The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1926, Page 4

i Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party Economics {s intended only for those | who already have a basic knowledge Work. |0f the subject or tor those who have |studied economics for some length of time under the “old system.” In other words, this course should be useful to people who have gone thru the schools of the S, L, P. or the proleta- ed States. Thq methods gener- |Tian party or the S. P. of Canada or ally used consist of a formal memoriz- |the classes of Waton and other such ing of the definitions of Marx, a study | “Pseudo Marxists.” Those wishing to of abstract laws which seem to be in- |e admitted to the course must show dependent of time and space and a|the equivalent of a course in the Ele- social system and produce “mechani- | ments of Marxian Economics, cal Marxists,” people who come to | The Three Volumes, believe. that these laws are imminent | Another one @ the old errors gen- in the capitalist system and work jerally made in teaching Advanced By BERT WOLFE. NEW YORK, Noy. 14.—Th ere’ School is attempting to 1 tionize the teaching of e working class subject. vol a ah ‘Bhe has long felt that economics has | been properly taught in the themselves out with or without the Marxian Economics, which Mr. Wicks activity of individuals, The average course in economics is “economics for econor whereas Marx studied Politics’ sake. es sake” nomics for | Volume I of Capital without its rela- As taught to workers, | will avoid, is that of basing the work exclusively on a study of Volume I of Capital. A thoro knowledge of tion to Volumes II and III is respon- it generally has no contiection with | sible for many of the stupidities of their daily economic problems, and |So-called Marxists, and therefore when they have mastered “it cannot | Wicks will base his course on the en- be applied by them to new problems |tire three volumes. He will include as they arise. {also an analysis of the official uni- Hence it is precisely the “trained | versity or orthodox economics; of the Marxists” who haye taken a course in| economics of imperialism; of the vul- \ Marxian economics that develop such idiotic theories as the one that “the workers do not pay taxes” or “tHe value of labor power cannot be raised by the trade unions, no matter what the degree of organization of the work- ing class” or that “imperialism must be encouraged because it develops capitalism in the colonies, which is a step towards socialism” or that “the proletarian revolution must come first in the industrially most advanced country” or any other of the queer monstrosities that have been propa- gated in the name of Marx and Marx- ism. A New Method. ‘“Atter repeated conferences of the instructors in economics with the di- rector of the Workers’ School, a new method of presentation of the subject has beem worked out, designed to em- phasize the social nature of economic categories; the political significance of economic laws; the possibility of ap- Plication to every-day life in the unions and in the class struggle of such laws, and the possibility of pre- senting economics in such a way that the untrained worker can grasp all of its fundamental principals and in such | @ way that it does not produce chronic | students and closet Marxists, but more | effective fighters in the class struggle. | Two Courses. Hi The two courses in economics in | Which these methods will be applied and this experiment undertaken are: | Advanced Marxian Economics, H. M. Wicks instructor, given on Thursday nights from 8 to 9:15 p. m., and Ele- ments of Marxian Economics, Ray Ra- gozin instructor, given on Wednesday nights at 9:15. The course in Advanced Marxian Stories y THE APOSTATE—Story of a boy who is tired of the mono- tony of a wage-earner’s life. 10 Cents STRENGTH OF THE STRONG -—A splendid story of the ear- ly cave-man and the faMure tin gar economists; of the marginal util- ity school; as well as a study of re- visionism and its errors. His course also includes a study of the economics of class collaboration; of “rationaliza- tion”; Fordism and other new eco- nomic tendencies, A Hospital for Pseudo-Marxists ’ Basio Problems. The course inthe Elements of Marx- ian Economics will devote itself to the basic problems of the field, but in- stead of going from value to wages, it will use proper teaching principles and go from that which the worker knows to that which he does not know. The subjects to/be covered are: Wages, value, surplus value, capital, rate of profit, accumulation and concentration of capital in industry and agriculture, banks, finance capital, etc. It also will take as its field, altho in a much more elementary fashion, not only the matter contained in the first volume of capital, but will draw its material from all three volumes, thus not teaching things that have to be untaught or “corrected” later on, Teachers of economics of all schools are invited to attend and observe these courses and to offer suggestions on the method used and the content. It is expected that they will eventually be productive of textbooks in the field. A description of these and other courses offered at the Workers’ School may be secured by writing to Bertram D. Wolfe, director Workers’ School, 106-108 East 14th street, New York City. Register fdr these courses any after- noon or evening at the office of the school, room 35, 108 East 14th street, New York City. News and View of The Drive For $50,000 to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER / COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS FOR DAILY WORKER BAZAAR IN PITTSBURGH, DEC.10-11 PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 14.—Ar, rangements are completed for The DAILY WORKER Bazaar to be held Friday and Saturday, December 10 and 11 at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. This will be one of the blg events of the season, and one that merits the. support’ of every worker In and around Pittsburgh. Subscription lists have been sent out and every one should get busy and collect everything posstbie to be sold. The DAILY WORKE jeeds the money and this is an ¢: way for It to be raised, if every one will get on the Job and put Itwover, Each~ language séction will* have thelr In Detroit You'll find no buckets full of tears in De- troit! Our local comrades refuse to weep all over the place. When they want to get money for “Our Daily”’—they get it! Here’s one way they show in which it can be done: Section 2 decided on “an affair’ with good fun; good food and good cheer (prohibition booths and compete with ¢ach other to see which can ralse the most’ cash, There will be ayprogram of recitations and music. ) , Huge Generator to style). To help them they asked The DAILY WORKER for ‘just alittle ad.” They got it! The DAILY WORKER in return asked them for just a little money. WE GOT IT! They sent The DAILY WORKER the tidy sum of three hundred dollars! * Comrade Lena Rosenberg, Daily Worker agent for Section 2 who was keeping a careful eye on the whole business writes this beside her check: “We had about six hundred people present, It was the most crowded affair that | have ever seen and certainly an Inspiration” to those who Were present. This affair showed that workers of - Detrolt are Interested In The DAILY WORKER and when given an opportunity ARE READY TO SUPPORT IT. This ought to _Be Installed Here The world’s largest’ turbo-generator, supplying power equal t6 the labor of 8,000,000 men, will be! installed on Lake Michigan, just south of the In- diana state line, it was ‘announced to- day following a conference of General Electric and State Line Generating Co. officials. 2 2 Why don't you write It'up? It may be interesting.to other workers. DIFFERENCES IN PHILOSOPHIES TO BE POINTED OUT Workers’ School Class Is Basic Study NEW YORK, Noy. 14.—At the end of a lecture given last year on the nature of the Communist movement the following question was asked: “Aren’t the Communist Party and so- cialist party fighting for the same end? Isn’t the difference between them only one on methods?” This question is not unusual. In fact, thousands of workers over the country wish to know the difference between the move- ment typified by the Communist Party and socialist party, This is only one question that will be raised and an- | swered in the course on “Rival Social Philosophies,” to be given at the New York Wo: starting on Thursday night, Nov. 25, at 8 p. m. Analyze Philosophies. This course will analyze socialism, a hism, syndicalism and Commu- nismtheir aims, philosophies, tactics and policies toward pressing problems of the present. Their attitudes to- ward political action, toward the state, toward the institution of parliament, toward property—will be ‘ differen- tiated. These are not mere abstract principles of thought—these affect the very life of the working class today. These determine policies a% regards the British general strike, the Rus- | sian revolution, imperialist wars, colo- nial oppressions, league of nations. This subject is, therefore, of imme- diate and practical importance. It may well be said that the course “Rival Social Philosophies” with Comrade Bourgin on Thursday nights is one in which every thoro student of the American labor movement is interested. To some it will. be a | means of clarifications, enabling them to determine how to act in the work- ing class struggle. For others it will serve as a theoretical basis from which concrete policies can be formulated to develop and strengthen the working class. All interested should register imme- diately any afternoon or evening at the Workers’ School, room 35, 108 East 14th street, New York City. of an early experiment in, —K—_=&*{*—~AX«e—E—E capitalism. 10 Cents A Treat of a THE DREAM OF DEBS—A Lif 4 ! vision of the coming revolur ifetime tion, 10 Cents IN NEW YORK +++ By Michael Gold: Freiheit Gesangs Verein with the assistance of | members of | TH DAMNED AGiTATOR and || New York Symphony Other Stories—Brilliant and Orchestra to read and pass on to his }| shop-mate. 10 Cents will sing +++ By Upton Sinclair: 100%—The Story of a Patriot —A story of a read-blooded, patriotic he-man who turns out to be a spy. 25 Cents KING COAL—A splendid story , of the coal mines. Paper, $1.00 4 5 ) 4 5 5 ) ‘ 5 j 5 5 4 inspiring stories for a worker : 5 ) Cloth, | $1.50 ““Messiah, Son of Joseph” Dramatic poem by Bainush Steinman, Music by our own Jacob sss SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1926 CARNEGIE HALL, DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Co The Source of AlGmmunist Literature 1113 WWASHINGTON BIVD. CHICAGO, ILL, 57th St. and 7th Ave., New York City Tickets 75c to $2.00 at the Fretheit, 30 Union Square. New York City, ‘s’ School by H. Bourgin, | ‘ONE Y CONDUCTED - BY TH NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—The young workers of this country play a most important role in production. At present 15,000,000 under the age of 24 years are working in American in- dustry. This process, due to exten- sion of machinery and mechanization |of industry is increasing rather than | decreasing. These young workers are usually unorganized and therefore subject to worse exploitation than adult workers, Special Problem. * The doors*of most unions in the A. F, of L, are closed to them. They, therefore, not only have the same problem that every worker is con- fronted with, but special problems in addition as young, unorganized work- ers. This situation must be under- stood by young workers, otherwise they will not know how to act to im- prove their conditions or status.” This is but one problem treated in “Problems of Working Class Youth,” given every Tuesday night at 8 p. m., at the New York Workers’ School, with Sam Don, New York district or- WORKERS JUNG WORKERS LEAGUE , PROBLEMS OF YOUNG WORKERS GET ATTENTION IN N. Y. WORKERS’ SCHOOL ganizer of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League as instructor. Imperilaism “Study. Then there is the injportant, ques- tion of growing militarism and in- creased dangers of ‘wat. The. great war of 1914 has taught all youth that it must understand thoroly the na- ture of imperialism and know how to act, otherwise the youth will suffer as it did in 1914-1918 and it is youth that suffers first in ithberialist wars. The course in.“Propjems of Work- ing Class Youth,” therefore, is not an abstract, academic swbject but one of immediate, practical and life im- portance. ‘ Child labor, propaganda in the schoels, the young Negro workers— these two will be taken up in the courge. All who wish to lead young workers into organization, militancy and class consciousness should have clarity on these important problems and should therefore register for the course in “Problems of Working Class Youth.” Register any afternoon or evening in Room 35, at,108 East 14th St., New York City. Young Paper Box Makers in Battle Front By C. MILLER Sora three thousand paper box ‘J makers of whom about 60 per cent are young workers were forced to go out on strike against the most miser- able conditions existing in their shops. It is not the first time that paper box makers went out on strike, but never before have they put up such a won- derful fight. The labor movement of New York City is surprised what these workers under a militant leader- ship ang with methods similar to those used in Passaic can do. This strike is interesting from sev- eral points, First it has a large per- centage of young workers who have been drawn into activity. Experience in this strike, as well as in others, has shown that it-is very hard to involve the young workers in a strike, but once they are out they form the back- bone of the movement, ° Secondly, the mass, picket lines, the daily mass meetings, the militant character of the leadership marks a new step in the labor movement. Thirdly, we must remember that even though there was a union in ex- istence its influence was aimost noth- ing. But today-we find them putting up a splendid fight. The militant struggle that these | workers have put up is due consider- ably to the misery with which they |had to put up while working, Long hours in many cases 10 hours and more, wages even in, the so-called union shops amounted on the average to about $23 per week. The work in a paper @ox factory required their standing up all day with a short rest during the half hour rest, The dust in |the air hurt the lungs of the workers especially the young ones, The bosses are doing everything GINSBERGS Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. teu possible to try and break the strike. Police, courts, injunctions, gangsters, strikebreakers, spies and stool pigeons are some of the means used in the at- tempt to crush the strike. These methods failed, Their attempt to sub- divide the colored workers from the white workers also failed, The union has issued a leaflet to the colored young workers, The problem before the union at the present time is to raise relief, The, young Workers League js mobilizing its members to start active work in the trade unions and in other organ- izations to’come to the support of the striking paper box makers. Every class conscious worker young or old will do all in his power to help these workers win a union. Paper box makers fight on to vic- tory! The organized labor movement is with you. 8 Proletariat Ball; With Unique Plans, to Be in New York NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — The New Masses Workers and Péasants’ Ball to be held Dec. 3 in Webster Hall, New York City, will present for the first time in New York a Ryssian prole- tarian entertainment and scheme of decoration. Decorations have been, de- signed by distinguished New Masses cartoonists and artists, including Bill Gropper, Hugo Gellert and Louis Loziwick. The ball will follow the tradition of the Old Masses and IAberator balls which became rendezvous for New York bohemians, liberals, and radicals, A Russian orchestra will provide, the music, On the entertainment program are listed Russian singers, dancers, ar- tists, and writ Prominent labor leaders, playwrights, authors, and painters will be among the gues’ honor, ee Red Stars Score Vistory. The Red Star Soccer teym beat the Roosevelt 2nd, 2 to 1 7th. at the Roosevelt 2 Keeler and 18th Chi 2 be good encouragement for other cltles.” We agree! It ought to be good encouragement for other cities, Come on comrades—WHO HOLDS THE NEXT AFFAIR FOR THE DAILY WORKER? More Encouragement from Boston. Comrade Shohan, Daily Worker agent for Boston, is so very busy he is getting short-winded. look how much he says: He writes very briefly but just “We have a package party arranged by Section 1 for Nov. 24. This week there will be a dance at Wilton, N. H. The Italian section has arranged a dance for Dec. 31. Brockton Is preparing for an affair in a week or two. Worcester is arranging a dance.” With all these arrangements for The DAILY WORKER no wonder this comrade can’t write. Who holds the next affair for The DAILY WORKER? Donations November 9-10. DONATIONS—NOVEMBER 9. CALIFORNIA— R. B. Wison, Berkley Geo. Kelly, Oakland ILLINOIS— . Chriss, Chicago Jewish Fractio Chicago .. Harry Greenwood, Chicagi Julius Kunkler, Chicago Mike March, C Street Nucl C. Parson, Chicago inger, Chicago ge gegsvanee 88838888 INDIANA— Workers "Party Local, Gary wm > 8 MICHIGAN— R. Baker, Detroit, Mich. Joe Richter, Fordson Walter Johnson, Mus H. Christoff, Pontiac Roy Ahola, Rock MINNESOTA— Women’s Section of Palisade .. NEW YORK— J. Katchner, Albany .... me. Workmen’s Circle 637 (S. J. Don- beige | oe Jack Sidninen, Schenectady OHIO— Joseph O'Hagan, Ashtabula 1, Amter, D. O. No. 6, Clevel: PENNSYLVANIA— A. Hoffman, Allentown ... Geo. Kuitsch, Philadelphla o.csu 2.00 WISCONSIN— 0. Zimmerman, Milwaukee 0.00 Proceeds of meetings held Louis, Kansas City and Omaha... 19.38 DONATIONS—NOVEMBER 10. ILLINOIS— —. Newman, St. N. No. 23, Chicago Albert Wecksler, Chicago L. Takeff, Chicago .... Alfred Bachman, Waukegan MASSACHUSETTS— John Heck, |. L. D. Hungarian Branch, Detroit 10.00 5.00 5. S. Marinoff, Pontiac .. MISSOURI— K. L. Bovos, Kansas City .. M. Kurtz, Kansas City .... + Nucleus 10-3, Kansas City J. A. Neker, 1521 Warren St. . St. Louis ... NEW YORK, N. Y— Workers Party, New York Dist...412.53 OHIO— T. H. Mitsos, Cleveland .. Nucleus No. 101, Clevelai CANADA— John Staples, Saturna 8. C., Canada Jap Steamer Lost. LONDON, Nov. 14—The Japanese steamer Shinzan Maru is reported mis- sing and vessels sent in search of her have reported they have been unable to find any traces of her, according to a Yokohoma dispatch received here. 2 8 Lloyds register does not recard a Shinzan Maru, but the Shinzui Maru of Yokohoma is listed as a vessel of 2910 tons. Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular ly to take to your trade union meeting? The Andy Mellon Looks Soviets Over. TIFLIS, Nov, 14. — Rich layers of : aluminum ores have been discovered in the Gandjinsk district of Azerbaid- jan by the expedition of the American Aluminum Co,, says a Tass press agency dispatch, The expedition has gone fo the Batum region and the northern coast of the Black Sea to make further explorations, “The pen is mightler than the sword,” provided you know how to Use ft. 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