The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1926, Page 4

Page THE teens DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party NEW YORK PARTY TO HOLD STATE MEET ON SUNDAY Nominate Candidates for Elections NEW YORK, July 22. — The state convention of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party to adopt a platform and to nominate candidates for the electi campaign of 1926 will be held in York City on July h at ao. a Temple, 234 East 84th t The following will be the convention: 1, Opening of the convention. 2. Report on the political situation and the issue of the united labor ticket. | Elec s com resolu- ttee, | es for the | ator, | ors and as- congressm semblyman. 6. Election of state campaign com- mittees. Every shop, factory district nucleus | and every international branch will | elect one delegate to this convention All units ha more than fifteen registered members will send an ad- ditional delegate. This means that every unit will havo at least one dele- gate and no unit more than two: This method of representation holds true for this convention only and is by no means & precedent for section confer- ences, etc. Delegates will also be elected from Schenectady, Albany, Binghamton, Utica, Jamestown, Rochester, Syra- cuse, Buffalo. The convention will last all day Sunday and will have three sessions: nine to one o'clock, two to six o’clock, and seven to eleven p. m. Every unit must have representa- tion at the convention so that the en- tire membership will participate in the convention. The district commit- tee:has endowed the convention with full powers to act on all matters on the agenda, subject only to their final approval. The convention is to go thoro- Jy into the issues of the campaign and the way and means of enlisting the broadest support for the candidates of the Workers’ Party and for the idea of the united labor ticket. The subsoription price to the Amer- jean Worker Correspondent Is only 50 cents per year. Are you a subscriber? IN RUSSIA On one-siath of the globe— @ hundred and fifty million people are building a new and different kind of @ world for Labor. These books will give you the FACTS of what is hap- pening there “for the firat time in history.” A CHOICE SELECTION Russian Workers and Work- shops In 1926, By William Z. Foster. $ .10 Giimpses of Soviet Russia, By Bcott Nearing. $ .10 Russia Turns East, By Scott Nearing. $ 10 Handbook of the 3 .25 A Moscow Diary, By Anna Por- ter. Cloth, $1.00 Russia Today—Report of the British Trade Union Delega- tion. $1.25 Whither Russia? By Leon Trot- sky. $1.50 Ten Days That Shook the World, By John Reed (New Edition). Cloth, $1.50 /Thru the Russian Revolution, By Albert Rhys Williams. $2.00 Romance of New Ru By Magdaleine Marx. Cloth, $2.00 Broken Earth—By M. Hindus. $2.00 Flying Ossip— Stories of New Russia, Paper, $1.50 Cloth, 2.50 Got them from The Daily Worker Pub. Co, 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, CHICAGO, ILL.’ = derailment has not been determined, as ym fight! ‘ ‘ Twenty HE number of party members whose payment of the special united labor tleket assessment has been reported to the national office has That leaves 10,000 members of the reorganized party whose payment of the assessment has not yet been reported to the na- now risen to 2,011. tional organization. The collection of the assessment must be completed by the end of the month of July. Those party members who do not pay ai that time will not be In good standing in the party and will not have the right to vote at party meetings. The party is preparing for a widespread campaign In connectlon with the state and congressional elections. bership drive during the election campaign which will drive up the or- ganized strength of the party, thru adding thousands of new members to the shop and street nuclei. This is the work which the party ing additional contribution of 50 cents in paying the special united labor ticket assessment, Every party member who wishes assessment promptly. Every secretary of a nuclei should consider It his duty to see that every member. pays remittance for money collected to the national organization promptly. There are ten days left for intensive work to complete the collec- The settlement for these special assessment stamps should reach tion, = Eleven! ssment by It is organizing an extensive mem- has been asked to finance by mak- the party to grow should pay this the assessment and then send the the national organization at the rate of one thousand members’ payments a day during thig period. During the remaining days of the month, The DAILY WORKER and the other party papers will print each day a list of those nuclei which send in their payment. The members of the nuclel should watch this list and if the name of their nuclei does not appear, insist that the secretary immediately perform his duty, collect the assessment and send the remittance to the national office. Complete the assessment by August 1! Every member must pay the assessment!! Finance the party work 80 that the party can make a big drive forward!! Chicago Workers Party Press Picnic at Riverview, Aug. 1 Sunday, August 1, there will be a soccer football match at Riverview Park field, between the Workers Sports Club and the Roosevelt Ath- letic club. This match will be held on the same day and at the same place as the Workers (Communist) Party Press Picnic, Arrangements have been made so that press picnic tickets also admit to the football field, The Workers Sports Club is com- posed of workers. It aims to develop working class sports. The Roosevelt Athletic Club presents an all-Jewish team. Poth teams have before ,con- tended for the Chicago championship of the second division in soccer foot- ball, Pittsburgh Picnic Will Hear Foster at Schuetzen Park BOMB HOME OF CLEVELAND NEGRO DOCTOR Hundred Pet Centers Do Not Want Him CLEVELAND, July 22.—C. H. Gar- vin, a local colored physician, lives in a select white section of the city. The inhabitants of this section do not want Dr. Garvin, who is one of the best known physicians of this city, to live there. Therefore, they made an at- tack on him in an effort to oust him. Not satisfied they attempted to bomb his house, but did not succeed, Garvin had to have police protec- tion—and finally it appeared as if the matter would subside. A short time ago, @ second attémpt was again made to bomb his home, a bomb en- cased in a large tin can being found on the front porch of his home. Po- lice Chief Graul exploded the bomb PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 22. + A big picnic has been arranged by the International Labor Defense of Pitts- burgh for next Saturday, July 24th., at the well known Schuetzen Park, Millvale, Pa, William Z, Foster of Chicago, well- known labor leader and orator will speak at this picnic. Brother Foster just returned from an extensive tour | of Europe. Admission: 35 cents for men and 25 cents for ladies. To reach the park from Pittsburgh: Take Millvale Car No. 3 on Ninth and Penn Ave. Go to the end of line, Trucks will wait for you to take you over to the Park or by auto—follow Evergreen Road to the park, Cleveland District Picnic to Be Held on Sunday, August 15 CLEVELAND, July 22, — The dis- trict will hold a pienic at the beautiful Avondale Gardens, on Kinsman Road, Sunday, August 15, starting at 11 a. m, This picnic will be a district pic- nic out of town. Section 4, Chicago, Industrial Organizers’ Conference Tonight A conference of all nuclei industrial organizers of Section 4, Chicago, Workers (Communist) Party will be held tonight at 19 South Lincoln St. The meeting will open at 8 o'clock, Three Men Killed in Powder Plant Blast CARTHAGE, Mo,, July 22, — Three men were killed in an explosion at the plant of the Atlas Power company, ten miles southwest of this city, to- day They were Thomas F, Dickson, 32, of Near Joplin, Leaford Akin, 27, who resides near the plant, and Jess Pars- ley, of Duenweg. The deaths were caused by the ex- plosion of a 1,500 pound mixture of 60 per cent nitroglycerin, at what is known as the punch house where cart- ridges are packed. Limited Train Derailed, NEW TRUXTON, Mo., July 22, Two coaches of the Burlington “Night- hawk” passenger train from Kansas City left the rail near here today but no one injured, The cause of the —— by shooting at it with a revolver after throwing it into the park and suffering cuts from the debris thrown into the air by the explosion, Miners See Machines Which Take Away Their Livelihood By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. EBENSBERG, Pa., July 22.—Huge new coal mining machines that are tevolutionizing the bituminous indus. try were visited by curious central Pennsylvania coal miners at the in- dustrial exposition in Ebensburg. The machines had been brot together by Charles M, Schwab, head of the Cam- bria county fair association and one of the biggest non-union operators in the country. Great mechanical loading machines were there with conveyors that scoop up the loose coal at the face and rush it to the mine car out in the entry. They are eliminating much hand shoveling, as the earlier coal cutting machines eliminated most of the pick work, Make Machines of Miners, “Nothing but a Goddam machine” is what they make of the miner, to quote the language that Carter Good- rich attributed to a coal digger in his book, The Miners’ Freedom. Pointing to a model scraping ma- chine the demonstrator asserted that o men get out the coal that usea to take 20. He said hundreds of the new scrapers and loaders had been installed in West Virginia and Ken- tacky, rich southern non-union fields, in the last two years. They bring increased production, fewer workers and more unemployment, Nationalization Ne*ded, Says Brophy. Central Pennsylvania miners have long been familiar with the mechani- cal cutters. Few mines in this dis- trict have put in mechanical loaders, The mines here are old and not laid out for the new machines, The coal seams are thinner and roof condi- tions not favorable, But the machines are constantly being improved, Nationalization of the mines. is needed more than ever, said John Brophy, president of District No, 2, United Mine Workers, commenting on the exhibit. yooh to AO A en SES RE ca EI sc ML SRE". PEE WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! your eyes! Loox around! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be written up. Do it! Send it in! Write Subpoened 3 in Slush Fund Quiz Into Illinois Primaries Georae DRENNAN Above, right, is Samuel Insull, Illinois traction magnate, who is charged with having been very.generous towards the alleged $2,000,000 campaign fund of Frank L. Smith: (left) In the Illinois primaries, Below, right, is the defeated candidate, Sen, Wm, McKinley, who is a traction magnate in his} own right, and to his left is George Brennan, democrat opponent to Smith, running on a wet platform, REVIOUSLY we 4d the five issues raisedjby an anarchist writer’s article which appeared in the I. W. W. press attacking the Soviet government. Today wejtreat the sec- ond issue, a weird argument for any worker to voice, let aléne to find in the press of the I. W. W... For, strange as it may seem, the article insists that not only have the Russian Commu- nists “betrayed” the workers’ revolu- tion, but that they haye—at one and the same clan the capitalist class, also! What marvellous pa have the Communists! For after ‘along recital by the anarchist writer of how the Russia workers have had.their revolu- tion “betrayed” right..under. their noses without them being aware of it, we read the following indignant pro- test on behalf of a capitalism also be- trayed by these same Communists: “The Communist Party has delayed capitalist economic development in Russia eight years.” cussed one of the Russian Communists have dis- played such remarkable dexterity as to have betrayed both the working class and the capitalist class at the same time, it is no less a wonder to witness the agility with which the an- archist writer in the LW, W. press switches around once again after con- demning both, and from a bitter com- plaint that capitalism was for eight years deprived of its fightful inheri- tance, rushes to a contrary one that “there is no further doubt of that na- tion’s (Russia) reversion to the capi- talist system.” The fact of the matter is that every time an anarchist sits down with pa- per and ink fhe makes a fool of him- self. He can’t help doing so, That he manages to get his foolishness pub- lished as an official statement of the I, W. W. is regretable, and the mem- bership of that organization has the fame right as that of any organiza- tion to demand, that officials do not drive workers away from it by put- ting out nonsense in ‘its name, par- ticularly’ when the anarchists use the I. W. W. propaganda for propaganda helpful to capitalism, * HIS is not the first time anarchists have entangled themselves in con- tradictions. We recall that when Soviet power for cash on delivery, how, in the days before the inaugura- tion of the new economic policy the great complaint was that the “barba- rous Bolsheviks” would not permit peasants and small traders to market their wares by private trading. But, behold! When the “Nep” granted that permission an equally loud howl was raised because, so ran the com- plaint, allowing private trading was a betrayal of the revolution! Hard to please, aren't they, Where do any workers get such funny ideas? From the. petty bour- geoisie and from the handicraft sys- tem of production in which petty bourgeois ideas flourished even in the minds of the workers. This class and | ity ideas die slowly, its ideas spread ; qi Where Is Rassia Going? Wituiam B MSkKINLEY By HARRISON GEORGE. ARTICLE Ill. among workers take time to erase, but we see that thruout the world the hold of anarchism upon the minds of the workers recedes with the advance of the machine process, the giant fac- tory system and capitalist monopoly. District No. 8 of the Young Workers League is establishing a system of voluntary Red Sunday Propaganda Committees, i. e., committees of two or three comrades to go to various working class affairs to carry on league propaganda among the young and adult workers assembled. Their specific duties are: collection of funds for special organizational work among the young miners in southern Illinois, making contacts with young workers jand children in an effort to get them interested in the Young Workers League and Pioneer movement and WILL WHITING OIL WORKERS GET VACATIONS? Company ‘Union Makes Request for 2 Weeks By B. BORISOFF. Where does John Rockefeller spend his summer months? 0, to be sure, in some cool and pleasant spot. He can well afford it. This summer the workers of the Standard Oil Co. plant in Whiting, Ind., conceived a bright idea: Why not have a vacation, too? To be sure, they deserve it a great deal more than John D. Someone started a petition to the management for a two weeks’ yearly vacation for those who work in the plant. The petition was signed by the workers of the plant and presented to the management thru the committee of representatives. (John D, operates a company union in his plants.) ‘This was done three weeks ago. Nothing has been heard from the man- agement yet. Why should it take so long to decide this question? Good summer days are passing, John D. and his ilk do not take much time de- ciding about their vacation. They NARCHISM jg a philosophy of in- dividualism, and individualism cannot live and prosper in an environ- ment of workers who in great masses are poured into factory gates to act as appendages, each in his little niche, to the gigantic machine. .The element of anarchism in the I, W. W. is a relic of the past just as much as the craft union idea of the American Federa- tion of Labor. There is much in com- mon between the two, which is the reason that anarchist workers, in-the I. W. W. and out of it, care little or nothing about industrial unionism, which implies large masses of work- ers organized by industry well unified by a centralized structure. Sam Gom- pers was once the most blatant of an- archists, But the petty bourgeoisie, and the anarchists which express the ideas of that class, even tho they are work- ers, while they complain bitterly against the “injustice” of private own- make their plans for summer far in advance. _ I wonder how many workers who signed the petition actually expect they will gét a two weeks’ vacation? Of course, if it is a vacation without any pay, and if those who remain in the plant will have to turn out the work of those who are on the vaca- tion in addition to their own work for the same pay, then the proposition may be considered, but not otherwise. Petitions will not produce any re- geults, as the Standard Oil Co. men will eventually find out. A company union where the representatives are the tools of the company will not. Only a genuine organization of the workers will be able to win their de- mands. Let Down the Race Bars in Trade Unions ership of the machinery of social pro- duction, are equally opposed to the social ownership of that machinery. Everyone of the humanitarian cries of “oppression,” “soulless monopoly,” ste., With which the petty bourgeoisie tries to attract to their support the workers who, truly enough, suffer greatly from the private ownership of the machinery of social production, is not at all intended to lead these work- ers on to a social ownership of this social machinery, but to revert to an epoch that is past, the epoch of small manufacture, to the “glorious days” of the small trader, free competition and individualism, 'Y did the anarchists of the Gold- man type complain at the Bolshe- viks before the inauguration of the “Nep"? Because the petty bourgeois “right” of free trade was denied under the rigid policy of “war communism.” Why did they complain still more bit- terly when “Nep” came? Because the “barbarious Bolsheviks,” tho they per- mitted private trade, retained every large and basic industry as social property, aiding the expansion and Emma Goldman wrote attacks on the {centralization of this socialized indus- try, aided the giant co-operatives and —far from returning to an economy based on small manufacture so be- loved by the petty bourgeoisie—made it impossible for small manufacture to compete successfully with the great socialized state industry. This signed the doom of the petty bourgeoisie, and the anarchist reflec- tion of that class within the labor movement broke into weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, The cockroach business man may feel badly about it, but why the revolu- tlonary workers in the I. W. W, should allow the anarchists to dry the tears of capitalists on the pages of “Indus. trial Solidarity” 1s beyond our com- prehension, » (To be continued.) pind i 2 ' » A Story By MAJOR GRIFFIN, Member of the Hod Carriers’ Local No, 81, Gary, Ind. I fired for the Southern Railway Co, about nine years. In the latter part of 1898 the organization of ‘the Rail- road Brotherhood of Engineers asked the firemen how they would like to join the brotherhood—they just be- gan at the time to organize the broth- »rhood in the south, We colored people failed to co-op- erate with the brotherhood at that time, altho a large number of colored men were firing thruout the southern states. And what are the conditions now? The doors of the brotherhood are closed to the colored people. There are just about one-third of the colored people that was firing before are working at present. While the white firemen are working two of them on a train—a colored man has to work by ‘himself, doing the job of two men and he gets just a little more than half of what the two white firemen are getting, We must organize and insist that the doors of the unions which are now closed to us be opened. There must be no divisions among ne because of the color of their skin, Workers, both white and colored, can improve their conditions only when they stand together, Read “OIL” by Upton Sinclair » it today and everyday In The DAILY WORKER > ~ ine errant tt Ss Y.'W. L. Members and Pioneers Are -ded to Volunteer for Red Propa- ganda Sunday Committees Call at the District Office of Y. W. L., 19 South Lincoln Street, For Assignments. third, to sell our official organ, THE YOUNG WORKER. Volunteer com- mittees numbering at least 20 are needed every Sunday to cover various parts of the city as well as nearby towns in this district. The results of the work just started are quite satisfactory. The sum re- quired for this organizational work is $300 and in three Red Sundays, which by the way were only participated by a few individuals netted $114.99. The results of establishing contacts and selling YOUNG WORKERS has been practically nil and will be stressed. ~ News from the Gary, Ind., Steel District Race Discrimination in Rockefeller Plant in Whiting, Indiana “Who are the workers working in the Whiting, Ind., plant of the Stand- ard Oil Co.?” I asked one of the work- ers of this plant. “The majority of them are foreign- born workers,” was the reply. “Are there any Mexicans working there?” “No.” “Any Negroes?” “Just a few.” “What kind of work are they do- ing?” “They are cleaning the stills?” “How is this done?” “Well, after the still has run, its scHeduled time it must be cleandd of coke and tar forming on its inside surfaces. It’s awfully hot inside at the time the men are let into the still to clean it. Five—ten minutes is about all the time that the men can stand the high temperature and the hot ofl vapors within the still. They go out, catch a breath of fresh air and after a while go in again, and this continues until the work is done, “How much do these workers get for this job?” “T do not know.” “What.kind of work are you doing?” “T am a still man.” “And how much are you getting?” “Eighty cents an hour.” “I suppose the skilled jobs are more or less in the hands of the American- born.” “Yes.” The fellow with whom I talked was a fine young, intelligent chap. But he hardly realized the true and important meaning of the story which he told me. I wonder whether he ever pon- dered over these divisions existing among the workers in the plant where he works. The skilled American-born on the top of the scale, the foreign-born next, and then the Negro at the bottom, doing the hardest, the most detest- able, exhausting and killing work. Attention, PHILADELPHIA! WORKERS! FRIENDS! COMRADES! 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