The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1930, Page 3

Page Three —— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1930 “Continue and Broaden the |ANTI-SOVIET LIARS’ Successful Fight of March 6th! (Continued from Page One) ' ening of the class struggle in the United States. The driving of the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions into illegality appears as the immediate policy of the bourgeoisie, against which the Party and the working class must fight’ by all possible means. 7. Among the series of class war measures of the bourgeoisie special attention must be called to the. persecution of the delegation elected by 110,000 unemployed demonstrators in New York. The trial of Comrades Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lesten is an act of class revenge on the part of-the bourgeoisie on the unemployed move- ment, is a challenge to the whole working class. The police provoked bleody clashes on the streets of New York on Leahy 6 because the police was instructed by its capitalist bosses to give a bloody lesson to the demonstrating unemployed workers. The tremendous war mobilization of all police forces with machine guns and gas bombs was already a provocation of these clashes. The refusal of the police to permit the demonstration to go to City Hall was another direct provecation and a further illustration of how all bourgeois democratic rights, and es- pecially the right of the street, are openly and brutally stamped upon by the bourgeoisie when it concerns the workers. The energetic fight against the class verdict already prepared against the New York dele- gation is therefore a direct continuation of our fight of March 6, i 8. The whole importance of the March 6 demonstration for the Party consists in the fact that the Party really mobilized masses for and led them in a fight of tremendous political significance, This dem- onstration revealed the considerable growth of the political influence of the Party, thus broadening its capacity to mobilize masses, and this, taken together with the organizational growth of the Party revealed by the recruiting drive, shows that the Party has already passed the turning point on the mass mobilization and successfully proceeds on the path towards becoming the recognized leader of the millions of Amer- ican workers. This considerable success of the Party is the result of the correction of the political line of the Party with the help of the Communist International, elimination of the factional fight, cheansing of the Party of right wing renegades, and the continued struggle against opportunism, and also the result of the correct and timely political line of the Party with regard to the questions connected with the econ- omie crisis, unemployment, etc. %, 8. Nevertheless, the Party must not become dizzy from success. The Party must soberly appreciate this success but at the same time clearly analyze its political and organizational shortcomings and ener- getically correct them in order to prepare even more far-reaching revo- lutionary actions. Especially must be emphasized the disproportion as revealed by the March 6 demonstration, between the political in- fluence of the Party upon the masses, and the lagging behind of the organizational crystalization of this influence. The political preparation and execution of the demonstrations were generally correct and well carried thru, with a good linking-up of immediate economic demands of the working class with our major political slogans. Nevertheless, there were manifested some remnants of right wing tendencies in some of the lower organizations of the Party. The Party units in Columbus, for instance, consisting mainly of new members, unanimously decided not to organize a street demonstra- tion but only a hall meeting. After the intervention of the District Committee, which sent a special organizer there, a successful demon- stration took place, thus refuting in life the opportunist underestima- tion of the radicalization of the workers by the local comrades. In Cincinnati the leading comrades abandoned the project of a demon- stration after being refused a police permit, giving as the reason that “our movement is not big enough yet to go on with the demonstration without a permit.” Such a tendency of legalistic opportunism must be mercilessly combatted. The Polcom instructs the District Committee of District 6 to carry on in these organizations a complete explanation and exposure of these opportunistic tendencies and take measures to reorganize the leadership of the Party in both cities. It must be poined out that only by the mobilization of masses is it possible to break down police repressions and organizationally and politically strengthen the Party. The retreat of the police in Chicago before the tremendous mobilization of mass sentiment is one of the most recent proofs of this fact: - Side-by-side with the legalistic tendencies must be combatted also tbs paniky confusion in the face of the police mobilization and attacks. the forces of the enemy, underestimation of the “radical wank of the . and creates the risk of disorganizing our ranks at the decisive moments. 1%, The organizational phase of the demonstrations was on the whole successful. The mobilization of the Party membership was the most complete ever achieved. The organization of the masses them- sélves and their direction in the demonstrations was in most instance- very good, especially as exemplified in New York City, where the vote for the adpotion of the unemployment program and the election of = committee was a political concentration of the entire demonstration, anc showed a firm, decisive leadership of the masses by the Communist Party and the T.U.U.L. Nevertheless, the many organizational weaknesses and shortcomings which manifested themselves thruout the action must be thoroughly searched out—sharply criticized and all necessary measures taken to prevent their repetition in the future. The most importan! shortcomings are: a) Altho the line of the Party for the carrying out of the Interna- tional Unemployment Day as a day of common fight of unémplyoed an’ employed workers and the Party call for strike were correct, as well as the concrete directives cautioning against its transformation into a strike only of active elements and members of the Party, nevertheless, the Party failed to realize to any great extent this political strike action such strikes as took place weer mainly in the small shops in the les< decisive branches of industry (needle trades, building trades) in some places the eall for strike was correctly and successfully substituted by meetings in the factories or before factory gates (Pittsburgh, Westing- house plant with 2,500 participants, Minneapolis Ford plant 8,000 par- ticipating). But the same examples show that the Party’s organizationa! préparations for the strike were not sufficient and could have given better results, b) Directly connected with the foregoing is to be noted the almos complete absence of committes of action as an organizational form o! the united front between the unemployed and employed workers. In some cities Unemployed Councils are yet to be formed (Cleveland), while in many places these councils are still only preparatory organizations, no‘ organically linking up large masses of the unemployed. ¢) The mobilization of trade union fractions for the preparation o/ the demonstration was weak, demonstrating again the underestimatior by the Party of the importance of trade union work. This was exem- plified in some extreme cases even by the withdrawal of responsible trade union functionaries, members of the Party, from their trade union mobil- ization to a Party unit mobilization (New York). d) The ral weakness of the activity of our shop nuclei in the preparation for the demonstration. e) The insufficient activity of all members of the Party manifest- ing pote sometimes in the fact that new members were more active than the old ones. ft) While beginnings of Workers’ Defénse Corps are to noted (Phil- adelphia, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Minnesota) as well as a general ig nition of the urgent necessity of such organizations by the Party, never- theless, they are not yet being organized everywhere and where they do exist they are still composed mainly of Party members or even mainly of Y.C.L. members, instead of being, as they should, broad united front organizations. 11, The March 6 demonstration was not only a manifestation of the. growing radicélization of the workers, of sharpening antagonisms of American capitalism, and of growing counter-offensive of the American working class. It was itself a factor in further deepening and sharpen- | Such confusion, manifested, for instance -in some. sections = of New York, is an expression of an opporttinistic overestimation of ing of the class struggle, and of the growing radicalization of the masses. | Thru thé demonstration the working masses have seen and tasted the class content of the policy of the bourgeois government which defended by all means the profits of the capitalist class against the demands of | the unemployed workers. The working masses thus were able to ap- preciate the class content and role of the capitalist state, its police, courts, ete. The workers also received a more sharply defined lesson in the role of the social-fascists of the A. F. of L. and 8. P. as shock troops of the bourgéois offensive against the workirig class. The class function of the liberals as the providers of democratic mask for capitalist terror was further . The demonstration also delivered a shat- tering blow at the democratic illusions of the masses which received their democratic “rights” at the end of a policeman’s clubs, under horses’ hoofs and with gas bombs. The March 6 demonstration and even ite prepar- ation tanght the workers that only by “showing their teeth” (N.Y. Times), that is, that only thru revolutionary mass action could they wrest from the bourgeoisie the realization of their immediate economic de- mands, the dimensions and duration of whieh depeiid only on the force PULL A BONER; MOVE REVAL TO “RUSSIA” | \ i | ‘Capitalist Editors, So Anxious to Lie About| | Church Destruction, Forget Geography Church in Esthonia, Wept Over as “Turned | Into a Museum” by the Awful Reds | (Inprecorr Press Service) Esthonia has been independent now | REVAL, Esthonia.—A zealous ed- for over ten years during which time | \itor of the Canadian “Montreal | Reval has been its capital. How long | Standard” has overdone the anti-j|will it take before the editors of | Soviet campaign and caused muchjthe leading Canadian newspapers ‘laughter here. A number of the |hear about it? Behind the laughter | “Montreal Standard” has arrived |of the Esthonians there is a trace containing a picture of one of the jof seriousness, for the Canadian main Reval churches and supplied canard fairly thoroughly exposes the with the title, “Soviet Destroys Re-| foolishness and irresponsibility of ligion in Russia. Above a Russian|the anti-Soviet campaign which is |Chureh in Reval which has been |being recklessly conducted in Europe | turned into a Museum.” land America at the moment, [ of the organized proletariat. The March 6 demonstration brought nearer | to the workers the problem of the political mass strike as a powerful weapon in the fight for their class interests. It also brought nearer to the working masses the problem of the struggle for power. March 6 demonstration is therefore a signal and a factor in the further sharpen- ing of the class struggle in the United States—the starting point for a new attack of the bourgeoisie upon the working class, and for a further developing of the fascization of the bourgeois state; and also a factor of the further radicalization of the masses and the growing counter- offensive of the working class. The Party must clearly appreciate all | of this in order to organize the continuation and broadening of the March | 6 fight. 12, ‘This continuation and broadening of the fight is now the major | political task of the Party. Unemployment must continue to remain the | center of the Party’s attention because it is not only a clear illustration of the crisis of capitalism but is itself a powerful factor accelerating the tempo of the devleopment of this crisis. Consequently the problem of unemployment is the very lever whereby the C. P. shall set into motion over larger and more decisive masses of the working class. To crys- tallize organizationally the political influence of the Party revealed on March 6 is the prerequisite for the further successful development of the mass action. The Party must more energetically and directly lin! up in its agitational and propaganda work the economic demands of the unemployed and employed workers with the political lessons c‘ March 6 and with the main political slogans of the Party. The Pari must persistently continue its work of education and organization < all sections of the working class in the spirit of fighting class solidarit\, drawing ever more the employed workers in the factories into the unit. i front of struggle with the unemployed workers. The slogans of the Party must be: Work or Full Wages; Unemploy ment Insurance, equal for white and Negro workers, administered by tlie workers themselves. Against Wage Cuts, speed-up and mass lay-off:; Full Wages for the partially employed; Against evictions for the non- payment of rent; for the 7-hour day and 5-day week; Against the bour- geois government defending the capitalist profits against the unem- ployed workers; Against the bourgeois state, police, courts-watchdogs of the capitalists; Against the social-fascists, lackeys from the A. F. of L. and S. P.; Right of the streets for workers’ demonstrations; Un- conditional liberation of all prisoners of March 6 fight Immediate liber- ation without persecution of the N. Y. delegation elected by 100,000 workers—Comrades Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and Lester; Fight back the new attacks against the workers and their revolutionary or- ganizations (arrests, imprisonment, blacklists and discharges, menace of mass deportations “by shiploads,” expulsion of children from schools, ete.) ; mass defense of the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions; Against the imperialist war being prepared in the London Con- ference; Defend the Soviet Union from the imperialist war now prepared | by the interventionist attacks on the so-called*religious issue; For the full social, political, and economic equality of the Negroes and their “right to self-determination to the point of separation from the existing state; For a revolutionary workers’ government. In putting forward these slogans the Party must at the same time carry on systematic propaganda for the preparation of the political mas: strike, and propaganda for such of our general slogans as: Transforma tion of the imperialist war into a civil war; Overthrow of the bourgeoisic end establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat; Soviet form of state. The victorious socialist construction in the Soviet Union, it real socialist prosperity, must be explained to the widest masses and rropagandistically connected with the economic crisis and unemploy- ‘nent in this country and the preparation of war against the Sovic' Union, . The organizational tasks of the Party at the present moment are: a) A broad campaign in the Paryt, in all working class organiza- | ions, and among the masses, explaining the significance of the March 6 fight, its achievements and lessoris, in order to deepen and broaden our tight against unemplyoment and against the capitalist system. On the basis of this resolution of the Pol Buro all Party units must conduct a specially prepared discussion, which should then be carried into all work- ing class organizations. Special leaflets with mass distribution among the unemployed and in the factories, must be issued summarizing the | schievements and lessons of March 6, calling for continuation and broadening of the struggle for our slogans. Special papers for the un- employed, of the type of shop papers, should be organized in every sec- tion of the country. National Agitprop shall prepare a series of popular pamphlets on unemployment in the light of the March 6 fight; on the vole’ of the state, police, courts and social-reformists in the fight of the unemployed workers; on the trial of the N. Y. demonstrators; etc. The campaign must be centered around the arrest and trial of the N. Y. unemployment delegations as a symbol and concentration point of the fight around the unemployment demands, b) The building of local Councils of the Unemployed in every city; unification with the employed workers thru the revolutionary trade unions; the preparation of delegates to the National Unemployment Con- ference of March 29; the organization of state-wide unemployment con- ferences in every industrial section; the building up of the National mass unemployment congress in Chicago in May. The Communist Party must remain as the leading political force of the Councils, giving them political leadership. At the same time the Councils of Unemployed must be an active mass organization, working upon organization of the unemployed masses and bringing them into organizational connection with the revolutionary trade unions. A c) Building of the revolutionary trade unions; formation of com- mittees of action uniting the employed workers with the Unemployed Councils for the carrying on of all of our concrete actions in the unem- ployment movement; including in the Unemployment Councils represen- tatives of workers from the factories, including Negroes, women and young workers, 4) Building everywhere Workers Defense Corps as the united front of all workers in the factories to beat back the fascist attacks upon the working class. e) The most energetic work in mobilizing and organizing the grow- ing revolt in the ranks of the A. F. of L. Unions arising out of the unemployment and betrayal of the unemployed by the social-fascist trade union bureaucracy. The main inner Party tasks at the present moment are: a) Energetic fight against all right wing, and legalistic tendencies, especially against opportunism in practice, which is especially dangerous now as a brake upon the mass action of the Party. b) Energetic continuation of the recruiting drive in order to or- ganizationally crystallize the political influence of the Party revealed on March 6 as far exceeding the organizational results of the recruiting drive up till now. ¢) Systematic work among the new members and their activization in Party life in the spirit of the March 6 fight, 4) Systematic development of new cadres, ¢) Energetie building of the shop nuclet ft) without giving up for one moment the slightest opportunities for legal action, the systematic preparation of an illegal apparatus to guarantee the continuous func- tioning of all Party organizations and conserving its connection with the masses, &) On the basta of the political line of this resolution, each District | Committee must work out a District Resolution, analyzing the achieve- ments and shortcomings, political and organizational, in the District, which must serve as the ground for a self-critical discussion in all units of the District, | or Wages, Jails, “Socialist” Answer to Jobless Demands | WORKERS: CORRESPONDENCE -FROM THE*SHQPS MORE REPORTS OF Above, left, Isabelle Chulkins, and Sonia Mason; below, Edward Nehmer, Milwaukee workers who took active part in the March 6 demonstrations demanding “Work ” were jailed by the “socialist” Mayor Hoan’s police, who acted just exactly as the Mil- waukee capitalists wanted them too—beat up workers and threw them im jail for marching and fighting for jobless demands, 4 Steel Output Fall Hits Hoover Lies (Continued from Page One) ‘in some quarters about six weeks ago to the effect that the Steel Cor- poration would be running at 100 per cent at this time.” The Daily Worker has repeat- dly pointed out that the short spurt n steel production was the purest nakeshift of the capitalists to give he appearance of getting out of the lepression. It merely intensifies he crisis by ading more overpro- duction. The future promises more unem- ployment for the workers in the steel industry, and smashes to bits Hoover’s lying statement about an improvement in from “sixty to nine- ty days.” Automobile production last month was 50 per cent below last year. Even this low output is dropping, and is one of the main factors cut- ting down steel production and broadening the crisis, Another fact pointed out by the | Daily Worker as indicating the shar- pening of the crisis is now admitted | .., by the capitalist paper, the Jouranl of Commerce (March 18, 1930): “Railroad purchasing of equip- ment and track material has run its course by this time, as expected with indications that some equip- ment additions scheduled for spring will be scaled down, if not postponed, because of the decline in freight traffic.” again less than in the correspond- | ing period of any year since 1922. The decrease from 1929 in number of loaded cars was 8 1-8 per cent; | the total was smaller by 9 1-8 per cent than in 1927 and by 5 7-8 than in 1924.” Nor can the capitalists, with such expert liars as Hoover, Lamont, Klein, Hyde, Legge, Green and Woll, \hide the facts that on top of all, the agrarian crisis grows severer every \day, dragging with it to greater |depths, the general crisis of Ameri- |can canitalism. All the time, the army of 7,000 000 unemployed is growing larger and larger. That it will become greater is the plain conclusion from the capitalist figures of the con- |tinued decline in production in the | basic industries. \Pittsburgh Y.C.L. Calls \Conference for March 16th on Young Jobless Pittsburgh, Pa., March 13.—With of young unemployed rs having participated in the demonstration against unemploy- ment called by the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party on March 6 in the Pittsburgh District, the Young Communist League of this district has set itself 'the task of bringing large numbers | of these young workers into its | ranks. The District Buro of the League | aborating WORKERS DESCRIBE DEMONSTRATIONS 3000 at Charlotte Demonstration; Cops Fail | Di War } Cor spondent) | The unem- | ployment demonstration called by |the Council of Unemployment of Charlotte, N. C., T.U.U.L, and Com- munist Party before the City Hall jwas held as scheduled. Altho chief of. police Moore at- tempted thru the Charlotte Obser- |ver News to intimidate the unem- ployed workers of Charlotte by el- the police department preparations of extra police, dicks, tear gas bombs, machine guns, and shot guns, three thousand Negro and white workers were there t@ demonstrate against unemployment and starvation, the stretchout and long hours and demand immediate | unemployment relief from the city authorities. Dewey Martin, Florence Wagner, i |Wm. Sidell and Charles Cooper were the speakers. Placards were raised reading: “Join the Communist Party — the only Workers Party.” “We demand immediate ployment relief.” A petition was presented to the city Manager unem- i that conditions w pictured by the speakers and that re not as bad as |the unemployment council to Intimidate Workers by, who stated | would ' 7 have to get a petition of all unem- | ployed workers in Charlotte. A lot |of bokum and a very good plan to | blacklist. workers. Some workers marched back to the Workers Center, Caldwell and 14th Street, where they signed up in the Unemployment Council. Police and members of the Gas- tonia committee of 100 who were watching the demonstration did not dare to break up the meeting be- cause of the militancy of the work- ers. The demonstration of March 6 is just the beginning of a real drive of organization among the employed and unemployed workers in Char- lotte. worker in Char- nize in the Council | Every unemploy | lotte must orge | of Unemployed. —-A Charlotte unemployed worker. | Buy your tickets in advance for | the Daily Worker Costume Ball to be held this Saturday at the Rockland Palace. Tickets in ad- vance 50 cents, at the door, 75 cents. DEF other enemies COME Sunday, at BRONX THE SOVIET UNION s Demonstrate Your Solidarity with the First Workers and Peasants Republic! and against the war crusade of the imperialists and their tools—the pope, bishops, rabbis, social fascists and END of the working class! 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