The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 4

Page Four \ . v : HE DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party Ainneapolis District to Hold Big Dance on . . Friday, Pivistrabs Eve MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec, 22 ‘’ help The DAILY WORK 9 combat the commercialized-re dus bunk of Christmas, at the sam Ime dance and relax, is the thre old aim of the Christmas eve so Md dance arranged by the Minneapo- ls District of the Workers (Commu- ust) Party. The affair will be held n the Labor Lyceum, 1426 Sixth svenue, North, Minneapolis, will start lariously at 8 p. m. on Friday, Dec. ‘4th, and wind up gloriously at 1 4m. Many comrades of the gentler. wiser sex will bake cakes and cook- @8; there will be Communist food, fames of all kinds, excellent music-— n short, the makings of a memorable affair, One day will then be permiited to p@ss3 uneventfully and on Sunday, Dec, 26, the evening after Christmas, | thé comrades will gather again at finnish Hall, Western Ave, and Hum- boldt, for more fun and merrymak- ing. Every Twin City member and ®Sympathizer of the party is marking these dates on his Red calendar. Not content with these affairs, the St. Paul comrades are arranging a | huge masquerade carnival held on Saturday night, 39th, in St. Paul. The; proceeds of this affair will be divided between The DAILY WORKER and\ the Frei- heit. Funds for Cloakmakers Strike Collected at Paterson Party Meet PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 22. — At a general membership meeting of the Worker (Communist) Party in Pater- son, N. J., more than $100.00 was to be Paised by the 35 members present to | aid in the crisis in the cloakmakers’ atrike in response to a telegram ap- pealing for aid from the New York office, It was pledged to the National Coun- ¢il for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers, by unanimous vote, that the | Workers Party will actively assist in forming a local council, Plans were laid to visit all non: Party subscribers of the Communist Press in our local for membership drive. The greatest part of the evening, | Was devoted to the report of Comrade ) Gardas on the C. EB. C. Plenum and applications of its decision to local conditions, Comrade Gardas made the ‘trip’trom Passaic, where he is active in the strike, especially for this pur- ‘Dose. Novy Mir and Daily Worker to Benefit by New York Ball, Jan. 1 NEW YORK — Our Russian organ, Novy Mir, has joined with The DAILY WORKER in arranging a New Year’s Ball, Saturday night, Jan. first, at the Yorkville Casino, 212 East 86th street, New York. The music will be especially fine as 8 first class Russian Balalaka Orches- tra has been engaged for the occasion. Admission will be dhe dollar ($1.00). Tickets are on sale now at The DAILY WORKER Eastern Agency, 108 East 14th street, New York, January | | | has presented the program of the capitalists against the | The capitalists’ program volced by Coolidge is a pro- gram of militant attack upon the workers and upon the entire American labor movement! WHAT IS THE WORKERS’ ANSWER? A Labor Party in the | 1928 Elections! The Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued in leaflet form a powerful statement show- ing the real nature of Coolidge’s attack on labor and point- ing to the only answer of the workers—A LABOR PARTY IN THE 1928 ELECTIONS! Shop Naclei— Street Nuclei— Militant Workers’ Worker— |New York Forum Will Hear Talk on China | NEW YORK — “Where is China oing?” is the topic of the Workers’ | School Forum lecture for Sunday night, Dec. 26, at 8 p, m. at 108 East |14 St. and H. M. Wicks is the speaker. | The topic of “Whither China follows logically on “Whither Rus- sia?” which was Markoff's subject for last Sunday night, because on the an- swer to these two questions will large- ly depend the history of the epoch in which we live. H. M. Wicks, who is to talk on this interesting subject at the Workers’ ;School Forum has been put on in | place of M. J. Olgin whose lecture on “The Reflection of the Russian Revo- lution” in Russian literature is post- poned to Jan. 9. Bulletin of Secretary of Labor Shows Ignorance of Passaic Strike PASSAIC, N. J., Dec, 22.—Passaic textile strikers are wondering if Sec- |retary of Labor Davis has never heard of the prolonged strike here. In the November issue of the Indus- | trial Employment Information Bulle- QUESTIONS and ANSWERS By EARL BROWDER. (Little Red Library, Number 2, 10c.) | 1, What is the fundamental idea of elass-collaboration as to the role of the unions? 2. What role does class-collaboration play in the present period of American capitalist development? 8, What distinguishes the class-col- | laboration of today from the various | forms of class-collaboration in the past (@lvio Federation, etc.)? 4, What are the chief forms of class- collaboration today? Trade Union insurance, 5, What role did insurance benefits formerly play in the untons? 6, How was the insurance idea used by the railroad union bureaucrats in the face of the offensive of capital? ‘What was the position of the A, FB, of L, on the question of trade union in- surance at the El Paso (1924) conven. | | thon? Labor Banks, 7, What effects has jJabor banking wpon the orientation of the union in regard to the struggle? 8, What role does labor banking play in destroying the fighting spirit in the unions? 9, What relation has labor banking to strikes? B, & O, Plan, 10, What is the nature and purpose of the B, & O, pian? 11, What are the effects of the B. & ©, plan upon the unions and the work for your LENIN CIRCLE “Workers’ Education.” 12. What part does “workers’ educa- ion” play in the general scheme of class-collaboration? 13, What are the chief organizations | carrying on this “workers’ education?” 14, What is the chief content of |“workers’ education?” — theory of wages—production and wages, etc. 15, What part do the socialists and radicals play in this ‘workers’ educa- tion” for class-collaboration, 16, What role does class-collabora- |tlon play in the imperialist corruption of the labor aristocracy? | 17, What role does the labor bureau- cracy play in class-collaboration? | 18, What role do the socialists play \in class-collaboration? | 19, Is the {nnerunion struggle against class-collaboration a source of | weakness or strength for the unions? | What is the relation of the inner union struggle to the class struggle? 20, What 1s the role of the lett wing in the struggle against class-collabore- tion? Also Read: Jack Kennedy; Trade Union Capi- tallam Undermines the Brotherhoods, Workers’ Monthly, June, 1926, Jack Kennedy; The Watson-Parker Act, Workers’ Monthly, August, 1996, Wm, Z, Foster; Trade Union Insur- ance, Workers’ Monthly, July, 1926, Wm, Z, Foster; The Railroad Em ployes’ Department Convention, Work- ers’ Monthly, August, 1926, Next week: How Olass-Collabora- [tion Works, by Bertram DB, Wolte, patna ta: 20084 COOLIDGE CHALLENGES LABOR! || | In his recent message to congress President Coolidge workers! This four-page leaflet sells at $3 a thousand. EVERY PARTY UNIT and EVERY MILITANT WORK- || ERS' ORGANIZATION should order a batch of these leaf- lets for distribution among the workers. Party Fractions— Every Party Member and Militant ON THE JOB! Organizations— Xmas Eve In New York. NEW YORK — Three “wolves” and several thousand “reds” are implicated in an unusual meeting, the details of which have been kept secret, schedul- ed to.occur Christmas Eve at 8:00 p. m, at New Star Casino, 107 Street and Park Ave, Altho the best private de- tectives have been employed trying to find out how these “wolves” were secured and what the “reds” intend to do with them, no advance informa- tion is forthcoming. One of the investigators has offered an unconfirmed report to the effect that one of the “wolves” plays the violin; the second one accompanies a dancer and the third acts the part of a master of ceremonies. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Use your brains ang your ‘pen to ald the workers In the class struggle. tin, which surveys nation-wide condi- tions for that month, under Passaic, we read: “The employment situation in the textile industry shows a marked im- provement over conditions existing during the past several months. One plant is increasing its operating sched- ules and adding additional workers, A surplus of factory workers in the woolen and worsted industry still ex- ists.”. ‘ This is governmental innocence. No suggestion that the conditions “exist- ing during the past several months’ resulted from the strike, or that the plant which is taking on additional workers is the one which first signed up with the textile workers’ union, or that, naturally, there is still a surplus of hands while the strike still con- tinues against mills that have not signed up, Textile workers here suggest that Jqgmes J. Davis be given a private showing of the Passaic strike film. Financial Magnates and Trainmen’s Head to Dine with Burton CLEVELAND, 0., Dec, 22-——The 75th birthday of Congressman Theodore FB. Burton will be celebrated by the inter- ests he has served so well, A banquet will be given him, arranged by “big busin of northern Ohio, including the chamber of commerce, big steel manufacturers, the chemical trust, the stock exchange and leading industrial- iat, While the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engi: ’ bank did not join the other banks in the city in the enter- prise, it is a matter of comment that among the sponsors {8 President W, G, Lee of the railroad trainmen, We will send sample coples of The DAILY WORKER to your friende—~ tond us name and address, GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL FARMERS. RE & LIZE THEY MUST BE IN CLASS STRUGGLE Progressive Group De- mands Change By Federated Press. MINNEAPOLIS—(FP)—While the conservative and substantial farmers in the American Farm Bureau federa- tion were listening eagerly to the emissaries of big business in Chicago, the working farmers of the northern tier of states from Wisconsin to the coast were gathered in Minneapolis taking a radically different slant on the agricultural problem, About 100 delegates from the landlord-ridden mortgaged farms agreed that: “The producers of wealth and the great combinations of capital have no Interests that are identical. The struggle between these two classes will intensify until the toiling mai become organized so that they may take over the machinery of production, distribution and ex- change to the end that these agen- cles may be operated in the interest of the many instead of for the ben- efit of a few.” The movement has been swinging eastward from the nucleus of the Western Progressive Farmers, headed by Bouck, for several years. It revolts not only against the banker, landlord, oldline politician and the financial oli- garchy of the Atlantic seaboard but also against the halfway measures that that have failed to change farm bankruptcy imto prosperity. Land should belong to the users, the pro- gressive farmers declare, while pro- duction, transportation and communi- cation should be ‘nationalized,’ They also urge the transformation of the economic structure so that it wil function co-operatively for service in- stead of profit. Instead of setting up an agricultu- ral monopoly or trust, as the Ameri- can Farm Bureau federation desires, the radical farmers demand the na- tionalization of all monopolies. In place of the farm bureau's hostility and suspicion toward organized labor, the Minneapolis convention calls for a solid battle line of all producers against the exploiting interests, as- serting that “we are opposed to all unearned incomes.” The delegates came from Washing- ton, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, Fess Wants Railroads to Merge, But Opposes Compulsion by Govt. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. — Senator Fess has introduced a proposed amend- ment to the interstate commerce com- mission act which will permit and en- courage consolidation of railroads. It was referred to the interstate com- merce committee, which is already considering a bill by Senator Cum- mins which provides for compulsory consolidation. Fess’ bill does not include the com- pulsory feature. He declare in intro- ducing it that “consolidation must be recognized as an evolution which must be accomplished under direction of the railroads themselves,” Consolidation, he says, is the only means of obtaining equitable transpor- tation rates, Ford Commits Treason If He Fails to Prove Charges, Says Bloom WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, — Henry Ford would be guilty of treason to the United States if he failed to produce evidence before the proposed inquiry into his charges against the “Interna- tional Jew,” Rep. Sol Bloom of New York has declared. Bloom's resolu- tion asking that congress investigate Ford’s charges that the Jews are con- trolling the financial policy of the government is now pending in the house rules committee. Bloom wants Ford to be called to Present his evidence immediately. “Vindication of the Jew is not my ob- ject,” said Bloom. “Not as a Jew, but as an American, I demand the sight to know.” ‘ Half of Tax Money in Canada Goes for War OTTAWA, Can., Dec, 22.—The Cana- dian government spends on public health, scientific institutions and in- dustrial relations less than 1 per cent of the annual revenue, while 50 per cent ts consumed by the obligations arising from the world war, oficial figures show. About 10 per cent goes to war pensions; so 40 per cent of the total revenue goes to enrich the war- time money lenders for saving their country—and the profiteers, Commenting on this ourlous out- come of the war, J, 8, Woodsworth, parliamentary leader of the Jabor party, suggests that the Canadian gov- ernment set aside $50,000,000 a year a6 a contingent fund for next war, Mt 1t 19 contemplating ir war. AON, L. ©, im, ‘The regular meeting of the Amer!- can Negro Labor Open Forum will take place at 8, Mich- | Seg avenue at 8 p, Sunday, . 26, K, W, Van will speak am "Wat Id ho Vee of Co-operation?” Letters f rom Our Readers To the Editor:—This is in apprectia- tion of the article “Women as Pro- pagandists in DAILY WORKDR of Dec, 14, Altho I had been a student of the practical kind in this matter for twenty years it had never really dawn- ed upon me fully the possibilities of women in this line, Wives have a,bet- ter function than to carelessly ahd selfishly spend their husband’s money and to carefully and equally selfishly Kill their husband’s inclination to be active in the labor movement. Believe me, I shall act upon this cue and make an appeal to every woman I meet. Women of the right kind, I mean women of independent mind who can be interested in economic problems, have wonderful opportuni- ties. They can change from an idle and harmful attitude to one of useful- ness without losing any of their charm. We need more assertiveness from both women and men to bring about this change. Your article is just what I need to leave with each house- hold. If printed, just as it is, and furnished to all who will try to exert an influence, I would take the pains to leave such a printed slip with every person I meet who takes a concern in the labor movement. Any person who once admits concern cannot logically refuse to take some responsibility for activity, Another matter, which I believe you have not yet touched upon, There is a sense in which the local labor pa- pers are our first line of contact, and The DAILY WORKER is the second line. When they have to, these papers make a fight. Then we must and will put our energies into them. Having no great chain of local papers of a more advanced kind, it seems we should make a greater use of them now. I think we should patiently furnish them such news and notices as they will print and keep a healthly and friendly contact with them. This is beginning to be done in Oakland and around the Bay, and I am glad to see it. Fraternally yotrs, P, B, Cowdery, Oakland, Calif, Dear Comrades: — Now that this country is supposed to be at the height of the greatest prosperity ever to be enjoyed by any nation, what is going to be done if anything to relieve the misery and suffering of the poor, and the millions of unemployed? We have already seen the reaction begin in this period of so-called prosperity with the slump in building and closing down of factories and the great amount of unemployed on the labor markets, We understand there is a surplus of $500,000,000 in our nation’s treasury and our national officialdom seems to be im a quandary as to placing this money. Well we would suggest to President Coolidge, and his official family to create and establish a fund and use this surplus of $500,000,000 to compensate all the aged men and wo- men and all the unemployed of: this country, Yours, very truly Comrade Carl Greb, San Diego, Cal. Chinese in Chicago Dear Comrades: — I was telling the Chinese laundryman across the street about the article in today’s DAILY WORKER on China, and he handed me a quarter and told me he would give me a cigar if I would get him one. The dealer at Chicago and Wells was sold out, so I went to the Oak and Clark dealer and got one. I stopped at another Chinese laundry on the way back, and they wanted the paper, so I had to get another one for my original customer, About 90 per cent of these laundry- men are heartily in sympathy with the Chinese revolutionary movement. Pro- perly managed, I think The DAILY WORKER might be able to get con- siderable indirect support from these people, It would not be a bad idea to teach them to read English—W. 8. Crater, Chicago, Pro-Child Labor Taft Still Gets His from Steel Trust WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress- man Rainé, in discussing the bill to increase salaries of federal judges, called for the resignation of Chief Justice Taft or that he renounce his Carnegie subsidy of $10,000 a year. Steel trust securities valued at $200,000 are set aside to assure $10,000 annually to the chief justice of the U.S. supreme court, It this same body under Taft’s leadership that twice declared the child labor laws passed by congress unconstitutional, Leibknecht Demonstration. The International Karl Liebknecht Memorial Demonstration will take place this year on Sunday, Jan, 16th at 8 p, m, at the Northwest Hall, cor- ner North Ave. and Western, The speakers for this meeting will be Max Bedacht, Herbert Zam and John Wil- Mamson. There will also be a Pioneer speaker and @n appropriate musical program, The admission is 26 cents. Meeting 1s arranged under the aus- pices of Young Workers (Communist) League, Dist, No, 8, All friendly or- ganizations are requested not to ar range conflicting affairs, but ofa pg worker to re a Dalue Wonka” WITH THE. | ,CONOUCTED = BY ‘Thi WORKEDS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE . A BOOKLET FOR YOUNG WORKERS a By RAE SPIEGAL, ; THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH, by Sam Darcy. Published by the Young Workers’ League, Chicago, Price, 15 cents, ee 8 HERE is a danger of becoming te- dious in presenting statistics and telling a story for the mere pleasure that it gives the teller. It is a prole- tarian art to be able ‘to blend both of these characteristics in a whole- some manner which will prove of in- terest to the reader. From this point of view the booklet, “The Challenge of Youth,” hits the mark. This book- let not only has a message, but. proves its assertions with facts and figures in an interesting story fashion. This booklet is divided into eight chapters. John, the young hero of the story, represents you and your next door neighbor. John’s parents longed to give John an education’and not have him go to work in his youth. But, of course, our miserable life as workers interfered. John, as a boy, devoured all the bunk stories about “my country,” “the land of freedom,” “opportunities for all,” etc. The poor conditions under which he lived made him think. Questions crept into his mind. .Why should he be poor, tho he worked, while those who did not work became richer? Who, after all, owned this country? Why did child labor exist? What should one do about it? _ John began to investigate, and he found out . ...!. But I'll spoil your in- terest in the book if I tell you all. Suffice it to say that after John had seen all the facts he began to look at life thru different eyes. He woke up and became a rebel. YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS IN CLEVELAND JOIN FIGHT T0 SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI CLEVELAND, Dec, 22.—Support for Sacco and Vanzetti was voted unanimously by a joint meeting of five Cleveland youth organizations and clubs, addressed by Albert F. Coyle, editor Locomotive Engineers’ Journal, and Carl Hacker of the In- ternational Labor Defense. Conviction of the two Itallan- American labor men was denounced by Coyle, who said: “This outrage hits the last of a long string of work- ers who have been put in Jail by framed evidence thru the medium of perjured witnesses.” Young Detroit Workers Attend These Affairs Red Sunday conducted by Young Worker Boosters’ Club and Y. W. L. Sunday. morning, Dec, 26. Stations for meeting are: 1. Party headquar- ters, 1967 W. Grand and River Aves. 2, Finnish hall, 5969 W. 14th. 8. Jew- ish Labor Temple, 9179. Delmar Ave. 4.Yemans Hall, 3014 Yemans Ave. A banquet in honor of Walter Trum- bull, new district organizer of Y. W. Lu: at Carpenter’s hall, 935 Alger street, on New Year's Eve, Dec, 31, at 8 p,m, There will be dancing and tasks. Come masked and work for the prizes. The Liebknecht Memorial meeting will be held Sunday, January 16, at 8 p.°m,, at Carpenter’s hall, 935 Alger street. PIONEERS CONDUCT TWO PASSAIC MOVIE SHOWS ‘The Young Pioneers of Chicago will show The Passaic Textile Strike mov- ing picture twice this week in Chi- cago. The first time on Sat., Dec. 25, 2 p. m., at 3837 Roosevelt Rd, The second time on Sun., Dec. 26, 2 p. m., at 1555 West Division St. Special efforts are being made by the Pioneers to get all their school friends out to see the picture. All parents should send their children. If you are in touch with any chil- dren’s organization or school the Young Pioneers ask that you make arrangements for the entire school to attend. The admission for chil- dren will be but 5 cents; for grown- ups, 35 cents. Come! Why not a smali bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular ly to take to your trade unton meeting? Signs of Another Big Baseball Scandal Seen; Landis Silent The young workers who are inter- ested in sports will have another op- portunity to witness the corruption and graft in the business known as professional sports. On the very heels of the signs that the Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight championship fight was fixed in advance there are definite rumors floating around of a wholesale swindle in baseball. The findings promise to be of greater import than the 1920 scandal which almost wrecked Comiskey’s White Sox and resulted in the outlawing of eight payers from organized baseball, while the fellows higher up still stuck in the business, K. M. Landis, well-known open shop advocate and baseball's czar, hag re- fused to disclose to the press up to the present the facts in regard to the new scandal. It is well known, however, that as long as sports re- main a business under the control of capitalists there will be graft and cor/ ruption attached to the games, The young workers must turn their sup- port towards the growing movement for the organization of a labor sports movement, Dunne at Chicago Y. W. L. Member Meet On Sunday, Dec. 26, a Young Work- ers’ League membership meeting will be held in Chicago, The meeting will take place at the Workers’ School hall at 1902 W. Division street, +: This is the first meeting of a regular series of league educational member- ship meetings. For this meeting Com- rade Wm. F, Dunne, co-editor of The DAILY WORKER, will speak. Be- cause of the present struggles taking place in the trade unions, especially the struggles against the left wing and the Communists, Comrade Dunne’s lec- ture will deal with “The Onslaughts Aagainst the Left Wing in the Trade Unions and the Role of the Youth.” Following the lecture will be a pro- gram that will include music, recita- tions and dancing; also refreshments. Everybody come, and bring your friends. Let’s make this meeting a real success. He Won't Be there, But You Should! Signor Mussolini sent his regrets for being unable to attend the Novy Mir masquerade ball next Saturday, Dec. 25, at Mirror hall, 1140 North Western avenue, near Division street. But the young workers will be there. JOIN US! in a gay party for the benefit F VERYBODY of political prisoners. Enjoy the FINE BUFFET PACKAGE AUCTION AND DANCING to music by Dickerson’s Dance Orchestra at the WEST END WOMEN'S HALL Ashland and Monroe CHICAGO Friday Eve., Dec. 24 GRAB BAG ie COME.O Entertainers: Manya Maller Alex Kotoff - Folk Dancer . M, Dobkin Baritone Russian String Orchestra Soprano / Bring a package to be sold for the benefit of a class-war prisoner to the affair, or to 28 So, Lincoln Street. Auspices: Chicago Local I, L. Dy