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; Page Four HILLQUIT WANTS WORKERS TO AID BRIGAND LEAGUE Try to Bar Communists from Debate By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, bourgeoisie, with a quit and Clarence Darrow debated the question, “Shall the States, having adhered to the world court, now join the league of nations.” The former speaking for the affirma- tive, the latter for the negative. Hilquit, in opening the debate defin- | itely alingned the socialist party with world capitalism. He stated that by joing the league of nations America | will aid the cause of world peace. “The socialists,” he continued, “first | criticized the leagile. They still criti- cize it, but do not oppose it.” “The league of nations shows that it can become progressive, pacifistic and constructive. “In Belgium, the socialists have trol. In Germany, Sweden and Denmark 100 per cent con- Austria, Australia and New Zealand they are near the | time when they will take over power. | Hillquit for Capitalist League. “My ultra-radical friends say, ‘why not wait for a workers’ league to be | Organized?’ Because the league of na- tions has not waited for us. It is alive. Out of 66 sovereign nations, 55 adhere to the league. Not to join the league means leaving it to the forces of re-| action. There is no reason in the world why the United States should stay out of the league at the present time.” Hillquit made no mention of the class struggle, nor of the necessity of the workers uniting together to over- throw capitalism. Instead, he worries about the “great American populace,” an un-Marxian myth. Darrow Mentions Russia. Darrow asked: “If all the countries that Hillquit had mentioned were so- cialist controlled, how did it happen that Hindenburg is president of Ger- many?” He continued: “If the social~ ists have power, why don’t they do something? If Denmarg is socialistic, why don’t they get socialism? Some- thing must be rotten in Denmark, In Russia the workers got the power and started to get to work. “The league of nations is united for protection against who? Mars? vor of the league of nations to help them exploit the world. “It will prevent the oppressed in any part of the world from obtaining its freedom. If England and France had been in a league in 1776, Ameri- can freedom would have been impos- sible.” Don’t Like Communists. A Fitzgerald, (his hair being the only thing red about him) who was chair- man of the socialist party ment committee called upon the police to arrest several members of Young Workers (Communist) League, who were selling the Young Worker outside of the hall. For the second time within two weeks, the local socialists attempted to keep The DAILY WORKER corre- spondent out of the hall, while the representatives of the capitalist press | were admitted without any difficulty. Joseph R. Brodsky, attorney for the Worker’s (Communist) Party, was present, protested to Fitzgerald, but to no ayail. He then sent a note to the Rev. Norman Thomas, who was chairman of the debate, stating that attempts to arrest those who sold the Young Worker, was urged by the so- ¢ialists, while those who sold socialist | party literature were not molested. Also that The DAILY WORKER cor- Tespondent was barred while the rep- | Tesentatives of the capitalist press were admitted, and asked for an of- ficial statement from him. Thomas consulted with Abraham Shiplacoff and August Claessens, but did not enswer Brodsky’s note. Vic] The writer, however, managed to get into the hall while Brodsky was protesting to Fitzgerald for the second time, and toook a seat at the press table. Bar DAILY WORKER Reporter. At the recent debate at the Rand School, between Bertram D. Wolfe and Norman Thomas, the socialists told The DAILY WORKER correspodnent that a police reporter's card is all that is necessary to gain admitance, be- cause he did not have one with him at that time, while at Hillquit-Darrow de- bate, when The DAILY WORKER cor- responrdent did show his police re- porter’s card, he was informed that it was only a “piece of toilet paper.” A leaflet exposing the treacherous role of the socialists and showing that the league of nations is an enemy of the workers, was distributed by the Workers (Communist) Party. Turcologic Congress Feb, 20. MOSCOW, Feb, 8 — (Tass.)—~ On Feb. 20, first All-Union Turcologic congress will take place in Baku. The present condition and the prob- lems of studying turco-tartar tribes with regard to their language, history, etnography and literature, alphabet, orthography, terminology, methods of _ teaching in Turco-Tartar schools and \3 other questions will be on the agenda. Feb. 8—Before an audience composed mostly of petty sprinkling of workers at Carnegie Hall, Morris Hil- United | Jup- | iter? The forces of wealth are in fa-| “red” socialist by the, name of | arrange- | the | who | T HE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party WORKERS’ SCHOOL OFFERS COURSE IN UNION WORK The course in Trade Union Organ- ization and Tactics, offered by the! Workers’ School for Thursday eve- nings, for 8 weeks beginning Feb 11, is rapidly filling its quota. A heavy enrollment has come from progressive | workers in the needle trades unions} of this city, The course is of a prac- tical nature, and is attracting those who are active in their trade unions, who are confronted by vexing prob- |lems from day to day. In many unions) of this city, the progressive occupy positions on the executive boards of | the local unions, and some are on the | Joint boards. The.course will prepare |these workers for more effective par- | ticipation in their trade union work. | The course is taught by C. A. Hath-| away, who has' had many years of} practical experience in carrying out | Communist policy in the trade union movement, and has taught similar classes before. ue aie Public Speaking. Many progressives suffer from in- | ability to express themselves clearly on the union floor. To meet this dif-} ficulty, the students of the above class | | will also get training in public speak-| ing. The class, will be divided as fol-| fows: Trade Union Organization and | Tactics, 8:30 to 9:30 p. m.; Public Speaking, 9:30 to. 10:30 p.m. This} |added feature has aroused great in- | terest among the progressive workers, and a much heavier enrollment is ex-| }pected. The class meets at 19 So. |Lincoln St. Registration for this. as well as other classes is still going} on. Send registration and fee to 19 S. Lincoln street. se Enrollments Rolling In. Street Nucleus 12, Section 4, did itself proud on Monday, Feb. 1. In addition to 3 enrollments at the previ- |ous meeting, 8 more enrolled, out of jan attendance of 12, some comrades | see William Simons DISTRICT 8 CIRCUIT SCHOOL 10 START IN GARY, MONDAY, FEB, 15 During the week beginning Feb. 15, District No. 8 Workers (Com- munist) Party will start the second semester of the “Elements of Com- munism” in the cities of Milwaukee, Gary and South Bend. The Gary class will begin on Monday, Feb. 15, South Bend, Tuesday, Feb. 16, and Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 18. The second semester will run for 8 weeks, one night a week, under the instruction of Comrade William Si- mons, who taught. those classes during the second half of the first semester. Much interest has been aroused over these courses, and a heavy en- rollment has been promised, by the local class committees. The regis- tration fee for the semester is $1.50. being unable to attend. Altogether 5 enrolled for English, 3 for Historical | | Materialism, 2 for Elements of Com-| munism, and 1 for Trade Union Or- ganization and Tactics. Is your nucleus doing as well? All nuclei secretaries are requester to forward immediately to 19 S. Lincoln street names and addresse of comrades en- rolling, courses selected, together with fees, se * Only Few Days Left. The second term begins Monday, Feb. 8. Anyone who wishes any in- formation about the courses should Saturday, be- tween 3 and 6 p. m. “The power of the working class is organization. Without organization of the ma ing. Organized—it is all. Organiza- tion is unanimity of action, unanimity of practical activities.” You bring the leaders of the world Communist movement to your shop to, our—when | make your arguments for zou -bring their articles in he DAILY WORKER to your shop. (Continued from page 1) | action of the reactionary leaders in | unseating regularly elected delegates | from local unions at the regular con- vention on January 9th. After un- seating the progressives at this pre- vious convention the reactionaries proceeded to put over their program of filing only a partial slate of candi- dates in the city election so that they might form an alliance with the {O’Connor machine, the underworld |section of the local democratic party. This was the third time that such alliances had been made; the first occurred in the last city election when the O'Connor machine actually took control of the labor campaign; the second occurred in the last congres- ;sional campaign when they endorsed |the republican candidate, Keller, for | congress. When the attempt was made to repeat it in this election a rank and file revolt occurred that resulted in the formation of a provisional com- mittee to issue a call for a protest con- |vention to demand “A clean break |with O’Connorism,” “a full labor ticket,” and the seating of delegates in future conventions from all local | unions, Workers’ Organizations Respond. The call for the progressive con- vention was issued just two weeks ago. It brought forth the most bitter | kind of a slander campaign from Ma- honey and the other reactionary lead- lers. The Minnesota Union Advocate, | editea by Mahoney, carried the most contemptable attacks on the progres- sive leaders. Four or five editorials and an equal number of “news stories” were in the two issues of the paper following the issuance of the convention call. These editorials did everything from associating the pro- gressives with criminals to charging them with being agents of Moscow. All was without avail. The fact re- mains that the progressives have 67 delegates as compared with 35 for the Mahoney gang. This fact shows the extent to which the rank and file de- mand a real farmer-labor party with a militant class program. Woods Demands Unity. The progressive convention was opened by Sam Thomas, president of Painters Local Union No. 61 and chairman of the provisional commit- tee. Roy H. Woods, the secretary of the provisional committee, tnen ad- dressed the convention emphasizing the necessity of unity in the farmer- labor forces as a condition for a suc- cessful fight against the capitalist gang that controls the city govern- ment, He set forth the demand of the progressives as follows: 1. A clean break with O’Connor- ism, The breaking of all alliances with capitalist parties or politicians. 2. A full slate of candidates in the coming city election, 3 A labor platform that will set forth the needs and aspirations of the workers. 4. The immediate calling of a state convention with rank and file representation te prepare for the Progressives in Minnesota Triumph coming state campaign. _ 5, The development of the farm- er-labor party into a movement re- Presenting the real interests of the workers and exploited farmers. Not a Dual Movement. Woods explained why it had been necessary to call this convention, but warned against any move to build a “new ideal party.” He declared that this convention had come into being as a protest against the treachery of the reactionary leadership and that it must fulfil its function, but that it must not fight the party nor split the party. He proposed the list of de- mands enumerated above in the name of the provisional committee and fur- ther proposed that a committee of three composed of Carlgren, Wan- gerin-and Watkins immediately pro- ceed to the regular convention, being held on the floor above, with instruc- tions to fight for unity on the basis of those demands. His speech was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the crowd packed into the convention hall. His proposals were unanimously accepted and tho the committee of three proceeded to the stronghold (not very strong at that) of Mahoney and Starkey. The committee was admitted but were not immediately given the floor due to a debate being in progress. Resolutions Adopted. The committee remained in the “regular” convention. In the mean- time, the time of the progressives were occupied with the consideration and adoption of resolutions. Four re: solutions setting forth the demands of the progressives in detail, namely (1) demand for unity on the basis of the struggle against the capitalist parties; (2) against all alliances; (3) a de- mand for a clear cut working class platform; (4) a demand for the call- ing of a state convention; (5) against a split in the party together with a declaration that in the event of the “regulars” nominating only a partial ticket, that the progressives would fill the ticket, after which they would give support to the entire ticket no- minated by both conventions, at the same time carrying the demands of the progressives into the campaign. These resolutions were all unanimous- ly accepted amid great enthusiasm. “Right Wing” Nominates Four. While the rank and file workers KANSAS GITY LABOR DEFENSE HOLDS BAZAAR ON SUNDAY, FEB, 14 KANSAS CITY, Feb. 8—The Kansas City branch of the Inter. national Labor Defense will hold a bazaar Sunday afternoon, Feb. 14, from noon till midnight at the Musician’s Auditorium, 1017 Wash- ington. Admission is free. The committee in charge advises that all donations of arti to be sold at the bazaar for the benefit of the war prisoners should be sqnt to the bazaar committee 1017 Wash- ington, Kansas City. . OQ noord ae » the proletariat—is noth-| ‘ wee struggle developes, Hold Party Meetings to Discuss the Work Among the Negroes The 150,000 exploited Negroes in Chicago, and the millions more thru- out the U. S.; the significance of the American Negro Labor CongréSs; the duty and tasks of all Communists in connection with the Negro struggle —these points will feature the discus- sions in a series of membership meet- jings of Chicago sections and sub-sec- tions of the Workers (Communist) Party, that began last night. This will be the second series of political discussion méetings conduct- ed by the various units*of the Chicago’ organization, under the direction of the district agitprop department. The first series was held during the month of January, on the subject of “Lenin and Leninism.” Similar meetings are }to be arranged each moi All mem- | bers are required to ati Meetings so far sc! a for dis- | cussion of the Americ; Miskro Labor |Congress are as follows: | Tuesday, Feb. 9—Section 1; |Indiana Ave. . Thursday, Feb, 11—Section 2 (meet- ing place not yet decided). Thursday, Feb, 11—Settfon 5; 543 | North Ave. Thursday, . Feb, sachaieaneninn 3 (of Section 4); 1806 So. Racine. Tuesday, Feb. 16—Section 3; 3116 So. Halsted. Speakers will be routed by the dis- | trict agitprop department. It is espe- | cially important, however, that the membership as a whole participate in the discussions, Ontlines of the sub- ject have been prepared and will be distributed to all those attending the meetings. It is suggested that before going to the meetings of their sec- tions or sub-section, members famil- jarize themselves with the resolution onthe Negro question adopted at the last convention of the workers (Com: munist) party. This resolution is in- cluded in the pamphlet,’ “The Fourth National Convention,” which can be obtained at The DAILY WORKER office; the Workers’ Bookstore, 19 So, Lincoln St., or from nuclei literature agents, 3427 were cheering in the progressive con- vention, “things ‘were happening” in the ranks of the right. Phe commit- tee presented their credentials from the progressive convehtivh, Starkey remarked that he did not. think the delegates wanted to hear them. A motion was immediately made from the floor that the committge be heard, which carried, much tothe discom- fort of the leaders. Carlgren then spoke for the committee, Setting forth the demands of the progréssive forces. Mahoney replied with a pitter attack on the Communists, failing to reply to a single charge of the‘ progressive group. Starkey then ruled the discus- sion out of order, declaring that unity could be discussed after the business had been transacted. An appeal was taken from his decision, but the chair was sustained by a narrow margin. The Mahoney-Starkey convention then proceeded to nominate Howard Y, Williams, a local sky-pilot for mayor, James P. Clancy, Herman Wenzel,.C. J. McGlogan, F. T. Tillquist for coun- cilmen, and William Scott, for comp- troller. The right of the left wingers apparently forcing them to nominate one more candidate than’ they had originally intended, Progressives Fill Ticket. C. R. Carlgren and O. H. Wangerin returned to the progressive conven- tion and rendered a report as to the reception given the negotiation com- mittee, They urged that in spite of the unfavorable report, ‘that the pro- gressive forces continie the fight against the reactionary leadership, against alliances with gapitalist par- labor forces in the campaign. They urged the delegates to, fill the ticket but under no circumstances must we leave the party. Their report was un- animously received, ” A motion was immédiately made that the ticket be filled,’ This motion was unanimously adopted. Nomina- tions were called for. Roy H. Woods, secretary of Electrical, Workers No. 902 and secretary of the provisional committee and a wa known left winger in the local labor movement, Was nominated, A BE, Smith, a mem- | knocked out of his sails. WORKERS.FIGHT GIVING SUPPORT TO FRANK SMITH Hold Big ies in C. F. of L. Against Walker (Continued from page 1) His game | had been shown up. He was exposed in his true role supporting the party of big “business. He could speak, “I did not ask for any endorse- | ment” he mouthed as he started to | apologize, stating that he had not come here for the purpose of boosting | Smith and all that he did was ask | for the floor and tell them: what he thought of the whole thing. Delegate George Koop, of the Chi- cago Typographical Union No. 16 then + took the floor and showed that if the Federation delegates thought that any | good could come out of endorsing old party candidates, they were foolish. He declared there was no difference between Smith and McKinley. Following Koop’s talk, the debate was ended and the motion of Nockels making the Chicago Federation of La- bor the tail of the reputt‘can party | carried by 110 against 33. About one- | fourth of the delegates at the meeting | yoting against this Walker-Fitzpatrick- | Nockels’ betrayal of the Chicago la- bor movement to the republican party. | Two representatives of the United | Mine Workers then were given an op-| portunity to tell of the conditions of | the union miners in the anthracite fields, These delegates are visiting | different local unions thruout the city | collecting funds for relief of the striking miners. Edward Wright,’ a thoroly discredit- ed reactionary in the Typographical Union and who unable to be appointed delegate from the Typographical Union ran to the Brickmakers’ Union, who do not know him as yet, in order to be able to be a delegate to the Chicago Federation, took the floor. to pull some second-handed red-baiting stunts. In his talk he tried to pose as a delegate from the Typographical Union and attacked one of the mem- bers of the Typographical Union say- ing that this member had seconded a motion to give the miners $1,000 so that he could “disrupt, villify” and “slander” the United Mine Workers of America, Wright, who was at one time a president of the state federation and has attended a number of state fed- eration conventions and who is now unable to go as delegate from his own organization but attends these con- ferences and meets by the grace of Fitzpatricck, Nockels and Nelson, tried to create an impression that the “secretary of the Communist party— a leader of the Communist Party” had tried to destroy the miners’ organiza- tion. Expose Lewis Betrayal. The member of the Typographical, Union who seconded thé motion and spoke for the motion to give the an- tracite miners $1,000 at the Typogra- phical Union meeting against whom Wright leveled his attack had pointed out to the members of that union the dire need the miners were in. He had ber of Machinists Locaf*Union No. 112 a former labor member of the city council, was the second‘nominee, Both were unanimously accepted amid great and prolonged applause. A “committee of action” composed of Thomas, Woods, Wangerin, Wall- ace, Votaw, Zackrison, Krengel, Carl- gren, and J. C, Johnson, was elected. The committee was instructed to con- tinue the fight against the leadership for the unity of the party, The com- mittee immediately went back to the Mahoney convention to continue the fight. After a motion, an amendment, an amendment to the amendment and 4 substitute mdtion they succeeded in refering the question of unity to the “regular” executive cothmittes by a very close vote. Both conventions then adjourned with the left wing clearly in control of the situation, More will be heard f, St. Paul as ties, and for the unity of the farmer- | ¢, showed that these miners were not receiving strike benefits from their organization. He showed Lewis re- fused to pay them these benefits and what little was gotten from the Inter- national officials had so much red tape attached to it and as the miners need- ed food, clothing and shelter to be able to carry on the fight against the opérators they had to seek aid from other sources, He also pointed out that these miners had-nowhere else to turn to but to the organized workers and that it was the duty of the organized work- ers to aid the miners in their strike. In his talk for the motion he had pointed out that Lewis was hobnob- bing with the operators and.did not call out the maintenancemen and that as the operators had large stores of 1 on hand and had the maintenance men keeping their mines in good re- pair the operators were sitting pretty while the miners were starving and as Lewis refused to call out the main- tenancemen he was making the strike that much harder to win andythat real union men must support the miners in their strike so that these miners would go back the victors. Wright who solicits printing for the Homestead print shop in Iowa and uses a business card without the label showed at the Federation the extent to which he would stoop in his mis- representations of statements of pro- gressive union members, Painters’ Aid Miners, When the reports from various lo- cals were given, a delegate from the Painters’ Union Local 181 declared: “In my local a Communist made a motion to donate $100. Another Com- munist raised it to $200, The motion was carried.” “That money will not do the miners any good,” declared Fitzpatrick from the chair. when the delegate pointed out that $200 would go a long ways Fitzpatrick snapped: “Any money gotten that way should be refused by the miners, Despite the dislikes or likes of Fita- patrick the anthracite miners know that it is the Communists that are be- hind them 100 per cent and are aiding the strikers to win their strike and led miners gladly accept the aid iste, ‘ ‘ of the QHEiG barely | IS CONDUCTED - BY TH A Discussi By |, LAZAROVITZ. OME of our young comrades have a very wrong conception about |the youth fractions within the trade unions. Not only do they mix it to- |gether with the T, U. EB. L, groups, ut some of them express even the lopinion of the uselessness of such jfractions, with the argument that there are no specific youth demands. It. is interesting to listen to the arguments given by those comrades, and you will come to the conclusion |that altho our comrades realize al- eady the necessity of participating in the trade unions, they don’t under- |stand our role as Communists in these trade unions, -For instance, some comrades say that a youth fraction will be in the way of a T. U. E. L. group, and will only give the comrades another meet- ing. Other comrades say that the T. U. EB. L. can take up youth prob- lems just the same, and therefore, it is not necessary to have special youth fractions. And others give an argu- ment that a youth fraction will not be able to achieve anything, because no- | body will pay attention to them, and our young comrades are called “kid- dies” by the reactionaries. et Let us analyze here what is the purpose of the T. U. E. L. groups in the unions, and the difference be- tween the T. U. E, L, and the youth fractions, It” must be understood that when we talk about the youth fractions, this fraction would react on the de- mands of the young workers only, and specifically to the conditions of the young workers in various industries. But before we are going to analyze the necessity of the youth fractions, let us see what fs the T, U. EB. L., and whether the existence of. the T. U. EB. L. excludes the right for the ex- istence of the youth fraction. In the letter from the C. I. and Profintern to the Fourth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party, the C. I. points out the following regard- ing the Trade Union Educational League: The Workers Party must do every- thing within its power to prevent it- self becoming isolated from the mass- es. It must resist the tendencies to reduce the T. U. E. L, to the position of an exclusive organ of the Commun- ists and their closest sympathizers. The party must strive to convert the T. U, E. L. into an extensive left bloc organization, lining up all the revo- lutionary and progressive elements in the labor unions against the reaction- ary burueacracy. Is this the problem of the youth fractions? Of course, thru the youth fractions WHY A YOUTH FRACTION?’ ion Article. and slogans raised by them our com rades will try to gain on their side against the reactionaries as many |young workers as possible. But at the time when the T. U. E, L. must comprise all the left elements in the unions, the youth fraction will con- sist of league members only, and will work as an organ of the league in the union. The Young Workers (¢Communist) League can only win the confidence of the young workers by participating daily in all struggles of the life of the working class youth. The fact that the young workers perform the labor of the older work- ers, receive lower wages than the lat |ter, is already a good reason for ex- istence of youth fractions, and is the issue that should be raised by young workers. Therefore the argument thatthe youth fractions will be in the way of the T. U. E. L. has no ground. The argument that the T. U, E can also raise the problems of the youth, and therefore it is not neces- sary to have youth fractions, and that |there is no spegific youth demands shows the fundamental misconception of our role as young Communists. In the slogans of the Third Congress of the Young Communist Internation- al, held in December, 1922, the Y. Cy) 1. points out the following specific youth demands in the labor unions: , Abolition of wage slavery for all workers up to 18 years. ~_ 2. Minimum wages ranging from the subsistence minimum upwards. 3. Equal wages for equal work for young and adult workers of both sex- es. 4. Progressive grading of appren- tices’ wages during the course of ap- prenticeship. 5. Wages of all young workers to be determined by trade union agree- ments. The above mentioned are referred to the economic demands only. But we must always have in mind that we-are members of the political or- ganization and a section of the Young Communist International, and there- fore, whenever it is possible, we must also raise political slogans among the young workers; such as the support of a labor party, recognition of Soviet Russia, ete. Every youth fraction must have lit- erature agents, to distribute litera- ture in various unions given out by our league. This is briefly the fundamental task of our youth fractions, and if com- rades come out with arguments as above mentioned, the only thing we recommend them is to get acquainted with the policies of the Y. C. I. regard; ing our work in the trade unions. Mothers of Public School 148 and 55 Win Strike Demands By CLARENCE MILLER. The several hundred children of Public School 148 will not be trans- ferred to different schools as, the board of education planned due to the fight that the mothers put up. They kept their children home for several days, and also managed to get some mothers from P. 8. 55 to do the same. As a result the children from both schools will not be transferred. P. 8. 148 is an overcrowed, school as it is being changed into a §unior high, The school tho was originally built for an elementary schools and is not equipped for instructions of a secondary school. There is no science room, no laboratories, etc., and the ditorium is in a cellar, below street level and is artificially lighted. The board of education thought that in a working class neighborhood they will be able to get away with it, but as they found out they were bad- ly mistaken. The situation in P. S. 55 is similar. The school is an old one, and.a real fire trap, The floor in the front en- trance is of wood. In case of fire the wooden floor will go aflame and the children will not even be able to es- cape with their lives. The sanitary conditions are bad, The school is dirty and the ceilings are low, not per- mitting much breathing space. The board of education tried to solve this problem in a way similar to the women who wanted to save post- age in sending an overcoat so she tore off the buttons and put them in the Pockets thinking that it will weigh less. The board of education cannot solve the problem by sending the chil- dren from P. 8. 55 to other schools and those from P, 8, 148 to 55. The mothers who are now organized will continue to fight that a new junior high is built, that it is well equipped and is not overcrowded, and also that more schools are built so that th: Pile pinged FRISCO NOTES New Branches Organized in California “ Lumber Towns. Comrade Wm. Schneiderman, dis- trict organizer of the Young Workers League, District 13, during his stay in Eureka, California, addressed the Central Labor Council, the Women’s Union Labor League, the Cullinary Workers’ Union, wound up with a mass meeting of lumber workers and organized’ a branch of the Young Pioneers with 15 members, and a pros- pective nucleus for the league of 2 young lumber workers and 3 students, During the month of February, when the woodsmen come into town, @ league branch will be definitely or- ganized and a charter applied for. The Workers Party local has appointed a youth director to assist the league and the Juniors. The party members are nearly all Finnish comrades, and are anxious to build up the youth move ment as a connecting link with the their aid to bring more young work ers into the league. A branch of the ieague has been or ganized in Fort Bragg, With’ 15 mem» bers which include about 5 young lu ber workers, and the rest students; the Young Pioneers have a branch or ganized of 25 members under the direction of the junior committee of the Young Workers League, Here alsd, the party local elected a youth direc. tor to aid the activities of the young workers, There is a big field of work in the lumber industry. both in the mills and in the camps; the companies thru a campaign of terror have smashed union organizations in the district, the schools and press are run by the timber bosses, and the students and workers need a lot of courage to take of the workers. The Young Workers League has a hard fight to carry on in these two cities where reactionaries and bos: stoolpigeons control every- thing, including the trade unions, but with the assistance of the party they hope to succeed. tg al Rasen An American workers, and have pledged, 4 militant stand against exploitation >