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

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER REORGANIZATION Workers. (Communist) Party IS COMPLETE IN FORT BRAGG, CAL, Shop Nacle itt Lumber Camps Start Work FORT BRAGG, Cal., Feb, 2—Fort Bragg has reorganized its Workers (Communist) Party branch on a shop nucleus basis. Here it has been a slow process as there are less mem- bers working in the lumber mills, and more out in the camps. It was impos- sible at the reorganization meeting to register the entire membership, which will be accomplished within two weeks more. Of the 75 members in the old Finnish branch, 55 have al- ready been registered and assigned to their nuclei, and 10 more are expect- ed to register when they come into town from the woods. One shop nucleus of five members has been organized; one nucleus of eight members in a lumber camp; & nucleus of four members in another lumber camp, and about ten more woodsmen working in _ scattered eamps will be atached to street nue- lei when they come into town, Thirty members living and working in town are organized into two street nuclei The Fort Bragg local is made up entirely of Finnish comrades, who will meet as a language fraction monthly; they have control of a large and thriv- ing co-operative store, with several hundred members, a dramatic society, and a Finnish Comrades Club. The city executive committee has also a youth director, who is co-op- erating with the newly organized branch of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League to build up the youth movement. Five party members who are within the required age limit, under 25, have been instructed to join the league, and all party mem- bers have pledged to send their chil- dren to the meetings of the Young Pioneers also just orga: d. New York Meeting on Women’s Work at Manhattan Lyceum NEW YORK, Feb. 2—All comrades who are housewives and women be- longing to International branches are called to a meeting on Feb. 8, at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth street at 8 p. m. No matter what other activities you may have on this evening, you must attend this meeting. This meeting has} for its purpose the organization of our ~women comrades in an important field of the party activity. The Press-- By JACK STACHEL. | HE most powerful instrument of the party its press. Yet this im- portant activity of the party is today jthe concern of a few. The, party membership, aside from buying a sub- }scription irregularly, is not actively | participating in the building up of the | power and influence of our press, | Today The DAILY’ WORKER is the} concern of The DAILY WORKER |agents in the different cities and the |close groups of literature agents that | they bufld around them. The rest of | the party membership considers it an| |intrusion when at regular meetings |of nuclei, sub-sections, ete., the litera-| |ture director takes a little time for The DAILY WORKER. As for mass meetings, a little progress has been jmade in the sense that The DAILY WORKER receives a few minutes at each meeting, thanks to the instruc- tion from the central executive com- mittee. But even here the chairman often does not consider The DAILY WORKER announcements important enuf and the representative of The DAILY WORKER is kept waiting un- til the end of the meeting, sometimes to make the announcements while the audience is leaving, and, at other times going home with an apology of} the chairman that he “overlooked The DAILY WORKER.” This situation must be altered. The entire party must be made to feel that The DAILY WORKER and the Com-} munist press is the concern of EVERY PARTY MEMBER and every member must bear the responsibility for the content and distribution of The DAILY WORKER. Content of Our Press. Many of our comrades are con- stantly complaining that The DAILY WORKER and other party papers are |not interesting enuf to the workers. | This at times is to some extent true. called upon to contribute towards making our paper more interesting to the workers, do their share. The party is now undergoing a pro- cess of reorganization on the basis of shop and street nuclei. This réorgan- ization of the party is not merély an allocation of the existing party mem- bership. Reorganization means that the party must change its methods }of work and with it will come a change in the composition of the party membership and a more Lenin- ist ideology. The new methods of work require that every member be drawn into the work of the party. ‘The new method transfers the center of But very few of our comrades when! activity from the street into the*shop, altho still recognizing the fact that the residential sections are important and the building up of street nuclei to carry on within those areas syste- Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th St., Cor. Second Ave. NEW YORK CITY An Instrument of Our Party the paper after he has subscribed. Workers Discuss Vital them towards the goal. Between the present period and the revolution lies the necessity for systematic and hard work to win over the masses, to con- vince them that the party is the leader of the working class, to inspire within them thru our activity a cenfi- dence in the leadership of the Work- ers (Communist) Party. Need Worker Correspondents. The comrades in the shops, must see to it that the doings of their shop are regularly recorded in The DAILY WORKER. Every shop where we have a single comrade must have a Workers Correspondent. Not only must the worker correspondent con- tribute regularly to The DAILY WORKER, but he must induce the rank and file workers in the shops to do'so. Furthermore, groups of work- ers, shop councils and shop commit- tees must be encouraged to send in news and article’ to The DAILY WORKER, In this manner our press will reflect the life and problems of the workers. If our comrades take themselves seriously to the task of building our press, our worker corre- spondents should increase by thous- ands and not be limited to members of our party groups off workers—non- party members will begin to look upon The DAILY WORKER as their paper and the party as their leader. Out of the best elements among them will come the new recruits for the party. These recruits from the shops and factories, will increase the base of our party among the industrial pro- letariat of the country and make out of our party a party with mass influ- ence. Nor should the street nuclei neglect this phase of work. In each locality there must be a comrade who will send in news on the life and problems of the masses in the particular locali- ties. Questions of housing, sanitation, school, health, crime, etc., are the con- cern of the Communists because they are the problems of the masses. Every street nucleus should select a com- rade who will send in news regularly to The DAILY WORKER. In every shop, in every street nucleus there must be a worker correspondent. Distribution of The Daily Worker. The best method of distribution of the Communist press is thru subscrip- tions. The gathering of subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER is the busi- ness not only of the shop nucleus lit- erature agent but of every party mem- ber in every shop and street nucleus. work must see to it that every party member participates in it. Every party member must become a sub- scriber to The DAILY WORKER. Then the workers in the shop must be canvassed systematically and regu- larly. Special attention must be given to find out what the worker thinks of ;must draw every party. member The Lenin Drive of The DAILY WORKER will soon’ come to a close. Every party member must secure at least one sub in this drive. In the New York. district a special one month's subscription for 50 cents is offered to non-party workers, The nuclei must also organize the distribution of The DAILY WORKER in the shop among those workers who have not yet subscribed, The street nuclei mugt help to place The DAILY WORKER on the news stands and help in the sale, by guaran- teeing to the dealer thd sale, of a minimum number of ¢opies and pay- ing for them in case thdy are not sold. Every street nucleus ae place this question on its order $fbusiness. In addition the markéts' where the workers gather must he covered by comrades every day. For example in the city of New York there is the men’s wear, the ladies’ wear, the cap- makers—and furriers’ market—where workers by the thousands gather every day during lunchghour, We must develop a system | jWhere com- rades regularly cever le markets during lutich hour and the paper. Many members of theg Young Work- ers League and of the ‘party can in this way make enuf to live and devote the rest of their time to other party work exclusively, Bring Party Prese Into Unions. One of the means of distribution hat we have sadly neglected is the union local and union center. Every varty trade union fraction must elect 1 literature director and he in turn in that union into the distribution of party literature. Where we have not a single member in the union, a com- cade must be designated to cover the hall where the union meets and sell The DAILY WORKER or near the hall, This must be d regularly so that the workers will learn to know that they can always get our litera- ture there. Party Leadership Must Help. The party leaders and the, party committees must see to“it that the proper attention is give to the build- ing up of the Communist press. Spe- cial meetings not only~of literature agents but of all funetionaries must be called to consider the problems in connection with our press. Nuclei and sub-section meetings must give special attention to the building up The literature agents in charge of this; of the press. The New York distriet will hold a special meeting of allvorganizers, sec- retaries, and agitprop directors of all the shop and street nucleion Sunday, Feb. 7, at 11 a. m, at 108 E, 14th St., to take-up the problem of the content and distribution of the Communist press. matic Communist work. ~ The reor- ganization is the organizational ex- pression of the party's political line namely to organize the masses not as the socialist party for electoral cam- paigns only, but for the revolution. Thru the reorganization the vanguard the party—will make its contact with the workers, and will thus lead Office Hours: 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 8 P. M. Daily, except Friday; Sunday 9 to 1 P. M. Special Rates to W. P. Members “The Story of the Earth” and “History of Mankind,” by Samuel Ball, every Sunday, 7:30 P. M., 641 W. Washington St. Ev Saturday, 5721 Cottage Grove Ave., 7:45 P. M. Questions and discus- sion from the floor. THE ROMANCE OF NEW RUSSIA By Magdaleine Marx Vivid and colorful impressions of a French writer on her visit to the first workers’ republic. A splendidly written account and a picture of the people she met and her life among the workers and peasants. Library Edition—$2.00 Clothbound THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. ce TTT TILL LLL LLL ccccLLLLLLLLL LC IN PHILADELPHIA! SECOND ANNUAL CONCERT given by the 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 Box Office, the day of the concert. Pe TTT LLU ELL ELL cd NAAAAAAABABABARABRBAARRARA RRMA BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home, \WORKERS’ SCHOOL TRAINS STUDENTS TO WRITE NEWS NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—The workers | correspondence class, which meets every Monday night at the Workers School, 108 B, 14 St., is gradually turn- ing out a corps of trained worker correspondents that are of great ser- vice to their unions, to the party and to the working class newspapers. Many problems have developed in the course of their work but chief of all was the problem of getting them over their “stage fright.” Many work- ers are scared by the word “corre- spondents” or “journalism.” They are under the illusion that one must be “learned” to be a worker correspond- ent. The students are given special cur- rent events tq write up. The stories are brought in and criticized: first by the class, then by tlie instructor. The students are given a chance to make suggestions for each story. and the other students are not familiar Tacoma Will Hear Carl Brannin Speak on Soviet Russia TACOMA, Wash., Feb, 2—There will be a series of four mass"theetings here during February at the"@ity Hall An- nex on Sunday evenings at 8 o'clock. Carl Brannin, who has),just returned from Soviet Russia will speak at three of these meetings. On Feb. 7 he will speak on “Conditions in Soviet Russia Today,” On.Feb. 14 “How British Workers are Facing Militant Capital- ism,” on Feb. 28 “Labor Under Cap- italist Stabilization in France, Italy and Germany.” Aaron Fislerman, or- ganizer of Dist. 12 of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak at the meeting of Feb. 21 on “The Labor Movement in America.” Tacoma Holds i Memorial Meeting TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 2—The Lenin memorial meeting held “dt the Fratern- ity Hall was addressed'by A. F. Meis- mer of Tacoma and A@ron Fislerman —eae! | Where the assignment is a special one, | Of Seattle. in Meisner spoke briefly’on the neces- with the facts, they are asked to |sity of class solidarity showing the at- criticize on the following basis: tempts of the capitalist lass to divide 1. Does this story answer every the workers on the isstié of race, reli- question in your mind as a reader of /S/0, etc. He also attatked the lying the DAILY WORKER? 2. Has the story been told as briefly as possible? 3. Is the lead written in the most effective way (i. e. are the most im- portant facts put in the first para- graph; is the opening sentence sufficl- ently strong to induce the reader to go on?) 4, Is there anything obscure? 5. Are there mistakes in attitude? Is the story free of bombast, oratory, editorial comments? Does it bring out, by virtue of the facts alone and the proper arrangement of the facts, the Communist point of view? The following points are sized in the class: 1, Don’t write second-hand stories if you can avoid it. Go after informa- tion yourself. Verify your facts. 2, Try to see the relation of your story to the class-struggle; the party; empha- capitalist press. 8 Fislerman, organizer 6f District No, 12 of the Workers (Communist) Party spoke on the work of Henin, the fail- ure of the second international and the necessity of building up"a strong party of the workers in this ewuntry. can Se Williamsburg Party Members Meet Monday BROOKLYN, Ni Y., Feb, 2,—Meet- ing of Workers (Communist) Party, Section 9, Sub-Se¢tion A, will be held on Monday, Feb. 8} at 46 Ten Byck St., Brooklyn, N, Y., at 6 p. m, sharp, Every member Thust be present. No excuses will be atcepted for failure to attend this meeting. Gas Gats Hote! Guests. WILLOW SPRINGS, ILL, Feb, 2.— NEW YORK HAS THREE SPLENDID SUNDAY FORUMS Problems NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—The Central Workers School Forums at 108 E, 14 St., listened to a talk by Moissaye J. Olgin on “Culture and the working class.” Sunday, Feb. 7, the director of the Workers School, Bertram D, Wolfe, will talk on “Whither Amer- ica.” Sunday, Feb. 14, Jack Stachel, organization secretary, will speak on “class collaboration;” Feb. 21, Benj. Gitlow on “trustification and new un- fonism;” Feb, 28, William W. Wein- stone, general secetary district No. 2, will talk on the “red, yellow and black internationals.” 3 The Bronx Forum, which meets at 1347 Boston Road, listened to a talk last Sunday on “American Imperial- ism” by Joe Freeman/ joint author with Scott Nearing of a recently published work on that subject. The Harlem Forum, which meets at 64 E. 104 St., beginning on Feb, 7, will have lectures every Sunday night, including among their lecturers Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Otto Huiswood, Alex- ander Trachtenberg, Jack Stachel, William W. Weinstone, Bertram D. Wolfe and others, Current Events (Continued tiom page 1) good old days when fellowship count- ed for more than business prestige. and hearts seemed more mellow, may be one of the good things to come out of the Winter Frolic. “I am for the Winter Frolic for many reasons, one Of which is that it may help Duluthians to get ac- quainted with one another when everybody is himself, away from the frigidity of business and the serenity of the home. The democracy of the thing is appealing. For a week at least everyone will be on a com- mon level.” R. WILLIAM MAHONEY of St. Paul and points north is consi- derably agitated because the Com- munists persist in being a part of the labor movement. Time and again poor old Bill, thot he had rid the Minnesota labor unions of the radi- CONDUCTED - BY TH By M. S, A short time ago a conference of foreign and American students: was held on the Campus of Kansas Uni- versity. It was the meeting of the fifth district’ of the College Cosmo- politan Clubs, which enrolls American students with an interest in foreign affairs, and foreign students who are studying in’ American colleges. The fifth district of the organization com- prises the colleges and universities of the middle western part of the coun- try. ‘ The conference, which, besides its regular delegates, was attended by a fraternal delegate from the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist League, was typ- ical of the backwardness of the Amer- ican students, of an organization dom- inated by the Young Men’s Christian Association, and ‘of the-fear which is impressed upon the minds of the pro- gressive and revolutionary foreign students who attend American col- leges and who know that expulsion is the immediate result of heretical opinion. Here could be found delegates whose birthplace was one or another of the colonies or semi-colonies of American imperialism: the Philip- pines, Cuba, Mexico; delegates from hotbeds’ of nationa! revolutionary up- rising against foreign exploitation: Koreans, Chinese, Indians, Arabs and others. And these delegates feared to express openly the opinions which they communicated privately, opinions which bitterly condemned, as one of the Mexican students did, the activi- ties of American imperialism below the Rio Grande. The first few sessions of the confer- ence were taken up with the most amazing sgrt of drivel: discussions on whether “or not, foreign students should dance, or smoke, if-they should make dates with American girls, cals, only to find himself confronted | W2ether they should live in a frater- nity house or with an American 2 pe eta ha eS ee family. This, profound and enlighten- honey missed becoming famous once ing discussion was led by a cultured upon a time by a narrow margin. But|Sentleman from.the Y. M. C. A. who for ‘several causes, including Ma-|Strained himself quite successfully to honey the June 17 convention of the; Make the students forget that there er-labor party might have made| Was such a thing as the Y. M. C. A. history. Which leaves the niche pick-| being a servile -tool.of American im- Jed out for his statute by William a forlorn question mark, Mahoney was disappointed and vented his anger on the Communists, who really did their best to make the conference a suc- cess. FTER June 17, Mahoney was all dressed up but had no place to go. What could a man do in such a perialism in,the Orient and in South America. He also. overlooked the epi- sode in Siberia where the Y. M. C. A. backed the counter-revolutionary ban- dits, in their guerrila warfare against the first working class republic. His chief worry seemed to be the making of the foreign student socially accept- able on the campus, dilemma except go to the session of} The discussion led by Mr, Ted the C. P. P. A. and knock at the door for admission? But evidently the gentlemen who ran that conven- tion never heard of Christ’s admon- ition: “Knock and it shall be open- ed unto you.” On the contrary Will- jams was told that he had sinned, and the hard-boiled capitalist poli- ticlans at Cleveland were not in a mood to repeat the action of the meek and lowly Nazarene when he took Mary Magdalene, the fair want- on, to his bosom and sympathized with her. Rebuked, and spurned William walked out into the great open spaces, where Communists’ are as persistent as mosquitoes in New Jersey. HE . worst is yet to come. Ma- honey donned the sackcloth and ne rubbed salt into the wound caus- ed by the application of the C, P. P. A. about to his posterior at Cleve- land and thus accoutred did penance. While in the agonies of reformation he uttered loud shrieks against the reds which were not taken at face value by the reactionarie: They wanted deeds meet for ‘absolution.|’ Furthermore, played-out are of no more use to the reaction- ary labor leaders than used-up fac- tory fodder is to a capitalist. Ma-| Strongest impressions are Shultz on the Problems of Foreign Students in America was as little en- lightening as that of his predecessor. Little comfort was obtained from him by the Filipinos whose brethren are being murdered by American Win- chester rifles of Wood’s troops, nor by the Mexicans who ai being’ threat- ened by a new intervention by Mr. Kellogg, or the Chinese, whose waters are patrolled by American gunboats especially built for duty in China, The Kansas Students’ Conference ready to protect the financial interests of American, capitalists whose way is paved by the’ Y. M, C, A. The only note which corresponded to the feelings of the suppressed (in more than one sense) foreign students was sounded by the representative of he All-America Anti’- Imperialist League. After presenting ‘an analysis of the present situation in the wopld, the dominating role which is being vlayed by American imperialism, and he resistance which was beginning to be offered by the long-suffering :0lonials, he presented three resolu- ions: one congratulated Julio An- tonio Mella on his release and greeted the Cuban Students’ League; a second which expressed the solidarity of American students with the independ- ence movements in the Philippines, with the revolutionary students and the uprising of China, with the Korean nationalists, and a message of greet- ings to the newly formed Japanese labor party; and a third which called upon the conference to take measures to call together a united front conven- tion of all youth organizations to struggle against militarism and im- perialism. The well organized conference tabled the first two' resolutions and Mr. Ted Shultz, the genial head of the Y, M. C. A. of Kansas University introduced a substitute for the third. The sub- stitute was a striking example of the sham progressiveness of the Y. M. C. A.; it was a conclusive proof of the fact that when the “Y” is pressed to the wall it escapes with protests against imperialism in words, and sabotage of all efforts to organize con- solidated action to fight imperialism. The substitute resolution could only “look with concern upon a developing spirit of militarism within America.” The role of the “Y”, as pacifist and jingoist by turns, was clearly demon- strated. Confronted with a proposal for action it could offer nothing but a meaningless pacifist phrase. A stream cannot rise above its source; and the millions of dollars annuatly. contributed to the Y. M. C. A. by Rockefeller, the McCormicks and other magnates, dictate the policy and ac- tions of the organization. The con- ference in Kansas was a proof of this fact, Neither the American students nor the foreigners on our shores can ex- pect leadership or action from the Y. M. C. A., or social sewing circles of a higher character like the College | Cosmopolitan Clubs. It is only thru ja determined union of all the forces lin a real sincere struggle against im- | perialism and the growth of militarist preparations, particularly in the schools, that the American students, together with the workers, and the anti-imperialist forces in other coun- tries, can fulfill their task, The All-American Anti-Imperialist League will continue its efforts to rally the American students, and the foreign students here, in a real fight against the daily growing menace of American imperialism. DEATH PENALTY RIDICULED BY NOTED LAWYER “Warning to Others” Idea Exploded WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Children renegades} should be sent from school to public hangings “because we know that the made in honey raved like a deceived prosti-|childhood and that it the time they tute, but no avail. He was finally] should learn of the results of evil liv- forced to throw himself at the feet| ing.” was the suggestion made by of the lowest political pimps in Min-| Clarence Darrow before the house ju- nesota to serve under them, and|diciary sub-committee in support of a whistle the workers into the camp| bill to abolish the death penalty in the of the reactionaries, now. This is his role} District of Columbia. “If execution of one man by the the DAILY WORKER, in whose col-| Wight persons, ove! ome by coal gas, Fi the current issue of his paper, at state keeps some other man straight, least three articles are devoted to|as advocates of capital punishment attacking the Communists. Every-| claim it does, then hangings should be where they are “hurled” out of 1a-| public,” Darrow said. “If there is any bor organizations but still they come) force in the argument that hanging is back and carry on their agitation, al-14 warning to prospective criminals wayg on the constructive side. Ma-|thon honey is a man who has seen many ae CRETE ARAN. SHER FaR winters in the labor movement, Per- “Why not show hangings in the haps he is too old to learn, Yet he could follow worse counsel than to eae vg phen grtiy ff er Meds write to Mr. James Ramsay MacDon- wi i. oe this theory, punishment should be giv- ld, 1 ‘ fs ov Hae rietahse ur ie Guiitas ip the publicity that ingenuity can de- i’ vise.” to tell his experience with the Bri- tish Communists and how all his ef- forts to drive them out of the move- ment only added to their strength and popularity. Tho the Liverpool conference voted the Communists out of the labor party, the rank and file European Aviators Reach South America PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, Feb, 2, — 4301 8th Avenue Me, hake, A eT FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. (Workers organized as consumers) Brooklyn, N. Y.- umns it is intended to appear. 3. Don't write speeches, conditions, events. 4, Read and circulate the DAILY WORKER fhe were found uncon jay, when & Con- memorial day editorials, ete., but facts, | stable, summoned by persons alarmed by their inabjlity n of the vie orlous, ‘get into the tw said to be refused to comply with the demand and Mr, MacDonald and company are left sucking their thumbs, To para- phrase the words of the sergeant in: “What Price Glory?” : ‘Think i Soar Sa bl Commander Franco and his colleagues who completed the first flight from Europe to South America are over- hauling their plane and expect to hop |) Russian Professor Invents Machine to Replace Stenographers LENINGRAD, U. 8. 8. R., Feb, 2— Professor V. I. Kavalenkov of the Electro-Technical Institute here has devised a machine which when per- fected. will do away with millions of stenographers. The professor has devised stereotype plates for every tone in the human register and these plates are electrically conncted with a microphone. Each spoken syllable releases the corresponding key to the typewriter. The machine is still in its experimental state and in a number of years the professor hopes to have in perfect working order. | A Letter : to American Workingmen— from LENIN | A reprint of the | first direct words to come to American workers from the great leader imme- diately after the Russian revolution. 25 A historical docu- Cents ment of interest to a all workers, You'll Copy find it in the Feb- " ruary Special Lenin Memorial issue of | THE WORKERS ~ MONTHLY =p >