The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1926, Page 2

LENIN says It is a complete misapprehension to suppose that precisely the literates and almost exclusively the literates (in the professional sense ® of the word) are capable of successful work upon a newspaper. The reverse is the case; the newspaper does not awaken to real life or DAILY WORKER FORCES CLEAN-UP OF DIRTY SPOTS Flush Germ-Laden Cor- ners at Armours { No sooner did The DAILY WORKER start exposing the rotten conditions In the Armour & Company meat pack- ing plant and the company-owned and controlled conference board, than the packers got busy to clean up some of the filthy, germ-breeding spots on the hog killing floor, First they swept out the old rags and scoumulated filth and then they turned on the hose and flushed these corners. The men on the killing floor could not help smiling when they saw these antics of the company to look “clean” and make it appear as tho the plant was always kept that way. According to one of the health in- wpectors on the floor these corners should be cleaned regularly and the filth not allowed to stand for months or a year. Clean-Up Locker Room! ‘After they had flushed out these gorm-breeding corners, then they went into the locker rooms. Here they had some of the silme and filth swept out. ‘This hag not made the locker room any better for the workers as they miust still stand in the filthy water that comes thru the ceiling. Only a part of the slime has been removed. ‘The men will still have to watch their step or go home with filthy foul smelling slime all over their shoes. Want Individual Towels. Now instead of two towels they have pat four in the washroom. Four towels for over 150 men! What the men want fs an Individual towel and not just four towels, Many of the workers in this de- partment who have read the articles appearing in the DAILY WORKER know that the company fs only clean- ing up these dirty spots because they fear the expose which The DAILY WORKER is making of the rotten sanitary conditions in the “yards.” six LENIN! HIS ONE AMBITION TO CHAMPION THE CAUSE OF THE PEASANTRY AND PROLETARIAT By ROMA, Worker Correspondent. WHEELING, W. Va., Jan, 15—LENINI beloved, and yet so hated! Never has there been a name so Beloved by the oppressed of the world; hated by the powerful exploiters of humartity who live on the blood of the wage slaves! LENIN! A name symbolic of afl that is best in mankind, of one who devoted his life to the csuse of right, of truth, of justice to the working class—the Communist principles! LENINI He planned undertakings and made them come true. proved to the capitalist world that Communism is possible. proletariat of that most militaristic and monarchist country, Russia! established them on a more solid economic and political basi He He and against great odds led the country thru a period of turmoil, strife, capitalist offenses, starvation and brot the oppressed workers to victory and prosperity. He realized the necessity of uniting the peasantry and the proletariat of} the cfties, for only thru unity of all workers, whether Industrial or agricul. tural, can the proletarian dream be realized. Here was no eégoistic Napoleon, boastful Caesar, or ambitious and selfish: Alexander. Here was a man whose very simplicity made him great, and whose sole ambition embraced the cause of the oppressed and down- trodden. Lenin—Successor to Marx By FRED HARRIS, Worker Correspondent. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—With the approach of January 20, the thoughts of every revolutionary worker turns to thie day of two years ago, when the world stood still for a moment, to take note of a world event, Lenin's death. Reactionaries heaved a sigh of relief and a hope for the termination of the Russian revolution. Those not well posted on world affairs looked around inquiringly, asking as to the identity of this man Lenin. Those of us, who were more enlightened, stood aghast, hoping against hope that this terrible news might yet prove to be a lie... But, alas, affirmation soon came forth. Lenin was di id, Today then, looking in retrospect, we might ask the question: What is the most outstanding achievement of Lenin’s life-time activity? Labriola wrote that Marx did not write a prologue of a new society, but rather wrote the epilogue of dying capitalism. Taking this argument as our basis, we can say then that if Marx wrote the epilogue of capitalism, Lenin continued this work of world |Unemployment Grows He freed the | in Perth Amboy as 2 More Factories Close By JAMES SZEPESY. (Worker Correspondent) PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—Perth Am- boy is quite an industrial town with @ population of 48,000. It has copper works, lead works, chemical, cable, | pottery and other fa¢tories. I was without a job and called on these factories and most places an- swered they don’t need any help they don’t know what to do with the help they have at present> The local capitalist paper, the Perth Amboy Evening News, carries very few help wanted ads but nevertheless many workers can be found at the fac tory gates in the morning looking for work, About a year ago the local steel works employing about 300 men closed down and is still closed. Not so bong ago (about four months ago) a phono- graph factory closed and now the local Embed Art corporation factory closed. The last two factories claimed bank- ruptcy, Leninjsm on the Job. By CHARLES ERICKSON, (Worker Correspondent) N every job, where there may be found one or more aggressive workers, fighting for the interests of the workers on that Job, that worker is usually found to be one who ad- heres to the teachings of Lenin. 302 drama, and nét only wrote but also staged the prologue of the world revolution, toward a new and better society. To do that, is an achievement unequalled thruout the annals of history. ON THIS DAY... | By A. ©. MILLER, (Worker Correspondent) WILLISTON, N, D., Jan. 15.— On the anniversary of the death of our beloved comrade, Vladimir I, Lenin, in justice to him, let us likewise give a thought to those comrades who s0 LENIN AND THE REVOLUTION FOR WHICH HE LIVED AND DIED LIVES AND BREATHES IN THE MASSES By J. J. WHITE, Wo GIRARD, O., Jan. 15—One of the anniversary of Lenin’s death is the und. capitalist class. rker Correspondent. things that comes to my mind on the ying hatred he manifested against the His talks with workers in all the countries he visited in his stormy career shows a continual searching out of thelr mental reactions to the capitalist system, and he ever had as the first and last point in his life work the wiping out from the lives of the workers the burdens placed| upon them by capitalism, He stored | his splendid mind with these faets| and he marshalled them in every as- sault on the master class. Another thought that comes to my mind on this day is Lenin’s devotion to and almost religious belief in the masses. This is one of the greatest and inspiring facts that stands out in all his lite. Even when exile shut him out and away from the workers | hie only thot was for them. His great-| est monument is the inspiration and| love and devotion and faith he brot to life and built in the hearts of the| masses. | Lenin and the revolution for which | he lived and died lives and breathes} in the masses the world over. Leninism Lives! By HENRY VICTOR. (Worker Correspondent) When the news of Lenin's death re- sounded thruout the world the sorrow ot the working class for whom Lenin fought and died and the frank re- joicing of the capitalist world over the death of a great working But they svon real- Leninism leader was heard. ize that tho Lenin died lives. PROLET-TRIBUNE, LIVING RUSS NEWSPAPER, TODAY AT THE WORKERS’ HOUSE The fourth issue of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian tiving newspaper issued by the Chicago worker correspon. dents of the Novy Mir, will be out tonight, Sat., Jan. 16, at the Work- ers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. nobly assisted him in those trying days when just a mistated word would have turned the whole tide of revolution against the people of great Russia, Then as we arrive at the time of the day, the second which we think nearest to the time life parted from his -body and these who loved him, at this second let us raise our hats in reverence to that great leader who gave the extreme sacrifice and life blood, to free the oppressed peoples of the world. After this, let We proceed to carry out our dead comrade’s greatest wish. his last thought, that we work un ceasingly to rid this earth from the scourge of capitalism. Lenin and the Millinery Workers. By K. WOLODARSKY. (Worker Correspondent) Many of the workers in the millin- ery industry, especially women, are still kept im such darkness that the word “Lenin” sounds to them: “Great trouble maker.” Indeed, Lenin was a trouble maker for the class of para- sites—the bosses. For the exploited, Lenin opened a path from the darkness to the sunny day, That sun is also shining for us, exploited in the millinery factories. Let's go forward along the path Lenin opened for us, Comrade Lenin—An Appreciation By SYLVAN A, POLLACK, (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Jan, 15—Altho Comrade Lenin has departed from us physically, he has left us a great legacy. Where else can one find in such a clear, logical manner, a presentation of Communist tactics as in the “In- fantile Sickness of Left Communism,” or for an Insight into the present period of capitalism, a rival to his book, “Imperialism”? “The Proletarian Revolution,” is a masterpiece of polemical writing in answer to the renegade, Kautoky, and last but not least, Lenin’s great work on Communist theory, “The State and Revolution,” must be mentioned. Comrade Lenin is necessary for the stru lish the world Soviet republic. jone, but he has left us Leninism, the knowledge of the working class, along correct lines to estab- Leninism is the beacon light of the new day that is to come! WHAT WILL ARMOUR’S CONFERENCE BOARD DO FOR STOCKY ARDS WORKERS? WORKER ON HOG KILL WANTS TO KNOW In response to an appeal by The DAILY WORKER in one of its recent issues on conditions in the meat packing houses, the article printed below was sent in by one of the workers of Armour & Co, The columns of The DAILY WORKDR are open at all times for the workers of Armour & Co, or any of the other “yards” in the city or the country to send in stories of conditions and what they think of the different company schemes, Send in your story the same as this worker has done! Te ae ee By A Worker Correspondent As the workers in the hog killing department of Armour & Company entered Thursday morning, they were told to line-up, and then they were checked off and those that had been in the plant jong enougy were forced to vote for two “representatives” to the conference board. The four candi dates on the ballot were chosen by a gommittee of two bosses and two ‘ “workers.” The ballots containing the names of four company henchmen were then handed to us a8 we entered the department and we had to vote for two of the candida That is the “choice” the workers have as far their “representatives” are concerned. Conference Board Bosses’ Tool, As far as the workers are con cerned ninety-five per cent do not know what the conference board {s— they do not even know what it con- a sists of—do not know how many boss- es nor how many “workers” and who the “workers” on the boards are. The workers do not know what business is discussed or how the board is con- ducted, All that is told them at Ar- mour & Company is “vote for your representatives to the board.” But in this plant there is a small minority about five per cent—that know what this board is and are disgusted with it. They are fast awakening to the need of a real industrial union in the plant. These workers openly de- clare that this board in nothing more than a company tool-a tool used by the bosses to better exploit and drive workers. Out of this small group is springing up a demand in the “yards” for a real organization, one that will not do the bidding of the bosses but will be based on the class struggle and be a real industrial union and will ,wage war on the packers and force better conditions into the “yards” and keep them thi Has Board Helped Workers? Ever since the conference Poor Famili Tenements by Fire (Special to The NEW YORK, Ji tenement dwellers streets in scanty early today when a $200,000 Swept through a five-story Brooklyn furniture faetory and menaced the of tenement houses for more two hours. One hundred fifty firemen battled the flames for two hours al- though they were encased in armors of ice. Twenty-fiv, them suffered minor; injuries on the covered streets and from exhaust! superinduced by the cold and smoke. Police reserves were summoned to control the crowd of excited tenement dwellers, In many instances the re- sidents refused to leave the threat- oned buildings and had to be forced » the street. Suffering from the cold snd the bitter wind that whipped the flames, the refugees were huddled in a school building nearby stores. The cause of the fas not determ- ined. The Students To the majority dents the greatest the working class stands for an uncivilized mation of sav ages. The pupils do not understanc that the fight Lenin led was against the capitalist class which enslaves the workers, But they will learn. UNION OFFICE HELD UP BY THREE ARMED MEN AND ROBBED OF FUNDS By C. E., Worker Ridesbbsndent, Three armed men inva local, No. 3, of Hod Carriers’, sutlaing Laporers and Common Lal rs’ Union of America, at their headquarters, 1154 W, Division St., on January 9. They stole $200.00, the receipts for the day. The secretary and business agent, Thomas Jakubouski, living at 2130 W. Augusta St., was lined up against the wall along with the members present and told to’shell out, which they did in the fide of the guns leveled at them, # was established in the “yards” there has never been a meeting in which a single thing was brought up which would be of benefit, to the workers. It has in every instance done the bidding of the bosses, From the time that the strike was lost, the union allowed to be smashed, and the conference board created, from that time have conditions in the “yards” grown worse, At the rate that the speed-up pace is set a man is not able to stand it longer than two or three years, The men young in years, become old in mind and body after few years of the speed-up. Nerves shattered, minds dulled, dulled to the point that & man cannot re- member things that happened a few moments before. Their minds are dulled at a time when they should be in thelr prime—in the best condi- tion. When the nerves of the work- ers in the packing-houses are s0 shattered that their hands tremble when their knife if in their hands— the boi lay them off-throw them out on the street--and younger ones with firmer hands and nerves yet to By WILLIAM REYNOLDS, (Worker Correspondent) “ALTHO Comrade Lenin was pre- eminent in practically every Communist quality, he excelled su- premely in initiative, and his other ex- cellencies reated on his tireless per- severance, his relentless thoroness, ‘and his prodigious energy. His talent never found a substitute for work, nor an easy by-path to revolution.” We speak of our party as the van- guard of the workers, as the leader in the class struggle. We use these terms because the party, having a clearer concept of the nature of the struggle and a keener consciousness of the time and methods of struggle, initiates ac- tion in which the more backward strata of workers join with some hesi- tation and varying degrees of under- standing. We recognize certain comrades and groups within the party as leading comrades and groups, because, with relation to the bulk of the party mem- bership, they stand in the same rela- tion as does the party to the masses of the workers. If we stop to analyze the qualities which differentiate the party worker from the other workers m the union, we find that understanding and ini- tiative are the two qualities in which the party member usually excells, As the sources of understanding are usually accessible to all, and the party member has manifested greater ini- tiative in acquiring it, we must as- sume that greater initiative im ac- quiring understanding of class prob- lems and greater initiative in apply- ing it to the everyday problems of the workers distinguishes the party members from the average trade unionists and marks them as leaders. Superior initiative determines leader- ship. Similarly within the party we find certain comrades, sometimes a very small percentage of the party, doing most of its work, and in addition spending much effort striving to in- duce the more backward elements to take an active part. Communist theory and practice in its everyday applica- tion presents no problems beyond the capacity of the average worker. The quality which marks the member lead- er or follower, alert, or inert, asset or liability, is this fundamental qual- ity, initiative. Whether or not one has this vital element can be readily ascertained by an answer to these questions: Do you subscribe to and read the party press? Do you pay your dues and support party affairs without being coaxed or urged? Do you know when various meetings are being held and attend them, or do you find out later and express re- gret? Are you passive when discussion, Worker Correspondents Now Write for The Daily Worker This Namber Must Be Increased by January 13, 1927 to WHEN SHALL OUR CHILDREN SING: “ONCE WE WERE SLAVES, NOW WE ARE FREE”; AS THEY DO INU.S.S. R.? By TOM RAY, Worker Correspondent. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 15—The Communists and the left wing ele- ments of the trade unions in Pennsylvania extend their most sincere ap- preciation of Comrade Lenin and his workers of the world. work in the interest of our class, the While Comrade Lenin is gone to his last resting place, of which we are very sorry, for he would have made a always robbed our class of the prod- ucts of our labor and given us in re- turn a’ mere pittance in the form of The, workers of the world know now that Comrade Lenin was respon- sible for the success of the Russian revolution by his masterful maneuv- ers to wrench the government out of the control of the yellow fakers led by Kerensky, the mensheviks. As a result we do not witness the workers and peasants of Russia suffer- ing under the exploitation and oppres- sion of a brute master class as that which exists in the capitalist nations where the revolution is only on its way. We the Communists of the whole world shall continue the fight against the robber governments and all its ,angers-on including the labor takers nd the yellow socialists et al. We shall make it our aim that our children shall study the same songs the children of the U. S. 8. R. learn: “Once were slaves, but Now we are tree.” Wage Workers and Lenin. By BETZ. (Worker Correspondent) Lenin led the workers and peasants of Russia to their emancipation, and as soon as the wage workers of the whole world learn what Leninism is and means,, the sooner they will throw off the yoke of capitalism and eman- cipate themselves. complete job of the robbers who have Leninism Among Los ‘Angeles Unemployed By L. P. RINDAL, (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan, 15 — An ex-wobbly and ex-radical have a stand at the slave market, selling medicine. Those two fakers every day make “radical” speeches in order to get'a crowd and sell their “dope.” Lenin, the doings of the Bolsheviks, etc., were mentioned by them one day. The crowd listened attentively for even those who disagree with the famous Russian, the leader of world revolution, respect him as a great man. A young lad with a bundle of The DAILY WORKER under his arm “al- ways ready,” was on hand. This com- rade demanded to know what connec- tion medicineselling had with Lenin, Leninism and the world revolution. A Communist mounted a soap box near by. The crowd went there. Sub- ject: “Leninism in World Affairs.” Results: No medicine sold. The “doctor” raved in anger. The job- seekers became fact-seekers. The DAILY WORKER was sold out—thus helping to spread more knowledge about Lenin and Leninism in this open shop city of permanent \- ployment, vagrancy raids and le First Prize: Next Week’s Prizes “Capital,” by Karl Marx, first volume, \ Second Prize: civilization. It was acclaimed as Eng Third Prize: framed. be shattered are hired to take their places, The speed-up system has become so intensified that a worker has not the time to strike his knife to a steel to sharpen it, This makes it harder for the worker as he is forced to work with @ dull knife. At times the chain is so speeded-up that the hogs swing back and forth like the pendulum of a clock making it hard for the worker to make his cut. Mas a worker ever heard of a meet- ing where these conditions were dis- cussed and attempts made to better them? No, they have not, The con- ference board was not created to dis- cuss or decide such matters. The men you packing-house workers help- od to elect to the board instead have helped to put over this speed-up sys- tem and have helped the bosses find ways and means of better exploiting you, It was created to help the boss press the last drop of red blood out of your body. Owned Body and Soul by Packers. Have you ever seen the Armour Oval, which they say is your + “Ancient Society,” by Morgan. plains the development of society from savagery thru barbarism to at the time of its publication. A DAILY WORKER cartoon, original drawing. This book ex a masterpiece by both Marx and ever tell of these conditions in the packing-plants or tell you of a single instance where the “representatives” of the workers ever voted against the bosses? No, you did not. The Oval is owned by the packers, The “re- presentatives” of the workers on the conference board are owned body and soul by the packers and do not dare at any times to oppose their masters, If you workers did put on a repre- sentative that would really represent you, and brought up your demands for better conditions he would last as ‘long on that board as a snowball in July, and would find himself out of a job walking the streets looking for new boss, What has the conference board not done for the workers? The sanitary conditions in the “yards” are as rotten as they can be. In the pork department over 150 men are suppos- ed to wipe themselves on two towels, The sight of these towels ten minu after they are, put up are enough make one Stomach turn, Look at the dresi rooms, Slime all over the floor, One does not dare dress os = pe ® capacity for continued life until 500 or 5,000 non-literates add their contributions to the work of 5 leading and permanently active literates. ‘Lenin Excelled in Initiative and Perseverance suggestions and actions are needed? In short, are you an urge or & drag in party life? As the party strengthens and pro- gresses, this quality of initiative will become at least one indispensable qualification for membership. At present, it represents our sorest need. Today, half the organizational effort of the party is expended in what should be the needless task of urging our members to action. If every member ot the party would energetically canvass his every work- er acquaintance for DAILY WORKER subs, “Save The DAILY WORKER” would soon become a forgotten phrase and The DAILY WORKER would be- come the instrument for party build- ing which it might now be with proper support. Developing Communist in- itiative might eloquently express itself in a sub for The DAILY WORKER from that shop mate with whom you have been talking matters over. The party’s contact with the masses is thru the whole membership tune tioning as individuals in factory, union and social life. Here individual initiative and self-discipline is most needed. A stiffening of party morale in in- creased support of press, defense and other mediums of contact with the masses, is the most urgent necessity of the party. A Bolshevik prodded into action ceases to be @ Bolshevik, Let’s all be self-starters! 1,000 Unemployment Rife in Toledo; Wages Driven Down to “Garlic Rate” By W. J. HOWLY. (Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 15.—A period of depression has cast ite mantle over our city. Unemployment is the order of the day. Jobs are hard to secure, wages are low, ranging from 38 to 50 cents per hour for common labor, eight and ten hours per day, Living costs are high, rents ranging from twenty to forty-five dollars per mon! One wage slave at the Toledo and Iron Works went to the FE when the working hours were cut eight hours per day, and said; “H am I going to buy potatoes, which eighty cents per peck?” And the said, “Eat garlic!’ But the doesn’t eat garlic, because he sixty dollars per week for men. Haters fi ! Lenin and the Scissor Bill. R. FANTHORPE, (Worker Correspondent) VICTORIA, B. C. ~To us here in Canada who ate now only beginning to learn the teachings of Com. Lenin, it would appear that the influence of his teaching is welding all the real proletarian elements together, for-he did not dismiss backward workers with such expressions as Scissor Bill, etc., but addressed them as comrades, His attitude to the misleaders was quite different. He gave his great gifts unselfishly to the working class in their fight with the oppressors, Leninism in “The Yards” By RUFUS P. HEATH. (Worker Correspondent) The workers of the Chicago stock yards and packing houses, feel the need of Leninism. They know that since the packing corporation, suc- ceded in crushing the union, di tions are constantly growing wi wages being cut, hours of labor being lengthened, They know that some- thing is wrong and that something has to be done. The workers’ press is the work of Lenin, Therefore The DAILY WORK- ER fights the everyday battles of the workers, in the same manner that Lenin himself did. ne on the floor for fear he will bring home half the filth of the stockyards. Has the conference board ever dis- cussed these issues in its meetings? Have you ever seen the government inspectors, who are supposed to see that the hogs are free from disease, ever go into our filthy germ-laden locker-rooms or wash-rooms and in- spect them? Have they ever looked upon them and put a condemned stamp on them? These things have never been done and they will not be een a the workers themselves @ company to put in bei sanitary conditions. ‘Ss af What Will Board Do Now? ° ‘The voting {s over. The conference board is elected, The bosses are set for another six months of bull-dozing and bluffing us. Workers, there is but one way to fight them and that is thru organization. We will only gajn better conditions and abolish the rotten conditions in the plant only when we organize into strong indus- trtal unions and show the packers what we think of their conference board and their schemes, yea, ee ~— ? mo