The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1930, Page 6

Published. by Square, New Address and the Coinprodaily Put ails City y. e Stuyvesan al checks to the Daily Worker. 2 “Dp New Y ork. WHAT EVERY STREET | & f © NUCLEUS MUST DO IN THE CRUITING CAMPAIGN | (Proposals of Detroit District.) there are members in the Nucleus 1, The Street Nuclei as they exist at pres- 4, The Nucleus must sell twice as ent are not really Street Nuclei except in | Daily Worke: y day, as there are name. The order of business of the Street | bers in the N Nuclei as at present may as well be the order 5. Every Nucleus must sell the amount of Xu of any street nucleus anywhere in literature as outlined under the tasks of every Party member. Also, every Nucleus must aim The Street Nuclei do not concern themselves to distribute 1,000 leaflets of every one issued with the problems of the neighborhood in | by the Party. which they are supposed to work. Nor do 6. Every Nucleus must secure in the drive ‘ they work in the factories nearby for the at least 20 per cent of the new members, Ne- building of shop nuclei. gro workers. Attention must also be Street Nuclei in the present recruiting cam- the ,recruiting of women from the paign s to become actual Street Nu- 7. Every Nucleus must help | clei and take up the problems of the neigh- | of the Young Communist League in its ter- borhood and utilize these problems for the ritory. purpose of mobilizing the masses in the neigh- Every Nucleus must arrange regularly | borhood for the campaigns and slogans of the | meetings to which npathetic workers are in- Such issues as housing, schools, must | vited, and an educational program organized. zed in connection with our campaigns 9. Every Nucleus must regularly organize imperialist w unemployment, etc. diseussion of the Party questions in order to | campaigns t be brought to the educate the membersh e their poli- | ses in the neighborhood. tical and theoretical level | Street Nuclei must consider as one of Organizational Tasks. | their chief tasks to help the Factory Nuclei 1. Beginning with the first week in Jan- n thei territory and to engage in factory uary, all Nuclei must meet once a week. activi for the purpose of organizing new 2. Special isiting Committees must be Factor, Nuclei. formed to get back into activity all those who In ths present recruiting campaign every do not cothe to the meetings regularly. These Street Nucleus must strive to organize at comrades can be seen in the shop, or in the least one Factory Nuclei. home. The Street Nuclei must canvass the neigh- | 3. The Nucleus must complete the registra- borhood for subscribers for the “Daily Work- | tion of all comrades not yet registered. Bring er,” Labor Unity, the Megro Champion, the | all registrations to the District Offi Woman Worl the Labor Defender, the 4. The second meeting in Januar: to be Young Worker, and the Young Pioneer. a reorganization meeting. Special efforts The Nucleus must build the ILD, the WIR, must be made to get a full attendance at this - the FSU, the ANLC, etc., in its territory. nucleus meeting. At this meeting, the officers Bs The Street Nucleus must aid in the build- ef the Nucleus are to be elected. They are to ing of the Auto Workers’ Union, and the be: 1. Secretzry-Organize: Financial Sec- Trade Union Unity League. The ‘Street Nu- relary. 3. é prop 4. Industrial | cleus must work in all the workers’ organi Organizer. 5. Daily Worker and Literature tions in the neighborhood bringing in the Par- Agent. egro Organizer. 7. Women’s ty campaigns and recruit members for the Work Organize These comrades are to con- Ss Party. The Street Nucleus must in the pres- stitute the E: ve Committee of the Fac- ent unemployment situation consider the mob- tory Nucleus. ctory Nuclei of less than 12 ilization of the workers and the working class members should elect only 3 members to the housewives for the building of the Councils of Executive Committee. Unemployed. They must undertake mass 5. The Nucleus must collect every week meetings, demonstrations, conduct forums, ete. | from every member 2 per cent of his weekly a In short the Street Nuclei must become the wages as dues. payment. Comrades unem- leaders in their territory of all the struggles ployed must take exempt stamps, if.they can- of the masses. not pay and thus maintain themselves in good 2. In the present rc - iting campaign, the standing. The Nucleus keeps 10 per cent of 1 Nucleus must double the membership at the dues payment. : present. 6. The Nucleus must keep record of the ac- 3. The Nucleus must, from among the | tivity of every member and be ready at any : workers in the neighborhood and factory, se- | time to report to the District Committee on cure as many subs for the Daily Worker as | the activity of every Party member. . . The Right Danger in Our “4 * | Practical Work HEN the Open Letter from the Comintern was sent to our Party it was stressed that | the acceptance of the Comintern’s line and de- cisions made by CI could not be accepted mere- ly by a vote or lip-service. It was stressed But the same night, and in’ the same sec- tion, another Nucleus (404) had organized an open meeting and this meeting was allowed to be held, in spite of the fact that they also had to hang up posters and do the same thing as Nucleus 402. That open meeting was a that the acceptance of the Open Letter must | success, and four new members joined the : Be shows in the practical daily work, or work | Patty. ‘This shows an irresponsible attitude : from leading comrades in District 8 and an among the masses. To a certain extent the . 4 oe : | Party has succeeded in this, but we still have | Underestimation of the Party Recruiting Cam- ri paign among the proletarian masses. Right tendencies in our Party, and the Right Sans danger is most readily seen in carrying out If this is not a clear-cut Right danger in our daily practical Party tasks. For instance: | 0Ur practical mass activities, then what is it? In District 8, Nucleus 402 had organized an At the above-mentioned meeting three “dicks” arrived who had more closely than many Par- open meeting in connection with the Drive. The Buro had planned the meeting well: It | ty members, looked through the Daily Worker | was advertised in the Daily Worker and Ny | Where the meeting was advertised. They were j Tid (Scandinavian weekly Party paper), hall | 504 that the meeting was only for Party mem- was rented, etc. When this meeting was sup- | eS and disappeared. That shows us that the posed to be held the members received a no- | °@Pitalists do not underestimate our forces. tice when they came to the meeting that the | . Hoping that such a Right error will be elim- Secretariat of the District had.called the meet- | inated in the future. ing off through a notice to the section organ- izer, and without giving any reason whatso- ever for this action. —Proletarian. Young Miners Fight Attacks: | of Operators! | JHE miners of Illinois are at the present time in the midst of a bitter struggle. The coal operators have forced the coal miners of Illi- nois to a point where conditions are unbearable. The question of a most elementary existence is a difficult problem to every miner. The introduction of machines in the mines much as, conveyors, loading machines, electric drillers, zheering machines, entry drivers and many other perfected devices has caused a severe problem that will never be overcome under the present system. The unemployment problem cannot be looked upon as a temporary thing, but a condition that is permanent. The cutting of wages directly and indirectly, using every scheme possible in speeding up- production, the negligence of proper ventilation as well as other safety measures, ete., are being used by the coal barons as a means to install their “efficiency plans” and to increase profits. This is all at the expense of the coal miners. To this open attack the miners are struggling against very militantly. The Reactionary U.M.W.A. Not only are the miners of Illinois in a struggle aaginst their tommon enemy, the-coal operators, but the once militant United Mine Workers of America in the clutches of the Lewis-Fishwick treacherous machine, is today the union of the coal operators. In snite of many good union miners that are forced under the “check-off” to pay dues to the U.M.W.A., it stands out as a brazen, strike breaking or- ganization where in the present strugele the miners of Illinois have been satisfactorily con- vineed. In the face of the crisis in the in- dustry, in the face of these many intolerable conditionsgand many betrayals on the part of the Lewis-Fishwick machines, the coal miners of America have organized a class conscious, revolutionary union that today leads the cod] miners of America in every struggle. In this fight of the Illinois miners, the youth are commanding the respect of the Ainerican working class. Their many battles on the picket lines, their consistency of effort, and as or- | ganizers for the union they are an inexhaust- | able forea. 4+ reves before the young miners have taken the lead in the struggle. Why? Some Criticism. The Party members were very disappointed and who can blame them. At functionaries’ meetings and other Party meetings, the nec- essity is always stressed for the Nuclei to take initiative-themselves, and not wait for instruc- tions from the district. “Win the masses,” etc. The Nuclei tried to do its best to draw in new members to the Party and to spread the Daily Worker and our Party literature, therefore this meeting was organized. And then came the Secretariat of the district and stopped the meeting in a disorganized manner. The only reason for this was that the Nucleus was sup- posed to hold short meetings because they had to go out and hang posters for the Lenin Memorial, and so they did. The Nucleus protested against such an at- titude by the leading comrades in District 8. The protest was unanimously carried and was sent in by the Secretary in the Nucleus. The Section Organizer also reported that she tried to get a speaker from the district agitprop, but failed, they simply refused to send a speak- er, the meeting was called off, that’s all. 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. Serid me more information. 4 Name ...sseceeccsevcescessescecerscsusces Address ....ccscecsccccsncees Clty. sesseves MOBCUPALION 2 s0 si ccccrecccerences AZCssevee Mail this to the Central Office. Communist “Varty, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. Y. , at 26-28 Unton Central O DAN HELL! NUL! Baily 5 Worker of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. By Mati (in New York City only): $8.00 a By Mail (outside’of New York City): $6.00 a year; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: year; $4.50 six months; $3.50 six months; $2.50 three $2.00 three Menthe —= By Fred Ellis The British capitalist class (and its servants, the Labor Party leaders) are peeved—be- cause the Communist Party of Great Britain is now publishing its own “Daily Worker in London. _ Haiti’ s Road to Freedom By HARRISON GEORGE. }{A17! is famedfor being the Black Republic of the West Indies, and while it correctly is populated by Negroes, it is far from being a republic. United States imperialism has made “A preliminary survey I have just concluded, | dealing with 700 workers on 20 sugar and a farce of such a word as a Haitian Republic, | it is in fact a yankee plantation. Of the conditions of the Haitian people, num- berless letters tell of the extreme poverty suf- fered by‘ the vast majority. We can count is as a little “oversight” of Prof. Seagar of the Rockefeller Foundation chair of Hygiene in Trinidad, not to have*mentioned Haiti in his recent dissertation upon the terrible condition oe ere Indian Negro workers. In part he said? Because today, conditions nakedly stand out where the young miners have nothing to lose, | and under an organized movement led by the National, Miners Union they have everything to win. The future of the young miners of America is very dark and gloomy. the indy were the future generation of coal miners faced with such a situation, only answer is to fight! Never in Conditions of the Young Miners. In the introduction of new machinery the bosses have but one view in mind and that is to make gteater profits. In making their enor- mous fortunes it is made possible only at the expense of the coal, miners. At this stage of industrfal development the young miners suf- fer more than ever before the effects. With this great unemployment problem and hun- dreds of thousands of workers searching for work, the bosses naturally choose the healthy, vimful, young miners and under the pressure of intense speed-up wreck their healths in no time. Besides this the young miners are dis- criminated on in wages and other conditions The young miners have many specific problems and conditions. The hazardous jobs that they have which results in much fatalities, such as motormen, trip-riders, flaggers, greasers, couplers, trappers, conveyormen, ete. All these jobs are in the transportation of the coal in the mines as well as general machine work is done by young miners. With the new ma- chines coming~in hundreds of young. miners are being used on the “tipple” where they ex- tract the rock and slate from the coal. The “shakers” that they work upon make unbear- able noises that wreck their nervous system. In doing the work they are forced to stoop in uncomfortable positions and only receive one rest period on the day. The maximum pay for this job is $3.60. Many other conditions have forced the young miners to fight shoulder to shoulder with their adult brothers, fighting for the establishment of the National Miners Union. The National Miners Union, The National Miners Union forged in the bitter struggles of the coal miners is~ today paving the way for the coal mingrs vietory. We are living in a period of sharpening revo- lutionary struggles. We are building our revo- lutiopary union, with the developing of the young miners to lead the union, the coal opera tors, the Lewis-Fishwicks, the Muste outfit, and all shades of sozial reformists, will be decisively defeated. . rotten conditions! Smash the check-off! Or- ganize your Youth Sections! Elect your dele- gates to the District Young Miners Conference Felmuary 9! Build the revolutionary Nationat Miners Union! The | cocoa estates reveals the workers are aged at 30, with marked heart and blood pressure de- terioration, and by’40 théy are handicapped severely, with their expectation of life short- ened.” Prof. Seagar, with a cautious look towards the Rockefeller endowment, recommends that somethirig be done “about this, as “diet and fatigue are points affecting the willingness to work, which must influeriée the cost ef pro- duction cf sugar.” _ The worthy professor tries to infer that the miserable lives of the West, Indian Negro work- evs is due especially to “the extensive use of tinned milk” and he recommends the “keeping of goats.” What the goats are tarlive on, if the wotkers themsélves are compelled ‘to use tinned miik because of poverty, the worthy professor saith not. As aforementioned every ‘letter Yrom “the humble people of Haiti shows that a similar condition prevails in Haiti as in the rest of the West Indie: Tf we would consider this abyss of mass starvation as the first thing to receive our attention we will have to express our amazement at the course taken by the , liberation movement in Haiti. { * It is true, of course, that the present move- ment received its initial spirit by the strike of the students and, without at all underestim- ating the great value that the student ele- ments play as an assisting body to the work- ers and* peasants in natioyal revolutionary movements, yet it must be said that it is ex- | ‘tremely unwise to look to the students or other intellectual categories for sound leadership in a genuine revolutionary movement. Such lead- ership, all history of this age conclusively proves, can be found, in its majority, only in the ranks of actual toilers. Not long since, some elements in Haiti form- ed a Workers’ Party and issued public state- ments on the terrible conditions of both the workers and peasants of Haiti. Undoubtedly, ‘in spite of all its isolation, this movement has been touched by the world-wide slogan of a | Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. . But if those who hold in esteem such a Workers’ and Peasants’ Government as now occupies® the great Land of the Soviets, wish to alter social conditions in the same direction. they. must not be carried away by trifling differences from learning the lesson of just how ‘the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union came to power. In Haiti the students unquestionably have more than enough reason to strike against the corrupt, grafting autocracy of Mr. Freeman, an American imperialist who has been imposed on the country as educational director at the rather fine salary of $10,000 a year. But while thousands and tens of thousands of humble Haitian peasants and workers are lit- erally Starving to death, the basic cause of comvlaint is this mass starvation, and not— as the students seem to Judge>the fact that, ywhile Freeman” receives such~“a magnificent salary, “no Haitian in public education is getting over $250 a month;” nor can it be the duty of a. revolutionary movement to worry | itself over the fact that “even the secretary Young miners. of Illinois strike against the of state” has no more than a “paltry” $500 a month, compared to Mr. Freeman’s $833.33. Such complaints, while they may be impres- sive as proving beyond all* question the rot- tennegs of American imperialism’s rule, cer- tainly are not the kind to put before the masses To the Workers of the World! To the Oppressed and Exploited Colonial Masses! To the Proletariat and Toiling Masses of the U. S. S. R.! , OMRADES! The Japanese bourgeois-landowning reac- tionaries are determined to take drastic mea- sures against the advanced proletarians i of Japan. The working class and*its organiza- tions have been subject to brutal repression, the Japanese government has sent to prison jan fighters, threatening them with the death penalty, Not satisfied with the penal servitude sen- tences passed on the best representatives of the Japanese capitalists and landowners has passed by imperial degree in June, 1928, the death penalty act for Communists. Throwing an impudent challenge to the whole interna- tional proletariat, the Japanese Minister of the Interior, Adatzi, disregarding all judicial pro- cedure, has declared that political prisoners will be executed regardless of the date of their arrest. Comrades! The death penalty is hanging over the heads of hundreds of proletarians! The Japanese bourgeoisie has decided to put to death the best nf&mbers of the working class, its foremost champions. The death penalty is hanging over the heads of workers and peas- ants who have distinguished themselves. by heroic deeds. in the struggle for the workers’ cause, those who marched at the head of the work- ers’ detachments, those who were prepared to undergo torture and death for the cause of the proletarian revolution, for the liberation of the peasantry, of all who toil and are ex- ploited. ; In Japan, in the country where capitalist -de- velopment is accompanied by medieval bar- barism, where the workers have no rights whatsoever, where the police reign supreme, where side by side with the biggest trusts in the world, women and children are sold openly; in’ Japan where the working class is leading a miserable existence owing to monstrous ex- ploitation of its labor power, where landown- ers take away froth an enormous section of the peasantry one-half of every harvest, taking | | in the last months over 800 intrepid proletar; | ; ; | The Japanese proletariat niust rise like one | the Japanese proletariat, the government of | STAY THE ARM OF THE EXECUTIONERS! Appeal of the Western European Bureau ot the C. 1 and ot the Eurobean Secretariat of the R.LL.U.. ; away thereby the last crumbs from millions of starving children—in Japan no force in the world can uproot and put a stop to the growth of the revolutionary struggle, the struggle for workers’ and peasants’ power, for the aboli- tion of capitalist exploitation and serfdom to the landowning class. In the face of the approaching political and economic crisis, in the face of the swellinr tide of revolution, the infuriated Japanes: bourgeoisie threatens to drown in blood every attempt at protest and struggle. It threatens with the death penalty every worker whose ideas or actions it considers dangerous, man to defend the life of. its foremost cham- pions, to defend its class interests. Its reply | to the impuient challenge of the bourgeoisi | and the Japanese landowners must be mas! | political strikes and demonstrations.. The work | ers of the world and the oppressed. colonia! | masses must rise in support of the Japanese proletariat, of its best sons whom the bour- P&ysical extermination is threatening | geoisie has doomed to death. | Workers and peasants of the world! | Thousands of intrepid self-sacrificing cham- | pions of world revolution are threatened with | the death penalty, and only the mass protest | of millions can stay the hand of the execu- | tioner. Proletarians of Europe, Asia and America! In the name of proletarian class conscious- ness and fraternal solidarity, rouse the masses and make them fight against the extermina- tion of their Japanese class brothers. Come out, all of you, in defense.of the Japanese revo- lutionaries, your fellow. fighters in the com- mon struggle! Wrest your comrades from the bloody hands of the ferocious Japanese bour- geoisie. Come out, all of you, in defense and direct support of the Japanese revolutionary movement! i Down with the: Mikedo=-Government, a gov- ernment of executioners“of the working ‘class! Long: live the brave. revolnfiinaries who are lingering in the ‘eapitalist ‘prisons of Japan! Long live the Japanese Communist Party! Long live the revolutionary, trade union movement of Japan! . Long live the world prolétatian revolution! The West European Bureau of the C. I. The European Secretariat of the R.LLL.U.§ action against that imperialism. Any class conscious worker will understand that the great sea of misery among the masses, is not only more important as a matter of analysis than this inequality between an im- perialist bourgeois and native bourgeois, but that mass misery is precisely the field of operation for a genuine revolutionary national- ist movement, rather than the difference be- tween one grafter. and another. . There is complete evidenee to show that there exist elements. among the sweaty toilers, however humble be their station and whether or not they are-endowed with college degrees and other documentary evidence of erudition, to furnish the bulk of the leadership which must be composed of actual workers and peas- ants to insure.the stability of a revolutionary movement that really means business. No one will question the right and the im- portance of intellectual~elements and small bourgeoisie to ~participate in the revolutionary independence fight in Haiti or any other country. But the recent history of China, Mexico, India and &-seore of: other countries shows conclusively that those who wale organize a successful fight for national ifidependence must, first ofall, go to the most. exploited from these actual toilers build up the motive force of the revolution. Without these masses, the native intelligensia and the bourgeoisie can win a collision with imperialist oppression. As in‘ every such case, also in Haiti, it is pleaded that “there is no bourgeoisie.” But this is from the lips of the bourgeoisie itself, which oppressed though it be by brute force of foreign imperialism, can not be accused of honesty in begging the question in such trans- parent a manner, in order to maintain its lead- ership of the great masses of half-starved toilers of the city and farm. The class conscious worker who seeks the road for liberation of his people in Haiti must therefore resolutely seek to organize the pro- letariat and peasantry and¥see that in their organizations, while such intellectuals as are willing to subordinate their personal interest and personal ability to the cause of the masses are welcome, nevertheless actual workers and peasants get and maintain the important and Tesponsible posts of leadership. One of the plainly obvious’ failings of the old leadership in the Haitian movement, is its total lack of international perspective. One ‘ hi Soviet Tractors—For the Five-Year Plan of workers and peasants to bring them into | “would think that an appeal to, and bonds with, classes, to the workers and peasantry, and’ not (even with the ‘best intentions) hope to r | the recommendations, there appears the state- | other Latin American anti-imperialist. organ izations of militant nature, would be the frist | thing Haitian liberation leaders would think of. | But it seems to be the last thing. This alone | is a serious commentary. on the old leadership- | and sufficient proof of the need for a new leadership more proletarian in character, since proletarians are almost invariably quicker to see the necessity for international solidarity than the ‘more sélf-centered “intellectual ‘or bourgeois. ie a es If anyone can have the nerve to stand before the Haitian people, after seeing*how Brigadier General Russell tried to stop the news of the demonstrations staged by the workers of th: United States led by the Communist :Party against the massacres and oppression of Haiti ans by U. S. imperialism, ‘and deny, the valu and the need for: international. connnections and international solidarity of all exploited and oppressed, such a one has no place in the lead- ership of the Haitian independence movement. We might refer any Haitians who doubt the value of international solidarity to the Mexican workers who have just been freed from: prison by the physical collisions of Yankee. workers \ with police in half.a.dozen U. S. cities in pro- test at the white terror in Mexico. But anyone who raisés. ‘such a doubt in the minds of Haitian workers and peasants at this period, or who does riot make a special effort to bring them the newg smothered by General Ruesell, is no leader, “Sut a misleader. We are quite certain that if the Haitian movement now had real workers and real peasants at its head, | there would have been an instant and fraternal response to the demonstrations in the Unite: States, which, however, the present’ bourgeois, leadership seems to have obstructed. , To sum up: Genuine mass organization on the basis of mass interests and’demands; gen- uine workers and peasants to the fore in lead- ership; connections with the of Santo Domingo, Cuba, all Latin America; and a fighting alliance with the revolutionary pro- letariat. of the United States. This is ¢ road to freedom for Haiti. F A Correction In the “Resolution on the Membership Drive,” printed in Thursday's issue, under point F of. ment—“the Central Committee: will..make its Organization instructions a permanent institu- tion.” It should read “Organization in- structors.” © / ‘ ‘ i