The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1926, Page 4

/age Four Less a — POLITICAL DEBATE BECOMES COMEDY | IN NEW YORK 'AS COMMUNIST GIVES), Workers (Communist) Party PITTSBURGH DISTRICT -PUTS INTO MOTION PLAN FOR RECRUITING OF NEW MEMBERS AND MORE ACTIVITY By ABRAM JAKIRA. PITTSBURGH, Pa.,, Nov. 8—The Workers (Communist) Party is at present, as admitted even by its enemies, the only militant, live working class organization in the country. It is the motive power that pushes the entire labor movement of this country into action, that directs the labor movement along progressive lines. It has a large number of sympathizers thruout the country as evidenced, for example, by the number of workers who read its press and by its influence in the numerous trade unions and other workers’ or; i Yet the membership of the party is limited. izations. In fact, in proportion to its influence in the labor movement and to the| role it generally plays in this country, the party membership must be con- sidered abnormally low. + ieee a One can easily find an explanation | anq that functionaries of the nuclei be | of this condition in the objective eco- nomic and political situation in this country. But we must not close our eyes to the fact that we ourselves are to a large extent responsible for the} small membership of the party. Com- munists are like busy bees engaged year in and year out in various cam- invited to attend the conferences in gates. Work in Unions. Considerable time was devoted by |the conference to the trade union work, which is so closely linked up with the success of all the party ac- addition to the regularly elected dele- | MAKE IT A DAY'S PAY TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER Celebrate Revolution at Elizabeth, N. J., on Sunday, November 14 ELIZABETH, N. J., Nov. 8. — The Ninth Anniversary of the Russian Ré- volution will be celebrated here on Sunday, November 14, with a splendid program. The affair will be held at the hall at 517 Court street. All work- ers are invited. Among the speakers NEW YORK, Noy, 8, — The four- cornered debate arranged for the night | before election in Hopkinson Man: |sion, Brooklyn, between the republi: can, democratic, socialist and Work- |ers’ Party candidates for the Browns: | ville district proved to be an uproar jous farce comedy in’ whieh the audience changed from one-third Com- munist to 98 per cent Communist be- fore the debate was over, judging from the early applause and the final response to a request to khow their colors by raising their. adie Sena- tor Hastings represented the demo- jeratic cause; Mr, Mandel, a republi- |can attorney, the republican cause; Shiplakoff, the socialist )icandidate, |failed to put in an appearance, and Bert Wolfe, the Workers’ Party can- didate for congress in the 10th dis- trict, defended the,Communist point of view. Wolfe Speaks First. The Communist speaker was the first to take the platform and painted a picture of our present government | WORKERS FACTS ON OTHER PARTIES the furriers’ union. The audience ap- plauded when the furriers present arose and shouted, “None!” All Rise. Finally, when the Workers’ Party | speaker asked how many in the audience agreed with his picture of | the present government; how many liked that picture, and how many were willing to join with the Workers’ Party in a fight to change it from a corporation government to a workers’ and farmers’ government, the audience rose to its feet almost to a man, Comedy Begins, Then the comedy element of the evening began. Mr, Mandel, republi- can speaker, declared: “These things that Mr, Wolfe has been telling you, I |do not know whether they are. true or not. I do not know anything about such things. I only know that Mr. Rubin is a good man and loves the |people, and whether you. like the re- |publican party or not, I ask you to vote for Mr. Rubin. If you cannot find it in your heart to vote for Mr. — By Upton Sinclair \Copytigat, 1926, by Uptom Sinciair) vI You remember in that colossal production, “The Emperor of Etruria,” the Scythian slave girl who is brought in from the wilds to serve the pleasures of a pampered sybarite and the scene where the fat eunuchs lay hands upon her? With what splendid fury she claws them and knocks their heads together! Her clothing is torn to shreds in the struggle, and you have glimpses of a lithe sinewy body—the extent of the glimpses de- pending upon the censorship laws of the state in which you see the picture, The scene made a hit with the public, and many producers competed for Viola Tracy—pronounce it Vee-old, please, with the accent on the first syllable. She displayed her magnificent fighting qualities next in “The Virgin Vamp,” and thereafter escaped dishonor by a hair’s breadth in many pal- pitating scenes, Of late she had acquired dignity, and was now regal on all the bill-boards of Angel City in “The Bride of Tutank- : -|hamen,” an alluring figure, with deep-set mysterious black eyes & nd \tak- will be Ben Gitlow of the Workers | With a strikebreaker as president, a | Rubin, then please vote for Mr. Ship. SS 5 § s _ of a swaprers Nae moana tivit The nuclei stand instructed becca learns Party. The program |crooked banker as vice-president, a |lakoff.” By this time the audience |and a smile fathomless as four thousand years of history. ganizations. ‘This applien to both the |*2,,t2k° & roll call at their meetings) Vin ciude a pMandolin, Orchestra, | multimillionaire looting the treasury |was in an uproar, Mr. Mandel went Well, here she was, stepping out of the billboards, and into with a view of getting the nonunion leading party committees and to the| members into unions. The district rank and file. tradé union committee is preparing de- Busy in Other Fields. tailed instruction on héw one can The result is that we fail to pay |join the union and on work of the sufficient attention to the organiza-|trade union fractions. tional side of the party work, fail to) Agitprop Development. utilize the various favorable situations| Several important measures are to for increasing the party membership be taken by the Agitprop department and to pay sufficient attention to the which would help to improve the or- numerous workers who are in agree- ganization machinery for the agitprop | ment with the Communist movement | work and for providing training for in order to take them in as members. | both the old and the new party mem- Pittsburgh Makes Plans. . The party in Pittsburgh has real. ized this fact and decided to immedi- ately take steps to remedy the situa- tion. A special small organization | committee was appointed, which meets regularly and quite frequently to consider nothing but problems deal- | ing with activization of the party units and with recruiting of new members. Conference Held. For the purpose of considering these problems a city conference was. held in Pittsburgh, at which delegates of every nucleus of the city were pres- ent and which took up a number of problems dealing with organization, agitprop and trade union work. Af- ter a detailed analysis of the results of the party reorganization the con-| ference adopted a number of motions which would help to place each and ,every nucleus on a functioning basis. These motions follow: Motions Passed. 1. That special meetings of fhe nuclei be called where the election of officers and committees shall take place and where the new form of or-| ganization shall be explained by aj representative of the district organ- | ization committee. | 2. Each department head and fune-| tionary of the nuclei shall be Tequest- | ed to submit a report of activities at each nucleus meeting. | 3. Minutes of all nuclei meetings be | submitted to the district office. | 4. An organization campaign for bers. These decisions are: 1. That in the immediate future steps be taken to esablish a live Agitprop committee in every unit. 2. That a committee be set up to arrange the affairs and meetings, the committee to consist of one delegate from every unit in Pittsburgh. The committee to elect its own secretary. 3. All party members must assist in the building of a live Daily Worker Builders Club, same to draw in as many non-party members as possible. 4. Development of the class into a real Workers school. Attendance at the class on the part of comrades se- lected to be made compulsory. | 5. Agitprop department to work out a program for discussion in the nuclei on the important questions of the day. 6. Special organization course of 3 lectures to be given by D. O.. 7. Spectal training for new members entering the party. Course of 3 lec- tures to be given. * The conference turned a new leaf in the history of the party in this city and every party member is called up- department in putting the decisions of the conference into effect. on to co-operate with the ne decisions | “Lyray,” and Jewish chorus, ‘ The program starts at 7:30 o'clock. Admission will be 25 cents. Russians and Ukrainians Will Have Concert and Dance November 14 A concert and dance will be given by the Russian and Ukrainian Work- ers’ Clubs on Sunday, Nov. 14, at Walsh’s Hall, corner Milwaukee, Em- ma and Noble Sts., beginning at 4:30 |p, m. ‘Tickets in advance 50 cents, at the doors 65 cents. Tickets are for sale at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division S:, and at the office of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washing: ton Blvd. Youngstown Affair for Anniversary Is Postponed to Sunday YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov, 8 — The celebration of the ninth anniver- sary of the Russian revolution here has been postponed until Sunday, Nov. 14, it is announced, to accommodate more workers, The affair will be held at Ukrainian Hall, 525 W. Rayon St., are. invited. All workers 1 anon NORKER WILL APPEAR IN DECEMBER. SEND IN A SUB TODAY. KEEP THE DAILY WORKER / IHE history of the DAILY WORK-fing spirit for the purpose of develop- ER is such as should convince every one of its readers of the impor mew members and for getting back | tance of such a paper, In spite of all ing the American trade unions into fighting organizations against the capitalist class. Therefore, comrades, it is necessary that we take up department in his care and a govern- mental machinery in which the courts, the army and the police were used to smash strikes and destroy the work- ers’ organizations. Up to this point, the democratic party representatives present, and conspicuous by their big election worker badges, applauded along with the rest of the audience because the whole attack was on the republican administration, But when Wolfe asked the audience which presi- dent it was that sent the army to break the steel strike and the West Virginia coal strike and the audience responded, “Wilson,” the democrats ;no longer looked so contented—and when Wolfe turned his attention to “injunction Al,” the democratic gov- ernor of New York, their contentment vamshed completely. Then the speaker turned his attention to the | socialist party. | He told how in the face of this gov- jernment of the corporations, for the corporations and by the corporations, the socialists had refused to join with the Workers (Communist) Party in an attempt to form a labor party; told how the Jewish Daily Forward had attacked the furriers’ strike and lied more shamelessly about Soviet Russia than any of the capitalist papers, and he asked the furriers in the hall to New York Workers Demand New Trial for Sacco, Vanzetti (Continued from page 1) sured this matter is to have careful consideration. : “Very truly yours, “Alvan T. Fuller. “Pp. S. I shall be back in Boston about Dec. 20.” The reply was written in his own hand by the govrenor, answering the plea of the labor editors that he “take such steps as are within your power my. from one stupidity to another until the walls of the jammed hall rocked with the laughter of the audience. Democrat ts Wiser. The democratic candidate, Senator Hastings, was a little less stupid and put up a fairly clever argument as to Al Smith having pardoned Gitlow and restored civil liberty to the state of New York (he discreetly forgot the injunctions and wholesale arrests), and he argued that while both old parties might be as black as Wolfe had painted them, yet there were some good men in them, and among these good men was himself, Senator Hastings and Al Smith. He also at- tempted to discuss the differences be- tween evolution and revolution and invited the workers to come in mass’ into the ranks of the democratic party and capture it for peaceful evolution towards a new social order. But by this time the audience was in no mood to listen to him, and the evening end- ed with a prolonged demonstration for the Workers (Communist) Party, for The DAILY WORKER, for the Frei- heit, for Gitlow and for Wolfe. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Non-Partisan Workers’ Club, one of the many working class organizations affiliated with . the Brownsville Workers’ Center, which Magnus Johnson Says the Struggle Must Be Continued (Continued from page 1) and are prepared for it. We will not lie down; we*will carry on. We are in the movement to educate, build and ultimately win. Qur purpose is to redeem Minnesota for the people. “We deny we are a third party. We have been the second party in Minne- sota from the beginning. We are mo- rally certain the great mass of the voters will come into our fold When they understand better the principles of our party and what we are trying the refectory of the monastery; her Egyptian costume changed for a daring one of black velvet, fresh from Paris, and with black pearls to match. The footman drew out her chair and, she cested one hand upon it, but did not take her seat; her hostess said, “Miss Tracy, Mr. Ross’—and still she paused, smiling at Bunny, and he smiling at her. It was a striking pose, and Tommy Paley, her director, who had taught her the stunt and watched it now from the other end of the table, suddenly called, “Shoot!” Everybody laughed, and “Vee” most gaily of all—revealing two rows of -white pearls, more regular than the block ones, and worth many times as much to a movie star. Annabelle Ames got along in the world without ever saying anything unkind about anybody, but that was not “Vee” Tracy’s style; she had a fighting tongue, as well as fighting fists, and her conversation gave Bunny the shock of his innocent young life. They happened first to be discussing a lady vamp, recently imported from abroad with much clashing of advertising cym- bals. “She dresses in very good taste,” said Annabelle, mildly. “Oh, perfect!” said Vee. ‘Absolutely perfect!: She selected her dog to match her face!” And then presently they were talking about that million dollar production, “The Old Oaken Bucket,” which was just then waking home memories and wringing tears from the eyes of millions of hardened sinners. Dolly Deane, who played the innocent country maiden seduced py a travelling salesman, was so charmingly simple, said Annabelle. “Oh, yes!” replied Vee. “For the chance to be that simple, she slept with her producers, and two angels, and the director and his assistant: and all five of them told her how prayers!” Bunny, who was a rebel in his own line, sat up and took an innocent virgin says her tell how many socialists were left in! meets at 63 Liberty avenue, Brooklyn, | 20tice of this conversation; and you may: be sure that Vee did not fail to take notice of the young oil prince, flashing him mischief. with her sparking black eyes. The footman brought her a plate of soup in a golden bowl, and she took one glance and cried,.“Oh, my God, take it away, it’s got starch in it! Anna- belle, are you trying to drive me out of the profession?” Then to Bunny, “They say that nobody can eat a quail a day for thirty days; but Mr. Ross, what would you say if I told you I have eaten two'lamb chops and three slices of pineapple every day for seven years?” “T would ask, is that an Egyptian rite, or maybe Scythian?” “Tt is the prescription of a Hollywood doctor who special- izes in reducing actresses. We public idols are supposed to be rioting in luxury, but really we have only one dream—to buy enough Hollywood real estate so that we can retire and eat a square meal!” “Don’t you really ever steal one?” thetically. She answered, “Ours are the kind of figures that never lie. asked Bunny, sympa- THE DAILY WORKER %y a t : | Hants. | i | . bh the old members be started in co-|the financial difficulties of the past, ‘ * You can ask Tommy Paley what would happen if they were Falisen SCAN dus “aioe organiza-|the DAILY WORKER has stood in|the slogan KEEP THE DAILY|‘° Temove Judge Thayertrom the | to Fa tg! the oe bap) de new |to see any fat on me when the gentleman heavy tears my clothes Lx tion committee and that a communi-|the forefront of the class struggle, WORKER in our trade unions, work |Sacco-Vanzetti case and from the|and the next fo them. We shail be,|Of%! They would put me into the comics, and I'd earn my living é eee cation be sent to all nuclei explain-|8hting for the interests of the work-|out ways and means whereby we can |Judiciary establishment—the bench—|our message to them. We shall be- being rolied down hill in a barrel!” & ing how to proceed with this organiza- tion campaign. 5. Each nucleus is to take steps to establish more discipline and order in the organization. 6. That at the special meetings which will be called a new registra- tion of membership be taken in all units. 7. That city conferences be held reg- ularly at least once each three months Books for Women THR WOMAN WORKER cand the TRADE UNIONS by Theresa Wolfson A Discussion of the permanency of women AS ® Wage-earning group, the racial, eeonomle and culture! background, — the and the official ns in regard to s, The author heir organization Analyzes. the extent of their participation in union life—in y at union meetings, as shop chatr- men and organizers Werk Among Women— Cloth $1.75 ers against their masters. The capitalist class would be only too glad to see the end of the DAILY WORKER. The readers of the DAI- LY WORKER are called upon to give everything they can and encourage their fellowworkers to do likewise. In the trade unions it is the DAILY WORKER that is holding high the banner of solidarity and educating the membership to a militant fight- Over 70 cartoons by 17 leading ar- tists. Size 9x12 on heavy paper—bound in attractive brown board covers, PRICE ONE DOLLAR U are invite THE DAILY WORKER RESCUE PARTY to be 8o Saturday Evening, November 13 at the COOPERATIVE CENTER 4 get the members in the union inter- ested and convince them to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. Also in the campaign for a labor party, it is the DAILY WORKER more than anything else that is our organizer and which edycates the workers and farmers for independent political action, and finally for a workers’ and farmers’ government. Comrades, let’s ask every worker and farmer with whom we come in contact, whether organized or unor- ganized, to help us along in this campaign for the fifty thousand dol- lar KEEP THE DAILY WORKER fund. ; Again, it is the DAILY WORKER, our organizer, our educator, that so militantly assists the foreign -born worker in the fight against capitalist exploitation. Here too, we have all the reason in the world to go before these foreign-speaking workers an’ | their organizations and ask them to [help us along in our KEEP THE DAILY WORKER camnaign. The DAILY WORKHR is the only | revolutionary English daily in Ameri- daily fighting organ to voice its pro- gram of class struggle. Comrades let ns make this campaign ‘a real one, one which will insure the DAILY WORKER for a long time to come, d to attend held of Massachusetts.” Gov, Fuller was also asked “to use the powers of your high office to secure an. impersonal and judicial consideration of all the evidence, old and new, in this case,” thru an investigating commission of experts as suggested by a conserva- tive Boston newspaper, if there be no other recourse. Thayer Attacked, Judge Thayer’s denial of the last new trial motion made for Sacco and Vanzetti, Italian workers convicted of murder on trumped up evidence, was attacked in the letter to Puller. The labor editors—about 30 signing, in- cluding those of several international union organs—say that they consider Thayer's decision “special pleading and nervous self-justification” and “of a piece with his previous conduct of this case.” The judge is scored for his bel- ligerent attitude toward defense at- torneys, the present one William G. | Thompson and the first one, Fred H. Moore, who built up the case, Gov- ernor Fuller is asked to remove Thayer as a “menace and danger” to Thayer, who may be brought before him. American Federation of, Labor and the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor resolutions for and Van- zetti aré srecalled to ler by the labor editors. ' ey ae Judge Thayer Has “Nothing to Say.” WORCESTER, Mass., Nov, 8 — Judge Webster Thayer, who, by his decision against a new trial for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vangett!, show. ed that he was willing to pronounce sentence of death on these workers, had “nothing to say” when told of the letter New York labor paper editors gin at once to organize in every coun- ty in the state. We shall aim to es- | tablish public confidence in the things we stand for. Sees Need for Party. “There will be need for a farmer- labor party so long as the farmers, wage earners and small business men have economic-political questions to solve. Experience has shown that they can get no’ relief from either of the old partjes. “The bankers and merchants in the smaller cities and villages of the state, who are suffering great busi- ness losses from\the unfortunate con- dition of the farmers, must sooner or later learn that hope for their future success and prosperity is in the farm- er-labor party. Time-will remove the Prejudices that have been built up around our movement and when that is done and truth prevails, we expect to triumph over all our enemies, Can Abide Time, “We can afford to abide our time. We appeal to all men and women who have common cause with us to remain firm in their Gevotion to the farmer- ca, The campaign to raise fifty thou- sand dollars will insure the revolu-|other workers, especially if foreigners |!abor party and its principles. We THIRD ANNUAL tionary working class movement its|and holding opinions dis ble to} Urge them to begin now to prepare for the next election. We ask them to join with us in building up a strong and militant organization everywhere thruout the state. ‘ “Speaking for myself, let me say I have no political ambitions. I am grateful to the voters of Minnesota for what they have done for me, and to sbow my appreciation I shall be content to work with the rank and file to aid in completing the great work we have begun under such try- ing auspices.” COTZOFANESTI ? vil Conversation at this dinner-party, as at most dinner-parties in America at that time, resembled a walk along the edge of a slippery ditch. Sooner or later you were bound to slide in, and after that you could not get out, but finished your walk in the ditch. “Mr. Ross,” said Annabelle,-in her capacity as hostess, “T notice you aren’t drinking your wine. You can trust what we have — it’s all pre-war stuff.” ,And so they were in the ditch, and talked about Prohibition. The law was two years and a half old, and the leisure classes were just realizing the full extent of the indignity which had been inflicted upon them. It wasn’t the high prices—they were all of them seeking ways, to spend money rapidly; but it. was in- convenience, and the difficulties of being sure what you were getting. People escaped the trouble by pinning their faith to some particular bootlegger; Bunny noticed it as an incredible but universal phenomenon that persons otherwise the most cynical, who made it the rule of their tive to trust nobody, would repeat the wildest stories which men of the underworld had told them, about how this particular “case of Scotch” had just been smug- gled in from Mexico, or maybe stolen from the personal stock of a visiting duke in Canada, . (Continued Tomorrow.) KPbIMCKMM BAI .| ENTERTAINMENT AND BALL. Given \by the a } First Crimean Brotherhood of America, Ino. at NEW HARLEM CASINO 116th St. & Lenox Ave., New York City Saturday Eve, November 20, 1926 Gut DIG; Fig 7 at 8 P. M, ooy “xnedé | ‘uxadAgop, j , CORRESPONDENT : Paper $ .35 had given Gov. 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