The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1926, Page 4

, formation in one form or another. lume the possibility of there being Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party _ More Caution in Our Shop Nuclei Work “JACK STACHEL. SHT and left deviations are not only to be found in the upper party cadres and in the consideration of our major policies, but find their expression in our every day work in the trade union, the fraternal organi- zation, and in the shop. In the shop the right and leftist tendencies are symbolized by two types of comrades. The first who, after working in the | shop for 12 years, is not suspected | by anyone of evefi having progressive | ideas, the comrade who conceals. the | party. The other extreme, the leftist | type, is symbolized by the comrade who, after getting a job at 8 a. m., is called “Bolshevik” and “Trotzky” by the entire shop and is fired at 12 m. Both of these types are dangerous to the work of the party to the degree that they are afflicted with these ten- | dencies. | E must fight against both of these | tendencies on the part of our membership in the shop nuclei. Both | of them exist, both are anti-Leninist. We must recognize, however, that these tendencies are due to a lack of experience in the approach to the masses, lack of experience of the| whole party. Some comrades ask the Ztion, “which of the two tenden- } is more dangerous at’ the present | time?” and the answer is that this | depends on the particular situation involved, Also that the situation is | invariably so implicated that the right deviations lead to liquidation of the Communist nucleus thru too much ex- posure, while the deviation is exactly due to a desire to avoid exposure. I, therefore, say that we must have more caution in our work and not expose our comrades too much, because at this time, when we are getting our roots planted tn the shops, this is our greatest danger. WILL now give some experiences that we have had in the New York district to illustrate the necessity for caution, In one of the large plants employing about 2,000 workers we thave succeeded in organizing a party and Young Workers’ League nucleus. ‘The comrades worked well and pub- lished a shop bulletin, which was very ‘well accepted by the workers. In a short time the comrades came to the district office and informed us that they had already formed a shop com- mittee of 16 workers. The bulletin was published, not in the name of the party or the Young Workers’ League as the organ of the nucleus, but it was stated that it was published by a group of workers in the shop. The shop committee began to look upon the paper as its organ. How Not to Form Shop Committees. HE district executive committee immediately recognized that the situation in the nucleus and in the shop as a whole was a dangerous one. ‘The shop committee was organized on individual membership; in other words, it was not really a shop com- mittee, but the basis of a union in that industry. There is no union in that industry. The workers in the shop began to talk of strike. Fortu- nately, our comrades soon enough told the workers that premature strikes | are dangerous, but the workers still | believed that they were forming a union. The paper naturally, to them, became the organ of their future union. Every member of the party and the Young Workers’ League be- came a member of thisso-called shop committee. What were the dangers here? In the first place it is the easiest thing in “the world to liquidate the nucleus thru this method of forming commit- tees. We must always assume that one out of every 10 in the shop who ‘will join such a committee is either a spy of the firm or will give them in- of course, it may be true that there is not a single spy in this committee of 16, but, basing ourselves on past ex- periences, we must nevertheless as- one in the committee. Unless checked by the district executive committee committee would in all probabil- ify now have about 30 members and would continue to grow. The danger of gpies increases with every increase in the membership of the so-called “shop committee.” We have every nember of the party and the Young Workers’ League there. We, there- fore, run the risk that every Commu- 2s and militant worker in the shop will be fired and we will lose every- thing, We will liquidate the nucleus ani we will discourage organization tnong the workers for some time to coma. \ ates 1 POINTS ’ | with the possibil Form Committees on Departmental Delegate Basis. HE proper method of forming a committee in the shop is to organ- ize a committee in each department of the most trusted and militant work- ers, and then to form a delegate body of one representative of every depart- ment. While not doing away entirely of spies getting into the committees, it can first of all be kept secret much more easily, and then the danger is localized and min- imized. Even in this delegated body or shop committee only one or two of the Communists should enter to guide the work. In some cases to properly. lead the work we may need a few more, but by no means all the Com- munists, for if there is a spy, and we have not all the Communists exposed, we can still continue to do the work —the nucleus will remain in the shop. Who Publishes the Shop Bulletin? OR a while the prevailing idea among the leading comrades in New York was that the shop bulletins published by our nuclei should not state that they are the organs of the Communist nucleus, but, rather, that it is being published by a group of workers in the shop. Here, too, there are a great many dangers. In the first place, I want to make clear that the nucleus while it must do everything to stimulate organization of the unor- ganized, and may be the basis for a union in the industry, if no union ex- ists in that industry, cannot adopt the conception that that is its only task. By leaving off the name of the party from our shop papers we foster this; idea among our own membership and give the empression to the workers in the shop and to the union officials that we are out to organize unigns, and nothing else, thus failing to ap- pear as a political organization before the workers in the shops as well as the organized labor movement. Fur- thermore, by concealing that the bulle- tin is published by a political party the contents of the bulletin are written accordingly. We are compelled to talk mostly “organize the unorgan- ized,” and one step must lead to an- other; that is, organize the unorgan- ized means strikes. We must be care- ful of premature strikes called by the bosses or provoked by them to root out the militants, at the same time giving all the support of any group of. workers that are out on strike. Our task is to stimulate, aid and even lead when necessary in the organization of the unorganized, but as a Communist Party we must consider this only as one of our activities, even if at this j moment it is the most important activ- ity of the party. At the same time we must tell the workers and speak to the organized labor movement of the necessity to stimulate the American Federation of Labor to organize the unorganized. We must speak thru the organs of our nuclei to the workers, as a Communist Party that is inter- ested and participates in all their struggles. Some comrades say that the party is not known, therefore, we cannot publish the name of the party. Others say the workers think that the party is interested only in the revo- lution and does not work for the im- mediate interests of the workers, so we must not use the name of the party. Others say that the party is too red for the workers, The sum total of all these arguments is, let the party be put into the ice box until the revolution, then we will give it to the workers) Our answers must be we must convince the workers thru our participation in the everyday struggles in the shop that the Com- munist Party is their party, is their leader, and that the Communist Party fights for the everyday needs of the workers. At the same time we must never fail to connect the immediate interests and needs of the workers, their present-day struggles with the ultimate aims of the party. Secretaries, Attention All shop and street nuclei secre- taries must attend the meeting of the Executive Committee Section No. 4, on Friday, July 2, 1926, at 19 S, Lin- coln St. at 8 p. m., sharp. In case it is impossible for the secretary to attend, a comrade who hag full knowl- edge of the situation in the nucleus should substitute for him. Be Sure to attend! You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story in it. tT. @ ae ee Sepia ge 4 Midnight July FUNCTIONARIES SHOULD: ATTEND WORKERS’ SCHOOL New York Offers Excel- lent Courses NEW YORK, June 29.—One of the most important courses for party func- tionaries offered by the National Sum- mer Training School in New York during the last two weeks in july, is the course in “Organization” with Jack Stachel as instructor, Jack Stachel is the organization secretary of the New York district, the largest in the country. The main topics to be taken up in this course ar Organization, the basis of proletarian strength; Princi- ples of Leninist Organization; Struc- ture of the Workers (Communist) Party and its relation to the Comin- tern; Problems of Party Reorganiza- tion; Organization for Party work and for work in non-Party organizations. The outline of this course, which can serve as a basis for discussion and study in other parts of the country, follows: Organization the Basis of Proletarian Strength. Organization and_politics. b. Organization and administration. c. Role of organization in a Bolshevik Party. a. Organization forms. e. Different organizations of the work- ing class. f. The party, the vanguard of the pro- letariat. g. Opportunism in organization ques- tions. ' h, Role of organization in split of S. D. L. P. of Russia, 1903. i; Attitude of right and leftist groups on questions of organization in the dif- ferent parties of the International. a. Principles of Leninist Organization. a. Every member an active member and a member of one of the party organ- izations. b. Discipline. ec. Democratic centralization—in ferent periods of class struggle. Shop nuclei as the basis of Com- munist organization. e, ractions in the trade unions, co-operatives and other organizations of the working class. f. The party cadres—professional revo- lutionists. dit- Structure and Statutes of the Workers Party and Its Relation to Comintern. a. Party a section of world party— meaning of this to the sections. » b. ‘The Central Committee. c. The district committees, city com- mittees, etc. a. Shop nuclei, street is, sections, etc. e. Party conventions and conferences; enlarged plenums; general membership meetings. f. Conferences of functionaries. g. Democratic centralism and dis- cipline in the Workers. (Communist) Party, h. Membership in the party and the recruiting of new members: nuclei, sub- sec! i, The language bureaus, and. their work—fractions in language organiza- tions. j. Fractions in the trade unions and other organizations. k. Relationship between the party and the Young Workers (Communist) League. Problems of Party Reorganization. a. ‘The shifting from small to large industry. b. Americanization. ¢. Intermediate forms between shop and street nuclei—Concentration groups. d. The building trades, railroad work- ers, seamen, etc. e. Small factories. f. The problem of the functionaries. g. Housewives, non-proletarians, etc. h. Drawing every member into ac- tivity. i, Shop papers. j. Shop committees. k. Nuclei activity and the organiza- tion of the unorganized. 1, Nuclei activity and the party cam- paigns. m. Relation of the units to the lower executives, sub-sections and.sections and their relation to the district commit- tees. Reorganization and party democ- racy. Organization for Party Work and for Work in Non-Party Organizations. a, The organization department of the central executive committee and the districts. b. Organizers in the units and lower executiv ematic everyday organization . Organizing for the membership re- uiting. e. Organizing for press campaigns. f. Organizing party campaigns—elec- jons, ete. g. Control of the activity of the mem- ership, the creation of an apparatus for ‘control. h. Organizing meetings, etc. Organization of united front meet- ings and conferences. j. The function of fractions and the organization of campaigns in non-party organizations. k. Utilizing united fronts to build the party organization, . BIBLIOGRAPHY. Required Reading. Lenin on Organization. The Party Organization—Jay Love- stone. Imprecorr—Volume 6, No, 38, Additional Reading. Imprecorrs—Vol. 5-63 and 88; Vol. 6—2, 28, 30, 34, 36, and 37, Kaganowitz— Organizatorische Auf- bau Der KPR (German) Zinoviev—History of the RKP (Ger- man) or the different numbers in the Workers Monthly. and utilizing mass ¢ A BUST OF LENIN WITH FACH 00 POINTS ee GARY WORKERS TO; ~ HOLD MASS MEETING ON FOURTH OF JULY GARY, Ind., June 29,—A* mass meet- ing is being called by the Gary work- ers investigating committee for Sun- day evening, July 4, at 7:30 o'clock at the Turner Hall, Fourteenth and Washington. Andrews Plans New ‘War’ on Liquor WASHINGTON, June 29.—With the biggest dry army ever assembled by the government, General L. C, An- drews, prohibition chief, will launch a “war” on Jiquor soon after July 1. About 4,000 officials andsagents will make up the prohibtion army on land supported by the coast guard, cus- toms service and other law enforce- ment agencies unofficially ,co-operat- ing in the drive. The present land force numbers 3,200 men, COURTS AIDIN OPEN SHOPPERS OUT OF DANGER $ AY DOCTORS Refuse Special Nurses for Gary Workers GARY, Ind., June 29.—The doctors at the Illinois Steel company hospi- tal declare that the remaining victims of the explosion in the by-products plant blast are out of danger. Refuse Names, When asked for the names and the number of the victims that are still in the hospital, the doctors refused to let the reporter for The DAILY WORKER know these facts. He was referred to Mr. Martin, secretary ot Mr. Gleason, chief superintendent of the steel mills. No Special Nurses. The doctors when asked whether the victims of the blast, many of them need constant attention day and night, had special nurses to care for them, the doctor declared that they had none, but that a few extra nurses had been hired. Lehotsky’s Complaint. The doctor claimed that a nurse was constantly at the bedside of John OF NEW JERSEY Give Injunctions, With a Generous Hand (By IRVING FREEMAN.) The capitalist judges of Esseg coun- ty are competing with one another as to how many injunctions they can sign in Newark and vicinity against, the trade unions, The latest to be signed by Vice-Chancellor Backes was against the Building Trades Council Lehotsky, who was the fifteenth offi- cial victim of the explosion. John Le- hotsky complained a number of times that he was not properly being cared for. The doctor claimed that these victims of the blast needed no special nurses, tho many of the men are very seriously burned and are unable to move hand or foot without assistance. Compensation, At the general office of the Illinois Steel company, Martin was busy “in conference.” A man named Kowal wag sent out from the office. Kowal and Local No. 478 International Broth- erhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers. The defendents are guilty of at- tempting to organize the teamsters who drive the trucks that haul lum- ber for several firms in the lumber business, These drivers haul lumber that is handled “wy the unionized men engaged in constructing buildings. One Dozen Injunctions. The open shoppers offer the old worn-out argument that labor organ- izers are interfering with the con- duct of their business. Today there are a dozen injunctions in force against the local unions who are car- rying on drives to organize. the unor- ganized workers and thereby raise their standard of living. The local judges and the employers are hostile to any form f unionism and are attempting to prevent the workers from organizing by the intro- luction of injunctions." New Struggle Coming. In view of the fact that the anti- injunction bill has been passed. by the state legislature to go into effect July 4, 1926, we can expect strong opposition on the part of the bosses and the judiciary to prevent its en- forcement. _ Organized labor in the state of New Jersey will be compelled to stage a strong fight against the open shoppers who are opposed to unionism at all costs. Two R. R. Workers Killed. MANSFIELD, Ohio, June 29, —Two men were killed and at least fifteen others injured, many seriously, when the wheel came off an Erie railroad “speeder” and the machine went into a ditch north of here this. afternoon. All on board the speeder were work- ers, * Open your eyes! Look around! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be written up. Do it! Send it inl Write as you fight. refused to divulge any names or the number in the hospital and when ask- ed what compensation the workers or their families would receive, he de- clared that the Indiana compensation law covered the accidents, The reporter was told to go to see K. M. Burr, head of the safety de- partment of the steel mills. Twenty in Hospital. Burr declared there were still 20 in the hospital and that some of the settlements with the victims and their families had been made. He would give no information as to how or what the settlements were. When asked whether the men in the hospital had been approached he declared that the men in the"hospital refused to listen to any talk of com- pensation now. He declered they merely waved their hands and declar- ed that they are not inclined to talk compensation yet. He also admitted that the company was telling the victims of the blast and their families not to hire lawyers but to go to Superior Court Judge Greenwald and get their advice free. It is pointed out that this judge will give them free advice while if they go elsewhere they will have to pay high fees. No Valve Open. Mr. Burr when asked whether in the inspection of the gas piping in the by-products plant a valve was found opened, he declared that no valve had been found opened. He was then asked how it was that the coroner's jury brought back the verdict that a valve was open, while he stated that the valve wag not open, he answered that the worker who opened it, soon realized his mis- BLAST VICTIMS — WITH THE ¥ CONDUCTED - BY TH Violation of Child Labor Laws on In- crease in Illinois State CHICAGO.—IlHnois employers are increasing their violation of the state child labor laws, according to William H, Curran, chief factory inspector. The Ililnois law prohibits children under 14 from working for compensa- tion during school hours, before 7 o'clock in the morning or @fter 6 in the evening. It also prohibits employ- ers from working children under 16 more than six days.a week, eight hours a day, and before 7 in the morning and after 7 in the evening. Another provision debars employers from putting children under 16 to work in a large number of prohibited occupations regarded as detrimental to health and gangerous to life, Owners of fruit, vegetable and gro- cery stores, the inspector points out, persistently violate the law by -em- ploying children under 16 on such ma- chines. That violations occur is dem- onstrated not only by the work of the factory inspection division but also by the fact that not infrequently acci- dents to children under 16, injured while working on power machinery, are reported to the industrial commis- sion, Nor is the-employers’ attack on the lives and limbs of child workers due to “ignorance or carelessness. It is rather due to a determination to vio- late the law and a wanton disregard of the rights of the children. As a precautionary measure against violations of the child labor law, when a child obtains a working certificate requirement is made that the certifi- cate specify the kind of work he will do. This would ayyear to be a safe- guard against placing the child in a prohibited employment. But in spite of this, some employers transfer the child from the work his certificate calls for to one of the numerous illegal employments, Jailed Garment Workers Thank Young Workers League The jailed garment workers in Chi- cago have sent the following letter of thanks to the young militants of the Young Workers League for their work in their behalf: ty Cook County Jail. Young Workers, League, District No. 8. Dear Comrades: The garment workers at the Cook county jail instruct’ me to ex- press thanks and appreciation to District No. 8 for the cheer and good things sent to us. We ‘eel the time is coming when | the injustice done to the laboring people will be eliminated by the growing class consciousness of the |1N workers in the United Sta’ The unity and idealism of the sen- UNG WORKERS LEAGUE Mass. Youth School Plans 5-Week Course x By NAT KAY. BOSTON, Mass.The Young Work- ers (Communist) League of District No. 1 will have a district training school for 50 students ‘that will come from 23 different cities including 2 students from Maryland and about 8 from New York district. This school will last for five weeks, and each student will be given a thoro training of the labor movement, gen- erally and the Communist movement in particular, The following will be taken, up: 1. Elementary course in economics, 2. Classes and parties in the U. S. A. 8. The state and the class struggle. 4. The theory of imperialism, 5. American imperialism. 6. Tactics and strategy of the class struggle, 7. Thp work of the Y. W. L.-in all its fields, 8. The history of the Y. W. L, and FO.4, 9 The history of the Youth move- ment, The instructors are Comrade Nat Kaplan and N. Krut. . There will ‘be five periods during the day. All sorts of exercises will ibe con- ducted ‘between the regular studies. The school will also have a library and reading ‘hours. The entire school will be organized on a basis of sub- committees, as agitprop, industrial de- partment, literature, sports, pioneers, Negro, house committee (for the dis- tribution of work among the students, the maintenance of housing, etc.), re- search, bulletin committee, united front committee, financial committee, social, secretariat. Every student will have to be a member of some of these sub-committees, The management committee which has been elected to manage all affairs and supervise all sub-committees is composed of the following comrades: Janhonen (Finnish D, 0.), E. Berko- witz, Krantz, M. Goldberg, ,A. Slifka, D. Schwartz, L. Futran, Riseman, Heino, and the two instructors, N. Kaplan and N. Krut. The committee is directly responsible to the D, B. Cr of the Y, W. L. We hope that as a result of this schooling, auch improvement and benefit will result for the Y W. L. of this district, especially since this will mot be an academic course, but @ practical course which will enable the comrades attending the school to do practical organization work, the day after returning from the school. For information all mail should be addressed to the management commit- tee, 36 Causeway St., Nat Kay, Secre- tary. Child Labor Discussion in British House of Lords LONDON, Bngiland.—In the house tenced garment workers shall be an /of lords on May 18, arose a discus- inspiration to fight all labor, enemies of Fraternally yours, Frieda Reicher, For Garment Workers in Jall. take and shut it off when it was too Youth Schools late. Gary workers are urged not to sign any waivers or agree to any settle ments with the company until they have seen a lawyer, not in the pay of the steel trust to find out what they are entitled to under the com- pensation laws. TEACHERS’ FEDERATION OPENS CONVENTION AT NEW YORK; TO FIGHT OPEN SHOP EDUCA NEW YORK, June 29—(FP)—The. annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers will open here of intolerance by boards of education, the upholding of professional standards of teaching, and the strengthening of the federation thruout the country are vital matters'to engage the delegates. Teachers are alarmed over the tendency of intolerance to swing from industry to education, the widespread ‘training, and the emphasis upon a¢————————————————_____. ‘hard hit by a decree of Thomas Fine- nationalism which is being imbedded into the consciousness of children in every state. Has Had Hard Fight. Ten years old, the teachers’ federa- tion has had a hard fight against re- actionary influence in the nation’s educational system, and against the blighting hand of employing interests and superpatriotic official groups. ‘These groups foster the doctrine that for teachers to join unions ig “dis- loyal,” because they place themselves in the position of fighfing the public, That doctrine was loudly voiced during the Boston police strike in 1919. Gov. Calvin Coolidge and other public men condemned the walkout, which ‘was stamped as “revolution.” ‘This condemnation was echoed widely by school boards, At that time the federation had made large strides in organizing New England teachers, But as a result of the kickback against the police strike the federation lost practically every looal, in that sec ton, mies. campaign to enlist unorganized teach- ers in opposition to the interests ation mentally and economically thru tainted teaching. TION June 29 at the Civic Club. Checking establishment of compulsory military gan, state education superintendent, that education boards had the right to dismiss teachers for joining un- ions. In Chicago, Local 1 of the fed- eration disintegrated under, the iron pressure of the Loeb regime. in California various locals were lost because of attacks by allied manufac- turers and merchants. Now the federation is setting out to regain territory taken by its ene- It is planning a nation-wide which seek to enslave the next gener- This drive is to have the backing of organized labor generally, — President William Green of the A. F, of L, is expected to speak at the convention's opening Session, On the same program will be President John Sullivan of the N. Y. State Federa- tion of Labor and John P. Coughlin, secretary of the Central Trades and ved a a” . Mien) Being Set Up sion on the employment of children and young persons bill, which gave local authorities the power to make by-laws regulating the employment of young persons between the ages of 14 and 18. Viscount Astor who moved the second reading of the bill stated that during the last 60 years persons over 18 employed in factories and work shops and children of 14 years The Communist youth movement in| and under had been protected by legis- this country is planning to extend its | lation, educational activity this year. In ad-| However, “the protection of young And] | dition to issuing a political minimum | Persons between 14 and 18 had been course for its sections in the various | Partial. He then went on to show cities, full time training schools on|cases that were revealed by different both a district and national scale will| investigations where girls worked 58 be set up. Four district schools and|hours per week, young boys working one national school will be set up this|10 hours per day, etc. In London alone summer and fall. The summer district | over 14,000 boys and 13,000 girls 16 schools will be held in Superior, Chi-|or 17 years of age, cago, Boston and the New York dis- tricts. A national training school will be set up at the seat of the national committee in the early fall. Youth Unemployment Increases in Britain LONDON, England.—On May 10the total number of unemployed register- WURTENBURG, Germany. — The|°d at the employment exchanges in inthlndaetad ent for the tech-|OTeat Britain was 1,576,000. This was nical schools of Wurtenberg has is- 391,749 more than a year ago. The ued @ confidential order (No. 3825 of total of young persons was’ 108,000, of May 3, 1926) demanding statistics re- these 60,000 boys and 58,000 girls, garding the confession of faith of the | That ig 39,165 more than last year’s pupils in trade and commercial schools |"¥™ber of young unemployed. for the purpose of the introduction of| 12 View of ithe fact that young wn- religious-ethical instruction or sorip-/©™Ployed trom 14 to 16 are not regis- sere Samadi ade echools, tered at the exchanges and also that unemployed from 18 to 21 are already considered as adults, the number of young unemployed is much higher than estimated by the government em- ployment exchanges. SCRIPTURE LESSONS IN CONTINU- ATION SCHOOLS. SEND IN A SUBL For a Mass Organ Thru Worker Correspondents ‘ BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY ; Meat Market Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home. “ FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ino, (Workers organized as consumers) 4301 8th Avenue a we io ¢ WRITE AS, YOU FIGHT! » 4 we