The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party NEW HAVEN HOLDS SUCCESSFUL SUB-DISTRICT PARTY CONFERENCE (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 19.—The Connecticut sub-district of District No, Two recently held an enlarged conference attended by many repre- sentatives of New Haven, sections of the Workers Party. Waterbury, Bridgeport, Springfield and Ansonia Wm, Weinstone, general secretary of District No. 2, spoke on’ the work of the C, E, C. organizational conference, dealing particularly with the re- organization. He showed that the re-+ organization is not a task accom- plished in one blow, but is an opera- tion which begins with the establish- ment of the new form of organization and must continue with the activity of the units. He made proposals for making units more active and recom- mended particularly to section com- mittees of each of the cities that they assign one active comrade who speaks English from the city section commit- tee to each factory unit. He also pointed out that shop bulletins must be gotten out by units, or else the comrades will be discouraged, feeling | they are not making progress in their work, Comrade Weinstone referred to other shop nuclei that are functioning where the first shop bulletin brought really tremendous results, giving great encouragement and stimulation for work among the comrades. He fur- ther recommended that comrades of each city arrange that there shall be No conflicting meeting hours, so that fraction meetings and other meetings do not interfere with functioning of units. The city committees would have to regular the hours of meeting for all units in the various cities. Street Nuclei. In the case of street nuclei, difficul- ties which they have due to language can be overcome gradually if comrades will not insist upon the speaking of English by comrades who cannot do so. Every opportunity must be given them to express themselves as best they. can, tho they should be urged to speak English, as in many instances they can do so when encouraged by the other comrades. The units must work out division of labor and street units must issue street bulletins, the same as shop nuclei. They must help in the forma- tion of women’s councils, International Labor Defense, clubs and other organi- zations. Street nuclei also must help organize shop nuclei in their neigh- borhood shops, and can do so if they have one comrade in the shop. They must aim especially to organize shop nuclei in big shops, because in Con- necticut these shops have thousands of workers. Comrades can do so if they concentrate on them by holding mass meetings, distributing leaflets at the shops. At meetings comrades should see that application cards are distributed to everyone interested in tle organization. From these cards Prospective candidates for the party 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 vaAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., . Chicago, Ill, Enclosed ww Dut the follow- ing names in the May Day Issue. Street ...... City ae Ue Le RL can be secured and later shop nuclei organized. Negro Work. Weinstone also reported on the ne- cessity for organizing the Negro work- ers and reported that the district has an organizer for this work; every- where the party should support the American Negro Labor Congress in the formation of its units, Dealing with the united front cam- paigns, Weinstone pointed out the ne- cessity for the Connecticut comrades getting away from mechanical concep- tions of dealing with the united front and aim to reach outside organiza- tions. This can be done as illustrated already, by the activity of Connecticut sub-district. Foreign-born council and Passaic relief established in Connecti- cut are good example of what can be accomplished if special effort is made to reach outside organizations. He pointed out that the tendency of call. ing conferences which appear always under the banner of the Workers Party tends to give the impression that these Workers’ Party conferences are not united front conferences as they are intended to be, and recom. mended that as a general rule in call: ing united front conferences we should aim to get preliminary united front arrangements with other organizations and call the conference under their auspices, Ideological Level. Comrade Welnstone then “pointed out the need of raising the ideological level of the Connecticut membership thru establishment of classes and good non-partisan forums. He also emphasized the need of our members getting into the unions and forming functioning fractions in the left wing, building the Trades Union Educational League and building up the left wing wherever there is no organization. Reports were given by Comrade Wersnitzky of Waterbury, Copsh of Ansonia, Kling, Weissman, Schloss- berg and others of New Haven and by Comrade Blum of Springfield and the representatives of Bridgeport, showing that reorganization has taken place and that the immediate task was the building up of the-shop nuclei and the functioning of the naits; also that foreign-born conferences were estab- lished in Waterbury, Ansonia, Bridge- port, New Britain and New Haven. In New Haven the foreign-born confer- ence secured the endorsement of the trades council. Organizer Reports, Comrade Shklar, sub-district organ: izer, reported for the sub-district thai all the units have been regularly cov- ered and that the various cities are active; that the units of the American Negro Labor Congress were estab- lished by the organizer of the Ameri- can Negro Labor Congress in Hart- ford, New Haven and Bridgeport; that greater centralization of the sub-dis- trict has been accomplished and that suecessful meetings were held which brought an income to the sub-district, enough to overcome the previous dis- organization that existed; also that steps have been taken tq establish rouncils of Workingclass Housewives. The conference went on record as ap sroving the report of the sub-district and district organizers. Workers (Communist) Party Holds Annual Picnic on April 25 BERKELEY, Calif., April 19—The annual Worker (Communist) Party picnic will be held April 25 at the East Shore Park, near Richmond. A union orchestra will play. The speak- ers will be the best to be had. There will be races for everybody. Find Phosphorite Deposits. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (Tass.), April 18.—Large deposits of phosphorite have been discovered on the right bank of River Volga, about forty versts from Saratov. It is calculated that the deposits contain about 80,- 000,000 poods of phosphorite. The Saratov Provincial Economic Council has already commenced operations for getting the mineral. The council has planned the output at 2,000,000 poods per annum. Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th St., Cor. Second Ave. NEW YORK CITY Hi 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 8 P. M. Dally, except Friday; Sunday 9 to 1 P.M. Special Rates to W. P. Members LL HELP! Give Us a Hand! The big campaign is on at present and all the work has our If you want to volunteer your services (to fold circulars, enclosures, stamp envelopes, a be more welcome than a raise We are going to build The Dai Come arcuil and help “us doit! office force just swamped etc.) come Pag and in wa twice its size. uae ‘Witttam ian Milford, N. ut 47 P. Wilton, N. H. Amesbury, Mass., Olga Oikmeus. Rockford, Ill, 8 p. m., Ida Rothstein. , South Bend, ind., Hungarian Workers’ Home, 1216 Colfax, West, Manuel Gomez. Wilsonville, Ill., John Mihelic. May 2, i Brockton, Mass., 3 p. a Worcester, Mass., 3 p. MANY MAY DAY MASS MEETINGS WILL BE HELD)" Thousands to Celebrate Labor’s Holiday Hundreds of mass meetings are be- ing arranged by the Workers (Com- munsit) Party all oven the country to which workers will flockon May 1 to celebrate International Labor Day. The street and shop nuclei of the par- ty are being mobilized in every cen- ter to draw as many of the non-Com- munist workers to these meetings as possible. Every effort is being made to make these meetings the largest May Day meetings the party has ever held. The folowing meetings, with dates, places and speakers, have already ‘een arranged and the party units in hese cities are already on the job o bring out the workers to celebrate international Labor Day: April 30. Md., 7 p. m., Ruthenberg, Dunne, Tallentire. May 1. Chicago, jM,, Coliseum, Wabash and 16th St., Cannon, Foster, Young Work- ers League, Lovestone, Bishop Brown. Boston, M. 7p. m., Scenic Audi- torium, Benjamin Gitlow, Gardner and Fitchburg, Mas: Baltimore, 3 p.m, Holmes Park, Benjamin Gitlow, Ohan and Raits. Lawrence, Mass., 3 p. m., Benjamin Gitlow. Rochester, N. Y., Krumbein. Utica, N. Y., Rudolph Katz. Cleveland, Ohio, J. J. Ballam. Bentieyvilie, Pa., Bio Pp. m., Union Hall, D. E. Earley. East Pittsburgh, Pa., 8 p. m., Work- ers Home, cor. Electric and North Ave. | Pittsburgh, Pa., 8 p. m., Carnegie Mu: East Ohio and Federai Sts. N. S., J. L. Engdahl, Papcun, Truhar, Jakira. Hall, cor. Philadelphia, Pa., 7 p. m., Ruthenberg, Dunne and Tallentire, Allentown, Pa., 2 p. speaker. Pa, 8 p. Easton, doah, Pa my New York m., New York D. M. Sholomski ey City, D. M. Sholoms! Broekiys, Y., Amalgamated Tem) 21 Arion Place, Ruthenberg, Dunne. New York City, Mecca Temple, 56th St. and 6th Ave., Ruthenberg, Dunne; also a meeting at Cooper Union, 8th St. and 4th Ruthenberg, Dunne, Superior, Wi: s. 7 p. m., Brownton Granish Avelia, Pi Hall, George Papcun. New Castle, Pa., 4 p. Nene Qhio, 2 p. men “Carl Darnach ""Dilonvate, Ohio, 7 p. m,, Bohemian "Conneaut, Ohio, 7:30 p. m., 943 Broad Toledo, Ohio, 7:30 p. m. Worcester, Mass., 7 p. m., Mall, 64 Beimont St. Axe Quiney, (Mass. 7 p.m. m Belmont Binghamton, N. Y., Rudoiph Katz. Buffalo, N. Y., 3 Pp. m., Krumbein. Endicott, N. ¥., 7p. m., Rudolph Katz, Jamestown, N.' Y., Herbert Benjamin. ‘a Falls, N. » Franklin P. Brill, PR st Ohio, 7:30 P. m., Hippodrome m. 7p. m., Lithuanian Ave. 7 p. m., 32 Waltham Cincinnati, Ohio. Canton, Ohio, Ashtabula, Ohi Daisytown, Pa. 2 B. thn Home Theater, Akron, 0! m. Minneapol St. Paul, Minn. Milwaukee, Wis., Abern. Gary, ind. 2 p Pp. m., J. P. Cannon, Mey Meta dae Mate Washingt J. Bittelman. +» Miners’ Hall, Onley’ 7:30 pe'me Pps 7 Pm, Bohemian Krumbein, ®rilt, rtown, Pa. 2 p. L. Engdahi. W. Va., 2p. m., Union Hall, m., Home Pa., 7 p. m., Tallentire. Washington” D.C. 8 p.m, Dunne. May 3. Schenectady, N. Y., Krumbein. N. Y., Rudolph Katz. r, Pa. May 4, Albany, N. Y., Krumbein, Wilmington, Del., Trachtenberg, Duluth, Minn. May 5. Hibbing, Minn. May 6. Chisholm, Minn. May 7. Ironwood, Minn. May 8, Hancock, Mich, rs Mich, May 9, Kenosha, Wis Home, 665 Grand You! Hall, Marquette, German American J. Louis Engdahi, gstown, Ohi 30 p. m., Ukrainian 525V2 P. W. Rayon St, If you send a sub you will build The DAILY WORKER, and The DAILY WORKER will help to build the movement. Get the point? HELP! Worker to W.| ers, tanners, .| workers, and miscellaneous industries. THE PARTY IN THE BOSTON DRIVE. ELOW is a reprodugtion of the splendid leaflet issued by the Workers (Communist) Party lof Boston and distributed widely at the ‘opening parade and demonstration that marked the beginning of a big fmion organi- zation drive in Boston conducted by the Boston Central Labor Council. Hundreds of comrades gathered at central points in the line of march and in the hall where the organization meeting took place and distributed these leaflets, members of the Y. W. L, were to be to the workers, Dozens of juniors scurried thru the crowd handing them out and seen everywhere giving the statement E distribution of this leaflet on that occasion is a fine example of how the party conducts campaigns aiding the organization of labor into the trade unions and at the same time adding the necessary militant tone that the reactionary leaders of the unions attempt to suppress. The leaflet itself is a good type of appeal and shows that the Workers Party is alive to the needs of organized labor, Vol. 1, Newt BOSTON LABOR. GAZETTE Aprit Workers of Boston oin Your Union! Makelt Strong: ‘The boiies of Boston ara well oiganized. They have formed powerful, organizations which control wages, hours, and working conditions, Many of these organizations have national and international cbrinections. They are backed by millions of dollars. Among these organizations are the following: Boston Chamber of Commerce Associated Industries of Massachasette Buildi Employers Association National Association of Cotton Manufacturers National Civic Federation National Metal Trades Association New England Shoo and Leather Association and many others.covering every field of in- dustry.. The bosses are organized to fight Labor. ‘They employ every means to erush the work- ers from labor spies and stool pigeons in the shops, to gunmen and thugs on the picket line. They buy off lawyers, legislators, judges and the highest public officers, so that’ their ill-gotten gains may be legally protected thru anti-labor legislation, thru injunctions against pickets and the, use of the public in time of strikes. 3 The bosses. are organizing AGAINST THE WORKERS. The bosges’ organizations have been extremely active during the last few months, Attempts are being made to withdraw the legislation intended to protect ‘women in industry. The child Jabor amend- ment has been defeated, Already plans are under, way to cut wages, establish longer hours, and demand increased production. The Fight Poor Housing Conditions (Continued from Page 1) damp. These former cellars are usual- ly occupied because they mean a sav- ing of a few dollars per month on rent. Not infrequently a crude sort of hall way runs from the front base- to the entrance to a secofd door near the middle of the cellar that opens in- to a second “apartment” at the back of the place. In some of these houses as many as four families live in the basement. The first and second ‘floors accom- modate from three to 'five families, while two and three live in the at- tics. Not infrequently there are fif- teen to twenty families in such hous- es, with obsolete toilet and bath faci- lities that served one family thirty or more years ago, and’ many of the rooms are without windows because of the partitions erected in order to obtain more rent from these unfortu- nates. Who Inhabit Them. People who inhabit these horrible places comprise workers in the basic industries of Chicago, who were brot here during and since the war, while building was almost at a standstill, The packing houses, the steel mills, the railroads employ most of these workers, while many others work in mail ordér houses, while still others are porters, boot-blacks, laundry work brick and terra cotta Many of them pick up part time work on the city streets remoying snow and doing other odd jobs that are requir- ed of the municipality. Out of 1,115 families investigated to determine wages of the male heads of the families by the department of public welfare 70 were native white Americans, 318 were White foreign- born, 455 were Amaia Negroes while 272 were Mexicat These latter have bedn brot to Chi- cago by the employment agencies that scoured the country to. secure wage- labor to compensate for the closing of European immigration during the war and its restriction since the war. Most of these heads of families earn much less than $80 a‘month during the entire year hence tlipgasre forced: by dire necessity. to odviyy’the most lothesome dwellings, Graft Rampant. Most of the dwellings inhabited by these poorly paid workers are not fit for human habitation. They should be condemned as a menace to the city because of their disease-breeding na- ture. In epidemics the death toll in these sections in incredible. But so long as the grasping, thieving land- lords can corrupt building inspectors and aldermen things will remain as they are. It is of nd concern to landlords what human wreckage results from their greed, They can realize more income off their investments in these foul rat holes than they can get off sani- “ary apartments and tenements so they strive to perpetutite these blots upon the face of the earth, The Chicago city administration is ‘esponsible for this condition and, since the officials are all part of the sraft’ rings that support the old oarties, they cannot be expected to “@xe action against their friends and nd shoe workers were the first to he reductions in these lines have run up to 80 percent. ‘The 50- and 54-hour week is, slowy but surely being introduced. Freedom of speech and assemblage is being sbollbegs thru the revival of restrictive measures and thru decisions of the capitalist courts. To elude the Workers the bosses have adopted the American plan, the fake company unions, the fake bosses’ democracy, which gives the workers nothing: but cheap phrases, empty promises, with more work and less pay. WHAT IS OUR ANSWER TO THE. BOSSES? Boston is a trade union city. Tt may well be proud of its record, Out of 350,207 wage, earners, 104,875 are. the proud possessors of sunion cards, out of every three workers is a member of a trade union. The workers of Boston Know that the answer to the attacks ‘ nizations, is the establish- nient of strong trade unions. We are stron; But not strong enough. The bosses are organ- ized 100%. The workers are organized only 33%. Out of 104,302 female wage earners only 7,268 are organized — only seven out of every hundred. Thousands of negroes and young workers are unorganized. Many for- eign workers: do not wnderstand what an American. trade union is. These unorganized workers are forced to accept non-union condi- tions or starve. But Labor is awake, organized and unorganized, Labor is determined to MAKE BOSTON 100% UNION. ‘The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon every worker of every age, sex or.color to supporters. Only a labor administration insist- ing upon the city erecting dwellings ‘or workers and renting them at cost and relentlessly destroying the pres- ent miles of dilapidated dwellings can change this condition. Further articles will deal with the condition of the new industrial work- ers in Chicago. ARTICLE II. Pershing, being so thoroly a militar- ist and a professional butcher, could not conceal the strategy of the man power conference. Unlike his more subtle and agile-minded compatriot Weeks, he was unable during the course of his speeches, to urge the universal spread of physical training without revealing the purpose in doing so, Thus 'in a later speech he again stated that: “Regardles of what may be done in the provision of fighting equipment and technical military training, the na- tion cannot be fit for defense in an emergency (read: an imperialist war of expansion) unless all children in their younger years are given the fun- damental training involved in the broad modern physical education pro- gram.” This, then, is the object of the phys- ical training which Weeks and Per- shing recommend. The youth and even the children are to receive their preliminary military training in the gymnasiums and on the athletic fields. Then, when the occasion demands it, their military education can be quickly tapered off and completed in regular training camps. In this way the mili- tarry training of the youth can be started long before the age of 18, and long before they even suspect that they are being prepared for war. Builds Army. In this way the militarization of The Latest Publication CAPITALIST SPORTS—ADJUNCT OF THE MILITARIST MACHINE WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH Capitalist “Justice” for WODKEDS ING WORKERS LEAGUE Young Passaic Strikers PASSAIC, (By Mail.) —Sentences were conferred upon the Passaic tex- tile strikers in the courtroom on State St. here which took place this morn- ing at 9 a. m. The ‘first trial was that of a male worker charged with using the word “beast” to the police cossacks. The accused, however, sald he had never spoken the word. The judge not taking this into con- sideration proceeded to make. in- quiries, first hearing the cossagks who are serving the capitalist class and then the worker who is fighting with all his strength for better liv- ing conditions. For a moment let us look into the questions that the judge asked the worker. “How long is he in this country?” “Where does he come from?” “Is he a citizen of the United States?” The judge—‘Well, coming from Russia! Eighteen years in this coun- try. Not a citizen yet! You are here- by sentenced on this day April 9, 1926, at 10:20 a, m. to three months in pris- on.” The next case is of a fellow work- er charged with the crime of saying, “The hell with the cops!” at a time when he was being clubbed by the police cossacks. And again both sides stated their cases. The fellow worker denying the use of that phrase. Then the judge reclining in his chair again asked the same ques- tions: “How long are ‘you in this coun- try? ‘Where do you come from? Are you a citizen of the United States?” The judge—“Since you are from Russia and in this country 22 years, nearly a citizen and having a wife and three children, you are sentenced by this council of Passaic, N. J. to ninety days as a lesson and its too bad that I cannot send you back from where you came. Indeed I feel sorry for your wife and children.” The third case was of ‘a@ working girl of 18 years of age, Nancy San- dowsky, who is struggling for better living conditions. What was her charge? “They were that she has been calfmg the police, cossacks, and had used abusive language. It was all strange to Nancy. The case having been heard; the lawyer acting as, the attorney for the workers, thereupon appealed to the judge for the good name of Nancy Sandowsky, stating that it would be a the youth can proceed “democrati- sally” and underground and on a mass scale, In this way the capitalists can ouild up a vast potential military man- sower without opposition from the vorking class, and without letting it ve known. - Of course in advocating the militar- ization of the athletic activities of the youth the conference took pains to point out how beneficially this would react on sports and physical education, General Morrow in his speech dealt with tliis aspect of the matter. He said: Urge Military Drill. “Military ‘drill develops leadership, obedience, smartness, alertness and other qualities which will make the student more responsive to physical training and which will make it easier to conduct group exercises. Military training will, in addition to this, give the student a feeling that his physical exercise is more a matter of self- improvement; teaching him that it is a matter of duty to make himself a fit instrument of public service. It is important for the boy to learn the ‘dea of fitness for service and tq think of himself as having an obligation to serve his country in time of need,” Thus we see that it is planned to co-ordinate and intertwine physical training and military training in ord to develop the war spirit and the spirit of blind patriotism in the youth, (To be continued.) READY TODAY! $1.00 Postpaid, ; 368 pages. ‘A 7 maps.. 16 photographs, Novel binding. | i Mie Ohh Oh hsm eyeston ana ~ sheer disgrace should she be con victed for using pervert language. Again and again the plea on that case was brought up only to have the judge again render his unjust de- cision. Nevertheless, it was thirty days to be served. The next suit of a young 16-yearold worker accused of having thrown stones at the police. This was a unique case. This young fellow had already been working for two years in the Botany Textile Mills surrounded by all. sorts of poisonous acids, choking smoke and bad air which stunted his development. He had been question- ed by the judge. Many questions, pain- ful questions, which should have been looked into deeply in order to see the situation of life that is covered with darkness, instead of dropping them aside without consideration, this of . course, is the arm of the defense of the capitalist class. In the court room are’ sitting the mother and grand- mother of the boy with tears in their eyes, impatiently listening to the trial. Here the mother was called to the witness stand in defense of her son. I have been a widow for nine years. He igs my eldest son and has been working to support us since he was 13. He has so far caused no trouble for anyone. He has always been good and willingly shared in keeping up the home. I do not be- lieve that my boy has committed any erime on the picket line on the morn- ing of April 6. It is true, your honor, that we are out on sttike to better our conditions. At this point she was stopped from speaking. The ac- cusation of having thrown stones at the police did not however, include the beating up which he received from the police on that,same morn- ing of his arrest. Such a case is brought before the jury. There were many such cases to be taken up the following day. I am sure that all these cases will be handled in a similar manner. Here lies a question before us, workers and friends, can we receive a just decision fromthe capitalist class which is fighting us. This is a very serious conflict which must and shall be won, if we workers stand shoulder to shoulder and arm to arm in the fight for our demands for bet- ter living conditions.—Albert Fenig- stein. ~ BOSTON NOTE. Nucleus No. 5 and No. 8 of the Young Workers’ League, of Boston, is giving a social and package party, on April 24, 1926, at 62 Chambers St., Boston, Mass., at 7:30 p. m. Come and bring your friends. A good time is ‘assured to all. th SEND IN A SUB! MAY DAY ISSUE Bundles The May Day Special Issue will be one of 12 pages— filled with news and stories and cartoons—features from the shops, factories - and trade unions. The Special will be printed to enable every part of the country to receive it before May Day and in time for distribution and your May Day meeting, Get a bundle at the special price of 2 Cents a Copy THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill, . for a bundle of the May Day senntsnvnnsonnanasocecngsgunnessne stssenesonessnsoennnnsonnnsonsonsnnescesccengeeveenseseeqnenesens | City) sstenessanesssssensnovebonnte “@Btate) —