The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 4

; i é i 5 ‘ 5 IE DAILY WOR Workers’ |Communist| Party From the Minutes of a Shop Nucleus By JACK STAC N UCLEUS X in one mens clothing factori city has 6 comrades who work in that factory and three others: that have been attached to it. ‘Che nucleus car- this ries on its work probably no worse than the average nucleus in the more or less regu 3 pay their dues uty press; ev they’ all read the one of them is an active miembe: the Amalgamated Clothing Work and most of them also belong to f ternal organization The comrades also attend re their fraction Edueational Lea Question At the last during the disc zers’ report th situation was One’ of th himself th left:wing shox the Beckerman Of Judgment. ing of the nucleus ion of the organi lowing interestin t to the surface, y Sa it was only due to orism in the shop that the workers did not respond to the calls and slogans of the Trade Union Educatio League. Upen further questi of the comrades T learned that in this shop of over 350 workers 60° « m are Ita speaking and the 0% | speaking, only read the} Freiheit and o1 ian left wing oratore. —} h For Granted. } in this shop have no doubi..taken too much for granted. They: @etually believed that ina tac-| tory of 350 workers and only 33 read-} ing the left wing press, that they{ have the bulk « shop behind them. .No doubt the influence of the left wing and the Communists in this} shop is much larger than the | réaders of the 1 is is} due-to the fact t of the} workers who read the bourgeois and! right-wing press recog e that the! léff Wiig is the only group that h: a@ constructive prog for the dustry, and tha ing the union, but these workers who! aré not sufficiently conscious to read the left wing can not be relied upon in all occasions to stand behind the, left wing. Getting Readers—A Daily Task I-cite the above as very impo t,, because. these comr: have not made a systematic effort to secure The .com- st consider the getting of readers and subscribers to. our press as one of the most es- sential tasks in their every day work. Not only must we secure more readers for the Freiheit and Il Lavyor- atore,.in that shop but we can and must get readers for The DAILY| WORKER as well. Particularly the younger workers must be induced to read The DAILY WORKER, since} these workers can in most cases read | enough English to read The DAILY! WORKER. | In the needle trades shops our com- rades often neglect to appeal to the| shipping clerks, office help, ete., sim-| ply .bécause the union does not or- gahize them. these workers and win them over for the trade union movement, and by explaining to them why they are not} organized, and that the left wing stands for industrial unionism and that we favor the organization of the| workers in the factory, we can alse win them for the left wing. Even n & READ imperialism—The Last _ Stage of Capitalism : By N. Lenin ‘ Price, 60c in paper, $1.00 Cloth-bound. “An {dispensable book for the under- standing of the most recent events in Latin-America, China, and the colonial countries now in the throes of revolt agatnst international imperialism. ‘This exeéiient work y the following fppies: Concentrati of Production dnd "Monopoly; ‘The Banks and New: Role; Finan pital and & IBilgarchy The The Division of tt itasist Groups; World Among Cap- » Division of the World Among the at Powers; Im- AS aS 1 Stage of Cap- ism; Parasiti » Decay of pitalism; The Critique of Imperial- ; The-Place of Imperialism in His- ry. 163 ‘pages published it Party of Great Br ; For Your Lenin Library: {LENIN AS Ai y the Commun- ain == MARXIST 3 By N. Bukharin The Present Chairman of the Cémmunist International. Soe Cees sabes This splendid: analysis of Lenin and his place in the field of Marxism is itten by N. Bukharin, who is con- ered one of the leading living Marx- ifts of the present duy. The book is {| mere personal tribute to Lenin. fs rather an attempt to analyze nin’s contribution to the pyinciples Marxism, ‘The book treats*the fol- lgwing phases of the subject: ‘The larxism of Lenin; Lenin's Theory and actice; Problem of tmperialism; ifnin and the Peasant he Theoret: i@ul Problems Awaitin On snle now at 40 vents a copy, ate tinctively bound In paper, , DAILY WORKER 33 First Street New York, N. arly the meetings of! i f the Trade Union) | wing pres: port of Capital; | work- great servi in the en the right and left before they ers ca. struggle b | wing forces in the shop. | “They Are Mostly Women.” When pressed to the wall as to why only three workers out of 175 read the Italian left wing paper one of the comrades came forward with the explanation that most of the Italian workers are women. Unconsciously this comrade betrayed a mistaken at- titude toward women workers—a non- Communist attitude. This attitude is usually not expressed in opposition to work among women, but rather it expressed through passi d. It may be true that in many i stances it is more difficult ¢ ize the women workers than i }men. This situation has its roots in | historical development of both women {and the woman in industr But on {the other hand the Passaic strike like |many other battles are an indication j of how even elderly and illiterate |women can fight once they are {aroused and have confidence in the {eause they are fighting and in the jleadership of that struggle. A more recent example and more at home was jthe storming of Antoninis’ office by the Italian,women members of Local he o Reach Them All. Our comrades must pay special at- ad the Ital-| tention to the work among women in the shops. In this particular shop the jcomrades must. not-he content even if they secure a majority of Jewish workers, This narrow attitude must be fought. Italian they can bring the Italian left nto the shop, as they can bring the press of any other language that they do not speak. In the case the Amalgamated there is no doubt that unless the left wing wins a majority of the Italian workers they cannot hope to oust the present right wing leadership. Caution—But Not Inactivity. One comrade stated that due to the orism of the Beckerman machine removed from the job every orker even suspected of distributing literature, it was impossible for the nucleus to distribute much literature in that shop. He went further and id that “we could not do anything until we have Beckerman on the run in the union.” This comrade forgets however that in order to have Beck-| erman on the run in the Amalgamated | we must win over the masses in the} factories, ~ To win the masses in the factories} we must face the dangers even for) the loss of jobs. Of course we must! do everything possible to avoid per- secution. We must be extremely cav-| tious, but at the same time caution! and terrorism must not become an ex-; y in this| If our comrades cannot speak! |Teft wing. cuse for inactivity. Find V There can alw be found ways and means of conducting the work in the shop, and’the distribution of liter- ature. It can be done by dropping literature in the closets, on the benches and many other ways. Also comrades not working in that fac- t can be secured to distribute lit- ture. Furthermore, every comrade must | build a corps of sy athizers around }him who have confidence in him and {who will not only take from him lit- j erature but who can also be used to act with other workers. Our| ades must ‘develop the habit of mal contact and personal agi Going home with different workers every evening, speaking to/ |them about their home problems, you will get a sympathetic hearing on the other questions you} will take up with them. | Did Not Know Who Were TUEL. The biggest surprise of the eve-| ning was yet to cc None of the! comrades knew exactly how many} members of the T. U. E. L. were in the shop, In order to get this infor- ay Out. nd family | OF mation they said they would consult the organizers of the T. U. E. L groups of the various locals. obvious that when the nucleus do: not possesssuch elementary inform ‘tion it cannot carry on work, that it cannot recruit members | for the party. Not only should the comrades of every nucleus have a list of the members of the left wing but every reader of the party and left wing press as well as every sympa- thizer should be known to the nucleus. |The- nucleus should have the records of these workers. Attention To Detail Work. I did not cite the above facts be-| cause this nucleus is the worst one in| the district. By far not. these facts to show that in spite of | the fact that the nucleus consisted} of comrades all active in their union, their fraction and in the T. U. E. L., and in spite of the fact that it met) more or less regularly and paid du the nucleus failed to pay attent: ‘some of the most elementary de of party organization work. I cited) these cases because in a 1 uré this deficiency holds good for the ;entire party. These comrades who ‘are very active in the Amalgamated failed to do the most elementary work in their shop to mobilize the workers | against the bureaucracy and for the} The lessons from the| above are quite obvious to every party member and to every left wing work- er. Only by paying attention to our elementary and detail tasks will we be able to mobilize the masses in the ruggle against the against the right wing leaders. WORKERS PARTY CONFERENCE IN NEWARK LAID BASIS FOR MUCH MORE CONSIDERABLE SUCCESSFUL ACTIVITY ALREADY NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 3.—The conference in the New Jersey sub-dis- trict of the Workers (Communist) Party held in Newark on Sunday, January We must get after|30, prepared the field for more intense work in the trade unions, for organ- ing the unorganized, and for the building up of the party organi: | Reports Heard. Reports were made to the cohfer- jence by representatives of the city|and helping to organize trade unions central committees and the sub-dis- trict and by the representatives of the district, comrades Weinstone and |Krambein, as well as the representa- | tive of the youth, comrade Gerbert. The reports showed that the work in New Jersey has become more en- livened and that in most of the cities, | | particularly Passaic, Perth Amboy and El eth, very good work has been done in attempting to organize the unorganized and in trade union activities. Passaic showed the great- ‘est progress in building up mass or- | ganization but it was pointed out that the party membership must be dou- bled there before complete satisfac- tion can be expressed. Constant Progress. In Passaic, Perth Amboy, Elizabeth and Paterson the Party is showing greater vitality, more consolidation | and a greater ability of undertaking} jthe gcneral, all-around tasks of Party work. Weaknesses were peinted out \in the activity-in Hudson county and jin Newark, to which the attention of} {the sub-district and district has been ‘called in order to keep these cities in | step with the progress being made in |the rest of the sub-district. | Set Up Shop. Nuclei. The conference unanimously adopt- ed a resolution in favor of establish- ing shop nuclei in each of the cities in the big factories in addition to the present street nuclei that exist and in this connection for the establishment of one shop paper in the near future in each city. . Watch Details. The conference also declared for more systematic recruiting of mem- bership and building up of well-func- tioning Party units by greater atten- tion to the detail tasks which this work involves, and building up of women’s, Negro, and youth organiza- tions, The conference expressed the fact that we must not be satisfied merely with the first beginnings that had been made in organizing the unorgan- ACTIVE WORK; FOUND ‘tion. Perth Amboy and New Brunswick, in | fighting against the company unions jin these cities. ! Help Daily Worker. | The need for obtaining subscribers and readers md supporting The! DAILY WORKER, and utilizing it in} the work of organizing the unorgan- ized and in trade unions activities, ere very sharply stressed. The necessity for building up de- \fense branches was pointed out in an appeal that was made by the organ- izer of the I. L. D., Pat Devine, who appeared before the conference, Continue Colonizing. The need for comrades colonizing in the various cities and remaining there for a comparatively long time to build up and maintain organization was stressed in the conference. The formation of forums and classes in which progress has heen made in Pas- ;saic, Paterson, Perth Amboy, Newark, was brought out as an important task to raise the ideological level of the workers and attract progressive- | minded workers toward the Party. Protect Foreign Born. The confef@mce went on record for} the building up of councils of the for. eign-born in all cities, to aid in the formation of trade union committees for the Labor Party and conduct prop- aganda against the new war dangers and imperialist ventures in Nicaragua and in China. | Dr. I cited} *!for the weird tales of high finance. °| John W. Prentiss, of New York, one! | man, and laughed at him too, wi YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1927 ( * * . OFFER FORD ONE “ear Aout Lenism BILLION DOLLARS | a, cermces By E. ETTLINGER | (Special to THE DAILY WORKER) 2 DAI | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., (By mail) |—-Over five hundred workers crowded’ |to the door of the Workers’ Center jat Valencia Street in honor of Nee . | the third Lenin memorial’anniversary. So Testifies Prentiss; |The keynote of the mecting was the | struggle against American. imperial- Ford Refused ism, the application of Leninism to (Continued: from’ page f): '‘*« problems of the American work- States .bonds, and sight drafts, ers. amounted to $8,065,559, while on July 1, 1919, these had increased to $: - $01,500. During these periods cur- rent liabilities increased from $911,- 62,536, the afficiency Lenin Against Imperialism. The two speakers, E. Levin and E, | Owens, dealt with the tremendous ne- cessity of struggling against Ameri- | can imperialism, the strongest sec- of the | ton of capitalism today, Levin took of |up the role of Lenin and the Commu- nist International and pointed out that the Comintern under the leader- ‘ e {ship of Lenin considers as one of the aia Ligne ie most essential tasks the struggle <3 ent,” | #&ainst imperialism and the unity be- cUabincnee: rateneite, to the | \veen the exploited colonial masses probably was rage hie jeve}- | 824 the industrial workers of the im- , $0 hig eal ette | perialist nations, bgt ort Lenin, the Labor Leader. | Owens dwelt upon the role of Lenin |as the leader of the working class, and the necessity of using Leninism “ oes as the weapon of the workers in their eturn s $9,409 The eas tax) struggle saat capitalism, anata eae In addition to the above two speak- 2 hi italien tana, the |¢r8r. the Young Workers’ League eer? speaker emphasized the necessity of “Based on management, and the popularity the product, stock in the Ford Motor Co. was worth $10,200 per share in 1913,” Paul Clay, i 's Investors’ Service, efficiency of the managem The valuation placed by the minor- ity stockholders in their income t efendants must pay $36,000,000 drawing the youth in ever greater! more beef i Pets 1) eeonemntat numbers into the struggle. A unique avis vr! ve as) ve, feature of the program was the re- production of two of Lenin’s speeches cn the phonograph. Big Crowd. This meeting, the most successful |held by the Workers’ Party in San Francisco in recent months, will do | much to draw the party nearer to the masses and will be the beginning of an energetic anti-imperialist cam- cterizing the Ford business as “eighth wonder .of the world,” aced the value of Ford stock on} March 1, 1913 at $12,000 a share. Neneh Pe. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb., 2. Henry Ford’s plant and trade are worth a cold one billion dollars, ac-| eens xe baphagene hath a | paign, to mobilize the masses in op- bevy 2 eg uproar ed position to the program of American tax suit against Senator Couzens and| } ali associates who sold their stock to) ™Peralsm. Ford, and perhaps undervalued it to) the government. Last month, accord-| ing to the witness his firm, Horn- y and Weeks, offered Ford a y his firm, and were re- Spanish Newspaper in Rage Because French Expose Bribe to Krim MADRID, Feb. 3.—The semi-offi- cial newspaper La Nacion today at- \tacked the French newspapers for their recent campaign regarding Tan- ‘ ; jgier. La Nacion indignantly denied of the (ee the investment the accusations of the French news- anking concern, of Hornblower &| papers that Spain offered Abd-el- Weeks, told of towering fortunes,|j,im, exiled Moroccan leader, millions scraped up from the millions of com-| o¢ pesetas for‘ financing his war mon and mostly poor people, who buy) against the French forces in Morocco. | some patented article “cheap”. The paper also denied the charge that| Woolworth’s “fiv eand ten” stores,| Primo De Rivera was acting as a tool} the business of dispensing “Castoria”! of Premier Mussolini, carrying out and “Syrup of Pepsin’, he mentioned | the latter’s wishes in reopening the with respect: Their product may be| Tangier question. ‘ humble, *but the rake-off is fine. All Want Africa. They are magically growing, modern The question of who shall own big business. north Africa, with i*s valuable grain # " - \ands, within easy colonizing distance But Ford Is First. i of all Mediterranean wuropean coun- But, says Prentiss, Henry ‘Ford tries and its valuable iron ore mines, eclipses them all. His car may seem ’ is a vexed -one. cheap to the buyer, be that as it may, Jt was one of the causes of the! but there is a rattling fine profit in! world war. France claims it on ac- that same “cheap” car. His firm, so count of the great Napoleon’s ex- he swore on the witness stand, offer-/-joits in Egypt, and the little Na- ed Henry Ford half a billion dollars poleon’s conquest of Algeria. Spain for his outfit in 1916, and Henry Ford) claims it because of nearness, and an- paid for the lunch, and laughed at| cient relationships through the Moors. him, : | Mussolini frankly states one of his In 1925 he tried to get hold of| predestined tasks to be the re-estab- enough stock from Edsel Ford to con-| lishment of the empire of the Caesars, trol, but Edsel consulted with the old| which included all North Africa, Egypt, and France and Spain as well. There have been frequent eect Then within the last thirty days, |nd charges of conspiracy among the Hornblower and Weeks offered Henry | Latin nations who colonize in Africa. and Edsel a round one billion dollars | ee for the Ford Motor Co. He did not | Wicks Talks. in Harlem. say whether that was laughed at.! The Harlem Open Forum starts Probably it is sacrilege to laugh at/ this Sunday, 8 P. M., at 81 E. 110th one billion dollars. But Ford did not! g¢., Feb. 6, and every Sunday there- sell. a: j | after, at 8 P.M. H. M. Wicks is Other profits of big automobile the first speaker; he will talk on business were revealed by Prentiss. «Whither China.” The second speak- His firm bought into the Chevrolet), will be A. Markoff on “Whither and bid for a share of the Dodge Russia.” On Feb. 20, Alex Schwarz- plant. He said the Dodge Company | ented will talk on the “Evolution of earned $17,000,000 in 1923 and the | the Family.” On Feb. 20, John Bal- Chevrolet made big money too. lam’s subject will be “The Signifi- A Whopper of a ‘Trust. leance of the Passaic Strike.” The dete: ues tt ae Ford | Forum is under the auspices of the accepted the billion dollar offer a syn- ; dicate of the most powerful inks tn gears: (Oeste e ea Business Secrets Out. The Couzens tax case courf room today became a whispering gallery Price Goes Up. | DRAMA | Russian Revolutionary Drama at Yiddish. Art Theatre “Her Crime,” a new spectacular drama based on the Bolshevist revo- lation in Russia, by M. J. Olgin,, will have its premiere performance at the Yiddish Art Theatre tonight. The piece will have a cast of 100. Olgin, author of “Her Crime,” spent several years in Russia. since the war, as correspondent for the “New York Freiheit,” on the staff of which he is at, present an editorial writer. Olgin’s drama presents an historical picture of the forces be- hind the overthrow of the Russian czar, A student of Russia for many years, his book, “The Soul of the Russian Revolution,” has won for an international reputation as an historical writer. Maurice Schwartz will play the leading role in “Her Crime.” BROADWAY GOSSIP Mss Zoe Akins has: just completed a new play called “The Furies,” a jazz nocturne, in. which Billie Burke will be featured. a) * * 8. L. Rothapfel anrounced last uight that his new theatre, the Roxy, Seventh Avenue and Fifty-first Street, would open in the first week ef March with Gloria Swanson’s first United Artists production, “The Love of Sunya,” which is based on Max Marein’s play, “Eyes of Youth.” * * * The complete cast for the Amer- jean Laboratory production of Clem- ence Dane's “Granite” will include Arthur Sireom, Frances Wilson, Her- bert V. Gellendre, Blanche Tancock, George Macready and Robert H. Gordon. * * * “Ostrich,” another play by Martin Brown, will be the opening bill of Alberti Players at the Brooklyn Little Théatre, 122 St. Felix Street, next Tuesday evening. se @ Kilbourn Gordon will soon place rehearsal a melodrama, written by himself and Chester De Vonde. * * . Helene Chappy will succeed Wan- da Lyon in “I Told You So” when the Sam Bernard musical comedy raoves fromthe Royale to Chanin’s Theatre next Monday. * * * A special . performance of “The Ladder” will be givén at the Wal- dorf Theatre next Monday evening forthe Fellowship of Faiths. ‘ Powe, © David Wallace, former director of the Actors’ Theatre and now co-pro- | ducer of “Lady Alone,” will shortly | produce “Stolen Blondes,” a comedy by George Kraft, a Chicago newspa- | ver man. ae wee “Pinocchio” will be the next pro- duction of the Children’s Saturday Morning Theatre, opening at the Princess Theatre on Saturday morn- ing at 10:30 0 ‘clock. It will be played on four successive Saturdays. ee ar A new play by Hatcher Hughes, called “Honeymooning on High,” is te be. presented shortly by Max Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. : Performance and Dance Given by the Russian Workers’ Mutual Aid Society of Chicago Sunday, February 6, 1927, at Walsh Hall, 1014-24 Noble St., -, Cor. Milwaukee, “The Way to Happiness” _| Every Arturo Toscanini_ : 3 im Will conduct two more concerts of the Philharmonic, tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon, at Carnegie Hall. Brown by arrangement with Mary Kirkpatrick; Reginald Sheffield, Ca- vol ‘Humphries, J. C. Nugent and Bully Quinn are in the cast. Mr. Hughes is the author of “Hell Bent Yer Heaven,” Pulitzer prize play. 406 Grand St. Drydock 7516 ve. (Except Mon.) Mat. Sat. “PINWHEEL” '¥ Francis Edwards Faragoh “THE DYBBUK b. 17. West.47 St. Matinees Wed, and Sat., 2:30. ‘For BETTER & WORSE NEW COMEDY DRAMA An @ MERICAN TH TRAGEDY . MONTH Mts. Wed Longacre °s' @y and Sat. PLYMOUTH Thea... west Mon,, Soy WW Sat, Evenings and Thu, and Sa WINTHROP AMES’ Gilbert & OF PEN- geuees | E PIRATES “cance Thursday Evenings Only The LADDER Everybody’s Play WALDORF, 50th East of! B'v Mats. id SAT.)) I The Evs RITZ 8.30. s . and Sz 2.30, L. Lawrence Weber's Musical Bon Bon Bye Bye Bonnie Civi Cor. G6 Av. & 14 St ae Repertory Tel. Watkins tet EVA LE GALLIENNE TONIGHT “TW “TH NIG TOMORRO RADLE SONG” TOMOR'W 1 eR BUILDER” . Read the ‘BOLSHEVIK’ A drama written on the American style by Leon Hausman Author ond Playwright One Dollar and Ten Cents sent to LEON HAUSMAN “BOLSHEVIK” POST OFFICE BOX 127 ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY A new play in four acts, just re- celved from U. S. 8S. R., will be pre- sented under the leadership of the well known. Russian actor, A, Po- katilon—Dancing after the pro- gram, beginning at 5 p. m.—Tickets in advance 60 cents, at the door 75c. Kissin's Union Orchestra. the country would have been formed to finance it. The valuation of the Ford plant in} 1913 was only $250,000,000, Prentiss | said, but if the property could then have been bought for $750,000,000 it could have been capitalized at a bil-| lion dollars, through the public offer- ing of $20,000,000 shares of stock, and still afforded a moderate profi ton the investment. Any high grade American indus- trial concern, Prentiss said, is figured | to be worth ten times its average an- nual earnings over a period of years. Thus, as Ford’s earnings were esti- mated at $100,000,000 annually, the Ford concern was figured by the bankers to be worth a billion dollars. Materialism,” ~ Ilis lecture is to be followed on by a lecture by Louis Fischer on th esubject “Oil and Imperialism.” Fischer ized; that further progress must be|was for several years the Russian correspondent of the Nation and has spent made through more systematic colo-|much time in various oil storm centers of Europe. nization in such cities as Elizabeth,|a book with the same title as his lecture, “CONTRIBUTIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE TO HISTORICAL MATERIALISM,” SUBJECT OF | LECTURE SUNDAY AT WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM The Workers’ School Forum announces for this Sunday night, February 6, at 8 P. M., a lecture on,*‘The Contributions of Modern Science to Historical The lecturer is Bernard J. Stern, who is a lecturer. in sociology and the author of various articles and books on topics in his field. He will take up the recent developments in biology, psychology and sociology and the light they throw on the question of historical materialism. the following Sunday, February 13, He is the author of PASSAIC STRIKE STILL ON! _ WE'VE WON IN FOUR MILLS! HELP US BEAT THE REST! GIVE MONEY PLEASE! For Coal for the Strikers’ 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! Make au contributions by check or money order to — GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE 799 BROADWAY ' Get, 10¢ Coupons and sell them TO HELP US FEED the Strikers’ Children. J Room 225 secures a copy of “BOLSHEVIK” in English for the present. Translations may be had at a later date, NEW YORK CITY MANSFIELD Pyenines |