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

age Four THE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party _ *ACTIONAL STRIFE FRACTION IS DONE AWAY WITH AND _ | ORGANIZATION HARMONY IS GAINED NEW YORK, De ere, was an impor 21—The t step conv towards ionalism of two yéars which lately r The diseus: delegates efinitely put to an end. manimous vote of the { ywoving that. Conditions More Intolerable. Altho the struggle within the Hun- varian fraction was on different issue: han the one formerly within the par- y, nevertheless it was connected with he process of Bolshevization we are imdergoing now. The minority, con- ‘isting mostly of comrades with so- vlal-lemocratic tendencies and trad fons, presented besides a wrong at- itude on political questions a certain ‘esistance to centralized leadership, © the absolute party control in out- side organizations. This was especial- ty dangerous in the fraternal organ Hon of 5,000 members, where minority wanted to use its contro] of the executive board as a club against the party leadership. The personal abuses, the reckless factionalism, which almost threatened with a split, made the situation intolerable, Weinstone Talks. W. W. Weinstone, the C. E. C. rep- resentative, analyzed in his report the Hungarian situation in the light of the struggle our party went thru re- ently. “The convention of the party, held 14 months ago, found us in a situation similar to that of the Hun- garian fraction. With the help of the C. I, the danger was averted, the correct Hine found and the party is more unt- fied now than ever before. It is not an easy task to eliminate the faction- alism of the 6 years’ existence of our party,” said Weinstone, “but we are on the right road. Altho we have a the few sore spots within the party, we! have reached the point when we can gay: Unity within, achievements out-| side.” Reaching Masses. “The party is reaching to the masses now. The thousands of our party mem- bers are faced with the task of win- ning the leadership of the millions of workers. Passaic, the needle trade the miners’ campaign and the savage attack of the bosses and right wing la- bor leaders are proving this. We Com- ,|the past, to receive everybody with | |Famous Dancer Wal | Entertain at Workers’ School Xmas Affair IN HUNGARIAN ention of the Hungarian fraction, held |the famous danseuse, has been secur the unification of our party. The fac-|¢4 by the committee as one of the en- aq |tertainment features of the Workers’ ‘eached unpermissible proportions, was |School Ball to be held on Christmas sion and the decisions reached by the | Eve, Her numbers include the East from every part of the country are|indian “Nautch” and an Algerian bap | Street Dance. takes and to break away from the right | The event is the annual Christmas wing. The party is ready to forget | Eve ball of the Workers’ School to be held at the New Star Casino, 107 open arms, who admit their mistakes |St. near Park ae on this Friday and who are ready to correct them by_| Might, December 2 following the line of the party. In or-| Admission to the ball with enter der to solve the big problems of “the | ‘inment features included, is $1.00. Jungarian fraction, the work between | The entire student body of the he unorganized steel, textile, rubber, School 1s being mobilized for the sale auotomobile workers, etc., the amal-|f tickets and the preparation of en- gamation of all the Hungarian soci-|tettainment features and not only has eties, the fight against Horthyism, the |the largest available hall been secured building up of the Uj Blore, the or. | Dut an additional hall in the same ganization of workers’ clubs, the de-|>uilding is being arranged for. fense of the foreign-born workers and| The Workers’ School holds only one participation in all the campaigns of| bie affair a year and that is the big the party, we need the fullest co-|Christmas Eve dance. The working nm of everybody with a real|©l@ss organizations of New York City , within the Hungarian fraction,” |¥Te already accustomed to this insti- | tution and no rival affairs are arranged Agree With C. E. C. Report. + york for that The discussion which followed the| aay. Dosross've workers [or report of the C. E. C, representative in which most of the delegates partic- ipated, showed that the convention is} in full agreement with the report. Comrades from every important indus- trial section of tha country showed the possibilities of work, the need of unity, pointing out to the respon- Celebrate Expansion, This year, the dance is in the na- ture o fa celebration of the rapid ex- pansion of the school which makes it the largest working class educational institution in the entire country and one of the largest in the world. | NEW YORK, Dec, 21. — “Dorsha,” | L ‘ The Cause of Poverty sibilities of the minority for the fac- tional situation and their neglect to do constructive work, while they were in power. Tha resolution-on the C. E. C. report condemning factionalism and showing the future tasks of the fraction was accepted unanimously. Many of the comrades from the minority made statements recognizing | thefer mistakes and offering their full support to the party. It is really a deplorable defect that Good Work. |we foreign-born workers, especially After the discussion on the C. E. C.| Women, do not write more about our By MAIJU NURMI, | Secretary of the Finnish Women’s Sections of Minnesota District of the Workers (Communist) Party. Article I. |report a report was made on the work |of the bureau and on the tasks of the fraction. In spite of the struggle | which took most of the energy, the fraction has done fairly good work. | The membership, which after reorgan- | ization dropped to 250, was raised to 536, more than last year. Twenty-one | new fractions have been formed, espe- | activities in our American daily. Thru our daily we could speak to each other, tell about our efforts, our strug- gles, our achievements. Thus we could make our experience and knowl- edge gained in the class struggle a mutual benefit. Well, at least we are now getting over the hitherto prevail ing fractionalism that has prevented munists alone have to lead the fight /cially in the so far much neglected |"S from attempting to get in closer against the most powerful capitalist class in the world and against the worst labor bureaucrats. Unity needed everywhere. The Hungarian Yeaction has to establish unity in or- der to work outside, between the masses, in their organizations, build- ing the leadership and the prestige of the Communist,Party.” Analyzes Factionalism. Weinstone then went to the analysis of the factionalism within the Hun- garian fraction. Altho the last con- vention settled the main political dif ferences and elected a parity bureau with neutral comrades, the struggle did not come to a close. After discussing every phase of the factional struggle, Weinstone called upon those comrades within the minority, whom he considers as being loyal to the party, to admit their mis- CHICAGO! Remember INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE Xmas Party and Dance Benefit Political Prisoners t WEST END WOMEN’S HALL Ashland and Monroe Friday Eve., Dec. 24th Entertainers: Manya Maller - - ~ Soprano Alex Kotoff - - Folk Dancer M. Dobkin - - - - Baritone Russian String Orchestra Dickerson’s Dance Orchestra Fine Buffet Grab Bag Xmas Tree Package Auction Bring a package to be sold for the benefit of a class-war prisoner to the ) affair, or to 23 South Lincoln Street. Auspices: Chicago Local I. L. D. FRIDAY is | | Pittsburgh district, where many Hun- |garian workers live. | Young Comrades Aid. | | This result is mostly due to a few |young comrades from New York, who | after a short course went out to the| country and plunged with full force | |into the mass work. This sending out jof young comrades, which was much praised by the out of town comrades, will be continued in the future. This work will be specially concentnated in the basic industries, where the infiu- ence of the fraction is not as strong las it should be. | Results Gained. Important results have been reached in many places thru the united front activities of the fraction. Passaic re- lief, defense of foreign-born workers jand the fight against the white terror |gave a splendid opportunity to the fraction to gain the leadership of the Hungarian workers. The achievements in some cities, such as Cleveland, where the fraction was the leader of the Cotzofanesti-Marie demonstrations, and South Bend, show where the cor- rect application of the united front can lead to. The work within the Hun- garian societies, a campaign for their amalgamation, the support of the Uj Elore, the fight against Horthy, Amer- icanization in a Bolshevik sense, and many other important questions were discussed. The new fraction bureau, which was elected unanimously contains those jcomrades from the former minority |who, the convention thinks, will follow the line of unity and constructive work in the future. The convention accepted unanimous- ly a resolution which, after analyzing the fractional struggle, declared that Comrades Basky and Becker cannot be elected on the bureau, | The convention of the Hungarian fraction, coming after a bitter faction- al fight, is a very important achieve- ment in the process of Bolshevization jour party is going thru at the present time. Send us the name and address |of a progressive worker to whom | we can send a sample copy of The |DAILY WORKBR. GINSBERGS Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. contact with the non-Finnish com- rades. Working women all over the country are becoming more and more awak- ened to their class interests. They are setting the question to themselves and others: what should we do to arouse other working women to come \into the class struggle and the Com- munist movement? What can women do in the moyement? In many locali- ties women are working full speed in the movement, but many more are just instinctively asking themselves whether they also should be doing something. This letter is a diffident attempt to offer what little experience and knowledge we Finnish women in the Minnesota district have gained in the practical work of education and organization, For the first two or three years the women’s sections in our district, as well as elsewhere, were only reading and sewing circles. We clung to the prevailing idea that we must be able to offer some financial profits to our local in order to get approval of our section’s existence. Therefore we sewed and arranged sales and bazaars, But we also studied theories and prin- ciples and discussed the matters that we learned to confront working women and we did learn a lot. Soon we dis- covered other practical work that ex- panded beyond mere self-education. We learned that it is the working women—the mothers—who must take charge of our children’s class educa- tion, We had held Sunday schools here and there occasionally, but this work was unorganized, depending mostly on the inspiration of interested indi- viduals. The truth was clear to every sincere socialist mother that our American-born children can do much more in the class struggle than we can, and that they are the ones who will be called upon to bring our strug: gle to its goal. We realized that we must join our working forces to achieve something. So in 1924 the Superior Women’s Sec- tion called a conference of all the women’s sections and sewing circles in our district. Seven such sections and circles sent delegates; in all there were 14 women who took part in the meeting. Tho the first conference lasted only four hours, many impor- tant matters were discussed, good res- olutions passed and work outlined. All the delegates had instructions to get something done for the education of the youth and children, and the con- ference did try to find some practical way to do it. Plans were made for organizing children’s Sunday and sum- mer schools, in New York! NEW STAR CASINO 107th Street and Park Avenue { (Admission $1,00) Finnish Women in Minnesota Also, the conference decided that youth courses lasting several weeks should be arranged, and the sections promised to do their utmost to finance them. A plea was issued to the Fin- nish Federation to organize such courses, This conference also designed some instructions for the work of the sections, also a secretary was elected. This first short conference of women proved to many comrades that organ- izing of these women’s sections does not bring up any sex line or problems merely of a sex nature into the move- ment, but, on the contrary, new fields of work and propaganda had been dis- covered that had hitherto been neg- lected and overlooked. The women's sections were getting respect and ap- proval of all serious-thinking com- rades, ? A year later, in March, 1925, the next conference of women’s sections was held with a little latger delega- tion than the first one. The education and organization of the youth and chil- dren was the main issue at this con- ference; also it was decided that a woman organizer should be employed to assist in organizing and educating the sections. The result of this organ- ization work was to be seen in the next conference in November of the same year. When the sections con- vened again in November, the day be fore the Minneapolis district conven tion, there were delegates from 20 sec- tions, in all about 35 delegates. — Last May the sections convened in a semi-annual conference. in Chisholm. Several minor matters were discussed. Also a resolution was passed to sup- port the farmer-labor party activities. The sections convened in their an- nual conference recently—October 3— in Superior. There were about 125 delegates from the 25 sections of our district. This was the best conference we have yet held. Many of us have been a little worried as to what spirit the meetings in our district would display after a year of reorganization, This women’s conference at least proved that there has been no reason for any fears. The clear-sightedness and revolutionary spirit displayed during the discussion of the long agenda was wonderful, Studio Life Too Much for Church Choir Man NEW YORK—Charges that Green- wich Village had corrupted James A. Mason, choir leader of the First Pres- byterian Church of Metuchen, N. J., was made by his wife, in seeking the custody of their 8-year old daughter Mrs. Mason also testified that her husband had taught her to smoke and drink. The husband admitted having av tended parties in the Greenwich Vil- lage studio of a brother-in-law, but denied that he there met “ Be women,” as alleged by his wife. Pay Roll Guard Steals Chickens. WASHINGTON, Pa.— After for years having been trusted with.guard” ing pay rolls, sometimes amounting to $50,000, A. Farley was arrested here for the theft of eleven chickens. He was granted a parole of four months, during which he must pay $162,27, e CAPITALIST WORLD LAY PLANS FOR WITH THEY | ,CONDUCTED - BY TH 153 Miners Injured Within Twenty Days By a MINERICH. ZBIGLER, Ill—There were 153 min- ers injured in the Zeigler mine of the Belle and Zoller Coal Co., in the first 20 days of August, 1926, according to the coal company reports. Two of these injuries proved fatal. This report that 153 were injured means that one out of every 15 miners |got hurt in 20 days. | Now what is the cause of all this? | It is a question that the Zeigler min- ers can answer. The Zeigler local was }one of the most progressive in Illi- |nois a few years ago. Under the lead- ‘ership of Henty Corbishley the min- jers had built up a good local and had won fairly good conditions in the | mines, | But the coal companies, together | |with the Ku Klux Klan and the reac- | tionary leadership of the subdistrict, | \in the persons of Lon Fox, D. B. Cobb, | and Loden, decided to get rid of the militant leaders. So there came the now famous Zeigler frame-up case, and the combinatioh scored against Henry Corbishley and the other pro- gressives. Every miner knows the story. The Zeigler miners, too, know the result. Conditions are very bad, They are so bad as to mean the injuring of 153 men in 20 days, TRIES TO ENROLL YOUTH IN NON-STRUGGLE CLUBS The Workmen’s Circle, under the cloak of organizing Young Circle BAZAAR HERE Clubs, is trying to build up the strength of the Young People’s Social- Ashland Auditorium on|ist League. The idea is that once WEALTH CREATED BY LABOR hag harder than I have here for such WORKERS WING WORKERS LEAGUE Firestone Workers Must Organize, Too AKRON, Ohio—The following let- ter has been sent to. the Rubber Worker, labor paper in this city, by a worker in the Firestone plant: Rubber Workers Must Organize. I am interested in the organization of the rubber workers. I read your paper, the Rubber Worker, and think it just fine, for it upholds the very thing that I am interested in. I am a steadfast union man, having belong- ed to the United Mine Workers. But I want to say that I never worked in an industry that needed a union as badly as the rubber industry. I have worked in the rubber shops of Akron -for nearly 2 years,and I can truthfully say that I’ve never worked uges. All you hear is “speed and more speed.” This has become so fa- miliar that if one talks union to the men they say, “Aw, that’s not fast enough for me.” This they say more by mere force of habit, e Wants Decent Wages, I am willing to do a good day’s work, but I want a fair wage, but it seems that you can’t get the wage in an unorganized shop. Being a single man, I am not compelled to look for any certain kind of employment. But I have been thinking a lot and believe that it would be best for all the boys to get together and see what we oan do, So come along boys, let’s get into the union. That’s the place for all of us. —Rubber Neck. Miners Support Howat. MULBERRY, Kansas.—The Inde- pendent here, non-partisan local news- paper, points out that Alex Howat is the choice for president of the over- these. clubs are organized they can February 11, 12, 13 [pe airectiy inuencea by the Y. P. 8, L. The Friend, organ of the W. C., More than two score delegates from | points out that there are already two labor unions, Workmen Circles, branches of the Workers (Commu-| philadelphia. “The latter group con- nist) Party and other labor organiza-|-<ists of college students or young in- tions met at the Worker Lyceum yes- terday to complete the plans for the huge $10,000 Workers’ Carnival Ba- zaar to be held in the Ashland Audi- torium from February 11 thru to the 18th. The bazaar is being given for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and the Jewish Daily Freiheit. At the conference yesterday it was de- cided to donate one-third of the net profits to International Labor Defense for its work. Fraternal delegates from I. L, D. were present, A good deal of the time of the con- ference was taken up with plans to draw into the work the scores of working-class women whose enthu- siasm has been aroused by the ba- zaar. A women’s committee was se- lected to organize working women and housewives to sew articles for he booths in the bazaar. One of the features there will be a women’s booth, where the articles will be dis- played and sold. In addition, the women plan to organize a children’s corner, in which the children of those who come to the bazaar can be left in charge of a capable nurse, This corner will serve as a model exhibit of a workers’ nursery, and demonstra- tions of workers’ health methods and means of nursing working-class chil- dren will be frequently given during the course of the bazaar. Committee will be formed to solicit articles for the bazaar from sympa- | thetic friends and merchants so that there will be a plethora from which to choose when a worker enters the hall, Lists for this purpose have al- ready been distributed. In addition, efforts will be made to obtain adver- tisements for the souvenir programs that will be distributed. Tickets for the beautiful Chrysler sedan which will lead the list of prizes at the bazaar have also been distributed and are being gold in numerous organizations. The auto- mobile is on exhibit at Burnstine Sales, Michigan avenue and 25th street. Remember, Remember, the 25th of December! Remember the date of December 25, not because it is Christmas, but because on that date, at 6:30 p. m. the Novy Mir Masquerade ball will take place at the beautiful Mirror Hall, 1140 N. Western Ave., near Di- vision St. Come yourself and bring your friends. 4) gy ae (C8, 1 anoaY NORKER Will Be Out In January, Workers’ School whelming majority of the 6,000 mem- good groups-~in Denver, Colo. and structors in the high schools and col- eges.” The purpose of these circles will be.to rally the Jewish youth who are interested “in cultural and spirit- ual” pursuits. The circles will not nterest. themselves in a struggle to bers of the United Mine Workers in District 14. The Independent states: “One thing only is apparent, and that is Howat is still the unreserved choice of practically every miner in the dis- trict, John Lewis to the contrary not- withstanding.” better the conditions of the young workers or in a struggle against capi- talist militarism. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Clk Read it today and every day In The DAILY WORKER. PITTSBURGH, PA. BALL on January 15 INTE RNATIONAL SOCIALIST LYCEUM, 805 James St. ) Meat Market 4301 8th Avenue CARPETS RUGS OSCAR I. BARKU Roosevelt Rd. Chicago Avenue North Avenue North Avenue Madison Street 1600 W. 1618 W. 2408 W. 2635 W. 4247 W. Annual Xmas Eve Ball | BROOKLYN, N, Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUM Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ino, (Workers organized as consumers) The Best Place to Buy Your Restaurant Brooklyn, N. Y. LINOLEUM FURNITURE N’S 5 STORES Phone Seeley 7722 Phone Monroe 6264 Phone Humboldt 4983 Phone Humboldt 6941 Phone Nevada 1258 All progressive workers will be there. How else can you spend the nef Christmas Eve? COME OUT! PNP