The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1926, Page 5

A ” R § CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY ON THE JOB | By ONE OF THEM. (Scene in any shop) W. C.—“Say Jack, I’m from another department in this dump. Would you mind giving me the dope on this hole for The DAILY WORKER—a worker's paper?” Worker—“Not at all—what do you want to know?” W. C.—‘‘What do you earn?” Worker—"Damn little. The tight wads only pay forty cents an hour.” W. ©.—"Speed up?” Worker—“Boy, you said it! ‘They run us so bow-legged that when I get home and sit down I feel like glued to the chair.” W. C.—Tough boss?” Worker—“I’ll tell the world. He’s not down today—sick, And I hope he gets worse. He fired a guy last week for turnin’ around to spit, Said he didn’t like his looks anyway?” W. C.—“Do you know this joint made six million dollars profit last year?” Worker—‘No—but it’s no wonder. All work for us and little pay makes the boss a rich little boy.” W. C.—“He’s in Florida now.” Worker—“That so? Well, I hope a cocoanut falls on his dome.” W. C.—‘You fellows read The DAILY WORKER?” Worker—‘No, what is it?” W. C.—“Have a copy—read it. It has my article in it on this dump. Look it over when you get home.” Worker—“Thanks, sure will. Say, when you write up this department for your paper tell the cock-eyed world the boys in this dump work like hel. And listen, buddy, we don’t need ‘®Jwagon to haul away our pay, nei ther.” W. C.—“Old stuff—but Same all over, old boy.” Worker—“Sure—but what cam you do about it?” W. C.—“Read that paper old boy. Read it and you'll know. I'll be here again in a couple of days to get your subscription for it .. . There goes my whistle. S’long!” it’s true, ICK AND DEATH BENEFI SOCIETIES — Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschritt Meets every ist and 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Se We have just received the following five new i pamphlets just off the press: RUSSIA TURNS EAST— A view of the foreign policies of the Soviet government, GLIMPSES OF THE SOVIET REPUBLIC— ‘A birds-eye view of Soviet Russia as the author saw it on a@ trip he has just com- pleted. STOPPING A WAR— ‘The remarkable anti-war activity of the French Communist Party in the French war against Morocco, WORLD LABOR UNITY— A history of the great efforts to unite world labor against the’common enemy— capitalism. BRITISH LABOR BIDS ‘FOR POWER— ‘An account of the historic Scarborough conference that marks a, step towards . power. Naha A WORKER GORRESPONDENT | This Week’s Prizes! First Prize—An original DAILY WORKER cartoon by one of the noted American Communist artists, Robert Minor, Fred Ellis or Lydia Gibson. Second Prize.—Marx Capital, Volume |. Third Prize. —China's Awakening by James A, Dolson, a book that every militant worker will want to read. ie 3 tec ci teat Ne OPA ee Oe LORE-WATON-BOUDIN ATTEMPT TO FORM NEW “LABOR PARTY” MEETS WITH JEERS OF NEW YORK WORKERS j By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, CITY, March 10.—Harry Waton, Louis B. Boudin, Ludwig Lore, and the. valiant, ragged and decimated “army” of the two-and-a-half anti-Communists amused the workers of New York with an uproarious comedy, when they issued a general invitation to the waiting and expectant masses to come together and build a new Communist party in the United States. The comedy ended with an overwhelming endorsement of the Work- ers Party. Lore himself did not appear upon thé scene, but as the power behind the throne he published a series of leading articles on Harry Waton’s “New Communist Manifesto,” and the machinery of the Volkszeitung was thrown into the effort to make.a big meeting. Boudin failed to make an appearance, altho he was supposed to be one of as the first speaker pointed out that MAGAZINE-FOR WORKER CORRESRONDENTS T0 BE ISSUED FROM CHICAGO The Chicago Worker Correspond- ents’ class will publish a Worker Correspondents’ Magazine. The magazine will be called the American Worker Correspondent, with the subtitle: Let the City and Land Workers Write for their Presi It will be issued every month In from five to eight mimeographed pages to begin with, and will go to every worker correspondent in the country, thus forming the basis for the building of a worker corre- spondents’ movement in the United States. py: The Ameritan Worker Corre- spondent will'be a guide for corre- spondents ih ‘thelr task of writing for The DAILY WORKER. Each month manuéeripts from worker correspondents will be published in original formlal d thoroly criticized, sentence by sentence and para- graph by paragraph, thus giving a concrete example on how to write for the paper. Articles on, what correspondents are doing jin, other countries, of their movements and accomplish- ments, will -keep the American cor- respondents informed on what is be- ing done by, their comrades in So- AILY WORKER MANY LAB conference were elected. It is ex- pected that a number of other Central Labor Unions will send delegates. That there is an urgent need to carry on a vigorous fight against the anti-alien bill becomes specially ap- parent when procedeings. to revoke the citizenship papers of John Tap- olesanyi of Hermine, Pa. iwere ini- tiated by the United States district attorney, John Myers. Tapolésanyi was naturalized in 1920 andthe reason given by the authorities for the action taken is that in 1921° Tapolesanyi wrote a personal letter to his brother in Hungary expressing his indignation against his brother for helping the Horthy government to murder a num- ber of fellow workmen. If this action’of the government is successful it will establish a precedent unheard of in the history of this coun- try. Tapolesanyi is a barber by trade OR UNIONS ELECT DELEGATES TO WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN-BORN PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 10,—Numerous delegates elected are coming in daily to the secretary of the Western Penn- sylvania Council for Protection of Foreign-born. Delegates have been elected in a number of labor organizations in Monessen, Verona, Pittsburgh, New Brighton and many other steel and mining towns of western Pennsylvania. At the last meeting of the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union the call was cussed at length and delegates to the+ Page Five : a letters and credentials of dis- ry te and has a wife and two children. The conference will be held on the star performers. The other was to be none other than Harry Wat- on himself, The little sect of which Waton is the high priest and only au- thorized Talmudic interpreter, open- ed its “mass” meeting at the Church of All Nations in Lower Second Ave., this little meeting was at once a re- flection of a diseased condition which is sometimes bred by a period of sta- bilization after partial defeat, that the religiosity of Waton, and his at- tempts to liquidate the Workers (Communist) Party and the Commun- ist International were similar to the viet Russia.and in Germany where | Sunday afternoon, March 14, at 2:30 such magazines are published and |o’clock at the Walton Hall, 220 Stan- large worker correspondents’ move- | wix St., Pittsburgh. Organizations. that have for some reason or other not received the call for the confer- ence should either immediately com- municate with the secretary, A. Ros- trom, Room 204-237 Fourth Ave., Pitts- brugh, or elect delegates without wait- ing for the call. Reports coming from the Connels- ville coke region branch of the council show that the conference in that region will be a huge success. Already delegates representing more than 10,- 000 workers have been elected and many more credentials are expected to come in before the date of the con- ference, The conference in this reg- ion will be held Sunday morning, Mar, 14, 10 o’clock at Croatian Hall, on Franklin St., Uniontown, Pa. Steps are also being taken to form a council for the protection of foreign: born workers in the McKeesport dis- trict and another conference is called| in the: Scotch Run District in West Virginia... The conference in West) Virginia is called for Sunday after- noon, March 21, at 5 o’clock in Union Hall, Pursglove, West Virginia. ments are in existence. Contributions by worker corre- spondents on the distribution of The DAILY WORKER, the effect New York City. The net result of the advertising of Waton and Boudin as speakers, and -the “publicity power” of the Volkszeitung and the publication of the “New Communist Manifesto” was an audience of slightly over one hun- dred workers—118 by actual count. Waton harrangued them for some- thing like three hours, recapitulating all of the strange and confused doc- trines with which he seeks to Te- vise and supplant Marxism by ap- peals to Jesus, Herbert Spencer, and the metaphysical mysteries that he fishes forth from his own inner spe- culations. ; His famous dogma about “all pro- gress moving from the periphery to the center” and then when such pro- gress has gotten to the very center of things and can do nothing else, it must perforce turn around and march out from the center, back. to the periphery—this famous doctrine was naturally the fundamental reason why a new party must be formed at this time. With this was coupled the other typical Watonian invention of comparing a political party to a ham- mer at one time, and to a saw at an- other, and thus demonstrating that since a hammer cannot be used to saw wood nor a saw to hammer nails, therefore the Workers Party must be destroyed, and a Watonian party must be established. The Communist International has also outlived its usefulness, we learned, and must be substituted by a new International. The audience listened for the first hour or two in dazed bewilderment, which gradually changed to increas- ing amusement, and finally to open laughter. When Waton had finished, a few Communists, attracted by the invitation and the publicity given to it by Lore, and the promise of hear- ing Waton and Boudin fight with each other on a single platform in the interests of a common cause, took the floor for discussion. ‘These speakers all discussed the question in a humorous vein and the audience roared with delight. They included Comrades Olgin, Poyntz, Kvi- tko, Siskind and Wolfe. ‘Bert Wolfe religiosity and liquidation tendencies that followed the temporary reverses of the 1905 revolution in Russia, He pointed out that far more significant than the failure of this meeting was the blow to Lore in the small audi- ence gathered after Lore’s “learned” editorials on Waton’s even more ‘Jearned” book. He pointed out fur- ther that this weak moyg served the forces of reaction, because it is a fur- ther attempt to divide the workers and it was a painful carricature of the idea of a labor party tending to bring discredit upon genuine efforts to build a labor party and because Waton’s “New Communist Manifesto” raised such satisfactory slogans for capitalism as “Communists should not fight militarism and war. Com- munists should not fight imperialism, etc.” Wolfe ended his attack with the reading of a resolution endorsing the Workers (Communist) Party and the Communist International and con- demning the effort to divide the workers by the formation of a new party. The resolution was cheered by those present. Comrade Poyntz concentrated her attention on the defeat for Lore and Loreism implied in the unsuccessful meeting, and gave an analysis of the un-Marxist and un-Leninist nature of Waton’s doctrines. Olgin delivered an excellent ad- dress on the program, the strategy, and the tactics of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, and showed that Wat- void of political content. Waton had called for an “American labor party free from foreign dictation,” and Ol- gin proved that the Workers (Com- munist) Party was a party of the American workers, that Waton had not for a moment discussed American conditions, and that the anti-Commun- ist remarks about “foreign dictation” were suitable to the interests of in- ternational capitalism and were in op- position to the interests of the work- ing class. . Kvitko and Siskind took up the phi- losophy of Waton, and showed that he was not Marxian, but an eclictic, anti-materialist, and a metaphysician whose mind was a jumble of con- flicting doctrines which contradicted each other. Thus the meeting to form a new labor party was converf@d into a pro- paganda meeting in favor of the Workers (Communist) Party and when the resolution proposed by Comrade Wolfe was put to a vote, eighty-six of the slightly over one hundred present voted to indorse the Workers (Communist) Party and the Communist International and con- demn the effort to form a new party. The 86 sympathizers with the Workers (Communist) Party arose | and withdrew from the meeting, 32 remaining behind to form the new “American Labor Party.” This “mass party” elected fifteen, which is one less than one-half its number to be its general staff, or executive com mittee, with Harry Waton as its or- ganizer. They mournfully adjourned, and the meeting, as Waton had pre- dicted in opening it, had passed in- to history, leaving Waton’s doctrines thoroly discredited in a more public manner than ever before, and expos- ing at once Lore’s purposes and the decline in his influence over the workers in New York City. 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Labor Reports Show Unorganized Women ' Get Miserable Wages o—— By SYLVIA BLECKER, (Worker) » Correspondent) chine age wit#its division of labor, shorter periods ‘of apprenticeship and NEW YORK,March 10—The ma-} gineers’ Hall: Branch 178, Vernie Gates of the Building Labor- ers Union was elected chairman. provisional committee was elected call a broader conference and draw in a greater number of working Class or- ganizations. In addition to calling a conference for Sunday, March 28, the committee was also empowererd to arrange a mass meeting on the evening of the less skill gave the women a chance to| enlarged conference. enter the factory. And they entered it for good. ThE woman who is com-| their determination to visit all organ- It| izations and acquaint | the transition period | with the contents of the bills and the | still marriage that| meaning to the working class of the 4ndustry at present.| anti-foreign legislation. ing to industry, is not only f from school {the Woman en [sans the 8,509,000 women gainfully coming to stay. amployed in the United States there are 2,000,000, married women, and heir number. increases rapidly. The New York department of labor reports for April 1922, show that out of 26,500 women. workers in Tennes- see 70 per cenitireceive less than $9 a week; out of/800 in the District of Columbia 65 pat cent receive $10 a week and out of113,643 in New York, 75,762 received"less than $14 a week. Wage investigations by the Massa- chusetts minimtftt wage commission in five industries ‘ave revealed the fol- lowing: Candy under $9 per week, 62.8 per cent; candy under $11 per week, 85.1 per cent; candy under $13 per week, 94.5 per cent. Corset under $9 per week 36.8 per cent; corset under $11 per week 57.5 per cent; corset under $13 per week 76 per cent. Canning under $9 per week 89, 2 per cent; canning under $11 per week 98.6 per cent; canning under $13 per week 100 per cent. Paper box under $9 per week 39 per cent; paper box: under $11 per week 59.4 per cent; paper box under $23 per week 77.2 per cent. Sweaters under $9 per week 35.8 per cent; sweaters’ under $11 per week 57.6 pey cent; sweaters under $13 per week 76.7 per cént. With these figtires in mind we have a picture of what the woman worker means for the manufacturer while she is unorganized. )) Very little effort had’ been exerted by the labor upions to bring the wo- men workers into the trade unions. What has the A. F. of L. done for the women workers of the U. S. A.? The reports of.the convention of the A. F. of L. in $923 at Portland, Ore- gon show tbat-a resolution passed to carry out somm) organization work among women, {In 1924 at the El Paso convention the same resolution was read and readopted. In 1925 at Atlan- tic City the convention of the A. F. of L, took the same stand in organiz- ing women as at the previous two con- ventions: the resolution was read, adopted and action promised. ——— te DON’T LEAVE OUT YOUR NAME . AND ADDRESS Due ho the volume of Worker cor respondence that comes to our office every day and the necessity often to ask for more detailed intormation “and send suggestions and Instruc- tions, we make the following request from our Worker Correspondents: At the top of each page of your manuscript, in the right hand cor- ner, write in plain hand, if you do not use typewriter, your name, ad- dress and d At the end of your manuscript add a note stating whether you wish yeur name to be used and any-other instructions re- garding the signing of your article. Several of the delegates expressed the Indications point to a greater and broader conferefice at the next ses: sion, when detailed plans for combat ting the registration plans will be laid out and carried into action, Spanish Mussolini Tightens His Grip (Special te The Daily Worker) MADRID, March 10.—The Spanish government has reopened with re- newed vigor its campaign against freedom of utterance in Spain. Gen- eral Primo de Rivera today summar- ily removed from office Garcia Ce- nudo, civil governor of San Sebastian, because he permitted the local news- papers to publish news of a secret meeting of army officers held during the premier’s recent visit. During the meeting speeches were delivered at- tacking the government. The premier has also ousted the governing board of the Barcelona Bar Association for engaging in separatist politics. Last week orders emanating from the capital caused the suspen- sion of several anti-governmental newspapers, Detroit Flivver King Seeks Muscle Shoals WASHINGTON, March 10.—With Henry Ford reported ready to renew his bids for the government's $150,- 000,000 Muscle Shoals project, admin- istration leaders sought to reconcile the differences between the house and senate over the Coolidge resolu- tion creating a congressional com- mission to negotiate a’ lease for the property by April 26, Ford's original offer was rejected by congress because the Detroit flivver king insisted on a 100-year lease. Rumor now, has it that Ford is willing to negotiate a 60-year lease. The Alabama Power Company and the American Cyanide are also mak- ing bids for the Muscle Shoals site. British Progressives in Unions Will Confer (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 10.— Ways and means of resisting the threatened at- tacks on w: and conditions will be discussed a special conference of action, called by the National MI- nority Movement, to be held at Latch- meré Paths, Battersea, March 21, with Tom Mann as chairman, Delegates from trade union branches and district committees, Trades Coun- cils and Co-operative Giiffds, und other working class organizations in all of the country, -have-been in- to attend. = BUFFALO FORMS COUNCIL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FOREIGN-BORN; HOLD CONFERENCE ON MARCH 28 BUFFALO, N. Y., March 10.—A conference for the Protection of Foreign- Born Workers was attended by the following workers’ organizations at En- Workers (Communist) Party, Young Workers (Communist) League, Italian-American East Side Jewish Workers’ Circle, Branch 52, Ital- ian Anti-Fascisti League, Workmen’s Circle Branch 192, Workmen’s Circle workers| can investors are interested in hav- | AMERICAN BANKERS EAGERLY SEEK SOVIET TRADE THRU GERMANY MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., March 10— Great interest is being displayed by the United States in the negotia- tions of loans between the Soviet Union and Germany. Many Ameri- ing their German ventures prosper and. are bending all efforts to get the trade of the Soviet Union. Long term credits are being granted the Soviet Union by German concerns on the advice of the American bank- ers and with their silent consent. “Germany, acting on the advice and silent consent of American bankers, is now guaranteeing the credit of Russi s Ivan Sonov, one of the Soviet economic authori- ties. “Hundreds of millions of American dolla are invested in Germany. That country is now an industrial colony of American cap- italism. Many German undertakings are actually American and Ameri- cans are interested in making them profitable. They want their German enterprises to sell goods and there- fore are interested in establishing economic relations between Ger- many and Russia and in the grant- ing of long credits to our state en- terprises.” South Bend Will Welcome Trumbull Saturday, March 13 SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 10— “Welcome Trumbull” mass meeting and release class war prisoners rally will be‘held here on March 13 at 8 p. m., at the Workers’ Home, 1216 W. Colfax avenue. Walter Trumbull, Max Schachtman, of the Young Workers (Communist) League and Gus Mayer will be the speakers. gi ™ No, 8 IN THE LITT history, when, This first glorious attempt so vividly portrayed by the Other Books by the Same Author 16.Cents. The Zeigler Frame-Up 10 Cents. NEW! THE PARIS COMMUNE. Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg ORE NEW YORK UNIONS ENDORSE WORKERS’ SCHOOL Need for Class Educa- tion Is Strongly Felt NEW YORK, March 10—That the Workers School has dug its roots deep into the unions is evidenced by the response of the unions to the appeals of the committees of the School in the Drive for a 10,000 fund. The latest unions to be visited and to contribute are some of the smaller and include the Shoe Workers Protec- tive Union No, 54. The union en- dorsed the school, donated $25, elected a committee to participate in the drive and instructed this committee to give out sub lists to every shop chair; man to take a collection in shops controlled by the union. It elected three representatives to represent the union at the concert of the Workers School at Central Opera House on March 14. Unions Behind School, Barbers Local No. 913 endorsed the Workers’ School, voted a donation of $30 and opened a class with @ her furnished by the Workers’ School and the local also elected dele- gates to the concert. Window Cleaners Local No. 8 do nated $10 and distributed subscrip- tion lists among its members and en- dorsed the school. Workmen's Circle No. 299 endorsed the school and sent in a contribution of $10. Since the Rand School breathed its last as an institution of workers edu- |cation and became a place for Green- wich Village freaks to study Freudian psychology and sex interpretations of literature, art and history and for sweet young things to master aes- thetic dancing,—the progressive and militant workers in New York City have had no educational institution of their own until the founding of the Workers School. The recent acceptance by the Work: ers Education Bureau of $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation indicates who owns, controls and finances the “education” the bureau dorainates. The degeneration of the Rand School, the buying up of the so-called workers’ education movement, leaves the Workers School as the only expres- sion of the educational needs of the class conscious and progressive work- ers. Your Union Meeting Second Thursday, Feb. 11, 1926. Name of Local ana No. Place of Meeting. 5 Brick and Clay, A. O. U. W. Halk Dolton, I). Carpenters, 113 S. Ashland Blvd Carpenters, 6416 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1440 Emma St. Carpenters, South Chicago, 11037 Michigan Ave. Carpenters, Ogden and Kedzie. Engineers, 9223 Houston Ave. Federal Labor Union, 2110 N, Robey 9 Firemen and Enginemen, Spring- field and North Aves. Journeymen Barbers, 180" West Washington St., 8:45 P. M. Hod Carriers, Harrison and Green Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St Marble Polishers, 810 W. Harrison ‘wurses, 771 Gilpin Ave. Painters’ District Council, 1446 W. Adams St. Painters, Dutt's Chicago Heights. Paper Rulers, 59 E. Van Buren 8t., 6:30 p. m. Park Employes, 810 W. Hatrison Railway Clerks, 55th and Black- store. Railway Clerks, 3124 S. Halsted St. Railway Clerks, Harrison and Green Sts. Railway Trainmen, sity, 5:16 p, m. Signalmen, 180 W, Washington St. Teamsters, 9206 Houston Ave. Wood Turners’. Union. Liberty Hall, 3420 W. Roosevelt Rd. (Note—Uniess' otherwise stated aB meetings are at $ p. m.) Tips Fall Off; Waiters’ Union Demands Increase avi 26 17301 774 Hall, 1269 1344 877 130 m2 64th & Univer- Falling off in size of tips on rail ! road dining cars is partly responsible for the request to the United States rail labor board for a 10 to 15 per cent wage increase filed by the Din- ing Car Cook and Waiters’ Union of ; the Southern Pacific road. MAX SHACHTMAN, LE RED LIBRARY A brief little booklet on a great event in working class as Karl Marx wrote, France attempted to “storm the heavens.” the workers of at proletarian dictatorship, author, should be read by every worker on the 55th anniversary being celebrated thruout the world on March 18. . 410 CENTS—Twelve Copies for One Dollar ‘| HE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Tl,