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The daily worker., 1927-01-17
;aGtOry Newspapers Communist Shop Organs

and needs of the workers, are an ex-
;ellent medium of approach, and en-
iven the newspapers. News of a
worker who has been discharged or
who has fallen i'll thru overwork or
other hazards connected with his job;
comments on the economic need
which compels both husband and wife
to work-such personal items make
more direct and real the questions of
wages, hours, safety measures, etc.
This aspect of the factory newspaper
must receive careful attention.
The shop paper, however, must not
devote itself only to such questions
as arise within the walls of the fac
tory. 1t must look beyond, envisage
the labor movement as a whole. In
order to relate the struggles of the
workers Of a particular plant to the
struggles of labor in general, to show
the dependence Of their conditions up
on the conditions of the working class
in its entirety, the factory newspaper
should carry items about other work
ers in the same industry, news of the
labor movement, Of strikes and other
significant events illustrating the
class struggle. In this way the seeds
of class solidarity will be planted and
a basis laid for the development OF
class consciousness-one of the main
foundations of shop papers.
Party Campaigns and Shop Papers.
THRU all this variety of material
l. must run the binding thread of the
party program and campaigns. Each
factory newspaper should link its con-
tents to the special tasks of the Com
munist group within that factory; at
the same time all shop papers must
be definitely based on the work of the
party as whole.
At the present time one Of the big
gest campaigns of the party, which is
also a vital need of the American la
Dor movement, is organization of the
unorganized workers. Most of the fac
tory papers in this country are pub
lished in unorganized shops or indus.
tries. The tasks Of the party group
is therefore to agitate for organiza-
tion, to point out the value of trade
unionism, contrasting conditions in
union and non-union shops, to urge
affiliation with trade unions where
these exist in the industry-as in the
automobile plants and machine shops
-or lay the basis for their formation.
Again, the party is engaged in a
campaign against company unionism
1t then becomes one of the concrete
tasks Of the party group in those
plants where such unions exist to util-
ize the shop paper for agitation in
line with this drive. In fact. the shop
paper must become a platform for
agitation against all Cooperation"
schemes of the bosses calculated to
develop spirit OF submission and
weaken or destroy class conscious
ness. One of these schemes which hs'
spread considerably within the pas
decade is tho publication Of smploye
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
Chicago Workers Party Raises
Issues of Vital Interest to All
Workers in Municipal Elections

dodging by big corporations and what
Is more important, questions OF in
functions and conditions Of labor in
which labor and particularly its or
ganized sections should be interested.
The Workers (Communist) Party,
Chicago District, proposes that the or
ganized labor movement of the city
of Chicago unite to put up a labor
ticket sponsoring a labor program for
these coming elections. The basis Of
such movement to be the trade
unions.
We propose a set Of labor candi-
dates to be selected by conference
of trade unions and other working
class organizations willing to parti-
cipate, and we suggest the following
issues to the attention Of such con-
ference.
The Traction Problem.
The franchise for the Chicago sur
face lines has again been extended
for six months on a day to day bas-
is. Roughly, the owners Of the sur
face lines are earning" annually 8
per cent on a valution of 163,000,000.
That is a profit of S13,400,0O0, aside
from funds for maintenance and i'm
provements, high salaries for officials,
etc. The Chicago transportation sys-
TEN is becoming completely trusti-
fed with increasing profits and In
creasing exploitation Of the workers
employed.
The interest Of the working mass
es of the city of Chicago demands
that there be no more franchise.
AS solution of the traction prob
lem, we propose a system of munich
pal ownership of surface and elevat
ed lines with participation in the man
agement by the workers employed
We further propose:
A reduction of fares on surface and
elevated lines.
The immediate building of a sub
way.
Public Utilities.
The thousands Of dollars expended
in the Illinois primaries slush funds
prove the public utilities are run for
big profits instead of what is claim
ID for the public veal. To really be
VI service there should be municipal
ownership of public utilities with par
icipation in the management by the
rorkers employed.
There should further be made a re
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
Why Not Become a
y Orker Correspondent! L

magazines. AS against these organs
# the employing class our factory
newspapers must be developed as or
yans of the workers, exposing the
aims of the company paper as instru-
ments of capitalist propaganda.
Every shop paper must present a
definite program to the workers, en-
bodying such demands as may be ne
cessitated by conditions within the
shop and the program of our party. 1t
is not enough merely to call atten-
ton to these conditions and then, as it
were, leave the problem hanging in
the air. Nor is it effective to deal
with questions in a haphazard fash
ion. All these problems must be tied
together, and clear-cut program for
the plant formulated by the Commu-
mist fraction. The factory paper must
raise these emands-whether it be
the S-hour day, or sanitary washrooms
or an increase in wages-and system
atically rally the workers of the shop
in support Of them. These demands
should be presented in the very first
issue of each paper, and should form
the main substance of all succeeding
issues. Only in this way can the
shop paper be the constructive guide
Of the workers in the plant and es-
tablish the influence of the Commu-
mist fraction.
lS,aH ~ ae Al
THIS brings us 10 very important
l. problem. one which has presented
the most difficulties in the preparation
Of factory newspapers. In discussing
the contents of these papers we have
thus far dealt principally with indus
trial and economic questions, which,
as has been stated, constitute the bas-
is Of approach to the workers. The
factory paper, however, is not purely
an economic organ, concerned only
with questions Of wages and hours.
1t has a very definite political pur-
pose, and must be developed as a rev.
olutionary weapon. Failure to grasp
this, and consequent failure to prop
erly relate and balance economics
with politics, has proven the main
weakness of factory newspapers in
this country.
1t must be clearly understood that
the factory newspaper is not simply
a trade union paper. True, 1t deals
extensively with trade union organ
ization and economic demands: but
while its immediate objective may be
the organization Of the unorganized,
the betterment of conditions in the
shop, its goal is not trade unionism.
Nor Is 1t simply a medium for a gen.
eral airing of discomfort and dissat-
sfaction with the situation in the fac
tory. Thus the problems Of organiza-
lion and economic demands must be
written up in such a way that the
mployes should see them In their re-
alton to the class struggle in its en-
irety, and the battle Of the workers
or power and control.
Continued tomorrow
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
BY REREccA eREcHT.

Continued from previous issue.)
! I all times the contents of shop
l bulletins must be real, linked up
tn the situation in the shop, with
facts of the workers lives. A
aiding article, based on some event
condition in the shop or the indus
y which is of outstanding import
&c at the time, must appear regu-
rly in each issue of the paper, thus
cusing the attention of the workers
particular problem, and break
what might otherwise be a monot-
Gus array of facts, all of equal sig
ficance. Since the paper must ap-
al to all the employees in the enter
Use, the contents will not be COM
ate without news of the different de-
rtments. In factories where women
young people are employed, their
oblems should be dealt with in spe-
u articles, and, if possible, a col
IN set aside for discussion of mat
IS pertaining primarily to them. 1t
necessary also to expose the in
ualities existing under the capitalist
stem, and explain how the workers
e robbed of the products of their
Dor. Facts should therefore be CIV
on the profits of the company, and
concrete contrast drawp between
3 workers mode of life and that of
cir bosses.
The factory newspaper must be-
me the voice Of the factory. The
,rkers must be made to feel that
Is is their paper, expressing their
DTS and wishes. They must be in
ed to write for 1t, to contribute to
etter box, or workers corner, which
0uld be made a feature of every
op paper. We cannot expect a flood
contributions Immediately upon the
pearance of the paper. but the
rkers can gradually be encouraged
write, especially when they are as
ed their identity will not be re-
lied. In this way the pulse of the
ID. as 1t were, will be felt by our
.ty group in the factory, and the
rkers will come to accept the pa
: as their own with increased in
est and enthusiasm.
Human Interest.
VERY important matter which
has been neglected in the factory
oers thus far published in America
what we may call the element Of
Aman interest. We are often too apt.
cause OF our absorption in the
lightly problems of the labor move
mt, to underestimate the import
70 of light features, and to forget
{ the workers we aim to reach thru
factory newspapers are not con-
ntly buried IN solemn thot, or en-
ssed in the serious activity OF the
ss struggle. Our shop papers must
be overburdened with heavy ar
es. They must have variety, and
Ike an intimate, personal appeal.
toons, anecdotes, and jokes. all
ntedly illustrating the conditions
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
New Revolutionary Drama Form to
Feature Lenin Memorial JAM 23

"sTRkEThs embods working class
struggle against the United
States great Nca Lenin
Chicago workers 23.
strke" is the recitation written Of the fore
most the revolutionary writer's country Michael Gold
catches
and is because Of this the Of
the entire
Ashland Auditorium,
third Lenn memorial meeting held Chicago Speakers
Of national prominence will
Tho memorial
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
BY NAT kAPLAN.
Article II.

T Asst year the petty-bourgeoisie op-
IL position to militarism reached the
colleges and quite a sentiment was
created against the continuance OF the
compulsory military training in the
colleges thru the war department in
strument known as the Reserve Off
GERS Training Corps Or. o. T. c.. In
certain quarters where students from
proletarian families influenced the sit
uation, real actions were undertaken
as, for example, the big referendum
vote against the compulsory military
drill in the City College of New York
and the mass meetings held Herewith.
Such actions must be extended.
The Pink Opposition.
The shortcoming of the movement
is that it is permeated thru and thru
with pacifism, the so-called pink anti
militarism. 1t is wavering, indeci-
sive movement, and finds its express
sion in the National Student Forum,
he student branches Of the Y. M. c..
y, the Y. w. G. A., etc. The recent
Milwaukee conference of the college
Y's" after declaring in the discus
sion against militarism and imperial
ism did not even pass resolution on
the question under the pretext that
resolutions are of little value anyway.
This students movement is per-
meated with the theology of indeci-
sion, of running from pillar to post
Of not acting but experimenting and
investigating, of educating ones self
for the future. 'You have only three
summers of your college ife," says
the New Student, organ of the Nation
al Student Forum in it's April, z, 1926,
issue, "Use them experimentally. Try
new thots and different beliefs" This
wavering attitude, reflex OF the eco
nomic status Of the petty-bourgeoisie
in capitalist society, is brought home
even more clearly in an editorial of
the New Student of March 8, 1926:
"There are more student writers
gathered in this number than we
have had together at once in quite
length of time; there is also more
disagreement between them and the
editors than usual. SOME OF
THEM WE BELIEVE ARE WRONG
FROM START TO FINISH. THESE
ARE NOT SPECIFIED HERE. BUT
THEY ARE A RATHER INTELLi-
GENT GROUP, ARE THEY NoT?"
INV emphasis-N Ky
Red Batting.
Here we see paper without an
editorial policy, without line, afraid
to criticise what it disagrees with.
And if you think that the above quo
tation means freedom of expression"
to all, including Communists and par
ticularly the Communist anti-militar-
ist struggle, let us disillusion you.
There is nothing but misrepresenta-
tions and perversions of the Commu-
mist position in this sheet.
For example, when the Young
Workers (Communist) League was
participating in two working youth
conferences which were dominated by
non-Communist young workers organ
izing to fight for unionization and bet
ter conditions; when we were trying
to broaden out these conferences to
include as large number of nom
Communist young workers as pos.
sible, the New Student did its bit in
trying to destroy support for the con-
ferences thru the following note in
its issue of April 2S, 1926: "The
Young Workers (communist) League
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
LIEBKNEcHT MEETINGS.

BUFFALO-January 22, s p. m, at
Workers Forum Hall, SO West Huron
street. Speaker, Sam Essman.
BOSTON-Paine Memorial Hall, 9
Appleton St., Jan. 23rd, $3.50 p. M,
S. Bloomfield, speaker.
NEWARK-Sunday, Jan. 23rd, 1880
p. M, Newark Labor Lyceum, 704 So.
14th street, near Springfield Ave.
PITTSBURGH-Sunday, Jan. 23rd
at 8 p. M, at Labor Lyceum.
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
NTH TIE ygdI|r velxERz
CONDUCTED 9~ TAE&&@ .SpuNG WORKERS LEAGUE
PETTY BOURGEOIS PACIFISM

non-league members. viii be admit
ted by special permission" Other eS.
amples of anti-red propaganda can be
shown in this sneet
The height of activity of the petty
bourgeoisie students is to pass resolu-
tions, which after being passed, are
neatly shelved. And resolutions on
what questions? Resolutions on all
the reformist slogans which have been
shouted so much since the world war
by the social democrats aand the bour-
geoisie pacifsts and have so miser-
ably failed.
Paoifist Slogans.
The New Student editorially con-
graduates the resolutions of the In
terdenominational Students Confer
ence held in Evanston, ILL.,, Dec. 20 to
JAM l, 1926, which declares:
"In particular we urge tho imme-
diate ratification of the protocol of
the Permanent Court of Interna-
tlona Justice at the Hague, partiei-
patton of the United States in form
ulating plans for the projected dis
armament conference and entry into
the League of Nations"
But slogans of entering the world
court and disarmament are the slo-
gans of Wall Street and the Wall
Street Coolidge government in Wash
ington. Yet the petty-bourgeoisie pa
cifists gobble up these slogans and
hof
come if the United States enters the
International Robbers c Com bine
known as the League of Nations thru
its back door, the world court. The
class conscious workers know of the
atrocities committed against the op-
pressed colonist masses in China,
Syria and Morocco, ETC., during the
reign Of the league and under the slo-
gan of peace. They saw the league
turn over Mosul oil to the British I'm
perialists. They see the American
imperialsts extending ons hand to the
world court and with the other hand
invading Nicaragua, preparing for 81
milar action in Mexico, rushing gun
boats to China.
Disarmament Bunk.
Then they spread the illusion that
the bourgeoisie governments will dis
arm in the face of an increased tenn
po in the race for more armaments by
the capitalist governments. The
young workers must realize that the
capitalist governments will never dis
arm themselves. They need a large
armed force to Quell the national re-
volution in their colonies, to fight
their rivals in the struggle to domi-
nate the world, to fight the oppressed
masses at home in their revolutionary
struggle against capitalism (strikes,
etc.). to fight against revolutionary
governments.
Thus we see that militarism is part
of capitalism and to abolish militarism
means in the first place to abolish
capitalism. Universal disarmament
means that the Soviet Union must dis
arm in the face of an armed antagon-
liberals must lay down their arms in
face of the American marines and sail
ors, that the Cantonese must disarm.
We are opposed to such disarmament
and in favor of the war for national
liberation, for the revolutionary gov
ernment to protect it's interests, for
the class war. The slogan of "univer-
sal disarmament" is reactionary and
perverts the real struggle against the
manufacture and transport Of war ma
terial.
(Continued.)
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
What Is Going to
Happen in Chicago
Sunday, March 13?

What is going to happen in Chicago
Sunday, March 13, is the question be-
ing asked in the Russian colony of
Chicago. The Worker Correspondents
Of the Novy Mir are preparing some
thing, but would not say what. The
rumors have it, that Mirror Hall was
rented by them for that day.
But what is going to happen? That
is the question being asked.
The daily worker., 1927-01-17
What We Have Done to III
Keep The DAILY WORKER
BY C. E. RUTHENBERG
General Secretary, Workers (Communistl Party.

THE January
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ons which will still with The DAILY WORKER
which threatened the life of The DAILY WORKER
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The daily worker., 1927-01-17
Gitlow to Address
Lenin Memorial at
Akron on January 10

AKRON, o., Jan. 16. - The Work
ers Party of Akron will hold Lenin
memorial meeting on Wednesday,
Jan. 10 at Liberty Hall, COL S. Main
Street. 1880 o'clock. Ben Gitlow of
New York will be the main speaker.
His subject is "Lenin, His Life and
Works"
Admission will be 10 cents. All
workers are urged to attend this
meeting to pay tribute to the me-
mory of the great leader and to learn
of his life.
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Evening star., 1927-03-28
VIRGIN! MAN. TRIO
JAILED ANDF|NED
Author and Co-Producers of
Play Given To-Day and
$3.50 Sentences.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2S.-William
Francis Dugan, author of the police
raided play, NThe Virgin Man." and
Mack Cohan and Jacob kromberg, it's
co-producers here, were sentenced to
10 days in the workhouse and fined
$3.50 each today for producing an al
legedly immoral theatrical Offering.
The three paid the fine rather than
accept the alternative of 80 days more
in the workhouse under the sentence
meted out by the court.
All the other defendants in the stage
cast, three women and four men, were
given suspended sentences.
The author of the play, which was
one of three figuring in the recent
cleanup" of Broadway, when two
other stage productions We're raided,
submitted to being fingerprinted and
prepared to remain in the Tombs un-
less an immediate stay of sentence
was to be grG nted.
The two coproducers who, with Du-
gan, also had been out on bail, were
likewise fingerprinted.
Although the three paid their fine,
which ordinarily is considered equiva-
lent to accepting the sentence, their
attorneys said an appeal would be
taken.
Evening star., 1927-03-28
SNAkESkINS LURE
IN WOMEN'S APPAREL
Novel Styles, From Shoes to Mil
linery, Shown in Spring
Display of Finery.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 2S.-Daughters of
Eve again have succumbed to the lure
Of the snake.
Chicago stores beginning their
Spring display of finery are showing
snakeskin for everything, from shoes
to millinery.
A chic little rattlesnake sports coat
may be had for $500 or $400. while
snakeskin shoes, purses and hats and
suits trimmed with snakeskins are
proportionately priced.
Inquiry as to why the skin of the
snake, which thus far has had no
commercial value. should cost so
much elected the information that
snakeslSins are hard to get and only
a small portion of the back is used.
Even the parts used must be care
fully matched. for the spots must cor
respond in size and Shape.
I'VE may find it embarrassing, how
ever" one shopkeeper ruminated, 'if
women, carrying the fad a step far
ther, demand that the snakeskin be
appropriate to the garment-the boa
constructor for soarfs, the moccasin
snake for shoes and garter snakes for
what the name implies"
Evening star., 1927-03-28
70 YEARS A SOLDIER.
Veteran. 88, Celebrates Anniver
sary of His Enlistment.

ROCHESTER,, March % LP).-Mai.
Moses Harris, 8S, of this city, yester-
day celebrated the SEVENTEEN anniver-
sary of his enlistment in the United
States Army, with his name still on
the retired list of the Army rolls. He
holds the Congressional Medal of Hon
or. this countrys highest award, for
distinguished service in the Civil War.
lie was in the Cavalry under Gen.
Sheridan.
Maj. Harris retired at his own re.
quest in 1893 after serving 46 years
in the Army. Since then he has made
his home here. He continues to have
keen interest in Army affairs and is
active in the G. A. r.
Evening star., 1927-03-28
Violence Threat
Over Chaplin Film
Changes Program
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2S.-Two
motion picture theaters in the
Borough of Queens changed their
bills yesterday, after receiving let
ters threatening violence unless
The Pilgrim in which Charlie
Chaplain plays, was withdrawn.
The letters purported to come from
the ku klux Klan, the manage
ment of the theater stated.
The writer's objected to the films
because Mr.. Chaplin is being sued
for divorce
A police guard was posted at the
two theaters.
The managers, however, decided
to comply with the demands and
exhibited other pictures.