The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1926, Page 3

Workers (Communist) PETITION CAMPAIGN FOR CHICAGO ~ W. P. CANDIDATES NEEDS MORE PEP The drive for collection of signa- tures to put Chicago Workers Party candidates on the ballot has brought some results thus far, but there still is quite a way to go to put the can- didates over. Following are the num- ber of signatures needed: 7th Congr. Dist.—Candidate S. T. Hammersmark, 3,500. 6th Congr. Dist.—Candidate Mathil- da Kalousek, 2,500. Ist Congr. Dist.—Candidate: Bliza- beth Griffin, 1,000. Candfdate for U. S. Senator from Activization Units Are Party Builders Illinois, J. Louis Engdahl, 3,500. Those who can sign petitions are the following: Registered voters who have not voted in the primaries. Those who sign the petitions for con- gressional candidates must reside within the congressional] district. Sig- natures for Engdahl can bé taken in any part of the state. Do you want to see our candidates on the ballot? Do you want to con- duct an election campaign for the party? Then get busy and put the signature campaign over! By ARNE SWABECK,. Following the succéssful conference held by the Workers (Communist) Party, District 8, on August 29th and to carry out effectively the plans laid down there, the Party Activization Group was organized two weeks ago. Good results of its work can already be noted. . During the month of September, al- tho not yet past, the number of ap- plications for membership in the par- ty have almost doubled that of any previous month.since the reorganiza- tion. Nuclei are showing signs of in- creased activities. Over $600 has been collected “by the Activization Group tor the party campaign, while the coal miners have responded splendidly to the new progressive movement de- veloping thruout the union, Starting out modestly, the group made its beginning with about 25 members participating. However, all pledged themselves to show a real example of activity and by their examples increase activities in the units, They were ready to take up any work assigned to them. The first began by visiting party units, sit in at their meetings, take note of the needs of the unit and help along in the work explaining not only the pur- pose of our activities, but the methods. The “Activization Group proceeded on the theory of no matter what ob- Jective obstacles may exist, Com- munists never lose courage of the par- ty, always engage in its campaign of struggles for better conditions of the workers, While the tempo and me- thods of our campaigns change ac- cordingly to the existing objective conditions making rapid advances possible when labor actively engages in struggles, it likewise necessitates tightening and strengthening of ‘the ranks in the party when labor Is in- active and apathy prevails, To attain the greatest possible re- sults in our campaign-is the immedi- ate objective of the group. In other words, to establish uniform leadership in the active work. The work of the Activization Group is systematized. The members get a valuable training as organizers. They learn of the dif- ficulties and short-comings of | the units. The group is based on the principle of continual and gradual ex- tension, to week by week draw in more and more comrades to this ac- tive circle unttl it slowly becomes a movement of mass activity extending itself to the nuclei, forming similar groups there and finally embrace the whole live section of the party and thus becomes transferred to the units themselves. For the next meeting of the Activ- ization Group, the members will bring in additional comrades, There are no limitations, all lve party members are invited to participate. The next meeting will be held on October 5th at the Greek Hall, 768 W. Van Buren Street. W. P, Election Campaign Tours ~~ Bertram D. Wolfe. “Who Owns the Government?” This 48 the subject of the campaign talks of Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the New York Workers’ School and candidate for congressman on the Workers. (Communist) Party ticket, who is now touring the western part of the coun- try. Comrade Wolfe's tour is: LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Co-operative Hall, 2706 Brooklyn Ave., Sept. 25. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Sept. 26. PORTLAND, Ore.—Sept. 29 ASTORIA, Ore.—Sept. 30. TACOMA, Wash.—Oct, 1. MT. VERNON, Wash.—Oct, 2. SEATTLE, Wash.—Oct, 3. SPOKANE, Wash.—Oct. 5. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Oct. 8. ST, PAUL, Minn.—Oct. 9. Rebecca Grecht. Rebecca Grecht, who is covering the state of Ohio in the September elec- tion campaign tour, will speak at Akron Ohio today Sept. 25. Her subject is: “What Can Workers Ex- pect from the Dlections?” Her list of meetings is as follows: AKRON, 0.—Sept. 25. ERIE, Pa.—Sept, 26. H. M. Wicks. The New England states are the ter- ritory which H, M. Wicks, well-known labor speaker and candidate for gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, is covering in a September election campaign tour, Comrade Wicks, who t speaking on “What Can the Workers Wxpect From the Elections?” will be at Lowell, Mass., today and from there to other cities in Massachusetts according to this list: FITCHBURG—Saturday, Sept. 25, GARDNER—Sunday, Sept, 26, SPRINGFIELD—Monday, Sept. 27. HOYLO: lay, Sept. 28. PITTS! ‘Wednesday, Sept. 29, All Our Work Guaranteed, GRIGER & NOVAK @ENTS FURNISHING and _. MERCHANT TAILORS 1934 West Chicago Avenue & ee SEMINARY TAILORS CLEANERS & DYERS - Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats cleaned and blocked—Shoo Shining Parlor—Laundry 812-14 Fullerton Ave., Phone Lincoln 3141 Ben Gitlow Ben Gitlow, who is well-known to the workers of this country as a mili- tant fighter in the ranks of labor, be- gins his big election campaign tour under the banner of the Workers Communist Party with a meeting in New Haven on September 29. Work- ers in cities all over the country— Comrade Gitlow’s tour will take him all the way from New Haven to Mil- waukee—will have the opportunity of hearing the 1924 vice-presidential can- didate of the Workers Party and its present gubernatorial candidate in New York on: “WHAT CAN THE ELECTIONS DO FOR THE WORK- ERS?” * The complete tour follows: * NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Sept. 29, BOSTON, Mass.—Sept. 30. WORCESTER, Mass.—Oct, 1, ROCHESTER, N./¥.—Oct. 2, BUFFALO, N. Y.—Oct. 8. CLEVELAND, Ohio—Oct. 4. DETROIT, Mich.—Oct. 5. CHICAGO, Ill—Oct, 6. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Oct. 10. TOLEDO, Ohio—Oct. 11, PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Oct. 12. BALTIMORE, Md.—Oct. 13. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Oct. 14, Special Meeting Bronx Section. A special meeting of the Bronx Sec- ‘tion (New York City) of the Workers (Communist) Party’ will be held on Monday, September 27, at 8 p, m., at 1347 Boston Road. This meeting is open to all sympathizers of the party. Comrade Wm. W. Weinstone, gen- eral secretary of the New York dis- trict of the Workers (Communist) Party and candidate for congress in the 20th Congressional District, will speak on “Workers Party Program and Programs of the Other Political Parties.” That worker next door to ap Kap bap Peay vie to do nD ut of DAILY WORKER. ci to the We Call for and Deliver, Chicago, Il. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on their dental work, DR. M. RASNICK © DENTIST 2050 Center Ave., Cor. Errin St. TH Party WORKERS PARTY ENTERS CANDIDATES IN STATE ELECTIONS THIS YEAR In a number of states nominations have been filed by petition while In others the petition campaign Is still in progress to place Workers (Com- munist) Party candidates officially On the ballots, Nominations officially filed: ene Michigan. Michigan—The following ecandl- dates will appear officially on the ballot in the primary elections to be held Tuesday, September 14: Governor, William Reynolds, Congress, 13th District, Willlam E DAILY, WORKER UNITED. TEXTILE WORKERS’ MEET ELECTS McMAHON’S MACHINE BUT PASSES PROGRESSIVE MEASURES NEW YORK CITY, Sept, 24.—The convention of the United Textile Workers just closed elected the folfowing officers: Thomas F, McMahon, president; James Starr, vice-president; Sara A, Conboy, secretary-treasurer. Nine elected on the exceutive committee were: Tobias Hall of Philadelphia, John Hanley, George Hayes of Paterson, John Powers of Providence, John Campus of Fall River, Carl Holderman of Passaic, Alex McKeown of Phila- Mollenhauer, Congress, ist Dist., ner. Congress, 9th District, Daniel C. Holder, * Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania—The following were the candidates nominated: Governor, H. M. Wickes, Lieutenant-Governor, Hills, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Max Jenkins. na United States Senator, E. J. Cary. State Legislature, first district, Ernest Careathers and Anna Weis- man. Second District, Mike Blaskovitz and Cella Paransky. For Congress, Seventh District, Margaret Yeager. Eighth District, Susie Kendra and Peter Skrtic. Ninth District, William P. Mikades ‘Thirty Fourth District, Sam Shore. State Senator, Willlam Schmidt, Colorado. Governor, William Dietrich, United States Senator, James A. Ayers, Secretary of State, Nelson Dewey. State Treasurer, Leonard Forsch- ler, Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, Helena Dietrich, State Auditor, 0. McSwain, Massachusetts. Governor, Lewis Marks. Lieut. Governor, Albert Oddie, U. 8. Sen- ator, John J. Ballam. Treasurer, Winfield A. Dwyer. Auditor, Emma P, Hutshins, Attorney General, Max Lerner. Secretary of State, Harry J. Canter. Ohio. Canton, Stark County State Senator, 41st District, Carl Guillod, State Assemblyman, 21st Disrict, Peter Pichle se Harry Kish- Parthenla * ‘ FARMER-LABOR PARTY CANDI- DATES SUPPORTED BY THE WORKERS PARTY: OHIO Allen County Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Edwin Blank. Representa- tive to the General Assembly, Cor- bin N. Shook, Sheriff, B. K. Mo Kercher. County Auditor, C. E. Thompkins. County Commissioner, Karl W. Frey. County Treasurer, Frank Clay. County Recorder, L. is. Prosecuting Attorney, Carl ink. Clerk of the Courts, Rob- ert J. Kelley. WASHINGTON J. L. Freeman, candidate United States senate of the Farmer-Labor Party. a 9'.@ PETITION CAMPAIGNS IN PROGRESS TO PUT THESE CAN- DIDATES ON THE BALLOTS: ets Illinois. J. Louls Engdahl, candidate for United es Senator from Illinois. 8, Hammersmark, for congress- man from 7th congressional district. Mathilda Kalousek, congresswo- man for 6th congressional district. Elizabeth Griffin, congresswoman for 1st congressional district. New York. Governor, Benjamin Gitlow. Lieu- tenant Governor, Franklin P. Brill. Attorney General, Arthur 8. Leeds. State Comptroller, Juliet Stuart Poyntz. (Manhattan) Assembly 6th District, Benjamin Lifschitz, Assembly 8th District, Rebecca Grecht, Assembly 17th Die- trict, Julius Codkind. Assembly 18th District, Abraham Markoff. Con- gress 13th District, Charlies Krum- bein. Congress 14th District, Alex- ander Trachtenberg. Congress 20th District, William W. Weinstone. Senate 14th District, Elmer T. Alll- son, (Bronx) Assembly 3rd Dist., Ellas Marks. Assembly 4th District, Isidore Stein- zer. Assembly 5th District, Charles Zimmerman, Assembly 7th District. Joseph Boruchowitz, Congress 23rd District, Moissaye J. Olgin, (Brooklyn) Assembly 6th District, George Primoff. Assembly 14th District, Samuel Nesin. Assembly 23rd Dis- trio, Fannie Warshafsky. Congress {0th District, Bertram D, Wolfe. Senate 7th District, Morris Rosen. . . Connecticut. Governor, William MacKenzie. Lieut. Governor, Edward Mrasko. Comptroller, John Gombos, Sec’'y. of State, Jane H. Feldman, Treas. He WOOD amassed, delphia, Joseph Buzek of Salem, Mass. Support Willimantic, In support of the heroic strikers of Willimanic, who have been out for 18 months, some 60 families living in a tent colony provided by the union, the convention adthorized an appeal for relief the sami ag for Passaic, Two Good Resolutions, The convention adopted a resolution favoring amalgamation of the separate crafts to conform to the need for a more powerful union as industrial de- velopment necessitates. Also a resolu- tion for the organization of the unor- ganized was adopted unanimously. Sacred Contract Helps Scab Mills. Some delegates raised the question of the union’s official organ. running scab advertisements, but McMahon es- caped with a poor excuse about the sa- cred contract with the Passaic mills which he had lived up to. No vote of record was taken on this. Machine Satisfied. The whole tone of the convention was reactionary and the McMahon- Conboy machine feels that it is firmly entrenched as’a result of the conven- tion endorsing their policies. One change in the constitution aimed at the Communists, undoubtedly, was adopted, in Section 8, Article 25, by adding a section to keep out “unde- sirables.” The next convention is scheduled to take place in New York on September 18, 1928, two years from now,” FIFTH AVENUE FASHION SHOPS TO SEE STRIKE * . Tailors and Furriers Fight Rich Bosses (Speolal to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 24.—The fashionable gentlemen of New York who buy their clothes in 20 leading tailoring establishments along Fifth avenue will for the first time see their taflors on. strike next Monday unless an eleventh-hour settlement is made. a Bosses Will Fight. Fifteen hundred) members of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union and the Furriers who)'work in the society shopping zone have failed in efforts to get the bosses of these high class cus- tom tailoring houses to grant their demands. The; bosses say they will fight the union to the limit. The con- tract expires Saturday and the strike will be on Monday. Try to Organize Women. Efforts are to be made by the union tailors to organize the girls and wo- men dressmakers who work in the shops that furnish the silks, satins and fur creations to the fashionable capitalist society of New York. If this is done it will be the first time Fifth avenue has witnessed such a strike. The Tailors’ Union tried to get union conditions for these unor- ganized workers, and this is one point on which the emptoyers re- fused to negotiate. Union Demands. The demands of the union are for a 40-hour week, a 10 per cent wage increase, guarantee of 44 weeks of work during the year, a provision governing discharges and a limit of overtime to five hours a week. The girls who do dressmaking get extremely low wages. Rochester Labor in Effort for Passaic ROCHESTER,’ N. Y., Sept. 24— Leaders of the Rochester labor move- ment are members of a committee to assist in raising relief for the striking textile workers of Passaic, as the re- sult of a meeting last night at Car- penters’ Hall, No, 113 North Fitzhugh street. With over 100 representativey of labor organizations present, the fol- lowing were elected to take charge of relief work: Chairman, William A. . Dennison, business agent of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union; secretary, Sol Hor- witz; treasurer, Frank Harnett, busi: ness agent of the Plumbers’ and Steamfitters’ Union; executive com- mittee, C. F, re en Frank Wil- son, president of the Plasterers’ and Bricklayers’ Union; Edward Mcln- tyre; John Flynn, president of theCen- tral Trades and Labor Council; Rey. L, R. Plank, Mrs, Esther Webman and Miss Belle Rudin. Blection of the committee followed speeches by Bila Reeve Bloor, relief fleld organizer, and Tessie Burke and John Windish, two strikers from Pas- saic, who told of conditions in the mills and the wage cuts which pre- cipitated the strike, » Florida Mail to Resume. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Mail ser- vice conditions {n Florida will be nor- mal within the méxt three days, Acting Postmaster General Bartlett today predicted after receipt of advices inspectors in the from postoffice » and Joseph Piscz of Utica. NEW BUILDING TRADES STRIKE IN CLEVELAND Open Shop Movement on the Offensive CLEVELAND, Sept. 24. — A new Strike of the building workers is threatened in Cleveland. Six hundred and fifty building workers on the Ohio. Bell Telephone building, com- prising carperiters, electricians, iron workers, etc,, have gone out on strike because the contractors sent four non- union painters to work on the job. There was nothing left for the unions to do but call the men off. Big Open-Shop Drive. This is not at all remarkable when one considers that the painters’ and glaziers’ strike, which was called off a few weeks ago, resulted in a com- plete fiasco for the men. The Citt- zens’ Committee, which has been formed with a fund of $5,000,000 at their disposal to fight the union, is again functioning and believes that the situation is such that they can move more militantly against the building trades, which are the best or- ganized in Cleveland. ; This undoubtedly is preliminary to the preparations of the contractors, backed by the bankers and chamber of commerce, for the strike of the car- penters, which is bound to occur on May 1 next year, when the agreement terminates. The Citizens’ Committee is bent upon destroying the union and believes that the present moment is the most opportune, since the unions showed no resistance when they es- tablished the fund to fight the unions, Fight First, Laugh Afterwards, To ridicule the Citizens’ Committee and its fund may be the method of some of the building trades leaders, especially of Charles Smith, the busi- ness representative of the building trades, but it would be far better if these.men would recognize facts and face them squarely and prepare to meet the assault of the bosses. If these preparations are not made, when the carpenters make their de- mands with the threat of backing them up with a strike, the contractors, backed by the Citizens’ Committee, the so-called “bubble” of Charlie Smith will laugh them out of court. TEACHERS FLAY DISMISSALS BY SCHOOL BOARD Protest Meeting Will Be Held Next Week In protest against the Chicago schoo] board’s retrenchment plan at the expense of the teachers, the staff of the Lindblom High School held a meeting to protest against the board’s action in dismissing teachefs, thus breaking an agreement, An Increase in Pupils. The new policy of the school board calls for an increase from 33 to 35 pupils per teacher in the high schools. It is estimated that about 200 teachers will be hit by the new ruling, A general mass meeting will be held a week from next Saturday, when a formal protest will be drawn up for presentation to the board and the teachers will secure an attorney to represent them. Bayonne Labor Helps Passaic Strike Aid BAYONNE, N. J., Sept. 24—At a special, meeting last night of the Ukrainian Workingmen’s Association, Branch 167, it was decided to call a meeting of all Ukrainian societies of Bayonne and vicinity for the purpose of organizing strike relief for the 16,000 striking textile workers of Pas- saic, John Melnick, labor leader, was elected to head the committee which was formed to make arrangements for the conference, The proposed confer- ence will have as its sole purpose the finding of means to give financial and moral aid to the Passaic strikers, Mel- nick asserts in his appeal to the va- rious Ukrainian organizations, point- ing out that the Passaic strike and fight for better living conditions is the fight of the working class as a whole. GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciairy vI Bunny went back to Beach City, to face a trial of the sane sort. Grandma did not cry out or faint, she just went up to her studio room and locked the door and did not, appear, even for meals, When Bunny was ready to go, he went and knocked on the door, and Grandma let him into her laboratory of paints and oils and high art. Her face was drawn but grim, and only her withered red eyelids gave her away. “Little boy,” she said—he was still that to her, he would never grow up—“little boy, you are a victim of the old men’s crimes. That means nothing to you now, but remember it, and some day, long after I’m gone, you'll understand.” She kissed him without a sound, and he stole out, with tears running down his cheeks and feeling somehow as if he himself were committing a crime. He felt still more that way when, a week later, he received a telegram saying that Grandma Ross had been found dead in bed. He got a three day leave to come home and attend the funeral, and had to say his good-byes to the rest of the family all over again. The training camp was located in the south, a place of blaz- ing sunshine and vigorous perspiration. It was crowded with ‘boys from every part of the state, mostly high school and college fellows, with a sprinkling of others who had got into the officer elass by having military experience. The sons of grape-growers and orange and walnut and peach and prune growers, of cow- men and lumbermen and business and professional men in the cities—Bunny wanted to know what they were like, and what they thought about life and love and the war. He drilled until his back ached and he studied, much the same as at school; but he lived in a tent and ate ravenously and grew in all directions. Now and then he would explore the country with a compan- ion, but keeping himself out of the sex adventures that occupied most of the army’s free time. Here was a place where no bones were made about plain talk; your superiors took it for granted that when you went out of the camp you went to look for a woman and they told you what to do when you came back, and had a treatment-station where you lined up with the other fel- lows and made jokes about where you had been and what ft had cost you. Bunny knew enough to realize that the women fn the neighborhood of this camp who were open to adventures must be pretty well debauched after a year, so he had little interest in their glances or the trim silk-stockinged ankles they displayed. He had made application for the artillery, but they assigned him to study “military transporation,” because of his knowledge of oil. He took this quite innocently, never realizing that Dad with his wide-spreading influence might have put in a word. Dad was quietly determined that Bunny was not going across the sea, no, not if this man’s war lasted another ten years. Bunny was going to be among those who had charge of the army’s supplies of gasoline and oil, seeing that the various products were up to standard and were efficiently and promptly shipped. Who could say—perhaps he might be among those who would have the job of working out contracts, and might be able now and then to put in a good word for Ross Consolidated. vo The new deal was going through, and Dad wrote long let- ters telling of the progress—letters which Bunny was to return when he had studied them and not leave lying about im a tent. Also there were rumors in the papers and then more detailed ac- counts, designed to prepare the public for the launching of a huge enterprise. Late in the summer Bunny got a furlough and came home to get the latest news. “Home” no longer meant Beach City; Dad hed only been waiting till Bunny had got through with school, and now he had moved to another house. It was a palace in the fashionable part of Angel City, which he had leased through a real estate agent, for fifteen thousand a year. It was all pink stucco outside, with hedge plants trimmed to the shape of bells and balls like pawn- broker’s signs. It had a wide veranda with swings hanging by brass chains and-ferns planted in a row of huge sea shells and big plate glass windows that did not come open. Inside was fur- niture of a style called “mission oak,” so heavy that you could hardly move it, but that was all right because Dad didn’t-want to move it, he would sit in any chair, wherever it happened to be, and the only place he expected comfort was in his den, where he had a huge old leather chair of his own and a store of cigars and map of the Paradise tract covering.one whole wall. One thing more Dad had seen to, that Grandma’s biggest paintings were hung in the dining-room, including the scandalous one of the Germans with their steins! The rest of the old lady’s stuff, her easel and paints and a great stack of her lesser works, were boxed and stowed in the basement. Aunt Emma was now the em of the household, with Bertie as head critic when she was ome, On the desk in Dad’s den was piled a stack of papers a foot high, relating to the new enterprise. He went over them one by one and explained the details. Ross Consolidated was going to be a seventy million dollar corporation and Dad was to have ten millions in bonds and preferred stock and another ten millions of common stock. Mr, Roscoe was to get the same for his Prospect Hill properties and those at Lobos River and the various bankers were to get five millions for their financing of the propect. The balance was to be a special class stock, twenty-five millions to be offered to the public, to finance the new development—one of the biggest refineries in the state and storage tanks and new pipe lines and a whole chain of service stations throughout Southern California, This stock was to be “non-voting,” a wonderful new scheme which Dad explained to Bunny; the public was to put up its money and get a share tof the profits, but have nothing to Say as to how the company wasrun. “We'll have no bunch of boobs butting in on our affairs,” said Dad; “and nobody can raid us on the market and take away control.” (Continued Tomorrow.) The Best Place to Buy Your CARPETS LINOLEUM RUGS FURNITURE Is at Comrade - OSCAR I. BARKUN’S 4 STORES 2635 W. North Avenue, 2408 W. North Avenue, 1 1618 W. Chicago Avenue, - 1600 W. Roosevelt Road, Phone Humboldt 4983 Phone Humboldt 6941 - Phone Monroe 6264 ~ Phone Seeley 5500.