The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1926, Page 4

.ge Four THE DAILY WORKER Organization Meetings Workers (Communist) Party Social Affairs : Resplutions PITTSBURGH TO HOLD AGITPROP MEETING SUNDAY Party Unit Directors Must Attend PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 10.—In or- der to extend the agitprop work thru- out the district, a conference is. called of the agitprop directors of all shop | XHE central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party is commencing a drive to draw every eligible member into a labor union. The successful reorganization of our party on the shop and street nuclei basis serves as a stimulus and a means . toward trade union activity. Our party fractions in the trade un- Into the Trade Unions 2. 2, The unorganized members shall be registered by trade and industry in each city and district by the organ- ization department as follows: Name: John Brown. Address: 1145 5th Ave. So. Occupation: Machinist, non-union. Shop Nucleus No, 12. (Cities organized on the shop and street nucleus basis no doubt have thi ions must be organized and strength-| information compiled.) jened immeasurably, and the basis laid) 3. The special committee in charge |for building a left wing on the broad-| (Organization secretary, trade union W comrades at the meeting. Meetings of the unorganized members shall con- tinue to be held until every eligible member has joined a union and is ac- tive in his party fraction and union. 6. Bring those members who are joining the union to the next regular fraction meeting, where it exists, thus drawing the new members immediate- ly into the work and making it pos- sible to check up on each member whether he joined. \ DETROIT ISSUES EXCELLENT TRADE UNION BULLETIN Urges Party Members to Get Into Unions As a part of the party campaign to get our membership into the trade unions and active there, the Detroit district is issuing a monthly trade union bulletin. It is headed, “Com- munists! Into the Unions.” The bul- tetin is in charge of the general frac- tion committee of the district, whose functions are to organize party com- and street nuclei of Pittsburgh, the jest lines, able to rally the rank ,and agitprop directors of sub-district city committees outside of Pittsburgh and of agitprop directors of such iso-|tTansform the American unions -into| notifying lated nuclei outside of Pittsburgh who May be able to cover ‘their expenses to Pittsburgh. DAILY WORKER and literature agents are also to cipate. The conference will be held at the party office, Room 5,'805' James St. Pittsburgh, Sunday morning, Feb 14, at 11 o'clock. The immediate problems to be con- sidered are: 1, The extension of inner educational work—classes and discussions in all party units, 2,. Public meetings for agitation and propaganda. among the broad masses of the workers. 8. The DAILY WORKER cam- Paign, party press, and literature. 4. party. 5. May Day meetings. These are a few of the outstanding problems confronting the agitprop de- Partment in this district. Means for tarrying them out must be worked out at this conference. So far four Classes are being carried on—two in Pittsburgh, one in Woodlawn and one party parti- | lectures | The immediate campaigns of the | or}file in a struggle against capitalism | s jand the union } bureaucracy and to }conscious organs of the class strug- i gle. | Every party member, in accordance with the decisions of the party con- j¥ention and the Comintern instruc- |tions must be brot into a labor un- |ion and become active therein. The | following is the program and cam- | paign laid out by the central executive committee: Campaign for the Organization of Party Members into the Trade Unions and the Organization of Party Fractions. | 1. Ideological Campaign. | 1. There shall -be printed imme- | diately a series of articles in the en- | tire party press by leading comrades on: (a) Why party members should join the trade unions. (b) The purpose and function- ing of trade union fractions. (ce) unions. 2. The agitprop department shall prepare appropriate quotations from Marx and Lenin, terse and effective, to be run regularly in our press, The role of the party in the} 3. This concentrated ideological campaign shall continue in the party press for a period of two weeks be- ginning February 15. the There shall be heldva series of meet- ings of party functionaries on trade union work in each city, where the | necessity of every eligible member joining a union shall be taken up and the local campaign outlined. We There shall be held a series of meet- |ings, trade by trade, and industry in each city, of the unorganized mem- | bers during the months of March and | April along the following lines: 1. The heads of the organization department and trade union commit- tee ‘together with the general secre- tary, under the direction of the organ- ization secretary; shall constitute a special committee to take charge of the organization of party fractions in the trade unions and the mobilization Commiceary and Bakery: of the party membership to join thd 1612 Fulton £t. Phone West 2549 | unions. TMU ad A Masquerade in Philadelphia For Our Daily. ATTEND THIS JOYOUS DAILY WORKER BALL at MERCANTILE HALL, Broad and Market St. Friday, February 19 TTL LLL LLL TT in Brownsville. While these classes are doing well, they are far from meeting-the needs of this important indsutrial district. All on the job to make this conference a big success. Legalize 44-Hour Week. SYDNEY—(FP)—The New South Wales Labor government has decreed by proclamation the 44-hour week op- erative from Jan. 4, 1926. The em- ployers asked that the proclamation be delayed till July 1. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Six Places 118 Ss Clark 167 N. State | 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Specialties: E. W. Rieck Boston Baked | Beans and Brown Bread Fine Soups and Fresh Made Coffee 169 N. Clark 66 W. Washington | 42 W. Harrison Bertrand Scott RUSSELL vs. _ NEARING DEBATE On the Subject: RESOLVED: “That the Soviet’ Form of Government is Applicable to Modern Civilization,” An interesting presentation of the subject by two well- known men. In board covers and including photographs of the authors. 29 The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. IN CLEVELAND! ANNA LOUISE STRONG World-famous American newspaper correspondent who hag recently returned from three months in China, will speak on “The Struggle of Chinese Labor for Freedom” at Moose Hall, 1000 Walnut Avenue SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, at 2:30 P. M. Admission 25 Cents. Auspices, International Workers’ Aid. COMMUNISM and CHRISTIANISM A new edition just off the press of this unusual publica- tion which has proved a bombshell in the church—at a Special price of 256 cents. secretary and general secretary) shall t and call these meetings of the un- organized members trade by trade, each unorganized party member directly by mail. NB.—In this connection, every ef- fort shall be made to link up the party |campaign to draw the unorganized | party members into the labor unions | directly with the organization cam- {paigns now being conducted by the trade unions, such as, in the Machin- lists’ Union, I. | Furriers, etc. and to @raw our al- ready organized party members into rank and file organization commit- tees of the union. Further, particular stress shall be laid on getting the party members working in the heavy and basic industries to join the un- ions immediately. 4. The fraction executive commit- tee of the particular trade, where such fraction exists, otherwise the organ- ization department and the trade un- ion committee, jointly, shall go over she lists of the unorganized members and decide to what local union each unorganized member shall apply for | membership. , ‘The fraction executive committee, or the joint organization-indust. .com- mittee shall also assign the organized members of the trade to be respon- sible for bringing one or more of the unorganized members to the union or- ganization meeting. A party fraction meeting of the trade, where such ex- ists, may, ‘if necessary, be called to | assign the organized to the unorgan- |ized members. The fraction secretary jor committee shall also have in its | possession the list of the unorganized members, addresses and nucleus or branch to which they belong. 5. At the meeting of the unorgan- ized members, the industrial organ- izer, fraction secretary or party rep- | resentative shall make a short talk on the importance and necessity of trade union work and the role of the party fraction-and party in this work. Then the concrete work shall be taken up; instructing each member where, how and when each one shall apply for membership in the local union. Give specific information to each comrade; assign a union member directly to aid each unorganized comrade. NB.—If at the meeting there are some whe raise objection to joining the union, the committee in charge shall not fall into the error of thaking, the subject of the meeting the unwilling comrades, Rather, the committee shall deal with the positive elements, those ready to join a union. Sign such com- vades up at once. Permit, however, 10 ©6obstruction from the unwilling If no fraction hag existed in the | "des into the trade unions, to organ- L, G. W. U., Painters, | trade, then the fraction*should be or- ganized at once at the meeting .of these members joining ie union, A small executive commiftee shall be elected, a secretary, organizer litera- ture agent, and worker#’}correspond- ent or publicity commit be the officers required. The ¢cémmittee is responsible for the fun@tidning of the fraction. Regular meetings shall be called. | 7. A special meeting.of a new |fraction, as soon as organized, shall be called in which shall, be discussed the matter of how new members in: |the union shall function, in the local unions, etc. It is not sufficient, how- ever, merely to join a union. The party fraction organized’ shall link itself with the higher fraction units; |shall develop the left wing and’ have the left wing connect itself with the |respective higher units of organiza- {tions of the left wing, up to and in- wing in every industry. Iv. The names and addresses of the or- ganizer of each trade union fraction in each city, the number of party members in each fraction, etc., both of the newly orgdnized fractions and those already in existence, must be ‘sent to the organization department as soon as these fractions are organ- ized. The organization department is to turn over this information imme- diately upon receipt to the secretary of the trade union committee of the Cc. B.C. Vv. Every district organizér ‘must keep the orgayization departmiént fully in- formed of the progress of’ organizinfs trade union fractions an@ getting the membership into the uffons. Fullest publicity must be given~to these re- ports in the entire party pss. Where- ever possible, this infommation and articles should be written by com- rades directly engaged this work in the various districts.“Pye industrial department shall have fill access to and possession of all of his informa- tion and should, on the basis of these |Teports, together with the organiza- tion department, give fecommenda- tions and suggestions tg¢the various districts in their campaigns. The trade union fractions must | make monthly reports thru the indus- trial department in the ¢ity and dis- trict to the district organizers, and the district organizers must in turn ‘submit regular monthly industrial re- ports of their activities to the C, E. C. industrial department: SCHOOL IN N. TO CELEBRATE TERM'S SUCCESS Banquet to Open Drive for $10,000 Fund (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 10—Tuesday night, Feb. 16, the Workers School will celebrate the successful close of the first term, the opening of thé sec- ond, and fire the first gun in the drive for a $10,000 fund. The celebra- tion will take the form of a banquet to be held at Moishe Nadir, 31 Nast Seventh street. This get-to-gether supper of the students and friends of | the school, announced originally for Feb. 12, has been postponed to the 16th so as not interfere with the In- ternational Labor Defense Bazaar which takes place on the former date. Moishe’s famous supper will be served complete at the regular price of 75 cents, The entire restaurant will be turned over to the Workers School from 6:30 p. m, There will be no additional charge for any pur- pose, but tickets must be secured in advance so that the number of meals |to be prepared may be known. No one will be admitted to the restaurant except on the tickets of the school, Those desiring to reserve places should send their money (75 cents per person) to reach the Workers |School, 108 E, 14th street, not later than Monday morning, Feb. 15. As the restaurant holds only 300 diners, those who delay too much will be “out of luck.” Briet “after-dinner” talks will be given by Moissaye J. Olgin, Bertram D, Wolfe, director of the school, Alex- ander Trachtenberg and Joe Freeman. There will be no speeches, however. The regular supper hour has been chosen for the get-together so that the friends of the school dah attend other meetings later in thé’ evening. The school has much to celebrate as it closes its first term with over 700 students registered © and . a). rapidly growing enrollment as the new term begins. Reserve for your self and the friend at once, bee will be Class in English to Meet Regularly on Thursday Nights Instead of meeting on Friday, the class in English conducted by the Workers Party School will meet reg- ularly on Thursday night at 8 o'clock, The class will be held twice weekly, Tuesday and Thursday nights, at 2644 LeMoyne avenue. All wishing to at- tend are urged to come to Thursday night’s session, as books will be given out then and the régular course begun. Fourteen students atténded Tues- day's class and made a good start with the work. Fourteen others are registered, but were unable to reach the first class. Whether’enrolled or not, foreigners wanting ‘to learn to read, speak, write and spell English are welcome to the class provided that they come to Thursday's meet- ing so as to get start@d with the others, New Haven Holds Big Lenin Meeting;'Debate and Lecture Arranged NEW HAVEN, Conn.,)*Feb. 10—A splendid Lenin meeting Was held here at which Bert Wolfe was the speaker. His address made a great impression on the crowd, so much go that the local press ran editorials lamenting the growth of radicalism in the coun- try. cluding the national organ of the left | ot ize trade union fractions, and to con- trol and co-ordinate the work of the fractions in harmony with the party policies, The biflletin contains articles on the importance of trade union and frac- tion work in general, the progress of the work in the various unions, and reports of the work of the general traction committee, On the front page is a letter from the district organizer, Comrade Owens, which puts forth the slogan: “Every member into the wade unions”; “Every union member into his fraction”; “Every fraction the organizer and leader of the left bloc,” The bulletin carries messages like these: Should Be Effective. “Bolshevism expresses itself in ac- tion, Join the Union!” “There is nothing sensational or heroic about the tedious process of or- ganizing workers and training them from scissor-bills to revolutionists thru the simple problems of their daily struggles, but the revolution lies directly along this path.” In order to pay for the cost of put- ting this bulletin out, the comrades | are charged 5 cents per copy, and it is issued once a month. This method of stimulating the in- terest in the trade union work of the party should bring fruitful results, and | the. Detroit district should show a |#apid development ih the direction of |inereasing the proportion of party members in the trade unions and in the influence of the party in the unions, NEW YORK WILL G0 OVER THE TOP IN LENIN DRIVE “Get Behind The Daily | Worker!” Is Slogan NEW YORK, Feb. 10. — This is the final week of the Lenin drive. Every reader of The DAILY WORKER is expected to bring in at least ONE. NEW subscriber during this week, td bring to a successful conclusion the campaign to place 5,000 new readers’ on the mailing lists of The DAILY WORKER in honor of Comrade Lenin. It was one of Lenin’s fondest wish-, es tg see established here in the United States an English Communist daily, Upon every delegate from Am- erica that visited him Lenin impres- sed the fundamental necessity of de- veloping a Communist daily in the English language in this country where over 100,000,000 of the masses read nothing but English. The decision of the central execut- ive committee to make a special sub- scription drive for 5,000 new readers to The DAILY WORKER as a memor- ial to Lenin on the second anniversary of his death was therefore very fit- ting and proper. It is now the duty and the privilege of every member of the Workers (Communist) Party, and of every reader of The DAILY WORK- ER to prove his Leninism, not with mere phrases expressing loyalty, but with his actions to accomplish “that which Lenin wished and which the objective conditions in tis country de- mand now, by bringing in at least one new subscription during these closing days of the Lenin drive. The last day of the drive is Feb. 15, Let there be a unanimous response by that day. In New York a special fifty cent subscription card good for one months subscription has been issued. If you are not yet supplied drop into the New York DAILY WORKER agency, 108 East 14th Street, at once and get some of these subscription cards with which to place your fellow workers on the mailing list, or simply send in a list of names with fifty cents per name and we'll do the rest. ‘FREIHEIT'-‘ICOR’ MASQUE BALL PROMISES TO BE THE BIG EVENT OF THE SEASON A debate has been arranged between Ben Gitlow and O. Briand, an I. W. W., on Feb, 14, Italian Party Fraction to Hold Public Meetings ‘The Italian fraction ofsthe party will hold @ series of public meetings pre- ceding their national epnvention in New York City on Fey. 27 and 28, These take place ag foljows: Detroit, Feb, 15, speakers, Kako,and Amter; Chicago, Feb, 17, speakers, Kako and Abern; Pittsburgh, Feb.21, speakers, K&ko and Jakira, ‘The district conven- “The Freiheit-lcor Masque Ball given by the Self-Advancement Club at the Division Division St. on iturday evening, Feb, 13, promises to be one of the big affairs of the season. The Kiss- ing’s Jazz Band, one of the best in the city, will play and at midnight will spring a surprise, There will be dancing until 1 o'clock in the morning. Nineteen prizes. are to be given away. Among these prizes is one year's subscription .to the DAILY WORKER, the Young Worker and the Workers Monthly. i way watt, 4M de ler to CONDUCTED - BY TH AN APPEAL TO WORKERS WHO WORKERS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE 4 ARE INTERESTED IN SPORTS By CHARLES ERICKSON, In Chicago and thruout the entire United States generally, the American capitalists have long ago taken ad- vantage of the opportunities that sports affords for the control of the workers by organizing them into bour- geois sports organizatidhs. For many years, thru systematic work on the) field’ of sports they have been able to launch numerous organizations cén- trolled by their agents and lackeys among whom is-the American Ama- teur Athletic Union who has at its head a rich industrial or banking mag- naté to supervise the activities of the organization to which hundreds of thousands of young workers belong. "© counteract this on the field of ‘ Arts we find a.sentiment springing dp thruout the entire country—recog- nition of the necessity for the organ- ization of workers sports. In Chicago, as elsewhere a start has been made which is growing way: beyond our own expectations. One of the workers’ sport organizations which exists here in Chicago among others is the Work- ers’ Sports and Athletic Alliance, with its local headquarters at 453 W. North Ave. Its members take part in game of sports on every field. It has at present two outstanding soccer foot | ball teams, one of which, thru its clean and keen playing, was able to capture the Peel cup trophy from the Inter- | national Soccer League for the year | 1925, The league with a few, workers’ | organizations has some 30 industrial and national sport orgazintions affili- ated, Our club rooms which are open every night at the above address has a large reading roonf with a library of work- ers’ books and literature which the members are urged to make good use of. In the Workers’ Sports and Ath- letic Alliance one gets a-chance to participate in one’s favorite sport as well as a chance to become familiar with the economic system of society under which we live. The only. qualifications necessary are that one must be a worker in order to become a member. * Come in and belong to a sports or- ganization controlled by the workers! CHICAGO Y, W. (C.) L. ‘HOLDS MEMBERSHIP MEETING FEBRUARY 14 A general membership meeting of the Chicago Young Workers (Communist) League will be held Sunday, Feb. 14, at Biltmore Hall, 2032 W. Division St., 2:00 p. m. There will be two points on ‘the agenda, First there will be, a re- port of the activity of the Chicago league, given by the district or- ganizer, Max Salzman. The second point on the order of business will be a report on the industrial ac- tivity of the league and our econ- ‘omic trade union work. This report will be given by Valeria Meltz, the district industrial organizer, Looks for Work— Gets Free Board CLEVELAND, Ohio.—It seems that arrests of young workefs are the order of the day. A few days after we heard of the arrest of George Papeun, or- sanizer of the Young Workers League, now Comrade Kobylak, who was look- “|€ng for work, was picked up from the street, The notorious Shibley who calls himself a detective by trade, grabbed Kobylak as he was walking down Euclid St. lookfng for a position as a shipping clerk that was advertised in the Plain Dealer. The only “crime” of Kobylak was that he lookéd like a worker. As he was walking past the Anis- field building the “men with the cash” were supposed to emerge from the building. The detectives, all being dishonest, naturally judge other people by what they themselves are and so off to jail Kobylak went. The- press had screaming headlines across the entire page how a “$40,000,000 holdup was foiled.” It court instead of trying to prove that Kobylak reallly did like the looks of the bags of money, they tried. to prove that he was a “red organizer.” They were amazed instead of finding a “gat” they found a copy of Bishop Brown’s book, “Communism and Chris- tianism.” Moral: When looking for work dress up like a gentleman, Poisonous Gases in a Milwaukee Plant MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The workers in a small Gemco Bumpers plant in Milwaukee are wondering why the bosses spend $2,000 for repairing the manager's office who only occupies it two or three hours each day, instead of spending one-third of that ($700) for installing some sort of ventilation in the dungeon, where 200 workers slave 10 and 12 hours day and night under the most unbearable conditions, |. The factory is very small, eight or, nine different operations, such as nickel and copper plating, polishing, ete., ane being done in one room. The . various poisonnous chemicals that are used for plating, evaporate into dust and all sorts of gasses among the workers, and this the workers inhale, which causes many—and the majority young workers—to quit the job or get canned if you cannot stand some con- tageous disease, or remain a cripple for the rest of their lives. This, of course, effects mostly young workers, of whom there are a majority in this plant that are slaving-in that rotten hole and are being speeded up by straw bosses that are very faithful and are striving to make bigger profits for the bosses,' The workers in this plant must or- ganize, because only by the organized power of workers will.we be able to better those rotten conditions in the Gemco plant, Workers (Communist) Party Opens Big “Join the Union” Drive (Continued from page 1). fractions. The corresponding left wing group, T. U. B. L, or progressive bloc, will be built and linked up with the respective higher units of organ- ization of the left wing, up to and in- cluding the national organ of the left wing in every industry, With the party organized in many places on the shop and street nuclei basis, a strong foundation for a drive for every member to join a union has been laid. Most of the districts have already classified their industrial registration and are ready to’go ahead with the trade union drive outlined by the central committee. In the Chi- cago district the campaign has al- ready started, with good results. De- troit has been on the job, Other re- ports will be printed as the results of the campaign begin to come into the national office, Call Agitprop Heads of New York Sections for Planning Campaign NEW YORK, Feb. 10—The second general meeting of all agitprop difec- tors will be held Monday ning, Feb. 15, at 8 p, m, at Room 41, 108 East 14th street. The meeting will take up for action the most urgent problems before the party, namely: 1, The campaign for the defense of the foreign-born workers, which will take organizational form at a confer- ence called for the 21st of February. 2, The drive for the recognition of Soviet Russia; and; 8. The $10,000 drive for the build- ing of the Workers School, Left Wingers Give Aid ? Coal Miners Despite abor Fakir Opposition BROOKLYN, N, Y., Feb. 10.—When a communication to aid the striking anthracite miners was read to the electricians local of this aity, the la- bor fakirs were against helping them. One of the fakirs said that the miners were living off the cream of the earth and didn’t need any help, Finally the machine passed a motion to donate $25 to the striking coal miners. At the next meeting of the local, the rank and file under the leadership of the left-wingers passed a motion to reconsider its previous action and then voted to lay a $1 assessment eae the 4,800 members of the lo- South Side Section to . of jul 4 Sub-Section 10, consisting of street nuclei 32, 33 and 34 will hotd.a public meeting at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., Friday night, Feb. 12, on the subject of the Negro question. Alb workers are invited, ® Pycckaa Beuvepunka Russian vetcherinka, concert and dance will be given by the Russian branch/of the International Labor De- fense, Saturday, Feb, 13, at the Work- ers’ House, 1902 W, Division Street. Best local Russian artists will partici pate in the program. Russian and American dances after the program. Real Russian “chai” (tea) from a Samovar (home-made) will be served in the “Chainala” of the Workers’ House, All for the benefit orth clas war prisoners. {