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ublishing Co. Telep! s to the Daily W y, at 26-28 Union DATWwOR New York, N. ¥. Central Organ of the Communist Party —= SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mail (in New ‘York only): $8.00 a year: Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 a year; $2.50 three months $4:50 six months: $2.00 three months $3.50 six months: PARTY LIFE | WEEKLY DUES IN OUR PARTY | The Polcom of the Centra] Committee of our Party has made the following decisions, to take effect from January 1, 1930. (1) To institute a uniform system of payments based on | two per cent of the wages received by each member, to be payable weekly, 50 per cent to go to the National Office, 30 per cent to the district, 10 per cent to the section and 10 per cent to the unit. (2) Institute a direct financial levy on every comrade receiving comparatively high income, to be collected by the district office and to be divided 50 per cent to the District and 50 per cent to the National Office; the details to carry out this plan to be worked out by the Fin- ance Commission. This means that from January 1 a new registration of our mem- bership will take effect, new membership books will be issued and the membership dues will be higher than before, when most comrades paid only 50 cents a month. The result of such dues have been that our sections and districts have been working under the worst financial con- ditions, that our National Office has been out of funds and compelled to make heavy loans. Further many of our Party members with higher wages or salaries have escaped with the same payment of dues as com- rades who have had to live on a very meager income. Now the two per cent will be supplemented by a heavier extra taxation of comrades with higher income. Comrades with wages above Party maximum | have to give large contributions to the Pa and members with some | fortune will be extra taxed by the Party treasury. The financial difficulties of our Party are one of the reasons for | his change, but not the only one. In our units there has ays been a practice of taxing our membership too heavily from all sources. Some- times no other activity has taken place except ticket selling for Party affairs, or even for non-Party affairs (such as I.L.D. and W.LR. bazaars,) etc., which should be carried by non-Party masses). This has to be stopped—Party affairs and selling of tickets to them will continue but in a considerable smaller scale, and with lower prices— and when the Party, through this more rational dues tem will be put on a financially sounder basis, also the collections, the financial drives for the Daily Worker will be easier to organize without bleeding our membership to a point where it will be impossible for them to give any more. Introduction of this system means financial regularity in- stead of financial chaos. The dues of 50 cents a month or for higher paid members 75 cent or a dollar, are dues which must be considered as too low in our Par The two per cent dues are high, but not too high in a Communist Par which demands from its members the utmost sacrifices. To this must be added that weekly payments makes it easier to pay than monthly. Furthemore the Polcom has decided that no extra taxation will be al- lowed in the units, neither by the section or district except by permission of the Central Committee. The Poleom has with this decision, accompanied by other decisions, e.g., through establishing a financial committee, taken steps to liquidate unprofitable business undertakings, ete.—lead the Party away from the speculation policy of the Levestone leadership, which left the National Office with debts up to $40,000 and with almost no income. Now these debts have been co erably liquidated and other measures’ by the Central Committee will bring stability in our finances, establish a reg- | alar organized and efficient tem of financing the Party. | NOVEMBER “COMMUNIST” IMPORTANT ISSUE The November issue of the “Communist” because of the rich and valuable materia] it contains, must be read by every Party member. The main features of the November issue of the “Communist” are the articles on the Tenth Plenum of the C. C. L, as well as the October Plenum of our Party. Unless the Party membership familiarizes itself with the general political line laid down by the Tenth Plenum and followed by the October Plenum of the Communist Party of America, it will not be in a position to develop our Party into a mass Communist Party. . In connection with the struggle of our Party against Lovestone and his right-wing group, the “Communist” has a detailed analytical article on the theoretical background of the right wing group in Amer- ica, as well as in the International. Concerning the present state of world capitalism, the article on “Organized Capitalism” in each country exposes the social-democratic theory of “organized” capitalism and the abolition of the inner contradictions of capitalism as exposed by Buk- harin and followed by Lovestone and the international right wing gen- erally. The question of “organized capitalism” is not new; Bukharin raised it as far back as 1916, and it was met with the most merciless struggle and criticism by Comrade Lenin. No Party functionary, no Party member can afford not to read this valuable article. The article no “Fight for Independent Leadership” in the Commu- nist Party of Great Britain, offers to the American Party some very important and valuable experiences. The present struggle in the Brit- ish Communist Party for the political line of the Communist Interna- tional is of utmost interest to the American Party and must be closely followed and studied by every Party member of the C. P. U. S. A. In addition to all this valuable material already mentioned, the November issue of the “Communist” contains special articles dealing with the 12th Anniversary of the October Revolution, the achievements of the Russian workers and peasants and their successful construction of socialism, and the international revolutionary significance of the Five-Year Plan. The November issue of the “Communist” must not only be read by every Party member, but we must also see to it that revolutionary workers outside our Party read the “Communist” and we must there- fore take most energetic steps to increase the circulation of the theoreti- cal organ of the Party. A MARKET PLACE. The other day I had the experience of being present at a nucleus meeting which was held under circumstances most impermissible in a Communist Party. It seemed to me a ghastly example of American efficiency. It was at a meeting of a so-called “industrial nucleus” (whatever that is!) No less than three nuclei met at the same time in the same room. And this was in New York where we “outsiders” always used to believe that our Party had the most effective form of organization. It is not necessary to explain the impossibility of doing any seri- ous work under such conditions. Even the routine work of the nuc- leus becomes rotten work under such intolerable conditions. And the cmrades tried to comfort me by telling me that the conditions could be still “better,” because sometimes there are r nuclei meeting at the same time in the same room! How about our section organizers seeing to it that this nuisance be liquidated as soon as possible. A NEW COMER. | Labor Fakers Crawl to Ispwich Hosiery Company Mill Bosses GLOUCESTER, Mass., Nov. 19.— asset to the mill owners, bent every The crawling of the labor misleaders jeffort to get the Ipswich bosses to of the A. F. of L. Hosiery Workers | meet with the misleaders with the Union, before the bosses of the Ip-| object of “settlement” in view. swich Hosiery Co., for “arbitration”, But the company remained arro- of the strike of the Ipswich workers |gant as no militant action has been against the yellow dog, has turned allowed the strikers by the fakers. out to have been of no avail, for the, The city council is planning action bosses have refused to talk to the against the company, for not paying fakers. ‘bills for extra police “protection” | The Gloucester City Council and thrown around the plant, furnished the Chamber of Commerce, recogniz-|the company for use against the ing the labor fakers as a valuable |strikers. Scabs Can’t Break Ont. Logger Strike SHABAQUA, Ont. Nov. 19, —|Port Arthur joined the strikers Some 300 lumber workers are strik- | when met at the train by delegates. ing here for wage gains and better Lack of funds alone will defeat | be the strike, Organizer Alfrd Hatua- conditions. They are led by the aki says. Union headquarters, Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union. where relief may be sent are at 23 | Seabs shipped from Winnipeg any | Secord St. Port Arthur, Ont. | called “loyal men.” | ‘ scab agencies and fase’ AFTER THE MAY DAY BARRICADES * Resolution of the November 1929 Plenary Session of the Chicago District U.S. A. on the Economic and Political Situation and Tasks of the Party In yesterday's edition the first installment of this resolution ex- ) elements. By sharp ideological and organizational measures, a part of plained and gave many examples of the deepening industrial and fin- ancial crisis, reflected in the stock market collapse, pointed out and gave many cases of persecution of the working class, greater exploita- tion by the employers, and told of the growing radicalization of the workers. The second installment of the resolution follows below. srk * 7. MISLEADERS AND BOSSES UNITE TO FIGHT LABOR. The offensive against the standard of living of the workers and the attacks on the militant movements of the workers have been carried out by the employers in full collaboration with the social reformists, the American Federation of Labor, Socialist Party, etc. In the mining industry, Fishwick has taken out. an injunction against the miners in full cooperation with the courts and the operators. The fakers have everywhere participated in the attack upon the Party and the revolu- tionary unions. In addition to betraying every step of the workers for organization and militant struggle, they have acted as open agents of the bosses even to the extent of pointing out individual militant work- ers and getting the bosses to fire these from the shop or mine. In the needle trades, the A. F. of L. has openly used the state apparatus in order to crush the workers. In the mining industry, they attempt to break the mass movement of the miners by organizing cadres of so- This means nothing else but the preparation of units for the purpose of attacking the work- ers in their struggl Everywhere the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor as well as the Musteites and the socialist party have come out openly as agents of the capitalist class. With the pres- ent sharpening situation and the pressure of the bourgeoisie the bosses and social reformists find ready allies in the form of all sorts of op- portunists and renegades. A striking example is furnished by the | treacherous alliance of the faker Watt, who follows a typical Musteite line, with the Trotskyites, Angelo of Springfield, McMillan of St. Louis, who jointly attempted to split the National Miners’ Union. Watt, who has made open advances to Howatt, Hapgood and their like, has been openly supported by the Trotskyites in his attack upon the Communist Party and the National Miners nion. The Lovestoneites in this sit- uation where the Party is under a fierce attack by the capitalist state are likewise busy viciously attacking the Party. The united. front of the social reform , the fakers, and the opportunists, together with the bosses and the courts against the Communist Party and the working class is already a fact. ‘ The growing radicalization of the workers and the sharpened class struggles of this period leads to the development of a new brand of “left” social reformists, who under the cover of pseudo-radicalism be- tray the workers. These elements are the most dangerous in this per- iod and must be ruthlessly exposed and fought by our Party. 8. COMMUNISTS MUST LEAD COMING MASS STRUGGLES. The present period is a period of a coming economic crisis with all the consequences of mass unemployment, further attacks on the standard of living of the working class, intensification of speed-up, all of which on the other hand will meet with the ever-growing and more determined resistance on the part of the workers. This period will be punctuated with still fiercer attacks upon the Communist Party and all revolutionary working class organizations, further attempts to drive the C. P. into illegality, the extended use of fascist methods, the grow- ing radicalization of the working class and sharpening of the class struggle. This period will see a closer coalition of the bosses, the state apparatus, and the social reformists and the opportunists. This: situa- tion at the same time creates a tremendous base for the growth of the revolutionary unions and the transformation of the Communist Party into a mass party of the American working class. The tasks of the Party in this period therefore must be to prepare for the leadership of these mass struggles, to prepare itself ideological- ly and organizationally for the growth of the revolutionary movement. The immediate tasks of the Party are to win the majority of the work-. ing class to participate actively in the everyday economic struggles of the working class, striving to transform these economic struggles into political ones, to organize the unorganized, to build the new revolution- ary unions, to build the mass Communist Party. To accomplish these tasks the Party must intensify its activities in the trade union field, must consolidate its fractions in the old unions, and with the greatest possible emphasis intensify its work in the shops and factories, 9. THE RIGHT DANGERE THE MAIN DANGER. — . In all sections of the Communist International, the Third Period characterized by the sharpening contradictions of world capitalism, the radicalization of the working class, the rising tide of the revolutionary labor movement, the growing danger of war, especially against the U. S. S. R., the Right danger is the main danger within the Communist Parties. In District No. 8, as well, the Right danger still remains the chief danger despite the quick defeat here of first the Trotskyites, who covered their opportunism with left phrases, and later the Lovestone- ites, the open opportunists. i Due to the sound proletarian basis of the Party in this district, the loyalty of the membership to the Communist International, and to the efficient manner in which the enlightenment campaign was carried thru, the Lovestoneites, led by the renegade Kruse, received but insigni- ficant support from the Chicago membership. The ideological struggle and organizational measures against those elements who supported their counter-revolutionary line guickly liqui- dated all open support for Lovestone. For a short period, a few com- rades held a conciliatory position in regard to the struggle against these } By Fred Ellis Committee ot the C. P. ? these comrades were won for the Party line. The remainder openly joined with the enemies of the Party. In all only a mere handful of comrades had to be dealt with organizationally, and these invariably, were non-working class elements. There still remains a few concealed Lovestoneites or conciliators in the Party who must be unmasked and compelled to capitulate or be expelled, but the Party, as a whole, has decisively shown its determination to accept and fully carry through the line of the Communist International and of the Central Committee. It is likewise still necessary to expose and struggle against the Trot- skyites (Cannonites), who daily show their opportunist counter-revolu- tionary line by uniting with all the open enemies of the Party in their struggle against the Party and the revolutionary trade unions. 10. CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST RIGHT DANGER. But by the exclusion of the open Lovestoneites and conciliators from the Party, the struggle against the Right danger has but begun. The tremendous economic resources of the American bourgeoisie, its ability to corrupt the upper strata of the working class, the reflection of deir opportunistic illusions within our Party, the large foreign born membership of the Party to a certain extent isolated from the Amer- iean class struggle and having narrow nationalist tendencies, the organ- izational weakness of the Party, the remnants of white chauvinism, etc., precisely in the moment when the basic need of sharply turning the line of the Party to meet the third period, consistently causes the Party to make <erious Right errors in its work and makes the Right danger the main Tanger. The chief manifestations of the Right danger in the district at the present time are: (1) the underestimation of the character of the third period (underestimation of the growth of inner contradictions, of radi- calization, of the sharpening class struggle), and primarily in the fail- ure to anticipate the attack against the Party organization and to make preparations for this attack; (2) underestimation of the Right danger— a tendency which expresses itself in the condemnation of the Lovestone- ites and Cannonites and then considers that no further struggle against the Right danger is necessary; (3) insufficient internationalism and a distinct localism which tends to approach problems only from the point of view of the developments within the district itself; (4) a tendency to lag behind the masses in the everyday struggles of the working class (Red Day in Waukegan, Racine, Bicknell; the mining struggle in south- ern Illinois, failure to enter into other strike struggles in various parts of the district, etc.). This tendency is the strongest manifestation of the Right dariger in the Chicago district and must be sharply fought against; (5) underestimation of social reformism and the failure to lead an aggressive struggle against the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, failure by some comrades to energetically fight Watt in southern Illinois, failure to develop sharp struggles against the socialist party in Milwaukee, where they control the city administration; (6) underestimation of Negro work and strong manifestations of white chauvinism (failure to maintain a Negro organizer, the development of insufficient struggles around the many cases of segregation and discrimination against the Negroes, and open manifestations of white chauvinism among the Lith- uanian comrades). The Right danger further manifests itself in a whole series of questions, such as the underestimation of the shop nuclei form of or- ganization and of improving the social compositian of the Party, re- sistance to the reorganizations of the language work, strong Right ten- dencies in cooperative work (Jewish Workers’ Cooperative, Waukegan Finnish Cooperative), Right tendencies in language organizations, the serious Right mistakes made in the Palestine affair, and also in the tendency of the Party to take only a defensive position in numerous working class struggles. 11. SOME REAL ACHIEVEMENTS. Since the arrival of the Comintern Address and its full acceptance by the district, the following achievements can be recorded. The Lovestoneites have been decisively defeated and factionalism in the district has been completely overcome. In the preparation for International Red Day energetic work was carried on by the Party: 250,000 leaflets were distributed, many shop meetings were held and thousands of workers, not only in Chicago, but in outlying sections, weve mobilized for the struggles against war and the defense of the Soviet Union: The Full Time Training School, despite a number of difficulties, was successfully carried through. A wide ‘agitational campaign was carried on for the T. U. U. L., many shop meetings were held, which resulted in the sending of approximate- ly 90°delegates to the Cleveland Convention. The Tenth Anniversary campaign of the Party was energetically carried through. A whole series of meetings, several demonstrations, and two tag days were car- ried: through in connection with the defense of the Gastonia strikers. THE CITY.------ OF BREAD Reprinted, by permission, from “The City of Bread” by Alexander Neweroff, published and copyrighted by Doubleday—Doran, New York. TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN (Continued.) & Mishka saw a black sky covered with huge stars, a black steppe— not a sound. At first he did not understand what had happened; he sat in a daze as if waking from deep sleep, rubbed his bruised head, and suddenly fear gripped him and turned his mind and heart to stone. They had gone on, they had left him, no one cared what became of him, no one would help him to escape. Mishka’s hair stood on end, his thoughts grew confused, his eyes glazed with fear. Straight toward him a giant shadow was moving. The shadow fell into halves, and each half sprouted hands and feet and an enormous Kirghiz head with a ghastly swaying cap. The Kirghiz came on in their terrible caps, growing more and more gigantic as they advanced, shaking the long. grass, baring their teeth, waving their arms. A wild lonely shriek cut the black silence . “Little mother!” Mishka tried to run. : ae Kirghiz hands seized him from behind, in his ears terrible Kirghi’ voices shouted: “Death!” To his crazed eyes an immense burdock that rose in his path became a huge giant—there was no escape. Mishka fell on his knees before. the giant, and cowered there in silence till morning came. But it was not death. Death strode through the cars, over the car-roofs, in the ditches where the famine-stricken lay. Death overtook the soldier, and the little girl who had gone ahead, found them in the little station to which they had hastened. But in Mishka’s pocket lay a piece of bread, and the thousand rubles remaining from the sale of his packet. When the morning sun had warmed him through, the terror of the previous night vanished. Only weakness—the weakness of an old man—remained, an! a violent headache. : Mishka’s eyes stared lifelessly, his mind was a blank. He thought of his mother, but the thought was immediately quenched. Every- thing passed before him as in a confused fantastic dream. Dully, in- differently, he drew the bread from his pocket. Dully, indifferently, he ate it. He would have liked to lie down ‘and sob his heart out on the alien, unpeopled steppe, but the strength flowed into his body again, his eyebrows drew together, and the dogged will to live flared up in him again. “T’m going on.” The distant mountains, the telegraph poles, the shining, flashing rails drew themselves in sharp lines against the horizon. Mishka looked in both directions, and his heart began to beat in alarm: “Which is the way?” “Where is Tashkent?” “If I go this way—it may be wrong. . - - The rails burnt and flashed in the morning sunlight. Grippin. fear of the vast unbounded spaces, of the far-off blue mountains ra along the rails. He must not cry. Who would see Mishka’s tears, when not a single person was there? Who would help Mishka if he remained in one spot all day long?” He took twenty steps in one direction—stopped. You're going wrong! ‘ : He took twenty steps in the opposite direction—and stopped again. That can’t be the way. = His mother would be thinking: is my little son still on his way, or is he dead? Maybe she herself had died, and Yashka and Fyedka as well. on Mishka stood there deep in thought, his pale lips tightly locked. His whole life passed before him, and the first day when he had set out from home. Must he die now? He looked up and down the flashing rails, then paused, arrested by a sudden thought. Yesterday the train had gone up this hill, so he must go up the hill too—that was the right way. Mishka tightened his soldier’s belt, pulled his old cap over his eyes, felt his knife in his pocket, and set out with new courage for the far- off blue mountains. Vast and boundless are the spaces of the steppe. Vast and terrible for man, a tiny point floating upon its vastnes The vultures sit desolate on the ancient graves of the princes of thi) steppe. Not a human being, not a human voice. Burdocks, desert shrubs, naked salt deposits, deep fissures cutting them, here and there the dung of camels. Here and there Mishka came on a piece of paper, thrown from tie window of a passing train. It lay there abandoned, a guest forsaken in an alien place, pressed close to the roots of the dry grasses. Then with a rush of joy he found a mujik’s sandal, brought there from God knows what far-off and unknown village. Mishka sighed, thought of Serioshka and Trofim, Yashka and Fyedka, his mother, the Lopatino mujiks, the Lopatino River; and again he plodded on stubbornly, pale lips tightly locked. If the Kirghiz should overtake him now, he would say to them: “Why do you want to kill me? Take my knife, my belt, my cap, my trousers, my shirt, and my thosand rubles! Only don’t kill me.” Over the steppe quivered the sun-drenched air, now a sea, now a mighty river, now a tiny brooklet. The watchful, straining eye seized upon distant mirages, now a tree, now a man, now a village with straw- thatched roofs like Lopatino, floating in space. And the next moment neither tree nor man remained, nor the village, melted into space. Mishka gathered together his last strength, he began counting the telegraph poles, stubbornly, doggedly, and he thought: “No need to be afraid, you are not so rich!” He had already counted two hundred telegraph poles, and was be- ginning on his third hundred. The dogged will to live that let the little freightened worm along the railroad tracks gave strength to Mishka’s legs. He even skipped a little, broke into a run, then he remembered Trofim, who had managed to get on the train, and a feeling of bitter injury lashed him to greater effort. Now he was alone. They had deserted him, they had no pity for him, he had only himself to rely on. Let them think\that he was dead, let them go on riding in the train, seeing they were the kind of people who desert their comrades. He would keep on just the same, and no one would harm him, because he -was poor. Any one could see that right away. He had gone two hun- dred telegraph poles already, he would go two hundred more, and kee . on going until he died! He would die, how could he escape it? It wa the fate of our people—it must be endured. On a hill in a broad valley a little station came into view. Fro: the station the train began moving in Mishka’s direction. A black column of smoke rose from the engine. Mishka cried aloud for joy: “There she is!” And when the train neared him, he waved his old cap to the mujiks, | gazed with sparkling eyes as the last car went by, heaped high with grain, remembered his sacks which had been stolen, and then rolled on again Jike a tiny ball along the shining, flashing rails. ‘Now I’m not afraid!” : Three big shaggy dogs came toward him. No one in sight, far and wide. Mishka stopped, and the dogs stopped. One of them lay down between the rails. Mistika was freightened, and in his fear that the dog might tear him to pieces he began to pray; but the prayers got all tangled up, and the dogs did not go away. Then with a sinking heart Mishka made a detour, crouched down as he walked, so the dogs: wouldn't notice him, But one of them came straight toward him, - Mishka stopped and the dog stopped. He remembered about the bear wouldn't touch them. Maybe the dogs wouldn’t touch him if he pre- tended to be dead. Mishka sat down on the naked salt earth, cautiously» In Southern Illinois, the struggle against the coal barons, and their agents, Lewis and Fishwick, was taken up energetically under the lead- ershi pof the Party. New units of the Party were established and in- correct tendencies toward the Party which were previously ‘strong, have been to a great extent overcome., A whole series of shop meetings and factory distributions were held in connection with the above events. Successful demonstrations were arranged in connection with Pulaski Day, the murder of Ella Ma; Wiggins, etc.’ The beginnings of an of- fensive struggle against the needle trades gangsters was successfully made by the Party. In all of these activities, larger masses of workers were mobilized under the leadership of the Party than ever hefore. The influence of "the Party has been greatly increased among the workers in District No.8 (To be continued) iSeeinn stretched out his legs, raised his head, and followed every movement of the dogs with straining watchful eyes. In his terror the dogs seemed | gigantic, with their long black hair, and their long bared teeth—an?/ suddenly they melted away into thin air, Three black clouds floated over the head, and from far in the distance came back the sound o: barking. A Mishka’s head dropped’ tovthe ‘ground, his eyes closed. -He slept heavily and long, and in his dreams he saw three dogs. But they weren't Kirghiz dogs at all, but his own Lopatino dogs, and Mishka himself was not lying on the naked salt earth in the far-off steppe, but at home, in Lopatino, on the banks of the Lopatino River. The dogs licked his hands, rolled on their backs and wagged their tai r of them inquired in a human voice: “~ (To Be Continued.) and the two boys in the forest: they pretended to be dead, so the bear |