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i Page Four Square, Address and New York City, } Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., mai} all checks to the Daily Worker. Gaily, except Sunday, t 169) Cable. +28 Union Y. Telephone Stuy 26-28 Union DAIWORK.” Square, New York. N ¥ Saily DETROIT MA FIRST PLACE SPLENDIDLY New York Second and Phila. ed decline in the re- 4 new membe: Out of gro work The Minne- leading the drive this week Third—Cleveland Close to 100 Per cent. with 88 new membe followed by Cleveland Detroit has recruited most Negroes with 65. this week—42. New Members Quota Reeruit. % Qu Districts New DW subs a Solicit. Shop Nuclel Quota Organiz, Shop papers Quota Issued Negro 58 6 1 5 2 12 re 5 0 1 0 0 TOTAL 6 12. 59 68 45 752 Detroit is far ahead of all other districts | vevolutionary competition should have taken with 188 per cent of its quota. Next comes New York with 134 per cent, Phila. with 131 per cent. Cleveland h beaten Chicago with 90 per cent against Chicago’s 85 per cent. Buffalo star close behind Chicago and has great opportunities to pass by its rival next week. Buffalo now filled 84 per cent of its quota. Kansas City is the last distri with only 18 per cent, and the Dakotas go only one better with 19 per cent. Seattle has reached 25 per cent and Pittsburgh isn’t much better with only 28 per cent. All other dis- tricts have at least passed the 50 per cent mark. This result—in spite of the total number of members recruited being very satisfactory— is partly bad. Just before the last week of the drive there are districts still, which have not filled more than 20 per cent or less of their quota. This means that the result of the drive has been got mainly in a few di tricts: Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Clev land, Chicago and Buffalo. There is still an opportunity for the other districts to make good during the remaining week. Every force in the districts must be mobilized to make the last week of the drive the best week! The percentage of recruited Negro workers is a little better but far from satisfactory; it has been raised from 15 per cent last week_ to almost 16 per cent this week. The last week of the drive must be utilized to the ut- most for bringing up the percentage of re- cruited new Negro members. Detroit is first with a number of 201 recruited members— New York is left behind definitely. Boston leads in highest number of organ- ized shop nuclei (12) followed close by Detroit with 10. New York and Chicago are far be- hind with only 5 and 4 new shop nuclei. Cleve- land and Minnesota have beaten them with 8 and 7. Not yet have we been able to fill 50 per cent of our shop nuclei quota. This shows that the Party still stands too isolated from the shops. More concentration of our best forces for work in the shops! Detroit is leading in shop papers followed by Cleveland. 2 Phila. is leading in Daily Worker subs fol- lowed by Detroit, which now on the top of all other work distributes 1,400 Daily Workers daily. This splendid success by Detroit makes the figures on the DW drive from the other districts look rather helpless and amateurish. If the last week does not show any decided improvement in the DW column of the chart the Party must seriously consider a special sub-drive for the DW after the*28th of Feb- ruary when the membership drive is finally closed. All the forces of the Party must be mobilized for the Unemployment Campaign and especially every new member must be given work in that field immediately. The Unem- ployment Campaign must be utilized for con- tinuing the recruiting of more and more new members to the Party, also after the official close of the recruiting drive on February 28. Revolutionary Competition. The Drive has shown that our Districts -have not yet understood how to organize revo- lutionary competition in an effective manner. The weekly drive bulletins appeared at the beginning of the drive, but now at the end the districts completely fail to publish them. Thru them the main activity for leading the place, showing the units and sections what they had achieved and where they had failed, showing what unit was the leading and which section was lagging behind. This was not done, and also in the comradely competition between the districts we did not get in the real spirit of doing its “damnedest”—except partly Detroit and Philadelphia. At present Chicago has been beaten not only by New York and Phila, but also by Cleve- land and almost by Buffalo. Chicago is now the 5th district in the Drive. Detroit has still one field upon which it has been beaten by Philadelphia: subs for the DW. But Detroit is coming closer and closer. Cleveland is now definitely beaten by Detroit in spite of Cleve- land’s good victory over Chicago this week. Buffalo has beaten Connecticut rather badly, except in shop papers where Connecticut has filled its quota. In the triangle competition: Boston, Minnesota and California, Minnesota is the leading district in new members, Cali- fornia in subs, Boston in shop nuclei and in shop papers—which is a very important vic- tory. California has taken the leadership in Negro-question. The following quotas have been filled: New members by Detroit, New York and Phila. . New subs by not a single district. New shop nuclei by Phila. New shop papers by Boston (above quota), Phila. (above quota), Buffalo, Detroit and Connecticut. Only one district has so far filled its shop nuclei quota. The following districts show a decided weakness in their activity for new shop nuclei and they must improve their work | immediately: New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, Dakotas, Seattle, California, and | the South. | ruary 28th. The time left for the drive is only to Feb- A very energetic effort during 10 days from this Tuesday will permit most of the districts to fill their quota—at least | the original quota which were 5,000 new mem- bers, of which already 96 per cent are cov- ered. Cleveland, Chicago, Buffalo and Minne- | sota can easily fill their quota. Prepare to put your district on the map | during the last week! Dakotas were the end of the tail last week, now it is Kansas City. Let us hope that Dakotas will work energeti- cally enough to keep its present place or maybe beat Seattle. Pittsburgh is a good competitor for last place because of its poor show during the first half of the drive. Bos- ton may yet be able to beat Connecticut or California if it tries hard. Cleveland should by no means permit Chicago to crowd it out from fourth place. The ambition of Phila. should be to press itself up to second place. It can be done—how about it New York? Fill your quota of shop: nuclei! New members in active work! Organize classes for the new members! Every new member should subscribe on the Daily Worker! Make the last week of the drive the best week! Mobilize all Party forces for the utmost activity in the Unemployment campaign and for recruiting of new members during the last week of February! Org. Dept. of the C. C. On the Liberation of Cuba ee ees of the United States must be deeply interested in the liberation of Cuba from American imperialism. And because we must help in every way this liberation strug- gle, we must at the same time carefully scru- tinize the programs of all anti-imperialist groups and organizations. Among Cuban emigres, driven out by the terror of Machado, at present one of the most influential organizations is the Association of Revolutionary Emigrants of Cuba (known as ANERC, from its initials). This organiza- tion undoubtedly has in its ranks many sin- cere and loyal anti-imperialists including work- ers as well as intellectuals. An examination of its program, however, discloses grave de- fects which threaten its effectiveness as an in- strument of struggle against Wall Street. What are these defects? They may be found condensed in the slogans of its program of action, which are: “freedom of commerce in Cuba,” “real democratic reorganization of the political parties,” “for a constituent assembly,” “for the establishment of a revolutionary dem- ocratic government.” What is the political significance of such -‘t-r 9 They signify the domination of a per’ urgeois program in the ANERC, the su ation of the interests of the workers and sants. The Cuban liberation move- mer mot effectively combat American im- pet = except upon the basis of the class “interests of the masses of workers and peas- ants, but these class interests are not repre- sented in the program of the ANERC. Against the slogan “freedom of commerce” (that is, a specific “freedom” for the petty- bourgeoisie) we must put forth the slogan of ‘freedom of organization, press, assemblage, w the workers and peasants.” Against the slogan of “democratic reorgan- ion of the political parties” (which is ly a demand of the petty-bourgeoisie to mitted into the parties of the big bour- jie) we must put forth the slogan of “sup- . the only party of the working class, the Communist Party; close alliance with the ex- ploited peasants.” Against the slogan of “constituent assembly” (which is the demand for bourgeois govern- ment against feudal and imperialist limitation on native capitalist development) we must put forth the slogan of workers’ and peasants’ councils. Against the slogan of “a revolutionary dem- ocratic government” (which means a govern- ment of the type of Ortiz Rubio in’ Mexico, the native bourgeoisie in alliance with the im- perialists) we must put forth the slogan of the revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants. The ANERC cannot be a political party, nor the organizer and leader of the Cuban libera- tion movement. Its function is that of a gen- eral anti-imperialist organization, affiliated to the International League Against Imperialism and the All-American Anti-Imperialist League, on the basis of the Frankfort Congress resolu- tions. ‘The organization and leadership of the Cuban liberation movement can only be the work of the Communist Party of Cuba. These points have not been thoroughly un- derstood by the Cuban Communists who work among the members of the ANERC. Instead of putting forth these fundamental points in our program, they have acquiesced in the pro- gram of the petty-bourgeoisie, accepting the leadership ani domination of these elements. It is necessary to sharply raise the fundament- al issues of Cuban liberation and its relations to the workers’ and peasants’ movements, in the serise of the Colonial: Program of the Sixth Congress of the Communist International. Fight the Right Danger. A Hundred Proletarians for Every Petty Bourgeois Rene- gade! in New York Ci BY Mail (ourslae of New * e SUBSCRIPTION RATE! iS: it; ont: 8.00 a year; $4.50 six months; York fest 96.00 & year; $3.50 six months: $2.50 three months $2.00 three months <= ae By Fred Ellis Central Organ of the Commuus: .u-., of the U. S. A. % INTAINS ITS |" OR WAGES! ae es The Agrarian Crisis and World. Mass Unemployment — i By HARRY GA ALONG with the general crisis of capitalism in the United § developing a drastic agrarian cr is expressed particularly in the steep decline in prices of wheat, cora, tobacco and cotton and the severe overproduction of all farm products. perialist bankers hold nine billion dollers in watered farm-mortgages and loans on farm properties and are pressing the farmers for payment of exorbitant inter Be- tween these two jaws of the im severe farm cri deepening and is driving down to greater dejths the general crisis of American imperialism. Since August, 1929, the Chicago has dropped 48 cen is a decline of more t price of wheat in a bushel. This per cent witpin six months in the pr of wheat. Cotfon has dropped from 20 cen per pound in January to below 16 cents on Febr' y 6. All this oc- curred in spite of the tremendoussefforts of the Federal Farm Board and various other capitalist credit agencies to prevent the panicky decline of prices on farm commodities. The failure of the Farm Board to prevent the catastrophic drop in prices on farm prod- ucts and the fact that there will be continued decline ‘is expressed by the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, one of the Wall Street mouthpieces (Feb. 1, 1930): The Board has been trying to hold up the price of what in the face of a tremendous visible supply and of huge umgold stocks of wheat here in the United States. The task is an insuperable one and would be bound to fail in the end even if it did not break down at the very outset. The policy of encourag- ing farmers to hold huge supplies of wheat off the market, whether through coopera- tives, or by direct buying by the Farm Board itself, must always be full of menace, and of very serious menace, as it is in the present instance. Tle whole world knows that even- dually this wheat must be dispesed of, and until it is disposed of, the accumulated hold- ings will hang over the market as a pall, not only preventing recovery in price, but fur- ther weakening it.” Why is there such agremendous overproduc- tion of wheat in the United»States in 1929,» when the total output last year was twelve per cent below the 1928 production? Because of the rapidly developing world crisis with more than fifteen million workers in capital- ist countries unemployed, there is a sharp re- duction in the standard of living of the work- ing class and in their food consumption. The consumption of wheat in the United States is rapidly dropping. There are over 15,000,000 unemployed in capitalist countries with 70,000, 000 dependants. Exvorts, in spite of the steep- ly reduced prices, “were disappointingly low” (Annalist, an. 31, 1930). The Journal of Commerce ¢@Feb. 6, 1930) points out that despite the favorable factor for exporting of wheet of low prices this does not take place: “Such commodities as wheat and cotton, the chief agricultural exports of this country, are also ruling at low vr'ee: for the veur, and the unnsnal feature of the sitvation is that the declines have not had the effect of The im-@/ { stimulating exports to any extent.” ie In the erisiz of 1914, 1921 and the deprés- sions of 1924 and 1927, when the American workers. suffered severe unemployment and were forced to eat less, a temporary alleviation of the agrarian crisis and the sharp reduction in wheat prices was achieved by feverish ex- ports bolstered up by loans to pay for it. At the present time, with the general world crisis and mass unemployment in all capitalist coun- tries, the wheat, consumption of the workers is steeply lowered, and credit is restricted! Expressing the fact that the millions of un- employed as well as employed workers in the United States will eat less in 1930, than they did in 1929, or 1928, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, on January 26, 1930 issued an appeal, to the farmers to curtail their crops, because “it is unlikely the demand for farm produete in the summer and fall of 1980 will be as good as during the last summer and fall. . .. The demand for some farm #¥oducts has been al- ready affected by the decline in ingustrial ac- tivity since last June.” On the basis of the mass unemployment in the United States Hyde wants the American farmers to decrease their production by twenty per cent. It is interesting to know that farm output in the United’ States is dec! jing at almost the same rate that the collecti¥® farms under the Five-Year plan in the Soviet Union are increasing their production. ‘While in the capitalist countries the great mass of jobless are organizing international demonstrations to fight against starvation and for unemployment relief on February 26, in the Soviet Union the workers are gettirf’ in= creased food supplies as a result of the in- crease in wheat output. The capitalist news papers, in order to hide the fact that it’is the general crisis of worl@ capitalism and the ii poverishment of the workers tha is forcing : prices of wheat and cotton down and restrict- ing exports from Canada, Argentine and the United. States, attempt to propagandize the farmers with the idea that the increased ex- Sorts of grain from the Soviet: Union are re- sponsible for the disastrous drop in prices. The Soviet government, while it has made several small shipments of whéat to Ger- many and Great Britain, to pay for. purs chases, is purposely at present curtailing the export of wheat, in order to increase by — twelve per cent in the coming year the wheat consumption of the workers in the Soviet Union. The New York Times of Jan- uary 26, 1930, reports that the Soviet gov- ernment is determined “to Jook after the needs of the masses of the le. before exporting foodstuffs,” and local ‘ thorities in the villages are instructed to see to it that the poor peasants and rural prole- « tarians in general get more food!” The increased production of all pr@ducts in the Soviet Union means a decided increase in. the standard of living of the workers, In the capitalist countries we have the contradiction and the startling paradox of millions of bushels of wheat rotting in the store houses and hordes of unemployed men starving pn the bread line. ‘That the agrarian crisis in®he United States is having the effect of sharpening the general crisis of capitalism is expressed by the Com- ' STARVE OR FIGHT! A Challenge to the Unembloyed By GRACE M. BURNHAM, Labor Research Association. y (Continued) IN the meantime thousands of fee charging employment agencies continue to flourish and in every state. Their purpose is, two-fold: First to make the greatest profit possible from the plight of the unemployed, and second to assist the employers by eupplying scabs to break strikes, Although a-few of these private em- ployment offices maintain a high standard of technical effitiency, the majority are run by persons without special training. All of thm charge high fees, which in many instances amount.to as.much ‘as an entire month’s salary. The average fee charged for all jobs by the private employment offices in California ‘in 1928 was $3.98, and for clerical and commercial jobs the average fee was $13.71. In computing these averages all jobs were included whether they lasted one day or less. - Petty graft and exorbitant fees, fee splitting | and misrepresentation of conditions of employ- ment, refusal to retarn fees when jobs were not | supplied, catering to commercialized vice by sending. girls to places of ill repute—these are some of the facts brought out in official probes of private employment agencies for the past 78 years. “Private agencies,” states Lubin in the most recent of these investigations con- dueted by the U. S. Senate in 1928-1929, “have been.deliberately known to send unfit men to | certain jobs in the knowledge that the workers | would not be kept on, thus making it possible | in a short while to secure another’ fee, One Pennsylvania licensed agency was recently re- ported to have made arrangements with a fac- | tory foreman by which the foreman was paid $5.00 for every man taken on from this agent, and $2.00 for every man discharged. The men ‘were kept on the job a week, were paid every Friday and the expectation was that they would return to the agent for a new job the following Monday.” Prohibition of fee charging employment exchanges is not contemplated under the pres- ent form of government in the United States, according to a recent decision of the Supreme Court. Even regulation of fees has been de- clared unconstitutional. License fees are in most instances too small to make their revoca- tion for unethical conduct a penalty to be fear- ed. In New York City, where more than 1,200 private employment agencies were licensed in 1927, the total amount collected in fees was insufficient even for adequate supervision. Fee charging private employment agencies ‘are re- ceiving special privileges at the hands of the |» government at the expense of the millions of workers who are forced to use them every day. In refusing the State of New Jersey the power to limit exorbitant fees, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that “the employ- ment business does not differ in substantial character from the business of the real estate broker, ship broker, merchandise broker, or ticket broker.” In no statement could the capi- talist conception of labor as a commodity to | be bought and sold on the market, be more | clearly defined. (To Be Continued) The Fascists Mobilizing Against the Communists By I. AMTER. : 0’ all: oceasions the capitalists: and the gov- ernment try to minimize the importance of the Communist Party. ‘hen in connection with a° demonstration of the Communists in Washington, D.-C., Hoover asked that the ar- rested Communists be released because he did not wish to satisfy their ‘mania for martyr- dom,” it was calculated to lower the signific- ancé of the activities of the Communists. When Norman Thomas repeated this phrase of the imperialist’ Hoover he put himself in the same | category—in' the ranks of the open helpers of the imperialists. = But facts and:events areedemonstrating that the government. and the capitalists recognize the ‘growing importance of. the Communigt Party in the: sts le of:the workers. : Thus, the Fas@ist League of North America ws deszolved on December 31. This was sup- sed. to be -a “voluntary” act on their part; but’ it evidently was;due, on‘ the one hand, to the: exposure made by a well known periodical of their. allegiance to the Italian. government, as result of which the U. S. senate decided to order san ‘investigation. The Fascist. League of North <America, merely changed its name and in February established another organiza- tion, the Grande Federazione del Littorio—the Gréat Federation of Lictor. The organizer, Mr: Trombétta, editor of “Il § Grido della Stripe,” a fascist paper, declares that: ‘they. are: “reorganizing the fascisti open- ly,” that chapters: of the organization assume other names, ‘suth as the Association of Ex- Sérvice Men;” etc. ‘The organization hopes to émbrace the: 4,000,000 ;Italians’ in this country. Vain hope—bnt: the important peint is that, despite -the. governmental’ investigation that was ordered, these fascisti proceed: to carry on their, work “openly,” ~ +Some.time,-ago, it was announced that the organization would take in non-Italians, the “idea being:to,form an all-inclusive fascist or- ganization... The government is well informed about these. activities—bit quite naturally not only dees. nothing. again&t them, but sponsors them. : s The. second mobilization of fascisti is to be noted in.the conference called by the Veterans of, Foreign: Wars, in- response to the activities ofthe Young .Pioneers of America in New York.upon the sere Of young ae Harry Eisman from Hawthorne Reformatory. Eisman fe ieceont ‘to Hawthorne for his activitiés in connection , with the ‘Uemonstration ) the Young, Pioneers against the Boy Scouts before tyne dapat for the jamboree in England, The Veterans.of Foreign Wars have called a a onary, fascist or’ poten- t ns‘ in’ the vicinity of , Among: these organizations are th ts, of. the organization ‘in ‘New ‘York, Conn it .and ; Jersey, the Ladies Auxi- ae the Veterans. of ‘Foreign Wars, the ited, Spanish War. Veterans, the American Legion, the 77th. Division Association; the 69th* ] at nt a , bow Division, the Jewish ‘ar, ¥ ins, the” American War Mothers, the. American Flag Association, the Grand Army of. the, Reppblic, the Eleventh Enginects thetetal-and Financig! Chronicle (February 1, &’ “Uptortariately, as it;happens, renewed de- pression is ‘developing... ;..in the agricultural séctions. ofthe country, despite and perhaps because of the ‘efforts of. the, government at ‘Washington’ to prevent it, and this: may. serve al) tecovery and indeed to? arrest ‘the ‘(industrial ‘Hoover'imperialist Federal Farm Board poor white and mediate’ payment of. unemployed relief by the capital erate tothe mass army of jobless workers so: that. they can buy are bier i ev: alleviation’ of the present severe situation. » wThe:Ametican workers will not take as final thé drder‘of, Secretary: of Agriculture Hyde, echoinw the will of the bosses, that they eat less, Under the leadership of the Communist Party ‘and the’ Trade-Union Unity League the jobless and employed workers will be mobilized Soothe token the lenperiaine to. dlagorye some £0), ‘the, imperia! rge some of ithe swollen profits they have wrung out of the: exploitation of the workers for the pay- ment. of ,inth nemployment insurance. face of, the sharpening agrar- Association, the 27th Division Association, the Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Disabled American World War Veterans and various other organizations. The immediate aim of these organizations in merged form is to “attack the Communists with a counter line, of education!” The real aim is (1) “to take action that the mislgd children (Young Pioneers—I.A.) of school age be in- | stigated with the idea in mind of correcting their mistaken idea of liberties in this free (!) country; (2) with the end in view that aliens who are not satisfied with our form of govern- ment be deported.” This is a big mobilization of the fascisti in the eastern part of the country against the Communists and militant workers, The Boy Scout organization has announced the formation of a new body, the “Boy Scout Juniors” or “Cubs.” This organization will take in all children up to 12 years of age. It is estimated that 4,000,000 may be taken, into the organization, if the plans of the executvie committee succeed. Among those sponsoring the move are Professor John Dewey, Dr. E. L, Thorndike and other prominent “educators” in the East. Under the cloak of giving the young children activities that “their parents demand,” these children will be drawn into the milita- ristic activities of the Boy and Girl Scouts, and thus be prepared ideologically and organ- izationally for fascist and military activities. Thus the fascists of the country are mobiliz- ing all the reactionary forces, children and adult, aganst the Communists—the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the Young Pioneers. 5 This is a clear regognition of the growing influence of the. Communist Party over the workers. It is a recognition that the claim of * the Communists that the workers will struggle and will follow the Communist Party is correct, It also demonstrates that the capitalists fear the Communist Party. The lining up of the social fascist party and the American Federation of Labor with these aims of the fascists, the non-interference of the government with the formation of-the new Italian fascist organization—which is to be expected—the introduction of the Coughlin bill in the New York State Assembly for the mili- tarization of all school children from 10 to 18 years of age, are indications of the coming struggles. The failure of the Loridon Naval “Disarmament” Conference to bring about re- duction, but on the contrary resulting: in “an increase in armament, the threats against the Soviet Union, are clear warnings of what is coming. . roar The Communist Party” understands ‘clearly the situation. The tremendous and growing un- employment, the ferocious offensive of the cap- italists on the employed workers to reduce their wages and conditions. The workers must pre- pare for these struggles: (1) by organizing in the shops into militant industrial unions to meetthe coming attacks;' (2) by forming work- ers defense. groups to defend their meetings and organizations; (3) by building up thé Com- munist Party and Young Communist” League so as to meet the struggles; (4) by ‘putting their children into the Young’ Pioneers, in or- der effectively to counteract the poisonous propaganda and hatred of the militant work- ing class and of the .Communist Party that will be drilled into their heads; (5) by support- ing and spreading the Conimunist press, par- ticularly the Daily Worker so that the workers may know what the capitalists and the govern- ment are plotting, ae 3 From a Georgia Worker ‘Atlanta, Ga, Feb, 4,1980 Communist Party, U.S.A. Dear Comrades: q I, the undersigned, want to know more about the: Communist Party. Please. send me more information, The Daily Worker came to me cg a friend here, and I wish to state that this paper sure puts the real truth .to the people. I have been here in Atlanta, Ga., for the last ten years and I don’t think that ever saw work here as: bad as it is now. People on top of people are out of work; I have not, had any work for twelve monthe ‘this last December. but I hope to some day. Yours fraternally, ; " GEORGIA WORKER