The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY, WORKER aera Organization iia (Editor's Note.—The following article is taken from the report of Comrade John Harvey to the district organization conference of the party held in Chicago re- cently:) 'N making this report I am going to to certain main tasks before the league which the party is especially able to help us ac- confine myself complish. First a few words about the league fn Chicago and thruout the district. Our membership at the present time and the social compo- sition of the league remains very However, we are reorganized on @ good basis and our new units are not so isolated as the party street mem- bers are combined into concentration groups which carry on intensive ac- tivities around a shop near their place of work and which bring us much closer to the work of organizing nu- fs very small, poor. Nuclei since our most active clei. Reorganized on a good basis, most important tasks before to help us accomplish. 1, Organization of Nuclei. The party can help us especially in We have made some changes in our con- centration groups so that now every member is in a group which concen- trates on a shop where he can actually carry on work. But we are still faced ‘with the problem of getting connec- To solve this problem, while always concentrating in basic industries—if we have no league com- rade within the shop we have tried to choose one wliere there is a party nucleus, or at least party members. ‘When there is a party nucleus within ® shop where we have a concentration group there must be a regular ex- change of delegates between the two units and the party nucleus must do all within its means to help the con- centration group to form a league the organization of shop nuclei. tions within the shops. on large shops—preferably shop nucleus there. , Also where we have one league member in a shop where there is a party nucleus, but no league nucleus, this league comrade must not be merely absorbed into the party nu- cleus, but must work with the party mucleus and get the help of every member in organizing a league nu- The party nucleus must realize that a shop nucleus of four or five young workers supporting the party nucleus is much better for them than to absorb the league member nd only gain one new member for ’ Wherever there is a party nucleus and no league unit, the organization of a league nucleus should be one of the first considera- tions, and a member of the party | nucleus should be assigned especially } to this work and be connécted with | and partly responsible to the section executive committee of the league so that they can help in his work—utilize his experience and sometmes call con- cleus there. . the party nucleus. ferences of these comrades, etc. | Also when there are one or two in a shop where the league is trying to organize | @ shop nucleus, they should do all » they can to help us to accomplish this party members workng 2. Reaching the Masses. In starting our mass activities, one ‘Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th St., Cor. Second Ave. NEW YORK CITY @ Hours: 9 to 12 A. M.; Special Rates to W, P. Members MILWAUKEE the Teague also has its face towards the masses and has before it much mass work. The party can do much to help us accomplish the important tasks be- fore us, and since a weak league is a reflection on the party and handicaps fts work it is necessary that the party give more support in building a strong league in this district in the future. And so I will name certain of those the league which the party can do much of the first problems of the league was to find forms for our mass work. One of the means for reaching the masses of young workers is thru our sport work, building a strong sport movement which will combine exist- ing organizations into an organtzation for working class sports—into which many young workers and adult work- ers can be recruited, Some of the party members are al- ready helping us individually to or- ganize such a broad sport movement in this district, but the whole party must co-operate in this work—and es- pecially the language fractions, which have connections with many sport organization, can help. Also in the near future the league will organize a mass campaign against militarism which will end up with an anti-militarism conference. The party must co-operate with us in help- ing us’ to extend this campaign as far as possible among the masses, A few words about the importance of such campaigns and the experience of the league in this relation since our reorganization. We have learned by experience that we cannot confine our- selves only to our individual shop activity and the detailed everyday work, but that mass campaigns, polit- ical and industrial campaigns on the basis of issues which are confronting the working masses are absolutely necessary to make the organization live. However, in order that such campaigns be a complete success they not only must be arranged for tech- nically and calls issued but there must be a thoro discussion of the cam- paign in all the basic units, and a dis- cussion of all the issues involved, so that every member will not only be familiar with the reasons for the cam- paign, the issues, etc., but every mem- ber will know what his definite work in the campaign will be, and in this way we will mobilize the entire mem- bership for the campaign. I think the party has had the same experience in the organization® of campaigns. For instance, in the Lenin memorial there was discussion in every unit, and every member was mobilized and the campaign was a real success. The same must be done in the campaign for the foreign-born workers at the present time. (It is necessary to deal NEW JERSEY CITY SECRETARIES T0 HOLD CONFERENCE MARCH 28 2to8 P.M. , except Friday; Sunday 9 to 1 P. M, NEW YORK, March 22.—District No. 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party will hold a conference of New Jersey City secretaries in order to work out plans for greater activity in Néw Jersey. This conference, to be held on Sunday afternoon, March 28, at 2 o’clock in the Labor Lyceum at 704 South 14th street, Newark, J. is to be attended by C. C. C. secretaries of Paterson, Passaic, Newark, Elizabeth, Hudson county, New Brunswick, Linden as well as representatives of the Young Work- kers (Communist) League Sub-Dis- trict New Jersey and representa- tives of the district committee, | The conference will discuss the political and organizational work in the New Jersey section of District No, 2 and will prepare for a confer- ence of all units in New Jersey to be held in the near future, to which all units are to send representatives. Milwaukee Membership Meeting. Thursday, March 25, there will be a general party membership meeting in Milwaukee at Miller Hall, 802 State street. General organization questions will be taken up and in particular the campaign for the protection of for-}are two brothers eign-born workers. The district or- ganizer will be present and all party members should put in their appear- ance, A sub a day will help to drive capital away. RESTAURANT ie JOE PANYON, PROP, SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN 419 TOWER AVENUE The increasing crowds show that our cooking is good—so is our service, The Place Where You Get Most for Your Money in Quantity and Quality YOUR PATRONAGE COURTEOUSLY SOLICITED. Workers (Communist) Party ~ How Party Can Help the Youth in the Chicago District further, with this question in a special article.) | Another form that our mass work takes is the economic trade union work of the league. In this the party is especially able to give us ‘help. First, in the unions the party frac- tions must co-operate with the league fraction or league members and give real attention to the youth problems in the union and in the industry, The party members who do not themselves work under the conditions that the young workers are faced with often take the attitude that there are no differences between the conditions of the young workers and the adult workers in the industry. But the party fractions and party members must overcome this attitude and con- sider the problems of the youth in the industry when thé league fractions or members put the facts of these conditions before them. Also in our work among the masses of the whorganized young workers, in our participation in youth strikes, our campaign to organize the unorganized workers, the party, which has many more members in the union than we, should give us all possible co-opera- tion. Also the league members must do their part, participate more in the party fractions and in the T. U. EB. L., and at the same time each fraction executive should make sure to in- clude at least one Y. W. L. member. 3. Organization of the Sections, It is important that the section ex- executive committees become the lead- ing forces in each section, and with closer co-operation between the league and. party section committees much can be done to strengthen the leader- ship in the section. That there be a regular exchange of delegates between all section committees of the party and league must not only be a paper rule but an actuality. Section headquarters are of utmost importance in order to consolidate the work of the section, and can be ob- tained with even less expense than is involved thru paying rent, if the party and league co-operate in establishing joint headquarters. 4, Other Important Work. The party can give the Pioneers much help in this district in building VAN SWERINGEN BROS. T0 TRY MERGER AGAIN Swap Titles to ss Diverenmns I. C. C. Decision (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, O., March 22—In the wake of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission’s denial of the proposed Van Sweringen raliroad merger because of ‘the commission’s disapproval of the interlocking directorate methods of the Van Sweringen brothers’ control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Hocking Valley roads, clever rearrangements have been made in the make-up of the road's officers The Van Sweringen brothers and sev- efal of their close associates swapped a few directorships and ‘chairmanships on the boards of the three roads, They hope in this way to satisfy the stockholders of the Cincinnati and Ohio whose protests caused the I. C. C. decision. Van Sweringen’s Adventures, The denial of the Van Sweringen merger was of such consequence in the financial world that part of the huge recent break in the stock market is laid to it. The Van Sweringens whose enormous profits in real estate speculation al- lowed them to take a turn in railroad manipulation.’ They had managed, after they had acquired the Nickel Plate and the Hocking Valley to con- trol the Chesapeake and Ohio with ownership of only one-third of the stock of the latter company. The present reshifting is a scheme to over- come the I. C. C. objection to a merger of the three roads. British Unions Favor Amalgamation Program (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 22—The Distribu- tive Workers Union, Shop Assistants Union, Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries, and the newly formed Union of Retail Stationers are negoti- ating for the formation of a single or- ganization. Instructions and decis- ences commit the two first-named groups to an amalgamation program, a aa re leek eR ne ions of their annual genera] confer- Socal Afsi>lWALL ST, CAUSED ST. PAUL SMASH, SENATOR STATES Demands nines Into Bankruptcy (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 22 — Sena- torial investigation into affairs of the Chicago, St. Paul and Milwaukee rail- road which went into the hands of a receiver in March, 1928, is proposed by Senator Gooding, republican of Idaho, Gooding sponsored a_ resolution autHorizing the investigation not only into the railroad’s finances but espe- cially into the effort of “Kuhn, Loeb and company of New York, to reorgan- ize the road.” He charged there was evidence of “collusion” in the appoint- ment of the receivership. Resolutions up a strong movement of thousands of children. Not only can they ¢co- operate by getting their children into a Pioneer group, but also by provid- ing the groups with a place to meet. In the Negro work which the league is just beginning to develop the party is especially able to give us help. First, in section 1 in Chicago the party comrades can give us much as- sistance thru furnishing us connec- tions with young Negro. workers who we can get into the league, also by supporting us in all our activities among the young Negroes, in this sec- tion, Second, the party can hélp us by giv- ing their support to thé forum which the league will establish 6n the south side, thru which we hope to recruit many young Negroes into the league, Pioneers Take Part in Textile Strike MAX KARP, New York Ploneer, HEN the play called “School Days” was given at a strikers’ mass meeting in Passaic it was re- ceived with great enthusiasm. It was given with such great success that we were asked to give it again. As the Pioneers marched in singing into the hall to give the play for the second time they were received with cheefing by the strikers. There was continuous cheering, shouting and ap- plause thruout the play. Why? Be- cause this play very well presented to the strikers the life of the working class children in the capitalist schools and the struggle of the Pioneers, espe- cially during the textile strike. The parts in the play that showed the work and purpose of the capitalist schools were liked most by the strik- ers. In one part the teacher asked one boy (who was a Pioneer) whether Gooding sponsored a_ resolution authorizing the investigation not only into the railroad’s finances but espe- cially into the effort of “Kuhn, Loeb and company of New York, to -re- organize the road.” He charged there was evidence of “collusion” in the op- pointment of the receivership. The road’s receivership appeared to have resulted from “collusion between the Kinkley Coal company, a creditor, and the officers and directors of the railroad.” The receivership was forced when the Binkley concern filed a peti- tion against the railroad. “It. further appears,” according ~to the resolution, “from testimony be- fore the interstate commerce commis- sion that collusion existed between said creditor company and the officers and directors of the said railroad com- pany as a result of which the latter was judged insolvent by the court of receivers appointed, all to the grave prejudice and loss to the stockholders and bond holders thereof, and contra- ty to the public interests.” Gooding said that H. E. Bryan, president of the St. Paul, testified that the road’s insolvency was caused by a. °$48,000,000 bond issue which ma- tured in June, 1924. He charges that Bryan gave the stock and bondhold- ers no opportunity to contribute the funds necessary to meet this obliga- tion, although the latter were willing. Seattle Union Record for Soviet Recognition SEATTLE, Wash. March 22 — The Seattle Union Record in editorial com- ment on the Current History magazine symposium on American recognition for Russia in which Leon Trotsky and Capt. Paxton Hibben argued for and such notables as Judge Gary, Col. House and Senator Edge against re- cognition, has the following to say: “The noteworthy thing about the articles of the AmeriGan government and big business is that they no lon- ger indulge in silly villification of Bolshevis: And again, “Hibben leaves the American opponents of Soviet Russia high and dry with the assurance that the Russian Communists will be able to carry on. And whether official re- cognition is given or not, American business will adjust itself to the Com- munist element in the Russian eco- and bring many more close to us. Third, the district exéeutive com- mittee of the party and the districct Negro committee muést': co-operate with our district Negro-committee in developing the Negro wofk on a dis- trict scale. At present. the league Negro work, like the party, is almost entirely confined to Chicago, and is not touching such important centers as Gary, Milwaukee, ete. | Fourth, much can be)done to help develop the Negro work, and the work of Section 1 as a whole, if a sub-sec- tion of the party be established in Section 1, as has been done by the league. Some Recommendations for Party Help. At the end of my report I want to make some recommendations for party help so that we can quicker put some of the suggestions for party co- operation into effect. 1. Every party shop nucleus must assign one comrade to the special work of organizing a league nucleus: 2. All party shop nuclei and Y. W. L. concentration groups of. same shop must have regular exchange of dele- gates, and also all section committees of the league and party, japt as in the higher units, 3. In Sections 1, 2, 4 and.6 the party and league should immediately obtain joint headquarters. 4. There should be a youth member on every fraction executive and every sub-committee. Bronton Miners Protest Against Anti-Alien Laws ol (Special to The Daily Worker) AVELLA, Pa., March, 33—A mass meeting to protest against the anti- alien registration and, , deportation bills will be held at the G¥anjis Hall, Bronton, Pa., Thursday m@rning, April 1, at 10 o’clock. D, E. Earley of Pitts- burgh will speak in EngYfish and B. Ljutich will address the meeting in the South Slavic language. The meet- ing is arranged under thexauspices of the Western Pennsylvania;Council for for the Protection of Foreign-born, Avella branch. Admission is free and all miners of the Avella region are urged to attend and voice their protests against the outrageous bills now pending before congress, Federal School Control Seen in New Measure. WASHINGTON, D, C., March 22— The tendency towards extension and centralization of federal government powers has been accelerated by the recent move for the establishment of a government education Bureau whose head shall be a member of the cab- inet. A bill making this proposal is now before a house committee on edu- cation with the division, said to be close. Opponents of ft measure charge encroachment the federal government on the rights of self-gov- ernment reserved to thé states and extension of bureaucracy in admini- stration. $$$ “As for ptopaganda,” says the Record, “all the propaganda that So- viet Russia needs is news like this: Last year the Soviet Textile Syndi- cate bought $50,000,000 worth of American cotton on credits financed by the Chase National Bank and the Guaranty Trust company. The Harri- man interests have gone into partner- ship with the Moscow government, paying $1,000,000 cash for the privi- ledge of developing the largest man- ganese mine in the world.” Scott Nearing Will Debate Anti-Soviet Speaker on Sunday NEW YORK, March 22.— Scott 1 Nearing, just returned from Soviet * Russia, has challenged the most re- Bimba to Speak-in lentless enemy of Soviet Russia to a . Cleveland on April 3 debate on the question of recognition, CLEVELAND, Marchg 22—Anton and his challenge has been accepted. His opponent is the National Security Bimba, the young Communist editor, League. The debate, which will be who was convicted of ‘sedition, but was originally charged'’ with blas- for the benefit of the New Mass magazine, will be held Sunday, March pheny\ under’ a\law. Getaabanatebor 28, at 2:30 in the afternoon at the Massachusetts dating ffém the year spon congenic 1697, will speak in Clevéland on Sat- urday, April 3, at the Cafpenters Hall, This debate is the first of its kind and the first the National Security 2226 KE. 56th street. He ‘Will speak on “Is There a God?” Me League has undertaken in the open with a radical, P J. Robert O'Brien will represent the There will be other speakers—and | National Security baiaae He is no worker should fail to bring along} one of theif most active propagan- his shop mates so that they may learn how religion and the church are used for materialistic ends. dists and tours the country rousing the business men against socialism, Communism, Bolshevism, and every other ism that threatens the rule of the bankers in America. Chicago Bank Will Los Angeles to Have an Anti-Religious Meeting LO SANGELBES, March 22—Los An- geles will be treated to something un- usual.on Monday evening, March 29, at 8 o'clock at the Co-Operative Cen- ter, 2733 Brooklyn avenue, when the A London branch will be establish. ed shottly ‘by the Continental and Open London Branch he loved his country’s flag. To this he answered: “I love my country’s peo- ple, the working peofle, who make up this country. When | grow up | am going to teach the workers how to stick together and carry out success- ful strikes.” Many other’ parts were received gith great enthusiasm. The work of the Pioneers in the textile strike is of great importance, as there are many children under the age of fourteen who are working in the mills in spite of the child labor law in New Jersey. It is up to the Pioneers to organize these children into a strong Pioneer section, Pioneers, are we ready? Let answer In chorus— Always ready! Child Labor ‘Legal’ in One-F ourth of Country By AUGUST VALENTINE. N interesting report comes from Washington, D. C., issued by the federal children’s bureau on child la- bor, On this report it is revealed that indentured child labor is legalized in one-fourth of the country. States that legalize child labor are: Arkansas, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Virginia, In- diana, .Nevada, Illinois, Maryland, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Michi- gan and Wisconsin. In the above states the ‘indenture homes” hire out the young workers for a number of years. The “rent” of the human life is cheaper than any- thing else that is “for rent.” A farmer can obtain from the '“inden- ture home” cheap help by supplying hoard and room for the children. At the ages of 18 or 21, according to how long they are sold, they are turned loose with, $50 or less and a suit of clothes, In the state of Pennsylvania some are contracted for until 1940, In Wisconsin (the “grand” old state of LaFollette and Vic Berger) chil- dren just recovering from sickness of the worst kind are forced to go to work before they are well. A girl 12 years of age is given a job taking care of three children, prepare bréakfast, milk five cows, work in the field, and yet, the slaveholder who contracted her says that he would not have an- other child unless he could get one young enough so he could break her in to work. Such is this system. Children who should be in school, building them- selves up morally and physically, are toiling their young lives away and the adult workers are starving and out of work because child labor is taking their place because they are unable to defend themselves. “Trade unions are the reservolr of | po: the majority of the socially decisive part of the proletariat.”—C. |. Thesis. ae (This is a good Outside of Chicago—Per year $6.00; six months $3.50; three months $2.00, i Send a bundle of .... every . ae Subscription Rates: ts THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Detroit Pioneers Will Have Camp this Summer (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., March, 21.—The need of a camp for the working class children has been felt here for many summers. There are camps, ‘but not any that Communist children care to attend, The order of the day at these camps is capitalist militarism. Last summer the need of a camp was par- ticularly acute, This year the Pioneers and the Young Workers’ League be- gan the campaign. The parents’ coun- cil, the federation of working women’s organizations, the Workers’ Party and several close sympathizers came to their support. The camp, itself will be at Loon lake, an acre of the land owned by the local Finnish organization.° One large building with one large room will be put up this year, which will be used for sleeping, dining and assem- bly. For sleeping there will be bunks which can be folded against the wall, making the room large during thé day. The following year a separate building for sleeping will ‘be erected and a fireplace will be built in the first building, which will then only be used for an assembly and dining room. The second year the playground will also be enlarged. Elaborate plans have been made to finance this camp. Donation lists will be circulated among individuals and organizations. Membership cards can be purchased for $1. Entertainments will be given by the Pioneer groups themselves. The various language workers’ clubs will be asked to par- ticipate in affairs. Finally a Lenin Pioneer camp carnival will be held on Sunday, May 9, from 2 to 12 p. m. The entire House of the Masses has been secured for this day. All halls will be used and the attractions will be many. This will be the affair of the year and everyone should look forward and plan to attend it if they would enjoy themselves. Admission. is 25c. Watch for more news, about the Lenin Pioneer camp. School Board Short of Funds; Teachers Will Get Wage Cut The board of education, finding it- self short of funds, will begin to “remedy” the situation by a reduction in the salary of Chicago school teach- ers. Edward B. Ellicott, president of - the board, told Mayor Dever yester- day that in addition to wage cuts for teachers, kindergartens will have to be closed and summer and night school courses curtailed. The $68,000,000 appropriation the board received this year is not enuf to meet the requirements—the deficit will be taken out of the teachers’ salaries and the children’s educational facilities, Debate in New York! Resolved: That the United States Should Not Recognize Soviet Russia J. ROBERT O'BRIEN, National Security Leagui Affirmative SCOTT NEARING «Negative FRANK P. WALSH, Chairman MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE, 315 West 34th Street Sunday Afternoon, March 28, at 2:30 : NEW MASSES $1, 65, $1.10, 83c, 55c, on ‘Manhattan Opera ‘House, mie Higgins Book Store, ta uatrenaicy "PL: ; Freiheit, 30 Puce Fa. Mail Orders: New — BUNDLE ures] NEWSSTANDS UNION MEETINGS NEIGHBORHOOD AND SHOP SALES (and you should sell them at every meeting or place where workers gathér!) 2 GENTS A COPY 3Y2 Cents Saturday Issue time to renew!) In Chicago—Per year six months $4.50; $2.00, $8.00; three months Chicago, Ilinols. Send The Daily Worker for . Months to; Commercial National Bank of Chicago. 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