The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1930, Page 4

Publ PARTY RECRUI TING DRIVE! NOW FOR THE 7th YEAR OF STRUGGLE! By Fred Ellis Fighting South Leads in the Drive—Philadelphia and De- troit Following Closely Califorr Ousted Leading Places. from ing Drive as reported to the Organization De- partment of the Central Committee up to Recru January 3, 1930. New New W. Subs Shop Nuclei Shop Papers solicited Quota Org. Quota Issued 20 3 3 1 10 1 10 2 Fy — 3 10 3 ae 15 4 t 15 — ——. 1 7 uM 6S 8 t vanishing. Every district must set itself the al number the rgh, any than showed today, Six trict € ruiting capacities since last v B four York Phi five more ied with 911 of the > has ota being quite a dis- 34%, with lace with fe tepped and Chicago both each with 24% of quota srnia temporarily cor back next n to stay on top. REVOLUTIONARY COMPETITION, have been received this challenged California uit more new mem- hop nuclei. Pitts- to challenge the se in the Drive to get more new me In R r npetition between Dis- tricts we eal struggle developing be- tween New Yo 1 Chicago, each being tied with th 24 of quota. In Negro workers, } still leads Chicago 3 1 aliho Chic s they will win here als ighting persi nst Detroit d Distr ently to win its is still behind. loud words in Cleveland rs as against 134 for uld have challenged here they are only z organized three < as against four in is going to fight o Connecticut, step- 2 né embers as against a Connecticut. phia i but ke we see only Detroit. Detroit i one b new shop nt Detroit las to make good it ping out with total of 26 for The third week of the Drive barely squeezed through a higher number of Negro work re- eruited than previou eek The first’ week saw 53, the second 50 ar third 57. This is still insufficient. € tricts like Bos- ton with or z it California with non ig score, de has re- cruited a tota orkers, while De- troit is on its heel Other districts who have recruited Negro workers are } York (30), Chicago (21), Cleveland (9), Buf- falo-Pittsburgh (3) Cleveland and Pittsburgh have come forward this week with four shop nuclei, the first with three and the latter with one. Such districts as Pittsburgh, Chicago, California and Minne- sota show a scandalous in organizing of new shop nuclei, while New York is a little better. As is to be expected, the most active district in securing new members would also be in the record same position in Daily Workers subs. This sector of the Drive front very weak. Phila- delphia with a miserable 20 new subs, leads all other districts. While there has been a spurt forward in the third week of the Drive, no single district ept the South and Philadelphia, are keeping gace with the time alloted which is swiftly Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. § 43 East 125th Street, Wew York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- st Party. Send me more information. UL vessels s betes seaa Oty, task of winning 80% of its quota by the Lenin Memorial Meetings. Win the new members through mass activity! Turn the Party face to the factories! Fight to keep every new member! Organization Department of C. Buffalo—Center of War Industries By CHARLES MITCHELL, District Four of the Communist Party, with its headquarters in Buffalo, is one of the most industrial sections in the country. Buffalo, which is the District City, ranks as the first in the production of chemicals “for all indus- tries,” according to statistics given by the Chamber of Commerce. Those who underesti- mate the importance of chemicals and their role in the coming imperialist war, underesti- mate the war danger itself. Buffalo, with Wrig’.t-Curtis airo parts plant, employ already over 22,000 workers and they are building another plant to employ as many more. This despite the fact that in other in- dustries m znemployment exists. Next to chemicals is steel. Buffalo, it can be said, is the second home of the steel mag- nates. Here are situated the Lackawanna Steel, the Bethlehem Steel, the Seneca Steel, the Eaton Steel, with a number of “small” cattered all over the vicinity. Besides the above thereets the United States Rubber, the Rayon Dupont, the Pierce-Arrow and Amer- ica Bross, 15,000; American Radiolas, 20,000; Ford Auto Manufactur with tens. of thous- ands of workers, the most exploited country. One of the other most important industries in Buffalo is marine transport. Of all the ports | situated on the great lakes, Buffalo takes the first place both in volume and in position. The biggest grain store houses in the eastern ‘part of the country are situated here which serve as concentration points for the entire eastern part of Canada. But Buffalo is be- coming a metropolis in a certain sense. It is surrounded by purely one-industry towns, Near Buffalo are towns like Lackawanna (steel), Tanawanda (steel, metal and chemical, paper mills—15,000), Lockport (brass and steel), Niagara Falls (chemical, steel), Depew (steel), Blasedale (steel), Lancaster (steel, railroad machine shops, radio parts, ete.). All of these being within the radius of 20 miles around Buffalo, it being the exact center of them all. The task of the Party in the Recruiting Drive is to root itself in these heavy industries. Ask Wall Street to Intervene Against Its Lackeys Cuban reports state that the bourgeois op- position to Machado has appealed to American imperialism to use the power of intervention given it by the infamous “Platt Amendment” to rescue some bourgeois journalists from trial by a military court. Ambassador Guggenheim at Havana was ad- dvessed in a letter by General Francisco Peraza of the “Nacionalista Party,” asking the U. S. ambassador to prevent Carlos Dellunde, an ex- congressman, and Roger. de Lauria, a journalist, from being tried by the military, evidently hav- ing great faith in the civil courts of Machado. Also, since the Platt Amendment is male for protection of American imperialism, not for those who attack it, or Machado who is its tool, the request seems fantastic. But of course since these people are not workers, they may get some consideration. Unemployment Sweeps Texas WASHINGTON, D. C., (By Mail).—Even Francis I, Jones, director of the Federal Em- ployment Service, has issued a warning to workers to keep out of Texas. He fears what might happen if the jobless organize. - “The influx of labor to Texas is creating a bad economic situation,” he said. “At present the supply of labor far exceeds the demand.” Another AFL Faker Gets Job WASHINGTON, D. C., (By Mail).—Presi- dent Green of the corrupt A. F. of L. has ap- pointed Joseph Casey of San Francisco gen- ‘eral organizer for the state of California. Casey will make the Golden State safe for the “no-strike” policy proposed to Green by his friends of the fascist economic council. \Fears Result of Unemployment | LONDON, (By Mail).—Mass unemployment has become so serious under the regime of the “Labor” government that the government, fearing revolutionary action from the radical- izing jobless, passed a “bigger doles” bill here. Worker Freezes. CHICAGO, (By Mail).—Clarence Lucas, 47, 2545 State St., was taken to the county hos- pital for treatment for frozen fingers, He | had worked outside in a snowstorm, in the day, at 26-28 Union able: “DALWOTES New York NY | a few months ago, hy work, Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U.S. A. On January d'main organ of leadership of the niversary. planned circulation of 300,000. Ry Mail (in New York City on By Mail (outside of New York City): $6.00 a year; JBSCRIPTION RA iting 8. six months; $ $3.50 six months; § three months 00 three months 13 the Daily Worker, Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. American workers’ The Anniversary Edition will be published on January 11—next Saturday—with a In the coming seventh year of its existence, the Daily Worker struggles, will reach its Sixth An- must be made a mass organ of our class struggles! The Great Building Achievements of the Five-Year Plan HE KARA expedition, which has cai out regular journeys with icebre: and steamships to the mouths of the Rivers Ob and Yenisei, was successfully concluded in the middle of Octob: The expeditions for- merly bore a certain experimental character, but the great expedition this year bore all the ks of a regular shipping undertaking with d time-table and all those arrangements which characterize normal shipping. The cen- tury old idea of reaching the North Coast of Asia from Europe by the sea has now been carried out after innumerable attempts, heavy sacrifiecs and numerous successes. Siberia, which was termed by Narsen in 1913 ag the mysterious country of the future, is now living in the present and experiencing tremendous things. Where once the brave sea- men sailed into the unknown, there are now modern signals, radio stations and automatic buoys, where the Tunguse fed his reindeer only draulic rams are now at Electric lamps illuminate the landscape at night, customs officials and controllers de- mand p and produce a mysterious stamp with the inscription “Port Igarka.” Since June, 192 , Siberia has possessed a regular ocean harbor: Port Igarka. Siber ia has become a sea-going country. Twenty-six ships with a registered tonnage of 83,628 reached Siberia this year, 12 ships going to the Ob and 15 going to the Yenisei. A year before only six ships sailed for Siberia, hardly more than a year ago the Sea of Kara wag considered to be unnavigable. But the proof is now there. Large fleets can sail through the Arctie Ocean to Siberia. It is only. a technical question of the icebreaking and radio service, the prepara- tion of charts and the protection of the coastal service and the number of ships can then be tremendously increased. The expedition which was led this year by the icebreaker “Krassin” and which worked for the first, time with the systematic support of a hydroplane piloted by the famous Russian airman Tchukhnovski, took place without the least accident. The time- table of the great fleet was held almost com- pletely. In the rivers, however, there was a not unimportant delay. The river flotillas which carried the export commodities from the Trans-Siberian Railway to the depots, suffered this year from bal weather conditions which held them up for days, particularly on the Yeni- sei, and prevented them from pagsing the rap- ids. They also suffered a number of misfortunes On the River Yenisei a great barge with valu able export timber was burned to the wat edge. Despite all these t sacrificing work succeeded in concluding the expedition in good time and all the river and ocean going vessels left the Arctic coastal dis- rtict before the commencement of the ice period. OPENS SIBERIAN EXPORTS. The Kara expedition is intended to open up Siberia for the export trade. The wealth of Siberia which hag been systematically explore! only in recent years, and even then only to a small extent, can only be transported to any great extent by water, The Kara expedition aims at exporting these valuable commodities which are so difficult to transport. They are mostly timber and graphite. \ Tn the next few yedrs fish and meat con- serves will also be exporied, . These conserves will be manufactured in new factories at the mouths of the rivers. The turn-over this year Was 77,200 tons as against 29,023 tons last year. Import grew from 11,290 tons last year to 13,200 tons this year, whilst export grew from 16 tons to 64,000 tons. An idea of the sig- nificance of the Kara expedition can be ob- tained when one remembers that the Yeni alone is capable of providing 5,000,000 cubic meters of export timber anually. A NEW HARBOR CITY 8UILT. The opening up of Siberia will be considerably influenced by the Kara expedition. Wonders hardly take place if the world today, but they still take place in Siberia. The new harbor Port Igarka, 69.40 degrees northern latitude on the right bank of the Yenisei offers shelter to fifty large ships. The harbor ig about 400 kilometres south of the river mouth. Only at the end of May this year did the work com- mence to make the district usable. Two pro- visional quays will be replaced next year by four moles. A sawmill with four frames will cut the logs borne down by the r and a iv graphite factory will grind the Kureika gra- phite. It is also planned to build a factory for veneer wood. In the spring a reindeer meat packing factory will be built and will work for the export trade, A power station will also be built in Port Tgarka despite great difficul- ties. This winter 300 workers will remain in Port Igarka and according to the Five-Year Plan the port will have 10,000 inhabitants, club buildings, schools, a hospital, a metereological and a radio station. This town will be stamped out of the primeaval ground on the coast of the Arctic. Further to the North, a commence- ment is being made to open up the tremendous coal mines. Platinum, copper, kobalt and a number of other precious metals are also there. Near Dudinsk these treasures can ben seen in the ground. Next pring 300 workers will commence to erect factory buildings near Du- dinsk and the basis for a railway has already been laid. And all this in the eternal ice! Two timber factories will be erected on the Yenisei and a great timber factory will be erected on the Ob, and a great paper factory near Novosibirsk (the paper will be produced according to a new process from the water plants of the Siberian rivers) which will work for the export trade, At the mouth of the Ob this year unloading was done without a harbor near Noviport. Next year one of four projects will be chosen and then a harbor will be built at the mouth of the Ob. In May next year Tehukbnovski will take up the charting work again. In addition to the old wireless stations on Novaya Zemlya and on Vaigatch Island, three new great stations are to be erected on White Island, on the T: myr Peninsula and on the North Cape (Mauri- tius) of Novaya Zemlya. The original inhabitants of Northern Siberia, the Samoyedes, the Tungusians, the Uraks and the Dolganians will not be neglected by this tremendous progress. Schools, doctors and teachers are already to be found in the tundra and the taiga. The plan of the Soviet govern- ment, is to release streams of minerals, furs, wood, meat and fish in tremenlous quantities into the econom'c system of the West and this plan will be carvied out. | stances of the present war. LENIN ON THE PROLETARIAT AND THE WAR DANGER (Editor’s Note: The Lenin mpaign of the Communist Party, extending over the month of January, comes at a time this car when all the f leading to a new “war between the imperialist powers are being sharply accelerated in a headlong rush towards the breaking point. The Com- munist Party recognizes that its first duty towards the working class is to rouse it to the danger of a new imperialist slaughte: to prepare and organize the toiling mass against this new carnage, to educate them to the necessity of transforming the imper- jalist war into a civil war in which the op- pressed will put an end to the imperialist ions once for all. as Lenin who first waged a merciless struggle against the betrayal of the inter- national working class by the Socialists all over the world in the last imperialist slaugh- ter. It was Lenin who held aloft the red banner of international working class soli- darity, who unmasked the predatory cha acter of the war and showed the workers of the world the only way out. The Com- munist Party, therefore, considers it as one of its most vital duties to bring Lenin’s teachings to the American working class. In this Lenin Corner, the Daily Worker, throughout the month of January, will con- tinue to run some of Lenin’s most impor- tant writings on imperialist war and party organization. The present discussion of the relation of the proletariat to imperialist war is taken from Lenin’s Imperialist War—The Strug- gle Against Social-Chauvinism and Social- Pacifism, which constitutes Vol. XVIII of his Collected Works, published in English by International Publishers.) ele * THE PROLETARIAT AND THE WAR. Lecture Delivered October 14, 1914. Newspaper Report. The lecturer divides his lecture into two par First, an analysis of the ‘present war, then the attitude of the Socialists towards this war. An analy of the character of the war, Lenin sa a necessary preliminary for a Marxist when he wants to decide upon his at- titude towards it. For such an anlaysis it is necessary, first of all to make clear the ob- jective conditions and the concrete circum- We must place this war in the historic background in which it is going on. Only then shall we be able to determine our attitude towards it. Else we would have, not a materialist, but an eclectic treatment of the question. In conformity with the historical cireum- stances, the interrelation of classes, ete., our attitude towards the war must be different at different times. It is foolish to renounce par- ticipation in war forever and as a matter of principle. On the other hand, it is absurd to divide the wars into defensive and aggressive ones. Marx hated Russia in 1848, because at that time democracy in Germany could not gain the upper hand and develop, coull not solidify the country into one national whole as long as the reactionary hand of backward Russia was suspended over Germany. To determine our attitude towards the pres- ent war, we must understand wherein it dif- fers from the former wars, what its peculiari- ties are. Has the bourgeoisie given an explanation in this respect? No, it has given none, and it ¢an give none under any circumstances. Judg- ing by what is going on among the Socialists, one may think that they, too, have no idea of the distinguishing characteristics of the pres- ent war. Yet, the Socialists once explained and fore- saw it quite clearly. Moreover, there is not a single speech of a Socialist Deputy, not a single article of a Socialist publicist, in which such explanation is not contained. The ex- planation is so simple that, somehow, one does not pay attention to it. Still it gives the key to a correct attitude towards this war. The present war is an imperialist war. is its main characteristic. To make this clear, we must analyse the nature of the past wars and the nature of an imperialist war. Lenin then characterizes in some detail the wars of the end of the eighteenth and of the entire nineteenth century. All those, he says, were national wars accompanying and helping the formation of national states. Those wars signified the destruction of feudalism; they were the expression of the struggle of the new bourgeois society against feudalism. A national state is a necessary phase in the development of capitalism. The struggle for the self-determination of the na- tion, for its independence, for the freedom of This its language, for popular representation, served this end—the creation of national states, wh were, at a certain stage of capi- talism, indispensable soil for the growth of productive forces, Such is the character of the wars beginning with the period of the great French Revolu- tion and continuing down to the Italian and Prussian wars. This task of the national wars was carried out either by democracy itself, or with the aid of such men as Bismarck, independently of the will and consciousness of the participants themselves. To secure the victory of present- day civilization, and the full growth of eapi- talism, to draw the whole people, all the na- tions, into capitalism—this is what national wars, the wars of the beginning of capitalism, served to do, An imperialist war is a different thing. Here, too, there were once no’ differences of opinion between Socialists of all countries and all trends. When resolutions on the attitude towards a possible war were discussed at any congress, all agreed that such a war would be an imperialist war. All European countries have already reached an equal stage in the de- velopment of capitalism, all of thea have yie’'od all that capitalism can give. Capi- talism has already reached its highest form, it is already exporting, not commodities, but capital. It begins to feel cramped in its na- tional shell, and there is a struggle now for the last free remnants of land on the globe. | While the national wars of the eighteenth and niheteenth centuries signified the beginning of capitalism, the imperialist wars indicate its end. The entire end of the nineteenth and the be- ginning of the twentieth centuries were full of imperialist polities. Jt is imperialism that lends the present war | antiquated teri an entirely different imprint; it is imperialism that distinguishes it from all the past wars. Only when we observe this war, in its pe- culiar historical surroundings, as it is the duty of a Marxist to do, can we determine our at- titude towards it. Else we would be manipu- lating with old terms, with arguments fitting old and indifferent surroundings. Among such s is the term fatherland and the above-mentioned distinttion between de- fensive and aggressive wars. Of course, in a living picture of reality there may still be discerned spots of old paint. Thus, of all the belligerent countries only the Serbs are fighting for their national existence. Simi- larly, the class conscious proletarians in India and China cannot follow any but the national road, as their countries have not been formed as yet into national states. If China had to wage an aggressive war for this purpose, we could only sympathize with it, since objective- ly this would be a progr e war. It was in the same way that Ma in 1848, was in a position to preach an aggressive war against Russia. (To be continued) Hot Air. The Secretary of Labor Davis and His “Safety Talk.” By GRACE M. BURNHAM Labor Research Association. (Speaking at one of the weekly radio ad- dresses of the National Safety Council, an employers’ organization fighting against compulsory safety regulation in industry, Secretary of Labor Davis delivered a bom- bastie 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 white- washed the employers and put the chief blame for industrial accidents on the work- ers themselves, This is the third installment of Comrade Burnham’s article.—Editor.) * * * No better tool for the employing interest: could be found for secretary of labor than it: present incumbent, who has been retained ir office by three successive presidents and whe is now planning te run for governor of Penn- sylvania with czar Hoover’s kindly backing “The general situation is improving,” he says the facts to the contrary. “Three per cent oi all accidents cause major injuries and 8.8 per cent minor injuries. The rest are inconse- quential, but with them bring the harrowing fear of what might have been. But these “in- consequential injuries” alone cause a yearly loss of more than six million working weeks, according to the leading writer on compensa- tion statistics in the United States, E. H. Downey. Secretary Davis then goes on in true em- ployers’ fashion to place the blame for 66 per cent of the accidents on the workers them- selves. To faulty instruction he attributes 30 | per cent of all accidents; 22 per cent he credits | ness of a man’s home.” to inattention; 12 per cent to incompetency of the worker; 12 per cent to poor discipline; | and the remaining 34 per cent to unsafe prac- tices and mechanical hazards, The remedies he suggests, in themselves, indict him as a hypocritical tool of the em- ploying class: “The more general use of the English language, enabling more workers to read safety bulletins, and the state of happi- To explain this last absurdity he goes on: “Some men are cross in | the morning as well as are other members of the family on occasion, ... . The result is that after a silent breakfast the man rushes off to work feeling depressed and careless, and when in that condition accidents are more likely to happen.” Workers who have faced punch presses and traveling cranes for 12-hour shifts, day after day; child laborers in textile mills and canneries who have hands and fin- gers crushed and torn; girls painting. watch dials with radium who have lived to watch their bodies rot away until death is looked forward to as a blessing, should know how to size up this apologist for the bosses. The words of Secretary Davis that “the em- ployee who is not mindful of the safety of his fellow worker is a menace to the very society which gives him protection from every+other ill which might beset his life, while away from his job,” must be answered by showing the workers that in no industrial country in the world are they given as little protection as in the Unite] States. No insurance against un- employment; no provision for old age; no medical and hospital care for themselves and their families, except as “charity outcasts.” But for the employing class there is ample protection; freedom to work their employees unlimited hours, at starvation wages; freedom to speed them up until they drop from exe haustion; freedom to drain from their used up bodies unlimited wealth, The workers’ answer to this “Hot Air” pub- licity stunt of the National Safety Council should be an aggressive and nation-wide cam- paign for adequate protection nationally as well as state by state, with severe penalties, including jail sentences, for employers who subject workers to hazards which result in pre- yentable deaths and injuries. (According to safety experts, 90 per cent of the industrial injuries which occur in the United States are preventable.) In such a campaign the secretary of labor and most of his associates in state and city labor departments will be lined up with the corporations against the workers. Only the complete destruction of capitalism, with a workers’ government in control, will give the workers of the country real protection. Only the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has established an adequate and effective system of labor protection for the working class, (Conclusion) Swiss Reformists in Bloc BERNE, (By Mail).—By unanimous vote the executive committee of the Swiss National Federation of Trade Unions decided to take active part in federal politics, and favored the participation of the party in the. government. The government also unofficially, as yet, Agrees, social-fascist socialist —