The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1930, Page 2

STRIKES ON INCREASE IN BELGIUM; BOSSES GET REFORMISTS’ All! Communists Win Strike in Iron Foundry Fo: Unorganized Young Workers; Oust Reformist:: 1,200 Miners Strike Against Firing Older Men, Strike Led By Red Union Knights of Labor BRUSSELS, Belgium By Inpre-!expelled from the reformist trade Press Service)—The wood} union federation on account of the workers in the little Belgian indus- | strong Communist influence in it. trial town of Mons have gone on |The reformists are doing their utmost strike. They demand wage increases to bring about a defeat of the strike and paid holidays. in order to discredit the union. Lhe The strike in the iron foundry in reformists have formed a parallel Forest, near Brussels, which took | organization into which they hope to e@ leadership of the!entice the workers. A number of Yy, has now ended hat makers are still working in with very considerable success. The | e shops which pay trade-union wage demands of the workers were|rates. They have decided to con- granted in part aud their other de-!ivibute 10 per cent of their wages mands in full. Many young work-'to the support of the strike. ers are engaged in this foundry,; The strike of the miners in Hor- and the great majority of them are jJez is still going on, and the J,200 unorganized. The reformists soug striking miners ave solid, The strike to gain control of the atrike, was caused by an attempt ef the failed completely. The Communist ers to dismiss 73 older miners. Party has now a strong group in| The ref and the Xnights the foundry. Labor organization which is aff Fourteen hat workshops in Brus- ated to the R.LL.U, are fighting for sels have been closed down in con- the leadership of the str The reformists are doing their utimost sequence of « strike. About JJv girls and men are on strike under |to isolate the struggle whilst the the leadership of the Clothing Work- | revolutionary miners demand its ex- ers Union. The atrikers demand tension to other pits, The reform- ists refuse to grant any support to ‘wage increases im accordance with the unorganized miners whilst the the increased cost of living, whilst the employers demand a wage cut of | Knights of Labor support them as well as their own members. 16 per cent, The union has heen| corr place under th » DAILY WORKEK, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Zz, 1980 between British and American perialism for markets to absord of commodities pro- duced by their speeded-up workers who are paid such low wages they ey produce, “agreement” grand row will now open and diplomacy the “excess” cannot With buy what even @ fake become more turn into BIG BUSINESS ar. ~ RULES IN JAPAN “Liberals” to Put 807 Communists on Trial Two 14 “Fe” 300 SHIRTMAKERS DETROIT BOSSES. ®| ganizer, Veronica Kingston, arrived __._.xJ | veduction of 1 cent to 14% cents a/fore the shop gates. The “blessed harmony” at the London Naval Conference is, be- hind the acenes, a glorious shindig | STRIKE INPENNA, TRY STOP DAILY HITWAGE GUT BUT GET SCRAPS TUUL Exposes Sell Out Arrest of Agewts Part! Need Strike Committee of Fight on March 6 MAHONOY CITY, Pa., Feb. 21—)| »DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 21.—The The Trade Union Unity League or-| auto barons in this city have become | alarmed to such an extent of the here just in time to expose the sell-} Bee Piste | out proposition of the Amalgamated {gtowth of The Daily Worker in De- Clothing Workers officials in a\troit that wholesale arrests have | shirt factory strike. | been continuing for the past two The workers, most of them young | weeks against all workers sélling | workers, walked out against a wage | the “Daily” on the streets and be- | Two more | (dozen. The wages of these youth|have just been arrested and their | workers are terrifically low, and in licenses revoked and then released, | the case ef the learners, they do not |The authorities state that the li! receive more than $3 to $4 for 2 cense of every one selling The Daily | weeks’ work. The wages of the| Worker or another paper that is other workers is no more than $8, /|“not a daily printed in Detroit” will | while $12 is considered a very/be revoked. “high” wage. Officials from the Central Labor 2 | Council of Mahonoy City, and offi-| There is no doubt that the bosses cials from the United Mine Workers |@"¢ making this a part of thelr at- are doing everything possible to | tack against the preparations for | prevent the Needle Trades Workers’ unemployment demonstration 0 Industria! Union, and Trade Union | March 6, The Daily Worker ha: | | Unity League from assuming lead-;™a@de tremendous progress and the | |ership and giving real, militant lead- | S#les have been increased to 1,500) lership to the young workers. daily. The workers before the fac- Should Form Strike Committees. | tory, gates and unemployment lines | A leaflet was issued by the Nee-|#wait every day for a copy, All| dle Trades Industrial Union and T.| this week the newsboys have re- |U. U. L, to the strikers, jturned with their bundles sold out | Tt warns them of the A, F, L, of- |i? am hour or two, | | fieials’ trickery, and urges them to Attack “Auto Workers News,” organize a rank and file strike com-| This will, no doubt, be followed | |mittee to lead their struggle. It|by an attack against the “Auto | proposes as demands the 40 hour|Workers News,” the militantly | Preparing for March 6, | n | S | the demands advanced by the Txede PROTEST MEET Units, Ueasue Calls STIRS PHILA ‘Skoda Workers War Unemployment eutuued toa tee One) | they did the demonstration a week} age, seemed to change their mind) when they saw the size and temper on} of the mass demonstration and kept |S¥Pport the capitalist state govern-| their hands off, while the demonstra- tion went on for over an hour and 15 minutes, with speakers address- ing the throng of workers, Bill Murdock of the T.U.U.L, Alexander, of the I.L.D., Comrades | Gannet and Solway spoke and re- ceived tremendous support from the demonstrators. The masses voted solidiy to elect a committee to go inside the City Hall, which was guarded with a hundred police, to present demands, which included: $15 a week unemployment relief for.| each worker, with $5 additional for | each, dependent; no evictions for | non-payment of rent by unemployed; full wages for work on public con- Struction and so on. The police at the platfornt tried © prevent the committee from leav- ine it to enter the City Hall, but it) left anyhow and entered the ‘Hall, where the Commissioner of Public Safety and police officials amet them, telling them the mayor ‘was “not in,” and that they should “come back Monday.” _The committee returned to the | platform and reported the evasion sof the city officials on the question | of unemployment relief, whereupon | ‘the-ass-mbly adopted another reso- lution, condemning the city govern-|strate their solidarity with the| ment as a tool of the employers, and pointing out the capitalist character | of the government as opposed to the working class, and endorsing the | Unemployed Conference which is dated for Sunday, at 1 p. m., at 1208) Tasker St | Woods SaysGov’tIs | Shoe Strike Breaker! (Continued from Page One) | rupted and said, “No, I take it that he speaks officially for the U. 8.} government.” Woods characterized the of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union as trying to siart a ievolu- tion. Judge May did not object to} Woods talking about the danger of revolution in Passaic, Gastonia, New Bedford and the {illinois mining fields but when the question of the -American Revolution of 1776 was| raised by Attorney Buitenkant, the} ‘judge said, “that was then, not now.” | “Another high light was reached iwhen Boss Schwartz was asked while on the witness stand, “when is ‘your slow season?” He replied, “we | have no slow season in our industry, | we. always have plenty of work.” The hundreds of unemployed shoe workers in the court room gave him | the lie through their representation. A Prove Conspiracy. H. Levin, organizer for the union, | when he took the stand proved by | leaders the weekly pay books of the work-| ruff, ohnson and Swin,, republicans, | ers that for more than four months of each year the shoe workers act- | ually starve because of unemploy-| ment, The hearing will be resumed on Monday when it is expected that Biedenkapp will take the stand and show that there exists 4 conspiracy between the shoe bosses, the U. S. Department of Labor, The American Federation of Labor to drive the workers back into the company union shops for low wages, long hours under the brutal speed-up sys- *tem. The Independent Shoe Work- ters Union is fighting to establish ithe 40-hour, 5-day week and the ‘shop delegate system. | dle Trades All to Picket Tuesday (Continued from Page One) ing hunger and starvation. “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League carries on the struggle of all needle trades workers, those already members of the Needle Trades Union, the unor- ganized as well -~ of the-revyolu- tionary minorities in the A. F. of L. union. “The company union has to its! ment, and hired gunmen. The masses of workers. “The needle trades workers are carrying the brunt of the struggle against company unionism against | the fascist unions. An attack against |noto, or right-wing Farmer. Labor | |the needle trades workers is an at- |Party, was re-elected, as was Tsu-| | +yoshi Nnukai, leader of the Seiyu- | tack against all workers. “The building trades workers, the | metal trades workers, must take up jmier Hamaguchi, | | the struggle for the organization of | the unorganized, and for rank and file control of their unions. “The attack against the needle workers is a part of a general con-|kuon Kataoka, a member of the spiracy of the bosses and +he A. F. of L. fascists against the workers, decided upon by the Hoover Confe ence with William Green of the A. F. of L., which Schlesinger is trying |to carry throughout in the needle trades. Come te Union Office. “The pickets of the Industrial Union are being attacked by the hired gangsters of the bosses’ com- pany union. The workers must de- fend the pickets of the needle trades workers. > “The Trade Union Unity League ealls upon all workers to demen- struggles of the militant needle trades workers on Tuesday morning, at 7:30 p. m. Come to 131 West 28th St. “Demonstrate for Industrial Unionism! Fight company union- ism! Fight for the organization of the unorganized! Fight for the 40-hour five-day week! Fight for | the establishment of union condi- tions in the shops! Build the Nee- Workers Industrial Union! Join the Trade Union Unity League!” * * * Edward Stark, a member of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, was arrested yesterday on 86th St., in the garment center, when he was talking to workers, urg- ing them to join to allow the worker to get an attor- ‘ney to defend him, and bringing in| a court hanger-on to “defend” Stark, Gottlieb sentenced Starl: to 80 days. An active member’s meeting will be held by the Industrial Union Mon- day right after work at Irving Plaza, Irving. Place and 15th St. Senate Worries Over Demonstrations (Continued from Page One) Grady, representing the A, F. of L., appeared with Congressmen Wood- and Wingo, democrat. The commit- tee heard McGrady’s appeal for an old-age pension law, without much comment, but in agreement that some kind of vague promise at least must be made, for the unemployed are organizing. McGrady told of the 40-yearsold age limit which is adding workers to the jobless army, but did not point out any of the measures that might also save some of 1 > younger workers, too, from the armies of misery today. He had no sugges- tions even for the terms of the old- age bill, being quite satisfied to leave all that to the ~ssmen. All he asked was a statement from Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw ‘ bi , Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” < x them that such 2 pension bill would be prepared. | week, time and a half for overtime. the Industrial) Union, Magistrate Gottifeb refused | | (Continued from Page One) of the Japanese naval delegation in | London where he takes part in the building of a united front against the Soviet Union and demands a} navy with a substantial increase in| ser strength. This party still| |posing as “liberal” has arrested 14,-| 000 Koreans, and holds for mass | ‘trial 807 Communists, under laws \by which the death sentence may be inflicted on all of them, | Elect Worker Candidates. | The Communist Party is coms| pletely outl ‘din Japan, and can- |Needie Trades Workers Industrial |Mot run candidates, but some work- | |Union gets its support from the | ers’ representatives are running on | |the ticket of the “Labor Farmer |Alliance, There are also seven right wing “labor parties.” | | Tkuo Oyama, president of the Ro- \kai and a bitter opponent of Pre- | | Among those defeated-were Bun-| |zuki, president of the Federation of Labor (reactionary); ‘who' sought to |represent a distticf at Osaka; Cho- |Minseito and former Minister of ‘Finance; Prof. Isoo Abe, social democrat, who is known as the| |“Pather of Baseball” in Japan, and | |Toyohko Kagawa, a religious mis- | \leader of workers. i cc Naval Policy Same. LONDON, Eng., Feb. 21.—Stim- | json and MacDonald are uttering, w | officially, the usual congratulations | |to the Wakatsuki government, and | j take the stand that now the Seiyuki, | | which they chose to regard as a) |more militarist party has been de- | feated by the Minseito party in the | | Japanese elections Japan can “modi- | \fy its eruiser demands.” There is | |no real indication, however, that the |Japanese delegation will act differ- ‘ently from what it has been acting, | | { \Mass Picket Benrod | | Cafeteria; New Strike| (Continued from Page One) | the aid of the bosses who are in a| desperate mood on account of the | growing militancy among the food | workers. Yesterday three workers who were in the demonstration at| the Monroe Cafeteria were held in $2,500 bail each on a framed charge | of malicious mischief. Raises Bail. % | Today one woman worker was arrested in the Benrod demonstra- tion and all four cases came up) before Magistrate Gottlieb, in Jef- ferson Market Court, and this tool ‘of the bosses raised the bail of all these workers to $3,500 each in or- der to keep them in jail until Mon- day when the cases will come up again, The four workers, Anna Speaker, | Louis Demoff, John Pico, and Rosé | Kaplan, protested when this Zionist | judge called all the bosses and their lawyers to present their cases and would not let them defend them- selves as they had no lawyer in court, They shouted to the judge, “Is this your justice,” and Magis- trate Gottlieb answered, “You don’t believe in the law anyway.” The workers then. turned around to the people present in court and said, “This is the class justice of the capitalist courts, they don’t even let workers defend themselves when they were framed up by the bosses.” | Beat Up in Cells. | The women workers Speaker and Kaplan were viciously beaten up around the head and body by the police while they were being taken to jail and after being thrown in the cells; this was ignored by the judge, Albert Risinare was released ye terday from Raponak, where he w: sent as an “insane lawbreaker” in a frame-up ease @ year ago, He was arrested for picketing at this |very same Monroe cafeteria that is |now on strike on 35th St, It urges the workers to jein the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial nion, There are quite a number of shirt factories in the Anthracite, and the conditions of the young workers in them are indeed misefable, The Anthracite T,U,U,L. intends to pro- ceed in its work of organizing the shirt workers there. Waterbury Cops Attack Jobless Demonstration (Continued from Page One) |p. m. to hear Henry Overgaard, na- class against these attacks, Ipottes® equipped with tional secretary of the Metal Work- ers Industrial League, In court Ross took the stand in | her own. behalf,-and-told.of-the 15,-| to Aid NTW Tag Day 000 unemployed in Waterbury, the | short time for the rest, and the speed-up and wage cutting of the bosses. “In the Waterbury Mfg., Water- bury Glock plants the wages were cut 25 per cent: with the recently introduced "B” system, not to speak | of the vicious speed-up going with it. In the plants of Scovill, Amer- ican Brass, International Silver, Steel and Johnson, wages are cut | right and left and more production per man is. demanded.” weet Shé t6ld of thé'seven-hour day:and five-day week. which the metal wor! ers, organized into an industrial industrial union, could demand and get. The judge in anger sentenced her to ten days, Perticaris got a $10 fine. Workers Fought, The two leaders of the unemploy- ed demonstration were arrested aft- er vige@rous, activity of.the Water-. bury Coungil of tHe unem#Ployed for the last two weeks in front of the factories of “Brass City,” The Un- employed Council holds daily meet- ings of scores of unemployed work- ers at its headquarters, 774 Bank St. The cops had a pretty tough job in quelling the demonstration. The the employment office and were City Hall when the police broke up the demonstration, The International Labor Deferz¢ furnished bail for’ the two arrest- ed. The unemployed movement con- tinues even more militantly. Polish Rabbis Forget. Things | (Continued from Page One) walks, took up the story and cabled jto all parts of the world for pro- tests. * * * Berlin reports that the the Ger- man foreign office declined to “take official action” to intervene diplo- |matieally at the request of Berlin rabbis, saying that it deemed re- ports were “insuffi it as a basis for diplomatic representation.” Rome reports that the Vatican organ, expressing pleasure at the way the world forces of capitalism havé mobilized superstitions of all jSects under the banner of the pope, says that the anti-Soviet war drive, dressed up in priestly garb, may be the “providential institution tending to unite the Christian peoples.” There is no war talk, of course, against Turkey, which will not per- mit Christian teachings to the young, and which has deported those who tried to violate the law. But then in Turkey there is capitalism 2 MORE FLIERS KILLED. CHICAGO, Feb, 21.—Two mor aviators perished today when their plane nose dived, crashed and burn- ed, The victims were Joe Dondan, 85, pilot, and Victory King, 28, The’ unemployed workers held their meet- | ling right in the company yard at about to begin their march upon the} monthly paper of the Auto Workers Union, on the grounds that it is not |a daily, The union has the support |of thousands of auto workers who |buy the paper each month at the | factory gates. Will Organize and Fight. , The Communist Party is -mobiliz- ing the workers against these at- |tacks and organizing them for strug: | jgle. Already the mass pressure of |:the workers has compelled the boss; jes to release 10 of our conirades |who were held under the criminal | syndicalist laws in Pontiac. The | mass demonstration on March 6 will be another answer of the working | | All Unions Called. | (Continued from Page One) |instructed the various affiliated | | unions to raise a strike and struggle fund. Eyery member of the Trade | Union Unity League. must do his jutmost to help make this tag day! a Buccess,”” woe +! I. Amter, District Organizer of | |the Communist Party, has issued aj statement instructing. all members | |of the Party to do their utmost to! help make the tag day a success, the Young Communist: League, hag |° | Sent-out-instructions to all units of |the Y.C.L, to participate in the tax |day. A special appeal was sent to |the Young Pioneers by the N.T.W,U., king them to participate in this important work. “The Pioneers have |always helped our union and we | know they will do so again.” | . All Help the Textile Workers. “Support the Nationals\Pextile Werkeys* Union” waf' the dectaration by the leaders of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Union, Independent Shoe Workers Union, Metal Workers Industrial Union and the Marine Workers’ League who called upon their mem- bership to go into the streets to- morrow and Sunday in mass tag days to collect for the organization strike and struggle. The call pointed out that at pres- jent the textile union was preparing | for a general strike of silk workers lin the city of Paterson, “All work- lers must rally to the support of |this union, which is preparing a strike fund to-carry on and lead the struggle of the textile worker: | “All out to the help of our heroic j comrades in the textile slave pens, both North and South.” Call the National Textile Work- Jers Union, 2 West 16th St,, Watkins 0628, to be told the nearest station |to which to come for collection boxes. Filipino Students Out on Strike; Protest the Calif. Murder, Insults — At 2 mass meeting where the story of the American Legion mur- der of the Filipino worker in Calif. ornia was related, 2,770 students of the Manila North High School ‘struck yesterday, and today are picketing the school, Only about 50 scabs entered the cla oane a * | Fortunately, the Chicago Commun- mews properly the day they occur. Says U.S. Imperialism Is Losing Supremacy in World Cotton Marts P, Shoan, -- District “Organizer of |: -MILK DELIVERED BY UNION DRIVERS, TO..ALL WORKERS Workers, when you drink milk, do you take into consideration— In it the best milk— Ta it fresh— In it the most nourishing— Ta it delivered by union drivers MORRISANIA is the only milk firm which employs strictly union drivers, 883 Tardieu This gentlemen talked so much for a big French navy at London that he got @ sore throat. More- over it seems he had some dijfer- ence with Uncle Sam on whether France should set the terms of war on the Soviet Union, France being the military power on the continent. Thus the sore throat was used as an excuse to put him to bed—politically. ae CHICAGO POLICE ATTACK JOBLESS Unemployed Fighting For Work or Wages (Continued from Page One) Union Unity League and the Un-| employed Council affiliated to it, unemployment confer- | ence, called by the Communist Party in preparation for the International Unemployment Day demonstration on March 6, is being held Sunday, Feb. 23, at 1) x. m. at the Ashland Auditotium, Ashland and Van Buren. A mass * * Capitalist press reports yester- day, after reporting that “a thou- sand men and women” had marched on the Chicago City Hall and were attacked by 200 police “with night- sticks swinging,” decided to change the policy and four hours later ran a story that “two hundred men and women” had been “paddled” by the “Banana stalks,” the whole stery making light of the demonstration of the Chicago unemployed, thousands of whom are facing actual starvation. ist workers sent in their own story to the Daily Worker. Only if the local organizations send in short, concise wires of local demonstra- tions, can the Daily Worker give the WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Warn- ing to’ cotton platters ‘that the United States is losing its supre- macy in the world cotton markets was issued today by Carl Williams, cotton representative of the Federal Farm Board. Williams pointed out that there was vast overproduction in cotton, and urged a restriction of planting. The decline in cotton exports from the United States, despite the over- production is sharpening both the agrarian and industrial crisis of American capitalism. Patronize Daily Worker Advertisers st THE INCOME FROM AD- VERTISING HHLPS TO FINANCE THE DAILY Ry HELES, us TO THOUSANDS WORK) PRINT 8 OF COPIES FOR MASS CIRCU- LATION, HELP: us TO ESTABLISH A MASS OR- GAN FOR THE PARTY. THE WAY TO KEEP AD- VERTISERS IN (THE DAI- Li RIDE IS TO HAT RON! EM, TO BUY FROM. THEM WHEN You OF MER- CHANDIse THEY SELL. HOWHVER, YOU BYE ALe & WYRE NOT Do THE DAILY nl Sohne es SO EeEo 8 FO! van | lief” to the Street Railways by rais-| week for every jobless. worker, $6 DENVER, DETROIT, OHIO UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS GROW; READY FOR MAR.6 . Y. Office Workers Section of T.U.U.L, to Organize Jobless Office Workers Detroit “City Fathers’ Raise Fare While Thousands of Workers Walk Streets DENVER, Colo., Feb. 21.—The;an outrageous attack on the whole Unemployed Council met last night, working class and the Communist showing a big response to the small | Party here will expose this prom- street meeting previously organized | inently at the International Unem- to take place continually, There |ployment Day demonstration at were 175 who joined the Unemploy-|Campus Marius opposite the City ed Council, Hall, Nunally, the delegate of the) Common Laborers, reported that sixty percent of the workers in his| FIGHT line are unemployed, Delegates of CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 21,—At the other unions, Allander and Shaf- first call of the Trade Union Unity fron spoke for the program of the| League and the Unemployed Coun- Trade Union Unity League as did cil, a packed hall, with hundreds Dietrich and Christensen of the|standing in the ailses, was the re- Communist Party, Every arrange-| sponse. ment is being made for the March 6| Patrick C, Cobb, a Negro steel demonstration, ,which is not the | worker, was elected Secretary; John final demonstration, but which will|J, Organist, a native- born Am- widen the movement to greater|erican and overseas war veteran, proportions and drive it forward Treasurer; and Russell A, Reem- more effectively, | snyder, & steel worker, along with * three women workers, was elected “RELIEF” FOR GRAFTERS, NOT to the Executive Committee. FOR JOBLESS | The demands adopted included: DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 21.—The | No evictions for non-payment of City Council, which lets—according |rent by unemployed; repeal of the to the figures of “charity” experts Community Fund Law, no worker —14,000 unemployed workers’ fami-|to contribute to support the Fund; lies starve, on Tuesday gave “re-| abolition of vagrancy laws; $15 a * * CANTON JOBLESS ORGANIZE * * ing fares from six to eight cents, | for each child or dependent in addi- meanwhile the increase goes, un-|tion; social insurance paid by the doubtedly, into the pockets of the | bosses and the State, admtinistered grafters in the City Hall. The | by the workers, And to -make these street cars are at least nominally in| demands known to all, a demonstra- control of the city, | tion was arranged for’ today. If there is any doubt as to them! if * * : being grafters, the “investigation”| N, Y. OFFICE WORKERS being made, a fake whitewash ORGANIZE JOBLESS game as it is, has revealed that! In New York there are over 110,- nearly all officials, from the Goy-|000 unemployed office workers now ernor of Michigan, the Detroit/and more are daily thrown on the Mayor down to the ordinary garden | street. To cope with this situation variety of plain clothes police thug, the Office Workers’ Union, section are inyolyed in graft. jof the T. U. U. L. is calling a This hold up of the working class, | mobilization meeting of all office while tens of thousands of workers | workers, unorganized as well as or- are jobless and starving and others} ganized, Monday, Feb. 24, at 2.30 have suffered wage cuts and part)p. m. ,at Labor Temple, 14th street time (the same as wage cuts), is|near Second ave. 48) MAY 157 on the RED SQUARE, EIGHT FULL DAYS IN THE SOVIET UNION NEW YORK to MOSCOW and RETURN (includes Return Ratiroad Fare te European Port) $280 ropes 175 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK IF YOU CAN ROUGH IT— THIS Low RATE APPLIES Sailing APRIL 12TH SS, BREMEN ‘Tel, Algonquin 6656-8797 The Party Organizer From February 1 the Party Organizer is published as a Monthly orgar. of the Organizational Department of the Central Committee. 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