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e OFFICERS PAY $5 FOR RECRUITS IN NATIONAL GUARD N. C. Guardsmen for Aid to Strikers Edit ily Worker: I mber of Battery E. 212th Coast Artillery. I have read some of the artic ppearing in the Dail; on the National Studen After Three Years of Savery in Panama to desert from Panama, only to be arrested on ar t Tells DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, ow 40 Drop FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1929 mbrai after three years in Panama, are happy that ed in Panama, like Private Jack Britten of Com- rt Davis, are unable to endure their period of service tly published in the Daily Worker, told how two dozen Guard, especially _ letters s tried val at San Diego. eaardsm in Philadelphia and|—- Fs 5 ————— - - —_-— SE RC Soe Sey Se Denver. I can tell of some things the gym is an old room with ver stand side by side with the pray. be to prove that these conditions exist |poor equipment, that no instructo workers in their efforts to| Narrow er Control of also in New York and are not lim- are s boxing, but instead | gain a better standard of living} Airplane Industry Is ‘ted to these other cities. the ties are being used d not betray them by aiding the $5 for Recruits. y words of the Our captain es $5 out every recruit vhich we very well know is a lie, and that this money is set aside as a fund for recruiting purposes. This is not the only| which recruits are gotten ational Guard. Y want matter ef recr told us that that majo purty camp or t office N. G, Must Aid Workers. In thi the Nox week’s papers I see th: h Carolina Nat’ g class and not with the | the boss ONAL will cause the control of the government. | GUARDS The power of the bourgeoisie rests | not alone upon international capital, » its strong international connec- ons, but also upon the force of hour craft show here. he wages and| Certain, Admits Ford | of the) DETROIT, Mich. April 11. (U.P.) guardsmen,| 7p. po P ' nen,!_The rapid increase in demand for of the working|... 4. hat hat gute inteccek aeeeeeh air transportation and the heavy Fgh eat lies cost of producing reliable aircraft air- |plane industry to “gravitate into the jhands of a few concerns,” Henry rd said today after making a two- sit to the all-American air- False Promises. have been used in an effort to break | habit, on the force of small industry, Henry Ford, who is estimated to When I entered, the captain told the textile str I read in some|of which, unfortunately, there is/have more capital invested in the Seep 2 Fa ahd endiy > N a] | Plenty left and which daily, hourly. | wviati inane the me of the fine things I would enjoy t I al| Rives birth to capitalism and bour-|°Viation industry than any other as a guardsman. For instance: |Guards in the p: ve been use Physical recreation, such as boxing, |to break the strikes of workers to a gym to use and all equipment to improve their conditions. I am e supplied free. My pay would be worker as well the other $1 a week. I found, however, thatibers of the National Guards. We coisie, spontaneously and on a large Vv. I, Lenin (“Left? Commu- }105 airplanes on exhibit, as guest of Harvey Campbell, nism). Celebrate the International Work- ers May Day at the Coliseum, ‘which sponsored the show. For the New Line of the C. 1. and C.Y. |. in the Building of a Mass Commonist Youth League and Its Unification Statement Introduced April 5th, by Comrades Williamson, Don, Frankfeld and Rijak, Which Was Rejected by the National Executive Committee. HE letter of the CYI gives to our league the correct analyses of the situation of the working youth in the U. S. A.—a cor mate of the league activities—the main tasks before our league in the present period, and a clear presentation of the ruinous factional struggle which tlows from the external and internal situation of the League and the Party. The convention thesis should be based on the line of the Open Letters of the Cl and CYI, applying the line of the CYI to all the problems and tasks facing our convention. Since all proposals to re- write the thesis in accordance with the CYI Open Letter and all amend- ments to this end have been rejected, the present statement has as its } purpose to present to the membership and the convention, in a concise form the basic line on the immediate problems and tasks as given by the CYI letter. The Third Pericd—Accentuated Class Struggles— Wars and Revolution. We endorse fully the line and decisoins of the 6th World Congress of the CI. We endorse the estimate contained in the open letter of the CI to the recent Party convention on the tasks confronting our Party, in connection with the accentuation of the class struggle—the radicali- zation of the masses and the growing war danger. The U. S. is no exception to the general estimate of the third period of post war world capitalism. The third period brings sharpening of the class struggle—wars, uprisings and revolutions—struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat. The new wave of spontaneous struggles (text bringing with it the development of new unions, es in south and opening up a completely new situation—the growing unrest and readi- nes§ to struggle against the incressed ruinous effects of rationalization taking place in all the major industries in the country, and the struggle for world domination which finds its acute expression in the growing daily conflicts between the USA and Great Britain, bear out completely the analyses of the recent congress of the CI and CYI and the open letter to the Party convention that, “American imperialism is striving for monopolist position in world economics and polities and is becoming more and more involved in the universal crisis of capitalism and com- ing more and more into the orbit of the growing instability of world capitalism.” (Open Letter CI.) The maturing growth of the inner and outer contradictions aggravates the general crisis of world capital- ism and reveals cleagly the present partial and precarious character of capitalist stabilization, which opths up new revolutionary perspectives. Tho first prerequisite to placing the Party and League in the leader- i ship of the growing spontaneous struggles against the effects of ra- Us tionalization and against the growing war danger is a decisive re-orienta- tion on the part of the leadership and membership to the new s uation and the turning of the Party and League from the present “numerically propagandist stage” and develop it “into a mass political party of the American working class.” (CI Open Letter.) The accentuation of the class struggle, radicalization and changes in the structure of the American working class has its direct reflection within the ranks of the Party. These changes plus. the active inter- ference and pressure of the CI develops a process of differentiation within the Party and the various so-called historical groupings within the Party. Among the main conditions in making the Party take the decisive " turn from a mere propagandist sect into a mass political party of the American working class is actual consistent participation of every Party member in the every day struggles, the smashing of the existing Party group system and factionalism, change of its poor social and national eomnosition, breaking the isolation of the Party, doing away with the old traditions and methods of work to climinate the federation ideology with its non-political attitude and reluctance to engage in mass activ- ities and participate in the American class struggle and to confine itself with pure social and national activities and its foreign language struc- ture, to proletarianize and Americanize the leadership and to normalize the life of the Party by establishing firm discipline and Party demo- eracy and abolition of group life. ile, auto, RR, ete.)— War Danger—Militarization—Rationalization—Growing Radicalization of Young Workers. The above mentioned deep-going changes also find their real ex- pression in the recent changes taking place in the working class youth tas they especially reflect themselves in the recent radicalization pro- cess. It is therefore the task of the League in striving to become a mass organization and leader of the young workers to base itself on the changes in the structure of the American working class and the yadicalization process especially as it affects the masses of the work- ing class youth. The lack of perspective ‘and failure to orientate the League to the above mentioned changes and the consequent trailing be- hind the Party is mainly responsible for the slow growth of the League. jj The process of the youth entering industries in large and excessive - aumbers, which has taken place for some years, has been accentuated ‘n the past period, with the introduction of intensified rationalization schemes in all industries. Not only do we have specific youth industries, nheromena indicated several years ago, but today finds the working a result of the brutal rationalization processes, the young workers wu, in an intensified form, all of its effects (intensified ex c, unemployment, deterioration of tie living end health standards, ete.) In anticipation and preparation for the inevitable result of the growing competition between the imperialist powers, the population and all the resources of the country are fast being militarized. Industry is placed under a special board of re-organization, which at a minute’s notice can transform commercial production into war production. The regular mercenary forces (army, navy) are intensifying their recruit- even lowering the age limit, to encourage the recruiting of younger elements. The large number of the working youth are being reached thru such semi-voluntary organizations as the C. M. T. C., ete. The outstanding feature of these organizations is that they are undergoing a grafting process to the regular armed forces and constitute a power- ful weapon for ideological influencing of the working youth. There is now before Congress a proposal to inaugurate girls military training camps. Other organizations such as the Boy Scouts, Sport organiza- tions, ete., receive more support from the bourgeoisie and become fitted into the general war machine. In this scheme of things is fitted the boss control of factory sports, rifle teams, etc. 7h! General Radicalization and Not Sectional Radicalization. Because of the general conditions described above and other factors occurring since the World War (stoppage immigration, migration from farms, ete.), the present day composition of the un-skilled is different than previously when it was almost exclusively foreign born. This strengthens the elements of homogenity of the working class, and gives to the working youth a historic role in the present period of serving as a bridge between the foreign born and the bulk of the native work- ing class, and of taking the active lead in the developing class struggle. The analysis of the CYI at the 5th Congress that, “this pressure on the part of the employers and on that of the reaction rouses the activity of the masses of young workers spurring more and more of them to fight and thus affecting their radicalization,” and the CYI Letter which states, “Therefore one is justified in saying, that rationalization and its céfects, far from improving the position of the working youth have made it considerable worse.” “The present depression in the U.S.A.*** has its direct consequences in activizing the young workers of Amer- ica,” have been well borne out by the existing situation amongst the youth on a national scale. Of great significance is the spontaneous | outburst in completely unorganized industries, of rationalization strikes wath increasing decisively in number and influence in basic industries. (comprising mostly young workers) in the auto, textile, rubber, steel, industries, ete. Similarly we see a development and growth of ‘youth strikes’ in the lighter industries thruout the country. There is a de- cided underestimation of the general character of the radicalization processes amongst the young workers. Comrade Zam in his report to the December 1928 Plenum, stated, “The young workers generally are still politically apathetic’ and in the Convention Thesis this is ex- pressed in more vague form. The Thesis says: “A recognition of the general process of radicalization, its uneven development and the cor- rect orientation of the Leagy¢ must bring a recognition of the fact that the bulk of the youngrworke?8 will be involved in the process of radical- ization only as it develops.” This conception actually leads to denying of the general character of the processes of radicalization and also finds its expression in failure to recognize the recent strikés in the auto and steel industries, strike movements in the R. R. industry, and the com- plete failure to recognize the importance and significance of the grow- ing movement of ‘youth strikes’. The basic wrong estimation repeatedly presented to the League was again formulated quite definitely in the N.E.C. report to the Party Convention (1929), where Comrade Zam says, “This does not mean that the majority of the toiling youth in this country are no longer politically apathetic.” The idea of inert mass which was rejected firstly in 1927 by the CYI and which occupied an important section of the recent CYI Letter, where it compared the succeeding years 1926- 27-28, and definitely rejected the contention of the present majority leadership, of the working youth being an inert mass or politically apathetic, and concluded, “The working youth is no more the most backward part of the American proletariat, and in many cases is the most advanced and conscious part of the proletariat.” This basically wrong theory of “inert mass” and “politically apathetic” is not rejected in the Convention Thesis, and coupled with the unclear estimation given in the Convention Thesis, which is wrong because it will lead to neglect the work amongst the bulk of the young workers. The League has to base itself in its work not only on “the most advanced section” but on the bulk of the awakening working youth in heavy industry. The membership cannot get a clear picture and es- timation of the situation in America given by the CYI, when presented with this confusionism by its leadership. We must definitely state that we have a new period, we must de- finitely recognize that the present economic situation has already ac- tivized large sections of the working youth and that this process will cont’nue and grow. Recognizing the growing offensive on the economic standards of the young workers and the gigantic militarization process being develoned daily, we see that the League has before it great pos- sibilities to organize and develop into a mass organization, based on the young industrial workers. In this period the wrong tendency to “ovorestimate the inertia existing among the young workers” created a tendeney to fail to understand the present new period and is respon- sible for the fact that in all the mass struggles which have taken place since the last convention, the League entered them in the heat of the strue~le or months after the struggle broke (Colorado, Pittsburgh, New Bedford, the South, etc.) The experiences of the League in the various strikes has clearly demonstrated that wherever organizations isted with a social composition and leadership and traditions, it could t properly organize and lead these struggles and sometimes acted as hindrances in the work. Because of this situation the League was compelled to send in or- ‘sors from the outside, and the participation of the League so far » ren’; ond file were concerned was not of a mass character and was Imiicd to those few o*anizers. (To Be Continued) |inan, closely inspected several of the the vice- | president of the board of commerce, , U.S. GAVE GASH ~ FOR FORMATIO ~~ OF PAN-A. FL. \MilitaristsandGompers| 4 Built It for Empire (Continued from Page One) \‘the Mexican people as to the cause | for which the United States entered | the World War.’ President Wilson | appropriated from special funds sev- | eral thousand dollars to promote the project, and for several months afterward John Murray and Canuto A. Vargas published near the Mex- ican border a bi-lingual paper (in Spanish and in English) which was shipped into Mexico in thousands of copies and which advocated labor | Pan-Americanism.” | Taken From A.F.L. Files. | The Pan-American Federation of Labor then, Lorwin relates, was or- |ganized in Laredo, Texas, in 1918, and its first act was to pass a reso- {lution railroaded through by the Gompers machine, in support of the imperialistic treaty of Vemsailles, | ‘and Gompers, John Murray and! 'Canuto A. Vargas became its offi- cers. | With reference to his account of |the origin of the Pan-American Fed- eration of Labor, Lorwin states, in a bibliographical note on Page 634: “A large part of the material in this chapter was obtained from the private correspondence and from un- published reports in the files of the American Federation of Labor.” Lacking any other reference, this |must be taken as indicating the| source of the statements made by Lorwin and of the sentence which he | quotes, | Lorwin’s account is partly firmed by Gompers himself, con- Gompers Confirms Story. | Describing his earlier contacts | with Mexican labor leaders under |Carranza, Gompers writes, in “Sev- | \enty Years of Life and Labor,” Vol.| ji, Page 312: | “Murray brought me word from this Mexican organization that rep- resentatives had been elected to come to Washington to confer with | me but found themselves unable to| finance the undertaking. Shortly | afterwards, a personal representa- tive of the working people, Colonel |Edmundo Martinez, came to Wash- | jington to give me confidential in-| formation. Martinez was a. Mason | and under the protection of that fraternal relationship gave me in- valuable information. , . . All of the direct and confidential informa- tion that came to me on Mexico J laid before President Wilson, part in |writing and that of a more confi- dential nature, by personal com- munication. On behalf of labor I} urged upon him recognition of the| Mexican government. After some itime, to the surprise of not a few, President Wilson followed that course.” ped from Exhaust ‘and aristocratic |Pretending to be connected with an |mutual friend of the Rawsons, who | Western Kentucky follow the arrest | ‘yeference to prohibition and other ® i NYDIA WESTM: 1, BEE FISKE is now playing at the Klaw Theater in “Mrs. Bum- stead-Leigh,” a farcical-comedy, by Harry James Smith. The play w: first shown here, 18 years ago with| Mrs. Fiske in the title role. Altho| the writer did not view this delight- ful little comedy at that time, he) can readily state that its present showing develops | into a entertaining evening of laughter from a well pleased audience. If future audi- ences greet it as warmly, it is as- Mrs. Fiske. | ion at Plattsburgh Mrs. Fiske Returns in Revival TRAINING. CAMPS of Comedy at the Klaw Theatre N ARE UTILIZED FOR WARPROPAGANDA Officers Fear Working Class Ideas Editor, Daily Worker: I read lots of letters in the Daily Worker from soldiers and Nationa Guardsmen, but haven’t read muct about the C. M. T, C. I have some. thing about the C. M. T. C. whict will interest the readers, I was at Plattsburgh last year. Ead Food. sured of a long stay in New York. While Mrs. Fiske is the dominant figure in a de luxe cast, she must | share premier honors with Sidney | ‘Voler, who in a comparatively smal] role, at times is the center of at-| Appearing in traction, However, there are so play by Anne Morrison and John many enjoyable episodes in the play, | Peter Tuohey. which opened at the there are plenty of honors for all) bijou Theater on Tuesday. concerned. Other members of the cast include Stella Mayhew, Dallas SAY FEDERAL | Welford, . Griffith and Edmond George. The Postal Officials in Kentucky Graft Mrs. Bumstead-Leigh, (Mrs. Fiske), daughter of a fake patent LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 11—| Charges of federal job-selling in| medicine manufacturer of Indiana, schemes to have her younger sister marry the eldest son of the rich Rawson family. old and distinguished English fam- ily, Mrs. Bumstead-Leigh and her sister visit the Rawsons to prepare for the wedding. It seems that a of five postal employes at Hodgen- | ville. | The employes, including Postmas- | ter L. M, McGul 51, and his son, Maurice, 18, are accused of opening | letters addressed to the Louisville | Courier-Journel, re-add: ing them and collecting subscription commis- sions. McCubbin has resigned. One of the prisoners, following his arrest, was said to have revealed | “job-selling” activities, which have | been called to the attention of the department of justice. is a tombstone builder from the im- poster’s home town in Indiana, is called up to expose the fake Mrs. Bumstead-Leigh. The part of the| tombstone king is portrayed by | Mr, Toler. When he faces Mrs. | Bumstead-Leigh, who at one time was his sweetheart, and how the) latter bluffs her way out of the tight position, is the most amusing of many delightful parts in the play. Later, the girl who was to marry | the Rawson son, decides that she | will not go through with the scheme, but tells ail the facts in the plot. She and her sister are ordered out of the house, but lo, and behold, the girl falls in love with the youngest son of the Rawsons and everything turns out satisfactory. As the above discription of the plot indicates, it is stupid and mean: ingless. However, the play is s well written, the author taking ad- | vantage of every opportunity to put across some fun, it is enjoyable every minute that the curtain is up. In several parts, the play is brought up to date, by placing in lines with “THE CAMEL THROUGH THE NEEDLE'S EYE” OPENS MONDAY Mary Kennedy is the latest ad- dition to the cast of The Theater Guild’s next production, “The Camel through the Needle’s Eye,” which | opens at the Martin Beck Theatre next Monday. Other players in- clude Henry Travers, Helen Westley, Miriam Hopkins, Norman Williams, Joseph Kilgour and Morris Carnov- sky. The first two weeks of camp w had very intense drilling and ever day there were 30 or 40 fellows tha fainted while standing at attentior on the drill grounds. We were alsc promised plenty of recreation, bu instead I found that we only hac minutes of outdoor recreatior every day. The rest of the day being taken up with various forms of drills. After I ate the first week’s food in camp, I knew what I was going to eat for the rest of the month. The food was so bad that I was laid up in the hospital for 6 days and given special food in order tc prevent me from raising any trou ble among the fellows, Capitalist Propaganda. We were forced to listen to 9 lectures on citizenship by Major Doree, but I found that these sup- posed citizenship lectures were talks against “Reds,” against work- ers who go out on strike, with | plenty of jingoist patriotism for the country and also what our duty | would be in the next war as loyal | citizens of the U. S. After listen- ing to these lectures and then com- paring the conditions that I_ was forced to endure in the camp, I say that they only use the camp to fool the young workers into becomins loyal to the government and th: bosses. In the event of war, the) will immediately use the students of the C. M. T. C. as the first recruits. I want to tell the readers of the Daily Worker that they shouldn’t be fooled by the glorious phrases which they use in advertising the camps. —A Former C. M. T. C. Student. Imperialism ix at the same time the most prostitute and the ultimct form of the state power which n: cent middle-class sdciety had co! menced to elaborats as & means © its own emancipation from feudal- ism, and which full-grown bourgeois society had finally transformed into a means for the enslavement of labor by capital.—Marx. Demonstrate for the defense of the Soviet Union May First at Coliseum. contemporary events. The play is recommended to any- one who wants to laugh at utter! nonsense. It’s a good evening's | entertainment. Saleem Demonstrate Against Imperti ‘War May First at the Colisew Madison Sq. Garden NOW! TWICH DAILY 2 and 8 A Special Entertainments Each Sunday Afternoon and Night Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey | Combined | CIRCUS 10,000 Marvels including HUGO ZACCHINI “THE HUMAN PROJECTILE” Shot Through Space from Monster Cannon — Sensation of Century Admission to all (incl. seats) $1.00 to $3.50 Inc. Tax. Children under 12 Half Price at All Matinees ex~ cept Saturdays & Sundays. Tickets at Garden Box Offices Gimbel Brothers and Usual Ticket Agencies. (IVIC REPERTORY 1st,ttn4y. 50c; $1.00; $1.50 Mats, Wed.&Sa 30 EVA LEGALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “The Master Builder.” Sat. “Peter Pan.” Sat. “Lady from Alfaqueque.” COMEDY Theatre, dist St. B. of Broadway. Eves., incl. Sun. at 8.50, — Mats. Thurs. & Sat. RUT H Draper Thentre Guild Productions Mans Estate by Beatrice Blackmar and Bruce Gould BILTMORE Theatre, Ww. h Street CAPRIC SUILD Thea. W. 62nd St GUI Eves. 50 Mats. Thurs. & Si 740 EUGENE O'NE! Strange Interlud John GOLDEN Thea. 58th E. of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 ARTHUR HOPKINS HoripaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY ‘Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 PLYMOUTH wats. Thurs, & Sat. 2.35 Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St. West of Broadway Eves. 8:30; Mat: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest and Fanniest Revue leasure Bound }} Tonite! Russian Single Admission 50c HARRY DANA on “The Russian Revolution Dramatized” at the WORKERS SCHOOL, 26-28 Union Sq., at 8:15 P. M. in the second lecture of a series of 4 on Revolutionary Ticket for remaining 8 lectures $1.25 — Come Early - Tonite! 5th floor Drama. New York City and at Box Limited Number of seats. Farewell PERFORMANCE #7 Isadora Duncan | Dancers IN A PROGRAM OF Revolutionary Songs and Dances 18, 19 April 20, 21 Manhattan Opera House TICKETS ON SALE AT DAILY WORKER OFFICE, ROOM 201, 26 Union Sq., Office. — Popular Prices. u b i t | §