The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1926, Page 4

} Page Four ~~. CO-OPERATIVES FIGHT FASCISTI RULE IN ITALY American Society Joins International Protest (Special to The Daily Worker) CLOQUTE, Minn, Jan. 31—The Cloquet Co-operative Society, con- sisting of 818 members of different nationalities, at its annual meéting, most emphatically protested against the fascist terror in Italy.’ Fascists have not only destroyed local co-op- eratives in Italy, but on November 16, forcibly occupied the offices of the Co- operative League of Italy and dissolv- ed the organization. The annual meeting of the Cloquet co-operative also demanded that the International Co-operative Alliance should take the initiative to call an in- ternational conference of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, Amster- dam International of Trade Unions and International Co-operative Alli- ance, to formulate international meas- ures to fight fascism, The resolution follows: “WHEREAS, the. present fascist government of Italy has destroyed the co-operative societies of Italy and forcibly occupied the offices of the Lega Nazionale; “We, the members of the Cloquet (Minn.) Co-operative Society assem- bled in our annual membership meet-| ing, join in the protest of the Interna- tional Co-operative Alliance, and ex- tend our mpathies to the perse- cuted Italian co-operators. “Further, we heartily endorse the proposal made by the Red _ Interna- tional Labor Union that the Interna- tional Co-operative Alliance take the initiative to call a conference of the Amsterdam International of Trade Unions, the Red International Labor Unions, and International Co-operative Alliance, to formulate measures ‘to fight fascism.” Send Resolution Broadcast. A copy of the above mentioned reso- lution was sent to the Co-operative League of America and International Co-operative Alliance, London. A pro- test was also sent to the Italian am- bassador at Washington. Horthwest Side 1. L: D: Branch Meet Tuesday The Northwest Side Branch of the International Labor Defense will hold a meeting at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., Tuesday evening, Feb. 2, at 8 o'clock. Many important matters are to be discussed and every member should attend this meeting. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Only a Few || Copies Are Left! The historic reports of the | 5th CONGRESS of the Communist In- ternational worker’s hands — no | Should be in every be Communist can without them. Price, 70 Cents en, ||supporting the institutions of |}enemy indifference bigotry, race hatred, reli- | ers is its greatest weapon. THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party Sub-Section 9B Will Hold “Get-Together” Party in Brooklyn NEW YORK, Jan. 31—Sub-section 9B of New York of the. Workers (Com- munist) Party is having a get-together, Saturday evening, Feb. 6, at 56 Man- hattan Av. Brooklyn. Various comrades come together in their units to do Communist work. Many of them have not known one another, but the comrades are getting acquainted very rapidly and are even growing intimate. Therefore the 9B comrades feel that conditions are ripe \for a good time. The committee pre- pared an excellent program. Duluth Proceeds to Reorganize Into Nuclei Duluth is proceeding with its reor- ganization, The city has been divided into three sections and registration is about com- pleted. Over forty members have al- ready been registered. |trict organizer | district in order to help the isolated enty to complete their registration. | CHICAGO SECTION FIVE || EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE | MEETS MONDAY NIGHT Section 5 executive committee meets Monday, Feb. 1, at 8 p. my at 2406 North Clark street. All | executive committee members must | attend. The Workers (Communist) Party of NEW YORK WILL HAVE SUNDAY NIGHT FORUM AT WORKERS’ SCHOOL (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 31.— Sunday, Feb. 7, Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the New York Workers’ School, will lead a discussion on the topic, “Whither America?” at the Sunday night central forum to be held at Workers’ School, 108 East Four- teenth street. The following Sun- day, Feb, 14, Willlam W. Weinstone, general secretary of the district, will talk on the “Three Interna- tlonals,” and on Feb, 21, the organ- ization secretary, Jack Stachel, will discuss “Class Collaboration.” The lecturer will speak for 45 minutes or an hour and general dis- | cussion will follow. This general | discussion will give an opportunity to all party members to train them- selves in public speaking and de- velop the power of thinking on their feet. Compare Robert Sullivan, now ais-| Form, Student Council in Minneapolis, is} preparing to visit all sections of the | at New York School | (Special to The Dally Worker) branches of which there are about sev-} NEW YORK, Jan. 31—The student | body of the Workers’ School, more numerous than at any previous period lin its history, has organized a stu- |dents’ council to take up matters of |interest to the student body, to aid in the conduct and financing of the school and to promote friendly social {intercourse between students of the | different classes, The plans adopted jinclude the arranging of debates, dances .and a theater party. Classes which have not yet elected delegates to the students’ council should do so at once. ‘DAILY WORKER VS. BRASS CHECK | PRESS; WE MUST GET MORE THAN | By w. J of The DAILY WORKER this coming and influence of this paper of ours. When we call to mind the fact that the minds. of the workers are being poisoned. by 30,000,000 capitalist pa- ers and that we can not hope to see the workers become class conscious fighters, the traitorous part they are playing in their enemies. When we add the thousands of magazines and other means stupifying and dulling the minds of our class that are in the hand of the used to inject the opium of gious divisions into our ranks then we must be blind indeed if we do not see ||that it is imperative to build and ex- pand the influence and work of our | paper. The brass check press of the mast- It is one of |the first lines of defense of right to hold in subjection the workers. It is |the first weapon which is brot to bear on our class in its struggles for the overthrow of capitalism. The brass check pre must be destroyed and rendered useless before we can hope ) SoTL LLL LLL LLLLLLLLLLLLL LLL LLL LLL LLL 2 IN PHILADELPHIA! SECOND ANNUAL CONCERT given FREIHEIT GEZANG VEREIN (Z. Haber, Conductor) Friday Evening, February 5, 1926, 8:15 P.-M. at the Mercantile Hall, Broad and Jefferson Streets. ALFRED LORENZ, Violinist, of Philadelphia Orchestra, as soloist. Y. W. MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA, W. Greenberg, Conductor, in a classical selection, Tickets for sale at Happe’s, 1117 Chestnut Street; Freiheit Office, 426 Pine St.; 521 York Ave., and at the Read Our Teacher oe C0-OPERATIVES A new pamphlet just received from Europe of a brief speech on the subject. Of interest to farmers and all workers. by the Box Office, the day of the concert, UUM ee GIRARD, Ohio, Jan, 31-——-The members -of the Workers Party are asked to go out and add 5,000 subscribers to the subscription list pers going into homes of the work- of | isme 5,000 SUBS IN LENIN DRIVE |. WHITE. (Communist) month in the name of the leader of our class, Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianov Lenin. What more worthy object could be the goal of good soldiers in a fight against the master class of America than this effort to increase the usefulness+— to successfully cope with our enemy. How cai'we do this unless we concen- trate all our efforts to carry out suc- cessfully ‘the campaign for subs for our own paper, the paper of our class, The DAILY WORKER? . Let our motto be not 5,000, but a list unless they are brot to see }far beyond the limit set by the central executive committee of our party. In this country is concentrated the greatest power of imperialist capital- Here the workers have a greater task than confronts the toil- ers' of any of the other countries. The workers of the world are looking to the workers of America to set the pace in fighting imperialist capital- ism, and it is a fact of no small im- port to them, that the first English Communist daily in the world, was launched here, and is hurling defiance at this monster of imperialism. Lenin told us the need of the work- ers’ press and how we must guard and defend it, how we must work to in- crease its influence among the masses of workers and see that the message of Communism goes out daily, un- poluted and undefiled. Comrades let us carry out the orders of our great leader of the masses, and make our | press, the mouthpiece of every e | of capitalism, carrying its message of revolution to the uttermost ends of the earth. Lorg live the fighting press of the bondsman. Long live the DAI- LY WORKER! Forward to a goal far beyond the five thousand set by the leaders of the proletariat of imperial- istic America! CHICAGO WILL HAVE DAYLIGHT SAVING AGAIN Labor Piotetts Against Law Ignored By a vote of 11 to 2 the council com- mittee on judiciary-recommended the continuance of the daylight saving law and also that the law be put to referendum in the November elections to the board of aldermen. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers’ representative, John Carrol, pointed out to the committee that the railroad workers were opposed to this law. Representatives of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor also showed the com- mittee that their membership had in a referendum voted against the day- ‘ight saving law and pointed out that the law had been enacted in a refer- endum in 1920 during the war hys- teria and that a new referendum should be had in April. If the recomendations of. the com- |mittee are approved by the board of aldermen, laylight saving will start from the last Sunday in“April and will continue to the last Sunday in Sep- tember. All attempts to have the matter placed for referendum in the April elections, were defeated, { ow were & t a CHICAGO NUGLEI I$ INTERESTED IN WORKERS’ SCHOOL Enroll Now and Be As- signed to Class The party units in Chicago are be- ginning to respond to the enrollment campaign of the Chicago Workers’ School. Already, there are in the of- fice of the Workers’ School the names of 39 workers, selecting 49 classes; these do not include Students in the many classes of the first term, who are sure to continue, ' But not all of these are paid up enfollments; as Arne Swabeck says: “An enrollment is an enrolment only When the money rolls in.” 2 All comrades who have selected courses should send in the registra- tion fee. When classes are cut down to size, preference wil be given to those who first completed their regis- tration. Nuclei Get Enroliments. Section 1 has enrollé@'six comrades in both the Elements/(ot Communism and Historical Materialism; Shop Nucieus 20—five col lish; Street Nucleus lish, one for Histor for the Workers’ {@orrespondence class—Street Nucleugi7—one; No. 21 —one; No, 25—three} Shop Nucleus 20-—three. Other units meeting be- fore Feb, 8 are urgently requested to secure enrollments at their next meet- ing. Many units are satisfied with an- nouncing the classes; but this is in- sufficient. Secure enrollments, and forward with fees. So far, the enrollments are as fol- lows for the various classes: English —1l1; Historical Materialism—10; Workers’ Journalism—9; Capital—5; Trade Union Organization and Tactics —6; Elements of Communism—8, Enroll Now! If you have the habit of waiting around until the last day, and then registering, now is the time to break away, by signing up. :Our slogan is Fifty Enrollments a Day. Make This Your Day. 1 The address is 19 South Lincoln St. Remember this is limited to classes in Chicago. Ye * . : Philadelphia Transit Company Controls City 4 * Transportation Lines alt PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31 — Chauf- feurs, bus men and street car men have the same employer—the Phila- delphia Rapid Transit Co.—with the signing of the requil ordinance by Mayor Kendrick authorizing the tran- sit company to incre: se its capital stock from $43,000,006. to $48,000,000 to provide for the purchase of the Philadelphia Yellow Cab Co. and some smaller taxi concerns, and the con- struction of necessar¥ garages. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. already operates the’street car sys- tem and bus lines. "The street car- men’s union has been smashed on the system and the’men are organ- ized in a company union, the Mitten plan, named after Thomas Mitten. chairman of the company’s executive board. ? Yellow Cab men are non-union. The taxi cabs are under the jurisdiction of the teamsters’ and chauffeurs’ union but union men are suggesting that if a serious attempt is made to organize the Mitten employes the taximen may be taken into the street carmen’s un- ion with the other Mitten workers. The Atlantic City American Federa- tion of Labor convention provided that bus chauffeurs’ should be lined up in the carmen’s union if they were employes of a street ‘ear company and the same ruling may apply to the Mit tenized Yellow menj/on the one boss one union theory. Phe name of the carmen’s union, the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street and Electric Rail- way Employes, suggests such a solu- ‘ion. “Mother” a: Tours East for Labor Defense !. L. D. News Service Elia Reeve Bloor, who rendered splendid service in Boston during the taxi strike, in helping the defense of several woskers who were framed up by the company, is starting on a west- ern tour that will bring her to Chicago HUTA AEN BY CARETAKER WI THE YO Forced to Eat Soap for Rule Violations By PAUL CLINE. (Bhs American bourgeoise has long ago realized and taken advantage of the opportunities which sports af- ford it fof the strengthening of its control over the workers. Thru many years of systematic work in this field, the ruling class of this country has perfected a national system of spotts organizations which has wormed its way deeply into the ranks of the working class, and which is the medi- um for patriotic, fascist, militarist and anti-labor propaganda. Thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars are expended yearly by the bosses for (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Kans., Jan, 31, — During the grand jury investigation of the McCune home for subnormal boys, it was revealed how children of work- ing class parents were being tortured under the brutal administration of @ political appointee. The investigation —a whitewash expedition would be more appropriate—follows a protest from a mother of a boy who was brutally beaten and made to eat soap for. a minor infringement of the rules of the home. Bert Hafer, who was “promoted” BOURGEOIS CONTROL THRU SPORTS athletic associations are accorded the use of the school and the public park athletic facilities. They are controlled by boards composed of local business figures (generally former athletes) and are the objects of an intensified boss propaganda, Patriotism and mil- itarism are rampant in these ama- teur athletic associations, whose mem- bers are overwhelmingly young work- ers. Speeches by military men, mili- tarists, and paid propagandists are the usual thing in these athletic as- sociations. ‘Athleticism and Ameri- canism are synonymous” {gs the slogan | which the capitalists try to drive on Feb. 25," Her schedule is as fol- lows: Bridgeport, Feb, 1st; Philadel- phia Feb, 2nd; Baltimore, Feb. 3-4; Washington, Feb, 5-6; Cleveland, Feb, 8-11; State of Ohio, February, 12-23. Afterwards “Mother” Bloor will pro- ceed westward to the coast. Stanley J. Clark will be toured thru California, then thru Arizona and Texas, Retribution at Last. NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 31—James T. Toye one of the firm which controls the Yellow Cabs in this city is dead as the result of a leaky gas stove in his apartment, funeral was largely attended, But not by union men. ‘ Order a bundle of The DAILY WORKER for every meeting of your union. Ap ae from county electrician to the super- intendent of the home, made one boy who was talking to another youngster wear a paper clip that operates in “clothes pin” fashion until his lips bled for “talking too much.” Another young lad was caught in the act of breaking some of the minor rules, Bert Hafer then took a bar of toilet soap and forced the young lad to take a bite. He then took the 15- year old youth by the ear which was still being treated after an operation for mastoiditis—and forced him to swallow it. The boy was nauseated. His stomach would not hold the soap, It came up. The “caretaker” then be- came enraged because the lad had not been able to keep the soap in his stomach and “dirtied” the floor of the home, forced the youth to gargle his mouth with castor oil and then drink it. Many other boys testified to the brutal treatment they had been sub- jected to. Most of them told of how they had been forced to eat soap and drink large quantities of castor oil and were beaten in most brutal fash- fon. The capitalist papers as well as the labor papers have nothing to -say about the treatment that the boys are receiving in the home. They are si- lent. Their columns are filled with stories of what Russian Bolsheviks are doing to counter-revolutionaries, The Workers (Communist) Party. and the Young Workers (Communist) League are planning to carry on a drive and show to the. workers how the subnormal children of working class parents are “cared for” in these the financing of their sport work. Factory Sport Clubs, letes” for strikebreaking activity in boss—is that they build up the work- ers physically and thereby render them subject to more intensified ex- ploiation, Such large corporations as the West- ern Electric, Sears Roebuck and the Gary Steel works have set up huge sport departments directed by salar- ied experts. These concerns. have built up an elaborate system of com- petitive sport which tends to destroy solidarity and to develop rivalry and individualism. Basketball, — tennis, bowling, horseshoe throwing and base- ball are sports which are pushed. Mass drills or calisthenics are discour- aged—in fact are prohibited, since they bring large numbers of workers together on a co-operative basis. Supplementing the factory clubs, the bourgeoisie have set up athletic as- sociations all over the country, These homes. COMMUNISTS IN ARGENTINE URGE NEED OF UNITY Reformist Leaders Sow Dissension in Unions BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 22.—Comba- ting the disruptive tactics of the ‘re- formist trade union leaders of Argen- tina, which have already sowed divi- sion in the ranks of the railroad workers, seamen and other important labor organizations, a strong move- ment for national and international trade union unity has grown up in the Argentine. archo-syndicalists, who are themselv- es divided into various organizations, are now beginning to appreciate that their own mistakes are no less costly for the working class than those of the reformists, The Communist Party of the Argen- tine proposes a united front of all labor organizations on the following bases: 1 support of national and in- ternational trade union unity; 2 unifi- cation of all parallel unions, on ‘a jJocal as well as a national scale; 3 the sending ofa communication to the Red International of Labor Unions, to the Amsterdam and to the Berlin (anarchist) international, calling for an international labor unity congress; 4 active campaign for organization of the unorganized workers; 5 study of projects for improving the work of all unions in Argentina; 6 establish- ment of special committees charged with seeing that each of the above points is put into practice, Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. a YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE PLANS TWO DAY BAZAA IN MILWAUKEE, FEB, 13-14 MILWAUKE, Jan. 31—The Young Workers (Communist) League and the Young Pioneers have arranged a two day bazaar to take place Sat- urday and Sunday, Feb. 13 and 14 at Millers’ Hall, Eighth and State street for the benefit of the press and to further the organization work of the league and the children’s movement. N Party members and sympathize are urged to help the le juccess of this affair. 9! is appealing to party members to send in donations for the benefit of the bazaar, — ‘ All donations to be sent to Young Workers’ (Communist) League, Lo- cal Milwaukee; 802 State street, cy J bipw Syndicalists and an-| YOUNG WORKERS THE CZECHO-SLOVAK TERROR PRAGUE—From the year 1924 to the month of November, 1925, two hundred members of the Young Com- munist League of Czecho-Slovakia, male and female, were tried and sen- tenced in the district court at Olmutz. The league is growing very rapidly in that country and its increasing influ- ence upon the working class youth is putting fear into the hearts of the bourgeoisie. The league has started 25 Lenin schools in as many districts since last November, schools which run from six to eight weeks to the complete course. PROHIBITION OF INDEPENDENT STUDENT SOCIETIES. ROUMANIA.—The weekly organ of. this society, “Viatea Universitara” (University Life) .which conducted a sharp struggle against the Fascist students, was interdicted by the 2 Corps commander in Bucharest. The official communique based this prohi- bition upon the necessity of prevent- ing conflict between divergent student organizations. It is noteworthy that the Fascist organizations are given all possibilities of movement and ac- tion, and that they aré actually sup- ported “by the government and mili- tary authorities. The League itself was dissolved and all organizations were threatened with the same fate by the military powers if they should admit any of the former members of the suppressed society into their ranks. The most radical paper in Bucharest, the “Facla” invited the students to publish their manifestoes in its columns despite threats of sup- Pression by the military authorities. PROTEST AGAINST THE REAC- TIONARY SCHOOL LAW. BERLIN, Germany.—Young demo- cratic organizations are arranging protest meetings against the reac- tionary school law which is to be passed in the various provincial par- laments. the Congress of the of Saxony accept the following resolution; “The Dem- ocratic Youth of Saxony notes with indignation that the proposed national school law, in violation of the consti- tution will smash the German Public School in the interests of sectarian church influences. We consider the non-sectarian public school the sole foundation for the training of the com- ing generation and are at one with all free thinking tendencies in’ the defense of the primacy of the state . }in school affairs, LENIN SCHOOL OF THE Y. C. L. of CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, PRAGUE; Czecho-Slovakia.—-Since the end of November the Lenin Schoo? has been started in 26 district-League centers, The course is arranged for | Come Ahead Into the Young Workers Lea MOLAR wei A typical form of bourgeois sport organization, a form which in its harm to the interests of the workers ranks next to the company’s union, is the factory sport club. Thru the factory sport clubs the capitalists manage to bind the workers more closely to their jobs, to throw a cloud of “good fellow- ship” around the process of exploita- tion, to control the thoughts and ac- tivities of the workers after working hours, and to prepare the “loyal ath- time of emergency. An additional pur- pose which the factory sport clubs serve—from the point of view of the home in their amateur athletic assoc- iations. The Professionals. Another and more indirect form of capitalist sport influence over the pro- letratiat is thru professional sport, ie. boxing, wrestling, and baseball. These branches of sport are bonafide forms of capitalist business enterprise, pro- ducing enormous profits for the own- ers, managers and promoters from the exploitation of the professional ath- letes. Professional sport is also perm- eated with the ideal of 100 per cent Americanism and patriotism. During the war, the professional athletes who voluntered were held up before the sporting fans as martyrs, as super-cit- izens. A tremendous proportion of the American workers—and particu- larly the young workers, patronize and are absorbed in _ professional ysport. ‘This, naturally, drags them to- ward the capitalist ideology, prevents their coming to class consciousness, and diverts their attention from the class struggle. It is an old and sound proverb, and one which is particularly applicable to our movement, that one takes an ex- ample from the wisdom of his ene- mies. In the field of sport work, the Communist movement, and particular- ly its youth section has much to learn from the bourgeoisie. There is a ery- ing need for the organization of a large and strong workers’ sport move- ment in this country. In a subse- quent article.the tasks of the Young Workers League in this field will be dealt with. OF OTHER LANDS six to eight weeks. The attendance in Brunn for instance is twenty, Every village nucleus is pledged to send three students, every town nucleus ten, The expenses of the delegates are borne by the nuclei, In addition from those places'in which no Y. C. L. exists there will participate in the school a member of the F. D. T. J. (Red Sport Organization) or of the Party nucleus, NEW LEAGUE ORGAN IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia.— The first number has appeared of the new organ of the Y. C. L. of Czecho-Slova- kia in Russian language, under the name of “Karpathskaya Pravda” and as a supplement to the Russian organ of the C. P. of Czecho-Slovakia, Hence the Y. C. L. Czecho-Slovakia already issues its organ in five languages, viz: | Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian and Russian. The new organ is an im- portant means for winning the young workers and peasants in Podkarpatno- Russ. For the present this Russian edition appears once a month, SHOP DELEGATES’ CONFERENCE OF THE BOSKOVITZ TRADE SCHOOL. PRAGUE, Zecho-Slovakia.—A meet- ing of shop delegates of the Continua- tion Schools in Boskovitz on October 17th formulated the following de- mands: 1. Abolition of night and Saturday afternoon sessions in the trade schools; transfer of training into working hours, 2, Maintenance of the legal eight hour day for all apprentices. It was stated at the Conference that the majority of the apprentices in the Boskovitz district are often compelled to work more than 72 hours a week. POA ERAS ON WAR PREPARATIONS IN GREECE. ATHENS, Greece.-Pangalos has declared that the reorganization. of the army is proceeding with dispatch, Recently as many orders for war ma- last ten years. In two years Greece will be in a position to defend its independence and to become a deci- sive factor of peace. He declared, further, that today there were no longer any Venizellist or anti-Venizel- lists, (El Vima, Noy. 18.) erences ) DUTCH SOCIAL-DEMocRAT : YOUTH LOSES, AMSTERDAM, Holland, — The re- Port on the membership of the Social- Democratic Youth League in Holland was announced as, September 7629, and October 7386, The “loss falls chiefly upon the 16 organizationally strongest districts (Het Junge Volk, Oct, 16.) The Lenin Drive m s quick action—send your sub today! gue terial were placed as during the whole r