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

THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party “The Task of the Party in the Light of the C. I. Decision” to Be Discussed at Membership Meetings B* decision of the political committee of the party, Comrade C, E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the party, will address mass meetings. of the party members in all principal cities to carry to the membership of the party the spirit of the slogan, “Unity and Work,” which dominated the recent plenary session of the central committee. Comrade Ruthenberg introduced the resolution on “The Task of the Party in the Light of the C. |. Decision” in an hour and a half speech at the plenum of the central committee. His speech dealt first, with the decision of the Communist International, the “need»-of liquidating the remnants of factionalism in the party thru a correct inner party line which would draw into the party leadership all¢om- rades capable of contributing to it, without discrimination as to previous factional grouping; second, with the economic situation now develop- ing and the prospect of a depression; third, with the political*situa- tion and the situation in the labor movement; fourth, with the main tasks of the party in the light of this analysis. This preseftation of the party situation will be given to the membership a the meetings now being arranged. These méstings will be of the utmost importance to the “whole party, for thruvthem the campaign to mobilize the whole strength of the party will be advanced and the membership familiarized with the policies and tactics which the party must apply in the present situation. The meetings scheduled are as follows: Wednesday, June 16, Buffalo, Finnish Hall, 159 Grider St., 8 Pp. m, Thursday, June 17, Boston. Friday, June 18, New York City. Saturday, June 19, Philadelphia, Sunday, June 20, Pittsburgh. Monday, June 21, Cleveland. Tuesday, June 22, Detroit. Wednesday, June 23, Chicago. Friday, June 25, Minneapolis, The meeting halls in. the cities other than Buffalo will be an- nounced later. These meetings should be real mass meetings of party members. Every member of the party should attend and thoroly familiarize him- self with the party situation and party work. Members living in citi es close to where the district headquarters are located should attend the meetings, or at least a few representatives should be sent jo can report to the party organizations. The party has already begun a movement forward. ment will be given a new impetus thru these meetings. This mave- AT DEFENSE MEET HERE ON i6TH While the Passaic texitle atrike ie runci strike is running into its twenty-first week, the General Relief Committee is starting an extensive drive in Chicago for relief for the striking workers and for. the de- fense of the persecuted leaders. The committee Plans to’ organize relief conferences in the city. New York Workers Party Will Hold ‘Picnic June 27 NEW YORK. — A baseball game between the district executive com- mittee of the party and the district executive commitee of the Young Workers (Communist) League will be one of the novel features of the sum- mer festivals scheduled for Sunday, ee i International June 27, at Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx, | U#bor Defense’ is | co- New York. A Hungarian soccer team, |OPerating in defending the strike victims and has succeeded in rafly- ing many organizations and individuals in united efforts. The I. L. D. is q bringing the leader of 77% the textile strike, Albert Weisbord, here to speak together with Attorney Clarence Darrow at the mass meeting to be held ‘Yat the Ashland Audito- 7 rium Wednesday, June ? 16. It is expected that { this meeting will become a al help to enlist support in the drive for relief and for the further defense Activities. At the office of the International Labor Defense it is said that this meet- ing will become of particular significance at the present moment with 91 members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, mostly women and mothers, going to jail to serve terms for strike picketing imposed jby the notorious injunction judge,+- |Dennis E, Sullivan. This should serve |!” their plants and the brutal means |to so much the more forcefully unite of, assistance employed by them 1s well known. No one is more qualified ithe labor movement in defense of its to describe this than Organizer Weis- right to strike and to picket. bord, Attorney Darrow has become The heroic struggle of the Passaic |famous for his scathing indictments textile strikers has attracted world jof the way in which capitalism admin- wide ‘attegtion. The stubborn resist- |isters justice and is now taking partic- jance of the textile barons to any ef-|ular interest in the defense of the forts of organization of the workers !textile strike victims. BROADCAST DEBS’ APPEAL FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI AS MASS races, games, dances and other sports with music from a double-brass band and a schedule that runs all day from 10 a.m, until midnight, give promise that this first picnic of the season of Dis- trict 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party will bé a success both from the standpoint of entertainment and finance. Admission is 35c. and tickets are on sale at the Jimmie Higgins Bookshop and all party headquarters and party newspaper offices, N. Y, Sub-Section 3-A Meets. Sub-Section 3-A, New York, will have its monthly meeting, Tuesday, June 15, at 6:30 p,m. at 350 E. 8ist St. New York City. The meeting is in the hands of the district agitprop department and its representative will address the, meet- ing on the question of “Reorganization and Mass Activity.” Clarence ~....0w. N. Y. Library Open Evenings. The New York Workers School Li- brary opened for use a few weeks ago and is open every evening from 6 to 10 in Room 34 at 108 East 14 Street, New York City. In addition to the 700 books, 1,000 pamphlets and 45 periodicals which the Library now has, it is daily pur- chasing publications of interest to the labor movement. Gate Box? ON TO RED MOSCOW! Herman Cade, Branford Conn. 20 20] Nat Gomez -... 10> ohn Lambert, Hilton, N. J. 230 | ohn einrickson .. D Subs Received In ie Third Annual | sien Zetron, Baltimore, ‘Mdz.160 ....109|- A. Holt. 20 20 National Builders’ Campaign, Esther Markeson, Philadelp ae ee & Hykand 2 rea] 65 395 A. L. Pollact LSE hp ain ida cing Sam Okal” Wivesiin 20 20| John’ Rogach 4 45 Points. Total|K. Randarczki, Edwardsville, } Plav ww 660 2,330 BOSTON, MASS.— Pa. - 100 100 | Gertrude Welsh 20 85 A.. Bercovitz . i 100 140| J. Cooper, Buffalo, N 40 1,160 | H. Stavins, Hammond, In 20 20 H. Gage 555 | Emil Honegger, Rochest KANSAS CITY, M L. \Giibert 890) A. ©. Guzzardo 20 20 \ Biste Put 45|__ © Hugo Oehler 30 1,110 sie Pultu | Boris B. Rubenstein 4 “ a60 | MILWAUKEE, WI et D. Schwartz . 100 100 | J. Kasper, Wilkinsburgh, Pa 1,640 - Cohen 4 Fed R. Shoban 165 1,410) (E. Pittsburgh, Pa.) sone t eerikanncs 20 20 A. Zelms .... 8 45| Leo Kauppilo, Monessen, Pa....100 420 r_htaline, i eo a Jos, Ruich, Elizabeth, N. Scccee 800 700 PITTSBURGH, PA. ‘Janke ‘cet Waukegan, 400 625 Banton cre ne Tian ele J. 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Ganapole 0 09 Sundelin 20 20 Rapids, Mich, 30 30 Mrs. L. Sweet .. w 20 30|T- Saneoff, Ponti 20 +165|SEATTLE, WASH.— i 100 100) CHICAGO, ILL P. Kadieff 100 © 100 Sonia Winett a ae 20 H. Cohen .. sw 20 6s}, M. Orovich oe 20 20 10 10 | 95 4,210 ‘wo New Books sek A. Peterson, Oakiand, Galif...... 30 30 SAN FRANCISCO, CALI be ° ‘ 00 of Vital Interest te American Labor ee 60 270 20 20 20 130 380 870 30 30 . C. Cundiff, Hartford, Ky... 10 s 10 Joe (Rodriguez, 00100 20 20 10 10 Ca 30 30 T. Taira, Kyoto, J 30 30 Cirilo §. 8. Honorlo, 20 20 00100 30 30 By Robert W. Dunn Author of “American Invesiments” ete. With Conclusions by William Z. Foster. USSIAN WORKERS AND WORKSHOPS By William Z. Foster THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGU Fi | 156 W. Washington Street, ; Chicago, Ill. Sofia Court Jails Bulgarian Youth SOFIA, Bulgaria—(By Mail)— The trial of Brantanoff, Mitzeff and Ange- loft, who were accused of having been the organizers of the Sofla re, ig of the Young Communist Leagué> has been completed. Bratanoff was sen- tenced to 1% years at hard labor and a 60,000 leva fine. The other two were released under the amnesty law. r Bn as a part of its campaign to organize Seventy-five thousand buttons, bear- ing the slogan “Life and Freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti,” which encircles the photographs of the two workers, are being prepared also. tons will be on hand at scores of meet- ings everywhere afid be a constant visible sign of the solidarity expressed by labor with the\two labor agitators. Already, International ‘Labor © De- fense has distributed a quarter of a million leaflets bearing its original appeal to American workers to rally to the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, giving a short resume of the case and indicating the danger the defendants were in. Together with the leaflet went 5,000 copies of the splendid poster drawn by Fred Ellis which now | PROTEST GROWS AT EXECUTION The first quota of a quatter. ofa ‘million ¢ copies of the appeal of Eugene V. Debs to American labor for Sacco and Vanzetti are being shipped out to all parts of the country by the national office of International Labor Defense innocent Italian workers who face death in Masschusetts, These but-!y, p, announces, brings in mall with the protest and agitation for the two covers the walls of hundreds of labor meeting places and halls. Every day, the national office of I. news of more mass protest meetings, conferences ‘organized or being plan- ned, resolutions adopted by unions and other labor organizations and sent to Alvan T, Fuller, governor of Massachusetts, at the state house in Boston. The announced determination of the district attorney to “rush the Sacco- Vanzetti case to a culmination as soon as the law allows” shows the necesit: for increased activity of the labo: movement if the plotted judicial mur- der is to be halted. LOS ANGELES LABOR DEMANDS NEW SACCO-VANZETTI TRIAL LOS ANGELES, Cal., and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. dune 13.—The Los Angeles Central Labor Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding a new trial for Nicola Sacco Pittsburgh to Hold Sacco-Vanzetti Meet Wednesday, June 23 PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 13.—Inter- national Labor Defense of Pittsburgh has sent out a call to all working class and fraternal organizations for the or- ganization of, a Sacco and Vanzetti conference to be held on Wednesday, June 23, at Walton hall, 220 Stanwix street, at 8 p.m. A great attendance is expected at ‘this conference. O'Fallon Coaldiggers Demand New Trial for Sacco and Vanzetti O'FALLON, IIL, June *13.— Local Union No. 705, United Mine Workers of America, adopted a resolution pro- testing against the attempt to railroad Nicola Sacto and Bartolomeo Vanzetti to the electric chair and demand a new trial for these two workers, Stanley Clark Tours for Sacco, Vanzetti Stanley Clark, well-known labor orator, will tour the eastern Ohio mining section in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti as follows: Powhattan Point, June 14, 7 p. m. Bellaire, June 15, 7 p, m. Other Sacco-Vanzett{ meetings to be held there are: Bradley, June 16, 7 p. m. Dillonvale, June 17, 7 p, m. Torture Worker to Death for Reading Communist Manifesto BUCHAREST, Houmania June 13, The worker, Pastchinkoy, died while being tortured by the Roumanian po- lice in Tighina, Bessarabia, for read- ing a Comaruast manifesto, ia Opposes Watson crete By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. “The Workers’ Party stands commit- ted to the use of all its energies for the building of an American Labor Party on a national scale. Neverthe- less, the instructions of the central executive committee to the districts |in the 1926 campaign declared: will be three forms in which the party | will go into the elections: (1) Thru ex- isting Farmer and Labor Parties; (2) thru piscing.a united front labor tickets on the ballot?=(3) by placing Workers’ Party tickets on the ballot.” The question naturally arises, Why this flexibility of tactics? Why this | variety of forms? American political conditions, un- like those of England, are such that a National Labor Party tends to come into being by the foundation of va- rious local and state Labor Parties, gradually converging towards an American Labor Party and finally crystallizing when the national senti- ment for their unification and for the creation of a single Labor Party on a national scale is powerful enough. Sane in Va., Insane in 'N. Y. Economically, the United States is a single unit, but because of this fed- eral system of government, the states have widely divergent laws and dis- tinct administrations. Thus, in ex- treme cases, men have been known to be divorced by the laws of one state and yet, marrying again, become biga- mists by the laws of another. There have even been cases, as the Chal- oner case, where a man was insane in New York and sane in Virginia, When the interests of big business require it, “state rights” are promptly forgotten and by all sorts of legal fic- tions, a unified national law in a given field is put across. Conversely, when | capital wishes to block a national law, the theory of state rights is zealously |upheld and the law is nullified and | declared unconstitutional as an inter- |ference with state sovereignty. In this manner, every child labor law thus far put on the statute books has been set aside, . The Constitution of the United States prohibits the passage of laws limiting or abridging freedom of speech, press or assemblage, or limit- ing the right of every citizen to bear arms. But the Constitution has been so interpreted that any state may freely adopt criminal syndicalist laws, laws forbidding the carrying of arms, laws forbidding mass picketing and other forms of free assemblage. Nev- ertheless, when the war broke out, a national “espionage”. act was passed which was effectively used on a na- tional scale along with the numerous criminal syndicalist and criminal an- archy acts of the various states. Brakes on Progress, The courts of the United States have been one of the chief instruments for blocking legislation which expresses he needs of the working class. They ave always appealed to precedents established in a period when there was no working class and no modern industry. Labor protection measures, child la- bor laws, regulations of the length of the work day, minimum wage meas- ures, social insurance, etc., have been construed by the capitalist courts as state matters and not national ones, therefore the labor movement has had to fight in each state separately for the passage of such laws and conse- quently labor political activities tend to be of a local nature. It is only when such laws are finally passed in a given state that the state supreme courts steps in and declares them.un- constitutional, and, as a last resort, if the bosses lose, they appeal to the national supreme court, which gives the final death blow to the measure in question. The Central Labor Union. Again, the natural basis for politi- cal activity tends to be the local Cen- tral Labor Council in municipal mat- ters and the State Federation of La- bor in state matters. These bodies are much closer to the rank and file (par- ticularly the former of them) than is the executive council and the national convention of the American Federa- Albert Stump of Indianapolis is the candidate on the democrat ticket in opposition to United States Senator James E, Watson on the republican ticket. Borah Reads Letter From Soviet Russi Into Congress Record WASHINGTON, sJune 13— (FP)— Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee has read into the Congressional Record a statement from the editor of the Journal of Com- merce, of New York, now in Russia, describing the Soviet system as hav- ing launched Russia upon a vast busi- ness experiment—perhaps the great- est of modern times, Borah urged his fellow senators to read the articles written by this edi- tor upon-the present situation in the Soviet Union, and its signific the economic development of world, tion of Labor, Consequently, it is in “There | New York and the United Labor Ticket | ARTICLE VII. Why a Local Labor Party? the Central Labor Council that the de- mands of labor for independent politi- cal action first makes itself felt and most strongly so, Local Governments as Strike Breakers. The greatest stimulus to the forma- tion of a Labor Party is the use of the courts, police and other governmental agencies as strike breaker. Yet, ex- cept in the basic industries in big na- tional strikes such as railroad and coal strikes or the big steel strike, it is the local or state courts and the local po- lice or the state constabulary and the local and state governmental agencies generally that do the strike breaking. Consequently, again the first natural step of labor towards independent po- litical action is aimed at the local government which is used against him and he makes a demand that a work- ers’ government be set up in the city and state. Thus, because of the great extent of territory of the United States (it is as if all the countries of Europe were fused into one), because of the. diver- sified industries, because of the di- vision into states containing industrial centers, because of the diversified na- ture of the farm industry, because of divergent laws in each state and the state and ‘local courts with their in- junctions, and because it is generally the local police and the local govern- ment rather than the United States army and the national government that have been used against strikes, and because of the doctrine of state rights and the innumerably separate state legislatures, and finally because the government of the United States has only recently become a centralized government and still is not nearly so centralized as are the governments of the European countries—for all these reasons and for the reason also that local labor councils are most respon- sive to the needs and desires of the rank and file, that the natural mode of formation of a laborparty in Amer- ica is thru the formation of various lo- cal labor and farmer dabor parties, at least in the states most favorably dis- posed, as a preliminary to the forma- tion of a national labor party. “ There are times, however, such as the period 1920-1923, when the im- petus for a national labor party is very much stronger. This was due, in the period mentioned, to the open use of the national government as a strike breaker in the case of the railroad, coal and steel strikes, and therefore such national unions as the Railrdad Brotherhoods made a nation-wide drive for a labor party. The Task Before Us, This year, however, it is obvious that no national labor party will be formed and therefore it is the task of our districts, according to local condi- tions, to make the biggest possible steps forward toward the formation of local labor parties and the creation of a sentiment for a national party. There are some states in which Farmer-Labor Parties already exist and the problem of the Communist is to strengthen and broaden them. There are others in which a labor party can be created, and still others in which a united labor itcket, as a first step toward a labor party, can be set up. New York falfs into this category and every effort must be made to set up a genuine united labor ticket in the New York campaign. If the various units of the party all over the country create the proper pre- conditions from below, we can trust the government to create the proper conditions from above so that in 1928, which is a national presidential cam- paign, a National Labor Party may be formed. Four Badly Injured When Trains Crash Four persons were badly injured and scores narrowly escaped injury when a southbound Wilson Ave, ex- press train crashed into the rear end | of a westbound Ravenswood express train, completely demolishing the rear coach. g SEND IN A SUB! First Picnic of the Season! Summer Festival Sunday, June 27th, 1926 PLEASANT BAY PARK Bronx, New York ATHLETICS, GAMES AND DANCING FROM 10 A. M. UNTIL MIDNIGHT Music by Double Brass Band. Busses From and To the Station. Aubpic Admission 35 Cents, : Workers Party, District 2, DIRECTIONS: Take Bronx Subway or “L” to 177th St., then take Unionport car to Unionport (end of line), Broadway Subway to 181st St., then crosstown car to Unionport. ‘Tickets on sale at: Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 University Place; Freiheit, 30° Union Square; Workers Party, 108 Bast 14th Street; and all party heaauariars and newspapers. ~