The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1927, Page 4

‘Page Four TH E DAILY WORKER - Workers (Communist) Party PARTY SUFFERS LOSS IN DEATH OF ORGANIZER IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (Special to The Daily Worker) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan, 4 The body of Comrade Peter G. King, ity organizer of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of Grand Rapids, who died recently, was accompanied by a large number of friends and comrades to his final resting place at the Laisve ‘Cemetery. That Comrade King was an active comrade and well beloved by his Comrades was attested by the large number present, more than 200, and by the many floral offerings trom the Various organizations of which Com- Tade King was a member or with whom he was in contact, The organizations sending flowers Were the following: The Workers (Communist) Party of Grand Rapids, the Young Pioneers, the International Labor Defense, the Freiheit Club, the Lithuanian Chorus, the Lithuanian Dramatic Society, the Sons and Daughters of Lithuania and the Lithu- anian Alliance Aid Society. A number of speakers addressed the assembled comrades and friends of the deceased in Lithuanian and English, first at his home and later at the cemetery where the simple and solemn Communist ceremony was concluded by the singing of the Inter- Peter Nenonen BOSTON, Mase., Jan. 4.—The Workers Party in this state loses a very valuable member with the death of Peter Nenonen of Allston, Mass., who died here Dec. 30. The funeral will take place Wednesday, at Evergreen Cemetery, Brigh- ton, Mass. Comrade Nenonen was a very loyal and devoted member of the party, partioularly in the field of work among the Finnish workers. Until his Illness he was District Organizer of the Finnish Bureau of the party and was well- known as a devoted leader and very capable speaker. in the party and particularly among the Finnish workers. Comrade Nenonen was a painter by trade and it was this occupation which was responsible for his contracting consumption from which sickness he died. The District Executive Committee is sending expression of sympathy He is mourned by a wife and son. ———— eeeeeeeeSSeSSeSesSsSsSsessssssssssFf# ANOTHER CHALLENGE ANSWERED to the family. Gentlemen: I have received your letter of recent date in regards to the “Challenge.” 1 have contributed $9.50 to your “Keep The DAILY WORKER Campaign” and I am not a Comrade or Party member and also I do love my dollars that ate wrungsfrom the “Guardians of the Gold Bags,” but, who can sit and read that splendid paper, “The DAILY WORKER” and fail to send in their spare dollars to sustain it? I refuse to allow my loose dollars to get mouldy when I read the wonderful, inspiring, articles from Russia, China and other lands, where men and women give freely, even of their lives, in order to carry on. nationale by the members of Young Pioneers, the Comrade King has been a leading spirit in the movement in the notori- | ous “Open Shop Furniture City” of Grand Rapids, Comrade King has been a member | of our party ever since it was organ- | ized and his untiring activity, his un- | flagging enthusiasm and unselfish de- votion to the movement was to a large degree responsible for whatever | small successes were achieved in this city, His fine spirit will be missed by | those who have worked with Comrade King and the whole membership is agreed that in his death our party has sustained a vefy serious loss which can only be made up by an increased activity on the part of every member of the party. They feel as Comrade Barkin, the spokesman of the Young Pioneers so well expressed it, that “Comrade King was a link in a long powerful chain which reached around the world. This link is now broken. And it is up to us who remain to heal the breach; to replace the link and to weld the chain closer together by our renewed activity for the cause of revolution and the emancipat‘on of the workers of the world.” | He was well-known Stratford, Conn., Dec. 28, 1926. | paign. Give Daily Worker Booster Affair at Chelsea, Mass., Jan. 8 ‘CHBELSHA, Mass., Jan. 4.—Boosters of The DAILY WORKER here have an affair planned for Jan, 9 at the Labor Lyceum to raise funds for the Keep The DAILY WORKER cam- The entertainment will be a vecherinka, and eVeryone who attends is promised a real good time, Comrade Shklar will be the speaker of the evening. Comrades here are working hard to raise their quota, and this affair is for that purpose, Chicago Policewomen to Get Same Pay as Policemen in Future The city council, after a struggle in trying to balance the budget, has granted the city’s firemen and police- men a raise in pay. Instead of grant- ting immediately the $300 raise askec for by these employes, it was decided to put a $150 raise into effect Jan. 1, followed by a second of like amouni on July 1, which will make the total increase for the year $300, On the matter of pay for police- women there was a wrangle. These women have been receiving about $400 less per year than a patrolman. Those who favored equal pay for both sexes for equal work finally prevailed. The policewomen get a raise of $380. Thirty are affected by this increase. Fmployes of the house of correction get raises varying from $120 to $180 a year, while those at the contagious disease hospital come in for sums ranging from $60 to $80. Superintendents of various depart- ments fared somewhat better; for ex- ample, the superintendents of streets who come in for a raise of $1,000. The aldermen protest that they have pared expenditures in other depart- ments to the bone to grant these in- creases to various classes of em- ployes. Big Corporation Is Organized to Promote Buying on Installments NEW YORK.—To boost instalment buying, a giant corporation has been formed with a capital of $31,000,000. It is the American Rediscount Cor- poration, pattented after the federal resefve system and incorporated in Maryland. It will operate thru the Oredlt Corporation ut Amerie, The new corporation was formed after a survey of 34 lines of business which operate toa large extent in in- stalment selling. Yours until “Teapot Dome is on the level,” A. M. Peterson. $500.00 Cash and Good, Large Union Orchestra DETROIT, ATTENTION! For the Best and Most Original Masks AT THE ANNUAL “Freiheit” Mask and Color Light Ball At the New and Beautiful MASONIC TEMPLE, Temple Ave. and Second Blvd. SATURDAY EVENING, A chance to win a radio with every ticket A Good Time Assured to Everybody. Admission $1.00 Valuable Articles JANUARY 8, 1927 Original Attractions says YES Leon Samson says NO Weill-Known (STR NEW YORK, ATTENTION! Calverton vs. Samson : DEBATE “IS PROLETARIAN ART BOTH POSSIBLE AND DESIRABLE” V. F. Calverton saitor ot rne Modern Quartorly, author ef “The Newer Spirit” aud “Sex Expression in Literature” Questions and Discussion, Michael Gold, editor of The New Ma: chairman. AN LYCEUM, 66 EAST 4TH STREET NEW YORK CITY Sunday Afternoon, Jan. Radical Lecturer 9, 1927, at 2 p. m. Mother Killed “On Ride.” Police today sought a man known only as “Jammer” for the slaying of Mrs, Valeria Tymus, 17, a mother, whose body was found on a lonely highway. The girl had evidently been “taken for a ride” and shot to death, Frank Tymus, her husband, and several who attended a party earlier in the even- ing were questioned. Harmon Awards Bestowed. NEW YORK.—Public ceremonies in handing out the awards of the Har- mon Foundation for distinguished achievements among Negroes were held at St. Mark's Church, 137 street and St. Nicholas avenue on New Year’s day. The four Negroes, who were residents of New York.and prize winners, received cash and medals. Similar services, coinciding with Emancipation Day celebrations, were held in other cities where winners of awards lived. COLUMBUS, OHIO, |. L. D. DEMANDS WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM NICARAGUA COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan, 4.—The International Labor Defense branch here has passed a resolution con- demning the action of the United States government In the Nicara- guan invasion and calls for the im- mediate withdrawal of the troops from that country. A copy of the resolution was sent to Sen. Borah, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations. “We believe that the landing of troops in Nicaragua is exceedingly ill-advised and without ample the resolution, “and that the great mass of the American people are not in accord with the imperialistic policy of our coun- try. Therefore, the Columbus local of the International Labor Defense, Whose purpose is the furthering of the interests of the working class, enters an emphatic protest against continued presence of armed American troops in Nicaragua and urge their immediate withdrawal,” NOTICE TO CHICAGO READERS According to a new and more economical system of newsstand distribution, The YAILY WORKER will on the stands by noon eaehnday, Watch for it, The Two Fascist Eagles Tear Their Feathers Poland threatens war in view = r 4 og spe (7742 Er ont Re 7 MG Sf ° Vas 1/4 a. *( Sl of the late fascist revolution in Lithuania. ECRETARY OF LABOR DAVIS says the majority of employers in the United States “are paying their workmen what I term a saving wage.” This will doubtless surprise a good many workers, but it is only one of a number of surprising things to be found in the annual report of the sec- retary of labor for 1926. The secretary states that, “The prosperity of America today is one in which the American workers fully share. The American worker demands the best of all that is made and produced, and, he is receiv- ing it.” “Never has the Communist, the rad- ical of every sort,” says Mr. Davis, “had so little to complain of, and never has his sort of criticism been so little heeded, never has he been so few in numbers.” ‘ “Our people have never had greater need of observing thrift. than in this period of well doing and, being.” Mr. Davis believes—or says he does —that “today American industry is pervaded with 2 contentment, a har- mony of effort, a spirit.o£ partuersnip, greater and warmer than has ever been felt before. Industry itself is, for the most part, at peace. Except for conditions in the coal and textile in- dustries which still call for adjust- ment, the workers, with little to com- plain of, are very generally employed under satisfactory conditions.” INCE Mr. Davis acknowledges that there ate a few details to be at- tended to in the textile industry, it is interesting to read his account of the department of labor’s part, thru its conciliation service, in the great Pas- saic strike. “Representatives of the conciliation service, Commissioner John A. Mof- fitt and William C. Liller, made every possible effort to compose the differ- ences existing between the mill oper- ators and the strikers. The mills were visited; city, county and state officials consulted; conferences held with the clergy of various denominations and representatives of the press, and numerous religious, civic, fraternal and other organizations, “The striking employes were or- ganized into a semi-military marching | organization under the leadership of Albert Weisbord, who it was alleged, was a member of the Workmen's Circle, a Communistic organization af- filiated with the Third International. The mill owners repeatedly stated that they were willing and anxious to take up and adjust any grievances that the strikers might place before them, but that they would not deal with ‘Com- munistic leadership.’ ” FTER quoting the strikers’ de- mands, Mr. Davis goes on to say, The Views of the Secretary of Labor “The department's representatives being unable to formulate a plan ac- ceptable to both sides, finally recom- mended to the department that an in- vitation be extended to the employers to confer with the segretary of labor and the director of conciliation for the purpose of devising amagreement on a tentative proposal which might be ac- ceptable to all those-involved in the controversy. Accordingly, on the week prior to March 17, the secretary of labor and the director of conciliation held conferences in Washington with representatives of the mills affected by the strike. At these conferences a tentative proposal was finally worked out. “On March 17, a committee rep- resenting the strikers, headed by Al- bert Weisbord, with Hon. Frank P. Walsh, of New York, as counsel, visited Washington for ihe purpose, as stated, of asking for a congressional investigation of the Passaic situation, The departm@nt was informed that the committee conferred with several gen- ators and congressmen, and following these conferences appeared at the White House and asked for an inter- view with the president, At the White House the committee,was referred to ze department of labor by the presi- at's cretacy a6 ied been done in| them the case of the mill representatives. Mr, Walsh arranged with the secretary to meet the committee on the after- noon of March 17, and a committee of 15, headed by Mr. Weisbord, conferred with the secretary for more than two hours, The secretary presented the plan which the department had been able to have the mill representatives agree upon, which was in effect that the strikers return to work; that when they did return to work the mill management would meet with such committees as the workers selected to take up any grievances concerning wages, working conditions, and the] like, and that in the event of failure to agree, the employes should select one; the employers select one, and the secretary of labor name a third mem- ber of a committee to hear and de- termine any matters in dispute, and that any decision so reached would be- come effective and retroactive to the time the grievance was presented. In connection with this proposal, how- ever, the employers informed the sec- iGtury, Bue ME BU SURG we mE wee mittee, that under no circumstances would they deal with Weisbord, his associates, or any one who was not a textile worker or who had not been previously employed in their mills, but that they would deal with committees of their own employes, selected by their own methods, and in their own way. The conference adjourned after a two-hour session. The next after- noon the committee appeared at the department and presented a counter- proposal. The proposal submitted had previously been given to the press at Passaic that morning.” LTHO Secretary Davis’ report later reiterates the statement that the mill owners would not deal with Weis- bord, it makes no mention of the fact that Weisbord withdrew and the bosses still refused to negotiate. with the strikers. Of course, the report is not up-to-date enough to include men- tion of the settlements, but closes with the assurance that “representa- tives of the department, in line with their duty in the premises, from time to time visit the locality for the pur- pose of keeping in touch with the exact conditions, and in order to be of such assistance as they can if and when an opportunity is presented whereby a mutually satisfactory settle- ment could be reached that would clear up the whole matter.” At the conclusion of his report, Secretary Davis says: “The problems of the future in America are more and more certain to be not political but industrial and economic prob- lems.” Even he can read the signs of the times, altho he interprets them in tetms of the rulers. Desirability of Labor ‘ Party in U. S. Subject for West Town Forum “Desirability of an American Labor Party” will be the subject for debate at the West Town Forum on Sunday, Jan, 9. George Kirkpatrick, formerly national sec’y, of the socialist party, will uphold the affirmative and An- ton Johannsen, organizer of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor, will take the negative, Admission is 35 cents. “The forum is located at Mid-City Odd Fellows Temple, 3350 W. Jackson Blvd, Judges “Too Busy.” SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan, 4.—That a proposal to change the judicial dis- trict by which circuit judges are chosen will be made at the session of the legislature opening Wednesday is now practically a certainty. Bach’ of these circuits have three judges under the present system and in some’ districts they are unable to handle th¢, large amount of work which 8.) = 00 WITH THEY ,CONDUCTED - BY Ti RR RADE, cu RT RA a NG WORKERS LEAGUE . -. THE GERMAN COMMUNIST YOUTH By IRVING M. GLAZIN, 1s Germany only about 300,000 young workers under the age of 18 are organized in the trade unions, This makes it one of the main tasks of the Young Communist League to work for the unionization of the working youth, At the same time energetic work is being carried on in the youth sections of the trade unions and once a month there is @ special trade union day on which all union fractions must meet and the trade union policy of the league discussed. Anti-Militarist Work. The greatest achievement in this field is the creation of the united front working youth organization— the Red Young Storm (sometimes valled Red Youth Front), This organ- zation with its 25,000 members is 10t only quite effective in combatting he fascist-monarchist youth organi- zations, such as the Bismarck Youth, the Steel Helmet Youth, etc., but is also an excellent weapon in the fight against militarism and imperialist wars, Means of Agitation. The agitational means of the league are quite effective. Demonstrations with red flags (which is prohibited in our land of liberty) and orchestras are quite the usual thing, Extensive use is being made of posting procla- mations, etc., on the walls in the streets. During the campaign for the referendum groups of comrades were walking from one building to the other and by singing songs made the people look out of the windows and thus they were able to agitate them for the referendum and to get contri- butions for the campaign fund. Many other means of agitation are being made use of, but space is too limited to dwell on all of them. Propaganda, The decision of the last congress that every member must go thru an elementary political course is being carried out quite successfully. The four-week league course for leading comrades was a great achievement, but a mistake was made in not suf- ficiently utilizing in the districts and sections the comrades who were thus Affairs That Youth Should Attend stat ABE Rosa" Laxentodfe™ iad: rial Meeting will be held here Sun- day evening, Jan. 23rd at the Newark Labor Lyceum, 704 South 14th Street near Springfield Ave. There will be songs and other features on the pro- gram, On Saturday evening, Jan. 29, at the Slovak Workers’ Home, 52 West Street, the Young Workers League will hold its fourth annual dance, Ad- mission 35 cents. * ees ROXBURY, Mass.—A Young Work- er Nite will be held here Saturday, Jan, 8, at the New International Hall, 42 Wenonah St. Los Angeles League Offers Helluva Time LOS ANGELES.—The Young Work- ers’ League of this city asks you to wear your worst rags at a Hobo blow- out to be given at Co-operative Cen- tef, 2706 Brooklyn avenue, Saturday evening, Jan. 29. They promise a helluva time at a real Bums’ Get-to- gether. All the dough they can frisk out of your overalls will be split be- tween the League and the Cleakmak- er strikers. Wear the darndest out- fit you can get hold of by second- story work. Boston League Opens Club Room. BOSTON.— A club room for the Young Workers’ League will be open- ed on Jan. 9, at 36 Causeway street. trained. The, influence of the mass organ, Die Junge Garde (The Young Guard), and the theoretical organ, Der : Junge Bolschevik (The Young Bol- shevik), is growing from day to day, | Reorganization of League. This problem (similar to the situa- tion {n other leagues) was not dealt with correctly by the German Y. C. L. In Berlin, for instance, the reorgani- zation had so many shortcomings that it was quite difficult to correct it. The mechanical mspect consisted of setting too short a period of time for the re- organization, there was an improper, distribution of comrades among the factory groups, while the residential organizations were simply liquidated. These mistakes have since been cor- rected and the league is now being completely reorganized on the basis of factory and street groups. This makes the league more active and in- fluential than ever before. Fight Rights and Utra-Lefts, The Y. C, L, ig fully supporting the line of the comintern and the party against the right and ultra-left, as well as against the opposition in the Russian party (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kameneff), The opposition existing in the league some time ago has been liquidated, At the last congfess five- sixths of the delegates voted for the line of the central committee. Since then the leaders of the districts then in opposition (Hamburg, Erzgebirge, Vogtland) have acknowledged in res- olutions that the standpoint taken by them at the congress was wrong. Comrade Gramkov, who signed up with the ultra-left at the enlarged plenum of the B, C. C. 1, was not a represéntative of the Hamburg League district, but merely an advis- ory member of the youth delegation, and thus solely represented his per- sonal viewpoint. Thus we see that the German Young Communist International is well on the road to accomplish its task of leading the young workerg to- wards the approaching proletarian revolution in Germany, Why don’t you write It up? It may be interesting to other workers, Young Hoboes March on Berkeley, to Dance m&enr "one: me aoaa “Te wethe ley, California, for on the evening of Saturday, January 22, at Comrades Hall, Berkeley (near University and San Pablo) at 8 p. m., the Berkeley group of the Young Workers League will give a “hard times” party and dance, Special hobo numbers are on the program as well as “eats.” Then @ real surprise—Al Kelly’s Union Or- chestra will play and a free sub will be given with each ticket to the Young Worker for four months, Pioneers Entertain at San Jose, Jan. 8 SAN JOSE, Cal, Jan. 4—The Young Pioneers of Palo Alto and San Jose will give a joint entertainment here at Druids hall Jan. 8. A splen- did program has been arranged, in- cluding the presentation of a play, singing, marching and speaking. A good time is promised everyone. Student Is Suicide. AURORA, Ill, Jan, 4—Joe N. Moore, 21, University of Illinois stu- dent and son of a wealthy physician at Guarajuato, Mexico, was dead to- day, a suicide, according to police. “existence just doesn’t matter that's all,” said a note left for his sister, Mrs. Walter J. Bryant, at whose home he was visiting over the holidays. The best way—sudscribe today. For Young Workers! 0) | 1 0) 0] 0) 0] 0] and Luxemburg .... Zur Muehlen ... LENIN. LIEBKNECHT AND LUXEMBURG. by Max Shacht- THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH, by Sam Darcy.. YOUNG COAL MINERS, by Toohey, Nearing, Shields ind JANUARY FIFTEENTH, collected writings on Liebknecht soveeeveeess TBS THESES OF THE FOURTH Y. C. I. 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