The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1926, Page 5

THE DALLY WORKER Page Five PASSAIC STRIKE SHOWS WORKERS NEED OF UNION New York I. L. G. W. Aids Strikers’ Relief By a Worker Correspondent PASSAIC, N. J., April 12.—Makrajs’ Hall was filled with strikers of various ffssa elderly men and women,’ middle- aged people and young boys and girls. aeney, all listened to Weisbord when he reported on the conditions of the Philadelphia textile workers. He said that if the strike im Passaic will go on the Philadelphia, Paterson and Lawrence textile workers will surely igin the strike. Must Win Demands, At the end Weisbord declared: “‘We are ready to settle the strike if the bosses will meet our demands.” The strikers applauded every time Weisbord mentioned the demands. When he said, “we will strike unt the bosses will recognize the union” the strikers cheer and applauded wildly. I spoke to many strikers individ- ually; all understand that the main purpose of the strike is recognition of the union, Schools in Class-Consciousness. It is remarkable how strikes are the best schools for class-conscious- ness. These workers truck against a 10 per cent wage cut. Now they understand that even if they win an increase in wages it will amount to nothing if they are not strongly organized in a union. Ridicule Stool-Pigeon. Near the strikers’ hall two men talked with a few of the strikers. They said: “How foolish you are to listen to Weisbord! He ate steak for dinner, while you ate rice.” One of the strikers answered: “How many steaks did the bosses pay you for telling us this story?” The strikers laughed and the agents of the bosses did not answer and left. 1. L. G. W. Aids Strikers. In spite of the fact that the garment bosses tried to hinder relief for the strikers, the International Ladies’ Gar- ent Workers’ Union has sent in 2,500, promising much more. This nnouncement caused great enthu- ‘iasm among the strikers. pefeferefefefereferereverererererererel ANOTHER BIG STORY HENRI BARBUSSE Famous French Author of “Under Fire,” Etc, “THE CRIER” (Published for the first time’in this country.) The first installment of a splen- did translation of this story BY LYDIA ‘GIBSON began in last Saturday’s (April ; 10th) issue of Treen eagosteee 1 iz NEXT INSTALLMENT— " _ nail q rf 4 —and— Another unusual article by the gifted proletarian writer Michael Gold Author of “The Damned Agitator” and other stories —and— A real working class poem by Henry George Weiss All will be among the many splendid features of next Saturday’s issue. TE i a erad Miaia We A bale eh RMA NETS, - ICE 13 1927 ok Win the Latest Book by Trotsky! Ist Prize for the best Worker Correspondent story sent in during the week, to appear in the issue of Friday, April 16, will win “WHITHER RUSSIA?” “TOWARDS CAPITALISM OR SOCIALISM?” : By the Author of “Whither England?” 2nd Priz « “THE. AWAKENING OF CHINA,” by Jas. H, Dolsen. e: Another. new and unusual book which will be off the press just about in time for the winner. 3rd Prize: Six months subscription to The Workers Monthly— 60. good a prizé that it matches both others, BAKERY UNION HEADS TRY TO JAM THRU ARBITRATION CLAUSE ee ‘By ‘A Worker Correspondent. _PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 11.—At the last meeting of Local No, 20, International Bakery, and Confectionery Workers of America, the secretary, after a long drawn-out talk, on the signing of the contract for the coming year, declared that before we will be able to sign up the bosses on May 1 for the year it will be necessary that we adopt a clause which provides that before the local union has the right to call a strike in any shop in the city, they must call for a delegate from the ¢——————______________ International office of the Bakery and Jonfectionery Workers of America and see whether it is not possible to arbit- rate the case. The secretary declared that this was the edict of the interna- tional union, After this was sprung on the mem- bership there was some hot debate. The question was on the floor for over an hour. The sentiment was against such strike-breaking tactics. Rank and File Must Fight, It is time that the rank and file of the organized trade union movement awoke, to the fact that such action on the part of the international officials were against, the interest,of the work- ing class. They should under all con- ditions remain in this union and.create a strong ‘left wing and. weed-out the tools of the bosses in the union. Workers in all locals of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers. of Amer- ica should form strong left wing frac- tions for combating the labor union officials and their program of class collaboration, Lose Right to Strike. This clause that they are trying to put across means that ‘the workers lose their right to strike. When we lose that, we lose the right to better our conditions. We must assert our right as union men. If we cannot strike when a boss tries to impose long hours and low wages on us then we no longer have a union. All we have then is an employment office for the boss —a company union, Let our slogan be, “Instead of arbit- ration and company union tactics, amalgamation of all food-stuff work- ers into one great union united with all other unions in a united front against the woll organized bosses for the protection of our rights.” WORKER CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION - How a Workers’ Co-operative Works (Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow Province, U. S. S. R.) AUSASE production at the Central \? Workers’ Co-Operative in Orek- hovo-Zueva in the Moscow., province has made great attainments during a year’s work, It is not so long ago that the sausage factory only had 20 workers, while now 43 are at work, an increase of more than 100-per cent, During the year 16,500<.poods of various kinds of sausage have been manufactured, which satisfied the de- mand of the Jocal market to an extent of 75 per cent. During this time con- siderable work has been conducted for the mechanization of production; electrical machinery has been in- stalled. A total sum of 8,000 rubles ($4,000) has been expended on re- pairs. During the year the sausage factory has given a profit of 17,000 rubles ($8,500). The workers have registered consid- erable success also in .trade union work, Meetings are summoned reg- ularly, and attended by 100, per cent of the workers. The productive con- ferences function well, the, decisions HE factory ‘committees of the Mos- FP »“New, Victory» » #Mosel- . 4” mills, q nt of the union tober, 1925, concliding” ne ive agreement with the State Trust prom, With respect to the legal side of the agfeement, agreement was soon ar- rived, at,,but with respect. to wages the question. became protracted. The proyisional department of the union and the factory committee ‘presented Moselprom with the workers’ demands for increased wages. The workers’ demands were finally conceded to, altho with a concession in respect to the period for introducing new rates. On Jan, 1, 1926, the wages at the Moselprom mills amounted to 24 ru- bles for the lowest category, 1, e., on a level with the mills of the Khiebo- product, Extra pay has been abolished by the new collective agreement. Now there will no longer be any difference be- tween ine pay of workers doing the same work as there was under the old agreement. The. quotas of special clothing have been modified and increased: For the Open your eyes! Lock around! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be : The Significance of the Collective Agreement - n''the Soviet Union of same being completely fulfilled. The average monthly wage in 1924 was 60 rubles and in 1925 has reached 70 rubles. During the year there has not been a single case of a worker not paying his union dues in time. There is also a wide participation of workers in so- cial organizations. For instance, 100 per cent are members of the sick benefit fund, 90 per cent are members of the I. C. W. P. A., 100 per cent members of the Society for Promoting Aviation and Chemical Defense (Aviakhim) and 60 per cent members of the co-operatives, But our cultural work is not run- ing very well. This is explained by the absence of suitable premises. Nevertheless all the workers write to the papers. When we extend our pro- duction we think we will be able to obtain premises. Such is the work of our small fac- tory. (Signed) Felushin, Food Workers’ Union, (Orekho-Zuevo, Moscow Province. winter period we now receive warm working clothes (woolen jerseys and trousers) and felt boots. T workers have accepted this agreement with satisfaction. (Signed) A. Miller, Worker Correspondent. How We Work ‘N our village a “Friends of the Newspapers” circle is now work- ing, which writes to the newspapers and conducts study circle work. The party helped us; in November, 1925, the party nucleus helped us to sum- mon a district committee of circle members, and is now helping us to summon a second conference. Our circle also distributes literature, and fights against illiteracy and ig- norance, which has been left behind by czarist days. There are still many enemies of the peasants, ex-officers, in our villages, but we are fighting such elements thru the press. We are helping the party to rid it of these enemies and build up socialism. And how .are. things with you? Have you “Friends of the Newspaper” Village. Achajr, of the same dis- te ret of Omsk Re- WHITE RUSSIANS SUPFER HEAVILY IN PEKING FIGHT Nationalists Still Hold Chinese Capital (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, April 12—Owing to the rigid censorship it is difficult to de termine just what is going on at the battlefronts. It is, however, evident that the allied anti-nationalist armies have not made much progress in the last few days. Chang. Tso Lin forces are following the valley of the Hai river as the easiest means of reaching a strate- gical positioif from which to strike the capital. Blinding dust storms are making military operations at times almost impossible. The army of Wu Pei Fw is inactive, pending the results of negotiations for an alliance between his group and the nationalists, Killing Off White Russians, A brigade of several thousand White Russians have been struggling desperately to cross the Hai river some miles’ southeast of Fengtai but so far have failed with severe casu- alties. These reactionary Russians seem to conStitute the shock troops of Chang ‘Tso Lin and are eager to get into Peking to use the capital as a center for organizing expeditions into Siberia. Armored trains are being used on both sides. Heavy casualties have been suffered but no real breach has been made into the defense so far, eee President Pays Japanese Aldes, TOKIO, April 12—The Sino-Japan- ese Development Co. has received from Tuan Chi Jui, the acting presi- dent of China, and a notorious Jap- anese tool, Chinese treasury bonds to retire the principal and interest of the infamous Nishihara loans made by Japan to China during the World War. These.loans were forced on the Chinese goyernment of that time in those cases where the Japanese were not in collusion with the Chinese of- ficlals. The pationalists of China have consistently, demanded that they be not paid. Joans total some $39,- 000,000... The Chinese, bonds in which the advances kaye been paid are not worth the paper on which they are written unless the customs committee of the powers which is investigating and formulating a schedule of new tariff duties sets aside sufficient in- come fron theyrevenues to cover the total. It is‘the struggle over the ap- portionment””of these _ additional reyenues Wifith has been holding up the comimittée’s report for so long. Wisconsin Legislature to Consider Tubercular Eradication Work (Special*to The Daily Worker) MADISON, Wis., Apr. 12—A special session of ‘the Wisconsin legislature has been called by Governor J. J. Blaine for néxt Tuesday for the pur- pose of appropriating $450,000 to carry on tubercular eradication work among daily herds of the state. The call is the result of the pure milk law passed by the Chicago city council, coupled with the stopping of testing of Illinois herds and the con- sequent increase in demand for tested milk from Wisconsin. Celebrate the Paris Commune in California LOS ANGELES, April 12— Nearly four hundred people attended a mass meeting of the International Labor Defense, Local Los Angeles, to cele- brate the Pits Commune. William Sclineiderman spoke on the “Lessons of the Commune,” and Rob- ert Whitaker made an appeal for the i International, Labor Defense which brot a genefgus response. About $70 was collected for class-war prisoners. The Young Pioneers supplied the mass singingfor the program, and the Young Workers (Communist) League presented a‘tqbleau of the “Last Days of the Commune.” The audience was also treatedsto a series of vivid pic- tures of this historic event projected on the screen. Manya Reiss, local secretary ofthe International Labor Defense, was chairman of the mass meeting. iL SE ed aT s May Stage Centennial m . A Exposition in Chicago A committee of 100 called on the mayor with a request that an exposi- tion be staged in Chicago either in 1933 or in 1937, The 1933 date marks the hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Chicago as a vil- lage and marks the hundredth birth- day of Chicago as a city. It is planned to spread the fair along the mile waterfront of Chicago between Grant Park and Jackson Park. Most of those in the commit- tee requesting this exposition are no- torious open-shoppers, ° It a centennial exposition is ar- ranged for jicago the organized workers must, fight to see to it that all work done preparatory and during the centennial ba done by union workers only and that working class organizationg be given a place in the exposition, orkers (Communist) Party The Reorganization Goes Forward up for worker correspondents’ stories By MARTIN ABERN. either in The DAILY WORKER or S weeks pass by judgment of the | the language press, preparatory to the party activity, based on shop and | ‘ssuance of a wage leafiet and a shop street nuclei, becomes clearer and} bulletin. Attendance has increased, more mature. In District No, 8, par-| The comrades distribute the foreign- ticularly as affecting the larger cen- born leaflets, a bundle regularly of ters, such as Chicago, South Bend and| the Negro Champion, dispose of tick- others, we can declare, the reorgan-| °ts in the shops, etc. ization was no mistake; despite the} Only one issue of The Hot Ingot, many yet-existing difficulties and prob-| the shop bulletin in the Gary, Ind., lems, the shop and street nuclei do| Steels mills, has come out. The com- far more and better work than the}rades are preparing for the issuance old territorial units, of another. Here the comrades have Improvement is to be noted in both {tO go up against an expert company the street and shop nuclei in recent |tool-pigeon system, weeks; it is more marked in the street }' | Other shop nuclei have not yet pub- nuclei, since the organization conféer-| shed shop bulletins, In the larger ence stressed the idea and necessity of }ones of these leaflets, The DAILY street nuclei carrying out most ef. WORKER, other literature and tickets their work in the shops. have been sold and distributed. It S to the shop nuclei, many of them'} Might be pointed out that in the three of them i this district-are small above-mentioned shops where bulle- nuclei in small shops. There ‘are tins have been published the shops small nuclei in large shops of thou- and mills are unorganized. sands of workers. There are some'} Trade Union Activity Stressed. fairly large nuclei, having 20, 25 andj JN the nuclei, both shop and street, 35 members in large manufacturing; the attendance has yet to be mate- electric, automobile concerns. :Thejrially increased. Yet the fact that large shop nuclei naturally function |many street nuclei in Chicago, for ex- the best. We shall have to consider}ample, have been able to develop an the advisability here and there.,of}dttendance of 75-80 per cent shows liquidating shop nuclei of only three}that the other nuclet, by systematic members in very small shops, where} ffort to reach the delinquent mem- the possibility of development is.lim-| bers, can get similar:results. As ex- ited, Small shop units in large shops }-plained at other times,.the attedance must be continued and developed. is greater already than in the old Splendid Shop Bulletins Issued. units. Dues payments are showing N the larger shop nuclei where shop} $tadual but regular increases monthly. bulletins have been issued the in | @ck of functionaries is still a cry. interest, enthusiasm and activity of | This is being but slowly remedied the members has been decidedly thru drawing in more of the language marked. New recruits and added ac |SPeaking comrades into the general tivity is certain. The Studebaker shop | Work. Too many of the comrades still nuclei of South Bend, Indiana, has | function mainly in the language frac- recently issued a bulletin, The Stude- tions. This is, of course, necessary baker Worker, perhaps the best of |Party work, but these comrades still the shop bulletins that have yet ap- need to be impresed that attendance peared. Three thousand copies were and activity in addition in the regular distributed, the story of which has |Party unit, the nucleus, is mandatory been recently printed. The nucleus }20d will be insisted upon. has 35 members. Trade union activity has its ups The Young Workers’ League group ‘and downs, but there can be no doubt in the International Harvester con- that the party organization drive for cern, employing over 10,000 workers at miserable wages and working con- ditions, has issued two numbers of its shop bulletin. The party shop nucleus of 20 members has aided in each case in the distribution. One thousand copies of each were distributed. When the shop bulletin of the league” was read to the party nucleus, the mem- bers were very enthusiastic, offered numerous suggestions for the future and declared they would try to cok lect material for a party bulletin, (0 speak further of the party Har- vester nucleus, it is composed of comrades not able to speak English except with difficulty. It was hard’ to get the comrades to speak of shop conditions. But at a particular meet; every member to join a union and to build the trade union. fractions is hav- ing its effect generally in trade union ‘work. The check-up and follow-up of inactive members is improved. If it ‘were possible; that is, if, among other things, the fraction secretaries would report attendance at the fraction and union meetings to the party office it would be shown that the union mem- bership has increased and more mem- bers in the various unions attend meetings, There are isolated in- stances, it is true, to the contrary. Yet much is to be looked for in im- provement of work in this field. HE shop and street nuclei are be- ginning to take up systematically the reports on conditions in the shops ing we got one comrade to explain|and mills and to lay out a program working conditions. He was rapidly |therefor. Recent reports printed in followed by four others on different |The DAILY WORKER on some of the phases of the International Harvester |shop nuclei in southern and central exploitation. The comrades them}Tilinois show that mining conditions stated they would write this material }shop difficulties, union issues, defense, YOU CAN WIN A Book of The first American prole- tarian art publication (will sell at $1.00). bd foreign - born campaign, DAILY WORKER and the language press are being considered. In this section of the party the members have to go up against the terror of the Farrington machine, in particular, as well as the occasional stupidities of the ku klux West Allis Shop Nucleus Aids Relief of Passaic Strikers WEST ALLIS, Wis., April 12— Street Nucleus No. 1, Workers (Com- munist) Party, West Allis, sent $20 to aid the Passaic textile strikers. The Finnish Workers Association of West Allis has already sent $25 for the same purpose, Collection lists are out, Other, nuclei .workers’ groups are active in getting relief for the strikers, ‘ WORKER CORRESPONDENTS, ATTENTION! All worker correspondents of our See Thursday’s Issue of foreign language press.are urged to The Daily Worker! send in their names and. addresses sta. ting for which paper they write, It Is very important. Gomez Begins Six-Weeks Course on U.S. Imperialism at Workers’ School What is it that has transformed the American “democratic” republic into the American empire? What is the present. world significance ’ of American imperialism? What are its effects upon the American working class? What are the basis and method of the international struggle against it? These and other related questions will be taken up for detailed study in the six-weeks’ course on American Im- perialism to be conducted by Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, at the Chi- eago Workers’ School, 19 South Lin- coln street. The course will begin this Friday, April 16, at 8 p. m. and the class will meet regularly once a week, All ‘workers’ interested are in- vited to enroll’ During the six weeks the course will take ‘ip? ‘The development of capitalism from’ “free competition” to monoply, with gpecial refere: amd the Oil r Wall Street money power and the in- vestinent of capital abread; the cen: ttalization of American governmental power; the United States as a con- tending factor of world imperialism— conflict with Great Britain, Japan, etc.; the three cornerstones of U. S. foreign policy: Monroe Doctrine “Open Door” policy and Dawes Plan; Latin-America and the Philip pines; the development of national Uberation movements in ‘America’s colonies and semi-colonies; imperial- ism and “class collaboration” in the American labor movement; oppressed peoples and U. S. workers in the strug: gle for the overthrow of American capitalism; the All-America Anti-Im- perlalist League; the tasks of the Workers (Communist) Party. The principal text wed in the course will be the theme-on imperial- ism adopted at the fOurth national convention of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. For supplementary read- ing the claks will use “Dollar Diplom- jacy,” by Ccott Nearing and Joseph Freeman, klan. The right to carry on Interna- tional Labor Defense work has even to be fought for. Political discussions, educational talks, either. in the nuclei, sub-section or section meetings have increased. But before the agitprop committees are still heavy tasks of an elemental character, Of the development of closer rela- tions between the party and league from top to bottom not much can be said, except in the improved connec- tions between the shop nuclei of the league and party in the same shops. This.is general thruout the district. The party is trying to aid the situa- tion, RGANIZATION of the party on @ correct Communist basis does not in itself solve our problems, It will bring no millenium, nor can be ex- pectéd to. But our now correct form of organization, linked up with correct policy and willingness of the party membership to work, to achieve con- tact, and influence with the workers everywhere is bringing results. Noth- ing can gainsay these facts, Rally Forces MAY DAY With Greetings Trade unions, workers’ benefit societies and other working class organizations will rally with greetings to The Daily Worker on May Day in special ads. Get your organization to take some space in The Daily Worker. All ads at the rate of $1.00 An Inch 4 Individuals can join the big parade, and names of work- ers sending greetings will be printed at 25 Cents a Name ; JOIN THE BIG PARADE! Sign the Honor Roll! 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