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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Organization
Meetings
PITTSBURGH TO
HOLD AGITPROP
MEETING SUNDAY
Party Unit Directors
Must Attend

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 10.-In or
der to extend the agitprop work thru
out the district, a conference is, called
Of the agitprop directors of all shop
and street nuclei Of Pittsburgh, the
agitprop directors Of sub-district or
city committees outside Of Pittsburgh
and of agitprop directors of such iso-
lated nuclei outside Of Pittsburgh who
may be able to cover their expenses
to Pittsburgh. DAILY WORKER and
literature agents are also to parti-
cipate.
The conference will be held at the
party office, Room 5, sos James St,
Pittsburgh, Sunday morning, Feb IA,
at IL o'clock.
The immediate problems to be con-
sidered are:
1. The extension of inner party
educational work-classes lectures
and discussions in all party units.
?. Public meetings for agitation
and propaganda among the broad
masses of the workers.
3. The DAILY WORKER cam
paign party press. and literature.
4. The immediate campaigns of the
party.
5. May Day meetings.
These are a few of the outstanding
problems confronting the agitprop de-
partment in this district. Means for
carrying them out must be worked
out at this conference. So far four
classes are being carried on-two in
Pittsburgh, one in Woodlawn and one
in Brownsville. While these classes
are doing well, they are far from
meeting the needs of this important
industrial district All on the job to
make this conference a big success.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Looks for Work
Gets Free Board

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-It seems that
arrests of young workers are the order
of the day. A few days after we heard
If the arrest of George Papcun, or
yanizer of the Young Workers League,
now Comrade Kobylak, who was look
4ng for work, was picked up from the
street.
The notorious SHIRLEY who calls
himself detective by trade, grabbed
Kobylak as he was walking down
Euclid St. looking for a position as a
shipping clerk that was advertised in
the Plain Dealer. The only Crime
of Kobylak was that he looked like a
worker.
AS he was walking past the Anis-
field building the men with the cash.
were supposed to emerge from the
building. The detectives, all being
dishonest, naturally judge other people
by what they themselves are and so
off to Jail Kobylak went. The press
had screaming headlines across the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Workers Communist
Party Opens Big "Join
the Union" Drive
CONTINUED from page ~.

fractions. The corresponding left
wing group, T. U. e. L. or progressive
bloc, will be built and linked up with
the respective higher units OF organ
ization of the left wing, up to and in
Guiding the national organ of the left
wing in every industry.
With the party organized in many
places on the shop and street nuclei
basis, strong foundation for a drive
for every member to join union has
been laid Most of the districts have
already classified their industrial
registration and are ready to go ahead
with the trade union drive outlined
by the central committee. In the Chi
cago district the campaign has al
ready started, with good results. De-
troit has been on the job. other re-
ports will be printed as the results
of the campaign begin to come into
the national office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
new YORK WILL
GO OVER THE TOP
IN LENIN DRIVE
Get Behind The Daily
Worker!" Is Slogan

NEW YORK, Feb. 10. - This is the
final week of the Lenin drive. Every
reader of The DAILY WORKER is
expected to bring in at least ONE
NEW subscriber during this week. to
bring to a successful conclusion the
campaign to place 5000 new readers
on the mailing lists of The DAILY
WORKER in honor of Comrade Lenin.
1t was one of Lenin's fondest wish
es to see established here in the
United States an English Communist
daily Upon every delegate from Am
erica that visited him Lenin impress
sed the fundamental necessity of de-
veloping a Communist daily in the
English language in this country
where over 1OO,OOO,OOO of the masses
read nothing but English.
The decision of the central execut-
i've committee to make a special sub
scription drive for 5000 new readers
to The DAILY WORKER as a memoir
ial to Lenin on the second anniversary
OF his death was therefore very fit
ting and proper. 1t is now the duty
and the privilege of every member of
the Workers Communist Party, and
of every reader of The DAILY WORK
Err to prove his Leninism, not with
mere phrases expressing loyalty, but
with his actions to accomplish that
which Lenin wished and which the
objective conditions in tbs country de-
mand now, by bringing in at least one
new subscription during these closing
days of the Lenin drive.
The last day or the drive is Feb. Is.
Let there be unanimous response by
that day. In New York a special fifty
cent subscription card good for one
months subscription has been issued.
II you are not yet supplied drop into
the New York DAILY WORKER
agency, 10S East 14th Street, at once
and get some of these subscription
cards with which to place your fellow
workers on the mailing list, or simply
send in list Of names with fifty cents
per name and we'll do the rest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Poisonous Gases in
a Milwaukee Plant

MILWAUKEE,, Wis-The workers
in a small Gemco Bumpers plant in
Milwaukee are wondering why the
bosses spend $4,000 for repairing the
managers office who only occupies it
two or three hours each day, instead
Of spending one-third of that ($70O)
for installing some sort OF ventilation
in the dungeon, where 200 workers
slave 10 and IL hours day and night
under the most unbearable conditions.
The factory is very small, eight or
nine different operations, such as
nickel and copper plating, polishing,
ETC., are being done in one room. The
various poisonous chemicals that are
used for plating, evaporate into dust
and all sorts of gasses among the
workers, and this the workers inhale,
which causes maryland the majority
young workers-to quit the job or get
canned if you cannot stand some con-
tageous disease, or remain a cripple
for the rest of their lives. This, OF
course, effects mostly young workers,
of whom there are a majority in this
plant that are Shaving in that rotten
hole and are being speeded up by
straw bosses that are very faithful
and are striving to make bigger profits
for the bosses.
The workers in this plant must or
ganize, because only by the organized
power Of workers will>we be able to
better those rotten conditions in the
Gemco plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
DETROIT ISSUES
EXCELLENTTRADE
u Mo N BULLETIN
Urges Party Members to
Get Into Unions

As part of the party campaign
to get our membership into the trade
unions and active there, the Detroit
district is issuing a monthly trade
union bulletin. 1t is headed, Com.
munists! Into the Unions" The bull.
letin is in charge of the general frac.
ton committee of the district, whose
functions are to organize party com.
rades into the trade unions, to organ
ize trade union fractions, and to con.
troll and coordinate the work of the
fractions in harmony with the party
policies.
The bulletin contains articles on the
Importance of trade union and frac.
ton work in general, the progress of
the work in the various unions and
reports of the work of the general
fraction committee. On the front page
is letter from the district organizer,
Comrade Owens, which puts forth the
slogan: Every member into the
Grade unions; Every union member
into his fraction; Every fraction the
organizer and leader of the left bloc"
The bulletin carries messages like
these:
Should Be Effective.
"Bolshevism expresses itself in ac-
ton. Join the Union!"
There is nothing sensational or
heroic about the tedious process of or
ganizing workers and training them
from scissor-bills to revolutionists
thru the simple problems of their
daily struggles, but the revolution lies
directly along this path"
In order to pay for the cost of put
ting this bulletin out, the comrades
are charged cents per copy, and it is
issued once a month.
This method of stimulating the in
terest in the trade union work of the
party should bring fruitful results, and
the Detroit district should show a
Sapid development in the direction of
increasing the proportion of party
members in the trade unions and in
the influence of the party in the
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

2. The unorganized members shall
be registered by trade and industry
in each city and district by the organ
ization department as follows;
Name; John Brown. Address: has
9Th Ave. So Occupation: Machinist,
non-union. Shop Nucleus No. IL.
(Cities organized on the shop and
street nucleus basis no doubt have
this information completely
8. The special committee in charge
Organization secretary, trade union
secretary and general secretary shall
set and call these meetings of the I'M
organized members trade by trade,
notifying each unorganized party
member directly by mail.
NB.-In this connection, every eff
fort shall be made to link up the party
campaign to draw the unorganized
party members into the labor unions
directly with the organization cam
paigns now being conducted by the
trade unions, such as, in the Machin-
lists Union, l. L. G. w. u, Painters,
Furriers, etc, and to draw our al
ready organized party members into
rank and file organization commit
tees of the union. Further, particular
stress shall be laid on getting the
party members working in the heavy
and basic industries to join the I'M
ions immediately.
4. The fraction executive commit
tee of the particular trade, where such
fraction exists, otherwise the organ
ization department and the trade un-
ion committee, jointly, shall go over
die lists of the unorganized members
and decide to what local union each
unorganized member shall apply for
membership.
The fraction executive committee,
or the joint rganization-indust CON-
mittee shall also assign the organized
members of the trade to be respon-
sible for bringing one or more of the
unorganized members to the union or
ganization meeting. A party fraction
meeting of the trade, where such ex-
lists, may, if necessary, be called to
assign the organized to the morgan
lied members. The fraction secretary
or committee shall also have in its
possession the list of the unorganized
members, addresses and nucleus or
branch to which they belong.
5. At the meeting of the morgan
lied members, the industrial organ
izer, fraction secretary or party rep
resentative shall make a short talk on
the Importance and necessity of trade
union work and the role of the party
fraction and party in this work Then
the concrete work shall be taken up;
instructing each member where, how
and when each one shall apply for
membership in the local union Give
specific information to each comrade;
assign a union member directly to aid
each unorganized comrade.
NB.-f at the meeting there are
some who raise objection to joining the
union, the committee in charge shall
not fall into the error of making, the
subject of the meeting the unwilling
comrades. Rather, the committee shall
deal with the positive elements, those
ready to join union. Sign such COM
'ades up at once. Permit, however,
40 obstruction from the unwilling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
New Haven Holds Big
Lenin Meeting; Debate
and Lecture Arranged

NEW HAVEN. Conn, 19Feb. 1O-A
splendid Lenin meeting was held here
at which Bert Wolfe was the speaker.
His address made great impression
on the crowd, so much so that the
local press ran editorials lamenting
the growth of radicalism in the coun-
try.
A debate has been arranged between
Ben Gitlow and o. BRAND, an |. w.
w., on Feb. Ia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
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CONDUCTED ~ TAEA&M s%puNG WORKERS LEAGUE
AN APPEAL TO WORKERS WHO
ARE INTERESTED IN SPORTS

ers' Sports and Athletic Alliance, with
its local headquarters at 453 w. North
Ave. Its members take part in the
game of sports on every field. It has
at present two outstanding soccer foot
ball teams, one of which, thru it's clean
and keen playing was able to capture
the Peel cup trophy from the Inter-
national Soccer League for the year
1925. The league with a few workers
organizations has some 80 industrial
and national sport orgazintions afln-
ated.
Our club rooms which are open every
night at the above address has a large
reading room with library of work
ers' books and literature which the
members are urged to make good use
Of. In the Workers Sports and Ath-
letic Alliance one gets a chance to
participate in ones favorite sport as
well as chance to become familiar
with the economic system of society
under which we live.
The only qualifications necessary
are that one must be a worker in
order to become a member.
Come in and belong to a sports or
ganization controlled by the workersi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
CHICAGO Y. W. (C.)L.
,HOL DIS MEMBERSHIP
MEETING FEBRUARY IA

A general membership meeting
Of the Chicago Young Workers
(communist) League will be held
Sunday Feb. IA, at 5iltmore Hall,
2o32 w. Division St., 900 p. m.
There will be two points on the
agenda. First there will be a re-
port Of the activity of the Chicago
league, given by the district or
ganizer, Max SaIzman. The second
point on the order of business will
be report on the Industrial ac-
tiVity of the league and our econ
omic trade union work. This report
will be given by valeria Meltz, the
district industrial organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Call Agitprop Heads
of New York Sections
for Planning Campaign

NEW YORK. Feb. 10-The second
general meeting OF all agitprop difec.
tors will be held Monday evening,
Feb. Is, at D. m, at Room Al, los
East 14th street. The meeting will
take up for action the most urgent
problems before the party, namely:
1. The campaign for the defense
Of the foreign-born workers. which will
take organizational form at confer.
ence called for the 21st OF February.
2. The drive for the recognition OF
Soviet Russia; and;
3. The $4,000 drive for the build
ing Of the Workers school
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Left Wingers Give Aid
to Coal Miners Despite
Labor Fakir Opposition

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 10.-When
communication to aid the striking
anthracite miners was read to the
electricians local Of this CITY, the la
Dor fakirs were against helping them
One OF the fakirs said that the miners
were living off the cream of the earth
and didn't need any help. Finally the
machine passed a motion to donate
$25 to the striking coal miners.
AT the next meeting of the local.
the rank and file under the leadership
of the left-wingers passed motion to
reconsider its previous action and
then voted to lay 81 assessment
against the 1880 members of the To-
cal Fr NHt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Italian Party Fraction
to Hold Public Meetings

The Italian fraction of,the party will
hold series OF public meetings pre-
ceding their national convention in
New York City on Feb. % and 2s.
These take place as follows: Detroit,
Feb. 10, speakers, Kakp and Amter:
Chicago, Feb. II, speakers, Kako and
Abern; Pittsburgh, Feb. 21. speakers,
kako and Jakira. The district conven-
tiYns will DO held az already published.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
'FREIHEIT'-1 COR' MASQUE
BALL PROMISES TO Be THE
| BIG EVENT OF THE SEASON

"The Frelheit-leor Masque Ball
given by the Self-Advaneemen Club
at the Division Ball Room, 244f W.
Division ST., on Saturday evening,
Feb. 10, promises to be one Of the
big affairs Of the season. The KISS
ing's Jazz Band, one Of the best In
the city, will play and at midnight
Will spring a surprise. There will
be dancing until I o'clock In the
morning. s.
Nineteen prizes, are to be given
away. Among these prizes 10 one
years subscription to the DAILY
WORKER, the Young Worker and
the Workers Monthly.
why notv AK your seighoo
10 subscribed -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
PyCCKaq
Be qepMHKa

Russian vetcherinka, concert and
dance will be given by the Russian
branch Of the international Labor De-
Tense, Saturday, Feb. 10, at the Work
ers' House, 1902 w. Division Street.
Best local Russian artists will partici-
pate in the program. Russian and
American dances after the program.
Real Russian Char (tea) from a
Samoyar (home-made) will be served
in the "Chainaia" Of the Workers
House. All for the benefit OF the class
war prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

entire page how "$4O,OOO,OOO holdup
was foiled."
1t court instead of trying to prove
that Kobylak really did like the looks
OF the bags of money, they tried to
prove that he was red organizer"
They were amazed instead of finding
a 'gat" they found copy of Bishop
Browns book, Communism and Chris
tianism."
Moral: When looking for work dress
up like a gentleman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
LeaaIlze 44-Hour Week.

SYDNEY-FP)-The New South
Wales Labor government has decreed
by proclamation the 44-hour week op-
erative from Jan. 4, 1926. Tho en-
ployers asked that the proclamation
be delayed till July 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
South Side Section to
Discuss Negro Question

Subsection 10, consisting of street
nuclei 80, SS and "a will hold public
meeting at the Workers Lyceum, 1888
Hirsch Blvd, Friday night, Feb. 10, on
the subject OF the Negro question. All
workers are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Workers (Communist) Party
Social Affairs
Resolutions
Into the Trade Unions

comrades at the meeting. Meetings
of the unorganized members shall CON
tinue to be held until every eligible
member has joined union and is ac-
tive in his party fraction and union
6. Bring those members who are
Joining the union to the next regular
fraction meeting, where it exists, thus
drawing the new members immediate
ly into the work and making it pos
sible to check up on each member
whether he joined.
If no fraction has existed in the
trade, then the fraction SHOULD be or
ganized at once at the Injecting of
these members joining the union. A
small executive committee shall be
elected, a secretary, organizer litera-
ture agent, and workers correspond
ent or publicity committed will be the
officers required. The committee is
responsible for the functioning of the
fraction. Regular meetings shall be
called.
Z. A special meeting of a new
fraction, as soon as organized, shall
be called in which shall. be discussed
the matter of how new members in
the union shall function in the local
unions, etc. 1t is not sufficient, how
ever, merely to join a union. The
party fraction organized shall link
itself with the higher fraction units;
shall develop the left wing and have
the left wing connect itself with the
respective higher units of organiza-
lions of the left wing, up to and in
Guiding the national organ of the left
wing in every industry.
w.
The names and addresses of the or
ganizer of each trade union fraction
in each city, the number of party
members in each fraction, ETC., both
of the newly organized fractions and
Chose already in existence, must be
sent to the organization department
as soon as these fractions are organ
lied. The organization department is
to turn over this information, imme-
diately upon receipt to the secretary
of the trade union committee of the
c. E. C.
v. hn
Every district organizer must keep
the organization department fully in
formed of the progress of organizing
trade union fractions and getting the
membership into the unions. Fullest
publicity must be given to these re-
ports in the entire party press. Where
ever possible, this information and
articles should be written by COM
rades directly engaged hi this work
in the various districts. TIE industrial
department shall have ftill access to
and possession of all of this informa-
ton and should, on the basis of these
reports, together with the organiza-
ton department, give Recommended
lions and suggestions to ethe various
districts in their campaigns
The trade union fractions must
make monthly reports thru the indus
trial department in the city and dis
trict to the district organizers, and
the district organizers must in turn
submit regular monthly industrial re-
ports of their activities to the c. E.
c. industrial department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
III

There shall be held a series Of meet
ings, trade by trade, and industry in
each city, of the unorganized mem
bers during the months of March and
April along the following lines:
1. The heads of the organization
department and trade union commit
tee together with, the general secre-
tary, under the direction of the organ
ization secretary, shall constitute a
special committee to take charge of
the organization of party fractions in
the trade unions and the mobilization
Of the party membership to join the
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

There shall be held series Of meet
ings of party functionaries on trade
union work in each city, where the
necessity Of every eligible member
joining union shall be taken up and
the local campaign outlined.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

TNHE central executive committee of
4 the Workers (Communist) Party
is commencing drive to draw every
eligible member into a labor union
The successful reorganization of our
party on the shop and street nuclei
basis serves as a stimulus and a
means toward trade union activity.
Our party fractions in the trade un-
ions must be organized and strength
ened immeasurably, and the basis laid
for building a left wing on the broad
est lines, able to rally the rank and
file in a struggle against capitalism
and the union bureaucracy and to
transform the American unions into
conscious organs of the class strug-
gle.
Every party member, in accordance
with the decisions of the party con-
vention and the Comintern instruc-
tons must be brot into labor UNI
ion and become active therein. The
following is the program and cam
paign laid out by the central executive
committee:
Campaign for the Organization of
Party Members into the Trade
Unions and the Organization
of Party Fractions.
|. theological Campaign.
1. There shall be printed imme-
diately a series of articles in the en-
tire party press by leading comrades
on:
(a) Why party members should
join the trade unions.
d. The purpose and function
ing of trade union fractions.
Co The role of the party in the
unions.
2. The agitprop department shall
prepare appropriate quotations from
Marx and Lenin, terse and effective,
to be run regularly in our press.
3. This concentrated theological
campaign shall continue in the party
press for a period Of two weeks be-
ginning February Is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-29

ter Readfield road. The meeting
will be held following the supper.
The party will leave the "Y" at $50
and make the trip in autos This
will be a combined busiAess and
pleasure meeting. no special BUSH
ness will be transacted, only the reg
ular routine will be gone through.
The social activities of the evening
are under the supervision of a COM
mittee of II. of which Mrs. Ina Par
sons is chairman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-29

State Highway Department, relative
to the petitions asking the state to
designate the highway from Ran
dolph to Wiscasset as a State High
way. Mr.. Pease says the proponents
are to have a traffic survey on this
road in the near future.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-29
Augusta BPW to
Hold Meeting at
Golden Orange T Room

The Augusta Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Club will hold
their regular meeting on Thursday
evening of this week at the Golden
Orange Tea Room on the Manches-