The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1926, Page 5

Lenin Is Dead But His Work Lives. Rally to Carry It On! LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING New York, Sunday, January 24, at 2 p. m. FOUR BIG HALLS Central Opera House Millers Assembly (Brooklyn) New Star Casino Manhattan Lyceum Jay Lovestone Ben Gitlow M. J. Olgin Will Weinstone Chas. Krumbein at all halls. Program of revolutionary music. CHICAGO, ILL. LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING Sunday, January 24, 8 P. M. COLISEUM | NEW LENIN FILM. Three New Reels from Soviet Russia, — Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago. t fi GRIGER & NOVAK U GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) J. 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WASHINGTON First American Publication “Lenin on Organization” Liprary leadership have not only led to the de- velopment of the theories of Karl Marx ‘under’ the present new conditions of * , but also who led one-sixth of the globe in the first steps to a new ‘social ‘order—a workers’ Soviet Repub- The first volume soon to be issued, contains some of Lenin’s most impor- _ tant contributions to Communist theo- ry: all the spoken and written words of Lenin on Organization. Here is the es- sence of the great theory of Lenin: ap- plication of Marxism to the present period of capitalist imperialism ex- pressed in terms of ACTION. er ee rT TILLMMLLMM MMM In this volume is material issued for the first time in America and of interest to every worker who gives serious thought to his problems. “Lenin on Organization”—volume one of the LENIN LIBRARY—is a work that Publication Date About February 15. DAILY WORKER MPERIALIST CUSTOMS ROW DELAYS MEET Japan Seeks Preferred Import Taxes PEKING, China, Jan. 15.—The con: fllot between rival imperialisms ‘Is showing thru the veneer of diplomatic politeness at the customs conference here. Japan’s delegation is seeking to win a compromise with American and British delega' whereby the chief articles sent into China from Japan will be included in the list of those charged the lowest surtaxes. The Japanese want their imports in- to China charged at no higher than a 2% per cent, while America is trying to “aid China” by getting Japanese imports on the high schedule list charging 15 per cent. The quarrel is delaying the conference. Chinese say that Japan and France have joined together in putting press- ure on the Chinese government to force the tottering provisional presi dent, old Tuan Chi-jui, to remain. Tuan is more or less in control of the reactionary Anfu clique which is op- posing the nationalist liberation move- ment, The pressure consists of Tokio and Paris having notified Peking that if Tuan resigns, France and Japan wil! cease to recognize the Chinese govern- ment as headed by Premier Hsu-ying. Cal Picks Graveyard Candidate for Trade Commission Nominee WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.— Richard V. Taylor of Alabama, nominated by President Coolidge at the instance of Sen. Underwood as a member of the interstate commerce commission, is 70 years old, very deaf, and has but one eye. Sen. Reed of Pittsburgh is opposed to his confirniation because, altho they are equally hard-boiled. Taylor would seek lower freight rates on southern bituminous coal, in dis- crimination against the rate on Penn- sylvania ‘bituminous coal, / Taylor would be deaf to Pittsburgh. The senate committee on interstate commerce has summoned Taylor and Woodlock, the two pending nominees, to appear before it for examination on their qualifications. “Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary party.” —Lenin. Leninism is our revolution- ary theory. Hear It summarized at the Lenin Memorial meetings. alt the literature of etE DAILY WORKER Pope Soor!'to Get Out of Jaili by Mussolini Grant of Sovereignty (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA, Jan. 15.—The pope is to be re-established as a temporal terri torrial sovereign and the vatican is to be given a corridor to the sea, by an agreement with Premier Mussolini, according to the Reichspost. The Reichspost declares that nego- tiations between the vatican and Pre: miér Mussolini are nearing success and the voluntary imprisonment of the pope will shortly end. Forty-Hour Guarantee Is Used. As Club By the Big? Meat Packers (Contitiwetf from page 3.) speed-up and“witt “break their necks” to get the Béniis are kept. Tho the 2 Workers were laid off on a Thursday hight at Armours and the hog killfmg department did not work on Friddy, Saturday morning they hired @ ‘niimber of new workers ‘and in this ‘way the packers dodged paying the 40-hour guarantee to these workers. Pricé for’ Guarantee. In order to gét the 40-hour guaran- tee, the workers in the hog kill must me into the “plant in the morning vetween 6:45 “and 6:15, punch the time clock, 30 to the locker room iress for the killing floor, go up ont« che killing floor, sharpen their tools snd prepare‘fot-work. If there is nc work that @ay’'the boss then tells chem to go-home. Then they mus s0 back, undress, dress into their street clothes and go home. If a worker fails to punch the time clock for one day, he loses the forty sour guarantee, regardless of whether they kill one hog that day or not. If a worker has worked as many hours in the week as the rest of the ‘gang” and fails to show up one norning because of illness and punch che clock, he loses the 40-hour guar- antee. oe In a week;when a holiday occurs the worker, gets, but a 33-hour guar antee. Many of the workers musi get up at 4 and.6 o'clock in the morn -ng in order,to be down to the “yards’ m time, to start work. »,On some days the workers on the aog . kill are,,speeded-up more than 4sual and they get thru their work n less than,-geven or eight hours Tho they. may have done a ten-houi ob in the eight hours, yet the com sany pays them.just for the eight hours. Loti Workerg.Pay the Price. Some of the workers in the “yards” chink that thigsact of the company in paying ‘the semi-skilled and skilled wor! 40-hour guarantee is a sign of the “righteousness” and the “goodwill”“of the corporation. The worker forgets *that it is by means of the speed-up system which makes him turn out in ten hours what he turned out atone time in fifteen and the low wages that are paid, that packers are able to hand out a sop to the skilledoend semi-skilled work- ers in the form of the 40-hour guar- antee to keepiAthem “pepped” up. What the workers in the packing in- dustry want-is an eight-hour day, a forty-hour week, and elimination of the bonus, the:speed-up and other sys- tems in the “yards” and then it will not be necessary to talk about the 40-hour guarantee. Race Antagonism, The question of race antagonisms and how they are» fostered by the packers, the national hatreds that are played up and the 100 per cent Ame- rican attitude and why it is done will be dealt with in the next issue of The DAILY WORKER, If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. THEM? ‘ A pair of ‘cicdiies was found at the Imperial psd « N. Halsted St., at the DAILY WORKER Birthday Party, Wed., Jan, 13, Owner please call for them at the DAILY WORKER office. The beer of Earth” and “History of Givittea saat by Sam Ball, every Sunday and ursday at 7:30 p. m., at Brotherhood smiisee: Desplaines and Washington: ~Admission fr: WANTE Furnished Room—Cicero or district, for single Tere too preferred. Write partic to Box B, Dally Worke: TO RENT—Largue furnished room. For one or two men comrades. Near Logan Sq. L. 2653 N, Spauling. Call Belmont 9783. All Our Work Guaranteed, Current Events (Continued from page 3.) he latter can afford to play the bully. There is a quite a difference between the truckling tone used in the state jepartment’s correspondence with Mexico over oil and the communica- tions sent to Downing Street, London, over the rubber scrap. one @ HE latest anti-Bolshevik yarn to make the front page is that Maxim jorki quit the Bolsheviki and that he 1ad his newly born baby baptized by in orthodox priest. It is news to Communists to learn that Gorki was ever a Bolshevik. Whether he recent- ly became the parent of another child and had it baptized by a priest is another matter, Novelists do queer things and Gorki is about as queer as they make them. Gorki ‘will be honored for his literary brilliancy, even tho he massacred a harem or left an illegitimate child in every monastery in Europe, provided there is any room left. \ eee EACE .in the anthracite region does not seem to be imminent. The only peace that should satisfy the miners is peace with victory. The strike leadership of Lewis has been tried and found wanting. That gentle- man’s polite’method of waging war joes not bring home the bacon to the niners, It seems the rank and file :re beginning to assert themselves. It is about time they did. Coal oper- utors like all capitalists are the same sreedy robbers. all over the world. fhe British coal magnates have sent n their demands to the miners’ union, and among the demands are, a wage cut and longer hours. see JHE kaiser family is still causing the German socialist leaders great concern, Recently Helferding had a rill ready which would drop $125,- 00,000 into Wilhelm’s lap. The Com- nunists raised the devil about it and he socialists waited hoping the storm night blow over. Now the kaiser’s cousin is making things hum for the Prussian government, Prince Fred- srick Leopold,—it seems titles still go n republican Gefmany—took to his ieels to Italy when the 1918 revolu- tion broke out. He only returned 1ome when he was broke. Since then he has brot several suits against the vrussian government and acquired our large estates estimated at 200, 100,000 gold marks. This is a tidy um for a dethroned prince. eee ‘HILE the workers of the United States and other countries were contributing to the relief of the fam- ished victims of the German famine, Leopold was living in unparalleled tuxury. He kept a pack of eighty hounds, which were fed on the chois est meats, turkey, porterhouse steak, pheasant, duck. His favorite lapdog ate only sweetbreads cooked in cream. The dispatch does not say whether this lap-dog was a social de- mocratic leader or not. The prince consumes several bottles of cham- pagne every night and sometimes forces his servants to guzzle liquor for the royal profligate’s amusement. i if igitd princess also gets a kick out of her husband’s pleasantries. In order to entertain his lady, Leopotd on one occasion compelled one of his flunkeys to drink a cocktail compos- ed of the following ingredients: Wor- cestershire sauce, pepper, sherry, port and brandy. When the lackey had this combination in his stomach, he was forced to walk on his hands anil knees, bark like a dog, drink from a saucer on the floor, while the royal pair kicked him and in general gave him the kind of treatment given to unlucky members of the canine species, eee pee many cour readers may believe this story ts exaggerated. It is neither exaggerated nor novel. This is the traditional way in which the aristocracy were accustomed to amuse themselves before their claws were clipped. While millions of Ger man workers, their wives and chil lren are in want, the Hohenzollerns are living in luxury. And this in a country where the social-democrats held power for several years, The socialist party is the dominant poli- tical party in Prussia, yet it is here that the Hohenzollerns find the choic- est pickings. The nephews and cou- sins of the last of the Romanoffs are not feeding their, dogs on roast duck. They are lucky if they have dog meat on their own plates. a 888 “Our theory must give an answer to the problems that practice puts to us,"—Lenin. The relation of theory to practice will be discussed by the speakers at the Lenin Memorial meet- ings. SEMINARY CLEANERS & DYERS Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats Cleaned and Blocked—Also Laundry 512-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, Ill. Phone Lincoin 3141 To wake Henry Dubb— Send in that sub! We Call for and Deliver, Page Five WITH THE Y CONDUCTED - BY TH MORKEDS WNW WORKERS LEAGUE MOTHERS DEMONSTRATE BEFORE BOARD OF EDUCATION Over 5,000 Signatures Against Transfer of Children. NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 15.—A demonstration of the mothers of the children in primary school 148 was held in front of the at 59th St. and Park Ave. The mothers were prote: board of education st the action g aga cf the board in transfering the children from the lower grades to different schools in tls neighborhood. In doing that the board is endangering the lives of the / aildren who are compelled to cross dangerous traffic streets. The rea m given by the board was that the school is té be made into-a junior high, The parents then pointed out that the school was originally not built for that purpose and there- fore the board is trying to remedy a in the district by endangering the lives of the children and at the same time children in the junior high schoo] will not get the proper in- structions because of the lack of equipment. It seems that the parents will not get more satisfaction out of the hearing than was original- ly expected. The committee headed by Clarence Miller included the following: Mrs. Mrs, G, Kaplan, Mrs. Birch, Mrs. Brody, and Mrs, Volk. They presented a petition with some five thousand signatures to the board in which it was pointed out that the signers are in full situation B, Zilott, accord with the efforts of the parents to have their children remain in primary school 148. Another demonstration in front of the city hall will be held next week. If this will bring no results then we will have a strike in the school until a different remedy is made, —C, Miller, FAHNY BREAKS WITH PAST TRADITIONS. (A Story From Real Life.) Every day, as the clock struck half past five the doors of the large factory where Fahny is working were thrown open and she, attempting to press her way thru a crowd of workers, turned her steps towards the subway station. Tonight her brow is shadowed, she seems to be very nervous and stops to be moving taster .uan ever, at intervals as if trying to find where she is, altho 1e street is familiar to her. terally conveyed her down to the station. alked mechanically down the stairs and to the cain. In spite of the fact that she hated to travel ke “a canned herring,” 1e journey might last longer. Station after station whizzed by quickly, The surging crowd She Fahny wished tonight that The train seemed Hundred and twenty-fifth street station where Fahny had to get off was next, and she had to make up her mind and decide what to do. She got oft the train and started for the house, Fahny was born in a small town in Poland, a former Russian state, Her father, not having been able to earn enough for his family, consisting of a wife and two children, went to America when Fahny was but five years old. The world war broke out. The German army was approaching and Fahny’s mother and her two children left for ¢entral Russia. Then came the year 1917, and, as children of a worker, Fahny and her brother were placed in the “Komsomol.” Time went on, and the war was over, Fahny’s mother began to correspond with her husband and received steamship tickets for the whole family. Fahny refused to go to America. wants to see us, let him come to the Union of the S. 8. R.,” she said. sides we have much work now in the organizations ... .” “I'll go for a trip only,” she decided. tears made Fahny change her mind. “It my father “Be But her mother’s Soon afterwards Fahny came and settled in New York. She joined the Y. W. L. of A. as she had She quickly adapted herself to the new conditions and became an active promised her comrades abroad. member of the league. But her father, of “his country” and a fanatic, did not like the idea of his child, especially a girl, to be Fahny suffered for her mother’s sake, a blind patriot a Communist. who was blamed for not bringing up her children in the proper way. This was Friday night. she said to her mother. father say?” A gush of tears followed “I want to have a quick bite, “Staying out on Friday night? because I must hurry and prepare myself for the discussion that is taking place tonight,” And what will your these words. “Mother, I have decided to leave home and stop being the cause of misunderstandings between you and father.” Fahny put her hat and coat on, but as she reached the door, her mother stopped her. must publish a journal, etc.” “But you didn’t want to come here,” “Yes, I must stay here now,” of tears followed these words. “Fahny, I am tired of this life also. convince father to go back to Russia?” much work to do in the league here. Perhaps we shall try to There is 80 Our jubilee is approaching and we “Not now, ‘mother. and another flow answered Fahny he mother cried, and went away proud that she made her first decisive Step not to stay home on Fridays, Sent with the recommendation of Comrade vanced English in Workers’ School, at 108 EH. 14th St., WITH THE YOUNG COMMUNISTS Question of Finances, There is the question of dues pay- ments, The intention of the N, E. C. n raising the dues from 26 cents to 40 cents was to make the dues pay- ments the center of the income of the league. This would mean less of spe- cial assessments and other financial caising schemes of the same variety, Che comrades must learn how to find the correct solution to this important ‘roblem of finances and not merely sasp for breath when the raise in dues is announced. First of all there is the method of collecting dues on a weekly payment basis, The members pay 10 cents a week dues, Can anyone object to this procedure? Not a chance. Further- more the nuclei must get to the point where every payday in the shop i: iues-paying day in the nucleus. Thai —L. Myshkin. Jacobson, teacher of ad> New York, would also make the payments easter, Then there is another important matter. How many of our comrades have not at some time or other point- ed out that our method of raising finances {s a sectarian one, which is separated from the masses of non- party workers. the New York When the Chicago or league is assessed a certain sum in our financial drives it should not mean that the active com- rades immediately become busy soak- ng each other. It means that. we should systematically arrange to reach he non-party workers in the shops, inions, fraternal organizations, ete. to support us with finances in our vork. No ¢Omrade can say that we 1ave tasked our full resources in’ this eld in the past. Tt must be started mow, —Nat Kaplan, Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent?