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Page Four By JOHN SCHMIES. together with the icial organ, the Daily part of further Bolshe- The drive for 5,000 workers ust be first, fundamentally mpaign in the industries UR membership drive buil Worker, ing our Party. nto our Party upon the c F: n view of increasing our tempo organization in order to take advan- tage of the increasing growth of radicaliza- tion and the development of the militant mood ruggle among the workers. ng of must be made the number of shop ‘ond, to increase nucle in hand with the increasing op nuclei we must equally in- Communist shop Third, } numbers crease papers. - of mber our members arated from campaign for new s must not be sep: the building of our official or- In other words, if and the Daily Worker a real Bolshevik campaign, then n that during this campaign our has become a stronger Party because it is rooted further into the industries and therefore is gaining the confidence and lead- ership not only among these numbers of work- ers who have joined into our movement, but at the same time succeeded in adding an army of proletarians to our ranks which in turn will | mean a much broader base for our general revolutionary activity. Our Perspective and Drive. This campaign must be based upon the gen- eral perspective of our movement and all work- | ers joining into our Party during this drive must be made conscious of this fact, one of which is building up a revolutionary trade union center in this country. The historic convention of the TUUL in the City of Cleve- land and the participation of the TUUL in leading many struggles of the workers since the Cleveland convention should be an inspira- tion for all Party members to actively take part in the membership and Daily Worker drive. In our campaign we must lay special em- phasis on spreading our activity as much as possible among the native American workers. Of course this does not mean that we should neglect the foreign-born section of the Amer- iean working class, but we must have in mind during this drive to bring the Party closer to all workers in the industries. Then again the campaign must be intensi- fied not only in words, but in deeds among the most exploited section, the Negro masses. In this present membership drive and Dail and mail all checks to the Di | Worker drive the slogan Revolutionary Competition is being raised among our mem- | bership in the different districts. This in it- self is a tremendous step forward for our bership and for the working class. Since we are emancipated from our former group and faction outlooks and since we did and are cleansing our Party from all concealed right wing elements and renegades of the Commu- nist movement, and since all loyal Party com- rades acting and approaching all our. task from a Party point of view the slogan of Revolutionary Competition will not only be a Pi actual deeds in all our tasks no matter how di against and that is, that that we gain for our Par that we build during tk Communist shop pa al should not be permitted to drift ) our movement, but on the contrary they must | bi | ary force of our Party. |Flashes From Recruiting Drive n | di The number of new members up to Jan. 6 are 251. 15,000 pamphlets, “Why Every Worker Should Join the Communist Party” have al- ready been distributed out of which 10,200 | have been paid for to the District Office. Western Electric Worker in a basic industry, | a d ui | the Lenin Memorial Meeting which takes place | J fe 0! cards and institute the new dues system on a st 0} However, both as regar that we hope to reach our quota by the end of the drive, PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS | Bolshevik ed for its mem- because only in a united can such a slogan be ra’ aper slogan but will be transformed into ifficult they may be. Must Guard Against Past Mistakes. rply guard members However, one thing we must sha all all new shop nuclei campaign, all new pers that we get out and Worker from ne Il the new subscribers for the Da e made into a living reality and revolution- | Front York District of the Party has | 50 mark in the membership of its quota. The New ow passed its rive, thus giving 25 per cent Two new shop started, the | papers were ind the Fighting Leather Goods Worker. The istrict has set for itself the task of reaching | 5 per cent of the quota of new members by an. 22 at Madison Square Garden. | ef- | The district is now making energetic rts for the registration of all membe rder to properly ound ba One new shop nucleus has been rganized in a textile factory in Long Island. shop papers and are being made so hop nuclei, greater effo' Prefers Flowing Spring In Place of Sewer H. T. Ahrens, of Spokane, Wash., reader of The Daily Worker, sent us a copy of a let- ter he sent to the Trotskyist organ. This let- ter follows in part: “‘The Militant’ was unsolicited for some time. The receipt of every issue impelled the | hope that it would be the last to be forwarded. | I prefer to drink from a flowing spring in place of a sewer. “Reading your periodical depressed me in as much as it plainly gave proof that it is an enemy of progress, and not working for the emancipation of the masses. The only feature to be admired is the plain expression ‘Opposi- tion’ carried at the head of the title page. It truly is in opposition to the greatest move- ment ever inaugurated in human history. It opposes the efforts of the people who are cre- ating a new world and are given proof of suc- cess, although greatly handicapped by condi- tions inherited from the Czarist regeme and the ‘Opposition’ of the capitalist powers. . . . “The enemies of Soviet Russia and the enemies of labor have every reason to applaud your paper’s tactics. There is nothing so de- testable as the acts of the disrupter who cloaks himself with radical phrases and hides behind a smokescreen of radicalism in order to frus- | trate the efforts of those who battle for eman- cipation from the monster, Capitalism. I think the black hundred of Gastonia and the minions of the textile barons of Marion, who fight in the open, are preferable to those people who fight against workers and a world movement by using disguises. “I would greatly appreciate if I am no longer insulted by the receipt of ‘The Mili- tant.’”” Negroes Join Communist Youth ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 12.—Twelve Negro workers joined the Communist Party, five joined the Young Communist League, and three Negro children joined the Young Pio- neers at a meeting on unemployment, called by the Young Communist League. The ma- of the workers who responded to the call for the meeting were Negroes. Comrade Patterson, Negro Organizer of the Y.C.L. of District 8 spoke, followed by D. E. Farley, section organizer of St. Louis. Ben Gray, field organizer of the Y.C.L., was chair- man. An unemployment conference and a mass demonstration before the city hall will be held in the near future. The police attempted to. break up an open- air meeting at which Patterson and Gray were speaking, but the solidarity of the workers thwarted their attempts. Workers! Join the Party of The Right Danger and the ization of the masses. we have the best opportunities for bringing closer and into the Party many American and Negro workers. ti ‘ion—wage cuts, speed-up, ete—and its con- sequence, form a large field for work for our | Party. In the past in our drives to secure new members for our Party we went every place but_in the shops for recruits. We did not think that the fellow-worker along side of us | should be drawn into the Party. getting the shop mates was the work of the next comrade. minds of some comrades—that the worker was immune from Communism and our propaganda and that. it was a waste of time and energy to go after him. proached our inner friends in smal! groups and foreign born workers, who were easier to talk to, had le: were easier to get thought). selves to the shops, how will our Party be- come a real leader of the masses? Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 48 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. -Name .... somesess Citysseees Address ...... MUO DRENDEN 55's cu.e 06s saws AGEL. s'0's Mail this to the Central Office, Communist _ Party, 43 Eost 125th St. New York, N. Y. | the renegade Lovestone and Co. and the re- Recruiting Drive By I. WINOKUR. (Shop Nucleus 1, Detroit.) 'HE Right danger in the Recruiting Drive lies in the underestimation of the radical- In Detroit at present The tremendous rationaliza- We felt that Recruit in the Shops. | We had the idea—which still exists in the American Instead, we ap- ss risk of loosing one’s job, and into the Party (so we But if we do not orientate our- In a previous campaign for membership in this district, at the Lenin Memorial Meeting of 1928 we took in 100 new members for our Party. Where are those hundred members today? How many are still in the Party? How many shop units have we as a result of that campaign? In Negro work this district stands as a glar- ing example in the underestimation of this field of work. Out of a population of 100,000 Negroes, our district until less than a month’ ago had only two Negro members. However, since the reorganization of our district forces we have in the 10 days of our drive for new members, taken in 27 Negro workers out of about 80 new members. Becoming a Stalwart Leader. In the auto industry we find women re- placing the men in seeaeraey greater num- bers—with the same long hours, a greater re- duction i wages, and the same intense speed- up. And yet there are less than five women in the Party today who are auto workers. There is a gross underestimation of the role of women, even among our Party member- ship, where men comrades working side by side with the women workers in the shops do not find it necessary to try to draw these women workers into our movement. With the cleansing of the Party of all such renegades as the Trotskyite-Cannonites, and cruiting of new ‘live elements direct from the shops and factories, our Party will truly be- come the “stalwart leader of the American masses.” . Fight the Right Danger. A Hundred Proletarians for | = Hake number of young | militant class-war program of the N. M. U., | join the strike. TH [amare Militaire” At Naval Race Conference} civ" tente's’ ‘The Young Miners and Present Struggle in Illinois By BEN GRAY. Y. C. L. Field Organizer.) miners in the Na- tional Miners’ Union previous to the pres- ent strike call was practically negligible. Yet from the very first day of the strike, the young miners actually became the driving force. In the Taylorville region where the struggle spread most rapidly, and where it assumed the greatest proportion, we find that it was the young miners who were the shock —in the militant army of striking coal digger: In passing we must not forget the militancy shown by the wives and daughters of the miners, who side by side with their husbands and sons, fought on the picket line | against the state militia, the sheriffs, and the deputized company sluggers. These young miners readily accepted the denounced the old reactionary “company” United Mine Workers of America, and flung themselves wholly into the struggle. They readily formed mass picket lines and marched from mine to mine showing their solidarity with the other miners and getting them to This was our most effective | weapon in spreading the strik When the writer was in Staunton the day Mine No. 7 voted to strike, there w carloads of young miners from the Taylorville region ready to support their fellow miners in Staunton and to help solidify the ranks on the picket lines, (They rode over 70 miles on just a few hours notice.) In Collins the most active core of the ‘Belleville district. Here but a handful of young miners under the leadership of the Young Communist | League were mainly responsible in mobilizing the 460 miners of the Lumaghi mine for the But here we found in addition to the regular reactionary forces who were lined up with the coal operators and the state in their attempt to smash the strike—that the I.W.W. readily assumed the role of strikebreaker. The I.W.W. leaders did not hesitate to consult with | and to accept orders from the mine superin- tendent as to what they should do. After we had succeeded in striking the mine complete- ly—and after the picket line was dispersed— these wobblies accepted the orders of the boss to go to work—anl together with several company stools they “triumphantly” marched into the mine. But their efforts to gain a day’s work at the expense of their © fellow workers was thwarted. No sooner did they go down the shaft when they were scurried ille also the young miners were sub- | Daily Sais Worker Central Organ of the Commun | of the police orders. | Staunton, By Mail By Mail S.A. ~ t Party of the SURSCRIPTION RATES: (in New York City only): $8.00 a year; $4, (outside of New York City): $6.00. year; $3.60 ix months; six months; 2.50 three months : $2.00 three months ae ore : By Fred Ellis up again—this time the boss scuttled them off to the Miners Temple where a meeting was to take place. They would be more useful there in breaking the strike. They were. (They were more active than the police them- selves in keeping us from getting a meeting place.) When we tried to hold a meeting under the auspices of the N. M. U. we found that the mayor of the town, a member of the U. M. W. A;, decreed that every hall be closed to us. Here the wobblies again were pressed into service. They were more active than the police in seeing that this order was carried out. They followed our comrades around and saw to it that every hall keeper was notified They may have succeeded with the aid of the sheriffs and deputies, with the aid of paid company stool pigeons, and through threats of victimization to get the men back to work the next day. But the victory remains ours. The I. W. W. stands naked before the miners in its true role as strikebreaker. The sentiment of the miners for the N. M. U. and its militant program has become stronger because of this event. So we can point to countless other places affected by the strike, and at the same time point to the radicalization and readiness of the youth to accept the leadership of the Y. ©. L. and to participate in the struggle. The build- ing of League and Party units in every coal camp of Illinois is the most-important task. Units have already been formed in Spring- field, Collinsville, Zeigler, Eldorado. We, have many connections in Taylorville, Livingston, Benld, Christopher, West Frank- fort, Benton, and several other mining camps. The struggles of the miners for the estab- lishment and recognition of the N.M.U. has just begun—our struggles for the immediate betterment of their conditions has just begun. Our struggle to rally the miners, young and old, to the revolutionary aims of the. Commu- nist Party and the Young Communist League -—the only vanguard of the working class—to rally the miners against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union has only begun. Our answer to the reactionary Wob- blies, U.M.W.A. fakers, and the state, will show itself in the establishment of mine an1 shop nuclei—in the publishing of mine and shop bulletins and in flooding the coal fields with our revolutionary literature. Forward to a mass Y.C.L, in the coal fields. —BEN GRAY, Y. C. L. Field Organizer, Flashes From the Recruiting Drive Front \ Although Buffalo district was slow in get- ting started in the DRIVE, progress can be reported with the arrival of the new District Organizer. The district is active amongst the unemployed, having assumed leadership over several thousands of unemployed workers whom the city tried to “jibe” out of their wages after they had received temporary em- ployment. The Party also plans to hold meet- ings in front of factories where workers are scheduled to be laid off. On January 20 the Party is co-operating with the T.U.U.L. in organizing a meeting in the largest hall—Engineers Hall—in Buffalo. | A conference will also be held of trade unions and other organizations on January 20. Dur- ing last week over 3,000 leaflets were distrib- uted by the Party to unemployed workers. One meeting of the Party was held amongst the unemployed at which 14 metal workers sjoined the Party. Every Petty Bourgeois Rene- gade! 4 After recruiting 22 new members in the third week of the DRIVE, which was really the first for Buffalo, already in the second week, two new shop nuclei have been organized, one in a steel plant and one in a tannery. These are both large plants, one of them employing thousands of workers, many Negro workers being amongst them. One new shop paper has already been issued, called “The Tannery Worker.” Editor's Note: In connection with the Lenin Campaign of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker is running a Lenin cornemduring the month of January, containing some of Lenin’s most important teachings on imperialist war and the organization of the Communist Party. The present installment is a continuation of the article published in the Daily Worker Fri- day, January 10, which will be concluded in tomorrow’s issue. It is taken from Lenin’s Imperialist War—The Struggle Against So- cial Chauvinism and Social Pacifism, consti- tuting Vol. XVIII of his Collected Works (In- ternational Publishers, New York). * * * With a feeling of deepest chagrin it must be stated that the socialist parties of the lead- ing European countries have not fulfilled this duty of theirs, while the behavior of the lead- ers of those parties—particularly that of the German party—borders on direct betrayal of the cause of socialism. At this moment, which is of the greatest importance in world history, the majority of the leaders of the present, the second (1889-1914) socialist international, are attempting to substitute nationalism for social- ism. .Thanks to their behavior, the. workers’ parties of those countries have not counter- posed their position to the criminal behavior of the governments; on the contrary, they’are appealing to. the working class to identify its position with the position of the imperialist governments. The leaders of the international ¢onimitted treachery with regard to socialism when: they voted for military appropriations, when they repeated the chauvinist (‘patri- otic?) slogans of the .bourgeoisie of “their” countries, When they justified and defended the war, when they entered the bourgeois cabinets of the belligerent countries, etc., The, point of view’ of the most influential socialist leaders and of the most influential organs of the so- cialist press of present-day Europe, is chauvi- nist, bourgeois and liberal, not socialist at all. The responsibility for thus covering socialism with shame rests, in the first place, on, the German social-democrats who were the strong- est and most influential party of the second international. However, one cannot justify the French socialists either, who took’ ministerial posts in the government of the same bour- geoisie which betrayed its fatherland and. al- lied itself with Bismarck to crush the com- mune; The German and Austrian social-democrats try to justify their support of the war by say- ing that thereby they struggle against tsar- ism. We Russian social-democrats declare that we consider such a justification to be a down- right sophism. The revolutionary movement against ‘sarism in our country has again as- sumed tremendous proportions in the last years. The Russian working class has always marched at the head of this movement. The political strikes of the last years, embracing millions of workers, proceeded under the slo- gan of overthrowing tsarism and establishing a democratic republic. On the very eve of the war the president of the French Republic, Poincare, while visiting Nicholas II, could see with his own eyes barricades -constructed by the hands of the Russian workers in the streets of St. Petersburg. The Russian proletariat did not stop before any sacrifice to free hu- manity from the shame of tsarism. We must say that if there is anything that, under cer- tain conditions, may delay the destruction of tsarism, if there is anything that. may help tsarism in its struggle against the whole of Russian democracy, it is the present war, which has placed at the disposal of tsarism for the furthering of its reactionary aims, the purse of the English, French and Russian bourgeoisie. And if there is anything that can make the revolutionary struggle of the Rus- sian working class against tsarism more dif- ficult, it is the behavior of the leaders of German‘and Austrian social-democracy, a be- havior ¢ontinually held up by the. chauvinist press of Russia as an example for us. Eyen if we assume that German social- democracy was:so weak that it was compelled to abandon every kind of revolutionary action, even then it should not have joined the chauyi- nist camp, it should not have taken steps which gaye occasion to the Italian socialists justly to declare that the leaders of the German social- democrats were debasing the banner of the proletarian international. Our party, the Russian social-democratic party, has suffered, and will yet suffer great losses ‘in connection with the war. All our legal labor. press. has been annihilated. The majority of the labor unions have been closed a multitude of our comrades have been impris- oned and deported. But our parliamentary representatives—the Russian social-democratic labor fraction in. the Imperial ‘Duma—consid- ered it its unquestionable socialist duty not to vote for military appropriations and even to learn many lessons from the. experiences. of other parties in their recruiting drives. And despite the fact that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: works under immeasurably ferent tasks—the building of socialism rather of capitalism, we can nevertheless study with the Communist’ Party of the Soviet Union, The development of the revolutionary move- ment of the workérs and farmers in this coun- try demands the recruiting of the most militant and class conscious element of the working class into the ranks of the Communist Party. A regular weekly Workers’ Forum was started last week, with a packed hall, at which 11 workers made out applications, among them one Negro worker from the same plant where one of the nuclei had been organized. All of this shows that in the highly indus- trialized Buffalo district, with its steel, metal, | chemical, aeroplane and shoe plants—thou- sands of unemployed amongst them—that there are excellent opportunities for Communist work and for building the Party. The begin- nings made in Buffalo have yet to be consoli- dated in Buffalo, so that we keep the new members and strengthen the Party. At the seme time a similar activization must take pla? in all other parts of the District. A be- ginning has already been made around Schen- ectady. - And in the Soviet Union the success of build- ing socialism demands recruiting of new forces from the factories into the Party. A report by the Communist Party organiza- tion in the Krasnyi Putilov works in Leningrad on the recruiting drive for the past year show” a membership of 3,200, of whom 1,139 have been recruited during the past year. While the Party in this country measures its social composition in terms of the percentage of ac- tual workers in its ranks, the Putilov organiza- tion reports that 65 per cent of the new mem- bers have worked from 5 to 40 years, $2 per cent from 2 to 5 years, and only 2 per cent have worked less than 2 years. Last year the Party members constituted 18.2 per cent of all workers, this year they constitute 27 per cent. Much of the recruiting is done through con- _ versations with non-Party members during the dinner hour, This has been one of ‘the ‘most LENIN ON IMPERIALIST WAR \ leaye the meeting: hall of the Duma in order more energetically to express* its protest; it considered it its duty to brand the politics of the European governments as imperialist. Not- withstanding the tenfold increased, oppression by the tsar’s government, our comrade: workers in Russia are already publishing ‘their first illegal appeals against the’ war, doing their duty by democracy and by the international. If the representatives of revolutionary s0- cial-democracy, the minority pf .the, German social-democrats and the bést sodial-democrats | in the neutral countries, are experiencing a burning feeling of shame over this collapse of the second international; if voices of socialists against the chauvinism of the ‘majority of the social-democratic parties are becoming audible both in England and in France; if the oppor- tunists, represented, for instance, by the Ger- .man monthly, the Sozialistiche Monatshefte,, who had long occupied @ national-liberal posi- tion, are justly celebrating their victory over European socialism—then thé wotst’ service is being rendered to the proletariat by those who vacillate between opportunism® and revolution- ary social-democracy (like the “centre” in the German social-democratie party) ‘who attempt to pass over in silerice or to cover up with dip- lomatic phrases the collapse of ‘the ‘second in- ternational. 2 abe ney te nas aor On ‘the contrary, it isinecessary: openly: to recognize ‘this; collapsé.. and »‘understand © its’ causes in order to bezable ‘to build ia mew, a more lasting socialist unification of the:work- ers’of all countries, 3" "* vos The opportunists have set at .na ght) the decisions: of the Stuttgart, Copenhagen and Basle congresses, which made it the, duty of the socialists of all countries; to fight against chauvinism under all possible conditions,. which made it the duty of socialists to react against any’ war begun’ by the bourgeoisie and the,gov- ernments by. increasing -propaganda of civil war and social revolution. ,The .collapse.of the second international is. the. collapse of oppor- | tunism which was growing.on the soil. of a . | specific (the so-caJled | “peaceful”) historic epoch now passed, and which practically domi- nated the international: in the last year. The opportunists had long been preparing this. col- lapse ,by rejecting the socialist revolution and substituting for it; bourgeois reformist; \ by repudiating the class struggle with its inevit-° able transformation into civil war at certain moments, and by preaching ‘class. collahora- tion; by preaching bourgeois chauvinism under the name of patriotism and defense of the fatherland and ignoring. or repudiating the fundamental truth of socialism early expresse: in the Communist Manifesto, namely, that the workers have no fatherland; by. confinin; themselves in their struggle-against: militaris: to a sentimental, philistine point of ‘view in- stead of recognizing the necessity. of @ Trevolu- ‘tionary war of the proletarians of ll, cou! tries against the bourgeoisie of all countries; by turning the necessary utilisation of bour- geois parliamentarism and bourgeois legality into a fetish of the legality into forgetfulness of the duty to have illegal forms of organiza- tion and agitation in times of crises. A natural “supplement” of opportunism, as bourgeois as the latter and as hostile to the proletarian, ie., the Marxian, point of view, is the anarcho- syndicalist current which became marked im the preseat.crisis by a no less shamefully self- satisfied repetition of the slogans of chauvi- nism than that of the opportunists,: -- (To be Continued) , ' Biro-Bidjan| Youth oe) ' Working Youth of U.S. 'A;. A conference of the working youth of Biro- | Bidjan in the Far East, the: district allotted by the Soviet Government for Jewish colonization, was held at Techonkaya on January 8, 1930, The conference dispatched the following cable to the American “Icor”: ‘. “Thefirst conference of the Jewish working | youth of Biro-Bidjan sends its proleta ings to the “Icor” and the Jewish’ toiling, ma: ‘of America who are cooperating with the toilers |of the Soviet Union ‘in building ‘up’ a ‘seci Biro-Bidjau—one of the corners of our country which is being built up in a’ Bolshevist manner. “The conference calls upon the, J; of America and in the first place, upon‘ ing youth to rally around the. “ Ieor” its untiring struggle against the of the Soviet. Union, accomplish the solidarity of the workers and toil countries.” 3 than revolutionary struggle for the overthrow the greatest value the recruiting campaign of The Communist: Party of the U.S. A..can | successful methods of ‘reeruiting: t more favorable conditions, and has many dif- (Signed), The Praesidium of the ‘Conf a Another method which has provenim yen jo3t-suc- cessful is! revolutionary competition: nhdeeg such as Party school depattrhents,would un- dertake to enroll a certain number of ew mem-. bers. In all cases the quotas were filled, - Above all, the workers are ent Party in ‘masses because they see, its. heck in fighting for the interests of the ing class. One worker, in applying for:membershi wrote: “One must be short-sighted to fail to see the achievements we have scored under the leadership of the Communist. Pa factory. I want to be together wi at | | fight for thé general line of the Party, and fighting for further achievement therefore apply herewith for membershi j the Party ranks,” ra er ha A group of workers, sending in a jéint i- cation for membership in the Party, fis “An energetic blow to the pessimists is ‘given by the workers joining the Party en masse. Please take up into the rai of the Communist vanguard, where we ‘shall fight in common for the general line. of tHe Party.” The workers in this country must tealize the role of our Party, in the most 1 im- perialist nation of the world, and thitt we must build a powerful mass Party which will be-able to win the masses for revolutionary’ struggle against capitalism. We must Hail acl ments of the recruiting’ drive ‘of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union by i - fying our recruiting driye—in- ; our ranks by bringing in basic industries, |