The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1929, Page 4

iblished_ by New the Comprod York City, N. mm By By ieee rty of thi Mail (in New York only Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 a year; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $8.00 a year $4.50 six months: $5.50 six months; $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ANSWER THE ATTACKS ” UPON THE PARTY BY A BIG RECRUITING DRIVE By EARL BROWDER. : (ee attacks upon the Party have been grow- ing more severe. With the Party throw- ng off the paralyzing influence of the Love- stone renegades and getting into action in the and in the great International Red Yemonstrations, our class enemies are more and more resorting to suppressive meth- Their object is to drive the Party into class struggle, illegality. Our answer must be, intensified ac- tivity among the ma and BUILDIN THE PARTY OF IZATION IN SHOPS AND FACTORI That is the m ing of the recruiting drive that begins on Dec. 10, a order effectively to recruit r Part it is nec ry to make clear to the picreRlive members what is the Communist Party, what are its aims, and how does it work. We must give the workers the full understand- building the Party is the best workers into ing of how answer the attacks of the bosses and their agents. We must give them the understanding of the Party's role, as it was described by Lenin: “By educating the workers’ Party, Marx- ism educates the vanguard of the proletar- iat, thus fitting it to seize power and to lead the whole people towards socialism, to carry on and organize the new order, to be- come the teacher, the guide, the leader of all who labor and are exploited—their teacher, guide and leader in the work of organizing their social life without the bourgeoisie and against the bourgeoisie.” (In “State and Revolution.”) His understanding of the role of the Party will prepare the workers for assuming the duties and responsibilities of membership—and and the same time it carries out a very neces- ray preliminary SELECTION process among prospective members. It drives away the faint-hearted and undisciplined, those still un- der the influence of the capitalist class ideas, and it draws closer the true proletarians, the workers in the shops, who are filled with the spirit of struggle against capitalism, and who are seeking the means of realizing their urge toward such struggle. Our new pamphlet “Why Should Join the Communist » which explains in simple language all questions, should be made one of our principle weapons in the Recruiti g Drive. Especially must we show those workers ne ympathetic to our Party, that o! recent experiences in cleansing the y of. the renegade Lovestone group is proof of the Bolshevik quality of the Pa which is be- coming the kind of organization Lenin de- scribed—able to overcome all capitalist influ- ences, even when these show themselves in the very heart of the F to cleanse itself, and to renew its proletarian energies from the great reservoir of the working class, and thru all its struggles, with the open enemies as well as with the inner enemy of opportunism, more and more solidifying its rpen- ing its weapons, for the final struggle for power, portunist elements in our Party constitute one of the most important reasons why every work- er should join the Cor forces, shi The renegades have denounced our Party Recruiting Drive, and called upon the workers not to respond to it. Their vicious attacks are only additional proof that the movement cor- rectly threw them into the garbage pail. Such attacks are only specialized form of the gen- eral capitalist offensive against the working and against the Communist Party, just as they are a part of the preparations of war against the Soviet Union. Our answer* to them is the same as our answer to the capi- talist courts in Charlotte, which sentenced our seven comrades to 20 years in prison; the same as our answer to the imprisonments in Penn- sylvania, California, and New York, the same as our answer to the innumerable police per- cla secutions—the answer TO RE JOUBLE OUR ENERGIES IN TH F PO BUILD THE REVOLUTIO RY TRADE UNIONS, AND TO BRING 5,000 NEW MEMBERS iNTO THE PARTY. Answer the attacks of the bosses and their agents! Build the Party! New Dues System Our Party and the Nev By BEATRICE SISKIND. C= RADES who have labored against the de- vastating procedure of endless collections which have hampered the political development of the units and have reduced them to dues and money collecting agencies, greet the New Dues em that the Political Committee of has prgposed, with enthusiasm. Our task and perpetual question always was, “How can we Activize the Unit.” This question has been asked and answered by section commit- y Unit Executives, by the leading com- in the district, thru letters, speeches, bul- . but the unit remains the same mechan- ical money raising unit. We are swamped in collections. Our functionaries, instead of giv- ing reports and drawing the political signifi- cance of the work they are conducting, and drawing every comrade of the unit into this work, are so emerged in bookkeeping that they forget the purpose of their job. And so I could relate obstacles upon obstacles, but it all reduces itself to the single trouble and that is mechartica] collections. It is necessary to note here the effect that these collections have on the various groups of comrades. Comrades who are ideologically weak cannot find anything in the, Party unit to keep them. Hence they drift away and come to meetings only seldom. The unit eventually loses these comrades. New comrades, who come in from the struggle full of enthusiasm are soon disillusioned and become cynical. The old guard stays on and looks for a solution to make ihe unit the real political expression and training ground for the Party work among the masses. It is these few comrades that bear the double burden of contributing to the limit to these endless collections, and doing 3 or 4 jobs that the increasing struggles of the work- ers demand. Every Party member must do Party work. The unit must discuss every problem of the working class and arm itself with a thorough Leninist understanding of the tasks facing us in this present period of intensified class strug- gle and the menace of the war which has al- veady started on the Manchurian border, in order to work in the factories and shops among the masses of workers. Our unit must be the training ground of the vanguard of the work- ing class. This can only be accomplished by removing the mechanical procedure that exists in the unit. Each comrade will then feel that the unit is the foundation of the Party and as such he must strengthen it. Let us see concretely how the dues system will remove the obstacles standing in the way ef our unit development. Let us review one -unit meeting and approximate the collections taken. There are always two or three different tickets to dances for auxiliary organizations, some for the Y. C. L., the Party, ete., which means the minimum of $1 for each comrade. Daily Worker collectiop for the southern cam- paign—25 cents weekly—Daily Worker sustain- ing fund—25 to 50 cents weekly, auxiliary or- ganizations (3 or 4 collections) at least $1 apiece, rent for the section headquarters, about 10 cents weekly, section affairs about 25 cents weekly and miscellaneous emergencies about 25 cents per week—total $2.50 weekly. Under the new dues system figuring on a wage of $40 a week the member would pay 175 cents weekly dues only. The average comrade does not earn $40 per week regularly. Those com- rades who do earn more than $40 certainly ought to contribute towards liquidating the financia) difficulty of the Party and to enable the Party to better conduct the work. Now if we compare the collection of the maximum of 75 cents weekly in an orderly and systematic manner to the collection of over $2 in a chaotic and disorganized manner we can easily see which would benefit the unit and which would be he ful to its life, spuinger, the New Dues System, eget re- lieved from the pressure of ticket selling, of numerous collections and constant interrup- tions, will be able to devote more time to ac- tivizing each and every comrade, to check up on their activities in the shops and factories, to discuss their problems, to study their tasks, and thus develop and clarify the weaker com- rades and strengthen our ranks. Generally the unit will be given breathing space and will become a live force with its face and hand in the work among the mas: Comrades must popularize this decision of the Party. Comrade Stalin Greets the Spe-| ‘cial Far-Eastern Army on the 12th Anniversary of the October Revolution. (From the “Pravda.”) To the Red Fighters and Commanders, Edi- torial Committee, Special Far Eastern Army Paper “Alarm.” Brotherly greetings to the fighters and com- manders of the Special Far Eastern Army, fighting ceaselessly in the interests of the Oc- tober Revolution against the attacks of the Chinese landlords and capitalists. Follow carefully every move of the Chinese counter-revolutionaries and reply to their blows with your crushing blows and thereby help our brothers in China—the Workers and Peasants of China—to destroy the yoke of the landlords and capitalists. Remember that in this glor- ious day, millions of toilers of the U. S. S. R. think of you with love and together with you, celebrate the great anniversary, and together with you are jubilant over the victories of the Far Eastern Army. Long live the October Revolution! Long live the Special Far Eastern Army! Long live the Workers and Peasants of China! JOSEPH STALIN. Soviet Youth Greet Gastonia Strikers. We, the members of Kommuna Trud, the In- ternational Red Aid organization, the Young Communist League and the Pioneers, who came two and a half years ago from America to the U. S. §. R. to partake in the practical social- istic rebuilding of the nation, being now gath- ered in an international meeting, send our fiery greeting to the revolutionary working class of America and especially to the heroic Gastonia strikers in its ranks. “With admiration and pride we have read of their valiant struggle in this strike, how they have heroically defenJed their elementary rights against capitalism’s tyrannical exploita- tion and bloody terror. We know that the capi- talist forces mean to eliminate the best from among you. The proletariat of the whole world must be aroused to prevent this. Down with the executors of the Gastonia strikers! Down with the war preparations of the im- perialists against the U. S. S. R. Long live the International Solidarity of the Working Class!” European Steel Output Goes Down. The European steel cartel has decided to re- duce steel production still further. A cut of 10 -per cent in steel production by industries involved in the European cartel has been an- nounced. This means further unemployment of European steel workers. The cut was made, says the officials of the steel cartel, because of increased competition on the worl! market, The successful liquidation of the op- | By Fred d Ellis The Cause of the Stock Market Crash By LEON PLOTT. HE stock market crisis does not only effect the entire economic life of the country, but it was caused primarily by the present econ- omic conditions. The growing disproportion between the productive capacities of American industry and markets was the main factor which with its continuous development under- mined American capitalism. Yet prior to the crash we find many basic industries curtailing production and laying off worker According toe the Annalist of November 22 we find that for months prior to the crash the productivity of the most important American industries was on the decline. We see that pig iron production from an index of 127.4 in May declined to 112.9 in October; steel ingot production from an index of 131.3 in June de- clined to 104.5 in October; freight car loading from 102.8 in May to 98 in October; automo- hile production 150 in June to 115 in October and building contracts according to the Depart- ment of Commerce declined from an index of 141 in May to 119 in September. The general index of business activity declined from 108.5 in July to 102 in October. DECLINE NOT SEASONAL, It is worth while here to remark that this downward movement is not seasonal, but forced by the contradictions of capitalism. During the same months of last year production in these industries was continuously on the upgrade. The outstanding feature in this situation is the decline in freight car loading. The rate of freight car loading is being taken by the bour- geoisie as the best indicator for business con- ditions. Not only is the freight car loading in October, 1929, less than in the same month of 1928, but it is very closely approaching the depression curve of 1927. Another phenomenon that sharply reflects the developing economic crisis and the dimin- ishing of the buying power of the masses is the decline in savings accounts. According to the report of the American Bankers Associa- tion for the year ending June 29, 1929, the de- cline in savings accounts amounts to 195 million dollars. The significance of this fact becomes particularly important when it is compared, with the previous year which showed an in- crease in savings accounts by $2,300,000,000. The decrease was not only in the total amount of capital in the savings banks but also a de- cline in the number of savings accounts by the withdrawal of 500,000 depositors. This de- velopment occurred for the first time in a per- iod of 20 years, CAPITALISM LOST BALANCE, The stocks offered on the market were far below the earning capacities of their corpora- tions. The upward movement of the stock prices was primarily based on the perspective earning gapacitier of corporations, which could come only as a result of a continuous upward trend in production. However, from the facts above we see that the future earnings were. | more acgentuated by the agricultural crisis. The financial press was forced to say: “They (the bankers, L. P.) recognize that there is an economie basis for the present sit uation.” (Journal of Commerce, Nov. 11.) However, Lovestone, seeing unlimited pros- perity can not even make as fundamental an analysis as the bourgeois economists, concern- ing the cause for the stock market crash, The right winger, Lovestone, refuses to see that the contradictions of capitalism are today so sharp, that capitalist stabilization is becoming so undermined, that capitalism can no longer effectively cope with these contradictory forces and has to go downwards. Lovestone says in the 2nd issue of the Revolutionary Age: The panic on Wall Street did not come as a result of the decline of capitalist economy. It came as a result of the very strength of capitalist economy magnifying and sharpening the contradictions of world capitalism.” (Love stone’s emphasis.) However, this proved to be insufficient for Lovestone. He issued a special document on the stock market crash where he more openly showed his bankruptcy, Lovestone said: “Nor is it correct to say that the decline in auto, steel and construction in the third quar- ter of the year played the major role in the collapse of the*stock market. . . .” LOVESTONE’S JUGGLING. This statement is typical of Lovestone. The question is not if the decline of production in auto, steel and building industries were the major factor in the stock market crash. What is important is to establish the fact, that the stock market crash came as a result of the existing cdéntradictions in American economy and that the decline in production of the most basic industries further accentuated these con- tradictions which were the basis fox the stock market crash. Lovestone by putting the ques- tion that the decline in production in auto, | steel and building did not play the major role greatly impaired by‘ the curtailment of produc- | tion and American capitalism immediately lost its balance an]! the entire structure of “pros- perity” which was built on an illusion imme- diately collapsed. The stock crash therefore did ‘not come as a result of certain psychological factors as ‘the bourgeoisie and their apologists try to tell to the masses, but is a direct outgrowth of the decline in production of the basic ihdustries, which came as a result of the growing contra. dictions of aris f other employers do.” thi ; in the stock market crash thereby also says that the decline in production in these basic in- dustrie:. generally played no role at all. This vulgarity beats even J. P. Morgan who, in the monthly bulletin for November pub- lished by the National City Bank, in its analy- sis of the causes for the stock crash, was forced to come out and admit that: “While reports of slackening business in cer- tain lines of industry may have been one fac- tor in the final break . . .” J. P. Morgan’s bank here recognizes that “slackening business” was at least “one factor in the final break” while Lovestone, the right wing renegade, in a typical Hooverian manner refuses to recognize that the decline in produc- tion in steel, auto and construction have some- thing to do with the developing crisis. In this connection the ideology and conceptions of Lovestone run in the same direction with the socialist Party. The New Leader of November 16 said: ‘ “The collapse of stock prices therefore, is attributable principally not to financial or in- dustrial conditions.” Wages to ( Go ‘Down Ford’s co-called wage increase, which really means more speed-up for the Ford workers. will not affect the plan for wage-cut drives that the bosses will undertake nationally. The leading organ of the big capitalists, “The Jour. nal of Commerce,” says “Mr, Ford’s decisions have little significance as an indication of business activity or a possible guide to what The “Journal” intim. el | and | people. SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AND LABOR (Continued.) S. CRENSHAW sighed and leaned on her Yo, honey, it ain’t so easy for us She stood looking off into space, omething which wasn’t there. Mt iron. poor fol at or for s “Now, Ma,” Doris appeared in the doorway to reprove, “you shoulden be doin’ that thar ironin’.” “But it’s high time it wuz done. to do it las’ night.” “Yes’m. But after ten hours on my feet in the spinnin’ room this weather, looks like I jes’ put it off.” Doris wa You wuz strongly-built, raw-boned girl with sandy hair and pale blue eyes—a typical Anglo-Saxon “Poor White Trash.” Now she looked almost pretty in her pink organdy, her one dress-up dress which she worked overtime to buy and sat up nights to fi (It would have been a sin to sew it on Sunday.) She only nineteen, but looked thirty, How- her enthusiasm for perfume and colored handkerchiefs purchased from the five and ten cent store on a Saturday afternoon, for movies “good times,” and the way she tossed off her new-learned slang, all makes Doris one of the new generation, She could make a good union fighter. “Well, it’s al’right, honey,” Mrs. concluded, “I only got one more. Crenshaw As Doris disappeared again to the porch to bid her lover goodnight, Mrs. Crenshaw shook her head. seems so dis: d like. ied. Some day . Then some days she’s like dumb with sadness. She wan’s to make sometun of herself, not jes’ be a mill hand. Here’s her Bob in love, and him wantin’ to marry her, and she says no, workin’ in th’ mill is bad enuf without havin’ a string She keeps 0’ younguns to look after, like the res’ of th’ wimmen does. Once she went to th’ city to git work. She wanted to work herself up, ta keepin’ books or runnin’ a typewriter, or somethin’ like that. But once they knows you is a mill hand, there ain’t a chance. She worked a while in the tin cint store, but twuz as bad as here, she sed. So she came back.” “An’ Sara,” here Mrs, Crenshaw forgot her- self to the point of sitting down, “she keeps me bothered too. You know, she’s nevah been strong in her mind. Doctor sed she’s not hed th’ right vittals when she wus growin’ up, 'n they brung her home. but for my faith in God I coulden gg on. I keep As the Holy Book “T tell you honey, and His goodness, lookin’ forward to Heaven. says—” We were interrupted by the return of the boarders from the undertakers praty. Deck- out in their best, they shambled in and gather- ed around the oil cloth table where we sat working. The men looked uncomfortable but excited in their stiff collars and white bow ties. The faces of the girls and women were flushed and shining. Each one had discarded her gingham for the occasion and wore her: or if she didn’t have one, somebody's else’ Sunday best. First came Tom, with his “ole ’oman.” They were in the fifties. Tom used to be a fiddl in the Carolina mountains, and earned his living at one of those year-round resorts making music for those Yankee tourists to dance by. It paid better than moonshining and was safer. People said Tom loved his fiddle better even than his ole ’oman. Then, Tom got a “con- viction of Sin,” as only mountaineers can get it. He had always known dancing to be the work of the Devil, and had turned his eyes from the whirling figures while his fiddle sang “Turkey’n th’ Straw.” And Maggie had told him these were forriners anyway, and not hill But the conviction of Sin was not to be denied. He was aiding in the Devil’s work. So sorrowfully he gave up his job, left the mountains and he and Maggie came to the mills to work. They were then in the middle thirties. We couldn't get Tom to play his fiddle. When we asked, he just shook his head. He never said anything, except at table. “Thank- ye fer th’ beans.” There was a fiddlers’ con- cert on and over a hundreds in the South Caro- lina hills and mill villages were going to take part. No violinists allowed, only fiddlers. Everybody begged Tom to take part, but he just shut his eyes and shook his head. Maggie told us he said to her, “Go there ’n show ’em my ignorance?” Late at night I’ve heard Tom in his room, which was just above ours, fiddling an old Eng- lish ballad or some hymn. Once he started “Turkey ’n th’ Straw,” but stopped abruptly, and then played, “Yield Not to Temptation, for Yielding Is Sin.” Maggie, Tom’s old ‘oman, was somewhat dif- ierent from Tom. She, too, was shy gray, but not so dead-quiet. She was a traveled woman for these parts, coming from out the state— Kin-tucky! Her first ole man had been a miner. One day there was another accident at the mine, and Maggie, waiting with the other women at the shaft, found her man had got his. Maggie liked to tell of mining life in the Ken- tueky mountains, but she told me she thought mill villages nicer, because here a woman could work out as well as a man. Often in the eve- nings, Maggie would read the Greenville News to Tom. She read with difficulty, spelling out bee by word. But then Tom could not read at all. Next came Abbie and Frank, followed by Doris and Sara, and the mill hands, Joe, Bill, and Harry. “Little Gladys,” who brought up the rear, looked wild-eyed and even whiter than usual behind her anemic freckles. She was tightly clutehing.a paw of each parent. Little Gladys’ parents both worked in the mill, while she, before and after school hours, set and wait- ed on the table and helped her Grandma, Mrs. | Crenshaw, with the dishes and sweeping. Every day the same movie was repeated, of eight- year-old Gladys sneaking away to play and her grandma hot on her trail, yelling “Glad-ys,” until finally the child was rounded up for work again, until she could sneak away! Little Gladys had one overpowering ambition, to learn to play the py-ano. But her Ma and Pa al- ways told her there was no money and no time, and besides, there was nobody on the hill who could teach her right. They all played by ear. When Little Gladys found I played by note, she thought God Himself had sent me to her, and I think y Srendin, and parents jane 80, } too! Anyway, we had one or two short les- | sons a day. Now it was into the parlor and not into the yard that Mrs. Crenshaw called “Glad- ys,” but’more softly and less frequently. “What are you going to do when you grow 4 up, Little Gladys?” I asked her. “You mea whin I’m fourteen.? I wana be a music teacher, but Ma says I can’tn’ th’ mills th’ bes’ place fer me. , he says he want to keep me in school as long ay he kin. He coulden go enuf hisself. But I guess I’ll be a mill hand, Where'd you say C sharp was?” Annie, Maggie’s step-daughter, was a pretty Celtic type and full-blown at twenty. She and Frank had been married five years and had had two children, Jack, now four years old, and a little ’un that died. Soon there was to be another, but Annie had not stopped work at the mill. Frank was an energetic lad of twenty- four and in many ways the most intelligent person I met on the hill. He had come back south during the last war. and his falling for Annie tied him to the mills for life. Over- seas he had been gassed and his lungs were going bad on him. He even had, hemorrhages, but the government had refused him compen- sation. he told me, “some- 1 fell for the “Next time there’s a war,” body else can do the fighting. Democracy stuff ’n volunteered. But it wuz a rich man’s war ’n a poor man’s fight.” This I found a popular phrase on the hill. “It wuz Wall street ’n th’ bankers that made that war, ’n us poor folks what went to th’ front.” Frankie had been a union man up north, and he told us that it was “as different as daylight and night in a union mill and this one here. But Annie won't leave, and there'll never be a union here, th’ people won’t stick together enuf.” (To be continued) NEWS BRIEFS Workers Joining Communists with Will to Fight Right Wing. INGRAD.—A delegation of non-Party s of the Putilov works in Leningrad consisting of 80 persons appeared at the Party conference of the factory, handed over a red flag and presented a collective request for ad- mission into the Party. They declared that they wished to join the Party in order to fin- ish off the right wing liquidators once and for all and to assist the Party to carry out its general line. Misleader Noonan Dead. James P. Nooyan, vice president of the American Federatlon of Labor, where he took part in the crushing of every militant move by the rank and file, and joined Hoover's fascist council, also president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, where he helped Broach’s complicated sell-out of elec- tricians in New York, is dead. He fell asleep last night in his luxurious Washington apart- ment, with a cigarette in his mouth, and per- ished in the flames. Ortiz Comes to Wall Street for Instructions Rubio Ortiz, recently elected president of ico, has arrived in the United States. Or- here for instructions on further sup- ion of the M an masses. He will visit Hoover and other Wall Street bankers on how to act best in the interest of his American imperialist masters. 'Qil Robbers Re-elect Crook Sinclair Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil brook and briber, has been re-elected on the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute, which is the leading body of rich oil robbers. Having great experience in international bribery, corruption, robbery themselves the members of the institute regard the proven crook Sinclair as a good director, Naval Conference Hits Snag PARIS (By Mail).—The preliminary naval conference between French and Italian im- perialism is meeting with big obstacles. The representatives of the two capitalist powers cannot agree on how much they should in- crease their navies in order to “disarm.” This will further complicate the bigger show that MacDonald is staging in London soon to helo increase the British imperialist naval forces. Play With Philippine Issue. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—A bill for the in- dependence of the Philippines is before the for- eign relations committee of the Senate. This is merely an attempt on the part of the repre- sentatives of the rich farmers to force tariff concessions for themselves by threatening to bring up the Philippine question. American | imperialism and its representatives in Congress have no intention of ppb the Philip- pine colonies. _ Soviet Youth Want Letters A letter received by the Daily Worker from the “Ukranian Youth,” published at Kharkov, U.S.S.R., asks for letters from American work- ers, dealing with conditions in factories, the general conditions of the working class youth, _ facts about the class struggle in this country, ete. The paper wishes to obtain a few regu- lar correspondents in the United States. All letters and articles for the “Ukranian Youth” should be sent thru the Daily Worker is? aa Young Sorter 43 E. 126th Sty New orl a We | j