The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1926, Page 4

a Te, PSR RA LEE IETS i Pago Four Organization Meetings THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party Social Affairs Resolutions WORKERS’ SCHOOL! OPENS DRIVE TO RAISE $10,000 Raise $4,000 at Student Banquet in New York in the NEW YORK, Feb. cash and pledges were danquet given by the students and friends of the Workers’ School to open their drive for a $10,000 fund and an additional $1,500 were pledged 21.—.. $4,000 raised at by B, Brodsky to the school, provid- ed it raises. the $8,500, necessary to complete the $10,000 fund, by March 14, the final date set for the drive. The, ample banquet hall was so badly overcrowded that it was neces- sary to hire an additional hall to feed the many friends of the school that ame to rally to its support, and amid scenes of the atest enthusiasm and good fellowship, the sum of $4,000 ‘was raised in the single evening. This ts a political event of the greatest importance in the history of the Workers (Communist) Party because it marks the growing mass support that the Workers’ School and the type of class struggle education that the party offers is awakening in the ranks of the organized workers of the city of New York Make History, “This night, you have made his- tory,” said Robert Minor, one of the speakers at the banquet. “Your splen- did drive, which marks the proletarian ™mass support that the Workers’ School has won for itself in the city of New York is an epoch-making event in the sense that it is the be- ginning of the end of capitalist ide- Glogy and yellow socialist perversion of Marxism in the American labor moyement.” About 10 o’clock in the evening, Alexander Trachtenberg, chairman of the banquet, introduced the director of the school, Bertram D. Wolfe. He told briefly about the aims and the significance of the Workers’ School in the movement for real working class education in the United States and about the needs of the school. “Our school represents a challenge to those so-called workers’ education movements that wish to bring bour- geois ‘culture’ to the working class thru the aid of bourgeois professors. We challenge also such institutions as the Rand School which combines courses in appreciation of music, li- terary criticism and aesthetic dancing with gross perversions of socialist economics, politics and philosophy, Have No Illusions. “Nor do we hold the illusion that is held by Watonites and Boudinites and Loreites that the American masses will learn thru formal education in the class room. There are those who think that the class struggle is so- called because it is to be fought out in class room. We know that the masses learn thru the hard road of experience, of blundering and the cor- recting of blunders. But we know that the ignorant, incompetent and even treacherous leadership that the American working class has had, have made that path harder and we know that we can shorten it by preparing a new leadership for the American working class ¢hat is schooled in Marxist-Leninist economics, politics and tactics of the labor movement. When you befriend | the school, you are helping to give such leadership to the American work- ing class.” The Drive Begins. After several of the students told of the value of the school’s education to them and the needs of the school, and the theory Moissaye J. Olgin opened the appeal for funds. He called for a substan- tial. contribution and $500 from A, Goodman answered his call. Follow- eda pledge of $500 from Eugene Schoen, a check for $100 from Bishop Brown, a check for $250 trom Edward Royce and then $500 from B, Brodsky TALES FOR REDS CULLDEER AV, , 75 Cents Duroflax Binding $1.25 Cloth Bound By ROBERT SMITH. i At the present time we, the Work- ers Party, are organizing an intensive campaign to have all our members join the trade unions. Every mem- ber of the party must join the union that has jurisdiction over the particu- lar work he or she is engaged on, and if no union has jurisdiction of their work, they must start an inten- sive drive to organize the particular shop, and immediately affiliate with the national union. The party must force its member- ship to join the unions; it is the only way that we can reach the workers. We must fight in the local unions, to influence its membership, and at all times lead. them. Our program in the local unions must be based on immediate demands of the members, such as higher wag- 28, shorter hours, better workiiig con- litions, amalgamation, organize the unorganized, against class collabora- ion, ete. Our whole effort must be to broaden out the demands of the work- xs, and turn the unions into organs of the class struggle, instead of the veak class collaboration organs they are now becoming under the mislead: ership of the present treacherous leaders. The party members at all times must be ready to act as a unit in the trade unions, and in all gatherings of the workers, such as conventions and conferences that meet regularly to discuss and formulate programs for j future work of the members. In order to carry out our program correctly, the party members should organize party fractions, to discuss every question to come up at the local union, They must meet privately, and discuss these things, and agree on a| certain program to meet every occa-| sion, to go into the local union as/ a unit, and fight for the adoption of their program. The party unit also must. build the left wing (T. U. E. L.), rally and lead them to the sup- port of our program. Sometimes it becomes necessary to co-operate and| form alliances with progressives, upon | a minimum program of action. This co-operation must be based on cer- tain immediate concrete issues in the| interest of the workers. Know the Situation and Issues in the Union. Our members must acquaint them- selves with the constitutions of their. organizations, local, district and na- tional. They must also acquaint them- selves with their working agreements. They must be prepared to take up every question that arises in the lo- cal in the interest of the masses. They with his promise of $1,500 more when the $8,500 should be raised, provided the sum was completed before March 14, a “friend of the school” gave $100, $250 was pledged by A. A. Heller, and a bequest, from an old socialist who had recently died, of $60 was handed over by his executor. An officer of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union pledged that he would raise a minimum of $500 in his own locals and that other locals of the union would get behind the drive in a like manner. A member of the Amalgamated Food Workers pledged his organization to $50. Even the Young Pioneers pledged themselves to raise $50 and struggling institu- tions like the Freiheit and the Novy Mir and the Hammer, themselves driv- ing for funds, pledged $50 in the case of the Freiheit and $10 each in| the case of the other papers. United Workers’ Co-operative Association | (Camp Nitgedeiget) pledged $50, The | Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra $25, ‘and members and officers of various un- ions, fraternal organizations, workers’ clubs and units of the Workers (Com- munist) Party pledged sums of vary- ing size as did the classes of the school. Cash contributions from those present were received in sumg from $1.00 to $25.00. , End Drive With Concert, ‘The drive was only opened to this astonishing affair. It is scheduled’to run until the-14th of March, whem it will terminate in a big celebration concert which will include two, one- act plays by the actors of the Moséow Art Theater. Every one at the’ Ban- quet took subscription lists and pledg- ed himself to visit unions, Working: men’s Circles and other organizations and complete the fund before the date of the concert so that the affair at Central Opera House could be a cele- bration of the success of the drive. A, Ravitch, who is directing the drive, secured a promise of co-opera- tion from hundreds of friends of the school present in carrying it on in the same successful way in which he had begun it. Those who spoke at the banquet in- clude: William W. Weinstone, Chas. Krumbein, Joe Freeman, M, Paster- nak, J. M. MacDonald, Harry Fox, and a written address was mailed in by Bishop Brown, who was out of the PARTY MEMBERS MUST: JOIN THE UNICN OF THEIR TRADE must also be able to lead in the strug- gle inside the local unions on all ques- tions of the union, and the unions’ agreements, They must study the his- tory of the labor movement, to be able to guide the mass, along the proper line and to develop leadership, The development of leadership is very important. Many times in in- dustrial battles gone by the workers have had the proper program but lack- ed leadership to properly place the program before the workers. This lack of leadership has; result- ed many times in the complete dis- organization of our forces. The min- ers in various conventions have been the victims of this lack of left wing leadership, which leadership, if it had been present would have forced the reactionary machine of the miners to accept at least part of our program. The necessity of organizing this leadership is obvious when we exam- ine the last few conventions of the miners. At many of these conventions the-| militant miners have successfully passed resolutions for nationalization and workers’ control of the mines. Ir the 1919 convention in Cleveland they also passed resolutions indorsing a la bor party, for organization of the un- organized, amalgamation, etc. Since that convention our demands have been betrayed and repudiated by the Lewis machine. In the 1924 convention militant members were expelled from the con- vention, and this in spite of the fact that the militants had over 50 per cent of the delegates, which was shown ‘by actual count after the con- vention adjourned. Organize the Left Wing. This debacle could not have occurr- ed if the members of the Workers Party, aided by the progressive ele- ment had understood their proper role in that convention. If they had been organized for a Jong time before the convention, had Wiscussed the issues to come before the convention, had understood the issues properly, and be€n orgnaized as a unit, with prop- erly’selected speakers, and stood as a unit all thru the convention, they would no doubt have defeated the re- actionary leaders on all the import- ant questions, and the figh¥,for pro- gressive concrete demands would have been well to the front in the miners’ union today. Every Communist a member of the union. Until every member of our party sees the necessity for this and carries it out, we will remain imma- ture, undeveloped sections of the Gom- intern. Join the union! Big Charleston Contest Feb. 27 at Temple Hall Since the last charleston contest held in Chicago that funny dance is said to have become more popular. Another contest ,is being planned, however, this time without the as- sistance of the distinguished mayor of the city of that now so famous name. Of course, it is but natural that a funny dance with its savage like rythm should thrive in a queer; world where people rise to fame by sheer accident. We refer in particu- lar to the man who happened to be elected mayor of Charleston, W. Va. The contest is to be held on Satur- day, Feb. 27 at the Temple Hall, Marshfield Ave, and Van Buren St. The middle west amateur champion couple have challenged anybody from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific who cares to enter. This may not be of such unusual importance to the worker who grinds away at the bench every day, but then it is the fourth annual Red Revel now so popular to Chicago workers. And it is rumored that there will be a full house despite the absence of the Charleston mayor. In addition it is assured that all the special attractions of the past yearly | events will be there, girls with high boots, Russian style and dimples in their knees, exquisite costumes and funny costumes as well, Arrangements provide that group prize number one can be won only by a group numbering at least 25 per- sons. But there is also a second and third group prize. Three prizes for best man’s constume, three prizes for best ladies’ costume and one prize for the most original costume, Women’s Day Celebration in Chicago SATURDAY EVE., MARCH 6 at NORTHWEST HALL Cor, North and Western Aves. (8rd floor.) All friendly organizations are requested not to arrange other affairs on that day, 2 The DAILY WORKER a better paper city. nd in a story about your shop, testes i cc Nee end al URES ON THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST MOVEMENT. « THE 4TH NATIONAL CONVENTI: N OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY—PLATFORM—RESOLUTIONS—FACTS FIFTY GEN’ AIBA District Five Holds Agitprop Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 19.—The agit- prop conference held in Pittsburgh on Sunday, Feb. 14, marks a new stage in the development of the Workers (Communist) Party, and layed the foundation for carrying on real Com- munist work. Highteen agitprop direc- tors and DAILY WORKER agents of Pittsburgh, Brownsville, Cannonsburg, Bradock, McKeesport and BE. Pitts- burgh attended. The agenda worked out by the agitprop committee includ- ed: 1) Inner party education, classes, lectures and discussion jin; all party units. 2) Agitation and» propaganda among the broad masses of workers. 3) DAILY WORKER campaigns, and workers correspondence.- ;4) Party press and literature. 5), Immediate campaigns of the party. 6).May Day meetings. 7) How best to finance agitprop work, After discussion on each question in their order the conference: made the following important recommendation on inner party education that in Pitts- »urgh every party unit must send at least one comrade to the study classes now being held, that an effort be made to establish other classes where pos- sible. An important discussion took place how to carry on the educational work among those who donot speak English. It was recommended that the igitprop committee call a conference of active workers from the language sections to work out plans for Eng- lish classes and the extension of party education among the foreign-speak- ing comrades. A series of public lectures to be ar- ranged wherever possible in the dis- trict dealing with the elementary problems of the working class, that these meetings be well organized, and advertised to make them self-support- ing. On The DAILY WORKER the con- ference recommends (1) A campaign to make every party member a sub- scriber, and if they cannot read them- selves that they subscribe for some worker. (2) That every, member of shop nuclei must seek to build up the subscriptions in the shop. In this con- nection the importance of, workers’ correspondence was brot Out showing how the workers could white about the problems in the shop‘and then use these articles as a ibis of get- ting new subs, that mléTei order bundles of The DAILY WORKER for sale and distribution in “ih shop, and follow up and get new subs, that or- ders and remittances for#Piftsburgh be made to The DAILY’* WORKER ; agent of the district. i A further recommendation was nade that The DAILY ..WORKER agent, and the agitprop director select comrades to visit unions, and ,other workers’ organizations, to;.speak and solicit subs, and that where. donations are made that the money, be used to subscribe for workers unable to pay for subscriptions. Immediate campaigns of the party, the problem of proper organization and how to get the best:results way discussed and the importance of these campaigns to the party. Regarding the eighth anhiversary of the founding of the Comintern and ithe Paris Commune it was recom- {mended that the agitprop committee arrange as many meetings as possible, On May Day it was unanimously agreed that Pittsburgh should hold either in Carnegie hall or some other large centrally located hall, that a call be sent out to all labor and work- ing class organizations asking them to participate. It was also recom- mended that in other towns in the dis- trict arrangements be made and halls secured at once for May, Day meet- ngs and that in these places the pol- icy of united front meetings be car- ‘led out. . Cao ie District Two Workers Party Aids Striking Passaic Textile Workers NEW YORK, Feb. 21° ~~ Workers (Communist) Party of trict Two, which includes the Passdic organiza- tion, has offered all adéistance for the relief of the textile ‘strikers. It has arranged to secure 500 subscrip- tion lists as well as offéfed comrades for any tag days which) the textile workers may arrange. The Workers (Comnmnist) Party calls upon all organizations to par- ticipate in relief work which is now necessary in order that the strike of the textile workers may be victor- ious. New York Will Hold International Woman’s Day Meeting March NEW YORK, Feb, 21.—The Inter: national Women’s Day mass meeting -will take place Friday evening, March 5, at 8 o'clock, at the Central Opera House, 67th street and 3rd avenue, uns ov the auspices of the Workers communist) Party, District Two. sen Gitlow, Lena Chefnenko, Rose astor Stokes, and Kate Gitlow will be the speakers. The Young Workers League and the Pioneers will also take part in the » iw one big unifed front May Day meeting | C0-OPERATIVES TOINDUSTRIALIZE AMERICAN FARMS Workers and Farmers Must Unite Forces KANSAS CITY, Kans., Feb, 12.— ‘Co-operative farming comprises every co-operative purchasing and when activity of co-operative marketing and groups of these small industrial units, the farms, are placed under scientific management, then, and not till then, shall we see the metamorphosis of the farm into the new and greater power,” declares Dr. William J. Hale in The Scientific Monthly. For a number of years the Bolshe- viks have been pointing out this as one of their great advances for the peasants of Soviet Russia and it is being rapidly put in practice there. Single Farms Do No Pay. Dr, Hale further says that: “The single farm is entirely to small a unit upon which curtailment of over-head and operating expenses can make an appreciable effect. The operating of farms in groups, however, will ad- mirably serve this purpose. Indivi- dualism will still remain, but it will be typified in a group of family role and the process may be described as merely a step up from the present day family of five to one of five hundred. ‘The landlords under the czar “en- larged the farm family,” and recent news from the northwest would in- dicate that the bankers of Wall Street have some such scheme in mind for the abandoned farms, deserted by the several million small farmers in the past five years. Industrialize Farms. Whether the actual farmer benefits or not depends largely upon his rela- tionship to the land ‘and his fellow “family” members. Ford, Rocker- feller, Gary have very large ‘‘fam- ilies,” but the members of the family in the great industries have no say in the ownership management or dis- posal of the institution, the product, or wages. The Soviet idea abolishes private land ownership to begin with. This would mean such a. revolutionary step in America that even Dr. Hale would most likely get no hearing in the “scientific American” should he dare go so far in his idea of the “enlarged family.” He would be branded a Bolshevik and dismissed from the faculty. Capitalist writers have in mind cur- ‘ailment in the price of labor power on the farms just as they have in the other industries. The old Russian patriarchal family idea would just suit the modern’ bankers’ association with such changes in the religious opiates as would fit the incembers of the family into their exploiting schemes which firstly implies speed and effi- cency and patriotism to the masters. Just Like in Factories. “Now that the farmers have been drawn into the industrial whirl they must readjust their operations accord- ingly,” says Dr. Hale, and goes on to say that, “It is just as necessary for them to avoid over production as it is to install proper storage and avoid wastage. The farmer must enforce lower cost of production, steady sale and rapid delivery just as any modern industrial institution, and yet how many farmers realize their transfor- mation into industrialists, Let us dis- miss sentimentality and look upon each other as we are parts of an enormous industrial unit where there is no independence or rest until the day we retire.” He speaks the truth but the word “retire” is relative. One can retire with a fortune made by riding on the backs of peasants or he can retire at old age from the real and actual pro- ducers alliance, still a part of the family, and in this relationship he will always have and retain the only in- dependence worthy the name. For Labor Government. As to saving and avoiding overpro- duction and waste, that can never be done until the producers become the controllers of the market and count- ing houses and have direct contact with all the producing masses and the institutions thru a workers’ and farm- ers’ republic, Every great private in- dustry of today has caused a most terrifying waste so far as humanity is concerned—that is human labor pow- er, The large unemployment of mil- lions of men, willing to work, con- (lemns the whole system and shows that until the social revolution comes, on tand and in factory, waste, where it effects labor and the farmer will not Ye eliminated, Chicago Unions Aid Miners Fight: Fox- Cobb-Klan Frame-Up Local No. 390 of the International Association of Machinists at their meeting voted to affiliate with the Chicago local of the International La- bor Defense and also voted $10 for the Zeigler miners’ defense, oo Local No, 88 of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America adopted a resolution promising to aid the Zeig- ler miners in every way in order to combat the frame-up of the coal op erators, and the ku klux klan. The matter of a donation to the défense of the niiners hag been left to the lo- cals’ executive board, ih wag | CONDUCTED - BY TH UNG WORKERS LEAGUE THE ZEIGLER FRAME-UP By G. ALLARD. The Zeigler progressive miners who have been on trial for the last ten days have been sentenced ranging from one to fourteen years in prison for nothing else, but honestly defending the rank and file from the traitorous hands of the Farrington machine represented.in southern Illinois by D. B, Cobb and Lon Fox, two useful servants of the corrupted machine. They stop at nothing to obtain their object whether it involves the wrecking of the U. M. W.-or not. : It is their vilianous acts towards the Zeigler miners that made the fight inevitable. When ‘the officials of the sub-district. came to the local uinon the miners saw again that they were being betrayed as at all previous cases that came up fora decision between the pit committeemen and the company. Unfortunately in this battle a progressive miner was murdered by a ku klux klansman and a henchman of the Farrington machine. When the trial came up they tried to indict Frank Corbishley as the murderer. The only crime that these men committed is that they supported the other miners in insisting upon the company to give them decent wages by giving them correct weight on the coal that they produced. The official of the sub-district who robbed Henry Corbishley of his position by stealing sificient votes to give them the seat, came to Zeigler and upheld the demands of the company against the miners. They were supported by the K. K. K, who no doubt they belong to. The progressive miners fought against the menace of the K, K. K. The conviction of these eight men who uncompromisingly fought against the labor fakers and enemies of orgatzed labor, is not only a blow to them, but a blow against the entire labor movement in America and the working class must energetically reply to this open challenge by. intensify- ing their fight for the progressive movement in the unions which has the only program that will better their living standards under the system. Young workers! Young miners! Rally to {the rescue of the Zeigler defendants! They energetically fought for organized labor and sacrificed until they are to be thrown in prison by our enemies, WHY A YOUTH FRACTION? By I. LAZAROVITZ. ARTICLE II, In the first article we have pointed out already the various mistakes that our comrades make in regarding the youth fractions. But in the process of organizing youth fractions and working with them we weet some more difficulties. Some comrades claim that the youth fractions in certain unions are un- able to do any work, because the comrades are-engaged in a general fight against the present leadership. These comrades have again a wrong con- ception of our role as young Communists. Let us once for all straighten out one question. What is our role as young Communists in the labor movement as a whole? As a part of the working class, we, the young Communists, recognize the general class strug: gle that is going on at the present moment, and Participate in this struggle as much as possible. But while we participate in ‘this struggle, we realize that the working class youth is confronted with problems of its own. For this reason a separate youth organization is needed, in order to raise the specific youth demands in the labor movement. Therefore, we say, that ‘we the youth, should participate in the general struggle, but it does not mean that while we are engaged in the general struggle, we are unable to react upon the specific youth demands, However, we believe that this struggle should not be isolated from the general struggle. The same applies on the economic field, and when our comrades say that they cannot participate in special youth work on account of being en- saged in the general work in trade unions, we say that this is a very poor answer. Our comrades must remember that they are members of the Y. W. L., and wherever they come in contact with young workers they must try to win over these young workers, and this can be done only when our com- rades will always participate in the struggles of the young workers against the reactionaries and exploiters. But now we come to another interesting point. Some of our comrades, altho they agree with thé existence of youth demands in various trades, claim that their particular trade has no youth demands, and therefore their youth fraction has no work. It must be understood that our young comrades in the labor unions should not wait until the youth demands call upon them, but they should look for ‘these demands. It is impossible that under the present reactionary leadership, there shouldn't be any youth demands. The thing that a youth fraction has to do is to call the attention of the leaders to these various problems, Even some so-called progressives think that a issue. The youth fractions, therefore, within trade unions in order to win ov the trade unions to endorse the youth demands, and to force the bureaucracy to fight for him. In some trades we have the situation where young workers don’t enter the unions on account of high initiation fees, ana naturally these young workers are not protected by the union, but they are used by the exploiters to cut wages of the adult workers. They are used in time of strikes, ete. In such a case the slogan of our youth fraction shéuld be: Young work: ers to be accepted on equal terms into the unions with lower initiation fee. There aré a lot of ther problems or youth demands which could be touched upon;'but let's see what is the Political significance of the youth fractions, what does our league gain by having an organized fraction within the unions, why is it so necessary that the Y. C, I, emphasizes time and again that-our. entire membership should be unionized? An answer on all these questions we shall try to give in our next article, youth problem is a side must develop a systematic activity er the young and adult members of Schools against military drill, Still the capitalist press makes no mention of this agitation because it is opposed to }their imperialist interests, Yet they brazenly publish such isolated actiong as mentioned above, Strong Opposition to Bosses’ Military Propaganda WODKEDS ST. PAUL, Minn.—Of all the stu- dent organizations in the Twin Cities that have -gone on record against mil- itary drill, and in the face of the strong sentiment among young work: ers and students against state mili- tary appropriations, the local capital- ist press, propagandist for the inte- rests of the bosses, plays up the ac- tion of the St. Thomas military cadets in favor of military drill, A group of students at this military academy, it seems, have passed a reso- lution petitioning nators and con- gressmen to oppose a rider recently attached to the appropriations bill, withdrawing federal aid from military units in colleges and high schools all over the country, This group headed by Cadet Captain John Hardy: of St. Paul at the same time put themselves on record as favoring retaining mil- itary training in thetr school, As a matter of fact, thé present bills Young Workers’ Column, The DAILY WORKER. Dear Comrade: ‘Now that we are to have a bunch of fraction and industry group meetings, I would ask you. to stick a little head or something in this column reading something like this: CHICAGO COMRADES, and underneath whatever notices may be and particularly the meetings of the industry groups and fractions, The hardest thing is to get mem: bers to attend and we are going to use all means to reach them, and hope you'll co-operate’ by sticking the notices in as I send them in and later on as the meetings take place the results, ‘CHICAGO COMRADES Meeting of Y. W, L, members who before congress and those proposed|“"@ leather workers, at 19 South, Lin- for the # ¢ legislature are a direct|oln street, on Monday, result of the youth agitation in thelat 7:00 p, m February 22, —