The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1926, Page 4

Page Four TH E DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party SOUTH SLAVIC PLENUM ENDORSES POLICY OF PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE At the plenary s lavic munist) Party of Ar folowing res sion o which was held in the middle of this month, usly adopted * * Resolution on the Situation in the Party. Bureau of the Workers (Com- the Riverview Press Picnic Committee The Riverview Press Picnic Com- imttee will meet at 19 South Lincoln St., tonight at 8 o’clock, and language fractions their delegates present, must have 1, The plenum of the South Slavic Bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party greets the correct policy of the tral Executive Committee of our party, which h it ba or 1 has stimulated all comrades, regardless of the ier groupin —— — to action and to work to accomplish the consolidation ks of our party, and moved the party to work] among the mas 7 2. The plenum of the South Slavic Bureau of the Workers (Communist) ls cutive Com- states ast at Party tha party plenum of the Cen Race to Complete Assessment Under Way HE instructions to the party shop and street nuclei that they must com- plete the special 50 cents assessment for the united labor ticket by August 1, is resulting in increased activity by the nuclei to clear their records of this matter. Party members who do not pay the assessment by the first of August will not be in good standing in the party and not mittee of the party has laid the basis| entitled at party meetings. It is therefore essential that every member for the p: and for the meet his obligation in this respect and that the nuclel secretaries make liquidatic fa al struggle the remittances to the national organization, which has been using a great dan- | The list of the nuclei which have made the settlement since the last ger to the party i] list was published are as follows: in the w nent City State Nucleus Amount Commun | Bridgeport, Connecticut Street $6.50 nha ST ghee eee ge | Hartford, Connecticut Shop No. 1 2.00 Deeneiig ine is ; | Chicago, IMlinois . Street No, 27 7.50 agin : : Long Covex, Maine Street No, 1. 4.00 New York, New York cially with the task o I P Ee ome ark the| McKeesport, Pennsylvania aiiaila sd ais : a its Milwaukee, Wisconsin le agains t : i| Wauwatosa, Wisconsin brutal represent and | the bure an Fed- The belance of this fund is urgently needed by the national organize- e | tion to push forward the party Work in the election campaign. Every ration of Lé ag ag party member has not only the formal obligation under the party rules clares that it to pay this assessment in order to remain in good standing In the party, port and wil of its; but there is the additional reason that the sum must be completed in power to car y policy| order that the party work may not be slowed down. among the & kers who The party is going forward in a big propaganda and organizational re part of class Of] campaign. It is building its influence thru its political campaign. This America. F. Borich, Secretary. spread activity. Your nefghbor will appreciate the favor—gtve him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. an ARKANSAS JAIL WHIPPING BOSS’ LASHES INMATES Prison Superintendent Denies Charges Boston & Maine Railroad Workers Seek Wage Increase BOSTON, Mass., Boston & Maine railroad workers in mechanical departments who members of the independent American Federation of Railroad Workers have petitioned for an increase of 6 cents an hour in wages and changes in rules and working conditions. Five thou- ROCK, Ark; July 25. LITTLE ‘Vig- ; sand men are affected. B. & M. work- orous denial of charges that Winona|ers are the poorest paid of any on a Green, convicted yer, and two| Class 1 road. other women prisoners who escaped| Present schedules for mechanics from the state farm for women, at|Tange from 66°to 78 cents an hour. Jacksonville, were flogged when th Helpers get 47 to 52 cents and labor- July 25. — The are} work will only go forward with greater success if the party has the means to meet the many obligations and expenses in connection with its wide- “Every party member pay the assessment, every party nucleus settle by August 1,” should be:the slogan which is the center of the party ac- tivity during the remaining week of the month. ‘OPEN PROBE OF HOXEY’S CANCER CURE INSTITUTE Claim Arsenic Used on Disease Victims TAYLORVILLE, II, July 25, — Act- ing on information that at least twenty persons have died while undergoing the national cancer research institute's “cure” here, State’s Attorney Carl Preihs ordered the arrest of H, M. Hoxey, head of the institute. The warrants, were issued on de- mand of Samuel Antondw of Chicago, assistant director of the state board of registration and education, Antonow said he probably would lead a raid on the institution, and in- dicated additional warrants involving two of Hoxey’s assistants were to be asked. Wood Will Aga’ were recaptured and returned to the | °TS 38 to 40. The B. & M. has com- eres Na | Pany unions for its different depart- farm, was ent ere by Mrs. Julia wae - Ps ments. It recently fired, five com- Roberts, supe font ait "the. term pany union committee men who com- The mistreat ge was COU"! plained to the United States labor de- tained in an a it, made by Mrs.| partment conciliator that the com- Leona Bruce, of Conway county. pany union would not take up their According to the affidavit, Mrs. | grievances, Bruce, who was committed to the in ———____ i on an im rality charge, =m Set ; faced in the beenttal Boston Milk Wagon b charged that st w the “whipping | Drivers on Strike boss” of 1 walk across the yard with a leat hh in his hip BOSTON, July 25.—Three hundred pocket; heard the and screams milk wagon drivers are striking of the three women prisoners a few | against the Alden Bros. plants for ac- minutes later, 1 en w ‘the|ceptance of union conditions. The; “whipping boss” 1 e the workers are members of Milk Wagon building Drivers’ and Creamery Workers’ Local Union No. 380, Intensive picketing is conducted. The few wagons that at- tempt to go out guarded, policeman, with the strap. She declared that t three women prisoners er told her that they each received 13 lashes with the strap, do not deliver much of their loads, Spanish Prince Critically Il. | HENDAYB, France, July 25.—The|} Spanish crown prince Alphonso is| Get a bundle to sell at the plenic! suffering from a serious attack of} The Americgn Worker Correspond- hernophilia which is growing dally |ent is out. worse, according to Madrid advices|Hurry up! today. id you get your copy? Send in your sub! It’s only 50 cents. SSS EER EEEEEESS WORKERS oo WORKSHOP. DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1113. W. WASHINGTON BLVD. Chicago - ILL. I oie | Philippine senate and which is now each by a} Navy Plans to Veto Philippine Plebiscite Bill MANILA, P, L, July 25—Governor General Leonard A. Wood is expected to again veto the bill passed by the before the house committee and will undoubtedly be passed by the house. When acting on this bill in the sen- ate and house, the Filipinos were un- der the impression that the bill would be directly presented to President Coolidge. Now they have found out that as the bill was vetoed at last ses- sion of the senate and house and was not passed over Wood's veto the pres- ent plebiscite act is considered as a new bill. Build Dirigible WHITE PINE CAMP, VN, Y.,. July 25. —The construction of a giant airship nearly three times the size of the ill- fated Shenandoah is part of the navy’s aviation program for the fiscal year 1928, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur announced following a conference with President Coolidge. The budget bureau will be asked to approve a five to six million dollar item for construction of a lighter than airship of 6,000,000 cubic feet. “Red”? Grange Named In Suit for Divorce LOS ANGELES, July 25, — Charles A. Taylor, wealthy oil supply man of Beverly Hills, who named “Red” Grange in a cross-complaint to his wife's application for divorce, was or- dered to appear in superior court next Thursday to give a deposition in the divorce suit. International Barber Shop Private Beauty Parlor M. SALA, Proprietor 2016 Second Ave. (Between Will Meet Tonight | All nuclei | SEND IN A SUB TODAY TO THE! DAILY WORKER, ——|going on in modified fashion. j honorable Mr. Gary, the same wages NORTH CAROLINA DROPS PROBE OF WOMEN WORKERS Investigation Feared by Bosses NEW YORK—(FP)—July © 25.— | North Carolina isn’t going to have a |state survey of women in its indus- tries after all! . The welfare ,commis- | sion couldn’t agree upon investigators jand now Governor A, W. McLean has withdrawn his order fory the study. | Bosses Fear Publicity. | This is the survey approved by the | North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers’ Association in their Jume: convention. | The mill owners at the time adopted |a resolution expressing ‘their interest “in any effort that promises service in constructive values to the life of the people of our state;” but added that their association “is not interested in efforts merely having for their objec- tive agitation under any guise or name.” The convention endorsed the offer of its executive committee “to advise the governor, that this associa- {tion will be glad to co-operate with him and state authorities in making a survey of the employed women and children in North Carplina, and fur- ther to express to the governor our appreciation of his interest in the matter,” ° University Plans Probe. North Carolina mill owners earlier refused the request of the University | of North Carolina Institute of Re- search and Social Science to cooper- ate in their investigation of women in the mills. The Manufacturers’ Asso- | ciation claims that this request “is| still under consideration, and will! probably be given final consideration | at the next meeting.” One of its members charged the university group with wanting to “meddle” and} “agitate” for labor organization. He threatened to interfere with state ap- propriations to the institution. The college investigation is supposed to be More Federal Investigation, Whether the state federation of wo- men’s clubs will ask the women’s bu- reau of the United States labor de- partment to make the survey remains to be seen. This body previously asked that a federal agency do the job but were finally switched to ap- proval of a state investigation. The big mill owners objected strenuously to the proposed federal investigatign. Gary Kept Press Boasts of Police Record for 1926 GARY, Ind., July 25. —~ Every day the Gary Post Tribune boasts about some great accomplishments of the steel city of Gary. Recently it boasted about the police record of Gary, 3587 persons weré™arrested by the police in Gary for the first 6 months of 1926, great accomplishment for the police department—is the opinion of the Gary Post Tribune. We are rather inclifled to see the other side of the question: 3,587 were charged with committing | “crimes.” More than one halg for | violating liquor laws. We say that this record is a record of criminality of the steel trust. Give the’ steel mill officials including the ag the steel workers get, put them in the same house where the steel work- ers live, let them do for a while the same work as the steel workers are doing at the open hearth in the hot mills in the coke house and by-pro- ducts plant—and they will not only get drunk but may be commit suicide, Polish Parliament Gives Pilsudski Dictatorial Powers ‘ — WARSAW, July 25.—Marshal Pil- sudski has been given dictatorial powers by the parliament. During a recess of the legislative body he is to have power to make any laws needed provided they do not deal with the army budget, loans or a declara- tion of war. He is given the right to govern the land until Dec. 21, 1927 without any parliamentary interfer- ence. The senate is expected to pass this proposal with a few slight changes. Speed-Up Is Main Cause of Accidents GARY, Ind,, July 25. — At a recent safety conference called by Secretary of Labor Davis at Washington, D. C., the head of the Chicago Safety Com- mission declared that most industrial accldents were caused by speeding-up of production thru the “necessity” to reduce expenses. While production is speeded-up safety requirements are neglected—human life is very cheap. Gary steel workers will agree fully with the conclusions of the Chicago Safety Commissioner. But what about compelling some regard for human life? In this respect the safety conference will not help. Only ‘the organized power of the workers! ean force the corporations to pay some regard to the safoty of the lives ahd limbs of the | | 103d and 104th Sts., N. Y. City men at work in the mills, ‘ H | DZERZHINSKY'S DEATH The Hearst papers have been carrying a London dispatch that tells of “reports” from Minsk and Riga that Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the supreme economic council of the Soviet Union, who died recently of heart failure, “met his death thru poisoning.” Also that “A number of persons have been arrested, includ- Ing Sokolnikoff.” A Riga dispatch claims that “Zinoviev, Trotaky, Kamenev, and Sokolnikoff did not participate in the funeral.” All direct dispatches from Moscow make no mention of these dark cir- cumstances, Walter Duranty, Mos- cow correspondent of the New York Times, devotes a long paragraph in his story of the funeral to the pres- | ence of Trotsky there, London Typist Fails In Attempt to Swim Across English Channel FOLKESTONE, July 25, — Mer- cedes Gleitze, London typist, who started an attempt to swim the chan- nel gave up after swimming nineteen j miles. She was nine miles off the English coast when taken from the Pittsburgh Police Terrorize Negroes PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 25.—Pro- | tests are being made by Negro resi- | dent’s in the East End section against |the vicious and malicious arrest bug which has Dit the Pittsburgh police in | water, | that section. Police have been in the habit lately | of arresting young Negro lads on the charges of disorderly conduct or as suspicious characters, holding them in jail over night and then have them fined in the morning on trumped-up charges, These young lads are forced into filthy cells, where they must spend the night on account of their color, By HARRISON GEORGE, J previous issues we showed how an anarchist element in the I, W. W., by getting that organization to pub- lish an attack on Soviet Russia, was injuring the organization before the eyes of the workers and. voicing the philosophy of the petty bourgeoisie, a class whose sun has set. But when an anarchist ventures so far into the. maze of ideas as to say two words, he makes three mistakes. The writer of the article, stoutly up- holding the interests of the petty bour- geoisie, goes quite as far as many of that class when forced to choose be- tween the big bourgeoisie and the pro- letariat—and chooses the big capital- ist class. It was thus that the attack on the Russian Communists, leader of the proletariat, takes the side of big capital by accusing these Communists of having “delayed capitalist economic | development in Russia eight years.” HE small bourgeois always guesses that as long as the bourgeoisie as a whole is allowed to exist, that even tho the big fellows get most of the | gravy, some few drops will be left for the “cockroach business man.” It is all very well in fine weather, with the working class “well in hand” and trained not to go outside the rules of tory wealth” and “big business” with words. But let the proletariat lay vio- lent hands on capitalist government, tear down bourgeois parliament with councils (soviets) of workers, soldiers and peasants, and start out to master the art of building, running and pro- tecting a society in which all bour- geois, big and little, are to be as ex- tinct as the dodo, and the petty-bour- geoisie rushes to the aid of his former big enemy and scolds the former ally for “destroying civilization” er “set- ting back human progress.” The anarchist worker's article in the I, W. W. press says exactly the. same thing when it lectures the Rus- sian Communists because, so it says, “they have delayed capitalist economic development in Russia eight years.” ‘Tis a wonder the anarchist did not reprove them for their disrespect of “law and order!” And this sort of thing published by the I. W, W.! HE argument that no revolution should be attempted in any nation until the economy of that nation has | been fully developed by private capi- tal has often been used by the yellow | The figures spell a fascinating story. All Industries There, Miners, machinists, auto workers, railroad workers, upholsterers, office workers, a steel worker, a sales girl, a masseur, an actress, a gardener, a tool maker, shoe workers, a printing pressman, painters, paper hangers, garment workers, a barber, a food worker, a carpenter, a pencil maker, textile workers, a laundry worker, a draughtsman, longshoremen, a post- office clerk, housewives and one plain laborer—they are They come from Canada, California —north, east, south and western United States: 45 out of the 75 from ther places than New York City, tho that is where they are assembled. All are here for the two weeks’ intensive training course at the Workers’ | School. Their time is precious and they don’t want to miss a word of Jay Lovestone’s sharp birds-eye views of America Today. His is the only lec- ture course. ~aculty. Other te are William F. Dunne, Willi einstone, Alexander Trachtenberg, Antony Bimba, Jack Stachel, D. Benjamin and Bertram Wolfe, school director. Students meet with these instructors in smaller groups to study American Social and Economic History; History’ of the American Workingclass; Marxism and Leninism; Organizational Methods and Problems; Party History and Political Parties; Teaching Methods and Con- tent of Workers’ Education, Visit the “Trenches.” Supplementary activities of stu- dents includes visits to the Passaic textile strike area, the cloakmakers’ picket line and strike meetings, to a co-operative camp over the week-end, en Where Is Russia Going? and to New York union meetings of By HARRISON GEORGE. ARTICLE IV, socialist apologists for imperialist “de- enslavement of so-called “backward peoples.” But we hesitate to believe | that the membership of the I. W. W.| approves of the privileges to attack Soviet Russia granted by their of- ficials to anarchist members’ whose ar- gument against Soviet Russia is in- distinguishable from the propaganda of the league of nations. The third point in the anarchist statement that “Russia is reverting back to capitalism” may mystify some who have little time for digging out facts, particularly those who have not yet realized the important fact that between the miserable capitalist sys- tem under which they live and the perfected future society of pure Com- munism there lies a whole historical period of transition. LL utopians and anarchist workers refuse to face this reality, this necessity of facing the troublesome heritage of the old society while build- ing the new. Civil war and the bitter sacrifice in blood and privation with which any class purchases its power to rule is something they have no stomach for. They prefer—as who would not—to skip over such troubles and land tomorrow morning (and why | not today, if the thing is possible?) in bourgeois democracy to attack “preda- | the paradise of the co-operative com- monwealth. They refuse to hear that there is a transition period, because It presents a set of problems for which they have no solution. Let us illus- trate: First, let us imagine that the Ameri- can Communists and their theory ‘of transition were removed to the moon, leaving the I. W. W. without that ele- ment to which the anarchists within the I. W. W. ascribe the evils that beset mankind. Imagine that the: I. W. W., instead of the 5,371 members which paid dues to it during May. had as many members as the Russian Communist Party, 1,025,000. Let these million wobblies tackle the job the anarchist writer in the I. W. W. press says is the “thing to do—establish the industrial state with its workers’ selt- government.” (AT would happen? The capital- ist government's armed forces would be battering down the occupied factories within an hour and, alas and alack! a “purely industrial question,” would have to be settled with machine guns, and the I. W. W. would have to destroy the capitalist government or There are men and women students—most of them young. are taking notes, Entries at the back of the room and the roaring traffic below in the street do not disturb their concentration, WORKERS’ SCHOOL SUMMER STUDY CLASSES BRING LABOR STUDENTS FROM ALL INDUSTRIES TO N. Y. By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press, NEW YORK, July 25.—Every one is lstening intently. 70 in the room and it is one of the summer's hottest days. ‘The lecture is | bristling with figures—millions and billions slung around, but not carelessly, There are over It is tha story of America today. Nearly all + various kinds. Most of the students have had several or many years’ ex- perience in the labor movement. Most are members of unions and not a few hold important posts in their unions. They have come to the Workers” School in New York for an intensive course of training that will help them be more intelligent and effective work- ers in the movement and their unions, Japanese Good Scholars, There are several Japanese stu- dents. One is a gardener who saved his money to come ever since he heard of the school from another Japanese worker who attended winter classes. He would not accept one of the schol- arships offered students from the fur- thest points, tho he had to come from California. Some of the students have been sent by their unions or local po- litical groups, which paid their $25 fee. Many have been arrested in strikes. The upholsterer has been re- called because his union is calling a strike. One boy served in the Rus- sian Red Army and one in the Hunga- rian Red Army. Another was in the Hungarian White Army. The Workers’ School was founded by the Workers’ Party. It is develop- ing a good deal of independence and hopes to greatly increase non-party at- tendance in its fourth winter season. Last session a third of the students were non-party workers. Outside teachers, including Scott Nearing, David Saposs, Robert Dunn, etc., are to give courses and an advisory com- mittee of competent non-party educa- tionalists has been formed. The at- tendance increase at the Workers’ School has been phenomenal: a leap to 700 workers in winter season night | classes within three years! be destroyed by it. ceed? The I, W. W. would have to declare martial law, which js an unusual thing for a union to do, raise an army to How would it pro- velopment” of colonial lands and the | Dut down counter-revolution, seize or censor the capitalist press to stop ite incitation, jail its former socialist or | liberal friends who insist on free | speech and regular elections, set up machinery for winning the doubtful masses of workers and farmers, for dealing with spies and sabotage and foreign relations—create, in short, a whole set of institutions in addition to those needed to produce and distribute useful things, there anyone who denies that this would ‘be \a government? It would have to win the support of the major- ity of the workers, by plainly advanc- ing the interests of the workers, to forcefully suppress the capitalist con- spiracies arising on every hand. That would be the dictatorship of the pro- letariat. The I. W. W. would have to establish such a system or they and their problems would be solved, to- gether with a few well-placed bullets of the bourgeoisie, which has no uto- pian hobbles on its will to power. Do the industrial unionist revolu- ; tlonaries in the I. W. W. believe in the dictatorship of the proletariat, or do they believe that by climbing on an anarchistic “wishing carpet” the work- ers can fly thru the clouds to the | promised land and pass up reality, the transition period and its problems? We think they are mostly realists and opposed to anarchist fancies. We also think that they would do well to say so loudly enough to make an impres- sion on the policies of the organiza- tion, and not allow workers to be de- luded with the notion that their class can evade long and bitter struggle on the road from capitalism to Commu- nism, (To be continued.) Alfred Decker and Cohn Workers Collect $47 in Their Shop The Alfred backer and Cohn Co., coatmakers on the second floor, on their own initiative collected $47 for Cars Bringing Relief to Passaic Textile Strikers relief of the Passaic strikers and have turned the money over to the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid. The workers of the Alfred Decker and Cohn factory should be congratu- lated on their good work.