The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1926, Page 4

{ 2am 7 = |W ; By JACK STACHEL. IHRE were those who believed that the reorganization of the Party on the is of shop nuclei and interna- ‘towfal branches would put an end to all work among the foreign born. In fact, many of those who were opposed ‘to the reorganization of the Party Were opposed on this ground. Now, When the Party is fairly well reor- ®anived; that is, now that the old language branches are abolished and the skeletton organization of nuclei and international branches has been formed and begins to function, we an see that all those fears were not founded on facts, but that, on the contrary, with the reorganization of the Party and the organization of frac- tions in the different non-party work- ers’ organizations that came with the Teorganization of the Party apparatus, the work among the foreign-born work- ers has increased tremendously and has furthermore assumed a more sys: tematic and proletarian character. Where before the work was carried on in sporadic fashion we have today well functioning fractions carrying on the work. Furthermore our comrades are at the present time working in Many organizations that they have heretofore entirely neglected and some ‘of which were even unknown to them. Immense Field for Work. That the field of work among the foreign-born workers is immense can be seen from the following figures giv- ing the percentage of foreign born in the American industries: Tron and steel 58% Meat packing .. 61 Bituminous coal . 62 Textiles .. 62 Clothing .. 69 Leather 67 Furniture 59 Petroleum . 67 Of course this does not mean that all of these workers must be reached fin the foreign language. It is. true that many of them speak English and are fairly well “Americanized,” but the great bulk of them must still be reached thru the propaganda in their KANSAS own language, and since there is lack- ing trade union organization in most of these industries they are to be found in the different fraternal organ- izations. These fraternal organiza- tions are organized locally and na- tionally and include millions of work- ers. Most of these national organiza- tions consist of every wing of the pop- ulation from the Nationalists down to the Communists, and it is very impor- tant for the Communists to carry on the work in these organizations, and to be able to reach the great masses of the foreign born with the Commu- nist press in their language, In many of the languages the church also has a strong influence among the working masses, the best example being the Polish. Here also we need the language Communist press to eeun- teract the poison propaganda of the church. Furthermore the labor bu- reaucracy in many of the unions main- tain a press of their own in the par- ticular language, thereby dominating the masses of their language and: bar- gaining with them as a bloe, selling them to the different factions of the bureaucracy from time totime. Here again it is very important that the Communists be able to speak to the masses in their own language, To summarize, while it is true that, due to the restriction of immigration, a larger proportion of the workers can read and write English, the field of work in the foreign language is still very great and will remain for a long time to come. We must there- fore have our fractions in all the lan- guage organizations of the workers, maintain our press, so that we can warry on our work among the foreign born masses and counteract the prop- aganda of the nationalists, the church, the bosses, and the bureaucrats. Our fractions in the different organizations must build around themselves all the sympathetic elements, and they must see to it that the fraternal organiza- tion becomes the source of support for the Communist language press. Must “Americanize” Foreign Language Work. Our Party fractions,-national and local, as well as the fractions in all THE DAILY WORKER orkers (Communist) Party Work Among the Foreign-Born non-party organizations must pay more attention to America, They must do what one of the comrades advice the Italian fraction “to rediscover Amer- ia.” Our fractions are following the bourgeois organizations too much in keeping the minds of the workers oc- cupied with problems of the home country only,. Of course when a prob- lem of the home country is an issue we must utilize the issue, but we must always bring out the concrete prob- lems of the foreign born in America. We must do more basic work. More work in the factories, in the unions, to reach the foreign born. We must participate in all the struggles of the American working class. Our lan- guage press must carry news and ar- ticles on all the American problems of the workers. We must have more workers correspondence in our lan- guage press. In the fraternal organization we must raise the issues of the Ameriean workers, thus creating the dividing ling between the bourgeois and the proletarian elements. We must at the same time follow the policy of the United Front in these organizations on concrete issues. We must attempt to win the petty bourgeois elements to our side and we can certainly win many of them and neutralize another considerable section. Our fractions must bring the Party campaigns into the fraternal organi- zations. The issue of the protection of the foreign born is of course at the present time the principal cam- paign that must be brought before the foreign-born organization, ‘but other issues like the organization of the unorganized, against the injunc- tion, for a labor party, must be brought into these organizations, but always in connection with the concrete needs facing the workers in these organiza- tions. Work Among English Speaking and Youth. The language fractions must not only themselves, but also thru their organizations in which they work, edu- cate the foreign-born workers to the necessity of tying up and unifying the struggles of the entire working class. Social” Affairs Resolutions To this end our foreign press must participate in the DAILY WORKER campaign with the same zeal and in- tensity as they do in the campaign to raise funds for the language press. Our comrades in the shops must regu- larly sell the DAILY WORKER. They must collect subs for the DAILY WORKER. In most cases there are only a few in their shops who speak the same language that they do while the great bulk speak either Wnglish or many other languages. But all of the workers understand a little English and where we cannot reach them with their particular paper we can appeal to them in the English language. Our language fractions and lan- guage papers must pay more attention to the work among the young workers and the children, all of whom speak English. To this end’ every party organ in the foreign languages must have at least once a week an English section. I would suggest for the daily papers at least once a weék a column for the young worker,"and at least once a week-a column fof the children in the English language.’ Our lan- guage fractions must aid in the build- ing up of the Young Workers League and the Young Pioneers: Our main tasks at the present time in the foreign language .work are the following: 1. Bring back to the who did not register or those who are not attending meetings regularly, or who are otherwise inactive. This will strengthen our fractions in the outside organizations and provide the necessary apparatus to carry on the work while it is at the same time strengthening the general party appa- ratus. | 2. Organize fractions in all outside | organizations where we have two or more members, 8. Build the left wing in all these organizations. United Front. 4, More basic work and on concrete issues facing the American workers. 5. More attention to thé problems of the workers as a whole.” 6. More attention to thé young work- ers and the children. 20 CITY CONFERENCE LAYS BASIS FOR REAL PARTY IN WEST KANSAS CITY, May 13—A conference of the Workers (Communist) Party units in the unorganized agrarian midwest central states—Missouri, Kansas, _ fowa, Nebraska and Colorado, was held in Kansas City. The cnference laid the foundation for unified district propaganda and agitation, co-ordinating the __ ‘work of the cities of this territory. A “Saad provisions made for sub-districts. c izer will be carried out as soon $ possible. _ The conference was united on all _ ‘Major points. Trade union work, work among farmers and farm organizations amd co-operatives; work among wo- men, Negroes, youth, defense and re- Nef; reorganization of the party; The DAILY WORKER and other papers. Research work and many other vital problems were discussed and strategy for the district planned. Reorganizaiton of the party in this district is in its first stage. All agree that the party is on the right road. The outline for youth work will mo- bilize the units with systematic work to’ enable every city to havea Young Workers (Communist) League func- tioning. Excursions of the local agit- Prop committee into the farm districts Yoaded with literature for the farmer have been laid out. Literature—vest pocket size—for the farmer on trade unions, united front with city workers, labor party, etc., are to be arranged. ‘It is planned to have Worker Corre- spondents’ classes in all cities to in- crease the number of Worker Corre- > mts for the press. Builders’ ppd to be formed to help the third annual drive of The DAILY WORKER. Bystematic work among the farmers to enable us to bridge the gaps be- tween the farmers’ progressive move- ment of Texas and the Dakotas and to ‘unite all the central states from the gulf to Canada, is one of the great tasks before the party here. district committee of nine was elected Arrangements to finince a ‘full-time Ruthenberg to Speak on British Strike at Cleveland on Friday CLEVELAND, May 13.—C, E. Ruth- enberg, general secretary of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, will speak in Cleveland Friday eyening, May 14, at 8 o'clock, at the Slovenian National Home, 6421 St. Cliar avenue. Ruthen- berg will speak on “The British Strike and the American Working Class.” The meeting has been arranged by the South Slavic Section of the Work- ers (Communist) Party in connection with the convention of the Croatian Fraternal Union, which is now taking place in Cleveland. WRITE 4S YOU FIGHT! Cleveland Workers Are Urged to Attend ‘Il La- voratore’ Dance May 15 CLEVELAND, May 13.—Italian Com- munists are giving a dance for the benefit of “Il Lavoratore,” Italian Com- munist weekly, at the Moose Audito- rium, 1000 Walnut avenue, Saturday night, May 15, at 7 o'clock. As the proceeds of the dance will go towards making the “Il Lavoratore” a daily every member of the Party is urged to Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the American Worker Correspondent. Are you one? Sunday, 2:30 p. m. 5963 Fourteenth l Walter M. Soldier, recently released from a twenty-year sentence for agitation in the U.S. army, speaks in DETROIT MICH. at the FINNISH HALL Hear This Fighter for the Working Class! Auspices International Labor Defense. attend this affair. E. Sormenti, editor of the “Tl Lavora- tore,” and I. Amter, district secretary, will speak. Trumbull MAY 16 (near McGraw) Chas. Brower Memorial | Library of New York! Workers’ School Opens) NEW YORK, May 13.—The Charles Brower Memorial Library of the New York Workers’ School is now ready for use by all comrades and sympa- thizers. It is located at 108 East 14th street. The library mow has about 700 bound volumes on sociology, econom- ies, politics, labor movement, social- ism and Communism. It has about 1,000 pamphlets on those subjects, A great number of the best modern books on American political and eco- nomic conditions are being added. Request to Friendly Labor Organizations— Keep June 6th Open A picnic is arranged by the Russian Ukrainian and Polish Workers’ So- cieties for Sunday, June 6, at Marvel Inn Grove, Milwaukee Ave., opposite St. Adalbert’s Cemetery. All friendly organizations are re- quested not to arrange other affairs on that day. Foster Speaks in Detroit on Wednesday DETROIT, Mich., May 13.—Wm. Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, will speak on “The Labor Improvements of Europe, America and Russia” Wednesday night, May 19, at 8 o'clock, in the House of the Masses, corner Gratiot ands St. Aubin avenues., under the auspices of the Detroit Trade Union Educational League, Admission is 25 cents. Trumbull Speaks in Detroit on Sunday DETROIT, May 13.—Walter Trum- bull will speak in Detroit, Sunday af- ternoon, May 16, at 2:30 o’olock at the Finnish Hall, 5963 Fourteenth St., CHAMORRO RULE I$ CHALLENGED BY NICARAGUANS : retator . # Fights for .ife WASHINGTON, May 133Information reaching Washington from Nicaragua shows that Gen. Chamorto, reaction- ary dictator, must now fight for his life and for the contintidnce of his regime, which was set up last fall in consequence of his military coup against the legally elected liberal gov- ernment. Vice-President Sacasa, now a refugee in Washington; has cabled the liberal rebels in Bluefields, on the Atlantic coast of the republic, that he is sending them funds‘and is con- fident of their early triumph, Chamorro has been denied Ameri- can recognition because he got con- trol of Nicaragua by unconstitutional means. He has failed to sell in New York the Nicaraguan national bank or the national railroad, since the Nica- raguan liberals and labor organiza- tions, repressed by him, sent out warn- ing that they would repudiate any such sale of stolen national property. Now he has announced a levy of $500,- 000 on the property of Nicaraguan citizens, in order to equip his forces for putting down the present revolt at Bluefields. Chamorro knows that if he levies upon American citizens’ property in Nicaragua,:in any way except thru regularly distributed tax- ation ,the state departntent will pro- test vigorously. " The usual American «warship has been sent to Bluefields «to watch developments, and to take on board any American citizens:who may be in danger from the civib war. Unot- ficial opinion in Washington is that Chamorro will fall ant: his forces disperse, owing to the fact that he has been unable to waise money enough to maintain a military govern- near McGraw. The meeting was ar-/™ent in defiance of Washington, ranged by the International Labor De- fense. SECTION 9-A NEW YORK HOLDS ITS MEMBERSHIP «+ MEETING SUNDAY NIGHT. BROOKLYN, N. Y., May 13. — A meeting of Section 9A will be held Monday evening, May 17, at 6 o’clock at 46 Ten Eydk St. All members must be present. No excuses will be accepted for failing to attend this meeting. Organize Bakers. CHICAGO — (FP) — One hundred union bakers a day are giving their NEW YORK “NATURE FRIENDS” HOLD HIKE ON SUNDAY. NEW YORK, May 13,—The tourist club, The Nature Friends, will hold a hike this Sunday, May 16, to the Catskill Aqueduct. The meeting place is Van Cortlandt Subway Station (242nd street), downstairs, at 7:30 o'clock in the morning, Fare is 60 cents. Walking time will be about 4 hours. Union Nurses Win Overtime. SYDNEY— (FP) — Nurses in all time to the Chicago drive launched by | state and health institutions in New the joint organization committee of | South Wales who are members of the Locals 2, 13, 48, 62 and 237, Bakery | Hospital Employes union have been & Confectionery Workers Intl. union. | granted a-44-hour week with overtime Each local is obligated to furnish 20 | at time and @ half. The hours of nurs- men @ day to canvass neighborhoods | es in privately-controlied hospitals, where nonunion bread and cake 1s | who are not members of the union, are unaltered. vy being sold. i - * i Towards Better Organizations. | ‘ Party those | FORGERY OF ‘RED’ DOCUMENTS IS A PARIS INDUSTRY Prof. Milukoff Caught With Goods This Time (Special Correspondent) PARIS—(By Mail)—The latest at- tenipt to work up a ‘red scare” in Europe is singularly clumsy. How even Professor Miliukoff came to pub- lish in his Paris anti-Bolshevik paper, Les Dernieres Nouvelles, such trans- parent and nonsensical falsifications as have been widely reproduced in the press last week, is rather a mys- tery. To recall the story it may briefly be said that six South American Commu- nists, said to be returning from a conference in Moscow, were reported to have called at the Paris office of Miliukoff’s journal and to have de- scribed themselves as disillusioned and disgusted with the ways of the Communpist International and there- fore determined to expose its secret plans. They declared that the Internation- al, in secret conclave, had decided on the printing of large amounts of forged foreign bank notes in order to finance its activities, Unknown In Moscow, And the “Committee on Foreign Propaganda” had decided to abandon the principle of opposition to acts of individual terrorism and to organize the commission of such acts, The six signatories were not dele- gates to the meeting, and nothing is known of them in Moscow. There was only one Latin-American repre- sentative in Moscow, The statement that the Internation- al has adopted the completely un- Marxist principle of individual ter- rorism is on the face of it ridiculous. But whence comes these falsifications. Document Purveyors. T am informed that thefe has been considerable activity in Paris recently on the part of purveyors of forged “Communist” documents. These hawkers are not Spanish or Portu- guese—they are often Russian-speak- ing Jews. An examination of the document shows clearly enuf the nature of its source. Note the use of the state- ment about the “Committee’on For- eign Propaganda.” No such commit- tee exists in Moscow. But its name WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY Th) CHICAGO YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP MEETING Friday, May 14, 1926, 8 P.M. VILNIS, 3116 So. Halsted Street JOHN WILLIAMSON, reporting on “ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE Y. C. 1. AND ITS RESOLUTION ON THE YOUNG WORKERS’ LEAGUE OF AMERICA.” Some Remarks on Reorganization e By |. RIJAK. EVERAL months have passed since we have been reorganized on the basis of concentration groups and shop nuclei, Now, after this reorganization and after this period of work, we must take a survey of the work we have done in this period and of the aichievements and failures in our work, The mere fact that the majority of our members are still in the concen- tration groups shows that we.are far from being an organization which has attained a mass character. What do we mean by the concentration group? First of all we must answer that it is not a shop nucleus, but a united group of comrades working in the same neighborhood. Altho we are not as yet organized on the basis of shop nuclei, we must point out the success attained by us sizce our start in re- organization. The best proof of our development is the growing number of our shop nuclei and the diminish- ing number of the concentration groups. Members of the Y. W. L. must re- member that the cortcentration group is a factory for producing shop. nuclei, and that, like every factory, it must be efficiently built in order to be more productive. Because of the reorgani- zation of our League on the basis of the concentration groups we have suc- ceeded in overcoming many socialist tendencies, such as territorial ideology formerly so deeply rooted in the ranks of the Y. W. L. Thru reorganization on the basis of the concentration groups we have sute- recurs time after time in other forged “Communist” documents with which we are familiar—the products of the Druzhelovsky Berlin and Vienna, which’ have been very thoroly exposed during the Past two years. Stupid Blunders. Miliukoff's paper published a fac- simile reproduction of the signatures and titles of the six “delegates” which were appended to the document. This is somewhat unfortunate—for the forgers. The first and second sig- natures—of Gomez and Armas—are in writing that is startlingly similar. The same applies to the third and fourth signatures, while the last two are obviously signed by the same hand. The “Third International” is men- tioned six times in this “Spanish” ‘document, and each time the word used is not correct Spanish. The Spanish word is “Internacional.” In the document it is spelled either “In- ternational”—which is English or German—or “Internationalo,” which is nothing. No Spanish-speaking per- son could ever substitute a “t” for a “c,” as is done here. Again, Brazil is spelled in a strange fashion for a Spanish document. In the midst of its Spanish context it figures as “Bresil,” which is the French spelling, and not Brazilian or Spanish. Need of Farmer-Labor Party in Indiana Seen INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 13. — “Capacity to pay,” is on the tongue of every farmer in the United States and especially in Indiana as election time for United States senator is rapidly approaching, with a revolt threatened against the administration and not much good feeling for the democrats. Opportunity presents itself, to the farmer-labor forces, for forming a party of their own, at this time, more than at any time for many years. The democrats have no leaders and the republicans are discredited. The farmers say that legislation is made to protect the big corporations in their “capacity to pay.” They want the same kind of treatment from con- gress, but do not get it. The debts they owe are not being paid, because they cannot make their production cover expenses. Farm legislation has been side-tracked so often that the re- volt against the old parties is getting wide-spread thruout the western states, The deplorable thing is, how- ever, that they have no constructive political leadership. There is in the co-operatives, some foundation to build from and the farmer-labor party pro- gram is badly needed at this time in those organizations. GO TTT LCL LL ALLL THREE ROOM APARTMENT— to share with girl comrades. Miss Jackson, 511 West 130th St., New York City, Apt. 66. Rent $40 per month. “forgery factories” in|, ; 2 two little Ri THE SAD, SAD TALE PICK AND SHOVEL. WODKERS NG WORKERS LEAGUE ceeded in bringing to life such an im- portant slogan as: EVERY MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE AN ACTIVE WORKER. The stimulation of activity and re- sponsibility, thé overcoming of terri- torial ideology, strong tendency to- wards mass work, better understand- ing of the needs of the American young worker—this is what we have accomplished thru the concentration groups. But even here there is one danger which must be prevented in time. If a concentration group con- sisting of four or five comrades is formed iin a section where there are no big factories or shops, it has no field for mass activity. Such a group, then, will have no vital work and the comrades will not be very much inter- ested in their group. Then, as a re- sult, will come again the same old monotonous, routine and dull meetings with no real work. Such a concentra- tion group will very quickly become demoralized. It is necessary to quickly Hquidate such concentration ‘groups and place the comrades of those groups into liv- ing and working \concentration groups. By doing this we will draw comrades into active work and will, to some extent, enlarge the working concen- tration groups. i Not for a moment must we fool ourselves and imagine that it will take but a short time to have our League working on the basis of shop and factory nuclei. This can be ac- complished only after a long period of real mass work and thru a correct Bolshevist approach to the American laboring youth. The best method of creating shop nuclei is mass work led by a well organized concentration group. PIONEER AFFAIR. - | + PHILADELPHIA.—Comrades of the Workers Party and Young Workers League! Our slogan is ALWAYS READY! We want you to adopt this slogan and carry it out on the 14th of May—the day set for the Pioneer mass meeting, and the 15th of May at 2 p. m. at 521 York avenue; Sunday at 10 a. m. at the same address for the convention, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! OF POOR (And the weeps See wept because they were, too young to get subs for rs. hs by Wm. Gropper—from memory, of course, “SHOVEL,” says Pick, “you scooped a mouthful, You calls a spade a spade and you dig right down to rock bottom, If we were young we'd sure be on our way to Moscow!” “PICK,” says Shovel, “you hit pay dirt that time. Just eemagin’—for ‘ every sub for The Young Worker and Young Comrade you get twice ae many points as you do for the big papers. young again!” Pick, I tell ya, I wish I was “SHOVEL,” says Pick, “and don’t forget that all the extra points means it's easter to get the premiums of a swell book of RED CAR- TOONS and the high class BUST OF LENIN, Them young Reds is sure lucky,” And-then a little Johnny Red jumps up and says: “Banana oil!—you birds could learn a lot of you read The Young Worker and The Young Comrade yourselves! ought to!” Us kids will get the subs if you don’t—and you Put QuzP The moral of this tale be A old to subs for the Young The Young Worker (Sem!-Monthly—$1.00 a Year) 30 POINTS Shove This Blank Right Off the Page! Add your money and send both coin and clipping to. tale has a moral) is that you're never toe orker and Young Comrade—a young to get subs for The DAILY WORKER and THE DAILY WORKER PUB, CO. The Young Worke?...ssssssentMonths The Young Comrade.................months Monthiy. The Young Comrade (Monthly—60c a Year) 10 POINTS She Workers 1113 W. Washington Bivd., sss for Sub to