December 13th, 1919.
THE COMMUNIST Page Eigtht Communist Propaganda in Russia Resolution Adopted by the 8th Convention Soviet authorities and the local population EARING in mind the necessity of B in the organization or a large system of comof the Communist Party.
firm and lasting alliance between the munity centers People Houses. ior proletariat and the poorest peasants and which purpose the Soviet estates are to be peasants of medium means, also bearing in ing the work of the regiments vi industrial used first of all. The community centers anind the political darkness, the general ig workers, who are under the direction of the must be peasants clubs for resting for sene norance, and the low standard of agricul All Russian Soviet of Professional Unions.
sible amusements, and broad enlightenment, tural knowledge in the villages, which are For the illiterate, periodical readings must serious obstacles and which condemn the be arranged in the schools, on the premises general as well as Communist.
The Communist Party, permitting and poorest peasantry and the peasantry of meof the volost (county) Sovict of Deputies, in dium means to poverty and stagnation. the reading huts, etc. for which purpose the encouraging the utilisation of the knowledge the Communist Party is compelled to pay departments of pulslic education, with the of the specialists and other educated persons most serious attention to the matter of eduassistance of the local party organisations for conducting courses and for aiding in cation in the villages in the broadest sense create special circles of readers, including conducting Communist centers must take of the word.
the local teaching staff. witly obligatory care at the same time that the clements For the purpose of educational activities readings by the literate clements. The subhostile to the Soviet power should not make in the villages the following elements must jects of the readings should be the decrees 115c of the apparatus oi general education Co operate: and administrative orders of the Soviets, to and should not introduce in the form of literature science and art any counter revolu. Communist propaganda: gether with specially prepared popular interpretations sont out by the centres (party tionary, or anti social tendencies, and should General education: or Soviet Centre. also stories for readers.
not thereby paralyze the efforts of Con3. Igricultural education.
which are being constantly revised. It munist propaganda. Political propaganda in the villages would be advisable to accompany such readmust be carried on among the literate peas ing with illustrations by way of motion The peasants icel keenly the need of aunts as well as among the illiterate.
pictures or stereopticon slides; also with a agricultural education.
The propaganda among the literate must reading oi fiction, as well as concerts for The Soviet estates, as well as the farm consist first of all in the distribution of the purpose of attracting large audiences. schools. must become the light houses of popular literature and newspapers of a Com2. General cducation within school and agricultural education. Agricultural instimanist character, specially prepared for this outside of school (including artistic educatutions, organized and maintained by the Jurpose Such literature must be sold at sery low prices in schools, reading huts, and tion: theatres, concerts, motion pictures. People Commissariat of Education, must exhibitions, etc. endeavoring not only to be in closest contact with the agricultural inin all Soviet stores.
It is necessary to strive for the organisa dark villages, but primarily to aid in the shed the light of a varied knowledge on the stitutions of the People Commissariat of Agriculture.
tion of reading rooms in every school with creation of sci consciousness and of a clear There must not be any schools, colleges, a political department, and that such reading conception of things must be closely c011 or any other cducational organizations in the Toom: should be in every village People nected with the Communist propaganda. villages which do not endeavor (in acHouse and in places where there are not There are not any forms of science and art cordance with the principle of combining such People Houses popular political which are not connected with the great ideas studies with productive labor) to function at books must be an essential part of every of Communism and with the various tasks the same time as an organization of a model reading hut.
of creating Communist economy.
husbandry complete or in part.
courses for children, and especially Is far as thic schools are concerned the Agricultural education must be carried sor adults the academic as well as the special (agricultural, ior instance) 1st inquestion of revising them on principles of in such a way as to combine this with Com clude. 1) popular history of culture from a continuity and labor has been decided. It munist ideas and it should serve as a pillar scientific Socialist point of view and with a is necessary to pay special attention to all to the general effort of the party to reforms of out of school education for adults.
specially prepared part devoted to Russian construct private establishments into one The party must by all means assist the organized Socialist institution.
history and to the history of the Great Russian Revolution. 2) the interpretation of the Soviet constitution. For both of these courses proper text books are to be prepared immediately From Socialist News, Cleveland Communist less than Chicken Killers! Yes, Chicken The teachers are obliged to look upon Paper.
Killers.
themselves as upon agents not only of a Lest anyone gain the impression that this general but also of a Communist education. THURSDAY morning papers reported is some new and more dangerous vari. ty of In this respect they must be subjected to the control of their inmediate heads, as well Lyceum by Chief of Police Smith, Inspector that group whose various names have been Grauel, Bliss Morton, several captains, some catalogued above, let us hasten to add that as of the local party organizations.
lieutenant detectives, a score of policemen it is a custom among orthodox Jews. have Moving picture houses, theatres, concerts, and more than fifty members of the Loyal their chickens killed by certain special perexhibitions, etc. inasmuch as they will reach American League, otherwise known as the the villages (and all cifort are to be exerted imitation Black Hundred, which has sons who possess some peculiar virtue for its the task. These men are known as Shochfor this purpose. must be utilised for Com special object to cstablish czarism in Ame tims They have been receiving for their munist propaganda directly, e. through rica.
werk of slaughtering fowl the sue of five the upkeep of these and also by way of comWith such an army and under the leadercents each. This they claimed was too little bining these with lectures and meetings.
ship of Chief of Police Smith himself, to say and so they proceeded to organize a union Departments of public education provin nothing of the redoubtable McEwen who for the purpose of increasing the price of cial and county with the assistance and un shines as the leader of the Black Hundred, killing chickens to ten cents. The union der the control of the local party organi the game bagged should have been big inwas in session at the Socialist Labor Lvzations, must organize collegius of pro deed.
ceum when the army above enumerated despagandists who are partly permanent, The newspapers reported that about cended upon that establishment Conseattached to their locality, and partly travel seventy men had been arrested and of course quently the bag of chicken killers.
ing, e. such as will cover a more or less the suggestion was that they were bomb wide section.
This raid which besides the chicken kilthrowers. reds. Bolsheviki aud Com lers bagged the conservative members of In the big city centres it is necessary that monists. It is true that about that many the Jewish Arbeiter Ring has given some the party organizations should form col men were loaded into the police patrols and workingmen unconnected with the radical legiums of propagandist instructors (in ac automobiles which the army brought with movement some taste of police methods in cordance with the local organs of the Com them. But, remarkable as it may seem, in Cleveland at the present time. These men nissariat of Education. who would carry place of bagging bomb throwers. reds. got their portion of brutal handling. They a travelling propaganda directly among Bolsheviki and Communists, Chief Smith, have learned that workingmen can be e masses, and also instruct the less ex Inspector Grauci, Bliss Morton, Ewen, thrown in jail for no other reason than that rienced comrades in the localities.
In this connection the convention calls men and very Loyal Americans carries with the captains, lieutenants, detectives, patrol they are engaged in a peaceable meeting.
ecial attention to the possibility of utilis them to the police station nothing more or keep it up. They are doing well.
Let the police and the Loyal American They Got the Chicken Killers!