The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1926, Page 4

T HE DAILY WORKER P. 108k EE xkers (Communist) Party What The Daily What It Must Become By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, Eighth Article. DAILY WORKER, if it is to be ® real mass organ, must carry ma- terial suited to the needs of the va- rious strata of the population. It is known to every member of our party that the formal division of modern society into capitalists and workers does not accurately describe its complex divisions, but in most of our DAILY WORKER material we un- consciously subscribe to this in prac- tice, Even in the labor movement itself there are a number of sections whose political development varies, HE needle trades. unions, for in- stance, are far more advanced in their knowledge of the class struggle ané-retter trained in political think- than most other trade union ADS. The unskilled and wunorganized worker has a far different outlook on life than the skilled worker who be- longs to a trade union and who has learned to depend. upon collective rather than individual action against the boss. The farmer has an entirely different approach to economic and political problems than the wage worker, and the farmer who works for wages at times has a still different viewpoint than either of the other two. IHE lower section of the middle class contains elements which The DAILY WORKER must reach and at; times there are movements taking { place among them (anti-militarist, pro- ‘evolution theory, resentment against Increased taxation, etc.) that are of great significance. In addition to trade unions there are co-operatives, fraternal societies, so- ‘cial clubs, athletic associations, many of which are composed of workers ex- clisively or have a latge percentage of workers. Worker Is--- HEN there are the innumerable or- ganizations of women engaged in multifarious activities, women’s trade union auxiliaries, women’s aylxiliaries of fraternal societies, women’s trade union leagues, women’s consumers’ clubs, mothers’ clubs, teacher and par- ents’ associations, etc., all of which in- clude large numbers of women work- ers, working-class housewives and mothers. There are also the 740,000 public and high school teachers, bitterly ex- ploited, for the most part unorganized, composed in a large part of women. To the Negroes and their problems The DAILY WORKER gives special attention. O all these groups and strata The DAILY WORKER must make a special appeal. Reading The DAILY WORKER, they must be able to find in its columns something they will recognize as dealing concretely with their specific problems, or at least dis- playing an intelligent interest in them. Particularly in the United States, where the class lines are not as clearly j drawn as in other countries, must the official organ of our party devote at- tention to and be able to interest the most militant of these various strata in our program and its application to American problems. QPECIAL departments in our of- ficial organ must be established to deal with the specific problem of the most important groups mentioned above and the best equipped comrades for this special work must be at the service of The DAILY WORKER, To be a mass paper means to neg- lect no avenue of approach to the masses, and to the extent that we have done this we have failed to make of our official organ a mass organ which is recognized by considerable numbers |" of non-party elements as their expres- sion. PARTY PLENUM’S WORK UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED BY CLEVELAND AND DETROIT CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The member- ship meeting here on “The Task of +e Party in the Light of the C. IL. Decision” was attended by about one i ‘ed and fifty members, including ‘epresentatives of locals in Youngs- own, East Liverpool, and other near- oy cities. The meeting, after hearing Somrade Ruthenberg’s report for the Jentral.... Committee, unanimously wopted a resolution endorsing the| whievements of the Central Commit-| ee in the unification of the party and | he program of work outlined at the glenary session. Comrade Hamilton, during the dis- | mussion period, made a plea for the ontinuation of discussions within the Marty of questions of policy, urging | ‘that it would be a mistake for the | Membership not to take up and dis-| mss the problems of the party, be-| vause the factional issue had been} Miminated from these discussions. | de raised the questions of the cor- ectness of the analysis of a tendency m industry toward a period of de- wession, arguing that the party) hould have a program not only for| efense by the workers but for at-| ack. j Comrade Ruthenberg, in replying, ndorsed the appeal to the member-| p hip for continued discussion of all he problems of the party. On the uestion of the economic sitwation, he | ointed out that the campaign of or- anization of the unorganized was art of a program for the period of conomic prosperity and employment *hich still stretched ahead for some ionths, but that the party must also ake into consideration what the economic prospects are and base its fork and policies upon the concrete ituation. "The unanimous adoption of the reso- ition on the plenum of the Central sommittee was greeted with pro- mged applause by the comrades pres- it, indicating that the membership elcomed the unification of the party orees for the struggle against the apitalist enemy. 2 ae DETROIT, Mich., June 23.—More aan two hundred party members era in atéendance at.the membership seeting here at which Comrade C. . Ruthenberg reported on “The Task ‘ the Party in the Light of the C. I. ectision.” The comrades present enthusiastic- ly welcomed the fact that the meet- of the Central Committee has laid 4e basis for the unification of tre arty forces on a program of mass ork tor the upbuilding of the party and the development of a mass revo- lutionary movement among the work- ers. At the close of a period of questions and discussion a resolution; reading as follows, was adopted: “The Detroit membership wel- comea the achievement of the plenum of the Central Committee of the party toward the unification of the party. “It particularly endorses the reso- lution on ‘The Task of the Party in the Light of the C. I. Decision’ “It pledges its earnest and whole- hearted support to the Central Com- mittee in mobilizing the party un- der the slogan ‘unity and mass work’ for the building of a power- ful Communist Party, the leader of a mass revolutionary movement of the workers.” SEND IN A SUB! WORKERS PARTY FOURTH OF JULY MASS MEETINGS New York, New Jersey, Connecti- cut.—There will be a mass encamp- ment at a beautiful spot on Long Is land. Jay Lovestone will speak on July 4 and J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, on July 5. Boston, Mass, July 4.—Boston Com- mons, Bertram D. Wolfe. Binghampton and Endicott, N. Y., July 2.—Charles Krumbein, Utica, N. Y., July 3—Charles Krum- bein. Albany and Schenectady, July 4.—Charles Krumbein. Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 4.—Ru- dolph Katz. Jamestown, N. Y., July 5.—Herbert Benjamin. Syracuse, N. Y., July 5.—S. Essman, Philadelphia, Pa., July 3.—Jay Love- stone. Baltimore, July 2.—J. Loufs Eng- dahl. Pittsburgh, Pa.,; July 5.—Robert Minor, at Gajdas Farm, Cheswich, Pa. McKeesport, Pa. July 4.—Robert Minor. Eric, Pa. July 4.—Herbert Benja- min. Cleveland, Ohio, July 4.—Ben Git- low. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 2.—J. P. Cannon. Detroit, Mich, July 4.—J. P. Can- non. Chicago, Ill, July 5—C, E Ruthen- berg St. Louis, Mo., July 4.—C. E. Ruth- enberg. “Soviet Truck’ to Carry Crowd to Communist Picnic N. Y¥,, A special “Soviet truck” will bring the members of the Russian colony to the picnic to be given by the Work- ers (Communist) Party on Monday, July 5, at Chernauskas’ Grove, Justice, Ill. It is possible that a few trucks will be needed to convey the crowd from the Workers’ House, 1902 West Division St. from which place the trucks will leave Monday morning, July 5. A roster of those who wish to go by truck is now open and all are in- vited to put down their names on the list, so that the committee may be able to make arrangements for the trucks. If you want to join the crowd, see the manager of the hall at 1902 W. Division St., any evening. Russian Fraction W. P. to Meet Friday Night at Workers’ House The Chicago Russian fraction of the Workers (Communist) Party will meet Friday, June 25, at 8 p. m.,, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division street. Organizational report and other im- portant questions will come up for discussion, HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS Shop Nucleus No. 1 Verona, . Vasiliadis, Shop Nucleu 5, Detroit, Mich. .... E. Housipian, Shop Nucieu 5, Detroit, Mich. .... G. Kristalsky, Shop Nucleu No. 5, Detroit, Mich. Ratubilsky, Shop Uune' No. 6, Detroit, Mich |. Mamic, Kulpmont, P, Charles G. Szanto, Cle A. Peters, Erie, Pa. .. Sweineeks, Boston, M and A. elms, Boston, M Pultur, Boston, Mai Pa. ....$25,00 No. Boston, Ma Ernest Nelius, Boston, Ma’ J. Eserneek, Boston, Ma: 4 Bishop W. M. Brown, Galion, Ohio 6.00 Finish Labor Societay, Wilton, New Hampshire seggeoeggaggaas 88838s838ss3ssssss veemvaevee 19,00 | “Yellow Kid” Gets Five Years in Pen Joseph R, “Yellow Kid” Weil to- day was sentenced to five years in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth for having in his possession govern- ment stamps and railway bonds stolen in the East Chicago, Ind. and the Roundout, Ill, mail robberies. The “Kid” who has escaped prison many times, probably the most picturesque “financier” Chicago ever has known, plans to appeal from the sentence of the court, it was said today, . ——————— eens, Last Meeting in Minneapolis | The last membership meeting of the party to hear the report of Com- ade C. E. Ruthenberg on “The Tasks of the Party in the Light of the C, |. ecision,” will be held at Minneapolis, Friday, June 25, Finnish Hall, Western Humboldt. from nearby cities are also i + Every member of the party in Minneapolis should attend this meetin ty Is mobilizing to go forward under the slogan “Unity and Work.” Invited, Warrants Issued for Alleged Blackmailers Demand for warrants on charges of attempted blackmail and extortion for Attorney William Goldstein and Po- lice Sergt. Cassin, today was made by attorneys for John J. Mulkern, wealthy real estate man, who was ar- rested recently on a charge of as- |saulting Miss Joyce Lewis, said to be the daughter of a lieutenant com- mander and surgeon in the U. S. navy, now stationed at Washington. The case against Mulkern was dis- missed when Miss Lewis failed to ap- pear and prosecute. Her attorney, Goldstein, sought a continuance to- day, but his motion was denied by Judge John Lupe who pointed out that the hearing already had been con- }tinued twice, Mulkern’s attorneys declared Gold- stein and Cassin appeared at Mul- kern’s offices after warants for his arrest had been issued, and sug- gested settling the case for $5,000. The girl had charged that she was lured to Chicago by Mulkern and at- tacked at a north side hotel, Senator W atson Seeks Anti-Labor Railroad . Mediation Board WASHINGTON, June 23—Chairman James Watson-of the senate commit: tee on intérstate commerce has de- layed for more than a week the meet- ing of his committee to consider the nominations made to the railroad mediation board by President Coo- lidge. It is believed at the capitol that the delay is favored by the White House, where an anti-labor farmer is being sought to complete the five anti- wage increase members who will make up the high tribunal pt tail la- bor mediation, DETROIT RUSS WORKERS PROTEST TODAY AGAINST CHICAGO SCAB PAPER The Russian workers of Detroit will hold a protest meeting Thurs- day, June 24, at 7:30 p. m., at the International Workers’ House, 3014 Yemans Ave., Hamtramck, Mich. against the employment of scabs in the Chicago Russian counter-revolu- tionary sheet, Russky Viestnik Rassviet. A representative of Chicago Typo- graphical Union No. 16 will be the main speaker of the. evening. Ad- mission is free, and all Russian speaking workers of Detroit are in- vited, ha The paper claims to be published by “Russian trade unions,” but the management refused to, deal with the printers’ union and the workers went on strike. The publishers put scabs in place of the strikers, SEND IN A SUBI SLOVAK WORKERS HELP PASSAIC STRIKE RELIEF Cleveland Conference on Tuesday Night BELLAIRE, Ohio, June 23.—The na- tional convention of the Slovak Work- ers’ Society had a brilliant opening with a mass meeting. There were speeches by the officers and delegates and a beautiful red flag drill and peas- ants’ dances by children, Mother Bloor addressed the conven- tion on the Passaic strikers’ relief. A large collection was taken whieh was divided between the Slovak paper and the Passaic strike relief, The Cleveland Relief Conference will be. held at the Insurance Center Building, East 11th street, Tuesday evening, June 29. Many credentials have been received and it promises to be a big event. ducted the Evanston conference, “There goes Judge Gary’s under- cover man,” Wari suddenly cried as he seated himself with friends in a Clark St. cafeteria. “He has a little church in a steel town in Bishop Mc- |Connell’s diocese in Pittsburgh and | has free entry to Gary’s office. He has ‘belonged to our federation for a long time, I believe it is solely to keep Gary informed of our doings and to get for Gary the literature,we publish for our members.” ott God's Secret Service; Man, The spotter, who is a férmer steel worker named Maitland, toék a seat between Ward and the exit. He is a@ heavy set, bettle-browed/small-eyed fellow. A friend of Wara'§ walked over and asked if he had nét seen him at Evanston. He admitted'it and later joined the Ward table. bins Questioning by Ward re¥éaled that the parish Maitland served does not Day a cent toward his salary’and that beyond a trivial collection now and chen to paint. the church an@the like, the money for his religious work comes either from Gary *fersonally, sometimes as a $1,000 chedk! or from lesser steel officials in the"Pittsburgh district. ad Represents Gary—antl’ God. “Yes, I shake hands with Gary now and then,” Maitland smilitigly con- ceded. “I was even invitea to the stockholders’ meeting of the U. S. Steel corporation.” And he ‘told of his Manufacturers Afraid G. O. P. Loss Means a Lowering of' Tariffs The manufacturing interests of the middle west, meeting in Chicago at the initiative of the American Pro- tective Tariff League, advocated, thru the speech of James B. Reynolds, for- mer secretary of the treasury, the formation of an American Federation of Industry to defend the tariff, “I have never seen a time in Wash- ington when there was so much talk against tariff. They have in mind, I think, a joint resolution reducing every rate 25 per cent, except on farm- ers’ products, and by a combination of democrats and assistant, democrats— the so-called progressives—put it thru the senate and try to put it thru the house. The elections are coming on and with the spirit of discontent ex- hibited in Iowa, we canpot tell what will happen.” HURRAY FOR CHICAGO! CHI PIONEERS BEAT PHILLY BY $4.00, PHILLY GOT A HWADSTART! The Chicago Pioneers wouldn't stand for it! So they began col- lecting and they collected $24.00 on the ; ——— — Let's All Contribute, Five Thousand Doiiar Drive, Young Pioneers of America, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, Dear Comrades: J am Name . NEW CLASSIFICATION OF PRIVATE DETECTIVE SPIES ON CHURCHMEN IN BEHALF OF GARY AND OF GOD; By CARL! HAESSLER, Federated Press. Trailed from the Evanston conference on the preacher and the economic order to an obscure upstaits cafeteria in Chicago by a religious spotter of the steel trust, Prof. Harry Ward of Union Theological Seminary finally got an opportunity to cross-examine his shadower. is also secretary of the Methodist Federation for Social Service, the pro- gressive church body that had con-4+——————__________, He learned amazing facts. Ward rise from a steel worker to the relig- ious instrument of Gary and of god. It sums up in the efficacy of hard prayer. “The company spotter in the mill re- ported me years ago to Supt. Oliver,” Maitland related. “I was then water- tender on top of the 60-foot cooler and after some lively years I had re- solved to pray an hour every day.” He was reported for praying that hour on company time. He expected to be fired but Oliver told him instead that religious men were good assets for the company and that he could pray as much as he liked. “Since then I have prayed 3,270 hours on company time,” Maitland figured up. Tells How Prayers Paid, When the workers were told it would be a good thing to contribute for a loving cup to the safety-first director, Maitland was chosen to pres- ent it, which he did with a powerful prayer. His virtues then made the officials trot him out before the stock- holders’ meeting where he again re- sorted to the dévice of prayer that? had given him his start. Finally they got him into the methodist ministry where he has been keeping the little steel town church the past 10 years in spite of the rotation practice of the denomination. “I agree with many of your ideas,” he told Ward genially in parting, “and I am very much interested in your work.” Capitalist Senators Want No Probe Into Textile Mill Wages WASHINGTON, June 23.—A majori- ty of members of the senate commit- tee on education and labor have authorized Chairman Phipps to report unfavorably the Sheppard resolution, directing that investigation be made into wages in the highly-protected tex- tile and metal manufacturing indus- tries. St. Paul Road Receivers Spend. CHICAGO, Ill, June 23.—Receivers for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad today were authorized by federal Judge James H. Wilket- son, to expend $1,700,000 for track renewals, additions and improve- ments. Five gaselectric motor cars, and a motor bus, to replace steam en- gines for short line service will be SSS SSS ESSE ESE ESSE, The Five Thousand Dollar Drive of the Young Pioneers of America. Fill Out the Blank Below — — — — sending you a contribution of $. to help insure the Young Comrade and help the Young Pionee: CHEY sestnaireseenserstonnoniqonsinecnsrsersernsonsnsusssvnene SEOtO sss purchased, it was announced, of the capitalist parties exists in this By E. R, STEVENS. LL who have followed the labor party development in America during recent years must realize that in spite of the fact that only a very small percentage of the working class is organized in trade~unions, never- theless it is precisely within this- group that the movement takes its origin and finds, at the beginning at least, its strongest support. This gen- erally understood fact brings its ad- vocates face to face with the task of gaining a widespread support of the labor party thruout the building trades which constitute over one half of the entire organized labor movement. Such numerical strength makes it obvious that no movement basing it- self on trade union support can dis- regard the building trades, On the other hand, it is clear that every ad- vance of the labor party movement in this section of the workers, with its craft divisions, relatively superior Position and generally conservative character, will be the measure for a much wider support among other un- ions and the working class as @ whole. Let us see therefore what -basis for support of political action independent field—in other words, is the problem of the building trades worker the prob- lem of the working clasg as a whole? Policy of Gomperism. New York and the United Labor Ticket ARTICLE VII. THE BUILDING TRADES AND THE LABOR PARTY MOVEMENT | aes years past the building trades unions have endorsed the age- worn, non-partisan policy of the Gomp- ers machine of “rewarding the friends and punishing the enemies of labpr,” the only exception being the Carfen- ters, who adopt an even more con- servative (if such is possible) but es- talists has become an institution in the national legal system. In 1919, Federal Judge Anderson issued an in- junction against the striking miners and in 1922 the Wilkerson injunction was granted against the railroad shop- men—beyond question the two most crushing decisions against labor ever handed down by the American courts, Hits All Workers. OWEVER, the government, com- pelled in thé post war period to reveal in all nakedness and on a na- tional scale its capitalist charactery has awakened among all sections of the working class the desire for a Political expression of its Own. Ail groups from the most highly skilled and best paid workers down to the unorganized and unskilled have felt the weight of these attacks an have seen the powers of the government thrown into battle against them. It has been made clear finally not only that platform and election promises of legislation beneficial to labor are made simply to be broken but also that the republican and democratic government stands ready in every in- stance to use the cossack’s club and the machine gun to prevent the work- ers from even helping themselves, ‘The answer to all this is plain—just as on the economic field it would be suicide for a union to amalgamate with a manufacturers’ association, so is it political suicide for the workers to remain amalgamated with the cap- italist parties. To break this amalaga- mation is the next great step forward and already we have seen powerful signs in this direction. In 1920 the Farmer-Labor Party had considerable sentially the same policy, namely, of declaring no political stand at all. / The result both to the building tradesmen and to the workers gen- erally has been one long record of political betrayal on the part of the politicians carried into office by the labor vote. For example, in 1924 and 1925 eleven anti-labor court decisions were rendered in New York. City alone, six of which dealt with the unions so as to paralyze completely their power in conducting strikes, In March, 1925, Federal Judge Knox issued an injunction. against five of the Iron Workers’: locals whereby strikers were denied not only the rights of boycott and. the sympathetic strike but even could not “advise per- sons from working for plaintiff.” Judges Assail Workers. IMIALRLY the needle trades work: ers recently .sut @ Savage at- tack by the capitalist political power when an injunction was granted by Judge Churchill, @ ‘typical “friend of Isbor,” to the International Tailoring company, preventing picketing within ten blocks of the struck shop. Such is the picture we get of the New York democratic and republican judges when the bosses call for action in in- dustrial disputes. The question, however, does not concern the unions of one or several cities, nor is it restricted within a few states. Recent labor history shows that this weapon of the capi- strength in the middle west; in 1923 the movement found expression in the convention of the Federated Farmer- Labor Party representing well over half a million industrial and farm workers, and in the election year of 1924 it again gained power but was sidetracked temporarily by the sweep of the middle class La Follette move- ment. : Hence the standing order of the day is the organizing of a permanent mass labor party with its chief basis in the unions and including on the federal principle all economic and political organizations ready to fight for @ pro- gram based on the immediate needs of the workers. All groups and sections of the working class can and must support the building of such a party to which the Workers (Communist) Party, as the revolutionary and most advanted section, stands prepared not merely to give its affiliation but to throw its full power behind it. On- ward then to the organization of a mass Labor Party in America—the next stage in the course of the labor movement towards its final emancipa tion. CC! Uplon Sinclair Read it today on page 5. . 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. Auspices: Workers Admission 35 Cents, Party, District 2, Fj DIRECTIONS: Take Bronx Subway or “L” to 177th St. then take Unionport car to Unionport (end of St., then crosstown car to Unionport. line), Broadway Subway to 18ist ‘Tickets on sale at: Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 University Place; Fretheit, 30 Union Square; Workers Party, and all party headquarters and newspapers, Just opened a new bargain wholesale prices. nenennennsunennnagsncesane ATTENTION, . WORKERS OF NEW YORK! Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Wear. Still further special reductions for work- ers presenting this advertisement. REMEMBER: 236 E. 23RD ST. “THE POPULAR” ° rome | 108 East 14th Street; store by the name “Popular” Will sell below