The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1927, Page 4

Page Four MOST CAPABLE PARTY COMRADES WILL INSTRUCT Classes Will Begin Feb- ruary First senc able of Ww further 1¢ kers Schc hoped that both for w Practical and Theoretical Work. The work will be of both e theo- retical and practical nature. Special attention will be paid to the problems before the American king class and the Party. will be given in conne th the course of atten t mm of the Central Fre the Political € zation com model nuclei worker meetings of various to his special interest dial direction that his training should take. Thus a district sending its agit- ‘prop director or a potential agitprop director will be given special supple- mentary tr ¢ in agitpron work and t ng of the agitprop eormmi uh-committees, teach- ing met ete. A co: nity ymmittee, of ‘ani- ns, Each routed to according and the sne- on frac s. ete. de whom the district alize in organization corresponding special- in organization work. Rest Instreetors for National School. The best instructors at the Work- ers School for this special type of being selected to give the courses, and the political committee bas made a decision that these com- rades will not be permitted to go on tours or to undertake any other work that will interfere with their teach- | ing dates uuring these three months. The instructors are: Jay Lovestone, William Z. Foster, Jack Stachel, H. M. Wicks, Alex Bit- telman, Max [Bedacht, Alexander Trachtenberg, D. Benjamin, Bertram D. Wolfe, Art Shields, Carl Brodsk The last two have b selected for special subj correspond- ence and pub peaking, which are the only courses that will be given in the evening. her courses will be given during SOLDIERS LOSE COMPENSATION WASHINGTON, D, C., December 23, — That the time for filing appli- eations to receive compe tion unde the Soldiers Bonus Law suffic ent is proven by the fact that over 600,000 World War ns have failed to file app adjusted compensation certific - January t date set for the closing of n files. ion of at least one year is needed, veterans say, to enable all,} veterans to take advantage of this law. + BUILD s, factory newspaper work, | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, roz7 ‘Book Store Opens For Detroit Labor been opened in lifornia, by the Workers Club. This is a great anxious to spread the over a great field, effects of this s unlimited. ducation vent for those ian theor the book store Anita Whitney, Edgar Owens, Flor- ence Kelly and the literature agent, George Kelly are the very capable committee of four who have charge f the work of the book store. Book Store will con- London, Up- Alexandra Kollontay Ben B. Lindsey, to men tion intere magazines, the New Y WORKER for cu , International Publishers’ books, and Lenin will be brought 2 of those whose right it the principles} of the ng library will be a fea- the book store and any partic- book can be procured by the mittee. THE DAILY H have occurred in the U. 8. | WORKER! “JOIN THE Workers pay before, during NAVY AND DIE MISERABL eRe TTT and after war. Above is the latest in the series of naval accidents which war preparations. One man was killed and four injured in an explosion aboard vangley, aircraft carrier. The U. S. is preparing aircraft especially against her greatest rival, 9 Xmas Season Nightmare | for Wanamaker Workers By H. B. | John Wanamaker’s famous New vertising a “Christmas Reception.” and “compensation to stor } cent be would | what the “compensation” is. “supper money”—the well known re- | ward for overtime among white col- interesting to know Perhaps lar workers. Possibly some fraction of th small weekly wage. But { whatever it is, it can never pay those | store-workers.for those extra hours of strain and overwork added to the terrible nightmare known as “the “Christmas season.” Department Store Horror Only those who have worked n a department store during the month of December can imagine what a horror it is. From the moment the doors }open in the morning until they close |nine hours later there is a constant rush, scramble; noise, confusion. The air is overheated and grows foul as | the day wears on. Worst of all, there jis a never-ending succession of irri- table, impatient, unreasonable cus- tomers nagging and complaining, and demapding to be waited on. According to department store philos- |ophy, a customer can do no wrong. | Customers may be as fault-finding | and exasperating as they please. Sales | people must remain always smiling |and courteous. | Hour after hour the workers must |stand patiently exhibiting the wares |for sale. They must prevent them | from being destroyed in the claws of | the desperate hunters for bargains. |They must watch that they are not stolen—by some expensively gowned | woman, usually, or some prosperous looking man. They must keep the | goods sorted and in order in spite of \the devastating pawing of one pur- \chaser after another. For every sale there is a compli- cated sales check to be made out, with a half gozen chances for making mis- takes. And while this is being writ- ten, two or three waiting customers ask questions about prices, or sizes, or colors,—and expect as a matter of course to receive a nice polite answer. Customers Complain. No day passes that a customer does not complain to the floor-walker that she has been “standing here an hour and no one has waited on her.” Defeat the Imperialist War Against Nicaragua LENINISM T “the victory of the working cla: liberation of the peoples oppressed b: the formation and consolidation of a common EACHES US: ss in the advanced countries and the y Imperialism are impossible without revolutionary front, “fhe formation of a common revolutionary front is possible only if the proletariat of the oppressing countries suppo movement for national independence Imperialism of the mother country for a peo; never be Ttee.” The Worke in the fight for: s (Communist) rts directly and resolutely the oppressed peoples against the ple which oppresses others can of the Party asks you to join and help The Defeat of Imperialist Wars. Smashing Government by Injunction. Organization of the Unorga’ A Labor Party. nized. The Defense of the Soviet Union and Against Capitalist Wars. A Workers’ and Farmers’ G overnment, Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. City) Vibe pnibivy bees e05 osecoseee GHiGd 600910010 09:0 0600's ebaieys'are de bbe does Be BM SAU O Rese SLi conse ceva’ Ped COE NeeKiebeee CRD ee reeorecerseceds No. St. City State Occupation ...... Doedoeecceesceetterenves (Enclosed find $1.00 for initiation fee and one month's dues) ‘ 9 ‘ , \ a) PO Store open until 9 p. m. p. m., both buildings will be open and completely staffed, with full store | + oure— York department store has been ‘ad- | From 9 a. m. Whereupon this suave lackey comes over and asks the rushing distracted sales man or woman “Why has ma- dame not been attended to?”; and or- ders that she be waited on immediately. Of course if she is a well known cus- tomer, the bowing and scrapings and abject apologies by the floor-walker are all the greater. In all this rush and confusion, lunches are delayed for hours, and sometimes the workers have no lunch at all. Every time they start to leave, some customer’ demands to be waited on—and of course customers (mean- ing profits) come first. Nothing equals the haughty indignation of some leisure-class shopper, when a worker says “I can’t wait on you now; I have. to go to lunch.” The idea of considering lunch before service to a customer! Such _ insubordination should be reported. And it frequently 1s. Sick with Exhaustion. At the end of a day like this, men and women literally sink with ex- haustion when the closing hour comes. But there is no rest even then, for | every department has to put in order before the workers leave, and the stock has to be replenished for the fol- lowing day’s renewed bedlam ery night there are some work- jers remaining till after midnight, to| jarrange display windows or shift {goods from one part of the store to {the other; for it is the salesmen and women who have heen standing al! jday behind the counters who do at: this extra work at night and on Sun- | days. | Xmas Spirit Blah. And while this exploitation of | ers goes on, the stores continue |to “promote” the “beautiful Christmas spirit” in e Rotary fashion. No clever advertising trick has been neglected in the effort to force more and more sales during December. The traditional custom of Christmas giving is subjected to high-power sell- ing drives, and the result is an arti- ficial stimulation of trade which helps pile up the profits. As usual the workers are the goats. » The .Wanamaker store advertises an evening “Christmas Reception fol- lowing a great public desire.” They should have said: “Following a great profit desire.” It is for this end they have returned to the vicious practice of keeping their department stores open at night during the holiday sea- son—a custom which was bittérly fought for years and finally discon- tinued. “Following a great profit desire” they will add a few more hours of exhaustion to the already heavy load of their workers, Luckily Christmas comes on Sun- day this year, so these workers will have two days instead of one to spend in bed recovering before returning to their jobs—if they happen to be one of those who did not get a discharge slip on Christmas eve. CRAZY, CRIPPLED, DODGES COPS BRUNSWICK, Me., Dec. 23, —Ray- -mond Petit, a crippled maniac, who had escaped from an asylum, was finally captured after having killed an old woman and caused the injury of five of the pursuing posse. Petit had eluded the posse for 24 hours in| spite of his artificial legs, and was caught when shot thru a barricaded door. BABY KILLERS MISS BRIDGE. ALBEMARLE, N. C., Dec. 23. —A bridge, abandoned to make way for a power plant was used all week by the army planes for,practice target. After having used a total of 20,100 pounds of T. N. T. bombs a hit was §corad. \ OPEN CRCSSING KILLS.: COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 23.—Three men and a woman were killed here early today when a Big Four passen- ger train demolished an automobile at the Hudson Avenue crossing in the north end of town here. One auto- mobile had stopped-at the crossing and the other car pulled around it and entered on the crossing. There was no viaduct. Winter Vacati in Camp Nitgedaiget BEACON, N. Y. (Subsidiary of the United Workers Co-operative Ass’n) Sunny, spacious, steam-heated rooms, hot and cold | showers, delicious healthy food, cultural | | activities, etc. se | Only $17.00 per week. Take the 2 P. M. train from Grand Central and the camp machine | will wait for you at the station in Beacon, N, Y. on. Joint Board Wants Cloak “Union Unity In a statement issued yesterday by Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmak- ers’ Union, the union answers a letter asking the Joint Board to participate in a move for unity, sent by the “Committee of 50.” The “Committee of 50” recently sponsored a shop chairmen’s conference at Webster Hall. The statement declares that since democratie self-control for the mem- bership without discriminations is an issue in the struggle, the Joint Board is prepared to enter into negotiations when these issues are made the basis for such négotiations. Welcomes Unity. The statement also welcomes the desire for unity which hundreds of shop chairmen demonstrated at their | two day conference. And. offers all the resources of the Joint Board to the committee’s campaign to rebuild the once powerful! union that the right Picked Communists from Throughout U.S. to Attend N.Y. Training School wing and emplovers’ tombination has destroyed, according to the statement. “The position of the Joint Board,” the statement says further, “is that only a union built on democratic prin- ciples, with no discriminations against members who hold different political opinions, can retain the confidence of the membership. Only such a union ean exercise control of the industry for the benefit of its membership. We have declared many times that?it is due tothe strife in our organization that our union conditions have’ ‘dis- appeared and that as long as the in- ternal struggle continues there can be no’hope of rebuilding a union which will be able to defend the interests of the workers.” ANOTHER TEXTILE WAGE CUT. PROVIDENCE, R. }., Dee. .23.—The Providence Hosiery Company has in- formed the company union to which it forces all its employees to belong, that beginning with the last day of January, 1928, a wage slash of 20 |per cent. will be effected. A. P. Weightman, treasurer of. the | company announced that the “repre- |sentatives of the management and \t{he workers” are both working out ‘the new wage scales. 3rd J block of Co-op. Houses 2 Blocks of Co- operative 4th block of Co-op. Houses Houses will soon be built in the Co-opera- Opposite Bronx Park tive Workers’ Col- ony by the Opposite. Bronx Park UNITED WORKERS’ CO-OP. ASSN Come right now and select an apartment of 2--3--4 Airy, Sunny, Spacious Rooms Office: 69 5th Avenue, corner 14th St. F TELEPHONE: ALGONQUIN 6900. Dancing Every Night TODAY—3P.M. Children’s Concert. ; Movies. TONIGHT—Salome SUN. AFT.—Polikushka by Tolstoi, with Ivan Moskvin. with Nazimova. SUN. EVE.—Concert at 9:00. MON. EVE.—Sea Beast with John Barrymore. Grand Central Palace Lexington Avenue and 46th Street Till December 31st inclusive Arranged by the Joint Defense and Relief Committee, Cloak and Furriers, 41 Union Square, Room 714. TONIGHT sr $250,000 Merchandise at Half Price Sat., Dec. 31— Grand Final Costume Ball. ——___—++ New Year’s Eve.