The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1926, Page 6

Page Six CHE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Publ hed by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. on Blvd,, Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per yea 4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months hree months $2.00 three months ——— catumidba Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, ; eadiedeuretes fa seems Editors, LIAM F, DU \NE T MILLER ... Business Manager ss mail September 21, 19 at the post-office at Chi- >, I, under the act of March 3, 1879. Entered as second-c ca Advertising rates on application, ES Next Tuesday Is an Important Day for Coal Miners Next Tuesday the.members of the United Mine Workers of ‘America, the largest union in the American labor movement, will vote for two sets of candidates fot the leading offices of the organ- ization. We say “vote for” instead of “elect” because there is plenty of evidence that for a number of years the membership has not elected the officials of the union but that the Lewis machine has perpetuated dtself in office thru methods which make Vare of Pennsylvania and Smith of Illinois turn green with envy. To the present day, President Lewis has never dared, as (provided by the constitution of the union, to publish the tabulated Mist of votes cast in the last election by local unions. There have even been statements made in moments of personal conversation with confidants by members of the Lewis machine to the effect that Lewis was defeated by Voysey, who until the last election, was un- known outside of his own sub-district. When it is known that in the last election it was possible for ‘the Lewis machine to vote all three anthracite districts as a bloc bgiving the left wing slate something like 300 votes of 150,000, the marrow base of the Lewis machine among the rank and file becomes ‘apparent. The coal miners of the United States and Canada are tired of and disgusted with Lewis and his destructive policies. The union {has lost 200,000 members—or more—during the: last two years of “his rule. Decisive sections like West Virginia where there were once flourishing districts with a minimum membership of 40,000, now has ‘400 members. Kentucky, Tennessee and western Pennsylvania are ‘practically unorganized. In the anthracite the coal companies, following the signing of {an agreement jammed down the throats of the miners by the Lewis ‘machine, are openly challenging the union without an effective reply being made by the Lewis machine. The Hudsen Coal company refuses to let union officials collect dues on its property and the Glen Alden company posts notices an- nouncing a nine-hour day. Under the Lewis administration, the coal produced in union mines has dropped from 78 per cent to 30 per cent of the total pro- duction. The Jacksonville agreement expires next spring and the union must either strike or surrender. ~~ Unless the non-union miners, now producing 70 per cent of the coal, can be brought out on strike with the union, the operators will bury the union under an avalanche of non-union coal. Tricking and deserting striking miners in West Virginia and western Pennsylvania, the Lewis machine has lost the confidence of thousands of former members of the union. Lewis at the head of the United Mine Workers has become an actual danger to the life of the union which next spring has to get ‘support of the non-union fields if it is to win. Lewis must not be allowed to juggle the votes and slip into control again. Then comes the struggle for delegates to the con- ‘vention and then the fight to save the union in spite of Lewis and the coal barons. ~The miners’ union is the backbone of the labor movement. must not be beaten. Next Tuesday such a vote against the Lewis policy of destruc- tion must be rolled up that the whole labor movement will know that ‘the coal miners of this continent want an honest, militant leader- “ship such as that represented by John Brophy, William Stevenson and William Brennan who head the “Save the Union” ticket. It may be that the future of the whole labor movement for the next immediate period depends upon the result of the election in the miners’ union next Tuesday. With their record of years of bitter and bloody struggle for the building of their union, the coal miners will not shirk their responsibility. It NEGRO HOUSECLEANER WINS AWARD FOR OIL PAINTINGS; OTHERS GET PRIZES FROM HARMON FOUNDATION NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—The Harmon won with an original plan of adapting Foundation announces the first of a{rural school programs to needs of series of annua) awards to Negroes of |Negroes in country districts in the American residence for outstanding |Southern States. Arthur A. Schom- creative work during the past year, In| burg, 50, of New ‘York, was second various departments of activity: Juries |for his collection of literary material of five-apecialists in the type of work |on Negro life and history. being considered, passed on the en- The well-known poet, Countee Cul- tries in each division. len, 28, New York, took first prize in In fine arts, the first award went |literature for his volume of poems, to Palmer ©. Hayden, a housecleaning |“Color.” The sécond award went to jobber in Greenwich Village, for five | another well-known writer, James oil paintings of water scenes, While making his living doing odd work in general cleaning he has devoted his spare time for several years to paint- ing, and previous to this award his work was unknown except to a small group of friends, Hayden was born in Widewater, Va., is 33 years old, and lives at 29 Greenwich avenue, New York. The second award in this class went to Hale Woodruff, 26, of Indian- apolis, for five paintings. James C, Evans, 26, of Miami, Fla., won in the field of science for two theses for a degree from Massachu- setts Institute of Technology. The second prize was won by W. A, Daniel, $1,*Atlanta, Ga., for a social study, “The Education of the Negro Mints- ter.” In odueation, middle-age walked away from youth, Virginia Estelle “Randolph, 61, of Hanover county, Va., bit Weldon Johnson, New York, for edi- torial work on Negro spirituals. In business, the first award went to Cc, C, Spaulding, Durham, N. C., for work in developing a life insurance company for Negroes and other finan cial enterprises. A building con- tractor, A, A. Alexander, Des Moines, lowa, came second, In religion, Max Yergan, 34, Raleigh, N. C., won first award, with the sec- ond going to Bishop John Hurst, 63, Baltimore, The single award of $500 for the person, white or, colored, making an outstanding contribution toward rela- tions between the two races was given to Will W, Alexander, 42, of Atlanta, Ga,, executive director of the com- mission on interracial co-operation, The jury in the department 6f mustc held that no original creative work was submitted worthy of an award, | | Win the Women for Communism! By MARGARET COWL. Beep sae work among in our party has been moving as with leaden feet. With the exception of some work done among housewives we can register few results. We must examine the reasons why the work has not made progress, Among the several reasons for the slowness to gain results is that in- stead of building the party apparatus simultaneously with work to be per- formed, we left this important sphere of work to the most inexperienced sec- tion of the party—the housewives, By not giving utmost attention to work among the women in the factories from the very start proves that we did not fully understand the nature of Communist work among women. We have now given this latter work the- oretical recognition and there are in- dications that the party is seriously planning to properly place work among women in shops and trade unions. - Many Don’t Understand. HBRE are still quite a number of comrades, specially womei com- rades active in the trade unions who have not gotten rid of the “tiouse- wife character” of work among the women. Even now, when we are at- tempting to build the party apparatus for women’s work, almost in every in- stance it is necessary to explain to the comrades that women’s work is a part of the géneral party work and that the most important part of Com- munist work among women is the work among the women in the fac- tories and trade unions as the more important section of the working class women, therefore, women’s work is not.to be limited to the wom- en comrades who do not work in the factories for a wage. Out of this ide- ological confusion we are slowly evolving into systematically planned work, with purposeful leadership. ‘E comrades on the District Ex- ecutive Committee of the Party in New York are now paying more atten- tion to Communist work among wom- en and have placed work in the shops and the trade unions as the first or- der for this work. The work is now recognized as an important depart- ment of the party by the leading par ty committees in New York. Our task now is to carry this understanding down to the ranks in the party, Party Apparatus. le our ‘practical work among the housewives it has been proven that unless we build the party apparatus, unless we furnish the motor power, the entire works will not move in the lirection we want it to. Much en- orgy spent by a few comrades result- 2d in a splend{d organization in one instance, but the entire work went under because the party members were not mobilized to give it life. In New York the D. B. C. has built up a district committee for work among women under the direct super- vision of the D. E. C. of the party. The executives of some of the com- mittees of the subsections of the par- ty have appointed one of their mem- bers to be responsible for work among the women. The units in the party have not yet appointed com- rades for this task. No plans of ac- tual work have been submitted to the subsections, that is why the party has not functioned in this work. How- ever, these plans are being drawn up by the District Women's Committee. Organization. HE District Women’s Committee has subdivided itself into three main sections with a chairman for each subdivision: 1. Work among the women in the shops and the trade unions. 2. Work among the house- wives and non-party organizations. 3. Educational and Research Commit- tee. Each subdivision has been in- structed to enlarge itself by drawing in comrades interested in the different work. The District Women’s Commit- tee meets twice monthly where the reports and the plans for future work by the subcommittees are taken up. The District Womens’ Committee calls conferences of party subsection func- tionaries on work among the women thru the party district office where a representative of the Party D. EB. C. is one of the speakers. The party sub- section functionaries tor work among women call meetings of similar func- tionaries from the lower units of their party subsection where a representa- tive of the District Women’s Commit- tee is present. Forms and methods for mass work for every party unit and especially for the shop nuclei are the chief points on the order of busi- nesg at these subsection meetings. The apparatus as described is ab- solutely necessary within the frame- work of the party if we are to win he masses of women away from the lomination of the bourgeoisie and nobilize them for the struggles of the vorkers and bring the best of them into the party. Work in Shops and Trade Unions, | au party fraction in the trade unions appoints a comrade ‘as head of women’s work. Machinery form this work {s established as fol- lows: The subcommittee for work among women in the shops and the trade unions which consists of sever- al members of the District Women's Committee calls a conference thru the Party Industrial Department of the heads for women’s work from all the women party fraett in the trade unions, party subse organizers for work emong id comrades in large unorgan! where there are no shop nuclei. This conference elects several comrades who together with the subcommittee make up the exe- cutive commiitee for work among the women in the shops and the trade un- ions. This committee ts subordinate to the District Women’s Committee. These conferences are called periodic- ally, The conference divides its work into two main parts:\ lh Among the women in the trade unions. 2. Among women in unorganized industries. Special Means Necessary. HSIDES the work based on the spe- cific situation in the given trade union, special means’ of approach to women must be mapped out for stir- ring the women in the: trade unions into activity to organize the unorgan- ized women; create sentiment and ac- tivity for national and world trade un- ion unity; labor party; for a work- ing women's delegation to Soviet Rus- sia; to get the womer into the left wing and into the trade unions. Such insignificant numbers of women are in the trade unions, suéh small nufn- bers are in the left wing movement, which proves that a spécial means of approach is necessary. Simultaneous with the above, forms and methods of work must be plan- ned for work thru thé left wing in the trade unions. We must strive to es- tablish a women’s department in the official publication of. the left wing movement. f Some of the issues for work among the women in factories should be: Unemployment, wages, hours of work, legislation for the protection of work- ‘ng women, equal pay for equal work, child labor, struggle for demands and organization into trade unions, pro- tection of the mother, etc. Each shop nuclous must know the conditions of women in its shop, the needs and demands of the women and base its work accordingly. Out of this work must come the or- ganization of women’s factory circles. These circles are non-party organiza- tions. The shop nucleus functions thru these circles. Women’s Delegate Meetings. fs Welder! some agitation and propa- ganda ig carried on thru these circles a women’s delegate meeting is called of representatives from shops, factories, trade unions and housewives organizations, Thes@ delegate meet- ings must be periodical with the same delegates attending for at least six months in succession, The delegates report back to their electors on the work of the meetings, These meetings are not purely for ganizing the un- organized women into the trade un- ions as some comrades believe; the women’s delegate meet! 3 are a politi- cal institution. The een delegate meetings are an im fant factor in Communist Work a: “women, The party must conduct an ideological campaign tq popularize and acquaint the comrades with the ‘ature and sig- nifleance of women's delegate meet- ings, We will be confronted with the organization of these meetings, there- fore must understand them thoroly. It is not so easy to organize delegate meetings. We must first gain contact with women workers dn shops, espe- cially in important shops. We must work, otherwise do much preliminary our delegate meetings success, Organize Correspondents, For this purpose we must organize a cadre of women worker correspond- ents (party and non-party) to publish a bulletin to reflect the life of the wo- men in the factories, This bulletin must~be distributed to women in fac- tories and must help to secure contact with the women in the shops and fac- tories. It must contain the actual and true condition of the women in the shops. This bulletin must serve the purpose of paving the way for women’s delegate meetings. Shop nuclei, fac- tory district nuclei and trade unions must especially be interested in the getting up and distribution of the bulletin. The housewives also can be utilized in the distribution of this bulletin to the women,jn the factories, Work Among Housewives. HE housewife does ‘not take direct activé part in thé Class struggle, but nevertheless is at important fac- tor in the struggle ‘of the workers. She is an influence upon the activities of the husband and the lives of the children, If properly“&pptoached the DR. CADMAN, CHURCE (Special to The Dally Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 7.— “Modern civilization has brotoe upon society more evils than the;ychurches have been able to cure. This is simply an explanation of crime waves, godless theory, dirty drama, sex obsessions, and profiteering,” said Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of the Federal Council of Churches, calmly passing by modern criminology, behaviorlsm, the mechan- istic theory of conduct, and the econo- mic interpretation of history, with nearly everything else that pertains to moderh thot, f ee are some gleanings from his t : The success ot nrobibition will de- send on the churches’ ability to edu- cate the individual conscience. The majority of “ ent” people will admit that ch ity is the oniy hope of cure jal and in- dustrial evila, WMH Ey housewife can be made an aide in the class struggle on the side of the work- ors, The forms of work are the house- wives’ circles organized in the neigh- borhood on some specific issue as high rents, poor housing, schools, high prices, ete. Or an issue evolving from a strike like helping to combat scab- bery, relief work, against injunctions to picket, etc. It is surprising what success is achieved in organizing the housewife on these issues, The more dificult task is to keep the housewife organized, This success will depend the necessary plans,of work for these organizations, Women's Auxiliaries, NOTHER important question in regard to the housewife that will have to come up in the near future is the organization and work of wo- men’s auxiliaries in the trade unions and the organization of wives and re- latives of workers around the fac- tories and shops where these workers are employed. It is our experience that proletarian housewives detest the word “house- wife.” This is a reaction to the in- tolerable drudgery conditions of the proletarian housewife. We should consider the question of whether it would be better to find new termino- logy for this work. The housewife circles that have been organized send delegates to a district periodical meeting which elects an executive committee to con- duct the work in the district. The housewives sub-committee of the party district women’s committee directs this work, Mobilize Into United Front. ANY comrades seek for some spe- cia] issues to start women’s work, The work can very well be started by Mnking it up with the general campaigns put forth by the party. One of the immediate tasks is to acquaint ourselves with the psychol- ogy of American working women; we must know the role played by Amer- ican working women in the American class struggle; we must know .what industries the women work in and their needs and demands. Some of this information we will get thru our work among the women, but the re- search department of the party must help in getting this data. The Final Result. IMMUNIST work among the wo- men must finally result in organ- izing the women into the organiza- tions of the working class and espe- cially into the trade unions and the more conscious of them into the party. The special forms of organization set OF FEDERAL COUNCIL OF ES, TELLS WHAT AILS US ALL up for women’s work must be con- sidered only as a special means to approach the masses of women, to in- clude them into large sections of the united front of the working class and the struggle against capitalism. Party National Conference. IOMMUNIST work among women is a new field of work. Comrades should be encouraged to write up their experiences in this work and publish same in the party press so that other sections of the party may profit from these experiences, There are not as yet “specialists” on women’s work in the party. One of the best ways to work out policies and plang for this work is the con- vocation of a national conference of heads for work among women, It is the important task of the party to call such a conference. Books for the Worker’s Shelf PROGRESS AND POVERTY, by . Henry George. 211 pages. Pub- lished by Vanguard Press, Inc., 80 Fifth Ave., New York City. 50 cents. The long-held tradition of the family of Henry George that no abridgment of his writings should be permitted was abandoned a short time ago, and a somewhat condensed form of “Prog- ress and Poverty” was prepared. It is this abridgment which has now been re-issued, by the Vanguard’ Press in a cheaper edition, There can be no doubt that this will lead to a wider reading of his works, The fault with the League of Na- tions is that nations have not kept step with the individual’s “noble zeal @nd devotion,” and the league has,had to endure “the relentless opposition and studied neglect of many states- men and political bodies professing Christianity.” The world’s deepest need is not po- iitics, nor democracy, but religion— which, with a slight variation would meet Mussolini's approval. The clergymen who are preaching the doctrine of repentance are doing better service for church and state than those giving their time “to this or that reform.” largely on the capability of the Dis- trict Women’s Committee to map out | did frame game. it folks can never ai A NEW NOVEL Gon Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) Bunny was startled. “Is that really true, Mr, Roscoe? Have you been able to buy the oil workers’ of- ficials?” Verne hitched himself a few inches across the desk, and stuck a large finger at Bunny’s face, “Kiddo,” he said, “get this straight: I can buy any officials, just the same ag I can buy any politicians, or anykody else that a bunch of boobs can elect to office. And I know what you're thinking—here’s an old cow-puncher, without any fine ideals, and he’s got a barrel o’ money and thinks he can do anything he pleases with it. But that ain’t the point,. my: boy—it's because I had the. brains to make the money, and I got the brains to use it, Money ain’t.power till it’s used, and the reason I can buy power is because men. know I can use it—or else, by Jees, they wouldn't sell it to me. ‘You get that?” “Yes, but what are you going to do with the power, Mr, Roscoe?” “I'm going to find oil and bring it to the top of the ground and refine it and sell it to whoever’s got the price.. So long as. the, world needs oil, that’s my job; and when they can get along without oil, I'll do something else, .And if anybody wants a share in that job, let him do like I done, get out and sweat, and work, and play the game.” “But, Mr. Roscoe, that’s hardly practical advice for all the workers. Everybody can’t be an operator.” “No, kiddo, you bet your boots they can’t—only them that’s got the brains. The rest have to work; and if they work for me, they'll get fair wages, and the money will be there every Saturday night for them, no matter how much worrying and planning I got to do. But when some feller comes along with the gift of gab, and. sticks himself in between me and my men, and says I can't deal with them except by pay- ing him a rake-off, why then I say, “The jute mill for him!’” Iv. The thing. that Bunny carried away from this interview was Ver- non Roscoe's final appeal. “Can't you see, boy, that your father’s a sick man? You're not going to have him with you many years more, and some day when it’s too late you're going to wake up and realize what you done to him. That old man ain’t had a thought in the world but to make things easier for you; you can say he shouldn’t if you want to, but all the.same, that’s what he lived for.. And now—now you're spittin’ on his life! Yes, just that, and you might as well face it. Everything he’s done has been no good, it’s all crooked and dirty, and the only people with any ideals or any rights on their side are a bunch of ne’er-do-wells that hate him be- cause he’s made good and they never will, And if you think the old man don’t feel that, if you don’t know it’s eating his heart out—well, you take it from me, and get your eyes open before it’s too late. If you got to despise your father’s money, for Christ’s sake wait till this labor struggle actually came to a head? So Bunny went out from the of- fice, he was not thinking about the troubles of the oil workers. Was it true that Dad’s health was so bad? And wasn’t there some way he could be got to stop working so hard? Was it necessary for him to be on hand and see every new well that Ross Consolidated brought in, whether it was at. Lobos River or Paradise or Beach City? And what was going to happen to Dad when tig labor struggle actually came to + head? P Barly in the spring the union lead- ers held a conference, and served notice on the oil board that the de- fiance of government authority by the operators was beyond endur- ance; either the board must assert its authority, or else the workers would take the matter, into their own hands. The board did nothing; and when the. union officials ad- dressed letters, to, the operators’ committee the letters. were ignored, A strike was inevitable; and the longer it was postponed, the worse for the men, (Continued tomorrow.) quite The open shop in churches now is smelly row, Episcopals in’ red, because the Roman Ro- ta sed, the hitch-up which that church int good accordin’ to the In fact, tho 30 ye: had run, with fruit of daughter and a son, the marriage wuz just one big stall, and they was never wed a-tall.\ So bishop Manning tears his hair and all Episcopalians swear, asayin’ that the Roman craft Just otta stay on its own raft, and honor marital con- strictions instedda oy, tions, ¢ iy juriadic. 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