The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1926, Page 4

ya " Page Four. THE OAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party ON TO A HALF MILLION! Distribute a half million copies of the pamphlet, “The Workers (Communist) Party—What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join” by the end of this year. HERE'S A RECORD! Two Thousand Copies of the pamphlet by C. EB. Ruthenberg “The WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, WHAT IT STANDS FOR, WHY EVERY WORKER SHOULD JOIN” Sold in Three Days by the New York party organization. Here’s How— International Branch No. 1, Subsection 4B. Subsection 2F Factory District Nucleus No. 1, Subsection 3A International Branch No. 2, Subsection 6B... Shop Nucleus No. 4, Subsection 3E Shop Nucleu No. 5, Subsection 6A. copies copies copies copies copies copies Total....... --1780 copies Let’s see other cities reach this record! DISTRIBUTE HALF A MILLION COPIES! TELL HALF A MILLION WORKERS WHAT THE PARTY STANDS FOR! Order from: National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. NEW YORK WORKERS PARTY ELECTION CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY NEw YORK, August 12.—The election campaign is beginning in New York. During the past week the first outdoor meetings of the campaign were held. The New York agitprop department is planning a course in Public Speaking for beginners and speakers who need further training; regular eeries of weckly conferences beginning in September of the more experienced speakers to discuss the isenes of the electrical campaign; a series of bul- letins for speakers, for editors party papers, for candidates, etc., giv- ing an arsenal of facts dealing with each of the campaign issues, and the setting up of a special campaign com- mittee for publicity. Publicity Committee, The publicity committee will con- sist of experienced journalists and writers who are sympathizers with the Workers (Communist) Party and especially with its effort for the build- ing of a united labor ticket and a labor party. These will handle the job of getting publicity in the capital press concerning the campaign. An addi- tional committee will be set up for the problem of publicity in the labor press and in the trade unions. Special Leaflets, A series of special leaflets are planned, including leaflets for each of the important unions dealing with the Political problems of their industry, @n open letter to the socialist party, @ leaflet on prohibition, and other lit erature dealing with the importan: campaign issues. Novel Campaign Posters, A novel feature of the agitprop work in the New York election campaign of > will be a new type of political poster portraying not the faces of the candi- dates but carrying cartoons of a politi- cal nature drawn by prominent car- toonists, each cartoon to be connected with a simple short slogan expressing an outstanding political issue and the final conclusion, “Vote the Workers (Communist) Party Ticket.” Training Speakers, The training of speakers and sup- plying of speakers and party editors with campaign material, as outlined above, was one of the outstanding fea- tures of last year’s election campaign and worked with marked success. A whole year of speakers’ conferences for all the other campaigns of the party has gradually accustomed the leading speakers to take these confer- ences seriously and contribute impor- tant material to the discussions. The first speakers’ bulletin is ready for dis- tribution and a preliminary speakers’ conference has been called, Send a sub now and get the spe- cial rate of five dollars for a year’s subscription and the pleasure of help Our Daily. DAILY WORKER AGENTS AND BUILDERS, ATTENTION! Meeting of all agents and builders will be held tonight, Friday, August 13th, at 19 S, Lincoln St. Be sure to come! Good Music and Program. o” e iJ e Big Night Picnic Saturday, August 14th, 1926 @wen by the LAISVES KANKLIU MISRUS CHORAS at CHERNAUSKAS GROVE, Archer and 79th Street Gate Opens at 6 P. M. Tickets: Gents 50 cents; Ladies 25 cents. — SSS SSS SESE SSE SES Everybody Welcome. FORD WORKER SOLD DESPITE POLICE BARS DETROIT, Mich.,. Aug. 12—Follow ing clashes with the police in connec. tion with the free distribution of the j Ford Worker the management com | mittee of the paper decided to put it jon sale. Six thousand of the July jissue were sold in front of the High land Park plant. Smaller quantities were sold in front of the Rouge anv Lincoln plants. Seek Ford Worker. So great was the stir made by the paper that for two weeks before the appearance of the last issue hundreds of workers daily asked Comrade Vic tor, who sells The DAILY WORKER there, when the new issue would be out. The many letters coming from the Ford workers commending the pa- ver, letters containing. stories of un- precedented speeding-up and exploita tion, and many of them money to help finance the enterprise are additiona! proof of the great interest they find tx this paper. But if the workers have been stirred, so has the company. As soon as Comrade Victor began selling the Au- gust issue the police began to molest her. Several times she was taken to the police station only to be released a short time later. They thought ap parently that they could scare her away by making life miserable... Bur they reckoned wrong. Finally an of- ficer prepared a warrant for her ar- rest but evidently the judge and prose- cutor were unwilling to declare that the Ford Worker was not a legitimate paper, and so after waiting about 40 minutes Comrade Cictor was called in- to the office of the chief of police, who informed her she could continue to sell the paper until her license is ro- voked by the city council. Workers Buy Out Paper. When she announced the Ford Worker the next day the workers who had seen her led away by the police. flocked around her and within 30 min- utes purchased 1,500 copies—zer en tire stock. The next 1,50v more were sold. Gitlow to Speak at Baltimore Picnic BALTIMORE, Aug 12.—A picnic is deing arranged to celebrate the 7th inniversary of the organization of the ‘ommunist Party of America at C. Rotch’s farm, 202 Hillen Road, on Sunday, August 29. Ben Gitlow will speak. Directions to reach place: Take car 19, get off at Harford Road and Hillen Road, walk with Hillen Road to the second farm house on the left hand side of the road. Autos will be waiting from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. at the car stop to take the people to the farm. School Committee of District Eight Meets Members of the school committee of Workers Party District 8 are urged to attend.a special meeting to take up matters pertaining to the organization of district classes for the coming sea- son. The meeting will be held at 19 So. Lincoln St. tonight at 7 p. m. Tourist Club “The Nature Friends.” This Sunday, August 15th we hike to Silver Lake and the Quarry near White Plains. Meeting place, East 180th St. Subway station downstairs, Time, 4:30 p. m. (Saturday after- noon); fare 70 cents; walking time, 3 hours; leader, August Faude. As this is a camping and bathing hike bring your pup tents and bathing suits along. Non-members are welcome guests at all times, provided they are nature- loving proletarians, Five dollars will. renew your sub for a year, if you send it in before August 15. Games—Tug of War—Basebail HOW TO GET THERE St. terminal, Stop 25 trom 164th St. terminal, SEES Take the Kinsman Ave. car Bus will take you to the grounds, WORKERS PARTY TO RUN TICKET IN MICHIGAN Nomination Blanks Are Already Filed DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 12—William Reynolds of Detroit will head the Workers (Communist) Party ticket as the candidate for governor in the Michigan state election’ this fall. In compliance with the tate election laws, nomination petitidns with 5,000 signatures of registered voters were filed in the state election department in Lansing by the se¢retary of the state committee of the Workers (Communist) Party. Nomination petitions ;with 100 sig- natures each were filed for the con- gressional candidates in the following congressional districts: First congressional district, Detroit, Harry Kishner. Ninth congressional @istrict, Mus: kegon, D.C. Holder. Thirteenth congressional William Mollenhauer. Candidates for secretary of state, auditor general, attorney general ana state treasurer will be nominated by the state convention of the Workers (Communist) Party. The state central committee has met and set the dates for county and district, | BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT IN STEP TOWARDS WAR AGAINST JUGO-SLAVIA LONDON, Aug. 12.—The Bulgar- jan government today dispatched a large contingent of troops to the Yugoslavian border with instruc- tions to “fire if anything is wrong,” according to a central news dis- patch from Vienna, Yugoslovia, Roumania, and Greece, all neighbors of Bulgaria, dispatch- ed a collective note to Bulgaria yes- terday requesting the Bulgarian government to take severe meas- ures to stop the actviities of the comitadji, or irregulars. A reply to the note was expected today. state conventions and outlined the preliminary plans for the election campaign. % The outstanding feature of the elec- tion campaign will be four huge elec tion mass meetings to be held in De troit during the months of September and October with the following speak ers: Wm. F. Dunne of Chicago, Tuesday September 7; J. Louis Engdahl of Ch: cago, Tuesday, Sept. 21; C. E. Ruth enberg, general secretary of th Workers (Communist) Party, Tues day, Oct. 5; Jay Lovestone of Chicago, Tuesday, October 19. Additional elec tion mass meetings will be held in Muskegon, Grand Rapids and Flint with prominent speakers. CHICAGO JOURNAL RAPS CLUBBING OF PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKERS The Chicago Journal prints the following editorial on the Passaic textile strike'in its issue for August 10: Guerrilla Warfare. For many months now there has been in progress a mill workers’ strike at Passaic, N. J. :The leader is a young man named Weisbord, a Harvard graduate, who: was born among the people whose fight he is waging, who educated himself, and who is trying not to rise above his class, but to help them inthe econ- omic struggle. Granting, for the sake of the argument, that he might be mistaken in the issues for which he is fighting—though no conclusive evidence has been offered the public on this point—the tactics of the mill owners and of the publiciauthorities are open to the severest criticism. From the outset the effort has been made to discredit thé strikers and to identify them initte public mind with law-breaking ‘and. viol- ence. Yet the records fail to show them guilty at any point, and ‘the records show that violence in the name of the law has beet resorted to again and again. The strikers have been denied the freedom of the streets, the freedom of public meet- ing; they and their sympathizers have been arrested and held for ex- cessive bail. “Red” and “Bolshevik,” the favorite words of the day in the mouths of . abusive conservatism, have been bandied about indiscrimi- nately, Norman Thomas hired a tree from which he addressed the strikers, ad- vocating peaceful and orderly tac- tics, and was arrested for disturb- ing the peace. A pair of sympathetic New York shop girls who recently went out to observe were hustled out of town and followed by an irate message from the mayor that Pas- saic kept an “American Sunday,” whatever he may have meant by that. A playground has been organ- ized to keep the strikers’ children out of the strike area and to supply them lunches. The children are wicked enough to sympathize with their parents and are branded as a new red menace. Weisbord, the strike leader, has been made the object of a succes- sion of pseudo-legal charges within the last two weeks. He is charged with misconduct by a woman whom it is declared he never knew; ar- rested, he is searched and charged with carrying concealed weapons—a knife which it is said he had never seen, and which, if he had owned it, would have put him in the same class of offender with every Boy Scout. It is all “old stuff,” and in the eyes of any experienced ob- server it is the soundest of evidence that the mill owners are hard push- ed and know that the real question as to whether their employes are sufficiently paid and fairly treated is not strong enough to be submitted to the public on its merits, The Journal is well aware that the labor situation is an immensely com- plicated one, that labor organizers are often moved by motives as self- ish and unsocial as labor employers, that no specific labor contest should be prejudged without examination. But The Journal is also opposed to unfair and dishonest tactics, who- ever resorts to them; and it is most tempt and resentment for the law in the hearts of those against whom deeply opposed to repressive meas- ures exerted in the name of the law, but surely destined to breed con- they are employed, Klan Candidate Wins Republican Nomination for Nebraska Governor OMAHA, Neb., August 12, — The nomination of Gov. Adam MeMullen, republican gubernatorial candidate, who ran on a “bone-dry” platform with the endorsement of the ku klux klan, was conceded virtually cer- tain, The unofficial count today gave McMullen a lead pf. more than 20,000 over Fred G, Johnson, Former Governor Charles Bryan, vice-presidential candidate on the democratic ticket in 1924, was unop- posed for the democratic nomination. ENJOY YOURSELF AS NEVER BEFORE at the Picnic and Outing of the Workers (Communist) Party, District Six at Avondale Garden, Sunday, August 15 CLEVELAND Game—Dancing—Refreshments . Beginning at 11 A, M. BRING YOUR FAMILY AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS o the 164th It in ae drive to Y. W. L. Membership Meet Here Tonight A city-wide membership meeting ot the Young Workers’ League of Chica- go will be held tonight, Friday, An gust 13th, 8 p. m. at 1902 W. Division St. Because of the absence of many comrades at District school and on other duties out of town attendance at this meeting is imperative, ae ei a a Rockefeller Kin Tri Smuggling. NEW YORK, Aug. 12,—J. Sterling Rockefeller, great grand nephew of John D. Rockefeller, was fined today for bringing articles from Europe without declaring them to customs of- ficials. He was released on parole, $5 will bring you a year’s subscription to ‘The Daily Worker if you send it BEFORE AUGUST 15th. $1 brings RED CARTOONS —the greatest publica- tion of proletarian art ever issued. cago. Contributions from DAILY experiences, are invited, 8 p™ COMRADES, everywhere: «If you want to build up our paper, fet us work at it. Hundreds, or even thousands of us can become DAILY WORKER Builders, The street nucleus is our natural place to function. Ansl what is a street nucleus? It is the party organization. or portion of a city where there are thousands of houses in which workers live, Once every day each wage earn- ers comes home to rest. He, or she, is going to read something. A few of these get together as a unit of our party. These and a few others, one in a hundred or a thousand read The DAILY WORKER, ELL, what is needed is for one of us fellows to camp right in the middle of every nucleus. We will start in taking a census. that is, finding out who is who and what is what. In a flat light book of large blank leaves we will make two columns; one for odd numbers and one for even numbers as applied to the houses where our brother workers live. We will write the name of the street and the date we start working at the top of the page. Then in one of the columns we will begin writing the house numbers in succession. In the opposite column we will write numbers on the other side of the street. We will leave an inch, or little less, between each number. Of coutse we will have to visit the houses in order to do this. This will map out our work, As with the gardener, this would be making out the rows for planting the seed. ITHER at the time we are writing the numbers, or at a future time we will ring,the door bell. This, you think, will take some nerve. Yes, just about as much as if you were to go See a man you never saw about any other matter you are both concerned with. You both want better wages, less hours and a newspaper which represents you both. You will explain that you have been delegated to see all the wage earners here. That it is hoped each one will buy one of these papers that he may read it carefully ind see what it is, Or, better yet, let t be delivered each day for a week or two and give it a trial. Of course you will say a number of things, what- ever seems necessary, but, above all you will not allow yourself to be side- tracked from your object. If the person you meet is impolite and brings up other matters all you can do is to say “Excuse me brother, I hoped you would consider this matter on its merits. I cannot take time now to discuss anything else.” Then if he refused to pay attention to the purpose of your mission you can say, “Some- time I would like to discuss other mat- ters with you, but I cannot take time now.” This leaves him with no ground for offense and you can use your own judgement about seeing him again. ANOTHER LESSON ON HOW TO GET | READERS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Note—Here is another letter from P. B. Cowdery, of Chicago, giving some additional suggestions on how to get new readers for The DAILY WORKER. Note the postscript which points out that his suggestions can be applied anywhere in the country, not only in Chi- WORKER Builders, telling of their ET me say here, that your best course is not to tussle too much, if at all, with the job of converting persons. Your, job, at least for a long time, is to find people, not make them, Your job is to pass freely along from house to house in search of that type and development of mind which will read and appreciate The DAILY WORKER, You may say that such persons will line up of their own ac- cord. Never. Not any more than a ripe berry will pick itself and put it- self in a basket. Whether this last statement is true, or why it is true, we do not need to discuss now. I know by expeylence of ars that not more than one in twenty-five of those ready for our work are doing it. So when the one has found the other twenty-four, or some- one specializing on the job has found them, we will have organized effort just that much more powerful than it now is. 'O we do not need to draw any long faces or cuss anybody but otr- selves, With all this great proletarian field lying all about us With sod un- broken and grown full of weeds, what is the matter with us? I am speaking of the few conscious Marxists and Leninists, It is true we have done a mighty task in developing an organized party and a paper, which, under the circum- stances, is truly a wonder. But now let us complete the job. The DAILY WORKER is not just for its builders to sit and read, It is a tool, a cultiva- tion, for breaking sod and up-rooting weeds. We need a gardener, a head gardener, for every street nucleus. One who will canvass and re-canvass every house himself, if he cannot get volunteers at: it. HERE is no set way that this work must’ be done. Any comrade who sets out to do it and sticks to the job will sueceed.. Now, you comrades, vol- unteer, enlist. We will teach and coach you. You will succeed, on one condition, that you do not quit, an? that you throw your energy into this just as you must into anything else to succeed.—P. B. Cowdery. P. 8. — You do not need to live in Chicago, or come to Chicago. This work can be done anywhere. We will teach you thru the paper or by cor respondence; Five dollars will renew your sub for a year, if you send it in | before August 15. GINSBERC’S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. COMPANY UNION By ROBERT w. The first booklet of its kind issued. A most valuable study of the growth of a new menace to American organized Labor by a keen stu- dent of the esting, with problem, Simple and most inter- the addition of conclusions drawn by the leader of the American Left Wing Movement, CLASS STRUGGLE vs. CLASS COLLABORATION By EARL R. 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