The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1930, Page 4

Page Four THE RECRUITING DRIVE AND Baily 325 Worker By Ma ~S. A. . 3y Mail (outside of New York Sut VION RVDES 8.00 a year; City): 36,00 a year; il Gin New York City onl 0 six months; $3.50 six months; $2.50 three months $2.00 three months = = LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION LEXANDER TRACHTENBERG. i gn is the numerical i » workers on, com- enrolled and young workers |} aid on of working women, who, hardly , represent a Drive—A Major Political Task. Drive is considered by the 4 major political task and the by t Central Committee is a result not only a a better Party, a Part the tasks th: present period erica. By recruiting ne larger I ter equipped to cope with 1A see how a quantita- ship will lead to ocial com- uly revolu- tive inc a qualitative improvem The present Recruit ducted wi ry agencies. Not onl) tment, which natura to all the activities all the other Party 1 and Propaganda, Ne- s well as the Young Com- t dovetail their present ac- ial program of the Re- fact the Drive will be a tied up with all the poli- ruggles in which present time. portance of Literature Distribution » Distribution of the Party as- importance. The ield will contribute the Drive. It is ted to the Party C n their behalf on v s struggle; that they because they find n the thick of every his’ hirelings, but » deepened when they prime give the Party also their convictions and their th in the principles for which the Party . We want more members, but we want understanding members, workers conscious of the step they take when they join the Party of the Revolution—the Communist Party. The Literature Distribution is the vehicle through which the Party reaches the broad masses of the workers with its message re- ng the events of the day, as well as the jamental principles of the Communist movement. Can one imagine a Recruiting Drive without a pamphlet giving the workers in simplest terms the reasons why they should join our Par Such a pamphlet has been issued by the Party and is being used advan- tageously in the sent Drive. Other.pamph- lets and leaflets are to be issued shortly which will be used during the Drive. The publication of pamphlets, leaflets or shop papers is, however, only the beginning of the task. It is their distribution that is the most important phase of the work. With the radio under capitalist control, our spoken word can reach thousands at best, while the printed word can reach millions. Workers Seek Communist Literature. Does anyone question that the workers are ready to learn our opinions and interpreta- tions of the various problems which affect them deeply at the present time? The work- ers feel the growing intensity of exploitation thr h rationalization, they know that Hooyer is working jointly with the capitalists of the country in perfecting methods of still greater exploitation, they hear the reverberations of the Stock Exchange crash and_ instinctively realize that a deep-going economic crisis is St hand, they see factory after factory closing down or going part-time and the ranks of un- employed increasing by the million, they hear the rumblings of war in the calling of inter- national conferences and the adoption of peace pacts, and they want clear and concrete an- swers to all these burning questions. We should be on the spot with millions of leaflets and hundreds of thousands of pamph- lets and shop papers explaining to the work- ers Hoover’s fake prosperity, the Stock Ex- change crash, the permanent unemployment, the Manchurian affair, the Gastonia steuggle, and all the other important problems affect- ing their very liv As yet our press is not strong enough to be able to offset the dope peddled by the eapi- talist press. We must use every effort to in- crease the influence of our press—particularly the Daily Worker. But we must supplement the press with leaflets and pamphlets as means by which we can reach the broad masses of the American workers. The urgent need for mass distribution of Communist literature should be apparent to every member of the Party. The opportunity for Communist agitation and propaganda is greater now than ever before. But are we in a position to take advantage of this oppor- tunity, do we appreciate the importance of literature distribution ag a training school for Communists to be m constant touch with the workers in the shops, especially in times of struggle and crises when regular means of contact are not possible, have we the proper machinery to do the job and do it well, and what are the means by which we may improve the faulty apparatus of literature distribution in the Party? These are questions which demand imme- diate and comprehensive answers from ‘the The writer will attempt to deal with 2 problems in the next article. Qld and New Dues-Paying System By L. COLLOW. ke $10 per ; othe ers who 1 per and 50 cent the most active Party mem- those who make less than $30 per These comra are overloaded with work and always are the first to con- te to the endless ctions. If a study On the average t will show that some of these com- rades give as high as 15 per cent and more to the labor movement as a whole, besides the time they give to the revolutionary movement. ‘All of these comrades who work long hours for the least wages are 100 per cent for the Central Committee decision on the new dues. The Party members who on the average make over $30 per week, usually show a poor atten¢ e and interest in the Party. Some of these members, while supporting the Party line for' will never submit to Party disci- pline. Some of these men make from 50 to $80 per week but when we take a collection they cither openly oppose or give a dime or quarter accompanied with a long face. Some of these well to do comrades like to belong to | the Communist Party and if possible to lead- ing committees but hate to be reminded to subscribe to the Daily Worker, Labor Unity, They like to hold or to donate to some fund. ‘“orkers! Join the Party of Your Class! Commu U.S. A 43 East h Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Name ..... Waoeed eeesevscrbsenveesesccnnses Address ........ Bde deveecrare Olt¥esececes. Occupation ........ 4b cba vanoess 6 eee Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party. 43 Lost 125th St., New York, N. Y. ‘ { VV responsible positions but to be free from re- sponsibilities; to own big cars, nice homes and as a side line to be a Communist. Such ele- ments will oppose the new dues system, but they are not surprising anybody. The Party is strong enough to handle them. The New Dues. ° The new dues system of weekly payments will do many good things for the Party. I am so convinced that after January 1st the Party will shake itself once more and many unde- sirable, for the Communist movement, ele- ments will drop on the wayside, and free, so to say, the real fighters to march on so much faster. Although I am writing before we get the new books, one can feel how certain elements, who have been good for nothing pessimists, are showing their yellow color by getting ready to leave the Party because of the new dues system. For the good of the Party we should keep the doors open and he'p these opportunists to get out. When time comes we will give instances, now it will be sufficient to enumerate some of the improvements that will be brought with the adoption of the new sys- tem. (1) Some of these comrades who make from $35 to $90 per week and because of thajr long membership in the Party, have occupied leading positions, will be eliminated and active | comrades will take their places in the leading committees. (2) By allowing the sections and units to retain 10 per cent of the money respectively, many shop papers can be issued, In many sections an active, capable functionary can be | put to work on full time by simply paying his upkeep which for a worker is not much. With this practical functionary the section can do almost as much work as many district offices at present. . (3) These extra functionaries, who will spring up (the Party must see to it that only real workers and not careerists are promoted) will increase the local activities in such pro- portions that many thousands of workers will be drawn into the Party, which will bring with them not professional debaters but real members of the American proletariat. (4) The District Offices, by getting 30 per cent of the dues, will be able to employ capable stenographers to do the office work. This in turn will release the D.Os., some who are very uncapable for office work but good field organizeis, to go out and begin to do or- | “THE GOOSE HANGS H a Ah By R. SCHULLER (Vienna.) 0 the 7th of December the Fascist Dictator- ship Constitution was passed the Aus- trian Parliament. The introduction @f this Fascist Constitution was the result neither of decision of the fascist government parties with the agreement of the social democracy. The social democratic party has acted as the mid- wife of the fascist dictatorship, which is sup- ported by the Heimwehr and the legal appar- eatus of power. The social-democratic party of Austria has thereby committed the most shameful act of treachery inthe history of the working class. For the first time there has taken place a fascist counter-revolution with the open col- laboration of the social democyacy. For the adoption of the Schober constitution ig noth- ing but a fascist counter-revolution under the cloak of legality. ~ This constitution which has now been adopt- ed means, when all its provisions are applied, nothing else but .a fascist dictatorship. It is not at all necessary that all tke clauses and provisions of this constitution should be ap- plied at the beginning. The Mussolini Govy- ernment did not in its early days make use of its arbitrary powers to the same extent that it does today. If the fascist bourgeoisie of Austria is able only thanks to the assistance rendered by the social democracy. Without this the Schober Government, in spite of all the Heimwehr, the police and the army, would never have been able to overcome the resistance of the work- ing masses. ® c It is characteristic that right up to the: last moment the workers still imagined that the socialist party of Austria was preparing for a decisive struggle against fascism. Up to the 5th of December the social- ganizing, instead of trying to write; a letter all day. (Many of our D.Os. cannot spell, so they look in the dictionaries all day, in order to write a letter.) 3 (5) What is true of the unit, section, dis- trict, holds good for the National Office. Al- though we will be short of money until we overthrow capitalism, with the new dues the D. W. will be published without the chronic appeal for funds, able to send out speakers to help the districts in every way. sible for the Party to strengthen the various departments, especially the TUUL. It will be possible to put in the field 50 more organ- izers to stir up the labor movement in a time, when the workers are waiting for our agitators and organizers, Those Pargy members, who cannot see or would not t?¥ to see these Party gains with the adoption of the new dues system should be given freedom to leave the Party as soon as they are ready tu do so. The CI Address united the Party. The new dues system will release the organizational qualities of the Party. January the Ist will be a historic day for our Party. Every Com- munist will march forward with the Party un- Dictatorship of the Proletariat, today to carry through this constitution, it is | The National Office will be | Social-Democracy in Austria, Mid-Witfe ot Fascism a putch nora coup d’etat, but of a unanimous | | cial fascism. (6) The new dues system will make it pos- | til we destroy capitalism and establish the r By Fred Ellis democratic press preserved complete: silence regarding the agreement which had already been arrived at with Schober; and on the 7th of December the constitution was passed by Parliament on the basis of this agreement. In order to cloak this treachery the social-demo- crats had weapons distributed in the factories and workshops and called upon the. workers to prepare for the General Strike, for the de- cisive fight. As a matter of fact by méans of this “Lef@’ demagogy, the social-democratic party of Austria is succeeding even now in de- ceiving the broad masses regarding the mon- strous act of treachery it has’ committed. “Left” social fascism is onte again proving it- self to be the most dangerous enemy of. the working class and of Communism. Otto Bauer’s way Js to social fascism in its pur- est form, ani to fascism. The Communist Party of Austria has carried on and is carrying on the fiercest fight against the fascist constitution and against ‘ estab- lishment of a fascist dictatorsh'p. It called upon the workers to enter on a )-: test strike and to demonstrate before Parliament on the ‘ith of December. This fight has not ended with the adoption by Parliament of the fascist Constitution. This Parliamentary decision does not solve the. Austrian crisis. The matter will be decided in the streets and in the factories. The Aus- trian working class is not vanquished, and fascism is celebrating its success not as a re- sult of the “defeat of the working class in a bloody civil war, but as a consequence of the abysmal treachery of the social fascists. The fascists an] the social fascists who have cooperated in the passing of this constitution will find it a harder job to enforce it against the workers, At the same time the economic crisis is becoming more and moye acute, Driven by this aggravation of the economic crisis the bourgeoisie is already proceeding to new attacks against the working masses. The fascist constitution is now to be used for the purpose of a tremendous economic of- fensive of the bourgeoisie. This is bound to lead to big struggles. The issue of these struggles depends upon how far the C. P. of Austria is capable, by intensive mass work and an offensive policy, to expose to the masses the shameful treachery of the social fascists. The Austrian working class has lost the first round in the fight against fascisyn, thanks to the treachery of the social fascists. But the working class, undem the leadership of the C. P. of Austria, will emerge victorious from the coming fights against fascigm and against so- Renegades Slander Pioneers By F. BAILY In a recent number of the Counter-revolu- ¢ tionary Age the Lovestone renegades in their campaign of slander against the Communist movement attacked the achievements of the Pioneers. Quoting figures which they got in their usual methods they say that the Pioneer movement in New York dropped from 1,000 members in May, when the renegade Gordon left Pioneer work. This is just a typical lie of the Counter Revolutionary Lovestone group. The actual registration figures of then and now are as follows: 321 cards 8n file on the registvation of May, 1929, Of these over 150 were names gotten at mass or qjen air meet- SOUTHERN COTTON MIL AND LABOR ; + | witnesses testified as o the guilty parties. By MYRA PAGE. (Continued) During the long argument between A. F. of L. representatives and the strikers over the strike on these terms, the workers, lacking a leadership to head up their opposition, became confused and dazed by official oratory. But whenever the settlement w re-read, there were “boos” from the strikers. Finally, a standing vote was called for, and silently the workers rose and as silently marched from the hall. They had accepted the settlement, but not with a sense of victory, but of defeat and with misgivings. Everywhere in the crowds of workmen outside the hall there, were com- ments: “They broke the strike,” “It’s a sell- out!” “There’s holes in that agreement as big as yore garage door—holes big enough to drive a hearse through.” “This settlement’s like the other. The company ain’t pinned down to any- thing. There’s going to be discrimination.” The workers’ misgivings soon proved correct, for scores were refused work, and the local union is much weakened. A company union is being organized, with management trying, through coercive ani persuasive means, to get their employees to join and give vp their real union. But the rayon operatives are heeding the words of one of their local leaders who reminds them that “a cow needs her tuil in fly time. The experience of Elizabethton work- ers with the U. T. W. has been recently re- peated in Greenville, S.C. and Marion, N. C., where this union came in to take charge of strike situations which had developed. The U, T. W. organizer was booed down by Marion mill hands, when he advised them to use less militant tactics in their struggle, but to take bibles and hymn books along with them to the picket lines, instead. | A strike settlement was made in Marion which, like that in Elizabethton, was no settle- ment at all from the workers’ standpoint, but a complete give-in to the mill owners. Discri- mination against active unionists began imme- diately, an so, like the Elizabethton workers, the Marion workers took matters into their own hands and went on strike the second time. While picketing ,the mill, union ranks were fired upon by the local sheriff and company deputies, and six strikers were killed and 20 more wounded. ¥et, so closely do the courts, police and mill owners work together that not a conviction was made, although the firing took place in broad daylight and scores of eye | state. Fi Mill hands indignantly compare fhis “justice” with the “justice” meted out to the Gastonia strikers. They say, rightly, “There is one law for the mill workers and another for the mill bosses_and their aides.” In fact, the mill com. pany at Marion not only saw to it that their hirelings went scott free, but ‘had the most active Marion workers evicted, and indicted for “inciting to riot” and rebellion against the thermore, the local church’ did the company’s bidding and expelled over one hun- dred of the strikers—because these’ members had dared to rebel against the €ompany auth- ority! It is events like these that are opening the eyes of southern mill workers ahd showing them the class character of present government and of the church. Also, it is happenings like these at Marion, Elizabethton, Greenville, S. C., | and numerous other places, that have made tful of U. T. W. and other A. F. of L. officials, with their “peace at any price” philosophy, do-nothing policies and sell-out settlements. So now the U. T. W., in its fight on the N. T. W., is employing the “labor pro. »” like: Muste, Tippet, Hoffman, anc Ross to come along and put ‘a little show. of. pep and vitality into this dying organizgtion, But at Marion and Elizabethton these progres: sives again showed that when it came to ac- tion, they follow the same policies as the U. T. W., of dampening the workers’ militancy an confusing the issues. Then, after poor strik settlements have been made, they busy them. selves appologizing for these and trying t explain them away. But no amount of “ex. plaining” can. persuade the Marion worker: that they have not been betrayed into defeat! They have nothing but scorn for such “expla: nations” as offered py Tippet and others for the Marion sell-Buts. “It is true,” Tippet i quoted as saying, “thgt it was a poor settle, ment, but in Hoffman’s defense it must bi stated that this settlement was made at tl point of a b@yonct.” What a position!—To sa: to these fighting mill hands: Workers must r treat under fire! It is the same as telling the! that they can never before hope to win, fi company and police terrorism on southern mil hills will remain the order of the day. (To Be Continued) Sond Greetings to the Workers the Soviet Union Through the Special Printing of The Daily Worker in the Russian Language! Build Factory Nuclei, Combat th Right Danger : By HARRY GREY, Shop Nucleus No. 2 Detroit, Mich. 'OMRADE KUUSINEN in his speech at’ the tenth plenum of the Communist Interna- tional pointed out the right danger is a double faced deviation, as he puts it, “a two-faced Janus.” One face is shown in the perspectives | of Sogialist construction in the U.S.S.R., the | other is shown in the perspective of capitalist stabilization. The right wingers in the U. S. S. R. Communist Party deny the possibilities of the building of Socialist economy in the Soviet Union. The right wing@s and anti- Comintern elements in the U.S.A. deny the radicalization of the masses here; they deny a crisis with its revolutionary perspectives. Thus we see the coming meeting ground for all elements who oppose the analysis of the Sixth World Congress and the tenth plenum. Ideological Struggle Against Right Danger. The right wing elements, those who took a decisive and open step against the Comintern have been decisively defeated and rejected by the overwhelming majority of the Party. Does this mean that the struggle is over? Certainly not. The struggle up to date has merely been a preliminary, the overture figuratively speak- ing. The real campaign, the vital phase of the struggle is the eradication of all symp- toms of hesitancy, vacillation and unclearness on the part of the rank and file membership. This can be done only by raising the political level of the Party, by lifting the Party as a whole out of the swamp into which it had been led by the past factional fight. This task will demand a systematic and consistent campaign in our papers, in our pamphlets, through the Agitprop outlines carried down to the units. We must by all available chan- nels bring the analysis to the Party member- ship of radicalization, rationalization, the mass Political strike, the role of social fascism, trade union bureaucracy, all these different phases ings and of children who never attended Pio- neer meetings or who had any activity in the Pioneer movement. Many of the cards are duplicated. The present registration of the Pioneers in New York is 450 cards, while 600 attend meetings and are active in the Pioneer movement. Here are the dues payments of last Novem- ber and this. past November. In November, 1928, there were on recogd 25 units of which 11 were non-existant, that is they never met and never had any activity. In that month there were 152 dues stamps sold, according to renegade Gordon's records. In November, 1929 there were on record 37 units of which only 3 were non-existant. The dues payments for November, 1929 were 328, In the same month that the renegades claim the Pioneer movgnent had 1,000 members, the month of May the Pioneers in District 2 paid up for exactly 79 dues stamps. At the time that renegade Gowion left Pioneer work there were only 4 school groups in New York and these only in the Bronx. Now there are 18 school groups in New,York, scattered all over the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Regular school bulletins are being issued in each one of these schools. And yet this counter revolutionist group writes slanders telling of the “progress back- wards” in the Pioneer movement in New York. They claim that the Pioneer movement flour- ished under the leadership of tee Gordons and ‘neryous Miriams, .These facts prove that the slander of the renegades is merely a typical lying slander by the Lovestones and Peppers. } ' | the bitter daily struggle for a meager exist- of our program constitute its whole and it i not enough that only leading committees an leading comrades speak familiarly on this sub. ject, hut every Party member should knot these problems and their effect on the worki class struggles. Organizational Struggle Against the Right Danger. We have a sloggn that will always be ap- propriate to use, that is bolshevization. W. bolshevize our Parties not only by the process of an ideological campaign but by an organiza- tional one as well. All the programs in the world are just so mucW paper and ink until put into action, until activized, they are bodies without life. To whom are we ting to bring our message? The workers. .Well, where can we reach the workers? In the factory, there- fore we must put our Party in a position to be able to reach the large masses, we must build our Party based on the factory nuclei. The working class learns by experience, thru ence the workers learn who are their cham- pions, the spokesmen, those who constantly are at their side in victory as well as defeat. By building up our factory nuclei we bring e the Party to the workers, the workers are not opposed to our Party because of what they know of it, just the contrary, they know. little or nothing, that is why they fail to follow our leadership. The shop nucleus must function as a shop nucleus, not as a street nucleus, whieh is the case at the present time. The basic. prob- lem for each factory nucleus is the penetration of its specific shop with. Communist. propa- ganda, however we must be careful so as to link our message up with the conditions that; face each particular factory, For example, in a shop when the workers are plundered thru the medium of piece or gang rate, the factory: nuclei must carry a different slogan hatin factory where there is no piece work; a ever, both must link up their struggles with the Communist program. Shop papers must be built, every factory nucleus must make it one of its tasks to issue a shop paper where the workers can voice their sentiment or indignation and revolt. Care must be taken that problems are correctly brought up and analyzed and that only true conditions and happenings find their way into the papers. Another task of the nuclei is paper and literature distribution. Comrades in a factory nucleus must learn how to the written propaganda despite the watchful eyes of the boss, This is valuable training for- a possible illegal state. The nucle® must. discuss and lay plans for the organizing of the large masses of the unor- ganized. This is to be done through shop. committees, drawing in non-Party ents, | thereby widening the scope of the shop com- mittee and laying, the skeleton basis for an organization in the factory. The T.U.U.L. program of organization must be popularized by the factory nuclei and shop committees so that when strikes break out, the workers will instinctively turn to the T.U.U.L.. for lead- ership, hi These are but a few points, others are the Negro workers, the women and youth and so forth, all these problems give us the oppor- tunity to come forward as champions of the working class. The time for decisive action is drawing rapidly near and we must strain every nerve to prepare ourselves so that history will not find us wanting. By. putting ‘our to work by concretely putting ¢ Ay action, We will become the re-" coming proletarian strugg'