The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1930, Page 4

Publsheu ., we Compre Square, New York City, N. Address and mail ali checks t Page Four PUD Crm Se Telephone e Daily Wo ay, ble: ws oe-Tt Unive “DAIWOR ew York, N. Baily S25 Worker per ree ASTM of the Communist Party of the Oss . AL By Mail (im New York City only): By Mall (outside of New York City): SURSCReTION Marrs? $8.00 a year; $6.00 a year; $4.50 six months; $ $3.50 six months; $2.00 2.50 three months 2.00 three months PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE!” “™™* Results of Distribution of | Recruiting Drive Pamphlet As an integral part of the Party Recruiting Drive, goes the mass distribution of Party literature. Small, popularly written pamphlets are the easiest to sell. In connection with the Recruiting Drive, the Party issued a special pamphlet, “Why Every Worker Should Join the Comm st Party” in an edition of 100,000 copies. This means that we get away from the idea that literature is only for Party con- sumption and understand that we must have mass literature distribution. he following are the results up to Dec. 28, hree weeks after the drive started. hows a good beginning for many dis- Since literature is only sent upon re- sh, there are two columns—one show- ntentions of the district and the other showing what they have actually paid for and nerefore received. Paid for and Rec'd 900 15,000 115 80 150 3,500 * 100 300 500 450 255 1,500 60 1,200 | 140 | 6,000 6,000 100 500 | 80 455 450 300 150 2,000 1,650 750 400 500 100 25 Ordered Boston ye, N. Y. Beacon, N. Y. Philadelphia 6,000 100 300 500 « 5,000 2 5 1,500 henectady burgh New Kensington, Cleveland Bookstore Cincinnati Detroit Chicago Bookstore . Minnesota Pelkie Kansas City N. Dakota Seattle, Wa: Portiand Califortia (S. F, Los Angeles Connecticut Bridgeport Charlotte, N. Atlanta ... Salt Lake City Totals i 94,810 Every district forward with mass literature distribution. 43,710 Keep the New Members (0 RECRUIT new members without being able to keep them in the Party means to have a wasted recruiting drive. We must therefore raise sharply the question of retain- ing the new members. It is not an exaggera- tion to say that (basing ourselves on past ex- periences) many new members leave the Party after having been present at one or two meet- ings. The main difference between the present re- cruiting drive and past drives is that the pre- sent is based on the political tasks of the Party in connection with the growing struggles of the workers. Therefore we must expect that the new members will join our Party as a re- sult of our mass activities. The new members, however, in many instances, will find ‘that the Party units that they were assigned to are not fighting- organizations but in many in- stances isolated from the class struggle. We get the new members into the Party because of the political campaigns of the Party, yet insofar as our Party units are concerned, in most cases they still do not appear as poli- tical organizations of the Party. We must therefore make the unit the political mobiliza- tion point for all the campaigns of the Party. » This Recruiting Drive must be based on get- ting the most active and militant workers, who will join the Party as a result of our lead- ership in various strikes and struggles. The workers who join our Party will therefore ex- pect and look forward to being involved in active Party work. The prevalent procedure in the Party units is that we usually meet a new member with a cold shower and no at- tempt whatever is made to involve him in unit work. At times this is done in a perverted manner; when old members of the unit refuse to accept a certain position in the unit, the new member is overburdened. A$ soon as a new | member joins the Party he must be immediately drawn into unit activities. The District Executive Committee decided to call every two weeks a meeting of new mem- bers and to establish for them a monthly class, having as its purpose the discussion of ex- periences, impressions, and opinions of new members as to the activities of the Party units. In this monthly class we will also take up with new members the political line of the Party and its political campaigns. Keep every new Party member! struggle Against Opportunism in the Greek itruggle Against Opportunism | in the Greek Fraction By H. PHILLIPS. (Secretary Greek Buro of the CC.) | Since the arrival of the Comintern Address | there has been a great deal of discussion in | our Party on the right danger. The Address | was accepted by the entire Greek membership | of the Party, with the exception of three. The Greek membership is composed of 100 per cent unskilled workers, therefore 100 per cent proletarian elements, and this is the rea- son for the unanimous acceptance of the Com- intern Address. The composition of our frac- tion is entirely different from that of other language fractions of the Party, since there are no petty-bourgeois intellectuals in our ranks, such as lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc., which are mostly found in the ranks of other language fractions. be But although the Address of the Comintern and the immediate events which followed it brought about a big change in the language | fractions, nevertheless there still exists an isolation of the language fractions from the general activity of the Party. This is especially true for the Greek comrades, for which it is often. still very difficult to cut off the chains of the past and to orientate themselves to the new situation. | A great number of them attend the unit meetings in the same way “religious” people go to church. They cross them- selves, pray and return home, feeling that they have done their duty to the movement. Even where some Greek comrades participate in the large-scale. struggles of the workers, they do it from a narrow national point of view, in- < More Mennonite Children Die in Germany HAMMERSTEIN, Germany, Jan. 3.—The death rate among the Mennonite children, who recently emigrated from the Soviet Union on the basis of fantastic promises from the Ger- man bourgeoisie, is rapidly increasing. The number of dead is now 52. At first the Workers! Join the Party of: Your Class! | Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. NBME .. 60.6 sce ches sscescccsnceccctnsmedos Occupation . . Age.. Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Morty, 43 vst 125th St. New York, N. Y. | of the Party. Fraction stead of following the general line of the move- ment. We still rotate too much in the margin of national issues instead of taking up the issues and daily demands of the native Amer- ican workers and we are still dangerously isolated from the general life of the Party— in a few words: in spite of the remarkable | improvement of the situation, we are not as yet an organic part of the Party and we are not inyolved in the general rotation of forces This constitutes a danger for the Greek fraction, because being aloof from the life of the Party, gives rise to many dan- gerous mistakes, and deviations, and’ strength- ens cyndicalist tendencies which stil dominate the Greek comrades to a great extent? Undoubtedly we have made many mistakes in the course of our activities, and the reason for them is to be found in this isolation frem the life of the Party. A. proposal for an al- liance with the Greek Bishop in this country is not an accident. The former leaders of the fraction, the renegades Christie and Kalfides, trueopportunist followers of Lovestone, did their utmost to destroy the fraction and to have the Greek paper of the Party “Empross” is- mued monthly instead of weekly. But thanks to the Address of the Comintern these so-called | revolutionists found themselves outside of the Party in the camp of the enemy, where they belong. Our fraction is again concentrating its forces, moving close to the Party, becoming an organic part of its and participating in all its developments. Mut we still have before us the task of completing this development and completely overcoming our isolation, With the assistance of the Central Committee we will succeed in this and march forward. But we need for this better attention and directions from the Party. German doctors tried to hide the nature of the disease from which the children died. It is now admitted by them that there is an epi- demic of measels and pneumonia raging among the Mennonite sect which is quartered in pris- on-like barracks. Hundreds of children ‘and adults are sick. é Thousands of the Mennonites are stranded in Germany, having been lured there by a campaign in the capitalist press which was directed against the Soviet Union, In the Soviet Union the Mennonites were comfortably housed and well fed on their farms. In Ger- many they are suffering the greatest priva- tions and are threatened with utter soaerige’ | tion by disease and death. tee 2 Desperate Workers Kill Self Mrs. Theresa Dalton, and another women, | both unemployed, committed suicide By gas in desperation after they had looked hopelessly for jobs. Their landlady found them dead. The number of jobless workers who answer Hoover and Green’s prosperity bunk by killing themselves in desperation over their failure to ‘get jobs is rapidly growing. Not one issue of the capitalist papers fails to carry the news of a number of unemployed workers committing suicide. The Communist Party is carrying on @ cam- _paign for the organization of the unemployed for a yo for unemployment relief. concertod a, ) REVOLUTION!” By F sit Ellis Three Smashing Defeats for the Opportunist Renegades By lL. AMTER. c seldom happens in the struggle against counter-revolutionists, that three defeats are given them in as many days. But this took place in the Metropolitan Area of New York on Dec. 21, 22, 23. Three smashing defeats from which they have suffered desperate wounds. Defeat Number One:. Convention of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union. Ellen Dawson, renegade from the Party, came to the conven- tion, but dared not open her mouth, for the textile workers of New Bedford know her— only too well. Eli Keller, supporter of the counter-revolutionary views of Dawson, also came to the convention, and tried to be seated. The New Bedford workers know him also. Keller made his appeal—and then the New Bedford textile workers answered in language that he will never forget. Weisbord came—but one who deserted the field of battle in Gastonia, dared not be seen too prominently at the Textile Workers’ Con- vention. He looked in, saw the militant spirit of the convention, and departed—to meet with Dawson and Keller in a restaurant and consult on future activities, against the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union, against the Communist Party. At this convention, the workers demon- strated their support of the Communist Party. At the mass meeting on Friday night, at the convention, the name of the Party evoked tre- mendous applause. Non-Party workers took the floor to speak in favor of the fighting qualities of the Party, and 17 joined the Party, one joined the Young Communist League. Defeat Number Two: Metropolitan Area Conference of the Trade Union Unity League in New York City.on Dec. 22. The Loyestone- ites mobilized all their forces, attempting to | smuggle in every possible illegal delegate. They came to obstruct, and if possible, to break up the conference. The Communist Party spoke at the confer- ence, denouncing the actions of the renegades not only in the Party but in the unions of the country. Tremendous applause from.the ‘work- ers, who know the Party. Speeches of the renegades, distortions, lies, no policy, not dar- ing to discuss the policy of the T. U. U. L. Gross, one time leader in the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, with his policy of taking the needle trades workers back into the ranks of the fascist scab company union of Schlesinger and Dubinsky! Followed by a young delegate, for the first time attending a conference of the TUUL. “I don’t know what the issues are here, but J see one thing and that is that these people have come here to break up this conference. They have no busi- ness here, and should be thrown out.” The ‘resolution presented by the Metropoli- . tan Area Council of the TUUL, analyzing the situation, counting the achievements, the weak- nesses and errors, the opportunist mistakes clearly, is adopted unanimously, the renegade Lovestoneites not daring to vote against this basically correct, analytical document. Defeat Number Three: Emergency Mem- bership Meeting at Central Opera House, on December 23. « meeting of 2,000 members of the Party, many of whom on their way to the hall were presented with another edition of the vicious documents that Lovestone and Co. have got accustomed to publishing since their expulsion from the Party. This document—an “appeal”—contains such statements as: “Why are we facing the severest crisis we have yet faced?” Who faces the crisis—the Party—or Lovestone? The Party has over- come the crisis, and Lovestone and his 250 followers throughout the Party face their crisis, in the loss of their leader, Bucharin, t | ] whom they denounce—and their following, who recognize the treachery of the petty-bourgeois politic and traitors to the revolutionary movement, Lovestone, Wolfe and Co. The Party has gotten rid of these renegades, and the crisis of growth.and elimination is past. “The present official leadership which was overwhelmingly repudiated at the last Na- tional Convention . . .” The present official leadership has the support of the entire mem- bership of the Party, and none demonstrated it better than the 2,000 members of the Party at Central Opera House, who jumped to their feet and enthusiastically sang the Interna- tionale upon mention of this fact. “The Party is reducing these organizations (the new industrial unions) to empty shells.” ; The answer of the textile work the min the needle, shoe and food workers gives the lie to these fakers. Never before did the Party enjoy so much prestige in the eyes of the workers, who know that the opportunists have been expelled from the Party, that the Party is carrying on a merciless fight against all op- portunism in the Party, that it unmasks it openly before the masses of the workers. “The very comrades who from the very be- ginning of the Party worked unceasingly and energetically to develop and raise the prestige of ‘the Comintern not alone among the Party masses but also in the ranks of the working class in general, are being expelled andj de- nounced . . . as renegades. Too bad, that you have been forgotten by the Party memb ip and the working class! | Too bad, that you thought you had 90 per cent of the Party membership supporting you! Today, you are lost to the Party and to the working class, who have cast you into the | well of oblivion and your work to “Raise the prestige of the Comintern” is turned into open, active enmity to the Communist Inter- national, to the working class and the Prole- tarian Revolution. That is the fate of all | counter-revolutionists, | “The socialist party—the third party of | American ‘capitalism — stands vulture-like ready to capitalize every loss our Party is having.” And who stands vulture-like by the side of the socialist party, nay, stands waiting to pounce on the Party? The renegades, Lovestone, Wolfe and Co., attacking, malign- | ing the revolutionary working class, the Com- ' munist Party and’ the Communist Interna- tional! You are safe allies of the social- fascists, the socialist party, the A/F. of L., | the Musteites; the Cannons, the Loreites. One heterogeneous group of counter-revolutionists, helping United States imperialism, the Na- | tional Fascist Council and world imperialism against the Proletarian Revolution. And finally: “Hold aloft the banner of Len- inism at all costs!” Which Leninism? The Leninism® which you, the renegades and trai- tors to the revolutionary movement, and ene- mies of the Communist International, distort and attack like’ Kautskys and Otto Bauers? The Communist Party and its members know only one Leninism, the Leninism of Lenin, who flayed and castigated such traitors as you, who branded them with scathing words—the Leninism of the Communist International, which is leading the workers of the imperialist countries, of ‘China, India, Central and South America in «revolutionary struggle for the destruction of imperialism and for the estab- lishment of the World Proletarian Dictator- ship! This is the Leninism which stripped you naked of your revolutionary phraseology and. revealed you as petty-bourgeois politi- cians. The membership meeting answered your social-fascist document. It answered it in no - uncertain terms. It answered it by thunderous support cf the Party. The members of the | Party supported the Communist Party, U. S. ° LENIN AND THE PRESENT CONDITIONS OF WORKERS. By JACK STACHEL. NCREASING millions of exploited workers thruout the world will pay honor to the mem- ory of Lenin this month. Lenin died six years ago, but the principles that he stood for, today embrace larger mi s than ever before. Lenin is dead, but Leninism is more alive than ever. Bolshevism is spreading into every land, into every working-class community, into every fac- tory, and among the village poor. Again and again, the bosses and their lackeys have “stamped” out bolshevism as a “foreign im- portation” but each time they find that it is flaring up with greater force until it is be- coming a real danger to the further existance of rotten capitalism's system of exploitation. What Lenin Taught the Workers. Lenin taught the workers that the present period is the period of imperialist wars and proletarian revolution; that the present period —imperialism—is the last period of capitalism. Lenin taught us that the conditions of the workers in this period are growing worse and worse; that the exploitation and oppression of the masses is brought to untold heights. Lenin taught us that the working-class must organize itself into trade unions and other working class organizations to fight back the growing offensive of the: bosses, the bosses’ government and their lackeys in the ranks of the working cl: the yellow socialists and their labor fake Lenin taught us the neces- sity of united struggle of all workers, Negro and white, native born and foreign born, men and women, adult workers and young workers, as a condition for the victory of the working class, in the overthrow of capitalism and the capitalist government. Above all, Lenin taught us the role and need of the Communist Party for the victory of the working class. The Correctness of Lenin’s Teachings. What do we find today? Today more than ever before, we can clearly see the truths of the teachings of Lenin. We see the capitalists faced with an economic crisis signifying the growing collapse of capitalism. We see the capitalists trying to overcome this crisis thru the more inhuman speed-up, and the lengthen- ing of the hours of labor. We see the bosses’ government, its police, soldiers, courts, and jails ready to crush every attempt of the working class to resist these intolerable conditions. We see the growing army of unemployed, who do not even get a chance to work under these miserable condi- tions but are left to starve together with their families and dependents. We see the labor fakers, the yellow socialists, the agents of the bosses in the ranks of the labor movement assisting the bosses in crushing the growing resistance of the workers. Plan Attack Against the Soviet Union. We see the capitalists preparing for another imperialist war in which they will call upon the toiling masses to give their lives for the protection of United States imperialism, for Wall Street profit. We witness the feverish preparations for an open attack against the Soviet Union, the only workers government in the world, the inspiration of inereasing millions of exploited toilers. On the other hand, we witness the growth of Socialism in the Soviet Union. We see the foundation laid down by the Russion Revolu- tion under the leadership of Lenin growing stronger and stronger. As it grows stronger, it weakens the capitalists’ system thruout the world, and makes the capitalists tremble. We see the growth of the resistance of the oppressed masses in China, India, the Philip- lines, Haiti and everywhere. Workers Fighting Back. Here within: the United tSates, we see the growth of the workers organizations. In the last year, we have witnessed the organization of the Trade Union Unity League, the revo- lutionary trade union center, carrying on a struggle for the organization of the mass of un- organized workers and fighting against the betrayals of the leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor. We see the growing strug- gles of textile workers, under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union, the present struggle of the Illinois miners under the leadership of the National Miners Union, the important struggles in New Orleans, Gas- tonia, Marion, etc. In Detroit and vicinity among the auto work- ers, that are now facing the most serious un- employment situation, the greatest of all speed- up, wage cuts, we haye witnessed a number of important struggles in the last year. Murray Body, Flint, and the other, struggles that have taken place are but a rehearsal of what is coming in the near future. We already can clearly see the development of a new will to How Liberals Support Jobless After Dora Schneider, one of the proprietors of the fake “Reliable” Employment Agency, had been bailed out by Rev.*John Haynes Holmes, liberal leader and supporter of the socialist party, the agency opened business again and continued to charge unemployed workers from $5 to $25 for worthiess prom- ises of jobs. The authorities were forced to arrest the proprietors after more than 150 workers who had been foolel by the fake promises-of jobs stormed the office of the agency. Rey. John Haynes Holmes, who was one of the outstand- ing supporters of Rev. Norman Thomas, so- cialist party candidate for mayor in the recent election, hastened to bail out one of the own- erg of the agency so she could continue to swindle the workers. A., section of the Communist International and at this meeting demonstrated that there is unity in the Party; that they have faith in the Party and the Comintern: Three smashing defeats in three Preie This marks the beginning of the end of the Love- stone-Wolf renegade group in the United States. | fight on the part of the slaves im the aute plants. Already one can sense in therbesser. press the nervous fecling that is coming*over them. Leninsm is embracing ever. larger. masses in their struggle against capitalism because Leninism is the instrument, the guide to the workers in their struggle for better conditions, in their struggle for the overthrow of capita- lism, Workers of Detroit! Attend the Lenin mem- orial meeting! Honor the memory of Lenin! Prepare for bigger struggles! Fight For: Seven-hour day, five-day week, and higher wages. Full wages to the unemployed. Racial social and political equality for the Negre, masses. Defense of the Soviet Union, a work- ers government. Fight Against: Speed-up and wage cuts. The attacks against the workers. Capitalist terror and oppression. Yeellow socialist and A. F, of L.,bureaucrats Imperialist war and war preparations, . Yankee imperialism in Haiti, China and other colonies. Organize into the auto workers union and the Trade Union Unity League. Follow the Party of Lenin. Join the Communist Party! Hot Air. The Secretary of Labor Davis and His “Safety Talk.” By GRACE M. BURNHAM Labor Research Association. (Speaking at one of weekly radio addresses of the National Safety Council, an employers organization fighting against compulsory safety regulation in industry, Secretary of Labor Davis delivered a bombastic speech in which he attempted to hide the high rate of deaths and accidents which continue to increase in the United States each year. At the same time, he whitewashed the employers and put the chief blame for industrial ac- cidents on the workers themselves. This is the second installment of Comrade Burn- ham’s article-—Editor.) * * * A closer analysis of the secretary’s speeck reveals certain facts which cannot be denied, although these are cloaked in phrases de- signed to throw his audience off the track. “Tt is probable,” states Davis, “that 23,000 or more fatalities occurred in industry in 1928 through accidents which might have been pre- vented if all the industries in the United States had pursued safety work in keeping with the council’s plans.” This is the crux of the whole matter. The employers are not going to spend money guarding machinery, substituting non-poison- ous for poisonous substances, and using safer, slower methods where faster, unsafe methods of work get more production—unless they aré compelled to do so. In the same issue of the National Safety News, the assistant statistician of the Na- tional Safety Council discusses why accident rates go up, as well as down, even in the plants operated by members of the National Safety Council, “Although,” he writes, “about 200 establishments lowered their frequency rates between 50, and 100 per cent in 1928, 125 others reported increases of more than 100 per cent. The severity rates of 350 plants dropped between 50 and 100 per cent, but over 100 establishments had severity increases’ of 100 per cent or more.” Speaking of the in- creases in accidents in the construction in- dustry which have mounted,to such terrific rates that it is estimated that no less than 50 building trades workers are killed each working day, the employers blame the “in- herent” hazards of construction programs ‘and the necessity for using inexperienced men on these jobs. The “inherent” hazards of con- struction can be substantially reduced by safe- ty regulation’, which are notoriously lacking in this industry throughout the entire country. On the other hand, the “necessity” for using inexperienced men on the jobs is the self- imposed “necessity” of the open shop employ- ers who constitute the majority of Safety Council members to smash the unions, at all costs. How “necessary” it is to use, only in- experienced men on the jobs is seen from the fact that the building trades unions recorded an estimated 20 per cent unemployment. among their members during the last two years. More frank is the statement of W. R. Richards, Director of Accident Prevention of the Associated General Contractors of Amer- ica, the organization that for ten years suc- cessfully blocked the completion of a standard safety code for the construction industry. He says: “Our association takes the stand that it is impossible to formulate rules and/regula- tions for the construction industry: .. . When we consider that 80 to 90 per cent of accidents are caused by the human element, while only 10 to 15 per cent are traceable to mechanical sources, one major solution seems feasible. That is education—education. for the empioyee, for the contractor and for the public. . . . Accident prevention in construe- tion, we maintain, is a matter for cooperative, voluntary, educational effort, consisting large- ly of teaching men to think, and prevailing upon them to acquire the safety instinct, something which cannot be governed by legis- lation.” It is significant that when a safety code for the construction industry was prepared by a committee of trade unionistsyand architects, and when the secretary. of labor was asked by the Building Trades Department: of the A. F. of L. to call a conference of trade union- ists, employers, and government officials to consider accident prevention in the construc- tion industry, he would do nothing until this Associated General Contractors Association had given him the word. The knows his master’s voice. Needless to say sid < ipl ence has been called, (To Be Continued)