The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1929, Page 4

ay & es Published by the Page Four : New. York. { Publishing Co. tn S ab’ Union Beant Pp ART Y RECRUITI NG DRIVE SMASH RACE DISCRIMINATION! Baily S45 Worker sec a. Sr) of the Communist Party of the iy By Mall (in New York City only By Mail (outside of New York © SURSCRIPTION RATE: $8.00 a year; $4. : $6.00 a year; ix $3.50 six .50 three months month@ .00 three months Recruiting Drive as reported to the Central the Party up to Dec. 28, 1929. New New New Members New D.W. Subs Shop Nue' Shop Papers District Quota Recruited Quota Solicited Quota 0} Quota Issued 1. Boston 400 300 i zo o 2 New York 1000 1000 ° 10 2 Phila 6 5 o o {. Ruftale o 0 5 * 0 3. Pittsburgh 4 noo Fy 10 ° 2 6. Cleve 0 400 0 10 ° a 7. Detroit St 1000 10 1s 4 1 S. Chi sz 600 o 10 0 z o 29 200 o 4 o 6 0 5 200 o 5 o 0 0 o 0 a 6 y Worker are able al Detr w members week to 61 this week; nia from akotas and § ship drive part of ll have time Kan- (4), work cannot Party ards ict in per- filled, next lifornia 20 per cer third Detroit 7.4 per cent nury competition: Chi- York new mem S against 12% per cent) but New leads Chicago in s ing more Negro workers (23 Det is leading Philadelphia on all fields, in spite of the lat- ter’s t » fight. Buffalo challenged Con- necticut—but has not made good so far.. On all f Detre Pit s Cleveland has lost miserably against and Detroit triumphs splendi Boston has chal a 1 it in new shop nuclei, behind on the other fields. We have now about 600 new members in e expect to find soon in the umn short articles informing the sections are do in the Party. This phase of the campaign and ep s a very it must | he new not be negh The number of Negro comrades brought in is ir Greater efforts must be made in this field. Only 104 new Negro members » so far been brought into the Party. ladelphia is leading splendidly with 37 new Negro saucers out of 66. No ¢! tet has done even a part of its duty in securing new subscribers for the Daily Worker. Not even 1 per cent of the quota has been reached. This week shows only 1 nw nucle Instead of improving the tempo of the drive the districts have slowed down. We will not comment on this fact now, but will wait for results of the next week. The results are not good but every district has s time to improve its results. The sple enthusiasm shown at membership meetings of our Party shows that the weak- nesses in the drive are to be found not in the n-_.nbe in the lecdership and functionar Every District Committee is made responsible at once to control how deci- si regarding the drive are carried out by the section committees and unit leaders. The individual recru‘ting must be encouraged in every w Bolshev m in the most ener- getic, active, constructive form must be ap- plied in every district lagging behind in the drive. ¢ Information on the drive to be sent in week- ly so that the Organization Department of the Central Committee will have it in New York not Jater than every Saturday. The Western Districts are handicapped but they will be able to make up during the last weeks of the drive. California has shown that even from the far West results can be achieved at the beginning. Forward to stronger activity in building our Party! Org. Dept. Central Committee. Negro and White Workers Unite at the National Textile Workers Convention By FORD. (Negro Department TUUL.) Convention of the National Textile Work- (aa ers Union held at Paterson, Decem- 21 and 22 must be put down without a abt as a significant gathering of militant workers to organize and colidate their | for struggle. The keynote of pr ‘am mn was one of militant strug thru- he in Conditions Leading to Struggle. as determined this program of gle? tv ete chaos throughout the whole tex- tile indu , disorganization dustry in the Nort nd East resv in mass un employment, wage cuts and the most terrific speed-up systems, the stretch-out and ration lization and long s of work have been determining facte tr his condition expresses i rasse: form in the South where low wages. the stretch-out and rationalization has produced absolute poverty and unheard of conditions of exhaustion from the speed-up and has led to wide-spreal revolt of the Southern workers who are showing greater determ ion for struggle. Conditions in the South can only be compared to the conditions of the Indian and Chinese workers in which imperialist exploitation has kept them down to the most dejected condi- tions. At. the same time in the South the Negro and white workers are kept apart by the bosses who eternally keep up race predu- dices and race antagonisms in order to more easily exploit both. At the slightest attempt to unify the workers these prejudices are raised to white heat by the capitalist press and capi- talist agents. Both the Negro and white work- ers of the South are awakening. Southern White Delegates Answer the Bosses. How did the convention meet the situation? Every delegate showed a will to struggle! The most significant thing was the fact that the delegates were rank and file workers from the factories who expressed a real determination to struggle. The frankness with which the delegates from the South expressed themselves Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. 43 East 125th Strect, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Address . 16 es Occupation .... AGO. 2455 Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 Evst 125th St., New York, N, Y. | not alone on the speed-up, the wage ¢uts and so on, but more significantly on the Negro question, must be registered as one of the most significant steps forward. Every white South- ern delegate got up on the floor and expressed in no unmistakable terms his determination to do everything in his power to break down il- lusions created by the bosses to break the unity of the black and white workers. They spoke about the situation that keeps both Negro and e workers uneducated in the South, they spoke about how flimsy were the excuses given for racial differences, they spoke about their attitude towards Negroes previous to the com- ing of the National Textile Workers Union to the South and how now they recognize in its program—the unity of black and white work- ers upon the basis of complete equality—as the only program to overcome the conditions that exist throughout the South today. We must not erestimate the tasks still ahead of us in order to overcome the deep- rooted prejudices in certain strata of the white workers of the South which is kept up by the bosses, still the expression of these delegates at this convention gives the lie to all those tales we have heard coming from the South, espe- cially from the A.F.L. and the social-reform- ists about the impossibility of Negro and white | workers of the South getting together. At the same time the expressions of the | white delegates from the South showed up a real serious shortcoming with regards to those comrades who have some apathy about bringing the Negro and white workers together. In this respect the absence of Negro delegates from the South was a great shortcoming. There | were Negro delegates from the North and the \ East, but not a single Negro delegate from the South. The preparations for convention should not have overlooked this. Once and for all our policy is clear and unmistakable that we stand for militant fighting unions of all workers which unify the workers upon a basis of complete equality regardless of race on the basis of the class struggle. This is what the workers have shown a determination to have, At all times and under all circumstances this policy must be followed and carried out to the letter in order to carry out militant revolu- tionary struggle against all, forces which are arrayed against the working class. Negro Department Organized. Then convention provisions made for the creation of a Negro department in the: Na- tional Textile Workers Union for the purpose of drawing the Negro workers into the unions and into the struggle. This department must be made to function in the immediate future and steps taken to draw Negro workers active- ly into all the activities of the unions. Negro Workers, Must Struggle. At the same time Negro workers must be determined to struggle against the economic fetters—low wages, ete., struggle against the speed-up «nd the stretch-out; they must enter the struggle on the basis of the class struggle, for oily by jointly struggling upon a basis of equality against the economic and social abuses of the working class can we overcome racial abuses and oppression. Class exploitation and oppression is at the bottom of racial abuse and oppression. The growing struggles in other !ndustries By Fred Ellis At the International Labor Defense Convention in Pittsburgh. By L. TODDY. HE settlement of the question of the Chi- nese Eastern Railway signifies a great victory of the proletarian dictatorship over world imperialism and its lackey, the Chinese Kuomintang militarists. The Soviet Union, the socialist fatherland of the toilers of all the world and the citadel of world revolution, not long ago, with the revolting pressure of the British workers, de- feated the imperialist intrigues of the social- fascist MacDonald government, and finally compelled it to restore diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union before taking up the disputed questions. Today, Chinese militarists, backed up by world imperialism especially American impe- rialism, after ‘months of military attacks, financial supply, and diplomatic intrigues, have to accept the very same just but firm demands of the Soviet Union. World imperialisry capi- tulated to world revolution. INTERNATIONAL CL The “Sino-Soviet ¢ ” is an international battle between two international forces: on the one side stands the Soviet Union, the workers in the imperialist countries and the oppressed masses in the colonial and semi-colonial coun- tries; on the other side, world imperialism, and all its tools from Chinese militarists to international social fascism. It is a prelimin- ary “skirmish” of these two opposing forces testing their respective strength and reorgan- izing their ranks. Therefore the victory of the Soviet Union over the Chinese militarists and imperialism is of tremendous importance and significance to the international proletariat. by victory must be inseparably understood with the successful execution of the great Five Year Plan. It would be criminally opportun- istic to underestimate this decisive victory and to refuse to draw Leninist conclusions’ from it. The raid on the Chinese Eastern Railway in July by the Chinese Kuomintang generals js a further systematic and intensified attack of world capital against the Soviet Union, as a result of the accentuation of the general crisis of world capitalism and the victorious carry- ing out of the proletarian offensive—the Five Year Plan—in the Soviet Union. . Prior and during the raid, world imperialism was very busy to expand and strengthen the Anti-Soviet block: the formation of militarist alliances among the Balkan fascist states, the adoption SS BATTLE ference whi. meant the definite “western” orientation or the entering into the anti-Soviet front of the German bourgeoisie under the leadership of the social-fascist Mueller govern- ment. All these, together with. events in Afghanistan and the plan of American imperial- ism to strengthen,its puppet, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to get the hegemony in the anti-Soviet bloc, precipitated the continuous provocative actions of world imperialism and culminated in an international armed attack on the USSR. Thus, the Chinese/ Kuomintang. militaris the butcher of the Chinese workers and pea: were considered by the convention and atten- tion given to the situation in these industries with a view of establishing closer contact. with the workers in these industries, The conven- tion passed a resolution expressing solidarity and untiy with the Haitian workers in their struggle against American imperialism, and also sent greetings to the workers of the Soviet Union. 1 | | of the Young Plan, and also the. Hague con- | | of the arz The Victory of the Soviet Union Over the Imperialists and Chinese Militarists ants, broke the Sino-Soviet agreement of 1924 which was the first ani only equal treaty China ‘had ever concluded, and took warring actons against the only and formidable ally of the Chinese revolution. On July 10 they seized the Chinese Eastern Railway and the telegraph offices. Soviet officials and workers in the railway were arrested en masse, followed by barbarous maltreatment, torture, and shooting ted. The wholé Manchurian army otorious ezarist white guards were soon or snized ‘into detachments to in- vade the Soviet borders and to plunier the jov'-t citizens. By thus doing, world imperial- ism and its tools desired to compel the Soviet power either to declare war or to capitulate before the imperialist attacks. To this, the Soviet government, under the Bolshe "<¢ guidance of the Jommunist. Party of the Scviet Union, t i a revolutionary stand. True to its principle, the Soviet Union stood for peace and refused to make war. could not tolc-ate the shameful robbery and attacks of imperialism and Chinese bandits, Therefore, on the one hand, it gave a firm and just proposal for a peaceful settlement; and sent the best detachments of the defender of the dictatorship of the proletariat and world revolution, the Red Army, to stop the robbery and plunder of the Chinese and white guard bandits. Toilers of the Far Eastern region answered the attack by organizing the Red Workers and Peasants Army. Floods of pro- tests demaniting a firm policy and admission to join the Red Army rushed from workers and peasants everywhere in the Soviet Union. This is’ the answer of the Soviet Union and its defenders to the imperialist attacks. ANSWERED BY WORLD WORKERS. As the bulwark of world revolution, the So- viet Union did not stand alone. The revolu- tionary workers in the capitalist countries and oppressed masces in the colonies promptly an- swered their exploiters with thunderous pro- tests and rallied to the defense of their social- ist fatherland. Under the leadership of the Communist International, toiling masses of all the world turned out in the streets on August 1 for the defense of the Soviet Union. The secon! international Anti-Imperialist Congress July 10-27 (. sk fort-am-Main, Germany), par- ticipated by many colonial delegates, emphati- cally called upon all its supporters to defend the Soviet Union, the greet fortress of anti- imperialist forces. So did the Pan-Pacifiec Trade Union Conference held in the middle of August in Vladivostok. The workers and peas- ants in China did their duty by increasing their struggle to turn the imperialist war against the Soviet Union into a class war of the Chi- nese workers and peasants against imperialism, native bourgeoisie ond landlords and to defend the Soviet Union. Soon, we also witnessed, the quick maneuvers of world iMperialism: French imperialism, de- siring to regain the control of the Chinese Eastern Railway through Briand, urged the formation of a United States of Europe; Brit- ish imperialism while planning to maintain its colonial domain action over China, through Straksch, demanded the organzation of finan- cial support by the League of Nations for “states which are unprovokedly attacke1;” Japanese imperialism, hoping to extend its influence over North Manchuria, was eagerly Waiting for the best chance to strike the blow with the white guard general, Semenov, who was always at the service of all imperialists; American imperialism, through Stimson, en- deavored to “mediate by the plan of interna- But, it | SOUTHERN COTTON MILi AND LABOR By MYRA PAGE. (Continued) Hoffman concludes his story of developments with a description of his kidnapping by 2 masked mob of local real estate men, who saw their boom of Elizabethton as a fine industrial center, with a plentiful supply of cheap, docile labor, doomed by the strike. Hoffman was quite indignant over the business mean’s mis- taking him for a labor agitator and motivating force in the strike, when he had been trying always to play the role of peacemaker. After this incident, the local workers formed an armed guard for Hoffman and McGrady. The strike continued for seven more weeks, the operatives refusing to go back into the mills until the company had conceded to their de- mands. Glanzstoff-Bemberg Corporation em- ployed all the usual methods of armed force, evictions, arrests, withdrawal of credit at the company store, and intimidation. One of the local strike leader's honie was dynamited and completely destroyed. The family only escaped through not being at home when the explosion occurred. The workers had to depend primarily on themselves for relief, since the U. T. W. offered almost no aid and the sums collected by volunteer committees were insufficient to meet the need. Many families, in order to obtain food, had to return to their mountain farming. In consequence, when ‘the sudden news came that the strike was to be settled, and a meeting on May 25 was called to ratify the agreement, only 2,000 of the 5,500 strikers were on hand to vote on the question. The “peace terms” had been secured by the Labor Department’s mediator and a committee of five workers. This committee had»not been elected democratically by the strikers, but had been chosen by U.T.W. organizers. The terms offered by the mill owners were real: 1. All employes were to register immedi- ately. 2. If an employe is not reinstated, defi reasons shall be given such employe, and feels he is being discriminated against, he refer his case to an impartial person fo hearing and decision. The impartial perso. such cases was to be E, T. Willson, the eo pany’s employment manager, whose appoi ment was announced shortly before the me ing was called to vote on the terms. 3. Management will not discriminate agai’ an employe because of membership in any « ganization, nor because of legitimate and lz ful activities in such organization as long they ave carricd on outside the plants, 4, For the puzpose of adjusting grievar which may arise, the management will m a committee of its employes. As the agreement was being read, the st ers murmured angrily among themselves, : at the close, a tremendous “No” rose to building’s rafters. Boos came from every p of th> hall. Diserimination, they felt, w. actually written into the agreement. A where were the recente their union, ° eight-hour day and the Wat increase for wh they had struggled all these weeks? A. F. L. officials argued with the angry strikers three hours, to get them to accept this set‘ ment. Not once did the U. T. W. organiz raise a question about the lack of union 1 ognition in the agreement. Their explanat of their action was given in the June issue “The Textile Worker,” where they state although union representatives would per: ally have preferrei to have had union reco; tion included in the agreement, they wi refreined from trying to influence the E bethton workers, but, in the interests: of “ ocracy” let them decide this matter for t selves! No mention was made in the edit: of the three hours of persuasion they exe; on these same workers to accept the settlem as it stood. (To Be Continued) tionalization of the Chinese Eastern Railway,’ while Mr. Mantel, representative of U. S. imperialism and railway “expert” to the Nan- king government, went to Mukden and held important interviews with the bandit generals. The forces of world revolution and world imperialism were under full sway. THE DEFEAT OF MUKDEN. But the swift and continuous victories of the Red Army over the Chinese bandits and white guards and also the strong support ren- dered by the workers of the world, made world imperialism and its hounding dogs hopeless and helpless in their first attempt against the Soviet Union. The Red Army was inv Mukden was defeated. So was Nanking. this juncture, came the rescue of Yankee im- perialism. Through Stimson, at a time when | Mukden has alrealy capitulated and peace negotiations were under way, it sent a war note in the name of the “Kellogg Pact’? to the Soviet Union, designed to give further sup- port to the Chinese militarists and pressure against the Soviet government. Again, the state of proletarian dictatorship answered it with revolutionary firmness and dignity. Again strong protests came from workers in the United States and throughout th®world. Again the war nete of world imperialism met the same fate at its first attempt. The Chinese “army” melted before the counter-offensive of the heroic Red Army. They fled away by tens of thousands. They were completely demoral- ized.. The cause of this demoralization of the Chinese “army,” which led to the capitulation of the Kuomintang generals coul] not be sought only by the heroic stroke of the Red Army. The victory of the Red Army is a signal of uprisings of the long oppressed workers and poverty-stricken peasants in China. The Red Army did not gain its victory by iron and blood, alone, but also by its revolutionary kindle-light. One of the military officers, Mr. Liang, gave a very instructive report in this connection. According to the news from the Shanghai Shun Pao, a leading reactionary newspaper in China, Mr. Liang reported about the seriousness of the situation in the oc- cupied district, Fuchin, as follow: “, .. The Russian Red Army seized all the food stuff and distributed it among the or rearte in order ‘to get their favor.’ There* were airplanes carrying Chinese . Wawe’ prop-gandists and distribut- ing leaflets in Chinese vernacular lan- guage. In these leaflets, the conditions of the workers, peasants and soldiers in the Soviet Russia were contrasted wth those in China. Leaflets written in the name of ‘our’ soldiers who went over to the Red Army, with pictures of our soldiers to- gether with the Red Army, were also widely distributed . . .” This helps to explain the complete demoral- ization of the Chinese army, the capitulation of the counter-revolutionary generals, and. also the establishment of the Mongol Soviet Re- public in Western Manchuria. The influence anl effect of the victory of the Red Army was not limited to Manchuria. It spreads like fire everywhere in China. The Chinese workers and peasants, under the lead- ership of the Communist Party of China, have made gigantic headway in their struggles. Be- sides holding the old territories, the Commu- nist peasant troops have captured Kanchow, an important commercial city in south-east China, and also Tayeh, a city of great iron industry. The New York Times reported that when 300 government troops were dispatched to quell the revolt in Tayeh, they joined the Communist army in a single body. The work- ers in large cities also begun to strike. The new revolutionary wave is coming. In this coming wave the Chinese workers and peasants, un- der the leadership of the Communist Party of China will smash the counter-revolutionary regime of foreign imperialism and native re- action and establish the Soviet Rule. Thus it will not only build a Chinese Great Wall for the defense of the First Workers’ Republic, but also another fortress of world revolution, The present battle is really a battle between international bourgeoisie and the international proletariat, and also an armed rehearsal be- fore the decisive struggle. Grouping of forces end testing of strength were clearly exhibited. In the imperialist war threat against the So- viet Union this episode demonstrates the Chi- nese militarists furnish armed bands, the im- Perialists are to supply money and political leadership while the international social 4 cists and all renegades from the Commu: movement from Trotsky-Cannonites to Brandler-Lovestoneites conduct the propaga’ department of world imperialism, ATTITUDE OF SOCIAL-FASCISM. The Second International declared imm: ately after the outbreak of the conflict: “That it was the right of China to dc mand the elimination of Russian contre over the Chinese Eastern Railway, as th Russians themselves provided the ‘pretes for this persecution of the workers by mis using labor organizations on Chinese ter ritery as t-:" for Russian politics.” * The A. F. of L., through the pompous W strongly supported the Stimson war note.” international right wing renegades incluc Lovestone and his gang in the United Sta have long lamented over the “manufactr and exaggerated’ war of imperialism aga. the Soviet Union by the Comintern, oppo the rapid tempo of industrialization in the viet Union, which forms the iron basis of y letarian dictatorship and world revolution; + ridiculed the August First demonstrati: which were primarily mobilized for the defe of the Soviet Union. The Trotsky-Cannon renegades are no less energetic than th young brothers, the Lovestoneites, in carryi’ on the propaganda work for world imperiali At the very beginning Trotsky and Can declared that the seizure was only the w of the Chinese militarists, and the hands * their imperialist masters are absolutely cle from this bloody robbery. When Americ imperialism, through Stimson’s war note, cle ly showed its ugly face, Mr. J. P. Cannon stantly jumped to appologize. In the Dec ber issue of the “Militant” (militant in cc ter-revolution) Cannon wrote about the St son note: “. . . there was no preventive action tal by American imperialism . There was protest from the United States ...” (emp! sis mine.—T.) To every simple worker, the leading role American imperialism in the “Sino-So Crisis” is as clear as water. Why do ti renegades so pitifully expect “preventive tion” and “protest” from the one who, is hind the attack? Is this stupidity? Absolu not. This is the road, the anti-Soviet r and the road of counter-revolution that tl renegades are consciously travelling. “Every class-conscious worker must! d the necessary conclusion that all reneg from the Communist movement, while dec ing for the Soviet Union without its. les the Communist Patty of the Soviet Ur and promising for the world revolution w. out its leader and organizer, the Commun International, are actively helping the bou geoisie to fight against the Soviet Union, t international proletariat, and the world reve ton. The defense of our socialist father must be inseparably connected with the st gle against the international social fascists all renegades from the Communist moveme World revolution has gained a great vict r world imperialism. But the bloody w: imperialism will never give up the fight u its last breath. This means the further more. intensified war preparations of w: imperialism against the Soviet Union. 1% also means more intensified struggles of wo proletariat to defen! the Soviet Union and world revolution. In view of this the com London conference can be clearly seen a: conference of world imperialism to orga? war on the Soviet Union instead of even fake peace. The toilers of the Soviet Union are arn themselves with socialist competition to « cute the Five Year Plan. The masses in In China, Africa, Haiti and Latin America stubbornly carrying on the revolutionary str gle against imperialism. The class-consci orkers in the United States must take + vant of the growing crisis of Americ. capitalism and radicalization of the workin masses by joining the ranks of the Communi: Party of U.S.A., section of the Communi International, and helping to organize. t! workers into revolutionary battalions. We mi answer the attacks of imperialism, social-ft cism and renegades by joining the Lenin Party in this country, the Communist Pa of the United States of America.