The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1926, Page 4

Os Page Four TA THE DAIL" _ Workers (Communist) Party DISTRICT NINE HOLDS PLENARY - SESSION, IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED BY FULL COMMITTEE The District Committee of Distri (Communist) Party recently he = the first full meeting of the committe Tuch to clarify the situation, to crea jeal and organizational problems of t solve thest problems. ld a plenary se: et Nine, Minneapolis, of the Workers This was practically e, since its election, The meeting did te a better understanding of the polit- he party and to unite on methods to ssion, The meeting considered the general policy of our party and its applica- tion to conditions in District Nine. It gave serious consideration to the cam- Paign to build the party and was an effective factor in the complete unifica- tion of the party. Among the resolutions adopted were the following: Parties “The plenary session of the district committee of District No. declares its full accord with the policies of the Party and of the central executive committee. “In the endSrsement by the.C. HB, C of the measures of the central com mittee of our Russian brother party against the opposition in the C. -P. S. U. the plenum of the district com- mittee sees a very necessary measure against the pessimism which develop- | ed in the international, and, to a degree also in our party. This pessim ism, often clothed in radical phrases &@s evidenced by the propaganda of Gomrades Trotzky and Zinoviev, and often outright opportunism, as evi- denced’in the letter of Medvediew and Shilapnikoff, {s really a liquidatory . tendenéy. In our party this pessimism proposes to overcome the difficulties of our movement in this period of lull in the revolutionary surge of the pro- Tetariat by leaving the field of revolu- tionary action and taking a position of mere propaganda. “fm the extended activities of our party in the struggles of the workers on the economic field, especially the Policies. achievements in the textile strike in | Passaic, the plenum of the D. E. C. welcomes a sign that our party de Signs its policy with a view to estab- lishing it as a real mass party, at- taching to it the masses of exploited who can find leadership only in our party, in the Communists. “In this period, the party must con- tinue the policy applied in Passaic, mamely the transformation of the slo fan “Organize the Unorganized” into @ concrete activity of the party. “The plenum of the district commit- tee considers the activities in the field of organizing the unorganized, and in the field of crystallizing a labor party movement for the campaign of 1925 the most effective means of making our party a real revolutionary party of action. “To make these campaigns succ ful the organization work must be i tensied and our energy must be mobil ized in the near future for the inner PROLET ARIAN CABARET given by Chicago Local, International Labor Defense ++ Wed., Nov. 24, 8:15 p. m. (Thanksgiving Eve.) ++ MIRROR HALL Western, just south of Division MP ccil”: entertainment “swell” entertainment and “blow-out” of Quality and Jollity! Dancing with best music. Dickerson’s Southern Orchestra ++ Tables for All. } ++ Finest of refreshments, Hot supper between 8 and 1, ¥ ++ Only 1,000 admissions can be sold, TICKETS 75 CENTS. ++ Guest of the Evening ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN Nat'| Chairman of |. L. D. 1 lias an eer | | Strengthening of our party. important measure to do this, the dis- trict_committee calls upon all mem- | bers of the party to support the pres- sent drive of the party to Keep The | DAILY WORKER. | “In united work of our party the {plenum of the district committee of District 9 sees the necessary prere- | quisites for a successful onward march |of our party and the establishment of jour party as the leader of the Amer- jican proletariat.” District Organization Work. “The district committee in plenary session notes with great satisfaction the excellent results of the organiza. tional efforts of Comrade Tallentire as district organizer. We pledge our wholehearted support in the continua- tion of this work and in cooperation with the central éxecutive committee promise to carry on these activities for the building of a“stronger Com- jmunist Party in District No. 9.” “The plenum of the district commit- |tee of the Workers Communist Party, | District No. 9, learns with indignation jthat the murderous negligence of the |profit-hungry mine operators on the Michigan Iron Range has again de- | Youred the lives of fifty-one workers. Near Ishpeming, Mich., in the mines of the Cleveland Cliff company, a sub- sidiary of the U. S. Steel corporation, because of the neglect of preventive the shafts and buried and drowned wy the mine these fifty-one workers, “A score of these men were mem: be and close sympathizers of our party. Always ready in a struggle against the men-devouring capitalism, jthese men themselves became victims of the profit-hunger of the operators. “The plenum stands up in honor to the memory of these victims of cap- italism, It calls upon the whole dis- trict of the party for the fight against the unbearable conditions in the mines on the range. It pledges the strength of the whole party for this fight. | “As a first step, the plenum calls. upon the party organization in Ish- peming to organize at once a meeting in memory of these victims and in protest against the murderers, “Down with capitalism. “Its victims are our heroes. To their memory is devoted our struggle against capitalism.” |Pittsburgh Units to Give Dance on Thanksgiving Eve. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 21. — All workers are invited to attend the Thanksgiving Eve dance to be given by all units of Pittsburgh on Wednes- day, Nov. 24, at the International So- cialist Labor Lyceum, 805 James treet, N.S. The dance is under the ruspices of the Workers (Communist) | Party | Good music has been provided for, and the hall has a new dancing floor, making for an enjoyable affair, Admission is 50 cents for men and 25 cents for women, | | | | Affair for Novy I Mir Given December 25 at Workers’ House The Chicago Novy Mir worker cor- respondenis have arranged a vetcher- inka for Saturday, Dec, 25, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., for the Yenefit of the Novy Mir, Rus- sian Communist weekly. All friendly organizations are re- |auestea not to arrange other affairs | on that date. Coming! In the December Issue of ~++ €UGENE V. DEBS What he ns to the workers— By C. E. Ruthenberg. THE STORY OF THE A. F. OF L. CONVENTION IN DETROIT, Told by one who was there—By J. Louis Engdahl. LESSONS FROM PASSAIC A complete and vivid story of the textile strike, by its leader, Albert elsbord. A QUEEN SERENADES WALL STREET Thurber Lewis explains the furore over Queen Marie of Roumania, THE 1926 ELECTIONS An analysis of their significance to THE COAL Py thie IN GREAT BRITAIN As one} measures, a swamp broke through into | | Jolly Time Planned by Cleveland Party on Thanksgiving Eve. CLEVELAND, Nov. 21, — Cleveland expects to have a grand old-fashioned good time at the confetti ball to be given November 24 at the Lithuanian Society Hall, 6835 Superior Ave. This affair is being arranged by the Work- ers (Communist) Party, District 6. class union orchestra and refresh- ments, The Cleveland entertainment com- mittee is making plans to make this | affair the jolliest of the season. No one who likes dancing and a'good time }should miss this ball. Remember the day and hour, come and bring your friends, and waltz and “Valencia,” Charleston and fox-trot while showers of bright colored con- fetti fall’in rainbow showers about you and good music is in the air, Ad- mission is 50c, Dance and Play Are Features of Detroit 21,—Detroit rs DETROIT, Mich., Nov. comrades and sympathiz vade Hamtramck Sunday and evening, of the Workers (Communist) “Great Communard,” and will have @ dance in the afternoon beginning at 4p. m. for the benefit of the district. All those who want to have a good | time are invited to this dance wich | | takes place in the International Work- men’s Home, 3014 Yeamans St., “The Great Communard” will be giv- guage. There will be a prize waltz, a first | Party Entertainment| will in-| afternoon | November 28. Section 6 Party | has arranged for the showing of the| Ham- tramck. The famous proletarian play | en in the evening in the Russian jaan | DONATIONS—NOVEMBER 16. CALIFORNIA— P. C. Reiss, Los Ange! $10.00 FLORIDA— ¥ Geo. Hiss, HollyWood snsimmsnnnne 1.00 IDAHO— | A Friend, Nampa . 10.00 ILLINOIS— Slov. Workers’ Society, Lodge No. 22, Chicago 10.00 J. W. Johnstone, St. Nucleus No, 23, Chicago .... MASSACHUSETTS— 1 J. Galkauskas, Norwood ... woe 40. MICHIGAN— E. K. Field, Detroit MINNESOTA— R. M. Johnson, St. Paul ... NEW YORK CcITY— : Baimholdz Louis Bogatt . D. Brown D. Brown... V. Chulman J. Codkin L. Cooper .. Sam Dassa Yetta Davis M. C. Endew J. Freedman M. Freedman F. Grumberg . MoH ick. | IL. G. W. U., Local \. Isaacs . Max. Kitzes | May Kelmansky . S. Konowaloff | Krooglich Harry Leff | N. Libenstein . J. C. Lockman S. Mirsky... Liza Podolsky Paul Reitman .. W. Riemer | Max Rot M. Rose: | A. Rosenbiatt S. Rosenthal . Gabrid Roubin | M. Rubinstein Celia Samardin 8388888888888883883 S. Sjoman .... S. Steinwasser Fannie Unterman . PENNSYLVANIA— W. 0., W. Brownsville, by, J. u. | Fred Witte . | | Deamond Local No. 1447, Kruper, Fayette City "WORKER The Drive For $50,090 to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER / at ere WASHINGTON— Geo. Bloxam, Spokane WISCONSIN— Dion Maravalas, Milwauke: Nov. 14 meeting, Milwaukee Oscar Corgan, Superior E. Pesonen, Superior Mike Rutanen, Superior DONATIONS—NOVENBER 17. MICHIGAN— Docho Bocheff, Pontiac .. Nick Dimitroff, Pontiac T. Sancoff, Pontiac ..... MINNESOTA— Cl \Copyrigat, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) VI Had anybody seen them in the moonlight? Or had Vee whispered the secret to Annabelle? Or was it just the light of happiness radiating from the eyes of the young couple? Any- ALASKA— | how, it was evident next day that the truth was out, and there J.-L. Lund, Nenana». 8.00. Peter Ousel, Nenana ... 3.00! was an atmosphere of festivity about the Monastery. Nobody CALIFORNIA— | went so far as to sprinkle rice on the pair, or to throw old shoes Jack Mattson, Fort Bragg 5.00/ at them, or tie white ribbons to their cars; but there were friend- | missouRI— ly smiles, and sly jests, enough to keep the play spirit alive. Anna- | Jack Michelangelo, St. Louis 1.00 belle, of course, was enraptured; she had planned this from, the beginning, she had picked this young oil prince for her friend from the day that Verne had told her about him, And Verne— well, you can imagine that when he started to make jokes on such a subject, nobody was left in doubt as to what had happened! A gle elt ag ble ama Strangely enough, when Bunny got home, he found this ference, Superior, Wis., Nov. 14 41.42 cnirit of orange-blossoms and white ribbons in some mysterious Matt Hill, Mahtowa ..... 5.00 NEW JERSEY— Vincent Zober, Passaic . NEW YORK— Progressive Telzer & Umgegend | way communicated to Dad. Could it be that Verne, the old \rascal, had taken the trouble to telephone the news? Here was Dad, shining with satisfaction, and Bunny could read his every, |thought. Dad had met Vee Tracy, and liked her fine. A motion New York, G. Lansky, Se0’Ye. 3.00! picture star—by golly, that was something to brag about! That Tatar cltolay New crork Work: .0| was the right sort of career for a young oil prince—quite in the 2.00 Frank Zagmester, Gasport . OHIO— M. Esterkin, Cincinnati .. Chas. Coy, Cleveland .. PENNSYLVANIA— Gus Bassisis, Philadelphia . Peter Dim Philadelphia Frank Kuttus, Philadelphia . Lithuanian Progressive Organiza- tion, at social, Philadelphia Harry Sils, be 44.00 | 2.00 | 4,00 | 1,00 25.00 | Young Workers’ Mandi tra, Philadelphia . WISCONSIN— Karl Hintikka, Superfor Oscar Hirva, Commonwi 10.25 | aristocratic tradition! Bunny would have something else in his ‘mind now but this fool Bolshevik business! Presently here was Dad trying to drop hints—-with about as imuch tact as you would expect from a full grown rhinosceros! Had Vee Tracy been up at the Monastery this time? Say, that oo | Was a live wire, that girl! Verne said she got as high as seven ol neared a week; and that was no press agent money either. She had more brains than all the male dolls put together; she had money salted away, owned lots all over Hollywood. She’d come iso Verne to ask his advice about Ross Consolidated, and he had {told her to go the limit, and by golly, she had brought him a cashier’s check for fifty thousand dollars, and had got a block 50 Of the stock at the opening price, and now it was worth three Matt. KuJanpaa, Commonweait ‘$0, times that, and Vee said that Verne had saved her from six Beata ealunens Camararwensts ‘50| tapings. Then tlie old rhinosceros went on and explained what Lauri Pajunen, Commonwealth. ‘30| Vee had meant—that she wouldn’t have to act in six pictures! Cc. Partanen, Commonwealth 50 | Seen cemitueaity ‘33. . And then there was Bertie, who got the news at once because Otto Sukkanen, Commonwealth... -80/it happened that Charlie Norman’s bootlegger was in love with English Class, Milwaukee .. 4.25 WE MUST KEEP THE DAILY WORKER | TO COMBAT THE CAPITALIST PRESS | HE American working class con- sumes daily a terrible amount of mental poison. No working class in the world is deluged with so mon- strously huge an amount of the writ- ten word. Thirty-three million copies thruout the United States in 1925. Over 2,200 capitalist dailies circulated in the United States in 1924, | ‘The American press operates on the American industry. standardized, as is clothes, bread, drugs, and other articles of daily con- sumption. What the American work- ers read is-like what they eat—pro- duced by millions in a similar shoddy manner. The American newspaper is j}a tremendous industry controlled by the capitalist class and, in the last analysis, by a small oligarchy, which uses this power to divide the workers, cripple their thinking ‘and paralyze their action. Special Propaganda, The bourgeois press, pandering to the lowest prejudices, is able to suc- ceed in this task of poisoning and en- slaving the workers by cunningly spreading their dope manufactured by the skilled cartoonists and journalists whose products are dictated by their masters. It is against this influence and power that The DAILY WORKER must struggle along on short rations, hard-pressed by the paper manufac- turers and the whole industry of news- paper production. Yet, if the compe- tition is difficult, the task of The |8le of the enslaved is, on the other | hand, great, Need Is Now Great, At no time was there greater need for The DAILY WORKER than dt this time. In New York City 40,000 cloakmakers are on strike, thousands have been arrested, hundreds are herded into cells and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for exércising their right to strike and picket. The of the capitalist press circulated daily | | basis of mass production on a scale in | harmony with the whole character of | Its products are | DAILY WORKER in leading the strug: | —fawe brutality of the police knows no limit, and yet, despite a demonstration of 20,000 workers in New Madison Square Garden against these arrests and | against the injunction, the capitalist press maintains a conspffacy of si-- lence, boycotts the news of the heroic | struggle of the ‘cloakmakers and uses its power to intimidate’ and crush |these workers struggling against the | attempt to introduce the open shop. | This press, serving the political for- tunes of Al Smith, who is:playing the role of a strikebreaker im this strug- |gle, shows what a vicious power it is |in the hands of the capitalist class. Need Own Press. * | The American workers need a’ press | of their own to break the blockade maintained by the capitalist class. They need a powerful English daily | which can lead in their struggles, give |them unity, organization, discipline; and give aim and a common ‘goal—a | Communist English daily that speaks fearlessly, that gives voice to the |grief, the pain, the indignation of the |masses of American workers against their exploiters and misleaders, The DAILY WORKER is perform- ing this role. It is watched by the spe- cial agencies of the capitalist class. It is read and clipped by all the labor bureaucrats. It is the only voice that labor has in the country daily speak- ing in the interests of the millions of exploited workers, No Effort Too Great. No effort is too great to keep The |DAILY WORKER, No contribution |is too large to maintain a labor daily, speaking in the English language. While the entite working class of | America must regard the paper as | their own, the burden of maintaining it falls heaviest at this time upon the Communists and left-wingers. This task of maintaining and» broadening the influence of The DAILY WORKER, the revolutionary-minded — workers must not shirk. Let the $50,000 cam- paign speedily go over the top! New | York walt do its share, | ThaWORKERS MONTHLY Louis Zooback tells what effect the miners’ strike had on British industry. THE ENGLISH TRADE UNION CONGRESS Its meaning—By an eye-witnes Earl A. Browder. WITH MARX AND ENGELS A series of Avrom Landy, THE NEW GERMAN IMPERIALISM what Ga prepare for Max. Shachtman, APPRENTICESHIP IN THE SOVIET UNION H. Hathaway young workers of pared for the factor! WHAT AND HOW TO STUDY By Solon de Leon. letters prepared by CLIP IT TODAY! rman imperiailam is doing new conquest—By RATES: $2 a year $1.25 six months Ra ‘ enw od | CHICAGO Y. W,L. NOTES Coming Events. Saturday, November 20, Entertain. ment and Dance given by the new unit of the league at Omladina Hall, 30th and Trumbull Ave. Admission 25c. Friday, Nov. 26, “Young Pioneer Review” Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., 8 p. m. Admission adults 35c. Children 10. Saturday, November 27, entertain- ment and Dance given by Section No. 6 of the Y. W. L, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, Admission 35c. A short play will be staged. W. W. Weinstone to Speak at Y. W. L. Member Meet NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 21. — The district executive committee is calling a membership meeting of the New York league for Tuesday Nov, 23rd at 6:30 p. m. at the Freiheit Gesangs Fa- rein 133 Second Ave, This membership meeting is called for the purpose of acquainting the league membership with the activities of the Workers Party: Comrade Weinstone the general sec- retary of the party in District No. 2 will give the report of the party acti- wities in District No. 2. Every member of the league must be present at the membership meet- ing and get acquainted with the party | activities. Bunco Party in Hammond. The newly organized Young Work: ers League of Hammond, Ind, will run their first social affair Sat. Dec. 4. at the Workers’ Hall, 518 Fields Ave. The affair will be a bunco party and dance to start at 8 p. m, and will end at anytime in the morning. Tickets will only be two bits including ward robe. Dance and Entertainment. Section No. 6 of the Young Workers (Communist) League is ‘giving an en- tertainment and dance on Saturday, November the 27th at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, Admission is 35e, Proceeds, 50 per cent to the district office and 50 per/cent ‘to the || THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd, CHICAGO, ILL, Enclosed $. subscription. sseermecons MOB, Name ww Street sgn sontsonnncennsnennnnnnneeee conned CARY ssvssenseseerneomeamaersennemesenecanmuanagnnement am vv Bate cssupennansnemsmsenrennniltiensironme sean a7 soil Young Worker, Federation of Russian Schools Will Give Concert-Dance Nov. 28 The Federation of Russian Chil- dren's Schools of Chicago and vicinity will give a concert and dance Sunday, Noy, 28, at Schoenhoffen Hall, corner Ashland and Milwaukee avenues. The following will participate in the pro- gram: Russian Singing Soctety, Frei. heit String Orchestra of 45 people, Russian folk dancer, A. Kotov; Manya Moller, soprano; Ivan Polkov, barl- tone, and many others, Beginning at 3:30 p, m, Tickets in advance, 30 cents; at the doors, 65 cents, Why fot a small bindie of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular ly to take to your trade un ton moating? |Annabelle Ame’s sister. Right away Bertie was curious to meet Vee *fracy, and ordered Bunny to bring her to lunch. Vee was uneasy about this—declaring that sisters always poisoned men against sweethearts. But Bunny laughed and said he had plenty of antitoxins against Bertie. So they met, and everything went off beautifully; Vee was humble, and anxious to please, and Bertie was the great lady, supremely gracious. That was accord- ing to the proprieties, for Vee was only an actress, while Bertie was in real “society,” her doings appearing in a sanctified part of the paper, where the screen people seldom broke in. After the luncheon, Bertie told her brother that Vee was all right, and maybe she would teach him a little sense; which, from a sister - was the limit of cordiality. So there they were, everything hunkydory. Bunny’s sleep was no longer disturbed by dreams; the dream had become a reality, and it was his. When they visited the Monastery, they were placed in connecting rooms; and when he went to visit Vee at her bungalow, the discreet elderly lady who Kept house for her would quietly disappear. As for the moving picture colony, it said nothing more—having already said everything there was to say. Bunny would call Vee on the telephone, and if it was a Sat. urday or holiday, they would make a date; but if it was a week- day, Vee would say, “No, Bunny, you ought to stay home and study.” He would answer, “Oh, bosh, Vee, I’m a whole week ahead of my classes.” “But Bunny, if I make you neglect your work, your father will get down on me!” “Dad’s more in love with you than I am! He thinks you're the brightest star in the movie zodiac.” “We just must not overdo it, Bunny! Your consefence will get to troubling you, and you'll blame it on me.” “Dog-gone-it,, Vee, you boss me worse than if we were Annabelle and Roscoe.” “Well, let me tell you, if I manage to keep my oil prince as long as Annabelle has kept her’s, I'll count myself a lucky woman!” (To Be Continued.) The Challenge of Youth Why Every Young Worker Should Join the Young. Workers (Communist) League By SAM DARCY With 13 Illustrations, 1S JUST OFF THE PRESS! It’s. something new and vitally necessary in the work of revolu- tionary youth. This pamphlet tells in simple language what the Young Workers League is and why young workers should join it, It analyzes the condition of the working youth of this country and deals with their problems as no other book or pamphlet has done up to now. Distribute 25,000! 15¢ a copy; 10¢ a copy in bundles of 5 or more, Send your order with a cash remittance, a ity ao NO cS The” Young Workers (Communist) League of America, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. 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