The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, 'W YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1929 >ARTY PRE-CONVENTION Page Three DISCUSSION SECTION | The incidents mewtioned in this] were brought into the Party, he and article are all dirgctly chargeable his group of white chauvinists would By A. BUSCH. Article 2. jthey say that “the Negro comrades are new in the Party and must he .t a general membership meeting the Loa Angeles Sub-District, arade Emanuel Levin, former trict Organizer of District Thir- | a, made a direct charge against 2e Negro comrades of the district t they were guilty of “black chau- ism.” A more stupid statement ld not have been made by Cole ase or Vardaman on the floor of United States senate or in any tion of the Nordic south. verson wholly unacquainted with nmunism would not dare express mselves in such a manner, rauch 3 an official representative of the rkers (Communist) Party. \t the sessions of the Sixth World gress of the Communist Inter- ional, at Moscow last year, the m “white chauvinism” was adopt- by various delegates tc cxpress, one phrase, the various forms of e prejudice that exist in the nmunist Party of Am 2, And » many such phrases of foreign gin, it was seized upon and used hout an understanding of its real nification. But it remained for trict Thirteen to place its own erpretation upon the use and ap- ration of the term. n District Thirteen, white chau- ism has developed to an amazing ent. But the mere mention of the m to the more active disciples of Even} held in line.” Or, like the southener their places.” Those who have lived in sections the United States where race prejudice is especially strong, know all too well that prejudice can be expressed in a thousand different ways on the surface, but beneath the surface, matters can be very bad indeed. So with white chauvinism, the surface may appear calm out in | District Thirteen, but beneath the surface, conditions are rotten to the core. | The greatest expression of white \chauvinism in District Thirteen has its source from the top—from the |former District Organizer, Comrade |Lovin, who perhaps stands out as |the greatest active propagandist of white chauvinism in the entire dis- | trict. However, he is not the only Party member who has openly sown |his colors as a white chauvinist in jthe district. Comrades Glickson, | Manus and Pilgrim of San Francisco and Nat Prager of Los Angeles are some of the outstanding white chau- vinists in the ranks of the Opposi- tion, Beginning with Comrade Levin: when I first met him several years ago, he suggested that I get 8 group lof Negroes together and bring them j into the old socialist party. These lor recent District Organizer, Eman-| Negroes would meet at a separate Levin, had the same effect that rag would have upon an en- sed bull in an arena. Like the ing-class southerner who is guilty mistreating the Negro, the expon- js of white chauvinism resent the irge and, when pressed too closely, |meeting hall, according to Levin. Of course I would have nothing to |do with the reactionary anti-revolu- tionary, Jim-Crow proposal, and nothing came of the matter. My |next meeting was several years later, and I found him the same uld say, they must be “kept ia| inchanged, only he used different tactics. | In District Thirteen, the most no- ticeable evidence of white chauvin-| ism is the absence of a single Negro | comrade on the District Executive | Committee despite the fact that in| the district there were two Negro| comrades who had been identified with the radical movement for sev- | eral years—one of them an old | ;Party member. Comrades Davidson | and John Owens were both living in| important Negro centers and use could be made of their experience and training. Comrade Owens in par- ticular was then living within ninety miles of Los Angeles, where more }than seventy-five thousand Negroes lreside—the largest Negro group west of Chicago. This comrade was al- lowed to rot, so to speak, whiie vari- ous white comrades were trying to organize Negroes into the Party, which because of the wrong attitude of the District leadership was} nothing more than a waste of time} and effort. | During the political campaign last summer, no use was made of Com- rade Owens. Had the D. O. made use} of Owens as the Party speaker, at the sessions of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of | Colored Peoples’ Convention, which was held at Los Angeles on the 21st | of last June, there is every reason} to believe that the signatures for white chauvinist. This time he was getting on the *hallot would have!special information was called to his more. diplomatic, but nevertheless|been much larger than was actually jattention. An outline for a leaflet obtained. This matter was called to the at- tention of a D. E. C. member who in turn transmitted it to the Di trict Organizer. Nothing came of it. The seven thousand Negro delegates | to the convention, and most of them | were residents of the state, returned to their homes without knowing of | the existence of the Workers (Com-| munist) Party or of the difficulties under which the Party had to work in order to be placed on the ballot. | They voted in the primary election and were thus disqualified to sign cur petition. Comrade Owens would | have carried the day had he attend-| ed the convention, because the Ne-| groes were not very cordial to the} various capitalist representatives who were proferring patronage, At the Party Convention last Au-| gust, the Negro comrades were made much of and were patronized and that was all. No Negro com- rade was placed on the Political Com- | mittee to advise on Negro work.) However, the various comrades who | were on the special committee gave | the Negro comrades all kinds of or-| ders about getting out and bringing | Negroes in, ete., it was plainly in-| timated that they were to go and do what they were told to do and not ask questions. No effort was made | on the part of the District Organ-| izer to prepare anything special for | the Negro voters of the California district, although the necessity for The first article of this series, ablished in the “Daily” the day efore yesterday, gave a sum- ary of the number of shop pap- ’s since the last convention, the idustries they are in, and dis- isses colonization, organizational ‘sults, and departmental coordi-" ation, * By GERTRUDE HAESSLER. At the time of the last conven- n, shop paper work was still in th an embryonic state and thus orientated on the shop itself, it is had not yet progressed to + point of emphasizing sufficient- the political and revolutionary e of the class struggle. At the ae of this convention, consider- e progress, though still insuffici- ;, has been made in this respect. e increase in proportion of poli- al material to the rest of the per has brought about a better lance. But there still are some crass amples of non-political orientation the papers, and in many places zht errors occur. These papers a’t seem to realize that the shop per is the organ of the Com- mist Party in the shop and must oress the revolutionary aims of » Party, the class struggle and » political campaigns of the Party, addition to championing the ‘uggle in the shop and advocat- + immediate solutions. Our shop pers must be used to broaden the * . rizon and the class outlook of the| irkers. Too Few Political Articles. Too little space is given political ticles, for example, in the Dodge orker, Distrist 1, and Northwest- 1 Shop News, District 6, some | District 7, January 10, did very well in running items on Nicaragua, but | missed good opportunities to teach | the workers the nature of imperial- j ism. Articles on company profits too | Seldom lead to the conclusion of the |necessity of the overthrow of the | capitalist system, of an economic | explanation of who produces profits jand how. The average worker |draws no conclusions of his own simply by reading of his company’s profits. The Harvester Worker, District 8, is guilty of this neglect in two issues, IJ-10 and III-5-6. In |the Packard Worker, District 7, I-12, | the article on company profits leads | to trade union conclusions. | Workingclass Calendar and Shop. Often we find that notices are inserted into papers of mass meet- lings to be held, but the occasion |which gives rise to the meeting is not deemed important enough for the insertion of an article into the paper on the subject in question. This has occurred in connection with Lenin Memorial Meetings (Dodge Worker II-6), May Day (North- western Shop News I-2, Packing | (Continued from Page One) |see a true, genuine paper being | snowed under and leaving the work- fers at the mercy of the socialist |party and the A, F. of L. fakers.” | Again, from that state 3,000 miles away: EMERGENCY FUND ] iwhose issues carry not a political | House Worker, April and May, Steel Worker II-6), Liebknecht Memorial (Ford Worker II-15), Ruthenberg Memorial (Ford Worker, March 1928), Russian Anniversary (Hat- tie Carnegie, October, 1928, Head- light, No. 2.) The only paper to write anything at all on Ruthenberg is the Mascot, District 2, 1-2. It uses the occasion to explain what the Party stands for by explaining what Ruthenberg stood for. There is need to estab- lish our leaders as traditions in our own working class. It is not done nearly enough in our Party, Cn Agitation for Soviet Russia. Some papers did not even men- tion the Russian Anniversary to the extent of printing notices of meet- ings. The Harvester Worker, Dis- trict 8, giving an excellent article on the anniversary, II-10, failed to link up Soviet Russia with shop articles, although, for instance, there ‘was a campaign on in the shop at the time for vacations with pay. Many times the comrades are anxious enough to talk about the U.S. S. R., but references are made without explanations of the kind of tion at meeting, $6.50 .... 16.50 Sent in by A. Lehto, Nor- wood, Mass.—A. Lehto, $1; A, Ahler, $1; U. Santa, 50c; A. Lamininen, 25c; Hannule, 25c; Heinsa, $25c; J. Cha- porti, $25; F. Juchala, 50c; W. Perki, 50c; M. Kaski, | The Political Contents of Our Shop Papers was drawn up by a Negro comrade and submitted to a member of the District Executive Committee who asked that he be allowed to submit same to the District Organizer who was absent. Upon the return of the D. O. it was turned over to him and after lying in the office, the D. made the claim that he did not have the necessary office assistants to get the leaflet out and the matter ended ere. No matter of any kind yas pre- pared for distribution among Ne- groes in the district. Yet, in the face of this, there were many prob- lems of vital importance to the Ne- groes of the state that should have been exposed by the Party. Chief among the problems is a law that permits Negroes to own property in white districts but forbids Negroes, even if they are the owners, to live on such property; the attempts at racial segregation of Negro chil- den in the public schools in remote sections of the state; and in Oak- land, an attempt to oust a very com- petent Negro teacher from the public schools. The plan to re-zone the city of Los Angeles so as to break up the growing potential political pow- er of Negroes. These were only some of the problems that face the Ne- jgroes of California, and yet, the D. O. failed to make use of the Party organization to expose these conditions, | At the time of the armistice day | White Chauvinism in California celebration, an outline of a leaflet was prepared by a Negro comrade for distribution in the Negro dis- trict of San Francisco and Oakland. The outline was submitted to the D. O, and as usual, ignored. On the following day, a bundle of leaflets were sent over in Oakland to a Ne- gro comrade for distribution. Not O.|a single suggestion which was made by the Negro comrade wss used nor was there any explanation made. Although this particular Negro com- rade had been a reserve army of- ficer and was thoroughly familiar with the facts which he presented to the D. O. Upon his return home from the Farty convention, Comrade Owens was faced with a situation which made his continued residence in the Palo Verde Valley no longer neces- sary. During his absence, the water had been turned off his cotton, which soon dried up. The facts regarding his conditions and position were com- municated to the D. O. and sugges- tions made that effort be made to get Comrade Owens and ,his family in another place where he could be of more service to the Party. A series of evasions and apologies began and continued until the first of February before Comrade Owens was finally enabled by the assist- ance of another comrade to get out |of the valley. Absolutely no use was made of Comrade Owens ve a the entire period of the election cam- paign nor the period thereafter. An- other evidence of white chauvinism on the part of the D. O. to the former D. O. of California, jalthough the outrageous attitude and actions of Levin could not exist without a whole group of supporter: Numerous other instances of white chauvinism of a lesser nature could be charged to the D. O. and the case cited, could be expanded several times without leaving out a single fact. From the standpoint of the Opposition group’s interpretation of | white chauvinism everything is run- ning smoothly in California, but from the standpoint of the Negro | work in California, the actions of the former D, 0. have been contrary to Communistie principles. From what has been enumerated it is clea: ly evident that the D. O., in his a tions with regard to work among | Negroes and of the immediate prob- lems that arose at the time, delib- evately acted according to his own personal desires and not according to the expressed policies of the Workers (Communist) Party. Comrade Levin deliberately tried |to discourage any signs of aggres- siveness on the part of the Negro comrades of the district who wished | | to offer suggestions regarding work among Negroes. Every suggestion that was made by the Negro com- rades was ignored by the D. O. | Anything that would in any wise bring the Negro comrades to the front was shelved and he failed to |make use of every épportunity to do effective work in California, among the hundred or more thou- |sand Negroes of the state, by Ne- |gro comrades, It is clearly evident that he feared ‘that if too many intelligent Negroes | be exposed. He and his group in the |eamp of the Opposition, either tacit agrgement or a general under- standing, acted in such a manner on | suggestions by Negro comrades as |to so discourage the Negro co: rades so that they would either main silent or finally drop out the Party. He wanted a few Ne- groes in the Party for show pur- poses, that is, the “Uncle Tom” type |who, on occasions when members | from headquarters happened around, jeould be exhibited as evidence of | Negro work, The former D, 0O., on various oc- |casions, pretended to be the pro- tector of the non-white comrades where open white chauvinism cropped |out in open meetings, but in spite of this pretense of protection, his inner feeling of white chauvinism asserts himself. That white chau- vinism is rampant in District Thir- | teen, there can be no question. Also, | there cannot be any doubt as to the joptn manifestation of white chau- vinism throughout the district in the Opposition group. The former District Organizer, |Levin, was aware of this condition @nd. failed to stamp out this epi- demic, which will certainly continue to demoralize the entire activities jof the Party unless drastic action is taken to destroy every sign. It is also evident that the rank jand file of the district has become infected with this virus of white | chauvinism, and in the following ar- ticle, we will tell of some of the open exhibitions of white chauvin- ism by various members of the pres- ent Opposition in the district. ers there, etc. We take too much for granted about the acquaintance of the average worker with the Rus- sian Revolution. The Packard had been neglecting Russia entirely, finally inserted an article telling not of the industrial worker, but of the conditions of the Russian peas- ant. The Northwestern Shop News, District 8, on the other hand, linked up Russia very well with the firing of old men in the shop, and the Hud- son Worker, District 7, in I-9, told of Russian vacations with pay and Hudson enforced vacations without pay. How Women’s Work Is Treated. Except in those papers where the ‘women are made much of in special sections or columns, they are dis- criminated against, as usual. The Hawthorne Worker, District 8, I-1, tells of women working nights, and fails to link it up with the W. P. platform, although it is the election number. No political conclusions whatever are drawn. The Westing- house Workers Bulletin, District 5, 1-6, tells of putting girls and fore- John Nik, Nick Damjanov, Mike Miller, D. Maneff, A. Tafferi, M. W. Neateas, M. Pallari, E. Dirjka .......... Collected at Workers School 7.00 Worker, District 7, realizing that it) | Okon, 35c; A. Lehto, 50c; |fecting evonomies for the boss. why girls work for less money, how the boss uses them against men, | the general position of women in| industry, etc., leaving the impres-/| sion that women in industry are the natural enemies of men, Increasing Attention to Negroes. Attempts have been made in very many instances to champion the Negro in the shops, but never has/ a sufficient analysis been made of why and how the employer fosters race prejudice, and rarely has the subject been linked up with the Party position. The Packing House Worker, District 10, casually men- tions that race prejudice is dying out (which is, of course, untrue), but improves on this in later issues. The Harvester Worker, Chicago, District 8, tells of the super-exploi- tation of the Negro but gives no analysis or conclusions. The Tin Plate Worker, District 5, gives an article on the boss playing the color- ed and white workers against each other, but strangely enough appeals $1 sa 3.00 Collected by M. Haarala, Pen- acook, N. H.: C. Nivala, 50c; O. Broman, 50c; O. The Sparrows Point Worker, Dis- trict 3, gives an article on segrega- tion and super-exploitation of Negro workers, with the proper slogans and demands. When a worker is fired for union activity and alleged participation in the shop bulletin, the Northwest- ern Shop News, District 8, inserts an inconspicuous item with no poli- tical conclusion and no concrete demand that the trade union step in, whereas the Ford Worker, Dis- trict 9, and the Hattie Carnegie Worker, District 2, get out a special bulletin on a similar occasion. Some papers use terms way above the heads of the average workers and the language used and the poli- tical analyses are often too involved. The Harvester Worker, Chicago (District 8) is especially guilty. For example, in issue III-10, the phrase “the workers are robbed at the point of production” is casually used with- out further explanation. The Packing House Worker (Dis- trict 10) has a novel solution for fighting the Kansas City fare steal —organization, The Party Face. In the articles on who is issuing ignore the ultimate aims of the Par- |ty and the class struggle, and push- |ing to the fore only the immediate shop demands. Wheeling Corrugating Toiler (Dis- | trict 5) in explaining the Communist shop group, says: “Our immediate jaim is to organize a mill committee, jour ultimate aim is a fighting na- | tional steel workers’ union which will |organize all steel workers in the |country.” Not a political or class struggle’ word in the entire article. The Haddock Miners Light (Dis- trict 3) gives as the only purpose |of the paper to better working con- |ditions and fight the fakers in the | Miners’ Union. The fact that this paper was born in the course of the struggle in the old union may ex- plain this overemphasis, but this must be remedied in future. Some papers simply ignore the question altogether, failing to ex- plain who is issuing the paper— Kilby Worker (District 6), Harves- ter, Milwaukee (District 8), puts out its first issue under the “Shop Committee” and the second under the “Communist Nucleus,” with no explanation of either one or the other. The Sparrows Point Work- ‘er (District 3), explains that the |the paper, we find a strong tenden-| paper is issued by “a group of steel! ley to conceal the face of the Party, | workers”—no Communism, no class rd, The Headlight, District 13,| votes part of one sentence to war qd unemployment, out of an entire ue of two long solid pages. Out 10 issues, the Packing House orker, District 10, carries not one litical word. Out of two long ges of the second issue of the iwaukee Harvester Worker, Dis- et 8, there are only 4 lines poli- fal, on May Day, two of which nounce the meeting. The Kilby e paper to organization alone, ete. | Failing To Link Shop With Class Struggle. But even those papers which in- jde political articles have not yet wmned how to link them up with op conditions, and how to impreg- ‘te the entire paper with the gen- 4l class struggle by drawing poli- ‘al and economic conclusions jenever possible from shop events ‘d shop conditions. \ ‘or instance, it is so easy to de- lop the idea of support for the irty election campaign platform on > basis of shop accidents and un- nitary conditions. And why not , economic analysis of unemploy- mt as part of the capitalist sys- A with the proper revolutionary clusions, linking it up with the jection campaign? Too often, trade jion organization is given as the ly remedy. Examples of neglect- to use opportunities of this kind too numerous to mention here, ‘Abstract Anti-War Agitation. In connection with our anti-war pen and our campaign against t rialism, not many papers dealt sh these problems at all, whereas ose which did, often did so in an tract and general manner, even ere opportunities existed for ing up. The Winchester Worker, trict 15, in one issue based an icle on imperialism on the send- of munitions from the shop to th America, but missed the op- unity of linking up the coming orker, District 6, devotes its en-| “Enclosed check for $45 repre- senting the second contribution in the Daily Worker drive from the San Francisco nucleus units. We | expect to send you another contribu- |tion and the comrades are still on the job collecting money for the drive.” Sent in by A. Sokolov, | Phila., Pa.—Shipatow, $2; Sympathizer, $3; Denke, $1; B .Thomas, $1. Collected by J. Carsillo: J. Carsillo, $1; | L. Goodina, 50c¢; H. Ceocer, | $1; Peter Ariangeli, 50c; Collected by Glaser, $1.50; Dobergo, $1; Birnbaum, $5; H. Cutler, $3; S. Nechovitz, $1. Collected by Radomski, $6.05; E. Swan, $3; D. Koff, $1. Collected by J. Kotyk, $5.95; J. Kotyk, $1; N. Dri- ga, $1; M. Zawala, 50c; M. Gordon, 50c; N. Panamaren- ko, 50Ze; K. Akubshik, 45¢; A. Matushevitz, $1; H. Be- low, 25c; A, Barron, 50c; A. Petrow, 25c. Collected by Simonian (3C) $4; Ghevont, Hagopian, $1; Karnig Ber- berian, $2; K. Garibian, $1. Collected by J. Nowak, $7.25; S. Laskowski, $5; F. Gniewek, $1; L. Zebrowski, 50ce; A. Skowronski, 50c; M. Czechowski, 25c¢; Comrade, $1. Collected by 1A, $7.50; Ferson, $1; Sympathizer, 50c; Ross, $1; Amiltchuk, $1; Bruni, 50c; Barrale, $1; Garribaldi, 50c; DeCarlo, $1; Aimolo: $1. Collected by Camden Unit, W. P. $2; Comrade Rychinsky $2. Total . + $61.25 H. Rubin, $4. (Correction) Cooperative Tradeing Co. Waukegan, Ill. .......... 50.00 San Francisco, Nucleus Units San Francisco, Calif. ...... 45.00 Street Nucleus No, 2, Detroit, Michigan ...0....0+eeee00: 25,00 South Side Swedish Workers Club, Chicago, Ill. .......5 25.00 Sent in by Workmens Circle, - _, in the same re Some papers, Branch 246, New York City, —W. C, Br. 246, $10; collec: 50c; A. Hurma, 50c; N. Yi- jak, 50c; J. Weik, 50c; J. Korhonen, 50c; J. Naihela, 50c; J. Lonko, 50c; W. Rin- tala, 50c; F. Anderson, 50c; READ A. Saarela, 50c; H. Ruat- sala, 25c; E. Sarita, 50c; J. Jlekela, 10c; N. Ghomso, 25c; I. Sulonen, 25; M. Heino, 10; L, Lindpass, 25; A. Pellompas, 25¢; L. Wuk, 25c; M. Sulonen 25c; Arnio 25c; E. Newman 25c; F. Lehto, 25¢; Kahita, 25c; Salomon, 25c; S. Maki, 25c; E. Aho, 25c; J. Maki, 25c; J, Salmi, 25c; J. Wahala, 25c; Lehtonen, 25c; A. Hal- ner, 25c; 0. Davidson, 25c; K. Sainta, 25c. .... L, E. C., Akron, Ohio . Collected at the home of Com- rade Blasser, Bronx, N. Y. at a farewell party ....... American Lithuanian Work- ers Literary Association, Br. 14, Minersville, Pa, ....... Collected by John L. Koracs, Garfield, N. J.—John Chud- zy, 50c; N. N., 25c; D, Elut- chik, 25c; J. Lapotyk, 50c; S. Toth, 10c; A. Krehich, 15c; S. Ruppert, 10; T. Kish, 50c; J. Sostec, 25c; Wright Aero, Employees, $1.30; J. L, Koracs, 50c; S. Sesetar, 25c; J. Szabados, $1; T. Kolinger, 25c; N. N., 22c; T. 16.70 11.69 10.00 10,00 Forum, New York City .... 6.66) M. Saari, 50c; F. Nuniaras, 8E, 8F, New York City .... 6.00} 50c; Anon. 15c . Ane 3.00 Collected by J. Toplensky, C, J. Brown, Louisville, Ky... 2.00} Brooklyn, N. Y.: E. Sojoke, |Collected by Clara Fisher, $1; Mrs. J. Kulky, $2; L. | Chicago, Ill.: Clara Fisher, Kaufer, $2; D. Brady, $1 .. 6.00) $1; L. Singer, 25c; B. Fisher, Sent in by E. Miller, Toledo, | 50c; J. Malarsky, 25c¢; M. Ohio .......cceseecceceses 6.00} Corngold, 25¢; J. Cooper, 25c¢ 2.50 Collected at a party given by | Sent in by E. Panasiuk, Wat- girls of the Moon Hat Co., ervliet, N. Y¥.: D. Wujcik, New York City 5.10} 50c; M. Halajko, 50c; M. Anton Bittner, Chicago, Ill. 5.00| Lilinski, $1; M. Apostol, 25c; M. Auerbach, Roxbury, Mass, 4.00} P. Katanko, $1; R. Opalko, Collected by a comrade, Cin- 25c; A. Spiak, 50c; A, Lay- | cinnati, Ohio: Sympathizer, oski, 50c; E, Panasiuk, 50c.. 5.00 50c; T. Sorpas, $1; A Friend, Collected by Workmen’s Circle 50c; Ada Dacey, $1; R. 375, New York City: S. S., Toran, $1 ................. 4.00| 25c; I. Schatzkamen, 25c; S. John Halabrino, Akron, Ohio.. 4.00} Spector, 25c; H. Spusisen, Collected by P. B. Cowdery, 25c; S, Finkenberg, 25c; M. Oakland, Calif. ............ 4.00] E., 25c; D. G, 25c ......... 2.00 Collected by B. Gross, Bronx, Mr. F. Helmreich, San Fran- N. Y¥.: P. Widder, 25c; J. ciseo, Calif, 0020005... 2.00 Kolin, 25c; M. Widder, 25c; Collected in cell of arrested S. Egri, 25c; A. Eysinney, dressmakers strikers, City ., 2.10 25c; M. Denychlexi, $1; A. D. Prus, Fondu Loc., Wise... 1.00 Bruss, 50c; C, Talert, 25c¢; A. A. Dodek, Grand Rapid, Mich. 1.00 Kiss, 50c ...............+++ 3.50) H. Penozich, Milwaukee, Wisc, 1.00 Collected by Geo. Bloxam, Sophia Kimmelfield, City .... 1.00 Spokane, Wash.: E. Pelether, C. R. Bartela, Chicago, Ill...« 1.00 50c; J. West, 50c; L. Phlippi, E. Elliott, Detroit, Mich. ..., 1.00 25c; A Friend, 20c; G. W E. Fraiman, New York City. 1.00 Pare BE ois. coe so. 3 ... 8.45|R. Kailing, Phoenix, Ariz. ..., 1.00 Collected by Street Nucleus W. H. Whessy, Phoenix, Ariz. 1.00 10, Detroit, Mich.: S. Duar, I. Hanlin, Phoenix, Ariz. . 50 $1; S. Dulozky, $1; A. Siler, O’Brien, Phoenix, Ariz. . 50 Weglowski, 10c; P. Kopala, 25c; J. Kaladen, 25c; J.- Haider, 50c; N. N., 10c... Collected by H. Timonen, Il- waco, Wash.—T. Timonen, $1; N. Lakkado, 25; L. Greenwell, 5c; S. Rennell, 20c; G. Suomela, 10c; T. D. Yhdistys, $1; W. Lampa, 35c; M. Falme, 25c; J. Elo, 25c; Ladies Section, $2; C. Mikula, 25c; H. Pitkanen, 25c; M. Seback, 40c; H. Simit, 25c; A, Heitala, 95c; Mrs. A; Surn, 50c, .......+ Sent in by Frank Butorac, Tillamook, Oregon: T. But- orac, P, Delich, T. Prasce- The Daily Worker, 26-28 After reading the appeal for aid in the Daily Worker I am send- ‘ling yeu the enclosed amount, $. delay. CAN ‘DAILY’ SURVIVE? zss||\Punds Vital if Our Press ts to Live Respond immediately to the appeal of the Daily | Worker for aid in its present crisis. ; Names of contributors will be published in the “Daily” without Union Square, New York. vwvvvvve ON SALE AT ALL IN Ni NEW SERIAL VVVVTVVYV START READING THESE MEMOIRS TODAY! IN THE 26 UNION SQUARE, New York City YORK AND VICINITY “BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK” (EXCLUSIVE LISH BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE INTERN. 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There is a tendency to | each is: 4 The official demands of the ie, also reflect the tenden to orientate too exclusively on shox |demands. This is alright in cases |where it is specially mentioned that they are “shop demands,” as in the Wright Propclier (District 2) and the Mascot (District 2), but, where |this is not done, it gives an impr |sion to the workers that immedi |demands is all we are concerned with. Some of them (Headlight, | District 13) include the labor party, jas a demand, but no revolutionary | demand whatever. Those which |cover all demands ure the Workers |Blade (District 2) and the s | Worker (District 2). In some the jeconomie demands are very defi leient. In the Ford Worker (7), for |example, II-15, includes no demand jon the speed-up, no union recogni- | tion, no wage scale and no insistence ,en the enforcement of their nominal |eight-hour day. At least 15 papers jearry no demands whatever as a |regular feature of the paper. +s) 9 The third of the series of ar- ticles on shop papers will con- tinue the subject of the Political Content, dealing with errors in the election campaign, labor party, anti-war campaign, etc., and pointing out the need for more careful supervision by the districts of the political line of their papers, RIGHTS TO REPUB- vvyvevvvwvy Labor Movement. devoted to a relent- against capitalism i) ible lta Ra 2 |