The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1926, Page 4

Page Four ~ THE DAILY WORKER Organization Meetings WORKERS’ SCHOOL OF N.Y. PLANS A By LEO FISHER. now organizations of On the contrary, we must vigorously and relentlessly combat elementary worker, The reactionary imperialists, vi sly a e! assly ¢ firnfly in the saddle, sense the coming | most mercilessly the bourgeois influ- Celebrate Raising of $10,000 Fund (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 8—The ing actors of the Moscow Art Theater of this country, will stage two one-act plays for the Workers’ held Sunday, March 14, at 2 p. m., at| der ‘completely the Central Opera House. The affair | Union movement. will celebrate the successful conclu- sion of the drive for a $10,000 fund to complete the school L. Bulgakov and B. Bulgakova will| Put take the leading parts in Checkhov’s “The Witch” and Dostoievysky’s “Crime and Punishment” and will be assisted by other members of the com- pany. actor of the Moscow Art Theater, but one of Russia's’ most famous actors. These two one-act plays are only part of one of the most striking pro- grams that has ever been arranged in honor of any workers’ institution in the United States. Other concert num- n ballet dances by an folk songs by| exploiters, them. jpend, first of all, on unity, using various means. themselves completely So these bureaucrats now serve tention, illustrate: munists and Mile. Jeune, Communists and _f, Masha Shupak, by Margot Muller. The workers’ symphony orchestra will also| etc., take part in the concert. To Define School Task. and the issues involved in the Car-| expressed in the T. U. BE. L. megie corporation's efforts to corrupt | the entire workers’ education move- already to be $25,000,000, will be dis: cussed by Moisaye J. Olgin, Ben Git- low, William Weinstone, Ben Gold,| Rebecca Grecht and Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the school. The Central Opera House, at 67th street and Third avenue, admits only unity movement, ized labor movement. this unusual concert and mass meet- ing, including the Moscow Art Théater performance, are only 50 cents, thus giving the workers of New York who cannot afford fancy prices their first opportunity to hear the Moscow Art Theater. It is advisable to buy your tickets in advance and to be at the door of the Central Opera House be- 4. The drive of the jit, altho they | workers, Ithe outcome of the struggles will de- the strength, solidarity and the spirit of mil- lead-|itancy of the trade union movement | already initiated a campaign to get they are devising}all members of the party. who are plang and putting them into execution| eligible into trade unions. Behoo! at a concert to be|to demoralize, disrupt, divide and ren- impotent the trade the unions as direct agents of Amer- Bulgakoy is not only a leading ican imperialism. To prove our con- the following will suffice to 1. The trade union bureaucracy has made a common front with the im- perialists in the war against the Com- left wing generally. While the government of the bosses is arresting, jailing and framing up militant unionists, and piano selections} such as in the anthracite strike, the Hungarian| Passaic strike, the Zeigler frame-up, the bureaucrats have resorted to |a policy of expelling the Communists) {and left wingers from the unions and The meaning of workers’ education| outlawing the left wing movement, as 2. Lewis’ betrayal of the anthracite miners in the interests of the bosses, ment with a limitless fund estimated | Green’s campaign against Soviet Rus- |sia and the international trade union conflicts between the workers and the| ence in them, expose the agents of im- and are preparing to meet Fully conscious of the fact that of militancy and make out of them perialism, imbue them with the spirit true organs for defending the work- ers’ interests. Toward that aim, the party has This cam- paign is now in full swing. This, however, is only one phase of the program to intensify the trade To achieve the desired aim, they are| union work. The big problem of the They bought out the trade union bureaucracy, who in the service of the most reactionary sec- tion of the American capitalist class. party is to develop our trade union work so that it will bring the maxi- mum of results, A necessary condi- tion to this is the training of the party membership to an understand- ing of the role of the party and the task of the Communists in the trade unions. Faced with great difficulties and ob- stacles, beset by enemies on all sides, our work in the trade unions can only be effective if we act as a unity, thru solidly organized and closely knit to- gether party fractions. In this way we can exercise a tremendots influence on the masses around us, much greater than our numerical strength would indicate, and set them into mo- tion for definite objectives. “We, the revolutionists,” said Len- in, “are a handful of people who climb upon a torturous path over a cliff, grasping firmly each other’s hands, ‘We are surrounded by ene- mies on all sides, and nearly all the time wehave to march under the en- emy’s fire. We have formed a volun- tary union for the very purpose of fighting our enemies, not for retreat- in | ? The scheme of the capitalists and| ing to the nearest swamp.” | the trade union bureaucrats to keep the Negro workers outside the organ- The executive council of the A. F.. of L. vied with three thousand people. The tickets for} the capitalist press in attacking the American Negro Labor Congress. This passage of Lenin's applies especially well to our trade union work. To achieve any success, we must have our party fractions. Left wing blocs are mighty instruments for carrying on the fight_ in the trade capitalists | unions, but without party fractions to jagainst the foreign-born workers; the| direct the work, no decisive headway official leaders of the trade unhions,| can be made. |have not organized any resistance to It is a well established fact that our must know that, this| work in the trade unions rests on sol- {drive is strongly directed against, the| id grounds only when it is based first organized section of the foreign-born} on the immediate economic interests of the workers, when we show our- fore two o'clock, the tim ‘ a8 iene or he 5. The policy of class edjabeneiies, selves capable of leading the workers Start of the concert. | designed to eliminate and supplant the| in the fight for higher wages, shorter . workers’ policy of the class struggle} hours, better working conditions, ete. Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th St., Cor. 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As the vanguard of the proletarian| That would certainly be a very nar- |class struggle, we cannot stand idly |by and let the capitalists and their| trade union movement. agents disrupt, disorganize and, press into the service of capitalism, these] this phase of the work, we must also row conception of our role in the Without min- imizing or letting up in any way on introduce political questions of major importance, affecting the interests of the workers, This is necessary to vaise the class consciousness of the workers, broaden their political hori- zon and direct. the struggles toward our main objective—against the cap- italist system as a whole, It is true that in introducing politi- cal questions into trade unions, we quite often meet serious resistance, not only on the part of the reactionary bu- reaucrats, but we also run up against the narrow craft, and sometimes even race prejudices of the unconscious mass. This, however, cannot and must not deter us from our tasks. In fighting, for instance, for admitting Negro workers into the trade unions and for complete social equality of the Negroes, we undoubtedly run counter to the prejudices of some sections of the white workers, who are still com- pletely dominated by the bourgeois ideology. It would be most errone- ous and non-Communist to accede to this prejudice in order to gain some small point, sacrificing thereby the broader interest of the working class as a whole, The broader aspects of the class struggle, having the revolu- tion as the final aim, must be our continuous guidance in all our activi- “He is no revolutionist,” says Lenin, A. H. Harfield ties, especially the trade union work.| SocialjA ffairs Resolutions Workers (Communist) Party “Rest Intensify Trade Union Work! the] ‘who goes along With the*revolution at a time when everything is carried by a revolutionary wave, but the true revolutionist is he, who knows how to consistently defend the interests of the revolution in the most reactionary surroundings.” This holds good es- pecially to the trade union work of the Communists. “Under certain histori- cal conditions the working class is very. likely to be impregnated with numerous reactionary elements. The task of the Communists is not to adapt themselves to such retrogtade ele- ments of the working class, but to} raise the whole working class to the! level of the Communist’ vanguard!”— Theses of the Second Congress of the C.d. The issues now agitating the labor movement, such as the international trade union unity movement, the pro- tection of ‘the foreign-born workers, the fight for the formation of a labor party, .International Labot Defense, etc., must be vigorously pushed for- ward in the trade unions. The whole trade union movement must be roused to these issues. In fighting, for inter- national trade union unity, for in- stance, it must be shown. that this unity is to embrace not only the workers of the so-called civilized coun- tries, but also the colonies, suwbju- gated and exploited by world imper- ialism. In this connection we de- nounce imperialism, expose the source of opportunism in the labor move- ment and unmask the labor bureau- crats as agents of imperialism in the labor movement, Our influence and strength in the trade unions will grow just in propor- tion as we show our ability to lead the whole mass of workers ‘in all minor struggles. HONOR ROLL. 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NEW! THE PARIS COMUNE By MAX SHACHTMAN. - ’ No. 8 IN THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY A brief little booklet on a great event in working class as Karl Marx wrote, France attempted to “storm the heavens.” This first glorious attempt at proletarian dictatorship, so vividly portrayed by the author, should be read by every worker on the 55th anniversary being celebrated thruout the world on March 18. 10 CENTS—Twelve Copies for One Dollar Other Books by the Same Author: Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg ————$__—_____— 4 the workers of THE DAILY WORKER PUB. COw - 113 W. Washington Blyvd., Chicago, Ill. ” PROSPERITY OF THE NON-UNION MINERS IS BUNK Miners Beaten -When They Protest Low Wages By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. LOGAN, W. Va:—(FP)—I have never seen more squalid miner homes than those I. passed hiking into Lo- gan county, the back way, along Georges Creek and Dingess Run. What a contrast to the model places the Logan chamber of commerce es- corted us to ‘when senators Kenyon jand Shortridge made their sham in- | vestigation after the armed march of 1921, : 1 saw hovels of the Argyle and Rex coal mining companies standing, in puddles 6 inches to a foot deep. It had been raining. There was no pip- ing to carry off the water and it stood there till it soaked out. I saw chil- dren, all in rags, and some without stockings in the February cold. And to relieve the dinginess of this life there was not even a pretense of welfare work, except in the larger communities where are club houses and Y, M, C. A.’s, pretty well monopol- ized by the bosses and straw bosses. | In few places is there anywhere to go at night, but to the overcrowded shack called home. If a man dreamed of taking his family to Logan for a | vaudeville show from Ethyl, 6 miles away, he would have to pay 75 cents per head bus fare each way. Prosperity Is Missing ‘The prosperity-of-the-nonunion-min- er talk which operators feed to the union men in Pennsylvania, Ohio, In- diana and Illinois is bunk. The big money that Logan men are supposed to make is just so much company scrip. “A store keeper—whose name is withheld to save his job—admitted that all the men earn goes back to his company through the company store. ‘Vhey can never get ahead. They are always in debt. They draw in ad- vance, not money but company scrip, good only at the store. And these men are among the comparatively few who work 6* days a week. Most of the 65 Logan county companies work only three and four days a week. Even the huge Island Creek Coal Co. | is getting in only 4 days a week for \its 21 Logan county mines as it waits for the lake trade to open. Knock Miner Cold Not merely the wage rates or what the miners call the “prices” are low. The men cannot be sure of getting what the rates call for. At the Five Block Coal Co, a few days ago, @ min- er went into the office to question a pay statement. He was carried out | unconscious, What happened is dis- | puted. But there was no one inside | but the superintendent, the bookkeep- er and a piece of iron pipe. Unionism is treated as a crime. Deputized gunmen still slouch about |every mining camp, though there is \less flaunting of revolvers and some- | what less aggressiveness since Don Chafin, boss of this mountain coal land, went to Atlanta on a bottlegging |charge. But the guns are still there, as you see when the hips bend getting in and out of autos. And the rough tactics are ready. Just the other day two Polish miners were beaten and run out of the Island Creek town of | Holden, one kept in jail over night, for possession of a labor paper. They were lucky to escape alive. Four months ago a committee from the | miners union—all international offi- | cers—registered at the Aracoma ho- tel and were run out of town by a |committee from the chamber of com- }merce and a gang of thugs. | Organization Will Return But the basis of organization is al- ready in Logan, There is bitter dis- content. Many former union men are ready to whip it into line when the organization makes a drive. These once union men are those who were starved out in the 4-year strike out- side and went “up Guyan” for a meal ticket, The fight to unionize and hold the Guyan valley, when it comes, will test the sinews of the whole labor movement. There will be many thou- sands of men to feed and house in tents and barracks and more than likely there will be big defense cases to fight as the violence and frame-up machinery gets to work, But Logan must be organized for the sake, not only of its own workers, but of the whole United Mine Work- ers union. Its more than 17,000,000 tons of scab coal a year are an impor- tant part of the southern flood that is breaking down the union markets and keeping the itmion men to the north on the jobless lists. | Golden State Can't Pay, SAN FRANCISCO—(FP) — When the 29 woman clerks who distributed auto license plates for 1926 in San Francisco received their pay envel- ops, they found inside nothing but a note of thanks for their work. The state motor vehicle department, it was explained, has not a revolving fund large enough to pay for tempo- rary help, even regularly recurring help such as this, and all timekeepers’ cards must be sent to Sacramento before any money can be issued, Sev- eral of the girls are oe to be desti- tute, peel BeBe “Trade unions are the ‘reservoir of the majority of the socially decisive eta! iat), ‘Thesi La iPad 4 Rahs Wad * WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH, . By AUSTRA. BRIDGEPORT, Mass.—The strike at Wolf & Abrahams’ factory is start- ing its sixth week. The strikers are cheerfully picketing the factory much to the neryousness of the scabs who peer from time to time out of the win- dows. An air of confidence of suc- cess and determination prevails thru- out the strike district. Children Flood Streets. Young workers, girls in their teens, young lads and children are the most valient of the fighters. In spite of the biting cold and thin worn coats, the girls, some not yet fourteen years of age, Charleston and sing to keep warm while doing picket duty. Just before the evening whistle blows, comes the most inspiring sight. Children and youths begin to flood the streets for blocks around, , There is an air of expectancy as, the factory gates are flung open and cries of “Scab!” and hisses fill the air as the scabs, escorted by the police, hasten to the trucks and closed cars. When- ever the truck stops to drop a pas- senger, hooting and whistling accom- pany the scab te the very door. It is the young children that are most ac- FIRST TASKS OF A SECOND important step that must be taken so that the shop nuclei and concentration group#’ will function and carry on all the activities of/the League, is to get educational work started immediately)after reorganiza- tion. : What form should ‘the educational work take in the tyclei and concen- tration groups? Need of This Work. The reason why this work must be carried on is obvious. The league members. must be trained so that they can assume all the: responsibilities of a Young Communist hand with the breaking up of the ald branches, the nuclei and the concentration groups become the onll units where this training can be obtained with the ex- ception of classes.\) Im addition, the meetings of the nuclelsand concentra- tion groups must be: interesting and cannot meet just like committees, which is liable to be the result of neglecting the educational work. How to conduct: this eduéational work. Plainly the educational work is more interesting if informal discus- sion are held on important subjects, except when it is possible to have a speaker there to lead the discussion. In order to start carrying out this work it is not necessary to have a long program or outlines. There are many interesting and important subjects which can be found for discussion, in- oe the juibortaye: rand educational WORKERS UNG -WORKERS LEAGUE CHIDREN HELP PICKET INBRIDGEPORT STRIKE tive in this and it is a sight worth seeing when those youngsters pour out into the streets. Poverty and Filth Playmates of Children, These children feel the class strug- gle. Their homes are filthy hovels, huddled one against the other, tipsy from age and neglect, ‘with refuse lit- tered passages and alleys. Children of clothing workers, whose parents and older brothers and sisters handle warm woolens all day, are clad in the thinest of worn out clothes, usually handed down from one of the older children. Little red hands, and frost pinehed cheeks and noses, hud- dling shoulders and insufficiently clad feet, these youngsters know the mean- ing of bad conditions and poor wages. . Is it any wonder-then that they are helping the older workers fight their , $ strike? It will be only a few years.be- fore those undeveloped bodies will be. fed to the maws of the factories. Passaic Strike an Inspiration. The city is taking an active interest in the Passaic strike also and: the valor of their fellow workers in Pas- saic encourage the Bridgeport strikers, with the Young Workers (Communist ) League OUR NEW UNITS No. 2—EDUCATION. discussion of certain important League activities, Political: Subjects. By taking any issue of the Young Worker the comrades can easily find an article on some curtrent political event which can ‘be the basis of the discussion. Either the comrades can read and discuss the article right at that meeting or they can appoint one of the members to study the article and the subject and make a short talk on it at the next meeting. Or, they can take the current issue of the Young Worker, and discuss the paper itself. Perhaps some of the comrades have been selling the paper at the factory the day before, and so when they discuss how to improve the Young Worker and make it more in- teresting to the working youth, they will be in a position to make many practical suggestions. The same time they can discuss the question of Young Workers’ correspondence, Discuss Activities. Just as the nucleus or the concen- tration group can spend a certain part of the meeting discussing the press, so they can discuss other important League activities. An entire meeting can be devoted to a discussion of our economic trade union work. Another meeting on the yuestion of our sport work, etc, ete. In this way the meetings of the nuclei can be made interesting and educational and in this way both aid our activities. and make them inter- esting units to which we can attract new members of the Y, W. L. MOSCOW PHYSICAL MOSCOW, U.S. S. R.—A con- ference of the instructors and workers of the Cirele for Physical Culture took place’ on January 28rd, in Moscow. The agenda in- cluded: (1) Results of the meth- odie-scientific conferences held in Moscow, Noyember, 1928; (2) preparation for guard. duty by the circles for physical eulture; (3) medical control; (4)¢o-operation between the trade union circles and the supreme council. YOUNG WORKER CELEBRATES IN NEW YORK. The young workers of New York celebrate on March 20 the Fourth An- niversary of the establishment of the Communist Youth organ. An innova- tion to increase the circulation of the Young Worker—the Young Workers (Communist) League of District No. 2 offers a three months’ subscription to each Young Worker buying a ticket for the spring dance and célebration. A short but excellent program to- gether with the finest dance music will be the order of the night. Place—Harlem Casino, 116th 8t, and Lenox avenue, Time—Saturday evening, March 20. Program—Many surprises with the best of dance music, Ss LABOR SPORTSMEN, These are your columns. Why not write for them. Send in your news, articles and stories for the Sports Column, \ knowled, | CULTURE ‘actr| Come Ahead Into the Young Workers League The army of the revolutionary youth movement is working un- der the banner of the Young Communist International, Against capitalism and imperial- ism. From that we can see that the Y. C, I. is the leader of the working class youth. The Ame- munist International (Young: Workers’ (Communist) League) is also. engaging in the class) struggle in the United States.’ We work also under the ideas and instructions of Lenin. Len- in was the leader of the whole proletariat and its best friend. Young workers of America, join ist) League! PITTSBURGH TRUMBULL MASS MEETING. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Who can deny that the question of capitalist milita- rism and the struggle against it is one of the most burning issues for the masses of young workers, Why not hear this question discussed by one who fought capitalist militarism right in the army, Walter Trumbull, recently released from Alcatraz mili tacy prison, will speak on the ques- tion: “What militarism means to the young workers” at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Friday, March 19, 8 p.m. “An: oppressed class which doesnot strive for the e of arms, for the pri session of arms—such an oppr be oppressed, maltreated an regarded as ice of arms, for the pos- class is only worthy to lave class.’ Wi Ne LENIN. 4 ee rican section of the Young Com-* the Young Workers’ (Commun-.. vlan ot