | utive of the Scandinavian fraction at | their meeting Sunday, Jan. 17 at 7 p. m., at Vassa Kostel Hall,’ 149th St. | and Mott Ave. | All members of the respective lan- guage sections are to attend these meetings in order to elect a city ex- ecutive committee for the fraction, which will have the responsibility of conducting systematic work in all or- | ganizations in which comrades of the | language sections participate. LOS ANGELES NOTES Lenin Memorial Meeting. A Lenin memorial meting to com- memorate the memory of our Com- rade Lenin and also Comrades Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg will be held in Los Angeles/on Sun- day, Jan. 24, at 2:30 p. m4 in the Music Arts Hall, 233 S. Broadway, Good speakers and excellent musical numbers will be the program of the evening. All workers are invited ,to come and are aésured a very pleasant and interesting evening’s entertain- ment. HUNUUNOUEUUUUUOENEEnEOUUOOUEUUOGGEdUUUGGnenEeeUonuaengerUUUannnn AHS American publication by the LENIN Communist leaders MARCEL CACHIN of France And the Imperialist Ventures of American Capital. in the Philippines—a remarkable article by the secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League MANUEL GOMEZ CARTOONS Fred Ellis A. Jerger Maurice Becker and Robert Minor ASulkoacte/ and get The Daily Worker Every Day and Every Saturday get 5 Buplometb aye If ILY WORKER. AER 2, SR POEMS J. S. Wallace and Jas. H. Dolsen editor { 4. Agitprop Conferences. Period- ically, every two weeks or so, the city or district agitprop director organizes agitprop conferences to which are called the agitprop direc- tors and committees of the sections, sub-sections, and of the nuclei, At these conferences the campaigns of the party are discussed, the work of the agitprop department is careful- ly considered, and detailed plans laid for the concrete work of the next period. In order to be success- ful these conferences must be both regular and frequent, must be pre- | ceded by systematic preparatory work (careful preparation of an agenda, transmission of this agenda to members of the conference, etc.) 5. Speakers and Agitators Con- ferences, These agitprop confer- ences are not to be confused with speakers and agitators conferences. Every agitprop director (district, city, section, sub-section, nucleus) prepares for himself lists of those comrades under his supervision who can be made use of in some form or other for agitation or propaganda work (writing, speaking, teaching, lecturing, etc). It must not be as- sumed that*the section directors’ list, for example, will include the lists of the various nuclei directors because the nuclei are within the Social Affairs Resolutions Organized section, There AP comrades who are quite useful to the nucleus but who are not quite “good” enuf on a section or city scale, In gen- eral it will be found that the lower the unit the more extensive (not the more numerous) will be the list. Once a month or more frequently if possible conferences of all com- rades on the agitprop lists are call- ed at which the political situation and the tasks of the party are re- ported upon, the latest decisions of the agitprop committee and confer- ence discussed, the work of the comrades discussed in detail, and so on. Thru these conferences the comrades engaged {n agitprop work are enabled to carry the party cam- paigns to the party’membership and to the broad masses. This, in brief, is the basic apparatus of the agitprop department. Of course this does not complete the apparatus as a whole, For special work of agi- tation and propaganda special organs are needed and set up but such are but further developments of this basic apparatus as outlined above. This apparatus is fundamental in that it is everywhere necessary and is basic for the whole work., The future of our agitprop work demands its immediate establishment upan a _ functioning basis thruout the party. LENIN. MEMORIAL COMMITTEE MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT AT 8 The next meeting of the Chicago Lenin memorial committee will be held Friday January 15th at 8 p. m. at The DAILY WORKER office, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago. Completion of all arrangements for the Lenin memorial meeting, to be held at the Coliseum Sunday, January 24th, is on the order of business. Every nucieus delegate must be present. All working class organizations are invited. to send delegates. Meeting starts at 8 p. m. sharp. Gary Study Class Closes First Term; Shows Improvement Monday night was the concluding session of the first term of the Gary class in Elements of Communism. This course, like other , classes in South Bend and Milwaukee, is based on an outline which covers the essen- tial elements of Communism in three terms of two months each. This course is a vast improvement in sub- ject matter over the previous course in the A. B. C. of Communism which many of the Gary comrades attended. In the past two months, the sub- jects covered included Capitalist So- ciety and Capitalist Production, giv- en by Comrade Carlson; and Imperial- ism and the Collapse of the Second International presented by Comrade Simons. The presentation of these questions as problems for which the class sought a solution, thereby cor- recting its own misconceptions, arous- ed class interest to a high degree. Due to the shift system of work in the steel mills, the regular average attendance for the entire course was cut to ten. For the next course, Feb. 1, to March 22, a much larger attend- ance is promised by the Gary com- rades. This second term in “Elements of Communism” will take up the Co- lonial and Liberation Movements, In- ner Contradictions of Capitalism, and the Theory of Revolution. Not only has the course supplied the comrades with a deeper theoretical un- derstanding of Communism, but it has also acted as a direct stimulus to party activity. It has succeeded also in interesting non-party members in the Communist movement. You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your PUTT story in it. MASK AND of Amalgamated rT IML LLL LALLA LLL UCU os IN NEW YORK! BAKERS’ UNION No. 164 LENIN MEMORIAL ~ MEETINGS FOR DISTRICT SIX CLEVELAND, Jan. 14.—District 6 is arranging a large number of Lenin memorial meetings, during the week of Jan. 16-24, The largest meeting will be in Cleveland. In_ addition to the two main speakers, Comrade Robert Minor, member of the central executive com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party, and Comrade I. Amter, district secretary, there will, be several attrac- tions. The Ukrainian Worker Chil- dren’s group will “sing, the Freiheit Gesangverein and’ the Hungarian Chorus will contribute a few numbers, and the Finnish ,Athletie Club will give some athletjec numbers. Miss |Menkel, a brilliant soprano, will be one of the main features. Finally there Hy a be a revolution- ary -pantomime...The International,” which will be performed by Slovak and Russian ¢ les under the di- rection of Comrade Sadie Amter, ‘This , meeting (willy be one of the finest ever arri ie in the city of Cleveland and ‘will be held at the Moose Auditoridm, 1000 Walnut St., jon Sunday, Jan. 17, 2 p. m. Comrade J. A. Hamilton Will be chairman. CLEVELAND—Sunday, Jan. 17, 2:30 p. m., at Mbose Hall, 1000 Wal- nut. Sp rs: , Robert Minor and 1. Amter. An interesting program, including a parifomine, has been ar- ranged by the various singing so- cieties and dramatic clubs. WARREN—Sunday, ‘Jan. 17, 8 p. m., at Hippodrome Hall. Speaker: Robert Minor. YOUNGSTOWN—Sunday, Jan. 17, 8 p. m. at Ukrainian Hall, 52514 W. Rayen Ave. Speaker: 1. Amter, Lima—Jan. 18—C omrade Minor, speaker. Newport, Ky., Jan. 21—Comrade Minor, speaker. CINCINNATI — Friday, Jan. Hall to be announced later. er: Robert Minor. Columbus—Jan, 23, 8 p. m.—Com- | Pade Minor, speaker, AKRON—Sunday, Jan. 24, 2 p,m 22. Speak- Hall to be announced later. Speak- er: Robert Minor, CANTON—Sunday, Jan. 24, at Canton Music Hall, 810 Tusc St., E. 8 p.m. Speaker: Robert Minor. YORKVILLE—Sunday, Jan. 24, 7 P. m. at Miners’ Hall. Speaker to be announced later, Neffs—Jan, 24, 2 p. m—Comrade John Williamson, speaker, You bring the t Communist move make your argu 8 you bring their artic iT WORKER to your,.shop, f he DAILY 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 SO TUTTI LLL LL ILLL ELLE EL one city to another, of from $1 to $4 a seat, CHICAGO SECTION CONFERENCE LAYS OUT FUTURE WORK Agitprop and Industrial Work Is Stressed The six section conferences held be- tween Jan, 2 and Jan. 9 in Chicago by the Workers (Communist) Party were very successful in taking up an im- mediate program of work which will ald in getting the nuclei functioning on a healthy basis. The points especially stressed were The DAILY WORKER drive in the form of subscriptions, distribution of bundles at factories and obtaining the names and addresses of workers by all of the nuclei who are to subscribe for these workers to The DAILY WORKER for a period of three weeks. The agitprop activity was gone into and the sections and sub-sections are to hold at least one membership meet- ing a month to take up some special educational or political subject. The first of these lectures is to be on “Lenin and Leninism.” Plans were laid for development of the party fractions, T, U. E. L. activity, at- tendance at local unions, ete. Every member is being checked up as to his attendance at the various meetings. The industrial department is beginning to call a series of meet- ings, trade by trade, of the party mem- bers who do not belong to the unions. Every eligible comrade will be in- structed at these meetings to join a labor union. Attendance at shop and street nucle{ meetings is the prerequisite for carrying out the program of work, of the party. This was strongly stressed and each nucleus instructed to form a committee for mobilization of the party members at nuclei meetings. This committee will keep after the non-attendants systematically until nuclei attendance is at its highest. The need of party direction and the program of work in language fraternal organizations, workers’ clubs, and cultural ‘societies was taken up. The district committee has adopted a pol- icy and program of activity for work in these organizations in accordance big the special conditions’ in this city, Increase of worker correspondents, systematic sale and distribution of Party literature, party campaigns such as the labor party, Council for Protec- tion of Foreign-born, defense and rec- ognition of Soviet Russia, were othet points of discussion. Section Committees Elected. The settion conferences elected per- manent section committees to replace the provisional ones thus far in exist- ence. In every section the majority of the section conimittee elected is in line with the policy of the Party in its program of work and basis for uni- fication of the party. With the per- manent section committees now estab- lished the work of the shop and street nuclei in Chicago will no doubt receive a decided impetus. “Liebknecht’s Death” to Be Staged in N. Y. at Memorial Meeting NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—On Sunday evening, Jan, 17, at 8 p. m., there will be a Liebknecht-Luxemburg memorial at the Hungarian Workers’ Hall, 350 E. 81st street. A very good program, consisting of recitations, singing by the Uthman Singing Society, a play “Liebknecht’s Death,” mass recitation and mass singing, has been arranged. The mem- bers of the German section are doing their best to bring to the minds of all here the deep sorrow and spirit existing amongst the workers of Ger- many in those January days. Comrades, we hope you will come and bring friends and sympathizers. A very small admission tee of 25 cents is being charged. Don’t forget Sun- day, Jan. 17, “The Miracle” Will Be Shown at Auditorium Morris Gest is bringing his specta- cular production “The Miracle” to the Auditorium Theater of Chicago for a six weeks engagement to begin Feb- 2nd and close March 20. Two years ago “The Miracle” had its premiere under Max Reinhardt’s management in New York at the Century Theater. The story basis of “The Miracle” is Maurice Maeterlinck’s “Soeur Bea- The dramatization of the book was done by Karl Vollmoller, and the musical setting by Engelbort Humper- dinck, composer of the musical clas- sics, “Hansel and Gretel” and “Koen- igskinder, ‘The Miracle” has the most lavish setting ever attempted in any theatri- cal production, It has been described as a glittering panamora of exotic color. It is 80 large and so massive that only a few cities have theaters large enough to make the presenta- tion possible and these must be al- most completely rebuilt to accom- modate it. It requires thirty railroad cars to transport “The Miracle” from Tickets to all the performances in- cluding the opening night and ma- tinees on Lincoln's and Washington's birthday will be on the regular scale The Lenin Drive means quick action—send your sub today! RED SPORTS INTERNATIONAL ~ SUPPORTS WORLD UNITY OF WORKERS’ SPORTS MOSCOW, U. 8S, S. R.—For some time the Red Sports International has been making definite approaches towards the Lucerne Sports Internatiaonal for the unification of the world’s labor sports front. Recently a delegation of the R. S. I. took a journey to Paris to attend the conference of the L. 8, I. in connection with this important question. There a decision was made on the question which altho half-hearted is nevertheless a step forward. The following is the decision of the enlarged session of the presidium of the R. S. I, on the report of the delegation: The next task of the R. S, I. con-+———————$$—$—_________—. sists in strengthening and developing its- work for the realization of the world unity of the workers’ sport movement. In the center of this ac- tivity among the rank and file mem- bers of the L. S. I. must be the follow- ing points: (a) The R. S, I. does not want maneuvering but real unifica- tion; (b) the R. 8. I. is a non-party world organization of working class sportsmen on the basis of the class struggle (the secretariat has to elab- orate concrete organizational conclu- sions); (c) campaign among Lucerne members to enlighten them to the meaning and the half-heartedness of the Paris decision which is neverthe- less to be looked upon as a step for- ward; (d) extensive practical utiliza- tion of the Paris decision for our decision for our struggle for unity. 1, By agitation for the formation of a joint committee of both Interna- tionals, for the purpose of arranging and regulating joint sport actions of the various sections of both Interna- tionals and for ‘holding competitive sport functions on an international scale (Vienna and Berne competitive games in 1926), This committee will have to examine the question of the participation of the L. S. I. in the or- ganization of the world Spartakiade. This slogan of a joint committee must be represented as acceptable for the |L. S. I, and not contrary,to the de- cisions made in Paris. In addition the R. S. I. deems it necessary to address a short letter to the L. S. I. on this matter. 2. By the R. S. I. Soviet sections inviting the C, C.’c of the various L. S, I. sections, first and foremost the German section, to organize joint sport competitions. It would be advis- able to send an invitation to German sportsmen already in the coming win- ter season, 3, Agitation for the unification of both internationals is to be continued and intensified, and efforts must be made within the L. S. I. sections to- wards the convocation of any emer- gency congress of the L. S. I. After the plenum of the R S. I. the bureau of the L. S. I. is to be approached with new concrete proposals concerning this. matter. The activity for the popularization of the Soviet workers’ sport ‘move- ment abroad may be considered inade- quate. The secretariat will proceed with the elaboration of concrete pro- posals for the development of the ac- tivity, for instance, organization of exhibitions abroad, etc., with the par- ticipation of the W. B>F. K. (Supreme Council of Physical Culture) of the R. S. F. S. R. and in agreement with it, The competent authorities should be asked to solve, as soon as possible, the questions concerning the Sparta- kiade and the international red stadi- um, and to give an impetus to the pre- liminary work and propaganda abroad (publication of photographs of the I. R. S. (international red stadium) and | of the plan, drawings, etc). More importance should be attached to the activity in the Scandinavian countries, especially Norway and Swe- den, as the L. S. I. is endeavoring to organize its sections there. .The for- mation of sections of both internation- als in those countries is considered inexpedient. The secretariat is to be instructed to elaborate in the course of eight days concrete proposals with respect to this question and to realize same, Our work in the west strengthened and to be popularized “in the west. The regular monthly publication of the Proletarian Sport, a German edi- tion, is to be endorsed. The decisions of the Paris congress of the L. 8S. I, should be popularized inthe U.8.8S.R, . We Note a Correction This note is of special interest to those who have already secured their copies of the pamphlet, Lenin, Lieb- Knecht and Luxemburg, written by Comrade Max Shachtma The difficulties entailed in the prep- aration and publication of this pamph- let have resulted in a number of er- rors creeping into the context of this little brochure, We call the attes tion of our readers to the tollowing corrée: tions Page 4, Line 2, should read: “when German nationalism had won its first victory and.” Page 12, Paragraph 2: Neither Luemburg nor Karsky and Jogisches were ever members of the P. P. 8. They fought its opportunism from the beginning and shortly after the form- ation of the P. P. S. were instrumental in founding the Social Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania. Page 22, Line 28, should read: “rey- olutionary wave.” Page 26, Line 23, should read: “even in Russia a capitalist economy was rapidly overtaking.” Page 27, Line 18, should read: “In 1903, the second congress of the So- cial Democratic Labor.” Page 27, Line 35, should read: “Third Congress of the Social Demo- cratic Labor Party (which was com- posed only from the Bolsheviks).” Page 27, Last Paragraph: Lenin’s attitude towards the slogan for the 1905 revolution must not be confused with Trotsky’s. Lenin demanded the slogan of the revolutionary dictator- ship of the proletariat and the peas- antry. Page 28, Line 2, should read: “arose and fought to seize power and altho the Mensheviks were numerical- ly.” Page 28, Last Paragraph: the im- pression should not be lefi that prev- ious to the Lena massacre the Bol- sheviks had not carried on revolution- ary propaganda. At all times the Bol- sheviks sought~to combine legal and illegal work among the masses. is a Page 31, Line 23, should read: “rev- olutionary movement. After Marx he was the greatest thinker.” Pittsburgh League to Hold Member Meet for Mass Work PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 14.—There is going to be a membership meeting of the Y. W. L. members in Pittsburgh at which every member must be pres- ent. Very important matters will be taken up. It is of the utmost import- ance that all league members in Pitts- burgh attend this membership meet- ing. The following is the agenda for the meeting which will be held at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Sunday, January 17, at 8 p. m. 1. Doubling of the membership. 2. Running of a sub campaign for Young Worker in Pittsburgh. 3.. Work in the trade unions. 4. United front campaign in Pitts- burgh (which D. E. C. is starting), 5° Building up the Pioneer section of the Y. W. L, 6. Ways and means of raising of finance for the district. ‘ It is the most important meeting of its kind, in the history of the Pitts- burgh Y. W. L., and it is a step in the direction of mass work. The membership of the Pittsburgh league was at a standstill. We must con- sider how to get new blood in, how to increase our influence. Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? Liebknecht Lenin Luxemburg By Max Shachtman. : A pamphlet on the lives of the one most universal and two most heroic leaders of the working class, The only special booklet to be issued for the Lenin-Liebknecht meetings. Well written—attractively bound—illustrated with three beautiful photos. Single Copy 15c. Orders 10c, Published by the Young Workers (Commun- ist) League of America 1113 W. Washington Bivd., CHICAGO, ILL. Bundle