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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25
Help Wanted to Aid
Chicago Juniors In
Future Activities

The Chicago Junior section is COM
pletely recognizing on the basis OF
School Nuclei Two sections of the
city have already completed the re-
organization and are successfully
working on the new basis. The Chi
caeo Junior sections needs as many
comrades as possible, who are mem
bers Of the Young Workers League, to
become active in Junior work by be-
coming group leaders.
Fifteen additional group leaders
will be needed within the next two
weeks. All comrades who are inter-
ested in Junior work, who will ser
iously undertake to lead a group lease
apply to Gilbert Greenberg in care OF
the Young Workers League at once.
This is very important we have nuclei
that are waiting for comrades to lead.
HURRY! s&a.a
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Cotton Mills Run at
80 Per Cent Capacity
in August; Beats 1924

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-Cotton
spinning declined further in August
as compared with July but was
greater than in August Of last year,
the census bureaus monthly report
today shows.
Active spindle hours for August
numbered 6,954,41S,s $40, or an average
Of 1874 hours per spindle in place,
compared with 7,29764S.494, or an
average of 1872, for July this year, and
5,399, 549,6 61, OF an average Of 143,
for August last year.
Spinning spindles in place Aug. 81
numbered S7S22,04O, Of which 81
26s,7 74 were operated at some time
during the month, compared with 81
1885, and 31,760,596 for July this
year and 37,S22,7O6 and 2S,945, 603 for
August last year.
The average number of spindles
operated during August was 30s464,534,
or at sos per cent capacity, on a
single shift basis, compared with
1857 ,971, or at S4.3 per cent capacity,
during July this year, and 23,761,44o,
or at 62.S per cent capacity, during
August last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25

the policies and tactics of the reac-
tionaries, reformists and Communists
must be made clear" Obviously, too
this was due to his going out Of his
field to drag in an incident on which
he could hang an argument for the
taxi drivers.
Another comrade, writing painstak-
ingly, from Seattle, tells us at the
beginning Of his article:
Learn to be in the union. II is
better to be organized than unorgan.
lied Learn how to organize the work
ers." And so on for six sheets.
Now, these are excellent recon-
mendations but in the whole six
sheets the comrade did not once con-
meet his purely propaganda phrases
with single incident of the class
struggle, either OF his own or his fell
low workers experience or Of such
nationally known incidents as the min
ers' strike or the Daugherty injunc-
tions. Hence, all his exhortations were
more formulate and utterly valueless.
One kind Of supposed Worker Cor
respondent" the DAILY WORKER
can certainly dispense with is the
gentleman who writes us from Wash
ington, ID. c., on a letterhead neatly
printed with HIS name and address,
with the following: Founder of Re-
formed Bahaism," Formerly reporter
for the Washington Daily News"
Manager All-American Press Syndi-
cate" at the top. He asks: Gould
you use any Washington news or orr
ginal literary contributions from me?"
The DAILY WORKER will probably
struggle along without the Original
literary contributions" of this gentle
man, in spite Of the fact that he has
printed under the sauve resounding
titles the claim Washington Core
spondent OF the Chicago DAILY
WORKER"
WHAT the DAILY WORKER wants
w is news hot from the struggle,
that drips with the sweat and blood
OF the toiling masses, that intimately
pictures the class conflict. IN each
shop. dealing individually with each
little detail, every brutal foreman.
every complaint, every rebellion,
.sYaEs MIuPE vi0soFI so
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perceived in them. but which he fail.
ed to write up. This sort OF thing Is
sometimes useful, but 1t is decidedly
taken on sufferance and is not Worker
Correspondence.
A MOTHER mania some comrades
= have is to write about incidents
with which they have not the slight
est connection. A comrade in New
York City, for example, sends in a
story about the Mosul oil region of
Turkey and travels around the world
ending up with the Rockefeller inter-
ests in Colorado coal mines-all writ
ten up with a pretense Of being news,
and having no regard for the instruc-
lions issued in the little booklet by
Comrade Dunno on Worker Corre-
spondence, tho proudly setting forth
at the top of the story-"By a Worker
Correspondent"
New York City seems to have been
especially unfortunate in getting the
wrong idea Of what Worker Core
spondence is. Another comrade. be-
ginning story with the claim by a
Worker Correspondent" proceeds:
New York City, Sept. g. The
steamship Majestic, OF the White Star
Line, left Southampton, England, this
morning. bound for New York City,
despite the fact that a large number
OF her crew deserted her last night"
The story then proceeds in detail. But
what, might we ask, is Worker
Correspondent" In New York City
doing with cabled news from Eng
land? Did he not get it out OF the
daily papers ana does he think that
the same cables which carried the
news to New York papers have no
connection with Chicago?
TN New York City there are millions
4 of workers. with great factories
everywhere, oil sorts OF struggles in
volving masses every day. Yet the
comrade chose to ignore these strug-
giles, even those in his own factory.
to rewrite for Chicago paper the
news he read in a New York paper OF
what was going on in England. This
Is not Worker Correspondence, and II
is a pity that among ali the revolu.
Is sI0nsFz , wos!ssss TIE RAfts ~ ~
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Conference of Needle
Trades in New York
City Shows Growth
fcontinued from nage -

Continued from page ~
of the entire union on the basis OF the
shop committee"
Among the specific economic de-
mands advanced were:
I. Union control of contractors
thru jobbers and manufacturers.
2. Guarantees to enable needle
workers to make a living in the In
dustry by the establishment Of
(a) The s6-hour week.
(b) Forty weeks guarantee Of
employment per year.
(e) Abolition Of minimum stand
ards of production and piece work
turnout the industry.
(d) A wage scale that will bring
. the yearly earning power within a
minimum Of $4,000.
(e) Unemployment insurance
paid by the employers and adminlst-
cred by the union and guarantees
against discharge by the employer.
The conference elected a commit
mittee of rs to act as the national
committee.
The conference adopted a number
of important resolutions including a
resolution Of greetings to the Minority
Movement of Great Britain, protest
resolution against those trade union
reactionaries who together with the
American capitalists opposed the
recognition Of Soviet Russia, a resolu-
ton favoring the organization of a
labor party, and world trade union
unity, a resolution of greetings to the
cloak and dressmakers Of New York
in their brave struggle against the re-
dictionary Sigman machine, resolu-
ton endorsing the International La
Dor Defense, a resolution pledging
support for the DAILY WORKER
and other working class revolutionary
papers. E
The conference also adopted a reso.
luton expressing warm recognition
and pledge of support to the Freiheit
for its loyal services in the cause of
the working class.
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New York, not one seems able to
comprehend and carry out the simple
duty of a Worker Correspondent.
Our Chicago comrades have a diff
ferent fault. One and all, high and
low, Chicago comrades think that the
limited means and the small staff Of
the DAILY WORKER nevertheless
ought to furnish "a reporter" for
every little incident-and they blandly
ignore Worker Correspondence du-
ties and don't write at all.
Another New York Worker Cor
respondent understands his function
so poorly that his anxiety TO find
something to write about" causes him
to drag in by the hair the most re-
mote incidents of flood and field to
allow him to insert, by way of snug
CLING into the story, some comment
about the taxicab drivers, in which he
is particularly interested.
For instance, on August 5, this com
rade sent us story, setting forth that
the Building Trades Council had pass
ed a resolution assailing Mayor Hy-
Ian. and the comrade quotes the reso-
luton entire. Then the comrade
brings in his own issue, saying:
THE building trades workers are
not the only workers that will fight
to defeat the Hylan-Sinnot machine
In this city. There are $4,000 taxicab
drivers in New York who will put up
a bitter fight to prevent Hylan from
being reelected and giving over the
streets Of New York TO the Yellow
Taxi corporation"
But the comrade failed TO note that
he was taking the same political po-
sition as the Building Trades Council
whose resolution he gave as saying:
Whereas, this board is working in
harmony with the American Fedora
ton of Labor in furthering the prin-
ciples Of rewardElg our friends and
opposing our enemies. therefore be Il
resolved that We will use all our eff
forts to bring about the defeat OF
Mayor Hylan."
OBVIOUSLY, the comrade did not
~ follow the instruction given In
the little Worker Correspondence"
.RSaslst thss The slgasscs hst8sse
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25
Yom Kippur Day Party
to be Celebrated by
Anti-Religious Talks
Especial to The Daily worker)

CAMP YOWL, MIDDLEBORO,
Mass.--The Roxbury branch Of the
Young Workers League has opened a
camp where Communists may have
a gathering place and recreate their
depleted energies. Tho the camp is
not financial success, it has been
an educational and social success.
On Sept %, the camp will hold an
anti-religious day, at which the com
rades will show the relation of reli-
gion to the exploitation of the work
ing class. Prominent comrades are
to speak on the subject Religion and
Whom it Serves" The occasion Of
this demonstration is Yom Kippur
Day.
A small admission will be charged
and the proceeds will be used in the
following manner: Ten per cent Of
the profits will be given to the Young
Worker, ten per cent to the DAILY
WORKER, and ten per cent to the
Freiheit. All comrades are invited to
attend this meeting and assist the
camp in its efforts.
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of many comrades who seem to have
either not read the booklet or not to
have absorbed single idea from the
first word to the last.
Comrades who occupy party posts,
such as district organizers and dis
trict industrial organizers, comrades
whose particular task it is to send in
from this or that locality the news Of
the labor movement, some of these
comrades pay not the slightest atten-
ton to the sound advice and positive
instruction given IN Comrade DUNES
little booklet.
Instead, they send in the most care
less manuscripts, If one may call them
such, piles of newspaper clippings,
not identified either as to what paper
or its date, unintelligible scrawls on
odds and ends of note paper, import
ant news all mixed up with personal
comment, manuscripts written in
single space, without regard to the
need Of editing nor space allowed at
the top Of sheets for editorial dlrec-
lions to the printers.
before me on my desk are some
- horrible examples. Here Is a
comrade who can write a story-but
doesn't. From Los Angeles he sends
a letter-a letter, mind you, not a
story, Of two closely typed sheets in
which the real story Of a real strug-
gle in the local Machinists' Union is
tangled up hopelessly among person
al chatter Of the correspondent and
his naive request that you write up
an article" on the subject. This com
rade wrote at least 800 words in the
letter, but apparently never thought
that he should write and could write
the story about the machinists in 200
words separately and put his person.
al comment on separate piece OF
paper.
The same comrade followed the
above messy contribution which was
too impossibly mixed up to allow us
to thresh out the story for lack OF
time, by another Ave days later. OF
450 words accompanied by four news
paper clippings, which he asked US
to pour over for half hour and ex.
tract the story which he had already.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25

long weeks work, but to his aston
ishment, after counting the money,
he found out that something was
wrong, that something was missing.
He counted the bills again and again,
but 1t was still missing.
ut must be mistake" John said
to himself, and on the next day he
called the attention of the boss to
that effect, but the boss showed him
his figures and items, and according
to that, the boss was correct.
why" said John, II worked twice
as many hours as you put down.
There is something wrong"
Don't tell me Stories" answered
the boss, my figures are right, and
If you are not satisfied" he sarcastic
ally continued. Complain to your
business agent"
John did not answer a word, he
only CRASHED his teeth, and deter.
mined not to work overtime any
more.
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Build the DAILY WORKER.

THIS is not to say that the editorial
l. department of the DAILY WORK
Err is perfect. Quite the contrary.
Lack of finances to sustain larger
staff cripples it tragically. Even
when all who are assigned to the de-
partment are working at their desks,
much good material in the rough is
neglected for lack of time, and much
that is handled is poorly worked up
under driving speed. 1t is worse yet
when the demands of the party call
editorial workers away for conference
es and speaking tours and leave those
on the job to their own devices, with
visible results in lowering the quality
of the paper. Moreover, this condi-
ton has become the rule and not the
exception.
This technical lack also tends to
cripple the editorial staff politically,
as 1t is obvious that work which de-
mands both speed and long hours con-
tinuously faithfully to discharge the
task, does not leave even the mini
mum OF leisure for political, theore-
tical and cultural reading, editorial
councils, ETC., necessary for proper
editorial perspective.
This is contributed to by a pernici-
GUS departmentalization which makes
one "the trade union expert" or the
expert on China" etc.
This is such a common disease that
the agitprop bureau of the G. |. es-
pecially condemns condition where
Instead of political collaboration
among the different members of the
editorial stan, we find an obstinate
struggle for columns
WHILE we see that the editorial de-
w partment is not without fault,
yet the writer believes that an i'm
mense change and improvement would
result If only the Workers Party
members and readers Of the DAILY
WORKER would take more seriously
the building up of corps of Work
err Correspondents.
In the editorial room, we have seen,
since the issue OF Comrade DUNES
little booklet on Worker Correspond
ents. the most deplorable lack OF com
prehension of the subject on the part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25
By Harrison George

What the DAILY WORKER wants
stories, and those who write them to
distribute bundles in the shops which
are described in the stories. No mem
Der of our party is too big or too lit
tie to read Comrade DUNES little
booklet for Worker Correspondents
and to put its invaluable directions
into practice.
The booklet by Comrade Dunno is
furnished free to Worker Corresponds
ents. It shows how the humblest
worker may express the story OF the
life of the workers as seen by his
own eyes. 1t tells What where,
when, why and how" to write.
Since the publication Of this little
booklet, Number 4, of the Little Red
Library published by the DAILY
WORKER Publishing company, there
Is no excuse for the members of the
Workers Party, especially, either to
fail in sending In the news or send
ing in articles that have no destiny
except the waste paper basket, or
making II so dificult for the editorial
department that valuable material is
lost to the readers Of our DAILY
WORKER.
THE writer wishes that he could re-
4 produce entire, some of the fine
examples OF Worker Correspondence
the DAILY WORKER has carried. to
give the bright side of the picture. We
mention the excellent articles from
Pittsburgh appearing frequently.
Another is the shop nucleus cor
respondent from Newark, New Jer-
sey, who told in the issue OF August
10, Of the problems of his shop. An
other from Shinnston, w. Va. from a
miner appearing on August 81, is an
excellent article, depicting not only
the conditions Of the miners, but re-
porting a conversation with railroad
err on the subject of common struggle
with the striking miners.
Others are given in the little book
let by Comrade Dunno, which again
insist that all who write for the
DAILY WORKER must read. Change
the character OF the DAILY WORK
Err Build corps OF real Worker
ssssSF R9Rs r4>s@s~A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25
WEINSTONE SPEAKS AT
BOSTON MEMBERSHIP
MEETING THIS SUNDAY

BOSTON, Mass Sept. 23.-com-
rade William WeInstone Of New
York will be the c. z. c. represen-
tstlve to address the Boston NOM
bershIp meeting which will be held
this coming Sunday, Sept. 27, at
Paine Memorial Hall, II Appleton
street at 1880 p. m. WeInstone will
report on the work Of the National
Convention and the Immediate tasks
Of the district with regard to boIshe-
Vlzatlon and reorganization Of the
district. Every party member must
attend this membership meeting.
No non-party member will be ad-
mlttsd. Admission by membership
card.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25

ONLY by making the Communist
~ press a reflection of the lives OF
the working masses can it attain that
hold upon the labor movement neces.
sary to shape the form and activity
of the movement into the path of re-
volutionary struggle. And only by de-
yelopment of far more and much bet
ter Worker Correspondents than the
DAILY WORKER now has, can this,
our paper, become fixed in the faith
of the workers as their very own.
It should be an indication Of the
weakness of the DAILY WORKER
merely to cite the fact that the cir.
culation of this, the leading organ OF
Communism in America, is far below
the estimate of 100000 voters who
cast their ballots for Foster and Git
low in the presidential election. The
great circle of sympathizing workers
must be made into readers of the
DAILY WORKER.
THE Worker Correspondents have
L the duty of correcting this short
COluAhBs CulcAiy Wy Shdh6ihb Lhc SAoA
acter of the DAILY WORKER, by
bringing into it's columns the intimate
details, the tragedy, the significance
Of the common things, the very COM
mon things, Of the lives and strug-
giles Of the working masses. BY this
means the influence Of the DAILY
WORKER will expand amazingly and
at the same time these masses under
It's influence will simultaneously be-
come conscious that the Communist
Party is their leader in action against
capitalism.
II we wish to make the DAILY
WORKER a mass paper in the true
sense, we have to do something more
than cry out that this is our ambi-
ton. 1t must be definitely accented
that the paper must change its char
acter Now, 1t must also be accent
ed that the comrades everywhere
should not think that this change of
character is the business solely Of
the editorial department of the DAILY
WORKER. The biggest change in
character will come with the increase
and betterment of a corps of Worker
Correspondents.
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WAR NOT YET
OVER; 26,344
MANNED SUFFER
Stuff ering Continues
Among Veterans ~

NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 23.-The
war for democracy is not yet ended
II one is to accept the statements OF
officials Of the veterans bureau. g.,
344 veterans are still confined to their
cots in the various hospitals in the
United States.
About FIVE thousand veterans are
discharged every month from the hos
pitfalls, but these are soon replaced
by other war veterans who still suffer
from wounds received in the line OF
duty.
According to the report of the
veterans bureau, most of those under
treatment will be cured and dis
charged, but many of them, manned
and shell shocked and diseased, will
spend the remainder of their days be-
ing cared for by the government.
Insanity was the most terrible Of
the wars aftermaths. There are now
12,30S veterans being treated for
mental diseases caused by shell shock
and fever. 9,1S5 soldiers are suffer-
ing and receiving treatment for tuber-
culosis.
There are 1000 more soldiers un-
der treatment than last year One OF
the wounded veterans, confined at the
Walter Reed hospital, Washington,
D. c., has undergone 40 skin grating
operations to make over his face
which was torn away by shrapnel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25

UT Ou tudI uO4ludJ.
why should any one bother me
about how many hours l should
work? Am not boss over my
time, over my own hands? Why
should 1 quarrel with the boss about
overtime, demanding time and one
half or double? Am l making more
work doing this overtime! And if
the boss don't want to pay the price
for overtime demanded by the union,
why should 1 lose the few cents he is
willing to pay?"
! A ND so John decided to cheat the
"A union To do away with its rules
and to work overtime as much as the
boss will only permit him. He will
not talk about the price.
This will be arranged between him
and the boss, and as far as the union
is concerned the full sum required
will be put in the envelope and If
necessary the money will really be
put in. It's alright, John will bring
it back the next day.
It is only to prove to the business
agent and the rest of the workers of
the shop, that their suspicion is
groundless, that he is not undermin-
ing the union conditions. So it went
on day after day, week after week.
All the workers in the shop were
quitting in time and John always re-
manned working overtime for the
union scale"
ONCE, after a long and hard
" weeks work, John came home
and without even washing himself
he opened his pay envelope with a
delightful expression on his face, ex-
pecting to find a fat pay roll for his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25
FREE STATE IN
BRITISH DEFY AT
LEAGUE CONFAB
Dominions May Support
Ireland's Protest
especial to The Daily Worker,

GENEVA. spet. 29.-The age old
fight between Great Britain and Ire
land broke out anew today in an I'M
usual quarter.
Representatives Of the Irish Free
State appearing before the juridicial
committee Of the league Of nations
challenged the right OF British rep
resentatives to speak for the Irish
Free State.
Sir Cecil Hurst had told the COM
mittee that Great Britain opposes
compulsory arbitration
Kelvin O'Higgins. member of the
Irish Free State ministry and delegate
to the league Of nations, jumped to
his feet and informed the league del
egates that Sir Cecil could not speak
for Ireland, with regard TO compulso-
ry arbitration.
Today's incident may reopen an old
dispute between Ireland and England
relative to the right of Ireland and
the league of nations.
The Irish Free State has given in
dication that 1t intends to defy Eng
land and bring the question of the
Ulster border before the league, if the
decision Of the boundary commission
is unsatisfactory to the Free State.
During recent sittings of the
league there has been a tendency on
the part of Ireland and Canada and
South Africa to stand together, and
today's objection by Ireland may be
supported by Canada and South Afri-
ca.