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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22

by the Finnish fraction bureau to the
Rocky Mountain district to assist re-
organization there. Finnish branches
in national Office territory are very
much isolated from the rest of the
party and even from its Finnish sec
ton. This makes reorganization very
difficult. A good sign, however, is that
comrades are very eager to come in
line with the rest of the party.
Within another three months, I am
certain, the Finnish section of our
party will be almost completely re-
organized into new units. 1t is diff
cut to estimate of what percentage
will join to newly ofganized party
units. But judging from the senti-
ment that has been created thru the
bolshevization propaganda, we can be
rather optimistic. "
In order to complete reorganiza-
ton and also to prepare the member
ship for bolshevizationsaour press is
carrying on a very good campaign
Also, we have had recently eight reg
ular speakers and organizers in the
field. In addition to them, all eleven
Finnish district Offices are sending
out many speakers during every Sat
urday and Sunday.
1t is now important, THAT in those
regions and localities where reorgan-
ization is most difficult and where
isolated Finnish branches exists, that
district organizers give special, assist
ance to reorganize Finnish comrades
and try to attach as many English
speaking comrades to- the newly or
ganized units as possible. This would
assist reorganization and strengthen
the position of the membership and
at the same time would greatly help
comrades to overcome the language
and other difficulties.
OF course, close cooperation is
needed in every district But parti-
cularly recommend sending a-field
organizer to Minnesota, Michigan, the
Iron and Copper Ranges and the sec
ton around Duluta and Superior.
Also in Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire and Maine, section which is
very important as a industrial district,
efforts must be made to gain more
English speaking members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
The Economist on the Bonus
Question

The Chicago Economist does not be-
lieve in digging up "old political
skeletons" like the question of the
soldiers bonus. Oh No! It only de-
sires to it the world know that those
who fought for the immediate inter-
ests of the returned soldiers were
bunch of dumb mules. For look. the
sheet points out, one out of five of
those eligible for the bonus have not
applied for it. This goes to show that
they did not want it. Need we say that
this is pure buncombe. If the federal
government had passed a substantial
bonus grant to the soldiers there
would have been a greater influx of
bonus applications than there were
soldiers in the army.
"our duty, if we want to remain
Communists, is to go down nearer to
the real masses; in this lies the whole
significance of the struggle with op-
portunism and the whole content Of
this struggle"
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spirit" which in other words means
to delude the workers, to make them
believe that they are part owners OF
the plant and thus get them to sub
anti to any conditions which may be
imposed
With the cultivation of this family
spirit" follows various bonus" sys-
tems which enables the corporation to
appear munificent and keep wages
at lower level, while stock selling
plans, altho possible only to better
aid workers, has very much the same
,DJect. The Unitedi. States Steel cor
Joration claims that $4,000 of its EN-
jioyees hold corporation stocks. Such
sorkers naturally find themselves
iii more obligated to protect the in
rests OF the owners OF the concern
ithout having the slightest voice in
&c management or in determining
wages or working conditions in the
plants. These workers as a rule OBJ
tain little or no additional material
gain for themselves but they can
easily be turned against their less
fortunate brothers in any real conflict
within the industry
Shop nuclei members must turn
such hideous schemes inside out for
a complete exposure. No matter how
cleverly they are devised we must be
able to show workers that II is
only by their united class efforts that
improvements can be gained and not
by false illusions ofbosses generosity
Each battle engaged in by the work
ers, no matter how small, will help
prove this contention.
ITO be continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
Waukegan, Illinois,
Plans Intensive Drive
for The Daily Worker
(Continued from page ID

nothing to lose but your chains!
In this work of awakening the
multitudes, our strongest weapon is
our daily newspaper, The DAILY
ORKER. The more we can distribute
of The DAILY WORKER, the more
workers will acknowledge it as their
paper and will join the Workers (Com-
munist) Party.
This month we are having a special
drive for the distribution of The
DAILY WORKER-the Lenin drive
the purpose of which is to have every
worker do their best to secure new
subscribers for the paper. In numer-
Gus districts thruout America these
drives are already under way.
Comrades! This is work which
asks for interest, and sacrifice! Every
where, where these drives have not
been arranged as yet, it must be done
Immediately with promptness and
vigor. In places, where our paper has
only few-even but one subscriber
1t is the duty of the reader to try
to secure more.
Let us set for our goal: Enlarge The
DAILY WORKER subscription list at
least three times this month.
In Waukegan plans have been laid
to begin determined drive. 1t is not
merely a hope or yelled promise, but
serious decision which will be car
ried out. At present there are but
only Is DAILY WORKER subscribers
in Waukegan but we have resolved
that by Feb. this number must be
at least three times larger. If this
resolution is made in every district,
and carried out, than the continuation
of The DAILY WORKER will be made
certainty. Then we will no longer
have cries for help and contributions
and our paper will be independent
When we arrive at our goal we will
not stop there, but will continue with
greater enthusiasm to go onward.
Monday, Jan. II, the Young Work
ers League branch of Waukegan had
a meeting in which they made the
above resolution amid great enthusi-
asm. Our young comrades will lead
this drive. One of the older comrades
suggested electing a committee to
push this work. AS a result a com
mittee of was appointed. Out of
large number of nominees the follow
ing were elected:
Alfred Backman, Elmer Johnson,
Eva Erickson, Helmi Jacobson, Urho
Karjala, Hilma Makela, Taimi Maxi,
Irma Wiitanen.
Young comrades! You have begun
a large and noble work You have
added one more link to the chain
The sound of the death knell of cap
italism is drawing nearer. Put forth
all your efforts and energy!
Older comrades! Act as instructors
of the young comrades! Arouse their
interest! Try in every way to broaden
their activities. If success does not
come the first day or second, it is your
duty to encourage the comrades to
strive onward! We must not weaken!
We will watch weekly, the progress
made by our comrades in this DAILY
WORKER drive.
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VIII !!!!!!: !gE !, yg g.: y !!!!l! &!

Glass Housewives, together with 9TH
er affiliated womens organizations,
aims to organize the housewives and
to unite them with the women work
ers in shops and factories thru perma-
nent delegated bodies. The U. G. W.
H. declare that the working women in
homes, shops and factories have not
interests apart from the men work
ers, and that the working class as a
whole must fight unitedly for their
common interests. The u. G. W., H.
statement declares that every strug-
gle taken up by the workers, what
ever that struggle may be, whether
against the boss, the landlord, the
high cost Of living, or for more and
better schools, becomes the struggle
Of the whole working class.
Therefore, the United Council OF
Working Glass Housewives helps and
supports the mothers of the children
of P. S. 14S, Brooklyn, in their strug-
gle against the transferring of their
children to other schools and for more
and better schools. 1t furthermore de-
clares that the condition in P. S. las
is not local, that the condition is gen.
'eral turnout the city. Also that i'm
proper influences are exerted upon the
small school children by the system
of combining junior high with the
lower public school grades. and that
many school buildings besides are fire
traps and unsafe for the children and
that this condition in the public school
undermines the health and affects the
nervous systems, not alone Of the chill
dren but also of the mothers and
teachers.
In view of the above, the u. G. w.
H. calls upon all working women in
the homes, the shops and the factor
les, as well as upon all organized
working men, to unite and join the
fight for the following demands:
1. More and better schools. 2.
Fewer children to one teacher in
the class room. 8. Separate junior
high from lower P. S. grades. 4. Build
more public schools in workers neigh
borhoods. 5. No part time. Uniform
time for all public schools. 6. New
schools in neighborhoods, instead of
transfer of children to different
schools. z. Tear down all old fire
trap public school buildings. 8. Free
lunches for the children in the public
schools of New York City.
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Reorganization Progress Among Our Finnish Membership

lly reorganized and Workers Clubs
formed. Maynard, one of the biggest
industrial branches in the district has
not yet sent in its report.
Reorganization work in District No
1 has been delayed to some extent be-
cause of insufficient cooperation until
recently of the district office with the
Finnish branches. D. o. has been
away. Many isolated Finnish branch
es in this important industrial district
need the help of the district office.
The party must pay more attention to
this important district and assist thru
the district Office the reorganization
of the Finnish members. s
District No. q In Brooklyn, jana
lea, Port Chester, Inwood, New Roeh-
ellie and some others smaller branch
es, members have reorganized to a
large extent. New York City Finnish
branch reorganization has been, so
far, very slow, but special efforts will
be made to get more former members
into newly organized units. Workers
Clubs in District Two are in forma-
ton. Language fractions must be or
ganized at once.
District No. 8. Baltimore Finnish
branch members are just forming sew
eral shop nuclei with other comrades
in the steel mills.
Philadelphia Finnish branch in. pro-
cess of reorganization, if not already
reorganized.
District No. 4. In Buffalo Finnish
branch about 80 per cent registered
and majority will join new units:
Smaller branches, like Scotia, Spen-
Ger, Newtield, Rochester and Erie, are
yet to be reorganized. District Office
must assist them.
District No. s. In this district Fin
nish comrades have worked in very
close cooperation with district Office
and some Finnish branches have been
successful recognizing nearly 100 per
cent Of former language branch mem
bers into new units. Language frac-
tions and Workers Clubs have Just
been formed thruout the district.
District No. 6. In this district, also.
reorganization of Finnish branches
has been carried out successfully with
the close cooperation of the district
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set out to expose the interlockings of
this system of enslavement the class
nature of capitalist society becomes
particularly apparent The practical
examples are so simple that few
workers will fail to understand. In
addition most of them have felt the
effects in their every day life and ex-
plantations thus become easier. OF
course, plenty OF difficulties VIII arise
in taking up a fight against these le
vers of capitalist control. But Com.
munists learn how to overcome such
obstacles and the fight will, wher
correctly pursued, naturally extern
from the shops to an active entry 0.
The field Of political struggles. Tner
could be no better way OF shown
the workers from their own experie,
es that they must unite to build a |;
Dor party and act politically indepen
dent as a class.
6. Bosses Welfare Associations.
These institutions are the first steps
toward company unions and thus TO.
wards more complete enslavement Of
the workers. So-called welfare asso.
Citations Of various kinds are organ.
ICED In all up-to-date factories either
for sport, social or beneficial purpos-
es. They are always organizeS by the
bosses with especially fitted agents
put In charge. Collections OF financial
contributions are carried on In their
name, bulletins, papers and some.
times magazines are published In
their naine but under editorial con.
troll Of the Bosses The object is gem
orally statedst TO be to promote the
good feeling and cultivate family
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office. Some isolated Finnish branch
es-Ashtabula, Fairport and others,
must be given special attention and
assistance. Workers Clubs and lang
uage fractions have been organized
and others will be organized.
District No. z. Detroit Finnish
branch, which has been the largest
single unit in the party, was reorgan-
lied so per cent some time ago, and
a special commission is completing
the reorganization.
District No. s. Very small percent
age of Chicago Finnish branch is re-
organized. In Waukegan two shop
nuclei and three street nuclei have
been organized. Some smaller Finnish
branches in this ditrict have not yet
made their best efforts in reorganiza-
tion.
District No. g. Duluth and Superior
Finnish branches completely reorgan-
ICED. In Mesaba Iron Range and agri-
cultural regions of Minnesota and
Northern Wisconsin, comrades are
just making special efforts to proceed
for complete reorganization. Also in
sub-districts in Copper Island and
Marquette, comrades are working
hard to organize former branches into
new units and to form Workers Clubs
and language fractions.
District office is too far away and
has very loose connections with isol-
ated Finnish branches. But there is
no doubt that Finnish comrades in
this large district will complete re-
organization within a short period.
Workers Clubs have been formed in
many localities.
District No. IL. From this district
we have very meager reports. But in
some of the biggest Finnish centers,
as in Astoria and Portland, comrades
are working for reorganization.
District No. 10. We have no actual
reports, but as the atmosphere there
has been very favorable for reorgan-
zation, we assume that the Finnish
branches there are well on the way
in reorganization with other COM
rades.
National Office territory. Reorgan-
ization partly carried out in South
Dakota. Organizer will be sent soon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
BY HENRY PURo, Secretary
Of the Finnish Fraction Bureau.

TT is not an easy task to reorganize
L a mass organization like the Fin
nish section of our party. There are,
aside from the tasks of theological
preparation, many practical problems,
which have to be dealt with and solv-
ed
However, within the last three
months, great progress has been made
towards the complete reorganization
Of the Finnish section of our party.
First of all, the opposition, which was
very strong at one time, to reorganiza-
ton has been largely won over by our
strong theological campaign. The con-
ventiOn of the Finnish section cleared
nearly all the remaining organized op-
position and laid the basis for a very
favorable atmosphere for the reorgan-
ization. Since then, reorganization has
progressed, in some sections at a
great pace; in other sections more
slowly
As actual reorganization according
to party instructions is to be carried
thru regular party channels, that is,
thru district Offices and city commit
tees, it is impossible for me to give
a detailed report as to how complete
ly reorganization has been carried out
amongst the Finnish comrades and
how many shop and street units have
been actually organized. The new
units are no longer language units and
all the reports of their establishment
have gone directly to district offices.
But | will try to give a general pic
ture of the situation in those parts,
where former Finnish language
branches existed.
District No. -Worchester: former
Finnish branch members organized
with the other comrades into shop
nuclei and one street nucleus. Work.
ers' Club organized. Language frac-
tions in process Of organizing.
Fitchburg-Some shop nuclei organ
lied in textile mills as early as the
first part of November. Gardner,
Quincy, GAINESVILLE. W. Concord and
some other branches nearly complete
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Opportunities for Shop Nuclei Work

fear into the hearts OF those who be-
come rebelhous and whip the discon-
tented ones into line. Workers ap-
plying for jobs by big corporations
are required to submit their whole life
history and in many cases swear to
never having belonged to a union or
intending to join one before their ap-
plication may be considered. Physical
descriptions and finger prints are tax
en- down onyspecially prepared blanks
which are compared to the employ.
ment office blacklist. Workers with
the slightest spot Of rebellion on their
record are rejected.
The Montana copper trust perfected
these methods-to the notorious "rustl.
ing card" system. No worker could
find employment without having such
a card from his former job and the
issuance Of cards was firmly control.
led. Good union men or class con.
scious workers need not apply.
These are precisely the means
which extend into governmental ad.
ministrations and become the basis
Of exerting political control by the
big corporations. Il has 80 far been
small matter to whip voters into
line to follow the capitalist dominat.
ed parties and whenever a little extra
intimidation was found necessary il
was promptly applied. Aided by the
power Of their wealth the corporations
put their own tools into Office to let
them grind out and execute laws pro.
tecting the privilege OF exploitation.
When shop nuclei members starting
from the practical experiences, in
shop. political district or city really
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
ERRAhD GIRL CAN'T
GET RAISE
Ry YOUNG Worker correspondentl

Wy tOuH9 WOENCT OOTICSpOnuSnIJ
WAUWATOSA, wis., am a girl
of Is years and being big for my age,
am employed in the office at Allis
Chalmers company.
Our hours are from S:15 till 5
o'clock and have As minutes for lunch.
My boss is in charge of only two girls,
myself and girl of 10 named Helen.
She has been employed by the
company for years and is very loyal
to the bosses. When she sees me
stalling she goes to the boss and
whispers to him and they both turn
and look at me until | resume my
work again.
Helen works like a horse all the
time and when | ask her why she
slaves so hard she gave a quick turn
on her heel and walked away and
whispers something in the ear of the
boss.
Sometimes l have no work to do for
about and hour and sit aound doing
nothing? Then when do get work
| have so much to do that | have to
run around like a wild person q for.
got to mention that my work was fl
ing blue prints and running errands)
Sometimes when get home | have
absolutely no ambition for anything
and go to bed without supper because
| am even too tired to eat.
The other day | asked my boss for
a raise. (My present salary being
only Sll per week. and he laughed at
me.
Why don't the young workers or
ganize. Let us not be satisfied with
our present miserable conditions. Let
us unite and don't let the bosses
trample over u.s.
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also against the progressive move
ment in the unions and calls the work
ers in the progressive movement de-
stroyers of labor unions. To coun-
teract such malicious propaganda it
is essential for the workers to have
a paper of their own. 1t is necessary
to have an Italian daily to lead the
workers in the fight for the demands
initiated by the progressive move
ment in the unions, for the recogni-
ton of Soviet Russia, for an Ameri-
can delegation of workers to Soviet
Russia, for world trade union unity
and for labor party.
The Italian workers need daily
that will openly fight the fascist by
proletarian methods, that will fight
the capitalist regime which in it's
death grip gave birth to the fascist
dictatorship.
There is in the United States an
anti-fascist movement which has the
solidarity of hundreds of thousands
of Italians. In this movement the ac-
tive factor is the Communist element.
But many times the bureaucrats use
the anti-fascist platform in order to
influence the Italian workers for their
purposes.
In his anti-fascist statement, Mr.
Green, goes against great part of
the Italian workers who are led by
the Communist Party of Italy. The
statement of Mr.. Green is more
declaration of war against Commun-
ism than statement against Musso-
lini And we will remember that Mr.
Green, a month before his anti-fas-
cist statement sent a message to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22

Meetings

THE Italian section of the Workers
= (Communist) Party is making an
attempt to mobilize its forces for es-
tablishing an Italian daily for the in
terests Of the workers in this coun-
try. This very important work is be-
ing launched in spite of the fact that
it is already being attacked by enc
mics of the working class whose pur-
pose it is to lead the workers into
class collaboration policies instead of
directing the fight Of the workers on
class lines.
Because of the millions Of exploited
Italian workers in this country, who
have no organ to officially represent
them, the Italian section of the Work
ers (Communist) Party is being urg
ed by numerous workers Of other Ian
guages to initiate the move for such
a daily.
The following reasons are several
of the few that force the establish
ment of paper to fight for the in
terests of the laboring Italian work
ers:
Free Field For Takers.
There are 100000 Italian workers
organized in the labor unions in this
country. The greater percentage of
those organized are in the I. L. G. W.
u. There were As Italian delegates
at the last convention of this union.
Under the influence of the bureaucra-
tic leaders of this union all except
two of the Italian delegations voted
for the DISQUALIFICATION policies Of
Sigman
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Social Affairs
Resolutions

American debt commission asking
them to be very reasonable towards
the Mussolini debt commission.
MIR. Green a Klanlst.
And II Nuovo Monda supports Mr..
Green. II Nuovo Monda published
this statement without any comments.
The klanists in America have also
proclaimed themselves anti-fascists.
Why? Not because the Mussolini
government is a reactionary govern
ment which destroyed the unions and
massacred workers but because the
Mussolini government is a servant of
the pope. sts
And Mr.. Green is a klanist.
We need daily to. tell the workers
these truths. We need it in order
to reach the masses and draw them
into the class struggle.
We must instruct the workers that
the anti-fascist fight lis an anti-capi-
talist fight. We must tell them that
only the overthrowing of the capital
list system can save them from fas-
cism. For these purposes we need
the daily. 1t is the duty of the work
ers of other nationalities to help us
in order to accomplish this task.
The party has given it's support
The most representative elements of
the progressive movements are with
us.
All the Italian workers are prepar-
ing themselves to answer the reaction
airy bureaucracy by forming progress
sive groups and establishing a prole
tartan daily which will fight for the
interests and privileges of the work
ers.