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course of the campaign can already be
gathered. One of the striking fea-
lures of the whole shop committee
election campaign has been the remak-
able interest shown by the working
masses. Their greater participation in
trade union life.
The election meetings we're attend
ed by s. per cent to 20 per cent of
all the workers.
Very thoro preparations were made
for the elections. The nominations
were discussed beforehand in the
works departments and at the dele
gate meetings. 1t is significant that
in Moscow, for instance. some so per
cent of the candidates nominated at
the delegate and department meetings
were endorsed by the general meet
ings and elected to the shop commit
tees. 4.r
The percentage of elected Commun-
lists is between 40 and 5O,asagainst 65
per cent Communist shop committee
members elected last year. This low
ering of the percentage of sCommun-
lists is due on the one hand to the in
creasing activity of the fgnon-party
workers and on the other to the de-
liberate drawing into the shop COM
mittees of a greater number of nom
party men. e
However practically every one of
the non-party men elected to the shop
committees is connected with the
party in one way or another; all of
them have graduated political educa-
ton schools. All of them have par
ticipated in the educational work of
the union. ID rn
Thus both the party and unions
have been enriched by group Of ac-
tive workers well prepared for social
activities. On the other hand the
percentage Of Communists elected to
the auditing commissions has notice
ably increased. In Moscow, for in
stance. 24.6 per cent of the newly
elected auditing committee members
are Communists; last year the Com
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1t was announced at the session that
beginning with Oct. 1 the wages of
this class Of workers will be raised by
IL per cent.
Everybody to Get a Raise.
On the whole, the central committee
sessions have showed that the pres
ent task Of the unions consists of pull
ing the wages up in those industries
where they have Jagged behind the
general average and in gradually rails
ing this average. 1t should be remem-
bered that wages in the U. S. S. R.
can be Systematically raised because
the Soviet business enterprises are not
interested in profits for profits sake,
but apply them to- renovate the plant
and equipment and improve the stand
ards of the employees.
After the sGrafter.
Much attention has also been given
to the embezzlements which have
lately become epidemic in many of the
unions. The various sessions have
unanimously agreed that the embez-
elements must be determinedly fought
both thru raising the efficiency of the
financial management and controk of
the unions and by arranging public
trials of embezzlement cases.
The Textile and Metal Workers
central committee took up in addition
the very serious question of vocational
trainings, as both. of these trades are
beginning to experience shortage of
skilled labor.
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BY WILLIAM r. dunno.
ARTICLE w.
An anna
Confused MlIitancy.

Confused Militancy.
TNHE Sigman machine carried on a
splitting policy following its de-
feat on the report of the general exc
cutive board but while this explains
1t does not excuse the walk-out from
the convention staged by the left wing
delegation following the deliberate
abrogatioh by the Sigmanites of the
terms of the peace agreement, notably
that section providing for proportion
al representation on joint boards.
It is fortunate that the Sigmanites
chose this particular issue on which
to defy the left wing. The flouting of
the peace agreement on this point was
so obvious, the INSCRIPTIONS over
riding of the will of the majority of
the membership so fragrant, that the
left wing had the strongest possible
case while the machine could not
rally even all Of its supporters for
war on the left around this issue.
The machine spokesman told the
left wing in so many words that If
it did not like the policy outlined it
could leave. The left wing accepted
the challenge and walked out Of the
convention.
THE split was no longer potential
= but an actual fact. It only needed
an official declaration by the left wing
leaders followed by the issuance of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
BY MANUEL GOMEZ.

THE third anniversary of Lenins
L death is almost at hand. 1t will
be observed January 21st in every
country on earth. And everywhere
will be raised the slogan: "Lenin is
dead but his work lives!"
There is nothing so very remark
able about the slogan. Lots of men
whose work did not live FIVE minutes
have been the subject of similar ones.
The significant thing is that millions
OF men and womeh who constitute
revolutionary forcs in society take up
this slogan and PROPAGATE it, zealously
enthusiastically as a wachword Of the
very struggle in Which Lenin himself
was engaged. Eenin lives in Lenin-
ism and in the lHworld Communist
movement.
Memorial meetings All over World.
Lenin memorial meeting will be
held in Europe and in Asia. in Africa
and in the Americas. The first of
tnem viii be nelar week or two be-
49, fAAN ttN"btA aA4hi' ucS VI
Lenins death, and the last will not
take place until long after. In Chicago
the memorial meeting has been set
for January Gath. at the great Coli
scum theater. Wherever there is a
Communist Party. this party will or
ganize demonstrations to carry for
ward the slogan that epitomizes their
movement: "Lenin is dead but his
work lives" But not only Commun-
lists will be present at those meetings.
Many thousands OF half-awakened
toilers to whom the name OF Lenm is
only vague symbol Of hope will be
drawn into the gatherings and will
there receive their first clear inkling
of Lenin's teachings. Thus the work
OF Lenin will be- carried on, and new
class-conscious recruits will be deve-
loped for the ever-growing army that
is marching forward steeled in the
struggle, to the overthrow of capital
ism. Lenin is dead but his work lives!
Peasants as well as town workers
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"LGnin is Dead, But His Work Lives on"

will hold Lenin memorial meetings,
remembering that the Russian revo-
luton, of which Lenin was the leader,
freed the Russian peasants from land
lords and "kulaks," and understand
ing that the Soviet government,
which Lenin helped to establish, is a
workers and peasants government.
Fight Imperialism.
In the Far East and among the
colonial and semi-colonial peoples in
all parts of the globe, wide masses
of the population struggling for ma
tional liberation from imperialist rule
will participate in demonstrations in
memory of the great leader who pro-
claimed that the revolutionary work
ng-class movement in the imperialist
countries must become one with the
movements of all the oppressed.
Lenin's slogan Of the alliance OF the
revolutionary proletariat with the ma
tional liberation movements OF the
subject peoples is finding its applica-
tion on world scale. One Of the
most striking instances of il was the
assistance given to Abd-el-Krim and
the Riffian tribesmen by the Com
munist Party Of France in the very
midst of the war being waged against
them by French imperialism!
The development of this great un.
tied front on a world scale shows
more clearly than words that Lenin's
work Is not only living but Is gaining
steady impetus from the very facts OF
life.
On the day following Lenin's death
the Chicago Tribune published an edi.
torial declaring that his greatness
would be tested by the permanency OF
the Soviet regime in Russia. The
Tribune editors, who thought of Lenin
as an isolated. individual without or.
ganic relation to the Russian Com.
munist Party, expected the proIetarian
dictatorship in the Union Of Socialist
Soviet Republics to fall to pieces i'm.
mediately. Two years have passed
and the Soviet regime gilmore firmly
established than ever. 1t has triumph
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the left wing to exist and work in the
union.
Third, the vancouver was carried
out in very shortsIghted manner in
that the left wing did not at the same
time prepare a way for retreat II ne
cessary. Instead of staging the walk
out in an organized and disciplined
manner-announcin for instance that
it was withdrawing to caucus on the
new development, which in the situa-
ton would have been just as effect
ive-the left wing reacted subjective
" and left the convention more like
a mob than a trained fighting body.
TT staked everything on the POSSIBLE
L ity that the Sigman machine would
yield. Failing that, the left wing
would have had to organize itself as
secession movement or return, hu
inflated and with its morale badly
shaken, to the convention.
The Sigman machine did yield, how
ever, and l suppose that to this day
and for a long time to come some of
the left wingers will consider this the
irrefutable proof of the wisdom Of
their walkout. 0e
But this is not true and instead OF
proof of generalship, it is really proc
of the confusion which still character
ises the left wing in the l. L. G. w.
The Sigman machine yielded, no
because it put the welfare of thu
union ahead of its own, but because
with nlr,,nn4 ,,nhnIinr-o a hln e4,,ridi4,r
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separate due books to set up dual
union. The membership, following
the proceedings of the convention
closely, was ready to follow the left
wing wherever it led.
In speaking Of the walk-out after
it had occurred. number of the left
wing leaders described it as "spony
taneous." Altho the walkout prob
ably was not actually prepared in
advance nothing could be more mis-
leading than to describe it as spon-
taneous. 1t was the natural and in
.evitable result Of split policy fol-
lowed by both the reactionaries and
the left wing All thru the conven-
ton both sides effectively had been
laying the ground for just such a de-
velopment. 1t appeared as sponta-
neous display Of resentment by the
left wing to the left wing itself only
because it did not understand that
conscious planning of split is not
at all necessary for the following of
split policy. 1t has been noted pre-
viously that every sharp ultimatum,
the non-attendance at the official ban
quet and the holding Of separate af
fair, the refusal to serve on conven-
ton committees and the resistance
to even appearing before them on the
part of the lert wing, had been ac-
companied by heated denials of any
intention of splitting. These denials
must be accepted as truthfi state
ments relative to the conscious in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
OFFICERS Steal Funds

WASHINGTON Dec. 27--Disclosure
in congressional debate thai the war
department has asked for an appro-
priation of $4,000 TO make up de-
falcation of an army disbursing officer
attached to an American embassy
In a foreign country" resulted in the
revelation that Maj. Furman Mccain
mon, former military attache in Chile,
was court-martialled year ago on
charges of Incorporating funds
entrusted to his care.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
Training Skilled Labor in
Soviet Russia

The rapid increase of industry in
the U. S. S. R. has sharply brot to the
attention of the trade unions, the la
Dor commissariat. and the supreme
economic council gthe need for train
ing and preparing new forces of
skilled labor. Among the unemployed
there are not enuf skilled men to meet
the entire demand of the Russian in
dustries, the great majority of the un-
employed being laborers.
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munists constituted only 1872 per
cent.
Every nomination was discussed in
dividually. Voting by tickets was not
practiced at all. Everywhere the &C
tivity of the outgoing shop committee
was discussed and criticized in an ex-
haustive and business-like manner.
The recent shop committee election
campaign clearly illustrated the grow
ing contact between the unions and
the masses. The campaign has also
shown that the efforts of the Russian
unions to get the rank and file to act
lively engage in the union life have
been successful.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
Central Committee Plenary
Meetings

Plenary meetings have recently
of the following unions: Clerks,
woodworkers, leatherworkers, sani-
tary and healthworkers, textile work
ers, chemical workers and postal, tele-
graph and telephone workers.
The main item at all of these meet
ings was the question of wages. The
treason for this was the rapid develop
ment of trade and industry in the U.
S. S. R., which has brot greater reve-
nues to the factories and merchan-
dising houses.
In the U. S. S. r. the growth of in
dustry is accompanied by cofre-
spending improvement in the stand
ards of the workers and employees
The central committee sessions, there
fore, considered the objective posi-
bilities of raising wages on the basis
of the gains made by the industries.
Thus, the Leather Workers central
committee agreed that it was neces-
sary to raise wages in those sections
of the country where they have Jagged
behind the national standard. The
Clerical Workers central committee
decided that the wages of the men
employed in institutions maintained
by the state and local authorities were
too low. This central committee has
gone on record favoring active partici-
patton of the union bodies in the fran
ing of the local budgets.
Textile Wages Going Up.
The Textile Workers central COM
mittee decided it necessary to put for
ward claims for wage advances next
January when the existing collective
agreements expire, and negotiations
for new agreements are opened The
central committee decision was taken
after it had been revealed that the
productivity of the textile workers has
outstripped the rate at which wages
have advanced and that the general
condition OF the textile industry justi-
hes such raise. IL was also divulged
that the wages of the metal workers
and printers have far overtaken those
of the textile workers (by Al per cent
and 81 per cent respectively. The
central committee is of the opinion
that no such diversity in wages ought
to be allowed.
Considerable attention to the ques-
ton Of wages has been devoted also
by the Postal, Telegraph and rele-
phone Workers central committee.
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tentions Of the left but the walkout
showed that as result Of an OBJ
jectively splitting policy an actual
split occurred.
OTAYING in or walking out Of a
~ convention is not principle. 1t
is tactic and whether right or wrong
depends upon the objective condi-
tions. At the risk of arousing con-
siderable controversy l am going to
say that in this situation it was
wrong.
1t was wrong for a number OF reas-
ons:
First, because it was based on a
wrong theory-that the Sigman ma
chine cared enough about the welfare
of the union to yield to this kind OF
pressure.
Second, because it was a very dan
gerous maneuver for the left wing in
asmuch as it logically led to dualism
in a period when such a dual union
has no hope of continued existence in
the face of the united opposition of
the A. F. Of L. bureaucracy, the bos-
SEES and the government. In other
words, the split maneuver was car
ried on with little if any considera-
tion given to the unfavorable relation
ship of forces in the American labor
movement. That the Sigmanites pro.
voked the split is strong evidence as
to the unwisdom of the tactic which
might easily have nullifed the pre-
vious 10 months fight for the right of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
Uneasy Are the Mlahtx.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. Dec, 27--Numer-
Gus bankers, lawyers. business men,
politicians and society women were
reported on the anxious seat follow
ing the announcement that Uncle Sam
was on the trail Of those who stocked
their cellars with the whiskey stolen
in the milking Of the Jack Daniel
distillery here
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
PACNING-HOUSE WORKER! HAVE
YOU SENT IN YOUR STORY YET?

DAILY WORKER prevailing
packing house industry in this which Monday
every packing
conditions which Paul.
Investigations "dssolve"
every could buy give
Of the story These publishing the
conditions in the yards"
This effectively packing
their mouthpeeThe DAILY In
Of the conditions
DAILY. Distribute it to fellow workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
Shop Committee Elections

A shop committee reelection cam
paign has lately been conducted in a
number of cities (Moscow, Leningrad,
Baku, Ivanoyo-Voznesensk, etc. Tho
the complete returns have not yet
been received a general idea of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
The Russian Communist
Party on the Trade Unions

At full meeting Of the central
committee of the Russian Communist
Party, Oct. 10, a momentous resolu-
ton on the work of the trade unions
was adopted.
The Russian trade union movement,
ever since its inception, has maintain
ed close theological contact with the
Communist Party; the latter in its
turn has always devoted considerable
attention to the activity of the unions,
as the mass organizations of labor.
The party plenary session noted the
tremendous growth and consolidation
of the trade unions for the past three
years but recorded at the same time
the defects of their work. The reso-
luton poined out that:
Too Much Work.
Overloaded with various admins
trative, political and public functions,
the unions have frequently been I'M
able to attend to all of their work, and
have often taken one-sided attitude,
shifting to the background their most
important and principal task, the task
OF protecting the economic interests
OF the masses organized by them, and
OF making the utmost endeavors to
raise their material and spiritual
level"
Similar criticism of the defects in
the work of the Russian union has fire.
quently marked the speeches of the
leaders Of the Russian trade union
movement CTomsky, Andrew, etc.)
even before the party central commit
tee session.
The resolution proceeds to record
the undoubted achievements of the
unions in the promotion of industrial
reconstruction. Particularly note
worthy is that section Of the resolu-
ton which specifies the forms and
methods of the work Of the party in
the trade unions.
Attentive to Unions.
The attitude of the party organixa-
tons towards the trade unions must
be attentive, responsive, careful
Commanding, petty paternalism are
absolutely inadmissable."
The party is to consolidate its infiu-
ence in the trade unions solely thru
fractions and groups of Communists
n the unions The resolution OF the
central committee of the Russian Com
munist Party again emphasizes the
necessity of developing democracy in
the unions thru having every union
official elected by the membership.
having these officials regularly report
TO the masses, establishing mass CON.
troll and publicity e
To Strengthen the Unions.
The resolution calls upon every
Communists to see to it that the decis-
IONS Of the central council Of the Rus
sian trade unions, as the highest lead
ms trade union body in the u. s. S.
r., are promptly put into effect.
The central committee of the Rus.
sian Communist Party fully agrees
with the central council of trade
unions which believes it necessary 70
~t.oAgthen the work by promoting the
younger men in the unions "as the
surest safeguard against the forms.
ton Of trade union bureaucratic
caste" eAsl
The recent session Of the central
committee of the Russian Communist
Party has provided additional evil
dence to the effect that between the
Russian unions and the Russian Com
munist Party complete harmony
reigns nd
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
Frankford

The regular meeting of the New
Century Club of Frankford was held
at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Dasey
on Friday, March 9Th. The president,
Mrs. L. E. Murray, in the chair. The
meeting was opened by repeating
the Lords Prayer. The minutes Of
the last regular meeting were read
by the secretary, Mrs. Topp M.
Heath and approved. Several letters
of importance were read by the cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Daniel
Carey. Reports were given by sever
al committees. Mrs. Roland West
was admitted to the membership list.
The program was: Paper on a fav-
orite author, Mrs. Lulu Gum; piano
solo, Valse Bralesque, by Lock, Mrs.
Topp M. Heath; current events, Mrs.
Edward McCabe; reading, Prodigal
Son, Miss Susan Zeigler; piano solo,
Scarp Dance, Mrs. Herman Grey;
wit and humor, Mrs. Burton G. Can
non; piano solo, Vesper Chimes, Mrs.
Topp M. Heath; reading, Mrs. G. A.
Cooke; talk on home economics,
Miss Sarah Hatfield; talk from the
vice president of the S. F. of W. c.,
for Sussex countq, Mrs. Sudler; talk
on home economics, Miss Moore. De-
licious refreshments were served by
the hostess.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
MinviIle

Mrs. Annie Steele died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Dale at
1880 a. m. Sunday. Her funeral on
Tuesday afternoon was well attend
ed, notwithstanding an all day rain.
She leaves to mourn their loss, two
daughters, Mrs. Harry Dale and
Mrs. Herbert Murray and several
grandchildren, besides a host Of
friends. Her pastor, Rev. A. B. Frye
preached the funeral services in
MiIlville M. e. Church. Interment in
st. Georges M. E. cemetery at
Clarksville. c. H. Watson, funeral di-
rector.
VIM. L. Richards and family of
Wilmington were Sunday visitors
with Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Belts.
Mrs. Clinton Evans accompanied
by Miss Marie Evans mOtored to
Philadelphia on Sunday for a few
days.
Mrs. Manaen Hickman and daugh-
ter, Catherine, are spending some
time with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson Hudson Of Dagsboro.
Oscar Nelson of Philadelphia is
spending a few days with his aunt,
Mrs. Harvey Dukes.
Mrs. Julia Hudson Of Frankford is
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. S. q.
Evans.
Henry Gully of Newark is visiting
his wife and children at the home Of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Dale.
Everett Hickman motored to Flor
ida last week as chauffeur for Ed
ward Pyle. Since his departure Mrs.
Hickman had the misfortune to scald
her feet very badly.
Honor Roll of 5th grade for Feb
Ruth Evans, Thomas Hick-
man; 9Th grade: Daisy Nelson,
Daisy Evans, Ruth BENEFIT.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
OBERCOI!I

See us about this Mineral-Protein
Feeding Mixture. For hens, hogs and
cattle. Use in laying mash instead
If meat scrap. Keeps up health con-
dition and egg production Of hens.
Oberco can be had from the follow
ing dealers:
Simpson Bros, Milford, Del.
Oscar Blair, Milford, Del.
Diamond State Roller Mills, Mil
ION, Del.
W. A. Hargadine, FELTON,, Del.
J. B. Hendricks, Frederick, Del.
John Y. Weidler, Dover, Del.
R. L. Coulter, Greenwood.
W. T. Records and Son, Laurel.
]. Emory Wiley, Seaford.
Enterprise Milling Co., Seaford.
BridgeVille Flour and Feed Mills.
i5-tf
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

In persuance to letters of adminis-
tration issued to me, notice is hereby
given as the Administrator of the
late Adliza K. Taylor, Of Milford,
Delaware, that all persons indebted
to the estate, must come forward and
settle the same, on or before April
1st, 1925.
All persons having any claim or
claims against the aforesaid estate,
must present them properly attested
within the legal limit fixed by law
for settlement of estates, on April
1st, 1925.
CHARLES E. TAYLOR,
Administrator Mrs. Adliza K. Taylor.
m13-9t
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-20
RESOLUTIONS oE RESPECT

Whereas, It has pleased an ALL
WISE GOD to remove from our midst
our beloved friend and Brother r. H.
Webb; therefore, be it
Resolved, That while the members of
Salximas Tribe, No. TO- of Milford, Della
ware, bow with Christian submission to
the will and wisdom of DIVINE PROV
IDENCE, we deeply mourn the loss of
our brother member.
Resolved, That the members of the
Tribe sincerely sympathize with the be-
reaved family and commend them to
GODS FATHERLY care and guidance,
and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of these
resolutions be sent to the family, and
also be recorded by the Chief of Records
upon the minutes.
V. c. HICKMAN,
w. V. BENSON,
GEORGE H. HALL,
If Committee