The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER SENATENAMES | Workers (Communist) Party WEDNESDAY FOR DEBT PACT VOTE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 15—The $2,- 042,000,000 Italian war debt settle- ment, pending in the senate for the last three weeks, will be finally voted upon next Wednesday at 4 o'clock, un- der an agreement adopted this after- noon. Administration leaders entered the agreement confident that the settle- ment will be approved by a comfort- able majority under the conviction that this pact provides the only means of getting anything from Italy. Its opponents, however, will seek to re- commit the settlement to the senate finance committee “for further inves- tigation” before taking the final vote, with instructions to “obtain further in- formation regarding Italy's ability to pay” ‘The movément to recommit the set- tlement, proposed first by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the democratic floor leader, has gained supporters among senators opposed to extending lenient terms to Italy so long as Mus- solini continues his dictatorship. McKellar Shows Ignorance. Yesterday’s speech by Senator Mc- Kellar of Tennessee was the most vitriolic attack made for a long time in the senate upon the policy and per- sonality of a foreign ruler. He charged Mussolin? with being a socialist, Com- munist, and despot, displaying an ut- ter inability to distinguish between these appellations. Vitriolic Attack on Mussolini. McKellar specifically indicted the Italian dictator on fifteen distinct grounds. These include the destruc- tion of constitutional government in Italy, the holding or setting aside of elections at will, and the abolition of the parliament; the buying up of the king, princes, dukes, and other impor- tant personalities; the abolition of free speech and the freedom of the press; the destruction of local self- ‘government; the establishment of a secret police on the order of the cheka; the assassination of political enemies; the wiping out of the trade unions and co-operatives; his attempts to crush freemasonry; the increase of the military services, and what the senator termed “the similarity of his methods with those of the bolsheviks.” In addition, the Tennesse solon de- clared that the United States debt commission had exceeded its author- ity and had not taken into considera- , tion the real “capacity of Italy to pay.” When that argument begins at . lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. meiner nn ne enemas Let every worker know you are with us on MAY FIRST 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 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! “. The DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Enclosed F....00000s00eooe put the follow- ing names in the May Day Issue. 4 i ‘PAYTRIOTS" FEAR TO DEBATE WITH if Communism Becoming an Issue in Cleveland WORKERS PARTY By ISRAEL AMTER. OR a few years, the Communist movement in Cleveland has been at a standstill as far as the masses are concerned. The arrest of a Cleve- land comrade at the Bridgeman con- vention in 1922 was the beginning of a wave of sympathy with the Work- ers (Communist) Party, but the activi- ties of the party did not meet with response from the workers, especially the organized workers. Today the situation is different. Since the reorganization of the party, by which the nuclei in the shops have become active among the masses of workers in the factories, Communist influence has been felt. In the union, too, the Communist influence in the form of constructive propositions for the upbuilding of the labor movement have been listened to with attention. The activities of the workers Com: munist Party in bringing on the strike of the workers at the: Fisher Body Works is a case in point. The Com: munists issued shop bulletins which were eagerly read and discussed by the.workers. A strike resulted, and the question of organization became an issue. The Communists naturally are for an industrial form of organiza- tion, as against the craft form which breaks up the workers in the auto industry into 15 to 20 craft unions. The meetings of the trimmers who are on strike were punctuated with demands for an industrial union, Al- though the workers have not yet fully grasped the meaning of an in- dustrial union and see the craft idea as faulty as that in the present By BERT and the Young Worker, in the course of the parade, Mobilize Early. At 11 a. m. one hundred party mem- bers, league members and Pioneers reported to the headuarters at 36 Causeway street. Each section was ssigned to one assembly point under the leadership of the Tespective sec- tion organizers. Automobiles were in readiness for each group to trans- port additional supplies along the line of march. The literature was then distributed at the various assembly points as the workers waited for the parade to start. Every piece of liter- ature was read with great interest by the workers. The comrades worked with the greatest efficiency, keeping their bundles of literature well hid- den and working quickly and cautious- ly, along the entire line of march, Faneuil Hall was saturated with Com- munist literature, The DAILY WORK- DR, the Passaic Strike Bulletin, leaf- lets, etc. This is the first time in American history that the historic hall has been so well baptized with Communist literature. The Pioneers. Undoubtedly the most efficient work- ers in the demonstration, who deserve the first prize, are the pioneers. No one could equal their speed, or audacity, There is no doubt that in the future the movement will find more and more that the pioneers are invaluable for such work, Not one slip up was made. ance prohibits the distribution of leaf- strike, only the trimmers are out and are protecting their craft interests to the extent of expressing indifference as to whether the other departments come out on strike or not, the work- ers are learning thru experience that only the industrial form of organiza- tion is of value. ‘The Cleveland Plain Dealer contains a note on the strike by John W. Love, the economic expert of the paper. He states that the struggle between the industrial form of organjzation as against the craft form is showing it- self in the rivalry between the Work- ers Communist Party and the Cleve- land Federation of Labor. More than that: at meetings of the strikers, even the organizers of the American Fed- eration of Labofsannot stigmatize the industrial form of organization, for they realize that without an industrial organization, the auto workers will be unable to cope with the situation. The bulletins of the Workers (Com- munist) Party are to be found in the largest machine and automobile fac- tories of the city. The Communists are no longer slandered as “union wreckers” and disrupters of the Amer- ican labor movement, but are regard- ed as the only group that has any con- structive idea for building it up. It is quite natural that the bureau- crats of the American labor movement noting some of the phenomena of the day and noting also that the American workers are making demands today, endeavor to deal with theyCommunists in a wave-of-the-hand sort of way. But this does not avail. At the last meeting of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, a resolution was introdyced calling upon the American Federation of Labor to demand that all materia) used in erecting the buildings at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Phila- delphia be union-made and all labor used be union labor. As soon as the delegate finished reading the resolution, President Mc- Laughlin of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, asked Where the resolution. came from. (He had been informed by some of his lieutenants that there was something “wrong” about the resolu- tion.) He refused to argue the resolu- tion on its merits—for if he had dared he would have had to declare himself 100 per cent in favor of it. On the contrary, he evaded the question, and raised a “Red” scare, and branded it as “Communist, Red and Workers Party propaganda.” A simple way to get rid of the resolution, and to defeat it, which took place. But the issue is not settled. On the contrary, if President Mc- Laughlin continues this method ‘of dealing with the proposals made by the Communists, nothing will be more talked of than the resolutions intro duced by the Communists. And they will be talked of just the same, The Communists are infroducing proposi- tions that directly affect the labor movement of this city and country. They are the only constructive meas- ures being proposed. The progressives thruout the local labor movement are unconsciously responding tothe, pro- positions of the Communists. This must be crystallized into organization- al form—a progressive movement in the Cleveland labor movement is the need of the day. BOSTON WORKERS PARTY ASSISTS UNION DRIVE WITH MILITANT NOTE MILLER. BOSTON, April 15—The Communists of Boston participating in the big American Federation of Labor demonstration on Sunday, April 11, demon- strated the possibilities of efficient and organized activity. Twenty thousand pieces of literature were distributed to the workers of Boston, including a manifesto to the workers of Boston, the party Foreing-Born Leaflet, Passaic Strike Bulletin, The DAILY WORKER+— point did the comrades disturb the workers, parade, which would have resulted in serious criticism of the party. Not one comrade was arrested in spite of the fact that a city ordin- lets and the display of placards. In fact the party placards were promi- nent at both the indoor and the out- door meetings, in spite of the fact that McCarthy of the State Federation of Labor was dumbfounded when he saw them and tried to suppress them. The party slogans figured prominently in the pictures which were taken by the capitalist press, Party Benefits. Had the tone of the demonstration been left to the officials it would have en lifeless and without spirit. But the Communists all along the line of march stimulated the workers to the greatest pitch of enthusiasm by call- ing for cheers for the striking cigar- makers and for the organized labor movement. There is no doubt that the demonstration yielded much profit to the party, first in bringing it closer to the workers, and higher in their esteem,and secondly in infusing the party membership with a spirit and an confidence in their own power to “put it over.” It must be remarked that all this work was done in spite of the severe reaction which has been in force in the city of Boston for the few months, and the very evident dan- Freiheit Mandolin Club Will Play at Jubilee Celebration By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, April 15.—The Fretheit Mandolin Club was organized by the left wing action committee of the Workmen’s Circle of this city. It started with 27 members. It now has 62, The great majority of the members are progressive workers. Every mem- ber must belong to the union of his or her trade. Two months ago we collected among ourselves $32 for the Freiheit. Only 15 months in existence and we can prove that there is such a thing as proletarian art and proletarian song. Lately we participated in the celebra- tion of 25 years’ existence of the Ci- garmakers’ Union. Now we are preparinga wonderful program for the fourth: jubilee cele- bration of the Freiheit, which will be held on April 18 at the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklym avenue. This orchestra accepts invitations from all labor unions and left-wing or- ganizations to play. Any of the left- wing organizations or trade unions that need their co-operation should let the orchestra know three weeks in ad- vance so that proper preparations can be made. The orchestra accepts but one invitation a month, Much of the success of the club belongs to A. Kendzer, who is the leader. He works days at his trade, is a member of the union in his trade and uses his spare time to train the orchestra. Freiheit Celebrates Fourth ‘Anniversary on Saturday, April 17 The fourth anniversary of the fight- At nojger of arrest. PARTY REORGANIZATION PUTS LIFE INTO BERKELEY ACTIVITY T Federation in Berkeley, Cal. activities. The effect of the cecrasaticiion is very noticeable when one goes there in the evening and looks around. Where there used to be but one or two meetings every night, they are now rushing around to find a place to meet. All sorts of committees, nuclei, fractions and youth branches meet there besides the different-elasses of instruction in English and Finnish. Up to the time of the reorganization the ‘hall was a dead place and was losing popularity right along. ‘Now there seems to be a new life born. It is growing fast. Tho there aren’t all the old Finnish branch members with us, still we are making great progress ‘with the party work. We are now rally learning our purpose and getting somewhere in fulfilling this purpose. Our biggest job is to get all of the conservative members to understand the whys and wherefores of the new system. We find that many of the jot go there to work 249 East 115th St., Cor, Second Ave. NEW YORK CITY Office 9 to 12 A. M.; 2to 8 Sence esuk Friday: Bunday 9 to 1 P.M ‘Special Rates to W. P. Members By HARRY WESTON. HIS has to do with the effect of the reorganization plan on the Finnish We have @ hall here known as the Finnish Comrades Hall, which was used by the old Finnish Branch since the reor- ganization; they had to er @ new organization to take care of the old for the benefit of the workers and the party, but just for purely social rea- sons, They joined different activities, such as the band, singing society, dra- matic club, etc.—all under ‘the direc- tion of the Finnish branch. They took no active part except in those organi- zations. Now that they are faced with the problem of working in nuclei they drop out of the party. They still con- tinue their various other activities, which are a part of the new Workers’ Association that retains the hall and which is controlled by party members. Tho we have lost a part of the old or- ganization, those we haye left are true Communists and form a very good nu- cleus about which to build up the movement in this territory. Detroit “Into Unions” Campaign Under Way DETROIT, April 15—The campaign to get every member of the party into the trade unions, began with a general membership meeting in section 1, on March 28, The result obtained was the best ever experienced, All mem- bers who were qualified to join unions filled out their applications. This means that Section 1) will serve as an example for the rest, of the sections in Detroit. ing Jewish Communist daily, the Fret- heit, will be celebrated at the Temple Hall, Marshfield and Van Buren, Sat- Chamber of Commerce Dodges Challenge CLEVELAND, April 15—The Work- ers (Communist) Party has ‘at last re- ceived a reply to the challenge it sent to the chamber of commerce of this city to debate the question: “Re- solved, that the Declaration of Inde- pendence justifies the propagation of revolution in the United States.” Fear Debate. Under date of April 6, I. Amter, dis- trict secretary, received the following reply: “Dear Sir: I hope you will excuse my delay in answering your recent let- ter. I feel very certain that our direc- tors and committee, which are busy with constructive work for the city of Cleveland, would not ¢are to under- take to arrange for such a debate as you suggest, “Very truly yours, “Munson Havens, ' “Secretary.” The “constructive” work that the chamber of commerce is carrying on at the present time is to give open aid to the painting and building contrac: tors in the strike of the painters and building laborers; to support the Cleveland City railway company against the demand of the carmen for recognition of the Carmen’s Union; to recommend that all Negroes in Gleve- land be sent back to the south. Legion Fears to Take Negative, The fact is that the chamber of commerce is afraid to enter the arena against the Workers (Communist) Party, as is also the American Legion, to whom a similar challenge was sent. Both of these 100 per cent organiza- tions dare not discuss the Declaration of Independence before the workers of this city, altho as the season advances and the 150th anniversary approaches they will spout from the corners, pul- pits, forums, etc., about the “subver- sive elements” that are are trying to betray the principles of that document. |The Workers (Communist) Party would like to prove to the workers that the 100 per centers are trampling on the déclaration in every part of the country. The challenge is still open, and it is hoped that someone will be manly enough to step forward to defend the negative in the proposed debate, Philadelphia Plans Bazaar to Assist Passaic Strikers| PHILADELPHIA, April 15— Phila- delphia local of the International La- bor Défense has turned its annual bazaar into a Passaic strike relief and defense bazaar. The . Passaic relief conference of Philadelphia has en- dorsed the action of the International Labor Defense and has elected a com- mittee of three to co-operate in mak- ing the bazaar a success. Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24, are the dates set for this affair at the New Traymore Hall, Franklin and Columbia Ave. The bazaar will open up with a dance for the first evening and will be fol- lowed by a concert, social gathering and a banquet Saturday afterngon and a special defense ball which will be addressed by Albert Weisbord, the or- ganizer and the leader of the Passaic strike. All readers of this paper who are interested in the success of the Pas- saic strike are urged to donate articles for the bazaar which may be brot to the temporary office of the Phila- delphia local of the International La- bor Defense, at 521 York Ave. (Near urday evening, April 17 at 8 o'clock. This is a party affair and calls for the support of the entire party mem- bership. ©. E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party will speak. A good pro- gram has been arranged. Nuclei Function Well in Madison, Illinois MADISON, Ill, April 15.—The Work- ers’ Party here has been reorganized into three shop nuclei and one street nucleus. The shop guclei, which are in a foundry company, steel company, and rolling mill, contain 7, 11 and 4 members, respectively. The street nu- cleus has 22 members. Of the 44 members 30 are in good standing to date, 2 are exempteg, and only 4 jn arrears. The party units hére have held in the last three months four lectures on Leninism in theory and practice, three other lectures, one public mass meet- ings, as well as regular business and committee meetings. The nuclei have secured only 2 subs to The DAILY WORKER recently, but have sold in three months 466 cop- ies of The DAILY WORKER, 15 cop- jes of the Workers’ Monthly and 15 copies of the Young Comrade. The nuclei have secured for the Bulgarian newspaper, Saznanie, 82 subs. The comrades in these nuclet are mainly Bulgarians. They have distributed Paris Commune leaflets and the For- eign-Born leaflets, ~ Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new, features every week, This is a good issue to give to your fellow " 5th and Spring Garden Sts.) Newark Conference to Aid Passaic Strike Will Meet on April 24 NEWARK, N. J. April 15—-The Sec- ond general delegated conference of the Passaic strikers’ relief committee of Essex county will take place Sat- urday evening, April 24, at 8 o’clock at St. Delegates are requested to attend as the meeting as very important mat- ters will come up for discussion, Re- ports will be given on work accom- plished and the results of the mass } meetings. Organizations that did not elect two delegates to attend to the first con- ference are urged by the relief com- mittee to elect thir represntatives for this meeting. / Beusk and Karvonen on National Committee of United Farmer League BISMARK, N. D., April 15.—Will- lam Bouck, Sedro-Wooley, Wash., Na- tional Organizer of the Western Pro: gressive Farmers and Yalmer A. Kar- vonen, manager of “The~New Home- land,” New York Mills, Minn., have been added to the national committee of the United Farmers’ Educational League. Bouck is an old warrior of the grange movement and has demon- strated his militancy against capital- ism in his activity” athong western farmers. Karvoneli is a well-known day among theatre of Minne- the Newark Labor Lyceum, 704 S. 14th 1 WITH TIE, Y CONDUCTED - BY TH MOSCOW, March 24.—The fifth ses- sion of the enlarged executive of the Young Communist International took Place on March 20 and the discussion upon the reports of Vuyouvitch and Gyptner was continued. Comrade Gorkitch (EB. C.) spoke of the insufficient systematic work in the jopponent organizations. In the next few months the Amsterdam corigress of the Young Social International must be the beginning point of our work inside the young socialist organiza- tions: Comrade Robert (Balkans): In con- sequence of the terror the Young Com- munist League in the Balkans are weaker now than they were at the time of the last enlarged executive. In the future the executive must sup- port the illegal leagues more. Comrade de Boeck (Belgium): In Belgium we must adopted the slogan of a 100 per cent organization of our members in the trade unions. We must strive for the formation of an opposition wing ‘inside the Young So- cialist League upon the basis of the opposition against the social demo- cratic coalition government. ‘Comrade Sam (America): The task of the American league is to prepare for a mass activity and in the ‘im- provement of the internal life of the league. It would be advisable to form a pan-American bureau. A polish comrade then spoke upon the international significance of the polish economic and financial crisis and about the white terror. Since the last executive three comrades tiave been shot and 600 flung into prison. Comrade Mehring (E. C.) pointed to the successes of the Swedish league upon the field of anti-militarist ac- tivity. Comrade Barbes (France): The Young Communist League is faced with three chief tasks: (1) the strengthening of the economic strug- gle and the trade union work, (2) strengthening of the anti-militarist work and the work in the colonies, and (3) the strengthening of the work in the opponent organizations. The Italian comrade reported upon the influence of fascism upon the peas- antry and stressed the necessity and importance of the propaganda in the army. Comrade Vartanyan (BE. C.): Re- cently many differences have shown themselves in the Young Socialist League of Germany. Amongst the young socialists the lefts have de- manded the expulsion of certain of the rights. This example shows that there are good possibilities of work inside the Y. 8. L. Comrade Sturm (Roumania) spoke upon the work amongst the peasant youth and demanded that more atten- tion be paid to.the illegal leagues. Comrade Williamson (America): The American league has been suc- cessful in increasing the edition of the official organ to twice the number of its own members. Comrade Gramkox (Germany), who had declared himself in agreement with Ruth Fischer at the enlarged ex- ecutive, of the Communist Interna- tional, defended his attitude. Comrade Leibrant (Germany) con- demned the attitude of Gramkov sharply and spoke of the opportunist deviations of the ultra-left in Ger- many. He further spoke of the prac- tical work of the German league, above all in connection with the educational work. Comrade Schueller (E. C.): ‘In gen- eral the plenum showed agreement in almost all questions. This time we have approached the questions of the work amongst the youth more realis- tically than ever before. The speaker then dealt with the remarks of Gram- \kov and spoke upon the question of New York Young ' Workers Hike on Sunday Morning NEW YORK, April 15—On Sunday, April 18, the first Young Workers (Communist) League hike of the sea- son will be held. This hike is not going to be the typical hike of the past, when we scheduled the hike for 9 o'clock and left at 12, ‘This is an idea of our previous hikes. As soon as we crossed the ferry, a number of our young dare-devils de- cided to climb the Palisades. The majority sat down right then and there to have their lunch, ‘After that they had to rest. By the time they got thru resting it was time to go back and cateh the ferry home, | For this Sunday's hike the program. that has been planned.is the pee can be worked up. tnt ENLARGED EXECUTIVE SESSIONS OF YOUNG COMMUNIST | INTERNATIONAL Discussion Continued on “Reporte erts of © Comrades Vuyouvitch and) Gyptner the work amongst the masses, with which the Y, C. I. is faced. ‘ “The plenum then formed a commis- sion of 133 members to work out the resolution-upon the report of Vuyou- vitch. ee MOSCOW, March 21.—In today’s |session of the plenum of the Y. C.;I. Comrade Lominadse spoke upon the report of Vouyouvitch. Then followed the reports of Fokin and Young upén tfle work in the colonies and in the far east. And a speech of Rudolph (E. C.) upon the organizational tasks ofethe Young Communist League, | s+ 8 MOSCOW, March 22,—Today’s ses- sion of the plenum of the Y. C.:1 began with a speéch of Schueller upon the economic and trade union work of the Y, C. I. Comrades Glaubauf and Einhardt made speeches upon the cational work of the Young Comniu- nist Leagues and comrade Sorin spoke upon the international children’s mote: ment. ° . Sessions Enlarged Executive Y. ct. Tn the seventh session @ comrade made a polemic against the supporter of Ruth Fischer, the youth delegate, Gramkov. He sharply opposed the attempt to carry over the discussion in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the German Young Com munist League. The German delega- tion had rendered good service in' the formation of the question of new meth- ods of work and the drawing of’ the party ‘comrades into the youth work. The time has come for the French league to form a Jungsturm organiza- tion. In the eighth session of the. plehuts Comrade Fokin spoke upon the work in the,eagt. The chief task of the Y, C, I,,in the Orient, particularly in Chi is to organize broad masses of the working class, peasant and student youth. In the previous year the Chi- nese Young Communist League had taken an active and leading part in ali the struggles and had extended its influence upon the masses consider- ably. At the time of the events in Shanghai the league had 2500 mem- bers, today it has 10,000. A year ago there was no Young Communist moye- ment in Japan, today there are small but influential groups, Comrade Young reported upon’ the work in the colonies. The task of the Y. C. I. in the colonies is to lead: the national revolutionary movement .and to. work in the trade unions. In Eng- land, France, etc., we must inform the proletariat of the significance of the colonial movement for freedom. -The anti-miltanist work and the work amongst the peasants in the colonies is important. In South Africa there is a small and good youth organiza- tion. The same is true of Palestine, Egypt and the Dutch East Indies. In Morocco and Algiers we must form theme drili with Comrade Harris as eader, The first practice of the Young Workers’ League baseball team. Va- rious athletic and gymnastic contests, Mass singing to be led by Comrade Frankfeld. Somewhere in between thére will be intermission for lunch. We start from Dyckman street. ferry Sunday, April 18, at 9 o’clock sharp, Be sure to come and make this a real reunion of the “Young Workers (Communist) League membership me its sdgtaippatais Form Workers’ Athletic Club in Millinery Shop NEW YORK, April 15—A real work- ers’ sports club composed of workers in @ millinery shop (which is not sub- sidized by the bosses) and therefore is pro-labor, is the Buddy Athletic Chib here. Calisthenic drills and games are. the main form of activity, The