The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1929, Page 2

LITTLE TINE is NEEDED TO CHEAT POORFARMERS Prohibition, Reserve Roard, May Come Up We INGTON, April 14.—The nature of the first clash in the extra session of congress was indicated y statements of republican democratic party leaders, It will be on the scope of the session. Repre ve Garner, the demo- cratic party house leader declared that there is no ¢ nstitutional pro- vision li action of con- s enumerated in mation calling the extra session, and indicated that a num- ber of things which the democrats think will make party propaganda against the administration would be taken up, including prohibition, the actions of the Federal Reserve Bank board, immigration laws and the in- land waterways legislation, would be forced onto the floor. e procl: Republicans Want Limit. Senator Watson, democratic senate ader, agrees. But Senator Robinson, republican party leader, denounces all such programs, and insists that the congress shall discuss only tariff and farm relief. Neither side considers that much time will be spent on farm “relief.” It is generally understood the farm- ers are to be swindled with a fake “relief” bill already carefully drawn; nobody wants to come forward as an apologist of the bill, very few dare to attack it, for it will have the bank- ers and landlords, the farm machin- ery trust, and exporters back of it, as well as all the wheat gamblers and middle men of every sort. Discus- sion will be only on such details as the debenture plan. Tariff will be raised, and there may be considerable struggle over some of the provisions, as interests conflict. $9,900,000 Is New Sum the Imp: vialist Robbers Demand of Germany PARIS, F April 14.—A Ger- men debt figure of from $9,000,000,- 000 to $10,000,000,000 has been agreed upon by the Allied repara- tions delegates and will be presented to the German delegates tomorrow, ' it has been learned. Smoot of Bugae Trust Talks Tariff Reed Smoot, leader of the Mormon church, which is a big bank- ing and sugar stock owning corporation, himself, talks about a@ slightly higher Root is the man on the right. rman of session of congress. hands with W. C, tariff, Hawley, chaii @ professional Bennie es: head of numerous banks tariff im the coming special He is shaking the house committee on Oregon. ? HARLEM TENANTS TO MEET TONIGHT House Committees to Be Organized (Gonitauad tre een Page One) 1 has met with enthusiastic approval | by tenants, is the immediate organi- zation of house committees in each tenement.” The campaign now being carried cn by the Daily Worker, exposing the conditions under which workers are forced to live in Harlem, has the tenants to follow, “declared » | shown by tenants in Harlem for im- | { mediate organization on the basis of | house committees. The Daily Worker has been dis- tributed and sold by the thousands in Harlem, especially in those sec- tions which were described during the course of last week’s articles. The result has been that tenants, by letters and personally, have ex- pressed their intention of coopera- ting through the Harlem Tenants League and the formation of house committees in the fight against the landlords and their legislature. The report of the preparations for a rent strike at one of the tenements thru a house committee, which was described in Saturday’s Daily Work- er, has given impetus to the forma- tion of such a committee in other tenements as well. “It is realized that the time has come for action and that a wide or- ganization must be created among the tenants themselves,” said Grace Campbell, vice-president of the Har- lem Tenants League, commenting upon the drive being carried on by the Daily Worker. conference of tenants’ leagues, based “A city-wide | of working- unions on house committees, women’s organizations and ae be organized.” lem Tenants League has wee ah workingclass tenants of Harlem to take. an active part in formulating plans for action at the meeting tonight. Following talks by Richard Moore, Grace Campbell, Elizabeth Hendrickson, secretary of the league, and Sol Auerbach, of the Daily Worker staff, the floor will be open for discussion. e * & NOTE—The seventh article ir the series appearing exclu the Daily Worker, expos housing conditions in Harlem, written by Richard Moore, appears today on Page 2. Tomorrow the Daily Worker investigator will re- sume his exposure of housing con- ditions in Harlem. Big Aircraft Merger Is Organized With a Capital of $5,000,000 PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 14. Aireraft & Airways of America, Ine., has announced a merger to absorb Pittsburgh and Reading Airways. The combined company will have a capital of $5,000,000. The Curtiss group is expected to take a large part of the new stock through their investment com- panies: Nerih American Aviation, Ine., and National Aviation Corpora- tion, officials of the merged com- panies announce. Amphibian planes will be run on a regular route from Pittsburgh to the larger Atlantic coast cities. These planes will be added to the U. S. army air fleet as soon as war breaks out. Philosophers have been busied in trying to EXPLAIN the world, each after his own fashion. But the real question is, How are we to CHANGE it?—Marx, ~NEW G.P. NUCLEI IN PLANTS WITH 40,000 WORKERS Build-the-Party Drive Starts Strong (Continued from Page One) ized, and is anxious to join the left Independent Shoe Work Union. In some of the other plan nuclei or papers had existed and are now being rebuilt, Inspiring Start. This should be an inspiring start for the Build-the-Party drive, From day to day we expect to get infor-| ‘mation from the various districts as to what additions they have to the above list of new nuclei, new shop papers, new locals of the left wing unions, ete. With this splendid beginning, the organizational objectives of the drive, which are listed below, are expected to be achieved within the two months period of the campaign: 1, The recruiting of 5,000 new members. 2. The establishment of 100 ad- ditional factory nuclei. 3. The establishment of tional factory papers, 4. The securing of 5,000 addi- tional readers for the Daily Worker) and increasing the circulation of the) entire Party press. | 5 The activization of the Party nuclei, 6. The building of the Young Workers (Communist) League. 85 addi- New Social Democratic Compromise With the Center Now Approved (Wireless By ‘“Inprecorr”) VIENNA, Austria, April 14, With the fascists still active throughout the city, negotiations for the formation of a new govern- ment are continuing. On the tenants’ protection Dill, the social democrats have accepted a compromise by which rents are to be increased. The strike of the workers in the automobile plants is continuing. The power of the bourgeoisie rests not alone upon international capit upon ity strong international conne: tions, but also upon the force habit, on the force of small industry, lof which, unfortunately, there is plenty left and which daily, hourly, | gives birth to capitalism and hour- | geoisie, spontanequsly and on a large scale—V. I. Lenin (“Left” Commu- nism). |nickel out of the Negro workers who \ city. | higher! ; widespread Tenants Urged to Dfbaice Against Tenement System | President of Harlem Tenants League Says Only Mass Action Can Be Effective (This is the seventh of a series of articles exposing the conditions under which the Negro workers are forced to live in Harlem, Previ- ous articles dealt with the tenement conditions in various parts of Harlem. The present article, written by Richard B, Moore, preat- dent of the Harlem Tenants’ League, tells of what the planning to do. Tomorrow the Daily Worker will continue its ex- posure of housing conditions in Harlem.) | ae Me | | By RICHARD B. MOORE (President of the Harlem Tenants’ League). Vi. | THE flood of vent raises and dispossesses which the landlords are let- ting loose upon the exploited workers of this city is at its worst in Harlem. The capitalist caste system which segregates Negro workers into Jim-crow districts makes these doubly exploited black workers the special prey of the greedy rent-gougers. Black and white landlords and real estate agents take advantage of® Gah this segregation to squeeze the last| are penned into “the black ghetto.” Rents in Negro Harlem are al- ready often double and sometimes treble those in other sections of the The landlords refuse to make repairs, causing the most vile and| unsanitary conditions to exist. Over- crowding is rife and degrading so-| cial practices are forced upon these black toilers who are hemmed in| and ground down under this vicious system of capitalist landlordism. Death and Degradation. Vainly do these workers pinch and stint and contrive to meet these impossible rents which rise con-| stantly ever higher and higher. The death-rate tells something of the terrible and ghastly story of this segregation and exploitation. Negro workers die more than twice as fast from consumption and certain other | housing standards and to abolish ( diseases; black babies perish at over vile slums in which black and wh twice the rate of babies in other| workers rot and burn to death. sections of the city. ei Still rents mount, higher and) "THE Herlem Tenants League sir Yet the wages of Negro its formation a year ago Ir workers are the lowest and their January has led the struggles of ti chance to get a job of any sort the|workers and tenants of Harle poorest. The last to be hired and/ against rent profiteering and. vile the first to be fired, they are the housing conditions. Through the! greatest sufferers from the present streets and houses of Harlem, thru unemployment. They mass meetings and demonstrations, are heaviest hit, too, by the wage-| through exposures in the press and cuts which the employers have been before the legislature and officials constantly handing out to the work-| at Albany and city hall, in the courts, ers as the reward for their “supreme in every possible way, the League sacrifice” in the last world war and has led a vigorous campaign for the as their present share for the com- protection of tenants and workers. ing world slaughter which the pro-| Other Organizations Join. fit gougers are preparing for the In the present rent and housing workers of all races, | crisis, the Harlem Tenants’ League Wages and Rents. has again come to the fore with a Todey the average wage of program for the organization and ac- Negro workers in New York city is| tive struggle of all the tenants and between $18.00 and $20.00 a week. workers of Harlem to resist the} For the New Line of the C. L and C.Y. 1. in the Building ot a Mass Communist Youth League and Its Unification This is the third installment of statement introduced April 5th, hy Comrades Williamson, Don, Fyankfeld and Rijak, which was re- jected by the National Executive Committee. The convention of the Young Workers (Communist) League will open on April 26. aay ele Build the Youth Sections in the New Unions. ‘The caperiences and the work of building youth sections in the new industrial uzions have shown that neither.the Party nor the League realize the urgent necessity to create the necessary youth forms for winning the youth for the revolutionary unions. The present youth sec- tions exist in name only. The League must become the conscious factor and driving force in the organizing of youth sections. However, the hesitation expressed in Pittsburgh, the open opposition expressed to- ward youth sections in Chicago, the underestimation and general apathy (no attempt even being made in textile and superficial and formal ap- proach and attempts in needle), have resulted in the failure of the League in becoming the decisive factor in this work. Wherever there are no trade unions or where the existing trade unions bar young workers from entrance, or preliminary to organizing the young workers into trade unions, our task is the formation of econ- omic youth associations. In all the work of recruiting young workers into economic organizations, this must be accomplished through special youth demands, of an economic, political and social character, and by actual participation in the economic struggles by every member—work inthe factories to prepare, organize and lead the everyday struggles of the young workers. We must combat all theories that youth prob- lems and issues are limited to a few industries. In all industries there are to be found “youth issues” and youth problems and we must take the initiative in formulating and popularizing concrete youth demands to fit each of these industries, concretizing them in their application to each locality and shop. In order to coordinate all the work in the youth sections,xin the economic youth associations and the general work amongst the unor- ganized, it is necessary to establish a well functioning Youth Depart- ment of the newly established TUEL center. Struggle Against the Right Danger in the C. I. and the Party. The Sixth World Congress drawing the conclusions from its analysis of the present situation pointed out that the main danger in all sections of the C. I. is the Right Danger. This is well borne out by the rapid rise of the organized groups and tendencies representing the Right or conciliation towards it throughout the C. I. We especially see the lead- ership in these deviations coming from the right wing in the Russian and German Parties. We endorse the struggle against the right wing conciliators being conducted by the C. L, the C. C. P. S. U. and the Cc. C. P. G. One of the hindrances in the struggle against the Right Danger in the Party and League, was the failure to examine the line of the Party and League and find the objective sources and roots which give rise to the Right Danzer. This was substituted by’a more formal and superfi- cial approach to the question. The general situation in the country and in the labor movement still gives a basis for the development of the Right Danger. This, coupled with the poor social composition, isolation of the Party, old traditions and antiquated language structures, lack of American and proletarian leadership and continued factional struggles, leads to the development of right wing deviations in the Party which find their he kas in the overestimation of the strength of American imperial- ism, the denial of the influence of social reformism, failure to see the merging of the T.U. bureaucracy and social democracy with the state A ratus, res'stence to converting the Party into a fighting Party, to Netarianize it and Americanize it—the failure to see the radi jon process taking place in the working c!ass culminating in the theory of exemptions, of excluding U. S. imperialism from the general world crisis of capitalism, characteristic of the third period, gave the Party The above mentioned reasons and the failure to recognize the historie struggles which are taking place at the present time in Europe and in the U. S. A., the total lack of self-criticism and the existing self- satisfaction with these conditions in the Party which reflect the old period, resulted in the total failure to establish a new line for the Party based upon the decisions of the Sixth World Congress. We reiterate what was stated in the N.E.C. Minority statement on the Party Conven- vention that, “The Ninth Plenum of hte ECCI has placed before our Party the necessity of seeing and understanding the changed situation and the new tasks of the Party. The Right Danger is the greatest obstacle in reorientating the Party to the new situation and new tasks of the Party. Since the Ninth Plenum the ECCI has con- tinuously emphasized the need of fighting the Right Danger as the main danger and against counter-revolutionary Trotskyism~-of overeoming our Right errors—of placing our Party in the forefront as the leader in all the mass political and economic struggles of the working masses, The ECCI has warned continually our Party against factionalism and unprincipled group struggles and called for merciless self-criticism as the Bolshevik method of correcting the Party’s line and the Right errors committed by all groups.” (Three paragraphs are omitted because they deal with questions now before the Comintern for review and decision,—Editor.) Exterminate Trotskyism. Simultaneously with the Right Danger there sprang up in the Party and League counter-revolutionary Trotskyism. Our League leadership failed completely to give a correct estimate of this danger. The viewpoint of the NEC leadership was to consider Trotskyism the “Crassest expression of the Right danger” and this confusionism re- sulted in a weakening of the struggle against both Trotskyism and the Right danger. The YCI corrected this wrong viewpoint of the NEC leadership pointing out that Trotskyism is opportunism covered with “Left” phrases, which in its present form is playing a counter-revolu- tionary role. Understanding the role of Trotskyism and its relation with the Right danger, we must continue our struggle to eliminate it ideologically and organizationally from our ranks, at the same time always waging the struggle against the main danger—the Right. The Right Danger in the League. The duplication of the wrong line of the Party in the League, | coupled with the active participation of the League in the factional struggle of the Party resulted in the League not recognizing or fight- ing the Right danger in its ranks. As shown in the analyses of the wrong estimation and concepts of the status of the American working youth and their role in the class struggle—and as this wrong estimate reflected itself in the activities of the League and in its present organized status, neither the leader- ship or membership were orientated or prepared for making the new turn which would place the League in leadership in the growing strug- gles of the young workers. “ The main characteristics of the Right danger in the League are the underestimation of the radicalization of the working youth and the role of the League, underestimation of the war danger and remnants |, of pacifism, incorrect attitude towards the working youth which leads i to deproletarianization, failure to overcome the tradition and old meth- ods of work, which found their expression in a) entering late in all the struggles of working youth, b) poor social composition, c) poor reeruit- ing and fluctuation of membership, d) misunderstanding united front tactics from top, with fake progressives and with petty bourgeois liber- als (Buffalo, Brookwood, as City), c) pacifism and underestimation war danger, f)practical liquidation Ind, Dept, during part 1928, g) no Negro activity, h) incorrect position and opposition to building youth sections (Plott in Chicago), i) hiding face of League and hesitance push- ing League forefront of struggle (failure include League in youth con- ference calls-tendency substitute clubs for League units, ete.), j) no new proletarian leadership developed, k) wrong slogans in daily agita- tion and activity (Los Angeles, Aberdeen and Pittsburgh), (To Le Continued.) Many women have to support ane \lies left fatherless by the war “to make the world safe for democracy” —the democracy of the rent and pre- fit-gougers. They have to leave their children on the street or with neigh- bors or in beastly day nurseries while they toil cooking, scrubbing, | cleaning other peoples houses, and| caring for the children of the op-| | pressors, ten and twelve hours a day, seven days a week, for $10.00, $12.00, | | $15.00! | Out of these wages they have to} meet the ruthless rent squeezers who | demand $30.00 and $40.00 a month’ for 3 and 4 room flats without heat, often without hot water or baths, | with ceilings comit.g down and walls | falling apart, noisy dumps unfit for | human habitation. For the “better class” apartments, with steam heat and hot water now| and then, the fat landlords, pillars | of the church and respected citizens of capitalist society, demand $40.00 for 1 and 2 rooms, $45.00, $50.00, $60.00 for 8 and 4 rooms, 70.60, $80.00, and $100.00 for 4, 5 and 6 | rooms, and so up the scale. A vici- |ous and crushing circle of exploita- tion and oppression! <8 More Raises Soon. | AST December, following the ex- piration of the rent laws, which | were only introduced on mass pr |sure from the tenants, for apart-| | ments renting between $10.00 and | $15.00 per room per month, the | landlords immediately set to work.| | Raises ranging from $5.00 to as high | |as $35.00, were handed out whole- sale and dispossesses served upon thousands of families, | But this is nothing to what is ‘coming when these laws expire for | the poorest class and for all tenants jat the end of next month. More rent! | raises and dispossesses will follow. Mass Pressure Needed, | Only the united, organized, mass | | pressure of the tenants and workers, | will avail in the least to stem this, | tide of rent profiteering, Only this! power will avail to compel decent | MAY DAY | { | AMPLE SUPPLIES OF THESE 102 each to individuals COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. | gram and fights with the tenants | see what happens, { This year will carry the slogans: —‘“Organize the Unorganized!” —‘Defend the Soviet Union!” —“Fight Imperialist War” DERED FROM THE DISTRICw’ PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW! PRICES: Te each to Units on orders up to 100 buttons 6c each to Units on orders over 100 buttons menace they now faee. This pro- gram reaches out to unite the or-| ganized tenants and workers of Har- lem with the tenants and workers | throughout the city and country. Already several organizations; have lined up for the fight. The} New York Federation of Wurking Women, the United Council of Work-| ing Women, the American Negro La-| bor Congress and other organizations are already at work to call a broad rent and housing conference and to mobilize a powerful mass move- ment of tenants and workers to meet this rent and housing crisis. | Join Harlem Tenants’ League. ‘ Lying promises and fake “fact | finding commissions” as well as) worthless bills and laws have been} forthcoming from the capitalist Po- | liticians, but they have failed abso-' lutely to stop rent gouging or to provide decent houses for the masses. | it is clear to all who follow their record that these politici.ns are for | the landlords and the capitalists | and against the workers. The fact is that only the Communist Party has brought forward a basic pro- and workers against the landlords and capitalists, Tenants and workers of Harlem! Join the Harlem Tenants League! | Organize to resist the profiteers! | Tenants and Workers, black and white! Unite in a powerful mass | Struggle against the common enemy! | Fight to abolish the system of land- lordism and capitalism! Fight for ja workers government which will igive us a decent housing and social system! * * Tomorrow the Daily Worker investigator will continue the ex- posure of housing conditions in Hariem. Follow him to a block of tenements owned by a church and The working class cannot simply lny hold of the rendy made State machinery, wield it for its own purpose, ‘Thin new Commune (Paris Commune), . .breaks the modern State power.—Marx, BUTTONS BUTTONS SHOULD BE OR. OFFICES OF THE PARTY! S. A.—NATIONAL OFFICE. »| Olen Is Crowle As if to give a realistic background to the “Red Napoleon” bunk being published in Liberty, comes a sto: n the N, Y, Herald-Tribune about Soviet intrigue in Scotland Yard. The British working class is before an election campaign and this story will probably be the 1929 “Zinoviev Letter.” The American capitalists are worried that the E ish election results will give an impetus to the revolutionary movement in the United States and they are preparing for it. j They have able assistants in their preparations in such “revolue } tionary” organizations as the Daughters of the American Revolution, The New Jersey State chapter of this degenerate outfit listened yes- terday to an address on the Menace of American Communism by Mrs. F. J. Shepard, formerly Helen Gould, who warned the per- fumed and manicured ladies against the “Communistic revolutionary headquarters in Union Square where papers were printed.” In case you don’t know who Mrs. Shepard is we might list her husband’s corporation pedigrees, N. P. Rway., A. T. and 8. F. Rway., Sante Fe Coast Lines, Mo, P., Rway., Mo. P. R. R. Co., D. & R. G. R. R. Co,, Va. Rway and Power Co., Tex, and Pac. Rway., Merchants Fire Assurance Co., also member Union League Club, Bankers Club, ete. With such connections we understand her fear of the growing Daily Worker. The workers can answer effectively by supporting the paper the capitalists fear. The Party is getting behind the subscription drive. THE PARTY. FOLLOW The California district of the Party in general membership meet- ing on April 7 adopted its mobilization program for the task of ob- taining their quota, Cleveland holds its meeting for this purpose April 17. Buffalo district writes “we will answer the ‘Red Napoleon’ with batches of subs.” But we are slow! White Terror, war preparations, need a great~ er Daily. Strikes, colonial uprisings, etc., need a greater Daily. By next Monday we must go and triple our present tempo in getting the quotas filled. The totals for the week ending April 13 are given below: Subscriptions Received Quota District 1 (Boston) , -28 350 District 2 (New York) .. 2,750 District 3 (Philadelphia 375 District 4 (Buffalo) .. 320 District 5 (Pittsburgh) . 450 District 6 (Cleveland) 400 District 7 (Detroit) .... 750 District 8 (Chicago) 850 District 9 (Minneapolis) 450 District 10 (Kansas City) . 275 District 12 (Seattle) ... 275 District 13 (California) 525 District 15 (Connecticut) . 225, Agricultural and South ... 300 Miscellaneous ..,.... qa 628 8,250 TO THE SPECIAL MAY DAY EDITION OF THE DAILY WORKER Have your name and the names of your shop- mates printed in the Red Honor Roll. See that your organization has a greeting printed in the Special Edition. NAME AMOUNT Total COLLECTED BY Name .,. Address .. CUE ja vnesaccsesarsecmee sess t BRUCOedn hones varices Baily GAs Worker 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. ive