The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 5

(Me VAIL YG STUDENTS PLAN DELEGATION 10 STUDY RUSSIA ‘Organize Conference to Conduct Program By VIVIAN WILKINSON, (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—A student del- egation to Soviet Russia was planned and a national executive committee elected here at a conference of dele- eates representing colleges and uni-| versities in this state and New Eng- Jand. The conference, called by the Student Council of New York City, was held at Columbia University. Students Should Join, The Russian revolution is the most significant event of this generation,” declared Chairman R, Heckert, one of the eight delegates who accom- panied Sherwood Eddy to the Soviet Republic last summer. “The French revolution we can know only from dooks, but the Russian revolution, which is even more sweeping, we have #0 opportunity to study first hand. American students should not permit this unique opportunity to be lost.” 100 Is Limit. One hundred students is the limit ®et for next summer’s delegation, ac- cording to Chairman R. Davis of the publicity committee. These students, 60 per cent of whom must be under- raduates, will be selected on the fa. of their preparation for scien- {ific study in such a social laboratory @s Soviet Russia, and their ability to present their findings effectively thru ‘writing and speaking. “Unless we can inform the students f this country as to what is really happening in Russia, a student delega- tion is of little value,” declared Davis, “The delegation will be subdivided into groups, each group choosing some Bpecific problem, such as trade unions or natjonal minorities, and limiting Sts investigations to that fleld.” To Raise Funds. “Wunds to finance the delegates will be raised by the groups sending such representatives,” declared Bishop. “Here at Columbia a theater party and other affairs will be held for this pur- Pose. Plans are being worked out for the creation of a loan fund which will make it possible for delegates to bor- row all or part of the $500 needed for the trip, No student will be permitted to join our group merely because he happens to be able to pay his own ex- penses. We hope to offer several na- tional scholarships for specially quali- fied students. We want to make this ® bona fide American student delega- tion, representing as many sections of this country as possible, so that authentic news about Russia may be spread thruout the United States.” Study Communism. The philosophy of Communism and the historic background of the revolu- tion are among some of the subjects which will be studied in preparation for next summer’s laboratory work in Russia. Pamphlets containing facts about the various phases of life in Soviet Rusgia will be prepared for the use of the delegates. Group study will begin at Columbia University Thurs- day, December 9, with a discussion of the philosophy of Communism. Movie Workers Get Demands; No Strike By a Worker Correspondent. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 6, — The threatened December 1 strike among moving picture workers has been f@verted, it was learned here from Cleve Beck, vice-president of the In- ternational Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employes, A satisfactory agree- ment was to be signed between the union and studio representatives, Beck declared. JANUARY UKE 13 1927 PRIZES FOR Three very fine books are offered stories this week. They include: —<——__— THIS WEEK. as prizes for worker correspondence 1—Selected Essays by Karl Marx. A new book, and an unusual one of unpublished work of the great leader, 2—Red Cartoons. A collection of the work of 17 proletarian artists. 3—Education in Soviet Russia, by Soott Nearing. A new book and a splendid addition for your library. Write that story, workers! AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT FOR DECEMBER FILLED WITH MANY ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO WRITERS The December issue of The Ameri- can Worker Correspondent, the mar) gazine published by and for the Work- | er Correspondents in every factory, | mine, and mill in the country, is off) the press and is now being sent to} the worker correspondents, The cor- | respondents who have been anxiously | awaiting this edition will not be dis-; appointed, for the magazine is chuck fuii of interesting articles and news on the work of the correspondents | and on the movement as a whole. | The magazine ihis month is dedi- | cated to the workers in the toxtite mills in the United States, and urged | more textfle workers to join the grow- ing ranks of the worker correspon¢- | enis. The front page carries a pic-| ure showing textile workers at work, | ud with it is an appeal for more t¢x- ile wr'ters. | “The worker correspondent move- ment needs writers among the work- | ors in the textile mills,” says the ap- peal, “The American Worker Corre- spondent invites all textile toilers to join this growing movement of.ours to Write as You Fight!” Shows World Scope. A birdseye view of the scope the international worker correspohdent movement can be gained from the December magazine. A review of what workers are doing in Russia, Ger- many, Czecho-Slovakia and Belgium is a feature of the issue. Another feature is a story written for the ma- gazine, by a known Russian worker correspondEnt, telling how a beautiful building used as a synagog during the czar’s regime, is now used as a club for worker correspondents. A picture of the synagog accompanies the ar- ticle. There is another picture of a group of seamen correspondents on a Russian ship. Urged to Form Groups. An article by J. Louis Engdahil, edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER, urging the worker correspondents to form writer groups and pointing out the danger of the groups disintegrating because the “first bubble of enthusi- asm” dies away, should be of inter- est to every correspondent. Engdahl points gut that it is not necessary to have a trained instructor in journal- ism for worker correspondents to form classes and groups. “Few worker correspondents’ groups are fortunate in ‘having skilled writ- ers and lecturers to lead them. Wheth- er they do or not, they must develop sufficient stamina to keep going under any and all circumstances. All mem- bers of the group must be vital fac- tors in keeping it alive. Every cor- respondent must strive to be sufficient of a leader to head the group and help carry on the work whenever requir- ed,” the article says. Need Leadership, Engdahl urges all worker corre- spondents to form groups because of the help they can receive from groups. “An energetic worker can develop by himself,” he says, “but he should be able to develop more rapidly thru associating with other workers in a group, exchanging experiences, dis- cussing together, teaching each other, giving mutual encouragement. It is inevitable that the worker correspond- ent movement will be called upon to furnish the best fighters in labor’s struggles. Every worker correspond- ent should therefore consider it a high honor to be associated with oth- IN PITTSBURGH ON JANUARY 15 The Daily Worker Builders’ Club of Pitts- burgh has arranged a dance and entertain- ment at the International Socialist Lyceum at 805 James Street N.S. “'N. S."’ means. “no shirking” on the job. There will be a big crowd there, you will probably have to push your way in and you might even get crushed a little. But man—woman—and child—IT SURE WILL BE WORTH IT! WHAT ARE YOU—SLOVAK OR AN AMERICAN? If you are American read the fighting labor daily paper—The DAILY WORKER, If you cannot read English, Subseribe to the only Czecho- slovak workingclass dally paper in the United States and Canada— THE DAILY ROVNOST LUDU 1510 W. 18th Street, Chicago, Il. Subscription rates; By mail §| FHEDICAN WorKeD CORRESPONDENT ome We Fein hw, a nd tee Prine © Gants er worker writers in this movement and to struggle valiantly against all its weaknesses.” Hints to Writers. - An article on the worker corre- spondence page in The DAILY WORKER should be helpful to corre- spondents who contribute to this page and to those who have not yet con- tributed. This article stresses the ne- cossity for worker writers to send stories on American industrial’ condi- tions, as they find them, to the daily. It emphasizes the importance of ac- curacy in reporting events and condi- tions, and the importance of sending in the story before it gets “stale.” It also stresses the importance of getting facts, and all of the facts, about a happening in the story. The American Worker Correspond- ent yearly subscription is 60 cents. Single copies sell for 5 cents, and 3 cents for bundle orders. valuable magazine for the worker writer. Orders should be sent to “The American Worker Correspond- ent, 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chi- cago, Hl.” WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! CHICAGO CLASS IN WORKER CORRESPONDENCE GROWS, WORKERS CAN STILL JOIN The Chicago class in worker cor- respondence is growing in size, with new members joining each week. Workers who have not yet joined the class can still do so. The class meets every Friday night at 6:30 o'clock in. the editorial rooms of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Stimulus to the class members is added this week by the appearance of the December issue of The Amer- ican Worker Correspondent. Last Friday's session was spent in dis- cussing this magazine that is pub- lished by and for the worker cor- respondents thruout the country. The Chicago class will have a ma- jor part in pubfishing the maga- zine, and members have been as Signed special articles to write, This Will give them practical work in writing as well as helping build up the worker correspondence move- ment in the United States. Don’t forget the class this Fri- day night. All students and new are urged to come on it 6:30 o'clock. It is-an in- WYUARRER {ference of 25 labor, union officials lelected a committee to co-operate with the Paper Box Makers Union in call- Hing a conference on Dec, 18th at the |Labor Temple of delegates from the |labor movement to make a national \fight against the open sHop demanded | by the Paper Box Manufacturers. The committee, consisting of A, I. | Shiplacoff of the Pocket Book Work- jers Union; John P. Burke of the In- |ternational Brotherhood of Pulp Sul- |phite and Paper Mill Workers; | Herskowitz Of ythe Capmakers Join’ (Council; S. Ey Beardsley of Local 1, \Jewelry Workers’ Union, and I. Corn jof the HebréW Butchers Union, will | also endeavor to raise money in the | time between, pow and the calling of {the conference, Pledges of & definite sum to be LABOR-UNION OFFICIALS UNITETO — (| HELP STRIKING PAPER BOX MAKERS | 4 1G NEW YORK.—aA preliminary con-|paid to thewunion every week as long | as the strike lasts were made on the floor by the union officials present. | | “The Paper Box Makers union is a beacon light in the New York labor |movement,” said A. Caproroe of Local | | 17, of the Jewelry Workers Union. “The | rank and file, the majority of whom are young girls, are unusually active {in the strike,” he continuerd, saying |further that they enthusiastically do | |all the work that a strike requires and | |do not leave it all to the leaders, | “We ought to look to these workers | for a precedent in future battles | jagainst great odds. The labor move- | ment cannot afford to lose a union) that is putting up such a brave fight) jagainst five employers’ associations | which have banded together for this | fight for the open shop and for the} ‘complete breakup of the union,” _| ‘BREAKING CHAINS’ TO BE SHOWN HERE AGAIN 10 || ACCOMMODATE OVERFLOW International Workers’ Aid an- nounces that ‘the 3,000 people who could not be accommodated at the Friday night Showing of “Breaking Chains” will soon have the opportu- nity of seeing:the picture. Because of the great demand as displayed by the eagerness of those who could not get in to see “Breaking Chains,” a special arrangement will be made for another showing some time be- tween the 15th and 25th of De- cember, All those desiring tod see the pic- ture are requested to watch this paper for further announcements. The |, W. A. also desires to take this opportunity of stating that it regrets the Inconvenlence caused to those who spent some time In the crowd outsid® the theater and finally had to leave because of lack of seat- 1853 W. Madison street, room 803, Debate Capitalism at Chicago*Forum Meet, Nearing to Take Part a A debate omothe fundamental prin- ciples of soctalism will-be conducted by the Chicagé Forum:for its regular meeting on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 19, at Orchestra Mall. The questiow for debate will be “Is Capitalism a Menace to Democracy?” Scott Nearing will be the affirmative speaker, * * The negative Will be taken by Prof. James E, LeRossignol, dean of the Col- lege of Business’ Administration and professor of egenomics in the Univer- sity of Nebraska; He is the author of several weeks arguing against social- ist theory ands practice. Bee se CNN Alton Shépmen Begin Fight to::Haye Union Recognized by Company BLOOMINGTON, Il, Dec. 6.—Fail- ure to receive. reply after the ten-day limit to their request for a conference on a new schedule of pay and working conditions, the newly organized Fed- eration of Chicago and Alton Shop Employes filed an appeal to the board of mediation, as provided in the Wat- son-Parker bill, first of shop crafts to take this action. 4 The shopmen recently repudiated the: “rump” union forced on them by the company after the 1922 strike. They are now organized under the A. F. of L. and are demanding such recognition. Paul Claudet Named Envoy to Washington PARIS—The appointment of Paul Claudel to succeed Senator Henri Ber- enger as ambassador at Washington, is announced by Foreign Briand, bassador to Japan. The appointment is regarded as pleasing to Washington. YOUNG ENAMEL WORKERS CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINS T CROW INJUNCTION By a Worker Correspondent, BELLEVILLE, Il, The strike in the Roesch and Belleville Enamel Works is still going on, Scabs are being recruited from various parts of the country, As far as the police are concerned this is a second Passaic. There are 250 workers involved, most of them young boys and girls and they are gaining the admiration of the coal miners because of their solidarity. They all say they won't go back to work without the recognition of the union, Brutal Injunction, However they have a brutai injunc- tion to busk up against and recently the bosses tool, Judge Crow, Ed Car- bine, the leader of the strike was sen- tenced to 4 months of prison because he led the pickets despite the injune- tion, Also 29 young strikers were fined Gor. $80 to $360 oF 20 daze to said that it won't be any worse in jail than going batk to work without the union and unger the old miserable conditions, Now they are out on an appeal to the’ direult court. Case of Justice, Take this instance of the justicé that these young strikers got. Esther Krim is a girl 15 years old” who de- spite the state laws against working under age had already worked eight months and walked out with the rest on strike,, While walking down the street she looked thru a store window and saw two scab girls buying a dress, She just stopped and watched them and for this was arrested and fined $60 and costs by Judge Crow for in- timidation, But these strikers are sticking to- gether and calling for the support of organized labor. The whole Illinois Minister Claudel formerly was am- Clergymen Ask Paper Box Strikers to Give Their Case to Public NEW YORK, Dec. 6— The Paper Box Makers’ union has received a let- ter from the Rev. Frank A. Hunger of Spring street Presbyterian church, signed by several prominent clergy- men inviting the union to send a rep- resentative to a public hearing to be held at the Stuyvesant Neighborhood House to state the union side of the general strike, which is now entering its ninth week. The Paper Box Man- ufacturers’ Association has received a similar invitation. Those appending their signatures are Dr. Charles “Ross, Washington Square M. BH. Church; Rev. T.. Guthrie Speers, First Presbyterian Church; Rey. Frank A. Hunger, Spring street Presbyterian Church; Rev. Lawrence T. Hosie, Judson Memorial Church; Miss Lydia Danning, Stuyvesant Neighborhood House, and Dr. W. Rus- sell Bokie, Grace Episcopal Church. The union has notified Mr. Hunger that its side will be represented by Manager Fred Caiola and Harriet a pT Oe have received tick- | ‘V'@¥ secretary of the strike com- ets by mail and have not paid for mittee. them as yet are urgently requested ‘. to make settlément without delay at Employment Figures in Cleveland Give Lie to “Prosperity” CLEVELAND, Dec, 6.—While the prosperity howlers are raising their voices to the skies people who know what the situation is are pulling the ground out from under them, B. C. Seiple, superintendent of the City-State Free Employment Bureau, points out that there has been a de crease of 27 per cent in employment placements from those of October and 17.6 per cent decrease from November, 1925, This is causing considerable alarm in Cleveland, since there is little hope of a change for the better. Men bore the brunt of the drop, their share being 21 per cent; that of the women being 9 per cent. Seiple believes that the situation will become far worse as the winter years on. The steel industry has reduced pro- duction to 70 per cent, with a likely drop to even 60 per cent of capacity. The auto industry 1s hard hit, and Ford is the first to manifest it. Build- ing operations are particularly hit in Cleveland. Worker Near Death From Starvation in “Prosperous U. S. A.” SEATTLE, Dec, 6.—Striking miuers | in England often stay in bed because | of weakness from lack of food but here in prosperous United States, William Taylor, 62, for 34 years a resident of Seattle’ was taken to the city hospital suffering from a break- down due to starvation, He had been looking for a job but had found all doors closed in his face with the statement that he was “too old.” Women Carpet Workers Strike to Gain. Back Former Wage Scales CLINTON, Mass., Dec. 6.—Seventy women and girl workers at Bigelow Hartford Carpet Co. are striking for restoration of their old wage scales. The workers object to the new set- ting frames the company has install- ed, altho the company claims they can make as much money on these frames as on the old. The remaining out of these workers will tie up the rest of the factory. Longshoremen Win 44 Hours in Year Contract BOSTON, Dec, 6,—(FP)—Boston longshoremen win the 44-hour week in the new 12-month agreement reached between the International Longshore- men’s Association and the steamship and stevedore companies. Hours are cut from 48. The Boston men are now on a par with the longshoremen in other northern ports. Wages remain practically the same as before, with 80 cents an hour for straight time and $1.20 for overtime. Work during meal*hours brings $2.40 an hour, Wighty-flye cents is paid for rage rive. ore eee The Manager’s Corner rr rr rr er rn nn np ores “THE NEWS—SO THAT HE WHO RUNS MAY READ,” is the caption above a special column in one of the leading metro- politan dailies of the country. Here we find predigested into a line or two the news of each important event, so that the movie fiend, the jazz hound, the baseball fan, and the lounge lizzard may get it at one painless gulp. Such columns are familiar to the average capitalist daily. With their aid the ruling class seeks to develop among the workers, an attitude of ready accept- ance of its propaganda, an uncritical, unquestioning and super- ficial attitude toward life and its problems. “THE NEWS—SO THAT HE WHO TOILS MAY UNDER- STAND,” is the motto of The DAILY WORKER. For this rea- son The DAILY WORKER seeks to give not only an accurate account of the facts of concern to labor, but also a clear, working class interpretation of them. But the management of The DAILY WORKER is not con- tent with that. The physical limits of a daily paper do not permit @ full.analysis of each problem, and a thoro discussion of its wn- derlying significance. We wish to encourage the workers who read our paper to go further, to follow up the news, with a care- ful study of the underlying principles and causes of the given situation. This can be done only by reading the proper literature on the subject. The reading of such a book as Dolsen’s “Awaken ing of China” is indispensable for a correct understanding of the wonderful movement which is now developing in China. In the. field of international finance, Lenin's stone’s “American Imperialism,” Neaging’s “Dollar Diplomacy” are valuable aids with which to follow with intelligence the most recent events. A knowledge of the facts coupled with a knowl- edge of the principles of Marxism and Leninism, this is the un conquerable weapon which we aim to equip the working class for the struggle for its emancipation, FORD FIGHTS UNIONIZING OF AUSTRALIAN PLANT, BUT WORKERS ARE ORGANIZING MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 6. —(FP)—Following the example of Ford factories in the United States, the management of the Ford factor- ies in Austrialia is opposed to hav- ing their workers unionized. At the Ford works at Geelong, near Mel- bourne, the management refused to allow union organizers to mix with the men in the factories during the lunch hour—a thing conceded by every other employer thruout Aus- | tralla. | However, the Ford men are being steadily organized, and whether | Henry Ford Iikes it or not, his Aus- tralian slaves. will carry union cards and medals. Incidentally, the Ford plant near Melbourne works a 48-hour week, and has refused to put a 44-hour week into operation. SOS | “Imperialism,” Love: Fifteen Thousand Unorganized Workers on Strike- | now in the ranks of organized labor. Co-operation Meaning Twisted at Wisconsin Read this great accom- Farmers’ Convehtion plishment and story of the long struggle— ASHLAND, Wis., Dec. 6.—Reaction and lickspittling marked the opening sessions of the American Society of Equity, Wisconsin farm organization, now meeting here. “Co-operation” means co-operation with the business men as well as be- tween farmers, as the Equity: under stands the slogan, the delegates were told by George Weiner, delegate from Munroe county. This was apparently eniterion of the atmosphere of the meeting. Tributes were paid to Sen. LaFollette, and speeches were made urging the farmer to vote, A fight is scheduled on the ques- tion of merging the Equity with the Farmers Union. Passaic by Albert Weisbord 15 Cents The Daily Worker Pub. Co. 11138 W. Washington Bivd., CHICAGO, ILL. Cotapeny Union Losing Out on I. R. T.,; Shea Tells Gotham Labor NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Company un- ions, especially those established by the Interborough Rapid Transit Co, came under the fire of the, Central Trades and Labor Assembly of great- er New York when P, J, Shea, dele- gate from the Amalagamated Associ- ation of Street and Electric Railway Employes, reported. She said that his union was making progress in its efforts to ynionize subway workers in the bona fide organization and he thot it. would not be long until the poor working conditions under which these men work would be remedied. IN PHILADELPHIA There are only two places to eat— HOME AND AT Hartung’s Restaurant 610 Spring Garden St. Home Open from 6. a. m Cooking. to 7 p.m. ~ GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, Use your brains and your pen to ald the workers in the class struggle. LOS ANGELES, CAL. ——- A Chicago ‘CONCERT AND DANCE to KEEP THE DAILY WORKER Fs Step over to enjoy the Russian Buffet with pamovar, chai and other goo® things. HEAR Manya Maller, soprano Lyda Berline, violinist Mennie Marschak, pianist I. Dobkin, baritone Zina Skvirskaya, pianist Ivan Polkoy, baritone SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 WORKERS’ HOUSE, Federation of Labor should wake up to the need famsupporting this strug- Glo for the union and & raise in pay. ih WRITE AS YOU FIGHTL straight time work at bulk cargo, Cah 1902 W. Division Street | Admission 50 Cents