The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1930, Page 4

a Page Four = square, New York City, N.Y. F Publishéd by thé Comprodaily Publishing Co. Inc., Gaily, except Sunday, at 26-28 Union “DAIWORK.” amare:s ané mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. ¥. ‘elephone Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable: Baily DETR OIT, NEW YORK AND “What Long Teeth You Have, Grandma!” PHILADELPHIA ABOVE QUOTAS Main Tasks are Further Concentration Factories and Consolidation Gains Made. With seven weeks passed in the Recruiting Drive, the following are the results up to Jan. 81st, 1930. J New Members % dD. W. Subs Shop Nuclei Shop Papers Districts: Quota Recruit. % Quota Solic. Quota Organ. Quota Issued Negro 400 38% 70 ay 12 3 3 5 123% 1 4 10 5 142 110% 104 5 4 2 3 115 42% 5 5 2 2 2 15 13% ? 10 i 5 4 ‘ 62% 19 10 8 10 4 58 - 128% 69 15 10 19 8 159 x 63% 47 10 4 7 0 91 45% 14 14 4 6 2 1 11% 1 5 0 2 0 7 ij cy ‘ 25% 10 5 0 2 0 0 a 83 6 1 5 2 12 % 0 5 2 3 3 6 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 70 3718 74% 5600 428 125 52 68 36 620 troit has increased its sales of Daily Worker to 1200 each day. The present total of 37 Org. Dept. made a mistake in crediting 368 members to Chicago last week. members is correct. The Recruiting Drive has been extended 16 days thru Unemployment Day on Feb. 26th. Every district will be judged primarily on the results it achieves up till Feb. 10th, the orig- inal date. The extension gives the Party units the possibility of making Party recruiting a normal activity and at the same time to dem- onstrate how actively each district is partici- pating in Unemployment Day. The totai results to date show 3,718, or 74 per ssnt of the original quota of 5,000 new members. This means that 74 per cent of the original quota has been recruited in 7 weeks or 78 per cent of the time of the original per- iod of 9 weeks. While there is a small dis- crepancy, nevertheless the total results are satisfactory. The weakness lies in the fact that some districts (Detroit, New York and Phila) have already passed their quotas, while many others languish beHind. While it was to be expected that the recruitment this week would be,smaller than last week, due to the Lenin Memorial Meetings, nevertheless, the total recruitment this week (637) is not suf- ficient and some districts (Philadelphia, De- troit, Chicago, Minnesota and California) show a decided drop in the tempo of their recruit- ing. This tendency must be corrected, so that in the remaining 26 days of the Drives, the entire Party machinery will be working full speed in the Recruiting Drive, linking it up with all other activities, particularly the Un- employment Day on Feb. 26th. Negro Workers. Up until last week the percentage of Negro recruits has kept at an even proportion—20 per cent. Last week this dropped to 17 per cent and today it remains at this level. Th's shows a definite weakness in the recruiting which must be given serious attention by each district. New York has seriously taken up the challenge of Detroit and is a close second to Detroit. Detroit leads in recruiting Negro workers with 159; New York second with 142; Philadelphia is third with 115; Chicago fourth with 91 and Cleveland fifth with 58. Propor- vionately, Philadelphia district is even ahead of Detroit. Shop Nuclei Lagging. ‘In building shop nuclei, five districts con- | tributed this week. Boston 1, Phila. 2, Cleve-_ Jand 1, California 1, and Connecticut 2, making a total of ‘7 new shop nuclei this week. The | most basic shortcoming of the entire Drive, is the invariable lack of attention to concentrat- ing the Party Drive in the shops. Not a single district has reached its quota of shop nuclei and some important districts like New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Minnesota and Connecti- cut—which are highly industrialized, have so far made a showing which must be severely criticized. z The Party failed to understand that this is not only a Party Building Drive but also a Daily Worker Building Drive. The exten- tion of the Drive gives every district an op- portunity to correct this weakness. To date only 428 subs have been solicited—75 of which were gotten in this last week. Only two dis- tricts have made any showing in Daily Work- er subs—Philadelphia and California. With 3718 new members, there is the opportunity of getting 3718 subs. No new member can-be without the central organ of the Party. The Daily Worker must. be. one of the links which bind the new member to the Party, otherwise we will be confronted with a crisis in keeping the new members. ; Revolutionary Competition. New York has had an easy victory over Chicago in recruiting new members. This should cause some concern in the Chicago dis- trict, which is the center of heavy industry. In Negro recruits, New York also beats Chi- cago 142 to 91, Similarly with the challenges against Detroit. Both Philly and Cleveland have fallen far behind the auto city, Detroit. In the smaller districts, competition is more keen. Boston, which was so sure of victory because it temporarily was defeating Califor- nia, then undertook to defeat Minnesota also. Today, Boston finds itself behind both Minne- sota and California in new recruits, altho it has a good record in new shop nuclei. All three of these districts are very poor in re- sruiting Negro workers. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, . New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. NAME .....eceecececeeecceececcescrevemeses Address ....csscesssccemesses Uityeseeseees Occupation ....+sesccccscceessses AGCrovves Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 Eost 125th St., New York, N. Y. | | Party work. Tasks in Remainder of Drive. The outstanding tasks of the Party in the Drive must be to: 1. Overcome the great discrepancy between the number of new recruits reported and those who have actually been drawn into active 2. Speed up the machinery of the Party in accepting new members. 3, Start a serious campaign to keep every new mem- ber—to absorb him into Party life and activ- ity. The recruiting figures will have been empty boasting if upon examination within one month, we see that many of these new members have been lost to the Party. 4. To keep the new members in the Party, start regular discussion classes with them and im- prove the organizational and political life of the unit. 5. Intensify the recruiting in the shops and factories where it has been weakest to date. 6. Build up the Party fractions in the mass organizations thru intensive recruit- ing work in these organizations. 7. With the additional thousands of members, concentrate on building the revolutionary unions and the T.U.UL In the remaining 26 days, every district must not alone strive to intensify its recruit- ing of new members, but must consciously direct its efforts towards a completion of the quotas assigned in each phase of the Drive— new members, shop nuclei, Daily Worker subs and shop papers. In all the Party activity—and particularly in the Recruiting Drive activity, the member- ship and leadership must practice self criti- cism. Only by linking up the severest self criticism will the Party be able to overcome the serious shortcomings already exposed dur- ing the Drive. Particularly must every mem- ber direct his attention to the capacity of the Party in keeping and activizing the new mem- bers. This will be shown in increased factory and trade union work—in inereased attendance at meetings, in improved political and organ- izational life of Party nuclei, in establishing discussion classes—in increased dues payments. A close checkup on all of these points by every member and nucleus and the severest self cri- ticism by every member, nuclei, section and district and by the Central Committee itself, must be undertaken to still further increase the activity of the Party. Eliminate the discrepancy ‘between reported applications and new members assigned to units! Every new member an active Party member! Intensify recruiting among Negro workers! Face towards the factories—more recruiting in factories—establish shop nuclei! Every district to work to fill its quota 100 per cent! Organization Dept. Central Committee. The Five-Year Plan of Cultural Construction The Struggle Against Church and Religion. IN the year 1918 out of 100 persons in Russia 76.5 were illiterate. Up to the year 1928-29 we have made a great stride forward. Out of 100 persons 46 are illiterate. At the end of the Five-Year Plan there will only be 18 il- literates out of 100 persons. Illiteracy will be completely liquidated in the most important districts of the country. The illiteracy of the youth (12 to 15 years) will be liquidated to 100 per cent. (At present, 3 million youths are being taught to read and write.) In the towns 93 per cent of the population will be able to read and write. The elementary education will be arranged in such a way that by the end of the five years all children of the Soviet Union from 8 to 11 will attend the elementary schools. Only in the most backward districts where there are par- ticularly great difficulties will this plan not be completely fulfilled. As a result at the end of the five years the elementary schools will be attended by 17 million children as against 9.5 million in 1927-28 and 7 million in 1914. The Soviet Union needs 85,000 engineers as against the existing 30,000; 110,000 technicians as against the existing 40,000. In order to realize this huge program ten to twelve new technical high schools and 175 technical schools are being established. The number of scholars will be increased to 64,000 and 90 per cent of the students will receive scholarships. During the last decade 1.5 million workers have beén trained, 400,000 in the factory schools, trade union schools, ete. Five mil- lion peasants will attend short courses in order to raise the level of the cultivation of the soil. The Five-Year Plan provides for an increase in the number of reading huts from 22,000 to 38,000, i. e, by 75 per cent. This means 5.5 reading huts per district. The number of libraries is to be increased from 23,000 to 34,000. In addition, 40,000 new travelling libraries are being organized. The number of the clubs, people’s houses, etc., is being aug- mented by 25 per cent. With regard to the press it is intended to in- crease it three-fold in the course of the five years. That is eight times the pre-war level. The circulation of the newspapers will be in- creased from 1,700,000 in the year 1927-28 to five million in the year 1932-33, The publica- tion of books is to be increased from 1,850 million leaves to 4,000 million in the year By JORGE PAZ. EXICO has broken its relations with the Soviet Union because, according to Genaro Estrada, minister of foreign relations of Mex- ico, a number of “pernicious elements of Rus- sian -origin” have been deported, and tffat in raiding their houses documents have been found proving that they were directed from Moscow! I am one of those politicals deported from Mexico, upon me they have found no docu- ment from the Soviet Union, neither from the Red International of Labor Unio But on the other hand the Mexican police have robbed $275.00 from me that belonged to the periodical “The Latin-American Worker,” or- gan of the Latin-American Trade Union Con- federation in its Mexican branch. Among the deported were: One Argentine, six Cubans,.one Roumanian; while there were previously deported one Chilean and one Italian but not a single Russian. Many of these work- ers went to Mexico because, in 1925, Carlos Gracides, agent of the’ Mexican government and of the yellow trade unions (C.R.O.M.) be- for the embassy of Mexico in Argentina in- vited all those who wished to, to go to Mexico to see the revolution that had taken place there and the “benefit” that the revolution had ob- tained for the workers, i Mortgaged To Wall Street. Gracides carried out the mission of General Calles, then president of the republic, and the latter was using the demagogy made necessary by the pressure of the masses of city and coun- try. And this is the reason why in 1925, Calles was turning the face of his,government to- wards an anti-imperialist and national revolu- tionary policy. Threatened by the constant revolts (Huerta in 1923-1924, the “Christeros” or Catholics in 1925-1927, Escobar in 1929) of the generals that responded to the English imperialist investors there, the national econ- omy broken by many years of military revolts, with a national bourgeoisie composed of gen- erals, feudalists and Yankee capitalists, Gen- eral Calles, not wishing to release the really revolutionary forces of the masses, had to look abroad for capital to fertilize the national anemea. ¢ 1932-38. The publication of mass literature will be increased five to six-fold. The number of cinemas to be inmreased from 8520 to 50,000 (of which 14,000 will be school cinemas); that is a six-fold growth. The Five- Year Plan provides for the installation of cinemas in at least 80 per cent of all clubs and the Astablishment of at least 3 cinemas in every district. The wireless is to be increased twenty-fold, from 350,000 sets in 1927-28 to 7 million in the year 1932-33, . It is intended to supply with wireless sets at least half of all workers’ dwellings and 3 million peasants houses, all the workers’ clubs, people’s houses, reading huts, schools, barracks, collective and Soviet farms and Red corners. Zo) Central Organ of the Communist Pariy of the U. S. A. Rupture of Relations Between Mexico and the U.S.S.R. Worker | By Mail (in New York City only): $8.00 By Mail (outside of New York City): $6.00 a year; SURSCRIPTION RATES: 00 a year; $4.50 six months; $3.50 six months; $2.50 three months $2.00 three months And when he believed that a national econ- omy was being formed, when he delivered com- mand, apparently, of the country to’ Portes Gil, the national economy had been largely acquired by Yankee capital, its government mortgaged by the investors and bankers of Wall Street. We find that the income of the Mexican government did not reach by any means the sum necessary to pay the interest on the for- eign debt. Besides this foreign debt, there exists an interior debt, which at the beginning of the “revolution” it was thought to repudiate, but that now, urged by the necessity of obtain- ing new 4oans. Yankee imperialism demanded it be recognized; which Calles and his party, the “National Revolutionary Party,” had to accept. In the moment in which the secretary of war, by order of General Calles “elected” Gen- eral Ortiz Rubio as the new commander of the country, Mexico's economy was nedrly destroyed and facing the danger of a new revolt. There are 700,000 unemployed in the country, whose population is only thirteen million, besides two million small merchants, whose capital is hard- ly greater than one dollar’s worth of merchan- dise. Factories, mines and other enterprises are constantly closing down. All this and more which we do not now wish to enumerate, has provoked a radicalization of the masses, shown by tle rapid growth of the revolutionary trade union center (the CSUM), the Communist Party, the Comminist Youth Federation, in the capital particularly and in general throughout the country. Reaction Is Unleashed. The reactionwas unlashed. As a consequence of it, the first victims were the foreign-born revolutionary workers. . At once fifteen were jailed of the Communist Youth, five of whom were at once exiled to the Maria Islands, Now we understand that the invitation of Carlos Gracides, which was put out only to deceive the unwary, was no more than a tran- sitional process of a line reestablished by the nationalist revolution. And however the for- eign ministry might wish to say that the rupt- ure of relations is due to ‘bolshevik propa- ganda” of the Soviet government, neither a single Russian, nor a document of the Russian embassy in Mexico nor of the Soviet govern- ment is even alleged to have been found. The agitation that the revolutionary workers of the United States made to protest against the vicious reaction of the Mexican govern- ment was no more than the consequence of a close unity of the revolutionary workers of the imperialist country with the revolutionary workers of the colonies. It is the effect of the Solidarity Pact signed in Montevideo the past May in the constitutive congress of the Latin- American Trade Union Federation, a pact in virtue of which we, the workers of. the col- onies, and those of the imperialist country would mutually give all sorts of aid each time that our class interests are threatened by im- perialism, Yankee or British, predominant in MATION OF THE SOVIET VILLAGE We print today the final installment of Comrade Stalin’s speech delivered at the con- ference of Marxist Agrarian Research, on December 27, 1929. s By, J. STALIN. (Conclusion) 6. The Class Changes and the Turn in the Policy of the Party. We come finally to the question of the class changes and the attack of Socialism on the capitalist elements in the village. The characteristic feature of ofr work dur- jing the past year is (a) that we, as a Party, as the Soviet power, have developed the attack on the whole front against the capitalist ele- ments in the village and (b) that this attack, as is known, has led and is leading to very palpable and positive results. What does that mean. It means that we have gone over from the ‘policy of restricting the exploiting tendencies of the kulaks:to the policy of liquidating the kulaks as a class. This means that we have carried out, or are carrying out one of the most decided changes in our whole policy. Up till quite lately the Party pursued the policy: of restricting the exploiting tendencies of the kulak. As is known, this policy was proclaimed at the Eighth Party Congress. The same policy was again announced at the time of the introduction of the New Economic Policy and at the Eleventh Party Congress. We all remember Lenin’s celebrated letter to Preobrashensky (1922), in which he again raised the question of the necessity of such a policy. This policy of course confirmed by the Fifteenth Congress of our Party. And it is this policy that we carried out right up to recently. Was this policy correct? Yes it was indubi- tably correct. Could we, perchance, five or three years’ ago have undertaken such an at- tack on the kulak as we are carrying out to- day? Could we at that time have reckoned on such an attack being sucessful? No, we could not. That would have been the most danger- ous adventurism! That would have been an ex- ceedingly dangerous playing at attack. We would certainly have come to grief and there- by strengthened ‘the positions of the kulaks. Why? Because we had not yet at our disposal those points of support in the village in the shape of a broad network of Soviet estate and collective farms upon which we could rely in the decisive attack on the kulaks. Because at that time it was not possible for us to substi- tute the capitalist production of the kulak by socialist production in the shape of the collec- tive farms and Soviet estates. In the year of 1927 the Zinoviev-Trotzky op- position wanted at all costs to force upon the Party the policy of an immediate attack on the kulaks. The Party did not enter on this adventure, as it knew that serious people do not play at attack. The attack on the kulaks is a very serious matter. One must not con- fuse it with declamation against the kulaks. One cannot confuse it with a policy of skir- mishing with the kulaks, which the Zinoviev- Trotzky energetically endeavored to enforce upon the Party. To, attack the kulaks means to smash the kulaks, to liquidate them as a class. Without these aims attack is a decla- mation, a skirmish, anything but a real Bolshe- vist attack. To attack the kulaks means to make proper preparations and then deliver the blow, such a blow that they are not able to recover. That is what we Bolsheviks call a real attack. Could we have undertaken such an attack five or three years ago with any prospect of success? No we could not. In the year 1927 the kulak produced over 600 million poods of grain, 150 million poods of which he got rid of by exchange outside of the village. That is a fairly-serious force with one must reckon, And how much did our So- viet estates and collective farms produce at that time? About 80 million poods, of which they threw 35 million poods (commodity grain) onto the market. Judge for yourselves whether at that time we were in a position to replace the production and the commodity grain of the kulaks by the production and the commo- dity grain of our Soviet estates and collective farms. It is clear that we could not have done so. What would it have meant to under- take.a decisive attack on the kulak under such conditions? It would have meant running our heads against a brick wall, strengthening the positions of the kulaks and at the same time remaining without grain. Therefore we could not at that time undertake any attack on the kulak, in spite of the adventurist declamations of the Zinoviev-Trotzky opposition. And how does the mater stand at present? We now have an adequate material basis in order to deliver a blow against the kulak, to break his resistance, to annihilate him as a class and to replace his production by the pro- duction of the Soviet estates and collective farms. You are aware that the grain produced ‘on the collective farms and Soviet. estates amounted in 1929 to no less than 400 million Latin America, or the agents that this imper- ialism has in Latin-American countries. This was the case in Mexico. Buenos Aires and Rio | de Janeiro did no more than carry out the inter-American class solidarity pact. If one would say that in Moscow there is located the Communist International and the Red International of Labor Unions, that is alright, because it is certain. But one must add that if these two organizations of direction of the world proletariat would at this time move to other cities, their Central Committees. would certainly have their throats cut by the capitalist governments. Wall St. No Stranger To Break. The Soviet Union is a government of work- ers and peasants; the Communist International is the international political party of the world revolutionary proletariat. And this latter has forces enough to mobilize the masses of the whole world against reaction ih any of the colonial countries of Latin-Amerjca. It is the necessity of guarantecing the loans | made by Wall Street banks to the government of Mexico which has obliged this incident. If we would be able to-lay hands on the archives of Wall Street, more exactly, of the National City Bank, we would see that the new branch of this financial power in Mexico is, with Mr. Morrow, no stranger of this rupture of rela- tions with the Soviet Union. sii iec'camiva., ¢ RS FT TEA poods (200 million poods less the total pro tion of the kulak in the year 1927). You know that in 1927 the collective farms Soviet estates delivered more than 130 milli poods of commodity grain (that is more th the kulaks in the year 1927). In the year 1¢ the total productign of the collective farms a Soviet estates will amount to no less than 9 million poods (i. e, considerably more than t total production of the kulaks in the year 192 and they will supply not less than 400 milli poods of commodity grain (i. e. incomparat more than the kulak in the year 1927). As is to be seen, today there exists the n terial basis enabling the big peasant prod: tion to be replaced by that of the collect: farms and Soviet estates. That is why c attack on the kulaks has now met with 1 deniable success. That is how one must tack the kulak, when it is a question of a r attack and not empty declamation, It is, : this reason that we have recently gone © from the policy of restricting the exploi tendencies of the kulak to the policy of 1i dating*the kulak. Now how shall we approach the policy “dekulakization” (purging the village of { kulaks.—Ed.) 2? Can we permit dekulakizat' in the fully collectivized districts—this qu tion is put from various sides. A ridiculc question! We could not permit dekulakizati| so long as we were pursuing the policy | restricting the exploiting tendencies of t} kulaks, so long as we had no possibility of placing big peasant production by the prod tion of the collective farms and Soviet estat At that time a policy which did not pern dekulakization was correct and necessary. Today .the matter is different. Today have the possibility of making a decided atta on the kulak, breaking his resistance, liquid: ing him as a class and replacing his prodi tion by the. production of the collective fan and Soviet estates. Today, dekulakization being carried out by the masses of poor a middle peasants themselves, who are realizi complete collectivization. In the complet: collectivized districts dekulakization is tod no longer a simple administrative measure, forms an integral part of the formation a development of collective farms. © Therefc it is ridiculous and nonsensical to talk a about dekulakization. As a Russian prove says: “A beheaded’ man does not bemoan loss of his hair.” } No less ridiculous is the other ques’ whether we can accept the kulaks in the lective farms. Of course not, as he is a svi enemy of the collectivization movement. T | matter is perfectly plain. 7. Conclusions. There are therefore six knotty questio which the theoretical work of our Marx agrarian researchers cannot pass over. The importance of these questions consi: before all in the fact that their Marxist elal ration furnishes the possibility of extermin: ing root and branch all and:every kind of bor geois theory which at times—to our shame are spread by our Communist comrades a which confuse the heads of our practical woi ers. And it is really high time that the theories were rooted out and discarded. It only in a ruthless fight against these theor that the theoretical ideas of the Marxist agi rian researchers can grow and become strq The importance of these questions consi finally, in the fact that they place the problems of the economy of the transi- period in a new light. Today the question of the NEP, the questi of the classes, of the collective farms, of t economy of the transition period are approach in a new manner: The mistakes of those w regard the NEP as a retreat and only as retreat, must be dragged to the light of de As a matter of fact Lenin said already at t time of the introduction of the NEP that i NEP represents not only a retreat, but it at the same time the preparation for a n and decisive attack on the capitalist elemer in town and country, It is necessary to expose the mistakes those who believe that the NEP was necessa only for the purpose of connecting the tov and the country. We cannot make use of eve connection between town and country. We 1 quire such a ‘connection as will guarantee t victory of socialism. And if we cling to t NEP it is because it serves the cause of socis ism. As soon as it ceases to be serviceable » the cause of socialism we will fling it asj- Lenin said that the NEP was introduced ously and for a long time. But he never # that it had been introduced. for all time. We must also put the question of popula izing the Marxist theory of reproduction. V must work out the question of the constructi: scheme of the balance of our national econom That which the Central Statistical Office p forward in the year 1926 as the balance of t] national economy is not a balance but a gan with figures. Also the manner in which B sallow and Gromann treat the problem of tl balance of national economy does not bring 1 any nearer to the matter. The revolutionai Marxists must work out the scheme of tl! national economic balance if they wish to e gage at all in the working out of the econom questions of the transition period. It wou be good if our Marxist economists appointc a special group from their circle who wou haye the task of working out the econom problems of the transition-period as they e¢ front us today. —The End.— Paris Taxi Drivers Strike, | PARIS (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—Th) taxi drivers of Paris carried out a 24-hour prc test strike against the increased exploitatio and in favor of higher wages. It is estimate | that 95 per cent of the drivers or about 15,00 took part in the strike, which took place. unde the slogans of the revolutionary union. Two thousand workers of the eJectro-me terial factory, Alsthom, in the Rue Lecorb« went on strike today for wage demands. Th » workers of the second factory of the same firr which is situated in Saint Ouen also threate to strike. ° ‘ One thousand four hundred workers hav been locked out by the employers in Reauvoi Fontaine in northern France as @ result o | wage demands,, fo mai, y