The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1930, Page 6

York City PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE Published by the Comprodaity N Pun!’ o., Inc, Gatls, except sunray, we med Onion Fi | I >, Y. Telephone Stryy 1806-7-8. Cab DAIWORK” SAMY Ce artment, ral Com- on these: 1 all percentages are ba give 1e Organization Department, C. ¢. New Members New DW subs Shop Nuclei Shop papers Districts — Quota Reeruit, Quota Solicit. Quota Organiz, Ixsued Nesro Bost .. 300 302 100 300 ©1108 20 14 \ 0 150 145 1000 10 5 149 300 5 6 107 250 5 3 + Ss 5 500 10 12 5 4 ti ) 668 7 100 10 8 10 Hs I 0 A aeg 100 ee 10 10 10 r 0 101 600 10 5 7 2 00 140 300 13 14 8 6 4 ( ( 0 5 0 25 5 0 2 0 ) 0 25 25 100 5 0 s ) 84 12 200 10 5 0 2 0 os ( ) 7 200 148 1 5 1 20 r 0 132 66 200 0 3 3 3 6 0 62 124 50 z 1 1 0 10 AL 00 6167 123 5600 125 76 68 18 934 entral Committee, Communist Party. lenim, de- “The Party can -become a mass proletar- ian Party only on condition that it widens by creating its main strongholds in s of the American workers, espe- the most important branches of and also among the Negro work- at the same time retaining its the revolutionary immi- ers, wh positions among grant workers.” y recruiting drive was conducted in months of the econdmie crisis in had the opportunity of accentuated favorable ob- The conditions arising from and abroad: intensi- yeed-up and wage cuts; deepening of the radical- —plus the carrying thru . Line in mass political activities tion of factionalism and the he ranks of right wing elements ed the political pre-requis ful growth of the political in- organizational strengthening of his favorable, situation the Drive d through successfully in a cent organized and well dis- under the leadership of the n Department of the Central Com- e Party C. C. gave constant direc- d concentrated all the forces of the on this ta The recruiting of 6. embers during the time of the D: 85 per cent are from industry ation of 46 new (a members cent from such industries as auto 1, marine, shoe, textile, railroad and build- g, while taking ind individually, we auto 19 per cent, miners 8 per cent, wuild- 8 per cent, steel and metal 7 per ceist, food cent, needle 6 per cent, etc.), sad of are Negro workers, almost exclu- from industry, plus the organizing of p nuclei (a partial analysis of 44 76 new shop nuclei show the follow- stribution: Auto 10, Steel 6, Textile 5, fining 4, Metal 8, Leather 3, Shipyard 3, etc.), Kc: vitality of the Party in this mic Cc! sively for the ically, the results of the Drive are a ion of the radicalization of the ma ows the growing influence of the Party and the organization capa- more than ever before. ing the organizatién results -of the e for the Party as a whole, we see that ed»on the original quotas set by the Or- nization Department, Central Committee, t 10 of riets have gone over r quotas of new members. The drive was of Party le ip in every district. t be pointed Dut the or- in the Detroit, Cleye- jJand, Philadelphia, and Southern districts and the organizational failu‘és and incapacity in the Kan yi Dakota, and particularly the industrial 4d Pittsburgh and Connecti- cut. In those districts, the C. C. will have to take steps to strengthen them organizationally. In organizing new shop nuclei a basic weak- ness of the Drive is reflected, since only 76 new shop nuclei of the original quota of 100 were organized. Two of the largest districts, New York and Chiggo, have manifested basic weaknesses politically and organizationally in | this x pect. The complete neglect of shop nuclei in the Kansas City and Seattle districts as well as the poor results in California, Con- necticut and Buffalo, necessitates that these ts examine their work in a very self- 1 manner and take the necessary steps to sharply correct same. An outstanding achievement of the Drive is ruiting of 934 Negro: workers to our ks—for the first time carrying into organ- izational life our programmatical declaration that the Communist larty is the revolutionary ss Party of the entire working class—both white and Negro. lil. Despite ,the positive achievements, there are many outstanding shortcomings, which must be pointed out and corrected: 1. Altho-the Drive showed developing or- ganizational capacities of the Party, there is still evident a tremendous disproportion be- tween the political influence and organizational strength of the Party. The fact that on March . 5th we were able to influence one and a quar- ter million workers to respond to the call of he Party while we have only recruited 6,167 new members, shows clearly the enormous -re- serves—already with some political conscious- aess—which the Party has, but hag not yet reached organizationally, 2. Tendencies were expressed thruout the entire Party to carry on the Drive separate and apart from the general political activi- Wes and ¢ampaigns of the Party. Many times the Recruiting Drive was approached merely on the basis of figures and not on the basis of political activity connected with the meth- ods of recruiting or the political significance of the Recruiting Drive itself. 3. The basic the faet that reeru’ anizational weakness was ng was not based primar ly Wor kers each day nuclei were organized. . y on organized activities of the nuclei,. but largely through ss meetings, demonstra- tions, ete. A fact which should sound an alarm for our Party to heed is that there were shop nuclei in New York and Chicago which did not recruit a single new member, despite the fact that some were even engaged in econ- | omie struggles at the time. The Drive revealed the incapacity and un- preparedness of the shop nuclei to function as the most important unit of the Party. The fact that the Party recruited 90 per cent of its new members, not thru shop nuclei or shop activity, but thru mass meetings and other old methods, is a proof that the Party as a whole is not yet functioning on a Bolshevik basis of shop nuclei activity and that old so- cial-democratic methods are still prevailing. The shop nuclei have not yet close connection with the masses and are not the main link between the Party and the masses. There was expressed also in Pittsburgh amongst certain strata of the membership, open opposition to the Drive, while it is char- acteristic that in all districts only a section of the membership actively participated in the Drive. Another organizational weakness in many districts is the fact that the new members were recruited largely from the unemployed, in some districts reaching 75 per cent. With- out neglecting recruiting amongst the unem- ployed, our main task is to root the Party in the shops. Consequently recruiting of work- | ers in the factories was and is the most imper- | ie ative need of the Party. An opportunist tendency was revealed in the failure of every district to recruit large numbers of Negro worke: While the total | recruiting of Negro workers must be consid- ered fairly satisfactory, we must record the weakness that five districts (New York, Phila- delphia, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago) recruited 86 per cent of all those recruited. Tendencies were also expressed in. some districts against taking too many Negroes into the Party be- cause they were too undeveloped. These must be fought against as expressions of white chauvinism in practice, There was also evident a complete under- | estimation of the role of women workers in industry by the generally complete neglect of recruiting women in the Drive, particularly Negro women. 5. Self-criticism as the basis of revolution- ary competition was entirely absent throughout the drive. There were insufficient efforts on the part of leading committees to correct in- correct practices of exaggerating reports, re- porting applications instead of accepted mem- bers, accepting new members without initiation stamps and unnecessary raising of quotas. Rev- olutionary competition did not penetrate the ranks of the Party down into the nuclei. 6. A basic underestimation, which penetrates the. entire Party membership, of the important role of the Communist pri as an agitator and organizer of the Party was shown in the almost complete failure on this sector of the Recruiting Drive. With the exception of Cali- fornia, Philadelphia and Boston in subscrip- tions and Detroit in delivery sales, no district considered the Daily Worker important. 7. The serious organization! shortcomings | in all districts of underestimating the necessity | of organized functioning Party fractions in | the non-Party mass organizations, was re- flected in the nearly complete absence of re- cruiting by Party fractions. 8. A general tendency to underestimate. or- | ganization work and responsibilities, expressed | in lack of control of decisions, failure to send in regular reports, discrepancy between the claims of new members and sale of initiation stamps, irregularity of meetings, etc. Our political successes in the Recruiting Drive, coupled with other campaigns, notably March 6, must be understood as only thé pre- paratory steps for further and more extensive activities. Any tendencies to “bask. in glory” must be ruthlessly combatted. | Our immediate task, while intensifying our | activity in all our campaigns, is to simulta- | neously consolidate organizationally our poli- tical gains. This means intensive activity in absorption of the new members at the same time as we realize that the discrepancy be- tween our political influence and organization strength is still too great and that these scis+ sors must be narrowed by continuation of re- cruiting as a part of all our activities and campaigns, particularly learning from the shortcomings of the Drive. Towards this end, we must understand that we are still handi- capped by use of old methods, forms of work prevailing and that there exists a general un- derestimation and lack of understanding and carrying through of organizational work. To meet the fact that we have a new Party in many districts—that is, a majority of new recruits—we must intensify our agit-prop and training activities, learn the necessity of sim- plicity of language, elimination of orders from above and substitution of “how” to do things and an absolute sweeping aside of all rem- | nants of bureaucratism and super-sophistica- tion still lingering in our ranks. To meet the existing crisis in cadres, we must follow a conscious policy of developing new proletarian forces in & bold manner. IV. Flowing fiom this situation our tasks are: . 1, Work Amongst the New Members, This can ovly be done by firstly, a sharp chenge The Pope Speaks for “Freedom of Consciene Central Organ of the Communist Paris of the U.S. A. aly ec. By Fred Ellis fate . pee and improvement of the “organizational and political life of our shop and street nuclei. This | means that every unit must discuss in full the political campaigns and issue before the Party and how to carry these through in the-every | day activity of the nucleus. Every nucleus must outline for itself, under the leadership of the District and Section Committees, concrete y to carry through in the factories, the political and organizational tasks of the Party. Linked up with this is the improvement of the functioning of the nucleus, which must meet regularly, on time, and with the nucleus exe- cutive giving leadership at all times. In attiy, izing the nucleus, every member and particul- arly the new recruits must he involved in ac- tivity. The Districts and Section Committees must eliminate “circular” leadership as far as possible and give detailed personal attention to every lower organization, and Secondly, the classes, discussion meetings, study groups of all types (See March Party Organizer), de- velopment of Workers’ Correspondence, ete., in which all new members must garticipate. In these study groups and courses, Party prob- lems and major political issues, particularly in connection with the Party program amongst the Negroes, must ke studied, discussed and explained. 2. Organizational Checkup of Recruits: Utilizing a checkup of sales, of dues and ini- tiation stamps to see how successful the nuclei are keeping the new members. On a national scale, there is unfolded a situation in some districts where there is an impossible discre- pancy between reported new members and the sale of initiation stamps. (New York, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicagogand California.) This shows one of two things—either the dis- trict was guilty of empty boasting or bluff or there is an organizational situation which ne- cessitates drastic changes. Similarly with sale of dues, not a single district has a dues sale equivalent to its total membership—old mem- bership plus new recruits—and some districts (Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Connecticut) are on a level which calls for immediate investigation and some necessary steps taken to drastically change this situation, Every district must in- stitute an immediate checkup of every nucleus. The aim of the Party is to have a monthly dues sdles absolutely equivalent to our mem- bership. From now on the Party must organize a systematic registration of ‘all members at reg- ular intervals, in order to know and control | the socjal and national composition of the. Par- ty. This registration will be an important political factor in regulating the Party activity amongst the various strata of the working class. ‘ 3. Extend Influence in Shops. Extend the Party influence and activity in the shops through an orientation of every member and nucleus to factory work. Thi# means intensi- fication of individual agitation in the factory -assigning of one or more factories for every nucleus to concentrate upon—distribution of leaflets—selling Daily Worker’at factory gates regularly—every nucleus to be responsible for issuance of one shop paper. Particular atten- tion must be given to consolidating our exist- ing shop nuclei, which are many times the weakest unit politically, while the opposite should be the case. The Party Commiitee must devote detailéd attention to every shop nucleus. ~ Conference of members and functionaries of the shop nuclei should be calle! by the leading Party committee. Shop papers must come out regularly, otherwise the workers think our Party is not sérious. 4. With the strengthening of the Party must go a simultaneous manifold growth of the rev- olutionary unions of the T.U.U.U. Not only must every new Party member be enrolled into the T.U.U.L,, but through these contacts we must increase the T.U.U.L. me: rship many times 6,000. The success of «re Reeruiting Drive must also he utilized 11 extend and broaden the Party” base (Party +-actions) with- * t immediate establishment of | | in the T.U.U.L. unions. Such districts as De- treit where the Drive was the most successful amongst the auto workers, must build the Auto Workers Union into a mass economic instru- ment of the workers. . 5. To remedy the failure of the Party in the Daily Worker sector of the Recruiting Drive, the conducting of a Daily Worker Cir- culation Drive starting April 1, as the first step in the drive for 50,000 circulation, which calls for 15,000 new subs, 20,000 new news- stands and delivery circulation and 15,000 from non-Party mass organizations and affairs, V. The successful carrying through of all these tasks is linked up and a part of the intensification of the Party in all its political campaigns during this period of deepening economic crises. In view-of the latest political events which show that the Party has consider- able influence in the masses, which is not yet crystallized even a small extent organiza- tionally, the Party must not consider recruit- ing as finished, but must continue systematic recruiting as one of the most important Party campaigns, closely linked up and as a part of all other campaigns and activities (Unem- ployment, Building T.U.U.L., Negro Activity, Daily Worker Drive, May First, ete.). The C.C. decides that the Recruiting Drive must con- tinue till the end of this year, with the general orientation of getting 25,000 new members by 1931. This permanent campaign must be car- ried through in three stages: From the Plenum until May First. From May First until August First. From August First until November 7. Each date must serve as a culminating point in which the Party checks up and gives a self-* critical analysis of achievements and short- comings. of the Campaign jn order to better organize for the next period. Revolutionary competition must remain as one of the methods of the tampaign, but should be especially de- veloped between the basic units of the Party, particularly shop nuclei. As’ regards quotas, Worker co By Ma SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $4.50 six months} $3.50 six months; in New York City only): $8.00 a year; Ht {outelde of New York City): $600 @ year; . $2.50 three months $2.00 three months (Secretary Food Workers’ Union.) By S. WISEMAN, HE National Convention of March 29 called by the T.U.U.L. to carry on the struggle of the unemployed for work or wages on a bwoader scale than up till now will be @ rally- ing point of all workers employed and unem- ployed for a sharner struggle against capital ism anl for the relief of the unemployed. The economic er of capitalism is develop- ing ever sharper with its internal and external basic contradictions looming up clearer than ever before. This means greater suffering of the working clays and will demand much sharper and’ broader struggles. There will thrown.out on the streets to starve. The an- swer of the capitalist class and the bosses to the demands of the unemployed workers for work or wages has been to club them, the most vicious onslaught thru the coufts, hundreds thrown into jail, etc. In New. York City the leaders of the demonstration of 110,000 of un- employed and striking workers, Foster, Amter, Minor, Raymond and Lesten, are being rail- roaded to jail by the vicious courts of ‘the capitalist class. The March 29 convention must develop the struggle for the release of the leaders of the anemployed throughout the country. Espe- . By SAMUEL HERMAN. (Gaels spending twenty months in various Federal prisons, John Porter is now tour- ing the country for the International Labor Defense. When the great New Bedford tex- tile strike broke out, this militant young work- er was one of the most active fighters against the mill owners. Arrested over ten times for his strike activities, he continued to partici- pate in the struggle of the textile workers, government, had him imprisoned on the charge of “desertion” from the U. S, Army, John Porter had been a soldier for two years, join- ing the army at 16. As soon as he learned the role the army plays against the working class, he deserted and went to work in-the mills. Later, when he became a member of the Young Communist League, Porter stated he. was sorry he had not remained in the army to win over the workers in uniform to present. a united front with the workers in the factories, mills and mines, against their common enemy— the boss class, Mobilize Service For Jobless Demands. Under the auspices of the International La- which Porter will speak ate being arranged throughout the country. Porter’s subject::“The ON WITH THE STRUGGLEFOR WORK OR WAGES cially now, with the approach of May First the workers must be prepared to link up the struggle of the working class against unem- ployment with the political economic struggle of the workers against capitalism more than ever before. The bourgeoisie prepares for great®@ on- slaughts on the working class. They will an- swer the demands of the unemployed for work or wages with more vicious assaults, more jails be more hundreds of thousands of workers | and breaking down of the workers organiza- tions. By well prepared mobilization of the hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the country under the leadership of the Com- munist Party and the Trade Union Unity League the workers will be able to smash the terror of the capitalist class. The Communist Party andthe Trade Union Unity League led one million two hundred and fifty thousand workers in open demonstration against capi- talism for work or wages for the unemployed on March 6. On May 1, this. must be trebled | and we must prepare to meet the attacks of 1 until the mill owners and their agents—the 9} the capitalist class. This can be done if we prepare in the proper way. The working class will smash the terror of the capitalist state with fascist schemes and with its social democracy, the A. F. of L., the socialist party and the Musteites. On with the struggle for work or wages! A Soldier: and a Working Class. | Fighter U. S. Army and the Workers” is one that will attract large numbers of workers, and especial- ly National Guardsmen and servicemen. All Porter meetings will be utilized to mobilize the workers and servicemen to fight for the freedom of all workers arrested for-participat- ing in the March 6 unemployment demonstra- tions. Especially will these meetings be util- ized to expose the efforts of the capitalist ad- ministration in New.York City to railroad to long terms in prison five working class leaders elected to represent ‘the 110,000 unemployed and employed workers who demonstrated at Union Square March 6 and the vicious sentence of five years in the Hawthorne Reformatory meted out to Harry Eisman, militant’ Pioneer. Defend the Soviet Union. » At this time when the tempo of the- capi- talist preparations for war against the Soviet Union is on the increase; when capitalism mob- ilizes its religious flunkeys of all denominations to “pray” for a “holy” war on the Soviet Union, the meetings at which Porter is to speak take on special significance. To expose the plans of the imperialists for war against the USSR | and to mobilize the workers of the factories bor. Defense hundreds’ of mass meetings at. | and their brothers in the armed forces for defense of the Soyiet Union—iris will be ome of the major points raised at the meetings. all District Committees, on the basis of an estimation of the results of the Drive till now, must present to the Organization Department, .C., quotas of orientation for the next period (Plenum till May First). This same method must also be elaborated in the lower units, The Polburo, on presenta- tion of the reports of the Organization De- partment, C.C., will approve or modify these figures, after which they will remain as a guide for the District—and not as a record. We warn against all boastful methods of over raising quotas. In these coming months, the Party must consciously: orientate its recruiting still more to basic industries, particularly war industries, such as sicel, chemical, ammunition, oil and marine, The Recruiting Drive must be carried on in connection and closely with the T.U.U.L. drive for new members. On this a special resolution will be adopted by the C. C, Central Committee Communist Party of the U. S. A. GERMAN REACTION LAW PASSED. | | “BERLIN, Mar. 8. (By Inprecorr aries. International News Notes ;they want their kaiser back again. The fascist group in the Reichs- tag demand that the law shall be nan, Honan, Szechuan and Hupeh; jare in the hands of the insurrection- | 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, Namevinsguevis cratetne retire eta ieaess Address Occtipation .rececereccecccsdeecs AGscoces Mail this to. the Central Office, Communist Party, 48 Hast 125th St., New. York, Nw Y. SOVIETS BUILD LARGEST STEEL MILL: The largest steel mill in’ Europe Service).—Today the Reichstag | passed the new draft of the Law | forthe Defense of ‘the Republic in | secofid reading. The various para- | graphs of the Jaw were adopted with | substantial majorities and amidst stormy objection from the Commu- | nist benches. Paragraphs 5, 6 and | 7, of the bill which provide for the imprisonment for a period of. not | less than three months of all per- | sons “who take part in any organ- ‘ization or its activities which seeks 'to undermine the existing “state form,” and for all persons who ex- press approval of revolutionary ac- tions, and which permit even’ the stupidest police. agent to dissolve working class meetings at his own | diseretion, were voted on at the pro- posal of the Communist fraction ; with the registration of the names jof all deputies voting for against. It was interesting to ob+ serve that the social, democratic “left wingers” who attacked these provisions in the press, themselves voted for them in the Reichstag. * The Communists propose that the kaiser paragraph of the old law for he Defense of the Republic prohibit- ing the return of the ex-kaiser, shall be taken, over in the new law. The social democrais are opposed bo this, and | called a Law for Protection of the Nation and that its provisions shall | be extended.and made more severe. | They demand, for instance, that pa- j cifist propaganda shall be severely | punished, ‘3 * CHINESE REVOLUTION GAINS. MOSCOW, Mar. 13 By Inprecorr Service)—The “Pravda” writes, \“The revolutionary guerilla .move- ment embraces not only southern {and central China, but is even ex: | tending to the northern provinces.” The center of the movement is’ in | Kiangsi, where the ‘Fourth Corps,” |under Tchute, is operating against | Nanking with the assistance of nu- | merous independent guerilla groups. In the second half of February the | guerilla troops captured Kiang, one | of the most important towns in Kiangsi, and threatened the capital |eapital of the province, Nanchang. (Nanchang is already captured.— Editor.) The situatiow in the adjoining province Hupeh is much the same. According to reports from Hong- kong the town Lungchow has been taken by, insurrectionaries who have expelled the French consul and all the foreign missionaries.” A great number of towns and villages in Pad ‘in Southern Kiangsi. The Communist Party of China has ‘called a conference of the rep- resentatives of the Soviets which jhave been set up in various districts, |This conference will take place on May, 30 and active preparations are going on in the Soviet areas for it. x * FAMINE AND WARLORD Kill 3,000,000. | SHANGHAI, March 23.—More than 2,000,000 Chinese workers and peasants:have perished from famine and civil war under the regime of the Chiang-Kai-Shek _ imperialist |puppet government in the Yangtse |Valley. This was admitted in the official census figures recently pub- lished by the provincial government of Hupeh. * * * * Troops. CANTON, Mar. 28.—The reaction- ary Nationalist government admits that Communist guerilla forces have ‘taken the towns of Sinfeng, Taiyi, Namhung, in Northern Kwantung, has also been taken by armed peasants fighting against, the ‘landlords. The Chiang-. Kai-Shek government is issuing fake reports in order to hide the success Kuangsi, Kwangtung, Kiangsi, Hu- re of.the Communist troops * * * ‘Try to Hide Success of Communist | jand the second in size in the world will be constructed in the Ural re- gion of the Soviet Union with the assistance of Arthur G. McKee & Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, according to Amtorg Trading Corporation. The plant, which will be in the Magnet Mountain district, will com- prise eight blast furnaces to pro- duce 21-2 ‘million metric tons of pig iron per annum, open hearth and Bessemer departments and rolling mills, iron-ore mines with an output of 5,000,000 tons per year, and coke ovens which will handle: annually 4,000,000 tons of coal to be shipped from the Kuznetz Basin in’ Siberia. + o* BUTLER TALKS TO POPE VATICAN CITY, March .28.—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president, of Columbia, had a long audience with the pope. That. part of their disetssio which undoubtedly included their common hatred against. the workers republic, and their allegiance to imperialist baf- ditry, was not revealed. . Fight the Right Danger. A Hundred Proletarians for Every Petty Bourgeois Rene- * « gade! nn ARERR REE ORNS SEZ