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

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party _ New York to Hold Big Membership Meeting to Hear Ruthenberg Friday What promises to be the largest and most enthusiastic party member- ship meeting ever held in New York will take place this Friday evening, dune 18, at Webster Hail, 119 East 11th St., New York City, at which Com- rade C. E. RUTHENBERG, general secretary of the party, will introduce the discussion. Comrade Ruthenberg will speak on “The Tasks of the Party in the Light of the Comintern Decision.” The entire membership must turn out so as to | be fully Informed as to the meaning of the decision of the enlarged executive of the Comintern in regards to the American situation and the attitude of the central committee of the party in carrying this decision Into effect. This meeting will also serve to mobillze the membership and give a big FOR- WARD DRIVE to all phases of party work. The united labor ticket campalgn, the recruiting campaign, the campaign In the trade unions to help build a powerful broad left wing—these matters of such paramount importance to our party will be taken up in detail, Every party member in District No. 2 will be at the membership meeting Friday at Webster Hall. What The Daily Worker Is--- What It Must Become By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. SIXTH ARTICLE. bs is necessary that The DAILY WORKER follow events and de- velopments in the trade union move- ment much more closely than it has ever done. It must do this if it is to give a lead to our party and the left wing in the work in the trade unions—the base of all our other major party pro- grams and tasks. It is impossible for the DAILY WORKER to speak authoritatively about the American labor movement and the developments which are tak- ing place within it unless it speaks concretely. If we were not a responsible section of the labor movement, if we were not the MOST responsible section, if we merely peered at the labor move- ment from outside in the S. L. P. fashion, if our function was only to criticize and denounce, if we were bent only gn wrecking and then picking up what we could of the wreckage, wa could afford to speak only in general terms. UT our party has for its first task the building of a powerful and mili- tant trade union movement, the stimu- lation of organization work by the unions and the bringing of the mil- lions of unorganized workers, particu- larly in the basic industries, into the unions. Confronted with this task, it is hec- essary that our official organ speak so that it not only inspires but warrants the fullest confidence being placed in it by all honest workers—organized and unorganized. Untiring attention to the trade union movement is necessary. There must be in the DAILY WORK- ER a department devoted exclusively to the developments in the various labor unions and the labor movement as a whole. The official journals of the trade unions must be studied, their weak- nesses and mistakes explained, the reasons for them given and concrete remedies proposed. ‘We must not allow ourselves to be provoked into overloading our official organ with vitriolic attacks on union officials. They should be attacked on the basis of their actions and utter- PAMPHLETS BY LENIN, STATE AND REVOLUTION. One of the most widely known works of Lenin. A Marxian analysis of the State and a lesson in the revo- lutionary necessity of the establish- ment of the “Dictatorship of the Pro- letariat.”. A most important contri- bution to Communist theory. In attractive Durofiex, durable binding. TMPERIALISM— italism. A brilliant explanation of the final stage of Capitalism in the world struggle for the monopolistic control of markets—its development into Cap- ftalist imperialism. This great work should form part of every worker's Ubrary. $.50 $.25 Final Stage of @ap- ABOUT LENIN, “S LENIN, THE GREAT STRATEGIST, by A. Losovsky. A portrayal of Lenin in action as @ Marxist, logician, revolutionary strategist and proletarian states- man, .. by the present secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions. $.15 ABOUT PRINCIPLES OF LENIN. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LENINISM, by I. STALIN. An important work on Communist theory and practice during the period that Lenin lived and led—the period of Capitalist Imperialism. Written by a close co-worker of Lenin—the pres- ent Secretary of the Russian Com- munist Party, 78 pp. Durofiex Covers. ances, but always in a responsible manner which cannot be confused with the abuse indulged in by the open shop journals. Many of the class collaboration ma- neuvers indulged in by the bureau- crats are not understood as such by the rank and file and we cannot there- fore speak of them in our official or- gan as if the union officials were chal- lenging a rank and file wholly con- scious of the dangers inherent in the B. and O. plan and the Watson-Parker bill, to use two outstanding examples, to the labor movement. HE truth of the matter is—and 1 have verified this by dozen of con- versations with Communists and left- wingers closely in touch with workers in the railroad industry—that the rank and file of the railroad unions either have accepted such schemes or remain neutral towards them with the belief that the unions have nothing to lose by trying out these methods. In other words, the conditions of the workers in the railroad industry have been so bad since the 1922 defeat that they grasp at any proposal Which promises relief. The officials have sensed this atti- tude of the rank and file and have taken advantage of it to put over class collaboration plans which, unless repudiated by the workers, ultimately will tie them hand and foot. ‘O blanket denunciation of these schemes simply on the basis that they are forms of class collaboration will inspire any confidence in the DAILY WORKER, Unless we are able to connect such schemes with the daily problems with which workers are familiar they wili look upon them as just another Com- munist complaint made for the sake of complaining. HE connection of union officials with employers, their continual ef- forts to seek a solution of the prob- lems of the labor movenient by giving it the character of a purely business enterprise, their unending claims of “Americanism” and _ respectability, their belief, always finding expression in practice, that there needs only to be an application of “American princi- | ples” by “enlightened employers” for | America to become a paradise for | workers, leading them into loyalty to the two-party system of American cap- italism with the hope of finding enough “friends of labor” to give the trade unions “a square deal,” all of these dangerous tendencies of labor official- dom can be exposed so that our class will understand them only by an accu- mulation of evidence gathered out of the records of the labor movement day by day, HE difficulty for us 1s that the DAILY WORKER and the whole party has acted more or less on the belief that heated utterances and high- power language could substitute ef- fectively for such commonplace things as the elementary facts with which men and women who work eight to welve hours a day at manual labor re familiar and-interested in. MASS MEMBERSHIP {TO BUILD PARTY The district offices of the Party are taking up energetically the work of arranging the largest membership meetings of the Party to hear the report of Comrade C, E. Ruthenberg on “The Tasks of the Party in the Light of the C. I. Decision.” These meetings will be held in the following cities: Buffalo, Wednesday, June 16, Fin- nish Hall, 159 Grider street, 8 p. m. Boston, Thursday, June 17. New York, Friday, June 18, Web- ster Hall, 119 E. 11th street, 8 p. m. Philadelphia, Saturday, June 19, Slovak Hall, 510 Fairmount avenue, 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 20, La- bor Lyceum, 35 Miller street, 4 p. m. Cleveland, Monday, June 21, Gra- dina Hall, 6021 St, Clair ayenue, 8 p.m. Detroit, Tuesday, June 22, Finnish Hall, 5969 14th street, 8 p. m. Chicago, Wednesday, June 23, Northwest Hall, North avenue and Western avenue, 8 p. m. Minneapolis, Friday, June 25. Every member of the Party in the cities named should attend these meetings. Members from nearby cities are also invited. The Party Is mobilizing to go for- ward under the slogan “Unity and Work.” Section Five Conference Postponed. All delegates to the Section Confer- ence of Section Number Five please take notice that the conference has been postponed to Friday, June 18, at 8 p, m. sharp, at 2406 North Clark street: Delegates to the conference are expected to come sharp on time and bring with them specific informa- tion as to membership, dues payments, ete., regarding their nuclei. LOCAL CHICAGO, WORKERS PARTY, TO HOLD SECTION CONFERENCES THIS WEEK Section 6—Thursday, 17—Schoen- hofen Hall, cor. Milwaukee and Ash- land. Section 4—Friday, 18—19 Ss. Lin- colin St. Section 5—Friday, Clark St, 18—2406 N. Religious Procession in New York a Prelude to Eucharist Congress (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 15.—A colorful prelude to the medieval rites to be witnessed in Chicago during the In- ternational Eucharistic Congress be- ginning next week was supplied in New York by a religious procession headed by the Papal Nuncio, Cardinal Bonzano, and eight European cardi- nals. The procession was watched by 300,000 persons, many of them kneel- ing. The parade was accompanied by the 165th New York regiment and its band. It ended with services in St. Patricks Church, presided over by Car- dinal Bonzano. Knights of various old orders of the Catholic church participated in the af- faif-and’lent a dark ages touch to the spectacle with their high plumes and golden swords. The prelates will leave for Chicago cn Wednesday. They will travel in a train ‘Supplied by the Pullman Com- pany with all coaches painted red, Greek Food Workers Handed Their Ninth Court Order to Stop By IRVING FREEMAN, Federated Press. NEWARK, N. J., June 15.—The ninth injunction has been obtained by Wewark restaurant, lunchroom and Unless it can be proved to workers | delicatessen employers in their effort »y concrete instances that the B. and O. plan and the Watson-Parker bill are lowering their wages, increasing to balk organization of the Greek workers, Eight months ago the Greek work- their hours of labor, weakening their | ers employed in the lunchrooms, deli- -ontrol over their jobs and making the catessens and restaurants started a organization of the unorganized much | move to organize themselves primarily nore difficult or impossible, we will find it impossible to convince any large number of them that class col- laboration is a bad thing, that the union officials are ‘tools of the bosses,” to secure better working conditions. They organized themselves in the Greek Restaurant Workers’ Club. In their drive for membership and to or- ganize, they immediately sought to that the labor bureaucrats are agents | affiliate with the American Federation of American imperialism, even that imperialism itself is a menace to the working class. TPHE job of the DAILY WORKER is of Labor, They received some co- operation from Local 109, Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union, Newark, The workers are merely asking for to prove all of these things, so|4 ten-hour day and a six-day week, plain to every member of our party, At present they work from 12 to 16 in so simple and understandable a|hours daily and seven days a week. manner by the daily facts of life, that Despite the fact that these demands every intelligent worker will accept | are so moderate, the employers refuse the DAILY WORKER as his expres- sion, The editorial staff cannot do this alone. It must have the co-operation of every member of our party. To be Continued. A auh a day will hetp to drive capital away. Aksrcte Read it today and everyday in The ph mtg ft APulecrcte/ DAILY WORK ~" ies en ee . feobrobah iv il sae to grant them. Clk NEW YORK SACCO-VANZETTI DEFENSE CONFERENCE WILL MEET ON JULY 9 NEW YORK, June 14.—Final arrangements are now belng made for the calling of a large united Sacco-Vanzett! conference here. A gommittee, com- posed of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rose Baron, Ludwig Landy, Enea Sormenti, Ludwig Lore, Seznowsky and Enrico, has already been chosen by .a provi- clonal representative committee. Flynn is secretary of the arrangements committee and work is rapidly proceeding for a conference on July 9, NEEDLE TRADES | DON'T FoRcer! UNIONS BEHIND | cczetsmsstsarsnse PASSAIC STRIKE urday, June 19, for the striking Brit- ish miners. To raise a substantial sum for the miners and their families many tag Plan Boycott of Scab Made Goods PASSAIC, N. J., June 15.—The joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union yoted unani- mously to enter conferences to be called by the united front committee embracing all the needle trades. The conferences, which will take up questions of ways and means of aid- ing the Passaic strikers, will con- sider qs one of them a boycott of scab goods from Passaic by the gar- ment workers, The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, the Furriers, the Capmakers’ Union—all needle trade unions, will be asked to join the conference. Now that the furriers’ strike is won the slogan of “On to Passaic” is being adopted by organized labor, intent upon the success of this strike, “I expect the conference to be well attended,” said Albert Weis- bord in expressing his satisfaction with the action taken by the joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. “The unions, all understanding as they do, the tremendous value and importance to workers as a whole of a union in the textile industry, will support the textile strike in this manner com- pletely and vigorously.” PARIS PAPER URGES ACTION ON DEBT PACT Must Suma ‘Courage to Act in Chamber 18 PARIS, June 15.—The hesitancy of France to act upon the: Berenger-Mel- lon debt agreement is urged to end by the editor of the Matiy, who says the chamber should say ‘yes” or “no,” Declaring that what Berenger did must be disavowed or ratified, con- demned or approved, but that France “cannot seek refuge in abstention,” the Matin states that secret instruc- tions to the chamber)hitherto seems to have been “Silence!, Let time pass.” Concluding, the paper says: “Those who think they can do better than Berenger has done, let, them sail for Washington; those who want to let things slide, let them say so; and those who prefer to let a commercial debt of 13,000,000,000 franes fall due in 1929, let them say so,” Denver Has Sacco- Vanzetti Conference on Friday Evening DENVER, Col., June 14.—A Sacco- Vanzetti Defense Conference will be held here Friday evening, June 18, at the Community Chest Hall. All unions and working-class organiza- tions are being urged to send dele- gates to this conference and aid in the campaign to free Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. A large Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting is being planned for Fri- day evening, June 25, |Flour Pirates Plunder Canadian Housewives OTTAWA, Can—(PP)—Canadians are paying $16,470,000. too much for their flour, according to representative Evans, of the Progressive (Farmers) party in parliament. He showed that a 98 Ib. sack of flour cost 38 2-5e more in Winnipeg than Liverpool, though wheat was 3514¢ cheaper per bushel in Winnipeg than in Liverpool. “Phere is a steal of 91 2-5¢ on every sack of flour sold to the Canadian public,” said Evans. Evans quoted the following from the Bankers magazine (Aug. 26, 1920): “Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination and legislation. Debts must be col- lected, bonds and mortgages must be foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through a process of law, the common people have lost their homes they will be more tractable, and more easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of the control of leading financiers. A people without homes will not quarrel with their leader.” $90,000 for Fish Conservation. MADISON, Wis., June 16, — The state conservation commission has just been authorized by the emergency day workers will be needed. Every worker is urged to report at one of the stations listed below Saturday, June 19, at 8:30 a. m. If it is not possible to give the entire day, a few hours will be appreciated. Turn out in full force and aid the struggling miners of England. STATIONS: 3427 Indiana Ave. 2409 N. Halsted St. 10900 Michigan Ave. 2733 Hirsch Blvd, 3116 S, Halsted St. 1806 S. Racine Ave. 3209 Roosevelt Rd. 1902 W. Division St. 19 S. Lincoln St. COOK COUNTY'S SHERIFF IS IN WHEATON’S JAIL Friends Seek Pardon from Coolidge WHEATON, IIL, June 15—“I've been in worse jails than this, but not as a prisoner,” declared Cook county's sheriff, Peter M. Hoffman, at the Wheaton, Jail. Cook county’s sheriff is serving a thirty-day jaii sentence for contempt of court for allowing Frankie Lake and Terry Druggan, two Chicago mil- lionaire beer barons, to use the jail as the clearing house for their liquor wares and roam thru Chicago cabarets when they were supposed to be serv- ing one year in jail for violation of the dry act. Both bootleggers were also released from jail long before their time was up. Attempts are being made by friends of Former Warden Wesley Westbrook and friends of Sheriff Hoffman to se- cure a pardon from President Coo: lidge. Coal Barons Seek to Flood Nova Scotia With Coaldiggers MONTREAL.—(FP)—Although coal miners in Nova Scotia have been on short«time, application was recently made to the Canadian department of immigration for leave to import min- ers from Europe. The applicatién was shown to the dominion employment service, whose officers in Winnipeg and other places advertised for min- ers, applicants to-pay their own trans- portation to Nova Scotia. This brought protests from the mining districts that there were many more miners than jobs. In parliament little light was thrown on the meaning of the move to overcrowd the mining areas with un- employed. Meantime the executive board of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, have announced that the coal miners of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will not work on shipments to Great Britain during the mine lockout there. Danish Unions Aid British Coal Miners COPENHAGEN— (FP)— A gift of 50,000 kronen (1 kroner, 26%c) for the British strikers was voted by the 165 delegates of the general council, Dan- igh Trade Union Center, in annual meeting May 10-11. Membership was reported as 239,704 at the end of '1925—a gain of 2,681. However, the 85,000 members belonging to the Union of Danish Fac- tory Workers have served notice that they will withdraw next November. The council urged reconsideration and called upon unions not affiliated to join the center, which is affiliated with the Intl, Federation of Trade Unions. ! City Police Used As Baygk Guards NEW ORLEANS.—FP)—Investiga- tion bring to light the fact that banks and business houses in New Orleans have been using members of the police department day and night as private watchmen while the taxpayers foot the bills. Organized labor demands that these institutions pay the city at the*|the Young Worker and a member of rate of $125 a month or $1 an hour or else employ many of the idle residents of New Orleans as guards. Dismantle Radio Station. MEXICO CITY, June 15. — The Chapultepec radio station, one of the most powerful stations in Mexico, will board to use $90,900 of its reserve |be dismantled and a new one“erected funds of a half million for the de ment of natural fish ponds along in its place. The present station has become a hindranee to radio broad. casting. satrvote matin et doy, Seria jo min A WITH THEY /CONoUCTED -BY TH Youth School in New York for July}. HE Eastern District Training School of the Young Workers League will be conducted this year In conjunction with the Workers School in New York, League members from all parts of the country will be in at- tendance at the school. The course of study will be adapted to the'needs of the young workers, by special youth problems that will be studied. The galaxy of instructors speak well for the school. William F. Dunne, Jay Lovstone, William Weinstone, Bert Wolfe, Alexander Trachtenberg and Sam Don have already accepted invi- tations to teach. The length of the course will be a period of two weeks, from July 15th to July 30th, mornings and afternoons. The need of such an intensive training course is apparent to every member of the Young Work- ers League, when we consider the lack of trained functionaries—trained in Communist understanding. For the first time in our League and Party history, we will make an inten- sive study of the economic and politi- cal history of the United States thru such courses as “History of American Labor Movement,” ‘Economic and Po- litical History of the United States,” and “America Today.” In addition to these, courses in Marxism-Leninism, League and Party problems, and “Work in the Trade Unions,’ Sleeping quarters will be provided for all those that will attend from out of town. All comrades or districts that expect to send comrades to the course should immediately get in touch with J, Perilla or Bert Wolfe, 108 East 14th street, New York City. Passaic Youth Elect Delegates to N.Y. Youth Conference By IRVING FREEMAN. PASSAIC, N, J—A mééting of the U. F.C. was held In Belmont Hall, called expressly to take up the prob- lems of the Young Workers now out on strike and the question of sending delegates to a Youth Conference which will be ‘held in the city of New York on June 18, The young workers, who have beén the backbone of the strike, turned out in large numbers and Istened to tal- ent of their own and to speakers from | their own ranks on the special subject of the problems of the youth in indus- try. _Al Schapp, who represented the cominittee that has called the con- ference, brought home the message that the Furrtcrs, now out on strike, would soon achieve their demands for a 40-hour week and secure a 10 per cent increase in wages. He stressed the fact that the young workers have carried on the most active work in the union and in the strike in New York and that it was due primarily to the youth that the strike would be carried to a successful conclusion. He said that the young workers in the textile strike were carrying on similar work in Passaic and vicinity and that the labor movement of the United States was looking on with ad- miration. If the Furriers, who are asking for the 40-hour week and 10 per cent increaSe in wages, can win their demands, then surely the tex- tile strikers, who are working for much less, can win their demands. This strike means much to you and the whole labor movement, for if you win then it will be a great advance forward to the entire labor movement in the United States. The youth are the most exploited section of the working class and are used as an army of cheap labor by the bosses, Only when the young work- ers realize that they can make prog- ress thru organization and their union will they be able to beat the powerful combine of the employers. There must be one powerful textile union or- ganized to be pitted against the power and wealth of the textile barons, Bleven delegates were elected to the Youth Conference. e YOUNG PIONEERS OF CHICAGO START A GYM CLASS Realizing the necessity for having working class children participate in working class sports, The Young Pio- |» neers of Chicago have started a gym class, which meets every Sunday, 10:30 sharp, at 2409 No, Halsted St. All parents are requested to send their children, All children are urged to join, NOT RESPONSIBLE ‘The Nat Kaplan who wrote the ar- ticle: Army Pigeons Race from Wash: ington to Fort Monmouth in the June 1, 1926 issue of the U. S. Army re- cruiting News must not be confused with the Nat Kaplan who is editor of the N, E. C, of the Y. W. L. ~ CORRECTION In Jack Stachel’s article on the league plenum printed in these col- umns, Comrade Milgrin was design- ated as a bureau member and the name of Comrade Yusem omitted. Morris Yusem and not Milgrim was elected on the bureau, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT: WORKERS. ING WORKERS LEAGUE ~~ 600 STUDENTS RESOLVE AGAINST R. 0, T. . Call for Organization pf Anti- Military Meet LOS ANGELES, Calif, June 15. — Over six hundred attended an arti militarist mass meeting last Sunday night arranged by a group of students at the University of California, South- ern branch, in conjunction with the Civil Liberties Union. Two well- known pacifist leaders, Fanny Bixby Spencer and Kate Crane Garts, spoke against the militarization of the American youth. Judge Ryckman, W. Schneiderman and two other student speakers addressed the'large audience at the Music Arts Hall, A. resolution was enthusiastically adopted against the Reserve Officers Training Camps, and the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, end calling for the organization of an anti<militar- ist conference to include. labor and student bodies, and all other youth organizations, to carry on the fight so well begun. A total of five thous- and leaflets and nearly a thousand pamphlets against militarism were distributed already in this campaign Several unions which have passed anti-militarist resolutions will be drawn into this movement. Dr. C. J. Taft was chairman of the meeting. New Deportation Drive Threatens the Foreign-Born NEW YORK, June 15.—The first two cases of what is admitted to be @ renewed alien deportation drive have been brot to the attention of the New York office of the International Labor Defense. Giorgio Bobaz and Aldo Dallagio, two Italian workers who were picked up by federal im- migration authorities and held for im- mediate deportation, are to be releas- ed on $1,000 bail each to enable them to get shipping jobs to South Amer- ica—or any place but Italy, where the U. S. government is trying to send them. The men told attorney Isaac Shorr that they were in fear of serious pro- secution if deported to Italy and that they would go anywhere rather then “back where they came from.” Dal- lagio has already secured the U. S. labor. department’s approval to re-ship and favorable action is expected on Bobaz’s appeal. Their only offense is having deserted as sailors from a ship two years ago. + A round-up of 140 aliens for de- portation was reported from Hllis Is- land, the capitalist press story assim- ing prematurely that the anti-alien bills now pending in congress had al- ready been passed. I. L. D, officers in New York think that federal immigration agents are beginning, as some of them have been quoted, a real drive for alien deporta- tions, which will mean hardship on many workers who came to this coun- try to escape persecution and white terror—or black, as in fascist Italy, PLENUM REPORT WILL BE MADE IN BOSTON A general ‘membership meeting will be held on Wednesday June 16, 1926, 7:30 p, m., at the district headquart- ers, 36 Causeway St., Boston. Comrade Kay. will report of the plenum proceedings, all members will have to bring their membership books and be in good standing. No members must fail to be on time, Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the Ai