The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1926, Page 4

een Spee _ PULLMAN CAR Page Four THE DAILY WORKER CO, FAILS T0 FRAME PORTER Negro Workers Must Join Real Union By JOSEPH FREEMAN (The following is a report on the New York Workers’ School made by the well-known writer, Joseph Free- man, for the Russian news agency, Tass.) HW YORK,—The largest Workers’ By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press) NEW YORK, Jan, 26, — Boston's Municipal court freed Pullman |School in the United States is con- porter, Mabry C. Oglesby of a /ducted by the Workers (Communist) liquor charge framed on him to |Party. Since its establishment by the in 192: 3 the school has grown prevent his election as employe rep- resentative, under the Pullman com- pany union plan, to the Chicago “wage conference.” The Pullman company found Oglesby too active steadily, ers attend its classes, .The institution is known as the “Workers’ School.” {Most of its cle ;—containing over In trying to make the “employe rep- | 700 students— are held at the New resentation plan” work for the bene- |York headquarters of the party. fit of the porters instead of the | Branch ses, attended™by about 300 profit of the. Pullman company. | Workers, are held in other parts of the city and in nearby towns. The students are drawn from all the important trades in and around New York, including clothing, fur, millinery, the metal trades, leather goods, tex- |tiles; teaching and clerical work |About 80 per cent of the students ar |membérs of trade unions. The Central School. Oglesby was dismissed from service after 25 years’ work with a clear record. Second Failure. Once before the Pullman company failed to make a fake charge stick on Oglesby. He was charged with transporting a passenger without turning in the fare, but was cleared. He was arrested on this charge two years ago when on his way with A. L. Totten, now field organizer of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port- ers, to the previous “wage confer- ence.” Totten, then in an important po- sition in the company union, fought Oglesby’s case with the company successfully. Totten has been dis- charged by the Pullman company | since his activities for the bonafide | porters’ union have become known. The most important of these are the | party training courses, aiming to train active party members for capabl leadership in trade union and other party work, One of these courses known as the “Party Training Cours }tuns for six months and is devoted to a Study of Marxism, party history and problems, Leninism, and trade union work, The Party Training Course. This course seeks to familiarize the party membership with the origins and aims of the Communist move- ment, the left wing struggles in the American socialist movement, and the history of the Workers (Communist) Party.¢ The course is attended by Postpone Conference. The conference is postponed be- cause the company was unable to secure a quorum of even alleged representatives of the _ porters. until now over 1,000. work- | The central school gives 21 courses. | about 150 students. The Shop Nucleus Training Course The “Shop Nucleus Training Course” combines a study of Leninism with a study of party problems, and is organized to draw the entire mem- bership into the party’s educational work, Every shop nucleus elects one mem- ber to attend the “Shop Nucleus Train- ing Course” at the central school. The nucleus pays his fee and exacts attendance at classes. The delegates jof the shop nuclei are taught the fun- damentals of party theofy and work. Nuclei and Branch Classes. The students then return to their respective shop nuciei and teach the |membership what they have learned jat the central school. Questions and are, in~ turn, brought back to the |school, where they are discussed and jexplained, In this way contact. and lexchange of ideas are maintained be- ween the central school and the mem ership. About 200 shop nuclei re- esentatives are enrolled in the DI |“Shop Nucleus Training Course.” Other Classes of the School. - Other courses at the school include classes in public speaking, research and a class for workers’ correspond- jents. There are also classes in Eng- lish, and a clags in Russian for party members who feel that they cannot advance in their study of Leninism without a knowledge of the Russian language. Foreign Language Classes. The central school conducts all its classes in English, except the Rus- sian class. There are, however, a }number of foreign-language courses given to branch classes. The Jewish members of the party give a number of courses in Yiddish. There are also ‘courses in Finnish, German, Hungar- problems raised by the membership | Workers (Communist) Party —— The New York Workers’ School ian, Lithuanian, Italian, ete. In ad- dition to the courses in their own language, these groups are taught English. The Role of the English Classes. The classes in English, both at the central school and the branch classes, are heavily attended. They are con- sidered of the utmost importance in breaking down language barriers among the foreign-born workers, The party considers English essential to the liquidation of the foreign-language federations, with their autonomous tendencies, and the ‘building-up of a unified, centralized party, ased on shop nuclei and united by one lan- guage, : |The Workers School and the! Agitprop Department. The “Workers’ School” i¢ one of the lactivities of the agitprop department jof the Workers’ (Communist) Party. |The agitprop director for New York {is at the same time director of the |school, All the teachers: are party |members. There are 18 teachers at |the central school and an average of two teachers in the branch ‘classes. | The School Library. The school has a library of several hundred books, and a research depart- ment which works together: with the class in research work, Open to All Workers. All classes at the school, except the party training courses, are. open to workers who are not members of the party, but are sympathetic to Cém- munism, There are a number of such sympathizers in the various courses, drawn chiefly from the needfe trades. The students are charged a small fee except when they are on strike or un- employed, The school is in charge of Comrade Bertram D. Wolfe, New York agitprop director. Meanwhile the company keeps a certain man who uses various | ” and intimidate them. The com pany has secret agents out spying on Pullman maids, alleging that maids solicit male passengers’ names and offer them their own addresses. There are about 300 maids and their working conditions are even worse that those for the men. They often have to “dead head” back, that is, return home unpaid for the time, without the privilege of sleeping in the Pullman car. This bulletin has been issued by the agitprop department of District No. 2, for the guidance and direction of the agitprop activities of the nuclei and sections. It is an excellent ex- ample of the work every district agit- prop department should be doing and for this reason, as well as for the in trinsic value of the material contain- ed, we are republishing it in the press. It will certainly prove a valu- able aid and guide to the work of other districts—National Agitprop Dpt.. ¢@- (Continued from Monday.) IV. Campaigns of the Party. A. General. (1) Explain campaigns in your unit so that every member understands the campaign and how to carry it into the shop and among the masses of the and Nat| Workers. (2) In case of demonstra- n, Jan. 29. |tions, mass meetings, etc., popularize PENNSYLVANIA, |the political significance of these in wrgh—Jan. 31, 8 p. m., at the La-|the unit so that unit members can yesum, 35 Miller St. Speaker: D. |. Wiarize the significance among the Jan. 30, 8) masses and bring the entire shop to Jan. 31, 2|the mass meeting or demonstrations. B. Specific Campaigns Before the Party. Reorganization campaign, Explain the functioning of the Lenin Memorials MISSOURI. | s City—Musicians’ Hall, 1017/ ton St., W. F. Dunne, Jan. 31. NEW YORK. sse—J. O. Bentall and Nat Kap- 26. . Bentall and Nat Kaplan, henectady—J. ©. Bentall g—Faleon arley. ome Theater, Hall, New Srighton—D. &. Earely, Jan. 31. | 2p. m. WEST VIRGINIA. | 1 Union Hall, Tom Ray, Jan.| (a) ILLINOIS. |new units. (b) The importance of egan—Workers’ Hall, 517 Helm. | ¢; : a fo Be Sciam. Jan. 31, 2:0 \the new structure. c. Propaganda for regular attendance and active work. Jan. 28, at 8 p. m., Fraternity |“Every member of the re-organized Tacoma Ave. ” party must be an active member. HAs | (a) Break down the resistance to and sabotage of reorganization and win every member to loyal activity re A ‘I and-regular attendance. (e) “An end a y) to factionalism, .Throw the entire party into mass Work.” 2. Council for the Protection of the Foreign-Born. | A bill has been introduced by Con- |gressman Oswald providing for the | Photographing, finger-printing and re- gistration of foreign-born workers,. This is a scheme for deportation of militant workers and smashing of unions. United front councils for pro- tection of the foreign-born will be formed shortly and all workers should he prepared for the campaign. 3. Drive to build a Lenin School. OF COMMUNISM By Bukharin and Preobrazhensky. The authors were commis- the Russian Com- Party to write a lete and simple ex- vanation of Communism. The student will find this book a gem of Communist Raechinis, | Workers’ School will be launched in 2 a few days. Agitprop directors should 50 Cents Z\interest their units and non-party ~ 2 workers thru the units in workers’ Supplement to the A BC = education in support of the drive and should circulate subscription lists, etc. 4. Defense and Recognition of the Soviet Union. new drive for recognition is on foot on a united front basis, owing to the growth of a new left wing in the socialist party, the desire of the so- clalist party to win our right wing from us and the existence of a new Two-and-a-Half International tendency —Lore, Salutsky, etc. The socialist « of Communism. Questions and notes on the original work for study class use. 5 Cents. ese] DAILY WORKER PUB. CO, 1113 W. Washington Bivd, Chicago, Ill, patty is entering into a united front with us and other labor organizations for recognition. This is a big political BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home, FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc, (Workers organized as Consumers) 01 8th Avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. achievement but involves great dan- gers if our membership and the non- party workers are not thoroly ac- quainted with the situation. In this connection, it must be explained that recognition is not enough. Even whole sections of big business desire that and anti-proletarian liberals like Borah. We must demand of the so- cialist party not only recognition but defense of the Soviet Union, and the working masses must make that de- mand upon the united front commit, tee. 5. Trade Union Campaign. (a) See that every member of the unit understands the importance of jjoining and being active in a union. |(b) Bring the non-party workers into the unions, (c) Propagate the or- HONOR ROLL OF 1926 First in the Campaign—Chicago » s . . \ ccnlesous wien: ( Duties and Tasks of Agitprop Directors \ road planting alcoholic evidence to q try to trap unwary Pullman porters eee cae ganization of shop committees ‘as the | basis for organizing the unorganized. (d) Campaign for Trade Union Unity | and a trade union delegation. to Soviet Russia.» (e) Against expulsions and |for the control. of the militant left | wing; against class collaberation and for class struggle, ete. — ,., 6. Labor Party? | (a) Popularize the need for a la- r party by tying it up®with shop nd union problems. (b) ‘Secure en- dorsements from union . (c) ‘Tie on to workers correspondence and factory newspaper articlesi*’(d@) Ex- plain the significance: ofthe labor party to the American workers by dis- cussions in the unit and then among the non-party workers by e¥ery mem- ber of the unit. f fe ni Workers (Communist) Party will answer the challenge of the capitalists’ program. The workers will be organized for battle. Our party will guarantee this—our militants will be in the very forefront of the fray. Chicago leads the way. New Y. Detroit, Minneapolis, San Francisco, ‘ork, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston. , Buffalo—what do you say? Every district, every section, every shop and street nucleus—ON THE Jos. “One movement is worth a dozen programs.” On the basis of the party's program for 1926 we must move the workers and farmers of America into action against their exploiters. The vanguard of the workers—our party mobilizes FIRST. The first stage of the campaign fund. Get out the CONTRIBUTION job is done. of this fund means to them. Chicago Leads the Way Here are the first to answer the call of the party: for 1926 is the raising of the $20,000 LISTS and keep them oft until the Explain to the workers everywhere just what the raising ¢ ro Here are the first on the party's HONOR ROLL FOR 19263), e Street Nucleus No. 27, Chicago (Max Heiroff) Street Nucleus No. 14, Chica Executive Comm. Sec. 5, Chicago (Anna Block) Street Nucleus No. 23, Chica A drive for $10,000 to enlarge the]. Every Bolshe Every unit of the party swings campaign of 1926! By ROSE BARON NEW YORK, Jan, 26—The woman of the working class is becoming more and more active in the revolutionary movement, Instinctively feeling that there is an important task in the world for the working class to per- form, she has entered into the work and gives herself unstintingly. In every radical organization, woman works hand in hand with man, Once @ woman becomes class-conscious, nothing can deter her from partici- pating in activities of the working class movement, In the defense of class-war prison- ers, woman takes a vital part. She does her best to combat the obstacles encountered in participating in the work. Realizing the importance of defense work, she carries on an in- tensive campaign of . propaganda among women: She visits organiza- aay Woman in Defense Work’ igo (List No. 3756) 5.00 2.25 go (Elsie Newmann 4.00 . bs vik onthe Job « into action for a $20,000 fulid for the tions, sells literature, arranges sewing circles where all kinds of things are made, (it must be remembered ‘that this ie done by women who work all day) and does everything in her power to bring into the International Labor Defense every woman with whom she comes in contact. Very often calls are received from women who, have an hour or two to spare, during the day offering to assist in the defense work. For demonstrations and picketing 48 @ protest against the persecution of revolutionists in capitalist countries the world over, women were the first to answer the call. Some‘f them left their babies with neighbors, and even warnings of possible arrest did not keep them away. All thig)is done by women not as charity, but as an ex- pression of their solidarity with the workers who are in jail for their volutionary activities Bi SEAMAN RELATES ADVENTURE WITH HAMBURG ‘PILOT’ Parting of Two Was Not Affectionate By “OLD SALT.” By a Worker Correspondent. I must relate a little incident that happened in the port of Hamburg, Germany, a few weeks ago, when my ship was in that port. I was looking around for the International Seamen's club and happened across the “Sea- men’s Mission” so I decided to call in and do a little investigation. Lying Soul-Saver. I was met by the sky-pilot, Mr. Ro- berts, who was before the Russian re- volution stationed in the port of Odes- sa, saving the souls of the lost sea- farers, and giving them spiritual di- rection. He asked me what ship I belonged to, and when I told him, 1 was from the S. S. Koursk, he started giving me a lecture on the menace of Bolshevism against organized Christ- ian society. He told me wonderful stories of the work of the christian missionaries among the seafarers, how it was very possible to work in harmony with the ship owning class, without hav- ing any strike or trouble which was started by the Bolsheviks to upset law and order, and finishing with the statement that the word of god was unknown in Soviet Russia today. Can't Fool Him! Then I decided that it was my turn to speak, and as I have been in Sov- jet Russia several times seeing the conditions under which the workers live, I opened up my story. I told him about the conditions of"the work- ers_in the factories, on board ship, club life, education, rest houses. I told that he was a propagandist of the capitalist system and that he was well paid for his work, to defame tho Soviet Republic under the disguise of religion, I further told him that the only god that the working class required, was the god of knowledge, to enable them to run the state when we had overthrown the capitalist sys- tem, and put all parasites like him to work for their daily bread, the same as his kind and breed were do- ing today in Soviet Russia. In conclusion, I may say our part- ing was not very affectionate, and I know that the Rev. Mr. Roberts is not very eager to meet my kind in the fu- ture, but, maybe, he shall be more careful regarding his statements. WITH THE. Y CONDUCTED - BY Th It is understood that we have not forgotten to see the red army. We made a very detailed inspection of an important barracks. We had very in- teresting conversations with soldiers in various places. In Leningrad we were allowed to see the sailors of the red fleet and we must draw conclu- sions from all we have seen. We should at once say that the French delegation very well under- stood the necessity for the red army. Like us, every worker should know quite well the object of the proletarian army of Soviet Russia. The red army is part of the proletarian dictatorship. It exists to defend the conquests of the revolution from the imperialist countries, And we reply to those demagogues who talk about red im- perialism: there are 41 soldiers per 10,000 inhabitants of the Soviet Union, whereas in France (without the colonies) there are 200! The red army is the most certain form of educating the young workers and peasants of Russia. It not only works at fighting illiteracy, but it also gives a political education to every soldier which makes him a true soldier of the international proletariat and of the world revolu- tion. Insofar as the treatment of soldiers WODKEAS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE FRENCH YOUTH DELEGATION . REPORTS ON RED ARMY AND NAVY is based upon the class consciousness of every soldier, That is the explana- tion we got from all the soldiers we spoke to. Of course, we understand very well that discipline should exist in the red army, but what is so fine to see is the friendship which exists be- tween the officers and the soldiers. The officer, of course, is always a worker, and when off duty the com- mander of a red army is a comrade just like any ordinary private. Reading rooms, clubs and Lenin corners are fitted out in all barracks and all ships for the education of the soldiers and sailors, Every time we have visited them we have always found young soldiers hard at work; they use their spare time for acquir- ing all the knowledge necessary for a real worker of the Soviet republic. After the end of this journey, we may say, we young workers of one of the most important bourgeols coum tries of Europe, that Soviet Russia is the true fatherland for the workers of the world, that the Russian revolu- tion is the first step that has been made on the way towards the world revolution. And we undertake to carry on an untiring struggle to show to the young workers and peasants of France all the conquests that the Russian and sailors is concerned, we may say that it is much superior to that of the democratic French army, The red soldiers are well fed and clothed. The barracks are comfortable and the premises very clean. Discipline can- not be compared with that of bour- geois armies where the soldier is an absolute automatom over which the officer exercises the right of life and death,” The discipline of the red army REAL mass organ of the working class children—that’s what the Young Comrade is fast becoming and the special enlarged February issue is an eloquent witness to this. Of its eight large pages—for the February issue is an enlarged issue—two-thirds at the very least comes from the pens of the proletarian children of this Homeless Armenians at Last Restored to Home—Under Soviets By WILLIAM F. KRUSE (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW,—(By Mail) — Another 4,000 Armenians have finally found the peace and homeland they have been longing and fighting for centur- ies; these refugees of imperialist and civil wars have finally manager to leave Greece and Turkey and make their way to Soviet Armenia, They met with a glad welcome from their fellow countrymen, the farmers among them settling down in one village while the artisans and intellectuals, among them many differents trades and professions, textile workers, car- pet weavers, physicians, etc., are spreading thru the different cities. Housing accomodation and medical assistance have been organized for the returned refugees, and public work has been provided for the un- skilled workers, No less satisfying than a secure economic position for these people so long persecuted is the interest dis- playd by the workers’ and peasants’ Soviet government toward helping them presérve their rich and ancient culture. One after another their tyrannous overlords, the agents of one or another of the imperialist world- powers, sought to root out with all country and is an accurate reflection of their lives and struggles. The Young Comrade has become not only the official organ of the Pioneer League but also the mass organ of the proletarian children as well. February is an important month to the working class child—for in Feb- ruary take place the anniversaries of the births of Washington and Lincoln., The bourgeoisie and their servants, the teachers, are not slow to take ad- vantage of these figures to raise them on a pedestal, to surround them with a halo of patriotic superstition, and to create from them heroes for the work- ing class children in order in this way to build up a nationalistic bourgeois tradition in the minds of the proletar- iat, The February issue of the Young workers have obtained by the revolu- tion., : Long live the first proletarian state in the world! Long live the unity of all the work- ers of the whole world with Soviet Russia! Long live the union of the young workers of the whole world with the you! proletarians of Russia! Lohg live the revolutionary strug- gle of the proletariat! February Young Comrade Splendid Issue we find contributions and correspond: enc on child labor, on the conditions of the workers, on the work of the Pioneer League, and so ‘on. It is impossible, in so short a space, to describe the full contents of the February issue of the Young Comrade. Special mention should be made of the splendid puzzle section that has evoked an absolutely unprecedented response among the readers of the Young Comrade. For every working class child the Young Comrade is a necessity! For every working class parent a subscrip- |tion for the Young Comrade is not only a duty to himself, his children, and to the entire working/class but is a real privilege. NEWARK YOUTH: ATTENTION! The Young Workers’ Newark, New Jersey, wil hold its third annual dance in the Newark Labor Lyceumy 704 S. 14th street, Newark, on Saturday evening, Jan. 30, 1926. Admission is only 35 cents and not only is everybody welcome but a good time is guaranteed or money re- League of Comrade throws itself into the strug- gle against this well-planned poison propaganda campaign. It shows the proletarian children who Washington and Lincoln were, what role they play- ed, what classes they represented, what ideas they stood for, as whose heroes they may properly be. Thru a contrast with Lenin it shows very clearly that Washington and Lincoln were the representatives of the en- emies of the working class and that of the three only Lenin was a friend and leader of the working class. Thus this issue of the Young Comrade will prove of great value in the struggle against the nationalistic public school propa- ganda during the coming month. ‘ possible means the last vestige of Armenian culture. Now the Soviet commissariat for public education has worked out an alphabet that is to be universally taught, and which will make acces- sible to all Armenians ir cultural heritage. In addition thé committee for the preservation of Armenian an- tiquities ig completing a survey of all relives of antiquity existing in the country, taking steps to preserve all the ancient monuments, and is push- ing excavations in the Etchmiadzin district which abounds in historic and archeological material. SETTLEMENTS FOR LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING MUST BE MADE IMMEDIATELY The Chicago local office of the Workers (Communist) Party calls upon all the party nuclei, shop and Street, and all individual party members and members of other or- nizations to settle up for the 6,000 Lenin memorial meeting tickets that were sold in adVan Heckle Free State Head, DUBLIN, Jan, 26—Pres. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State Republic wi forced to leave a meeting which he was addressing at Rathmines under police protection owing to the hostility of his auditors, During the speech ich the Irish leader wa¥ whable to re-|finish, he was subjected’ to severe heckling. wget foyegee ets inal Oke ton To acquaint the working class chil- dren with who Lenin was and what he stood for the Young Comrade has ‘a special story about the life and work of this great working class leader. The feature that shows what the Young Comrade has developed to be is the section: “From the School Struggle.” This section is a reflection of the actual struggle of the militant proletarian children in the bourgeois schooh The fact that this section has now extended beyond its original, bounds of one page and now includes dozens of conthkibutions relating ex- periences is an excellent indication to what extent the Young Comrade has bean an organ of the school strug- gle. Another section that reflects the de veloping mass character of the paper is the section: “Life and Struggles of the Working clas: In this section Anna Louise Strong has spent this book, 1113 W. Washington Blvd, CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION. By Anna Louise Strong. A new addition to the children’s library. This booklet has proven of tremendous interest to both young and old. work with the Russian children has been praised in every corner of the world, Her book gives an interesting picture of it. No one interested in what is going on in the first workers’ republic can afford to miss Price 50 Cents, SU TEESE IEEE YOUNG WORKERS (COMMUNIST) LEAGUE funded. Missing Young Workers, ‘ Those comrades who have issues Nos. 9, 10, 15, 29 and 40 of the Young Worker are requested to send them to the National Office, 1113 W. Wash- ington street, Chicago. A sub a day will help to drive capital away. - Lenin _Liebknecht 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 igsued for the Lenin-Liebknecht meetings. Well written—attractively bound—illustrated with three beautiful photos, \ Single Copy 15c. Bundle Orders 10c. Published by the Youhg Workers (Commun- ist bn. of America 111 ashington Blvd., CHICAGO, ILL. four years in Soviet Russia, Her th Chicago, IMinote |