The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1926, Page 4

; E Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party NEW YORK PARTY MEMBERSHIP MEETING TO HEAR REPORT ON PLENUM NEXT FRIDAY, JUNE 18 A very important party membership meeting to listen to the report on the last plenum of the Central Executive Committee will be held on Friday, dune 18, at 8 p. m., at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th St., corner 3rd Ave., New York City. Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the party, will report for the Central Executive Committee. Admission will be by new member- ship book only. . Every party member Is urged to attend the meeting and become acquainted with the latest decisions of the party. PARTY ‘FORWARD MOVEMENT’ BEGINS AS MEMBERSHIP MEETS HE largest mass meetings of party members held by the party are expected to take place in the district headquarters during next week when C, E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the party, speaks on “The Tasks of the Party in the Light of the Decision of the Communist International.” ‘ All district offices have been notified to do their utmost to bring every member of the party in their territories to the meetings, so that they be fully informed in regard to the meaning of the decision of the Enlargéd Executive Committee of the Communist International, the attitude of the central Committee in carrying it into effect and the immediate campaigns of the party. The meetings, in addition to in- forming the membership on the party situation, will be utilized to mobilize the membership for a big forward drive In every phase of the party work, The united labor ticket campaign, the campaign to increase the membership of the reorganized party, the campaign in the trade union to stimulate the building of a broad left wing movement will be taken up in detail. “The meetings to be held are the following: Buffalo—Wednesday, June 16, Finnish Hall, 159 Grider St., 8 p. m. BOSTON—Thursday, June 17. NEW YORK—Friday, June 18, Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. 8 p. m. PHILADELPH!A—Saturday, June 19. PITSBURGH—Sunday, June 20, Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. 4 p.m. CLEVELAND—Monday, June 21. DETROIT—Tuesday, June 22, Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St. 8 p. m. CHICAGO—Wednesday, June 23. MINNEAPOLIS—Friday, June 25. Local organizations of the party outside of the headquarters city should send as many comrades as possible to attend the membership meetings. Two New Books of Vital Interest to American Labor COMPANY NION By Robert W. Dunn Author of “American Investments” etc. With Conclusions by William Z. Foster. RUSSIAN WORKERS AND WORKSHOPS IN 1926 - - By William Z. Foster THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE 156 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Il. 25 Cents Each \y EO @ 4, UST OF Ferns CENis. , 100 Points e 500 POINTS brah ia Pt ort chi Lona nped ,one year counts Per year $000 Por Your *8%s¢ 99 blank and send EVERY POINT COUNTS FOR. ATRIPJO.Moscow A THE . OAILY WORKER WAS HINGTON BOUL, Chicago. iil Enowosep §.........— ff! NAME © Bh Sse a aE 5 SBOE STATE___ LOCAL CHICAGO, WORKERS || PARTY, TO HOLD SECTION CONFERENCES THIS WEEK Section 1—Today—3427 Indiana Ave. (rear). Section 3—Today—Vilnis, 3116 S. Halsted St. Section 6—Thursday, 17—Schoen- hofen Hall, cor. Milwaukee and Ash- land. Section 4—Friday, 18—19 S, Lin- coln St. Section 5—Friday, | Clark St. New York Workers Party Will Hold Picnic June 27 NEW YORK, June 14—Workers (Communist) Party, District 2, is giv- }ing a picnic at Pleasant Bay Park, |Sunday, June 27. The Hungarian | Athletic Club football team and a} |baseball game between the Young | | Workers (Communist) League and | the Workers (Communist) Party will be the features at the picnic. <Ad- mission is 35 cents. 18—2406 N. Cannon Speaks at Kansas City Banquet KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 14, — James P, Cannon, secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense, will speak at a banquet arranged by the local International Labor Defense, with the active co-operation of the Croatian Ladies’ Educational Club, Tuesday night, June 15, at the Croatian Hall, |5 Elizabeth St., Kansas City, Kansas, jat 7 o'clock. | Music will be furnished -by the | Young Workers Croatian String Or- |chestra, SECTION THREE, CHICAGO, CONFERENCE MEETS IN VILNIS HALL TONIGHT Section Three, Chicago, section conference will take place tonight in Vilnis Hall, 3116 South Halsted St. All delegates are urged to be at the hall at 8 o'clock sharp. United States marines; American Bell in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. pass the bell during the’ Philadelphia Old Liberty Bell Under “Arrest” imperialism’s police, watch the Liberty Many thousands are expected to Sesqui-Centennial celebration. PLANNING JEWISH SOVIET REPUBLIC IN SOVIET UNION Territorial Region Allot- ted in South (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 14. — The central executive committee of thé Soviet gov- ernment has legalized the setting aside of a part of Ukrainia and Kherson as an autonomous Jewish Soviet Repub- lic. ee From the central Ukrainian repub- lies, it is planned to settle 26,000 Jew- ich families as a colony,,the Jewish colonization plans previously under- taken having had a great success, The new Jewish Soviet , Republic will have its own representatives in the central governing bedy of the Union of socialist Soviet Mepublics, Cleveland Militants Asks September Date Be Kept for T. U. E. L. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 14. —The Trade Union Educational League is arranging a picnic and dance for Sun- day September 5, at the Sachsenheim Garden, 7001 Dennison Ave. All mem- bers and friends of the league and all sympathetic organizations are request- ed to reserve this date in order to assist the league to conduct a success. ful affair. Cleveland Machinist Local Contributes to Aid British Strikers CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 14, Machinists Local Union, No. 439 after considering the big struggles now being waged by the workers both in England and the United States, do- nated $10 to the British Miners relief and $25 to the Passaic Textile strikers relief, Crew of Schooner Geneva Is Rescued PORT ARTHUR, Tex., June 14. — Seven members of the crew of the schooner Geneva, which burned to the water's edge off West Palm Beach, Fla., were rescued from an open boat ‘by the tanker gulf of Port Arthur, ac- cording to radio advices. First Picnic o Summer PLEASANT ATHLETICS, GAMES AND UNTIL MI Music by Doubl Auspices: Workers Unionport car to Unionport (end of ‘Tickets on sale at: Jimmie Hi Bronx, New York ‘ Busses From and To the Station. NEW YORK |W. A, HOLDS ‘SERIES OF OPEN AIR MEETS Campaign Meeting with Great Success n (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 14. 4 The open air campaign of the New York section of the International Worké#s’ Aid con tinues with marked success. The following meetings ‘have been arranged, on which committees of Passaic strikers will be present and speak, The meetifigs are as follows: Wednesday, June 16 — 7th St. & Ave. A. Speakers: J. Oblans, Sylvan A. Pollack, Margaret Unjes, J. Soren- son and Sam Nessin. Thursday, June 17 — Columbus Circle & 59th St. Speakers: Pascal Cosgrove, John McDonald, Sylvan A. Pollack, Chas. Raise and J. Sorenson. Friday, June 18 — Prospect Ave & 163rd St. Speakers: Sylvan A. Pollack, Edward Stevens, Chas, Mitchell and Chas, Raiss. Saturday, June 19 — Intervale and Wikins Ave. Speaker: D, Benjamin, Louis A. Baum, Chas, Raiss, Sylvan A, Pollack and Sam Nesgin, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! fenecnncnnnnmnnechanndindinneonncndonrintecic leh as f the Season! ‘ Festival Sunday, June 27th, 1926 BAY PARK DANCING FROM 10 A. M. DNIGHT le Brass Band. Admission 36 Cents. Party, District 2, DIRECTIONS: Take Bronx Subway or “L” to 177th St, then take line), Broadway Subway to 18ist St., then crosstown car to Unionport. iggins Book Shop, 127 University Place; Freihett, 30 Union Square; Workers Party, 108 Hast 14th Street; and all party headquarters and newspapers. ‘ i NEW YORK WORLD LABOR EXPERT IS BRANDED ‘LIAR’ Passaic Strikers Rap Red-Baiter Leary (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., June 14, — In an open letter to the New York World, Albert Weisbord, leader of the Passaic textile strike ,exposes the methods of John J. Leary, Jr., a so-called “labor expert” and reputed to be a member of the United States department of just- ice. The statement follows: “In a statement to the press, Wil- liam E. G. Batty of the American Fed- eration of Textile Operatives and chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Unity Conference called by the Federated Textile Unions last Satur- day and Sunday, branded as false the statement made by John J. Leary, Jr., the ‘labor expert’ of the New York World. “Mr. Leary had stated, altho he was not present at the meeting and did not know anything about it, that in the meeting Weisbord had proposed a plan for calling sympathetic strikes, which plan was turned down by the conference and to which Brother Tanzy of the American Federated Textile Operatives was bitterly op- posed. Brother Batty points out that nothing could ‘be further from the truth and that the reporters stating this were wildly using their imagina- tion, All action taken at the confer- ence was unanimous and a hearty spirit of cordiality prevailed. “It seems strange that the New York Worldy a liberal paper, should continue to have in its employ one who is reputed to be a member of the department of justice and who writes such deliberately false articles. Mr. Leary is being repudiated by the American Federation of Labor and by every decent labor organization that knows what his tactics are.” Jersey Labor Paper Follows Queer Line of Unionist Policy NEWARK, N. J., June 14, — The Messenger, May, 1926, the official organ of Essex Trades Council (New Jersey) affiliated with the A. F. of L. contains several things which bring out the true characteristics’ of the A. F, of L. bureaucratic officialdom, Under “Essex Trades Council Notes,” a statement runs: “Strike of Machinists, Engineer ind Firemen in: the: Ballentine,, Fei senspan, Krueger and Union Brew ories. . . it was moved that the above mentioned breweries and théir pro ducts be declared unfair. Motion un animously carried.” ‘Turning the pages of the Buletin. however, une finds advertisements for the Felgenspan and Union Breweries urging the readers of the Essex county Union Labor Messenger to “Order a case today from your grocer pr dealer.” And Henry F, Hilfers, state secretary of the A. F. of L, is the business manager of the Union Labor Messenger. ; ———_ Moscow oF bust! Don't bust before you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you can have your bust. IN SPOKANE, WASH. You can buy The Daily Worker and The Workers Monthly at the cigar store if 7 S. P. JACOY, N. 230 Stevens. Drop over for a paper and a smoke! ))somebody out here.” ANEW Goa Sinclair (Copfright, 1926, by Upton Sinciatr) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. : Dad and his young son, both dresee@ alike, and richly, are motoring over @ smooth and fiawless concrete road toe at a good clip, with a weather eye for speed cops, whom Dad hates. Dad drove he mused to himeeif. He used to be Jim Ross, teamster, then he was J. A. Ross and Co., general merchandise, at Queen Center, California, and now h@ is J. Arnold Ross, oi! operator, on his way to Beach City to sign a lease. Bee side him sits “Bunny” thinking of altogether different things. They come te Santa Ynez, a newly built, white painted, California town. The only hint of the old west was a solitary cow-boy in “chaps” and an old Indian mumbling his lips. For the rest, it was like any other main street town—with its nae tionally advertised magazines containing all the nationally advertised advere tisements of the nationally advertised articles ranchmen came in to buy, They leave the town and hit it up on a broad boulevard called Mission Way. Ther@ were ‘signs with queer Spanish names indicating a history behind each ones “Bunny” asks Dad what happened in “Verdrugo (Executioner) Canyon.” Dad doesn’t know. He™shares the opinion of the manufacturer of a nationally ad+ vertised automobile—that history is mostly “bunk.” They go thru town after town of rectilinear blocks and whizz by “sub-divisions.” By dint of constant passing of other cars they come to Beach City. They put_up at the big hotel and in the lobby meet Dad's “lease-hound,” Ben Skutt. They are seeking to gain possession of some valuable oil lands for which a number of concerns are competing. Those that own the lands at first united on a proposal to agree to iL-operators on of the Hensee point. He attempts to get the property ow Ross. A number of the property owners refuse to sell, threatening to break away from the rest. At the moment when threats begin to fly thick and fast Skutt introduces J. Arnold Ross. e ° e e ‘ VII j Old Mrs. Ross, Bunny’s grandmother, ‘was accustomed to protest strenuously against a boy being taken about on these business trips. It was enough to destroy all the sweetness of his nature, she declared; it would make him a hardened cynic in his childhood, all this sordidness and hatefulness of money-grabbing. But Bunny’s father answered that that was life, and there was no good fooling yourself; Bunny would have to live in the world some day, and the quicker he learned about it the better. So there the boy sat, on his perch in the window sill, watching, and recalling his grandmother’s words. Yes, they were a mean bunch, sure enough; Dad was right when he said you had to watch out every minute, because some- body would be trying to take something away from you. These people had simply gone crazy, with the sudden hope of getting a lot of money in a hurry. Bunny, who had always had all the money he could use, looked down ‘with magnificent scorn upon their petty bickering. You couldn’t trust such people around the corner, he decided; there was nothing they wouldn’t do to you. The fat old woman in the yellow satin dress, with her fat red arms and her fat legs cased in silk—it wouldn’t take much more to have her clawing somebody’s face. And that hatchet-faced man With the voice like a buzzsaw—he would be capable of stick- ing a knife into you on a dark night! Dad wanted his son to understand every detail of these busi- ness arrangements: the terms of the lease, the provisions of the law, the size of the different lots, the amounts of money involved. He would talk about it afterwards, and it would be a kind of examination, to see how much the boy had really understood. So Bunny listened attentively, and put this and that together, remembering the points of the lease as he had heard his father going over them with Ben Skutt and Mr. Prentice while they were driving out to the field inthe latter’s car. But the boy could not keep his mind from going off to the different personal- ities involved, and their points of view, and the hints one got Of their lives. That old fellow with the stooped shoulders and the gnarled hands—he was some kind of poor workingman, and you could see he was unhappy over this arguing; he wanted some- body he could trust, and he looked this way and that, but there was no such person in the crowd. That young woman with the nose-glasses, she was a hard oke—what did she do when she wasn’t quarreling? That elderly couple that looked rich—they were very much on their dignity, but they had come to get their share, all the same, and they weren’t having any generous emo- tious towards the “little lots”! The old gentleman drew his cMair over beside Dad and began a whispered conversation. Bunny saw Dad shake his head, and the old gentleman drew away. Dad spoke to Skutt, and the latter rose and said: “Mr. Ross wishes me to make clear that he isn’t interested in any proposition for leasing a portion of the block. He wouldn’t put down a well without room for offset wells. If you people can’t agree, he’ll take another lease that I’ve found for him.” This struck a chill to them, and stopped the wrangling. Dad saw it, and nodded to his “lease-hound,” who went on: “Mr. Ross has an offer of a lease on the north side, which has very, good prospects, because we believe the anticline runs that way. There are several acres which belong to one party, so it will be easy to agree.”—Yes, that scared the wits out of them; it was several minutes before they were quarreling again! Where Bunny sat in the window-sill, he could see the lights of the “discovery well,” now shut off and awaiting the building of tanks; he could hear through the open window the hammering of the riveters on the tanks, and of carpenters ‘building new lerricks along the slope. His attention was wandering, when uddenly he was startled by a whispered voice, coming from the jarkness, apparently right alongside him: “Hey, kid!” Bunny peered around the edge of the window, and saw a figure, flattened against the side of the house. “Hey, kid,” said the whisper again. “Listen to me, but don’t let nobody know you're listenin’. They mustn’t know I’m here.” Bunny’s thought was, “A spy! Trying to find out about the lease!” So he was on the alert; he listened to a steady, per- sistent whisper, intense and moving: “Hey, kid! I’m Paul Watkins, and the lady what lives here is my aunt. I dassen’t let her know I’m here, see, cause she'll make me go back home, I live on a ranch up in the San Elido, and I run away from home ’cause I can’t stand it, see. I got to get a job, but first I got to have somethin’ to eat, cause I’m near starved. And my aunt would want me to have it, ‘cause we're friends, see—only she’d want me to go back home, and I can’t stand it. So I want to get somethin’.to eat out of the kitchen, and when I earn some money, I'll rail it to her, so I'll just be borrowin’, see. What I want you to do is to unlock the kitchen door. I won't take nothin’ but a piece of pie, and maybe a sand- wich or somethin’, see. All you-got to do is, tell my aunt to let you go into the kitchen and get a drink of water, and then turn the key in the door and go back into the house. You come out the front door if you want to, and come around and make sure it’s all like I tell you. Say kid, be a good scout, ‘cause I’m up against it, it’s sure tough not to have a meal all day, and I been hitch- hikin’ and walkin’’a lot o’ the time, and I’m done up. You come out and I'll tell you about it, but don’t try to talk to me jhere, ‘cause they'll see your lips movin’, see, and they'll know there’s wards a Jer_of purple mountains. - The bi next to his father, eagers eyed, His father is his hero. They reach the mountains and climb higher and higher. Then down the other side