The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1929 (ARTICLE NO. 4). By GERTRUDE HAESSLER. The technical make-up of the shop paper is of no small importance, especially in America, where the worker gets the best of technique in the capitalist papers, which try to/| appeal particularly to him, and in the company organs of the employer! and consequently he is inclined to look with contempt at anything handed to him which does not look well, Types of Papers. The shop papers in America fall into the three categories as far as technical make-up is concerned—the printed paper, the multigraphed paper and the mimeographed paper. From many standpoints it is best to print the papers. |a real newspaper, has many ad- vantages oyer the other two. In | compete with the very expensive | ence are easily detected in the make-| just wherever there happens to be|shows that the district has been company organs and capitalist peri-|up of quite a number of papers,|space for a few lines, This can| able to profit from long experience. the first place it is cheap compared |odicals, and the amateurishness of|whereas others are so excellently |easily be avoided by a little fore-| The first issue was one lone mimeo- | with printing. In the second place | the mimeographed paper, if well| gotten up that it is hard to choose | thought in planning the arrange- | the opportunities for original illus-| executed, will make the worker feel|between them and the printed pap-|ment of the paper. |trating are unlimited. A third very|more that it is his own because |ers. | important consideration is the fact | that it overcomes a dangerous evil in shop paper work—that of the dis- | trict taking all the burden for the} work of getting out the paper, and absolving the nucleus from all re-| sponsibility, | | The mimeographed paper requires a great deal of technical labor where | no particular skill is demanded — running off the stencil, assembling |the pages and clipping them to- gether. All the members of the nucleus can be made to participate in this work, and they come to feel every bit of it is done by his fellow- workers in the shop. In any case, for very large fac- tories, such as the Ford factory in district.1, mimeographing is out of the question, because of the trem- endous amount of work it would in- volve, If the technical work of getting out a mimeographed paper is done | with care and skill, very attractive results can be obtained, as some of our papers recently issued show. But it is no easy matter, and re- | graphed sheet, rather untidy in ap- |pearance. The second issue was a Where the material is run in a) Very neat looking printed paper, but solid mass, instead of in two col-|the ambitions and the expense were umns, it is not tempting to the both too great, and the third issue average worker to read. Dividing | Went back to the untidy mimeo- lines between columns improve the arered eee Such a He are pr +a bad impression. er a few appearance of the paper. This is|#PPearance. ; : . carried to such an extreme in sev-| Now and then we find an issue | Numbers illustrations began to sp. eral cases that the two columns run|made up of sheets of two different Sie time its younger brother “The together in an indistinquishable| sizes, which makes an untidy im- i 4 manner, and the margins on the Pression. Mage Non Sanne Bas pean stencils are so narrow that the paper | When the typewriter on which | Goned it as impractical, and returned won’t take the print and the ma-|the stencil is cut has clear, sharp |to the mimeograp wit grehatly ith- terial is absolutely unreadable. Suf-|type and is absolutely clean, the re-| °°.“ 4 ficient care is not taken in running|sult is almost a printed effect, as DEG ceed eas i them off the mimeograph, result-|in the first issue of the Stanton| ,,The Mascot, profiting from the district’s experience, was one of the Usual Shortcomings, The commonest fault is the at- tempt to crowd too much material on each page, at the expense of the THE TECHNICAL MAKE-UP OF OUR SHOP PAPER. as clipped. This involved more care] prin ® concerned, “a in running the stencils off, but saves | centra. ing apparatus of clipping. The final effect is much better than the clipped paper. Livening Up By Illustrations. Too few mimeographed papers take advantage of the ease with which illustrations can be inserted (either by original drawing or trac- ings from elsewhere) to liven up the paper. Perhaps the comrades begrudge the space, for when there is important material on hand and a cartoon takes up half a page of already limited space, one hesitates. But a cartoon can say as much and more than a half page article in many cases, Many papers have also| found attractive effects by putting in a very small but pointed illus- cuts Wouu .s0 help a great dea! in saving not only expenses but effort. It is noticeable that in districts which issue several printed papers, such as districts 7 and 8, the papers are more profusely illustrated than those in districts where only one or two papers exist. The Kodak Worker, which for a long time was the only paper in district 4, for in- stance, has no illustrations. Th shows that with nation-wide dis- tribution, instead of exchange of material and division of expenses merely on a district scale, much im- provement could be attained. Progress Since Last Convention. In the matter of technica) make They look more | more that the paper is their own quires a typist who is not only very like the miniature newspaper they ‘i i jorgan, and not simply something should be. They lock neat and offer | which the district gets out for them. | aera TE say Ameactive | Experience has shown that .where Fee a eee ne ee onait the unit is drawn into participation | Which also is a factor im cntting it the technical work of the paper, | depmcailnersatiots eve the ager ie (tune interest in getting material |for the paper, and their sense of aera y Sold and successful {ab;| responsibility in connection with from the workers, then the problem | ovo. a He contr, ROD paDSE oF | ipl ectea: jalways stimulated. Multigraphing has the same dis-| Merits of Various Types. advantages as printing in the mat-| There seems to be a difference of ter of expense and even more re- | opinion on the comparative merits of | striction in the use of illustrations,|the mimeographed and the printed | and is in no way equal in other re-| paper. Some comrades feel that} spects. even where funds make it possible | The third method, that of mimeo-| to get out a printed paper, the mime- good generally, but one who is e: perienced in this particular work, and who can use judgment in the arrangement of the material as she cuts the stencil. Of the 39 papers we have, 12 are being printed at present, 1 is multi- graphed, and 26 are being mimeo- | graphed. The appearance of the 12 printed papers need not be commented on, jeach other. This is sometimes due | |being run exactly as titles of fresh|The first issues were overcrowded, to using the wrong quality of paper. In some cases the paper is too thin to take both sides, resulting in a|ther of any particular paper, blurred effect, from the print on |e paper another of any particular | type, h cach side showing through on the | district, progress in the technical | country can boast of at present in other. Some papers don’t separate their | discerned. ; , ; subheads | gie Worker, district 2, for instance. | sult of three years of experimenting articles clearly enough, articles. This creates |ing*in the smearing of pages against | Miners Blast, district 3. Progress In Technique. In going over one issue after an- and handling of the papers can be easily | Take the Hattie Carne-| confusion. | With small margins, in spots scarce-| trict. since in every case it is neat and|Where an article breaks off at the|ly readable. At present the paper the material well arranged. The Dock Worker, district 9, which is the only multigraphed paper, is at- tractive in size and ‘appearance. foot of the column, quite frequently | has an excellent appearance, with | district 3) have hit upon a good idea |there is no indication where it is | articles well placed and good spacing | with regard to the paper used. A really skillful typist |in margins and between articles, will arrange her material so that| District 2 in general has the best|8%x11, and clipping them together | But much can be commended and |as few articles as possible need to | looking papers of the mimeographed after they are run off, they have | |much can be criticized in the “home-|run over onto other pages. There | type, and an examination of every|taken one large sheet, 17x11, folded continued. graphing, although mimeographed|ographed paper is preferable. They| grown variety” of mimeographed |are instances where one- article is paper can never look anything like|claim that in any case we can’t) sheets. Lack of skill and experi-| continued on three additional pages, | tration with the titles of articles. They need not have any particular political significance—a humorous illustration is sometimes even bet- ter, leaving the political ideas to the larger cartoons. best papers issued, attractively ar- ranged with plenty of little illus- trations. All the papers that ap- peared after that were of a high and the very best paper the We can learn something from the} German Party as far as illustrations | are concerned. The Party there has; gotten up a little booklet contain-' ing 56 cartoons of various sizes} which can be used anywhere in the country. Their simple lines and} heavy print make them easily trans-| ferable. Some are political, some humorous, and others simply illus- trating working class life, Such centralization would stimulate our mimeograph technique is the Eagle Pencil Worker in district 2, the re- that had been going on in the dis- Some papers (especially those in In- stead of using separate sheets, issue of the Wright Propeller, one|it and thus they have a four-page of the oldest papers in the district,! paper, regularly folded instead of | work a great deal in this country.| As far as illustrations in the| up, on the whole, the progresa made since the last convention {s eonspic- uous and indisputable. The fse that those districts which have had the longest experience in shcp pape: work have the best technique, means that with a little time to gain more experience, all our pepers will learn the value of care in getting ovt their papers, and wil! put cut really attractive papers, which the worker will be eager to read. * The next and last article will deal with various miseellaneous matters, such as the choosing of a name, the numbering and dat- ing of the issues, slogans, and spe- cial features, and will give a brief summary. 26 DIE, 19 HURT IN ARSENAL BLASTS Big Explosions in Lon-, don, Sofia (Continued from Page One) and a vast stores department are included among the arsenal build- ings. * BERLIN, March 4 (UP).—Twen- ty-six persons, chiefly women, were burned to death in an explosion of a Sofia, Bulgaria, arsenal and work- shop, a dispatch from Sofia said to- day, * * * * * Big Gas Tank Blast Endangers Berlin Workers Several workers were hurt when a huge gas tank exploded in Berlin, rocking the neighborhood for miles around. There were no fatal injuries. Photo shows ruins of tank. A combination of “rationaliza- tion” and speed-up of war prepara- tions is slaughtering workers in the arsenals and shipyards of Europe. The simultaneous disasters in Wool- wich and Sofia arsenals are but the latest of several, Not long ago the bursting of a |New England Meeting | iof W. I. R. Planned for This Sunday in Boston BOSTON, March 4.—The New 4 England conference of the Workers tank full of poison war gas nearly | International Relief will take place suffocated the city of Hamburg,/on Sunday at 2 p. m., March 10, only a timely storm saving the pop- | 1929, at the Credit Union Hall, 62 ulation from destruction. |Chambers St, Boston. All dele- Soe | gates and friends are urged to be Knights of Labor Head |Prese"t: | New England faces an in- ~ | tense labor situation. The Work- WhoFoughtDepewDies | «rs International Relief machinery must be rebuilt to aid the workers ‘ALBANY, March 4 (U.P).—Frank in the coming struggle. With the Kelly, 75, railroad labor leader who,|end of the New Bedford textile during the New York Central strike| strike, the W. I. R. machinery broke of 1890 defied Chauncey M. Depew,|down. This must not be permitted late head of the system and former to happen agaii Fellow-workers, senator from New York, died here} this is a call, for action. Labor today after a long illness. needs your help. Are you ready? Kelly, as leader of the Knights} PUBLISHED INDUSTRIAL of Labor, represented the railroad| switchmen in the strike forty years| ago and was threatened by Depew} to be thrown out of the window dur-| ing an argument which preceded the | big strike, STATEMENT. London (By Mail). — The first definite statement of a capitalist organization concerning the proposed | Joint national industrial council of trades union representatives and | capitalist representatives has now The statement in GUARD HATED LINDBERGH. MEXICO CITY, March 4,—So great is the hatred of the Mexican masses for the loudly advertised agent of imperialism, Col. Lind- bergh, that government troops prac- tically lined the road from the cen- ter of Mexico City to Guernavaca, the residence of Morgan’s partner, Ambassador Morrow, when Morrow and Lindbergh took an automobile ride over it Saturday. “Daily” Will Publish Special Issue for the Intern’! Women Day In celebration of International ‘Women’s Day, on March 8, the Daily Worker will publish a special Women’s Edition, con- taining news and feature articles of special interest to working class women. Because there is bound to be a big demand for the specia] edition, organizations are urged to send in for bundle or- ders immediately. At the same time, working women are asked to send in material for use in the Women’s Day Edition. |been published. question is a long one issued by the Association of British Engineers} and definitely rejecting the Mond- Turner scheme on the grounds that the Trades Union Council is not com- petent to discuss wide economic is- sues together with capitalist repre- sentatives. Another reason given for the re- jection of the scheme is that the knowledge gained by the trade union representatives in such discussions would be used for “socialist” pur- poses. In consequence of this fear the Association of British Engineers de- mands a categorical statement from the trades unions repudiating social- ism before considering the matter further. This declaration is very in- teresting because the association in cuestion represents the largest in- dividual capitalist group within the Federation of British Industries and their public rejection of Mondism is likely to influence other capitalist groups. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority —Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). EMERGENCY FUND * (Continued from Page One) Collected by K, Hantalo, New- berry, Mich—K. Kovu, 25c; E. Wirla, 25c; S. Resnick, 25e; K. Hartalo, 25c; B. Hendrickson, 50c; C. Sale, 20c; A. Ahanen, 25c; S. Ra- sala, 25c; Mrs. Falonen, 25c; S. Maki, 25¢ ... daleve’) 2190 John Szalonkai, Passaic, N.J. 2.00 K. Smith, Cleveland, Ohio. 2.00 Collected by S. Okicich, Seat- tle, Wash.—Picktin, J. Hap- soni, S. Ckicich .......... 2.00 Percy D. Quimby, Westport, COM. eeseee ieee cceee ves 2,00} Tom Latawich, Lester, Colo... 2.00 Collected by Mary Taitelman, man, Brooklyn—M, Laurus, 25¢e; M. Green, $1; Proleta- rian, 25c; Belanofsky, 50c.. 2.00 | Vasil Haynali, Fordson, Mich. 2.00 Rebecca Kaplasi, Br. 6, Sec. Bi GY css Phew 1.00 | Milton Cluman, City . + 1.00 B. Bingham, Evanston, ill 1.00 Teter J. Holt, Rupert, Idaho. 1.00 G, A, Halambeck, Detroit.... 1.00 Herry Perth, City veers 1.00 W. Mount, City 1.00 DD. Kassat, City 1,00 H. Twen, City . 1.00 M. Rainn, City . 1.00 C. Buttygan, City 50 S. 'Tauber, City . 50 \J. Newman, City 50 M. Peariman, City 50 TY. Getter, City . 50 MILITARIST ORGY AT INAUGURATION Hoover Halts. Parade to Feed Belly WASHINGTON, March 4.—Her- bert Hoover began his reign, as the front and mouthpiece of American big business and imperialism, with a muttered oath at the capitol build- ing that he would support the con- stitution, with a read speech in fa- vor of more police, and a parade of £5,000 troops, picked detachments of the army, navy and state militia. Facetious observers remarked that the new dynasty started “all wet,” for a cold rain splashed on the burnished bayonets and gaudy flags of the paraders, and low clouds somewhat obscured the phalanxes of imperialism’s latest and most ter- |rible weapon against colonial peo- ples, the airplanes and dirigibles. The professional _village-bombers and baby-killers had to fly too low to be seen by those near the tall buildings, or too high to be seen at all in the overcast sky. Hooyer Must Eat. Just before the head of the pa- rade came in front of the White House, Hoover, about 2 p. m., so anxious for other people to starve during war time for the greater glory of the bankers and munitions makers, felt twinges of hunger in his fat interior, and halted the pa- rade, letting it stand out in the driz- zling weather for half or three-quar- ters of an hour while the president, with certain invited guests, had a sandwich: and buffet lunch in the White House. “Hooverizing.” When the man who makes others Hooverize, but don’t do it himself, was fed to repletion, he went out to the reviewing stand, gave the signal, and for two hours took the salutes of his soaked and bedraggled pawns of empire, the soldiers and sailors of the army and navy. At 12:55 the Marine Band played “Hail to the Chief” at the capitol building, the crowd of hopeful of- fice-seekers out on the lawn tilted their dripping umbrellas and shouted a mirthiess cheer and settled down to the agony of Hoover reading his 3,000-word speech. Just before he started his reading, Chief Justice Taft administered the usual oath at 1:07 p. m. on a bible opened at the text: “For without a vision the peo- ple perish.” “Then the parade started. 4 “RESCIND” SALVADOR MAR- TIAL LAW. SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador, March 4.—The first day under “constitutional” rule passed without any appreciable change in the sit- uation. Altho President Romero Bosque Saturday went thru the for- mality of rescinding a state of mar- tial law which he declared in 1927, his personally appointed police and mercenary soldfers continued to or- der citizens around, as usual. State Troopers Called in to Break Strike of BURN BRITISH 1 GOODS IN INDIA Caleutta Workers for | Action Not Ghandism | CALCUTTA, March 4.—Hahatma | | Ghandi, long the religious leader of | a greater part of India, was ar-| vested today after crowds had tossed |bricks and had burned pyres while |he was espousing the boycott of all | foreign cloth. The meeting was held in Miraza- rur Park. Ghandi and other nation- alist leaders were scheduled to have the important part in the meeting. Ghandi was the principal speaker. The stooped religious !eader went to the front of the platform and |started a speech in favor of boy- {eotting all the imported cloths. |'There were boos against the inade- DISTRICT S:ELECTS +) OLD STAFF AGAIN The first meeting of the District , Executive Committee of District No. 8 (Chicago), elected a week ago at District staff was reelected. Wm. | F. Kruse was elected district or- | ganizer over Earl Browder by a vote me jof 19 to 4; Carl Sklar was elected he District Convention, met. last] oganizer secretary over George Sunday in cae of the most construc- | Maurer by the same vote; N. Kjar tive meetings ever held in the his-|was elected industrial organizer tory of the Party in this district. | against all but his own vote and the The main order of business was the | election of M, Childs as Agit Prop | Daily Worker drive. Other items, | Director was unanimous except for \including the election of the Dis-|3 votes. Anna David was elected trict Buro, officers, discussion of | Women’s Work Director; E. Peter- District finances and discussion on | Son was put in charge of anti-im- industriai work, were based upon perialist work and A. A. Isbel of the industrial resolutions proposed | Negro work. A buro of 11 was, at the District Convention. elected. | The Daily Worker quota of $2,000 | assigned to District No. 8 was ac- |cepted and provisions made for dis- | ltributing this quota amongst the | various sub-districts, sections and Industrial Work Discussion. There was extensive discussion on the two resolutions on industrial work submitted to the convention N.Y.Gypsum Workers OAKFIELD, N. Y., March 4.— New York state troopers were oe ‘s Ae bitniee of 4 = : « o burn a number o} of im- here by the United States Gypsum | posted cloth which. wece in. front Company today to try and intimi-|¢f the platform. Police attempted date and drive back to work 160/to extinguish the flames, but anti- men cn strike. |Ghandists started tossing stones The men went out on strike when|and bricks. Four European police employers ignored their demand| sergeants and several Indian con- that 40 workers discharged Satur-| stables were hurt in the ensuing day be returned to their jobs. | fray. | Ghandi and several of his leaders were arrested, while the crowd was | quate pian and demands for a rev- | olution. Shortly afterward someone started SOVIET TEACHES PEASANTS. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., (By Mail).— The Leningrad Agricultural Museum is organizing a number of traveling museums. These museums, which are established for the purpose of demonstrating to the peasants meth- ods of increasing the productivity of agriculture, will tour the Lenin- grad region at the beginning of the spring sowing campaign. EXPORT OF SOVIET MATCHES. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., (By Mail).— The Lenin match factory in the region produced than 300,000 cases of matches for export in the past year. Soviet matches are now exported to many countries, some being shipped as far as Australia. The labels on the match boxes are printed in 10 for- eign languages. Novgorod more | being attacked hy the police. The jeers of the workers followed him as he was led to the protection of \the jail. Ghandi is a kind of Tolstoyan, who in the mobilize a movement against Eng- beginning helped to/ fractions. Arrangements were made whereby members of the District Executive Committee are to visit every nucleus and fraction meeting | home to the members the necessity of emergency measures in support of the Daily. Membership and sym- pathizers’ meetings will be held next week on a district scale. Arrange- ments have been made to take up special collections at all affairs, to send committees to people who may be able to make loans, donations, ete. While the Daily Worker Emer- gency Drive was given a clear track and precedence over all other finan-| cial needs, organization steps have also been taken to create a perma- nent functioning apparatus to take care of the finances and more prac- |during the coming week and bring | j and referred by it to the District | Executive Committee. The result! |was a much more constructive dis- |cussion then could have been pos-| | sible at the convention owing to the xtremely heated atmosphere which at times permeated the convention. je The Minority had offered a reso- | lution which made not the slightest |mention of any work done achievements accomplished by the| Party ahd which made a platform) of every mistake, real or fancied. This was rejected but some of their practical proposals were accepted SOCIALIST’ ASKS DEMOCRAT UNION National Body Member in Open Appeal (Continued from Page One) islation, but all have been a part of legislative programs in various parts of the country for years.” He further urges upon the demo- erats: “And why should not the democrats in the legislature take the lead for the old age pension bill in this session? “Every one of them comes from industrial centers where the need of it is greatest and if they force the issue, the republicans would hesitate to offer open opposition, because of the effect that it would have on the other industrial towns that still send republicans to the legislature. “What a power for progress that minority senate group has if the members of the group are real men standing on their own feet.” ‘Horthy White Terror | Arrests Sixty Under or, Charge of Red ‘Plot’ BUDAPEST, March 4.—The po- litical police of the Horthy white terror has “discovered” another so- called “plot” to organize a Commu- nist Party here, though a Commu- nist Party has been organized here already and functioning for a long and the various charges contained in their resolution were referred to the industrial fractions involved, for discussion and report. The Major- | time. ity resolution analyses mistakes as| The “plot” story, however, serves well as achievements and gives a/as a screen for a new terrorist com- sharp line for activity among the|paign, sixty workers having been lish imperialism, but at a critical tical aspects of the district work, moment betrayed it because left| such as technical arrangements for | wing elements were turning it into | meetings affairs, etc. A small a real revolution, not only against |«Means and Ways Committee” will| saliva ccereattine, teas optien aah (at Cee ees oe oe | unorganized, now unionism, building | of the T. U. E. L. as a center for, the new unionism and as a vehicle for our fight in the old unions, i} There was general agreement | trict Organization Department and| bureaucrats, .__ | will in turn be backed up by a broad The opposition in this meeting |“Ways and Means Conference” of | came from disillusioned workers | who no longer follow Ghandi’s harm- less tactics, but want action. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense major- ity—Karl Marx (Communist Mani- feato), delegates from nuclei and fractions. | The finances of the district were | gone into exhaustively and measures | were proposed to meet the extremely | critical situation just as soon as the ‘Daily Worker emergency drive was conipleted. FOR RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL (July 9, 1882—March 2, 1927) Anti-War MEETINGS To Be Arranged by All Districts and Many Party Units All Over the and Country, the National Office Can Supply RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL BUTTONS With Comrade Ruthenberg’s Picture on a Red Background and with the Slogans:— FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR BUILD THE PARTY The Price of These Buttons will be: 7c per Button on Orders up to 100; 5c on Orders of 100-500, and 4c on Orders Over 500. - All Party Units Are Urged to Send in at Once Their Orders and Together With Remittances Direct to WORKERS (Communist) PARTY, National Office 43 E. 1 that the whole atmosphere of the ANNIVERSARY I Ruthenberg. by GEORGE SPIRO, who the Paris Commune. “International Women’s by ANNA ROCHESTER. “Unemployment”, by HARVEY O'CONNOR. by EARL BROWDER. All articles are illustrated HELP THE CLASS SUBSCRIBE The NOW! 25th St., N.Y. C. arrested. meeting was such as to promise a development in the discussion of the collaboration of all Party forces in the work of the district. Labor Defender THE MARCH REVOLUTIONARY SSUE JUST OUT ‘What Ruthenberg Means to the Workers Today’, by JAY LOVESTONE, Executive Secretary of the Work- ers (Communist) Party and life-long co-worker of C. E. “Paris on the Barricades”, has just published a novel on Day”, by JULIET STUART POYNTZ. “The New Industrial Unions Are In Action”, an_ up-to-date review of the activities of these militant unions by one of its leaders, ROSE WORTIS, “The Centralia Tragedy”, a typical extract from BILL HAYWOOD’S book. “The Coal Miners and Injunctions”, “Defense Work In China”, OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: TOM MANN, UPTON SINCLAIR, MAXIM GORKY, J. Gibardi, S. Croll, Robert Zelms, Jacinto G. Manhanan, Henry George Weiss with numerous photographs WAR PRISONERS! Labor Defender, 80 EAST 11TH ST, NEW YORK, N. Y. 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