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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15

tional League, the campaign for the
send of a trade union delegation to
Soviet Russia. We are ready to fight
for these demands and numerous
other rank and file demands, provided
one thing, provided that we can en-
list the support of every comrade, of
every Communist in our party district.
Getting Results.
We can already at this time note
some gratifying results from our trade
union drive. The beginning of the
drive was made at a membership
meeting of Section No. 1. Among the
members present were nine that did
not belong to a union. The party now
has nine more trade unionist. Thai
is action, and action is what is needed
The other sections have general
membership meetings on the following
dates: Section No. 2, Tuesday, April
10, in South Slavic Tall, 1343 East
Ferry; Section No. 8, Tuesday, April
20, in Finnish Hall, 1869 14th street;
Sections No. and 5, Sunday, April
IL, at the House Of the Masses, 2646
st. Aubin; Section No. 8, Thursday,
April %, at International Workers
Home, 3014 Yemans street.
At all these meetings there will be
present members of the district execu-
tive committee who will give short
speeches on our party tradS union
work Comrades, if you have the de-
sire to build up our party in this
locality, do not fail to attend your
section membership meeting. Let our
slogan be: "A 100 per cent Unionized
Party by May Day" NO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
DETROIT PARTY
HAS SUCCESSES
IN union DRIVE
Set Up General Fraction
Committees
BY ERLING WICK.
special to The Daily Worker)

DETROIT, Mich, April 13.-At its
last meeting in March the district ex-
ecutive committee of District z Of the
Workers Party set aside the month
of April for an extensive drive to put
our party industrial policy into effect.
The party here in Detroit has been
successful in building up fractions in
the various trade unions and has also
organized a building trades fraction
centralizing the work of the fractions
in the building industry. A general
fraction committee has been created,
acting as a city central body, super
vising the work of all the trade union
fractions. The district Industrial com
mittee functions as the executive COM
mittee of the general fraction com
mittee.
Good Structure.
So 1t will be seen that the party
here has the organic structure ready
and able to take care of our party's
many campaigns in the trade unions.
The campaign for the formation of a
labor party, the campaign for the pro
lection Of the foreign-born workers,
the campaign for support of Interna-
tional Labor Defense and Interna-
ttonal Workers Aid, the campaign for
organizing the unorganized workers,
the campaign for the building up of a
strong left wing bloc in the A. F. of
L. through the Trade Union Educa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
BY BERT MILLER.

WE have now completed the task of
w setting up a machinery in various
shops and factories-the machinery
which is to permeate and revolution
ize the masses of the American work
ing class-namely, the shop nuclei.
This machinery is of the latest and
most improved model, the product of
many years of revolutionary expert
ence in the Russian Communist Party,
and in the Communist parties of the
world. But at present it stands idle
and powerless without the necessary
energy from the central source or
sources of power.
The machine has not yet been prop
erly "hitched up" and started partly
because of the conservatism hesitancy
of some of our party members who
are awed by the apparent difficulty in
operating this modern Communist in
vention. We see them standing
aghast somewhat like the Russian
mujik on his first contact with the
American tractor. What are the rea-
sons for this conservatism and hest
fancy?
Largely it is the result of our So
cial-democratic training. We have
been party in which a chosen few
have carried on the bulk of activity
leaving the large majority without suf-
ficient revolutionary training and ex-
perience. The bulk of our member
ship has not been trained to carry out
the simplest party tasks. Naturally,
we must expect a feeling somewhat
akin to terror among many good men,
bers at the prospect of being suddenly
left to shoulder great responsibilities
and carry on the party activity.
Need Leadership.
Instead OF the large branches OF
from 20 to over 100 with the expert
enced functionaries ready and eager
to settle all difficulties our member
ship finds itself in groups as small as
three. Sometimes they all speak diff
ferent languages. Sometimes none of
them speak English. They work
among English speaking elements
with whom they have not yet estab-
lished contact.
They work in The modern" Amer.
lean industrial plants infected with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
Experiences of Shop Nuclei
and Concentration Groups

that we send him a letter. comrade
N. reported that she will form shop
nucleus In her shop. Comrade w.
made a motion that the executive COM
bine concentration groups J. and X.
Comrade G.. was instructed to see
Comrade G. and get all the records
for the literature and report at next
meeting. The section meeting will be
on February 5 and we will have a
discussion on Leninism and the
American working class. At the
meeting the date for the class was set.
Our meeting will be held on Monday
at the Novy Mir. Meeting adjourned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
N. Y. CONCENTRATION GROUP.

Meeting opened at $3.50. Order of
business:
Roll call.
Reading of minutes.
Tickets.
Reports.
Dues.
Good and welfare.
Comrade c. elected chairman. We
discussed about the comrades who
don't attend meetings and we decided
that we take up the matter of R. F..
with the D. o., and about Comrade W.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15

"The StudebGker Worker" Is on
the Job at South Bend, Indiana

to subscribe to The DAILY WORKER,
which printed stories about the plant
in the past.
The writer's introduce themselves
as follows: who Are WEI" I'VE
are workers in the Studebaker plant,
who are dissatisfied with conditions, as
all of you are. We believe that all of
us should discuss the conditions in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
v. P. TALKS TO
CONVENTION OF
OHIO TEACHERS
Cleveland Party Sends
Letter of Action
tspeeIaI 70 rhe paIIy Worker,

CLEVELAND, April IS. - The dis
triet committee Of the Workers Com
munlst Party, District 6, has addressed
the Ohio Educational Conference, at
Columbus, Ohio, pointing out that
teachers do not play the role that
they should in the affairs Of the
United States, because they do not
yet recognize their class position and
the necessity Of organization and &C
tiVlty to improve their status"
Teachers Must Organize.
The teachers must organize, the let
ter continues, for educators are
placed under drastic compulsions so
that they are not even allowed to
think Independently" The Scopes
trial is cited and the teachers are
called upon to take a militant stand
and demand the right to teach evolu-
ton in the schools of this country.
Condemn Mllitarism.
Military and religious training in
the public schools are both condemned
in the letter, which states that "the
teaching of religion in the public
schools is contrary to the conltittuion
of the United States, for it means
coercion. The letter praises the board
OF education of Cleveland for taking
a courageous stand in abolishing mill
tary training from all Cleveland
schools, and continues: 1.-THE forces
making for war are determined that
the youth Of the country shall be sub
jected to military drill although
at one and the same time they are
engaging in orgies of peace talk, the
governments of the world, together
with that of the United States, are
preparing arsenals of material for war
in the not-distant future.
Governmental force is also used
against striking workers, and the
teachers are called upon to align them
selves with the industrial and profes-
sional workers against wars between
imperialist powers, wars to Cypress
tOAOuAdl pGOPACos anu " AhSuAO Nv ob-
ments made abroad by the million
aires Of this country"
The letter points out the super
fetal methods that are recommended
for combating the crime wave, and
states that cit is the duty of educators
to point out the social causes of crime
viz, instability of employment, dis
ease, overwork, undernourishment,
congestion in housing-evils that at
tack only the working people of this
country"
The letter pleads for an end to
persecution of the foreign-born and to
discrimination against the Negroes,
particularly in the schools of the
country. It states that this persecu-
ton may be witnessed in the exist
ence of the militant ku klux khan and
other 100 per cent organizations"
The letter concludes: "The organi-
cation of the teachers must use not
only moral force, but all the weapons
that workers employ. The teachers
must line up with the working class,
in order together with them to fight
for the best interest Of the working
class as a whole"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS,
ATTENTIONE@

All worker correspondents Of our
foreign language press are urged to
send in their names and addresses sta
ting for which paper they'write. It is
very important
The American Worker Correspondent
1918 w. Washington Blvd.
Chicago, HI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
unempIOyment san Evident on coast

PORTLAND, Ore, April 1S-Tho no
workers from other points are needed,
most of the cities in the Pacific north
west report that the number Of unem-
ployed is decreasing from the high
level OF winter GTa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
Why Not Become a
Worker { Correspondent?

open your eyesI Look aroundI
There are the stories Of the workers.
struggles around you begging to be
written up. Do III Send Il inl Write
as you fahtl
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shop News the Basis.

The main part of the newspaper
(for that is what it isl is taken up
with news about the factory-"Our''
Corporation, And Then Came the Cut,
The Joys of Group Work, Even the
Elevators Are Rotten, Workers Show
Power, Cutting to the Bone, Prison
Guards, The Lying Sheet-these are
some of the heads, covering short
and interesting stories. They expose
the huge profits of the corporation
and show that the cut came in spite
of these profits, pointing out also that
the cut was put over because the
workers were weak and unorganized.
Under the heading "Phoned In
From The Department" are items
from three of the departments, one
exposing autocratic action by the fore
man, Woods, who scabbed i'm the
strike of two years ago. A greeting
is given to all of the factory papers
springing up in the country. It prom
ises news about the Studebaler work
ers in Detroit. A story is told OF the
Protection Of the Foreign-Born meet
ing held in South Bend on March 81,
and urging the Studebaker workers to
stand by the foreign-born workers. A
lively poem, 1.-THE Ford Workers
Prayer" is clipped from another fac
tory paper. 1.-THE Ford Worker" An
article on "Must We Organizer" shows
what the government and open-shop-
pers have done to the workers since
the war, and urges shop committees
and union organizations. Workers
Education" tells the workers to start
classes.
An appeal is made for support of
the international Labor Defense cam
paign for free speech in the state Of
Indiana. The workers are also asked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
sy William sIMoNs.

THH first issue Of the Studebake1
4 Worker, the shop paper of the
Studebaker workers Of South Bend
Ind, is off the press. Three thousand
copies are being distributed at the
gates of the plant. 1t is issued by the
Studebaker shop nucleus of the Work
ers (Communist) Party of South
Bend. The nucleus members spent
much time in preparing material, pa
tiently gathering items of shop in
terest until they were ready to come
out with the stuff.
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The American Worker Correspond
emit is out. Did you GET your eopy7
Hurry upl Send In yeur subj It's
SnIy 80 cent? .p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
The Activization of Our Party

must cease pruning themselves and
boasting of their accomplishments in
the big cities. They must look on the
movement for national viewpoint
They must do away with "big city
provincialism." They must devote
more attention to the basic industries.
1t is a necessary for us to adopt the
slogan "The Face to the Industrial
Town" as it was for the Russian party
to adopt the slogan of %The Face to
the Village" Our movement, with the
big cities as nerve ceIIters, should
radiate energy and power in every
direction.
Finally, we come to the foreign
language fractions. To leave our
foreign language comrades to shift
for themselves, to expect them over
night to function as an English speak
ing party would be ridiculous and
suicidal. 1t would result in discourag-
ing many of our most valuable ele-
ments and would ultimately lead to
some serious membership losses to
the party-losses of members whom
we can i'll ford to lose. Here we must
call for the support of our language
fractions.
For years to come. until our party is
thoroly Americanized they will serve
as a necessary instrument for giving
life and inspiration to the party units,
thru their press, thru their organizers
and other organizational channels.
The comrades leading the language
fractions, the trained political leaders
among our foreign elements these
must under all circumstances be brot
into the working activity of the new
units. We cannot spare them at this
critical time.
Trade Union FRACTIONS.
One more source of power might be
mentioned which will be valuable in
the a:tivization of party units. That
is the fractions in the onions. Once
they begin to realize the strength and
usefulness Of the nuclei jim connection
with their work in the trade unions
we will find that they win take lead
ing part in stimulating the growth OF
new units in the factories and in aid
ing the existing units to function pro
perly. Up to the present time very
few fractions have concerned them
selves with this necessary phase OF
their work.
With the energy supplied from
these power stations the active com
rades, the youth, the leading women
the section the section committee, the
large cities, the declarations and the
trade union fractions and the eager
ness Of our party membership to carry
on the party work we will on the
basis OF the policies and slogans Is
sued by our central executive commit
tee in a short time establish Com
munist super-power syster. that will
make for the speedy esta hlishment OF
real Communist ParfS with real
mass influence in Amer "a.
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New Britain herald., 1926-06-26
TELEGRAPH WRITERS

The plan 10 install telegraph typewritors in police stations throughout the state, making it pos sibIe for police departments to communicate with every other de- partment instantly. will be a success if carried out, just as the system or telegraph typewriters operated by 5he Associated Press has been emi- nently successful,
 The telegraph typewriter is one of the marvels Of modern mecha- nism. and the Associated Press, al ways eager to take up an invention tnsuring quicker distribution, in stalled the machines several years ago. Two Of them are in daily op- eration in the Herald office, typ ing the news Of the world while an operator in New York punches the keys,
 The Idea for police departments originated in New Britain and seems logical step for the state 10 take. Rapid communication between police stations in various cities is essential.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-26
25 Fears Ago Today

Although the thermometer has changed but little if any since yes- terday, it seems hotter today, and most of the laborers about the city were forced to quit work. About the only place where they continued was at the old city building, which is being torr down. Johan Noitshel. molder c3l l'.-cd al r. & r. Cor bins and 'ring at 236 Maple street, was overcome about o'clock this morning and had to be taken home in a carriage.
 A stri.,c has occurred at Traut & Hines stamp room. AIr. Traut says that the men claim they left yesterday afternoon because Of the heat, tut he says they wan*od to play ball and have some refresh ments. When they came around this morning the ring-leaders were fired and about 20 men walked out.
 Willie Sheehan, in trying 10 save himself from bad fall yesterday afternoon. thrust his hand against a sharp piece of steel and received an ugly wound.
 Officer Lampher has returned from Maine, where he spent his Va cation.
 Mrs. A. P. Marsh has gone to Indian Neck for q few months.
 ". N. McKirdy has returned from q few days stay in Brooklyn.
 Robert Erwin, the milk pcddler, has made complaint 10 the authori- ties against ,- number of young men who congregate in front of his pro- perty on North street for the evi- dent purpose of annoying passcrsby.
 William J. Malone of Bristol re- cent graduate of Yale Law school, was admitted to the bar yesterday by Judge Roraback.
 The Bohemia whist club has clos cd a successful season. F. \. Hum- phrey won first prize for the year, while second awards went to Mrs. Humphrey and Paul Vogelgesang,
 A woman tripped over hose on the steps Of M. P. Lcghorn's house last evening, fell, struck her head against a corner of the house, and was knocked unconscious. She was found to be suffering from con- cusion of tha brain but is reported somewhat better this morning.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-26
CAP AND GOWN

Whether the sweet girl graduate looks any sweeter in cap and gown was demonstrated at the senior high school commencement; the consensus seems to be she looks just as sweet. Radiant girl hood is the same irrespective of garments; one cannot paint the lily and the cap and gown innovation is an indication the attempt is not regarded as essential.
 There is a dignity in wearing the cap and gown at graduations that higher institutions of learning realized generations ago. The same rule applies to lesser institutions. Primarily the change begun this term may have been actuated through a desire to practice econ omy, but this is only part of the reason. There are those who saw increased charm and satisfaction in the change. That it will continue in the future years can scarcely be doubted.
 Graduates receive such surplus of good advice upon leaving the portals of learning that one hesi- tates to add to the sum total of information. Those who will pass to some higher institution from high school are wise; those who will en- ter the busy world at once will cherish the days they spent under the tutelage of the highs instruc- tors.
 Good luck to all! Whether to college or work, the senior high in- culcated the firm foundations for busy and useful life.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-26
Pro And Con

That the quaint, dry humor of our northern Yankee population. regard led by many as thing of the past, lis still to be found even in the sons .of the latest generation can, I think, be fairly well demonstrated by the following:
 It was my privilege recently to spend q few days in the town of Ash land, N. H., famous throughout the state as q summer resort. Into the local post office came a native, a young fellow whom l had not had the pleasure of seeing for perhaps ten or more years.
 The usual greetings were eXchang- led and a conversation, touching up- on matters of mutual interest, fol- lowed. There was one point, how lever, upon which 1 Was particularly anxious to obtain information.
 Are you married yet, Shirl?" l Inquired hesitatingly.
 He weighed my question only an instant and then replied:
 Not yet, Doc. I'm just getting lover a cold.--thats what makes me Hook this way"
 Il. R. Carey.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-26
DEMOCRATIC POVERTY

The Democratic party has only s10O.OO0 with which to finance senatorial campaigns in 33 states. The best the party can do is to distribute speeches delivered in Congress under ranked envelopes. The national committee Is blamed for the poor financial showing. It seems 10 be utterly incapable of interesting phiIanthropic fnancicrs in contributing to the war chest of the party of Thomas Jefferson.
 Tn few minds" says q
 news story in the New York
 World. there is even a suspi-
 rion that some of the men who
 have made contributions in the
 past don't care to give or en-
 courage gifts to a campaign
 the outcome of which may af-
 feet the c. o, P. control of the
 tariff. and other matters close
 10 the heart of Wall street"
 Yet the Democratic party needs only to defeat eight of 25 Republi- can senators up for reelection 10 obtain control of the Senate - and there are more than eight G. o. P. senators from doubtful states
 If the cmbattIed Democrats gain control of the Senate with less than s100.00o 10 spend it will be worlds record in economy"
New Britain herald., 1926-06-26
INTERPRETATIONS BILL

It is reported from Washington that the 1928 rivers and harbors bill is the most "angrily contested" legislation before Congress. Sot be- cause of plenteous supplies of pork" in the measure - this years pork supply is said to be less than in most former years - but because of the joker in the bill which prorudes with the con- spicuousness of the proverblal sore thumb. The joker is identified with the project 10 deepen the Illinois river.
 There are 160 river and harbor improvements in the measure, some of them the measurements of folly; but none is as vitally important to millions of citizens as the plan to take more water from the Great Lakes and reducing their levels - all for the benefit of one city, Chi caEo.
 II was 70 years ago that Chicago, in order to improve it's sewage dis posaI, built the drainage canal
 turning 4.167 cubic feet Of water per second from Lake Michigan into the Illinois river, whence it flowed into the Mississippi. The amount diverted later was in creased to $500 feet which means this total of water flows into the father of waters instead of down the lakes. over Niagara and thus 10 the sea The level of the Great Lakes has fallen three and one half feet.
 Chicago wishes 10 increase the volume Of water flowing 10 the Mississippi. and thus reduce the level of the lakes still more. Let Chicago have her way and the lodges Of Niagara eventually Uill be is dry as those in a desert.
 Suits arc pending in which seven states joined against Chi cago's aims. Hearing of the suits will begin in the United States Su- prcme court In October, and are destined 10 be the most important eases before that body since the Civil War. A Joker in the rivers bill would Iegalize the Chicago plan even before the court rendered its decision.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-26

and smoothed his hair which is growing thin, due to years out Of doors in sunshine and in rain. His hand, thus brought into view, pre- scented study. II was the hand Of farmer, tough as raw-hide anu gnarled by hard work, but well kept, withal.
 He sighed. T don't know what the worlds acomin' to-" he softly said. almost unintelligibly, so low was his voice. The boys in the office drew near. What if it were nearly press time and not one story had been gathered. to be served up later to a news hungry public? What if time was passing rapidly? What if-well hush! He's going to say some thing
 And from Uncle Lies mouth came these words, words for which we had been waiting
 'Ennybody got a chaw uv ter bakky?"
New Britain herald., 1926-06-26
EEGLEY,S STARS WIN

Nom Begley's Spring & Buckley team might lose 10 the Electric Light Co. nine, but Barry X Bam- forths sluggers had no chance last night with the Church street crew. because Begley's right arm was working in good shape.
 The evening presented double feature, first a ball game and after wards debate with Begley carry ing off the honors in both. The B. X B. crew played a nice game from the bench. but despite that the game went IS innings before being decided. Graham Spring and Earle Smith shone tor the S. & B.'s, while Rosenberg wasn't there in the boz for the losers.