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Workers’ |Communist| Party SECTION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS RUSSIAN PART Sec. I—Mon., Jan. 31, at 6 P. M Sec. See. Sec. > _ Sec. 5.—Tues., Feb. 1, Sec, 6.—(Brooklyn)— TO DISCUSS THE Y OPPOSITION Speaker, Wolfe. 28th St.—Speaker, Weinstone. . 28th St.—Speaker, Wolfe. (a) W'msb'g—Tues., Feb. 1, at 6 P. M—29 Graham Ave.—Weinstone, (b) B'sville—Wed., Feb. 7.—Wed., Feb. 2, at 8 P.M Admission Sec, at 8, P. M.—63. Liberty § 1940 Benson Ave.—Speaker, John Ballam. membership card only. —Markoff. Comrades, who for some reason are disconnected from the Party should come to these meetings. There will bi properly assigned to a Party nucleus. NEW JERSEY LENIN Friday, Feb. 4.—8 P. M.—Paterson—8 e someone who will see that they are JEMORIAL MEET P. M.—Carpenters’ Hall. Speakers, H. M. WICKS and BERT WOLFE. Also Yonkers—Sunday, Feb. 6th—8 P. M.—20 Warbartun Avenue. 3,000 Attend the Lenin Memorial Meetings in Detroit (By A Worker Correspondent.) | DETROIT, Mich. ers attended the memorial meeti answer to the effor f the military | authorities to stop the Lenin demon- stration by x the armory a week befo 3,000 work- | ency Lenin | s a fitting Over two en ing was scheduled. The Workers’ Home and the Finnish Labor were packed to the limit and hv is of workers were turned away by the police who woujd permit the sale of any more tic! The Workers Home opened by R. Bake’ « ganizer of the We rs (Commu Party with the entire audience r in silence to the memory of the work- ing class fighters all over the world while the orchestra played the Re lutionary Funeral March, during me! time the huge portrait of Lenin, painted for this was un- veiled. The Yor and the Ukrainian Workers Chorus sang rev- olutionary songs at this meeting. Re- becca Grecht, the well known Com- munist speaker and organizer was in- troduced as the ‘first spea' and was followed by the representative of the! Young Workers (Communist) League | | | Comrade Walter Trumbul. Wm. Z. Foster, the principal speaker, was re- ceived with an enthusiastic ovation which prevailed throughout the meet- ; ing. Foster spoke of the far reach- ing influence of Leninism among the} Workers in the capitalist countries! and the oppressed peoples of China, | Nicaragua, Mexico and other op-| pressed nationalities. The meeting! was closed with the entire audience } singing the International. | The Finnish Hall Meeting. i Simultaneously with the above | meeting a huge demonstration was} being held in the Finrish Labor Tem- | ple presided by Wm. Reynolds. Long before the opening hour the hall was filled to capacity and hundreds of workers were turned away. The Fin- nish Workers band, the Finish Work- ers’ chorus and John Anderson, tenor, furnished the revolutionary musical program at this meeting with the Young Pioneer Chorus as the out- standing attraction. Wm. Z. Foster, Rebecca Grecht and Walter Trumbul spoke at this meeting also. Roll in the Subs For The WORKER. DAILY PRT Pa Da i ERE GD READ Imperialism—The Last . Stage of Capitalism By N. Lenin Price, 60¢ in paper, $1.00 Cloth-bound. 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Problems 4 On sale now at 4 tractively bound in DAILY WORKER 33 First Street New York, N. Y. Ra Dp Cigg eh AN As ysis of Lenin and living Marx- The book is to L. com Copy, ate paper, { te Shock Utah Professors When Harvard Speaker Found To Be Weisbord SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 30.—Al- bert Weiskcrd invaded a capitalist strongheld when he appealed to the students of the University of Utah to join the workers in the class strug: gle. University officials were bu day apologizing for Wei: olutionary speech, which has aroused the ire of Salt Lake City’s Babbi President Thomas expected a “res- pectable” Harvard Law School eraduate, when he granted permission to the liberal students of the univer- {sity to hold a forum in one of the class rooms. “While the university believes in free speech,” President Thomas said, “it certainly is opposed to the discussion of direct action in (any form.” ord’s rev- ‘CLASS FOR TRAINING PARTY FUNCTIONARIES = WILL BE GIVEN SUNDAYS AT WORKERS’ SCHOOL. A class for the training of Party School on Sunday, Feb. 20th, at The class will be given on ers’ attend. Comrade Jack Stachel, the orga district, is the instructor. The class will have as its aim to improve the knowledge in organiza- tion of the Party Functionari and the training of new functionaries for whom’ there is a great need in the party. The organization department of the calls upon section, sub-section, , and trade union officials to take the course. Others will be ad- mitted to the course provided they show a fitness for the course. In some cases where the comrades lack the necessary qualifications for the course they will be allowed to take it provided they take other courses in the school in which they are de- ficient. Comrades who are not long in the party and who desire to take this, course should take Comrade Wein- stone’s class in the history of the Workers Party The following is a brief outline of the topics to be treated. OF CAPMAKERS JOINS BOSSES | Chicago Local Demands His Resignation CHICAGO, Il. Jan. 30.—At the la meeting of the Capmakers Union, L cal 5, it was officially announced that the general organizer of the western states, and member of the general ex- / ecutive board of the international union, Perey Ginsberg, had resigned from his position with the union, and accepted a position with the manufac- turers’ association. Herefater he will be their official representative and general manager. Rumors have been current for quite a while, that Ginsberg had connections witH® the bosses, and many previous demands had been made for ‘his resig- nation. Yet because he was officially the manager of the district, no action could be brought to bear against him. His resignation will be considered at the next meeting of the board. P Already before the 1926 convention of the A. F. of L., the general execu- | tives had information, which should have barred Ginsberg from being elig- ible to go to Detroit. Nevertheless, he was endorsed as their regular elected delegate. Ginsberg later became so bold in his connections with the bosses, that the executive board was compelled to take action. A motion was carried, to de- | mand his resignation. | Re-elect Building Council Officials (¥P.)—Recognition of! CHICAGO, ihe success with which the Landis at- tempt to smash the building tredes unions has been conquered is se*n in the re-election of President F. P. Sul- livan and Secretary J. J. Conroy of the Chicago building tides council for 3-year terms. Their principal achievement was the signisg cf an agreement with tie leading Chiesgo contractors «liminat- ing non-union work on all their jobs in departments whére union crafts- men are uffiliated with the council, This covers practically every carpenters, Two Children Drown. ELMIRA, N. Y., Jan. $0.—Two children are dead today from drown- ing despite the heroic efforts of a pet dog to drag them from the water, Kenneth Lovell, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lovell, of Chemung, and Robert Shaw, 6, son of Mr and Mrs. William Shaw, of Chemung, were playing beside Wynkoop Creek when they toppled into the water. The bodies were found after Mrs. Lovell saw the dog, dripping wet, barking 2xeitedly on the bank, Functionaries will begin in the Work- 11 A. M. Sunday mornings in order to make it pos- | sible for Party Functionaries and comrades active in the trade unions to anization secretary of the New York 1, Organization snd polities. 2. Leninist principles of organiza- tion. 3. The structure of the Workers} Party and its relation to the Comin-| tern. 4. The shop nuclei and the work in | the factories. 5. Americanization, work in heavy industry, ete. 6. Conventions, conferences, tte... 7. Party fraction work in non-party organizat 5 8. Recruiting new members, | building up of party influence. | 9. The press, selling literature, ete. 10. How to keep records, send in reports, etc. 11. The ‘different departments |the party and how they function. 2 iseussion of practical prob- lems brot up by the students. | Register at the Workers’ School, |108 E. 14th St. or with Comrade Stachel. and of VICE PRESIDENT = “weseue “Senator” | Save Insull Senator WASHINGTON, D. C.—Frank L. | Smith, hero in Tlinois of the Reed in- | vestigating committea exposures of! | traction money spent in the Republi- |can primaries, and barred on that jaccount from the seat to which he vas elected, is contemplating a come- iw | ba According %o those close to the “senator,” the campaign will start in Illinois, where Sam Insull, the trac- tion magnate is a power, and will be twofold. First, Smith will ‘gun in the primaries again, next April. Money is as good this year as last, and Smith has his hopes. State Rights Again. Second, Governor Len Small, his supporter, will appeal to the gov- ernors of the several states, for a united front in favor of “state rights” to send any man they please jto the Senate, without having him |passed upon by those already in “the | most exclusive club in America.” Smith, so his friends say, will also! ibring a hundred witnesses to what-' jever tribunal the Senate establishes jfor his trial, if and when it ever | dces that. ($900 a Year Pre-War Money for Government Employees; Ask Raise WASHINGTON, (FP).—Pleading with congress to pass their bill es- tablishing a minimum wage for fed- eral employes at $1,500 a year, the National Federation of Federal~Em- ployes explains that this means only power of pre-war money. Luther Steward, president of the national organization, showed that more than 20 percent of the federal | workers quit their jobs each year, | and he points to the source of trouble. _ It lies in the failure of the civil serv- ice classification board to carry out the duty of wage-adjustment with which | congress invested it in Sec, 12 of the classification law. Congress author- ized the board to study and report to congress its conclusions as to just }and reasonable readjustment of he / rates of pay for federal workers. Tho board has done nothing, although the cost of living has steadily increased, craft! and many classes of workers have jcomplained of under-payment. Now | the union calls upon congress to take ‘action without permitting further sabotage by the classification board. | Steward told the house civil sery- jice committee that the 317 locals of his | union stand squarely behind the Welch (California) bill which would fix $1,500 as the minimum pay for full time work by adult employes. BERLIN, Jan. 28,—Former min- ister of war Gessler today resigned from the democratic party in pro- test against his party’s opposition to his accepting a portfolio in the new (Marx cabinet. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY | $900 as measured in the purchasing | LEGAL MURDER IS CHARGE OF SACCO, Court Amazed at Story Of Police Frame-Up BOSTON, Mass., Jan, 30.—‘“Mur- der itself, the term appied by Sac- co and Vanzetti’s counsel, William _|C. Thompson, to the activities of the | department of justice and the M | chusetts district attorney, in their ef- forts to convict the two Italian work- jers whose case is now in the hands |of the Massachusetts Supreme Court | here, | During the hearing before the court {on Judge Thayer’s denial of a new trial for Saceo and Vanzetti, the | judges and a throng of distinguished {people in the court room, were startled by the frank statement of Assistant District Attorney. Dudley | P. Ranney, that the stool-pigeon meth- had been practiced in this dd the cooperation of the States and local state police es in suppressing evidence ‘one way of disposing of radicals could not deport.” “Justice Exposed” | Ranney justified placing a spy |the ceil next to Saceo and trying to end him to the electri¢ chair. vict attorney also justified used to | The di tive the eports which would have proved tate’s star witnesses unrealiab’e helnful to Saceo and Vanzetti. is the final attempt to gain a new trial for Nicola Sacco and Bartole- meo Vanbetti who have been living jin the shadow of the gallows for th? | past five years. more and more new evidence was un- eather; and following the procuring of affidavits concérning the activities of the department of justice in this ease, Judge Thayer, who had _ pre- sided at the trial of these workers was again appealed to several months ago for a new trial. Judge Hostile, His violent prejudice in this case has been evident from the very be- ginning of the trial at which the men were convicted, and it had been shown during each hearing on the plea for a new trial, But it was not until his most recent denial of .a trial, last ‘eptember, that certain prominent itizens of Boston and one capitalist newspaper became aware of his ob- | viously “hostile attitude. His decision j was followed by wide spread denun- |ciation of his action, and this has led ;to an unusual interest in the appeal {just heard by the State Supreme | Court. | The hearing was concluded on Sat- furday, and the fate of Sacoo and Vanzetti rests in the hands of the | judges. It may be weéks or months before they announce whether there jis or is not to be a new trial granted. If it is refused, the men will be sen- jtenced by Judge Thayer and there is inot the slightest doubt that he will {sentence them to death—as he has {been trying to do for so long. orkers Persee! i In closing his argument before the court on Saturday, Wiliam C. Thomp- son, counsel for Saceo and Vanzetti, referring to the actions of the police authorities said: “If this is supposed to be justice, a far deal, we show very little trust and confidence in our own govern- ment, and we go far toward justify- ing those who say it is a sham and ought to be abolished. If citizens of respectability were in these men’s places, and anything had been’ done to them such as was done to these men at their trial, the court would be quick to remedy. Do your honors be- lieve that it is legitimate cooperation for the department of justice to send two miserable aliens out of the wor'd by way of the electric chair when they found they could not legally send them out of the conutry? « “That's murder itself.” Boston Workers School Asks Lithuanians and Italians to New Class BOSTON, Mass. — The Boston Workers School announces the open- ing of another English class to be held in South Boston for the Lithuan- trict. The class will meet Monday night, January Sist at 8 p. m, with Comrade Phyllis Fenigston in room 1 of the Lithuanian Citizen Club, 376 Broadway, South Boston, Mass. | The charge will $1.00 for the course. registered’ may do so at the first ses- sion. Aircraft Shipments Barred. WASHINGTON, Jan, 30. — Ship- ment of aircraft, either military or non-military, to Mexico, was pro- hibited today in an@order issued to customs collectors, unless, the ship- pers have a special export license from the state department. Pre- viously, non ae aircraft was ex- ported without re . The state de- partment ordered a change in the poliey. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. get some information that could be | withholding parts of certain detec: | and would have presented information | The nearing before the State Su- | preme Court lasted several days and | There have been} many other pleas for a new trial, as | ian and Italian comrades of that dis. Those who have not CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) sponsible for the May Day raids in Pittsburgh in 1923. Documents that came .into Dunn’s possession prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that John L. Lewis conspired with local Pennsylvania authorities and with the | local representatives to have the |raids made, which resulted in hun- dreds of workers being arrested and! | jailed, That a labor leader, no mat-| ter how reactionary, should stoop so low as to turn stoolpigeon and anti- radical bloodhound is almost incred- ible, but it is a fact. And Lewis is | only: one of many. | * * HE New Leader, weekly organ of a weak socialist party, is now out with the rest of the bureaucratic wolf pack calling for the suppression of the Communists at all costs.. Ae- | cording to a capitalist paper, the re- jactionaries do not expect success in | their efforts to drive the Communists) out of the unions, so they are plan- ning to use the federal government to crush the radical movement as Lewis used the government of the! state of Pennsylvania in 1923. One | would think that the socialists would, even if only for the sake of appear-| ances, stop short of becoming an open} | government agency. But once rene- |gade radicals set their feet on the | slippery downward track, there is no j stopping this side of the enemy’s| camp. | * ti od HILE Calvin Coolidge is. slay- ing the dragon of “militarism” in his fight to block the congressional| move for the building of three cruis- |} ers, he is dispatching warships and marines to China, threatening war on) Mexico and occupying Nicaraguan] | territory. This Jekyll-Hyde policy will no doubt give Oswald Garrison} Villard and other complacent liberals the opportunity to congratulate the president once more. Coolidge is) simply of the opinion that Wallj | Street has enough warships just now) to answer its requirements. On the other hand, the steel manufacturers and shipbuilders want to make a few honest dollazs. American Indian Fights Deportation Order; May Set Precedent In Case) PHILADELPHIA (FP). Are American Indians born without the territorial boundaries of the United States aliens and subject to federal immigration laws? Judge Oliver R. Dickinson of the U. S. district court has this. question to answer in the case of Paul Diabo, structural iron- worker. Diabo is an American In- dian born on a reservation in Quebec, Canada. He was deported from the! United States last March, but was! induced by Six Nations, the federa-; tion ofNorth American Indian tribes, to return and fight the case with the organization's aid. In taking the case under advise-; ment, Judge Dickinson indicated that he held the U. S. district attorney had to bear the burden of proof that an American liidian might be an alien. The judge stated, after the district attorney’s argument, that the country is the Indian’s as much a: |that of its present inhabitants and | that the Indians are technically wards of the government. Six Nations takes the stand that the deportation of an American Indian froin the United States is a breach of the Jay treaty. CHICAGO.—The Workers’ Carnival Bazaar Committee calls upon all friends of International Labor De- fense, DAILY WORKER and Daily Freiheit to contribute hours toward collecting of articles, for the $10,000 bazaar which will take place at the Ashland Auditorium, February 25, 26 and 27. The following have already gone in groups of two and brought results | Mexico. WANTED FOR CHICAGO BAZAAR The Youth Column Young Workers Raise Slogan of Withdrawing Forces From Nicaragua By HEHRLIOH. Young workers must organize asi stop war between Mexico and the! United States. Militarism’ is an in-| evitable phenomenom of capitalism | and constitutes one of the strongest | and most important branches in pro-| longing the domination of capital. | Latest events in Nicaragua and} Mexico are of utmost importance to} the American young workers, for it} will be the youth that will be called | upon to shed its blood in order to continue the hegomony of Wall Street in Central America and Mexico. Borah Calls It Invasion. Senator William Borah during the first outburst of enthusiasm which has now died down declared efforts are being made to get this country into a shameless cowardly war with The invasion of American marines in Nicaragua and the columinies in the capitalist press pertaining to the Mexican’ controversy show clearly that the American government {agen of Wall Street) will do all in it power to protect Doheny Sinclair and | | Standard Oil interests. Young Would Be Soldiers. There is only one power than can | stop this war; that power is the workers are most volved. You must raise the ery every- | where to stop this war. We refuse to shed our blood and murder work- ers of other countries in order te strength the enemies of labor. The Young Workers League raises u slogan Passaic Strikers Wait Long Time for Postponed Hearing PASSAIC, N. J., Jan. 30.—In their celebration of the first anniversary of the biggest textile strike Passaic has ever had, the textile strikers did not forget their brothers incarcerated in jail since last September. A delegation consisting of Mrs. Toth and Katherine Toth, mother and sister of one of the prisoners; Fan- nie Rudkowitz, of the Relief Office; Hollace Ransdell, secretary of the Joint Committee for Passaic Defense; William Sroka, John L. Kovacs and Cyril Briggs, strike publicity. direc- tor, called on the four prisoners in the Bergen County Jail at Hacken- sack yesterday. The prisoners are Thomas Regan, held in $15,000 bail; ‘Adolf Wisnefski, $15,000; Joseph Toth, $15,000; and Paul Kovac, $15,- 000. Kovac is the one who suffered three broken ribs in the third degree ordeal to which the men were sub-) jected at the time of their arrest.; He recently went out of his mind as| a result, it is alleged, of the torture inflicted upon him. While the state seems determined | té keep these men cooped up in jail} it is evidently in no hurry to give them a trial. Dates have been set several times for trial and as often postponed. In the meantime, the au- thorities continued to make it diffi- cult to furnish bail for the men by their refusal to accept any but cach bail. | Sn | to headquarters: Mrs. Jennie Garshin, Wayne Adamson, Alma Polkoff, C. Sta chi, Belle Tren- holm, Mrs. Edelson, Mrs. Kogan and “Withdrawal of marines | Baumstein, |f from Nicaragua. No War with Mexi- Cus? The young workers of the United States greet the peasants and work- ers of Mexico and Nicaragua and are with them in the fight to overthrow the yoke of American imperialism, Join the Young Workers League and say with us, “Down with American imperialism.” Duluth Young Workers: In Fine Lenin Meeting Despite Difficulties Quite a successful Lenin-Liebknecht memorial meeting was held in Duluth on Jan, 23, under the auspices of the Young Workers League. Comrade Sam Pobersky, secretary of the league, spoke of the life of Karl Lieb- knecht and Rosa Luxemburg, and ex- plained the role of the Y. W L. in the working class struggle. Comrade Jay ‘Loyestone, who had been scheduled to be the main speak- er, ¥ delayed, and in his absence, our district organizer, Comrade Tal- lentire, made a speech, in which he explained the work and contribution of Lenin toward the world revolution, id to the Russian revolution in par- ticular. His words were well received and were interrupted many times with cheers and. applause. After the speech a substantial col- lection was taken. In general the meeting was. very successful, and | showed that the time is hereto build \a still stronger and larger member- ship of the party and the leagne in | Duluth—Sam Pobersky. \Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | WORKER. \Date Set for Trial of Baking Magnate’s Son Who Killed Sailor NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—Federal Judge Bondy today set Feb. 7th as the date for the trial of the $35,000 damage suit against Walter S. Ward, brought by Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge 0. Peters, parents of Clarence Peters, who was slain by Ward. Ward shot Peters to death in West- chester county in 1922, Tried, he was acquitted. Tast June Ward disappeared, but a few days ago he turned up at New Orleans and won a_ reconciliation with his father, the former baking magnate. Both are now in Havana, young Ward determined to reside there permanently. Despite the fact that he is outside the states, the trial of the suit will progress at the date set. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. FOR YOUR HEALTH. Strictly Pure FLORIDA Honey Guaranteed by the» Bee-Farifter. Delivered in New York City at following prices: 2 Lbs. 75e. 3 Lbs. $1.00 5 Lbs. $1.50 Mrs. Sandberg. Jack Reed, Mrs. Edel- son, Harry Greenberg and Bill Ed- wards contributed the use of their automobiles to take committees around. More volunteers needed. Re- port at 19 S. Lincoln Street, or phone Seeley 3562. Automobiles” will be ready every day to take groups out. 10% Goes to Daily Worker, Order by Mail. i J. A. FEURER |. 3656 Park Ave. © N. Y.C. Agents Wanted. PASSAIC STRIKE STILL ON! WE'VE WON IN FOUR MILLS! HELP US BEAT THE REST! GIVE MONEY PLEASE! For Coal for the Sirikers’ Homes! For Bread for their families! They have made a hard fight! Now they are winning! Now you must help more than ever! Give all you can! MAKE VICTORY COMPLETE! 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