The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1926, Page 4

+ all districts. THE DAILY WORKER Meine | Workers (Communist) Party ORGANIZATION CONFERENCES ARE SUCCESS Party Functionaries Dis- cuss Activities Successful organization conferences were recently held in the cities of Philadelphia, Boston and Buffalo where Comrade Martin Abern report- ed for the central executive committee on the national organization confer- ence of Feb. 22, The meetings were very well attended by the party func- tidnaries of the shop and street nuclei and the executive committees of the sections, sub-sections, etc. At the Boston conference, there were com- rades present from the outlying citi Worcester, Brockton, Lynn, Quin Maynard, Fitchburg, Norwood and other cities. Comrade Abern reported on the various party campaigns, but dealt particularly with the question of the functioning of the nuclei, the execu- tive committees, trade union cam- paign, language fraction organization and the foreign-born campaign. The district organizers, Alex Bail of Phila- delphia, Bert Miller of Boston made additional reports on the specific lo- cal campaigns and issues. Essentially the same problems con- fronted the districts in the work of building the nuclei: language diffi- culties, matter of attendance, lack of leading comrades, assigning and dis- tributing work among more of the members, trade union activity, liter- ature, printing of shop bulletins, etc. However, since the reorganization has been completed, the progress and im- provement have been definite. The establishment of the executive com- mittees on a better functioning and leading basis, elimination of routine from the meetings, an agenda at the nuclei meetings on shop reports by all the members, individual reports on trade union activity and work in the fraternal organizations, stimulat- ing workers correspondents, individ- ual assignment of work in the shops, such as leaflet distribution, drive for subscriptions, will help greatly in de- veloping live nuclei. Stress was laid on the party members being alive to participation in and leading the way in the struggles for more wages, bet- ter hours, strike situations, etc. The foreign-born campaign, it was report- ed, is being pushed energetically in Additional reports were made on educational work, defense activity, particularly the Zeigler and Bimba cases and labor party. The delegates participated in the lively and lengthy discussions that followed. Numerous questions were put on practical phases of the party work, New York, Chicago and other districts are yet to hold organization conferences to hear reports from the national organization committee and to take up the district problems. Pittsburgh Prepares for May 1 Celebration PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 10.—Ar- rangements are being made to hold a huge May Day Celebration in this city Saturday evening, May 1. The Car- negie Music Hall, one of the biggest halls in the city, was engaged, and J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, has consented to speak. A call has been sent out to a number ot labor organizations for a United | Front Conference where the question of a joint celebration will be dis- cussed. An elaborate program is being prepared in addition to ad- dresses to be delivered by represen- tatives of the various labor organiza- tions of the city. ; Chicago Workers by at 8th Street and The program will in: Freiheit Singing Society Russian Accérd Margarite L TICKETS 50 CENTS, 83 CENTS A THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 8 P. M. Trade Union Educational League ARION GROTTO (EIGHTH STREET THEATER) Lithuanian Chorus Scottish and Irish National Dancers Fred Ellis, Robert Minor and Lydia Gibson, Cartoonists secured at Room 37, 156 W. Washington Street and The Datly Worker, 1113 W, Washington Blvd. | Following the line of the Nat at the Croation Sokol Hall, 1903 This includes section and su member will be ¢xcluded, committee will report. Class Collaboration, Subject at Sunday Night Workers’ Forum NEW YORK, March 10—“Class Col- in the American , Labor Movement” is the topic selected for the forum lecture Sunday night, March 14, at the Central Forum in the Workers’ School, 108 EB, 14 St., New York City. Jack Stachel, organization secretary of the district, is the speak- er. laboration On the following Sunday night, Floyd Dell, author of various novels and works of literary criticism and of the series of articles entitled “Liter- ature in a Machine Age” in which historic materialism is applied to mo- dern literature, will lecture on “Liter ature and Revolution.” Floyd Dell is on the editorial staff of the New Masses, “Soviet Russia and the World Conflict” Subject of Bronx Sunday Forum NEW YORK, March 10 — Sunday evening, March 14, at 1347 Boston Road, Juliet Stuart Poyntz will speak on “Soviet Russia and the World Conflict.” The Bronx Forum will have ‘A most interesting program for the next few weeks: March 21—“The ‘Textile Strike in New Jerse: Speaker, Albert Weis- bord, organizer of the strike. March 28—“Culture and the Work- ing Class.” Speaker, Moissaye Olgin. Il Lavoratore Holds an Entertainment on Saturday Night NEW YORK, March 10 — Saturday evening, March 13 at 8 o'clock at the Bryant Hall, 725 Sixth Ave. (between vip lege 42 St.), an entertainment will take place for the benefit of Il Lavo- ratore, the official organ in Italian lan- guage of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. Dancing all night. Admission 50c, West Allis to Hold Dance Saturday Night WEST ALLIS, Wis., March 10 —An entertainment and dance given by the Workers (Communist) Party, local West Allis, will be held Saturday night, March 13 at the Labor Hall, 55th and National Ave. HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS Donations for Daily Worker. Hungarian Branch ...... ord Pittsburgh, Pa. Lettish Branch... San Francisco, Calif. Rebecca Sacharow .... Chicago, Ill. Reserve the Date the the Wabash Avenue, clude the well known and Mandolin Orchestra eonist Sam Lein ewis, Pianist ND $1.10, INCL. WAR TAX, can be CHICAGO WILL HOLD ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE ON SUNDAY, MARCH 14 recently in Chicago, a conference is being called for Sunday, March 14, beginning at 10 o’clock in the morning and lasting thru the afternoon, functionaries make it a point to be present, taries, organizers, industrial organizers, agitprop, DAILY WORKER agents, directors of women’s work, Representatives of the central executive ional Organization Conference held S. Racine Ave. All local Chicago b-section committees, nuclei secre- Negro work, etc. No active party [SECOND TERM IN LITERATURE OPENS ON FRIDAY N. Y.. Woskers’: Sheol Has Excellent Course NEW YORK, March 10—Modern Russian literature will form the cen- tral study of the Spring term of the course in modern literature at the Workers’ School, 108 E. 14 St., which begins next Friday night at 8 o’cloc: \In addition to the Russians, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neil, Theodore | Dreiser, Roman Rolland and other non-Russian moderns will be con- sidered, Following is the program for the second term: March 12 +- Wilde—Plays, Poems— “Dorian Gray” “De Profundis.” March 19 — Eugene O’Neil—“Hairy Ape,” “Beyond the Horizon,” “Great God Brown.” March 26 — Theodore Dreiser— “American Tragedy,” “The Genius.” April 2 — Romain Rolland—“Jean Christophe,” “Wolves.” April 9 — Tolstoy—“War and Peace.” April 16 — Tolstoy—‘Anna Kare- nina.” Essays. April 23 — Dostoyevsky—‘Crime and Punishment,” “The Possessed.” April 30 Dostoyevsky—‘Brothers Karamazov,” “The Idiot.” May 7 — Turgenev—“Smoke,” “Ra- din,” “On the Eve.” May 14 — Turgenev—“Fathers and Sons,” “Virgin Soil.” May 21 — Chékhov, Gorky. May 28 — Libedinsky, Mayakovsky, ete, June 4 — “Faust,” I, and II. June 11 — Heinrich Heine. June 18 — Resume and analysis of present tendencies, Those interested in this course should register at once at the Work- ers’ School. The fee for this three- months’ course is $2.50. Supper to Be Served at Party Conference A supper will be served at the Chi- cago Party Organization conference to be held at the Sokol Hall, 1903 Ss. Racine Ave., next Sunday. In the evening there will be an entertain- ment by the Chicago Party schooi, 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 lecal, is arranging a Paris Com- mune pageantvand 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 speakers, of Neate noted labor artists are plot- ting something unusual. This much has been learned: For three days Bob Minor, Fred Ellis and Lydia Gibson have been holding conferences behind closed doors, sending out the office boy for new cans of paint (a plug of tobacco and a pack of camels) and keeping busy in preparation for their act to be staged at the Interna- tional Concert on Saturday, March 13 at the Eighth Street Theater. The reporter has been able to get these facts only: They will appear in their working clothes. The act calls for action and they mean to give it, “Tell all the fighting left wingers in this town we are going to show up the movies,” Fred Ellis volunteered, “And tell ’em if they think an artist is a high-hat stiff they will have the shock of their lives when they get a look at the sleeves of my good red flannels. I’m going to have them washed for Saturday even if the sign painters will think I am putting on airs,” Artists Plot Fun for Militants Social Affairs Resolutions WORKERS’ SCHOOL LINKED UP WITH MASS STRUGGLES Must Help Make Workers’ History By A. G. BOSSE. NEW YORK, March 10,—The his- tory of the Workers’ School must be indissolubly linked up with the strug- gles of the workers. Jt,may sound strange to speak of history (it is but three months since the school was reorganized upon the present mass basis). But the school has a long and active period ahead of it, if it continues upon the lineg laid down. In the last city mayorality cam- paign, in the campaigns ‘against the Hungarian and Cuban enibassies, and in the’ Passaic textile ‘strike, the school struck out along’ militant lines The pledge of the students, teachers and administration to the Furriers’ Joint Board of help in “their strike was a furtherance of ‘this policy. When a school promises to help a striking union with *picketing, re- arch, speakers, propaganda mate- jal, classes and teathers for the strikers, ete., then it’can indeed be said that it is educating ‘for the class struggle. Practice Accord With Theory. We must make our practice accord with our theory. Penetration of the unions and mass organizations of the workers with our worker-student re- ,| volutionaries is our main task. Train- ing of functionaries and union offi- cials in their work had beew planned, but we were unable to carry it out during our first term. A course in problems of the needle trades had to be postponed because of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un- ion convention, but is now being given to a selected group of needle trades workers and officials.4 Our big job is to e history, not merely to study i ur education must start from the? sent strug- gles of the workers,-and go back to origins, developments/and probable trends. We must proceed, not logi cally, from primitive;;and ancient times, but psychologically, from the present interests and problems of our worker-students. Our teaching meth ods must be based upon the self-ac tivity of the student, got upon cyt anc dried lectures poured into a tirec brain-pan. Locarna, (hina, Russia the Dawes Pian, interpationally; pend ing anti-working cies, the agrarian question, thé "position of the foreign-born, unorghidized, political prisoners, the latest®phases of im- perialist trustificatiofi and penetra- }tion, ete., ete.—these must’ be the source material for all our classes. It can be used equally well in public speaking, composition: and workers’ correspondence, English, materialistic philosophy and revolutionary mass psychology as in histery, economics, research, Marxism and Leninism, shop neucleus training courses and trade union problems, ity. iF Concerned With Making History. As one of our British comrades has said: “Let our education be more concerned about making than study- ing history. Let its economics make more for the elimination than the jexplanation of capitalist robbery.” Such a vitalizing of method, politi- calizing of content and revolutioniz- ing of purpose in our education, pro- ceeding further along the lines it now follows, will make the Workers’ School of supreme importance in the life and death struggles which the workers will face increasingly. Bob Minor only smiled and added mysteriously: “Just say for me that the trade unionists in this burg are going to be sent home from this af- fair laughing. Lydia, Gibson added: “And they will be laughing at some birds that wont like, jt!” So that’s that. It looks like the workers who have adtitired the work of these splendid artiste are going to get a treat on Saturday might at the thea- ter on the corner of Highth and Wa- bash. 4 The program arranged by the Trade Union Educational “League will. in- clude a full night's ‘pleasure, Sing- ing, music, a pianist, an accordian player and a bag-pipe artist from Bonnie Scotland are completing a bill that should attract every worker in Chicago who has a drop of fighting blood in him or a taste for good en- tertainment. “The unions are the pillars of the workers’ power.”—Losovsky, Dancing Until 11 P, M. Strike Relief Dance and Banquet arranged by the KNIT GOODS WORKERS’ UNION Saturday, March 13, 8 P. M. MAMOTH HALL, N. E. Corner 6th and Girtird Ave, 2nd Floor—Entrance 6th Street, iy TICKET 60 CENTS. 4 ny Banquet Until 12:30 aw 4 agi NEGRO PARENTS PROTEST AGAINST MISTREATMENT, OF SCHOOL CHILDR TOPEKA, Kan., March 10—The school board of the city of Topeka ls facing probable lawsuit for its discrimination and mistreatment of Negro school children as the result of a probe that is now being carried on by a parents’ committee. The parents are protesting against the inadequate facilities for the trans- portation of the children from dis- tricts where there are no schools to the Monroe.and Washington schools. At the parents’ mass meeting it was pointed out that the small Ne- gro children had to stand in mud and slush at the Rock Island sta- tion in the cold waiting for transpor- tation to the school. The parents threaten to bring suits against the city for any serious illness that may result to the children from this mis- treatment, LABOR-HATING JUDGE FACES IMPEACHMENT “Friend of Labor” Aids Railroad Barons WASHINGTON, March 10.—After lengthy hearings in public and much argument behind locked doors, the house judiciary committee is about to give its decision as to whether Judge English, of the federal district court of East St, Louis, Ill, shall be recom- mended to the house for impeachment before the senate. If the.committee and the house vote for impeachment, this will result in the first trial of a federal judge before the bar of the senate since Judge Archbald of Penn sylvania in the winter of 1912-13. Archbald was convicted of having ac- cepted gifts from coal companies that had important litigation in his court. Judge English was appointed to the federal bench by President Wilson at the request of the late Samuel Gom- pers. He had been friendly to or- ganized labor. After he got his judi- cial job he became extremely arbi- trary and hostile toward organized la- bor. Eventually, in the railroad shop- WORKERS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE 50,000 WORKERS REPRESENTED AT N.Y. PRELIMINARY GATHERING FOR MASS WORKING YOUTH CONFERENCE WIT THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH Unions Support Militant Young Workers in Pre-~ paring for Concerted Drive for Special Youth Demands By SAM DON. NEW YORK CITY—On March 5 a preliminary conference was held here for the purpose of making arrangements for a mass work- ing youth conference. The following organizations were represented at this gathering:’ Young Workers (Communist) League, ~Amal- gamated Food Workers, Hotel Workers’ Br, of Brooklyn, Architect- ural Iron, Bronze and Structural Workers’ Union, the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, Cloak and Suit Tailors’ Union Local No: 9, United Front Committee of Textile Workers, Millinery Hand Work- ers’ Union, Local 43, Dressmakers’ Union, Local 22, Shoe Workers’ Union, Local 51, the Plumbers’ Helpers Clubs of Brooklyn and sronx. These organizations represent 50,000 workers. Altho an invitation was sent to.the Young Peoples’ Socialist League they failed to attend the conference. The reason for: this failure is not yet determined. At the conference the main issues upon which the mass working youth conference would be called were discussed. This broader con- ference is scheduled to take place at the end of May and all efforts will be made to have representations direct from the shops. The fol- lowing points were brought out in the discussion: The necessity of a militant struggle against child labor; the need of an intensive campaign for the unionization of the workers. Related to this latter point there was discussed the questions of lower initiation fees for the young workers so that they can more easily enter the unions, all special youth demands dealing with wages, sanitary’ conditions, education, ete. Naturally with these questions the working youth conference will discuss the broader political problems of the Amer- men’s strike of 1922, he threatened tc employ martial law not only agains: the strikers if they dared to picke the railroad shops, but against al! sheriffs, prosecutors and other law of icers of the counties in his jurisdic ion unless these officers should hely him to suppress picketing. This lawlessness toward the rail strikers is one of the counts in the indictment brought by a sub-commit- tee of the judiciary committee against him. The rest of the charges concern the financial gain from, cases in his own court, registered by himself and friends thru a ‘bankruptcy and receiy- ership ring.” Atheists Organize to Smash God in All Universities of U. S. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 10—The Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Atheism, thru its general secretary, Freeman Hopwood, today stated that groups opposed to religion will be established at many colleges thruout the country in the near future, Besides the society already formed at the University of Rochester under the striking ndme of the “Damned Souls,” a branch will be established within a few days at’ Yale, Hopwood states. He predicts the organization of at least a dozen groups by the end of the present term. The national association will supply local units with literature and speak- ers. The work of circularizing the senior classes of high schools will be kept up. Hopwood declares the re- sponses thus far have been encourag- ing. The headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism are at 49 Vesey St.,. New York City. Organization Is the Only Way Out, He Says (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, March 10—Conditions here in the Budd Wheel company fac- tory are bad. The unskilled workers fave to do machinists’ work but’ get only a guarantee of 4914 cents an hour on a piece work basis, “The only way out for the workers is organization. Chicago Notes. Meeting of all Y. W. L. in the food industry, Thursday, March 11, at 7 PD. m., at 19 South Lincoln street, e 8 Meeting of. all Y. W. L. working in the building trades on Thursday, March 11, 8 p, m. 19 8, Lincoln St, At gi ‘ Section No, 1 Membership Meeting. Friday, March 12, at 8 p, m., at 180 W. Washington street. Morris Yusem of the N. BE. C, will speak on the ac- tivities of the Y. W. L, in Philadelphia, Problems of the various conientration groups will be taken up, .o% |) tostul HAA ican workers and working youth. After the discussion an arrangements committee, which will prepare the ground for the working youth conference, was elected. On this committee there is one member from each organization represented with the exception of. the United Front Textile Com- mittee which has two representatives. This committee then elected a council of five members. It was also decided to elect a representative of the arrange- ments committee of the youth conference to the Monday meeting of the young Passaic textile strikers mittee . called by the United Front Com- ~ With the closing of the conference the delegates of the loéal tmions represented will immeditely get busy securing donations from their organizations for the working youth conference, The general enthusiasm, the recognition of the urgent necessity for a concerted struggle for. the special demands of youth labor which manifested itself at this preliminary conference, is bound to result in success for the mass working youth conference scheduled for the end.of May. THE YOUTH AND TRADE UNIONISM By GERMINAL ALLARD. Tt is of utmost importance, that the members of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League become union mem- bers. The young Communists must become leaders of the militants in the unions as well as fighters for work- ing conditions and wages of the young workers: In the unions there is a good field for carrying on league work; for getting our members in contact with the everyday struggles of the masses, ’ \ The slogans and demands, political and economic, can be executed at the Same time that the masses struggle for better living standards under this system. It gives opportunities to the young Communists who are strug- gling against and feeling the oppres- sion of capitalism to” point out to the mass of backward young workers al true position in-the class strug- gle. The Y. C. I. did not make a mistake when it declared for the need of union- izing the members of the Young Com- Exchange of Experiences Between. Concentration Groups and Shop Nuclei At a meeting of Concentration Group D., Section 5, of the New York league there were four comrades and 4 representative of the section execu- tive committee present, while three comrades were absent, The agenda of the meeting was: (1) Shop Reports, (2) Young Worker. (3) Youth Conference, (3) Attendance at Meetings, ‘ Under shop reports, Comrade R. re- ported that she is'a member of the Millinery Hand Workers’ Union, She is working in an open shop, eight hours per day. The average wage is $25 for trimmers and $35 to $40 for Operators. There are 4 young workers in the shop of whom one™is @ sympathizer, Her task is to win over these young workers, Comrade G. reported that she is a member of the I. i, G. W. U. She works in an open shop. There are about 60 workers in the shop and 16 in her department. Of this number 7 or 8 are young workers. The 8-hour day is in vogue and the average wage: are: for operators $25 and for finishers $12 to $16. There is another league member in the shop who is sick at Present. Most of the workers are Italian speaking and know little Bhg- sh, ‘This makes the task more dit- ficult, | Comrade B, is an assistant in. a chemical laboratory and can’t do much munist League. The most solid forti- fication that we can begin to build against the capitalists is the unioniza- tion of our members thru which we can gain the leadership in the strug- gles of the young workers. In this respect the young Commun- ists must follow the policies of the adult Communists. Many of us are in- experienced in this work, therefore it is necessary to follow the tactics ot the experienced comrades. In the gen- eral demands of the union we follow the lead of the party fraction. How- ever, on the special demands of the young workers the young members must be in the lead and enroll the adult workers in the struggle. Once we begin to penetrate the workers, make them conscious and win their confidence, by our everyday action within the trade unions, then we can really say that we are be- eoming a mass organization—the van- guard of the most exploited section of the working class—the working class youth. shop work since the other workers (4) are chemical engineers, Under the heading’ of er it was decided that eve must buy 10 copies of the ‘Young Worker and distribute them in or around the shops. Besides takin; their 10 copies each comrade took sub blanks for the Young Worker: Decided to secure more information on the plans of the D. E. C. for the Youth conference, garnets ; Y. W. L. DIST. NO, 2 CELEBRATES SUCCESS OF REORGANIZATION. On Saturday evening, March 20, the palatial ball room of Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lenox avenue, Will be @ get-together and celebration of the members of the Young Workers League, District No, 2 (who have been torn asunder from their old units as & result of reorganization) and their thousands of friends to mark the coms pletion of reorganization, i While the participants are gliding along the floor to the well played music hundreds of new subscribers will be added to the lists of the Young Worker. The explanation to this strange phenomenon is simple—every purchase of a ticket to the dance will receive as @ gratis premium a three (3) months’ subscription to the Young Workers. Show the enemies of our party and league that their hopes of our degenerating as a result of reor ganization were only phantastia dreams by coming to this affair en el ~ OTE! -ay