The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER f____} Workers (Communist) Party Call for United Front Against Danger of New War in Leaflet Form; Rush Distribution! Nationalization of Coal Is Lecture at N. Y. School Friday NEW YORK, Jan. 11, — National- ization of the coal mines, as @ solu- tion of the permanent coal crisis that afflicts our industry, will be the sub Ject for a lecture by H. 8. Raushen- bush, secretary of the committee on coal and giant power, at the Workers School, 108 East 14 St. Friday night, Jan, 14 at 8 p. m., as one in the series of symposium lectures on American Labor Problems, held every Friday night. The brazen attacks of American im- Perlalism and its tool, the American government, upon Nicaragua, Mexico and Chine provides @ unusual oppor- tunity to arouse the masses of the American workers to realize the menacing situation facing them and to rally in the campaign in support of the struggle for emancipation of the peoples of China, Mexico and Nica- ragua and against the imperialist ad- ventunes of Wail Street. The party has issued e call adkirss- ed to the American Federation of La bor, to the soctalist party, to the In- dustrial Workers of the World, and te _|all other workers’ and farmers’ or _| ganizations calling for united struggle against the dangers of new wars that Qualified Speaker. Raushenbush is qualified to speak on this subject both by his position as the secretary of the committee con- sisting of economists, la neers, labor leaders, publicists been investigating ness men who have the coal and power industries, and also by virtue of his authorship of | Weingtone to Give several important on the sub- B , inclu d, “The Comparative Study pamphlet ° NS eee Chat of Lenin and Debs and Power. al industry NEW. YORK, Jan it A dektuve fai a 2 spring of wih * Perey: sade liad prove an /on “Debs and Lenin” by William W. important c ition to an under- Weinstone is announced at the Work- standing of the questions involved. |¢ts’ School Forum at 108 Hast 14th saat Street, for Sunday night, Jan. 16. mae ane Slomecwan: Leap "5 The comparison of the hitherto out- On the following Fr night, an. | standing leader of thé American re- 21, Ben Gold and Cha ee merman, ! -olutionary workers and the outstand- leaders in the fur and garment in-) ing leader of the Russian revolution- dustries respectively, will speak on ary workers and of the world prole- pee eonation . one ceases tariat, presents an interesting study ee and, on J Re ante ban | in the entire problem of working class Stolberg will k on “The Vested Interests in Organized Labor.” Cleveland Workers Arrange Big Affair for Lenin Memorial Toledo, Ohio, Jan, 4, 1927. Dear Comrade: In the Saturday issue of The DAILY WORKER, dated January 1, I have been challenged to state what I am doing to Keep The DAILY WORKER. I will answer the challenge with five points. First, I am co-operating 100 percent with our local DAILY WORKER CLEVELAND, Jan. 11. — On Jan. 28 Cleveland will hold a meeting com- memorating the death of Lenin. It will take place at 2 p. m. at Moose Hall, 1001 Chester St. Comrade Benjamin Gitlow, member of ©. B. C. of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, will be the chief speaker /agent in building up the sucscriptions for the occasion. of our daily. An excellent program is belng ar-| Second, I have renewed three ex- ranged with the Lithuanian and Hun-| pire subs to our press for one year, garian choruses and a symbolic pan-/also added two new readers, one for tomime representing the international/, year and one for six months and struggle between world imperialism |haye renewed my own subscription and the Communist International. |for the year 1927. This pantomine is given by the Work-| Third, have appeared before labor ers Drama League of Cleveland under | ynions and fraternal societies in be- the direction of Com. Sadie Amter. | half of The DAILY WORKER. “"—“Biekets are 250, A full house is/ Fourth, I have kept the comrades expected. of Group No. 21 on razor edge to sell certificates to save The DAILY We will send sampte coples of The) WORKER. Our quota is $45.00. Up DAILY WORKER to your friends~ +. date we have raised $30.00 and we send in thelr addresses. are going over the top. Fifth, I have pointed out to the ocal executive committee of the party hat it was wrong for them to change he program as was laid down by the party to save The DAILY WORKER, with the result that Group No. 21 is carrying out the work in accordance with the program that was received from The DAILY WORKER. In closing, may say to the comrade that challenged me, this is all I have done, which is a mere trifle; so let us keep our shoulders to the wheel and build a powerful labor press, The DAILY WORKER to fight the com- bined capitalist sheets and all of those that are enemies or betrayers of the working class. Yours for the cause and on with the fight, ‘ Now on Sale! Tvs Comrade Buehler, I am challenging Comrade EB. W. Sells of Akron, Ohio, to show a record equal to mine in this campaign to Keep The DAILY WORKER. January, 1927 25 Cents Contents: * Towards Leninism By Bertram D. Wolfe t++ Position and Opposition in the i F. S, U. By Max Bedacht i +++ The Problems of the Enlarged Executive of the Comintern By John Pepper More Answers to Our Challenges PASSAIC WORKERS, ATTENTION! “The Workers’ Press Helped Passaic,— Let’s Help the Workers’ Press!” WORKERS’ PRESS BALL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15 at Belmont Park Hall, Garfield FOUR MORE. DIE IN GANG FEUDS AT HERRIN, ILL. Shelton Gang Raids Bir- ger Stronghold HERRIN, Ill, Jan, 11,—Sheriffs of the three southern Illinois counties joined forces today in an effort to seek out those guilty in the midnight bomb and machine 4 attack on “Shady Rest,” a roadhousé near here, in which three men arfd éne woman lost their lives. ia 20 Murders in 3°Years. Wall Street ds planning. This open letter has been printed in leaflet form | and will be distributed at $2 a thou-| sand, | It is one of the most important | duties of every party organization and | of every party member in preparation for this united front to distribute | thousands and thousands of copies of this call so that the méssage of united resistance to Wail Street will reach every worker jin this country with whom we have any sort of contact. 4 This task cannot be delayed. Days| The roadhouse was ted in a count and the party must respond Im- | dense ‘woods, 300 feet from the mediately. | highway running between.Harrisburg Rush all orders to: Workers (Com-|224 Marion, and was said to have r | been the rendezvous of, the notorious munist) Party, 1118 W. Washington “las Blvd., Chicago. Charles Birger gang, blamed for more |than a score of murders in the past three years. The roadhouse was burned to the ground and the bodies were so badly charred that positive identification was impossible. Two of the bodies were thought to be those of Steve George, a Birger henchman, and his wife. George was proprietor of Shady Rest. Accuse Shelton Gang. Authorities working on the case to- day declared their belief that the at- tack was made by the Shelton gang, long a rival of the Birgers for control speak on “Revolution and Literature,” of the bootlegging concessions in and on Feb. 6, Bernard J, Stern on| Little Egypt. “Contributions of Modern Science to| , °°rse was identified by ® finger Historical Materialism.” jring. The ‘womans iggy wes Relley- ed to be his wife, as she was the only woman known to have been at the roadhouse at the time of the at- tack. leadership, its nature and the qualifi- cations that make for such leadership. It is from this angle that Comrade | Weinstone will treat his subject. | On Sunday night, Jan. 23, Louis Lozowick will speak on “Art and So- ciety.” Lozowick is an outstanding proletarian artist and in addition a conscious one with a definite and con- scious theory of proletarian art, His lecture will deal with the influence of social history upon the develop- ment of art. On’ Jan. 30, H. W. L. Dana will Like France, Farmers living in the neighborhood described the scene as “just like ac- counts of Belleau Wood and the Ar- gonne.” J. R. Ritchey gaye this ac- count: * “At midnight all wag quiet. A few minutes later a blast, obviously a bomb, resounded over the country- side. Then there was a great burst of flame and the rat-tat-tat of machine gun fire. The heavens lighted up as Shady Rest went up in'smoke. Soon all was quiet again.” Millinery Workers Demand 40-Hr. Week From N. Y. Employers NEW YORK, Jan, 11.—The 40-hour work week is one of the demands of the millinery workers of New York Organized by the International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Un- ion, they are asking increases in shops: paying below present stand- ards; penalizing of employers or foremen who work at the bench; no purchasing of ready-made hats when shop workers are not fully employed and purchasing of such hats other- wise from union shops only; security for payment of one week’s wages in ease the firm goes bankrupt, Employers are asked to grant the 40-hour week if the bulk of the work ers in the trade are, put on that basis by agreements. Nathaniel Spector. manager of the millinery workers’ union, estimates the number of shops with which the union has written agreements at 250, employing 35 per cent of the workers; and the number of verbal agreements at 150, covering 65 per cent of the workers. We Challenge Margaret Miller, Chicago. Chicago, Ill, Jan. 4, 1927. Dear Comrade Miller: This, I think, I will answer your challenge. Being secretary of a nucleus—I na- turally place the question of the sup- port of The DAILY WORKER as the main and most urgent point on the order of the nucleus business at wWreery meeting. Result is that in spite of the dif- ficulties to a nucleus composed prac- tically of all foreign speaking com- rades, who are burdened with the support of their respective language papers, we have managed to raise $151.25 up-to-date. That makes about $5.00 per member. Of course, our in- tention is not to stop there. Coupons are being sold right along and prac- tically every comrdde has’ donated a day’s or at least a half day’s wages for The DAILY WORKER. Individually, I feel I have raised my quota, but my conscience is not resting peacefully. How can it with the campaign still going on and so much at stake? I am sure my whole nucleus feels that same way about it. Practically at every meeting we man- age to raise some money for The DAILY WORKKER. With this per sistence, we hope to double our quota. Fraternally yours, Nellie Katilus, Sec. O yes, I am challenging Comrade Margaret Miller of St. Nucleus No. 6, Chicago, to show that she and her| nucleus have done as much as we) have in this campaign to Keep The DAILY WORKER. All right, Margaret, do your stuff! More Beds For Crazy Veterans, WASHINGTON. — Chairman John- son of the house’s veterans’ commit- tee is asking an appropriation of $16,000,000 for new hospitals or the enlargement of old ones. He calls for 5,000 additional beds to care for world war veterans suffering from mental | disorders. DAYTON, Ohio —(FP)—Fired for talking about the klan is the fate of E. W. Castella, president of the newly organized Dayton janitors’ union. The school board’s action against Castella has stirred strong labor protest. Among the numerous’ contributions expected to the $10,000 Workers’ Car- nival Bazaar to be | in Chicago Feb. 25, 26, 27, is thejone just an- nounced by the committee in charge. The secretary of the Lenin Branch ‘of the Independent Workmen's Circle, S. Miller, informed the committee \that the branch would’ donate $250 | worth of articles te +++ ADMISSION 25 CENTS | alread ‘collected tor | The Struggle in the Needle 7 But Small Portidi, Too. ‘Trades By Wm. Z. Foster Proceeds for ies 2 plein page onras the only This donation is " small por- seit aily in English. tion of the wealth of y that will 4] | The Soviet Economy on the | Ninth Anniversary ++ Ultra-Left Menshevism By Heinz Neumann +++ More About the First American Revolution By Jay Lovestone +++ Civilization—An Historical Category By Emanuel Kanter f +e The Youth and the Labor » Movement By L. Plott ++ With Marx and Engels— A Review SAN FRANCISCO, ATTENTION! “The Passaic Strike—What It Means to the American Workers” HEAR ALBERT WEISBORD Organizer and Leader of the Passaic Strike WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19th, 1927, at 8 P. M. be offered at the The large Ashland auditorium, in the af- fair is to be held, will booths on all sides of the hall at which a rich \display of articles will be available to |all who come to the bazaar. Dancing, singing, music, and scores of other at- tractions will be features during the three days of jolly fun. Besides this Young Co WE MUST CARRY OUT THE WORK LIEBKNECHT DIED FOR! Oar Teacher. By H. M. UR teacher is a big fool. He takes the bible in the morning and reads it to us. Then he asks us ques- tions from the bible, One question I did not know so he asked: “What kind of a Catholic are you?” Many times we have prayers, even, Bys I never say them. On Thanksgiving Day he told the children to eat all day. But he didn’t ask whether we had anything to eat. So that’s the kind of fool he is. His name is Mr. Francis Simpson. He 1s a mean bad teacher. I hate him with all my might. Every time we make a mistake he makes fun of us. That shows how much sense he got. All of us hate him and are against him. “Albert Weisbord” —That’s Who It Is Bella Scaffer, Detroit, Mich— “T happened to notice the picture in the CONTRIBUTIONS COMING IN FOR BIG WORKERS’ CARNIVAL BAZAAR HERE IN FEBRUARY; PRESS AND I. L. D, BENEFIT Young Comrade Section of The DAILY WORKER. It asked who the man was and it said he was the lead- er of a strike and it asked where the strike was. Here is my answer: His name is Albert Weisbord. The strike is in Passaic, N. J.” ** Anna Ujcich, Cleveland, Ohio—’The picture of the man in The DAILY WORKER Young Comrade Section is of Albert Weisbord. The strike is in mrade It is now elght years that Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were brutally murdered because they were |f such good fighters for the working |j people, 15, 1919, They were killed on January Liebknecht's great work was fight: |p ing against militarism and helping to organize the young workers. The old Socialists, who were already begin- ing to betray the workers, didn’t like | the work he was doing and they tried in every way to hinder him but they couldn’t stop him very much, When the war broke out most of the Socialists and trade union lead- ers went right over to the side of the kaiser and told the workers to go out and fight for the bosses, But Lieb- knecht and Luxemburg and his’ small band—the Spartakus League—stood firm and told the workers the truth and led the workers against the war. For that Liebknecht was put into prison, Finally the German ‘workers got lution. The kaiser was overthrown and Liebknecht was fletlout ofprison. But the workers still believed in the fake socialists and let them lead the government. Just as these fake So- clalists had before supported the kais- er’s war as now they went ahead sup- pressing the workers and handing the Passaic, New Jersey.” ree Louis Weiss, Minneapolis, Minn.— “The picture is of Albert Weisbord, the man who led the biggest strike ot the textile workers of Passaic and the surrounding towns of New Jersey.” Little Mary Wins Passaic Drive. DENVER, Col.—In a drive con- ducted among workers’ children by the Colorado Labor Advocate for the sale of Passaic Relief Milk Coupons, Little Mary McLaughlin and Roberta Knight were declared the winners. Mary carried off first honors with a sale of $64 worth of the coupons, The prize was a free pass for the year 1927 to the America Theater here. Pittsburgh Children, Attention! A Karl Liebknecht memorial meet- ing will be held Jan. 16, 1927, at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., 2 p. m. sharp. A good musical program. Admission free. Auspices: Young Ploneers Pittsburgh, Pa. of government over ito the bosses. Lieb- knecht and his friends cried out against this amd told the workers that they must really do in order to have a workers’ government, For this the fake Socialists made a conspiracy with the old kaiser officers and butch- ered many hundreds of good workers and killed Kiebknecht and Luxem- burg. Liebknecht’s great fight and heroic death is a great source of inspiration By B. D., Frunze (Newark, N. J.) Pioneer. ERE is what happens in, our school. In case children turn around, the teacher takes them by the ear and pulls them and pulls, their hair and says: “That’s a nice bunch of hair to take hold of.” The teach- er takes us by the chin and shakes us. She also has a ruler which she uses pretty often on the children, If we leave the. room to go to the toilet the teacher gives our names to the head teacher and then we have to make up the time we are out of the Reach Compromise on Radio Control, Sen. Dill Reports WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—A tenta- tive agreement for legislation giving the government control over radio has been reached between senate and house conferees, it was announced by Senator Dill (D) of Washington.’ Form Compromise, Dill said the conferees had agreed to a compromise respecting the house provision giving Secretary Hoover full control and the senate provision creating a separate federal commis- sion to regulate the air. He declined to give details of the compromise but reports were current ‘that the com- mission would be retained to issue regulations and Hoover given power to administer them. The conferees will meet Tuesday to draft a com- oromise agreement, By WALTER BURKE, (In Detroit Labor News) Detroit will have the opportunity to witness the most elaborate exhi- bition of sports ever arranged by the Labor Sports Union of America, com- mencing Thursday, Jan, 13th, and lasting thru Sunday, Jan. 16. From Ohio, ftlinois, Minnesota, New York and Massachusetts, sport delegations will be present to compete with Mich- igan groups and individuals for the honors of the first great labor sports’ a beautiful Chrysler sedan will be given to the winner of that prize, fol- lowed by a large radio set and numer- ous other prizes for the other win- ners. The bazaar is being held for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and the Jewish Daily Freiheit. The com- mittee has also decided to donate one- third of the net profits to the Inter- national Labor Defense for its work for the class war prisoners and de- fendants. Dozens of comrades are working energetically to make the ba- zaar a unique success, and from the reports already at hand it is certain that the Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren, will be filled every moment of the three days during which the bazaar will be running full blast, Tickets are to be had at 19 8. Lincoln St., and from members of the Workers (Communist) Party, Third Birthday Party to be For admission Cards phone ae San Francisco Workers, Attention! You are cordially invited to attend the SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1927, at 8 o'clock at 225 Valencia Street. “ad” with you, of The Daily Worker held Market 1746 or bring S | ticular to trade unionists, the coming exhibition in Detroit. Events at Meet. Working men and women and work- ing class children will participate in this exhibition which will cover a wide field of sport, High jump and running broad jump for men and wo- men, horizontal and parallel bars, cal- esthenics and other group work is in- dicated in the program. Also a bas- ketball game on Friday and Saturday with a banquet at the conclusion of the program on Sunday. Dances will follow the conclusion of the program, each evening. ‘ To all men and women interested in the labor sports idea and in par- exhibition in Detroit should be an event of the greatest importance. It must and will receive the support of everybody in the working-class move ment who is desirous of keeping the sport instinct free from the poison of commercialism, in the first place and in the second place, of utilizing this instinct for developing class-conscl- ousness and dignity, instead of letting it be used by the employers for great- er profits to themselves and for still- ing the class spirit. eS Martel to Speak. President Frank X. Martel, of the Detroit Federation of Labor and George R. Wonnacott, of the Detroit Labor News) have shown their inter est by accepting invitations a8 spoak- ers at the banquet. Furthermore in: addition to the local speakers the Na- tional Organizer of the Labor Sports Union will speak of the experi: ences and the concrete future, Tho National oe a the Labor Sports Union. r i Pieoo dm the nearest future, ‘hie im- ¢ ‘ tired of the war and started a revo-|™ jist wars—we must fight against now. TEACHERS MUST KEEP HANDS OFF CHILDREN LABOR SPORTS UNION HOLDS THREE- DAY SPORTS’ EXHIBITION IN DETROIT ‘ings where the “red propaganda” was their favorite diversion; it has even gone so far that members of the Red ‘ture and records, ous young worker who had never for thé|heard of the Young Workers League ly afterwan* Section Karl Lilebknecht ‘ for the revolutionary workers amd workers’ children the world over, The things Liebknecht fought against— militarism and the dangers of capital- The things he fought for—the organ- ization of the young workers—we must fight for now. Liebknecht has shown us the way—It Ig up to us to Subscribe to the Young Comrade! room after school. She says we should think before we talk but when we get up to talk and take some time in thinking, she hol- lers: “Come over here!” and she shakes us and makes us cry. I think teachers should use their hands on themselves if they like to and not on other children who don’t » ‘belong to them. That’s one thing we Pioneers are fighting for.. The main thing we say is: We want to have a Say about how our school Is run and how our teachers treat.us. We want no hitting or hair pulling. portant affair will be held at the Fin- nish Labor Temple, 5969 14th street, near McGraw. Single admission is 50¢ and tickets for the entire affair are $1.50. Senator Shortridge Raps Y. W. L.; Result New Member Gained LOS ANGELDS, Calif—In a speech which was broadcast over the radio, Samuel Shortridge, recently re-elected to the United States senate from Oali- fornia, demanded repressite measures be taken against members of the Young Workers League, and especial- ly against ‘the Young Pioneers in cer- tain Los Angeles schools, whenetheir activity has become a thorn in the side of the school authorities, As a result of this speech, patniotic organizations like the American Leg- ion, and the Daughters of the Ameri- ican Revolution (2), have held meet- painted in durid oolors. The Ameri- Legion of Whittier, a town new Angeles, decided to devote theit est efforts to “clean wp” the Com- unists who were endangering their institutions.” cent publication of the Better America Federation, a stool-pigeon organiza- tion for the Chamber of Commerce, spreads the alarm about the large and successful meetings held in and around Los Angeles where Scott Near- ing spoke. The Communist bogey seems to be Squad have visited the offices of the Needle Trades Council, headquarters Of several needle trade unions, and attempted to confiscate union litera- AN that publicity © ven ‘the Communists by Senator hortridge over the radio gave the fol- lowing net results, that a Class-conseci- attended its meéetings for the ‘time, and joined the league short- A + <