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Page Four Organization Meetings ’ THE DAILY WQRKER Workers (Communist) Party Social Affairs Resolutions Opportunities for Shop Nuclei Work ] By ARNE SWABECK. | V ITH the present rapid reorganiza- tion of the Workers (Communist) Party to the shop nuclei basis thru-| out the main industrial centers, the question of the fusctioning of these| units becomes one demanding immed- late attention. A practical question and yet quite a problem indeed. Leaving the street nuclei units aside for the present the problem could per- haps be formulated as follows: 1. How can shop nuclei become the bastc political party units capable of mobilizing the working masses for demonstrations, election campaigns and for greater and more decisive po- litical struggles? 2. How can shop nuclei become expressive of the everyday needs of the workers in the shops, become a living part of their fight for better conditions, win their confidence and furnish organized, conscious leader- ship to attain our definite objects? 3. How can the party based on the shop nuclei form of organization more} effectively penetrate deeper into the organized masses within the unions and win them for the revolutionary} struggle against capitalism? | These are some very important} Parts of Bolshevization made many times more difficult due to the nu- merically small size of our party. In many trade unions the party has not yet succeeded in approaching a real penetration or raised the issues which will win the workers. Millions of un- organized workers subjected to the in-! | not to speak of rally | motions and in addition foremen dri creasing pressure of capitalist exploi- tation have not yet recognized the need of uniting against this pressure, | ing to the stand- ard of the Communist Party. Leadership Must Start From Practical Basis. The undeveloped condition of the huge American industrial army makes particularly imperative that the party should first of all become a much more active participant in solving the| problems of the everyday life of the} workers and fight for their simple| economic needs as they appear within} their place of work. A few sugges-| tions how to make a beginning in this sphere may not be amiss. | 1, The Speed-up System and Long Hours of Work, This obtains in most industrial en- terprises whether workers are em-} ployed at individual tasks at the ma-| chine or in gangs. Production is bc | standardized that workers are com-| pelled to make the same motions day by day; the standard of individual | production being ever increased, cun-| ning devices applied, clockworks in-| Stalled to increase the speed of the ing the workers to the point of ex haustion. Where a shift system ex-| ists, sometimes even double shifts, ne| extra pay for night work. In steel} mills usually no time is allotted for lunch, the workers being compelled to} swallow a sandwich during spells. | Such conditions are naturally injur- | ious to the health of the workers, Yet when work is slack the speed does not diminish and seldom are the hours reduced but the workers are put on part time employment while the industrial reserve army waits at the gates for a job. The profits of the employers are thusa kept intact while only the workers suffer. Still very often workers are compelled to pay cash to some foreman or agent to get such miserable jobs, In many of Pennsylvania's steel mills a particular type of grafter is “in with” the plant officials supplying . workers, “green- horns” or “foreigners,” who cannot use English very well, at so much per head, paid by the workers, Here is a field for shop nuclei mem- bers by~individual propaganda, fac- tory papers, etc., to show the workers what is wrong, point out the needs of reducing hours which also helps to give jobs to unemployed, get rid of e driving bosses, show how to or- ganize to attain it and extend the sol- idarity of the workers by properly ap- proaching the whole problem of the unemployed. In,this manner the po- litical side of the’ problem is brot for- ard. 2. Health and Safety Conditions. In this respect iniprovements are needed in every industry. Improve- ments which can only be secured thru the workers fighting for it. From the very simplest needs of ventilation in factories to safety devices on danger-| plants heat exposures are dangerous and intolerable during the long work- ing hours, the hammering and deafen- ing screeches when white hot steel hits the rolls or-the cold saw bites into steel plates, become a strain on the workers. In one mill, visited by the writer, a nail making department, called the “nuthouse,” endless rows of machines hammered with lightning speed, each chopping off 300 nails per minute, Accidents are daily occurrences in large plants due to latk of safety devices.on heavy dangerous machin- ery. Compensations are; sometimes nil, always insufficient and as a rule difficult to obtain due to, a network of red tape and graft of petty politi- cians. A fight led by=auclei mem- bers to show this up indts true light and help the victims aetually to ob- tain compensations will not only ex- pose the capitalist industrial and po- litical system in all its: corruption, but also gain the confidence of the G. 0, P, FIGHTS: § FOR SECRECY ON MEXICAN AFFAIRS Defeats LaFollette’ De- mand for Documents (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—The state department would be requested to turn over to the senate copies of all “agreements and understandings” be- tween the United States and Mexico, “precedent to recognition of the pres- ent Mexican government,” under a re- solution introduced in the senate this afternoon by Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, Action on the resolution was block- \d by Senator Curtis of Kansas, the républican leader, whose duty it is to defend the impudent demands of the Coolidge administration against Mexi- co in the interest of imperialist con- quest. \ Philadelphia Lenin Memorial on Saturday workers and assist to organize the po- litical struggle for improvements. The substitute for real: safety de- vices, resorted to by big industria corporations ,in giving: “safety lec tures” is primarily another means tc increase workers’ efficieney and thus increase exploitation on’ the job. It need hardly be mentioned that, the practice of child dabor and ex- ous machinery the nuclei members | cessive youth exploitation, wherever must lead the fight for improvements. | it exists, becomes the basis to broad¢ In many factories poisonous material en the activities on the political field is not guarded against. In coal mines many lives are lost for lack of meas- ures against explosions. In steel mills and many metal manufacturing Mn the fight for its complete abolition, | There is no better place to start thah jin the shop. , i * (To be continued.) Attend The (Continued from page 1) Lovestone, Ben Gitlow, M. J. Olgin, W. W. Weinstone, Chas. Krumbein, Jan. 24, 2p. m. Jamestown—Jan. 31. Local speaker. Buffalo—J. ©. 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Fulp, Jan. 24, 2'p, | ae ree Hall, James Otis, Jan.) 8 p.m. Republic—Croatian Hall, Geo. Papcun; C._We Fulp, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. 24, 8 Rural Ridge—James Otis, Jan. pum. Cannonsburg—D. &. Earley, Jan. 30, 8 Pp. Mm. SOON-- before have Ameri- threatens the pres- In this a student of modern merican’ Capital is re facts—a complete and exploitation, the industrialization of ry American worker library. 00 Copies Off the Press, Geo. Pap-| m. + {}Tom O'Flaherty, Jan. 24—7:30 p. oF ro Vernon St., Max Salzman, Jan. 24, ‘Ciieago - ILL. Daisytown—Home Theater, Tom Ray, Jan. 31, 2 p. m New Brighton—D, E. Earley, Jan. 31, 2 .m. WEST VIRGINIA Triadelphia—Tom Ray, Jan. 24, 2 p.m. Pursglove—Tom Ray, Jan, 31, '2 p. m. KENTUCKY Newport—Robert Minor, Jan. 21, OHIO Lima—Robert Minor, Jan. 18. Cincinnati—Deyle's Academy, Court and Central Sts., Robert Minor, Jan. 22,| 7:30 p. m. | Columbus—Robert Minor, Jan. 23, 8 m., Akron—Zigler Hall, Voris and Miami Ave., Robert Minor, Jan. 24, 2 p.m. Canton—Canton "Music Hall, 810 E.| Tuscon St., Robert Minor, Jan. 24, 8| ®. m. Yorkville—Miners’ Hall, J. Williamson, Jan, 24, 7 p.m. Neffs—J. Williamson, Jan. 24, 2 Pp. m. Toledo—Robert Minor, Jan, 16, 8 m. Lorain—Jan. 17, 2 p. m. E. Liyerpool—Brahtin, Jan, 24, 3 p.m. Steub ville—Brahtin; Jan. 24, 8 m. ‘eS. Amter, Jan. 24, 2'p. 4 INDIANA ,Gary—Turner Hall, 14 and Washington, Pe P. Pp. m, . om. = South Bend—Workers’ Home, 1216 Hol- ot Ave., Tom Bell, Jan. 24, 2'p. m. . Halil, Chicago—Columbia McCook p.m. MICHIGAN Detroit—House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, J. J. Baliam, Jan. 24, 2:30 p. m. Grand Rapids—Workmen's Circle Tem- Ple, 345 Mt. Vernon Ave., J. J. Ballam and Nat Kaplan, Jan. 23, 8 p. m. Muskegon—Modern Woodmen’s Hall, 10 N. Terrace St., J. J. Ballam and Nat Kaplan, Jan. 22, 8 p.m. ILLINOIS Chicago—Coliseum, Wabash and 16th St., C. E. Ruthenberg and William F. Dunne, Jan. 24. Christopher—French Club near East Mine, Jack Johnston, Jan. 18, 7 p. m. Waukegan—Workers’ Hall, 517 Helm- holtz Ave., J. J. Ballam, dan, 31, 2:30 p. m. Zeigler—Jack Johnstone, Jan. 19. West Frankfort, Lithuanian Hall, &. Sth St., Jack Johnstone, Jan. 20, 7. p. m. MissouR! Kansas City—Musicians’ Hall, 1017 Washington St., W, F. Dunhe, Jan. 3%, WISCONSIN Milwaukee—Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Wataut St., Earl Browder, Jan. 24. CALIFORNIA, San Francisco—Jan. 24, Workers Par- ty Hall, 225 Valencia St., 2:00 p. m., Tom Fleming and W. Schneiderman. Oakland and Berkeley—Jan 31, Work- ers’ Hall 1819 10th St., W. Schneiderman, “Imperialism is the beginning of the Socialist revolution.”—Lenin. Pledge yourself against imperialism at the Register Now for the Workers’ School The full list of courses given during the second term (Feb. 8 to April 2nd) is as follows: ‘sie Sunday, 11 a. m., History of the In- ternational Revolutionary Youth— John Williamson; Research—Karl Browder. Monday, 8 p. m., Capital Vol. I. Con- tinuation. Earl Browder; Pioneer Leaders’ Training Course, Will Her- berg; Workers’ Journalist, (Workers Correspondence.) J. Louis Engdahl. Tuesday, 8 p. m. National and Col- onial Problems, Manuel Gomez; Ele- ments of Communism;/'‘New Class, James H. Dolsen; English (Meets for a second session on FPriday).- Wednesday, 8 p. m. Attierican: Social and’ Labér History, Lewis; Elements of Communism, Continuation, William Simmons; Aims and rn ee of the Y, W. L, Max Schachtman. - Thursday, 8 p. m., dhtory of the Three Internationals, Arne Swabeck; Trade Union Organization and Tact- ics, C. A, Hathaway. af Friday 6:15-8:15 p. m. Elements of Communism, Continuation, H. W. Wicks; 8:15-10:15 Historical Material- ism, H. W, Wicks. 8 p. m. English (also on Tuesday). x Classes meet for two hours. Place: All classes meet at 19,8, Lincoln St. xcept Research, Pioneers Training, and Workers Journalism, which are at 1113 W. Washington Blvd; and English at 2644 LeMoyne St. “ Registration: Ends Feb. 1st, to al- low arrangements for classes to begin during the week of Feb. 8th. The fee, to be paid on registering, is one dol- lar for each course, except for Ele- ments of Communism, and Aims and Purposes of the Y. W. L., for which the charge will be $1.50 (the student being supplied with several texts). Students are limited to two courses. Additional classes: One in English will be started on the, South Side if there is sufficient enrollment. Also la beginner's class in Capital, Vol, 1, | Select the two courses you wish to attend. -Send your name, address, courses selected, and registration fee, Lenin meetings. Lenin Is Dead But His Work Lives. Rally td Carry It On! to Workers School William Simons, secretary, 19 §, Lincoln St. [ LENIN. - MEMORIAL MEETING New York, Sunday, January 24, at 2 p. m. FOUR BIG HALLS Central Opera House Millers Assembly (Brooklyn) New Star Casino Manhatta’ Jay Lovestone Ben Will Weinstone at all halls. PHILADELPHIA, Pa: Jan. 18.—The Philadelphia Lenin memorial meeting will be held on Saturday evening, Jan. 23, at 8 p, m., in the large auditorium of the Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets. An excellent trio of nationally known speakers has been schedyled. Jay Lovestone, of the Central Execu- tive Committee, Workers (Commun- ist) Party, Ben Gitlow, who was only last month released from jail, and M. J, Olgin, the prominent Communist journalist compose this trio. Norman H. Tallentire, the district organizer of district three will also-make a short talk as will Morris Yusem, district organizer of the Young Workers’ League. ¢: In addition we will hear the Frei- heit Gesang Verein and the Young Pioneer chorus in revolutionary songs, supported by an International orches- tra, and the Workers’ Theater Al- liance will present a pantomime of Lenin’s funeral. The admission charge has been placed at 25 cents. Los Angeles Workers Give Dance to Help Millinery Strikers LOS ANGELES, Cal.,, Jan, 18.— A dance for the benefit of the cap and millinery strikes of San Francisco Local No, 9, is being given by the Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union, Local Nos. 26 and 48, which will take place on Saturday, January 23, in the Co- operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn ave- ue, Los- Angeles. The arrangements committee is pre- paring a very fine evenings enter- tainment for this affair and Los An- geles workers should lend every sup- port to make this dance a big finan- cial success. Cleveland West Side I. L. D. Branch Dance Saturday, Jan. 30 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 18.— The west side English branch of the I. L. D. which was récently organized with meeting place and headquarters at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 4309 Lo- rain Ave., will hold its first dance at the above address on Saturday night, Jan. 30, 7:30 p. m. Italians in London for Settlement of War Debt (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan. 18—Negotiations for the settlement of-the Italian debt to Great Britain opened here today. Count Volpi, Italian finance minis- ter, is understood to be prepared to seek a settlement based upon Italy's settlement with the United States. The Italian debt to Great Britain is approximately $2,900,000,000, Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Jan, 18 — Great Brit- ain pound sterling, demand 4.85%, cable 4.86, France, franc, demand, 8.77; cable 3.77%. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.53%; cable 4.54, Italy, lira, demand .4,03%; cable 4.04, Sweden, krone, demand 26.79; cable 26.82. Nor- way, krone, demand 20.35; cable 20.37. Denmark, krone, demand 24.87; cable 24.89." Shanghai, taels, demand 77.50, Farmers State Bank Quits, .DU QUOIN, Ill, Jan, 18—The Farm- ers State Bank of Tamaroa closed its doors today. It was explained the bank was making no money, Hope was expressed that its assets could be liquidated without loss to the de- positors, Sewer Pipe Plant Burns. BRAZIL, Ind., Jan, 18—The main buildings of the American Vitrified Products company near here, the sec- ond largeste sewer pipe plant in the n Lyceum Gitlow M. J. Olgin® Chas. Krumbein ’ Program of revolutionary music. t world, were destroyed by fire of un- determined origin early today with an estimated loss of $300,000. Celebrate Husband's Birthday. BARCELONA, Jan, 18—-A peasant woman of Calatayud has given birth to a child, the fourth of a large fam- ily to be born on her husbdnd’s birth- day. vu 7 HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! ode ‘ ie WITH THEY CONDUCTED = BY Thi WORKERS WING WORKERS LEAGUE WORKING YOUTH OF ROUMANIA SUFFER TERROR UNDER OLIGARCHY BUCHAREST, Roumania.—Thru a fortunate reshuffling of the balance of power among the big imperialist nations favorable to the Roumanian oligarchy, the latter succeeded in taking possession of Bessarabia, Bukowina, Dobrudja and Transylvania, thereby doubling the territory of the country and tripling the number of its population. The Roumanian oligarchy uses “all possible means” to uphold the “unity of the country.” It has let loose against the workifg class population and against the national minorities an unprecedented regime of terror, and it is actually “using | all means” to suppress and destroy the opposition elements, In all these endeavors the main sup- port of the oligarchy in the Siguranza (secret political police), an organization which only differs from the czarist okh- rana in that it is even more extensive and that its terrorist measures are still worse. It has: its representatives every- where and is responsible to no one for its activity; it is a “state within the state.” The Siguranza has at least 50,000 agents in Roumania, whose task it is to watch over the “security of the state.” In addi- tion to these agents the Siguranza has employes who call themselves “judges.” These are brutalized sadist persons who exercise their functions as “judges” by means of flogging, torturing and murdering the prisoners. The following is what the general secretary of the Roumanian League for the Rights of Man, G. G. Kesta Foru, has to say in his pamphlet, “The Torture Chambers of Roumania”: “Part of the system of the Roumanian Siguranza is preliminary deten- tion which lasts for weeks, months and even years without any legal person being aware of it. Then there is also ‘examination’ accompanied by ill-treat- ment and terrible tortures in the cellars of police stations, the victim being refused medical assistance and legal help.” This is what a number of the bourgeoisie says about the Siguranza, a man who has nothing to do with the Communists and is even their enemy. The Working Class Youth Under Siguranza Rule. No other section of the population has to suffer from the atrocities of the Siguranza so much as the-working class youth. The young workers and peasants have been delivered into the hands of the Siguranza. The lat- ter can do what it likes with them. It can shoot them, torment and flog them for months oy end, for there is no one who can call them to account for these atrocities, atho the press is full of the mass arrests and executions of young. workers. In summing up the terrorist acts against the working class youth we find that last year no less than 1,000 young workers were thrown into the torture ‘chambers of the Siguranza. Last December the Siguranza made, wholesale arrests thruout the country. Over 4,000 young people were ar- rested. In’ June, 1925, young workers were sentenced to 10 years penal servitude by the dozen. On International Youth Day 100 youths were ar- rested and brought before the military court after months of torture. During the last few years the bloodhounds of the Sigurayza have again been making wholesale arrests of young workers. What happens to the arrested people ‘behind the walls of the Siguranza hells beggars description. Afi the methods of inquisition brought up to date are set going during the “examination” of the arrested. Many comrades who cannot stand the tortures any longer commit suicide. Many lose their reason or become crippled for life. € Volumes could be written on what is going on in Bessarabia alone. The oligarehy keeps secret all its atrocities in Bessarabia. But we can ourselves pictur® what is going on there. The “Bessarabian methods” are own thruout the country; this means that prisoners who do not make statements favorbale for the Siguranza are executed. undreds of young people have lost their lives in this manner. Hundreds of young people are serving long sentences in the terrible prisons of Bessarabia. The Jila and Doftana. Prisons. The torments of the prisoners do not end with the tortures inflicted in the Siguranza. They continue in a more terrible form in the prisons. The Jila and Doftana prisons are the worst in the whole country. They are specially utilized for Communists. The former is a fortress in Bucharest with dungeons that are six meters below the ground. The ‘other prison— Doftana—was built in the times of the Turks. It is situated on the top of a mountain and is cut off from the outside world. Nearly all the young workers who have been arrested are concentrated in these prisons, the regime of which is truly appalling. But even here the prisoners continue to put up a fight after sentence has been passed on them, and hunger strikes are ,the order of the day. Just now Comrade Greges is carrying on a life and death hunger strike in Doftana, where Max Goldstein met with his death as the result of his hunger strike. Save the Lives of These Hundreds of Young ReVolutionists! The young workers thruout the world must rise against these atrocities of-the Roumanian oligarchy afd must demand the release of all the young workers and peasants now lingering in prison, Protost demonstrations should be held everywhere. The Roumanian oligarchy shall know that thru- eut the whole world young workers are standing py their brothers in Roumania. —ALBIN, 4 ‘a VISIT TO ARMOUR be the most progressive, radical, best organized, ete. Why do they allow great amounts of work in garment centers in New By MANNY MANKIN. When you enter the Union Stock York, uni ‘. Yards, you see the big building of Ar- Sri, to BS done by nomunleitcak ters, f * mour & Co. The front ts like-a jail,| Pontes, | electriclans, plumbers, and and so is the inside. There are guards Yours truly and policemen at every entrance and - aot Suiits exit in and outside of the building. Bobi ists The guides are careful and see that * . \ you do not stray from the beaten path Lenin Liebknecht which is made for visitors but a bright young Communist can see things which ordinary visitors would not care to look at. In the first place,.the workers are not allowed to go from one depart- ment to the other. Even if they have to go on account of something hap- pening, which cannot be explained, the guards just ‘Get the hell back to your work.” This is what they call liberty! The Armour plant is just @ slave joint and a jail, Let all workers unite and break the bonds of tyranny, Unite against the owners of Armour & Co, and make it less like a prison, He Wants to Know; Will Somebody Tell? Luxemburg By Max Shachtman, ee 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 wri we n—attractively bound—illustrated with three beautiful photos. Single Copy 15c. © Bundle Orders 100, Published by the Young Workers (Commun- BROOKLYN, N. Y., Jan, 18—1 write ~ this to the clothing workers and 1 at im of ae hope they will answer thru your CHICAGO, wat re 8 y Wk . ee worthy paper, They are supposeu " . .