The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Meta | Workers (Communist) Party| “retuion Every Party Member in a Trade Union By M. H. HE importance of the campaign to intensify our activities in the trade unions that the party is condutt- ing at present, cannot be overesti- mated. On the results achieved in this compaign depend the success or failure of many mass activities of the party in the future. The reorganization of the party has made the accomplishment of this task possible, A large portion of the party membership, formerly isolated in na- tional groups and confined largely to gocial and language activities have now become a part of the basic party units and are learning to participate fn the mass activities of the party. The task now is to permeate every member of the party with the under- standing of the importance of trade | union activity. | Overcome Obstacles. | Our activity in the trade unions up | fo the present has not produced the | maximum of results on account of two | major obstacles: (1) a small portion ‘only of the membership eligible to trade unions are members of the trade unions; (2) only a small portion of those that belong to trade unions are actively engaged in carrying on Com- munist activity in their organizations. 'To illustrate, we haye 85 members employed in one industry in Chicago; ‘but 35 are members of a union and only 15 at best are active in those ‘anions. Those facts speak for them- selves. Before we claim to be a Bol-j ®hevik party, we must get rid of con- ditions that are relics of social-demo- ‘ratic impotence. Our great leader said: “A Commun- fst is a man of the masses.” One can- “not lay claim of being a man of the masses just because he works in a factory with other workers, eats in the same restaurant with other work- ers or entertains himself in a moving picture place or dance hall where workers gather. A Communist must be active in the workers’ organiza- tions that the class consciousness of the masses of workers has created at @ given period in a given place. Joins Mass Organs of Workers. No matter how backward this or ganization might be, How confused its Program and poor its tactics, if this ds the mass organization of workers, the place of the Communist is in there. Not to cater to its prejudices and sink down to its low level of class understanding, but by active Participation in its struggles and il- lustrative propaganda, step by step to raise the class consciousness of the workers in those organizations and ead them on to the realization that only in the Communist program and Jeadership in the Communist Party an they find their emancipation, Some comrades advance the argu- ment that they belong to unions and have lost hope of breaking the strangle-hold of the bureaucrats and are therefore unwilling to contribute financially to the upkept of those bureaucrats by paying dues into those Women’s Day Celebration in Chicago SATURDAY EVE., MARCH 6 at NORTHWEST HALL Cor. North and Western Aves. (3rd floor.) All friendly organizations are requested not to arrange other affairs on that day. organizations, It is true that when one joins a union and comes down to the first meeting proposing to the masses that either they accept his Communist program or they are a bunch of damned fools and their lead- ers a gang of crooks, he will find him- self sadly disappointed and in many instances even badly hurt. Does it prove the futility of Communist acti- vity in the trade unions? It proves only one thing that the methods were wrong, Participate in Life of Unions. The first step after joining a union is to take part in the routine activities of the union, Almost every union has an organization committee and this is ene place where there is little compe- tition for the honor of being on it, be cause there is little honor and .a whole lot of work, This committee can be utilized by every Communist as the first stepping stone to prove.to. the masses that he has no interest, of his own outside of their interest. Once the workers recognize your loyalty and activity in their behalf, you have a broader field of operation and you can take the second step. Every union, national or local, no matter how conservative it is has an opposition element in it. In some in- stances it is a more and in some a less conscious opposition, In most cases it is composed of elements who instinctively feel the incorrectness of the policy and tactics of their national and local leaders, but do not, know how to Gombat them and haven’t a definite program and conscious leader- ship to substitute them. These oppo- sition elements offer a fertile field of operation to every Communist who has succeeded in gaining the confi- dence of the workers, Every Communist is potentially a leader of masses. He is to organize this chaotic opposition to give them a program of action and lead them into the struggle against the bureaucrats, This cannot be accomplished by pure abstract propaganda, We must use the illustrative method. Let us take for instance the latest cancer that is eat- ing up the vitality of the American labor movement—class collaboration. In the abstract this phrase does not mean a thing to the average worker. When you translate it into exhaustion after a day’s work as a result of so- called increased efficiency, coupled with frequent lay-offs as a result of intensified productivity per worker, which eventually brings about a lower tandard of living, an increased army of unemployed, then the worker will janderstand the danger that is con- tained in class collaboration and will support us in our fight against the bureaucrats. But this is only the first step. The labor bureaucracy in its attempt to justify class collaboration comes whin- ing to the membership about the danger of company unions and futility of strikes, pointing out that the time ‘or winning strikes is over and that the workers must find a way of get- ting along harmoniously with the em- ployers, as a solution to those prob- lems they offer class collaboration. Our answer is: “Yes, company unions are rotten, but the way to fight them is not in making the unions scab company unions. Yes, strikes are lost, something is wrong with the unions, but the remedy is not in ex- changing the most effective weapon, the strike, for the bible of peace and harmony, class collaboration.” NEW YORK Daily Worker ADMISSION Labor— It is a most valuable little Chicago, Ill, You're Invited! water Concert Yorkville Casino, 86th St. and Third Ave, Sunday, February 21, at 2 P. M. International Artists. FOREIGN-BORN By Claris: In these days when the question of the Alieri Registra- tion Law is threatening to further enslave American This little pamphlet assumes increasing importance. essential to intelligent understanding of this question. The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., WORKERS 50 CENTS. AMERICAN WORKERS a S. Ware. booklet containing facts— A Cents Combat Company Union's Danger. Our partial program for getting out of this blind alley that labor has been driven into is amalgamation and or- ganize the unorganizedy Where one craft cannot strike effectively, a strike of an industry will tell the bosses where they get off. To make this possible we must amalgamate the crafts. We must organize the unor- ganized before the bosses organize company unions, We must strike blow after blow on the existing company unions and bring in the million work- ers into the trade unions. These cam- paigns are inseparable, too, from our labor party campaign. A successful fight against the first means a victory for the second, Chicago has made a good start. Sun- day, Jan, 31st we held a meeting of the unorganized in one industry and 18 members are going to join their respective unions. There are about 40 more in that industry that will be called upon to join. Meeting after meeting will be called in each. indus- try until we have every member that is eligible to a union a member of that union. bitin Reach Nuclei. Those meetings are called by the district committee, but only thru active cooperation of lower units will we achieve the maximum results, thru reaching nuclej with speakers on the importance of trade union activity and getting the co-operation of every mem- ber. We must win the masses in the union. It can be done, because ob- jective conditions are forcing upon the workers the realization that the Communists are the only ones that have a program that leads to victory. Our slogan from now on ‘must be: One hundred per cent membership in unions! One hundred per cent Communist activity in the unions by every mem- ber of the party! ‘NEW COURSES AT WORKERS’ SCHOOL FOR SPRING TERM NEW YORK, Feb. 15 — The spring term of the Workers’ School is now beginning and for the next three weeks there will be many new courses starting each week. During the com- ing week, the new courses include: WAdvanced Marxian Economics, Thursday nights, 8 o'clock, instructor, J. Mindel.. This is a course for. those who already made an elementary study of Marxian economics and have at least read some such work as “Value, Price and Profit,” Bogdanoff’s “Short course in Economics,” or done équivalent study. 2. Modemn American Labor His- tory, Monday nights, 9 o'clock, in- structor, Solon De Leon. This is a eourse dealing with the history of the American labor movement, since 1865 up till the present time and includes the growth and development of the ‘Knights of Labor, the American Fed- eration of Labor, the L*W. W., the socialist and Communist parties. 3. Workers Correspondence, Mon- day nights, 8 o'clock, instructor, Joe Freeman. New registrants are admit- ted into this course, the old ones will continue. | 4. Elementary English, Monday nights, 8 o'clock, instructor, Ella G. Wolfe. 5. Intermediate English, Tuesday nights, 8 o’clock, instructor Sonia Ginsburg. | 6. Advanced English, Wednesday nights, 8 o'clock, instructor, Eli Jacob- son, 7. Intermediate English, Wednes- day nights, 9 o’clock, instructor, Paul- ine Rogers, 8. Elementary English, Thursday nights, 8 o'clock, instructor, Sonia Waldey. 9, Shop Nucleus Training Course, Thursday nights, 9 o'clock, instructor, Jack Stachel, 10. Public Speaking, Friday nights, 8 o'clock, instructor, Carl Brodsky. 11, Social Psychology, Friday nights, 9 o'clock instructor, David Kvitko. Other courses will be announced next week. Registration for these courses can be made any afternoon or evening in Room 34, 108 EB, 14 St., headquarters of the school. The fee for each course is $2.50 for three months. A few qualified students, who have done extensive study in Marxism, will be admitted into the advanced party training course on Wednesday nights, which includes Leninism, instructor, Bertram D. Wolfe and Party History and Problems, instructor W. W. Wein- stone, The fee for the course is $4 for three months. No one admitted without examination. Examination can be arranged for any afternoon or evening at the Workers’ School, PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATION All working cl organizations are asked not to arrange any con- flicting meeting on March 19 as the International Labor Defense, Chica- go local, is arranging a Paris Com- mune pageant and drama. Moving pictures of labor defense in the United St. in Europe will Biewld be shown. William Mont- gomery Brown’ I¥’'to be one of the Speakers, ay A N. Y, CONFERENCE PLANS AID TO DAILY WORKER Build Up Chediation of Press, Urge Speakers NEW YORK, Feb. 15—A conference of functionaries numbering 175 from shop nuclei, street nuclei, and sub-sec- tions and DAILY WORKER Builders’ Clubs was held here to discuss the [content and methods of distribution of The DAILY WORKER, This was the first conference of this | kind ever held in the district. In the | past it was’ unusual for most of the party members to beliéve that The DAILY WORKER AP: e Communist |press in general was the concern of the literature agents, gnly and -that they had done their \e when the¥ had selected their litemature or DAILY WORKER agent. At*this conference there were present the organizers of shop and street nuclei and the mem- bers of the sub-section Sxecutives, The conference wag ‘opened by J. O. Bentall who is at the present time assisting Katterfeld ip’ the work of building up the circulation of the daily in the Eastern cities: Bentall spoke on the Lenin Drive “of.The DAILY WORKER, Build Up the Comimunist Press. Stachel, organization secretary of the district, spoke at length on the Communist press, contrasting the in- fluence of the Communist parties in the different countries as shown by the support they are receiving in the trade unions and at parliamentary elections, with the circulation of the Communist press. He showed that in the majority of cases we failed to get all our sympathizers to read our press. He stated that the party mem- bers must remember the words of Lenin: “The press is not only a col- lective agitator, a collective propa- gandist, but a collective organizer as well.” Every effort must’ be made to build up the power of the press for this means the building up of the influ- ence of the party. Stresses Workers Correspondents. Comrade Stachel stressed the im- portance of building up, the worker correspondents, to include non-party workers who must be induced to write in our papers and send ug even their grievances against our) press and against our party. The Workers in the shops and factories must learn to know that The DAILY3WORKER ts their paper. Thru the Worker Corre- spondents we can hasten the Bolshe- vization of our press. “Without them, the press cannot bé bolshevized. In every nucleus there must be a worker correspondent. We must build up groups of worker correspondents in every shop to include non-party work- ers. Stachel also spoke:on the meth- ods of distribution of the press and how to sell literature in the shops. Every Party Member Must Build the Daily Worker. Katterfeld spoke of the progress made in building up the circulation of the daily in New York, City, and pre- dicted that New York would soon have a DAILY WORKER edition printed in New York, provided we increase our circulation sufficiently. He spoke of the failure of all the party members to do their share towards the build- ing of The DAILY WORKER. Katter- feld than made suggestions to the members on how to increase their ef- ficiency in the distribution of the daily and to get new readers for our paper. Katterfeld then referred to the Spec- ial Lenin Drive in New York where we are offering non-party workers a month’s subscription for 50 cent and urged the comrades to go over the top in the New York quota of 1,000. As a result of the conference many of the comrades are béginning to un- lerstand that the building up of The DAILY WORKER is the concern not only of the literature agent but of every member of our party. Order a bundle of The DAILY WORKER for every meeting of your union, 4 ae CHICAGO |. L. D. 10 WELCOME TRUMBULL ON FRIDAY, MARCH 5 Workers are urged to reserve March 5 so they “hear and wel- come Walter Trumbull at the Inter- national Labor Defense rally at the North Side Turner Hall. The other speakers are: Professor Robert Morss Lovett, Ralph Chaplin and Max Shachtma STOCKHOLDERS OF Benjamin Gitlow, Willlam Weinstone ANT|- FOREIGNER PROPAGANDA AIDS ZEIGLER GANG (Continued from page 1). the examination of the defense wit- nesses proposed that the case go to the jury without final arguments by lawyers.. This the prosecution re- fused to accept. Isaac E, Ferguson in opening the final argument for the defense dealt only with the evidence {produced by the prosecution thru their fourteen witnesses. Witness by witness he examined the prosecution evidence and showed that upon that basis the defendants should be re leased. Prosecution Evidence Weak. The evidence of the prosecution is as follows: Regarding Henry Corbishley seven prosecution witnesses said nothing against him. Only two said that he had been in the fight around Cobb. One said he had seen him \with a chair in his hand. Four others said they had heard him shout something but all one of them had different versions of the words shouted. In rebuttal Henry Corbishley pro- duced witnesses to prove that he was not in the hall when the fight took place. Besides this Lon Fox who stated that, he was standing close to Cobb during the fight could not say that Henry Corbishey had _ struck Cobb. Karadich Wrong Man. Eleven witnesses said nothing against |Mike Karadich. One claimed he saw him with a chair, and only Cobb and Jess Alexander said he had struck Cobb. prove that he had never been know which he was indicted. Six witnesses said nothing against Stanley Paurez, while eight claimed that he had shouted something in a foreign language at the end of the meeting. The frame-up was that Paurez had precipitated the attack on Cobb when he shouted something in ja foreign language. Since Paurez is ‘a Lithuanian and the audience was overwhelmingly Slay the problem arises how he could have conveyed anything to them in Lithuanian. Only five of the fourteen prosecu- tion witnesses said anything against Steve Meanovich, while nine of them had nothing to say against him. Cobb stated that Frank Corbishley was at the meeting and that he saw the print of a gun under his shirt. One other witness claimed that Frank Corbishley had shouted threats against. Cobb. On this evidence he was convicted. Ignatz Simich struck Cobb, said six witnésses, while eight said nothing against him. Eight Witnesses vs. Two. Against Martin Simich eleven prose- cution witnesses said nothing. Two claimed that he had kicked Cobb, and Cobb himself claimed he was struck by Simich. Against these three wit- nesses eight witnesses took the stand and proved that Martin Simich was at home all the night of the meeting. But these eight witnesses were the especial butt of the ridicule of the prosecution attorneys because they were foreigners, Only one witness along with Cobb said anything against Eddie Maleski. These eight miners were found guilty on the basis of the evidence as outlined above. The testimony of the forty-two defense witnesses may as wellfever have been given so far as the jury was concerned because most of them were foreign-born. Cobb, who claims that the first blow that struck him dazed him, is also the one man for the prosecution that claims to have seen and heard everything that went on. He alone was cool- headed and calm while at the same time he claims that twenty-six men (afterwards reduced to thirteen) were trying to murder him. yond Reasonable Doubt.” In spite of the lack of concl evidence against the accused thé jury decided that eight of them were guilty as charged beyond reasonable doubt. It is quite evident that the jury responded to the appeals of the prosecution directed to rousing their prejudice against foreigners. The defense made a motion for a new trial as soon as the verdict was read. Argument for the new trial will be heard on March 29. Miners Rally to Defense. The first round of this fight has gone to the Fox-Cobb machine in the miners’ union, They have succeeded in securing a conviction against the progressive leaders of the Zeigler lo- cal. But the sentiment of the miners around Zeigler,, West Frankfort and other towns shows that the miners are behind the convicted rank and filers. Now that it is quite apparent that the eight convicted are in dan- ger of going to the penitentiary, the miners are rallying around them to aid in the defense, THE R.A.1.C. jive MEET IN NEW YORK CITY NEXT TUESDAY BY PERSON OR PROXY The stockholders of the Russian American Industrial Corporation are to meet in New York City on Tuesday, February 23, and all comrades outside of New York who are*Shareholders should send their proxies immediately to or Charles Krumbein, These proxies can be sent to the national office of the Workers (Communist) Party or direct to Benjamin Gitiow,at 108 East 14th St. New York. mesh gel salto! Karadich brot witnesses to) as “Mike Krodich” the name under) WITW TIE Y | CONDUCTED - BY TH | | WORKEDS NG WORKERS LEAGUE DEMAND CONGRESS INVESTIGATE Y.W.L. OF LOS ANGELES Daughters of American Revolution Panicky By JOHN EDWARDS. Having nothing else to do, the com- bined organizations of the Los Angel- es Daughters of the American Rey- olution, recently passed a resolution beggin gcongress to investigate the Young Workers League, the Workers Party and all other Communist or- ganizations, Forgetting the meaning of the word | | “revolution” that adorns the name of their useless and superanuated organ- ‘ization, the ftmale descendants of ‘the {former rebels against Great Britain have during the past years carried on first class counter-revolutionary tac- tics—mainly by word of mouth. The Los Angeles D, A. R. took its stirring measure (the passing of a resolution) - following the “brilliant” exposure by tht Los Angeles “Evening Express” that Bolsheviks in the Unit- ed States, openly and fervently advo- catt a Soviet republic for this coun- try. The occasion of the exposure was a speech in the city of angels by Anna Louise Strong. The indignation of the parasitic la- dies who are female consorts of Los Angeles’ foremost exploiters is par- ticularly directed against the youth organizations of the American Com- munist movement. The patriotic bos- oms of the liesurely dames heave with national fervor when they learn that the working class children are being brought into the fight against their ex- poiters. The fat and matronly scum of the “upper” ranks of the exploiters con- sider themselves as the bulwarks of the ruling class and take this occasion of the activity of the Y, W. L. to work themselves up into a patriotic frenzy ending in the birth of a virulent res- olution, The Y. W. L. favors an investigation far more earnestly than the hysterical ladies for it would be an opportunity to broadcast to the young workers the real purposes of the league. The verbal piffle of the Los Angeles D, A. R. in its original purity is as follows: “We, as Daughters of the American Revolution, owe a duty of patriotic service to oppose every movement that is destructive of the spirit of loyalty. deep regard and faith in the principles and ideals of our govern- ment. We deplore the growth of Communism in the United States, and particularly its insidious work in our public schools and colleges in Cali- fornia and othe rstates. “We therefore recommend that the federal authorities investigate this situation, with a view to eradication of Communist propaganda.” How Restaurant Work- ers are Rushed By’ ‘Young Worker Correspondent. | Near the Painters’ Labor Exchange, Jin a paint store on thé northwest side, there is a restaurant, where painters come’ around in the evening trying to find work. ea ‘ The restaurant is always busy enough to kill the waiter, a young lad about 20 years old, employed there. I waited there with another painter —a young worker—and we were talk- in gahout the bad conditions of the young, workers in the painting indus- try, when the waiter came near our place and said, “We have it still worse.” / We tried to come in conversation with him, but it was impossible «for him, because he was all alone in that place and had to be waiter, cashier rand very often a help to the cook. And the place full with customers, Little. by little we found this out from him: This restaurant was sup- Posed to be one of the better ones, where the waiter does not depend so much on tips. But- nevertheless, it’s rotten enough. The hours are from 3:30 p. m. to 2:30 p. m., seven days a week, a total of 77 hours a week for $22 the week, He is always tired from overwork- ing himself. He has no chance to go out. When asked why he does not join the union, he answered, “What of ‘|to the older waiters first. é will come to get a job, it will be given They will let me wait until. . . when? Don't I have to live?” \ This is a good example that shows the result of discrimination of the young workers in the trade unions: when I've told him about the fight the Y. W .L. is carrying on in the trade unions for the organization of the young workers, for the lower initia- tion fee, etc., he was very glad of it and promised to join the Y. W. L, as soon as he will be able to and take an it? If I will join the union, and it Young Workers ECONOMIC TRADE UNION STRUG- GLE IN SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, Sweden.—The wages of the young workers between. 14-20 years emplofed in the metal industry are subject to no wage agreement and consequently are a field of most ex- treme exploitation and at the same time a weapon in the“hands of the capitalists against the organized exist- ence of the adult workers in the metal industries, At a factory meeting of the Youth in the “Baltik” factory the de- thands were made and presented to the management by several delegates from the meeting. ‘Wages for workers of 15 years, 50 oore per hour; 16 to 18 years, 60 oore per hour, and 18 to 20 years, 70 oore per hour, \ ‘ These demands were rejected where- upon the delegation took up the mat- active part in the struggle. of Other Lands ter with the trade union functionary who promised to support a resub- mission of the demand. The result of this second advance showed itself in the counter-proposals of the man- agement: | Under 15 years, 40 oere per hour; 15-16. years, 45 sere; 16-18 years, 55 oere; 18-20 years, 65 oere per hour, Since these offered considerable improvement the compromise demand were accepted. BOURGEOIS YOUTH INSURANCE. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia — The Caecho-Slovakian state spends annu- ally on its atmy 1,935,402,500 crowns, for its géndarmerie, police and pollt- ical authorities 568,694,390 crowns, while for youth protection altogether only 20,247,250 crowns are allotted, ELE ~~ TEAM work counts “Bus rea u Fe