The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1926, Page 4

i FB, Ming of something else. Page Four Workers (Communist) Party THE, DAILY WORKER We Must Take Advantage of Many | By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | FTER speaking to audiences during a two weeks’ tour thru-nine different states, and getting acquainted @s far as possible with the local con- ditions everywhere, it. is possible to draw a few conclusions concerning the | opportunities confronting our Workers (Communist) Party First—It is not stating a fond wish, but the actual experiences developed | thru coming in contact with numerous non-party elements prove that the op- Portunities facing the party were ever better. Second—Interest in the ‘Workers (Communist) Party, its program and principles, on a scale never before ex- Perienced makes it possible to in- crease the sale of our literature, col- lect funds for party activities, get sub- | | scribers for our publications, especial ly The DAILY WORKER, and prob- ably most important of all, get new Members into the party. Third—lInterest in Communist Party {s paralleled by a desire to learn of the progress of | Workers’ Rule tn the Union of Soviet | Republics. Fourth—Energetic work everywhere | brings excellent results in non-party | organizations. | 15 the American | eee The open air meeting is a good gauge of what is in the minds of the workers generally. At times crowds that gather at street corners to listen to Communist speakers prove rather thin. This is an indication that inter- est is lagging. The workers are think- Of course, in the great cities, it is always possible to get good crowds at popular corners. But I feel that the test was fairly applied in Hartford, Conn., and Worcester, Mass., where wmexpectedly large and friendly au- diences were reached. in strongly en- trenched “open shop” centers. In Massachusetts, Comrade H. M. Wicks told of holding good meetings in mill towns where he could find no party | but to give active | bring pressure Opportunities Now Offered Our Party | mon, He had picked up a “throw- away” advertising the meeting, that he had noticed on the floor of a street car. Many come in response to notices secured in the capitalist press, It must be emphasized that our own Communist foreign-language press is jee giving ,sufficient publicity to the party meetings planned for this fall's congressional campaign. They must | not only run brief notices of the meet: }ings, but special appeals must be |made to the workers not only to attend support to all these Comrades ‘focally must to bear upon their various foreign-language publications to get the desired results: ewe gatherings The party forces are developing in a very encouraging manner insofar as efforts are mado to sell literature at | mass meetings. This work is pretty | well organized as is the taking of |collections, The work of organizing meetings for the getting of subscrip- | tions is not so well developed, while |comrades in‘charge of meetings must too often be reminded that every meet- jing must be utilized to get mémbers for the party. Where these. other ac- tivities are carried out, they meet with good results, often surprising the com- rades who felt that nothing could be done, . There is an intense interest eyery- where in the problems of the workers ee ; and peasants in the Soviet Union. This is growing. It is extremely sympathe- tic. I could find no feeling that Soviet Rule was “slipping backwards,” as the kept press argues. The feeling every- where is that the Soviet Union is making tremendous strides forward. The demand for the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States is a popular issue. The tremendous efforts put forth by the capitalist press to capitalize the discussions within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union into Anti-Soviet propaganda, finds lit- tle sympathy among the workers I members. Surely this is something for the party to study. Our party must crystallize this favorable senti- ment. It is not uncommon at many meet- ings for the comrades in charge to declare, “The outsiders seem to be here tonight in greater numbers than our own party comrades.” At one meeting a sympathizer declared that | he had come a great distance, ,“just _ to hear what we had to,say.” Such declarations were not: 1mcom- |came in contact with. | Good reports were received every- | where of effective party work in non- | party organizations, where the party |had developed its energies in t | direction. This work was carried on successfully—by -comrades known as {Communists in the organizations in |which they were active. This fact hould act as stimulus for comrades in those sections of the country where |the party is still isolated from any con- | siderable mass activity. BEN GOLD AND THE FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY MAIN ATTRACTIONS AT GREET- ING TO CHICAGO EDITION OF FREIHEIT Ben Gold, manager of the New Yor rk Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, will be the principal speaker at the celebration greeting the first appearance of the Chicago edition of the Freiheit, the great Jewish Communist daily, which will be held in the Ashland Auditorium, on October 9. Several Jewish working class organizations are now co-operating to make this mass meeting and concert the most successful of its kind ever held in Chicago. Among the organizations that are actively engaged in pushing the arrangements are the cloakmak- ers, bakers, furriers, Freiheit Singing Society, Freiheit Ugent Club, 16 branches of the Workmen’s Circle, three branches of the Independent Workmen's Circle. First Number on Hand. The first historic number of the Chicago edition ‘of the Freiheit will be on hand at the demonstration and everyone present will receive a copy. Other speakers announced are C. E. Ruthenburg, general secretary of the Wotkers (Communist) Party, and M. Epstein, editor of the Fretheit. All Jewish comrades are urgently requested to come to the Freiheit of- fice at 3 p. m. Saturday afternoon. Ben Gold, who !s looked on as the ehief drawing card on the list of Chicago Workers’ School Schedule A. B. C. of the Class Struggle, Mon- days, instructor, Kaplan (So. Side). Trade Union Tactics & Strategy, Mondays, instructor, Swabeck. Role & Function of the Party, Tues- days, instructor, Abern. A. B. C, of the Class Struggle, Wed- nesdays, instructor, Simons. Theory and Practice of Three Work- ers’ Internationals, Thursdays, instruc- tor, Shachtman, Elements of Communism, Fridays, instructor, Bittelman. All classes begin the week of Octo- | ber 4th and through December 24th, a period of eleven weeks. Meet one night a week for two hours at 19 8S. Lincoln St., except Kaplan’s class-an South Side. Community Center, 3201 S. Wabash Ave, Fee is $1.50 for speakers, Will speak in English and jeleven-week term. | REGISTER AT Yiddish. ONCE. SHOEMAKER WANTED. First Social APIRST CLASS SHOE REPAIR MAN, man that ha big shoe ‘stores or de- | want a man that and do it fast enough hold a Job In city shops. | pay $7.00 a day or #40 a week all year round to good man. LEE SHOE FIXRY, 104 Patio de Leon, Fort Myers, Fla. been working In good | ; SECTION No. 1 ¥. W. L. MEMBER. SHIP MEETING Friday, October 1, 1926 768 West Van Buren Street Speakers - Music - Dancing Refreshments THE GREAT STRATEGIST SE@* CLASS WAR LENIN AND THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. By A. Losovsky, ie = Alosousky LENIN, LIEBKNECHT, LUXEMBURG, By Max Shachtman, EACH "THE DAILY WORKER PUB, CO, _apeeaeeemareeereecnenm aceecananee 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Hl, W, P, ELECTION CAMPAIGN TOURS 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 tho 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: BOSTON, Mass.—Friday, Oct. Paine Memorial Hall, 9 Appleton St. ROCHESTER, N, Y.—Satufday, Oct, 2, Labor Lyceum. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Sunday, Oct, 3, 2:30 p. m., Schwabl’s Hall, 351 Broad- 1, CLEVELAND, Ohio—Oct, 4, DETROIT, Mich.—Oct. 5. CHICAGO, Ill.—Oct. 6, MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Oet. 10. TOLEDO, Ohio—Oct, 11, PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Oct, 12, N. S, Carnegie Music Hall. BALTIMORE, Md.—Oct. 18. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Oct, 14 Bertram D. Wolfe. “Who Owns the Government?” This is 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: TACOMA, Wash.—Friday, October 1st, at 8 p. m., Fraternity Hall, 1117% Tacoma Ave. So. MT. VERNON, Wash.—Sunday, Oct. 3 at 2 (two) pm., Yeomen Hall. SEATTLE, Wash., Sunday, October 3 at 8 p. m., Labor’ Temple (Large Hall). SPOKANE, Wash.—Tuesday, Octo- der 5 at 8 p. m. Open Forum Hall, Norfalk ‘ Bldg. 816% West , Riverside Ave. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn>—Oct. 8. ST. PAUL, Minn.—0Oct,, 9. All Set for Autumn Festival and Ball at Detroit Saturday Night DETROIT, Mien. — aed AN preparations we completed for the Autumn Festival and Ball arranged for Saturday, Oct. 2nd, at 8 p. m. at the Finnish Labor Temple Ball Room, 5969 14th St. Over 400 tickets have already been sold and thousands of friends and sympathizers of the party have been invited by mail to. be: present, This ball will be the annual meeting of all radical, progressive and left wing forces of Detrot. Comrades Hold Basket Party in. Cleveland, O. CLEVELAND, Sept. 30.—For a good time, Cleveland comrades should not | October 3, at the Freiheits Gesangsve- |rein Hall, 3514 E, 116th St., at 6 p. m. ‘|All nuclei have been asked to bring baskets filled with good things to eat. These will be sold and the entire | proceeds will go to help meet the cur- |rent expenses of the district. There | will be an entertaining program, with S. Amter and J. Mallender and others participating. Admission free, Don’t miss it, The Works of Karl Marx For every worker In these books and pamphlets is the understanding that leads to an intelligent and greater usefulness in the labor movement. SELECTED ESSAYS—A new book in its first American publication. Cloth $1.75 VALUE, PRICE AND PROFIT, WAGE-LABOR AND CAPITAL, CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECON. OMY. Cloth $1.28 REVOLUTION AND COUNTER REVOLUTION, Cloth $ .60 MARX AND ENGELS ON REVOLU. TION IN AMERICA, 9.10 TWO SPEECHES , (1850 and bigp o Al 6.08 The Daily Worker Pub. Co, 1118 W. Washington Blvd; Chloagd, Ben Gitlow 4 miss the social to be given on Staday, 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 campalgn Is still in progress to place Workers (Com- munist) Party candidates officially on the ballots, , NomInatlons officially filed: se Michigan. Michigan—The following candl- dates will appear officlally on the ballot in the primary elections to be held Tuesday, September 14: Governor, William ‘Reynolds. ‘+ Congress, 13th District, William Mollenhauer, Congress, ist Dist., Harry Kish- ner, Congress, 9th District, Daniel C, Holder, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania—The folldwing were the candidates nominated: Governor, H. M. Wicks. Lieutenant-Governor, Hills, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Max Jenkins, United States Senator, E. J. Cary. State Legislature, first district, Ernest Careathers and Anna Wels- man. Second District, Mike Blaskovitz and Celia Paransky, For Congress. Seventh District, Margaret Yeager. Elghth District, Susie Kendra and Peter Skrtic. Ninth District, William P. Mikades Thirty Fourth District, Sam Shore. State Senator, William Schmidt. Colorado. Governor, William Dietrich, United States Senator, James A. Ayers. Secretary of State, Nelson Dewey. State Treasurer, Leonard Forsch- ler, Superintendent of Public Instruo- tion, Helena Dietrich. State Auditor, O. MeSwain, Massachusetts. Governor, Lewis Marks. Lieut. Governor, Albert Oddie; U. S. Sen- ator, John J. Ballam, ‘Treasurer, Winfield A. Dwyer. Auditer, Emma P, Hutchins, Attorney eral, Max Lerner. Secretary of State, Harry J. Canter, Parthenia Ohio. Canton, Stark Cdunty State Senator, 41st District, Carl Guillod. State Assemblyman, 21st Disrict, Peter Pichler. + Wage “ 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, Mc- Kerch County Auditor, C. E. Thompkins, County Commissione: Karl W. Frey. County Treasurer, Frank Clay. County Recorder, L. Landis. Prosecuting Attorney, Carl B. Blank. Clerk of the Courts, Rob- ert J. Kelley. WASHINGTON . J. L. Freeman, candidate United States senate of the Farmer-Labor Party. ) eee PETITION CAMPAIGNS IN PROGRESS TO PUT THESE CAN- DIDATES ON THE BALLOTS: Illinois. J. Louis Engdah!, candidate for United States Senator from Iilinois. S. Hammersmark, for congr 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 S, Leeds. State Comptroller, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, (Manhattan) Assembly 6th District, Benjamin Lifschitz. Assembly 8th District, Rebecca Grecht. Assembly 17th Dis- trict, Julius Codkind. Assembly 18th District, Abraham Markoff. Con- gress 13th District, Charles 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, mbly 4th District, Isidore Stein- zer, Assembly 6th District, Charles Zimmerman, Assembly 7th District. Joseph Boruchowltz. Congress 23rd District, Molesaye J. Olgin. (Brooklyn). Aasembly 6th District, George Primoff, Assembly 14th District, Samuel Nesin. Assembly 23rd Die trio, Fannie Warshafsky, Congress 10th District, Bertram D, Wolfe. Senate 7th District, Morrie Rosen, Connecticut. Governor, ‘Witttare MacKenzie. Lieut. Governor, rd ~Mraako. y ee. " Beo'y. ¢ ‘Treas. BABIES) 2) wy, Me U. MW. LOCAL AN EXAMPLE TO PROGRESSIVES Real Support to Many Labor Measures 8 By GEORGE BROWN Worker Correspondent, W. BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 30. —Our local of the U. M. W., Local No, 2230, sets an example for our sis- ter local unions in the U. M. W. A. and in the rest of the labor move- ment in America. Take for example what a local union can do when its members become real active. Our lo- cal was the first one to start a fight against, and call a conference to fight the bills that were against the for- eign-born workers before the last congress, Assessment to Aid British. ‘We called a conference in our ter- ritory on the question of the British miners’ strike. We assessed ourselves $1.00 every two weeks. 40 per cent goes to the British miners, 60 per cent goes to the miners in our own district to fight the Pittsburgh Coal company and other coal companies for trying to force our ‘brothers to work on the 1917 scale by starving and terrorizing them. ‘We also re- cently sent $49.00 to the British min- ers from a picnic which we had two weeks ago. On the question of the Passaic tex- tile strike, we also participated in the raising of the money for the Passaic textile strikers, At the same time we helped to organize the Passaic textile relief conference in the Brownsville seotion. Our local alone raised over $70.00 for the Passaic strike, The members, of our local union realize that we workers must have in- dependent political action. That is to have a political party which will op- Pose the democratic party and the republican party and which will be able to fight in behalf of the whole labor movement, so when the West Brownsville Trades Counel!l called a conference in Washington county to organize such an affair our local un- ion elected a committee to’attend this conference which was held recently at Charleroi. 4 We also donated $20.00 to’ the con- ference for the carrying on of work to build up a Washington county la- bor party in this section of the coun- try. This local union stands one hun- dred per cent for John Brophy who is now opposing John L. Lewis in the coming elections in the U. M. W. It also stands behind all followers of John Brophy who are opposing the machine and who are for the build- ing up of the union. Ladies’ Garment Union Issues Periodical to Help Organize Workers By a Worker Correspondent. The Ladies’ Garment Worker, pub- lished by the joint board of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers in Chicago, has made its appearance. It ig a neatly printed four-page sheet which aims “to uncover the injustices committed by the so-called operators of the ladies’ garment industry, mean- ing. the employers.” The snappy little sheet is militant and cannot fail but be of great service in the union’s aim to bring every tailor employed on ladies’ clothes into the organization, In addition to articles about condi- tions in the non-union shops and other matters that are of particular interest to the garment. workers, the interna- tional aspects of the class struggle are introduced, The first number of the Ladies’ Gar- ment Worker is good. We wish it suc- cess. Garment workers who see this notice and have not yet secured a copy of the little paper are invited to write to the offices of the I. L. G. W. U., 328 W. Van Buren street, For a record of the results ofl the NEP instituted by LENIN in 1921 read THE INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL IN SOVIET RUSSIA Wun 00 WORKER CORRESPOND: NTS BY A Good Time for a Good Cause Promised Sunday, at Walsh Hall By a Worker Correspondent. Did you make arrangements to at- tend the great affair of the I. L. D. this Sunday, at Walsh Hall? Better get your tickets now. A good time, a wonderful concert, Russian and Amer- ican dances to the tune of Kissin’s Union Orchestra and many other at- tractions are offered. Charles Cline, for 13-years a prison- er in a Texas jail will’ speak. Come and hear him. Remember the date and place: Sun- day, October 3, at 6:30 p,m. at Walsh Hall, cor. Milwaukee and Noble, PORTO RICANS IMPORTED FOR COTTON FIELDS Suffer Awful Misery in Arizona Valley By WILLIAM O'BRIEN (Worker Correspondent) PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept, 23 (By Mail) —The Cotton Growers’ Association is importing Porto Rican labor, men, women and children into the valley to pick cotton. But the promises made them are not lived up to and the workers are suffering such terrible conditions that they are forced to ap- peal to the Phoenix Central Labor Council for aid. Report Children Dead of Exposure. The Labor Hall was packed with them, a itiftl sight. Babies in arms of sick and homeless mothers, They walked into Phoenix from different parts of the valley in search of food, shelter and medical attention for the sick women and children. Three or four children are reported to have died from exposure and hunger, At a special meeting of the Central Labor Council, Brother Chavey of the Porto Ricans who speaks good English explained the situation: Labor Agents Lied. “The agents of the Cotton Growers contracted with us in Porto Rico that we were to get $2 a day and a house to live in, all children over ten years to get the same pay. But many picked cotton for three days with noth- ing to eat, drinking water from banks without shelter. Children be- came gick from exposure, No medical attention was available. “We were sold like sheep to the A.|farmers who paid only one and a quarter cents per pound, and could not average over 25 pounds a day. Therefore we are forced to leave and appeal to our fellow workers for aid and assistance to return to our homes,” Shiploads Coming. Brother Chavey reports that several hundred’ are already in the valley, another ‘thousand on the way and a ship about to leave Porto Rico with a thousand more, The agents show them pictures of nice houses where ‘they are supposed to live to trick them into signing up. There are many mechanics, car- penters, bricklayers, printers “and painters among them, and un- doubtedly the Chamber of Commérce hoped to fight the building trades with them as strike breakers, but the Porto Ricans are not that kind of stuff. Mexicans were previously imported and abused the same way, but since the Calles government exists they are going back to Mexico, not coming. (ARAB BBAAADADABAAABASAADRES For Sale: 200 ACRE FARM in the Ozarks. Good living can be made with goats or hogs. $1,200.00 cash bp owner, F, A, Smith, Ozone, Ark, JANUARY 13 1927 i MINE INSPECTION IN PENNSYLVANIA ONLY A PRETENSE, Company jihd Inspector! =: Work Hand in Hand By ZERO, Worker Correspondent. DAISYTOWN, Pa., Sept. 30.—Therg are laws made by the Pennsylvaniq: legislature to protect the life and limiy! of coal miners. But these laws ar@ not observed. There are state min inspectors whose duty it is to see thag such laws are obeyed. But’they a@ not do their duty. This story tellg how and why, 448 Injured in Six Months. Vesta Mine No, 4 is a dangeroug mine, In the first six months of thig year there were 448 miners who ree ceived first aid in the company hose pital. Some of them are now beyond any aid. There was. much: carelessness tg spite.of. the, “safety first” slogan of the company, , So a few weeks ago whem the company started to do some badly needed cleaning of side swipers, pully ing down of bad roof, taking dowi loose coal, posting up manway places and so on, we wondered ia was coming off, We didn’t have wait Jong. Knew Inspector Wag Coming. One fine morning assistant rea 4 foremen and fire bosses’ were rushim: from place to place and instructing the men to put their places in as safq condition as possible, as the state tine inspector was coming. The inspector came around wit some of the mine officials and away again. But he saw the m: only where the company wanted hing to see it. He did not see any placq else and apparently did not want tq see any place else, Very Easily Satisfied. ‘ He never saw the dangerous . the place where a few weeks ago four men riding’on the man trip were hurt by a fall of loose roof coal. He did not see the place where s man wag killed by loose rock. He did not se@ the place where another man was squeezed by a‘loaded wagon and died after three months of suffering in the ‘company hospital. But the point of the tnoident tet How in hell do the bosses know whem the mine inspectois coming? Is ditches and living along the-canal}there a connection between the state mine inspector’s office and the coal company? It is plain that the state and thé coal operators work hand in hand and the inspection fs merely bluff to white- sh the company, for the miners de ive no real benefit from it. It is also plain that this will con time until the miners themselves elect the inspectors and the union super vises their work. COMMUNIST MOVEMENT “The: Workers (Communist) Party—What ft Stands For— Why .Workers Should Join” By C, &. RUTHENBERG 5 cents Party Organization © Constitution, organizational charts,\ etc. 15 centa Fourth’ National Convention solutions, The: etc, of the convention id In Chicago, 80 cents. UNITED WORKERS’ PRESS PICNIC LOS ANGELES, CAL. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1926, at ROSE HILL PARK * Good Amusements, Sports and Games. Tickets, incl, dancing, 500 Leave your lunch home. We will serve a plate lunch , x and refreshments: ~ DIRECTIONS: Take Red Sierra Vista car (Main Street Station), stops , at park. BY AUTO, take Mission Road to Huntington Drive, fol low Huntington Drive to park, Are You Like This Young Henry Dubb? your tummy the YOUNG Name Going to work with a lunch box—food for and none for your brain. Take WORKER with you next time and read it with your lunch, In order to be sure of having it— SUBSCRIBE—$1 a year, 50 cents 6 months. ee ee ee a ee THE YOUNG WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, Enclosed find $. Send the Young Worker to: LOF™ sss