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128 THE WORKERS COUNCIL OCTOBER 15, 1921 WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Launch the National Campaign Soviet Anniversary Edition of the Workers Council AN ORGAN FOR THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL (10 per Copy) New York, November 15, 1921. per Year)
Vol.
No. O the strains of The International, comrades Local Rockford, Ill. of the Socialist Party, like many representing a host of organizations joined in other locals, are coming over bodily to the Workers Council. The secretary, Comrade. Reesberg, has a launching the national organization campaign bunch of dues stamps that he is, putting to good use.
of the Workers Council of the United States at a Hardly a state in the nation is lacking among the numerDinner Meeting held Saturday night, Oct. 8, at the Gus requests that are coming in for information.
New York Labor Tmple.
First Membership Card Issued.
The spirit of this historic gathering was voiced in The first membership card was written for Comrade Peter Larsen, of New Jersey, aged 70 years. This would short addresses by those who have been identified refute the statement of the P, conservatives who claim with the struggle for the Third International within th: only the young are radical. Comrade Larsen has been the Socialist Party during the past two years.
in the Socialist movement for 45 years. He wants to carry Many Speakers for Different Organizations a really red card and so joins the Workers Council. He feels that all the could give him is a yellow carg.
The exception was Ludwig Lore, editor of the New Now that the national organization campaign has been York Volkszeitung, the German daily, who left the launched in New York City, the comrades in the nation Socialist Party two years ago and helped organize the metropolis will get on the job and build up their organizaCommunist Labor Party.
tion. The first group was organized in the Brownsville District of Brooklyn, with Julius Wattman as chairman.
Steven Bircher, of Newark, was toastmaster. The One of the first activities of this group will be the holding other speakers, in addition to Lore, were Louis Engdahl, of several mass meetings.
national secretary of the Workers Council; Benjamin This is the work that must go forward everywhere. As Glassberg, ousted instructor from the Rand School; shown in our last issue, the dues paying membership of the Salutsky, of the Jewish Socialist Federation; Rose Weiss, Socialist Party had dropped to 5, 781 for the month of July.
one of the legal representatives in this country of Soviet Ten years ago the had this number of locals and Russia; Alexander Trachtenberg, chairman of the Finance branches scattered through every state in the nation.
Committee of the Workers Council; Isadore Cohen, New Jersey organizer of the Independent Young People Socialist League, and John Di Gregoria, of the Italian SoJOIN NOW!
cialist Federation.
Trachtenberg appeal for funds resulted in raising a considerable amount for organization purposes, while the Now is the tim to joi the WORKERS COUNCIL pledges made will bring in a goodly sum each month.
and get into the struggle it is making to unite all the Engdahl read messages sent in from all sections of the elements that have seceded or been expelled from the country supporting the position and purposes of the WorkSocialist Party during the last two years.
ers Council, and wishing it every success in its efforts.
We also want all additional workers who have been Read Manifesto on Another Page.
awakened to the necessity of a real working class political The struggle of the immediate future, as clearly expressed organization. Organize a group in your town.
at this gathering, is set down in concrete form in the The Workers Council of the United States is a temmanifesto that appears on another page. Every reader porary organization. It is planning to call a national conshould study this declaration carefully.
ference in the near future, to help build nationally along Since the last issue of the Workers Council went to the lines laid down in the manifesto on the inside two press, carrying the withdrawal statement of the Committee for the Third International, the work of uniting the really pages.
revolutionary elements in the American working class has Read this manifesto for yourself and decide whether it been proceeding rapidly.
states your stand. If it does then fill out the application Secretary Engdahl appeared before the executive comblank below and mail it to the WORKERS COUNCIL, mittees of both the Jewish Socialist Federation and the 80 11th St. New York City. The initiation fee is 25c. Workers Educational Society (German. Both these comthe dues 50c. per month. Here it is: mittees discussed the situation thoroughly and frankly and then voted unanimously to co operate with the Workers Council in its activities.
Work of Re building Is Successful. Application for Membership in the Workers Council One result of this co operation has been the sending out OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA of letters and organization material over all the country to all the secretaries of the Jewish branches, urging united action to restore the English speaking organizations as recognize the class struggle between the working class groups of the Workers Council. This work is meeting with and the capitalist class. favor the abolition of this sysexcellent results.
tem of class division of society. realize the necessity for It may be mentioned in passing that the Jewish Federa the working class organizing independently, as a class, tion has launched a campaign to raise 100, 000 to start a both politically and economically, to lead in the struggle daily paper. In the meantime, its weekly Official organ, for the acquisition of all power for the workers. This the New World, has been changed to an eight page, news.
final aim, the abolition of all classes, will be achieved by paper size publication, and is meeting with an ovation and the working class obtaining for such limited time as may increased circulation everywhere.
be necessary all the power in the state and doing away.
The Volkszeitung, the German daily, is proving a great with all economic incquality at present covered by the aid in securing publicity in many sections of the country. system of would be political democracy and the capitalist This is also true of its weekly edition, the Vorwärts.
state. Communism, the complete abolition of any and all Push Organization Activities.
exploitation and the inauguration of a free, human society Application cards, membership cards, dues stamps and of socially equal men and women, is the final aim of the certificates of affiliation for the Workers Council are now workers rule. For the purpose of aiding in the struggle ready, and there is no reason for failing to push organiza toward this goal, apply for membership in the WORKtion activities everywhere. The first certificate of affilia ERS COUNCIL and agree to be guided by its Constition, temporary until the holding of the national confer tution, Declaration of Principles and Program.
ence, went to the Chicago organization, of which George Struve, 832 Newport Ave. is the secretary Hyman Schneid, president of Local 39, Amalgamated Clothing Signature Workers of America, with 12, 000 members, is treasurer.
The organization is growing rapidly.
Address The Workers of the World Unite in Sending Their Fraternal Greetings to Their Victorious Russian Comrades on This, the Fourth Anniversary of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, November 7th, 1921.