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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
WORKERS SCHOOL
OF The WORKERS
PARTY BEST EVER
Students Enthused At
Chicago Classes
ey N. 4.

BY NJ. II.
zone Of the students in the Chicago
SCHOOL,.
When the next semester of the
Workers School begins on Feb. Sth,
am going to bessure to be there.
have attended two of the classes, one
in Capital and the other in the Social
and Labor History of America. In
the two months since the classes
began, / have learned to appreciate
the necessity of the courses for every
one who wishes to engage in work
ingclass activity, whether in shop
union, or elsewhere.
The workers School ranks above all
other schools I have ever attended,
in composition of students, caliber of
instructors, and methods of study. 1t
is really inspiring to be in a class of
students, coming together after hard
days toll in shop or factory, motiv-
ated by the desire to become leaders,
equipped with better ammunition to
fight the battles of their class Not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19

fore, an attack against the American
born workers as well, and an answer
must come from the entire working
class, foreign-born and American-bor0
.e Calls For Councils.
The Workers (Communist) Party.
has in the past taken the initiative
in modifying mass opposition against
the laws introduced in previous ses-
sions of congress for the same OBJ
jects. The formation of united coun-
ellis for the protection of foreign-born
workers which resulted from the agi-
tation of the Workers Party caused
the reactionaries to halt in their at
tempt to introduce these coercive
measures.
Once again the workers of New
York must organize themselves to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19

ONLY very short time ago it could
~ have been said with but little
exaggeration that the. Pioneer League
was made up of a number of detach-
ed groups" serving largely as inner
educational and political circles parti-
cipating to a certain extent in the gen
eral class struggle but to almost a
minimum degree in the particular
school struggle of the proletarian chill
dren. This would have been correct
as a general characterization OF
course, exceptions existed in certain
advanced organizations, such as New
York and Chicago. But in general IL
could not be denied that the Pioneer
League, as it stood only a short time
ago, was a sectarian organization, de-
tached from the class struggle land
especially from the school struggled
and isolated from the masses of the
working class children.
We can now say that very forum
ately this undesirable situation is fast
disappearing and becoming a thing
of the past And the greatest factor in
the development of our organization
and in the breaking OF our isolation Is
without question the reorganization Of
our league.
The reorganization Of our Pioneer
League has already gone to consider
able lengths in many Of our organiza-
tons and IN some has been completed.
As we announced at the beginning lin
our REORGANIZATION Bulletin) and as
experience now proves more and more
clearly, this reorganization process is
not a simple matter Of 'rediyidlng"
the groups into nuclei but is an in
volved and many-sided process con-
tanning within itself a whole series of
problems OF the most varied nature.
Nor is the reorganization work so
simple and obvious that Il will not
permit mistakes 10 arise. On the con
trary. our brief experiences with re-
have already disclosed
OF common errors OF one kind
Or another, some Of which we will take
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
Communist Prop in
Head of Lakes School

SUPERIOR, Wis.-"And what's go
ing on at the head of the Lakes?' may
be the thought of many comrade.
And is it a wonder that they should
think of this, for every comrade is
eager to know what the different
leagues are doing. Let us take the
league at Superior, and see what they
are doing.
The Superior league is just as busy
and active as It was prior to the
red hate school" last winter and
spring. 1t is working, planning, and
scheming on the question of school
fractions, and as result, many in
teresting incidents have taken place.
Let us first see how this idea of
school fractions was introduced to the
students of the various schools. The
member Of the league first tried to get
hold OF those students whose parents
had sometime or other been con.
nected with the party, either directly
or indirectly. From such students It
is easier to get sympathizers, but we
are NOT looking for the easiest way
to get members-not by any means.
We have learned that thru the
hardest ways we get better results.
and get our ideas across to thirty or
forty students instead of one, or two.
This hard way" is to talk about IL
In the school room. This can easily
be done in the higher grades, especial
ly in the high schools, for present-day
situations and happenings are talked
about more readily than in the lower
grades.
These various discussions usually
take place in the English and history
classes. One comrade has done good
work in this way, for when any ques-
ton on religion, or on politics con.
corning Communism comes up, the
whole class becomes interested and
turn their attention to this comrade.
from whom. they have learned to re.
ceive a snappy and true answer. This
comrade states: "In this way I have
gained many friends-comrade who
are eager to learn of the truth"
The outcome OF the school fractions
here in Superior will be revealed soon
In our own paper, the Young Worker.
A comrsds.
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with strong insistence on following
the strict line of the Reorganization
Bulletin, on the proper role of pre-
paratory work and on the correct pol
itical 6anti-mechanica) conception of
reorganization. Already the work of
reorganization on the basis of school
nuclei has gone great way in the
Pioneer League and all signs point to
the completion of this process in the
very near future.
2. Consolidation Of the Pioneer
League. The second great task in
the reorganization of our league is the
creation of a centralized, national
Pioneer organization. The Pioneer
units must cease to be colonies" of
the Young Workers League as they
are still to very great extent today
An organization must be built up
which, while remaining under the pol
itical and organizational control of
the Y. w. L., will permit the Pioneers
to feel that It is their own organiza-
ton and will actually function as
much. The consolidation of the league
in the different cities and districts,
the formation of a nationwide league
OF Young Pioneers is a task Of prim-
airy importance. The reorganization
Bulletin takes up this question also in
considerable detail
In this task also we have made a
great deal of progress in the last
few months. Whereas the Pioneers
were almost completely decentralized
only a short time ago we now have
a thoroly centralized organization in
District Two New York; and the first
steps towards Capitalization in most
Of the other cities and districts in
the country. Nationally also the cen
trallzation has greatly improved and
the possibility has been created for
the speedy calling Of national con
ference Of the Pioneer League.
3. Military Ceremonial ExternaIs.
The third phase Of reorganization
which the Reorganization Bulletin al
so takes up altho in no detail, Is the
development Of system OF military.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
UKRAINIAN Y. C. |. y
GREETS ITS PATRON,
new YORK LEAGUE

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.-The fifth
conference Of the Leninist Young
Communist League of the October
District, kharkov, sends greetings
to its leader, the Young Communist
International, which together with
and under the leadership Of the
Communist international is leading
the WORKING class and its youth to-
wards victory over their common
enemy-world capitalism.
simultaneously the conference
requests that hearty greetings and
assurances in their near emanclpa-
ton from capitalist yoke be given
over to our patrons-the New York
organization of the Y. w. L. of A.
Fifth Conference of the UkraIn-
ian feminist Y. C. l., October
District, Kharkov.
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like the, students in the bourgeois
night schools, who have the petty
ambition of acquiring knowledge, so
as to exchange it for dollars and
cents.
The relations between the students
and instructors are entirely different
from those | have seen in other
schools. In each class there is a
committee of students, who take up
with the instructor, questions refer
ring to the class. There is no gulf
between @tudent and instructor, dis
cussion being sincere and thoro.
Considering these factors, it is not
at all surprising that we have made
very good progress in our. vtudies, in
spite of the fact that most of the stu
dents have every night during the
week-and even Sundays-taken up
with some form of workingclass ac-
tivity. Sal
In the class in Capital, Vol. T. we
covered the first three chapters tho
roly. In the class in history, we
have acquired at least some insight
into the process of development of
the American workingclass. j am
certain that every comrade who at
tended the class till now will register
for the second semester. The Work
ers School has proved that it fills an
important place in the workingclass
movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
Organization
Meetings
sy JAY uovEsToNE.

REPRESENTATIVES, of the Fin
IN nish, Czecho-Slovak, Slovak, Lith-
uanians. South Slavic, Swedish, and
the Greek language fraction bureaus,
the Young Workers League and the
central executive committee gathered
In the third conference called by the
organization department to discuss
ways and means for modifying the
greatest number of party members in
the present party campaigns
Among the subjects discussed, as
outlined by the c. e. C. representa-
tive were: /. The DAILY WORKER
subscription drive; 2. The mobiliza-
ton Of the membership for the party
campaign to raise a fund to finance
our numerous activities; 8. The inten-
sification of the campaign for the pro-
lection of the foreign-born workers;
4. Launching of the Into the Unions
campaign for our membership and the
organization of trade union fractions.
In discussing The DAILY WORK
Err subscription drive numerous con-
structive suggestions were made.
Among these follow:
1. Offering combination subscrip-
tons of The DAILY WORKER with
the foreign language paper. This is
especially worthwhile and practicable
for the weekly foreign language pa
pers.
2. Every language paper is to print
special subscription appeal circulars
either for the combination offer or for
The. DAILY WORKER only and to
circularize its entire mailing list This
may be done thru the columns of the
language papers. if economy demands
it.
3. Each language fraction bureau
is to issue a special appeal to all the
readers of the organs of the party in
its language for The DAILY WORK
Err subscription campaign.
4. Every language paper must de-
vote a special section turnout the
period of the subscription campaign
to the drive for DAILY WORKER
subscribers.
5. In addition to the special sec
ton mentioned above, every language
paper must also carry, turnout the
campaign period, special articles
about The DAILY WORKER.
6. The language papers should
utilize the campaign period to begin
the practice Of quoting from and con-
stantly referring to The DAILY
WORKER in order to popularize and
adyertize the paper.
The challenge system has prov
ed especially helpful among the Fin
nish comrades. That is, one COM
rade subscribes to The DAILY
WORKER and he mentions the name
Of one or more comrades (in the col
umns of the language paper whom
he challenges to subscribe to The
DAILY WORKER. This process con-
tinues to forge a chain of subscribers
for The DAILY WORKER.
s. Every language paper agent and
language fraction bureau literature
agent shall henceforth be supplied
also with DAILY WORKER subscrip-
tion cards and material and shall re-
ceive the same commission that the
other DAILY WORKER agents get.
3. Each language paper and The
DAILY WORKER should carry ar
ticles by prominent party members of
the nationality in question. telling
what The DAILY WORKER means to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
Foreign-Born Protection Campaign
Thoroly Discussed.

ThoroIy Discussed.
The comrades discussed very thoro-
ly the steps to be taken for mobilizing
the party for the campaign for the
protection Of fOreign-born workers.
The matter is becoming more press
ing and serious, in view of the Aswall
bill for alien registration and de-
portation and the open endorsement
of these measures by Coolidge in his
last reactionary- message.
In the course of the discussion it
was shown that the time is at hand
for every language fraction and dis
trict organization to push forward the
project for organizing united front
councils for the protection of foreign
born workers. These councils shall
be composed of delegates from various
national labor organizations and
wherever possible trade unions. The
fact that such legislation is a menace
to the whole working class, regardless
of the nativity of the individual
worker, affords us a real opportunity
to mobilize scores of thousands of
workers against the Coolidge govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
Social Affairs
Resolutions
ment of Wall street.
Party Fund Campaign.

meuL Oh wall street.
Party Fund Campaign.
Considerable time was also given to
an examination of the best ways and
means for raising the greatest pos
sible fund to enable the party to get
into mass work at full speed and with
all it's energies The language frac-
tion bureaus and the district executive
committees will each receive $50 of
the total funds collected by the party
in this campaign Special efforts must
be made to mobilize the sympathizing
workers in this drive.
Definite quotas will be assigned to
each district and language raction to
be raised in the campaign. Success is
essential in this fund campaign If
the party is to move forward, make
it's new shop and street nuclei living
units and mobilize the working and
exploited farming masses against the
capitalists and their government
Another conference of this char
acter is to be held soon to consider
the problems of the Young Workers
Communist League, particularly the
question of Young Pioneer work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
Schneiderman Tours
Calf. for League

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-The National
Executive Committee is sending Com
rade VIM. Schneiderman, district or
ganizer OF California. on an extensive
organization tour thru the northern
part of California, where the leagues
are arranging a series OF meetings for
him.
All members Of the party and the
league, please note the following dates
and cooperate with Comrade Schnei-
derman to help build up real live
functioning Young Workers League:
San Francisco--Jan. 81, s22. 20. "a,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
ARTICLE II.
The Reorganization Of the Pioneer
League.

ceremonial externals-(s alutes, uni
forms, pledges, rituals, insignia, etc.
by our Pioneer League. Military-cere-
monial externals have always, from
the very beginning formed a part of
our Pioneer organizations testimo-
ny to the deep-seated nature of its
sources-but its has up to now been
decentralized, haphazard, unsystem-
attic, and therefore subject to innu-
merable and serious errors. The ma
tional Pioneer committee has appoint
ed a subcommittee to examine this
whole question and to report on a gen.
eral and uniform system of military
ceremonial externals for our Pioneer
League. A special bulletin on this
matter will be issued as soon as pos
sible. All Pioneer and Pioneer lead
ers organizations should, however, in
the meantime consider and discuss
the whole matter and communicate to
the national Pioneer department their
suggestions and experiences
Pioneer Leaders, DISCUSS Your
Problemsl
These are the main points involved
in the reorganization process. For
the reorganization to be properly car
ried out these points must be careful
ly examined, their implications
studied, and decisions based upon
them framed and put into effect. The
success Of our work also involves a
constant exchange OF experiences and
the transmission of the lessons drawn
from these experiences turnout our
whole organization. For this reason
It is the greatest Importance that
every Pioneer leader consider his own
experiences and send In a summary of
them together with all suggestions
etc. to the national office. AIS many
Of these letters as possible will be
published in our partvs and league
press and the subjects involved in
them thrown open fox discussion.
Come on, Pioneer leaders, start the
discussion going! Reorganization
school struggle-any problem Of
Pioneer work write us about I'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
Four Simple Tasks
for Chicago Y. w. L.

Our Chicago league has certain
tasks to accomplish. Its first task to
establish more order in the function
ing of the league. Meetings must be
held regularly. All officers must full
fill their tasks or be removed by the
membership of the shop nuclei and
concentration groups. Each comrade
must be assigned to definite work.
The units of the league must set a
definite day on which the Young
Worker will be sold in the factory
around which the unit is concentrated.
Comrades must be assigned to sell
papers at union meetings Dues must
be paid regularly. Our comrades must
accomplish these elemental tasks
within the next three weeks This
will make it possible for us to begin
mass work on real basis.
One Of the tasks Of each of our
league units is to publish and dis
tribute to the workers in the shop
shop bulletin A comrade must be
elected by the shop nucleus or concen-
tration group who will be responsible
for getting out this bulletin. The dis
trict office has offered to the units
the use of technical machinery in get
ting out these bulletins. The fact that
the unit chooses one comrade to get
out the bulletin does not mean that
the other comrades should not write
for the bulletin. All the comrades
must work together and find out the
conditions in the shop. Each com
rade should write ON a different
phase. The bulletin must be interest
ing and must combine the economic
with the political activities of the
! league.
There are also special tasks for our
league now. We have at least 1000
scopies of the n-Liebknecht-Luxem-
burg pamphlets to sell. Our comrades
must organize for this. Every com
rade must take at least copies Of
these pamphlets to sell. They must
sell them to their shopmates and to
other young workers. The literature
agents must organize for the sale of
these pamphlets at union meetings
and at any other meetings at which
workers gather.
And then we have the subscription
drive for the Young Worker. We want
to make our Young Worker a weekly
again. This can be done only II our
comrades get on the job and sell the
quota allotted to them. There is no
reason why each comrade should not
be able to sell at least subs. This
has been done before. The getting Of
subs broadens the influence of the
league among the young workers. 1t
makes 1t possible to reach them every
time an issue of the Young Worker
is published. Our comrades should
raise a small fund and subscribe for
sympathetic young workers who have
not the money available.
These are four simple tasks for our
Chicago comrades. They have three
weeks to. accomplish them. Just lit
tie organized effort will make II GER
tain that these tasks will be accom-
plished.
MAX SALZMAN
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meet these new bills. The Workers
Party calls upon all workers organic
ations to take the necessary steps to
get together in an organized fashion
to conduct a struggle against these
sinister measures to divide the work
ing class and to fasten these czaristic
measures upon-the working class.
Workers of New York; Close your
ranks against these czaristic laws!
The immediate formation of councils
for the protection of foreign-born
workers in which all labor unions and
workers organizations are represent
ed, is an immediate necessity. No
time must be lost to defeat these
slave laws.
William w. Weinstone,
General Secretary, District O.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
FORM COUNCILS
TO AID FOREIGN
BORN WORKERS
N. Y. Communists Ask
Organized Effort
Especial to The Daily Worker

NEW YORK CITY, Jan. IT, The
new campaign of persecution of for
eign-born workers by reactionaries led
by Secretary Davis, who seeks to fin
gerprint immigrants and list them as
characters to be watched, has en-
encountered opposition from the New
York organizations of the Workers
(Communist) Party, William w.
Weinstone, general secretary, having
issued a call to the New York work
ers which reads, in part, as follows:
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mass

Lenin-Liebknecht memorial mass
meeting.
Oakland and Berkeley-Jan. 20, rs,
q, 2S.
Berkeley-Jan. 20, general member
ship meeting of all branches of Young
Workers League OF San Francisco,
Oakland and Berkeley (Bay Cities
Local., held at Finnish Hall, Berkeley.
Oakland and Berkeley-Jan. 30.
San Francisco-Jan. 81.
Berkeley-Feb. 1, Lenin-Liebknech
memorial mass meeting.
San Jose-Open.
The party and league D. e. C.'s
are cooperating to make this organ
ization tour a success.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19
Attack on Working Class.

The renewed effort of the reaction
aries thru Secretary of Labor Davis
and Congressman Oswald of Louisi-
ana to register, photograph and estab-
lish a systematic terrorization of the
foreign-born workers in the country
must meet with the resistance of the
entire working class.
This bill of Senator Oswald rests
upon the help of the presidents mes
sage in which he declared that regis
tration will probably be a necessity
and the present statements of Secre-.
tary Davis on this question, in which
he declared that what he recommend
ed is that on the special day or days
designated all aliens be required to
enroll in a place and with an official
designated by the naturalization bu-
reau in the district or city in which
the alien resides.
An open Shop Move.
Behind this move to register and
photograph the millions of the United
States is the effort of the open shop
manufacturers to lower wages, length
en- hours and worsen conditions of the
workers.
The attack against the foreign-born
workers contained in this bill is there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-19

imperialism is the last stage Of
capitaIism."-Lenn. Pledge yourself
to fight imperialism, at the Lenin
meetings.
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"stand by Lenln's Russia" Pledge
yourself to the defence and reeogni-
ton OF the Soviet Union at the big
LenIn Memorial meetings.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-15
PosrPoNINe YOUR UNCLE

Even though Brazil and Spain both
get out Of the League Of Nations 1t
does not yet appear that either the
League or the withdrawing members
will stand to lose much, if we may
estimate in the light of the f1ub-
clubbing that is going at this disarm-
ament conference.
Uncle Sam put on his best bib and
tucker to go to that conference just
as though he believed 1t was to be
taken seriously, Notwithstanding he
had grounds for suspicion that it was
to be little more than a gesture.
which it is now being shown to be.
France doesn't intend to- give up
her big army while Mussolini goes
around snorting like a war charger
and Germany is capable Of great
mischief should the occasion arise,
and France is not altogether blama-
BILE on that account. Moreover, It
isn't for Uncle Sam to say much
about the size of European armies;
sea forces are what concerns him
mostly.
The conference listened to Uncle
Sam with grave, demeanor and then
proceeded to refer all the details 10
committees of experts with orders to
report next autumn, which is not the
way even a tortoise won a race.