The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1926, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party HARLEM WORKERS TO HEAR PARTY SPEAKERS OCT. 7 Workers living in Harlem will have @ fine opportunity to find out about the Werkers Party and what it stands for at the big open mass meeting and rally, with the best speakers of the Workers Party in New York City, to be held by the Harlem Section on | Thursday evening, October 7 at 8 Dp. m. at the Harlem Workers’ Center, 81 East 110 St, Speakers. The speakers will be Wm. J. Wein- Stone, district organizer of the Work- ers Party; Juliet S. Poyntz, candidate on the Workers Party ticket for state comptroller; Julius Codkind, candi- date for the 17th assembly district, and Ben Lifshitz (in Jewish) of the Amalgamated Met# Workers. ‘The speakers will bring to the work- ers of Harlem the message of Com- munism, they will explain to the work- erg their true class interests, they will tell them why they ought to build their own party to defend their interests. | Old Party Influence. | The republican and democratic parties have the Harlem workers com- pletely under their influeace, promis- ing them everything and giving them nothing. The socialist party has some following amoung them, secured thru the usual deception practiced by this yellow crew which pretends to be a friend of the workers, but is working all the time behind their backs to be- tray them to the bosses. Followed by Another, This meeting will be followed by another mass meeting in Yorkville on ‘Thursday evening, October 14th at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 E, 81 St. Announcement of the speakers at this second meeting will be made later. Come Thursday evening, October 7, to the Harlem Workers’ Center, 81 E. 110th St., at 8 o'clock. | regularly; |come off the press and was well re- |oeived by the workers. Difficulty was Jat first | printed. |meets to outline each bulletin. | language | group in the nucleus was attached to A FUNCTIONING SHOP NUCLEUS. By MARTIN ABERN. HOP Nucleus No. 20, Chicago, lo- cated in a manufacturing plant employing thousands of workers, is functioning quite actively. The com- rades are enthused over the future possibilities for work, A Shop Bulletin is now being issued the third issue has just experienced in getting the comrades and workers to send in shop | material, but now the news comes in steadily. 5,000 copies are at present An editorial committee | HE shop nucleus, at its incep- tion, had the usual difficulties, |such as getting the cgmrades from |many language elements together and |meeting regularly. There was @ com- plete lack of English comrades, A couple of comrades were attached to aid in work. A comrade speaking the of the largest language help these comrades in translatior, writing for the bulletin, etc., at meet- ings, Active in Various Fleids, The nucleus now meets regularly with an average attendance of 75 to 80%. The nucles is a fairly large one. % HE nucleus executive committee meets before each meeting and prepares the meeting. No communi- cations are read at the meeting ex- cept where action is required by the nucleus on every point. Instead a brief report is made containing the gist of the communications. Actions are recommended and discussion takes place on them. Meetings are alive. They are not cluttered up with an endless and need- lessly long agenda. One or two points are handled primarily at each meet- ing. Other points are laid over for another meeting or assigned to indi- vidual comrades thru the executive for carrying out. In this manner, the major points are handled well and (this is important too), the meeting adjourns not later than 10:00 P, M. RECENT meeting for instance, the immediate campaigns in IIli- nois, particularly the miners, were dis- cussed. Then $60.00 in pledges were Make it a weekly habit. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. made by the comrades present, and a third collected immediately. More has come in since, The other point dealt with was the Workers School of Chi- cago and the Politminimum course. Seven comrades were gotten for the various classes. Shop Bulletins Issued, At another meeting, the entire eve- ning, almost, was devoted to reports on shop conditions, writing of news and general preparation for the issu- ing of the next number of the Shop Bulletin, HE next. meeting will deal main- ly with the trade union question. both theoretically and practically; for the meeting will take up the matter of how and when the individual com- rades are to join their respective unions. Four have definitely joined thru previous discussions, This is a very brief report of a shop nucleus which has the same difficult- jes that are pointed out too often by elements not ready to put the neces- sary energy into the job of making a shop nucleus really function. There is no excuse for this. The job ¢an be done. The publication of a Shop Bul- letin, for instance, even if only 5000 copies are printed at present, alone more than justifies the change to the new form. These pieces of literature, distributed regularly to the workers, mean genuine mass propaganda and agitation—and ultimately organization for the Workers (Communist) Party and for Communism, LOS ANGELES DAILY WORKER BUILDERS T0 HOLD PICNIC OCT. 10 LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 3, — On Sunday, October 10th, a United Porkers’ Press Picnic will be held. All workers who are interested in building up their paper are asked to reserve this date and come to Rose Hill Park bringing friends and rela- tives, Sports of all sorts, games, and dancing are on the program. A plate lunchyand other refreshments will be served, Leave your lunch at home. Admission, fifty cents. Reserve tickets at the Workers’ Book Shop and Library, 322 West Second St., Open from 9 a. m. to 10 p, m. Phone, Metropolitan 3265. Direc- tions to picnic: Take Sierra Vista car to park or Mission Road past Luna Park. KEEP THE | DAILY WORKER / Donations, Activity and News of the Campaign for $50,000 Total Thursday, Sept. 30—$1,436.93 Donations Sept. 29, 1926 CALIFORNIA— J. M, Cummons, Napa Maud Jackson, Oakland John C. Taylor, Oakland L. Sherman, San Francisco . ILLINOIS— ; Fi ik Gruener, Cicero . 1, $ peers 3338 Nucleus’ No. Chicago— ff : Dora Lohse Borsi Stoychkoff MASSACHUSETTS— Justin Swartz, Dorchester ... MINNESOTA— te Baron, Minneapolis eesees 2 8388883 3 NEVADA— G. Bedrisian, Reno ...... K— meister, Gasport . a hiecht, New York Cit: P. Telleunen, New York City ...... NeW YOR Frank eps ep os 8 338.3 3 8 is No. 402, Massilion ithaler, Salem 8 PENNSYLVANIA— J. Edward Norris, Kingston Sent by D. Philadelphia Anton Horvat, Pittsburgh .. ISLAND— is Greenhalgh, W. Warwick Rap & 8 #888 88 WASHINGTON— S. C. Garrison, Mount Vernon. ...... Baker, Vancouver, Terie die sesmnicigs SOR Donations Sept. 30, 1926 ARIZONA— wm, O’Brien, ILLINOIS— Ruf Phoenix . 5.00 Heath, Chicago, Street 2 , Kutzko, Chicago, St Nucleus No. 29 J. Martens, Moline MONTANA— Chas, Keserich, Roundup MICHIGAN— Theodore Georges, Royal Oak NEW YORK— From Rochester . oon scagonseale se Sent in by John Thomas, New York City—Gust Manos Louis Kalegnis om George Frank ... OHI0O— Andrew Karamitsos, Akron Bruce L. Smith, Toledo ..... ST VIRGINIA— Theresa Toth, Whitmans t wos ¢ 333 8 33 CO-OPERATIVE TRADING CO. present time, The DAILY WORKER: Sven Skoglund, Clerk J, Liukku, Manager .... H, Sunell, Milk Driver . L, Jalkanen, Milk Driver . Leo Kanerva, Milk Driver Edward Carlson, Collector . Lydia Nyman, Bookkeeper .. Elmi Hokans, Bookkeeper Chas, Kumipula, Butcher A. Wirtanen, Dairy Worker .. Paul Albright, Butter Maker . Axel Kanetva, Dairy Worker ..... Hannes Salminen, Dairy Worker .. H, Lehtonen, Dairy Worker KE, Adams, Milk Driver ... J. Franson, Milk Driver .. Jack Luoma, Milk Driver Oscar Waltonen, Milk Driver . Jack Sarja, Grocery Driver .. Saima Zupon, Cashier ... A, Sandvick, Milk Driver Wayne Luhtala, Warehouse Worker. .. Mary Luhtala, Assistant, Cashier .... T. Laukkanen, Milk Driver Frank Kaptur, Butcher . BH, Lehtonen, Dairy Worker I, Aunio, Dairy Worker .. Hanna Laukkonen Kar) Hakala Total Alfred Backman, Clerk ...2.....scssessessssemersenseess Rudolph Harju, Mie Driver .......... Oliver Carlson, Educationat Director This donation list, sent thru ©. Carlson, educational director of the Waukegan Workers’ School, speaks for Itself. of all trades join to keep The Dally Worker. We, the undersigned, employes of the Co-operative Tradipg Com- pany, recognize the grave danger that The DAILY WORKER is in at the We feel that no sacrifice is too great to keep alive the only real working class newspaper published in the Dnglish language. We there- fore pledge and give the following sums to perpetuate labor’s own dally— Observe how workers ert J. Kelley. OF WAUKEGAN SETS EXAMPLE WORKERS PARTY-ENTERS GANDIDATES. IN STATE ELECTIONS THIS YEAR In a number of states nominations have been filed by petition while In others the petition campaign Is stil! in progress to place Workers (Com- munist) Party candidat officially on the ballots, Nominations officially filed: on Michigan. Michigan—The following candi- dates will appear officially on the ballot in the fcriey jn to be held Tuesday, September 14: Governor, William Reynolds. Congre: 18th District, William Mollenhaue: Congress, ist Dist. Harry Kish: ner. Congress, 9th District, Daniel C. Holder, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania—The following were the candidates nominated: Governor, H. M. Wicks, Lieutenant-Governor, Hills, Secretary of Internal ‘Affairs, Max Jenkins. 4 United States Senator, E. J. Cary. State Legislature, first district, Ernest Careathers and Anna Wels- man, Second District, Mike, Blaskovite and Celia 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 Dewe! State Treasurer, Léonard Forse! ler, Superintendent of Public instruc tion, Helena Dietrich. State Auditor, 0. McSwain, Massachusetts. Governor, Lewis Marks. Lieut. Governor, Albert Oddie. U. S. Sen- ator, John J. Ballami’ Treasurer, Winfield A. Dwyer. Auditor, Emma P, Hutchins, Attorney Géneral, Max Lerner. Secretary of State, Harry J. Canter. Ohio. ° Canton, Stark County State Senator, 41st District, Cart Guillod, State Assemblyman, 21st Disrict, Peter Pichler, pe ak FARMER-LABOR PARTY CANDI- DATES SUPPORTED BY THE WORKERS PARTY: OHIO Allen Courty Judge of the Court lof Common Pleas, Edwin Blank. ¢Representa- tive to the General Assembly, Cor- bin N. Shook. Sheriff; B. K. Me- Kercher. County Auditor, C. E. Thompkins. County Commissioner, Karl W. Frey. Frank Clay. County Recorder, L. L. Landis. Prosecuting Attorney, Carl B. Blank. Clerk of the Courts, Rob- Parthenia WASHINGTO! J. L. Freeman, candidate United States senate of the Farmer-Labor Party. v* PETITION CAMPAIGNS IN PROGRESS TO PUT THESE CAN- DIDATES ON THE BALLOTS: os) a Illinois. J. Louis Engdahi, candidate for United States Senator from Illinois. S. 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. ¢ i (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, Willlam We Weinstone, ate 14th District, Elmer T. Alil- son, ' (Bronx) Assembly 3rd Dist Assembly 4th District, 1 zer, Assembly 5th District, Charles in, Assembly 7th District. Joseph Boruchowitz, Congress 23rd District, Molssaye J. Olgin. rooklyn) Assembly 6th District, George Primoff. Assembly 14th District, Samuel Nesin., Assembly 23rd Die- tric, Fannie Warshafsky. Congress 10th District, rtram D, Wolfe. Senate 7th District, Morris Rosen. Connecticut. Governor, William MacKenzie. Lieut. Governor, Edward Mrask Comptroller, John bos. Se: of State, Jane H. Fi H, Woltsor Treas. a oe PORTO RIGANS IN ARIZONA HELPED BY LABOR UNIONS Wire A. F. of L. for Action By LAURENCE TODD, Fed. Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. — Failure has crowned the efforts of the Arizo- na Cotton: Growers’ Association to substitute Porto Rican cheap labor for Mexican labor in the cotton fields. The shipments of Porto Rican, labor- ers are now appealing for help to the Arizona labor organizations and to the American Federation of Labor be- cause they cannot earn even 50 cents a day under the conditions prescrib- ed to them by the growers, Half Starved. According to telegrams reaching Pres. Green and the office of Santi- ago Iglesias, secretary of the Pan- American Federation of Labor, thé half-stdrved Porto Ricans arrived in Arizona with their families under con- tract with the growers’ association to pick cotton, Many of them were not farm workers but were skilled me- chanics of various kinds. The cli- mate of Arizona was unfavorable and they soon discovered that the rate they had agreed to work-for was too low. They could not even feed them- selves on their earnings. { The Mexican laborers who had been coming across the border for years to do this cotton-picking in the season had refused to accept the low wages any longer. The growers’ la- bor agents who visited Porto Rico had misrepresented the situation. Their victims refused to work for less than the cost of food and threw them- selves on the mercy of the labor un- ions in the vicinity. They also tele- graphed to Green and Iglesias the re- quest that they warn other Porto Ri- cans against leaying home, Labor Unions Care For Them. At Phoenix the central labor body is now caring for 100 of the Porto Ri- cans while others of the contract la- borers are said to be under guard by local officers who pretend to have the legal right to prevent their “escape.” The tradition of slave labor thus fol- lows cotton into the newest of the states regardless of the fact, that the workers are free men and American citizens. Th& Phoenix labor coungil asked Green to bring pressure on the fed- eral government fop prompt inquiry and remedial action” As a result the department of labor has ordered Francis I. Jones, director of its em- vloyment service, to proceed from fort Worth to Phoenix to attempt an adjustment. The cotton growers are <o be warned against using false statements in inducing other Porto Ri- cans to come to Arizona. It was re- ported in Phoenix that the growers were trying to secure 1,500 men from Porto Rico. Labor Shortage. The U. S. employment service has reports from the cotton belt indicat- ing that this year's demand for cot- ton pickers has been about 178,000 as compared with a normal total of 300,- 000, and that only about 100,000 per- sons have answered the call for help. Nevertheless, the Arizona growers of- fer a starvation wage. Engdahl Discusses the. Issues Before A. F. of L. at Detroit Y. W. L. Meet (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 3—J. Lonis Engdahl, editor of THE DAILY WORKER, addressed the members and sympathizers of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League here in Fin- nish Hall on the issues to come be- fore the 46th Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor starting Monday at Graystone Hall. Great interest was shown in the atti- tude of the A. F. of L. toward the youth workers. Many workers in Detroit are under the impression that the sessions of the A. F. of L. are held in secret. All sessions are open to the public. There is never any crowding since the number of visit- ors in attendance is always small, District 8 Activization Group. District 8 party activization group, which has, already during its short period of existence accomplished good work, will meet on Tuesday, October 5th at the Greek Hall, 768 W. Van Buren street. It will take up the future ‘work, par- ticularly in connection with The DAILY WORKER campaign and gen- eral activization of Chicago party units, Every active member of the party is invited to participate. Please ‘emember the date and place, /ENGDAHL AND MAGILL | FILE PETITIONS FOR STATEWIDE ELECTION SPRINGFIELD, Iil., October 3, — Hugh 8. Magill today filed his peti- tlon with the secretary of state as independent republican candidate for the United States senate. The petition bore 8,740 signatures, J. Louls Engdah! of Chicago. filed his petition as candidate for the United State senate of Workers (Communist) Party, he 1 3b WITH THEY | CONDUCTED - BY TH Boys and Girls Crowd Boston Y outh Meeting BOSTON, Mass.—The International Youth Day celebration held here was a big success. The Painé Memorial Hall was crowded with rebellious, red-blooded, young working boys and girls whose faces expressed the daring, demon- strating spirjt of the International Youth Day and who came to celebrate the holiday of the working youth of the whole world, The International marked the open- ing of the program after which a short address by the chairman Comrade Shohan followed, The first number on the program was solo singing by R. Lifland accompanied by L. Freedman who received a warm ovation from the audience, Comrade Kay, the district organizer of the Y. W. L. of this district, then gave his address touching upon the vital problems before the American working youth, Comrade G, Gasman accompanied by A. Fink then gave a violin solo which was very much liked by all, after which the floor was given to H, Newton, one of the young Ne- gro rebels of this town, who in his address showed the great value of the International Youth Day to the Negroes and colonial people gener- ally. Then Mollie Blum, one of the Pio- neer members of this district, spoke for the D. B. C, of the Pioneers and ae Many Local Unions Have Sport Groups T must be apparent that a mass workers’ sports movement in this country cannot possibly pattern after the workers’ sports movements in the Etiropean countries, where the class consciousness of the workers, their political level and their organizational experience is\on a much higher Jevel than here. The workers’ sports or- ganization in thfs Country, if Ht is to escape, the curse of sectarianism, must be based on the most elementary class program—that is, workers’ con- trolled sports as against capitalist con- trolled sports. It is true that the existing workers’ sports organizations and clubs have a more advanced program than this, be- cause they are composed of workers who are more politically, developed. The Finnish, the Checho-Slovak, the Hungarian workers’ sports clubs are of this kind. Buf if the workers’ ‘sports movement is to grow and at- tract masses it cannot at the present juncture base itself upon the program of this most advanced section since this program would repel the back- ward workers in the clubs that are of a semi-working class nature. What are these clubs? ‘Outside of the existing out-and-out working class sports clubs mentioned above in America a peculiar intermediary form has developed—the union sports clubs. Thousands of the local unions in this country have sports clubs and teams expressed the solidarity and readiness | T8anized, to which only members of of the children of the workers to help|the union belong and _ participate. the fight against capitalism that also |Altho the members who take part in enslaves the child for the sake of*prof- | the activities organized by these clubs its for the bosses. do not consider themselves as work Comrade Jack Stachel of New York | SPortsmen—because they do not look then spoke. And wasn’t, he greeted! at things from this class point of view He, in a very able way showed the |—yet these clubs are workers’ sports tasks of the working youth of this {clubs in the sense that they are com- country in its fight for organization, |Pposed of workers who are advanced for better treatment in industry, |enough to be organized. The union against militarism, child labor and |sports clubs, along with some of the capitalism in general. He was very |{ndependent neighborhood sports clubs enthusiastically cheered and applaud-jas are composed of workers and are* ed in concluding his speech, The famous mass somewhat advanced, and some of the recitation | gymnastic and nature societies, these “Strike,” written by M. Gould was the ‘will compose, the bulk of the mass last number on the program. The celebration has surely given to many comrades and friends more energy and enthusiasm to continue the build- ing of.a strong Y, W. L. in this dis- trict, Red Stars Win Soccer Match; Score Close The Red Star soccer team of Chi- cago battled all the way down the line in an exciting game with the J. P. I, (Jewish People’s Institute) team last Sunday. Good team work was demonstrated on both sides and the game ended with a score of 2 to 1 in favor of the Red Stars. The Red Star team is one of the many labor sports organizations springing up in all parts of the coun- try. EDUCATION COURSE . FOR CHICAGO LEAGUE All Young Workers’ League mem- bers of Sections 1, 4 and 6, local Chi- cago, must be present at the first class of the politminimium course to be held Sunday morning from 10 to 12 a. m in their respective section headquar- ters. All comrades not present will be checked up. sports organization when it comes into existence, Young Farmers Are Forced to Work Out BELDEN, N. D.—The Young Work- ers’ Leagué out here is composed of young farmers who are either working for their fathers or are hired by some- one else, However, few of the farms over here are owned by the farmers. They are only renters for the bankers or other money corporations, as their own farms have had the mortgages foreclosed on them. All the dreams of the early “home builders” have been crushed when they were driven from their homes in which they put: many years-of hard labor. This is the fate of hundreds of families in North Dakota. We feel the same dire exploitation of the workers. So, forward to the strength- ening of the Y. W. L. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends—send us name and ad- dresa, The News From Step Over 4 Tf yon have a little time to spare at anyytime of the day—give us a hand. Vol- unteer your services for an. hour or two. Come over to help the office get out cir- culars any time before 5:30 p. m. ADDRES: 1113 W, Washington Bivd. Telephone Monroe 4712 Sanday, Take Sierra Vista car, which stop; ‘Tickets for sale UNITED WORKERS’ PRESS PIGNIG past Luna Park. Good Amusements, Sports, Games, Prizes. Leave your lunch at home. We will serve’a plate limch and refreshments, ADMISBION: 50. CENTS—DANCING FREE, at 322 West Second, Bipabteppen all day and evening, Detroit i "The A. F. of L. Convention Every step taken at the an- nual convention of the leading body of American organized labor will closely recorded in every issue of The Daily ‘Worker. J. Lowis Pngdaht editor, will send daily reports from, the convention oor. 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