The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1928, Page 6

but to the avaricious and bloody ravager of small nations—the 7? United States government. \ h Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc, ‘\ National City Bank and the United States sugar trust. | ‘unions in an anti-labor campaign calculated to render helpless THE DAILY WORKER Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York*only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. Phone, Orchard 1680 | Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. i -ROBERT MINOR ... WM. F. DUNNE “mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. 21 Editor Assistant Editor... Entered as second-cla: Setting the Stage at Havana Every precaution is being taken by the United States im- perialists and their bought and paid for agents in Central and erica to anticipate and, if possible, prevent any criticism latory role of the Mellon-Coolidge-Kellogg government. at Havana is being carefully set, the puppets are in| place ready to perform for the Wall Street manipulators of the show. The Cuban government of President Machado, so trained | in all the arts of servility that it responds automatically to the | interests of the American exploiters of the Cuban people, is using | its immigration department to bar from the conference the real representatives of the peoples that groan under the frightful despotism of the yankee invaders. It has prevented from landing at Santiago, Dr. Pierre Hundecourt and Dr. Dates Bellegaree, | leader®of the Haitian independence movement, because the Cool- | idge government cannot and will not dare attempt to answer for its ravaging of that country and keeping in power, against the | will of the population, the Borno government, a servant of the | As far as the Nicaraguan representatives of the anti-im- perialist movement are concerned they would be shot on sight by American marines. Whether the so-called liberal candidate for president of Nicaragua, Moncada, a tool of American imperialism, | will be present is not known at present. It is probable that he or a representative of his will be there to “crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.” His job will be to continue his crawling beforé the despot and assure the world that the presence of the marines as gun-men of imperialism is beneficial to those who are being slaughtered and to slander San- | dino and the others who are fighting for independence. The hired | renegade will try to besmirch all those who have not become | renegades in behalf of his imperialist masters. That the fake Nicaraguan liberal, Moncada, and the marion- ette president of Cuba, Machado, are not the only agents of Wall Street who are scheduled to present a grovelling exhibition at Havana is indicated by an inspired story by Richard V. Oulahan in the New York Times to the effect that “the responsible rep- resentatives of most of the governments which will participate in the conference have determined that nothing savoring of an- tagonism to the United States shall interfere with the harmonious outcome of the gathering of delegates from the twenty-one Amer- ican republics.” The conception of responsibility here involved concerns responsibility not to the people of the southern republics, It is indicated in the news that Gostavo Guerrero, minister of foreign affairs of Salvador and the head of that country’s dele- gation to the Pan-American Conference, will make a proposal to organize a Pan-American League wherein the United States would’ have'no greater powers than that of any other country. Guerrero also demands abolition of the policy of holding the conference in secrecy so that “public opinion may be correctly formed regarding responsibility for wrong decisions.” Heretofore the work of this body, an adjunct of United States imperialism, has been done in secrecy by the simple device of referring all important questions to committees; the reports of such committees being approved by the conference with no opportunity publicly to debate their merits. The United States viciously resents open discussions be- cause it dare not permit the enormity of its crimes and the malignancy of new conspiracie’S on foot against all of Central and South American becoming general knowledge. While the proposal of the Salvadorean delegation indicates opposition to American imperialism, it is insufficient so long as the proposal for a union of the countries to the south includes the United States. The only effective form of organization to com- bat imperialism is not one that includes the imperialist power. Such an organization should not be organized for joint action with the United States, but a union of republics in an anti-im- perialist bloc against the United States. If the governments of the southern republics will not engage in the creation of this his- torically necessary weapon of defense the masses of workers and peasants of those republics should replace them with gov- ernments that will fight against the despoiling of their land and the enslavement of their populations. In such a drive they will have the support of hundreds of thousands of American workers and farmers who are being at- tacked by the imperialist government and its agents in the labor opposition at home so that ever more ambitious ventures against weaker peoples may be pursued. While an anti-imperialist bloc will incur the enmity of the United States government it will have the unstinted and determined support of the advanced section of the American masses. Aid the Miners Who Are Fighting For Us The attack on the coal miners grows fiercer. Even in districts like the anthracite where there is “peace” under an arbitration agreement the coal barons and their agents in the union have not stopped the offensive for a moment. In this district the miners are being defrauded of their wages, the local unions are infested with tools of the operators in official positions, the machinery for putting an open wagecut into effect is being set up. In Pennsylvania and Ohio the coal barons are extending their strikebreaking army. More gunmen are sworn in as deputies, evictions are now an every day occurrence, the courts legalizing all atrocities perpetrated on the miners and their families. In the southern Colorado coal fields, the Rockefeller interests and their state and county officials have staged a drive recently that resembles the Centralia conspiracy in many respects. Strik- ing miners are shot down like beasts. Every thug who can pull a trigger is being mobilized in the sacred name of Rockefeller. In the face of a capitalist combination whose general staff is in Wall Street, whose field marshals are in the White House and whose armies are posted throughout the coal fields, the miners are fighting one of the most heroic struggles in labor history. Not a day passes but brings stories of individual and col- lective heroism in the coal fields, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928 “TREASURE ISLAND” At Havana, Cuba, today, the imperialist pirates of Wall Street plan the bloody conquest of the Spanish Main. The chief of pirate captains—now as 200 years ago goes by the name of Morgan. They Goto“Get” Sandino By WM. PICKENS. The U. S. has been boasting all over the front pages of daily papers about the number of “direct hits” which the bombs of its war planes were mak- ing on Sandino’s men, And then, just as soon as Sandino’s soldiers (or “bandits” a la New York Times) made one “direct hit” on a few of our marines, yell like hell-fire and send off a great force of armed boats and men to seek out and destroy those infernal devils who have no re- spect for the lives of soldiers who had been sent there on a harmless mis- sion to kill Nicaraguans, especially of the Sandino crowd. | makes might,” simply ought to have |been put in the insane asylum, just like the fellow who put his coat on |backwards. For it is plain that might |makes right! See how much more ‘of a crime it is for the weak to kill |soldiers of the mighty than for, the |mighty to kill soldiers of the weak. Sandino is in his own country and would doubtless behave himself there | so far as the U. S. is concerned, if she would let him alone. U. S. soldiers, on the other hand, are thousands of miles away from home, hunting San- dino, as if he were “big game.” Lindbergh was just about to make a good impression for U. S. in Latin- America, when here comes the mili- tary outfit and spoils it all. ae “Lenin Memorial and Ruthenberg Memorial Membership and Daily Worker Drive 5,000 New Members, 10,000 New Readers | 'HE Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has decided that the entire Party shall devote itself to a campaign to increase the Party membership and the circulation of The DAILY WORKER beginning with time of the Lenin Memorial demonstration, Jan- uary 22, and extending to the time of the Ruthenberg Memorial, March 2. Thus there will be an extensive and intensive drive thruout the period from January 22 until March 2. Our aim in this drive is: 1. To secure five thousand new members for our Party. 2. To secure ten thousand new readers for The DAILY WORKER. 3. To raise the ideological level. 4. To activize the Party member- ship. Active Work the Basis. 'HIS drive is not to be made as an abstract campaign for new mem- bers and new readers, but is to be based on and result from the follow- ing activities of our Party: 1. Campaign. for Miners’ Relief and to save the miners’ union, 2. Fight against the injunction. 3. To fight for the protection of the foreign born. 4, Fight against unemployment. 5. Struggle against war and for the defense and recognition of the Soviet Union. 6. For a Labor Party or at least a united labor ticket in the 1928 election campaign. This drive can only be successful to the extent that our Party will par- ticipate in the above activities an make conscious efforts to gain or- ganizational results from these ac- tivities. Mobilization for the Drive ISTRICT Executive Committees must arrange for section member- ship meetings in the larger cities and city membership meetings in the smaller cities. The membership meet- ings are to discuss ways and means of how to conduct this drive, for dis- tribution of literature, application cards and other material for the drive that should be passed down into the hands of every member of the shop and street nuclei. At these mobliza- tion meetings the representative of the District Executive Committee should make clear the aims of the drive, the method to be used, etc. Appoint Drive Directors. Every Party committee from the districts down’ to the various nuclei executives is to have a special com- rade appointed as director of this drive. These directors may in the higher committees organize a sub- committee to aid them in this work. Special meetings of functionaries should be held for the purpose of mobilizing all the leading comrades in the drive. Meetings of trade union fraction secretaries should be ‘held to mobilize for the drive in the unions. The language fraction secretaries should be called together and their part explained to them in this drive. Each district and city shall work out its activity for the period of these six weeks during which the drive will last, so as to suit the local situa- tion with special appeals concentrated in different industries and territorial divisions. The report by the directors of the drive shall be on the order of business of every meeting of the district com- mittees, city and section committees, ete. The drive should utilize the follow- ing means in its course: 1, Regular shop recruiting and securing of readers in the shops and open educational meetings of shop nuclei. 2, Section and city mass meet- ings arranged on the various issues in the locality and on the Party campaigns enumerated above. At these meetings special efforts to re- cruit new members and to secure readers for ythe DAILY WORKER. 3. Conference of DAILY WORKER readers and readers of all other langnage papers to be con- ducted by the language bureaus. 4. Special drive at the Lenin Memorial and Ruthenberg Memorial is only the official leaders of the American Federation of Labor and the United Mine Workers who have offered to surrender to the coal barons. Never before in this country has there been such contrast between cowardice and corruption on the part of the official lead- ership and unfaltering courage and determination on the part of the rank and file. The unconquerable spirit of the working clas&is to be seen in these great struggles—the guarantee that a militant labor movement will be built is already written in the coal fields by men and women, yes, and children, whose will to struggle against op- pression puts to shame the Greens, Wolls and Lewises. No worker who values the right to organize and who sees in war on the coal miners the opening of a more vicious drive against the living standards of the whole working class, will fail to support the miners. Food, money and clothing is the immedi- ate need. Half-starved, the miners and their families are fight- ing the battle of the whole labor movement. They must be fed, clothed and sheltered. hose who are picked from their ranks for special persecution must be defended. The worker who does not answer the appeal of the striking miners to the best of his ability is not doing his duty to his class, The capitalists and their bt pia depend upon inertia and lack of interest on our part to aid them in crushing the union in all the coal fields and leaving them free to extend the drive to other sections of industry. ‘ Show the enemies of our class that we are on the job, that we understand that the issue is one of life apa death for the labor movement, that we are ready to repel all attacks on our organiza- ds of the masses. meetings that mark the opening and closing of the drive. 5. Recruiting at all open forums, mass meetings, and other affairs arranged by the Party or- ganization or sympathetic organi- zations. 6. Special efforts to recruit Party members from sympathetic organizations and from such or- ganizations as TUEL, ILD, Wom- en’s Councils, etc. 7. Special recruiting by street nuclei in their neighborhood, can- vassing for readers. 8. Utilization of all lists: of readers of Party papers in the drive, 9. All leaflets distributed must have appeal for readers for Daily and membership, giving address of Party headquarters. 10. Special appeal in all shop papers for members and readers for The DAILY WORKER. ll. Special local editions of The DAILY WORKER to be followed up for regular readers and recruiting for the Party. The drive shall utilize and em- phasize special appeals to: a. Negro workers. b. Women workers. ec. An especially worked out ap- peal to attract native American ele- ments to the Party. * d. Efforts to secure young work- ers to join the Young Workers’ League under the general slogan: “A League Unit Wherever There Is a Party Unit.” e. The building up of the chil- dren’s movement — The Young Pioneers. The committees and departments in charge of these activities are to work out material and supervise the special appeals in each case and see that they are utilized thruout the drive. Methods of Recruiting. ETHODS of recruiting shall be as follows: 1. Every member shall at all times carry with him application cards. 2. Every member should at all times carry with him one or more copies of the Ruthenberg pamphiet, “The Party, What It Stands For, and Why Workers Should Join.” 3. Recruiting must not be ap- proached in an abstract manner. As x rule when a comrade tries to re- cruit new members he thinks of the whole working class—at least, of his enure union or shop, with the result that he embraces the whole working class and succeeds in getting ncne inte the Party. Comrades must learn to approach this question in a con- crete manner. Namely, the comrades in the fac- tories, unions, fraternal organizatious must make a list of the various sym- pathizers to be approached for mem- bership. Some are not yet ready for mem- bership and should be approached only with literature and for subscripticns to The DAILY WORKER. Those that are ready for member- ship should be divided up among the comrades in such a manner that those that have the best possible contacts with ceriain sympathizers shall be as- signed to go after these sympathizers. Sympathizers and those who are ready to join the Party can be ee out thru the selling of our literature. pamphlets, discussions in the fac- tories on current questions of in- terest to the workers, etc. Every Party member is to concentrate on one or more individuals, learning al! about his personal life, his prejudices, his illusions, so that he can overcomc these prejudices and illusions and know what prevents the said worker ; 1 4 from joining the Party and try to | eekietscte Ly work of the nuclei overcome it. i moe Ls pe los: ee ; 3 e first three weeks of the How fo [Regain Old Members That drive shall be utilized by the nuclei ropped Out During the for the discussion of the life and Party Reorganization work of Lenin. [ANY members who dropped out| Special discussions on the life and ‘during the reorganization can be work of Lenin should be arranged by 2 the nuclei. taken back into the Party. These Non-Party members should be in- comrades dropped out because of vited to these meetings 4nd these language difficulties or because they meetings shall be utilized to spread’ could not understand the reorganiza- the ideas of Leninism among our tion and other reasons. Party and among workers that can be attracted to these open meetings They can best be gotten back thru the, language fractions and trade of the nuclei. union fractions because most of them At these meetings suitable litera- ture shall be sold and every effort belong to clubs together with other Party members and in the various made to draw the sympathizers into the Party. 3 2. The remaining three weeks shall trade union groups. Our language be utilized for open educational meet- fractions and trade union fractions ings to discuss the life and work of must pay particular attention to the Comrade Ruthenberg, seaming tas Sites =f role in the American labor movement drawing in of these members who dropped out by personal visits, thru personal conversation, and _ other methods to be worked out. and the American Communist Party. Special literature suitable to these meetings shall be sold and here too every effort should be made to draw @the sympathizers into the Party. Literature For the Drive 1. LENIN MEMORIAL “Lenin,” By Yaroslowsky. “Lenin.” By Lozovsky. And the following pamphlets by Lenin: 1, State and Revolution. 2. Imperialism. 3. The Infantile Sickness of Left Communism. 2. RUTHENBERG Ruthenberg—His Life and Work (Now in preparation). “The Workers Communist Party, What It Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” By C, E, Ruthenberg. 3. RUSSIAN RECOGNITION AND DEFENSE CAMPAIGN The Tenth Year—J. Louis Engdahl. Questions and Answers to American Trade Unionists.—Stalin. Report of First American Trade Union Delegation. Report of First Rank and File Labor Delegation. Pamphlet on Russian Opposition—Bertram D. Wolfe (now in preparation). ‘ a 4. LABOR PARTY . Labor Party—Jay Lovestone (now in preparation) Coolidge Program—Jay Lovestone. The Government Strikebreaker—Jay Lovestone. Al Smith—Wm. Weinstone (now in preparation). Wrecking the Labor Banks—Wm. Z. Foster. _ Misleaders of Labor—Wm. Z. Foster. 8 ‘ 5. CHINA. Civil War in Nationalist China—Earl Browder. China and American Imperialist Policy—Earl Browder, Awakening of China—Jas H. Dolsen. China—A Survey—By Seng Sin Fu. China In Revolt. This does not mean that this is the®¢—W——_____ only literature that should be sold.,™asses for the coming struggle, it is Other literature shall be sold and|"ecessary for us to extend our base shall be at the disposal for all meet-|2Nd our influence. The present drive ings, both of the nuclei, section mass |t® increase our membership by five meetings, and other meetings for the |thousand and to gain ten thousand workers. However, these are the main |N¢w readers for our DAILY WORKER. pamphlets related to campaigns of the }!5 therefore an immediate necessary Party and should .be concentrated Step in this direction so that our | The poor “simp” who wrote: “Right . tpon. The Ruthenberg and Lenin Stamp Agen Party member who will se- cure a new member or a subscrip- tion to The DAILY WORKER, or both, will receive a specially designed stamp of Lenin and Ruthenberg to be pasted in his membership card. This will serve as a permanent record of the activity of the member for the Yonin-Ruthenberg drive. Ws the present crisis in the labor movement, destroy the very trade unions of this country, ‘with the unemployment that is becoming more acute, with the vnked imperialism that is spreading out to every corner of the earth—our ar'y has a great task to perform. Our Party is the only force in the Jabor movement today that defen: *he jnterest of the workers—that leads the way. Tn order that our Party may be ‘able to carry out its task, that our Party may be able to mobilize the with the drive to} Party may be able to mobilize layger masses in the present struggle, Comrades, let us honor the memory of our great teacher and leader, Lenin, by carrying forward his work and spreading the ideas of Leninism, by gaining new recruits to the Party of Lenin in America, Let us honor the memory of Ruthenberg by our untiring efforts in the struggle of the American nie tind class and by extending the influence of our, cen’ DAILY WORKER. Sia lig: Let us gain five thousand new mem- bers in this drive, Let us make every effort to secure ten thousand new readers to the DAILY WORKER in this drive and we will go a long way towards laying ‘he foundation for a real, fighting mass Communist Party in the U. 8. ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. ' maft. ‘ mi