The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1926, Page 4

Page Four = Organization Meetings THE (DALY WE WEIS Workers (Communist) Party Social Affairs Resolutions WORKERS’ SCHOOL OPENS CLASS ON INTERNATIONALS Enroll Now! Comne to Start March 1 To bring about a thoro discussion of strategy and tactics of the Com- munist International on some of the main problems of the world labor movement is the main object of the class in history of the three interna- tionals to be conducted by Arne Swa- beck as a part of.the Chicago Work- ers’ School. Enrollments for this class will be received up until Monday March 1, at which the first session | eight | will begin and continue for weeks every Monday. (Note this is a change of date from Thursday even- ings as originally planned.) Course in Three Divisions, The course will be taken up in three | main divisions, the first and second | part being the First and Second In- ternationals and important events in the labor movement connected there- with, which will be treated largely from its historical aspect, while the last and main division will be gone in- to thoroly with a view to establish @ correct understanding of the funda- mental line of policy of the Commun- ist International. The course will cover the following ground: Study First International. From the early Utopians thru the revolution and counter-revolution of 1848 to the organization of the Inter- national Workmen ssociation. The role of the trade unions in the First International. Its political character. Marx - Engels - Bakunin. The Paris Commune. \Blanquism - La Salle - Bebel - Liebknecht - the La Salleans and Eisenachers - the Gotha program - Bismark’s exception law. Second Ihternational. The Second International. Its struc- ture and development. Revisionism - Bernstein - Kautsky - Hilferding - Three important congresses, Stuttgart, Copenhagen, Basel, Rosa Luxemburg- Karl Liebknecht. Development of im- perialism and revolutionary action. 1905—Lenin’s role. World war and collapse of Second International - Zim- merwald - Kienthal. Communist International. The Bolshevik revolution and the Russian Communist Party - Forma- tion of the Third (Communist) Inter- national - The first Congress - The struggle against the social traitors - Statutes and the 21 points - The na- tional and colonial question - The struggle against leftism - Tactics of the Communist International and Methods and scope of affiliated sec- | tions - Centralization - Discipline - Trade union tactics and organization of Profintern - Women’s work - Agrar- jan question - The New Economic Policy in U. S. S. R. - The United Front - The Two-and-a-Half Interna-| tional, and fascism - The national revolution , ary movements in the East and in the colonial countries. The affiliated sections as viewed by the various congresses - The German party from 1919 thru the uprisings and. the struggle against Brandlerism to the executive committee of the Communist International letter to the German party - The Soviet govern- ment in Hungary - The Italian party - The French party - The Czecho-Slovak party - The Ame: an party. The struggle against Trotskyism - The movement for world trade union unity - Leninism and the Communist International. ! WICKS SPEAKS TONIGHT ON WORLD COURT FRAUD AT 8; IMPERIAL HALL H. M. Wicks, editorial writer for the DAILY WORKER, speaks tonight on the World Court and Locarno at Im- perial Hall, 2409 No, Halsted Street, (corner Fullerton.) Admission is free to this lecture and it will be followed by discussion. All those readers of the DAILY WORKER who have read the many analytical articles on the world court and the Locarno pacts should take advantage of the oppor. tunity to hear the facts from the wri- ter. \ ON FRIDAY, FEB. 19 with Valuable Prizes for most original costumes. $1.00 admission includes wardrobe and a free sub to The Daily Worker, DAILY growth of world imperialism | By H. D. WENDELL. The following is fundamental: The task..of bringing members of the Workers (Communist) Party into the trade unions cannot be ser ted from the general task of organizing all un- organized workers, Put another way: The business of unionizing membe of the party not in the unions involves an understanding of the deterrents to unionization that operate on the mass of unorganized workers, What are these deterrents? What jare the forces and conditions that | meta te against unionization? 1. Lack of class-consciousness; |petit-bourgeois aspirations and pre- udices. 2, The propaganda and terrorism of the bosses, | 3. Dual unionism. | 4. Failure of the unions to take the initiative ang deficiencies of craft | organization. | These are the causes mainly re- {sponsible for the difficulty in organ- izing the unorganized, They act and inter-act one upon the other. They are cross-sectional characteristics of the cla ruggle that can be con- sidered separately only for the pur- | pose of studying them, | Lack of Class-Consciousness, The comparative low level of. cl: iousness of the American work- s explained by “a number of reasons. (1) The existence, until re- cently of a western frontier that of- fered an “escape” for the more cour- ageous and spirited elements in the working class, sapping it of its strength and robbing it of a tradition. (2) The great wave of immigration from Europe interfered with the nor- mal development of a labor move- ment and put countless difficulties of race and language in the way of cumulative growth. (3) The bonanza co S growth of American industry created illusions of “opportuni ed petit-bourgeois aspirations. (4) In the, present period of capitalist monopoly imperialism finds it profit- able to bribe large sections of skilled and strategically placed workers by sharing a part of itsgcolonial spoils thus creating a “labor-aristocracy” whose influence on the rest of the labor movement is depressing. All of these conditions and others to be noted work havoc with the develop- ment of a conscious working class outlook. and foster- Boss Terrorism. Nowhere else in the world is pro- baganda and terrorism so vigorously employed against the workers and their possible organization as , in America. The existence only in this country of monster industrial spy sys- | tems is a monument to this fact. The traditional American capitalist prac- tice of suppressing efforts at organiza- tion by force and intimidation makes | organization in many industries pos- | sible only when the workers are ex- | ploited to an intensive enough degree | to Stiffen them to the effort.. Company | unions, insurance plans, “co-operative’ systems” and innumerable other agencies constitute methods of persua- sion and propaganda that make or- zanization very difficult. This, capital- st double-offensive breaks the spirit of~many workers. Dual Unionism, Dual unionism, which rationalizes into a philosophy dissatisfaction with trade union methods and leaders, has taken a heavy toll upon the labor movement of this country by stealing the best workers from the trade Unionizing Party Members ‘|a dissatisfaction, that, as we said, ex- unions and dissipating their energies in less useful directions. Thousands of the best rebels in America, whose influence on the trade unions would have made for militancy and aggres- siveness, have become discouraged and seceded to spend their energies and talents in building “industrial unions” that have wasted away thru sheer inability to fit into the condi- tions affecting the labor movement as a whole. This process is still going on, altho to a much less degree than formerly, and has taken its pound of flesh from over the heart of the labor movement. Even today there are many rebels workers who will not join the trade union movement be- cause of their dissatisfaction with it, presses itself in a philosophy and therefore multiplies the harm. Union Weakness. Many workers could, without ques- tion, be organized if the existing trade unions would vigorously apply them- selves to the task. The deficiencies of the organs of working class strug- gle, the trade unions, are to a large degree responsible for the unorgan- ized conditions of large sections of the working class, Craft jealousy, job trusting, the domination of a hopeless- ly reactionary bureaucracy, ineffective structure and a meek philosophy of protection account for the neglect of the dominant unions in organization work. Especially in the case of the unskilled this weakness takes its toll. The failure of the established unions to take the initiative dampens the ardor of many unorganized workers. These then are the principle reasons for the slow progress being made in organizing the unorganized workers in this country. There are members of the Workers Party eligi- |ble to join trade unions who are not members, The question comes: To what extent are members of the party influenced by the forces that militate jagainst organizing the workers at large. The forces that weaken the | workers in general? No Excuse for Communist. A Communist should be immune to the discouragement and apathy of the worker who is overwhelmed by the negative influences enumerated above. A Communist is, above all, class- conscious. A Communist’ workers’ place is shoulder to shoulder with the other organized workers of his trade or industry. There he takes the lead in their struggles, raises their courage by being more courageous than they and directs them in paths that lead to the overthrow of capitalism. If his industry is unorganized, a Communist should be in the forefront of a move- ment to organize it. There is no excuse for a Commun- ist to be outside the union of his craft or industry. PROLET-TRIBUNE NO. 5, RUSS LIVING NEWSPAPER, WILL BE OUT FEB, 20 The next issue of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian living newspaper, will be out Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. It willl be the fifth number of the paper. Beginning at 8 P. M. Admission 25 cents. MUST CALL PERSONALLY FOR DAILY WORKER BANQUET TICKETS The tickets for The DAILY WORKER banquet, to be held this” Sunday, February 21, immediately after the concert in Yorkville Casino, will not. be mailed out, but will only be given out personally to The DAILY WORKER Builders, who must call for them at The DAILY WORKER New York Agency, Room 32, 108 East 14th street. NO TICKETS ARE FOR SALE, but every reader of The DAILY WORKER in New York who has brought in at least ten dollars worth of subscriptions or donations since October Is entitled to receive a banquet ticket without further charge, and should call at The DAILY WORKER New York Agency immediately to get the ticket and makg table reservation. The list is limited by the capacity of the hall to 500. Those who have already qualified thru the New York Agency will, of course, have their tickets set aside for them until they call at the office. Additional tickets will be given out to comrai as they qualify with their ten dollars worth of subscriptions or donations and call at Room 32, 108 East 14th street, until the full 500 seats are taken. Every reader who desires to,be the guest of The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club on this occasion will therefore attend to this matter AT ONCE, PHILADELPHIA at Mercantile Hall, Broad and Master Streets The biggest, gayest, jolliest event of the — A MASQUERADE — year— ae tt ‘|New Orleans Public CAPITAL CLASS WILL HAVE TWO WHOLE CHAPTERS Students Suggest More Intensive Study H, M. WICKS, Instructor. The third lesson of the second seme- ster in Capital, Vol. I, embraces Chap- ters V and VI, page 173 to 196. The following are the questions for this lesson: 1—Does the change in the for- mula from C-M-C to M-C-M signify a departure from simple circulation of commodities? 2—Do you know of any modern bourgeois economist who falls into the error of Condillac, who claimed that value was detefmined by hu- man wants? 3—Is any value cheated through the circulation of commodities? 4—Can value be created through the consumption of any commodity? 5—Why was Momsen mistaken in his notion that capital was fully developed in the ancient world? 6—Explain the fungtion of money used to purchase labor-power? 7—How did the sale and purchase of labor-power influence the theore- tical political spokesmen of the French revolution? 8—Explain the contradictions in the general formula of capital. 9—Why does the value of labor- power vary in different parts of the world and among different strata of the working class? After the last lesson one comrade made a suggestion for the class that is well worth considering. He wes of the opinion that at frequent intervals the instructor call upon a member of the class to give a brief resume of the entire lesson. Since no one would know when he is to be called upon to arise and explain thé entire lesson, each would prepare for it, This sys- tem will be tried in addition to the regular discussion of the questions, WORKERS’ SCHOOL CONCERT HONORED BY ART T PLAYERS) Dramatic Stars’to Take’ Leading Roles ia NEW YORK, Feb, 1%;— The Mos-| cow Art Theater’s stars will furnish the leading. attraction at an unusual concert and mass meeting towbe stag- ed by the Workers’ School on Sun- day, March 14, at 2:30 p. m., at Cen- tral Opera House, to,,celebrate the successful completion of their five weeks’ drive for a $10,000 fund to build the school. Lee, Bulgakov and Barbara Bulgakov, two of Russia's most famous dramatic stars, the for- mer of whom is one of the few Rus- sian actors who has successfully at- tempted the famous and difficult role of Czar Fedor, will take the leading role in one-act dramas of Dostoyey- sky and Chekoff. Mlle. Leunne, Russian ballet danc- er, and Masya Shupack, in Russian folk songs, are other features of the big concert. M. J. Olgin, Ben Git- low, William W. Weinstone, and Bert- ram D, Wolfe, director of the school, will speak. Hungarian symphony or- chestra and the Freiheit Mandolin Quartette are other features of the concert, All labor organizations are request- ed to hold the date open for Sunday, |March 14, if —s HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS Finnish Branch, Workers Party Herman, Mich. Esterkin, Cincinnati, 0, Balance, Rescue Party, St. Paul, Minn. Jewish Branch, Workers Party, Winthrop, Mass, .. $ 3.75 3.50 10.00 Lithuanian Working, Women’s Alliance of America, Brook- lyn, N. Y, ore 10.00 R. Krause, St, Louis, Mo. Gilbert F. Anderburg, James- town, N.Y. stein Lithuanian Workers, A. L, D. 4. D, No, 172, Yonkers, N. Y. Nucleus No, 1, Detroit, Mich. Wm. F. Haywood, Los rein Calif. en are 1.00 "$44, 25 1.00 4.00 5.00 5.00 Today Total Previously reported $34,509.35 drand Total $34,553.60 Union Fails to Stand By. NEW ORLEANS — (FP) — When Oscar Pertuit, vice president Division No. 194, Amalgamated Assn, of Street & fBlectric Railway employes, and Robert Martin were discharged by the ervice, inc., for WORKER B we we SF A ORR NI e e See ee statement was demanded by the local, A referendum howevét resulted in 774 against @ walkout to'738 in favor out of a voting strength bt 2,200. “the good of the se their rein- HIBBEN DEMANDS U. $, RECOGNIZE SOVIET RUSSIA Coolidge “Assailed for Backward Policy The policy of Calvin Coolidge and the United States department refus- | ing to recognize the Soviet Union was severely criticized at the Chicago forum by Captain - Paxton Hibben. Hibben in his speéch pointed out the need for America to recognize the Soviet Union. He showed that the claim of the Coolidge administration that the old Russian debts must be paid before granting recognition was an unjust claim. He declared Russia was will- ing to pay the debt unjust as it was, but that she demanded the right to sit in a conference and decide what claims America had to make. “Rus- sia refuses to put this money that is claimed into an envelope and slip’ it under the state department doors as the price for recognition,” declared Hibben. “She asks that she be al- lowed to sit in a conference and de- cide what claims there are.” Russian Counter Claims. He went on to point out that Rus- sia had counter-claims to make and that these counter-claims were for damages done by American soldiers and American warships in Russia and that she insisted that these claims be heard. He also pointed out that the American government tho claiming to be at peace with the Soviets, had sent over steamers loaded with arms, am- munition and food and other materials for Denikin, who was leading the counter-revolutionary forces in Rus- sia. He pointed out that in a number of cases where England had backed foes of America in their wars against the United States, America had col- lected for the damages done and that was what Russia wanted to do. He also showed that the main reason why the state department refused to recog- nize the Soviet Union was because they were a workers’ government and were putting into practice a new ideal which was against the wishes of those now in power. Why Have Revolution? In discussing the Russian debts and the cancellation of these debts, by the Bolsheviki, he declared: “Revolutions lo cancel debts of the government re- voluted against. Otherwise why have a revolution, unless it so happens?” After pointing out the confiscations of private property in the United States and other capitalist. states he ry declared: “The trouble with the Unit-; ed States department is that they do not know American history” and sug- gested that the Rockefeller founda- tion make an endowment for the “edu- cation of the state department in American history.” Yeilow Socialist Seeks “Debate.” The Chicago forum had spent over a month wiring, telephoning, writing, seeking everywhere for some speak- er to take the negative of a debate with Hibben on the recognition of the Soviet Union with no success. Open shop, union-smashing employers, boss- es’ clubs, The Chicago Association of Commerce were entreated to produce someone to debate the issue to no avail, At the meeting after Hibben has started speaking Jacob H, Rubin, who claims to come from Milwaukee and boasted of his socialist party con- nections insisted that he wanted to debate Hibben at some future date, ‘when he had time.” The forum allowed Rubin ten min- ates to make a statement. In his ten minutes he tried to out-do the worst capitalist opponent of the Sov- iet Union in his lies and his charges. Rubin’s falsehoods were resented by the assembled workers and many of them asked Rubin some very perti- nent questions, making him feel ‘as tho’ he were in a Turkish bath all the time he was on the stage. One worker asked this yellow socialist what the attitude of the workers of Germany, England and other Europ- ean nations were towards the Soviet Union, Rubin refused to answer. Tries to Deliver Harangue. Another specimen calling himself Jordon and claiming membership in he defunct socialist party, jumped up onto his seat and tried to deliver a harangue against the Soviet Union. de did not get very far with his ray- ings’ as he was silenced by the chair- man who told him if he wanted to ask a question to do so from the floor and not to stand on a chair and make a speech, The action of the few so- slalists was such that one thot he was attending a meeting of the Amal- gamated under Sam Levin's gangster cule or of the International Ladies’ Jarment Workers’ Union, with Sig- man's sluggers in control, When they sound themselves outnumbered, argu” nents gave way to bellows and threats of beatings to those who sat near and tried to “soothe” these over- excited “victims” of Soviet “terror. Sure, They Tasted Terror! “Sure they tasted the terror. They went there thinking all they had to do was hop up on a chair and open their bazoos and claim they were so- cialists and milk and honey would flow towards them when they went to Russia,” declared one of the workers standing near the DAILY WORKER representative, “but when they dis- covered that ‘they had to work hard and suffer hardship to build a new form of society they became yellow and now they are shouting about vror, We know'those fellows, they n-atheemnp bie os in a strile wma 4: INTERESTS OF THE YOUNG JEWISH WORKERS IDENTICAL WITH THE GENERAL INTERESTS OF WORKERS The Pseudo-Young Revolutionists of the Young Jewish Marxian Alliance Answered by Young Communists. ~ WITH THE CONDUCTED - BY Thi All class conscious Jewish workers the world over have come to realize the reactionary role and character of the Zionist movement. However, some of them still entertain illusions about so- cialist, or Poali Zionism, a Jewish prole- tarian movement, which purports to defend the specific national interests of the Jewish workers as well as their class interests, What this defense amounts to in actual practice is indicated in an editorial in a recent issue of the Yugent, organ of the Young Jewish Marxian Alliance (Poalt Zionist). In part the editorial reads as follows: 2 A Nationalist Plan. “There are several organizations which claim to represent the young Jewish work- ers, One is the Young Workers League. This is a Communist organization, having among its members also some Jewish work- ers, but it is not concerned with any Jewish workers’ problems, economic, political, or cultural, Their only concern quickly Americanize the young Jewish worker. want is to assimilate the young Jewish worker and make him desert the Jewish laboring masses. That is why they no longer even have separate organizations for the young Jewish workers, “Surely, no self-respecting young Jewish worker, who does not want to desert the Jewish labor movement can belong to this organization.” Thus we see that the Yugent levels three charges against the Young Workers (Communist) League: 1) That it neglécts the Jewish workers’ problems. 2) That its only concern is to Americanize the young Jewish worker. 3) That it induces the young Jewish workers to desert the Jewish laboring masses, f Neglect Jewish Youth? Boss (to Voura Jewish Marx- jan Alliance): Keep up the ra- cial propaganda, comrades,’ it helps me tremendously! Upon what evidence and reasoning does the Yugent base these accusa- tions? Solely upon the fact that in some districts where the league has reor- ganized upon the nuclei and working area basis, the Jewish (and for that matter all language branches, regardless of nationality) have been liquidated, To anyone even slightly familiar with the aims and tactics of the Communist movement, these charges of the Yugent must seem to spring out of the deepest ignorance—or the deepest hypocrisy. Surely; the pseudo-young revolutionists of the Young Jewish Marxian Alliance must have read or heard about the thorogoing campaigns of reor- ganization and Bolshevization which the Communists and young Communists in this *country (and all over the world) are carrying on. Surely, they must have read, if. they read our literature at all, that the language, territorial branch, form of organization has been proven archaic and unfifted to the needs of the revolutionary struggles of the workers, and that a new form, the shop nucleus, rooted in the mills and factories, has risen to take its place. Forget Class Struggle. They would know that the Young Workers League and the Workers (Communist) Party are reorganizing on the shop nucleus basis, because years of Communist activity have demonstrated its efficacy in the daily struggles of the workers and in the fight for the proletarian dictatorship, But the “Marxists” of the Young Jewish Marxian Alliance, engrossed in their cultural pursuits, forget about the class struggle, except insofar as it provides an interesting topic of discussion. Because the shop nuclei form of organization disturbs their serene absorption in the difficult problems of promoting Jewish proletarian culture and art, they forthwith condemn it. Such is the-extent of their revolutionary realism and devotion! However, the Young Workers League in reorganizing, as the Yugent implies, is not overlooking the important task of winning the masses of young Jewish speaking workers to its standard. Towards this end it is setting up auxiliary organizations, Freiheit clubs, whose special function it is to propagandize among the young-Jewish workers and prepare them for active membership in the Young Workers League. In this way the league begins to assume a homogeneous, compact form, adgpted to the conditions of the class struggle in America. But at the same time, thru the instrumentality of the Freiheit clubs, it reaches into the mass of young Jewish speaking workers, with its propaganda program and demands, develops their class (not national) consciousness, and ultimately enrolls them in the shop and factory nuclei, the basic units of the league. Hide Behind “Culture.” These units, being organized and functioning right on the job, enable the league to participate most effectively in the everyday struggles of the young workers, to influence them most directly and to win them for the Tevolution- ary struggle. But according to the Jewish Marxian Alliance, it is more important for the Jewish youth to speak and read Jewish, to discuss Jewish culture and art, than to win shorter hours of work and to arry on the struggle against the bosses. And this from an organization which sails under the flag of Marxism! #7 Class Divisions Not Racial, To any class conscious young worker it must be. apparent that the ponies tion taken by the Young Jewish Marxian Alliance is nationalistic, anti- working class. The divisions in modern society are not racial or national in their nature, but class.” The young Jewish workers have no interests of the working class ad a whole. To anyone even familiar with elementary Marxism this is an axiom, Revolution Brings Culture, In charging that the Young Workers League seeks to destroy the Jewish proletarian culture, The Youth Standard displays a complete misunderstand- ing. Not only will the proletarian revolution emancipate the workers from economic and political oppression, but it will lay the basis for the develop- ment of a real culture of humanity, untramelled by economic and class im- press, and into which will be poured the best of which the various national and racial cultures are capable, the Jewish included. The Young Workers League, in working with ali possible energy and means for the achievement of the social revolution, is thereby promoting the cultural interests of the proletariat. In appealing to the young Jewish workers to leave the Young Workers League, the Youth Standard is playing to their purely nationalistic instincts. It is going contrary to the class interests of the Jewish workers, as well as to the interests of the American workers as a whole, y 104 ’ oe ‘ is how. to. In other words what they. _ ‘|