The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1926, Page 4

Page Four Organization Meetings Workers (Communist) Part WORKERS’ SCHOOL FUND BRIVE ITS FINAL WE IN EK Call on Unions and Shops for Support NEW YORK, March 7—The for ‘a $10,000 fund for the Wo drive rkers School is being carried into the unions and shops, A special effort is being made to extend the influence of the school to the shops, something which the new form of organization, the shop nucleus as its basis, makes are receiv- possible. The shop nuclei with {ng lists with instructions to make a special effort to get non-party mem- ders in their shops to contribute sums, hhowever small, for the sustaining of The Workers School. It is not merely question of filling the drive quota bnt much more of extending the mass Anfiuence of the school to all of the workers in New York City and sur- rounding territory The closing date of the drive, March 14, with its big concert and mass meeting and Moscow Art Thea- ter performance on behalf of the school, is approaching. On that date, $8,500 must have been raised if an additional $1,500 is to be secured from B, Brodsky, as per his promise, to make up the $10,000 fund, There- fore, every contribution reported be- fore that date is worth far more than if turned in late. The drive should have a whirlwind finish during this final week in which every worker should | set aside less important matters in or- der to concentrate full attention on the drive and to bring in his list well filled up, in time for the concert at Central Opera House. There will be a committee at the hall to receive lists and donations, or they turned over to the director of can be the school or the director of the drive, A. Rayitch, at the Workers School, E. 14th St. During this week, every unem ed worker and housewife or 108 ploy- other friend of the school, who has an hour | or so to spare, should come up to the office of the Workers School and aid fm the addressing of envelopes, ing of lists, visiting of unions other workers’ organizations. mail- and WORKERS’ SCHOOL OFFERS COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY NEW YORK, March 7. — A course that will prove an York Workers’ School of Revolution.” Kvitko. ‘The fee for this course is $2.50 for} Anyone wishing to enter the course should make applica- tion at once as the subject makes a connected whole and the missing ot| a single lecture will make it difficult of the three months. for the taking of the rest course. new original contribution to Communist thought inj America is being offered by the New for Friday) evenings at 9 o'clock, beginning next) Friday evening. The course is entitled “Mass Psychology and the Psychology) The instructor is D. HE Cleveland district has taken the leadership in the publication of shop nucleus papers Within the last week, four new shop nucleus papers have been published by the comrades of the Cleveland dis- trict. These papers are: 1) The Miner’s Lamp. | 2) The Hot Ingot, 3) The Spark Plug. 4) The Red Tipple. These papers deal with the condi- |tions in the places of employment and also with general class problems, po- litical problems, confrontirfg the work- ers. We quote from The Miner’s Lamp: |“The mining laws require that there be a manway in every mine. Have we got a manway in the Webb mine? Not by a long sight! The result is that we have to climb cars between loads. We are exposed to the charged wires and the slightest misstep means death or serisus injury. “We have got a union, but the lead- ers don’t fight for our interests. Look what John Lewis did in the anthracite Cleveland District Takes Lead in Shop Nucleus Papers We must be prepared to fight as we have never fought before. Our union and our conditions ars in the greatest danger. Isn’t it time that we are thinking about having a party of our own that will haye men in the legis- lature to fight for us workers? What about a labor party, mates? Think it over.” HE Hot Ingot deals with the slow- ing down of production, wage re- ductions, the question of the foreign- born workers, unionization and The DAILY WORKER, It is published in one of the biggest steel plants of the Ohio district. The Spark Plug, published in one of the Fisher Body plants, the main themes are questions of wages cuts, | speed-up, part-time work persecution of the foreign-born workers, union or- ganization and Soviet Russia, The Spark Plug says: “The capital- ist papers are yelling about the ter- rible things going on in Soviet Russia. They forget (?) to say that in Soviet Russia the workers have an eight hour day and a forty-hour week, Over 80 per cent of the workers in this fields, He surely did sell us out. Now the boss will begin the attack on us, HE New York Volkszeitung (Ger- man daily) of today is a different one from the Volkszeitung of about eight months ago. It is very inter- esting to know why and how it hap-| pened that this paper turns out at/ the present time to be a counter-revo- lutionary organ in the hands. of its editor, Ludwig Lore, and his clique.} If we look back eight months we'll| find that these people who try to be| the backbone of the organ today were} members of our Workers (Commun- ist) Party. Lore as a Party member at that} time and as one of the leaders in the) ranks of the sympathizing German | element belonged to a branch in Queens consisting of eight members. Only four of them found it necessary to attend the branch meetings. Lore himself didn’t visit a meeting in 16 months. This means that Lore, long} before he was expelled from the! Workers Party was sabotaging it. If he were honest in his interest im the party he surely could have worked for the building up of a: representative branch. About two months before his expul- sion when the question of funds for the DAILY WORKER was brought up in the German bureau, one Paul Schuler stated that the German Fed- eration hadn't anything to do with this. He pointed out that the support of the Volkszeitung is very much Lore Will Ruin the Volkszeitung country work more than eight hours a day. Is it any wonder that the Rus- sian workers and peasants support the Soviet government?” The Red Tipple is a fighting paper edited by miners. The shop griev- ances, union problems, wage cuts, | unionization, foreign-born workers, | labor party questions are among the | problems dealt with in this issue. | 'T says: “We must build up our) union, “We must have a fighting leadership at the head of it. We must get the rank and file to understand why the bosses are able to spit on) their own laws and get away with it.| Our present leadership will not do anything for us. Lewis is a big figure) in the republican patty, What has} Coolidge done for ‘us?’ Nothing, ex-) cept against us. Wé inembers of the United Mine Workers of America must begin to organize for a labor party. It depends on us.” These shop papers are an index to} the great progress being made by the} members in the Ohio, district. The Cleveland district was one of the first to be reorganized on, the basis of shop and street nuclei. It is also one of QUESTIONS FOR GLASS IN HISTORICAL The, class in Historical Material- ism Friday evening will have as its text pages 67 to 93 of Bukharin’s book. All the notes in smaller type should be read in connection with this lesson. 1—Explain briefly the fundament- als of the dialectic method as ap- plied to society. 2—Why do bourgeois historians refrain from applying this method? 3—How did Marx, starting from the Hegelian dialectic, arrive at dialectic materialism? 4—Is there such a thing as stable | equilibrium? 5—Is it scientific to speak of evo- lution, to the exclusion of evolution in nature or society? 6—Can we understand capitalist society by analyzing it in itself? 7—Are the philosophers who view society as an organism correct? 8—What is the basis of the struc- ture of society? ‘STANDARD OIL the first now to make substantial progres? to develop.these nuclei into living units of the party. popular artists who are resuscitating the work of German poets. Another educational stunt of theirs is to give romantic stories of heroes in history. The literature they sell comprises rev- olutionary and counter-revolutionary books. Max Eastman's despicable “Since Lenin Died” is given the same place that the works of Lenin and other Communist leaders hold. All this is not surprising. Even if such insane actions never were wit- nessed before, they were to be ex- pected of Lore. Our party is thru with him and the social-democrats would like to have the Volkszeitung, but even they don’t want Lore. This is the reason for his queer organi- zation. Until eight days ago the Volkszei- tung did not reject articles relating to a union or.a workers’ club. The reorganization of the Workers’ Party made the German Federation as well as others unable to act as the political expression of the Party any further. The members are now in the inter- national branches and do not see each other as often as they did formerly. The sympathizers who read our press and are well informed about this don’t want to lose their co-operating body in the-Jabor movement. They know that something must be done if the class conscious German workers want to continue their weekly lecture. Therefore they founded a club which now has 121 members. It is more important to us than a Commun- ist paper in the language of the masses in this country, and Lore ap- plauded this statement. This shows us what kind of comrades they were. Nothing could show the face of this clique better than this, Today these people have left the party. The expulsion of Lore was their excuse to leave it, and’ they formed a club by the name of the Verbund International-Arbeiter. Lore is the head of this club. Anyone who {is not a member of any other political organization can become a member. Its aim is to educate the workers with A Communist Classic The Theory and Practice of _ LENINISM The principles of our nist movement— literature. 35 Cents Endurable Duroflex Binding orm ererennan nn ne nw mnt emng PR by I. STALIN great leader—his contribution to Communist theory—his service to the world Commu- All these are the subject of this booklet, written by a close co-worker of LENIN and the present secretary of the Russian Communist Party, did contributions sure to remain a classic of Communist It is one of those splen- DAILY WORKER PUBL. CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois. | called the Arbeiter Bund of the Bronx and Manhattan and its purpose is to educate the workers for the class struggle. i ‘ The officials of this new organiza- tion sent an article to the Volkszei- tung announcing the first meeting at which there was to be a debate De- tween Blohm from the Volkszeitung and Lehman from the Workers’ Party on the tactics in the Communist movement of this country. The arti- cle never appeared in the columns of the Volkszeitung. At the February monthly meeting of the Volkszeitung, to which Lehman and the writer were delegates, the question was raised why the article did not appear. Blohm explained that Lore and other members of the Ver- bund were against printing this article in. the Volkszeitung. ‘We know that any paper that wants to live must have a strong backbone to fight the battles of the working class. The backbone that the Volks- zeitung has today is old. The pres- ent dictatorship will ruin the Volks- zeitung. If the German workers want to save their paper in this country, they have to fight Lore and his clique. THEODOR LEMCKE. Is Ns coauer e i: “Si i sf Gert al —_— Admission, 50 cents, 83 cents and $1.10 (Including war tax.) Tickets can be secured at 156 W. Washington St., Room 37; The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washing: GANNATA IS EXPELLED FROM WORKERS PARTY; AIDED WORKERS’ FOES NEW YORK, March 7.—The Dis- trict Executive Committee of Dis- trict 2 has expelled G. Cannata from the Workers (Communist) Party on the grounds that he /has violated the principles of the Communist Party in associating himself with the Nuovo Mondo,.an anti-Commun- ist paper, and conducting an agita- tion against the principles and dis- cipline of the organization. This step has been taken after a conference with Cannata, in which he was requested to explain his re- lations with the Nuovo Mondo. He had declared that he did not agree with the anti-Russian policy of that paper, with its support of the labor bureaucracy and class-collaboration, but after a period bf two months, Cannata failed to declare his posi tion in writing as the’ Party had re- quested, and to declaré publicly that he was not in agreement with the policy of the Nuovo Mondo, so that his association witH®it would not compromise the Conimunist Party. He has failed to’tio 60, and the Party recognized tWat* nis associa- tion there is intended jupport for that paper, which is-working against the interests of the rank and file of the working cl and: is an organ in the hands of the,bureaucrats of the labor movement,;: Anticipating his expulsion, Can- nata sent a resignation, giving as pretext for his desine to withdraw that he is not in hanmony with the policy of the Party... His proposed resignation is only poof of the cor- rectness of the Party .in expelling him as having gone over into the camp of the labor bureaucrats, and the betrayers of the dererente of the working cla: Comrade Cominker LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 7.— | Comrade Cominker, member of the district executive committee died from a serious openation. He was 32 years old and was secretary of the Workmen's Circle School, secre- tary of the Lenin Branch, No. 512, Workmen's Circle. , His funeral takes place today. The Woftkers (Communist) Party and the left wing movement lo: tireless, active worker for the class struggle. mre f | HAS NEW SLAVE | PLAN FOR LABOR Announces Stock Saleto Hoodwink Workers With the end on March 31 of the five-years employes’ stock-purchasing |plan of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, announcement, was made to- day that the directors haye inaugurat- ed_a new plan, slightly different from the first. Eniployes of the Midwest Refining company, with headquarters at Denver, and of the Dixie Oil com- pany, with headquarters at Shreve- port, La., subsidiaries of the Stand- ard, are included. Under the expiring plan 15,300 em- ployes have purchased 390,000 shares of capital stock, valued at $25,350,000, jof the total stock. The new plan will run three years. Employes may sub- scribe up to ten ‘per cent of their wages or salaries for stock. The company will continue to contribute 50 cents for every dollar invested in stock by employes. . Stock Control! an Illusion. That the whole scheme is an illu- sion so far as the employe stock hold- ers having any control of the corpo- ration is concerned shows on the face of it, Assuming that the.15,300 employes had equal stock holdings,— manifestly the higher paid acquired a much la¥ger number of shares than the ordinary worker in its employ,— that would haye given each employe 26 sharés. As the total of 390,000 shares owned by the employes was, according to the company’s own state- ment but 4.2 per cent of the stock, this would make the total number of shares approximately 9,300,000. An individual employe stockholder would be lost in such a total like a needle in a haystack, Even the whole 390, 000 shares, if voted as a unit,—which they are not,—would not have the slightest influence. Actual Results Nil. The actual results of the stock pur- chases by the employes are to give them a few dollars a year in divi- dends while at the same time making them afraid to ask for a cent in- crease in theiir wages or to take any organized action to protect their in- terests. On the other hand their pur- chases, even on the installment ba- sis, furnishes the corporation with millions of dollars in working capital and assures the company of devoted wage’ slaves for years to come. Threaten to Deport Worker for Being an Internationalist (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 7.—J. Tapolcsanji of Herminie, Pa., West: moreland County, is in danger of hav- ing his citizenship papers revoked and himself deported to Hungary. Tapol- csanji was naturalized in-1920. The complaint against him made by Fed- eral Prosecutor John D. Meyer in the ‘United States district court charges that Tapolcsanji wrote a letter to his brother in Hungary in which he stated that he is “in favor of follow: ing the road to Internationalism.” For this alleged “crime” he is threat- ened with deportation and probably death at the hands of the Horthy gov- ernment. The I. L. D. is investigating the matter and will put up a fight against this new outrage of the fed- eral authorities. ¥ ‘Belgium Plans Treaty ' with Soviet Republic (Sp 1 to The Dally Worker) Brussels, March 7—Belgium expects to arrange a commercial agreement with the Soviet Union shortly. Pol de Tellier, former counselor of the Belgian embassy in London and re- centky appointed head of the eastern Buropean section of the Belgian ,for- eign office, will meet Christian Rakovsky, Soviet ambassador to |France, in Paris soon to discuss the details, ; oldaw making them owners of 4.2 per cent | WH THEY CONDUCTED * BY TH Since we have started to reorganize the league into shop nuclei and con- centration groups, many of the com- rades have formed the opinion that the concentration group is a perma- nent form of league organization. Al- \tho the concentration groups are units of the league which must carry on all the league ‘activities until they suc- ceed in organizing a nucleus, they {are not basic units of the league, but \only a transitional form of organiza- tion, What is the concentration and why is it organized? We organize concentration’ groups ‘because, due to the social composi- tion of the league and the small! num- ber of comrades we have working in the same or in important large. shops, | we cannot immediately organize all our members into shop nuclei. So what do we do? We organize those comrades who can’t be included in nuclei, into con- centration groups and assign each concentration group a special factory group THE CONCENTRATION GROUP: ‘NOT A PERMANENT FORM OF OUR LEAGUE ORGANIZATION and set it the task of organizing a nucleus there. ‘As soon as this nucleus has been or- ganized in the shop where the com- rades were concentrating, the concen- tration group has fulfilled its function, and those comrades who cannot be included in the nucleus are transferred to another concentration group. This makes the concentration group predominantly a transitional form of organization. The more successful the concentration group, the better the comrades carry on their activities around the shop, the shorter the life of the concentration. groups. So in organizing and strengthening our concentration groups, our aim must not be to build them up as per- manent units of the league, but rather to increase their activities, to see that they ‘continue to carry on all the ac- tivities of the Y. W. L,, and at the same time and most important, to make sure that every effort is made to orgnize a nucleus in the shop where the unit is concentrating in the shortest possible time. \Boy Writes of Need For Relief of Passaic Strikers A 15-year-old immigrant boy hap- pened to wisit Passaic, N. J., and saw ‘the textile strike. He is not a radical or a member of the Young Workers (Communist) League, yet the scenes he saw in that battlefield of the class struggle induced him to send the following story, thru his | sister in Buffalo, to our column. se 6 PASSAIC, N. J.—As the cry of a babe for food must have an immediate response from its mother, so must the entire working class listen to the call of the 10,000 textile strikers in Pas- saic. These strikers are inflicted with ja punishment instituted by the multi- millionaires who are not only en- deavoring to reduce the wages of the workers but are endeavoring to take away the last bit of food from these strikers. This cry of distress\must-be audible by every labor organization, by every sympathizer for these work- men, and by every person who can lend a helping hand. Unity on the part of the helpers as well as on the part of the strikers is of this struggle may mean a victory for these workmen. It is easily visualized that the mil- lionaires do not comprehend the mean- ing of hunger, pain, and the phrase: “We want to live.” They. continue to torture the workmen, to abuse them and shorten their lives, It is true that the present condi- tion of the strikers is very bitter. There is no food to eat. No fuel to warm the body; no shoes to wear. The homes of these workers plead to you for immediate aid. Every individual must participate in this strike to help them and their children to some ex- tent, been seriously hurt by the police for attempting to picket textile mills, they did not give up the idea of being vie- vorious. You are the judges and if you judge fair you will immediately help them |thru the General Relief Committee of Textile Strikers, 743 Main Ave., Room 4, Passaic, New Jersey. t NEW YORK YOUNG WORKER BIRTHDAY AFFAIR. NEW YORK CITY—A real mass revolutionary youth affair that charac- terizes the fourth Young Worker birth- day celebration is being arranged by the Young Workers (Communist) sion and the program will be the best yet. The date is Saturday evening, March: 20. Don't come alone, Bring at least three or four with you, PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATION All working class 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 States and in Europe will be shown. Bishop William Mont- gomery Brown is to\be one of the speare: A writers. indispensible in order that the result} Altho many men and women neve} League of New York. The Harlem Casino has been rented for the occa THE DAMNED AGITATOR AND OTHER STORIES _ BY MICHAEL GOLD No. 7 in THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY : Splendid stories of working class life by one of the best of young American MINNEAPOLIS JUNIORS ARE ACTIVE. By a Junior Correspondent. Minneapolis, Minn., March 5,— The Minneapolis Junior group will stage a play, “School Days,’ on April 3, in which all the thirty members of the group will take part. Aina Rask, Aune Sandback and Aina Wiljanen will have the leading parts. Other selec- tions will be given before the play. Following the play there will be a dance. Funds which are received will be used: to pay up the debt of|the Junior group to the national office. “This group has been very active in. the last year. It had circulars printed for anti-education week, which it distributed among the school and neighborhood children. Christmas it gave a thoroly Communist program which was attended by a full house, This coming spring it will conduct several hikes and picnics to the lakes about the city. All juniors of Min- neapolis who want to attend the meet- ings of the Young Pioneers come to the Finnish Hall, Western and Hum- bold Aves. North, any Sunday morning between 10 and 12 o'clock. SVMS FUN AT DETROIT LEAGUE HIKE. DETROIT, Mich, — Branch 1 and 2 of the Young Workers (Communist) League of Detroit held a very success- full hike on Sunday Feb. 21. Altho it snowed and the thermometer regis- tered zero it did not discourage 40 members and their friends from par- ticipating in the hike, We hiked from the Warren car line a distance of 13 Miles, In the park Comrade Reynolds prepared a big kettle of mulligan stew and a pot of coffee which the comrades enjoyed. Snow ball fights and games pictur- ed the afternoon and toward evening all the comrades helped Comrade Burezycky gather wood and a big bon fire was built. Around it the comrades discussed league activities and sang revolutionary songs. A good time was had by all, Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? Lenin _—_Liebknecht Luxemburg By Max Shachtman. paw A pamphlet on the lives of the one most universal and two most heroic leaders of the working class. The only special booklet to be issued for the Lenin-Liebknecht meetings. Well written—attractively bound—illustrated with three ~ beautiful photos, Single Copy 15c. 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