The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1926, Page 4

Four THE, DAILY WORKER Organization, Meetings Ly Workers (Communist) | Party| Social Affairs Resoliitions The Trade Union a School of Communism our party merely a sect which will sooner or later disintegrate and de- cay. By BERT MILLER. “*A school of Communism,’ a pre- paratory school for the training of the proletariat to realize its dictatorship, an indispensable union of the workers for the permanent transference of the management of the country’s econo- mic life into their hands as a class” —this is Lenin’s characterization of the trade unions. In the midst of the perplexing prob- lems accompanying the reorganization of our party, these words are apt to} lose their former significance in the| minds of some of our comrades. But | if we would hold firmly to the path of Leninism, we must realize how in- adequate would be our work as Com- it w th a iy munists if we emphasized solely our| men like Gompers, Lewis, Green, Ber-| ward groups and masses of the work- | Workers themselves on collections work in the factories thru the nuclel,| ry, Johnston, Sigman and Hillman| ing class.” taken on lists in their shops. One without at the same time pointing} who blunt the effectiveness of the Combat Sectarianism. |worker, A. Chorover, who' pledged out the absolute nec ty of co-ordi- nating this work on the basis of the entire industry. Activity on an !so-| lated scale in many disconnected) « shops, can lead only to confusion and defeat for the party as well as for| the workers. The co-ordination of the | shop nuclei work with other shops in the industry, the exploitation of our propaganda and activ so that it may affect the broadest possible cir- cle of workers in a given industry, these are the tasks of our fractions in the trade unions. Win Leadership of Masses. i Our party includes about 15,000) members. This comparatively small) i si by group has before it the gigantic task | union activity in despair and seek oth- er “more congenial” fields for Com- munist work. accomplished by winning the strate- detrimental to our of winning the leadership over 40,000,-| 000 wage garners. This can only be gic strongholds of the working class,| t the shop and the trade union. While| t our present form of organization on| leaves their will upon the proletariat. a policy if carried out consistently, will masses of the workers and make of the basis of the shop holds out un- dreamed of prospects of achievement | for our party, we must not for a mo-} ment overlook that powerful and well-| tried instrument of the working class —the trade union. defects and backwardness, the Ameri- can trade union has been a strong defense of the workers of this coun- try against a powerful capitalist class, and that millions of workers look to} iat did not and could not anywhere in the world, proceed by any other road than that of the trade unions working class party,” says Lenin. i working class, and fears its power. any price for the valuable services of trade union movement and who tend to render it weak and powerless be- fore the onslaughts of the employers. trade unions méans to leave the in- working masses to the influence of lieutenants of the capitalist class.” couraged by the strength of the op- | posing official machine, disgusted by by the difficulty of the task confront- In spite of all its e e for protection. “The development of the proletar- ith their mutual activity, with the The bourgeoisie recognizes fully ne importance of the trade union as| decisive factor in the Mfe of the ‘or this reason it is willing to pay) t Not to work within the reactionary ufficiently developed or backward eactionary leaders,” tothe “labor Backwardness of Unions no Excuse For Neglect by Communists... Oftentimes"we find comrades dis- ts corruption, and somewhat appalled ng them. They cease their trade Nothing could be more movement than Hits attitude which plays directly into he hands of the reactionaries and them unchallenged to work Such isolate us from the inevitably These comrades feel that they can be more gent” elements, that “they are wast-) ing their time,” among those who do| not appreciate their efforts anyway. Such comrades might well take the| words of heart, “To fear this reactionary tend-| ency, to try to avoid it, to jump over it, is ag foolish as it can possibly be; it indicates a lack of confidence in the role of the proletarian vanguard | branches, fuse with new life, the most back- | come must be the connection link between broad party; they must be the means by|has already collected $85 ‘and has which the light of Communist theory is transmitted to the proletariat strug- | gling capitalism, and at the same time they | must bring to the party, all the rich-| ness of their experiences with the| workers, the reactions of the workers | to party policies, every mood and cur-) rent which is swaying the masses of organized workers, at a given mo- ment. tarianism and trade union movement which still re- from the socialist party. WORKERS’ SCHOOL DRIVE INN. Y. IS MAKING HEADWAY Propagandist Corps Get Many Donations Again we find comrades discourag- d by the backwardness of the work- rs in the conservative trade unions. | valuable among more “intelli- NEW YORK, March 2 — The drive for a $10,000’fund to build the Work- ers’ School continues to awaken the greatest enthusiasm and shows how the school has already found a place jin the hearts of the working masses \of this city. From Worknien’s Circle local unjons and ‘workers’ enlighten, to in-|Co-operatives donations continue to in as they do also from the Lenin more seriously to o train, educate and Our comrades in the trade unions | himself at the banquet to ‘collect $50 which was counted bs with the re- masses of workers and the |ceipts of the Workers” School banquet, come back for more lists. Sick Comrades Hétp. The first class in the s¢hool to re- port is Paulines Roger’s class in In- termediate English, which turned in $15.50, then announced a collection of an additional.$6, and is now working on lists for further collections, From the United Workers Co-operative has come their check for $50, already promised, and an additional $30 col- lected on lists, From a sick bed, both he and his wife being laid up with the grippe, comes the letter: “Dear Comrade Wolfe: Greetings from two sick beds for the Workers’ School campaign. Enclosed is $20 from any wife and myself. Comradely yours, D. Benjamin.” Drive Committee. The Drive Committee has built up a corps of propagandists among the students and friends of the school, who, with collection lists, tickets for blindly against the forces of | We must combat that spirit of sec- aloofness from the mains with us as a barren heritage Here we may quote Lenin’s allusion to Marx and Engels: ‘They most firmly call- ed tpon the Anglo-American socialists to merge with the labor movement, and to drive out of their organization the narrow and shrivelled sectarian | spirit, . . . in order to shake up the proletariat politically.” Announce Speakers at N. Y. International | Woman’s Day Meeting (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 2.—At the mass meeting to be held at the Central} Opera ‘House, 6th St. and 3rd Ave.| next Saturday night, March 6, to celebrate International Women’s Day, the following will be the speakers: ) Ben Gitlow, Lena Chernenko, Rose) Pastor Stokes and Kate Gitlow. Repre-| sentatives of the Young Workers League and the Pioneers will also speak. Margaret Undjus, secretary of | the women’s department of. this dis-| trict, will be the chairman. There will| also be a musical program. _ Admission will be 25 cents. ———'] FOOD FOR THOUGHT March Issue of the Workers Monthly | 25c a Copy 1 $2 a year $1.25 six months AMERIC.\N WORKERS BY CLARISSA WARE. 5 Cents N. Y. Will Celebrate | Central Opera House. FOREIGN-BORN NEW YORK lem Casino (Both Halls) PARTY OFFICIALS IN CLEVELAND 10 MEET THURSDAY, MARCH 4 (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, March 2—A meet- ing of all members of the section committee, all nuclei organizer secretaries, agitprops and DAILY WORKER and literature agents will take place at the district office, 5927 Euclid Ave. on Thursday, March 4, at 6 p. m, sharp. 1 Every member must attend, as this meeting is most important. The organization of the party work must be discussed and realized to a gr er degree than as yet. No comrade should fail to be present. Commune on March 19 (Special to The Daily Worker) The Paris Commune will be cele- brated in New York by a big mass meeting on Friday, March 19, at the There will be an appropriate program of re- volutionary music, Admission to this concert and mass meeting will be 50c, Tickets are on sale at the party office, at the Jimmie | Higgins Book Store, and at the Frei- heit, Novy Mir, Elore and other work- ing class newspapers, Trade Union Educational League International Concert SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 8 P. M. Eighth Street Theatre. Best Musical and Vocal Talent. Tickets for sale at T, U. E. L. office, 156 W. Washington 5S DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blyd.; Worker's House, 1902 W. Division St. and by all members of the T. U. E. L. Get Your Tickets Now! The pamphlet that gives facts and fig- ures on the case of the foreign - born worker. Study it to fight the vicious alien _ registration laws. The speakers |or with Souvarine are advised ||include: Benjamin Gitlow, M. J. Ol-|preak them eff. Discussion of internal || sin, J. Zack, and a representative of | party problems in any but party or- the Young Workers League. | tle big concert on March 14, and speeches before unions and Work- men’s Circle and other working class organizations, are keeping the drive going and insuring its success. er Presidium Opens French | Press for Discussion;| Souvarine Opposed \N. Y. Workers’ School Announces Lecture by Olgin March 12 (Special to The Daily Wavker) NEW YORK, March 2—M. J. Olgin will speak at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Kast 4th St., Friday, March 12, at (Special to The Dally Worker? MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., March 2—On the question of the situation in the | Communist Party of France, the per-| sidium of the Communist Internation- | al decided to throw the French party press open for a complete discussion | of the existing differences of opinion. |® >: ™ on the topic: “The Living Re- volution.” This lecture) i®‘under the The application of Souvarine, x) auspices of the Workers’ School. Its pelled from thé party for continued jrecent experiences with Olgin’s lec- opposition to the ‘Communist Party jtures on literature have taught it that of France and the Communist Interna-|the entire top floor of the school is tional, for re‘admission to the party |not big enough to accommodate the was turned down. The reasons were| number of people who attend his lec- as follows: (1) Souvarine did not | tures, For this reason the Manhattan keep his promise to cease his fight| Lyceum has been secured. against the Comintern and the party.| “The Living Revolution’ is a study (2) He formed a fraction in Paris with |of the tremendous October days as the right wing againnst the Central | they reflected in the literature of the Committee. (3) He carried on an un-| Period and particularly as seen thru worthy and anti-Communist campaign | the eyes of the writers of Leningrad. against the Comintern first in the|Olgin will tell how the struggle ac- “Revolution Proletarienne” and later | tually looked to the men and women in the “Bulletin Commiuniste.” | who participated in it and particular- All party members having connec-|l!y to the artists of the period. The tion with either of these organs|Shop worker, the peasant, the land- to|lord, the factory owner, red guards- man, the Communist leader, the Com- munist rank and filer, the revolution- ary peasant, the student-worker, the | red factory director, the bourgeois in- | tellectual and his transformation, all these will be projected against the | Various phases of the revolution. Admission to this lecture is 25c, at | the door. N. Y. Will Celebrate Woman’s Day, March 6 gans will not be tolerated. Pittsburgh Will Hold C. I. Commemoration PITTSBURGH, Pa., Mar. 2— The party here will commemorate the eighth anniversary of the founding ot| the Communist International. The} party school.and the Young Workers} League will co-operate in the event which will take place at the Interna-| tional Socialist Lyceum, 805 James St. on Saturday evening, March 6. NEW YORK, March 2—Internation- al Women's Day will be. celebrated here by a mass meéting which will be held Saturday night, March 6, instead SOVIETS TO PAPER MACHINERY FROM AMERICA Delegation Tours Thru tion representing the Central Paper Trust in the Soviet Union, known as} consideration of internal p! the “Centrobumtrust,” has arrived in| young workers of this country. this country with the purpose of ne- gotiating purchases of machinery and equipment for the new paper manufac- turing plant trust is now constructing in Balakhna, near Nizhni Novgorod. M, Kolotilov, construction manager of the Volga cellulose and paper fac- tories, Chief Engineer Ivan I. Kramt- zov, and production manager of the trust, Arkadi L. Kandakov. The pur- chases and they will be effected thru the Am- BUY WITH THE CONDUCTED = BY TH, Many Factories ° NEW YORK, March 2 — A delega- working youth in their struggles, which the Centrobum- The delegation is made up of Ivan as under consideration will in- yolve an expenditure up to $3,500,000 torg Trading Corporation. Control 40 Per Cent of Output. According to a statement made by Kolotilov on behalf of the delegation, the Centrobumtrust, which controls the paper mills in the central provi- sion, is responsible for 40 per cent of the paper output in the Soviet Union. The expansion of the paper industry has become an- urgent: necessity in view of the increasing consumption. In the past year the per capita con- sumption of paper in the Soviet Un- ion has already surpassed the pre-war maximum. But the production of pa- per has been somewhat lagging be- hind. In the last fiscal year the Soviet paper industry supplied only about 65 per cent of the required amount. Thirty-five per cent of the paper con- sumed during that year, chiefly news- print paper, had to be imported. The Balakhna mill now under con- struction by the Centrobumtrust will have an annual capacity of 50,000 tons of newsprint paper and 50,000 tons/of sulphite cellulose, Some new machin- ery has been imported during the last year from Germany which enabled the existing plants to raise their capacity 15 to 20 per cent above their pre-war capacity and to increase the general output of the Centrobumtrust. by 30 per cent over the output of the pre- Unity between young and adult workers! the working youth only. workers. are not admitted into the unions. Looking for New Organization Forms By NAT KAPLAN 5 The league is now well under way in its about-face process (from a mere roblems) to the problems effecting the masses of Tho Slogan: The league as the leader of the is no longer an abstraet one for many of our units, Today we no longer consider as debatable that the league partici- pates in the general struggles (strike movements, etc.) of the working class the special representative of the “interests of the young workers. A cer- tain strike now occurring is a good example. Here we are in the forefront of the struggle. and the hard work for the general strike movement. the same time, the special demands of the young strikers. We donate the spirit Yet we support, at The struggle for the interests of the young workers is not separate and apart from the struggles of the adult workers. instance there is Hast Ohio. The young workers are holding a working youth conference, ‘The adult workers must be lined up in the struggle for the special youth demands (in the trade union opposition, in the unions, in the shop committees, etc., we fight for the inclusion of the youth demands.) That, for us, is a basic principle of a Communist youth organization. We are above all a political organization, which educates the young workers, thru an active participation in the class struggle that the only means for the emancipation of the working youth from wage slavery is thru united efforts with the adult workers in a general struggle against the capitalist order. It is necessary to repeat this fundamental at this particular time. Because as we become more engaged in the struggle of the young workers we are bound to find tactical and organizational questions arising which consciously or unconsciously have within themselves the mistaken notion that there are two basic class struggles in society, that of the youth and that of the adult It works both ways. For This conference is not for ‘This manifests itself some times in the creation of incorrect organizational forms, Organize illegal youth clubs in the factories for the economic struggle, say some comrades. We msut organize special opposition groups in the trade unions (youth T. U. E. L.’s), say others. Then, of course, some believe it is correct to establish special youth sections of the trade unions. We are not op- posed in principle to the search for new organizational forms adapted to given situations in the class struggle. For example: The plumbers’ helpers ceding year. To Visit Paper Mills. ‘The delegation intends to visit pa- They forma club to fight for admission as a body. That is correct. At the same time we must fight against all un- called for and basically incorrect forms. per and pulp mills and cellulose fac- tories in the United States and Can- ada. They will make a special point of studying the industry and the ¢o- ordination of its various branches as it is managed in the United States and Canada. They are particularly inter- ested in the methods of combining the paper and cellulose industry with the saw mills as practiced in this country and which is well adaptable to the situation in the Soviet Union with its wealth of the necessary raw ma~ terials and pulpwood forests. It was further explained by the members of the delegation that the amount of orders that will be placed in this country will depend largely upon the terms that they will be able} to obtain as compared with the terms that are offered by manufacturing concerns in Burope, particularly in Germany. roger a ai British Workers Are Worse Off Than in 1924, Figures Show LONDON, March 2—Reformists have long contended that the “philosophy gle? not isolating ourselves from them. for a certain struggle. But how about reaching the masses of young workers in the shops and trade unions who cannot be won over immediately to the league? How can we rally them around a minimum program and organize them for the strug- Yes, these questions must be answered, but not by catering to the badkwardness of the young workers, but by being ahead of them and yet, In the factories special shop meetings of the young workers can be arranged which organizes these young workers The adult workers must be drawn into this struggle. The young Communist nucleus is the dynamic factor in these meetings. It strives to assume leadership, naturally based upon the degree of develop- ment of the revolutionary consciousness of the young workers and wins over the best and most advanced elements to the nucleus. example among others which can be carried out. The same principle works in the trade unions. unionists are enrolled in the general left wing. The young Communists are in the young Communist fraction and in the left wing. A certain struggle arises, a tribune besides the meetings of the left wing is needed to rally the largest and broadest masses of young trade unionists around a certain issue. There can be no objection to the calling of a special meeting of the young trade unionists for the consideration of the question. this same question then comes before the left wing. . The Y. C. I. has effectively disposed of the question of youth sections. There is no place for them in the class struggle and their only purpose is to separate the young from the adult workers. This is one The young militant trade Naturally, We must always remember in seaching for new organizational forms that the Young Communist League strives to become the vanguard of the working youth and the only representative of their interests, of misery,” as they were pleased to term the Marxian formulation of the fact that under capitalism the lot of the worker is bound to get worse and worse, is only an illusion. The figures showing the losses and gains by the workers of this country thru wage changes in the past year provg, how- ever, that the Marxian theory is cor- rect. During 1925, net reductions of about $800,000 were made in the weekly wages of 850,000 workers, or close to LOS ANGELES Y. W. AFFAIR. On March 20 ‘the Los Angeles league will celebrate the fourth an- niversary of the Young Worker, by an entertainment and social, net proceeds to go to the national office. San Francisco, Berkeley and Fort Bragg have been informed to arrange affairs as early as possible. YOUNG WORKER RESCUE PARTY. The speakers will be J. Solnitzky, J. Mankin, and D. E. Earley. The three reel Lenin memorial film will be shown, and there will be other feat- ures to the program. Admission will be 50 cents. JEWISH AND LITHUANIAN LABOR DEFENSE GROUPS WILL MEET TONIGHT The Douglas Park Jewish branch of the International Labor Defense will hold a meeting at 3209 West of Friday night, March 5, as had been erroneously reported. All those in- terested will please note the date. The Last Day of the Paris Com- mune. See it dramatized at the International Labor Defense com- memoration March 19 at Ashland Auditorium, e _ Tt If you want to thoreughly un- devstand Commonism<-atudy it Women's Day Celebration in Chicago mARcH 6 SATURDAY EVE., at NORTHWEST HALL Cor, North and Western Aves. (3rd_ floor.) All friendly organizations are requested not to arrange other affairs on that day, Roosevelt Road tonight. . Lithuanian Branch No. 1 of the International Labor Defense will hold a meeting tonight at the Vilnis Hall, 3116 South Halsted street, “* DAILY WORKER---NOVY MIR JOINT COMMUNIST RED PRESS REVEL RUSSIAN CABARET AND BALL ADMISSION 50 CENTS |, SATURDAY . MARCH The Syracuse rescue party for the Young Worker is to be held on Sun- day, March 7, at Educational Club Hall, Orange and Jackson Sts., 8:15 p.m. A box party and entertainment is on the program, a dollar a week for each worker, In- creases of half that amount, or $400, 000, effected nearly 900,000 during the same period, The workers in this group thus received 50 cents a week increase each. Increase Meant Nothing. During the year the cost of living increased somewhat so that even those getting a half a dollar more are at the best not any better off than in 1924, Those whose wages were cut are, of course, much worse off. The statistics are a striking con- trast to those from the Soviet Union, where wage increases were general and of considerable extent. CLASS IN FUNDAMENTALS NEW YORK CITY—The bronx sec- tion of the Y. W. L. holds a class in the fundamentals’ of Communism every Friday, 8 p. m., at 1347 Boston Road. The course is free. All young workers are welcome, ‘ FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED. MILWAUKEE, Wis.— Free copies of the YOUNG WORKER, Tribuna Robotnicza, Pravda, and Honor and Truth, can be secured from Frank ailder, 821 Clylesurn St.. Milwaukee, EVENING yonia y 7 ASL Gace aE Young and Adult Workers Are Invited to the BANQUET v4 to welcome Walter Trumbull on Sunday Evening, March 7th, 1926 _ seven o'clock AT IMPERIAL HALL 2409 NORTH HALSTED STREET CHICAGO ‘ Promineft League and Party Speakers. Auspiees Young Workers (Communist) League of America, CHICAGO |, L.“D. 10 GREET TRUMBULL ON MARCH 4TH AND STH Chicago workers should reserve Thursday evening, March 4 to greet Walter Trumbull, recently released from Alcatraz after serving a sen- tence for Communist activity in Hawaii, at the railroad station and Friday e ening, March & to greet and hear Trumbull at the North Side Turner Hall. There will be other speakers on the program. Robert Morse Lovett, Ralph Chap- lin and Max Shachtman are among those on the list of speakers, Why Not Become a . Worker Correspondent? Bntertainment and Dancing,