The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23

the workers (COmnlunlSt) Party
is the one known by the peculiar name
of agitprop. The word agitprop is
a contraction of the words agitation
and propaganda and the department
plans the campaigns and educational
activities of the Workers Party.
Under this department falls the
task of arranging the mass meetings,
issuing material dealing with the
campaigns of the Party, arranging
classes, forums and lectures, plan
ming the publication of pamphlets,
books, leaflets, newspapers and maya
zines in all of the many languages in
which literature of the Workers Party
is published, guiding the discussions
in the Party units and issuing the
shop papers and many other similar
activities.
The national director of the pro-
paganda department is Bertram D.
Wolfe.
Branches in Many Cities.
In each district, a district propa-
ganda, or, more correctly, agitation
and propaganda director, is selected,
also a special committee to handle
the work and similarly there is di-
rector and committee in each city.
Finally, each unit of the Party is
supposed to have one member entrus-
ted with this work-the nucleus agit-
prop director.
Since this is comparatively new
department, the various district are
at present attempting to build their
agitprop apparatus.
New England Quarters at Boston.
In the New England district dds
trict y Harry Canter has been select
ed as district agitprop director In
Worcester, Mass, this work is hand
led by H. S. Bloomfield, in Brockton
by Henry Gage. A district school is
being built up with headquarters in
Boston, modelled on the plan of the
Workers School in New York.
Big New York Center of Agitation.
The New York District District q
has long had a weu-functioning agi-
tation and propaganda department.
i The new director Of the department
is D. Benjamin. The Workers School
of New York, built up under the di-
rection of the New York agitprop de-
partment, has now become the largest
institution for working-class educa-
ton in American and has been con-
verified into national training school
for the Workers Party, as well as an
important school for New York and
New Jersey workers.
The agitprop director of the Phil
adelphia district District 81 is
Thomas Foley. The Philadelphia city
director is Bernard Herman, and the
Baltimore director is l.. Berger.
The Buffalo district District A.
has not yet developed a propaganda
department and the work is so far
handled by the organizer.
Propaganda for Heavy Industry
District.
The Chicago and Illinois district
81 D. E. Early is the director. He,
however, is soon to be taken out of
the Pittsburgh and Western Pennsyl-
vania region to organize classes as
a circuit teacher. The Cleveland dis
: trict District g. has an active prop
uganda department and is developing
a city school for the city of Cleve-
land and planning to develop schools
in some of the other cities of the dis
trict.
In the Detroit and Michigan dis
trict District y A. Gerlach is in
charge and is assisted by the follow
ing city directors: In Detroit, T,
Gerlach; in Grand Rapids, J. Ziegler;
in Flint, T. Andonoff; in Pontiac, D.
Bachoff; in Muskegon, N. Razovich;
in Saginaw, j. Zittel. Detroit has a
school offering nine courses.
The Chicago and Illinois district
District 81 is directed by Comrade
Morris Chilovsky; the city of Chi
cago by M. Baumstein; Southern ILL
nois by Carl Mikalachik; and the city
of Milwaukee by B. Schklar. Chicago
is planning to enlarge it's Workers
School.
West and Northwest in Big System
Upper Michigan District 81 has
as agitprop director Molly fallen
tire; the city of st. Paul is directed
by M. Pobersky.
The director of district 10 (Which
covers big part of the farther mid
die west) is j. Garfin, of Kansas
City; Jennie Rovinsky directs the
work in Or,abo
In the far northwest, the only con-
nection so far established by the ma
tional agitprop department is Archie
Young, of Mt. Vernon, where he is
active in directing the campaign of
the Party among the farmers of the
state of Washington. The district as
a whole has so far failed to build up
a propaganda apparatus, or, at any
rate, establish connections with the
national agitprop department.
The California district District
49, has selected two city directors
W. Schneiderman, of Los Angeles
and Dick Ettlinger, of Sar Francisco
Ettlinper is the district diractor