The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1926, Page 4

SET SE aia sce Ep am i 4 a} “ THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER CIRCULATION i By JACK STACHEL. The starting point of all our ac- tivities, the, first practical step to- Wards creating the organization we @esire (Bolshevik Party) and the factor which wil! enable us constant- ly to develop, to broaden and deepen ‘that organization, is the creation of national political newspaper— a» Lenin. *The albye is a quotation from Lenins “WHERE TO BEGIN?” These @re also the opening words of LENIN ON ORGANIZATION just published by The DAILY WORKER Publishing @ompany. This shows how much im- portance Lenin and the Communist International attach to the building up of our party press. We must begin With the creation and development of @ national newspaper in order to’build the party says Comrade Lenin, and | yet there are still far too many com- Tades, who are otherwise very active 4n the party, and who do not realize the importance of building up the cir- culation of The DAILY WORKER. The proof of this is that altho the results of The DAILY WORKER drive in the NEW York District are fair, less than 20% of the comrades have participated | in the drive.to any éxtent. The reason for this is that many know WHERE TO BEGIN, On Friday, June 25 a special meet- ing of the District Executive Commit- tee of the. Workers (Communist) Party, the Young Workers (Commun- ist) League, the Section and Sub-Sec- tion Organizers was held in our dis- trict and a resolution adopted that all these leading comrades that have not handed in at least one sub do so before Monday. I feel certain that leveryone of these comrades present | will fulfill the pledge in time. Now lit is up to every member of the dis- | trict to get on the job during remain- |ing week of’the drive and secure at |least one sub. If this is done we will ;have taken a tremendous step forward in the building up of our party. THIS CAN BE DONE AND MUST BE DONE. ~ There is not a member of the party who if he knew that the life of The DAILY WORKER depended on him | would not give a week’s wages. The | DAILY WORKER is in danger and must have the support of every mem- |ber and sympathizer. Less is being asked of every member than he would do if he knew the exact state of af: eee GIVE YOUR ANSWER WITH A SUB THIS WEEK. A of us do not _ NEW YORK PREPARES FOR A VIGOROUS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE The New York district of the Work- ers (Communist) Party is preparing for vigorous participation of each one of its members in the membership drive which is being launched na- tionally by the party. The drive starts July 4th and con- tinues to the end of October. A spe- ¢ial drive committee has been elected, Which is to be in charge of this drive. Bach section, sub-section and nucleus is also to have a drive committee. All names of sympathizers and friends of the party will be canvassed for membership. All meetings, rallies, picnics, etc., will be utilized and an appeal made for party members. Open air meet- ings will be held by street and shop nuclei as a means for getting mem- bers. Greaj efforts will be made to win back those members who“dropped out of the party during reorganization. Special concentration weeks are going to be arranged, such as a Brownsville week, a Bronx week, New Jersey week, etc., as well as Needle Trades week, Printing and Allied Trades week. Of course, the activity in the direction of other trades and Places will be carried on simulta- neously, but especial attention will be paid to those industries and localities during each of their “weeks.” The comrades in New York district are also working out a plan of “re- wards” or prizes to the units securing the most members, and there are promises for a lively drive in this district which should bring the party great concrete organizational results. SSE: Only 1 More Week for Prizes! \ oR: 100 POINTS A Year's Sub to The Daily Worker Outside of Chicago Per year .. $6.00 Six months .... 3.50 Three months.. 2.00 Sub Campaign SSS eee ee RATES: OMOVUNARENONEOEGNOO00Q0000000000000008000EEEOEOEOTEROLAUEEEEOOOGAOOGGOO4O480004000080UHEEFOEOOOOUOOOGOOUOUAOEOESAANOGEOUSEENHOUOUU FIRST Outing and Picnic BY WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY CLEVELAND Sunday, July 4, 11 a. MINONA PARK GAMES — BALL GAME — DANCING — REFRESHMENTS Speaker: BENJAMIN GITLOW. In Chicago Per year Three months., 2.00 Closes July 6 Counts For One Hundred Points West 14th Brooklyn or West 25th car and get off at car barn. take State Road car and get off at end of line. to picnic grounds, 3 minutes’ walk TMM SAN FRANGISCO-BAY CITIES PICNIC Eastshore Park, Richmond (Take Key Ferry and San Pablo Car) pay Ath, 1926 Speaking—Refreshments—Dancing—Games Auspices of Workers (Communist) Party. Workers (Communist) Party | , | BUILD THE PARTY BY BUILDING 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 jJuly 4 and J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, on July 5. Boston, Mass, July 4.—Boston Com- mons, Bertram D. Wolfe. Utica, N. Y., July 3. jdolph Katz. | Jamestown, N. Y., July 5.—Herbert Benjamin, | Syracuse, N. Y., July 5.—S, Essman. Philadelphia, Pa., July 3. — J. Louis Engdahl. Baltimore, July 2.—J. Louts Eng- dahl. Pittsburgh, Fa. July %5.—Robert Minor, at Gajdas Farm, Cheswich, Pa. McKeesport, Pa., July 4.—Robert Minor. Er’ min. Cleveland, Ohio, July 4.—Ben Git- low. Akron, Ohio, July 5.—4:30 p. m. Ben Gitlow. Youngstown, Ohio, July 5.—Ben Git- low. Chrisholm, Minn., July 2., Finnish Opera House, Wm. Z. Foster. Superior, Wis., July 3—7:30 p. m. Workers’ Hall, Wm. Z. Foster. Duluth, Minn., July 3—8:30 p, m. William Z, Foster. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 2.—Stan- ley J. Clark. Detroit, Mich. July 4.—Stanley J. Clark, Chicago, Ill. berg St. Louis, Mo., July 4—C. E. Ruth- enberg. Los Angeles Holds Membership Meeting on Wednesday Night LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 28. — The sub-district executive committee of Southern California is arranging a membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party to hear the report of Wm. Schneiderman of the plenum convention held in Chicago to be held Wednesday evening, June 30 at head- quarters, 307 West First St. Every member must attend. , Pa., July 4, — Herbert Benja- July 5.—C. E Ruthen- ‘Sub-Section 3A, New York, Has Meeting on Wednesday Night NEW YORK, June 28. — A special meeting of Sub-section 3-A will be held Wednesday evening, July 7, at 6:30 Pp. m. at 350 East 81st St. Many im- portant matters will be discussed and decided on at this meeting. A report of an important conference will be made at this meeting. ——— |Chinese Picture Is Being Shown at Eighth St. Theater The first Chinese motion picture entirely acted and produced by Chin- ese is now being shown at the Eighth Street Theater, Wabash and Eighth St. This picture will be shown this week only. The showing starts at 6 in the evening and lasts until 11. The film was produced by the Great Wall Film company and was brought to Chicago by a number of Chicago Chinese. The name of the picture is the “Lover's Dream.” Its titles are printed in both English and Chinese. Besides this movie there is singing in Chinese and English. Several dance and instrumental music numbers are also on the program. Meetings to Discuss British Strike Held of New York Streets NEW YORK CITY, June 28. — The story of the British miners strike will be told to the New York City workers at two large open air meetings ar- ranged by the International Workers’ Aid. ‘They are as follows: Thursday, July 1st at corner of Columbus Circle and 59th St., and Saturday, July 3rd at corner of 7th St. and Ave. EB. All workers should attend these meetings and show their solidarity with their fellow workers in Great Britain, Willis Threatens Senate Filibuster on Waterways Bill WASHINGTON, June 28, — Follow- ing a conference at the White House, Senator Willis, republican of Ohio, served notice that he would filibuster, if necessary, to prevent enactment of the rivers and harbors bill before ad- journment. Willis said he would propose that the bill go over until next session, He is leading a group of lake senators opposing the measure. Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the American Worker alent hee Are you one? | destroyed. p waht Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 4.—Ru-} | | | i} Gary Workers! The DAILY WORKER, is on sale at the Workers’ Co- operative Restaurant, 1733 Broadway. Step over for a copy—you’ll find YOUR paper there every day. GET A COPY! Turn in a subscription and be sure of getting it always. SENATE TO VOTE ON RELIEF BILL TOUTED BY CAL Farm Bloc | to, Allow Vote on Fess Bill (Special to The Daily ‘Worker) WASHINGTON, June 28, — Presi- dent Coolidge got a concession from the farm bloc today when its mem- bers agreed to allow the administra- tion’s $100,000,000 co-operative mark- eting bill to come to a vote before adjournment. A vote on the bill will be possible because Senator Watson, republican, of Indiana, upon solicitation of the ‘corn belt, agreed to withdraw his mo- tion to lay aside farm relief legisla- tion for this session. Watson had been determined to press his motion because of the defeat of the Dawes- MeNary-Haugen bill, supported by the west. Coolidge Statemert. In a formal statement yesterday, President Coolidge urged congress to pass the co-operative bill, which is known in the senate a8 the Fess amendment. It would provide $100,- 000,000 for loans to co-operatives to market crops. Farm Bills Detdjed. The farm relief propog: is were laid aside, however, by unanimous con- sent, to permit considefg@tion of the Reed bill, amending th) world war veterans’ act. It was séme bill which Watson reso ove to take up while abando: the farm bills. Today’s action means ¢hat farm leg- j islation will be considergd.again Mon- day, following final action,on the Reed measure, which would extend the time limig on rehabilitation gf world war vetefans. Farm bloc le: agreed to this maneuver, as did the advocdfes of the Fess bill. 10} Fess Provisions, Under the Fess proposal, loans would ‘be made to co-opétatives under arrangements providing for payment thru an amortization charged against the commodity markete@*by the asso- ciations. An amortizatién charge or half a cent a bushel upon a valume of business of 200,000 bushels of wheat would repay a loan of $20,000,000, in- cluding interest, in apptoximately 15 years. : Farm Bloc Opposed, The farm bloc served notice on both republican and democratic lead- ers that it would oppose all other forms of relief on the ground that they are not desired by the farmers. This warning was given particularly to the advocates of the Fess plan, de- spite its endorsement by the presi- dent. t+ * Congress Approaches Adjournment. WASHINGTON, June 28, — Con- gress approaching adjournment today split into warring factioris, all engaged in a scramble to abtain action on fay- ored bits of legislation. ' The high spots of the final period are the rebellion of the farm bloc against the White House over the issues of agricultural legislation, and the threatened filibuster against the rivers and harbors bill, A vote probably will be forthcoming in the farm fight tomorrow or Wed- nesday, with the republican middle west almost solidly opposing Presi- dent Coolidge’s recommendation that the Fess bill, providing-loans for co- operative marketing organizations, be passed. The farm bloc, bitter over the defeat of the McNary-Haugen bill, has decreed the death of what its leaders call “half-way” legislation. River Bill Fight. A spectacular fight over the rivers and harbors bill is in prospect for the final hours, with party lines shattered. The fight for enactment of the bill is to be led by the Illinois representa- tives, supported by other sectional rep- resentatives who will benefit by its terms. Opposed to them are the Great Lakes states representatives, who charge that the bill contains a joker which “legalizes Chicago's theft of lake Michigan water,” Brush Fire Gets Dangerous. REDDING, Cal, June 28—-A brush and grass fire which hag been burning five miles west of Redding for the past three days today had reached alarming proportions... Several farm homes narrowly escaped destruction, and several families fled for safety, Ruildings at the old Potos! mine were a la ae. PASTORS’ MEET- CONDEMNS THE PRESENT SYSTEM! Ministers Sow Power of Wealthy Donors By. CARL HAESSLER, EVANSTON, Ill. — (FP) — Just where an investment loses the odor of sanctity and takes‘on a diabolic stench could not be determined by the national 3-day conference on. the preacher and the economic order held in Evanston by the Methodist Feder- ation for Social Service. The gentle- men of the cloth more or less agreed in vague terms that “the present eco- nomic order, like war, is so sinful that we must reject it.” But in con- crete cases they were not so sure. Securities vs. Golden Rule. It was generally conceded that the church must look to safety first and be sure to get its interest and princi- pal back. The gilt-edge security thus displaces the golden rule. Beyond that the church shauld keep away from shady investments but border line . securities like the steel trust should be bought because it is better that socially-minded stockholders like church boards should have a voice in corporations like those presided over by the eminent Methodist Elbert Gary. And if the church doesn’t itself accept and invest funds, then less so- cially useful agencies will do so, the Rev. F. Ernest Johnson pointed out. Predicts End of Private Property. “The future belongs to the Com- munists,” chimed in Rev. Ray Allen of Rochester, N. Y., who said that when the people get ready they will tax all private property out of existence by imposing 100% levies first on income and then on principal. Endowments are a good thing, bishop Francis McConnell, the chair- man, said in passing, because they give the church a chance to waste money on social experiments instead of having to be eternally careful with every nickel. “Give me all the tainted money you wish,” he said, “and I'll turn it right over to the Methodist Federation for Social Service.” “The trouble with tainted money,” replied Secy. Harry Ward of the fed- eration, “is that no matter how well you use it you can never completely wash out the social harm caused by the way it was made. We will put it to socially revolutionary purposes, but that is one reason’ so little tainted money comes our way.” Favor Pooling Wages. The conference was attended by more than 100 preachers from all parts of the country, not excluding the south. Besides discussing capital- ism it considered the preacher’s rela- tion to it as preacher, as individual, as part of the church institution and therefore as in part employer and in- vestor. Propositions for pooling wages so that rich parishes wéuld help to support pastors in poor ones, were favorably approached. Very frank recognition of the pre- ponderant power of wealth in deter- mining church utterances was made. Rev. Reinhold Niebuhr of Detroit, not a Methodist but an invited speaker, declared that every man taking the pulpit in a rich church fools himself into beHeving it gives him a wider so- cial opportunity. The rich control, he said, but in a gentlemanly way. The best way for a pastor to keep his freedom in a rich church is to refuse wage increases, he advised, adding that the rich had discovered the most painless way of getting uncomfortable utterances modified was to keep on giving wage boosts, Harry Ward, who is a professor at Union Theological seminary in New York, closed the conference with re- marks favoring a minimum income and a maximum also. This should ap- ply not only to teachers and many workers as now, but to preachers and ultimately to business men also, he said, as has been done in Russia, “Capitalism is a good economic sys- tem during expanding markets,” Ward wound up. “But with the world indus- trialized, capitalism breaks down and cooperation and communism will re- place it.” The capitalist order, he maintained, rests on getting ahead of the other fellow and concentrates on grabbing wealth and thus is unchrist- ian in both respects. Cleveland Painters Call Off Strike and Trust to Arbitration CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 28.—The strike of the painters which has been going on since March 1 has been de clared off. A conference has been held between the representatives of the painters and of the contractors’ as- sociation, and it was agreed that the men shall return to’ work at once, while the question of wages is being arbitrated. On March 1 the men struck for an increase of wages from $1.25 to $1.37% an hour, All building opera- tions were tied up, but little by little the independent contractors signed up on the new terms, including the 5-day week, which was one of the demands, The five-day wéek will not be men- tioned in the arbitration, thé union ap- parently giving up the demand. How this will affect the con who have made the concess! has not been stated i New York andthe United Labor Ticket ARTICLE IX. \ Teachers and the Labor Party. By D. BENJAMIN. EACHERS in New York City are now obtaining in real wages 70 cents for every dollar earned before the war. As a result of the increased cost of living the 25,000 New. York teachers in about 60 organizations united to wage a campaign for higher salaries to restore the pre-war pur- chasing power of their earnings. The unity of opinion of the teach- ers was strikingly demonstrated in the fact that §00 teachers went to Albany in the spring of 1925 to prove to the “popular” leader of the demo- cratic party, Governor Smith, that all the teachers wanted immediate action. Very little argument was offered against the justice of their claim, Yet Smith, who had found it pos- sible to finance the breaking of the streetcar men’s strike in Buffalo with state police, could not find the money to restore 85 per cent of their pre- war wages to the teachers, and so vetoed a bill which meant an increase of only $25 a year on the minimum and $225 on the maximum to most of the teachers. OVERNOR SMITH sent them to the M city government. There another democrat, a co-worker and friend of Hearst, John Hylan, met the teachers’ requests with another refusal. The board of superintendents, the guard- ians of the city government in the educational field, proposed a counter- bill which gave practically nothing to the teachers and large increases to the supervisory forces. During all this time! the republican party re- mained quiescent, putting up no real fight for the teachers, utilizing the situation, however, for their political advantage, 'N 1926 the teachers continued their campaign. Again they went to the state legislature and to the governor. This time they gained increased sup- port. Citizens’ committees, parents’, women’s and labor organizations sent replesentatives to Albany to plead for the teachers. Again the “friend of tne people” vetoed the bill, Mayor Walker used all his influence to have the bill vetoed. When delegations of teachers visited him he was too “occu- pied with city business,” while ac- tually at the time of both visits he was occupied at ball games. Walker could find time to interview the Swed- crown prince and view the Ken- tucky Derby, but no time to’attend a mass meeting called by 25,000 city teachers to which he was invited. NN New York City, the city in- creased its assessed valuation and tax rate, but the money was not used for education, altho in proportion of budget used for education it ranked 31st in cities of the United States. New York ’City is the wealthiest city in the country, yet in per capita pupil cost it ranks ninth. And even when the city was given money, as it was given $1,500,000 last year by the state government, the money was not used for this purpose, T is not only in teachers’ salaries that the democratic and republican parties demonstrate their indifference to the teachers’ welfare. Thru their appointed boards of education and su- perintendents they constantly make the conditions under which the teach- ers work more and more intolerable. The size of classes has been increased continually to such a point that the teacher becomes only a policeman to keep order. And this fact of large in vocational diseases that are a prob- lem in the schoo] system. Nervous broakdowns and throat troubles are becoming such a menace that the su- perintendents are beginning to worry about the health of their teachers, TICKETS $1.10, addition to the teacher's duty aa. N I instructor of the children, she is be- * coming increasingly overburdened with clerical work; more and more statistical reports, psychological and intelligence tests, which mean a vast amount of clerical work in the finding of the children’s intelligence quo- tients, numerous types of records and age and residence reports, health and attendance reports, etc. EACHERS have no security of ten- ure. After high school, normal school, passing examinations, observa- tion and practice teaching, the teacher must serve three years on a temporary license, If she receives satisfactory ratings from her principal and super- visors, she gets a permanent license after that period. The fear of unsat- isfactory rating means a docile, timid teacher afraid to assert her rights. Tammany in 1925, in an “economy campaign,” school expenses, fired many evening school teachers who depend on even- ing school. to make decent incomes and consolidated evening classes, making classes of 100 and over, with students standing in the overcrowded rooms. i The insecurity of tenure of the ‘evening school teacher can only be equalled by that of the substitute’ teacher who works by the day any- where possible, for $5.20 per day, who suffers from the school holidays, who is out of a job so often for lack of vacancy. But insecurity of tenure falls most on the thinking, independ- ent teachers. Benj. Glassberg was expelled for telling the truth about Soviet Russia. The Lusk laws were responsible for many persecutions, Both of the old parties are ‘partners in these crimes, It was the democratic party that drove Glassberg out; it was the republican party that passed the Lusk laws; both parties carry out the educational pol- icy of their class—the capitalists. EACHERS must learn the lesson that many other workers have al- ready learned. They must organize and fight for the right to a de cent standard of living and to a voice in the determination of their working conditions and the running of the school system. To run away from the profession as many dissatisfied teach- ers do is no solution; other fields of work are subject to the same autoc- racy. Nor can the individual teacher rebel against intolerable conditions; dismissal will follow. The only way out is organization. The beginnings of such organization already exist. The Teachers’ Union should be sup- classes, 45 to 55 pupils, has resulted | ported by all teachers. . OREOVER, the teachers, as em- ployes of the city, must realize that the city and state governments, whether republican or democratic, have not considered the interests of the teachers. And both republican and democratic politicians obey the commands of théir capitalist masters, the big corporations and real estate interests, who say: “Less taxes, more economy at the expense of education.” HE teachers must act together with their class, the class of labor. The ‘organized labor movement helped the teachers at Albany; it is labor that will benefit from better schools and better and more satisfied teachers. The Teachers’ Union, which has been in the vanguard of the teachers’ move- ment, must take its place in support of the movement for a Labor Party, Thru labor union and Labor -Party; SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2 P.M (Postponed from June 5th) FIFTH FREIHEIT EXCURSION Wonderful side by side with the workers, the teachers will be able to get’ an an- swer to their many grievances, and be in a position to provide real edu. cation for the children. 1 Day Evening Trip All Tickets of June 5th Will Be Goods on July 10th, : AT FREIHEIT OFFICE, 30 UNION SQUARE, ‘ NEW YORK CITY. cut down on evening... és