The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1930, Page 3

ILD WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1980 Hage Ire A Leninist Line in New York Struggles Join Boricua Pam Fight Oppression and Corruption By AMTER. |the workers throughout the world, HOE workers in struggle; food| who are fighting against a new| workers fighting militantly on the | world war—against an attack on the Picket line; textile workers of New | Soviet Union! Come to the demon- Jersey and New York, preparing for | stration at Madison Square Garden, | a national strike; needle trade work- | on Wednesday, Jan. 22. ers in the midst of the organization drive; taxi drivers faced with the sue of fighting against militarization —masses of unorganized workers in the shops discontented and willing to Need to Bolshevize NY Yiomen’s Work struggle. Millions of workers out of —— | work, necessitating the formation of | By OLGA GOLD. | unemployed councils, to fight for, JANUARY 12, 1930, for the Com- protection. Older workers are being | thrown into the streets—the daily record being suicide, starvation; young workers taking their places in Scarser numbers. Women displacing men ,because they work cheaper, | girls taking the place of boys; the} number of child laborers increasing —right in the vicinity of New York, the richest city of the world. Great Militancy Needec The needle trades workers prepare for the struggle. The reactionary Social-Fascist International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union prepares for the counter attack by mobolizing all the gangsters and underworld in the city. Operating with the under world are “eminent” judges, who sit on the bench and send the militant workers to jail. Seated on the benches are judges who make vicious | assaults on young boys. In the city hall sits Mayor Walker, who faces the hunger und joblessness of the | workers by raising his salary and that of other officials of the city government. City Hall Corruption In the cit ygovernment i sthe head | of the city cossacks, Mr. Whalen who | has outfitted his men with airplanes | and radios, who has decreed to mili- tarise the 68,000 taxi drivers of the city. Behind the shoe manufacturers | stands the U. S. Government through | the Department of Labor, and the | NY. State Department of Labor, working operating through the press and with the aid of the manufactur- munist Party is a date to honor the memory and carry on the teach- ings of the leader of ihe world pro- letariat, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In this article we will examine our work in Working Women’s Fraternal | Organizations in New York. There is still a lack of clarity of the functions and purposes of fra- ternal mass organizations and their relation to the Party. In the New York District we have the following womens’ organizations: The United Council of Working Class Women, with a membership of over 1,000; The Finnish Womens’ Organization, with a membership of over 300, and the Lithuanian Organization, with a membership of about 200. There! are also miscellaneous bodies, such | as the Ukrainian, Checkoslavakian, Hungarian, ets., with a membership Jof 150-200. The composition of the United| Council is very unsatisfactory. 97% of the members are of one national- ity, namely, Jewish, with too large | a percentage of wives of skilled| workers. Even in Passaic and Pat- erson, where the mass of working |population is composed of Textile workers and workers from other | basic industries. | 8 " While the membership in the other | By SAM DARCY organizations are composed of wor Leninist class education was not ers from basic industries, such as| known in the United States until textile, etc., nevertheless the com-|# few years ago when the Commu- rades active in these organizations | Mist Party entered seriously on this fail to use them as a medium in/|field of work. The “worker sous assisting in the campaign to organ-| tion movement” always ¢: th ize the unorganized, in helping to| it the demroalizing minisenhere of ers, in the hope of intimidating the |build shop circles and shop muclei,| the A. F. of L. education bureaus, workers in the Independent Shoe | ete, Brookwood Labor College, and a Workers Union. Behind the dress} Another serious defect in their| Series of semi-back-to-nature insti- manufacturers stand the State Gov- |work is that they do not carry suf-| tutions. r years these prated ernment through Governor Roose-/ ficient political character. Issues| ‘9 the working class about the vir- velt and Lieutenant-Governor Leh-/and local problems are not raised| tes of “neutral science,” “educa- man, aiding the reactionary, bloody | and utlized on a clear class-cut line | tion that is above classes,” pure knowledge,” ete. Since the begin- ning of the rapid growth and e tension of influence of the schools established by the Communist Party in about 1923, these bour fusion-breeding _ institutio: been forced to expos ture. Now they become frankly enterprises or have taken for their program the whining philosophy of the middle class liberals, gangster Social-Fascist A. F. of L. bureaucrats against Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Behind the silk and dye manufacturers of Paterson stands the Chamber of | Commerce, which permits the Muste Group in the A, F. of L. to carry on its work openly against the National Tetile Workers Union. Behind the owner of the Monroe cafeteria—in- significant though it be—stand the Restaurant Owners Association, the association, the State Government, the black, reactionary A. F. of L. of- ficialdom; against the Hotel, Restau- The relief work in most of these or- ganizations carries too much of a charitable character. We must re- member that relief work is a ve attractive field for petty-bourgeois activities. Leninist Fight Against Imperialism The struggle against war must be carried on in a more Leninist spirit. The evils of pacifism, especi- ally liberal pacifism, still prevail in the ranks of our womens’ organiza- tions. It is the duty of the com- munists in these organizations to either Neutra! Scien Some are even now pretending to i the J estau-!train the working class women in|serve an “impartial science”— rant and Cafeteria Workers Union. |the spirit of Leninist struggle| others, (as one prominent official Opposed to the taxi drivers stand the | against war, and to prepare the}of Brookwood Labor College re- city government, the big auto con-| working women to be ready to take| cently expressed it to the writer) cerns and the A. F. of L. bureau- up arms in defense of their class|frankly state that “the auspices un- cracy. land the necessity of war against \der which even English is taught More—Yes More Struggle jwar. She must be ready to train and|is very important. As English is The workers facing these condi-| bring up her children in that spirit.|taught in Brookwood there is no tions are moving into gigantic strug- | They must remember that “when the |neutrality even as between the dif- gles. Not only the workers in the |son of the proletarian mother will|ferent groups in the labor move- new industrial unions, but the un-|be given the rifle, she should tell | ment.” organized workers in the shops, who|him to learn the art of war, but to) Every Leninist must know that look to the fighting industrial unions | use it against the ruling class.” science today can only be a class for otganization and leadership; as| Another short coming in our lan-| science. Arithmetic is always held well as the masses of workers in the | guage organizations is a narrow na-| up as the absolute pure science, reactionary unions who recognize |tionalistie view concerning their im- above class influence. But certainly more and more the treachery of the | A. F of L, leadership, which is openly selling out the workers to the bosses. They Must Be ‘Mobilized to Vight mediate nationalistic interests. The |every intelligent worker ve jneed for internationalism is not put that the very ruction of forward to a sufficient degree. subject has a bougeois char: The gravest short coming is that | b ed as to the role of the Communist Part: society. cogn const Together [not brought forward as the leader d division is twisted And behind it all stands the So- and guide. The workers should recog- |“legzl rates of interest” unl ‘ cialist Party leering for prey. The |nize in their work the Party as the of profit,” etc., ete. open tool of the capitalists, it speaks jfunctioning body and look up to the Only Commun Free Science. the ‘anguage of the workers, it has |Party members in this organization, Only a classless society, that is a the bloody hands of the A. F. of L. jas representatives and spokesmen of |Communist society, can really fre officialdom, wet with the blood of |the- Communist Party and be proud | science and knowledge from the New York workers. It espouses the |to accept the leadership of the com-| ters of purpose to serve a ruling cause of the capitalists, openly be- |+ades, | class and turn it into real science traying them. In most cases the Party is made | serving all. socie The road to And above it, the dangex of war—|to appear as another left wing or- | Sth a condition lies thru the over- WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION. | ganization. Our Party comrades do| throw of capitalism and the estab- War to wipe out the Workers’ Fath-| not function as Communist Frac-| lishment of a Proletarian Dictator- erland; war on the workers of the |tions in these organizations. ship. Edueation which is progres- United States, war on the workers Only by systematic agitation will | sive in the historic sense can only and peasants of Nicaragua, Haiti,|we increase the influence of the | therefore be proletarian class edu- China, Central and South America— |Party in these organizations. ‘We | Cation. This is the program of the war against the workers and peas- must bring forward the Party as a| Workers School _movement—the ants of the Soviet Union. Peace they talk about—peace in London—but guns, ammunition, gases, airplanes they are producing as never before. Out in the streets the workers demonstrate against American im- perialism in behalf of their brothers in Haiti and Mexico. Out in the streets, the workers figh. for their rights, for the decent living Down With Imperialism Today the issue is COMMUNISM AGAINST IMPERIALISM. The workers must choose. The fighting workers make one choice: THE COMMUNIST PARTY, AS THE FIGHTING PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS. The militant workers are joining the Communist Party to build up the working class organs of struggle. Workers in the shops and factories, workers in the fighting unions, workers in the streets looking in vain for work, you who recognize the wrongness of the system, the function of the capital- ist government; you who see through the treachery of the A. F. of If, the socialist party and the renegades from the Communist Party—your place is in the COMMUNIST PARTY. Join and build with us the revolutionary army of the American working class! Demonstrate your solidarity with States which has such a} We must bear in mind this, however, | United that the main agency of increasing | ?’°Sram. the Party influence among the mas-| The New York Workers School ses of women, is the building of shop| The central school of the Commu- circles, delegate conferences, etc. nist Party, located in New York New Textile Mill emai ‘Vomessensk) eae yayy hes hen yey) + Opening of a new textile mill. There is a ?-hour day, 5-day week for the workers in the Soviet Union. In the textile mills in the United States 9, 10, 11 and 12 hours is the workers’ lot, with teriffic speed-up, and drastic wage cuts. | despite | cepted by dies as the City, whirh leads this movement, i had tremendous growth since nding. From five or six es in the 1924-5 term having about 60 registered udents, the School leaped to over 100 classes having a total registration of 2,020,| take direct leadership of the strug- i of the faculty both as regards to | fact, even by the bosses themselves, I the 1928-9 term was a watered pr gram. Lenin att ihe Age of 16 A NOTE ON MISLEADERS IN WORKERS EDUCATIO Progressive Education Gan ‘Ouks y Be Proletarian | instead of class collaboration Class Education n the 1 growth 1 9-30 term. Equally great own in the improvement member and Leninist stature. The | Int respect the sharp- | k took place between the | 9 and 1929-30 The entire published program for The aim of the school orkers School) curricu- and deeds have given the proletariat a science of understand- ing, organizing and action which d: rects it along its march towards power and emancipation.” Such of of statement mention a the purpose Lenin’s name can of course be entirely ac- such non-communist bo- “proletarian” party. Old Errors Still greater confusion reigned in the varous courses offered. If ona takes the American History courses for jerome then one finds the fol- leader among the women workers, |Only education raovement in the | | | school offered: His- ef the American > Struggle gels on Tf one understands that there can only one M then the falsity of the di- between most of these cour- es be-omes obvieus. Possibly the type of errors made in the construc tion of other parts throw lite on the was it method?). fered by the then director School on Problems of Marxism! size this nother he adness (or | of the “excentionalist” approach course was offered on “Some Aspects of the American Mind.” This has nothing to do with Leninism. It can only be charac- ed superficial petty-bour- drivel The Better Workers School During the 1929-30 term, follow- ing on the change in the entire line of the Communist Party, what can be termed as a complete revolution } took place. The curriculum and | course contents were overhauled and changed with the result that the School emerged as a better, more effective weapon in the hands of the revolutionary movement of ae States Register for Spring Term Now The Spring term of the Workers School is to open on February 3rd. The splendid service given by the in supplying better fune- | | tionaries for the Communist Party, | militant trade unions, and other la- | bor organizations is gradually win- | labor movement. hundreds‘ of students were elected | jin the shops, especially the shoe | | | ning for it its proper place in the For the Fall term shops, to attend the School; the ex- penses being covered by collections among the workers. For the Spring term this must be increased. Over 90 per cent of the students for the Fall Term came from the shops. The Schoo! is now taking registra- tion for the Spring Term-—-No worker should miss the opportunity to attend. Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs, is on the assumption that } gels, and Lenin, in their | of Ameri- America. | ian approach to | of the cur eulum | was of- | American | And in order to empha- | the | Greater Tran Ever By ROSE WORTIS January, 1930, marks the first year of the existence of the Needle Workers Industrial Union. Twelve months are not a long per- iod in the life of a labor organization, but these past 12 months have been months of storm and stress, of grave and bitter struggle, during which the Union has stood the acid test and has more than justified its ex istence. The Needle Trades Workers In dustrial Union was born as a result of the bitter class struggle of the needle trades workers, and its very first day it plunged headlong in the midst of the struggle, demon- strating its readiness and ability to lead its workers in the needle trades against their class enemies and for the improvement of their working standards and conditions. Struggle Against Burocrats The struggle against the reaction- ary bureaucracy, which began in 1926, had weakened and undermined the organization of the needle trades workers. The bosses, working hand in hand with the right wing bureau- cracy of the A. F. of L., hoped that at least they would break the fight- jing spirit of the needle trades work. Jers. But the organization of the Industrial Union proved to the bos that insteal of defeating the wo ers, instead of paralyzing their mili- |tancy, the struggle had merely | |taught the workers that if they are to fight effectively for their inter jests they must build a new union an instrument for class struggle | The strike of the dressmakers, {which the Industrial Union carried through immediately upon its incep- tion, aroused the worst fears of the | |bosses. They realized that the de- cadent bureaucracy of the needle trades—the Schlesingers, the Dubin- skys—could not beat the workers | jinto submission, and they decided to | \gle, using the company union as their | tool. It is now an openly admitted | official statements their jin by ing their bidding as their agents. workers resulting from this taka strike became so degrading, the inhuman treatment so intolerable, |sivity and will sooner or later give | open revolt against the conditions of | bosses and their agents. fi | Coming Struggles. These struggles of the past year have been but the prelude to the | important struggles that are fac- ing the needle trades workers dur- ing the coming year. The supreme task of the Industrial Union dur- ing the coming weeks will be in the dress trade, which today is the most important branch in the lad- ies garment industry, employing tens of thousands of workers who are subjected to the most ruthless exploitation. As a result of the treachery of the company-union, BIG B ATTLES| PenGnseentiOn on FOR NEEDLE WORKERS Fighting Abilities Are STRENGHTEN BOLSHEVIK METHODS of PARTY WORK : |Our » Opening of New Oi Refinery FOOD LABOR eels UNITING FOR STRUCCLE A. F. of L, Betrays Two Million in Industry By SAM WEISMAN 'N approaching the sixth anniver- sary of the death of our great eader and comrade, Lenin, it is our duty as class conscious workers to impress in our minds his teachings n the light of the present struggles that we are carrying on. Tho taske that face tne food workers are enor- Out of more than two mil- Under the Five-Year Plan there is a rapidly increasing rate of nous. industrial development, with especial stress laid on the basic indus- lion workers in the food industry tries. Here are thousands of workers greeting the opening of a ne only a small number are organized, oil refinery which means the building of Socialism. and these are largely under the aaa and control of the A. F. . “labor leaders.” The only way : would make it possible to or- ranized these millions of workers in he food industry, is the organization an industrial union of food work- s under the leadership of the Trade Unity League and the Communist Party. Food Industry is War Industry The food industry is a very im- portant industry in this period, more so as a war industry. The prepara- Commun. Party Mu Activize Units and Fractions Shop By H. BENJAMIN. |the ships on which they are con-/tions of the imperialists for war ‘OR large and growing numbers of | veyed. against the Soviet Union primarily New York workers, Leninism is| The presen period which requires | and between themselves, brings very no longer an abstract theory. | the r m mobilization of all the | sharply to the front the necessity of Through long and er struggles | forces of the wo! » makes | the quickest mobilization possible of waged in the citadel of the most ar- | the proper functioning of our frac- | these workers. creasing had the opportunity of seeing that the ce: ciples and tact jlarge numbers of Nw York workers | in a mig’ imperialism and imperialist war. will and strength of the party of Lenin- |the Communist Party of the U. in the New York District. course jagainst the under which we are exploited in all industries, that only the Communist |Party con give correct leadership to these struggles growth of all however, is | spokesman, Mr. Klein, the manager | entering our rank fication of the program of | of their Industrial Council, that the | Workers. the Schcol and the contents of the | subsequent fake strike conspiracy in|"anks Latin American, Chinese and r the cloak trade was planned and car- | Worke ried through by the bosses, Schles-|¢colonial countries who see only our singer and his henchmen merely do- | Party waging a relentless struggle willing |4gainst every manifestation of Im- Through this maneuver, the bosses |Strengthened by the add 1 |had temporarily suceeded in beating |numbers of native workers, of wo- the cloakmakers into seeming sub- | men and young workers from the mission, but the conditions of the jlarge shops in the basic industries. speed-up system, the long hours and ated to the deep crisis the wages so miserable, that the dis- |those renegade elements who became contented cloakmakers became fully | the agents of social impe: lism and aware of the fraud perpetrated |the apologists for Hoov against them and are now beginning | perity.” gradually to awaken from their pas- | considerable section ments who re: expression to this discontent by an| they must dis slavery forced upon them by the |and stir out of their state of apathy. biliza- tions, through tion must be ef | never befc Our confine themselv more competent ‘ogant imperialism in the wor! masses worker Comrade Lenin pointed out very clearly that the only way to combat the war danger is the courageous and stubborn fight against the bour- | geoisie of the country that we work ha of ete erely being ergetic work- rect application of th s of Leninismm prin the orly means for effective in |ers in the mass organizations. hh |support of the immediate es wi as| Our units must become live organs Fight the Reformists the general revciutionary it fc truggle to the workers in| The role of the reformists allied ot the wor! ..g elass. the factory or locality in which they | with the state power of the bosses is The sixth Lenin Memorial will | operate, Every member must assume | clearly understood by the advance! therefore serve to bring together | responsibility and a full share of the | guard of the workers in the food in- work of the Party. The new mem-| dustry, the members of the Com- bers who are now coming in must be; munist Party and the T. U. U. L j assigned work and made to realize | Lenin’s teachings on the role of these that the party needs all their energy | reformists has helped tremendously and. all their posible resources. The | in strengthening the struggles of the infusion of new blood will serve to) workers in the food industry, as in awaken to new life and greater activ- | all other industries very much. ity all those units that become stag- The left wing in the food industry. nant in the course of th» long drawn | which controls the Hotel, Restaurant out factional struggles of the past. | and Cafeteria Workers Branch of the To those workers who hav A. PF. W. and Food Clerks have car- joined our rank: ; Tied thru some of the most militant cannot shi struggles against all the forces of | bility to your class; you must join| the enemy. The workers in the food the revolutionary Party of your class, | industry are looking forward to the join as a member of the organized | left wing and the Communist Party advance guard of the s struggle, | for the leadership in the coming bat- to fight on the side of your cla: tles. At present the organization brothers, until the victory and power | drive which is being prepared on a of the working clas tablished | yery large scale embracing tens of throughout the world as it was estab-| thousands of workers in the hotels demonstration against | It veflect the working influence Worker: of who have learned in the struggles to organize intolerable conditions There are now cores of Negro We are drawing into our of other colonial and semi- perialism. Our forces being | lished under the leadership of Lenin | and restaurants and cafeterias in ion of large | in a territory covering one~ sixth of | New York, must be carried forward the eart! with vigor and determination. Communist Leninist leadership over the majority of the workers in the food industry depends upon every in- dividual member of the Party in the ranks of the food workers. We must utilize our organization drive Our struggles in organizing the food workers, must be linked up with the great significance to millions of op- | anniversary of the death of our Com- pressed toilers throughout Africa, |T@de Lenin, to draw into the ranks sc Asia, Europe and) f our Leninist Party hundreds of America. It was/| Militant proletarians in the food in- 19 that Vladi-| dustry. This will be the greatest mir Ilyitch Lenin | tribute to his memory and will also the great revolu-| gurantee to a great extent ,the suc- tionary leader | cessful mobilization of the workers ‘Lenin ca Way tor Negro Masses By orto HALL The month of January of | Fight the Renegades Our Party is now politically orient- of capitalism. We have excluded from our ranks s’ “pros- With them, have gone a of those ele- mted the fact that | urb themselves, aban- old habit don old methods of work, We must root our Pa me ideeply in the factories. Our fr ie di |in the food industry, for the over- |tions in unions and mass organiza- V. I. Lenin will|throw of the capitalist system in | tions must become real instruments be remembered | this country and throuout the world for politicalizing the masses of work- not only as and for the establishment of a prole- ers amongst whom they operate and leader of the |tarian world dictatorship. for drawing these workers into the eitugeles fof atta general political struggles which are Russian workers| Egypt, Korea and other oppressed necessary for this period. Our strug- but as a world| countries, as well as for a free gle against imperialist war; for the revolutio nary] black republic of South Africa, self defense of the Soviet Union and in leader. determination for the Negro people support of the revolutionary strug-| He , without doubt, the great- | of the Southern United States and gles of the colonial masses can be- | est fighter for the emancipation of| complete racial, social and_politi- come really efective and asume revo- | the worlds oppressed that the im-| cal equality for the Negroes, North lutionary form only if we are able perialist ve ever had to contend! and South. to take these struggles into the fac- | with, In his book “Socialism and War,” tories and the dress trade is at the present pecially those factories ‘ause our struggles here in| soon to be published in English, time largely unorganized. Condi- | where war materials are produced; York against high renis, un-| Lenin said tions are unbearable, The workers | Onto the waterfronts from which the employment, speed-up and wage! “The Socialists cannot reach their are discontented and ripe for or- | War materials are shipped and upon | cuts, and all forms of race discri-| great aim without fighting against ganization. = A ; mination, are directly linked up| every form of national oppression. | Company Unions Real Danger. this coming struggle it is the duty| with the oppressed colonia! peo-| They must, therefore, unequivocally The bosses and the company-union, of the entire left g movement to} ples of the rest of the world, we| demand that the Social-Demoerats aware of these activities of the In- | Tally to the support of the Industrial | Negro wor together with the of the oppressing countries (of the 1 Union and seeing the spec-| Union. A defeat of the company-| oppressed workers of all nationali-| so-called “great” nations in par- jtre of defeat and annihilation once |Union in the needle trades will be a| ties must carry on a united strug-| ticular) should recognize and de- |the mass of the dressmakers come | turning point for the entire left wing | gle against capitalist oppre fend the right of the oppressed under the leadership of the left wing | movement. The Needle Trades Work It was Lenin who laid the. theo-| nations to self-determination, in the | Union, are exerting all their efforts |" Union during the past year has | retical basis for the whole-hearted| politcal sense of the word, i. e., the ito take advantage of ths growing | Proven its ability, despite all mis-| support which Communist Parties | right to political separation. A So- discontent of the dresmakers and The whole reactionary of L., the yel- maneuver. machine of the A. F, the State authorities, is now directed against the dressmakers. They know that their company-union in the cloak field will collapse like a house of cards, and they are trying to bol- {ster up their company union and |stave off impending bankruptcy by further acts of treachery against the workers The dress field, during the com- ing few weeks, will be the scene of the most severe and decisive strug- gle, of great moment, not only to the needle trades workers, but to the entire mliitant labor move- | ment, The workers, under the lead- ership of the Industrial Union, will have to face and defeat the most | concentrated attack of the com- bined forces of the enemy. The dress trade is the strategic battle front for the Industrial Union. The dressmakers have been the target of the most vicious attacks. They have withstood all the attacks in the past and in the coming battle will no doubt prove true to their fighting traditions. The Needle Trades workers have been the advance guard of the mili- tant workers for many years, and in low socialist party, the bosses and | |Rally Behind the Industrial Union. | }lead them into the folds of the com- | |pany union through a fake strike | takes and short-comings, to lead the workers in struggle against the com- mon enemy. throughout the world have given to} the nationalist movement in Tur-| | key, China, Haiti, Morocco, India, cialist of a great nation or a nation possessing colonies who does not defend this right is a “chauvinist.” The fight against race discrimi- nation, against exploitation of colo- nial masses, for the unity of all the | workers regardless of race or na- tionality, in a common fight against their oppressors is not an easy one. | The capitalists foster race hatred | among the white workers against the Negroes thru every means at \ their disposal. The Communist Party. the Party of Lenin, gives active support to all organizations fighting against capi- talist exploitation. The Communist Party is giving active support to the Harlem Tenants League, which is organizing the Negro tenants in Harlem to struggle against the rob- bing landlords. It supports the American Negro Labor Congress in its’ fight for unity of, black and white workers for a struggle for better conditions. Every worker regardless of color and nationality must attend the Lenin Memorial meeting and join the Communist Party. We honor our revolutionary heroes by build- ing strong Communist Parties in every country which wili under the guidance of the Communist Inter- national, founded by Le lead the oppressed workers to the final vi Lenin in 1918 tory over capitalism and the estab- lishment. of a World Soviet