The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1926, Page 4

\Page Four Workers (Communist) Party PARTY UNITS RAISE CAMPAIGN FUND eo first returns of the special assessment of 50c. on every party member for the purpose of creating a campaign fund to carry on the work for a united labor ticket in the 1926 elections are reaching the national office of the party. Thus far the following units of the party have made a settlement and sent remittances to the national organization. Nucleus City & State Am’t, Paid Street 1 Sand Coulee, Mont. ossssssssssseeen 4.50 Shop 5 Bronx, N, Y. . Shop 9 Boston, Mass, Shop 3 Detroit, Mich, Shop 9 Chicago, Ill. Shop 1 Detroit, Mich. Shop 1 Avella, Pa, ..... Street 1 Milwaukee, W:! Street 1 Wauwatosa, Wis Street 1 Makinen, Minn. Street 6 Superior, Wis. Street 1 Phelps, Wis. . Street 1 Winlock, Wash, Street 1 Reedley, Calif. Street 1 Drake, N. Dak. Shop 3 Kansas City, Kans. . Shop 1 Harmarville, Pa, Shop 1 Library, Pa. .. Shop 1 McKees Rocks, Pa, Shop 1 Helen, W. Va. ... Street 1 Harmarvyille, Pa. Shop 102 Akron, Ohio Shop 201 Powhattan Point, Ohio Shop 402 Massillon, Ohio Street 11 Canton, Ohio Shop 2 Detroit, Mich. Shop 9 Detroit, Mich. Street 23 Chicago, Ill. . .f Shop 6 New York, N. Y. 4.00 Shop 12 Bronx, N. Y, .. Shop 12 Brooklyn, N. Y. Fact. 2 New York, N, Y. Street D Philadelphia, Pa, Street 303 Rochester, N. Finnish Pocatello, Idaho Shop 2 Collinsville, Conn, Lithuanian Nanticoke, Pa. . Street 1 Lynn, Mass. ..... Stre@ 1 East Halden, Maine Street 1 Monson, Maine .. \ Shop 1 Maynard, Mass. Finnish Iron River, Wis, 5.00 Shop 10-1 Niagara Falls, N. Y. 5.00 Shop 1 Springfield, Il. Street 1 Duluth, Minn. ... TOTAL $225.00 The party units listed above have done their Part to create the $5,000 fund which is urgently needed by the national organization for work in connection with the united labor ticket. These party units represent only a small proportion of the shop and street nuclei which have received the special assessment stamps with the instructions to immediately make the collection from their members and send the remittance to the national organization, The reorganization of the party on the basis of shop and street nuclei was carried thru in order to create greater efficiency in handling the party affiairs. This efficiency must manifest itself in such matters @s collecting assessments as well as in conducting the campaign of the party. Every street and shop nuclei secretary should consider it a matter of pride to promptly collect the assessment in his unit and to quickly make a settlement with the national organization. The quicker the work is done the quicker the party will be able to go forward with full speed. Collect the special united labor ticket a member. ssment from every party Make a settlement with the national office immediately after mak- ing the collection. What The By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. Seventh Article. T is my opinion that The DAILY WORKER in the past has preached and chided too much. When carried to extremes this gives the Communist press a tone of doubt as to the ability of workers to draw correct conclusions on the basis of fgcts submitted If, for instance, we are able to prove that some labor leader has accepted bribes from the bosses to sabotage organization in non-union fields (it can be said in passing that we expect to prove this concerning the head of one of the largest unions in the country within the near future) it is not neces- sary for us to exhaust our vocabulary of invective in denouncing him. Instead of that, we can and should use the same energy in pointing out the way to get rid of him and prevent- ing such betrayals in the future, E can, I think, learn some valuable lessons from the English Commu- nist press in this respect. One com- parison will suffice. Just before the general strike the executive board of the Amalgamated Engineering Union refused to give dis- pute pay to engineers in the London district in event of their striking, altho the executive formally sanc- tioned strike action. The London engineers, thru their union, issued a call for joint action of all union executives for twenty shilling increase per week in spite of the sa- botage of the general executive. This is the way in which the Work- ers Weekly treated this tmportant event in the labor movement: London engineers’ call for joint action of Union Wi, C.’c to enforce de- mand for 20 shillings per week in- crease is a fine lead to’ branches and districts thruout the country. ' ‘The national executives of the 42 7 — . MASS MEMBERSHIP TOBUILD 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: 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 avenue, & im. 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.” Here Are Questions For Class in Marx Next Monday Night Some of the most fundamental laws in capitalism’s development will be discussed at the next regular Workers’ School class in Marxian economics, meeting as usual at 19 S. Lincoln at 8 p.m. Monday. The lesson takes in the first two sections of Chapter 15 in Marx’s “Capital,” volume one, from pages 671 to 689. The following ques- tions are suggested as guides for study: 1. Define organic composition of capital. 2. Explain how accumulation of capital necessarily involves increase of the proletariat. 3. What circumstances may bring a rise in the price of labor resulting from the accumulation of capital? What general law does Marx derive from such conditions? 4, How does Marx explain the con- ditions supposed to underly the so- called “natural law of population”? 5. What double part do the means of production play in the accumula- tion of capital? 6. Explain the law of the progress- ive increase of constant capital in pro- portion to the variable. 7, Explain why a certain accumula- tion of capital is the necessary pre- liminary of large scale production. 8. Distinguish centralization of capital from accumulation and concen- tration. 9. What part do competition and credit play in capitalist production? Read “OIL” by Upton Sinclair Read it today and everyday in The DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER Pilsudski Going to War (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 16.— In a leading article in Pravda enti- tled “Napoleon IV” Radek analyzes the tactics of Pilsudski, Radek dis- cusses the declarations of Pilsudski and his attempts to “legalize the fait accompli” and asks whether Pilsudski will submit to the national assembly should that body refuse (to legalize the fait accompli and refuse to elect a president according to Pilsudski’s wishes, but would decide fo clear out Pilsudski’s incompetent government and call even Pilsudski himself to or- der, Radek sees no clever intentions in the action of Pilsudski, but “merely an expression of the typical Political con- fusionism of Pilsudski.” | ~ According to Radek, the real posi- tion of Pilsudski is best cha by the declaration of one tants that the movement Open Air Meeting Sat} ‘day. Sub-Section No. 9 of th® Workers Communist Party will hold an open air meeting on the corner“of Washte- naw and Division streets on Saturday, June 19, at 8 p. m. Thelpurpose of this meeting is to bring té the atten- tion of the workers of that neighbor- hood the unjust persecuti6n of Sacco and Vanzetti, two militatit workers, and to urge them to demand and fight for a new trial for these two workers. The speakers .will be J. Louis Eng- dahl, editor of the DAILY*WORKER, who will speak in Englishy and Com- rade Milgrim, who will speak in Jew- [i All workers of this locality are urged to attend the meeting. We need more news from the shops and factories. Send It inl Daily Worker Is--- What It Must Become unions have failed to give any lead whatsoever, and this is giving rise to a great deal of comment among the rank and file. .. . The London Joint Trades Committee, represent- ing 17 of the unions, is proceeding to take a joint ballot on the question of strike action, . . . The Executive Committee of the A. E. U., while it has sanctioned the taking of this ballot vote, ated that should its London members de- cide to strike they will receive no dispute pay. In spite of this it is confidently an- ticipated that the engineering work ers of London will return a large majority in favor of strike action. London realizes that no sec- tion of the country is entitled to get an increase at the expense of the other districts. . . . Will the Na- tional Committee of the A. E. U., which is meeting in Manchester, en- dorse this policy? ... National action, with every section and class of engineering labor in the fight, backed by the General Council of the T. U. C., can assure the en- gineers of victory. ET us compare this concise recital of facts and firm and clear enun- ciation of the necessary line to follow, with an article published in The DAILY WORKER while the I. L. G. W. U, convention was in session, just after it had passed a resolution de- nouncing fascism. The article was headed “Sigman the Fascist’ and proved by an intricate process of rea- soning that Sigman was a supporter of fascism. Or we might also compare it with a news story published just be- fore the convention of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, which urged the workers it Mike Tighe, Tool of the > HE difference between the manner in which the English Communist press makes its appeal to the workers and puts forward the Communist pro- gram is not solely a difference in tone. The main difference is that in the story quoted, as in all the material in English Communist papers, there is evident a feeling of great responsi- bility to the labor movement and the working class, a feeling that it is not un-Communistic for Communists and Communist parties to be careful to have their facts straight and to speak in what some might call a mild tone, if this will get the best results. T may be argued that the English Communist Party is a bit too care- ful in its criticism of labor officialdom, but if we take into consideration the great difference in tempo and develop- ment between the American and Brit- ish labor movements we can conclude that we can afford to be less acri- monious and more accurate, and at least experiment with a less explosive method of pointing out the vagaries and misdeeds of labor's misleaders. HEN there is also what in baseball parlance is called “a change of pace.” Some cases, criticism of capi- talist politicians and their allies, for instance, the leaders of the socialist party, need the most drastic treat- ment, but even in such instances the distinction must be made between con- troversial and polemical writing. If one is trying to reason an opponent out of court one as a rule weakens ones case by invective, MNPHE example of Lenin and his con- tinual characterization of Kautsky asa “lackey of the bourgeoisie” is often cited by lovers of invective, but it is enough to say in reply to this that there was only one Lenin and that he wrote his greatest polemics at a time when the working class of Europe, already a half-century ahead of American workers, in political con- sciousness, was vibrant with the in- spiration of the Russian revolution and gathering its forces for an assault on European capitalism. Lenin wrote to discredit the reform- ist leaders of political parties and split their following. When we have the same situation here let us hope that we will have also an American Lenin. In the mean- time let us see if firmness and under- standing couched in terms, with which American workers are familiar will not build The DAILY WORKER into a mass paper speaking for a mass party which can produce the Leninist leadership the American working class needs, / See ae That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this eopy of the DAILY WORKER. SEND IN A SUB! (From Moscow Izvestia.) RADEK MERCILESSLY FLAYS MARSHAL PILSUDSKI IN “PRAVDA” ARTICLE sudski has no social basis and that Pilsudski did not dream of making a revolution and had no idea where the movement was taking him. “The dissatisfied masses of Poland sympathized with Pilsudski as far as he opposed the reactionary govern- ment of the large land owners. The soldiers of Pilsudski entered the strug- gle against the junkers with the slo- gan, “Down with the Pans,” and thus proved that they were led by class feelings and not by the legends about the national hero Pilsudski,” points out Radek. “Pilsudski himself has no hatred for the ‘bourgeoisie and the large land owners and for this reason he does not know what to do. History has laid on Pilsudski the role of dic- tator in a civil war, but the dictator- ship of Pilsudski is the joke of world history. It cannot last long, for a great class does not give a fool dic- tatorial rights for long.” Left Wingers and Radicals Will Attend Picnic on June 27 NEW YORK, June 16.—The entire left wing and radical labor movement will be represented at the first picnic of the season arranged by the Work- ers Party for Sunday, June 27, at Pleasant Bay park. There will be a good program of athletic events, including the Hunga- rian Athletic Club socher team that won the state champioaship in New Jersey, a baseball game between the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) League. There will be all day dancing and good music. The Pioneers will have @ special number. Admission will be 35 cents. Tickets on sale at Jimmie Higgins’ book shop, 127 University place, and at Workers (Communist) Party office, 108 East 4th street. REMEMBER! The international Workers’ Aid of Chicago will conduct a tag day Sat- urday, June 19, for the striking Brit- ish miners. To raise a subst jal sum for the miners and their fa many tag” day workers will be neeasd. Every worker is urged to report a‘ one of th ations listed below Saturday, dune 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 Rodsevelt Rd. 1902 W. Division St. 19 S, Lincoln St. ATTENTION, WORKERS OF NEW YORK! Just opened a new bargain store by the name “Popular” Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Wear. wholesale prices. Will sell below Still further special reductions for work- ers presenting this advertisement. REMEMBER: 236 E. 23RD ST. “THE POPULAR” __ ERNEST ZELIOT. First to Reach 40,000 Points. On Monday, the New York District reached 40,000 points in the third annmal swb-campaign of The DAILY WORKER and the distinction of being the first district to be entitled to send one worker to Moscow. They are now on tha second 40,000 and are in the race 6 be first in the campaign which holde a especial prize of sending an- other worker to visit the world’s first workers’ government, Outstanding Candidates. The splendid achievement of New York should prove inspiration to Builders thruout the country, This success has been possible only thru the splendid individual accomplishments of such Builders as the following who have done most in the New York district and stand out es the logical candidates for the trip when the ballots are sent out on July 4, They Did It— Arthur Smith, New York . Leo Kling, Brooklyn rmeenere 8,765 Points wwerstivnem 3,460 H. F, Mins, New York Ld A. Chorover, New York .. Ld L, Hirschman, New York 2 S. Liebowitz, New York . 1,000 ” There are—and will be—more candidates who will be entitled to votes for the trip at the end of this campaign and at that time their names will be announced in full, } e 8 California Leads the Race! District 18, California, still leads all districts in percentage of quota reached, Whether or not the reach 40,000 points (which entitles all districts to send a worker to Moscow) they will win a trip for one worker if they are able to maintain the lead on July 4, * Pittsburgh Second-—Detroit Third. Eastern Pennsylvania has done good work. This district thru the work of Bill Scarville of Pittsburgh and Compade Kasper of Hast Pittsburgh has stepped right on the tail of California and is fighting for leadership, Detroit is in the race. Lower Michigan has had the help of Grand Rapids and the race looks like a hot one with et least five districts to fight it out and the winner unknown until the last minute, the help of The DAILY WORKER decide the contest. In each case readers in getting subscriptions will MTN THEY (CONDUCTED - BY TH WORKERS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE KANSAS CITY YOUTH CONFERENCE SPENDS DAY DISCUSSING SYSTEM By HUGO OEHLER, ipeliww. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 16—The Midwest Student Conference hold. ing a three day session here with students from the nearby states passed Monday with a variety of presentations of organizations and doctrines, Youth and age mingled to discuss that which their school courses denied them. Communist Speaks, The morning session was taken up with presentations of the socialist, single tax and Communist programs. Lincoln Phiter, an old-time socialist, who admitted he was not up on. the movement, presented the socialist program, a presentation that did not even do justice to the weak socialist position which has betrayed the work- ers in all countries, The single tax program was pre- sented with vim, altho in a very con- fused fashion. John Meihelic of St. Louis then spoke on the Communist program. This talk attracted the in- terests and aroused questioning by the students, Open Shopper Speaks, Judge Higgens, formerly of the Kan- sas industrial court, debated C, Sum- ner, international secretary of the Electrotypers and Stereotypers Union, on the open shop. Judge Higgens vroved himself to be a dogged defend- rv of capitalism in debate as well as its defender as judge of the indus- trial court, but Brother Summers proved his equal, altho he did not at- tack capitalism fundamentally, Gompers Praised by Open-Shopper. * Judge Higgens in his discourse up- held Gompers as the world’s greatest labor leader, greater than J, Ramsey MacDonald, if, you please. Judge Hig- gens heard that Communism was dis- cussed in the morning, so he informed us that he would not blame any em- ployer for not meeting a Communist, especially when Gary refused to meet Foster, a Communist in the A. F, of L. After his discourse, Meihelic in- formed him that Foster was not yet a Communist at the time he led the steel strike, showed the open-shopper up on many other points and then told the judge that he was a Comm » nist and was in the same meeting with the judge. Oh, my! The secretary of the International Labor Defense spoke on “Justice and the Wage Workers” and in the most capable and scientific way showed that the wage workers can not obtain justice under the capitalist system. One by one he brot forward cases as evidence of the functions of the courts and the state under our system. Some of his most convincing proofs were made at the expense of Judge Hig- gens, Colonel Dean of the Sentinels of the Republic spoke after Cannon and called his discourse the most notori- ous doctrine, including many other things. “Not Fair,” Students, After a day of capitalism and Com- munism one student who had been to the Michigan university and heard Wicks, said that Wicks mopped up the floor with his opponent, and ‘he stated that those who upheld capital- ism both here and at the Michigan university were not the best repre- sentatives for this job. ‘ This led to quite a discussion among the students and Professor Eldridge of Kansas university also participated, Later the opinion seemed to be that such notables as Judge Higgens and Col. J. S. Dean are numbered among the it representatives of capitalism, that is, this was the opinion with the exception of Professor Eldridge and a couple of others who were vexed to see their champions beaten here well as in other parts of the country,